Heatwaves, Tornado Targets, and Fishing Folly: A Chaotic Commentary
Get ready for an episode that’s hotter than the Fourth of July, both in temperature and in topic! Mike and Tom launch into the holiday spirit with a fiery debate about global warming, spurred on by the relentless heat wave gripping the nation. You’ll hear us question the media's obsession with climate change and even ponder the peculiar case of the long-tailed kangaroo rat’s habitat needs. The climate talk naturally transitions into a serious critique of Joe Biden's recent political debate performance, where we ponder the qualities truly needed in a leader and unveil our upcoming podcast "Overtime," promising to tackle even more pressing issues.
Ever wondered why tornado interviews always seem to happen in trailer parks? We do too, and this episode spares no comedic punch in exploring this odd phenomenon. From questioning the peculiar targeting habits of tornadoes to making light-hearted jabs at trailer park lifestyles, we leave no stone unturned. Whether it's the stereotypes, the drug use, or the laundry mishaps, our witty banter and playful critiques will have you laughing out loud and nodding in agreement.
We wrap things up with a hysterical journey through some of the most bizarre fishing laws in the U.S. From the illegality of fishing from horseback to the comedic thought of drugging trout, you won’t believe some of these regulations still exist! Tom shares a nostalgic tale of childhood mischief, detailing a day that started with a simple errand and turned into an epic adventure involving baseball games and fishing expeditions. It's a trip down memory lane filled with youthful recklessness, sibling bonds, and lessons learned the hard way. So grab your headphones and join us for an episode packed with humor, reflection, and a touch of political critique.
00:13 - Political Podcast Banter and Hot Weather
15:29 - Trailer Park Tornado Banter
23:37 - Absurd Fishing Laws Chatter
31:40 - Childhood Mischief and New Podcast
Political Podcast Banter and Hot Weather
Speaker 1Welcome to another episode of the MT Alternative Podcast . The podcast with a hodgepodge of stories and topics that will make you ask what the hell were they thinking ? Now here are your hosts , mike and Tom Tom . What the hell were they thinking ? Now here are your hosts , mike and Tom .
Speaker 2Tom , what the hell's going on ?
Speaker 3Oh , not too much , Mike . How are you ?
Speaker 2Getting ready to enjoy this vacation buddy .
Speaker 3Oh yeah , fourth of July , gotta love it .
Speaker 2Not going anywhere . America Just gonna enjoy being away from the hill grind .
Speaker 3Yeah , this kind of makes you patriotic feeling and everything .
Speaker 2Fourth of July I didn't feel patriotic this week . No , it was hot . That was quite the week , Tom .
Speaker 3Yeah , quite the week , I'm telling you . It just makes me want to choke these people that are talking about global warming . Oh my goodness , and you know . Here's the thing In the news . They say global warming has caused this heat to be different . You know , for as long as I've been alive , summer's been hot .
Speaker 2Yes , winter's been cold , yeah , winter's been cold . Yeah , depending on where you live .
Speaker 3Okay , and now in the news they say last August was two degrees cooler than this August is going to be . So here's my first question what's that ? Why is this in the news ?
Speaker 2Because they want it thrown at us . It's like beating a dead horse over this Two degrees .
Speaker 3Two degrees . It's not global warming , it's just this . Okay , why do I care ? Why do I care that it was two degrees warmer eight months ago , tom ? This has been going on forever .
Speaker 2Oh , we've had all these fires , all these hurricanes . We've had those dating back many , many , many years , Hundreds of years ago , documented Every once in a while you have a fluke year . Now do I believe stuff is changing . Do we have to do certain things , Of course . Now let's not get all freaking nuts over it .
Speaker 3Yeah , because here's the thing by the time we're gone , the only people worrying about it are the younger generations .
Speaker 2Oh , it goes back to the spotted owl .
Speaker 3He gets pissed off at certain things or the kangaroo rat .
Speaker 2Long-tailed kangaroo rat .
Speaker 3It's a rat , it is , I mean it's cute .
Speaker 2Don't get me wrong .
Speaker 3It still doesn't need 2,000 acres . I kind of get that . I mean it's cute , Don't get me wrong .
Speaker 2I mean it's a rat , it still doesn't need 2,000 acres .
Speaker 3When we were kids , we didn't ask Well , when we killed the rat , I hope it wasn't a special rat , I mean , it's a rat .
Speaker 2It is . Anyway , I understand , did you happen to catch a debate the other night ?
Speaker 3I absolutely did . I I happened to catch a debate the other night . I absolutely did . I don't understand people who don't watch it I don't either and then bitch and moan about what's going on .
Speaker 2I just don't get it . I don't want to get into this , because we have our we have a new podcast coming out .
