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
39: Nostalgia, Dollar Stores, and Parenting Hacks: East Coast Road Trip Chronicles
Ever wondered how a debate about dollar stores could spark nostalgia and practical tips for budget-savvy parenting? Join Scott Hawkins and Andrew Gaer on the Kings of the Road podcast as we recount our latest East Coast road trip, filled with the simple joys and quirky adventures that make travel memorable. From the laughter over a lunch at Subway to the mundane yet oddly satisfying task of dumping the motorhome's waste tank, you'll feel like you're right there with us. We'll even let you in on why stopping at dollar stores for movie snacks is a parenting hack you'll want to steal.
What’s the best way to enjoy fried chicken? We take you on a hilarious and heartfelt journey through our fast food memories, from the perfect Popeye's experience to some not-so-great KFC stops. As night falls in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the challenges of RV travel become all too real with freezing temperatures and carbon monoxide concerns. But our adventurous spirit can't be dampened as we visit the Special Ops Museum, proving that even the toughest nights have their silver linings.
Museums and laundry—two things that sound mundane but are anything but on our podcast. We share our newfound appreciation for museums, contrasting youthful impatience with the curiosity of adulthood. You’ll laugh at our attempts to keep a child's attention amidst historical artifacts and learn our secrets for efficient post-vacation laundry. And just when you think the journey is over, a light-hearted mention of Myrtle Beach and the nostalgic glow of Hooters' orange lights signal that more adventures are just around the corner.
Welcome to the Kings of the Road podcast, where you get to journey in a lazy day's motorhome. Where you get to journey in a lazy day's motorhome, currently going down the East Coast, heading to the thick, swamp-like humidity of the South, With Scott Hawkins here, Andrew Gare who's there, and we are going on a journey saying yes to adventure, going to the places where we get to serve the church, see new areas and just overall, have a good time. So, if you haven't yet, follow us on Facebook Instagram we don't have a YouTube Subscribe. Wherever you are, though, Subscribe to this so you know that there's new episodes are coming out. We typically release them on Wednesdays, Summer. We're trying to figure out the right pattern, but we are just glad to be together.
Speaker 2:So, hey, andrew, Hello sir, good to be back. Took a little bit of time off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went. I went to Mount Hermon, where you've gone a lot. This is my third time there, but the first time, as I was telling Andrew, with older children, and it's really quite amazing with older children.
Speaker 2:so indeed indeed pretty exciting and we went out to tennessee to visit my family. Had a great time out there. Speaking of the south right yes and then, uh, spent some time on the lake good times, fun with family, cousins. But we're back at it now, talking about this road trip.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you heard everybody, but we went on a road trip. We did this is. If this is your first time listening, welcome, welcome, welcome. It's good to have you here. Also, you should go back and listen to all the other episodes, because we're going on a journey and we're reading from a journal that we kept yeah, going all through the country. So we're we're getting to the south now started in the southwest. Now we're getting to the southeast. Yeah, we are yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1:Well, let's read, let's see where we're going let's read.
Speaker 2:I think we're gonna do two days today because, uh, one of these days is a little bit shorter, but we'll get started here with day 49 of our trip. It's monday, it is november, the 15th of 2004. Today was a big day. Get ready for this one, scott. Oh I, I can't wait. Yeah, we ate lunch at Subway Nice. Yeah, they had Subways back then yeah, oh yeah, sure did, sure did. We dumped our poo tank. Oh we're living.
Speaker 1:It's important to do. We're living.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I said it was a big day. It was a big day. It was a bit. We mailed some letters, okay. Okay, all right, the suspense builds checking out so far. Big day. And yeah, we went to a dollar store. Wow, yeah, these are great things. These are great things, it was a big day. I didn't lie, it was a big day. Well, let's, let's, let's, learn a little bit more. That isn't the order, but who cares? At the dollar store we bought some great stuff and it was only a dollar. No, now it's $1.25.
Speaker 1:Is it Is that at the 99 cent store, that's at my dollar tree, it was $1.25, which is a true dollar store. I do not like those places like Dollar General that gets you in thinking that they're dollar stores. They're not dollar stores, they're just normal stores. What Do you know?
