Milkshakes, Mountains, and a Life-Changing Burger

Sharlotte and Aunt Steve cover a whirlwind stretch of their road trip—from Kansas City to New Mexico, Arizona, and Las Vegas. Along the way: a science museum inside a train station, climbing through slot canyons, messy milkshake moments, and a very strong opinion about In-N-Out Burger. Plus, they share what it’s really like grocery shopping and doing life on the road—before heading off to their next big adventure: the national parks.

Transcript

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Hi, I'm Charlotte.

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And who am I?

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My aunt.

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Aunt Steve.

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My Aunt Steve.

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Or Uncle Steve.

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Uncle Steve.

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Uncle Turtle, depending on which kid you ask.

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And this is middle school Miles.

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So it's been what, like a week or so since your last episode?

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I think more than a week. I think it's been like two weeks.

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At least a week and a half.

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At least a week and a half, yeah.

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What have we done?

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We've done a lot of things. We've been to Kansas.

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Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma. New Mexico. And Las Vegas.

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And Arizona.

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In Arizona.

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What were your two favorite things that you did along the way?

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A science museum inside of a train station in Kansas City. But you got like paint on like windows. And I did not make a mess. But there was this one kid covered in paint. And probably like climbing thingy.

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Oh, the climbing thingy outside?

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Uh-huh.

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Okay. That looked like blood plates. I don't notice that did you?

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No. I was climbing it. It was fun.

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So it was in a train station?

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Yeah, it was inside of a train station. Like an old train station.

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So what did the train station look like?

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Massive. It was just massive, and it had like shops and like restaurants and dessert places and science museums in it.

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And people.

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Oh not really lots of people until like the afternoon.

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And then we also got a tour of our friend's office. You could see Missouri, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas. And more Kansas.

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And North Kansas. Different than Kansas City.

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Correct. Very different. How are they different?

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Because one is north.

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Nailed it.

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Nailed it.

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What else? The Missouri side is not as busy as the Kansas side.

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It was very light and pathy.

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And then we stayed at a hotel for a couple days.

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Oh, and we also drove when we were going into Kansas City. We also drove by the women's football club, which was really cool.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, we did do that.

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Yeah.

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The only stadium in the country dedicated to women's sports.

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It was so cool. It was like cute. It was cool.

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It was cool. We stayed in a hotel for a couple days because the bus had to go in the shop.

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We got to pole one night. Oh, we got Hawaiian food. And we got ice cream. It was like dairy queen. And I got mint oyo, which was so good. It was like mid.

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Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

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Yeah, you we got ice cream.

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And then after Kansas City, we stopped in Oklahoma for a night. Actually, two nights. Because I could and then we went to New Mexico.

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Right to New Mexico. And I met your fence. And we went rock climbing. But it wasn't really rock climbing. It was like you had to climb like this path, and there was like trees and like rocks and a whole bunch of stuff like that.

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It was called tent rocks.

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Yes, that. And you had to walk through this cave rock.

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Through a slot canyon.

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Yeah. That's what that's called.

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And rock. What was most interesting about the shape of the rocks? Tent Rocks.

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Oh, the tent shake. That's the shape that I was.

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That's the name. Tent Rocks.

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Yeah, that's.

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So we met up with my friends and their nephew.

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Beachiros.

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Oh, you definitely ate some chicks.

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And a peach milkshake. That was the best peach milkshake I've ever had. It was good.

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And that was New Mexico. We went to Arizona.

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Which was Route 66. And I had another milkshake from another restaurant, and I had an avocado. BLLT. Bacon avocado.

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Wait, ma BLTT.

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Yeah.

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Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and avocado.

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It had avocado on it.

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Something. Turkey.

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Oh, yeah, it had turkey on it.

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Bacon, lettuce, tomato, turkey with avocado.

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With avocado. And a strawberry milkshake. It was really good.

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It was a little messy.

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Okay. That's not my fault. The waiter brought up extra and I was slipping it, and then I was like, oh, let me pour some more in it. And so I was like pulling it. And I got half of it into the cup. So I got half. But the other bits of milkshake did not survive.

