Bourbon, Bluegrass and BBQ in Owensboro, Kentucky

Owensboro, Kentucky including Geowoodstock XIX. 

Discover the charm of Owensboro, Kentucky, as we dive into its captivating history, vibrant culture, and breathtaking natural beauty in this episode of "Treasures of our Town." From its frontier origins to a bustling industrial center, Owensboro has a rich heritage as a bourbon, bluegrass and BBQ destination. Uncover its story, explore world-class museums, immerse yourself in the city's lively festivals and events, and discover the vibrant town from the river front.  Join us as we sample mouthwatering Southern cuisine and unlock the hidden gem that is Owensboro!

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Owensboro
WonderWhip
Escape Today
Brew Bridge
Green River Distillery
Don Mario
Windy Hollow House
GeoWoostock
Bluegrass Hall of Fame
Old Hickory BBQ
Josh’s Geowoodstock Video  

Transcript

Craig: 0:00

Oh, let's put some money on this, shall we?

Joshua: 0:04

That's your impersonation of V. Like it was like a strange Yoda Do you love the outdoors?

Craig: 0:23

Do you love to travel?

Joshua: 0:25

Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all over the USA? Hi, I'm Joshua.

Craig: 0:30

And I'm Craig and welcome to treasures of our town. The podcast that takes you on a journey to explore the unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United States.

Joshua: 0:38

Join us as we venture into some of the country's most intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way.

Craig: 0:45

On today's episode, Josh, we are recording live not at Owensboro, Kentucky at a geocaching and Munzee mega event. Well, we were going to record where

Joshua: 0:57

we did. Greg, issues. It's been a week since we have seen each other face to face. The intention was to record this podcast about Owensboro on location

Craig: 1:10

because we had a beautiful setup to Josh, let's be honest, let's talk him through the setup in which we had. We were outdoors at the back of the hotel along the river side. We had a blazing fire there next to us crackling nicely. It was beautiful. It really was.

Joshua: 1:25

And this is a milestone for this podcast. I believe every single podcast faces this at one moment or another month. Yes. And that is we are re recording a whole episode.

Craig: 1:40

Well, technically not re recording the entire episode just because we still have clips that we recorded in bits and pieces throughout the weekend. So that's pretty cool. And we actually interviewed a couple of people through the weekend as well. So that's pretty cool.

Joshua: 1:53

This is true. We do have some clips, so you're gonna get a sense of the essence of Owensboro with live feed on the ground. The recordings.

Craig: 2:04

Exactly. I'm excited for Josh to want to get straight into it because we don't yeah, we

Joshua: 2:08

can get straight into it. You know, we had a great weekend. The reason we were in a Winnsboro Kentucky is because of geo Woodstock 19 Craig I think you need to tell the people especially if they don't know about geocaching what geo Woodstock 19 is

Craig: 2:23

well if you don't know about geocaching Geocaching is a scavenger hunt type hobby that use your mobile phone device in order to find hidden contenders scattered throughout the world itself. That's geocaching. Geocaching events happen and occur by having a group of like minded people get together and enjoy an event together, find geocaches together talk about the geocache fines and other sort of avenues. Geo Woodstock is next level it's called a mega event because a mega event is more than 500 people and geo Woodstock a few years ago now made it to what they call a giga status, which is 5000 people. I mean, let's be honest, Josh, we almost we got halfway there. I think we got roughly halfway there on the weekend as well.

Joshua: 3:05

Yeah, there were, I believe over 2000 people at this event. And it was a great time and a lot of the people that are probably listening to this, we're there. So we're gonna help them reminisce about their experience in Owensboro. Kentucky. Exactly. And this actually was my third official overnight visit to Owensboro. I had I had been there two other times so I knew how great the city is. And we're going to utilize this podcast to unpack or open it's like a treasure trove is really opening a treasure box and share a little bit of what the treasures are of this town and maybe you on that next trip or road trip. We'll make a stop yourself and

Craig: 3:53

I think people should and we'll go through exactly the reasons why itself as well. But Josh talked about we're talking about the geo Woodstock just quickly as well. Why is geo Woodstock so significant when it comes to geocaching events as well?

Joshua: 4:06

Well, it is the original mega event. Yeah, the first the original event many years ago, a bunch of diehard geocachers these are people that play geocaching, he decided you know what we should get together all the diehard geocachers in one location. And that was a man named Joe GPS. And ever since then it's it's happened almost every year minus COVID. Yeah, yeah. But this was the 19th version. The 20th version is going to be next year which is going to be very exciting, which we'll also talk about because I'm guessing this next location of geo Woodstock will also be a treasure. Oh as well.

Craig: 4:49

I've never been there so that's gonna be the mediator. Oh, you haven't either. So that is going to be first for both of us. So Josh, we got there. We'll go through our trip. It's just off phenom, we got there, what day was on Thursday?

Joshua: 5:02

We got that there Thursday, and we stayed till Tuesday. So we spent a lot of time there. We got very familiar with the main strip, I think we went up and down that one row that went up and down the hill from the river. I don't know how many times 20 times maybe when you

Craig: 5:19

were driving, and I was in the car next to you capping the whole times.

Joshua: 5:22

Yes. But we flew into Louisville on Thursday. And just to give you an idea of where this is, as far as geography goes, it is about 90 minutes, a 90 minute drive from Louisville, to the west. And we actually had to duck into Indiana to to get there. And it was funny, because, you know, we drove past some places that I think we've even talked about on this podcast like Santa Claus, Indiana.

Craig: 5:55

Yes, we did. We did talk about the last episode.

