Exploring Tipping Controversies and Unconventional American Road Trips

Have you ever wondered about the norms of tipping in the fast food industry? Are they justified or simply an expected norm?  I journey across the country, examining this contentious issue and questioning the apparent generational differences in customer service and tipping expectations, especially within Gen Y. My observations and experiences will make you rethink your stance on gratuities and generational stereotypes in the service industry.

What do you expect from a road trip? An adventure, unique experiences, perhaps a friendly feline companion? Join me on an exhilarating RV trip that brought us face to face with the serene ambience of KOA campgrounds, battled the gusty winds of Nebraska and Wyoming, and left us awestruck by the remarkable beauty of Hot Springs, Nebraska. And yes, an unexpected encounter with a sociable cat that came close to becoming our travel buddy. 

Last stop, South Dakota! Deadwood seemed a stark contrast to our memories, now a commercial hub teeming with weed bars and head shops. An offseason visit to Sturgis, though, was a tranquil delight with splendid restaurants and ample parking. Our gastronomic adventure at the Knuckle Saloon left us craving for more of their perfectly smoked brisket. The journey concluded at Rapid City Hills KOA, leaving us with a newfound appreciation for the hidden gems and unique encounters that a road trip promises. Let's hit the road together and uncover the unconventional side of America!

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Speaker 2: 0:10

Secretly recorded from deep inside the bowels of a decommissioned missile silo. We bring you the man, one single man, who wants to bring light to the darkness and dark to the lightness. Although he's not always right, he is always certain. Now, with security protocols in place, the protesters have been forced back behind the barricades and the blast doors are now sealed. Without further delay, let me introduce you to the host of the podcast, Mr. Tim Huttner.

Speaker 3: 0:45

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Speaker 3: 1:11

It's a beautiful fall Sunday outside the hidden underground bunker and Hutcast bit off the air for a little bit. So we're going to talk about the last couple of weeks. We were out on tour and checking out these great country of ours, so Hutcast will be right back. Stand by in just a moment. Now a word from our sponsors, today's sponsor, in part by Excel Roofing. Excel Roofing, they do it all Roofes, siding, framing. You need a house. Give Excel a call. I've used these guys personally in the past. Have a professional crew, they're conscious of your job and they want to produce the finest quality of craftsmanship available. Excel Roofing 763-712-0757. Again, 763-712-0757. Excel Roofing, dayton, minnesota. Walk back to Hutcast.

Speaker 3: 2:10

It is a beautiful Sunday, been off the air, like I said in pre-roll, for a little bit, and I wanted to get out in the country and meet some people, meet some individuals, meet some interesting individuals. Where did we start this trip? Okay, so we're getting this vehicle and we start traveling this country. We've been everywhere, from Iowa, minnesota, north of South Dakota, nebraska We've been all over this country. That's just the center part of the country. But I wanted to start this vacation with more of a vacation attitude, more to just relax and be out there with the people. But I've noticed out in this world and I like to say common sense ain't common enough. It still holds true. That is very much a true statement, because there's a lot of people that just they get it and they don't get it. And that's okay because that's who they are. They're the not-getting-its. And these people that are not getting it are the people that service you, the get-nits. Take, for instance, we were in a restaurant and this is going to be on the Hutcast hate book site. View in and check it out. It's pretty intense and this restaurant had themselves a robot. Now I know a lot of conservative old school have a big fear of high tech taking over and I don't think that it's going to take over like you think it is in the Terminator, but there's going to be some level of takeover.

Speaker 3: 3:19

We're sitting there enjoying our meal and along Collins this. It looks like a tray, a robot tray, a tray that serves food. Oh, I had to video it. You know, I took video of it. I just had to see what this thing was all about.

Speaker 3: 3:32

And we were able to interview the guy, one of the guys of the restaurant that gave us some information on it and I'll tell you what. It's kind of an eight gig, because we've been to other restaurants where this Gen X or this Gen Y or whatever these new guys are, these kids who will do their job like they're supposed to, and then hand you a I don't know what you call it a calculator, a way of payment, the payment receptacle. It's on a stick. We went through a caribou and here we ordered two coffees and we're sitting there minding our own gig and they hand us this little stick after the order and it says well, we already paid for them, you know? But well, this is a tip stick. Now you're probably thinking what the heck is a tip stick? This stick they hand to you. You pay your $13 or $14, eight bucks a cup for a coffee, which is, first of all, insane. But hey, you know, it's trendy. And they hand you this stick that says, hey, we'd appreciate a tip, and for life of me I couldn't figure out what I would tip them for. Now I understand a lot of waitresses and a lot of food preparers have tips so that they can supplement their income while they're doing what they do.

