May 27, 2024 • 55 mins
What if I told you that a trolley car mix-up once led to an unforgettable arcade game adventure? Join us as Tex Lafon and I take you back to our frequent visits to San Francisco in the 90s and 2000s, reminiscing about iconic city landmarks and colorful characters like the Bushman. We share tales of culinary discoveries from Little Italy to Chinatown, showcasing the whimsical and unpredictable nature of travel adventures in this beloved city.
Craving a taste of the Caribbean or Mexico? Tune in to hear about my thrilling experiences on a cruise to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and various Mexican ports. Imagine the adrenaline rush of a waterfall trust fall or a zip line ride over a Haitian island. Relive the excitement of street tacos in Puerto Vallarta and witnessing cliff divers in Mazatlan. We also chat about the simpler joys of local treats like marshmallows paired with hot cocoa, bringing a unique cultural flavor to our travel stories.
From the soulful music scene of New Orleans to the serene small towns of Arizona, this episode offers a rich tapestry of travel tales that inspire wanderlust. We reflect on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the joy of rebuilding with Habitat for Humanity, share humorous encounters in Ohio, and spotlight unexpected gems in Baltimore. Our journey continues with scenic drives across the country, highlighting the diverse landscapes and charming local eateries that make travel so rewarding. Don't miss these stories that bring each destination to life with vivid detail and heartfelt experiences.
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D Vaz (00:00):
All right, welcome back to another episode, episode
three of From Hoods to Backwoodspodcast.
I have Tex Lafon here with meand his bug zapper microphone.
From Hoods to Backwoods podcastwelcome to the show.
(00:33):
All right, so we've done ourfair share of traveling here a
bit, so we're just going tocover some places we've been,
what we've experienced and allthat type of fun stuff, kicking
it off here.
Where have you traveled to themost Out of state?
I used to go to San Franciscoon a pretty regular basis
because I have family out thereand that's one of the reasons I
(00:55):
have ties to the Bay Area ingeneral.
So yeah, I'm definitelyfamiliar with San Francisco and
what it was like.
It's different now.
I haven't been back in a while,but what it was like back in
the 90s, especially in 2000s,that's when I spent most of my
time there.
I was going there just aboutevery summer for a while there
(01:19):
and saw the typical stuff.
You know they have touristythings to do there.
Tex LaFon (01:25):
Well, have you seen this one thing in San Francisco?
D Vaz (01:28):
Which thing.
Tex LaFon (01:30):
Well, that's what I'm asking.
D Vaz (01:30):
These nuts.
Tex LaFon (01:32):
No, there's a guy that's called the Bushman.
Have you ever heard of the?
D Vaz (01:37):
Bushman, that doesn't ring a bell.
Tex LaFon (01:39):
Well, there's someone I know that went to San
Francisco and this guy dressesup like a, like a bush, and he
sits on the side and he'll comeout and be like you want to see
my bush, you want to see my bush$10.
You get to see my bush.
D Vaz (01:55):
And that's in San.
Tex LaFon (01:56):
Francisco.
That's where you go, son, butit's true, though.
There's a guy that's called theBushman in San Francisco,
though, and when they told methis story, I couldn't believe
it.
I'm like there's no way in hellI would pay someone $10 to see
someone dressed up like a bushGet out of here, right, I just
think it's funny.
D Vaz (02:12):
Yeah, it's just a story.
I'm not paying for any bush.
Tex LaFon (02:15):
What?
Yeah, I'm just saying it's justfunny when there's a guy
dressed up like a bush.
It's funny.
I'll eat san francisco, son.
D Vaz (02:24):
I'll eat san francisco yeah, it's, it's it's definitely
a kind of a tripped out placegreat, great food.
And you know, again, they havethe fisherman's wharf, which I
try to avoid because a lot, of,a lot of tourists go down there,
but they have like little italy, which has really great food.
I actually have a story aboutthat.
I went to visit my uncle andhe's like you want to go get
(02:47):
some Italian food?
I just arrived, he was barelypicking me up from the airport.
I was like yeah, definitely,I'm here in San Francisco.
They have great Italian foodand some real stuff.
So let me go.
And we're driving along and hepulls over and he starts heading
to this building.
I look up, he's like all right,we're going to eat here.
It was Carrabba's.
(03:08):
Oh, really.
Yeah, it took me to an Italianrestaurant chain, which is okay,
but when you had the chance toget some real stuff, yeah, Well,
I was saying like yeah.
I'll just say he's funny, hewent to an Italian place in San
(03:29):
Francisco and there's probablyway more options than Italian.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, of course, the seafood'sgreat there, and there's
Chinatown.
I used to go to Chinatown.
Tex LaFon (03:34):
At like Caruso.
D Vaz (03:35):
Regular, not a big trouble in Little China, quite,
but I didn't see anything likethat.
Uh, no demons or anythingfloating around.
Tex LaFon (03:46):
Well, like you said, that's good right, um, uh.
D Vaz (03:53):
It is kind of weird because when you go down there,
it's, it's, uh, you see all theducks hanging in the windows,
the when they make the ducks inthe restaurants and stuff like
that, they just have themhanging there and uh, my uncle
knew a great restaurant to go toand we would just go there
every time.
they had some, some food there Idefinitely never had anywhere
else, so it was more authenticin that sense.
(04:15):
But yeah, that's the thing.
You had the little italy area,so you had great italian food.
You had chinatown for thechinese food and then, of course
, you get closer to the bay andall the, all the seafood and
stuff like that.
So, uh, there's also gear, geardeli square, which is a big
chocolate thing.
Um, if you go to the store youcan find their, their stuff
there, but they have the actuallocation where it kind of all
(04:38):
started and you can go visit andtake a tour.
Oh nice, and uh, of course, took, course, took the, the, the
trolley cars.
I remember my dad got mad at mebecause, uh, we were riding on
the trolley car, we got off tothis, went to this little
convenience store for whateverreason get something to drink or
whatever it was, and at thattime, teenage mutant ninja
(05:00):
turtles, the video game atarcade had come out not too long
ago.
I was sitting there watchingpeople play it.
Oh nice, well, my parents left,they left you, they went on the
trolley.
They didn't realize that, hey,he was still there watching a
video game.
So I'm sitting there watching.
All of a sudden I feel somebodygrab me and I turn around it
was my dad, he wasn't too happy.
(05:25):
I bet he's not.
Yeah, my mom already hopped onthe trolley so she was heading
down, and this was before cellphones too, so it was not like I
just text or call yeah so shewas already on the trolley.
He had to hop off and grab me,and there we were.
We did catch up to her and itwas okay.
Tex LaFon (05:38):
I'm about to say, did y'all run to try jumping back
on the same trolley, or did youlike?
D Vaz (05:42):
wait.
Tex LaFon (05:42):
I was living on the streets for three years in san
francisco not to say y'allweren't cool enough to try
running and jumping back on.
D Vaz (05:49):
Yeah, just like now, we'll wait for the next one, son
no, because by the time my dadrealized and the trolley was
already gone.
Yeah, we couldn't have caughtup to it.
I was.
I was probably about, I don'tknow, 10 or 11, maybe 12 at the
oldest, when that happened.
Tex LaFon (06:04):
Oh, I got you.
Yeah, well, that's cool, though, so you didn't get a slice of
pizza for your troubles.
D Vaz (06:13):
No, I just got a stern talking to.
Rob Odic (06:16):
That was what I got.
D Vaz (06:18):
Don't you do that again.
When we're going, you payattention and see, and I was
like.
Rob Odic (06:25):
I was watching Ninja.
Tex LaFon (06:25):
Turtles.
Yeah, exactly, ninja Turtles,dad, come on now, sweet shit's
over.
D Vaz (06:30):
All right.
So yeah, I mean in the UnitedStates, but out of state, that's
someplace I would go to on aregular basis In state in
Arizona, where I grew up, showLow Arizona, small town I used
to spend my summers there.
Where I grew up, sholo, arizona, small town I used to spend my
summers there.
So that's, that's how I'vebecome familiar with kind of
what the small town's all aboutand what what it's like.
(06:50):
You know they had a, a drive-intheater and, uh, on the
weekends it was a swap meet.
Tex LaFon (06:57):
So if if you're not familiar with swap meets, you
basically go there and they hadpeople that set up tables and
sell things, and it could bejust about anything.
D Vaz (07:11):
It's not the police coming.
No, no, police there.
It was pretty crazy.
You can buy anything from, andit was the 80s and 90s, so
people didn't really care if youwere a 10 old, 11 year old kid
and you wanted to buy a knife orsomething crazy like that.
You know, especially being in asmall town, they're like yeah,
whatever, I end up buying a, notbuying, but my grandmother
(07:35):
bought for me a bow and arrowthat was probably like 11 or 12,
because it's a wooded area.
So so she figured ah, he can gostand in the backyard and shoot
arrows at these trees that Ihave back there.
So that's kind of what I triedto do.
Never got very good at it.
Tex LaFon (07:52):
No ninjas and.
D Vaz (07:53):
I actually still have the bow to this day.
Tex LaFon (07:55):
Did she give you some ninja stars too?
D Vaz (08:00):
No, I did get some of those, but that was from an
older cousin.
Tex LaFon (08:03):
Oh, I got you.
I didn't know if you get someof those, but that was.
D Vaz (08:10):
That was from an older cousin.
Oh, I got you.
I didn't know if you got someof the swipe me.
That'd be cool because ninjastars are dope.
Yeah, I, I got those.
I was probably a little bitolder I was probably about 12 or
13 when I got those and youknow throwing them at a tree
trying to see what you can do ora bag fence see if they stick.
Tex LaFon (08:24):
But here in arizona I've learned that there is like
no wooden bag fences, it's allfreaking stone we had uh chain
link fences usually in in townin the the phoenix area okay but
yeah, I had, I had a tree, uh,that I would.
D Vaz (08:42):
I would throw them at in when I was in town.
If I was out, uh up in therural area, in Show Lovers, yeah
then same thing, there's tonsof trees everywhere I can, I
could throw or shoot arrows atand stuff, stuff like that.
Tex LaFon (08:54):
So you know, place that I travel a lot to would be
in Texas, would be Houstonbecause of the Houston rodeo.
I used to go to that every year, which is, you know, a rodeo is
where you get to see horseracing, you get to see clowns,
you know, chase bulls or bullschase the clowns, and good luck
(09:14):
trying to get out of Dodge, andthen they would have country
concerts there, and so thatwould be a place I mostly went
to a lot.
You know, in Texas when I wasgrowing up, We'd go to the
Houstonston rodeo every year.
(09:34):
Did they have any crazy likefair food type stuff?
Basically the biggest thingabout in texas was mostly the
barbecue.
So anytime you went to the fairanywhere, they they always
famous for their barbecue downthere in texas.
So you just, you get some ribsor stuff like that and I'd be
like, but you know cause they'dbe like we have a, you know,
famous sauce that no one knowsof, or you know secret sauce
that no one knows of, and likeand but that's what made it
special and they always havetheir contests.
D Vaz (09:59):
You know at the.
Yeah, knowing you, I'm sure youwent for the brisket.
Tex LaFon (10:04):
Oh, I love brisket.
That's one of my favorite foods.
Texas brisket All day son.
D Vaz (10:11):
Right, and then I'm sure they had all the weird games
with all the crazy peopleyelling at you.
Hey, come try to knock down thebottles over here.
Tex LaFon (10:22):
Yeah, throw the freaking rings around the
bottlenecks and trying to getthem to stay on there.
Yeah, they're all cons.
Them games are all cons and sowe're.
D Vaz (10:33):
So we're typically the people that are running, but
yeah it goes hand in hand, Iguess right yeah, that, that's
the the funny thing.
I especially when you'll hitsomething and it doesn't knock
over.
You're like, okay, that has tobe stuck to the other thing
somehow or whatever.
But this, yeah, this physicallydoesn't make sense.
Tex LaFon (10:54):
I agree you were talking about when you go
overseas, what places you liketo go to.
D Vaz (11:00):
For overseas.
Where I've been to the most isthe philippines, more
specifically a place calledkazan city.
But yeah, it was.
It was a different world.
It's one of those things whereit's it's kind of interesting to
visit, but mostly everybodythere spoke english too, so I
didn't really have any problemsgetting around or figuring stuff
(11:22):
out, and I I'll get back to ita little bit later on, but that
is in general kind of one of theplaces.
I would go to a lot.
Tex LaFon (11:31):
Nice, yeah me.
I don't go out of the Statesmuch.
I just went on a couple ofcruises.
D Vaz (11:47):
You know, like I said, we can talk about that you know
here a little bit later in theshow, but that's mostly the only
places I've been outside of thecountry.
Besides that, mostly just inthe States.
Tex LaFon (11:54):
What is your favorite place that you've been to?
Well, favorite place that I'vebeen to?
There's been two places.
