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Speaker 2:Direct mailers are encouraged as well.
Speaker 1:We do have a lot of direct mailing happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so write letters to people that you know.
Speaker 1:Write letters. Yes, that would probably be one of the more effective um outreach tools, though, because if you had a handwritten letter like I really think you should listen to this podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would listen yeah, I would be like wow, this is yeah, this is really interesting.
Speaker 1:Someone took the time to write me a letter on a nice stationary and to sign it do.
Speaker 2:I want to listen to a podcast recommended by somebody who writes handwritten letters. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1:I think I think that's the next level. I think I think handwritten letters are still. They give a more like authenticity. And one of the things that I've noticed and I'm curious, how many more years the one thing that we have not not allowed to go totally digital is the christmas card. Good for you, don't? What do you mean? Good for me?
Speaker 2:I mean we don't get, we don't do them anymore. You don't do them at all.
Speaker 1:No, and it just um, because I mean it's not like we made a conscious decision like like a hundred christmas cards, dude yeah.
Speaker 2:And here's yeah, we get, we get. Wow, that's a lot. I mean you are a pastor. Yeah, I'm trying to justify that too yeah, we, um, we just stopped doing it one year just because it got away from us, and then we just kind of never did it again and then we do like a facebook like hey, here's pictures. I mean you see us all the year, but you're like here's a formal post or whatever yeah, so it's a little cheaper and I don't mean dollar wise, I mean like cheaper of an experience.
Speaker 2:I understand that, um, but when we do get them in the mail, I do enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I am amazed at the amount of people who are our age or even younger like 10 years younger who still print and mail Christmas cards, as opposed to just send out an eChristmas card or anything like that. Now, the eVite is a superior invitation because it keeps track of a lot of things. I like that, but I think the Christmas card has stayed print. I think you should go back to a print Christmas card.
Speaker 2:You know what I like.
Speaker 1:I am advocating for you to send out Christmas cards this year.
Speaker 2:You know what? Yeah, think about it. You know what I like.
Speaker 1:It's April.
Speaker 2:I like the Christmas letter. Ooh, the summary. Those are very rare, yes, and usually those come from previous generations. Agreed, I don't see anybody in my generation writing a Christmas letter.
Speaker 1:You would be a good Christmas letter writer though. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I'm thinking in particular of good Christmas letter writer though.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you yeah, I'm thinking in particular of one Christmas letter we get. It's the dad who writes it. His kids are probably 28, 25 and 22 now, but he says the most like outlandish off the wall, like random comments and like weaves them together into this like kind of like funny thing where it's like, you know, the first sentence is totally made up Like Merrick moved to Portland. That is now yeah, well, actually it's Portland here and he has all these things and you read it You're like oh, this is going to be a fun little journey through his brain and I think you would do a good job with that.
Speaker 2:I think I might say challenge accepted. I think I might say challenge accepted.
Speaker 1:I would love to see a. I do think it's also like the ones that we get are almost always written by the dad. I have a couple that's interesting yeah.
Speaker 2:I get one that's written by the man Okay, they're an older couple. And then I get another one. Well, I don't get it. My parents get it, but I always like to read it because it's forward to it. But it's, it's by the woman, and these people are the proper term is affluent and some of the things that they talk about it's just like you are you live on such a different level than I do.
Speaker 2:Holy smokes, oh boy, our vacation home flooded and, right you know, the mercedes caught on fire. What a year safari was very difficult this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we didn't even see a single rhinoceros. Our third very disappointed was yeah yeah, I, I am going to maintain and listener, let's hold him accountable to an Andrew Gere summary of the life. And just like I want it to be whimsical, I want there to be truth there but I don't want it to.
Speaker 2:There's very little chance that it would be written straight, like there's definitely going to be yes, oh zero. There's definitely going to be some embellishment, and I love it. Maybe some things that aren't true at all.
Speaker 1:At all, and then it's like two truths and a lie. Figure out which things actually did happen.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Were the kids in the school.
Speaker 2:Here's the year that we'd like to believe we had. Where's the year and we'd also like you to believe that we had. That might be a good premise for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on the back side it's like the list of really things that happened. Okay, she broke her ankle, okay almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my, my eldest daughter took a liking to french macaroons and we said, oh well, you have to experience them in france. So of course, we all hopped on the concord and flew over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's now doing some so broad retire like 50 years ago exactly. I'm pretty sure they didn't do that. Avery is now baking with a man named Juan. Pierre.