Speaker 2:this, yes, no, because. So that's funny, you bring it up. I was going to bring it up too because, being in Tennessee last week, they're everywhere.
Speaker 1:There's a.
Speaker 2:Dollar General. They're as prevalent as churches, yep, and there are a lot of churches.
Speaker 1:So what they have become is like the smaller version of Walmart. I don't know if you can sleep in their parking lots, but it's the idea of like you come here and this area can't sustain a Walmart or a grocery store, but you need aluminum foil, you need milk, you need all of those things. Dollar General, that's the new thing. Towels, pool noodles. Do they have food? Yep, I don't know if fresh produce, I believe so. I believe they'll have some, like your bananas, your tomatoes, but you're not going to find a Italian zucchini.
Speaker 2:I kind of regret not going in one now.
Speaker 2:But the problem is they're not a buck, so you go, but the problem is they're not a buck, so you don't end up thinking, oh, I'm going to a dollar general. No, you're not going to a dollar store, you're going to a grocery store or a mini walmart. Well, I always thought like this is going to eventually be a problem for the 99 cent stores or the dollar tree, where I'm like you kind of. You kind of put an expiration date on yourself because we can't. Just, it's like either the merchandise has to get worse or eventually you're going to be like and didn't like 99 cent store.
Speaker 2:Change their name to like the 99 cent plus store or something.
Speaker 1:I think they're also never they're all gone. I think they were never. True 99 cent stores, I think they were like that's where we start. The dollar tree by me is still everything's $1.25. Now, the move that they make, which fair, is you get less aluminum foil right, there's a roll, but it's only like enough to cover three pans and that's $1.25. So you have to buy four of them, um, which is, I think, the move, or a lot of that so like. But the veteran parent move, I think, okay, it's on the way to the theater for us is going to the movie. Drop in the dollar store, pick out any two candies you want, kids go crazy, yeah, and then $2.50, and you're going into the movies, they're stoked. They got gummy worms, gummy bears, you're stoked. It's not $11 each, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I know we talked about this a little bit before, but we went to the movies while we were on vacation. We saw inside out too. I haven't seen it yet, I want to. Yeah, those are clever movies and yeah, they are they had you could buy. There was two sizes of popcorn, so there were, there were a lot of us, there were 12 of us in total. Okay, the two sizes of popcorn, medium. Okay For, like I don't know, $8.99. Right Large $9.99.
Speaker 1:Yes, of course it was.
Speaker 2:And the guy's like there's only he goes. The bigger size is only a dollar more. So I was already like, well, yeah, I'm gonna do that and he goes, and the large has free refills. What? Okay this is the greatest way to pay one dollar.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, you do want one large then we went one large.
Speaker 2:to be fair, when we bought it, it was just there was not 12 of us, there were eight of us. That's a lot of passing, though that's a lot of popcorn passing. Well, here's the hack. I'm going to get audited by the IRS or something. Yes, you will. But we say okay, give us one large popcorn. Hey, could we get like six of those cardboard trays and they're like, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:So everybody gets a tray. We dump out the popcorn into the tray.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is like a homeschool homeschooler hack right here. I feel like that's good, I don't know, and uh, and so like we basically gave everybody popcorn and then I went like right back to the line I'm like, and the guy's like refill. I'm like yes, sir.
Speaker 1:And he's like as if, like everybody does this, of course, and I'm not just saying that about those situations I've learned 98 of employees don't care, they know exactly what you're doing. Yeah, and for them, working at the amc and getting paid their 15 an hour, whatever, that's fine. You want to go on this line five times and get popcorn every time? I don't care. Free refills, go crazy. Yeah, you know, and we're like we feel awkward about it. But but they're like yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2:I'm like, hey, the policy the policies doesn't say don't share. Like you know, it was the same thing we bought tickets, and so I bought tickets for the movie for my kids and and my sister's kids and my sister's kids are older than mine, so they're older than 12. Yeah, and my sister's like just my kids tickets. I'm like, oh, but they're older, she goes danger, they don't check.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh okay, so I just did kids tickets for everybody and, sure enough, I walk in. I'm like here's my qr code and he's just like, thanks, thanks. I'm like, okay, it is surprising, they're just guidelines, it is surprising.
