The Power's Point Podcast
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The Power's Point Podcast
Unexpected Twists and Timeless Tales of Resilience
What happens when a pet tortoise goes missing for three decades and reappears alive in a dusty attic? Join us on the Powerspoint Podcast as we unravel the incredible story of Manuela's survival, alongside our beloved guest, Keith. We share a lighthearted poetic exchange before diving into heartfelt discussions about life's unpredictabilities, including a health scare that thankfully turned out to be cat scratch fever instead of cancer. Our sincere gratitude goes out to our listeners, who are more like friends, for their unwavering support during these times. With laughter and camaraderie, we venture into the ambitious "Powers Point Playhouse" project, teasing an exciting new episode featuring 14 participants, all while navigating the ups and downs of podcasting, including a lost comedy episode with Keith.
Feel the pulse of the universe in our vibrant exploration of rhythm, weightlessness, and eternal love. We celebrate the interconnectedness of life and the cosmos, finding unity in the dance of existence. Our musings take us from the resilience of tortoises to the boundless energy of neon dreams, where every beat and pulse reflect the eternal light within us. The stories of Darwin's tortoise and a 550-year-old Greenland shark inspire us to embrace the unexpected wonders of everyday life. So, let go, harmonize with the cosmic flow, and join us as we merge into the brilliance of starlight, discovering unity and eternal light in the dance of life.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the Powerspoint Podcast, we discussed upcoming projects and a little bit more.
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Speaker 3:Well, hello, hello. Welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 29. We are back once again and it's going to be another short one, as you heard Jim's here Speak for yourself. Okay, okay, okay. And also joining jim and I, jim and I, uh, some some star sign person's all happy because I just said that, uh, joining us once again. Uh, video game, keith. What's going on, guys? How, how's it going? Thank you for having me back. Hey, you guys are. You're always welcome on here. You're like part of us.
Speaker 3:So if you guys are first tuning in to the Powers Point podcast and you're wondering what we are about, well, we talk about anything and everything, but we don't talk religion, we don't talk politics. Those are boring. So if you're looking for those topics, the door is behind you. See you later. Go join the 700 Club and go join Fox or CNN or wherever you get your politic news. There's over 100,000 sites on it. I'm sure if you just spin the wheel you'll land on it. We got some big things going on.
Speaker 3:But first I just want to tell everybody you know, like over the last week, this is all my fault again on why the podcast hasn't been out. It's because we were all set to record last week. But then my brother, my 15 year old brother, got really sick, had to be rushed to Lori's Children Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago. It's like a specialty hospital for children. Everything pointed to him having cancer. It was a real touch and go. They prodded them, they poked them, they cut them open, you know, trying to get all the samples and everything and everything. As of today, friday 10-11, 2024, the year of our Lord, they're really thinking it's leaning towards cat scratch fever and I don't remember the last time somebody had cat scratch fever Jim thought it was just a Ted Nugent song, but it is real.
Speaker 3:So for everybody that has sent prayers my way or vibes my way or you know just, you know kind of like just words of wisdom to keep me and my family rolling and keeping our head above water and all the stress, I really appreciate each one of you. You know the podcast is a huge, huge big family. It's not just the two of us or the three of us, it's all of you out there. I always say we're just all friends. You guys aren't listeners, you're all friends. You may not like me or you may not like Jim, but you still tune in every week and you listen faithfully and I appreciate you all, and I know Jim does, and even Keith. He's only been on like three or four times with us but, uh, he appreciates you too. With that being said, guys, yeah, working on the biggest project ever. Now you're calling this the powers point playhouse don't tell them everything right right, I'm not, but this thing is so huge.
Speaker 3:Just in the first episode there's 14 people. You know like it's like a test for me and I know I've been bugging the hell out of you guys. You know like, hey, can we do this this day? Can we do this this day? And then having to cancel because my little brother, he's, he's to blame, he's the sole person to blame for this, and uh, don't worry, blames for you too.
Speaker 1:Just wait, blames for you well, it's not my fault. It's not my fault, it's that I hope it doesn't go the way of the uh comedy we had that Keith was a part of.
Speaker 3:You know what that is? The timeless classic that is still missing on comedy, lost to the ages. And one day it'll appear.
