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Episode 4 - Pinball and Localness
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This episode Ross and Gregg talk about random occurrences in their locals
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Introduction to Unmotivated and Unprepared
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You're listening to Unmotivated and Unprepared, a podcast where we take a break from the everyday hustle and bustle to muse about life, liberty, and the pursuit of randomness. Now here's Greg and Ross. What's up, Greg? Hey, how you doing, Ross? Oh, I'm not too bad. Uh, I got, I gotta,
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Knock, knock joke for you. Knock, knock. Who's there? No, I'm just kidding. That would be stupid. I'm not gonna do a knock, knock joke.
Humor and Feedback on Podcast Energy
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We are, we're at episode four of unmotivated and unprepared. And I know it's been a few weeks. So people probably thought we were done for. They're like, wow, they had less gumption than the last time. And they didn't even make it to seven. They just gave up. Yeah.
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Didn't even make it halfway as far as the other one, though. But no, we had some activities going on. So we'll talk a little bit about that today. I did want to pause for a moment, not for an advertisement. But I did get our first listener feedback, Greg. Oh, wow. Really? We got listener feedback. Yeah, I got listener feedback. This listener said, I feel like the intro. Wait for it.
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needs to have some pumped up energy, little more energy. The intro needs more energy. And for those of you who are listening to this, have heard the intro. I told this listener, appreciate the feedback. All feedback is a gift.
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But that was kind of the intention. I mean, this is about as energetic as my voice is gonna get. That's why I'm not into voice acting. But I feel like the music is pumps it up enough. So anyways, but that was our first listener feedback. So I encourage any other listener feedback.
Challenges of Social Media Presence
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If they know who we are, they can't find us Ross. We don't have lucky. We don't have like a Facebook or a Twitter. Well, even the, even the metadata on this thing, I have some people have asked me and I try to tell them like, Oh no, you got to take the spaces out. When you put an intro extra, you got to take the spaces out because it doesn't find it. And so, but yeah, the, so listener feedback is great, but I think
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They're trying to find this and they can't. We're unlisted. We've obfuscated it enough. We're like an online website for customer support. Give us feedback. They can't find us. For feedback, press one.
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habla espanol numero dos, you know, so we're, we really try to, we really try to keep the feedback away, but we do appreciate it. So thank you listeners, listener for your feedback. I think they might've gotten through eight minutes of the podcast before they dropped out. They got bored. We put them to sleep. I'm watching the time clock. It's seven minutes. I'm going to insert a very energetic topic. I just, I'm just going to have to. So anyways, so speaking of, speaking of energy,
Greg's Birthday Trip and Family Dynamics
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Weekends are always fun. Vacation-ish weekends are good. And I know you had a little weekend, a little weekend getaway, huh?
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Yeah, so so my parents this is this is the this is the fun of how growing up as a child hasn't changed. I think anybody can relate to that you kind of kind of get into age regression with your parents no matter how old you get. But my Yeah, my parents decided that they were going to come visit but not visit me in the town that I live in. Visit me two and a half hours away.
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Yeah, no, that's too close. It's like the opposite of where you moved far enough away from your parents that they wouldn't come visit you. Now they're giving you that back. Right, exactly. Yeah, they're like, well, I think, I mean, ultimately, the reason was a financial one. It was cheaper to fly out of Austin to Asheville than it was to fly from San Antonio to Charlotte.
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And I get that and I understand, I understand that, but two and a half hours is, you know, it's your birthday, right? It's the one day that's your, that's what that was, was my birthday, right? So it was like, hey, we're gonna come visit you, but also not. You have to come drive to visit us. Yeah, you're an adult now. This is them, this is their way of saying, you are an adult, so you come, you come see us. So happy birthday, Greg, by the way.
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And thanks. And also the funny part about it is, and while I adore my parents and all that stuff, like I thought about afterwards, I'm like, we could have gone somewhere else. Like we, like if I got to drive two and a half hours, we could have flown somewhere cool. Not like Asheville. I mean, Asheville is okay. It's like hippie wood stock in the mountains and with money, right? And it was a combination. Yeah, that's your vibe. Yeah, you know, it's totally my vibe. I, uh,
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Y'all should see what Greg's wearing. It's very, very hippy. Completely hippy, Russ. I put a collar on for you, man. But the Asheville trip was, it was fun. We went to the pinball museum. My dad loves pinball. And so we ended up at the pinball museum. And of course, after two and a half hours, my mom comes in and goes, can you please tell your father we need to go? He's not listening to me.
