July 24, 2024 • 29 mins
Ever wonder what it would look like if an average Joe competed in the Olympics alongside professional athletes? Join us as we kick off this fun and insightful episode with a hilariously off-the-rails intro and a provocative thought experiment that highlights just how extraordinary Olympic athletes truly are. We then shift gears to compare the sugar content in Coca-Cola versus sweet tea, revealing some shocking truths about our favorite sugary drinks. Our journey continues with a heartwarming project at the Wesley Center in Savannah, where we helped local children build a beautiful mosaic.
Next, we explore the beauty of imperfection in nature and life, using the gentle curve of tree branches as a metaphor for the unexpected quirks that shape our stories. From wedding mishaps to road trip adventures, it’s the unplanned moments that leave the biggest impressions. We share personal anecdotes, including a groom forgetting his song lyrics and the creative process of an artist who can transform simple lines into masterpieces. Amidst this reflection, we recount our battle with Georgia's notorious no-see-ums while working on the mosaic project.
Finally, we discuss the ideal times to visit Savannah, Georgia, focusing on the pleasant weather in November and April. We touch on how weather impacts activities, drawing a parallel with the Masters golf tournament held in April. With some light-hearted advice on staying active and a nod to the Olympic athletes, we wrap up by expressing our gratitude for sharing this wonderful Wednesday in Savannah with you. Don’t miss this whimsical yet profound episode that celebrates the joy of sports, the sweetness of life, and the beauty in our imperfections.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
that groovy sound.
You know what that means.
It's the.
You are going to enjoy anotherepisode of the kings of the road
podcast with scott hawkins,andrew gare.
We are going to bring you somefunky thoughts today, some
groovy tunes um some hip uh, I'mstuck just yeah, I was okay, I
(00:42):
was not gonna bail you out.
There you were, you were justletting me hang.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I could see you tumble down the hill into that
pit and I was just like yeah,let's do it.
We're going to end up.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hip, hip.
What I wanted to say was hip,hip, hooray, but then that
wasn't exactly, I think, goingto be the best place to go.
So welcome, welcome to theTeens Love podcast.
We are glad you're here.
If you haven't yet, follow uson Facebook.
Follow the podcast on your app,spotify, yeah, all of those
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(01:16):
I do think we have someone tostart with and we'll do that
soon.
So, yeah, great day, Great day.
So we are.
We are actually, you know, invery real time because of summer
and we've used our stockpile ofrecordings, so we'll have to at
some point, do that.
But what's nice about being inreal time is is that we can talk
(01:36):
about current events.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Current events.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yes, Now.
Is there anything more currentthan the fact that the olympics
are starting?
I think it's this friday.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I would say, yes, there are some things more
current, but we don't want totalk about this I thought of
that too, but I'm like this willprobably surprise people when
they when they, oh, they'regonna talk about, oh, the
olympics that's a much saferconversation don't worry, you
have your politicalconversations.
You're here for a reason.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That's not what we're about yeah, you're here for a
reason.
It's to enjoy thoughts and justlaugh together.
Um, so the olympics, which,overall, I would say that I I
really enjoy um, watching, Ienjoy having it on.
We turn it on every night andit becomes a part of the summer.
I really enjoy the Olympics.
(02:31):
Where are you guys at with theOlympics?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, I'm definitely interested.
I love the Olympics.
I think they do it right bymaking it every four years so
that enough time passes, so thatyou'll get excited about it,
because I think if it was anysooner you'd be like eh, we just
watched it, it's like oh yeah,simone Biles oh, is she still
what she's supposed to be?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And Katie Ledecky right, like Michael Phelps, he's
out of this one, but you knowall these names.
You're like Whoa, but I sawthis meme and I don't remember
what I saw.
This is not an original thought, but I did.
(03:15):
I laughed out loud and Ithought of it again and I just
wanted to set it before you,andrew.
And the idea is we watch theseathletes and they're spectacular
.
Right, they are absolutelyamazing at what they do and
they've been training for thistheir whole life.
Right, this is they're inperfect shape.
Everything's incredible.
And you watch them.
I don't know if you're like me,but you think well, that
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doesn't look that hard.
Now, why?
Because they're great at it,right, they're so good.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah Well, and you just see a group of them right
and they're all that good at itand so you're like oh, so that's
just like yeah, that's justnormal.
Right, that's how I the speedat which they're running around
the track they all seem to beabout that speed so exactly.
So you can't really gauge howfast it is.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, you can't date or like in the swimming pool.
What I think is they shouldevery sports or something.
They should put a just normaldude or a normal lady in the
pool and say here are nineprofessional swimmers.
And then Scott yeah and shootit off, and then they just, and
(04:21):
by the time they're done I'm onlap two, right.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, You're like pausing at the wall, Like well,
I got to go back again.
Oh my yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, you're holding on to the wall.
You're like asking for anassistance.
Can I have a sip of water,please?
And they're just sprinting byyou.
Or, yeah, in the lawn jump.
We heard your story about thelawn jump like oh boy that sand
(04:53):
pit is far.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I sure hope I make it and you run as fast as you can
and guess what?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
you don't make it.
You don't.
And yeah, this would give us abar then for what to see.
So we don't that.
That really is amazing, right,yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
no, it's, it's such a yeah I.
I wasn't thinking that theywould actually like be in the
pool.
I was almost thinking like theywould do the first team.
You're like, oh okay, they swamthose, yeah, five minutes five
minutes and then the other guys,the pros, jump in and they're
like, oh, two minutes and 30seconds.
But I love the idea of likethey all start at the same time.
(05:22):
They just like have lane eight,exactly george from from
claremont, california yeah, andeven make him a good swimmer.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I say like it doesn't have to be someone flopping
around like no solid guy, butyou're like, I want to see their
credentials too.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Like yes, made it to shark level at the claremont
Community Center swim pool atage 11.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Swims three times a week for exercise from 6 to 6.30
.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Everyone.
Oh, he's a good swimmer, takeswater aerobics, yeah, right.
So I'm like I'm impressedalready, right, yes, and then he
gets in and just gets whooped.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, like you would not believe.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And you would go oh oh, that's the difference.