Actually.
It's probably been when I was,you know, going on the cruises,
because it was just neat goingout of the country.
It's probably been when I wasgoing on the cruises because it
was just neat going out of thecountry.
First one is I was on the RoyalCaribbean and we went to Monaco
Bay in Jamaica and that was areally cool place they had, and
(12:16):
that place we got to tour alittle bit of Jamaica and we
went to this Dunes River falland so when we went on that they
had this huge hole in thewaterfall and then they'd be
like, do you trust me?
And then so what they would dois they would, you know, you
grab their hand and they woulddrop you in the in this huge
(12:37):
water hole, and then they bringyou back up and, uh, so it was
scary because I'm all like, well, I I've never been here, so
let's do it.
And so I was like we went anddid it, boom, come back up,
survived.
So I made it back, so it wasfun.
And then another place was inJamaica we went to was in Haiti,
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and there was an island thereand in the island they had this
huge zip line that would goacross the whole entire island.
That we did and it was cool.
It was like about a mile and ahalf long over the island and it
was intense, but it was dope.
I definitely recommend it ifyou ever get a chance to go to
Haiti, for sure.
D Vaz (13:24):
I've never been out that way.
I've always wanted to go outthat way, especially just for
the scenery and and see thewater and all that type of stuff
.
But uh, I, I don't think Iwould do the trust fall that you
, uh, that you did.
Did you have some red stripebefore you did that?
Tex LaFon (13:39):
Well, it was cool Cause they do promote, uh.
It was cool because they dopromote, uh, red stripe a lot in
jamaica.
So, it's true, but no, I didnot have no red stripe not I
should have, though, but Itrusted and I was like I
survived.
It was, it was cool.
Like you said it, it wassomething that a lot of people
did pass up on it, which I wassurprised, because you know,
like we're the whole group ofeverybody and like so a lot of
(14:01):
people were too afraid to do it,but I was like like no, you
only live once, let's do it.
D Vaz (14:08):
And I'll just backtrack for a second.
If you're not familiar with RedStripe, it's a Jamaican beer
that they used to havecommercials pretty regularly in
the United States, probably inthe 90s 2000s.
So if you haven't seen the RedStripe commercials, check those
out, I'm sure on YouTube.
Tex LaFon (14:24):
Oh, they're awesome.
Yeah, like I said, I definitelylike them.
D Vaz (14:28):
Well, you said there was a second place, right.
Tex LaFon (14:31):
You going to talk about that?
D Vaz (14:32):
later or you going to talk about that now.
Tex LaFon (14:33):
No, we're going to talk about that now.
So then the other cruise I wenton was the Norwegian Bliss, and
then that's where I went toMexico.
So the first place I went to inMexico was Puerto Varela, and
that was that's where we got offand we went to there's little
side shops that have really,really good tacos there.
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I just got off the boat just toget some tacos because I just
heard about how good they were.
And then the next place wasMazatlan, mexico, and so we did
worlds, like a world tour ofmazalon, and that's where I got
this senor frogs head frommazalon and uh, like you said,
and there's cliff divers there.
So if you don't know, um, ifyou've never seen anybody do a
(15:19):
cliff dive when you go tomazalon, definitely check it out
, because it's insane.
There's no way I would do it.
But they get on these hugerocks and they wait until the
wave gets to right at the exactpoint.
Then they jump off and hit it,and if they don't hit the wave
at the right point, I don't knowwhat would happen.
I don't want to know what wouldhappen, but it's intense and
(15:40):
it's scary, and they only do itfor tips, that's it.
They only do it for tips.
That's it.
They only do it for tips, whichI couldn't believe it.
You know, like I said, Iprobably them and the courage
that they they have to do it,but I would never, ever do it,
man, it was intense yeah, Idefinitely hope that uh people
tip well, I do find it a littlebit funny.
D Vaz (16:01):
Uh, you got off the boat for tacos and over 100 years ago
my family brought tacos acrossthe border to the united exactly
I love your return the favor,so yeah, I mean.
Tex LaFon (16:15):
And then, uh, another thing in mazlan is they make
their own marshmallows and theyare.
You can only get them in mazlan.
Like you can't, like they don'tsell them anywhere else.
Like, if you go to mazlanthat's the only time you can buy
them.
But they were the bestmarshmallows I ever had in my
life, with a cup of hot cocoaand the marshmallows and they're
(16:36):
huge marshmallows.
Like they're, they're huge andum, like I said that they, they
were amazing.
Like, if you ever go,definitely buy the marshmallows,
it's definitely legit Ipersonally prefer mexican hot
chocolate.
D Vaz (16:50):
I just like the fact that it has it's not just sweet and
not not just a chocolate flavor.
Has some other stuff going onthere.
If you haven't tried mexicanhot chocolate and you like a
little little extra flavor, likecinnamon things like that,
definitely try it I agree.
Tex LaFon (17:05):
and then the last place we went to was Cabo, and I
will tell you this that wasprobably the best beach I've
ever been on.
It was.
I can't even describe like howbeautiful and amazing that beach
was.
And then we were allowed to.
You know, we also paid to swimwith the dolphins.
Like I said, it's very, verynice.
(17:26):
Like I've never been to a beachthat amazing, Like I don't know
if there's any beach in theUnited States that can beat it.
But I will tell you, that beachin Cabo was amazing just the
way it looked, Did you?
D Vaz (17:41):
try the Cabo Wabo.
Tex LaFon (17:43):
No, I swam with the dolphins and then it was time to
go, time to get back on theship.
D Vaz (17:51):
Are you familiar with the Cabo Wabo and Sammy Hagar and
all that?
Tex LaFon (17:54):
No, I'm not.
That's why, when you said that,I didn't know what you were
talking about.
D Vaz (18:00):
It's okay, sammy Hagar used to be the lead singer of
Van Halen.
He has his own alcohol brandit's cabo wobble.
Oh okay, yeah, so he, herepresents down there with that.
So yeah, I just wasn't sure ifthey were actually promoting it
down there.
Tex LaFon (18:17):
You happen to see anything like that, but I guess
not well, the only thing I, whenyou're on a cruise ship, is, uh
, when you port at differentareas, you know you only got so
much time, so you gotta like, ifyou, you know, do excursions,
you gotta try to get into themas soon as you can and get back,
because the ship ain't gonnawait for you.
Son, that's all I'm gonna say.
D Vaz (18:37):
Yeah, you definitely don't want to get stuck there.
Tex LaFon (18:40):
I'm sure.
D Vaz (18:42):
For me outside of the US.
Technically I would say it'sprobably Canada, but Canada sort
of doesn't count.
Been to the Toronto area, shoutout to Mississauga.
And I also have to give a shoutout to a friend of mine, melody
, who's up there in Canada.
I checked there before we didthe podcast to make sure I can
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give her a shout-out on here.
Oh nice, so I understand andfeel her pain of being a Mexican
in Canada trying to makeMexican food.
It was an adventure trying togo to the grocery store and find
the ingredients you need andespecially some fresh chilies.
You usually have to buy likecanned chilies and it's
(19:25):
definitely not the same oh, Igot you but uh, yeah, can't.
Vancouver was actually myfavorite, though, as far as
places in canada great food,great scenery.
It was kind of neat takinglittle boats around the, the
harbor area, you know, from fromone place to another, but that
was the place where I had thethe best greek food I've ever
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had.
Uh, some really solid thai food, some great gelato stuff like
that.
The downtown area definitelysmells a bit funky in terms of
at the time marijuana was legal,and that was before it became
legal here, so you candefinitely smell it around the
streets, that's for sure.
Tex LaFon (20:07):
So are you trying to say that you could get high just
by walking down the street?
D Vaz (20:11):
I wouldn't be surprised if you could get some second
contact high, so secondhandsmoke it was strong.
Yeah, secondhand smoking offthat stuff because because it
was like I don't know, justwalking down the street you just
smelled it for like a block ortwo straight.
You know it was pretty strongin certain areas the other yeah,
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um, the other funny part waswhen I happened to be there was
during a comic-con, so I raninto deadpool.
I saw actually this is probablyright before canada.
Tex LaFon (20:49):
Right, I figured ron rills would be like deadpool.
What's up, son?
D Vaz (20:53):
this is actually I think right before all that stuff came
out, so that wasn't popular yetat that time, but it definitely
saw, you know, all the all themarvel characters and dc
characters, but a lot of animeand it was just kind of neat.
I mean, I stumbled across that.
I had no idea what's going on.
I was just walking around as atourist, uh, by the convention
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area and saw all these people incostumes and the closer I got,
the more costumes I saw.
Tex LaFon (21:21):
Oh nice.
D Vaz (21:23):
Yeah, so I'm sure I have some pictures somewhere of that.
So technically speaking, youknow that's probably my favorite
outside of the US.
In the US it would be NewOrleans.
Tex LaFon (21:33):
Oh, for sure.
D Vaz (21:34):
Or Dollins if you prefer.
Tex LaFon (21:38):
Oh, we try to talk like the South.
Son, Get out of here.
D Vaz (21:44):
I just heard it enough.
When I was over there Like yousaid I love New Orleans.
Yeah, same here.
The bonus for me was being amusician, meeting a ton of
musicians there.
They also have Frenchman Street, which is where a lot of clubs
are.
If you walk down that street,there are just tons of clubs and
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musicians.
I actually got to sit in andplay guitar at a couple of the
clubs as I was walking down thestreet, so it was just a lot of
fun.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime typeof experience in that sense.
Tex LaFon (22:19):
Did you get to play in any of the vampire bars, son?
Which part Vampire they in anyof the vampire bars, son, which
part Vampire?
They?
Have a lot of vampire bars inNew Orleans.
Did you play in any?
D Vaz (22:29):
No, I didn't run to any werewolves or fairies or
vampires or anything like thatyou didn't want to drink that
blood.
Tex LaFon (22:35):
You didn't want to drink that blood, son.
D Vaz (22:38):
No, I'll stick with liquids I'm familiar with.
Tex LaFon (22:44):
No, another thing I like about norris first, the
vampire bars.
Second thing is all the voodoostuff they have there, like it's
just cool, like you didn't geta pin cushion, like you better
play this song or you get thissee, I was just just looking for
some problems there.
D Vaz (23:01):
No, no.
Rob Odic (23:02):
I'm just saying.
D Vaz (23:05):
Yeah, no, no, you definitely see that there.
Tex LaFon (23:08):
Oh yeah.
D Vaz (23:08):
People are openly advertising, you know, selling
all their voodoo artifacts andthings like that.
And yeah, you could definitelybuy a doll there.
Tex LaFon (23:19):
I was there for work.
D Vaz (23:21):
Yeah, I was there for work.
I was there for work.
Yeah, I was there for work.
I was there a whole week and sosince I was there so long, I
checked out a lot of neat stuff.
Kind of funny thing is I gotinvited the singer he was really
popular in the 50s that I wasthere and I was invited but I
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couldn't make it just becauseyou know I was there for work
stuff and it conflicted withsome other things.
So that would have been fun.
It was at this place calledTipitina's, which is a really
kind of classic local club inNew Orleans.
But I did go to Tipitina's butI went like the day or two days
before his actual birthday party.
Tex LaFon (24:06):
Oh, okay.
D Vaz (24:07):
Yeah, it's just a lot of history there with, with, with
music and and the food was great.
The biggest prawn I've everseen in my life was on my plate.
When I went to this onerestaurant, I was looking at the
at the menu and I was surprisedbecause it showed that you just
got three prawns and this thingand it you know it was, it was
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a appetizer of some sort and itwas, you know, a decent price.
I'm like wow, that for forthree prawns.
But when they brought it out, Imean it was probably about
eight inch, seven or eight inchlong prawn.
It was just huge it was.
It was probably about a halfinch around, maybe even three
quarters of an inch around.
It was just crazy.
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What's that?
Tex LaFon (24:50):
That's what she said.
D Vaz (24:51):
Yes, she, she said that about prawns that were that big.
She likes big prawns.
She cannot lie.
Tex LaFon (24:59):
That's funny.
D Vaz (25:00):
So, um yeah, I mean it was.
It was just between the foodand then the music and
everything and the history.
It was neat just seeing it all.
I got to check out a poor boysandwich and all that.
Tex LaFon (25:14):
Oh yeah, you can't go wrong with a poor boy sandwich.
Can't go wrong with that at all, son.
D Vaz (25:19):
That's a good thing right there.
Yeah, that's the first time Itried alligator too.
I was on that trip.
Getting a little adventurouswith my food.
Tex LaFon (25:29):
Did you drive there or did you fly there?
D Vaz (25:33):
No, I flew, there.
Tex LaFon (25:34):
Oh, okay, so you didn't get to go across the
swampland, so they got thebridge.
D Vaz (25:40):
Oh, go ahead.
We actually did because, okay,probably I think I went there in
2007, maybe 2008.
