Scuba’s New Gig & He Goes To Hawaii, and Morgan’s Road Trip Up North

Morgan & Scuba are fresh off their vacations! Scuba Steve just started his new rock show so we hear how things are going & if he’s keeping up with his sleep. Scuba also details his Hawaii trip with his family and his favorite island to go to. Morgan talks about her road trip and itinerary to Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan, Part one.
I hang a scene with a member of the show.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's up, everybody?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Happy weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Scoobs is joining me or as you know him, Scooba.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Is deeve yea.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
What is this the question answer? Or is this the
talking one?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
No, we're talking.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
We're talking.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I've foreseen how things are going.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Okay, I need updates?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, I got it for you.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
You have your new show.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Can hold it for a minute.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I feel like that was gonna go a while. How's
it going.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
So far? So good. I think it's great. It's you know,
working things out. Mostly been focused on like connecting with
the community and taking calls because a lot of shows
don't do that anymore, and because it's mostly because people
are all over the place and recording from different places
and whatever, and so I was like, let me just
go back to the basics of radio, especially because it's
a rock station, is classic rock and they like old

(00:59):
school radio, and that was kind of just founded on
the connection and phone call. So I was like, let
me just go day one, do the basics. Play music.
I even picked some songs and throw them in take
like legitimate requests, which my program director who's the boss,
hasn't said anything yet, so he's like this so far yeah, yeah,
So I think he's fine with that. But I think

(01:20):
just creating that connection and taking phone calls has been
the best formula so far. I had my first.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Guest on Chase Matthew.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah. He texted me week one. He was like, dude,
you're going live and I was like yeah. He's like, so, dude,
I'd love to come in and take phone calls with
you and hang out. I was like, all right, you
just let me know what date works. And so yeah,
he came in and we hung out for an hour
and a half. We took phone calls, We played one
of his favorite songs growing up. We prank called his dad,
we did it. We played a game. Yeah it was fine. Yeah, Yeah,
that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Chase is such a good dude.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Does he like rock music too?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I would assume, oh, yeah, he's from Nashville. His dad
used to be in like a classic rock type band, Oka,
and so yeah, he has roots in the city, which
I think is cool because it's a local show, local station,
and he likes rock music. So it just made sense
for me to have him on.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
The show, and you're calling it the Scuba Steve Show,
Scooba Steve.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I thought about some other names, and I even pitched
some ideas, and people like, no, your name itself is
a thing, so just call it that. And I was like,
I kind of wanted to call it something else and
not have my name attached to it for many different reasons.
But then they'd be like, no, no, just just go with
Scuba Steve Show'm all right, so that's what.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
It is, okay with Steve's show. Are you sleeping well, Like,
how is the sleep going at this moment in time.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
So the good thing was the first couple of weeks
when I started it, my family was in San Francisco,
so it was just me by myself here. So for me,
it was easier because I didn't have to worry about
taking care of the kids and you know, being involved
with the family and my wife and everything.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, so you had like an adjustment period, yes, So
it was great because I got to hit the ground
running pretty hard.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And so what I would do is I would do
this morning show with you guys, and then I would
go home. I'd take like a thirty minute power nap.
Then I would have a light dinner, and I'd come
right back and do it again. Yeah, I get here
around like six thirty Central time, and then I'd be
here until after it's over, after ten o'clock.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Then I go home doing it fully live. Is that
the goal? And that's the plan.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's the plan, at least for now. It's a little
tough because it is nights. At some point I want
to shift the time earlier. It's like an afternoon slaught
or something, so right.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
After working for the show. I also don't know if
that's also your plan to keep doing both. Ideally, I
would think you just want to do your show.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean long term. And I've talked to this
with Bobby. It's not that's the first person I went to.
I don't know if we ever talked about this. Is
I went to him because, you know, one, I have
a lot of trust and faith in him, and I
also envy someone like him who is kind of like
similar roots, you know, trying to achieve something that's a
dream and going for it. And then he achieved the dream,

(03:52):
and so I'm like, all right, And I know I've
remember burned bridges in my past from any of my
previous jobs, within this radio industry and shows, and so
I I've always seen a better benefit as a human
to just have the people around you also support you
and be there for you, versus being like, screw you,
I'm gonna do to my own and not tell you
about it. I've seen people do that and it doesn't
work out, and so I've learned from the people around me,
like it's better to just have people on your side,

(04:14):
and why not? You know what does that hurt? So
I went to him first, like a year and a
half ago, and I told him what my idea was,
and he's like, all right, well if we go forward
on this. He goes, you got to commit, like this
is this is it? And I was like, and I
knew there was a hole in the rock lane. There
aren't many people aspiring to be rock personalities. I feel
like everyone's so focused on country and top forty pop

(04:34):
and all that, and so I was like, well, I'm
a rock kid. I grew up on rock. I used
to be in a rock band.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I was going to say, you have the rock vibes
in general too, like you literally did scream Oh exactly. Yeah.
I don't think there's anybody that could be more rock
centric than you.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, and I got into radio to get my band
on the radio. So it's like it's just a full
circle moment. And so I went to him for support, advice, ideas, whatever,
and he's like, look, i'll help you almost like a
mentor and coaching and how to and what to do
and how to do this. And it wasn't easy. I mean,
it's been a nineteen twenty year journey in general to
get to this point. And then it was a solid
year of working with him in the company to figure
out how and where and what we can do. And

(05:11):
then finally there was like, all right, we're gonna do it.
We're gonna put you on knights. And it's the station
here in Nashville, uh one oh five nine The Rock,
And they're like, we'll put you on nights. We'll see
how it goes. There definitely is a need for rock
personalities and the I guess the Bobby Bones or the
Ryan Seacrest of that format is the big show, Big
Show John Borne barely. They've been around forever. I used

(05:31):
to listen to them growing up and I love them,
but they're now at you know, they're at the they're
at the Sunset. So they've been around for thirty plus years,
and you know, they used to have hundreds of affiliates
and now they're down to a smaller number than they
used to have. Its just go. They're older and they're
about to retire, and so I'm like, man, there's an
opportunity here. I need to jump on it. You know,
I'm not even I'm not I'm not old, I'm young.