Speaker 3: 4:31

And she shoved this thing in my face and she says, hey, you know, in case you want to tip, for what? For you doing your job. This is a drive-through. I'm going to tip you on a drive-through. I didn't feel obligated to tip then and I'm a big tipper. I'm that guy that tips stupid money for little things. And she gave me that look a shotter dog. Look Like, how dare I Almost like she was entitled to that tip. Well, I'll tell you what Cheekums.

Speaker 3: 4:54

If you think doing your job in a fast food restaurant is going to require a tip for me to go through to your line to spy your products, ie, caribou, you got everything coming. Why don't I tip the McDonald's guy? Why don't I tip the Taco Bell guy? Why don't I tip everybody who is simply doing their job and they get paid an hourly wage in a fast food environment? Well then I'll. I hold on, guys. I know what you're thinking I'll tip the guy who brings your food to you in a Ruby Tuesdays or something. It's a different kind of tip. I see the tip that way is.

Speaker 3: 5:22

You know, you did your job. You did your work, you checked up on us, you kept everything going. Was there any issues? Da-da-da-da-da-da, not. Hey, here's $12.95. Oh, by the way, would you like to tip me? Think about that. Think about that for just a second, because that to me doesn't make any sense at all. So when you find yourself in a situation having to tip and this is I'm getting back to where I started from, don't freak out on me. Then think about what they did for that tip. If they simply did their job and they took your money and sent you a coffee by doing their job, should they really get tipped? Well, the gal was a little upset. I didn't care, I already had the coffee. She couldn't spit in it at that point.

Speaker 3: 5:57

Yeah, now back to the original robot. This thing comes flying by me with six or five trays on it, it blows past, it sits and waits by the table and then the waitress comes out and dishes it out. I thought it would just be here's your grub, grab it. But it's not, it's this robot. Come up to us, went by us, looked at us, blew past us. I mean, looked at us. I mean it's kind of a human trait, but it did stop and look at us, which seems kind of odd. The wife says, well, that's kind of rude. I didn't think it was rude at all, I just thought it was funny. And then they just waited, jumped the plates, went back to the kitchen reload, go pretty groovy.

Speaker 3: 6:32

Now back to my point of why the robot. Look at it this way. If you wanted this Gen Y to stand there and pretty much demand a tip from you for simply doing their job, or would you rather have a robot come up and drop your grub and go? Well, I guess I know what you're saying. Again, the robot brought the food the waitress, just put it on the table and did she get tipped? Yes, she got tipped because she's still did her job beyond what she should have by just handing a cup of coffee to you. Think about that for just a second. When do you tip versus when do you don't tip? I don't know. Do you tip the cashier at Walmart for bagging up your stuff? Well, she's simply there on an hour to gig hair. You did a great job, so I'm going to tip you. You can, I guess. If that's you, if you're going to start that, then we're going to start tipping everybody in life.

Speaker 3: 7:14

You tip your local shop or putting on tires in your car oh, thanks for the oil change. Oh, here's another 10 for your trouble. Well, that's their job. If their job is trouble, they need to get a new line of work or make more or educate or whatever they got to do to expect a different tip. Do attorneys get a tip? Tax preparers? They get a tip. No, they send you a bill. You pay the bill, you go back to job and you can do your work.

Speaker 3: 7:34

I don't know, it was kind of a weird thing getting that tip stick shoved in your face and getting the pouty pouty from the guy who simply made you a coffee. What are you supposed to tip? 10 bucks for making a five dollar coffee? I don't think so. And then there's the other gal. Oh, yes, I'm going to start this one the rant of people, the common sense of common sense, of taking your order.

Speaker 3: 7:55

Imagine yourself in a restaurant and this Gen Y comes up. Hello, I'm out there. I'm just being a little facetious there if she wasn't English or nothing, and I says, yes, I'd like the hamburger with fries Excellent. I stopped. I thought, um seems kind of weird. Would there be anything else? How about some green beans? Perfect choice. I'm like, oh, here we go, we got another one of these people. Everything you are on your menu, anything that you want to order, anything that you want to just have a hey, I'll take some fries Excellent. She's got to validate everything you do, like it's a really good choice. It's a really good choice, really, really. You're going to do that every time I want to put something on there. So at that point I'm just messing with her. Well, I'd like a side of sugar, a packet, perfect. And like a straw, a straw. Oh my God, it was so sickening.

