The Toilet Seat Museum and Texas Nights at the Truck Yard

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A virtual geocache pointed us toward one of America’s most delightfully odd treasures: Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Museum. What started in a San Antonio garage now lives inside a soaring, neon-kissed shrine at The Colony’s Truck Yard, where porcelain “columns,” floor-to-ceiling seats, and a playful ceiling homage to Michelangelo turn folk art into a full-sensory experience. We swap FOMO for wonder as we tell the story of a hospital-door detour that became a permanent exhibit piece, the final geocacher pack-out before the move, and the ongoing hunt for seat #1341—still tucked away somewhere, if our banana-box notes are right.

The Truck Yard itself is a vibe: backyard party energy, rotating food trucks, live music, and the Beard Science Sour House pouring high-character drafts and cocktails served in IV bags. Step out of the museum and into a private tiki-adjacent karaoke room, where we belt Elvis under a parade of taxidermy squirrels. Then expand the map. In nearby McKinney, Tupps Brewing mixes rustic mill charm with patio fires, Martin House pours Texas-strong favorites, and Arcade 92 resurrects joystick nostalgia for one flat entry fee. It’s a perfect loop for geocachers and Munzee players who value the chase as much as the destination.

We also dig into why location-based games keep delivering: they nudge us off the highway and into the places locals love, where stories linger longer than any log entry. If The Colony is on your route, go see the museum, scan the hidden caches and Adventure Lab, sip a sour, and sing one song you didn’t plan on. And if you spot that elusive 1341 plate, send us a photo—we’ll cheer from anywhere. Enjoyed the journey? Follow, share with a friend who loves roadside Americana, and leave a quick review so more curious travelers can find their next stop.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
I mean, don't you listen to the podcast?
Do you didn't you know it wascoming?

SPEAKER_02 (00:04):
I don't know if it did if everybody you don't
listen to our podcast.
I do.
If everybody that listens toTreasures of Our Town, do you
love to travel?

SPEAKER_00 (00:21):
Do you love road trips?
Do you love finding hiddentreasures in towns all over the
USA?
Hi, I'm Joshua.

SPEAKER_04 (00:27):
And I'm Craig.
Welcome to Treasures of OurTown.
It's a podcast that exploresunique and charming towns
scattered throughout the UnitedStates.

SPEAKER_00 (00:32):
Excited by our love for location-based games like
geocaching.
Join us as we venture to some ofthe country's most intriguing
destinations, uncovering hiddengems and local secrets along the
way.

SPEAKER_04 (00:42):
On today's episode, Josh, we're gonna go to the
Dunny, the Crapper, the potty,the lavatory, the bathroom, or
the toilet, Josh.
Whichever it might be.
But we're actually this thisthis uh podcast is going down
the gurgler.

SPEAKER_01 (00:56):
The gurglar.
The gurglar.
Dunny?
What's a toilet?
Is that a toilet?
Dunny's a toilet in Australia.

SPEAKER_00 (01:05):
Absolutely, yeah.

unknown (01:06):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:06):
Do we have the dunny?
Tim, Tim, do we have any otherwords for we got crapper?
We got what well do we have anyother words for toilet?

SPEAKER_04 (01:14):
Potty, lavatory, bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 (01:16):
I don't know.
Can you hear me still?
Oh, the the throne?
The throne of the throne.

SPEAKER_04 (01:21):
The throne, yeah.
The throne's another one aswell.
So yeah, that's a good one, too.
So that's a good one.
Yeah, even even uh Goliath inthe background.
I bet you he needs to go pottysoon too, just saying.

SPEAKER_00 (01:30):
Yeah, sounds like it.

SPEAKER_04 (01:32):
Gosh.
Anyway, Josh, you just quicklyintroduced, we've got Minnesota
Boy, Minnesota Boy, MinnesotaBoy with us.
Tim, a good friend of thepodcast, a patron of the podcast
as well.
And the reason we have Tim withus today is because Tim, you and
I, mate, uh, last week we wewent to Texas together for a uh

(01:52):
a Munzie trip, and we gave Joshthe biggest FOMO you'll ever
hear in your life, and that'swhat we're here to talk about,
Josh.

SPEAKER_00 (02:01):
We're here to talk about my FOMO.

SPEAKER_04 (02:03):
Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (02:04):
Well, not exactly, not exactly complete FOMO
because I experienced somethingthat you guys didn't experience.
So I experienced like the frontend of something, and you
experienced the back end ofsomething.

SPEAKER_02 (02:17):
Oh, hello, Josh.

SPEAKER_00 (02:18):
Well done.

SPEAKER_02 (02:19):
We are kind of making this a tradition, Craig,
you know, because we have beento the Dallas Fort Worth area
twice now without Josh.

SPEAKER_04 (02:26):
Yes, yes.
Yes, we have.

SPEAKER_01 (02:29):
You have?
Yeah, absolutely.
Remember we were there lastyear.
What was the other time?

SPEAKER_04 (02:32):
Munzie events as well.

SPEAKER_01 (02:34):
Remember?
Yes.

SPEAKER_04 (02:36):
And remember, we we stayed at that hotel that wasn't
really up to scratch becausethey were renovating.
I had to move rooms because ofuh water gushing from the dunny
upstairs down to my dunnydownstairs.

unknown (02:48):
Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (02:49):
I remember that.
That was one of your our delaysback then with it.

SPEAKER_04 (02:53):
Correct.
Speaking of delays, Josh, let'sget into it.
Uh, yours like what's what'syour delay?

SPEAKER_00 (02:59):
My delay is this FOMO.
I you guys were sending mevideos, you were sending me
photos of like Josh, you wouldlove this.
Josh, everything we're doing,you would love.
Um, Dylan's house, who works forMunsey, he he is like a big fan
of Pee-wee Herman.
He's like his whole house islike a Pee Wee Herman museum.
Like, I was missing out, andthat is my that is my delay that

(03:20):
I did not get to enjoy Texaswith y'all.

SPEAKER_04 (03:24):
And even to the point as well, Dylan's house,
like he is he is that neighbor,you know what I mean?
The one who actually goes allout for Halloween as well.
So all around the front of hishouse was all stranger things,
Josh.
They had these that's so cool.
He's got these.
I obviously he's made themhimself in regards to phone, but
like uh Audrey, uh one of Josh'sfriends as well, Audrey from the

(03:44):
musical, uh what's the musiccalled, Tim?

SPEAKER_00 (03:46):
Oh Audrey 2, Little Shop of Horrors.

SPEAKER_04 (03:49):
Little Shop of Horrors, that's it.
He had Audrey coming out fromthe base of a tree, sort of
thing.
Um he's got a sign, he's got asign out the front, and then
every now and then the signitself talks about the cemetery,
but the sign flickers, thelights flicker like it would be
in a spooky cemetery, too.
So oh yeah.
But the biggest thing, Tim, tellus, tell us the biggest thing on
the rooftop from that movie.

SPEAKER_02 (04:09):
What is that big spider like looking at?

SPEAKER_04 (04:11):
Stranger things, stranger things, the demagorgon,
the demagorgan up on the top ofhis house.
A full-size demogorgon on top ofhis bigger, it's bigger than his
garage.
Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (04:24):
And and the head back to somebody that commits
100%.
He commits.
I love him.

SPEAKER_04 (04:30):
He does, he does.
He did say he has a couple ofissues every now and then in
high winds.
He's lost a leg here and there,and then he's jumped back on the
roof and and reattached the legor whatever during those times,
which he said, like, yeah, itdoesn't go too well with his
wife, but you know, these thingshappen.
But no, yeah, absolutely.
This is where we were, Josh.
So you had biggest FOMO inregards to last week of us in

(04:51):
Texas.
I will say, Josh, that is myupgrade was all of Texas last
week.
Um, that's my full upgrade.
Tim, we'll go to Tim.
What's your upgrade, mate?
From uh last few weeks.

