September 18, 2024 • 31 mins
Ever wondered what it's like to wrestle a hippopotamus in a Florida swamp? Join us, Scott Hawkins and Andrew Gaer, as we embark on a thrilling escapade through the wilds of Florida, facing off with alligators and tackling the unique challenges of creating and absorbing sound simultaneously. Amid the excitement, we touch on the real-life seasonal hurdles of living in Southern California, particularly during fire and mudslide seasons. Tune in for a hilarious recount of how we narrowly dodged a house fire, thanks to a quirky electrical mishap, and plenty of our signature humor and offbeat anecdotes.
Next, we take you on a heartwarming and nostalgic trip to Orange County, California, where we explore an 800-square-foot house surrounded by lush fruit trees and a rich history. As we delve into the emotional journey of its owners moving closer to family, we discuss the property's hefty $3.9 million price tag and the potential for new developments. Plus, you'll hear about our laid-back day by the pool during a Florida road trip, complete with Thanksgiving leftovers and reflections on the joys of home and family.
Finally, ease into the leisurely lifestyle of Florida with us as we compare it to California's hustle and bustle. From the amusing lack of innovation in Florida to the high cost of living in California that pushes people to work harder, we offer a lighthearted yet insightful comparison. We also touch on the unique social behaviors in the Midwest shaped by extreme weather and wrap up with a playful parenting tip—using embarrassment to build resilient and confident kids. Don't miss our fun Halloween costume challenge and motivational advice for parents to step out of their comfort zones.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello and welcome to the best part of your week.
What, what time is it?
That's right.
Hello and welcome to the bestpart of your week.
What, what time is it?
That's right.
It's time for you to hang outwith me.
Scott Hawkins, this funnylooking fella, Andrew Gare, and
we are going to go down ajourney to Florida.
We're going to be going throughswamps, battling alligators,
wrestling hippopotamuses, tryingto see where the future holds
(00:43):
us and me.
Journey on the Teens of theRoad podcast.
Follow us on Facebook,Instagram, listen on Spotify,
Apple Music, wherever you getyour podcasts regularly.
We're here for you.
Andrew, are you ready to talk?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm ready to talk, but that wasn't fair.
You insulted my looks at a timewhere you knew I was incapable
of defending myself.
It's the best way to insultsomeone because I can't talk
when the music's playing it'sjust impossibility.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
In my brain there's two things happening at once.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No, too many things, yeah so I can't take sound in
and create sound at the sametime.
Which?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
is weird for your drum.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It is a problem for when I play.
Yeah, that is everybody quietnow.
Yeah, that's my turn.
Yeah, okay, everybody else.
Now, that's a very differentway to do music I played the
whole song now everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now you can worship.
Uh, sir, you're supposed toplay with us.
That's, yeah, that's how thedrums work.
This isn't gonna work out.
I can't have sound coming inand out at the same time.
It's a physical possibility.
Yeah, it's very weird.
It is very weird, but here weare.
So, hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, I'm good.
I'm good If you hear the soundsof the landscaping machines in
the background you know it'swednesday.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You know it's wednesday.
You're here with us.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's a good day, yeah yeah, I don't know if it's
people in my backyard or nextdoor.
I saw a guy on a ladderrecently.
Oh yeah, it's next door.
I'm seeing leaves flying, sothis is cool.
It's not even my normal sound,it's extra sounds extra sound.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, hey, are um any fires they?
I'm not close to you, right?
It's more south, uh, we aregood.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I, there was one that was burning directly north that
I could see out my window, andthen, yeah, there's one further
south and then there's one inbig bear, so something that
people don't know.
This has come up a few times,but you know, everybody says
like, oh, you know, southerncalifornia doesn't have seasons.
I would miss the seasons toomuch if I lived there and you
(02:52):
know, I love fall and I lovewinter and spring and summer,
and I'm like we do have seasons,it's just they're different,
right?
So we're now entering into fireseason.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, left season.
That will destroy your house.
Yeah, burn you up.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And then followed by, that is, once all the
vegetation is burned and we geta little bit of rain, then it's
mudslide season.
Yeah, exactly yeah, so we dohave seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We do have seasons.
They're just very dangerous,very dangerous seasons.
Last night, actually, from thechurch, it was dark but clear
and I could see like a line offire on mount baldy.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh wow, really it was pretty weird it was.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh yeah, that's the one that I can see to the north,
yeah, and I was like oh, that's, that is eerie because you just
see fire all the way from.
Could see.
I mean not like like orangeglow line of red.
Yeah, like red glow across.
All right, I've seen that onetime, they're not.
So your parents were here whenI saw that, because we did
something to pack bags for afire or something.
Your parents came up to helpand I was looking out and that
is just weird.
(03:49):
It's an eerie, eerie feeling.
And then when that smoke andash gets in the air and that red
sun, oh yeah, oof, I don't likethat.
Yeah, I don't like that at all.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, it's not good.
We're lucky.
I guess the wind is blowing tothe east, which is kind of
unusual for Southern California.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, because it's not getting ashy here at all.
I don't smell the fire.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, the smoke that I was seeing yesterday was all
moving to the east.
Yeah yeah, because a lot oftimes that's the tough part is
there's fires and then it allblows towards the ocean and then
the air quality is just bad andit smells and you get ash
everywhere and yeah, hey, I hada.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I had a moment where God was really blessing us by
not burning our house down onFriday and, um, I don't think I
told you this, maybe you sawEmily posted something on
Facebook.
But we were both in the houseon Friday afternoon and we both
started smelling like something.
But you know that electricalsmell.
(04:52):
Right, that plastic, yeah, whatis that?
Like the little dishwashers,something melting?
No, and I go back to the panellittle smoke coming out of the
panel.
I'm like, oh, not good, notgood the electrical panel the
electrical panel.
Oh, so I pull the fuse.
I'm like, oh okay, so where isthat coming from?
And then and I had that day sowe have two air conditioners
(05:14):
that are like in room units thatwe've moved so that the kids to
be cold, we could be cold forsleeping.
During this, this heat wave, ithas been hot because the guys,
I don't have air conditioner onthe beach.
So it's like, oh right, whenit's 90 degrees at the end of
the day and then they don't get75 at night, the house is still
cooking oh yeah these are likein room air.
(05:34):
There's always a week or two, sodon't feel bad for us, but
september was some week where itis just yeah, fire yeah it's
like hey kids go back to school.
They had a summer's over but onmonday torrence took off middle
of day because it was so hot.
What?
Yes, we don't.
There's no air conditioning intorrence redondo.
(05:55):
We have air conditioning, buttheir classrooms, yeah, it's
like 90 degrees at one o'clock.
