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Episode 12 - Trip-a-palooza Pt. 1
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Gregg and Ross discuss Ross's travels to Austria and Germany
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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, everybody? It's Ross. And it's Greg.
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And it is episode number 12, dirty dozen of unmotivated and unprepared. Greg, it's been a while.
Travel Adventures: Germany and Austria
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It's been a hot minute, hadn't it? It's been a bit. It's been a few months, I think, or a month, at least. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what you know why that is? It's because we've been blessed to be traveling. So we're gonna have a we're gonna have a trip of Palooza episode, I think.
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It might be a few, right? Yeah, I'll say it might be. It might end up being a couple, depending. We can't get a bit long-winded. So let's see. I guess we can start with some of my travels, if you don't mind. And I think you've been to some of these places. Yeah, I think that's where we go. I mean, you went to Germany and Austria. You saw Christmas in the fatland.
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Yeah, I experienced all the joys and wonders of St. Nicholas Day. I looked for Krampus. I couldn't find Krampus. Well, correction, I'll tell you, we did find Krampus, but he was not as alive and well as you would expect Krampus to be. So yeah, we went to Germany and Austria and
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You know the travel there wasn't bad i will say i had a had some weather delays which forced us to spend more time in a lounge that we wanted but i'll be honest it was a nice lounge so it was a little bougie so we were fine with that it was my expert my first experience with the bougie lounge and i was thinking like oh this is how greg rolls
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you know, because I know you you've got a lot of frequent flyer miles. So you you know how the lounge stuff works. Yeah, but yeah, but I'll tell you even then and when we talk about my trip, it doesn't matter how good the lounge is eventually you don't want to be there either. So no, no, you want to be at your destination. You want to be at your destination. It was
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But when the lounge people start to know you and they come to you go, oh, you missed your flight. It's like, oh, man, that's yeah, that's not a good that's not that's not something you want. I don't care how many mimosas they're going to give you for free. It doesn't it doesn't dull the pain of losing some of your vacation. But what was the highlight? I mean, of being in the lounge, what was your favorite part?
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Oh man, I think being a country boy from a small town, I was blown away that I could walk into a restaurant, get food, and literally I just tip. I don't pay.
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There's no prices on the menu because you're not paying for anything. You're just tipping the waitstaff. And that was kind of mind-blowing to me. I was very surprised by that. The all-inclusive lifestyle. You paid for it, Ross. You just didn't pay for it. I paid for it. I got my money's worth. While I ordered my food, I'm like, I'm going to go browse the buffet.
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I have to think about something, and we're gonna get into the travel piece, but it's funny, there's an impression, and I've talked to some of the audience, there's an impression that based upon my stories, that unless people actually know me, I come off moderately pretentious on these podcasts. And I think the unfortunate thing is that I spend my money on clothes and travel, everything else I'm very frugal about, and the reason is because it's for one week or two weeks a year, you get to act like you're a millionaire and actually have money the rest of the
Travel Habits: Frugality vs. Experience
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year.
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you know, you you go to dive bars and, you know, live more frugally. But but but yeah, I think there's I think there's something to when you travel and you go to the lounge. But now let me ask you this. Did you find that the people in the lounges were nicer to staff? Or were they just like everybody else's staff? Or was there a sense of entitlement in the lounge? Like, I'm? Yeah, I didn't see
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I didn't see a lot of entitlement. I saw it was pretty much just people getting their food, people resting, taking a shower if it was the business stuff. It seemed pretty even keel to me. I think some of the folks, clearly it wasn't their first time. They were business travelers, so they knew what they were doing. There was a group of people that were
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The guys were a little bit, not inappropriate, but they were a little obnoxious towards the lady who was helping them out, bringing them drinks, like, oh, she can get us anything, honey. Why don't you know? I was like, okay, dude, just let her do her job. No, were you in Houston?
