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49 "Return of the Paw Paw
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, more talk of Paw Paws, a summary of Maine, Destiny 2, sandwiches and firehouse food; Ron asks about things that just kinda fell into our lives; Chris brings up purchases that can be intimidating. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Chris and Ron's Humorous Introductions
00:00:46
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Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. And I'm an idiot. You're not an idiot. I totally forgot that my wife's family is from the town of Pawpaw, West Virginia. Is it really? Yeah. I know. I was an idiot. I forgot. So she has the direct line to the Pawpaws.
00:01:13
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Well, I don't think she's ever had a pawpaw. See, now I think it's a secret. Now I think it's something that she's hoarding over you. It could be. But the town of Pawpaw, I looked it up, is named after the fruit. Is or isn't? It is. Oh, okay. Yeah, see, she knows all about the pawpaw.
00:01:36
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Yes.
Wives' Reorganizing Antics
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You go to these family dinners and stuff. And when she, yeah. Oh, I gotta go help somebody in the kitchen. Yeah. She's going to eat Papa. Yeah. It seems like very sinister plot for my wife to be involved in, but yeah. Well, you know, I guess there's like a very long-term low payoff plot as well. It is. It's the long con for little to know. Oh, you never got a Papa.
00:02:04
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Got him. Yeah. We've kept the paw paws. This whole time, there was paw paws in the closet. You just didn't know. Oh, I would know. I don't know. I was just complaining. I don't know if it's something your wife does, too. Whenever she decides to just up and move things and reorganize, I have no idea what things are. No, yeah. Months later. Yeah.
00:02:31
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Yeah, and then you ask where something is and you get the look of, like, oh, you stupid child. Yeah, I get that. I've told you three times. We had a conversation about it. Well, for 17 years of our relationship, I was looking for dish towels.
00:02:47
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This house has been in the same spot for a long time. And I needed a dish towel. When you need a dish towel. You need a dish towel. You need a dish towel. I'm going to look through every freaking cabinet because I need a dish towel. Right. Yeah. Where are the dish towels? I told you I moved. You're right. Yeah.
00:03:11
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I went to get a coffee mug. Where are the coffee mugs? I moved them over there. Oh, so you moved them further away from the coffee maker. That makes sense. Well, in the RV, I only have control over one small section, and that's the tool section.
Maine Adventures
00:03:25
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Where do you think all the tools should be in the tool section of the RV? In a toolbox? Yeah, in the toolbox. I went to go look for something, and I'm like, where the hell is this
00:03:36
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It was a knife. Where's the stupid knife? Oh, I moved that to this section. This is the accessory tools. I'm like, we have a tool section for tools. Oh my gosh. Yeah. That's, uh, it was, uh, it was an event. The organization thing, it drives me insane. The amount of organizations she moves around. Yeah.
00:04:06
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And then I'm just supposed to know. Yeah, we'll reorganize a pantry. It's like, what, what, why? Yeah. Okay. Great. Luckily, we don't have a pantry. Yeah. We're not Richie. Richie, Richie. Oh, shut up. Our pantry is a small closet of one, two, three, five shelves. Oh, five shelves. So how was the trip to the mystery land that is Maine?
00:04:31
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It was great. It was great. We, I will say, got to be maybe the luckiest people in America for the weather. Oh, yeah. Because while you all were being rained on and having a storm ruin Ocean City, we had no rain. Nice. 65 degrees every day. Nice, sunny skies. The last day Sunday was windy, but that was it.
00:05:01
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Wow. We came home to two days of solid rain, which was great. Yeah. Well, that was our sixth days of rain. That's what I heard. I said, oh, well. And there were people, it was funny because the people, two campsites down from us were from Florida.
00:05:20
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And they're like, yeah, if we had stayed, we'd be in the middle of a hurricane. Very astute. So we got very lucky in the weather. It is a gorgeous place.
Maine's Wildlife and Politics
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So this kind of was wacky to me.
00:05:42
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We're in Scarborough, which is just south of Portland. Okay. We went into Portland one day and, you know, took an Uber in, Uber guy. The first Uber guy was a nightmare, but whatever. The second Uber guy. Is that the one that was trimming their nails or something, or barefoot? He was barefoot. And yeah, who's barefoot in Uber? It's very weird. No, the first one, no, I'm sorry. The first one was the one listening to
00:06:09
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Gospel music was very unfriendly and spoke French, which was cool because he had his GPS in French and she was like, I would have no idea which way we're going. I'm like, well, I can...
