Kings of The Road
We are two friends who went on a road trip around the United States 20 years ago to serve churches. We kept a journal as we traveled and are reading through the journal and remembering our adventures. Listen and laugh with us as we go back in time and inspire others to go on an adventure.
Kings of The Road
37: Atlantic City Tales: Mob Myths, Movies, and Indoor Euchre
Ever wondered if Las Vegas was actually the mob's second shot at building an entertainment paradise? On this lively episode of Kings of the Road, we take you back to our unforgettable 2004 journey to Atlantic City. From Andrew's vivid diary entries capturing our raw, unfiltered moments to the quirky traffic challenges of New Jersey, we keep it real with all the strong language and hilarious mishaps that made the trip so memorable. We also toss around the idea of inviting you, our listeners, to defend your states in future episodes—New Jersey, South Dakota, Florida, we're looking at you.
Feeling nostalgic for those old VHS tapes and family movie nights? You're not alone! Scott shares his recent experience of re-watching "Oliver!" and the unexpected dark themes that spooked his daughter, making us rethink the movies we loved as kids. We also revisit "The Pirates of Penzance," discovering just how peculiar it seems through adult eyes. Expect laughs and surprises as we dig into those childhood classics and the sometimes shocking content we never noticed before.
And let’s not forget our Atlantic City escapade! Despite the high casino betting minimums and dreary weather that had us playing Euchre indoors, the boardwalk still offered some charming moments. Plus, we delve into the curious connections between Atlantic City and Las Vegas, pondering whether the latter was a second attempt by mobsters to create the ultimate entertainment mecca. Along the way, we chat about modern slang like "riz" and "skibbity," and their amusing links to places like Ohio. Strap in for a blend of nostalgia, travel anecdotes, and cultural musings that promises to be both enlightening and entertaining.
Welcome to another episode of Kings of the Road podcast. What a great day it is for us to be together talking about Philadelphia, talking about Atlantic City, going back in time and getting to enjoy our memories. So thank you for joining myself. Scott Hawkins, andrew Gair and we are going to go on a journey to 2004, atlantic city. Atlantic city. Andrew has a? Um quick warning for you, as, 22 year old, andrew made some interesting decisions well, I, I was just listen.
Speaker 2:I was the scribe of the trip. I was just writing it as I heard it. That's true. We have a strong language warning today. Yes, so if there's any little ears listening.
Speaker 1:It won't be for long, but we will have to stay authentic to what was.
Speaker 2:I have to read it as it was written and uh, you know, it's just. Uh, it's raw. Guys, you know we're we're traveling around the country and it's just raw.
Speaker 1:Here's what you get uh, raw footage, real life raw footage and this is behind those scenes.
Speaker 2:This is real feelings, and probably any of you that uh have ever been to, oh boy, new jersey or atlantic city might understand where this is coming from or they're gonna upset a lot of people.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm, that's what I'm wondering, that's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 2:Oh man, isn't there's like mob stuff there? Are we gonna get put on some sort of list? There's a possibility.
Speaker 1:One of the things that we have been considering as we move into the future and one day the journey of this will end, which will lead us into season two and one of the things that we were talking about was what if we do a like, defend your state, time and not and not that we're going to aggressively go after your state, time and not that we're going to aggressively go after your state, although some of them might a little bit harder Hashtag South Dakota, hashtag Florida, hashtag maybe New Jersey, but we would love to get people on who are from that area or love that area and then just talk about it, so that we can have some conversations and people could, as they consider their travel plans, they could listen and go oh OK, let's, let's hear what's great about New Jersey, let's hear what's great about South Dakota. Defend your state.
Speaker 2:You know what would be a good one to do.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you're, you're up with the slang slang these days. No, I can't wait, riz.
Speaker 2:I know what riz is.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what riz is yeah, tell me more. Do you know skibbity? Okay, I've heard the word, but I have no idea. The convert, what's, what's the? All?
Speaker 2:right, tell me like skibbity toilet, like that's bad, right that's bad okay, so.
Speaker 1:So, riz, you're getting a lesson here everybody yes, riz is good like a 43 year old. Telling you about what 12 years old this is exactly what you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm gonna. I just, I just mewed for scott if you know what that is my.
