Ever wondered how the unrelenting Florida heat can wreak havoc on daily life? Manny Knox bravely opens up about the impact of body image and societal labels on self-esteem, sharing his journey of being pigeonholed as a non-alpha male. Lena Slim adds her voice, painting a vivid picture of the challenges of keeping cool during the sweltering Florida summer, especially with kids at home. Expect some laughs as we recount the humorous ways children somehow manage to make their rooms even hotter despite the soaring temperatures outside.
Switching gears, we dive into the sounds that define our summers. Lena shows her love for classic Uncle Luke tracks, while others bring up ever-changing favorites like "Million Dollar Baby." The nostalgia is palpable as we revisit iconic songs like Will Smith's "Summertime" and "Welcome to Miami." Listen in as we explore their connections to summer vibes and get sidetracked with a hilarious discussion about senior citizens' dance moves and a quirky debate on summer crime rates across different states.
Father's Day doesn't escape our scrutiny either. We dissect the complexities of the holiday, particularly for single mothers who claim both parental roles on social media. From the pettiness of seeking validation online to the superficial recognition some parents crave, we leave no stone unturned. The episode then takes a more serious tone as we talk about the critical roles both parents play in a child's life and how social media can distort parenting efforts. Wrapping up, we reflect on the Florida hurricane experience, offering tips for staying prepared and keeping your spirits high as you embrace the joys and challenges of summer.
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Ever wondered how the unrelenting Florida heat can wreak havoc on daily life? Manny Knox bravely opens up about the impact of body image and societal labels on self-esteem, sharing his journey of being pigeonholed as a non-alpha male. Lena Slim adds her voice, painting a vivid picture of the challenges of keeping cool during the sweltering Florida summer, especially with kids at home. Expect some laughs as we recount the humorous ways children somehow manage to make their rooms even hotter despite the soaring temperatures outside.
Switching gears, we dive into the sounds that define our summers. Lena shows her love for classic Uncle Luke tracks, while others bring up ever-changing favorites like "Million Dollar Baby." The nostalgia is palpable as we revisit iconic songs like Will Smith's "Summertime" and "Welcome to Miami." Listen in as we explore their connections to summer vibes and get sidetracked with a hilarious discussion about senior citizens' dance moves and a quirky debate on summer crime rates across different states.
Father's Day doesn't escape our scrutiny either. We dissect the complexities of the holiday, particularly for single mothers who claim both parental roles on social media. From the pettiness of seeking validation online to the superficial recognition some parents crave, we leave no stone unturned. The episode then takes a more serious tone as we talk about the critical roles both parents play in a child's life and how social media can distort parenting efforts. Wrapping up, we reflect on the Florida hurricane experience, offering tips for staying prepared and keeping your spirits high as you embrace the joys and challenges of summer.
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I remember this.
Speaker 2:Like summertime.
Speaker 1:I remember all that. But okay, so I just want to put my little. Your band-aid back my little band-aid.
Speaker 2:But she really got hurt, though it's different.
Speaker 1:She really got hurt.
Speaker 2:She needed the band-aid Number one. Air Force Ones, anybody who ever put them band-aids on should be ashamed of themselves. I don't care.
Speaker 1:I don't care what's happening, everybody, this is the that's on florida podcast. Omg is wicks and I'm gonna let everybody else introduce themselves and we're gonna get to it what up this?
Speaker 2:This is Manny Knox. I'm feeling good, I haven't been inappropriately touched after a date Like share and subscribe, and I don't have alpha male energy apparently.
Speaker 1:So appreciate you.
Speaker 2:Benjamin, oh yeah, I forgot, I did see that, because it really affects me that a man doesn't feel like I'm an alpha.
Speaker 3:Wow yeah, I feel like he should. He's not used to like fat alphas.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it is. He's not used to like. He thinks I'm fat, I can't be an alpha. Is that what it is? Yeah, that's 100% what it is. That's. I've had to deal with that my whole life. Men think I'm less because they think that I can't get you know because I'm a big dude. But whatever, moving on, you'll be all right, benjamin.
Speaker 3:Lena Slim, I'm happy to be here. It's been really, really hot. It took everything in me to leave my house this morning. It's like the moment that you just step foot outside in Florida. You feel like thousands of of little needles, is like penetrating your skin and it's the rays from the sun and it's horrible.
Speaker 1:Horrible, and those little pins are on fire, all the little needles are on fire.