Speaker 3: 8:46

You run into this one time in life, and this is twice. What are they teaching these kids? Open your ears, shut your mouth, take your order, do your job, you'll get a tip, oh boy. So the next time you're out and about and you hear one of these Gen Ys do this to you Excellent, uh-huh, okay, crap on you. I don't know, maybe it's just a cultural thing, maybe it's a age thing. Ask them, please stop validating everything I order, because it just gets annoying. And you don't want to annoy your customer, you don't want to. You want to make them happy in, in, in an environment where it's refreshing to be, not to be accosted by their non-common sense of comments. I don't know, check it out. It's just, it's insane, the kind of stuff that's going on in the world. And then you get some of the mattresses that come up, do your job and they literally knock your socks off. They, they got it done. They, it's a great service. It was okay. I get that. That's worth paying for, okay.

Speaker 3: 9:34

So the last thing about my robot, non-the-trip thing Do you tip a robot? Hmm, I don't know. Do you tip a robot? Bring to your food, doesn't talk shit, doesn't say nothing. Besides, it does its job. What would I rather have? I'd rather have the robot If it means this Gen Y was going to. Excellent choice, sir, because I don't get that from the robot. And they never take a vacation, they're never sick, they're always working. Um, all they need is a recharge Firmware update once in a while. How's that for a win? Point five, uh-huh, a point five win. But these, uh, these Gen Ys, you gotta, you gotta just like think where do they get their learning from? Because they don't. They get the learning I learned. Now for the final Gen Y. Okay, hold your socks on these Gen Y people. They want to go out and they want to make you feel comfortable and I get it as part of the job. You're all done with the program.

Speaker 3: 10:17

You had a wonderful lunch, gen Wires, your bill is $47.92. It's a little expensive lunch but hey, it's 50 bucks. You give them a hundred dollar bill. I don't believe they looked at the money they might have. They might have scanned it as they get sent to them and the invoice.

Speaker 3: 10:33

And they look at you and say do you want change with this? What kind of question is that? Well, I talked to a friend of the family who does this type of work and and she looked at me and says well, I would never assume that this tip is mine or the rest of the money is mine. I says I know that. That's why you would stop and not ask them that and bring them change. And I looked at the gal, the scale that I met, $47.50 for the lunch and I says well, I handed you a hundred. It's a $50 bill. You damn right, I want my change.

Speaker 3: 11:01

Oh, like no, I'm the a-hole for looking for 50 bucks back. I'll give the tip based upon what did she do? How did she perform If she was miserable and didn't want to do her job? And you could see her attitude and all this stuff. I'm tipping pretty light. You have to knock your socks off to tip for me pretty heavy and you got to be that, that person that just really does their job. Do you want change with that? No, I like paying 200% of what I actually bought so I didn't have to go out and make my own lunch, and I see a lot of this in these, what would you say, these brewery type places, these Gen Y brewery man bun, open-toe, sandal, hemp, wearing t-shirt you know, those kind of people.

Speaker 3: 11:37

But I don't know what it is for a gal, but that's what the dudes wear and they think they're all hipster and they got the full beard and they haven't moved an axe in their life and they got the lumberjack shirt on, which, of course, is made of hemp. Yeah, what do you think these people are doing? Do you want change with that?

Speaker 2: 11:51

Damn skip you. I want change with that.

Speaker 3: 11:53

Every time. Stop asking. So if it's 50 bucks and I give you 60, I guess that question would make sense. But how do you have the time to measure and to count how much I gave you? It's pretty clear when I hand you a Benjamin and it's a $50 lunch and you have the audacity to ask me if I want change. Yeah, I want my change. You don't get to decide that for me. There is nothing on this planet that I'm going to let you do to decide. Do you want my change?

Speaker 3: 12:15

Oh, I'll just ask you, just go ahead and take 150 bucks, hold on, oh boy. So that's the lunch versions of all my trips, my endeavors, and then when I come back, I mean we're about 15 minutes in this show. Give me a light show. Today I'm going to tell you some of the places that are out there for you to see. Hands down, got a visit. There are just so many cool places. So, for heck of a cast, stand by, we'll be right back.

