Welcome. Welcome to another episode of the Kings of the Road podcast, the place where you get to come. You get to hear about two men on a journey in a Lazy Days motorhome going from California, maine, maine to Florida, florida, back home, serving churches, hanging out, having a good time and staying alive, which sometimes proved more difficult than others, as you have heard in some of the stories and will continue to hear.
Speaker 1:So you are here with Andrew Gare and I and we are just enjoying the beautiful day and blah, blah, blah. Intro song is over. Welcome you're here with us we are so glad that's we're listening to. Well, you're listening to us, we're together yeah, we're listening to each other.
Speaker 2:We are. There's a lot of listening going on just enjoyment all around indeed, indeed. Hey, scott, I thought we'd try something different today. Okay, hit me something new, a new segment. Because, yeah, right, yeah, because radio shows have segments. I'm using, I'm using industry lingo. Oh, are you in the industry? I think I don't know what qualifies you as being in the industry. I think I don't know what qualifies you as being in the industry. Maybe we are. Do we have to get paid? Well, can somebody make a donation?
Speaker 1:to us Just one donation.
Speaker 2:Just like 30 cents, it doesn't have to be anything.
Speaker 1:And then the Venmo and when the Venmo comes through, we'll give you a special shout out. Yeah, we'll give you a special shout out on. Yeah, we'll be like we are industry industry professionals. Yes, put on the podcast industry now for quite some time, for six months, and I've been paid to do my podcast yeah, I've been paid.
Speaker 2:That's. That's of no, of no matter to you. We don't discuss these matters we we are going to. I'm going to pivot and start writing all kinds of articles on LinkedIn about professional podcasting Nice. So what's your new segment? My segment, scott, is what's up? What's up, yeah, people. I work with know this segment.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's just a time where we kind of talk about what's up. You know we talk about our road trip in 2004,. But what's up recently? What have you been up to? What have you been doing? That is interesting, adventurous, maybe. What have you said yes to? I know I say no to a lot of things.
Speaker 1:You said no to hanging out with me on Saturday night. I say no to you in particular a lot In particular more than you should. Yeah, yep, yep, what's?
Speaker 2:up, don't disagree there.
Speaker 1:What's up with Holy Week is done, which we'll tell you when we're recording this, because you have caught up to real time with us, and that's a huge week for me. We do week for me. We do in the course of seven days. We do one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine worship services. Wow, in the one week. Yeah, starting Palm Sunday. We have two on Palm Sunday, one on Monday Thursday, two on Friday, one on Holy Saturday and three on Easter Sunday. It's a lot and there's a lot of transitions because they're all different, right. So we make Maundy Thursday distinct from Good Friday, distinct from Holy Saturday, distinct from Easter, and so it's not just like a repeat of it. So there's new things to bring in and out, new pieces to do. So it's a lot and it was great. And you said no to coming up to our dear friend Summer, you could have gotten a scooter mud. Could have gotten a scooter mud, I could have got it but now I have two of them.
Speaker 2:Uh, interesting and yeah, I know um, but we did.
Speaker 1:It was really, really cool, and alice was here and summer was here and we baptized her baby and that was awesome and he's awesome. And then yesterday, emily and I went snowboarding because we had two tickets to Snow Valley that we were trying to use and in a very Scott Hawkins-like moment, hold on, yeah, you went there not because you had two tickets that also is true but, yes, we had a lot of rain.
Speaker 2:We had a big storm come through southern california over the weekend, which means the mountains got snow, yeah, which means, yes, there was a lot of fresh pow pow pow, pow to gnar to shred which means there was so much gnar that needed to be shredded. Yep, and it is a personal goal of yours and your wife Emily's to shred as much gnar as possible.
Speaker 1:Make sure that gnar stays in place. Yeah, If it wasn't.
Speaker 2:I would also say in the summertime, if it wasn't for us.
Speaker 1:Lake. Elsinore, California would be overrun with unshredded gnar, unshredded gnar, just gnar everywhere, and that's dangerous.
Speaker 2:You don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1:It's dangerous With that much gnar on the loose. It is dangerous, got to shred the gnar, dangerous, so we do a public service for shredding the gnar and so. But it was so we have these two tickets and so we're kind of like we need to use them. We want to, let's use it, my parents will pick them up. Yeah, great idea. After Easter, celebrate boom, we go up there. And I get almost all the way up there and I think I don't have my wallet. Oh, no.
