February 2, 2025 • 52 mins
Ever wondered how a traveler with a stepladder or an unexpected hot dog order could spark a whole adventure? Join us as we embark on our Podfest 2025 journey in Orlando, where quirky encounters and laugh-out-loud mishaps are the norm. Whether it's our friend Armando gifting us a camera with a backstory or narrowly avoiding an escalator-induced trip to the ER, rest assured, our stories will keep you entertained. And yes, Disney security made an unexpected cameo—who knew recording a podcast could be such a security risk?
Our travels took an even tastier turn with a lively debate about controversial food choices, like ketchup on Chicago dogs, while sharing our Portillo's escapades. We explore the unpredictable world of travel, where carrying golf clubs is just as challenging as spotting a traveler with a stepladder en route to San Jose. From reminiscing about Michigan's Shoreline ride to showcasing Brian’s new jersey design, we find humor in our travel tales and the unpredictable nature of flying.
Special shoutout to York, Pennsylvania, and its historical gems, not to mention a big tease about an exciting new ride announcement on the horizon. We wrap up with a tech twist, upgrading our studio with a new Shure microphone, and a hilarious alligator encounter on a golf course. So grab your headphones and prepare for a ride filled with laughs, unexpected guests, and maybe a touch of chaos as we blend leisure with a hearty dose of humor.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men
of Leisure, the podcast forcyclists who understand that
riding is not just about gettingto the destination, but the
experience along the way.
Now here are the originalCycling Men of Leisure Adam and
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of
Leisure.
As usual, I am Adam and I amhappy to be joined with my good
friend back in Central Time, MrMichael Sharp.
How are we doing, Adam?
You know, Mr Michael Sharp, howwe doing, Adam.
You know I'm doing good, Doinggood.
We are back from our trip.
We went to Podfest 2025.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We went to all kinds of places Orlando what did you
think?
Had a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Had a good time.
Yes, had a good time.
Had a good time.
Yes, had a great time.
You know always a good timehanging out with you.
Got some golf swings in, atesome good food, had some
incredible drinks yeah, a lot offun.
And I think in the future show,maybe the next episode or two,
I'd like to spend a little timetalking about the drinks,
because we had some good ones.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That sounds good.
We'll definitely do that.
You almost ended up in theemergency room fighting with an
escalator.
I don't recall that.
Oh, okay, we'll just moveforward then.
More to come on that later.
More to come, let's see here.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
One thing I did want to do, yeah, is our friend
armando came and visited us.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes, that was wonderful um armando gets a lot
of highlighted mentions on theshow.
He's not only a team member ofcycling, men of leisure,
definitely a great, great friend, and we met armando riding a
nine-hour bus across the stateof Georgia and our friendship
(02:11):
has developed.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Three years ago or so .
But one thing I'd like to do isI'd like to do a big shout-out
to Armando, because not only didhe drive over, had dinner with
us in Orlando, but he also gaveme a very special gift, and if
you look right back here, seethe camera right there.
I do the Mickey thing.
Yes, he gave me an old camerathat he had and this apparently,
(02:39):
I believe he said was his likethe first camera he bought with
like his first professionalcheck.
That's awesome, I think when hewas working at Glidden or
somewhere like that.
But anyway, I just wanted togive a shout out.
It means a lot to me.
I really appreciate it, addedit to my collection and it was
awesome.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was not only great to see him but, with his
history of his career of Disneyand my passion and your
enjoyment as well, and mypassion and your enjoyment as
well to listen to some of hisstories and things that you
normally don't get to hear, andso that's really cool to hear
and hang out with him.
So, armando, thank you so much,brought us a little gift as
(03:18):
well, so that was nice, sodidn't have to do that.
We gave him a hat, so now hewon't burn the top of his head,
wow.
But you know, on the last showwe talked about meeting Tina and
Ted Fry yes, on the golf course, and they actually wrote us.
(03:40):
Our leisure community took asecond to write us, wrote us.
Our leisure community took asecond to write us.
On the last show we had the fbior disney security.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You called fbi and then all of a sudden, the door
knocked what I said is I said Iforget exactly the context, but
I said something about the fbiknocking on the door and
literally two seconds later andyou can't hear it very well it's
in the podcast, you can't hearit very well, but two seconds
later there's a.
It's like oh well, the fbi ishere.
It wasn't the fbi, but it wasjust funny timing.
(04:13):
Who was it?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
it was, uh, disney security, and they were just
checking because we had, youknow, there's a lot of equipment
in the room and and so we hadthe do not disturb on the door,
and, because of that, theyneeded to make an observation.
Well, tina wrote me and shesaid, um, ever since the
unfortunate 2017 vegas, uh,where the gentleman was storing
(04:36):
lots of ammunition in his roomum that ever since then, they're
doing, you know, inspection andvisual checks to make sure that
disney doesn't end up in thesame kind of position.
So, uh, tina, thanks for takingthe time to write us really
appreciate it so although I hewas completely like.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
He walked in and it was like he immediately stopped
because, you know, we hadnothing dangerous there, but we
had literally turned the livingroom into a recording studio.
We had lights and all that andwe were in the middle of
recording and he was like, yeah,we should know we kind of blew
that we should have said we'dlike to sit down I did say, come
(05:14):
on in, we're recording apodcast, and he's like, oh, I'm
good.
So he's like I gotta get out ofhere, yeah oh, this looks.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Uh, let's see here.
Oh, this was an interestingthing.
I'm kind of jumping around.
I feel bad, but if you've everstayed in the Orlando airport at
a hotel, it is the world ofHyatt Airport Very nice hotel.
On the fourth floor or thelobby floor is a bar and it's
got lots of TVs and you and Iwere watching the national
(05:44):
championship.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Let me say that bar is open to anybody, true, you
don't.
It's not just for the hotel.
You can.
There's actually a separateescalator.
You can go right up there tothe top and and partake.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So this is true, um, gentlemen, somehow makes his way
there.
First thing is, we see thispoor gentleman.
He has a bunch of clothes and abag, a plastic bag, and it
reminded me of, like, someonewho had either been sick or
maybe had some sort ofincontinence issue.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
got no just got released out of jail is what I
was thinking, that's and funny.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You say that because he made a phone call and we
overheard the followingstatement this is hilarious, I
can't go back.
I have a warrant that starts intexas tomorrow.
So we, we, uh, definitely uhare had a good kick out of that,
good laugh out of that, andthen we thought it's time to go.
(06:38):
So we, uh, we had we had to beup at four in the morning anyway
, which which came super early.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So usually we had a lot of incidences that happened
that were just quite funny.
You got me in the middle of,I'm quite sure, a drug deal that
was going down in the parkinglot of a restaurant.
Yes, it was, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We walk over to our car and there's some people
hanging out in a car and therewas a drug deal and yeah, no
question.
And you just took your own timeabout getting out of there.
It's like, well, let's just gobefore they think we're.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I had to get the navigation right.
I had to make sure everythingwas good.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, we could have got the navigation of the next
parking lot over.
I mean, you know, these twoguys are walking out.
They're going to think we're,you know, undercover or
something and it would get bad.
But you know, hey, whatever youdo what you want to in the
parking lot, Just don't get usinvolved.
We got out of there in goodshape.
But then let's talk about Adamtrying to steal a car.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Well, I didn't try to steal a car, all I know is the
car is opened.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You go over there, the alarm starts going off.
Yeah, I don't know, it looked alittle fishy to me.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So I learned something that I guess I'm just
sort of surprised at.
But I think you and I figuredout what happened.
So I consider myself a goodSamaritan.
I like to be a good person, dothe right thing.
We were in the Disney Springsparking garage and we went by a
white minivan and the tailgatewas open and I said, man, should
(08:17):
I shut that, because all theirluggage is sitting right out
there.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Anybody could have came along and grabbed luggage
and baby strollers andeverything.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I said should I shut that?
And you said yeah, said yeah, II should.
And so I just went over to thetailgate and I shut it and the
alarm.
And so at first we were like,well, that's really weird, why
would the alarm go off?
But what we think happened isis the guests probably gathered
(08:45):
their backpack or their children.
Hopefully there was no kids inthat car.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I didn't look, but maybe we should have.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We think they gathered everything, got their
family, pushed lock on the keyfob which then activated the
security system or factory alarm.
And when I shut the tailgate itwas like whoa, what hit me?
Something's trying to get inhere, and so we kind of
hightailed it out of there andafter thinking, here we were
trying to do something nice, Iwas waiting for someone to go.
(09:12):
You're coming with us, sir.
So no, I definitely learnedsomething.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I didn't expect that we don't know that that's a real
thing, but that's the best wecould come up with.
Yeah, no, it completely made itup for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
But what about your doing a little wiring and stucco
in the airport?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I think I talked a littlebit on the last podcast a
little bit.
I had a little time problemgetting there because I've got
the last two months I'm flyingto Orlando three times Once with
the family, once with you, andthen I've got a business trip.
It all just happens to beOrlando.
I looked at the wrong ticketand guess what?
I got the wrong one.
I pulled the one that'soccurring in a week.
(09:57):
Time is off an hour, so I woundup being an hour late, had to
fly standby, but then I gottrapped in the Atlanta airport.
So it wasn't wasn't a lot of fun.
I felt like I was in that movieterminal with Tom Hanks.
I'm stuck here, I can't get out.
Uh, that's the only thing thatkept going through my mind.
It's like wow.
And then, of course, I was interminal T, which we all know is
(10:21):
, like you know, out on thefringes of the airport.
The newest terminal parts of itare still under construction.
I'm thinking, you know I coulddo a little, a little masonry
work, but yeah, I'm really notqualified to do that, but so
Well, I'm glad that you wereable to Thanks for bringing that
up again, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I appreciate it.
Listen, you know it's my job.
I mean I'm I'm here to try tohelp us both.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So, um, I don't know how that's going to help me.
But thank you yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, listen, uh, if you do a little stucco and
wiring, you could help out thepeople of Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So yeah, uh, well, yeah, um, stucco and wiring.
Wiring has to do withelectricity, which I know
nothing about, other than youdon't stick your fingers in
plug-ins and things.
So if I did the wiring I'dprobably burn down Terminal T.
