August 21, 2024 • 30 mins
Ever wondered what makes Southern hospitality so irresistible? Picture this: We kick off our episode with a lighthearted introduction that sets the mood for a fun and engaging recount of our latest adventure in Savannah, Georgia. From our bittersweet farewell to Skidaway Island and Scott Cleveland, to finally experiencing the legendary Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House, this episode promises a blend of humor, nostalgia, and mouth-watering food tales. Join us as we unravel the charm of Mrs. Wilkes' unmarked gem with its quirky hours and unforgettable family-style dining.
Relive the laughter, the shared meals, and the unique experience of 'meat and threes' as we reminisce about the food that made our journey so memorable.
But it's not all about food—hospitality varies greatly across regions, and we explore these differences with personal stories and amusing observations. Whether it's the genuine warmth of Alabama or the reserved nature of Los Angeles, our reflections offer a humorous take on social dynamics. And as we wrap up our Savannah escapades, we share our mixed feelings about Florida, culminating in a hilarious tale of a grandfather who'd rather face jail than family obligations. Tune in for laughter, camaraderie, and insights that will leave you hungry for more.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to the Kings of the Road podcast.
This is Scott Hawkins andthat's Andrew Gare.
It's not, it's reversed.
I'm just throwing a curveballbecause I never introduced, and
I just told you that I neverintroduced.
But here I am.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is actually andrew gare, welcome to the
kings of the road podcast wherewe're coming at.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You live for us, not for you.
Nope, enjoy, enjoy the ride.
Yeah, podcast, not live radio.
Call in if you want, I don'tknow what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You legitimately scared me.
I was looking off into la laland, ready to ready to go, and
bam, you came at me.
That was the last secondthought.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That was the last second thought.
I thought about it and then Istarted laughing to myself.
And then I was looking to seeif you saw me laughing and I
composed myself just enough toburst in.
That was great.
That was great.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I love the fact that you totally messed up our names,
though that was perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, that was on purpose, you see.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, but it wasn't me so itwas to throw the seasoned
listener like wait, that doesn'tsound like Scott's voice.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh, if I could have gone with that joke.
But I couldn't.
I was so shocked.
I was shocked and awed.
It was too deep, it was toodeep.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, that was multiple layers.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I love that.
No, don't be.
I think everyone's enjoying it.
Listener, I'm sure you'reenjoying that intro.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I was a little bit out of breath.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, see, it's not nothing to the introduction.
There You've got the musicgoing.
You've got to come with theenergy.
Start the listener off, readyto go.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So love it.
It's a big responsibility.
That's why I've never, taken iton, my goodness.
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And we're going to be in Savannah again, and today
we're finally, guys, finallygoing to give you the completion
of the Cliffhanger.
We're really You've waitedthrough Scott Cleveland we're
really going to do it.
You've waited through all thesethings and today is the day he
has made.
Oh no, today, well, that is theday he has made.
(02:26):
Oh no, today, well, that is theday he's made.
Was also the day that we'regoing to get to, to get to the
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Say, hey you, you could listento one of these and just laugh
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Here's your opportunity to be like I know a
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because I mean, we're, we'velooked at all the charts and
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Yes, yeah, oh, of course.
Well, I mean, we have to buildup to that, but right now we're
(03:18):
building, we're building, so youcould be on the ground floor of
this too.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So yeah, I mean our, our goals, my family our goals
was was a solid listener.
Yep, we have surpassed that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We've surpassed that.
So we're basically goal setters, goal goal breakers, achievers
influencers.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
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Clearly great storytellers and entertainers
amongst all the greats that haveever been.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So if you own a small Del Taco somewhere and want us
to inspire your employees alleight of them just call us up,
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Speaker 1 (04:12):
You own a small family-owned HVAC business in
the Valley.
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We're your guys, we're there.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We're there.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh man, Listeners, this must have been a hard few
weeks just being dangled over acliff for so long as we just
keep talking about this thing.
We broke and then it came upwith Scott Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Then we threw in a detour just to string you along.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He talked about it too.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He said didn't I, did you guys eat there?
He did, that was a randomthought that he just brought up.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
We did not, that's true.
We did not.
That's true, we did not.
We did not see that.
And, of course, what we'retalking about is Mrs Wilkes
Boarding House in SavannahGeorgia.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Do it, Andrew Read away.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Today is day 56.
It's Monday, november 22nd 2004.
We turned over the Jeep keysand said goodbye to Scott
Cleveland and left our home of afew days, Skidaway Island.
Before completely leavingSavannah, there was one last
thing we needed to do.
(05:21):
An unmarked restaurant calledMrs Wilkes exists in Savannah
and is not to be missed.
It's not to be missed.
Mrs Wilkes used to run aboarding house, but has since
converted that into a restaurantthat is only open Monday
through Friday from 11 am to 2pm.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What a great hours.
That's great hours to work Justlunch I pm.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
What a great hours that's great hours to work, Just
lunch.
I know I'm like geez.
I'm sure, though, you know what, With the food that they
brought out, they're working alot past those.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They're starting early.
Yeah, they're starting earlyand they're going late.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It is real family style Southern cooking like
grandma used to make.
That's just a phrase.
My grandma never cookedSouthern grandma used to make.
That's just a phrase.
My grandma never cookedSouthern.
We showed up and were seated ata large oval table that was
covered with bowls of differentfoods Sweet potatoes, fried okra
(06:19):
, collard greens, sweet corn,biscuits and, of course, fried
chicken.
Fried chicken oh fried chicken.
I can't possibly remembereverything that was on the table
.
Oh, fried chicken.
I can't possibly remembereverything that was on the table
.
There must have been 20different bowls.
Oh my gosh.
What else did I miss?
What else was on the table?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Scott, you have a good memory for these sorts of
things For food.
Yeah, exactly, I think therewere stewed tomatoes, there were
mashed potatoes, there wassweet potatoes that you
mentioned.
Oh, there was green beans.
Yeah, there was some kind ofcorn they call it Succotash, I
believe where it has like cornand tomatoes in it.
There was Southern stylecornbread, which I think you
(06:56):
listed.
Cornbread right Maybe, butthere's Southern style and this
is something that I know.
