The OuterBelt's Podcast
The OuterBelt's Podcast
The Road Warriors Return
After a summer-long hiatus, the Outer Belt crew reunites with stories that span continents, festivals, and enough butter to make your cardiologist nervous. Patrick, Chili, Eric, Zucchini Bread, and Jerry haven't missed a beat as they dive into tales from their months apart.
The European adventures take center stage as we hear about the whirlwind 36-hour Dublin experience before the group found themselves unexpectedly celebrating Bastille Day in Paris. Picture this: fireworks cascading from the Eiffel Tower, military aircraft trailing the colors of the French flag, and locals who know how to celebrate properly—setting up picnics with wine and charcuterie hours before the main event. Paris wasn't just a tourist trap but a genuine cultural experience that shattered stereotypes about unfriendly French people and delivered culinary delights even at corner cafés.
London brought its own flavor with a rum festival featuring global distillers, including coveted Cuban varieties unavailable stateside. The group's adventures through themed "Mr. Fogg's" pubs culminated in a converted underground tube station that once served as a WWII bomb shelter, complete with 1940s-style entertainment and period decorations. Back in America, the Irish Festival in Columbus offered a Celtic experience with bagpipe-infused rock music, questionable "Irish tacos," and a portable pub that could be the perfect addition to your next backyard gathering.
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Speaker 2:Well, that was clever. Well, the music.
Speaker 1:Let's start the music at the right time.
Speaker 4:Hey everybody, welcome to the Outer Belt. I am Patrick and you know my friends Chili.
Speaker 5:Buttermilk Eric.
Speaker 2:Zucchini bread.
Speaker 6:And Jerry.
Speaker 4:Welcome back to Season 4, Episode 1 of the Outer Belt Otterbelt. We are here to engage you and to entertain you and to inform you and to fade out the music.
Speaker 1:That's what we're here to do, and we did it Alright success.
Speaker 4:Yay.
Speaker 1:That's a wrap.
Speaker 4:It's officially off, hold on. How do I do this again? So hold on, how do I do this again? I don't remember anything about this place.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's been a minute.
Speaker 4:It's been so long.
Speaker 1:Why has it been a minute? What are you up to?
Speaker 4:I have done so much. What have I done? When were we here last April? No, june, april June, I think.
Speaker 2:June, april, june, june, april, june, I think June, april, june.
Speaker 4:Mid-June, mid-june, yeah, oh well, I've done much at all? No, not much at all.
Speaker 1:What have you done? A little bit of this, a little bit of that, but not a whole lot of anything.
Speaker 4:Yes, your performance review will reflect that, I know it will. I got to work on that.
Speaker 1:I got to bump that up. How much time do I have before that comes out?
Speaker 5:Tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Turn my game All right? Well, I guess this is the last episode of the Outer Belt I'll be on because I'll be terminated tomorrow.
Speaker 4:Not terminated. Oh, you will still exist.
Speaker 1:Corrected, I'll be put on the.
Speaker 3:PIP, that'll be your first warning it won't be, really won't be, no.
Speaker 4:That's funny.
Speaker 1:Oh, she doesn't know you at all, she doesn't, she doesn't.
Speaker 4:No, I had a great summer break, went and did a lot of stuff, went to Europe I was going to say Italy, but that's not right at all, is it? It's not.
Speaker 1:Not unless I slept through the whole thing.
Speaker 4:Went to Europe. Brought some friends had some fun. Europe Brought some friends had some fun and I remember some of it Got to celebrate Bastille Day.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:In Paris. That was pretty cool. How did you know?
Speaker 1:I heard about it, saw pictures.
Speaker 4:Yes, it was almost like you were there.
Speaker 1:It was almost like I was there. I've never seen pictures that look so real before.
Speaker 5:Well.
Speaker 1:Like you could reach out and touch a French person. Oui, reach out on a table and grab a baguette with butter, and I actually could taste it.
Speaker 6:Yes, I've never had that experience before.
Speaker 4:Well, I actually was able to taste it. You should have seen the produce.
Speaker 1:The produce was pretty darn amazing.
Speaker 4:From the photos. From the photos, yes.
Speaker 1:I mean, the cherries were huge, huge, they were not cheap.
Speaker 4:They were huge.
Speaker 1:But they were like apples, they were, they really were big they were pretty In the pictures In the pictures.
Speaker 4:So I know half of us went to Europe for a brisk two week.
Speaker 3:A holiday.
Speaker 4:A holiday. We did not see Madonna we did not.
Speaker 3:She was there, though.
Speaker 4:She was. I know she was in Europe. She was on the streets. She was. I know she was in Europe. She was on the streets In Europe, and Europe is such a small place that you thought we'd run into her. Yeah, you thought we'd run into her somewhere, it's funny that she didn't say where in Europe she would be, it's like where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Speaker 4:Where in the world is Madonna? But no proof this time of ever. But no. So we flew out there, did two days, three days, two days, three days, two nights, I think is what it was in Dublin Ireland. It was like 36 hours. It was like 36 hours. So what is that? A day and a half.
Speaker 1:There were two nights.
Speaker 4:A day and a half. There were two nights and three days.
Speaker 1:It was 36 hours that we were actually on the ground.
Speaker 4:Yes, it was pretty fast-paced.
Speaker 1:It was a lot of fun. It was.
Speaker 4:As you all know, obviously I'm a little bit Irish, and so it's always great to go back and be with my people.
Speaker 1:You live with Irish, live with rock and roll.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, I don't know, maybe I use Irish Spring, does that?
Speaker 2:help. Does that make you more Irish?
Speaker 4:I think so Okay. So we left there, flew to Paris as you may have gathered by the Bastille Day thing. Did not know we were there for Bastille Day until we were physically there. Actually it was the flight over.
Speaker 4:I was reading through the in-flight magazine and they were like European celebration's happening or whatever, and it was like Bastille Day and I was like huh, and I looked at the data and I'm like that's in two days. And so I thumbed through and I'm like that's in two days, and so I thumbed through and I'm like, oh my gosh, we're actually going to be here for that is their liberation from. Louis XIV? Yeah, I think so, and it's quite the spectacle.
Speaker 3:It was a lot of pomp and circumstance. A lot of pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 4:It was pretty cool Fireworks flying off the Eiffel Tower. They had fireworks flying off the land, which, by the way, just a tip If you're going to do fireworks, don't do them next to the Eiffel Tower, because fireworks don't go that high, so the fireworks looked a little unimpressive next to the monumental 1,000-foot iron structure.
Speaker 3:Vince and I were up and at breakfast for their air flyover before their parade.
Speaker 4:Oh, yes, that was really cool.
Speaker 3:They had some really big ones and then they had smaller jets that were releasing blue and red. You know their flag colors and that was really neat. Louis XVI.
Speaker 4:Louis XVI. I was up early enough to watch the recap on Facebook.
Speaker 1:That's like when you get up on New Year's Day and you catch the replay of the Rose Parade.
Speaker 4:Or, you know, Thanksgiving. I used to always get up as a kid and we'd watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade right In New York City. And now it's like all right, show me the five best floats.
Speaker 4:And if there's a performance that's like incredible, I'll see that. Outside of that, I'm not getting up on Thanksgiving. On my day off to 6 am a parade, and it was worse because the further west you go, like you know, for us we're an hour behind New York City time, but for you Vince like growing up in California, Six in the morning, never saw it.
Speaker 1:Never saw it, never saw it.
Speaker 4:Did you ever check Facebook the next morning?
Speaker 1:No, I didn't. I was then and still am not a big fan of Facebook, so I didn't. I was then and still am not a big fan of Facebook, so I didn't bother.
