The Rambling Gypsy
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The Rambling Gypsy
Journey Through the Lanes of Life with Jungle
Our journey with Jungle continues as Tiff sits down with him to uncover the backstory behind his second book, "From Love To War".
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I put a blessing on it. Too real, that's a metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic buzzin' like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me drippin' in it 24-7 on it. I'm just bein' honest.
Speaker 2:Ah holy water drippin', drippin' from my neck To my crap song two-steppin' on it like so my parents got divorced at a very young age, or I mean I was six. I'm going to go when I was two Wow. I was real young, my family, stayed together for the children. There's a lot of that going on.
Speaker 3:I just I couldn't stand the fighting. I don't know if you remember it, it was so bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I couldn't stand it Remember when I said I had a lot of therapists, they started at a very young age.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, I still got a couple. A couple two, three, four.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you're not taking any meds, right?
Speaker 2:I take meds.
Speaker 3:Really, oh, I shouldn't ask that question. You should have denied it. You're that honest.
Speaker 2:I've been on it for a long minute and it's enough to where my kids. They call them the snap your neck pills and yeah, if I don't have them oh really oh yeah, wow, yep, wow.
Speaker 3:So they lock their doors at night. When they go to bed, their bedroom doors they lock and they sleep with a knife, a kitchen knife. Just I'm not snapping my children's necks, just in case my mom it, my mom people out and about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, no not because patience is a virtue.
Speaker 3:Yes, I don't have any, exactly yes but no, I've.
Speaker 2:I've been, I've been on the same medication for a long time and it's um, I I never wanted it and I denied it for a very long time and actually, how come to find out? Um, a lot of mine was all speaking of hormones, was very hormone related. I had a very horrible home hormonal experience and I just found the right guy and we figured it all out and they did this whole study on the whole thing and it really it balanced everything out. It was a, it was. It was a very good choice for me and everyone else. How long?
Speaker 3:have I been on them?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean how long you've been happy with what's going on and stuff everything out.
Speaker 3:It was a very good choice for me and everyone else. How long have I been on them? Yeah, I mean how long?
Speaker 2:have you been happy with what's going on At least 13 years?
Speaker 3:Wow, that's a long time. Good for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good for you, you seem like a pretty stable.
Speaker 3:It works, stable gal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it does it works?
Speaker 3:it does. It works. But I could tell you're very likable, but I could tell there's another side to you oh, there's absolutely another side.
Speaker 2:I met you. I could tell no one should ever see that other side well, we all have that other side yeah I do know how to operate a backhoe. I can tell, yeah, I can tell yeah, I'm a, a uh solver, a handler, a fixer.
Speaker 3:I could sometime on a backhoe, I do.
Speaker 2:Yep, I can, I can offer some equipment.
Speaker 3:Heavy equipped.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, yeah. I don't know Um bowling. Bowling game Good, Good, I mean, I like to bowl.
Speaker 3:Really yeah, no way. I thought that was. Really yeah, no way. I thought that was like a dead sport.
Speaker 2:No, we just went.
Speaker 3:Who's we?
Speaker 2:Me Nick Megs.
Speaker 3:You were the only ones there, right? No, I thought like bowling alleys or closing up golf courses. Bowling alleys and golf courses ran there.
Speaker 2:No, the only thing I thought we needed when we left there was a little like a tetanus shot perhaps, or um, it was just nasty oh, really, the shoes or the balls well, I freak out about shit like that because I I just really don't the shoes of the balls shoes and everything or the food, oh I don't do the bowling alley no, that's probably not a good idea. Used to.
Speaker 1:Well, the one here in town, kamau but you can't get into that, yeah.
Speaker 3:At least in this area. I don't know. I just don't bowl, so I wouldn't know. But I was just wondering about bowling alley food. How would you rate it on a scale of 1 to 10? Uslan, that's very, very goodey Food is a. How would you rate?
Speaker 2:it on a scale of 1 to 10? Friendly Slim Bowling Alley Food is a 1. That's very, very good. So that is a historic place here in our town.
