Thank you for listening to the Kings of the Road podcast, a podcast where you come and get to listen to stories about the present and the past Us going on a road trip 20 years ago, discovering the world, serving churches, sleeping in Walmart parking lots all sorts of enjoyable stuff. So you are with me and my name is Scott Hawkins and Andrew Gere, and we are in pennsylvania, pennsylvania there it is.
Speaker 2:I, I, uh can't help but smile every time I hear that song.
Speaker 1:It's very good, thank you, aaron. Thank you aaron menezes hopefully you smile too, listener, when you hear this song, you go oh, I'm about to be entertained for 30 minutes of pure pleasure it's time it's time to have a good time, have a good time hanging out for, yeah, so many ways to go with that. Okay, oh, oh. What have I done? Good time for a short time. Andrew's motto hey, hey, hey, hey-o.
Speaker 2:Hey-o, wait, okay, let's move on shall we, probably we should just hey. I'm glad to see that you are hydrating yourself from the scooter mug again I am.
Speaker 1:I made sure that I had the scooter mug ready to go today, not the Red Solo Cup, that's good. Because I felt like I cheated on our podcast when I had the Red Solo Cup, so I've gone back to what should be. Thank you, summer Kelly, and you will receive yours whenever you decide to trek it up to the real part of California, where real people live, los Angeles.
Speaker 2:No thanks, I left Los Angeles for a reason.
Speaker 1:Couldn't afford it, because you're not cool enough Not cool enough to be there.
Speaker 2:Your cool level was only a four. We only take fives and above. Oh darn it. Yeah, I just, I just watch from a distance?
Speaker 1:yes, you do, you're. Oh, hey, all of your cool people. You want to know something else that I watched from a distance? Yes, oh, my child almost fall to his death, so let's continue what a new story you like that. I felt like that was a good right there yeah, because I genuinely before yeah, okay, go well. I wanted to say one thing. Did you have a blue jolly rancher?
Speaker 2:your tongue is like I'm five years old, blue yeah, no, it wasn't a jolly rancher, but good, here's the weird thing my tongue is blue. I just looked at that, but it it was a watermelon airhead.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it was green no, but my tongue is blue. Yeah, that is. Oh, what kind of crazy chemistry is that?
Speaker 2:I don't know chemistry listen, tell us, I us how that happens.
Speaker 1:I like airheads though. Yeah, they're great A lot of flavor. I had some s'mores cookies before we got on air, so Andrew and I went snowboarding, uh-huh we did, we did, it was great, great day.
Speaker 2:It had snowed the day before. You might have seen our reel on Facebook or Instagram. Yeah, if you're not following us on.
Speaker 1:Facebook or Instagram. It's worthy because we're trying to try to post more stuff there and get to see more things. But yeah, it was a perfect. It was almost as perfect a snowboarding day as you can get.
Speaker 2:It was great. It was great. So it was, and Scott's son Isaac, came with us and he's six years old and tears it up. He's so good. He's pretty good for six years old. He's so good. He's so good.
Speaker 1:It's fun to be around. It was fun. It was fun to be with him and he was great. I loved it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the main lift chair. We went to a place called Snow Valley in Big Bear and the main lift chair that we took up and rode in the morning was six people, like it's big enough, it's like a couch for six people that takes you to the top of the mountain. So after lunch we're we're like let's go to the back side of the mountain, yep, and explore it, because we haven't really done that yet and there's not as many people over there snow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes it's not even open yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're like, let's do it, since we're here. So to get over there, though, you had to take a smaller lift chair that was only wide enough for two people. So, scott you know, hey, isaac, you want to ride with me or you want to ride with Andrew? Well, of course, he's like Andrew, I'm like yeah, heck, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we ride that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're having a good old time. We're riding around back there and stuff and then to go back. So it's towards the end of the day and we're starting to head back and you have to actually take this chairlift back up to this one peak and then you can go down back to the rest of the mountain.
Speaker 1:It's unusual to go back over a peak to the other side of the mountain. Yeah, because you are truly like two peaks on this part of the mountain. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right. So these two-person lifts, like they're kind of old school technology, Like they don't really slow down. The big six persons when they get into the thing where you're getting on them, they kind of slow down and it's easy to load on them. So so Isaac wants to go with me again. So I say all right. So I'm on the, I'm on the right hand side, I'm holding his hand, he's on the left of me. I look over my shoulder to see where the chair is coming and I hop on the chair and I've still got isaac's hand and I'm like why is he pulling my hand?
Speaker 2:and he's like andrew and I look over and I I look and I see my hand holding his hand, but his head is down below the chair and we are now. We are now going up the mountain, you are ascending.
Speaker 1:We are ascending this steep mountain sending.
