July 3, 2024 • 33 mins
Ever wondered how a debate about dollar stores could spark nostalgia and practical tips for budget-savvy parenting? Join Scott Hawkins and Andrew Gaer on the Kings of the Road podcast as we recount our latest East Coast road trip, filled with the simple joys and quirky adventures that make travel memorable. From the laughter over a lunch at Subway to the mundane yet oddly satisfying task of dumping the motorhome's waste tank, you'll feel like you're right there with us. We'll even let you in on why stopping at dollar stores for movie snacks is a parenting hack you'll want to steal.
What’s the best way to enjoy fried chicken? We take you on a hilarious and heartfelt journey through our fast food memories, from the perfect Popeye's experience to some not-so-great KFC stops. As night falls in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the challenges of RV travel become all too real with freezing temperatures and carbon monoxide concerns. But our adventurous spirit can't be dampened as we visit the Special Ops Museum, proving that even the toughest nights have their silver linings.
Museums and laundry—two things that sound mundane but are anything but on our podcast. We share our newfound appreciation for museums, contrasting youthful impatience with the curiosity of adulthood. You’ll laugh at our attempts to keep a child's attention amidst historical artifacts and learn our secrets for efficient post-vacation laundry. And just when you think the journey is over, a light-hearted mention of Myrtle Beach and the nostalgic glow of Hooters' orange lights signal that more adventures are just around the corner.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the Kings of the Road podcast, where you
get to journey in a lazy day'smotorhome.
Where you get to journey in alazy day's motorhome, currently
going down the East Coast,heading to the thick, swamp-like
humidity of the South, WithScott Hawkins here, Andrew Gare
(00:34):
who's there, and we are going ona journey saying yes to
adventure, going to the placeswhere we get to serve the church
, see new areas and just overall, have a good time.
So, if you haven't yet, followus on Facebook Instagram we
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Wherever you are, though,Subscribe to this so you know
(00:56):
that there's new episodes arecoming out.
We typically release them onWednesdays, Summer.
We're trying to figure out theright pattern, but we are just
glad to be together.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So, hey, andrew, Hello sir, good to be back.
Took a little bit of time off.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, we went.
I went to Mount Hermon, whereyou've gone a lot.
This is my third time there,but the first time, as I was
telling Andrew, with olderchildren, and it's really quite
amazing with older children.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
so indeed indeed pretty exciting and we went out
to tennessee to visit my family.
Had a great time out there.
Speaking of the south right yesand then, uh, spent some time
on the lake good times, fun withfamily, cousins.
But we're back at it now,talking about this road trip.
(01:47):
I don't know if you heardeverybody, but we went on a road
trip.
We did this is.
If this is your first timelistening, welcome, welcome,
welcome.
It's good to have you here.
Also, you should go back andlisten to all the other episodes
, because we're going on ajourney and we're reading from a
journal that we kept yeah,going all through the country.
(02:10):
So we're we're getting to thesouth now started in the
southwest.
Now we're getting to thesoutheast.
Yeah, we are yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, let's read, let's see where we're going
let's read.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I think we're gonna do two days today because, uh,
one of these days is a littlebit shorter, but we'll get
started here with day 49 of ourtrip.
It's monday, it is november,the 15th of 2004.
Today was a big day.
Get ready for this one, scott.
(02:41):
Oh I, I can't wait.
Yeah, we ate lunch at SubwayNice.
Yeah, they had Subways backthen yeah, oh yeah, sure did,
sure did.
We dumped our poo tank.
Oh we're living.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's important to do.
We're living.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, I said it was a big day.
It was a big day.
It was a bit.
We mailed some letters, okay.
Okay, all right, the suspensebuilds checking out so far.
Big day.
And yeah, we went to a dollarstore.
Wow, yeah, these are greatthings.
These are great things, it wasa big day.
I didn't lie, it was a big day.
(03:21):
Well, let's, let's, let's,learn a little bit more.
That isn't the order, but whocares?
At the dollar store we boughtsome great stuff and it was only
a dollar.
No, now it's $1.25.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is it Is that at the 99 cent store, that's at my
dollar tree, it was $1.25, whichis a true dollar store.
I do not like those places likeDollar General that gets you in
thinking that they're dollarstores.
They're not dollar stores,they're just normal stores.
What Do you know?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
this, yes, no, because.
So that's funny, you bring itup.
I was going to bring it up toobecause, being in Tennessee last
week, they're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Dollar General.
They're as prevalent aschurches, yep, and there are a
lot of churches.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So what they have become is like the smaller
version of Walmart.
I don't know if you can sleepin their parking lots, but it's
the idea of like you come hereand this area can't sustain a
Walmart or a grocery store, butyou need aluminum foil, you need
milk, you need all of thosethings.
Dollar General, that's the newthing.
Towels, pool noodles.
(04:27):
Do they have food?
Yep, I don't know if freshproduce, I believe so.
I believe they'll have some,like your bananas, your tomatoes
, but you're not going to find aItalian zucchini.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I kind of regret not going in one now.
But the problem is they're not abuck, so you go, but the
problem is they're not a buck,so you don't end up thinking, oh
, I'm going to a dollar general.
No, you're not going to adollar store, you're going to a
grocery store or a mini walmart.
Well, I always thought likethis is going to eventually be a
problem for the 99 cent storesor the dollar tree, where I'm
like you kind of.
(04:57):
You kind of put an expirationdate on yourself because we
can't.
Just, it's like either themerchandise has to get worse or
eventually you're going to belike and didn't like 99 cent
store.
Change their name to like the 99cent plus store or something.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think they're also never they're all gone.
I think they were never.
True 99 cent stores, I thinkthey were like that's where we
start.
The dollar tree by me is stilleverything's $1.25.
Now, the move that they make,which fair, is you get less
aluminum foil right, there's aroll, but it's only like enough
to cover three pans and that's$1.25.
(05:33):
So you have to buy four of them, um, which is, I think, the
move, or a lot of that so like.
But the veteran parent move, Ithink, okay, it's on the way to
the theater for us is going tothe movie.
Drop in the dollar store, pickout any two candies you want,
kids go crazy, yeah, and then$2.50, and you're going into the
(05:56):
movies, they're stoked.
They got gummy worms, gummybears, you're stoked.
It's not $11 each, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So I know we talked about this a little bit before,
but we went to the movies whilewe were on vacation.
We saw inside out too.
I haven't seen it yet, I wantto.
Yeah, those are clever moviesand yeah, they are they had you
could buy.
There was two sizes of popcorn,so there were, there were a lot
(06:24):
of us, there were 12 of us intotal.
Okay, the two sizes of popcorn,medium.
Okay For, like I don't know,$8.99.
Right Large $9.99.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yes, of course it was .
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And the guy's like there's only he goes.
The bigger size is only adollar more.
So I was already like, well,yeah, I'm gonna do that and he
goes, and the large has freerefills.
What?
Okay this is the greatest wayto pay one dollar.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yes, oh, you do want one large then we went one large
.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
to be fair, when we bought it, it was just there was
not 12 of us, there were eightof us.
That's a lot of passing, thoughthat's a lot of popcorn passing
.
Well, here's the hack.
I'm going to get audited by theIRS or something.
Yes, you will.
But we say okay, give us onelarge popcorn.
Hey, could we get like six ofthose cardboard trays and
(07:21):
they're like, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So everybody gets a tray.