Speaker 3:Yes, hate it, hate it.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. I'm not going to lie, it has been hot, but I keep telling everybody because there's like summer's here and I'm like no, no, no, no, we know it'll be. When summer comes, it'll be this hot, but with like 100 humidity, so it's like you're gonna beat up and choked out at the same time. Yeah, and I mean I don't think I had that before, like outside of summer, you know florida summer, but it's not a good feeling every year I get reminded of when summer's coming and it's when you get that bill yeah, that first high bill of the year.
Speaker 1:So I got mine this morning and I looked at it and I was like, oh yeah, summer's coming because it is 55 more than last month yeah, that, that is yeah that that you could definitely tell when people like, oh, the summer, I'm like, no, no, I know when summer's here, because when that bill comes and you're like, wait a minute, because you get used to like, because you know it's cool, you don't really got to turn on. I mean me, I get real cold quick. So there are some times where I'll turn on the heater, but for the most part my bill is a lot lower during the colder months. Yep, but when that that first summer bill hit, you just want to cry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know it, like you don't want to go without your AC. Like some other stuff I can sack, I'll be like you know what, who really watching TV. You know what I'm saying, but my AC I'm not really going without that.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to lie to y'all comments.
Speaker 2:they were, like you know, in the 60s and 70s we didn't have ac and I'm like, well, I'm glad I wasn't here in the 60s and 70s and the sun wasn't five feet away from us back in the day. Like it is today, it's right over us, yeah the same thing as 60s and 70s no it wasn't?
Speaker 3:they were wearing underskirts, and you're talking about 55.
Speaker 2:I thought it was like you spend more than that on like a city girl mission no, it gets worse gets worse.
Speaker 3:I know it's going to be worse next month and the following month and then when the kids go back to school then it starts dropping. But you'll see each month it's more and more and more. It's like three months of it right.
Speaker 2:Just unscrew the light bulbs in your house. She won't be able to put them back in, and then you better be okay, now you got another beef manny.
Speaker 1:It's up now. You know I'm negative, that's how it be. Oh my goodness. No, but I definitely. And then the kids be out. And if, for some reason, the kids being around make it hotter, I don't know what it is, but it's because they're running every electrical device yeah my daughter sits in her room and is the hottest room in the house because the tv is running.
Speaker 3:She's playing with her little tablet. Her phone is charging connected, playing loud music.
Speaker 3:The fan is running yeah it's super hot in her room. I don't understand, like what's going on. I said, dude, go to the living room and watch some tv. Like give your tv a break, because your room it's like a, like a step closer to like the gates of hell right now yeah, yeah, and I that's my oldest daughter I go to her room and it's just heat just comes out yes, and I'm like you don't feel this and she's in there in a blanket and I'm like you're gonna pass out with a hoodie, with a hoodie, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, bro, what is what is happening? What is happening? But, um, I did have a question for y'all, right? So everybody knows, you know, when we get to summertime, we got the summer anthems. Everybody has their own summer anthem, right? What is y'all anthem to be like? Okay, this feels I'm scared. Lena already smiling. What is y'all anthem to be be like?
Speaker 3:make it feel like it's summer like what is that song that like hits y'all and be like okay, this feels like summer. I'm scared to ask, lena, no, I'm, you know, I'm old school, but anything that has to do with uncle luke summer's coming hydraulic scarred.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was getting it man, are you thinking?
Speaker 2:nah, I have a new song every summer what is your okay name a few right now. Um no, I'm gonna say about right now that uh Million Dollar Baby song.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's just I get myself pregnant to that song my summer anthem has been the same for a long time Will Smith, come on, bro, which one? The summer summer summer, him and Jazzy Jif, ooh, summertime, that's what makes me feel like summer.
Speaker 2:That's like a down to me, that's a down tempo summer song to have. That's kind of a depressing summer song.
Speaker 1:It's about the same tempo as Million Dollar Baby.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. It's not even the same vibe Million Dollar.
Speaker 1:Baby is hype.
Speaker 2:Summer's time is like chill Almost too chill. What are you going to do? Are you going to relax for the summer and not do nothing? Are you going to go out? And what are you going to be doing? I'm outside, that gets me relaxing vibes that don't sound like an outside song Maybe it's an outside from 7 am to 11 am song, but after that.
Speaker 1:But that's when I be outside.
Speaker 3:That's brunch vibes. I think that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:That's what I am.
Speaker 2:I'm a brunch day party type of person that's what you're going to do I ain't having no day parties in August.
