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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Spencer yesterday. Did everything go okay? You left in a hurry?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I left after the show yesterday and drove five hours
to spend thirty minutes with a friend of mine from
high school.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So on Friday I got a note, Well, I didn't
get a note, but I saw on Facebook that he
posted the obituary for his father.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
So I immediately text him and I said, hey, Mark,
I'm so sorry for your loss. You know, your dad
was one of my favorites, and he was. But his
dad was significantly older than all of our parents. Okay,
I feel like there's always one in high school, right,
Like there's always.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
That older dad.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I didn't really get to hang around with his
dad too much. He always traveled for work. We would
see him at sporting events and things like that, right,
But I had an appreciation for his father because of
the guy that he was raising he has. Mark's got
three there's three boys totals, so two older brothers. All
of them are career military, every single one all the
way down to Mark, and you could just see like
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the type of human beings they are. They had some
really good morals and good learnings and teachings from their
parents as things went on. So when I saw that note,
I immediately reached out to him, and he actually said, hey,
my mom found these pictures. I mean immediate meg. The
text was like thirty seconds later. My mom found these
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pictures while we were going through trying to find some
pictures of my dad to use for the service, and
it was pictures that he and I.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
From middle school.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, I mean little Spencer had the bowl cut. Yeah,
we were playing backyard football. I had like iblack on.
So Mark has been one of my good friends since
sixth grade and as life has gone on and we've
taken different paths, you know. He joined the Marines, he
went to an opposite side of the world. I went
to another side of the country.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We would always keep each other's cell phones, and then
when social media came up, it was just easy to
kind of get in conversation. When I went diving for
Great Whites, he was in San Diego at the same
exact time for a business trip. I met he and
his wife out for dinner before I went on the
excursion to go dive with Great Whites.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's kind of kismet, like how these things have all
taken place. So I made the decision yesterday that his
parents moved away from our hometown, and I felt like
if I didn't go to the funeral, I didn't want
my friend to be standing there mourning the loss of
his father alone.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, so I drove five hours.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I spent thirty minutes, and when I walked in after
a long road trip, I had to go to the
bathroom so bad. So I wanted to just walk in,
go to the bathroom, and then collect myself and go in.
As soon as I opened up the doors, there's Mark
arm in arm with his mom and his wife staring
at me, and he goes, oh my god, you came and.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Tears started pouring down his face.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So I waved at him, signed the book, and then
they had everybody come in. It was a really small service.
Learned a lot about his dad through the eyes of
the eulogy. I want to say it was great to
be there, but it's not great for the circuitance.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
You obviously don't want to experience any kind of loss
or death in your life, but you being a good
friend in driving five hours to spend that thirty minutes
and comfort your friend I mean it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm pulling into my driveway last night, you know, obviously
a very emotional day, and his wife sends me this
note on Facebook. She goes, Spencer, I just wanted to
personally say thank you for showing up today for Mark
and his family. Mark's jaw dropped when you walked in
and tears came pouring down his face. It meant more
than you might probably comprehend. Thank you for showing support
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to my husband and our family.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's those things in life that really matter. You know,
you might meet a hundred different acquaintances a year, but
when you have friends that are true friends, nothing can
replace that.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Giving you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the
good good on the Spencer Grave Show.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And congratulations going out to firefighter Chris Martinez.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And his wife Janney.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The two are proud parents of a baby boy who's
now five months old. You're probably wondering, well, wait, why
are we saying congratulations to a new couple with a
kid who's five months old. It's because that baby was
abandoned at his fire station.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
He and his wife adopted him.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That is awesome. I was wondering. I was like, where
are you going with this?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I mean, I'm happy for all new parents, but where
are you going with it? And that's a cool story.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
His name is Michael.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
He is recovering in the neonatal intensive care unit and
he is thriving. His parents now are grateful to Michael's
birthmunder mother for her selfless act. Because you know, there
are a lot of fire stations. We have them here
where if you can't care for a child, it's a
safe place where you can go. But just beautiful that
that child is now in the loving arms of a
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gray family. Megan, I did something this weekend and I
know you can't stand really about items and I returned them.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh my gosh, why or what items did you buy?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, So a buddy of mine going through a little
bit of a nasty divorce and he's had some stuff
going on in his life. So I was like, hey,
why don't we just go fishing. So I grabbed my boat,
drive up to the lake and he calls me right
before I get to the ramp and he goes, hey,
do you have a life jacket and a throw pillow
because you need those. The floatation device in the boat
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makes it legal okay, and I said, I have my
life jacket, and he goes, I didn't grab my lifejacket
out of my boat, so just make sure you have
your other one. So I go through my entire boat,
thinking I had all that stuff because I do have it.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well I looked through my boat and it wasn't in
my boat. I was like, oh, man.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So leave the boat on the trailer, googled the closest
Walmart found it, went down and bought two new life
jackets and a floatation device.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, that was nice of you to have.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
In the boat.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So going around the boat fishing, having a great day,
I'm catching a few, he's catching a few. Everything square.
