September 18, 2023 • 31 mins
Clint and Amber talk about their whirlwind adventures in Mexico, a phone falling off of a cliff and that cute old couple in Target who were over it.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to the Wish I Would've Known podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Clint and I'm Amber, and we've been married
for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And in this 20 years we've gained a lot of wisdom and
found ourselves in the middleof some pretty crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And now we want to share those things with you.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So here's some stuff that we wish we would've known.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey everybody, Welcome to Wish.
I Would've Known.
We are glad that you're here.
This is season three.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Season three that's the one that comes after two,
but going into the future, it'sthe one that comes before four.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Wow, thank you for that breakdown, because I was
really confused where.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's kind of like how you know how in a football game
, there's like the commentaryand there's like the color
analyst.
That's what that's you, I'mhere to break it down for you
Breaking it down.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I will say that in most TV shows that you watch, I
do feel like season three iswhere things kind of hit their
stride.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The characters are fully developed and fun things
happen.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I am fully developed, my character is, it knows its
direction and I feel.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You know your lines.
You have some catchphrases thatyou do.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's going to be great.
My main catchphrase is yup.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yup, that's the one.
No, we're excited to be here.
If you're just joining us, we'dlove, if you like, jump back
and listen to maybe a coupleepisodes from one and two.
We actually did a specialDisney series this past summer.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It was so much fun and I've you know what, I've
actually been here for everyepisode.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh me too.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's amazing, that is amazing.
Quite the streak.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Good for us.
Quite the streak.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Let's keep that going .
Let's keep it going.
I'm excited that you're hereand you're tuning in Little
background about us.
We said it in the intro Amberand I have been married for
almost 20 years, Currently 19.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
19 years.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And we've learned a lot of lessons over these 20
years.
We have experienced a lot ofreally fun and sometimes crazy
stories.
And this is our opportunity tobe able to bring these things to
you guys.
There's so many of you guysthat are friends that literally
around the world, that we don'tget to have over for dinner, and
so this is our dinner table.
This is the hey Amber madespaghetti.
Come and hang out and we'regoing to tell you some crazy
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stories and just talk aboutwhat's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hopefully you like spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, gluten-free.
Amber made some gluten-freespaghetti for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
For you, just for you , and I promise it doesn't taste
too much different than normal.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So, okay, we're going on the spaghetti tangent.
Okay, we're going to stay herefor a second.
Okay, all right, amber has tomake two pots of spaghetti every
time.
She makes it because Amber'sgluten-free and she has to have
gluten-free noodles, and therest of us know that those are
gross because we have taste buds.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They're honestly not that bad, but they're not.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They're not good, but they're not full on spaghetti.
But the redeeming part ofspaghetti night is there are
gluten-free cheddar biscuitsfrom.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Red Lobster.
Red Lobster has madegluten-free cheddar biscuits.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't know what they sold to the devil to be
able to gain the recipe of agluten-free cheddar biscuit that
is enjoyed by all.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Do we need to pray for Red Lobster right now as a?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
company Maybe.
So, guys, they've given it up.
They've given it up to receivethis recipe.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, these things are bomb.
They're so good.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
They're so good.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They make spaghetti night so much better.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
They're so good.
Okay, all right, staying on thespaghetti tangent, all right,
welcome to season three.
It's the spaghetti tangent.
The spaghetti tangent, that'sit.
So Aambronard Grocery Shop inthe other night or other day at
Target, and so we've married 19years.
We know each other so well, insand outs and kind of like, know
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how to navigate things togetherand social situations and all
the nonverbal communications andthings.
And so we're at Target, we'rechecking out, and there's an
older couple that we had alreadyseen walking around Target
together and we were kind oflike aw, because when we see I
don't know what it is aboutAambronard, though, but when she
sees like an old man, likewe're walking here today, she's
just an old man driving a truckand she's goes aw.
(04:15):
I'm like what is that?
I mean?
I guess I'm glad because I willone day be an old man.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, don't you want me to say aw instead of ew?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I guess.
So Season 20.
Season 20 of Wish.
I Would have Known I'm the oldman that you went aw, Anyway.
So we're in Target, we see thiscouple and Aambronard goes aw
and there's cute walking around.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I always think about like that will be you and I one
day wandering around Target.
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It will.
Anyway, so fast forward.
Aambronard, checking out, andwe see them, the ladies at the
door.
The wife is at the door waiting.
The husband is fooling with oneof the carts, trying to put it
back in the cart return.
Yes, now he's been doing thisfor a solid 45 seconds at least.
Now we're crossing over to aminute.
(04:59):
He's still fooling with thisthing, trying to get this cart
back in the cart return.
And finally she just goesreally loud.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Leave it, Harold.
We don't work here we weredying.
Leave it, Harold.
We don't work here.
I was done.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, and in that scenario, who would be the one
trying to return the cart?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's you, the right one, that's you and I'm the.
Leave it, harold, we don't workhere.
We've put it right in themiddle.
You've created an opportunityfor the American workforce and
now has a job to do.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So anytime I'm trying to like, follow the rules or do
something like that, from nowon you're gonna yell at me Leave
it, harold.
Leave it Harold.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's what I'm gonna say to you from now on Yep, yep
.
So 19 years.
Amber and I celebrated 19 yearsover the summer, yep, and we
wanted to go on.
I don't know.
You know you wanna go on a trip, a trip.
You gotta do something wherethe kids don't go.
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You know?
Yes, it's just what you do Ananniversary trip as one does.
Share it with the folks.
We went to Puerto Varta, Mexico, oh.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I like how you said that Puerto Varta?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's probably not right.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, probably not.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's the last time I'm doing that on this episode,
but it was so cute.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love when you like try to speak Spanish.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So, yeah, while we were there, we really tried to
brush up on our simple Spanishthat we know.
It was quite fun, but, yeah, wehad the opportunity to go to
Puerto Varta.
Some good friends of oursactually have a beautiful home
there on the cliff side overlooking the bay.
It was unreal and, yeah, theyvery generously offered us the
home for the week.
So we went for a whole week,just you and I.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, it was amazing and I took a guitar.
I sat around on the beach andwrote country songs Most of the
country songs about being inMexico and not wanting to go
back to my real life.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, very Zach Brown-esque.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, they were very Zach, Very Jimmy Buffett RIP,
yes, oh yeah, rip, rip, rip.
Thank you, cheeseburger inparadise.
Well, we've never done like thetropical location either, like
we've never fully done that youknow, somebody asked me the
question the other day Do youguys take trips or do you go on
(07:24):
vacations?
And so I was like okay, what'sthe difference?
Oh, and he said a vacation isyou go to a destination, you
stay there and you do nothing,and a trip is you go and you
have all these activities andyou explore.
So Amber and I were trippers.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We are trippers.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
For sure, we take trips that's what we do but this
was more along the lines of avacation for us.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We were determined that we were going to go and
actually just rest and donothing.