They're like oh, we can't havekids sitting in this and
learning so soft.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And redondo beach, oh , 90 degrees.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
There's 107 out here but you don't have air
conditioning.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, yeah, we.
They didn't let the kids gooutside for lunch.
They all had to stay in theclassrooms yeah, because we're
not okay.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So I had plug had blown and I had plugged the fan
into one of our outlets, like ohyeah, this is this whole
circuit's out.
So I went and it was an aircompressor kicked on because I
was pumping tires and so oh andso I just plugged in, no big
deal.
Well, I guess, when I had donethat, I jiggled something in the
(06:38):
plug and it started looping andarcing and looping and arcing
and my fuse didn't blow again,which should happen.
It's like you have one job fuseit's to blow.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What's that about?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I don't know.
So that plug just melted.
I mean it was scary and I'mlike this could have been so bad
, like this is how a house firestarts, yeah, and my my.
So I changed the fuse out, so Itook off the fuse, bought a new
one, put it in working on theplug.
(07:15):
I've just right now have itjust kind of tented straight
through because the wires kindof melted so I had to cut them
back.
So I'm not sure, I'm not sureif it's that problem right now
yet.
Oh no, it was.
I really feel like jesusprotected us, like we were both
home, we both smelled it, Ifigured out where it's coming
(07:36):
from, if we had.
We were talking about going tothe beach, because it was just
so hot right on the beach, dudeoh man, come home from the beach
.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, let's go take some showers, have a snack and
your house is burned down,that's's.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's scary.
No, it was scary, it is a bitterrifying.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I sometimes wonder, like, of all the homes around
anywhere, how many of them arejust right on the brink of total
catastrophe, and I feel likethat's almost everything in life
.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And it's not like any , like you know how many plugs
are, just like you know.
And my electrician friend,because I'm like do I have to
worry about anything else there?
He's like no, it was the plug.
And he's like this is why Ilike to use straight in once.
He's electrician and he's likeI don't like to use the loops.
He's like because it's hard toget those loops tight enough.
You know, you, you loop it on aside and then you tighten it
(08:32):
down.
Yeah, he's like it's hard toget those loops tight enough
that they don't jiggle a littlebit eventually.
And I'm plugging in andplugging out and he's like I
just don't like that.
I like it straight in and itclamps down on it.
And I was like sold.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Don't need that.
Oh man.
Yeah, when I moved in here Iredid every single one of my
plugs because they were alltwo-pronged and so I put in the
three-prongers.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So hopefully I tightened them all down, it's
just one of those things where Iwas just like gosh.
I know, but to be fair, yourfuse should blow when that
happens.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, true, yeah, did your friend say anything about
that?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
No, he just said sometimes, you know, he said it
should have blown.
I mean that's all it had.
He said it should have blown,changed the fuse.
When you say fuse, you meanbreaker, I mean breaker, oh,
okay.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm just like.
I'm like, what kind of like?
Maybe your problem is thatyou've got like the world's
oldest electrical panel.
Yeah, remember when we stay,when we lived at this, so we,
scott and I, after the road tripwe we lived in an apartment for
(09:46):
a year and then Scott knew afamily at church and they had
like a big property that waskind of one of the remaining
properties from when the city oforange was all orange groves
and over time it sold off placepartials parcels.
But there was, it was still likean acre and a half left and
they had a little back house andwe moved into this house and I
love that little house I I dotoo.
And um, and occasionally fuseswould blow, but they were these
(10:12):
old glass fuses that, like you,had to twist out and twist back
in, and I feel like they werehard to find they?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
they definitely the first time they blew we were
like what is going on?
And then, yeah, you had anddidn't you have to like flip
them over, like that was whatyou would do.
I don't remember exactly whatwe did to them, but it happened
a couple of times.
Yeah, that, speaking of the hotweek in California, orange is
just significantly hotter thanRedondo Beach.
You and I had gone to.
(10:40):
We were in Palm Springs forsomething I don't know if it was
a bachelor party or somethingand I came early to do church
and so it was just me at thehouse and you weren't there and
I walked into this house.
That was an oven, that was thehottest I've ever felt a house
and I went and bought an airconditioner.
I think I called you and saidI'm buying you one too, because
(11:00):
you are not going to want tolive in this house.
When you get, when you get home, yeah, and we could touch the
walls because it was old plasterwalls that weren't insulated.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And I remember touching the wall and being like
ooh hot.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We were legit in a convention oven, Like the walls
are radiating heat into us so inthe summer we would just go
into our bedroom sometimes andbe like air conditioning on.
There's two units in the front.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I was going to say didn't we have two in the
front.
We did.
Yeah because one wasn't enough.
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, that houseis only like 800 square feet,
but man such a great littlehouse, such a cute little place
so listener, hey, that house isfor sale, so let me let me uh
help.
This is a little bit a littlebit heartbreaking that so yeah,
(11:53):
the the owner, um, she grew upin so, so we were in a back
house, there was also a backapartment over garages and then
there was a main house, and sowhen we moved in, it was an
older man who lived there and hehad I don't think he built it,
but his was it, his wife's wasit his father-in-law that built
(12:17):
the house I think, so it wassomething like that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
They were they.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
They swung the ambers that house yeah, so they built
the front house was cool tooyeah, and it was cool because
their last name maybe he didbuild it because his name was
newport last name was newportand uh, but then in our little
oh yeah, because there was endsall over the place for for
newport, like we had this tablethat folded out of the wall and
(12:41):
the legs of the table that wouldfold out was an n.
Very cool oh yeah okay, yeah, so, uh, anyhow, um, so it's a
really cool property, butthey're they're actually moving
to be closer to their daughterup in washington.
So this, this uh property, thewhole property with the three
homes and extra garages andorange trees and nut trees and
(13:02):
all these things, um, it's upfor sale so you could own.
And the listing says thisproperty has never come up for
sale.
I believe that, like, how coolis that?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
This is the first time it's ever been on the
market, because it was like afarm, and then it slowly just
got whittled down to this onepiece.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, so this is a call.
I wish.
If there's anybody out herewho's got $3.9 million, this is
your opportunity to own one ofthe last remaining orchards in
Orange County with incrediblepotential.
You've got this rentalpotential in the back with these
(13:47):
two units there's room to buildmore if you wanted to, while
preserving the front house.
You could host weddings, youcould do you want an airbnb, if
you wanted me to be thefull-time caretaker of the
orchard.
Oh, that would be great.
I will do it.
Oh, I know when it.
When I first found out, I waslike mary I don't, maybe, maybe
(14:10):
we can buy it and then I foundout how much I'm like we can't
buy it.
I called my parents.
I'm like how much money you got.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So let's all buy it together.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's sad to let it go , cause they think that more
than likely it'll be a developerthat'll, of course it will Buy
it and build six new houses andtear down this.
