March 14, 2025 • 15 mins
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In Episode 12 of RideShare RoadTalk we weave through DC lore and the connection between the JFK assassination, Reagan shooting and a cameraman poker game, humorous tales of pregnant day-shift strippers in Springfield, IL, and celebrity encounters at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Buckle up...Let's Drive!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk
Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
my passengers while engaging inpersonal and topical
discussions.
The meaningful lives of mypassengers while engaging in
personal and topical discussions.
I'm your host and driver, johnFoddus, and we're cruising the
streets of Washington DC.
(00:33):
Buckle up, let's drive Where'shome for you From DC or
somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I actually live in central Illinois.
Oh, okay, I've been there for ayear and a half.
I'm actually originally fromthe west coast, so Portland.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oregon area.
Oh nice, okay, yeah, I had um.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
My uncle lived in Ashland for a little while oh
cool little artsy Shakespearetown yeah, that's where my
college is out of.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Okay, cool well, you know you're at the Hinkley
Hilton right yes, that is what Ilearned yeah, and uh, the
little.
Uh, the spot was like rightdown there.
If you haven't seen it wherethe shooting was, it was a long
time ago but it's stillinteresting very interesting,
interesting history yeah I um, Iused to be a television
(01:17):
cameraman in dc and we used tohave this poker game and it was
just camera guys only, and so ifyou weren't a camera guy, you
couldn't play.
That was the rule.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, there was this guy who was kind of an older
gentleman.
His name was Shelly Feelman,and Shelly was an NBC cameraman
and his first day on the job wasin 1963.
Shows up at work and Kennedywas shot that day.
Wow, oh, can you imagine?
They say, hey, here's a bag ofmoney, you have to go to the
(01:55):
airport, you're going to go toDallas, and so that's what he
did.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now Shelley likes to tell the story while we're
playing poker.
Okay, so for the uninitiated,it's like you're playing poker
with history right.
And so Shelly goes on to tellthe story how he gets to Dallas
and he makes his way to thepolice station and he goes down
to the garage and then theyliterally walk Lee Harvey Oswald
(02:24):
out right in front of them.
Oh my gosh, and that's whenJack Ruby shot him, wow, right
in front of Shelly.
He was there for that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That is incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It really is.
I still get kind of chillsretelling that story, and so
where I'm going to take it fullcircle is.
You know that was Shelly'sfirst day on the job.
Shelly went on to just work atthe white house and do all kinds
of fun stuff for nbc and um.
Shelly was part of the traveldetail travel pool and he was
(02:53):
the one that filmed reagan beingshot.
Oh my god so lightning strucktwice for shelley.
Shelley shot that footage thateveryone and their mother has
seen a hundred times of Reagangetting shot.
The police officer, the SecretService, all that stuff Crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That is.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I think Nat Geo did a whole series about him and a
couple other guys that wereinvolved with that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, how cool.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So anyways.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That is very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That was the cameraman poker game.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
My husband actually is a content creator.
He has aspirations of being anactor comedian someday, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is he funny or does he just think he is?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, he is actually very funny.
Okay, he has been making theselittle character videos since
YouTube was created, so he'sbeen on YouTube the whole time,
okay, and then he went viralduring the pandemic on TikTok
Ooh, and so we went from.
(03:56):
I work for a nonprofit, he wasworking at the hospital as a
housekeeper in a small town andin a couple years we we were
able to he quit his job and hedoes it full-time now so he is
funny, he is, he's got.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's very funny, he's got some.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's a character actor.
He really would love to somedaybe on snl, all right, but the
joke is that like he does thatand then I do grant monitoring.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, wow, opposites attract, so you watch glaciers
is what you do.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You watch glaciers melt.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm looking at spreadsheets and writing reports
and policies and he's in ourbasement yelling at in front of
the green screen and makingjokes.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But it's been a really great because it let us.
We were able to move whereverwe wanted.
We moved to central Illinois,which is way lower cost of
living than the West coast, sowe're just coasting now.