It would also be interesting tosee if there are any sports
where, like the lay person didsort of well now that's like
curling right where you're likehow about that's?
Immediately what comes to mind?
Like curling and granted,that's winter olympics, isn't it
?
But still like, because you'relike is it really that hard?
I mean, it's shuffleboard onice, right.
I know what if somebody waspretty decent at backyard games?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Could they hold their ?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
own.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Or I mean, I just, yeah, canyou imagine like archery, okay,
scott, your turn, everyone duckBecause we're not really sure
where this is going to end.
And then, boom, right in themiddle, everyone else, I it the
like.
And now, with ai, they can justlay over the image right of
scott doing the archery and thepro, oh yeah, oh, there's,
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there's what it's like.
Yeah, I just, I love it.
Like entertainment level isthis could be a comedy central
thing, though, right, like,instead of like what does the
who's doing the olympics?
This year's nbc, what is theirlike funny version?
Their channel that's, I'd havethat on the whole time I, I
think there's something to it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We, we, yeah, like I don't know how, how this would
come to fruition, but there'sgot to be something where, yeah,
they could have, they couldjust have a person in a random
pool somewhere else and just,yeah, like you said, overlay it
or do split screen and just showthe show.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The dude get smoked he's so great there he is in uh
torrent california.
Take it off to the side.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, you're just going as hard as you can, as much as
you can swim or you're justrunning as fast at the west high
school track these people,these people are already like on
the podium, dried off, singingtheir national anthem, accepting
the rewards.
Guys still swimming like he's.
Let's check back in the poolnow.
Okay, four more laps to go fourmore laps to go.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
that Four more laps to go.
When I was thinking about thisI was like the most difficult
one If you just say like, let'spick random guy from the crowd,
right, if that's the mode, likeyou, sir come on down.
Could you imagine the pole vaultwith that being the idea?
Like run.
I have no idea how to evenstart.
(08:28):
That feels like a death wish,like being stabbed with a lawn
pole.
First of all, how do I run withthis incredibly long piece of
PVC pipe?
Oh, you'd be good at thatbecause of your degree.
Floppity, floppity, floppity,flop.
Oh man, there's 0% chance.
I'm hitting that little holewith the pole.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That would be no way.
Right, like the thing that youdon't even consider being
difficult about this sport wouldbe the thing that we couldn't
even get past.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Right, we couldn't even start.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, if they said the event is you run as fast as
you can and you hold this20-foot long pole and then you
have to get it in this littlegroove, I'd be like, oh, that's
impossible, nobody can do thatno, no, sir, I'm out already no,
sir, you'd be like oh so.
So the challenge, the game isactually to see how close you
can get it to the groove.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They're like right, no, no, no, that's just like
that's that's not even it yeah,that right.
That's just what we all can do,man, oh yeah, oh uh.
Um Bill's coming down thestairs, I don't want to do the
pole vault.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I don't, I can't.
Yeah that doesn't end well foranybody.
Bill weighs 320 pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We chose the wrong guy here everybody.
Oh my gosh, yeah oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
There was.
I've been seeing videos andthis is hilarious where it's
people trying to learn a gainer.
Oh, you know the flip where youbasically yeah, I'm trying to
describe it If you're not surewhat a gainer is.
Just look it up, but it's likea backflip.
But instead of having your backfacing the water, it's your
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front facing the water.
So you basically have to throwyour feet out in front of you
and you're running back run likea running back, flip, reverse
sort of thing.
And so there's all these videosof people on tiktok.
It's become like a trend andthey're all trying to learn and
it just shows them failing overand over.
It's so funny, but it's one ofthese things.
You look at it, you're like,well, that doesn't look hard at
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all the people, but when youactually try, it's one of these
things.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You look at it and you're like well, that doesn't
look hard at all, but when youactually try it, when you
actually try it, it's the mostawkward thing, the high dive.
Could you imagine the high diveOn that?
Okay, Sal, come on down.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh boy, oh good times Well.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I can't wait to watch .
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So hey, before we, we jump in.
So we're still in georgia.
And we did a poll on facebook,yep, and we wanted to know what
you thought, without looking itup, what had more sugar,
coca-cola or sweet tea?
What one sweet tea won by apretty hefty margin.
Okay, we just looked it up anddo you still have it in front of
(11:06):
you?
I do, I think it's Coca-Cola.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Let me just real quick.
Yeah, so a typical 12-ounce canof Coca-Cola contains 39 grams
of sugar, whereas sweet teavaries widely, but a standard
sweet tea recipe might havebetween 25 to 30 grams of sugar
per 12 ounces.
So those are per 12 ounces forboth of them, right, right, so
there's more sugar by a factorof like, either almost double or
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a quarter.
I mean, it's a lot more.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Like that.
If you've ever tasted sweet teaand you know how sweet it is,
it's amazing.
And then there's more sugar inCoke.
That really puts intoperspective how sweet it is.
It's amazing.
And then there's more sugar andcoke.
That really puts intoperspective how much sugar is in
coke how?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
yes, and also the other flavors.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That doesn't make it just because I could more easily
get down a coke than I could acup of sweet tea, oh yeah yeah,
but I was just saying before westarted recording, like if
you've ever let a coke go sortof flat and get like room
temperature and then you take asip of it, oh man, you notice it
then then you understand yeah,it is gross so, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So this has been your health yeah, good info.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We're doing this for your health, because we're
concerned about you and we wantyou to make good choices so
don't torture yourself with.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's another poll.
Do you like it or not?
Yes or no?
I I think I think, I think Ilose in that one because I'm not
a fan the poll I think the pollthat we should put out is uh,
or just maybe a short answerquestion but what, what sport do
you want to try before?
Like what would you think?
And that'd be a good one,because pole vault there's some
good ones on there, so we'llthink about it, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Hit us with Savannah.
All right, we're still in sweetSavannah, day 53, friday,
november 19th 2004.
We got back to the Wesleycenter around nine 30 and got
straight to work.
We built shelves in the shedand organized that.
We put together a little tightslide.
(13:03):
That might have been yesterday.
We painted a bench in theplayground to look like a stove
and barbecue.
Our big project was to help avery pregnant lady build a
mosaic.