At the end of the day, I'm like, well, I
don't need these. I know I have the life jacket
and the floatation device in my house. So I went
right back to Walmart and returned.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And of course they said to me, like, was everything
okay with the product? I said, not defective at all,
just not the right size. Just needed a different size.
Like I had to come up with some lie because
I still didn't feel good about the idea that I
do this.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
But you know, when I went on that hunting trip.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, the airline lost my luggage, so I had to
buy new clothes while I left the tags on them,
and then I just returned them the next day when
my luggage came through.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And hey, I fully support the idea behind that. I
just am amazed by the level of commitment that you
have to go to a store. I just think it's
impressive that you took the time to go back and
return it instead of just keeping it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, but what's the point.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I already have the stuff, right, I just didn't have
it with me. It's almost like I was just running it,
you know, just for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, it was like that running something brand new.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't believe that I'm the only type of person
that does that. I can't believe that to be true.
A five five grave zero.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
So I am queen of buying and returning if I
already have it?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And why is that, Katie, Because I already had.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
It, but I forgot to pack it right.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yes, And I feel like it's not bad, Like I'm
not doing this to a mom and pop. I'm doing
this to Walmart right like they're they they're a large group.
I'm not being rude, Like I'm not actually physically using
the items. If I had capsized the boat and then
been like, well, just return this, that's a different story.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, and there are people who are stealing from Walmart.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It's not if you stole it and brought it back.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Well, I did use it, but I have two under two,
and we went on vacation and I forgot the baby
wrap and trying to keep up with the toddler but
holding on to the three months old. I knew that
my life would be absolutely miserable.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Without said wrap, so I used.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
I used it for the weekend. She didn't spit up
on it, she didn't have a blowout in it, So
I took it back.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Okay, that was gonna be my next question, Like if
I had to wash something or I got something dirty,
then it's used.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But they'll still sell it to you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Because I just purchased a There was like a comforter
on sale, and I was instacarting a bunch of groceries
to my house. So I see it on sale. I
put it in my cart because it was like thirty dollars.
So even if it's bad, thirty dollars comfort or whatever.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
I get it home.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I lay it out of my bed and there's stains
all over it. Oh so then I had to rip
it off my bed and I've got cleaning little cleaning
freaky tactics. So I'm like, well, now I can't. I
have to wash my pillows.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And the sheets. It touched everything.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So Megan's gonna call the store and they're going to
go well, that comforter was returned by a guy named
Spencer Graves.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Katie, thank you have an awesome day.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Ye to you by listen, there's no shame of my game.
If you have something in the house but you need
it right now, just go to Walmart, buy it, hold
onto the receipt, and then return it when you're done.
I literally had to do this yesterday and I didn't
even take this stuff out of the pack.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I only had it in.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Case the game warden was going to stop by and
check me out.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
What's so funny is you're a repeat offender. This is
not your first time. You're not even feel bad about
it anymore because you've done it so many times.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But is it wrong or is it genius? Megant?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I think you're onto something.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yes, Oh you do it too, Yeah, I've done it.
What happened.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I actually been out on a job and didn't have
the tool that I needed and handed it to highuse,
but I didn't want to drive back an hour half
to use it. Wh to carry it back. Yes, it's
the bective or something.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So oh wait a minute, So you actually waited a
little bit of time me, I was like three hours later.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
No, you've got You've got like, you know, thirty days
on some items to return. So I just wid did
like three or four day and carried it back.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
But why wait?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
If you used it for that day, why wouldn't you
just return to that day? Did you wait because you
felt bad?
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
But look he's kind of done to his science. He's
like thirty days years, sixty days seven.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You wait, thirty days, you're gonna end up keeping that
because you'll forget.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I'm like, my ADHD was popping off. I'm like, I've
got to bring this and I gotta drop it off.
