Episode 5: The Rooster

Alabama brought home some extra animals to the farm and Steak Daddy talks about how he never expected to date a girl who wanted to bring home EVERY animal... Plus, if you've never heard of a laughing rooster before, now is your chance! 

Episode Transcript

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Hey, I'm Alabama, the girlthat drives my boyfriend crazy, and I'm
almost crazy. It's not that bad. That's my boyfriend's steak Dad, also
known as Blake. If you likereal conversations with a not so perfect couple,
get ready for a fun ride.Buckle up. It's the She Drives
Me Crazy podcast. The rooster crowedfor the first time this morning. Did

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you hear it? No? Oh, it was so great. I don't
know because it sounded like a normalcrow. Because when they are like that
young, they don't have their fullcrow yet. They have to grow into
their crow. I'm going to google, so, by the way, while
I'm googling, I'll let you tellthe story of the roosters. Yeah.

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Yes, some of you may knowthat Alabama has a thing for chickens.
And we've got We had eight andwent down to seven and I think we've
got five. There were five chickens, five hens, yes, this last
time, five hens, laying hens. We get eggs, We give eggs
away, you know, they wetry and make them murn their keep.

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Well, she's got an uncle thatraises roosters. Roosters and hens just chickens,
game hens, game chickens. Roosterswhatever. Well, he has these
particular type of rooster and it's calleda laughing rooster. Hang on, let
me play the sound for you.This is what a laughing rooster sounds like.

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Yeah, it sounds like the freakingjoker from Batman is in your backyard.
So he's been trying to hatch somefor me for the past year mm
hmm, and he finally hatched some. Yeah. So now Alabama tells me
that she's got to go meet heruncle and her mem for lunch and that

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there might be chickens coming back,which I didn't even meet me mom,
I went straight to his house toget the chicken. You just went to
Okay. Well, she's like,yeah, I'm going to get a one
rooster and two hens, and Iwas like, okay, one rooster,
two hens. That's three chickens,which, by the way, the rooster
may or may not be laughing,because my uncle said it's half regular chicken,
half laughing. So we don't knowwhat it's crow is going to be

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yet, so it might just bea waste of chicken space at the house
with three Yeah, we're running outof coop space at this point. Okay,
So she's like, hey, Iget back from work and she's home
and she's kind of got this goofygrin on her face. Oh I kept
it together. You had no idea? Well I knew something, okay,

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because you're not that good. Sowhat happened? So she's like, do
you want to see the chicken?I asked about the chickse like, yeah,
you were carrying over the stick wewere putting in there. I know,
because chickens. I was like,okay, so let's go see the
chickens. And I go over tothe chicken coop and I get to the
chicken coop and I look, canI play the audio? And even when

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I'm done, okay, and youlook and I look, and I start
counting, and I'm like, wait, you went here, that's me welcome
to the poop. That's six,and that's me realizing there's six chickens.

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Wait, just wait, I didn'tmean too many roosters. How many?
So there may be three roosters,three hens, three roosters, there's two
for sure, quite possibly one isthe third. She said it was an
accident. I said, accident.What happened? Like you slept on a

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banana pillow and whoops six chickens rightinto the car. You make yourself sound
so much calmer now than how youare that day. I've had time to
adjust. You can't even hear therooster. You sleep through your alarm that's
right next to you on the bed. You're not gonna hear the roosters cry.
It will be fine. Just becauseit doesn't wake me up doesn't mean

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that I won't hear it the restof the day. You think they broke
you once and then they're done forthe whole day. It sounds cool.
You're laughing all day. It makesyou happy, It will make you And
they're pretty. They're pretty blue andred. Yeah, very pretty cool.
This was the rant that Blake wenton afterwards too. I caught the back

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end of it because you started goingNever in my life did I think just
keeps bringing home random farm animals andrandom wild animals, just random animals in
general. It's not where I thoughtmy life was going to be. No,
you missed the first part of that. Really, Never in my life
did I look when I was achild look forward and say, you know,

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I'm gonna end up with a womanthat you said crazy hippie girl,
that did say crazy hippie girl.Yep, I've got some crazy hippie chick
that's just gonna like think she's snowwhite. In every wild animal or random
cat or dog or owl or raccoon, there is currently the second girl or

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whatever is going to end up atmy house. There is the second here
I am. There is the secondkitten in two weeks that is at our
house right now that our neighbors foundon the highway, and I'm currently bottle
feeding it. Cats. It's notin the house, it's in the guest
trailer. Uh huh. I'm bottlefeeding it and taking care of it and

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saving it. But the roosters aregreat. I love it. You loved
me. Ah, you built aduck house. You didn't want the ducks
and help me build a duck housekind of because I love you. Oh,
that's a bill collector. We gota pair of power bill Sorry,
I'll cut that out. No,I want I'm leaving it. It's real.
It's life. That's lighte. Itwasn't the Alabama power though. I'm

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just that was a different bill collectorfor me. Okay, animals, Well,
I have to feed the animals.Sometimes you got to decide do I
want to pay for the chicken foodor do I want to pay for whatever
bill collector that was. I lovemy animals. They make me happy,
they keep me sane yep, anddrive you insane me crazy. I love

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you, I love you, andwe done. Hang on, Let's just
do one more because I do haveto go home and bottle feed this kitten.
I've been stressing out over it.And I let the roosters out to
free range for a minute yesterday whileyou were gone. Did you see that
I was gone? I know,but did you not come up while they
were still out here? Let's justalso follow the She Drives Me podcast on

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Instagram. It's just at she DrivesMe Crazy And here's the rooster. You're
all in the passenger seat with me. Love you bye,