Speaker 1: 12:40

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Speaker 3: 13:23

Welcome back to Hot Cast. Like I said in previous sessions, I was going to tell you about what's cool out in the world. There's some pretty neat things, very, very cool things. We started our trip in Western Nebraska, eastern Iowa, every state at a campground there.

Speaker 3: 13:42

That was just you know, end of season kind of closed. The pools are offline. This is like October, late September, and the areas are starting to, you know, get set up for winter. Their summer help is gone and whatever you know. They're just kind of. They're kind of zoning down. It's placed in the Midwest, not an issue down south, not an issue Southern borders, not an issue at any place other than Midwest to Canadian border. They got to shut down. They can't run their water. It freezes.

Speaker 3: 14:15

So we do a lot of the KOAs. Koas are kind of a. They have a great network At Mind. You, KOA is not a sponsor for this show, Not yet KOA. If you're listening, give me a holler hutcastcom buzzbrow. And you have these visits, these, these connection points. So we travel in an RV and the RV has a 30 amp, a 50 amp, it has water and sewer. So basically, when you're, when you're at a campsite, you plug in your house and you, you enjoyed everything from home on the road. But what you get for some of these KOAs is the, is the atmosphere, the places around them, the culture in which you have stopped.

Speaker 3: 14:59

Now, what's in Nebraska? A lot of corn, a whole lot of corn, dried up corn this time of year, but because it was after the school season, we had something that was very, very precious and that was silence. We had silence at a KOA. You don't get silence at a KOA normally. You get plastic wheels and loud kids and snot noses crying and the whole, the whole kid thing. And if that's your gig, dude, it's your gig, I don't care.

Speaker 3: 15:27

But this trip was a little different. This trip gave us a little bit of peace, a little bit of solitude and solace, and knowing that the next place we stopped, even though it was a KOA, was more about the old folks. We looked around hey, we're not old. Oh, yes, we are, we're old, we're gray hairs, we're the old, old bastards in the rig driving around. That's who we were. I'm okay with it.

Speaker 3: 15:49

So this first stop, their culture, their claim to fame, was like a, like a lakeside area, a spot where you had a couple of beaches hooked to the KOA. Really, really awesome. It was just a. It was a great gig. You plugged in, you walked your puppy, you go and you seen what was out on the area there. They had all kinds of neat stuff.

Speaker 3: 16:14

Again, no plastic wheels, no screaming kids, Just you, your rig, your spouse and you had a great time with just that. And you look drowning and you see the same people having the same issues. They're, they're big rigs. They pull in older couples. Nobody was hooting holler and no one was drunken up. And I've been to some KOAs where they drunk it up and not even some KOAs, and we have a lot of other independent KOAs that are. You know, if you ain't two sheets to the wind, you're nobody, and that we didn't fit into there. We didn't care, we didn't have to fit into there. So we used to do Nebraska KOA did a great job. Off season Prices were the same, we didn't get no discount. But hey, you know, they probably got a charge more because you're only getting half as many visitors.

Speaker 3: 17:01

Then we start trucking towards I don't know, I don't know Wyoming, western Wyoming, western, eastern Nebraska. Nebraska is a pretty long state. What I did notice is that this time of year, which we didn't normally have, is a lot of wind, good wind, coming out of the Southwest. I don't know if it's another Typhoon coming in, a tropical storm, I don't know. Yeah, it was. It was nasty. We were 40-50 miles on our winds and when you're driving a big rig it's pushing you around like cheese in a bad habit. It's pushing you big time. So we fought that we're lucky to get four or five miles per gallon, because we know we're doing 65, 70 and afraid that as soon as that wind lets up, guess what your your wheels already turned to try and compensate the wind. You bounce in the next lane. Oh yeah it was handful.

Speaker 3: 17:54

They got old fast but we had some nice k-ways out there too. It was a wonderful spot to be. We had a sunrise, golden campground and storage I think it was. That was not a k-way, so I found it on an app we call RV Parkie and she says let's try this place. Review showed good.