Speaker 2:French macaroon. Who is a Spanish Frenchman, juan Pierre I know I butchered the name. Not Jean Pierre. Here's the thing Going into it.
Speaker 1:I'm like I I'm not gonna do great at this. This is not my skill set. I think it is I think it is I'm gonna make up this name is not gonna be the right name. Again. We're back to my accent, like that is not a real accent of any people speak that way.
Speaker 2:This is true. Yes, I apologize. Yes, all right. Well, I gotta start thinking about this. Now. It's uh, it's april. I guess it's a little early.
Speaker 1:But you could start taking notes. I did a doc going and as like ideas pop up, like the French macaroons, like, boom, just jot it down and then in November you'll start weaving together a magical piece of literature. Yeah, we are already looking forward to all the listeners. If you want to get it, post on the on our facebook page like, yes, I'll do, oh, sign sign me up. Oh, before we go into the day. Oh, yes, we did a poll, that's right. And and thank you first of all for the engagement, because we really enjoyed the poll. So we're gonna do more polls because they're really fun to um, to engage with you guys and to see the different uh, people's opinions. The poll was movie theater reese's pieces or junior mints, and although it wasn't the runaway win, I thought it was going to be it. It was a pretty dominant victory.
Speaker 1:Uh, well, I'm looking it up, right now like donald trump would probably say that he he won just because he likes to make things up, but does seem like a pretty big runaway victory okay, I'm gonna see what the final I think that's 60, 40 oh dang at one point, 48, 42 at one point it was? It was 48, 52 it's like, oh, there's a chance, there's a chance. I was so nervous at that all right, here's the final.
Speaker 2:Oops. I don't want to vote that 39 39, so 61, 39, yeah, and then we had 35 votes for reese's pieces, which I think we also established in this poll that neither one of those are anybody's first choice and there was agree with that. There were some good, you told me. Somebody said Sour.
Speaker 1:Patch Kids were number one for them. I think that would be the. If we had done that, that would have been the runaway winner. Sour Patch Kids people associated with theaters, they're great. They're a solid candy choice.
Speaker 2:So I think that if we had done a more traditional route like m&ms m&ms not exciting, but they're never sad popular and also, like we talked about m&ms with the popcorn, yeah, where the m&ms get a little warm, that's.
Speaker 1:That's a winning combination gina threw junior mints and popcorn at you. She did, and I has that happened yet, I know.
Speaker 2:But you gotta try it, I gotta try, I have to try it I committed to that, but yeah, it sounds go live, it doesn't sound good, I gotta be, I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1:No, I, I don't believe her but go live when you try it. So your first reaction can be like and that that chocolate's gonna melt. It's not gonna be like m&ms, you're gonna have a, a mitt full of chocolate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that no, no, there's not so so you know what I, you know what I have like that lucy's pcs ran away with it, though I wouldn't say ran away with it 61. I mean I I am amazed. I I called Andrew at one point and I'm like I think this has something to do with my way I see the world. It's true amount of confidence that I'm like I'm amazed anybody voted for Junior Mints. That's how sure I was it was going to be like not a thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you thought I was the only person in the world that liked Junior Mints.
Speaker 1:Although they've been around for a long time, they're very successful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what's one that might be. That's another favorite of mine that might be even less popular. Oh, I can't wait I would guarantee it's less popular. I can't wait. I like to get a box of these when I travel.
Speaker 1:I don't know why Cadbury Yates Go. Oh, those great. I know you love them because you have that.
Speaker 2:Britishness in you. Good and plenty, I like good and plenty. But you've never think of good and plenty. No, I get it. Like I said, when we do our road trip in the summer up north, I always get a box of good and plenty. So you like black licorice, I like black licorice too.
Speaker 1:I do like black licorice.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. Not a lot of people like black licorice. But, I'll go through half a box or I can't stop, so I'll end up eating the box and I feel terrible by the end of the trip.
Speaker 1:In your brain with good and plenty. What is like its sibling cut candy, Because for me there's two that are like. Those two are inextricably woven together. They are totally together. Good and Plenty. Yeah, Okay, Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2:Are you thinking of?
Speaker 1:like the Mike and Ike, because of the shape, oh.
Speaker 2:No that's hot tamales. And Mike and Ikes, those are siblings.
Speaker 1:But don't you? Yeah, okay, because they both have the dewiness. They're both gummy candies, Good and Plenty, Mike Knight they must be made by the same person. The box is similar, the logo seems similar. To me they're like oh, no, no, no, these are just interesting things. But when you said Mike Knight or when you said Good and Plenty, I'm like oh, of course Mike Knight, it's the same shape, yeah it's like a capsule shape.