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Or was this the one you were in? Yeah, Houston was Houston was the Houston was the nice was the nice lounge that we were at. It was it was the biggest one we went to because it was a fairly, it was a fairly new lounge. So but yeah, it was the people were fairly, you know, even keel other than that one small group. I mean, everybody was watching at the time, it was World Cup. So everyone's watching World Cup matches on their on their devices and everything. So
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Yeah, that was still that was still the the group. You were still watching groups. They hadn't gone to knockouts. Yeah, group group stage. Yeah, I think I think during when the US was playing, I was I was in the lounge. There's a little more of a buzz, you know, the one time every three or four years that people actually watch soccer in the United States.
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so where'd you go first i mean you left houston and then you went what to germany first you go to Vienna so we ended up in Minchin or Munich as they as they say yeah yeah yeah yes yes um we went yeah we ended up in in Munich and so we we did lose a day because of travel stuff but we made the most of it our first day we always like to do
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Like a kind of an explore, explore kind of day. And thanks to you, I leverage Atlas Obscura. Much to the chagrin of my wife, I leverage Atlas Obscura. So when I drag her to the Globe Museum, she's like, really, Greg? I hate you.
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You're the worst person in the world. We'll look around at that, see if there's any sites nearby, and then hit some of the main stuff. We did the Christmas market thing, which for those who've ever been to San Antonio or who've ever read about San Antonio's fiesta,
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It's like a Christmas fiesta times 10. Tons of booths, people drinking, you know, you have the mulled wine, which is just like warm, spiced wine, which... But they have also have foie butte, which is the rum, which is the hot rum bowl. Yes, they have the hot rum, which is the punch. My wife had a tea with rum in it. And that was probably her favorite of the drinks, but got over the mulled wine real quick.
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We were surprised with Germany, so we started in Munich, figured out the S-Bahn, the subway system. When the train stops and there was a delay and the conductor comes on and he doesn't tell you what's going on in English and it's only in German,
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you know, I look like the ultimate tourist, like trying to hold my Google Trans, I go, okay, you said something about delay, and that's all I got. So finally, you just, what we learned over the course of that is when you're in a country where the primary language is not the one that you speak, you just fess up and you ask the questions. All the time. You just finally be like, excuse me, do you know this? And very helpful, gotta give it to my,
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My relatives from your, they're very friendly people in Germany. They're very helpful. Your relatives from your? Yes. I don't know. I was trying to get something. I didn't know your was the first thing I came up with. Your ancestry, your heritage. Yeah, my heritage. I've been on a genealogy rabbit hole recently, so that'll have to be another episode. So yeah, they were very friendly.
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More than that. You're also in Munich, which Bavaria is the friendliest part of Germany. Yeah, that's kind of what they said. It's usually, you know, the rule of thumb is the same thing in the United States. The best places to go are Catholic places. And not a religious plug. They just tend to be. New Orleans, the coast of the south, like they're fun places to go.
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Absolutely. And it was very, very Catholic. We learned that on some of our day trips. We did a day trip to Neuschwanstein Castle, which is the Disney Castle that was modeled after the Disney Castle. And it was very evident as we were driving. And every time the word Protestant would come up, it was like Protestant. Yeah, Protestant.
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And it was like Catholic. So it was very evident that it was still, it's still a very strong, you know, we did it on a Sunday and the lady even joked, it's like, it's Sunday, why are y'all doing a tour? Including myself, we should all be in church. You know, it's a joke, but it's still like, that's, that's kind of the culture and just, just kind of what's there. But yeah, it was, it was very friendly. Castles were great. You know, it's cool to say you've been to a castle. I would say our
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Well, those are palaces, right? Those are palaces. Well, one was a castle, one was a palace. Which one did you go to? So Neuschwanstein was a castle, Linderhof, which was a palace of Ludwig II. So that was his palace because it wasn't fortified. Right. Yeah, but Neuschwanstein is still really kind of a schloss. It's still kind of a palace. It still is a palace. It's technically a castle. That was fun. I think the most...