Speaker 1:What is the benefit of that?
Speaker 2:my 12 year old muse all the time, which is basically like tapping your finger against your mouth and then swiping your jawline with your finger, and you're supposed to be putting your tongue on the roof of your mouth to accentuate your jawline. I don't get it at all. It's the most ridiculous thing.
Speaker 1:I heard from someone that the tapping may be like you're supposed to put, a little like spit. So then you like draw like the little, like glistening line. Is this not true?
Speaker 2:oh, maybe I don't know where team I this is.
Speaker 1:I mean so okay, so stibity so anyway.
Speaker 2:So this is like charisma, it's like oh, you got the riz like you got mad riz you're flirting right but skibity is bad. So skibity riz is like oh you, you're bad at that, like you don't have charisma. You're not a good person but then, to make it even worse, they'll say skibbity ohio riz, because ohio is really bad. So that's like really, really bad and I'm like whoa, whoa, how did ohio all of a sudden, get this bad rap I'm like where did that come from?
Speaker 1:It should be Skippity South Dakota Riz.
Speaker 2:It should be Skippity Florida Riz.
Speaker 1:Skippity.
Speaker 2:Florida. I'm like how do you pull out and isolate Ohio?
Speaker 1:That's interesting.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe we need somebody from Ohio to defend Ohio's reputation.
Speaker 1:I also want to know about is Skippity in Ohio. Are they saying that or are they saying like Stippity, California, Riz?
Speaker 2:I don't understand what you're. No, I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 1:So Stippity in California. We're saying Stippity Ohio, riz. Could you imagine if you live in Ohio are you using that phrase? Or are you saying Stippity Arizona, riz, stippity? Maybe they're saying Stippity Florida.
Speaker 2:Riz oh yeah, skippity, arizona res skippity.
Speaker 1:Maybe they're saying oh yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I just I I can't imagine you being like so naive that you're like it's ohio res and it's like wait a second that means I don't know.
Speaker 2:But if you're a kid like, everything is dumb, right, so you're like of course my state is dumb. Oh, I hate it. My parents are the worst for living here.
Speaker 1:Why do we live here?
Speaker 2:we live in ohio parents who don't have, parents who don't know anything.
Speaker 1:That's a good point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so maybe they're not at all. No kid sounds like that either, so why do we always do that for? Like? It's a great voice though?
Speaker 1:Like teenagers. Did you see the Beavis and Butthead skit on SNL not that long ago?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1:I think it was just funny because of the way the characters broke every time the host. She obviously had never seen the the outfits, that was yeah, yeah, that was funny when she first turns around and first sees something, she just loses her mind.
Speaker 2:She can't yeah. Yeah, go look that one up, guys skippity so so we could do skippity states now.
Speaker 1:I don't think we mentioned in here, but I went back to New Jersey on a mission trip a number of years later when we did Camp.
Speaker 2:Noah. So what were your choices? You could have gone to like Uganda, Haiti, and then New Jersey was one of them.
Speaker 1:People said go to the most difficult mission field and put your life at risk the most. We chose New Jersey, uganda, yeah, and so we go to New Jersey. We did a very cool camp called camp noah there, but I was driving a 15 passenger van and this is like a rite of passage for youth pastors or pastors right, it's the large van, lots of people throwing stuff at you. But there was a sign on there and I don't think we mentioned this because we must not have come against them, but there was a sign that said all left turns are made from the right lane. And I thought that sounds like a horrible choice to me and it was everywhere.
Speaker 1:All left turns are made from the right lane. And I finally understood what they meant was. They have these things and I believe they call them Judd handles I think that's the name where you get. So, instead of doing a left turn on a big road, you get off on the right and you do a big circle around, so it looks like a handle, and then you make a left onto the street from this Judd handle turning on the right lane, onto the street, from this judd handle turning on the right lane. So then you end up making a left onto that street as opposed to an unprotected left. So you go off on the so here's the lane you go off on the right circle around and then you take a left on this street.