Speaker 3:Just rate it. Just rate it. Scale of 1 to 10. 10. 10. Right on, okay, right on.
Speaker 2:That's an old school.
Speaker 3:Nine pin Choo-choo you just said choo-choo Nick. Bring it in. Bring it in, bring it in.
Speaker 2:You ever been on a train?
Speaker 3:Yes, I have.
Speaker 2:You have.
Speaker 3:Why.
Speaker 2:I can't tell you.
Speaker 3:Why would you ask?
Speaker 2:Because you just said choo-choo and it's a. I've been on a lot of trains. Oh, jesus Christ, shifted memoirs. Oh Lord, I mean Memoir, oh lord, I mean yeah, that's definitely a a wall wall.
Speaker 3:A lot of trains it's a train joke, huh I have a train collection, really no not really, oh my that was a good one. I'm sarcastic. Sarcasm is my, my best treat I.
Speaker 2:I have a.
Speaker 3:I've been holding back.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 3:Because I don't know you that well and I know you have another side?
Speaker 2:Is that like a hair trigger? You may take sarcasm the wrong way? I'm a big girl. With a short fuse.
Speaker 3:Yep, there you go, home run. I do have a short fuse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, there you go. All right, I do have a short fuse.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're pretty transparent.
Speaker 2:I have heard that before, yeah you are. Why do you think that? Why am I so transparent?
Speaker 3:Why I just I don't know. I just kind of read you the first time I met you.
Speaker 2:But you're also a reader. You're also a very intelligent person.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm not a psychologist, psychiatrist Me neither.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I just. The only thing I have hanging on my wall is the what the license for prostitution at the Chicken Ranch. Congratulations, one way, I just happened to acquire it.
Speaker 3:Right on the reservations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, but I don't have like a thing ad or anything other, anything important besides a license to prostitution, which I think is kind of important. I mean, everybody's gotta make a buck, right I guess so yeah I guess so let's talk about your train rides. I want to know where you took a train to.
Speaker 3:Myself Take two. Wow, I've been on like a lot of trains. Why, sometimes I got stuck? Somebody promised me a plane ticket and they put me on a train. But I've been on like some of those antique trains and I was. Where was I? I was in, I think, north Africa.
Speaker 3:I forget where I was, lord have mercy, but I was on a train and it was like it used to be like Like the pretty ones, no, but it used to be for like the king, but he no longer rides it and it was like a hundred years old but it was still like operational and they would take you through the desert, cause that was the only way you could go either that or fly. I think it was in Tunisia anyway. So I took this train, so Anyway, so I took this train, but it was like from the 1800s, late 1800s, so it was all like velour, like velvet, and you know.
Speaker 2:Is it hot in here, or is it just me?
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ, Really Velour and velvet and an old vintage train car.
Speaker 3:Going through the desert, yeah, Boom. Yeah, and when you went into the bathroom and you lift up the toilet it was just straight down on the tracks, which probably is kind of old school too. Just the whole gone straight down.
Speaker 2:To piddle on the tracks.
Speaker 3:Yes, of course.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, why that's so awesome.
Speaker 3:Men pee everywhere. Men pee everywhere.
Speaker 2:A real woman will too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, without a doubt. What's your favorite place to pee?
Speaker 2:Outside.
Speaker 3:Where, anywhere Just outside. Good on you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Good on you.
Speaker 2:Don't tempt me with a good time. I taught Nick how to pee outside for the very first time about a year ago.
Speaker 3:I wrote my third book. I'm defining it as a romantic thriller, but there's a very strong woman in there and her favorite place to pee is standing up in the shower. Just thought I'd share that with you wonder why that's her favorite I don't know, I just developed her character. Hmm, you think that's a?
Speaker 2:good idea? I don't know, it just developed her character, hmm.
Speaker 3:You think that's a good idea or a bad idea?
Speaker 2:I pee in the shower.
