Ever found yourself chuckling over the quirks of an eye exam, or musing about the healing power of nature? This episode takes you on a journey through the familiar and the profound. From the intense storms in Houston to the hidden intricacies of foreign land ownership, we traverse a landscape of topics as diverse as the trails of the Appalachian, guided by insights from retired US Army Colonel Todd Tuttle. Strap in for candid conversations that blend personal reflection with a touch of nostalgia.
We reminisce about iconic '90s films set in Houston, and later, tackle the importance of pursuing passions over paychecks, with advice that's as sage as it's lighthearted. Todd Tuttle shares his inspiring tales from the Appalachian Trail, offering a powerful narrative on nature's role in healing mental health struggles. This blend of introspection, amusement, and advice is a ride through the emotional and intellectual corners of our lives.
Closing out with musings on workplace romances and the comedic chops of "Saturday Night Live," we make sure to keep the tone as varied as our topics. Baseball legends, Niagara Falls daredevils, and the peculiarities of gambling laws serve as perfect backdrops for a foray into the comedic and curious. It's an episode that promises to engage, entertain, and perhaps even enlighten, as we share stories and debates that resonate with the adventurer in all of us.
Ever found yourself chuckling over the quirks of an eye exam, or musing about the healing power of nature? This episode takes you on a journey through the familiar and the profound. From the intense storms in Houston to the hidden intricacies of foreign land ownership, we traverse a landscape of topics as diverse as the trails of the Appalachian, guided by insights from retired US Army Colonel Todd Tuttle. Strap in for candid conversations that blend personal reflection with a touch of nostalgia.
We reminisce about iconic '90s films set in Houston, and later, tackle the importance of pursuing passions over paychecks, with advice that's as sage as it's lighthearted. Todd Tuttle shares his inspiring tales from the Appalachian Trail, offering a powerful narrative on nature's role in healing mental health struggles. This blend of introspection, amusement, and advice is a ride through the emotional and intellectual corners of our lives.
Closing out with musings on workplace romances and the comedic chops of "Saturday Night Live," we make sure to keep the tone as varied as our topics. Baseball legends, Niagara Falls daredevils, and the peculiarities of gambling laws serve as perfect backdrops for a foray into the comedic and curious. It's an episode that promises to engage, entertain, and perhaps even enlighten, as we share stories and debates that resonate with the adventurer in all of us.
welcome to the Tuttle and Klein show oh, I'm sorry, there we go now I can oh, nice shirt.
Speaker 3:Oh, thanks, I was sure I golfed in, but for golfing when?
Speaker 2:did you golf last?
Speaker 3:a couple weeks ago with that banker. Oh okay, but I just, you know, I just grab them now and just wear them whenever I used to just wear them for golfing were you uh affected by the storms? I was not man. Everything boy, everybody's been calling me, my mom even called me. Yeah, oh, tim, it's terrible. What's going on there in houston? Huh, are you okay? Are the are the kids okay? Yeah, mom, it it's weird. It just went like literally just north of me here in Richmond. I'm in Richmond.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:You know, halfway between West Park and 59 is where I am, and it just seemed like everything went just north of I-10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I talked to Brian Anderson, who lives down in Clear Lake area, and he said no, he goes, everything was north. So I mean Cyprus got hit real hard. I know that.
Speaker 3:Smashed. Yeah, a lot of them are underwater. You know, I did some driving over the weekend and, boy man, that Brazos River, that thing is swelling.
Speaker 2:Was the Galleria hit? I know downtown was hit pretty hard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, downtown they were breaking windows out of the skyscrapers and and, uh, all that stuff was happening and there there's some weird circumstances behind this storm, you know, such as there's some chirping going on that that h-a-a-r-p, who uh have the technology to um, actually uh create conditions, may have been doing some things with their lasers. Really, oh yeah, oh yeah. Our scientists are on. I mean they. If anybody tells you, well, they can't control the weather, that is an idiot.
Speaker 3:There's a guy that tracks this stuff and you know he's been kind of harmless and I forget what is into thin air or something like that on Twitter, but he tracks all of this stuff and he made a post predicting that something's going to happen in Houston way before, you know, because they're doing the lasers and stuff like that H-A-A-R-P, who are supposed to be this innocent organization. We're just tracking weather and doing some experiments and stuff like that. But you know, that's what we thought. Darpa was, too, just an innocent organ. Next thing, you know, we we see that they're making millions of robot dogs that are set to, oh, just kill enemy invaders If they ever come to the United States. That's what they're for. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, uh, so they. Why would they create that for Houston though? I have no idea, dude, just because it's such a financial hub or such a an important port.
Speaker 3:We're ground zero for a lot of stuff here in Houston. Man, we really are, we just are. I mean the political, I don't know.
Speaker 2:What do you think about this? You know we saw this shortly after 9-11, where it would be prime targets for terrorist attacks. Well, now you know, with Russia rattling their little nuclear weapons saber, there's actually a map that's been printed and posted in the news of where all our nuclear sites are.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Would you do that?
Speaker 3:But they already know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but now we're really making it easy for them.
Speaker 3:I mean, you know, china owns half the land in the United States now, oh, I know A lot of politicians in Missouri are running on that campaign. It's insane what we've done, man. I mean our federal government are filled, jam-filled with treasonous scum, and it would not surprise me if someday we had citizen tribunals and we just started charging people with treason and crimes against humanity. And they were just firing squads on TV.
Speaker 2:So would Jeff Probst host that?
Speaker 3:So would Jeff Probst host that. So-and-so, so-and-so from Connecticut. You are charged Before we levy. Do you have any final words? I was just following orders Not going to work this time. That's funny.
Speaker 2:Kev.
Speaker 3:Thank you sir, thank you so yeah, Jeff Probst, he's been around a long time. Oh my God, I can't believe that show's still on.
Speaker 2:Survivor, Isn't that crazy? Yeah, you and I. You turned me on to that in 2000.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like 23 years ago, 24 years ago or something like that. That's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, it's almost like Simpsons-esque Some of the people that hooked up early on in the show.
Speaker 2:Now have kids, that'll be eligible for the show. That's so true.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hey, kev, I don't know.
Speaker 6:Did you see the T-Mobile commercial with Aquaman Jason Momoa? I need home internet from T-Mobile to fulfill my life, my life, my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's up we?
Speaker 3:have T-Mobile now. That shook me. To the core man, I mean I like him and he's a tough guy, big dude, strong dude, he's got. He's a tough guy, big dude, strong dude. He's got the scar and everything you know. He just looks like you know alpha all over your fucking face guy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I do know what you're saying and then he sees that and I'm just like why I mean not even like the Rock or De Niro, who have trouble saying no to anything, would ever agree to do that shit? I mean that that that hurts to see that one.
Speaker 2:It just hurts to see it, cause I'm not a fan of the commercial. I just oh man, I just I. I hate that one. And then the other one I hate is the uh uh Jardians. Oh, I hate that commercial. I hate that commercial. I hate, that commercial.
Speaker 3:I have all of the poison pushing commercials, man. It's just so many of them Just like. Well, I got you know why. Why does this have to be that way? You know that all that shit should just between be between you and your doctor. I know, you know. I know. You know what are you having to advertise for. You know why you advertise.
Speaker 2:It's so you can make sure that you sway the coverage. Oh, okay, I thought it was because you know patients. If people know about it, they'll walk into their doctor and say, hey, you know, I got this weight loss thing. I need some Ozempic.
Speaker 3:Whoever fucking does that Nobody?
Speaker 2:I don't.
Speaker 3:The. The doctor says you have an issue and here are some options. Nobody goes in there. Go, my god, you know, outside of the projectile leprosy and the uh and the uh other issues and problems with, I think this will be perfect for the condition I have. Nobody does that know. They buy advertising, so they own the network, so the network can never report true facts.
Speaker 2:Oh, what doesn't big pharma own in this country?
Speaker 3:Oh, it's insane dude, it's. It's so funny. I think three out of every five commercials now are the poison pushing.
Speaker 2:It is You're. You're exactly right, yeah, and you know. You know what I find interesting about the healthcare industry, and I didn't come up with this on my own. I don't know if it was a comedian or something the healthcare industry in America is the only industry where you don't know the price up front. Go to a restaurant, you know what you're paying for.
Speaker 3:Go to a car dealership.
Speaker 2:Know what you're paying for. Go to the hospital. No fucking clue.
Speaker 3:It has become a criminal operation. We may need those citizen tribunals for them too. Uh, speaking of which, uh, the medical industrial complex kev I I um had an eye exam last week did you really? And I actually actually got like nervous because I forgot to study. You laugh, but, man, I mean, if you do bad on that, you end up with some mr magoo coke bottles yeah yeah restrictions, all that kind of stuff I get I don't need.