I could have dropped it off to any Walmart too,
and I was like, no, I'm going back to the
scene of the crime.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
That's where I'm headed. What's up, Teresa doesn't match?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
On my way home, from work. I worked, not your
shift seven to seven, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Uh you in the medical field.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Yes, I work to the hospital and Coleman, what do
you do there? I'm a p c A. I take
care of all these bibles and stuff and get people
ready for surgery and take care of them when they
come back to like a home.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Quick, Blair, since you want to be on Gray's Anatomy.
What does p c A stand for?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Patient care? Patient care? Hold on, hold on patient care?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Yeah, associate patient care. Uh, actually, I'm a see your
care excuse yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, basically.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Long term, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
None of us know what these acronyms are.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Actually, I was close and I'm.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Here's one for you.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Here's my resume.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
How about LPN.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
License something nurse license, practitioner not lessons?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Lessons?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Boy, that Gray's Anatomy casting.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Is there's no LPNs on Gray's anatamys.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
She wouldn't know what it meant, though, if she heard
the acronym. I would love, Blair do surgery on me.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Thank you so much, Ris, practical nurse there it is.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
That's literally basically what I said, big night last night.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
March Madness for Alabama states a lot of times you
want to get a curl, some kind of curl going
towards the basket in half court.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Three point four seconds left and here we go. This
is where dreams are made. It all, for it all, Samson.
A home run played at the flex.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh three point four seconds left on the clock.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It was tied at sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
They launched the ball three quarters of the way down
the court and ended up making a layup, leaving one
second for an eventual seventy to sixty eight win. Now
Alabama State will take on Auburn in the first round.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Wow, I'm so happy for them, I really am. But
I'm also like, oh, gotta take on Auburn.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I know, short.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Lived, short lived run there.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It Auburn's really good. But there are a lot of
upsets that take place in March Madness, so you can't
really count anybody out.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I love seeing a good upset, doesn't matter when it's happening,
who it's against. There's just something awesome about the underdog winning.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Says the Mississippi State State fan.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Then I'm gonna throw a party.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Typically there is that one in that in the first
round that nobody sees coming. Clearly, it's not going to
be Tennessee getting a you know, having an upset moment.
So yeah, we can let Auburn. I would be totally
fine with that. It would mess up my entire bracket,
but I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
There are two more teams that have to play their way.
In Texas takes on Xavier. American will take on Mount
Saint Mary's. The winner of that game will battle the
other number one seed in Duke. I think all of
us have favorite items from the kitchen, whether it's a
cookie tray or a dish, or maybe forks or spoons.
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I have a favorite spatula, and over the weekend when
I had a fishing tournament, had a friend of mine
watching the dogs and I came home and they were like, hey,
I hope you don't mind, but I threw away the
spatula that needed to go and I replaced it with
another one that.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Is crossing boundaries like I've never heard before.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
But I will say this, hear them out because I
completely understand where they're coming from. My favorite spatula, the
one that I make my cheesy scrambled eggs with, is
beat to high heavens. It's not like a beautiful looking
spatula this thing has been through it. It's waffled up,
it's plastic. It looks terrible. But the reason why I
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like it is the tip of this thing like curves down,
so it scrapes the eggs really.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Nice when you're making scrambled eggs. I just dig it.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But if I went over to somebody's house and saw it,
I would sit there and go, ah, that thing is
just terrible. Why don't you get a new one? But
it's perfect for why I like it so much.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I just can't imagine going into someone else's home and
throwing away there anything in their house, Like what if
that happened to them, Like that's your comfort spatula.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Basically, they didn't know that, right.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They were just replacing the spatula because they thought that
that one was old, tired and beat up. It's kind
of like, Megan, if somebody went to your house and
they took those little kids spoons and little kid forks
that you like, yes, and they were like, oh, she's
an adult, she's twenty eight years old. She needs obviously
bigger utensils, and they just replaced them.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I have to use those little spoons. I would not
be able to live in a world where there was
only the big spoons in the in the drawer. I
just can't do it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And these are the little spoons that babies have where
you scoop out, like the uh apple sauce and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No, those are the utensils they bring my backpack to work.
These are like you know, you buy the silverware and
it comes with the This is what I think of.