Speaker 3:You know that's what they say. They say people, you know, when they run water and people say they have to go to the bathroom, mm-hmm, they say that's because they pee in the shower a lot and that's why, when they hear running water, they have to urinate. I read that recently.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a weird thing to read, isn't it? What came first? The chicken or the ape, you know? The urination or the need to urinate from the water? Somebody told me a long time ago that was the definition of a WASP White, anglo Saxton Protestant, somebody who doesn't pee in the shower.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I'll touch it. I feel like somebody who doesn't pee in the shower is a poon a poon.
Speaker 3:What? What's a poon?
Speaker 2:poon is a nice way of saying pussy okay yeah, it's a poon.
Speaker 3:I thought we were just saving water.
Speaker 2:We're saving the environment well, I mean, why are you going to get out of the shower when you got to pee?
Speaker 3:no-transcript if you have to pee when you hear water running, it's probably because you pee in the shower a lot. I'm just saying I just read that recently. I just thought I'd share that useless tidbit of information with you.
Speaker 2:I've never been the person.
Speaker 3:They say it happens when you get older. So it may be in the next decade. No, maybe when you're 300, 400, maybe you know it'll be like I can't I can't. I can't void unless there's water in the background.
Speaker 2:So no, I, I, I, I void too much. I need what? A stopper? A stopper, a stopper, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like a cork.
Speaker 2:There's doctors for that.
Speaker 3:Like a cork.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right on, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:Right on.
Speaker 2:I did teach a group of women that we were out and about wine touring shopping, just kind of tootling around through little small hill country towns and in a four-door pickup truck with running boards and they're all trying to figure out how to piddle outside and I've got to hold on to this and help me this and I taught them all how to sit on a running board and pee. It's the easiest fucking thing in the entire world.
Speaker 3:Right on. Good for you. How have you not? It's right there.
Speaker 2:Good for you, you just sit on it Good for you. Yeah, right on.
Speaker 3:Wow, an educator too.
Speaker 2:And you can do a proper squat where you can put one leg behind you to rest your bum cheek on.
Speaker 3:You could probably write a book on that.
Speaker 2:No, you to rest your bum cheek on. You could probably write a book on that. No, you could write it. I could just tell you how to do the proper chapter one how to sit on a tailgate.
Speaker 3:Chapter two. Can I tell you it's really hard. It's hard for me. It would be very hard for me to write from a woman's perspective. I just don't have that plumbing.
Speaker 2:That's good. That would make this very confusing. I I don't have that plumbing. That's good. That would make this very confusing.
Speaker 3:I just don't have that plumbing, so it would be hard for me to write from a woman's perspective. It would, and I know that, I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that Most readers are women. I hope men pick up my books. Most women are readers, though, but I hope men pick up my books too.
Speaker 2:Do you think men are afraid of your books?
Speaker 3:Afraid? No, that sounds queer. Well, some might be, but you know, afraid that's. Wow, I mean, I don't know, that's kind of an odd question. Oh no, I wouldn't think that. How could you be afraid of a book? It can't bite you. It can't bite you, it can't stab you. I mean, it's a book. I might motivate them to get off their coon and do something that would be excellent Life was meant to be lived right.
Speaker 3:Everybody's born. That's how it starts for all of us, and we all die right, that's how it. That's how it starts for all of us and we all die right, that's how it ends. It's what you do with the middle part, right? Yeah, magic and mayhem.
Speaker 2:I am still stuck on the 500-year deal.
Speaker 3:Why.
Speaker 2:I want to know what, in your mind, I would have never thought. Think about it, think about it, think about it. I mind I just I would have never thought about it, think about it, think about it.
Speaker 3:I mean anybody anywhere in the world, I don't know. Think of the person who came up with champagne, think about the person who came up with, I don't know, like I said, our founding fathers. Think about anybody that could sit around, can live, to be 500 and see what happened. That's Thomas Edison. Yes, bell with the telephone. I mean, just think about it, you know, I mean. And to live that long and see, wow, look what they did with my shit.
Speaker 2:That's what I think is so epic about how you sought past that point to think to the 500 years.
Speaker 3:Physically and mentally max out at 300.
Speaker 2:Because the way that everybody or how our brains normally work. No one would even really ever think what 500 years? Yeah, why not? Exactly, why not? Why have I not thought about 500 years?