We don't do that very well, Idon't know if you can relate to
that, but just we don't donothing well.
So we were determined thatthat's what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We don't do nothing Well.
I mean, yeah, that'stechnically that is correct
English.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We hang on, we mean English good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Can you say it in Spanish?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Me English good.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No, we don't do nothing well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, I cannot, no, anyway.
So yeah, we were determinedthat we were going to do nothing
.
So we flew in to Puerto Vartaand, honestly, the flight is not
bad to get down there.
It was pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It was great, yeah, and it's really.
It's one of those flights where, when you're coming in for the
landing, it's beautiful.
You're flying over themountains in Mexico.
It's just lush and green andbeautiful Because Texas right
now is very brown, no rain.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So, yes, all the green, all the lush, it was
gorgeous.
I will say the airport is alittle bit overwhelming because
you have lots of people in theretrying to sign you up for all
of the touristy things and alsooffering a shot of tequila.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's what happens when you fly in to Puerto Varta
you get a shot of tequila.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, which we don't drink, so we didn't get one.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No gracias, we started.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
No gracias, no gracias.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We had to say that so many times on this trip and
we'll talk about that, butanyway.
So yeah, they're trying to signyou up for all the touristy
things, but again we're like,nope, we're just going to go and
chill.
So we got to the house, got toexplore this massive, gorgeous
house on the cliff side, andthen there's the private beach
club there that we took the golfcart to.
I mean, it's just, it wasunreal.
Yeah, it was.
We don't know how to handlethat.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, we really don't .
We really don't.
While we were there, it wasAmber's birthday and our
anniversary, and so both ofthose we got to celebrate in
Mexico, and the staff of thebeach club that was there, they
knew that it was Amber'sbirthday and knew that it was
our anniversary, so they had,like the special cake and they
sang happy birthday.
And like it was the sweetestthing ever and it was just the
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most incredible experience, likethe time that we had to just
immerse ourselves in being inthis incredible environment
together was awesome.
Amber Amber's mentioned acouple of times that the house
was on a cliff side.
That's an, that's a note,that's that's worth recognizing,
because not only are the viewsand the vistas the most
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beautiful thing you've ever seen, but also it's very high up,
right off of the side of thecliff.
So one day there is anincredible thunderstorm that we
can see coming across the Bay ofBanderas and it's coming in
towards the house.
There's this awesome rainbowback behind it and I'm standing
(10:52):
up on the side of the on thebalcony, overlooking the ocean
and seeing this thing coming myway, and I'm like, obviously I
got to take a picture.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I want to take like a a time, like a time lapse of
the storm rolling in, and so Irun back to the bedroom to throw
on some shorts and things.
We're going to go down to thebeach to look at the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and the plan was we're going to leave my
phone there, we're going to timelapse and then we're going to
go down to the beach and watch,you know, see the rainbow and
everything.
So I propped my phone up on theside of the balcony and a gust
of wind comes and blows my phoneover the side.
And when I'm talking over theside we're like at least you
(11:32):
know four or five stories atleast, oh my God.
And so I go back inside.
I'm just I'm on vacation, soI'm just trying to be really
chill.
So I say, hey, babe, my phonefell over the side.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
She's like and I thought I was kidding.
Of course I thought he'skidding, cuz Clint does it all
the time.
So I was like no, you're joking.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I was like no.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
No, it really didn't.
I was like stop.
I'm gonna do it.
It took like a couple exchangesfor me, actually.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
then you finally, like I'm telling you, I'm
telling you, my phone fell overthe side, so I'm there's not a
way, on the backside, on thecliff side of this house.
There's not a way.
There's not like stairs to getdown.
Mm-hmm, you're not supposed togo down there, correct?
And so what ends up happeningis I have to shimmy down like a
column type thing on one side ofthe, the balcony and it had
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just poured down rain.
Yes, mind you, at thethunderstorm, everything's wet.
I crawled down, like this Hillcliff thing, over the rocks
through these briars, and I getall the way down Just to
discover that my phone hasfallen on the other side of a
barbed wire fence.
(12:40):
Yeah, I can't get it.
No, I'm looking for a stick.
I'm looking for something I canlike.
Try to grab it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You were gonna go under the fence, but there's
barbwire Under the fence there'sjust it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, so then I'm like okay, I gotta go climb back
up without my phone.
I climb all the way back upwithout my phone the whole time,
ambrose, like I don't know,five stories up above me looking
down.
Are you okay?
Like no.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Trying to help and I don't know how you help in that
situation.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
I guess from above it lookslike she's like just jump over
onto that rock.
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh yeah, from my perspective it yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I can't, it's too far .
So I go back up without myphone and it's kind of like one
of those like alright, do I do?
I leave it like forever, I justget there, is this okay?
So instead, what we do is weget on, get in the golf cart, we
drive around to the Beach Club,which is, um, you know, a
little ways away and to go down.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It like down and around the hill, and I mean down
away.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So from the Beach Club to the cliffside that the
home is on is probably about asolid I don't know half a mile
or so hike, and it's not justlike a high, a nice leisurely
stroll along the beach, it'sjust rocks.
Yeah, there's not a beach,there's no beach there.
There's a beautiful beach atthe Beach Club, but then after
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that it's just rocks.
And so I'm like alright, Iguess the only way I can do this
is I gotta go over the rocks.
Okay, again, thunderstorm, sowet rocks like me, deep water
because of all the waves comingin with the thunderstorm, and
it's, it's, it's getting dark,getting dark.
So I leave Amber at the BeachClub and she's like I don't want
you to go do this.
(14:23):
I was like this, the only way Imay be able to get my phone.
She's like well, how am I gonnabe able to get in touch with
you?
And she goes well, I don't know, I guess, take my phone and
I'll keep my Apple watch, yeah,so that once, if you get in
trouble or something happens,you can call me on my Apple
watch, which we thought wouldwork, which obviously doesn't,
because it's it shares the samesignal.
Well, I just had no signalanyway.
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So I go through the waves onthe rocks half a mile, get to
where our house is located,crawl on my belly up to where
the phone fell, right over topof this barbed wire fence, grab
the phone, find it.
I'm able to get it.
Awesome part is it had beentaking a time-lapse video that
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entire time.
So the time-lapse video is likerainbow, rainbow, thunderstorm,
clif, and then it's juststaring at the canopy and it
slowly starts to become darkerand darker and darker Over time.
It just it captured the wholething.
And then finally it's you seeme grab it which is just.
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It just filmed it the wholetime.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I kind of wish it like would have filmed her face
as it was falling down, buttime-lapses so quick.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I know, I know it didn't quite capture it.
Um yeah, that would have beengreat.
But I got my phone and as soonas I I got there and I touched
the button, it died.
Mmm so I'm like oh, it's notWell.
First of all, the fact that itsurvived.
It felt that the back of myphone is completely shattered.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It is shattered.
But like the main screen itstill works Anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So I use, like I said .