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They landed on the table.

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They landed on the table.

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Let's just call it what it was. It landed on the table.

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It was sad.

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And then we drove a lot.

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A lot. No, you drove a lot.

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I drove a lot. You napped a lot. Yes.

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No, I didn't. When did I take a nap?

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Like the entire drive. Except when I told you to put your phone down so you could look out the window.

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Because I took a nap and I went, you gotta see what time it was, and you're like, put your phone down, look out the window, enjoy nature.

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So what did you see when you looked out the window that one?

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Rocks, mountains, trees, rocks, dirt, really.

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You have to see snow on top of the mountain.

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Yeah, that was kind. Because you're on top of like a hill.

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And then where did we go?

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Las Vegas. Which is one of the top states for gambling.

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Yes. So we have to see lots of casinos. But we didn't go in them.

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No. Because gambling is bad, children. You shouldn't do it. It's so bad for you.

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Okay.

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But yeah. And we picked up one of our family members. Uncle Roy. And we went and we got in an outburger.

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Thanks, Uncle Roy.

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Thanks, Uncle. And we got in an outburger. We finally got in and outburger. And I'm not gonna stop talking about that because the one thing that I wanted to do so badly, and it was actually really good.

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What'd you get?

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I got a cheeseburger with onion and French fries and a pink lemonade. And it was really good. And I would definitely go there every single day for the rest of my life, and that'd be the one meal that I ate every single day. I'd probably be broke, but I would eat it every single day.

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That's a commitment.

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That's a commitment.

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That's a lot. That's a lot for a cheeseburger.

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It was a I don't usually like cheeseburgers, but this cheeseburger was life-changing.

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So what do we do for groceries? Like how do we go grocery shopping on the world?

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One of two things. We're either out and about and we go inside the store and like pick up one to two things. Or you already have a pre-made list on your phone and you just like door dash like not door dash it, but like what's it called? I just Door dash it.

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Set it up for a pickup at the store.

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Yeah, or get it delivered.

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But we keep a list all week of everything that we need.

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Or everything that we eat.

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Yep. So when we pass by the store, we can pick it up.

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Yeah. Like blackberries, raspberries, dino nuggets.

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What other things do we eat when we're on the road?

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Snacks.

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You eat snacks when we're driving, for sure.

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There'll be like a bag of snacks next to me.

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Yes.

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Or we going to like a gas station and grab like Subway or Godfather pizza.

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Oh, yeah, you did have that pizza.

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That wasn't bad.

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Wasn't bad. Making a face.

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It wasn't good either, but it wasn't bad. I probably wouldn't get it again.

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It wasn't in and out.

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It wasn't in and out. It wasn't jets, but it wasn't bad.

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We haven't had jets in a while.

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No, we haven't. But I did find a dupe for one of my favorite jets feature, which is the chicken barbecue. And you can get it at Walmart on a flat bread. And it's the same exact thing. It has different crusts. It's not the same crust. And it has like onions on top of it. Like camel caramelized onions, that's what they're called.

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What about caramelized onions?

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This is the thing with caramelized onions. You gotta caramelize them.

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Part of the day.

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That's that's part of the whole thing.

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But you know how to make that.

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I don't remember what the ingredients are, but I know what it looks like. You take a pan and onions and butter. Not lots of butter, but like good amount of butter.

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And some salt, pepper, and season.

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Seasoning.

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You're making a hand dust. So people can't hear that in a pot.

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It's like it's like a flipping things in a pan? Yes.

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You like stir it constantly.

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Like a skillet. Like you move like a you flip it like a pancake.

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Can you flip a pancake?

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No. I tried once.

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Can you make a pancake?

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No.

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Oh, we're gonna have to.

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Last time I tried to make pancakes, I used the wrong type of flour, and I almost burnt the house down. So I was told not to make pancakes ever.

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Since the incident.

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Not since the incident.

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We'll have to practice that again.

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We're gonna just go to pancakes make.

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I'm not gonna leave you unsupervised.

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I was unsupervised.

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That's why the house didn't burn down.

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Probably.