The, the main house, is justunbelievably beautiful.
They've put so much into it.
I mean the details, the therain gutters are copper.
(14:43):
You know the people that did thetile backsplash in the kitchen
are the same people.
There's a fountain in old town,orange, that recently got
damaged.
It's the same people that tiledthe fountainiled their kitchen.
Like it is okay, just buy it.
It is unbelievable.
Sell your house and buy it I.
I would.
I'd have to sell my house threetimes to buy it.
I know I wish I could sell yourhouse I wish investors, I wish
(15:07):
let's team up.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That'd be a place man it's.
I know it is going to become a.
It's going to become just'regoing to have a driveway down
the middle.
They're going to put thesehouses on there.
It'll be a little cul-de-sacthat's going to pull in.
There's going to have like sixhouses and we're going to cry.
We're going to cry.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But they'll probably be really nice houses.
Maybe I'll buy one of those.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They're not stucco.
Yeah, 2020 houses, theelectrical will probably be safe
, though.
Amen, brother, right, all right, well that's.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's enough from from orange county, california,
to a place that also has anorange county, which I don't
think we're in, orange county,florida, but anyways, shall we
talk about?
Shall we talk about the roadtrip?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes, Maybe that's something we can do today.
That's what we're here for.
Okay, the journey.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's day 60, scott.
It's Friday, it's November 26,2004.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Dun, dun dun.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, okay, thank you .
I was like I don't know whatneeds to go there, but thanks
for filling that space, since wehad been so.
Oh, it's been a long time sincewe used one of the sound
effects I know.
I hope that comes across on therecording because sometimes I
(16:29):
don't think they come across.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I think it does now at the Riverside, but we'll see,
okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, where was I?
Since we've been active, soactive the past few days, we
decided to hang out at the pooltoday and take it easy.
We never should have left Scott.
I think Judy would have justtaken care of us or Janet sorry,
would have taken care of usforever care of us or, janet,
(16:57):
sorry would have taken care ofus forever.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Do you realize what 40 year old selves should be
telling 23 year old self whowrote that we've been so busy
eating thanksgiving meals, goingplaces, having pie made for us
by an older lady who you findawkwardly attractive.
We've been so busy that now weneed to take a day to rest.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I think that I am being sarcastic here in the
journal?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I agree, but do you also think that maybe this is
like what happens when you're inFlorida, like you start the?
World starts to shift and yougo oh, I've been doing a lot.
I've been.
I've been like, activelytalking to people and eating
things and walking to otherpeople's homes.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Today, Pool day, we have to recharge those batteries
, I think there's an alternateuniverse that people who live in
Florida have figured out, thatpeople who live in Florida have
figured out, that's right whoare like you know what?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, I could just live here and pretty much be on
vacation all the time, and we'llcall it work when you do things
like go to a friend's house forThanksgiving.
Well, we were busy yesterday,emily.
Yeah, we had things to do.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
We were active.
I had to go down to the beachclub in my golf cart Exactly and
settle my tab for all thehamburgers I've been ordering at
the pool.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Clean my towel out to make it perfectly, not wrinkly.
That was 10 seconds of activework there.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I deserve to take it easy.
Yeah, okay.
So yes, we were taking it easyat the pool today, love it.
Oh, it doesn't get better.
We ordered our lunch right atthe pool and had it brought out
to us.
Yeah, that's not better.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, we're not doing better.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It was Judy's last day in town, so we played some
euchre and dominoes after lunchat the pool, love it.
That's a core memory of mine.
I can remember sitting at thattable at the pool playing
dominoes and euchre.
What a time you know.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Great time to be alive.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, what a sweet lazy place.
We hung out for hours.
And why not, why not?
I think that's Florida.
Why?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
not, why not?
Like I could go do that or not.
Yeah, what if we just hung outat the pool?
You know there's a good point.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You know what this is , this is.
Let's go back to GoldenColorado for a second.
Okay, we went on a Coorsfactory tour.
Yes, we did, walked all throughthe factory, learned some neat
things Right, but in the back ofour mind we're like at the end
of this tour we get to have somefree beer.
(19:40):
Three free beers, yeah, andthat's when they told us you
know you could skip the tour andjust go straight to the three
free beers.
You say yes, is Floridaskipping to the three free?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
beers, I see, just go right to pre-death.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We're spending our whole lives on this walking tour
, no-transcript, and just drinkmy free drinks.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Drink my free drinks.
Yeah, I think it's true.
I think I was going to make anargument a second ago, but then
I argued against myself and mybrain, so I couldn't make it
that, like the reason Floridadoesn't have the innovations
that California has, becausethey're sitting by the pool and
stuff.
But we have pretty great weatherhere too.
So then in my head I was like,really all of the innovation
should come out of places likemichigan, minnesota, where
(20:31):
you're just six months ahead ofthe year like we're gonna do,
well, let's try to inventsomething, let's tinker, let's
uh, let's solder that together,see if, if that works.
You know, but in florida andcalifornia you should be like
why would I do any of thosethings?
I'll just go outside, I'll justgo to the beach, I'll just go
that.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
California pumps out all the innovation.
Well, not Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
There's a different credit on this.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm not giving Florida any credit for this, I
just argue against myself, goahead.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, there's a difference.
So I agree, nothing good comesout of Florida, so we're on the
same page there.
Let's be clear yes, thedifference is it's so expensive
in california, we can't beleisurely because we have to
work.
And if we're working all thetime and we're working with
other smart people who want tostay in california, then that's
where the innovation happensokay I'm with you, right yeah
(21:22):
and in minnesota.
They're just too drunk you knowlike they're just like ah, it's
cold, let's just get togetherand have a potluck, eat
casseroles.
What do people do there?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, I think it's a legit fact that Wisconsin drinks
more beer not even per person,I think, just more beer than any
other state Just because it'scold.
And what do I do?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Sit inside and drink beer, eat cheese, watch the
packers I think that's why, youknow, there's a stereotype of
midwesterners where it's like oh, you know it's speak a little
more slowly, especially when youget up to like that you know
cold cold wisconsin, theminnesota, the north dakota, and
it's like, oh, they speakslowly and it's like because
(22:07):
they got a lot of time to pass,they do, and they're just
hanging out together to get tothat winner and there's not that
much to talk about, so theyjust slow down how they talk, so
they can draw out the ideas.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's also dark a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So you're just waiting?
Is there also an incentive tobe kind, Because you're like
look, my pool of people aresomewhat small and I got to stay
in good standings, Otherwise Ireally got nobody to talk to,
it's a good point.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And the other thing and I do think that we don't
appreciate this as much as weshould, both being Californians
Like when the weather is thatbad for that long and then you
get summer, like summer's thebest right.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Like every, I'm on the boat.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I'm out in the you know, golfing, like anything you
can do to be outside duringthose three months.