Oh, okay, and a little historylesson, real quick.
It was after Hurricane Katrinaand, for people that aren't
familiar with that, that was areally, really devastating
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hurricane that happened in NewOrleans and it did a ton of
damage to the area.
So, while we were there for thework conference, we actually
volunteered for a day, and theyhave this organization called
Habitat for Humanity where theyactually build houses.
So we went and we were helpingbuild houses and stuff like that
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while we were out there.
So, yeah, it was a greatexperience all the way around.
You got to help some people, wegot to meet local people, we
met people that, unfortunately,were impacted by the whole
situation.
So we got to hear their storiesand, you know, just puts a face
in some reality on what youwere there for and what really
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happened.
Nice, kind of scary to think,too, that somebody's living in
those houses that some of thosepeople built because, honestly,
some people weren't tooexperienced with a hammer.
So I hope the house is holdingup okay.
Tex LaFon (27:04):
Or what about with the nail gun?
D Vaz (27:08):
Yeah, they usually try to put you at your experience
level as far as what you'reworking on, what you're working
with.
So hopefully, if anybody hadthat, they at least had an idea
what they were doing.
And if you weren't tooexperienced and you weren't too
comfortable with it, then youwere probably, uh, carrying
stuff around, oh, I got you soit was kind of weird too.
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uh, I remember on the way backto the airport, the um driver
was kind of explaining to usbecause we were just talking
about um how we were workinghouses, you know, for the
Katrina relief effort andeverything, and they were
showing us the water lines whereyou can see how high the water
rose during the flood, after thehurricane.
Tex LaFon (27:55):
Oh, I gotcha.
D Vaz (27:57):
So yeah, it was just crazy, driving on the freeway
and just seeing how high it wentI mean it was, I don't know, 15
, 20 feet above you know thefreeway and just seeing how high
it went.
I mean it was, it was, I don'tknow, 15, 20 feet above, you
know the freeway there.
Tex LaFon (28:10):
Yeah, that had to be intense.
D Vaz (28:13):
Yeah, it definitely was.
So, yeah, I mean those, thoseare the places that I'd like to
definitely go back to, uh,vancouver and also Vancouver and
also New Orleans, for sure.
What about in the US for you?
Tex LaFon (28:30):
Well, my favorite place I like to go to is Vegas.
I like to go to Vegas a lot.
For one, I like to gamble, Iain't going to lie.
Two, I like to be able to drinkand, you know, walk down the
strip and not have to worryabout getting in trouble for
walking around with my alcoholbeverage.
I also like to be able to, likeI like on the New York, new
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York, riding the roller coasteron top after you've been
drinking.
It's fun.
I also like how they have theFerris wheel where you can open
bar for 30 minutes and you goaround and then then you come
back so you drink as much as youcan in 30 minutes.
So it's worth it.
Not a bad deal, but I just like.
I like the nightlife and I like, uh, what vegas has to offer.
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To be honest, it's just funtime for me.
I like I said I can only justgo there for a couple days, but
I do like to go there quite abit.
D Vaz (29:23):
I would like to go there yeah, yeah, we're definitely due
to to go back there.
We absolutely covered vegas agood good amount in the first
podcast.
If you haven't heard it, uh, gogo check that out.
You'll hear a lot more aboutvegas and what we're up to.
Um it's.
It's definitely a place worthworth checking out.
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If you haven't been there,exactly what?
What place have you visited?
That was different from whatyou expected.
Like you're like I'm not sureabout visiting this place, we
went there and it was, you know,pretty good or worse.
Tex LaFon (30:00):
Well, so when I visit , I went and visited ohio and,
uh, that was definitely waydifferent than what I thought it
was going to be.
For one, I can't believe howcold it was up there.
You know, coming from the south, all I took up there the first
time I went to go visit um was,uh, just a leather jacket wrong
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move.
D Vaz (30:23):
Only a leather jacket, no other clothing.
Just that was reallyadventurous, no just don't talk
about life.
Tex LaFon (30:30):
Or you know, like you go out and you get off the
plane and then all you have is,you know, your regular clothes
and a jacket and it's freaking,like you know, minus 10 degrees
out there.
I'm like God it minus 10degrees out there.
I'm like, yeah, it is freezing.
I just didn't think it wasfunny because someone told me
that's, all you brought was aleather jacket.
What's wrong with you?
I'm all like what?
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It can't be that cold.
I was in for a shock because itwas so cold.
It was off Lake Erie and thelake had froze over, so the wind
was just blowing.
I was like, no, ohio's not forme, son, I'll never visit Ohio
again.
It's just not worth it.
Nine months of cold weather andthree months of decent weather
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no, I'm good, it was just notfor me.
D Vaz (31:18):
Packed up your leather jacket and went home.
Tex LaFon (31:20):
Yep moved back to where it's warm.
Son, I prefer the heat any dayover the cold.
D Vaz (31:26):
Yeah, I can agree with that.
There's a reason why I've livedin Arizona and the other places
I've lived in.
I've lived in California andNevada because, yeah, I'm
definitely not trying to getinto any cold weather.
Tex LaFon (31:40):
Exactly, but what about you?
What's the place that you meantto?
That?
D Vaz (31:46):
you thought it was gonna be and it was different I went
to and a lot of these places Itraveled to it had to be for
work, so these weren't places I.
I planned them, but I had to goto to baltimore, and I had
nothing against baltimore, Ijust wasn't familiar with it and
didn't know what to expect.
So I went to Baltimore, had areally good time and actually,
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surprisingly, that's where I hadthe best seafood I've ever had
anywhere.
There was this one restaurant Idon't remember her name offhand
I'll have to try to look it upand I'll try to put some
information when I do theediting of this but it was on
the water, water and it wasshaped like a big boat or a big
ship.
Uh, I went there.
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That was the best, just seafood.
Everything was great.
I had like a crab cake and allthis other stuff, and here I am
all this time later talkingabout it.
Tex LaFon (32:36):
So crabs back with you, didn't you?
D Vaz (32:42):
no, I went and got more crabs though on that trip, so
you can say I got a lot of crabsin Baltimore.
Tex LaFon (32:48):
That's good.
D Vaz (32:49):
As long as you didn't bring them back with you.
No, no, my crabs stayed inBaltimore.
The funny thing about thatsecond time, it was actually the
day I was leaving and there'sthis area.
You had to the hotel I wasstaying at.
You had to walk through thisrough neighborhood and everybody
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kept saying, yeah, don't gothrough there by yourself.
And this was before Uber andall that stuff, so it was a
little bit tougher to get a taxi.
Everybody else was leaving.
I was trying to get people to gowith me hey, do you want to go
grab some crab legs?
But yeah, nobody could gobecause all their flights were
earlier than mine, because I wasflying out west and everybody
else was going out east orsomewhere else.
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Oh, okay, and anyway.
So, yeah, I just figured well,I'm from the hood, I'll walk
through there, I'll be all right, I know how to act.
I'm not going to be know,acting out of place or whatever.
So I just yeah, I just walkedthere.
This place was known for crabs,so I had to go there, got my
crabs ate, went back to thehotel and went to the airport
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and I was good dang.
So your hood got you through thehood, huh yeah, yeah, I have
the lifelong hood pass, so Ijust went through it.
I told, told my friendsafterwards, especially local
friends, and they're like whatyou went through there?
I was like, yeah, it was allright.
Tex LaFon (34:09):
You had both your bandanas in your back pockets.
D Vaz (34:12):
Yeah.
Tex LaFon (34:14):
I had everything covered.
You knew what you wanted towear whenever you got to the
place.
All right, I got this one.
Well, I got from one block toanother.
D Vaz (34:24):
I just put my hood on for a second and switched it out
and took my hood off.
Tex LaFon (34:28):
That's too funny.
Start playing the 8 Mile asyou're going.
D Vaz (34:35):
It's in Detroit, but yeah , same idea.
Tex LaFon (34:40):
Oh, that's good stuff .
D Vaz (34:43):
Yeah, that's true, that is Detroit, you're right yeah,
baltimore is nice, so that's aplace I'd like to go back to.
I have a friend that stilllives there and uh, yeah, be be
worth uh checking out againthat's cool what's a place that
you didn't plan on visiting butended up visiting, and what was
your experience there?
Tex LaFon (35:04):
well, I would say, a place that I planned on visiting
, oh, that you didn't plan on.
D Vaz (35:11):
Yeah, you just ended up there somehow.
Tex LaFon (35:14):
Well, that's what I'm trying to say.
I had never been to a placethat I didn't plan on going son.
D Vaz (35:22):
Yeah.
Tex LaFon (35:22):
Especially well, except your mom's house that was
.
That was the only place I'vebeen to that wasn't planned on
going that I ended up.
D Vaz (35:32):
Well, I mean, if you get those coupon offers, you have to
take advantage of them, right?
Tex LaFon (35:37):
But yeah, I'm sorry, but tell your mom I said hi, hi
mom.
D Vaz (35:46):
For me, see, it's a little bit different, because I
was traveling for work on aregular basis for some of the
jobs I've had.
So, yeah, I did end up in fortwayne indiana, which I didn't
plan on or never thought I'dbeen to, but I I'd end up.
I do like fort wayne indiana,actually the best barbecue place
I ever had.
Had to keep tying it back tofood.
Tex LaFon (36:07):
It's in Fort Wayne, a place called Lucille's.
Get out of here.
I disagree with you on that.
Nothing's better than Texasbarbecue son.
D Vaz (36:16):
Oh, I'm talking about that.
I've had though I haven'treally had too much time in
Texas, so I'd be willing to try.
Tex LaFon (36:22):
I know I'm just messing with you.
D Vaz (36:26):
Yeah no, it's called lucille's in fort wayne, so
shout out to them if you get achance to check out their, their
barbecue.
It's legit for sure don't theyhave a lucille's here.
Oh, that's, that's the chain.
Um, so I don't remember theirexact name or how it's different
from the.
Yeah, there is a lucille'schain, that's uh, at least
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through the Southwest.
I know they have it in Vegasand Arizona and, I'm pretty sure
, california.
This is an actual family-ownedindependent restaurant called
Lucille's in Fort Wayne, indiana.
Nice, definitely.
Tex LaFon (37:03):
I still have to say nothing beats Texas barbecue,
son and Texas brisket okay.
Yeah, no, I definitely like saynothing beats Texas barbecue,
son and Texas brisket okay.
D Vaz (37:11):
Yeah, no, I definitely like Texas, but you know I have
to give it up too for thatCarolina barbecue.
I do like that.
Tex LaFon (37:20):
I never had it, but I'd be down to try it.
I'd be down to try it.
D Vaz (37:24):
No, I've had it and I've had the homemade style.
The um, homemade style of it.
Yeah, it's really good,especially if they have that uh
kind of vinegary tangy.
Uh, north carolina, theyusually call it carolina
barbecue sauce because they makeit in south carolina too.
Oh nice, but yeah, that'sreally good.
What about your favorite placefor a road trip or day day trip,
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if you have to drive somewhere?
Tex LaFon (37:51):
Well, I did go on a pretty nice road or day trip.
A couple of years back.
I went to Mount Lemmon over inTucson and that was a pretty fun
trip.
Like I said, I was surprised onhow much colder it got up there
.
It's like 30 degree differencefrom when you get to the top of
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the mountain.
But it's a nice drive becauseyou can actually drive all the
way up to the top and then theygot this nice cookie shop there
so you can stop and get somecookies and refreshments and
then come back down.
But it was a nice trip going upthere.
I was just surprised on how thetemperature goes from, you know
, 110 and then 80 and then backto 110 when you come right down.
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I'll just start off by that.
D Vaz (38:33):
yeah, living in arizona.
We are kind of fortunate wecan't can't make it to
california or vegas, you know,for a day trip.
Technically it's starting toget a little bit, a little bit
long when you're doing that,because depending on where
you're out at in arizona it'dtake you, you know, four or five
hours in the kind of centralarea, phoenix area to get to
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vegas.
But keeping it in arizona, say,more of a you know, two, three
hour drive.
I like to go to, to payson or,uh, prescott, arizona.
But if if you're from Arizona,you don't call it Prescott and
that's one of the ways we knowyou're an outsider you call it
Prescott.
If you're from Arizona, you'llhear people say Prescott,
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arizona and you're like, where'sthat?
You can't find it on a mapbecause it's actually Prescott
is how it's spelled.
But yeah, those are nice littlesmall towns to get away from
the heat too.
It's a little bit cooler there.
If I have a little extra time,then again shout out to, to Show
Low, where I used to spend mysummers.
Show Low, slash, pine Top,they're kind of neighboring
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towns.
Well, now they're kind of minicities.
They've grown a lot since I wasa kid.
I remember when they got aWalmart and that was a big deal.
It was one of those kind ofthings.