Speaker 3We have the Overtime .
Speaker 2Overtime the MT Alternative Podcast . It's going to be more worldly type things going on Politics all kinds of news . Based for the more serious person A little more Stuff we want to talk about a lot of times , but we don't want to . This podcast we're doing is fun and we want to keep it fun .
Speaker 3Let's just be honest we do have some serious issues that we want to talk about .
Speaker 2So that's what that will be . But getting back to the debate thoughts what did you see ?
Speaker 3I saw what everybody saw .
Speaker 2Sadness , you think everybody saw it .
Speaker 3Well , whoever watched it , I think more people realize it now . Yeah , whoever watched it has to understand that . I mean , I , I I listened to this woman talk and I believe I don't don't quote me saying it , but but I do believe she said she was democratic and she said she could picture her father up there and feeling very , very bad .
Speaker 2I'm not going to lie , I'm not a Biden fan , not at all . It was sad . It was sad to watch .
Speaker 3It really was . Because , just because he's in Congress .
Speaker 2It kind of pisses me off more letting that happen .
Speaker 3Yeah , and what really gets me is how they think it's okay to throw him out there in the lion's den .
Speaker 2But who do you think won that ?
Speaker 3Okay , I mean think about it .
Speaker 2I don't want you to just jump in on that . I want you to think about it .
Speaker 3It's just like I said it's obvious . If anybody watched it ?
Speaker 2It is definitely obvious .
Speaker 3Here's the thing you got two people . One obviously understands politics . He's been there 50 something years . Okay , you would think you got two people . One obviously understands politics . He's been there 50-something years , okay . You would think One obviously doesn't understand the politics because he's never , been there Exactly .
Speaker 2I'll take the businessman over the politician that's got in their pockets with my money . He knows how to run a business , and I'm not talking just Joe Biden .
Speaker 3Nope .
Speaker 2Nope .
Speaker 3Nope , not only him , it's the many , many politicians . Exactly , and of course , they want to be in politics . It's the quickest way to become a millionaire in this country .
Speaker 2Yeah , it seems to be that way .
Speaker 3It's really sad .
Speaker 2But yeah , that's something we'll definitely get into .
Speaker 3Yeah , we're going to touch a lot more on this particular subject in our new podcast . But just to say I mean Trump has it going on . I mean he is the most Okay . Here's the thing . Okay , here's the thing . If World War III is about to break out and it means that we have to sit around a table and discuss our issues in a way that people understand , tom , you don't even have to explain it that way .
Speaker 2Joe Biden's not the mayor . I don't want that guy to have the code for the noobs .
Speaker 3And here's another newsflash the California governor is not the guy either .
Speaker 2No people think Newsom . Look at what he did to California people .
Speaker 3And here's another newsflash the California governor is not the guy either . No people think Newsom . Look at what he did to California people . He's six feet from falling in the ocean .
Speaker 2And again , I know you made fun last time , but I do feel bad for the people who really can't leave California or love their state and they don't want it to be that way . That's going to suck .
Speaker 3It really does have to .
Speaker 2I mean , hey , I'm from Massachusetts and the politics up there ?
Speaker 3Yeah , and it just .
Speaker 2I'm all for everybody doing their own thing .
Speaker 3Again , we've said this many times Don't push it on me and that was another thing that was brought up not to prolong this .
Speaker 2Yeah , we're going to end this .
Speaker 3But it was just weird that they brought up , you know , each state with Roe versus Wade and all that . If each state has their own cookie , some states could say , yeah , we'll kill the baby after it's born , Put the baby aside and see what happens . You know you can't sometimes do that .
Speaker 2It . Just it's in the yeah , we'll get into that later . I don't want to make this podcast all about this .
Speaker 3Yeah , but back to the weather . It's been very , very , very hot .
Speaker 2Weather's been hot and dry .
Speaker 3Yes , we need some rain .
Speaker 2A little rain we've had , hasn't done it .
Speaker 3Yeah , a little rain would be nice . I guess we're supposed to get some tomorrow .
Speaker 2Cross your fingers .
Speaker 3What do you ? You got any plans for the 4th cookouts picnics . I think we're going to do a , not a picnic , a cooking out , hey , boo boo . But anyway , I think what I'm going to do is I do have a plan to drive to Virginia this week someday , one day of the week , for what ? My father-in-law is buried there ? Ah and I think we're going to go and take care of the area around his grave .
Speaker 2Oh , okay .
Speaker 3Kind of do a family thing one day .
Speaker 2Well , that's awesome . And then I have a doctor's appointment one day , well , that's awesome .
