1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Can you take a sword to the park. It's one 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: more thing before I get to that. 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 2: Came across this am I doing sword yoga in this scenario. 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: We learned about that the other day. 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: You're chopping apart melons. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: Oh huh. You ever seen anybody in your third world 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 2: island nation chopping a coconut with a sword or I 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: guess it's a big like machete thing. It's really really 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: quit amazing the key. You gotta be decisive. It's like 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: a good phlebottomist. What was your man? Your man? Uh? 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 2: What was his name? 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: Pong Pong, best flebottomist ever. He learned it from a 13 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: guy who had been a medic in Iraq. It's all 14 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: about just doing it. You just gotta go. 15 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: There's a saying in golf you're much better making a 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: committed swing of the wrong club than a i'm not 17 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: sure swing with the right club. Pong taught us that. 18 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: And you're coconut splitters of the third world degree. Be confident, folks. 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: This is your moment of information. 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: My son wants to meet a buddy at the park 21 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: with his Civil War sword and cut apart of melons. 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: Now it doesn't actually have an edge. You could ride 23 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: to town on it. As my dad would say, I 24 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: love that expression. It's dull. 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:30,839 Speaker 2: This nice is so dull, you could ride to town. 26 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: I love that it still looks like a sword. Yeah, 27 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: am I going to have a problem? Are parents going 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: to call the police? 29 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: Especially in your communist enclave? One hundred percent? Yes, yeah, yeah, 30 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: it's a weapon. It looks like well, it's. 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: Arguably a weapon, but so it's a bat and hers 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: kids playing baseball exactly. Yeah. 33 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: I didn't say it was a good idea or justified, 34 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: but yeah, I gotta admit if I saw a teenager 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 2: with this sword, I'm not sure I would call, but 36 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: I would think about it. 37 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: I wouldn't call the police, but I wouldn't want my 38 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: kids over with the kid with this sword. 39 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, in a world of school shooters, I mean, it's 40 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 2: not like there're a lot of school swords. Yeah. Yeah, 41 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 2: that that seems like probably begging for trouble. 42 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's really excited about this. I might see if 43 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: I can convince him to do it in our backyard. 44 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: Oh there you go. Sweetened the deal a little bit. 45 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 2: What goes well with. 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: Melons, I just don't need to deal with the talking 47 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: to the police. 48 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 2: Right right, Oh my god, it could be a huge pain. 49 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: Feel that right. 50 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: Then I'd have to use my yeo old stole a weapon. 51 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: So is that bad over there? You don't give me 52 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: the old wood shampoo? 53 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: Really you don't. Oh please, We'll make sure somebody's videotaping 54 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: it with their phone. W'd be good for ratings. Maybe 55 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 2: we'll go viral. Nothing goes with melons because melons don't 56 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: need anything. They're a food, they're a beverage. 57 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: We have this running joke in my family, my family 58 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: being me and my two boys, that anytime I almost 59 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: do anything bad, it's like we go to our announcer voice. Oh, 60 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: known Trump supporter, you know, runs over kid on bicycle 61 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: or whatever. This one would be known Trump supporter and 62 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: right wing radio lunatic sends sun to park with sword. 63 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: It's not a good headline, no, no, So I guess I'll. 64 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: Have to talk about that. 65 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, we bought all the melons yesterday at the 66 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: grocery store. 67 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: Speaking of bats, a David French article I shared during 68 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 2: our four of the show. He made a reference, fairly 69 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: casual reference to how sports has changed and now everybody 70 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: pays for an enormous mounts of swag and travel teams 71 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. And he mentioned, I don't know 72 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: how old he is. He must be a little younger 73 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 2: than us. He mentioned, you know, back in the day, 74 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: you had your your own shoes and glove and bat 75 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 2: and blah blah blah, and and I was like, hang 76 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: on there, that hole, you've got to have your own bat. 77 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 2: Thing that happened like after I stopped playing ball as 78 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: like a young adult. If anybody announced, no, I have 79 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 2: to have my own bat, we'd have laughed them out 80 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: of the dugout. We've got every size, every length and 81 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: weight you need. That one's got a little thinner hand 82 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: off or choke up half an inch. Yeah, the idea that, oh, 83 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: I must have my own bat again, we don hoot it. 84 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: But everything's gotten more fancy and professionalized, pushed by. 85 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: People who are profiting from it. How do you not 86 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: catch under this? And moms and moms who liked the 87 00:04:58,520 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: outfits they. 88 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: Like fans, oh, and dads who think that their kids 89 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 2: going to get a scholarship and be a sports hero 90 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 2: that will reflect well on them and the rest of it. 91 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: One of the weirdest twists in my life is. I 92 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 2: was obsessed with sports for a lot of it, and 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 2: I assumed my kids would be really into sports, and 94 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: they weren't. They were just casual rec league type people. 