Speaker 1:I took my wallet. I have my backpack in the car. I'm loading the boards up, loading the snowboard and stuff. I'm like I don't need my backpack. I have a computer, my iPad. I'll take that out, but I keep my wallet in there, so it's always with me. Oh no, I'm like that'll be okay. I have my phone, I have the email, the confirmation, all of that, and like I don't know, you've been around me long enough that, like this kind of stuff just usually works out for me yeah, and this is not the first time you've probably left your wallet.
Speaker 2:I would wager everything I own on that.
Speaker 1:So many times that I've been like I mean, I have gone, legitimate, like months not knowing where my wallet is. Wait, what? Yeah, yeah, one time when we went to, um, oh uh, chris baldwin's wedding. After that I did not know my wallet was for a while and to the point where I started replacing things, I'm like, well, I guess, I don't know, guess it's gone. That's it because, like I just was assuming, I just and I had these dress shoes I wore at chris's wedding in the back of the car and I picked up the dress shoes that I hadn't worn, because they're like brown dress shoes, yeah, while it slides down, oh, oh.
Speaker 1:So we get there and I'm like this will just work out. And I walk up to the window and emily's like, just, let's figure this out. So I go up there and the woman looks at me and I'm like, okay, here's the problem. I got on my wallet. She's like, well, you need a picture id. And I said, well, I don't have a picture. I have a picture of my picture id. So I like, you know, I know my address, I know everything, right, yeah no, I need a hard copy of my picture ID.
Speaker 1:So I, you know, I know my address, I know everything, right? Yeah, no, I need a hard copy of the picture ID. Why, come on, we've had she says we've had so much fraud, fraud, and. And Emily's wallet is in her car, in her purse, and really I'm supposed to have both of your hard copies or picture id. I maybe could get away with just yours, because they're under your name in our system and then just add her name, but really I'm supposed to have both of them and I'm like my dad will go to my house facetime from my house, get my wallet out and show you it's this one, right, like? I know my address. What can I do? She's like yeah, yeah, there's. And she's like this is not a stupid rule. I'm sorry, but like I can't do anything. Like my manager, I just so the only thing you can do is go and buy a new ticket online and I can't even sell you a ticket at this window without your ID. You have to buy a new ticket online, go over to the machine and just scan the barcode and we'll print you off to lift tickets and then you can go. And so I went to him and like what do we do Like should we do this? And so we're standing there kind of debating and she's like it was a hundred bucks. Basically, we're like you know what, we're here, let's do it for. Oh man, but I'm snowboarding and I would legitimately like to know this answer.
Speaker 1:What kind of fraud is going on? I'm trying to figure out that they need both of our physical copies of our driver's license. Is someone walking up and being like I sure hope there's a Scott Hawkins at this address with this confirmation email that I can steal his ticket. And then I'm going to steal it and I I'm gonna give it to this random person over here, but if they don't have a driver's license, I can't give it to that person, although I can give the person. I could just pick a person out of the crowd and be like you, sir, you're gonna be the one who gets my ticket. Do you have your id?
Speaker 2:do hackers love snowboarding, like it's a known fact? I mean, if you're a hacker if you're not hacking.
Speaker 1:I love snowboarding, we know that, but I just don't. I could not for the life of me as I'm shredding the gnar on the mountain because we just made the choice to spend the $100. I'm like, yeah, the gnar was there, you had to shred it.
Speaker 2:Who are they?
Speaker 1:protecting.
Speaker 2:That's weird.
Speaker 1:But that's weird. Who? But it's still. At the same time. I can buy it online and just stand boop, okay, say yeah, and now. Yeah, now the technology is so fancy, you haven't been to the mountains since you were a wee lad. You just put the thing in your coat and just walk through the gate and they never see your ticket again. It's just all near fields, so it's not like they're matching, is this? Oh, you're scott, okay, and you're right right emily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh boy that's interesting.
Speaker 1:So well, and then just a little end the story. I am on the last run and I'm pushing, pushing myself to the lift line and the sole of my snowboarding boot just comes off right off in my hand. So I'm so, so I ride the lift up with no sole, put it in my backpack, put the sole of my boot in my backpack, strapping with no sole, and then I go down and it is a strange experience Because you're expecting some, like some, you know, spermness on your foot when you're turning and everything Got none, nothing.
Speaker 2:Nothing, nothing. Oh boy, some you know spermness on your foot when you're turning and everything got none, nothing, just got nothing.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, it's like driving without brakes it's just flaccid, flaccid foot, oh joe's that word.
Speaker 2:All right, uh, yeah, see, that's that's been a fear. That's been a fear of mine, though, and we were talking about this earlier. Uh, because, because you, you were like, let's go to the mountains. I was like I I don't know if my gear is safe, because it's probably 20 years old at least, and I'm like we still bought so much. We did we did and so I still have. Yeah, I, I would like to do it, I'm afraid, because in my mind I was pretty good.
