July 10, 2024 • 31 mins
We have been in the Northeast for a long time. We just spent the coldest day of the trip in the motorhome and we are discovering the Oasis that is Savannah, GA. In this episode we take you to Skidaway Island and meet a new friend, Scott Coleman. Come with us as we begin our adventures in the Deep South!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
That that lovely guitar sound means you are in
for a half an hour of enjoyableKings of the Road podcast time.
One Scott Hawkins, coming atyou straight out of the South
Bay.
Two, Ed Gehr, coming at youstraight from the Inland Empire.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, How's your?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
fat billed hat and and lifted truck.
How's it going?
No dis, no disrespect to our iefriends, but I do not live in
the.
I ain't one of them.
No, no, sir, I live squarelybehind the orange curtain, north
orange county.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You're on the way to the, it's true I'm like you're
not, you're not.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm close to that 91 freeway, which is the gateway to
the dirt people.
Yeah, all of a sudden, it'slike oh, my area code is 951 my
bill is finally 909 of my hat.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It had a nice little curve but now it's lowering.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I work in womp womp sounds, or dirt bike sounds Womp
womp.
To random conversations just aswe're going, I also wanted to
just do.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
if you haven't yet hit the subscribe button to
Spotify or Apple Podcasts, goand follow us on Facebook and
Instagram.
Also, I just want to say athank you to Aaron for our theme
song.
I've noticed that he is touring.
He's doing some differentthings.
That's pretty cool.
One of the things is at theHome Depot Center here.
(01:58):
I'm trying to see if I can goto that.
Are you going to that?
I don't know.
I don't know, maybe.
So That'd be fun to go to mansome of the stuff I've seen him
just shredding.
So thanks, aaron, with us.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I also saw that he is going to be releasing an album
soon.
Oh sweet.
So whenever that happens, thatmight not be for a year, but
whenever it happens, we'll besure to.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Shut that off.
Turn your throats.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I mean promote it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Bring him on.
Yeah, let's bring him on.
I think he was recently on apodcast too, so we should pump
that up Maybe we can give a link, but we are very grateful, very
grateful for him and his sweetguitar sounds that he, uh, made
for us.
So it's been fun, been a funproject and, yeah, this is
(02:51):
something I enjoy.
So, thank you guys forlistening, thank you for getting
being a part of it, thank youfor telling your friends about
us and, um, we get to make thisjust pretty spectacular content.
I mean, let's be honest, prettyspectacular.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's among the best.
I mean again, we don't have theofficial polling numbers or
anything but in the category ofChristian-based road trip prior
to 2010, but after 2000,.
Two people in a motor home of alength 20 to 25 feet,
(03:30):
continental US, with a littlebit of Canada category, the
dropdown menus that we canreally filter out that
specifically.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I was surprised when the 20 to 25 foot category came
down, but there it is, like thatis specific, your algorithm
crushes it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well done, sir.
I mean, data is king, right?
Hey, guess what?
I have a snack today.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh Sakeru, hold on.
Is this a surprise snack?
Oh, did someone buy those foryou?
We went to the movies and youbought.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I think Mary bought a whole bunch of snacks
when we went to our trip forTennessee.
So for those of you listening,I just held up a box of Junior
Mints.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Hello, Hello loser of the poll, whatever.
So if I go silent for a littlebit.
Loser of the poll.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Whatever, I feel like a winner today.
Although they have traveled nowto Tennessee and back.
And so I'm at that stage where,like it's kind of one Junior
Mint at the bottom of the boxand I'm like how do?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I get this out and they're just peeling it off.
Yeah, I got to hit it a littlebit.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's the sound of me trying to, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh hold on.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Got one.
You ready to hear me beenjoying something I'm ready.
Gosh.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I can't really hear it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh, I can hear it, it's audio gold.
This microphone is way too good.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's funny that you bring up the Junior Mints,
because I bought a little bag ofreese's when I was at target
the other day oh, and you'relike wait a minute?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
yes you've turned very good.
I said no, I said what youthought thank you, I said.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I said, wow, what a great, delicious treat.
I'm sure glad I'm having theseand now I I.
Now I do enjoy Junior man, so Idon't ever want to be saying
that Junior Man's aren't good.
I just don't think they'reanywhere near as good or popular
as the Reese's Pieces.
Well, I will say, reese'sPieces aren't very good Really,
(05:38):
so you're still in that camp.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just not good.
I am never choosing Reese'sPieces.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Never, never, never, never never, never, never, never
, never, never, never.
Sitting us the sour patchstraws.
You're doing sour patch strawsyep huh, those are good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What are you talking about?
I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, that gets a bit old that gets a bit old yeah,
those, those were like adiscovery when I was like eight.
I'm like, wait, they made awhole like pack of these.
This is incredible and you'relike pulling them out and this
is like it?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
did it start at like the base, the little league
fields, when they had like thesour belts I think they call
them now?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
those are so good have we talked about the fact
that this is just.
It feels like a new thought tome, so I don't feel like we have
.
But really like candy,innovation doesn't happen Right,
they're not releasing newcandies.
The only thing I think of islike Reese's keeps throwing more
stuff into a bar, so like nowit has pretzels and caramel and
(06:38):
peanut butter and this I'm likewow, but like in general, like
we've kind of come to the peak.
We have wow, but like ingeneral, like we've kind of come
to the peak, we have a sourversion, sour patch kids.
We have coconut, we have umalmonds in it.
They're not discovering newcandies out there.
I don't feel like like, do youthink that, like the candies
that have been around since wewere kids are still around,
still solid?
Our kids aren't enjoying them?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
there's nothing new that they're looking at like,
yeah, there's all thesevariations and like i've've seen
sour gel now and other weirdstuff.
That's gross.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But the stuff my kids are reaching for is the same
stuff that we reach for?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, yeah, the good stuff is the good stuff and it
always will be.
I thought so.
Hey, this day is one of thehighlights of the trip.
I don't even know if we couldget to all of it today.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is one of my longest entries and oh, there's
so much.
This is day 51.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, I think that's where we're going.
It's.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
November 17th.
Yes, oh, my gosh Scott, I'mjust so excited Just even
thinking aboutth.
Yes, oh my gosh, scott, I'mjust so excited Just even
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You are a listener, you're in for a treat.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We were in for a treat and we didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We kind of knew, I think, go ahead.