Speaker 3And then I have a doctor's appointment one day and it's just , and I've got one day set aside to where I'm just going to drink belligerently and forget where I'm at . That's not why we're doing our podcast . No , I'm going to no , no .
Speaker 2I want to forget where I'm at and then just make up a place that I'm there , oh it would probably what was I saying ? Have podcast , probably . What was I saying ? Have you uh heard from the little dudes at ?
Speaker 3all and any good news yeah is he happy for once ?
Speaker 2no good news is doesn't he have a vacation himself coming up ? Oh , he's always on vacation , both of them . They probably are living in his head the way they do .
Speaker 3Ooh , ooh , ooh , my head it hurts .
Speaker 2Right .
Speaker 3Today he was just having a ball , just fussing about everything . He whines about everything .
Speaker 2Like .
Speaker 3Well , like the other day , he took his laundry to the freaking laundromat and there was a bunch of other people there and he got his clothes mixed up and ended up wearing somebody's underwear for a week .
Speaker 2It was weird . Didn't he know , when he took it , that it wasn't his ?
Speaker 3Most of the things that piss him off he causes .
Speaker 2I think that's what the other little guy told him before . Yeah , little Mike there .
Speaker 3But you know , it's summer and there's a lot of storms going on and different people are dealing with different things , and he was ranting and raving the other day about tornadoes .
Speaker 2So he's not going to be able to make it then today , right ?
Speaker 3Oh , he'll be here , I'm sure , oh , he will . I'm sure he will .
Speaker 2Oh , is he already here he ?
Speaker 3could be . I'm sure he will . Oh , so is he already here ? He could be .
Speaker 2I thought I heard something . Why don't you check ?
Speaker 3All right , we'll go find him .
Speaker 2yeah , he's here he is , I see , should we just let him get this over with ?
Speaker 3yeah , we might as well just let him come in here and piss everybody else off that sounds good .
Speaker 2All right , all right , all right , the little dudes let them get their rant out and uh well , we'll see what happens .
Speaker 4Hey , buddy , what's up ? What do you mean ? I mean , what's up ? What's happening , how you doing ? Oh , the temperature's up . I know that , hot as hell . Well , it's summer , but other than that , how are you ? Okay , I guess ? How are you ? Oh , okay , that sounds better than last week . Okay , well , now that we got our pleasantries out of the way , uh-oh , yeah , no , uh-oh , it's just the way it is . Alright , what is it again this time ? I don't know , it's just hot and I'm pissed off about it . Okay , but you know , we're in a nice air-conditioning little studio here . Yeah , this is nice , yeah , it's nice , but when I leave here , I'm gonna go home , to the trailer park .
Speaker 4Well , everybody knows what happens in a trailer park in the summertime oh , tornadoes . What's wrong with tornadoes ? Sometimes they bring you places . Okay , well , let's first take a tornado situation that happened several years ago , when a girl flew to another country and killed a witch , caused her all kinds of problems . I don't think that really happened . What do you mean ? It didn't really happen . I saw it . I thought it was a movie , not a documentary . Yeah , it was a documentary . They talked about the midget that hung himself . Wait a minute , sorry , sorry . Why are we talking about us like that . Excuse me , that's not right , little people . Okay , I know what that ?
Speaker 4Okay , Little people . Sorry , but I mean then she had some kind of affair with this lollipop guild or something happened . It was weird . I don't like the weather and tornadoes . Wow , this little thing took a turn . Okay , well , listen , Listen . When you're in a trailer park and a tornado warning comes on , best thing for you to do is get out .
Speaker 1Okay , right .
Speaker 4Put air in the tires and move on . All right , I agree , okay , but here's what really bothers me . What more About the tornado in the trailer park ? The first thing that happens after it's all over . The newscaster probably a boss man to the weatherman says hey , go out to that trailer park , just got hit by a tornado and find the goofiest , stupidest looking idiot that lives in the trailer park . It's so true . Yeah Well , here he comes . He's usually sickly , weighs about 112 pounds . No tea , yeah , none of them . Anybody they've ever checked and had do an interview after a tornado in a trailer park has never seen a dentist . I'll say that I think I have to agree with you this time .
Speaker 4Then they bring out the little bitty dude , sickly looking 112 pounds , three , 108 if you take his belt buckle off and the keys on a damn chain on his belt loop . What's that all about ? He's got three locks in his belt link . What's that all about ? He's got three locks in his whole area . The tool shed the house and a car that's been on blocks for four months . But anyway , here comes this tornado through there and everybody gets all excited . Well , here he comes out . Yeah , I sinked it , he sinked it . Of course he sinked it . It comes through the yard . I mean , come on . And the guy at the news station said , yeah , if he don't have a wife that weighs at least 400 pounds , don't talk to him . Well , so he says , yeah , my wife . She seen it too From the kitchen window while she was doing dishes in her wheelchair Because she can't get around . So she's big , yeah , yeah , she's big , yeah , yeah , she big . And anyway , it's weird how they just find these people . Maybe they're the only people that'll talk to the news .