Speaker 4:I could see that. I could certainly see that Now we did that. I hung out in Paris for several days and it was really absolutely just gorgeous. I love Paris. It's one of the few places that we've been that I did not think I would like, and then now we've been there a couple times, it's like it's everything you think it would be. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's. I always thought tourist trap it's going to be, they're going to be stuck up. As an American, it's going to be difficult because that's what we're taught Like. Oh, french hate Americans. And you get there and the people in general are nice and the city's clean and the food is stellar. Yes, the food was great. I mean just absolutely great. Yes, and I don't even mean like necessarily the high end restaurants, I mean like the city cafe that's on the corner, yeah, great better excellent oh, the butter butter makes everything better, oh yeah, you get butter and it's got the salt crystals on top.
Speaker 4:It's already salted butter but then they salt the salted butter Extra salt. Yeah, yeah. So we did that, then went to London, which is actually the whole reason we went there, and we went to a show.
Speaker 1:We did go to a show.
Speaker 4:There is a rum show that happens in London and we talked about going to it for several years now, and when the tickets popped up for sale and they were still available it's one of those things where the show pops up and it sells out immediately and we were able to score tickets we were like, let's make it happen. So we made a whole thing of it and that was very cool. I don't know or didn't at the time know a lot about rum. I'm definitely a bourbon person, if y'all haven't figured that out and it was a fascinating show just learning about how different islands in the Caribbean or in mainland England or Great Britain should say or France, or South Africa, or like there's so many places.
Speaker 4:Australia that make rum and then they all do it so differently, so differently, Just kind of experiencing that. It was really really cool just getting to see all these different people and these people they're obsessed oh yeah, yeah, passion, it's a very nice word.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And so it was a good time. Good hang Did a couple days of that, and I love that. They gave you all the bottled water you wanted.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And they had recycling and everything they did the cardboard box water too. So if you're you know a lot of people don't like plastic bottles because it's not nearly as recyclable as we're kind of told it is. But the cardboard bottles are completely recyclable and it was really cool to see them be responsible like that.
Speaker 3:I guess you could say yeah, crackers.
Speaker 4:Crackers. Obviously, if you're sampling rums, you need a little carbs, a little palate cleanser. Yep and carbs and carbs and carbs.
Speaker 4:So it was nice that they were and they were responsible. No one really got crazy Because I was nervous. Anytime I go to a show, we went to Bourbon Fest. We talked about that before on the podcast. You always are concerned about all right, you're sampling a bunch of different liquors that can certainly get out of control, but this place was very. Everybody there was proper and no one got drunk, no one got whatever. It was very fun and everybody was on their best behavior.
Speaker 3:I don't know how to put that. I think the people that went were passionate about rum as well. Not just the people putting it on and bringing their product, but the attendees, yes, such as ourselves.
Speaker 4:We show up and we're all like in T-shirts and shorts, kind of like what I'm wearing right now. And so, if you're listening to this, I'm wearing a T-shirt and shorts, but there's people there like with their flowery tropical shirts on their Hawaiian shirts and everything. I'm like I didn't think about that, duh, why didn't? We bring our flowery shirts or whatever.
Speaker 1:No, it was a great time it was a good time Educational Got to try some stuff that we can't get here. I really enjoyed myself.
Speaker 4:I really did. If you don't know, cuba is a huge producer of rum. They produce some of the best in the world and obviously, being American, we can't get it here. So they had a few Cuban rum producers that were there, yeah, and being able to try their products, it's like it was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:Pretty awesome.
Speaker 4:So, but yeah, outside of that just been a few more days in london went back to our uh favorite pie place yes, uh it's a. It's a pub outside of um harrods. You know harrods, the big giant department store. Um it's a. There's a place there that sells these pies that are just kind of like a shepherd's pie. Yes, but the gravy.
Speaker 3:It's good.
Speaker 4:Really good.
Speaker 3:It's so good, it is very good. I think the crust on them is good too, In the gravy of course.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and the meat's extremely flavorful. They don't give you enough meat. I think that's their only negative. If you're like I, want six or eight ounces of meat in my pie, you'll be disappointed.
Speaker 4:Because, it's like three ounces of meat, so it's not much, but it's just so tasty and it's a cool spot. It's a cool hang. It's so different than an American establishment. You know, you've got these. It's a British pub, proper British pub. So there's no parking anywhere at all near it, it's only walk-up access. And then when they get busy which they weren't this time they were really slow because we were there at a weird time. But when they are really busy, you see people just outside of the pub just standing next to like the pubs all have like small tables outside along the wall.
Speaker 3:Like a bar shelf. Like a bar shelf.
Speaker 4:Or a ledge or something.
Speaker 1:Or a ledge yeah, exactly Not in this table, a ledge or a bar shelf, and people hang out outside and have a pint.
Speaker 3:Or just stand on the sidewalk next to the building. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4:And their laws on smoking are a lot looser than ours. So, next to the building, yes, and their laws on smoking are a lot looser than ours. So, although they're not smoking in the pub, they can just step right outside the door. And I mean like right outside the door, like you know how in America we have the 30, 50, 80 feet away from the door, for you to smoke. They don't have that. No, they're like be mostly out of the threshold of the door.
Speaker 2:As long as you're poofing outside, you're fine Sure.
Speaker 4:Exactly, it's cold outside. You can actually just open the door, just blow your smoke out and then close the door and you're fine. It's very different rules, but the food's fantastic. So, yeah, that was fun. I can't think of anything else crazy that happened on that trip.
Speaker 3:We went back to the Cuban restaurant twice.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, we discovered a Cuban restaurant, cuba's the theme Cuban restaurant over there. I would say, like Miami Cuban yes.
Speaker 1:Would you agree? Yeah, I agree, yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't think it was like. So those of y'all know, eric and I we actually went to Havana, 2016, 17, somewhere around there, and got to really hang out, explore and eat their food and enjoy their culture. Back, when it was still legal, we weren't there. We didn't do the like jump to Mexico and then illegally jump in the country. We were there legally for a couple days, but we did get to try their food and their cuisine. It's very different than the Cuban restaurants Like they don't have a Cuban sandwich at all.
Speaker 1:It just doesn't exist.
Speaker 4:But this place had a Cuban sandwich that was unbelievably delicious.
Speaker 3:Their bread was good.
Speaker 4:Yes, so soft.
Speaker 3:But I think that's because the bakery next door was probably making it for them. It was really good Whatever you got to do, yeah.
Speaker 4:It was good. Yeah, gotta do. Yeah, it was good. Uh, yeah, I got the the um, I got a slow roasted pork, uh dish, and it came with rice and beans and I ended up mixing all of it together and making this like black bean and rice, not stew, because it wasn't wet, but it, oh, it was fire it was so good, it was really good. And then they had the plantains.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So if you are going to London anytime soon and you're like I need to hit these places up, drop us an email. We'll be happy to share our favorite restaurant picks in the city. You want the best beef Wellington you ever had. We know where that's at too, we do. We are certainly out there to hook you up and help you out, but no, it was a really great trip. It was very fast. I mean, I know we said two weeks, but all that in two weeks it was go, go, go, go go it was not super relaxing.
Speaker 4:There were moments where it was kind of relaxing, but there was one moment where we literally speed, walked two miles.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a long way. We didn't plan for Bastille Day to have roads closed down.
Speaker 5:Yeah, our entire bridges.
Speaker 3:So yeah, the bridge was closed down and had we walked across the bridge it would have been ten minutes, but you had to walk down one side of the river to the bridge that was opened, across the bridge and then back up the other side of the river to get where we were going.
Speaker 4:And on Cobble Street Road, which is lumpy and it was to a theater show, and so we're all dressed up. Yeah, we're in the fancy shoes that have zero insoles.
Speaker 1:They weren't walking shoes, that's for sure.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, and there was a moment there where it was like how badly do we want to see this show that was fun and you said that normally when the show starts they close the doors.
Speaker 1:You don't you?
Speaker 6:don't get in.
Speaker 1:I think they understood because we were a little bit late and there were others that came after us, yes, that were still allowed to come in. I think they understood that, with that bridge being closed, and all the roads being closed and people were choosing their spot to watch fireworks early in the afternoon. Fireworks weren't until 11 pm. They were choosing their firework spots early in the afternoon. So not only were we just out there power walking to get there, we were power walking through crowds of people making our way to the theaters.
