This That And The Other
This That And The Other
DIY Projects, Roadside Attractions, Amanda's New Swimming Pool, Sickness at The Rathouse
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Ever wondered how a simple DIY project could turn into a comedy of errors? Join us as we share the chaotic week that kept us from the mic, including a marathon struggle to switch the hosting platform for our other podcast, "Three Wheels No Direction." We also give you a peek into our ongoing home improvement adventures. From creating a new podcast studio to our sluggish progress on the bedroom renovation, expect a healthy dose of humor as we recount the trials and tribulations of our DIY efforts and how they clash with household priorities.
Picture this: it's late at night, you're craving pepperoni pizza, and what arrives is a bizarre concoction of mushrooms, onions, and a mysterious alfredo-like sauce. We dive into this hilarious pizza misadventure and broader issues like the impact of customer service on brand loyalty. Along the way, we reminisce about our past fast food experiences, with a special shout-out to B_____ King. As if that weren't enough, our conversation gets an unexpected twist with a loud, amplified bird making an impromptu cameo.
Get ready for a quirky ride across America’s roadside attractions. From the giant cake replicas at Little Debbie Park to the world's largest pocket knife in Kentucky, we explore destinations that add a twist to any road trip. We also dish out tips from fellow travelers and share our own intriguing experiences, like the peculiar speed limits in Arkansas and a visit to Walt Disney's first film studio site. To wrap it all up, we touch on a personal family disagreement and end with some playful banter, ensuring you leave with a smile. Buckle up for a blend of humor, frustration, and adventure!
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finally, we are back we are back had aatus, a one-week hiatus. It was not a vacation hiatus. It was just so busy that we could not squeeze a recording in. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2But were we really that busy?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Why.
Speaker 1Because, if you don't recall I don't know why you don't, but it was 10 o'clock at night on a Saturday night. Why you don't, but it was 10 o'clock at night on a saturday night and I'm like this is the only window we have if we're gonna record.
Speaker 2That's a negative for me. I'm in a bed, that's exactly what you say.
Speaker 1You weren't in the bed, but you headed that way you're like no, not doing it so we're doing. What changed over with the other podcast, Three Wheels no Direction, Took a lot longer when we changed the platform or the hosting site Nine hours, nine hours. On the computer.
Speaker 2On chat.
Speaker 1Well, yeah, we were changing things over. It was downloading. I guess we were uploading the episodes from the other podcast. No, no, no, no, let me finish, please let me finish. We were sending it over and it froze up on us. We couldn't tell. That was the whole thing, that was an hour.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh. Yes, I know, and then that's when the chat started and it took a while before they could ever realize what we were talking about. Anyway, we couldn't get to the next step, because we couldn't find it, because the computer was froze up or on that page, whatever. Anyway, so yeah, it was a long ordeal.
Speaker 2Anyway.
Speaker 1A lot of things.
Speaker 2Don't bore our listeners.
Speaker 1Redoing a room. We're going to have a studio About For our listeners Redoing a room. We're going to have a studio About the other podcast. We're going to have a podcast studio. I'm working on it. I almost finished the flooring.
Speaker 2He thinks he's He-Man. He tears the walls out, tears the floor out, and now he wants to tear the window out.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm going to change out the window.
Speaker 2He thinks he's He-Man.
Speaker 1He can do it. That and it's yeah. That boat took a quick swim. I got about 25% of everything done on all these projects. I haven't completed a single one.
Speaker 2Not a single one. I told him we wasn't getting that until he redone my room, and well, I guess I lost that battle. We didn't think we were going to be able to Micronury's not back up.
Speaker 1We didn't think we were going to be able to record right now. We set everything up outside once again and a boat comes in here, right close, and just everybody gets out and jumps in the water, and they got Kid Rock a-blastin' and so we couldn't record because that would be copyrighted. Right, they're copyrighted, so we had to wait them out.
Speaker 2So when does my room get redone?
Speaker 1What do you mean? Your room?
Speaker 2Our room. I didn't know you had a room, our bedroom. I told you you couldn't have your studio until we got the bedroom done Next question. There's no next question. Hey, let me get this done. I've heard that.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I've heard that, yeah.
Speaker 1I've got a lot done, it's just not all done.
Speaker 2In our bedroom.
Speaker 1No, in the other room.
Speaker 2Oh, okay.
Speaker 1Why don't you help? I try to help. Why don't you start?
Speaker 2You just push me out of the way.
Speaker 1Start ripping stuff out, then I'll have to.
Speaker 2Then you'll have to yeah, start ripping a wall out or something. If you rip a wall, out and we're gonna have some serious talking. See, he won't let me do nothing. If I rip a wall out, he'll throw me out the house.
Speaker 1That's his job, he thinks but anyway, we apologize for not being here last week without a heads up or anything like that, but it was impossible. We tried and tried and tried.
Speaker 2What did we have last week? That was more than just that.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 2Because that was just Saturday.
Speaker 1It was, I don't know. I'm sure there was grass cutting involved.
Speaker 2Because Sunday we still couldn't do it, because it's the other, the situation still wasn't settled, or whatever right.