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Two and a half hours of pinball. So, so give me a, give me a pinball fact, Greg, I was going to do, you'd mentioned that you were going to, you mentioned pinball and I was going to look up, I was going to do some pinball research, but obviously unprepared here. So give me a, give me a pinball fact. Well, fun thing about pinball was at one point when pinball machines were first coming out, they were outlawed as gambling machines.
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even though you didn't win anything from them, but it was considered to be gambling because it was not seen as a skill. It was seen as pure luck and that you were putting quarters in and it was pure luck that they could win versus anybody who's played pinball knows it's entirely about a game of skill. Yes, the ball runs around and there are some obstacles, but there are strategies to every pinball game. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I, I win when I play pinball, I win a sense of joy and accomplishment.
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Yeah, it's fun. I thought it was really cool Ross is that it was $15. It was $15 to be there and you got unlimited games. Oh, that's awesome. That's so cool. So then you just you play whatever but then it kind of takes the kind of takes the fun out of the whole high score aspect.
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You know, like beating a high score with a certain, like with one quarter or whatever it costs. Well, you're still the same, right? You still try to get as high as you can. Cause you only have three balls and got to start over again. Yeah. But you just, you could just go on forever as clearly, as clearly your dad was doing for two and a half hours.
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What I think is funny, I don't know if you're like this, but have you ever been in those situations where you're really excited about doing something and you see a crowd and you want to figure out how to maneuver yourself in there early because you're afraid that you're going to miss out? My dad was that way at the pinball museum. We're waiting in line to get in, right? And there's a bunch of people around. And there's that intensity of, oh, no, we're not going to get a machine to play on. Guys, how about you guys go the cash line and get a table first, and then I'll pay for me. And I was like, dad.
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There are 20 people in here. There are 30 machines. I'm pretty sure they're gonna get bored pretty quickly. I don't think we have to worry. But it was so freaking out. Like a little kid. And I've been there, so I understand. I understand exactly what it's like. It's that pure level of excitement that you're gonna miss out. But it was, I don't know. It was all centered around that one thing. I mean, it's like the first time I saw Beat Saber and saw some people say, Beat Saber, don't ask. Don't ask. But there was a large crowd.
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And people are playing beat saber and I was like, oh, I want to try that. But, you know, I got it. How do I, how do I work my situation around this? And then I just went and did something else because I'm not good at beat saber. So, so your dad, your dad, big pinball fan.
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Um, was there like, what was the uniqueness about some of the pinball machines there? Were there, were there some that were like bigger than others or it was just kind of just nostalgia more than anything. That's all it is. I mean, it was cool that they had some of the top five pinball machines of all time. So the midway classics, uh, kind of monster bash Mars attacks or attack from Mars, not Mars attacks attack from Mars. Um,
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Basically, like the Midway, oh, Creature from the Black Lagoon. They had some of those machines there. They were all replica machines, but they were all really good machines. They didn't have Addon's Family, which was the best selling pinball machine of all time. They didn't have some of the machines I thought they would have, but it was cool. They had some modern ones. They had an old KISS machine from like 1973. That was cool. There was some really cool stuff there related to kind of history and those things, 1976 or whatever it was.
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The pinball machine, I mean, are they, is that like a dead thing now? I mean, are they still making pinball machines? There were like modern ones there too, right? Or this is really more museum, so it was older ones. Yeah, there were two. There were two. Stern is kind of the big company that makes pinball machines still. Okay. So they had like, and those are cool because they have like the video. So they had a Game of Thrones machine, a Willy Wonk in the Chocolate Factory machine, and a Star Wars machine.
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Okay, okay. Yeah, I see I hear Willy Wonka and I do think gambling, right? Cuz you got the, you know, Max Bet, Max Bet on the slots. Max Bet to win. That's cool. I yeah, I would. Would you go again? I guess that's always my question. I'm still filling on my bucket list from before, you know, maybe dollars if you like pinball, it was a lot of fun. They also had a bunch of old arcade games to the old arcade machines. They had some some pieces of 15 bucks.
