🔴 LIVE - Frank is in the ditch part TWO

Without dropping it Frank's collecting plants Yeah, it's legal. There's nothing illegal. There are no illegal plants. I mean, there are a few invasives that you're not allowed to propagate, but that's not one of them. I've had those. That's a cool little plant. I think it's a sword. Nice. A knight's trail. Is he really? Huh. Hi, guys. I hit the wrong button. Sorry. I figured I'd come back for a few minutes just to uh kind of say goodbye in the appropriate way rather than just run off and besides with Frank got in the water so I thought that'd be fun, phototics yeah get some of that that's a good plant oh okay yeah get some more of it make sure you get a decent root system and grab a couple of handfuls of that other stuff right there get some more of that where'd he go there he is something bites you really just wants you out of there huh the fish or it could be moving you trying to move you a lot of fish will do that they'll just whack oh yeah right he's talking about a gopher tortoise that lives in his mother's backyard it's a male he's got that is that log or what is that all right i'm gonna go back to the van we're good you got 40 or so That's plenty. Yeah, let's head out. Maybe we got time to do one more thing. What got Frank a fish? Something bumped him. Don't know what it was. Probably a tilapia. Maybe an alligator. Might have been, but I don't think so. It was slimy and soft, he says. All right, we're gonna work our way over to the van. Think I'll drink my water. Probably a bass, right? There, I'm hydrated. To the van. Hmm, developing a little more stamina. This is not totally debilitating today. Calling me, put the finish vent, put the step into the car, turn on the engine, you see working, and we'll finish up here. Lord love a duck. All right. Hydration is motivation, says Chubbs. Been working on deep breathing. Chevy Fish says, hi Marky0306. Patrick Polson is here, hi Patrick. Chevy Fish, yes, Frank's having fun. First time he's been able to get in the water in ages, and he's so excited. And she says electrolytes are best. Keep Powerade, water, and peanut butter on you at all times. Peanut butter. Yeah, peanut butter's got too many carbs in it, but I really need something. I had, what have I eaten today? I ate a Polish sausage with some onion, and I've been drinking. So really, I've been drinking a lot, actually. But I'm not eating much. Let's see if I can find a water in here. I've got one, but it's not cold. It's a little cold, but I don't think I can open it. Weasel to death glory. I can't open it. One-handed is really a pain. I said, he'll be back, Terminator style. Sir Father Fish is epic. I appreciate it, Lee. What else is cooking here? oh yeah i that i simply hit the wrong button don't know quite how i did that anyway well that was interesting so we've got a bunch of black neocaridina that's pretty neat now i need to take seriously trying to get a colony of them going you know what i might do is put them in with my elasoma they'll eat the babies but i will get more big ones and that'll be cool yeah peanut butter is high in protein and sugars it usually knocks my my uh blood sugar into a cocked hat so i try not to do peanut butter sue says i sometimes hit the wrong button oh don't we all don't we all leave and mary pet said oh i thought i missed you but you didn't miss me but you thought you missed me but you didn't miss me but you thought you missed me you thought you lost me but you didn't lose me because here i am you'll never lose me Mary Page Chattanooga ed is here eventually frank will show up soaking wet i think he thinks he's got a pair of pants here otherwise he'll just be soaking wet all right so what time is it i don't know i can't tell let's see i can tell i can look at frank's phone no i can't look at frank's phone because in my pocket and i can't get into my pocket because it's got everything that's precious to him in it jim said that oh ---- i just dropped his phone i don't know where it dropped oh it's gotten bad it's gotten hopeless i think i need to um if i open the door it'll fall on the ground and hit the road and break so i can't do that 11 30. what time is it somebody tell me what time it is 21 36 here really 9 30 36 is that right hmm i thought it and here you are see that's all you have to do is think it i did that yesterday was it yesterday or the day before day before i was thinking about john john fish john's been on it's been a while he's gonna come on again it's sunday afternoon um i thought about him as i was going home right after i had dinner and i called and he was right around the corner having dinner he was 35 40 miles away so he'd come down to see me hit the shop the minute i was gone went out to get dinner and then i called him just as he was finishing dinner so whenever we talked for another hour and we had such a delightful conversation it would have been great fun to record that conversation. It was noteworthy. Any notes, any thoughts on decomposed granite in the aquarium? Decomposed granite. Decomposed granite. It's called sand. Well, that's silica. Decomposed granite's got to be inert. I'm not sure I know what you're talking about decomposed granite you don't mean crushed granite you mean rotten granite