April 21, 2025 • 24 mins
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In Episode 18: Between discussions of RideShare RoadTalk's origin story, Maine's beauty and playful movie pitches about kidnapped kidneys, we witness how quickly strangers can build genuine rapport through curiosity and openness.
This episode captures that rare magic when temporary companions feel like old friends, revealing how much we all crave and appreciate authentic connections.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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.
Buckle up, let's drive.
(00:34):
Hi, ladies, how are you?
I'm Samantha.
Yep, yep, Come on in, thank you.
How are you, ladies?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm okay.
Anything fun and exciting goingon for you, oh no, just going
home, that's.
That's fun and exciting in mybook anyways and it is good.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Good, how do you like the expedition?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
uh, it's cool you know I um, I was like a suburban
and a tahoe guy forever for my,my regular business that I do,
which is like a productioncompany.
So I need space for gear andequipment and things.
And you know the byproduct ofthis crazy economy the residual
values were such that I couldn'tlease it the way I would
(01:16):
normally do.
Okay, the GM was basicallybeing a bunch of you know
a-holes about it Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So you got a better deal from Tori, I mean yeah, I
mean, I mean literally.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's just I wash everything through my llc and
yep lease everything.
It's a payment, not aninvestment done, and uh they,
it's great no complaints.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
My husband is a uh general manager of a ford
dealership up in.
We live in maine.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My daughter lives here, but we live up in maine.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, where whereabouts in maine uh well, he
, you know, I say he actuallyworks in massachusetts we live
in maine.
Sorry that's okay, he'll, it'sonly 20 minutes, but he it's
salisbury, massachusetts.
It's an old family forddealership.
Family owned, owned.
Cool yeah, not our family Wishwe owned it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But he is the GM.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I love Maine.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh, Maine is wonderful.
We're right at the beginning.
We're in Kittery.
Have you been up there?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I have.
Where do you go?
Well, I had a friend of mineyears ago and his aunt owned a
really beautiful house inSorrento which was across from
Bar Harbor.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And we used to go up and spend summers up there as
kids.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh wow, like teenagers, that's nice.
Well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I mean, we were a bunch of knuckleheads, you know,
drinking and partying.
We go up there and it's such adownshift.
Yes, we really grew up inhindsight, isn't that funny?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
We look back and go, wow, that was really special.
And you know there is a lotabout Maine that is still like
that which is really nice yeah.
It can be a little boring,though, yeah boring's fine, I
don't mind boring.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I did a great two-week trip with my family
this was years ago and drove upEvery name drop town you could
think of, turn, turned around toBar Harbor, and then came back
home and accidentally walkedinto Ogonquit, which I just
absolutely fell in love withLike oh my God.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's what brought it.
My husband's from New York andI'm from Connecticut and we were
living in Connecticut and wewent to Ogonquit.
Somebody told us to go there onvacation.
We used to go to the Cape okayvery common if you live in.
Connecticut to go to the Capeand um, they said, why don't you
try Ogunquit?
Yeah that is what sold us onwanting to be there.
(03:36):
And then we found ourselves.
We hated going home from ourvacation every year, so
Massachusetts happeningnorthwest we sped up our plan
and moved up there and we bothstarted over careers and
everything but it's actuallybeen really good to us.
That's cool.
Good for you, yeah that's great.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I found there's something about it, um, I think
it's the.
It was like this blending oflike there's there's a large gay
population there and butthere's also the family
component and everyone's therekind of in harmony, very similar
to kind of like Rehoboth Beachhere.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh yeah, I've been there, actually With a lot more
charm, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But it just worked.
And then the little beachfrontarea.
I don't know not to be likeromantically corny, but like the
combination of the smells, likethis pine tar, boardwalk smell
with like the clams being cooked.
And like it was like oh my God,like I need to write this down
and you could just.
It was amazing.
Yeah, such a great memory, sucha great memory.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We're very lucky.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The town that we live in has something called Fort
Foster, and it's just thisreally incredible beach area
with it's.
It's just got so many trails towalk you can half of it.
You can walk your dog on tooyeah part of its woods, part of
it's the ocean.
Sure, it's just, and it's, youknow, as residents, we can just
(05:03):
go there anytime we want.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I'm sure the conversation turns a bit in the
dead of February perhaps.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Let me tell you this was a rough winter, so much so
that I'm not sure we're going tostay there long term.
You know when we get, becausewe're 60 and 64, and it's
getting tougher to do thesewinters.
I mean, we had snow a week ago,saturday no kidding.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And I'm not talking about flurries it covered
everything enough to go, enoughto get to work.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Basically, right to start shoveling it's just in
freezing, it's been absolutelyfreezing, yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I always hedge that game.
God, if I could just do like mysummers in maine.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, that's what we're talking about, like Hilton
Head or something.
We just don't have the money todo that yeah.
It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Do you live in Virginia or do you live in?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I live in Maryland, maryland, you know what part of
Maryland do you live in?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Just because we are literally looking.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's one of the oh sure which is great schools up
there in northern MontgomeryCounty like Olney, brookville,
sandy, spring area.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Okay, so how far?
