Patreon Q&A - A Potpourri Part 1 - Treasures of our Town

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In America they call the meat patty hamburger,
whereas Australia, the rest ofthe world a hamburger is the
entire thing.
But anyway, that's somethingdifferent again.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you for your weekly cultural moment, okay.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Anytime, anytime.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Do you love to travel ?
Do you love road trips?
Do you love road trips?
Do you love finding hiddentreasures in towns all over the
USA?
Hi, I'm Joshua.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I'm Craig.
Welcome to Treasures of OurTown.
It's the podcast that exploresthe unique and charming towns
scattered throughout the UnitedStates.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Guided by our love for location-based games like
geocaching, join us as weventure to some of the country's
most intriguing destinations,uncovering hidden gems and local
secrets along the way.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
And on today's episode, Josh, we reached out.
We reached out to our goodfriends, our family members, our
patrons, and we asked them whatdid they want to hear, what did
they want to listen to?
And you call it a potpourri ofquestions A potpourri, a
potpourri, a patron?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I?
What's a potpourri?
A potpourri, a patron?
I just thought I had a nicering to it Patron potpourri of Q
and A questions.
And I'm calling it part onebecause we oh yeah, we don't
know how far we're going to getRight and if this is true and if
this goes well, this is maybecould be like an ongoing thing.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, and ongoing thing, once every six months or
something.
We could reach out and do itfrom there Exactly.
It sounds good and it's anotherway to give back to our patrons
as well, because they are, theyare family members.
They are really good to us aswell and we do really do
appreciate every single one ofthem too.
So all want to get into yourdelays and upgrades before we
start.
It's time, because you've got,you've got, you've got a good
one coming up.

(01:46):
I'll say that.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll say you want my delay first, or do you want my
upgrade first?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
start with you.
It's very different.
We start with your upgrade.
Okay, I want to leave yourdelay to very, very last.
So I'll you do your upgrade,I'll do my two, and then you
finish with your delay, okaycraig, you know how much I love
and I enjoy the wizard of ozright, oh yes yes, of course I
went with you in florida down tothe wizard of oz museum.

(02:12):
Yes, we?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
we traveled down the yellow brick road together,
didn't we?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
well, I videoed you traveling down the skipping
literally a grown man skippingdown the yellow brick road
that's right.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
So I also am a big fan of musicals, and one of my
favorite musicals of all time isthe musical wicked and craig.
I've been waiting for 20 yearsfor what I did last night with
my, myself and the reester bunnywe went to wicked the musical,
the movie, wow, wow, that'sreally cool.

(02:45):
Did you enjoy it?
Yeah, have you?
Have you ever seen wicked greghave?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
you was it, was it the movie?
Did you say it was a movie?
It's a movie?
It wasn't a stage?
No, oh so it wasn't the stage,no, but I'm gonna say the movie
was so good.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I okay, I love the musical, but the movie yeah dare
I say, was maybe even betterthan the musical.
It was fantastic really wow.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Have you seen the actual musical?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
yes, I've seen the musical twice in person.
Okay, um, okay, and it'sfantastic.
I love the music.
It's great.
Um, and do you know anything,craig?
Do you know anything aboutwicked?
You know, like what it is?

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I've seen wicked the musical in sydney, australia,
going back now, going back nowover 10 years ago.
Oh, you've seen it, that'sgreat.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So if you don't, know it's basically the prequel to
the Wizard of Oz and it'sbasically how did the Wicked
Witch of the West become wicked?
And it was just man.
It was just fantastic.
I know this isn't a pop culturepodcast, although I talk about
it a lot, but this is quite afilm and this is the time of

(03:50):
year where people kind of havesome extra time with the
holidays.
I really highly recommend thismovie.
Even if you're not a bigmusical fan, this is very
entertaining.
It's a beautiful movie.
It's really cool.
So that was my upgrade.
I've been waiting 20 years.
The W my upgrade.
I've been waiting 20 20 years.
The wicked wicked the broadwayshow has been out for 20 years
and I've always thought.

(04:11):
I've always thought, gosh, thiswould make a really good movie
and it did.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah well, before we start with the, uh, with the
patron questions as well.
Josh, I got a question for youstraight away what's your
favorite ever musical you'veactually watched?
Oh, there we go, go.
That's thrown you for a sixbecause you weren't on the.
This isn't on the show notes,people, so just to let you know
it's funny because we can comeback to it if you like.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
No, I think I know.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's wicked.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I love that musical.
That's how much I love.
I love other musicals too.
Now come on back to the future,the musical which I've talked
about.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think on this podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
That was fantastic I also love the musical rent um,
you know are you aware of rent?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
yeah, yeah, I love rent.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah yep and um gosh, I.
I love the classics too.
I love sound of music.
I love oklahoma.
I love, I love the music man.
I like, kind of like thoseclassics too, fiddler on the
roof fan fandom of the operaphantom phantom.
You know, I've never seenphantom of the opera.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
No I know I should really, but I know it.
I'm more enriched than what youare, but I know it see, I know
it I should.
I'm cut.
He's people if you.
This is a podcast, so audioonly, but josh is actually
covering half of his face, as hedoes that too, by the way.
Anyway, mine, josh, believe itor not, mine is actually, excuse

(05:35):
me, 42nd street oh, that's agreat one.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
There's a lot of dancing.
There's a lot of dancing like alot of tap dancing in that one
tap dancing, exactly right.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
And for me as well, josh, it's not just the dancing,
because I saw it.
I'm 49 years of age.
Okay, I was 14 years of agewhen I saw 42nd street and I
still remember it to this day Imade an impression on you it
really, did it really?
the back of the day.
Anyway, we we're digressing,we're deep diving, we should.
Well, let's come back up to thesurface and let's go with my

(06:04):
delay.
This is going to be a quick onebecause we've heard this before
.
Josh, I'm still getting scammessages on selling my car, like
what is, with these scamartists doing the same thing
over and over again.
So, anyway, not spending anymore time on those people, I'm
moving on to my upgrade becauseI'm more excited about that.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Ready for this, Josh.
Hold on.
Ready for this, Josh.
Hold on I want to talk a littlebit about your delay.
Are you going to just changeyour strategy?
I think you should just dosomething else to sell this
thing, or are you in no rush tosell it?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I kind of am a little bit in a rush-ish to sell it
this year.
I need to sell it by this year.
But I've got a backup plananyway that I can, okay, like
fall back on.
It's not as much.
You know what I mean.
If you sell it to an actualcompany it's not as much.
It's nowhere near as much.
But uh, if I need to, there's abackup plan there.
So they get it off your hands.
But my upgrade I need to talkabout my upgrade okay upgrade.

(06:58):
I, josh, has purchased a new ornew for me 2017 model, fully
decked out, savannah.
An actual real van, pro mastervan, high top that you can walk
in.
There's a, there's a bathroominside, there's a shower oh my
gosh, oh yeah, oh yeah, there'sthe queen bed, there's the

(07:18):
cooktop, there's, you know,there's gonna be a desk for me
there to do my podcasting fromthere, josh.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
So there you go, there might be actually enough
room for me.
So we don't have to get hotelsanymore.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, if you want to share a bed with me, then
there's a different story.
Now, you would share a bed withme.
I wouldn't share a bed with you, just saying.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, thanks a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
There's enough, and Tim knows why.
Anyway, hey, you know what,craig?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, this is kind of personal, but I'll say it
because people listening in ourfamily.
I've lost quite a bit of weightover the last three months.
I have noticed that.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I have seen that.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Which means that everything is flowing a lot
better through my nose, yourairflow.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Your airflow is a lot better in the nighttime.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
The doctor said that kind of stuff stops if you lose
weight.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
It does it honestly, does it honestly does.
So there you go, and that's whyI'm on a mission at the moment
too, josh to lose some kilos, tolose some kegs.
We call it in Australia.
So hopefully, next time peoplesee me at an event, I would look
a little bit different,hopefully, than what I used to
look like.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
But we'll see, we'll see.
Anyway, I just want to saycongratulations.
That is amazing.
I know that was one of your,your hopes, you, I, we know how
much you love being on the road,and this is just going to make
it even more fantastic.
And craig, a 2017.
It's going to be yeah, that's,that's not that old, that's nice
, that's gonna's going to run70,000 miles on it and these
things can last up to a millionmiles, sometimes, some of them

(08:48):
the ProMasters.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, the ProMasters are a good quality vehicle, so I
had it all checked out as well.
It's in Phoenix, arizona, and Ihad it all checked out by a
mechanic over there.
I was waiting for themechanic's report to come back,
to come back, and it came backall clear and all good and uh,
yeah, and that's it.
So I fly to phoenix in december, start of december, and pick it
up from there.
And it's she.
She already has a name from herprevious owner.