There's the daddy spoons, and then there's the baby spoons,
just like the forks. There's the mom forks and then
there's the baby forks. I use the baby ones.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Blair, you have a favorite utensil, though, but yours is
more of a cooking dish, but you don't actually ever
use it.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Why No, I actually stole this cookie sheet from my
mom and dad's house when I was growing up, and
it's in my drawer. I think this is the first
time anybody is in our family is learning that I
stole us.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It is so used, so used.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I mean, it just looks scary almost, but it just
reminds me of like a time where like our family
had really happy memories, you know, before my parents got
a divorce and things like that, and so it's there
if someone came into my house and threw that away,
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I would be beyond livid. They would hear from me
one more time for me to tell them how I
felt about that, and then they would never be permitted
back into my mind home.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Like that is a boundary. I upset. Like I understand, you.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Know, people coming in to dog sit, babysit, houseit, whatever.
It might be a boundary as you were here, but
you are still a guess and you have no authority
to throw things out.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But that's also because hearing about this cookie tray that
you're talking about, it seems like a lot of people
would say you have more of a sentimental value because
you've never.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Actually used it.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I don't care. You don't have the authority to throw
my things away.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
The only person that I can throw their things away
is Steve, and that's because well we're married, and I
know better than to throw certain things away.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Like all those Alabama T shirts that he has.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
They went missing.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Man, if you guys have a favorite utensil in the kitchen,
what is he? You'd be devastated if it was no
longer in your house. A five to five grave zero Blair.
There's a guy in Florida that's making headlines after he's
stole an ambulance, got police involved in a high speed chase,
eventually crashed it, didn't spill his beer, and before they
got him into handcuffs, he shot gun the beer right
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in front of the officers.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I don't suggest anyone do this, but like, if you
do what, you film it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We don't blame him for doing that at all. I mean, honestly,
if you're going to get stopped by the police and
you have an ability to shotgun a beer before you
get arrested, probably not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Is he playing Luke Holmb's.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh yeah beer?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Never yeah, like in the background?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I feel like he should have Yeah, what song would
you want in the background while you're getting arrested?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
That's a good question.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Ready for It by Taylor Swift. It's like I've been
waiting for this.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Eight five five Graves zero.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The two NASA astronauts that made it back with Elon
Musk Space X were photographed and a lot of people
are saying, wow, Space must age you. The problem is
only the female astronaut looks like she gained about ten
or fifteen years, and it's because she dyed her hair.
She couldn't dye her hair for nine months while she
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was in space, so her roots have grown all the
way out. And people are like, look how space ages people.
I'm like, that's dye. That's the only difference.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I am so frustrated with the people because I saw
all these comments that are being so negative. I'm like,
first and foremost, look at you today, not even after
nine months in space?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Do you have any.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Rooms at all?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
But also it's okay because Sonny, she'll be able after
she gets a lawsuit or some type of settlement.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I feel like it's coming.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I think she'll be able to pay to have a
nice little spat day and get her hair done, and
everything's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
They were supposed to be there for ten days, ended
up being stuck in space for nine months. What would
be the first question you would want to ask them?
Eight five five graves zero, Blair. I know you have
a few.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
The first one, though, is what is your first meal?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Like?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
What are you dying to eat right now? I need
to know are you are you going Mexican round? Do
you just want a good cheeseburger? I mean her chicken fingers?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Really?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Call in your knife like, what's the first thing you
want to eat?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Megan, if you were that astronaut, what would be the
first thing you'd eat after nine months in SCE?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Probably a beefy five from the Taco bell.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, He's like, I'm a simple gal. I'm just a girl.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You can't get delivery in space, and I'm not going all.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Right, Blair, answer your own question. First meal you'd want
to have after being in space for nine months?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Chick a chicken boom boom enchiladas from chewis So.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I have to say they probably didn't even think about
this because they only thought they were going away for
ten days. They probably never had a really good sendoff
meal to begin with. They kissed their husbands, their wives,
their families, and they're like, hey, don't worry, I'll be
back at eleven days. We could go have Mexican that night.