People from the South may notknow me, but I don't prefer
Southern style cornbread becauseit's not sweet and I always
expect, like Marie Callender's,you know, sweet, like almost
cake-like cornbread.
It's more bready and it's more.
(07:19):
You know, it's just a piece ofbread, not just, but it has that
dense like cornbread butthere's no sugar in it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, so it's different and so that would
throw me a little bit wheneveryou're like, oh, I'm going to
get this piece of cornbread, andthen you're like, oh darn it,
it's not what I wanted it to be.
Yeah, so you're waiting in lineat Mrs Wood's boarding house
and you're waiting out front andyou're with whoever you're with
, and then they say how manyYou're like, well, we have two
of us.
And then they say, ok, we havetables of 10.
(07:50):
I think it was 10 or it's, oreight big tables, big tables,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You don't go in.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, it's not like table for four and they said you
with four it's we're justputting you wherever, yes, and
we're grabbing the other eightpeople in line with you, and all
10 of you come on in to thistable.
We have every Southern dish youcan imagine on this table
plates.
Go to town.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Go crazy.
Like you don't order anything,right.
It's just you pay to get in,and that's what's for lunch?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
right you pay Exactly , that's it.
It's like $18.
And I think it wasn't.
I mean, we knew it wasn't cheapat the time.
It was like $15, $18.
It was $13.
I wrote it down, that's likeagain.
We were like okay, $13 fordinner.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, I guess that, yeah, back in 2004, especially
for us guys.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But yeah, so $13, and you're just getting what you're
getting, but you are going toleave so full, so full, and then
if you run out of fried chicken, you just say, hey, waiter,
more fried chicken.
Yeah, come on right up, theybring you a bowl more fried
chicken.
Yeah, there it is because youmay be at a table where they're
eating lots of fried chicken.
They don't know a lot ofbiscuits going, a lot of uh, you
(09:01):
know a lot of green beanshappening.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They don't know, so they just bring it out from the
back it's the kind of thingwhere you kind of have to be
strategic, because if you comein there, and you're full and
you just start eating stuff,like you gotta plan it right
just so you can taste everything, yeah, otherwise it's it's kind
of like thanksgiving right,where it's just like it's a,
it's like a sprint, but it'svery strategic and it's like how
(09:25):
?
am I gonna place each bite andyou'll pass certain things
because you're like I know it'sgood, but I have to.
I have to prioritize I'm notgonna have the I'm not to have
the role because the role isgoing to take up too much time,
too much space.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, you maybe split a role, right.
You're like, hey, you have, Iwant to try the role, see how
the role is, but I don't wantthe whole role, right.
And, and this good food, andyou're talking to them, and
there's like just this overalljoyous energy in this large
dining room.
(09:58):
I mean it's it feels you'relike almost like a basement.
You're underneath this like theold boarding house and you're
just hanging out eating greatfood, meeting new people.
There was like a couple ontheir honeymoon that was with us
, wasn't?
there, yeah, yeah, yeah wellsort of okay, there was somebody
and there was something.
So there was like and thosepeople, they're just getting to
(10:19):
know people laughing and it'sgreat.
Yeah, life doesn't get betterthan that moment it was good.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It was good okay.
So, yes, we, we were at a tablewith two other couples there's
only six of us.
Yeah, there was, only I thinkthere was some empty seats.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Okay, I thought there was which is, which is a bit
unusual, but I do have.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I did come across a picture.
I took a picture so I'll postthat.
So Scott and I weren't alone atthis table.
It's family style, so we had afamily.
That family included a gaycouple from philly celebrating
their anniversary.
Okay, okay and anotheranniversary yeah, okay, and
(11:03):
another couple from macon,georgia.
Oh man, so this?
Is great, this couple frommacon, georgia.
They're like we're gonna go inand have some good and they're
sat with a gay couple fromPhilly celebrating their
anniversary and these other twodudes who are not gay who live
in a motor home together.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
No, no, we're not gay , they're like what?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
in the Are you?
They're like?
This is not the Southernexperience I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Right, it was, but what a great Southern experience
they had.
It was a good table was, butwhat a great Southern experience
they had.
It was a good table, likeeveryone had a great time it was
, and we did.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
As I'm sure you can imagine, there were some
interesting conversations andsome awkward moments.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right, so they're trying to figure us all out Love
it, love it.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Boy, what a great meal, and for $13 each it was a
deal.
Scott wanted to make it clearthat we were not gay, so he made
some comment about how it wouldtake a special woman to put up
with his messiness this.
This harkens back to the timethat we opened the joint bank
(12:07):
account at bank of americabefore the trip started we said
that story on here.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I don't think, oh, but we started a joint bank
accounts and we walked in andwe're like, uh, we like to start
a joint bank time.
Both of us were at that momentlike huh, I wonder what they're
wondering about us opening ourjoint account.
I'm like okay, that is okayyeah and we're thinking they
thought more about it where theyreally didn't think anything
about it.
Yeah, but just another justanother day in paradise, but
(12:35):
what?
What a meal what a meal.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It was a good move.
But oh, oh, yes, it was a goodmove.
You're clarifying our I don'tknow.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh, I see, though there's the sexuality, sexual
preferences, or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was a good move, but it turned.
Yes, it was a good move, but itturned awkward.
Quickly when one of the guy'sfollows talked about how he is
messy when his partner is goneCrickets, it was fun Awkward,
(13:20):
but fun Awkward, yeah it.
It was fun, awkward, yeah, fun,yeah, yeah that is fun.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh, that meal I'd like to go back.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You haven't gone back right, I haven't been back.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No I have been back and I went with um emily and my
sister and brother-in-law, eric,and the four of us went to
Savannah for like 36 hours.
I mean it was, it was quick.
Emily was just recently.
We found out she was pregnant.
We had recently told Andrew andEric.
(13:47):
That's not true.
We recently told Andrew andEric we were pregnant.
Um, and so Emily's like threemonths pregnant and we're going
to this place and the amount ofjokes that we had about like
that baby being full of Southernfood because we go right from
there and we stuff and I'm likeI'm living the road trips.