Speaker 1:Who named Mike Knight. That's a story I'd like to know the answer to. We should look that one up. We should let's deep dive into that. Yeah, okay, but not now. Nope, go. Where are we going? All right, we are on the East.
Speaker 2:Coast. We're going to do two days today. Okay, we're on the East Coast, so we're going to start here day 38. It's just a short entry. So we're Thursday, november 4th. Today was rainy. We drove from the Walmart in Maryland that we stayed at to Bethesda, maryland. Some friends of the Hawkins live there, randy and Cindy Wokas and they put us up in their home. We really did nothing, since Scott is a turd, okay, good, yeah, well, it was rainy, but he is still a turd, okay.
Speaker 1:I wonder what led to that comment.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but that's all I wrote for that day. Okay, I wonder what led to that comment. I don't know, but that's all I wrote for that day. So I just wanted to emphasize. It doesn't matter what else we did, and I don't think it was a long drive. I don't think it was a long drive. Nothing on these shows is that long a drive. I think it was just one of those days where we probably got there and you just talked to them.
Speaker 1:That's probably what happened. There's a lot of talking. You get irritated.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do understand your irritation grows Like the takeaway. For a lot of people that didn't know me before, this is like that Andrew's a real grouch.
Speaker 1:And they're not wrong.
Speaker 2:Dang it. Maybe this is. Maybe this is a little therapy.
Speaker 1:I need to change my ways.
Speaker 2:Maybe this is a little therapy, eye-opening for me. I need to change my ways.
Speaker 1:No, but I do think that there was a lot of times, especially with the pastoral types, where I would sit around and chat it up about theologies. I had just gotten my bachelor's degree, and so there were times where you're like, let's go, let's do this. Let's go do that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was Iowa wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was Iowa. Now there are, and so these, but I don't think I knew them or anything. Yeah, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, let's continue on. So now we're day 39.
Speaker 1:So that, day, just happened, just gone.
Speaker 2:Now it's Friday, the 5th of November 2004. It's always a little bit awkward to wake up in a house that is owned by people you don't really know. Scott seems to have no problem with that sort of thing, but it's a little harder for me. All true? Yeah right. What we just said is true.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty comfortable in most places yes you can see me shirtless it's oh boy.
Speaker 2:Well, you just got a bunch of invitations revoked for that comment to pop up never mind, wow he is. When we said make yourself at home, he really I didn't expect.
Speaker 1:Is he showering right now? Are we just having?
Speaker 2:dinner.
Speaker 1:He's cooking dinner still in his bath towel, and he seems to be going for a nap in my bed.
Speaker 2:Interesting.
Speaker 1:But you know what Be at home. You said, make yourself at home. So here we are. The day dawned.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, he has a gift of being able to quote, unquote make friends instantly. This trip is filled with situations like this and I'm trying to work on this, but it's weird, that's good. So, yeah, noted. I guess I was aware of it at at that time in my life. I I don't know if I'm much better now, you know I, but I also don't think you're.
Speaker 1:You're not bad at this at all. I think this is one of those times where I'm an extreme example and and so I say you're more in the mean, and then there's like because I really walk around in a world where I think there are two types of people. There are people who do like me and people who will like me.
Speaker 2:Those are the kinds of? People I'm surprised yeah when I'm like oh you're neither of those. This is very.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? What do you mean? You don't like me at all. That is surprising to me.
Speaker 2:It seems like a hard thing for you.
Speaker 1:You'll come around. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you live in that world right now.
Speaker 2:You'll come around One day.
Speaker 1:One day you will realize the glory that is this.
Speaker 2:By the way, I needed some socks, so I went into your drawer and I put them on my phone, but then I walked outside in the mud. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1:So Andrew and I lived together after the road trip for four years and for a while. So we got to know each other very, very well and the difference in our rooms was immense and the cleanly level and those things, and there were times where I had no clean socks, nor could I find clean socks or something, so I would borrow Andrew's socks.
Speaker 2:Well, you would borrow my socks.
Speaker 1:Steal is probably the right term. Here's the problem with stealing Andrew's socks probably the right term. Here's the problem with stealing Andrew's socks he only buys Hanes socks with Hanes written on the toe of them. So, and I wouldn't think to anything of my theft that morning, later that day, when my shoes are off and I'm sitting up on the couch and he'd come home from work and reading him, are his Hanes on my toe. You, church, you took my socks. You, church, you took my sauce today. How, how, how do you know this, sir? How does one know that I stole your sauce? You have no sauce that has Hanes on them.