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The most impactful of probably the entire trip was when we went to the Dachau Memorial site. Oh, okay, yeah. Just because it just so like- Nothing that spells Christmas like concentration camp.
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Well, I know. We went from a Christmas market and then woke up the next morning and went to Dachau. A little shaken into the real world real fast, but we had a phenomenal... I will tell you when you travel places, some people like to just do it all their own. Go see all the stuff.
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We are kind of half and half. We'll do the travel ourselves, the public transit, all that. But then when we want to do a tour of something, we'll book a tour group. And our tour guide was excellent. She was great, walked us through it. You could go to the museum, but you get more hearing the stories and going to the different places. So it was very good hearing that. I'm a big fan of just
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like learning about the history of things. This was your first time in Germany, right? Which is why you took the time to do the concentration camps as well as the Christmas thing. Yeah, it's the first time.
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Did you also do Obagamagau? Did you do Nuremberg? We did. We did. We did. We did stop at Obagamagau. We actually got some gifts for some of our family members. Wood statues? Yeah, we got some carved wooden stuff.
Cultural Highlights: Salzburg and Vienna
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Yeah. You know, standard touristy stuff. Like, I'm not going to lie. We're not staying in hostels and going on hikes in places that aren't touristy. Like, don't get me wrong. We're not there yet. Maybe next trip.
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So yeah, we did Oberamagow and then Dachau. And then that was a short, it was pretty short. We actually spent more time in Austria. So we do, we then hopped on it, which crazy to me, you get on a train hour and a half later, you're in another country. They don't check your passport. You just roll off and just like I'm in another country. It's just so,
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Being in America where it's almost practically like they check your passport when you go across a state line practically, it's totally different there. But yeah, we went there. But the highlight of the train ride, because I've never done a train before. So to me, it was the first time in a train. Wait, is it the first time riding a train ever?
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Yeah, yeah, like a first time, like a legit like cross country train. I mean, I've probably been on some like little choo choo trolley thing. But you've never done an Amtrak before, you've never done any sort of... No, never done a bullet train, never done a like a... And so these are the EU rail trains and...
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We get in there and we're looking for a spot. We had no clue what we were doing. We had to ask three times which platform to go on and everything else. And we finally find the little compartments. This train actually had compartments. Well, they were all full.
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Except for one had two older gentlemen by the window and it's a six seater compartment, right? So it's three seats facing each other. They were by the window. So we just sat on the, on the outside, like they can't do anything. They're not reserved. So we just sit down and it's these two older guys. They finally warm up to us about an hour into the trip. It's only an hour and a half train ride. It's only an hour and a half. Right.
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They gave us a little bit of time, but one guy knows great English. The other guy you could tell is just like, he was like, I never wanted to learn it. You could tell he like very broken, only knew a few things, but it was so funny. They're sitting there 10 30 in the morning.
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with their bottle of wine and their croissants eating it, going to Salzburg, and the guy's like, this wine, I snuck it past my wife last night, so she wouldn't know. These guys are totally just like,
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Ditching their spouses in the middle of the week. Just to go to Salzburg. Just to go to Salzburg. And I'm like, man, that retired life, man, they're just leaving, just going on a trip. But yeah, they were a hoot. They were funny. My wife almost wanted to take a selfie with them. I'm like, no, don't do it. Don't do it. Those are the best pictures. You're supposed to take pictures with those people. I know. Because then you remember them.
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Right. It's like it's like forever. I always have the picture of, you know, my friend Brian with the two ladies that kept stealing his beer that were like 40 years his junior, his senior. Right. Whatever. You know, still remember to this day now I have photo evidence that I can lord over him for the rest of his life. I know. I know. We should have. We should have taken it. We should have taken a photo. So but that was that was fun. We get we get to.
