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
Wrestling Gators and Chasing Nostalgia: A Florida and California Tale
Ever wondered what it's like to wrestle a hippopotamus in a Florida swamp? Join us, Scott Hawkins and Andrew Gaer, as we embark on a thrilling escapade through the wilds of Florida, facing off with alligators and tackling the unique challenges of creating and absorbing sound simultaneously. Amid the excitement, we touch on the real-life seasonal hurdles of living in Southern California, particularly during fire and mudslide seasons. Tune in for a hilarious recount of how we narrowly dodged a house fire, thanks to a quirky electrical mishap, and plenty of our signature humor and offbeat anecdotes.
Next, we take you on a heartwarming and nostalgic trip to Orange County, California, where we explore an 800-square-foot house surrounded by lush fruit trees and a rich history. As we delve into the emotional journey of its owners moving closer to family, we discuss the property's hefty $3.9 million price tag and the potential for new developments. Plus, you'll hear about our laid-back day by the pool during a Florida road trip, complete with Thanksgiving leftovers and reflections on the joys of home and family.
Finally, ease into the leisurely lifestyle of Florida with us as we compare it to California's hustle and bustle. From the amusing lack of innovation in Florida to the high cost of living in California that pushes people to work harder, we offer a lighthearted yet insightful comparison. We also touch on the unique social behaviors in the Midwest shaped by extreme weather and wrap up with a playful parenting tip—using embarrassment to build resilient and confident kids. Don't miss our fun Halloween costume challenge and motivational advice for parents to step out of their comfort zones.
Hello and welcome to the best part of your week. What, what time is it? That's right. Hello and welcome to the best part of your week. What, what time is it? That's right. It's time for you to hang out with me. Scott Hawkins, this funny looking fella, Andrew Gare, and we are going to go down a journey to Florida. We're going to be going through swamps, battling alligators, wrestling hippopotamuses, trying to see where the future holds us and me. Journey on the Teens of the Road podcast. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, listen on Spotify, Apple Music, wherever you get your podcasts regularly. We're here for you. Andrew, are you ready to talk?
Speaker 2:I'm ready to talk, but that wasn't fair. You insulted my looks at a time where you knew I was incapable of defending myself. It's the best way to insult someone because I can't talk when the music's playing it's just impossibility.
Speaker 1:In my brain there's two things happening at once.
Speaker 2:No, too many things, yeah so I can't take sound in and create sound at the same time. Which?
Speaker 1:is weird for your drum.
Speaker 2:It is a problem for when I play. Yeah, that is everybody quiet now. Yeah, that's my turn. Yeah, okay, everybody else. Now, that's a very different way to do music I played the whole song now everyone.
Speaker 1:Now you can worship. Uh, sir, you're supposed to play with us. That's, yeah, that's how the drums work. This isn't gonna work out. I can't have sound coming in and out at the same time. It's a physical possibility. Yeah, it's very weird. It is very weird, but here we are. So, hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm good. I'm good If you hear the sounds of the landscaping machines in the background you know it's wednesday.
Speaker 1:You know it's wednesday. You're here with us.
Speaker 2:It's a good day, yeah yeah, I don't know if it's people in my backyard or next door. I saw a guy on a ladder recently. Oh yeah, it's next door. I'm seeing leaves flying, so this is cool. It's not even my normal sound, it's extra sounds extra sound.
Speaker 1:Yes, hey, are um any fires they? I'm not close to you, right? It's more south, uh, we are good.
Speaker 2:I, there was one that was burning directly north that I could see out my window, and then, yeah, there's one further south and then there's one in big bear, so something that people don't know. This has come up a few times, but you know, everybody says like, oh, you know, southern california doesn't have seasons. I would miss the seasons too much if I lived there and you know, I love fall and I love winter and spring and summer, and I'm like we do have seasons, it's just they're different, right? So we're now entering into fire season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, left season. That will destroy your house. Yeah, burn you up.
Speaker 2:And then followed by, that is, once all the vegetation is burned and we get a little bit of rain, then it's mudslide season. Yeah, exactly yeah, so we do have seasons.
Speaker 1:We do have seasons. They're just very dangerous, very dangerous seasons. Last night, actually, from the church, it was dark but clear and I could see like a line of fire on mount baldy.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, really it was pretty weird it was.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's the one that I can see to the north, yeah, and I was like oh, that's, that is eerie because you just see fire all the way from. Could see. I mean not like like orange glow line of red. Yeah, like red glow across.