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I mean, unlike a traditional arcade where your 15 bucks is going to last you an hour. $15 here could last you three, four or five hours. Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, I think I think it's interesting to me about pinball and arcade games in general. It feels like I don't know which was first chicken or the egg. Did they become
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Were they time wasters, you know, like take up some time and while you're waiting for something else or to keep some of the time or were they the thing that you went for? You know, and that's because I because I look at it like I'm waiting in line or I'm in a restaurant or I'm in a place waiting for my food like a pizza hut. Yeah.
00:10:41
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Really? You're calling me out with Pizza Hut? As my niece said, I think everybody out pizzas the Hut. That was pretty great. Uncle Ross, I think everyone out pizzas the Hut. But I mean, just in general, like I've never, like growing up in a small town,
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arcades and you know those type of things were never the destination because we just weren't a big enough city to have that so they were like little pocket like I think I may be seen an Adams family pinball machine and that's it but not much else.
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Yeah, I didn't I mean, it's not we've talked was I'm not a video game. I mean, I could get into a video game once a while. Like I got into the Tomb Raider game for a little bit here. I just found the old one. I was playing that nice. But for the most part, I'm not into video games. It's not a it's not a driving thing for my personality. It just feels like sitting for too long. But the
00:11:34
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But the pinball machine for my father, I think is it was something that he used to ride his bike to go to the bowling alley to play a cold pinball machines. I think when I was a kid, we would go to the bowling alley with my parents on a military installation and we'd play, you know, 1941 or whatever the plane shooting game. Oh, those are my favorite. That and Raiden. Yeah, those are my favorites. Those are my favorites. Yeah.
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And I think I think to your point, I think it was just the video games happen to be there along with doing something else. Yeah, I don't remember video games being because I guess I just didn't grow up anywhere where there was an arcade to go to like it wasn't like I watched the Wreck-It Ralph movie and like all the little kids come running into the arc into Max's arcade and you're like,
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Yeah, no, I never, I don't remember that. Can't relate. Can't relate. Yeah. Of course, now you walk into a Dave and Busters and there's like a life size fruit ninja. And I'm like, really? We're turning mobile games into life size things. But like a Crossy Road Plus is like a standalone game now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, it's Frogger. It's Frogger people like this has existed for years. Anyways. Yeah. So so pinball was good. So that that was obviously.
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I was for your dad more than anything cuz that was really that was what was what what did greg like what was gregs highlight of his birthday when you got to see your family and that's about your parents that's really it i mean the pinball machine was fun it was fun to go play just to you know it's exciting i wouldn't have picked that as my destination to go to sure but it was fun my dad loves pinball it was fun to see him happy and i had fun playing attack from mars cuz i like that game but
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Yeah, exactly. I wouldn't have picked that. And then they Oh, and this is fun. So this is my parents. This is my parents dynamic. I knew exactly what happened. So Friday, I'm it's what my friends are celebrating my birthday here in Charlotte and some drinking with my friends. And then while I'm drinking with my friends, I'm getting this text messages about Hey,
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So where do you think we should go to dinner for your birthday? I'm like, huh? Like, maybe we should make reservations. I'm like, what? And I turn to my friends and go, I know exactly what's happening right now. My parents are sitting and waiting to catch their flight. And they're having a full on conversation about, well, did we make plans for dinner? Well, I don't know. Did we?
00:13:41
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Larry, I can't think of everything. That's my dad's name. I can't think of everything. It's like going back and forth. Killing me small. They're just my mom and dad going back. Well, just text Greg. Maybe Greg can find something. And here I am drinking with my friends going, I got to make reservations for a restaurant, drinking beer by a pool. OK. So like I'm like, and of course, this is Asheville. It's a hot tourist destination. My parents picked the restaurant called Rhubarb because they're like, oh, that's a vegetarian restaurant. It was not a vegetarian restaurant.
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the only the only vegetarian thing they had on the menu was in fact rhubarb yeah it was like they had a bacon steaks and rhubarb it was in the dessert but the but the but the but the interesting part about that was we couldn't get a reservation to almost 10 o'clock at night oh man rhubarb's hopping
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So I got, so I got from, so you gotta remember, I woke up early in the morning, drove two and a half hours to go to meet them in Asheville. We did the pinball museum. We had lunch and we hung out for a while. And then at nine 30, we make our way over to the restaurant and we're sitting there. And now we can't like, well, actually the restaurant reservation was nine 30, but we now had to wait till 10 because whatever. And at the time there's a bunch of evangelicals yelling about Jesus to save.