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Salzburg was nice, it was very quaint, obviously Salzburg known for two things, sound of music and Mozart. And those little candies, the Mozart. The Mozart candies, which we had in our hotel, of course they had them there at our hotel. And we didn't do any- Kuglin, they're called Kuglin.
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Kugelen. Kugelen. See, you're so good at German. How much German do you know? Are you fluent in German? No, not anymore. Not anymore. But enough to be... You could go to Germany for two months and be right back in it. Yeah, that one I can do. Yeah.
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which I'll get to, oh yeah, one thing in Munich. We didn't, there was only, there was two places we went to where we struggled with the other person knowing English. Most everyone knew English. There was one very terrible Italian restaurant that we didn't look at reviews. We were just hungry and we went to, and it was like soupy pizza and Chef Boyardee. And I used all of my two years of high school German to try to get us the chef.
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and pay. It was rough. It was a rough time. And then there was another one where we were in a little grocery store and I had to go to the bathroom. I had to pee. I was very hydrated. And we went to ask one of the ladies stocking the shelves like, Hey, do you, can customers use your restroom? And she's like, I don't speak English. And she like put her head down and practically ran away, like sprinted away from us.
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And I'm like, man, do I have that effect on people? They just run away from me. But other than that, yeah, the English speaking was on point. Probably the better grammar than I do, for sure. Especially for those who've listened to our podcast, I can probably tell you that. But Salzburg was great. We did... The highlight of Salzburg for me was
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We went to Hohen Salzburg Fortress. I think that's what it's called. And we had a dinner and then we went to a little classical music concert. Oh, yeah. They played Mozart. They played some Salzburg type of Christmas tunes. And it was a small one. I am not an audio. It was like eight pieces. So there's probably like octet. I don't know what that's called officially. But
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People are like, really? You like that? I was like, look, I was skeptical too, but what was interesting about that is you go to a big concert, musical concert, whatever, you hear the sound coming at you. It's engineered to hit you all at the same time. You hear one unit of sound, this wall of sound. We were close enough and it was small enough.
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It's hard to say. It's like maybe not half the size of a normal convenience store. So it was a very intimate setting. You could look at one violinist and I could hear the sound specifically coming from him, his violin. Then I could look at the lady next to him and I could hear the sound coming from her. So you could hear each individual like instrument playing, which was just fascinating.
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So it was like that scene when we were like kids on PBS where like the speaker would make noise and then you'd see the radiant and then you'd see the speaker make noise. So you're in it for the science of it, not the music of it, the science of it. Well, I was fascinated by that because I'd never experienced something like that up close. But yeah, it was good. It was a lot of fun. But that's the one thing, you know, people say that they don't like opera.
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Or they don't like classical music, or they don't. I have a hard time understanding a person who doesn't at least appreciate classical music and opera music. I can get not liking death metal. I can get not liking, but I know you can. But I also get why someone might not like hip hop, right, or dance music, or any other set. But classical music and opera are just two kind of classic forms of music, also kind of music of traditional music, tribal music.
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There seems to be something about it. I don't know why people can say they don't like something. I mean, granted, I get it. They don't want to sit for an hour and a half to listen to classical music. But those are the same people that can't watch a movie that has dialogue. If they don't blow something up every 15 minutes or someone doesn't get punched in the face. So I get it. I'm just trying to fathom the people that told you like you don't like classical music. I think you would absolutely enjoy classical music.
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Yeah, I did, I really did. The one thing that, and we found, we uncovered one of Ross's pet peeves, which I mean, I have pet peeves, but my wife had to gently grasp my arm and in her own way tell me it's gonna be okay, it's fine, just relax. It's people recording,
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right up in these people's faces while they're playing on their phone. And they've even got the flash on, you know, they got like the flash on right there. And I'm like, just want to slap the phone out of their hand. Like, I mean, like you start, you start to go to concerts now, especially like when I went to a tool concert, they don't let you record it off.