Speaker 1:You were.
Speaker 2:And I'm afraid that if I were to go now, I don't have a fear that I wouldn't remember how to do it. I think I'd still be fine. I just think I'd be tired by like halfway down the first run and be like I don't know if I can go on and I don't want to deal with that reality.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I have been working out recently so I handled it much better. But you know, the thing I haven't worked out, that's true, but the thing that is interesting. And so emily, emily still is a, a grinder right, like she'll, she'll go, and she heel sides, then goes the other way and then heel sides right, oh, really, yeah, yeah, but I'm trying to get her to do toe side, um, and she's just a little, it's hard, right, that's where you fall over, and she's doing better on toe side in the weight board, um, but she's like every run my quad, you're on fire oh, and I realize yeah that that there's a lot of work on your legs, but like our style of like how you're supposed to snowboard, with just little like speed checks and you know turning and all a lot easier, a lot easier on the general thighs.
Speaker 1:The faster you go, the easier it is so you may, you may make it farther than you realize, because you can like, yeah, just kind of use your little tip, I'll just, I'll just point myself towards the bottom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and uh man it was yeah, glorious yesterday. They're like oh yeah, valley with powder awesome yeah just that's then home. You're home at two an hour. You're home at two hours. Yeah, that was so tempting because I've never done it. I'm like I should just grab, like a boogie board or a surfboard and just paddle out into the ocean, cause I've never done that.
Speaker 2:Oh, just to do the classic Southern California mountains in the morning, beach afternoon thing.
Speaker 1:Oh, you should have done it, I know.
Speaker 2:I still can't. I still can't.
Speaker 1:I mean because that's. Have you ever done that?
Speaker 2:No, I don't. Well, I don't know, I don't think so. You could have.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know how to surf. It's like one of those things I feel Again, something I used to know how to do yeah. I feel like I I don't know, that's like a kind of must-have, just to say you've done it. You live here, you have to be able to be like oh, yeah, of course I've done that. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, that's what I do. Yeah, like one time I got my 41 year old self and crawled to the just my lates, although they were tired, at least I was like you know, the car like okay stand yeah right, yep, yep, and every part of you is like I'm totally gonna make that thing.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna go in the ocean well after I take a nap.
Speaker 1:Oh well, it's dinner time and now I'm stiff and now I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 2:It'll just that's not in the cards for me. Yeah, so we went to the mountains too. Last week was our spring break for our kids, so we went up uh, same mountains kind of arrowhead we. We went snow tubing and stayed in the cabin and I gotta tell you it is so nice to just get out of town and that one day we pretty much sat in the cabin all day long and did very little played some games, ate some food napped.
Speaker 1:It was nice to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just, it was great yeah, it was great, it was fun. There's a little bit of snow left on the ground because we got there before that storm, right Enough for the kids to kind of throw. Oh, tubing was great. Yeah, kids got to throw ice balls at each other Right dodge and yeah it was good.
Speaker 1:I have a personal question for you. Oh, how is the least? At least millions of people aren't listening. I know, when you go to the mountains, um, for the weekend, how's the gassiness? Do you have some elevation changes? Oh, yeah, of course. Okay, I didn't know if that was lots of gas yeah, I feel like it is more flatlanders going up and being like the body has to equalize Woo, that first day, those first 24 hours.
Speaker 2:It's sort of like when I fly too. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, no, that's a good point.
Speaker 2:Well, I've stopped drinking carbonated beverages on the airplanes Because I read somewhere that it's like you know, your insides get all weird anyway. So when you drink carbonated beverages then it's something like like, just give me the cranberry juice that's what I go for while everybody else is drinking ginger ale, why ginger on?
Speaker 1:the plane?
Speaker 2:I don't I love ginger in general I never drink ginger ale anywhere else except on a plane and everybody else. I'm like if you were to just say like what's the most popular soda in the world? And you're like we're only going to survey people on an airplane ginger ale. You'd be like ginger ale, it's number one, far and away I think nowhere else.
Speaker 1:There must be some part of us that thinks like that sickness, that belly little issues well, ginger is known for calming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like I don't do it on purpose, like for whatever reason, when I'm on a plane, it just sounds good, no, but that's what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's subconscious, it's somewhere in there like maybe this is the right thing to do. And you're like I guess it's the right thing to do, and so we all ordered ginger ale road trip. Though do you remember the ginger ale michigan verner's? Oh, I do so such a superior ginger ale, canadian dry, well, canada dry is like more akin to you did it's.