Speaker 3: 18:15

We stopped in there. What a diamond in the rough. You get time to go someplace and that was in hot springs, nebraska. What an excellent place to be. Beautiful sunset, beautiful sunrise, clean campground. Oh yeah, we could. We could easily spend a week there. But you know, I mean these guys this is their life. They live this every day. We see this once a year for a trip. But we'll post some of that stuff on the hot cast hate book site and you look at the pictures yourself. You tell me what you like, you tell me if it makes sense, because it did to me. Get that moment of solitude, peace, sit back. We could even adopted a cat while we were there, because there was one One little dark cat. She did just like he, like I don't know what it was, it was it Just love to hang around. We were feeding it, so that kind of, that kind of blew it for us. Oh yeah, the wife loved him, fell in love. I went.

Speaker 1: 19:11

Nope, we're not gonna cat.

Speaker 3: 19:13

You want a cat, go borrow somebody's. You'll be done with it soon enough. Sunrise campground storage unbelievable place. Again. Sometimes you find these diamonds in the rough. Now we've never had a KOA like that they're. They're more of a culture thing, where this is more of a land thing, this is more of a Environment thing. Big time Camp guys came around, got your stuff to pick your stuff up in the morning. They supplied you with the doggy bags. They I mean they just they were just the right group. So that's why I said not everything is a KOA Thing. For us it's just a. It's just a place to go because it's on the network and it's easy to get but RV Parkie. So if you guys are out and about and you want to find someplace to be, download the app on Google play, check it out.

Speaker 3: 20:03

I'll tell you another thing about when you're traveling. We belong to this group of RVers on hate book, of course, and they have a. They have an app for fuel buying. Now, if anybody drives around, they end up. They drive a big rig. They know that fuel can get up pretty fast. So we got a thing called open roads, the tds, their EFS website Credit card.

Speaker 3: 20:26

It's a card, for it's a fuel card, it's all it is. And this fuel card saves you about 50 cents a gallon average. Now you're pop 100 gallons. That's some real money after a trip. So we will tell you on a geo lap map. It'll say okay, here's your location, here's everybody around you. You got to go to certain fuel stations and here's how they kind of do it. It's a company that buys bulk amounts of fuel from these places. They're on a fuel buying program. They say great, this fuel buying program can make you 50 cents a gallon less than retail if you spend or buy this much from your group. Well, the buying group spends X amount of dollars, which now brings their gross profits Down, but more because you actually get their their their business. So they're buying in bulk this bulk number. It's pushed into a total. This total gets kicked back to you you. You link this card to a credit card or another checking card. Checking card says Okay, you got a fuel buy here. They take the buy. They take a 10 hit. So if you spend a thousand bucks, did they take 100 bucks? And you see you pay you 50 cents a gallon on average less for fuel. Huh, pretty good when you're doing the Long distance tripping and you got a hundred gallon fuel tank.

Speaker 3: 21:46

You might want to think that over open roads, I think it's open roadscom. Again, they're not sponsors of the show yet. Open roads if you do want to sponsor and give us holler at castcom and we can talk about sponsorship. But today we're just having a. I'm just a user, I'm an end user of this Quite unique, quite cool something you want to kind of, you want to kind of do and again, as part of the RV's Company that makes our RV our coach, they, they have these hate book sites and you all get in there and and everyone who has this card Absolutely love it.

Speaker 3: 22:23

They're hands down, it's the only thing they use. I think it's a trucker thing too EFS Truckers association. I don't even know what the, what the group of theirs, but Again, open roads is. The is the company that Provides us and it's basically just a fuel cart. So I don't think you're gonna go out and go shopping free and and if you had that, why would you? It will be the point.

Speaker 3: 22:45

You don't save money on Smarties and beer, you save money on fuel and fuel and def. Besides, I don't know what the def savings was for your diesel coach. Def is kind of a thing. It's four bucks a gallon and so it's pretty close to what you pay for diesel. Personally, I think defs a waste of time. I think a lot of the emissions, the scrs on these trucks are a waste of time. That's kind of where that's going and I'm not starting that, that conversation. But yeah, pay attention to the FS groups, the buying groups, the fuel groups. We have not added up our totals yet, we have not got all their statements in, but I'm, I'm, you know it's gonna be on average 50 cents a gallon and we blew through 3,800 miles, so all 4,000 miles at sometimes four. Sometimes is 10 miles per gallon. And on the wind again, that wind was a was a butt kicker going west this time of year. What else is cool?

Speaker 2: 23:40

lot of.