Yeah, this was cool.
It was cool.
Never done anything like thisbefore.
We have some pictures of itthat we'll share.
(13:24):
Yeah, let me read on and thenwe'll talk about it a little bit
.
But the tiles for the mosaicwere all made by the children
who go to the Wesley center andthey were colored and fired
according to Elizabeth's plan.
That was the lady who made thismosaic.
So again, these kids made thesetiles, they colored them or
painted them and then theyglazed them.
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So then she had all these tilesand we were going to use them
to build this mosaic.
The finished product was to bea big tree with flowers and
stuff.
Our first task was to rough upthe smooth parts of the wall so
the tiles will stick.
That meant hitting it over andover with the claw side of a
hammer until it was all roughedup.
(14:06):
What a workout.
Scott and Elizabeth beganputting up tiles, so I went and
finished the shelves in the shed.
When I came back they had justabout finished the whole trunk
and branches and it lookedawesome.
So I think there was all thesetiles and then she would
actually break them into smallerpieces right.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, I can't remember if they were already
broken or if they were justtiles they painted and then she
broke them, so they had themosaic-y, you know different
shape, which made sense.
I think you're absolutely rightabout that.
Yeah, and then put them up onthe wall, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, so we continued to work doing the leaves of the
trees until a bit after five,when it started to get dark.
This was when we wereintroduced to no-see-ums.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh gosh, hold on Before we get to no-see-ums,
which I forgot was in here.
I did, too, the.
I still remember this veryclearly as well as I.
I remember something that shesaid.
First of all, she was very,very pregnant, so us being there
(15:12):
to help her was, I think,important because she was so
pregnant.
Secondly, we have the fact thatwhen we're building this um
concrete thing right and we'reputting it up, we're having the
tree go.
And your temptation, I mine, wasto go straight and to make it
go straight up.
(15:32):
But she said no tree in natureis straight, everything is
curved.
And so she had us have thislike gentle, you know curve and
he's like different things inthe branches.
We're supposed to do theseweird things.
And when she said that, Ithought that is so true, you
draw trees, but you draw them ashe's like straight up little
(15:52):
things, but the whole point ofthem is to also have this like
natural feel, and I've used thisin ministry or in sermons,
because nothing is exactly likeyou think.
Nothing's perfect, is basicallywhat I end up saying you know,
everything in nature, like thepersonality comes from all of
the little, like funky anglesand all of the things that
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aren't exactly perfect and Ijust I just thought that was so
cool.
She, she's, like it looked fakeIf it's straight.
I was like yeah, it does I never, you know, like that, like line
for me sticks out all the timeand I'm sure an artist goes.
Of course, Scott, but I meanI'm, I am no artist, so just
having that was really aninteresting.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, I, as you were saying that, I was like but a
pine tree is pretty straight butthen I was thinking about that
and like even that kind ofadapts and then the branches are
not straight and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So yeah, it checks out it checks out, and I mean
they, they do.
Of course, they can try to growlike super straight trees for
purposes, but I think naturejust always has this, this
personality, and I think the biglesson that I take away from
there is, like, the events thathappen are the things you
usually remember, are the littlequirks Like what do we talk
(17:13):
about at our wedding Most often?
Is it the perfect cake?
Is it that?
No, it's the fact that it waslike baking hot, and that comes
up more often than not about ourwedding, like, oh yeah, they
told us that this room is neverhot right on the beach and it
was like 94.
I don't know if you remember,but our wedding was just smoking
hot.
Besides us being smoking hot,and when I that's what I
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remember smoking hot, and soit's like I went to.
I did a wedding this saturdayand the groom, his wife, is
amazing singer, just spectacular.
And then he's a musician too,but not yet.
I mean, he's not as good as hiswife, let's just.
And he would say that if he wassitting here, yeah.
But he decided to like sing asong to her.
But then he got halfway throughand he's like oh too many old
(17:57):
fashions, don't remember thelyrics right now, oh geez.
And I said to him I said stop,like you said to him.
I said stop, like you're gonnawant to beat yourself up for
that.
I said this is going to be thestory, this will be the funny
story from your wedding.
It's okay, and like we, weneeded this story things are
(18:18):
going too well.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
the tree looked too straight.
Um, yeah, I like that.
I feel, yeah, we could unpackthat all day long, couldn't we?
I mean, yeah, and that's likethe point of this whole entire
trip on this road trip, thispodcast, all this stuff is all
about the stories, and the bestones are when things went wrong,
right, right.
Like you know, we think aboutthe funniest ones, and like the
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thing in New York where the guywanted to show us the shotgun,
or like the RV getting towed in.
Boston or the banger main andstuff, and it's like it's all
the things that don't goaccording to plan, all the
things that are crooked.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know, and I just thought that's so cool.
Yeah, no, that's really good.
I like that we beat ourselvesup for it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's so funny that, like we end up going, oh I wish
that.
Like we end up going, oh I wish.
But really that's the stuffthat we end up talking about.
I mean, we had an amazing daysnowboarding with me, you and
Isaac, but what's the story wetell all the time Is when you
know, according to Isaac, youalmost killed him on the
chairlift, so that's the like.
That's just funny.
That that's.
Those are the things, right,that we talked about.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So yeah, Okay, back to no-see-ums.
Yeah, it's true.
And yeah, I can't wait to sharethis photograph oh yeah, of
that mosaic, because it's cool.
I mean, we had never doneanything like this, you know.
And so to have this lady who'sthis artist and just has this
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eye, we're like, how are yougoing to take this bunch of
tiles and turn it into a tree?
Like I don't.
And have you ever seen anartist where, if you try to draw
something like a person, right,you start with maybe the head
and then go down to the and like, from the early stages you kind
of know what you're getting.
And then you watch an artistand they draw a line here and a
line there and you're like Ihave no idea what they're
drawing.
And then all of the sudden theyadd one little line and you're
like, oh my gosh, it's a, yeah,it's a person in a wedding dress
(20:09):
?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
exactly no.
I know their minds are justdifferent, right?
Yep, I never would have startedthere, but that's where you're
supposed to start, right?
