Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure
Adam and Michael share a long friendship fueled by their love for cycling. Through ups and downs, they have pedaled side by side, creating a rich tapestry of experiences and playful banter that underscores their connection. Their adventures highlight the joy of authentic friendship, whether tackling tough trails or enjoying leisurely rides. If you're looking for a podcast that embodies friendship and cycling excitement, join them on this audio journey. They share engaging stories and welcome you to their cycling community, offering entertaining anecdotes and heartfelt discussions about the joy of exploring the open road. This podcast delivers an uplifting cycling experience.
Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure
The Hose That Derailed RAIN: A Cycling Mishap Story
When the unexpected strikes, how do you adapt? Michael shares the story of his recent cycling accident where he encountered an almost-invisible brown hose stretched across concrete pavement during a training ride. With just seconds to react, his front tire turned 90 degrees, sending him face-first onto the road, resulting in a fractured clavicle and extensive road rash. This first-ever broken bone in thousands of cycling miles comes with particularly unfortunate timing—just 19 days before the pair's planned Ride Across Indiana (RAIN).
As the hosts navigate this setback, they explore options ranging from postponing their registration to next year, Michael serving as SAG driver while Adam rides, or finding alternative adventures altogether. The conversation reveals the philosophy that defines their approach to cycling: it's not about reaching destinations, but experiencing the journey and connections made along the way.
Adam shares his recent trip to Des Moines, Iowa, where cycling memories unexpectedly surfaced through familiar establishments from previous RAGBRAI rides, including the beloved Big Red Truck food vendor and Thelma's ice cream sandwiches. These culinary touchpoints sparked nostalgic conversations about past cycling adventures and the communities that form around these shared experiences.
Through injury recovery discussions, nostalgic food memories, and planning for future adventures (including Michael's upcoming bourbon country birthday trip), the episode exemplifies how the spirit of leisure continues even when the cycling temporarily cannot. Whether you're recovering from injury or simply seeking the deeper connections that come from shared adventures, this conversation reminds us that adaptability remains key to ma
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Embarking on a journey of camaraderie that spans years, Adam and Michael have cultivated a deep friendship rooted in their mutual passion for cycling. Through the twists and turns of life, these two friends have pedaled side by side, weaving a tapestry of shared experiences and good-natured teasing that only solidifies the authenticity of their bond.
Their cycling escapades, filled with laughter and banter, are a testament to the enduring spirit of true friendship. Whether conquering challenging trails or coasting through scenic routes, Adam and Michael's adventures on two wheels are a testament to the joy found in the simple pleasures of life.
If you're on the lookout for a podcast that captures the essence of friendship and the thrill of cycling, look no further. Join them on this audio journey, where they not only share captivating stories but also invite you to be a part of their cycling community. Get ready for a blend of fun tales, insightful discussions, and a genuine celebration of the joy that comes from embracing the open road on two wheels. This podcast is your ticket to an immersive and uplifting cycling-centric experience.
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Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure, the podcast for cyclists who understand that riding is not just about getting to the destination, but the experience along the way. Now here are the original Cycling Men of Leisure Adam and Michael.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure. I am Adam and today, once again, I am joined with my good friend, Mr Michael Sharp. Hello, sir.
Speaker 3:Greetings.
Speaker 2:Adam, how you doing Well, I'm doing good, but when did you start wearing a purse or whatever you're wearing?
Speaker 3:This is not a purse, this is a satchel. No, I'm kidding For those that can't see. There appears to be some kind of strap around the left side of my body here. Well, that would have to do with the fact that I decided to go out and do some training on the road.
Speaker 2:You mean the fact that I'm going to have to change our texting thread between you and I and Joe to Cycling man of Leisure, not Cycling Men of Leisure.
Speaker 3:Well, you could de-emphasize the cycling. For the moment, I'm still a man of leisure, not cycling men of leisure. Well, you could de-emphasize the cycling. For the moment I'm still a man of leisure.
Speaker 2:I've often thought maybe I should support a support group for those who had some bad luck in 2025.
Speaker 3:Okay, now that you brought up the topic, I'm going to spill the beans. Here's the deal Juneteenth government holiday I had the day off I was going to. I said you know what? I need to start really training hard because rain is coming, not the kind that falls, but the long distance ride. So I went out and it was about mile 24. It's like, yeah, I'll get 25, 30 miles in it, it's not too bad, we're not going to push it. It's like, yeah, I'll get 25, 30 miles in it, it's not too bad, we're not going to push it.
Speaker 3:Come around the corner. Ahead of me it was a curved street and ahead of me, on up about 100 yards, is a truck. Okay, no problem, it's parked up there, got plenty of time. There's some cars coming by, not heavy traffic, but there's some construction going on. Okay, I'm looking ahead, I'm planning. As I'm coming around the corner, there's a guy working off to my right. Okay, that's great, he's spraying something, no problem, as I'm going, I'm probably only going about 12, 13 miles an hour because I had stopped and I turned into a thing. I went over a bump, no big deal. And then I'm going and as I'm getting closer to the truck, it's like, okay, there's cars coming, cars coming, okay, perfect, I can go over. And as I'm about ready to go over, I look down and on the concrete is a brown hose that's about the same color of the concrete and at that point in time I'm like six inches from it. I'm like, oh crap, nothing I can do because it's all happening so fast. Next thing, I know my front tire is 90 degrees to the rest of my bike and I am sliding in the concrete. The good news is, you know, I was sliding on the concrete with my glasses, so that protected you know this wonderfulness. So don't worry, still look as good as I always did. Oh, thank God or not, my personal opinion, yeah.
Speaker 3:So I wound up face first into the concrete, was laying there, and this guy walks up slowly, walks up and I'm laying there. I got winded, I can't really move. The guy walks up slowly and is like, oh, are you okay? Can I help you get you up? And I was like I just need to lay here for a minute. Please don't let a car run me over, because I'm in the middle of the road, just like the hose that I ran over was in the middle of the road and I sat there for a couple minutes and then I managed to get myself up and go off to the side and he's like well, I'm going to be over here at this construction site if you need anything. And he just like left Not, however, not before he took the hose that was in the middle of the street and moved it to the curb.
Speaker 3:And the reason why it was in the middle of street number one he was working and we went back and measured it all it was 55 yards at least of hose he had strung out along the road. In the road and because of where his truck parked and because of the curve, it was a straight line of hose from his vehicle to basically right where he was working. So, uh, of course, with the curve, it went right down the middle of the road. So I bid it uh, called my wife and was like uh, I need you to come and get me had a little accident. She showed up.