(05:52):
So I'm like, I'm also jump on it. I'm never
gonna say a.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Like, sure, you're young, you have no idea exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I'm a vampire. I'm always thirty seven. So it's like,
I don't know. So I was like, this, this is
an opportunity, and if I don't jump on it now,
then it'll go to somebody else and I'll be sitting
there going like why the hell did I just speak up?
And So, to answer your question long winded, my long
term goal, yes, is to eventually have my own show
and do my own thing and peel away at some point.
I don't know what that'll be. A year, two years,
three years for you, I don't know, but I do

(06:20):
want to do my own show and I have the
full support of Bobby and the company to work towards that.
So I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
That's awesome. I mean you're setting your future self up
for success and that's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, and I'm chasing my dream. This has been a
dream I've been going after for almost twenty years. And
I kind of did the reverse way where everyone's so
gung hod, like I gotta be on the air, want
I want to show, and I was like, well, I
want that, but I also understand the value in learning
everything about the business and then when you're ready for it,
then you're ready for it. Kind of you told me
off air one time, it's like, hey, don't be waiting around, like,

(06:52):
get yourself ready for it. I'm like, well, yes I have,
but I see what you're saying, NA should really get
ready for it. So I started planning out logos and
ideas and whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
So then when this time came, you were ready.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah. So you're also a huge instrument in this process
of like, because I could have just sat there and
then they said hey, in one week you're starting, and
I'd be like, oh crap.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I didn't even like, well you had a really frush
time period, because I think something that's really easy to
get lost in when you're chasing dreams, especially in the
entertainment yeastry in general, you're grinding for a really long time.
And you were grinding for a really long time trying
to figure out what this was going to look like
and trying to get answers and just understanding, and I
think there was a period of time where it was

(07:31):
super frustrating for you. And I went through something similar
with doing my podcast, and I was like, Okay, well,
at the worst case scenario, I just need to be
ready whenever it is finally time. Yeah, And it helped
me so much that that felt like it was important
for you to also have that information, and that was
the only way I even knew, right, I mean, but
it was learning that, like so much of the grind
is in the sit and wait, which is not fun no, because.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
It feels even longer than the grind to getting to
that point like that, that one year felt like twenty
plus years, because I'm like, oh my god, I done everything,
I'm ready. Why are we not just doing this already?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah? And when you look at it like you are ready,
like mentally, physically, emotionally, but like all of the assets
and things you need for it to be a full
like the next day launch. I was like, okay, maybe
I'm not one hundred percent ready. So that's what prepared me.
But I'm excited for you that you had all of
that because it also probably allowed you to brainstorm for
yourself and figure out what do I actually want this

(08:24):
to look like instead of having to last minute be
like okay, let me throw together logo, let me do
this and that. Yeah, you've actually had a.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Plan, had some time, and then officially got a date.
And I was very cool. Now I spent the last
six months whatever we're figuring that out and that's okay.
Now I got two weeks to then take that and
then really polish it to a certain degree to what
it is, and yeah, it's it's here, it's happening.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
What does it feel like after so many years because
you mentioned a little bit, but like you after twenty
plus years, Yeah, this moment.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Is finally here and it's happening. What does that like
feel like?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Especially the first show and you're like, Okay, this is
no longer just a conversation. I've been working for this.
That first show happens, on's like you're feeling that you're
having in this whole experience.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I think part of me, the sick and twisted side
of me, is like it's like, oh, this is only
lasts a couple weeks, is going to fail security exactly.
You're like just whatever, dude, who cares? This isn't going
to last. But then the like the real truth side
of me is like, oh my god, like here we are,
like holy crap. And I actually wasn't even nervous going
into it the first day because I was talking to
my wife and she wasn't even here. She was in

(09:29):
San Francisco, and normally I have her with me to
be like, talk me off the ledge and give me
a hug and just kind of like push me forward,
like you're being stupid, get out there and do it.
You trained your whole life for this crap. What do
you what? And so, because it's been so long, and
it really hit me this week when I had Chasing
Studio and we were talking off air about the twenty

(09:50):
years and his management and you know, he's younger in
this industry, and I think they hear and he's like,
you've been doing this for like twenty years. He looked
at me, and they're like and his two guys back
there were like, see, like it takes time, and He's like,
holy crap, And I was like, yeah, man, I didn't
just wake up a couple of days ago and I
was like I think I'm gonna do this, or even
a few years or five years, ten years. Like it
was a grind of learning everything from being a promotions

(10:11):
person to being learning sales, to learning the production side
of things and being an intern, I mean all the
way up in all the steps. So I think because
I had all that behind me, and I was like, Okay,
I'm confident because I know I can do everything and
I have done everything. So that was what kind of
gave me this feeling. I guess the overall the key
word I would say is it gave me. I had
peace going into it, like oh yeah, I could do this.

(10:33):
I wasn't even nervous. I didn't even have like there's
some moments where you get like that feeling your stomach
where you can't even breathe and you still get through it.
But I didn't even have that because I was just like, oh,
I feel at peace because I know this is what
I'm supposed to be doing and I've trained my whole
life for it. I've been working out for this, and
this is my chance to do it, and I'm going
to do how I want to do it. And if
things fail, it's whatever. I'll just try to try a

(10:55):
different way or try something else out. And I've also
even had the support too of you know, we talked
about Bob, but also with the support of the people
here in the local market of you know, being like, hey, dude,
just it's nights. You can do whatever the hell you want.
You could within the within.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Reasons say yeah, don't yeah, I don't you know, break
some laws.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, don't say things like.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
I just kidding, like you like to drop here.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
On words, none of that. But you can be a
little bit more risky with it. You can try more things,
you know. You can talk to the callers, you know,
and then when I talk to a caller, and we
may talk on air for ninety seconds two minutes, but
then off air, it's eight to ten more minutes of
just building relationships and just figuring whose people are and
where they're at and what they're doing, and just kind
of figuring out the audience. So again, I think the