The reason, I think, is becausewe I'm assuming I know where
the story's going and I justwant to lay one piece.
I legitimately think in theNortheast we didn't see the sun
for like 30 days.
Yeah, it felt like a long timeFrom the time we drove into
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Buffalo until now.
It was cloudy and cold andthere were some really beautiful
moments of the flower, the, thefall, leaves and everything,
but in general, like twosouthern california guys were
like the days getting shorter.
It's chilly, yeah, it is gray,yeah, it didn't snow, but we're
(08:40):
just kind of like overall, likeyou know, like that's so that,
that.
So that's where we're startingon day 51.
And it is the coldest.
We had just been through, ourcoldest night, right.
Right so that's importantcontext of like where our brains
are, which sets up where we'regoing and how glorious it is.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean just spectacular.
This is the moment when Dorothysteps into Oz and the world
becomes.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Technicolor and why we ranked the state so high and
why we still hold in our heartsthe city we're going to Like so
special.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
People say they're going there like oh, oh I
delight, I delight inside forthem, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And they're like oh, oh, I delight I delight inside
for them, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And before we get there, yeah, we're somewhere
else, which is probablyspectacular too.
Oh yeah, but we just.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We were moving, Go, go go.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We drove a bit out of our way to get to Myrtle Beach,
so we had to go.
Yeah, wow, here we go With abang.
I'm just too excited to read,like I just I'm beside myself
Myrtle Beach, to go see theactual beach before we left.
So this is Myrtle Beach, southCarolina, right, yep, that's
(10:00):
South Carolina.
Yeah, that by itself is likeone of the greatest destinations
in America, I think.
But we just kind of, we justkind of that was on the way,
that was, that was the gasstation on the way, if you will.
So I mean, think about put thatin context.
Beaches on the East Coast aredifferent from ours.
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On the West Coast, wediscovered that the sand is
white and powdery, with lots ofcrushed shells by the water and
as you go away from the waterthere are small dunes with quote
dune plants I don't know whatthey're called.
Not much in the way of waves,but we hear the water gets much
(10:40):
warmer here, upwards of 80degrees.
That's crazy.
Yeah, west Coast, west Coast,peak summer.
What are we?
70?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
72?
72.
72.
Yeah, exactly, just stoked inthe 70s yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You're like, oh no, wetsuit Get in Wonderful, yeah,
wonderful.
Yeah, it was a very nice beachand a beautiful day, finally
shorts weather.
See, here we are.
The sun will come out in SouthCarolina.
Praise the.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Lord.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
In South Carolina it's sunny On the way to Georgia
, which was on our mind.
Yeah, go, yeah, go, okay.
We got to Savannah, georgia,just before 5 pm and found the
church we were to stay at.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Stop, stop, because I feel like this is a moment
where we have to do our.
What do you remember?
Because this is one of thosetimes where it's so great and I
wonder if I have it locked inthe right way.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What do you remember?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So you've already read it, right.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I thought you were going to say you had to sing the
Ray Charles song again.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh, I know.
So I did try to time because,remember, I was obsessed with
the Ray Charles album because wehad seen the movie and so we're
listening to it a lot, and so Itried to time the Georgia song
to come in as we drove into thestate and I missed it by a
little bit, but it was a sweetmoment.
It was a sweet moment for us.
It was Me, and Ray is who I'mtalking about.
You, I don't know where youwere emotionally with that, but
(12:22):
I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, here's why I wanted to dowhat you remember.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm making a sandwich , okay.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Tell me.
So we found Stidaway IslandMethodist Church, which is, I
believe, the name of the church.
Yeah, name of the church, yeah,and we pull into this place and
it's it's like five o'clock andwe were right before.
They have their wednesday nightprogram and they're gonna feed
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the whole church and the youthpastor's there and for some
reason, part of his job is tocook also, for In my mind, it's
a lot of people, like 150, 200people.
He has to feed a lot of peopleand what does he decide to feed
them?
Again, what do you remember?
(13:09):
We're having Port Tenderloin.
We're having Port Tenderloin.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You are like a freaking elephant.
I read ahead today and this wasall new to me really and you're
just like pulling this out ofyour pocket from 20 years.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
My goodness, I am impressed that's why, because I
think I go back here sometimesI'm having a stressful day and
I'm just like remember george ison your mind george is on my
mind oh man.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He's like do you want to help.
Of course we want to help.
Keep going.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Of course we want to help.
I think there's like big applesand I don't know what else sides
there are.
Oh yeah, but I'm looking atthis going.
This is what we're making for alot of church people and he's
just busting it out.
Lot of church people and he'sjust busting it out, and so we
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serve everybody and we serveeverybody, and we then go out
with him to a bar in savannahand we have a drink and we're
hanging out with him.
We may go to his house, uh,before or after that, something
like we hang out, um, I don'tthink he's married, I think he's
single.
I don't remember that part.
Yeah, he was a bachelor.
He was okay.
I wasn't saying this soundsbachelor because you have a lot
(14:26):
of free.
You're very nimble.
Yeah, yeah, sure, I'll do that.
Yeah, yeah, you and I now wouldbe like, well, let me call and
check it out that's not gonnahappen.
I gotta drive three kids to thisplace and then go there and
then I just have to be on myseven so I can swatch, right, um
and, and then, um, I don't knowif we want to go into the next
(14:52):
day, but that is one of my very,very favorite like, yeah, just
God being so gracious with us,but anything I forgot about that
night.
So how did I do?
You did shockingly well.
Okay, again, a special time andwe rolled in its day.
(15:12):
But go for it.
Do you want to read it?
Or did I do well?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
enough to summarize.
No, I'm going to read it, causethere's a couple of details in
here that I had certainlyforgotten about.
But you, I mean, wow, you hitthe points.
That was impressive.
Okay, so we got to SkidawayIsland Methodist Church.
The youth pastor is ScottCleveland.
I wrote his last name down.
We've got to find this guy.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We're going to find him.
We're going to work.
We're going to find ScottCleveland.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And when we found him .
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If you're listening to this contact us.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, if you're listening to us, I wow.
How cool is that?
Yeah, he was cooking dinner forthe quote Wednesday night
family dinner.