Speaker 3:There was another guy there that came over who was far more helpful than the guy that caused the accident, who was mowing grass. He's like dude, are you OK? And I was like yeah, I think I'm OK. Do you need me to call an ambulance. I was like no, my wife is coming to get me, she's in the health medical profession, I'll be fine. This guy stayed with me for the whole time until my wife showed up. The other guy just like move the hose over and went off, which I was a little ticked about. And he's like man, I was sitting there, I saw you go down and I noticed right after you went down he went over and moved that hose out of the way, didn't he? And I was like yeah, he was quick to do that, but that's about the only thing he was quick with. But uh, and then another lady up the street brought me some ice.
Speaker 3:Needless to say, I had down the right-hand side, my knee, my elbow, my hand got a lot of, my shoulder got a lot of road rash. But, um, when I got up from the pavement, um, I pretty much knew I had broken my collarbone so I fractured my clavicle. That's the polite way of medical way of saying that I broke my collarbone. Never broke a bone before in my entire body. In fact, this is the first time in the thousands of miles I've ridden a bicycle that I've ever put it into the concrete. Yeah, the upside. Let's start with the upside. How about that? I'm listening. The upside this whole thing is I don't know if you know this or not about me, adam, but um, I have a tendency to be a little slow at putting, at putting my bicycle together after it's been on a trip. It tends to sit in the box for a little while. It's kind of like, you know, whiskey in a bottle. It ages. There's a reason for it, I think. I don't know, but I have a tendency to be lazy about it.
Speaker 2:You know the best thing about recording a podcast with you. What's that Is? Since I do all the editing, I could grab any clip I want. And you literally just said, and I quote I tend to be a little slow. That's it. I'm going to cut it out of that and when you text me from now on I'm going to put that on my phone. I tend to be a little slow.
Speaker 3:You know why I paused? Because I thought there was going to be a smart aleck comment coming from you and I was getting ready for my rebuttal.
Speaker 2:No, is getting ready for my rebuttal? No, no, no, no, no, no see, I told everyone that you're always behind because you're in central time and now you just literally quoted I'm. I tend to be a little slow, boom, cut, cut all right. Oh man, you can't find good help nowadays so I'm assuming, after being a Hanyok and being funny with you, that your bike, your Italian stallion, your Bianchi from another mother, was still packed away.
Speaker 3:It is still in the box. Thank God for that, because I mean I basically had pulled down, you know, I mean I basically had pulled down, you know, my old bike, my Le Mans, and decided to use it because the other one wasn't put together. I actually thought about putting together, I didn't, and it's aluminum bike and I'm pretty sure that if I'd had the carbon one I would have probably at least cracked the fork, if not more. But you know, I mean it shredded my my you know handlebar tape completely shredded on one side. It broke the covers on both of my shifters.
Speaker 3:The wheel, you know, you can spin it. It'll go around one and a half times before it immediately comes to a stop. So it needs some, some TLC. And I got a big gouge in the back. So fortunately I had the old bicycle out, um, so that was the one. The one positive thing about it is that I didn't have and I didn't have my good sunglasses. I had my old because I ride with with reading sunglasses and, uh, didn't have my good sunglasses. I had my old because I ride with reading sunglasses and didn't have my good ones out either. So that helped.
Speaker 2:The following segment has been brought to you by Eric Cycle, where you'll be taking the bike.
Speaker 3:You're absolutely correct, yeah, and see what else is potentially, because obviously I haven't got on the bike to try it to see what else might be. These are just immediate things I could point out now. Here's the downside. We're supposed to ride across indiana in like three weeks uh, exactly 19 days, but who's counting?
Speaker 3:Apparently someone is. So the good news is I did go to a surgeon. He says, based upon what he saw the day after it happened, it was a clean fracture, whatever that means. Apparently it's good. I'm not going to need surgery unless something changes. I've been keeping it isolated. In fact, today, instead of my usual uh, you know, uh good juice that I typically pour myself, I'm a drinking glass of milk, so is that fermented milk?
Speaker 3:nope, that is straight out of the refrigerator ice cold, you know, 2% milk, in hopes that somehow that's going to magically assist me which it's not, but it's going to make me feel better about what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:Did you ever see the family guy episode where he said, well, I've milked all the goats and she says those are all male goats. And well, they're happy now oh boy.
Speaker 3:So I've got another meeting with my surgeon, uh, this thursday, and we're gonna take another, gonna take some more x-rays and see um see what he says. So we'll.
Speaker 2:So that kind of leaves things at a standstill? Yes, it does, but we got some options.
Speaker 3:There's always options. I mean, what are you looking at as options? Ditching me and riding with AI? That's an option. What's your other one? What are you looking at as options? Ditching me and riding with ai, that's an option. Uh, what's your?
Speaker 2:other one, I do pay for the premium version of chat gbt for the show.
Speaker 3:So I could do that just have ai put me in every single picture you take, that's right see, right now I'm keeping my lips closed so I don't have proof.
Speaker 2:But no, we did email them and we've not heard back yet. We did not ask for a refund, because we are very aware we can read top to bottom, left to right it clearly states that there is no refunds. We're not asking for a refund. We did ask if we could advance our registration until next year. Have, we don't feel like we're going to get a reply. Um, we're not sure, but we don't feel like we're going to get a reply.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is not a ride like rag bry or brag, where they've got like full-time people, uh, or even part-time people checking these things. This is like more or less volunteer type stuff.
Speaker 2:We've talked about. Possibly, if no refund or no advancement, do we still make a trip out of it for the show? And then you drive SAG, and then we could still make some fun times. Sag, and then we could still make some fun times. I mean, um, I ride it and then you know, every 20 miles meet up with you. And I was picturing the days of thunder. I know we talked about two shows ago, but how's, how's the sagging going?
Speaker 3:well, I've had some ice cream, so I need a sag not now, because I'm eating ice cream Come get me, you know. We did, which would suck. But you know there would be a flip side to that, although I would dearly miss riding with you and I don't know how you could ride without me. I mean, it would just. I'm sure it would be very difficult, but we would have the. Oh, am I supposed to answer that? No, no, I was answering. It would be very difficult, but we would have the— oh, am I?
Speaker 2:supposed to answer that? No, no, I was answering it for you, no, I actually want to say something, because I know we have a bunch of new listeners. As a matter of fact, we have 130 new listeners today, just today, yeah, in a single disloyal ban.
Speaker 3:Good day for podcasting.
Speaker 2:Michael and I please understand, this show is built off of the structure of humor. I would actually be pretty tore up to write it without you. I mean, we've done Illinois together, We've done Michigan together, we've done Iowa five times and Georgia four times.