SPEAKER_02 (05:00):
Noah's gonna be put on the spot for these upgrades.
I know.
Um, my upgrade was I don't know.
Don't you listen to the podcast?
Do you did you know it wascoming?
I don't know if it busted.
If everybody don't listen to ourpodcast, I do.
If everybody that listens toTreasures of Our Town obviously
knows about geocaching and Munziand the fact that we three play

(05:20):
these games.
And um I've recently startedworking for Munzi myself, doing
some uh shipping and productionof certain physical items.
And um, my biggest upgrade ofthe week was just getting to
know everyone else on the team,you know, just having fun
together, working together, andjust finding out where they're
coming from, and I have a muchbetter idea of where that what

(05:42):
they're doing, which is verycool.

SPEAKER_04 (05:45):
That's really not a bad upgrade, team.
Really good up on the spot.
That's a good upgrade, man.
Good upgrade.
Um my delay, Josh.
You're running you run on mydelay.

SPEAKER_00 (05:54):
Yeah, I'm ready.
I'm ready.

SPEAKER_04 (05:55):
This this podcast is a day late.

SPEAKER_00 (05:57):
I know that's the first time that's the first time
this has ever happened.

SPEAKER_04 (06:01):
Yeah, no, we've had we've actually skipped weeks
before, remember.
Of course.

SPEAKER_00 (06:05):
But this is the first time we've got a day late.
So apologize.
Listen to this on the first day.
Sorry, your Monday was horrible.
Tuesday is gonna be way better.
You're gonna you're gonna hearour sweet voices.

SPEAKER_04 (06:17):
But they're gonna they're gonna drive to work on
Tuesday now, Josh, thinking it'sMonday and thinking they've got
another five days of work upthis week.

SPEAKER_00 (06:23):
Oh, that's not good.
Everybody, it's Tuesday now.
It's Tuesday.

SPEAKER_04 (06:28):
It's a Tuesday upgrade.
Josh, Josh, we we need to getinto your upgrade before we move
on to this uh seat music.

SPEAKER_00 (06:35):
Okay, so this is actually my birthday weekend.
My birthday is tomorrow, whichis happy birthday.
Thank you.
When people are listening tothis, it's my birthday if you
listen to it on the first day.
Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04 (06:45):
And uh, you know, you've got to do something
special on your 49, 50, 51, 52,what is it called?
48.
The baby of the three of us.
48.
Wow.

SPEAKER_00 (06:57):
48.

SPEAKER_04 (06:58):
I remember 48, Tim, because it's only two years ago
for me, but do you remember 48?
Because that's 11 years ago foryou, mate.
Just ask me.

SPEAKER_02 (07:04):
No, I don't remember what I was doing then.

SPEAKER_04 (07:08):
Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 (07:09):
Anyway, this weekend I went to the Minnesota
Orchestra, and you might think,oh, that's whatever.
But if you remember at this timelast year, what's my favorite
movie, guys?
What's my favorite movie?

SPEAKER_04 (07:21):
Back to the Future.

SPEAKER_00 (07:22):
Yes, I saw Back to the Future where the Minnesota
Orchestra played the score.
Oh, yeah, I rem I remember that.
It was so cool.
It was so amazing, it was socool.
But this year it was goo.
I saw that they were doingGoonies.

SPEAKER_04 (07:36):
So it's like your second favorite movie of all
time.

SPEAKER_00 (07:39):
Pretty much, almost very, very geocaching adjacent
to the Goonies.
Yeah, so that was really cool.
I got to see the Goonies inconcert with the score.
It was I was speaking out.

SPEAKER_04 (07:52):
Did you do your little hey you guys?

SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
A lot of people did.
You know, uh people dressed up.
I I kind of regret that I didn'tdress up because I do have a
full sloth, I do have a fullsloth costume.

SPEAKER_01 (08:04):
Of course I did.
Yeah, yeah, of course you did.

SPEAKER_00 (08:06):
I didn't, I I didn't.

SPEAKER_04 (08:07):
I just do my normal clothes.
I do remember that video, one ofthe videos you did when you were
in Oregon and you did visit theGoonies house.
Because I remember it wellbecause you did the the the fat
belly dance thing.
What's it called?

SPEAKER_00 (08:19):
The the truffle shuffle.
The truffle shuffle.
That's it.
The truffle fat boy.

SPEAKER_04 (08:25):
Fat belly dance.
I said the fat belly dance.

SPEAKER_00 (08:27):
Oh, I thought you said the fast belly.
It could be called the fat boydance.
No, the fat belly dance.
Chunk is a little chunky.

SPEAKER_04 (08:35):
The truffle shuffle.
That's it.
I remember you doing the truffleshuffle.
I watched it in slow motion tosee uh see the actual waves
arronging your stomach, butanyway.

SPEAKER_00 (08:43):
Yeah, you edited that video, so you're very
familiar with that video.
I actually watched it thisweekend because it's so, you
know, the the city of Astoria,Oregon is basically a character.
I mean, you you it's just filledwith um sights and sounds of of
uh Astoria, Oregon, which wasone of one of my favorite places
to visit.
So um, yeah.
Goonies in concert.
That was an upgrade.

(09:03):
That was a good one.
That was that's that's a goodupgrade.
I don't know if I would trade itfor your week.
I mean, we'll find out.
I mean, we're gonna talk aboutwhat I missed.

SPEAKER_04 (09:13):
You would have a hundred percent, a hundred
percent, you would have tradedit for the week we had.
A hundred percent.
So you would have traded it forthat one night we had at the uh
at this place we're talkingabout tonight.

SPEAKER_00 (09:24):
Yeah, okay.
At the at the colony slashtruckyard.
Oh, we're getting ahead ofourselves.

SPEAKER_04 (09:30):
You are, you get you getting ahead of yourself.

SPEAKER_00 (09:33):
So let's get into our topic.
Our topic we said is toilets,not really toilets, but more
specifically toilet seats.
And so um, let's go back intime.
Can maybe you can put a like aTikTok like sound effect, Tim,
like tick tock, tick, t-shirt.

SPEAKER_04 (09:49):
Tim Craig, you mean Tim doesn't do anything with the
I don't do anything?

SPEAKER_00 (09:52):
Oh, yeah.
It's not my Wayne's world whenthey go back in time, they go
Okay, we're back in time.
We're back to the year 2018.
All right, this is before thepandemic.
This is before the worldchanged.
And I had noticed ongeocaching.com that this very

(10:13):
special virtual geocache was thenumber one geocache, virtual
geocache in the United States.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I'vegotta get there because the guy
that owns this um place is likein his 90s.
So I was like, I gotta get here.
Um, because you know, this guymight not be around forever.

(10:37):
And so this is Barney Smith.
Barney Smith and his toilet seatemporium.
And so 2018, I flew down withTammy and we went.
I I got a we got plane tickets,hotel rooms, just to meet this
guy in his toilet seat museum.
And I I I was sure to call aheadtoo, because I wanted to make

(10:58):
sure he was home and all thatstuff, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So we get down there and webeeline it, we go straight to
his house.
And now, so this this toiletseat museum is in his garage in
San Antonio, just in aneighborhood in San Antonio.
Yeah, and we get there and welike go and knock on his front
door of his house, and there's asign on the front door that

(11:18):
says, I'm sorry, Barney is inthe hospital.
Oh my! He he fell, he fell, andhe's recovering in the hospital.
Oh wow, and uh I was like, Oh mygosh, bummer for Barney, poor
guy, nine 90 years old.
I think he fell.
I think he fell.
Yeah, and bummer for Barney, butalso big bummer for us.

(11:40):
We spent a lot of quite a bit ofmoney just to go down here to
meet him in his toilet seat.
Yeah, and so I looked at Tammyand I was like, oh gosh, I feel
like because I wanted to make avideo, I'm like, we gotta do
something.
So we went straight to Walmartand bought a toilet seat and
bought a bunch of Sharpiemarkers.
There's a video of this outthere, yeah a bunch of sharpie
markers.