How long does it take you toget into DC?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I come down I do this just for a podcast, by the way.
I come down twice a week, I getmy content and I go back home.
That's cool.
It is cool.
I run a video productioncompany in the real world and it
was a happy accident where Ihad a client who needed.
He was a rideshare like sedancompany owner and we produced a
(06:35):
video for his website, likemarketing kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And during the edit process I was listening to these
conversations that he washaving with you know, passengers
and I was like, oh, there'ssomething here, and so I went
back out.
I left one important part out.
Prior to producing that piece,I needed to know what it was
like to be him, because I can'tdrive with him.
He's driving people.
(07:00):
So, before we put cameras in thecar.
I needed to get anunderstanding of what it was
like, so I signed up to do itfor one night with my assistant.
My assistant lasted two hoursand said I'm never doing this
again and I don't know if in apast life I was like a Manhattan
cab driver.
I don't know.
It's something resonated withme.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Something worked for you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And so it just clicked, and anyway, so the idea
was spawned from there.
And now it just clicked, andanyway, so the idea was spawned
from there, and now it's evolvedinto this.
It's almost like half DCtourism, half talk, space
therapy, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's crazy.
What's the name of it?
I'm a huge podcast listener.
She's a big podcast listener.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Scan that so you know what you're getting yourself
into.
Okay, and if you want to be onthe podcast, just say yes and
we'll just keep talking.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh my God, that's, great.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But that'll give you a sense of what you're getting
yourself into, oh my, God,that's so funny.
Oh, wow, look at that RightShare Road Talk.
Yeah, I'm following you and soyou know it's not going to well
I shouldn't say not going tochange my life because it's had
monetary value in a way that Inever would have thought of,
which is the way I have it setup.
(08:10):
Is the podcast shares a linkwith my main business website,
so the first three or four daysI had downloads, which is pretty
good.
Yeah, so when I have 200 peoplethat are on my website and each
one of them stays between fourand ten minutes, google sees
that and says wait, there's someauthority with the site and I
get way high up in the organicrankings.
(08:32):
And then my phone rings andI've always relied on inbound
marketing, right, and in my I'vebeen doing it for 15 years like
my business is great, but nowit's like I could track the
metrics, see where the funnelsare coming from, and it's coming
from those landing pages.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So yeah, yay me, it's really it's fascinating and um.
I don't know.
I like people, if you know.
What am I asking?
What's your ethnic background?
I?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
am a mix of Greek, italian and Russian.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Russian.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Jew from Ukraine.
I picked up on the Greek yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Italian thing yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I knew it had to be one or the other you're very
outgoing, I can cook and youknow the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Sure you can talk about a lot of things with
people.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know no really, if you can talk about food,
people love that yeah, for sureI um, it's so funny and russian
jew, yeah, I mean, and I marriedan egyptian woman, so our kids
are gorgeous and, oh my god, wecelebrate everything that's
funny because we celebrateeverything too.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Because I'm italian, yeah, my husband's jewish, yeah,
perfect.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So yeah, yeah, right ukrainian jew.
We think so you get it.
You know, once upon a time, youknow my, my grandparents, you
know they.
They were in brooklyn and theyfell in love and they were
basically excommunicated bytheir families equally, because
that's not what you do in the30s and 40s in brooklyn.
Yeah, that's right, and theywere basically excommunicated by
their families equally, becausethat's not what you do in the
30s and 40s in brooklyn.
Yeah, that's right and they'relike screw you.
(10:01):
And they went off and my momconverted and married a greek
guy.
Good for them.
And so who am I to deny oh,that's amazing.
My, my, my part in that when Imarried my wife, yeah, so no,
that's fabulous yeah here we are.
Where in uh, italy, is yourfamily from?
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
uh, yes, from southern italy.
Not too far from naples,there's a small town called
avalino.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'm familiar, you're familiar uh, my uh grandfather
was from caserta oh yeah, whichis right there?
Yeah, right there by the palaceI think I think they we traced
it back to my great greatgrandfather was the gardener
that did the rose gardens there.
Oh my gosh yeah something likethat, something like that yeah,
(10:47):
avalino, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
My grandmother's from a trani, which is a very small
village right next to amalfi,and there's a movie what was it?
Are you familiar Ripley?
Yeah, ripley, that took place.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Why are you here?
Why are you here?
You have family in Amalfi,roots in Amalfi, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, what's funny is a week ago I had an exploratory
phone call with a citizenshipcompany.
They help you get citizenship.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And I've got to do some homework and then they'll
help you get some of thedocuments, Because I don't have
birth certificates.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Because back then they were kept in the churches,
right, correct?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
There's not like a town hall, you know, correct,
correct.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So, but they'll help you do all this, Obviously for a
fur fee.
That's what they do yeah butbefore italy changes their mind,
because they already put in asof march 28th, it has to be your
grandparents, it can't be yourgreat grandparents anymore right
yeah, because they have hadit's up 40 percent in the last
(11:56):
five years the number of peoplebecome dual.
