Messy Buns and Shotguns
Messy Buns and Shotguns
Messy Buns & Exciting Life Updates
Picture this: Trading in the truck for a new Jeep Compass and going on a memorable trip to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. That's the scenery of our lives since we last chatted. We'll share our thoughts on the disappointing Little Mermaid remake, and the thrill of getting our hands on a new 300 PRC rifle. We also took off to Bang Steel for an adrenaline-filled weekend, with my allergies tagging along for the ride, but still, it's all part of the excitement!
Fasten your seatbelts as we continue on this wild ride, traversing through our latest updates including the beginning of school, a fresh part-time job, and the warmth of welcoming a new niece into the family. We'll take you through a spooky Halloween party, a heartwarming family wedding, and our quest to rearrange the spare room. We're also going to give you a peek into the force on force class Mav is assisting with - a truly unique experience.
As we navigate the twists and turns of life, time seems to be moving at warp speed, and we are here to live every second of it. So, stay safe, be deadly, be good, or be good at it, and join us for the ride – we promise you, it's worth every moment.
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One. 95% of the time my hair is always in a messy bun. Obviously I'm a basic white girl who likes her pumpkin spice lattes in the fall and her hair with her leggings and I have an uncontrollable addiction with firearms.
Speaker 2:Ready Yep.
Speaker 1:Okay, welcome back to another episode of Messy Buns and what is this 36?, 39?, 36.
Speaker 2:36. Let's go, we're back at it, fuckers.
Speaker 1:We've been away for a while.
Speaker 2:That we have.
Speaker 1:Sorry, but some things have gone on. Last time we talked about how you had just gone to being steel. You were getting a new rifle, you were wanting to get the 300 PRC. We talked about some Disney movie remakes. We talked about how I wasn't going to watch the Little Mermaid I did We'll get into that and how we needed some new vehicles and things, and so we're just going to get into the life update of what's been going on for the last two months since August.
Speaker 1:The last episode we had was August 23rd. It is Monday, november 6th. It's been a while. Life has been crazy. Thanks for sticking with us, if you're even still here with us anymore. Here we're back.
Speaker 2:It's probably like five people left. These idiots haven't recorded.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so I'm picking up from last time. We'll put some photos on our Instagram page.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we need to.
Speaker 1:At Messy Buns and Shotguns and you'll get to see the whole life update. Last time I talked about how we were on a boat and how I needed to get me a new car. Well, I did. I did get a new car. That was one thing that happened literally shortly after our episode.
Speaker 2:I traded in old Lola.
Speaker 1:So we traded in the truck. I got a new car, I got a Jeep Compass. I love it, my old truck.
Speaker 2:By the way, it was my old truck. I did not get rid of the new Cummins, absolutely not. Right, correct it was the old truck it was the old truck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:She was a good truck. She was a very good truck.
Speaker 1:She was a very good truck, close to 200,000 miles on her, over 200,000 miles on her, over 200,000 miles, still trucking along. But she had some struggles that she needed to work through, so she was slowing down, so it was time to trade her in. She was a good truck, though Do miss her a lot. Sometimes Do have to say but the gas is great.
Speaker 2:The Jeep's way more fuel efficient. It's smaller, so you can move around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes I feel like I'm still in a truck, but then I realize I'm not. So I got my little turbo engine. It's great.
Speaker 2:I think it's got a wicked little turbo in it it is.
Speaker 1:It's a little getter.
Speaker 2:You stop one and you hear it go whee.
Speaker 1:So got me a new car and then we went on a family vacation. We went to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. And we had a wonderful time, had a little family vacay there, got to go to Dollywood. We did the mountain coasters, did all the fun stuff there, went to all the shows, the comedy bar and things like that. So that was a really fun little family vacay that we did Something. We've never been on a vacation together before.
Speaker 1:So it was really nice to go on that with the family included, so we had a really good time. Other than that, I did talk about last time how I wasn't going to watch the Little Mermaid. I did. It was horrible. I waited until it came on Disney Plus. I watched it, hated the whole thing. Exactly what I talked about last time about how they changed everything.
Speaker 1:Basically, king Triton is a man whore, so, it's true, her sisters, like I said, like we said last time, they're trying to make everything more diverse. Well, her sisters are of every ethnicity in the world, so King Triton is just sleeping with the whole mermaid across the globe.
Speaker 2:Good for him. Just slaying it with every sort of Just getting that merdickie sticking.
Speaker 1:And having a baby with all of him. He wanted to make sure everyone was accounted for as a princess. So there you have it.