I did, I Did.
They do this every week, couldyou imagine?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, well, we do, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So he is also the.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, I write it down.
He is also the familyministries director and, as it
turns out, he's a great chef too.
So to recap, thus far Youthpastor yeah.
Family ministries directorgreat chef too.
So to recap, thus far youthpastor, family ministries
director, chef yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, he's a catch, ladies, he's a catch.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
How's this guy a bachelor right?
There were 200 people expectedto show up for this dinner, so
we were thinking lasagna orsomething easy like that.
Well, he cooked pork tenderloin.
Of course he did broccoli withcheese, wild rice, baked apples,
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walnuts and cranberries and fordessert, bread pudding for 200
people, scott, cleveland.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We're coming at you, man, we're going to find you,
we're coming.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We are.
It was spectacular.
And since we were in the South,the drink of choice is sweet
tea.
Now, sweet tea is nothing morethan brown sugar water, but it's
delicious.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I still don't like sweet tea, but you always have
no I.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Really no, I, I don't like it, I mean so.
So you just lied when we had itJust lied to the journal
Journal liar.
I didn't say I liked it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You said it was delicious.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I said the food was delicious, not the sweet tea.
I said it's brown sugar water.
Oh, but it is delicious.
Okay, right, I did say that.
Well, I think it took us bysurprise, and then we got kind
of used to it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But today like.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'll never, because it is so sweet and the trick
that we learned.
So a lot of people, at leasthere on the West Coast, like
iced tea.
You know we all drink iced teaand you put sugar in the iced
tea.
That is not sweet tea.
At all Sweet tea, you have toheat it up and fully dissolve
the sugar.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, basically, the recipe is like one pound of
granulated sugar eight ounces ofwater and a tea bag and, and
then you boil that, so most ofthe water evaporates you
basically made simple syrup andthen like, like, throw tea at it
and see what sticks, yeah, andthen you drink that and it is
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the only beverage.
So I again I've said this along time I've lived in alabama
for six years brought alabamiansto california and when we went
to a restaurant you can't ordersweet tea in southern california
it's you it's unless you go tochick-fil-a, which is a southern
company right and now.
Now, like mcdonald's, has itright, fast food places, but
like just a burrito place.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
They don't have sweet tea here, they have machada and
they have orangerito place.
They don't have sweet tea here.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
They have horchata and they have orange vein, but
they don't have sweet tea.
I love this line.
I think it was a high schooler.
She looks at me and she's likedo you understand, pastor Scott?
This is like not being able toorder a hamburger.
I was like, oh my goodness,you're right.
After I lived there long enough, I'm like it's just, you go to
the fanciest restaurant whereyou're paying 500 for your steak
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and you're gonna glass of sweettea with it, like that's,
that's how common it is.
And here we're everything.
Yeah, it's just shocking.
So, yeah, I was like that's agood way.
She's like this is this is justlife.
Like I can't get sweet tea?
Yeah, well, might as well justhave water then, because no
other beverage.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah as good.
Yeah, what's the point?
I hate this.
Yeah, that's why you don't hearabout people from the south
moving to california but that'syeah, so that's true and and our
housing cost that's 10 times no, no it's the tea.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh, it's a tea.
Okay, yeah, it's fair, fair,fair.
They do sell Milo's now inCostco.
I've seen Milo's is like aBirmingham company, that there
was always a green thing ofMilo's and a red thing of Milo's
at every church event.
And one is a spade sweetener,then a sugar and then there's
normal tea without unsweet tea,as they call it in the South.
(20:15):
Now they sell it at Costco here.
I just saw a gallon of Milo's.
So if you want the original OGstuff, there it is.
That's what they drink in theSouth.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, that's good to know.
I won't buy it.
But it's good to know For thoseof you who like that kind of
thing.
If you're in the South, braceyourself.
Just order tea and see whathappens.
It's going to be sweet tea.
Just make order tea and seewhat happens.
(20:47):
Oh, it's gonna be sweet tea,it's trying to be just make sure
.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
My one thing like to make it palatable, just make
sure there's a lot of ice in it,like you want it very cold now
I.
I say like I can get it downand it's not so bad.
That's not like, oh, there's.
I just never prefer it.
I just never.
Yeah, I never think about sweettea.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, it's a and we're making such a big deal of
it.
There's probably more sugar andCoke than sweet.
Well, maybe not, I don't know.
It is so much.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Though that, that's a greatquestion.
We should check.
Yeah, okay, ooh, a pollquestion.
Okay, ooh, a poll question.
We'll put that up.
Which has more sugar Coke orSweet Tea?
Just what do you think I likethat poll question?
Let's do it.
Let's do it, I like that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, as if all that wasn't enough, that's right,
folks, we're not done here,scott.
After dinner, scott sangSouthern hymns in an incredible
Opera style voice.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh man, this guy, he's probably running the
country you guys, or he shouldyou.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Why is he running for ?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
president, family ministries director, chef, yeah,
opera singer.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Of course we were convinced.
We were convinced this was somesort of superhero.
I still think that's true.
At 7.30, we went up with someof the youth to have a little
Bible study.
There were about seven highschoolers, so it was a nice
little group.
One of the girls was 4'11" andas cute as a peach, as they say.
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She had the southern accent, ofcourse, and the reason I bring
this up.
So just picture this Little4'11" sweet cute Southern girl.
Howdy y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
How do you like?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Joe or Jess.
Oh, why am I doing this?
Anyways, just think of like areal sweet, you know southern
girl, real cute, real small.
The reason I bring this up isbecause she hunts.
Of course she does.
She goes out and kills animals,hooray for the South, and it's
Kim's son.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It brings them back home.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We were us city boys were like I'm sorry, what?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
you do what now?
You are so cute, but yeah,you'll shoot something, yeah you
have killed and cleaned animalshave you seen that?
Oh my gosh, that's like I wanta 27 year old man, but not a
california 27, a southern 27,where they know how to like
shoot things and kill things andcook things.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh okay, that's fair yeah, yeah, southern california
and smoke weed, yeah, and I knowwhere to get a good burrito,
which you know.
That is a pretty good that's amarketable trait.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I feel like Scott Hernandez has more than that
going on, though.
Way to go, scott.
Scott Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Is it Hernandez?
What's his last name?