Yeah, exactly no and you'vedone those like draw on, like
youtube, where you can like dodrawing school with draw
characters.
Those start weird places whereyou're like, oh okay, and then
by the end I'm like that's muchbetter than I would have ever
drawn that character yeah soyeah, exactly, yeah, no, it is,
(20:31):
it is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So no seeums, there had to be some downfall to
georgia right all we were doingis pumping it up, pumping it up,
but uh, here we go, thedownfall, um, downfall.
This is when we were introducedto no seeums.
They call these little buggersthat that because you can't see
(20:52):
them.
Oh, but I explained that to you, you know, because otherwise
you're like where did they getthat name?
Um, but you can sure feel them.
Yes, they are tiny bugs thatbite like mosquitoes.
We endured the pain long enoughto clean up and then we took
off.
We were taken out to dinner byelizabeth and her husband, who
(21:15):
reminded us a lot of jenny andjimmy from, uh, iowa, yes, iowa.
Uh, from sioux.
Oh, look at that.
I even said it, thank you,andrew, 20 years ago.
Yeah, so I guess that's all weneeded to say about no-see-ums.
Well, I think.
Anything more, having lived in.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Bama, yeah, I think the thing about the no-see-ums
is, I believe that when westarted hearing that name,
thought that was their like name, you know, like their inset
name because they say it justhas one word, no seems.
And you're like, oh, what kindof.
And then finally, I thinksomeone explained to us no,
(21:57):
they're called no c ums becauseyou can't see them.
We're like what?
so it's not their inset name,it's like what everyone calls
them, because, yeah, they arethese tiny little like death
things and we're going to alsorun to fire ants later, which
are a whole other.
There are so many bugs in thesouth that we do not have out
(22:19):
here that are just tough so.
I did look this up.
The insets belong to the familyCeratopodonidae.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yep, yep, I figured.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So instead of trying to say that name.
You just call them no-see-ums.
Yeah, oh, that's theCeratopodonidae.
No, they're no-see-ums, okay,yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, no-see-ums, let's just go with that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Miserable little tiny bugs.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Little biting flying bugs, just the worst.
So for dinner we had someMexican food, which was pretty
darn good, and then went back totheir house.
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I didn't know we did that.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I remember hanging out with them, but I don't
remember having Mexican food andstuff.
Yeah, so I must have forgottenhis name, because I just have
this like weird blank space inthe journal and then it goes
does computer animation?
So I must have thought, oh, Ineed to go back and fill in his
name and I never did so.
Sorry, Elizabeth's husband.
I didn't take note of your name, but he does computer animation
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and he showed us some of hismovies that he had made A lot of
stop motion stuff likeClaymation, Wallace and Gromit
sort of stuff.
It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I remember that now.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Do you man?
That is a blank in my mind.
I do not.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, I remember seeing some of his stuff, because when
you said the Wallace and Gromit, that brought it in.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Cool.
I wish I could recall that wehung out with them for a while
and then headed on back to ourwheeled home.
They were fun people, the typeof artsy people you would expect
to find in Berkeley.
She did give off, kind of.
Berkeley vibes, but maybethat's like a universal sort of
artistic thing, like kind ofnature-y.
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I'm pretty sure she I picturein my mind kind of like
dreadlocked hair, but I don'tthink she had dreadlocked hair,
but I think she wore likestrappy hiking sandal type
sandals which, you know, gottahave your feet close to the
earth to feel the vibrations.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, it's like Portland, berkeley, savannah fix
.
Yeah, she was great and theywere kind and it was really fun
to be with them.
Yeah, it was really really niceto be with them.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, and do be able to do so much work.
I mean, we were there the daybefore and then the entire day
this day, just helping thiswesley center, which we should
probably look up and maybe we'llgive a link to it.
Um, I will, but uh, I'm prettysure it was.
Did we say it the other day?
Or uh, I think they do stufffor kids or just the community
(25:00):
in general, but it was a coollittle place that we got hooked
up with.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So one of the things that I just have tucked away and
is so john wesley is the guywho, um, came over and he's
british and he is also thefounder of the methodist church.
So john wesley and he startedthe first orphanage for boys in
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Savannah, georgia, remember that?
No, so he started one of thefirst American orphanages, maybe
in the South or maybe inGeorgia, because I'm sure there
were other ones, but this was along time ago 1700s, early 1800s
.
You know, 1700s, early 1800s.
(25:50):
I don't exactly remember whenhe came over, but he came over
and was a missionary, slash thechurch planter, uh, guy, and so
that's why the methodism has alot of roots in the south, since
1949 wesley community centersof Inc's mission is to enhance
the economic, educational andspiritual growth through
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excellence in early learning,care and services for women,
children and families.
Okay, so it's focused mostly onwomen and children, so that's
probably why they have thatschool there and all of those
things.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
There you go.
Yeah, that that's a really itwas a very cool place.
Do have we filled the gas up inthe jeep wrangler yet do we
write about that?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't know, but let me I wonder if I can.
Uh, I think that might becoming.
Okay, that's no problem If wedon't we'll talk about it
another time, but yes, yeah, sojust to to round this date out
or day out.
It was such a nice night, sothis is back.
(27:00):
When we got back to our RV, itwas such a nice night that we
sat outside and smoked our pipesand enjoyed the warmth of
Savannahannah uh take me back.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Do you remember that?
I?
I do remember that.
In their parking I feel like Ido yeah, just sitting outside I
think we put our like our littlechairs poop and sat down the
parking lot of the church.
Yeah, just the methodist churchare smoking our pipes, not
exactly what they want to have,but here we are, debatable,
walking around enjoyingourselves.
Just the Methodist church aresmoking our pipes, not exactly
what they want to have happen,but here we are walking around
enjoying ourselves.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
So love it.
It was again.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I cannot recommend Savannah enough.
It's funny how, when we postedthat so many people have been to
Savannah recently, your mom'sbeen to Savannah recently we had
some friends from Birminghamwho were heading over to
Savannah.
I'm like wow.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I guess it's summer and a popular place to go.
But did you want my fun insavannah?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
oh yeah, I think they'd been before too.
Um okay, but but yeah they,they loved it there.