So they really don't want medoing that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, we do both have to buy flights to Atlanta
for Big Bragg we could have gota discount.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh so what you're saying is, I could have done
some kind of exchange.
Yeah, I stucco and decoratethis wall for you and you cut uh
20 off my, my flight and myflight.
Well, they'll probably, oncethey see my work, add 20 to both
the flights.
But well, we had to redo all ofthat because it was garbage.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Um, we got some results um of the hot dog
controversy.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Are we still talking about the hot dog thing?
Everybody knows I'm right, butjust move on.
Isn't it time for a I don'tknow listener spotlight or
something?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Don't worry guys, I've got the button over here,
but pretty soon you're about tohave a button.
So, um, don't worry guys, I'vegot the button over here, but
pretty soon you're about to havea button.
Yeah, watch out.
Ladies and gentlemen, I wouldlike to thank you for those of
you who took a little time outof your day to go to social
media.
We had our team member and 1.6listener, ed, who wrote us, who
(12:21):
said when in Detroit he does adetroit style, which is coney
style, extra onions and extrachili, uh, when he is in chicago
he definitely does no ketchup,but when at home, smother that
baby in ketchup.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And so now, what do you do when in orland, uh,
atlanta, or, excuse me, orlando?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
well, if it's a portillo in detroit or chicago
if it's a Portillo's, I wasn'tin Detroit or Chicago.
If it's a Portillo's, he'sgoing to a Chicago-style hot dog
place.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, if it's a Chicago-style hot dog place, why
did they even have ketchup?
Why was that even an option?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Because they know that some people are fussy, oh,
let's.
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What's the other side of the result?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Well, melanie, our team member from the west side
of the united states, hasdecided that she's with you.
She would like ketchup on it,uh.
But there were others who saidno ketchup, uh, but overall, I
noticed your.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Your parents were not not in my uh, not on my team
either were they no, because we,you were our dinner
conversation tonight.
I'm glad I could be a dinnerconversation for you and your
parents.
Can you believe that Michaelguy puts ketchup on his Chicago
dogs?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well, actually we talked about a few things.
We talked about your escalatorincident.
We'll get to that.
We talked about the numerouspeople who probably thought you
and I were batting on the sameteam, even though we have wives
oh yeah yeah, we talked aboutthe, the portillo's chicago
(13:53):
style incident, and my fatherwanted to know why?
Why you didn't get a italianbeef and lauren?
because it was a hot dog placeand lauren and my mother stuck
up for you and said they weregoing to get the hot dog.
My dad and I are both Italianbeef, so it was 50-50.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I had never eaten here before you told me, let's
go eat at the hot dog placePortillo's, and it's like, oh,
what's that?
And he goes it's a hot dogplace.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I go in there expecting to buy.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And then they're like why didn't you buy the hot beef
?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I believe I clearly said the Chicago style hot dog.
Well okay, it's like New Yorkpizza, but um here's the problem
.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's like saying barbecue let's go have some
barbecue in South Carolinaversus let's go have some
barbecue in Texas versus let'sgo have barbecue in Kansas city.
It's not the same thing.
It depends on where you are atin the country.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I will give you 100% credit.
When we were in Iowa we weregoing through one of these towns
and the lady said we've got thebest barbecue, and I'll never
forget.
You looked up at her, kind ofslowly, very, very matter of
fact, and you said you sure youwant to say that I'm from Kansas
city?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And she said well, it may not be good as that, but
what was this little podunkplace and not that that couldn't
have great barbecue, but shecame out with so much confidence
is like, yeah, we got the bestbarbecue.
It's like it's maybe the bestbarbecue in this town, maybe the
best barbecue in this County,maybe even the best barbecue in
the state, but you're treadingon thin ice when you start
(15:30):
talking larger than that.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, the other thing I would love to talk about is
definitely jumping around here,but strange things, you've seen
people fly with jumping aroundhere, but strange things, you've
seen people fly with you and I.
Uh, so our, our flights werevery early coming home, um, both
of us had pretty demandingschedules for tuesday, um, and
(15:59):
we wanted to make sure that, ifwe missed our first flight for
some reason, that we had all dayto try to get it, and so we
took the.
we were in in sky priority at 5.
Am Um and, thankfully, notravel issues when, when we were
there, we looked up and there'sa gentleman with a stepladder.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
There is a three-foot stepladder.
It's got the little tag on itwith his name InSky Priority.
Checking this in, that blew mymind.
I'm just like I want to knowthe backstory.
What, what were you out?
And it's like you know, I think, the alarm system in the uh in
(16:45):
the hotel needs a new battery.
I'm just gonna run out by, youknow, call uplift, run out, grab
a step ladder and then uh, yeah, we need one at home anyway.
So I'll just get that and we'lltake it home.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It's like well, I couldn't help myself.
I looked up the airport codeand and he was going to San Jose
, California, and so we wereobviously in Orlando and I
thought to myself that is onewell-traveled stepladder.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Maybe there's a stepladder shortage in San Jose?
I don't, it was just so weirdCause I'm just thinking number
one how I've.
I've been on vacation a lot.
Never have ever go.
Well, you know what, I need astepladder.
And if I did need a stepladder,you know, like in my hotel or
something, I would have wentdown and talked to the people at
the front desk and probably gotborrowed one, but then to drag
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it home.
I'm just thinking, you knowwhat, if there's, for some
reason, I really, really, reallyreally need a stepladder, I I
will go buy the $25 stepladderat Walmart and then, when I am
done, I will re-gift it tosomebody before I leave.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm not but you know the funny part about that is you
and I had golf bag, golf club.
You know cases with golf clubsin it, and so if anyone doesn't
know, if you do, I apologize,but if you don't know, when you
fly with golf clubs they makeyou take it to an oversized area
which is just across the way inOrlando.
Sure, but this gentleman had totake his stepladder to oversize
(18:11):
.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And I watched it.
He did yes, Even though it wassmaller than anything that we
were carting on the plane.
I think it was just like takeit over there, the boys at
oversize need a good laugh today.
So, uh, yeah, it was, it was I,I.
I really want to know thebackstory.
I'll never get it, but I wantto know if there happens to be a
(18:34):
listener who has traveled witha three foot step ladder,
contact us, give us thebackstory of why.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now I did have a I'm not going to say friend, but I
had a colleague who used totravel with a full tool bag and
because of where they were goingand specialized tools, and that
was kind of really convolutedbecause they weren't allowed to
check it in their regularbaggage.
They had to take it down towhere golf clubs and everything
goes so they could be, you know,individually scanned or
(19:03):
whatever, and without fail itwas always flagged and it was
always held back, yeah and and II always said, god, can't you
get those tools there?
But I guess they were special,like allen keys and stuff that
he was fixing specializedmachinery.
But, um, I wonder if he had oneof those ladders that you down
and goes, each telescopingladder Maybe.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Not a stepladder.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Definitely not a $22 stepladder from Walmart, all
right.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Enjoy that in San Jose.
Dennis Scott and Alex, this ismy opportunity to thank you for
being monthly subscribers.
Thank, you.
Appreciate you, Paul go ahead,Go ahead.
I was going to say Wade Paul islooking at doing Zydeco, and
that's one that you and I shouldput on our list.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh yeah, that's down in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
We know a couple of people that have taken it.
I don't think they reallyenjoyed it much.
They said the roads were reallyrough and I don't think they
appreciated the food.
Yeah, but no one likes roughroads.
But it is Louisiana.
No offense to Louisiana, butjust like any state, get on
those back roads.
(20:20):
Who knows what you're going toget, because most of them are
maintained by the counties,right.
But the food I get wherethey're coming from.
You know what?
We didn't really like the foodbecause they do a lot of seafood
crawfish things like that.
So if you're not really intothat, that might not be the ride
for you.
But I love like crawfish andalligator and shrimp and all
that kind of thing of likecrawfish and alligator and
(20:41):
shrimp and all that kind ofthing.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Last thing I have on our leisure community is bike
Virginia.
We were able to establish acontact and that interview is
going to happen, so I'm excitedabout that.
So, more on that, you and I arelooking at a different ride.
It's not bike Virginia.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
More on that.
We're going gonna make the bigannouncement next episode of our
next ride this summer that'sright that's, this will be a
good one so I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I I believe, um, that is all I have from our leisure
community.
I've gone through my list.
Um, I think, without fail, itis now time that we give the
listeners what they really enjoy, which is listener spotlight.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
All right, our last episode.
Let me give you the hints, orthe clues.
This city brought the luxury oftrain travel to the road.
You could say the us was bornhere.
Transportation was changedforever due to an invention in
(21:50):
this city, and this city saw thecreation of a candy which bears
its name which bears its name.
Well, I want to tell you that Ibelieve that we had a guest.
There is no candy bar calledthe St Louis.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I know, but you know the candy bar, just side note
you and I had during the summerwhen we were in Shoreline.
Was it O'Henry or Henry?
It was O'Henry, o'henry.
Yes, during the summer when wewere in shoreline, was it oh
henry or henry it was oh henry,oh henry, yes I'd never had one
of those man.
Every now and then I'm like thatwas good.
(22:30):
Yes, they're, they are good.
Uh, going back to the guests um, I want you to know that matt
rob, our good friend, matt, notMark Matt, thank you, thank you
Finally, matt.
Look at that.
It only took 20 episodes.
It's hard to get good helpthese days we get there.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Might take us a while , but he has made a guess.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Okay, what's his guess?
York, pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
York, Pennsylvania.
Is there a candy named YorkPennsylvania?
York, Pennsylvania.
Is there a candy named YorkPennsylvania?
York, Peppermint Patty.
Oh, okay, All right.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Anybody else?
You know I don't think so.
Now I don't want to lie.
For the first time in manymoons I haven't paid a lot of
attention.
You know, I've had that projectat work.
It's killing me, but did yousee anything else've had that
project at work, it's killing me, but uh, did you see anything
else?
I, I didn't.
Okay, well, in that case I'mgoing to it's going to say we
have one guest which is York,pennsylvania.
(23:30):
St Louis, missouri is out.
So the best I have.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay.
Well, matt, I believe you'veguessed many times before.
I think you got close a coupleof episodes before, but your
guess of York, pennsylvania, isright.
On the money, sir,congratulations.