Speaker 4:And I do love the French for this reason of like they are claiming their spots. So in America you claim your spot and you just kind of like sit there mad until the time comes. Not the French, no no, they had a picnic basket. They had six. No no, they had a picnic basket. They had six bottles of wine, they had charcuterie. They were having a blast.
Speaker 1:They had a great day.
Speaker 4:And the scene. I mean you're on the Seine River, which is gorgeous. It's a beautiful river. It runs right through the heart of Paris, so you're kind of constantly going back and forth across it, no matter what you do.
Speaker 4:Yes, constantly going back and forth across it, no matter what you do. Yes, and so they're just on the riverbanks, just like. This is where we're parking ourselves. Can I have a little more baguette or a little more prosciutto? Perhaps they're just living it up? It was very cool to see how they do it versus us, Like when we do the 4th of July deal. It's all right, let's go fight the crowd and try to get on top of the parking garage to watch the fireworks. You know, it's just such a different experience.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was different.
Speaker 4:But I tell you, our saving grace really truly was Eric, and thank you so much, eric, for Hauling tush To yeah, for getting us over there. He actually ran ahead and literally ran ahead and went to the theater and was like they hadn't quite closed the door. He got there right before they closed and he was like I got three more people coming. Can you please hang?
Speaker 2:tight for us and so they're like, yeah.
Speaker 4:So we got there and we told them we were actually with. They knew exactly who we were with and went right to their table. It was so dark in that theater though, oh very dark. I smacked.
Speaker 1:Very dark.
Speaker 4:I ran into someone so hard I didn't see them at all and just my right side of my body, just body checked someone and I felt so bad I'm like I just slammed into their skull.
Speaker 2:It's koozies.
Speaker 5:It's koozies I'm sorry, so it was a one-mile hustle.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, 1.04.
Speaker 4:So we're sitting there Now. Thank God, the theater's cold, which most theaters are.
Speaker 5:Thank God, because I'm just sitting there just sweats just pouring off me. It still took me 15 minutes to cool off, I know.
Speaker 4:And it ended up being a fantastic show. It was so fun and well done.
Speaker 5:Unexpected for me, for me too, and well done.
Speaker 1:Unexpected for me. For me too, yeah, I was really surprised with the show.
Speaker 5:You didn't know, didn't know. People are allowed to watch that.
Speaker 4:I had ideas what we were going to see, and it was beyond. It's like when you go to a Cirque du Soleil show for the first time.
Speaker 5:If you've never been to.
Speaker 4:Cirque du Soleil. Maybe you've seen them on TV or you've seen the news and you see a little bit of it and you're like, oh, that's interesting, but I mean you know whatever. And then when you're actually in a Cirque du Soleil show performing no, when you're in a Cirque du Soleil show and you're watching it, it's like how are they actually doing that in front of me? Like it's unbelievable. That's kind of what this thing was like. So no, it was a great time it was.
Speaker 3:It was good Melissa.
Speaker 4:what was your favorite part of the trip?
Speaker 3:I definitely think this show was great. That was a highlight.
Speaker 4:Oh, you got a coffee mug from there too, didn't you? I did?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll do all three. So Dublin, it would have been. The view from the top of the Guinness tour that we took. The view up there was gorgeous. And then Paris was the food, and then Bastille Day, and to be there celebrating with the people of France, the vibe was pretty cool to be a part of, and the show, of course. And then, uh, london, london, I think it was. Uh, mr foggs oh, I forgot all about mr foggs.
Speaker 3:We ended up going to, and the rum festival too. I mean, that's, that's you know, but uh, mr fogg is kind of a chain tavern bar thing, but each tavern is unique and it's very eclectic Lots of knickknacks and they have a theme and it's kind of like a speakeasy. They were a lot of fun and they had what like 10 of them.
Speaker 4:One of them was legit a speakeasy. It was. You walk into a post office and they're like are you here for a? That wasn't a, mr Foggs, though, was it? Oh, it was not.
Speaker 1:You're right. The first one we went to, though, where you had to follow the ball.
Speaker 4:Explain that, because that was really cool.
Speaker 3:So that was the telephone. So we rolled in and they had stairs immediately that went downstairs. And a hostess was standing and a hostess was standing and she's like do you have reservations? We're like no, and she's like well, let me call and see if they have availability. So she calls and she's like just one second and she hung up and all of a sudden there's a telephone, old-style telephone, on the wall, behind all of us and it's ringing.
Speaker 4:Like think Mary Poppins old school, yes you know, with the one you have to hold your ear and you speak in the other one.
Speaker 3:So, anyways, it starts ringing, lighting up, and I turned and looked at the guys and I'm like I think you're supposed to answer that, and she kind of gave us the nod like yeah, you are. So then Patrick. A nod like yeah, you are. So then. Um, patrick answered it and then, not just in his ear, to where he could hear, but over, like the intercom, the voice came and said what instructions to do follow this ball. It was like a croquet ball on a track and it went down the stairs. Uh, anyways, the whole theme to it. We go downstairs. The ball was at the bottom there. There were people there to greet us. There's a whole theme with all of them, and they were all different.
Speaker 4:It was pretty cool.
Speaker 3:We didn't get to all of them. I think that would be a fun checklist to possibly check off one day.
Speaker 5:My favorite was the mail room.
Speaker 3:The mail room was very cool.
Speaker 5:It was like a Mr Fogg's, but different you order certain drinks on the menu and they put them inside of a little mail tube, kind of like at the bank.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:You stick your cash or whatever in it, get sucked up the tube while you order the drink, and then they have tubes going all over the room and then, whenever yours is ready, you get to see it push through the tubes to a dropping point where you had to go pick it up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was very cool.
Speaker 5:And then they should tell you like you had to guess what number it was.
Speaker 4:You had to guess what station to go to. That was a lot of fun. It was pretty cool. The one that I really liked the most was the one that actually Eric and I did ourselves. So we went to one that was a old underground tube station, so it used to be a subway station and it actually was a bomb shelter or bomb raid station or whatever, so you could go down there and be safe Protection area.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so when the Germans were flying over and you had to go somewhere, this was one of the stations they all went to the tube. This was one of the stations you would go to. Now it's too small, so they went ahead and made it shut it down several years ago as they were modernizing the tube.
Speaker 3:When.
Speaker 4:I say several, I mean in the 50s. So the company bought it and they converted it into a um, a tavern and pub. And you walk down there. It's got the old subway tile, it's got all the london underground stuff, the big signs, the it's all period related to. So it's like um for the war effort. Don't waste time on lipstick in high hills. You can't run in high hills if you need to seek shelter. I mean things like that.
Speaker 3:That's the way they used to advertise it is.
Speaker 4:It's the old-timey, like you need to be safe. So here's how we do it to be safe. So it was really cool to see all that. And they had a lady in there that was playing piano and singing and what she would do is she was taking all modern songs or in old songs and then changing them into like ragtime or whatever that old 1940s, 30s, 40s and playing it, and it was just she had the hair, the makeup. She played the part, completely Absolutely.
Speaker 5:She was Almost wanted to get a picture with her, but that would have been weird, I know right.
Speaker 4:She'd have done it for some cash, but it was a really great experience. And if you saw, on Facebook, I think I posted a picture of me drinking something out of Queen Elizabeth's head. That's where that was taken at. But to bring the cup over here, I ordered the Elizabeth. It's Queen Elizabeth's bust, but it's a cup and you drink your drink out of it. It was so weird, but it was delicious. So the menu was an old newspaper from the 1940s.
Speaker 2:Oh fun.
Speaker 4:I love they just really themed it up perfect.
Speaker 3:It's in good detail from the 1940s.
Speaker 4:You know, it's just I love they just really themed it up. Perfect. There's a whole section that was actually a subway car and you could go in the subway car and have your food in there or your drinks in there and stuff. So I mean it's oh my gosh. And let's not forget the peppers.