Speaker 1:If y'all having day parties in August, if you invite me, I'm going to feel being disrespected.
Speaker 3:Exactly. Don't disrespect me.
Speaker 2:And now Will Smith out here slapping people. So he definitely got to do a remix, because it's a whole different vibe.
Speaker 1:Now Listen bad boys just got released.
Speaker 2:Manny, I'm not here. You going to go see that? Like it's the seventh one. I'm good bro, I'll wait until it comes out on TV.
Speaker 1:Listen, Catching bad guys. I'm going to be there to watch it every time I didn't even like the last one, but I'm going to be there to watch.
Speaker 2:And now Will Smith got a Dominican kid that just got out of jail. Like it's out of hand now, mike Lowry, it's out of hand.
Speaker 1:And it's Mike Lowry.
Speaker 3:I did play Welcome to Miami from Will Smith a few times on my way driving to. Miami.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 3:And it hit the spot like, and me and my homegirl were in the car like, hey, it was just that vibe like the introduction to like an amazing weekend.
Speaker 1:So I kind of get it. You say Uncle Luke, right.
Speaker 3:Uncle Luke, once you start doing this to your hips, that's the summer coming.
Speaker 1:I can't believe y'all think summertime is too slow.
Speaker 2:That's very slow, that is so slow.
Speaker 1:It's like one of the best summer songs of all time. No.
Speaker 2:It's kind of depressing now that you think about it.
Speaker 3:That gives me like.
Speaker 2:About to go to sleep.
Speaker 3:What is that called? That gives like vibes, like you're going to be laying down with a little fan and your little martini with a little umbrella. That's the vibe that's giving me?
Speaker 1:that's probably me, because that's just my vibe too.
Speaker 3:It's not lit, it's just no I want to be on top of a picnic table for city girls is what you said yeah oh man, but that's and. Uncle Luke is the one that started it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Uncle Luke was like for Florida music. I mean, even though that's when they started thinking people from Florida could have made music, because all they do is booty music and we was doing our thing. Yeah, we had Uncle Luke, we had 2 Live Crew, we had 69 Boys.
Speaker 3:Oh Lord Boy, let's change the subject Cotton.
Speaker 1:Candy. I don't care what they say. He can say it's sweet and low, but to me it's still Sweetie Gold. It will always be Sweetie Gold. It don't got to make sense, manny.
Speaker 2:I'm just this one. She got senior citizen hips now and she's wondering why she sneezed. She sneezed earlier and a sound came out that it was like. I didn't know if she needed life alert, and now we know why she got knocked all out of whack and that was me holding it in to be polite you want to hear something funny?
Speaker 1:what out of the top 25 hip hop summer songs?
Speaker 3:It's your Birthday by. Uncle Luke is on there at 12.
Speaker 1:I don't know why all his songs are not on there. That is true Rough Riders' DMX anthem. I'm not going to lie. They get me hype.
Speaker 3:You want hype?
Speaker 2:Crazy.
Speaker 3:What are you causing? Injuries or something? I just want to ride my four-wheelers with no shirt.
Speaker 2:In the summer. The murder rate increases in the summer because it's so hot.
Speaker 1:I believe it. So that makes sense. I believe it. I think it decreases right.
Speaker 2:No, it increases because of the heat, because of the heat.
Speaker 1:People are upset, but why are you outside?
Speaker 2:Bro, I'm not going Well. Rest of the country. They say in New York during the summer the murder rate increases. Well, because y'all got snow and stuff.
Speaker 1:And Florida. It's too hot down here, we're not coming outside. You better catch us in the winter. Listen, if you want to fight.
Speaker 3:Watch your back in December and it'd be like June.
Speaker 1:Oh you better when I see you in November.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Imagine having to get rid of a body. Yeah, that's true. Maybe it is just new york.
Speaker 1:Y'all want to know the number one song, summer anthem. I'm just gonna let you see it.
Speaker 2:It's only number one, because it's named that. It's just because it's named that nobody's actually listening to it.
Speaker 3:Okay. I agree with number two what's number two?
Speaker 1:cash money records taking over for the 99 and the 2000. Now, now you're working with me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just depends on what you're trying to do for the summer and that summertime. That's just a fluke, bro. It's the only song named after the summer.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Nobody puts that song on on purpose. It comes on.
Speaker 1:Summertime and LBC.
Speaker 2:You don't go put it on. Nobody goes and puts on summertime.