Speaker 3:I don't need that shit in my life and I just had this nervousness as I pulled in the parking lot. I'll get out of the parking. You know somebody's coming out and I'm asking for answers. I'm like, hey, what do we got? We got E F E F Z Z.
Speaker 2:I mean top letters always E buddy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Top one's always E. We know that. Yeah, but yeah, I ended up being okay. I just I, I I thought about that, I was pulling up and I was like this could go very badly.
Speaker 2:It turned out okay did you do the uh? Did you do the mapping? Or do you let them dilate your eye? They dilate my eye. Yeah, yeah, that used to be. It used to be the way. But, man, if you can do mapping, I know it costs a little bit more, but, wow, it's cool.
Speaker 3:What they can, what they can show you, I like to get the bargain, kev like yeah, I'm like hey, man, these, uh, these frames are a little expensive. You got a clearance bend they do yeah, they do, yeah, they do. I mean I look like fucking julia child in 1977 with my new specs, but hell man, they were only, they're only $9. There you go. I'm not. I'm not much for the fashion anymore, kev, I just don't care.
Speaker 2:When have you ever cared about fashion?
Speaker 3:That's the first time.
Speaker 2:I think I've seen you new wear a non-black shirt in like 20 years. Yeah, I am, I've mixed it up a little bit. Yeah, you have, I can tell.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it's one less thing to worry about. I mean, look at Steve Jobs. He wore the same T-shirt every time.
Speaker 2:Zuckerberg.
Speaker 3:Same thing every time.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Doesn't matter that they cost $750 for one T-shirt, is it like?
Speaker 3:high quality or something like that. Why?
Speaker 2:I have no freaking idea.
Speaker 3:I have no idea it's yeah, it's made from babies in india's butts taking the same thing, just thinking something to do with children sure, we're gonna list, uh, miss little patel, but hey, he's gonna live forever as a zuckerberg t-shirt. Yeah, um, I, I, you know, I can't, you know, I did, uh, last night I watched reality bites, remember that movie absolutely.
Speaker 2:Ethan hawke a great uh uh. Jean garofalo great uh.
Speaker 3:Soundtrack winona rider yeah and it was filmed in houston. I didn't know that? Yeah, because you know we watched it. We didn't live in houston it was 1994 when we watched it but they felt, you know, ben stiller was the director of it and he came to houston and houston just gave them, you know, access, like all these tax breaks and all that stuff and cause he needed it to be cheap, the, the studios weren't even going to shoot it until Winona Reiner Reiter signed up for it. But uh, you know, just watching them on the roof and then the background, uh, the, uh, the skyline of Houston, and you know you can clearly see that they're uh in the Heights, uh, walking in the Heights and the houses in the heights, and then Tranquility Park, downtown. I was like God man, you know that's so cool right there, just like 30 years ago, what Houston looked like in the movie Reality Bites. It was kind of neat to see it.
Speaker 2:Well, I always thought that took place in Seattle. I had no idea it was Houston.
Speaker 3:I thought so too, but that was the movie Singles.
Speaker 2:Right, I knew that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the other Gen X movie that they made just for us. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 3:That was the one with Matt Dillon and you know Eddie Vedder was in that one.
Speaker 2:Well then, there was Dazed and Confused.
Speaker 3:That was Texas baby, that was Austin.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:That was, you know, the great thing about that is, first off, you got Ben Affleck in his first movie before he did Good Will Hunting, and he played an awesome asshole.
Speaker 2:I would like to dedicate this first lick to your mother Not yet.
Speaker 6:It's getting warmer.
Speaker 4:What the fuck.
Speaker 3:Remember me, you pig Second off. You had the guy who's the big stud in what's his name? Man Rip. He plays, yeah, cole hauser. Yeah he's. That was one of his first movies too. He was in that and just all kind. But but they, they brought uh from the ut campus, this guy named matthew mcconaughey. Never heard of him and uh, he was so like magnetic that instead of just like a one-off line and then you know he's just basically a glorified extra with a one-off line they created an entire role for him. You know, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 2:That really led to his career. That was it. That was it.
Speaker 3:I think he did Texas Chainsaw Massacre One of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, like right before it or right after it or something like that but when Days Didn't Confuse came out, he was like everybody's got to get him, Wow, yeah. And then he did that one movie with Sandra Bullock, the lawyer movie, or something like that, and then that was it. He took off. All right, all right, all right, but he just, you know that that whole, uh, that whole, that whole scene, um say man, you got a joint?
Speaker 1:Uh no, not on me, man. It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
Speaker 2:You've used that a lot in your uh, in your radio career.
Speaker 3:Yeah, uh and uh. Yeah, he, that was r rift, that was just him riffing. That's fantastic. Anyway, reality bites. I thought that was a nice little look. Uh, at you. I I've gotten into, uh, the history of houston. I've gone down the rabbit holes a lot over the last, uh, you know, month or so and just like to see what things were and how they were and everything like that. And that was a nice little look.
Speaker 2:Oh, I bet you can't even recognize it 30 years ago with all the skyscrapers they've built.
Speaker 3:Kev, you can't. Even when we first came here in 2005, there are places that I don't even recognize anymore. It's just unbelievable. I drive past places all the time that I used to drive past in 2005, 2006, 2007 that were goat fields, that were nothing, and now there's these unbelievable metropolises with all the shopping and four lane highways and everything like that. I was like, wow, man, this is crazy.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why they need to continue to do it, because the influx of migration, of migration you know, I'm not talking about immigrants, I'm talking about californians, which I guess are immigrants yeah, yeah, they.
Speaker 3:They're supposed to come here and fuck our state up too well I gotta leave there because it's become way too fascist and totalitarian and too heavy taxes, man. Oh cool, who cool? Who are you going to vote for? Oh, I always vote Democrat, man. You see the fucking problem, dude. You know, kev, I bang on Democrats a little bit, but I got to give them credit.
Speaker 2:At least they're the open and honest ones.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, they're the ones that say hey, man, we're totalitarian fascists, we believe in communism, we believe in you will be happy with your three loaves of bread a week and we will be elites that'll do whatever the fuck we want, and that's it. We will control everything, what you say, what you do At least they're open and honest about that. That's their thing.
Speaker 2:I was like our buddy John Rogers. He freely admitted I'll take all your money.
Speaker 3:We want to take all of your money and control you and tell you what you can and can't do. They're open and honest about that and I like that about them, whereas the Republicans they're like small government, freedom, america, constitution and then, because they're so bribed and blackmailed when they get into the position they never vote that way. Those that that to me, uh, uh.
Speaker 2:Republicans who betray what they run on, are even more evil than Democrats who want to totalitarian fascism You're talking about like a wolf in a sheep's clothing there.
Speaker 3:Exactly Uh-huh. And just another group of people that may have to face the citizen tribunals, and just another group of people that may have to face the citizen tribunals sometime in the future? And, kevin, while we're at it, can we just put left-laners in there too?
Speaker 2:Why not Absolutely?
Speaker 3:We just got done with treasonous people.
Speaker 2:Now, people who clog the left lane, line them up. Who else should we put in that tribunal? Judges who let murderers back out on the street? How?
Speaker 3:about that. One Activist judges man.
Speaker 2:How about that one?
Speaker 3:Overzealous prosecutors, all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:All of that. Oh yeah, Kev, A day of reckoning is coming. We just got to get past our binge watching on Netflix and how easy it is to order something on DoorDash.
Speaker 4:Totally.
Speaker 3:I got a top three here, man.
Speaker 1:Just when you thought they couldn't count any higher. It's Tuttle Klein's top three.
Speaker 3:Okay Kev Top three tips for our freshly minted high school and college graduates. Oh, top three tips.
Speaker 2:The first one that immediately popped into my head is save however much you can in finances. You know, I got lucky man. I got lucky that my dad did instill that in me at an early age and while Tim knows me as a spender, I was actually saving a little bit more than what, uh, what I let on, and that was why I was able to retire at 51. So save, save and invest wisely. So that's like a one a, one B sort of thing. Okay, right.
Speaker 2:Number two is uh, and I had this conversation the other day with a complete stranger in a cemetery of all places. Uh, yeah, he was. He was walking, three German shepherds and I that's my favorite breed and so I asked him. I was running and I asked him if I could say hi and he's like well, yeah, they're, they're somewhat friendly. So he came over and we started talking and he's been married 45 years and I'm going on 28 this year. We married for like, we didn't marry for love, we didn't marry for sex, we married because we liked the person. So find that person you like.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. You know I can have let me reiterate that real quick, cause I don't have that as my one, as one of mine. Man, it sure the beauty is like shiny and funny and fun and neat, but a it wears off and b it's not the most important thing. And I would, I would love to just shake the 22 year old me and it's not about how fucking hot they are timothy.