Speaker 1:But the sign and they think it's the greatest thing ever because you're not doing unprotected left, you don't have left, turn arrows right in the same way but the sign is wild because you read that and you think that sounds like a way to die right if that were florida, you'd have a lot of people getting over to the right and then just cranking a lefty without looking, and those cadillacs, come those stuff, they climb across traffic, oh boy I still, I still think about that and I go, wow, there has to be a better way to communicate that, because yeah, yeah, it's funny because there's some things where, like in your head, that makes sense and then you you get somebody else who's like I don't understand, and you explain it to them and they're like, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And before you know it, like you, you forget why it's a bad idea and you're like, yeah, well, everybody gets, this does make sense. Print the signs, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, exactly great idea, yeah, so okay well skippity.
Speaker 2:Well, let's. Let's talk about atlantic city, shall we? Today's day 46. It's Friday, it is the 12th of November 2004. Craplantic City, as we referred to it, is nothing special. Well done. That's it for day 46. No more necessary.
Speaker 1:Well done us.
Speaker 2:No, I do say more. The casinos are sort of lame and the bet minimums are all ten dollars and up. The only thing saving atlant shit city, as hendy called it. So there it was everybody. There it is. I apologize if you're uh sensitive ears. Heard that word.
Speaker 1:You won't have to say it again.
Speaker 2:Also, I do want to point out that was Scott's now brother-in-law who said that yeah, he's the one who's talking, not you. Yeah, so that's what he called it. So the only thing saving it is the boardwalk. Yes, true, the boardwalk, that's true. As it would turn out, it rained all day today, so we couldn't even go out on the boardwalk. We ended up playing Euchre all day long. I don't know if we've talked about Euchre, but we played a lot of Euchre on this trip.
Speaker 1:We played with him, Judy.
Speaker 2:Before this trip, I had never played Euchre. I didn't even know what it was. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Most people don't, but in Michigan it's a thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is a thing. So it was kind of a Michigan thing that we continued on. It's also a great four-person game.
Speaker 1:It is really really a great four-person game. Yeah, you really really a great poor person game. Yeah, you kind of like team up with the person across from you and so you sit kind of yeah, and it's fast. If you have a bad hand it's gone quickly. Like it's five cards. It's a trick game or trump game, so you throw it out. But really, yeah, it's one of those games where it's like okay, fun, fast, not committed for that long, but also like everyone's good time, so it's all a game yeah.
Speaker 2:So one thing I think you you reminded me of this which I had forgotten is we talk about the only good thing in in atlantic city is this boardwalk right, and so wherever we parked, we parked somewhere and then we walked, I guess, to try to get into the casinos or something.
Speaker 1:No, I think we did Because there are multiple casinos and so I think we were at one and let's go to the next one. And now our casino familiarity was Vegas, right. So you just kind of go out to the street, you walk between them and it's a lot because there's all sorts of neon lights and everything and go into the next one, but it's all very crowded, exciting, and so we kind of did what we thought was that move. And so we, we walked from casino and we go into the next casino and someone sees us coming and they're like where are you coming from? And we're like, oh, just walk the like the path. And he's like that's not the path. And we're like what do you mean? And you're supposed to walk the boardwalk. We walked like the crazy alley behind the casinos that is like known for being sketchy and unsafe. And they're like so you made it okay. Huh, we're like, yep, and they're like do not walk that way back.
Speaker 1:We're like okay that doesn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do not recommend for your safety that you walk along those yeah do not turn left, turn right to go to the boardwalk.
Speaker 1:We're like, oh, that does make sense why there are people looking at us like, do you have money? And they probably were like yeah.
Speaker 2:How many times were you killed on that walk? Yeah? Exactly we were stabbed with drugs and other things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh man. Yeah, it all just adds to it, doesn't it? I don't know if we say this, but I want to say that I believe the reason we had this response to Atlantic City was because we're West Coast people and Vegas is our floor.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you'd been to laughlin though yeah, but but vegas is.
Speaker 1:So I think you put vegas in atlanta city, like we talked about the cities in america you do like it's like.
Speaker 2:Okay, west coast is vegas, east coast is atlantic city.
Speaker 1:Go, they must be at the same level that's what I mean, exactly, yeah, and so we are very used to Vegas and it is a billion-dollar hotel, billion-dollar hotel, water fountains, neon lights, incredible shows. And you go to Atlanta City and you're like, oh, these are not the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is the hometown buffet version of Las.