We dump out the popcorn intothe tray.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean, this is like a homeschool homeschooler hack
right here.
I feel like that's good, Idon't know, and uh, and so like
we basically gave everybodypopcorn and then I went like
right back to the line I'm like,and the guy's like refill.
I'm like yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And he's like as if, like everybody does this, of
course, and I'm not just sayingthat about those situations I've
learned 98 of employees don'tcare, they know exactly what
you're doing.
Yeah, and for them, working atthe amc and getting paid their
15 an hour, whatever, that'sfine.
(08:00):
You want to go on this linefive times and get popcorn every
time?
I don't care.
Free refills, go crazy.
Yeah, you know, and we're likewe feel awkward about it.
But but they're like yeah,there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm like, hey, the policy the policies doesn't say
don't share.
Like you know, it was the samething we bought tickets, and so
I bought tickets for the moviefor my kids and and my sister's
kids and my sister's kids areolder than mine, so they're
older than 12.
Yeah, and my sister's like justmy kids tickets.
I'm like, oh, but they're older, she goes danger, they don't
(08:32):
check.
I'm like oh okay, so I just didkids tickets for everybody and,
sure enough, I walk in.
I'm like here's my qr code andhe's just like, thanks, thanks.
I'm like, okay, it issurprising, they're just
guidelines, it is surprising.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Like you said, those people don't.
The average employee is notsitting there trying to save AMC
the $8 to buy another popcorn.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Just for retribution purposes, I didn't say I went to
an AMC theater.
Oh, okay, I liked it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I did, though I did In case it gets huge, in case
this gets big.
I'm not ripping you off, amc,maybe not Getting a call from
the lawyer at AMC, you owe us $6.
$9.
I want to know what is the mostawkward thing you've ever
brought into a movie theater ora family member uncomfortable
(09:33):
thing?
I have an answer.
I just I.
My mother is Deborah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, I do remember as a kid like my mom
would we would pop our ownpopcorn and like so we'd like
smuggle that in with like caprisuns or something like we never
went to the concession stand ata movie, that was right yeah,
mom, mom rolled in with a fullbucket of fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's, that's the top, because sounds so good.
Fried chicken in a movietheater.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Everybody, everybody knows you're having fried
chicken and everybody's pissedbecause they want it everyone's
like.
Why didn't we?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
think of that, and she's just passing down a drum
stick.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You want a drum thigh yeah yeah, just all you hear is
the like and like a greasyfingers every uh the pop, that's
all.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's all you're hearing.
But you know what you know meand tom hanks.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
We got to know each other with over fried chicken
and forrest gump whatever moviewe are in that day conversations
all over town later oh, how was?
How was the movie, I don't know?
Somebody brought fried chickenand that's all I could think
about.
We had to leave early so wecould go to.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
KFC.
Oh, I've heard good thingsabout Forrest Gump, but so
hungry.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh, I brought fried chicken now.
I love fried chicken.
Do you ever go?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
to KFC I have recently and it's slipped, I
feel.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, we've got one by our house and I haven't been
there.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It slipped, I think, I don't know how long we have a.
Popeye's not far either, butPopeye's is still good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Popeye's chicken is so good, so I love Popeye's
chicken, and there was one inPasadena when I used to work up
there, when I used to have to goin the office, and so I'd go
there anytime I had my car,otherwise I would take the train
.
Right, but if I had my car, itwas Popeye's for lunch Popeye's.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Chicken strips yes.
With the Mardi Gras mustarddipping sauce Biscuit their.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Cajun fries or like their jambalaya.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh, that was the perfect meal.
So they opened one up in BuenaPark.
Okay, not far there.
We've got family there.
We're in Buena Park all thetime.
That one, for whatever reason,is like the bottom rung of
Popeyes.
No, yes, sorry, I don't knowwhy, but they are opening one up
(11:57):
in orange.
It might be open.
I need to give it a try.
Good, it's so good I love it'sso good.
All right, let's see when werewe.
We got a lint brush, a backscratcher, chocolate-covered
pretzels, a puzzle of a babydressed like a flamingo UFO,
(12:20):
fruit snacks, a 35-ounce bottleof root beer and awards for our
beer Nice, and awards for ourfriends Nice.
35 ounce bottle of root beerthat seems like a strange amount
of root beer.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is, but we probably shared it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, yeah, I'm assuming that's true.
Yeah, so here's the awards wegot.
So I said we got awards for ourfriends.
Allison got the I can tie myshoes ribbon.
Nice sheree got I'm a big girl.
Um, and summer was given.
I try hard, I try these aregood awards.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
remember that we grew up in the time before
participation trophies, so I tryhard is like.
That's the on the way toparticipation trophy, right yeah
.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's like I try hard ribbon.
I was like who are you givingthese two seriously, Like
hilarious.
So we mailed these to themtoday at the post office.
We are funny, that's funny, itis funny.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I still think, that's funny.
It is funny, see, we were right.
In fact, we should try to seeif we should find those again
because we still know all thosepeople and mail them again.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We should.
I wonder if they probably stillhave them in their hope chests
at the foots of their beds,things that they remember.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's probably true.
It gets them through.
Sheree looks at it and goes Ido try hard, I do try hard, I do
try hard.
Was that Summer's oh?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
no, sheree's a big girl, sheree is a big girl.
Yeah, summer tries hard I cando it.
I can do it I'm a big girl, ohmy goodness.
So we made it down toFayetteville, north Carolina, to
sleep at yet another Walmart.
So we're just traveling.
We're not trying to stopanywhere we're just traveling.
Shall we go on Day 50.
(14:11):
That was it for day 49.
So day 50, tuesday November16th.
Last night was cold.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh, I, remember that still that day At 10 pm, at 10
pm day At 10 pm.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
At 10 pm, yeah, just 10 pm.
The temperature was 30 degrees.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We are from California, remember?
We are so cold right now.
We are so cold In our aluminumbox.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, we can only imagine how cold it got in that
RV overnight.
I have a good sleeping bag bagand I was still cold.
Yeah, we were worried that ourwater tank would freeze and the
expanded frozen water wouldcrack our tank Like I don't know
(15:04):
.
Maybe some of you whoexperience this type of weather
are like that's ridiculous, butit was a real worry for us,
right?
Yeah, so luckily this did nothappen.
Fayetteville is the home of theSpecial Ops Museum, so
naturally we stopped by Hold ona second Before we.
Yeah, this night is one thatsticks out in my mind because of
(15:29):
how cold it was.
And, yes, we did have thesystem where, like, we would be
frozen.
But I could just do a veryquick sit up, hit the thermostat
and then go back down.
But we were still a little bitscared that, like our heater was
going to like asphyxiate us.
Is that the term?
Yeah, going to like kill us,asphyxiate us is that the term?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
so I think this is this was our worst.
Like we, we lived out of fearof carbon dioxide poisoning,
which we probably should havejust done a carbon dioxide
detector and call it a day.
And also our batteries, likehaving enough juice to put the
heater on all night long.
Oh right, any any version ofheat would have been better than
just letting us freeze andgetting down to whatever got in
(16:10):
there which was cold.
So cold.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's not like these things have great insulation.
My area was colder because Iwas just out over.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh yeah, I was two-sided, so I was in the cold
zone.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, you're in, just like a big metal peninsula
hanging over the space.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Peninsula of freezing .
