[SPEAKER_00]: What's poppin' everybody?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello and welcome to popcorn culture.
[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me today is brother J, who will be in every episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, it is that that one that that Monday after our week long break, we are back in office fresh with life experiences and and yarns to spin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yarns the spin yeah, I think see oh I think so how did you have any of the I think I think that the the the common vernacular these days is the Sunday scary the Sunday scary I don't think I really had the Sunday scary so much no no I think Luke was experiencing a mild amount just because he was going to a new camp
[SPEAKER_00]: Today, you know, I was always really nervous about that when I was a kid.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that I'm starting to realize how much the fear of the unknown is like a major barrier for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he was like, I think like, by yesterday evening, he was okay, but like maybe in the morning, I could tell there was a few times where I think he was just like, maybe even Thursday was where, or Saturday, scary is just worse than the Sunday scares where he was just sort of like, new was coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like when he got up this morning, he was like, why are you waking me up?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, you've got camping.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was like, oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he just like popped up.
[SPEAKER_02]: No way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like I was so concerned about dropping him off because like he was going to have to like just it was it was like a church we don't usually go to where you drop him off and then they like get on a bus and go to this place he hasn't been doing before and you know he hasn't been to this place before and just really going on like one other friend
[SPEAKER_02]: And like even like on the first day of school, which he's been to plenty of times.
[SPEAKER_02]: So just be like, I don't want to go and you're like, okay, all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought this was going to be hard, but like, I mean, he, he got out of the car and put his back back on and the counselor was like, like, put your bag on over there and then there's a playground you can go play until we leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he was like, okay, and didn't even look back.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, okay, see, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was glorious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that is really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I was experienced.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do this thing on on week long outings, which I just experienced over over a week off, went to the lake for a week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will start like, you know, we'll get there, we'll get everything set up on Saturday, you know, like that whole part of the vacation going process, where it's kind of like the setup, the unloading the cars, the travel there, all those bits.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then usually like wake up Sunday morning and I'm like, oh, first day here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing but road ahead of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so much time left.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like I will start worrying that morning about Thursday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Thursday is going to be the day where you wake up where it's like, well tomorrow's the last day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and then it's kind of like, oh, then we got to like break the whole thing down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, we're going to have like reload the cars.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like something like inherently
[SPEAKER_00]: Like all the magic associated with unpacking for a vacation is then like balanced by the having to do the the task you don't want to do, which is packing to go home.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like when you're at home and you're packing for the vacation is almost like there's even like excitement associated with the chore.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then when it means you're about to go, because it means you're about to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look at all these fun things I'm packing and ready to enjoy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then what's your on vacation?
[SPEAKER_00]: You have been largely choreless for a whole week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So not only wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the second time today.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've knocked over banana the duck bananas the duck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but yeah, so I, but everybody in my group was like, Ben, why are you breaking up leaving?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we literally, this is our first morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are we already thinking about like going, going home?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I just don't want it to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's even funny that it's Thursday that it gets me because it's just the last full day before the last full day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last full day before last day because if you're that worried about Thursday on the first day you get there then you're probably going to start on Wednesday you're probably going to really start being like I'm so afraid of how I'm going to feel on Thursday.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know really I mean really it's like vacations to conclude opposite of like a regular week we're like Mondays like kind of the only day you're like completely safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, there's so much time after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dare we ever venture into the two-week vacation, Ben?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, imagine you'd have that same, you'd have so many days of clear time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even seven days in, you'd be like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I got like four more days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a week left.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm set.
[SPEAKER_02]: Someone's like, you did that math wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, no, because that'd be the next Monday.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, either way, a two week vacation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, goodness me.
[SPEAKER_00]: If the day ever comes, you know, I will just be like basking in the glory that is the awesomeness of that much time where you don't have to like think about anything in particular.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't ever, I've never experienced it as an adult, the week vacation, you know, it hasn't, it hasn't haven't had fourteen consecutive days off before, just, you know, in basically living memory.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and you know what's funny, too, is that like when I did my, when I did my study abroad in Australia, New Zealand, back when I was in college, I did, I was gone for like twenty two days, I think, so three weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that trip was so,
[SPEAKER_00]: so different because like you're moving around so often like we never sat put in one area for a long time and we did have like certain responsibilities but was study abroad after all that like we were supposed to be doing right sure taking in whatever but it was also like that was not the kind of trip like there was a piece of me that was like while I was experiencing it I was like I can't wait to get home because then I will have successfully completed this mission
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like almost it was like as if like each day that ticked by it was almost like okay like one one day closer to having successfully done this this whole thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I I literally can never remember is that type A fun or type B fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's I think it's what you would call type two fun type two fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I got the yeah, that's where it's like fun afterwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and I think that that's like a lot of I like things like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't think a lot of GMA experiences were very type two fun kind of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like let's go like make ourselves miserable because then after the fact for the rest of our lives we have these stories to tell about like all the cool things that we did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Misery breeds comedy, you know, it does, especially when it's like generally safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody was ever like in real danger.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, yes, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I follow your meaning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, yes, so we both had respective trips.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounded like you and Beth were going out and taking a anniversary, a ten year anniversary vacation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I swear, I think that you guys are fundamentally cursed.
[SPEAKER_00]: It might be true.
[SPEAKER_00]: when it comes to your solo travel ventures like like science kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, there are things have gone wrong before.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one really wasn't like, I mean, it was, I think if anything, we'll be kept joking was that it was such like a good like metaphor for marriage and having kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: Walk me through all of that because I love it already.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well because it was like you know like we're going on this ten year anniversary trip and we were going down to Rose Mary Beach on thirty a which is that's that's what you call that's that's the road.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's thirty a. Oh
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is what I learned is that you don't say that like we're going down and saying I like the thirty eights.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no the drop of the drop of the.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just staying on thirty eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're staying on thirty eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so thirty eight is like you say rosemary beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's what we were saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then like every maybe quarter mile of thirty eight like the the technical name of the particular section of beach you're on changes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's like rosemary beach, quarter mile, sea crest beach, quarter mile, next beach.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's interesting because the beach that we went to growing up is Holden Beach in North Carolina.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like if you go to either side of it, there are separate physical islands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like islands that are like Oak Island.