Speaker 1:Like you said, those people don't. The average employee is not sitting there trying to save AMC the $8 to buy another popcorn.
Speaker 2:Just for retribution purposes, I didn't say I went to an AMC theater. Oh, okay, I liked it.
Speaker 1:I did, though I did In case it gets huge, in case this gets big. I'm not ripping you off, amc, maybe not Getting a call from the lawyer at AMC, you owe us $6. $9. I want to know what is the most awkward thing you've ever brought into a movie theater or a family member uncomfortable thing? I have an answer. I just I. My mother is Deborah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I do remember as a kid like my mom would we would pop our own popcorn and like so we'd like smuggle that in with like capri suns or something like we never went to the concession stand at a movie, that was right yeah, mom, mom rolled in with a full bucket of fried chicken.
Speaker 1:That's, that's the top, because sounds so good. Fried chicken in a movie theater.
Speaker 2:Everybody, everybody knows you're having fried chicken and everybody's pissed because they want it everyone's like. Why didn't we?
Speaker 1:think of that, and she's just passing down a drum stick.
Speaker 2:You want a drum thigh yeah yeah, just all you hear is the like and like a greasy fingers every uh the pop, that's all.
Speaker 1:That's all you're hearing. But you know what you know me and tom hanks.
Speaker 2:We got to know each other with over fried chicken and forrest gump whatever movie we are in that day conversations all over town later oh, how was? How was the movie, I don't know? Somebody brought fried chicken and that's all I could think about. We had to leave early so we could go to.
Speaker 1:KFC. Oh, I've heard good things about Forrest Gump, but so hungry.
Speaker 2:Oh, I brought fried chicken now. I love fried chicken. Do you ever go?
Speaker 1:to KFC I have recently and it's slipped, I feel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got one by our house and I haven't been there.
Speaker 1:It slipped, I think, I don't know how long we have a. Popeye's not far either, but Popeye's is still good.
Speaker 2:Popeye's chicken is so good, so I love Popeye's chicken, and there was one in Pasadena when I used to work up there, when I used to have to go in the office, and so I'd go there anytime I had my car, otherwise I would take the train. Right, but if I had my car, it was Popeye's for lunch Popeye's.
Speaker 1:Love it.
Speaker 2:Chicken strips yes. With the Mardi Gras mustard dipping sauce Biscuit their.
Speaker 1:Cajun fries or like their jambalaya.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was the perfect meal. So they opened one up in Buena Park. Okay, not far there. We've got family there. We're in Buena Park all the time. That one, for whatever reason, is like the bottom rung of Popeyes. No, yes, sorry, I don't know why, but they are opening one up in orange. It might be open. I need to give it a try. Good, it's so good I love it's so good.
Speaker 2:All right, let's see when were we. We got a lint brush, a back scratcher, chocolate-covered pretzels, a puzzle of a baby dressed like a flamingo UFO, fruit snacks, a 35-ounce bottle of root beer and awards for our beer Nice, and awards for our friends Nice. 35 ounce bottle of root beer that seems like a strange amount of root beer.
Speaker 1:It is, but we probably shared it.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I'm assuming that's true. Yeah, so here's the awards we got. So I said we got awards for our friends. Allison got the I can tie my shoes ribbon. Nice sheree got I'm a big girl. Um, and summer was given. I try hard, I try these are good awards.
Speaker 1:remember that we grew up in the time before participation trophies, so I try hard is like. That's the on the way to participation trophy, right yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like I try hard ribbon. I was like who are you giving these two seriously, Like hilarious. So we mailed these to them today at the post office. We are funny, that's funny, it is funny.
Speaker 1:I still think, that's funny. It is funny, see, we were right. In fact, we should try to see if we should find those again because we still know all those people and mail them again.
Speaker 2:We should. I wonder if they probably still have them in their hope chests at the foots of their beds, things that they remember.
Speaker 1:That's probably true. It gets them through. Sheree looks at it and goes I do try hard, I do try hard, I do try hard. Was that Summer's oh?
Speaker 2:no, sheree's a big girl, sheree is a big girl. Yeah, summer tries hard I can do it. I can do it I'm a big girl, oh my goodness. So we made it down to Fayetteville, north Carolina, to sleep at yet another Walmart. So we're just traveling. We're not trying to stop anywhere we're just traveling. Shall we go on Day 50. That was it for day 49. So day 50, tuesday November 16th. Last night was cold.