It's great and I get to travelwith my job.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I have nothing for central Illinois, or I mean I
was in Springfield once.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, so we live in Peoria's, about an hour and a
half north of Springfield okayand it's very interesting
because we have a real downtown,although it's a little dead,
but it does look like a littleminiature downtown city, okay,
and then five miles from thatit's farm and nothing.
(05:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I remember it being a little rural, so there
is a very much.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
it's a really interesting place to live
because there's very much aninner city culture and then a
farm town culture very close toeach other.
So it's been really interestingfor us.
But we live in the city properand we really love it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, I don't really remember much about my time
there.
I was there for a wedding andmy wife was in the wedding party
, and so I was kind of turnedloose on the streets of
Springfield and I don't rememberthere being much to do.
So this is a very long time agoand I'm somewhat embarrassed to
mention this, but I somehowwent to a strip club because you
know my wife's just like that.
(06:07):
She's totally fine with it yesand um, so I go in there.
I'm like, yeah, I'm not goingto stay.
And there's like there's likeone person in there dancing and
she was like seven monthspregnant and she wanted me to do
a lap dance, so I'm like yeah,I think I'm good.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I mean I'll give you 20 for the kid you know, yes,
but I just I don't need the lapdance.
Oh, that is really funny.
So anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
so I retold that story to the wedding party and
of course they thought it waslike the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Was that the day shift stripper?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's exactly what it was.
It really was.
You know props for, you knowtrying um it was a fun wedding.
I uh, it's like just a randomhotel and you know a big
ballroom oh yes, was it maybelike the abraham lincoln?
There's a lot of abrahamlincoln things there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know we really like that, and there is one
hotel that's pretty well, it'sbig.
I I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
all I know is there was another ballroom adjacent
and there was like a postalservice costume party going on.
That's wild and of course I waslike half in the bag hammered
and I go over there and I'mbringing people in costume into
the wedding reception.
Like people dressed up as likeTwinkies and the Incredible Hulk
and all of a sudden everyone'son the dance floor twerking the
(07:27):
Twinkie.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Before twerking was even a thing.
That is too funny.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I invented that with a.
Twinkie 20 years ago, I don'tknow.
Um, so that's all I have forSpringfield.
Yeah, which is enough?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think, yeah, I think that's a good that's,
that's a pretty good Springfieldexperience.
My, our main.
I work for the State DomesticViolence Coalition so our main
office is there, but I don'thave to go there, which it's
very boring there.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's ominous work, but it's good work clearly.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, it's the kind of work I've been doing that for
years and that's the kind ofwork where, when you tell people
what to do, they're like, ohyeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But you know, but you know it's important and we've
got to do it.
Special place in heaven forpeople like you that do that
work.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah.
So what brings you to DC again?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm at a grants management conference this week,
so you know all that nerdy funstuff.
We had a barbershop quartet atour keynote.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was really fun.
You can't really write that,can you?
You just can't.
Who's planning this event?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean there are other nerds.
Yeah, I sent it to my.
I have a 13-year-old daughterand I have 10-year-old twin boys
and I sent it to my daughterand she sent the eye-rolling
emoji and I said, yep is this isnerd central.
But yeah, I mean, yeah, I don'tknow it's entertaining, but it
(08:57):
was very funny okay I was like,oh okay, we're having songs and
this is my first year coming toit, so I don't know if that was
a special for this year to liftour spirits, win the grants
world or not.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But I don't get stumped often I just don't think
I have anything else for you.
That pretty much was the trunkslammer.
Okay, cool, nice chatting withyou.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Insert four-part harmony here exactly, and they
were all you know.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
They were maybe 60 and older, so it would be creepy
if they were like in their 20s.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean, it just would be.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So I was like oh, I want to know if they do it full
time or not.
That's, Is this just a passionproject?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
As a gig.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's got to be right.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There can't be much of a TikTok audience for that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You never know.
No, it's true.
Some of the things that I seeon there.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Holka Maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Barbershop?
Probably not.
I don't know.
I think there's some mileagewith the barbershop quartet
thing.