[SPEAKER_00]: Emerald Island.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rosemary beach and we are now in yeah, secret beach or whatever right so yeah, so this would be like if like like how Holden Beach is the whole area.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like thirty a is the whole area Okay, and then like every yeah for I don't know what it's so it was so interesting to like take in the whole area.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would say That the that thirty a is an extremely affluent area Okay, extremely so you guys fit in just perfect no
[SPEAKER_02]: We were white.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a very rich white person place.
[SPEAKER_02]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I'll get into that more about what it was like being there when we get there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we arrived at the airport on what Saturday morning and if all had gone according to plan we'd have been there by like, you know, twelve by noon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: If all the flights just were as they were meant to be, which of course they were not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and I was going to say just just for like a scooch of context here, I the the week going into our week off.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I worked myself so hard that I worked myself into a fever on Thursday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like yeah, like Thursday evening.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like we went to work on Thursday all day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, man, I'm feeling like crap.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't feel good.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is miserable.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got home that night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I took my temperature.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm rocking a fever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, no, we have one more day before break.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need to be able to make sure that we've batted down all the hatches.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we successfully did, we got in and I was feeling better about the next morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: And got through the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that I was so personally, and I don't know where you were at.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was really tired.
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah going into like the start of this week so yeah like i remember so we we saw leo the week before break and that that morning i like we went in like the morning and i got like we have a big double popcorn which i almost no one except me eight um but that's the day you were also not feeling good and then we have one recorded review and like that night sure enough my throat was starting i was starting like
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it was starting to hurt when I swallowing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna pick up whatever Ben had or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, then you're like, I'm gonna go to fever and then, and then I'm doing that mental game of like, wait, do I actually feel bad or am I like projecting this illness onto me?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because my anxiety is spiraling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'm like, no, but like, I hate all that popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was really dry.
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe it was just like the act of swallow because I didn't get soda.
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe it was just the act of swallow and it was making it hurt.
[SPEAKER_02]: I kept telling myself that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it was the pot.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just a popcorn, it was just a popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which I don't know, maybe it was both, maybe it was neither, maybe it was placebo, I don't know, I was totally fine by the day of or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, like that night though, I told Beth, I was like, my throat is a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, I think it was like, seven, forty five or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, did you just, should we just go to bed, just want to go bed?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, yeah, we should, we should do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just go to bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll just get into like way more sleep than I need.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like, yeah, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't even risk it.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be watch TV.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't need TV.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't like, we ain't laying bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll just turn on the show when we find.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: The, the pop grid thing reminds me of, I think that there's like a bit in the TV show scrubs at one point in time with the chain of the rest talking about how when he was a kid growing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: All his mom would give him when he was sick was granola bars and coffee.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's like, so there I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: My throat hurts so bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's just hot and scratchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hot and scratchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, oh, poor janitor.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Yani Torres.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don Edo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so continue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're supposed to get up the next morning and you'll be in, and yeah, we'll be in thirty eight by by, you know, noon, one o'clock or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we are, I am letting Beth off at the airport because she's going to go check the bag and I'm going to go, like, park the car, or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she's like checking her phone and she's like, wait, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: Our flight's been like rescheduled.
[SPEAKER_02]: For tomorrow, we're like, oh, wait, what tomorrow?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're at the airport now.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean tomorrow?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're here now.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can't go home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm not going home.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I just do your whole vlog and took you out of the house with the kids and everything we're not going out like you like what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nah, but now Right, yes, yeah, there is nothing there's nothing that is like it's like it's like because even at that point you mean you only live fifteen minutes from the airport So it's it's not like it would have been even been that hard to just drive back home wouldn't be hard to drive home
[SPEAKER_00]: know, but what you're dealing with is like all of the set up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like you've had like the you had like the child care all squared way.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've had you've like you've successfully got them okay with you exiting the house back to the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't think and it's still only a trip that I think you guys were taking from Saturday to Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: as it were so right one full day Sunday to Tuesday it's like you're literally talking about just just the one glorious it's supposed to be Monday of vacation the best day I know like you know you're gonna get there and you know it's only only four days but because we were gonna be there like noon it was like what we really get Saturday too you know true yeah not gonna be not gonna be that bad um
[SPEAKER_02]: But in any case we get there and and it says it's been rebuked for the next day and we're like that like we had like what so we go inside and talk to them They're like okay, we see what happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like there are other flights to Charlotte today for your first flight, but there's not flights for the connection to like Panama City until the next day So it just booked you to when you could do the full trip again, but like okay
[SPEAKER_02]: But then they're like, but that's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get you to Charlotte now and then let's see if there's other ways from Charlotte to get you there if we can fly you to like another nearby airport or maybe you can drive down to Greensboro and like fly from there or something and we're just like, yes, sure whatever make it happen make it so I feel so bad for the airport employees who have to jump through all of these various loops and hoops.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it sounds so
[SPEAKER_00]: no exhaust.
[SPEAKER_02]: Especially because like what was really what we found out was happening was that there was really big thunderstorms in Atlanta, Georgia.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like all the connections.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, because we were in and like, you know, we weren't going through Atlanta at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were just going from Rowan of the Charlotte to Panama City.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And
[SPEAKER_02]: the but but because Atlanta was down that was like creating this crazy domino effect were like five I think this had like five really big flights of the canceled and then they were having a rerout all these other things right and it was just you know we're not even near it you know
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just like feeling the domino effect from these thunderstorms halfway across the country.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're like, oh, great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they're like, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're just going to get you on the flight to Charlotte.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then when you're down there, talk to, you know, the, you know, the, the me of, the me of there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whoever my person is there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'm sure they can find you like another way down there today.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let's do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you get down there like Bill sent me from Rowan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're like, you know Bill, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: They booked us on here and then we're trying like they rebuked us for tomorrow, but we're trying we need to get there today.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we found, you know, fortunately and both situations just like we got there and there was like we found tables that had no lines, which were which was great because
[SPEAKER_02]: The last thing you want to be doing when you're at the airport, extending it a line for customer service.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because every single person in front of you has the exact same complicated problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and everybody's feeling the same level of like helplessness like that's that's the major issue is that it's like it's
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I wonder, and this is going to be such a brief tangent.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if this is why the idea of living very simply and that homestead mentality can sometimes be so appealing is because you are directly in control of all of your circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to something airports where you have this expactor of
[SPEAKER_00]: How agreeable is this attendant going to be?
[SPEAKER_00]: How big is my problem relative to the problems of the other people everybody's dealing with?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many angry people have spoken to this person today?