Speaker 2:Find somebody that'll be loyal to you and have your back, yeah, and somebody that you just always enjoy being around. I Trish and I were driving around, uh, saturday. We were just running some errands and we were stopped at a red light and if you could punch me, you would punch me, right when I say this. I just looked at her and I said you realize how perfect you are for me. And she, I know Right and and she goes well, yeah, but you are for me too. I'm like, well then, you got a fucked up sense of romance because I'm messed up, and but we work, you know and without working, we work.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So find that person.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, kevin, it's like you know all the people who have messaged and comment. You know over the years, to me, god Tuttle how do you get hot chicks Boy?
Speaker 4:she's hot you did good.
Speaker 3:Blah, blah blah. Look at me. The people that you should be admiring are people like Kevin Kline, you know, 30 years with the same woman my brother Todd with, with Jenny I mean they've been together since 17 and 16 years old, or something like that.
Speaker 2:That's amazing.
Speaker 3:You know. So those are the people you should admire. They found their, their equal, half early and stuck with it, and it wasn't about she's got to be the hottest fucking chick ever, you know yeah which, unfortunately, was my priority forever, and it has cost me big time. You find somebody who's got your back. Find somebody that you can have conversations with, you know. Find somebody that you don't have to worry about making you look bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, there you go, all right what else you got. My third one is is really boring too, but uh, don't get so enamored with a paycheck. Love what you do, do it for however much they're willing to pay you. And if they're only going to pay you X amount of money and you think you deserve more, then go find that deserve more, or just do it for the passion.
Speaker 3:Yeah, kev, I say that to anybody that'll listen my daughter, my, my son, anybody uh, youthful, um, you know, take your passion and try to monetize it.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And that's it.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 3:It's the most important thing Now. You and I were fortunate. We were passionate about you know, doing radio is fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and this is going to sound weird coming from me, but you know there's a lot of people who are passionate about radio and don't have the careers that we had. We were fucking talented, you and you and me together, dude, we, we did some shit, yeah, you know. And and I, I usually don't say stuff like that because, number one, I'm not the most, uh, I'm not the most self-esteem worthy person, I don't have a lot, uh. But number two is, I'm, I'm, I like to think of myself as humble, but, man, dude, you go back and you listen to our stuff and then you listen to what's on the radio now. No comparison, man, it's bad, you know. No comparison it's bad.
Speaker 3:You know no comparison. It's bad. I, I, I it, yeah, anyway, I, I totally agree we, we found our passion and we wrote it for you know, uh two and a half years exactly that's good. Okay, uh, kev, uh, along the line of yours. Um, oh, no one, anything ever oh, that's huge use your debit card as much as you can pay off credit card balances every single month. Loans are for houses and cars and then eventually, as you get older, just for the houses period and he's a financial wizard.
Speaker 2:I would listen to that one period.
Speaker 3:Okay, uh, number two trust no one ever, under any circumstance. If the people that you do choose to kind of let in, don't fuck you over.
Speaker 2:It's just a bonus well, but that go back to what we were saying earlier is find that person that's got your back. If you don't trust anybody, how can you let that person have your back?
Speaker 3:always have an arm's length though. Oh, just just an arm's length, just in case I I say that. I say that you're. You're talking to a guy who all but I would I would say all but my dad, my brother, todd, and you, kevin klein.
Speaker 3:Anybody that I've ever let in has fucked me over well, I'm sorry about that, bro, that yeah so just all I say is just be you know, never let, never let somebody have everything you know. I'm saying never let them know everything, never. Always have a little bit of a guard up oh, okay, yeah I mean even people like you and my brother who are happy with it. I mean, even have a little bit of a guard up, because you just never know, because you don't see it coming, because you're, you're all you know. I trust this.
Speaker 2:Get this person's, got my back, man those are the two key, biggest key words in my vocabulary and how I like to live my life, though, tim, is trust and loyalty. So, bro, you got no problems with me. You can let me in however much you want or how little you want. You're never going to have an issue with me.
Speaker 3:I know you have, you have and and you've had opportunities where you could have fucked me and you didn't fuck me. Well, what's the point?
Speaker 2:What's the point? We were friends number one and we were business partners number two. There's just no reason, and number three I'd beat the shit out of you. Well, that was the helicopter was always a threat.
Speaker 2:The helicopter was always a threat. But dude, I'm just kidding man, I know, but okay. So obviously you know how many people were coming to me when you and Erica first started dating and it was common knowledge then that Tim and Erica together. You have no idea how many people are coming to me going. So how long have you known I'm like no, and what the Tim and Erica were together? I don't know that.
Speaker 4:Come on.
Speaker 6:You got to know.
Speaker 2:I'm like I have no idea. We worked together and then after that, I don't see them. I don't know what's going on in their private lives. Well, they got to be talking about it in front of you. No, we don't talk about that, so I don't know what's going on with them. Well, they're dating. Good for them. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Did you really it was that way? Oh, I, you know it was that way. Oh, tim, that was. Yes, I mean we, we were like together for a couple years before anybody ever knew anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean seriously, I was right across from you guys and I mean now that I know, and I look back at it and I'm like, oh okay, when he picked her up and held her up against the door, yeah, that might have been a sign, kevin oh yeah, you remember that, huh yeah, yeah, that might have been a sign kevin, and yeah, I pick.
Speaker 3:I would pick her up in the air and I'd hold her against the door and she would just squirm all yeah, or she would constantly punch you or slap you on the way out of the studio or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that might have been a sign, but to me I was just. That's the way we worked. I honestly didn't know for the longest time.
Speaker 3:That's so funny.
Speaker 2:And then, when it finally became public, people are like see, I told you, I'm like, that's how little I pay attention. I'm all about the product, I'm not about their personal lives, yeah, so yeah, Well, Kev probably just didn't want to know.
Speaker 3:He was like I don't want to know.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't care. I mean, I met Trish at work. What's that you did? Yeah, exactly, Trish and I worked together. I mean, if you're don't, if you, if you don't find somebody in your office because you spend so much time at your office you know, you spend so much time at the studio I can see how that kind of shit happens. It happened with me. So, but, dude, if you're found happiness, dude, I was happy for you.
Speaker 3:My though for you is did you know it was over before I did? No, seemed like everybody knew it was over before I did no, no, I, I, I.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't even know it was over when it was over, I didn't you got, you got. Oh, hey, hey, we got a, we got a, we got a guest oh he's here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, buddy, on the uh appalachian trail, the uh one, and only todd tuttle we'll get back to that conversation earlier former uh us army, colonel um, retired, now on the appalachian trail warrior, exped expeditionsorg. It's a great cause. He's going, he's with them. It's an opportunity for our combat veterans to get out and get their minds right, get some camaraderie, get everything going and I've been following Todd on Facebook. I can't even believe some of the numbers that he has basically taken care of. Todd, can you hear me? Yeah, sure can.
Speaker 5:Can you guys hear me?
Speaker 2:You look great, you look awesome hey thanks.
Speaker 5:You shaved, I did. Jenny visited me last week, came in to Damascus, virginia, on Wednesday or Thursday and you know I'll do anything for a conjugal visit. So she didn't like the beard, so I shaved. Oh, she did not like it.
Speaker 3:See, I thought it looked cool, man. I always thought. I always thought I always thought that that that wisdom beard, you know what I'm saying. But then again, I think you're just justifying yours Exactly. I wonder how many women have gone. Hey, man're just justifying yours Exactly. I wonder how many women have gone. Hey, man, if you just shave that beard, dude, yeah right, all right. So, todd, tell us about the number. The numbers are staggering. You've been out since the 1st of April. The miles you've done where you started, where you're at, walk us through your journey so far.
Speaker 5:Sure where you're at. Walk us through your journey so far, sure, so started at Amakola Falls in Georgia and then, you know, hiked up to the actual starting point, which was nine miles to get to Springer Mountain that's the official southern terminus of the trail. And that was actually on March uh 26, with a group of 10 of us from warrior expeditions, uh, let's see, um, completed the since I've talked to you guys uh, completed the smoky mountains and that was a 72 miles. That was a bit uh bit of a bear, because it was really cold at some of the nights, with some snow and ice and very steep hills and everything. So I just rolled into Damascus last week, which is Damascus, virginia. So I passed through three states already Georgia, north Carolina and Tennessee. So I passed through three states already Georgia, north Carolina and Tennessee and right now I'm currently at about the 547 mile mark. So in a couple miles I'll hit the quarter way point.
Speaker 3:That's unbelievable 548 miles in less than two months. A hike on the Appalachian Trail. How's it going with the other combat vets? Have you forged friendships for life? Does this?
Speaker 5:stuff really help the minds and the hearts and the souls of our brave warriors who stood up for our nation. Oh yeah, there's no doubt that what you get out of long-term exposure with nature, or what they call nature therapy, I could definitely tell a difference with me and they say it really doesn't click until about a thousand mile mark. But yeah, you know, the other veterans are doing great. Since I saw them at the start, you know, almost two months ago, we cross paths all the time. I've been with one guy in particular Papa Smurf is his trail name and he is definitely coming along. You know, physically we're all getting better too, obviously losing weight, getting stronger, doing that. But emotional and mental health awesome. There's nothing better than being out in nature.