00:15:01
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And about heaven and hell and all this stuff outside of these very popular, like trendy restaurants in Asheville. So like, that's weird. Like, I mean, you do you boo, but outside the restaurant at 10 o'clock at night, like, I feel like that's more just being frustrated about not getting your reservation. Have you found Jesus? Have you found him? That dessert was so good. I feel like I did.
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And my dad and I are sitting there going, do they help or hurt the Jesus mission? Like a whole bunch of people waiting to eat and there's a guy out there yelling, you have not found him yet.
00:15:37
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especially when you're hungry. You could talk to me about the thing that I align most with and I'd be like, I'm starving, leave me alone. That's just how my stomach works. We'll wrap this up in 15 minutes mainly because I'll be hungry more than anything. I'm telling you, that's how I work.
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but was rhubarb good oh yeah it was great i mean okay good we closed the restaurant we were the last ones out the door party animals well also we were out by like 11 15 so it wasn't like we were there that long for a fancy restaurant get the get the stink eye from the waiters like oh my god they were super sweet i mean they were super nice and it was a great place and and for all those people who need to go visit ashfield rhubarb is a place you should visit
00:16:21
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Food was great. There you go. We heard it from Greg. Goodity scale of 8.2. Then the next day we got up to go look at a house. That was the $100 to go visit a visit American Palace.
00:16:39
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Oh, interesting. Okay. Is this like the pride of Asheville? Like that's what you go see is this house? I guess.
Hosting Visitors and Tourist Attractions
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It's the Biltmore. It's built by like the third son, built by the third son of Michael Vanderbilt, who's the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who
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Yeah, apparently he was the black sheep of the family. He wasn't really into business. He was into like art and music. And he had the great idea of like, let's build a 17th century chalet in the middle of the middle of Asheville, built more built more.
00:17:11
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I think there was a play on that at a pet boarding place that we used to board our pets at now. Wagmore. That's what it was. Yeah, the Wagmore. Yeah, the Wagmore. Sadly, this is how bad I am with history. I'm like, oh yeah, Biltmore. It's like the Wagmore.
00:17:31
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No, Ross. The WAG war was established in 2005. This is 175,000 square foot palatial estate is compared to the doggy daycare. Yes, basically. That's the life I live. Yes, absolutely. Well, I didn't go anywhere, but we did have visitors join us this past weekend. And I struggle
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I struggle when I have visitors into my local town because I don't know. Do I want to go 100% crazy local, take them to like the biggest hole in the wall places and almost scare them away? Like really? Where are you driving me? And I'm like, trust me, it'll be good. I promise. Like, ah, I don't know. Or do I go too far into the, yeah, go see the Alamo, go do a river boat tour.
00:18:30
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You know, those type of things. I tried to, I tried to aim in between. I think it was fairly successful, took them to a few food places that were a little shifty, but, but worked out really well. And we're delicious. I'm trying to imagine what is shady for Ross. Like Chris Madrid is a standard San Antonio like place, but it's kind of divey.
00:18:52
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No, I mean like like take for example, and I not not this time, but like I've taken people to Rafa's cafe. Okay, which is which is like literally just a house. Yeah, you know, and you walk in you're like way to entrance the front door of the house or is it like the utility door, you know on the side, but but it's one of those like trust me, you can't really park you're like parking on the street right outside of someone's home. And people walk around like is this
00:19:20
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Is this actually a restaurant that you're going into? And then you walk in and you're like, oh, okay. It's very like homey and it's a restaurant, but it's good food. And then like we went to the, we went to the, well, it was a hundred.
00:19:33
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four degrees or some ridiculous heat. That's Fahrenheit for our international listeners, not Celsius. Our blood would boil. We've got to make sure I do the conversion for our listeners. But we went to a couple of the missions, which was good, very historic. If you've never been to San Antonio, I would recommend hitting up one or two of the San Antonio missions just because of the history of everything and reading about it. But I did
00:19:58
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I think I did spoil them. They're from the Northeast. I did spoil them on like some Texas meats, like some brisket. Where did you take them? What's that? Where did you take them? 2M. Oh, 2M. 2M Smokehouse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the best places to get brisket. I mean, I know. I'll be honest. Everybody in Texas has that one person in their family that's like, I can make better brisket at my house. I've got no offense on the impressions. That's just from my family.