Trailer Park Tornado Banter
Speaker 4Maybe you ever think of that . Well , I can , a normal person doesn't want to go on camera . I'd be like what the fuck do you think happened ? A fucking tornado flew my house up . You idiots , why are you asking me how I'm feeling , how I'm doing ? Okay , well , how the fuck do you think I'm feeling ? Exactly Now that I've pissed you off about this ?
Speaker 4Yeah , you did it again . Let's see how we Sometimes I really hate you , okay . Well , let me ask you this oh , this is pissing me off . I can't believe you did this again . You ever notice ? How come a tornado ? I don't want to notice anything .
Speaker 4No , a tornado don't ever go into town , except for one time , one time At band camp . No , no , no , that's a different story . Yeah , you always have to say that , though . Oh , no , that's a different story . Yeah , you always have to say that , though every time . Oh , okay , yeah , yeah , and like I say , I used to play the flute because of that , the skin flute . Well , no , oh , oh , oh , no . No , I don't think that's the flute she had up there , but anyway , piccolo , yeah , tornadoes in a trailer park .
Speaker 4Here's why I don't think tornadoes go through too many towns , why they don't have the right stores . No , because most trailer parks are on the outskirts of town . That's what they belong . They don't want them in there . Who wants to live in a city ? Most people in a trailer park love to live in a city . You ever lived around people in a trailer park ? Yeah , well , when the tornado came through , you ever see the guy in the three-piece suit come out there ? Yes , tree fell on my Lexus , no , no , no , oh , this guy has no sleeves on his shirt . Yeah , yeah , tattoos all over his arm , yeah , and Is he smoking a camel ? Not the only thing he's smoking . Ah , yeah , he's a white man in a trampoline , the devil's letter .
Speaker 4What do you ?
Speaker 1No , no , he's a white man in a train park .
Speaker 4The devil's letter . What do you know ? He's a white man in a train park . No Well , what else do you get in a white person's train park ? They don't smoke the marijuana . Well , they probably do while they're waiting on the meth to get cooked ?
Speaker 4Oh , they'd rather have the meth , of course they would . Oh , that sounds stupid . It is stupid . Anybody who'd rather do rat poison over an earth-grown plant that is so pure that nothing's added to it ? Preach , you're preaching , I'm sorry . No , that's fine , carry on Well . Yeah , and I have never seen the news . Go to a trailer park and interview a 118-pound toothless dude with a 400-pound lock because the house blew up because of Reaper ? Nope , never happened .
Speaker 1But but that's good , that's a good reason not to smoke meth .
Speaker 4Tornadoes and meth will mess up a trailer park in a hurry . Yeah , maybe just meth will mess it up . Well , yeah , and I really don't understand how come they always interview these people . Well , like I was saying about the dude's wife , she was in there doing dishes . Yep , I saw it . Most devastating part was I almost had a whole set of Cool Whip bowls , wow , and it took them away . Now is a whole set , four or six , well , probably six because it is a trailer park . Okay , all right , they're uppity . Got a couple of kids , they're uppity . Two kids , yeah , uppity people in trailer parks .
Speaker 4How about , like glasses from jelly jars ? Is that a thing still ? Well , of course , oh , how else you gonna drink ? Buy glasses , buy cups ? I don't know . Mason jars ? A mason jar's fine . Of course it is , and it's so fine they even decided to put a handle on them . That makes a lot of sense . It did See . Yeah , that's nothing to bitch about , that's a good thing . That's a nice cold mug . See , see how you went from mean , angry to a little more calmer . What do you mean ? Mean and angry ?
Speaker 1It's not feel better .
Speaker 4What do you mean mean and angry ? Hey , your normal self . Yeah , what do you mean mean and angry ? Hey , your normal self . Yeah , what do you mean ? Mean and angry ? This is normal . No , no one likes a little ornery little guy . No one likes that . Well , no one likes a little You're giving us a bad name .
Speaker 4No one likes a little guy anyway . What are you talking about ? Well , we all get pushed around . Have you ever been to a dance club and seen a little guy in the middle of everybody ? Of course not . He's in the middle of everybody . I can't see him . Yeah , push me in the middle . Tell me what a good dancer I am . Hell , ain't nobody seen me dance ? Wow , that went a whole different way all of a sudden . Well it just . How did you like the new laundry mat you went to ? Hmm , well , I like it a whole lot better than the damn underwear I'm wearing . Why , well , they don't stay on . For one thing , well , buy the right kind of underwear , and the other thing has a hole in the crotch . Why do you have holy underwear and the other thing has a hole in the crotch ? Why do you have only underwear ?