So I'm sure, and I think, it'sobviously gonna only get worse,
you know.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I'm actually doing that with my Greek, so you are
entitled through through descentand I have all my dad's
paperwork you do, and it'sliterally that I just go right.
That's key to the consulate andit literally costs $100.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh see, you're going to be, that's great.
Well, it passed Right now.
If they stay this, If this lawgoes through, it won't pass to
you currently, but they don'tknow what things are going to be
like down the road, so it couldrevert back to and then you
would be able to.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I just think, sorry, I got distracted.
I thought that was a coke zero,no it's orange, no wonder it
tasted so damn good orange it'sthe orange cream yes, it's green
I just saw it in the store.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
God damn, I thought it was a zero ago.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now I was like making that it's really delicious for
a diet soda Apparently notSmoking crack, without even
knowing it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
There you go oh my God.
Oh, I'm very happy for you thatyou have that all in place.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Who doesn't want universal health care for free?
Yep, I could just go there.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I live in Greece.
That would be amazing thatwould be amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, sure, hello.
Also Hello, I'm 500 pounds, butsure.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Who knows what's going to go on there.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's going to ruin my diet.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The way things are going here, I think it's great
to have an escape plan.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It is, and again, it's almost just like.
Like you said, it's an escapeplan, it's an insurance policy.
It's a chess move, whatever itis.
I have some family that's um inathens proper and they have
like a little beach house, kindof like an hour away, and it's
like, oh, come, just stay here,no big deal.
I'm like, okay, I'm going to bethat guy.
(13:47):
That's not sure I would everleave, I know, I know you're
gonna be the guy on the couchsam where did you go crete and
you loved it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh my god, the picture she had from being in
crete, oh yeah I saw crete fromthe air flying over it, yeah it
was a little tiny speck veryjust very, very distinguishable,
for sure she studied in londonfor a whole year so smarty pants
, I like it yeah, she isactually, she like that.
I said that, but she is I try,yeah Cool, but you know it's
(14:20):
much easier to get to from overthere because everything's
easier.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I had my first trip to Italy a year and a half
ago.
We went to Milan, mm-hmm.
And then we went over toSwitzerland, because her godson
and her best friend live inSwitzerland and that was amazing
.
We went to Geneva and I loveLondon so I could easily I keep
saying Pick up and go.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, whenever we're going to Florence.
I've never been to Switzerland,but I hear it's just
spectacular clean the people,everything Just like.
Oh my God, it's like freakishlyclean.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I would also tell you that Milan was wonderful in a
way that I didn't expect,because Northern Italy didn't
necessarily have the same.
You know meaning for me.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It's like industrial right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, that's what they say, but yet really what it
is is because it's also theirfinancial capital and the
fashion capital, but it'sfashion from the perspective of
that's where all the businessesare.
When you're dining, you'redining with italian people yeah
you're not dining, like inflorence, with tourists.
You're dying.
Someone from europe coming todc it's like, very like right,
(15:31):
you know we also work here andlive here right right, it was it
, didn't you?
You loved it.
Yeah, I loved it.
And then we took the train toGeneva and let me tell you,
spectacular Absolutely.
I would highly recommend it andGeneva's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I mean you went right over through the Alps?
Then obviously, yes, it isunbelievable Beautiful train
ride.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What was it?
Three hours.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Did you have any altitude issue?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Pardon train ride, what was it three hours?
Do you have any altitude issue?
Pardon me, any altitude issuewith no going through there?
No, is it that high there?
I mean, I know there's somereally serious, no, but not, I
mean not I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think we went skiing perhaps.
Yeah, we're not reallyoutdoorsy, okay, no we don't ski
, but jessica skis.
Just I wonder if she's ever no,when I was younger I'd go ski
in colorado and never had anyissue at all.
Oh, interesting 10,000, 11,000feet, but now I just think just
by the fact that I'm older.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh, everything changes, doesn't it yeah?
I don't even want to risk it,because my husband used to be
able to go on the rides andstuff if we would go to Disney.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
He can't do any of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's changed.
You know, Certain things botheryou more, I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, there was.
This was a few weeks ago.
I drove a young lady and shewas Italian.
She was a business person herein the city Thick, gorgeous
Italian accent.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And I literally fell in love with this woman.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Just listening minutes yeah it was so fun and
we had a very nice conversationand we're talking about food and
Italy and all this stuff and uh, it was just really cute the
way that it was kind of producedand I put this like Italian
kind of cafe music under it andat the end I said something.
You know, I addressed somethingto my wife going sorry if that
(17:19):
was obvious or something.
It was really cute, really cuteshe doing in DC she was a
finance person.
I think, um, self-admittedly notvery good at it, which I found
pretty funny, interesting, butanyways, it was really cute.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You must meet some interesting people Well.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I have, and I think my career is such that it's just
kind of a byproduct of what Idid Like in a past life.
I was a photojournalist for Foxand CNN and AP.
Oh, that's cool.
I worked at the White House forthree years.
Really, I traveled.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Was it a Cameraman?
Cameraman, yeah, Hurricanesearthquakes.