Speaker 1:Vegas yes, that's a great yes. Right, this is Denny's of las vegas. Yes, it's that, that's a great yes. Yeah, this is denny's. This is denny's. Yeah, you're like, oh, I mean it's food, but yeah, it's solid panties no one's out of panties, but you're not like oh yeah, let's get denny's tonight.
Speaker 2:No one says that, except sometimes my kids yeah, um yeah, that probably does check out pretty well as far as like a comparison and granted too, like I know that there's gonna be the jersey, people are like you were just there at the wrong time of year and it was raining and cold. Of course you felt that way, but in the summer it's magical and that might be true.
Speaker 1:That might be true, because that's where we get that phrase and this is where my accents aren't good the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 2:Right Jersey Shore. Which I mean. All I think of when you say Jersey Shore is that show from MTV.
Speaker 1:And I'm like ugh. We've been conditioned to not like that, but I do think that that is probably true. In the summer it's like, oh, it's warm and you're on the beach and he's walked in and the casino's there and you get some saltwater taffy and have soft serve and I can see that being cool, like if they just had an ocean in front of it.
Speaker 2:That would be cool yeah, I mean we have. We have like santa cruz in northern california, just south of san francisco, and it's like you got the boardwalk with all these like rides and food, and then you get the ocean right there and, yeah, there's, there's definitely appeal.
Speaker 1:You can understand why it's a great idea great idea, yes, drawing up the concept, you get it on paper. Oh, oh boy, good, I wonder. I would be fascinated about the history, like, do you think? Do you think, um, las vegas is round two? Like the like okay, atlanta city was our trial run, we tried stuff out, and then, like now, we have this blank slate in the middle of the desert where we are going to do like the mobsters now, right Cause, I think they were involved in both Right.
Speaker 1:They were both like mob cities.
Speaker 2:Right, right, so yeah did one beget the other? I don't know I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean it'd be. If you know that, please let us know, because it is definitely. This could be a poll like um is it? Is it a fair poll, though? Las vegas is gonna run away with atlanta city, isn't it?
Speaker 2:well, what's the poll which is better? Yeah, no question. But so we need a different question. What came first? I'm guessing atlantic city came. Yeah, we need a different question. Because there was yeah, I would think I have a vision in my head of Atlantic City, old-timey posters, circus things. There was a movie that we I don't know it's like one of those classic ones that my wife grew up watching where there's a girl who, who rides a horse that jumps into a, a pool.
Speaker 1:Right, that's it.
Speaker 2:Do you know this movie?
Speaker 1:I can't think of the name of it. I'm going to get in trouble.
Speaker 2:If my wife listened to this podcast, I'd get in trouble for this. Well, luckily she doesn't. So luckily she doesn't, so likely she doesn't, so I'm very safe. Um, but yeah, this girl like wants to become a riding girl, and so she rides these horses, run up this ramp, and then they jump off the ramp, oh, into a small pool down below, and the crowd, you know, goes wild and whatnot. Yeah, so she wants to be this girl and does it and, uh, you know, I I'd say spoiler alert, but this movie's like 40 years old. So, like you know, yeah, I'm sorry, and so, anyways, she gets into an accident where she lands in the pool. The horse goes like head first and she lands in the pool with her eyes open, which is a big no-no, and basically, like she goes blind but that's on the table what's that?
Speaker 1:that's on the table from. Jumping in the pool, the horse is going blind. Well, close your eyes.
Speaker 2:Jumping in the pool with the horse it's going blind, well jumping into a pool from I don't know 40 feet high, if your eyes are open.
Speaker 1:That's a bad option. Yeah, like detached retinas or something.
Speaker 2:But she's like that's not going to stop me. And they're like you can't ride anymore, I'm going to you, just watch, I'll do it, I'm determined.
Speaker 1:My life is not over.
Speaker 2:And then they're like where did she go? Where did that blind girl go? Oh my gosh, she's on the ramp with the horse and she's like come on horse. And she puts her hands out and the horse starts running and it goes in all slow motion. And then dun, dun, dun, dun and gets on the horse and runs up the ramp and they jump in slow motion, they fall.