I know right, there's somethingthere.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And they made up a little song about grants
management that they made themsing.
Oh, so that was even better.
So there was a hook, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And they sang Sweet Caroline, because of course it
just sounds like a bad movie.
It just does, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And we're in that huge ballroom at the Washington
Hilton.
They're like this is the sameballroom that the Correspondence
Dinner is in, Correct, and nowBarbershop Corsair.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know I used to go to that Really.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Correspondence Dinner quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh, how cool.
I would love to go to that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
There was a recent episode of the podcast where I
talked a little bit about it.
It was such a great kind ofannual thing.
Mm-hmm annual thing and, uh, youknow, downstairs are all the
salon rooms and upstairs is themain foyer and it's black tie
and you go through themagnetometers and then you go
into the room.
Well, I can't.
This is must have been like inthe late 90s and myself and two
(11:05):
other colleagues were half inthe bag early as as one is at
those things, and RichardDreyfuss walks kind of towards
us and we're camera guys, wedon't give a fuck, right, that's
the magic.
It's like we're kind ofdisarming and so he starts
(11:25):
chatting with us for a coupleminutes.
Oh, what are you boys doing?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And my one friend who washammered, just doesn't even
break stride and goes hey,you're that guy from that movie
(11:48):
with the with the really bigfish, and we get the, the tip of
the the drey laugh right, yes,that cackle.
And then he literally was likemid-step walking away from us
while he was laughing.
Oh my gosh, such a funny memory.
That is really funny.
That really was the specialnessof that evening.
Was that at the time certainlynot now?
Right At the time, thesecelebrities were enamored with
(12:10):
journalism and politics and theycome here and it was a place
for them to kind of not be thecenter of attention?
Yeah, and really just kind ofrub elbows and just kind of
relax and and be a washingtonianfor the night or whatever yeah
um, but yeah, that doesn't existanymore no, not not the same.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Not the same, uh, atmosphere for sure this is my
first time in the city, soreally yeah I'm.
I was like I wish it was at adifferent time, but I'll take it
, I'll take what I can get.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
there's still some cool spots, spots to go to.
Where have you been or wheredid you?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I really have been nowhere.
I've been in that hotel thewhole time so far, so I'm gonna
go take a bus tour here and seesome sights.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's a good way to get it done quickly, just like
the Cliff Notes, and then if youcan get off and just shmai
around, that's pretty, prettyawesome too.
But I think, if it's your firsttime doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That's perfectly cool right, we love road trips, so
we're gonna eventually do a bigeast coast road trip that's the
nice thing about illinois is youcan drive anywhere you want if
you don't mind being in the carfor a long time.
Right, but we did.
We did the West Coast in 2021.
So two weeks in the car andthen we drove when we moved
(13:30):
across the middle.
So we just have the Southwestand the Southeast and the East
Coast to do.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I used to love doing road trips too.
I still do to a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
They're very fun.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I love getting to see them, as long as you get off
the highways, right?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Take the slow road, pump the brakes, find little
small towns, find a little momand pop diner or something like
that, and really kind of engageand find that you know world's
largest frying pan or exactlywhatever it is we're supposed to
be finding.
It looks like you're gettingoff at archives.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
uh, yeah okay yeah, that's where I think the bus
stop is, they said cool.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Um, I still can't believe.
It's seven o'clock and it'sbroad daylight now I know how
exciting is that it is and I Ilove it, but at the same time it
has crushed my sleep rhythm ohthe.
The past couple of days like Ifell asleep like at 4 o'clock
and woke up at like 7.
I'm like whoa, that's notsupposed to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Apparently it does now.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes, traveling always kills my sleep routine.
I'm just yeah.
I'll get back on it when I gethome, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
How long are you in town for?
Uh, till saturday.
Oh cool, so you got some time,yeah you got some time they keep
us.
They really want us to get allthe info.
They start us at seven and theykeep us till 5 15.
Why?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
would you want to leave with the quartet and all
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Cool, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I will.
It was lovely chatting with you.
It was nice to meet you,absolutely.
Oh, we'll see.