Speaker 3:Michigan a couple more times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Iowa five times, and Georgia four times, michigan a couple more times, yeah, I mean. So the idea was I mean, and then rain has just been one of those ones where we've signed up for a couple of times and then, due to one thing or another, covid or whatever, it's just been one on the bucket list. So when you called me, you said, hey, I've been meaning to call you. I wasn't sure what you were going to say.
Speaker 2:So, um, even when I tell the story at work that we're, you know, we're not sure what to do. We're hoping they write us back, and so, if anyone's never done rain riding, they actually it's a bloomington cycle club, um, I may have that wrong, but cycling club or cycle club, I'm not. I don't want to misspeak, but, um, so what they did is is it was like organized and then, and then they weren't going to run it, and then this Bloomington, indiana cycling club, um, picked it up, and so we're not sure if the email is going just to, um, you know, uh, a generalized box or whatever, but we're not getting any kind of response. So it kind of leads us to believe that it is what it is.
Speaker 3:I mean it's the Bloomington Bicycle Club.
Speaker 2:Thank, you the official Bloomington Bicycle Club. So they took it over and they're going to run it. And then someone was able to set up transportation, so we were able to get you know a registered night at the YMCA and then. So anyways, long story short, it's just been something that's been in our wheelhouse just to knock off another state of the map. One of these days we're going to do Rhode Island.
Speaker 3:But it's a two-day ride 30 days one way, or 30 miles, one way, 30 miles, and next you cross it twice, twice in one day, um.
Speaker 2:so, yeah, I mean there's, I I do tease you and and you know there's the thought about doing it, and then, um, if there's no response, and then of course it's like you know would love to not lose everything, and then we could still, you know, stop along the way and with those microphones that we have there. I mean that's how we were able to get a bunch of those pieces across the state from in Georgia recently, so we could definitely record, if you're like, hey, how's it going out there? Well, michigan roads are better than this or this, you know, whatever. So, um, but anyways, um, yeah, so it's so.
Speaker 3:yeah, it's all in humor, um, but we would also have the side of. We've never really talked about sagging as far as that job that you know, maybe it's professionally done, maybe it's a significant other, whatever. We would then have the perspective of a sag driver. What is this really all about? We see them, but if we're all like avid cyclers, most of us have never sagged for someone before, so it's an option.
Speaker 2:We're looking into things.
Speaker 3:And there's, you know, I mean we could always, if they would let us push it, we could still get together someplace and, you know, find an interesting restaurant or two interesting drink or two, hang out, do some podcasting, whatever. But we'll have to see. See, Well, a big thing I think will be is is find out what the surgeon says he feels, based upon my, you know, week and a half of looking at the x-rays and stuff.
Speaker 2:You know where I'm at. Yeah Well, we'll hope. I mean, your health and safety is number one. That's obviously in your family. Obviously, that's the most important thing. I mean Obviously in your family, obviously that's the most important thing. I mean we're going to have other adventures, so that's for sure. So we still have the bourbon country burn.
Speaker 3:You should be. We'll patch you up for that, oh for that one.
Speaker 2:I'll bring a roll of duct tape and duct tape my shoulder together if I have to, but the last time you talked to the surgeon, just to be clear, he had advised you not to right.
Speaker 3:He said five to six weeks. At that point it was four, maybe slightly a day or two over four, and I was like, so we'll see. You know, doctors will never say, oh yeah, I think you can do. You know, they always tend to to overestimate. I mean I've, I've watched the tour de France when you know, I mean, collarbones are pretty common injury, uh, with cyclists, especially in the professional world. And you know, I mean I've seen them go 75 miles or more with a broken collarbone. Now, granted, they're professionals and all this kind of stuff, but still they just broke it. They got back on their bike and they kept riding. Would not be the case.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:The other good thing I found out about this is I now have an excuse. And the other day my daughter was up there I was eating breakfast or something, and I said the tour to France starts just a few days. This is going to be awesome. I said the sad thing about it is, maya, that your dad is is is not going to make the cut this year that doggone broken bone. And she looked at me, stopped exactly what she's doing, stared at me for like two seconds dead stare and was like well, dad, you weren't going to make it anyway. And I was like, well, at least I have an excuse.
Speaker 2:That's not the point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she called me out. She's like you're not going to make it anyway and you're too old, and I was like, well, thank you for bringing some real-life reality back to my life. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:We're going to make the best of it. I'm not sure what that means. Appreciate it. We're going to make the best of it. I'm not sure what that means, but whatever that, whatever, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3:You know what It'll be. Whatever it is, be another adventure, whether we're there, we're not there, whatever. Another adventure of the recycling men of leisure.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll see, we'll update you guys. Um, you know, with that being said, it's always like you always say. You know, for sure, it's not always about the destination, but the people you meet along the way. I I I mean, obviously we still have our, our hotels lined up and there'll be other cyclists and and we can spread the word of, you know, our leisure community and try to grow our leisure community. So there's definitely still some opportunity to meet people, and normally you and I are not afraid to wear cycling men of leisure or cycling women of leisure outfits. And then people ask what it's all about.
Speaker 2:It gives us a chance to talk about. You know our team. It's been really fun for me with sharing stories about having 43 people in Georgia today in the Bragg, and writes the newsletter from Bragg. Thanks Franklin, yeah, Thank you very much. He even says right in there that the largest team again and so we're so proud of all of our friends and family and all across this great nation and Canada Is that the 51st state.
Speaker 3:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:Sorry. It was funny. We're going to get into this in a little bit, but I just traveled somewhere and when the guy was there he was a keynote speaker and said I'm from alberta and that's not the 51st day, so who was it back in the what the late 1700s, early 1800s were?
Speaker 3:was it henry clay and some of his buddies? Somebody back there that you know, back uh, around the war of 1812? Uh, you know, we're wanting to turn. You know we're wanting to turn. You know, go, we're going to go invade Canada, we're going to turn it. You know, turn it into our territory. And they were. They were all big and sure of themselves. But you know, I think we burned Montreal, if I remember correctly, and that's about it, that's about all we did.
Speaker 2:Of course, they came back a couple of months later and burned Washington DC and showed us but you know, you know you mentioned something you said it would give us a different aspect of sagging. You know, usually we're so trusting of the bikes being in good shape. We definitely have our bikes tuned up, ready to go, and then you know, we've been lucky enough to have organized rides that part of our entry fee is paying for those services and we've not had to take advantage of that. So if you're out there and you're listening to this and you had an opinion for something that may be good to be in the SAG vehicle, such as a bike pump, a floor pump, you know, such as you know things that would help pump a floor pump, you know, such as um, you know things that would help if that, if this is what we have to do where I ride and you you kind of take the uh road.