Oh my God, you get to see itall.
I get to see everything, OJ allof it oh, wow, so, cool so by
by default.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes, I've.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I've met lots of interesting people and see you
could also talk about anythingwith that experience.
Yeah, and I've seen so much.
I think that's what translateseven here in in the podcast
there's always a connectionpoint with some, you also have a
great radio voice.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, you know, you do you know I, I hate my voice,
no, and everybody hates.
And not to sound like anasshole, but there's two things
that always happen in this car.
Number one people panic becausethey can't find the door handle
when they want to leave.
They think I'm kidnapping andI'm like no, no Free will Pinch
the handle and you can leave.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Oh God, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And the other one is people always seem to comment
how nice my voice is.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And I'm like, okay, I appreciate it, yeah, he hates
me.
Sound of their own.
I know You're right, becauseyou don't really hear it the way
other people hear it Of course,yeah, no, I think you have a
great and I listen to a lot ofpodcasts.
She's a big podcaster.
I do I am.
Have you ever listened to DaxShepard from Armchair Expert?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I've heard the name Dax Shepard.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I know who that person is but I've never
listened.
He's an actor.
He's married to Kristen Bell,who's very famous.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, yeah sure.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
But what a lot of people don't realize.
He has a degree in anthropologyfrom UCLA.
He's a self-admitted formerdrug addict, wow, and he is a
one.
He gives a wonderful interview,okay, really interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You're not suggesting I do drugs, are you?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
No, yeah, I mean for the experience only.
But he, I don't do cocaine.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I just like the way it smells.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, there you go, there you go.
Yeah, no, I think he's.
He's really interesting tolisten to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.
You know, what I've found isthat we all just like good
stories and narratives, right,and it doesn't matter if it's
coming from Netflix or a pieceof art or music.
If it's told organically, in anappealing way, people seem to
(20:15):
be interested.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's true, that's true.
And that's certainly evident.
The organic part is veryimportant, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, I mean some of the episodes I've done.
They're a little flat, they'relike whatever.
But there's some that are justlike oh my God, did that really
just happen?
A guy gets in the car the otherday with a kidney, delivering a
kidney, oh, my god to ahospital and he was.
He's the uber of kidneydelivery, apparently, oh my god,
and so normally I ask people ifthey want to do the podcast.
(20:44):
I pretty much told him he wasdoing it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, I don't blame him.
That's wild, he's from texas.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
They pay him like five hundred dollars a pop.
They pay for his air.
He flies, flies in, he drops itoff and he leaves.
He goes home.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Where is he bringing the?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
kidney.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Where To one of the hospitals.
Walter Reed Just wanted to knowwhere the kidney was being
delivered.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
That was the latest one I just dropped on the.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, I have to listen.
Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, it was very cool and like the really funny
part was like you know there's,there's a movie script there
where if you follow a properbeat sheet, you know and just do
like the antics and escapadespart.
It's like you go back to thehospital when there's a good
outcome and it's like, hey,we're the guys that you know
made this all happen.
You know I drove him, but hecame here in a cooler.
(21:34):
Yeah, someone tried to give hima hand sandwich, but it was
really the kidney you needed.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
There's something there.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's so funny, right Something there.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I really just thought it was a little more
streamlined to deliver a kidney.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well, that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's what I mean.
Listen to the podcast, you'llsee.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But I don't know everybody I would trust to drive
my kidney.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Right and again there's another page for the
script.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He leaves it in.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He leaves it in and then you know and then you hold
it hostage and let's just playthe stereotype game.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know, and Mahmoud now has the kidney driving
through northeast DC.
Yep, I've got to go pick it upand there's maybe a language
barrier and he can't understandthat you're telling him there's
a kidney in the car and he'slike no, no, no, it's my scent,
it's my lunch.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh my God, that's so true.
Well see, maybe you should bewriting too, while you're doing
this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You know Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I gotta work on the kidney movie.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Spitballing is fun.
We've met some very interestingdrivers over the years.
Yeah, very interesting yeah, Ilike to hear their stories too.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah for sure he was a.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He was a French patisserie chef.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I do not yeah, it's very interesting everyone's got
a story.
That's for sure, that's truewhether or not they can convey
it properly is the other thing,but they all have stories so
you're gonna turn right at thislight on half.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, so you're going to turn right at this light On
half.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Half Cool.
Thank you.
I know DC like the back of myhand.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
These dummy boxes are ridiculous.
Like I have to use it.
It's Lyft's version.
Oh, I know, I'm not really surewhy it's like.
It's like it's for safety.
You'll get a notification if Ideviate.
Oh really, I'll get one to makesure I'm okay.
Okay, they just want to makesure no one winds up on a milk
carton.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think that's fair.
Right behind this car isactually fine.
Okay cool, you can get out overhere.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Ladies, it was lovely chatting with you.
It was lovely chatting with youtoo.
I look forward to listening tothe podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
This is great, I have new material to listen to.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
She loves that.
Please stay.
Here is the handle.
I found it.