Speaker 4:See, I was under the impression that it had gotten deleted, like the one that was at the week. It was the same one. Some of the Pink is In In cast was on and you'd recorded with them and then it like either got deleted afterwards or it didn't record and then you had to reschedule. Do you remember that that was I assume that was what that was the fate of the slapstick episode. I assume that's what that. What happened to that?
Speaker 3:Well, that was the original, uh, misters from difference, uh, our sisters from different misters episode with sarah cleveland and trish rononi. And uh, jim was a part of that and uh, the next week he wasn't because he was doing his family thing. And uh, yeah, that one it didn't turn out, man, it did not turn out this guy blames it all.
Speaker 1:He blames it all on ghosts and stuff in his studio or there's there's so many missing episodes.
Speaker 3:Honestly, I we did the mandela effect yeah, or did we?
Speaker 3:the world may never know it. It's an another dimension. You guys have been working with me the last couple of weeks with this upcoming project. I'm really excited for this. It's something so off the wall. But I'm getting a lot of encouragement from, I want to say, the higher ups, you know, but it's from people who've who've made TV or made a movie, and the encouragement that I'm getting for us to pursue this is huge. You know, I got to say the pink is in cast. You know, for the people that I've told this to, they're like huh, that sounds great. That sounds great. There's got to be a niche for this topic and it's so far out of the box of a podcast to me. I'll tell people it's called F-A-K-E Radio Fun, ambiguous, knowing entertainment, I do believe, is the acronym. Correct me if I'm wrong on that one, jim. I thought it was factual, it could be factual. Factual you say factual, I make it fun.
Speaker 4:It's a step into the future, that's for sure. It's something new and very groundbreaking, and if people aren't going to listen and they're going to miss out, then you're going to miss out. It's going to be something good.
Speaker 1:Factual. I was going to say it all.
Speaker 3:Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1:It is factual, ambiguous. Knowledgeable entertainment and there you go.
Speaker 3:So what this whole premise of this is, we got a bunch of people from around the world, I would say, to jump in on this and create a radio station unlike no other, you know, and we had to find radio. Personality is we've had to find so much stuff and learn about the radio business. Try to put this together. So, uh, that'll be coming up really soon and I and I honestly I can't do it without these two gentlemen that are on the podcast right now. Uh, you know, I, you guys, you guys just don't understand not YouTube, but the listeners are friends on how much I bugged these two.
Speaker 3:You know, when I get an idea, I don't let it settle, I just keep like it'll be any time of the day or night and I'll message them. Hey, I just had this thought, you know, but this, this idea, actually came to me in a dream, and I don't believe in dream weavers and all that other stuff, and but this one came to me in a dream and I, I'm so passionate about this more, almost more, than this podcast. You know, I've been podcasting for nine and a half years. Majors Mess Hall just hit that mark and congrats on that. You know, it gets repetitious. I think you know I enjoy it, I enjoy the people on it, but I was looking for something outside of this podcast and outside of a Mess Hall podcast, and I think I found it.
Speaker 1:So I shake things up and change things up.
Speaker 3:Right and our idea is something that I've researched and looked online and Googled and I can't find nothing remotely close to what we're doing.
Speaker 1:So I get you that award that you're looking for. Yeah, it's a very, it's very unique.
Speaker 4:It's definitely unique. It's not going to get you that award that you're looking for. Yeah, it's a very it's very unique it's definitely unique.
Speaker 3:It's not going to get me that award. It would get us that award. Oh, because the thing about me, this is about us. No, and? And you know one more person to throw in the mix here, who's who's been really hard behind the scenes looking well, let me refrain from saying it. They've been working hard on this with me as well. I'm talking about Gavin from Majors Messel. You know so. The four of us have actually been working on this learning and he's never done anything like this, and I can't wait to see the first episode, and hopefully that'll be coming out here in the next week or two, you know, as long as nobody else is in the hospital I'm gonna have to get an agent and stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be a big celebrity after this you guys could both be on ibmi.
Speaker 3:Is that? Is that what? That is? The the stars. I got a espn. What does that mean? No, you know, like for celebrities, if you want to look them up, you could look them up. Oh, I am that imdb.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so we'll, we'll be on there okay but the whole premise of this, the whole premise of this is man, I really, really love old-time radio shows and, uh, I think a lot of the kids nowadays don't use imagination, or even older people now, because everything's on the TV, everything's on the movies. Nobody's out there making forts in the woods and no more defending it against nobody. You know, uh, nobody's up in the tree houses, except for the rich billionaires who just happened to build them in big oak trees in the backyard so you sound like an old man yelling at the clouds.