Speaker 2:I was going to ask how your body's holding up, because I know early on you had some Achilles problems.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I still have it a little bit, but you know, I got off a trail in Asheville, North Carolina. A buddy an Army buddy of mine picked me up and took me to the VA emergency room, and I got some shots and some steroid dose pack to give some relief on the heels. I'm hitting a point now, though, that I need to change shoes. I really love my trail runners, but I'm going to have to go with a more classic hiking shoe. It's really rocky in these areas, and I'll be putting on a lot more miles per day now that it's relatively flat, so to speak, compared to what we've had so far, but my knees have been great, which is surprising. Everything else superb. I know I've lost at least 20 pounds. I haven't been on a scale for weeks, but feeling great.
Speaker 2:I was going to ask what's your caloric intake like every day?
Speaker 5:intake like every day. Uh, definitely, I was at um, uh, you know, huge calorie deficits Cause, you know, according to my Garmin watch, I'm burning like uh 37, you know, 3000 to 4,000 calories a day, but I can't carry that much in weight. Uh, until now I've kind of figured out what the formula is. So I'm kind of at equilibrium and that's why, you know, I think my weight is kind of stabilized a bit, but at first, you know, you're just eating the fat cells in your body to keep you going with the calorie deficit.
Speaker 3:We're talking to my brother, uh, who's on warrior expeditions Appalachian trail six month hike for our combat veterans. It's a great organization. Go check it out Kevin Klein has the website right here on the screen and give whatever donation you can. I mean, they put their ass out on the line for you. Now you can put your ass out on the line a little bit for them. But, todd, I've been following you on Facebook and they've been fascinating posts. Are you journaling? I mean, I'm seeing a book right here, man.
Speaker 5:That's. A lot of people have said that, even even my wife, jenny. But, um, I've been doing audio, uh journaling. You know uh when I think about it, or want you know uh want to keep record of something, talk about the day uh past and stuff like that. It's been therapeutic doing that, so yeah, todd, describe a typical day.
Speaker 3:You wake up. At what time? How many miles? Do you have a goal as a goal? Do you eat? When do you eat? How do you eat? How do you sleep? Are there support vehicles? Give me a typical day in the life of Todd Tuttle on warrior expeditions on Appalachian trail.
Speaker 5:Yeah, sure, uh, support vehicles would be great, but there are none. Um, that would be a wonderful service. I may have to start a business doing that, but, uh, now. So you get up, uh, and you, you know, you tear down your camp, you pack your bag back up, get your tent back in, uh, sit down and have breakfast, which is usually a protein pop tart or a honey bun, uh, something to get uh the energy going. And I, I always have one cup of coffee. Unfortunately, uh, it takes too much time to boil and do all that. So I do the instant coffee, pour it in my mouth and then chase it with water just to get that caffeine boost. But my phone's falling here, sorry, but you know. And then we gear up and we do the hike. So, along the way, you know, we'll do electrolytes in our water to keep those up, and then we'll snack along the way.
Speaker 5:In the morning. Stop for a longer lunch, which may consist of a tuna wrap, or, if you happen to be in town the previous day, you might have a leftover burger or sub sandwich or something like that to treat yourself with. Like that to treat yourself with, and, like today, I have a pizza that I'll be having for lunch leftovers from being in town last night. So, and then hike more miles. You get to camp and that's where you're completely fatigued. That's usually when you stop, and right now I'm up to 18 mile average a day.
Speaker 5:You know, plus or minus. And then you get there. First thing we do is set up our tents we're tired as hell and get all of our stuff situated and then we boil water for a nice hot dinner, which is usually a dehydrated food pack, hiker pack. Dehydrated food pack, hiker pack, which has anywhere from 700 to 1500 calories and 40 grams of protein in it. Uh, to try to, you know, uh, survive the day. And then, um, you know, usually a candy bar to throw in there as a reward for for a hard day's hike hey, todd.
Speaker 3:uh, kevin and I a couple of podcasts ago we were talking about how I went down this rabbit hole, you know, watching and listening to pilots that were having some struggles and going down and the voice cockpit reporters and everything like that. They always had the calmest voices, like Sullenberger, even the ones that crashed, you know, up like obviously until the last second where it's like holy fucking shit or oh my God, or something like that. They always had the calmest and chill voices. And I told Kevin about the time when you first got your pilot license and we were in that little tomahawk and we seemingly dropped like 500 feet in two seconds and you still, even at the age of 16 years old or whatever you were, you had that calm voice. How does that happen? What is what's going on with pilots?
Speaker 5:You know it's the, it's the. Training kicks in. You go through your initial training is constant emergency procedures and dealing with stuff, and then you get extremely comfortable with turbulence. That's like nothing to us anymore no planes gone down with turbulence, so it's nothing to get worked up about. But you know it's definitely good training, good instructors giving you all the emergency procedures, so you're ready for all that when it happens. And it's just another day in the simulator, so to speak.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's just so crazy. I mean, there was one of them where there was a cargo fire or something like that. You can hear the passengers screaming and the flight attendants banging on the doors and these guys are just like Tower 1441 going through procedure code lock, blah, blah, blah and I'm just like who are these people?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yep, pure training kicks in, that's, you just do it over and over and over again, where it's just like rote memorization and actions.
Speaker 3:I would ask you when it got fuzzy for you, but I don't. I know that some of our family members watch and listen to this podcast and I don't want to scare them, so I'm not going to you. Um, I've got so much to talk to you about, but obviously you got to get going. Uh, on the trail, we definitely want to check in. Um, we're going to talk next time about possible sasquatch sightings oh yes, I that's.
Speaker 5:That's perfect. I will talk to you about that and a bear encounter okay, and a bear encounter again, if you can.
Speaker 3:Uh, warrior expeditionsorg support these guys. They're out there on the trail right now getting everything right with their heads and the camaraderie and everything like that. Todd tuttle, thanks for joining us, buddy I love you.
Speaker 2:Hey, thanks guys, take it easy love you, todd love you too I was bragging on him the other day. I was uh running on my trail, uh that I typically run behind the house here, and there was a young lady who was walking her dog and she had this big rucksack on her back and it was camouflaged, it looked like it was military, commissioned or whatever you know given to her and I said, hey, how much does that weigh? And she's like 30 pounds. I'm like you're hiking with 30 pounds. She goes yeah, I got to do 50 miles this month. I'm like you training for something. She's like, no, I do 50 miles a month for this organization that helps with PTSD for soldiers. My son's in the air force and he had a couple of friends of his take their own lives and so I do that in solidarity with him and for them. And I'm like, oh, my buddy of mine is doing the Appalachian trail pretty much for the same reason. And she's like, oh, that's no joke. I'm like, oh, I know, it's no joke.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I, Kev, I, I follow his uh expedition on Facebook and he's got a YouTube, uh, uh too, and it's just. I was like, wow, man, that's cause it never ends, you know, it just doesn't end. It's six straight months, you know, tomorrow you're doing the same thing. Like most of us can get through some things that are troubling for the day, and some of those marathon, even some of those marathon two or three days, this is 180 consecutive days. Tomorrow we're doing the same fucking thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, two things that uh, that stand out to me when you point it out like that. And number 80 consecutive days. Tomorrow we're doing the same fucking thing. Yeah, well, two things that, uh, that stand out to me when you point it out like that. And number one uh, when you do have a mental struggles, such as myself and I believe Todd too uh, routine is so good for you, man, routine is just so good. And then number two yeah, mental illness. Man, you want it to stop, but it just doesn't. You just try and control it.
Speaker 3:I think that's one of the ways that I you know never really have struggled from. It is because I'm so God dang regimented. I mean same thing, rinse repeat, rinse repeat, and I just like it that way.
Speaker 2:It does simplify life. It really does. It simplifies life.
Speaker 3:Okay, where were we?
Speaker 2:We put a bookmark in our discussion to have Todd on from the Appalachian Trail. What are we? Well, we were talking about how unperceptive I am when my coworkers are dating each other and then when they break up. Yeah, this was all in regards to your top three of advice you would give to graduates college graduates.
Speaker 3:And I went through the first two. The third one is sunscreen. Always use sunscreen, I'm just kidding. That was that lame song from about 25 years ago, ladies and gentlemen of the class of 97, wear sunscreen.
Speaker 1:If I could offer you only one tip for the future sunscreen would be it Baz Luhrmann yeah.
Speaker 3:Baz Luhrmann I would say don't take yourself too seriously. Oh, that's a great one. You know, everything goes really really fast and you don't want to have to look back I'm talking to the graduates, white, right now high school and college. You don't want to look back decades from now and think, damn man, I should have been about 80% more chill, you know?