Speaker 2:and I am looking down at poor young isaac who is now dangling his entire body, is dangling off the chair. Oh no, above treachery. And I'm like, oh no. And so I grab him with my other arm and I try to pull him up and I can't do it.
Speaker 1:No, it's a. It's a hard angle, it's a hard yeah Cause.
Speaker 2:I'm sitting on a chair and I'm hunched over and he's hanging off and I'm like I can't pull you up. He's not light, yeah. And he's got a snowboard strapped to his feet and I'm like, oh my gosh, my arms aren't working, I can't pull him up, and so, I don't know, at some point I'm like, stop the lift. I looked back to the guy who's operating the chairlift. I'm like stop the lift and he goes. I did In the most calm voice, he goes.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:He's not having it, not worried about it, he's just no chill, no so so he stops the lift, which then means I'm swinging back and forth at this point because the thing has momentum and then it stops. So now I'm swinging, with poor isaac swinging below it and he's like don't drop me, you're gonna kill me. So if you did watch the instagram reel and if you're wondering, man, why is isaac so angry in that video, this might be a little bit of the reason he also had to pee, I think he had to be very bad as well, so I can't, so let's yeah, yeah, so you're behind me luckily, we'll go first.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, I decided to go behind because I'm like if they fall, I can try to avoid them or figure that out, and so I'm behind and I'm just shooting on. What's interesting is in your mind it's. It feels like a long time because it ended very poorly, but it's all probably two and a half seconds long oh it, it was so fast, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:If like so I'm, you get you, as you mentioned, a good point. It's coming, it's coming fast. And I asked Isaac, like how did that happen? He's like, well, it just hit me in my back and I'm like, oh, because yeah too tight, and so you, you know you and him had to like do a little like hot motion and he wasn't ready for it. You're looking for the lift, it's coming in fast. It hits him in the back and I actually been thinking about it, um, processing it out loud with my therapist and trying to go through all those stages of emotional grief that are necessary yeah, but if you were to build it, probably would have just mowed him over, right?
Speaker 2:uh, he wouldn't have been able to get maybe he probably would have just fallen down and I was thinking, went right over the top of him maybe preferable at that point, but still.
Speaker 1:but not as good a story so you're. So I I'm just scooting out, stoot, stoot, stoot to get him into my spot, okay, and it's coming, so I gotta be too. And I looked and I see the lift operator like intently staring at you guys, and I'm like huh, and then he, bam, hits the button. What happened? Right?
Speaker 2:Until I knew from the jump that he goes. That kid's too short. This isn't going to go well.
Speaker 1:So he hits a button and I look over and you are looking back. It's like stop the lift, stop the lift. And Isaac is just dangling from underneath the ski lift, just swinging back and forth and you are holding him with everything you have and the ski operator is like just drop him. And Isaac is like don't drop me. Isaac has no concept of how high he is.
Speaker 2:He thinks he's 100 feet in the air at this point. At that point, who knows? With jagged rocks below him.
Speaker 1:Because you're just. He is legitimately just hanging in the air.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's no feet on the planet. I have both hands on one arm.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I'm just looking down at him as he's dangling.
Speaker 1:And I've got these big thick gloves on and he's got a jacket on with gloves. Please do not drop me.
Speaker 2:Yes, he's got no chance. He can't pull himself back up. No.
Speaker 1:And so the shieldless operator's like just wait till it stops swinging and then drop him, and then he's running over to you or not. He's not running, there's no hurry in this man.
Speaker 1:There's no hurry, it happens all the time. I've seen this before. He drabs Isaac's legs. You let him go, he gets down, he unstraps Isaac, brings him back to me. We had to strap him in real quick. The line at this point is probably five deep. It's not that big a line. It's not that big a line. I love it that they're like don't tell mom, this is not a mobster.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the first thing I shared back. I yell back in my insecurity of dropping Scott's son. I'm like we're not going to tell your mom about this, isaac.
Speaker 1:And then all the other people in line are like yeah, that stays here on the mountain. Good call, what happens on the mountain stays on the mountain. Yeah, it was so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, on the mountain like, yeah, that happens on the mountain, stays on the mountain, yeah, and so it was so funny. Yeah, yeah, go ahead go ahead.
Speaker 1:It goes back in real quick and he just like jumps on the lift with me and luckily I'm like, okay, lift him up, put him on the lift. So I made sure, yeah, and getting off that lift was not easy either, because it was one of those like you just dip. Yeah, you just dip and then, like you're supposed to know, like get off here, and then it goes back up and it's going to go.
Speaker 2:This was like weird. It was a weird lift because, yeah, where we got off it was only that, like the halfway point. That lift kept going. It's even hard to describe, because you actually come up a peak and then you go down a peak, yep, and so yeah, we were at the bottom. Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and going on that lift coming in was weird because you're like going down a pretty steep mountain in the lift.
Speaker 2:Sharing like this is an odd experience.
