CroftCast Ep. # 96 The Big Kahuna Files

Animal Psychology

In this episode, we unlock some of the Big Kahuna files. 

Coral snake encounter.

The Big Kahuna reflects on animal psychology and stressing the heard.

Don’t go changing things on the Big Kahuna, but he does love Crowder peas which are really beans.

The Big Kahuna ran into the “Where’d you get them dawgs?” lady.

Warning signs of a cashless society

Dictation

Not all of the dictation is on the episode, but here it is for your reading pleasure.

— JFNC

And you gotta understand well he ain't gonna be raining or she he's gonna be a Roper or he's gonna be up a barrel racer and so as soon as he sees and determines what that horse is is gonna be then when he comes through and works him again he starts working him at his future career yeah he's assessing the talent right I mean wow it's just and really fascinating that and I even liked the part where I've got one shallowness about it Arian guy and and and uh he works with a lot of trainers and and it's all an I never thought about this he said the the biggest health problem for a horse he said we're always thinking about you know their hooves and their and their their ankles in there you know they names off a bunch of body parts and he goes the number one problem then I have to deal with most is stomach ulcers yeah and he said this because I get upset what the stress and they said it's not just because play import but he goes OK what do horses do horses run and in herds or packs OK and when you separate that horse from that hard and I do that when they're trying them and and one of the first things you gotta get him to have to do before you can do anything with him is you stress him to the point until he's ready to hurt up with you and you're his new hard now so when that horse leaves Yellowstone to go mission cutting horse stuff night buddy I'm on the trailer well he misses his buddies and so that that is a form of stress that you cannot say and he goes and his buddies that were back at the ranch they can pick up the stress from it 'cause there buddy's not there yeah so and he said so stress is you know is what causes a lot of their their stomach problems and so he's developed things in food and nutrition to help minimize that he said because you're thinking well he's out there working he's roping and you're going well that's really stressful yes it probably is but that's not necessarily the stress that's causing the problem it's probably the downtime I mean just like with us right when when I'm working and I'm doing things there's a certain kind of depending on what the situation is there could be a stress but there's a different type of stress the separation right I mean so like we've all been in this we're not officially locked down anymore but we've kind of got that going on as well I know for me like during the day I'm interacting with people emailing texting chatting for work the different forms of communication on conference calls working and I'm constantly engaged with people but then at the end of the day there's I'm not stressed I'm I'm just I'm alone I got my dogs maybe some squirrels outside so there's it being being a a part of a pack or herd now when I leave the house my dogs at completely different than when I'm here now yeah they carry on sometimes they were barking at the guys walking down the Creek and that's a Creek not a street and they were doing their job and I was outside when that was going on were they carrying on about OK yeah that's right you guys keep on walking but I know that they you know I even even before you know I moved down here I had a camera I see that you know they would lay by the front door most of the day they would bark at the vehicles 'cause they would look out the windows and they could see but they would sit there and wait for someone to come home because dogs are pack animals just like talking about the horses their herd animals it's kind of the same thing right I mean it's hell you talking about the distressed it puts on the animals when I leave the house that doesn't stress me it stresses my dogs 'cause like well we're missing part of the pack we didn't we didn't get to go when they get to go they've got their like their freaked out the old Gus freaks out like oh there's a motorcycle he does not like motorcycles so he still hung up on those cars he's cool with people walking down the street when he's in the truck most of the time he is a great deterrent for pulling up to any of the corners where the people experiencing homelessness hang out because they will not walk up to my truck when he's in there you don't like it I think about Gus I