I had Amber's phone.
Amber had her Apple watch.
I tried to make the call butobviously I can't call her.
It didn't work.
So I'm it's soaking wet, it'sdark, in a jungle on the beach
or like with the rocks, and theonly person I can think to call
was her son, Isaac.
He's not called Isaac.
I'm like, hey, the phone felloff a cliff and all it's like
(16:22):
telling the whole thing.
He's like wait what?
And because I hadn't talked tohim in like three days, because
we're on vacation, Right, and Iwas like text mom's phone and
tell her that I made it.
He's like you what?
Yeah, it's like super confusedabout what's happening.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So then he's calling me as you're walking up, so it
all it's great.
So got it back.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So spoiler alert guys .
I made it, I made it, I made itback.
The phone survived.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And what is the first thing that you said when you
came back?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The very first thing I said I'm walking up to Amber,
I'm, I got mud all over me headto toe, it's soaking, wet
scratches and everything elsefrom the cliff side.
And the first thing I said toAmber is like it wouldn't be a
Clinton neighbor vacation if wedidn't have a podcast story when
we got back.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So the first thing.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I thought about was you guys.
I just wanted to tell you aboutthe phone falling off a cliff
in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There's your podcast story there you go.
So we, we did have a chance tolay around and relax in addition
to that little escapade, butfor my birthday and I think,
just for our anniversary, we didwant to do one adventurous
thing in Mexico.
Right, we wanted to go and doone, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So I mean Amber thirsty thing, I guess.
Amber's always wanted to dohorseback riding and there was a
ranch that was out kind ofclose to where we were and they
offered horseback riding, butnot just horseback riding like
horseback riding out on thebeach.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, so we go into the middle of the mountains is
beautiful, you know ranch andthere's the flags hanging
everywhere.
It was gorgeous and, yeah, wegot, we got our horses and there
was I mean it's like, this islike a legit ranch.
Oh yeah, that was a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Cowboys.
We had a.
We had a cowboy guy named Pedro.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Pedro.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Pedro, a cowboy guy, and Amber.
What was your horse's name?
Pepe?
Pepe was your horse.
Pepe, that horse.
He was so cute.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So there was a four of us in the group was me and
Clint, and then another coupleand Clint's horse was the line
leader and then mine was secondand then the other two people
were behind us and we were tostay in a line going through it.
So we leave the ranch and yougo on these trails and it's
really incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It was cool, you actually go through a little
Mexican village.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Towns, so it's like cobblestone streets and like the
flags over the street.
It was the most beautiful, likeawesome experience and like and
like bushes and roses on thesides is really cool.
And then you just turn off intothe jungle, which eventually
empties you back out into thebeach, which is like the coolest
thing ever.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It was incredible.
We weren't supposed to take ourphones but, spoiler alert,
someone did bring their phone.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It was Amber.
She is a, not a rule follower.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You know I did not bring my phone.
You know, you guys know I putmy phone in the locker.
I like made sure the workerssee me put my phone in the
locker.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, no, I put my in my pocket and the reason is
because they have somebody onATV that kind of will follow you
around at different spots andtake pictures and they want to
sell the pictures to youafterwards and it's like 200
bucks.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
It was a lot of money .
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, sounds like hard pass.
I'll take a couple of pics.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But you do have a really cool video of just a
quick little us riding throughthe jungle on the horses it was
such a neat experience and thenriding out on the beach, but
your horse was in no hurry to go.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know what?
Anywhere, my horse was onvacation.
My horse was on vacation.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
He really was.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, pepe, not feeling it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Pepe was wanted to be the line leader.
It was like being in a sportscar that you kept revving up
like to get past somebody.
That's what I felt like thewhole time, and I'm on this
giant horse and I'm trying tolike get him to settle down and,
yeah, I kept saying, bueno,pepe, well, like you're doing
good Relax.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
He's probably like your Spanish is terrible.
Yeah, yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
and then we got out on the beach and that was
incredible and Pepe wanted to befully in the water.
We were so deep in those wavesand they were crashing over us
and he was having a ball andyour horse was like way up on
the beach.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, my horse didn't even want to dip an ankle Like
he wasn't feeling it.
He wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But it was a great.
That was a great experience.
It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It was really fun, like, I think, the wish I would
have known for me.
I went into Mexico into thistrip Maybe, maybe a little bit
tentative.
I didn't know what to expectand it's you know, obviously
there's all these differentnarratives and things like that
but it Not only did I feel supersafe the entire time, not only
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was the language barrier barriernot an issue, but, like the,
the people that we met when wewere there are the nicest people
.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
They were so kind.
We had an Uber driver that weended up using like throughout
the whole week.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, he was so nice the first day that he was just
like hey, any, anytime you need,here's my direct number, I'm
gonna come and drive around.
And he was so kind and likeLike we would listen to music
together and like in the car andlike just so much fun it was
just great Billy Joel a bunch oftimes in the car I don't know
why we kept hearing Billy Joelwhile we were Mexico, which I
mean that's great though.
Yeah, that's like a top, a topfive artists for me.
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But then the staff of the BeachClub in the house, they're just
the sweetest people ever and wereally legit had some of the
best food that I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Oh, my goodness, the food well, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So when I say we had the best food, what I really
mean is Amber had the best food,because what happened is, every
time we would order something,I would order something, amber
would order something, and herswould be better than mine every
time I went.
And then the next time I wouldorder what she had mm-hmm the
previous time which is so good,which was so good, and she'd
order something else and herswins again.
Yeah, I don't know how she keptone up in me.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know, I did win.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, so we would sit down at the Beach Club and eat
dinner every night.
And I mean you're just, you'resitting on a beach eating this
wonderful food.
It's incredible.
For our anniversary we got likedressed up I had this dress,
and so we're down there eatingand I had gotten some Mosquito
bites like a couple of daysbefore.
Like mosquitoes, they flippinglove me and they like never
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bother you.
No, you're they, you're sweet,they know what's up man, they
love me, and so we're sittingthere eating dinner for our
anniversary, right, it's a nicedinner, that's nice dress on,
and I am itching, like you wouldnot believe, and I was thinking
, okay, it's probably just youknow, those mosquito bites ahead
the night before, and so I'mlike kind of, you know, shifting
(22:39):
in my sheets shifting in your,in your sheet, shifting in your
seat?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Say it in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, I'm like moving around.
And then finally I was like,are you okay?
And I was like, I don't know,I'm just so itchy and so I have
this like long dress on, so welike lift up a little bit of the
dress and there was a communityof Mosquito y'all they were
having.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They were having life group like it was.
I'm talking like 15 at leastmosquitoes, like, like they were
there having a community group.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, it was a Confiest.
I was the male, seriously itwas.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It was nearly like Amber was like a couple
mosquitoes away from, like them,cartoonishly picking her up and
lifting her up and taking heraway.