Speaker 1:I'm that old coot, that old geezer nowadays, all they care about is their ipods and their covids. Kids, get the hell off my lawn, you know.
Speaker 3:But so that's coming up and I'm super excited about it and I know these guys are too. But we are going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back, Jim's got a crazy ass story and we're going to do some fun facts, a quote, and we'll discuss it and then, uh, Head on out. So we'll be back after these messages.
Speaker 2:I want toys.
Speaker 1:Well, you go to Ye Olde House of Toys if you want toys, 545 East 110th Avenue in Crown Point, indiana. Oh, they have toys, the toys.
Speaker 3:You want, the toys you collect the toys you need. Welcome back. As I said before the break, jim's got one of these crazy stories, like I had last week with the, the monkeys who saved the six-year-old girl from being raped by some pedophile out in the woods and uh crazy. He's also got a crazy story, jim. What do you got, man?
Speaker 1:I'm curious, okay the title says missing pet tortoise found in attic 30 years later is still was still alive and well. Couple questions, yeah.
Speaker 3:How big is this house that nobody can't hear a turtle scraping by on the floor? Or was that turtles like, packed away in a box somewhere eating Christmas tree thistles?
Speaker 1:Well it says that in 1982, wait, yeah, their turtle, this family's turtle, manuela, had gone missing. At the time, manuela's family assumed the tortoise had wandered away from home and never to be seen again. But they couldn't have been more wrong. Flash forward 30 years to 2013. I guess this is old. It just got this news. Uh, the grandfather had recently passed away and the family gathered at the mom's childhood home to sort through his possessions. Um, he had a very cluttered attic and when they went up to the attic to fight, move things around and see, you know, look for everything they noticed something odd. There was a box with old wooden speakers. In it there was the tortoise, from where they recognized and they were just shocked Like holy crap, the turtle, the tortoise, is up here in the attic. And they were like going crazy. They couldn't believe they found it um, what are your guys?
Speaker 3:that raises my second question. Okay, how'd the turtle get from the main floor to upstairs? It didn't just levitate, it didn't just fly. And I've never seen a turtle climb some kind of like escape ladder going up to no static. It doesn't. Was it the grandfather who's like, screw this little bitch, and uh, family paying more attention to that, yeah. And then he's like, huh, I'll hide it up and I'll hide it there for a couple weeks, and then he gets dementia, forgets. He turns there. What do you think?
Speaker 4:happened I. You want to talk about an inspirational story. You know of tenacity. You know true grit. You know never say die attitude. I mean that's you know, for anybody out there going through a hard time. I mean, there you go. If you're going through it, keep going.
Speaker 1:I think what happened was because they don't say what happened in the article it had to be. The grandpa was boxing things up or something to take it to the attic and the tortoise, little baby tortoise, got in the box and he took it up there and he just was like screw that.
Speaker 3:And then when the tortoise left he probably hated the tortoise and said and it's gone, it's gone, just forget about it it because really did the, did the tortoise jump on some kind of roller skate and get the hell out of dodge, like really quick, you know where? They missing that skateboard. Uh, like how fast did they really think this thing moved, man, that that you don't notice a tortoise?
Speaker 1:a tortoise, uh, probably one of the biggest of the turtle family and it said that, uh, the family suspected that the tortoise was eating termite larvae in the uh attic and stuff with all the clothing and uh paper and all that up there could have been enjoying himself the whole time too.
Speaker 4:You know, he may the tortoise may feel right now like they messed up his good thing. Yeah, he had a peaceful existence going. It's like oh, come on you see, he's probably.
Speaker 3:It was like, oh man, finally away from that little rat kid downstairs.
Speaker 4:You know he's tugging on my shell all the time, yeah and then, like they hit eye to eye, it's like oh you it's like it's you hear stuff going across, you're dragging across above your head.
Speaker 1:How do you not listen to them?
Speaker 3:Maybe that's why they bring all the exorcists in the house trying to clear out the ghost, but it never left because it was the turtle looking for the damn door down.