Speaker 2:oh, I, I know exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, the, the little things that you get bent out of shape about on a daily basis right now, at the age of 18, you know, 22, 23 or whatever mean absolutely nothing in the long run. I mean, think about it this way If you're facing something that's stressing you or causing you anxiety, just ask yourself this one question will this shit even matter at all? Three, four or five years that I'm sweating, right, will it matter at all? If the answer is no, then don't sweat it Exactly, yeah, and and seriously take.
Speaker 2:take the advice from both of us. We used to do that when we were younger. We used to do that Now it's it really. It's so funny to look back and go. Why did that bother me so much?
Speaker 3:Just the stupid, smallest things that you let jump into your brain and you're just like why?
Speaker 2:I was terrible at it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I overthought things and I took things too personal and I made lists and I, uh, yeah, I, I vowed vengeance and you know, I'm, you know. I would just like to go back to that me and just say dude, no, no.
Speaker 2:You were personally attacked a couple of times, though I mean, yeah, you can take that personal.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I mean there was some stuff where it was over the line, yeah, big time, big time over the line. And you know what? Someday we're going to talk about that on the podcast. Okay, I mean um, because, yeah, that was that, that was. That was a, a fucked up thing. And you know, one of the best compliments that has ever been paid to me was um was from, uh, our manager, mark Cretion, when he said and and Caroline Devine when they said man, with all of this going on behind the scenes with you, tim, you can't even hear it on the air.
Speaker 2:No, I've. I've always marveled at your ability to compartmentalize. I mean, you never and that's why I had such a difficult time understanding or realizing that you and Erica weren't together anymore, because you did sound the same on the radio.
Speaker 3:Oh, even after the split had begun, I mean, it's just like I still got to do good radio man. Yeah, I mean there are 1.5 million people that you know are listening and they deserve to get the best, and me getting all upset or bent out of shape or going into some kind of shell does not serve them well, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there would be some that would ask when did we ever start doing good radio? And that brings up something else that I wanted to talk with you about this week. I did not know that I was working with East Bernard's biggest snob. Oh, did you see that?
Speaker 3:I saw that I didn't know that you were. I had a post and somebody weighed in you know a post about you know about freedom of speech or whatever on my Tim Tuttle personality page and somebody weighed in and goes I and a lot of other people from East Bernard thought you were a snob and I was like that is the first time I have been anything but a snob. I think that's the first time I've ever heard anything like that before. Or they were calling Erica and I both snobs or something like that.
Speaker 2:I've always found both of you to be very approachable.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've always. I've always like you can come get a picture, talk to me, give me feedback on something you heard yell at me. I don't care. I've never been unapproachable, so I was surprised by that one. I'd never. That's after. After after close to 30 years, you think you hear and see, you've heard and seen everything that was. That was like OK, that's, that's weird, that one's weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so and Tim, very approachable, doesn't really care about designer name brand clothing and doesn't try and correct everybody, even though he knows that they're wrong. I mean, if anybody's a snob, yeah Klein, you're kind of a snob, the BMWs and the Mercedes.
Speaker 3:I mean, I drove demo trucks and then Camrys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but therein lies the small dick syndrome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:I knew I was packing that I didn't have to do that shit. Hey, kev, I uh, I went down a rabbit hole last week. Did you go down any rabbit holes?
Speaker 2:oh, I did. What was your rabbit hole?
Speaker 3:weekend update we, so you were watching a bunch of saturday night live weekend updates I, probably over the course of the weekend, did three hours of weekend update. Wow yeah yeah, and give me an assessment. I mean uh to, to me, dennis miller and uh norm mcdonald are the best of the best I gotta be honest with you, man.
Speaker 2:Jay and jost are right up there. Oh no shit, dude, this past weekend was merciless. So do you know that at the end of every season which this was the end of season 49, so the next season will be 50? Uh, oh, really, is that how mathematics work, klein?
Speaker 2:yes, yes it is thank you, kev yeah, you're welcome I love how you added one to 49 and got 50 fucking einstein over here I know, right, uh, but um, they, uh, they write each other's jokes the last episode of the season. So chay writes the jokes for jost and jost writes the jokes for chay, and neither of them see them until they're on set, until they're live. And this weekend was particularly brutal and it was so funny.
Speaker 4:Chat, oh God Chat. Gpt has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson's AI character in Her, which I've never bothered to watch, because without that body, what's the point of listening and speaking of bitches? I wanna call out the biggest bitch of all, kendrick Lamar. I'll call out the biggest bitch of all, kendrick Lamar, or should I say littlest. Oh, your war with Drake may be over, but your war with Michael Che is just beginning. So, to quote Hamilton shoot your shot player. Oh, that was pretty well done, man, that was pretty well done. Okay. Oh, I don't like that one.
Speaker 2:So funny and it just made me go back and watch the other ones that they've done like that. And then I did.
Speaker 3:I watched some Norm, definitely with the oj stuff and and, and dennis miller was just classic yeah, dennis miller was legend and it looked and it's such a departure from those standout ones of what it started off with with chevy chase 50 years ago you know, 49, 49 years ago. You know his was schlocky and goofy and goofy and it was campy and all that stuff. They started really getting incisive and really writing good jokes with Dennis Miller when he started.
Speaker 2:Phenomenal. So that was my rabbit hole.
Speaker 3:That's good. My rabbit hole I don't know how I got in it, but I couldn't get out of it. I mean it was a multiple day. One gav. What is it?
Speaker 2:niagara falls attempts oh, to go over in a barrel, or something in a barrel, niagara falls attempts.
Speaker 3:You know, I, I went, I I looked at every single attempt successful or not, killed or not, all that stuff, I mean, I was going through all of them.
Speaker 6:A colorful Niagara Falls, new York resident, jean Lussier, would be the next to challenge Horseshoe Falls on July 4th 1928, in his heavy, six foot diameter rubber ball lined with 32 inflated inner tubes, 2000 spectators on both sides of the border watched the 36 yearold machinist conquer the falls unscathed.
Speaker 3:And I was like I think I may want to do this. Why? Because I think I know the perfect barrel that I would make. You know, and I could make a barrel and survive one as long as I can make it how I want to make it a barrel and survive one as long as I can make it how I want to make it. Obviously you've got to have some kind of an absorbent shell, like barrel, where it can absorb a little bit of impact and then inside you just have to have a lot of cushion okay and then you can survive it.
Speaker 2:That seems to be the pattern to me so like a wine barrel filled with inner tubes would not be a good one.
Speaker 3:That would be, that would not.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And they've tried the wooden stuff before. The woodens aren't as good.
Speaker 2:Do you need to have something that's buoyant at the end Would be nice, I would imagine, but wouldn't that current just keep sucking you down?
Speaker 3:Again, you got to have something that'll hold you for a little bit, but you don't want to do what this one dude did and completely seal himself and he ended up suffocating. He lived and he couldn't get out and he suffocated what a dumbass. And he actually brought a pet along. I can't even remember what the pet was now and the pet survived.
Speaker 6:On July 5, 1930, George Stathakis, a 46-year-old buffalo chef, and his pet turtle were strapped inside a 1,000-pound wooden barrel and towed out above the falls where the tow line was cut. 18 hours later, the barrel was finally secured to the shoreline below. When opened, George had died of suffocation. The turtle survived.
Speaker 3:He built a really strong one, obviously, but he forgot how to get out, yeah that's the key. Yeah, you gotta be. I did it. Now, how do I get out? That last 15 minutes is like really, I'm totally alive. I'm totally alive, I nailed this shit. I, I, you know, my, my buddy's at the bar. They're going to have to pay up and I can't get out and my oxygen is low. What's?
Speaker 2:the legality of that. I mean, it's not legal, is it?
Speaker 3:No, no, no. They come and pick you up and they arrest you and fine you. Oh, it's a fine, it's not jail. I don't think it's jail. Oh, at one time it was jail and then it became non-jail. As long as you don't hurt anybody.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So I guess the key is is, if you see somebody go down on one, you wait a little while yeah, exactly because you know you make it and be like yeah, but you killed bill johnson well, you gotta time it right from the midst of the uh, midst of the falls, the little boat that takes you down there to the uh, to the actual falls, have you ever been?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, yeah, we've done it. Does it look cool? It's amazing, oh it's, it's spectacular now.
Speaker 3:Now tell me about the, uh, the, the, because you you've seen, I've never seen niagara falls. Okay, tell me the visual of you know how that would be like like somebody in a barrel, I mean, does it like? Is it freak you out?
Speaker 2:type shit freakak you out from the standpoint of watching somebody go over a waterfall Right yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 3:Like if you were a bystander and you saw somebody suddenly go down a barrel, would that take your breath away? Or something like that.
Speaker 2:Oh it would. Oh yeah, it definitely would, and you would be completely riveted to find out what was going on and how that would end. Hopefully not tragically, because that would ruin your vacation, but you know, it would be astonishing.