Speaker 1Right, well, having two platforms, because this one is still on the other platform, so it's Anyway.
Speaker 2Anyway, long story, don't bore them with that. I know we already did. Yep, they're gone. Happy Fourth of July late Yep, we didn't even do nothing.
Speaker 1I know we planned on. Well, we thought, hey, when the 4th is here, we'll cook out like everybody else. And we're like you know what? Or I mentioned to you, you want to wait until the weekend. And you're like, yeah, we can do that. And then come Friday I had to go record with the fellas and then you shoot me a text.
Speaker 2Hold on, let's go back to the fourth minute. Okay, let's go back. Rewind, that's not rewind noise is it?
Speaker 1I'm not the noise maker, like you All right.
Speaker 2So on the fourth, what do I do?
Speaker 1On the fourth what do you do?
Speaker 2I get my son. What are we sitting in front of?
Speaker 1A body of water.
Speaker 2No, okay, what are we sitting behind? What are we sitting behind?
Speaker 1Oh, a little kiddie pool we're sitting behind my new swimming pool.
Speaker 2I got a new swimming pool, y'all. We live on the lake. I ain't swimming in the lake. I wanted some sun. I got Nicholas to go buy me a pool $20 pool $20 pool got me three hours of sun and I love it.
Speaker 1And it's sitting there, and it's sitting there. It's been sitting there since the 4th.
Speaker 2Because why Friday I got sick?
Speaker 1That's right, anyway, yeah, like.
Speaker 2I said, I got a text.
Speaker 1And you said you weren't feeling good. Got sick.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1And when I come home, bring you a Sprite.
Speaker 2I was in the bed at 5 o'clock.
Speaker 1Yeah, saturday or Friday, and then all day Saturday.
Speaker 2So I couldn't even enjoy my new pool Dag or Friday, yeah, and then all day Saturday, so I couldn't even enjoy my new pool, daggum it. One day I got in my pool and that's all I got.
Speaker 1It's still there. I know it's waiting on you. It's going to have to be moved. It can't just sit there.
Speaker 2Yeah, we got to move it back this way, don't we?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the spot you wanted in, but I knew it was going to be a problem, and now it is.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, it could have been moved back a little bit.
Speaker 1You didn't say that.
Speaker 2I just wanted the sun. I needed the sun, so my little $20 kiddie pool got me three hours of sun, because Jody left and he wouldn't stay with me on the 4th, so he left.
Speaker 1Oh, that's, right Well.
Speaker 2I'm not sitting out here by myself.
Speaker 1We've done a lot of recording with the other podcast this week, when you record on the 4th, that's something ain't it yeah, so we didn't do anything. Because I've been sick, yeah, and then today, I don't know if I got food poisoning.
Speaker 2I don't know if I've got stomach bug, because I still am not good at all. I mean we ate the same restaurant, the same fast food, but we ate different food. But I've also heard another couple. They were sick too, but neither one of y'all have been sick, so that's why.
Speaker 1I think mine was food poison.
Speaker 2That's the worst thing ever, when you just got to get sick but you can't get sick.
Speaker 1Oh, but then you got us pizza. You ordered us pizza and nicholas went got it and then got home from church today and I thought, because I was gonna have to go back to church, I got enough pizza for them to have last night and today, because I knew I was not eating right and I knew today was.
Speaker 2We had a funeral and then we've had just some other stuff today, so I knew there wasn't gonna be any time. I went cooking yeah.
Late Night Lake Adventures
Speaker 1So we had one pizza left so I got home, knew it's gonna have like 30 minutes. I had to go back to church and got the pizza out of the refrigerator and opened it up and I was like what is this? All I saw was mushrooms and onions and like green onions and any other time I would have claimed that pizza. Oh, I think it had mayonnaise on it. It seemed like it was almost like an alfredo type sauce, but I looked at it.
Speaker 2It didn't have any red sauce it had oh yeah, well, no red sauce, yeah that was my kind of pizza, right there, but I could Big turn off.
Speaker 1But.
Speaker 2I could not eat it. But, that's not what I ordered.
Speaker 1I know I was so excited I ordered two.
Speaker 2My men. They are so pepperoni, that's all. That's all. They eat Pepperoni, and that's all.
Speaker 1And that's what I was expecting. So I was excited. I thought you know what I can and what I do. I have to take time to pick everything off and I ate like two pieces and I left. I was just disappointed, such a disappointment. So somebody got our pizza and we got their pizza.
Speaker 2Listen to Nicholas Open the box before you leave. I've never opened up the pizza box.
Speaker 1Do they label them anymore when you get?
Speaker 2four or five pizzas? No, because I just looked at those, there wasn't a sticker on them.
Speaker 1Maybe, they should go back to doing that, hey, but they're busy now. Maybe I can understand If they make one mistake. If you get a, you know.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1Like you got a fast food restaurant or something and you order something from them and they mess up once every six months, something like that. I'm good with that. You didn't have to do that you hear that.
Speaker 2Sorry, it was a green spider was it?
Speaker 1yeah, on your microphone, yes, but yeah. So I mean, we've never had a mess up from dominoes?