Whoa, nice, that's right.
(24:00):
Okay, wait, wait, this isreally special.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So, matt, not only did he call you by the right
name and he congratulated youfor guessing correctly.
Ladies and gentlemen, thelisteners of york pennsylvania,
thank you.
Thank you all listeners, butespecially this episode.
York, pennsylvania.
Give us the.
Give us Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
The city brought the luxury of train travel to the
road with the creation of whatwas called the Pullman car.
And if anybody knows anythingabout railroads, back in the
early days there was cars calledthe Pullman cars.
It was a big rail car companyand they were well known for
creating very high-end, veryluxurious type of of train cars.
(24:45):
In fact if you watch a lot ofthe westerns and things like
that, you see the rich guyssitting in these big fancy cars.
Those were typically likepullman cars and the pullman car
just really reflected thequality in the uh of a luxurious
rail coach.
Uh, by the Pullman Company.
(25:05):
You can say the US was born here.
This is a fun one.
Did you know that YorkPennsylvania is considered by
many people to be one of severalUS capitals?
Really, yes, sir.
First one was Pennsylvania andthen it was Baltimore, and then
it was Lancaster Pennsylvaniaand then it was York
(25:27):
Pennsylvania.
And I think if you start lookingat this you'll realize a lot of
this had to do with during therevolution.
The Continental Congress had tomove due to advances of the of
the English or the British army.
So and actually it's funnybecause Lancaster Pennsylvania
(25:47):
was the official capital of theUnited States during the
revolution.
For one day the continentalCongress was passing through and
they stayed there for one day,and so technically it's kind of
like air force one.
You know, whatever plane thepresident is on is, you know,
air Force One.
I guess that's kind of how thisworked.
But what's interesting is whilethe Continental Congress was in
(26:12):
York, they drafted the Articlesof Confederation and those
documents were in fact adoptedthere and that's really the
first legal document in UShistory that refers to the
colonies as the United States.
So transportation was changedforever.
You'll love this one.
Due to an invention in thatcity, 1831, the first successful
(26:37):
coal-burning locomotive wasinvented.
Now we're not big into coalburning, you know how we're kind
of getting away from that, butback then that was a big thing.
And I think the last one ispretty easy.
The city saw the creation of acandy which bears its name York
Peppermint Patties were createdin York, pennsylvania.
All right Now, I figured thefirst immediate thing people
(27:00):
were going to think Hershey,pennsylvania.
All right Now, I figured thefirst immediate thing people
were going to think Hershey,pennsylvania.
And then I think the secondimmediate thing out of your mind
was going to be Charleston,charleston, chews.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Which we saw in the airport and I told you you
should freeze it and slam it onthe counter.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But I didn't have a freezer.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But you could have bought it, put it in your bag
and then, when you got home, putit in the freezer.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
You realize I don't live like out in the middle of
nowhere.
I mean I live in the middle ofnowhere but we get like
Charleston chews and things.
We can get those at our localconvenience store.
I mean, you know I live outwest but out west isn't like in
the 1880s when out west was.
You know, we're right on theedge of nothing.
(27:43):
Okay, just move on.
No, we don't need to hear yourcomment.
Go, I can just see where thisis going.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
How many stoplights are in your town?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh, we've added one.
We're now up to four and theyadded one over by the schools
now.
So it's better for the kidscrossing the streets and stuff
like that.
Put in some nice crosswalks,Excellent.
So we've moved up from athree-stoplight town to a
four-stoplight town.
We're on the move, man.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Things are happening in this town like you wouldn't
believe.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Got $14 stores, four stoplights and road construction
that's been happening on myroad for almost five weeks now
and there's only been one weekof work done.
They started the week beforeChristmas, they worked the full
week and then after that theyhaven't shown up.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And they closed the road.
So we are talking the roadwhere the travel agents yes,
okay, yes, wow.
So Okay, yes, wow.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So, Okay.
Well, well, this is whathappens when I'm no longer on
the zoning and planningcommission, apparently.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I got nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
But it sounds good.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I have no dog in this fight.
If you've ever driven inMichigan, you don't have a car
left by the time you're done.
If you fall in a pothole, youdon't have a car left by the
time you're done.
It'd fall in a pothole.
You'll never see the car again.
That's why I always rent a carwhen I go to Michigan.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I don't blame you one bit.
Eat the crap out of you knowAvis's car, not mine.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well, thank you for—.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Listener spotlight.
Thank you, york Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So we've got something exciting tonight.
We are recording on the nightof the release of the RAGBRAI
annual route.
The logo is cool.
It's calling Take Flight.
We are going to be livestreaming our first actual live
stream of an event.
(29:37):
We'll see how it goes.
If it doesn't go well, oh well.
We tried, but we're going togive it our best effort and we
feel as though the testing thatwe've done, we should be able to
follow along with the routerelease.
We have chosen once again notto attend ragbri this year.
We're trying to do some otherstuff and we'll we can talk
about that on the on the nextshow.
(29:59):
Um, um.
But since we happen to be acycling and leisure podcast, we
are definitely branching in moreof the leisure lifestyle and
different items and um, hopingthat I can spend some time and
look at our footage from ourgolf and see if we can't find
some funny voice clips and um,I'll be, I'll be looking at that
(30:20):
.
Uh, but the cycling is where itobviously the friendship bonded,
and so we felt that with thebiggest ride is that we would
pay attention, add somecommentary, whether it's like oh
, it's going right back to youknow ankeny, or whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So we've got a lot of friends who who are riding it
and a lot of team members andthings.
So you know we just cause we'renot riding it doesn't mean we
shouldn't talk about it anddiscuss it and yeah, I missed
something earlier.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I don't doubt it, we're going to get into your
escalator story, but I want togive our friend, our artist,
brian Lee fritz dot com.
Oh yeah, lee FRITZ dot com,brian Lee Fritz dot com.
Brian is an extremely talentedartist.
(31:12):
He does bicycles, birds, allkinds of stuff.
He's been recycling men ofleisure's logo, cycling women of
leisure's logo, cycling womenof leisure's logo, that's right,
good job.
Our newest logo that he justdesigned for us, not but four
weeks ago, three weeks ago, oh,for the podcast, for the podcast
(31:32):
.
So those of you don't know, wehad the logo first, then we had
the podcast and then the ladiesand we kind of we kind of
overshadowed the, the actuallogo for the podcast, and so we
called him up and and hedefinitely helped us out.
So, but that being said, lastyear we did a little ride in
Michigan called Shoreline.
(31:53):
Yes, we did.
Our friend Joe is signed up forShoreline this year, for
Shoreline this year, and Brian,being that you know that we were
talking about his art andeverything, he showed us a sneak
peek behind the scenes of theJersey for Shoreline this year.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And I got to tell you it looks sharp.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
If you are looking to do Shoreline, this is a bad
Jersey, so I'm excited about it.
I'm excited for him, I'mexcited for for anyone doing
shoreline.
Um, some of the some of theshoreline was absolutely
beautiful oh yeah, tunnel oftrees and all that area and
(32:34):
traverse city, traverse city.
Unfortunately it rained ourlast day, but we made the best
of it and, um, yeah, it rained alot, but definitely looking
forward to that.
And if you're thinking about it, let me just tell you this
year's jersey is awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's a great jersey.
I would probably say it's in mytop five of best-looking
jerseys I've seen.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
That's definitely cool.
I definitely agree.
I'm like, hmm, even though Iknow I'm not doing that right,
can I get the jersey?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
somehow can I?
Tell neil, I need the hey, Inever got a jersey last year.
Can I get a jersey this year?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
that's right.
You were supposed to, you'resupposed to get.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
There was a snafu, snafu and the technology and
yeah, but um but uh, brian diddo the jersey last year yeah
very nice jersey.
Last year it was, it was ummackinac bridge, and yeah it was
mackinac bridge.
it was uh, kind of abstract,kind of um, I guess kind of
(33:36):
abstract, I won't say I meanwe're not talking super abstract
, but I mean it was just kind ofmild.
It was there, that type ofthing.
I would say this year's isdynamic.
I do too.
It's yeah full of I mean youlook at it and you can feel the
motion and yeah, it's justreally good.
Good job, Brian, Keep it up.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The last piece of our leisure community.
You're going to be surprised at.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Am I.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, because it's you , oh dear, oh no, I like your
new accessory.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Oh, okay, I was like where's he going with this?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
No, no, no, I am staring.
Yes, If you watch us on YouTubeor you choose to just log in to
see this, you, sir, have got anew toy.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I do.
You know you've been upgradinggreatly on your home studio.
I really have not.
I'm kind of stuck with what Istarted with.
But due to podcast 2025, Ibought myself a new Shure
microphone and it's even got thelittle light up thing here, and
then you know what thebeautiful thing is.
(34:46):
Too bad, this doesn't work onyou, but I can just.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh my gosh, he's muted.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Look at that, but now you can.
So I wish I could touch thatand mute you, but it doesn't
work that way, so it's a.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, I do apologize.
Mr Sharp thinks that he cancontrol the situation, but no,
no, no.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You've seen my household.
I don't control anything.
Come on, but no, it's a greatmic.
It sounds good.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'm really happy with it, so that looks pretty cool.
Thank you, uh, definitely checkthat out on youtube.
You'll see a new edition.
Um, let's get into um, yourescalator experience, or?
It makes me think of guns androses when they had the
spaghetti incident.
Let let's talk about theescalator incident.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Are you going to tell about your story or the real
story?
I mean, let's just tell themabout the alligator story
because, let's be honest, I knowyou're a little ashamed.
I had to save your life playinggolf when the alligator
attacked Tore up my leg a littlebit playing golf when the
alligator attacked, tore up myleg a little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, that's what he would like to
think.
We decided that we were goingto go to a restaurant called the
edison.
It is like a speakeasy, uh kindof like steampunk, uh, whiskey
and bourbon bar great, greatplace, if you haven't been there
Great place, and we parked thecar, we got out and we started
(36:22):
going down the escalator.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Now let's say first yes, if you've ever been to
Disney Springs, you know youpark in the parking garage and
to get into the Disney Springsarea they have security, so you
have to go through security andit was raining that day so there
was wet shoes and wet stuff andeven though the escalators are
covered, everything still hadwater on it.