I think it was a bit hot beingin the middle of summer, I think
.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I think probably no south.
Yeah, I think november isprobably the ideal time to be
there really, yes, november orApril.
Yeah, that's why the Masters isplayed in April, not played in
July, for a reason.
Yep, yep, you are miserable, ohman.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah weather is everything but another great day
in Savannah Another great dayin Savannah Georgia.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
We are so glad that we get to be together on this
hip, hip, hooray Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh brother.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Go swim a lap in a pool.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Avoid Coca-Cola.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Go do some event Time yourself,and then that's a good idea.
Go do some event Time yourselfand then compare it to what the
Olympic athletes are doing andjust see how close you are.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You have a pool.
We're going to do that for you.
We have a little video.
Talk to you later.
Bye, sounds good, bye.
that groovy sound.
You know what that means.
It's the.
You are going to enjoy anotherepisode of the kings of the road
podcast with scott hawkins,andrew gare.
We are going to bring you somefunky thoughts today, some
groovy tunes um some hip uh, I'mstuck just yeah, I was okay, I
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was not gonna bail you out.
There you were, you were justletting me hang.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I could see you tumble down the hill into that
pit and I was just like yeah,let's do it.
We're going to end up.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hip, hip.
What I wanted to say was hip,hip, hooray, but then that
wasn't exactly, I think, goingto be the best place to go.
So welcome, welcome to theTeens Love podcast.
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I do think we have someone tostart with and we'll do that
soon.
So, yeah, great day, Great day.
So we are.
We are actually, you know, invery real time because of summer
and we've used our stockpile ofrecordings, so we'll have to at
some point, do that.
But what's nice about being inreal time is is that we can talk
(01:36):
about current events.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Current events.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yes, Now.
Is there anything more currentthan the fact that the olympics
are starting?
I think it's this friday.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I would say, yes, there are some things more
current, but we don't want totalk about this I thought of
that too, but I'm like this willprobably surprise people when
they when they, oh, they'regonna talk about, oh, the
olympics that's a much saferconversation don't worry, you
have your politicalconversations.
You're here for a reason.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That's not what we're about yeah, you're here for a
reason.
It's to enjoy thoughts and justlaugh together.
Um, so the olympics, which,overall, I would say that I I
really enjoy um, watching, Ienjoy having it on.
We turn it on every night andit becomes a part of the summer.
I really enjoy the Olympics.
(02:31):
Where are you guys at with theOlympics?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, I'm definitely interested.
I love the Olympics.
I think they do it right bymaking it every four years so
that enough time passes, so thatyou'll get excited about it,
because I think if it was anysooner you'd be like eh, we just
watched it, it's like oh yeah,simone Biles oh, is she still
what she's supposed to be?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And Katie Ledecky right, like Michael Phelps, he's
out of this one, but you knowall these names.
You're like Whoa, but I sawthis meme and I don't remember
what I saw.
This is not an original thought, but I did.
(03:15):
I laughed out loud and Ithought of it again and I just
wanted to set it before you,andrew.
And the idea is we watch theseathletes and they're spectacular
.
Right, they are absolutelyamazing at what they do and
they've been training for thistheir whole life.
Right, this is they're inperfect shape.
Everything's incredible.
And you watch them.
I don't know if you're like me,but you think well, that
(03:35):
doesn't look that hard.
Now, why?
Because they're great at it,right, they're so good.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah Well, and you just see a group of them right
and they're all that good at itand so you're like oh, so that's
just like yeah, that's justnormal.
Right, that's how I the speedat which they're running around
the track they all seem to beabout that speed so exactly.
So you can't really gauge howfast it is.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, you can't date or like in the swimming pool.
What I think is they shouldevery sports or something.
They should put a just normaldude or a normal lady in the
pool and say here are nineprofessional swimmers.
And then Scott yeah and shootit off, and then they just, and
(04:21):
by the time they're done I'm onlap two, right.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, You're like pausing at the wall, Like well,
I got to go back again.
Oh my yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, you're holding on to the wall.
You're like asking for anassistance.
Can I have a sip of water,please?
And they're just sprinting byyou.
Or, yeah, in the lawn jump.
We heard your story about thelawn jump like oh boy that sand
(04:53):
pit is far.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I sure hope I make it and you run as fast as you can
and guess what?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
you don't make it.
You don't.
And yeah, this would give us abar then for what to see.
So we don't that.
That really is amazing, right,yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
no, it's, it's such a yeah I.
I wasn't thinking that theywould actually like be in the
pool.
I was almost thinking like theywould do the first team.
You're like, oh okay, they swamthose, yeah, five minutes five
minutes and then the other guys,the pros, jump in and they're
like, oh, two minutes and 30seconds.
But I love the idea of likethey all start at the same time.
(05:22):
They just like have lane eight,exactly george from from
claremont, california yeah, andeven make him a good swimmer.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I say like it doesn't have to be someone flopping
around like no solid guy, butyou're like, I want to see their
credentials too.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Like yes, made it to shark level at the claremont
Community Center swim pool atage 11.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Swims three times a week for exercise from 6 to 6.30
.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Everyone.
Oh, he's a good swimmer, takeswater aerobics, yeah, right.
So I'm like I'm impressedalready, right, yes, and then he
gets in and just gets whooped.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, like you would not believe.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And you would go oh oh, that's the difference.
It would also be interesting tosee if there are any sports
where, like the lay person didsort of well now that's like
curling right where you're likehow about that's?
Immediately what comes to mind?
Like curling and granted,that's winter olympics, isn't it
?
But still like, because you'relike is it really that hard?
I mean, it's shuffleboard onice, right.
I know what if somebody waspretty decent at backyard games?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Could they hold their ?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
own.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Or I mean, I just, yeah, canyou imagine like archery, okay,
scott, your turn, everyone duckBecause we're not really sure
where this is going to end.
And then, boom, right in themiddle, everyone else, I it the
like.
And now, with ai, they can justlay over the image right of
scott doing the archery and thepro, oh yeah, oh, there's,
(06:56):
there's what it's like.
Yeah, I just, I love it.
Like entertainment level isthis could be a comedy central
thing, though, right, like,instead of like what does the
who's doing the olympics?
