This That And The Other
This That And The Other
DIY Projects, Roadside Attractions, Amanda's New Swimming Pool, Sickness at The Rathouse
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 2:But were we really that busy?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:Because, 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 2:That's a negative for me. I'm in a bed, that's exactly what you say.
Speaker 1:You 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 2:On chat.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 1:Oh 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 2:Anyway.
Speaker 1:A lot of things.
Speaker 2:Don't bore our listeners.
Speaker 1:Redoing 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 2:He thinks he's He-Man. He tears the walls out, tears the floor out, and now he wants to tear the window out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to change out the window.
Speaker 2:He thinks he's He-Man.
Speaker 1:He 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 2:Not 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 1:We 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 2:So when does my room get redone?
Speaker 1:What do you mean? Your room?
Speaker 2:Our 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 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've heard that, yeah.
Speaker 1:I've got a lot done, it's just not all done.
Speaker 2:In our bedroom.
Speaker 1:No, in the other room.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Why don't you help? I try to help. Why don't you start?
Speaker 2:You just push me out of the way.
Speaker 1:Start ripping stuff out, then I'll have to.
Speaker 2:Then 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 1:That'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 2:What did we have last week? That was more than just that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 2:Because that was just Saturday.
Speaker 1:It was, I don't know. I'm sure there was grass cutting involved.
Speaker 2:Because Sunday we still couldn't do it, because it's the other, the situation still wasn't settled, or whatever right.
Speaker 1:Right, well, having two platforms, because this one is still on the other platform, so it's Anyway.
Speaker 2:Anyway, 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 1:I 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 2:Hold on, let's go back to the fourth minute. Okay, let's go back. Rewind, that's not rewind noise is it?
Speaker 1:I'm not the noise maker, like you All right.
Speaker 2:So on the fourth, what do I do?
Speaker 1:On the fourth what do you do?
Speaker 2:I get my son. What are we sitting in front of?
Speaker 1:A body of water.
Speaker 2:No, okay, what are we sitting behind? What are we sitting behind?
Speaker 1:Oh, a little kiddie pool we're sitting behind my new swimming pool.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:And it's sitting there, and it's sitting there. It's been sitting there since the 4th.
Speaker 2:Because why Friday I got sick?
Speaker 1:That's right, anyway, yeah, like.
Speaker 2:I said, I got a text.
Speaker 1:And you said you weren't feeling good. Got sick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1:And when I come home, bring you a Sprite.
Speaker 2:I was in the bed at 5 o'clock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, saturday or Friday, and then all day Saturday.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:It'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 2:Yeah, we got to move it back this way, don't we?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the spot you wanted in, but I knew it was going to be a problem, and now it is.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, it could have been moved back a little bit.
Speaker 1:You didn't say that.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Oh, that's, right Well.
Speaker 2:I'm not sitting out here by myself.
Speaker 1:We'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 2:I 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 1:I think mine was food poison.
Speaker 2:That's the worst thing ever, when you just got to get sick but you can't get sick.
Speaker 1:Oh, 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 2:We 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.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:It 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 1:But.
Speaker 2:I could not eat it. But, that's not what I ordered.
Speaker 1:I know I was so excited I ordered two.
Speaker 2:My men. They are so pepperoni, that's all. That's all. They eat Pepperoni, and that's all.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Listen to Nicholas Open the box before you leave. I've never opened up the pizza box.
Speaker 1:Do they label them anymore when you get?
Speaker 2:four or five pizzas? No, because I just looked at those, there wasn't a sticker on them.
Speaker 1:Maybe, 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 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Like 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 2:Sorry, it was a green spider was it?
Speaker 1:yeah, on your microphone, yes, but yeah. So I mean, we've never had a mess up from dominoes?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I've had some burnt food, but not really where it's totally burnt food yeah, I got a.
Speaker 2:I'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 2:I don't know, maybe I just wasn't into it and I'm all right with a semi-burnt crust.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:Well see, that's what you should have done a while ago was put the Heinz 57 there.
Speaker 1:No, 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 2:no, 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 1:I'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 2:So 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 1:No.
Speaker 2:So I totally forgot to tell them no onions on the cheeseburger.
Speaker 1:Behind 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 2:That's what they get paid to do, though it's Burger King.
Speaker 1:I have it my way, do they not?
Speaker 2:You don't like Burger.
Speaker 1:King. 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 2:their burgers are good I love Burger King.
Speaker 1:I would pick them out of all.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:say— None of them. People are there now, I guarantee you. None of those people are there now.
Speaker 1:That'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 1:You 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 2:That's a loud bird, it's loud. It's like amplified.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:Oh 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 1:We had to go like shoot at that bird.
Speaker 2:Where's the baby going? Don't say that Pete will be on us, sorry, enjoy it, folks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is called nature.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a firework show somewhere last night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:That is unbelievable how many and then I think we really realized it at the end because you heard it.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:Isn'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 1:I'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 2:That's what I'm saying. How do you see?
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 1:I 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 2:they 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 1:It was something Firework. Somebody got hurt, firework Went wrong. When fireworks attack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should know about that right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I've been in it.