(09:11):
Her name, her name is tuesday,tuesday.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
So there you go is there a reason why it's tuesday?
Did you ask them?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
yes, and the reason for it is because apparently her
the owner current owner at themoment heard father's um song or
something is called tuesday.
Like her, father's favoritesong is tuesday, something to do
with tuesday, whereas me I'mgonna say to people okay, no
worries, see you next tuesday,if you know what I mean, so as
an australian.

(09:39):
So there you go, there you go.
There's my delay and my upper.
We're gonna get to your delays,josh.
I think we should.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm so happy for you.
Mine is also vehicle related, Iknow.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
My delay is Let you talk about your delay.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, so Monday morning.
You know Mondays can be roughpeople and we try to do things
that make it less rough.
Right, you know we got to easeinto the week, but I was in a
hurry.
I had the Reister, bunny and myson who just began driving, by
the way in the car, oh yes, inthe car.
So I hit the button to open upthe garage door and I put it

(10:18):
into reverse and I start pullingout of my garage.
And I pulled out a little toosoon because the top of my
subaru hit the garage, scrapedmy car, dented and kind of bent

(10:40):
the garage door.
So I couldn't really.
If I press the button itwouldn't go down anymore.
Oh, I was so mad.
Some really interesting thingscame out of my mouth.
Yes, and I had to.
I, I was able to manually pushit all the way up because it was
stuck.
I pull out and then you know howyou can like disconnect yeah,

(11:02):
yeah, the disc you so you canlike do it manually, and I did
and it wouldn't even close thatway and I had to force it close
because it was like bent and Iwas just so mad.
And then, you know, I went onabout my day and I was just
thinking about all day.
I was so frustrated, so upset,especially since my son is a new
driver and you know it's just,if he ever gets a fender bender

(11:26):
or something like that happensto him, all he'll point to is
Dad, you backed into the garagedoor, come on.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
He's got to get out of jail free card for his first
prank.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Exactly, Exactly.
But but, Craig, I was just.
I was so upset and then all ofa sudden I came home and I was
just like, oh, just for kicks,I'm going to press the garage
door button just to see if itdoes anything.
And, Craig, it was a miraclewhy it just fixed itself.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
No, you know what it was.
You left Goliath at home andthere was little Goliath with a
tour belt on with his hammer andnails, with his tour belt,
going for a little fella.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
No, it fixed itself, like I think what happened is
when I found, when I forced itback up, yeah it, whatever the
dent or whatever it was, in kindof undented itself okay, yeah,
and it kind of fixed itself Ithink I do need to get a tune up
of the garage door just to besure, but it's working fine and
how bad and you know what I was.

(12:24):
So, yeah, well, the car's alittle scratched, but it's not
bad.
It's one of those things whereonly you notice, you know, yeah,
and you're just like you lookat it.
You're like, oh, why did I do?
But most people wouldn't notice.
Anyway, that was wow, that wasan interesting delay.
Wow, there you go.
There you go.
Isn't it funny that most of ourdelays have to do with vehicles

(12:45):
?
Like, remember the Matt storyat the car wash?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
That's right, that's right.
And we still had people,actually some of our patrons
messaging you and asking you didyou get your money back for the
Matt?
So there you go, I still haveit.
There you go.
All right, josh, let's lead innow.
We're straight into thisbecause we've got to get through
these eight patrons.
Eight patrons reached out to us, josh, with these questions,
and we're going to thank themall first, and there's a few of
them, and we'll let people knowas well what the question was

(13:12):
and who it was from before wegive our answers.
But did you want to do what?
You put a definition ofpotpourri there.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
What's this definition of potpourri?
It's not potpourri, it'sspelled pot.
It is, but it's silent.
It's potpourri.
The tea is silent, at least inMinnesota it's silent, and I
just thought you know, craig, Ithought it just had a nice ring
to it Patron potpourri yourgrandma's house.
It is a mixture of dried petalsand spices placed in a bowl or
small sack to perfume clothingor a room.
A mixture of things, especially, oh, okay, so that, oh, there's
a flower piece, but then thisis the part that makes sense to
us a mixture of things,especially a musical or
literally a literary medley sothis is literally a medley of
questions there you go potpourripotpourri.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I like it potpourri, potpourri, and anyway in
australia we call it potpourripotpourri, it makes sense it's
spelled that way.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I'll accept that.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
There you go there, you go.
All right, josh, we're gettingstraight into it.
Question one was from jamielevin.
Jam, jamie Levin, in LongIsland too.
So thank you very much, jamiewe know his geocaching name too.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Of course it's a fun name to say Motorimbo, motorimba
.
No, motorimba, motorimbo, Ithink we're killing it.
Motorimba, sorry, motorimba,motorimba.
That's what I was.
Motorimba See.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
That's what I was.
I wrote it in my remember.
See, look at you, look at you,it's all wrong, it's all right,
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Jamie sorry.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
His question, josh, was, must have food you've come
across.
He goes.
I'm sorry if you've alreadydone this, but I want to know
the different types of food thatyou've come across in your
travels.
So I thought that was a greatquestion, did you want?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
to lead out.
Josh, let's have you lead out,because you kind of took this in
a little different directionthan I did.
You kind of really, youactually answered the question.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
You were like you focused on the food yes, you
focused on the food.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, I focused on the experiences.
Yes, true, true, like theexperience.
Like some of these places don'thave the greatest food,
necessarily, some of them do,yeah, but it's more about the
unique experiences, yeah, solet's just maybe go back and
forth.
So you're, let's start withyours, I'll start with mine.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Mine is always about trying local foods, josh.
So, in other words, if I'm youknow, if I'm at a coastal town,
I want to try their delicacies.
I want to try the fish thatjust comes off the, the boats
you know what I mean all theclams or the, the lobsters in
maine, for instance, that sortof stuff, um.
So one of these things was whenI went to florida for the first
time, I had to try gator bites.
So I actually had some gatorbites in florida, see.

(15:52):
So, but for me it's all aboutthe type of food and the
location, and they've got tomingle into one.
For me, it's always a simplegoogle search.
All I do is I search whateverthe area is I mean at the time,
and then local delicacies orlocal food, and that's it, and
it comes and shows you what theyshould have.
So, yeah, I've had.
You want me to list off mine?
I'll list off mine no well,let's go.

(16:13):
Let's just go back and forthokay for me one of the top ones.
There is gator bites in florida.
What about you?

Speaker 2 (16:19):
well, gator bites in florida.
I've had gator too in louisianaalso, also same thing.
And let's just let's talk aboutgator for a second.
Yeah, they always say it's likechicken.
Yes, but here's the deal.
It's a little gamey.
It's a little gamey for me yes,and I don't, I don't like that.
Oh, you don't you like that?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
yes, I do okay, yeah, you do.
Yeah, you can taste the protein.
You know.
It's the same with uh, it's thesame with venison, you know, or
uh, or bison as well, you getbison.
You can taste that.
You can taste the depth of themeat, of the flavor.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, mine is a place, uh,
which it also has fun food it'sthe billy goat tavern in chicago
.
Have you heard of the billygoat tavern?
No, I haven't tell me about thebilly.
Okay, the billy goat tavern isa very famous place because it
was in the 70s on saturday nightlive.
So here's another pop culturereference.

(17:12):
They had a skit and it was theolympia cafe and it was a place
and it was john akroyd or, yeah,uh, dan akroyd and john belushi
, and it it was like arestaurant where it was just so
simple and they just servedcheeseburgers and they would do
cheeseburger cheeseburger,cheeseburger cheeseburger.
And then they went no Coke,pepsi.
People are like I don't want aPepsi, just Coke.