Coleman Cleveland.
You remember pork tenderloinfrom 20 years ago but you didn't
remember Cleveland from 20seconds ago.
That's special.
Oh my gosh, Johnchriscom.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It's not like it matters Neither of them exist.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's great though.
So can you believe the nightwas still not over?
Of course not.
Believe the night was still notover?
Of course not.
Scott, the youth pastor droveus around downtown savannah for
a bit of a tour.
What a city.
It's the oldest city in all ofgeorgia, established in 1733.
The city was commissioned byking george ii and actually
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designed in England.
He told those going over tofind a place to build this city,
and so they did so.
Basically, he designed a cityand said go over to America,
find a place to build it andbuild it.
So they did.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
To protect this from the Spanish.
Okay, random question.
Oh yeah, if you had to guess,how many times have you almost
said that exact sentence at likerandom dinner parties or in
conversation with people aboutthe history of Savannah Ever?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Zero times.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Zero times.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh, dude, I missed an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
My overrunner is probably 15.
Oh dang, I almost say it thatexact same way.
Oh dang, I almost say that it'sthat same way.
Oh yeah, Savannah, you knowKing George designed it in
England and dropped it over hereto find a place to put it to
protect from the Spanish, Tohave enough from Florida.
Oh, surprised you didn't knowthat Random person at dinner
party.
Okay, I'm going to lock thataway.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I want to go to a dinner party where you are also
at said dinner party and just golike get there early and tell
everybody that fact, somehowwork it in a conversation, and
then just sit near you and belike savannah's a cool place,
just saying oh I'm ready, andthen let the conversation and
they're like actually we didknow that, and then I'll just
slip out of the conversation andexit like damn it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You text all my friends before I get there.
Hey, did you know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Hey, just FYI.
I want you all to know thisfact.
Just no reason.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Who's this guy?
The Savannah fact.
Oh snap, so, oh, that is a factI have in my back pocket, ready
to use when I need to.
That's a good one.
You just whip it out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That sounds wrong.
Oh, that is a fact I have in myback pocket ready to use when I
need to.
That's a good one, that's agood one.
You just whip it out of nowhere.
That sounds wrong, don't?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
put that on your shirt Sometimes.
No, it's more of like when Iknow people are traveling to
Savannah.
It's when it comes up.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Okay, so there's some context there.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's not just like you're sitting kind of in
silence at a soccer game andyou're like so savannah, georgia
was commissioned by king georgeii to protect from your
challenge.
Though, when you go to mounthermann, I want you just to
randomly bring it up and thentest me ding brought it up
randomly around a conversationand I'm gonna try to just, yeah,
meet some random people thisyear and just see how quickly I
can work it in yes and in a lull, hey, yeah.
(26:44):
Oh, you're waiting for your kidat child camp too?
Yeah, where are you from oh BayArea?
Yeah, I'm from SouthernCalifornia.
Did you know that King GeorgeII commissioned Savannah Georgia
to be built in 1733 to protectit from the Spanish invading
from?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Florida and I'll bet you they'd go.
No, but thank you.
Thank you, random fat toy man.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That is fascinating.
I also love Savannah Georgia,and then we'll become great
friends, yeah, and they'll belike nope you're on your own.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
No, sorry, that's all you get.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, nope, I did my piece and I'm gone.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Tomorrow I'll have another fat toy for you.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Boom, yeah Done.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, after our tour.
Oh so the city is lined withgorgeous Southern mansions and
live oaks covered in Spanishmoss.
Everybody's got that picture intheir head, I think, just like
those giant oak trees covered inSpanish moss.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Oh, beautiful, but you don't know, it's Savannah.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You don't think most people know.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I don't, and I think for us.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
that's what?
Is that another toll?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Maybe that's what really I think.
For us, the part of Savannahthat was so spectacular was, yes
, we came out of the cold.
It was miserable.
We walked into this place whereit's just, I mean, it's almost
like walking into heaven.
There's poor tenderloin beingbaked for us, stock singing
hymns.
We're hanging out with thesecool people.
They're welcoming us the waySoutherners do.
(28:11):
We're driving around the cityand I felt like we just like
pitched Savannah on the map.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't like.
We're like oh, we've heardgreat things about savannah, but
then we go to the city andwe're like what is this magical
place?
That's beautiful and forrestgump was filled there, but the
thing you're thinking of is thatpork bench where he's talking,
everyone wants a box chocolates.
That's one of the squares ofsavannah, like that's where you
(28:34):
have to put yourself.
And yeah, that's what I thinkalso made it so amazing for us.
It's like this was not supposedto be, but yet it was and is.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And is to come.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I know I'm preaching now, but man.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's spiritual, though it was, you know, and
it's like it's on a river too,and just go to.
Savannah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
work that into your life I, I and I also think that,
no matter how high they'retalking of it, when you show up
you'll be satisfied you wentover right, it's beautiful.
Be ready to eat.
You're gonna eat, so much food.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
We probably talk about it, so we won't I can't?
I guarantee you have to talkabout it so I'm not gonna spoil
it here no, I think actually,even though I haven't quite
finished the day, I think we'regonna wrap it up today and we're
gonna come back next week tofinish that first night and then
get into the next day, but youguys, there's an episode coming
(29:39):
up.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You guys there's some like we've done a lot on this
road trip already, but there arestill some of the classic
stories coming up of the trip.
Yeah and oh yeah, next episodeis gonna be.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's gonna be great, yeah we spent a couple days
there and and you can't evenbelieve this but Scott gets even
better.
Not Scott Hawkins, we all knowhe's peaked long ago, long ago,
but Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Cleveland.
We really, really appreciatehim.
I'm going to go on a littlehunt see if we can track him
down, but what a trip, what aplace.
So it's going to be great guys.
We're looking forward to it.
So yeah, this episode was good.
Next episode you might evenyeah, also pretty good.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, I don't like to over promise, you know
what I'm saying.
Like, by this point, we're likewhat 40 episodes you, you know
what I'm saying, that's my wholelife Over promise, under
deliver.
By this point we're like what40 episodes?
You pretty much know whatyou're getting, but you don't
know exactly.
Yeah, you don't know exactlywhat's going to happen.
You just know that it's goingto be spectacular, spectacular.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Which is our baseline .