Speaker 2I don't think so. I've had some burnt food, but not really where it's totally burnt food yeah, I got a.
Speaker 2I'm not a big pizza eater like they are and they only want pepperoni and I want one with everything. So I don't order a pizza just for me most of the time unless I get it free. So I usually get either Alfredo Bowl or steak and cheese. What's that Like a Philly steak and cheese? Well, that one time I got it it was. It was burnt. I couldn't eat it, it was hard. But other than that they just the crust yeah, it just wasn't.
Speaker 2I don't know, maybe I just wasn't into it and I'm all right with a semi-burnt crust.
Speaker 1I'm not I'm just not picky, you're not but I can also, you know, you can drown out that flavor a little bit and put you like a little bit of Heinz 57, if you had to.
Speaker 2Well see, that's what you should have done a while ago was put the Heinz 57 there.
Speaker 1No, because you can't dig all the onions and stuff. There's hidden the onions are fine. Not really. I don't really want them on a pizza. It's so good. I got my. When I, if you would try, days ago, I got my fill on the onions because it was covered up, because I forgot to tell them.
Speaker 2no, well, that's fine, tell them no onions, no big deal. Jody don't like to change his order when he orders from the restaurants either. He's like, just get it, I'll pick it off.
Speaker 1I'm like I can just tell them I don't want to be one of those people is it still on something went? Off. I muted the other, oh okay, spot.
Speaker 2So because it was having, I'm like I'll just tell them don't put it on there. No, it'll be fine, I'll just pick it off.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2So I totally forgot to tell them no onions on the cheeseburger.
Speaker 1Behind the scenes, you're working at the fast food restaurant and you get that order and I want a cheeseburger. No pickles, no onions. Can you put extra mustard on there? And then they're rolling their eyes. You know they are. Some people are allergic, though, to some stuff, I don't care, I'm just telling you what they're doing at the fast food restaurant. They're rolling their eyes.
Speaker 2That's what they get paid to do, though it's Burger King.
Speaker 1I have it my way, do they not?
Speaker 2You don't like Burger.
Speaker 1King. That's a dirty word in my vocabulary. We do not do, I don't. You should not have Burger King either. The way we got treated that one time, I know. But dadgum.
Speaker 2their burgers are good I love Burger King.
Speaker 1I would pick them out of all.
Speaker 2I know you would, you know, and it really hurts. I don't know. Freddy's pretty good now, yeah, but still, and they're too expensive.
Speaker 1Yeah, that can eat three, four cheeseburgers I'll just tell you when customer service is so bad that you will never go back. That's the position I was in and I tell you. You hear people?
Speaker 2say— None of them. People are there now, I guarantee you. None of those people are there now.
Speaker 1That's fine, but that costs the company money, because I'll never go back and that's what I was going to say we used to go there all the time I know.
Speaker 1You hear, I know, you know. You hear people say all the time or you know, when I worked at Walmart, somebody would be mad at me like I'm never coming back in this store. And the next week you see them shopping. Because they just say that. Well, guess what I meant, what I said? Because you treated me so bad and I told you I'm not coming back. That is a loud bird, it's loud, it's like amplified.
Speaker 2That's a loud bird, it's loud. It's like amplified.
Speaker 1That's a bluebird. Blue Jay, sorry, he's mad, so yeah. So not only that establishment, that franchise, but all the Burger Kings. Yeah, he won't go to any Burger Kings, I'm not going to any of them and it hurts my feelings so bad. But get off them. I'm not giving them any more.
Speaker 2Oh no screen time, sorry them any. Oh no screen time, sorry, no, yeah, all right, don't even say their name again, okay, so so we didn't watch any fireworks. No, I think they done the big firework show last night they did on saturday night, yeah yeah, because if I'd have felt better, I'd come outside. All you gotta do is walk out in our yard and see them, but I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1We had to go like shoot at that bird.
Speaker 2Where's the baby going? Don't say that Pete will be on us, sorry, enjoy it, folks.
Speaker 1Yeah, this is called nature.
Speaker 2So yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a firework show somewhere last night.
Speaker 1Yeah, we heard it. We didn't realize it at the time and then when I started to hear all the boats when it just kept on and then I was like man.
Speaker 2That is unbelievable how many and then I think we really realized it at the end because you heard it.
Speaker 1That's what I'm talking about it was it was a lot. And then I heard all the boats. Yeah, I'm like that's unusual to hear boats out there that much and I went out there and you just saw them everywhere. So they were.
Speaker 2Isn't it weird when you see boats on the water at night and it's headlights and it looks like cars driving on the water. I think that's just the weirdest looking thing.
Speaker 1I'm surprised more people don't get killed at night. I don't when they're out on the water, because I know me and a buddy of mine we used to. When we were teenagers we used to run up and down this lake in a bass boat, fishing and we'd do some tournaments. They were night tournaments. He had a spotlight and he had it just in case you know if you couldn't tell, or you know going around a corner or anything like that. But the majority of times you're just going by the. You know the skyline with the trees, you kind of see where it's forking and going this way and that, and it just looks black in front of you.