(17:33):
It's one of those places thatit's making fun of a cafe, that
their menu is so simple that youhave to get the cheeseburger.
Yeah, that's what they do, the.
The skit is like I like to havesome eggs and some hash browns.
They're like no cheeseburger,but it's breakfast anyway.
Cheeseburger, yeah, exactly.
And so the billy goat tavernwas was what this skit on on

(17:58):
saturday night live was basedoff of, and the location of it's
really cool because it's below.
So chicago is kind of built on.
Their roads are kind of builton top of each other and there's
like levels, yeah, and this oneis underneath.
So you're on michigan avenue inchicago and this one you have
to go down, like you're downinto under the street, and this

(18:21):
tavern, this dive tavern, isunder the street.
Wow, this is a really uniqueplace.
And, of course, there's ageocache there.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Of course, of course, most of these places there are.
That's what leads us to theselocations too.
Let's be honest, one of my nextones, josh as well, and I
recently had this when I was inmy UK trip and I had to try the
black pudding in England.
Have you heard of black puddingin England?
Have you heard of black?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
pudding in England.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
No, tell me more.
So black pudding is acombination of suet or fat as
well.
It's also known with grain andcereal onion seasoning, and
there's no denying it.
Cow or pig's blood as well isinvolved in it too.
It is black in color.
It's served in a natural casinglike actually an intestine,
like an animal intestine casing,so it basically comes out like

(19:07):
a sausage you know what I mean,like a hot dog, but a large-ish,
thick-ish hot dog, and theyslice it up and you normally
have one of those slices withyour breakfast in the morning,
like a traditional Englishbreakfast.
They have the black pudding,you have a sausage as well, you
have bacon, you have eggs, youhave beans as well, you have
bacon, you have eggs, you have,uh, your beans as well, baked
beans as well.
So, yeah, so I had to have theblack pudding in england and I

(19:30):
enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it um.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Based on your description, that sounds
disgusting.
Yes, I mean a suit of fat, yes,grain or cereal, like all these
things that you mixed.
It's like I.
None of these things sound goodtogether, but they especially
the cow or pig's blood.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yes, yes yes, and it's.
It is colored because of theblood as well.
It colors it black, so that'swhy they call it black pudding.
But yeah, so yeah, very, very,very delicious, very, very.
It's very similar to um inscotland as well, uh, josh, they
have, they have the same sortof thing the haggis um in
scotland as well, uh, josh tohow they have the same sort of
thing the haggis in in scotland,and that's, that's all encased
inside a, uh, and it not anintestine but like a like I

(20:13):
think it's a lamb stomach orsomething like that something,
and that actually is cookedinside the lamb stomach and the
lamb stomach is part of thecasing in which you eat.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
So, absolutely delicious so isn't it kind of
interesting that when things arein like casing in the shape of
like a hot dog or brat, it justseems like it tastes better?
Yeah like, but if it's not ifit's not, it just meant if it's
not encased in it you're kind oflike ew yeah, you know what I
mean.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yes, yes, yes, no, they're very similar, very
similar.
So that was my second one, mate.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
So black pudding in england my second one is one
that we've talked about on thispodcast that we have been to
together and honestly I think,Craig, you introduced me to this
.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yes, and then I went separately as well to another
one in the location too.
I went to the one in the Ozarks.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yes, because there's three locations and it's
Lambert's Cafe.
Home of the Th throat, throatthroat.
Home of the throat rolls.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, yes, and you did a tiktok video on it too.
Uh, tim minnesota boy, he wasthere with us in in foley in
alabama as well.
Um, josh, what?
What do they do?
Why are they called throatrolls?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
because they walk out every what half hour with fresh
baked rolls and they don't justhand them to you, they don't
put them on your plate, theythrow them across the room and
you catch them Again.
A great experience.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
But not only is it a good experience, but also they
have delicious food there too.
I mean, there was a countryfried steak there.
There was a chicken.
I think you had the countryfried chicken as well.
There was the country friedsteak there there was the
chicken.
I think you had the countryfried chicken as well.
But those rolls, those rollsare so fresh people that
literally they bring them out inthe trays that they're baked in
and so they kind of look alittle bit like a muffin.
They've got a little muffin topas well because they're baked

(22:00):
inside these muffin trays.
And so when you get them andyou open up that fresh hot roll,
there's still steam andmoisture that comes out.
So, and you open up that freshhot roll, there's still steam
and moisture that comes out.
So if you're listening to thisand you start to salivate, well,
you're welcome.
But yeah, you don't even needbutter in it sometimes you
literally just have it as it isby itself, absolutely delicious.
Lambert's Cafe Josh.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
And the locations are Foley, alabama, which is the
one we went to the Ozarks, likeyou said, and sykestown,
missouri.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
So there's two in missouri, one in alabama yeah,
exactly, all right let's seeyour next one my next one is
pizza in new jersey, believe itor not, and I personally tell me
more, and I I personallybelieve and I might get hate,
especially from motorimba forthis as well but new jersey
pizza is better than pizza innew york.
It's better than pizza on longisland, um, and and the reason

(22:46):
for it?
The reason for it is tworeasons, twofold, and that is
number one the italians in northnew jersey who brought it over
here.
Absolutely delicious.
But also, apparently, the waterin which they use um is going
to be separate to the water inwhich they use in those other
sort of states or boroughs fromthere.
So, yeah, the pizza in newjersey.
I've never had pizza like it.

(23:06):
Normally pizza in Australia,josh and people from Australia
listening would understand youhave, it's all about the
toppings, whereas here it's gotnothing to do with the toppings.
The toppings literally have tobe the tomato-based sauce and
cheese and that's it.
You don't have any othertoppings on your pizza here in
New Jersey.
If you want a real, true newjersey pizza, yeah, that's it.

(23:27):
You don't need anything else.
The flavor, the taste, the, thecrunch factor, that oh, yeah,
yeah I mean, I love my toppings.
I just feel like that's justlike cheese bread, yeah, no, no
you, it's the tomato paste aswell.
They use here like oh, it'ssensational.
So there you go, when you cometo new, because you haven't been
here yet.
When you come we'll have to getyou pizza.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, I'm open and curious.
Yes, all right, my next placeis actually a chain restaurant.
It is called Dick's Last Resort.
Have you ever been to Dick'sLast Resort?
No, but.
I'd like to go to dicks um, youwould love this place, craig,
and this is an experience.
This is a place where all theservers treat you very rudely.

(24:11):
Oh, I've heard these like likeon purpose, yes, and they just
yeah, they make fun of you, they.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
They give you these really ridiculous hats and they
write like really offensive andsometimes inappropriate things
on them to insult you these justI've seen these on tiktok,
whereby the the young personwho's actually filming the
tiktok for themselves they'vegot the unsuspecting parent
normally with them, who doesn'tknow what this is about, and so
when they these, these white,white stuff comes up and says,

(24:41):
you know, what do you want fordinner, fatty, you know things
like that, the parents like what, what did you?
Just say?
It's those sort of it's thosesort of things.
I'm thinking.
So that's funny.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's funny very cool yeah, we used to have one
in the mall of america butunfortunately it closed.
But there are still severallocations.
I think one's in vegas lookingup tix.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Last reward, dicks, last resort yep, no, I did see
the one in Vegas as well, but mynext one, josh, is fried
chicken in Kentucky, believe itor not.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Wait, you mean Kentucky fried chicken.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, kfc, kfc, so, kfc in Kentucky.
So when I first come across in2018, I had a list of things I
wanted, josh.
I wanted to have a Long Islandiced tea on Long Island.
I wanted to have a Long Islandiced tea on Long Island.
I wanted to have Kentucky FriedChicken in Kentucky.
And it leads me also into mylast one, which I'll put
together, and that is I hadBuffalo Wings in Buffalo, new

(25:34):
York, and because it was the barthat actually created them,
that created Buffalo Wings iscalled the Anchor Bar in Buffalo
, new York, and they areabsolutely delicious.
And this it's not special, josh,it's like.
It's like it was back in theday.
It's just like a normal bar.
They do have out the front thehome of buffalo buffalo wings,
but, uh, but that's it.

(25:55):
There's nothing really.
There's no fans fanfare,there's no special things.
It's like a normal bar and likeyou would have back in the day
when they first made the actualbuffalo buffalo wings themselves
.
Here's a fun fact for you, joshdo you know why, with your
buffalo wings, they have a sideof the carrot sticks and the
celery?
Do you know what?

(26:15):
You've told me this before.
We've talked about this?
I think I have uh, it's becauseit's the only thing.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I thought it would be .

Speaker 1 (26:24):
It's the only thing that the actual chef who created
the buffalo wings is the onlything that he or she had like at
their disposal to put with themas a side.
So there you go.
That's the only thing they hadas a side.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, that's interesting, interesting,
interesting.
All right, that's my last one,josh as well now have you got
one or two more.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well, yeah, a couple more.
We'll go quickly because I knowwe have to cover other
questions.
We do, but I also love placeswhere food items originated as
well, and you and I wenttogether to Matt's Bar in
Minneapolis, minnesota, which isthe home, the birthplace.
Now it's contested.
Of course it's contested ofcourse it's contested, but most

(27:05):
people think this is thebirthplace of the juicy lucy.
Yes, and a lot of people don'tknow what a juicy lucy unless
they're from minnesota.
Basically, it's very simple.
A juicy lucy is a cheeseburgerwith the cheese cooked inside of
the burger.
Yeah, so when you bite into itwe've explained it here on the
podcast before it's like thischeese lava that squirts out of

(27:27):
the burger, but it is verydelicious.
It is exceptionally matt's bar.
Matt's bar you've been there,craig.
It's a very divey bar.
Yes, and it's.
It's similar.
That's like you don't, youdon't get anything with the
juicy.
No, like no.
That's everybody gets that.
There's no fanfare and there's,and there's like one guy behind
the bar cooking, like in acorner cooking them.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
There's no kitchen.
No, no, you watch him cook.
You watch him cook.
He's in the corner of the bar,exactly.
But I will say these thingsthey taste delicious.
And for those people outsidethe US, if you're listening to
this podcast as well, when Joshsays that the cheese is inside
the hamburger, he means likeinjected inside the meat patty
itself.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yes, injected.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
In America they call the meat patty hamburger,
whereas Australia, the rest ofthe world a hamburger is the
entire thing.
But anyway, that's somethingdifferent again.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Thank you for your weekly cultural moment, okay.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Anytime, anytime.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Do you have one more?
Okay, a couple other ones.
The safe house in milwaukee,wisconsin.
We've talked about the safehouse, haven't?