Speaker 2 (30:57):
See you next time, bye.
Georgia which is our baseline.
See you next time, bye.
That that lovely guitar sound means you are in
for a half an hour of enjoyableKings of the Road podcast time.
One Scott Hawkins, coming atyou straight out of the South
Bay.
Two, Ed Gehr, coming at youstraight from the Inland Empire.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, How's your?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
fat billed hat and and lifted truck.
How's it going?
No dis, no disrespect to our iefriends, but I do not live in
the.
I ain't one of them.
No, no, sir, I live squarelybehind the orange curtain, north
orange county.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You're on the way to the, it's true I'm like you're
not, you're not.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm close to that 91 freeway, which is the gateway to
the dirt people.
Yeah, all of a sudden, it'slike oh, my area code is 951 my
bill is finally 909 of my hat.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It had a nice little curve but now it's lowering.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I work in womp womp sounds, or dirt bike sounds Womp
womp.
To random conversations just aswe're going, I also wanted to
just do.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
if you haven't yet hit the subscribe button to
Spotify or Apple Podcasts, goand follow us on Facebook and
Instagram.
Also, I just want to say athank you to Aaron for our theme
song.
I've noticed that he is touring.
He's doing some differentthings.
That's pretty cool.
One of the things is at theHome Depot Center here.
(01:58):
I'm trying to see if I can goto that.
Are you going to that?
I don't know.
I don't know, maybe.
So That'd be fun to go to mansome of the stuff I've seen him
just shredding.
So thanks, aaron, with us.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I also saw that he is going to be releasing an album
soon.
Oh sweet.
So whenever that happens, thatmight not be for a year, but
whenever it happens, we'll besure to.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Shut that off.
Turn your throats.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I mean promote it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Bring him on.
Yeah, let's bring him on.
I think he was recently on apodcast too, so we should pump
that up Maybe we can give a link, but we are very grateful, very
grateful for him and his sweetguitar sounds that he, uh, made
for us.
So it's been fun, been a funproject and, yeah, this is
(02:51):
something I enjoy.
So, thank you guys forlistening, thank you for getting
being a part of it, thank youfor telling your friends about
us and, um, we get to make thisjust pretty spectacular content.
I mean, let's be honest, prettyspectacular.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's among the best.
I mean again, we don't have theofficial polling numbers or
anything but in the category ofChristian-based road trip prior
to 2010, but after 2000,.
Two people in a motor home of alength 20 to 25 feet,
(03:30):
continental US, with a littlebit of Canada category, the
dropdown menus that we canreally filter out that
specifically.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I was surprised when the 20 to 25 foot category came
down, but there it is, like thatis specific, your algorithm
crushes it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well done, sir.
I mean, data is king, right?
Hey, guess what?
I have a snack today.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh Sakeru, hold on.
Is this a surprise snack?
Oh, did someone buy those foryou?
We went to the movies and youbought.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I think Mary bought a whole bunch of snacks
when we went to our trip forTennessee.
So for those of you listening,I just held up a box of Junior
Mints.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Hello, Hello loser of the poll, whatever.
So if I go silent for a littlebit.
Loser of the poll.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Whatever, I feel like a winner today.
Although they have traveled nowto Tennessee and back.
And so I'm at that stage where,like it's kind of one Junior
Mint at the bottom of the boxand I'm like how do?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I get this out and they're just peeling it off.
Yeah, I got to hit it a littlebit.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's the sound of me trying to, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh hold on.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Got one.
You ready to hear me beenjoying something I'm ready.
Gosh.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I can't really hear it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh, I can hear it, it's audio gold.
This microphone is way too good.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's funny that you bring up the Junior Mints,
because I bought a little bag ofreese's when I was at target
the other day oh, and you'relike wait a minute?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
yes you've turned very good.
I said no, I said what youthought thank you, I said.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I said, wow, what a great, delicious treat.
I'm sure glad I'm having theseand now I I.
Now I do enjoy Junior man, so Idon't ever want to be saying
that Junior Man's aren't good.
I just don't think they'reanywhere near as good or popular
as the Reese's Pieces.
Well, I will say, reese'sPieces aren't very good Really,
(05:38):
so you're still in that camp.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just not good.
I am never choosing Reese'sPieces.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Never, never, never, never never, never, never, never
, never, never, never.
Sitting us the sour patchstraws.
You're doing sour patch strawsyep huh, those are good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What are you talking about?
I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, that gets a bit old that gets a bit old yeah,
those, those were like adiscovery when I was like eight.
I'm like, wait, they made awhole like pack of these.
This is incredible and you'relike pulling them out and this
is like it?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
did it start at like the base, the little league
fields, when they had like thesour belts I think they call
them now?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
those are so good have we talked about the fact
that this is just.
It feels like a new thought tome, so I don't feel like we have
.
But really like candy,innovation doesn't happen Right,
they're not releasing newcandies.
The only thing I think of islike Reese's keeps throwing more
stuff into a bar, so like nowit has pretzels and caramel and
(06:38):
peanut butter and this I'm likewow, but like in general, like
we've kind of come to the peak.
We have wow, but like ingeneral, like we've kind of come
to the peak, we have a sourversion, sour patch kids.
We have coconut, we have umalmonds in it.
They're not discovering newcandies out there.
I don't feel like like, do youthink that, like the candies
that have been around since wewere kids are still around,
still solid?
Our kids aren't enjoying them?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
there's nothing new that they're looking at like,
yeah, there's all thesevariations and like i've've seen
sour gel now and other weirdstuff.
That's gross.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But the stuff my kids are reaching for is the same
stuff that we reach for?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, yeah, the good stuff is the good stuff and it
always will be.
I thought so.
Hey, this day is one of thehighlights of the trip.
I don't even know if we couldget to all of it today.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is one of my longest entries and oh, there's
so much.
This is day 51.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, I think that's where we're going.
It's.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
November 17th.
Yes, oh, my gosh Scott, I'mjust so excited Just even
thinking aboutth.
Yes, oh my gosh, scott, I'mjust so excited Just even
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You are a listener, you're in for a treat.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We were in for a treat and we didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We kind of knew, I think, go ahead.
The reason, I think, is becausewe I'm assuming I know where
the story's going and I justwant to lay one piece.
