Episode 136

#136. Double Dongle Lonely Beagle.

Cake & Cookies. The Robb & Katie Show

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The ionospheric weather checker says it's hot. Oh, it's so hot. I know. And you know what? Actually, I'm lying. It's coming off of the heat. The heat dome is diminishing up here in northern VA. But I bet it's hot in Savannah. It's always hot in Savannah. It's not always hot in Savannah. But right now, pretty dang hot. But I mean, like, would you ever have, like, the possibility? That's sad. Could you ever, like, have a white Christmas? Does it ever snow in Savannah? It snowed this year. So you're almost like Southtown in that Christmas special with they have to make it snow. The heat miser and the cold miser. And they have to make it snow in Southtown. So Santa Claus is real. I forget how it works. But I know this, that the heat miser and the snow miser are both sons of Mother Nature. So are they, like, stepbrothers? Because they don't look at all. I'd like to see the dads is all I'm saying. Maybe they're just brothers. Because they don't look alike. Like, like Soul Brothers? I've lived here. Because I got soul. I got soul. And I'm super bad. Super bad. It has, I've lived here 10 years. And it has snowed twice. You call that living? It snowed twice? It snowed twice. How much? And one of those. This year, it snowed about five, six inches. That's a lot. That would shut down your city for 10 weeks. Because you don't probably have snow removal equipment there. No. We borrowed a snow plow from South Carolina. Just one. Just one. Borrowed or traded? Did you, like, send, like, a barrel of peaches? And you get into a snow plow? Pecans and peaches. What happened is they, hello, South Carolina? This is Savannah. And we've got some weather news that we're trying to deal with here. 77 WABC brings you up to the minute reports from the Ionisbearing Weather Checker. We have about five or six inches of snow down here. Can you send us a plow, please, sir? And that's how it happened. Actually, you know, it was five. I wouldn't say, like, I don't know. The thing is, is it iced, like, a solid inch and a half before it started snowing. I love icing. And it was, it's kind of wild. It's just weird being here. I mean, I'm definitely used to snow just because I grew up in the north. But it is so bizarre here to see snow. We don't have salt trucks. So you just essentially have to let it melt. Yeah. Or as they did in the movie Frozen, let it go. And that's a snow movie. It's also really interesting because a lot of the people here have either never seen snow or it's like the second or third. Right. That kind of thing. So there were people on our street who, they got out their kayaks. Oh, no. And were pulling them behind a truck. Why? Why not? You can do the same thing on wet grass. It's not a big deal. So we're very flat. Okay. Now, don't, don't beat yourself up. Oh, no. Not that. I know that. Especially in that medium. Got the shoulder problems to prove it. Me too. But I mean, we don't really have like hills for sledding and nobody owns a sled. Very few people. I mean, we, we had a snow shovel. I bet no one owns a sleigh either. I bet there's no one that has like a horse drawn sleigh down there. You know what you probably saw, which I used to hate seeing is people shoveling snow with like a regular shovel. No. Like a garden shovel. People for the most part just left it. Well, it's Savannah. Or there's like one person, like which is like one person who has a snow shovel and everyone just takes turns. Okay. I'm glad that they don't make that guy do all the shoveling because if anything. That's just rude. They should shovel his walk, his alleyway because he's the one that had the foresight to buy a shovel. Or is he like a transplant from Buffalo, New York? And of course he has a snow shovel. The people with a snow shovel was us. That can't be grammatically right. But it's also not surprising because you brought the shovel down. There was a snow shovel and it belonged to us. We owned the snow shovel. Hi, I'm the shovel and they own me. See, I turned it into a second person type deal. We own the snow shovel. Yeah, you do. Yeah, we do. Well, I hope you don't get any snow in the near future. Like before September. It's August. Well, it just happened. August just happened. You were being like a news person. It was so current of you. You might have been the first person to say, it's August. It's only been August for nine hours. True that. All right. Here is my mission. What? Have you? Excuse me. Have you heard any? Have you heard any new music? Are you doing a ham handed