granite that has well decomposed as you said never had the experience don't really know 338 tallahassee time chevy fish says tallahassee you're not it's really early i thought it was much later 340 so we got a while which had new guns had trouble with this truck late in england i'm waiting for my bedtime story how about you recite recite the whole of shrek i i don't know that story crushed granite well crushed granite crushed granite would be fine it'll be totally inert totally totally decomposed there's something else though i've seen that decomposed there are different things that decompose. But I wasn't aware that granite was one of them. I suppose ultimately everything does. What have you found so far? Mostly near Caridina. That's kind of what we came for. And that's really what he's spent his time catching. Plus some nice plants. I think we'll have some pretty cool plants. Chad's making a phone call to his mechanic. All right, I'm running out of gas here. Lee wants a story. God, I don't do stories on command. They just kind of come up. They sort of flow. They sort of come out of me like some kind of, some kind of vapor, some kind of spirit. They come and there's a story. So, but nothing is coming up. Vroom, vroom. Nothing. No story. Nothing. Vroom, vroom. Not getting it. 240. Got it. You want some, he says. Chubbs wants some. Mary Poppin in to see what y'all up to. Not a lot. Story time. Sam Dam says. Alright, give me a topic. How's that? I need a topic. I need a story topic. And I don't want to hear Shrek. Because I don't know for Shrek. You are the story, Father Fish. Funny guy, you said that. Mary Payne said that. Yeah, it's probably true, actually, isn't it? Oh, well, I don't know. Story. Think of a story. The kind of stories I think of, of a personal nature, are too embarrassing to tell. They're stories of failure, of crushing defeat, of agony. me. They're stories of misery and pain, horror, toil, terror. Stories that do not bear repeating. Stories so filled with angst and sadness and brokenness that they are not worthy of repetition. So many, many, many, many, many stories. Tell me a story. Tell a story. Tell a story. Before I go to bed. You promised me, you said you would. You gotta give in, so I'll be good. Then I'll go to bed. Go to bed, Lee. Go to bed. Story of the biggest fish I ever caught. Well now. I've never caught a really big fish. Biggest fish I ever caught. I used to go fishing with my grandparents. These were my mother's parents. My grandfather, Tom, lived on the water. He was a waterman and a farmer and an herbalist and an orchardist. He was a wonderful man. My grandfather, Tom, worked for Glenn L. Martin during the Second World War, and he was responsible for making all of the tools. He ran the tool and die shop at Glenn L. Martin, all of the tools that were used to build all of the war planes that Glenn L. Martin made that flew in the Second World War. Well, when that was all over, like a lot of men and women, once the war was over, they were done with it. So he decided to go back to his roots and buy a little farm in the most remote place he could find in Maryland on the eastern shore. So he and his brother, he was the oldest of 12, six boys and six girls. He and his next oldest brother, George, started looking around. One Sunday morning, they were on an island. An island out in the middle of the bay. I mean, it was an island. Separated on the east side by a small bridge that went over a channel. Separated on the west side by miles and miles of bay. there was a ferry that took them to the island so that day that saturday all day they spent roaming around the island looking for a piece of property on sunday morning they went to a little local inn and they were having breakfast and there sitting at the bar was an old farmer bitching and moaning and whining and complaining beyond words about his horrid lot in life being stuck with this lousy piece of dirt that he could not grow anything on. Well, George and Tom sidled up to him and started talking and told them why they were looking for just such a place and how big was it and where was it and was it near the water and on and on he said come on i'll take a look at it he was a few sheets beyond the wind so they drove about three miles to this little dirt road opened up onto about a 500 acre farm sitting on a point of land in the middle of what is now known as Cox Neck Creek they bought it they gave them the money they bought it they bought it that day they bought it and then they surveyed it they found five miles of waterfront five miles in and out every little cove it was astounding well my grandfather then contacted his brothers and sisters and offered them a piece of the pie six of them refused six of them happily agreed and they started holding meetings as to what they were going to do with this find well George george was a fancy boy george always had a big fancy boat smoked a big fancy cigar that's not true but it fits the persona worked for SK Meats as a sales rep sold hot dogs always had good hot dogs he wanted to have an inn he wanted to build an inn that people could come to and visit where he could be and my grandfather said i'm back anyway my grandmother said yes george i know you'll be out front hobnobbing with all the