00:06:25
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So that going for me Second but the one we went into Portland with the guy who gives a little story talked about Portland and he was like, yeah, this is the biggest city in a may not Wow. Okay. Well, how many people live here? He's like Oh 60,000 like the biggest city in your state 60,000 people that's like the size of Salisbury cheese
00:06:49
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I will say much nicer than Salisbury. I'm sorry, Salisbury. Yeah, that doesn't take much. Also, fun fact, there's a Salisbury, Massachusetts, which has a beach. And in Worcester County, Massachusetts, there's a Berlin, Massachusetts. It's a fun fact. Yeah. We stopped in Salisbury for gas, we can go to the beach.
00:07:16
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Maine does have the highest moose population in the entire lower 48 states. Well, there's a lot of signs saying, look out for moose. Yeah, roughly 78,000 moose.
Lobster Fishing Restrictions
00:07:24
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We did not see any mooses. None? No, no, no moose. It's also the closest state to Africa. Huh. Yeah. Huh. Yep. That seems impossible. It does seem impossible, but it is.
00:07:45
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You would think Florida. You would think, but no. Fun fact. Yeah, yeah. I also hear that the mosquito population is insane there. And we were staying in basically the marsh. Oh. And I'm very glad we're there during the fall when those mosquitoes were gone. Yeah. It's funny, the lady was like, it's 65 degrees.
00:08:11
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That's kind of my borderline for water sports. It's a little too cold for water sports, right? Yeah. The lady's like, oh, if you want to rent a kayak, let me know. I have to call the guy and I have to check the tide chart.
00:08:23
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I mean, because we drove in, plenty of water everywhere. And she's like, oh yeah, you got to go right about an hour before high tide. You got to be back before it starts to ebb out. And I'm like, oh. So then the next morning, we got up and I went for a bike ride, and there was no water. Really? At all. I was like, oh, you would be screwed. And Sherry's like, do you want to get a kayak? I said, absolutely not.
00:08:52
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Yeah, no, like that's too much stress. Yeah, not only too much stress, but like, that kind of water flow, that's kind of high level kayaking that I don't want to deal with. I'm used to like lakes and stuff. Yeah. You know, I don't deal with giant currents. But you get trapped on those little bogs out there. You'd be screwed for a few hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What if a moose gets you? Yeah.
00:09:17
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If you run into a moose, I'll mess you up from what I hear. I'm sure they would. They're giant. They are giant. Did have the best Chinese food of our lives up there. They're so bizarre. I know, but it was crazy good. They made their own duck sauce.
Maine's Culinary Delights
00:09:33
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Homemade duck sauce. I wanted to buy it in the jar. It was so good. Is there real duck in it? I hope not.
00:09:43
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I hope not. That would suck. Very nice place to visit. It would go back. Surprisingly liberal for as rural as it is. It's super liberal. Well, it's the north. Yeah. And it's weird. I'm not judging anybody's political party. I'm not getting involved in a political party fight.
00:10:13
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But no one on their, no one who's running for a GOP as a GOP candidate in those states on their political science puts their party. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah. Because, you know, I guess I just know they'll lose. So they just put their self, they put their name with no party on her. It was very interesting to see. See any lobster? Did not see any live lobster, no.
00:10:43
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Delicious looking dead lobster. No. But no live lobster. I heard somewhere that lobster are pretty much immortal. I've heard that. That's amazing. Yeah. And then apparently there's a big hubble going up in Maine right now because lobster fishing is being restricted because of the whale population. Oh. Making the lobster fishermen go up to
00:11:11
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do no-line fishing, which I'm not sure how that would work, but apparently it's a thing. Okay. Because the whales get caught in the lines. Oh yeah, makes sense. Yeah. Or they could just Bluetooth the cages. Yeah, sure. But apparently the sad story is there's a humpback whale. There's some sort of whale in the Atlantic that they've spotted that is tangled in line. And they've spotted this whale for like a year and they've been tangled in line.
00:11:38
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And they just, the, the, the whales failing to thrive at this point, they know that the way I was going to die. Why don't they go cut it out? That's what I said. Send a rescue team. Yeah. Yeah. I must be like a seal team to do that. Right. Yeah. Or an actual seal team or an actual seal team. Yeah. But, uh, flippers or, or, or it's a carrot. Yeah. I would think that'd be, I would be okay with my government spending money doing that.