Speaker 1:I do it just comes on somewhere, just comes on somewhere. Oh, uncle Lou Scarred is on there with Trick Daddy. So that is too, uncle Lou, you was right.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Drop it Like it's Hot. Snoop and Pharrell Okay, beautiful Snoop and Pharrell Okay, candy 8-Ball and MJG I don't know. Let Me Ride by Dr Dre.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Rump Shaker back in the day. Did Lena make this list? My Boo is on there. Okay, that is a summer song.
Speaker 2:That's just a oh, I don't know why I was thinking of the Usher song. Oh no, no, no, no. Yeah, that is a summer song.
Speaker 1:I was going to say but yeah, that's a pretty deep list, that's a good list.
Speaker 3:That is a good list Nelly EI. That deep. That's a good list. Anyway, it's a good list, nelly. Ei, that is so weird. That's random. I wrote it. It depends on the crowd, but I they still play old school, nelly and some other groups that I go to, where there is a variety of um you said groups that you go to like variety of people. Yeah, like you know, when you go to the bar, sometimes I go to the bar that people don't think I will be in that type of bar and it'll be like a variety of different type of people and the music they still play some crazy, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And then you forget that song and you know it comes back in mind and then you're having a good time because it's something you won't add to your playlist.
Speaker 1:But if you hear it elsewhere, this Like summertime. I remember all that.
Speaker 3:But okay, so I just want to put my little your band-aid back, my little band-aid.
Speaker 2:But she really got hurt, though it's different.
Speaker 1:She really got hurt.
Speaker 2:She needed the band-aid Number one. Air Force Ones, anybody who ever put the band-aid on should be ashamed of themselves. I don't care.
Speaker 3:I don't care.
Speaker 1:I mean I did have the wristbands and the headbands. I had that, that's different. And the jersey.
Speaker 3:Did you move it down a little? That's different. You cover half your eye, like this, and the jersey.
Speaker 1:I would wear it on hat, like I would have a t-shirt under it, and then I had a jersey on, but only one arm through. Think Lil Wayne. Thank Lil Wayne, though Look at, the block is hot.
Speaker 3:Wait, he had one sleeve off.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, I thought he bought it large enough where it hung from one side.
Speaker 1:No, he would put one sleeve in and then he would leave it one sleeve out and it would just hang over the other side.
Speaker 3:What a mess we was what a mess.
Speaker 1:Listen, we was in there, it was summertime, we was out there doing this craziness, all right, so, rudy? So Rudy had a question, right, I want y'all to know. It did not come from me. So when the beef start, aim it for directly, for where it belongs. No, I'm just playing, it ain't going to be. But the question is Mother's Day just passed right. Father's Day is coming. Is it okay for single mothers to celebrate Father's Day? But if so, is it okay for single fathers to celebrate mother's day?
Speaker 3:listen, I respect how you want to celebrate the holiday. Just like there's irresponsible fathers, there is irresponsible mothers. Now, if a man who takes care of their child full time, without no help from the mother, says, I'm celebrating mother's day too, because I do both good for you, and if a woman chooses to do that, too good for you, the only reason why you should be celebrating is if that other parent is non-existent. The majority of the people do it to be petty oh yeah but let's be real.
Speaker 3:Like, okay, you're celebrating father's day, but you are collecting a 300 check a month or 400. So you are you really doing it by yourself?
Speaker 1:but you know what's? What's crazy is I knew a person, right, I knew a person and they were on facebook and they would do this whole thing every father's day oh, happy father's day to me, and she would do this. And then they found out, day oh happy father's day to me, and she would do this. And then they found out that the kids didn't even live with her, so she was getting child support for the kids. You see, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Some people are just being petty, maybe attention, or I don't know. I've gone to that level of being petty, but then at the same time it's like why am I advertising something that I'm not proud of?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So just let people do what they want to do. I really ignore it. I really do.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:What do you think? First, it's dangerous to just let people do what they want to do, because then we get to where we at today, so I guess we have to let people do what they want to do. I think it's ridiculous. It's Pride Month, so I guess we have to let people do what they want to do. I think it's ridiculous. It's Pride Month, so I'm going to just celebrate. It is Pride Month, right? Yeah, my nephew made it a point to tell me yesterday hey, it's Pride Month, so I know you want to celebrate, but yeah, no, whatever, like she said, you have to let people do what they want to do.