(36:44):
So let's start with that.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
It was definitely slippery.
So we went through security, weturned the corner, we go down
the escalator, which you which Ibelieve you, by the way go down
the escalator, which you whichI believe you, by the way but
you, you claim that you normallydon't do the escalator.
You normally don't know.
Normally I take the stairs soall I know is I'm in front of
you.
So, if you're visualizing this,here are two gentlemen on an
(37:09):
escalator.
I am first and I'm going downand all of a sudden I get kicked
in the back of my leg and myshin and I'm thinking to myself
what the heck's going on,because I never in a million
years thought that you hadfallen.
I just thought maybe somethingelse had happened.
Well, next thing I look down,you've got your arm.
(37:30):
I literally, I promise you, Ithought you broke your arm, but
you've got your arm bentbackwards.
You're holding it backwards andI don't know which arm it was.
I'm, uh, this one, right, itwas, it was the left left.
And you're you're holding itand I'm thinking, oh yeah.
And I'm like, I'm like, did youbreak your arm?
And now we're trying to havethis small, quick conversation.
(37:53):
You're like I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
No, no, no, You're trying to have a small quick
conversation.
I was still trying to figureout what the heck had happened.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Well, my concern was all of a sudden the brain kicks
in.
I understand that sometimes I'mnot the sharpest bulb in the
tree, but I do look down and I'mrealizing we are running out of
time because— Running out ofescalator, running out of
escalator space, and that you'regoing to come to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
I just picture like you rolling, or or I'm like a
hot dog on the little rollersthat's right, I just start doing
that and people just starttripping over me.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, it's been bad but then, if you've seen some of
these tmz stories, peoplerecently have had legs amputated
.
There's a, a guy in Asia whowas on one of the walkways
moving walkways, escalator, youknow and he got his shoe caught
because he was on his phone andthen it took his toe in.
They had to amputate rightthere.
And I'm like, all of a sudden,I'm like first I said, is your
(38:50):
arm broken?
And you're like, I don't thinkso.
I'm like what happened?
You're like I don't think so.
I'm like what happened?
You're like I just shifted myweight, I don't know.
And then I realized we got likeseven sections of escalator
before you're gonna meet yourdemise.
And I'm like, bro, you gottaget up.
I go, you got, you gotta get up.
And so you do get up and youkind of you kind of move over to
(39:12):
the wall and everybody'sstaring at you, which I felt bad
.
And so a security guard comesdown and wonderful gentleman, uh
, wonderful gentleman barelyspoke english.
I felt bad for him, uh, but hesaid all I understood is medical
attention.
And at the time you still gotyour arm bent backwards and I'm
like, yeah, we need some medicalattention.
(39:33):
I'm thinking, I'm thinkingthey're gonna send over, like
you know, I thought there wouldbe like the first disney springs
.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
They would have like emt, who was also like a
security person, exactly, andthey would have like the big bag
.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
They would come running over and and we're
waiting, and we're waiting andI'm bleeding you're bleeding.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I mean, you look like you've been bit by an alligator
you weren't joking about my legliterally, and it looks like
claws of an alligator or tiger,just like went down well, I'm
sure you've all over myescalator and an escalator has
got, you know, ridges sharpteeth yeah, sharp teeth.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Well, guess what it does to skin with mr sharp.
It took, it took your skin offso we're waiting there and a
part of us is like we're boththinking that they're going to
send, like the the communityparamedic over or something you
know, the disney springsparamedic or whatever, and we're
waiting for a little mouse ears.
Yeah, exactly, I'm here to helpyou, you know so.
(40:31):
And a sudden we turn the cornerand we look oh my God, this is
a full striker stretcher, twowomen from the fire department
who are carrying I mean, they'rebringing the full DIY and you
go, oh God, yeah the fullstretcher.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Both of them had the big bags on the stretcher.
The other lady had anothersatchel thing on.
They're coming rolling overthere.
I mean we got defibrillatorpaddles and stuff to take off
fingers and tracheotomy andeverything and it's just like,
oh boy, Everybody wasn't alreadystaring at me.
Now everybody, I'm givingeverybody coming down the
(41:17):
escalators a show.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
But you know what that woman was fantastic she was
.
She said.
She said why don't we go overhere?
It was still raining, and soshe said why don't we go over
here?
And she took you like to a moreprivate area and then all of a
sudden you're getting, you'regetting the medical attention
that you need, yeah, and I lookup and I think I'm a pretty
(41:42):
observant guy I mean, I know howto look around and I look at
them behind me and I realizethere's one police officer and
then there's two police officers.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
And these aren't Disney security anymore.
These are Orlando policeofficers and these aren't Disney
security anymore.
These are Orlando policeofficers.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
And then I look up and if you've ever been to
Disney you can picture themanagement.
They've got their blue badgewith their lanyard around their
neck.
They've got dress pants on anda dress shirt and they've got
the pincher thing to pick upgarbage.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
And they got the walkie-talkie thing.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Walkie-talkie and I look up and I I see her and
she's like she, she, she'schomping at the bit to talk to
you.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
she's afraid that you've already called the lawyer
you, but you've already yeah,you've already been settling for
more disney attorney.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I'm not settling for anything less than yeah, so they
come to talk to you and I, youknow, with everything going on.
I don't know if you rememberthis, and if you do, I apologize
, but the fire department's likecan you get out of here?
I'm not done with him yet.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah, I remember she was like can you just not do
this?
Right now I'm still trying totreat him, and she just took
command of the situation.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
It's like I appreciate it Because they were
asking your room number, whatresort you were staying at, Did
you want a wheelchair?
Did you want this?
And you know, I know there's,don't get me wrong liability, I
get exactly what they were doing.
We know what they were comingfor.
By the way, they had you on AIcamera the rest of the day.
(43:09):
They were watching your everymove.
There's no doubt in my mind ohyeah, they were taking video
getting still.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
I mean, you know they were getting everything ready.
So when they got a call from myattorney, they were like okay,
we've been expecting you.
Yes, we remember, mr Sharp.
They were putting together afull legal dossier on me because
, you know, honestly, nine timesout of ten somebody's in that
situation they're going to tryto sue them.
Even just from the fact thatwe're going to sue them for a
(43:37):
million dollars and we're goingto make it worse than it is and
they're going to settle for35,000.
We're going to be happy withthat.
So I get it.
Now, I'm not that kind of guy.
I was on the elevator.
I shifted my weight from myleft of my right foot to my left
foot.
It was slick.
He meant escalator what's that?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
you meant escalator escalator.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yes, I slipped, I fell.
It's an accident.
I'm the type of guy thatbelieves accidents happen and
you know, oh well, there wassome water on there or some
dampness.
Well, yeah, it's rainingoutside and you're in an outside
venue.
I mean that part, that part'scovered up.
But you know what, what?
What are they going to do?
Have everybody, like, dry offtheir shoes.
I mean, it's an accident, it'snobody's fault.
(44:20):
If it's anybody's fault, it'smy fault for not being more
careful holding onto the rails.
So I wasn't going to sue him.
But boy, let me tell you, timeit was all over.
There was two security guards,two full-time police officers,
disney management, two likecounty emt people.
Uh, it was.
It was crazy well, the onlything I regret out of that is
(44:45):
the uh.
Management from disney springswas like oh, do you need a, do
you need a wheelchair?
And the guy came rolling over.
I was like, no, I don't needone.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
I should have said I'm sorry, you were going to say
something.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yes, I do.
Adam will push me around allday and made you just push me
around Disney Springs.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh, I would have pushed you All right.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Oh yeah, the little pond, the little creek thing off
the bridge.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Well, listen, I'm happy that nothing was broken
and I uh I know that uh, sincewe you showed me a picture of it
afterwards you definitely werein some pain.
It did look like even yourfamily thought you, you told
your family it was an alligatorand they're like, seriously so.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Oh, I totally told him it was an alligator, because
we did see alligators on thegolf course and I took and I
sent pictures and they're likeit's not an alligator, it's like
, yeah, we saw them golfing andthey're like you just made that
up and I was like, no, look inthe picture.
You can clearly see the greensin the background.
This is on the golf course.
There was alligators.
So I got him convinced that Iwas was attacked by an alligator
.
But your wife said it.
(45:52):
She thought it was broken.
She did.
She's a nurse, she sees it.
When my wife saw it she worksalso, she's not a nurse, but she
works in health care she's likeare you sure you didn't break
it?
Um, so everybody looking at itthought I had broke because it
swelled up, it was heavilybruised, but, um, I haven't had
any problem with it.
I mean, as long as you know,sometimes, occasionally I'll rub
the outside and even thoughI've got it bandaged, it'll hurt
(46:14):
a little there, but I think I'mfine.
And Disney, just so you know mylawyer is not going to be
contacting you, so you're safe.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Okay, that is recorded here.
Currently, the current time is8.31 Eastern, 7.31 Central.
So well, listen, it was a greattrip.
We learned a lot.
We did had a good time.
We also learned a lot a smallside note of taking the full
(46:45):
studio on the road Learned somestuff there, so that was a good
learning experience.
We did In traditional fashion.
Our old team name was TeamSherpa.
I once again took too muchstuff.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
You needed a Sherpa.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Oh my gosh, All that stuff.
You're not lying, but I've gota new plan for the next time,
and so it was a good learningexperience.
Good, but that being said, Iwould love to ask you are you
prepared for another listenerspotlight.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
You know, I am, I am.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Are you prepared?
Let's have it Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
This community is like several that we've had, is
in a state that it did not startout in the major industry that
drove.
The town's development wasmining and railroads.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
The community during the Civil War, supported the
Confederacy, so that should begiving you some location, some
part of the country.
Here's a good one.
If you are a Bulls basketballfan, chicago you can thank this
(48:06):
town for its small contributionto the team's success in the
mid-'80s and 90s, through the90s, through the mid-90s, and
here's what the town is named.
The name of the town is inreference to a revolutionary
(48:28):
battle.
This is the one you're going tolike.
They once had a sports teamthat would make you want to have
a drink of bourbon.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
I don't know what it is, but I already love it.
So there we go.
Well, in that case, Iappreciate you providing those
clues.