Speaker 2:It's more like seven-Up or Sprite than a real. I went to. We were down in Carlsbad a couple weeks back. My parents were in town. We went down there with them, because you're a traveler, I know, right? Hey, this is a traveling podcast.
Speaker 2:Traveling podcast when you too can learn to not drink beverages on airplanes we went to a place called the burger lounge and they had, uh like, different sodas yeah, that you could have and one of them was ginger beer, which is like next level ginger ale. Yes, oh man, it was. It got the back of your throat and it just kept sizzling back. It was great.
Speaker 1:Well, what's the drink? That's like the major thing in a Russian mule, I think.
Speaker 2:Oh, moscow mule, Moscow mule, yeah, yeah, I'm nailing the words to it. It was spicy.
Speaker 1:It is spicy. There's something in the South called Red Rock. No, buffalo Rock. Buffalo Rock ginger ale and, like Werner's, is more spicy. Buffalo rock is that same way. Like you got cold, it'll burn anything on your way down. Take care of it, take it out.
Speaker 2:Yes, no problems, yeah, so anyhow, that's nice to know what's been going on with you, scott, I love it yeah. Nice little breaks, Good to just get away, Even if it's not something a lot For me. The mountains are only like an hour and a half a little bit further for you. Crazy how we don't know enough.
Speaker 1:Right, right. Every time I'm there, I think why don't we do this more often? Because it's right there and it feels like a different world. Yes, you know from our-.
Speaker 2:We need to talk about Catalina Island another time, because that's another place that's very close, relatively easy to get to, that feels like another world. I think we ought to try it.
Speaker 1:Okay, we'd go have a cell phone ready. We did not make it, emily. Yeah, mary, please send somebody.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure who 16 foot of boat was not enough to cross the channel.
Speaker 1:That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh man, all right. Well, scott, where are we in the world? Today is day 34. It is Halloween, ha. Yes, it is october 31st and it's a sunday oh, interesting.
Speaker 1:So I had a creepy sound effect, but I don't sorry, oh do we need to? It's okay, search one no that's what happened.
Speaker 2:Just imagine, yeah, just do the applause anyways, okay, yep, that's good, okay, yeah, yeah, um halloween. So I hadn't been outside of the motorhome for a while, so I decided this day I would come out yeah, plus at least eight for sleeping, maybe 10. So 34 hours inside the motorhome at least yeah, all right, so what do we got here? Today was a much nicer day, so I decided to go outside.
Speaker 1:I only go out on nice days.
Speaker 2:That's my name.
Speaker 1:My name's Andrew.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're not going to cooperate weather, I'm not going out. Yes, so, like I said, it was a Sunday. We went to a small church in Port Ann, massachusetts, about one to two miles from the campground, for some good Sunday morning goings on. Yeah, the place was full up to the gills. Look at all these seaside references I'm making. That's just one, but anyhow, it was a nice little service. And just for showing up, we got a loaf of banana bread each. Now they do it right. Do you remember your little loaf of banana bread?
Speaker 1:I do, but I don't remember this church at all, but I remember the once you said that I'm like oh yeah, that was nice. Yeah, and now I'm thinking that's a great visitor gift. We have coffee cups here. People like banana bread more.
Speaker 2:Oh, you give them, like their coffee mug to take home.
Speaker 1:With my face on it.
Speaker 2:Oh okay. Well, that is a choice.
Speaker 1:Or the Ascension Lutheran Church logo.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:The two are very similar.
Speaker 2:One would be more memorable, more of a talking point.
Speaker 1:And this is the pastor's face.
Speaker 2:I think you should do it Interesting?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you should do it. Interesting yeah, I think you should do it. There's a hidden cup amongst them all. They're like oh, you got the pastor face mud, yeah no, all of them all of no choice no choice here.
Speaker 2:We've already put the cup in your car collectibles. Um, I do like the banana bread. I mean, I'm trying to think. I know you don't like bananas, but you like banana bread do, which is the weird thing about me yeah, but who doesn't love banana bread?
Speaker 1:I'm sure there's somebody out there made banana bread is phenomenal and it's also pumpkin bread oh, so good right. Have you ever made zucchini bread? Does your mom ever make that? Yeah, how is that good, but it is, but it's great and great. It's not made anymore. No one makes zucchini bread anymore, you know, I feel like a classic 90s thing. My mom made it, your mom made it, but I haven't had a giattini bread since probably 99. Do you think that was?