Speaker 1:Splash, splash and the crowd goes wild.
Speaker 2:And she gets up and she waves to the crowd, but because she's blind, she's actually got her back turned to the crowd and somebody else would be like no, no, no, they're over here, oh sorry. And then they wave.
Speaker 1:It. And then they wave uh, it's a beautiful movie, I don't believe. Is it called? Are you ready? I've looked up. Wild hearts can't be broken. That's it I thought. So I put horse jumping into water movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, google you know what, though? Uh, even though you're gonna watch it because my description of it was so good I will say it's a good movie. It's a solid flick. Yeah, go watch it. It's a good movie.
Speaker 1:Emily has a movie like that, and again I don't maybe it's called 8 seconds. Luke Perry's in it, though from 9 to 1 and so back in those days? Yeah, exactly, and he's a Buck and Bronc rider, right of course, everybody knows eight seconds right.
Speaker 2:That's how long you gotta run the bull. That's how I don't let bull.
Speaker 1:Is he a bull buck? And bronc, he's one of those two and he's great, and I'm just starting it. But this is like that movie for you know, like the movie that will family watch, because remember new listener who streams things? We grew up in a day where you only had so many VHS tapes and so if Blockbuster was out, you went home and you grabbed the good old favorite and popped that bad boy in and you're watching it again, it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2:And you didn't buy that movie, you just recorded it from TV.
Speaker 1:So then you had to fast forward the commercials. You're never sure how it started.
Speaker 2:We had a button and it was a button that we plugged into, so it's like a little handle you hold on to this, handle it's like a clicky pen right, okay, yeah, you know like you click the end, but I'm enjoying this so, and that clicker was connected to our vcr via wire and so if you are record, the purpose of this is if you are recording a show or a movie no, then as soon as it goes to commercial.
Speaker 2:You click it and it it stops the tape and then when the show comes back on, you click it again and then it continues to record. So you get the recording without the commercial brilliant right, that is, that is brilliant. Yeah, and you don't have to get up, you can stay on the couch because you can sit there with everyone's goal, which is everyone's goal. You just have a very long, you just have a very long wire going across the floor.
Speaker 1:So I have two questions for you. First of all, who manned the clicker for you and your family?
Speaker 2:Who was the one who? Who had it? Oh, I don't, I don't know. The funny thing is like I have this vivid memory of this clicker, but I don't have a very vivid memory of this being used it was it was probably like oh, definitely wasn't you like it wasn't a big deal, because it was. It was just like this is the. Yeah, this is the technology.
Speaker 1:Who was the best at it? I imagine one of you was really good about being like as soon as the commercials, boom, they're there, whereas I think another person I think myself would probably be like oh shoot, I was supposed to click the button. I'm like three quarters of the way through the commercials and then I forget to click the start again. But someone in the family, their job life is just click, click. Yeah, I don't know, because you need that skill. That's a skill set.
Speaker 2:I feel like it would be something that, like my sister, would have got me to do. You know, as the younger sibling, Andrew this is very important.
Speaker 1:You better not mess this up. Yeah, if you mess this up, andrew, no cereal in the morning, wow, but the Wheaties are so bad, yeah, um. So the movie that she has, that's a sentence movie and it was really funny because I'm watching it.
Speaker 1:we're dating, I'm down in Holtville and she's like, oh, you gotta see this movie, you know, because it's one of those childhood memories, right great movie great flick and you're not watching for the first time as a 25 year old and you're like, okay, and her mom walks in and her mom says, oh, is this the one where he dies? Oh, like in the first, this is the one where he dies. Right, and Emily's like, yeah, ruin the rest two hours Cause he gets like kicked or stomped on by the bull until the big like sad part is that Luke Perry gets crushed. The sad part is that Luke Perry gets crushed. Oh my gosh, that's worse than going blind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't come back from that unless.
Speaker 2:Jesus is involved. Wow, how do you end a movie where the main character dies?
Speaker 1:How do you walk out of?