00:12:07
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Yes. But it's apparently a big issue. And I'm sure it's a problem because you got to find the whale. Yeah. But apparently they spotted it multiple times. You know where it's at. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bill, I see the whale again. Should we call anybody? Nah. I feel for fishermen.
00:12:33
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We have the same problem here. The shore is the crab fishing. The short-sighted goal of I need to feed my family this year versus if you don't stop fishing, we're not going to have any crab at all. Right. Yeah, that's the thing. Just because you can eat today doesn't mean you'll still be able to eat five days from now. Right.
00:13:03
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have crabs this year at all. Yeah, neither do we. Trying to be healthier and all that, but not crabs that bad for you. But there was no way I was paying those prices. Well, yeah, it was the prices. And like you said, it's not a really renewable food source the way that it's treated.
00:13:25
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It is definitely showing us that it's not sustainable. It's not sustainable. If you're not eating sustainable, what are we doing? Right. You should definitely be eating sustainable fish at this point. Yes. Crab fishermen. That's a rough one. I don't know how the crab houses stayed in business this year.
00:13:54
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People from out of town, it's got to be. It's got to be, right? Yeah. Because who's paying those prices? Yeah, no. And crab houses don't have the best crabs anyways. No. You're not getting...
00:14:08
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high quality crab. Sorry. A lot of times you're getting crab from Carolina, Georgia, China, wherever. That's going to be, I guess, the future of those places. I guess. It's sad. That's where it is. I can't fix things. It's the one thing I've learned in life that I can't fix anything. Well, you can fix certain things, but not everything.
00:14:37
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I'm trying to look through our mythic draft discord because somebody cut me off from talking about something. What? They cut you off from talking? Oh, moon pies. Oh, moon pies. So moon pies are apparently the state dessert of Maine. Okay. Not a pie. No, it's not. It's a pastry sandwich.
00:15:04
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Yeah, it's my wife says it's a cupcake that's filled and I disagreed. No, it's not a cupcake. It's not building a cup. Yeah, a filled cupcake would be a cupcake with something in the middle like a like a crumpet. Yeah, like a crumpet or those hostess devil cakes or whatever. Right. Yeah. Yeah, that's a filled cupcake. Yeah. Moon pie is. Yeah, no, it's it's like a big cake.
00:15:32
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Yeah, it's like a big Oreo cookie almost. It's more like. But it's a much cakeier. Yeah. Top and bottom. Yeah. It's. Really moon pie for Maine. It's barely the state. Hmm. But like they're not the moon pies that I thought of.
00:15:57
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Like like the chocolate dipped graham cracker with marshmallow in the middle. That's what I was thinking of. They're not like that. They're like the cake with filling two pieces of cake cut with filling in the between. So it's pretty much like a layer cake. Yes, it's a lot thicker. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this is blueberry pie as a state dessert. That's not what the people are saying. Oh, I'm going to go with what the people of pie say.
00:16:25
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With the people of Pi. I'm sorry. I mean, because we were there. Definitely. There was a lot of me. I forgot about that. Forgot about the desert in Maine. There's a desert. Yeah. Hmm. Freeport. It's a 40 acre desert. Yeah, I know. Right. Yeah, I'm seeing. Yeah. Yeah. Maine for the quote unquote pies.
00:16:54
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It's blueberry pie, or their weird little moon or whoopie pie, whatever the heck it is. Yeah, everywhere you went, it was called moon pie. Why are they popular in Maine? They're originally made from leftover batter, according to Amish legend. When children find these in their lunch bag, they would shout whoopie. That is the dumbest reason. I'm sorry.
00:17:21
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The first sold whoopee pies are from the Labadee's Bakery in Lewiston, Maine. There you go. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Kids would say whoopee. Yeah. No kid has ever said whoopee. No. Not on purpose. No. So you all, uh, yogurt stretched up for, uh, or is that your topic?
Chris's 100-mile Bike Challenge
00:17:49
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No, that's not my topic.
00:17:51
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Because this is we're recording this today, two days before your hundred mile bike trip. And the 100 mile bike ride. Seven days after. Yeah. Hopefully I'll be still alive. You will be. Yeah, I prepare an immobile sword sword. Whether I'm able to walk as a whole.