Speaker 2:a south bay thing. So here's the deal yeah, listeners add in we grew up in torrance. As you know, it's referred to as the south bay, but only people that live in the south bay know it as the south bay on an orange tells the south outside, Outside of the South Bay itself. When you say South Bay, everybody's like, oh, San Jose, South San Francisco Bay, right, but anyhow, to us South Bay is Torrance Redondo.
Speaker 1:Hermosa Manhattan.
Speaker 2:Hermosa Manhattan, LaMita, Some of PV. Maybe Hawthorne PV.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some of that Hawthorne PB. Yeah, that little pocket get out.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they would classify themselves as that, but yeah, say more so so, anyway, my wife is from Buena Park, which is Orange County, and she told me at one point oh, there is a culture in the south bay that is unlike the culture in the rest of southern california and this is true, there are pockets in southern california that have their own but but there were certain things that she pointed out where it was like casseroles or it's almost like a midwestern thing we had going on in the South Bay, that like there were certain types of food that all of us were like these are normal foods, that like other people, and I and I don't know if I can think of one off the top of my head, but if I, if I were to say like, oh, yeah, this meal, you'd be like yeah we had that all the time and they're like no, that wasn't normal.
Speaker 1:Interesting I was, I thought you were going to say like constantly wearing Billabon t-shirts and shorts and flip-flops even though you're 45 years old, Like that's just the way you dress. That's just beach culture?
Speaker 2:I think yeah.
Speaker 1:Here. So I've never heard this before, but this is my immediate gut reaction to what you're saying. Okay Is, having lived in Alabama for six years, then, coming back, kind of had a new like look at your community from new eyes, right being gone, yes, and I realized how much of this area grew up, particularly around the aerospace industry in the 50s, 60s, 70s. That's true Boom, like all the houses were built between there, like 58, nine and 75. Right there is just it's exploding. Where are the people coming from? They're taking these jobs michigan, missouri, minnesota, wisconsin, a lot of midwest folks.
Speaker 1:see the rose parade, see the rose and they go, and so then they buy a house out here reasonable, and they're bringing it with them, their culture like, which is why I think like the lutheran church, like why there's a lot of lutherans in this little pocket, because I think they popped over from there. So I wonder if like the casserole thing because, like, they grew up with whatever you know casserole and they're like, yeah, of course we make corn dish casserole. It's like what? Well, because a bunch of michiganers are here or missouri or wherever, that's my that's pretty good, I'll buy it okay, yeah, I think both my grandfathers came out for aerospace yep, my dad came out from mission, from aerospace.
Speaker 1:And once you get here, you're like why would I leave? Exactly? Yeah, uh, I bought a house here. Now it's worth three times as much. I can't buy my own house back anymore. This is back then even right. And they're like yeah, and the weather's nice, I don't have to move to florida for weather, so I guess I'll just stay here it is weird because if you go to most most beach cities, um, they have a certain feel or a vibe.
Speaker 2:Yep, if you're in West Torrance, where we grew up yeah, maybe it's just because I grew up it does not feel like a beach city, even like Redondo Beach. Part of it is, too, because it's incredibly inaccessible to people that don't live there.
Speaker 1:Right, Because it's so far from the freeway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, they don't want you to come close to us and so, like when you go to Huntington Beach, it's like people from everywhere are there. When you go to Avenue C in Redondo Beach, it is people that live within two miles of Avenue C and we went to high school most of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's where you get your special c from alberito jr, and that was our high school days and it was the best yes 250, you know, but it's, that's interesting, and you're absolutely right, and we don't want a freeway close by, so yeah, but it was also.
Speaker 2:It created this sort of culture of like people, like there's a joke. I think that I don't know if it was your dad that told it or you told it via your parents or something like that, but it was like they had friends. We're like, oh, we're moving, and your parents are like, oh, where to? And they're like the valley. They're like, well, it was nice knowing you guys. Well, that's absolutely true yeah, it's like you might as well have been moving to france, because we don't leave our pocket here, but do you leave orange?
Speaker 2:I mean I do just because we've got family spread out, so we go to buena park, lake forest, long beach you go to family members houses, I go to family members houses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you don't, I mean, go and like just a part of your life is not like I'm gonna go to that restaurant, I like in mission viejo.
Speaker 2:Well, some well, I don't know. I mean, I feel like for us to be able, like when we go to the beach, we go down like we'll go to laguna beach or we'll go to newport or we'll go to, like we do travel more and like I can be on the freeway from my house in so fast, a couple of minutes, so fast. That's amazing. Like sometimes I'll take the freeway just because it's faster than right the four traffic lights and that feels like so foreign, as the south papers and we're like the freeway, that's a work to get to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just another street we take, we're like oh, you're gonna sit a test and just hop on freeway. That's a work to get to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just another street we take. We're like, oh, you're going to sit a test and just hop on the 55. Yeah, that's interesting. Pop over and you're right, Like you have to go to, like the beach is work for you, but the beach is close enough that you go to the beach regularly, if you will in the summer. But it's like it's a little bit of a process, Whereas here it's blocks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys can ride your bikes.