Speaker 2:that and be like that was great. I'd love to see that again. I watched it on repeat, hey let's watch that one where we fall in love with this guy and then he dies on us. He dies. You know what we should do?
Speaker 1:We should try to bring our wives on and just have them explain these movies, the plot lines, I like that Just go cold. We don't give them any reason why they're on and we're like, okay, mary, tell us, uh, while that wasn't broken by the wild hearts can't be broken wild hearts can't be broken. Ready go, you have five minutes yeah, she she'd have notes prepared. I bet no, that's why we can't tell okay, you just have to know the other one, they have to walk in blind this, we got into a heated.
Speaker 2:Well, we avoided a real heated conversation on this, but in the past this has been yeah, we actually had a plan. We had a plan we were going to pit our kids against each other okay, not against them, but like we were trying to figure out, like okay, our kids will settle this. My this is so insane I love it. This is, this is family, though my wife and her sisters think Grease 2 is the superior Grease movie.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, yeah, that's just not accurate, and so again.
Speaker 2:I was like they made a Grease 2? And she's like it was the only Grease as far as I'm concerned. I don't know why they didn't watch Grease 1, but they watched Grease 2 over and over and over.
Speaker 1:I was going to say there's a family story there. Yeah, Because that's the only reason you think that.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe that was on and that's the one that they recorded right Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Who knows. But the main song is Cool Rider, he's a cool rider, and I'm song is cool rider, he's a cool rider, and I'm like. This is so bad, they're like, but it's michelle pfeiffer. Michelle pfeiffer is so attractive, right, I'm like sure, but olivia newton, john hello, right, and like right summer loving had me like the most popular karaoke song of all time.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's a masterpiece, right? Sorry?
Speaker 2:like there's a scene where, like they're dancing and like the main prop is a step ladder.
Speaker 1:And they're like this is so romantic. Are you in a lot of trouble if that's our poll question? Is it even?
Speaker 2:worth a poll Like the Reese's.
Speaker 1:Pieces, I agree, I'm just searching for I want us to throw a poll, but also, what I am am thinking is there could be a good opening question of like, what's your movie? Like that, because I have a story that just happened recently too. So one of our movies was Oliver the musical, which has a lot more songs, yeah a lot more songs than you realize that you would know Because you're like, oh, that's an Oliver right Kind of thing. Okay, so Grace was in it this last year, this last semester of her theater class.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I'm like, oh yeah, we watch this movie all the time, one on the repeat, like the family movie Fall, and throw it in when Blockbuster's out of the movies. But I'm like I don't remember, I just know some of the movie again, if you haven't watched the Perry guys, no, but if you haven't watched it.
Speaker 1:We're about to ruin it, but it is like 60 years old, so that's on. You Right? One of the major bad guys beats his wife to death and kills her because she's trying to get Oliver to a better life and he beats her to death. Then he grabs oliver and starts on going on the run. But he's being chased and he climbs up a building and oliver's with him and he's going to jump between buildings and he has oliver tie a rope up to like a piece of wood so he can swing between buildings and he ties a rope around his waist and as he jumps, a police officer in the most classic police officer scene. He has this tiny little gun Takes his little tiny gun, he lets it shoot him and he hits him and he's just hanging between the buildings dead Awesome, swimming back and forth. Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1:And then there's like three seconds of resolution of Oliver getting to go back to the rich family. We give him a hug and it's over. You're like I got no more resolution, I got no more happy ending, rather than just a hug down on the porch.
Speaker 2:And now we're back inside.
Speaker 1:I'm like this, and so we rented it for 48 hours on, you know, amazon prime, yeah, and, and hoping to finish it. So I had her watch on the ipad while putting isaac to sleep. What have you done to me? And she's like now, refuses to go into rooms at dark. I'm like, oh great I had no recollection of that. And I told my sister I'm like man Oliver in dark. She's like oh yeah, I totally remember that. I'm like I had nothing, I had no.