Speaker 3:Well, it didn't ruin the vacation like the one guy who went off of it on a jet ski. No, have you ever seen or heard this? And it's all over the place, so it's being inserted right here.
Speaker 6:Just after 12 noon on October 1st 1995, a quiet 39-year-old man from Camarillo, california, tried to jet ski over Horseshoe Falls. He told his friends that he was doing the trip to bring attention to the homeless in California. Soon after his tattered floating body, clad in a life preserver, was found below the falls.
Speaker 3:He got on a jet ski and said I'm going out with style wow. But yeah, imagine you're, you're just somebody. Hey, it was our first time in niagara falls. I'm here with the family, the kids, you know, and then all of a sudden, you see the jet ski guy and your seven-year-old is asking you questions for the next day and a half, exactly questions that you will never have the answer for ever.
Speaker 2:Oh, if you go to the falls uh, look at it from both sides. Um, you know, you can be on the us side and then you walk a bridge and you you're in the Canadian side, and the Canadian side is the one that has all the casinos and stuff. But the view is very different and it's a prettier view from Canada.
Speaker 3:Isn't that crazy that they get the casinos over there and we don't?
Speaker 2:Yeah, right across the fall right across the river.
Speaker 3:We're supposed to be America, man. You know why does the rest of the world get to play online poker and we can't in america? But in america you can sports bet. Now, online poker. That's actually a skill. That's a skill. Sports betting is not a skill right, okay I don't understand how they rash these fucking control freaks. Man, I Choke them Because you do play games?
Speaker 2:I don't. But yes, I'm sure there is a societal risk from gambling, but isn't it really your personal? It's more personal than it is going to affect me, right?
Speaker 3:There's a small societal risk in everything. It's the butterfly effect you know is going to affect me, right, yeah, there's a small societal risk in everything. It's the butterfly effect, Anything you can link that way. It's inexcusable for adults to tell other adults oh no, no, no, no, no, you can bet on the Bengals plus three, but you cannot play Texas Hold'em. That is, who are these people?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, if they would change the name of the game, they might be able to get on with it. But I mean, come on, the rest of the nation hates Texas.
Speaker 3:Okay is that it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you call it Alaska Hold'em. Yeah, okay, they're harmless, harmless people. They don't want to secede exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the last thing they want is they. They finally run off texas and we do our own thing and everybody's playing. Hold them still, texas. Hold them. Okay, kev, I see your point. Yeah, there you go. The other 49 are jelly. Oh, they definitely are. Yeah, hey, I got to ask you something because you have some knowledge in it. Audrey, just got back from a week in Costa Rica. How cool, and it looks like a really cool place. I know you were thinking of repatriating there in retirement.
Speaker 2:We put $10,000 down on a condominium, okay.
Speaker 3:First off, what city?
Speaker 2:We were in Guanacosta.
Speaker 3:Guanacosta. Obviously a coastal city.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, excuse me, we flew into Liberia, which, from Houston, you get on to Southwest, and it's a two-hour flight. Liberia is pretty much landlocked, it's right in the middle, and then a 45-minute drive to the coast. Now I've got a picture of it here, but the condominium that we put money down on was the penthouse condominium. We were on a hill, in a mountain, overlooking the ocean. It was amazing.
Speaker 3:And why did you back out of that?
Speaker 2:Because Trish got a mammogram that uh looked a little sketch, and so there was uh, she had to do follow-ups and stuff like that and we were like, yeah, maybe it's just a sign we're not supposed to be doing this right now yeah, because you want to, you trust the american doctors.
Speaker 3:You start getting into costa rica medical and you're like actually costa rica medical is not too bad really.
Speaker 2:You know you would be surprised at how many Costa Rica doctors educated in America. There's a shit ton of doctors all over the world that educate in America and go back to their native country. But the funny thing about the condominium that we were putting money down on, so it w? They didn't tell us the names but it was built by an NBA player, okay, and he had it built for his wife and she came down and saw it and he's like what do you think? And she's like I hate it, we're never going to spend time here. Sell it.
Speaker 2:So he sells it to Wesley Snipes, so Wesley Snipes owned it and then he had, yeah, and he had his IRS issues, issues, so he was forced to give up property. He gave that one up and it was on the market. It was, it was, it was a steal, dude, it was an absolute steal do you ever have uh regrets that you you pulled out?
Speaker 2:uh minimal and and I say this because it was we put 10 000 grand, it was ten thousand dollars on it. We got eight thousand back, uh. We put 10,000 grant and it was $10,000 on it. We got 8,000 back, uh, when we pulled out, the guy was very cool about it, uh, but um, it was only 199, $199,000. Okay For a penthouse. It overlooks the ocean in the mountains, uh, and now, now, that thing's 350.
Speaker 3:So everybody's repatriating there? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2:oh, dude, in that area, yeah, well, in that area they built a um, uh, what's the, uh, what's the top, the highest rank hotel you can find, uh, it's uh. Judy lincoln's been there. They did a CMG, did a retreat there a salesman retreat, and it's like it's like a St Regis, it's like it's the, it's the, like a. It's higher than a Weston, that kind of stuff. Yeah, I can't remember the name of it, but yeah, no, it's, it's, it's uh so beautiful.
Speaker 3:I was just I'm, I'm asking cause I, you know, I'm I'm thinking of possibly that, definitely by the time Timmy graduates high school, 10 years, but it may be even before that of, uh, you know, um living abroad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we're still thinking about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We think about it all the time.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So if you go to Costa Rica, I will not uh, Costa Rica is still in play for us, but there are some places over in Europe that we want to look at. You know, the number one place to live abroad is Portugal, Is it? Why? Is it Cheap, great climate, incredible medical system and just proximity. You know you're in Europe so you can get to any other country by train or whatever, but, yeah, and there's so much diversity there as far as where you could live. You could live in the country, you could live on the beach, you know that, that kind of stuff. So, yeah, uh, Portugal. We actually know some people who have moved over there. They said it's the best decision they ever made.
Speaker 3:Really Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, uh, yeah, I was, cause I, you know, I had Rica, I had Thailand. Thailand looks like a party.
Speaker 2:Thailand's a great place. If you want to go to a place where you don't have to worry about the language, you would go to Malaysia and look up Georgetown. English is the main language there, so you don't have a problem, and they call it Millionaire's Row Tim yeah, main language there, so you don't have a problem.
Speaker 3:And they call it millionaire's row tim.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you can get a condo there for like 125 thou us. So the million. The millionaire's row thing is uh it's for the locals, yeah, yeah, okay, and you're right, on the beach, it's, it's, it's beautiful. Um, okay, remember now malaysia's got islands, islands, so it's difficult to get around from the mainland, from Kuala Lumpur, which is the capital, to get to Georgetown.
Speaker 3:All I need is a place that has good internet connectivity.
Speaker 2:Oh, Malaysia's great.
Speaker 3:And so I can trade. And then if I, as an adult, I want to play some online poker, I want to be able to do it. It just seems that we don't have the freedoms other countries have and it's not getting better. I understand where you're coming from. It's just not. I mean, the whole thing has become corrupt and criminal and questionable and they just don't give a fuck about us. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Did Audrey like Costa Rica, she loved it. Yeah, yeah, do you know where she went? Did she go to Hako?
Speaker 3:I can't remember.
Speaker 2:Cause that's the, that's the big tourist town. I can't.
Speaker 3:I can't remember lots of cool falls and monkeys and oh, okay, so she was in the.
Speaker 2:she was in the in the in the mountain, the jungle in the jungles yeah and, uh, you know the really green frogs. You know with the orange yeah markings and stuff like that, those things yeah, no, there was a place we were looking at, uh in the in the countryside and we looked out the window and there was a monkey right right outside the window. Yeah, yeah, and then really beautiful looking parrots and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Kev.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Did you want to play with the monkey?
Speaker 2:Yes, I did want to play with the monkey. You know, You're not supposed to.
Speaker 3:You don't. Monkeys are mean man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people think, oh, it's so cute and I saw it on friends and I'm just thinking come here and next thing you know they're ripping your fucking skull back, Am I right?
Speaker 2:You're right.
Speaker 3:But they did. You don't engage them.
Speaker 2:They get very close there because they know where the food supply is and you know people do try and befriend them, which is kind of what I'm doing at home right now with this family of groundhogs that we have.
Speaker 3:Oh you got some groundhogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in three weeks time I have closed the distance between me and the baby groundhogs by half, so I'm probably 20 yards away from them now and I throw them leaf lettuce and they're very receptive to it.
Speaker 3:They eat the lettuce. Oh yeah, yeah. But aren't you screwing up their, their diet? And then, you know, give, getting them to be complacent. You know independent.