Speaker 1:I mean, we grew up, that too, it's like oh, we can just go to the beach. And then my wife, who's not from here, she's like, and I'm like, ah, but it's sandy and it's a lot of work. She's like are you freaking, kidding me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, she appreciates it a lot more than you Like.
Speaker 1:It's just the beach we went there yesterday Exactly, I don't know. Whereas people are like I can't wait. Yeah, that's what I tell myself.
Speaker 2:Every time I go to the beach I'm like people plan for years to do exactly what we're doing and we're like do we really want to go through that hassle?
Speaker 1:Do I want to get that? Sandy, have a cooler.
Speaker 2:Have a terry.
Speaker 1:Get a vacuum in Gary down to the vacuum, the car, ooh geez, where's the worst?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're here for like 20 minutes. All right, everybody you want to go. It's too perfect today.
Speaker 1:It's too. I hate it. It's too nice. Yeah, we have a hard life.
Speaker 2:Pray for us, okay, all right, so so banana bread we got there because of zucchini, bread and casseroles. That was a wormhole of its own sort.
Speaker 2:Okay, boy, let me catch myself up. Okay, so church is a nice little service. Got our banana bread. We decided to check out the town of Gloucester, massachusetts, since we were there, yeah, yeah. So, oh, happy Halloween, by the way. It was a very cute town and I put cute in quotes. Okay, you know the type that all crafty women dream about, and I mean that as in arts and crafts. Right, it's good of me to clarify that we refrained from drooling all over ourselves. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1:My father-in-law went into a Hobby Lobby because he heard it was a what are they called Like a craft store, and he'd never been in one in the South. And he's like, oh well, you guys are going into that grocery store, I'm going to run into that crafting store. They're thinking it was going to be rc cars, model trains, yeah stuff. And he walked out of his like it was not one rc car in that whole place, just a bunch of pillars and cute signs that say pray love.
Speaker 2:Speaking of crafty women, he's like yes, this was very disappointing exactly I was this yeah, I think what I'm saying here is this town was basically like one hobby lobby, split up into many different stores exactly the different departments yeah, exactly so. We did find a small diving museum that we spent some time in. Now I remember that. Yeah, it was great we got to put on helmets. Yep, yep, eat that. Craft shops yep, yeah, I to post some pictures. We have pictures of us in these old cup. Are they copper or brass?
Speaker 1:Maybe both diving helmets but, yeah, brass, copper and tin mixed together yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I knew that it's an amalgam.
Speaker 1:Those are. It's a. I like that word for sermon reasons, so I know that because I've used it before, so it's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Log that away.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Thank you. How are you having?
Speaker 1:that applause. But that was yeah, Well done. I still love those 36 seconds yeah.
Speaker 2:It's such a long amount of time done, we can just kind of say listen to 36 seconds of applause every day. If you're not as you deserve it, your life will be different. Anyways, before completely ODing on this small fishing village, we drove to Plymouth, massachusetts, which is where the famed Plymouth Rock sits. We put off the thrill of the rock since it was dark at the time of our arrival, so we'll talk about Plymouth Rock tomorrow. Okay, hold your thoughts, because I know you have a lot to say.
Speaker 1:I do as well. Okay, I was going to say I don't think I'm alone.
Speaker 2:I have talked about Plymouth. Rock many a times since visiting Plymouth Rock, just like the.
Speaker 1:Pilgrims did. That's a poll question coming up in the next episode. Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm saving it. I'm not going to spill the beans on that one.
Speaker 1:Stop it Stop it Okay.
Speaker 2:We went to a mall where we had a terrible dinner.
Speaker 1:A theme. Horrible service or horrible food.
Speaker 2:I don't specify. I don't think we had horrible service like in Chicago since Chicago, but apparently the food was bad. The Ninja Turtles were there, though, so that was good. As I mentioned, it was Halloween. Oh, I thought they really showed up. So what I'm about to say, okay, okay, shaped a large part of your life for the next few months, I would say. I have no idea, I'm ready you really took to this thing and made it a part of your being. I feel like I'm ready.
Speaker 1:I do not remember this at all.
Speaker 2:You will. I don't know what it was about this, but something struck a chord in you and it was like you were about this. I'm ready.