I've never seen that manymosquitoes in one place, let
alone on a person and also thedress is back.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, she turns around the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
There's another neighborhood of mosquitoes on
the back of her.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, they were.
They were chow.
Now we were having a gooddinner and they were having a
good dinner.
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I think we counted like 15 or 20 on my back and
then yeah at least I've neverseen that many mosquitoes, ever
there's a lot they were havinglike fiesta.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But Mexico's, it was beautiful, it was wonderful, we
had such a great experience, we,we attempted.
Okay, so again, we don't donothing.
Well, and so for another daywe're like, hey, there's a
little beach town We've heardabout.
Let's, let's take a car thereand go there for the day
Sayulita.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, oh yeah, sayulita is like a little like
surfer village thing.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So we get our friend.
What's name?
Sergio?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Sergio, we call Sergio.
We're like, hey, we're gonna goto sayulita.
So he comes, picks us up andwe're on the way there and to
get there you kind of drivethrough the mountains.
It's a really gorgeous drive,beautiful.
So as we're driving, athunderstorm comes up and it
just starts to get pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I mean it's pretty intense, like to the point where
, like Sergio's like laughingbecause he's like this is, this
is crazy.
Yeah, I mean it was likeshaking the car, yeah lightning
was striking very close.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It was wild.
We get to sayulita and thewhole town is completely Flooded
.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I mean it's like Atlantis, it's underwater.
It was there, like shop ownersthat are standing up on their
top step, like taking video of ariver running through the
street.
It was nuts, it was wild, butI've heard sayulita is really
cool and so I guess we'll haveto go back.
Yeah, so that we can actuallygo next time, because it was
underwater.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It was definitely underwater.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, it's crazy.
And then by the time we gotback across I mean talking 30
minutes away.
When we got back across towhere our place was it wasn't
raining at all.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, so we decided to go to the market in.
What's that called?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Boussieres.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Boussieres, yeah, I think so probably butchering
these.
So we're like you know what,let's do the market experience,
because we haven't done that yet.
So we go to the market and youknow we stand out because we're
obviously not locals, and so wehave people coming up to us and
trying to, you know, sell youthings.
And I gosh, I struggle in thatenvironment.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Amber.
Okay, listen, amber strugglesto say no.
This is why we have four kids,all right, she has a hard time.
She has a hard time saying no,so so when you put her in a
situation in the market wherethere are these people were like
do you want to see this blanket?
Yeah, do you want to seeanother one?
Yeah, do you like?
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She can't say no.
And so I'm just like no grasses, no grasses, no grasses.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, right, and left Plants like pulled a stone,
like bring them out, bring themout.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
Your little kid wants to sellme no grasses.
No, like I got no time for it.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, and they're like putting bracelets on my
wrist when I didn't ask for themto do that.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, you like, let them put it on you.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
when it no grasses, no grasses.
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
There's a sweet man standing there and he's shown me
these bracelets and I'm like no, I'm good, I did say no, and he
just put one on my wrist.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The amount of markup that they're willing to do.
It's insane.
Okay, so let's just.
I'm just going to give youround numbers.
So let's say there's a bracelet.
It's clearly like this littlebronze cheap bracelet thing.
Okay, it's price would besomething equivalent to about 80
US bucks.
That's what it has on it, yeah,so then he comes and puts it on
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it.
He goes hey, for you 40.
All right, we're already athalf price, yeah, okay.
So then you're like finally, Iget you say no grasses.
He's like come on, you know,it's most beautiful you've seen.
And she's like no grasses.
I finally get her to say nograsses.
All right, you know what Foryou 25.
Yeah, like no, you know, wereally don't want it.
And he's like why?
You think there's a better onesomewhere.
He's like no, we just don'twant it.
Okay, okay, 10.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I mean, okay, we're talking from 80 bucks to 10
bucks and he's still making aprofit at 10 bucks.
So, like that's your wish, youwould have known.
Say no, grassy is enough, andyou will get a substantial
discount.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I want to support the people there.
That was like it was just hard.
That was hard for me.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It was not, it did not.
I would buy all the things justto you know, in the in the
market in Boussierras, we didsee a Chihuahua with sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We did see a little Chihuahua with sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
He was, he was remarkable.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay.
So the wildest thing about thatlittle Chihuahua with
sunglasses was the guy at thebooth was like you, like him,
you want another one, you wantone, you can take one.
Have some of you can take home.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah Hardest, no, grassiest, that Amber had the
entire trip Cause they're like,hey, you want a little dog you
can take with you.
Like no, we're not takinganother dog home.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're not going to let you fly with a dog that you
got in Mexico.
If he's got sunglasses he'slike undercover In the customs.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Is this?
Did you get this dog in Mexico?
No, this is my child.
This is my child.
He's undercover.
This is Pepe.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But like you can't in customs, this is no animals.
Very clearly you can't.
I don't know, that was wild.
So anyway, that's our Mexicotrip.
We had a great time.
We hope that you took somegreat vacations over the summer
as well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, and so okay for us.
We're starting off season three.
We're excited to be backdropping some episodes
throughout the fall, which is,by the way, the most wonderful
time of the year.
It's football season.
Yeah, it is.
It's like the weather's better,like we.
I mean, we're going to likeHalloween's around the corner,
which is awesome.
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And then the day afterHalloween, it's Christmas, it's
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We just skip right over Thanksgiving.
You love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love Thanksgiving.
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
But you just rope it in with Christmas season, yeah
it's like pre-Christmas.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's like Christmas is the chorus and Thanksgiving
is the pre-chorus.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Okay, I see, yeah, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I like that too.
I think that's good and likeyeah, and Halloween's like verse
one.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Verse one is Halloween, yeah, so what are we
in right now?
We're just in the intro.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, we're in the intro.
It's close, it's the build-upscoming.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Oh, I gotcha.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Musician terms everyone.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, I'm excited, but yeah, I'm stoked about
season three.
It's going to be really fun.
I think something that we getan opportunity to share with you
guys is all these stories.
But here's a little behind thescenes, like, amber and I get an
opportunity to go and grabStarbucks and sit in this room
and do this together and we justlaugh the whole time, like
before we even hit record.
We're just dying laughing andit's so much fun for us to get
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to do this together.
And so thank you, guys, forlistening to this and thank you
for joining us on this journey,but also, like, thanks for
affording us an opportunity todo something really unique and
fun together.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yes, thank you for listening.
Thank you for your support.
We love you.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yep, it's awesome.
Hey, hit us up on Instagram atwishpodcast.
We'd love to be able to connectwith you guys throughout season
three.
It's going to be a really funone.
We got some fun stories andsome fun things that we're going
to cover throughout the season,and we will see you next time,
next time.
Next time, say it in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No, adios, adios amigos.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Wish I would have known is recorded in the
beautiful hill country of Austin, texas, the live music capital
of the world.
Follow us on Instagram, atwishpodcast, and stop by to say
hi.
We like it when people say hi.