guests and Lena Gordon's wife, Tom's wife his name was Thomas Gordon, my brother was named after him, Thomas Gordon, Tom said, and I'll be under the building fixing the broken pipes and Lida will be out in the kitchen sweating over the dinners and you'll be out having a grand old time being the man of the hour, no George we're not going to do that, what we're going to do is sell lots so that's what they did, they sold lots, now the very first lot they sold was one acre sitting fairly high on a little point of land where no house had ever been built and the lot alone sold for enough to pay off the whole farm, so they started in the black lived there, that was 1943, 44 Within two years, 45, it was after the war, might have been 46, it was just after the war. Within two years, the state of Maryland, guess what, was building, guess what, a bridge from Annapolis to Kent Island. It's now the heaviest traveled route in the state of Maryland. And you would not know, pretty little farm country state island. Cox, yeah. What is it called? My brain just went out the window. What's it, a Kent Island? Kent Island. So I went, my daughter lives there today. She lives in the oldest house on Kent Island. It was built in about 1780 and was commandeered by the British when they were, in 1812, when they were attacking Baltimore Harbor. That was Francis Scott Key era stuff. We've never taken a meter around the yard to find coins and buttons and buckles and the like, but I'm sure it's loaded. anyway so that's my story i wound up buying a piece of uh i bought my grandfather's house when he could no longer stay there and i lived in it for about 15 years until my life went totally kaput that's the tragedy and the terror i was discussing earlier um and sold it for a tidy profit that subsequently disappeared and here i am selling fish in florida and talking to all my good friends on youtube about the wonders of father fish's fantasy life so is that enough story for you lee he says stuff mary poppins stuff Shrek stuff the sound of music this is a story if ever there was one I am it what's the word encapsulated oh thank you I don't think that means what you think it means I noticed their father fish had it in them I just had to hook them oh dear thank you Lee thank you all what time is it do we need to move along here what do we do we don't want to be stepping on toes. Should I rinse the sand I picked from the local creek? No, I would not. Just use it as is and it will bring all the life from that creek into your tank. What's the difference between a farmer and a puppy? Oh dear God, Punchy, the difference between a farmer and a puppy. Tell us please, what is the difference if there is one between a farmer and a puppy? a puppy grows up and quits whining mostly yeah i expect i expect have you ever had a hard time keeping fish from a did and keep plants alive from did i missed the import of that Andre tell a story on how have you ever had a hard time keeping fish from dying deep and did oh and did keep plants keeping fish and then we're able to keep plants alive no not really i find if i have a tank with lots of healthy plants it'll have a lot of healthy fish they just kind of go hand in hand i know you have more to tell so much more thank you for sharing Bill i appreciate you Bye cowboy, song nailed it. You're happy now. Lovely, Mary Page. I love you too. Love all you guys. We done? Leave. Encapsulate it. Oh here, I'm going to get a lesson now. To show or express the main idea or quality of something in a brief way. To completely cover something, especially so that it will not touch anything else. Okay, have I ever been noodling? Not for catfish. I've noodled for other stuff. In truth, I noodle in my tanks every day because I'm always catching fish by hand. I find it's more gentle. particularly fish like bettas everybody in our fish fam thank you all for helping welcoming me in Andre Scott love you too father fish all right i think we did it four o'clock virginia time yeah we did it we're good and frank's back there's frank back there putting the buckets in i gotta go back going back to get two more buckets in the net all right we're good what's that oh lovely pretty so we got a lot of plants he's been uh we're gonna have a lot of stuff take back i think we'll get something to eat and go back to the shop and maybe i'll plug back in a little later take a look at some of the stuff we got there he goes there he goes thank you guys love you all counting down ten nine eight seven six five four see if anybody's counting three lurking but thanks for the stream who said that don't know who said that gnarly fish tank everybody's standing up three one three two thanks father fish and prick thanks mods stay hydrated this is chevy fish stay safe everybody thank you to all the wonderful mods you guys are great tommy dendi's here hi tommy good to see you we're working on it tommy i'm gonna get there we're getting into story mode here i may have to give up the notion of trying to do this with a dutch accent oh my god you got a whole bunch more orchids african orchids african orchids might not be natives very cold all right we are done we are down we are out of here bye everybody stay blessed mary page bless you all take care bye bye now see you soon