Speaker 2:Do you think like, as he was going through the process, he's like oh, I don't have one of these yet. Maybe, I don't know, I don't have one of this ethnicity. It's like diversify the what? Is it Atlantis.
Speaker 1:Atlantica.
Speaker 2:Atlantica. Is that the Little Mermaid?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Gotta diversify the years of Atlantica. Yeah, hey, I support it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was some other things in there, but I'm just gonna leave it at that. But anyhoo, so we talked, we went to last time we had an episode. We talked about it, like you said, how you got you were buying a 300 PRC cuz you had just gone to bang steel.
Speaker 2:I did. I did buy a 300 PRC and we bought a bagara before Teen HMR. Top that with a discovery OPT, epd, eprs, ed, radical 525, 400 bucks on freakin Amazon outstanding glass, same scope maker that makes arkin and some of the vortex lower end optics. They're all check made from China and China got tired of getting undercut and this the guys at bang steel swear by it and I topped it on that 300 and it was Freakin eatin steel all weekend long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we actually just got back from bang steel.
Speaker 2:We went again. It was a great time. We went together and it was a we brought a, brought our crew down there that I trained with pretty regularly. Everybody had a blast. It's always a good time, yeah.
Speaker 1:I went. I had a great time, minus the allergy fit I had. I guess I'm allergic to ragweed, I don't know.
Speaker 2:But it was just allergic to fun and freedom bullshit.
Speaker 1:I had a wonderful time. I had a blast. We got there on a Thursday evening. We stayed with some friends. Class was Friday and Saturday and I shot the 6-5 Creed more and shoot the rifle I took last time.
Speaker 2:I know it would nailed it.
Speaker 1:Nailed it. I did very well. I think I impressed you a little bit with my rifle skills. I know I definitely impressed them because they told me I did very good shooting, so you did well they were very impressed and I nailed my mild target. So I am very much.
Speaker 2:You didn't shoot the 6-5.
Speaker 1:I did not shoot the 6-5 only because yours was already already on target for it, so I did shoot yours. But it doesn't matter, I still got it in my second shot and it was awesome and I nailed it and I'm very happy. And so I got my thousand yards.
Speaker 1:I hit the, the Dylan Mulvaney as Dan would say, the molding, not to knock them right out that bathtub. So but that was. I had a really good time just kind of Sitting there getting to listen to them and the knowledge between him and and forest and stuff.
Speaker 2:They are. They are a wealth of information.
Speaker 1:Yes, His story very Fascinates me. So next time we go which we will definitely be going again, if y'all are listening be prepared to hear from us from the Future. I would love to just sit down with him and just talk to him, but we were all just doing stuff and then I don't want to sit to him while I was leaking out of every orifice on my face On Saturday was the worst day. I just was non-stop Leaking like I was shooting, with tissue stuck up my nose. Forest was sitting there and he was like you got it, you ready, got tissue up the nose. I said I got the tissue up the nose. Very attractive site, but it was good. My nose is still raw.
Speaker 1:It's still it still hurts, but we got home yesterday Time change. It's kicking butt, so it's nice to have that extra hour extra hour sleep.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I was exhausted yesterday. But I also, like we talked about last podcast, I talked about starting school. I am halfway through. I've made it halfway.
Speaker 2:You've made it half of a semester. That's what I'm saying Like it's not right through school. You didn't let me finish half a semester.
Speaker 1:You didn't let me finish. So I started school online, going through UTSA, where I went when I was living in San Antonio and they have an online program and so getting my communications degree in concentration of digital media and I have so far, so good it's get. I think I'm getting into a good rhythm of it. I was a little nervous at first, like the first couple weeks, I was a little stressed, but now I think I got a good rhythm down and I've made it through half the semester because they're broken up into eight week courses, not a full 16 weeks like a normal semester, so things are due every week. But no, it's been going really good. I'm I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 1:I also picked up a part-time job to so we are both, so that's why we haven't been recording is.
Speaker 1:We are Insanely busy just going non-stop and it's like you know what, now that I think we've kind of gotten a good rhythm down in the last couple Months with everything, we're trying to get back on track With putting out new episodes. We talked about possibly changing the theme song. We're not going to. We're gonna leave it the same, but we'll probably be changing up, maybe like the intro voices. I don't know, we might just leave it, leave it has is but. But we're getting back on it. So those are. That's kind of what's been them.
Speaker 2:The update recently we also have a new niece we do.
Speaker 1:We have a new niece.