Speaker 2:Oh man, there's so many of these old movies that end in a way or have things in them. You're like what? So here's another one. I what? So here's another one. I grew up every time that I would stay the night at my grandparents' house on my mom's side, I would watch the Pirates of Penzance.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, Did you watch it too? Of course I did. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I don't know the story at all, except that I know I've watched that movie 15 times, so it's a very old play. As I understand, it's like from the 1800s and they made a movie out of it in 1983. And two of the characters there's three pretty famous people. So kevin klein, is is like the main pirate. Angela lansbury, oh, is like the caretaker of the young pirate. And, um, uh oh, famous singer from from that era, uh, linda ronstadt. Okay, okay. So so these are the characters. So it's kind of a comical play. It's basically a play and they made a movie out of it, so that, so we're watching it. I'm so excited because my kids have never seen, I'm like, let's watch this. So, again, we rented on amazon prime and we're watching it. I'm so excited because my kids have never seen it. I'm like, let's watch this. So, again, we rented on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2:And we're like oh, it's going to be so great. I'm so excited and as I'm watching it, I'm like, what the heck is this? I'm like, why did I watch this so many times with my grandma? But there's a scene in it. I know your kids are looking at you, like we like this. Yeah, I look over at my two older ones and they've pretty much checked out.
Speaker 2:My younger one loves movies, so she's like sitting on my lap like this is great, dad, I love it, and my wife is just like what the heck? And so there's this scene. Where so the premise of it? This young pirate, when he's like 12 years old, these pirates come to town and his like nanny, angela Lansbury, signs him up to be an apprentice or whatever, which basically makes him like an indentured servant. Well, she thought that she was signing him up to be an apprentice to a pilot, but made a mistake and made him an apprentice to a pirate. What a great theme.
Speaker 1:Comical right.
Speaker 2:So he's on this ship and now it's his 21st birthday and his time is over, he's free to go, or something like that. And so he's like I've never seen a woman before. And she's like I'm gonna come with you. And she's like how about you marry me? And he's like marry you. And she's like yeah, and he's like, but are you, um, are you pretty? Because I've never seen another word. She's like I'm pretty hot, like I'm a pretty good looking woman. You should totally hook up with me.
Speaker 2:This is the movie, this is the movie. And so he's like all right, I'm like, I'm a man of my character and words. So if you say you're a pretty woman, then I will marry you. And then he goes to shore and he sees like this whole group of young girls right, you know his age dancing and singing, and he's like whoa. And then he sings a whole song with her about you lied to me, you're old and ugly, and you said that I, they're like you're of advanced age, you're 40, gross, how could you? And and like the thing is like deceiver. And like he's saying how she's a deceiver because she said that she was pretty, and he's like you're not pretty, you're hideous because you're 40 years old and my marriage is just like what the heck is happening 40.
Speaker 2:It's the most crazy. No way. Oh, it's so funny how wrong it is and it's just it is hilarious, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So not least, we want to hear from your guys's movies that are like on the on the list of your childhood movies that you go back.
Speaker 2:You're like, hold up this is not what I thought it was that it does not match the memory I have of that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there there's so many like that.
Speaker 2:There's so many like that.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, let's get back to.
Speaker 2:I know we've been trying to avoid Atlantic City, but we can't for much longer, so let's get back locked in here.
Speaker 2:So we ended up playing Euchre all day long. We had lunch at some restaurant in Bally's Casino and played Euchre at the table. I had a great turkey dinner style lunch. Hey, look at that. I said something nice about food. Yeah, about food. We walked around and got depressed that we couldn't afford to play at the casino, so we went to johnny rocket's for malts and more euchre. Boy, we did play a lot of euchre that day. I mean, I guess you're in atlantic city, ten dollar minimums is too expensive for you, and so what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2:right, of course, yeah, so um for the two dollar tables yeah, it was fun, but if we never go back to atlantic city, that would be okay. So, scott and hendy hendy is scott's brother-in-law, that's what we call him. Um, first name is eric. Um, they sat down at one blackjack table because it looked like a $5 minimum. So, hey, that's in our price range. It was, but you have to play two hands at a time. It was a very odd game, and nobody quite understood how to play, including the dealers. At one point, the dealer was dealt an ace, so she asked the player if they wanted insurance. Hendy said no, but he wanted more cards because he was only holding 12. She dealt herself, though, and Hendy got skipped. This turned into a big mess, and the manager had to come out.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Since nobody knew how to play this game, the argument went round and around. Hendy ended up just getting his money back. This would not have happened in Vegas.