Nine months later.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
That's crazy, because like, if I'm getting ready to go
out of town for a week, I'm planning a meal
before I leave and after even if I'm only gone
for a week, I'm like, y'all, don't do that.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Would be the first question you would want to ask
the astronauts after they spent nine months in space A
five to five Grave zero
Spencer yesterday. Did everything go okay? You left in a hurry?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I left after the show yesterday and drove five hours
to spend thirty minutes with a friend of mine from
high school.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So on Friday I got a note, Well, I didn't
get a note, but I saw on Facebook that he
posted the obituary for his father.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
So I immediately text him and I said, hey, Mark,
I'm so sorry for your loss. You know, your dad
was one of my favorites, and he was. But his
dad was significantly older than all of our parents. Okay,
I feel like there's always one in high school, right,
Like there's always.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
That older dad.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I didn't really get to hang around with his
dad too much. He always traveled for work. We would
see him at sporting events and things like that, right,
But I had an appreciation for his father because of
the guy that he was raising he has. Mark's got
three there's three boys totals, so two older brothers. All
of them are career military, every single one all the
way down to Mark, and you could just see like
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the type of human beings they are. They had some
really good morals and good learnings and teachings from their
parents as things went on. So when I saw that note,
I immediately reached out to him, and he actually said, hey,
my mom found these pictures. I mean immediate meg. The
text was like thirty seconds later. My mom found these
(01:15):
pictures while we were going through trying to find some
pictures of my dad to use for the service, and
it was pictures that he and I.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
From middle school.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, I mean little Spencer had the bowl cut. Yeah,
we were playing backyard football. I had like iblack on.
So Mark has been one of my good friends since
sixth grade and as life has gone on and we've
taken different paths, you know. He joined the Marines, he
went to an opposite side of the world. I went
to another side of the country.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We would always keep each other's cell phones, and then
when social media came up, it was just easy to
kind of get in conversation. When I went diving for
Great Whites, he was in San Diego at the same
exact time for a business trip. I met he and
his wife out for dinner before I went on the
excursion to go dive with Great Whites.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's kind of kismet, like how these things have all
taken place. So I made the decision yesterday that his
parents moved away from our hometown, and I felt like
if I didn't go to the funeral, I didn't want
my friend to be standing there mourning the loss of
his father alone.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, so I drove five hours.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I spent thirty minutes, and when I walked in after
a long road trip, I had to go to the
bathroom so bad. So I wanted to just walk in,
go to the bathroom, and then collect myself and go in.
As soon as I opened up the doors, there's Mark
arm in arm with his mom and his wife staring
at me, and he goes, oh my god, you came and.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Tears started pouring down his face.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So I waved at him, signed the book, and then
they had everybody come in. It was a really small service.
Learned a lot about his dad through the eyes of
the eulogy. I want to say it was great to
be there, but it's not great for the circuitance.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
You obviously don't want to experience any kind of loss
or death in your life, but you being a good
friend in driving five hours to spend that thirty minutes
and comfort your friend I mean it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm pulling into my driveway last night, you know, obviously
a very emotional day, and his wife sends me this
note on Facebook. She goes, Spencer, I just wanted to
personally say thank you for showing up today for Mark
and his family. Mark's jaw dropped when you walked in
and tears came pouring down his face. It meant more
than you might probably comprehend. Thank you for showing support
(03:38):
to my husband and our family.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's those things in life that really matter. You know,
you might meet a hundred different acquaintances a year, but
when you have friends that are true friends, nothing can
replace that.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Giving you all the warm fuzzies and whatnot. It's the
good good on the Spencer Grave Show.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And congratulations going out to firefighter Chris Martinez.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And his wife Janney.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The two are proud parents of a baby boy who's
now five months old. You're probably wondering, well, wait, why
are we saying congratulations to a new couple with a
kid who's five months old. It's because that baby was
abandoned at his fire station.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
He and his wife adopted him.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That is awesome. I was wondering. I was like, where
are you going with this?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I mean, I'm happy for all new parents, but where
are you going with it? And that's a cool story.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
His name is Michael.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
He is recovering in the neonatal intensive care unit and
he is thriving. His parents now are grateful to Michael's
birthmunder mother for her selfless act. Because you know, there
are a lot of fire stations. We have them here
where if you can't care for a child, it's a
safe place where you can go. But just beautiful that
that child is now in the loving arms of a
(04:58):
gray family. Megan, I did something this weekend and I
know you can't stand really about items and I returned them.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh my gosh, why or what items did you buy?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, So a buddy of mine going through a little
bit of a nasty divorce and he's had some stuff
going on in his life. So I was like, hey,
why don't we just go fishing. So I grabbed my boat,
drive up to the lake and he calls me right
before I get to the ramp and he goes, hey,
do you have a life jacket and a throw pillow
because you need those. The floatation device in the boat
(05:30):
makes it legal okay, and I said, I have my
life jacket, and he goes, I didn't grab my lifejacket
out of my boat, so just make sure you have
your other one. So I go through my entire boat,
thinking I had all that stuff because I do have it.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well I looked through my boat and it wasn't in
my boat. I was like, oh, man.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So leave the boat on the trailer, googled the closest
Walmart found it, went down and bought two new life
jackets and a floatation device.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, that was nice of you to have.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
In the boat.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So going around the boat fishing, having a great day,
I'm catching a few, he's catching a few. Everything square.