Speaker 1:All right, I've seen that one time, they're not. So your parents were here when I saw that, because we did something to pack bags for a fire or something. Your parents came up to help and I was looking out and that is just weird. It's an eerie, eerie feeling. And then when that smoke and ash gets in the air and that red sun, oh yeah, oof, I don't like that. Yeah, I don't like that at all.
Speaker 2:No, it's not good. We're lucky. I guess the wind is blowing to the east, which is kind of unusual for Southern California.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's not getting ashy here at all. I don't smell the fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the smoke that I was seeing yesterday was all moving to the east. Yeah yeah, because a lot of times that's the tough part is there's fires and then it all blows towards the ocean and then the air quality is just bad and it smells and you get ash everywhere and yeah, hey, I had a.
Speaker 1:I had a moment where God was really blessing us by not burning our house down on Friday and, um, I don't think I told you this, maybe you saw Emily posted something on Facebook. But we were both in the house on Friday afternoon and we both started smelling like something. But you know that electrical smell. Right, that plastic, yeah, what is that? Like the little dishwashers, something melting? No, and I go back to the panel little smoke coming out of the panel. I'm like, oh, not good, not good the electrical panel the electrical panel.
Speaker 1:Oh, so I pull the fuse. I'm like, oh okay, so where is that coming from? And then and I had that day so we have two air conditioners that are like in room units that we've moved so that the kids to be cold, we could be cold for sleeping. During this, this heat wave, it has been hot because the guys, I don't have air conditioner on the beach. So it's like, oh right, when it's 90 degrees at the end of the day and then they don't get 75 at night, the house is still cooking oh yeah these are like in room air.
Speaker 1:There's always a week or two, so don't feel bad for us, but september was some week where it is just yeah, fire yeah it's like hey kids go back to school. They had a summer's over but on monday torrence took off middle of day because it was so hot. What? Yes, we don't. There's no air conditioning in torrence redondo. We have air conditioning, but their classrooms, yeah, it's like 90 degrees at one o'clock. They're like oh, we can't have kids sitting in this and learning so soft.
Speaker 2:And redondo beach, oh, 90 degrees.
Speaker 1:There's 107 out here but you don't have air conditioning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we. They didn't let the kids go outside for lunch. They all had to stay in the classrooms yeah, because we're not okay.
Speaker 1:So I had plug had blown and I had plugged the fan into one of our outlets, like oh yeah, this is this whole circuit's out. So I went and it was an air compressor kicked on because I was pumping tires and so oh and so I just plugged in, no big deal. Well, I guess, when I had done that, I jiggled something in the plug and it started looping and arcing and looping and arcing and my fuse didn't blow again, which should happen. It's like you have one job fuse it's to blow.
Speaker 2:What's that about?
Speaker 1:I don't know. So that plug just melted. I mean it was scary and I'm like this could have been so bad, like this is how a house fire starts, yeah, and my my. So I changed the fuse out, so I took off the fuse, bought a new one, put it in working on the plug. I've just right now have it just kind of tented straight through because the wires kind of melted so I had to cut them back. So I'm not sure, I'm not sure if it's that problem right now yet. Oh no, it was. I really feel like jesus protected us, like we were both home, we both smelled it, I figured out where it's coming from, if we had. We were talking about going to the beach, because it was just so hot right on the beach, dude oh man, come home from the beach.
Speaker 2:Oh, let's go take some showers, have a snack and your house is burned down, that's's.
Speaker 1:It's scary. No, it was scary, it is a bit terrifying.
Speaker 2:I sometimes wonder, like, of all the homes around anywhere, how many of them are just right on the brink of total catastrophe, and I feel like that's almost everything in life.
Speaker 1:And it's not like any, like you know how many plugs are, just like you know. And my electrician friend, because I'm like do I have to worry about anything else there? He's like no, it was the plug. And he's like this is why I like to use straight in once. He's electrician and he's like I don't like to use the loops. He's like because it's hard to get those loops tight enough. You know, you, you loop it on a side and then you tighten it down. Yeah, he's like it's hard to get those loops tight enough that they don't jiggle a little bit eventually. And I'm plugging in and plugging out and he's like I just don't like that. I like it straight in and it clamps down on it. And I was like sold.
Speaker 2:Don't need that. Oh man. Yeah, when I moved in here I redid every single one of my plugs because they were all two-pronged and so I put in the three-prongers.
Speaker 1:So hopefully I tightened them all down, it's just one of those things where I was just like gosh. I know, but to be fair, your fuse should blow when that happens.