I told you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's a beautiful car.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Have some blueberry pie for me when you're in Maine.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I will One of my favorites Take care.
You did it Okay.
Now I see why people struggle.
I made fun of them and now Iget it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's a trap.
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Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
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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.
Buckle up, let's drive.
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Hi, ladies, how are you?
I'm Samantha.
Yep, yep, Come on in, thank you.
How are you, ladies?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm okay.
Anything fun and exciting goingon for you, oh no, just going
home, that's.
That's fun and exciting in mybook anyways and it is good.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Good, how do you like the expedition?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
uh, it's cool you know I um, I was like a suburban
and a tahoe guy forever for my,my regular business that I do,
which is like a productioncompany.
So I need space for gear andequipment and things.
And you know the byproduct ofthis crazy economy the residual
values were such that I couldn'tlease it the way I would
(01:16):
normally do.
Okay, the GM was basicallybeing a bunch of you know
a-holes about it Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So you got a better deal from Tori, I mean yeah, I
mean, I mean literally.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's just I wash everything through my llc and
yep lease everything.
It's a payment, not aninvestment done, and uh they,
it's great no complaints.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
My husband is a uh general manager of a ford
dealership up in.
We live in maine.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My daughter lives here, but we live up in maine.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, where whereabouts in maine uh well, he
, you know, I say he actuallyworks in massachusetts we live
in maine.
Sorry that's okay, he'll, it'sonly 20 minutes, but he it's
salisbury, massachusetts.
It's an old family forddealership.
Family owned, owned.
Cool yeah, not our family Wishwe owned it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But he is the GM.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I love Maine.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh, Maine is wonderful.
We're right at the beginning.
We're in Kittery.
Have you been up there?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I have.
Where do you go?
Well, I had a friend of mineyears ago and his aunt owned a
really beautiful house inSorrento which was across from
Bar Harbor.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And we used to go up and spend summers up there as
kids.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh wow, like teenagers, that's nice.
Well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I mean, we were a bunch of knuckleheads, you know,
drinking and partying.
We go up there and it's such adownshift.
Yes, we really grew up inhindsight, isn't that funny?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
We look back and go, wow, that was really special.
And you know there is a lotabout Maine that is still like
that which is really nice yeah.
It can be a little boring,though, yeah boring's fine, I
don't mind boring.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I did a great two-week trip with my family
this was years ago and drove upEvery name drop town you could
think of, turn, turned around toBar Harbor, and then came back
home and accidentally walkedinto Ogonquit, which I just
absolutely fell in love withLike oh my God.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's what brought it.
My husband's from New York andI'm from Connecticut and we were
living in Connecticut and wewent to Ogonquit.
Somebody told us to go there onvacation.
We used to go to the Cape okayvery common if you live in.
Connecticut to go to the Capeand um, they said, why don't you
try Ogunquit?
Yeah that is what sold us onwanting to be there.
(03:36):
And then we found ourselves.
We hated going home from ourvacation every year, so
Massachusetts happeningnorthwest we sped up our plan
and moved up there and we bothstarted over careers and
everything but it's actuallybeen really good to us.
That's cool.
Good for you, yeah that's great.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I found there's something about it, um, I think
it's the.
It was like this blending oflike there's there's a large gay
population there and butthere's also the family
component and everyone's therekind of in harmony, very similar
to kind of like Rehoboth Beachhere.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh yeah, I've been there, actually With a lot more
charm, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But it just worked.
And then the little beachfrontarea.
I don't know not to be likeromantically corny, but like the
combination of the smells, likethis pine tar, boardwalk smell
with like the clams being cooked.
And like it was like oh my God,like I need to write this down
and you could just.
It was amazing.
Yeah, such a great memory, sucha great memory.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We're very lucky.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The town that we live in has something called Fort
Foster, and it's just thisreally incredible beach area
with it's.
It's just got so many trails towalk you can half of it.
You can walk your dog on tooyeah part of its woods, part of
it's the ocean.
Sure, it's just, and it's, youknow, as residents, we can just
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go there anytime we want.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, I'm sure the conversation turns a bit in the
dead of February perhaps.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Let me tell you this was a rough winter, so much so
that I'm not sure we're going tostay there long term.
You know when we get, becausewe're 60 and 64, and it's
getting tougher to do thesewinters.
I mean, we had snow a week ago,saturday no kidding.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And I'm not talking about flurries it covered
everything enough to go, enoughto get to work.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Basically, right to start shoveling it's just in
freezing, it's been absolutelyfreezing, yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I always hedge that game.
God, if I could just do like mysummers in maine.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, that's what we're talking about, like Hilton
Head or something.
We just don't have the money todo that yeah.
It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Do you live in Virginia or do you live in?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I live in Maryland, maryland, you know what part of
Maryland do you live in?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Just because we are literally looking.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's one of the oh sure which is great schools up
there in northern MontgomeryCounty like Olney, brookville,
sandy, spring area.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Okay, so how far?
How long does it take you toget into DC?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I come down I do this just for a podcast, by the way.
I come down twice a week, I getmy content and I go back home.
That's cool.
It is cool.