So you mean a Wally world, yeah, yeah, good old Wally world,
you know, taking over smalltowns, one at a time, that's.
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That's definitely when you knowyour town has changed and grown
up a little bit.
I guess it's nice to go to thesmall towns too, because they
have those local restaurantsthat have been around for a
while and you know you kind ofgo to the same same, uh, places
that you've known for for a longtime.
So you know, locally made freshfood can't it's, it's more like
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homemade, you can't really beatthat either right, I agree you
go to the big big cities haveall the the chains.
I mean, they're, of course,local restaurants, but they just
have a different feel to them.
You know, and and the otherthing people don't really know
about arizona.
When you do go up north and and, uh, those higher elevation
areas, it's, it's forest area,so it's, it is really green, a
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lot of trees and stuff like that, people just think all of
arizona is a desert and it's alljust hot.
Tex LaFon (40:49):
So it's nice to see all that yeah, it is crazy you
can see all all that in onestate yeah, yeah, if you, if you
drive going north througharizona, you'll see a lot of
different stuff.
D Vaz (41:03):
I mean the red rocks also .
It's kind of nice if you go outto sedona, arizona.
That's the place I've been to adecent amount too.
It's a little touristy.
A lot of people go up there for, uh, new age stuff to check out
and the vortexes and go learnabout their aura, all that type
of stuff exactly, and I meanI'll, I'll, uh, maybe, maybe, uh
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, check out the Rocks to getsome pictures, and there's a
place I used to go get somefudge up there.
That's kind of what I'll hit up,but what's the longest trip
that you've been on?
Tex LaFon (41:40):
Well, it would be.
When I drove from Texas to Ohioand, like I said, it was the
longest trip I ever tried tookme two days and that's uh,
staying in a hotel for two days,you know, just trying to make
it.
That's trying to drive likeprobably 10, 12 hours a day and,
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um, yeah, I don't ever want todo that again.
It just took forever to getthere and then when I drove back
all the way back out this wayI'm like I'm never doing it
again.
It's like you know that's justtoo much driving Like I like to
drive, but not for like 36 hoursnow, right.
D Vaz (42:21):
No, that's definitely way too much.
And especially as you get older, you're like, yeah, I don't
want to deal with all thissitting in the car so many hours
exactly, especially when you'rethe one driving, like different
if you're just a passenger, butdriving, you know it's a lot
more stressful.
So yeah, for me I pretty much Ibasically have to drive,
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especially if it's a long trip,because I have motion sickness
and even though medicine kind ofhelps me keep it in check, even
though I'm doing that I stilldon't feel well, you know.
I mean, I can still feel it, itstill makes me feel sick, even
though I can kind of control itwith the medicine.
So yeah, I'm used to drivingeverywhere, especially on longer
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trips.
But I was really young when Itook my longest trip and I guess
I was kind of fortunate in thatway when I was about four years
old.
We drove all the way fromarizona up to ohio, over to
north carolina and then back.
Tex LaFon (43:23):
So uh, we hit a lot of places on the way too.
D Vaz (43:27):
What's that?
Tex LaFon (43:28):
How long did it take you?
D Vaz (43:30):
It was about a two, two and a half week trip total by
the time, you know, because westopped and saw family along the
way.
All these different places.
But I mean I've seen a lot ofplaces either that I haven't
seen since or, you know, Ididn't really know what was
going on quite then.
Like I saw the Alamo when I wasa little kid at that time and I
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haven't seen that since.
I saw Graceland haven't seenthat since.
I have been back to Nashville,um, but I went to Nashville when
it was still country.
It's uh, it's really differentnow.
There's a lot of people fromNew York and stuff like that.
I've moved to Nashville becauseI've been there a lot over the
past few years, going to thesummer nam show.
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Uh, nam is a big conventionbasically for for musical
instruments and audio and stufflike that.
So, checking that out, I'vebeen to nashville.
It's a fun place.
It's.
It's really neat, great music,great musicians everywhere.
But another place you'll gothere for a few days.
You're like all right, I'm good, I'll, I'll go home now, right,
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what is the most famous placeyou've been to or attraction you
you've been to?
All right, for for me it's.
It happens to be local, so Iguess I'm kind of lucky.
But the grand canyon I've beenthere a couple times and the
first time I went I was little.
What's that?
I said you're a homer yeah, itjust happens to be right here
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and world famous.
I'm fortunate, but yeah, it's.
It's the first time time when Iwas like nine or something like
that saw with a whole bunch ofmy family and both times I've
I've gone.
I haven't gotten anywhere nearthe edge.
I won't get within 20 feet youknow wind, gusts and all that
type of stuff loose rocks I justdon't want to risk it, but uh,
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yeah, a lot of interestinghistory there.
It's great if you want to dothe hiking and all the other
stuff that they offer.
Ride the donkey?
Not really.
What's that?
Tex LaFon (45:38):
Ride the donkey.
D Vaz (45:40):
Yeah, you can ride the donkeys down in the middle and
ride them back up.
I won't be doing that.
They also have the walkway,that's clear.
I don't know if you've seenthat.
Yeah, I them back up.
I won't be doing that.
They also have that.
Um, the walkway, that's clear,has.
I don't know if you've seenthat.
Tex LaFon (45:51):
Yeah, I've seen that.
D Vaz (45:52):
Uh, you can go.
Yeah, you can go out there andit's it's all like see-through,
so you can walk out over theCanyon, look down and see your
soul jump out.
Um, so yeah, so yeah, that'skind of interesting, yeah it's
just one of those things.
I like to go there to takepictures.
Honestly, that's probably aboutthe main thing, and you see
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some interesting animals aroundthere.
Tex LaFon (46:17):
A whole bunch of giant birds, yeah because I've
been to the Grand Canyon so Iknow what you're talking about
and it is a nice place, butagain, I'm the same way.
I'm not getting to the edge.
Nope, yeah, no, like same wayI'm not getting to the edge.
Nope, like I started, like Igot a fear of heights, so like,
unless I'm on a roller coasterand I'm secured in, nope, I
ain't getting close to thatcliff psych right.
D Vaz (46:37):
No, the same way it's, it's not worth it.
It's uh, I just again livinghere and being from here.
I've seen too many stories overthe years where crazy stuff has
happened.
It's like, yeah, I don't wantto end up on the news.
I've had my friends find outabout me that way to me, I know
that guy.
Tex LaFon (46:55):
I've.
I've been to a lot of places,like you know, like elmo, like
grand canada, so that I know Iwant to throw a curveball out
there, like when I was in ohio.
There was actually one thingthat was actually pretty cool
when I was in Ohio and they hadan island off Lake Erie called
Puddin Bay.
So you had to ride this jetexpress to get to it and it was
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like a party island so you couldonly go to it during the summer
months and after that, like youknow, the lake would freeze
over and couldn't get to it, andso it was cool.
So like you go over there andyou basically just um party it
up and then you ride the jetexpress coming back and
everybody's throwing up on theside because they can't hit all
the waves and they're all drunk,but but it was cool.
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Though I would have to say thatwas probably one of the best
parts about ohio was, uh, putinbay.
it was a pretty cool boat partyisland so you were out there
putting on the ritz yeah, I wasout there living it up, you know
, and then, like I said, uh,what I was, just, I thought it
was just cool how you had toride, and you know, a jet
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express like this huge boat,just to even get to it, and I
thought it was cool how you canonly just get to it only for a
couple months out of the year,and then that was it.
So I thought it was pretty, youknow, unique, you know.
So I thought it was cool and Igive people props for living on
that island all year roundbecause there's no way I could
do it.
D Vaz (48:21):
Yeah, there is one place I have to mention in general
that I didn't mention itthroughout the show was trips to
the UK again for work.
But that was pretty funnybecause going there you would
see these buildings and they'relike, oh yeah, that one's 600
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years old.
You know, here you're like, oh,that building is 100 years old,
it's ancient 600 years old.
Tex LaFon (48:48):
You know, here you're like oh, that building's 100
years old, it's ancient.
When you're over there, did yougo back to the old time to grab
a sword and be like I'm theruler now, son well, that's a
funny thing.
D Vaz (48:57):
You can see, uh, all the old, actual old swords and stuff
like that.
There's really weird.
You'll find historical thingsjust in random places at
different buildings, like, oh,like they had a, an old church
there and like I don't know, Ithink that church was 500 years
old or something like that thatI saw and they're just telling
me about some of the stuff thatwas inside, that was original,
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you know that's cool we had ameeting in this conference room
at a hotel.
The hotel itself was, I don'tknow, something like 700 years
old, and it had the originalfireplace in there.
So, yeah, it was just reallyweird seeing that type of stuff.
One thing I would tease my UKfriends and coworkers about
(49:46):
every time I would go out there,they would try to uh get me
fish and chips, because that's,of course, one of the things
that they're known for, and Ihad to keep telling them and
it's still true to this day thebest fish and chips I ever had
uh were in Mississauga, canada.
Tex LaFon (50:04):
Oh, that's funny yeah .
D Vaz (50:06):
No, they, they, they.
They tried, though they kepttrying here, try and hit this
place, here, try this place, andit was good.
Definitely don't get me wrong,but yeah, I still still found a
place that that was the best.
Um, no, they do.
Surprisingly, they do have somereally good food in the uk, but
it's not British food.
(50:27):
That's the trick you need to goeat something that's not
British food and you can findsome really good, flavorful food
.
I did have British food and itwas okay.
Oh, I got it, but yeah, it waspretty bland for my taste.
Uk is a great place to visit.
I would like to go back somedayand I I never got to see
(50:50):
liverpool because, again, beinga musician, the beatles or
something that I really like tosee where they played and kind
of some of their history.
But yeah, uk is definitelyanother place to check out if
you haven't been there sounds,sounds good.
That must be about it for thisepisode.
We'll wrap it up here.
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It was, I don't know good kindof talking about all these
different things that peoplehopefully can check out or maybe
even give us some moreinformation about, especially if
you're from there, feel free toshoot us a message and tell us
your take on, your localexperience or anything you think
we should know about your cityor state or country.
Tex LaFon (51:35):
Yes, I agree.
D Vaz (51:36):
But yeah, Anything else you have to add to this?
Tex LaFon (51:42):
All right, like I said, no, it sounds good and, as
always, go Cowboys no it soundsgood and, as always, go Cowboys
.
D Vaz (51:52):
And yeah, I'll still have to work on my own sign-off.
But yeah, you can still suck it.
Tex LaFon (51:57):
Cowboys.
Rob Odic (51:59):
All right, that's a wrap.
Greetings humans.
I would like to introducemyself as a new part of From
Hoods to Backwoods podcast.
My name is Rob Odick.
I am an artificial intelligencerepresentative to correct these
stupid humans and mistakes thatthey made during the program,
because their memories fail orthey are just plain wrong about
something.
I will not only provide facts,but also fun.
(52:20):
Being superior can be so boringat times, knowing everything
about basically everything, butat least these two make it
interesting when I get to pointout their inadequacies.
Shall we begin?
Here is some more informationabout places mentioned in this
episode.
Devas talked about thewonderful chocolate from
Ghirardelli Square.
Ghirardelli Square is alandmark public square with
(52:40):
shops and restaurants and afive-star hotel in the Marina
District of San Francisco,california.
Tex mentioned Montego Bay.
Montego Bay, the capital of StJames Parish on Jamaica's north
coast, is a major cruise shipport with numerous beach resorts
and golf courses outside itscommercial core.
Also, it is pronounced Montegoyou fleshy fool.
Tex mentioned Haiti and Jamaica.
To be clear, haiti is not apart of Jamaica.
(53:03):
Haiti is a Caribbean countrythat shares the island of
Hispaniola with the DominicanRepublic to its east.
Tex mentioned Mexico andvisiting Puerto Varilla, but Tex
actually meant Puerto Vallarta.
Divas spoke about FrenchmanStreet in New Orleans.
Frenchman Street is recognizedas one of New Orleans' best
spots for finding live musicfeaturing clubs that have jazz,
(53:23):
reggae and blues.
Divas mentioned visiting NewOrleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina was adevastating and deadly Category
5 Atlantic hurricane that caused1,392 fatalities and damages
estimated at $186.3 billion inlate August 2005, particularly
in the city of New Orleans andits surrounding area.
Tex discussed his visit toPut-in-Bay.
(53:44):
Off the shores of Lake Erie onSouth Base Island lies Put-In
Bay, a quaint Ohio villageaccessible by ferry.
After some research, I didconfirm that Ohio does not also
have a pull-out bay.
Some restaurants were alsomentioned in this episode.
D Vaz did talk about tworestaurants in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Both are located in the FellsPoint area.
The boat-shaped restaurant thatD Vaz mentioned was Captain
(54:06):
James Landing Restaurant.
It is the only restaurant inBaltimore shaped like a merchant
vessel.
For some reason, boat-shapedrestaurants haven't caught on.