Welcome to the Wish I Would've Known podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Clint and I'm Amber, and we've been married
for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And in this 20 years we've gained a lot of wisdom and
found ourselves in the middleof some pretty crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And now we want to share those things with you.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So here's some stuff that we wish we would've known.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey everybody, Welcome to Wish.
I Would've Known.
We are glad that you're here.
This is season three.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Season three that's the one that comes after two,
but going into the future, it'sthe one that comes before four.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Wow, thank you for that breakdown, because I was
really confused where.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's kind of like how you know how in a football game
, there's like the commentaryand there's like the color
analyst.
That's what that's you, I'mhere to break it down for you
Breaking it down.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I will say that in most TV shows that you watch, I
do feel like season three iswhere things kind of hit their
stride.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The characters are fully developed and fun things
happen.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I am fully developed, my character is, it knows its
direction and I feel.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You know your lines.
You have some catchphrases thatyou do.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's going to be great.
My main catchphrase is yup.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yup, that's the one.
No, we're excited to be here.
If you're just joining us, we'dlove, if you like, jump back
and listen to maybe a coupleepisodes from one and two.
We actually did a specialDisney series this past summer.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It was so much fun and I've you know what, I've
actually been here for everyepisode.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh me too.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's amazing, that is amazing.
Quite the streak.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Good for us.
Quite the streak.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Let's keep that going .
Let's keep it going.
I'm excited that you're hereand you're tuning in Little
background about us.
We said it in the intro Amberand I have been married for
almost 20 years, Currently 19.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
19 years.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And we've learned a lot of lessons over these 20
years.
We have experienced a lot ofreally fun and sometimes crazy
stories.
And this is our opportunity tobe able to bring these things to
you guys.
There's so many of you guysthat are friends that literally
around the world, that we don'tget to have over for dinner, and
so this is our dinner table.
This is the hey Amber madespaghetti.
Come and hang out and we'regoing to tell you some crazy
(02:25):
stories and just talk aboutwhat's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hopefully you like spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, gluten-free.
Amber made some gluten-freespaghetti for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
For you, just for you , and I promise it doesn't taste
too much different than normal.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So, okay, we're going on the spaghetti tangent.
Okay, we're going to stay herefor a second.
Okay, all right, amber has tomake two pots of spaghetti every
time.
She makes it because Amber'sgluten-free and she has to have
gluten-free noodles, and therest of us know that those are
gross because we have taste buds.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They're honestly not that bad, but they're not.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They're not good, but they're not full on spaghetti.
But the redeeming part ofspaghetti night is there are
gluten-free cheddar biscuitsfrom.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Red Lobster.
Red Lobster has madegluten-free cheddar biscuits.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't know what they sold to the devil to be
able to gain the recipe of agluten-free cheddar biscuit that
is enjoyed by all.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Do we need to pray for Red Lobster right now as a?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
company Maybe.
So, guys, they've given it up.
They've given it up to receivethis recipe.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, these things are bomb.
They're so good.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
They're so good.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They make spaghetti night so much better.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
They're so good.
Okay, all right, staying on thespaghetti tangent, all right,
welcome to season three.
It's the spaghetti tangent.
The spaghetti tangent, that'sit.
So Aambronard Grocery Shop inthe other night or other day at
Target, and so we've married 19years.
We know each other so well, insand outs and kind of like, know
(03:53):
how to navigate things togetherand social situations and all
the nonverbal communications andthings.
And so we're at Target, we'rechecking out, and there's an
older couple that we had alreadyseen walking around Target
together and we were kind oflike aw, because when we see I
don't know what it is aboutAambronard, though, but when she
sees like an old man, likewe're walking here today, she's
just an old man driving a truckand she's goes aw.
(04:15):
I'm like what is that?
I mean?
I guess I'm glad because I willone day be an old man.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, don't you want me to say aw instead of ew?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I guess.
So Season 20.
Season 20 of Wish.
I Would have Known I'm the oldman that you went aw, Anyway.
So we're in Target, we see thiscouple and Aambronard goes aw
and there's cute walking around.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I always think about like that will be you and I one
day wandering around Target.
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It will.
Anyway, so fast forward.
Aambronard, checking out, andwe see them, the ladies at the
door.
The wife is at the door waiting.
The husband is fooling with oneof the carts, trying to put it
back in the cart return.
Yes, now he's been doing thisfor a solid 45 seconds at least.
Now we're crossing over to aminute.
(04:59):
He's still fooling with thisthing, trying to get this cart
back in the cart return.
And finally she just goesreally loud.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Leave it, Harold.
We don't work here we weredying.
Leave it, Harold.
We don't work here.
I was done.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, and in that scenario, who would be the one
trying to return the cart?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's you, the right one, that's you and I'm the.
Leave it, harold, we don't workhere.
We've put it right in themiddle.
You've created an opportunityfor the American workforce and
now has a job to do.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So anytime I'm trying to like, follow the rules or do
something like that, from nowon you're gonna yell at me Leave
it, harold.
Leave it Harold.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's what I'm gonna say to you from now on Yep, yep
.
So 19 years.
Amber and I celebrated 19 yearsover the summer, yep, and we
wanted to go on.
I don't know.
You know you wanna go on a trip, a trip.
You gotta do something wherethe kids don't go.
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You know?
Yes, it's just what you do Ananniversary trip as one does.
Share it with the folks.
We went to Puerto Varta, Mexico, oh.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I like how you said that Puerto Varta?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's probably not right.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, probably not.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's the last time I'm doing that on this episode,
but it was so cute.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love when you like try to speak Spanish.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So, yeah, while we were there, we really tried to
brush up on our simple Spanishthat we know.
It was quite fun, but, yeah, wehad the opportunity to go to
Puerto Varta.
Some good friends of oursactually have a beautiful home
there on the cliff side overlooking the bay.
It was unreal and, yeah, theyvery generously offered us the
home for the week.
So we went for a whole week,just you and I.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, it was amazing and I took a guitar.
I sat around on the beach andwrote country songs Most of the
country songs about being inMexico and not wanting to go
back to my real life.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, very Zach Brown-esque.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, they were very Zach, Very Jimmy Buffett RIP,
yes, oh yeah, rip, rip, rip.
Thank you, cheeseburger inparadise.
Well, we've never done like thetropical location either, like
we've never fully done that youknow, somebody asked me the
question the other day Do youguys take trips or do you go on
(07:24):
vacations?
And so I was like okay, what'sthe difference?
Oh, and he said a vacation isyou go to a destination, you
stay there and you do nothing,and a trip is you go and you
have all these activities andyou explore.
So Amber and I were trippers.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We are trippers.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
For sure, we take trips that's what we do but this
was more along the lines of avacation for us.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We were determined that we were going to go and
actually just rest and donothing.
We don't do that very well, Idon't know if you can relate to
that, but just we don't donothing well.
So we were determined thatthat's what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We don't do nothing Well.