Speaker 1:Could you imagine the one family member that was like, out of all of them, the one family member, I swear, I hear something, I swear, and they're like shut up and all of a sudden, when they find the tortoise, he's like I told you.
Speaker 3:I told you you all thought I was crazy, that is. That is uh beyond ridiculous. And it does go up there with the uh monkeys saving the pedophile or chasing the pedophile away, not saving the pedophile right, I guess the tortoise can live like 100 or 200 years or something. Yeah, but what was he eating? I really. I mean, it's speculation that he was eating termite larvae, and if, 30 years of termite buildup, what kind of house did they really have?
Speaker 1:Maybe there was a mouse up there or something, or spiders, and it just started eating all those. I don't know. The evolution.
Speaker 3:I mean, did it come walking out with a like a I don't know cane or or something?
Speaker 1:I. I saw a picture once, uh on the interwebs and it showed us a tortoise at the white house or something during like the civil war time, yeah, and I guess it showed the tortoise like today or something.
Speaker 3:It was still alive, yeah it's just like who's the guy that did the evolution, darwin, yeah, darwin gave his turtle, donated his turtle to somebody, and that turtle just recently died.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they could live like hundreds a year, like 200 years if they're like, just because how slow their body, just you know, and plus that shell is like part of them, it covers them and protects them.
Speaker 3:It's like that Greenland shark that they found and it's over 550 years old. I mean, come on.
Speaker 1:I mean they're discovering stuff in the ocean nowadays. I mean stuff that was never thought of.
Speaker 4:Is it like five? Is this all they know about? Yeah, yeah it know about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And and you know all these animal facts. It just leads me into our next segment, animal facts. So I got a couple. Tell me what you guys think, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Let me put my specs on Scott specs. A dog sense of smell is between 10,000 and 100,000 times better than a human's, but they just have one-sixth of our number of taste buds.
Speaker 1:Wow, they had to give up on taste buds but they got the sense like through the roof.
Speaker 3:A hundred thousand times more than a human.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I believe that, that because when dogs like all they do is smell you once and they file it in their head and stuff and then they can not see you for like months or years and they'll still know who you are if you were nice to them and I just I feel sorry for the dog now because you got those people that are unbathed.
Speaker 3:I'm not I'm not mentioning any genders because I'm not making anybody mad. We know what you're talking about. When we all smell like the ocean, you know that a dog's got to be like freaking out. You know like what the hell is that you know.
Speaker 1:Well, if your smell is unique, I I mean it's like a fingerprint to them. What's the more facts?
Speaker 3:horses use their ears and eyes to communicate with each other. So far, mr ed is the only talking horse he didn't, he didn't talk what they were wondering.
Speaker 4:How would they even know that this, hey, one of the horses, tell them with their eyes and ears?
Speaker 3:hey, if you got a carrot shoved up your ass with a mouthful of peanut butter, you'd be yapping too, oh god the full eye and ear thing.
Speaker 1:That's probably how, uh, you know, it's like a mating thing or something. Hey, what's up?
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 1:In your ears how you doing. They got such big ears. They can just go like this Come here. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3:This one's kind of odd Squirrels can't vomit or burp, so don't try to blame your picnic lunch belch on one.
Speaker 1:So how do they get something that they eat when they just die?
Speaker 3:Probably. Hey, man, I'm just a headline guy, I don't have all the scoop.
Speaker 1:No, it just gives us questions.
Speaker 3:Okay, I don't know, keith got anything on that.
Speaker 4:I know we have a pair of squirrels that live in our backyard that throw stuff at me all the time. I know that I'll go out the door and something will fly past me and I'll look up and I'll see the two squirrels like just peeking over top the roof and then they'll like throw, uh, those, those helicopter things and like whatever, like sticks. But you know it's happened more than once all right, guys digging holes in your heart.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this, this next animal, can rival our tortoise that was found in the attic. Ant eaters can consume 35 000 ants and termites in a single day. 35 000 dang, wow. Imagine the turtle and the anteater were up in the attic together. They'd be fighting up there there would be. One of them wouldn't survive. Either that or it would be some heck of an evolution crossbreed animal up there, very slow anteater, yeah, a turtle with like a very long nose, just a shell and a snout. How about this? Meows are not an innate cat language. They developed them to communicate with us. While cats can make more than 100 different sounds, dogs can only make 10. Here's the cat getting over again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it might be a cat lover that gave that article True.