(14:09):
I'm like we have to eat atMissville sport now, so there's
no choice, like that's, that'swhere we're having lunch.
And then Emily wanted to go toPaula Dean's from oh my gosh.
We're like well, we have to eatat Paula Deen's for dinner, so
we did.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh my, you did.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right and we did.
Well, we're only there for like36 hours, so we didn't have
much.
We couldn't do like huge lunchand then huge dinner the next
day and maybe, if we had thoughtabout it better, maybe we could
have done dinner and then lunchthe next day.
But we were like at PaulaDeen's like yeah, I guess we'll
have the butter pound cake.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh, do you guys have salads?
Oh, bummer, but we did it.
How is Paula Deen's?
Is it different?
Is it it's?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
totally different.
I mean, it's Southern food, butit's a traditional restaurant,
right.
It's like order your dish, ohokay.
And so I think, like the otherguy, chicken pot pie or
something, or maybe I don'tchicken pot pie, but like we had
just all had this incrediblelunch and it, and then we're
yeah, we walked the river andsaw the things.
It was in April.
We had just gone to themaster's course.
(15:20):
It was a really fun trip, andthen we picked up Cherie on the
way back.
We brought Cherie from theAtlanta airport and brought her
back to Birmingham.
That would have been, I guess,like a year.
You guys came out the next yearto do when Grace was baptized.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Oh, right, right, right, right Around that same
time of year.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It was Easter.
That's why I know it was rightaround Easter when Andrew came
out.
It was really a fun trip.
I'm really excited about ournext fall Savannah trip.
It's in my mind, I'm thinkingabout it.
If you want to come, people,it'd be great.
Let's just serve Savannah andthen have Mrs wills yeah, that,
hmm are there?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
there must be other places like this too, around the
south, you would think.
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wonder, yeah there's well, there's definitely
a lot.
They call them meat and threes.
Um, in the south, this is thisfelt unusual because a we were
like westerners having goodsouthern food and that for us
was yeah, but the other thing isjust every dish being on the
table.
Are you kidding me?
That's awesome.
Yeah, what a normal meat andthree is.
Is it's more of a cafeteriastyle where you get a meat and
(16:32):
three sides?
so then you walk up and you'relike I would like fried green
tomatoes, collard greens andmacaroni and cheese and a
Salisbury steak, and they put itall and you go, you're going
down pork chop please.
There's one in North BirminghamI'm going to blink on the name
(16:54):
right now and it's a reallyfamous one.
I may have brought you there.
I don't think I did.
Actually, they have black eyedpeas there.
I was reading a theologian'sbook once and he was talking
about black eyed peas and, usingan example, my grandma made the
best black eyed peas, exceptthere's this one meeting three
in North of Birmingham.
I was like no way, and that'swhat he talks about.
(17:16):
It's like really they made it.
Yeah, oh, what's its name?
Darn it, are they good?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
yeah, they're really good, they're really well, I
don't know, what does a black?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
eyed pea taste like a pea and it's like a bean, you
know, yeah something that'sworth ink in a book peas, it was
.
It was.
I think he was using hisgrandma.
The relationship with hisgrandma was was more of the like
you know how there are recipesyour grandma made.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's always, yes, random aside, so okay yeah, I
think there are more places,like mrs wilkes, but, but for us
it was such an introductioninto just pure southern food I
have absolutely no interest inever opening a restaurant or
being in the restaurant business, but if somebody listening is
inspired to open a Mrs Wilkesstyle restaurant in Southern
(18:05):
California, I would go there?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, of course you would.
It'd be a great and it was agreat atmosphere.
It'd be such an awesome,awesome place.
So what would we do after that?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, that's interesting, awesome place.
I so what we do after that.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Do you think a place like thatcould exist in la, where people
sit with strangers?
I?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
know so I was just talking yesterday to somebody at
church about the fact that inalabama we got invited into so
many people's homes.
They would just have us overyou know, and they'd make food
for us.
Yeah, and when we got here toAscension, we would meet people,
(18:47):
but we usually meet at arestaurant or meet a coffee shop
, but the number of people'shomes that we got invited into
just so much less.
And I don't know if that's a athing about the culture, which
is my number one guess, but alsothe unfair thing is is that we
were at such different stages oflife, like, and when I were
just married, it was just thetwo of us.
(19:08):
We could go anywhere.
We had no friends, you knowwhat I mean nobody, no other
commitments, right?
We have two kids.
One was four months old.
My parents were here.
You know, like we, we weren't,we weren't going out for random
meals, whereas when you're justnewly married, a new city, you
don't know anybody.
Sure We'll come over.
Well, yeah, we're looking foranything to do, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Interesting, yeah, I wonder if it's a cultural thing.
Yeah, interesting, yeah, Iwonder if it's a cultural thing.
You know, like I'm thinking ofthe song Nobody Walks in LA.
Yeah, right, like everybody,like it's a, it's a car culture
here.
Not like people love cars, it'sjust like we drive everywhere,
(19:53):
everywhere, everywhere,everywhere, whereas I mean
people drive other places too,obviously, like birmingham is no
different.
Everybody has to have a car toget around but it's like maybe
there's less places to go, soit's like come on over.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, maybe, and like the, and I think it's just also
baked into the southern culturewe talked about with scott,
right, like there's just awelcoming nature, there's just a
you use your house to open itup.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
there's a lot of places in bir that doesn't hold
up what I said.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I think it's just a culturalthing.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, and I do think there's something very good
about trying to break that partof the culture, yeah, by just
doing what you can do andinviting people over and using
your home.
But it is such a strange, yeah,such a noticeable difference
for us and again, I do thinkthere's something about the fact
that we were we were very freeand easy at that stage in our
(20:42):
life True, true the opposite.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh man, two kids with a little like a tiny one Right.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You're not just showing up and be like yeah, oh
yeah, let's have dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, no kidding, oh man.
So Well, I feel like I'mstalling a bit because we've had
such a great time in Savannah,georgia.
Yeah, the best time, truly.
Skidaway Island, tibia Island,savannah itself Youth groups,
places where you know WesleyCenter, to volunteer at, but
(21:15):
sadly, we depart this day afterthis meal, which was a highlight
, yeah, yeah, and we do theunthinkable we cross the state
line into Florida.