00:20:29
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But from a restaurant standpoint, you don't want to sit there and cook meat for 24 hours when you have visitors, right? So you take them somewhere. But 2M was very good. And it was kind of one of those like, we're not used to having brisket because it usually doesn't have any flavor. This actually has flavor. And I thought that was kind of funny. Oh, because they're from North. They're used to corn beef. Like, they're used to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally, totally different style and everything. But it was good. And I mean, I don't know.
00:21:00
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I think balancing that out is tough because you don't want to be that local that just drags them everywhere, but you don't want to just send them on their way and be like, go check out this total tourist trap, because then you feel better. Well, I don't know. San Antonio has a combination, right? I mean, you do have- It does. You do have like the riverboat, which has been around forever, and I've seen that thing like nine times. But you also have like the Louis Tussaud, which is what, the knockoff Madame Tussaud?
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Like it's like the wax statues are like
00:21:32
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That's one of those like you go to the eye doctor number one or number two. It's like, I don't know who that is. Exactly. It's Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt with half a stroke face. Yeah. Like melt it off. Oh, you combine Brad Pitt with two face from Batman. Got it. Neat. That's cool. So it's like, it's like wax museum fusion. They never, they never look at all like what they're supposed to look like. It's actually a good idea. Fusion wax museum where you're like combining stuff. It's just like the celebrities with monsters.
00:22:00
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Well, that or just like the, um, the throwaways from other wax museums, like the ones like, call it like the 80% wax museum. It's like, ah, it's 80% there. Throw it up there. Nobody's looking at Angelina Jolie's face anyways. Here's the wax figures from that fire, just pools of wax on the floor.
00:22:23
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It's like you see when Reddit where they show a time lapse of what happens when you burn this thing. It's like, you know, after five minutes, this is what John Travolta's face looks like. It's just funny to think. I mean, I liked him when I was a kid. It's funny to think about wax museums now being a popular conscious thing. Like it's it was cool when I was little because it was like, wow, you can actually see famous people. And at the time, remember, there was no Internet when we were kids. So it was kind of cool to be able to see kind of pictures or like what would be life sized people.
00:22:51
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Yeah. And now you look at it about anybody and anything all the time, wherever they are, it's not the same one. You're so critical of it to you. Look at it goes. That's not exactly right. Well, you've seen them in like 4K on a 85 inch TV. So of course it's not going to look exactly the same.
00:23:07
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There are some they get right like there's some you can you can take a picture of and and fool your friends except for when you now do the fake image Facebook image Google search with the picture of your photo it comes up with everybody else took the same picture. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Rock look the same in every picture. Yes. He's like wait a minute. Hold up. Hold up. He's does he only take pictures with people when there's a background of two trees and the Sun like liquidus. It's really weird. He's got his pose. It's like a signature.
00:23:37
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Yeah, I don't know what like wax museums like the one in Vegas is always cool to go through. Yeah, which I am doing a Vegas trip soon. So that's gonna be that'll be interesting to hit Vegas Vegas, like they always say, if you're there for two or three days, it's perfect. If you're there for longer, you should probably leave because you'll have a problem soon. Oh, for sure. I mean, it's a place Yeah, you can't escape once you're there for too long. But the
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Yeah. Yeah. So you didn't do the Ripley's believe it or not. You didn't do the Guinness book of world records. You didn't do the, the tomb ride that used to be labeled Indiana Jones, but now it's just the tomb, right? The tomb ride. Like was that a, was that a, um, was that a copyright issue? I think so. It used to be, it used to be Indiana Jones remember. And now it's not Indiana Jones anymore. They're like, no one ever comes to San Antonio. Just call it Indiana Jones. That's some, some one person from the Warner brothers or whatever show. I was like, wait a minute.
00:24:29
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can't do this. We didn't license this. Like cease and desist. It's not just small operation. They just wrote cease and desist on a piece of paper gave it to them. They're like, Oh, shoot. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll turn it into tomb ride. Now I didn't do any of that, but you know, it was mainly just, you know, kind of hanging out more than anything. I think, I think that's the thing. It's there's more appeal to just having the quote, local guide.