(11:39):
overall theme of it is just at peace because it
feels right, you know.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, Oh I love that. I love that that's what
you're giving to experience because it's always it's crazy to
think about you get to that mountaintop and you just
wonder what it would be like, you know, like when
you're chasing it for so long and now you're finally here.
Oh yeah, and you're at like your peak. Yeah, peak
is happening in this moment, but it's.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
The beginning of the peak now because now there's more
goals within it of you know, I don't want to
do a show a boy myself. I've always been a
part of a morning show and a part of a cast.
So I want to build my own show and build
my own cast and have people defeat off of and
have the different personalities and that kind of stuff, and
then obviously take on more markets and build the show
to be you know, based out of Nashville or wherever

(12:22):
I end up living, but it live across the globe
is the long term goal.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I'm excited for you too. But this is awesome. Yeah,
it does feel like we've been talking about it for
years now, but like off air and not you know,
on best pit. But I'm really excited for you.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
This is exciting. We are in rock era, scoob Stee.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Scooba Steve Knights or Scoobs Rock, Scoobs Rock.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I like that, Scoobs Rock, Scoobs Rock. That should be the.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Name Scoobs Rock. And then something now, another thing too.
Now is like figuring out another thing that makes you
more I guess credible within the company. It's revenue. So
now I'm also striving to figure out, you know, to
make money, and I like money. Hav to make money
for them and for myself and that kind of thing,
because you know, it doesn't pay a whole lot, but
I'm not worried about to pay because it's not about
that for me at this moment. It's more about getting it,
and I got it and everything else will come after that. Yeah.

(13:11):
And I think my message to you is not so
you but you listening is you're like me. It's like
it's dreams that they are a thing. You should chase it,
whether it be you may think it's silly, stupid, small, whatever,
but if it's your dream, you should chase it however
you can, and however you want. You only get to
live here on this lot, on this Earth at least

(13:32):
I know of. Unless you're reincarnated, you only get one
shot to do this crap, So why not just do it?
And it doesn't matter your age, you know, like Steve Corell,
you'll grind it at acting and finally really made it
in his late thirties early forties. You know, he didn't
make it when he was ten. He wasn't a childhood actor.
He had small roles here and there that again got
him to where he needed to be. But then he
finally got that real big break with doing the Office,

(13:53):
which then snowball into movies and other things. So there
is no age to your dream. It's just you know,
can you chase it? Do you have the you still have?
Do you want it that bad? You know?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's funny. I had just posted a clip from the
podcast episode I did with all the Seniors, and I
was talking to Sandra. She's eighty three years old and
I think she's eighty four now. But she always wanted
to be an author. That was always her goal. And
she was very big in like education, and she was
a teacher and all these things. Yeah, well, at eighty

(14:25):
three years old, she published her first book and she's
about to publish her second one at now eighty four.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, and just hearing her.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Talk about that truly gave me so much life because
when you think about the way that we've put timelines
on people like you have to do this this and
this by this age and that age and this age,
when truthfully, as long as you're here and you're just
doing all the things that you want to do, there
is not a timeline that actually matters. If you accomplish
all the things that you want to accomplish, that is

(14:53):
the timeline. Yeah, there's no age, there is no certain like,
sure society believes in certain things, but.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
That doesn't mean you have to exactly. Yeah, because if.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Sandra did, Sarah Andrew never would have been a published
author at eighty three years old. If you listened to that,
you would have never had your own show on a
rock station.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
So I think it's cool to look at life from
that perspective. So it's funny you say that, it just
is super frind of mine for me lately listening to
her and now listening to you, it's like a double whammy.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh yeah, totally. Yeah. Everyone's dreams comes when they come,
and but she trained her whole life. She was in education,
so it just made sense in writing. You could write
whenever at any age, really, and then she just needed
that one push and then she finally did it. And
that's really cool.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
See it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
That not matter, It does not, it's just a number.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Okay, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.
All right, Scooball, let's talk vacation. I know you went
to Hawaii on a different timeline ours, but I don't
think you've been on best fits since you went to Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I don't think so. I think last time we talked,
I was about to go that way, yeah, or that
I think it was going that weekend, I was going, Yeah,
we had.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Just like talked and you were like, okay, we might
do all this. So I want to talk about both
of our vacations that week. So tell me about Hawaii.
Would you guys actually end up doing?

Speaker 1 (16:01):
So we went to Kawaii, which is when we go
to every time. It's that furthest Island they call it
the they call the Garden Island orever, the Island of
Paradise or whatever, because it's so lush.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's like, does it look like the island in Mowana, Mowana, Yeah,
I believe so, yes, yeah, where it's more.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
It's definitely much more rule and more chill, Like they
have roosters running around everywhere. Yeah, country music is in
every restaurant, bar, hotel, like everyone. It's almost the way
I would describe it is a small town outside of Nashville,
but on an island because everyone, and it has a
Costco and a Walmart.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
So, but there's no likenest seriously, because you go to
a Wahu, which Honolulu is at, that's where the capitol is.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's like it's like Miami. There's massive skyscrapers, there's a
huge mall, there's all the big chains there there. You know,
it's the Waikiki Beach. It's beautiful, but it's it's just
a little bit too much if you're looking for a
true vacation.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Does Maui fall right under that Maui?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I would say it would probably be maybe then the
third one because then the big island is where like
all like the most of the locals will live where
the volcano's at, and it's more of like the I guess,
like the local.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Island, Isn't it funny? To think about that there's just
a volcano on one of them, I know, right, it's
this whole state, right, and they're separated by islands, but
just only one of those islands holds like this monster volcano.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, well I think you look at the geographics of it,
like underneath the water they may all connect. Yeah, but
like that one comes up higher because of the volcano
and it builds more of the land when it erupts
and stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
I was gonna say where the actual like lava spell
and where it would erupt what happen. But yeah, anyway, so.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's where like all like the town, like the local
local people will live. And then Maui is the next
one where it's a little more you know, more the
next level of chill where there aren't any well now
because the fire, unfortunately it's even less, but there are
like no high rises or none of that kind of stuff.
But there's a lot of money on Maui, yea a resources.
So a lot of like celebs will will go there,

(17:54):
like a listers, A lot a lot of those kind
of people will go to Maui and the islands around Maui.
And then Kawhi is the most chill, most relaxed. That's
where they filmed Jurassic Park back in the nineties. So
it's very lush and green and beautiful and waterfalls, and
there's a beach called the Napoly Coast that you can't
even get to unless, of course, you take a boat
around to it, or you hike to it, which is
like the most deadliest trail I think on the earth