Reach out, oh, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
I got one more thing okay I'm just going to throw it
out now.
My prediction for ragbricouncil bluffs to dubuque.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
There you have it and , by the way, I promise you we
are logging on in 10 minutes, sohe is saying that before it is
announced.
You have my word.
Um, always great to gettogether with you.
We're going to jump over hereon this live stream, but, that
being said, I believe we haveanother great show For all of
you who take your time and youlisten our audience.
(49:26):
We love you.
We thank you.
Thank you and we hope you havea great day.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
And remember.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Today is a great day for.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Bike Ride.
Maybe by you it is, but not byme.
I'm just kidding.
It's a great day for a virtualbike ride.
I've been back on Zwift, so ifyou're on Zwift, check me out.
So, everybody, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
See ya.
Thank you for coming along withAdam and Michael on Road
Adventures with Cycling Men ofLeisure.
If you have enjoyed this,please subscribe to the show on
the podcast app of your choice.
Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men
of Leisure, the podcast forcyclists who understand that
riding is not just about gettingto the destination, but the
experience along the way.
Now here are the originalCycling Men of Leisure Adam and
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of
Leisure.
As usual, I am Adam and I amhappy to be joined with my good
friend back in Central Time, MrMichael Sharp.
How are we doing, Adam?
You know, Mr Michael Sharp, howwe doing, Adam.
You know I'm doing good, Doinggood.
We are back from our trip.
We went to Podfest 2025.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We went to all kinds of places Orlando what did you
think?
Had a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Had a good time.
Yes, had a good time.
Had a good time.
Yes, had a great time.
You know always a good timehanging out with you.
Got some golf swings in, atesome good food, had some
incredible drinks yeah, a lot offun.
And I think in the future show,maybe the next episode or two,
I'd like to spend a little timetalking about the drinks,
because we had some good ones.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That sounds good.
We'll definitely do that.
You almost ended up in theemergency room fighting with an
escalator.
I don't recall that.
Oh, okay, we'll just moveforward then.
More to come on that later.
More to come, let's see here.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
One thing I did want to do, yeah, is our friend
armando came and visited us.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yes, that was wonderful um armando gets a lot
of highlighted mentions on theshow.
He's not only a team member ofcycling, men of leisure,
definitely a great, great friend, and we met armando riding a
nine-hour bus across the stateof Georgia and our friendship
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has developed.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Three years ago or so .
But one thing I'd like to do isI'd like to do a big shout-out
to Armando, because not only didhe drive over, had dinner with
us in Orlando, but he also gaveme a very special gift, and if
you look right back here, seethe camera right there.
I do the Mickey thing.
Yes, he gave me an old camerathat he had and this apparently,
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I believe he said was his likethe first camera he bought with
like his first professionalcheck.
That's awesome, I think when hewas working at Glidden or
somewhere like that.
But anyway, I just wanted togive a shout out.
It means a lot to me.
I really appreciate it, addedit to my collection and it was
awesome.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was not only great to see him but, with his
history of his career of Disneyand my passion and your
enjoyment as well, and mypassion and your enjoyment as
well to listen to some of hisstories and things that you
normally don't get to hear, andso that's really cool to hear
and hang out with him.
So, armando, thank you so much,brought us a little gift as
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well, so that was nice, sodidn't have to do that.
We gave him a hat, so now hewon't burn the top of his head,
wow.
But you know, on the last showwe talked about meeting Tina and
Ted Fry yes, on the golf course, and they actually wrote us.
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Our leisure community took asecond to write us, wrote us.
Our leisure community took asecond to write us.
On the last show we had the fbior disney security.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You called fbi and then all of a sudden, the door
knocked what I said is I said Iforget exactly the context, but
I said something about the fbiknocking on the door and
literally two seconds later andyou can't hear it very well it's
in the podcast, you can't hearit very well, but two seconds
later there's a.
It's like oh well, the fbi ishere.
It wasn't the fbi, but it wasjust funny timing.
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Who was it?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
it was, uh, disney security, and they were just
checking because we had, youknow, there's a lot of equipment
in the room and and so we hadthe do not disturb on the door,
and, because of that, theyneeded to make an observation.
Well, tina wrote me and shesaid, um, ever since the
unfortunate 2017 vegas, uh,where the gentleman was storing
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lots of ammunition in his roomum that ever since then, they're
doing, you know, inspection andvisual checks to make sure that
disney doesn't end up in thesame kind of position.
So, uh, tina, thanks for takingthe time to write us really
appreciate it so although I hewas completely like.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
He walked in and it was like he immediately stopped
because, you know, we hadnothing dangerous there, but we
had literally turned the livingroom into a recording studio.
We had lights and all that andwe were in the middle of
recording and he was like, yeah,we should know we kind of blew
that we should have said we'dlike to sit down I did say, come
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on in, we're recording apodcast, and he's like, oh, I'm
good.
So he's like I gotta get out ofhere, yeah oh, this looks.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Uh, let's see here.
Oh, this was an interestingthing.
I'm kind of jumping around.
I feel bad, but if you've everstayed in the Orlando airport at
a hotel, it is the world ofHyatt Airport Very nice hotel.
On the fourth floor or thelobby floor is a bar and it's
got lots of TVs and you and Iwere watching the national
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championship.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Let me say that bar is open to anybody, true, you
don't.
It's not just for the hotel.
You can.
There's actually a separateescalator.
You can go right up there tothe top and and partake.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So this is true, um, gentlemen, somehow makes his way
there.
First thing is, we see thispoor gentleman.
He has a bunch of clothes and abag, a plastic bag, and it
reminded me of, like, someonewho had either been sick or
maybe had some sort ofincontinence issue.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
got no just got released out of jail is what I
was thinking, that's and funny.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You say that because he made a phone call and we
overheard the followingstatement this is hilarious, I
can't go back.
I have a warrant that starts intexas tomorrow.
So we, we, uh, definitely uhare had a good kick out of that,
good laugh out of that, andthen we thought it's time to go.
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So we, uh, we had we had to beup at four in the morning anyway
, which which came super early.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So usually we had a lot of incidences that happened
that were just quite funny.
You got me in the middle of,I'm quite sure, a drug deal that
was going down in the parkinglot of a restaurant.
Yes, it was, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We walk over to our car and there's some people
hanging out in a car and therewas a drug deal and yeah, no
question.
And you just took your own timeabout getting out of there.
It's like, well, let's just gobefore they think we're.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I had to get the navigation right.
I had to make sure everythingwas good.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, we could have got the navigation of the next
parking lot over.
I mean, you know, these twoguys are walking out.
They're going to think we're,you know, undercover or
something and it would get bad.
But you know, hey, whatever youdo what you want to in the
parking lot, Just don't get usinvolved.
We got out of there in goodshape.
But then let's talk about Adamtrying to steal a car.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Well, I didn't try to steal a car, all I know is the
car is opened.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You go over there, the alarm starts going off.
Yeah, I don't know, it looked alittle fishy to me.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So I learned something that I guess I'm just
sort of surprised at.
But I think you and I figuredout what happened.
So I consider myself a goodSamaritan.
I like to be a good person, dothe right thing.
We were in the Disney Springsparking garage and we went by a
white minivan and the tailgatewas open and I said, man, should
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I shut that, because all theirluggage is sitting right out
there.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Anybody could have came along and grabbed luggage
and baby strollers andeverything.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I said should I shut that?
And you said yeah, said yeah, II should.
And so I just went over to thetailgate and I shut it and the
alarm.
And so at first we were like,well, that's really weird, why
would the alarm go off?
But what we think happened isis the guests probably gathered
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their backpack or their children.
Hopefully there was no kids inthat car.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I didn't look, but maybe we should have.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We think they gathered everything, got their
family, pushed lock on the keyfob which then activated the
security system or factory alarm.
And when I shut the tailgate itwas like whoa, what hit me?
Something's trying to get inhere, and so we kind of
hightailed it out of there andafter thinking, here we were
trying to do something nice, Iwas waiting for someone to go.
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You're coming with us, sir.
So no, I definitely learnedsomething.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I didn't expect that we don't know that that's a real
thing, but that's the best wecould come up with.
Yeah, no, it completely made itup for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
But what about your doing a little wiring and stucco
in the airport?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I think I talked a littlebit on the last podcast a
little bit.
I had a little time problemgetting there because I've got
the last two months I'm flyingto Orlando three times Once with
the family, once with you, andthen I've got a business trip.
It all just happens to beOrlando.
I looked at the wrong ticketand guess what?
I got the wrong one.
I pulled the one that'soccurring in a week.
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Time is off an hour, so I woundup being an hour late, had to
fly standby, but then I gottrapped in the Atlanta airport.
So it wasn't wasn't a lot of fun.
I felt like I was in that movieterminal with Tom Hanks.
I'm stuck here, I can't get out.
Uh, that's the only thing thatkept going through my mind.
It's like wow.
And then, of course, I was interminal T, which we all know is
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, like you know, out on thefringes of the airport.
The newest terminal parts of itare still under construction.
I'm thinking, you know I coulddo a little, a little masonry
work, but yeah, I'm really notqualified to do that, but so
Well, I'm glad that you wereable to Thanks for bringing that
up again, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I appreciate it.
Listen, you know it's my job.
I mean I'm I'm here to try tohelp us both.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So, um, I don't know how that's going to help me.
But thank you yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, listen, uh, if you do a little stucco and
wiring, you could help out thepeople of Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So yeah, uh, well, yeah, um, stucco and wiring.
Wiring has to do withelectricity, which I know
nothing about, other than youdon't stick your fingers in
plug-ins and things.
So if I did the wiring I'dprobably burn down Terminal T.
So they really don't want medoing that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, we do both have to buy flights to Atlanta
for Big Bragg we could have gota discount.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh so what you're saying is, I could have done
some kind of exchange.
Yeah, I stucco and decoratethis wall for you and you cut uh
20 off my, my flight and myflight.
Well, they'll probably, oncethey see my work, add 20 to both
the flights.
But well, we had to redo all ofthat because it was garbage.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Um, we got some results um of the hot dog
controversy.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Are we still talking about the hot dog thing?
Everybody knows I'm right, butjust move on.
Isn't it time for a I don'tknow listener spotlight or
something?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Don't worry guys, I've got the button over here,
but pretty soon you're about tohave a button.