Speaker 1:Oh, I, remember that still that day At 10 pm, at 10 pm day At 10 pm.
Speaker 2:At 10 pm, yeah, just 10 pm. The temperature was 30 degrees.
Speaker 1:We are from California, remember? We are so cold right now. We are so cold In our aluminum box.
Speaker 2:Yes, we can only imagine how cold it got in that RV overnight. I have a good sleeping bag bag and I was still cold. Yeah, we were worried that our water tank would freeze and the expanded frozen water would crack our tank Like I don't know. Maybe some of you who experience this type of weather are like that's ridiculous, but it was a real worry for us, right? Yeah, so luckily this did not happen. Fayetteville is the home of the Special Ops Museum, so naturally we stopped by Hold on a second Before we. Yeah, this night is one that sticks out in my mind because of how cold it was. And, yes, we did have the system where, like, we would be frozen. But I could just do a very quick sit up, hit the thermostat and then go back down. But we were still a little bit scared that, like our heater was going to like asphyxiate us. Is that the term? Yeah, going to like kill us, asphyxiate us is that the term? Yeah?
Speaker 1:so I think this is this was our worst. Like we, we lived out of fear of carbon dioxide poisoning, which we probably should have just done a carbon dioxide detector and call it a day. And also our batteries, like having enough juice to put the heater on all night long. Oh right, any any version of heat would have been better than just letting us freeze and getting down to whatever got in there which was cold. So cold.
Speaker 2:It's not like these things have great insulation. My area was colder because I was just out over.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was two-sided, so I was in the cold zone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're in, just like a big metal peninsula hanging over the space.
Speaker 1:Peninsula of freezing. And so you would flip it on and we'd wait. Is it warm? Finally, we'd hear the little yes, slowly it's going to warm up. And it worked, man, that little heater. It works. Yeah, it did.
Speaker 2:Give it a chance. It works. We didn't die that night, so we. But speaking of dying, let's get back to the Special Ops Museum. Huh, please, okay. So we, we. But speaking of dying, let's get back to the special ops museum. Huh, please, okay. So home of the special ops museum. So naturally, we stopped by. Very interesting, it was all about the airborne soldiers throughout American war history. Wow, that's enough about that.
Speaker 1:I have zero recollection of that museum, but I don't remember that either. I remember the water museum in Florida. We're going of that museum, but I don't remember that either. I remember the Waters Museum in Florida we were going to go to, but that one it sounds great. So Fayetteville way to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, although I did say so, I ended that very briefly saying that's enough about that, the only thing worse than visiting museums is writing about visiting them, so I hadn't quite matured in my appreciation for all things I was going to say where are we at with that now?
Speaker 2:I think now I could spend a half a day at a museum like that, read every plaque. Yeah, okay, yeah, I took here in California all fourth graders do a mission project. So we've got missions throughout the state of California and each kid has to pick a mission and do a report on it. So in my oldest Avery was in fourth grade we picked a mission that was in Oceanside, not too far from us. Sure, we went down there and so we're like okay, avery, you got to learn all about it. There's all these plaques, let's walk through. I was like taking pictures of everyone. I was reading everything. She was over it in like 10 minutes done. And she's like what's over here? I'm like do you didn't? Did you read this one? How are you gonna know what to do on the report?
Speaker 1:and I'm like, oh right, she's 10 years old, she doesn't care I know, but that is like still the experience I feel like I have with my mom, as she like puts her hands behind her back and slowly walks from. I don't see it in my head. Yeah, I plait the plait and like, yeah, looks at each one and so I don't. Maybe it's like 10 year old scott, so I I don't enjoy doing museum, but when she's there doing that move, I'm like come on, move along, move along.
Speaker 2:There's a lunch place at the end. Let's get there.
Speaker 1:I'm hungry three free beers at the end, remember, sure, yeah oh, yeah, oh man I know, yeah, I.
Speaker 2:I feel like I could go either way. At a museum I could be like okay, we're here, how much time do we have to stay to feel like we made this worth it and let's get out of here? And then there's the other side of me that wants to put my hands behind my back and slowly and slowly and take all of it in Take all of it in.