segue? I'm trying. Believe it or not, I was getting there. But yes, I have heard new music. No. Let me get to it here. I was going to say that I might not make it through the weekend, but I guess that can wait. Oh, shoot. Come on, you. 13 seconds. I made it six minutes and 13 seconds. So people wonder, Rob, why haven't you done better with your life? They really don't. It's pretty obvious. Everybody knows. Everyone knows. I've landed where I belong. It's taking a lot of time. Okay. So the thing is, I am marvelously a combination of OCD and ADHD where I should be totally focused on one project. And when you do what I do for a living, like outside of broadcasting, I do a lot of editing. And when you edit, there's almost invariably a deadline. And you got to get it done by this time. And you got to focus to get it done. And I try to stay focused. But if I hear a text, I got to look and see who it's from. And that really doesn't slow me down. But if it's from Katie, I drop everything. So I'm sorry. Of course you do. I'm so sorry, major political organization. I'm so sorry, major health organization. I'm so sorry, former congressman. I'm not editing your podcast anymore because Katie has texted me. And what she texted me is, well, you tell me the photo you sent and what you said. Betsy looked like she melted. You said something like a lonely beagle. Oh, no. So I sent you a picture of Betsy just laying in the middle of the floor, all four splutes out. Yeah. Yeah. And I. She looked like a Nazi at the end of Raiders of the West Coast. She was melting. Oh, oh, melting. No, not a theological Nazi. She didn't have like a skinhead or anything. She's a lover, not a fighter. I know she's not hateful and not divisive. No, no. Okay. Well, I mean, if you ask the squirrels. She does. She's not a fan. She does wear that hat. Yeah, I know. I know. But she's not a Nazi. Not a fan. But she did look like she was melting. Yeah, she looked real sad. She looked real sad. And I texted you, ah, look at all the lonely beagles. And you know what? I should be editing to a deadline for a major client. But instead, I pick up my phone and figure out something I've never done before. A voice text. I really had to like punch around. I've received them. But I've never sent one. So I find it. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you. Yes. Cheer up, Katie. It's funny that you say that. It took me so long to respond to you. Okay. I wasn't going to bring it up. But my favorite thing is it says, Katie has unsent a text. It took me three times to figure out how to send you a voicemail. Not a voicemail. A voice memo. Yeah, whatever it is. But you're sending a recording of your voice. The first time I did it, the reason I deleted it was because I hit the microphone and it just did the talk to text. It didn't record much. Oh, I wish I'd seen it. I wish I'd seen it. I've told you, I think. Do you know about that? My mom is the best. And she's useful in many ways. And I try to be useful to her. But one time I had her pick me up at Dulles Airport at the, what you would call the, well, I guess the kiss and ride is when you drop people off. So this is the pickup. And my mom is great. Arrivals. Yeah. Getting to work and going to the store and all that stuff. She doesn't like highways. And God forbid you put her in the master's program of driving, which is the pickup line at Dulles Airport at like four o'clock on a Sunday. Oh, God. I know. I didn't buy the tickets. But she said she'd do it. So she was going to text me, you know, communications. But she's safe. So when she's driving, she put it on voice to text but didn't ever hit send. So eventually I got a text that said, like, I'll be there in a, damn it. Oh, what are you, S, S, S, don't do that. Oh, damn it. I can't. Oh, oh. And all of this is spelled out for me because this is her trying to pick me up. Anyway, she asked me to delete it. I think I did. But back to the story. So I right away after I figure it out, I thought I was so clever. And I want to. What's the quote again that what you sent me, the verbiage? Ah, look at all the lonely beagles. And then as soon as I figured it out, I sent you this. Nice fidelity. This is for all the lonely beagles thinking that life has passed them by. Don't give up until you eat from the silver dish and something, something in the sky. You know what's the saddest thing about that? It's not that I dropped everything to do it. It's not the feeble sort of allegiance of song and notion. The sad thing is, is how hard I tried to sing it nicely. There's not a bit of me like

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