Joshua: 5:58

Every time we drove there. I was just like, should we pull off? Does Craig need to see all the Santa Claus statues? But we had to be focused because our focus was of course. Owensboro.

Craig: 6:09

Exactly. Exactly. So you drove us through and as you said, about 90 minutes, and it's West, and it's basically along the same border. So it's along that Ohio River? Yes, right

Joshua: 6:19

along the Ohio River. Owensboro is a beautiful river town. And you know, you know how it is. We got up really early. To get our flights. I think I got up at 330 in the morning. I think you got up about the same time. Oh yeah. For you. Yeah. And, you know, once you land and get established, the first thing I'm always thinking is food.

Craig: 6:42

Exactly. Exactly. Well, I think first have a higher car. So you gotta get one, and then you you thought of food. So we're driving through and Josh says to me, he says there's a beautiful like a drive in I'm like a drive. And so to me, it was Australia a driving is one of those old drive in movie theaters. We don't actually talk hardcore, like food places or drive in. Oh, interesting. Yeah, cuz we don't have them like you're, what's the main chain here Sonic? The you know how they have that we don't have any of that sort of stuff in Australia. We don't really we've got the drive through like McDonald's. But we don't have the drive in an order from the car that way. So we don't have that. So when you said a drive in, I was a little bit confused. But then I looked it up for you because you couldn't find it yourself. I looked it up for you. And there it was. It was Wonder whip.

Joshua: 7:30

Wonder with what a great name for a drive in a Yeah. And I should say drive in. It wasn't really like a drive in like Sonic. It was basically one of those sort of walk up. Yeah, you know, there's no dining space. No, there was a really nice dining space of picnic tables kind of along the edge. And it was such a beautiful day. We don't talk about weather here. But it was a beautiful day. It was gorgeous. And we stepped on up. And I decided, You know what I need to get what is advertised on the side of the building. I know where this is going. So every time I go somewhere new, here's a tip. I always ask. I asked the person, the server or whoever's taking my order, what's popular here? What do people order? What's your favorite thing? These are the questions I asked. And here on the side of Wonder web said home of the Wonder burger.

Craig: 8:35

And of course, you had to order a double of the Wonder burger.

Joshua: 8:38

Of course, I had to order them. Yeah, but I mean, one Paddy is not going to be enough. I mean, it's double wonderful if you get two patties.

Craig: 8:48

If you're listening to this stuff in Australia or any other countries, and you don't understand when we say your walk up, if you've seen the movie about McDonald's and how it first started, you know, founder, the founder. Yeah, the movie is called the founder, if you've seen that movie, and how they actually literally walk up to the open window. And it's just like a real big box you can't actually walk in, that's what we're talking about. So that's what I immediately thought of that when I saw this place. And I thought of the found like the actual original McDonald's.

Joshua: 9:17

That's exactly the vibe. Yeah. And there, there were a lot of these restaurants that popped up, I think that, you know, tried to copy what McDonald's was doing in the, I believe the 60s. And so, you know, that's exactly what I was. And we were there and there was a local there and they said I this is my impersonation Oh boy, I I used to come here ever since I was a kid and this guy was probably close, like approaching 70 or early 70s. And he's like, I used to go to school here and I noticed that there was a Coca Cola clock in the restaurant and that's how I knew if I was gonna make it to school on time.

Craig: 9:58

But that exists. sounded exactly like that but more of a southern accent than what you do.

Joshua: 10:03

He's very bad. And he, he was mistaken by us. Yes, we

Craig: 10:08

visited geocacher Kesha for the simple reason is he kind of looked like when he had a baseball cap on and he had a like, you call it a flashlight we call a torch. He had a flashlight on the front of his cap. He had headlamp headlamp, he had another flashlight in a pouch on his belt. And then of course, he had the mobile phone carrier on the belt as well. So that's that's the stereotype. I mean, the only thing he was missing Josh was a GPS device like on him. And it would have been definitely a geocacher.

Joshua: 10:36

Well, I'm sure he had a phone. So yeah, he looked like a geocacher for sure. Did you also get the Wonder burger? Yeah,

Craig: 10:43

of course. I did. Yeah, I have to get it. I have to try these things as well. And I'm always I'm one for always trying local foods. Like, no matter what country I mean, or I'll try I'll I'll go to Thailand. Josh, and I'll eat a bug. I'll lay the grasshopper out for the street. I don't care. I want to try that. You know? Always for sure.

Joshua: 11:00

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, and I always enjoy giving you American cultural experiences with some of the chains. We had several over this weekend. Several chains, chains and several firsts for you, which was really fun for me to watch.

Craig: 11:13

We just had the first now and not in rent, not in order. So we'll just go through it. So we had the first for me was that Subway place and that Subway But Jimmy John, Jimmy John's? I've never had a Jimmy John's. I had a Jimmy John's next one was Denny's. And that the first place? That was breakfast at 11pm. One of the nights. And then the other one was Olive Garden. Yes. I know. I've been in America for 12 months, and I've never been on Olive Garden. So that was a three. So that's four brand new places, Josh that you've taken me to in one weekend.

Joshua: 11:45

Oh, man, it's so funny. I know all the American listeners. Just like, like, wow, this is just so commonplace. But it's just it's so fun for you to experience that for the first time. Exactly.

Craig: 12:00

Exactly. I mean, one day, Josh, I'll take you to a more of a not not the Outback. That's not Australian. That's American trying to be Australian, I'll actually take you to a proper Australian place where you can we can get a meat pie and a sausage roll. And maybe fish or G or chicken salt. So

Joshua: 12:14

yeah, sounds awesome.

Craig: 12:16

It's delicious.