Speaker 2:We saw the movie ray that was wonderful, okay, yeah yeah, so we, we went to the movies and I remember we were it was like in a mall and we went and saw the movie race, since we figured people wouldn't give us candy Even if we said trick or treat, real nice. That's what I wrote. Uh, yeah, cause you know, I guess we figured like, well, what else are we going to do on Halloween?
Speaker 2:night as to 22 year old dude so so we saw Ray, which was the biopic about Ray Charles, played by Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx. And boy did you like?
Speaker 1:that movie. I I liked them. I would say I liked the music more than the movie, but it's, which is what? Because then all of a sudden I was constantly playing the Ray Charles is is the truth. That's the truth, that's that's. I didn't hate it, no, and if you go back and you listen now, still good, still solid, but it it did go on a lot, I would. I'd say that that album is one that I think of, especially because, like I tried to time it right so that the georgia song came on, we broke into the georgia uh line. I don't think it worked, I think it was a little late, but it wasn't, it was a good try. And then there's one other album I think of when I think of the Road Trip in particular, I'm curious if you think of the same one Gorilla, oh no, by Paul Simon. Oh, yeah, paul Simon, but that was another one. I was thinking of the Jason Mraz live album, was that? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Did you listen to that?
Speaker 1:Yes, we did, and I think that was really my first exposure to like a lot of Jason Mraz Cause I think you introduced him to me. Oh, and your sister, I think I introduced him to you, right.
Speaker 2:Probably she really liked. I didn't know, he was that early.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. That's crazy how early he is. I think that album was like 2003.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because Jason Mraz in my mind does not overlap with college at all.
Speaker 1:That was more of like I think we were discovering him on this trip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, yeah, so I was letting my counting crows have a break.
Speaker 1:Post-college and we're just going right into jason morales I'm trying to look up. Okay, so the the remedy, which is the album or is it? Mr a to. No that's a second album, so the Remedy, which is on the Waiting for my Rock to Come album, was in 2002. Oh yeah, perfect, right, yeah, okay. Isn't that crazy though? Yeah, okay, he's been around a lot longer than I mean. That's like 20, what? 22 years of music? That's a career.
Speaker 2:He's still great.
Speaker 1:I I saw him live a couple times it's getting a bit weird yeah he is for some time, but you know very earthy, but you've seen him live. Oh, he's so good. Really good live, really good show. If you have a chance to see jason morales live, yeah, that's a good time, that's a good time yeah, um, but ray, yes, ray charles, great movie, good soundtrack.
Speaker 2:Did we? Were we able? Because because we had the xm radio. But it's not like today where you've got spotify when you can just like say ray charles, and play all the albums. So how did we? We probably maybe we bought the cd.
Speaker 1:We're at a walmart. Walmarts were everywhere. Oh for sure, here's Ray Charles' greatest hits, bam. That's what we did and that's why I was like okay, if we start it now and we'll be in Georgia and 15 miles, maybe that song will be gone when we go in. Yeah, okay, boom, but we have thousands of miles and hundreds of hours together. So it's like, yeah, yeah, that for me.
Speaker 2:So I mentioned Paul Simon. Sorry, I didn't. I had never listened to Paul Simon before, but that was something I think you grew up with yeah, my dad.
Speaker 1:So that was got a lot of Paul.
Speaker 2:Simon, that was good.
Speaker 1:He's great. He's so good, he's so talented. Sorry, I'm okay, hot mic, I'm okay yeah.
Speaker 2:My vertical mouse.
Speaker 1:It's one of those things and this is one of the curiosity not the curiosity, but a fact of the road trip is we were constantly together for three months and so sometimes I'll joke to other people. I'm like, well, we were more than married, because you're never not apart from each other. Like the longest we were apart was when I was lost in the forest yesterday. Yeah, because we were literally apart. Every other time we were within like 20 feet. My love of randomly loving of Ray Charles. If it hadn't been a real marriage, it would be one of those things that eventually the other spouse is just like I hate that so much Just starting to love. Yeah, ray Charles, of course he's going to turn on Ray Charles.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, but because it was still like we were just friends and it was funny. I was just like, that's one of those little things where you're like, oh, it's not really that big a deal, but they do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, it's not. It's not really that big a deal, but they do it. Oh yeah, yeah, so true, I do think I have a tendency. I mean, this is everybody, but like after I see something like that, I have a tendency to dive down the hole, like google articles. Discover more, listen to the music, read about the history is that kind of an everybody thing or is that a me thing? Discover more, listen to the music, read about the history Is that kind of an everybody?
Speaker 2:thing, or is that a me thing? No, I think a lot of people do that.