You just do it because, yeah,you have to, and so, like they
probably use their boats waymore than we use ours, oh true,
those days they're just likeboom, boom, yeah, coming from
work on the boat.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah Well.
And also there's like do youwant to go to this lake or this?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
lake or this lake.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're all within 10 minutes, you know.
Yeah, so you're right.
They save up their excitementwhere we're all just like I
don't know.
It's perfect again, whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I guess we'll just like watch TV inside.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Even though it's 77 and beautiful outside.
I could go to the beach anytime of the year.
It's true, People who come hereon vacation are like it's
amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You're like, yeah, but you get used to it, you do,
and you don't take advantage ofit the way you should.
Although, this heat wave wewent down to the beach a couple
of times and it was so nicebecause you could just jump in
the pacific like it was the gulf, yeah, it was so warm, oh, and
so you're like the shock is gone, you're just swimming the ocean
like this is great.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, it was really nice yeah, but then we get on
like oh it's hot, probablyeverybody's gonna be at the
beach, it's gonna be crowded.
I don't want to deal with it, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Just gotta watch tv.
Well, my favorite and I use itall the time.
I was like, well, let me justgo, sandy do you guys have an
outdoor shower?
No, stupid.
We should have done that whenwe should get one piping.
I know you can still do it, wewill, we will.
It's so dumb we don't have one.
Yeah, because come've got tohave an outdoor shower.
(24:28):
We don't All the sand.
Yeah, bad for the pipes, badfor the pipes.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Bad for the pipes.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Now my pipes are going to the sand and my
electricity is going.
Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, you've got to get all that sand outside.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Maybe I should sell and buy the property.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, you could probably sell your house and buy
the property.
Your house has got to be worth$3.9 million my house is not far
.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's crazy, though.
Wild part Probably 2.7.
Stop it, that's probably true,that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's crazy right, that is crazy.
Okay, judy took us out todinner in Naples at a very good
place called Silver Spoon.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We go from one eating to another eating.
Yeah, somebody brought us lunchat the pool.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, somebody's going to take us out to dinner
now.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Here we go again, sacrificing for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, after dinner.
Yeah, this is yeah, we're not,oh my gosh.
We're on a mission trip,everybody, for the Lord
Sacrifice serving the Lord atchurches and charities, and then
we just get the ultimatepamphlet.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You know what it's great.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble because Aunt
Janet reads to children onFriday nights.
That's cool, that's cool, Iforgot about that.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, sometimes she gets costumes to go along with
her stories.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Uh-oh.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Tonight I have a feeling like we wore a costume.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh, keep going.
Oh, why don't I remember this?
Tonight there was a Cliffordthe Big Red Dog costume.
I had worn costumes like thisbefore when I worked at Zany
Brainy and I knew I didn't wantto do that again.
So, side tangent, zany Brainywas a toy store that I worked at
in high school.
That was my first job.
(26:21):
I was there for like four yearsI worked there for a long time
we offered free gift wrapping,so I'm very good at wrapping
presents.
It's like a skill that I've kept.
But yeah, occasionally we wouldhave characters I had to do.
The winnie the pooh cat in thehat was the worst.
That's because it had a hat,like I looked out where his bow
(26:42):
tie was and then you have liketwo feet of head over that and
and the kids couldn't see thecat, so I had to walk around
like out the back door and downthe alley and around and it was
really hot that day and I'm likeI'm melting and then all these
kids, and I couldn't see thekids and I'm like trying to talk
to me, I'm like I can't sayanything because that's you
can't do that.
so, anyways, I didn't want to dothis, so what?
(27:04):
So let's see, I was doingeverything possible to try and
get scott to put that on.
We know how this ends, though.
Go ahead.
He was looking a little big,which was looking grim for me
Out of nowhere.
Aunt Judy says she wants to doit.
Hooray that is what happened,yeah, okay, so it was hilarious,
(27:29):
but I won't try to describe itbecause I would have to also
describe and Judy, and thatwould be beyond the amount of
ink that is left in my pen thatwas.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I do remember this is coming back.
That is so great.
I definitely thought you put iton.
I don't remember aunt Judycoming in.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And and that must be why I don't remember it Because
I'm like I would have rememberedif I had to put this costume on
.
But yeah, she's great she is.
She would do that.
All of your mom and your auntsare just so full of life and
energy and interest.
Yeah, there's a lot of stories.
There's always going to be astory Like just such a wonderful
(28:15):
thing that she volunteers toread to kids and beyond that
she's like you know.
It would probably make thesekids feel great, I'm gonna dress
up and I'm gonna be cliffordthe big red dog yeah, yeah, so I
love it.
I love it.
So, oh yeah, I wasn't thinkingthat.
Okay, judy, did it, not janet?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
no jazz reading judy dressed up ah, yep, okay, that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
That makes sense.
Oh man, it was great.
This makes me think of the timeyou've.
I've heard this story so manytimes and it makes me laugh
every time because I can pictureit so clearly.
Maybe you should tell it thetime that it's it's Halloween
and your mom dressed up.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, my mom dressed up, and she dressed up like a
turtle was her plan, and I'm oldenough to not to be embarrassed
, I'm old enough to be like comeon, mom.
And so she painted her facegreen, she put on like a green
bodysuit and then somehowfashioned a backpack to be a
shell.
So, like she, I think she didsome sewing.
(29:12):
She was committed to thiscostume, like I love it.
And then she and this is and youcan't see this on the podcast,
but she slowly walked around thestreet because turtles don't
move fast, remember and shewalked like this as she walked
down.
So she like used her arms likeshe's swimming and slowly walked
, and she's like I as she walkeddown.
So she used her arms like she'sswimming and slowly walked and
(29:32):
she's like I can't walk fastbecause turtles don't walk fast.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And my sister and I are like chop, chop.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
We have candy to get.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
More houses.
I can't go that fast Justpicture it A woman in a green
bodysuit with a backpack justdoing the air breast stroke to
the air.
Exactly what are you doing?
No, no, I'm picturing highknees with every step.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Oh high, just like slow walking and, and we are
like mom, we have more candy toget, but I will say, um, I love.
One of the great skills thatboth my sister and I bring to
the table is now a lack ofembarrassment.
Oh, you know, yeah, so I wouldsay she did that for you.
(30:20):
Yeah, you know how, like beinguh, looking foolish or being
embarrassed, I think, stops alot of people from doing things.
Yeah, doesn't slow us down,yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
You're like we've been through some stuff, Ain't
nothing can be.
You know, we survived that, sowhat's the harm in anything else
?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
We're fine.