Speaker 3:You know, um, what do I need to bring? Because I could not. This doesn't have a professional sag. You can't just stop and go. Uh, I can't make it. Or whatever you got to. You know, if I did wind up in sag, I could sag for everybody. Well, or whatever you got to, you know, if I did wind up in sag, I could sag for everybody. Well, let's make sure you take care of me. Well, okay, I'll be first. But you're right. But you know, we could put the. I could put the, uh, cycling men of leisure, uh, magnets. Magnets on the side could have some water. I could be out there sagging for other folk too. So we'll see. You never know, whatever happens will turn out okay well, we'll be.
Speaker 2:We'll have another adventure, something to talk about for sure. On the show and share we we usually end up with some shenanigans and where we are, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3:Speaking of where we are. Are we ready?
Speaker 2:For Listener Spotlight.
Speaker 3:Are you ready for this? I mean I'm ready. I just kind of jumped in and guess I get a little excited here and I got a good one.
Speaker 2:I got a guess.
Speaker 3:Whoa, I'm doing all sorts of crazy things here. I got a guess. Whoa, I'm doing all sorts of crazy things here. Give me a second. Well, I just lost my screen.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I know Technical difficulties I told you guys, it's hard to get good help hey there we go.
Speaker 3:All right, listener spotlight, let me give you the clues and then we'll see if anybody had any guesses this week. The clues were as followed your cat would love this city, that's right. Number two History can be found all over the city. You can even get a bit of local culture at a well-known fast food restaurant. The city owes a great deal to a particular church, just one of this city's fountains. You could retire on in style with the help of one of the fountains of this city. And the city has a type of or a distinct, I'll say a distinct article of clothing that is associated with it, easily associated with it. As soon as I would say this article of clothing, you'd be like I know exactly what that is. And the final one was is that this city has an association with this year's Big Bragg? It's not St Louis.
Speaker 2:We didn't ride in St Louis.
Speaker 3:We have, but not on this ride yeah.
Speaker 2:I do have a guess from a VIP listener.
Speaker 3:Okay, who is that? We've got many.
Speaker 2:Well, this one happens to be Trip Barker our team member Cool Yep, good old Trip. He says Heartwell Georgia for the water feature and because it's associated with Big Brag 2025, hartwell Georgia.
Speaker 3:Well, tripp, I appreciate the effort and, by the way, I know you got out of school and you're now looking for a job, so good luck on the job search. But you are not correct.
Speaker 2:Sorry, you lose Good day sir.
Speaker 3:But you're a cycling man of leisure so technically you win, you are a winner, so it is a good day. Good job everybody, all right you have any guesses? All right.
Speaker 2:You have any guesses? The only thing that I was sort of thinking about is you mentioned the water feature and we went through two areas with water Waterfalls. We did, yes, and large waterfalls, and large waterfalls. The first waterfall was not actually the city, but the second one was a city.
Speaker 3:And for that reason I am guessing Toccoa, toccoa, huh. Yeah, you and Trip can sit on the bus together, because you're both wrong. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this episode's listener spotlight is the city of Rome, italy oh, that is a stretch no, how was it a stretch? Because you said this year's brag has an association with this year's brag. Did we not spend time in rome, you?
Speaker 2:still got that challenge flag. No, no yeah, somewhere throw it why?
Speaker 3:I'm just kidding, I get it um, I do have the challenge flag. I'm throwing it, but I'm going to ignore it. We went through rome, georgia, did we not? Did we not see aqueduct type structures in rome, georgia? That? They have put up there because it's associated, their association with rome.
Speaker 3:We did we did yeah I didn't say it was on the thing anyway. Uh, obviously, rome very much connected with the catholic church in vatican city. Um, cats, uh, cats actually have the right to free rome. In rome, like that what I did there, yeah, uh, yeah, it's, uh, it's a law that cats can roam free in the city. Uh, one of the city's water features? Uh, you could retire in style with. Um, just a single one of their city's water features earns up to 700,000 euros each year by people throwing coins into them. It is known as the city of fountains, with over 2000 of them. So, the article of clothes. When you think of rome, what do you think of? Article of clothes?
Speaker 2:the hat, the, the beret or no, no, that's paris and france.
Speaker 3:Oh, they do berets there, that's okay. He's from michigan. I apologize, I want to take that out think animal house, the party them yelling.
Speaker 3:It's time for a toga. Toga, toga, toga. Remember the toga very much associated with rome, although the romans little bit of sidebar here. Rom Romans did not invent the toga. It's associated with them, but they did not invent them. It was actually invented by the Etruscans, which was a civilization that occupied the area of Rome before Rome was built and the Romans came along. So the Etruscans don't get the proper credit Was Rome built in a day.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, and all roads lead there. So, finally, history can be found all over the city. There is McDonald's believe it or not, did not come to Rome until the mid 80s and there is a McDonald's in the city that is actually built right next to Roman ruins. In fact, you can go inside the McDonald's, order your food and sit down right next to an ancient Roman wall while you have your Big Mac. A Royale with cheese. I'll take the Royale with cheese. Now you think, though, if it's next to a Roman wall, Burger King should have got in there. And you know, come, be royal. But there you go. It's Rome.
Speaker 2:That's my Pulp Fiction reference the Royale with cheese. Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen from Rome Actually, any city that's Rome, thank you for listening but this particular case Rome, Italy.
Speaker 3:Yes, thank you to our Italian listeners.
Speaker 2:Wow nice. I love international listeners.
Speaker 3:Well, roughly 12, 13%-ish of our listeners are from out of the United States. Love it, love it. We're getting far-reaching here.
Speaker 2:All right. So I just traveled somewhere. It wasn't to Rome, it was not, but a lot of roads lead where I went. A lot of roads don't, I took a plane, okay.
Speaker 3:Did you fly into the big international airport?
Speaker 2:I did the big international of Des Moines.
Speaker 3:Des Moines Now is that really an international airport? It is. Where do they fly that really an international airport? It is. Where do they fly? That makes it international? I don't know, or are they a Kansas City, that Kansas City International Airport? Well, once upon a time it was an international airport. There is not a single flight that you can get internationally directly out of Kansas City.
Speaker 2:I'm going to guess, because it says international airport. At one time some flight went internationally.
Speaker 3:Reykjavik, iceland. I bet you, I bet you it was Iceland. Let's take a look, check it out. I bet it was Iceland. So you flew to Iowa without your bicycle.
Speaker 2:I know, it felt really weird.
