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 --> 00:00:18,599 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 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: a good phlebottomist. 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: What was your man? 12 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: Your man? Uh? 13 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: What was his name? Pong Pong, the best flebottomist ever. 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: He learned it from a guy who had been a 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: medic in Iraq. It's all about just doing it. You 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: just gotta go. 17 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: There's a saying in golf you're much better making a 18 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: committed swing of the wrong club than a i'm not 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: sure swing with the right club. Pong taught us that. 20 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: And you're coconut splitters of the third world degree. Be confident, folks. 21 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: This is your moment of information. 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: My son wants to meet a buddy at the park 23 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: with his Civil War sword and cut apart of melons. 24 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: Now it doesn't actually have an edge, you could ride 25 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: to town on it. As my dad would say, I 26 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: love that expression. It's dull. This nice is so dull. 27 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 2: You could ride to town. I love that it still. 28 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: Looks like a sword. Yeah, am I going to have 29 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: a problem? Are parents going to call the police. 30 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: Especially in your communist enclave? One hundred percent? Yes, yeah, yeah, 31 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: it's a weapon. 32 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: It looks like well, it's arguably a weapon, but so 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: it's a bat and hers kids playing baseball exactly. Yeah. 34 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: I didn't say it was a good idea or justified, 35 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: but yeah, I gotta admit if I saw a teenager 36 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: with this sword, I would I'm not sure I would call, 37 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: but I would think about it. 38 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: I wouldn't call the police, but I wouldn't want my 39 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: kids over with the kid with this sword. 40 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. In a world of school shooters, I mean, it's 41 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 2: not like there're a lot of school swordsmen. Yeah. Yeah, 42 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 2: that that seems like probably begging for trouble. 43 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's really excited about this. I might see if 44 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: I can convince him to do it in our backyard. 45 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: Oh there you go. Sweetened the deal a little bit. 46 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: What goes well with melons? 47 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: I just don't need to deal with the talking to 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: the police. 49 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 2: Right right, Oh my god, it could be a huge pain. 50 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: Feel that right. 51 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: Then I'd have to use my yeo, old stole a weapon? 52 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: So is that bad over there? You don't give me 53 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: the old wood shampoo? 54 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: Really you don't? Oh please, We'll make sure somebody's videotaping 55 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: it with their phone. W'd be good for ratings. Maybe 56 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 2: we'll go viral. Nothing goes with melons because melons don't 57 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 2: need anything. They're a food, They're a beverage. 58 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: We have this running joke in my family, my family 59 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: being me and my two boys, that anytime I almost 60 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: do anything bad, it's like we go to our announcer voice. Oh, 61 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: known Trump supporter, you know, runs over kid on bicycle 62 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: or whatever. This one would be known Trump supporter and 63 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: right wing radio lunatic sends sun to park with sword. 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: It's not a good headline, no, no, So. 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: I guess I'll have to talk about that. Okay, Yeah, 66 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: we bought all the melons yesterday at the 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 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: off or choke up half an inch. 83 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 84 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 2: The idea that, oh, I must have my own bat again, 85 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 2: we don hoot it. But everything's gotten more fancy and professionalized, 86 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: pushed by. 87 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: People who are profiting from it. How do you not 88 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: catch under this? And moms and moms who liked the outfits. 89 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 2: They like fans, oh, and dads who think that their 90 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 2: kids going to get a scholarship and be sports hero 91 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 2: that will reflect well on them and the rest of it. 92 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: One of the weirdest twists in my life is I 93 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 2: was obsessed with sports for a lot of it, and 94 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 2: I assumed my kids would be really into sports, and 95 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: they weren't. They were just casual rec league type people. 96 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: And I am so relieved. I was initially disappointed. I 97 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 2: am so relieved. 98 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: Right, That's funny. I have that similar in that I've 99 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: been perfectly fine if they were like super into a sport. 100 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: And there's all the advantages of, you know, being busy 101 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: doing something that's not bad for you if nothing else. Sure, 102 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, 103 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: it doesn't break my heart that we're not doing that. 104 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know we've shared some really wise stuff about 105 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 2: having the kids' activity be the king of the family 106 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: is really not healthy. I know, I'm not I mean 107 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: not criticizing y'all. I know it's kind of part of 108 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: the modern world and you get swept along in it. 109 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: But everyone really really loves it or he is really 110 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: really good at it. But yeah, I know several people 111 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: who they just disappear from life for three four months 112 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: of the year, if not longer, because of it's whatever season. Yeah, 113 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: which was just unheard of. I mean, if nothing else, 114 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: you got to admit that didn't exist until fairly recently. 115 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 2: Mm hmm. 116 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: Just driven by something, yeah, driven by something. One more thing. 117 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: I'll just finish on this. On the sword. I thought 118 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: this was kind of funny. So we got the sword 119 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: at wal Drug in South Dakota, which is a very 120 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: famous tourist trap, really really cool place anyway. It's an authentic, 121 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: very authentic Civil War sword that was kind of expensive, 122 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: and he really really wanted and had to be like 123 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: part of his birthday president and everything like that, because 124 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: it was kind of expensive because we had just visited 125 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 1: where Customers Last Stand and we just did that whole 126 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: tour and everything like that. So it's a really really 127 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: cool heavy duty but it doesn't have an edge on it. 128 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: So he wanted to try it out on cutting a 129 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: watermelon open. And so we waited until we got to 130 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: my parents' house, his grandparents' house, and my brothers were there, 131 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: and we were all wondering, is this gonna like what 132 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: could go wrong here? Is this gonna work? Is it 133 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: gonna like hit and like like break his wrists with 134 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: like the swinging really hard and like like if you 135 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: hit a tree with a bat or is it going 136 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: to bounce straight up in the face, just trying to 137 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: figure out what what horrible things can go wrong here? 138 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: Or or or will it 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 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: we all went to the park. So it's me, my brother, 149 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: Gramma Gradpa Edry and his brother Sam and the sword 150 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: of the big water melon, and we got it on 151 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: video 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 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: was an interesting lesson about inertia or swords or something I. 156 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: Don't know, or watermelons. 157 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: Or melon in general. 158 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 2: Well, presumably then it could do some fairly serious damage 159 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 2: to flesh as well. 160 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: Oh to a head, Yeah yeah, I think it'd probably 161 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: do the same thing to a head. 162 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 2: And I think about my mom, God rest her soul, 163 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 2: the number of times I came home bloody. What happened 164 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: trying to, you know, wash it off, to figure out 165 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 2: whether you know I needed to be administered to by 166 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 2: professionals or. 167 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: That's always the key. There's blood. How bad is it? 168 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: It could be quite minor and bloody, or it could 169 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: be very very bad. 170 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: Every parents know, every parent knows there are some parts 171 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: of the body that are more than generous if they 172 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: start to bleeds. I'm a great deal less so yeah, yeah, so. 173 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: That's your lesson. Even with a very very dull sword, 174 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: if you find yourself in a situation where you'd really 175 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: like some watermelon. 176 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 2: Don't waste your money with the local sword sharpener. Your 177 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: Civil war sword will do just fine. 178 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: Exactly. Look, we've all want to. 179 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 2: So if you get fruit salad at Jack's house, just 180 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: know that his son slice that up coming up on 181 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: tomorrow's podcast, Killing Flies with Muskets. 182 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: Stay with us. Well, I guess that's it.