(18:17):
to get to it because of all the landslides and
the steepness of it. But yeah, fun, it's so beautiful.
If you haven't been to Hawaii. Anyone has been to Hawaii,
I always recommend go to Kawaii first, especially because if
you especially if you're looking for a like a trinkle relaxing,
chill vacation, which is what we did. We weren't all
about like we didn't have like anything on the schedule,

(18:38):
really like we gotta be here by ten, I gotta
be here by eleven thirty, and we gotta be here
by no. This is a place where you literally like
I think we're gonna go to I don't know. Let's
go to handle A Bay today, all right, cool, Let's
ride at Handlee Bay and then along the way. Oh
it stop there and get shaved ice. Hey, on the
way back, we'll get that. We'll get poke over there,
or we'll do it's whatever. There isn't any schedule of
any sort. The only thing we had scheduled was on

(18:59):
our last full day, I got us a cabana at
one of the hotels so we can spend the whole
day just chilling on the beach, getting served food and
relaxing and going back and forth from the pool to
the ocean. That was only like real true plan of
the vacation.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Dang, that's impressive. I can't do things that aren't planned,
like I can be spontaneous. Yeah, but I have to
have some version of a plan.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Really Okay, yeah, but this is an you don't want
to plan though.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Well, I think it's because I, like, I want to
see everything. I guess somebody who like really wants to
see all the things that I can possibly see.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm not a very big relaxer.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Okay, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Good at that.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, this island has so much to offer that even
in the thirteen years we've been going there, I still
haven't seen everything. Because there are some places we'll revisit
or we'll discover a new spot or like, hey, I
really want to go to Poi Poo and check out whatever.
I'm like, oh, we have time this time, We'll do
it next time. And there are some things in the
list we want to go back and revisit every time,
like we always do my May Canyon because it's so
cool when every time you go there it's different with

(19:57):
the weather. We like Poypou area because there's some shop
down there, but yeah that you can't go there with
a plane.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
From making a joke there, but yeah, referring from making
a joke about what the name, because I know it's
like is it cool? It's probably a cool name, like
it beats something cool. But yeah, yeah, okay, so give
me your five highlights.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Five highlights, I would say one of them. I've never
known this before ever on a beach. It was the
coolest thing we ever did and were just it was spontaneous.
We're at Hannila Bay and we got there and we
got there late. I think we got there on like
four and sunset was around eight, and then we started
seeing people set up fires on the beach. I was like,
we could do a fire on the beach and they're like, yeah,
everyone's doing it. I was like, all right, hell, yes,
we just started picking up and collecting a bunch of

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dry firewood and we put together with a little makeshift
like survivor style type thing.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah. Like it wasn't set up for you, a free
fires on on a beach.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
No, not at all. No, It's just that we were like,
all right, kids, go around grabbing up. We need dry wood,
so go grab a bunch of dry wood on the beach.
Put in this power here. We dug a little hole
and then I got like coconut shaving for what do
we call, like skin or husk.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Put it down there outside of it, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
It put it down below. I lit it. I had
like a torch type lighter and I lit that up
and then we started putting oxygen to it and adding
more fuel to the flame, and then we had a
freaking fire on the beach. We had never done it before.
It was the coolest thing ever. And we were the
last ones on the beach because it realized I almost
said it.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
You always pulled back.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh oh my god, no one else in the beach.
I think we need to go. And I was like,
oh yeah, the sign said it closes that desk. I
was like, oh crap, you can't see it anymore now
because it's so dark, especially once you put the fire
out there, you can't see a damn thing. So yeah,
we did that. That was that was a major highlight.
Never never did a fire on the beach, and I've
been going to beaches my whole life, grow up in Florida,
in California.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
That feels very movie esque.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
It was like that. Yeah, all the kids are there,
so it was my kids and then my brother in law,
my wife's brother and his kids were there and it
was just it was so cool.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
The other one, I would say, we got to see
why I made a canyon in a way where because
because the weather is always different. So y Ma Canyon
is like the Grand Canyon of the Hawaiian Islands. I
think it maybe be deeper.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I'd spell that.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
I think it's w A Oh my god, why may
I w A E A w A I M the park? Yeah,
state park. Yeah, you had the pay for parking to
go and do the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Oh yeah, for sure. Gives Grand Canyon vibes.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, it was cool because we get to see it
super clear this time, where there have been times where
you go there and it's so foggy you can't see
a single thing, or it's so windy and the sands
hit in your face you can't really enjoy it. But
this time we win. It was crystal clear, no fog,
no wind. And as we're sitting there, we saw these
goats walking up the mountain, like the oh my god,
there's mountainain go mountain goats. I've never seen a mountain

(22:43):
go before. And there's like two or three of them
like walking on this like steep nine to ten pitch,
Like I don't know how they're even doing it, but
they're walking, and I'm like, this is so cool.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's fun. I love wildlife. I think wildlife is just
so cool.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
It's really really cool. Yeah, it was so random. So
I've never seen a goat walk up a mountain, and
there they are a bunch.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Of them and they just scale mountains and You're like, yeah,
how are you doing that?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Without anything at the very top of it, so like
they could easily trip and fall thousands of feet and die,
which I'm sure it happens, Yeah it does.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I've seen videos. I don't know if they actually die,
but like you see them drop and I'm like like
I know people are laughing at this, but like are
they alive? I need to know? Yeah, they never showed
them like the aftermath. Oh yeah, yeah, don't put that online.
I had a thing because there's a video that was
on social media like super viral of sheets like falling
off a mountains and I had like a whole emotional

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moment over them, like are they alive? Yeah, nobody knows?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay. Three three, I would say, I go into near
that area if you keep going up the mountain, there's
a place called it's called Cocaa Lodge. Have it on
my laptop because I always I always wear the hats
and I have the shirts and stuff, and so it's
up at the very top of that mountain, and not
many people know about it because they go to y

(23:57):
Man and they like all right, we've seen it all
and they go back down. But up there, and I've
always wanted to do this with my wife's like, no, we're
not going to do that. We stay at the same
place right rare, but they have cabins up there, and
so we've been going there. We randomly found that I
think eight years ago, and so I make that a
point like whenever we're up there, I want to go
to this place. We go there and we have breakfast
because they have a lodge there you can do breakfast,
and then they have a little gift shop. It's so cool.