Joshua: 12:17

Well, as we said, we checked there. Yeah, we check out we checked in to the Holiday Inn Express. And let's just say if you're visiting Owensboro I believe you need to stay at one of two hotels. Yep, the Holiday Inn Express or the Hampton Inn. And the reason is, is that these hotels are right on the riverfront. I believe they're the only two on the riverfront. And you get a beautiful view every morning of the river. If, if, if you are on the river side, which we were. And also just access to this beautiful river front, and there's just a lot I mean, there's we can, we're gonna talk more about it, but there's just always a lot going on. On that riverfront, it is sort of the highlight the epicenter of Owensboro, the convention center is right there. So if you're going to stay, I would suggest one of those two hotels.

Craig: 13:11

And yeah, because you can walk out the back part, and you're automatically on that, like a boardwalk, Riverwalk sort of area, and you can get a really nice walk and you walk all the way down to the bridge, you know, and you literally are in the heart of Owensboro. Because you've also got the Bluegrass Hall of Fame along there. So many, then there's that playground for the kids, you know, so yeah, definitely these two places are the places to stay if you're going to stay in Owensboro. So we unpacked and then I remember I got a message from you. And you're like Craig, are you ready to explore what year where are we going? And you said, you said we're gonna go Axe Throwing axe axe, throwing at escape today.

Joshua: 13:52

Escape today, which was only walking distance from our hotel, it was just like a block away. Yeah. And I think what the people need to know is that the events of geo Woodstock are not just a weekend, not from Tuesday, all the way through Saturday. There were things happening as, as people geocachers were descending upon the city. And I believe that Tuesday, they actually had an event at the axe throwing place at escape today and brew Bridge, which we decided to go to later. So I sort of felt Craig that we had to experience some of the stuff that we missed.

Craig: 14:27

Exactly, exactly. And I do appreciate that too. Except for the fact that is that. Okay, listeners, are you ready? I've heard this like four or five, six times now. Josh, how good were you would ask?

Joshua: 14:39

I was shockingly great at Axe Throwing and you know what? That might sound like I'm bragging and I kind of am. But I think it's filled with humility. When I say I was surprisingly great at Aksoy because my definition for humility is simply just be known for who you actually are. Are ya? Not higher, not lower, but I was pretty great. And it was a lot of fun.

Craig: 15:06

Now we went there as well with one of our patrons, Minnesota boy, he joined us as well, because he'd been in town a couple of days earlier than us. So he joined us there as well. And of course, this is because it's good price was like$25 and per person and you get an hour and a half of X ray, you then get it like an hour and a half of retro free retro gaming in the arcade. That is for that price. It's unbeatable.

Joshua: 15:33

It was really good deal. And there were also Escape Rooms in there, which we did. Didn't have the opportunity to do.

Craig: 15:40

But just so the listeners know, Josh, yes, we playing this game X ray now for about an hour, you've realized you've realized how good you actually are. You've realized how bad Tim and I actually are as well. So what does Josh say? Oh, let's put some money on this, shall we?

Joshua: 15:58

That's your impersonation of V. Like it was like a strange Yoda that you

Craig: 16:08

put them we put money on this. We shall like.

Joshua: 16:12

Yes. And you guys were like, Ah, I don't know. And then I said, Well, what if we put Zeds on the

Craig: 16:20

last? Draw sheds? What is that people are going What is it?

Joshua: 16:24

Yeah, get ready to dive back into the nerd dumb. There's another game. There's another location game we play called Monsey. And the the what is it? That the currency the money of the currency of the currency? That's the word I was looking for. The currency is called Zeds. Yeah, so well, we should we have a clip? I think I don't know if the clip we reveal the results of when we laid it down.

Craig: 16:53

We might Alright, let's turn to the clip now, shall we? Yeah. Let's go to the clip. Josh. Where

Joshua: 16:57

are we? We're here in orange borough and we're at escape today.

Unknown: 17:03

escape today. And what do we do at escape? today? It's

Joshua: 17:06

a cool little place in New Orleans borough. It's across the street from our hotel. Get this. It's got axe throwing. It's got video games like retro video games. You're an avid it's got punk rock music. And it also has an escape room that I can't see right now. No, because it's in the room. It's hidden. It's hidden but we're doing Axe Throwing and I am I just to be honest, I'm really shocked by what has transpired.

Craig: 17:34

Yes, me too because like when you think about backing down in Florida Gator and golf I beat you quite consecutively with quite conclusively sorry with with mini golf or putt putt golf.

Joshua: 17:46

But here it's different. It's different. We're doing an axe throwing and it's not just regular accident I've done regular accident way before but I've never done axe throwing that involves like a projection screen that has Candy Crush on the on the wall

Craig: 18:01

you didn't even know I didn't even knew how to play Canucks until combat sorrowing let's be honest,

Joshua: 18:06

but we're a little surprised right we have Tim Tim here Minnesota Boy Yeah. Oh man. Josh. I cannot believe that this guy can throw an axe like this.

Unknown: 18:17

I know right? What Josh? I think he's wants to change his name.

Craig: 18:20

Do you want to change your name to what really

Joshua: 18:21

those means the geocaching? Vlogger what you know, geocache vlogging. It's kind of niche, but I haven't even niche or niche that I think I need to start a new YouTube channel called the Candy Crush, Axe Throwing bloggers. Because tell them just tell them I don't want to brag.

Unknown: 18:41

Well, I'll tell them. I'll talk as you throw. So have a throw Josh, have a throw and just listen to these qualities.

Craig: 18:48

I'll describe exactly what I see right now. A

Unknown: 18:50

Candy Crush screen right in front of us. Josh has pulled up to the line. Now he's got his axe going over his head. He's got one he's got to and he lets it rip end.