Speaker 2:Crazy.
Speaker 1:In front of people too.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Had an audience.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Got nailed. Yeah, anyway, love it, though I would shoot fireworks every Saturday night.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:If it wasn't so expensive. I was going to say, you know?
Speaker 2:Where are you getting them, fireworks, from? I?
Speaker 1:love fireworks, don't you?
Speaker 2:love them, I like them.
Speaker 1:It's fun.
Speaker 2:I mean I enjoy them more If you've got a group.
Speaker 1:Really, if you're trying to entertain myself, if there's people there, no, no no, no, back up.
Speaker 2:You don't like fireworks, you like Saturn missiles and bottle rockets.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you like to have bottle rocket wars?
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Remember when we first got married and you had bottle rocket wars out here.
Speaker 1:No, I don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:With who?
Speaker 2:With your buddies.
Speaker 1:I didn't have buddies.
Speaker 2:Well, you had somebody over here Strangers you had some stranger dangers over here, because y'all done bottle rocket wars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fine. You had never done that, ever lit a bottle rocket and throw it.
Speaker 2:No, I don't like bottle rockets and then throw it.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:about. I'm scared of everything. I don't even like Roman candles.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's wrong with you, scaredy cat.
Speaker 2:I know Everything, everything, everything Everything.
Speaker 1:You won't get in the water. I'm surprised you kayak.
Speaker 2:We 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 1:I said bye.
Speaker 2:You 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 1:No, you're not doing that.
Speaker 2:By myself.
Speaker 1:You'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 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:You tell me so well, you're the one that said you're going by yourself.
Speaker 2:Well, I am, but you're gonna help me get in.
Speaker 1:That'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 2:I'll be down the slew, could you?
Speaker 1:imagine having these cords, like me and you, side by side do they not make wireless wireless, why not?
Speaker 2:I mean, like you can get wireless mics, get wireless we just have to have it into a recorder.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm saying. Is there not a wireless recorder? You have to have some kind of well.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:Well, 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 2:But I want to be doing something and record you got a pretty good extension on these.
Speaker 1:Right here. You got eight foot. Whatever you can do within an eight foot radius.
Speaker 2:In the water, that's not very. No, not in the water, that's not very smart.
Speaker 1:What do you got?
Speaker 2:You said you were bringing something to the table today. I am so.
Speaker 1:I ain't bringing nothing.
Speaker 2:All 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 1:there 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 2:It's not far at all.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I want to drive just to go to a park.
Speaker 2:Oh 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 1:So Chattanooga it's 20 minutes outside Chattanooga.
Speaker 2:Is 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 1:Does it not tell you about the park that you can read?
Speaker 2:It 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 1:I was going to say could you tell us?
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:A 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 1:Now 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 2:People 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 1:Oh, the museum, yeah, the museum so. What does Alabama?
Speaker 2:have. 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 1:It's just a big fork sticking out of the ground.
Speaker 2:It'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 1:You 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 2:I 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 1:Made out of wood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's pretty weird.
Speaker 1:Anyway, 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 2:kansas 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 1:I don't know why don't they move that to orlando?
Speaker 2:I 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 1:My bad, I've got all the information if you want me to.
Speaker 2:But did it have the information on it? It just had.
Speaker 1:I've got everything you want to know about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, you looked it up.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I've had this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead and tell us some information.
Speaker 1:All 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 2:So 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 1:um, 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 2:So 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:If 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 1:We'll post some pictures of this thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I guess we can post other people's pictures. I don't have. I got something different than what you got.
Speaker 1:You're on Facebook, I got my information from legit.
Speaker 2:I got something different than what you got, okay.
Speaker 1:You're on Facebook. I got my information from legit. Okay, mine is from the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:So they'll be happy for me to post it Okay.
Speaker 2:So you know how. Jasper, Alabama, that's where we're from.
Speaker 1:You're telling everybody where we're from, oops.
Speaker 2:We 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 1:say no. Can I tell the people? I think they know by now they don't know. Can I tell?
Speaker 2:no, so back in. What was, was it before COVID hit? There might have been.
Speaker 1:Oh, those donkeys have been around for a while.
Speaker 2:Okay, 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 1:Have 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 1:There 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 2:So this is where I'm going with that. So in cheenne, wyoming they have huge boots all over the place.
Speaker 1:That's great. That is a big old boot.
Speaker 2:That's a big old boot. So I mean see on this page people just.
Speaker 1:Where's that big old ball of yarn?
Speaker 2:Oh, 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 1:What movie, what christmas uh, christmas story.
Speaker 2:Christmas 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 1:Weird stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but people even like put like places to eat and stuff by it too, so you know.
Speaker 1:So you got a little bit of information about this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Where is uh? What about the show you watch on TV? The guy that does woodworking?
Speaker 2:Laurel Mississippi.
Speaker 1:Laurel, yeah, tell them about us just taking a random trip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just, I just wanted to go. I wanted to meet Ben and, oh my goodness, what's her name? Ben, and.
Speaker 1:What's the name of the show?