Speaker 1:Usually we go up, yeah, and so I had to get off with him and I'm like, okay, we're getting off here and I'm like he's getting off right. I'm like we just had that moment. So I'm like stand there. My basis was like, like you're over there?
Speaker 2:yeah, because yeah, it was not slowing down, it was fast and it was a steep hill to get off of and yeah, I was just like, oh man just going down a black diamond on his butt, basically yeah and we knew that going in we're like this kid's gonna have to go down a black diamond just to get back to this chair, which he did most of it on his butt, which was pretty funny.
Speaker 1:And he was kind of like screaming, like I can't stop. I can't stop, like kind of laughing scooting down the hill. No, but what a trooper. Now, many props to Isaac for just jumping right back on the lift and then going, and there still has some life skills to learn, though, because we dropped andrew off, went in to say hi to mary and his girls, and the very first thing I said when we saw mary was andrew tried to kill me.
Speaker 2:This today yeah, there was no. There was no respecting the code that we had established. That listen, he, we don't talk about this. He's not yet ready for.
Speaker 1:Vegas or the mountain secret. So he immediately broke the code of the mountain and you had to say how he was dangling when I told him the story, because I said at home I put him to sleep, whatever. And I'm like when you wake up, probably the first thing Isaac is going to say to you is that Andrew tried to kill me. Just so you know. And let me tell you that that's not like far from the truth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's not entirely wrong. He's not entirely wrong. It wasn't Andrew's intention to kill you, but he almost did kill you.
Speaker 1:Oh, and Emily was like that's my worst nightmare, like being on a lift like with a kid. You know what I mean was like that's my worst nightmare. I like being on a lift like with a kid, you know. I mean like high up with a kid, yeah, and just dangling down like yeah, she's like again it's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's one of those things where because we've all experienced, if you've ever gotten skiing like there are the chairlifts where you're way, way up there. By the time I lowered him down as far as I could and then dropped him, he was like a foot off the ground.
Speaker 1:Yeah, two to three feet at the most.
Speaker 2:No, I mean, he was not, and it was, yeah, again soft powder. That's what I mean. There was a guy there Like in your head.
Speaker 1:all of those steps happened of, like you holding, you looking down, you seeing him, like it's probably like a slow motion in your head, whereas in real time it was like yeah, yeah, because you knew right away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in my mind it was 30 minutes, but I think probably start to end. The whole thing was maybe 45 seconds by the time you even unstrapped him and got him strapped back in and back on the chair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was all, but yeah that was funny that was but the moment of seeing you holding eyes at dangling on a steel lift. That will forever be in my brain. I, I'm glad. One of those, I'm glad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's a, it's a seared and now, let's, now, let's bring this back and tie this up on a bow shall we for our listeners, because we always talk about on this podcast. Just say yes to adventure right, and part of the reason is is because if I didn't go right that day, we wouldn't have had this story that we'll probably tell over and over again for the rest of our lives it was one of those ones and I was saying this just before.
Speaker 2:I was like, as it was happening and I'm trying to figure out how not to break his legs, and in my mind, the other half of my mind was like this is going to be a great story, this is great for the podcast this is. This is good, not even the podcast, but just for life. I'm like this is going to be funny.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, in a while I have I have years of sitting around having a beer and telling this story in front of me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1:And you know, I mean that's a, it's a. Really, it's a really good point, andrew, that thank you to the opportunity to say yes to adventure. Then all of the like, great moments later, with friends, new people, introducing yourself, having fun, laughing, and you have a story. Now you have a story right there ready to bring up. Hey, there's one time I and it will get in five years from now he will be over a cliff. Yeah, right, like we're dangling him you. You held him the whole way over the lift, yeah, yeah, it's like a fish story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it starts off as a two pound bass and by the time, yeah 10 years later it was him up with two arms and pull him straight up and set him down in the seat next to you oh man, it's like 35 years old and you're yeah, the crowd, the crowd cheers yeah.
Speaker 2:Well done, sir. I get a medal from the fire department. Yeah, exactly, it's all of those things that are happening. Thank you, yes, thank you.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. Yeah, but now this is currently the truth, or as close as we can remember. Yeah, but yeah, you say yes to adventure and all of a sudden you get to go and dangle children over and then have years and years of story to say in the future.
Speaker 2:So yeah, adventures, doing things, getting out there is what makes your life interesting and colorful, and it also makes you an interesting person, because then you have these funny stories and I don't know you never intend for them to happen.