Craig: 18:58

Oh,

Joshua: 18:59

yes. Right where I aimed it. I aimed for the green. I got. I got three points on that. That's the most you can get on that throne.

Craig: 19:06

Yale degree. Wow. Well, he always he always

Unknown: 19:12

somehow somehow hits exactly where he's aiming, but he doesn't tell us where he's at until he's hit.

Joshua: 19:18

I did tell you many times I called the shot many times. You just didn't hear me because I said it quietly. Anyway, escaped today. I don't want to escape from this place. But another little little hidden treasure within Owensboro. Here, you really got the whole place to ourselves. And after we're done playing we're gonna play some retro video games. And then next door. There's a brew bridge. There's the beer Bureau, but

Unknown: 19:40

I am getting thirsty. So you know what? Hit this up. Josh, you already had you go to Tim as y'all go, Tim. You ever go Tim. So we'll hit this up. Yes, Tim, you've got it in. You actually got it in anyway. We're getting thirsty. We're gonna go for a drink.

Joshua: 19:54

Oh, man. Oh, I was I was so humbled even then.

Craig: 20:01

Alright, so after we

Joshua: 20:03

meet, can I say something of cool one more thing about the axe throwing? You had done axe throwing one time before. But this axe luring was special because it was slightly dark in there. Yeah, maybe that was your problem that you guys couldn't really see what you're aiming.

Craig: 20:18

No, I'll blame myself. I'm not one of those people that blame everything else. I blame myself. I was just terrible at

Joshua: 20:23

it. But, you know, it wasn't just that target that we were throwing axes at the projected on the target, like different games. So there was a game where you can throw the axe at zombies. Yeah, there was a game where you could play tic tac toe with the axis. Yeah, but my favorite was the Candy Crush.

Craig: 20:45

The Candy Crush? Of course it was it's because you crushed us with the Candy Crush. That's

Joshua: 20:49

why. So it was not just externally but it was like yeah, it kept it very entertaining. Because the exact 90 minutes is a long time we throw it axes. Yeah. And to be able to mix it up. It just made it even more entertaining. So escape today try the extra and it wasn't it was at least fun for

Craig: 21:05

me. And of course as always the links for all this stuff are in the show notes from you know the escape today but also if they want to get visual, Josh, you're going to have a video on your YouTube channel very very soon, if not already by the time this goes public.

Joshua: 21:18

Yes, a really long video by myself well worth the watch. Well worth a watch and so beautifully edited.

Craig: 21:28

And you will see you'll see the axon you'll see in the video as well how dark and dimly lit it was but the projector on the screen so you get the feeling for it as well. Well then after that we went to the retro gaming and you interview introduced me to a game.

Joshua: 21:41

Oh my gosh, I couldn't believe I ever played this before. No, I'm Australian. They don't have this game in Australia.

Craig: 21:48

We look I remember going there and looking at an old it brought back so many memories and old game called Commando. Oh, yes. And I used to sit because my I had relatives who owned a milk bar in Australia. And they had this commander machine in the milk bar. And when I used to go there houses I used to go there they used to because they put the coins in a slot from the top. So when I used to go there to get free credits, they get the long bread knife from the kitchen, go tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick tick in the coin slot and get me free credit.

Joshua: 22:16

Wow. That's a good hack.

Craig: 22:19

That's a good say. We're giving like people hack so give me

Joshua: 22:24

but we didn't need a bread knife. Now because we had free unlimited retro gameplay. And the game that we got like semi addicted to Minnesota boy Tim who was with us. He was trying to like pull us away from

Craig: 22:37

us. But he was getting thirsty. He wanted to have a brewery the brewery Yeah,

Joshua: 22:40

and that's where we're going next. But we played RAM pitch. And if you were a young person in the 80s you know, Ram pidge a young person the ADC us apparently, but it's basically just like a monkey. And I think it was Godzilla Godzilla. Yeah. And there was a there's a werewolf too that we didn't Yeah, basically all you do

Craig: 23:02

larger than Monroy cities. Yeah, you literally just climb up a side of a building and punch it and kick the building and then eat humans at Fallout like

Joshua: 23:12

why was it so fun?

Craig: 23:14

I don't know. Because it just it gives you that that demolition sort of feeling destruction, destruction and demolition feeling exactly, exactly. It was like that is like our version of what's that game more the kids play today, you know, with the they actually steal cars and stuff. Oh, yeah. GTA GTA the Grand Theft Auto. It's like It's like the 80s version of Grand Theft Auto.

Joshua: 23:39

Yeah, I could totally see that. With the destruction. All right. We gotta move on. That's like the first thing we did

Craig: 23:47

second guessing we're already intent so long into this already. Second thing. Breaux Bridge.

Joshua: 23:52

This is Owensboro I believe Owensboro only only brewery. They make their own their own beer there. We we visited there a couple times. Yeah. And I thought it had a great vibe.

Craig: 24:07

Started on started. I mean, we spoke to we got there first of all, and we had a meet Megan was our waitress host. And she come up a young lady, you know, come up to us and said you know, very SELinux Hi, yah, how do you go and like, you know, I can't even do the accent but you know, Southern accent and she was wearing a shirt Josh, you automatically saw this shirt? And you said where did you get that shirt from? What was on that shirt?

Joshua: 24:32

Well, how about instead of me just saying it. How do we How about we take a listen to the clip.

Craig: 24:38

We could okay well throw to this is we our interview with Megan at brew bridge in Owensboro. So So Josh we are at that we have the brew

Joshua: 24:48

bridge brew bridge in Owensboro. It is a brewery now is it a

Unknown: 24:53

brewery? It isn't everything in these things. Every year we're brewing our own beer.