00:24:53
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if you will, then than anything else having the person that you're that you're chatting with me the local guide. I think I'm at that point in my life now Ross where when I was younger, when I would travel, it was all about like, okay, get all the stuff in. Yeah, because my mother ingrained that crap in me like, Oh, let's go see all of the things that we got to see. Let's fill up the the the Dorian Kinsley book of London or whatever. And now I'm older and I go, you know,
00:25:20
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No, I need a rest day in between. I just want to randomly walk around and people watch. Exactly. Like, I want to go get lost in places. I now use Atlas Obscura as my standard practice. Like, where am I going now? We're going to go see the largest ball of twine in Minnesota. That's good to know for when I go on a international trip with you that that's what you're going to be using for.
Geocaching and Peculiar Attractions
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Atlas Obscura? Yeah, yeah.
00:25:48
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Thank you for helping me prepare myself. Now I know. We're going to the ear, nose and throat museum. Yes. Do they do free checkups? I've got a deviated septum. I do. I do. I also have gustatory ryanitis. Look it up folks. It's ridiculous.
00:26:11
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Yeah, we're going to go to God's own junkyard in London. That's what we're doing. God's own junkyard. A kaleidoscope warehouse maze of handmade neon signs. Oh, I thought that was like a part of town that they were like, people don't like. It's like God's own junkyard. It's like when people call Houston the armpit of Texas. Sorry, Houstonites. I had family that lived there. They called it that too.
00:26:35
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God's own junkyard. I like that. Oh, man. Seven noses of Soho. Apparently, there's several plaster noses hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood that you can go on a quest to find. Oh, what's that call when people look for geocaching? Yeah. Right? Geocaching. Did you ever get into geocaching? No. That requires work, Russ. Well.
00:26:59
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You're right. I didn't either. I think I ran across a geocache one time and thought it was litter and threw it away and I probably like burst. Ruined people's lives. It was probably like one of the oldest geocaches in the city and everything else, but it was like a toy figurine and it was too well placed like right next to a little fire hydrant. And I'm like, Oh yeah, that was probably a geocache. And I just totally nuked that thing. So, but I was, you know,
00:27:27
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trying to do my part to clean up the litter on the streets. Yeah, I'm with you. But I don't want to do geocaching. I mean, it's cool, right? The idea that you're using GPS points to go find paper trails that give you clues to other paper trails, treasure, launch and longitude and find things. But then I find you know what I find most of the time with those things is if you're doing it with a group of people that aren't competitive, it's fun. But if you're doing competitive scavenger hunt, like you miss out on the whole point.
00:27:53
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Yes. Yeah. Cause then you're just racing around everywhere to, to find the next thing. Yeah. So if you could, uh, I know we're coming close on time. If you could, uh, if you did do geocaching, what would be the creepiest thing you would come across that you'd be like, probably shouldn't have put that there.
00:28:13
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I think anytime you end up in a cemetery, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless you got a cool name, like when I was visiting the cemeteries of Greenville, right in South Carolina, and I came across this guy's name, his name was Charles Hard. I was like, that's Chekhart. That's great. And you know, he used that like, he was, he was proud of that name.
00:28:33
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His name is Chuck. There's also a guy named Joe player. I was like, Joe player. I'm like, Joe player. So that would be cool. Like if you go to a cemetery, then that would be fun. If you geocached him there, but otherwise it'd be creepy. Yeah. Well, would you, well, do you know what you see? Now we're taking a morbid turn. Here we go. What would you put on your tombstone? Do you know? Well, since I want to be cremated anyway, I don't want to, I don't want to be put in the ground as a rubber cadaver. I, uh,
00:28:58
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probably nothing, man. I don't really have, I don't really, I haven't really thought of epitaphs. I mean, it's just like, you always want that Vinny Vittivici, right? You always want to be like, he came, he saw, he conquered, right? You always want that to be what it says, but no, it's not. It's more like he lived, he had some cool shit he did, and then he died. That's pretty much the answer. My wife, my wife said hers would be, um,
00:29:23
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You know, here lies and then, and you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, live this, this, this. And then at the very end, it would just say her nap game was strong. Her nap game is strong. Yeah. Yeah.