[SPEAKER_00]: How feasible is it even for do they have the power to even solve my problem?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: the rest of this is okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's like, you are standing there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, not only do you not have any power over your situation, but there's a decent chance of the person that does have more power than you also doesn't have the power at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, can we, is there, you know, you can only talk to the airline that you're talking to, you know, like if you're on American, it's like, you know, who knows, maybe over United their flights, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they, I'm not sure how much they can see of the other flights or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know the end of working.
[SPEAKER_02]: Certainly, certainly American Airlines doesn't want their associates being like, you know what, it's a better deal over there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, just head over, whatever dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we were talking to our Charlotte person and they're like, okay, I see what happened here, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's two more flights, the Panama City today, but one of them's full and you could like, try and get in the standby line, but there's already twenty one people on that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's not great.
[SPEAKER_02]: and then the other ones at eleven p.m.
[SPEAKER_02]: there's only one seed available so you both can't get on and same situation with standby and it was like so if we stay around to eleven maybe we'll get on a flight
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe one of us together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, maybe one of us is a good out of flight.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like so that wasn't gonna happen and then I mean the guy was really very helpful.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was like trying every airport like nearby and I think he was you know because our other option now is driving down from Charlotte like just rent a car and drive Can I just say though classic Charlotte bill?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean I would I would expect nothing else out of him exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know
[SPEAKER_02]: He was doing good and we're like, okay, so here's the real things that we could run a car on drive.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to take eight hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like door to door, whatever situation we can find that gets us there faster than eight hours is better.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it was like, I think the closest he could do was like he could get us in New Orleans, which was a four hour drive, but it was like a two hour
[SPEAKER_02]: two hours until the flight and then like a two hour flight.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like door to door plus them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like it's not actually going to be faster, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is exactly like we live just far enough away from like Washington DC where it's like, yeah, it's a four hour journey or whatever, but it's like when you account for getting to the airport, however many much time early and then the boarding process and the landing process and the getting out of the airport process, it's like it's going to take you four hours to get there.
[SPEAKER_00]: No matter how you slice it, and then you don't have your car.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you don't have your car.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, ultimately we decided that flying was pretty much out because there was no way that was getting us there before the next day.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even then, the next day, it was like, well, who knows how many more cancellations might happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, then we have to walk over and rent.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have to go rent a car, but of course, then we have to pick up our checked bag as well because now we're not going to the final destination.
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, we spent so long talking to the customer service guy that the check bag is no longer on the little rotation thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh gosh.
[SPEAKER_02]: So then we got to go wait and line to get the check bags and then we can get rid of the car.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we get in the car.
[SPEAKER_02]: Finally finally we get in there and from there but this is where I feel like it was it was like the like your like a marriage metaphor thing is coming in because it's like the whole point of the strip is to like be celebrating like just like our you know our tenure anniversary and like at the end of the day the point is to just be spending time together.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, whether we're actually at our destination or not, like, as long as, like, you know, being in the car for eight hours together is still going to be like just a fun road trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like not how we wanted to get there by any means, and especially unexpected where you're like, oh, yeah, wait, suddenly I have to drive eight hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't even mentally prepared for it, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then because you just, you feel the weight of the distance and the time, and it's like, we just went to New York last
[SPEAKER_02]: and it was such a long drive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say we literally did like twenty hours of driving just a weekend.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna go do it again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna do it again so much work.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the difference between traveling eight hours with just your wife and not your wife and three children is so different.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is so different.
[SPEAKER_02]: When it says eight hours it means eight hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna do it at the time it says it's not gonna be like, I love it hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's something.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're all on the road and then hilariously we We eventually have to pass through Atlanta, Georgia, and we get a very first hand look at all of the the thunderstorms, which are still going crazy down there, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is the reason we're not flying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, see, like this is the reason we're not flying because of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, I boy, I was seriously like, we were going through the section of the interstate that gets like kind of goes like right through or right next to the city.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you could see on our side of the street, it was like still driveable, but on the other side of the street, it was literally like two feet of water.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like, you can't, they can't drive through it, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: So the flooding was for sure a real problem on the ground game as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but it was I mean it was a long there's a long drive obviously We listened to the song Florida by Taylor Swift like once an hour.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, everyone across the to a new state.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like Florida We're getting there
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it was like we would really we would cheer every time the the GPS would like cross like underneath another hour would be like under five hours like under four hours We were getting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: How excited to the exact same thing whenever on to our trip.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like we're in the forest now.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're in the threes Yes, it's like you know three hours in fifty seven minutes May as well before hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but still let's still and then at some point we we crossed into Alabama and we were both like oh my gosh, I didn't know we were gonna cross through Alabama
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I don't know how the map is working right now, but it's like, if you're a bit in Alabama, it's like, how?
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, kind of a bit in Alabama.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I think it was like, it reminded me of like, when we're driving to our grandparents growing up and you drive through like West Virginia and Maryland in about twenty minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yeah, if you cross through both of them so briefly and then and then you're in Pennsylvania for a calendar year Yeah, still you're still in Pennsylvania forever So it was kind of like that we were just like in Alabama Maybe for like twenty minutes of drive time But while we were in there we crossed over the Chad Hoot River nice very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had to put the Allen Jackson song and then we stopped at a wingstop which we had also we've never been no wings top before but apparently you gotta get the ranch.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what everyone says.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and we were like, uh, cause there was like a it was kind of funny cause like there was a talk about on the parking lot and a wing stuff and we're like, well, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_02]: What should we do?
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're like, look, we've never been a wing stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: We should probably do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we go in there and we're like, we've never been here and they were so nice in there and they were like, is this is like fast?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it going to be fast?
[SPEAKER_02]: And like, oh, yeah, no problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it was like half an hour and then even when they gave us a video like she was like, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I lied.