Speaker 3:Oh, those were good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, those were good oh they were like Melissa you're not going to tell me on this. They were like marinated. I don't know what kind of red pepper that's called.
Speaker 3:They're like a cherry bomb pepper. I know there's a special name for them, but they're like the red peppercini round peppers.
Speaker 4:About an inch and a half diameter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're not super spicy. They come in red, and I've seen green before. You could probably get them in a jar at the grocery store. They're marinated and then these were stuffed with like a whipped feta.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 3:So they were kind of a tangy oily marinade with that feta in the middle and all the Fogs served them. Mr Fogs, they all had them on their menu.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it was olive oil with whatever spices or whatever they wanted to use.
Speaker 3:So it was pickled, the pepper was pickled, and then they stuff it with the feta, and then they all go in big jars covered in an oil of some sort.
Speaker 4:And they never served it the same way.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 4:Each place we went served it in a different shape, different type of glass, different presentation. You may get a plate of them, you may get a bowl of them, you may get a hollowed out Coca-Cola can. They were always different, no matter how you ordered them, and the quantity varied too. So sometimes you would get four, which worked out great because that's one a person. Sometimes you'd get 12. And it's like all right, but they were all the exact same price, so it was very confusing.
Speaker 3:It was but they were good.
Speaker 4:I look forward to when we do go back at some point in a few years. They had a gin bar, which I hate. Gin I'm not a gin fan at all, but I have had a few gin cocktails that are really, really good and I have a feeling they are the kind of people that would do one well. Yeah, so they have a gin bar. They had a botanical garden bar that we discovered it and then it was closed like the next two days.
Speaker 4:So we weren't able to go to it, unfortunately. So I'd love to go there. I think Eric would probably really enjoy that one as well. Those are the two that stand out in my head of like I can't wait to go to. Yeah, but.
Speaker 3:It was a great summer. It was a great summer.
Speaker 4:And it was nice to get away from the heat for a little bit. For sure, I did think it was funny in Paris when they were talking about how hot it was.
Speaker 2:I thought it was hot For them. It was hot, it was hot but it wasn't what we just had in Columbus.
Speaker 4:Columbus had a heat wave this summer. That was brutal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Paris was going to be like 85 degrees one day.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and we're like well, the heat index in Columbus was 160 the other day.
Speaker 1:Sweet Thanks for the cool weather, Paris.
Speaker 4:No, it was a great time. I enjoyed it a lot. I look forward to the opportunity to go back at some point.
Speaker 3:What did you two do Not together? But zucchini bread, Did you?
Speaker 1:do something, maybe we did do something together.
Speaker 2:Well, let's hear it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right Story time.
Speaker 2:Jerry's like was.
Speaker 3:I present Jerry's like was I present Jerry's.
Speaker 4:Like I thought we agreed not to talk about that.
Speaker 2:Annie and I just hung out. You know, enjoyed work and that's about it.
Speaker 5:House parties.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 5:No.
Speaker 2:Annie may have had a few people over. You'd have to talk to her about that.
Speaker 4:Well, we noticed the ring. The ring camera system was turned off. So if you would like to explain, I know you're finishing summer.
Speaker 3:With a camping trip. Yes, I'm going to be going camping next weekend.
Speaker 2:Labor.
Speaker 5:Day weekend. Oh, where are you going? Jackson Lake With a camping trip yes, You're pretty excited about that.
Speaker 3:I'm going camping next weekend. What?
Speaker 2:Weekend after no, next weekend. Labor Day weekend Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 3:Oh, where are you going Yep Jackson Lake? It's in Wyoming South.
Speaker 4:I was just about to say is that Wyoming yeah?
Speaker 3:I don't know where it's at.
Speaker 4:Where is it?
Speaker 2:No it's south of.
Speaker 4:South of here about an hour and a half. Yeah, okay, and your friends are just by yourself.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'm going with some friends.
Speaker 4:Cool Tent camping.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:Are you bringing a?
Speaker 2:cot no, Okay, she has. Like the mattresses, like air mattress yeah. Yeah, and sleeping bags.
Speaker 4:We used Dad and I as a kid. We went camping a lot. It was an affordable way to see the country you know, and a tent especially like it's dirt cheap.
Speaker 4:So we would do primitive camping. We would occasionally bougie it up with a spot that had, you know, like electricity and water, but usually we wouldn't. We'd get the $14 a night, $9 a night, basic, basic, and those were always my favorite. I loved the primitive stuff. Now, that being said, I do need to disclose. We had a cabin tent and we had a two-room cabin tent and we had figured out a way to put a tarp over the tent in such a way that we actually built a porch for it and it was kind of chalet style with a steep-pitched roof and that was our place to sit. If it rained, we would always build a huge campfire, which y'all know me, me and fire. That checks out special relationship, yes, but uh, we, we brought cots with, uh, big thick mattresses and stuff on it, like we just there was, like we had a primitive camping spot in the sense that we didn't have running water or electricity right, that's where everything else was a glamp everything else was a glamp.
Speaker 4:We didn't have air conditioning, uh, but we always, like, stayed in a place where it was climate controlled, so at night it was cool, during the day it'd be hot, but you, you don't. When you're out there doing stuff, you don't really care. Right, like if you're hiking it's gonna be hot. So, um, no, that was always. I love primitive camping. I loved tent camping. With that. Now I had friends of mine that were like, oh no, we bring a sleeping bag and that's it.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, hmm, yeah, I don't know why anyone would go that primitive, but we will have a fire pit, not a grill, so I'm kind of excited about that.
Speaker 4:Going to bring some hot dogs on a stick.
Speaker 2:Hot dogs?
Speaker 4:S'mores Probably, I really want to do the bananas and chocolate marshmallows.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, what Bananas.
Speaker 4:Well, yes, I know what that is. Do you grill them over the fire? Stop it, jerry. Have you heard of such? No, sounds good. It sounds really good, doesn't it? You kind of caramelize the outside of the banana a little bit.
Speaker 3:Do you sprinkle your banana with sugar before you put?
Speaker 2:it over.
Speaker 4:Like a banana brulee.
Speaker 2:I mean it's probably quick at that fancy. Do you come out there?
Speaker 4:with a torch, so you're just like a creme brulee torch.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, the fire didn't do a good enough job. Just in the aluminum foil you do your banana and chocolates marshmallows. Close it up, Set it on the fire.
Speaker 4:Let marshmallows Close it up, set it on the fire and let it melt a little bit.
Speaker 2:So it almost makes a pudding, probably. It's been a while, since I've done it, I haven't been camping for a little bit. I'm going to have to Google it to make sure, because I'm sure there's something else in there.
Speaker 3:I just remember they were really good. You could probably crumble up a cookie to get a little crunch in it. Can you imagine like an Oreo Graham Crumble up cookie to get a little crunch in it? Can you imagine like an Oreo Graham cracker.
Speaker 5:I was thinking Oreo.
Speaker 4:Because Oreos and bananas works.
Speaker 5:It does.
Speaker 2:It does work, oh that sounds really good. I haven't gone shopping yet. Damn it, darn it. What is with the profanity?
Speaker 4:Or get some red velvet cake, let it dry out a little bit and then crumble it over the oh hey, now Can you tell we haven't had dinner.
Speaker 2:I'll have to make some of that before we go then.
Speaker 4:So that was part of our bougie-ness. We traveled with a propane grill and a propane stove, and so if we were making anything, I'd never cook over a fire like that. I wish we would have. We never did.
Speaker 2:We'll see how it goes. Like I said, it's been a while since I've been camping.
Speaker 3:I'm excited for you.
Speaker 2:I feel like you'll do good, jerry, what did you and?
Speaker 3:Don do I went on vacation to? Yeah, I feel like you'll do good, jerry, what did you and Don do I want pictures?
Speaker 6:I went on vacation to see my mom, as well as spend time with my best friend, fun, and for his birthday, and Don went on his own little mini vacation to his family. So separate vacations, that's the way to go.