Speaker 2:Well, true, yeah, did your friend say anything about that?
Speaker 1:No, he just said sometimes, you know, he said it should have blown. I mean that's all it had. He said it should have blown, changed the fuse. When you say fuse, you mean breaker, I mean breaker, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm just like. I'm like, what kind of like? Maybe your problem is that you've got like the world's oldest electrical panel. Yeah, remember when we stay, when we lived at this, so we, scott and I, after the road trip we we lived in an apartment for a year and then Scott knew a family at church and they had like a big property that was kind of one of the remaining properties from when the city of orange was all orange groves and over time it sold off place partials parcels.
Speaker 2:But there was, it was still like an acre and a half left and they had a little back house and we moved into this house and I love that little house I I do too. And um, and occasionally fuses would blow, but they were these old glass fuses that, like you, had to twist out and twist back in, and I feel like they were hard to find they?
Speaker 1:they definitely the first time they blew we were like what is going on? And then, yeah, you had and didn't you have to like flip them over, like that was what you would do. I don't remember exactly what we did to them, but it happened a couple of times. Yeah, that, speaking of the hot week in California, orange is just significantly hotter than Redondo Beach. You and I had gone to. We were in Palm Springs for something I don't know if it was a bachelor party or something and I came early to do church and so it was just me at the house and you weren't there and I walked into this house.
Speaker 1:That was an oven, that was the hottest I've ever felt a house and I went and bought an air conditioner. I think I called you and said I'm buying you one too, because you are not going to want to live in this house. When you get, when you get home, yeah, and we could touch the walls because it was old plaster walls that weren't insulated.
Speaker 2:And I remember touching the wall and being like ooh hot.
Speaker 1:We were legit in a convention oven, Like the walls are radiating heat into us so in the summer we would just go into our bedroom sometimes and be like air conditioning on. There's two units in the front.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say didn't we have two in the front. We did. Yeah because one wasn't enough. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, that house is only like 800 square feet, but man such a great little house, such a cute little place so listener, hey, that house is for sale, so let me let me uh help.
Speaker 2:This is a little bit a little bit heartbreaking that so yeah, the the owner, um, she grew up in so, so we were in a back house, there was also a back apartment over garages and then there was a main house, and so when we moved in, it was an older man who lived there and he had I don't think he built it, but his was it, his wife's was it his father-in-law that built the house I think, so it was something like that.
Speaker 1:They were they.
Speaker 2:They swung the ambers that house yeah, so they built the front house was cool too yeah, and it was cool because their last name maybe he did build it because his name was newport last name was newport and uh, but then in our little oh yeah, because there was ends all over the place for for newport, like we had this table that folded out of the wall and the legs of the table that would fold out was an n.
Speaker 2:Very cool oh yeah okay, yeah, so, uh, anyhow, um, so it's a really cool property, but they're they're actually moving to be closer to their daughter up in washington. So this, this uh property, the whole property with the three homes and extra garages and orange trees and nut trees and all these things, um, it's up for sale so you could own. And the listing says this property has never come up for sale. I believe that, like, how cool is that?
Speaker 1:This is the first time it's ever been on the market, because it was like a farm, and then it slowly just got whittled down to this one piece.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this is a call. I wish. If there's anybody out here who's got $3.9 million, this is your opportunity to own one of the last remaining orchards in Orange County with incredible potential. You've got this rental potential in the back with these two units there's room to build more if you wanted to, while preserving the front house. You could host weddings, you could do you want an airbnb, if you wanted me to be the full-time caretaker of the orchard. Oh, that would be great. I will do it. Oh, I know when it.
Speaker 2:When I first found out, I was like mary I don't, maybe, maybe we can buy it and then I found out how much I'm like we can't buy it. I called my parents. I'm like how much money you got.
Speaker 1:So let's all buy it together.
Speaker 2:It's sad to let it go, cause they think that more than likely it'll be a developer that'll, of course it will Buy it and build six new houses and tear down this. The, the main house, is just unbelievably beautiful. They've put so much into it. I mean the details, the the rain gutters are copper.
Speaker 2:You know the people that did the tile backsplash in the kitchen are the same people. There's a fountain in old town, orange, that recently got damaged. It's the same people that tiled the fountainiled their kitchen. Like it is okay, just buy it. It is unbelievable. Sell your house and buy it I. I would. I'd have to sell my house three times to buy it. I know I wish I could sell your house I wish investors, I wish let's team up.