Speaker 3:I mean, did you like freak out mid-flight and go? Oh crud, I didn't put my bicycle on.
Speaker 2:You know, here's the funny thing. I'm searching here for our listeners, who I know Ed is listening at 1.6 right now, based on the provided search result, it appears there are no direct international flights departing from. However, you can fly to an international destination. We're going to Des Moines by taking a flight with at least one stop, so you're right.
Speaker 3:It's not an international airport, but that's OK, we won't take away from Des Moines.
Speaker 2:You can get to Singapore from Des Moines with two stops on Air Canada Well.
Speaker 3:I could get to anywhere, probably from Des Moines with two stops, london with two stops.
Speaker 2:Anyways, I digress. I went to something called Transit Retreat. Being many times on this show I have mentioned, I am in transportation.
Speaker 3:Sounds like a vacation in.
Speaker 2:Iowa Say what.
Speaker 3:Sounds like. A vacation in Iowa is what it sounds like.
Speaker 2:Well, just hold on. Multiple times, you and I have been in Iowa with bicycles. Yes, a few times we've been in Iowa with something related to bicycles, such as the RAGBRAI announcement party. We did not have bicycles with us.
Speaker 3:But it was bicycle-related. Yeah, definitely bicycle-related. We froze our fannies off both times. We went.
Speaker 2:So this is the first time that I've been to Iowa with something that was not related to cycling. I did keep telling my friends and family this feels so weird to be going here without a bicycle. But, sir, you and I talk about many, many things leisure, unsightly men of leisure, and I flew with my golf clubs and I played golf in altuna, iowa which we have ridden through which we have ridden through, and so um no thatden through, and so Now that wasn't the town.
Speaker 3:we actually stayed on the golf course, was it? No, okay.
Speaker 2:No, because I was looking for the lady who yelled at us.
Speaker 3:That would have been funny. I golfed, yeah a few years ago. I stayed right there.
Speaker 2:You screamed at us about your horses, but that's okay.
Speaker 3:Some reason she thought we were going to steal her horses. I've just spent like 90 miles in the saddle of my bike. I'm not getting on your horse.
Speaker 2:But yes, we uh, the point was not there to go golfing, but of course you know me, I'm Delta takes my clubs for free. So I, I flew and I met some friends and some other vendors and we, we played golf and thankfully I played well. That's nothing like traveling with your clubs and then playing like complete beep, but luckily I played well and we went to many Des Moines areas that you and I have been, and so I told people even on the golf course that many times when riding our bikes I usually make a joke when we pass a golf course and I would say I wonder if my golf clubs miss me right now. And this time I changed it and I said I wonder if my bicycle is thinking about me right now. So really cool to be downtown Des Moines, a lot of stuff going on there, and we stayed right by the Capitol. Our hotel was. We toured DART, which is the big transportation there in Des Moines which we've used before, say what which you and I have used before on a ride.
Speaker 2:Yes, we used it on a 2023, when, when it was staying down at waterworks park and then we took it to go have the zombie burger, um, a lot of good stuff and I actually sent you some photographs, you did, and I was like, oh, wow, flashbacks we went to big grove brewery.
Speaker 2:if you have been to rag barai and you've either had a Tailwind or a Neighborhood Beer. They are the official brewery beer of Ragbri and multiple times we've had the big beer in the can with the Ragbri logo. This year they're doing Neighborhood Beer from Big Grove Brewery, which I had Pretty good, beer from big grove brewery um, which I had pretty good um. They also have a 1939 amber and I had many of those at big grove brewery.
Speaker 3:So this isn't stuff left over from 1939, is it?
Speaker 2:I believe it's a recipe from 1939. I hope actually it was really tasty. But the next night we went to this place called Ricochet. So anyone from the Des Moines area probably was like, oh yeah, I've been to Ricochet. Ricochet is like a Dave Buster's that had skeeball and table tennis and darts and just big bar games, right. And part of this networking transit retreat is they provided meals and they had food trucks, the food trucks of Iowa. And so when they first said food trucks, I was like okay, food trucks, whatever. And they told us how we got our food is you get a ticket and then you take the ticket up there and that's how they know that you're actually part of our organization or part of our group that we were over there with. And if anyone's ever been to a conference, you know, you know there's there's certain lines for people at the conference attending the conference, etc. Etc.
Speaker 2:So I come around the corner and I saw it said the big red truck oh yes and and I was so excited because if you've ever ridden rag bright, they're normally somewhere on the route at rag bright, depending on what area they are and depending on the on the, on the radius that they're going to travel, and they have a euro sandwich that is just out of this world. Now, normally I eat it when it's 100 degrees outside and I pedaled about 50 miles to get there, so I felt kind of spoiled by getting in line with my ticket without getting out my wallet.
Speaker 3:With standing in line getting my cheese curds that went along with it. Here's the question. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2:Did you have to sit on the ground? No, I did you have to sit on the ground? No, I did not have to sit on the ground. I I actually um, we were. We were playing cricket on the on the dartboard, and so I got to sit in a bar seat with a beer in front of me in an air-conditioned building. So it was definitely a different experience on scale and of course I had to. I had to tell the young lady working at the big red truck. I'm like hey, I've seen you at RAGBRAI. And she's like oh, you know what it is. And I said yes, and I said, well, you know, we've done it five times. And she said, oh, my gosh, that's great. And of course I don't think she cared at all. But I got out my phone and clicked on the map and showed her all my pictures and, and so I showed her that I had a big red truck picture.
Speaker 3:So I'm surprised they didn't go. Welcome back, mr Baranski. Would you like your usual, because I think that one year it seems like you probably didn't, but it seems like every day we ate at the big red truck and you had the same thing every single day. I did.
Speaker 2:And then every day I'd say I'm going to get the big red truck. And you had the same thing every single day. I did. And then every day I'd say I'm going to get it. I would come into town and I would say I'm going to get something different this time and you're like, yeah, and then sometimes I would. But then sometimes the other trucks that were there I would look at and either the lines would be just ridiculously long or I can think of three times, three times vividly in my mind, where you're like I'm going to get something different.
Speaker 3:It's like, okay, cool, I'm sitting there with my food probably from the big red truck and here you walk up with your hero sandwich from the big red truck and I was like I thought you were going to get something different. They just lured you in, that's right.
Speaker 2:A lot of times, you and I being in Boy Scouts, we would like to support the scouting. You know scouting. You know tents and stuff and there was a while there where we weren't seeing a lot of the Boy Scouts. You know selling burgers and stuff.