think I may have run into the people that asked you and when you get him doubt or a few into the tobacco store today oh uh and uh I walk in there and immediately they moved where the register was and I'm trying to find that where they move it girl where the movie I mean it was like you walked straight in right up to it before right well they moved it to the other end where it used to be two years ago or whatever OK now I'm looking around and this this guy with the girl sitting in his lap goes Adam moved in on you this night and I went stop moving stuff and movies look there is no new normal there was no reason to move this whatsoever so there's no need to be changing stuff and so I got my stuff where'd you get that tobacco at well I hear this voice behind Maine this black life he had walked in and she had bags of Crowder peas and she walks in and I ghost hey I wanna buy some Crowder peas or $5 bag how the dog people was there a silver car outside when you left did you notice truck full of crap that that probably was the same lady because it was was your hair short yeah yeah it very well could have been because the ladies stopped me that morning and this was this was 6:30 in the morning on July the 4th I'm out walking the dogs I'm heading over towards Main Street going across the bridge and these women come around the corner stop where do you get him dialogues and and they were driving to this older silver vehicle I've told the story before but yeah it it very well could have been could have been follow me out and she may have been talking to me I don't know but I just turned around and immediately I thought bust out laughing I can still hear her going $5 you know and and going on and so it turns out she was talking to them the two lovebirds that we're on doubt that we're setting in there and so I get outside and there's a guy an old guy and these guys the trunk out with the a big chest full of God pays and I'm going nude not come over here and try to get me to buy some I love Crowder peas but I I I just at that point you had already been through the school crossing situation yeah moved the register there was no reason to move it at all the last thing you're thinking about at this point is Crowder peas because somewhere between Crowder peas and getting out of his truck you're just trying to keep a straight face way to get him dogs that is map I don't know gravity but I wouldn't take some dog if you got any Crowder peas raise and uh but anyway I think David just tried to call me my phone lit up down there to bottom with a bunch of Holden except I have to I have to call him back here in a little bit yeah they probably know if I've heard anything and I'm going I was cool Johnny call me last night wonder what I was doing I said nothing he said hey there's a guy who's got a hot dog cart for sale over just pawn shop and I'm telling you this so you'll remember next time you come we gotta go to this pawn shop it's got it's huge or bicycle it is got guitars drums amplifier sound mixing equipment it's got guns ammo it's got power tools Carpenter pouch I mean your basic basic pawn shops what it sounds like to me broke pawn an but I mean I've saved it but I've never been in there and there's a lot of stuff in there it's like he has gold and silver and that's just all kinds of stuff but anyway Perez guitar for sounded pretty good to Maine they new strings on it but it was tune $179 and then I found out a 1959 old acoustic harmony guitar and it sounded really good too it's a small body like this one I've got that I gotta get new machine heads on and it was priced I think for $150 and I'm going they answered robos and some resonating guitars fiddles bunches stuff I mean it was enough stuff and stuff is starting to pile up on stuff so it's one of those you can find a little treasure in there if you got time to get in there and poke around but anyways so we go over and we look at this hot dog cart and it is one you can hook up it's not a push card it's one that you can actually look to your car and so we went and we looked that's why we went over and looked at it so but other than that John he's been in training all week long so and plus with school starting up he's been preoccupied and I know you've been preoccupied and I know that I early been preoccupied and the Jerry's been preoccupied as a lot of occupying and everything well we've got maker got health stuff going on and and she's a she got spider bit or stung by something and she had to go get a bunch of shots and take medicine the stuff and and she's been drinking are taking Benadryl at night so she spends the whole next day uh Benadryl hangover Benadryl yeah