This year's nbc, what is theirlike funny version?
Their channel that's, I'd havethat on the whole time I, I
think there's something to it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We, we, yeah, like I don't know how, how this would
come to fruition, but there'sgot to be something where, yeah,
they could have, they couldjust have a person in a random
pool somewhere else and just,yeah, like you said, overlay it
or do split screen and just showthe show.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The dude get smoked he's so great there he is in uh
torrent california.
Take it off to the side.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, you're just going as hard as you can, as much as
you can swim or you're justrunning as fast at the west high
school track these people,these people are already like on
the podium, dried off, singingtheir national anthem, accepting
the rewards.
Guys still swimming like he's.
Let's check back in the poolnow.
Okay, four more laps to go fourmore laps to go.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
that Four more laps to go.
When I was thinking about thisI was like the most difficult
one If you just say like, let'spick random guy from the crowd,
right, if that's the mode, likeyou, sir come on down.
Could you imagine the pole vaultwith that being the idea?
Like run.
I have no idea how to evenstart.
(08:28):
That feels like a death wish,like being stabbed with a lawn
pole.
First of all, how do I run withthis incredibly long piece of
PVC pipe?
Oh, you'd be good at thatbecause of your degree.
Floppity, floppity, floppity,flop.
Oh man, there's 0% chance.
I'm hitting that little holewith the pole.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That would be no way.
Right, like the thing that youdon't even consider being
difficult about this sport wouldbe the thing that we couldn't
even get past.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Right, we couldn't even start.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, if they said the event is you run as fast as
you can and you hold this20-foot long pole and then you
have to get it in this littlegroove, I'd be like, oh, that's
impossible, nobody can do thatno, no, sir, I'm out already no,
sir, you'd be like oh so.
So the challenge, the game isactually to see how close you
can get it to the groove.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They're like right, no, no, no, that's just like
that's that's not even it yeah,that right.
That's just what we all can do,man, oh yeah, oh uh.
Um Bill's coming down thestairs, I don't want to do the
pole vault.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I don't, I can't.
Yeah that doesn't end well foranybody.
Bill weighs 320 pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We chose the wrong guy here everybody.
Oh my gosh, yeah oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
There was.
I've been seeing videos andthis is hilarious where it's
people trying to learn a gainer.
Oh, you know the flip where youbasically yeah, I'm trying to
describe it If you're not surewhat a gainer is.
Just look it up, but it's likea backflip.
But instead of having your backfacing the water, it's your
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front facing the water.
So you basically have to throwyour feet out in front of you
and you're running back run likea running back, flip, reverse
sort of thing.
And so there's all these videosof people on tiktok.
It's become like a trend andthey're all trying to learn and
it just shows them failing overand over.
It's so funny, but it's one ofthese things.
You look at it, you're like,well, that doesn't look hard at
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all the people, but when youactually try, it's one of these
things.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You look at it and you're like well, that doesn't
look hard at all, but when youactually try it, when you
actually try it, it's the mostawkward thing, the high dive.
Could you imagine the high diveOn that?
Okay, Sal, come on down.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh boy, oh good times Well.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I can't wait to watch .
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So hey, before we, we jump in.
So we're still in georgia.
And we did a poll on facebook,yep, and we wanted to know what
you thought, without looking itup, what had more sugar,
coca-cola or sweet tea?
What one sweet tea won by apretty hefty margin.
Okay, we just looked it up anddo you still have it in front of
(11:06):
you?
I do, I think it's Coca-Cola.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Let me just real quick.
Yeah, so a typical 12-ounce canof Coca-Cola contains 39 grams
of sugar, whereas sweet teavaries widely, but a standard
sweet tea recipe might havebetween 25 to 30 grams of sugar
per 12 ounces.
So those are per 12 ounces forboth of them, right, right, so
there's more sugar by a factorof like, either almost double or
(11:32):
a quarter.
I mean, it's a lot more.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Like that.
If you've ever tasted sweet teaand you know how sweet it is,
it's amazing.
And then there's more sugar inCoke.
That really puts intoperspective how sweet it is.
It's amazing.
And then there's more sugar andcoke.
That really puts intoperspective how much sugar is in
coke how?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
yes, and also the other flavors.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That doesn't make it just because I could more easily
get down a coke than I could acup of sweet tea, oh yeah yeah,
but I was just saying before westarted recording, like if
you've ever let a coke go sortof flat and get like room
temperature and then you take asip of it, oh man, you notice it
then then you understand yeah,it is gross so, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So this has been your health yeah, good info.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We're doing this for your health, because we're
concerned about you and we wantyou to make good choices so
don't torture yourself with.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's another poll.
Do you like it or not?
Yes or no?
I I think I think, I think Ilose in that one because I'm not
a fan the poll I think the pollthat we should put out is uh,
or just maybe a short answerquestion but what, what sport do
you want to try before?
Like what would you think?
And that'd be a good one,because pole vault there's some
good ones on there, so we'llthink about it, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Hit us with Savannah.
All right, we're still in sweetSavannah, day 53, friday,
november 19th 2004.
We got back to the Wesleycenter around nine 30 and got
straight to work.
We built shelves in the shedand organized that.
We put together a little tightslide.
(13:03):
That might have been yesterday.
We painted a bench in theplayground to look like a stove
and barbecue.
Our big project was to help avery pregnant lady build a
mosaic.
Yeah, this was cool.
It was cool.
Never done anything like thisbefore.
We have some pictures of itthat we'll share.
(13:24):
Yeah, let me read on and thenwe'll talk about it a little bit
.
But the tiles for the mosaicwere all made by the children
who go to the Wesley center andthey were colored and fired
according to Elizabeth's plan.
That was the lady who made thismosaic.
So again, these kids made thesetiles, they colored them or
painted them and then theyglazed them.
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So then she had all these tilesand we were going to use them
to build this mosaic.
The finished product was to bea big tree with flowers and
stuff.
Our first task was to rough upthe smooth parts of the wall so
the tiles will stick.
That meant hitting it over andover with the claw side of a
hammer until it was all roughedup.
(14:06):
What a workout.