We're fine, yeah, so one.
So parenting tip for all of youout there embarrass your kids.
The more you do, the morethey'll be willing to try things
when they're older.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, the worse you make their life when they're
young, the more of a resilientconfident adult they'll become.
It's exactly correct.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I think that's a great place to end today, so
wear that bodysuit, Andrew.
That's really the end of thisright.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I'm getting my sewing machines out.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You have a couple of weeks before Halloween, like six
weeks, so you could have awhole turtle outfit ready to go.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm inspired, I know, I know you are, I hope you are
too.
Send us pictures of yourhomemade Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That'll be a challenge for October.
That will be a great challenge.
Okay, guys, it's been fun, it'sbeen real.
See you soon, bye, bye.
Hello and welcome to the best part of your week.
What, what time is it?
That's right.
Hello and welcome to the bestpart of your week.
What, what time is it?
That's right.
It's time for you to hang outwith me.
Scott Hawkins, this funnylooking fella, Andrew Gare, and
we are going to go down ajourney to Florida.
We're going to be going throughswamps, battling alligators,
wrestling hippopotamuses, tryingto see where the future holds
(00:43):
us and me.
Journey on the Teens of theRoad podcast.
Follow us on Facebook,Instagram, listen on Spotify,
Apple Music, wherever you getyour podcasts regularly.
We're here for you.
Andrew, are you ready to talk?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm ready to talk, but that wasn't fair.
You insulted my looks at a timewhere you knew I was incapable
of defending myself.
It's the best way to insultsomeone because I can't talk
when the music's playing it'sjust impossibility.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
In my brain there's two things happening at once.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No, too many things, yeah so I can't take sound in
and create sound at the sametime.
Which?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
is weird for your drum.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It is a problem for when I play.
Yeah, that is everybody quietnow.
Yeah, that's my turn.
Yeah, okay, everybody else.
Now, that's a very differentway to do music I played the
whole song now everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now you can worship.
Uh, sir, you're supposed toplay with us.
That's, yeah, that's how thedrums work.
This isn't gonna work out.
I can't have sound coming inand out at the same time.
It's a physical possibility.
Yeah, it's very weird.
It is very weird, but here weare.
So, hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, I'm good.
I'm good If you hear the soundsof the landscaping machines in
the background you know it'swednesday.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You know it's wednesday.
You're here with us.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's a good day, yeah yeah, I don't know if it's
people in my backyard or nextdoor.
I saw a guy on a ladderrecently.
Oh yeah, it's next door.
I'm seeing leaves flying, sothis is cool.
It's not even my normal sound,it's extra sounds extra sound.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, hey, are um any fires they?
I'm not close to you, right?
It's more south, uh, we aregood.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I, there was one that was burning directly north that
I could see out my window, andthen, yeah, there's one further
south and then there's one inbig bear, so something that
people don't know.
This has come up a few times,but you know, everybody says
like, oh, you know, southerncalifornia doesn't have seasons.
I would miss the seasons toomuch if I lived there and you
(02:52):
know, I love fall and I lovewinter and spring and summer,
and I'm like we do have seasons,it's just they're different,
right?
So we're now entering into fireseason.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, left season.
That will destroy your house.
Yeah, burn you up.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And then followed by, that is, once all the
vegetation is burned and we geta little bit of rain, then it's
mudslide season.
Yeah, exactly yeah, so we dohave seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We do have seasons.
They're just very dangerous,very dangerous seasons.
Last night, actually, from thechurch, it was dark but clear
and I could see like a line offire on mount baldy.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh wow, really it was pretty weird it was.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh yeah, that's the one that I can see to the north,
yeah, and I was like oh, that's, that is eerie because you just
see fire all the way from.
Could see.
I mean not like like orangeglow line of red.
Yeah, like red glow across.
All right, I've seen that onetime, they're not.
So your parents were here whenI saw that, because we did
something to pack bags for afire or something.
Your parents came up to helpand I was looking out and that
is just weird.
(03:49):
It's an eerie, eerie feeling.
And then when that smoke andash gets in the air and that red
sun, oh yeah, oof, I don't likethat.
Yeah, I don't like that at all.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, it's not good.
We're lucky.
I guess the wind is blowing tothe east, which is kind of
unusual for Southern California.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, because it's not getting ashy here at all.
I don't smell the fire.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, the smoke that I was seeing yesterday was all
moving to the east.
Yeah yeah, because a lot oftimes that's the tough part is
there's fires and then it allblows towards the ocean and then
the air quality is just bad andit smells and you get ash
everywhere and yeah, hey, I hada.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I had a moment where God was really blessing us by
not burning our house down onFriday and, um, I don't think I
told you this, maybe you sawEmily posted something on
Facebook.
But we were both in the houseon Friday afternoon and we both
started smelling like something.
But you know that electricalsmell.
(04:52):
Right, that plastic, yeah, whatis that?
Like the little dishwashers,something melting?
No, and I go back to the panellittle smoke coming out of the
panel.
I'm like, oh, not good, notgood the electrical panel the
electrical panel.
Oh, so I pull the fuse.
I'm like, oh okay, so where isthat coming from?
And then and I had that day sowe have two air conditioners
(05:14):
that are like in room units thatwe've moved so that the kids to
be cold, we could be cold forsleeping.
During this, this heat wave, ithas been hot because the guys,
I don't have air conditioner onthe beach.
So it's like, oh right, whenit's 90 degrees at the end of
the day and then they don't get75 at night, the house is still
cooking oh yeah these are likein room air.
(05:34):
There's always a week or two, sodon't feel bad for us, but
september was some week where itis just yeah, fire yeah it's
like hey kids go back to school.
They had a summer's over but onmonday torrence took off middle
of day because it was so hot.
What?
Yes, we don't.
There's no air conditioning intorrence redondo.
(05:55):
We have air conditioning, buttheir classrooms, yeah, it's
like 90 degrees at one o'clock.
They're like oh, we can't havekids sitting in this and
learning so soft.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And redondo beach, oh , 90 degrees.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
There's 107 out here but you don't have air
conditioning.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, yeah, we.
They didn't let the kids gooutside for lunch.
They all had to stay in theclassrooms yeah, because we're
not okay.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So I had plug had blown and I had plugged the fan
into one of our outlets, like ohyeah, this is this whole
circuit's out.
So I went and it was an aircompressor kicked on because I
was pumping tires and so oh andso I just plugged in, no big
deal.
Well, I guess, when I had donethat, I jiggled something in the
(06:38):
plug and it started looping andarcing and looping and arcing
and my fuse didn't blow again,which should happen.
It's like you have one job fuseit's to blow.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What's that about?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I don't know.
So that plug just melted.