Speaker 1:It's a transition, so maybe your experience as being a child is that you just look at your parents and go like, seriously, this is what we're doing with our vacation. You know, the ocean is right there. Oh, there's a lake.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what if instead we went swimming anywhere, in anything?
Speaker 1:Anywhere I want to get my body into water. Is ice cream a possibility? Is that from the end of this?
Speaker 2:Please. What else can we do? That's not this, okay. Well, our laundry bag was getting full. So after lunch at some yokel Italian restaurant, we went to the laundromat. We stop at a lot of Italian restaurants, don't we? That's probably all there is out there. Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2:Like Subway or Italian Barbecue. Yeah, Usually at laundromats I have no problem leaving while my clothes are being washed here. I was not about to let them out of my sight. Half of the machines were broken or missing, the ceiling was caving in and the carts to put your clothes in were stolen from the grocery store.
Speaker 1:But it was cheap, yeah, helpful.
Speaker 2:So at least there's that um, we hit it out.
Speaker 1:I like every match for the fact that you're just done. You just do one big load, yeah, a couple of machines. You throw them all in, move all the dryers, everything's done. Laundry can be a really long process but with that, like you can crush laundry. Like you can crush laundry, yeah, that is, that is good. I know it's all time like let's just take it to the laundromat. We have our free machines. I'm like we can just be done.
Speaker 2:It can be over yeah, I know, I, I know somebody who did that, like after a vacation. They're like we just took the entire family's laundry, we did it all at once and we were done and I was like, oh, that is interesting, versus like the two days of oh we gotta, we got to switch it. Now Do we set a timer? Oh, we forgot, oh no, that one sat in the washing machine overnight, so now we got to re-wash. That I know.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, it's like three hours of just like five machines deep, all to the extra large dryer, everything's in there and we walked away. Yeah, $35 poor, but done, done Laundry finished for the day. Then tomorrow everyone wears three up. Why did you change Child what?
Speaker 2:Because I was done wearing this. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:What, oh that age where change flows 11 times a day? Yeah, we're out of that too, but still, yeah, they are old enough to change. But you know, when they've changed for us is when we had them we.
Speaker 2:We started them doing their own laundry, like sorting it and then sorting it after it and then putting it away, and I always call it like all right kids, it's time for the laundry party, like it's a fun thing they're like ah I love it.
Speaker 2:It makes me so happy when I can say laundry party, and they just are. So we know this is not fun, we know this sucks yeah, all right. So we headed out of this ghetto and went to myrtle beach, south carolina. No, that's nice, that's much nicer. Off in the distance, I could see those familiar orange lights. That could only mean one thing hooters. I debated like oh man, do we want to skip this. But you know we have to be true to the journal true to the text we're 22 year old men yeah, hooters, I love hooters, the wings are great.
Speaker 2:Oh boy again. This is why it's good when your wives don't listen to your podcast, you know, because it's like, yeah, this is fine.
Speaker 1:Listen, this is fine Gooders.
Speaker 2:Good waiters. A few of the waitresses stopped by to chat and they were all very friendly. Hmm, Odd.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Shocked. Yeah, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1:Our waitress wasn't real smart, but she had big beers that she brought us see what I did there.
Speaker 2:You did good, you did I, even I even scratched something out in the journal because I was like being hilarious in the journal. Oh, my goodness, I'm not proud of all the things we did. In the same parking lot was a store called Bass Pro. That was over three football fields in size, so Bass Pro is now a thing worldwide, but it wasn't then. It wasn't then. This was our very first.
Speaker 2:We were just discovering it. We did not know Bass Pro existed, but here we are. 20 years ago, rolling up to Bass Pro existed, but here we are, nope. 20 years ago, yes, rolling up to Bass Pro.
Speaker 1:Here's something I'm just reflecting on Tell me, when you travel and when you go on an adventure like we're encouraging people to step out, try something new, like we've discovered Crocs and remember they weren't a thing. Now they've become a thing. Here's the Bass Pro shop. There are so many things that you get to look back and go oh yeah, I, I found that, or I experienced that. When you just say yes to adventure, like those are two huge things. Now there's not a person in america who you say crocs to and they're not like yeah, of course. Yeah, but we in boulder were. What are these ugly shoes that you can eat if you boil them?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Crocs, and now they're a thing, bass Pro.