Speaker 2:Well, yes and no, I'm not screwing up their diet, because I've done the research and know that lettuce is a big favorite of theirs, as is, uh, corn and carrots, uh, so that's what I'll be tossing out, but the reason that I'm doing it, yeah, I'm kind of domesticating them, but the mom left. You know, the mom has taken off, and so I kind of feel like I don't know. Obviously they're well-equipped to find on their own, or else she probably wouldn't have left, but I don't know. I just I feel sorry for them.
Speaker 3:They're little babies. I wonder what happened with her. Did she get some, you know, postpartum type thing? Don't you wonder that I do? I wonder what happened to mom, because that's very unusual for mom to leave.
Speaker 2:And dad's nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3:I've heard that. I've heard that about gophers Dad's off cavorting with the three other women that are in his harem. Oh yeah, yeah, Male gophers are just like what. I ain't staying here.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah, you're on your own.
Speaker 3:Going to get me some gopher pussy.
Speaker 2:Going to get me some tail.
Speaker 3:Do you see that hot one from minnesota right there that's that's funny golden gophers reference that's right scratching your head right there. That's their college mascot I see uh gophers all the time on my uh on my walks. Do you really my cardio walks? I think they're gophers. I thought they were beavers because they do a lot of work in the creek.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. You know, Maybe they are then.
Speaker 3:But they don't have that tail. You know that beaver tail.
Speaker 2:Oh, they don't.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I mean it looks more like a big rat, like a gopher, Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I'm gonna you know I'm gonna take a picture of it and you tell me what it is yeah, do, are they? Do they look fluffy? They're a little bit fluffy. That could be a groundhog. They're a little bit fluffy. Groundhog.
Speaker 3:Woodchuck, uh, whistle pig, that's uh all three names it's so cool because you know we got a meadow here, you know we're in the middle of, uh, you know, uh, a suburban area in houston and there's just this peaceful, tranquil, tranquil trail that you know I can see alligators all the time. And you know, I see, uh, I see snakes and these gopher like thingies. Do you see dead people? I see dead people. Uh, I do not see dead people. Okay, all All right as of yet. I'm just waiting for it, because if you look at it, it's a perfect place to dump a body.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3:So I'm sure there's some evil fuckers, some active serial killers probably may walk past and go. After I kill the next one, I'm going to dump it here.
Speaker 2:Oh, gang members.
Speaker 3:Yeah, gangs are prevalent in the houston area yeah, I don't think they come all the way out to the suburbs, though you know they know they got a body dump? They will. I shouldn't have said anything. Okay, you take that shit to katie, you leave richmond alone, all right. I mean, if you dump a body in Katie, there's probably going to pave over it in a couple of weeks anyway, exactly so the man will help you hide it. You got it All right. Kevin Kevin Klein. Yeah, what do you have going on?
Speaker 2:buddy. Oh, you know, this week it's going to be interesting. Our godson graduates kindergarten in Kansas City, so we're going to go up there for the graduation ceremony on Thursday.
Speaker 3:Now, are you Kansas City, missouri or Kansas City Kansas? Because now I know there's a difference.
Speaker 2:This one's in Kansas. It's Overland Park, a little suburb of Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 3:So it's the one that doesn't have the teams.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of Kansas City. Kansas, so it's the one that doesn't have the teams. Yeah, by the way, I listened to that episode that we did and I got to commend you. Man, you say Kansas City correctly, I do. Oh, my God, dude. That's why I won't listen to the Chiefs broadcast on radio, because that fucking guy Touchdown Kansas City. It's not Kanza, asshole, it's Kansas.
Speaker 3:You figured somebody would have corrected him, him being a broadcaster for the team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it annoys the hell out of me.
Speaker 3:The reason I pronounce it correctly Kev. When I was a little kid and I don't know if you remember George Brett- Of course, the Pintar incident. Freaking loved George Bretttt. I loved him remember when he was flirting with hitting 400.
Speaker 3:That one year ended up with 390 totally remember I just remember I, I would, every single day, I would look on the news um uh for an update and I would look in the box score the next day just to see how he's hitting. I was so fascinated with, I was so fascinated with his uh pursuit of 400 and pete rose's 44 game hitting streak uh-huh because you know I was apex kid.
Speaker 3:You know that was the apex of me as a kid, just huge baseball fan. I was always looking at box scores. I mean kev. I knew the top 10 hitters in the league, top 10 home run hitters. I knew all that stuff top of my head like for years.
Speaker 2:Probably would still be able to rattle it off. Once you figure, once you, once you got going, I bet you'd be able to do it.
Speaker 3:Oh it was. It was so important to me. I remember that Kansas City team too. You know they had had a pretty good team. Terrell Porter was on that team.
Speaker 2:Willie Wilson.
Speaker 3:Willie Porter was on that team, willie Wilson, willie Wilson, frank White. Yeah, yeah, dan Quisenberry.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, the late Dan Quisenberry, steve Balboni.
Speaker 3:Yes, I remember that. Yeah, I remember that. But I always liked George Brett, yeah, and I hated Billy Martin, and when he did that pine tar thing to him, I remember just being so mad, yeah, I was like I hate you, billy Martin, you know it was probably the most animated.
Speaker 2:Well, it was the most animated. You ever saw George Brett get in his career.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I thought he was going to beat the shit out of the umpire. Look at him again right here, real quick.
Speaker 2:Look at him run out of the dugout I said, if they call me out for using too much pine toe, I'll run out there and I'll kill one of those sobs. And as soon as I said sobs the tim mcclellan, the umpire, who stands 6'6 and weighs 250 they might be going to call george brad out.
Speaker 3:He's out, yes, brad is out.
Speaker 4:Look at this, brad is out and he is out forcibly.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's, that's an. That is a man whose pants are on fucking fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah and uh. If you're not familiar with it, you can only have pine tar on your bat up to a certain point, and his exceeded this point and the opposing coach, billy Martin, called him out on it, and the umpires looked at it and took a hit away from him.
Speaker 3:Didn't it exceed it, because it jammed him. A pitch jammed him and just some of the pine tar went a little bit north.
Speaker 2:That could very well be how they figured it out, I don't know, but I mean, it is so freaking petty.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was very chintzy. How did that ruling stay?
Speaker 2:It stayed. Yeah, they took a hit away from him.
Speaker 3:They took a home run away from him. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, I remember that. That one just pissed me off, man.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was bad. Yeah, I loved the Kansas City Royals when I was a kid, Kev, and you of course remember the hitting streaks. You know Pete Rose, oh, totally remember it. I even remember. You know I was in college at the time, but you know paul molitor was in the 30s molitor had a great one.
Speaker 3:I think rod carew had a really strong one too I maddeningly had a really strong one I love it when you know they start covering streaks. You know somebody gets to, usually about like 25 or something like that, and then it starts becoming you know they'll. We're going to check in on the broadcast at that ballpark. So-and-so, so-and-so is at 27 games. I love that. I still do.
Speaker 2:Oh, same here. Yeah, yeah, 25 is about the mark where they start paying attention, because I mean that.
Speaker 3:to me is fascinating the idea that DiMaggio did it for 56 games in a row.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 3:That'll never be well, that ever. That'll never be touched.
Speaker 2:Not the way that they have specialized pitching Now. I can't imagine that that will ever be be approached again.
Speaker 3:No, because a lot of his were like late innings when the pitcher was tired.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pitchers went full games then and I mean, don't take anything away from Joe DiMaggio, that was amazing stuff. But yeah, I don't think you're ever going to see it because the specialty pitching now.
Speaker 3:I remember I thought Ichiro, if anybody's going to do it, it's Ichiro. If he doesn't do it, then it'll never, ever be done.
Speaker 2:It was done in college. Robin Ventura had a 62 game streak. But again, aluminum bats I mean 62 games is 62 games.
Speaker 3:Robin Ventura's a dick? Isn't he the guy that charged Nolan Ryan?
Speaker 1:Yes, he is. Here's Ventura RBI single in the first Watch out.
Speaker 3:Look at this. Fuck him and kev. How do you charge the mound on one of the greatest legend pitchers in history, a guy who I think he was I wasn't, wasn't all ryan 40 or something at the time, 40, 42 or something like that?
Speaker 2:yes, he was. He was up there. It was the latter part of his career. He was playing for the Rangers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how do you charge the mound on Nolan Ryan? If he hits you, you should have him sign the bruise. It'd be like you know what I'm saying, nolan. I know that one got away from you. Can you do me a favor and put best wishes to me from Nolan Ryan the Express? A favor, and you know, put best wishes timmy from nolan ryan, the express, can you? I would have him sign the fucking bruise.
Speaker 2:I don't think he likes uh talking about that or signing any uh any pictures that deal with that, um, any anymore he beat the shit out of him.
Speaker 3:No, that was great. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he got him in the hold and just started pounding.
Speaker 2:I love that I can't remember it. Remember if uh ventura was a rookie that year, I mean he was fresh in the league.