Speaker 3: 23:41

Okay, all right. So we went into Sturgis, south Dakota. We went into Deadwood, south Dakota. So Sturgis and Deadwood, and then we were there at Silver Town. There was a lot of cool places out there, but let's start with. Let's start with Deadwood. Back when I got into camping, deadwood was a Great place to be. You're in a valley, your deadwood's kind of nestled up against the mountain range, the eastern mountain range, and then there's a creek and the road goes next to the creek kind of a neat thing. Back then you could take your RV and drive anywhere, park your rig, go have lunch and do what you want to do today.

Speaker 3: 24:17

Not so much Today was a. It's more of a commercialized. You know they they've put Main Street on a Used to be type of thing. You know it's already history, which it wasn't history, but no, so I guess it was history when we were going 25 years ago. But history is more of a. Okay, this is about like the old west you had the saloons, you had the, the, the gold, the blackheels and gold. Everything was kind of a thing. But now that Gen Y is kind of pushing some buttons you have weed bars.

Speaker 3: 24:48

You know the cannabis bars. You have the head shops. We used to call them head shops, I don't know what they're called now, but they sell paraphernalia so that you can smoke your weed or whatever you do with that stuff and they kind of quasi-socialized deadwood and it's hard to describe. It's a place that you'd want to go to see. And then you get there and say, why did I want to come see this? At least that was for us. You know you get to have a chance to take your rig down there or your car or whatever you're doing and check it off yourself. But beware, it's not what it used to be. There's zero parking. The only campground now is in a horse arena where you sit in a parking lot and you plug in.

Speaker 3: 25:35

And I went. I don't mean staying here, even though we paid for it, I'm not staying there. It was just blah. And you're fighting a lot of hills getting in and out of there. So it's not like you just walk in and say, hey, you know level land, you're fighting hills. You're doing 7, 10% grades on the way into that place, so it's real mountains. It wasn't worth the fight. It wasn't worth the fight to be there. So we'll go back, probably not in our lifetime. We'll find other places to go, but now we go to Sturgis, south Dakota. Oh yeah, sturgis, south Dakota. What a cool spot. Now we were not there during bike week Kind of not our thing. We don't want to have the bike thing, you know the drunks, and we don't get off on listening and watching drunks and bar fights, and just not our it's not our thing, but it was cool.

Speaker 3: 26:25

Again, off season, not many places were open. You could have parking everywhere. Wonderful restaurants everywhere, bar slash restaurants. It was just like I said, hands down, it's the time of year to go. It wasn't 5000 degrees outside, so your bus is overheating. You know there's a lot of there's a lot of wins and loses in this, but it was. It was hard to describe, once you got to that point, what and how cool it was. You could walk down Main Street, you had a spot to put your bus. Just really neat, neat stuff.

Speaker 3: 27:01

Well, in particular but we visited it when we were in the bike capital of the world without a bike was the Naco Saloon. Now the Naco Saloon is nestled between well, it's a whole city block long. So I mean it's, it's huge. And you got the campground on the hill which is to the west of us, east of us, and you're kind of on the secondary Main Street over by the Harley Davidson tribute to veterans' memorial, and we we walk into this place and we were buying some trinket stuff for being souvenir shoppers for our people at home. And in the center they have this rally point. I suppose it's where all the drunk get on a fake horse and they spin it around. I don't know what they do when they're during bike week, but they're doing something there. And they had this bar with lovely lunches there that we thought, okay, well, let's just walk around and see what we got.

Speaker 3: 27:54

So the Naco Saloon offered more than one kitchen and more than one place to eat. We went to the west side of it, on that block by the Harley Davidson thing, and they made a smoke brisket. That'll knock your socks off and I'm kind of a smoking kind of guy. This thing was tender, you didn't need a knife to cut it. It was put it on a fork and you could. Oh wow, the smoke was wonderful. They could use a nice brisket burnt but not burnt. But it's, you know, it's kind of a, it was kind of the stuff and I use a really good Mesquite wood when I cook mine.

Speaker 3: 28:31

So they had something else kind of going on and I like to steal that recipe from them someday Again. That was called the Naco Saloon and it was. You know, they're on the 931, the first avenues of Sturgis. It was just a great, great lunch. And then we visited the, again that sunrise ridge campground. That was a great spot. And then we drove into the Rapid City Hills K-way Again back to another K-way. They did a wonderful job, it was just fantastic.