At the end of the day, I'm like, well, I
don't need these. I know I have the life jacket
and the floatation device in my house. So I went
right back to Walmart and returned.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And of course they said to me, like, was everything
okay with the product? I said, not defective at all,
just not the right size. Just needed a different size.
Like I had to come up with some lie because
I still didn't feel good about the idea that I
do this.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
But you know, when I went on that hunting trip.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, the airline lost my luggage, so I had to
buy new clothes while I left the tags on them,
and then I just returned them the next day when
my luggage came through.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And hey, I fully support the idea behind that. I
just am amazed by the level of commitment that you
have to go to a store. I just think it's
impressive that you took the time to go back and
return it instead of just keeping it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, but what's the point.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I already have the stuff, right, I just didn't have
it with me. It's almost like I was just running it,
you know, just for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, it was like that running something brand new.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't believe that I'm the only type of person
that does that. I can't believe that to be true.
A five five grave zero.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
So I am queen of buying and returning if I
already have it?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And why is that, Katie, Because I already had.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
It, but I forgot to pack it right.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yes, And I feel like it's not bad, Like I'm
not doing this to a mom and pop. I'm doing
this to Walmart right like they're they they're a large group.
I'm not being rude, Like I'm not actually physically using
the items. If I had capsized the boat and then
been like, well, just return this, that's a different story.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, and there are people who are stealing from Walmart.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It's not if you stole it and brought it back.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Well, I did use it, but I have two under two,
and we went on vacation and I forgot the baby
wrap and trying to keep up with the toddler but
holding on to the three months old. I knew that
my life would be absolutely miserable.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Without said wrap, so I used.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
I used it for the weekend. She didn't spit up
on it, she didn't have a blowout in it, So
I took it back.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Okay, that was gonna be my next question, Like if
I had to wash something or I got something dirty,
then it's used.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But they'll still sell it to you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Because I just purchased a There was like a comforter
on sale, and I was instacarting a bunch of groceries
to my house. So I see it on sale. I
put it in my cart because it was like thirty dollars.
So even if it's bad, thirty dollars comfort or whatever.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
I get it home.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I lay it out of my bed and there's stains
all over it. Oh so then I had to rip
it off my bed and I've got cleaning little cleaning
freaky tactics. So I'm like, well, now I can't. I
have to wash my pillows.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And the sheets. It touched everything.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So Megan's gonna call the store and they're going to
go well, that comforter was returned by a guy named
Spencer Graves.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Katie, thank you have an awesome day.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Ye to you by listen, there's no shame of my game.
If you have something in the house but you need
it right now, just go to Walmart, buy it, hold
onto the receipt, and then return it when you're done.
I literally had to do this yesterday and I didn't
even take this stuff out of the pack.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I only had it in.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Case the game warden was going to stop by and
check me out.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
What's so funny is you're a repeat offender. This is
not your first time. You're not even feel bad about
it anymore because you've done it so many times.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But is it wrong or is it genius? Megant?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I think you're onto something.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yes, Oh you do it too, Yeah, I've done it.
What happened.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I actually been out on a job and didn't have
the tool that I needed and handed it to highuse,
but I didn't want to drive back an hour half
to use it. Wh to carry it back. Yes, it's
the bective or something.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So oh wait a minute, So you actually waited a
little bit of time me, I was like three hours later.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
No, you've got You've got like, you know, thirty days
on some items to return. So I just wid did
like three or four day and carried it back.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
But why wait?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
If you used it for that day, why wouldn't you
just return to that day? Did you wait because you
felt bad?
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
But look he's kind of done to his science. He's
like thirty days years, sixty days seven.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You wait, thirty days, you're gonna end up keeping that
because you'll forget.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I'm like, my ADHD was popping off. I'm like, I've
got to bring this and I gotta drop it off.