So, um, don't worry guys, I'vegot the button over here, but
pretty soon you're about to havea button.
Yeah, watch out.
Ladies and gentlemen, I wouldlike to thank you for those of
you who took a little time outof your day to go to social
media.
We had our team member and 1.6listener, ed, who wrote us, who
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said when in Detroit he does adetroit style, which is coney
style, extra onions and extrachili, uh, when he is in chicago
he definitely does no ketchup,but when at home, smother that
baby in ketchup.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And so now, what do you do when in orland, uh,
atlanta, or, excuse me, orlando?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
well, if it's a portillo in detroit or chicago
if it's a Portillo's, I wasn'tin Detroit or Chicago.
If it's a Portillo's, he'sgoing to a Chicago-style hot dog
place.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, if it's a Chicago-style hot dog place, why
did they even have ketchup?
Why was that even an option?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Because they know that some people are fussy, oh,
let's.
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What's the other side of the result?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Well, melanie, our team member from the west side
of the united states, hasdecided that she's with you.
She would like ketchup on it,uh.
But there were others who saidno ketchup, uh, but overall, I
noticed your.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Your parents were not not in my uh, not on my team
either were they no, because we,you were our dinner
conversation tonight.
I'm glad I could be a dinnerconversation for you and your
parents.
Can you believe that Michaelguy puts ketchup on his Chicago
dogs?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well, actually we talked about a few things.
We talked about your escalatorincident.
We'll get to that.
We talked about the numerouspeople who probably thought you
and I were batting on the sameteam, even though we have wives
oh yeah yeah, we talked aboutthe, the portillo's chicago
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style incident, and my fatherwanted to know why?
Why you didn't get a italianbeef and lauren?
because it was a hot dog placeand lauren and my mother stuck
up for you and said they weregoing to get the hot dog.
My dad and I are both Italianbeef, so it was 50-50.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I had never eaten here before you told me, let's
go eat at the hot dog placePortillo's, and it's like, oh,
what's that?
And he goes it's a hot dogplace.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I go in there expecting to buy.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And then they're like why didn't you buy the hot beef
?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I believe I clearly said the Chicago style hot dog.
Well okay, it's like New Yorkpizza, but um here's the problem
.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's like saying barbecue let's go have some
barbecue in South Carolinaversus let's go have some
barbecue in Texas versus let'sgo have barbecue in Kansas city.
It's not the same thing.
It depends on where you are atin the country.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I will give you 100% credit.
When we were in Iowa we weregoing through one of these towns
and the lady said we've got thebest barbecue, and I'll never
forget.
You looked up at her, kind ofslowly, very, very matter of
fact, and you said you sure youwant to say that I'm from Kansas
city?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And she said well, it may not be good as that, but
what was this little podunkplace and not that that couldn't
have great barbecue, but shecame out with so much confidence
is like, yeah, we got the bestbarbecue.
It's like it's maybe the bestbarbecue in this town, maybe the
best barbecue in this County,maybe even the best barbecue in
the state, but you're treadingon thin ice when you start
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talking larger than that.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, the other thing I would love to talk about is
definitely jumping around here,but strange things, you've seen
people fly with jumping aroundhere, but strange things, you've
seen people fly with you and I.
Uh, so our, our flights werevery early coming home, um, both
of us had pretty demandingschedules for tuesday, um, and
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we wanted to make sure that, ifwe missed our first flight for
some reason, that we had all dayto try to get it, and so we
took the.
we were in in sky priority at 5.
Am Um and, thankfully, notravel issues when, when we were
there, we looked up and there'sa gentleman with a stepladder.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
There is a three-foot stepladder.
It's got the little tag on itwith his name InSky Priority.
Checking this in, that blew mymind.
I'm just like I want to knowthe backstory.
What, what were you out?
And it's like you know, I think, the alarm system in the uh in
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the hotel needs a new battery.
I'm just gonna run out by, youknow, call uplift, run out, grab
a step ladder and then uh, yeah, we need one at home anyway.
So I'll just get that and we'lltake it home.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It's like well, I couldn't help myself.
I looked up the airport codeand and he was going to San Jose
, California, and so we wereobviously in Orlando and I
thought to myself that is onewell-traveled stepladder.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Maybe there's a stepladder shortage in San Jose?
I don't, it was just so weirdCause I'm just thinking number
one how I've.
I've been on vacation a lot.
Never have ever go.
Well, you know what, I need astepladder.
And if I did need a stepladder,you know, like in my hotel or
something, I would have wentdown and talked to the people at
the front desk and probably gotborrowed one, but then to drag
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it home.
I'm just thinking, you knowwhat, if there's, for some
reason, I really, really, reallyreally need a stepladder, I I
will go buy the $25 stepladderat Walmart and then, when I am
done, I will re-gift it tosomebody before I leave.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm not but you know the funny part about that is you
and I had golf bag, golf club.
You know cases with golf clubsin it, and so if anyone doesn't
know, if you do, I apologize,but if you don't know, when you
fly with golf clubs they makeyou take it to an oversized area
which is just across the way inOrlando.
Sure, but this gentleman had totake his stepladder to oversize
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.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And I watched it.
He did yes, Even though it wassmaller than anything that we
were carting on the plane.
I think it was just like takeit over there, the boys at
oversize need a good laugh today.
So, uh, yeah, it was, it was I,I.
I really want to know thebackstory.
I'll never get it, but I wantto know if there happens to be a
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listener who has traveled witha three foot step ladder,
contact us, give us thebackstory of why.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now I did have a I'm not going to say friend, but I
had a colleague who used totravel with a full tool bag and
because of where they were goingand specialized tools, and that
was kind of really convolutedbecause they weren't allowed to
check it in their regularbaggage.
They had to take it down towhere golf clubs and everything
goes so they could be, you know,individually scanned or
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whatever, and without fail itwas always flagged and it was
always held back, yeah and and II always said, god, can't you
get those tools there?
But I guess they were special,like allen keys and stuff that
he was fixing specializedmachinery.
But, um, I wonder if he had oneof those ladders that you down
and goes, each telescopingladder Maybe.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Not a stepladder.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Definitely not a $22 stepladder from Walmart, all
right.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Enjoy that in San Jose.
Dennis Scott and Alex, this ismy opportunity to thank you for
being monthly subscribers.
Thank, you.
Appreciate you, Paul go ahead,Go ahead.
I was going to say Wade Paul islooking at doing Zydeco, and
that's one that you and I shouldput on our list.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh yeah, that's down in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
We know a couple of people that have taken it.
I don't think they reallyenjoyed it much.
They said the roads were reallyrough and I don't think they
appreciated the food.
Yeah, but no one likes roughroads.
But it is Louisiana.
No offense to Louisiana, butjust like any state, get on
those back roads.
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Who knows what you're going toget, because most of them are
maintained by the counties,right.
But the food I get wherethey're coming from.
You know what?
We didn't really like the foodbecause they do a lot of seafood
crawfish things like that.
So if you're not really intothat, that might not be the ride
for you.
But I love like crawfish andalligator and shrimp and all
that kind of thing of likecrawfish and alligator and
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shrimp and all that kind ofthing.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Last thing I have on our leisure community is bike
Virginia.
We were able to establish acontact and that interview is
going to happen, so I'm excitedabout that.
So, more on that, you and I arelooking at a different ride.
It's not bike Virginia.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
More on that.
We're going gonna make the bigannouncement next episode of our
next ride this summer that'sright that's, this will be a
good one so I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I I believe, um, that is all I have from our leisure
community.
I've gone through my list.
Um, I think, without fail, itis now time that we give the
listeners what they really enjoy, which is listener spotlight.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
All right, our last episode.
Let me give you the hints, orthe clues.
This city brought the luxury oftrain travel to the road.
You could say the us was bornhere.
Transportation was changedforever due to an invention in
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this city, and this city saw thecreation of a candy which bears
its name which bears its name.
Well, I want to tell you that Ibelieve that we had a guest.
There is no candy bar calledthe St Louis.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I know, but you know the candy bar, just side note
you and I had during the summerwhen we were in Shoreline.
Was it O'Henry or Henry?
It was O'Henry, o'henry.
Yes, during the summer when wewere in shoreline, was it oh
henry or henry it was oh henry,oh henry, yes I'd never had one
of those man.
Every now and then I'm like thatwas good.
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Yes, they're, they are good.
Uh, going back to the guests um, I want you to know that matt
rob, our good friend, matt, notMark Matt, thank you, thank you
Finally, matt.
Look at that.
It only took 20 episodes.
It's hard to get good helpthese days we get there.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Might take us a while , but he has made a guess.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Okay, what's his guess?
York, pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
York, Pennsylvania.
Is there a candy named YorkPennsylvania?
York, Pennsylvania.
Is there a candy named YorkPennsylvania?
York, Peppermint Patty.
Oh, okay, All right.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Anybody else?
You know I don't think so.
Now I don't want to lie.
For the first time in manymoons I haven't paid a lot of
attention.
You know, I've had that projectat work.
It's killing me, but did yousee anything else've had that
project at work, it's killing me, but uh, did you see anything
else?
I, I didn't.
Okay, well, in that case I'mgoing to it's going to say we
have one guest which is York,pennsylvania.
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St Louis, missouri is out.
So the best I have.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay.
Well, matt, I believe you'veguessed many times before.
I think you got close a coupleof episodes before, but your
guess of York, pennsylvania, isright.
On the money, sir,congratulations.
Whoa, nice, that's right.
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Okay, wait, wait, this isreally special.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So, matt, not only did he call you by the right
name and he congratulated youfor guessing correctly.
Ladies and gentlemen, thelisteners of york pennsylvania,
thank you.
Thank you all listeners, butespecially this episode.
York, pennsylvania.
Give us the.
Give us Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
The city brought the luxury of train travel to the
road with the creation of whatwas called the Pullman car.
And if anybody knows anythingabout railroads, back in the
early days there was cars calledthe Pullman cars.
It was a big rail car companyand they were well known for
creating very high-end, veryluxurious type of of train cars.
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In fact if you watch a lot ofthe westerns and things like
that, you see the rich guyssitting in these big fancy cars.