And so you would flip it on andwe'd wait.
Is it warm?
Finally, we'd hear the littleyes, slowly it's going to warm
up.
And it worked, man, that littleheater.
It works.
Yeah, it did.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Give it a chance.
It works.
We didn't die that night, so we.
But speaking of dying, let'sget back to the Special Ops
Museum.
Huh, please, okay.
So we, we.
But speaking of dying, let'sget back to the special ops
museum.
Huh, please, okay.
So home of the special opsmuseum.
So naturally, we stopped by.
Very interesting, it was allabout the airborne soldiers
throughout American war history.
Wow, that's enough about that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I have zero recollection of that museum, but
I don't remember that either.
I remember the water museum inFlorida.
We're going of that museum, butI don't remember that either.
I remember the Waters Museum inFlorida we were going to go to,
but that one it sounds great.
So Fayetteville way to go.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, although I did say so, I ended that very
briefly saying that's enoughabout that, the only thing worse
than visiting museums iswriting about visiting them, so
I hadn't quite matured in myappreciation for all things I
was going to say where are we atwith that now?
I think now I could spend a halfa day at a museum like that,
(17:34):
read every plaque.
Yeah, okay, yeah, I took herein California all fourth graders
do a mission project.
So we've got missionsthroughout the state of
California and each kid has topick a mission and do a report
on it.
So in my oldest Avery was infourth grade we picked a mission
(17:55):
that was in Oceanside, not toofar from us.
Sure, we went down there and sowe're like okay, avery, you got
to learn all about it.
There's all these plaques,let's walk through.
I was like taking pictures ofeveryone.
I was reading everything.
She was over it in like 10minutes done.
And she's like what's over here?
I'm like do you didn't?
Did you read this one?
How are you gonna know what todo on the report?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
and I'm like, oh right, she's 10 years old, she
doesn't care I know, but that islike still the experience I
feel like I have with my mom, asshe like puts her hands behind
her back and slowly walks from.
I don't see it in my head.
Yeah, I plait the plait andlike, yeah, looks at each one
and so I don't.
Maybe it's like 10 year oldscott, so I I don't enjoy doing
museum, but when she's theredoing that move, I'm like come
(18:34):
on, move along, move along.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
There's a lunch place at the end.
Let's get there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'm hungry three free beers at the end, remember,
sure, yeah oh, yeah, oh man Iknow, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I feel like I could go either way.
At a museum I could be likeokay, we're here, how much time
do we have to stay to feel likewe made this worth it and let's
get out of here?
And then there's the other sideof me that wants to put my
hands behind my back and slowlyand slowly and take all of it in
Take all of it in.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's a transition, so maybe your experience as being
a child is that you just look atyour parents and go like,
seriously, this is what we'redoing with our vacation.
You know, the ocean is rightthere.
Oh, there's a lake.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, what if instead we went swimming anywhere, in
anything?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Anywhere I want to get my body into water.
Is ice cream a possibility?
Is that from the end of this?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Please.
What else can we do?
That's not this, okay.
Well, our laundry bag wasgetting full.
So after lunch at some yokelItalian restaurant, we went to
the laundromat.
We stop at a lot of Italianrestaurants, don't we?
That's probably all there isout there.
Yeah, probably.
Like Subway or Italian Barbecue.
(19:45):
Yeah, Usually at laundromats Ihave no problem leaving while my
clothes are being washed here.
I was not about to let them outof my sight.
Half of the machines werebroken or missing, the ceiling
was caving in and the carts toput your clothes in were stolen
from the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But it was cheap, yeah, helpful.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So at least there's that um, we hit it out.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I like every match for the fact that you're just
done.
You just do one big load, yeah,a couple of machines.
You throw them all in, move allthe dryers, everything's done.
Laundry can be a really longprocess but with that, like you
can crush laundry.
Like you can crush laundry,yeah, that is, that is good.
I know it's all time like let'sjust take it to the laundromat.
We have our free machines.
I'm like we can just be done.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It can be over yeah, I know, I, I know somebody who
did that, like after a vacation.
They're like we just took theentire family's laundry, we did
it all at once and we were doneand I was like, oh, that is
interesting, versus like the twodays of oh we gotta, we got to
switch it.
Now Do we set a timer?
Oh, we forgot, oh no, that onesat in the washing machine
(20:52):
overnight, so now we got tore-wash.
That I know.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I mean, yeah, it's like three hours of just like
five machines deep, all to theextra large dryer, everything's
in there and we walked away.
Yeah, $35 poor, but done, doneLaundry finished for the day.
Then tomorrow everyone wearsthree up.
Why did you change Child what?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Because I was done wearing this.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What, oh that age where change flows 11 times a
day?
Yeah, we're out of that too,but still, yeah, they are old
enough to change.
But you know, when they'vechanged for us is when we had
them we.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We started them doing their own laundry, like sorting
it and then sorting it after itand then putting it away, and I
always call it like all rightkids, it's time for the laundry
party, like it's a fun thingthey're like ah I love it.
It makes me so happy when I cansay laundry party, and they just
are.
So we know this is not fun, weknow this sucks yeah, all right.
(21:56):
So we headed out of this ghettoand went to myrtle beach, south
carolina.
No, that's nice, that's muchnicer.
Off in the distance, I couldsee those familiar orange lights
.
That could only mean one thinghooters.
(22:17):
I debated like oh man, do wewant to skip this.
But you know we have to be trueto the journal true to the text
we're 22 year old men yeah,hooters, I love hooters, the
wings are great.
(22:37):
Oh boy again.
This is why it's good when yourwives don't listen to your
podcast, you know, because it'slike, yeah, this is fine.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Listen, this is fine Gooders.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Good waiters.
A few of the waitresses stoppedby to chat and they were all
very friendly.
Hmm, Odd.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Shocked.
Yeah, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Our waitress wasn't real smart, but she had big
beers that she brought us seewhat I did there.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You did good, you did I, even I even scratched
something out in the journalbecause I was like being
hilarious in the journal.
Oh, my goodness, I'm not proudof all the things we did.
In the same parking lot was astore called Bass Pro.
That was over three footballfields in size, so Bass Pro is
(23:27):
now a thing worldwide, but itwasn't then.
It wasn't then.
This was our very first.
We were just discovering it.
We did not know Bass Proexisted, but here we are.
20 years ago, rolling up toBass Pro existed, but here we
are, nope.
20 years ago, yes, rolling upto Bass Pro.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Here's something I'm just reflecting on Tell me, when
you travel and when you go onan adventure like we're
encouraging people to step out,try something new, like we've
discovered Crocs and rememberthey weren't a thing.
Now they've become a thing.
Here's the Bass Pro shop.
There are so many things thatyou get to look back and go oh
yeah, I, I found that, or Iexperienced that.
(24:04):
When you just say yes toadventure, like those are two
huge things.
Now there's not a person inamerica who you say crocs to and
they're not like yeah, ofcourse.
Yeah, but we in boulder were.
What are these ugly shoes thatyou can eat if you boil them?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah.
Crocs, and now they're a thing,bass Pro.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Shop.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
everyone knows, Could you even can you even believe
the popularity of Crocs Likethey've surged.
All my kids have Crocs nowAgain, because it's a thing I
know I'm like.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I know they're back.