Speaker 3:Cause you're going to die before then.
Speaker 2:It's a fantasy piece but you thought about it yeah, so and, I think, a lot of things.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of things I've thought about that I would never repeat in public, but uh yeah that's so fucking cool why, what do you? Think it's cool.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's cool, just I do all right because I didn't think of it first now you're thinking of it, yes, and it's frustrating as fuck never should write a book about someone who lives to be 500.
Speaker 3:We all know a society oh earth, where everybody now lives to be 500 years old. That would be so hard. There'd be a lot of flashbacks, that would be difficult to write that would be difficult to write that would be a comeback king.
Speaker 2:That'd be a thick book yeah, yeah, imagine.
Speaker 3:Imagine exactly being in professional sports and maxing out physically and mentally at 300.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine being the queen or the king that is standing above your castle and you're talking to your people, and then, 500 years later, it's?
Speaker 3:amazing I went to sports and you went to nobility.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:To nobility, I'm thinking way, like because it was.
Speaker 3:You should be queen man or king.
Speaker 2:Queen or king? You should be, you should be.
Speaker 3:Of New Braunfels.
Speaker 2:Oh fuck.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Can we call you the queen of?
Speaker 3:New. Braunfels, oh fuck oh my god, can we call you the queen of new bronfels? You should change the podcast. Oh shit, now welcome to the queen of new bronfels. What do you think? What do you think? Huh, this got a catchy, it's got a catchy, it's got a catchy name, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:it's got a catchy name, this town this, it.
Speaker 3:It's got a catchy name.
Speaker 2:This town has never known how to handle me, first and foremost.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly. You and the mayor are like this. Nah, come on.
Speaker 2:I've known a bunch of them, but no.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I kind of stay in my corner in my pasture. Okay, me and my camels.
Speaker 3:I got you.
Speaker 2:And my sassy ass zebra.
Speaker 3:Not my bullshit, not my pasture. I got you, not my monkeys. Yeah, I got you, so you stay Circus. That's right, I understand.
Speaker 2:But they usually are my monkeys and it is my fucking circus they're in there now. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you have a third book.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, yes, without a doubt, and it's coming out. Yes, it is when it's being formatted now and getting a cover design For these books. I used somebody from Great Britain and no offense, steve, but for some reason he liked the colors of yellow and pink and I'm not a yellow and pink guy and he needed a lot of kind of guidance and but I mean the covers I'm happy with the, with the finished product, but I hired someone from the States to design the cover, so she was supposed to get back to me Friday but she's behind, so we'll see what happens this week. So it just covering, formatting and um, and then sales page, get that design. A big thing with books is um, selling it, you know, um. Do you feel like?
Speaker 2:um, you can judge a book by its cover well, that's absolutely well, they.
Speaker 3:You know you can't judge a book by its cover, but it's. You can't judge a book by its cover, but it's absolutely true. And that's another thing, since you asked for five things about a new author. And you have to come up with a decent cover design or something you're happy with. That's the most important thing because it's your work. But it has to. You know, I mean people, that's the first thing people see, but yeah, so she's working on that. Now We'll see how it comes out. See what she comes up with. I like what her previous work was.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like speaking of covers and marketing? And obviously….
Speaker 3:Yeah, marketing is so important.
Speaker 2:So important. But in wine bottles, so to speak, and that is one of the number one. If you're not a wine connoisseur, you don't really know anything about wine, and I never really did until I made multiple trips to Napa.
Speaker 3:And I'm a wino, I love my wine what kind of wines do you like?
Speaker 2:A dry? A blend yeah, but from what part of?
Speaker 3:the world Napa Really California wines.
Speaker 2:I do like California. I do like Argentinian wines as well.
Speaker 3:With barbecue.
Speaker 2:Kind of Kind of Kind of yeah.