I legitimately think in theNortheast we didn't see the sun
for like 30 days.
Yeah, it felt like a long timeFrom the time we drove into
(08:17):
Buffalo until now.
It was cloudy and cold andthere were some really beautiful
moments of the flower, the, thefall, leaves and everything,
but in general, like twosouthern california guys were
like the days getting shorter.
It's chilly, yeah, it is gray,yeah, it didn't snow, but we're
(08:40):
just kind of like overall, likeyou know, like that's so that,
that.
So that's where we're startingon day 51.
And it is the coldest.
We had just been through, ourcoldest night, right.
Right so that's importantcontext of like where our brains
are, which sets up where we'regoing and how glorious it is.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean just spectacular.
This is the moment when Dorothysteps into Oz and the world
becomes.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Technicolor and why we ranked the state so high and
why we still hold in our heartsthe city we're going to Like so
special.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
People say they're going there like oh, oh I
delight, I delight inside forthem, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And they're like oh, oh, I delight I delight inside
for them, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And before we get there, yeah, we're somewhere
else, which is probablyspectacular too.
Oh yeah, but we just.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We were moving, Go, go go.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We drove a bit out of our way to get to Myrtle Beach,
so we had to go.
Yeah, wow, here we go With abang.
I'm just too excited to read,like I just I'm beside myself
Myrtle Beach, to go see theactual beach before we left.
So this is Myrtle Beach, southCarolina, right, yep, that's
(10:00):
South Carolina.
Yeah, that by itself is likeone of the greatest destinations
in America, I think.
But we just kind of, we justkind of that was on the way,
that was, that was the gasstation on the way, if you will.
So I mean, think about put thatin context.
Beaches on the East Coast aredifferent from ours.
(10:20):
On the West Coast, wediscovered that the sand is
white and powdery, with lots ofcrushed shells by the water and
as you go away from the waterthere are small dunes with quote
dune plants I don't know whatthey're called.
Not much in the way of waves,but we hear the water gets much
(10:40):
warmer here, upwards of 80degrees.
That's crazy.
Yeah, west Coast, west Coast,peak summer.
What are we?
70?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
72?
72.
72.
Yeah, exactly, just stoked inthe 70s yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You're like, oh no, wetsuit Get in Wonderful, yeah,
wonderful.
Yeah, it was a very nice beachand a beautiful day, finally
shorts weather.
See, here we are.
The sun will come out in SouthCarolina.
Praise the.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Lord.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
In South Carolina it's sunny On the way to Georgia
, which was on our mind.
Yeah, go, yeah, go, okay.
We got to Savannah, georgia,just before 5 pm and found the
church we were to stay at.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Stop, stop, because I feel like this is a moment
where we have to do our.
What do you remember?
Because this is one of thosetimes where it's so great and I
wonder if I have it locked inthe right way.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What do you remember?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So you've already read it, right.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I thought you were going to say you had to sing the
Ray Charles song again.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh, I know.
So I did try to time because,remember, I was obsessed with
the Ray Charles album because wehad seen the movie and so we're
listening to it a lot, and so Itried to time the Georgia song
to come in as we drove into thestate and I missed it by a
little bit, but it was a sweetmoment.
It was a sweet moment for us.
It was Me, and Ray is who I'mtalking about.
You, I don't know where youwere emotionally with that, but
(12:22):
I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, here's why I wanted to dowhat you remember.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm making a sandwich , okay.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Tell me.
So we found Stidaway IslandMethodist Church, which is, I
believe, the name of the church.
Yeah, name of the church, yeah,and we pull into this place and
it's it's like five o'clock andwe were right before.
They have their wednesday nightprogram and they're gonna feed
(12:48):
the whole church and the youthpastor's there and for some
reason, part of his job is tocook also, for In my mind, it's
a lot of people, like 150, 200people.
He has to feed a lot of peopleand what does he decide to feed
them?
Again, what do you remember?
(13:09):
We're having Port Tenderloin.
We're having Port Tenderloin.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You are like a freaking elephant.
I read ahead today and this wasall new to me really and you're
just like pulling this out ofyour pocket from 20 years.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
My goodness, I am impressed that's why, because I
think I go back here sometimesI'm having a stressful day and
I'm just like remember george ison your mind george is on my
mind oh man.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He's like do you want to help.
Of course we want to help.
Keep going.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Of course we want to help.
I think there's like big applesand I don't know what else sides
there are.
Oh yeah, but I'm looking atthis going.
This is what we're making for alot of church people and he's
just busting it out.
Lot of church people and he'sjust busting it out, and so we
(14:05):
serve everybody and we serveeverybody, and we then go out
with him to a bar in savannahand we have a drink and we're
hanging out with him.
We may go to his house, uh,before or after that, something
like we hang out, um, I don'tthink he's married, I think he's
single.
I don't remember that part.
Yeah, he was a bachelor.
He was okay.
I wasn't saying this soundsbachelor because you have a lot
(14:26):
of free.
You're very nimble.
Yeah, yeah, sure, I'll do that.
Yeah, yeah, you and I now wouldbe like, well, let me call and
check it out that's not gonnahappen.
I gotta drive three kids to thisplace and then go there and
then I just have to be on myseven so I can swatch, right, um
and, and then, um, I don't knowif we want to go into the next
(14:52):
day, but that is one of my very,very favorite like, yeah, just
God being so gracious with us,but anything I forgot about that
night.
So how did I do?
You did shockingly well.
Okay, again, a special time andwe rolled in its day.
(15:12):
But go for it.
Do you want to read it?
Or did I do well?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
enough to summarize.
No, I'm going to read it, causethere's a couple of details in
here that I had certainlyforgotten about.
But you, I mean, wow, you hitthe points.
That was impressive.
Okay, so we got to SkidawayIsland Methodist Church.
The youth pastor is ScottCleveland.
I wrote his last name down.
We've got to find this guy.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We're going to find him.
We're going to work.
We're going to find ScottCleveland.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And when we found him .
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If you're listening to this contact us.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, if you're listening to us, I wow.
How cool is that?
Yeah, he was cooking dinner forthe quote Wednesday night
family dinner.
I did, I Did.
They do this every week, couldyou imagine?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, well, we do, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So he is also the.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, I write it down.
He is also the familyministries director and, as it
turns out, he's a great chef too.