How is this possible?
They do great.
It's amazing I think it has tobe the fact that everyone who
has a legit pair of Crocs theonly Crocs I have are Walmart
ones.
I know I never got them.
Yeah, they're not this.
But I'm wondering.
Everyone who has them says theyare the most comfortable shoes
you'll have.
Yeah, you can stand in them forhours like nurses.
(25:01):
Yeah, I know a guy who worked agrill all day.
He ran a taco or a hamburgershop and he's like I have to
have these on my feet becauseI'm standing 10 hours a day
flipping burgers and I can do itin these shoes.
I'm like every that is acrossthe board.
Yeah, so they're legitimately.
They do it what they do.
Yes, they're ugly, but you needa shoe they can stand in and
good for boating.
Yeah, yeah, that's what keepsyou coming back.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So I guess the takeaway, what I'm hearing you
say is be good at what you do,because even if you're ugly,
you'll still have a purpose.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
This is kind of my life motto, maybe Is it oh,
figure something out,consistently do it, and whether
or not you look good doing it,keep going.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You are the crocs of people that would.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
That would be.
That's such a bumper sticker.
I'm a croc.
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
they're undeniably comfortable and useful, but damn
, they're undeniably comfortableand useful, but damn, they're
ugly.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But damn, oh, that's a great life motto.
Oh gosh, we're going to sellthose stickers.
If you want one, go to King, tothe Road.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh no.
No, that's on our website.
Oh yeah, Just tell us onFacebook or Instagram.
No, John, Chris oh.
Johnriscom that's right.
Yes, oh, chris, it's totallyour website.
Uh, oh man, okay, uh, yeah.
So it was huge.
We it had everything a redneckcould want, from fishing gear to
(26:33):
rifles, to nascar merch boy.
It was great.
I think I fit in because lastnight I shaved my goatee into a
handlebar mustache oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yes, that picture has to be posted.
And oh yeah, yes, you did fitin.
Yes, you did fit in yeah, therewas no second glances yeah,
that was good, I don't knoweveryone's like you're the right
guy for this store yeah,probably wasn't the only one
with that, yeah that wasguaranteed not.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, it, that was one with that.
Yeah, that was guaranteed not.
Yeah, that was one of thosethings that was funny because I
did it and like, when you dosomething weird with your facial
hair, it's funny when you do itand then you forget about it
because it's on your face andthen you're like people looking
at me weird today and then youcatch a glance of yourself and
you're like oh, I forgot, I didthat here's the other funny
(27:19):
thing that I thought you were tosay about facial hair.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Because when you do something funny to your facial
hair, you think it's hilarious.
The people you just meet forthe first time they're like, oh,
he just has a handlebarmustache.
Yeah, that's just who he is.
That's just who he is.
Yeah, he's handling ourmustache.
Guy, we're inside, you're goinghilarious and they're going
like you just have a handle onmustache, right, okay?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
does he know this looks?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
terrible, yeah, I know.
Oh man, can we just pause forlike half a second and grieve
together over the fact that likemullets are really becoming a
thing again?
Yeah, or are you?
Are you okay with this?
I don't get it.
I'm becoming more and more notokay with it as I see
(28:03):
seven-year-olds rolling around.
I'm like your parents did thatto you and you're not going to
be happy about that photo later.
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Is it the same kind of thing when you see a small
child who wears a band t-shirt?
A small child who wears like aband t-shirt, like you know?
You see a kid who's got like aPearl.
Jam t-shirt on but they're fiveand it's like you don't like
Pearl Jam.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your parents are just trying to show everybody that
they're cool but I think thatthat is cool, as opposed to the
mullet where it's like oh man,but it's a statement right, like
, hey, we're so cool that mykid's got a mullet.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Where it's like oh man, but it's a statement right,
like hey, we're so cool that mykid's got a mullet, kind of
like you know, if you gave yourkid a mohawk at certain points A
mohawk or a blue hair orsomething.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, it's like they're just, they don't have a
choice.
Yeah, they're just like blankcanvases.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's just, it's just, it's it's hard, it's a it's
hard for me.
So I just wanted to take amoment to.
I'm sorry, you know, I thinkI've I was too flippant there
and I just glossed over the thefact that you're hurting and I
need to address that.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Scott, I'm sorry watching this head out too
recently and you're very in tunewith yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I appreciate that I'm , I'm seeing the emotions that
you're and I just you know, I Iskipped over it, so I feel your
pain.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'll have to.
So can we talk about myfeelings and the fact that I
have feelings about my feelingsand my feelings about your
dismissing my feeling?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
yeah, now tell me as.
Yeah, tell me, as I'm lookingat you right now.
Uh huh, you've shaved your headquite close.
This is the new.
What is that?
A one, a zero, it's a one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's a one dude, it's a one, it's down to one.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Is there maybe a part of you that is like I hate the
mullet because I can't do it,because?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I can't do it.
I think you could, though Icould probably do a great mullet
, because I think I had hairhere great mullet because I
think I had hair here.
You got hair on the back.
Yeah, you can still party here.
I don't have to party, I can'tbusiness in the front, yeah, so
yeah, no, it's interesting, I'llhave to.
I don't feel hair envy likeactually.
One of the speakers at mountherman was like saying that part
(30:11):
of his thing is he's bald andhe's like, oh, I have hair envy
because he's italian.
He's like, oh man, I I lovepeople's with good hair yeah,
for me it's like you know, I waslike whatever, like this is how
god made me.
I'm hairy from my eyebrows down,but like my head just never
gonna be hairy.
I don't know if it's from mebleaching my hair so much and
(30:32):
dyeing some colors I still kindof blend on that, but then
you're a bad example because youdid that too and you still got
a lot of hair.
So it could just be somethingelse, but it it is what it is.
So I'm okay with that part um,but I could, maybe I need to go
deeper, I need to spend sometime with that, and so I I'll,
I'll go that, I'll go to thatspot tonight well, I just want,
(30:54):
I just want you to know that Isee you.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Thank you, is that the right?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
thing to say, yes, and I think you're supposed to
now rub the small of my back.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
No, I mean if we were in proximity, I guess rain
check Still Okay rain check.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, I'll put that on the table.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
The small of your back, the hairy small of your
table the small of your back.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You're the hairy small of your the furry small oh
boy oh, everyone.
Well, I know this, I know whenwe're at the lake together.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Next you're gonna be like hey, andrew, will you put
sunscreen on my back?
Sunscreen me up?
I'm like, that's why you have awife.
I will not, but then she's likeI ain't doing it, so it's
probably gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, I do.
I do body scape that forsometimes like late times,
because I don't I this is maybegonna touch on the tmi, so if
you want to pause right now, youcan't jump forward one minute.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah if you don't want to hear this, let's just
call this episode over for youlistener otherwise.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But for those who want to go, stay on at your own
risk.
Two things have happened.
One, when the kids are littler,they would like climb on you
and they'd like, full hand,sometimes come down and just
pull body hair as it's going andit hurt, like my back, and so I
was like I gotta get smaller sothey can't just like not grab
it, but just like with with theI don't know with the water it
(32:20):
would hurt, as they're like.
So I'm like, okay, it needs tobe thinner.
And there was one member I havewhere maybe this was
subconscious, but I felt like Icould feel the hairs like
flowing, like oh, there's a lotof grass in this water yes, my
body, yes, like I felt.