Speaker 3:Really, yes, yeah, their wines have been kind of known for barbecues. I used to be a big wino. California wines I like the sparklings, I like the whites.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:They're world-renowned. But the reds, you got to go to Europe. You have to go to Europe. And I had a friend of mine that used to love German wines I'm a big French wine guy and he was like uh-uh, and he brought all these wines back from Germany and we sat down, I go, really, I go, okay, and she goes. Damn, I was over there and I bought all this German wine.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:Instead of French wine. But I mean, and the thing is this, when you look at California. I guess I don't have much when you look at California and I'm not bad mouthing the California wines, and some of them are very expensive, Don't get me wrong but if you look at them it's like, yeah, we got a sprig of great. You know, we got these cuts from France, we planted them in California and we're growing them now. And it's like, really, I'll just go back to the source.
Speaker 2:I haven't dabbled much in those areas.
Speaker 3:Really, you know, and I should have brought something over. I didn't know you went to Red's. I would have brought something, and I have no trouble sitting on wines for a while, but I'll bring some. Next time if I ever see you again, you may kick me out of here and never want me back, but I'll bring you some reds from from france. Good luck. Do you breathe in? You just gotta let breathe a little bit yeah yeah, without a doubt, but I'll bring you some. I'll bring you some reds I'm excited.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should be, you should be.
Speaker 3:I literally have no idea whites, whites, california, whites are world-renowned, but the reds eh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3:Stoked.
Speaker 2:I am, I'm stoked.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm ready to piss in the shower.
Speaker 2:Yeah, alrighty, then yes, oh um.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:I want you to read something you had a deal I want you to read it.
Speaker 3:What do you want me to read From the new book? From something I've read, something that's been published before? What do you want me to read? Speak to me with thine eyes, come on.
Speaker 2:Romeo.
Speaker 3:What do you want?
Speaker 2:Without Romeo Just not really.
Speaker 3:Come on, shoot. What do you want?
Speaker 2:New.
Speaker 3:New.
Speaker 2:Snippet of the new.
Speaker 3:All right, Thank you. Wow. Okay, I got a set of peepers up here too. Oh good, because mine are. You know, when you look so much at a computer, your eyes wet the bed Well, I just can't fucking see so, and I don't look at a computer. Are you ready? I am. Sit tight.
Speaker 2:Here we go, shit, I should probably I should let me write this, let me say this, let me let me kind of set this up.
Speaker 3:Let me get set this up first. So the story is about two strong characters. Eddie hunter and he's from west texas, grew up out there, played a little football in high school, went to work in the oil rigs as a roughneck. After about five years or so it kind of gets, eh, you know, and he remembers going down to the gulf coast and that was kind of his favorite place to be when he was a kid. So he decides to pack up the little money he saved, takes out a huge loan from the bank and he heads there and he tries to work it out as a as a charter fishing charter captain. Now he meets this girl, abion who's Abion, yeah, and he describes her initially as a stray, but she's living in the sand dunes, you know, and she tries to come by and bump some cigarettes off him and they wind up meeting and blah, blah, blah, blah and so on and so on. This is like further on in the book.
Speaker 2:And the island is that this is based on. It's on north padre, which is where my house is and where your house is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah so I spent enough time down there.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so ironically, so I'm gonna read this okay, yeah, I'm gonna read this right now.
Speaker 3:Let's go ready to go. Captain, here are your smokes. Eddie handed her fresh, fresh pack. Thanks again. Evian rolled them up in her sleeve as she had done before. Hop in, I'm dying to see how good you are with a fishing pole. Evian put her pack in the truck bed just behind the cab and climbed into the passenger seat. She shut the door and flicked her cigarette butt out the window. So we're going shark fishing. Are you a sharker? Evian spoke as she retrieved the new pack of cigarettes from her sleeve and began pounding them against her palm to pack the tobacco tightly into its paper holders. Plenty of them out there and they're always a good fight. I wouldn't say I was a sharker, but I like going out for them. Eddie was happy I found her and they were getting to spend some more time together.
Speaker 3:The On Eddie's boat within an hour. As soon as they got, about a quarter mile out from land, evian stripped. Her crotch was hairy, as were her armpits and legs, but not too much. She looked beautiful to Eddie. He liked her breasts especially. They were medium-sized, with small, perky nipples. No tan lines were present. He could feel his penis tighten in his pants as the organ filled the space provided for it. He reached down and pushed it to one side, giving it more room to swell. Eddie was a little shocked at her nakedness, but he tried not to show it.