Speaker 2:You wanted to talk about that yeah, so my, my brother and his wife were pregnant and October 30th Kingsley Louise was brought into the world. Mom and baby are doing well.
Speaker 1:Dad is growing an awesome supertrooper stash that I violently approve of when you showed me that video, I was like, oh my gosh, she's got Reno 911 written on my god.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's so good.
Speaker 1:He's got a major stash going on. So yeah, but yes, we are officially in uncle to your side of the family now, because we have a niece on my side, little Robin sure do and now we got a niece on your side sure do. So little girls all the way around, a bunch of little spool rotten babies. We had a Halloween just passed recently and we had a Halloween party. That was fun. I did pretty woman, it was great.
Speaker 2:I just showed up from work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you should have. I did pretty woman and it was a lot of fun. My mom wasn't through to throw it. I sent her a photo. I was like, can you get to? I am. And she was like, oh my god, pretty woman. But she's like, did you have to dress up as a prostitute? And I was like she was a prostitute.
Speaker 2:But she was a prostitute. You were. You were a hooker for Halloween.
Speaker 1:Well, I was luckily at the house. I could be a hooker in my own house, so whatever. But I also we. I also did rearrange the spare bedroom. Our roommate got married and and Him and his lady are now living together.
Speaker 1:So, they moved, he moved out and we were able to be a part of that, so that was fun. She asked me to be a bridesmaid, so I'm very excited about that for when they have their actual wedding. They kind of pulled a you and I said, hey, we all got plans, next week we're gonna courthouse this, and Good for them, very happy, very glad that we were able to be a part of that. And now they're planning for their wedding and I'm gonna get to be a bridesmaid, so that's exciting.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You think what?
Speaker 2:Nothing. I gotta wait to confirm more things before I could give more details.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, very interesting secret.
Speaker 2:It's not really a secret, I'm just kidding. It's just I don't want to put out false information.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. Let's not do that, let's not be the bearer of false information right. Um, but yeah. So what else you got?
Speaker 2:force on force this weekend. So you remember when I went a few months ago and got UTM certified for ultimate training munition.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So we're having our first civilian based force on force class Mavtac and I see E FDD and I'm just showing up to assist. It's an I see you FDD course, but you know, the more instructors, the more experience you can have on the instructor team, the better it is. This is a newer curriculum for us. It's a what I tell people all the time is like you can take all these in our a and us cca courses and you can train and you can nail Reloads right, but it's there's no stress in that environment, like every time. We train at the range. At the range we always win right.
Speaker 2:Like there's never a day, it's like, oh, I didn't win, I didn't come home today. That chain, that a force on force scenarios. You take students and you pair them against themselves and put them into scenarios with roleplayers that it's like everyday things like cafes, atms, going to gas stations, parking garages, out to dinner, standing in line at checkouts, shit like that and we let the situation unfold in front of them and see how they will respond if they're going to shoot, if they're going to draw, if they're going to be a victim. Because you fail to realize, until you're in those scenarios, just how much of the scenario and the encounter that you can't control. And when you get put in that scenario, we all think like we have an idea of ourselves how am I going to respond, how am I going to act, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2:right, and we can think we know what we're going to do right but the psychological and physiological response of the body when your heart rates a hundred and fifty four, you have shit in your shorts Like you don't know how you're going to react, and we put you in these scenarios that you may not win. Like the whole goal of the scenario may not be to win, but to change your mindset of. Like maybe I should have avoided this encounter at all costs. Yeah, because it allows us to use a training Munition and a training scenario of where we don't always win and you know, like when the instructor calls, you know, index, index, index, and then we start walking through it. It's like you didn't go home today. So like who in the room do you want to call your wife and say, hey, you, you didn't make it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so it changes your, your perspective of of what am I going to do in these situations and what do I actually need to train for? Like what it was, what was I deficient on?
Speaker 1:it's true, what was I listening to? Or were we just talking, or no, we were listening to, or did I see something and send it to you? I sent it to you. On tiktok I saw a thing where they were talking about how Nancy Pelosi Was saw a guy I don't I cannot remember his name I saw on tiktok, but he's a famous guy apparently.
Speaker 1:Like that she walked up to him and like said, like oh, you seem like you're a sensible man and Ask him about guns and why you feel the need to have Seven all these rounds or whatever. And he kind of took the scenario as If I'm, if my wife and my kids, if there's an intruder in the house and there's, you know, like a seven mag or a 30 mag or whatever, like which one do you think that I'm gonna grab to, or expect my family to grab or to have on hand To protect themselves from danger, or whatever like that I guess. Apparently she like Made a comment of like that's how you see that or that's how you view that, and he was like that's fucking Lutely. I guess you didn't like that and walked away or whatever. So I don't know, but I'll have to find.