I mean, yeah, that'stechnically that is correct
English.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We hang on, we mean English good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Can you say it in Spanish?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Me English good.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No, we don't do nothing well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, I cannot, no, anyway.
So yeah, we were determinedthat we were going to do nothing
.
So we flew in to Puerto Vartaand, honestly, the flight is not
bad to get down there.
It was pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It was great, yeah, and it's really.
It's one of those flights where, when you're coming in for the
landing, it's beautiful.
You're flying over themountains in Mexico.
It's just lush and green andbeautiful Because Texas right
now is very brown, no rain.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So, yes, all the green, all the lush, it was
gorgeous.
I will say the airport is alittle bit overwhelming because
you have lots of people in theretrying to sign you up for all
of the touristy things and alsooffering a shot of tequila.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's what happens when you fly in to Puerto Varta
you get a shot of tequila.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, which we don't drink, so we didn't get one.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No gracias, we started.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
No gracias, no gracias.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We had to say that so many times on this trip and
we'll talk about that, butanyway.
So yeah, they're trying to signyou up for all the touristy
things, but again we're like,nope, we're just going to go and
chill.
So we got to the house, got toexplore this massive, gorgeous
house on the cliff side, andthen there's the private beach
club there that we took the golfcart to.
I mean, it's just, it wasunreal.
Yeah, it was.
We don't know how to handlethat.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, we really don't .
We really don't.
While we were there, it wasAmber's birthday and our
anniversary, and so both ofthose we got to celebrate in
Mexico, and the staff of thebeach club that was there, they
knew that it was Amber'sbirthday and knew that it was
our anniversary, so they had,like the special cake and they
sang happy birthday.
And like it was the sweetestthing ever and it was just the
(10:08):
most incredible experience, likethe time that we had to just
immerse ourselves in being inthis incredible environment
together was awesome.
Amber Amber's mentioned acouple of times that the house
was on a cliff side.
That's an, that's a note,that's that's worth recognizing,
because not only are the viewsand the vistas the most
(10:31):
beautiful thing you've ever seen, but also it's very high up,
right off of the side of thecliff.
So one day there is anincredible thunderstorm that we
can see coming across the Bay ofBanderas and it's coming in
towards the house.
There's this awesome rainbowback behind it and I'm standing
(10:52):
up on the side of the on thebalcony, overlooking the ocean
and seeing this thing coming myway, and I'm like, obviously I
got to take a picture.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I want to take like a a time, like a time lapse of
the storm rolling in, and so Irun back to the bedroom to throw
on some shorts and things.
We're going to go down to thebeach to look at the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and the plan was we're going to leave my
phone there, we're going to timelapse and then we're going to
go down to the beach and watch,you know, see the rainbow and
everything.
So I propped my phone up on theside of the balcony and a gust
of wind comes and blows my phoneover the side.
And when I'm talking over theside we're like at least you
(11:32):
know four or five stories atleast, oh my God.
And so I go back inside.
I'm just I'm on vacation, soI'm just trying to be really
chill.
So I say, hey, babe, my phonefell over the side.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
She's like and I thought I was kidding.
Of course I thought he'skidding, cuz Clint does it all
the time.
So I was like no, you're joking.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I was like no.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
No, it really didn't.
I was like stop.
I'm gonna do it.
It took like a couple exchangesfor me, actually.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
then you finally, like I'm telling you, I'm
telling you, my phone fell overthe side, so I'm there's not a
way, on the backside, on thecliff side of this house.
There's not a way.
There's not like stairs to getdown.
Mm-hmm, you're not supposed togo down there, correct?
And so what ends up happeningis I have to shimmy down like a
column type thing on one side ofthe, the balcony and it had
(12:19):
just poured down rain.
Yes, mind you, at thethunderstorm, everything's wet.
I crawled down, like this Hillcliff thing, over the rocks
through these briars, and I getall the way down Just to
discover that my phone hasfallen on the other side of a
barbed wire fence.
(12:40):
Yeah, I can't get it.
No, I'm looking for a stick.
I'm looking for something I canlike.
Try to grab it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You were gonna go under the fence, but there's
barbwire Under the fence there'sjust it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, so then I'm like okay, I gotta go climb back
up without my phone.
I climb all the way back upwithout my phone the whole time,
ambrose, like I don't know,five stories up above me looking
down.
Are you okay?
Like no.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Trying to help and I don't know how you help in that
situation.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
I guess from above it lookslike she's like just jump over
onto that rock.
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh yeah, from my perspective it yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I can't, it's too far .
So I go back up without myphone and it's kind of like one
of those like alright, do I do?
I leave it like forever, I justget there, is this okay?
So instead, what we do is weget on, get in the golf cart, we
drive around to the Beach Club,which is, um, you know, a
little ways away and to go down.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It like down and around the hill, and I mean down
away.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So from the Beach Club to the cliffside that the
home is on is probably about asolid I don't know half a mile
or so hike, and it's not justlike a high, a nice leisurely
stroll along the beach, it'sjust rocks.
Yeah, there's not a beach,there's no beach there.
There's a beautiful beach atthe Beach Club, but then after
(14:02):
that it's just rocks.
And so I'm like alright, Iguess the only way I can do this
is I gotta go over the rocks.
Okay, again, thunderstorm, sowet rocks like me, deep water
because of all the waves comingin with the thunderstorm, and
it's, it's, it's getting dark,getting dark.
So I leave Amber at the BeachClub and she's like I don't want
you to go do this.
(14:23):
I was like this, the only way Imay be able to get my phone.
She's like well, how am I gonnabe able to get in touch with
you?
And she goes well, I don't know, I guess, take my phone and
I'll keep my Apple watch, yeah,so that once, if you get in
trouble or something happens,you can call me on my Apple
watch, which we thought wouldwork, which obviously doesn't,
because it's it shares the samesignal.
Well, I just had no signalanyway.
(14:43):
So I go through the waves onthe rocks half a mile, get to
where our house is located,crawl on my belly up to where
the phone fell, right over topof this barbed wire fence, grab
the phone, find it.
I'm able to get it.
Awesome part is it had beentaking a time-lapse video that
(15:06):
entire time.
So the time-lapse video is likerainbow, rainbow, thunderstorm,
clif, and then it's juststaring at the canopy and it
slowly starts to become darkerand darker and darker Over time.
It just it captured the wholething.
And then finally it's you seeme grab it which is just.
(15:28):
It just filmed it the wholetime.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I kind of wish it like would have filmed her face
as it was falling down, buttime-lapses so quick.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I know, I know it didn't quite capture it.
Um yeah, that would have beengreat.
But I got my phone and as soonas I I got there and I touched
the button, it died.
Mmm so I'm like oh, it's notWell.
First of all, the fact that itsurvived.
It felt that the back of myphone is completely shattered.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It is shattered.
But like the main screen itstill works Anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So I use, like I said .
I had Amber's phone.
Amber had her Apple watch.