Speaker 1:Okay yeah, so I thought so I didn't think I was alone in that, but but that I think that's. That was like oh cool, oh yeah, that's cool. I didn't listen. Oh wow, he's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I like. I have Prime Music instead of Spotify, like everybody else in the world. I don't know why I just signed up for that one years ago and kept with it, right. I don't know, spotify probably has this too, but prime music does this thing where, like, as you're playing the song, it'll like tell you facts about the artist or the song, and sometimes I'll just like read, watch and read that as the song, and I do enjoy that.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I would say no, spotify doesn't have that same thing. They have a good lyric thing, the benefit. Like Prime Video, you can find out like oh, tell me a little more about this, or who's in this scene, you know, if you pause, like Prime Video. Oh, that is cool. That is cool.
Speaker 2:The x-ray, yeah yeah, yeah, it's x-ray that they yeah same thing, this episode brought to you by Prime Video.
Speaker 1:Hey, amazon, are you listening?
Speaker 2:kick us a little bit of that Amazon money. Huh, you don't have, you know you, we know you got the money, you're good for it. Yeah, just a little sponsorship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, won't even notice, you know we'll only have Spotify if you, no, no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hey. So, uh, before we just completely depart from this, I do want to say though yeah, and like this area of massachusetts, these little fishing villages, like and like I said, we'll post some pictures not only of us in those helmets, but like a little shipyard and, um, I'm having like weird deja vu because I swear we already. I was like, did we already do this episode? Because I swear I talked about my little wooden figurine guy right I don't think so oh my gosh, did I dream this?
Speaker 2:anyways, it was just a cool little fishing, yeah, village like and like the shipyards with the old wooden lobster boats and stuff it. It was neat.
Speaker 1:I just really think it was like a cool. The Bar Harbor episode is probably what you're thinking. Maybe, yeah, you might be right, but it does a very cool. Yeah, it's salty old thing wood. Yeah, it has that whole vibe. It's very cool.
Speaker 2:And you know what else I didn't put in here, and I can't believe it. And I haven't typed up the next episode, so I don't know if we know we were plymouth the next episode, but this is halloween.
Speaker 1:We were very close to salem, massachusetts on halloween which we thought would be a bigger deal, and we tried to find things to do that were like cool there and I feel like there was some, maybe some haunted houses or something, but but once you've been to that scary farm, we were kind of like those aren't going to be as good as not scary farm, so we just avoided them.
Speaker 1:And they were like 20 bucks so we were like, ah, we're not gonna do that. But we were kind of like, oh, this, this could be cool it.
Speaker 2:That was not as cool as we thought, no, no, but it was cool that, like by proximity, we're like ooh, we're in Salem, massachusetts, for which everybody knows Salem is where they. I tried to come up with something stupid, but I couldn't do it, couldn't pull it out on time, that's true, I'm sorry everybody.
Speaker 1:The truth or the make-believe thing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew you were. I could feel you waiting for it. Yeah, the make-believe thing yeah, I knew you were. I could feel you waiting for it in Salem.
Speaker 1:I'm going to follow you right down there, but I wasn't sure where we were going, so I was ready.
Speaker 2:What do you think of when you think about witches? Oh, that's a weird question, I know I have multiple different things. Yeah, I don't know, yeah, when I think of that, I don't know, I think, if I could focus, yeah, yeah when I think of that. As I was talking about Halloween in Salem, I was like, oh, the Sanderson sisters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I think of. Of course, that's a good movie.
Speaker 2:It's a good movie, but I was also thinking of Monty Python when they were doing like the witch trials, like how do we know if she's a witch? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Throw her in the water.
Speaker 2:Witches float. Well, what else floats? Ducks, small churches, pebbles, really small ones, I don't know. She turned me into a newt. Oh, I got better.
Speaker 1:That's where it all ends right, oh?
Speaker 2:gosh.
Speaker 1:Well, do we do?
Speaker 2:anything else on this day? Or is Ray the end? Ray is the end, nice and just the beginning. Yep, so big day tomorrow. We are going to talk about what we think of Plymouth Rock.
Speaker 1:Yep, whether or not you should make a detour to get there or not, it's really the question. Yeah, and you will find out on the next episode of the team to road podcast.
Speaker 2:Sounds good, got to sounds good. Got to wait till then. You don't want to miss it. No, you don't tell. Tell literally everybody.
Speaker 1:You know that this episode posts about it on the social medias. I think that's how you say it. Yes, and tell people to listen and to enjoy the King's road podcast. We are enjoying doing this for you, so see ya, andrew. Goodbye, thank you.