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And so it was cool for me because I have
a picture of my son when we first went there
and we only had just my son, and then it
was my son and my daughter, and then now was
my son and my third child, my second daughter her
first time going, And so for me, it was a
cool moment to have the evolution of like, all right,
the first time you were there with one, two, and
now three. And then we brought my wife's family. They

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usually don't come when we go that far out because
it's like an hour and a half from where we
mostly stay, and so they came this time and got
to see it. So that was fun for them to
see it and for us to have all three kids
see it. And we went up there and just spend
like hours just chilling in the park and hanging out
with the roosters and eating good food. So that was fun.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
That is fun. I always love when you find like
just a really random local spot and it's just totally
impromptu and it ends up being one of your favorite places.
Oh yeah, that's cool experience.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
And you tell people what, like I've never heard of that,
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Like good, yeah, you're like okay, you I kind of
want you to because like I needed to stay open
because I really like it. Yeah, also, please don't overwhelm it. Yeah,
I wouldn't be able to go exactly.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I don't want to be oversaturated. And yeah, okay, that
was really cool. And then the fourth one would be
the Cabana Day. That was really really cool or we
just kind of chilled and enjoy that and it was
awesome because it was in a bay areas that they
had a cruise ship in the dock at the moment
we were there, so it was kind of cool to see.
And we stay there all day from morning tonight, so
we got to see the cruise ship leaving and the
whole murmur it was like, so it's so loud. It

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was fun and it was great to swim in the
pool and then the ocean and my kids running back
and forth and enjoying that whole day. Was the last day,
so that was really cool. And then the final.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
One did the kids love being like getting food to
the Cavanda. Yeah, for food, and it was like the
whole experience, like, this is so cool.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
The servant, oh wow, that was awesome.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
I can imagine kids being like this is because I,
as an adult, I'm like kind of cool. I don't
have to move. They just bring me stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
That's pretty said.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I feel really like rich and famous vibes.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Totally.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, after the kids were like, this is amazing.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's amazing. We're putting on the credit card. We're gonna
paint off over the next year.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Really cool but also really so don't get exactly.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
And then so that was fun and then yeah, then
you get the drinks, and stead was the fun part
or the funny part was we were drinking peanut colattus,
which I only would drink on the ocean, and then
my daughter wants to grab the strawberry or pineapple or
whatever it's in there. It's been soaking in and it
really she grabbed it and she's eating the pineapple and
I'm like, oh my god, Okay, my party.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Girl all the time with my parents drinks.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
You're the party girl your family though, right, so my
middle child will be my party girl.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
I'm not looking no, but I would it wasn't like
the fruit though, so because back back when you know,
I was a kid, I don't think they put real
in any of this.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, probably not.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, but I always like to lick the salt off
the road.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Okay, get a little buzz at.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Seven, I like every time because my dad loved to
get like a margarita or something like that. And every
time I would just be like sitting there clicking.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
He's like, where is all my soul?

Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm like, sorry, oh, sorry, you can ask for more
of He's like.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
I was like seven years old. Yeah, all the time.
So you know I turned out fine.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, maybe being a partier, but I turned fine.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, nothing wrong with being a partier.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
That is funny. Okay. Number five and.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Then the final one would be seeing my middle child,
seeing her like finally learning how to swim because we
don't have a pool here and I grew up in Florida,
so swimming for me was like almost like in my DNA.
We would swim from birth on. And then my oldest
son learned a couple of trips ago and how to swim,
and it was just kind of riding a bike he
got back on. I was like, I remember to do

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this and then she had always had to wear the
swimmys and she was like, you know, vocal about I
don't want to wear this, and I'm like, I was like, uh,
you kind of need to still wear it. You haven't
really learned it. So at the beginning of the trip
she wore it a lot, and by the middle of
the trip, towards the end, we started like taking it
off and like whych her how to swim? And of
course she didn't quite get it, but she was getting it.
So that was a cool moment to see her learning

(28:06):
how to swim. And it was like one of those moments.
It was like, oh my god, she's growing up.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
It is that's a huge That's like riding a bike
for the first time. It's when they like they take
their first steps. It's one of those monumental yeah shifts
that happened.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, it really was. It was really cool.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh I love Wait. So was that in the pool
or in the ocean?

Speaker 1 (28:24):
It was in the pool, but then we tried it
in the ocean we went to because all the beaches
there are different as far as like how they are
with the waves depending on just where you're at on
that island. Some of them, it's like it's dangerous because
it's really really really I mean the waves are like
crashing early and crashing hard. So those ones I wouldn't
even let them in the water because it's not strong swimmers.
And the ones that were medium, she always had to

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put her floodies on because what it was. But then
we went to Hannila Bay, which is way more chill
and almost like glass where the waves are not too
bad for the majority of it. It's almost like a
like a sandbar reef type deal for a while that
when I let her take them off, then if she
went further out and I got to put it back on,
you know, because you're still not there with the swimming,
and it's the ocean, so it's like it's a pool

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where I could see her and jump down and grab her.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I was gonna say, I feel like you would be
a little bit more nerve wrecked over that. Yeah, I'm
thinking of the ocean.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yes, ocean.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Ocean scares me. And I know, really swim like I
was on a swim team, okay, and I get scared
of the ocean.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Okay, I don't think about it. I mean I think
I get scared a little more now than I did
when I was a kid, because I had no fear
of anything.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, when you're a kid, you don't there's no rapercushion.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
All the way. We didn't even crab. You could't even
see me. I was so far out.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
No, But when you're an adult and you can look
out into the ocean and you can see nothing on
the other side of it, yeah, I know. That means
it's really far away totally.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
And what is underneath the ocean nobody knows exactly, so
I don't know. I have a conscious now, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I would make sure she'd put them on, just to
make sure she was safe. Just again, because you can't
see the bottom.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
So yeah, yeah, did you guys see any like sharks
or whales or dolphins we see down there at that time.
I know they migrate in different paces.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
But they do a big whale migration. Usually he's in
the winter, like if you were to go in like November, December, January,
I believe that's a big whale time. I didn't see
these sharks. We saw a lot of fish. There was dogs.
At one of the beaches we went to, going out
towards a nine beach. It was a niny beach, but
one of the ones around near Prince Princeville area. Some
guy brought his dogs and uh, and I was like, well,