Speaker 3:But I think it's ridiculous. It really don't bother me. Just don't take it to the extreme and try to offend other people by celebrating this man-made holiday to begin with anyways, because Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day is every day.
Speaker 1:For us that are active.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I'm going to start treating you like a father too. So remember that, be prepared for that too.
Speaker 1:No, but I will say from social media aspect, I have seen more outrage when a man does it than when women do. So if a woman say Happy Father's Day, she normally has like a group behind her, either the guys that are trying to get with her and her friend. You know women because they're like you know other single mothers, so I know I have seen that in there. You know they have support. I seen a man do it this year. I think his tweet went viral. They would, they was on him. There was a bunch of women in the comments Like how could you do this? And he was like well, I'm only doing it because women do it. And they were so mad at him, they were going at him in the comments.
Speaker 3:It has to be even.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. I mean, I don't care either way. The only thing that bothers me is the parents that don't really take care of the kids. But as soon as it's like Mother's Day or Father's Day, they want to get acknowledged. Or a holiday or no, yeah, you're like Mother's Day, father's Day, they want to be acknowledged Like I'm the father. That's when you post the matching outfits, yeah, yeah, yeah. That one picture that they got Because, listen, I've known a person we're not friends, obviously. You know I don't hang out with people like that but he pulled up on Father's Day, got a picture with his kid and left that's G and I was like I do this. It was like a crazy capture, like I do this for you. This is who I do it for, and I hate those type of parents too.
Speaker 3:They go months without seeing their kid, but they want to take 20 pictures and that one day that you've seen your child, knowing that you haven't seen them in three, four, five, six months. That to me is insane. And then the compliments they get on social media four, five, six months that to me is insane.
Speaker 3:And then the compliments they get on social media like oh my God he's such a good dad, but you haven't seen your kid in five months. That's crazy. Or done anything special for them, or help the other parent financially or anything. That to me, is insane. I just want to Just like that.
Speaker 1:Squeeze it, lita, squeeze it just want to Just like that. Squeeze it, Lita Squeeze it.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. I said that I had a surprise for y'all. Your dad, I brought somebody special with me today, like for this occasion. So I just want to introduce everybody to my father.
Speaker 3:Oh no.
Speaker 2:So there you go. I remember one time he tried to give me 20 for shoes. My mom almost slapped him. She said what I'm gonna do with 20? What shoes she gave him is 20 back boy.
Speaker 1:She embarrassed that man in that restaurant I've seen stuff like that, like I don't know, I, I, I it's sad it is.
Speaker 3:It's a for me, it's a touchy subject to it. It makes it makes me sad because both mom and dad are both equally important to a child. Both. That's why kids are created by two people, because it takes two people and whatever your mom teaches you and your father, it's like two different worlds and it educates you on both worlds. They're both equally important and I wish that more adults made better decisions while having these kids and not making them a priority, because I feel like we're really like ruining our future because these kids are growing up without love, without the education, so then we stuck with a bunch of dummies and aggressive people because they were never loved correctly. Like we're the one messing up our own future yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the one thing I do think is more dangerous nowadays than it was back then is the social media acknowledgement, because nowadays they don't like they can know that they're not doing anything, but as long as they could click on their social media and they got these people and even though they're not going to tell the full story on social media, the objective is they're going to tell the part that makes them look good and then they're going to leave out the part where they, you know, obviously look like a horrible person. But as long as that social media get on and say, hey, you're a good dad, hey, you're a good person, hey, you are the best father ever, then they'll get off, they'll click right off and be like I'm the best dad. I don't know what she's talking about. You know what I'm saying, or it's? It's crazy, but social media acknowledgement is dangerous. Y'all, um, y'all know who y'all are in real life. That's what I'll say. Y'all know who y'all are. Y'all got anything else y'all want to add about it?
Speaker 1:nope, next subject I don't think you. I don't think you are the next subject, I don't think you are the next one. Um, so, oh, no, yeah, we're not gonna go deep into it. So they they predicting some storms. Right, I I'm gonna start by, I'm gonna start with this before, because every year, we get the social media meteorologists.