Now, listener, I'm not sayingpause the episode and go back,
but I'm pretty sure you couldfind somewhere in the archives
(21:39):
of Facebook.
When we first went live almosta year ago, I know, and we
ranked the states it's low.
Is Florida the worst or is it?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
still South Dakota.
I think it's still South Dakota.
I think Florida is second, butit's down, but it's not ranking,
it's not moving itself up.
It's not moving itself up.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So we go into Florida .
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's staying low.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Staying low geographically and in our and in
our great demons Hearts of mine.
So look it's.
Hey, there are positive thingsto Florida, just like anything.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
There's positive things to prison.
Three square meals a day.
See, it's all so bad, yeah,yeah right Get fed.
Don't have to make any fedabout dinner there we go, yeah
that's always a tough.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's always a struggle.
What are we gonna eat today?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I don't know prison, I just show up how nice how did
I tell you, have I told in thepodcast the story about my
grandpa, this?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
is?
I don't think so.
Okay, so my grandpa do it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
So my grandpa and my grandma used to drive up and
down from texas, because mygrandma's from texas, from
michigan, and so they drive downfor the like a week vacation
and one time my grandpa wasdriving the car, kids in the car
got pulled over.
Police officer pulls them oversomewhere in the middle of their
oklahoma.
Who knows where they are.
This is what the 60s probably.
Police officer looks at him andsays, sir, you know you were
(23:04):
speeding.
He says I, yeah, I'm sorry.
He says you have two options.
He says it's 35 right now.
Pay me right now, or it's threedays in prison and or three
days in jail.
And my grandpa looks at thepolice officer in the eye and
says you give me three meals injail.
And the police officer goes uh,I, I guess so.
And he does honey, pick me upon the way back, I'm going to
(23:27):
jail.
And the police officer lookedat him like wait what you choose
, jail.
My grandpa's like, yep, take meto jail, my gosh.
And the police officer's likeuh, uh, just just go then, sir
Um, and he's let him off.
He never goes to jail off.
(23:51):
That is bold.
But I think grandpa's also likeI could spend the week without
my in-laws?
Just none of these five kids.
My mom was the first of fivekids, all under three.
My mom wasn't three, yet twosets of of twins.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, this makes a lot moresense.
So Grandpa's like hold on.
Wait a minute.
He was probably quitedisappointed when the officer
let him go.
He's like I had already plannedout my weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Exactly I was going to read that book.
I was just going to sit andstare out the window for four
hours straight without anybodytalking to me Five kids under
four, dude, but that's bananas.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Okay, florida, florida.
Okay.
We headed out of Georgia andinto Florida.
It just so happened that StephFry and her mom were in Orlando.
I remember this happened thatSteph Fry and her mom were in
Orlando to watch Steph's sister,michelle, compete in a soccer
tournament.
Yeah, that's cool.
(24:55):
Steph is, so lucky she is.
We went out to dinner with herand the soccer team and had a
good old time.
It was fun to talk about howmuch Florida sucks.
What were you doing old time?
(25:15):
It was fun to talk about howmuch florida sucks we were in.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
kiss me yeah, wow, I skipped over that.
I put in parentheses kissing mebecause you're, you're never
actually in orlando, right?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
no, you're in, kiss me, yeah.
Um, it's humid, it's flat andthere are so many bugs that
people here have to put screensaround their yards.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That was a thing we learned.
Yeah, we're like what are allthese weird?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
like what is that around their backyard.
Oh well, that's so that theydon't get eaten alive by bugs.
Okay, you choose to live there.
After dinner, stephceremoniously placed Florida on
our sticker map.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And then I just have a note that says Walmart,
walmart so.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I guess, we stayed at a Walmart.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, so we had a sticker map on the map and I
thought we got this at thebeginning, right when it was one
of those classes like you putthe map up of the states and as
you go to each state you fill itin, and we had it go all the
way up and then all the way downand we would put them on as we
went.
It was cool.
And then that one day there waslike seven states, rhode Island
(26:23):
, seven states, rhode Island.
Yeah, that was very satisfying.
Yes, I still.
I see that picture in my head.
You have to have that pictureof Steph.
I do, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, I'll post that one too.
We got that picture of Stephputting the sticker on.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So good, oh, that was good so um, could you imagine
this is one of the benefits ofus having gone in the fall.
Could you imagine trying tosleep in the lazy days in
Florida in the summer with nohouse air conditioner?
That's right, dude.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That would have been a different trip.
It's funny my mother our numberone listener and father to be
fair, they both listen togetheron the way home from their water
aerobics class, I believe.
Yeah, that's how they pass thedrive on Wednesdays.
So anytime we post a little bitlate, I get a text message from
(27:26):
my mom saying you didn't postthe heck, which I appreciate, I
hope you're not mad at me forsaying that mom Um, where was I
going with this?
Yes, so we've been in Savannah,right, and she was like, and I
think when we talked to Scott orbefore, or yeah, scott,
(27:47):
cleveland, when we did that, andwe were like, yeah, maybe we'll
come out, and I think we saidwe were going to come out in the
summer and she goes, you wouldnot like Savannah in the
summertime.
I'm like you're probably right.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, probably right.
So it would have been hot.
Oh man, we would have had tofind, like my current motorhome,
I need 30 amps to get the airconditioner working.
Oh so, like walmart's, like, dowe bust out our generator?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
ah, oh, it's oh man, that's right yeah that would
have yeah, it would have been awe.
We went at the right time ofyear.
So you know, hey, that's a goodif you are.
We did ever considering doing aroad trip, like fall is
probably ideal, even more sothan spring, because spring
you're probably going to getmore weather, yeah, coming out
(28:38):
of like rain and stuff, you know, yeah, and you still get cold
in some places in the north.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Right, it still gets cold sometimes in April.
Yeah, yeah, no, it wasn't, wedid it just right.
Dude, florida in the summer, inthat thing, we would have just
cooked.
We would have came out ofsteamed lobsters oh, steamed
lobsters, no kidding, because ofthe humidity too.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It would have been like oh, oh, yeah, we would have
just let that.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
We would have just let that motorhome sink in some
swamp out there and just get aflight home.