Speaker 1 (28:29):
we?

Speaker 2 (28:29):
yes, yeah, I'm sure we have safe house is the spy
themed restaurant where you haveto.
You go in through a secret sidedoor, through the, through an
entryway, and then somebody says, as you walk in they go, hello,
spies.
And they're like do you knowthe secret password?
And if you don't know thesecret password, they humiliate
you basically.

(28:50):
And then the door opens and youfind out you've been on camera
for the whole restaurant towatch you do the chicken dance
or do some strange thing.
If you know the password whichI do know the password I'm never
telling anybody you can justwalk in.
You can walk in and leave yourfriends there at the door and
you get to watch them on thescreen humiliate themselves.
Anyway, you go through theplace and it's all like James

(29:10):
Bond themed and there's actuallykind of a scavenger hunt inside
the restaurant that helps youfigure out what the password is.
So next time when you go you'llactually know the password.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
So they still don't tell you the password, even if
you get it wrong.
No, you have to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's kind of a scavenger hunt and it's very
famous in the geocaching worldbecause this is a very favorite
geocache, because there's ageocache inside the restaurant,
behind the bar, and you have toask where you'll see it.
It's an ammo can right behindthe bar.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
So it's very famous for that.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Nice Safe house in Milwaukee.
For that nice safe house inmilwaukee safe house, yeah, you
gotta go.
And then one more that I'venever been to, the.
Have you heard of this place,the casa bonita have?

Speaker 1 (29:49):
you heard of this place no when I read this, I
thought to myself you're, you'renot, you're outside the us now,
but no, you're still in indenver colorado.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
It's a.
It's a mexican restaurant.
I've never been there.
I've heard about it.
I'm gonna.
I just want to read you thedescription, because, if all
this is true, this is amazing.
The Casa Bonita in Denver isfull of cliff divers.
There's cliff divers in it,neon pink stucco I don't know

(30:18):
how to say that word.
I don't know that word.
We'll skip it.
Sopapillars, sopapillars.
It is a legendary place thatSouth Park creators decided an
episode to it, created anepisode towards it.
Every reservation comes with achance to interact with balloon
artists, face painters androaming mass characters.
One of them is named man BearPig.

(30:39):
Anyway, this place isexperience, uh, experience.
There's an arcade.
There's black bart's cave,there's a pirate hangout,
there's skeleton, animatronicscorpions and other jump scares
wow, it's almost like a theaterrestaurant sort of style.

(30:59):
Yeah, will you be going throughthrough Denver when you drive
back to get your car?
No, you could no no, I'm goingSouth.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's too cold this time of year.
No, thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Oh, come on.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I'm no Minnesota and I'm no Minnesota.
So there you go.
I hope we answered your yourquestion, jamie, and again,
jamie and again, thank you verymuch for reaching out.
We're going to move on Josh toJerry.
Is it Jerry Neese?
Am I getting that?

Speaker 2 (31:23):
wrong.
All right, jerry Neese.
Jerry Neese and his geocachingname is G-Neese.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
G-Neese.
That's very nice.
Jerry says actual trip planningthat you do.
So how do we actually plan ourtrips?
What apps software do you use,uh, and what makes you visit
those places that people arejust so damn proud of?
So he's even led you into intoyour local line too.
So there you go.
So he's talking about apps andand visits, like places we visit

(31:52):
and how we decide that we'regoing to do trip planning.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
So, craig, you're more of a road tripper than I am
.
You're on the road a lot moreyou have.
You have some good ones here.
I don't have as many as you, sotake it away well for me it's
more, as you said before, it'smore about the road trips.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
I mean, I do do some airfare like flights as well,
but road tripping for me, Ireally, really enjoyed so road
trips being staying on the roadand inside a vehicle and you can
do, obviously, your motels andhotels etc on the on the way,
but I use the three apps I'mgoing to use is the Road
Trippers app.
Road Trippers app and all theselinks are going to be in the
description Josh iOverlander andHarvest Hosts.

(32:29):
Now, what these do?
Road Trippers app talks aboutplanning a route for you to go.
It highlights significant sitesand landmarks along a
particular route that you wantto go.
So this isn't geocaching, Josh.
This has got nothing to do withgeolocation-based games at all.
This is literally a roadtripping app that you can go.
I want to go from Phoenix to youknow, New Jersey or New York

(32:50):
City, and it will plan a tripfor you, the best route.
You can move the plan the triparound.
You can also do a radius alongthat say.
For instance, you know 50 mileseach side of that road.
You see what's along that roadas well.
So if you want to jut intolittle towns here and there, if
you like something new, uh, thenyou can do that too.
So road trippers app app is theone that I always use um yes,

(33:14):
can I?

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I have a question can you, are there filters where
you can like have roadsideattraction filters so it shows
you that kind of stuff?
Or like exactly right, kind ofrestaurants and yep, okay, yep,
it has all that so you'retalking about.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
It talks about restaurants.
It talks about roadsideattractions.
It talks about museums.
There's even a museum filter inthere as well.
Um, there's, there's like thetop 100 things to see, like as
rated by yelp, you know, andthings like that too, in the us.
So if you want to just go inthere, go okay, I want to see
the top 10 things that peoplewant to see in the us and take
me to it.
It'll show you the route to thetop 10 things in the us to see.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
So is it a free app or is it?
Is it a paid app or is it likefree?
With it okay, so you can get apremium version of it exactly
right.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
and the premium version, then you can actually
like, do a lot more with.
It's more about the filteringwith the premium version,
whereas the non-premium, youcan't really filter out all the
little bits and pieces.
So if you don't want anymuseums at all, if you don't
want dump sites there's evendump sites there for real
on-the-road van lifers too Nice.
Yeah there's things like thattoo.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
So that's, really cool.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
The other one is iOverlander, and this one is a
community-based app.
Do you know what that meanswhen it's a community-based?

Speaker 2 (34:23):
app, does it mean that it was created by the
community?

Speaker 1 (34:31):
It was created by a person, obviously, but then the
community is the one thatupdates the app, and this is all
about locations in whichpossible overnight stays are
allowed, also dump stations,water and electric, where you
can get water and electric fromas well.
So this is predominantly nowfor van lifers, for RVers, that
sort of stuff as well.
So iOverlander it is a free appas well, this one, but again,

(34:53):
because it's community-based interms of the community, are the
ones that said, oh, I stayedhere for one night and there was
no problems.
It doesn't mean that you canrely upon that.
You know 100, because you knowthings can change all of a
sudden.
There might be a sign up sayingno overnight parking, that sort
of thing too.
So I overlander is that one,and the last one I have is
harvest host.

(35:13):
Now, this one would's going totempt you, josh the harvest host
.
This is a subscription-basedone.
So this one you do have to payfor, but it's well worth it
because you pay I think it'slike a hundred dollars a year
for this particular one and thisone gives you all the locations
that you can stay at overnightfor free.
Now we're talking about thingslike farms.

(35:34):
Different people open theirfarms for they become a hosts.
You see different campgrounds,different golf courses,
breweries, wineries all theseplaces you can stay overnight
for free.
You just need to have,obviously, the subscription, so
really $100,.
You're going to pay for that inthree nights of these
accommodations.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
So it's like couch surfing, but for outside RV.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
So it's not just a couch, it's not like we just
have a couch, it's like we havea field you can park your car in
, or we can exactly, or aparking lot exactly yeah so,
harvest host I.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
I think it's a fantastic idea.
But at the same time, whenyou're there, you're gonna
really partake in whatever'sthere in terms of it's.
If you're at a winery orbrewery, you're gonna go and
have a few beers, that sort ofthing too.
So it does rely upon that too.
Or if you're at a golf course,you can go and maybe have some
dinner or a meal inside the golfcourse.
So you're still patron theactual location, but you'd do

(36:34):
that anyway, sort of thing.
So, harvest Host Josh.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
They're my three top three for road tripping, uh,
throughout the us.
So those are really good.
Those are really good.
I'm going to bring up one thatwe've brought up on this podcast
before, because it's reallyamazing and people don't, I
don't think, take advantage ofit.
No matter what, if you knowyou're going to a town no, let's

(37:04):
say Milwaukee, wisconsin that'sa big city I'm going to be
there for three days.
I'm going to be there threedays.
Give me a fun adventure Plan.
A fun adventure for me everyday, or two fun adventures.
I want to eat at some of thebest places that are great for
families to visit, and I wouldlike to leave on this day and