Speaker 1:You can't manufacture them, they just happen. And I think for you, well, you can tell your experience. But, like, just going again was a reminder of like, oh, this is a fun thing to do. Like sometimes revisiting or trying those things again, like it's just things that we haven't done in a while. You do my denny go. Oh, yeah, there's a reason people do pay lifted prices to go and do these things because it is fun. Yeah, and you said the beginning it was like a perfect day. I mean it couldn't have gotten better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I've used that as an excuse for a long time, like, oh, I'm not gonna go, it's too expensive, and blah, blah, blah, blah blah. And this time it was it was. It was easy for me because my wife and kids were off doing something else anyway, so it was like it was a perfect opportunity. I think it was anyway, so it was like it was a perfect opportunity.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll go, but I think it was that nice moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:To remember like oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I need to do this more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it is fun. It is so much fun and it was a perfect day and it was so cool and I was like this is a really cool time to be there with you and to be with Isaac and just to have it be the three of us and hang out and get to do that. It was, it was fun and we all came back alive.
Speaker 2:We did, we did and, uh, he got some pizza out of the deal. I don't know, he did.
Speaker 1:That's any consolation, fun day. Yeah, All right Well just one more thing to add to the therapy couch. That's what I tell the kids, don't worry. Later you'll have to process all the stuff that we're doing to you, that's right, that's what's fun, that's right. We're sponsored. We just set aside $100.
Speaker 2:$100 in memory, sponsored by the American.
Speaker 1:Psychologist, psychiatric Association yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, we're in Pennsylvania now.
Speaker 1:Let's flash back. We did seven days with seven states or something in like eight hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, six states the last day, so we are now day 36, tuesday, november 2nd 2004. Okay, we spent the night in Lebanon, pennsylvania, at a Walmart. We parked next to a gravel area with a sign posted that went unnoticed by us at first. When we did notice the sign, we discovered it read parking for horse and buggy only. Oh, I do remember that. Yes, hooray for Amish. We were in Amish country. That's exciting, love it. That was a cool sign. How weird it was a picture of a horse and buggy and reserved parking for them, are they allowed to go?
Speaker 1:to Walmart?
Speaker 2:I believe they must, I guess they don't know all the amish, amish rules and there's also different levels.
Speaker 1:I think of amish, so, but if you're in a horse and buggy. Good point, right, if you're on a horse and buddy level. But I think you have to buy supplies, right? So I think they just can't have electricity, but they can go and buy toilet paper, butter or whatever they need yeah because they're probably churning their own butter, but oh, they're churning their own butter for sure.
Speaker 2:That's what they're known for that's exactly what they're known for yeah, um, I think I have a picture of that and if so, we'll share it. Um. So from there we traveled on to hershey, pennsylvania. What a cool place to drive into the streetlights are big Hershey's Kisses, or they're shaped like big Hershey's Kisses. They're not actual Hershey's Kisses.
Speaker 1:Probably good that I clarified that Hot days would be a real mess. Hot days and the fact that they wouldn't be lights would also be a trouble. You're like, hey, that streetlight is not working because it's a large piece of chocolate.
Speaker 2:Hmm, I didn't see it, so I crashed into it. Oh, silver lining was.
Speaker 1:It fell over and I got to eat the chocolate at the end, so, and there was literally a silver lining, because you just silver unwrapped.
Speaker 2:Well done oh that's good you did. You were really good in that one. Yeah, no, that was all you. Uh, we wanted to take a factory tour, but that was no longer at the factory. It moved To Chocolate Town, usa. Their theme park. They have a stadium and roller coasters and the whole bit. But come on, why else would anybody visit To get some chocolate? So we took a tour and it was kind of childish and weak, but still it was neat yeah, I remember it being more theme park ish, less, yeah, factory ish again kind of like ben and jerry's.
Speaker 2:It's like hershey, pennsylvania, willy wonka chocolate factory expectations, yes, and then you go into it and I I think it was like you get into like a Pennsylvania Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Expectations, yes, and then you go into it and I think it was like you get into like a moving car, yep, and it takes you on a track, and there's like some pictures and maybe videos, and like it's yeah, it wasn't what we want it to be.
Speaker 1:What I'm thinking, though, is I don't know many cities that own the theme as well as Hershey, like all way down to the streetlights, like they know where you are. Right, it's not. I'm trying to think of another town that is as famous. The town is as famous as that. I like. What's the comparison? Like a baseball? No, like maybe like cooper's town for baseball, but if you go in, there is like the yeah, is the baseball?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I mean, it's just interesting they have baseballs on the street, on the street lights like, like sewer cap covers or something. I have no idea, I've never been there, but but that's what I mean.
Speaker 1:it's like, wow, yeah, they really like the city is like you're in hershey for a reason. It's not because you want to be in Hershey, it's because you want chocolate, and so we're going to own that everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have heard that the Hershey theme park, or I don't know what it's called, somebody helped me out here. Oh, chocolate Town, USA, right, I just read that a second ago. I hear it's pretty good. Oh really, yeah, so log that away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely the only thing that I'm, as I'm speaking this out and thinking about it out loud like Redondo Beach does own the beach-ness of it. Well you know like.