I love it if I take it on Friday I'm eating screwed up on a Monday or Tuesday I I love it to go to sleep on but man is it it really puts me in a fog and hurt too apparently how many fingers am I holding up are we counting the thumb or not I mean it's like it's always a good debate how well she got her a job working over its wagmans at the office yeah ice and so well she had how's it go up to cave city for an interview up their problem is nobody wants to pay anybody anything and right value lucky if somebody even offers you a job

uh there's a lot of people out of work wouldn't be that big a deal we have something besides chicken plants here in town that might be reason why the pawn shop is is so full of this guy had bought this car brand new and he was making he was rolling in the Jack and he'd go over to the hospital set up down there in their parking lot and then the cafeteria is only open for like you know so long yeah and so all these people working second or third shift I mean he was selling $5 $5 meals and hot dogs and he was doing really good and then the road ahead and so I've noticed it the food court a lot of the cards are a lot of the trailers are not there because well the road ahead and they had to pay a lease on that real estate you know and they they they probably can't break even they've got to relocate found some places in the Rona in the mask and the isolation and the six foot apart stuff is flat on the little paper and it's like I was telling Johnny I said you know just three years ago and my health was better I'd buy this thing up and I'd be every day I'd be somewhere at lunch selling hot dogs so did did it you said you could pull it behind a vehicle so so did it was it generating its electricity or heat source repo three propane tanks on it and then there's a heater thing so you can keep your trays warm and uh every pretty much it was pretty much a entry level hotdog cart you know and I say entry level 'cause I looked at I've looked I get online look at a lot of and what were they asked what were they asking for it I think he was asking well he is willing to sell it for it's been sitting on his lot for I don't know five or six months and he's I think he told Johnny he's willing to take 15 or something like that or is all negotiable I mean he's ready to move it off of his lot he bought it from this guy and I figure this guy probably bought it new since it's answer level he probably don't have more than the guy that bought it probably didn't have 2000 maybe 20 four 5000 and I doubt that is plain simple as you can get entry level and but anyway uh as we were I got lossed in there was looking at other stuff at this point while he's talking to the guide and so finally he comes back over where I'm looking at I can't think about what I was looking at now but he said probably guitars guns and gold he's asking this that and the other and and which I thought was a reasonable price and and looking out kinda what I think I said you still got that boat another boat the original boat yeah I said do you own any money on it anyway now and then I go well why don't you you know and I think Johnny paid 13 for it I said let's work every bit of this work 21 hey why we'll go ask him to do anything on that so the guy yes well yeah we can talk about it bring it by here let me look at it by buying this that and the other he said we would probably work something out so anyway it comes down here in the park they're not keeping the concession stand up and Johnny Johnny could go down there or somebody with that card and sell the hell out of hot dogs and he's already talked to the guy that's over the parks the reason the concession stand are not being open is 'cause the guy that runs the shame that pandon Convention Center over here doesn't want him open that way they don't have to have nobody in there running them they don't have to deal with the health Department and they're not out anything Ann and Johnny said it's embarrassing to go to these tournaments and and and and then try to get these guys to come here for a tournament and they won't hardly do it because they can't get nothing to eat they have to start you know they have to leave the park and go you know they can't get no $5 meal but you know what with Johnny going to those tournaments so Asian these tournaments all that he playing all day but if he could have that hot dog cart run the rest of the time Oh yeah when you get a tournament here a couple years ago he called me up he said hi can you bring the blackstone or the grills down here and and and and just it Bannon Karen kept the kids Bud went with us for little while we sold hamburgers and hot dogs and some of the guys brought their own since I knew I still have a grill down there Lawton brought their own food and and and they use my little use my Blackstone grill up their chicken or whatever they wanted to do there but we were there first not sure power 5 six hours and I thought I can't remember what we were selling the hotdogs or hamburgers for but I was knocking them out like they were going out of style and use the old black stone but but I'm going that's really a shame that the towns we spent all that money on them ballparks and I can't get a lot of tournaments in here because Niceville doesn't seem interested in it but you got these these are the same people though that said that like hey the law enforcement aren't aren't essential personnel and furloughed them right right it's it's the same people and so anyway that's why Johnny was interested in it is because you know there's there's times when he is available or it could have somebody like I love her what his friends or whatever do it I mean it or itself in no time and the guys in the hot dog business that are really making the money like say if you had a set up in Austin you wouldn't have what you tried trailer then you turn around around by another driver and now you got a guy on the other side off and running that little trailer and this this one guy follow a lot on on on the on the computer there ah he even build them now he's gotten so big that he actually teaches you how to become a hotdog Baron he goes I don't pay anything for my hot dogs and I don't pay anything for my buns and I can tell you how to do it and he said there's a guy out there somewhere like Nathan who's got the best hot dogs in the world and he wants to get his line out there how he goes I will I'll let you have these hot dogs for two cents on the dollar you know and I'll let you have he said he said I get free water all the time from the bottling companies and I don't buy water anymore he said when I first started out my Walmart weenies and always save buns he said ain't bought buns and weenies our water in forever and and he said because these people are like sponsors almost Jeff pretty much yeah and he said I can teach you how to do that and he has different programs you can you know he he's turned his hot dog business in the more than just hot dog stand he's actually selling the how to information what kinda he said it said different different stores have different policies about setting up he said here's how you get around the health Department he said you don't have to get a health Department license you can go and your local church and all the local churches have their own little cafeterias and stuff in them now and you can get your license under them if you you know you know somebody in the charge like we we could go down to and I can operate under Patrick's license sorry it's there's ways around some states are tougher than others and