Speaker 1:That'd be a place man it's. I know it is going to become a. It's going to become just're going to have a driveway down the middle. They're going to put these houses on there. It'll be a little cul-de-sac that's going to pull in. There's going to have like six houses and we're going to cry. We're going to cry.
Speaker 2:But they'll probably be really nice houses. Maybe I'll buy one of those.
Speaker 1:They're not stucco. Yeah, 2020 houses, the electrical will probably be safe, though. Amen, brother, right, all right, well that's.
Speaker 2:That's enough from from orange county, california, to a place that also has an orange county, which I don't think we're in, orange county, florida, but anyways, shall we talk about? Shall we talk about the road trip?
Speaker 1:Yes, Maybe that's something we can do today. That's what we're here for. Okay, the journey.
Speaker 2:It's day 60, scott. It's Friday, it's November 26, 2004.
Speaker 1:Dun, dun dun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, thank you. I was like I don't know what needs to go there, but thanks for filling that space, since we had been so. Oh, it's been a long time since we used one of the sound effects I know. I hope that comes across on the recording because sometimes I don't think they come across.
Speaker 1:I think it does now at the Riverside, but we'll see, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:All right, where was I? Since we've been active, so active the past few days, we decided to hang out at the pool today and take it easy. We never should have left Scott. I think Judy would have just taken care of us or Janet sorry, would have taken care of us forever care of us or, janet, sorry would have taken care of us forever.
Speaker 1:Do you realize what 40 year old selves should be telling 23 year old self who wrote that we've been so busy eating thanksgiving meals, going places, having pie made for us by an older lady who you find awkwardly attractive. We've been so busy that now we need to take a day to rest.
Speaker 2:I think that I am being sarcastic here in the journal?
Speaker 1:I agree, but do you also think that maybe this is like what happens when you're in Florida, like you start the? World starts to shift and you go oh, I've been doing a lot. I've been. I've been like, actively talking to people and eating things and walking to other people's homes.
Speaker 2:Today, Pool day, we have to recharge those batteries, I think there's an alternate universe that people who live in Florida have figured out, that people who live in Florida have figured out, that's right who are like you know what?
Speaker 1:Yes, I could just live here and pretty much be on vacation all the time, and we'll call it work when you do things like go to a friend's house for Thanksgiving. Well, we were busy yesterday, emily. Yeah, we had things to do.
Speaker 2:We were active. I had to go down to the beach club in my golf cart Exactly and settle my tab for all the hamburgers I've been ordering at the pool.
Speaker 1:Clean my towel out to make it perfectly, not wrinkly. That was 10 seconds of active work there.
Speaker 2:I deserve to take it easy. Yeah, okay. So yes, we were taking it easy at the pool today, love it. Oh, it doesn't get better. We ordered our lunch right at the pool and had it brought out to us. Yeah, that's not better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're not doing better.
Speaker 2:It was Judy's last day in town, so we played some euchre and dominoes after lunch at the pool, love it. That's a core memory of mine. I can remember sitting at that table at the pool playing dominoes and euchre. What a time you know.
Speaker 1:Great time to be alive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what a sweet lazy place. We hung out for hours. And why not, why not? I think that's Florida. Why?
Speaker 1:not, why not? Like I could go do that or not. Yeah, what if we just hung out at the pool? You know there's a good point.
Speaker 2:You know what this is, this is. Let's go back to Golden Colorado for a second. Okay, we went on a Coors factory tour. Yes, we did, walked all through the factory, learned some neat things Right, but in the back of our mind we're like at the end of this tour we get to have some free beer. Three free beers, yeah, and that's when they told us you know you could skip the tour and just go straight to the three free beers. You say yes, is Florida skipping to the three free?
Speaker 1:beers, I see, just go right to pre-death.
Speaker 2:We're spending our whole lives on this walking tour, no-transcript, and just drink my free drinks.
Speaker 1:Drink my free drinks. Yeah, I think it's true. I think I was going to make an argument a second ago, but then I argued against myself and my brain, so I couldn't make it that, like the reason Florida doesn't have the innovations that California has, because they're sitting by the pool and stuff.
Speaker 1:But we have pretty great weather here too. So then in my head I was like, really all of the innovation should come out of places like michigan, minnesota, where you're just six months ahead of the year like we're gonna do, well, let's try to invent something, let's tinker, let's uh, let's solder that together, see if, if that works. You know, but in florida and california you should be like why would I do any of those things? I'll just go outside, I'll just go to the beach, I'll just go that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1:California pumps out all the innovation. Well, not Florida.