Oh, that's oh, that's part of mybody.
That's like how girls feel hairswimming.
(32:40):
I'm like this is a smaller.
This is going too deep, so yeahso those were the things that
made me be like emily.
We got to start trimming thegood old back hair, and it's not
a day she looks forward to, butit's a day that comes,
especially in the summer.
Yeah that's interesting, so yeahthat ends the time so you can
jump back in listener and enjoyour closing theme song If you
(33:05):
want to.
So never, never thought we'dget there, but we did.
I love where we go because wegot to movies.
Today, we got to body hair.
Today we got to laundrymachines.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, yeah, I told you it was a big day.
Told you it was.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I didn't say that at the machines.
Yeah, yeah, I told you it was abig day.
I told you it was.
You did say that at thebeginning.
Yeah, so Truth Well done.
Listener, thank you for joiningus.
We love being together.
We love being with you.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
See you have a fun day on the road with you
Absolutely Bye everybody, thankyou.
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Where you get to journey in alazy day's motorhome, currently
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(00:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
So, hey, andrew, Hello sir, good to be back.
Took a little bit of time off.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, we went.
I went to Mount Hermon, whereyou've gone a lot.
This is my third time there,but the first time, as I was
telling Andrew, with olderchildren, and it's really quite
amazing with older children.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
so indeed indeed pretty exciting and we went out
to tennessee to visit my family.
Had a great time out there.
Speaking of the south right yesand then, uh, spent some time
on the lake good times, fun withfamily, cousins.
But we're back at it now,talking about this road trip.
(01:47):
I don't know if you heardeverybody, but we went on a road
trip.
We did this is.
If this is your first timelistening, welcome, welcome,
welcome.
It's good to have you here.
Also, you should go back andlisten to all the other episodes
, because we're going on ajourney and we're reading from a
journal that we kept yeah,going all through the country.
(02:10):
So we're we're getting to thesouth now started in the
southwest.
Now we're getting to thesoutheast.
Yeah, we are yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, let's read, let's see where we're going
let's read.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I think we're gonna do two days today because, uh,
one of these days is a littlebit shorter, but we'll get
started here with day 49 of ourtrip.
It's monday, it is november,the 15th of 2004.
Today was a big day.
Get ready for this one, scott.
(02:41):
Oh I, I can't wait.
Yeah, we ate lunch at SubwayNice.
Yeah, they had Subways backthen yeah, oh yeah, sure did,
sure did.
We dumped our poo tank.
Oh we're living.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's important to do.
We're living.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, I said it was a big day.
It was a big day.
It was a bit.
We mailed some letters, okay.
Okay, all right, the suspensebuilds checking out so far.
Big day.
And yeah, we went to a dollarstore.
Wow, yeah, these are greatthings.
These are great things, it wasa big day.
I didn't lie, it was a big day.
(03:21):
Well, let's, let's, let's,learn a little bit more.
That isn't the order, but whocares?
At the dollar store we boughtsome great stuff and it was only
a dollar.
No, now it's $1.25.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is it Is that at the 99 cent store, that's at my
dollar tree, it was $1.25, whichis a true dollar store.
I do not like those places likeDollar General that gets you in
thinking that they're dollarstores.
They're not dollar stores,they're just normal stores.
What Do you know?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
this, yes, no, because.
So that's funny, you bring itup.
I was going to bring it up toobecause, being in Tennessee last
week, they're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Dollar General.
They're as prevalent aschurches, yep, and there are a
lot of churches.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So what they have become is like the smaller
version of Walmart.
I don't know if you can sleepin their parking lots, but it's
the idea of like you come hereand this area can't sustain a
Walmart or a grocery store, butyou need aluminum foil, you need
milk, you need all of thosethings.
Dollar General, that's the newthing.
Towels, pool noodles.
(04:27):
Do they have food?
Yep, I don't know if freshproduce, I believe so.
I believe they'll have some,like your bananas, your tomatoes
, but you're not going to find aItalian zucchini.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I kind of regret not going in one now.
But the problem is they're not abuck, so you go, but the
problem is they're not a buck,so you don't end up thinking, oh
, I'm going to a dollar general.
No, you're not going to adollar store, you're going to a
grocery store or a mini walmart.
Well, I always thought likethis is going to eventually be a
problem for the 99 cent storesor the dollar tree, where I'm
like you kind of.
(04:57):
You kind of put an expirationdate on yourself because we
can't.
Just, it's like either themerchandise has to get worse or
eventually you're going to belike and didn't like 99 cent
store.
Change their name to like the 99cent plus store or something.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think they're also never they're all gone.
I think they were never.
True 99 cent stores, I thinkthey were like that's where we
start.
The dollar tree by me is stilleverything's $1.25.
Now, the move that they make,which fair, is you get less
aluminum foil right, there's aroll, but it's only like enough
to cover three pans and that's$1.25.
(05:33):
So you have to buy four of them, um, which is, I think, the
move, or a lot of that so like.
But the veteran parent move, Ithink, okay, it's on the way to
the theater for us is going tothe movie.
Drop in the dollar store, pickout any two candies you want,
kids go crazy, yeah, and then$2.50, and you're going into the
(05:56):
movies, they're stoked.
They got gummy worms, gummybears, you're stoked.
It's not $11 each, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So I know we talked about this a little bit before,
but we went to the movies whilewe were on vacation.
We saw inside out too.
I haven't seen it yet, I wantto.
Yeah, those are clever moviesand yeah, they are they had you
could buy.
There was two sizes of popcorn,so there were, there were a lot
(06:24):
of us, there were 12 of us intotal.
Okay, the two sizes of popcorn,medium.
Okay For, like I don't know,$8.99.
Right Large $9.99.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yes, of course it was .
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And the guy's like there's only he goes.
The bigger size is only adollar more.
So I was already like, well,yeah, I'm gonna do that and he
goes, and the large has freerefills.
What?
Okay this is the greatest wayto pay one dollar.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yes, oh, you do want one large then we went one large
.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
to be fair, when we bought it, it was just there was
not 12 of us, there were eightof us.
That's a lot of passing, thoughthat's a lot of popcorn passing
.
Well, here's the hack.
I'm going to get audited by theIRS or something.
Yes, you will.
But we say okay, give us onelarge popcorn.
Hey, could we get like six ofthose cardboard trays and
(07:21):
they're like, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So everybody gets a tray.
We dump out the popcorn intothe tray.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean, this is like a homeschool homeschooler hack
right here.
I feel like that's good, Idon't know, and uh, and so like
we basically gave everybodypopcorn and then I went like
right back to the line I'm like,and the guy's like refill.
I'm like yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And he's like as if, like everybody does this, of
course, and I'm not just sayingthat about those situations I've
learned 98 of employees don'tcare, they know exactly what
you're doing.
Yeah, and for them, working atthe amc and getting paid their
15 an hour, whatever, that'sfine.
(08:00):
You want to go on this linefive times and get popcorn every
time?
I don't care.
Free refills, go crazy.
Yeah, you know, and we're likewe feel awkward about it.
But but they're like yeah,there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm like, hey, the policy the policies doesn't say
don't share.
Like you know, it was the samething we bought tickets, and so
I bought tickets for the moviefor my kids and and my sister's
kids and my sister's kids areolder than mine, so they're
older than 12.