Speaker 1:Now, I'm not gonna say social media meteorologists like the people that'm not going to say social media meteorologists like the people that actually do this for real. I'm talking about I don't even want to call them meteorologists. They're social media people that try to scare. They use scare tactics for views, so they'll get on and be like we're going to this is the year we're going to have a Category 6 hurricane and then they'll go viral because everybody's like you heard what this person said and they do this every year. It's already started, right. So now, because I talk to a lot of people that's in like the weather, the Florida Department of Emergency Management and all them, so they'll give me like information to give people, because they want people to get more accurate information, rather than the scare tactics, because we know how powerful social media can be rather than the scare tactics, because we know how powerful social media can be. They're predicting named storms 17 to 25. That could be just a tropical storm, though, who's predicting?
Speaker 2:The real meteorologist or the fake meteorologist? The real one?
Speaker 1:17 storms 17 to 25.
Speaker 2:Named storms wait, why do you say name storms?
Speaker 1:it hurts right here because it could be like a tropical storm. So even if it form out there to a tropical storm, they're gonna name it got you.
Speaker 3:So I want to say no tropical depression, they don't name it tropical storm you know how scared I am of it, that I told you guys that I'm fixing my guest bedroom like I painted it and stuff like that. You know what I said? I was so tired and towards it and I said you know what, if I'm doing all this and we get hit by a hurricane and then it just messes up like that's how I be thinking, because it's so unpredictable yes it's so ugly it's.
Speaker 1:I hate natural disasters, uh it just, it scares me and that's the other thing, because, like you said, unpredictable and they, they try to predict these things and they're usually most of the time the predictions are way off. They'll be like oh, it's gonna be this. And they'll be like nah, like last year, they didn't predict california was gonna get hit with a hurricane, but california got hit. Shoot. New york got hit with more hurricanes before than we did?
Speaker 3:did they predict the storm that we got on on thursday?
Speaker 1:was that something that was? It wasn't right, did you guys?
Speaker 3:well, you live in lehigh yeah did you guys get hit by the storm thursday?
Speaker 1:it rained.
Speaker 3:It was like you were you live in cape? How bad was the storm thursday? It wasn't bad. Oh then I guess it was over my house, okay I think you were probably just really overthinking it like you were just really overthinking it.
Speaker 3:You gotta be for the weather no, like the palm trees were like naked by. But well, first of all, I left the city because I did go to see a comedy show and I thought I took the wrong exit. I'm like what happened? So then I go on facebook at the comedy show. I wasn't on social media. So once I got out and I started reading it was like oh, who's power people? There are people in my neighborhood with five hours without power. Luckily I still have power. But all my bushes up front were like split in half. My palm trees are naked. I have mango trees. All my mangoes were on the floor, even if they were like still growing yeah my um.
Speaker 3:I have other fruits there. They were on the floor. So next morning before work I had to collect everything because I didn't want, like the birds and the insects, to start eating everything, yeah so I also have a butterfly garden where I put net and the wood sticks to hold the netting on top those those sticks. They broke in half because the mango hit them and cracked up and I also have like a rabbit house outside and it has a little. It has a little roof. The roof was like halfway out.
Speaker 1:I said what happened yeah, it was a, it was a like it was. So it was it rained a lot and it was some wind, but that was pretty much it went on.
Speaker 2:That was the day. It was like thunder and lightning, apparently a twister over my house we.
Speaker 1:You know we've been getting those, though, but they've been in like north florida um they got.
Speaker 3:I saw the video too yeah so when I got home I I did rewind the, the ring, the outside, and it I saw like the trees, like oh my god, we got yeah it was crazy. Maybe it was just country club, who knows?
Speaker 1:possibly no, but it definitely. But florida weather's like it could be storming. Mist is storming, but you know, this is crazy, just don't worry about what you can't control, bro.
Speaker 2:But yeah they, they try to put that's what scares me.
Speaker 2:Be prepared, there's nothing in life you can control. You know you can't control, bro, but yeah, they try to put. That's what scares me. Be prepared, there's nothing in life you can control. You know you can't control nothing. So just why overthink it? Be happy, chill. Whatever happens happens. You ain't got no choice. If something happens, we have to overcome it. I just don't want to be another. That's the florida attitude. That's the florida attitude. That is, I'm not worried. I can't be worried. That's I would drive myself crazy, worrying. I'm going to just chill on this lawn chair and whatever's going to pass is going to pass and we got to deal with it regardless. There's nothing we can do, no, but I don't want to Be prepared and chill.
Speaker 1:The only thing I'm worried about is what she's worried about the no AC.
Speaker 2:You cannot control it. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3:Oh, I happened. Oh, I'm fine. I, I laid one day. I laid on the ground and I just told god. I said you know what, just just end it now, like whatever you decide to do right now. It was like day seven, I said you know what?