Joshua: 24:57

There's actually beer that's brewed here. This has been Fantastic,

Unknown: 25:00

but we'll get straight to the point and that is this server came up and her name is Megan Thompson. Megan and Megan is wearing George, what is she wearing?

Joshua: 25:08

She's wearing some merch of a brand that we talk about all the time on the podcast that we want to get a sponsorship from. And I saw this merch and I was like, Oh my gosh, Megan, are you sponsored by this amazing brand?

Unknown: 25:22

She's wearing a grey

Craig: 25:24

shirt that has Highlife, Highlife highlights written all over it with a miller Highlife bottle right in front and forward facing the middle Highlife the champagne of beers. Let's be honest. Megan, where'd you get it from? Myers Myers and how much was it? $7 and $7

Joshua: 25:42

from Myers. If you don't know what that is, that's a grocery store. Exactly. Right

Unknown: 25:46

now just quickly as well. Listen to Megan's accent. I personally love the accent that Megan has. Megan tell us about Breaux Bridge. So Bridge is a brewery in Owensboro. Kentucky where we serve good looking barbecue good tasting barbecue and amazing beer. So there you have it if you are in Owensboro we said before you have to visit the axe throwing place but now brew bridge is right next door so you're thirsty Josh.

Joshua: 26:08

Yes. And I have one more question for Meghan. Yes. Here at brew bridge. Can I get a bottle of Miller Highlife? Sadly we do not sorry Miller Highline. Thank you. That shirt completely spoke to me. I was like, I was like crap. We are in the right place. Yeah, yeah. We were living the highlife

Craig: 26:32

at brewery. They didn't serve her life. But then again, it's a brewery. You don't want to you don't want to drink Highlife when you're in an actual brewery where they brew the beer out the back? Yeah, let's be honest and want to try different things.

Joshua: 26:42

And shout out to Meghan. smart, smart lady. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. She was working on her doctorate. She was becoming a doctor, I believe a doctor psychology.

Craig: 26:53

Psychology, a doctorate in psychology. And here we are. And the way she the her accent just spoke. You can't you can never judge a book by its cover Josh ever.

Joshua: 27:01

Yeah. And we went back to Breaux Bridge. On another evening. We did. And we did karaoke. Bozo. Both you and I did karaoke. We did. We did

Craig: 27:12

well, you did a proper karaoke. Now just to let people know, Josh decides to do this karaoke. But, you know, obviously, he needed half an hour of warm up. So he's there sitting at the table doing

Joshua: 27:25

this meeting me, me, me, me, ah, and then I said, I said, I'm ready. Maybe when he says he's ready,

Craig: 27:30

he got up and he went and did it straightaway. Whereas I was kind of, you know, not pushed, but I was like, you know, encouraged. Right? You should get up there. And I said to him, I said, I'm not a singer. I don't sing for a singer. I'm a good dancer. Put it that way. So in the end, of course, I had to get up because you know, there was people that watch me. So I got up and I sang I firstly, what did you sing Josh?

Joshua: 27:52

I sang suspicious minds. That's right. Elvis, which I had never actually ever sung publicly before. So the guy who was it was a little tougher than some of the other Elvis songs usually when I do an Elvis song I do young Elvis. Like this is old Elvis. So but it was fun. That you know, the there weren't a lot of people in there. So I was like, Oh, this is a this is an opportunity to do something maybe I don't always do.

Craig: 28:17

You know, not that many people that you you anyway, so you were happy with that. But I had to sing of course I had to sit well. I had to perform. You wrapped it you wrapped it land down under? Exactly. I come from I come from a land down under. Yes, I do. That's how I son like yeah, I didn't like what's his name? The William Shatner. Yeah, I did a William Shatner version of Landon under Yeah,

Joshua: 28:40

he talked through it but it worked. The accent goes so far.

Craig: 28:44

Yeah, yeah. And I have to actually say to begin with as well before it started. I'm not putting on the accent. This is not fake. I'm real because people didn't believe that. That guy from Australia is literally in Owensboro. Kentucky.

Joshua: 28:55

Right. It's a very exotic for them. It was they they saying

Craig: 28:59

to me I love your accent. I'm saying oh well love yours.

Joshua: 29:02

Kentucky. Exactly.

Craig: 29:05

But then after Burbridge we only had to have we I think we had two beers. That was it because we had to go we had another place to go to work in the Botanical Gardens. Yeah,

Joshua: 29:13

there's a botanical gardens. Yeah. Which is exactly what you would think it is. It's a gardens with there's a beautiful rose garden area as you as you walk in. But the reason we went there is that the city it wasn't just a part of the geo geocaching event. The city was having a venti Cinco Demayo celebration.

Craig: 29:35

Yeah. And they had they had dances they had the mariachi band as well and again all this is on your video but the merrier. But mariachi band Josh, I'm telling you, I've never I've never. I've only experienced maybe once or twice before, like an actual live mariachi band like that. It was exciting. I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.

Joshua: 29:53

Yeah, the Barry Archie bands, they're always so it's just so joyful.

Craig: 29:57

And they're so fun. They're always smiling like me literally their their smiles from E to E Josh when they smile like it's incredible.

Joshua: 30:05

In this Banette botanical garden, there were also like different sorts of sculptures and stuff. And the one that I really loved was the flower. Yes, that was solar panels. And it will actually the petals actually moved and opened up and face the sun. It was really well.