(12:00):
And Tammy, who Tammy is muchmore artistic than I am, we did
a get well card in the form of atoilet seat.
On the toilet seat.

SPEAKER_01 (12:08):
Very nice.

SPEAKER_00 (12:08):
Yeah, on the toilet seat.
On the toilet.
And we just put it, yes, we putit at his front door.

SPEAKER_04 (12:15):
And so what's happening with that toilet seat
now?

SPEAKER_00 (12:17):
So what happened was, well, this is that's part
one.
What happened was I got amessage from one of his
caretakers, uh, uh uh like akind of a phone video.
He was with his toilet with theget well card toilet seat, he
goes, I've never, I mean, thisguy's been making toilet seats
forever, does you know, doingartwork on toilet seats.
He goes, No, I've never got aget, he's like, I've never got a

(12:40):
get well card on a toilet seatbefore.
And he was smiling, he thoughtit was so cool.
And so I guess he then I foundout he so he the way he makes
these permanent, because we justdid it with a sharpie marker, he
takes like a dental, a dentaltool, you probably learned all
about, and he like etches insideit.
So that's how he makes itpermanent.

(13:01):
So he etches all the lines, andso the so he and it he goes,
that's the way to make itpermanent, and then of course he
put it in his museum.
Wow, and so now, so now I'mlike, okay, now I now I'm a part
of the museum, guys.
I gotta get down there.
So literally a year later, uh,my friend Brad from Washington

(13:22):
State, he does he does thisthing called uh his geocaching
name's quads in the mud.
Um, and he does these what whathe calls insane train geocaching
trips where they will like go doan area and they'll just like
rent a car and they'll like stayup all night and drive all over
and like you know, switch offdriving, never sleeping.
He calls it insane trainsanyway.

(13:43):
He's like, we want to do aninsane train to to San Antonio.
I was like, I'm in.
So a year later, so then I flydown again.
And this time I'm with Brad, butthis time we call them ahead, we
called ahead, and he's like,Yes, I'll be there.
But um, I have sold the museumand I need I sold it.
And one of the things withBarney, he was he was not going

(14:06):
to uh he knew he was getting upthere and he wanted to, you
know, make sure the toilet seatmuseum was in good hands before
he passed, right?
And but one his one stipulationis that the whole museum had to
stay together, people couldn'tlike pick and you know, yeah, a
seat here, a seat there, a seatthere.
So he sold it to the colony, uh,which is also the truckyard,

(14:28):
which is where you guys went.
But here's the thing, guys wewere the last ones.
He goes, Thank you so much.
It was a group of geocachers,probably about 15 of us, and we
were the last ones to experiencehis toilet seat museum.
We were the last geocachers tolog the find, and we helped him
pack it up.
We helped, we put all afternoon,we put toilet seats in banana

(14:50):
boxes and packed it up, and wewere the last ones to see it.
And I did, there's a video, Idid find the box with my toilet
seat in it.
It was certain, I sent you guysthe box number.
I sent you the he's got theseall in a book.

SPEAKER_03 (15:03):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (15:04):
And and uh I but I found the box, I took it out,
and I kind of you guys, I kindof regret it.
I think I I kind of wish I wouldhave stolen.
I kind of wish I would havestolen it because we're having
I'm having troubles getting itback.

SPEAKER_03 (15:18):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (15:18):
Um, because I would love to have that back.
But I didn't find it.
Got my picture with it, and uhand so that was cool to be able
to see the the permanent, youknow, get well card in the
museum.
And guys, we're the last ones,we were the last geocachers
because six months later, so wewere there in February, six
months later, um, he we foundout he passed away at 98 years

(15:39):
old.
Wow.
98.

SPEAKER_04 (15:42):
Wow, you and you turned 48 tomorrow, Josh.
He was he was 50 years olderthan that.

SPEAKER_00 (15:47):
I know.
Wow, crazy.
So that was 2019 that he passedaway, and then and then the
museum was heading up to thecolony.
And then I guess the museum wentup to the colony before he had
passed, so he sold it.
I don't know if he ever got achance to get up there and
actually see it.
I don't know if there were anypictures of him up there.

SPEAKER_04 (16:04):
I mean, he's San Antonio to it did, and it just
took a flick ahead just for twoseconds, and that is in May of
2019, it actually was located inthe truckyard in Texas.
So if he uh you were last tofind in January, May February,
February, sorry, mid-February,yeah.
Uh, and then May, it was in thetruckyard, and then he passed in

(16:27):
uh the July.
Yes, two months after.

SPEAKER_00 (16:29):
So I don't know if he ever got up there and got to
see it because the pictures I'veseen of it, it is displayed, it
is just compared to what Iexperienced.
Which they were mostly inthey're mostly in um in banana
boxes, yeah.
A lot of them were packed up,but now they're just like
displayed.
It's like this this like epic,beautiful like display of all

(16:51):
these toilet seats.
I'm so glad that was preserved.
But I've guys, I've never got tovisit the colony.
I've known many people that havegone there, and I keep on
saying, my toilet seat is thisnumber, it was in this box.
And I they're like, it's not onthe wall, it's not on the wall.
It's in a box somewhere.
Oh, I know.
Everybody that goes there looks.

SPEAKER_04 (17:11):
We looked, we looked very methodically as well.
So, like Tim took one wall, Itook another wall, and we're
going from top, like all the wayalong the rows, top to bottom
and down.
And uh, and again, just to skipahead as well, just a little
bit.
We're talking this used to bedisplayed because I've seen
photos and I've seen your yourvideo as well, Josh.
And this used to be displayed inbasically uh his back, his
backyard garage or his garage ishis garage, yeah.

(17:33):
That's what it was.

SPEAKER_00 (17:33):
So his garage is very small compared to this
building.

SPEAKER_04 (17:37):
The doors were open and the toilet station along
each side of the doors andinside and whatever else.
Well, this now, where it'sdisplayed now, is almost like a
cathedral, Josh.
Like it's it's almost threestories high in the ceilings, a
three-story ceiling.

SPEAKER_00 (17:51):
They built they basically built a room for it.
I mean, it's built before it wasseats.

SPEAKER_04 (17:55):
Absolutely, they really did.
So uh again, we we we we'rethere now, so we might as well.
So you walk through, and whenyou walk through these double
doors, Josh, first and foremost,on each side of the doors, you
know that the white columns younormally see on a Colosseum,
they had those white columns,but those white columns, they're
actual toilets like lined upnext to each other, like on top

(18:15):
of each other, one on top of theother on top of the toilet.
Amazing porcelain toilets.
So it was really themed.
Porcelain toilets.
Yeah, it was really themed.
You walk through the doubledoors, and already it's lined up
through this little hallway, andthen after the hallway, you go
through and all the lights arethere, and you look all the way
up to the ceiling.
So there, I I didn't countexactly, we didn't count how

(18:36):
many were actually on the wallsitself.
There was a few hanging as welldown from the rafters that was
like a little overhang area,looked like another secondary
area.
There's there's tables andchairs in here too, Josh.
So you can stand around andhaving have your beer, drink
your beer, go through the wholetoilet seat, etc.
But one of my favorites, Tim,and uh I pointed out to you as
well when we did the video.

(18:57):
Yeah, is uh the the roof, Josh.
So the ceiling, the ceilingitself, yes, the ceiling itself
was absolutely amazing.
It's oh I can't think of it now.
It's the uh the Michelangelo,you know Michelangelo, it's
yeah, it's from the ceiling.
And on the ceiling in theVatican City in the Vatican
City.
Yes, where they're where they'rethey're touching each other's
fingers, and it's called TheCreation of Adam.