Speaker 3:Which directions did you all go?
Speaker 6:I went south and he went north.
Speaker 3:Did you have fun? Oh, it was great Good it was awesome.
Speaker 6:Talking about heat wave. We were in Savannah, georgia and the actual temperature was like 107, 106. Was this July or August July?
Speaker 4:Mid-July, but you did the ghost tour in Savannah, right, yeah, we did.
Speaker 6:It was fun, got to see a lot of landmarks.
Speaker 4:Where did y'all stay? At a hotel or Airbnb? It was an Airbnb.
Speaker 6:So one of our friends that went with us her brother owns the place, so he gave us a really, really good deal for four days.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 6:Yeah, so we stayed there. It was like a two-bedroom, two-bath Airbnb Nice. I didn't know that it was right above a bar.
Speaker 4:Oh man.
Speaker 5:Oh.
Speaker 6:Yeah, so I get there and everything's quiet. But about I guess it was like 6, 7 o'clock, music starts and you hear thump, thump, thump, thump, yep, seven o'clock music starts and you hear don't, don't, don't, don't. It goes to like 3 am and but we were all partying anyway.
Speaker 4:so this is fine, I I obviously I love a good bar and I certainly have had some fun experiences there. I do believe you know we have talked about alcohol quite a bit on the show. I do believe you should drink in moderation if you're going to drink at all, and certainly know your limits and don't drive after you drink. But the idea of having an Airbnb or a hotel room over a bar kill me.
Speaker 2:Right when you're done, you want to be done, right oh?
Speaker 4:yeah, because I want, like, on my time. I believe 10 pm is quiet time, like I don't want anything after that. You know what I mean. Even when we did our Airbnb out in Oregon you know that was kind of our rule too was 10 pm. We were still hanging out outside the pool because it was so hot.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So we were outside the pool but like at 10 pm on the dot when the cuckoo went off, we were just like that's it. So we can still splash, but we have to use our inside voices, yeah, you know. So I can't imagine being on top of a bar until that late at night.
Speaker 6:It wasn't that bad because, like I said, we were all partying and we were out late and everything ourselves. So I mean, even whenever we got home, I mean you know, it would be like midnight or something coming back.
Speaker 4:And you'd hear the music.
Speaker 6:But I'd be so exhausted that I was out. Yeah, and it bothered me. It's been a while since you hung out with, uh, your friends down there. How long has it been? Well, his birthday's in July and usually we do the expo, expo, oh, that's right, so I never get to go.
Speaker 6:I'm always like, sorry, I can't go, I've got a film or do something, and so this was the one year that we didn't do it. So I planned this back in February Like, okay, I'm going to go. That's what we did. We hung out down there, did shopping, walked around all Savannah and great places to eat.
Speaker 2:Were there any of the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil stuff that you saw?
Speaker 6:Yep on the ghost tour. We did that. We actually seen the house. Oh, that's exciting. What?
Speaker 4:are you talking about? Hold on, okay, I've been to Savannah and I did a ghost tour. What are you talking about? The Midnight of Garden of Good?
Speaker 2:and Evil. What Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It's a book.
Speaker 6:And they did a movie Is this by?
Speaker 4:Agatha.
Speaker 6:Oh no. This was just based on a true story in the 90s, Late 80s early 90s 1990s. Yes.
Speaker 4:I know nothing about this, do you?
Speaker 2:You guys have not. That's when people say you know, spill the tea. That's the first time I've heard it.
Speaker 4:I just know the Golden Girls, the Girl Scouts, they got started there right Scouts, they got started there. Right, the Girl Scouts got started there. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:I should know that, because I was a Girl Scout. I don't know, you have to trust me.
Speaker 4:Scouts honor.
Speaker 2:On my honor. I will try.
Speaker 4:Well, it sounds like you all had a great time. I saw your pictures Again. I really do. I've only been to Savannah once and I had such a good time. I really do want to go back and spend some more time there when I'm not, you know, having to attend meetings and all that stuff. So when I was down there, I was down there for the Panther Fleet Airmen meeting. I think we talked about this on the show last time or last year, but no, I I saw all your pictures and I was just seething with jealousy.
Speaker 6:It's a lot of history in Savannah. Yeah, it's very rich.
Speaker 4:Yes, it really is, and it's beautiful with the parks. Oh yeah, all the squares.
Speaker 1:All the squares. I had no idea all that was there.
Speaker 4:And I spent a lot of time in New Orleans so I'm used to old architecture and all that stuff, but man.
Speaker 6:The main square where they filmed Forrest Gump.
Speaker 4:They yes.
Speaker 6:I got pictures of sitting on the bench and everything.
Speaker 4:They. That whole area just takes the cake for pretty. I mean, as much as I love New Orleans and I'm a huge New Orleans fan If I had to choose New Orleans or Savannah, I'm going to New Orleans, but when it comes to just pure pretty, savannah wins. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Their botanicals are on point.
Speaker 4:They really are. They really are and the people are nice. It's charming, it's the whole package. They just don't have the seafood.
Speaker 3:Sure, they do, they don't have the Cajun seafood.
Speaker 4:They have Atlantic seafood.
Speaker 3:Okay, they don't do the Caj. Okay, you're not that far from low country.
Speaker 1:in South Carolina you know the Geechee country. They do a lot of seafood up there.
Speaker 4:They do a lot of boils and stuff, but they do like. I was just talking to Kelly about this. As a matter of fact, kelly, if you don't know, she's our fleet coordinator for FedEx. She's fleet manager for FedEx side. She does all the like. They do the low country bowls and all that stuff right. And she talks about all the Old Bay and all this stuff and I'm like, no, yeah, zatarain's crab boil, mm-hmm, you know Tony Sachery's like Louisiana hot sauce, crystal hot sauce, like that's what I'm used to.
Speaker 4:That's what I love. Old Bay doesn't impress me.
Speaker 1:No, it just doesn't impress me.
Speaker 4:But it's all the rage in that side of this country. Old Bay took over the whole East Coast. I don't know how it happened, but Jacksonville, florida to Maine, it's all Old Bay. I don't understand it. Even here in Columbus there's a few places. I love a shrimp cocktail. Y'all know this.
Speaker 1:How many times have I gotten a shrimp cocktail with y'all.
Speaker 4:I love that when you get a shrimp cocktail in Mexico it's in tomato sauce with even a little bit of minced cilantro. I don't mind it in a shrimp cocktail. I love that when you get it in South Louisiana it's this big Royal Reds. I love you know, I'm just a big fan of these. And there's a couple places here in town where they do them and they sprinkle Old Bay all over them and I'm like why did you ruin the shrimp?
Speaker 4:So, yeah, not a huge Old Bay fan myself, but that's why I prefer New Orleans. The food in New Orleans is just it's second to none. It is really good food.
Speaker 3:I agree there's nothing healthy about it.
Speaker 5:No, there isn't.
Speaker 4:There's not a lot of skinny Louisiana folk. Eric's one of like ten, so cool. Well, speaking of being in Savannah for the owner's meeting, so cool. Speaking of being in Savannah for the owners meeting, it wasn't a fleet owners meeting, but we did get invited down to Georgia again for Elite Fleet. So Elite Fleet is FedEx's custom criticals way of celebrating the top fleets and there's a whole list of criteria that you have to meet to do it. So we got invited down and we got to spend a few days there.
Speaker 4:Um, we were able to. Last year we were able to do it, and this year we're able to do it as well. We brought kelly and jimmy down with us. So, um, it's a chance to where they just it's like an award ceremony thing for three days and, um, a chance to relax and and all the you know, the president of operations, the, the VPs, all the managing directors, they're all there. So get a chance to talk some business on the side and they have a little time throughout the schedule signed up for that. But outside of that, it's really just about relaxation and congratulating you on a job well done. So we always appreciate that it's a good feeling. Jerry, you went a couple of years ago. In our place, they roll the red carpet out, do they not?
Speaker 6:They do.