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no, it was like, ah, at least you validated it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like, yes, it was not fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been at this week's stop in Aleppo.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what, I've been in Alabama for, um, forty five minutes at thirty.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been at this week's stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the food was good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give it that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was good ranch for sure for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, there's a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like you guys, like, you seem to know the reputations of certain things in such a way where it's like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, knowing to go to, like, this particular beach and then, like, what to order at, like, the wings stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two examples I have off hand, but I feel like you guys, you guys do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like it's like, it's like a known characteristic of, like, the J&BF philosophy to life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like kind of have like the the the in like what's the signature thing that like we know you have to get like we went to a to New York City once like a brunch place It's like you have to get the french fries because they're made like the special like duck fat right, you know, and it's like yeah, it's like you guys always know we always know the thing you always know the thing
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the third thirty a and Rosemary Beach was all Beth that was like through whatever the algorithm is feeding her okay, like that's where she discovered it and we like looked it up and found it and then I kept this was I was you know, it's a good thing she she had to correct me because I was like we're heading down like the thirty and she's like you don't say that's just thirty a I'm like
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to like really force myself not to say that because it sounded so foreign.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like that sounds so stupid.
[SPEAKER_02]: But but but that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to thirty-eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to thirty-eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to thirty-eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we did it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now now I got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're in the club.
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be like such a hidden indicator of like that be a way to immediately stick your foot in your mouth like reveal your outsiderness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, you can't have that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like our first trip down here to the thirty-eight and then be like, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you're not one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine, so you know, you and I talked a lot about our favorite gas station in the world, which is the West Addison General's store, aka Wags, and in West Addison Vermont, and we've talked a lot about getting the like the open air beef jerky if they just have on the counter to have it sitting there and kind of a glass.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the glass chart here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like, but like, what if that is there like, like, only Alexander is by the, the glass chart we've jerky.
[SPEAKER_00]: It can't be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it can't be.
[SPEAKER_00]: It can't be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what if?
[SPEAKER_00]: But what I mean, you know, it's like, it's like, but like, here we are, like, telling everybody, like, get the, get the open air jerky.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna have to, we're gonna have to have like a special pilgrimage episode of the pop where we just go to wags.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder how many episodes we can record while driving two wags.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that would be fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: That'd be great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next live show at wags.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's parking for like nine people.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no event space.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess there's some tables at the back where you can fill out your fishing license, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: There is that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so we recovered.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're good.
[SPEAKER_02]: We could probably see twelve people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I imagine that in the greater west out of scenario.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably about the families.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might be right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I cut you off after wing stops.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're thirty minute ranch wings.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a thirty minute ranch wings.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ranch.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know about just from good Mythical Morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, like, yeah, I'm sure not.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're the world they'll try, you know, the link stuff and the thing that I like the best ranch from the different restaurants or whatever and like that's all that's that was the winner.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a good idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we eventually finally make it down there at like one in the morning, but the silver lining of it all is that now we have a car.
[SPEAKER_02]: that is quite nice so yeah like we weren't going to have a car while we were down there because we were just flown and like taking an Uber to our area me but now now we have a car which is nice which means we're not totally locked into thirty a attractions or whatever love it which you know will be a good deal would be good if it rains or anything which it did
[SPEAKER_02]: But we get there like one in the morning, but just collapse onto the bed and we're like, all right, the good news is we have really, we've like netted twelve hours because like no matter what, either we were gonna like take some weird flight pattern down here and maybe get here at this time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now we have definitely gotten here this time or tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I feel like your metaphor on marriage is already starting to like make a little bit of sense because technically I could make the argument that you guys like lost.
[SPEAKER_02]: thirteen hours if it if once things had not gone according to plan like if you're right we lost like because we could have been there like
[SPEAKER_00]: twelve or one right yeah like so no matter what but that time was already lost the moment the first trip got canceled okay so from there was like how do we not lose how do we lose the least amount of time from here and i think we accomplished that yes but but i think that's very good like mental uh... adaption to like yeah the situation that you are just going to be thrust inside of yeah i think that's like the very like optimistic uh... outlook on on everything went down
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think what I mean is that like, you're just gonna, you know, things are gonna come up and you're just gonna have to roll with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, that's how life is, that's how marriage is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, you just have to make the best of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the point is, you're doing it together.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like, even though we got there at one and our flight got canceled and we had to drive, it was like, it was a hassle, but also, it was still fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we were still having an adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was still like a very like, the journey is the destination kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: The whole point of the trip is to be spending time together, and that's what we did all day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe even more intensively than we would have just been flying on a plane.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're like sitting next to each other on a beach or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a very good point, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I mean, there's the very easy possibility, especially on planes where you just get in, you throw your headphones on and you just sort of like, zong out and get backwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't usually think of it as like usable time the same way that a good road trip can be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly, so so in that sense it was good and we woke up the next morning and we were both just starving and There was a very cool like farmers market being set up all down like the different beaches or whatever Okay, so we were almost like alone like almost too early for it like we were kind of like walking through as the people were setting up But we were hunting for a coffee and of course as as luck would have it our like Airbnb was like right above and
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, do you know like waves at like hold and beach or like any any beach?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like like the souvenir shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: The souvenir shop itself is like stuff made out of coconuts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, then they've got all the the stuff branded to the area.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: When when times made out of seashells.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, all that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: So our Airbnb was above the the traders is what it was called.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That the the the the the the the version of that is where we were right next door was a Starbucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: so they sell they sold like all like the lowly like Gucci handbags and yeah just Louis Vuitton yeah all the really consumer grade yeah like that's a scale of wealth yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it was, it was just like regular stuff in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then we're like, the iron is that we were so close to a Starbucks, but we were both like, no, we didn't drive down here to go to a Starbucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to, we're going to, we're going to, like, a fun shop or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get a real coffee or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like everywhere didn't open to like another hour something so we're like walking down the entire little area We finally find this one coffee shop that's open and Beth like oh this I've seen this is this is one you're supposed to go to like this is like yeah, yeah, okay, of course we open the door and sure enough everyone knows you're supposed to go there because the line is like twenty people long and we're both like we're not waiting this line
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's another donut shop right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to go looking at that one instead.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we walk around to Joe's donut shop.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in the sound of this already.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Joe's donut shop.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were exactly what we wanted.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was no line at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had avocado toast on the menu and coffee.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, and that's what I wanted.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted avocado toast and coffee, and I got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Way to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this so Joe's Cobb shop was my first example of this weird ecosystem that the thirdier is in, where there is like this weird mixture of kinds of stores and experiences, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: Where in?