Speaker 2That's what I'm saying. How do you see?
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean you really don't. You just got to know where you're going. But if there's something floating in the water or whatever, that's the thing. I know a guy that hit a big old piece of styrofoam one time. We hit a log one time. That's not good, no. So yeah, it's really dangerous. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1I can remember when I was little they used to shoot fireworks at the dam down here and I can remember I was so young I always had to like lay down or sit down in the bottom of the boat because the boats were just rocking side to side. So much because you were side to side with all these boats watching this.
Speaker 2they finally did away with it because it got so dangerous right then they done away with the show at the bridge right here, because that's the one that we could see, because somebody got hurt a couple years ago or something.
Speaker 1It was something Firework. Somebody got hurt, firework Went wrong. When fireworks attack.
Speaker 2Yeah, you should know about that right.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I've been in it.
Speaker 2Crazy.
Speaker 1In front of people too.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Had an audience.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Got nailed. Yeah, anyway, love it, though I would shoot fireworks every Saturday night.
Speaker 2Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1If it wasn't so expensive. I was going to say, you know?
Speaker 2Where are you getting them, fireworks, from? I?
Speaker 1love fireworks, don't you?
Speaker 2love them, I like them.
Speaker 1It's fun.
Speaker 2I mean I enjoy them more If you've got a group.
Speaker 1Really, if you're trying to entertain myself, if there's people there, no, no no, no, back up.
Speaker 2You don't like fireworks, you like Saturn missiles and bottle rockets.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And you like to have bottle rocket wars?
Speaker 1That's right.
Speaker 2Remember when we first got married and you had bottle rocket wars out here.
Speaker 1No, I don't.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1With who?
Speaker 2With your buddies.
Speaker 1I didn't have buddies.
Speaker 2Well, you had somebody over here Strangers you had some stranger dangers over here, because y'all done bottle rocket wars.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's fine. You had never done that, ever lit a bottle rocket and throw it.
Speaker 2No, I don't like bottle rockets and then throw it.
Speaker 1I'm scared of them. Yeah, you just light it and you watch that fuse. When it gets so high you throw it, and you just don't even have to chunk it. You just kind of like what are you talking?
Speaker 2about. I'm scared of everything. I don't even like Roman candles.
Speaker 1I don't know what's wrong with you, scaredy cat.
Speaker 2I know Everything, everything, everything Everything.
Speaker 1You won't get in the water. I'm surprised you kayak.
Speaker 2We haven't kayaked this year I've been begging you to kayak now I'm not worried about it that's right, I'll be lonesome out there. Yep, kayaking he'll be kayaking by himself while I'm over here soaking up the sun in my new kiddie pool might be a year, I might put a picture out there for y'all to see my new, my new pool might be a non-kayaking year might be. I had to go by myself. I told him I was gonna go kayaking by myself the other day and he told me, I couldn't.
Speaker 1I said bye.
Speaker 2You did not. You told me, I couldn't. Yeah, you're not going by yourself, see why, I can go right around here in the slew.
Speaker 1No, you're not doing that.
Speaker 2By myself.
Speaker 1You're gonna get in and out of that thing. You're gonna be down there and I'm gonna leave you and I'm gonna text you on my way back and you're gonna come that means I'm involved, so why am I not just hopping in another kayak and going in?
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1You tell me so well, you're the one that said you're going by yourself.
Speaker 2Well, I am, but you're gonna help me get in.
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying I can't just tell you bye, because you grabbed me by the hand and dragged me out here and then doing all that you can just sit there and feed you ducks and turtles and fish and I'm going kayaking yeah I'll be on location, location next week.
Speaker 2I'll be down the slew, could you?
Speaker 1imagine having these cords, like me and you, side by side do they not make wireless wireless, why not?
Speaker 2I mean, like you can get wireless mics, get wireless we just have to have it into a recorder.
Speaker 1Well, that's what I'm saying. Is there not a wireless recorder? You have to have some kind of well.
Speaker 2Well, that's what I'm saying. You can't do a wireless, is there not a wireless recorder? You have to have some kind of.
Speaker 1Well, are you going to buy another recorder? Nope Right, this one's fine, so we'll just go with the wire. How about that?
Speaker 2But I want to be doing something and record you got a pretty good extension on these.
Speaker 1Right here. You got eight foot. Whatever you can do within an eight foot radius.
Speaker 2In the water, that's not very. No, not in the water, that's not very smart.
Speaker 1What do you got?
Speaker 2You said you were bringing something to the table today. I am so.
Speaker 1I ain't bringing nothing.
Roadside Oddities and Travel Destinations
Speaker 2All right, I'm going to listen. So y'all know I'm usually on this TikTok thing, but guess what? Oh no, it went away. Let me find it again. Talk amongst yourselves folks. Well, I find it here. It is Okay so in my scrolling that I do not on TikTok. Now I'm on Facebook. I came across did you know that?
Speaker 1there is a little Debbie park. I want to go. I want to go too, because you showed me the picture and it's like huge cakes and Christmas tree cake and fudge round and it's like three hours from here.
Speaker 2It's not far at all.