(19:18):
That's the actual name of thethat painting itself.
So they've reenacted that,except except it is actually
that's two fingers, but on oneof the fingers is a toilet roll
being passed to the other hand.

SPEAKER_00 (19:29):
So that's amazing.

SPEAKER_04 (19:32):
It is really cool.

SPEAKER_00 (19:34):
There's got to be a lot of toilet seats in there
because my toilet seat number, II texted it to you, Tim, is
1341.
So there's no way a thousand.
There's I mean, a thousand.
Are there a thousand in there?
There are probably not athousand.
Very hard to tell, but there's alot.

SPEAKER_01 (19:51):
There's a lot.

SPEAKER_00 (19:52):
Well, but and so the thing is, we and we can talk a
little bit more about thetruckyard and the toilet seat
museum, but my my toilet seat isin a just in a box somewhere.
You know how frustrating thatis?
It's and you know what?
I and I've had people I don'tknow how I don't know if you
asked anybody, and nobodyprobably knew, but I tried

(20:13):
asking.

SPEAKER_02 (20:15):
I tried asking a couple of their employees there,
but you know, they're justmoving tables around, they don't
know anything about it.

SPEAKER_00 (20:21):
I I message people, I've I wrote emails, they've
ignored me.
I just think if we have enoughgeocachers or enough people that
listen to this podcast that gothere, people, my my toilet seat
is 1,341, and it's stored, itwas stored in banana box 116.
So I I mean that how specificcan you get that?

(20:41):
Yeah, just like where are they?
Where are the rest of them?

SPEAKER_04 (20:45):
I'm just sitting in the storage unit.
I know just to let you know,just to let you know, Joshua,
just to let you know, thatyou're not the geocaching star
that everyone thinks that youare, because there were other
actual geocaching toilet seatson the wall.

SPEAKER_01 (20:58):
Oh, I'm sure.
Oh, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_04 (21:00):
There's there's there's one on the wall from the
oh, what's it called, Tim?
Oh, it's it's it was a red, itwas like full-on red um, not not
down under geocaching.
What is it?
The dirt bag.

SPEAKER_00 (21:10):
The dirt bag geocaching.
The dirt bags were up there?

SPEAKER_04 (21:13):
Dirtbags are up there, exactly.
And uh, and there is actually aphysical Munsey, uh Munzie,
physical uh geocache insidethere as well.
And now there's a physicalMunzie inside there too.
The physical mud the physicalmunsey is hidden behind the uh
the toilet seat with all the uhbarcodes on it.
So there you go.

SPEAKER_00 (21:31):
Oh, that's so cool.
So wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,wait, wait, wait.
Wait.
There's a geocache in the room?
Where is it?
Correct.

SPEAKER_04 (21:39):
Correct.

SPEAKER_00 (21:39):
It's not outside, it's inside.

SPEAKER_04 (21:41):
We didn't see it because we didn't open the
geocaching at all.
I know.

SPEAKER_02 (21:47):
I know that's a that's a lot.
We had already we had alreadyexperienced an open bar.

SPEAKER_04 (21:54):
Yeah, it gets worse and karaoke.
It gets worse because there's afive-stage adventure lab inside
there too.

SPEAKER_00 (22:00):
Which you could have got six fines there in there,
yeah.
Correct.

SPEAKER_04 (22:04):
But by that time, as Tim just said, we we did have an
open bar experience, and soyeah, our eyes, Josh, weren't as
sort of you know uh focused, alittle say that uh focused as
they they should be when you goout jacket.

SPEAKER_00 (22:17):
Oh my gosh.
So the truckyard, the truckyardis in the col is in a what city
is it?
Is it's north of Dallas, right?

SPEAKER_02 (22:26):
Well, I think the city is called the colony.

SPEAKER_04 (22:28):
The colony is the city name, yeah, or town name,
yeah.
Suburb name for Texas, thecolony.
Colony, Texas.
Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (22:35):
And the place is called the truckyard.
So you guys have described thethe museum.
Is there like a is there like alogbook?
Is there something that that umthat tells of the history of
like of I'm sure there's stuffabout Barney in there?

SPEAKER_02 (22:51):
Yes, as you enter past those those porcelain
columns that Craig described inthat little hallway, there's
plaques and things theredescribing Barney and his life
and all that stuff.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (23:03):
And there's like there's like paintings and stuff
of him, probably too.
I've seen some of that too.

SPEAKER_04 (23:08):
And that's and that's all in the beginning as
you walk through in that littleuh alcove area, the hallway,
sort of thing.
So they really do pay homage tohim um as such before you go in
through itself.
But let's get back to thetruckyard because I'll tell you
now, we've got the rest of thepodcast can talk about this
truckyard.
The truckyard itself, I wouldclass it as a backyard party

(23:30):
vibe.
Like, so we we had it, we Uberedthere.
And Tim, we we all said this,we're in the Uber, and as the
Uber's going around the corner,we're looking, going, this is a
dead end street, and we're inthe middle of a suburban area,
like what the heck?
And then we got out, turned touh to our left, and there it was
in all its glory, the truckyard.
And what we're talking about, soJosh, you know of um uh those

(23:52):
upside-down cars that are nosedeep uh in different locations.
What's it called?
I can't think of the name.

SPEAKER_02 (23:57):
They have like a car henge one that's all like
Cadillacs stuck in the groundout west.

SPEAKER_04 (24:01):
Yes, that's right.
They do that on this one intruckyard, but they're all along
the actual main uh walkway asyou go into the truckyard
itself.
And I'm I'm saying uh there'sprobably about 30 plus cars nose
deep into the into the ground,lining each side as you walk in.
It's all very rustic, it's gotthe truckyard sign, it's it's

(24:23):
got the uh the the Ednot LEDs.
What do you call it?
Your your favorite type oflights, Josh.
There as well.
Neon lights, it's got the uhit's got all the metal stuff,
the metal works happening aswell.
Um, it's even got an old truckto begin with at the front,
parked at the front, that saysuh be careful, live snakes
within, you know, uh and thingslike that too.
So that's really, really cool.

(24:45):
And yeah, it opened up.
We walked out, and literally itwas.
I felt like Tim, you walked intosomeone's big backyard and they
were ever having a party.
You were having a party.

SPEAKER_02 (24:53):
Yeah, it's a great, it's a great entryway.
It kind of goes downhill asyou're walking in.
And then you when you get to thebottom past all those cars
sticking out of the ground, youget to the bottom and it kind of
just opens up into this backyardarea with lights hanging above
and a stage and food trucks, youknow, kind of surrounding a big
area.
Very nice.

(25:14):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 (25:15):
You are you are encouraged as well to to bring
pets like you know, your dogaround or even kids and stuff
too.
Um, but after uh 9 p.m., andthen all those under the age of
21 have to be out of there too.
So by 9 p.m.
Because that's when it becomes abit of a uh adult party, a bit
of ruckus happens, you know.
But but the live bands there,and even to the point where and

(25:36):
we we went around thisparticular corner um and we had
it having a beverage and welooked up.
And Josh, you know that oldschool cat I call them caravans
in Australia.
What do you call them here?
Like um camper vans.
You call them campers.
But the old school ones, youknow, the ones with a rounded
front and rounded rear end, likereally old.
It was one of those, right?
A camper van, an old camper van.

(25:58):
The whole side of this campervan has been cut out and
removed.
It is sitting there, and the allthe inside's been uh gutted out,
but it's got a bench seat allthe way around the edge with
little tables, so you canactually sit, like the whole
group, the whole our whole partyof of 11 of us sat in this
little camper van area.

SPEAKER_00 (26:18):
Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_04 (26:20):
Out of the out of the wind, out of any rain or
whatever, and and and yeah, justliterally had a little chat.
And so that's really cool too.
So I love that camper van, uhTim.
That was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 (26:29):
Yeah.
I'm looking at the pictures ofthis.
Are there a lot are there werethere a lot of like um food
trucks and stuff out there, ordo they serve their own food?