Speaker 3:Just dumb. Why would you do that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Kev.
Speaker 2:There's just certain people where you just you take it you know you take it you wouldn't want to charge the mound on Clemens.
Speaker 3:No, why would you do that? Clemens is a scary man. We've been, you know, we I've been next to him, you know, and he's a big dude, kev, I'm a big dude, but he looks like he shits bigger than me. I mean, he, he's just one of those guys. There's two guys that I've like been next to and hung out for good periods of time Clemens and JJ Watt. They're just big scary dudes. Yeah and I'm, you know I'm six, two and you know I'm, I'm built pretty good. They would just swallow me up.
Speaker 2:Don't you get the uh I? I never hung out with JJ, but you and I had the opportunity to get to uh, actually kind of befriend Roger Clemens? Don't you just get the impression that Roger just was, I mean, he was a brute, he was a bully on the field and JJ I kind of got, you know, like he's kind of just a nicer guy, he's talented, but he's not going to challenge you to a fight, roger, would. I mean Jesus Piazza was standing in front of him right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you don't want to mess with Roger Clemens. No, no, you do not. Yeah, no, yeah, he's extraordinarily competitive, that's it yeah. Let's put it that way. I mean he does and he can't shut it off on the field.
Speaker 4:Uh-uh.
Speaker 3:Behind the scenes. He's the nicest guy, very unassuming, very funny and very funny guy. And you know he, you know, and he's he. He doesn't assume, you know he's. Hey, I'm Roger. Yeah, it's like, yeah, we know you're, you're the goat man, we get it. But, roger, good to meet you, you know, yeah, and I, I love clements, he's great yeah, he was super cool hey, kev, let me ask you this, uh-huh, because I got into this discussion.
Speaker 3:Uh, another planet, um saw, has been watching for centuries. Us, you know, play baseball. You know a century and a half or whatever. We've been playing baseball and became enamored with, uh, our America's pastime. And they, suddenly, we saw some ships, uh, land in Washington DC and they just basically came out of there and said, hey look, we love this baseball thing. We could use your resources. We probably have the technology to wipe you guys out completely forever, but we, we like the game of baseball, so we the technology to wipe you guys out completely forever, but we like the game of baseball, so we're going to give you a chance.
Speaker 3:We got a power hitter here. His name is bleep blup, bleep, blup, bleep, blup, blup. If you can have one of your pitchers, strike him out, we will leave planet Earth alone. We'll turn around, we'll go and take off and we'll go find another planet and mine their resources. Here's the thing you can choose any pitcher from any era in history to pitch against. Bleep, blop, bleep, blop, blop, blop, blop. That you want. We have the technology to go back in time and get that person. Do you not have Roger Clemens, about 27, 28 years old, taking the mound.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's one of my top three in that.
Speaker 3:You absolutely Now forget about it. Not just getting them out. You can't walk them and you gotta strike him out. He's gotta be struck out. Randy can't walk him and you got to strike him out. He's got to be struck out. Randy Johnson.
Speaker 2:Yes, Randy Johnson. Really Yep First name that came to mind.
Speaker 2:If you absolutely positively have to strike out this alien motherfucker who can hit home runs easily in order to save the planet, you go get Randy johnson 1995 1999 when do you have I get him in his seattle days, okay, yeah, uh, not that his astros or diamondback days were anything to sneeze at, but yeah, I'm going, I'm going, uh, seattle mariner days what was that year I think it was 93 or something like that 94 when he scared john crunk crock at the All-Star game out of the batter's box?
Speaker 2:Oh my God, dude, that was so funny.
Speaker 3:Literally, you have a Major League Baseball pitcher who is so scary that an All-Star from the other league does not want to get in the batter's box because he's afraid of him.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, going in, Randy Johnson knew that. He knew that because Kruk was talking about it all week long. And so the very first pitch, you know, Johnson uncorks it way behind his head.
Speaker 1:John Kruk fanning himself off. Johnson has had pitches clocked at as much as 102 miles per hour in Major League.
Speaker 3:play Now this ball, obviously just getting away from him. But what's the reaction of John Kruk Would?
Speaker 1:you say his heart is palpitating a bit when the second half resumes on Thursday.
Speaker 3:Look at the next step. I don't blame John one bit on his right leg.
Speaker 1:He bailed out again at the breaking ball. He wants no part of Randy Johnson. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then Kruk just was like I'm swinging at the next three.
Speaker 3:I don't care where they are, I'm getting out of here and it's like 105 miles an hour or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean Randy Johnson was 6'10" and then on the hump he was well over seven feet on the mound.
Speaker 3:Well, and let's look at this right here Kev, this is a guy with so much velocity he made a bird explode like disintegrate in midair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, disintegrate. The timing of that was just unbelievable.
Speaker 3:Just think of how many baseball games that there have been, how many pitches have been thrown. And that's the only time that has ever happened, ever. And that poor bird. It has to be Randy Johnson, right? It can't be like Wakefield or another of the knuckleballers. Just think and that poor bird, it has to be Randy Johnson, right? It can't be like Wakefield or another of the knuckleballers where, hey, man, it stings a little bit, but I'm going to walk this off. Yeah, yep, I'm going to be able to walk this off. It's got to be Randy Johnson where it's like okay, it's over.
Speaker 2:Hell, it could have been Rick Ankeel, who could never throw a strike for the Cardinals Exactly, he became a hitter because he couldn't pitch strikes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, all right, kev, I'm sorry I went on a tangent there, but I just wanted your thoughts and feelings about that. I got into a discussion about that when I was drinking some beers with a friend of mine.
Speaker 2:Must have been some pretty potent beers to be talking about power hitting aliens.
Speaker 3:I made that up out of nowhere. That was great. If you absolutely positively have to strike out a power hitting alien to save earth, who would you get on the mound?
Speaker 2:randy, randy johnson, I had clemens, I mean 1a, 1b, that's fine.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no problem what about like a player today? Cole Cole.
Speaker 2:Player today Garrett Cole. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, he Verlander, why not Justin Verlander?
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, he's a little older Three years ago I would go Verlander.
Speaker 2:Okay, not anymore. I don't know, man, I think he, I think, I think that bleep, blop-blop-blop is going yard. Okay, All right.
Speaker 3:I saw in 22 Verlander in the playoffs got a little sketch and he's been having some injury problems. I will not go Verlander.
Speaker 2:Okay, not Verlander now.
Speaker 3:I mean I go Valdez before I go Verlander I was thinking about Framber, framber's good Mm-hmm. Yeah, I would probably. And what is it, scherzer? He's hurt.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:So I mean it kind of gets down. I don't know man, I got to go Cole.
Speaker 2:Well, shohei Otani when he comes back, if he ends up pitching again.
Speaker 3:That guy's nails man man. Why did he?
Speaker 2:get away with the gambling and Pete Rose didn't, because he was doing it on his own. Shohei had somebody to hide behind. Sure he did. I'm just saying that's why.
Speaker 3:Dude, if millions and millions of dollars are leaving your accounts, you know about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know. I didn't know that my coworkers were dating.
Speaker 4:That was right in front of me, all right, maybe you don't kevin klein does the uh.
Speaker 3:Full circle. Way to go, buddy thanks good stuff. He did a recall right there to finish the show. All right, follow us, download us, like us, subscribe, give us a rating, tell friends about us. We want to continue this podcast. We just need your support and the support of others. Please do that stuff so we can continue to bring you these uh, weekly podcasts. Also, buy our merch, which is right up here. It's really sharp looking stuff. Kevin klein uh, what's coming up on the fuzzy mike podcast?
Speaker 2:uh, fuzzy my podcast. Uh, I'm actually just going to uh play a little snippet of what Todd was talking about today and go into a little bit of how that personally relates to what I'm going on, what I got going on right now. But I've got two guests coming up. One of them was a his name's, evan Jarshower, and he did a an intervention for one of the Kardashians.
Speaker 3:Oh, I love that. All right I can't wait to hear that one. Which kardashian. What was going on? That's great stuff, okay. Um, my uh tv show. We have a three-week delay because of an equipment thing and it's gonna be june 10th through the 14th is when we shoot here in houston. So I got more time to lean out and get my shit right.
Speaker 4:So how's your shoulder?
Speaker 3:Man Kev, there's something wrong. Man, I'm this and you know me, I don't like to do that and I'm this close to going you know, talking to a doctor.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:You might want to.
Speaker 3:And also telling them I saw these great pills on TV. I'm out later.
Speaker 1:That's it for this episode of the Tuttle and Klein show. See you this Wednesday for an all new episode. Also, you can catch Tuttle on TV. He is a handsome man, and you can get more Klein on his podcast, the fuzzy Mike, with new episodes on Tuesday. Stay fuzzy, friends, and thanks for listening to the Tuttle and Klein show. Yo, all right, take the yo out.