[SPEAKER_02]: There were
[SPEAKER_02]: like so many places where you'd walk into it and it was like I swear we went into one place it was literally called like an apothecary but it looked like you know the rose apothecary from shit's creek okay sure I mean it was that it was extremely that every single item and clearly been like curated and picked by the owner and like it all had a certain aesthetic but it was all like high end high quality or like you know very naturally made kind of stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm imagining, like, body scrubs and hard candles.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could make your own, you could make your own, like, body wash, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course you did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which we did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hey, is it great?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it smells like time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so, excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, like, from a clock or like, like the herb.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like from a clock.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know how time smells.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know how the seconds are passed and you can be like, oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just all time.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's about like the herb time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, so that was trying to find doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: May, may, may break for a quick assignment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so last last time I was giving out a set of bath and because we have been traveling her all of her like, like, bath essentials were packed away and as it blocked bad somewhere and I didn't know where they were.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just used my shampoo on Madison's head and she was like, I like this shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: This smells good.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is this?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you using?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I was so flattered.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was like she loves my shampoo nice that it's singer eyes No, I was very care very good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah So anyway all that to say that some places were extra like very affluent in experience because like they knew they're in this like
[SPEAKER_02]: high wealth beach town kind of area right but not every like there was like every shop has to be playing that game and like but the thing is because what it's the drives that drive through every shop has to play my game but not every shop is executing it amazingly
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, but it doesn't matter if they're executing it well because because the attitude of the people going is that because it's so expensive to be here and because that's like the like vibe of the area right and because whether or not a place is good or not does almost as a matter because nothing's cheap
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, sure, because everything costs money, it almost would be good period.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the sentiment.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you go into some shops though, and they'd be like, yeah, it's like super well, like curated and whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like, like, so, which is not to say it was a bad thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wasn't a bad thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because like, we went to that other coffee shop that had the line eventually.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would say the coffee was okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we got these like little breakfast tacos, which were very, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the shop inside was clearly crushing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it looked like how,
[SPEAKER_02]: It, you know, the, the customers wanted it to look.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're over Joe's.
[SPEAKER_02]: Joe's way better breakfast.
[SPEAKER_02]: regular coffee and really good donuts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but you go in there and the first thing on the left and it like most of the shop I would say like eighty percent looks like perfect and great and fun and colorful but then like there's like this like loud crane game right when you walk in and you're like this is really throwing off the vibe this like flashing light crane game thing
[SPEAKER_02]: I know and then like you gave us the coffee and they're like oh like they're like cream and sugars down there and like by down there it meant like a like a a little bit further walk than you might think to this like lonely cream station like off by itself weird I know I was like
[SPEAKER_00]: this is so far away from everything and there's another crane machine down here okay now that that makes me wonder if like once upon a time is used to be like an arcade and these things were like we're like bolted to the floor and they like went to move in their fancy coffee shop and they were like what would we do about the the crane games is like when we can't move them it's like
[SPEAKER_02]: But they don't fit all like all I can think is yeah, it was like guys like seriously get what are the creating games and just move your coffee move your cream or station right here Okay, where the crane game was and like way better way better way better way better that would improve so much because the customer service was really good the donuts were really good the avocado toast was on point
[SPEAKER_02]: But like that was sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like some of it seems really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then like there's this little corner of it that's like, well, you've maybe missed the mark a little bit on the vibe check.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like, but it didn't matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like people were in there like crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like we went to this other breakfast place, which ended up this was the worst one.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is by far the worst one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, like every time we walked past it throughout the day, it would be full of crowded.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lots of people there eating, having joined themselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like it had such an identity crisis.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was called like a Lola or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like in the, there's this big fancy sign out front that says, Lola by chef, whatever blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, okay, yeah, you're putting the chefs name by that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, yeah, you're putting your name on.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, especially when you're in this area.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that when we've been on tour, we found a couple of like bakeries and stuff like that where it's like blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I show and so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're always like no way, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know who that is, but there must be people who don't know if it's like included in the title.
[SPEAKER_00]: You pull up like the strip mall and it's like right down from like a Verizon store or something to show of like interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, but like, so there's that.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like that big sign which makes it look nice and fancy and you see people in there and they're like, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then also right next to the sign, there's two of those giant like, you know, like flags.
[SPEAKER_02]: like that like you might see it like a um you know like a festival like next to your tent that says like pizza on it okay yes that's what it says there's two giant like flags it just say pizza on it next to it and you're like those don't really seem like they fit the vibe of that sign like some of these like these look like they would go outside of like a street truck you know right like a like a food truck and
[SPEAKER_02]: The rest of your storefront looks like very fancy and polished.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe your piece is just really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe just want people to know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they got like people playing cornhole out front.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, well, that's like very cool and like casual and fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And maybe go to the pizza, but again, doesn't seem that.
[SPEAKER_02]: fancy and then if you look at the prices they're very fancy price never fancy prices.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy to nail fancy when it comes to prices.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, it's like just just to add more exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna go inside and it's like they're trying to do like this like dim lighting like it's like a fancy experience but then also all the decor is like we're next to a beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: We bought all the stuff it Traders or waves or whatever you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a giant Marlin on the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're like yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like fancy lighting, but not such fancy decor, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, right, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do we do in here?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's very funny, because it reminds me vaguely of like, like if like you were to punch a bunch of information into like AI, essentially.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and it's kind of like it was a restaurant designed by AI.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like what do people like?