Speaker 1:See.
Speaker 2:Yeah right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. That's a comparison so for dinner we ordered pizza and played more euchre day over day over.
Speaker 1:That was atlanta city. Euchre um, look it up, I think we have talked about once e-u-c-h-r-e is the way you spell it, which is the the other weird thing about it. And yeah, it's a great, it's a great game, and if you ever hang out with us, we will gladly play euchre with you oh, that's true, we should.
Speaker 2:We should have like a prize pack where you can win it all expenses paid by you. Trip to california to play. Yeah, meet us at lake alfred, we're gonna be there In August.
Speaker 1:You can come and play Yutra with us and you could sleep in the Lazy Days Motorhome. Ooh, that could be a prize package.
Speaker 2:Actually, that's going to be more and more attractive. Yeah, wait a minute, this is an authentic thing. It's not the Lazy Days Motorhome, it's just a Lazy Days.
Speaker 1:Motorhome.
Speaker 2:Very similar motorhome. Very similar though, yeah, and my it could be the original plummet rock.
Speaker 1:We're not really sure that's right. We could do the same thing. Yeah, this is a motorhome similar. Similar motorhome but the um, yeah, it's almost identical. The um, the boat and the motorhome showed back up and I love the fact that they're both like 96 97, and so my line for that is like man, sophomore scott's really happy right now, yeah he's happy how his life turned out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like wait a minute when I'm older, I'm gonna have a brand new boat and motor. Well, it doesn't. Doesn't work like that exactly yes, they were brand new in those? Oh, oh, it does Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what the joy found in them is brand new, here here, here, here, here, here. Yes, so that is the fact. So, yeah, rolling down the street, my nephew drove it up and man looks good, all heads together I don, all together. I'm like I don't get that view very often right, because I'm usually the one doing driving.
Speaker 2:So you see, your see, see their old glory coming towards you yeah, I don't, I don't think women this is maybe me being a little stereotypy, but I like when a woman sees their child and they're like oh, look at that child that's mine. We feel the same way when we see like our RVs and boats coming down the road, even if it's 30 years old and a little worse for the wear.
Speaker 1:Parents are still proud of their kids after they're 30 years old. A little worse for the wear.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:Fair enough. A couple of babies in maybe a divorce Still checks out. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll launch that boat of mine and I'll look at it. I'm like, look at that. I'm like hey everybody else here, that one hey people are.
Speaker 1:People are impressed with that. Yeah, I see there's a lot of similarities, a lot more money on here is good for you, but that was my well done. Yeah, I am poor mostly, yeah. But again back to the amount of joy.
Speaker 2:The joy, the same, yeah, in your very expensive boat and my, uh, not as expensive boat, similar joy I also find that a lot of people in the very expensive ones always have sort of scowls on their face because they have to be like look how cool I am. And I'm like, yeah, that's great, I'm having a good old time.
Speaker 1:This thing didn't cost me much money about it, exactly. Well, yeah, that's a nice thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, crash into the dock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's fine hope the dock's, hope the's okay. You know what? Pirates of Penzance ramming things and you're fine.
Speaker 2:Coming in hot. Look out sand.
Speaker 1:Look out sand. Sadly, Do you go to Long Beach Marina and that's Marina Stadium in that boat?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1:Oh, isn't salt water bad for boats, sure is. But you know what, when you have a 96 Maxim, you take it where you go. You have fun with it.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of joy, a lot of laughter. Yeah, Get it while you can, because it's not going to last forever. You never know.
Speaker 1:You never know when this joy ends.
Speaker 2:Speaking of joy endings Scott.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it's time.
Speaker 2:We have to say goodbye. We do Always. The saddest part of the week. It was the saddest part, the saddest part of the week for us and for you.
Speaker 1:So thank you all for joining us as we went on a trip through Atlantic City and we do apologize again for Andrew's honest assessments. And if you can defend Atlantic City, come on, come on yeah.
Speaker 2:Let's hear it. Yeah, are we wrong? Are we wrong? That's a great I'm waiting to hear that person. So see you guys. All right, until next time, bye-bye.