Speaker 2:Yeah, why you ask me that?
Speaker 1:They just remodel houses. You just put me on the spot.
Speaker 2:You know I am not good at memory stuff. It's one of those remodeling shows.
Speaker 1:What is the name of that show, right?
Speaker 2:People screaming at me right now.
Speaker 1:I asked you a question. Yeah, they remodel for people.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Um 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 1:And keep talking.
Speaker 2:What is the name of the darn show?
Speaker 1:Anyway, 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:I don't want people coming around.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to.
Speaker 2:Hometown Is that the name of it?
Speaker 1:No clue.
Speaker 2:Beer, 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 1:Yeah, hometown.
Speaker 2:I'm butchering that name. That's the name Hometown. Hometown, yes.
Speaker 1:It'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 1:They 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 2:yeah, 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 1:I think so.
Speaker 2:We 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 1:Okay, 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 2:They only let you in so many at a time?
Speaker 1:Yeah and don't think you're going to go in there and buy something.
Speaker 2:No, you ain't buying.
Speaker 1:They 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 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 2:Yep, 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 1:Well, I think now Nashville is the place to go, because it's like Boonville.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:We drove around there. Once we went there.
Speaker 2:We went and ate at Guy Fieri's place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his chicken place.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:It 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 2:this 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 1:It'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 2:Yeah, and we might have been able to go. You just had to find somewhere to park.
Speaker 1:We 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 2:I doubt it but everything we ran into.
Speaker 1:it 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 2:So 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 1:She's lying.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not.
Speaker 1:In my perfect world, we're leaving early.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the place, don't even open till 10 or 11 o'clock, we're sitting.
Speaker 1:We'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?
Speaker 1:so 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 2:But if you get me up, I'm going to be ill.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:Figures.
Speaker 1:Shameless plug.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:Okay, 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 1:The 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 2:And he's drooling.
Speaker 1:He'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 2:Well, I think we're going to go to the Little Debbie thing we and check out the situation.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 2:Yes, 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 1:No, it wasn't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But 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 2:I mean, it was good.
Speaker 1:It's almost like a fast food chicken.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, yeah, just some chicken tenders and some what.
Speaker 1:I think it's his name.
Speaker 2:Well, that too, of course.
Speaker 1:But he had a show just about this chicken place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they done a.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had a competition where one of them was going to be a manager or have their own or a franchisor or something.
Speaker 2:Right, I think it's so long we've been to the mountains. I think the mountains have one now.
Speaker 1:I think the mountains have changed shape. It's been so long since we've been there, I know.
Speaker 2:I think they're calling our name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:Mm, it's time. I know Sounds like we need a road trip. I know, Forget the podcasting.
Speaker 1:Brr.
Speaker 2:Road tripping it is Brr.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you we can take this up there and that's not a problem.
Speaker 2:Let's go. Yeah, you wouldn't do it in the car.
Speaker 1:Do y'all think it wouldn't work out?
Speaker 2:I'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 1:You lie so much on this podcast.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:What are you talking about? Stop it. No, I've always got my earbuds in I'm listening to, to something that's nowadays.
Speaker 2:I'm tired. I'm saying when we used to go, Jody would get talking.
Speaker 1:Oh, 20 years ago.
Speaker 2:You act like we don't do nothing.
Speaker 1:The Blue Jays back.
Speaker 2:Jody 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 1:I 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 2:It's the world's largest cast iron statue, standing at a 57 feet.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:I've never been there, have you not? No? I live an hour and a half away and never been there.
Speaker 1:No, we're an hour away, just an hour. We could probably be there in 55 minutes.
Speaker 2:Oh well, look what's at a restaurant between Houston and San Antonio, texas.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Watch for snakes.
Speaker 2:Mm, I'll be leaving that one off my list.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe we can go somewhere and tell the people about our adventure.
Speaker 2:eventually, That'd be cool. Here's a UFO welcome center in Bowman, South Carolina. Look at that.
Speaker 1:That is pretty neat.
Speaker 2:That's like the Townley Welcome Center. All right, I got to go, unless you want to keep talking. No, I'm done.
Speaker 1:I'm usually long-winded.
Speaker 2:I'm done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got to go Out here watching the sun's going down. The water's not as rough as it was.
Speaker 2:Not as it was. Boats are going back to their house. Yeah, they need to go on back. I'm tired of hearing them.
Speaker 1:Two ducks in the yard. I got to go feed the fish.
Speaker 2:They're waiting on me real quick before it gets dark, so I'm going to go.
Speaker 1:Hey, 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 2:Life happens.
Speaker 1:Life 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 2:ask that. I mean answer that.
Speaker 1:What are you talking? What do you mean?
Speaker 2:To you, podcasting comes first. No.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You left me in the bed sick.
Speaker 1:I was.
Speaker 2:Look, 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 1:I think you did I did not I just walked back there. Why?
Speaker 2:would I say where you.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:From my pool, from our kiddie bowl.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna put a bullet in it. Bye, you better run if you put a bullet in it. Yes, ma'am, see ya.