SPEAKER_04 (26:36):
Both.
Bit of both.
So they do have a rotating foodtruck um uh festival going on
all the time as well.
So sometimes there's likebarbecue, other times there's uh
tacos and the Mexican style one.
And then they even had like anAsian fusion sort of uh uh truck
as well when we were there.
But they do have food servedin-house kitchen as well.

(26:57):
Um the in-house kitchen one isserved to your tables with a QR
code.
Um like you got bench seattables, like a picnic tables, if
you like, all the way around thearea, or you can walk out and
and get one of the food truckfoods as well.

SPEAKER_02 (27:09):
So one of the tables we also sat up for a while,
Craig, was the uh back end of apickup truck.
So you actually literally therewas like a table in the middle
and you sat on the edge like youwere sitting in the back of a
pickup.
It was very cool.

SPEAKER_04 (27:24):
Like like actual tailgating, you know, where we
we tailgate for real.
Yeah, and and a good friend ofours, a good friend of the
podcast as well, Lou Varterman,that's Rob's uh wife, she was
there and she's from England.
And uh like myself fromAustralia, we don't do the
tailgating thing like you do inAmerica.
And so her and I were sittingthere together as two uh

(27:44):
immigrants tailgating uh in themiddle of uh Texas.
So that was really cool.
A couple noobs, exactly.
But as Tim said though, thisthis uh this tray, this truck
tray, it was cut off from therest of the truck.
It was literally just the traysitting on the ground, the table
in the middle, and you sat onthe edge of the the tray and uh
and had the things like that, Ithink to me, Tim, as well.

(28:05):
It was very rustic, very unique,and uh you know it gave that
feel to it as well.
Again, that backyard feel thatwould look really cool.

SPEAKER_00 (28:13):
Yep.
Wow, very cool.
And besides zip lining there,looking at zip lining.
I didn't see that.
Fritz Adventures, it says TexasFritz Adventures.
I don't know.
That might be something else.

SPEAKER_04 (28:28):
We didn't see we didn't look up and see anyone go
rah.
So no one was on the lines goingpast us at all.
What we did see though is uh alot of live music, so there was
another area um where they dohave a full staging setup, etc.,
and a lot of live music, livebands are there.
Uh we just saw a solo guitaristthere as well singing um local
music stuff as well, which isreally cool.

(28:49):
Um, but and that but they changeit up every single day, it's
different.
You know, they there's not thesame thing, you're not the same
band, it's not the same person,it's not the same food trucks,
it's so it's always switched up.
So for me, if I was a local thatlived around that corner, you
you go there once a week andexperience something new.

SPEAKER_00 (29:06):
Yeah, that's what I like.
For sure.
Yeah, yeah.
It looks like a party.
Did you do karaoke here or wasit somewhere else?

SPEAKER_04 (29:14):
Yeah.
Tim.
Hang on, hang on.

SPEAKER_00 (29:16):
Karaoke jam.

SPEAKER_04 (29:18):
Before we start, before we start, all I say is we
did it here, the karaoke we didhere.
Tim, he was the karaoke.
Surprising me, the karaoke king.

SPEAKER_00 (29:27):
It was surprising.
You said a video, I was like, Iwas like, how many drinks did
Tim have?

SPEAKER_02 (29:32):
It was very well like we have been in karaoke
situations before, but thosekaraoke situations have been
like in a public setting.

SPEAKER_00 (29:42):
Yes, this was just with you guys.

SPEAKER_02 (29:45):
The last time we did karaoke together, Josh, you did
a great Elvis tune.
I forget which one.
Yeah.
I don't remember.
Many turns.
It was really, really good.
And so uh as an homage to Josh,I picked an Elvis song.

SPEAKER_00 (30:00):
Which one was it?
It was Now or Never.
Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_04 (30:05):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (30:06):
And uh but it was cool because Rob had prearranged
to rent out a private karaokeroom for our team.
And so we had it all toourselves.
And it's also in the samebuilding as the tiki bar, which
was a very cool room.
And so you could just orderdrinks like through the wall
while you were doing karaoke andhe would just hand them to you.

SPEAKER_00 (30:28):
Yup.

SPEAKER_02 (30:29):
Very cool.

SPEAKER_00 (30:30):
Wow.
Wow.

SPEAKER_02 (30:31):
Flashing lights, uh crazy wallpaper, great
microphones, and loud music, andit was a it was a great time.

SPEAKER_04 (30:39):
Tim, my favorite part of that uh private uh
karaoke room.
Josh, you love this.
Up on top of the wall along theceiling line itself, there was
no less than 15 to 20 stuffedsquirrels that were all in
different poses and they allmatch different uh uh workplace

(31:00):
themes.
So one was a blind squirrel,another one was like a doctor's
squirrel, another one was ateacher's squirrel, another one
was a police officer squirrel.
Like they're all in differentposes, they're all featuring
different sort of uh hobbies anddifferent different workplaces.
So that was really cool.
Um the the the wallpaper wasnext level, but as you said, Tim
before, this is a privatefunction room you hire out

(31:23):
privately.
At first, you know, um I meanthese are this is a kind of a
newish team, and me, I'm I'm aI'm a for a singer, I'm a good
dancer, I've always said that.
And so I got in there, I got inthere, and and to begin with,
Josh, it's you know, it's a bitsomber, a bit quiet.
You have one or two, you hadDylan who's very good at singing
as well.
He got up, started singing,Tamara, she got up, started

(31:44):
singing.
And that's the thing, when thethe good singers get up, the
rest of us go, I'm not, I don'twant it now.
I feel really so I feel like weshould have started with the bad
stuff and ended with the good,you know.
But but in saying that, by theend of the night when we're
there, all of us were updancing, partying, singing, all
together, and uh it was anabsolutely fantastic night.

(32:05):
And a big shout out to Rob andLou and the rest of the team as
well for making that night somuch fun.
But yeah, surprise me, Tim'svoice, but but only with certain
songs.
There was a song that trick itwas a song that Tim attempted to
sing where he was really good upto a point, but that got too
high for you, Tim.
What song was that one?

SPEAKER_02 (32:26):
That was uh Billy Joel, New York State of Mind.

SPEAKER_04 (32:29):
Oh, that's right, yes.
It got to that point, it justwent but I can't, I can't, I
can't talk.
Yeah, have a guess what song,have a guess what song I picked
to sing.
I picked two, but have a guesswhat one of them.
For yourself or for myself, formyself.

SPEAKER_00 (32:44):
I sung one.
I know, I know you did um men atwork from a land under a land
and under.

SPEAKER_04 (32:50):
And I I talk it, I don't sing it.

SPEAKER_00 (32:52):
It's a rap.
You rap it.

SPEAKER_02 (32:54):
It was a really, really good like poetry spoken
word reading.

SPEAKER_00 (32:59):
I I we heard it.

SPEAKER_04 (33:01):
We heard we've heard that it that but Josh, my
favorite, my personal favoriteall-time karaoke song that I can
sing really, really well is uhtequila.

SPEAKER_00 (33:12):
Yes, tequila, tequila.
Did you do that?
Did you do that?

SPEAKER_01 (33:16):
Yes, I did.
I absolutely did.

SPEAKER_02 (33:19):
Well, Craig, you also Craig, you joined in on a
couple other songs too with Roband you did uh Ice Ice Baby, and
you were able to show off someof your dance moves during that
one.

SPEAKER_04 (33:29):
Uh well, I know.
I yes, yeah, this is true.
I mean uh but I will say is Ididn't realize, you know, you
start doing rapping now.
What am I, 50 years of age,doing this rap song that I've
remembered since I was 18, 17,18 years of age, that I
memorized, that's still in myheart wired into my brain.