Speaker 1:why are you having me here suffering like, just like? That's crazy sleep and that's psychotic.
Speaker 3:Just do what you got, take me to heaven where there's ac like this is not how I want to go I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1:The first few days, though, it was cool. We had a cool day seven already like I was seeing things.
Speaker 3:I was seeing things, I was hearing things. I I thought I was gonna end up in like a loony bin.
Speaker 2:I think that was just the alcohol. I ain't drinking no alcohol, sure you sure talking about I just be in random bars, okay yeah, but not during the hurricane.
Speaker 3:I prepared myself, like the smart people do a lot of water. I got my propane and, you know, I got my cooler in the garage with extra eyes. I had the what is it? The totes full of water. Like I was prepared, I was not prepared to have to not have a seat for 10 days. Luckily, I filled my gas, my car, with gas, so I did do 30 minutes during the day of AC running in the car and 30 minutes a night. Of course we can't do too much because you need your gas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because how are you going to do it tomorrow? It?
Speaker 3:was the best 30 minutes of every day, and then I got, once my alarm went off. I just want to cry all over again.
Speaker 1:All over. I think we're going to be okay. What I'll say is we do get a lot of hype and they'll do the predictions and everybody gets nervous because they'll say, hey, we're going to get 25 storms. And then you look around and you're like, because they're not telling people what they mean by storms, they talk about the ones that just form out there and just go up and out into nothing. So they just talk about all of those. So the ones that just form out there and just go up and out into nothing. So they just talk about all of those. So they say, hey, we're getting four major hurricanes.
Speaker 1:I think one or two of the major hurricanes we got last year spent off into nothing like they didn't hit anything. They just went out into the water, just went out into nothing. So, like I said, I think they just try to use like those tactics to keep people. Sometimes they just say, hey, we're gonna get this. We don't know, or we possibly might get this, but we don't know where it's gonna. But, like I said, most of the time it just spin out into nothing so can I ask a stupid question and don't make fun of me.
Speaker 3:This is really like I really need to know what's up dry ice. Does it take longer for it to melt like? Is that something that's like a good thing to buy to put in the coolers to keep your stuff cold longer than regular ice?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 3:What's the lifespan? What is the?
Speaker 1:lifespan on the dry ice.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I was dying to tell you your question is stupid, but I don't know. That's a pretty good question. I don't know the answer to that. I know, like public I want to say it's not a good alternative to ice, but that's just me.
Speaker 3:Well, you have to remove it with. You know something. I know you don't grab it with your hand, but does it last longer?
Speaker 1:I think we got to do an experiment. Now we have to do an experiment.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'm going to do an experiment. We can Google a couple of things. She can do the experiment.
Speaker 1:I can go buy some ice and then some dry ice.
Speaker 2:Don't go back to your childhood, where you messed things up doing experiments. Let her do it.
Speaker 1:I grew up on Bill Nye.
Speaker 2:Bill Nye was not a real scientist.
Speaker 1:Bill Nye, that's how you got.
Speaker 2:Bill you was a TV scientist. I grew up on Bill Nye. No disrespect to Bill Nye, but he wasn't a real scientist.
Speaker 1:Bill.
Speaker 3:Nye cuss you out right now. I need to know this answer, that's one thing that happened is like I lost everything and you know you buy things throughout the year that extra meat, you know the buy one, get one free and stuff so you have your little freezer in the garage.
Speaker 3:I had no choice but to start grilling stuff because it was going bad. I also told the neighbors, the neighbors and brought their food and so we kind of shared back and forth. This was the only time I've been living there 15 years that we really like socialized and we've been connected. Ever since They've been like really they've been. My neighbors have been awesome Since my father passed away. They cut my front yard like the grass and stuff, and if there's, like you know, things hanging from the trees, I see them in the camera like ripping it off and they drag it to the front. So god bless them. But yeah, we basically had to cook everything and then start all over again and you know that that's not cheap. That's not cheap.
Speaker 1:I mean, I made oxtails, chicken, pork chops hurricane party every yeah, that's how the hurricane parties happen you know you could cook.
Speaker 2:You don't even look like you could cook like that?
Speaker 3:Do you not see my Snapchat?
Speaker 2:That could be fake. People buy stuff and then put them in their house dishes like they made it. You don't look like you could cook.
Speaker 3:Oh no.
Speaker 1:I could cook, I could cook, all right.