Speaker 2:I mean a lot of beach cities own the beach.
Speaker 1:That's what I mean. But it knows where it is. I'm saying I mean it knows where it is. I'm saying, hershey, it knows why you're there. Like Orange too. That way it kind of owns the Orange theme. I guess Hollywood Not really. No, that's just Walk of Fame. Yeah, the dragons and the stars Maybe. I wonder where that started. Yeah, good point, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's probably others out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there is. I'm just glad that they're like hey, we know why you're here.
Speaker 2:Does Detroit have like Motor City stuff everywhere?
Speaker 1:Well, that's where the Rouge plant was, and I do think that they kind of know like car stuff, yeah, so like the draft is in Detroit, the NFL draft is in Detroit this year, so they have a big deer as one of the theme things.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I guess you're right. So I guess that talent is half the more we think about this. New York City, I mean just apples everywhere, apple pie, awkward amount of apples. Apple sauce, apple trees, big, big apple, not tiny apples.
Speaker 1:No, that was a whole other sponsor. Dot com. The big apple, just a big apple. Not tinyapplescom. No, that was a whole other sponsor. The Big Apple, just the Big Apple. Where did that name come?
Speaker 2:from Chicago. There's just machine guns everywhere for the mobsters and the Windy.
Speaker 1:City the Windy.
Speaker 2:City. Yeah, just picture this lady named Wendy everywhere With a little red purse.
Speaker 1:Give her a square burger, wendy, oh, dave Thomas. Did you start Too far? Give you square burgers, wendy. Oh, dave Thomas did you start? This city. You really did well here, didn't you, sir? We don't cut corners.
Speaker 2:That's why our patties are square. That's good. Is that what their theme was? Yeah, that's why the patties are square because it's a reminder not to cut corners. That's clever, right? It's very clever.
Speaker 1:And I am fully bought into the biddy bag in the inflation of fast food in general, like biddy bag is the only direction to go with fast food Dude you know what?
Speaker 2:Tell me. Last night we went to Chipotle. Okay, we haven't done Chipotle in a long time.
Speaker 1:Yes, I do it relatively regularly. But go ahead. We haven't done Chipotle in a long time. Yes, I do it relatively regularly.
Speaker 2:But go ahead, okay, say more. So I go. I was like I could order online. I'm just going to order in the store. Yeah, so I get myself a burrito and I'm like I want this, I want that, I want this, I want that. By the time it gets to the end of the line, the guy tries to roll it. No, and it won't close. He goes do you want me to double it up? And I said yeah double it up.
Speaker 1:You did the classic he got. I didn't do it on purpose.
Speaker 2:I just wanted this and that and the like. It wasn't. It's what I always get there right and he just was too generous or something that he had to get another tortilla and double wrap it. It was it amazing.
Speaker 1:That feels like a life goal. You just achieved the unintentional double wrap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like, compared to other fast food today I feel like for my family of five, I got out of there for 40 bucks and I was like that's a deal.
Speaker 1:That's a deal and it's very good. It's very good. Yeah, it's very good. Yeah, it's very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very good. Yeah, that's the thing I like about Chipotle. It's like oh, it's not just French fries and chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1:No, it's very good. It's actually pretty healthy food, Chipotle if you're listening right now, please sponsor us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kick us some food burritos.
Speaker 1:Maybe we said this already on one of our first episodes.
Speaker 2:I feel like the first time we ever had or I've had chipotle was in denver when we started.
Speaker 1:I have that memory. Yeah, yeah, I feel like that was did it? Did it start there? I don't know, but I do feel like that was like the first time that we were like oh yeah, this is great.
Speaker 2:And so I don't know if I ever had one store right? Yeah, me too. That's weird.
Speaker 1:I know it's weird the number of things we can remember about this, but yeah, that's, that's a great choice and I do have it. I have moved in life, though and I think this is a sign of maturity where I now do the burrito bowl and the chips and I do a lot of dipping. So I do a lot of dipping.
Speaker 2:So I do like, oh, with the chips.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it becomes like a I did the fork and I got to clean up some with the fork. But, boy, it's good when you have like a solid bowl going, because I feel like they feel the bowl more than the burrito, because they're worried about the double wrap with the burrito.
Speaker 2:Interesting See. For years and years I did the bowl, Okay, so you've gone the other way. I've actually gone the other way. You know why? Because their tortillas are so good. It's good, they're really really good. But that's a good point. I wonder if I should just get a bowl with like two tortillas on the side.
Speaker 1:You can get the side tortilla. It's like a quarter, I think, for the tortilla.
Speaker 2:Oh my, gosh, they don't charge you much. Yeah, okay, next time I'm doing that, so yeah these are things to think about.