Speaker 1I don't know if I want to drive just to go to a park.
Speaker 2Oh well, we can find something good to eat. I always drive just to go to a park. Oh well, we can find something good to eat. I always drive something to eat.
Speaker 1So Chattanooga it's 20 minutes outside Chattanooga.
Speaker 2Is it? Yeah, okay, so we could go to Chattanooga and then hop over there. But this is a pretty cool page. It's called America's Roadside Oddities.
Speaker 1Does it not tell you about the park that you can read?
Speaker 2It does, but I'll have to scroll Like I didn't find that, like it's back there, oh, further down. Yeah, it's further down, okay.
Speaker 1I was going to say could you tell us?
Speaker 2Like.
Speaker 1I've got all the facts in my phone, if you want me to I don't know if that's something you want me to do I'm messing my microphone up.
Speaker 2A phone, I mean A phone. I don't know. It's just Radcliffe, Kentucky, the world's largest pocket knife. It's just things like that, Like that's on the side of the road, you know yeah.
Speaker 1Now see if I was retired or if I won the lottery and we're just gonna. I'd be like hey, look up some odd stuff yeah, hey, go on that go on that oddity page yeah, and let's uh let's figure out how we can. So people.
Speaker 2People will put comments on here. They'll put I'm going from alabama to kentucky, what can I see on the way? And then people will just start commenting on there and they'll say well, you need to check out this and you need to check out that. So, like Corbin, kentucky is home of Harlan Sanders Cafe and Museum, kfc.
Speaker 1Oh, the museum, yeah, the museum so. What does Alabama?
Speaker 2have. This one made me laugh a while ago, so this is I'm not even gonna say this right shartsville excuse me pennsylvania? No, pennsylvania, can you say it Sharks? I don't know. If that's Sharks, what is it PA? Sure yeah, PA is Pennsylvania right, okay, it says, take it. And it's a fork in the road like where your stop sign would be.
Speaker 1It's just a big fork sticking out of the ground.
Speaker 2It's a big fork sticking out of the ground. That's pretty cool and you go left or right, so it's your fork in the road.
Speaker 1You know, I had to go up to Arkansas one time, and this has nothing to do with that, but you're talking about road signs or whatever like that. There's speed limits, or what are you looking at?
Speaker 2I don't know what I'm looking at. If you're ever in Breaking Ridge, Colorado go on a tiny hike and find Isaac Hartsold. Troll, that's a troll.
Speaker 1Made out of wood.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's pretty weird.
Speaker 1Anyway, back to my story. Anyway, the speed limit up there is like 31, 27 it's. It's odd numbers for their speed limits up there and I just found that interesting. I don't know. The guy up there told me and I don't remember here's a good one is it?
Speaker 2kansas city, missouri, walt disney's first film studio. It's currently an abandoned, but old style cartoon murals are on the side of the walls.
Speaker 1I don't know why don't they move that to orlando?
Speaker 2I just find this stuff interesting and if you're, if, like you said, you know, if you were going on a trip and you knew some of this stuff to stop at, like if it was 20 minutes out of the way or something, I would go to have something to do, but I can't find my little Debbie Park. Here's a Pez Visitor Center. It's in Oregon, connecticut, orange, connecticut.
Speaker 1My bad, I've got all the information if you want me to.
Speaker 2But did it have the information on it? It just had.
Speaker 1I've got everything you want to know about it.
Speaker 2Oh, you looked it up.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I've had this.
Speaker 2Yeah, go ahead and tell us some information.
Speaker 1All right, the pristine paved walking trail provides a brief yet vibrant history of the renowned company. As you meander through the park, take notice of the placards that mark the different eras and the highlights of the original family bakery dating back to the 1930s. Let's see, the informational statues are chock full of interesting tidbits that chronologically date each of the sweet treats that have become synonymous with the school-age lunchbox. Let's see. Let me find All right. The 10-acre park. 10-acre property was given to the city of Collegedale by the McKee family with a stipulation that it would be used for green space for the community and a place for families to slow down and enjoy life. Slow down and enjoy life Open to the public In 2023,. The area has seen a boom of new visitors and becomes curious snack eaters and welcomes curious snack eaters from around the world.
Speaker 2So that's cool. So they did it for families and it would make you slow down because you go around and you to these different to the what? One of them was a brownie brownie, one of them's your christmas tree cakes.
Speaker 1um, swiss rolls yeah, it's really neat, because it's I mean it's so big, yeah all right, so let me read this last part. So no trip is complete without stopping at the bakery and gift shop. Make sure to take home some of the tasty snack boxes, a gift mug or even my favorite, the official christmas tree cake taste tester, holiday shirt, uh-oh. But it's important to note that this building is not on the same grounds as the park, but less than a mile away so it's right there, yeah, I'd go.
Speaker 2So yeah, I mean you can't not go to that. If you're going to little deb Park, you can't not go to the gift shop.
Speaker 1Yeah, Ten acres. Not real big I don't think, but hey, big enough. Big enough, you got to roll on through there and check it out.