Yeah, and my sister's like justmy kids tickets.
I'm like, oh, but they're older, she goes danger, they don't
(08:32):
check.
I'm like oh okay, so I just didkids tickets for everybody and,
sure enough, I walk in.
I'm like here's my qr code andhe's just like, thanks, thanks.
I'm like, okay, it issurprising, they're just
guidelines, it is surprising.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Like you said, those people don't.
The average employee is notsitting there trying to save AMC
the $8 to buy another popcorn.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Just for retribution purposes, I didn't say I went to
an AMC theater.
Oh, okay, I liked it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I did, though I did In case it gets huge, in case
this gets big.
I'm not ripping you off, amc,maybe not Getting a call from
the lawyer at AMC, you owe us $6.
$9.
I want to know what is the mostawkward thing you've ever
brought into a movie theater ora family member uncomfortable
(09:33):
thing?
I have an answer.
I just I.
My mother is Deborah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, I mean, I do remember as a kid like my mom
would we would pop our ownpopcorn and like so we'd like
smuggle that in with like caprisuns or something like we never
went to the concession stand ata movie, that was right yeah,
mom, mom rolled in with a fullbucket of fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's, that's the top, because sounds so good.
Fried chicken in a movietheater.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Everybody, everybody knows you're having fried
chicken and everybody's pissedbecause they want it everyone's
like.
Why didn't we?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
think of that, and she's just passing down a drum
stick.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You want a drum thigh yeah yeah, just all you hear is
the like and like a greasyfingers every uh the pop, that's
all.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's all you're hearing.
But you know what you know meand tom hanks.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
We got to know each other with over fried chicken
and forrest gump whatever moviewe are in that day conversations
all over town later oh, how was?
How was the movie, I don't know?
Somebody brought fried chickenand that's all I could think
about.
We had to leave early so wecould go to.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
KFC.
Oh, I've heard good thingsabout Forrest Gump, but so
hungry.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh, I brought fried chicken now.
I love fried chicken.
Do you ever go?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
to KFC I have recently and it's slipped, I
feel.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, we've got one by our house and I haven't been
there.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It slipped, I think, I don't know how long we have a.
Popeye's not far either, butPopeye's is still good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Popeye's chicken is so good, so I love Popeye's
chicken, and there was one inPasadena when I used to work up
there, when I used to have to goin the office, and so I'd go
there anytime I had my car,otherwise I would take the train
.
Right, but if I had my car, itwas Popeye's for lunch Popeye's.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Chicken strips yes.
With the Mardi Gras mustarddipping sauce Biscuit their.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Cajun fries or like their jambalaya.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh, that was the perfect meal.
So they opened one up in BuenaPark.
Okay, not far there.
We've got family there.
We're in Buena Park all thetime.
That one, for whatever reason,is like the bottom rung of
Popeyes.
No, yes, sorry, I don't knowwhy, but they are opening one up
(11:57):
in orange.
It might be open.
I need to give it a try.
Good, it's so good I love it'sso good.
All right, let's see when werewe.
We got a lint brush, a backscratcher, chocolate-covered
pretzels, a puzzle of a babydressed like a flamingo UFO,
(12:20):
fruit snacks, a 35-ounce bottleof root beer and awards for our
beer Nice, and awards for ourfriends Nice.
35 ounce bottle of root beerthat seems like a strange amount
of root beer.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is, but we probably shared it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, yeah, I'm assuming that's true.
Yeah, so here's the awards wegot.
So I said we got awards for ourfriends.
Allison got the I can tie myshoes ribbon.
Nice sheree got I'm a big girl.
Um, and summer was given.
I try hard, I try these aregood awards.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
remember that we grew up in the time before
participation trophies, so I tryhard is like.
That's the on the way toparticipation trophy, right yeah
.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's like I try hard ribbon.
I was like who are you givingthese two seriously, Like
hilarious.
So we mailed these to themtoday at the post office.
We are funny, that's funny, itis funny.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I still think, that's funny.
It is funny, see, we were right.
In fact, we should try to seeif we should find those again
because we still know all thosepeople and mail them again.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We should.
I wonder if they probably stillhave them in their hope chests
at the foots of their beds,things that they remember.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's probably true.
It gets them through.
Sheree looks at it and goes Ido try hard, I do try hard, I do
try hard.
Was that Summer's oh?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
no, sheree's a big girl, sheree is a big girl.
Yeah, summer tries hard I cando it.
I can do it I'm a big girl, ohmy goodness.
So we made it down toFayetteville, north Carolina, to
sleep at yet another Walmart.
So we're just traveling.
We're not trying to stopanywhere we're just traveling.
Shall we go on Day 50.
(14:11):
That was it for day 49.
So day 50, tuesday November16th.
Last night was cold.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh, I, remember that still that day At 10 pm, at 10
pm day At 10 pm.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
At 10 pm, yeah, just 10 pm.
The temperature was 30 degrees.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We are from California, remember?
We are so cold right now.
We are so cold In our aluminumbox.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, we can only imagine how cold it got in that
RV overnight.
I have a good sleeping bag bagand I was still cold.
Yeah, we were worried that ourwater tank would freeze and the
expanded frozen water wouldcrack our tank Like I don't know
(15:04):
.
Maybe some of you whoexperience this type of weather
are like that's ridiculous, butit was a real worry for us,
right?
Yeah, so luckily this did nothappen.
Fayetteville is the home of theSpecial Ops Museum, so
naturally we stopped by Hold ona second Before we.
Yeah, this night is one thatsticks out in my mind because of
(15:29):
how cold it was.
And, yes, we did have thesystem where, like, we would be
frozen.
But I could just do a veryquick sit up, hit the thermostat
and then go back down.
But we were still a little bitscared that, like our heater was
going to like asphyxiate us.
Is that the term?
Yeah, going to like kill us,asphyxiate us is that the term?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
so I think this is this was our worst.
Like we, we lived out of fearof carbon dioxide poisoning,
which we probably should havejust done a carbon dioxide
detector and call it a day.
And also our batteries, likehaving enough juice to put the
heater on all night long.
Oh right, any any version ofheat would have been better than
just letting us freeze andgetting down to whatever got in
(16:10):
there which was cold.
So cold.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's not like these things have great insulation.
My area was colder because Iwas just out over.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh yeah, I was two-sided, so I was in the cold
zone.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, you're in, just like a big metal peninsula
hanging over the space.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Peninsula of freezing .
And so you would flip it on andwe'd wait.
Is it warm?
Finally, we'd hear the littleyes, slowly it's going to warm
up.
And it worked, man, that littleheater.
It works.
Yeah, it did.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Give it a chance.
It works.
We didn't die that night, so we.
But speaking of dying, let'sget back to the Special Ops
Museum.
Huh, please, okay.
So we, we.
But speaking of dying, let'sget back to the special ops
museum.
Huh, please, okay.
So home of the special opsmuseum.
So naturally, we stopped by.
Very interesting, it was allabout the airborne soldiers
throughout American war history.
Wow, that's enough about that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I have zero recollection of that museum, but
I don't remember that either.
I remember the water museum inFlorida.
We're going of that museum, butI don't remember that either.
I remember the Waters Museum inFlorida we were going to go to,
but that one it sounds great.