Speaker 2:I'm Colombian, or Colombian by injection, we don't know well, if my father injected my mother, then yeah there's other ways.
Speaker 3:You knew how this was going to go and you already know my preference of injection, so it's not Colombian alright.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we're going to go into the last last thing. So for people that know we was talking about hurricane season, there is a hurricane tax, hurricane tax free time period. So from June 1st to the 14th no, we done, we done, we done with this, we done with this. That was it. I just wanted to let everybody know that, because I think this is going to come out what the 5th. So June 1st to the 14th, you can go get hurricane supplies.
Speaker 3:They're starting guys. I just came from there. I text the boys and I'm like listen, I don't know what. I assume. Oh, they're buying Father Day gifts. This is why Lowe's is so busy. I parked a mile away. No, it's because tax-free started yesterday and people are stacking up. So you know me, oh, it's a beautiful day outside. It's Sunday. You know, natural disasters scare me. I see all these people Okay, walk in. And there's red signs everywhere with a little picture of a hurricane, Tax-free. And I just grabbed my chest.
Speaker 1:I said grab my item and go grabbed my chest. I said you know what it's like, you know you just made that.
Speaker 3:Grab my item and go.
Speaker 1:Grab my item and go you know that commercial that don't get caught by. You know the guy that does the whole. If you were affected by such and such, call us, because you may be eligible for a lot. That's what it sounded like it.
Speaker 3:Just it reminded me like hello, it's happening, we're in it, we're what? Day two of the month Day two, so it's day two.
Speaker 1:We hear that.
Speaker 3:About 90 more days to go right.
Speaker 2:It's turned into a holiday. It's all to make money now.
Speaker 3:I mean, seeing other people overreact really scares me, because then I think we're going to run out of merchandise.
Speaker 2:Does ammunition count as hurricane to play? No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3:Unfortunately never has. You know what else is scary when the kid goes missing and we get those things.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? It scares you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like two in the morning and it starts going crazy. And if you have more than one phone, they all go off.
Speaker 1:That was like that tornado, that tornado that the remember, when they did that test, that random test, and then it went off at like four in the morning and everybody was mad and it was like they weren't supposed to do it. It went off. I think it was like what, last year, 2023?. Yes, I remember it was supposed to go was up. What do y'all want to leave with the people? Something y'all want to tell them about Florida?
Speaker 2:summertime. Life is short. Don't worry about what you can't control. Try to have a good time. Try to do the things that make you happy. Keep people around you that make you happy and don't make you negative. We can go out at any second, so have as much fun and peace and happiness as possible. Okay, I like share and subscribe.
Speaker 1:That was a good one. You didn't even throw no shots at Lena, nothing.
Speaker 3:I like you today. It's on you, my turn.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:It's on you, just your friendly reminder, to buy a lot of sunscreen, to buy a lot of bug spray. And my investment last week was well, it came. This week. I bought the nets that go in the door, that they're magnetic and they shut, so if you go out it shuts behind you so that the flies and mosquitoes don't come in. Best thing ever, remember, guys. The summer is coming and the mosquitoes and flies populate by millions, so invest in that sunscreen, bug spray.
Speaker 1:I agree with all of that. Both of y'all killed it. Today, All I can say is summertime coming. Y'all it's here. Throw on that summertime and watch how you feel.
Speaker 3:Watch how you feel.
Speaker 1:Watch how it does.
Speaker 3:Throw that from 9 to 1 pm. Then you insert Uncle Luke music into that playlist.
Speaker 1:But before you do that, can you put Cash Money Records taking over for the 9-9 and then you go into Uncle Luke and I guarantee you, man, do you imagine if you did a remix of that in today's generation? Who would he put on?
Speaker 3:it.
Speaker 1:Who would be Okay before we get out of here who would be on that?
Speaker 2:I agree. Oh, it has to be southern, or I guess I mean it doesn't really have to it could be whoever, just don't put jay-z on it no, no, no, no, no all right you made me mad. I'm not gonna participate yo.
Speaker 3:If he did a remix to that, it would be insane, because that's a song that, no matter what, it's going to play for the rest of this life, like world's existence.
Speaker 1:I think our great great grandchildren are going to be playing this that's true so we need a remix y'all work on that remix for the song work on the remix to back that thing up, but that's it y'all. Episode 38 of the that's On Florida podcast. And that's on Florida y'all Episode 38 of the that's On Florida podcast.
Speaker 2:And that's on Florida.