Can't do it.
Okay, do it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Sorry, motel sets, we quit, we quit.
Oh, what a good day, guys, whata good.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
That was a great day and we finally have yes, we've
rounded out with you, thelistener, the great suspense.
As Mrs Wilkes, river andSavannah, you have to do it.
Just don't do Mrs Wilkes andPaula Deen's the same day,
because that's uncomfortable man.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I bet, I bet.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Unless you're three months pregnant, then, as I kept
saying, put some salve in themouth of that baby.
Grace.
As I kept saying, put some saltin the mouth of that baby.
Grace still loves biscuits andfried chicken in his day.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Oh, yeah, oh yeah, she does so good, smart girl.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
See you listeners.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
All right, see you later you.
Welcome to the Kings of the Road podcast.
This is Scott Hawkins andthat's Andrew Gare.
It's not, it's reversed.
I'm just throwing a curveballbecause I never introduced, and
I just told you that I neverintroduced.
But here I am.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is actually andrew gare, welcome to the
kings of the road podcast wherewe're coming at.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You live for us, not for you.
Nope, enjoy, enjoy the ride.
Yeah, podcast, not live radio.
Call in if you want, I don'tknow what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You legitimately scared me.
I was looking off into la laland, ready to ready to go, and
bam, you came at me.
That was the last secondthought.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That was the last second thought.
I thought about it and then Istarted laughing to myself.
And then I was looking to seeif you saw me laughing and I
composed myself just enough toburst in.
That was great.
That was great.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I love the fact that you totally messed up our names,
though that was perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, that was on purpose, you see.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, but it wasn't me so itwas to throw the seasoned
listener like wait, that doesn'tsound like Scott's voice.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh, if I could have gone with that joke.
But I couldn't.
I was so shocked.
I was shocked and awed.
It was too deep, it was toodeep.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, that was multiple layers.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I love that.
No, don't be.
I think everyone's enjoying it.
Listener, I'm sure you'reenjoying that intro.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I was a little bit out of breath.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, see, it's not nothing to the introduction.
There You've got the musicgoing.
You've got to come with theenergy.
Start the listener off, readyto go.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So love it.
It's a big responsibility.
That's why I've never, taken iton, my goodness.
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And we're going to be in Savannah again, and today
we're finally, guys, finallygoing to give you the completion
of the Cliffhanger.
We're really You've waitedthrough Scott Cleveland we're
really going to do it.
You've waited through all thesethings and today is the day he
has made.
Oh no, today, well, that is theday he has made.
(02:26):
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Was also the day that we'regoing to get to, to get to the
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Yes, yeah, oh, of course.
Well, I mean, we have to buildup to that, but right now we're
(03:18):
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Speaker 1 (03:21):
So yeah, I mean our, our goals, my family our goals
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Yep, we have surpassed that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
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So we're basically goal setters, goal goal breakers, achievers
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Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh man, Listeners, this must have been a hard few
weeks just being dangled over acliff for so long as we just
keep talking about this thing.
We broke and then it came upwith Scott Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Then we threw in a detour just to string you along.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He talked about it too.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He said didn't I, did you guys eat there?
He did, that was a randomthought that he just brought up.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
We did not, that's true.
We did not.
That's true, we did not.
We did not see that.
And, of course, what we'retalking about is Mrs Wilkes
Boarding House in SavannahGeorgia.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Do it, Andrew Read away.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Today is day 56.
It's Monday, november 22nd 2004.
We turned over the Jeep keysand said goodbye to Scott
Cleveland and left our home of afew days, Skidaway Island.
Before completely leavingSavannah, there was one last
thing we needed to do.
(05:21):
An unmarked restaurant calledMrs Wilkes exists in Savannah
and is not to be missed.
It's not to be missed.
Mrs Wilkes used to run aboarding house, but has since
converted that into a restaurantthat is only open Monday
through Friday from 11 am to 2pm.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What a great hours.
That's great hours to work Justlunch I pm.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
What a great hours that's great hours to work, Just
lunch.
I know I'm like geez.
I'm sure, though, you know what, With the food that they
brought out, they're working alot past those.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They're starting early.
Yeah, they're starting earlyand they're going late.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It is real family style Southern cooking like
grandma used to make.
That's just a phrase.
My grandma never cookedSouthern grandma used to make.
That's just a phrase.
My grandma never cookedSouthern.
We showed up and were seated ata large oval table that was
covered with bowls of differentfoods Sweet potatoes, fried okra
(06:19):
, collard greens, sweet corn,biscuits and, of course, fried
chicken.
Fried chicken oh fried chicken.
I can't possibly remembereverything that was on the table
.
Oh, fried chicken.
I can't possibly remembereverything that was on the table
.
There must have been 20different bowls.
Oh my gosh.
What else did I miss?
What else was on the table?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Scott, you have a good memory for these sorts of
things For food.
Yeah, exactly, I think therewere stewed tomatoes, there were
mashed potatoes, there wassweet potatoes that you
mentioned.
Oh, there was green beans.
Yeah, there was some kind ofcorn they call it Succotash, I
believe where it has like cornand tomatoes in it.
There was Southern stylecornbread, which I think you
(06:56):
listed.
Cornbread right Maybe, butthere's Southern style and this
is something that I know.
People from the South may notknow me, but I don't prefer
Southern style cornbread becauseit's not sweet and I always
expect, like Marie Callender's,you know, sweet, like almost
cake-like cornbread.
It's more bready and it's more.
(07:19):
You know, it's just a piece ofbread, not just, but it has that
dense like cornbread butthere's no sugar in it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, so it's different and so that would
throw me a little bit wheneveryou're like, oh, I'm going to
get this piece of cornbread, andthen you're like, oh darn it,
it's not what I wanted it to be.
Yeah, so you're waiting in lineat Mrs Wood's boarding house
and you're waiting out front andyou're with whoever you're with
, and then they say how manyYou're like, well, we have two
of us.
And then they say, ok, we havetables of 10.