So Fayetteville way to go.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, although I did say so, I ended that very
briefly saying that's enoughabout that, the only thing worse
than visiting museums iswriting about visiting them, so
I hadn't quite matured in myappreciation for all things I
was going to say where are we atwith that now?
I think now I could spend a halfa day at a museum like that,
(17:34):
read every plaque.
Yeah, okay, yeah, I took herein California all fourth graders
do a mission project.
So we've got missionsthroughout the state of
California and each kid has topick a mission and do a report
on it.
So in my oldest Avery was infourth grade we picked a mission
(17:55):
that was in Oceanside, not toofar from us.
Sure, we went down there and sowe're like okay, avery, you got
to learn all about it.
There's all these plaques,let's walk through.
I was like taking pictures ofeveryone.
I was reading everything.
She was over it in like 10minutes done.
And she's like what's over here?
I'm like do you didn't?
Did you read this one?
How are you gonna know what todo on the report?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
and I'm like, oh right, she's 10 years old, she
doesn't care I know, but that islike still the experience I
feel like I have with my mom, asshe like puts her hands behind
her back and slowly walks from.
I don't see it in my head.
Yeah, I plait the plait andlike, yeah, looks at each one
and so I don't.
Maybe it's like 10 year oldscott, so I I don't enjoy doing
museum, but when she's theredoing that move, I'm like come
(18:34):
on, move along, move along.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
There's a lunch place at the end.
Let's get there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'm hungry three free beers at the end, remember,
sure, yeah oh, yeah, oh man Iknow, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I feel like I could go either way.
At a museum I could be likeokay, we're here, how much time
do we have to stay to feel likewe made this worth it and let's
get out of here?
And then there's the other sideof me that wants to put my
hands behind my back and slowlyand slowly and take all of it in
Take all of it in.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's a transition, so maybe your experience as being
a child is that you just look atyour parents and go like,
seriously, this is what we'redoing with our vacation.
You know, the ocean is rightthere.
Oh, there's a lake.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, what if instead we went swimming anywhere, in
anything?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Anywhere I want to get my body into water.
Is ice cream a possibility?
Is that from the end of this?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Please.
What else can we do?
That's not this, okay.
Well, our laundry bag wasgetting full.
So after lunch at some yokelItalian restaurant, we went to
the laundromat.
We stop at a lot of Italianrestaurants, don't we?
That's probably all there isout there.
Yeah, probably.
Like Subway or Italian Barbecue.
(19:45):
Yeah, Usually at laundromats Ihave no problem leaving while my
clothes are being washed here.
I was not about to let them outof my sight.
Half of the machines werebroken or missing, the ceiling
was caving in and the carts toput your clothes in were stolen
from the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But it was cheap, yeah, helpful.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So at least there's that um, we hit it out.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I like every match for the fact that you're just
done.
You just do one big load, yeah,a couple of machines.
You throw them all in, move allthe dryers, everything's done.
Laundry can be a really longprocess but with that, like you
can crush laundry.
Like you can crush laundry,yeah, that is, that is good.
I know it's all time like let'sjust take it to the laundromat.
We have our free machines.
I'm like we can just be done.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It can be over yeah, I know, I, I know somebody who
did that, like after a vacation.
They're like we just took theentire family's laundry, we did
it all at once and we were doneand I was like, oh, that is
interesting, versus like the twodays of oh we gotta, we got to
switch it.
Now Do we set a timer?
Oh, we forgot, oh no, that onesat in the washing machine
(20:52):
overnight, so now we got tore-wash.
That I know.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I mean, yeah, it's like three hours of just like
five machines deep, all to theextra large dryer, everything's
in there and we walked away.
Yeah, $35 poor, but done, doneLaundry finished for the day.
Then tomorrow everyone wearsthree up.
Why did you change Child what?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Because I was done wearing this.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What, oh that age where change flows 11 times a
day?
Yeah, we're out of that too,but still, yeah, they are old
enough to change.
But you know, when they'vechanged for us is when we had
them we.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We started them doing their own laundry, like sorting
it and then sorting it after itand then putting it away, and I
always call it like all rightkids, it's time for the laundry
party, like it's a fun thingthey're like ah I love it.
It makes me so happy when I cansay laundry party, and they just
are.
So we know this is not fun, weknow this sucks yeah, all right.
(21:56):
So we headed out of this ghettoand went to myrtle beach, south
carolina.
No, that's nice, that's muchnicer.
Off in the distance, I couldsee those familiar orange lights
.
That could only mean one thinghooters.
(22:17):
I debated like oh man, do wewant to skip this.
But you know we have to be trueto the journal true to the text
we're 22 year old men yeah,hooters, I love hooters, the
wings are great.
(22:37):
Oh boy again.
This is why it's good when yourwives don't listen to your
podcast, you know, because it'slike, yeah, this is fine.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Listen, this is fine Gooders.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Good waiters.
A few of the waitresses stoppedby to chat and they were all
very friendly.
Hmm, Odd.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Shocked.
Yeah, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Our waitress wasn't real smart, but she had big
beers that she brought us seewhat I did there.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You did good, you did I, even I even scratched
something out in the journalbecause I was like being
hilarious in the journal.
Oh, my goodness, I'm not proudof all the things we did.
In the same parking lot was astore called Bass Pro.
That was over three footballfields in size, so Bass Pro is
(23:27):
now a thing worldwide, but itwasn't then.
It wasn't then.
This was our very first.
We were just discovering it.
We did not know Bass Proexisted, but here we are.
20 years ago, rolling up toBass Pro existed, but here we
are, nope.
20 years ago, yes, rolling upto Bass Pro.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Here's something I'm just reflecting on Tell me, when
you travel and when you go onan adventure like we're
encouraging people to step out,try something new, like we've
discovered Crocs and rememberthey weren't a thing.
Now they've become a thing.
Here's the Bass Pro shop.
There are so many things thatyou get to look back and go oh
yeah, I, I found that, or Iexperienced that.
(24:04):
When you just say yes toadventure, like those are two
huge things.
Now there's not a person inamerica who you say crocs to and
they're not like yeah, ofcourse.
Yeah, but we in boulder were.
What are these ugly shoes thatyou can eat if you boil them?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah.
Crocs, and now they're a thing,bass Pro.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Shop.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
everyone knows, Could you even can you even believe
the popularity of Crocs Likethey've surged.
All my kids have Crocs nowAgain, because it's a thing I
know I'm like.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I know they're back.
How is this possible?
They do great.
It's amazing I think it has tobe the fact that everyone who
has a legit pair of Crocs theonly Crocs I have are Walmart
ones.
I know I never got them.
Yeah, they're not this.
But I'm wondering.
Everyone who has them says theyare the most comfortable shoes
you'll have.
Yeah, you can stand in them forhours like nurses.
(25:01):
Yeah, I know a guy who worked agrill all day.
He ran a taco or a hamburgershop and he's like I have to
have these on my feet becauseI'm standing 10 hours a day
flipping burgers and I can do itin these shoes.
I'm like every that is acrossthe board.
Yeah, so they're legitimately.
They do it what they do.
Yes, they're ugly, but you needa shoe they can stand in and
good for boating.
Yeah, yeah, that's what keepsyou coming back.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So I guess the takeaway, what I'm hearing you
say is be good at what you do,because even if you're ugly,
you'll still have a purpose.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
This is kind of my life motto, maybe Is it oh,
figure something out,consistently do it, and whether
or not you look good doing it,keep going.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You are the crocs of people that would.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
That would be.