The Parenting Experience and Childcare Stamina
00:29:35
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She's probably napping right now because we were up really late and oh man, I babysat Greg for one hour today.
00:29:44
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What what would you babysat what I babysat my niece and nephew for one hour and Are you ready to go to sleep now? Let's yeah, let's just say I'm about to lose all the parents in the world. That was so hard How do y'all do it like man, I mean I love my niece and nephew and it was fun but like I finished and it was just I
00:30:12
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But in fairness, Ross, I've come to this conclusion. It's kind of like working out, right? When you first started working out. No, it's not. Working out is fun. No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. Like when you started working out, I was laughing about the other day. You know, when I first started working out, I couldn't lift anything. It was really hard. I get exhausted after 10 minutes. It was like I just didn't have stamina. It wasn't there.
00:30:33
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But over time now, I can work out for a long time. Parents are kind of same thing that they worked up to where they're at now with that's true. They're like, yeah, they're like, they're like, they've got muscles. It's like, it's like the parenting muscle. And eventually they know when it's like, like when you're lifting weights, it's like, okay, when do I need to stop work versus when I could do two more reps? They're like, Oh, no, that's fine.
00:30:54
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That's right. And they also fall asleep. They know when to pass out, like kids asleep. They can pass out on demand. We don't have those skills. We don't have children. We have not been trained. So you give us a young one. We're like, cool. This will be fun. Thirty minutes in. Oh, God, this is terrible. Well, I'm like, I'm like he's like the 18 month olds running around and like pulling on everything and trying to put everything in his mouth. And I'm like,
00:31:17
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I'm like, in my mind, like starting to like Google how to do the Heimlich maneuver because I'm freaking out. I'm like, is this what every new parent feels like 24 seven? I built so much empathy and one hour. I'm just the level of worry, a level of worry that a parent has to be working on.
00:31:35
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Like it is a whole different level. Like I get it. I get why they're so good at like they're so patient at work. They don't have the energy to like get hyped up at work. They got a whole other work. They got to be hyped up about. Yeah, this is nothing. I mean, I have there have been situations at work where I'm like, oh, this person's a child. But you know, that's it's a little it's a little different. I grew up with that now, Russ. I'm doing that. I'm sorry. But yeah, no. But at the same time, you also realize why like we don't have kid outlets.
00:32:06
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to like give us something to worry about. So we need to create them. Like we need dogs or, you know, hobbies. Oh God, any parent that's going to listen to this that actually knows me, like family members can be like, Oh, I can give you more outlets if you want to come babysit more and build up that muscle. No, no, no, no. I just mean I not the muscle just so that you don't get amped at work. Work becomes inconsequential. Yeah. People don't like people that people that work with me probably think I'm amped all the time.
00:32:34
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which which you wouldn't know by my voice. But you know, they probably think I'm amped. See, I got to 32 minutes before I talk about how much energy I'm going to bring and say we too long. Oh, man.
Teaser for Future Topics and Farewell
00:32:48
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Well, that was good. I'm glad your weekend. I'm glad your weekend went well. I know we've I know we need to.
00:32:55
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We've got this, we need to talk, you mentioned a word, two words to me. I'm going to put a teaser out there, you know, because that's, that's how hard I'm trying to get people to listen to the next episode. You mentioned, we're talking about a trip we have upcoming and you were like, Oh, y'all can go do that as your day trip. I need to meet with my scotch broker and
00:33:21
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I thought it was an auto correct thing. I'm like, you mean stock broker? Question mark, why would you do that on vacation? He's like, no, no, no. Scotch broker. So we're going to have to talk about the scotch broker and what in the world. Cause now I'm like, what other, what other liquor has brokers? Do these brokers, are these brokers like medicine, like old school, 1800s doctors going in there, like from town to town with their different liquor and
00:33:50
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So anyways, I'm very curious to hear more about this scotch broking type of situation that you've got going on here. Unless it's illegal in some countries and then we can pass on that. You can give me the old ax.
00:34:07
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But yeah, so looking forward to hearing that. So Greg, as always, it was a great chatting with you. Same, Russ. And I look forward to our future conversations. We will make it to episode five, folks. I promise we will. So until then, bye, everybody.
00:34:26
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