(37:27):
arrive on this day, and you putthe prompts in and it will
create a whole plan, anitinerary for you for wherever
you are.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's one of the best things I've heard.
I've heard you do it first.
You did it for your trip upnorth as well, with you and the
Reester.
Yeah, I remember you sayingthat and after that I thought
what a great way to.
Some people are a little bit onthe edge, on the fence, when it
comes to AI stuff, but that,josh, there is a perfect example
of what ChatGPT can do for you.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Like actually for new trip planning.
That's a great idea.
I love it.
It was so.
It was so interesting because,yeah, I last time I did that, I
did grand marais, which is likea town of like 5 000 people, and
when the two restaurants itpicked were the two top rated uh
restaurants on google, likeyeah, I double checked.
I was like how good are theseplaces?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
yeah chat.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Gpt picked the best place it's.
It knew it's just, it'sunbelievable and it's just a
great tool um, so it really um,we've talked about on the last
podcast, adventure labs.
They are tours.
They will show you cool placesor neat things that other people
don't know about.
I don't have to go into furtherdetail, but that's an app.
And then, uh, cash tour or cashoh yeah, which is basically

(38:40):
like road trippers forgeocaching yes, basically yeah,
and if you don't know anythingabout it.
Basically, the coolest thing Ican do is, if there's a certain
amount of uh, if you have a listof caches from on a route, for
example, or in a circle, forexample, or if you're in a town
like I've used this for geotours I I put in all the caches

(39:03):
for the town and then it willcreate a, a logical route,
because sometimes you don't knowlike what, what order should I
order?
Should I do them in?
And it will create a logicalroute to complete the geo tour
yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Makes sense.
I've seen, I've seen cash tourfor a few years now it's been on
my radar but I've never reallybeen able to.
To me it's a bit I don't knowclunky how it works.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
There's a learning curve.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
There's an app for it too.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's one of those things where you're best to do
your planning on a desktop andthen when you actually do the
trip, you can use the app, sothey kind of talk to each other.
Yeah, that makes sense that youcan use the app.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
So they kind of talk to each other Yep, yep, that
makes sense.
That makes sense.
Just log in with your samelogin account.
That makes sense Very good,there you go.
We hope we've we've answeredyour question there, jerry.
Next one Josh comes from Simsquest.
So Sims quest and they are havebeen obsessed with the Thomas
Dambo trolls ever since they didthe ones in Minnesota this fall
and they would love to hear orchat more about the Thomas Dambo

(40:05):
Trolls.
Now all I can say about this,and it'll be quick, and that is
I did the ones with you inKentucky and I thoroughly
enjoyed them.
I thought they were fantastic.
They're great photoopportunities and in some cases
there's good adventure labs oneach one as well.
There was a couple of caches,but the caches themselves
weren't on the trolls, they werejust sort of on the path or

(40:26):
just off the path as you'regoing from one troll to the next
.
But anyway, that's the onlyones I've done in kentucky.
Thoroughly enjoyed them, josh.
Yes, what can you tell us moreabout these?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
yes, so if you don't know, we've talked about the
tambo thomas dambo trolls before.
I sim quest.
I have also done the Minnesotaones and I've done the Kentucky
ones as well, and they'recreated by a man named Thomas
Dambo.
He's an artist from Denmark andhe's created these trolls made
out of recycled mainly recycledwood and they all have like a
similar look.

(40:56):
It's like when you look at them, they all kind of are like the
same species of troll.
Basically, and, if you'recurious, I did a little bit of
research on this if you'recurious about seeking out more
of these trolls, get this craigthere.
I have the official numberthere are currently 153 of these
trolls on the planet now 153and if you go to troll mapcom,

(41:20):
it basically like it's reallycool, craig.
It's like a geocaching thing forthe trolls.
Oh really, you log in, there'sa map and the map of the world
has X's all over it.
You click on it and then itshows you the troll in that area
and then it says you can check,I completed this troll.
And it keeps track of how manytrolls you found.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
That's really cool.
That's really cool.
I like it.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
I'm sure there are people that are like I want to
get all 153.
There is.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I mean, there's people out there like myself,
Josh, who need to go to everysingle Bucky's gas station in
the US.
I'll let you know.
I've got five more to go, butanyway.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Wow.
So that's cool.
There's a trollmapcom and youcan find them all there and kind
of look at pictures of them.
And then Thomas Dambo puttogether a really fancy book.
It's called Trash Trolls andTreasure Hunts.
It's the story of his first 100trolls.
And get this.
It is a 440-page filled withphotos of of the creation of

(42:25):
these trolls and the storiesbehind them.
And, uh, it's.
It's not a cheap book.
It's about 70 dollars.
But if you're really likeyou're loving and really into
these trolls, it would be a verycool like um coffee table.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
I was gonna say coffee table book yeah, exactly
so perfect coffee table bookyeah, right, and here's the
thing.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Here's another thing.
I learned.
What's that?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I'm sorry I was gonna say, sit it right next to your,
your comic book.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Oh yeah, right um, what is it?
There's another thing I wantedto say.
Um, I lost it.
It just left my brain.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
It's gone, that's all right that's all right, we may
get back to it.
Um, all right next time we'removing on is to the man himself,
timothy larson, also known asminnesota boy, minnesota boy,
minnesota boy so I always haveto say it three times, I don't
know why.
Anyway, tim, if you should knowtim by now, we talk about him a
lot on this on the show.
He's a very good friend of bothof ours, uh as well, and we

(43:22):
have traveled with him a fairbit.
But his question was how aboutyour travel tips, both for road
tripping and a flying getaway,like airport likes and dislikes,
luggage tips, technology tomake things easier, apps and
gear.
So maybe we're going to talkmore now about, like the airport
and luggage sort of thing,apart from just the road
tripping stuff.

(43:43):
So I do have tips on road trips, like actual tips of how to do
road trips, rather than the appsnow.
But yeah, what do you think,josh?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Well, this could be a whole episode in itself.
I know We'll try to movecarefully, so I'm going to go
through really quickly throughmy road trip stuff.
Okay, and you kind of alludedto this too as well, as I see on
your notes here I think thebest road trips are those that
are flexible, to stop and seesomething cool, that you're not

(44:11):
in a rush.
I think a lot of people arelike I got to get to my
destination and my view of aroad trip is like, yeah, the
destination is something, butit's also the road trip, is a
part of the trip.
So to be okay to see, oh mygosh, I can't believe it.
That's where they make ducttape.
Let's stop.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
What Josh is alluding to now is a time when, yeah,
you and I we traveled literallyfrom an airport and we were
traveling through past toanother location and, yeah, we
saw a sign on the road sayingthe home of the duct tape and
you got all excited about yourduct tape, you went quackers
over that duct tape, but anyway,yeah, there's an episode about
that.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
If you want to go back, it's our Cincinnati
episode, or no?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I'm sorry, cleveland, it's our Cleveland episode
Cleveland Rocks episodeCleveland.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Rocks.
Yep, that's it.
No-transcript.

(45:23):
If you walk into a hotel andsay I need a room, you're gonna
get charged like the full, full,full price.
Yeah, but if you're going on aroad trip in a weekday, there's
so many hotels that just haveempty rooms yeah so hotel
tonight's uh helps you find thehotel rooms that are just empty
and it's with like a severediscount, because it would just

(45:43):
sit empty otherwise.
So yeah, the hotel, rather getyour 50 dollars than have their
room be be closed or have orhave their empty empty room, yes
exactly, it's a hotel tonight.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
That's a great tip, josh.
I love that I hadn't heard thatone before.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Another one I'll just go quickly through.
Mine is Turo, which isbasically the Airbnb of a car
rental.
Higher cars, Higher cars yeah,so basically, instead of doing a
rental car, you basically rentyour car from another human
being, just another person thathas their car available.

(46:21):
And here's the thing I likeabout it it's affordable A but B
.
You don't have to wait in lineLike how annoying is it to wait
in line to get your car and thenhave them try to upsell you and
like add this is like you justget off the plane and they give
you a little scavenger hunt toget to the car, and they give

(46:42):
you a little scavenger hunt tofind the key and and you're,
you're off.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
And it's very yeah.
Oh, I was going to say whatthey do as well.
Some sometimes they'll actuallydrive up to your, where your
location, and the owner will getout of the car and they'll have
another person behind them topick the owner up and so they
literally, you know, drive thecar to you so you can just jump
straight in the car.
That happened with us of one ofours, josh.
That, uh, that we did one timeas well, when you first
introduced me to two rows.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
So, yes, there you go , yeah that was a good one, so
here's another one.
This is kind of an obvious onepodcasts, road trips.
Sometimes road trips get reallylong and I find when there's
things that are stimulating mybrain, it seems like the the
driving goes much faster thanjust listening to music.
Here's a good tip.
So I travel a lot for work andthis is one I really do is
that's bring your own pillow.