Speaker 1I don't .
Speaker 4Somebody else did . Well , why do you have their underwear ? Okay , Didn't we discuss how we switched Earlier ? We didn't . I thought we talked about how I was at the laundromat and got mixed up with somebody else's clothes . Ah , you might have mistaken the conversation between the two idiots . Oh well , I thought I heard something Before they dragged your sorry ass in here again .
Speaker 4Because I bitched to the other guy that told on me and said Well , I don't know , he's a little asshole today , right , you kind of are . No , no , no , yeah , yeah , I'm the same guy I always am . Yeah , you're always angry . That's a problem . No , it's not a problem A little bit , only for you . I'm having no problem being angry . Yeah , I know , you say this all the time . Well , okay , well , I'll tell you what . How about bringing the other two idiots in here then and I'll go home ? Well , that sounds good to me . I'm sick of listening to you . You know , I hope next week , when we do this , you're a little more pleasant and people will like you maybe a little more .
Speaker 4I think they like me just fine . Yeah , whatever , I'll talk to you later . Well , I'm gonna go and pack my shit cause there's supposed to be a tornado coming through the park . Yeah , good luck with that . And it takes me three days to move my wife around . Ah , good luck with that , 400 pounds . See you later .
Speaker 2Bye , yeah , tom . Another little bitchy little dude there again once again , he's not my happy time ? I guess not . Thank God we took that little porch time , though I needed that . That was just what the doctor ordered .
Speaker 3Yes , you have a doctor that orders that . I'd like his name I need some of that .
Speaker 2Do you feel a little better ?
Speaker 3Yeah , I feel great .
Speaker 2Excellent , excellent .
Speaker 3Joints are working and everything's feeling good .
Speaker 2Oh , that's good to hear .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Absurd Fishing Laws Chatter
Speaker 2Let's get off that topic of those miserable little bastards .
Speaker 3Yeah , because who wants to be that bad ?
Speaker 2Something up your alley . I got some crazy fishing laws on the books for you . Are you interested in ?
Speaker 3hearing them . Wait a minute . Who told you I got a fishing ticket ? Oh , you know Are you interested in hearing them ? I am , because yeah .
Speaker 2Okay , let's start with this one . All right , in Utah , washington DC and Colorado it's against a lot of fish from horseback In Pennsylvania .
Speaker 3Wait a minute . Horseback , yeah , who fishes from horseback anyway ?
Speaker 2Cowboys maybe , I don't know .
Speaker 3Why would Okay ?
Speaker 2You're already up there , just .
Speaker 3Cowboys maybe , I don't know why would Okay , you're already up there . Just cast a line . Let the horse rest while you do your enjoyment .
Speaker 2He's resting . You're sitting there on him .
Speaker 3Yeah , on him , he's working Fine .
Speaker 2Maybe he likes to fish too . Okay , At the same time in Pennsylvania , you cannot even take a horse along on a fishing trip , regardless of whether it's being ridden or not what if he knows how to cast ? Well , that sucks for you , because you lost your little fishing companion .
Speaker 3Oh .
Speaker 2No one may catch fish with his bare hands . In Tall Tech , Colorado , and in Chicago it's illegal to fish if you're in pajamas .
Speaker 3Yeah , well , there you go .
Speaker 2That's why there's no you maybe it's someone getting ready to go to walmart and they just stop to cast a line or two when's the last time ?
Speaker 3okay , here's the thing you go to walmart to buy all your fishing gear on the way to the fishing trip right of course you're in your pajamas , right ?
Speaker 2you're in're in Walmart . Exactly , that's the proper attire for Walmart , I guess .
Speaker 3It is .
Speaker 2Pajamas .
Speaker 3Yes .
Speaker 2Alright , what else we have ? Santa Clara , California , outlawed the drugging of trout in inland lakes or rivers in order to catch the fish . You can't drug them , man .
Speaker 3Yeah , no throwing shrooms in the water anymore .
Speaker 2No Mescaline acid you can't do that .
Speaker 3Nope , can't do any of that .
Speaker 2That's not proper fishing .
Speaker 3No smoking . Weed with trout , let's see Sucks . Can't smoke weed with anybody nowadays .
Speaker 2It's . Also it is illegal to lasso a catfish in Tennessee , Nope In the state of Washington .
Speaker 3Nope I , I , I beg to differ .
Speaker 2Why .