I mean it was scary and I'mlike this could have been so bad
, like this is how a house firestarts, yeah, and my my.
So I changed the fuse out, so Itook off the fuse, bought a new
one, put it in working on theplug.
(07:15):
I've just right now have itjust kind of tented straight
through because the wires kindof melted so I had to cut them
back.
So I'm not sure, I'm not sureif it's that problem right now
yet.
Oh no, it was.
I really feel like jesusprotected us, like we were both
home, we both smelled it, Ifigured out where it's coming
(07:36):
from, if we had.
We were talking about going tothe beach, because it was just
so hot right on the beach, dudeoh man, come home from the beach
.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, let's go take some showers, have a snack and
your house is burned down,that's's.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's scary.
No, it was scary, it is a bitterrifying.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I sometimes wonder, like, of all the homes around
anywhere, how many of them arejust right on the brink of total
catastrophe, and I feel likethat's almost everything in life
.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And it's not like any , like you know how many plugs
are, just like you know.
And my electrician friend,because I'm like do I have to
worry about anything else there?
He's like no, it was the plug.
And he's like this is why Ilike to use straight in once.
He's electrician and he's likeI don't like to use the loops.
He's like because it's hard toget those loops tight enough.
You know, you, you loop it on aside and then you tighten it
(08:32):
down.
Yeah, he's like it's hard toget those loops tight enough
that they don't jiggle a littlebit eventually.
And I'm plugging in andplugging out and he's like I
just don't like that.
I like it straight in and itclamps down on it.
And I was like sold.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Don't need that.
Oh man.
Yeah, when I moved in here Iredid every single one of my
plugs because they were alltwo-pronged and so I put in the
three-prongers.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So hopefully I tightened them all down, it's
just one of those things where Iwas just like gosh.
I know, but to be fair, yourfuse should blow when that
happens.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, true, yeah, did your friend say anything about
that?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
No, he just said sometimes, you know, he said it
should have blown.
I mean that's all it had.
He said it should have blown,changed the fuse.
When you say fuse, you meanbreaker, I mean breaker, oh,
okay.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm just like.
I'm like, what kind of like?
Maybe your problem is thatyou've got like the world's
oldest electrical panel.
Yeah, remember when we stay,when we lived at this, so we,
scott and I, after the road tripwe we lived in an apartment for
(09:46):
a year and then Scott knew afamily at church and they had
like a big property that waskind of one of the remaining
properties from when the city oforange was all orange groves
and over time it sold off placepartials parcels.
But there was, it was still likean acre and a half left and
they had a little back house andwe moved into this house and I
love that little house I I dotoo.
And um, and occasionally fuseswould blow, but they were these
(10:12):
old glass fuses that, like you,had to twist out and twist back
in, and I feel like they werehard to find they?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
they definitely the first time they blew we were
like what is going on?
And then, yeah, you had anddidn't you have to like flip
them over, like that was whatyou would do.
I don't remember exactly whatwe did to them, but it happened
a couple of times.
Yeah, that, speaking of the hotweek in California, orange is
just significantly hotter thanRedondo Beach.
You and I had gone to.
(10:40):
We were in Palm Springs forsomething I don't know if it was
a bachelor party or somethingand I came early to do church
and so it was just me at thehouse and you weren't there and
I walked into this house.
That was an oven, that was thehottest I've ever felt a house
and I went and bought an airconditioner.
I think I called you and saidI'm buying you one too, because
(11:00):
you are not going to want tolive in this house.
When you get, when you get home, yeah, and we could touch the
walls because it was old plasterwalls that weren't insulated.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And I remember touching the wall and being like
ooh hot.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We were legit in a convention oven, Like the walls
are radiating heat into us so inthe summer we would just go
into our bedroom sometimes andbe like air conditioning on.
There's two units in the front.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I was going to say didn't we have two in the
front.
We did.
Yeah because one wasn't enough.
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, that houseis only like 800 square feet,
but man such a great littlehouse, such a cute little place
so listener, hey, that house isfor sale, so let me let me uh
help.
This is a little bit a littlebit heartbreaking that so yeah,
(11:53):
the the owner, um, she grew upin so, so we were in a back
house, there was also a backapartment over garages and then
there was a main house, and sowhen we moved in, it was an
older man who lived there and hehad I don't think he built it,
but his was it, his wife's wasit his father-in-law that built
(12:17):
the house I think, so it wassomething like that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
They were they.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
They swung the ambers that house yeah, so they built
the front house was cool tooyeah, and it was cool because
their last name maybe he didbuild it because his name was
newport last name was newportand uh, but then in our little
oh yeah, because there was endsall over the place for for
newport, like we had this tablethat folded out of the wall and
(12:41):
the legs of the table that wouldfold out was an n.
Very cool oh yeah okay, yeah, so, uh, anyhow, um, so it's a
really cool property, butthey're they're actually moving
to be closer to their daughterup in washington.
So this, this uh property, thewhole property with the three
homes and extra garages andorange trees and nut trees and
(13:02):
all these things, um, it's upfor sale so you could own.
And the listing says thisproperty has never come up for
sale.
I believe that, like, how coolis that?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
This is the first time it's ever been on the
market, because it was like afarm, and then it slowly just
got whittled down to this onepiece.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, so this is a call.
I wish.
If there's anybody out herewho's got $3.9 million, this is
your opportunity to own one ofthe last remaining orchards in
Orange County with incrediblepotential.
You've got this rentalpotential in the back with these
(13:47):
two units there's room to buildmore if you wanted to, while
preserving the front house.
You could host weddings, youcould do you want an airbnb, if
you wanted me to be thefull-time caretaker of the
orchard.
Oh, that would be great.
I will do it.
Oh, I know when it.
When I first found out, I waslike mary I don't, maybe, maybe
(14:10):
we can buy it and then I foundout how much I'm like we can't
buy it.
I called my parents.
I'm like how much money you got.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So let's all buy it together.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's sad to let it go , cause they think that more
than likely it'll be a developerthat'll, of course it will Buy
it and build six new houses andtear down this.
The, the main house, is justunbelievably beautiful.
They've put so much into it.
I mean the details, the therain gutters are copper.
(14:43):
You know the people that did thetile backsplash in the kitchen
are the same people.
There's a fountain in old town,orange, that recently got
damaged.
It's the same people that tiledthe fountainiled their kitchen.
Like it is okay, just buy it.
It is unbelievable.
Sell your house and buy it I.
I would.
I'd have to sell my house threetimes to buy it.
I know I wish I could sell yourhouse I wish investors, I wish
(15:07):
let's team up.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That'd be a place man it's.
I know it is going to become a.
It's going to become just'regoing to have a driveway down
the middle.
They're going to put thesehouses on there.