(07:50):
I think it was 10 or it's, oreight big tables, big tables,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You don't go in.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, it's not like table for four and they said you
with four it's we're justputting you wherever, yes, and
we're grabbing the other eightpeople in line with you, and all
10 of you come on in to thistable.
We have every Southern dish youcan imagine on this table
plates.
Go to town.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Go crazy.
Like you don't order anything,right.
It's just you pay to get in,and that's what's for lunch?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
right you pay Exactly , that's it.
It's like $18.
And I think it wasn't.
I mean, we knew it wasn't cheapat the time.
It was like $15, $18.
It was $13.
I wrote it down, that's likeagain.
We were like okay, $13 fordinner.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, I guess that, yeah, back in 2004, especially
for us guys.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But yeah, so $13, and you're just getting what you're
getting, but you are going toleave so full, so full, and then
if you run out of fried chicken, you just say, hey, waiter,
more fried chicken.
Yeah, come on right up, theybring you a bowl more fried
chicken.
Yeah, there it is because youmay be at a table where they're
eating lots of fried chicken.
They don't know a lot ofbiscuits going, a lot of uh, you
(09:01):
know a lot of green beanshappening.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They don't know, so they just bring it out from the
back it's the kind of thingwhere you kind of have to be
strategic, because if you comein there, and you're full and
you just start eating stuff,like you gotta plan it right
just so you can taste everything, yeah, otherwise it's it's kind
of like thanksgiving right,where it's just like it's a,
it's like a sprint, but it'svery strategic and it's like how
(09:25):
?
am I gonna place each bite andyou'll pass certain things
because you're like I know it'sgood, but I have to.
I have to prioritize I'm notgonna have the I'm not to have
the role because the role isgoing to take up too much time,
too much space.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, you maybe split a role, right.
You're like, hey, you have, Iwant to try the role, see how
the role is, but I don't wantthe whole role, right.
And, and this good food, andyou're talking to them, and
there's like just this overalljoyous energy in this large
dining room.
(09:58):
I mean it's it feels you'relike almost like a basement.
You're underneath this like theold boarding house and you're
just hanging out eating greatfood, meeting new people.
There was like a couple ontheir honeymoon that was with us
, wasn't?
there, yeah, yeah, yeah wellsort of okay, there was somebody
and there was something.
So there was like and thosepeople, they're just getting to
(10:19):
know people laughing and it'sgreat.
Yeah, life doesn't get betterthan that moment it was good.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It was good okay.
So, yes, we, we were at a tablewith two other couples there's
only six of us.
Yeah, there was, only I thinkthere was some empty seats.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Okay, I thought there was which is, which is a bit
unusual, but I do have.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I did come across a picture.
I took a picture so I'll postthat.
So Scott and I weren't alone atthis table.
It's family style, so we had afamily.
That family included a gaycouple from philly celebrating
their anniversary.
Okay, okay and anotheranniversary yeah, okay, and
(11:03):
another couple from macon,georgia.
Oh man, so this?
Is great, this couple frommacon, georgia.
They're like we're gonna go inand have some good and they're
sat with a gay couple fromPhilly celebrating their
anniversary and these other twodudes who are not gay who live
in a motor home together.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
No, no, we're not gay , they're like what?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
in the Are you?
They're like?
This is not the Southernexperience I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Right, it was, but what a great Southern experience
they had.
It was a good table was, butwhat a great Southern experience
they had.
It was a good table, likeeveryone had a great time it was
, and we did.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
As I'm sure you can imagine, there were some
interesting conversations andsome awkward moments.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right, so they're trying to figure us all out Love
it, love it.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Boy, what a great meal, and for $13 each it was a
deal.
Scott wanted to make it clearthat we were not gay, so he made
some comment about how it wouldtake a special woman to put up
with his messiness this.
This harkens back to the timethat we opened the joint bank
(12:07):
account at bank of americabefore the trip started we said
that story on here.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I don't think, oh, but we started a joint bank
accounts and we walked in andwe're like, uh, we like to start
a joint bank time.
Both of us were at that momentlike huh, I wonder what they're
wondering about us opening ourjoint account.
I'm like okay, that is okayyeah and we're thinking they
thought more about it where theyreally didn't think anything
about it.
Yeah, but just another justanother day in paradise, but
(12:35):
what?
What a meal what a meal.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It was a good move.
But oh, oh, yes, it was a goodmove.
You're clarifying our I don'tknow.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh, I see, though there's the sexuality, sexual
preferences, or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was a good move, but it turned.
Yes, it was a good move, but itturned awkward.
Quickly when one of the guy'sfollows talked about how he is
messy when his partner is goneCrickets, it was fun Awkward,
(13:20):
but fun Awkward, yeah it.
It was fun, awkward, yeah, fun,yeah, yeah that is fun.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh, that meal I'd like to go back.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You haven't gone back right, I haven't been back.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No I have been back and I went with um emily and my
sister and brother-in-law, eric,and the four of us went to
Savannah for like 36 hours.
I mean it was, it was quick.
Emily was just recently.
We found out she was pregnant.
We had recently told Andrew andEric.
(13:47):
That's not true.
We recently told Andrew andEric we were pregnant.
Um, and so Emily's like threemonths pregnant and we're going
to this place and the amount ofjokes that we had about like
that baby being full of Southernfood because we go right from
there and we stuff and I'm likeI'm living the road trips.
(14:09):
I'm like we have to eat atMissville sport now, so there's
no choice, like that's, that'swhere we're having lunch.
And then Emily wanted to go toPaula Dean's from oh my gosh.
We're like well, we have to eatat Paula Deen's for dinner, so
we did.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh my, you did.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right and we did.
Well, we're only there for like36 hours, so we didn't have
much.
We couldn't do like huge lunchand then huge dinner the next
day and maybe, if we had thoughtabout it better, maybe we could
have done dinner and then lunchthe next day.
But we were like at PaulaDeen's like yeah, I guess we'll
have the butter pound cake.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh, do you guys have salads?
Oh, bummer, but we did it.
How is Paula Deen's?
Is it different?
Is it it's?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
totally different.
I mean, it's Southern food, butit's a traditional restaurant,
right.
It's like order your dish, ohokay.