I run a video productioncompany in the real world and it
was a happy accident where Ihad a client who needed.
He was a rideshare like sedancompany owner and we produced a
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video for his website, likemarketing kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And during the edit process I was listening to these
conversations that he washaving with you know, passengers
and I was like, oh, there'ssomething here, and so I went
back out.
I left one important part out.
Prior to producing that piece,I needed to know what it was
like to be him, because I can'tdrive with him.
He's driving people.
(07:00):
So, before we put cameras in thecar.
I needed to get anunderstanding of what it was
like, so I signed up to do itfor one night with my assistant.
My assistant lasted two hoursand said I'm never doing this
again and I don't know if in apast life I was like a Manhattan
cab driver.
I don't know.
It's something resonated withme.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Something worked for you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And so it just clicked, and anyway, so the idea
was spawned from there.
And now it just clicked, andanyway, so the idea was spawned
from there, and now it's evolvedinto this.
It's almost like half DCtourism, half talk, space
therapy, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's crazy.
What's the name of it?
I'm a huge podcast listener.
She's a big podcast listener.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Scan that so you know what you're getting yourself
into.
Okay, and if you want to be onthe podcast, just say yes and
we'll just keep talking.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh my God, that's, great.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But that'll give you a sense of what you're getting
yourself into, oh my, God,that's so funny.
Oh, wow, look at that RightShare Road Talk.
Yeah, I'm following you and soyou know it's not going to well
I shouldn't say not going tochange my life because it's had
monetary value in a way that Inever would have thought of,
which is the way I have it setup.
(08:10):
Is the podcast shares a linkwith my main business website,
so the first three or four daysI had downloads, which is pretty
good.
Yeah, so when I have 200 peoplethat are on my website and each
one of them stays between fourand ten minutes, google sees
that and says wait, there's someauthority with the site and I
get way high up in the organicrankings.
(08:32):
And then my phone rings andI've always relied on inbound
marketing, right, and in my I'vebeen doing it for 15 years like
my business is great, but nowit's like I could track the
metrics, see where the funnelsare coming from, and it's coming
from those landing pages.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So yeah, yay me, it's really it's fascinating and um.
I don't know.
I like people, if you know.
What am I asking?
What's your ethnic background?
I?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
am a mix of Greek, italian and Russian.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Russian.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Jew from Ukraine.
I picked up on the Greek yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Italian thing yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I knew it had to be one or the other you're very
outgoing, I can cook and youknow the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Sure you can talk about a lot of things with
people.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know no really, if you can talk about food,
people love that yeah, for sureI um, it's so funny and russian
jew, yeah, I mean, and I marriedan egyptian woman, so our kids
are gorgeous and, oh my god, wecelebrate everything that's
funny because we celebrateeverything too.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Because I'm italian, yeah, my husband's jewish, yeah,
perfect.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So yeah, yeah, right ukrainian jew.
We think so you get it.
You know, once upon a time, youknow my, my grandparents, you
know they.
They were in brooklyn and theyfell in love and they were
basically excommunicated bytheir families equally, because
that's not what you do in the30s and 40s in brooklyn.
Yeah, that's right, and theywere basically excommunicated by
their families equally, becausethat's not what you do in the
30s and 40s in brooklyn.
Yeah, that's right and they'relike screw you.
(10:01):
And they went off and my momconverted and married a greek
guy.
Good for them.
And so who am I to deny oh,that's amazing.
My, my, my part in that when Imarried my wife, yeah, so no,
that's fabulous yeah here we are.
Where in uh, italy, is yourfamily from?
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
uh, yes, from southern italy.
Not too far from naples,there's a small town called
avalino.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'm familiar, you're familiar uh, my uh grandfather
was from caserta oh yeah, whichis right there?
Yeah, right there by the palaceI think I think they we traced
it back to my great greatgrandfather was the gardener
that did the rose gardens there.
Oh my gosh yeah something likethat, something like that yeah,
(10:47):
avalino, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
My grandmother's from a trani, which is a very small
village right next to amalfi,and there's a movie what was it?
Are you familiar Ripley?
Yeah, ripley, that took place.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Why are you here?
Why are you here?
You have family in Amalfi,roots in Amalfi, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, what's funny is a week ago I had an exploratory
phone call with a citizenshipcompany.
They help you get citizenship.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And I've got to do some homework and then they'll
help you get some of thedocuments, Because I don't have
birth certificates.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Because back then they were kept in the churches,
right, correct?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
There's not like a town hall, you know, correct,
correct.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So, but they'll help you do all this, Obviously for a
fur fee.
That's what they do yeah butbefore italy changes their mind,
because they already put in asof march 28th, it has to be your
grandparents, it can't be yourgreat grandparents anymore right
yeah, because they have hadit's up 40 percent in the last
(11:56):
five years the number of peoplebecome dual.
So I'm sure, and I think, it'sobviously gonna only get worse,
you know.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I'm actually doing that with my Greek, so you are
entitled through through descentand I have all my dad's
paperwork you do, and it'sliterally that I just go right.