Okay, there we go.
I was in a Tesla after theairport and I couldn't get out.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Boo Tesla.
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Until next time, let's drive.
Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk
Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
my passengers while engaging inpersonal and topical
discussions.
The meaningful lives of mypassengers while engaging in
personal and topical discussions.
I'm your host and driver, johnFoddus, and we're cruising the
streets of Washington DC.
(00:33):
Buckle up, let's drive Where'shome for you From DC or
somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I actually live in central Illinois.
Oh, okay, I've been there for ayear and a half.
I'm actually originally fromthe west coast, so Portland.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oregon area.
Oh nice, okay, yeah, I had um.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
My uncle lived in Ashland for a little while oh
cool little artsy Shakespearetown yeah, that's where my
college is out of.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Okay, cool well, you know you're at the Hinkley
Hilton right yes, that is what Ilearned yeah, and uh, the
little.
Uh, the spot was like rightdown there.
If you haven't seen it wherethe shooting was, it was a long
time ago but it's stillinteresting very interesting,
interesting history yeah I um, Iused to be a television
(01:17):
cameraman in dc and we used tohave this poker game and it was
just camera guys only, and so ifyou weren't a camera guy, you
couldn't play.
That was the rule.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, there was this guy who was kind of an older
gentleman.
His name was Shelly Feelman,and Shelly was an NBC cameraman
and his first day on the job wasin 1963.
Shows up at work and Kennedywas shot that day.
Wow, oh, can you imagine?
They say, hey, here's a bag ofmoney, you have to go to the
(01:55):
airport, you're going to go toDallas, and so that's what he
did.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now Shelley likes to tell the story while we're
playing poker.
Okay, so for the uninitiated,it's like you're playing poker
with history right.
And so Shelly goes on to tellthe story how he gets to Dallas
and he makes his way to thepolice station and he goes down
to the garage and then theyliterally walk Lee Harvey Oswald
(02:24):
out right in front of them.
Oh my gosh, and that's whenJack Ruby shot him, wow, right
in front of Shelly.
He was there for that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That is incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It really is.
I still get kind of chillsretelling that story, and so
where I'm going to take it fullcircle is.
You know that was Shelly'sfirst day on the job.
Shelly went on to just work atthe white house and do all kinds
of fun stuff for nbc and um.
Shelly was part of the traveldetail travel pool and he was
(02:53):
the one that filmed reagan beingshot.
Oh my god so lightning strucktwice for shelley.
Shelley shot that footage thateveryone and their mother has
seen a hundred times of Reagangetting shot.
The police officer, the SecretService, all that stuff Crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That is.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I think Nat Geo did a whole series about him and a
couple other guys that wereinvolved with that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, how cool.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So anyways.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That is very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That was the cameraman poker game.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
My husband actually is a content creator.
He has aspirations of being anactor comedian someday, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is he funny or does he just think he is?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, he is actually very funny.
Okay, he has been making theselittle character videos since
YouTube was created, so he'sbeen on YouTube the whole time,
okay, and then he went viralduring the pandemic on TikTok
Ooh, and so we went from.
(03:56):
I work for a nonprofit, he wasworking at the hospital as a
housekeeper in a small town andin a couple years we we were
able to he quit his job and hedoes it full-time now so he is
funny, he is, he's got.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's very funny, he's got some.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's a character actor.
He really would love to somedaybe on snl, all right, but the
joke is that like he does thatand then I do grant monitoring.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, wow, opposites attract, so you watch glaciers
is what you do.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You watch glaciers melt.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm looking at spreadsheets and writing reports
and policies and he's in ourbasement yelling at in front of
the green screen and makingjokes.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But it's been a really great because it let us.
We were able to move whereverwe wanted.
We moved to central Illinois,which is way lower cost of
living than the West coast, sowe're just coasting now.
It's great and I get to travelwith my job.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I have nothing for central Illinois, or I mean I
was in Springfield once.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, so we live in Peoria's, about an hour and a
half north of Springfield okayand it's very interesting
because we have a real downtown,although it's a little dead,
but it does look like a littleminiature downtown city, okay,
and then five miles from thatit's farm and nothing.