Speaker 2If you're like us and you just like short trips and you go, like you said, it's 20 minutes from Chattanooga, so we just like to drive sometimes. So if you just drive up Chattanooga or whatever and then go over there, okay, I found another one.
Speaker 1We'll post some pictures of this thing.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2I guess we can post other people's pictures. I don't have. I got something different than what you got.
Speaker 1You're on Facebook, I got my information from legit.
Speaker 2I got something different than what you got, okay.
Speaker 1You're on Facebook. I got my information from legit. Okay, mine is from the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 2Gotcha.
Speaker 1So they'll be happy for me to post it Okay.
Speaker 2So you know how. Jasper, Alabama, that's where we're from.
Speaker 1You're telling everybody where we're from, oops.
Speaker 2We have the donkeys all around, so we have these life-size donkeys that people have painted and they just symbolize different things. It was an art project back in what's winston doing right now yeah, stop, can I?
Speaker 1say no. Can I tell the people? I think they know by now they don't know. Can I tell?
Speaker 2no, so back in. What was, was it before COVID hit? There might have been.
Speaker 1Oh, those donkeys have been around for a while.
Speaker 2Okay, so it was way before COVID hit and I don't know. We just have all kinds of different donkeys. One time our youth done a challenge where they had to go sit with different donkeys.
Speaker 1Have you really explained the donkeys? I don't know what they really mean. These were made, but I guess people would buy them. People paint them. Yeah, they're painted. Each one's a different color, like you might have a patriotic one. You might have say, like breast cancer awareness might be that color, yeah one of them was at um pediatric office and it was autism.
Speaker 1There was an autism one, yeah, so so anyway, they're all over the town, you know, at different uh businesses might have them right there at their front door or on the property or whatever, and it's just a little decorative thing trying to raise awareness to certain things and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2So this is where I'm going with that. So in cheenne, wyoming they have huge boots all over the place.
Speaker 1That's great. That is a big old boot.
Speaker 2That's a big old boot. So I mean see on this page people just.
Speaker 1Where's that big old ball of yarn?
Speaker 2Oh, there you go, there's the the leg lamp from the what movie. What Christmas Christmas Story, christmas Story, yeah, right go there's the leg lamp from the.
Speaker 1What movie, what christmas uh, christmas story.
Speaker 2Christmas story? Yeah, right, I think so. Yeah, I think this doesn't sound right. Passing through chickasaw, oklahoma, I don't know. I just found this page interesting and so now guess what's in my feed.
Speaker 1Weird stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, but people even like put like places to eat and stuff by it too, so you know.
Speaker 1So you got a little bit of information about this.
Speaker 2Yeah, you got a little bit of it sometimes. Here's the world's largest apple basket in Frazeeburgs, Ohio. I've been to Ohio one time.
Speaker 1Where is uh? What about the show you watch on TV? The guy that does woodworking?
Speaker 2Laurel Mississippi.
Speaker 1Laurel, yeah, tell them about us just taking a random trip.
Speaker 2Yeah, we just, I just wanted to go. I wanted to meet Ben and, oh my goodness, what's her name? Ben, and.
Speaker 1What's the name of the show?
Speaker 2Yeah, why you ask me that?
Speaker 1They just remodel houses. You just put me on the spot.
Speaker 2You know I am not good at memory stuff. It's one of those remodeling shows.
Speaker 1What is the name of that show, right?
Speaker 2People screaming at me right now.
Speaker 1I asked you a question. Yeah, they remodel for people.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1And then they do the walkthrough at the end. But it's like every other remodeling renovation show there is just put lowell mississippi in there and then lowell, laurel, laurel, that's what I said, mississippi.
Speaker 2Um yeah, that don't tell me nothing anyway, it doesn't matter ben and what. Anyway, it doesn't matter Ben and what's her name, it doesn't matter. What's the name of the show? Erin? Her name's Erin, ben and Erin.
Speaker 1And keep talking.
Speaker 2What is the name of the darn show?
Speaker 1Anyway, they've brought that small town back to life. Yes, right, yes, and it's made it popular and it's like a tourist attraction.
Speaker 2Yeah, so we there just really wasn't much to do there. No Unless we didn't find, you know. Oh, I seen here recently where somebody said that you could do some kind of tour and see the houses that they redone and stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, but if I bought a house and wanted them to redo it down there now, I don't want to be part of their.
Speaker 2I don't want people coming around.
Speaker 1I'm trying to.
Speaker 2Hometown Is that the name of it?
Speaker 1No clue.
Speaker 2Beer, no help, we did eat at a good at the restaurant there. Can't remember what it was, but it was good. Aaron and Ben Napper, I have no clue how to say that.
Speaker 1Yeah, hometown.
Speaker 2I'm butchering that name. That's the name Hometown. Hometown, yes.
Speaker 1It's on HGTV. Yeah, aaron and Bean. I did not spell Aaron the right way. E-r-i-n. Yeah, I did not spell it that way that's why I couldn't get it to pull up yeah, but anyway. So yeah, I would say, yeah, that was almost a wasted trip. I would say I did not really enjoy because you got down there, you got to look at the woodworking shop that he has. Of course you can't go in there. She's got windows you can look through.