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because the whole concept of being present is kind of like a mindfulness thing. Being present in the moment, enjoying that as opposed to looking at it through your phone. But then not only that, you're recording and you got the flash on too, and you're six feet away from this person. That's distracting. Stop doing that. So I was losing it and she was like, just relax.
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the person who's 40 years older than you who probably doesn't realize their flashes on no offense mom if you're listening just let it go give them a chance to send that to their kids but yeah that was that was a pet peeve of mine i found one that would really hit me on that yeah i don't i i am one who i get
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you know, taking a minute and recording just a certain part for a minute. I've done that just to have evidence that I was a show to other people. So they, you know, but the people who stand there for an hour and 45 minutes with their phone up recording something, trust me out every time. I was like, what are you doing? Yeah, don't do it. Also, who's going to watch that? Because they're jumping up and down with the phone at a concert. Yeah, it's going to watch that YouTube video. And nobody's nobody's going to see that. It's like Blair, which Blair, which concert? Yeah, it's ridiculous.
00:20:41
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So, but yeah, it was, it was good. Um, it was cold, obviously it was, but we didn't get any snow. We didn't get any snow, which was kind of, uh, made us a little bit sad. We just wanted to get a, you know, just a nice little Christmas snow, but we didn't get any Christmas snow.
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And then probably our favorite city was our final stop, our favorite place, which was Vienna. Vienna was gorgeous. It was, it was beautiful. The food was excellent. We, I, I randomly found it like a highly rated restaurant and we picked it and we go there and they had like a, a very,
00:21:18
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It was, it was reasonable, uh, four course chef's tasting menu. And it was, it was phenomenal. And they were pairing wines with it. I'm not a wine drinker, but, but my wife is. So we got all the different wines with it. And it was really good. It was like the best, the best meal that we had. Well, what was, what was the, what was the type of food though? I mean, it was it French, was it French? It was no, it was.
00:21:47
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I don't even... Was it German? Was it American contemporary? No. Was it Japanese? It was Austrian, but it was a mixture of everything from a goat cheese type of thing. There was some Italian mixed in there. And the nice part is they had...
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The pairings, like I think there was a, there's a beef. I think there was a beef with it at one point in time. So, um, I didn't, I got the schnitzel, Greg. Let's be honest. Yeah. Well, you're in Vienna. You should get the schnitzel, right? I got the schnitzel. I had seven schnitzels. Let's be honest.
00:22:28
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Did you actually get Vienna schnitzel out like like real veal like you got real chess? Yes. Yes. I did. I did the veal ones. I did the Viennese style. I did the pork, you know, I did you you name it. I picked pretty much by default. Wiener schnitzel is the Vienna Viennese style, right? It's Viennese style. And yeah, and it can actually be
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It can't actually be called Vener Schnitzel unless it's in Vienna. If it's somewhere else, it's Schnitzel Viennese style. Or Viennese style art. Like it's the style of Vienna. The style of Vienna. So I thought that was interesting. But the food was great. The food tours, we always do food tours. And one thing we, two things we will definitely take with us from a travel perspective is always do the walking food tour like the first day.
00:23:17
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We didn't do that in London Ross. We didn't do a walking food tour. I know. There's a joke in there by the way. There's a joke in there. Yes, yes, yes, there absolutely is. Go to London in a food tour, worst thing ever. Yeah, it's like, well, so here's some fish and here's some chips.
00:23:38
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Sorry London listener, singular. But we learned so much from the people about the different areas and get other recommendations that you're like, okay, now I've got three more days of things I need to go see and do and eat because they give you all these like local recommendations. And it was funny because in Munich for our food tour, the guy was, the gentleman was in,
00:24:05
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He was from Ireland. He was Irish. And he was a history major. Eight years ago, he moved to Germany and never came back. He just decided, I want to just do this here. So he worked in a beer garden, learned German, and then started doing food tours and has been doing it ever since. Did a great job. But we learned so much about the different the different pieces. But Vienna was fun because we had a lot of the guy was from Vienna. He told us a lot about the Viennese culture. He's like, look, he goes,
00:24:35
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I'm Viennese. We are not the most jolly people in the world. If something is good at a restaurant, we'll say, it's okay. It's okay. That means we liked it. That means it was really good. And he's not, he wasn't wrong. That restaurant we went to, we had a, we had a young lady beside us death stare the entire time we were eating, just staring at us.