(05:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I remember it being a little rural, so there
is a very much.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
it's a really interesting place to live
because there's very much aninner city culture and then a
farm town culture very close toeach other.
So it's been really interestingfor us.
But we live in the city properand we really love it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, I don't really remember much about my time
there.
I was there for a wedding andmy wife was in the wedding party
, and so I was kind of turnedloose on the streets of
Springfield and I don't rememberthere being much to do.
So this is a very long time agoand I'm somewhat embarrassed to
mention this, but I somehowwent to a strip club because you
know my wife's just like that.
(06:07):
She's totally fine with it yesand um, so I go in there.
I'm like, yeah, I'm not goingto stay.
And there's like there's likeone person in there dancing and
she was like seven monthspregnant and she wanted me to do
a lap dance, so I'm like yeah,I think I'm good.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I mean I'll give you 20 for the kid you know, yes,
but I just I don't need the lapdance.
Oh, that is really funny.
So anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
so I retold that story to the wedding party and
of course they thought it waslike the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Was that the day shift stripper?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's exactly what it was.
It really was.
You know props for, you knowtrying um it was a fun wedding.
I uh, it's like just a randomhotel and you know a big
ballroom oh yes, was it maybelike the abraham lincoln?
There's a lot of abrahamlincoln things there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know we really like that, and there is one
hotel that's pretty well, it'sbig.
I I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
all I know is there was another ballroom adjacent
and there was like a postalservice costume party going on.
That's wild and of course I waslike half in the bag hammered
and I go over there and I'mbringing people in costume into
the wedding reception.
Like people dressed up as likeTwinkies and the Incredible Hulk
and all of a sudden everyone'son the dance floor twerking the
(07:27):
Twinkie.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Before twerking was even a thing.
That is too funny.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I invented that with a.
Twinkie 20 years ago, I don'tknow.
Um, so that's all I have forSpringfield.
Yeah, which is enough?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think, yeah, I think that's a good that's,
that's a pretty good Springfieldexperience.
My, our main.
I work for the State DomesticViolence Coalition so our main
office is there, but I don'thave to go there, which it's
very boring there.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's ominous work, but it's good work clearly.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, it's the kind of work I've been doing that for
years and that's the kind ofwork where, when you tell people
what to do, they're like, ohyeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But you know, but you know it's important and we've
got to do it.
Special place in heaven forpeople like you that do that
work.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah.
So what brings you to DC again?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm at a grants management conference this week,
so you know all that nerdy funstuff.
We had a barbershop quartet atour keynote.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was really fun.
You can't really write that,can you?
You just can't.
Who's planning this event?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean there are other nerds.
Yeah, I sent it to my.
I have a 13-year-old daughterand I have 10-year-old twin boys
and I sent it to my daughterand she sent the eye-rolling
emoji and I said, yep is this isnerd central.
But yeah, I mean, yeah, I don'tknow it's entertaining, but it
(08:57):
was very funny okay I was like,oh okay, we're having songs and
this is my first year coming toit, so I don't know if that was
a special for this year to liftour spirits, win the grants
world or not.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But I don't get stumped often I just don't think
I have anything else for you.
That pretty much was the trunkslammer.
Okay, cool, nice chatting withyou.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Insert four-part harmony here exactly, and they
were all you know.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
They were maybe 60 and older, so it would be creepy
if they were like in their 20s.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean, it just would be.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So I was like oh, I want to know if they do it full
time or not.
That's, Is this just a passionproject?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
As a gig.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's got to be right.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There can't be much of a TikTok audience for that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You never know.
No, it's true.
Some of the things that I seeon there.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Holka Maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Barbershop?
Probably not.
I don't know.
I think there's some mileagewith the barbershop quartet
thing.
I know right, there's somethingthere.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And they made up a little song about grants
management that they made themsing.
Oh, so that was even better.
So there was a hook, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And they sang Sweet Caroline, because of course it
just sounds like a bad movie.