Speaker 3:And but if we did, then we you know you and something the first time I rode it, I remember you go to community. I don't remember any food trucks and it probably wasn't back in 04, you know, and there was the boy Scouts and there was the Methodist church and the Catholic church and they were all selling different stuff and but they don't have a lot of that anymore and that's unfortunate and I think it's just got so big and they need the food trucks and they need to, you know, to bring the food trucks in. I think they need to say, hey, yeah, you can be with us the whole week, type thing, and you know too bad.
Speaker 2:I remember you and Ernie when you and Joe and myself and you and Ernie had a conference call in 2015 about the 2016 RAGBRAI. I remember you and Ernie both saying, oh, what we'd like to do is support the local churches. They'll have spaghetti dinners and things, and there have been towns, don't get me wrong. In five years we did see there were some Catholic churches and different churches that you and I went to, but a lot of times Ragbri was so large that our charter was nowhere near some of them churches. And then you can get on the shuttle bus and you went downtown because the shuttle bus was, you know, free or you know, by gratuity or whatever. And then you come into town where all the food trucks were the same trucks that were out on the road that day and so, um, but there wasn't sometimes a lot of the churches, but, um, I remember you guys clearly saying that you like to support local when you were out there. So, but yeah, it was a really cool experience.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was there from Tuesday to Friday and being on the ground and eating it. We went to a really neat bar. We never saw this on Ragbri, but the vendor I was with his brother was from the area and we went to a place called High Life and it was a really neat like bowling nostalgia. I really thought about you because it had all these old signage from Miller High Life and all these older beers and you could tell that these were not reproductions, these were original. Like this owner of this High Life had really gone to extensive lengths to get all of these old nostalgia signs and traveled Like moving circle things like with Clydesdales going around the Globe with the Clydesdale and the wagon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a classic.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then they had like big high life, like different Miller high life. This show is not sponsored by Miller high life. No Different high life, different signs throughout the years of the high life logo, a lot of bowling memorabilia. I mean, just really I mean, and the more that you sat and and cause we were talking for a long time, you know, um, but the more you looked around the restaurant there was like something new to see. Each each booth had like a theme to it. It was really cool. So if you find yourself, if you find yourself, excuse me, in Des Moines, iowa and you're looking for like a really cool restaurant, uh, high life, high life, it was a really good.
Speaker 3:So, um, well, I might be going through Des Moines in October, so maybe I'll look that up.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:But it's, it's funny that you brought up stuff like that. You saw so many things and they brought up memories of like you know, as soon as you saw the big red truck, that immediately in my mind is pulling up several memories of like getting in hot and sweaty, we're, you know, getting this, we're sitting down in you know a park or on the side of the street and eating this. I went to Casey's four days ago true story with my daughter middle of the day. It's like I'd been working in my office, it's like I just need a soda and my daughter was home and I said, hey, you want to go grab a? We call them road sodas. You want to go get a road soda? And it's like, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3:So we went to our local Casey's and we were getting our soda and as we were leaving the soda area, there's like one of those big, you know ice cream chests where they slide open and you can get ice cream bars and sandwiches and stuff. And she's like do you need an ice cream sandwich, dad? And I was like, oh, I don't think so. And I looked down and I saw a sticker and it was one of those situations where immediately this image popped in my mind and it was for Thelma's ice cream sandwiches. And as soon as I saw that sticker I was like they have like a food truck, an ice cream sandwiches.
Speaker 3:And as soon as I saw that sticker I was like they have a like a food truck, an ice cream truck, every single day on rag braai selling these ice cream sandwiches. And it was just so kind of cool because you just had that moment where it's like you know what, I haven't thought about these ice cream sandwiches in two years. Haven't really been thinking much about ragGBRAI because I'm not going. If I was planning on, it wouldn't be because of this shoulder thing. But I saw that and it was just like no way. I was like what does it say on the back? And yep, made in Des Moines, so same company. So it's just one of those situations where you're just out and about and all of a sudden something just completely takes you back to that experience takes you back to that experience and it was really cool.
Speaker 2:What's that? I have a uh, an ironic moment.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:At one of my networking dinners they brought out Thelma's ice cream sandwiches.
Speaker 3:Stop, no way. Yes, yep I had the mint chocolate chip. Now how? Weird is that. That's just getting bizarre. Now we're living in a bizarre world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I promised we were sitting outside of the hotel we were staying at, the Savory, which is an historic building from 1919. And outside, in the courtyard on Fifth Street, they had all these tables set up and a bar and it was a nice evening and there's a big Welcome to Des Moines painting, huge painting on the side of the wall. I bet you, it's like 30, 40, 50 feet. It says Des Moines. And then each letter of the word Des Moines there's, like you know, inside one is like a I don't know like a butterfly, and one's a bicycle, and but yeah, and then they had waiters and waitresses walking around and I said, oh, what is that? And they're like oh, ice cream sandwiches.
Speaker 2:I'm like ice cream, oh yeah. And then, all of a sudden, I looked at the package and it said Thelma's, and it reminded me of the silver food truck, what looked like a silver water trough or whatever. I mean ice cream sandwich. I clearly remember that. So, yeah, it was definitely a nostalgia road of bringing me to my cycling world, but I have another one. Listen to this, okay, listen to this Okay.
Speaker 2:You and I have been to a Ragbri announcement party and we stayed in that Fairfield Hotel across from what was the Wells Fargo building where the Wolves or Timberwolves or whatever played hockey. Guess what it's called now Timberwolves Stadium, the Casey's Center. No, like the convenience store, like the convenience store casey's. So our stock is is paying off is it?
Speaker 3:I hope so. Spend a bunch of money? Yeah, we'll see, but that's no, that's cool. I did not know that casey's was now in the business of of, uh, getting the naming rights.
Speaker 2:That's pretty cool but I did hear. I did hear something concerning when I was there. Okay, and that is I'm being serious I'm understanding that Casey's is now getting some competition from a convenience store. There was a whole dynamic and a whole conversation that I happened to overhear, and it was one of those things I definitely was eavesdropping listening to because, from my understanding that there is a new convenience store coming into play called QS, quick Stop, a big convenience store. There's quick trip, quick stop, and casey's and the quick stops are trying to build or get near the casey's, and so I wanted you to know that that's I.
Speaker 3:I have never heard of a quick no, there was a quick stop growing up in the small town that I grew up in. Uh, it was just like a local, regional thing. It's not the same but um, that's interesting. I'm not, because I know in Iowa come and goes are big.
Speaker 2:And did you know that the name come and go has been bought out by a company called Maverick?