Those were typically likepullman cars and the pullman car
just really reflected thequality in the uh of a luxurious
rail coach.
Uh, by the Pullman Company.
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You can say the US was born here.
This is a fun one.
Did you know that YorkPennsylvania is considered by
many people to be one of severalUS capitals?
Really, yes, sir.
First one was Pennsylvania andthen it was Baltimore, and then
it was Lancaster Pennsylvaniaand then it was York
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Pennsylvania.
And I think if you start lookingat this you'll realize a lot of
this had to do with during therevolution.
The Continental Congress had tomove due to advances of the of
the English or the British army.
So and actually it's funnybecause Lancaster Pennsylvania
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was the official capital of theUnited States during the
revolution.
For one day the continentalCongress was passing through and
they stayed there for one day,and so technically it's kind of
like air force one.
You know, whatever plane thepresident is on is, you know,
air Force One.
I guess that's kind of how thisworked.
But what's interesting is whilethe Continental Congress was in
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York, they drafted the Articlesof Confederation and those
documents were in fact adoptedthere and that's really the
first legal document in UShistory that refers to the
colonies as the United States.
So transportation was changedforever.
You'll love this one.
Due to an invention in thatcity, 1831, the first successful
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coal-burning locomotive wasinvented.
Now we're not big into coalburning, you know how we're kind
of getting away from that, butback then that was a big thing.
And I think the last one ispretty easy.
The city saw the creation of acandy which bears its name York
Peppermint Patties were createdin York, pennsylvania.
All right Now, I figured thefirst immediate thing people
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were going to think Hershey,pennsylvania.
All right Now, I figured thefirst immediate thing people
were going to think Hershey,pennsylvania.
And then I think the secondimmediate thing out of your mind
was going to be Charleston,charleston, chews.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Which we saw in the airport and I told you you
should freeze it and slam it onthe counter.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But I didn't have a freezer.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But you could have bought it, put it in your bag
and then, when you got home, putit in the freezer.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
You realize I don't live like out in the middle of
nowhere.
I mean I live in the middle ofnowhere but we get like
Charleston chews and things.
We can get those at our localconvenience store.
I mean, you know I live outwest but out west isn't like in
the 1880s when out west was.
You know, we're right on theedge of nothing.
(27:43):
Okay, just move on.
No, we don't need to hear yourcomment.
Go, I can just see where thisis going.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
How many stoplights are in your town?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh, we've added one.
We're now up to four and theyadded one over by the schools
now.
So it's better for the kidscrossing the streets and stuff
like that.
Put in some nice crosswalks,Excellent.
So we've moved up from athree-stoplight town to a
four-stoplight town.
We're on the move, man.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Things are happening in this town like you wouldn't
believe.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Got $14 stores, four stoplights and road construction
that's been happening on myroad for almost five weeks now
and there's only been one weekof work done.
They started the week beforeChristmas, they worked the full
week and then after that theyhaven't shown up.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And they closed the road.
So we are talking the roadwhere the travel agents yes,
okay, yes, wow.
So Okay, yes, wow.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So, Okay.
Well, well, this is whathappens when I'm no longer on
the zoning and planningcommission, apparently.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I got nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
But it sounds good.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I have no dog in this fight.
If you've ever driven inMichigan, you don't have a car
left by the time you're done.
If you fall in a pothole, youdon't have a car left by the
time you're done.
It'd fall in a pothole.
You'll never see the car again.
That's why I always rent a carwhen I go to Michigan.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I don't blame you one bit.
Eat the crap out of you knowAvis's car, not mine.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well, thank you for—.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Listener spotlight.
Thank you, york Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So we've got something exciting tonight.
We are recording on the nightof the release of the RAGBRAI
annual route.
The logo is cool.
It's calling Take Flight.
We are going to be livestreaming our first actual live
stream of an event.
(29:37):
We'll see how it goes.
If it doesn't go well, oh well.
We tried, but we're going togive it our best effort and we
feel as though the testing thatwe've done, we should be able to
follow along with the routerelease.
We have chosen once again notto attend ragbri this year.
We're trying to do some otherstuff and we'll we can talk
about that on the on the nextshow.
(29:59):
Um, um.
But since we happen to be acycling and leisure podcast, we
are definitely branching in moreof the leisure lifestyle and
different items and um, hopingthat I can spend some time and
look at our footage from ourgolf and see if we can't find
some funny voice clips and um,I'll be, I'll be looking at that
(30:20):
.
Uh, but the cycling is where itobviously the friendship bonded,
and so we felt that with thebiggest ride is that we would
pay attention, add somecommentary, whether it's like oh
, it's going right back to youknow ankeny, or whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So we've got a lot of friends who who are riding it
and a lot of team members andthings.
So you know we just cause we'renot riding it doesn't mean we
shouldn't talk about it anddiscuss it and yeah, I missed
something earlier.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I don't doubt it, we're going to get into your
escalator story, but I want togive our friend, our artist,
brian Lee fritz dot com.
Oh yeah, lee FRITZ dot com,brian Lee Fritz dot com.
Brian is an extremely talentedartist.
(31:12):
He does bicycles, birds, allkinds of stuff.
He's been recycling men ofleisure's logo, cycling women of
leisure's logo, cycling womenof leisure's logo, that's right,
good job.
Our newest logo that he justdesigned for us, not but four
weeks ago, three weeks ago, oh,for the podcast, for the podcast
(31:32):
.
So those of you don't know, wehad the logo first, then we had
the podcast and then the ladiesand we kind of we kind of
overshadowed the, the actuallogo for the podcast, and so we
called him up and and hedefinitely helped us out.
So, but that being said, lastyear we did a little ride in
Michigan called Shoreline.
(31:53):
Yes, we did.
Our friend Joe is signed up forShoreline this year, for
Shoreline this year, and Brian,being that you know that we were
talking about his art andeverything, he showed us a sneak
peek behind the scenes of theJersey for Shoreline this year.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And I got to tell you it looks sharp.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
If you are looking to do Shoreline, this is a bad
Jersey, so I'm excited about it.
I'm excited for him, I'mexcited for for anyone doing
shoreline.
Um, some of the some of theshoreline was absolutely
beautiful oh yeah, tunnel oftrees and all that area and
(32:34):
traverse city, traverse city.
Unfortunately it rained ourlast day, but we made the best
of it and, um, yeah, it rained alot, but definitely looking
forward to that.
And if you're thinking about it, let me just tell you this
year's jersey is awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It's a great jersey.
I would probably say it's in mytop five of best-looking
jerseys I've seen.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
That's definitely cool.
I definitely agree.
I'm like, hmm, even though Iknow I'm not doing that right,
can I get the jersey?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
somehow can I?
Tell neil, I need the hey, Inever got a jersey last year.
Can I get a jersey this year?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
that's right.
You were supposed to, you'resupposed to get.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
There was a snafu, snafu and the technology and
yeah, but um but uh, brian diddo the jersey last year yeah
very nice jersey.
Last year it was, it was ummackinac bridge, and yeah it was
mackinac bridge.
it was uh, kind of abstract,kind of um, I guess kind of
(33:36):
abstract, I won't say I meanwe're not talking super abstract
, but I mean it was just kind ofmild.
It was there, that type ofthing.
I would say this year's isdynamic.
I do too.
It's yeah full of I mean youlook at it and you can feel the
motion and yeah, it's justreally good.
Good job, Brian, Keep it up.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The last piece of our leisure community.
You're going to be surprised at.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Am I.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, because it's you , oh dear, oh no, I like your
new accessory.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Oh, okay, I was like where's he going with this?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
No, no, no, I am staring.
Yes, If you watch us on YouTubeor you choose to just log in to
see this, you, sir, have got anew toy.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I do.
You know you've been upgradinggreatly on your home studio.
I really have not.
I'm kind of stuck with what Istarted with.
But due to podcast 2025, Ibought myself a new Shure
microphone and it's even got thelittle light up thing here, and
then you know what thebeautiful thing is.
(34:46):
Too bad, this doesn't work onyou, but I can just.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh my gosh, he's muted.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Look at that, but now you can.
So I wish I could touch thatand mute you, but it doesn't
work that way, so it's a.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, I do apologize.
Mr Sharp thinks that he cancontrol the situation, but no,
no, no.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You've seen my household.
I don't control anything.
Come on, but no, it's a greatmic.
It sounds good.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'm really happy with it, so that looks pretty cool.
Thank you, uh, definitely checkthat out on youtube.
You'll see a new edition.
Um, let's get into um, yourescalator experience, or?
It makes me think of guns androses when they had the
spaghetti incident.
Let let's talk about theescalator incident.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Are you going to tell about your story or the real
story?
I mean, let's just tell themabout the alligator story
because, let's be honest, I knowyou're a little ashamed.
I had to save your life playinggolf when the alligator
attacked Tore up my leg a littlebit playing golf when the
alligator attacked, tore up myleg a little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, that's what he would like to
think.
We decided that we were goingto go to a restaurant called the
edison.
It is like a speakeasy, uh kindof like steampunk, uh, whiskey
and bourbon bar great, greatplace, if you haven't been there
Great place, and we parked thecar, we got out and we started
(36:22):
going down the escalator.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Now let's say first yes, if you've ever been to
Disney Springs, you know youpark in the parking garage and
to get into the Disney Springsarea they have security, so you
have to go through security andit was raining that day so there
was wet shoes and wet stuff andeven though the escalators are
covered, everything still hadwater on it.
(36:44):
So let's start with that.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
It was definitely slippery.
So we went through security, weturned the corner, we go down
the escalator, which you which Ibelieve you, by the way go down
the escalator, which you whichI believe you, by the way but
you, you claim that you normallydon't do the escalator.
You normally don't know.
Normally I take the stairs soall I know is I'm in front of
you.
So, if you're visualizing this,here are two gentlemen on an
(37:09):
escalator.
I am first and I'm going downand all of a sudden I get kicked
in the back of my leg and myshin and I'm thinking to myself
what the heck's going on,because I never in a million
years thought that you hadfallen.
I just thought maybe somethingelse had happened.
Well, next thing I look down,you've got your arm.
(37:30):
I literally, I promise you, Ithought you broke your arm, but
you've got your arm bentbackwards.