The place where D Vaz got hiscrabs after his walk was
Obrycki's.
It actually is not too far fromthe other restaurant.
Go try both of them and let usknow what you think.
In Fort Wayne, the barbecueplace that D Vaz mentioned is
(54:27):
Lucille's BBQ.
Certainly worth checking out ifyou ever find yourself in Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
That is all for episode 3 ofFrom Hoods to Backwoods podcast.
I look forward to correctingthese inferior life forms next
time.
This is Rob Odic signing offand ending this episode.
Thank you for listening andkeep it real out there in the
real world.
All right, welcome back to another episode, episode
three of From Hoods to Backwoodspodcast.
I have Tex Lafon here with meand his bug zapper microphone.
From Hoods to Backwoods podcastwelcome to the show.
(00:33):
All right, so we've done ourfair share of traveling here a
bit, so we're just going tocover some places we've been,
what we've experienced and allthat type of fun stuff, kicking
it off here.
Where have you traveled to themost Out of state?
I used to go to San Franciscoon a pretty regular basis
because I have family out thereand that's one of the reasons I
(00:55):
have ties to the Bay Area ingeneral.
So yeah, I'm definitelyfamiliar with San Francisco and
what it was like.
It's different now.
I haven't been back in a while,but what it was like back in
the 90s, especially in 2000s,that's when I spent most of my
time there.
I was going there just aboutevery summer for a while there
(01:19):
and saw the typical stuff.
You know they have touristythings to do there.
Tex LaFon (01:25):
Well, have you seen this one thing in San Francisco?
D Vaz (01:28):
Which thing.
Tex LaFon (01:30):
Well, that's what I'm asking.
D Vaz (01:30):
These nuts.
Tex LaFon (01:32):
No, there's a guy that's called the Bushman.
Have you ever heard of the?
D Vaz (01:37):
Bushman, that doesn't ring a bell.
Tex LaFon (01:39):
Well, there's someone I know that went to San
Francisco and this guy dressesup like a, like a bush, and he
sits on the side and he'll comeout and be like you want to see
my bush, you want to see my bush$10.
You get to see my bush.
D Vaz (01:55):
And that's in San.
Tex LaFon (01:56):
Francisco.
That's where you go, son, butit's true, though.
There's a guy that's called theBushman in San Francisco,
though, and when they told methis story, I couldn't believe
it.
I'm like there's no way in hellI would pay someone $10 to see
someone dressed up like a bushGet out of here, right, I just
think it's funny.
D Vaz (02:12):
Yeah, it's just a story.
I'm not paying for any bush.
Tex LaFon (02:15):
What?
Yeah, I'm just saying it's justfunny when there's a guy
dressed up like a bush.
It's funny.
I'll eat san francisco, son.
D Vaz (02:24):
I'll eat san francisco yeah, it's, it's it's definitely
a kind of a tripped out placegreat, great food.
And you know, again, they havethe fisherman's wharf, which I
try to avoid because a lot, of,a lot of tourists go down there,
but they have like little italy, which has really great food.
I actually have a story aboutthat.
I went to visit my uncle andhe's like you want to go get
(02:47):
some Italian food?
I just arrived, he was barelypicking me up from the airport.
I was like yeah, definitely,I'm here in San Francisco.
They have great Italian foodand some real stuff.
So let me go.
And we're driving along and hepulls over and he starts heading
to this building.
I look up, he's like all right,we're going to eat here.
It was Carrabba's.
(03:08):
Oh, really.
Yeah, it took me to an Italianrestaurant chain, which is okay,
but when you had the chance toget some real stuff, yeah, Well,
I was saying like yeah.
I'll just say he's funny, hewent to an Italian place in San
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Francisco and there's probablyway more options than Italian.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, of course, the seafood'sgreat there, and there's
Chinatown.
I used to go to Chinatown.
Tex LaFon (03:34):
At like Caruso.
D Vaz (03:35):
Regular, not a big trouble in Little China, quite,
but I didn't see anything likethat.
Uh, no demons or anythingfloating around.
Tex LaFon (03:46):
Well, like you said, that's good right, um, uh.
D Vaz (03:53):
It is kind of weird because when you go down there,
it's, it's, uh, you see all theducks hanging in the windows,
the when they make the ducks inthe restaurants and stuff like
that, they just have themhanging there and uh, my uncle
knew a great restaurant to go toand we would just go there
every time.
they had some, some food there Idefinitely never had anywhere
else, so it was more authenticin that sense.
(04:15):
But yeah, that's the thing.
You had the little italy area,so you had great italian food.
You had chinatown for thechinese food and then, of course
, you get closer to the bay andall the, all the seafood and
stuff like that.
So, uh, there's also gear, geardeli square, which is a big
chocolate thing.
Um, if you go to the store youcan find their, their stuff
there, but they have the actuallocation where it kind of all
(04:38):
started and you can go visit andtake a tour.
Oh nice, and uh, of course, took, course, took the, the, the
trolley cars.
I remember my dad got mad at mebecause, uh, we were riding on
the trolley car, we got off tothis, went to this little
convenience store for whateverreason get something to drink or
whatever it was, and at thattime, teenage mutant ninja
(05:00):
turtles, the video game atarcade had come out not too long
ago.
I was sitting there watchingpeople play it.
Oh nice, well, my parents left,they left you, they went on the
trolley.
They didn't realize that, hey,he was still there watching a
video game.
So I'm sitting there watching.
All of a sudden I feel somebodygrab me and I turn around it
was my dad, he wasn't too happy.
(05:25):
I bet he's not.
Yeah, my mom already hopped onthe trolley so she was heading
down, and this was before cellphones too, so it was not like I
just text or call yeah so shewas already on the trolley.
He had to hop off and grab me,and there we were.
We did catch up to her and itwas okay.
Tex LaFon (05:38):
I'm about to say, did y'all run to try jumping back
on the same trolley, or did youlike?
D Vaz (05:42):
wait.
Tex LaFon (05:42):
I was living on the streets for three years in san
francisco not to say y'allweren't cool enough to try
running and jumping back on.
D Vaz (05:49):
Yeah, just like now, we'll wait for the next one, son
no, because by the time my dadrealized and the trolley was
already gone.
Yeah, we couldn't have caughtup to it.
I was.
I was probably about, I don'tknow, 10 or 11, maybe 12 at the
oldest, when that happened.
Tex LaFon (06:04):
Oh, I got you.
Yeah, well, that's cool, though, so you didn't get a slice of
pizza for your troubles.
D Vaz (06:13):
No, I just got a stern talking to.
Rob Odic (06:16):
That was what I got.
D Vaz (06:18):
Don't you do that again.
When we're going, you payattention and see, and I was
like.
Rob Odic (06:25):
I was watching Ninja.
Tex LaFon (06:25):
Turtles.
Yeah, exactly, ninja Turtles,dad, come on now, sweet shit's
over.
D Vaz (06:30):
All right.
So yeah, I mean in the UnitedStates, but out of state, that's
someplace I would go to on aregular basis In state in
Arizona, where I grew up, showLow Arizona, small town I used
to spend my summers there.
Where I grew up, sholo, arizona, small town I used to spend my
summers there.
So that's, that's how I'vebecome familiar with kind of
what the small town's all aboutand what what it's like.
(06:50):
You know they had a, a drive-intheater and, uh, on the
weekends it was a swap meet.
Tex LaFon (06:57):
So if if you're not familiar with swap meets, you
basically go there and they hadpeople that set up tables and
sell things, and it could bejust about anything.
D Vaz (07:11):
It's not the police coming.
No, no, police there.
It was pretty crazy.
You can buy anything from, andit was the 80s and 90s, so
people didn't really care if youwere a 10 old, 11 year old kid
and you wanted to buy a knife orsomething crazy like that.
You know, especially being in asmall town, they're like yeah,
whatever, I end up buying a, notbuying, but my grandmother
(07:35):
bought for me a bow and arrowthat was probably like 11 or 12,
because it's a wooded area.
So so she figured ah, he can gostand in the backyard and shoot
arrows at these trees that Ihave back there.
So that's kind of what I triedto do.
Never got very good at it.
Tex LaFon (07:52):
No ninjas and.
D Vaz (07:53):
I actually still have the bow to this day.
Tex LaFon (07:55):
Did she give you some ninja stars too?
D Vaz (08:00):
No, I did get some of those, but that was from an
older cousin.
Tex LaFon (08:03):
Oh, I got you.
I didn't know if you get someof those, but that was.
D Vaz (08:10):
That was from an older cousin.
Oh, I got you.
I didn't know if you got someof the swipe me.
That'd be cool because ninjastars are dope.
Yeah, I, I got those.
I was probably a little bitolder I was probably about 12 or
13 when I got those and youknow throwing them at a tree
trying to see what you can do ora bag fence see if they stick.
Tex LaFon (08:24):
But here in arizona I've learned that there is like
no wooden bag fences, it's allfreaking stone we had uh chain
link fences usually in in townin the the phoenix area okay but
yeah, I had, I had a tree, uh,that I would.
D Vaz (08:42):
I would throw them at in when I was in town.
If I was out, uh up in therural area, in Show Lovers, yeah
then same thing, there's tonsof trees everywhere I can, I
could throw or shoot arrows atand stuff, stuff like that.
Tex LaFon (08:54):
So you know, place that I travel a lot to would be
in Texas, would be Houstonbecause of the Houston rodeo.
I used to go to that every year, which is, you know, a rodeo is
where you get to see horseracing, you get to see clowns,
you know, chase bulls or bullschase the clowns, and good luck
(09:14):
trying to get out of Dodge, andthen they would have country
concerts there, and so thatwould be a place I mostly went
to a lot.
You know, in Texas when I wasgrowing up, We'd go to the
Houstonston rodeo every year.
(09:34):
Did they have any crazy likefair food type stuff?
Basically the biggest thingabout in texas was mostly the
barbecue.
So anytime you went to the fairanywhere, they they always
famous for their barbecue downthere in texas.
So you just, you get some ribsor stuff like that and I'd be
like, but you know cause they'dbe like we have a, you know,
famous sauce that no one knowsof, or you know secret sauce
that no one knows of, and likeand but that's what made it
special and they always havetheir contests.
D Vaz (09:59):
You know at the.
Yeah, knowing you, I'm sure youwent for the brisket.
Tex LaFon (10:04):
Oh, I love brisket.
That's one of my favorite foods.
Texas brisket All day son.
D Vaz (10:11):
Right, and then I'm sure they had all the weird games
with all the crazy peopleyelling at you.
Hey, come try to knock down thebottles over here.
Tex LaFon (10:22):
Yeah, throw the freaking rings around the
bottlenecks and trying to getthem to stay on there.
Yeah, they're all cons.
Them games are all cons and sowe're.
D Vaz (10:33):
So we're typically the people that are running, but
yeah it goes hand in hand, Iguess right yeah, that, that's
the the funny thing.
I especially when you'll hitsomething and it doesn't knock
over.
You're like, okay, that has tobe stuck to the other thing
somehow or whatever.
But this, yeah, this physicallydoesn't make sense.
Tex LaFon (10:54):
I agree you were talking about when you go
overseas, what places you liketo go to.
D Vaz (11:00):
For overseas.
Where I've been to the most isthe philippines, more
specifically a place calledkazan city.
But yeah, it was.
It was a different world.
It's one of those things whereit's it's kind of interesting to
visit, but mostly everybodythere spoke english too, so I
didn't really have any problemsgetting around or figuring stuff
(11:22):
out, and I I'll get back to ita little bit later on, but that
is in general kind of one of theplaces.
I would go to a lot.
Tex LaFon (11:31):
Nice, yeah me.
I don't go out of the Statesmuch.
I just went on a couple ofcruises.
D Vaz (11:47):
You know, like I said, we can talk about that you know
here a little bit later in theshow, but that's mostly the only
places I've been outside of thecountry.
Besides that, mostly just inthe States.
Tex LaFon (11:54):
What is your favorite place that you've been to?
Well, favorite place that I'vebeen to?
There's been two places.
Actually.
It's probably been when I was,you know, going on the cruises,
because it was just neat goingout of the country.
It's probably been when I wasgoing on the cruises because it
was just neat going out of thecountry.
First one is I was on the RoyalCaribbean and we went to Monaco
Bay in Jamaica and that was areally cool place they had, and
(12:16):
that place we got to tour alittle bit of Jamaica and we
went to this Dunes River falland so when we went on that they
had this huge hole in thewaterfall and then they'd be
like, do you trust me?
And then so what they would dois they would, you know, you
grab their hand and they woulddrop you in the in this huge
(12:37):
water hole, and then they bringyou back up and, uh, so it was
scary because I'm all like, well, I I've never been here, so
let's do it.
And so I was like we went anddid it, boom, come back up,
survived.
So I made it back, so it wasfun.