I could have dropped it off to any Walmart too,
and I was like, no, I'm going back to the
scene of the crime.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
That's where I'm headed. What's up, Teresa doesn't match?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
On my way home, from work. I worked, not your
shift seven to seven, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Uh you in the medical field.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Yes, I work to the hospital and Coleman, what do
you do there? I'm a p c A. I take
care of all these bibles and stuff and get people
ready for surgery and take care of them when they
come back to like a home.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Quick, Blair, since you want to be on Gray's Anatomy.
What does p c A stand for?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Patient care? Patient care? Hold on, hold on patient care?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Yeah, associate patient care. Uh, actually, I'm a see your
care excuse yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, basically.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Long term, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
None of us know what these acronyms are.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Actually, I was close and I'm.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Here's one for you.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Here's my resume.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
How about LPN.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
License something nurse license, practitioner not lessons?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Lessons?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Boy, that Gray's Anatomy casting.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Is there's no LPNs on Gray's anatamys.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
She wouldn't know what it meant, though, if she heard
the acronym. I would love, Blair do surgery on me.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Thank you so much, Ris, practical nurse there it is.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
That's literally basically what I said, big night last night.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
March Madness for Alabama states a lot of times you
want to get a curl, some kind of curl going
towards the basket in half court.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Three point four seconds left and here we go. This
is where dreams are made. It all, for it all, Samson.
A home run played at the flex.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh three point four seconds left on the clock.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It was tied at sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
They launched the ball three quarters of the way down
the court and ended up making a layup, leaving one
second for an eventual seventy to sixty eight win. Now
Alabama State will take on Auburn in the first round.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Wow, I'm so happy for them, I really am. But
I'm also like, oh, gotta take on Auburn.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I know, short.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Lived, short lived run there.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It Auburn's really good. But there are a lot of
upsets that take place in March Madness, so you can't
really count anybody out.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I love seeing a good upset, doesn't matter when it's happening,
who it's against. There's just something awesome about the underdog winning.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Says the Mississippi State State fan.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Then I'm gonna throw a party.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Typically there is that one in that in the first
round that nobody sees coming. Clearly, it's not going to
be Tennessee getting a you know, having an upset moment.
So yeah, we can let Auburn. I would be totally
fine with that. It would mess up my entire bracket,
but I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
There are two more teams that have to play their way.
In Texas takes on Xavier. American will take on Mount
Saint Mary's. The winner of that game will battle the
other number one seed in Duke. I think all of
us have favorite items from the kitchen, whether it's a
cookie tray or a dish, or maybe forks or spoons.
(14:09):
I have a favorite spatula, and over the weekend when
I had a fishing tournament, had a friend of mine
watching the dogs and I came home and they were like, hey,
I hope you don't mind, but I threw away the
spatula that needed to go and I replaced it with
another one that.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Is crossing boundaries like I've never heard before.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
But I will say this, hear them out because I
completely understand where they're coming from. My favorite spatula, the
one that I make my cheesy scrambled eggs with, is
beat to high heavens. It's not like a beautiful looking
spatula this thing has been through it. It's waffled up,
it's plastic. It looks terrible. But the reason why I
(14:49):
like it is the tip of this thing like curves down,
so it scrapes the eggs really.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Nice when you're making scrambled eggs. I just dig it.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But if I went over to somebody's house and saw it,
I would sit there and go, ah, that thing is
just terrible. Why don't you get a new one? But
it's perfect for why I like it so much.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I just can't imagine going into someone else's home and
throwing away there anything in their house, Like what if
that happened to them, Like that's your comfort spatula.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Basically, they didn't know that, right.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They were just replacing the spatula because they thought that
that one was old, tired and beat up. It's kind
of like, Megan, if somebody went to your house and
they took those little kids spoons and little kid forks
that you like, yes, and they were like, oh, she's
an adult, she's twenty eight years old. She needs obviously
bigger utensils, and they just replaced them.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I have to use those little spoons. I would not
be able to live in a world where there was
only the big spoons in the in the drawer. I
just can't do it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And these are the little spoons that babies have where
you scoop out, like the uh apple sauce and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No, those are the utensils they bring my backpack to work.
These are like you know, you buy the silverware and
it comes with the This is what I think of.