Speaker 3Because I know somebody who lassoed a catfish in Tennessee . Well , first off , it's a made-up story , because who in the hell lassos ? Fish in the first freaking place .
Speaker 2That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of . That's what makes it dumb , oh my God . Okay , all right . How about in Seattle ? Goldfish can ride the city buses in bowls , only if they keep still .
Speaker 3And only .
Speaker 2They have to keep still , though Not swimming .
Speaker 3Not to mention only if their owner holds on to them .
Speaker 2They can drop them . How do they get on there by ?
Speaker 3themselves . Well , they don't .
Speaker 2Oh .
Speaker 3So that's a law for the owner , not the cat , not the damn goldfish .
Speaker 2Wow .
Speaker 3Sir , your goldfish is moving .
Speaker 2You can't fish in Oklahoma . Tom why it's against the law to get a fish drunk in Oklahoma . I don't know how you like to share your beer with ?
Speaker 3Listen . Where do you think the saying came ? Drinks like a fish .
Speaker 2Oh , not in Oklahoma , evidently .
Speaker 3Well , that's yeah . Is that stupid again ? Carolinians don't make moonshine either . Okay , anyway .
Speaker 2Tom your home state buddy .
Speaker 3Kansas .
Speaker 2In Kansas . You cannot fish with your bare hands .
Speaker 3Yes , you can .
Speaker 2While in the state of Washington you can catch a fish by throwing a rock at it .
Speaker 3I've fished with my bare hands plenty of times .
Speaker 2Oh , I'm sorry . You can't throw a rock at a fish and do it . That's wrong .
Speaker 3Okay , well , yeah , what if you're stranded ?
Speaker 2somewhere You've got to eat . You have no fishing equipment . You have a rock .
Speaker 3Okay . Well , if you hit a rock , if you hit a fish in the head with a rock , it's not fishing .
Speaker 2What is it ? It's called stoning All right , but you still got to fish . Of course it's fishing . You kill the fish . You're going to eat it .
Speaker 3No , it's getting .
Speaker 2It's fishing .
Speaker 3There's no fishing involved .
Speaker 2If I catch a fish with my bare hands , what's that ?
Speaker 3It's catching a fish with your bare hands . Fishing Nope .
Speaker 2I'm still catching a fish .
Speaker 3It's called scooping . Alright , that's .
Speaker 2You're stupid . Nope , we're gonna move on now , please , alright . In Ohio , fishing with explosives is illegal but fun . Oh yeah , that is fun .
Speaker 3Okay , I don't know what , but fun .
Speaker 2Especially when they all float to the top . Well , that's Not that I've known that , but Alright , not that I know that , but All right . Muncie , indiana , enacted a law where it's forbidden to carry fishing tackle into a cemetery .
Speaker 3Well , of course , who wants to catch ghost fish ? Have you ever ate a ghost fish ?
Speaker 2I can't say I ever even saw one .
Speaker 3Exactly See . That's why it's illegal to do that . What are you doing in this cemetery ? I'm fishing Nope , because you can't . Now you're in trouble . I'm digging up an old body , oh .
Speaker 2That's a different kind of tackle .
Speaker 3Well see , there's no law against that , probably .
Speaker 2No , probably not . I do have one more final one . You cannot shoot fish with bow and arrow in Louisville , kentucky , and you cannot shoot fish with a gun in the state of Washington or Hazlehurst , mississippi . In Vermont's Lake , champlain , it's illegal to shoot pickerel or northern pike with a gun . Is that fishing ?
Speaker 3With a gun ? Yeah , no , it's hunting .
Speaker 2You have little different rules for everything . I will , of course I do you caught a fish Right ? Does it matter how I caught the fish ?
Speaker 3Not really .
Speaker 2Okay , then I'm fishing .
Speaker 3Yeah , but you didn't catch him when you shot him with a rifle , sure I did .
Speaker 2No , you didn't . You shot him and I killed him and I caught him and I gutted him .
Speaker 3You didn't catch him . You saw him and shot him .
Speaker 2Okay , it doesn't mean you caught him . Once he floated in the water , I brought him in to shore .
Speaker 3You picked him up .
Speaker 2Right and I cooked him .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 3Where does it say you caught him ?
Speaker 2Do you know anything about fishing ? I do . What kind of fishing have you done ?
Speaker 3I have fished all kinds of fish .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 3Trout fishing . One time I went to the ocean and did some deep sea fishing . Oh well , see , here's the thing , there are several types of fishing .
Speaker 2Did you ever go carp fishing ?
Speaker 3Well , I have . But I remember catching carp one day when I wasn't intending to go fishing , kind of . But yeah , here's how it goes .
Speaker 2You weren't intending to go fishing , but you caught .