It'll be a little cul-de-sacthat's going to pull in.
There's going to have like sixhouses and we're going to cry.
We're going to cry.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But they'll probably be really nice houses.
Maybe I'll buy one of those.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They're not stucco.
Yeah, 2020 houses, theelectrical will probably be safe
, though.
Amen, brother, right, all right, well that's.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's enough from from orange county, california,
to a place that also has anorange county, which I don't
think we're in, orange county,florida, but anyways, shall we
talk about?
Shall we talk about the roadtrip?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes, Maybe that's something we can do today.
That's what we're here for.
Okay, the journey.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's day 60, scott.
It's Friday, it's November 26,2004.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Dun, dun dun.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, okay, thank you .
I was like I don't know whatneeds to go there, but thanks
for filling that space, since wehad been so.
Oh, it's been a long time sincewe used one of the sound
effects I know.
I hope that comes across on therecording because sometimes I
(16:29):
don't think they come across.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I think it does now at the Riverside, but we'll see,
okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, where was I?
Since we've been active, soactive the past few days, we
decided to hang out at the pooltoday and take it easy.
We never should have left Scott.
I think Judy would have justtaken care of us or Janet sorry,
would have taken care of usforever care of us or, janet,
(16:57):
sorry would have taken care ofus forever.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Do you realize what 40 year old selves should be
telling 23 year old self whowrote that we've been so busy
eating thanksgiving meals, goingplaces, having pie made for us
by an older lady who you findawkwardly attractive.
We've been so busy that now weneed to take a day to rest.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I think that I am being sarcastic here in the
journal?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I agree, but do you also think that maybe this is
like what happens when you're inFlorida, like you start the?
World starts to shift and yougo oh, I've been doing a lot.
I've been.
I've been like, activelytalking to people and eating
things and walking to otherpeople's homes.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Today, Pool day, we have to recharge those batteries
, I think there's an alternateuniverse that people who live in
Florida have figured out, thatpeople who live in Florida have
figured out, that's right whoare like you know what?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, I could just live here and pretty much be on
vacation all the time, and we'llcall it work when you do things
like go to a friend's house forThanksgiving.
Well, we were busy yesterday,emily.
Yeah, we had things to do.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
We were active.
I had to go down to the beachclub in my golf cart Exactly and
settle my tab for all thehamburgers I've been ordering at
the pool.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Clean my towel out to make it perfectly, not wrinkly.
That was 10 seconds of activework there.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I deserve to take it easy.
Yeah, okay.
So yes, we were taking it easyat the pool today, love it.
Oh, it doesn't get better.
We ordered our lunch right atthe pool and had it brought out
to us.
Yeah, that's not better.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, we're not doing better.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It was Judy's last day in town, so we played some
euchre and dominoes after lunchat the pool, love it.
That's a core memory of mine.
I can remember sitting at thattable at the pool playing
dominoes and euchre.
What a time you know.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Great time to be alive.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, what a sweet lazy place.
We hung out for hours.
And why not, why not?
I think that's Florida.
Why?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
not, why not?
Like I could go do that or not.
Yeah, what if we just hung outat the pool?
You know there's a good point.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You know what this is , this is.
Let's go back to GoldenColorado for a second.
Okay, we went on a Coorsfactory tour.
Yes, we did, walked all throughthe factory, learned some neat
things Right, but in the back ofour mind we're like at the end
of this tour we get to have somefree beer.
(19:40):
Three free beers, yeah, andthat's when they told us you
know you could skip the tour andjust go straight to the three
free beers.
You say yes, is Floridaskipping to the three free?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
beers, I see, just go right to pre-death.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We're spending our whole lives on this walking tour
, no-transcript, and just drinkmy free drinks.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Drink my free drinks.
Yeah, I think it's true.
I think I was going to make anargument a second ago, but then
I argued against myself and mybrain, so I couldn't make it
that, like the reason Floridadoesn't have the innovations
that California has, becausethey're sitting by the pool and
stuff.
But we have pretty great weatherhere too.
So then in my head I was like,really all of the innovation
should come out of places likemichigan, minnesota, where
(20:31):
you're just six months ahead ofthe year like we're gonna do,
well, let's try to inventsomething, let's tinker, let's
uh, let's solder that together,see if, if that works.
You know, but in florida andcalifornia you should be like
why would I do any of thosethings?
I'll just go outside, I'll justgo to the beach, I'll just go
that.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
California pumps out all the innovation.
Well, not Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
There's a different credit on this.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm not giving Florida any credit for this, I
just argue against myself, goahead.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, there's a difference.
So I agree, nothing good comesout of Florida, so we're on the
same page there.
Let's be clear yes, thedifference is it's so expensive
in california, we can't beleisurely because we have to
work.
And if we're working all thetime and we're working with
other smart people who want tostay in california, then that's
where the innovation happensokay I'm with you, right yeah
(21:22):
and in minnesota.
They're just too drunk you knowlike they're just like ah, it's
cold, let's just get togetherand have a potluck, eat
casseroles.
What do people do there?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, I think it's a legit fact that Wisconsin drinks
more beer not even per person,I think, just more beer than any
other state Just because it'scold.
And what do I do?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Sit inside and drink beer, eat cheese, watch the
packers I think that's why, youknow, there's a stereotype of
midwesterners where it's like oh, you know it's speak a little
more slowly, especially when youget up to like that you know
cold cold wisconsin, theminnesota, the north dakota, and
it's like, oh, they speakslowly and it's like because
(22:07):
they got a lot of time to pass,they do, and they're just
hanging out together to get tothat winner and there's not that
much to talk about, so theyjust slow down how they talk, so
they can draw out the ideas.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's also dark a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So you're just waiting?
Is there also an incentive tobe kind, Because you're like
look, my pool of people aresomewhat small and I got to stay
in good standings, Otherwise Ireally got nobody to talk to,
it's a good point.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And the other thing and I do think that we don't
appreciate this as much as weshould, both being Californians
Like when the weather is thatbad for that long and then you
get summer, like summer's thebest right.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Like every, I'm on the boat.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I'm out in the you know, golfing, like anything you
can do to be outside duringthose three months.
You just do it because, yeah,you have to, and so, like they
probably use their boats waymore than we use ours, oh true,
those days they're just likeboom, boom, yeah, coming from
work on the boat.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah Well.
And also there's like do youwant to go to this lake or this?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
lake or this lake.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're all within 10 minutes, you know.
Yeah, so you're right.
They save up their excitementwhere we're all just like I
don't know.
It's perfect again, whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I guess we'll just like watch TV inside.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Even though it's 77 and beautiful outside.
I could go to the beach anytime of the year.