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Alright. So what's next on our adventures? So now we picked up Uncle Roy in Las Vegas.

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Yeah.

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So for the next 10, 11 days, we're gonna be doing what?

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Adventuring. And hanging out on my roy.

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And where will we be adventuring to?

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National Parks.

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And where are we right now?

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Valley of Fire. Wait, wait, do fireworks talk here?

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No, there's a no-fire warning.

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But there's a lot of rocks and holes not caves. Cave ick.

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How are these rocks different than what you see at home?

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Well I live in Florida, it's flat.

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That's one thing that's different, yep.

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And there's not holes and rocks where I live.

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And they're what color are they?

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The rocks here or rocks at home?

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The rocks here.

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Oh, they're like red, orange-ish? With little tints of green.

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They're carved on a Yeah.

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It's pretty.

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You say that as you're staring out the window at them. Because like mesmerized.

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Well, I'm not mesmerized. I want to know it's in that cave-ish looking hole.

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So we're gonna have to go check it out?

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I don't want to go inside of it. I don't even know if we're supposed to be climb- oh, it's a state park, so I don't know if we're supposed to be like climbing on rocks and looking into holes that probably some coyote bats, coyote, rabi thing is living in there.

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That's a good story, bro.

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That's a great story.

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So after this, we go off to Lion National Park. Like little canyon layouts, arches.

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Candylands? Oh, I got a little bit excited.

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Did you pee a little bit? Okay, then I wasn't that excited. So, what advice would you have for another kid that's on this part of the road trip and seeing the things that we just saw?

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You have to go in an app burger at least once. Because I'm not gonna stop talking about it. It's really good. I mean, I think I'm not over exaggerating it, but I probably am for people that are like don't really like burgers.

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You've hyped it.

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I I hyped it up. I like to hype things up.

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So should people listen to the next episode?

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Probably, yeah. Oh, oh. Wait, what time are we gonna go to Oregon for ice cream?

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We're gonna make our way all the way to Oregon. In Washington State, and Montana, Big and Idaho.

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Steven, be quiet.

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No, Utah.

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Steven stops.

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And then we're gonna also go to Usau. Go ahead.

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Yeah, we could go to speak. You're like interrupting me.

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The big I think we're gonna switch by Wyoming. What?

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But every time I think you're gonna say something. You want talking openly.

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Oh.

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Keep on saying sure, go ahead.

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So when we're in Oregon, we're gonna go see where they film the Goonies.

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No. Well in Oregon. Yes. Yeah. And we're in Oregon. We're gonna go to the best ice cream place on earth. Hello, muck.

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I might introduce you to another ice cream place that's as good, maybe even better. My friend Jody's farm.

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How can it be?

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And they make their own ice cream on site with their own cows.

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Do they have cherry?

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They have lots of flavors. And they make uh yogurt that's unlike any yogurt you've ever had in your life.

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I don't like yogurt.

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It doesn't taste like yogurt.

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Does it taste like ice cream?

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Almost, yeah.

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If it tastes like ice cream all year.

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It's good. So we're gonna go to the Shumway Farms, Wyoming.

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Wyoming.

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And then we're gonna go to Yellowstone.

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Yellowstone.

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And Glacier National Park.

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Glacier National Park. And Tillamook.

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And then we'll go to Tillamook County, Oregon. To the Tillomone. For more ice cream.

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For more ice cream.

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So I think people understand at this point the ice cream is an issue.

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Ice cream should probably not be in reach.

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Well, it isn't because we don't have any in the freezer.

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We do.

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You do.

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We have camel.

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We still have caramel ice cream?

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Yeah, we have camel.

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Oh, so we have ice cream in the freezer.

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Then we have ice cream. But it's not telemuck. But it's not bad. It's just it's not good. It's not telemuck.

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That's not telemok.

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It's not telemuck.

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Alright. So folks should pay attention and wait for the next episode. We're gonna talk about our visit to the national parks.

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And ice cream.

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And maybe some ice cream.

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Maybe some ice cream.

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And thank you to Uncle Roy for in an outburger.

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Yes, thank you very much. In an outburger. Peace out. Peace out.