00:24:59
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And I'm like, did I say something about your mother? I mean, like just evil eyes looking at us. And I guess that's just normal culture. That's just normal culture. They don't mean anything about it. They're just curious, you know, because it's obvious we're tourists. I mean, I'm wearing tennis shoes. We're tourists.
00:25:17
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hands down. It's a dead giveaway. He was hilarious and he took us to one of his buddy, Tomas' stand. We had different types of brats and sausages and everything else. Something that you definitely won't see approved at a food truck in America
00:25:38
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He was handing it out, and our tour guide just hopped into the truck and started helping him serve stuff and everything. I was like, you can do that? That's so bizarre. He was just helping him out, but he must have been, our tour guide knew French, and so he must have been recruited by this
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tour company because they had brought somebody through one day and the guy was stumbling through his French and he was at his buddy's food truck and he just started translating and they finally asked me is do you want to do our tours in French because we have quite a few French speaking people do it and so that's how we got into this tour thing so we were we were convinced by the end of it that it was his wife's way of saying no you need to get out of the house in retirement a little bit and spend some time doing tours
00:26:24
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So that's what we were convinced of because he was a talker for sure so but but yeah Vienna was good the other thing we learned that we did in Salzburg and You're gonna laugh at this because it's not really that We just got our clothes laundered
00:26:39
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Like I took it to a laundromat and got my clothes laundered because we were like, Oh, let's have the hotel clean our, you know, do it. Oh no, it's so expensive. So expensive. Like $7 for a t-shirt. Yes. Yes. And I went and spent 17 euros and got an entire house worth of clothes done folded. They did everything.
00:26:59
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Well, you were gone for how long? You were gone for two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. Yeah. So, but we, we just made a stop, but like, it was like, why haven't I done this before? You know, like usually I like over pack and everything else, but so then I got into this whole, like I went down this rabbit trail of the, the one bag subreddit where everybody talks about like what to take and everything else and, and all these small things. So that's, that's going to be my next thing is how light I can travel.
00:27:26
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Um, that's her next adventure is how light can Ross travel. Yeah. How, how, how little can I take, you know, and still, and still feel, you know, like I'm having a good time, but you went to a cold place. It's a lot harder to pack light at a cold place. Like, cause when I went to India for the very first time, I went to India, I took everything in a carry-on, like a single carry-on for a whole, for a whole two weeks. Um, but they're all like polo shirts. You just.
00:27:51
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Back then, I was wearing a lot more polo shirts. I wasn't wearing as many dress shirts. But so you just put all the polo shirts and put them in there. And those those are like women's sundresses. You just roll them up till they get tight and then, you know, yeah, compress, compress them and then you're done. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:05
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So, so the, the trip was good. The way back, you know, we took the train, we took the train all the way
Musical Moments and Modern Touches
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back. Um, I will say, I will say this, um, I'll be very vulnerable right now. I like Taylor Swift now because nothing beats a train ride listening to Taylor Swift. I don't know. It just works. Really? That's that's it. Yeah.
00:28:24
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Yeah, yeah. Yes, I do like death metal, but I've now determined that T-Swizzle is also my jam. The Midnight's album, the new album, it slaps. It's good. And it's perfect. Put it on sometime when it's cold outside, which anybody who's around right now, it's cold. And just listen to the new album. It's very chill. So
00:28:51
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I'm more worried. I'm not worried that you listen to Taylor Swift. I'm more surprised that you used a descriptive adjective that is from a generation that's not ours, Ross. Did you just inherit a bunch of 22-year-old employees? How are you using slaps now? When did you add that to your vocabulary? I've used slaps for like six years because I learned it from one of my employees who's much younger than me, but still.