It's true, People who come hereon vacation are like it's
amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You're like, yeah, but you get used to it, you do,
and you don't take advantage ofit the way you should.
Although, this heat wave wewent down to the beach a couple
of times and it was so nicebecause you could just jump in
the pacific like it was the gulf, yeah, it was so warm, oh, and
so you're like the shock is gone, you're just swimming the ocean
like this is great.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, it was really nice yeah, but then we get on
like oh it's hot, probablyeverybody's gonna be at the
beach, it's gonna be crowded.
I don't want to deal with it, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Just gotta watch tv.
Well, my favorite and I use itall the time.
I was like, well, let me justgo, sandy do you guys have an
outdoor shower?
No, stupid.
We should have done that whenwe should get one piping.
I know you can still do it, wewill, we will.
It's so dumb we don't have one.
Yeah, because come've got tohave an outdoor shower.
(24:28):
We don't All the sand.
Yeah, bad for the pipes, badfor the pipes.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Bad for the pipes.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Now my pipes are going to the sand and my
electricity is going.
Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, you've got to get all that sand outside.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Maybe I should sell and buy the property.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, you could probably sell your house and buy
the property.
Your house has got to be worth$3.9 million my house is not far
.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's crazy, though.
Wild part Probably 2.7.
Stop it, that's probably true,that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's crazy right, that is crazy.
Okay, judy took us out todinner in Naples at a very good
place called Silver Spoon.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We go from one eating to another eating.
Yeah, somebody brought us lunchat the pool.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, somebody's going to take us out to dinner
now.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Here we go again, sacrificing for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, after dinner.
Yeah, this is yeah, we're not,oh my gosh.
We're on a mission trip,everybody, for the Lord
Sacrifice serving the Lord atchurches and charities, and then
we just get the ultimatepamphlet.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You know what it's great.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble because Aunt
Janet reads to children onFriday nights.
That's cool, that's cool, Iforgot about that.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, sometimes she gets costumes to go along with
her stories.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Uh-oh.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Tonight I have a feeling like we wore a costume.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh, keep going.
Oh, why don't I remember this?
Tonight there was a Cliffordthe Big Red Dog costume.
I had worn costumes like thisbefore when I worked at Zany
Brainy and I knew I didn't wantto do that again.
So, side tangent, zany Brainywas a toy store that I worked at
in high school.
That was my first job.
(26:21):
I was there for like four yearsI worked there for a long time
we offered free gift wrapping,so I'm very good at wrapping
presents.
It's like a skill that I've kept.
But yeah, occasionally we wouldhave characters I had to do.
The winnie the pooh cat in thehat was the worst.
That's because it had a hat,like I looked out where his bow
(26:42):
tie was and then you have liketwo feet of head over that and
and the kids couldn't see thecat, so I had to walk around
like out the back door and downthe alley and around and it was
really hot that day and I'm likeI'm melting and then all these
kids, and I couldn't see thekids and I'm like trying to talk
to me, I'm like I can't sayanything because that's you
can't do that.
so, anyways, I didn't want to dothis, so what?
(27:04):
So let's see, I was doingeverything possible to try and
get scott to put that on.
We know how this ends, though.
Go ahead.
He was looking a little big,which was looking grim for me
Out of nowhere.
Aunt Judy says she wants to doit.
Hooray that is what happened,yeah, okay, so it was hilarious,
(27:29):
but I won't try to describe itbecause I would have to also
describe and Judy, and thatwould be beyond the amount of
ink that is left in my pen thatwas.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I do remember this is coming back.
That is so great.
I definitely thought you put iton.
I don't remember aunt Judycoming in.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And and that must be why I don't remember it Because
I'm like I would have rememberedif I had to put this costume on
.
But yeah, she's great she is.
She would do that.
All of your mom and your auntsare just so full of life and
energy and interest.
Yeah, there's a lot of stories.
There's always going to be astory Like just such a wonderful
(28:15):
thing that she volunteers toread to kids and beyond that
she's like you know.
It would probably make thesekids feel great, I'm gonna dress
up and I'm gonna be cliffordthe big red dog yeah, yeah, so I
love it.
I love it.
So, oh yeah, I wasn't thinkingthat.
Okay, judy, did it, not janet?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
no jazz reading judy dressed up ah, yep, okay, that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
That makes sense.
Oh man, it was great.
This makes me think of the timeyou've.
I've heard this story so manytimes and it makes me laugh
every time because I can pictureit so clearly.
Maybe you should tell it thetime that it's it's Halloween
and your mom dressed up.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, my mom dressed up, and she dressed up like a
turtle was her plan, and I'm oldenough to not to be embarrassed
, I'm old enough to be like comeon, mom.
And so she painted her facegreen, she put on like a green
bodysuit and then somehowfashioned a backpack to be a
shell.
So, like she, I think she didsome sewing.
(29:12):
She was committed to thiscostume, like I love it.
And then she and this is and youcan't see this on the podcast,
but she slowly walked around thestreet because turtles don't
move fast, remember and shewalked like this as she walked
down.
So she like used her arms likeshe's swimming and slowly walked
, and she's like I as she walkeddown.
So she used her arms like she'sswimming and slowly walked and
(29:32):
she's like I can't walk fastbecause turtles don't walk fast.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And my sister and I are like chop, chop.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
We have candy to get.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
More houses.
I can't go that fast Justpicture it A woman in a green
bodysuit with a backpack justdoing the air breast stroke to
the air.
Exactly what are you doing?
No, no, I'm picturing highknees with every step.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Oh high, just like slow walking and, and we are
like mom, we have more candy toget, but I will say, um, I love.
One of the great skills thatboth my sister and I bring to
the table is now a lack ofembarrassment.
Oh, you know, yeah, so I wouldsay she did that for you.
(30:20):
Yeah, you know how, like beinguh, looking foolish or being
embarrassed, I think, stops alot of people from doing things.
Yeah, doesn't slow us down,yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
You're like we've been through some stuff, Ain't
nothing can be.
You know, we survived that, sowhat's the harm in anything else
?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
We're fine.
We're fine, yeah, so one.
So parenting tip for all of youout there embarrass your kids.
The more you do, the morethey'll be willing to try things
when they're older.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, the worse you make their life when they're
young, the more of a resilientconfident adult they'll become.
It's exactly correct.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I think that's a great place to end today, so
wear that bodysuit, Andrew.
That's really the end of thisright.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I'm getting my sewing machines out.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You have a couple of weeks before Halloween, like six
weeks, so you could have awhole turtle outfit ready to go.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm inspired, I know, I know you are, I hope you are
too.
Send us pictures of yourhomemade Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That'll be a challenge for October.
That will be a great challenge.
Okay, guys, it's been fun, it'sbeen real.
See you soon, bye, bye.
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