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they're having so much fun in the water, and I realized, oh,
they're they're hunting for squid and fish. And then they
would they would put their face down and then I
was like, oh my god, he just caught a squid.
And then one of me would catch a squid, but
he like didn't fully catch it, but he like killed
it or stunned it. So I picked it up for
him and I fed him squid. So that was kind
of cool to hold. I've never held them before.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Squid squirt, Like, don't they like squirt like.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
A good stuff. Yeah, but it didn't swirt ink or
if it did, I didn't see it. So that was
kind of cool. Yeah, it was like like as a
defense mechanism, but maybe it didn't. I don't know, but yeah,
I was We saw squid, We saw we saw turtles. Yeah, turtles,
we saw those. Usually they randomly swim by, I'll see them.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
One of my one of my coolest things and is
when we were down in Hawaii, when we went to Maui.
I've only been one time. Okay, but we snorkeled and
I got to be right next to like three different
sea turtles.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's cool. And they were so big, they're massive.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, of course we need touch them.
You're not supposed to do, even though like they come
right up to you. But they were so cool. It
was it was such an I felt like I was
in finding Nemo, like with all the turtles.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Like yeah, it felt like that moment and I was.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Like, I just want to give you a fin.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
I know, it's so cool that there's one beach where
we were going to go to, but then we didn't
have time where it was turtle season to where there's
a specific beach. I think they'd call it turtle beach
where they lay all their eggs, and at that moment,
that's where all the babies were going into the ocean.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Be so cool.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
I know, again, there's so much to see that you
can't fit it all in. It was when I was like, oh,
we should go see that because it is turtle season
and this didn't work out well next year exactly.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, you just swap one of the things you go
for turtle season exactly. That would be really cool to see,
it'd be cool.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I think next year that we're doing Disneyland. Maybe.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Oh, you guys are not going to do your tradition
old Hawaiian.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, well we usually do every other year. Ok So,
like we do it every other year because then the
second year or the other year we end up doing
something like a Disney or a Disneyland or World or something.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Okay. Yeah, well I'm gonna be going to on on
our like vacation at a later point. Yeah, the New Universal.
Yeah I heard.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Ah, I know, I'm so excited, so pumped.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Okay, but we got to talk about this vacation. So
we're gonna take a quick break ride back Scooba. Steve,
we drove over a day and one hour on this
entire road trip.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I saw you were all up and down the freaking country.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
And I don't think listen when I put together like
little itinerary ideas. Yeah, I just think about A to B. Okay,
I don't really think about like A all the way
back to f Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, I know
I got a following in I'm like, okay, well A
to B was Nashville to Chicago. Okay, seven hours not
bad We're in Chicago for two days but technically three
nights two days. And I love Chicago. I'd never been so,

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oh my.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
God, Try was one of my favorite cities.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
I so much good food. Yes, I don't think I
can ever eat pizza again because I had so much pizza. Yeah, like,
because everybody gave you all these different deep dish things.
I'm like, oh well, I have to try as many
as like yeah, And Luminais was a one that we
didn't make. We had three on our list. We had Piquads, Illuminatis,
and Gino's East okay, and those were like our three,
and Luminis was me the last one that I literally

(33:23):
looked at my boyfriend last night. I was like, no more,
I have stuff. But Ginos East, between all of them,
was my favorite so far. I loved it. The homemade
like crust was insane, but I just loved the river walk.
I didn't expect that river to be so clear.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh yeah, yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
It's insane.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
And then that lake is it feels like an ocean
because it's so freaking big. It's vast, and there's a beach.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Like we walked up and down. You're literally on a beach.
Oh yeah, no, idea in Chicago is a city of runners.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, a lot of people are running and walking. Oh my,
oh yeah, big time.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
You can't even go anywhere. There's like fifty thousand people
running all the time.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
And then a lot of people that they love to
drink there. Does he even in the grocery stores. I
don't know if you went to a grocery store, no,
but the grocery stores they have a bar in the
grocery store. They do two things. So I forgot the
name of the grocery store because my friend David Bone
I think he met him once maybe. Anyways, he moved
to Chicago, was supposed to just be there for a
couple of years, and ended up living there for almost
ten years because he loved it so much. So there's

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a grocery store he took us to, and you can
go grocery shopping, but before you start grocery shopping, you
can stop at a bar and grab a beer. And
they even have a cup holder on the shopping carts
to put your beer, so you can drink while you're shopping.
And then while you're shopping at the end you can
get like if you want steak or whatever. You can
bring that steak back to that bar and they'll cook
your steak and have more beer while you're at the

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grocery store. That's crazy, the coolest thing ever.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, Chicago's wild. It is wild, like I love I
love the vibes. I don't think I could live there.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
It really it's really gold.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah. That was really cold, and just I don't I
just don't think at this point. I think had I
moved there instead of Nashville in my early twenties, I
think I could have done. I don't know. At this
point in my life, I'm like a big city girl.
I think I've gone out of that range. I really
liked the idea of like being close to the city
to go and have the option, but not living in it.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, because Nashville is like a mid city, but Chicago's
like a big yeah, big city.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
But I loved it like I love New York, and
I was like, this would be so cool to live here. Yeah,
it's that vibe. And we had ate at a dinner
place called Travoli Tavern, which looks so European. We sat
out on the patty of the Christmas lights up everywhere
and it felt like I was back in Paris and Barcelona,
and I was like, this is this is so cool.
But we're in Chicago and then you walk around the
corner and you get ice cream or deep dish pizza

(35:37):
and yeah, it was so cool. So we selled our
first off with Chicago. Loved it. We did all the
things too. We saw the bean and.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
You may season see that big ass ma SE's it's there.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think we saw it. We didn't go in. It
was near the bean, Okay, we were walking with Remy.
We also saw he went in the Starbucks big Star
reserve place thing. I'm not a coffee drinker, but he
went and he said it was really cool.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Did you see tower and all that Hancock Tower?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Is that the one where you see at the very
top you see the whole city.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, it's like a it's like an elevator. We it's
such a it's almost like the Empire State Building we have.
I think it's the transfer elevators because it's such a
large tower.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
No, you know, I did not. So I did the
Empire State Building in New York and I also did
in Seattle the Needle The Needle, and both the times
I was like, okay, this is fine. Yeah, but I
wasn't like I need to do that again.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
But Sears Tower is one too where you can walk
out on like a glass block and if you walk out,
you look down and then there is the floor.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Okay, that's how the needle is.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Okay, they have Okay, yeah it did.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
I don't think you like lean like you do on that. Yeah,
this one in.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Chicago, but similar vibe.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Okay, so I didn't really have.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
A deep die an like I.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
See the city, this is cool.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
True.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Yeah, so we did that. Then we drove all the
way up to two Harbors up.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Did you go to a Cubs game or see Wriggley Field?