00:29:19
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So, hits different, slaps, mid. Have you heard it's mid? Have you heard that in Greg? If you start saying bussing, I'm gonna hang out. No, no. If you start saying bussing, we're over. No, because there's nothing remotely close to anything that I do that would be considered bussing. So, so.
00:29:37
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No, we're safe on that. The only thing I've done anything associated to a bus was I rode on one in school about 35 years ago. Wrong buses, but yeah, sure. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So yeah, no, I'm...
00:29:52
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I'm getting I'm getting hit. I want I read the gizmodo does the out of touch adults guide to kid culture once a week. Yeah. So I've got to read that to understand because I I'm apparently I'm one of a few people that doesn't use tick tock because everybody uses it uses it except except those with government devices. Ooh, there's some current news for you.
00:30:15
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But I don't use TikTok, so I have to learn from other news sources what these words mean. I like the TikTok. I find it's a total time suck though. That's why I don't use it. I liked being away because I didn't have good internet.
00:30:31
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which had a lot of backfiring complications that tied to the me not having very good internet but can't wait but but it was fantastic in the fact that I like I didn't I didn't use my phone hardly at all the whole trip no tick tock no no anything total digital like digital man it was it was the best to be disconnected from the world it made me really hate my phone when I got back
00:30:51
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Yeah, I could I could see that I could see that the digital detox. All right, so let's let's do this. I think we're at a good we're at a good spot on our trip of Palooza to break before we get into part two. But I do want to I want to dispel a myth. I want to both dispel and confirm something.
00:31:12
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You had mentioned earlier that some of the listeners might think of you as pretentious. And as your friend, I know you're not pretentious. I completely agree with your statement of you're actually very frugal, but there are a couple of things that you want to spend up on to feel good about yourself. And I want to give an example from our London trip.
00:31:34
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that showcases Greg's frugality.
00:31:44
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we went to London, we get our oyster cards and we're getting off the plane and Greg says, you gotta, this is how you do it. You buy your oyster card and you get like, it's like seven British pounds, seven quid. And then you load it up with 50 or something like that. I was like, okay, okay. So I do that and go there. Like, I don't see this option. I see a seven day option
00:32:13
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But I don't see this other thing. So as the trip progresses, we finally get to a point where Greg suddenly realizes that he bought a seven-day unlimited oyster card and put money on it. So Greg, the man who wants to do it up, he's got his nice clothes, he spends half the trip worried about how he's going to get 20 quid back.
00:32:39
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from his oyster card because that's going to be the end of him. And so I truly, I truly realized at that point is like, look, Greg is not, Greg's not just wasting money. He's not just like, he's not this high roller who's going around, you know, he's got money guns at his house, just like, just shoot money around.
00:33:00
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He's truly a man who you know what experiences you like, and you know where you want to do that. And I respect that, I appreciate that. So no, you're not- You just called me cheap now, Ross. No, I called you frugal. I called you frugal. You gotta remember, I grew up in a small town with a bunch of square headed German people like myself. And they say, you know how copper wire was made, right?
00:33:30
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It was two Germans fighting over a penny. So like that's, so that's, that's, and they were my, they were my, my grandparents. So probably the ones that did that. So, so yes, no frugal. Yes. Not, not, not cheap, not tight, not cheap, not tight. So, all right, Greg. Well, until next time, when we talk about Greg, the cruisers, triple Palooza.
00:33:57
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That will be episode 13. Hopefully it's not unlucky, but yes. Hopefully it's not unlucky. All right. See you, Greg. Bye. Thanks for listening to Unmotivated and Unprepared. Join us again next time as we continue to meander through random topics at a pace defined by our mood, the weather, and what happened five minutes earlier.