Speaker 1:Shop.
Speaker 2:everyone knows, Could you even can you even believe the popularity of Crocs Like they've surged. All my kids have Crocs now Again, because it's a thing I know I'm like.
Speaker 1:I know they're back. How is this possible? They do great. It's amazing I think it has to be the fact that everyone who has a legit pair of Crocs the only Crocs I have are Walmart ones. I know I never got them. Yeah, they're not this. But I'm wondering. Everyone who has them says they are the most comfortable shoes you'll have. Yeah, you can stand in them for hours like nurses. Yeah, I know a guy who worked a grill all day. He ran a taco or a hamburger shop and he's like I have to have these on my feet because I'm standing 10 hours a day flipping burgers and I can do it in these shoes. I'm like every that is across the board. Yeah, so they're legitimately. They do it what they do. Yes, they're ugly, but you need a shoe they can stand in and good for boating. Yeah, yeah, that's what keeps you coming back.
Speaker 2:So I guess the takeaway, what I'm hearing you say is be good at what you do, because even if you're ugly, you'll still have a purpose.
Speaker 1:This is kind of my life motto, maybe Is it oh, figure something out, consistently do it, and whether or not you look good doing it, keep going.
Speaker 2:You are the crocs of people that would.
Speaker 1:That would be. That's such a bumper sticker. I'm a croc. What do you mean?
Speaker 2:they're undeniably comfortable and useful, but damn, they're undeniably comfortable and useful, but damn, they're ugly.
Speaker 1:But damn, oh, that's a great life motto. Oh gosh, we're going to sell those stickers. If you want one, go to King, to the Road.
Speaker 2:Oh no. No, that's on our website. Oh yeah, Just tell us on Facebook or Instagram. No, John, Chris oh. Johnriscom that's right. Yes, oh, chris, it's totally our website. Uh, oh man, okay, uh, yeah. So it was huge. We it had everything a redneck could want, from fishing gear to rifles, to nascar merch boy. It was great. I think I fit in because last night I shaved my goatee into a handlebar mustache oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yes, that picture has to be posted. And oh yeah, yes, you did fit in. Yes, you did fit in yeah, there was no second glances yeah, that was good, I don't know everyone's like you're the right guy for this store yeah, probably wasn't the only one with that, yeah that was guaranteed not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it, that was one with that. Yeah, that was guaranteed not. Yeah, that was one of those things that was funny because I did it and like, when you do something weird with your facial hair, it's funny when you do it and then you forget about it because it's on your face and then you're like people looking at me weird today and then you catch a glance of yourself and you're like oh, I forgot, I did that here's the other funny thing that I thought you were to say about facial hair.
Speaker 1:Because when you do something funny to your facial hair, you think it's hilarious. The people you just meet for the first time they're like, oh, he just has a handlebar mustache. Yeah, that's just who he is. That's just who he is. Yeah, he's handling our mustache. Guy, we're inside, you're going hilarious and they're going like you just have a handle on mustache, right, okay?
Speaker 2:does he know this looks?
Speaker 1:terrible, yeah, I know. Oh man, can we just pause for like half a second and grieve together over the fact that like mullets are really becoming a thing again? Yeah, or are you? Are you okay with this? I don't get it. I'm becoming more and more not okay with it as I see seven-year-olds rolling around. I'm like your parents did that to you and you're not going to be happy about that photo later. I don't think.
Speaker 2:Is it the same kind of thing when you see a small child who wears a band t-shirt? A small child who wears like a band t-shirt, like you know? You see a kid who's got like a Pearl. Jam t-shirt on but they're five and it's like you don't like Pearl Jam.
Speaker 1:Your parents are just trying to show everybody that they're cool but I think that that is cool, as opposed to the mullet where it's like oh man, but it's a statement right, like, hey, we're so cool that my kid's got a mullet.
Speaker 2:Where it's like oh man, but it's a statement right, like hey, we're so cool that my kid's got a mullet, kind of like you know, if you gave your kid a mohawk at certain points A mohawk or a blue hair or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like they're just, they don't have a choice. Yeah, they're just like blank canvases. I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's just, it's it's hard, it's a it's hard for me. So I just wanted to take a moment to. I'm sorry, you know, I think I've I was too flippant there and I just glossed over the the fact that you're hurting and I need to address that.