Speaker 2:There's a different credit on this.
Speaker 1:I'm not giving Florida any credit for this, I just argue against myself, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a difference. So I agree, nothing good comes out of Florida, so we're on the same page there. Let's be clear yes, the difference is it's so expensive in california, we can't be leisurely because we have to work. And if we're working all the time and we're working with other smart people who want to stay in california, then that's where the innovation happens okay I'm with you, right yeah and in minnesota.
Speaker 2:They're just too drunk you know like they're just like ah, it's cold, let's just get together and have a potluck, eat casseroles. What do people do there?
Speaker 1:Well, I think it's a legit fact that Wisconsin drinks more beer not even per person, I think, just more beer than any other state Just because it's cold. And what do I do?
Speaker 2:Sit inside and drink beer, eat cheese, watch the packers I think that's why, you know, there's a stereotype of midwesterners where it's like oh, you know it's speak a little more slowly, especially when you get up to like that you know cold cold wisconsin, the minnesota, the north dakota, and it's like, oh, they speak slowly and it's like because they got a lot of time to pass, they do, and they're just hanging out together to get to that winner and there's not that much to talk about, so they just slow down how they talk, so they can draw out the ideas.
Speaker 1:It's also dark a lot.
Speaker 2:So you're just waiting? Is there also an incentive to be kind, Because you're like look, my pool of people are somewhat small and I got to stay in good standings, Otherwise I really got nobody to talk to, it's a good point.
Speaker 1:And the other thing and I do think that we don't appreciate this as much as we should, both being Californians Like when the weather is that bad for that long and then you get summer, like summer's the best right.
Speaker 2:Like every, I'm on the boat.
Speaker 1:I'm out in the you know, golfing, like anything you can do to be outside during those three months. You just do it because, yeah, you have to, and so, like they probably use their boats way more than we use ours, oh true, those days they're just like boom, boom, yeah, coming from work on the boat.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well. And also there's like do you want to go to this lake or this?
Speaker 1:lake or this lake.
Speaker 2:They're all within 10 minutes, you know. Yeah, so you're right. They save up their excitement where we're all just like I don't know. It's perfect again, whatever.
Speaker 1:I guess we'll just like watch TV inside.
Speaker 2:Even though it's 77 and beautiful outside. I could go to the beach any time of the year. It's true, People who come here on vacation are like it's amazing.
Speaker 1:You're like, yeah, but you get used to it, you do, and you don't take advantage of it the way you should. Although, this heat wave we went down to the beach a couple of times and it was so nice because you could just jump in the pacific like it was the gulf, yeah, it was so warm, oh, and so you're like the shock is gone, you're just swimming the ocean like this is great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was really nice yeah, but then we get on like oh it's hot, probably everybody's gonna be at the beach, it's gonna be crowded. I don't want to deal with it, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Just gotta watch tv. Well, my favorite and I use it all the time. I was like, well, let me just go, sandy do you guys have an outdoor shower? No, stupid. We should have done that when we should get one piping. I know you can still do it, we will, we will. It's so dumb we don't have one. Yeah, because come've got to have an outdoor shower. We don't All the sand. Yeah, bad for the pipes, bad for the pipes.
Speaker 2:Bad for the pipes.
Speaker 1:Now my pipes are going to the sand and my electricity is going. Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've got to get all that sand outside.
Speaker 1:Maybe I should sell and buy the property.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could probably sell your house and buy the property. Your house has got to be worth $3.9 million my house is not far.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, though. Wild part Probably 2.7. Stop it, that's probably true, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:That's crazy right, that is crazy. Okay, judy took us out to dinner in Naples at a very good place called Silver Spoon. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1:We go from one eating to another eating. Yeah, somebody brought us lunch at the pool.
Speaker 2:Well, somebody's going to take us out to dinner now.
Speaker 1:Here we go again, sacrificing for Jesus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, after dinner. Yeah, this is yeah, we're not, oh my gosh. We're on a mission trip, everybody, for the Lord Sacrifice serving the Lord at churches and charities, and then we just get the ultimate pamphlet.
Speaker 1:You know what it's great.
Speaker 2:After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble because Aunt Janet reads to children on Friday nights. That's cool, that's cool, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sometimes she gets costumes to go along with her stories.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 1:Tonight I have a feeling like we wore a costume.