[SPEAKER_02]: All of these things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, some of it was like people like Cornhole and pizza, and they want like a beachside restaurant, but they want it to be fancy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll do it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I did that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: They nailed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, it was definitely a like a yeah, like it was like a like there's you know when you get like a carabiner that's also a compass and a flashlight and you know, walk radio.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some things are not better when they're all in one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, yes, this was yeah, it was it was trying to be too many things in it and therefore it was like nothing except like and then we went there for breakfast one morning and like we we ordered coffee's and they were extremely good coffees and then we're like they're like you want to refill or like yeah sure and but what they didn't tell us was that they're like apparently I guess they're poor over coffee so they're like not like it's not like when the summer walks about the coffee popular like let me top you off there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, but so you know we get the check and it's like twenty dollars for coffee or like we're like, was it not like free refills?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know not even our sodas are free refills and I was like you're so doesn't that free refill?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we shouldn't you she's like yeah, I usually tell people it was like oh, thanks
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for telling us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys just looked like you belonged here, so we didn't even think that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was really like, I think you're a matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I usually tell people, I guess I just look my vibe.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I got alpha-cutters there too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, well, Joe's doughnut child was crushing the alpha-cutters, but it's gonna be so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was like toast on bread you'd get from like, like it came out of a bag, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like the alpha-cutters were not smashed.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was slices of avocado on one piece of bread.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: And they yeah, oh wow was so mad this this this breakfast and across me seventy five dollars and I was like this is the worst money I've ever spent no I was so mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like that was a terrible experience Wow, so I'm so low on thirty a I am I am starting to I'm starting to have a curiosity here because like I look like I wonder if like what happens is that like people go to these places like organically like maybe they've looked
[SPEAKER_00]: They're family.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's always gone there growing up or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, this is just amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, they go off on, you know, like, TikTok or Reels or social media or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, dude, guys, you got to come down to thirty eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the thirty eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to come down to thirty eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go to Lola's when you get here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to get the avocado toast is going to be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's like sort of like that that beacon goes out into the world and then like every single person is sort of like okay where do you go and like you're you're googling and like the top thing that comes up is like well as and it's like oh no way let's all go there and then it becomes just like like overrun almost the point where it's like everything that the original person was experiencing is like
[SPEAKER_00]: far in the rear view.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is no longer, it is no longer wags.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine if a crags became hyper-commercialized?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't imagine because we talked about it so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like cornfields and cows in every direction in a buck East.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a buck East.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love buck East.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is like, they feel like the sort of thing you're not supposed to like, but I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is absolutely comically gigantic.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is, it is comically gigantic.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're so leaned in on their own branding.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love their strategy of like, hey, are you three hundred miles from a buck East?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna tell you about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every billboard we can if it's available we bought it wait wait you are now two hundred and ninety three miles away from the next bucket right exactly it's like it's that's so fun it makes it really it like I hate that it works out when we're just like by the time you get there like we're here man I'm in fill up the truck wait who wants beef jerky I got so much beef jerky last bucket is great
[SPEAKER_00]: My dog ain't mine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no!
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, Indy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a bummer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dude, this was a tragedy of the Bucky's is that when we were driving to New York, maybe you just must have the same problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have the exact same problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a Bucky's opening up in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think last week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, probably for fourth of the July, it's probably what they were doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we saw a, like, on the side of the road, we were like, no way, we got to stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then like, that's like, we went, like, merge off.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, opening soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, we missed, we missed it by all week.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just so frustrating, but the good news is anytime we have to drive north from here on out, we'll always be able to stop at a buck.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll get some new beef jerky.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, anyway, let's see that was that was low love.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then there were some place there were other places like we went to dinner one night of this called gallions and Not like Harry Potter Gallions although it you know as ever you're gonna spend like it
[SPEAKER_00]: Then they're plate size gold coins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that place that place.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was my favorite place there by far.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean the food was every single thing was so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: So go to Gallions absolute we get the get the butter candle.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was their signature item the butter candle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was like I know they basically had like an edible wick on a thing they bring out this big like
[SPEAKER_02]: Bread bowl of thing and in the center of it is this like hunk of like heavily herbs and cheese to butter and they light it and it's like a candle and you just take the bread and dip right in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was that's worth it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll record about that and then like some of it There were pizza shops that were like yes, this is very good pizza There were like ice cream shops here like man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I loved that We sadly couldn't get in the water while we were there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, like we weren't like Beachfront by any means Though we were looking at a bump on Zillow as you do Yeah, and like though all the beachfront houses are like eleven million dollars So we're like oh my god, but so we're having to walk from our Airbnb like down to like the public access point and you know go through there like like casual plebians I guess
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going through there and we finally make it to the beach on a day where it's like maybe the rain has stopped because that's the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been raining on us like the whole time the whole trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was at least spitting rain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe not like full on rain, but I don't think the precipitation actually stopped.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it was slow enough that I was like, we could, we're going to be in the water anyway, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: We could down to the beach and there are, there's like, you know, these flags, the life cards will put up like indicate like, you know, whether it's high current or whether it's bad wind or something like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what you want to see is just a green flag.
[SPEAKER_02]: That means nice calm water.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you look at the pictures of thirty eight on mine, it's like, it's like, those amazing pictures was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: blue crystal clear water white sand beaches and like yeah cool we're gonna go to one of those places and we get there and they got the red flag up and the purple flag up and the red flag means high like high current like dangerous water like you know sure you know heavy currents and then the purple flag means dangerous marine life like jellyfish and stingrays and stuff like that just like
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then on top of that, it seemed like there was also like an algae balloon because we did go into the water like maybe up to our waist and it was just like surrounded on all sides by floating algae and it was like, well, you know, go for a walker.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jay, tell me if I'm getting the proper measure of this trip.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You flight was canceled.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The weather was bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't get in the water.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The breakfast was only okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the breakfast was only okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Was this a good show?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a good show but actually it really was really was like the one day the first day we went we were there was like a pool right outside so we went there when we were chilling there and you know it was I guess that would be better we were there for like twenty minutes a little bit thundered
[SPEAKER_02]: We were like, all right, we got to clear it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: This live guard came here and we got to kick everyone out because of the thunder.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're like, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we found from there, we were like, we're just waited out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there was like a tasting room, like a tap room, like, right around the corner.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we went in there and just like waited out the rain in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was a really cool place.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was like a very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, they got all the dollar bills on the wall and they've got like, you know, forty beers on tap or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my kind of place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: That place was really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can get like a little thing of Pimento cheese for I think, you know, a million dollars.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's a low up price of like, seven, eight months.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: More than you want it for what looked like store-bought Pimento cheese, but whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it was like being like a package of ritscrackers, like this is a fancy enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love ritscrackers, but come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are currently like an anti-travelive fluency.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like stay home.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just like don't I just like I hated like the like the the the tax of everything here is expensive because because that's the that's the attitude to the people here well even when the stuff isn't better it's like where it's like doesn't matter because everyone most of the people here are hyperwealthy so if I want to charge twenty bucks for a carton of pimento cheese so what
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, you know, and it's like because so what is like that's stupid But regardless the guy at the guy working the bar was actually super nice and we both did flights of beer and my mission anytime I go to like a tap room place like this is to try and find a beer that emulates my favorite beer that they no longer make from the Parkway Brewing Company which is which is like local tea.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was it once upon a time when they first opened it they made it it was called the bridge builder blonde and Me and Ben and our friends we would go there and like this is like it is now like such a hop-in place and they have like live music all the time and it's become like a really like happening spot, but we were there early before it was a happening spot before they had a stage it was just like plastic the able's plastic chairs next to the bruit the giant brewing cylinder things the tanks right right
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if you backed your chair up, you ran it into like a pallet fence that was holding back all the like bags of hops.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Barrelier or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like the hops are just in bags of the floor next.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was, it's, you know, it was good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It smelled like hops, you know, this and we would get pictures of the, of the blonde and we would just pass it around.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was, you know, good, good ol' fashion early, twenties time, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you do and for whatever reason I guess it just wasn't popular enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just they discontinued it which is such a freaking shame because to this day it is my favorite beer And it had like this like very cool like this is gonna you're not gonna sound good like but like banana clove kind of flavor to it sure you know and once once a twisted track which is another brewery here.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had a spring like
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, selection of beers that were just like we're just gonna have them in the spring.