That's such a bumper sticker.
I'm a croc.
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
they're undeniably comfortable and useful, but damn
, they're undeniably comfortableand useful, but damn, they're
ugly.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But damn, oh, that's a great life motto.
Oh gosh, we're going to sellthose stickers.
If you want one, go to King, tothe Road.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh no.
No, that's on our website.
Oh yeah, Just tell us onFacebook or Instagram.
No, John, Chris oh.
Johnriscom that's right.
Yes, oh, chris, it's totallyour website.
Uh, oh man, okay, uh, yeah.
So it was huge.
We it had everything a redneckcould want, from fishing gear to
(26:33):
rifles, to nascar merch boy.
It was great.
I think I fit in because lastnight I shaved my goatee into a
handlebar mustache oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yes, that picture has to be posted.
And oh yeah, yes, you did fitin.
Yes, you did fit in yeah, therewas no second glances yeah,
that was good, I don't knoweveryone's like you're the right
guy for this store yeah,probably wasn't the only one
with that, yeah that wasguaranteed not.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, it, that was one with that.
Yeah, that was guaranteed not.
Yeah, that was one of thosethings that was funny because I
did it and like, when you dosomething weird with your facial
hair, it's funny when you do itand then you forget about it
because it's on your face andthen you're like people looking
at me weird today and then youcatch a glance of yourself and
you're like oh, I forgot, I didthat here's the other funny
(27:19):
thing that I thought you were tosay about facial hair.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Because when you do something funny to your facial
hair, you think it's hilarious.
The people you just meet forthe first time they're like, oh,
he just has a handlebarmustache.
Yeah, that's just who he is.
That's just who he is.
Yeah, he's handling ourmustache.
Guy, we're inside, you're goinghilarious and they're going
like you just have a handle onmustache, right, okay?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
does he know this looks?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
terrible, yeah, I know.
Oh man, can we just pause forlike half a second and grieve
together over the fact that likemullets are really becoming a
thing again?
Yeah, or are you?
Are you okay with this?
I don't get it.
I'm becoming more and more notokay with it as I see
(28:03):
seven-year-olds rolling around.
I'm like your parents did thatto you and you're not going to
be happy about that photo later.
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Is it the same kind of thing when you see a small
child who wears a band t-shirt?
A small child who wears like aband t-shirt, like you know?
You see a kid who's got like aPearl.
Jam t-shirt on but they're fiveand it's like you don't like
Pearl Jam.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your parents are just trying to show everybody that
they're cool but I think thatthat is cool, as opposed to the
mullet where it's like oh man,but it's a statement right, like
, hey, we're so cool that mykid's got a mullet.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Where it's like oh man, but it's a statement right,
like hey, we're so cool that mykid's got a mullet, kind of
like you know, if you gave yourkid a mohawk at certain points A
mohawk or a blue hair orsomething.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, it's like they're just, they don't have a
choice.
Yeah, they're just like blankcanvases.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's just, it's just, it's it's hard, it's a it's
hard for me.
So I just wanted to take amoment to.
I'm sorry, you know, I thinkI've I was too flippant there
and I just glossed over the thefact that you're hurting and I
need to address that.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Scott, I'm sorry watching this head out too
recently and you're very in tunewith yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I appreciate that I'm , I'm seeing the emotions that
you're and I just you know, I Iskipped over it, so I feel your
pain.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'll have to.
So can we talk about myfeelings and the fact that I
have feelings about my feelingsand my feelings about your
dismissing my feeling?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
yeah, now tell me as.
Yeah, tell me, as I'm lookingat you right now.
Uh huh, you've shaved your headquite close.
This is the new.
What is that?
A one, a zero, it's a one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's a one dude, it's a one, it's down to one.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Is there maybe a part of you that is like I hate the
mullet because I can't do it,because?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I can't do it.
I think you could, though Icould probably do a great mullet
, because I think I had hairhere great mullet because I
think I had hair here.
You got hair on the back.
Yeah, you can still party here.
I don't have to party, I can'tbusiness in the front, yeah, so
yeah, no, it's interesting, I'llhave to.
I don't feel hair envy likeactually.
One of the speakers at mountherman was like saying that part
(30:11):
of his thing is he's bald andhe's like, oh, I have hair envy
because he's italian.
He's like, oh man, I I lovepeople's with good hair yeah,
for me it's like you know, I waslike whatever, like this is how
god made me.
I'm hairy from my eyebrows down,but like my head just never
gonna be hairy.
I don't know if it's from mebleaching my hair so much and
(30:32):
dyeing some colors I still kindof blend on that, but then
you're a bad example because youdid that too and you still got
a lot of hair.
So it could just be somethingelse, but it it is what it is.
So I'm okay with that part um,but I could, maybe I need to go
deeper, I need to spend sometime with that, and so I I'll,
I'll go that, I'll go to thatspot tonight well, I just want,
(30:54):
I just want you to know that Isee you.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Thank you, is that the right?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
thing to say, yes, and I think you're supposed to
now rub the small of my back.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
No, I mean if we were in proximity, I guess rain
check Still Okay rain check.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, I'll put that on the table.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
The small of your back, the hairy small of your
table the small of your back.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You're the hairy small of your the furry small oh
boy oh, everyone.
Well, I know this, I know whenwe're at the lake together.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Next you're gonna be like hey, andrew, will you put
sunscreen on my back?
Sunscreen me up?
I'm like, that's why you have awife.
I will not, but then she's likeI ain't doing it, so it's
probably gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, I do.
I do body scape that forsometimes like late times,
because I don't I this is maybegonna touch on the tmi, so if
you want to pause right now, youcan't jump forward one minute.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah if you don't want to hear this, let's just
call this episode over for youlistener otherwise.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But for those who want to go, stay on at your own
risk.
Two things have happened.
One, when the kids are littler,they would like climb on you
and they'd like, full hand,sometimes come down and just
pull body hair as it's going andit hurt, like my back, and so I
was like I gotta get smaller sothey can't just like not grab
it, but just like with with theI don't know with the water it
(32:20):
would hurt, as they're like.
So I'm like, okay, it needs tobe thinner.
And there was one member I havewhere maybe this was
subconscious, but I felt like Icould feel the hairs like
flowing, like oh, there's a lotof grass in this water yes, my
body, yes, like I felt.
Oh, that's oh, that's part of mybody.
That's like how girls feel hairswimming.
(32:40):
I'm like this is a smaller.
This is going too deep, so yeahso those were the things that
made me be like emily.
We got to start trimming thegood old back hair, and it's not
a day she looks forward to, butit's a day that comes,
especially in the summer.
Yeah that's interesting, so yeahthat ends the time so you can
jump back in listener and enjoyour closing theme song If you
(33:05):
want to.
So never, never thought we'dget there, but we did.
I love where we go because wegot to movies.
Today, we got to body hair.
Today we got to laundrymachines.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, yeah, I told you it was a big day.
Told you it was.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I didn't say that at the machines.
Yeah, yeah, I told you it was abig day.
I told you it was.
You did say that at thebeginning.
Yeah, so Truth Well done.
Listener, thank you for joiningus.
We love being together.
We love being with you.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
See you have a fun day on the road with you
Absolutely Bye everybody, thankyou.
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