Speaker 1:All of mine are marked and I'm like oh, luckily. I'm bigger than you, so you didn't just pounce to fight Boy.
Speaker 2:I wanted to, so instead I resorted to passive aggressive notes. No, that happened like they weren't even passive aggressive.
Speaker 1:They were just aggressive. They were aggressive like once every six months there would be a note I'd like wake up because I I was a youth pastor, so my day started later than andrew's and I and I'd wake up and there would be like a note on the table like those dishes better be done. If you take one of my socks, I'm gonna murder you. Yeah, and this, by the way, dinner's at six o'clock. I'll see you then.
Speaker 2:Okay, bye, yeah, love you, bye I, you know, I think living together for us was good for both of us, because it helped me, let a lot go and I think it helped. You see what living correctly looks like.
Speaker 1:It helped you be a disciple of the correct life.
Speaker 2:No, it's true. I mean, you know I'm a particular type of person. You lost a lot of that. I'm particular is what I meant to say. Yeah, it helped me to let certain things go that I didn't need to.
Speaker 1:I don't think of you as overly particular, though there are people who I know, who, I'd say, are more extreme in that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think I just bend towards that, but I can also just be pretty flexible.
Speaker 1:You have some solid bend in you.
Speaker 2:I'm giving you some cred here because I think you helped me with that.
Speaker 1:I appreciate that, thank you. Well, yes, and then it was like a bull in a bull going through the china shop of your life.
Speaker 2:There were some frustrating times, but all for the better.
Speaker 1:So at least Mary's like well, I'm not as you're, like well, she's not as messy as Scott was, so but she's pretty clean right, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mary, we have a good thing going here too. So Mary likes clean, she cleans, I organize. That is good. She's like I want the counters to be spotless, right, but if there's something on the counter, I'll just shove it into this cabinet and I'm like, oh, I can't see the labels. I'm not that bad, but I'm like you know, everything's not turned 45 degrees. I can't see the labels. I'm not that bad, but I'm like you know, like everything, everything has its place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I'm like so, and and part of that, too, comes from I worked at a toy store for four years in high school and college, and so a lot of what I did was like making sure all the leg, the Lego boxes were perfectly faced and straight, and I was in the book department making sure all the books.
Speaker 1:so it's like that, that was built into me. So now I'm like, oh, everything has to be like a store, so anyhow, um, okay, that's how I am too okay, yeah, you sure are.
Speaker 2:Yep, absolutely you're just like oh, a box of legos.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna walk for 10 steps I don't need this set it on that random shelf and I'm like, my god, you tear you terrorist, you tear this jeez. Um, okay, continuing on, I just needed that off my chest. I guess love it, yeah. So we took this is this is fun, this is a big uh, it's great, this is a big stop for us here. We took the Metro into Washington DC to meet Blake for lunch at noon. So Blake was our friend from high school and Blake is also the brother of my brother-in-law, brennan, who's married to my sister.
Speaker 2:He's something to me. We didn't know exactly what. We are together, so we just go with brother because we thought that would be more fun.
Speaker 1:So Blake moved out after college, but we've known him forever. I mean, we've known him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we grew up together in Torrance, yeah, and so he moved out to Washington DC after college. So we got to meet up with him. So we met him for lunch cards. It's ironic that we oh yes, by far the best christmas card he is. He is quite up there, so blake works for the government printing office and he's into printing and yes and oh, now I'm nervous to get this wrong typology yes or typef. And printing just in general, so they always he like hand makes it's so cool Cards yeah.
Speaker 1:I do look forward to his card. I'm looking forward to your letter and his card every year. Yeah, Thanks, Blake. Thanks.
Speaker 2:Blake For improving my Christmas Shout out. Certainly you listen to all of us, all of our episodes. We should have him on. Okay, write that down, we'll get Blake on. So the Metro took us a bit longer than it usually does because at one point in the line a train had crashed into another one, so that side of the track was closed. Well, that seems like a big deal it does?
Speaker 1:We just jumped on. It ain't no thing, we're like sure We'll be fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gosh, did this just happen. It says no one was hurt too seriously in the collision, luckily. But how strange.
Speaker 1:Huh, they're probably going slow like the Austin Powers scene. No.
Speaker 2:Sorry, that was my getting squished by a bulldozer.