(33:49):
I don't realize though how muchhow much fit you fitness you
need to actually be able to singin this.
So I have a new, I have a new uhwhat do you call it?
Uh a new, you know, umappreciation.
Appreciation, that's it, forthose singers out there who
actually sing and dance at thesame time.
I'm like, yeah, I couldn't evenstand and sing or let alone

(34:09):
stand like sing and dance at thesame time.
So yeah, wow.
I just I just wasn't breathingproperly.
I don't think I was breathing atall, but anyway.
I don't know how you do it,Josh.
I don't know how you do it.

SPEAKER_00 (34:22):
I say's baby has a lot of words to it.
That's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_04 (34:25):
I know, I know.

SPEAKER_00 (34:26):
Like I remember like the first couple lines, but then
it's like a lot of other oh no,I know, I know it all.
You know them all.
You know him.
He's a favorite.
He is he should be in the rockand roll hall of fame.

SPEAKER_04 (34:36):
Exactly, as we've spoken about in previous
episodes.
That's right, that's right.
So man, yeah, it's a privateroom.

SPEAKER_00 (34:44):
Is there anything else about the colony that we
need to know?

SPEAKER_04 (34:46):
Um, there was actual games outside as well.
Like you we're talking aboutbecause it's like an adult
playground.
So, you know, you've got youryou've got it's not just a bar
to hang out and whatever else.
Well, you can actually, there'sthe uh the the what do you do it
in America here, the between thesandbags and each other's holes.
What's it called?

SPEAKER_02 (35:02):
What's that called?
Well, it's either called bags orcornhole.

SPEAKER_04 (35:06):
Cornhole, that's it.
Yeah, the like you know, yourcornhole, then there's the
jenga, the big oversized Jengasand all those sort of games as
well.
So it's it's more interactivefun uh with that sort of stuff.
And it's yes, yes, you can gothere with kids and stuff as
well, but it is actually kind ofaligned towards the outside.

SPEAKER_02 (35:23):
Up up near the tiki bar, right outside the tiki bar,
too.
They had one of those massivechess sets outside.

SPEAKER_04 (35:29):
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
They didn't.
Oh, that's fine.
Yeah, they do too.
Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 (35:33):
So multiple multiple drink venues in this place.
I mean, they had the two-storybar area was more kind of a
regular bar by the toiletmuseum, and then all the food
trucks, the stage, and then uhanother building that's
basically a brewery where theymake their own beer.

SPEAKER_03 (35:48):
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 (35:48):
And uh and then tiki bar.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (35:52):
Yeah.
The brewery though is uhpredominantly uh with sour-based
sort of sort of beer.
So Rob was really on point withtoo.

SPEAKER_00 (36:00):
I love that too.

SPEAKER_04 (36:00):
24 taps were there as well with signature draft
cocktails.
Um it's a they call it a sourhouse, and it's called the Beard
Science Sour House.
So it is predominantly soursthat they they do serve.
And um, even to the point wherethey do all these different
mixed drinks, a lot of cocktailswere served as well.
There's one cocktail, Josh.
You ready for this?

(36:20):
There's one cocktail that'sserved.
You know, you know those bloodbags that you see in hospitals
where they're they're drippingblood into IV bags, yeah.
One cocktail, one cocktailserved in an IV bag.
So it's very, it's very cool,very clever, very quirky.
Um, and yeah, must a must-go.

(36:43):
I'm gonna say it's a must-go,must-see.

SPEAKER_00 (36:46):
Okay, so we're gonna move on from the colony, but I
want to I want to mention acouple things.
I want to wrap this up.
Yeah, uh Barney Smith's ToiletSeat Museum version 2.0
Geocache.
Yeah.
If anybody's interested, is itthe GC number is GC8E as an
Elvis 7 W A as an Apple.

(37:08):
And there's 64 favorite pointson it.
On the cache is hidden by thethe per the original person that
that owned the virtual, sothat's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_01 (37:18):
Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 (37:18):
And and it does say in the description that um
shortly before he died, hiscollection was enshrined in the
in the museum here.
He was able to travel to Dallasto see his artwork's new home
and cut the ribbon at the grandopening.

SPEAKER_04 (37:32):
Oh, that makes me happy now.
That makes me much more happynow that he was there to
actually see it in all itsglory.

SPEAKER_00 (37:39):
See it in its glory, and it is gosh, it is displayed
in such a cool, beautiful way.

SPEAKER_01 (37:44):
So it really is really cool.

SPEAKER_00 (37:45):
I'm really jealous.
I gotta get up there.
I and the thing is, I will makethe colony.
If you're listening, I'm sendingthis to them.
Yeah, yeah.
We're promoting you call thecolony, we're promoting you.
People go to the colony.
I mean, sorry, the colony is thename of the town.
Go to the truckyard, at thecolony, visit the museum, spend
your money there.
And if you're listening, ownerof the truckyard, yeah, you own

(38:09):
my you own my gift that I gaveto Barney.
And I want you to look in thoseuh wherever it's stored, it is
in a banana box.
I put it in the banana box.
You're lucky I didn't steal it.
Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_04 (38:25):
Can you imagine, Tim?
If Josh was there actually withus, how long he would have spent
hours going from like manager tomanager to manager to manager
trying to talk to someone to seewhere the boxes are being held.

SPEAKER_02 (38:37):
I think so, yes.
I don't doubt it.

SPEAKER_00 (38:40):
I have emailed them so many times, they never
message me back.
So anyway, I and here's thething.
I will make a very I told them,I said, I will fly, I will make
a very special trip.
I will go down there, I willmake a video, I will make a
TikTok, I'll promote the place.
I just want my toilet seat.
It's in a box.
You don't mean I'm doinganything with it.

SPEAKER_01 (39:01):
I want my sheet out.
I want my I want my thing stuffback.

SPEAKER_00 (39:07):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 (39:09):
Wow.

SPEAKER_00 (39:10):
Anyway, um, so we have a little bit more time.
Tell us this is a podcast allabout how location-based games
guided us.
And the the location-based gameguided you to not only to the
the colony and the truckyard,but also to McKee.
Were you were you back inMcKinney too?
Did you go to McKinney?

SPEAKER_04 (39:29):
Yes, yes.
Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (39:30):
So we were there for meetings.

SPEAKER_04 (39:32):
Yeah, we were there for meetings for Munsey.
So uh Rob Vaderman, uh, who runsMunsey, president of Munsey now,
runs it all up.
Um, he was basically, there'sbeen lots of happening uh in the
back end of the business side ofMunsey as well.
And so he wanted to get a wholeteam together uh for meetings
all week long.
And when I say all week long,for me, it's it's still
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday allweek long.

(39:53):
Um, and then do things in theevenings to sort of you know do
that camaraderie, the teambuilding sort of stuff as well.
So uh Tim, I I was there sinceTuesday.
Tim joined us on Wednesday aswell.
Um, I will say if you're aMunsey player listening to this,
and and that is Tim and I, webring a different aspect to the
to the actual Munsey team, andthat is we we come from a player

(40:16):
first component.
So Tim and I, we're playersfirst, you know, before anything
else.
Yes, we've got different ideasabout the things, and we can see
the what's happening in the gameand where it's going, and and we
discussed 2026, for instance,you know, what's gonna happen in
2026, which way we're gonna go,you know, that sort of thing,
too.
And so um uh, but yeah, we gotasked a lot of things about like
player first.

(40:36):
What do you think for this ideafrom a player point of view?
And so that's what Tim and Ibring mostly to the team.
So um, but yeah, Rob and I, uhRob and I, Rob and the team, we
all went out and we sawdifferent locations.
We went to a what was thatbrewery we went to the last one?
Tim was uh we got the glass andeverything.
This is actually pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 (40:54):
Martin House Brewing.