So to recap, thus far Youthpastor yeah.
Family ministries directorgreat chef too.
So to recap, thus far youthpastor, family ministries
director, chef yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, he's a catch, ladies, he's a catch.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
How's this guy a bachelor right?
There were 200 people expectedto show up for this dinner, so
we were thinking lasagna orsomething easy like that.
Well, he cooked pork tenderloin.
Of course he did broccoli withcheese, wild rice, baked apples,
(16:49):
walnuts and cranberries and fordessert, bread pudding for 200
people, scott, cleveland.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We're coming at you, man, we're going to find you,
we're coming.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We are.
It was spectacular.
And since we were in the South,the drink of choice is sweet
tea.
Now, sweet tea is nothing morethan brown sugar water, but it's
delicious.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I still don't like sweet tea, but you always have
no I.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Really no, I, I don't like it, I mean so.
So you just lied when we had itJust lied to the journal
Journal liar.
I didn't say I liked it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You said it was delicious.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I said the food was delicious, not the sweet tea.
I said it's brown sugar water.
Oh, but it is delicious.
Okay, right, I did say that.
Well, I think it took us bysurprise, and then we got kind
of used to it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But today like.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'll never, because it is so sweet and the trick
that we learned.
So a lot of people, at leasthere on the West Coast, like
iced tea.
You know we all drink iced teaand you put sugar in the iced
tea.
That is not sweet tea.
At all Sweet tea, you have toheat it up and fully dissolve
the sugar.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, basically, the recipe is like one pound of
granulated sugar eight ounces ofwater and a tea bag and, and
then you boil that, so most ofthe water evaporates you
basically made simple syrup andthen like, like, throw tea at it
and see what sticks, yeah, andthen you drink that and it is
(18:36):
the only beverage.
So I again I've said this along time I've lived in alabama
for six years brought alabamiansto california and when we went
to a restaurant you can't ordersweet tea in southern california
it's you it's unless you go tochick-fil-a, which is a southern
company right and now.
Now, like mcdonald's, has itright, fast food places, but
like just a burrito place.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
They don't have sweet tea here, they have machada and
they have orangerito place.
They don't have sweet tea here.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
They have horchata and they have orange vein, but
they don't have sweet tea.
I love this line.
I think it was a high schooler.
She looks at me and she's likedo you understand, pastor Scott?
This is like not being able toorder a hamburger.
I was like, oh my goodness,you're right.
After I lived there long enough, I'm like it's just, you go to
the fanciest restaurant whereyou're paying 500 for your steak
(19:22):
and you're gonna glass of sweettea with it, like that's,
that's how common it is.
And here we're everything.
Yeah, it's just shocking.
So, yeah, I was like that's agood way.
She's like this is this is justlife.
Like I can't get sweet tea?
Yeah, well, might as well justhave water then, because no
other beverage.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah as good.
Yeah, what's the point?
I hate this.
Yeah, that's why you don't hearabout people from the south
moving to california but that'syeah, so that's true and and our
housing cost that's 10 times no, no it's the tea.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh, it's a tea.
Okay, yeah, it's fair, fair,fair.
They do sell Milo's now inCostco.
I've seen Milo's is like aBirmingham company, that there
was always a green thing ofMilo's and a red thing of Milo's
at every church event.
And one is a spade sweetener,then a sugar and then there's
normal tea without unsweet tea,as they call it in the South.
(20:15):
Now they sell it at Costco here.
I just saw a gallon of Milo's.
So if you want the original OGstuff, there it is.
That's what they drink in theSouth.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, that's good to know.
I won't buy it.
But it's good to know For thoseof you who like that kind of
thing.
If you're in the South, braceyourself.
Just order tea and see whathappens.
It's going to be sweet tea.
Just make order tea and seewhat happens.
(20:47):
Oh, it's gonna be sweet tea,it's trying to be just make sure
.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
My one thing like to make it palatable, just make
sure there's a lot of ice in it,like you want it very cold now
I.
I say like I can get it downand it's not so bad.
That's not like, oh, there's.
I just never prefer it.
I just never.
Yeah, I never think about sweettea.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, it's a and we're making such a big deal of
it.
There's probably more sugar andCoke than sweet.
Well, maybe not, I don't know.
It is so much.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Though that, that's a greatquestion.
We should check.
Yeah, okay, ooh, a pollquestion.
Okay, ooh, a poll question.
We'll put that up.
Which has more sugar Coke orSweet Tea?
Just what do you think I likethat poll question?
Let's do it.
Let's do it, I like that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, as if all that wasn't enough, that's right,
folks, we're not done here,scott.
After dinner, scott sangSouthern hymns in an incredible
Opera style voice.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh man, this guy, he's probably running the
country you guys, or he shouldyou.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Why is he running for ?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
president, family ministries director, chef, yeah,
opera singer.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Of course we were convinced.
We were convinced this was somesort of superhero.
I still think that's true.
At 7.30, we went up with someof the youth to have a little
Bible study.
There were about seven highschoolers, so it was a nice
little group.
One of the girls was 4'11" andas cute as a peach, as they say.
(22:18):
She had the southern accent, ofcourse, and the reason I bring
this up.
So just picture this Little4'11" sweet cute Southern girl.
Howdy y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
How do you like?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Joe or Jess.
Oh, why am I doing this?
Anyways, just think of like areal sweet, you know southern
girl, real cute, real small.
The reason I bring this up isbecause she hunts.
Of course she does.
She goes out and kills animals,hooray for the South, and it's
Kim's son.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It brings them back home.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We were us city boys were like I'm sorry, what?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
you do what now?
You are so cute, but yeah,you'll shoot something, yeah you
have killed and cleaned animalshave you seen that?
Oh my gosh, that's like I wanta 27 year old man, but not a
california 27, a southern 27,where they know how to like
shoot things and kill things andcook things.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh okay, that's fair yeah, yeah, southern california
and smoke weed, yeah, and I knowwhere to get a good burrito,
which you know.
That is a pretty good that's amarketable trait.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I feel like Scott Hernandez has more than that
going on, though.
Way to go, scott.
Scott Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Is it Hernandez?
What's his last name?
Coleman Cleveland.
You remember pork tenderloinfrom 20 years ago but you didn't
remember Cleveland from 20seconds ago.