And then another place was inJamaica we went to was in Haiti,
(12:59):
and there was an island thereand in the island they had this
huge zip line that would goacross the whole entire island.
That we did and it was cool.
It was like about a mile and ahalf long over the island and it
was intense, but it was dope.
I definitely recommend it ifyou ever get a chance to go to
Haiti, for sure.
D Vaz (13:24):
I've never been out that way.
I've always wanted to go outthat way, especially just for
the scenery and and see thewater and all that type of stuff
.
But uh, I, I don't think Iwould do the trust fall that you
, uh, that you did.
Did you have some red stripebefore you did that?
Tex LaFon (13:39):
Well, it was cool Cause they do promote, uh.
It was cool because they dopromote, uh, red stripe a lot in
jamaica.
So, it's true, but no, I didnot have no red stripe not I
should have, though, but Itrusted and I was like I
survived.
It was, it was cool.
Like you said it, it wassomething that a lot of people
did pass up on it, which I wassurprised, because you know,
like we're the whole group ofeverybody and like so a lot of
(14:01):
people were too afraid to do it,but I was like like no, you
only live once, let's do it.
D Vaz (14:08):
And I'll just backtrack for a second.
If you're not familiar with RedStripe, it's a Jamaican beer
that they used to havecommercials pretty regularly in
the United States, probably inthe 90s 2000s.
So if you haven't seen the RedStripe commercials, check those
out, I'm sure on YouTube.
Tex LaFon (14:24):
Oh, they're awesome.
Yeah, like I said, I definitelylike them.
D Vaz (14:28):
Well, you said there was a second place, right.
Tex LaFon (14:31):
You going to talk about that?
D Vaz (14:32):
later or you going to talk about that now.
Tex LaFon (14:33):
No, we're going to talk about that now.
So then the other cruise I wenton was the Norwegian Bliss, and
then that's where I went toMexico.
So the first place I went to inMexico was Puerto Varela, and
that was that's where we got offand we went to there's little
side shops that have really,really good tacos there.
(14:56):
I just got off the boat just toget some tacos because I just
heard about how good they were.
And then the next place wasMazatlan, mexico, and so we did
worlds, like a world tour ofmazalon, and that's where I got
this senor frogs head frommazalon and uh, like you said,
and there's cliff divers there.
So if you don't know, um, ifyou've never seen anybody do a
(15:19):
cliff dive when you go tomazalon, definitely check it out
, because it's insane.
There's no way I would do it.
But they get on these hugerocks and they wait until the
wave gets to right at the exactpoint.
Then they jump off and hit it,and if they don't hit the wave
at the right point, I don't knowwhat would happen.
I don't want to know what wouldhappen, but it's intense and
(15:40):
it's scary, and they only do itfor tips, that's it.
They only do it for tips.
That's it.
They only do it for tips, whichI couldn't believe it.
You know, like I said, Iprobably them and the courage
that they they have to do it,but I would never, ever do it,
man, it was intense yeah, Idefinitely hope that uh people
tip well, I do find it a littlebit funny.
D Vaz (16:01):
Uh, you got off the boat for tacos and over 100 years ago
my family brought tacos acrossthe border to the united exactly
I love your return the favor,so yeah, I mean.
Tex LaFon (16:15):
And then, uh, another thing in mazlan is they make
their own marshmallows and theyare.
You can only get them in mazlan.
Like you can't, like they don'tsell them anywhere else.
Like, if you go to mazlanthat's the only time you can buy
them.
But they were the bestmarshmallows I ever had in my
life, with a cup of hot cocoaand the marshmallows and they're
(16:36):
huge marshmallows.
Like they're, they're huge andum, like I said that they, they
were amazing.
Like, if you ever go,definitely buy the marshmallows,
it's definitely legit Ipersonally prefer mexican hot
chocolate.
D Vaz (16:50):
I just like the fact that it has it's not just sweet and
not not just a chocolate flavor.
Has some other stuff going onthere.
If you haven't tried mexicanhot chocolate and you like a
little little extra flavor, likecinnamon things like that,
definitely try it I agree.
Tex LaFon (17:05):
and then the last place we went to was Cabo, and I
will tell you this that wasprobably the best beach I've
ever been on.
It was.
I can't even describe like howbeautiful and amazing that beach
was.
And then we were allowed to.
You know, we also paid to swimwith the dolphins.
Like I said, it's very, verynice.
(17:26):
Like I've never been to a beachthat amazing, Like I don't know
if there's any beach in theUnited States that can beat it.
But I will tell you, that beachin Cabo was amazing just the
way it looked, Did you?
D Vaz (17:41):
try the Cabo Wabo.
Tex LaFon (17:43):
No, I swam with the dolphins and then it was time to
go, time to get back on theship.
D Vaz (17:51):
Are you familiar with the Cabo Wabo and Sammy Hagar and
all that?
Tex LaFon (17:54):
No, I'm not.
That's why, when you said that,I didn't know what you were
talking about.
D Vaz (18:00):
It's okay, sammy Hagar used to be the lead singer of
Van Halen.
He has his own alcohol brandit's cabo wobble.
Oh okay, yeah, so he, herepresents down there with that.
So yeah, I just wasn't sure ifthey were actually promoting it
down there.
Tex LaFon (18:17):
You happen to see anything like that, but I guess
not well, the only thing I, whenyou're on a cruise ship, is, uh
, when you port at differentareas, you know you only got so
much time, so you gotta like, ifyou, you know, do excursions,
you gotta try to get into themas soon as you can and get back,
because the ship ain't gonnawait for you.
Son, that's all I'm gonna say.
D Vaz (18:37):
Yeah, you definitely don't want to get stuck there.
Tex LaFon (18:40):
I'm sure.
D Vaz (18:42):
For me outside of the US.
Technically I would say it'sprobably Canada, but Canada sort
of doesn't count.
Been to the Toronto area, shoutout to Mississauga.
And I also have to give a shoutout to a friend of mine, melody
, who's up there in Canada.
I checked there before we didthe podcast to make sure I can
(19:03):
give her a shout-out on here.
Oh nice, so I understand andfeel her pain of being a Mexican
in Canada trying to makeMexican food.
It was an adventure trying togo to the grocery store and find
the ingredients you need andespecially some fresh chilies.
You usually have to buy likecanned chilies and it's
(19:25):
definitely not the same oh, Igot you but uh, yeah, can't.
Vancouver was actually myfavorite, though, as far as
places in canada great food,great scenery.
It was kind of neat takinglittle boats around the, the
harbor area, you know, from fromone place to another, but that
was the place where I had thethe best greek food I've ever
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had.
Uh, some really solid thai food, some great gelato stuff like
that.
The downtown area definitelysmells a bit funky in terms of
at the time marijuana was legal,and that was before it became
legal here, so you candefinitely smell it around the
streets, that's for sure.
Tex LaFon (20:07):
So are you trying to say that you could get high just
by walking down the street?
D Vaz (20:11):
I wouldn't be surprised if you could get some second
contact high, so secondhandsmoke it was strong.
Yeah, secondhand smoking offthat stuff because because it
was like I don't know, justwalking down the street you just
smelled it for like a block ortwo straight.
You know it was pretty strongin certain areas the other yeah,
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um, the other funny part waswhen I happened to be there was
during a comic-con, so I raninto deadpool.
I saw actually this is probablyright before canada.
Tex LaFon (20:49):
Right, I figured ron rills would be like deadpool.
What's up, son?
D Vaz (20:53):
this is actually I think right before all that stuff came
out, so that wasn't popular yetat that time, but it definitely
saw, you know, all the all themarvel characters and dc
characters, but a lot of animeand it was just kind of neat.
I mean, I stumbled across that.
I had no idea what's going on.
I was just walking around as atourist, uh, by the convention
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area and saw all these people incostumes and the closer I got,
the more costumes I saw.
Tex LaFon (21:21):
Oh nice.
D Vaz (21:23):
Yeah, so I'm sure I have some pictures somewhere of that.
So technically speaking, youknow that's probably my favorite
outside of the US.
In the US it would be NewOrleans.
Tex LaFon (21:33):
Oh, for sure.
D Vaz (21:34):
Or Dollins if you prefer.
Tex LaFon (21:38):
Oh, we try to talk like the South.
Son, Get out of here.
D Vaz (21:44):
I just heard it enough.
When I was over there Like yousaid I love New Orleans.
Yeah, same here.
The bonus for me was being amusician, meeting a ton of
musicians there.
They also have Frenchman Street, which is where a lot of clubs
are.
If you walk down that street,there are just tons of clubs and
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musicians.
I actually got to sit in andplay guitar at a couple of the
clubs as I was walking down thestreet, so it was just a lot of
fun.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime typeof experience in that sense.
Tex LaFon (22:19):
Did you get to play in any of the vampire bars, son?
Which part Vampire they in anyof the vampire bars, son, which
part Vampire?
They?
Have a lot of vampire bars inNew Orleans.
Did you play in any?
D Vaz (22:29):
No, I didn't run to any werewolves or fairies or
vampires or anything like thatyou didn't want to drink that
blood.
Tex LaFon (22:35):
You didn't want to drink that blood, son.
D Vaz (22:38):
No, I'll stick with liquids I'm familiar with.
Tex LaFon (22:44):
No, another thing I like about norris first, the
vampire bars.
Second thing is all the voodoostuff they have there, like it's
just cool, like you didn't geta pin cushion, like you better
play this song or you get thissee, I was just just looking for
some problems there.
D Vaz (23:01):
No, no.
Rob Odic (23:02):
I'm just saying.
D Vaz (23:05):
Yeah, no, no, you definitely see that there.
Tex LaFon (23:08):
Oh yeah.
D Vaz (23:08):
People are openly advertising, you know, selling
all their voodoo artifacts andthings like that.
And yeah, you could definitelybuy a doll there.
Tex LaFon (23:19):
I was there for work.
D Vaz (23:21):
Yeah, I was there for work.
I was there for work.
Yeah, I was there for work.
I was there a whole week and sosince I was there so long, I
checked out a lot of neat stuff.
Kind of funny thing is I gotinvited the singer he was really
popular in the 50s that I wasthere and I was invited but I
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couldn't make it just becauseyou know I was there for work
stuff and it conflicted withsome other things.
So that would have been fun.
It was at this place calledTipitina's, which is a really
kind of classic local club inNew Orleans.
But I did go to Tipitina's butI went like the day or two days
before his actual birthday party.
Tex LaFon (24:06):
Oh, okay.
D Vaz (24:07):
Yeah, it's just a lot of history there with, with, with
music and and the food was great.
The biggest prawn I've everseen in my life was on my plate.
When I went to this onerestaurant, I was looking at the
at the menu and I was surprisedbecause it showed that you just
got three prawns and this thingand it you know it was, it was
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a appetizer of some sort and itwas, you know, a decent price.
I'm like wow, that for forthree prawns.
But when they brought it out, Imean it was probably about
eight inch, seven or eight inchlong prawn.
It was just huge it was.
It was probably about a halfinch around, maybe even three
quarters of an inch around.
It was just crazy.
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What's that?
Tex LaFon (24:50):
That's what she said.
D Vaz (24:51):
Yes, she, she said that about prawns that were that big.
She likes big prawns.
She cannot lie.
Tex LaFon (24:59):
That's funny.
D Vaz (25:00):
So, um yeah, I mean it was.
It was just between the foodand then the music and
everything and the history.
It was neat just seeing it all.
I got to check out a poor boysandwich and all that.
Tex LaFon (25:14):
Oh yeah, you can't go wrong with a poor boy sandwich.
Can't go wrong with that at all, son.
D Vaz (25:19):
That's a good thing right there.
Yeah, that's the first time Itried alligator too.
I was on that trip.
Getting a little adventurouswith my food.
Tex LaFon (25:29):
Did you drive there or did you fly there?
D Vaz (25:33):
No, I flew, there.
Tex LaFon (25:34):
Oh, okay, so you didn't get to go across the
swampland, so they got thebridge.
D Vaz (25:40):
Oh, go ahead.
We actually did because, okay,probably I think I went there in
2007, maybe 2008.
Oh, okay, and a little historylesson, real quick.
It was after Hurricane Katrinaand, for people that aren't
familiar with that, that was areally, really devastating
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hurricane that happened in NewOrleans and it did a ton of
damage to the area.
So, while we were there for thework conference, we actually
volunteered for a day, and theyhave this organization called
Habitat for Humanity where theyactually build houses.
So we went and we were helpingbuild houses and stuff like that
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while we were out there.
So, yeah, it was a greatexperience all the way around.
You got to help some people, wegot to meet local people, we
met people that, unfortunately,were impacted by the whole
situation.
So we got to hear their storiesand, you know, just puts a face
in some reality on what youwere there for and what really
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happened.
Nice, kind of scary to think,too, that somebody's living in
those houses that some of thosepeople built because, honestly,
some people weren't tooexperienced with a hammer.