SPEAKER_04 (40:56):
Martin House Brewing for a$25 at Martin House
Brewing, only at theseparticular times, you get a
wristband with four beers on itas well, and any beer at all you
want, plus you get to keep afree Martin House glass that you
can refill each time.
So that's really cool.
So uh, and when are we talkingbeers?
Uh this isn't a beer podcast, Iknow, but Tim or you and I both

(41:18):
said the same thing.
Texas do it different when itcomes to beers.
Oh boy, heavier beers, Josh.
They are heavy beers.
We're talking 12-15% beers here.
They are heavy.

SPEAKER_02 (41:29):
Yeah, the alcohol content in most of their beers
was much higher than it is herein Minnesota, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 (41:36):
Yeah.
Absolutely, absolutely so.
But yeah, Martin House Brewingagain, uh one of those really
cool places.
Uh, we also went to anotherbrewery called Tupps, where
there's a uh a Munsi event onthere as well at Tupps Brewery.
Tupps itself, they uh they tookover from an old flour mill.
So you've still got the oldflour mill, you know, things

(41:56):
there and the machinery thereand stuff as well.
And literally you just walkaround this flour mill machinery
and then grab yourself a beerfrom this, you know, made-up bar
area with the taps on board andstuff too.
Really cool.
I do, I really do love thatrustic feel rather than just all
clean and brand new stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (42:14):
And Tupps again, Tupps again has was kind of like
the truckyard in the sense thatthey have a lot of outdoor space
where you can sit outside andtables or circles of chairs
around fire pits and all kindsof things.
It was just a really coollocation.

SPEAKER_04 (42:28):
Now, Tim, let's let's let's grab the salt in our
right hand.
Let's grab Josh and his cuts inhis in our left hand.
Let's rub that salt into Josh'scuts because after Tufts Josh,
we walked up the road, walked upthe road to a place.
It's another it's like a barlocation.

(42:48):
This bar you hit beers, butyou're there, and every single
what do you call it, computergame, video game, video in
there, and the audio wantedarcade, and it's all free.
You pay you pay an entry fee andthen you can play as many times
as you want, all free, Josh.
We're talking pinball.

SPEAKER_00 (43:06):
This is in McKinney.
This was in McKinney?

SPEAKER_04 (43:09):
Up the road from Tupps.
So yeah, in McKinney.

SPEAKER_00 (43:11):
Oh, up in McKinney.
Near McKinney.
Do you remember what that placewas called?
Remember what it was called?

SPEAKER_04 (43:15):
Oh, I was trying to think of it now.
I did have it on the show notes,but uh Josh said he wanted to
talk about the toilet seatsonly, so I did have it in the
show notes.
Um but while Tim's looking upnow, um, yeah, it's it was
great, Josh.
I think I've sent you a coupleof videos too.
Yes.
Josh, I played I played inmemory of you, even though
you're still alive.
Um the the commander game thatyou taught me last time I was

(43:36):
with you.
Remember the commander game.

SPEAKER_00 (43:38):
Oh, the 1942?
1942.

SPEAKER_04 (43:40):
No, no, no, no, no, no, the one with the one with
the the the things and thebuildings and smashing the
buildings.

SPEAKER_00 (43:44):
Oh, rampage.

SPEAKER_04 (43:45):
Rampage, rampage, yeah, yeah.
I played that one as well.
Uh just for you.
Tim and I had a had a play ofthat one until Tim got bored,
and then we moved on.

SPEAKER_00 (43:52):
So um well, the and the but the last time we played,
Craig, was when we played 1942.
Remember?
That's right, with Ted WestBend, yeah.
That's right.

SPEAKER_04 (44:03):
There was there was a shoot-em up, it was a
shoot-em-up game with aliens andstuff too, with uh automatic
weapons.
So it's very American style.
We Tim and I played that for awhile until Tim started getting
a bit motion sickness.
Um then we went down.
Um, and when we're playing thepinballs, in the corner, you got
sit-down like actual Super Mariogames, like handheld, like the

(44:23):
Nintendo 64 games and stuff too,all in beautiful seatings where
you can sit down and relaxatmosphere, have your beer and
enjoy an old school retro game.
They had the dancing games aswell where you can stand and
dance and like dance dancerevolution and stuff.
Yeah, all those ones where youyou have to actually physically
dance on the boards to getforward, forward, back, back,
and side to side and stuff.

(44:44):
Yeah, all those ones.
So yeah, Josh, I'm telling you,mate, you would have loved this
entire trip.

SPEAKER_02 (44:50):
Okay, so that pinball, that pinball bar was
called Arcade 92 Retro ArcadeBar.
That's it.

SPEAKER_04 (44:56):
That's it.
That's the one.
Thank you too.

SPEAKER_00 (44:59):
Um, so the Munzi, let's talk a little bit of
Munsey real quick.
Yeah.
A little bit more time.
Yeah.
So you had there, how manyMunsey events were there?

SPEAKER_04 (45:08):
Four in total.
So the Munsee headquarters, soRob, uh, he hosted the very
first one on the Friday.
Then there were two hosted byplayers on the Saturday and one
on the Sunday as well.
But that was slightly out of thearea, not in McKinney.
So we had to move around.
They were a bit further southdown.
Um the one in McKinney itselfwith Rob, literally, it was just

(45:28):
a normal sort of meet and greetsort of style, not you not your
normal Munsey event.
Um, if you don't know what Munsievents are, you meet and then
you can actually do a walkaround a beautiful park or
region collecting more Munsies,collecting more points,
collecting these things calledcake and everything else as
well.
Um, but the two other events ona Saturday and then the one on
Sunday were hosted by the localplayers there.

(45:50):
And a big shout out to them aswell.
Uh Denali, you're one of them,and uh and a few others.
And yeah, there was cake to behad, the beautiful, beautiful
parks, Josh.
Beautiful parks, gorgeous, allof them were really good parks.
There were a few caches in a fewof the parks as well.
Tim uh and I arrived there earlyon Sunday, yeah.
And um we did uh we did anadventure lab, we got the

(46:10):
adventure lab uh uh mysterycache there, and we did a really
cool traditional cache, Tim.

SPEAKER_02 (46:16):
Tell us about the traditional yeah, the really
cool one was kind of on theopposite corner of the park, so
we got to walk all the wayacross the park, and um it was
in an it was underneath an oldcabin, like a log cabin with you
know where that's filled in withmud.
Um very cool location.
It was very hysterical cabin,and uh the cache itself was

(46:36):
disguised very well to fit injust perfectly.

SPEAKER_00 (46:39):
It was like a log, like a log cabin kind of dis
disguise.

SPEAKER_04 (46:44):
Yeah, I don't know.
It was a rock, rocky.

SPEAKER_02 (46:48):
It was a rocky disguise.
But it was actually the base ofthe cabin was rock.

SPEAKER_04 (46:52):
Yeah, yeah, but it was actually quite large as
well.
Like it was a trackable hotel, atravel bike.
It was actually quite large.

SPEAKER_00 (47:01):
Yeah, that sounds awesome.
Um, so you teased on the theMunziey podcast, Craig, that
there was maybe a special thingthat was gonna be announced and
featured.

SPEAKER_01 (47:14):
Look at you, Josh listening to other podcasts
apart from ones.

SPEAKER_00 (47:18):
Was there something special that was revealed?
Or is it still under lock andkey?

SPEAKER_04 (47:23):
It's still under lock and key.
No revealing of that one yet.
Uh it didn't happen.
It uh it's not uh it's not readyyet for the uh for the reveal.

SPEAKER_00 (47:31):
So we won't that one didn't talk about that anymore.

SPEAKER_04 (47:37):
I know that sucks, right?
But anyway.

SPEAKER_00 (47:39):
Um one more Munsey thing is, and I will
congratulate my friend, theMinnesota boy, Minnesota boy,
Minnesota boy, who has nowpassed me on the in points for
Munsey.
Yes.
So a little history.
Uh he passed me, um, and then Ipassed him recently.
Yeah, and then he re-passed, heretook.