There's the daddy spoons, and then there's the baby spoons,
just like the forks. There's the mom forks and then
there's the baby forks. I use the baby ones.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Blair, you have a favorite utensil, though, but yours is
more of a cooking dish, but you don't actually ever
use it.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Why No, I actually stole this cookie sheet from my
mom and dad's house when I was growing up, and
it's in my drawer. I think this is the first
time anybody is in our family is learning that I
stole us.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It is so used, so used.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I mean, it just looks scary almost, but it just
reminds me of like a time where like our family
had really happy memories, you know, before my parents got
a divorce and things like that, and so it's there
if someone came into my house and threw that away,
(16:51):
I would be beyond livid. They would hear from me
one more time for me to tell them how I
felt about that, and then they would never be permitted
back into my mind home.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Like that is a boundary. I upset. Like I understand, you.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Know, people coming in to dog sit, babysit, houseit, whatever.
It might be a boundary as you were here, but
you are still a guess and you have no authority
to throw things out.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But that's also because hearing about this cookie tray that
you're talking about, it seems like a lot of people
would say you have more of a sentimental value because
you've never.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Actually used it.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I don't care. You don't have the authority to throw
my things away.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
The only person that I can throw their things away
is Steve, and that's because well we're married, and I
know better than to throw certain things away.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Like all those Alabama T shirts that he has.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
They went missing.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Man, if you guys have a favorite utensil in the kitchen,
what is he? You'd be devastated if it was no
longer in your house. A five to five grave zero Blair.
There's a guy in Florida that's making headlines after he's
stole an ambulance, got police involved in a high speed chase,
eventually crashed it, didn't spill his beer, and before they
got him into handcuffs, he shot gun the beer right
(17:58):
in front of the officers.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I don't suggest anyone do this, but like, if you
do what, you film it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We don't blame him for doing that at all. I mean, honestly,
if you're going to get stopped by the police and
you have an ability to shotgun a beer before you
get arrested, probably not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Is he playing Luke Holmb's.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh yeah beer?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Never yeah, like in the background?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I feel like he should have Yeah, what song would
you want in the background while you're getting arrested?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
That's a good question.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Ready for It by Taylor Swift. It's like I've been
waiting for this.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Eight five five Graves zero.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The two NASA astronauts that made it back with Elon
Musk Space X were photographed and a lot of people
are saying, wow, Space must age you. The problem is
only the female astronaut looks like she gained about ten
or fifteen years, and it's because she dyed her hair.
She couldn't dye her hair for nine months while she
(18:54):
was in space, so her roots have grown all the
way out. And people are like, look how space ages people.
I'm like, that's dye. That's the only difference.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I am so frustrated with the people because I saw
all these comments that are being so negative. I'm like,
first and foremost, look at you today, not even after
nine months in space?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Do you have any.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Rooms at all?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
But also it's okay because Sonny, she'll be able after
she gets a lawsuit or some type of settlement.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I feel like it's coming.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I think she'll be able to pay to have a
nice little spat day and get her hair done, and
everything's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
They were supposed to be there for ten days, ended
up being stuck in space for nine months. What would
be the first question you would want to ask them?
Eight five five graves zero, Blair. I know you have
a few.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
The first one, though, is what is your first meal?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Like?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
What are you dying to eat right now? I need
to know are you are you going Mexican round? Do
you just want a good cheeseburger? I mean her chicken fingers?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Really?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Call in your knife like, what's the first thing you
want to eat?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Megan, if you were that astronaut, what would be the
first thing you'd eat after nine months in SCE?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Probably a beefy five from the Taco bell.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh, He's like, I'm a simple gal. I'm just a girl.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You can't get delivery in space, and I'm not going all.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Right, Blair, answer your own question. First meal you'd want
to have after being in space for nine months?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Chick a chicken boom boom enchiladas from chewis So.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I have to say they probably didn't even think about
this because they only thought they were going away for
ten days. They probably never had a really good sendoff
meal to begin with. They kissed their husbands, their wives,
their families, and they're like, hey, don't worry, I'll be
back at eleven days. We could go have Mexican that night.
Nine months later.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
That's crazy, because like, if I'm getting ready to go
out of town for a week, I'm planning a meal
before I leave and after even if I'm only gone
for a week, I'm like, y'all, don't do that.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Would be the first question you would want to ask
the astronauts after they spent nine months in space A
five to five Grave zero
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