[SPEAKER_02]: And one of them was perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the exact thing, exactly what I wanted.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was there and then it was gone.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I only got a twice and I was so mad, I was so mad.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so everywhere we go, if they have like blondes or weets on the menu, I'll try and I'll try and narrow in like maybe today's the day, maybe today's the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there were
[SPEAKER_02]: So Beth and I both did a flight which came with four different kinds of beer and you could just choose all them.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we got eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had eight different bites of the apple and man we found it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: We thought it was called it was from it was like the bird of the day hold on and wrote it down.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the blue water happenwizer from third planet a Florida brewing company nice and yeah, I was I was like sifted.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like oh my gosh
[SPEAKER_02]: This is it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We found it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we later we actually went to like a different like a like a spirit and wine store or whatever that also had beer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're like, I wonder if we can find it here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we did.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we would bring some home.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was exciting too.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you're in Florida and you know about third water, blue water, half and wise one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So good third planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Third planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good brewery name.
[SPEAKER_00]: This works out well too, because we've got to Florida fairly often.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, you know, it's like now, whatever we go down there, but we can finally go specialty beer shop, and I bet they have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bet you're right, I bet, because it didn't seem like it was super hard to find.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, or the, what's our other brewery, really?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, the Sanford Brewing Co.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's SBC, not SCB.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I always remember it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we went there at the end of one another very long travel day, once a part of the time, I swear it saved us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I was about, I think my brain was literally about to split in half.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I, I, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so lots of love for that place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But so yeah, eventually we waited out the pool, got back out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we'll see the next morning we were like, all right, the next morning, we're just gonna wake up and if it's, you know, hopefully, hope is a little bit sunny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hope is a little bit sunny on what Sunday, Sunday morning, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it like, it wasn't, of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know it was like and it was it's just like threatening to rain all it's like one of those really like maybe we'll check out the beach again Or maybe it's gonna be raining and it was just it was just raining just full on so it was like okay, well no big deal because the good news is when you're in town like this there's probably other things to do so she was like I wonder is there like top call for something?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like oh that could be fun that could be so fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could be fun love loves top call
[SPEAKER_02]: But there was top- for round, but there was also IMAX around, which, a lot of IMAX movies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think if you can go to IMAX movies, do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: The only one too, I mean it was big, bigger than a regular movie, but not even as big as the IMAX is like I'm thinking of.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or maybe I'm just bigger now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we went to some of his kids where it was like like they were like old iMacs movies were like I was like nature documentaries or whatever and I feel you had to like turn your head right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm laughing because I feel like you were like it's like so it woke up the next morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's raining and it's like but not to worry we're not a Mac cedar not a big one like you normally expect but like but like this one was five
[SPEAKER_02]: It was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: We went to the, so anyway, we're like, we decide we're gonna go see the F-One movie on IMAX.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was literally like, think because the F-One movie is being built, like even in the trailers is all like in IMAX and I'm like, I bet this is a really good IMAX experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have one near us at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, I was like, maybe we should even like make a trip out of it because you're so into F-One.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just like, I love seeing IMAX movies.
[SPEAKER_02]: But
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to go do that and we get there and I'm going to just keep saying all the things that go wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we we look at the showtops that says ten thirty and we're like fantastic when we get there at ten thirty and they're like, oh, the I'm actually at eleven thirty we have one for right now and we're like son of a
[SPEAKER_02]: So now we're going to burn an hour of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fortunately, the eye backs is in this very cool outdoor mall area.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we could just sort of wander down there for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: We went into a crock store.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Got some of the little jublets for the kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get fun picking them out of the headphones.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's really fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great souvenir too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, super fun, super fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we found a Birkenstock store.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say, yeah, I've never noticed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never noticed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never noticed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never noticed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never noticed.
[UNKNOWN]: I've never noticed.
[UNKNOWN]: I've
[SPEAKER_02]: Or at least I know for a fact the ones that hadn't done great are so for sale like they're they're the the swayed and this exact color that I'm wearing right now and had the two like wide straps over the front right this is the ones and I remember because I remember in seventh grade it being a big deal because it was like that's when like
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you've been in middle school for, you know, a year and now you're in the second year and like things, things like clothes and stuff, we're starting to become like, oh, you got to like dress a certain way or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like, there's like a code to all this stuff and it was like the Birkenstocks were the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone had them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hate to be that guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just Birkenstocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the Birkenstocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm joking with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone had everyone at Berks and I remember like I think I saved up my own personal money to go buy a pair of these because I was like you got to you got to fit in or whatever and I remember dad taking me to the store.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Tyler came with it because he was telling me he remembered or maybe you did.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I remember coming home when you were explaining them to me, because you were like, they have like corks, they have like corks souls.
[SPEAKER_00]: So do they have that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some things they were changing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember being so excited about it in seventh grade and like, oh my god, like I did it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I caught these these things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then apparently, I remember feeling this way.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was that like I did the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got the birx, but like the pocket popularity in my particular section of
[SPEAKER_02]: you know Franklin County middle school was such that the the clogs were the really cool thing and the kind I had really like yeah those are like big I guess they qualify but those are like doesn't the cool ones those are like those are also broken socks so there's the count but like
[SPEAKER_02]: the clogs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got like the right brand the wrong model.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got like the wrong model.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, apparently.
[SPEAKER_02]: Would you say like, no, no, no, never said that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're still the right ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the right brand.