Speaker 3 (36:50):
We went out in wrigley Field. Okay, so we were
bopping around bars over there, and we saw wrigley Field
like we saw it at night, which was really cool.
Everything's all lit up. Then we didn't go to a game.
Another thing, I don't have a deep desire to lunchbok
tailed at me for that. He said it was an American.
I was like, I hear you at.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
I just know that's what one doesn't care about.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
He loves sports like I think. Had we like if
there was a game or something and it worked out, Yeah,
he'd go, but it wasn't like a he was like,
I have to do this. It's not one of his teams.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Okay, But it was cool to see. We did go
out and Rileyville is really cool to go out in.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, there's a lot of cool fun bars around everything.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, we were it was bumping everywhere.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
And then so from there we went to Two Harbor's, Minnesota,
and that was like our first stop. And we went
basically all up the coast of it's called the North
Shore of Minnesota, basically all the way to Graham Ray,
which is the entire like north coastline of this And
we were in Graham Murray. We were like fifteen miles
from Canada. How high like north it all is. Yeah,

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I had no idea that this existed in Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah, I've never been there myself either.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, Like all I all you really hear about is
like the mall of America.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Yeah, Minnesota, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Like that's what you hear about.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Or it's like super cold.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
The Prince is from there, yeah, and they have like.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
The northern accents is a and.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah all yeah, like in the Oa's Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
All I've known of Minnesota, and so when I went
up there and we're seeing this, I'm like, I just
had Noah, it looked like I was in Maine or Portland.
Organ the type of coastline with Lake Superior right there. Yeah,
and Lake Superior is monstrous, so you can't see it.
Looks it might as well be an ocean yea. And
the coastline is like a west coast where it's super rocky.

(38:39):
They had a black sand beach that.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
We went to, which was saw pictures that's really cool.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, yeah, like all black, and I don't even think
the pictures did justice because when we.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Walked up, I was like, oh, it's black, like yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Dark, I've seen that. Maui has one of those that
if you saw your Maui the black beach, it's it's
like it's trippy or like what.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Yeah, it throws you off, does Yeah. And it wasn't
like hot on your feet, which also threw me off.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
It's hot cold yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Walking Alva and then we saw it was a really
cool split rock lighthouse, which was like one of our
favorite moments because it's pretty, really pretty old whitehouse and
you are like sitting at the rocks below it, and
it's just like out there doesn't feel real. Yea, yeah
it didn't. And so that was like one of our
favorite stops. And from two harbors we ended up staying
in Grammar Ray and I and Gramm Ray is like

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a place that I like want to own a summerhouse someday.
Like if I ever get a lot of money in
my life, I want to own a house there.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
And a lot of people who live in Chicago will
get like cabins or lake houses out there in Minnesota
or Wisconsin because it is so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
I think everything along Lake Superior is beautiful. Just insane.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Who did most of the driving or do you guys split?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
He did most of it. I think I drove maybe
five hours.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Girl.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
It was only when he got really tired. I was like,
you know, because we were driving the Bronco cool. The
Bronco has adaptive cruise control, which is great for a
road trip. Yeah, and so I was he was like,
this is awesome. He was like, I want to drive.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
I was like, okay, but like it's mine car.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I want to tell too. Yeah you're good. Yeah, I've
seen you drive.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
He does not only one time. So yeah, I know
he did most of it, so it's good. But so yeah,
Grammaray favorite favorite part, like highlight was Gramm Ray. Second
was the Split Rock Lighthouse in like kind of two
Harbor's Ish Minnesota. And then third was Riverwalk Yeah okay,
cool all associated with water, Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. But

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what was cool about, like Gramm Ray is like if
you look to one side, there was mountains and waterfalls,
and then the other side was this whole coastline.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
That's really cool, and you're just like, you're Minnesota. You're
like where am I?

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, And it's just cute little town that's like a
very vibe of like a lake beach town. Okay, and
it's just everything's right there. We went to breweries and
we were having fun hanging out and trying different like
breweries all up and down the coastline. It was just cool.
I just like, Minnesota is now like one of my
favorite places to go. And I just never would have
anticipated it was a.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Cost, because I mean, you're in a different place. How
was it comparative to like here, like Los Angeles or whatever,
more affordable for things like a beer or for sandwiches
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
There were definitely some spots that we went to that
were cheaper and some that was more expensive because it
was a lake town.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Gotcha, ca.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah, So it just depended on where we were at
along that coastline.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
What was gas agaan? I know that's a random question.
If you remember that we.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Were paying like fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
To fill up, Yeah, okay, it's not bad.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
And we get like three fifty whatever the math is
on them, yea. And sometimes the mileage went a lot
better when we were like cruise controlling for a long time.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Yeah, depending if you're going up a hill, downhill, okay, gotcha?