(47:28):
You don't know, when you rentthat hotel room or have, you
don't know what kind of pillowyou're going to have, and that's
the one thing you for sleepingthat you can keep consistent.
You're not going to bring likea mattress, probably, and you're
not going to bring a mattressprobably, and you're not going
to bring your blankets and stuff, but the one thing that can
really impact your sleep ishaving that consistent pillow.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yes, if you can.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Yeah, I mean, I've brought my pillow on many road
trips.
Last one is I believe this iskind of an opinion I believe
rest stops are better than gasstations oh, oh for, for
relaxing, or for for using therestroom, oh, really using the
facilities, because when you gointo a gas station, you a lot of

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times there's just one stalland you have to wait till they
get out.
And, let's be be honest, likegas stations often, unless it's
a Bucky's- unless it's a Bucky's.
Unless it's a Bucky's it's notvery clean and so rest stops,
they're designed for you to getin and get out.
You're not tempted to buy abunch of food that's overpriced,
exactly, and I just like oh,let's wait for the rest stops

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because we can do our businessand keep going, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Those are mine.
Those are mine, but also aswell, josh, leaning on that one
too.
With the rest stops, you'llfind in most cases, going back
to our games, that we play inevery single rest stop that I've
been to across the state so far, there's been Munzees and
Jukashes alike.
So, if you want to, I stop at arest stop and I want to get out
and do like a 15-minute walkclear the air, clear the brain,

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wake up again or whatever youneed to do and I can literally
walk around the rest stop andcollect all the monsies, grab
the one or two caches that arein there as well.
So, yeah, exactly right.
So that's perfect, absolutelyperfect, mate.
I had the same sort of thingfor road tripping, and that is
if you've got got a plan, it'sgood, but still be flexible.
So I said exactly the samething.
I also said and this is my uhsafety coming out of me know

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your driving limits and neverdrive tired or fatigued.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
So if you are very smart that's what.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
That's where the rest stops come in handy, and a
clutch for that sort of stufftoo.
Um, and then obviously, all theapps that I did with uh, with
jerry.
So that was my road trips.
Now, josh, are we going to goto the airports and luggage?

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Yes, this is fun.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
I love this stuff Do you want me to go first?
Do you want to?
Yeah, you can go first.
Okay.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Cause a couple a couple.
We might have somedisagreements on some of these.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
I roll all my clothing to maximize space in my
luggage.
I roll my jeans, I roll myt-shirts, I roll my underwear.
I make my clothing as small aspossible to fit as much clothes
as I possibly can, even pants.
So if you're wondering how doyou do that, josh, I literally.
There's tutorials on YouTube,of course there is of how to

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roll t-shirts, roll jeans andeven tuck them in so they just
they stay rolled.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's clutch,did you?

Speaker 1 (50:30):
did you read my notes before you did yours?
Because I said, when packing,when packing clothes, I like to
roll each of the itemindividually.
It saves the wrinkles, you canpack more in and it's easy to
see.
But the thing is, it's easy aswell to see what you have
without getting all the otherclothes out too.
So you literally you open upyour little suitcase or you open
up your backpack.

(50:50):
What do you have?
And you can see the shirt, youcan see the shorts, you can see
your clothing there, or and youjust literally grab out the roll
.
So yeah, exactly see I'll havethe same, just saying yeah,
great alike.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Another one is I always bring agarbage bag.
Especially if my trip is for aweek, I bring a garbage bag so I
can separate my dirty clothesfrom my clean clothes.
Now, a lot of luggage haveautomatic separators anyway, but
there's just something abouthaving that garbage bag barrier
so your dirty clothes don'tinfect your clean clothes.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Especially the underwear.
Let's be honest, people,especially the underwear.
You don't want the underweartouching.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Separate, separate, separate separate.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Undies and socks.
Yeah, yeah, no, I do the samething, josh, and otherwise
though, as well.
Most if you're staying inhotels most hotels do have I use
the laundry bag.
Sometimes they have a laundrybag for that, so I'll utilize
the laundry bag.
I won't send it to theirlaundry.
It's way too expensive.
I'll use that as the garbagebag with all my other uh, dirty

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clothes as well.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
So, yeah, good tip, good tip.
Next up you have um.
My next tip is this is a funnyone.
I told some people at work this.
They were like what so when,when you pack for trips,
especially if they're a week orlonger, yeah, this might be just
a problem in my house we havewe have typically sometimes
three men that live in my houseand we do all the laundry

(52:16):
together and we all have thesame socks and it's so hard to
find like enough matching socks.
Do you like seven pair andyou're like searching everywhere
?
I just, I just cut that all, Ijust go to target and I buy a
pack of 10, a pack of 10 ofsocks, and I just put it in my
bag done done.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
You don't even roll them up, you just leave them in
the pack and ready to go,exactly when I did you what
stock I did that I, I literallyjust bought a pack of socks.
Easy, easy Done.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
It makes sense.
It's silly, but it helps me.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
What am I going to do Not as hard when you?
I was going to say not as hardfor me, though, when I literally
do all my own laundry by myselftogether and then separates
everything, and I have my ownlittle cupboard.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
So not as hard for some.
But anyway, what's your nextone, josh?
Okay, so this is where we mighthave a little bit of
disagreement.
If you're not in a hurry, justcheck your bag.
Just check it, because theairport experience is so much
less stressful and you don'thave to carry as much.
I love just when I'm carrying abackpack and I don't have to
carry as much.
I love.
I love just when I'm carrying abackpack and I don't have to

(53:25):
worry about it, I don't have toworry about the liquids and I
don't have to worry about themgoing through all my luggage and
through security.
So if, yeah, even if you havejust to carry on bags sometimes
I just check it, just just tomake it more simple for me but,
but, but, but, but.
I make sure I have one set ofclothes in my backpack just in
case, just in case, just in casethey lose my luggage.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
That makes sense.
Well, I'll go on and say thisas well, josh, um, and that is,
if you're, if you're sure or notsure in regards to checking, or
if, if the airline itself willcharge you, for instance, to
check a bag, and you've only gotsomething the size of a
carry-on, then literally use itas a carry-on, but then they'll
ask you when you're actually atthe gate, josh, they normally
ask you oh, if you wantsomething to check for free, you

(54:10):
can check it here at the gate,and you can then check it at the
gate for free.
It doesn't cost you anything atall.
So there's a handy tip forthose people who want to save
some money.
So, against these airlines.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
So there you go and that's well, and that's not an
issue for me, because I have thedelta american express card, so
I get all my check bags free.
So that's nice.
Let's see what's.
Another one, what's?
I have a lot for this.
You do have a lot for this.
Why rush to get?
Why rush to get on the plane?

(54:40):
So when you're boarding theplane, even though they call
your number or like what do theycall it?
Craig, your zone.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
They call your zone.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
You're going to be sitting on the plane as long.
As long anyway.
Why would you want to spendmore time, especially if you
don't have a carry-on bag, right?
Because I know people areworried like, oh, you don't have
a carry-on bag right?
Because I know people areworried like, oh, there won't be
enough carry-on space above.
I know that's one of thereasons, but if that's not a big
deal to you, just like chill.
Like, just chill and just hopon that, be one of the last

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people.
Your seat is reserved, unlessyou're Southwest, by the way.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Your seat is reserved Like why are you rushing?

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Why west, by the way, but your seat is reserved like
why are you rushing?
Why are you rushing to get?

Speaker 1 (55:23):
on the plane.
See, this is where we dodisagree, josh, because I'm one
of those people that I have tobe like in the first of the line
, or very close to the first ofthe line, even though at the
moment, with all my status aswell, I'm normally in group
number one, um, and when I'mtraveling with my wife, I'm
actually in the pre-boardinggroup before group number one
too.
So, yeah, because she's the uh,she's got the 1k status.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
So with that, see, craig, though that's different,
because the moment you get onthe plane, in in a more priority
thing, your, your.
The experience has gottenbetter.
Right, yeah, it's better thanstanding outside, yes, but if
you're in coach and you're in,have a middle seat in the back,
that's not.

(56:05):
That's not better.
So it's like what's better.
So I think people, why are yousuch a rush to get, um, get on
the plane and then another one?
Why are you this is a bit moreof a pet peeve why are you in
such a rush to get off the planewhen, when people are like,
clearly everybody in front ofyou has to get off first?
It's so annoying this is my petpeeve it's so annoying when

(56:26):
people, the plane pulls up tothe gate and everybody stands up
.
What I'm like I want to look atthose people and I'm like where
are you going?
There's nowhere to go.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Josh, I love it.
I love it as well when you hearthat ding, that the uh, that
they've arrived at the gate andyou can take your your seatbelts
off.
You hear the ding and then,within a split second, you hear
the click, click, click, click.
Everyone's there.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I'm clicking their seatbelts and everyone's like
where are you going?
Where are you going?
You can't go anywhere.
And then they just stand there,and they're literally standing
there for 20 minutes.
I'm like what?