Speaker 3:Evian reached into the storage compartment, where she had previously found a bottle of rum, and located a fresh one inside. Next she went to the cooler and fixed herself a rum and coke. She then sat on the deck with her legs spread apart, as if she was showing off her goods or airing things out. Eddie couldn't help but look at her womanhood. Evian let out a small laugh, as if she knew Eddie had peaked. He didn't care that he got caught looking. Nothing mattered at that moment. He was fishing with a naked woman whom he thought was attractive. Eddie thought his life could not be any better that afternoon.
Speaker 3:The two stared out at the ocean. The water was calm and the boat motored along without the usual pitch when swells were present. Do you want some? Want some? What? My rum and coke? You weren't thinking about something else, were you?
Speaker 3:Evian giggled as she had her leading question. Sure, I'll take a sip. She moved over to him and handed him her drink. At the same time she scratched herself under her breasts, lifting them, so her nipples pointed directly at his face. Wow, you mix a strong drink. After a small sip he handed the plastic cup back to her. Evian tilted her head back and emptied it. She then jumped up and down like a child, laughed and spun around. She seemed very happy. Evian winked at Eddie and returned to the cooler to pour herself another. With a fresh drink in hand she returned to her seat. Evian seemed to be playing with him, but Eddie didn't mind. She was a welcome distraction from all his financial problems.
Speaker 3:Evian dug into her backpack and retrieved a cheap pair of red-framed sunglasses. The eyewear looked like they had been recently stolen from a gas station display. Eddie slowed the boat and then shut the motor off. We can drift fish here. Eddie baited two of the rods on board and let some line go. He opened a five-gallon bucket filled with chum and, using a small scoop, tossed some of it overboard.
Speaker 3:It wasn't long before they heard the hiss of one of the reels. A fish had taken the bait and began fighting the drag that he had set Fish on. Eddie shouted. He sat back and waited to see what Evian would do. The drag sounds like a cicada after a six-pack of energy drinks. Evian remarked that she eagerly reached for the rod without hesitation and started working the fish. It feels like a good size. Will you gaff it when I get it close or will you sit there and make me do everything? If you get it alongside the boat, I'll get it in.
Speaker 3:The fish ran straight from the boat, pulling hard, and Evian kept the tip of the rod pointing skyward, so it had to fight for every foot. Soon the creature stopped stealing line from her. It was Evian's turn. She lowered the rod, then pulled up on it hard. She lowered the rod again to allow slack to form in the line, quickly reeling it up. Evian took most of the line back that she had passed. She had lost and the fish made another run as it fought for its freedom.
Speaker 3:Fifteen minutes passed and it was evident that Evian would win the competition. As she got the beast closer and closer to the boat, the two caught a glimpse of a five-foot black-tipped shark as it swam a few feet below the surface and alongside their vessel. The shark made a loop, finally surfaced and showed his teeth at Evian as it swished its head from side to side, splashing water off the gunwale. Eddie hooked it with its gaff and muscled the shark onto the back of the boat. They left it there to flop around while they moved towards the bow to give the fish plenty of room. Evian stood close to Eddie as they stared at the saltwater game they had just caught.
Speaker 3:Good job, I wasn't sure how much of you was pirate and how much was a landlubber. Eddie examined Evian as he spoke. She dripped sweat dripped from her forehead and her breast heaved. With her heavy breathing. She smelled like the ocean. Eddie was hypnotized.
Speaker 3:My dad would take me out a lot. He lived down here for years. What was his name, asked Eddie, paul Whittle. Avion said loudly as if she was proud of the relationship. Paul Whittle was your dad. Oh, you've heard of him. Yeah, he's a legend in this area. He was quite the treasure hunter in the 70s and 80s. Yeah, he's a legend in this area. He was quite the treasure hunter in the 70s and 80s. He was the best, evian said. Paul was known to bring a lot of treasure from the Spanish wrecks sunk here in the 1700s. He also did some work in Florida and the Caribbean. I can't say I ever found anything except an occasional fishing tackle. He's associating with Texas Spanish treasure. It's like Mel Fisher is in Florida. I heard that Paul had packed it up and left with quite a haul. He went on to live the good life somewhere in the Pacific Islands. It isn't true. Paul was murdered.