I tried to make the call butobviously I can't call her.
It didn't work.
So I'm it's soaking wet, it'sdark, in a jungle on the beach
or like with the rocks, and theonly person I can think to call
was her son, Isaac.
He's not called Isaac.
I'm like, hey, the phone felloff a cliff and all it's like
(16:22):
telling the whole thing.
He's like wait what?
And because I hadn't talked tohim in like three days, because
we're on vacation, Right, and Iwas like text mom's phone and
tell her that I made it.
He's like you what?
Yeah, it's like super confusedabout what's happening.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So then he's calling me as you're walking up, so it
all it's great.
So got it back.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So spoiler alert guys .
I made it, I made it, I made itback.
The phone survived.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And what is the first thing that you said when you
came back?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The very first thing I said I'm walking up to Amber,
I'm, I got mud all over me headto toe, it's soaking, wet
scratches and everything elsefrom the cliff side.
And the first thing I said toAmber is like it wouldn't be a
Clinton neighbor vacation if wedidn't have a podcast story when
we got back.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So the first thing.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I thought about was you guys.
I just wanted to tell you aboutthe phone falling off a cliff
in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There's your podcast story there you go.
So we, we did have a chance tolay around and relax in addition
to that little escapade, butfor my birthday and I think,
just for our anniversary, we didwant to do one adventurous
thing in Mexico.
Right, we wanted to go and doone, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So I mean Amber thirsty thing, I guess.
Amber's always wanted to dohorseback riding and there was a
ranch that was out kind ofclose to where we were and they
offered horseback riding, butnot just horseback riding like
horseback riding out on thebeach.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, so we go into the middle of the mountains is
beautiful, you know ranch andthere's the flags hanging
everywhere.
It was gorgeous and, yeah, wegot, we got our horses and there
was I mean it's like, this islike a legit ranch.
Oh yeah, that was a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Cowboys.
We had a.
We had a cowboy guy named Pedro.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Pedro.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Pedro, a cowboy guy, and Amber.
What was your horse's name?
Pepe?
Pepe was your horse.
Pepe, that horse.
He was so cute.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So there was a four of us in the group was me and
Clint, and then another coupleand Clint's horse was the line
leader and then mine was secondand then the other two people
were behind us and we were tostay in a line going through it.
So we leave the ranch and yougo on these trails and it's
really incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It was cool, you actually go through a little
Mexican village.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Towns, so it's like cobblestone streets and like the
flags over the street.
It was the most beautiful, likeawesome experience and like and
like bushes and roses on thesides is really cool.
And then you just turn off intothe jungle, which eventually
empties you back out into thebeach, which is like the coolest
thing ever.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It was incredible.
We weren't supposed to take ourphones but, spoiler alert,
someone did bring their phone.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
It was Amber.
She is a, not a rule follower.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You know I did not bring my phone.
You know, you guys know I putmy phone in the locker.
I like made sure the workerssee me put my phone in the
locker.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, no, I put my in my pocket and the reason is
because they have somebody onATV that kind of will follow you
around at different spots andtake pictures and they want to
sell the pictures to youafterwards and it's like 200
bucks.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
It was a lot of money .
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, sounds like hard pass.
I'll take a couple of pics.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But you do have a really cool video of just a
quick little us riding throughthe jungle on the horses it was
such a neat experience and thenriding out on the beach, but
your horse was in no hurry to go.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know what?
Anywhere, my horse was onvacation.
My horse was on vacation.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
He really was.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, pepe, not feeling it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Pepe was wanted to be the line leader.
It was like being in a sportscar that you kept revving up
like to get past somebody.
That's what I felt like thewhole time, and I'm on this
giant horse and I'm trying tolike get him to settle down and,
yeah, I kept saying, bueno,pepe, well, like you're doing
good Relax.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
He's probably like your Spanish is terrible.
Yeah, yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
and then we got out on the beach and that was
incredible and Pepe wanted to befully in the water.
We were so deep in those wavesand they were crashing over us
and he was having a ball andyour horse was like way up on
the beach.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, my horse didn't even want to dip an ankle Like
he wasn't feeling it.
He wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But it was a great.
That was a great experience.
It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It was really fun, like, I think, the wish I would
have known for me.
I went into Mexico into thistrip Maybe, maybe a little bit
tentative.
I didn't know what to expectand it's you know, obviously
there's all these differentnarratives and things like that
but it Not only did I feel supersafe the entire time, not only
(20:47):
was the language barrier barriernot an issue, but, like the,
the people that we met when wewere there are the nicest people
.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
They were so kind.
We had an Uber driver that weended up using like throughout
the whole week.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, he was so nice the first day that he was just
like hey, any, anytime you need,here's my direct number, I'm
gonna come and drive around.
And he was so kind and likeLike we would listen to music
together and like in the car andlike just so much fun it was
just great Billy Joel a bunch oftimes in the car I don't know
why we kept hearing Billy Joelwhile we were Mexico, which I
mean that's great though.
Yeah, that's like a top, a topfive artists for me.
(21:22):
But then the staff of the BeachClub in the house, they're just
the sweetest people ever and wereally legit had some of the
best food that I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Oh, my goodness, the food well, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So when I say we had the best food, what I really
mean is Amber had the best food,because what happened is, every
time we would order something,I would order something, amber
would order something, and herswould be better than mine every
time I went.
And then the next time I wouldorder what she had mm-hmm the
previous time which is so good,which was so good, and she'd
order something else and herswins again.
Yeah, I don't know how she keptone up in me.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know, I did win.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, so we would sit down at the Beach Club and eat
dinner every night.
And I mean you're just, you'resitting on a beach eating this
wonderful food.
It's incredible.
For our anniversary we got likedressed up I had this dress,
and so we're down there eatingand I had gotten some Mosquito
bites like a couple of daysbefore.
Like mosquitoes, they flippinglove me and they like never
(22:17):
bother you.
No, you're they, you're sweet,they know what's up man, they
love me, and so we're sittingthere eating dinner for our
anniversary, right, it's a nicedinner, that's nice dress on,
and I am itching, like you wouldnot believe, and I was thinking
, okay, it's probably just youknow, those mosquito bites ahead
the night before, and so I'mlike kind of, you know, shifting
(22:39):
in my sheets shifting in your,in your sheet, shifting in your
seat?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Say it in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, I'm like moving around.
And then finally I was like,are you okay?
And I was like, I don't know,I'm just so itchy and so I have
this like long dress on, so welike lift up a little bit of the
dress and there was a communityof Mosquito y'all they were
having.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They were having life group like it was.
I'm talking like 15 at leastmosquitoes, like, like they were
there having a community group.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, it was a Confiest.
I was the male, seriously itwas.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It was nearly like Amber was like a couple
mosquitoes away from, like them,cartoonishly picking her up and
lifting her up and taking heraway.
I've never seen that manymosquitoes in one place, let
alone on a person and also thedress is back.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, she turns around the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
There's another neighborhood of mosquitoes on
the back of her.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, they were.