Speaker 1 (56:59):
like just be pulling their bags out, knocking people
in their head for their bags.
So there you go.
Look, this has turned intojosh's whinge fest this.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
This was a yeah, that was a rant.
Okay, a couple other things.
The turtle neck pillow do youknow about turtles neck pillow?

Speaker 1 (57:16):
yeah, that's like the , the pillow that goes around
your neck when you sleep yeah,but it's more like a neck brace
it looks like a neck brace.
Yeah, it looks ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
It's not one of those foamy ones, but people wear it
the wrong direction, though,josh.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
You're not supposed to wear it like from one side
around the back and to the otherside.
You're supposed to wear itaround the front of your neck
and have the back of your neckfree, because then you can
actually sit back in the seat.
People wear it around the backof their neck and literally
leave it there and your head'sbobbing forward the whole time.
You're not supposed to haveyour head bobbing forward, so
you're actually supposed to turnit around and have it like

(57:50):
choking your neck rather thanbehind your neck?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
You're thinking of something different.
You're thinking of an actualpillow, the turtle.
It's spelled T-R-T-L, I believeit's a brand and it's more of
like a brace, where it's like awrap around your neck, and then
there's like a little plasticpiece and it just holds your

(58:15):
neck up.
It just holds your neck up.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
So you're not.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
But it's way.
No, it's Craig, there's study.
It's way better than a neckpillow where it just holds,
holds your neck in place and youcan literally just relax so you
don't have moments where yourlike neck is flop flopping all
over anyway tr look it up.
I have one.
It looks kind of ridiculouswhen you wear it.
It looks ridiculous when youwear it, but it's so much more

(58:41):
comfortable than any neck pillowI've ever used.
You're not, so it's notactually ridiculous when you
wear it, but it's so much morecomfortable than any neck pillow
I've ever used.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
So it's not actually a pillow.
You're not going to getembarrassed when you're asleep.
People Like, let's be honest.
If you're having a good nap andgood sleep.
You're not going to getembarrassed by it.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
So there you go.
Very cool, what else have yougot?
How much time?
Yeah, we'll keep it going.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Are you still with us ?
We've only got a few more to go.
We've got quite a few to go, solet's keep it rolling.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
All right.
When I get home from a trip, Iunpack right away and I put
everything in the washer rightaway.
I don't let that just sitforever.
I just get that out of the way.
And then, Craig, you turn me onto this If you fly more than
four, four or more I'm going tosay four or more times a year,

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get pre-check.
What's the name of our securityadministration?

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Blah, blah, blah.
Pre-check.
Oh, you mean the airportpre-check stuff.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Yeah, airport, but what is it?

Speaker 1 (59:41):
called.
I can't think now anymore.
I know it's too late for ustonight josh.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Anyway, it's 80 for three years 80, but that's
nothing.
To be able to go into the linewhere you don't have to take off
your shoes and you don't haveto worry about about your
liquids as much, it's fantasticyep, yep, exactly, exactly, it
makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
It absolutely makes sense.
I've had that for for a fewyears now too, and yeah, it took
me longer to get it than thanyou or anyone else, because of
my status, my actual immigrationstatus.
I was a green card holder, nota citizen, so it took me over
six months to actually getapproved for that, but anyway,
um it's tsa tsa pre-check thereyou go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
I knew whether to come back here eventually if you
go.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
I knew it would come back to you eventually If we
keep talking about it.
It'd come back to you, mate.
I've only got a couple.
When it comes to airport andluggage, I'm the opposite.
I say, if you can only havecarry-on, because it saves you
time in the back end as well, soyou're not hanging around that
belt and waiting for your actualluggage to come up, that's if
you're.
I also said as well.
It never actually hurts to askat the gate for an upgrade.

(01:00:42):
Josh, have you?

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
ever done that.
You're at the gate.
I have, yeah, I have tried,You've got to check.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
You've got to check first.
You've got to check first ofall the open seats, making sure,
and then go up and just saylook, any chance of an upgrade.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Even an upgrade could be just to an aisle seat or a
window seat rather than a centerseat, let could be just to an
aisle seat or a window seatrather than a center seat, like,
let's be honest, people, itdoesn't have to be upgrade to
first class.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
We're talking upgrading your seat in general.
You know, bigger leg room whenit comes to what we call the
exit rows and stuff like thattoo.
So there you go.
And the other thing I have I'vegot the packing roll your
clothes, exactly the same as you, but I also put as well if you
have, you can actually usevacuum packs to get the travel
ones, the vacuum packs, toactually seal your clothes and

(01:01:24):
it shrinks them down, it takesout all the air.
But get the ones, the travelones, where you can use it as a
roll and you don't need a vacuumcleaner for it, basically.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
They're mine, they're mine.
So there you go.
I hope Tim's happy with those.
We're going to move on to thenext one.
Josh, it's from beth and lukewarns from fam of 5w and they
ask the pros and cons of guidedtours.
She's they're heading towashington dc, for example, and
there's so much to see.
Yeah, he's doing a guided tourworth the value.

(01:01:57):
So, again, a great question.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Thank you, beth and luke yes, this is a great
question because I have touredwashington dc and I have used a
tour guide, but you don't haveto commit to like the full deal
where you know there's.
I think there's some placeswhere you can like get a tour
guide for several days.

(01:02:20):
I honestly don't recommend that.
When I went, craig, toWashington DC, I did a Segway
tour, oh yes, and the reason itwas so awesome was because it
was about, I'd say, about twohours, three hours long.
If you're doing Washington DC,there is so much walking, so

(01:02:43):
much walking.
So the very first thing you do,do you take the segway tour.
First of all, riding in segwaysis a, it's a blast, that's so
fun, it's fun just like cruisingaround in them.
They go like faster than youthink, but you you go to all the
spots in the washington mallbecause it's very long all the

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way from the, from the LincolnMemorial, all the way to the
Capitol Building and everythingin between.
You get to see all those thingsand then what it does is that
gives you a sense of kind ofwhere you are and it gives you
it kind of gives you a lay ofthe land and then, once you have
that lay of the land, you knowwhat you're going to want to go
back to later and to spend spendmore time at.

(01:03:24):
So I'm a fan of tours, but I'ma fan of like shorter, shorter
half half day tours, two hourtours, um, because I think then
you can get a lay of the landand then you have the luxury to
have freedom to do some of thethings that you want to maybe
dig in deeper.
That's my big high level tipwith washington dc yeah, that's
exactly right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
um, I've also got as well, cause when I did uh DC the
very first time I came across,cause again, Josh, I thought I
had all these things on my listto do in 2018 because I thought
I'm never going to be back inthe U S again, and so and so
yeah, I know I'm going to to me.
Here we go, um, but I know,unbeknownst to me, here we go,
but I did.
I actually let geocaching guideme in DC, so I did my route and

(01:04:09):
I hired a bike, like an actualpush bike itself, and so I did
the bike.
So, not the Segway, but thesame as thing.
I didn't want to walk.
It's a lot of walking, there'smiles and miles of walking, and
so, yeah, I did the bike andjust went literally from virtual
to virtual to virtualgeocaching and learned myself
that way in regards to thehistory and the development and

(01:04:31):
everything else, in regards tothe statues and the monuments
and everything there is about DC.
And also, if you're going to DC, don't forget the webcam cache
too.
There's a webcam cache in DC aswell.
So one of my favorite types.
So there you go.
That's what I did in DC.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Joshc, josh, I let jake hashing be my guide.
Yeah, I actually I did too.
It's kind of fun because thepeople that were on my segue
tour I introduced them.
They're like what are you doing?
and as I was trying to getinformation off of you know
certain stuff for those virtuals, because those are yeah, those
are some pretty famous virtuals,and I think another thing with
tour guides that I like is thatit forces you to slow down and
you will learn things that youwouldn't learn otherwise.

(01:05:09):
So I really like that with atour guide, sometimes you don't
stop and be like, oh, why isthis thing significant?
And a lot of times, tour guideswill summarize whatever is on
the long, long plaque and you'relike I don't want to read all
this.
So the the tour guide will belike this is why this is what

(01:05:30):
this is and this is why it'simportant yeah, exactly, exactly
.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
I had a guide, josh.
I recently did, uh, when I wasin in in london as well.
We I enjoyed the river cruise,and so there was a river cruise
going all the way through londonand there was a.
It was a guide on the rivercruise, and what the guide did?
Again the same sort of thing,that is, he was telling us about
what was what was so importantabout that.
What was so important aboutthat?
You know, like london bridgeversus tower bridge, how they're
two totally different thingsand then they tell you fun facts

(01:05:57):
, like hidden in information interms of dates and times, but
also funny stories to go alongwith the locations as well, like
are you ready for this?
So if you don't know, londonBridge is basically just the
plain straight bridge after theTower Bridge.
You know the Tower Bridge, josh, with the two big towers it
opens up.