Craig: 30:24

You know what? Let's throw to that recording now because you said that live on the day. So I did. Here's the recording from the Botanical Gardens. We are

Joshua: 30:31

now at one of the most beautiful places in Owensboro. Josh, I'll say it to you because I can't pronounce your product. Where are we yet? We're at the Owensboro botanical garden, I believe it's called the Western Kentucky botanical garden.

Craig: 30:45

You bet there's a festival thing. What's the festival? I'm not Spanish.

Joshua: 30:48

There's a special festival. We have Tim here. He's really Minnesota boy. Yeah, he's a patron too. He really absolutely and he can pronounce Spanish better than what is Bentley? Cinco because the 25th Today is not Cinco Demayo. It's a Bentley Cinco de Mayo. 2023. The 25th of May so you

Craig: 31:07

you just pronounced the V as be Yeah, that's new. Spence.

Joshua: 31:12

Anyway, there is there is dancing. Yep, there is music playing. There's margaritas. There's a taco truck. I believe this is another treasure of Owensboro. Absolutely. It's

Unknown: 31:23

in the it's in the gardens. It's in the botanic gardens here. And as we as I said before, all the links are going to be in the description. And if you want to visualize and see this properly, then you're gonna have to go to Josh was a YouTube channel because there'll be a video coming out very, very shortly in regards.

Joshua: 31:37

I'm looking around. It's a lot of green. It's a beautiful night, although we do not talk about the weather here on this pot. No, no, no weather. No. But there is a flower here. This is the coolest thing. This is my favorite thing of the garden. There's a flower here. That is like solar panels. And it always is facing facing the sun. Yes. And and I think there'll be a picture in the show notes. It's very unique. I've never seen anything like it. That's really cool. So there's like, digital, digital flower, or a solar flower exact solar. Awesome. And it just tracks the sun.

Unknown: 32:12

As the sun goes over, or around wherever it is, depends on the time of the year. It attracts the sun to get the most energy out of that sun.

Joshua: 32:20

Yeah, people are having a great time. And again, this is a beautiful spot. Yep. If you come to Owensboro Dare I say

Craig: 32:29

the right paths for the right locations. So you heard the mariachi band in the background. That was great. So

Joshua: 32:37

we were really there. Yeah. And the ladies that were there dancing. They were just so willing to have us recorded again it was it'll be all on the video. Yeah,

Craig: 32:49

yeah. Well, and even on our on our Instagram page, if you don't follow us on Instagram, you should because you'll see live things that we do when we hang out together like we did. And you'll see I think Josh posted a video of me doing some recording of the of the girls dancing in the trumpet or trumpeting you know, like, on our on our Instagram page treasures of our town Instagram page, so go follow that as well. But we'll beat after that. But we're still hungry. What did we do after that? Well, we

Joshua: 33:16

were in the Mexican food mood for 100%.

Craig: 33:20

We had to we already had one Margarita. Yeah. Yeah.

Joshua: 33:23

So what I decided to do is I said to go to the old Google and try to find the highest rated Mexican restaurant in Owensboro on Yelp. And several several came up but we decided to zero in on Don Mario.

Craig: 33:39

Oh, I'm so glad we did. Do that. Don't

Joshua: 33:42

do that. It was fantastic. I had this rice chicken dish with cheese.

Craig: 33:53

I was so tasty. I had my dear Jimmy Chunga.

Joshua: 33:58

Changa chimichanga what? Tomato tomahto

Craig: 34:01

Australia. Exactly. So I had that. And then we had these. I'm gonna call them Buckets. Buckets of margaritas.

Joshua: 34:11

For me, it wasn't that bit because I've seen some bigger ones

Craig: 34:14

even I'm an Australian. We don't have things I think in Australia.

Joshua: 34:17

Yeah. And I love a good blended Margarita. Yeah. And you know, these they're just basically like an adult slushy. Is is very tasty. And this Don Mario's was right on sort of the main street. Yep. Where some of the nicest shops and the nicest restaurants where we ate outside. Yeah, on the foot because it was a beautiful night not talking about the weather. But this this was a great end to our first night. Guys, this was just the first day

Craig: 34:49

Josh did I tell you this before? You know you're the one that I actually had the very first Margarita with was with you in in when we moved from the Yuma to the other side. Mexico.

Joshua: 35:01

Well, that's really cool because you can say that your first Margarita was actually in Mexico.

Craig: 35:08

That's true, too. Yeah, my first Margarita is in Mexico and I was with you. So see all these first four years. I'm experiencing with you. It's, it makes me so happy. But we will bug it after that we went to we went to bed after that, and then woke up with a slight headache from

Joshua: 35:22

it was a long day. But then we got up bright and bushy tailed because there was another and these are called pre events. Yeah, in the Geocaching world. So a pre event would be events before the big event. And a little bit smaller. Not everybody's there. But we went to breakfast with the mamas. That's what the event was called. Because there's these lovely ladies who every year at geo Woodstock host this event on Friday, and it was at the windy hollow house. And yeah, restaurant.

Craig: 35:55

I love that place. I loved it was big enough to host and we're talking and we're talking people were talking everyone's going there for breakfast. It was a buffet breakfast style as well. You know, the hosts were walking around and they were busy. But they weren't they never that you never forgotten. Like I had my coffee filled twice. And yet Josh, there was almost over 1000 people having breakfast at this place.

Joshua: 36:18

I cannot believe I was bison three hours that yeah, I couldn't believe the amount of people they were able to serve. Yeah. And it was to describe this place. If you ever seen the show. American Pickers. Yes. Like it's like if American Pickers had a baby with a restaurant.