95 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: And I am so relieved. I was initially disappointed. I 96 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 2: am so relieved. 97 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: Right, That's funny. I have that similar in that I've 98 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: been perfectly fine if they were like super into a sport. 99 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: And there's all the advantages of you know, being busy 100 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: doing something that's not bad for you if nothing else, Sure, 101 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: but watching other people's lives be dominated by their kids baseball, swimming, soccer, whatever, 102 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: it doesn't break my heart that we're not doing that. 103 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know we've shared some really wise stuff about 104 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 2: having the kids' activity be the king of the family 105 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: is really not healthy. I know, I'm not me not 106 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: criticizing y'all. I know it's kind of part of the 107 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: modern world and you get swept along in it. 108 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: But everyone really really loves it or is really really 109 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: good at it. But yeah, I know several people who 110 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: they just disappear from life for three four months of 111 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: the year, if not longer, because of it's whatever season. 112 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, which was just unheard of. 113 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: I mean, if nothing else, you got to admit that 114 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: didn't exist until fairly recently. 115 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Just driven by something, yeah, driven by something. 116 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: One more thing. I'll just finish on this. On the sword. 117 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: I thought this was kind of funny. So we got 118 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: the sword at wal Drug in South Dakota, which is 119 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: a very famous tourist trap, really really cool place anyway. 120 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: It's an authentic, very authentic Civil War sword that was 121 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: kind of expensive, and he really really wanted and had 122 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: to be like part of his birthday president and everything 123 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: like that because it was kind of expensive because we 124 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: had just visited where Customers Last Stand and we just 125 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: did that whole tour and everything like that. So it's 126 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: a really really cool heavy duty but it doesn't have 127 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: an edge on it. So he wanted to try it 128 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: out on cutting a watermelon open. And so we waited 129 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: until we got to my parents' house, his grandparents' house, 130 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: and my brothers were there, and we were all wondering, 131 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: is this gonna like what could go wrong here? Is 132 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: this gonna work? Is it gonna like hit and like 133 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: like break his wrists with like the swinging really hard 134 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: and like like if you hit a tree with a 135 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: bat or is it going to bounce straight up in 136 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: the face, just trying to figure out what what horrible 137 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: things can go wrong here or or or will it 138 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: cut the melon? 139 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 2: We have described my entire childhood right there, which is 140 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 2: why I have so many scars. 141 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we used to all just try this stuff 142 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: on our own without asking our parents if it was okay, 143 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: and we're better for it. Yeah, but anyway, and parents 144 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: didn't used to worry about it like I was worried 145 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: about it. But we were all going through My younger 146 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: my youngest brother, who's very cautious, was just certain it 147 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: was gonna be a disaster of some sort. But anyway, 148 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: we all went to the park. So it's me, my brother, Gramma, 149 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: Gradpa Edry and his brother Sam and the sword in 150 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: the big water melon, and we got it on video 151 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: and everything like that. Nobody knew what was gonna happen. 152 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: And and sliced it perfectly into like it was a 153 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: sharp knife, which is just amazing, I mean, just a 154 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: perfect cut, awesome, even though it's dull. Wow, I thought 155 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: was an interesting lesson about inertia or swords or something 156 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. 157 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: Or watermelons. 158 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: Or melon in general. 159 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 2: Well presumably then it could do some fairly serious damage 160 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 2: to flesh as well. 161 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: Oh to a head, Yeah yeah, I think it'd probably 162 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: do the same thing to a head. 163 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 2: And I think about my mom, God rest her soul, 164 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 2: the number of times I came home bloody. What happened 165 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: trying to, you know, wash it off to figure out 166 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 2: whether you know I needed to be administered to by 167 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 2: professionals or. 168 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: That's always the key. 169 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 2: There's blood. 170 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: How bad is it? It could be quite minor and bloody, 171 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: or it could be very very bad. 172 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: Every parents know, every parent knows there are some parts 173 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: of the body that are more than generous if they 174 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: start to bleeds. I'm a great deal less so yeah, yeah, so. 175 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: That's your lesson. Even with a very very dull sword, 176 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: if you find yourself in a situation where you'd really 177 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: like some watermelon. 178 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 2: Don't waste your money with the local sword sharpener. Your 179 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 2: Civil war sword will do just fine, exactly. Look, we've 180 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 2: all want to. 181 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: So if you get fruit salad at Jack's house, just 182 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: know that his son slice that. 183 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: Up coming up on tomorrow's podcast, Killing Flies with Muskets. 184 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 2: Stay with us. 185 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.