That's key to the consulate andit literally costs $100.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh see, you're going to be, that's great.
Well, it passed Right now.
If they stay this, If this lawgoes through, it won't pass to
you currently, but they don'tknow what things are going to be
like down the road, so it couldrevert back to and then you
would be able to.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I just think, sorry, I got distracted.
I thought that was a coke zero,no it's orange, no wonder it
tasted so damn good orange it'sthe orange cream yes, it's green
I just saw it in the store.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
God damn, I thought it was a zero ago.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now I was like making that it's really delicious for
a diet soda Apparently notSmoking crack, without even
knowing it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
There you go oh my God.
Oh, I'm very happy for you thatyou have that all in place.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Who doesn't want universal health care for free?
Yep, I could just go there.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I live in Greece.
That would be amazing thatwould be amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, sure, hello.
Also Hello, I'm 500 pounds, butsure.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Who knows what's going to go on there.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's going to ruin my diet.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The way things are going here, I think it's great
to have an escape plan.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It is, and again, it's almost just like.
Like you said, it's an escapeplan, it's an insurance policy.
It's a chess move, whatever itis.
I have some family that's um inathens proper and they have
like a little beach house, kindof like an hour away, and it's
like, oh, come, just stay here,no big deal.
I'm like, okay, I'm going to bethat guy.
(13:47):
That's not sure I would everleave, I know, I know you're
gonna be the guy on the couchsam where did you go crete and
you loved it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh my god, the picture she had from being in
crete, oh yeah I saw crete fromthe air flying over it, yeah it
was a little tiny speck veryjust very, very distinguishable,
for sure she studied in londonfor a whole year so smarty pants
, I like it yeah, she isactually, she like that.
I said that, but she is I try,yeah Cool, but you know it's
(14:20):
much easier to get to from overthere because everything's
easier.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I had my first trip to Italy a year and a half
ago.
We went to Milan, mm-hmm.
And then we went over toSwitzerland, because her godson
and her best friend live inSwitzerland and that was amazing
.
We went to Geneva and I loveLondon so I could easily I keep
saying Pick up and go.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, whenever we're going to Florence.
I've never been to Switzerland,but I hear it's just
spectacular clean the people,everything Just like.
Oh my God, it's like freakishlyclean.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I would also tell you that Milan was wonderful in a
way that I didn't expect,because Northern Italy didn't
necessarily have the same.
You know meaning for me.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It's like industrial right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, that's what they say, but yet really what it
is is because it's also theirfinancial capital and the
fashion capital, but it'sfashion from the perspective of
that's where all the businessesare.
When you're dining, you'redining with italian people yeah
you're not dining, like inflorence, with tourists.
You're dying.
Someone from europe coming todc it's like, very like right,
(15:31):
you know we also work here andlive here right right, it was it
, didn't you?
You loved it.
Yeah, I loved it.
And then we took the train toGeneva and let me tell you,
spectacular Absolutely.
I would highly recommend it andGeneva's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I mean you went right over through the Alps?
Then obviously, yes, it isunbelievable Beautiful train
ride.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What was it?
Three hours.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Did you have any altitude issue?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Pardon train ride, what was it three hours?
Do you have any altitude issue?
Pardon me, any altitude issuewith no going through there?
No, is it that high there?
I mean, I know there's somereally serious, no, but not, I
mean not I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think we went skiing perhaps.
Yeah, we're not reallyoutdoorsy, okay, no we don't ski
, but jessica skis.
Just I wonder if she's ever no,when I was younger I'd go ski
in colorado and never had anyissue at all.
Oh, interesting 10,000, 11,000feet, but now I just think just
by the fact that I'm older.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh, everything changes, doesn't it yeah?
I don't even want to risk it,because my husband used to be
able to go on the rides andstuff if we would go to Disney.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
He can't do any of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's changed.
You know, Certain things botheryou more, I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, there was.
This was a few weeks ago.
I drove a young lady and shewas Italian.
She was a business person herein the city Thick, gorgeous
Italian accent.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And I literally fell in love with this woman.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Just listening minutes yeah it was so fun and
we had a very nice conversationand we're talking about food and
Italy and all this stuff and uh, it was just really cute the
way that it was kind of producedand I put this like Italian
kind of cafe music under it andat the end I said something.
You know, I addressed somethingto my wife going sorry if that
(17:19):
was obvious or something.
It was really cute, really cuteshe doing in DC she was a
finance person.
I think, um, self-admittedly notvery good at it, which I found
pretty funny, interesting, butanyways, it was really cute.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You must meet some interesting people Well.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I have, and I think my career is such that it's just
kind of a byproduct of what Idid Like in a past life.
I was a photojournalist for Foxand CNN and AP.
Oh, that's cool.
I worked at the White House forthree years.
Really, I traveled.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Was it a Cameraman?
Cameraman, yeah, Hurricanesearthquakes.
Oh my God, you get to see itall.
I get to see everything, OJ allof it oh, wow, so, cool so by
by default.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes, I've.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I've met lots of interesting people and see you
could also talk about anythingwith that experience.