(48:02):
Yeah.
Um, and it's really it's gonnabe hard now that I'm not that
you're a Munsey employee.
I don't know if I'll ever beable to catch up again.

SPEAKER_04 (48:10):
Maybe you should work for Munsey too, Josh.
Just saying.

SPEAKER_00 (48:12):
Maybe that's how you catch up.

SPEAKER_02 (48:14):
It's a fun team.

SPEAKER_04 (48:15):
But if but if you're a geocacher listening out there
as well, don't worry, we've gotyou covered.
And that is geocaching, uh, asalways, no one really knows,
like, oh, I found so manycaches.
Oh, I found that that's notreally a thing.
There's not really a competitionper se in geocaching.
That's very different to Munsey.
Munsey is very much more apoints-based game, it's very

(48:36):
much a competitive game as well.
Yeah, and so it's it's very,very different to geocaching.
It's no longer can you callMunsey geocaching with stickers
um or QR codes?
It's not that anymore becauseyou've got so much more to this
game than just finding QR codeson light poles.
You know, there's much more,there's deploying, there's uh
different boosters now as wellthat you can utilize for your

(48:59):
for your gameplay.
So, yeah, there's lots happeningwith the Munsee world, a lot
more, and it very much focusedupon competition.
So that's when you hear Joshsaying about uh you know the
competitive nature of uh Timgoing above him and then him
above Tim and Tim above him.
That's what it's about, more sothan geocaching.

SPEAKER_00 (49:16):
Yeah, yes.
So um Dylan, who is an employeeat Munsey, does he still live in
McKinney?
Yes, yes, absolutely.
Oh wow, he he didn't leave whenwhen HQ left.
You know why he didn't leave?
Oh, you know why he didn'tleave?

SPEAKER_01 (49:31):
Here we go.

SPEAKER_00 (49:32):
Because he's proud of his town.

SPEAKER_01 (49:33):
Wow, Josh.

SPEAKER_00 (49:34):
That's a rare thing these days.

SPEAKER_01 (49:36):
He got it in without me prompting you.
Look at you.
Good job.
Well done.
Well, you know, we have a littlespace.
Some freedom.

SPEAKER_00 (49:46):
Yeah, Dylan is proud of his town.
It's a rare thing these days,and he's proud of his demic
organ on his roof.
Yeah.
Oh, he's um all right.
So we've talked about uh, youknow, a lot, I'll just say this
geocachers.
I know a lot of geocachers thathave regrets.
I'm glad I don't have the regretthat I I I was so diligent in
getting to this toilet seatmuseum that I didn't go once,

(50:08):
but I go twice.
Yeah, but people have like theregrets, like, oh, I wish I
would have like gone and metBarney.
That's fine.
Yeah, but now there's a geocachethere, there's adventure labs
there, and you're gonna get tosee them displayed in a
beautiful way.
So I I look forward to my visitto the truckyard to um and make
a video.

(50:29):
Truckyard, if you're listening,I'm proud of that seat.
That's a rare toilet seat.
You're proud of a toilet seat.

SPEAKER_04 (50:39):
That's a rare thing.
That's a very rare thing.
Yeah.
But I will say, Josh, uh, andthat is uh when we looked at
doing this uh podcast, I wentback and had a look at your
video um on YouTube.
Links in the description forthat one as well.
Yes.
And it I'm so I'm so happy.
I never got the privilege tomeet uh Barney at all, but I'm

(50:59):
so happy that I can I can livethat uh and meet him in person
through your videos, mate.
I do appreciate that too.
So uh links for that one are inthe description as well for for
that video.
So you can actually meet Barneybefore you go out to the
truckyard and and see his workin in all its glory.

SPEAKER_00 (51:15):
Yes, he was.
It's one of those things, it'slike the ball of paint, the
biggest ball of paint.
The treasure is Barney.
I mean, that I mean, but it'sreally cool what he created.
But the treasure was reallymeeting him and just like the
commitment, the can, I mean,years of just like making toilet
seat art.
This is true America, Americanafolk art.

(51:38):
So yeah, I can't wait to be ableto visit.
I'm glad you guys got to do it.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm glad that I think it's coolthat Rob decided to make that
kind of a place for you guys tolike have a have kind of a team
building partying.

SPEAKER_04 (51:52):
Um and I will say one more thing before we close
out, and that is that uh I amvery appreciative of the truck,
um, the truck place as well,truckyard, um, for picking it
up, you know, and not not havingit, um, not having it sort of
buried with him alone.
Like this is now going to beliving on in memory of Barney.
So it's a cool place.
It's so cool.

(52:13):
Like to and to add that as afeature to the rest of the
place, like people people wouldgo absolutely, people would go
there just for the actual toiletpiece, toilet seat museum.
They would, but predominantlyyou're there for the sort of the
party atmosphere, the night out,and everything, and that's just
part and parcel of thatexperience that you can have as
well.
So that's really cool.

SPEAKER_02 (52:33):
Yeah, and if you want to have you want to have a
party locally there, they rentout that room.

SPEAKER_00 (52:38):
Oh, that's cool.
They rent out the toilet seatroom.
Yes, you can you can rent it outfor whatever you need.

SPEAKER_04 (52:45):
Maybe, Josh, maybe you need to talk to them, rent
it out, and then have themdeliver you your toilet seat so
you can then dance alone.
You can dance alone in themiddle of the toilet seat museum
with your toilet seat byyourself.

SPEAKER_03 (52:57):
I should do that.

unknown (52:59):
I should do that.

SPEAKER_04 (53:00):
Now that would make for good viewing.

SPEAKER_03 (53:02):
Yes, for sure.

SPEAKER_04 (53:04):
Absolutely.
But uh no, we enjoyed the thetoilet seat museum, we enjoy the
truckyard too.
And if you've been enjoying thispodcast, Josh, how can people uh
support us from there?

SPEAKER_00 (53:15):
Yes, we are a fully listener-supported podcast, and
you can support us on Patreon bysupporting us.
You're helping us create evenbetter content, keep it free,
keep it going, no annoyingcommercials, and you get golden
nuggets.
And actually, I saw pictures ofthe actual physical golden
nuggets of the three printedones.

(53:38):
We have to post pictures ofthose.
We should can we post picturesof those on our Patreon so our
patrons can see the physicalgolden nuggets.
And before you go on, ourpatrons get to see it.

SPEAKER_04 (53:47):
Before we go on, I've still got some video as
well.
So that may that may that may gointo the patron only feed as
well.
Yeah, and video of Tim singingand video of me, video of me
talking and like okay.

(54:08):
So that may that may make it tothe patron page, Josh.
Watch, watch.

SPEAKER_00 (54:11):
We're gonna get like 10 new patrons off of that.

SPEAKER_01 (54:14):
That's great.
And then negative 20.

SPEAKER_00 (54:18):
Anyway, to get some of those golden nugs, golden
nuggets, uh, consider joining uson Patreon.
It's patreon.com backslashtreasures of our town.

SPEAKER_04 (54:28):
Very cool, Josh.
Otherwise, Josh, if people gotideas of what they want us to
do, what they want us to talkabout, where they want us to go,
how can they contact us or findus, Josh?

SPEAKER_00 (54:36):
Yes, feel free to reach out to us to us at
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If you go to Google, searchTreasures of Our Town Podcast,
you'll find us there.

SPEAKER_04 (54:49):
Yes, yes, yes.
And by the way, Tim, thank youvery much for joining us, mate.
We have to send to you anytime.
That's it for our show today.
Please subscribe, rate, andreview on your favorite podcast
camp.
And as always, Josh.

SPEAKER_00 (55:03):
Air travels always lead you to the most unexpected
and amazing hit of this.
Like the toilet CD.
By the way, that should be anentry from my own.