It just does, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And we're in that huge ballroom at the Washington
Hilton.
They're like this is the sameballroom that the Correspondence
Dinner is in, Correct, and nowBarbershop Corsair.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know I used to go to that Really.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Correspondence Dinner quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh, how cool.
I would love to go to that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
There was a recent episode of the podcast where I
talked a little bit about it.
It was such a great kind ofannual thing.
Mm-hmm annual thing and, uh, youknow, downstairs are all the
salon rooms and upstairs is themain foyer and it's black tie
and you go through themagnetometers and then you go
into the room.
Well, I can't.
This is must have been like inthe late 90s and myself and two
(11:05):
other colleagues were half inthe bag early as as one is at
those things, and RichardDreyfuss walks kind of towards
us and we're camera guys, wedon't give a fuck, right, that's
the magic.
It's like we're kind ofdisarming and so he starts
(11:25):
chatting with us for a coupleminutes.
Oh, what are you boys doing?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And my one friend who washammered, just doesn't even
break stride and goes hey,you're that guy from that movie
(11:48):
with the with the really bigfish, and we get the, the tip of
the the drey laugh right, yes,that cackle.
And then he literally was likemid-step walking away from us
while he was laughing.
Oh my gosh, such a funny memory.
That is really funny.
That really was the specialnessof that evening.
Was that at the time certainlynot now?
Right At the time, thesecelebrities were enamored with
(12:10):
journalism and politics and theycome here and it was a place
for them to kind of not be thecenter of attention?
Yeah, and really just kind ofrub elbows and just kind of
relax and and be a washingtonianfor the night or whatever yeah
um, but yeah, that doesn't existanymore no, not not the same.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Not the same, uh, atmosphere for sure this is my
first time in the city, soreally yeah I'm.
I was like I wish it was at adifferent time, but I'll take it
, I'll take what I can get.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
there's still some cool spots, spots to go to.
Where have you been or wheredid you?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I really have been nowhere.
I've been in that hotel thewhole time so far, so I'm gonna
go take a bus tour here and seesome sights.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's a good way to get it done quickly, just like
the Cliff Notes, and then if youcan get off and just shmai
around, that's pretty, prettyawesome too.
But I think, if it's your firsttime doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That's perfectly cool right, we love road trips, so
we're gonna eventually do a bigeast coast road trip that's the
nice thing about illinois is youcan drive anywhere you want if
you don't mind being in the carfor a long time.
Right, but we did.
We did the West Coast in 2021.
So two weeks in the car andthen we drove when we moved
(13:30):
across the middle.
So we just have the Southwestand the Southeast and the East
Coast to do.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I used to love doing road trips too.
I still do to a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
They're very fun.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I love getting to see them, as long as you get off
the highways, right?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Take the slow road, pump the brakes, find little
small towns, find a little momand pop diner or something like
that, and really kind of engageand find that you know world's
largest frying pan or exactlywhatever it is we're supposed to
be finding.
It looks like you're gettingoff at archives.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
uh, yeah okay yeah, that's where I think the bus
stop is, they said cool.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Um, I still can't believe.
It's seven o'clock and it'sbroad daylight now I know how
exciting is that it is and I Ilove it, but at the same time it
has crushed my sleep rhythm ohthe.
The past couple of days like Ifell asleep like at 4 o'clock
and woke up at like 7.
I'm like whoa, that's notsupposed to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Apparently it does now.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes, traveling always kills my sleep routine.
I'm just yeah.
I'll get back on it when I gethome, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
How long are you in town for?
Uh, till saturday.
Oh cool, so you got some time,yeah you got some time they keep
us.
They really want us to get allthe info.
They start us at seven and theykeep us till 5 15.
Why?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
would you want to leave with the quartet and all
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Cool, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I will.
It was lovely chatting with you.
It was nice to meet you,absolutely.
Oh, we'll see.
Okay, there we go.
I was in a Tesla after theairport and I couldn't get out.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Boo Tesla.
Thank you for listening to thisepisode of Rideshare Road Talk.
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