Speaker 3:Eddie took a moment to process her remark. Then he grabbed a small aluminum bat and bludgeoned the shark on top of the head several times until the fish vibrated. After its death shiver, the creature ceased all movement. Now comes the real work. Go ahead and cut him. Sharks urinate through their skin and the quicker you clean him, the better he will taste.
Speaker 3:Eddie motioned with his face towards the chest and waited as Evian lifted the lid to take up one of the knives inside. She gave a good look at the contents and then closed it. Instead, she fetched her dagger from where she placed her belongings. Evian quickly plunged the double-edged blade into the fish without hesitation. Sharks are bloody creatures. Within a few minutes, her arms were covered with crimson gore. She tossed the entrails overboard as she freed them from the carcass and in doing so splashed herself with the carnage. Seagulls collected over the boat and sang their bloodthirsty song as they fed on the banquet. Once she finished, evian turned and looked at Eddie. How'd I do, captain? Eddie looked at the scene. Blood covered the fish and the boat deck and stained a good portion of her tan naked body. She smiled wide at him. Eddie. Evian held the dagger firmly To Eddie. The scene looked savage and sexy. What do you think?
Speaker 2:That's so intense and so freaking good, I should have peed in the shower.
Speaker 3:It's so freaking good, you are too kind no, I'm brutally honest, you're too kind thank you it's very good, thank you.
Speaker 2:It's like that is you dangled the carrot, that's, that's good all right that's very good I'm glad that's, I'm very impressed you're easily impressed no, I'm not, oh yeah you are no. No, I'm not, not at all, that's nick nope, well, thank you, that's very flattering.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm super excited. I'm glad I picked that piece. That was very that was very good.
Speaker 2:That was very good. I felt like I was on the boat.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, felt like I want to give her a razor. That's fine, a razor.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know like a little, oh, please. Well, she's living in the sand dunes. I know, yeah, she might be European, who knows?
Speaker 2:You never know. Hey, it's good, that was very good, I'm glad.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you liked it. I do. I'm glad you liked it.
Speaker 2:I can't wait for it. So it's coming out. When March you said, Well no, Hopefully before the first of the year. March you said, Well no, Hopefully before the first of the year. Oh nice, so that depends.
Speaker 3:I'm at the whim of everybody else. Nowadays, you know kind of putting everything together. So in the holidays, but hopefully by the first of the year. It's a shorter novel and I understand that they're very popular right now and I don't know whether people just don't want to be excuse me wedded to a long book or it's because of TikTok. They have no attention span. But the shorter novels are doing better, so it's on the short side. So I wrote it for, you know, paperback for, like you know, going to the beach for the weekend.
Speaker 3:Right that kind of thing, because a lot of people read on the beach and or maybe on the plane getting to a beach. But yeah, just kind of a short, shorter novel. So yeah, a couple days, you know if you put the time and you can knock it out where can everybody get these? Amazon, amazon. 70 of all books are sold on amazon okay, yeah so amazon's the way to go.
Speaker 3:But um, yeah, and again I'm just starting to build up kind of a readership. This one came out. End of what's it? 2024 right now. So end of 2023.
Speaker 1:Okay, this was early 2024.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So, and then this one. This next one will be coming out either at the end of this year, 2024, or beginning of 2025. Probably 2025.
Speaker 2:And the title to A Texas Treasure Tale.
Speaker 3:Texas Treasure Talexas treasure tale is what I want to do because it takes part.
Speaker 2:You know it takes place down on on the coast but is that like a t-a-i-l or is it a t-a-l-e?
Speaker 3:tail. No, no, tail like like a tail?
Speaker 2:yeah, not like a fish tail no, not a fish tail gotcha so uh, what, uh, but mean, anybody could take that book.