They were chow.
Now we were having a gooddinner and they were having a
good dinner.
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I think we counted like 15 or 20 on my back and
then yeah at least I've neverseen that many mosquitoes, ever
there's a lot they were havinglike fiesta.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But Mexico's, it was beautiful, it was wonderful, we
had such a great experience, we,we attempted.
Okay, so again, we don't donothing.
Well, and so for another daywe're like, hey, there's a
little beach town We've heardabout.
Let's, let's take a car thereand go there for the day
Sayulita.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, oh yeah, sayulita is like a little like
surfer village thing.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So we get our friend.
What's name?
Sergio?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Sergio, we call Sergio.
We're like, hey, we're gonna goto sayulita.
So he comes, picks us up andwe're on the way there and to
get there you kind of drivethrough the mountains.
It's a really gorgeous drive,beautiful.
So as we're driving, athunderstorm comes up and it
just starts to get pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I mean it's pretty intense, like to the point where
, like Sergio's like laughingbecause he's like this is, this
is crazy.
Yeah, I mean it was likeshaking the car, yeah lightning
was striking very close.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It was wild.
We get to sayulita and thewhole town is completely Flooded
.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I mean it's like Atlantis, it's underwater.
It was there, like shop ownersthat are standing up on their
top step, like taking video of ariver running through the
street.
It was nuts, it was wild, butI've heard sayulita is really
cool and so I guess we'll haveto go back.
Yeah, so that we can actuallygo next time, because it was
underwater.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It was definitely underwater.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, it's crazy.
And then by the time we gotback across I mean talking 30
minutes away.
When we got back across towhere our place was it wasn't
raining at all.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, so we decided to go to the market in.
What's that called?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Boussieres.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Boussieres, yeah, I think so probably butchering
these.
So we're like you know what,let's do the market experience,
because we haven't done that yet.
So we go to the market and youknow we stand out because we're
obviously not locals, and so wehave people coming up to us and
trying to, you know, sell youthings.
And I gosh, I struggle in thatenvironment.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Amber.
Okay, listen, amber strugglesto say no.
This is why we have four kids,all right, she has a hard time.
She has a hard time saying no,so so when you put her in a
situation in the market wherethere are these people were like
do you want to see this blanket?
Yeah, do you want to seeanother one?
Yeah, do you like?
(26:13):
She can't say no.
And so I'm just like no grasses, no grasses, no grasses.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, right, and left Plants like pulled a stone,
like bring them out, bring themout.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
Your little kid wants to sellme no grasses.
No, like I got no time for it.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, and they're like putting bracelets on my
wrist when I didn't ask for themto do that.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, you like, let them put it on you.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
when it no grasses, no grasses.
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
There's a sweet man standing there and he's shown me
these bracelets and I'm like no, I'm good, I did say no, and he
just put one on my wrist.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The amount of markup that they're willing to do.
It's insane.
Okay, so let's just.
I'm just going to give youround numbers.
So let's say there's a bracelet.
It's clearly like this littlebronze cheap bracelet thing.
Okay, it's price would besomething equivalent to about 80
US bucks.
That's what it has on it, yeah,so then he comes and puts it on
(27:12):
it.
He goes hey, for you 40.
All right, we're already athalf price, yeah, okay.
So then you're like finally, Iget you say no grasses.
He's like come on, you know,it's most beautiful you've seen.
And she's like no grasses.
I finally get her to say nograsses.
All right, you know what Foryou 25.
Yeah, like no, you know, wereally don't want it.
And he's like why?
You think there's a better onesomewhere.
He's like no, we just don'twant it.
Okay, okay, 10.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I mean, okay, we're talking from 80 bucks to 10
bucks and he's still making aprofit at 10 bucks.
So, like that's your wish, youwould have known.
Say no, grassy is enough, andyou will get a substantial
discount.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I want to support the people there.
That was like it was just hard.
That was hard for me.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It was not, it did not.
I would buy all the things justto you know, in the in the
market in Boussierras, we didsee a Chihuahua with sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We did see a little Chihuahua with sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
He was, he was remarkable.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay.
So the wildest thing about thatlittle Chihuahua with
sunglasses was the guy at thebooth was like you, like him,
you want another one, you wantone, you can take one.
Have some of you can take home.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah Hardest, no, grassiest, that Amber had the
entire trip Cause they're like,hey, you want a little dog you
can take with you.
Like no, we're not takinganother dog home.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're not going to let you fly with a dog that you
got in Mexico.
If he's got sunglasses he'slike undercover In the customs.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Is this?
Did you get this dog in Mexico?
No, this is my child.
This is my child.
He's undercover.
This is Pepe.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But like you can't in customs, this is no animals.
Very clearly you can't.
I don't know, that was wild.
So anyway, that's our Mexicotrip.
We had a great time.
We hope that you took somegreat vacations over the summer
as well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, and so okay for us.
We're starting off season three.
We're excited to be backdropping some episodes
throughout the fall, which is,by the way, the most wonderful
time of the year.
It's football season.
Yeah, it is.
It's like the weather's better,like we.
I mean, we're going to likeHalloween's around the corner,
which is awesome.
(29:13):
And then the day afterHalloween, it's Christmas, it's
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We just skip right over Thanksgiving.
You love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love Thanksgiving.
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
But you just rope it in with Christmas season, yeah
it's like pre-Christmas.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's like Christmas is the chorus and Thanksgiving
is the pre-chorus.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Okay, I see, yeah, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I like that too.
I think that's good and likeyeah, and Halloween's like verse
one.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Verse one is Halloween, yeah, so what are we
in right now?
We're just in the intro.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, we're in the intro.
It's close, it's the build-upscoming.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Oh, I gotcha.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Musician terms everyone.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, I'm excited, but yeah, I'm stoked about
season three.
It's going to be really fun.
I think something that we getan opportunity to share with you
guys is all these stories.
But here's a little behind thescenes, like, amber and I get an
opportunity to go and grabStarbucks and sit in this room
and do this together and we justlaugh the whole time, like
before we even hit record.
We're just dying laughing andit's so much fun for us to get
(30:10):
to do this together.
And so thank you, guys, forlistening to this and thank you
for joining us on this journey,but also, like, thanks for
affording us an opportunity todo something really unique and
fun together.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yes, thank you for listening.
Thank you for your support.
We love you.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yep, it's awesome.
Hey, hit us up on Instagram atwishpodcast.
We'd love to be able to connectwith you guys throughout season
three.
It's going to be a really funone.
We got some fun stories andsome fun things that we're going
to cover throughout the season,and we will see you next time,
next time.
Next time, say it in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No, adios, adios amigos.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Wish I would have known is recorded in the
beautiful hill country of Austin, texas, the live music capital
of the world.
Follow us on Instagram, atwishpodcast, and stop by to say
hi.
We like it when people say hi.
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