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:And they're going to change all the. They are changing the come and goes to Mavericks. Now how well do you think that's going to go over in Iowa?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no, okay, it's business. I guess I'm sure they've done lots of research on this, but I had not heard about the Quickstop, so I'll have to keep an eye on them. I wonder if they're publicly traded.
Speaker 2:I don't know, because they might want to get on that quick.
Speaker 3:That's right, let's hop on that train. Um, but one thing you did send me that provoked another ride memory of you being in iowa. You sent me something to say that you were like in the vicinity or across the street from a very interesting pizza place that we've been to.
Speaker 2:Oh, fong's, fong's.
Speaker 3:Fong's Pizza. This is, I think, our second year. We went to the RAGBRAI announcement. We were just looking for restaurants and we saw Fong's Pizza. Well, number one. The name is enough to just make you want to go, because it's like what is up with this? An Asian, an Asian pizza place. Uh, so we went. Uh, you walked in. I mean you got to the outside of the building. It was in downtown. It kind of looked like a dive bar as you were walking in. When you walk in, it kind of looked like a asian restaurant you would find in, say, downtown new york city yeah it just had that feel felt very asian.
Speaker 3:they had asian decor, all this kind of stuff. Um, so you go in, you sit down, they you a menu, and then they had all these weird like pizza choices that had, like I don't know, all sorts of crazy Asian stuff on them and I remember at the time we were kind of looking at each other going, eh, but I don't remember what I ordered, but I just remembered it was really good and walking out of that I was like this place is kind of a surreal type place. The food was good, but you'd made mention of that last week about Fong's and that brought up that memory.
Speaker 2:I was like oh yeah, I remember Fong's. So where that came from is two things. First of all, we had crab ragoon pizza when we were there.
Speaker 3:Man, you got a good memory.
Speaker 2:So here's what happened. What was good you know how you go to your respective brand's app for your hotel where you're staying at.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I was staying at the Savory, which is a Bonvoy Marriott branded hotel, and inside the app it says restaurants nearby, and so it literally said Fong's Pizza. And so that's where I took the screenshot from. I'm like, bro, and I had looked at that before I flew out there and I'm like, hey, look at this, remember this memory. And you said yeah, and so I walked down there and when I got there it said Fong's had moved to its new location. And I did not go that far, but from my understanding they had moved across the river to a new location which, by the way, the river was right by my hotel. It's not that big of a deal, but just because of the other networking things, I just didn't go there.
Speaker 3:Well, that was cool. When you sent that to me I got a good laugh and hadn't thought about that in a couple of years and it was like that was probably the most interesting pizza place I've probably ever been to. But you're right, it was the Crab Rangoon pizza, which sounds maybe quite horrible but actually was very delicious.
Speaker 2:It was very good.
Speaker 3:Well, that's cool. It's just weird that we had all of like this last week here. We had all these kind of memories taking us back to to Ragbri. Now I get yours, you were right there in des moines and stuff, but the thelma thing was just like you gotta be kidding me yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 2:Um, of course, I think all the people that I was around probably got sick of me going. I've been to ragbri five times ragbri adam. Okay, yeah, yeah and actually, um, the director of Department of Transportation was a keynote speaker for one of my days of my conference and he said I'm not sure if any of you have ever been to our beautiful state, but we have RAGBRAI coming up and if you don't know what that is, and then my friend Jim looked at me and I'm like I just told you about it, guys.
Speaker 3:They're all pointing at you going. Adam knows about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you guys don't want the longest elevator ride in the world. But if you find yourself in Des Moines, I recommend a few things. I recommend the Savory Hotel, beautiful place. Had a nice speakeasy bar in the lobby. I know you would have liked that.
Speaker 3:Can't go wrong.
Speaker 2:Had a nice smoked Woodford Old Fashioned in there and that was wonderful. May have had a couple Anyways, and Ricochet was a fun place if you're looking for a place. So a lot of good times, a lot of good memories and kind of funny that you and your daughter Now we call road sodas something a little octane, so you uh we are out here in the midwest, my friend, and a road soda is simply a soda.
Speaker 3:You buy to go on the road.
Speaker 2:So I'll be curious for those of you who are regular leisure, leisure listenership what do you call road sodaOTY? Send me a message, I'm curious to see. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Again they're going to go. Michael's wrong on this one.
Speaker 2:I mean, have you ever like gotten the idea that everyone keeps telling you you're wrong?
Speaker 3:Yeah, constantly Like no, that's not right, michael, you know, and in the beginning people were polite about it Going. Oh well, no, you're kind of a little off there, a little mistaken. Nowadays it's just like you're wrong, michael.
Speaker 2:Hashtag Michael's wrong. Michael's wrong, nope, yeah, when I was in Southern Illinois we called road sodas a beer. I mean that was like you know, and then you hit the sign with the beer can.
Speaker 3:I have young kids.
Speaker 2:I wonder why I went to military school.
Speaker 3:These are things we don't need to ponder.
Speaker 2:On that note, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for Listener Spotlight.
Speaker 3:All righty, let's see what we got for this week. All righty, let's see what we got for this week. All right, this week's listener spotlight clues are as follows this town began as a mill town, so you know, like Grist Mills, wool production, things like that the first immigrants who came to this community were predominantly german and irish, and this town was originally named for a european city. Blues and jazz can trace some of its early commercial success to this town. The current town's name came into existence in 18, in the 1840s. Now, side note, have you noticed that no town, it seems like, has the name it started with I'm starting to see this as a common trim that somebody came and said we're naming this town this and then, you know, 20, 30 years later someone came through and said, no, we're changing it.
Speaker 2:That's because it opened to the public in the town square. They're like this name sucks.
Speaker 3:We're voting to change it. Right now, four of us we need to vote. Well, and back then half the population couldn't vote anyway, so there's like one guy out of those four who could vote.
Speaker 2:It's like we're naming it after me it's like I'm brother, we're out, though this guy's going to pay you to sing into a can. How many are there? There's four of us.
Speaker 3:Hey, this town sets on a historical trail and when I say trail, if you can't see me, I'm using air quotes. Take that for what you will and this town is located in a county that the united states secret service would probably want to avoid or, in the past, should have avoided.
Speaker 2:So, all kidding aside, for a little bit I thought you were skating near St Louis, but not the German. I know it's not German, 1840s maybe but I think St Louis is in St Louis County and so that doesn't jive. But just for a second, some of the clues that you were sort of navigating around made me think is this the time that he tries to pull the wool over my eyes of St Louis?
Speaker 3:You never know, but there was Germans in St Louis, wasn't there? I mean, isn't that where Anheuser-Busch is?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, it's German. Now Well.
Speaker 3:I'm sure some people coming there were German, so yeah, so it sits in a county that the US Secret Service would or should have issue with at some point in history.