Craig: 36:36

Yes, exactly. Oh, they they decked out a restaurant American Pickers decked out the restaurant. That's what it was like. Yeah, it was there were lots

Joshua: 36:43

of antiques on the wall. There was a museum, Greg, at the back filled with like, antiques and like older stuff. It just had a great kind of southern vibe to it. It did. The owner was just so friendly. She I remember, she came out she was, you know, just shouted, Hey, Is everybody okay? Does anybody need anything?

Craig: 37:02

Yeah, over everyone. But these are these events as well that as Josh said, before, they were a pre event, you know, their warm up event, one of the one of the best words for it, but also, this is the time just we actually saw a lot of geocaches. And they saw you as well. And there was like a people coming up to you doing path tags swaps, and which is like a swag swap thing. But also one of the one of the someone come up to you with with your comic book. Yeah, and got an autograph on your comic book. That's pretty cool.

Joshua: 37:29

This is this is the reason we go to these mega events is because all year long, we throw out content into the internet on YouTube, and Tiktok, and Instagram, all these places. And you know, you get comments, you know, on that stuff. But there's something really special about having human connection with people have people walk up and just say they enjoy the content that we make. And it fuels me, it feels me so much and and I'm like, Oh my gosh, that's why I do it is because it's impacting people, and it's inspiring people. And I get some of that. Yeah, it gets some of that feedback direct. And it's just, this was kind of the start of it. And I really enjoyed it.

Craig: 38:15

And what I like as well, I mean, a shout out to my good friends now Danny and Danny, who the name is Greg cashes in, in West Virginia. Again, Josh. It's one of those things where I didn't meet these people until I first come over here to drive across five years ago. And they messaged me out of the blue because I was hosting an event near them. And they messaged me and said, Where do you want to do want to stay with us? You know what I mean? I think I've spoken about them before. But they were there Josh as well. So in a way to meet your old time friends, you probably want to see these people like once, maybe twice a year, but on average once a year, but it's like you saw them yesterday. You don't I mean, you get the hugs you get the chat, you get that everyone's smiling, everyone's happy. And again, this is the reason why we go to these events. But we were smiling after the event, Josh? Because we're because you booked us somewhere. And you took us somewhere.

Joshua: 39:05

I did. But before we did that, oh, we played Munzee

Craig: 39:10

Oh, that's right. We did too. We went to a Munzee event.

Joshua: 39:14

Now here's the thing. Yeah, like geo Woodstock is kind of a place for all geolocation games. So Munzee, like I said before, is another location based game. And they had four four events during the weekend. So we were going back and forth from Muncie to geocaching. And I just made it makes it so much more rich because there's a whole extra community there is that that plays this other game so and the president Rob bar Yeah, was there how cool is the president of Yeah, another game you play there and we got to hang out with him. And yeah, this was happening as well. Yeah,

Craig: 39:55

the whole reason why was very, very busy. And let's be honest, not all geocache. Should Munzee players and not all Munzee players a geocacher. But predominantly, there is a big co-exist group that do both, you know, I mean, we we do coexist and really just we're just swapping between the apps, you know, between Munzee and geocaching and adventure labs as well. So

Joshua: 40:16

yeah, there's there was a lot going on now a lot Owensboro this is this is what they're known for of three things. Number one, in no particular order, no. Barbecue. Yeah. Number two, bluegrass. Oh, yep. Bluegrass music, the banjos? Yeah, yes. And number three bourbon. Yes. I

Craig: 40:41

didn't know this.

Joshua: 40:43

So there is a distillery. A bourbon distillery in town called wreath Green River distillery. We had to book a tour.

Craig: 40:51

Yes, a bourbon tour. And we when we got there, I didn't realize but they are the 10th oldest bourbon distillery in Kentucky, which doesn't sound big. But when you think about things, like ready for this Jim Beam 258

Joshua: 41:06

Yeah, you don't I mean, so yeah. Maker's Mark can make their weight their way down there too.

Craig: 41:11

Yeah, in the hundreds. So this is the 10th oldest in Kentucky. That's pretty cool. Josh, what was your experience with the actual with the tour itself?

Joshua: 41:21

It was just very informative. I really enjoyed it. But I think the thing I enjoyed the most is, was the end when we actually saw all the barrels filled with bourbon that were just sort of what's the word? Say we're sitting

Craig: 41:38

at the minting year, and aging Aging. Aging. Yeah. And

Joshua: 41:43

every time I take a tour like this, I always just have an appreciation for the process. And I have an appreciation for the time and care that it takes to make the product and it makes me have a real understanding of why a bottle of bourbon whiskey can be pretty it can be pretty darn expensive. Just because the process is so long, like the bourbon sits in those barrels at Green River for five years, five years. It's a five year process till it enters the bottle.

Craig: 42:21

Well Josh, what what I was very surprised at what I learned a lot about it as well as there's several rules to Bourbon. But the number one rule is it's got to be made in the USA. So all the bourbon is made here in the US and then shipped on imported to Australia in every other country. But what surprised me the most itself was how these bourbon barrels so they get the barrels, they're all brand new barrels when they get them all brand spankin new, and they come in and they've got a char level on the inside. In other words, they build the barrels, and then they charge them they burn, they burn the barrel the timber in the barrels to a particular child level. I think they said it was a child char grade seven or something similar that so they do that. And then they fill the barrels up with the fermenter bourbon already then they hand roll them into those big sheds and place them up on shelves for the for the five years, whatever it is, but then what gets me is once because that child is going is flavoring and also coloring the bourbon and then when they empty the bourbon when it's time to empty the webinar the barrels. They don't reuse the barrels at all because they can't. So then names sell the barrels off for different things and whatever effect for beer as well because now you have Bourbon Barrel beer which I've had a few of those. So they sell them off to other places to use the barrels. But yeah, it's a one and done barrel.