Speaker 3 (41:36):
And all that also mass so there's some times that
it would last longer or whatever.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
And then after Minnesota, did you then come back down.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Or yeah, came all the way back down. We stopped
in Minneapolis because my uncle lives there, so we went
and visited my family for like an hour.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Solem And did you go to them all America? Oh,
damn it.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
I couldn't be the stereotype, you.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Know, Yeah, I want to be the stereo type.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Well, I thought about it as we got Universal and
stuff coming up, Like you know.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
We get the Nickelodeon theme park inside there.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Okay, but that's a youth thing. You love Nickelodeon. Yeah,
that's your whole thing.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
And I had a lot of people who wrote me
and were like, don't do it. It's it's overrated.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Yeah, but they did it though. They got to do it,
so screw them.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Probably that's where it came from.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Yeah, they just they don't they don't like to have fun. Okay.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Probably we didn't stay there. We literally just popped through.
I did get the biggest cinnamon roll beside my face
in Minneapolis that I had seen on Instagram, and it
was so worth the hype. Yeah, al Buns and coffee,
Albun and coffee and this was the most bomb cinnamon
So if you do go to the Mall of America,
you have to go get a cinnamon roll and they

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had and I got chocolate coogie because that also looked
really good. Both bomb.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Okay, all right, cool. On this bucket list of places
that I hope I can go to at some.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Point, Mall of America and ile Bun and Coffee.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
And then yeah, we've stopped back through and we went
to Dubuque, Iowa.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah. Yeah, and Galena, Illinois. They're like right next to
each other, right, across the river and that was really cool.
Ioa also shocked me. It wasn't like my favorite part
of the trip. I more just because it reminded me
a lot of Kansas. There was a lot of cornfields,
but there was so much more to Iowa. Like we
did Mines of Spain hike where these insane rocks are
out there. We also didn't want at Pike's Peak State Park,

(43:12):
which showed you the entire Mississippi like river like out there,
which was a cool view. And seeing the Mississippi River
from that perspective was awesome. So I was shocked how
cool Iowa was, like scenic wise.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
You know how close you were to that Axe murder
house that lunchbox went.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Toill I was out on the mapix Murder House.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
I think it's in Vascilla, Iowa.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Ax Murderer House on a map.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Show me it.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, I'm curious if you were close enough where you
could have stopped by.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
There just for gone and then hey, did you guys
ghost lunch bugs?

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Uh? No, not close enough.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
So they that is in the south west corner.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
We were more in the northeast corner. Gotcha guy, And
like all basically all the way down the border and
then through Illinois back to Saint Louis.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Okay, of the route we came maybe next time you
go there.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I also don't have a deep desire for that one there.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
I wouldn't either, not at all.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
And Galina was really cool Illinois. It's like this cute,
little out of nowhere town in Illinois.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
It's twenty minutes from Dubuke. They're like right next to
each other.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
The Mississippi River is crazy because you can see Wisconsin
at one point and you can see Illinois all while
this time you're on Iowa.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
But did you go over the Mississippi River on a bridge?

Speaker 3 (44:25):
So that's how So we were in Dubuke, Iowa. That's
where we stayed. Yeah, and then we went over the
bridge to go to Galina, Illinois. Okay, because everyone's hyping
up like so this really little town was awesome. It
was there's shops all up and down this huge main street,
and I ate out like a que little ice cream
parlor and.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
I love those kind of places.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Oh, it was so cute, cute small town. If you're
ever driving through there, that was worth the stop for sure. Okay,
And then we came back that's.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
School how long was the drive backwards? So glen Issow
was your last like stop stop and he was straight
from there back to Nashville.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Yeah, which I thought was given me be another seven hours,
but it was nine.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
But you didn't have to drive it.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Suit I did it, and I was like, I really
thought that was sad, and he's like, it's fine, We're
already here. We just have to get home now.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Was there any like when you're doing the road trip
parts of it and you weren't stopping for like cities,
are there any cool? Like I'm so obsessed with like
random gas stations or rest stops along the way because
they always have like weird sodas or snaps or something.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Okay, so this is my shining moment.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Okay, because after going from Chicago to Minnesota, we drove
all through all through Wisconsin. What is Wisconsin known for?

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Cheese?

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Okay? Yeah, he really had to go pee and I'm like, dang,
we have to stop again. And as soon as we
were like pulling off, I'm like, it says cheese and
he's like, okay, well we'll go there, and I'm like, hey, yeah,
we drive up it's cheese, shalet cheese that's awesome, So
of course we went in. Yeah and I bought cheese.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
It was so awesome, like that was like a really
cool pit stop, and I was just like you would
have thought that I just saw the shining like thing
that I've wanted to see mine totally.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
That was Santa Claus right in front of you, right there.
It was what gifts.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
I was shock. I was like, how did I bring
all of this shoes back home?

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Well, cheese and fudge, which is like a lactose intolerance
worst night.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
It is probably not great for me either, but was
so I was in heaven.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Who cares?

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Yeah, that was a really cool bit stop. That's awesome,
And it was cool, like honestly, the whole drive pretty
much besides like really at the beginning and right at
the end, all the rest of that drive was pretty
hilly and scenic and really lushed and green. So it
was a cool drive.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Yeah, it's not that drive you've ever done before, so
it's it's all new. And then which was like, oh,
this is really cool. You get to see all this
undiscovered you.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Well, and when you go from Chicago up to like Minnesota,
you like once you get to Minnesota. Duluth is where
we like, we went out a little bit in Duluth,
but that entire Duluth to gram Ray, which is like
two and a half hours stretch, yeah, is like the
Pacific Coast Highway. But there's okay, yeah, so you're all
along like superior like the whole time.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
That's really cool.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
And that was a cool drive.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
That is really cool. So how many miles do you
put on your Bronco?

Speaker 3 (47:00):
Oh? Over two thousand?

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Okay, wow, okay, yeah it was crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
It so was and le Bronco was awesome to drive. Yeah,
and we had all the like bells and whistles on
that which made the road trip easier. Yeah, my gosh,
it was so good. Like I would love it. I
would recommend it to anybody. I'm I'm wild though, and
I do random yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Road trip sos, like you got that car for this trip?

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Oh yeah, I got a car that would be great
for road trips. Yeah that's what I do.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
That's what Yeah, what' you're known for? Yeah, you're working
the road trip girl exactly.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
All right, we're gonna get out of here. But it's good.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Thanks for sharing yoursh.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah, appreciate it. Thanks for sharing yours and.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
I'm excited about this new season of life for you.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Me too.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Crazy thing's happening, Okay, So tell people where they can
hear that listen to that, Yeah, so they.

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Speaker 3 (48:26):
Scooba is gonna be posting more on social media too,
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