Speaker 4:A lot of activities. Yep, and it's just even when there's not a lot of activities, or if there's an activity you just don't want to do, there's always sitting by the pool and the pool is awesome. It's an infinity pool and it overlooks the lake, so you can kind of like and it's. I don't know if it's heated or not, no, but it's never cold.
Speaker 6:It's always hot, it's always hot.
Speaker 4:And it could be because it's, you know, august, yeah, you know, in Georgia, right, but it was a really good experience, a really good time hanging out there. I've been to it for a few different years. We've done, and again, when we haven't been able to, we always send someone to our place. But I certainly do appreciate FedEx for sending Eric and I and a lot of us bring Kelly and Jimmy out there as well, and then we just did so. This is the first time in seven years that we've lived in Columbus Ohio. It's the first time we seven years that we've lived in columbus ohio.
Speaker 4:It's the first time we've been able to make the irish festival and again when you look at me, I should, you should be thinking I'm always going to the irish festival, um, and I do love celtic music, I love, uh, all that stuff, and it's the first year we made it actually. Okay, first year I made it, you made it. Last year, right, eric? Yes, and you, who'd you go?
Speaker 5:with uh.
Speaker 4:My mom and sister and nephew were visiting us that week okay and I decided to treat them out to something local I did something like I had to go pick a truck up or something, right?
Speaker 4:yes, because I was with y'all I was with y'all for the first half of the week and then the second half of the week I had to fly somewhere. I think I went to Texas and picked a truck up or something I think you did. That was when we were doing all those trucks through Doley. Yes, but I got to go this year and I found out after the fact. So apparently we had a few teams in town that were at the fair and I was unaware. Teams in town that were at the fair and I was unaware and I they had this really cute it just sounds like I'm an alcoholic.
Speaker 1:They had this really cute pub.
Speaker 4:That was on a trailer. Yeah, that was pretty cool. It was this adorable thing. They said they could seat like 20 people inside, I think 15.
Speaker 4:I think 15 was safe 20 would be crowded, but it's a portable pub. Now they don't have a liquor license, so they don't provide any liquor. They don't provide any beer, but they do have nitrogen and CO2 for you to do a beer tap, two different beer taps. So if you want to do a Guinness which takes nitro as opposed to carbonation, you can. I don't know, I don't drink Guinness, so you rent it out and they just bring it and set it up on your property. They have these old barrels that used to have whiskey in them but they don't anymore. They set those up outside and they have chairs. They give you a bunch of pint glasses and all this stuff, so you can do a party and have a little cute pub there. And it's set up British, it's even green.
Speaker 3:It is. It had air conditioning in it. It had a faux fireplace on the one wall.
Speaker 4:Yes, and he said that the fireplace and the air conditioning both put out heat, so in wintertime you can still have your party with that Wow. They even provide a generator so that you don't have to use your electricity. So if you're going somewhere like a park or something where you have this, you don't have to worry about electricity. It's pretty slick, it was pretty cool. It's not super cheap, but it also wasn't crazy expensive either.
Speaker 3:No, it was neat.
Speaker 4:And they were super kind. I don't know if you had a chance to talk to them or not.
Speaker 1:They were super nice. No, I didn't, but I heard their conversation with others because they were busy. They seemed super kind. They seemed like they liked to have a party themselves. They're willing to help put your party on the beer garden area outside. It was pretty impressive.
Speaker 4:They support locals. If you do, because they don't have a liquor license, they can't bring anything to you. But if you do want to get some beer or something to put in there for your party, they can hook you up with the local suppliers and also they have local bartenders on call. So if you want to actually have a pay for a bartender to be there, they can do that as well. So I thought it was pretty cool they have you know they put the whole service together yes, and then they're trying to support their local uh friends all that stuff.
Speaker 4:So I think it's really cool. So I took pictures of that and sent it to y'all because I was like this is so cool. And like three hours later y'all responded and you're like yeah, we thought that was really neat and we walked by too and I'm like I literally think I wrote back. Did you go inside?
Speaker 1:I think I wrote back and said you're here, yeah, no, I think you knew we were there at that point, I knew that Zucchini Bread was going to show up at some point, but I didn't know y'all were coming at all, and then you ended up bailing.
Speaker 3:She did bail, so I was. I had a tryst. We tag teamed in.
Speaker 4:Okay. So I was completely like I did not realize everything was going on. And then you said, yeah, we're here with these teams and I'm like, oh well, we need to hook up. And you're like they actually just left, they had. And I'm like, okay, I guess they had loads to go run or whatever and they were responsible. None of them drank or anything like that. No, they had some amazing food though.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh, they had some great food.
Speaker 3:Walking the food. Yeah, oh my gosh, you could tell it was good.
Speaker 4:And you could tell what wasn't good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you could you could? There was one place we were looking at that was like a burrito of macaroni and cheese or something, I don't know Some absurdness. That just sounded wonderful, yeah. And then we saw the line. I'm like I don't want to get this next Thursday, I want it now, so we'll just skip over this one. And we ended up sharing some. Oh, I ended up getting. Oh, I'm so sorry, I ended up getting a like a shepherd's pie, but it was macaroni cheese on the inside and it was like nine different cheeses.
Speaker 4:It was unbelievably delicious. Wow, it was like nine different cheeses. It was unbelievably delicious. It was so good, you know what I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1:We went to this one place. All the food was authentic Irish food.
Speaker 6:All of it.
Speaker 1:We went to the one place that was the Irish taqueria. They had carne asada, they had yes, corned beef. They had corned beef, yes. They had corned beef. They also had al pastor, so I didn't realize that those things all started there in Ireland. The best thing I had, though, was the Irish funnel cake.
Speaker 4:Well, it's all about the Guinness marinade Right, the Guinness batter for the funnel cake. Well, it's all about the Guinness marinade Right, the Guinness batter for the funnel cake You've heard of beer-battered chicken, so it's beer-battered funnel cake, which is just beer batter, right, just beer batter.
Speaker 1:Just beer batter. It's really good. I love a good funnel cake. It was sprinkled with salt like a pretzel.
Speaker 4:Nice Came with some cheese dipping sauce, beer, cheese Beer cheese.
Speaker 1:I thought it Nice Came with some cheese.
Speaker 2:dipping sauce, beer cheese.
Speaker 4:Another Irish specialty, I thought it was weird, they made it with Corona. I liked the. Did you see the Irish falafel?
Speaker 1:I did not see the Irish falafel they had.
Speaker 4:Irish falafel. They had Irish chicken shawarma and Irish hero.
Speaker 1:They also had Irish bourbon chicken. Okay, really they did. I saw it Irish bourbon chicken.
Speaker 4:I love all the. They had these huge, gigantic booths that were set up. They were just all shopping.
Speaker 2:When I say huge, I mean they were like massive.
Speaker 1:They were like four 20 by 20 tents set up together as shopping, and then inside they had the smaller. If you imagine that they had the 10 by 10 tents inside this massive tent? I don't know.
Speaker 4:The whole thing was probably 120 foot by 80. Yeah probably it was massive. Yeah, it was Any shopping cubicle was like 6x6 or 8x8.
Speaker 1:No, they were like 10x10, the shopping cubicles.
Speaker 4:I found only Irish. The shop was only Irish, and so at the only Irish place I took a picture of the proudly made in Scotland purses and kilts and stuff, and I'm like okay, only Irish.
Speaker 1:The other thing they had at the Irish herstle too, was they had the games.
Speaker 5:That was fun, like the Highland games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they weren't Highland because it's not.
Speaker 1:Scotland but that kind of thing where you're doing the strong man stuff and strong woman stuff. They had that them doing their thing too different age groups. It was really cool to watch that. That was fun it really.
Speaker 4:I know it's called the Irish Festival. It really felt more like a Celtic Festival. If you've ever been so like. Back when I was in South Louisiana I used to run sound for the Celtic Festival every year. So much fun. I miss that one. I got to work with some great bands the Blaggards look them up online and they but it was Celtic Festival, so Scotch Irish, wales, like we just All of it and it was. It was so much fun. This felt so much like that.