Speaker 1:You can make your own little burrito Boop boop, boop, boop boop, make it. Yeah, I like torn my tortilla, so I've made a bunch of little ones. Maybe it's just starting with fajitas. Basically, we're talking about fajitas, right? Do you order?
Speaker 2:fajitas at Mexican restaurants? Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I think it's the best deal around.
Speaker 1:I like fajitas, but I also I'm such a sucker for the combination. I love options so much and I'm like oh, I didn't have a taco.
Speaker 2:A lot of times are like a taco and another boring thing and another fajita like comes out on a sizzling plate it's a spectacle it is all this. You get delicious meat and grilled veggies and tortillas and rice and beans, all like.
Speaker 1:It's just, uh, like you need there's like a little somebody not sitting next to you. It's like a show, it's like night coming out. Yeah, it's like a little woo and and I sat down. It's steaming.
Speaker 2:Everyone in the restaurant knows you have tortilla or but everybody in the restaurant is like I should have ordered the fajitas. They are.
Speaker 1:But not everybody's confident. Yeah, they're like oh, I didn't order that.
Speaker 2:Everyone's a little jealous Because you're like oh, I can't get the fajitas because clearly those must be so expensive.
Speaker 1:And they're not. They're not, they're usually not, no Do you do the double order of fajitas. Do you share?
Speaker 2:fajitas a lot.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I feel like that happens a lot in my life. No, yeah, it's a good thing to share, but I feel like there's always you know what though Whacking her with a fork.
Speaker 1:No, get your finger.
Speaker 2:That was my, that's my fajita. I do always feel like the power move or the like pro move when you have fajitas is, as soon as they bring them to you, you immediately just go. Can you bring me some extra tortillas also, right? Because they only give you like two yeah they don't give you enough yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm going to need at least six tortillas. I overstuff, though. That's always my problem.
Speaker 2:When I make my own anything, I'm yeah, yeah, more. Oh, now this is just just explodes out the side yeah, they are messy they are messy yeah, not good date food at all.
Speaker 1:Well, you know we don't have to worry about that though, no, but I'm just saying that if you were to rank things like, that would be high. So don't you think at our?
Speaker 2:okay, okay, good point. When we open up our restaurant, that has the bad day to skate patch in the women's bathroom, like we talked about a few weeks ago. Fajitas will not be on the menu, is what we're saying no, neither will like red sauce pasta.
Speaker 1:Ah right, right, because that's just bound to get somewhere.
Speaker 2:Ah right, right because that's just bound to get somewhere. In a way, then we're also helping the men out. Like we want people to. You know risk, right, because okay, no one likes that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, there's a lot of bad date foods. Basically, you should come in Anything with a fork yeah, anything with a fork Like you can fork and knife it. That's your best bet, that's your best bet.
Speaker 2:I got to take some notes here for that adventure one day. One last thing on Chipotle. I always opt for their guacamole.
Speaker 1:They have good guacamole. It's very good. It's truly house-made.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I pay the ridiculous price there for the guacamole Again.
Speaker 1:I think, compared to what guacamole is in other places in the world. They can get you for guacamole, you know, an appetizer guacamole $12. What?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, but we make it at your table, you don't need to make it here I don't care where you make it.
Speaker 1:I don't need a show I have my piquitas pan at my show.
Speaker 2:I don't have my show in the sizzling pan. That's for free. Yeah, that's a good time. Okay, so where else do we go? All right, back to chocolate. So we did go to the gift shop. We bought five bags of chocolates and a five pound box of Twizzlers. I wouldn't have guessed that.
Speaker 1:I would never have guessed that.
Speaker 2:Five pounds of.
Speaker 1:Twizzlers. I'm not even a big Twizzler fan. I think you and I both prefer the Red Vine to the Twizzler.
Speaker 2:You know what, though, I've grown to like and appreciate the Twizzlers quite a bit, I wouldn't even call it licorice.
Speaker 1:It's not licorice, it's just like I don't think red licorice is licorice either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh well, that's a different-. I like all I love all forms of licorice. Let me put it there I do. But, five pounds of Twizzlers, that's a lot of Twizzler, yeah, I don't know what we were thinking. Maybe we could give it as a gift. You're like. I can't wait to go to Hershey, pennsylvania known for their chocolate. What should we buy? Twizzlers.
Speaker 1:Twizzlers, of course. Why else would you go to Hershey Pennsylvania? There's no Twizzler in Pennsylvania, no yeah.
Speaker 2:Although I guess bags of chocolates. I wonder what do you think we? Got Probably had to have been Reese's peanut butter cups.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure that's Hershey's. Oh, that's owned by Hershey's. I think they're making stuff up In my mind. It's just five bags of Hershey's kisses.