(01:06:17):
That's actually the TowerBridge.
That's not London Bridge.
London Bridge is just literallya plain concrete bridge right
next to it.
No one even looks at.
You know, no one takes photosof london bridge, right?
So what happened was they werereplacing.
This is going back um 20 or 30years ago.
They were replacing londonbridge and in doing so, they
were literally cutting out thebridge.
And they said and they put iton auction for the bridge to be

(01:06:40):
sold.
An american brought the londonbridge for himself to say I'm
gonna buy london bridge.
He bought it for a few milliondollars and they shipped it to
to the us and it's heresomewhere in the us so there's
london bridge in the us.
But when he got it he went hangon is this london bridge?
Because he was confused.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
He thought he was buying tower bridge, not london
bridge so he was verydisappointed if he would have
taken it, if he would have had atour guide, he would have known
that he would have known.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Exactly, right, exactly.
And that's my point with the,with tour guys, they can make it
a lot more interesting, a lotmore fun, and you can have that
like it has hidden stories thatyou would never know and that
they stick with you.
Those stories stick with youthen, for afterwards as well.
So, yes, yes, I enjoyed thatone too.
What other information do youhave?
Yeah, Josh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Yeah, a couple other things about Washington DC.
Don't skip the museums, theSmithsonian museums.
They're all free and they'reamazing, so don't skip those.
That's just like a greatopportunity to not have to spend
any money and just have areally fun experience.
Craig, I don't know if you'veever attempted this.
I attempted to actually park acar in Dc.

(01:07:46):
It was the worst experienceI've ever had trying to park a
car.
Yeah, there's no park.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
There's no parking, unless you like, work there
right, well, are you ready formy little quick story?
Then, when I was coming throughand I wanted to do the webcam
cache, the webcam itself is outover like a roundabout area and
looks over a roundabout area.
So I I tried for nearly 15minutes trying to find parking
anywhere near a roundabout areaand looks over a roundabout area
.
So I I tried for nearly 15minutes trying to find parking
anywhere near the roundabout,couldn't find it all.
In the end, josh, I put my bigmagnetic sign see my shell sign

(01:08:13):
on the back of the van that Ihad at the time and as I drove
around, I had my, my camera, myphone, ready.
As I drove around up, I wavedout with my hand and then took a
screenshot of the back of myvan with see my shelves on there
and my hand, I went yep, that'sthe webcam done that's so smart
that's great.
So I hear you when you say thatparking in dc is the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
So yeah, yeah, I had to park.
So so far, I, if I could do itover again, I would have taken a
bus in there or I would havetaken an uber, uber.
Yeah, do do not drive, do notrent a car and think that you're
going to find parking becauseyou're not, or you're going to
pay a lot of money to reserve aspot.
Exactly.
And then one more tipWashington DC for me is this is

(01:08:57):
a unique opportunity to possiblymeet your local, your state's
congressperson or staterepresentatives, your state's
congressperson or staterepresentatives.
You can actually go to the, tothe website, and set up um a
meeting where you could scheduleum, where you get to see the
offices of where the rep youknow, the congress people or the
state reps like work in the, inthe capitol building or
wherever they work.

(01:09:17):
And, uh, and if they're there,um, they're always willing to
like talk to you and I justthink it's kind of a cool thing.
I think it's cool for kids torealize like, hey, these people
represent us on a national level, these people that live in our
state.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
So I think that's kind of cool.
And if you're not from, ifyou're outside the US and you're
visiting the US and you'revisiting DC, you can also visit
Josh as well and I used our goodgame of munzee to do mine, and
that is, you can visit theresidence of your, your
country's um uh delegate as well.
So I went to the australianresidency um in in dc and

(01:09:55):
obviously it's quite a niceresidency, but the australian
one had the australian flag atone side, the american flag at
the other.
It had like a.
It had a big, a big koala, likea concrete koala, on top of the
porch area.
It had a kangaroo and an emu aswell in the in the garden areas
that you could actually take aphoto of, and stuff too, which
is really really cool.
So, yeah, have a look aroundpeople.

(01:10:16):
If you're from outside the us,yeah, find your delegates uh
residency and, yeah, just be astalker a little bit.
They're happy with it.
You know that's.
They do it all the time,obviously.
So, yeah, take those photos andget that memory.
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Craig, I think we might.
We might Well, no, no Well.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
I think we're going to end it there.
We're going to do a part twonext time.
We'll do a part two next time,Josh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
How does that sound?
Because I do have a little bitmore information for you.
Before we, what?
Before we close down, what areyou?

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
talking about more information, exactly, so I'll
quickly say, though, that, uh,so, allison bertman, uh, we're
going to come back to you foryour question.
We're going to come back aswell to, uh one, michael tula as
well, we're going to come backto you.
We're going to come back to you, buddy, we're going to come
back to Andy Zook as well, andwe're going to come back and
answer their questions in thenext episode of Treasures of Our
Town.
Yes, josh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
And if you are a patron, get your question in,
because those are just three.
We're going to have time forprobably five questions, Five
questions.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
So there's two more.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
So we'll put another post in the Patreon feed and
patrons get in there.
If you have another thing youwant us to talk about, we'll
talk about it two weeks from now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Sounds perfect, sounds perfect.
But before we do and before weclose that, josh, I've got some
surprise information that youdon't know about and I'm going
to get your reaction live on airas we speak, and I'm going to
get your reaction live on air aswe speak.
I'm nervous, I know you are,but one of our places that our
podcast is on is called GoodPods.
So you know how.
You've got Apple Podcasts,you've got Spotify and there's

(01:11:54):
different places that people canlisten to the podcast on.
One of the places is calledGood Pods.
That's the actual app.
It's called Good Pods.
Good Pods has reached out to us, josh, that you don't realize,
and they've rated us in regardsto the 2024 podcast ratings.
We've got three ratings, josh.
In the geocaching chart for2024, Treasures of Our Town is

(01:12:20):
rated number one.
What there you go?
One.
What there you go?
In in outdoor adventures for2024, the treasures of our town
is rated number one.
What in in road trippingadventures in 2024, treasures of
our town is rated number three.
So there you go, mate there yougo.

(01:12:42):
We're still on the podium one,one and three, and we're road
trips podcast, road trippingpodcast.
There are two ahead of us onthe road tripping podcast.
It's called Greetings fromSomewhere, it's a travel show,
and have Monster Will Travel isanother travel show.
So they're the two ahead of us,josh, for road tripping podcast
.
So we're not just a geocachingpodcast, josh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
That's really cool.
We are a travel podcast.
So there you go, mate we shouldhave those two other podcasts
on our show and we should go ontheir show that sounds like a
good idea.
We can have a friendlycompetition who 2025?
Where we can take our throne asthe road tripping podcast
that's really cool.

(01:13:24):
I don't know how, how theycalculate that.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
I don't know how that happens, but uh, no I'll take
it just in regards to the roadtripping podcast.
It says, uh, the best roadtripping podcast from millions
of podcasts available on thegood pods platform and ranked by
listeners, ratings, comments,subscriptions and shares.
So that's how they do it,that's how they okay.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Well, thank you I think that has to do with the
people that are listening tothis, because they must have
shared it, they must haveexactly um listened um so thank
you, thank you.
You know what, when I heardthat news, craig, you know what
it makes me really just likeproud, and you know I'm proud of
my talent, but I'm really proudof this podcast, and you know

(01:14:07):
what?
That's a rare thing these days.
That's a damn rare thing thesedays.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
That's very clever, because you didn't know what was
coming up and you got it niceand nice.
I like it, I like it.
I like it Very cool, very cool.
All right, don't forget, josh,if people want to become a
patron as well, to jump in nowand ask us some of these
questions.
What do they have?

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
to do.
This is the perfect time tojump in, because we are
listening to you.
We are creating this contentjust for you.
You have a question, you have aneed, you want us to talk about
something?
We'll talk about it, but onlywe'll only take your advice if
you're one of our patrons.

(01:14:47):
So if you'd like to become apatron, you can support us to
help us to continue to beapparently now an award-winning
podcast.
Yes, and you'll keep it free nocommercials.
So please consider joining uson our patreon, at patreoncom.
Black backslash treasures ofour town and josh.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
How else can people contact us if they wish to
contact us?

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Feel free to reach out to us at Treasures of Our
Town podcast at gmailcom, or youcan follow us on Facebook,
instagram, x and YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
So that's it for our show today.
Please subscribe, rate andreview on your favorite
podcasting app like GoodPod, and, as always, josh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Mere travels always lead you to the most unexpected
and amazing hidden gems fromaround the world.
See you next time, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
Bye-bye, bye-bye.

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