That's special.
Oh my gosh, Johnchriscom.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It's not like it matters Neither of them exist.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's great though.
So can you believe the nightwas still not over?
Of course not.
Believe the night was still notover?
Of course not.
Scott, the youth pastor droveus around downtown savannah for
a bit of a tour.
What a city.
It's the oldest city in all ofgeorgia, established in 1733.
The city was commissioned byking george ii and actually
(24:17):
designed in England.
He told those going over tofind a place to build this city,
and so they did so.
Basically, he designed a cityand said go over to America,
find a place to build it andbuild it.
So they did.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
To protect this from the Spanish.
Okay, random question.
Oh yeah, if you had to guess,how many times have you almost
said that exact sentence at likerandom dinner parties or in
conversation with people aboutthe history of Savannah Ever?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Zero times.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Zero times.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh, dude, I missed an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
My overrunner is probably 15.
Oh dang, I almost say it thatexact same way.
Oh dang, I almost say that it'sthat same way.
Oh yeah, Savannah, you knowKing George designed it in
England and dropped it over hereto find a place to put it to
protect from the Spanish, Tohave enough from Florida.
Oh, surprised you didn't knowthat Random person at dinner
party.
Okay, I'm going to lock thataway.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I want to go to a dinner party where you are also
at said dinner party and just golike get there early and tell
everybody that fact, somehowwork it in a conversation, and
then just sit near you and belike savannah's a cool place,
just saying oh I'm ready, andthen let the conversation and
they're like actually we didknow that, and then I'll just
slip out of the conversation andexit like damn it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You text all my friends before I get there.
Hey, did you know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Hey, just FYI.
I want you all to know thisfact.
Just no reason.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Who's this guy?
The Savannah fact.
Oh snap, so, oh, that is a factI have in my back pocket, ready
to use when I need to.
That's a good one.
You just whip it out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That sounds wrong.
Oh, that is a fact I have in myback pocket ready to use when I
need to.
That's a good one, that's agood one.
You just whip it out of nowhere.
That sounds wrong, don't?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
put that on your shirt Sometimes.
No, it's more of like when Iknow people are traveling to
Savannah.
It's when it comes up.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Okay, so there's some context there.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's not just like you're sitting kind of in
silence at a soccer game andyou're like so savannah, georgia
was commissioned by king georgeii to protect from your
challenge.
Though, when you go to mounthermann, I want you just to
randomly bring it up and thentest me ding brought it up
randomly around a conversationand I'm gonna try to just, yeah,
meet some random people thisyear and just see how quickly I
can work it in yes and in a lull, hey, yeah.
(26:44):
Oh, you're waiting for your kidat child camp too?
Yeah, where are you from oh BayArea?
Yeah, I'm from SouthernCalifornia.
Did you know that King GeorgeII commissioned Savannah Georgia
to be built in 1733 to protectit from the Spanish invading
from?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Florida and I'll bet you they'd go.
No, but thank you.
Thank you, random fat toy man.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That is fascinating.
I also love Savannah Georgia,and then we'll become great
friends, yeah, and they'll belike nope you're on your own.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
No, sorry, that's all you get.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, nope, I did my piece and I'm gone.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Tomorrow I'll have another fat toy for you.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Boom, yeah Done.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, after our tour.
Oh so the city is lined withgorgeous Southern mansions and
live oaks covered in Spanishmoss.
Everybody's got that picture intheir head, I think, just like
those giant oak trees covered inSpanish moss.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Oh, beautiful, but you don't know, it's Savannah.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You don't think most people know.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I don't, and I think for us.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
that's what?
Is that another toll?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Maybe that's what really I think.
For us, the part of Savannahthat was so spectacular was, yes
, we came out of the cold.
It was miserable.
We walked into this place whereit's just, I mean, it's almost
like walking into heaven.
There's poor tenderloin beingbaked for us, stock singing
hymns.
We're hanging out with thesecool people.
They're welcoming us the waySoutherners do.
(28:11):
We're driving around the cityand I felt like we just like
pitched Savannah on the map.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't like.
We're like oh, we've heardgreat things about savannah, but
then we go to the city andwe're like what is this magical
place?
That's beautiful and forrestgump was filled there, but the
thing you're thinking of is thatpork bench where he's talking,
everyone wants a box chocolates.
That's one of the squares ofsavannah, like that's where you
(28:34):
have to put yourself.
And yeah, that's what I thinkalso made it so amazing for us.
It's like this was not supposedto be, but yet it was and is.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And is to come.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I know I'm preaching now, but man.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's spiritual, though it was, you know, and
it's like it's on a river too,and just go to.
Savannah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
work that into your life I, I and I also think that,
no matter how high they'retalking of it, when you show up
you'll be satisfied you wentover right, it's beautiful.
Be ready to eat.
You're gonna eat, so much food.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
We probably talk about it, so we won't I can't?
I guarantee you have to talkabout it so I'm not gonna spoil
it here no, I think actually,even though I haven't quite
finished the day, I think we'regonna wrap it up today and we're
gonna come back next week tofinish that first night and then
get into the next day, but youguys, there's an episode coming
(29:39):
up.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You guys there's some like we've done a lot on this
road trip already, but there arestill some of the classic
stories coming up of the trip.
Yeah and oh yeah, next episodeis gonna be.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's gonna be great, yeah we spent a couple days
there and and you can't evenbelieve this but Scott gets even
better.
Not Scott Hawkins, we all knowhe's peaked long ago, long ago,
but Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Cleveland.
We really, really appreciatehim.
I'm going to go on a littlehunt see if we can track him
down, but what a trip, what aplace.
So it's going to be great guys.
We're looking forward to it.
So yeah, this episode was good.
Next episode you might evenyeah, also pretty good.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, I don't like to over promise, you know
what I'm saying.
Like, by this point, we're likewhat 40 episodes you, you know
what I'm saying, that's my wholelife Over promise, under
deliver.
By this point we're like what40 episodes?
You pretty much know whatyou're getting, but you don't
know exactly.
Yeah, you don't know exactlywhat's going to happen.
You just know that it's goingto be spectacular, spectacular.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Which is our baseline .
Speaker 2 (30:57):
See you next time, bye.
Georgia which is our baseline.
See you next time, bye.
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