Speaker 2:Oh, keep going. Oh, why don't I remember this? Tonight there was a Clifford the Big Red Dog costume. I had worn costumes like this before when I worked at Zany Brainy and I knew I didn't want to do that again. So, side tangent, zany Brainy was a toy store that I worked at in high school. That was my first job. I was there for like four years I worked there for a long time we offered free gift wrapping, so I'm very good at wrapping presents.
Speaker 2:It's like a skill that I've kept. But yeah, occasionally we would have characters I had to do. The winnie the pooh cat in the hat was the worst. That's because it had a hat, like I looked out where his bow tie was and then you have like two feet of head over that and and the kids couldn't see the cat, so I had to walk around like out the back door and down the alley and around and it was really hot that day and I'm like I'm melting and then all these kids, and I couldn't see the kids and I'm like trying to talk to me, I'm like I can't say anything because that's you can't do that.
Speaker 2:so, anyways, I didn't want to do this, so what? So let's see, I was doing everything possible to try and get scott to put that on. We know how this ends, though. Go ahead. He was looking a little big, which was looking grim for me Out of nowhere. Aunt Judy says she wants to do it.
Speaker 2:Hooray that is what happened, yeah, okay, so it was hilarious, but I won't try to describe it because I would have to also describe and Judy, and that would be beyond the amount of ink that is left in my pen that was.
Speaker 1:I do remember this is coming back. That is so great. I definitely thought you put it on. I don't remember aunt Judy coming in.
Speaker 2:And and that must be why I don't remember it Because I'm like I would have remembered if I had to put this costume on. But yeah, she's great she is. She would do that. All of your mom and your aunts are just so full of life and energy and interest. Yeah, there's a lot of stories. There's always going to be a story Like just such a wonderful thing that she volunteers to read to kids and beyond that she's like you know.
Speaker 2:It would probably make these kids feel great, I'm gonna dress up and I'm gonna be clifford the big red dog yeah, yeah, so I love it. I love it. So, oh yeah, I wasn't thinking that. Okay, judy, did it, not janet? Okay?
Speaker 1:no jazz reading judy dressed up ah, yep, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:That makes sense. Oh man, it was great. This makes me think of the time you've. I've heard this story so many times and it makes me laugh every time because I can picture it so clearly. Maybe you should tell it the time that it's it's Halloween and your mom dressed up. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my mom dressed up, and she dressed up like a turtle was her plan, and I'm old enough to not to be embarrassed, I'm old enough to be like come on, mom. And so she painted her face green, she put on like a green bodysuit and then somehow fashioned a backpack to be a shell. So, like she, I think she did some sewing. She was committed to this costume, like I love it.
Speaker 1:And then she and this is and you can't see this on the podcast, but she slowly walked around the street because turtles don't move fast, remember and she walked like this as she walked down. So she like used her arms like she's swimming and slowly walked, and she's like I as she walked down. So she used her arms like she's swimming and slowly walked and she's like I can't walk fast because turtles don't walk fast.
Speaker 2:And my sister and I are like chop, chop.
Speaker 1:We have candy to get.
Speaker 2:More houses. I can't go that fast Just picture it A woman in a green bodysuit with a backpack just doing the air breast stroke to the air. Exactly what are you doing? No, no, I'm picturing high knees with every step.
Speaker 1:Oh high, just like slow walking and, and we are like mom, we have more candy to get, but I will say, um, I love. One of the great skills that both my sister and I bring to the table is now a lack of embarrassment. Oh, you know, yeah, so I would say she did that for you. Yeah, you know how, like being uh, looking foolish or being embarrassed, I think, stops a lot of people from doing things. Yeah, doesn't slow us down, yeah.
Speaker 2:You're like we've been through some stuff, Ain't nothing can be. You know, we survived that, so what's the harm in anything else?
Speaker 1:We're fine. We're fine, yeah, so one. So parenting tip for all of you out there embarrass your kids. The more you do, the more they'll be willing to try things when they're older.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the worse you make their life when they're young, the more of a resilient confident adult they'll become. It's exactly correct.
Speaker 1:I think that's a great place to end today, so wear that bodysuit, Andrew. That's really the end of this right.
Speaker 2:I'm getting my sewing machines out.
Speaker 1:You have a couple of weeks before Halloween, like six weeks, so you could have a whole turtle outfit ready to go.
Speaker 2:I'm inspired, I know, I know you are, I hope you are too. Send us pictures of your homemade Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1:That'll be a challenge for October. That will be a great challenge. Okay, guys, it's been fun, it's been real. See you soon, bye, bye.