Speaker 2:I bet you, we didn't even buy a single bag of Hershey's kisses, I mean I do like Hershey's kisses, though Someone offers you a. Hershey, kiss, you're never saying no to a Hershey Kiss. Oh, there's a bowl of those. You're taking some. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1:You walk by and it's a bowl of M&M's You're like yes, please, Thank you. No one's walking by without having at least one M&M.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Not a chance. So final note after the Twizzlers, there goes our teeth.
Speaker 1:Fair enough, but we still have them. Your mom works as a dental receptionist, so you're more sensitive to that.
Speaker 2:Right, right, that was an insecurity. Not far from Hershey is the capital of Pennsylvania, harrisburg, where the National Civil War Museum is located. It sits atop a hill overlooking the whole city and off into the distance, the museum is very good. It's like 8th grade history all in one building. Hmm, now, this was the point. I think this is the you know that phrase. I was today years old when I learned yeah, fill in the blank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that phrase In Harrisburg, pennsylvania is where I was like hang on a second. Okay, the Civil War happened at the same time as the Gold Rush, oh right, yeah, it's a lot later than people think I found. Yeah, and I was like what? Because in California they, they really put we do a whole year of california history. And what is california history? Well, we have missions and gold and levi's because of the gold right and yeah, yeah and a lot of farm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have anything too, but I hear you, no, it is. The civil war is a lot later than I think most people think it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 2:And they teach the Civil War in eighth grade, when you're at like, the epitome of not caring about anything. The epitome of not caring and I'm just like I hate history class. It's the worst. And so, like I didn't know much about the Civil War, it's the worst. And so, like I didn't know much about the civil war and then being there in harrisburg and other places like it, started to come alive for me.
Speaker 1:Didn't we see the gettysburg? Didn't we do that?
Speaker 2:I think we drove through gettysburg as well yeah, we did because we went in there and there was like a model of the battlefield that you could see and I remember that being like whoa and actually being in the countryside and imagining, like every time I go back to that part of the country now and imagining what these soldiers had to endure walking through the countryside in the time of year that they did and everything, um, but anyways, very, very cool. Um. Um. So then from Harrisburg we drove to York, pennsylvania, and got haircuts. I got a gay guy. He loves cutting hair and would love to be a model or a dancer. Hooray.
Speaker 1:When you said that full stop, I thought you meant the type of haircut you got, which is awesome.
Speaker 2:I do recall that I did not like this haircut. I'm pretty sure he kind of gave me a mullet. And I don't know if I just said, well, nothing I can do about that and I just went with it. But I feel like we got out of there and I looked in the mirror.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh no, the back is kind of long he's probably like oh, this guy's from california, I'll never see him again, I'm gonna give him, I'm gonna give him a mullet. Yeah, so did we visit the york peppermint patty Patty Factory.
Speaker 2:No, oh man, if that was actually in. York, pennsylvania, oh, wouldn't it be great Well no. It took me a minute because there was a moment of like oh my gosh, did we miss that opportunity? And then I'm like you're razzing me, you're razzing I love, I love Peppermint Patties.
Speaker 1:I do too.
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:Those are something else. You're not going to walk by Bowl of peppermint patties Bowl of peppermint patties.
Speaker 2:You're like this is a good party, so let that be a note.
Speaker 1:I haven't brushed my teeth in the last 25 minutes. This will help. Doesn't matter, Ooh so fresh. Everyone thinks, ooh, look at that guy.
Speaker 2:He's fresh. Yeah, york Peppermint, patty Junior Mint yes, are they made by the same company? I don't think so. Both awesome, I love both of those is mint your favorite flavor.
Speaker 1:Are you a real mint guy? No, are we sure? Yeah, here's like mint your favorite flavor. Are you a real?
Speaker 2:mint guy. No, are we sure? Yeah, here's like movie theater candy, I like junior mints, is that weird?
Speaker 1:Really I think it's weird, I do. I think you're kind of alone. Movie theater candy, I guarantee you the one that I like works to a pole on this episode comes out on Wednesday and between that and I'm going to go, the Reese's Pieces Because I really think that you see, see I want to win, let's do a poll. I'm going to win. You're not going to win. You're not going to win.
Speaker 2:Reese's not listen, not Reese's Peanut Butter Cups but Reese's Pieces.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I'm saying Reese's Pieces Like M&M's that accidentally got peanut butter inside of them instead of chocolate. That's exactly what I'm saying. Those are the ones I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:You're going to go see a movie and you're going to be like I Reese's Pieces.
Speaker 1:I'll have the $7 box of Reese's Pieces. You'll have the $7 box of Junior Mints. You'll need like two Junior Mints.
Speaker 2:That's the vast amount of Junior Mints you need to eat at one time. No, I'm buying them beforehand somewhere at Rite Aid, on the way, although I never think about doing it, so I'm always like dang it, but actually going to the dollar store.