Speaker 3:True.
Speaker 1:I've seen videos of dogs and cats doing different sounds, though, and stuff like they learn from the owners.
Speaker 3:You know, every time I say I've, I've got video, people run, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, how about this? This is my last one. African buffalo herds are democratic and feminist. Only adult females can vote for which way to travel. That indicate their choice by standing up, looking in one direction and then lying back down. That's kind of odd. Wait, what animal is this? Again the African buffalo? Okay, democratic, wow. But the female is the one who guides the herd. I was going to say it kind of sounds like they're just married.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that goes the same with dinner time. It freaks us where we eating. No, how about if here? No, they just sit down and just look at us like no, hey, but what do you want? I don't care anywhere.
Speaker 3:How about this? When you watch national geographic maybe now or when you're a kid you see the large African buffaloes going towards these alligator infested waters and you're like, nah, don't go in, there, don't go. And there they go, you know. And you see the gators chase the damn thing down and then they just start beating the shit out of the gators, and the gators beat the shit out of them and it don't end well for the, for the little ones you're the male buffalo's yelling at the female.
Speaker 1:What you didn't think they were gonna be there. I didn't think they were gonna be there this time the male's like you.
Speaker 3:You wanted to go this way. You go first. Oh no, you're leading go Democratic.
Speaker 1:I got to lay down.
Speaker 3:So, as I said at the beginning, we're just going to have a short episode today and we will be back with normal episodes at some point. I don't think we would be in a while. Yeah, I don't think you know. We've been working on this other project. I don't know if there'll be a podcast episode next week. If not, I still will check in with you guys out there and see what's going on and yeah, so thank you again for joining us. We hope you come back next week and if you are wanting to get a hold of us, then you can reach us by powerspointpodcast at yahoocom. You could find me on Instagram at powers31911, or you could find me at podcast Scott on X, formerly known as Twitter. So that's all I got, guys, and before I leave, we were just teasing. Jim's, got a quote and give us some knowledge.
Speaker 1:Okay, turtles, teach us that, being slow and steady, and win life's biggest races.
Speaker 3:I've seen that cartoon Tortoise versus the hare. Oh man, well not going to do it.
Speaker 1:Nope, Could you imagine? I just thought of something. Could you imagine that tortoise when it first got lettuce or real food after that attic, Its eyes must have been bulged out like oh my God.
Speaker 3:They feed it lettuce and it chokes and dies.
Speaker 1:Oh no, After 30 years I'm just a shell of my former self.
Speaker 3:Or the kid's like I don't want an old pet, let's take it to the vet and get something new all the kids are old enough and left the house and have their own kids and if they want, turtle soup you know you gotta end it like that, yeah so that's all I got, guys and uh, keith, jim, as always, I appreciate both of you joining us and uh, stay tuned for the newest project in just a couple weeks. We'll talk to you later. Bye, no, keith, don't say bye. Oh, goodbye everybody there you go there you go Bye through the sky.
Speaker 5:We're weightless. Let the spirit fly. Hold on to the sun. We'll rise above In the rhythm of the endless love. Feel the pulse it's calling us higher, dancing in the trance with pure desire. Waves of color, neon dreams Lost inside electric streams. Every beat, a pulse of life. We're eternal, we are life. Hold on to the summer. We'll rise above In the rhythm of the endless love. Feel the pulse. It's calling us higher, dancing in a dance with pure desire.
Speaker 5:Waves of color, neon dreams Lost inside electric streams. Every beat, a pulse of life. We're eternal, we are light. Hold on to the sun. We'll rise above In the rhythm of the endless love. Feel the pulse. It's calling us higher, dancing in the trance with pure desire. With the universe on its face, we reverse. Endless motion, endless glow. In the trance, we let go. Hold on to the sound when we rise above In the rhythm of the endless love. Feel the pulses calling us higher, dancing in a trance with pure desire, falling, fading into the light when the stars burning bright Will. The pulse it's calling us higher, dancing in the trance with pure desire. We're one with the universe, time and space. We reverse and reverse. We're one with the universe, time and space. We reverse in the first. In the first, we're one with the universe, time and space. We reverse Endless motion, endless glow In the trance we let go, woo Whoa, fading into the light when the stars are blinded by Blue Bye.