[SPEAKER_02]: The right brand, but everyone else on the clogs.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember hating the clogs forever because of this feeling like I was just like, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did I so I so did the thing I did the thing but I missed I did the thing but I missed and I remember thing like I was one of those things like I just know you're all stupid I don't I don't even like yours your shoes are dumb I did the right thing you're all wrong you know you're very seventh great kind of attitude like no I didn't mess up I saved up for this and now I'm like I'm feeling left out somehow still still you know whatever Wow, but anyway as you can see I'm now the coolest kid in seventh grade
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, with my clogs actually I wrote I was I was looking at the beginning I was like I was showing both like these are the ones I had these are the ones right here And I put them on again and she was like I don't think those are it and I was like yeah, they don't they're not it and then I tried these on I was like these are a lot cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like yeah, those are a lot better So and they I mean they are very comfortable and I'm excited to own broken socks again They've you know we've gone full circle.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've been they were very invoked they never went away and now they're just back
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's funny because you're also brought up crocks in the same conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like both of these brands to me kind of like went through like a hey day and then like a like a native like a nay day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then like a hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's back.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's so funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see I actually had a pair of those, but they were not Birkenstock brands When I was a senior in high school and the thing that I remember about them is because I had bought like the off-brand ones The little strap on the side immediately came undone this and yeah, I see Well, I don't even think that mine buttoned on like however though seem to know this is a button This has even come undone or is it just more like a riffing?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's more like it's just permanently there this side you can adjust
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well either which way mine mine came undone so I went to my wood shop class and I just took a nail and just hammered it into the like another gork into the cork yeah
[SPEAKER_00]: Tyler, you're always using a nail, the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll never do that story of my gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good times.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is so funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then that's like, did people know that you'd done that or was it just like, nope, no one even realizes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't think people really knew that I did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that like it was like a raw nails, thinking out the back though.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it didn't have like a nice big like flat head for the nail.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was sort of like a pinhead nail.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's sort of stuck out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like if I like walk too close, like somebody could like
[SPEAKER_00]: just like slice their leg open or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I think that may have happened, or it will, maybe I scratched my own feet, like what on the cross, my legs and my desk.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like the nail would just stick into my ankle.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, well, you know, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I always thought, what cool, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you, did people, did you feel like, no, you got the right, you got the right model, but you got the wrong brand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I didn't have much of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think it was largely okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I sort of had like I had like an outfit that they were like catered to that I would like wear with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at that point in my life, I would not have considered myself in any way shape or form like a like somebody who people look to for their fashion sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I was just trying to be cool and it was just my my closest tip to get there solid solid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, anyway, now I have, now I have a clog, broken socks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, good for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Beth got a pair as well, so not not of these, but of a different, a different model.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys are so fancy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know it was fun, it was fun though, because it was just like, I think we both had that same experience, even though, you know, we were in different like school districts, you know, like, you know, Rowano, from Franklin County, not that far apart.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, um, but you know, she she remembered the Birkin side crazy like seven trade and really like wanting a pair and all that and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was kind of fun to just like go buy them together on our little trip.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then and then you got to go finally see the F one movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we did, but while we were checking out for the Birkin stocks Beth was like trying to check him for the flight and she realized that when they
[SPEAKER_02]: she realized that because we initially booked a round trip flight when we didn't show up for the connection because when they had rebuked us was for the next day sure and they were like oh you didn't show up for the first day so we're just gonna cancel the entire round trip flight and it was like no that we still have the tickets for the way back though we still have the tickets for the way back but apparently they were like no you didn't show up with the connection so we just can't for the whole thing so that I know so then
[SPEAKER_02]: That was that was frustrating, but Beth She was like I'm not gonna be able to like watch this movie and enjoy it at all if this is like hanging in the air in front of me and I was like yeah, that makes sense So she just like Thanks very thankfully just solved that problem and talked to all the people on the phone and came in like twenty minutes into the movement.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like we're booked and I was like great
[SPEAKER_02]: So then we were she she got to experience the rest of the movie of f one sunny the you know the legend of sunny hey is whoever okay, so and and you love for the movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, movie was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was very fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you by chance remember there was a book when we were growing up that was mom's least favorite book to read us at night.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like an Arthur's theory book like most Mr. Front Bull's worst ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You feel like that's what I'm having.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like you seem like I'm so happy and maybe it speaks to like the stress of having like three boys all the time and it sounds like everything went wrong and you got and you're telling these stories with smile in your face like I mean I had a really fun drip.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't have like any like the weird thing is like as I'm telling it I'm like man another threat raw, but it's like the whole time like it was still really fun
[SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all it's super matters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm only just worried because Alice and I have a solo trip that we're doing later this exact same month.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm already like, I need to mentally brace myself for what could come.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just know that you at any point you can go buy Bergen stocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's always on the table probably.
[SPEAKER_00]: probably went and out, stalk it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Burk it out or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like I've been like paranoid with these particular shoes too because they're like, I don't know, they're like the one of the suede ones and they're like, oh, yeah, once those get wet, they're really never the same.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just like, well, good thing is raining every day.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't even get to wear them until I got home.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I wasn't even about to like wear them out of the store.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like no chance.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then even when we were leaving, I was like, I'm running everywhere in these to the car.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to wear them in the plane.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not just dope.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we got home and I had like the, I got the, Beth had like the spray.
[SPEAKER_02]: You put on them or whatever to like, Oh, true.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did that and I let them set.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like, I thought about wearing them that night.
[SPEAKER_02]: To go to, to go play some Pokemon, I was like, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's at twenty four hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna see it through.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna see it through.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not gonna, we're not gonna play with fire here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds, sounds like a wonderful trip.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the, in, in large part though, I think the metaphor does play rather nicely because it's like, you guys were, were there celebrating ten years and you dealt with just a myriad of unpredictable circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's so often in life, this is like, you can become fixated on the problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can let those things stand as your blockade, or you can just choose to charge past them and just sort of like, having fun can be like a state of mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think as long as you're in state of mind to have fun and you're receptive to that scenario, then it makes everything else beat off.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just like the point of it was that we were, you know, together on the trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's that that made everything fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like even though, yeah, things, you know, we had to keep, you know, pivoting and adjusting our circumstances or whatever, like it was just fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just fun doing anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, job well done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is in a nutshell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jay's ten year anniversary there you go Jay on thirty a Jay on thirty a that's right that's right but y'all as always thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode of the pop if you have any feedback for us you can turn it over to popular culture pot at gmail.com or if they support the show you can use that patreon.com slash pop form culture at least all those things in all the obvious places but otherwise until next time pop