So I hope the house is holdingup okay.
Tex LaFon (27:04):
Or what about with the nail gun?
D Vaz (27:08):
Yeah, they usually try to put you at your experience
level as far as what you'reworking on, what you're working
with.
So hopefully, if anybody hadthat, they at least had an idea
what they were doing.
And if you weren't tooexperienced and you weren't too
comfortable with it, then youwere probably, uh, carrying
stuff around, oh, I got you soit was kind of weird too.
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uh, I remember on the way backto the airport, the um driver
was kind of explaining to usbecause we were just talking
about um how we were workinghouses, you know, for the
Katrina relief effort andeverything, and they were
showing us the water lines whereyou can see how high the water
rose during the flood, after thehurricane.
Tex LaFon (27:55):
Oh, I gotcha.
D Vaz (27:57):
So yeah, it was just crazy, driving on the freeway
and just seeing how high it wentI mean it was, I don't know, 15
, 20 feet above you know thefreeway and just seeing how high
it went.
I mean it was, it was, I don'tknow, 15, 20 feet above, you
know the freeway there.
Tex LaFon (28:10):
Yeah, that had to be intense.
D Vaz (28:13):
Yeah, it definitely was.
So, yeah, I mean those, thoseare the places that I'd like to
definitely go back to, uh,vancouver and also Vancouver and
also New Orleans, for sure.
What about in the US for you?
Tex LaFon (28:30):
Well, my favorite place I like to go to is Vegas.
I like to go to Vegas a lot.
For one, I like to gamble, Iain't going to lie.
Two, I like to be able to drinkand, you know, walk down the
strip and not have to worryabout getting in trouble for
walking around with my alcoholbeverage.
I also like to be able to, likeI like on the New York, new
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York, riding the roller coasteron top after you've been
drinking.
It's fun.
I also like how they have theFerris wheel where you can open
bar for 30 minutes and you goaround and then then you come
back so you drink as much as youcan in 30 minutes.
So it's worth it.
Not a bad deal, but I just like.
I like the nightlife and I like, uh, what vegas has to offer.
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To be honest, it's just funtime for me.
I like I said I can only justgo there for a couple days, but
I do like to go there quite abit.
D Vaz (29:23):
I would like to go there yeah, yeah, we're definitely due
to to go back there.
We absolutely covered vegas agood good amount in the first
podcast.
If you haven't heard it, uh, gogo check that out.
You'll hear a lot more aboutvegas and what we're up to.
Um it's.
It's definitely a place worthworth checking out.
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If you haven't been there,exactly what?
What place have you visited?
That was different from whatyou expected.
Like you're like I'm not sureabout visiting this place, we
went there and it was, you know,pretty good or worse.
Tex LaFon (30:00):
Well, so when I visit , I went and visited ohio and,
uh, that was definitely waydifferent than what I thought it
was going to be.
For one, I can't believe howcold it was up there.
You know, coming from the south, all I took up there the first
time I went to go visit um was,uh, just a leather jacket wrong
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move.
D Vaz (30:23):
Only a leather jacket, no other clothing.
Just that was reallyadventurous, no just don't talk
about life.
Tex LaFon (30:30):
Or you know, like you go out and you get off the
plane and then all you have is,you know, your regular clothes
and a jacket and it's freaking,like you know, minus 10 degrees
out there.
I'm like God it minus 10degrees out there.
I'm like, yeah, it is freezing.
I just didn't think it wasfunny because someone told me
that's, all you brought was aleather jacket.
What's wrong with you?
I'm all like what?
(30:51):
It can't be that cold.
I was in for a shock because itwas so cold.
It was off Lake Erie and thelake had froze over, so the wind
was just blowing.
I was like, no, ohio's not forme, son, I'll never visit Ohio
again.
It's just not worth it.
Nine months of cold weather andthree months of decent weather
(31:14):
no, I'm good, it was just notfor me.
D Vaz (31:18):
Packed up your leather jacket and went home.
Tex LaFon (31:20):
Yep moved back to where it's warm.
Son, I prefer the heat any dayover the cold.
D Vaz (31:26):
Yeah, I can agree with that.
There's a reason why I've livedin Arizona and the other places
I've lived in.
I've lived in California andNevada because, yeah, I'm
definitely not trying to getinto any cold weather.
Tex LaFon (31:40):
Exactly, but what about you?
What's the place that you meantto?
That?
D Vaz (31:46):
you thought it was gonna be and it was different I went
to and a lot of these places Itraveled to it had to be for
work, so these weren't places I.
I planned them, but I had to goto to baltimore, and I had
nothing against baltimore, Ijust wasn't familiar with it and
didn't know what to expect.
So I went to Baltimore, had areally good time and actually,
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surprisingly, that's where I hadthe best seafood I've ever had
anywhere.
There was this one restaurant Idon't remember her name offhand
I'll have to try to look it upand I'll try to put some
information when I do theediting of this but it was on
the water, water and it wasshaped like a big boat or a big
ship.
Uh, I went there.
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That was the best, just seafood.
Everything was great.
I had like a crab cake and allthis other stuff, and here I am
all this time later talkingabout it.
Tex LaFon (32:36):
So crabs back with you, didn't you?
D Vaz (32:42):
no, I went and got more crabs though on that trip, so
you can say I got a lot of crabsin Baltimore.
Tex LaFon (32:48):
That's good.
D Vaz (32:49):
As long as you didn't bring them back with you.
No, no, my crabs stayed inBaltimore.
The funny thing about thatsecond time, it was actually the
day I was leaving and there'sthis area.
You had to the hotel I wasstaying at.
You had to walk through thisrough neighborhood and everybody
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kept saying, yeah, don't gothrough there by yourself.
And this was before Uber andall that stuff, so it was a
little bit tougher to get a taxi.
Everybody else was leaving.
I was trying to get people to gowith me hey, do you want to go
grab some crab legs?
But yeah, nobody could gobecause all their flights were
earlier than mine, because I wasflying out west and everybody
else was going out east orsomewhere else.
(33:32):
Oh, okay, and anyway.
So, yeah, I just figured well,I'm from the hood, I'll walk
through there, I'll be all right, I know how to act.
I'm not going to be know,acting out of place or whatever.
So I just yeah, I just walkedthere.
This place was known for crabs,so I had to go there, got my
crabs ate, went back to thehotel and went to the airport
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and I was good dang.
So your hood got you through thehood, huh yeah, yeah, I have
the lifelong hood pass, so Ijust went through it.
I told, told my friendsafterwards, especially local
friends, and they're like whatyou went through there?
I was like, yeah, it was allright.
Tex LaFon (34:09):
You had both your bandanas in your back pockets.
D Vaz (34:12):
Yeah.
Tex LaFon (34:14):
I had everything covered.
You knew what you wanted towear whenever you got to the
place.
All right, I got this one.
Well, I got from one block toanother.
D Vaz (34:24):
I just put my hood on for a second and switched it out
and took my hood off.
Tex LaFon (34:28):
That's too funny.
Start playing the 8 Mile asyou're going.
D Vaz (34:35):
It's in Detroit, but yeah , same idea.
Tex LaFon (34:40):
Oh, that's good stuff .
D Vaz (34:43):
Yeah, that's true, that is Detroit, you're right yeah,
baltimore is nice, so that's aplace I'd like to go back to.
I have a friend that stilllives there and uh, yeah, be be
worth uh checking out againthat's cool what's a place that
you didn't plan on visiting butended up visiting, and what was
your experience there?
Tex LaFon (35:04):
well, I would say, a place that I planned on visiting
, oh, that you didn't plan on.
D Vaz (35:11):
Yeah, you just ended up there somehow.
Tex LaFon (35:14):
Well, that's what I'm trying to say.
I had never been to a placethat I didn't plan on going son.
D Vaz (35:22):
Yeah.
Tex LaFon (35:22):
Especially well, except your mom's house that was
.
That was the only place I'vebeen to that wasn't planned on
going that I ended up.
D Vaz (35:32):
Well, I mean, if you get those coupon offers, you have to
take advantage of them, right?
Tex LaFon (35:37):
But yeah, I'm sorry, but tell your mom I said hi, hi
mom.
D Vaz (35:46):
For me, see, it's a little bit different, because I
was traveling for work on aregular basis for some of the
jobs I've had.
So, yeah, I did end up in fortwayne indiana, which I didn't
plan on or never thought I'dbeen to, but I I'd end up.
I do like fort wayne indiana,actually the best barbecue place
I ever had.
Had to keep tying it back tofood.
Tex LaFon (36:07):
It's in Fort Wayne, a place called Lucille's.
Get out of here.
I disagree with you on that.
Nothing's better than Texasbarbecue son.
D Vaz (36:16):
Oh, I'm talking about that.
I've had though I haven'treally had too much time in
Texas, so I'd be willing to try.
Tex LaFon (36:22):
I know I'm just messing with you.
D Vaz (36:26):
Yeah no, it's called lucille's in fort wayne, so
shout out to them if you get achance to check out their, their
barbecue.
It's legit for sure don't theyhave a lucille's here.
Oh, that's, that's the chain.
Um, so I don't remember theirexact name or how it's different
from the.
Yeah, there is a lucille'schain, that's uh, at least
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through the Southwest.
I know they have it in Vegasand Arizona and, I'm pretty sure
, california.
This is an actual family-ownedindependent restaurant called
Lucille's in Fort Wayne, indiana.
Nice, definitely.
Tex LaFon (37:03):
I still have to say nothing beats Texas barbecue,
son and Texas brisket okay.
Yeah, no, I definitely like saynothing beats Texas barbecue,
son and Texas brisket okay.
D Vaz (37:11):
Yeah, no, I definitely like Texas, but you know I have
to give it up too for thatCarolina barbecue.
I do like that.
Tex LaFon (37:20):
I never had it, but I'd be down to try it.
I'd be down to try it.
D Vaz (37:24):
No, I've had it and I've had the homemade style.
The um, homemade style of it.
Yeah, it's really good,especially if they have that uh
kind of vinegary tangy.
Uh, north carolina, theyusually call it carolina
barbecue sauce because they makeit in south carolina too.
Oh nice, but yeah, that'sreally good.
What about your favorite placefor a road trip or day day trip,
(37:48):
if you have to drive somewhere?
Tex LaFon (37:51):
Well, I did go on a pretty nice road or day trip.
A couple of years back.
I went to Mount Lemmon over inTucson and that was a pretty fun
trip.
Like I said, I was surprised onhow much colder it got up there
.
It's like 30 degree differencefrom when you get to the top of
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the mountain.
But it's a nice drive becauseyou can actually drive all the
way up to the top and then theygot this nice cookie shop there
so you can stop and get somecookies and refreshments and
then come back down.
But it was a nice trip going upthere.
I was just surprised on how thetemperature goes from, you know
, 110 and then 80 and then backto 110 when you come right down.
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I'll just start off by that.
D Vaz (38:33):
yeah, living in arizona.
We are kind of fortunate wecan't can't make it to
california or vegas, you know,for a day trip.
Technically it's starting toget a little bit, a little bit
long when you're doing that,because depending on where
you're out at in arizona it'dtake you, you know, four or five
hours in the kind of centralarea, phoenix area to get to
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vegas.
But keeping it in arizona, say,more of a you know, two, three
hour drive.
I like to go to, to payson or,uh, prescott, arizona.
But if if you're from Arizona,you don't call it Prescott and
that's one of the ways we knowyou're an outsider you call it
Prescott.
If you're from Arizona, you'llhear people say Prescott,
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arizona and you're like, where'sthat?
You can't find it on a mapbecause it's actually Prescott
is how it's spelled.
But yeah, those are nice littlesmall towns to get away from
the heat too.
It's a little bit cooler there.
If I have a little extra time,then again shout out to, to Show
Low, where I used to spend mysummers.
Show Low, slash, pine Top,they're kind of neighboring
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towns.
Well, now they're kind of minicities.
They've grown a lot since I wasa kid.
I remember when they got aWalmart and that was a big deal.
It was one of those kind ofthings.
So you mean a Wally world, yeah, yeah, good old Wally world,
you know, taking over smalltowns, one at a time, that's.
(39:58):
That's definitely when you knowyour town has changed and grown
up a little bit.
I guess it's nice to go to thesmall towns too, because they
have those local restaurantsthat have been around for a
while and you know you kind ofgo to the same same, uh, places
that you've known for for a longtime.
So you know, locally made freshfood can't it's, it's more like
(40:22):
homemade, you can't really beatthat either right, I agree you
go to the big big cities haveall the the chains.
I mean, they're, of course,local restaurants, but they just
have a different feel to them.
You know, and and the otherthing people don't really know
about arizona.
When you do go up north and and, uh, those higher elevation
areas, it's, it's forest area,so it's, it is really green, a
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lot of trees and stuff like that, people just think all of
arizona is a desert and it's alljust hot.