Speaker 3: 29:03

So I guess I'm saying people is, you know, a lot of people fly I'm not the flying guy unless I'm doing the flying and a lot of people drive and you miss out on a lot of not a great spots. You might think it's just boring, humdrum A to B to C, until you get there and you're going yeah, you can't get this, you can't get the robots, you can't get the Naco saloons, you can't get the K-ways, the culture, the, the, the feeling of being when you're in these areas. So take a road trip, plan one, put some fuel on it, Get a fuel card, the FS fuel card, the open roads fuel card, check it out, enjoy what this country has to offer, because at this rate. There's a lot of this country that's going to be like way not offering things because we have some weird stuff going on in our political realm. I don't know if it'll ever go away, but try and take it right. I think we had an episode about the uh, the Boogaloo Boys or the one percenters. I think we had that episode a couple, a couple episodes ago, where, you know, this patriot decided to do his gig and he's hung out for 20 years. Don't let this happen to our country. It's too good for that. It's too nice. Well, I don't want to spin you around in the backwards gig here, but go explore. Go, joe, we'll check it out.

Speaker 3: 30:21

There's a whole world out there and we went to a science museum or a space norad no, not norad um SAC, a SACArabbed Command and a space and time museum. It was awesome. Talk about some neat stuff. That was in uh, western Nebraska as well, and I've been to the Enders Air Force Base. I've been to Dallas, I've been to a lot of them, but this one here, just driving up to it. The building looked awesome. It commanded the respect that it deserves and gets that air museum man. I'll tell you what it was the coolest stuff ever. I don't know if you're kind of that guy that enjoys space museums. I'm kind of a sucker for that. And boy it was. It was worth the money. It was just it was. It was the right deal. So when you get a chance, and you get that chance and you want to go to Western Lincoln, nebraska, western, and I think they call it the strategic air command and aerospace Museum, let's see here they're not sponsored, so I'm gonna run 282, 10 West Parkway, ashland, nebraska, spend the money, go check it out. Even the bathrooms had a time Space theme to it.

Speaker 3: 31:38

Hands down, cool, cool, cool. You step back in time. You're up against the, the planes. You're up against the, the equipment. You know you're not 20 feet away from it. Oh, it looks good. You're actually up by these things touching them. And you got this closeness, this texture to the outside skin of the plane, the, the capsules for the Apollo missions.

Speaker 3: 32:00

Nobody touched the SR 71 because that was kind of hanging in the, in the lobby. Now, that's how big this place is. Yeah, an SR 71, full bird, full build, hanging out in the lobby, suspended like you would a kid from a model in your, in your room. That's what it looked like. Yeah, we were suckers. We bought stuff About some really cool stuff for the grandkids. Oh yeah, we pissed it away. But hey, where else can you do this? Because when you're dead and gone you don't get a second chance. It was that cool. So check out that space museum again. Strategic air command and aerospace hands down cool, cool stuff.

Speaker 3: 32:41

And I think that's kind of like Western. Oh, I'm looking at my Google trip lines Turning campground. It was just. I don't want to miss anything because it was that exciting Sunrise. We got that one out. Koa's Black Hills Belvedere that was one of our last stops, Belvedere, koa. Oh, al's Oasis that's where the robot was, al's Oasis. Now that is in 1000 East South Dakota Highway, 16 in Okama, south Dakota, okama. That's where that robot was, which I'm gonna be pasting on my my hudcast. You'll see the the little interview I did with the guy the food coming out, the thing going back. How about some cool, neat stuff? And Sue Falls did that one. And that wraps us up for that Duffy's bar and grow.

Speaker 3: 33:33

Yeah it was kind of a real great gig. All right, hudcast, want to reflect, wanted to try out some new stuff. We're gonna be playing with some new software today. You tell me what you think of the format, hit me on the hate book page and, of course, keep those messages coming and going. It's been a couple weeks. I just want to catch up with everybody to let me know what's going on. I did have some really good doctors lined up for today. They got busy first. When we just get back in the town it's hard for me to schedule and, like our last one got to Kearney and those guys are they're on their own task so I'd like to hear more from maybe we can learn something. I have a wonderful Sunday. 10, 8, 20, 23. Huttcast always appreciates you. Tune in. Be well, people. Until next time. And that's a wrap for hudcast. Huttcast is again a pragmatic approach to seeing things how some people see him. If you like our show, give us a thumbs up on the Facebook site. Again for hudcast. Thank you again. Have a wonderful evening.