And so I think, like the otherguy, chicken pot pie or
something, or maybe I don'tchicken pot pie, but like we had
just all had this incrediblelunch and it, and then we're
yeah, we walked the river andsaw the things.
It was in April.
We had just gone to themaster's course.
(15:20):
It was a really fun trip, andthen we picked up Cherie on the
way back.
We brought Cherie from theAtlanta airport and brought her
back to Birmingham.
That would have been, I guess,like a year.
You guys came out the next yearto do when Grace was baptized.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Oh, right, right, right, right Around that same
time of year.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It was Easter.
That's why I know it was rightaround Easter when Andrew came
out.
It was really a fun trip.
I'm really excited about ournext fall Savannah trip.
It's in my mind, I'm thinkingabout it.
If you want to come, people,it'd be great.
Let's just serve Savannah andthen have Mrs wills yeah, that,
hmm are there?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
there must be other places like this too, around the
south, you would think.
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wonder, yeah there's well, there's definitely
a lot.
They call them meat and threes.
Um, in the south, this is thisfelt unusual because a we were
like westerners having goodsouthern food and that for us
was yeah, but the other thing isjust every dish being on the
table.
Are you kidding me?
That's awesome.
Yeah, what a normal meat andthree is.
Is it's more of a cafeteriastyle where you get a meat and
(16:32):
three sides?
so then you walk up and you'relike I would like fried green
tomatoes, collard greens andmacaroni and cheese and a
Salisbury steak, and they put itall and you go, you're going
down pork chop please.
There's one in North BirminghamI'm going to blink on the name
(16:54):
right now and it's a reallyfamous one.
I may have brought you there.
I don't think I did.
Actually, they have black eyedpeas there.
I was reading a theologian'sbook once and he was talking
about black eyed peas and, usingan example, my grandma made the
best black eyed peas, exceptthere's this one meeting three
in North of Birmingham.
I was like no way, and that'swhat he talks about.
(17:16):
It's like really they made it.
Yeah, oh, what's its name?
Darn it, are they good?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
yeah, they're really good, they're really well, I
don't know, what does a black?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
eyed pea taste like a pea and it's like a bean, you
know, yeah something that'sworth ink in a book peas, it was
.
It was.
I think he was using hisgrandma.
The relationship with hisgrandma was was more of the like
you know how there are recipesyour grandma made.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's always, yes, random aside, so okay yeah, I
think there are more places,like mrs wilkes, but, but for us
it was such an introductioninto just pure southern food I
have absolutely no interest inever opening a restaurant or
being in the restaurant business, but if somebody listening is
inspired to open a Mrs Wilkesstyle restaurant in Southern
(18:05):
California, I would go there?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, of course you would.
It'd be a great and it was agreat atmosphere.
It'd be such an awesome,awesome place.
So what would we do after that?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, that's interesting, awesome place.
I so what we do after that.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Do you think a place like thatcould exist in la, where people
sit with strangers?
I?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
know so I was just talking yesterday to somebody at
church about the fact that inalabama we got invited into so
many people's homes.
They would just have us overyou know, and they'd make food
for us.
Yeah, and when we got here toAscension, we would meet people,
(18:47):
but we usually meet at arestaurant or meet a coffee shop
, but the number of people'shomes that we got invited into
just so much less.
And I don't know if that's a athing about the culture, which
is my number one guess, but alsothe unfair thing is is that we
were at such different stages oflife, like, and when I were
just married, it was just thetwo of us.
(19:08):
We could go anywhere.
We had no friends, you knowwhat I mean nobody, no other
commitments, right?
We have two kids.
One was four months old.
My parents were here.
You know, like we, we weren't,we weren't going out for random
meals, whereas when you're justnewly married, a new city, you
don't know anybody.
Sure We'll come over.
Well, yeah, we're looking foranything to do, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Interesting, yeah, I wonder if it's a cultural thing.
Yeah, interesting, yeah, Iwonder if it's a cultural thing.
You know, like I'm thinking ofthe song Nobody Walks in LA.
Yeah, right, like everybody,like it's a, it's a car culture
here.
Not like people love cars, it'sjust like we drive everywhere,
(19:53):
everywhere, everywhere,everywhere, whereas I mean
people drive other places too,obviously, like birmingham is no
different.
Everybody has to have a car toget around but it's like maybe
there's less places to go, soit's like come on over.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, maybe, and like the, and I think it's just also
baked into the southern culturewe talked about with scott,
right, like there's just awelcoming nature, there's just a
you use your house to open itup.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
there's a lot of places in bir that doesn't hold
up what I said.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I think it's just a culturalthing.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, and I do think there's something very good
about trying to break that partof the culture, yeah, by just
doing what you can do andinviting people over and using
your home.
But it is such a strange, yeah,such a noticeable difference
for us and again, I do thinkthere's something about the fact
that we were we were very freeand easy at that stage in our
(20:42):
life True, true the opposite.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh man, two kids with a little like a tiny one Right.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You're not just showing up and be like yeah, oh
yeah, let's have dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, no kidding, oh man.
So Well, I feel like I'mstalling a bit because we've had
such a great time in Savannah,georgia.
Yeah, the best time, truly.
Skidaway Island, tibia Island,savannah itself Youth groups,
places where you know WesleyCenter, to volunteer at, but
(21:15):
sadly, we depart this day afterthis meal, which was a highlight
, yeah, yeah, and we do theunthinkable we cross the state
line into Florida.
Now, listener, I'm not sayingpause the episode and go back,
but I'm pretty sure you couldfind somewhere in the archives
(21:39):
of Facebook.
When we first went live almosta year ago, I know, and we
ranked the states it's low.
Is Florida the worst or is it?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
still South Dakota.
I think it's still South Dakota.
I think Florida is second, butit's down, but it's not ranking,
it's not moving itself up.
It's not moving itself up.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So we go into Florida .
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's staying low.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Staying low geographically and in our and in
our great demons Hearts of mine.
So look it's.
Hey, there are positive thingsto Florida, just like anything.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
There's positive things to prison.
Three square meals a day.
See, it's all so bad, yeah,yeah right Get fed.