Yeah, and I've seen so much.
I think that's what translateseven here in in the podcast
there's always a connectionpoint with some, you also have a
great radio voice.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, you know, you do you know I, I hate my voice,
no, and everybody hates.
And not to sound like anasshole, but there's two things
that always happen in this car.
Number one people panic becausethey can't find the door handle
when they want to leave.
They think I'm kidnapping andI'm like no, no Free will Pinch
the handle and you can leave.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Oh God, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And the other one is people always seem to comment
how nice my voice is.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And I'm like, okay, I appreciate it, yeah, he hates
me.
Sound of their own.
I know You're right, becauseyou don't really hear it the way
other people hear it Of course,yeah, no, I think you have a
great and I listen to a lot ofpodcasts.
She's a big podcaster.
I do I am.
Have you ever listened to DaxShepard from Armchair Expert?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I've heard the name Dax Shepard.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I know who that person is but I've never
listened.
He's an actor.
He's married to Kristen Bell,who's very famous.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, yeah sure.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
But what a lot of people don't realize.
He has a degree in anthropologyfrom UCLA.
He's a self-admitted formerdrug addict, wow, and he is a
one.
He gives a wonderful interview,okay, really interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You're not suggesting I do drugs, are you?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
No, yeah, I mean for the experience only.
But he, I don't do cocaine.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I just like the way it smells.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, there you go, there you go.
Yeah, no, I think he's.
He's really interesting tolisten to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.
You know, what I've found isthat we all just like good
stories and narratives, right,and it doesn't matter if it's
coming from Netflix or a pieceof art or music.
If it's told organically, in anappealing way, people seem to
(20:15):
be interested.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's true, that's true.
And that's certainly evident.
The organic part is veryimportant, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, I mean some of the episodes I've done.
They're a little flat, they'relike whatever.
But there's some that are justlike oh my God, did that really
just happen?
A guy gets in the car the otherday with a kidney, delivering a
kidney, oh, my god to ahospital and he was.
He's the uber of kidneydelivery, apparently, oh my god,
and so normally I ask people ifthey want to do the podcast.
(20:44):
I pretty much told him he wasdoing it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, I don't blame him.
That's wild, he's from texas.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
They pay him like five hundred dollars a pop.
They pay for his air.
He flies, flies in, he drops itoff and he leaves.
He goes home.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Where is he bringing the?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
kidney.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Where To one of the hospitals.
Walter Reed Just wanted to knowwhere the kidney was being
delivered.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
That was the latest one I just dropped on the.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, I have to listen.
Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, it was very cool and like the really funny
part was like you know there's,there's a movie script there
where if you follow a properbeat sheet, you know and just do
like the antics and escapadespart.
It's like you go back to thehospital when there's a good
outcome and it's like, hey,we're the guys that you know
made this all happen.
You know I drove him, but hecame here in a cooler.
(21:34):
Yeah, someone tried to give hima hand sandwich, but it was
really the kidney you needed.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
There's something there.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's so funny, right Something there.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I really just thought it was a little more
streamlined to deliver a kidney.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well, that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's what I mean.
Listen to the podcast, you'llsee.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But I don't know everybody I would trust to drive
my kidney.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Right and again there's another page for the
script.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He leaves it in.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He leaves it in and then you know and then you hold
it hostage and let's just playthe stereotype game.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know, and Mahmoud now has the kidney driving
through northeast DC.
Yep, I've got to go pick it upand there's maybe a language
barrier and he can't understandthat you're telling him there's
a kidney in the car and he'slike no, no, no, it's my scent,
it's my lunch.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh my God, that's so true.
Well see, maybe you should bewriting too, while you're doing
this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You know Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I gotta work on the kidney movie.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Spitballing is fun.
We've met some very interestingdrivers over the years.
Yeah, very interesting yeah, Ilike to hear their stories too.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah for sure he was a.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He was a French patisserie chef.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I do not yeah, it's very interesting everyone's got
a story.
That's for sure, that's truewhether or not they can convey
it properly is the other thing,but they all have stories so
you're gonna turn right at thislight on half.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, so you're going to turn right at this light On
half.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Half Cool.
Thank you.
I know DC like the back of myhand.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
These dummy boxes are ridiculous.
Like I have to use it.
It's Lyft's version.
Oh, I know, I'm not really surewhy it's like.
It's like it's for safety.
You'll get a notification if Ideviate.
Oh really, I'll get one to makesure I'm okay.
Okay, they just want to makesure no one winds up on a milk
carton.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think that's fair.
Right behind this car isactually fine.
Okay cool, you can get out overhere.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Ladies, it was lovely chatting with you.
It was lovely chatting with youtoo.
I look forward to listening tothe podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
This is great, I have new material to listen to.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
She loves that.
Please stay.
Here is the handle.
I found it.
I told you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's a beautiful car.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Have some blueberry pie for me when you're in Maine.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I will One of my favorites Take care.
You did it Okay.
Now I see why people struggle.
I made fun of them and now Iget it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's a trap.
Thank you for listening to thisepisode of Rideshare Road Talk.
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