he said before you invest money you gotta find that kind of what God do your research your research he said some sites have the stupidest no they go well you can't have a grill or you can't sell tacos and hot dogs you can only sell one I mean he said you gotta find out all that stuff there's ways around all that stuff he said no one is ever going to Home Depot has a straight out policy about it you pay them $100 site and they go but you have to set up right here and you have to every Saturday on every holiday come check to see if you are they got their $100 in there happy and so he said Walmart nola marauder all different talk to him and he said he said I've got you know he said I'll have a hot now have on them little hotdog stand over here too small meeting against yourself yeah yeah I mean yeah completely different yeah but um but I'm not but I mean he it's really fascinating the hotdog and Taco stands are and uh there's I mean there's there's work involved naturally if you're standing out you don't really want to be doing this in August but I'm going there's money to be made in it but a warning sign cashless society ah and that no one really breaks that down but there's a whole underground economy in this country and they know it and I want it stopped they don't want there to be yard sale you know you go in person I started out with got these gunshot you mentioned yard sales so here's The funny thing when I lived in San Antonio you had to get a permit if you wanted to have a yard sale yeah yeah so they want their money where they driving around checking permits rolling up no they're not VN so but I'm going they want to control that money so years ago down in Riverside Park mover down there what you have to do is at one time they go to the vendors they go alright we get a precision a percentage of yourself well like I figured out that well this guy made $2000 at this outdoor event but he only told us that he made $100 so we only get $2 of that so they go over to the city then you can come and you can set up and everything but you can't sell anything for money people have to go over here to this thing that we got to buy tickets right yeah my ticket under the deal for you to get your vendor money in your tickets and that's how we know how much percentage that we get from you yeah so they're they're always looking they're always trying to kill the little guy is just trying give me Donald Trump that's all it you know and so and it's sad but it's it's true but it ain't Donald Trump doing it but I mean it's the government the mayors governors they're all you know go go well you know would like to finish this highway and you let us have a 2 cent tax on it but you know we didn't finish the highway so we'd like to extend the 2 cent tax need another bond yeah to the year of 2030 so yeah it never goes away and the roads never get finished and by the time they do they're having to fix him all over again because the big trucks are tearing him all the out let me tell you it's ridiculous along those lines here in the greater Austin area Joe Austin is one of the just a few places I mean I've driven I've driven all over this country not in every state on every Rd but I've I've put enough highway miles in over my life that just about every single freeway has a way around a city there's a loop so let's say you're on I-5 there's loop 145 one 10510 one 25 whatever I-35 there's you go you go through Dallas and you know there there's the 435 there's the whatever there's a loop around a city Austin Austin does not have a loop around the city they have what they call loop 360 it's really just a semicircle that loops back into itself and it doesn't even it doesn't even touch the freeway We need toll roads will make a toll road that goes around Austin and it will come out all the way nearly down in San Antonio you mean you can take it that far if you want to or obviously originally it didn't it didn't go all the way down San Antonio cut like halfway between ish now that go away that that was step one and they're like OK we're going to put in some tolls through Austin now that toll that they put around Austin that was all through the countryside I mean through through past years through I mean there were no roads that existed there but it may cut across some very small farm to market roads but it did not replace current infrastructure Joe then plan #2 or the rest of the plan was OK you guys really like that tell you what you like the tollway so much will will give you some fast pass through Austin so they took existing roadways turn them into tolls and then put in new feeder roads or side roads that had all the Dang lights so really well actually they took the existing roads input stop lights on them and then forced you onto the toll where you used to really just be able to drive down through there anyway and you're like OK well the total the tolls will pay for the roads in X amount of years and then you on them contraire Mon frere we don't even the state of Texas text I does not even own this is a French company anyway it's outside of the United States somebody else owns those roads and we're never going to get him back we're just going to keep paying tolls on him for the rest of our lives and our children's lives probably if the roads even exist and it don't turn into some type of zombie apocalypse situation so yeah totally get it everybody's trying to get there you know like hey it's 2 cents to finish this road for the next 20 years and you're like Oh well we didn't get it done 20 years we're gonna need another 20 years and you still haven't finished the road you said you were gonna do and now you gotta make repairs on it so you further in whole I get it totally do same crap no Mail no matter where you are and in the country or the world there's the same ******** that's going on you know it is soon as soon as somebody figures out a way to like I don't have to deal with that anymore than the government goes so they figured it out we need to figure out another way where we can stick it to him again exactly call David he's called again I don't know what's going on alright um well if he if he if he wants to know about the interest I've texted Johnny a message Johnny finally messaged me back one time during this week and you said he's been in training I told him it's like hey just call me in the evening sometime um anyway I I want I want to talk to Johnny kind of get you know you know his input on how he was you know feeling on that and and then I had some ideas I've I've talked to some some people and kick some things around maybe on David told Maine he's like I said well when you want to sell it and he's like well you know couple next couple months definitely by the end of the year it's been a week since he brought this up so I know it's I mean if he wants to pull the trigger on it tomorrow you know it is really it is what it is Ann and John and part of johnny's problem even though having been in training but reagan's had some issues with the couple meltdowns here of an afternoon then yeah so anyway I'm surprised that he was able to get out of the house last night he had to come over here I didn't come over here to try to help figure out something the other night that that my some of our devices can't find the new Wi-Fi now and some some of 'em found it really easy and but anyway he had been here 10 minutes send my husband homes as soon as he gets done so she was having a hard time getting Reagan to job do what she wanted to do so anyway let me call David and see what he's going on OK alright love you bye