Speaker 1:Scott, I'm sorry watching this head out too recently and you're very in tune with yourself.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that I'm, I'm seeing the emotions that you're and I just you know, I I skipped over it, so I feel your pain.
Speaker 1:I'll have to. So can we talk about my feelings and the fact that I have feelings about my feelings and my feelings about your dismissing my feeling?
Speaker 2:yeah, now tell me as. Yeah, tell me, as I'm looking at you right now. Uh huh, you've shaved your head quite close. This is the new. What is that? A one, a zero, it's a one.
Speaker 1:It's a one dude, it's a one, it's down to one.
Speaker 2:Is there maybe a part of you that is like I hate the mullet because I can't do it, because?
Speaker 1:I can't do it. I think you could, though I could probably do a great mullet, because I think I had hair here great mullet because I think I had hair here. You got hair on the back. Yeah, you can still party here. I don't have to party, I can't business in the front, yeah, so yeah, no, it's interesting, I'll have to.
Speaker 1:I don't feel hair envy like actually. One of the speakers at mount herman was like saying that part of his thing is he's bald and he's like, oh, I have hair envy because he's italian. He's like, oh man, I I love people's with good hair yeah, for me it's like you know, I was like whatever, like this is how god made me.
Speaker 1:I'm hairy from my eyebrows down, but like my head just never gonna be hairy. I don't know if it's from me bleaching my hair so much and dyeing some colors I still kind of blend on that, but then you're a bad example because you did that too and you still got a lot of hair. So it could just be something else, but it it is what it is. So I'm okay with that part um, but I could, maybe I need to go deeper, I need to spend some time with that, and so I I'll, I'll go that, I'll go to that spot tonight well, I just want, I just want you to know that I see you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, is that the right?
Speaker 1:thing to say, yes, and I think you're supposed to now rub the small of my back.
Speaker 2:No, I mean if we were in proximity, I guess rain check Still Okay rain check.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll put that on the table.
Speaker 2:The small of your back, the hairy small of your table the small of your back.
Speaker 1:You're the hairy small of your the furry small oh boy oh, everyone. Well, I know this, I know when we're at the lake together.
Speaker 2:Next you're gonna be like hey, andrew, will you put sunscreen on my back? Sunscreen me up? I'm like, that's why you have a wife. I will not, but then she's like I ain't doing it, so it's probably gonna happen.
Speaker 1:Well, I do. I do body scape that for sometimes like late times, because I don't I this is maybe gonna touch on the tmi, so if you want to pause right now, you can't jump forward one minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah if you don't want to hear this, let's just call this episode over for you listener otherwise.
Speaker 1:But for those who want to go, stay on at your own risk. Two things have happened. One, when the kids are littler, they would like climb on you and they'd like, full hand, sometimes come down and just pull body hair as it's going and it hurt, like my back, and so I was like I gotta get smaller so they can't just like not grab it, but just like with with the I don't know with the water it would hurt, as they're like. So I'm like, okay, it needs to be thinner. And there was one member I have where maybe this was subconscious, but I felt like I could feel the hairs like flowing, like oh, there's a lot of grass in this water yes, my body, yes, like I felt.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's oh, that's part of my body. That's like how girls feel hair swimming. I'm like this is a smaller. This is going too deep, so yeah so those were the things that made me be like emily. We got to start trimming the good old back hair, and it's not a day she looks forward to, but it's a day that comes, especially in the summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's interesting, so yeah that ends the time so you can jump back in listener and enjoy our closing theme song If you want to. So never, never thought we'd get there, but we did. I love where we go because we got to movies. Today, we got to body hair. Today we got to laundry machines.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I told you it was a big day. Told you it was.
Speaker 1:I didn't say that at the machines. Yeah, yeah, I told you it was a big day. I told you it was. You did say that at the beginning. Yeah, so Truth Well done. Listener, thank you for joining us. We love being together. We love being with you.
Speaker 2:See you have a fun day on the road with you Absolutely Bye everybody, thank you.