Speaker 1:That's the adult move, that's the hot ticket, ticket that is, and the way the kids are still crazy. Go ahead, get two things, kids, yeah knock yourself.
Speaker 2:I know now we go to the movies. They're like dad, can we get popcorn and an icy? I'm like what is this disneyland jeez? Who do you think I am? Would you rather go to hawaii kids?
Speaker 1:yeah, you have two choices vacation this summer?
Speaker 2:yeah, or that, icy, what are you saying?
Speaker 1:icies and popcorn.
Speaker 2:Little brain are like icy I see, I'm here right now taking a guarantee. Well, for me, now am I gonna follow through on the consequence I won't go on vacation, darn it kid stare, turns and looks at you and goes one in the hand is worth two in the bush. I'll take the icy and the popcorn like wow.
Speaker 1:It stares at you I'm calling your bluff dad, just bet. Bet you were going to Matt Herman this summer Like yeah we all know that's not my choice. No, that's not. I lost already, yeah. You're going there, no matter what I'm so confident that I'm going to win this poll. Reese's Pieces. Interesting how about this Whoever wins the poll okay, gets to choose the shirt that the other person wears the next time we record, so that then there's a reel with that person I mean, you don't know what shirts I have I might ship you a shirt, I think.
Speaker 1:or how about, just like you have to wear a tank top? That's all say I think. Or how about, just like you have to wear a tank top? That's all I'll say.
Speaker 2:Oh, do I even have a tank top?
Speaker 1:You're going to have one soon. You're going to have to sleaze off one of those fancy dancey shirts you'd have in the city of orange. I don't know. I was trying to think of what would be a good bet. What do we put the bet on?
Speaker 2:I thought you were just going to say I had to buy you a pack of Reese's Pieces. Well, that's no fun. That's no fun.
Speaker 1:I don't know, we'll think of something, we'll think of something, but I do like them. Okay, so that's coming up. The poll's coming up. Okay, the poll's coming up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right. Well, moving on then, shall we? Yeah, I would like to hear also what other people like to eat at movie theaters. And I will say a new favorite, which is I don't know where this came from, but I feel like we do this all the time, even at home popcorn, and then you put m&ms in the popcorn that's the thing, and they get a little bit warm.
Speaker 1:Oh man, salty, that is a.
Speaker 2:Thing that great, it's like movie theater gorp, oh, gorp, ah. Hey, that's for you listener who's been with us since the beginning. It has what did you say it was again Good old raisins and peanuts.
Speaker 1:Peanuts. That's it. That's it. Yep, yeah, that.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, today was also a big day. Today was election day, and boy, what a bitter battle it has been. Scott and I shamefully did not vote since we didn't get our absentee ballots taken care of.
Speaker 1:Oh, boy, oh boy Not great Americans.
Speaker 2:Being citizens of the highly democratic state of California, our votes really wouldn't have amounted to much. Anyway, we knew it was going towards Kerry Right. So John Kerry may have taken California, but George W Bush won the country. He did.
Speaker 1:Although Two terms.
Speaker 2:Was that one that was contested? No, it was the first one with Gore.
Speaker 1:Ah, it was Gore.
Speaker 2:Regardless to say, I'm sure, wherever Tish was when this happened. That was a bad, bad day for Tish.
Speaker 1:Full circle.
Speaker 2:Boston Tish, boston Tish.
Speaker 1:Where are you now, boston Tish, if we had, had text messaging and had their numbers, did you imagine the meme you would have sent? I'd be like hey Tish, hey Tish. Did you imagine the meme you would have sent?
Speaker 2:I'd be like hey Tish, hey Tish, have a good day. How are you doing?
Speaker 1:How are you feeling right now? Huh, Feeling great about today. I actually want to we do need.
Speaker 2:you know what we talked about this in Boston About Moira, about getting Moira. I'll get Moira. We need to find out what Tish is doing. These days. Yeah, all right, let's do that Okay. That was an action-packed, fun-filled day. We had some chocolate, we had haircuts, we had Civil War, we had elections.
Speaker 1:We really did. I mean, we did a lot that day.
Speaker 2:We did a lot that day.
Speaker 1:There was one day that you never left the RV Today. We went to a factory tour, we went to a Civil War museum, we got our hair cut, we bought five pounds of Twizzlers probably ate them by the next day and still felt fine because we were 22 years old and our bellies would handle stuff like that yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, if I eat five pounds of Twizzlers, I'm not walking for three days after that. Oh yeah, it's a trip to the doctor, trip to the doctor. It's a trip to lots of places, oh, lots of places. So well, that was a fun one it was. It was I, um, I'm grateful for our opportunity to go snowboarding and to eat bags of chocolate, and looking forward to going on the next adventure with you and going on the next episode. So, thanks, see ya. All right, goodbye, thank you.