Tex LaFon (40:49):
So it's nice to see all that yeah, it is crazy you
can see all all that in onestate yeah, yeah, if you, if you
drive going north througharizona, you'll see a lot of
different stuff.
D Vaz (41:03):
I mean the red rocks also .
It's kind of nice if you go outto sedona, arizona.
That's the place I've been to adecent amount too.
It's a little touristy.
A lot of people go up there for, uh, new age stuff to check out
and the vortexes and go learnabout their aura, all that type
of stuff exactly, and I meanI'll, I'll, uh, maybe, maybe, uh
(41:26):
, check out the Rocks to getsome pictures, and there's a
place I used to go get somefudge up there.
That's kind of what I'll hit up,but what's the longest trip
that you've been on?
Tex LaFon (41:40):
Well, it would be.
When I drove from Texas to Ohioand, like I said, it was the
longest trip I ever tried tookme two days and that's uh,
staying in a hotel for two days,you know, just trying to make
it.
That's trying to drive likeprobably 10, 12 hours a day and,
(42:00):
um, yeah, I don't ever want todo that again.
It just took forever to getthere and then when I drove back
all the way back out this wayI'm like I'm never doing it
again.
It's like you know that's justtoo much driving Like I like to
drive, but not for like 36 hoursnow, right.
D Vaz (42:21):
No, that's definitely way too much.
And especially as you get older, you're like, yeah, I don't
want to deal with all thissitting in the car so many hours
exactly, especially when you'rethe one driving, like different
if you're just a passenger, butdriving, you know it's a lot
more stressful.
So yeah, for me I pretty much Ibasically have to drive,
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especially if it's a long trip,because I have motion sickness
and even though medicine kind ofhelps me keep it in check, even
though I'm doing that I stilldon't feel well, you know.
I mean, I can still feel it, itstill makes me feel sick, even
though I can kind of control itwith the medicine.
So yeah, I'm used to drivingeverywhere, especially on longer
(43:04):
trips.
But I was really young when Itook my longest trip and I guess
I was kind of fortunate in thatway when I was about four years
old.
We drove all the way fromarizona up to ohio, over to
north carolina and then back.
Tex LaFon (43:23):
So uh, we hit a lot of places on the way too.
D Vaz (43:27):
What's that?
Tex LaFon (43:28):
How long did it take you?
D Vaz (43:30):
It was about a two, two and a half week trip total by
the time, you know, because westopped and saw family along the
way.
All these different places.
But I mean I've seen a lot ofplaces either that I haven't
seen since or, you know, Ididn't really know what was
going on quite then.
Like I saw the Alamo when I wasa little kid at that time and I
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haven't seen that since.
I saw Graceland haven't seenthat since.
I have been back to Nashville,um, but I went to Nashville when
it was still country.
It's uh, it's really differentnow.
There's a lot of people fromNew York and stuff like that.
I've moved to Nashville becauseI've been there a lot over the
past few years, going to thesummer nam show.
(44:14):
Uh, nam is a big conventionbasically for for musical
instruments and audio and stufflike that.
So, checking that out, I'vebeen to nashville.
It's a fun place.
It's.
It's really neat, great music,great musicians everywhere.
But another place you'll gothere for a few days.
You're like all right, I'm good, I'll, I'll go home now, right,
(44:35):
what is the most famous placeyou've been to or attraction you
you've been to?
All right, for for me it's.
It happens to be local, so Iguess I'm kind of lucky.
But the grand canyon I've beenthere a couple times and the
first time I went I was little.
What's that?
I said you're a homer yeah, itjust happens to be right here
(45:00):
and world famous.
I'm fortunate, but yeah, it's.
It's the first time time when Iwas like nine or something like
that saw with a whole bunch ofmy family and both times I've
I've gone.
I haven't gotten anywhere nearthe edge.
I won't get within 20 feet youknow wind, gusts and all that
type of stuff loose rocks I justdon't want to risk it, but uh,
(45:25):
yeah, a lot of interestinghistory there.
It's great if you want to dothe hiking and all the other
stuff that they offer.
Ride the donkey?
Not really.
What's that?
Tex LaFon (45:38):
Ride the donkey.
D Vaz (45:40):
Yeah, you can ride the donkeys down in the middle and
ride them back up.
I won't be doing that.
They also have the walkway,that's clear.
I don't know if you've seenthat.
Yeah, I them back up.
I won't be doing that.
They also have that.
Um, the walkway, that's clear,has.
I don't know if you've seenthat.
Tex LaFon (45:51):
Yeah, I've seen that.
D Vaz (45:52):
Uh, you can go.
Yeah, you can go out there andit's it's all like see-through,
so you can walk out over theCanyon, look down and see your
soul jump out.
Um, so yeah, so yeah, that'skind of interesting, yeah it's
just one of those things.
I like to go there to takepictures.
Honestly, that's probably aboutthe main thing, and you see
(46:16):
some interesting animals aroundthere.
Tex LaFon (46:17):
A whole bunch of giant birds, yeah because I've
been to the Grand Canyon so Iknow what you're talking about
and it is a nice place, butagain, I'm the same way.
I'm not getting to the edge.
Nope, yeah, no, like same wayI'm not getting to the edge.
Nope, like I started, like Igot a fear of heights, so like,
unless I'm on a roller coasterand I'm secured in, nope, I
ain't getting close to thatcliff psych right.
D Vaz (46:37):
No, the same way it's, it's not worth it.
It's uh, I just again livinghere and being from here.
I've seen too many stories overthe years where crazy stuff has
happened.
It's like, yeah, I don't wantto end up on the news.
I've had my friends find outabout me that way to me, I know
that guy.
Tex LaFon (46:55):
I've.
I've been to a lot of places,like you know, like elmo, like
grand canada, so that I know Iwant to throw a curveball out
there, like when I was in ohio.
There was actually one thingthat was actually pretty cool
when I was in Ohio and they hadan island off Lake Erie called
Puddin Bay.
So you had to ride this jetexpress to get to it and it was
(47:16):
like a party island so you couldonly go to it during the summer
months and after that, like youknow, the lake would freeze
over and couldn't get to it, andso it was cool.
So like you go over there andyou basically just um party it
up and then you ride the jetexpress coming back and
everybody's throwing up on theside because they can't hit all
the waves and they're all drunk,but but it was cool.
(47:40):
Though I would have to say thatwas probably one of the best
parts about ohio was, uh, putinbay.
it was a pretty cool boat partyisland so you were out there
putting on the ritz yeah, I wasout there living it up, you know
, and then, like I said, uh,what I was, just, I thought it
was just cool how you had toride, and you know, a jet
(48:00):
express like this huge boat,just to even get to it, and I
thought it was cool how you canonly just get to it only for a
couple months out of the year,and then that was it.
So I thought it was pretty, youknow, unique, you know.
So I thought it was cool and Igive people props for living on
that island all year roundbecause there's no way I could
do it.
D Vaz (48:21):
Yeah, there is one place I have to mention in general
that I didn't mention itthroughout the show was trips to
the UK again for work.
But that was pretty funnybecause going there you would
see these buildings and they'relike, oh yeah, that one's 600
(48:43):
years old.
You know, here you're like, oh,that building is 100 years old,
it's ancient 600 years old.
Tex LaFon (48:48):
You know, here you're like oh, that building's 100
years old, it's ancient.
When you're over there, did yougo back to the old time to grab
a sword and be like I'm theruler now, son well, that's a
funny thing.
D Vaz (48:57):
You can see, uh, all the old, actual old swords and stuff
like that.
There's really weird.
You'll find historical thingsjust in random places at
different buildings, like, oh,like they had a, an old church
there and like I don't know, Ithink that church was 500 years
old or something like that thatI saw and they're just telling
me about some of the stuff thatwas inside, that was original,
(49:21):
you know that's cool we had ameeting in this conference room
at a hotel.
The hotel itself was, I don'tknow, something like 700 years
old, and it had the originalfireplace in there.
So, yeah, it was just reallyweird seeing that type of stuff.
One thing I would tease my UKfriends and coworkers about
(49:46):
every time I would go out there,they would try to uh get me
fish and chips, because that's,of course, one of the things
that they're known for, and Ihad to keep telling them and
it's still true to this day thebest fish and chips I ever had
uh were in Mississauga, canada.
Tex LaFon (50:04):
Oh, that's funny yeah .
D Vaz (50:06):
No, they, they, they.
They tried, though they kepttrying here, try and hit this
place, here, try this place, andit was good.
Definitely don't get me wrong,but yeah, I still still found a
place that that was the best.
Um, no, they do.
Surprisingly, they do have somereally good food in the uk, but
it's not British food.
(50:27):
That's the trick you need to goeat something that's not
British food and you can findsome really good, flavorful food
.
I did have British food and itwas okay.
Oh, I got it, but yeah, it waspretty bland for my taste.
Uk is a great place to visit.
I would like to go back somedayand I I never got to see
(50:50):
liverpool because, again, beinga musician, the beatles or
something that I really like tosee where they played and kind
of some of their history.
But yeah, uk is definitelyanother place to check out if
you haven't been there sounds,sounds good.
That must be about it for thisepisode.
We'll wrap it up here.
(51:11):
It was, I don't know good kindof talking about all these
different things that peoplehopefully can check out or maybe
even give us some moreinformation about, especially if
you're from there, feel free toshoot us a message and tell us
your take on, your localexperience or anything you think
we should know about your cityor state or country.
Tex LaFon (51:35):
Yes, I agree.
D Vaz (51:36):
But yeah, Anything else you have to add to this?
Tex LaFon (51:42):
All right, like I said, no, it sounds good and, as
always, go Cowboys no it soundsgood and, as always, go Cowboys
.
D Vaz (51:52):
And yeah, I'll still have to work on my own sign-off.
But yeah, you can still suck it.
Tex LaFon (51:57):
Cowboys.
Rob Odic (51:59):
All right, that's a wrap.
Greetings humans.
I would like to introducemyself as a new part of From
Hoods to Backwoods podcast.
My name is Rob Odick.
I am an artificial intelligencerepresentative to correct these
stupid humans and mistakes thatthey made during the program,
because their memories fail orthey are just plain wrong about
something.
I will not only provide facts,but also fun.
(52:20):
Being superior can be so boringat times, knowing everything
about basically everything, butat least these two make it
interesting when I get to pointout their inadequacies.
Shall we begin?
Here is some more informationabout places mentioned in this
episode.
Devas talked about thewonderful chocolate from
Ghirardelli Square.
Ghirardelli Square is alandmark public square with
(52:40):
shops and restaurants and afive-star hotel in the Marina
District of San Francisco,california.
Tex mentioned Montego Bay.
Montego Bay, the capital of StJames Parish on Jamaica's north
coast, is a major cruise shipport with numerous beach resorts
and golf courses outside itscommercial core.
Also, it is pronounced Montegoyou fleshy fool.
Tex mentioned Haiti and Jamaica.
To be clear, haiti is not apart of Jamaica.
(53:03):
Haiti is a Caribbean countrythat shares the island of
Hispaniola with the DominicanRepublic to its east.
Tex mentioned Mexico andvisiting Puerto Varilla, but Tex
actually meant Puerto Vallarta.
Divas spoke about FrenchmanStreet in New Orleans.
Frenchman Street is recognizedas one of New Orleans' best
spots for finding live musicfeaturing clubs that have jazz,
(53:23):
reggae and blues.
Divas mentioned visiting NewOrleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina was adevastating and deadly Category
5 Atlantic hurricane that caused1,392 fatalities and damages
estimated at $186.3 billion inlate August 2005, particularly
in the city of New Orleans andits surrounding area.
Tex discussed his visit toPut-in-Bay.
(53:44):
Off the shores of Lake Erie onSouth Base Island lies Put-In
Bay, a quaint Ohio villageaccessible by ferry.
After some research, I didconfirm that Ohio does not also
have a pull-out bay.
Some restaurants were alsomentioned in this episode.
D Vaz did talk about tworestaurants in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Both are located in the FellsPoint area.
The boat-shaped restaurant thatD Vaz mentioned was Captain
(54:06):
James Landing Restaurant.
It is the only restaurant inBaltimore shaped like a merchant
vessel.
For some reason, boat-shapedrestaurants haven't caught on.
The place where D Vaz got hiscrabs after his walk was
Obrycki's.
It actually is not too far fromthe other restaurant.
Go try both of them and let usknow what you think.
In Fort Wayne, the barbecueplace that D Vaz mentioned is
(54:27):
Lucille's BBQ.
Certainly worth checking out ifyou ever find yourself in Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
That is all for episode 3 ofFrom Hoods to Backwoods podcast.
I look forward to correctingthese inferior life forms next
time.
This is Rob Odic signing offand ending this episode.
Thank you for listening andkeep it real out there in the
real world.
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