Speaker 1:I mean, if I find it all. I sent it to you, I think, and I can share it on our Instagram page. But, but, like, but at the point of that I was trying to say was like you just don't, you don't know, you don't think you like you can think of that situations. But it's like you tell me all the time like we have guns all over the place, like all in the sure fucking do. But like I was talking to my sister earlier and she we were talking about shooting like this weekend and stuff like that, and how she started thinking like where?
Speaker 2:all of our guns.
Speaker 1:Where, right, where, is my husband shotgun? Where is this, where is I? Was like well, you, he probably has them put away because you have a toddler in the house, so he probably doesn't have them out and readily available to you to just grab from the corner, because you have a toddler who's opening drawers and now checking out things and grabbing things and last thing you want is for her to, you know, grab things like that or whatever. But it's like you tell me. You know I'm sitting on the couch. Anything happened at any moment. What is near me, what would I like?
Speaker 1:I could think of what I would do in that moment, but what? What would really happen in that moment? Like same thing gas stations, shopping malls, like anywhere. You just you would never think of leaving the office for work. Anything could happen at any given moment and you never think about it. I mean so. But yeah, that's cool that you have that coming up that you're gonna be helping with. I'll be Working at the Bath and Body Works, so yeah, and then this weekend Going to church and stuff that is true doing school work.
Speaker 1:My life just consists of work, school work.
Speaker 2:Okay what's on Sunday? I think there's a falling steel match on Sunday.
Speaker 1:I feel like there is. I feel like there's something Sunday we're forgetting, like something is.
Speaker 2:I think there's, I think the AGC. Wrapping in my brain me, the Fort Mead pistol rifle club. Falling steel matches on the 12th.
Speaker 1:So I've also been on a ice cream kick lately. Since the last time you've all heard of her does talk, I feel like randomly been on this ice cream kick. I think it's been there ever since. Like we went to Pigeon Forge and I don't know why, but like I always want like ice cream. Now and I'm not a big ice cream person like you could ask anyone in the world. I'm never like oh yeah, let's get ice cream. Like I'm not like a cake ice cream person because I when I worked in the bakery or whatever, but I've been on an ice cream cake and I've been on like a Ben and Jerry's ice cream cake and I've tried three, four different flavors, three different flavors the dirt Moose pie.
Speaker 2:I like the Moose Pie one that's probably my favorite.
Speaker 1:That's the first one I got. I got Moose Pie because I saw it on their Facebook or Instagram or whatever and I was like what is that? So I got that because I'm all about Moose. I love anything Moose Cake, Moose, anything Like. It's my favorite. So I saw Moose Pie and I got it and we really like that. Then I saw they came up with this new one called the Dirt, or maybe no. The Moose Pie is new. The Dirt, I don't know that one's really good. It's not your favorite, but it's got chocolate ganache and like cookie crumbles in it. It's really good. And then I tried the half baked. It's okay. I did try the brownie. One Like the like. I don't know, it's like brownie batter, batter, brownie or something like that. It's all right. I have to say the Dirt and but the Moose Pie, it's my favorite, like Chef's Kiss favorite.
Speaker 2:I like the Moose Pie. That's probably my favorite one.
Speaker 1:That one's pretty good yeah so, but we're approaching up into. We are in November and we're it's just flying by man, it is we're approaching Thanksgiving, then it'll be Christmas and then we'll be in a new year, 2024. I can't believe it. I can't believe it's already like November. I feel like just the other day I was sitting there like, oh, we have time. October, november, far away. And here we are, like here, like we made it, we're here.
Speaker 2:We're here, no.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding. I don't know where that's from, and I it always like I had to have become from some movie or TV show or something like that. I can't think of it, but.
Speaker 2:I have no idea.
Speaker 1:No no it came from something, though, that's for sure, there's a hair on my microphone.
Speaker 2:Is it darker?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Of course it is like the we're Hair Central, but we did move the podcast area into the spare bedroom. I think this is doing a lot better.
Speaker 2:I would like to get a rug in here, so it's not as there we do have a bit of an echo Like it's an empty space. Yeah, it's not so. So like there's a lot of there's a lot of resonation going on, yeah.
Speaker 1:I tried it. I tested this out before, so hopefully it's still. It's pretty good. I'll check it out in a little bit, see what it sounds like. But yeah, I'll put some curtains in here and get a little rug, so it helps with that Um. Under that, I think I kind of covered everything on the list that I really wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think of other things.