Speaker 1:Oh, by the bulldozer in Austin Powers.
Speaker 2:Wasn't that it.
Speaker 1:Like a bulldozer, oh, by the bulldozer, wasn't that it like a bulldozer was coming at him? It's like no, and it was like going so slow and then it crashed into death.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like, well good, good, one good scene that's a great movie. See that again. Yeah, so we met blake sarah. Sarah is blake's wife.
Speaker 2:Uh, fun fact, sarah and I I share birthdays so that makes us something birthday buddies you're very locked in to the family and I went and visited Blake and Sarah not too long ago when I was in DC for work and that was awesome. I got to hang out with them and their two boys. They're awesome people. So we met Blake and Sarah and another of their friends at union station and had lunch there at the food court. Um, I don't know if I'm picturing washington dc union station or new york union station in my head, but you're probably probably both probably both pretty spectacular.
Speaker 2:Um, it was really great to see blake again, a familiar face after 39 days of strangers, and scott was really refreshing plus he's my brother so there it goes, yeah yep. After lunch he took us to his place of work, the Government Printing Office, or GPO as the cool kids call it. We didn't see his actual office, but we did get to see some of the books the government prints. Sound exciting, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:At 2.30,.
Speaker 2:We met his friend Jen who works for the Senator of Kentucky who is the Majority Whip.
Speaker 1:I had forgotten. We did that.
Speaker 2:How did you forget?
Speaker 1:that. No, just as we were talking then, I remembered going on the little tunnel underneath that little express train. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:We got the tour. Yeah, we got a sweet tour. I'm sure I talk about that, but having somebody that you know who works in DC, they can take you around and show you some stuff. They got the back rooms. It's pretty cool. It was very cool. Um, I don't know what the majority whip is.
Speaker 1:Do you? Yeah, so the majority whip is the person who is the head. So the whip is the person who is the head of the, the leading party in the Senate at that point. So then his job is to, like they call it, like whip up votes, so like get people to like get that bill to pass. And so if you are the majority, your party is still. Like the Democrats are the majority party, then their leader is the whip.
Speaker 2:Ah, okay, got it. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, they're having a lot of trouble with the, with the house, with the you know Johnson right now, and then they've whatever. They're just all sorts of mess in the, in the house of representatives right now.
Speaker 2:And that's uh. That's your wife Emily's uncle, right Johnson Same last name, so I assume they're related, must be Johnson's, not very common, very rare last name. Yeah, okay, yep.
Speaker 1:Yep. Um, we should have him on once. We should Uncle Johnson, yeah, hey.
Speaker 2:I'm assuming, back in our family.
Speaker 1:three were related, yeah, somewhere back there.
Speaker 2:There's a connected. You were also the son of John. Okay, great, well done. Yes, not a common name. So what I said of the majority whip, that's a big deal, trust me. Yes, she took us on the Capitol tour and it was great. We actually got to go on the Senate floor where all the senators sit in little school desks and talk about boring crap.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:We had a lot of fun in there, imagining what they really do in there, trading Hello Kitty erasers for chocolate with the senator from hershey, pennsylvania. I won't try to explain that too much more, because you really had to be there.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I think we had a good time I think we went on the left, on the, on the school, the school um thing, because we all had terra, terra, terropio, and that was big when we were growing up.
Speaker 2:All the Hello Kitty, yeah, yep, pencil boxes and erasers. Oh, yeah. So that must be what they do there Must be. So Blake Scott, jen and I can testify how funny it was. So we definitely had a good time. We also got to go into the Majority Whip's office where JFK prepared for his presidential campaign Whoa. One notable thing was a large wood closet in which was a toilet and a sink Cool.
Speaker 1:Was it Narnia?
Speaker 2:I mean from a practicality standpoint. What would you rather have in your office, in a wardrobe, a portal to Narnia, or a toilet and sink? A Narnia yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:But close second. Close second is a yeah toilet and sink Right. That is cool.
Speaker 2:Of course, we saw the rest of the Capitol too, but those were the things that the general public doesn't normally get to see.
Speaker 1:It's good to know people. It's good to know people. It's good to know people and see closet toilets.
Speaker 2:Literally a water closet, a WC, yes, wc. Afterwards, blake Scott and I ate some dinner and then went down to a bar to support one of Blake's friends who is running a marathon for AIDS research. It was a $5 cover $2.50 beer, $3 rail drinks. We had some fun. That's good. Yeah, we got to meet a lot of Blake and Sarah's friends, who all seemed to be great people. Of course they did. They're all politicians, am I right?