Speaker 1They got a gift shop type thing and we just basically walked around eight yeah, eight stayed maybe two hours and yeah headed back yeah but it's kind of neat something to do it was just something to do.
Speaker 2yeah, it gave us something to do. And then that one time we was driving and I don't think we meant to run into this to the other guys that do the road trip, American Pickers. Yeah, Did we mean to go to that one?
Speaker 1I think so.
Speaker 2We found out that they had a place Were we doing something, and then we found out that it was close by. Well, we went to Nashville Was it Nashville, and that was just one of the places that we wanted to see.
Speaker 1Okay, so we did mean to go there, and we were also kind of disappointed in that. Oh yeah, because it was really small it was really small and there was a line of people outside waiting to get in.
Speaker 2They only let you in so many at a time?
Speaker 1Yeah and don't think you're going to go in there and buy something.
Speaker 2No, you ain't buying.
Speaker 1They like that stuff yeah you better bring your wallet with some thick money in there, and it better not have a bunch of ones.
Speaker 2Yep.
Speaker 1Hmm.
Speaker 2Yep, it was cool, though I mean like I think I'd go back just to see like if we missed something. I don't know. I feel like we missed some.
Speaker 1Well, I think now Nashville is the place to go, because it's like Boonville.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 1We drove around there. Once we went there.
Speaker 2We went and ate at Guy Fieri's place.
Speaker 1Yeah, his chicken place.
Speaker 2I'd go back and do that. But remember the parking thing we didn't know what we was doing with that little parking meter and it cost us $ 45 to park for two hours. Yeah, we messed that thing up. It was a really weird parking meter right the whole parking situation down there.
Speaker 1It was really but it's expensive yeah yeah, I mean, if you want to park in downtown chattanooga where at least we're now, I'm sorry, nashville at least, where we parked at. Yeah it, uh. It was like what is up with this?
Speaker 2this is unbelievable crazy and you know, maybe it's like that everywhere but it, but it was me and you were just not people that go off like that.
Speaker 1It's probably like that everywhere and we just don't but it was crowded it was so crowded and so we really, you know, I think I drove around a couple of times and it's like you know, you just can't keep driving around.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we might have been able to go. You just had to find somewhere to park.
Speaker 1We might have been able to go three or four blocks over and maybe have found something that's either reasonable or free. I doubt it.
Speaker 2I doubt it but everything we ran into.
Speaker 1it was like Well, we parked right there kind of on the strip, wasn't it? Well, it was a little over, yeah, but it's like maybe it was pretty. Yeah, it was like a straight shot, you know, but we were seeing all the bars and restaurants some of the main ones.
Speaker 2So we were probably, yeah, parking a little too close, but I think we even got there before it even opened. So if you ever take a trip with jody, if you ever talk about doing something, you're going to get up at 5 o'clock and you're going to go. Whether the place opens at 7 o'clock in the morning or 10 o'clock in the morning, you're going to get up and you're going to get out.
Speaker 1She's lying.
Speaker 2No, I'm not.
Speaker 1In my perfect world, we're leaving early.
Speaker 2Yeah, and the place, don't even open till 10 or 11 o'clock, we're sitting.
Speaker 1We're sitting there we're not leaving that early because I can't get y'all going, so don't make it seem like before you have before, and I'll be like jody why are we leaving? So early. Well, before you know it, you gotta hurry up and come back, so they don't even open till 10 o'clock. That gives you a chance to check things out oh, is that right?
Road Trip Musings
Speaker 1so you can find some of these oddities on the road If you're going to go somewhere, get as much time in as you can, and the way you do that is you leave early.
Speaker 2But if you get me up, I'm going to be ill.
Speaker 1Well, you can sleep on the way. I just got to get on the road, that's all I got to do. I don't care what y'all do, I got to get. Y'all can sleep. I listen to Three Wheels no Direction podcast. I'm good.
Speaker 2Figures.
Speaker 1Shameless plug.
Speaker 2I'm tired of those. Yeah, but I think I'm about to start charging. I think Nashville is, you can pay me $10 every time you say it. That's going to be your advertisement, really.
Speaker 1Okay, say it, that's gonna be your advertising, really, okay, I think, uh, nashville is the place to go. I think we they've got a lot to do and we're not giving them enough oh, then we can go and you can probably do some kind of tour yeah get one of those buses. They show you where some of these about to see a cat get. Oh, never mind so, winston, our dog just attacked the cat.
Speaker 1The cat was about to get the duck Because the cat was about to get ducks, and so Winston saved some ducks' lives, and I'm glad.
Speaker 2And he's drooling.
Speaker 1He's hot, he's hot. He's not even that hot out here. He's not used to being out here. So, yeah, we need to go back and check out the situation.
Speaker 2Well, I think we're going to go to the Little Debbie thing we and check out the situation.
Speaker 1Well, I think we're going to go to the Little Debbie thing we are. Yeah, okay, we're going to go do it like in July, when it's really, really, really hot.
Speaker 2Yes, that's the perfect time when we went to Nashville it was cold, those little you remember. Yeah, I just said that, oh it wasn't as cold here.