Speaker 4:As a matter of fact, on Saturday night, the main band that closed out the show at the rock and roll tent. They were stinking good, weren't they? Eric Very, they had another person, Allie the Piper, who I think is pretty famous. She was. I think it's Allie the Piper, I think it is. She was at. I think it's Allie the Piper.
Speaker 4:I think it is, she was at a smaller stage it's still a big stage but smaller and I know she does really great stuff and a lot of people love her. So my sister went over there and saw her and I really was in the mood. I'm like I want to do an Irish rock band because I love Irish rock music. It's fun to me. It's just something I've enjoyed when I did the Celtic Festival.
Speaker 1:I always did that. Are you going to tell me that U2 was there? Close?
Speaker 4:U3? Ub40.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 4:So we go and we do the Irish the rock band. We actually call the last, maybe 20 minutes of the act before them. They were really good. So we're all excited for this Irish Rock Band that's going to just close the night out, you know, if it's closed or it's going to be the good one and I will say they were great, like really really good, and they were also from Scotland.
Speaker 3:No, and it was also from Scotland.
Speaker 4:No, and it was like huh. But those bands do all kinds of weird fusions. So imagine rock band bordering punk rock. I mean like real rock, and also two bagpipes, oh wow.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 5:Wow.
Speaker 2:I love the sound of bagpipes. Oh wow, nice, wow, I love the sound of bagpipes.
Speaker 5:There was one part of the night they had competing bagpipes. Yes, they were the only ones on stage and they were playing to each other.
Speaker 4:They did. Yeah, the whole band got quiet or stepped off stage.
Speaker 5:The two bagpipers came up and it was very.
Speaker 3:As a matter of fact, I got a recording of that Vince and I were leaving when you guys moved over to there and the crowd was going crazy.
Speaker 1:They were yeah, that crowd was loud.
Speaker 4:So, eric, you said that crowd, so I've only been there once, you've been there twice. So they have this huge tent and inside the tent there's probably room for 2,000 people and then the bleed over is a field, multiple football field sized fields. It was packed, I mean like packed. I mean like packed.
Speaker 3:There could have been 15,000 20,000 people there.
Speaker 5:It wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 4:If.
Speaker 5:I left the tent to go get something to eat or drink or use the restroom. I had trouble getting across the field because there were so many people camping out, out.
Speaker 4:It was like a garth brooks outdoor concert it was insane.
Speaker 2:The weather was beautiful too in the past the weather hasn't been that great either yeah so I mean this year the weather was beautiful and I think everybody's just ready to get out and enjoy in the past they've closed early or canceled days because of thunderstorms.
Speaker 1:It's a huge city park and it just gets bad when the weather gets that bad. We're in the middle of our thunderstorm season here too, so this year, to how the weather we had was just amazing.
Speaker 3:And it was a cooler dip in the thermometer that weekend.
Speaker 4:It wasn't the flaming hot it wasn't Cheetos. It was a lot of fun. I had such a blast. I mean, it was one of those things where I'm like why have I not made a point to make this Like? This is something I want to do every year.
Speaker 3:It was fun.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed it so much, I think the last couple years that we've been in town. You guys haven't been in town the weekend, except for last year when Eric was here with his family and you had to get to that truck. But in previous years you guys haven't been in town during that weekend.
Speaker 4:No, certainly going forward. I believe it'll be a point to Mike.
Speaker 5:We're going at least a day, I have it marked on my calendar, all ready for next year and it's a three-day event but we'll make sure we at least hit one day.
Speaker 4:I did notice too on the schedule a lot of the players, because it's very music-centric A lot of the and dancing. And dancing. A lot of the players are dancers and stuff. They A lot of them did all three days Friday, saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:So you know, except for, like, the very last night, or the very last closer of the night for each thing Right, or the very last closer of, the night for each thing.
Speaker 1:Right, that was a one-time only, it was a headliner kind of deal sure, but everybody else, like Allie the Piper, she did all three days.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:So you get to see most of that.
Speaker 1:Well, I think that makes sense too, because a lot of those folks are actually coming in from Ireland. Yes, you know, they're not necessarily touring the United States. They're coming in from Ireland for this festival. Yeah, so make the best of it. Be there the whole three days.
Speaker 4:And they have all kinds of stuff. The first stage we stopped at was probably 200 people, not much, and there was some people playing the whistle, the flute, the mandolin thing.
Speaker 5:I don't know. Yeah, the mandolin. I thought this was harp.
Speaker 4:There was a person playing harp and someone playing kick drum. It was great. We sat there for a couple hours. Not for a couple hours, we sat there for probably 30 minutes just listening and enjoying it. Then we switched over to another stage that was a little more rocking. It had maybe 500 people, but I wouldn't call it rock music. It was folk Irish music, but high up tempo, yeah, sure, and so they also had spoken word. So if you wanted to go listen to Irish stories, they had a tent that was just doing that. They had another tent that was doing and when I say tent, I mean these are big canopies that was doing a sewing lesson. We walked by and of course, you know my sister.
Speaker 1:She was just like they said Is that the one where they were making yarn also?
Speaker 4:Yes. That was a great booth and they were like, well, you just take your thread. And my sister's head was like what?
Speaker 3:Like squirrel.
Speaker 4:So no, it was a lot of fun. Leather if you want to buy leather go to a freaking Irish festival. I had no idea they had more leather vendors out there. I guess maybe the only thing that would be more leather-centric would be like a Renaissance Fair, which is coming up too. It is, it is.
Speaker 2:We've not been there either.
Speaker 4:I've never gone to a Renaissance Festival.
Speaker 1:I went to one years ago in LA.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, we have always called you the Renaissance Band, yeah, but this one goes for like what? A month and a half here in Ohio.
Speaker 1:Well, that's how they do the Renaissance Festival. They end up on the weekends and they go for a couple months.
Speaker 3:I like to do the one here. We should pick a good themed weekend and go.
Speaker 4:I agree. Well, they do the Irish weekend at the Renaissance Festival, so that'd be fun to go to, but all I know about the Renaissance Festivals is like turkey legs.
Speaker 1:It's a big thing. I need to pull out my kilt for the Irish day.
Speaker 4:You do, I heard you kilt it, I did kilt it. It's been quite the summer. It's not over yet it's not over yet. We still have more to go. We've got a camp trip ahead of you, eric and I, in late September will be leaving. We'll be out of the country for a week or so on a trip I'm taking my dad on, so I'm excited about that. Y'all have that thing, yep, in Bardstown.
Speaker 6:Yeah, we do, yeah, coming up, coming up. And what do you have going on, jerry?
Speaker 4:I'm planning on a couple things, but nothing nailed down yet, nothing you want to tell us about Nope, no small tacks.
Speaker 3:You haven't nailed it down. Nope, no big ones either. Maybe you need cement glue.
Speaker 4:He's like nothing big. We're building a house on a lake, oh no. Well, it is so good to be able to hang out and be able to be back in this group and chat with y'all for a little while. I think we've been trying to get it started for the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 4:And things have been so crazy that it's like, yes, we're definitely meeting tonight, and then, a couple hours later, we have to cancel because, fill in the blank, yeah, even today. Like y'all won't know this, because it's still going to drop on the same day, but we're a day late. We were supposed to record last night and that got scrapped, so I'm glad we actually got back in here and got this recording session done.
Speaker 3:Someone today on the group posted yay therapy.
Speaker 4:Yes, I loved it. I loved it. I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so true. It's so true. I enjoy our time together so much. We actually last week it was super late in the week, like a Thursday or Friday, and we all hung out together at the house and out on the back porch and just caught up because we've been all running so far, like all these different places and the way we do our recordings if we don't get it recorded by Wednesday, it cannot go up on Saturday. So when we did this on Thursday or Friday I don't remember what it was it was too late, so that's why we didn't do a recording then.
Speaker 3:We just did a get-together.