Speaker 3Let me fill you in . Here we go . One afternoon , probably about this time of year , I was probably 10 , maybe 11 .
Speaker 2Oh , so this is a young Tom story again .
Speaker 3Yes , very young .
Speaker 2Oh , okay .
Speaker 3Oh , very young , what Will you leave us this time ? I'm going to leave you this Do not , and I repeat , do not go fishing in new shoes , you will . Why would you go fishing in new shoes ? You will .
Speaker 2Why would you go fishing with new shoes ?
Speaker 3Well , because you don't intend to happen , but it does . Let me explain .
Speaker 2Okay , explain .
Speaker 3One summer day a long time ago , my dad and I are sitting at the house and dad says okay , what are we going to have for lunch ? I said , well , it doesn't really matter , pop . He said , well , it's hot , let's not cook , let's do sandwiches , but we're low on bread . Run down to the store and grab some bread , not a problem . So I go to the store , almost , Almost got there ,
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Speaker 3okay . But my buddies , they're coming down the road on bicycles and baseball bats and gloves and all kinds of shit . So what are y'all doing ? Oh , we're going to play baseball . Want to come ? Well , of course I want to come Playing baseball , but I don't have my mitt , don't have my ball bat . Oh , don't worry about it , you can use somebody's that's up to bat and then we'll swap off , yeah typical kids .
Speaker 3Typical kids . So yeah , okay , heck , yeah , I'm going fishing . I mean , too , I'm playing baseball . Well , we're playing baseball and everybody , the baseball diamond happens to be at the local lake , so you've got to go around the lake to the backside to get to the ball fields .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 3So we're all on bicycles , we're going down through there , we get there . Well , after the ball game's over , we're all playing . I guess I better go . Okay , we're going home . Well , we cross the bridge at the lake and I see out in the far right-hand corner where the lake is not real deep . Right , it's real shallow and mushy and a lot of cattails .
Speaker 2Mushy lake .
Speaker 3Yeah , a lot of cattails hanging around . Well , we can see from the road . There are hundreds and hundreds of fish at the top of this shallow water , just eating bugs or whatever , and we see them . All we have are baseball bats , not fishing poles .
Speaker 2So you're going to beat the fish with a baseball bat ?
Speaker 3Well , I see out in the distance . There's three fellas out there in the middle of the water . I see them out there . I'm like wait a minute .
Speaker 3One of those guys is my brother . Okay , let's go find out what he's doing . They were down there trying to catch these carp with their hands because they were spawning . I guess it was that time of the year where they went to the shallow and laid their eggs . Well , they're throwing hundreds of these fish up on the bank . They're everywhere . We got excited . So you know what we did . The only thing we had in our hands were baseball bats . So we went to town , started knocking these carp in the head with these bile bats and everything having .
Speaker 2That seems a little excessive we were 10 yeah but not that it's right .
Speaker 3Everybody , I don't agree with that . Now I would never go and beat a carp up with a bat . Never I would use a nine iron or something like that . There you go yeah , I mean no baseball bats . They're too expensive now bony ass fish . So the very next thing I'm having the time of my life , the very next thing I see is a 1974 yellow with a black half-vinyl top Dodge Charger my father is driving . I'm so excited . Wait till dad sees all these fish that I caught .
Speaker 2Caught .
Speaker 3Yeah , what we got Call it hunting , call it baseball , call it whatever . We had some fish . So I'm so excited . My dad's over there blowing the horn waving me to come over , so I'm like I'm so excited . You know what ? I have totally got to this level of excitement that I forgot all about sandwiches and bread six hours ago that I was supposed to go and get and bring home .
Speaker 2Get an ass whooping .
Speaker 3Not yet . No , that wasn't why I got the ass whooping . Okay , so I get over to the car and I said , dad , dad , you ought to see all these fish we got . It's awesome . He's like . First question out of his mouth are those your new school tennis shoes ? Okay , back story , we got one pair of shoes every year and that was right before school started Typical back then . Yeah , I get it .
Speaker 3I mean this was the only pair of shoes that I had , and I put them on that morning because I wasn't going to do anything but go bread , go get bread . Anything but go bread , go get bread . However , within a probably eight hour period , I had played a game or two of baseball , a game or two . Whack the carp with a fucking bat . All while wearing these sneakers , All while wearing my brand new sneakers Only sneakers I had for a whole year In the water in the chomping around .
Speaker 3Well , okay , honestly , I don't know for the first week what happened until I woke up . Oh okay , Dad beat the shit right out of me first off . Yeah , when he meets you at the bridge and he waves you , he's not as excited about the fishing trip as you were , evidently because I remember that I got the crap beat out of , so you never took the fish no , and that's the second time I got the crap beat out of me because of my brother , and if he listens to these he'll understand .