Don't have to make any fedabout dinner there we go, yeah
that's always a tough.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's always a struggle.
What are we gonna eat today?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I don't know prison, I just show up how nice how did
I tell you, have I told in thepodcast the story about my
grandpa, this?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
is?
I don't think so.
Okay, so my grandpa do it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
So my grandpa and my grandma used to drive up and
down from texas, because mygrandma's from texas, from
michigan, and so they drive downfor the like a week vacation
and one time my grandpa wasdriving the car, kids in the car
got pulled over.
Police officer pulls them oversomewhere in the middle of their
oklahoma.
Who knows where they are.
This is what the 60s probably.
Police officer looks at him andsays, sir, you know you were
(23:04):
speeding.
He says I, yeah, I'm sorry.
He says you have two options.
He says it's 35 right now.
Pay me right now, or it's threedays in prison and or three
days in jail.
And my grandpa looks at thepolice officer in the eye and
says you give me three meals injail.
And the police officer goes uh,I, I guess so.
And he does honey, pick me upon the way back, I'm going to
(23:27):
jail.
And the police officer lookedat him like wait what you choose
, jail.
My grandpa's like, yep, take meto jail, my gosh.
And the police officer's likeuh, uh, just just go then, sir
Um, and he's let him off.
He never goes to jail off.
(23:51):
That is bold.
But I think grandpa's also likeI could spend the week without
my in-laws?
Just none of these five kids.
My mom was the first of fivekids, all under three.
My mom wasn't three, yet twosets of of twins.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, this makes a lot moresense.
So Grandpa's like hold on.
Wait a minute.
He was probably quitedisappointed when the officer
let him go.
He's like I had already plannedout my weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Exactly I was going to read that book.
I was just going to sit andstare out the window for four
hours straight without anybodytalking to me Five kids under
four, dude, but that's bananas.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Okay, florida, florida.
Okay.
We headed out of Georgia andinto Florida.
It just so happened that StephFry and her mom were in Orlando.
I remember this happened thatSteph Fry and her mom were in
Orlando to watch Steph's sister,michelle, compete in a soccer
tournament.
Yeah, that's cool.
(24:55):
Steph is, so lucky she is.
We went out to dinner with herand the soccer team and had a
good old time.
It was fun to talk about howmuch Florida sucks.
What were you doing old time?
(25:15):
It was fun to talk about howmuch florida sucks we were in.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
kiss me yeah, wow, I skipped over that.
I put in parentheses kissing mebecause you're, you're never
actually in orlando, right?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
no, you're in, kiss me, yeah.
Um, it's humid, it's flat andthere are so many bugs that
people here have to put screensaround their yards.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That was a thing we learned.
Yeah, we're like what are allthese weird?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
like what is that around their backyard.
Oh well, that's so that theydon't get eaten alive by bugs.
Okay, you choose to live there.
After dinner, stephceremoniously placed Florida on
our sticker map.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And then I just have a note that says Walmart,
walmart so.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I guess, we stayed at a Walmart.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, so we had a sticker map on the map and I
thought we got this at thebeginning, right when it was one
of those classes like you putthe map up of the states and as
you go to each state you fill itin, and we had it go all the
way up and then all the way downand we would put them on as we
went.
It was cool.
And then that one day there waslike seven states, rhode Island
(26:23):
, seven states, rhode Island.
Yeah, that was very satisfying.
Yes, I still.
I see that picture in my head.
You have to have that pictureof Steph.
I do, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, I'll post that one too.
We got that picture of Stephputting the sticker on.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So good, oh, that was good so um, could you imagine
this is one of the benefits ofus having gone in the fall.
Could you imagine trying tosleep in the lazy days in
Florida in the summer with nohouse air conditioner?
That's right, dude.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That would have been a different trip.
It's funny my mother our numberone listener and father to be
fair, they both listen togetheron the way home from their water
aerobics class, I believe.
Yeah, that's how they pass thedrive on Wednesdays.
So anytime we post a little bitlate, I get a text message from
(27:26):
my mom saying you didn't postthe heck, which I appreciate, I
hope you're not mad at me forsaying that mom Um, where was I
going with this?
Yes, so we've been in Savannah,right, and she was like, and I
think when we talked to Scott orbefore, or yeah, scott,
(27:47):
cleveland, when we did that, andwe were like, yeah, maybe we'll
come out, and I think we saidwe were going to come out in the
summer and she goes, you wouldnot like Savannah in the
summertime.
I'm like you're probably right.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, probably right.
So it would have been hot.
Oh man, we would have had tofind, like my current motorhome,
I need 30 amps to get the airconditioner working.
Oh so, like walmart's, like, dowe bust out our generator?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
ah, oh, it's oh man, that's right yeah that would
have yeah, it would have been awe.
We went at the right time ofyear.
So you know, hey, that's a goodif you are.
We did ever considering doing aroad trip, like fall is
probably ideal, even more sothan spring, because spring
you're probably going to getmore weather, yeah, coming out
(28:38):
of like rain and stuff, you know, yeah, and you still get cold
in some places in the north.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Right, it still gets cold sometimes in April.
Yeah, yeah, no, it wasn't, wedid it just right.
Dude, florida in the summer, inthat thing, we would have just
cooked.
We would have came out ofsteamed lobsters oh, steamed
lobsters, no kidding, because ofthe humidity too.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It would have been like oh, oh, yeah, we would have
just let that.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
We would have just let that motorhome sink in some
swamp out there and just get aflight home.
Can't do it.
Okay, do it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Sorry, motel sets, we quit, we quit.
Oh, what a good day, guys, whata good.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
That was a great day and we finally have yes, we've
rounded out with you, thelistener, the great suspense.
As Mrs Wilkes, river andSavannah, you have to do it.
Just don't do Mrs Wilkes andPaula Deen's the same day,
because that's uncomfortable man.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I bet, I bet.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Unless you're three months pregnant, then, as I kept
saying, put some salve in themouth of that baby.
Grace.
As I kept saying, put some saltin the mouth of that baby.
Grace still loves biscuits andfried chicken in his day.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Oh, yeah, oh yeah, she does so good, smart girl.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
See you listeners.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
All right, see you later you.
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