You're holding it backwards andI don't know which arm it was.
I'm, uh, this one, right, itwas, it was the left left.
And you're you're holding itand I'm thinking, oh yeah.
And I'm like, I'm like, did youbreak your arm?
And now we're trying to havethis small, quick conversation.
(37:53):
You're like I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
No, no, no, You're trying to have a small quick
conversation.
I was still trying to figureout what the heck had happened.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Well, my concern was all of a sudden the brain kicks
in.
I understand that sometimes I'mnot the sharpest bulb in the
tree, but I do look down and I'mrealizing we are running out of
time because— Running out ofescalator, running out of
escalator space, and that you'regoing to come to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
I just picture like you rolling, or or I'm like a
hot dog on the little rollersthat's right, I just start doing
that and people just starttripping over me.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, it's been bad but then, if you've seen some of
these tmz stories, peoplerecently have had legs amputated
.
There's a, a guy in Asia whowas on one of the walkways
moving walkways, escalator, youknow and he got his shoe caught
because he was on his phone andthen it took his toe in.
They had to amputate rightthere.
And I'm like, all of a sudden,I'm like first I said, is your
(38:50):
arm broken?
And you're like, I don't thinkso.
I'm like what happened?
You're like I don't think so.
I'm like what happened?
You're like I just shifted myweight, I don't know.
And then I realized we got likeseven sections of escalator
before you're gonna meet yourdemise.
And I'm like, bro, you gottaget up.
I go, you got, you gotta get up.
And so you do get up and youkind of you kind of move over to
(39:12):
the wall and everybody'sstaring at you, which I felt bad
.
And so a security guard comesdown and wonderful gentleman, uh
, wonderful gentleman barelyspoke english.
I felt bad for him, uh, but hesaid all I understood is medical
attention.
And at the time you still gotyour arm bent backwards and I'm
like, yeah, we need some medicalattention.
(39:33):
I'm thinking, I'm thinkingthey're gonna send over, like
you know, I thought there wouldbe like the first disney springs
.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
They would have like emt, who was also like a
security person, exactly, andthey would have like the big bag
.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
They would come running over and and we're
waiting, and we're waiting andI'm bleeding you're bleeding.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I mean, you look like you've been bit by an alligator
you weren't joking about my legliterally, and it looks like
claws of an alligator or tiger,just like went down well, I'm
sure you've all over myescalator and an escalator has
got, you know, ridges sharpteeth yeah, sharp teeth.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Well, guess what it does to skin with mr sharp.
It took, it took your skin offso we're waiting there and a
part of us is like we're boththinking that they're going to
send, like the the communityparamedic over or something you
know, the disney springsparamedic or whatever, and we're
waiting for a little mouse ears.
Yeah, exactly, I'm here to helpyou, you know so.
(40:31):
And a sudden we turn the cornerand we look oh my God, this is
a full striker stretcher, twowomen from the fire department
who are carrying I mean, they'rebringing the full DIY and you
go, oh God, yeah the fullstretcher.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Both of them had the big bags on the stretcher.
The other lady had anothersatchel thing on.
They're coming rolling overthere.
I mean we got defibrillatorpaddles and stuff to take off
fingers and tracheotomy andeverything and it's just like,
oh boy, Everybody wasn't alreadystaring at me.
Now everybody, I'm givingeverybody coming down the
(41:17):
escalators a show.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
But you know what that woman was fantastic she was
.
She said.
She said why don't we go overhere?
It was still raining, and soshe said why don't we go over
here?
And she took you like to a moreprivate area and then all of a
sudden you're getting, you'regetting the medical attention
that you need, yeah, and I lookup and I think I'm a pretty
(41:42):
observant guy I mean, I know howto look around and I look at
them behind me and I realizethere's one police officer and
then there's two police officers.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
And these aren't Disney security anymore.
These are Orlando policeofficers and these aren't Disney
security anymore.
These are Orlando policeofficers.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
And then I look up and if you've ever been to
Disney you can picture themanagement.
They've got their blue badgewith their lanyard around their
neck.
They've got dress pants on anda dress shirt and they've got
the pincher thing to pick upgarbage.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
And they got the walkie-talkie thing.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Walkie-talkie and I look up and I I see her and
she's like she, she, she'schomping at the bit to talk to
you.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
she's afraid that you've already called the lawyer
you, but you've already yeah,you've already been settling for
more disney attorney.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I'm not settling for anything less than yeah, so they
come to talk to you and I, youknow, with everything going on.
I don't know if you rememberthis, and if you do, I apologize
, but the fire department's likecan you get out of here?
I'm not done with him yet.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah, I remember she was like can you just not do
this?
Right now I'm still trying totreat him, and she just took
command of the situation.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
It's like I appreciate it Because they were
asking your room number, whatresort you were staying at, Did
you want a wheelchair?
Did you want this?
And you know, I know there's,don't get me wrong liability, I
get exactly what they were doing.
We know what they were comingfor.
By the way, they had you on AIcamera the rest of the day.
(43:09):
They were watching your everymove.
There's no doubt in my mind ohyeah, they were taking video
getting still.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
I mean, you know they were getting everything ready.
So when they got a call from myattorney, they were like okay,
we've been expecting you.
Yes, we remember, mr Sharp.
They were putting together afull legal dossier on me because
, you know, honestly, nine timesout of ten somebody's in that
situation they're going to tryto sue them.
Even just from the fact thatwe're going to sue them for a
(43:37):
million dollars and we're goingto make it worse than it is and
they're going to settle for35,000.
We're going to be happy withthat.
So I get it.
Now, I'm not that kind of guy.
I was on the elevator.
I shifted my weight from myleft of my right foot to my left
foot.
It was slick.
He meant escalator what's that?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
you meant escalator escalator.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yes, I slipped, I fell.
It's an accident.
I'm the type of guy thatbelieves accidents happen and
you know, oh well, there wassome water on there or some
dampness.
Well, yeah, it's rainingoutside and you're in an outside
venue.
I mean that part, that part'scovered up.
But you know what, what?
What are they going to do?
Have everybody, like, dry offtheir shoes.
I mean, it's an accident, it'snobody's fault.
(44:20):
If it's anybody's fault, it'smy fault for not being more
careful holding onto the rails.
So I wasn't going to sue him.
But boy, let me tell you, timeit was all over.
There was two security guards,two full-time police officers,
disney management, two likecounty emt people.
Uh, it was.
It was crazy well, the onlything I regret out of that is
(44:45):
the uh.
Management from disney springswas like oh, do you need a, do
you need a wheelchair?
And the guy came rolling over.
I was like, no, I don't needone.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
I should have said I'm sorry, you were going to say
something.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yes, I do.
Adam will push me around allday and made you just push me
around Disney Springs.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh, I would have pushed you All right.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
Oh yeah, the little pond, the little creek thing off
the bridge.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Well, listen, I'm happy that nothing was broken
and I uh I know that uh, sincewe you showed me a picture of it
afterwards you definitely werein some pain.
It did look like even yourfamily thought you, you told
your family it was an alligatorand they're like, seriously so.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Oh, I totally told him it was an alligator, because
we did see alligators on thegolf course and I took and I
sent pictures and they're likeit's not an alligator, it's like
, yeah, we saw them golfing andthey're like you just made that
up and I was like, no, look inthe picture.
You can clearly see the greensin the background.
This is on the golf course.
There was alligators.
So I got him convinced that Iwas was attacked by an alligator
.
But your wife said it.
(45:52):
She thought it was broken.
She did.
She's a nurse, she sees it.
When my wife saw it she worksalso, she's not a nurse, but she
works in health care she's likeare you sure you didn't break
it?
Um, so everybody looking at itthought I had broke because it
swelled up, it was heavilybruised, but, um, I haven't had
any problem with it.
I mean, as long as you know,sometimes, occasionally I'll rub
the outside and even thoughI've got it bandaged, it'll hurt
(46:14):
a little there, but I think I'mfine.
And Disney, just so you know mylawyer is not going to be
contacting you, so you're safe.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Okay, that is recorded here.
Currently, the current time is8.31 Eastern, 7.31 Central.
So well, listen, it was a greattrip.
We learned a lot.
We did had a good time.
We also learned a lot a smallside note of taking the full
(46:45):
studio on the road Learned somestuff there, so that was a good
learning experience.
We did In traditional fashion.
Our old team name was TeamSherpa.
I once again took too muchstuff.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
You needed a Sherpa.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Oh my gosh, All that stuff.
You're not lying, but I've gota new plan for the next time,
and so it was a good learningexperience.
Good, but that being said, Iwould love to ask you are you
prepared for another listenerspotlight.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
You know, I am, I am.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Are you prepared?
Let's have it Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
This community is like several that we've had, is
in a state that it did not startout in the major industry that
drove.
The town's development wasmining and railroads.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
The community during the Civil War, supported the
Confederacy, so that should begiving you some location, some
part of the country.
Here's a good one.
If you are a Bulls basketballfan, chicago you can thank this
(48:06):
town for its small contributionto the team's success in the
mid-'80s and 90s, through the90s, through the mid-90s, and
here's what the town is named.
The name of the town is inreference to a revolutionary
(48:28):
battle.
This is the one you're going tolike.
They once had a sports teamthat would make you want to have
a drink of bourbon.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
I don't know what it is, but I already love it.
So there we go.
Well, in that case, Iappreciate you providing those
clues.
Reach out, oh, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
I got one more thing okay I'm just going to throw it
out now.
My prediction for ragbricouncil bluffs to dubuque.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
There you have it and , by the way, I promise you we
are logging on in 10 minutes, sohe is saying that before it is
announced.
You have my word.
Um, always great to gettogether with you.
We're going to jump over hereon this live stream, but, that
being said, I believe we haveanother great show For all of
you who take your time and youlisten our audience.
(49:26):
We love you.
We thank you.
Thank you and we hope you havea great day.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
And remember.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Today is a great day for.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Bike Ride.
Maybe by you it is, but not byme.
I'm just kidding.
It's a great day for a virtualbike ride.
I've been back on Zwift, so ifyou're on Zwift, check me out.
So, everybody, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
See ya.
Thank you for coming along withAdam and Michael on Road
Adventures with Cycling Men ofLeisure.
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