Speaker 1:Well, we keep talking about starting YouTube videos, and that just hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're still figuring it out.
Speaker 1:I really need to look into it, but one thing at a time, step by step. So we're taking steps. We've been doing pretty good. I'd have to say Like I had my best friend came to visit me. That was good. We spent some good. My best friend in Colorado, she came to visit. That was a good little weekend that we got to spend some good.
Speaker 1:I'm glad we came, we got to spend some quality time together and then when we got to see so we had a game night and we got to see my friend who I've roomed with in college. She lives here too, so that was kind of fun for all of us to get together. I'm trying to think. I don't know what else has happened in the last few months. I feel like it's all like. I feel like it's just happened so fast.
Speaker 2:Definitely has been a blur.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It's been fast. Well, I mean, we stay busy all the time.
Speaker 1:All the time like it, just like.
Speaker 2:I did start coaching for Malmah Modder again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you, yes, you did. That was so great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we had a competition in Washington College versus Navy Trap and Skeet and I had a conversation with a coach that was there when I was a shooter and I'm like, hey, do you guys need some help getting the you know the team where it needs to be? And they said they would love it. So in when it's we're in off season now Last day of practice was last week, but Tuesdays and Thursdays in the on season I go over there to the Naval support activity and coach the kids on the team that I used to compete for when I was in college at the Academy.
Speaker 1:They seemed very thankful, like that day I was there, like they seemed very happy to have you there to help them out.
Speaker 2:They're a great group of kids. There's a lot of potential there. There's a lot of talent there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:We just need to get them on the range and get them the time to practice and get reps and sets in behind the gun shooting at different targets. And I think they're violently capable, they just need they just need time on the gun.
Speaker 1:Well, when they're all young kids, they're all like that competitive state of I want to be the best.
Speaker 2:They can be yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's all it takes Practice. That's what you tell me. So Anywho, but Anything else you'd like to add to this episode.
Speaker 2:I don't reckon I'm tired Me too.
Speaker 1:Me too, but I gotta do schoolwork. So that's what I'm gonna do when I get done here is Plop my butt on the couch and load up the computer.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And do schoolwork and you're probably gonna Fortnite.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm probably gonna play the new campaign.
Speaker 1:If you haven't heard, which must be living under a rock.
Speaker 2:Pre-order Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 to get early access to the campaign.
Speaker 1:Or Fortnite has released.
Speaker 2:Fortnite OG. Back to the Basics Map.
Speaker 1:And it's so funny because our friends, kids, are just like I don't want to play this too hard and I was like, yeah, fortnite nowadays is fairly easy to learn and play, especially for kids. I remember how it was last night we downloaded it, got the battle pass and all that stuff last night and played a few rounds. That's how I remember it was.
Speaker 2:It was hard.
Speaker 1:It's very cutthroat and it was easy to make kills and do all these things. It was a lot, and so that's how I remember it. Her friend, her daughter, she was like that's too hard, but it's cool to see you just forget how much it's evolved and how far it's come.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they catered amenities into the game to make it more fast-paced and easier for people to play. And then we go back to OG Fortnite and it's like get wrecked and fucking nerds. So all the OG players are like, yeah, now you all can whine and cry and bitch and complain because you weren't here when it all fucking started.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember us playing and that's how you got so good, because you went through all of that. But yeah, it's fun. If you haven't, you should check it out. Other than that, I guess that's it for this episode. We're really going to try to get back on track with this Now that we've, I think, gotten a good little.
Speaker 2:Let's see what happens. We can try, but life just gets in the way.
Speaker 1:I was listening to the last episode. We said the same thing. Like well, in fact, next week, here we are, two months later, two months later, but like you said, like we said last time, life happens and everyone knows that and that's okay and we're just going to keep on hanging in there best we can. We're doing good, but I mean like, for this, we're going to just keep on.
Speaker 2:Keep on, keeping on.
Speaker 1:Keep on keeping on. So you can follow us on Instagram at messy buns and shotguns. We'll post photos of all of our events so you'll be able to see that there that what's been going on the last couple months, and you can also email us messybunsandjockgunscom. There's also links through our Instagram page. If you like what you hear, or you want to comment, or you want us to hear us talk about something. We're here just to share our lives and banter back and forth when and where, if pleases, so yeah.
Speaker 2:Outside of that, if you can't be safe, be deadly, be good, or be good at it and ask yourself did you America today? Bye.