Scott and Elizabeth beganputting up tiles, so I went and
finished the shelves in the shed.
When I came back they had justabout finished the whole trunk
and branches and it lookedawesome.
So I think there was all thesetiles and then she would
actually break them into smallerpieces right.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, I can't remember if they were already
broken or if they were justtiles they painted and then she
broke them, so they had themosaic-y, you know different
shape, which made sense.
I think you're absolutely rightabout that.
Yeah, and then put them up onthe wall, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, so we continued to work doing the leaves of the
trees until a bit after five,when it started to get dark.
This was when we wereintroduced to no-see-ums.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh gosh, hold on Before we get to no-see-ums,
which I forgot was in here.
I did, too, the.
I still remember this veryclearly as well as I.
I remember something that shesaid.
First of all, she was very,very pregnant, so us being there
(15:12):
to help her was, I think,important because she was so
pregnant.
Secondly, we have the fact thatwhen we're building this um
concrete thing right and we'reputting it up, we're having the
tree go.
And your temptation, I mine, wasto go straight and to make it
go straight up.
(15:32):
But she said no tree in natureis straight, everything is
curved.
And so she had us have thislike gentle, you know curve and
he's like different things inthe branches.
We're supposed to do theseweird things.
And when she said that, Ithought that is so true, you
draw trees, but you draw them ashe's like straight up little
(15:52):
things, but the whole point ofthem is to also have this like
natural feel, and I've used thisin ministry or in sermons,
because nothing is exactly likeyou think.
Nothing's perfect, is basicallywhat I end up saying you know,
everything in nature, like thepersonality comes from all of
the little, like funky anglesand all of the things that
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aren't exactly perfect and Ijust I just thought that was so
cool.
She, she's, like it looked fakeIf it's straight.
I was like yeah, it does I never, you know, like that, like line
for me sticks out all the timeand I'm sure an artist goes.
Of course, Scott, but I meanI'm, I am no artist, so just
having that was really aninteresting.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, I, as you were saying that, I was like but a
pine tree is pretty straight butthen I was thinking about that
and like even that kind ofadapts and then the branches are
not straight and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So yeah, it checks out it checks out, and I mean
they, they do.
Of course, they can try to growlike super straight trees for
purposes, but I think naturejust always has this, this
personality, and I think the biglesson that I take away from
there is, like, the events thathappen are the things you
usually remember, are the littlequirks Like what do we talk
(17:13):
about at our wedding Most often?
Is it the perfect cake?
Is it that?
No, it's the fact that it waslike baking hot, and that comes
up more often than not about ourwedding, like, oh yeah, they
told us that this room is neverhot right on the beach and it
was like 94.
I don't know if you remember,but our wedding was just smoking
hot.
Besides us being smoking hot,and when I that's what I
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remember smoking hot, and soit's like I went to.
I did a wedding this saturdayand the groom, his wife, is
amazing singer, just spectacular.
And then he's a musician too,but not yet.
I mean, he's not as good as hiswife, let's just.
And he would say that if he wassitting here, yeah.
But he decided to like sing asong to her.
But then he got halfway throughand he's like oh too many old
(17:57):
fashions, don't remember thelyrics right now, oh geez.
And I said to him I said stop,like you said to him.
I said stop, like you're gonnawant to beat yourself up for
that.
I said this is going to be thestory, this will be the funny
story from your wedding.
It's okay, and like we, weneeded this story things are
(18:18):
going too well.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
the tree looked too straight.
Um, yeah, I like that.
I feel, yeah, we could unpackthat all day long, couldn't we?
I mean, yeah, and that's likethe point of this whole entire
trip on this road trip, thispodcast, all this stuff is all
about the stories, and the bestones are when things went wrong,
right, right.
Like you know, we think aboutthe funniest ones, and like the
(18:39):
thing in New York where the guywanted to show us the shotgun,
or like the RV getting towed in.
Boston or the banger main andstuff, and it's like it's all
the things that don't goaccording to plan, all the
things that are crooked.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know, and I just thought that's so cool.
Yeah, no, that's really good.
I like that we beat ourselvesup for it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's so funny that, like we end up going, oh I wish
that.
Like we end up going, oh I wish.
But really that's the stuffthat we end up talking about.
I mean, we had an amazing daysnowboarding with me, you and
Isaac, but what's the story wetell all the time Is when you
know, according to Isaac, youalmost killed him on the
chairlift, so that's the like.
That's just funny.
That that's.
Those are the things, right,that we talked about.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So yeah, Okay, back to no-see-ums.
Yeah, it's true.
And yeah, I can't wait to sharethis photograph oh yeah, of
that mosaic, because it's cool.
I mean, we had never doneanything like this, you know.
And so to have this lady who'sthis artist and just has this
(19:48):
eye, we're like, how are yougoing to take this bunch of
tiles and turn it into a tree?
Like I don't.
And have you ever seen anartist where, if you try to draw
something like a person, right,you start with maybe the head
and then go down to the and like, from the early stages you kind
of know what you're getting.
And then you watch an artistand they draw a line here and a
line there and you're like Ihave no idea what they're
drawing.
And then all of the sudden theyadd one little line and you're
like, oh my gosh, it's a, yeah,it's a person in a wedding dress
(20:09):
?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
exactly no.
I know their minds are justdifferent, right?
Yep, I never would have startedthere, but that's where you're
supposed to start, right?
Yeah, exactly no and you'vedone those like draw on, like
youtube, where you can like dodrawing school with draw
characters.
Those start weird places whereyou're like, oh okay, and then
by the end I'm like that's muchbetter than I would have ever
drawn that character yeah soyeah, exactly, yeah, no, it is,
(20:31):
it is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So no seeums, there had to be some downfall to
georgia right all we were doingis pumping it up, pumping it up,
but uh, here we go, thedownfall, um, downfall.
This is when we were introducedto no seeums.
They call these little buggersthat that because you can't see
(20:52):
them.
Oh, but I explained that to you, you know, because otherwise
you're like where did they getthat name?
Um, but you can sure feel them.
Yes, they are tiny bugs thatbite like mosquitoes.
We endured the pain long enoughto clean up and then we took
off.