Speaker 4:But, we just did a get-together, hangout and just catch up, and I think everybody was like, yeah, let's hang out for about an hour, hour and a half it's. You know, we're all tired and three and a half it was a.
Speaker 1:Thursday night, because we all had to be at work Friday morning.
Speaker 3:It was nice to see our fact checker. I do miss him being in the peanut gallery over there, mr Don, and he's not bringing cookies to the green room anymore, which is unacceptable. No Granted we're all trying to behave ourselves and watch our weight, but still it's unacceptable.
Speaker 6:He could bring carrots. It was just nice he could watch our weight, but still it's unacceptable.
Speaker 2:He could bring carrots. It was just nice seeing him Watch our weight balloon. It was nice.
Speaker 6:he never had a cake Round is a shape, hey.
Speaker 2:I'm getting back there again.
Speaker 6:I'm telling you I just I woke up Sunday morning to fresh cinnamon rolls. So yeah, Nice.
Speaker 1:Well, we came home last week. We were gone for the weekend.
Speaker 4:Oh, yes, we came home.
Speaker 5:Oh.
Speaker 1:I forgot about that. We did forget about DCI. Yeah, DCI. We came home from DCI in Indianapolis to fresh-baked zucchini bread and cherry turnovers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I call them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's like it's not wake up Sunday morning every day, but, yeah, when we leave, we come home and we've got fresh break, something or other at the house and I have to say, no, thank you, I was.
Speaker 3:I ate your fair share of zucchini bread. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4:That was one time I was, because I love your zucchini bread, so zucchini bread makes zucchini bread. In case you didn't put that together. And her zucchini bread is amazing. It is so good. And when I got the text we were on our way home and I got the text there's fresh zucchini bread here waiting on you. I immediately thought, like I am so glad y'all stopped at my house and I don't have to go to your house first.
Speaker 4:Because I would have picked up two to four loaves, because he did a little mini loaves and I would have eaten all of it and then I would have cried the next few days from gaining.
Speaker 1:Because you ate it all, because I ate it all. Well, yeah, and just.
Speaker 4:But no, I was kind of hoping one would show up at the house, but it didn't. So, anyways, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:Well, and next weekend is also Zucchini Fest in.
Speaker 4:Obetz.
Speaker 2:And I'm going camping. I didn't realize it was the same weekend. That's ironic, I know.
Speaker 1:I really wanted to go to Zucchini Fest, any good music down there or no? Not from what I saw on the list.
Speaker 2:Usually they do They've had some really big. We've been to a couple good acts. Zucchini can be found year-round. Is it like that, just not as good. I get that.
Speaker 4:Like when we go to the Strawberry Festival in Louisiana, which we don't go very often but we do Like strawberries. You really can't get those year-round, can you?
Speaker 1:You can actually Can you Hot house strawberries? Yeah, you don't find them here locally, Okay, but you'll find, like California when I was out there there was a farmer's market I went to and they had strawberries year-round, but they were actually they were a hot house out of just north of San Diego, so does hot house mean like it was done in a greenhouse. In a greenhouse.
Speaker 5:I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:So we in Louisiana known for the strawberries there and they're the best strawberries in the country. I will stand behind that. But it is a short season. They're not making a ton of them and when they're gone, they're gone Like that's it. Then all of a sudden, for like two months you get all Louisiana strawberries in all the supermarkets and then the rest of the time it's it. Then all of a sudden, you know, for like two months you get all Louisiana strawberries in all the supermarkets and then the rest of the time it's Florida or California.
Speaker 4:Or Chile. I think most of them came from California. I believe it, yeah.
Speaker 1:We need to go do the Strawberry Festival because there's a couple of rum distillers in New Orleans. And they're growing their own cane down there too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we grow sugar down there they have a decent lineup this weekend this I don't know they're just names, you don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like north to nashville's on Friday.
Speaker 1:Never heard of them. No thanks.
Speaker 3:They're a local band. So if they're local, it would be south Cletus E, Judd Easton, Corbin, Chris Cagle and Shenandoah are on Saturday.
Speaker 4:Which, if you're a country, person.
Speaker 3:You would know who all those are.
Speaker 4:I don't like Shenandoah, but Chris Cagle's all right.
Speaker 3:I've seen him before too. Well, if you guys go pick me up some zucchinis, and then Sunday is Appalachian Outlaws, followed by Chris Young, who I've seen him too, huh, country, it's country all the way around.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it sounds very country, but it was country, last time it wasn't.
Speaker 1:Big and Rich. Once here we went to Big and Rich, and then the next year was Boys to Men.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was. I told Zucchini Bread she was going to miss out on trying zucchini beer. I know, I don't even know if we tried it that year.
Speaker 1:We didn't. We went straight into the music.
Speaker 3:We did.
Speaker 1:That sounds terrible.
Speaker 2:It kind of. Does I mean? The only thing is if I can talk my friend into like swinging by a bat's on her way.
Speaker 4:But I think that I'm not sure which direction it is. Are you leaving on Friday? Peak season is just starting to kick off and you know fall season's here, so it's going to be busy and trekking.
Speaker 4:If you are listening to this and you've made it this far and you're like these people are nuts. What does high-field trekking do? Who are these people? Why are we even listening to this? Again, like I said at the top of the show, we're just here to entertain you, inform you, yada, yada and uh, we do on this company, uh, where our eric and I do uh and everybody else works for them, that uh, we do trucking, we do uh all over the us. We have these big next customer sleepers and all the stuff, and it is the peak time now, or peak season's just starting to get kicked off. So for the next three months, four months, it's going to be the busiest time of the year. So if you are interested in getting into trucking or doing what we do, now's the time to reach out. We can get you pretty quickly into a truck at this point and you can call us at 1-833-HIGHFIELD, that's 1-833-H-Y-F-I-E-L-D, also known as 833-493-4353.
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Speaker 2:She said it so slow.
Speaker 4:I'm like did I miss something there?
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Speaker 3:So we're on four seasons. Does that mean we've been doing this for four years or just our seasons?
Speaker 4:are one season. This is four years, isn't?
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Speaker 4:Four months.
Speaker 1:Yeah, four months. No, it's not.
Speaker 4:Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Please like, subscribe, drop a comment, Share us with anybody that you're out there Like hey, you're over the road, Look for some content. Listen to these guys. They're absolute fools and they make just idiots of themselves. We would love to entertain and help you all keep going. We are all former truckers and we know what it's like when you're out there on the road and you need something just to keep you awake. Hopefully we can do that for you. We try not to put you to sleep, but if you find that's the case, we would love to talk you to sleep. Yeah, Vince.
Speaker 1:Been there, done that.
Speaker 4:No, talk him to sleep, oh, talk him to sleep.
Speaker 1:You're you're getting sleepy y'all be safe, make good decisions don't leave money on the table and keep those walls of Tarnum bye, goodnight, ciao, we'll be right back.
Speaker 4:So how was that for the first episode back? I thought that went pretty well yeah.
Speaker 5:Do you think?
Speaker 4:the listeners will like it. It's been so long since I did one of these. I just I'm like what do we say? I can't believe I remembered the whole, like the opening, the intro, the outro, yeah, the be safe, make good decisions.
Speaker 1:I was wondering if you can remember that part or not. Well, I mean.
Speaker 2:It took you a second.
Speaker 4:It did take me a second. It's been a minute.
Speaker 1:We're out of practice. We are out of practice, but I think you know what we're not out of practice of Is talking shit.
Speaker 4:Well, we can do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can talk some trash but we're not supposed to use that language.
Speaker 3:I do think we need to get on point, though, with transportation stuff.
Speaker 4:We'll do that next week. I think people like to hear that yeah, we'll do that next time. 100%. This was needed. I think the audience liked it.
Speaker 2:Sure, I knew it was going to be, I just got a text from Dana Lord.
Speaker 4:He loved it Well he does, that he does, and Jay Hampton just sent me another ad, not ad article, to cover yeah. So no, I think it's great. I look forward to hanging out with