Speaker 3The first time was when I got beat up with hamburger because he got me high for the first time at nine years old and I told my mom about it . So the first reaction to her was beat the hell out of me first , ask him later , okay . Then the second time I got my ass beat because of him was when I was beating carp with a baseball bat in new shoes , which I would have never done had I not seen my brother out there in the first place . So yeah , I admit it's him , it's all his fault .
Speaker 2You were an idiot at a young age .
Speaker 3Holy crap , I was very , very much so . We had a good time though .
Speaker 2You just opened a lot of little mischief , but did I die ? No See .
Speaker 3You did not die , Tom .
Speaker 2See , you did not die .
Speaker 3See .
Speaker 2That's a good thing .
Speaker 3Yes .
Speaker 2Very lucky .
Speaker 3I was very , very blessed , very , very blessed . I'm not that one , without a doubt , and I still live in a country that this is legal that we can do this stuff , that we can do this stuff and pass on happiness to you . Yes , I did just say penis , so enjoy that . Enjoy that part of it .
Speaker 2So I want to talk a little more about our new special little podcast . We're going to be doing Sure , let's let him in on it .
Speaker 3Let's let him in on it .
Speaker 2A lot of current events . Lots of current events Stuff that , like I said earlier , that matters to us .
Speaker 3And to everybody else .
Speaker 2It should matter to everybody else ?
Speaker 3Well , it does , because what we talk about includes everybody . It's not going to be stuck just to politics , right ? No , no , no , we're going to talk .
Speaker 2There's some weird mysteries out there . Yes , there's some that we want to talk about there's of course , politics Movies that have been made .
Speaker 3Movies that are weird . That just should maybe tell a story .
Speaker 2Nothing's really off limits . No , nothing at all , except that , again , it's not going to be like a regular podcast .
Speaker 3No , we cut up during that one . That's once every week .
Speaker 2That's our fun time .
Speaker 3Yep , fun time , and then there's going to be two weeks out of the month . Maybe we're going to shoot for that .
Speaker 2Yeah , we're going to try to shoot for two out of the month .
Speaker 2But that's going to be the serious the sit around with Tom and Mike , more or less things that are actually happening in the world today . What bothers Tom , what bothers me , what should bother everybody ? Yep , and let's see . Before we end this , I want to say again we have a Facebook group page , the MT Alternative Podcast . As far as listening , you can listen to us on Spotify , amazon , iheart , deezer , buzzsprout site . You can actually go to our Facebook page . There's always a link on our group page . You can listen to it from there yep , there's so many ways to listen .
Speaker 3You can just Google us .
Speaker 2Google us send us a text any thing you're on , platform you're on , should have a place to write a text . We don't know who you are Good or bad . We'd like to hear what you think .
Speaker 3Won't tell us who you are . We would love to hear from you Good or bad , we'll give you a shout out .
Speaker 2Let people know what some people are thinking .
Speaker 3Again , good or bad , any input is what we need just let us know what you like , what you'd like to hear in the future , and we'll be glad to look it up and , like I said , bad comments are okay too .
Speaker 2We'll give you a shout out . Well , we're not afraid to put that out there yeah we want to know what you people want to hear the most yeah , because we're no good if you don't want to hear again , we're just , we're doing our thing for fun , but you know some people might want to hear the most .
Speaker 2Yeah , because we're no good if you don't want to hear it . Again , we're doing our thing for fun , but you know , some people might want to hear something that we can talk about . We can discuss it either on this podcast or the new one .
Speaker 3We'd like for you to have fun too .
Speaker 2Exactly . We want it to be part of yours as much as it's part of ours , Exactly On that note , Tom had another good session .
Speaker 3Has been .
Speaker 2And let's do it again next week .
Speaker 3Yes , sir . All right , I'm all for that .
Speaker 2Sounds good . Everyone take care . Hope everybody has a great 4th .
Speaker 3Yes , great 4th of July .
Speaker 2Don't do anything stupid .
Speaker 3No , you know , don't hurt anybody , don't hurt yourselves , you know it's sad , but there's got to be a few of you out there . That's going to have to come to terms . You're not going to have all of your fingers Monday , but you know lesson learned on your part , hopefully , yep , yep , let's do it right .
Speaker 2And again , have fun and everybody take care . God bless . Thank God for the gift of gab Later .
Speaker 1We hope you enjoyed this episode of the MT Alternative Podcast . Join Mike and Tom next week for more stories and antics . Ugh , honestly , I have no idea myself what to expect from these two idiots . Thank you all . Goodbye .