We were taken out to dinner byelizabeth and her husband, who
(21:15):
reminded us a lot of jenny andjimmy from, uh, iowa, yes, iowa.
Uh, from sioux.
Oh, look at that.
I even said it, thank you,andrew, 20 years ago.
Yeah, so I guess that's all weneeded to say about no-see-ums.
Well, I think.
Anything more, having lived in.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Bama, yeah, I think the thing about the no-see-ums
is, I believe that when westarted hearing that name,
thought that was their like name, you know, like their inset
name because they say it justhas one word, no seems.
And you're like, oh, what kindof.
And then finally, I thinksomeone explained to us no,
(21:57):
they're called no c ums becauseyou can't see them.
We're like what?
so it's not their inset name,it's like what everyone calls
them, because, yeah, they arethese tiny little like death
things and we're going to alsorun to fire ants later, which
are a whole other.
There are so many bugs in thesouth that we do not have out
(22:19):
here that are just tough so.
I did look this up.
The insets belong to the familyCeratopodonidae.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yep, yep, I figured.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So instead of trying to say that name.
You just call them no-see-ums.
Yeah, oh, that's theCeratopodonidae.
No, they're no-see-ums, okay,yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, no-see-ums, let's just go with that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Miserable little tiny bugs.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Little biting flying bugs, just the worst.
So for dinner we had someMexican food, which was pretty
darn good, and then went back totheir house.
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I didn't know we did that.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I remember hanging out with them, but I don't
remember having Mexican food andstuff.
Yeah, so I must have forgottenhis name, because I just have
this like weird blank space inthe journal and then it goes
does computer animation?
So I must have thought, oh, Ineed to go back and fill in his
name and I never did so.
Sorry, Elizabeth's husband.
I didn't take note of your name, but he does computer animation
(23:27):
and he showed us some of hismovies that he had made A lot of
stop motion stuff likeClaymation, Wallace and Gromit
sort of stuff.
It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I remember that now.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Do you man?
That is a blank in my mind.
I do not.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, I remember seeing some of his stuff, because when
you said the Wallace and Gromit, that brought it in.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Cool.
I wish I could recall that wehung out with them for a while
and then headed on back to ourwheeled home.
They were fun people, the typeof artsy people you would expect
to find in Berkeley.
She did give off, kind of.
Berkeley vibes, but maybethat's like a universal sort of
artistic thing, like kind ofnature-y.
(24:11):
I'm pretty sure she I picturein my mind kind of like
dreadlocked hair, but I don'tthink she had dreadlocked hair,
but I think she wore likestrappy hiking sandal type
sandals which, you know, gottahave your feet close to the
earth to feel the vibrations.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, it's like Portland, berkeley, savannah fix
.
Yeah, she was great and theywere kind and it was really fun
to be with them.
Yeah, it was really really niceto be with them.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, and do be able to do so much work.
I mean, we were there the daybefore and then the entire day
this day, just helping thiswesley center, which we should
probably look up and maybe we'llgive a link to it.
Um, I will, but uh, I'm prettysure it was.
Did we say it the other day?
Or uh, I think they do stufffor kids or just the community
(25:00):
in general, but it was a coollittle place that we got hooked
up with.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So one of the things that I just have tucked away and
is so john wesley is the guywho, um, came over and he's
british and he is also thefounder of the methodist church.
So john wesley and he startedthe first orphanage for boys in
(25:27):
Savannah, georgia, remember that?
No, so he started one of thefirst American orphanages, maybe
in the South or maybe inGeorgia, because I'm sure there
were other ones, but this was along time ago 1700s, early 1800s
.
You know, 1700s, early 1800s.
(25:50):
I don't exactly remember whenhe came over, but he came over
and was a missionary, slash thechurch planter, uh, guy, and so
that's why the methodism has alot of roots in the south, since
1949 wesley community centersof Inc's mission is to enhance
the economic, educational andspiritual growth through
(26:12):
excellence in early learning,care and services for women,
children and families.
Okay, so it's focused mostly onwomen and children, so that's
probably why they have thatschool there and all of those
things.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
There you go.
Yeah, that that's a really itwas a very cool place.
Do have we filled the gas up inthe jeep wrangler yet do we
write about that?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't know, but let me I wonder if I can.
Uh, I think that might becoming.
Okay, that's no problem If wedon't we'll talk about it
another time, but yes, yeah, sojust to to round this date out
or day out.
It was such a nice night, sothis is back.
(27:00):
When we got back to our RV, itwas such a nice night that we
sat outside and smoked our pipesand enjoyed the warmth of
Savannahannah uh take me back.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Do you remember that?
I?
I do remember that.
In their parking I feel like Ido yeah, just sitting outside I
think we put our like our littlechairs poop and sat down the
parking lot of the church.
Yeah, just the methodist churchare smoking our pipes, not
exactly what they want to have,but here we are, debatable,
walking around enjoyingourselves.
Just the Methodist church aresmoking our pipes, not exactly
what they want to have happen,but here we are walking around
enjoying ourselves.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
So love it.
It was again.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I cannot recommend Savannah enough.
It's funny how, when we postedthat so many people have been to
Savannah recently, your mom'sbeen to Savannah recently we had
some friends from Birminghamwho were heading over to
Savannah.
I'm like wow.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I guess it's summer and a popular place to go.
But did you want my fun insavannah?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
oh yeah, I think they'd been before too.
Um okay, but but yeah they,they loved it there.
I think it was a bit hot beingin the middle of summer, I think
.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I think probably no south.
Yeah, I think november isprobably the ideal time to be
there really, yes, november orApril.
Yeah, that's why the Masters isplayed in April, not played in
July, for a reason.
Yep, yep, you are miserable, ohman.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah weather is everything but another great day
in Savannah Another great dayin Savannah Georgia.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
We are so glad that we get to be together on this
hip, hip, hooray Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh brother.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Go swim a lap in a pool.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Avoid Coca-Cola.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Go do some event Time yourself,and then that's a good idea.
Go do some event Time yourselfand then compare it to what the
Olympic athletes are doing andjust see how close you are.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You have a pool.
We're going to do that for you.
We have a little video.
Talk to you later.
Bye, sounds good, bye.
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