Speaker 1No, it wasn't know.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But with the chicken place Guy's Chicken Place was it like what you thought it was going to be? Not really, I mean chicken's chicken, I mean, this is what it's not.
Speaker 2I mean, it was good.
Speaker 1It's almost like a fast food chicken.
Speaker 2Yeah, right, yeah, just some chicken tenders and some what.
Speaker 1I think it's his name.
Speaker 2Well, that too, of course.
Speaker 1But he had a show just about this chicken place.
Speaker 2Yeah, they done a.
Speaker 1Yeah, he had a competition where one of them was going to be a manager or have their own or a franchisor or something.
Speaker 2Right, I think it's so long we've been to the mountains. I think the mountains have one now.
Speaker 1I think the mountains have changed shape. It's been so long since we've been there, I know.
Speaker 2I think they're calling our name.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2Mm, it's time. I know Sounds like we need a road trip. I know, Forget the podcasting.
Speaker 1Brr.
Speaker 2Road tripping it is Brr.
Speaker 1I'm telling you we can take this up there and that's not a problem.
Speaker 2Let's go. Yeah, you wouldn't do it in the car.
Speaker 1Do y'all think it wouldn't work out?
Speaker 2I've said it a thousand times no, it wouldn't work out, because when Jody gets to talking, his foot comes off of the gas and we slow down.
Speaker 1You lie so much on this podcast.
Speaker 2I don't, we slow down. You lie so much on this podcast, I don't. If you get interested in something and you're talking about it, your foot comes off that gas and you slow down we don't ever talk when I drive.
Speaker 1What are you talking about? Stop it. No, I've always got my earbuds in I'm listening to, to something that's nowadays.
Speaker 2I'm tired. I'm saying when we used to go, Jody would get talking.
Speaker 1Oh, 20 years ago.
Speaker 2You act like we don't do nothing.
Speaker 1The Blue Jays back.
Speaker 2Jody will get to talking and he will slow down like Pawpaw. He knows it's true. All right. Well, that's what I had to bring to the table was the oddities the oddities yeah that I think. I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1I I like that we'll try and put this little debbie park picture out there if y'all want to check it out on. Uh, what do we got facebook instagram? Yeah, or just yeah, both I don't know you're in, I do we got Facebook Instagram, yeah, or just yeah, both. I don't know. You're in charge of that. I think we got both this, that and the other. Just type that in. You'll find us. Same logo as you see on the podcast oh look, somebody just put the Vulcan on here.
Speaker 2It's the world's largest cast iron statue, standing at a 57 feet.
Speaker 1I think it's the god of Iron. It's in Birmingham. Yeah, we need to go there too. It's been a long time.
Speaker 2I've never been there, have you not? No? I live an hour and a half away and never been there.
Speaker 1No, we're an hour away, just an hour. We could probably be there in 55 minutes.
Speaker 2Oh well, look what's at a restaurant between Houston and San Antonio, texas.
Speaker 1I don't know. Watch for snakes.
Speaker 2Mm, I'll be leaving that one off my list.
Speaker 1Well, maybe we can go somewhere and tell the people about our adventure.
Speaker 2eventually, That'd be cool. Here's a UFO welcome center in Bowman, South Carolina. Look at that.
Speaker 1That is pretty neat.
Speaker 2That's like the Townley Welcome Center. All right, I got to go, unless you want to keep talking. No, I'm done.
Speaker 1I'm usually long-winded.
Speaker 2I'm done.
Speaker 1Yeah, we got to go Out here watching the sun's going down. The water's not as rough as it was.
Speaker 2Not as it was. Boats are going back to their house. Yeah, they need to go on back. I'm tired of hearing them.
Speaker 1Two ducks in the yard. I got to go feed the fish.
Speaker 2They're waiting on me real quick before it gets dark, so I'm going to go.
Speaker 1Hey, we appreciate you listening. Once again, we apologize for last week not having an episode, but sometimes things happen and we planned on being able to put one out a week, every Monday, and there was just no way.
Speaker 2Life happens.
Speaker 1Life happens, that's right. Life gets in the way, and that's okay. Life comes before podcasting right, and then sometimes podcasting is— you want me to?
Speaker 2ask that. I mean answer that.
Speaker 1What are you talking? What do you mean?
Speaker 2To you, podcasting comes first. No.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2You left me in the bed sick.
Speaker 1I was.
Speaker 2Look, I was in the middle of recording when you texted, you should have dropped it and come home. You should have dropped it and come home. I did when I got done, yeah, two hours later when I got done recording and you're like where are you at me in the flipping bed, you and nicholas, both when he got home, I don't know wherever I did not say where you at.
Speaker 1I think you did I did not I just walked back there. Why?
Speaker 2would I say where you.
Speaker 1I don't open up the door and say, family, where are you? That's crazy, alright, alright, thanks for listening. Alright, we will talk to you next week, hopefully. Maybe, We'll see. Alright, see y'all, bye.
Speaker 2From my pool, from our kiddie bowl.
Speaker 1I'm gonna put a bullet in it. Bye, you better run if you put a bullet in it. Yes, ma'am, see ya.
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