Speaker 1:They are.
Speaker 2:Just trying to buy our affection and our votes Exactly Probably a bunch of jerks.
Speaker 1:Our votes are really important yeah. We were spreading the gospel of whoever they were around.
Speaker 2:I know your secrets. By my loyalty it's worth five pounds of Twizzlers. Okay, we walked back to Union Station with Blake and Sarah and hopped onto the red line back to Bethesda, maryland. Scott and I were dropped off at the station in the morning, but we had to walk back. It was about a mile walk, but we weren't really sure which way to go. Problem Luckily, like so many times before, we combined our powers and made it back. It was a good thing too, because I had to pee that was a long, that was late.
Speaker 1:It was a late night and I remember like walking home and it being like foggy and us not fully knowing where we were going and like pretty sure, but again we're back to not smartphone phone times, so we had to like kind of know. Right, you had to know direction back in that day and like okay, we had a cell phone, so we're supposed to be called.
Speaker 2:Do we Right? Yeah, and it looks different in the daylight than it does in the totally. And for some reason.
Speaker 1:I do kind of remember that walk. I remember just like the creepiness of it, kind of remember that walk. I remember just like the creepiness of it. We weren't scared but there was kind of like an eeriness. Maybe it was because we didn't know exactly where we were going, although Bethesda is like a very safe city.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but also like a lot of ghosts, I imagine American history and lots of dead soldiers wandering the park, so that could be why it was eerie. Yes.
Speaker 1:Oh look, it's JFK. He's back.
Speaker 2:For a moment. I just want to take a moment to do something. I'm holding a book because I have not updated the typing, so because I am completed reading for the day, oh, nice.
Speaker 1:Solid moment that sounded good, that did sound good.
Speaker 2:And then a slam and a bam and a boom bang, bang, and that's good ear music.
Speaker 1:Great day. I think it was nice to see somebody who we knew. Yes, and we'll kind of go, I think later on some of that theme again. Go, I think later on some of that theme again. But there is something nice about familiarity, especially when you're in the world of constant change. Yep, constant upheaval.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good point. It was a good call-out. So 39 days since we had last seen somebody that we knew.
Speaker 1:Well, but we saw my dad. So I mean it's not totally true, but still.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what's up with that? Well, I guess it was 39 days into the trip, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Because that was day 39 or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I guess from all of the familiar faces in familiar places. That's a lyric from Tears for Fears, which, surprisingly, is my 12-year-old daughter's favorite band. I don't know how that happened. I'm still baffled by that.
Speaker 1:Tears for Fears, that's right Tears for Fears.
Speaker 2:Anyhow, yeah, it was good feel a sense of relaxation at home and, as I talked about, it's like waking up in somebody else's house that I don't know and there's a little bit of discomfort, at least for me, and so to hang out with friends a true thing in general is when we were moved to Birmingham.
Speaker 1:I think we got through that first year by looking forward to the next time either someone was coming out to visit us or we were going back home, Like, okay, we can make it six more weeks.
Speaker 1:Our friends are coming, then Okay, okay, we can see them. Oh, now we're going to make it four more weeks, so that and I really, and when people move away, that's like one of the pieces of advice I give them and I'm like just like have a next thing to look forward to, like know that you're gonna go. Okay, I can make it to that until it feels like you know the area, you have some people, you have friends there, but during that first time it's just really hard and and I think that fights loneliness. When you are okay, I have this thing. So, yeah, just a good, if you are moving, I would recommend that Good note.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good so good day, Fun time. We're going to be in DC next time and yeah.
Speaker 2:I've got a couple more days in DC, some more adventures with blake and sarah, so stick around for that.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a lot of fun and we are going to continue on our journey. We are the nation's capital, looking forward to time together. So bye, everybody, have a great day hope you enjoyed this time with us. Go out out and eat some Reese's Pieces or Junior Mints.
Speaker 2:Or Junior Mints.
Speaker 1:Or Good Plenty, or the candy of your choice Mike and Ike's.
Speaker 2:Mike and Ike's Hot Tamales.
Speaker 1:Hot Tamales anyone? What other gummy candies can we name before it goes? I had the best gummy bears the other night. Really Super solid, soft enough but chewy enough.
Speaker 2:Wow, super solid, but soft enough but chewy enough. But wow, these are superior to other gummy bears. Go one more interesting.
Speaker 1:Oh oh gummy worms yes, very good bye.