Speaker 2:Well, on that beautiful note.
Speaker 3:And I will tell you, I'll even give you an easier one. It is in the United States. I didn't go offshore for this one.
Speaker 2:You mean like Rome and Bragg?
Speaker 3:We even drove past those things and it's like look at this. They've even recreated what looked like Roman aqueducts. Right as you're coming in, big sign says welcome to Rome, and on the other side are these arches that look like the Roman aqueducts. Come on.
Speaker 2:And we did actually, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did, and then we'd go to town wheregg had its base camp, and then we would go back to our hotel and then we'd see, there's the octagon.
Speaker 3:Hey look, Clark.
Speaker 2:Hey, look kids.
Speaker 3:Parliament.
Speaker 2:Big Ben, I got to give you credit. I mean, normally you know we're GPS bound, but after a while I go, I think you turn. You're like no, no, I go up here. So you were learning your room.
Speaker 3:So you know, roam, if you want to.
Speaker 2:According to Melanie, that's the B-52s, yes, or? If she mistypes it, then I misread it like a dummy. But my fault, melanie, my fault. But appreciate your continued support. Well, with that being said, this week is a holiday. If you're listening to this, you've probably already experienced July 4th. I hope that you have all of your fingers and vision and everything else that you had it before. Hopefully, you celebrated this great country with your families and you're safe, and if you want to hear something, if you want us to talk about something, please let us know. This is my chance to now thank Joe, grammar, dennis Scott and Alex. We really appreciate your continued support. If you want to hear your name on this show, just please become a monthly subscriber. That's right.
Speaker 3:So with that being said, you are traveling right.
Speaker 2:Somebody else we need to thank isn't there. Oh, yes, thank you so much. You're welcome. Oh my gosh, where is Stephen Witts? Stephen once again knocked again. I apologize, stephen. This is the problem when you don't follow your notes. I was following mine, stephen. Thank you, michael. I really appreciate you reminding me. Stephen not only gave us a beautiful, large donation, thank you, thank you. He says hi guys, love what you do. It seems fitting that the last episode started in Rome. Okay, georgia should end in Rome. I remember the story of the 300,000 cats in Rome. I remember the story of the 300,000 cats in Rome. Not only were the cats good rat catchers, but the Romans may have given cats deity status with their hodgepodge of stolen religions. The Vatican, trevi Fountain, architecture and togas were all excellent clues. Keep up the excellent work.
Speaker 3:So I I owe steven an apology so we actually had somebody who guessed it. You know what? Look at that. And you thought my clues were horrible. Steven got it. Why didn't anybody else?
Speaker 2:steven, I apologize, but he definitely got it. And on top of that, not only did he guess correctly, he put some money in our pocket and we always, we always appreciate that.
Speaker 3:So, uh, yeah, and to get back to what you were saying uh, when this comes out, I will be traveling, I will, indeed and um, going to oklahoma for a couple days, coming back, and then I am going to the great state of kentucky. My wife thought it was fitting for my birthday, which is coming up next week, to take me to bourbon country, and I said, well, yes, you should, but it's also my daughter's birthday the day after mine, so she gonna get some buffalo trays too, uh you know that little girl knows more about whiskeys and bourbons than I do.
Speaker 3:Probably, um, it'll serve her well in college, but, um, no, on her birthday I believe we are setting up. One thing that she wanted was a formal high tea nice. So we were going to have a formal high tea, uh, there somewhere around lexington or somewhere in the in the general area. So, um, we are going to have formal high tea there, somewhere around Lexington or somewhere in the general area. So we're going to have a little bourbon, going to have a little tea, and who knows what else we're going to find along the way. So it'll be a good time, don't?
Speaker 2:forget your app to figure out what Buffalo Trace or the probability of Buffalo Trace is selling that day.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's got to be strategically uh, strategically thought out.
Speaker 2:so hey hon, I'm thinking that we need to go buy buffalo trace today you know what?
Speaker 3:I get no arguments from her because you know what I think. Two weeks ago I sent you a picture of what I was drinking. We had some family in town. I thought you know what? They hadn't tried it. So we broke open a bottle of blantons so they could try it. And you know what? My wife is a huge fan. So no argument from her whatsoever, and she's really started getting into old-fashioned. So, uh, you know, life is getting good for me.
Speaker 2:Here's my hint, if you both go together, get in line separately and pretend you don't know each other.
Speaker 3:We could do that we could do that Max Cohen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's three, but he won't be of age.
Speaker 3:Oh man, he'll miss it by like two months, because what you can get, what One bottle?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then it's per person and then every three months. But you'll be back, I will be, you'll be back.
Speaker 3:I will be, and then I can pick up what I didn't pick up a couple of months before.
Speaker 2:Go to the ladies in the gift shop. Can you hold this behind the counter for me? I'll be back.
Speaker 3:I'll be back, no, but we're going to. We're going to try to hit some places that I haven't hit up in, like Louisville, nice, that kind of thing, and we're going to throw some places that I haven't hit nice up in, uh, like Louisville, that kind of thing, um, and we're going to throw some cultural things in there We've thought about. Maybe they got a nice, you know, uh, you know set in a lazy river type thing. You know you set an inner tube all day on the river, that kind of thing. So nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it should be fun. I'll send you pictures.
Speaker 2:Well, that'd be great, and I knew it was your birthday, so I figured that you were. You were about to turn 29.
Speaker 3:So I know, life is flying by Wow. Done so much in 28 and almost 29 years.
Speaker 2:Hopefully that surgeon says you can have something a little more octane milk.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm going to. I mean, the point is really, the first week I took painkiller here and there. Um, now I haven't been taking any. So I could technically start going. But I'm not going to cause, I'm going to give my body every chance it can get until Kentucky and then at that point chance it can get until Kentucky and then at that point.
Speaker 2:Well, no holds barred, like the first day in college, woo-hoo.
Speaker 3:We're having a party.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, we will update everybody with your medical condition and our plans by the time the next show comes out. We'll tell you our plans, because we don't know yet to be honest.
Speaker 3:What are the Cycling Men of Leisure going to do next? We don't know, so it'll be fun for everybody.
Speaker 2:But once we figure it out, maybe you'll know, at the same time we do. You never know. With that being said, I'm sure somewhere, somehow, somebody had a great day for a bike ride.
Speaker 3:It wasn't me, but it definitely was for somebody.
Speaker 2:Watch out for those poses.
Speaker 1:Thank you for coming along with Adam and Michael on Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure. If you have enjoyed this, please subscribe to the show on the podcast app of your choice.