Speaker 3:You know, if you live down the Keys, you know you can call it a, you know, florida Key conspiracy, I don't know whatever. But you could, you know, just plug in some of the restaurants and bars and change some things around, yeah, and it would work. So I don't think it's just for Texans. So, um, you know, hopefully it'll be a part of some people's summers.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean?
Speaker 3:I think so, Even if they their summers are, you know, somewhere far North in thick ice and deep snow, but do you mention Bob Hall Pier in there at all? No, no, no, um, but uh, bob Hall Pier is on natural beach, so natural beaches mentioned some of the islands. Uh, the uh, what uh? Italian restaurant. There's a scene there the belt sander races out of port rancis we were just there, me and kelp were just there it's a big deal from everybody here and really, yeah, we were.
Speaker 2:I was just there belt sander races, huh yeah, I was literally right after my hip replacement, I was walking around with a cane and really you had a hip replacement I've had a lot of replacements right on. Yeah, yep, yeah I've had.
Speaker 1:That's all.
Speaker 2:I've had a lot I've had a couple husband replacements. I had a couple hip joint replacements. I gotta um, yeah, yeah, yeah, I should, should. I should write a book about replacements. Yeah, the replacements, the gypsy replacements, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good, I'm glad.
Speaker 2:We're going to share a link and all the things too, on how to get these books.
Speaker 3:Sure, these two, well that's, I'm flattered.
Speaker 2:I'm super excited, I'm flattered. I'm flattered, I I'm flattered. I'm super excited, I'm flattered, I'm ready to read them.
Speaker 3:I'm more than excited and what I'm glad you like the piece I read too.
Speaker 2:I do, I do. It's very enticing, very intriguing and, yeah, that was a very good excerpt, cool yeah, thanks for being here, thanks for having me. So we are going to. Um, this is just the start of a lot more. So we're going to do a three part series and really digest into this and then this guy, and then the new guy Okay, all three of them. You're the boss applesauce, I mean no, not really but we're going to make it happen. All right, this will be fun.
Speaker 3:Okay, cheers, cheers. Thank you everybody To 500 years. To live 500 years and max out physically and mentally at 300.
Speaker 2:Well, I tell you what after? I'm a processor, so I'm going to have so many. My wheels are going to turn and turn, and turn, and turn and turn until Until what? Until the next episode, okay, and I'm going to have. So turn and turn, and turn and turn until until what?
Speaker 3:to the next episode okay and I'm gonna have so many it's and I'm gonna be in trouble, I guess I'm gonna be in trouble, it's gonna be good it's gonna be fun, do you think so? I'll do my best yeah, and you and again, thank you for being a wonderful host thank you for being such an amazing guest.
Speaker 2:Not really but you've been great oh thank you, much more greater oh, I don't know if I'm a cheats red, yeah I know that's wrong, but you've been just absolutely wonderful. Everybody here's no, thank you. Thank you for coming. It's such a pleasure to meet you, really, yeah you're just saying that no, okay, I'm not a liar, not a bullshitter.
Speaker 3:Lock the gate behind me I got you.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to talk about where the jungle came from.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's not for women.
Speaker 2:Neither is this podcast. I have that big fat, fucking E on the end of my podcast.
Speaker 3:Okay, so yeah, big E.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about it. All right, explicit, okay, gotcha yeah.
Speaker 3:So you covered.
Speaker 2:Well, this is probably the calmest my language has ever been.
Speaker 3:Really I'm glad. I'm not sure if I am. What do you mean by calmest language? You mean your?
Speaker 2:tone, the quietest, your tone, because I'm so.
Speaker 3:Your tone or the four-letter words.
Speaker 2:Both.
Speaker 3:Really, both Really. The only time I like to cuss is really to make a point across. If you use it too much, then nobody listens anymore. But if you don't do it, think about somebody who doesn't cuss. And then all of a sudden they throw out a four-letter word. They really get your attention. It's like whoa, they're really. But if you do it all the time, they're like oh yeah, so you should save it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I save it. I save a lot of things anyway, thanks again, like my train ride, thanks again thank you yeah thank you again I cannot appreciate you, thank you.