Joshua: 43:38

Yeah. And it was really awesome. After the tour. We got to do a tasting and what I really loved about the tasting is it they their brand ambassador did it with us. Yes. She She was clearly very passionate about the product. Yeah. And she was so knowledgeable and she educated us on on the best ways to taste straight up whiskey. Yeah. What's the what's the term? What's the term for just straight up neat? She had a neat Yeah, neat.

Craig: 44:10

Yeah, so she said this one because they do arrive and they do a wheat and bourbon and the difference literally is ones made with Ryan when the wheat one one of the I think that's the right one. It either a it it sort of heats up your cheeks and then goes smooth down the throat or it's smooth on the cheeks and then heats up down your throat. Now you're supposed to have the heat in the mouth and the smooth and throw that away supposed to have it. Now she said if you sip it a little bit and we did and I straightaway Joshua got the burnt down through nice and smooth in the mouth and then the burned down her throat. She said to me, she said take your finger in a cup of water and put two drops from your finger into the Bourbon and they swish it around so I'm not watering down but I'm putting an apparently does something chemically to the bourbon. And then I had a sip And it changed it. I swapped it around so I had that real nice flavor and burn in the mouth and then smooth down the throat. I'm like, That's amazing. Yeah, you learned something like that just by doing one of these tours and it will change my drinking habits from now on.

Joshua: 45:14

Another thing that was really special that kind of drew us in it was very smart marketing extremely was that if you bought a bottle of bourbon there, you got a special geocaching coin with a little pouch attached to the bottle. I never seen that before. I've been geocaching for 15 years. By the way. Today is the is my anniversary. Today is my cash aversary Congratulations by 15 years a day, I found my very first geocache. That was a side note anyway. Yeah, we got this little trackable coin and we're not gonna get won't get into that. But it's, it was kind of the same size as a same size as Puerto probably quarter a quarter this was called Yep, yeah. And the bottle, the bottom of the bottle of the Green River, whiskey, bourbon, there's a little opening. And people use coins as a drinking game to slide coins underneath the bottle. So that was because the

Craig: 46:07

bottle is shaped like a horseshoe. If you put it put it outside. So there's the opening of the horseshoe underneath. So she said, she said, Oh, this is just a happenstance. Like, you know, we didn't mean for this. I'm like, please, you didn't mean to create a drinking game with your bottles of bourbon. That was that was really cool. And then after we finished the bourbon tour, it was a time for another event.

Joshua: 46:30

Yes. Doesn't geocaching event. Like we said, this riverside location, there was so much going on. And during the summer, they have this thing for the whole community and beyond whoever wants to come called Friday after five. And basically what it is is just a huge, huge party along the riverfront. I believe they were three bands. Yeah, playing all at once. And that tells you how big the riverfront is if they can keep these bands far enough. I'm gonna say

Craig: 47:01

about a mile and a half or two miles in length, from where we were all the way down to the bridge. Yeah, at least at least a mile. I'd say mile and a half on this.

Joshua: 47:10

But again, all the geocachers were piggybacking on this thing that's already happening now. One of the things I also learned about Owensboro is that there's been a few I don't know if several word but a few Bigfoot sightings in the woods of Owensboro.

Craig: 47:29

I didn't know that either. And the reason for this is a guy Josh, who works out of Owensboro and he is a Bigfoot expert and does tours of possible Bigfoot sightings. Yes.

Joshua: 47:41

He actually spoke after us the next day, because yeah, this is just really intriguing. So they had decided to have a big foot calling contest.

Craig: 47:53

Now, Josh being Josh has to give it a crack. Well, I

Joshua: 47:56

didn't. I felt a little pressured. Yeah, I looked at you. And I was like, crack. I don't know if I want to do this.

Craig: 48:03

But there was no one in the line. And they were calling up for people and no one was going so Josh was like, okay, yeah, and Miss Kentucky yodeler. Was there? Yes, she was a signal was up on stage as well. You have five signal. That's the mascot of geocaching, if you don't know. Yeah. So

Joshua: 48:17

I thought well, and I looked at Mark, Mark, who is I believe, like the president of visit Owensboro like their Chamber of Commerce. Yeah. Yeah. I looked at him. And I said, Should I do this? He goes, Ah, you'll have a lot of fun. So I think I think he wanted me want to be up here. Yeah, exactly. So you'll get to see my call on the video. I don't know if you've got to do it now. But don't do it.

Craig: 48:43

Now. Why give them a little teaser that might push people to the video and yeah, if you want to see Josh do the call, go to his video itself and you'll see the call. And then after he did the call, he looked back around. And then everyone was running up and there was a line up a mile long.

Joshua: 48:58

Yeah, people are like, boy, that wasn't very good. I could be I could be sad but let me just say I just saw the screenshot this week. Of my of the reaction of the people on stage. Yeah, let me just say I had Miss Kentucky yodeler in stitches.

Craig: 49:15

Yeah, well, she's she's very happy person.

Joshua: 49:22

I thought you took that away from me, man. I was feeling

Craig: 49:26

this is what I'm here for. Like, you know, you, you you you grow and I just pull you back down every now and then I gotta come up me. Exactly,

Joshua: 49:33

exactly. So well, then that lack of hope I didn't win. I'll just say that. I didn't win the contest.

Craig: 49:38

None of that. None of that much to your demise. But, but that was that was the whole night. We just basically did that, you know, the whole time and then went to bed. Yes. Because the next day. The next day, Josh

Joshua: 49:50

the next day, was the granddaddy of them all. It was the official day of geo Woodstock

Craig: 49:58

9019 Uh, exactly, and geo Woodstock nine if you're a geocacher. And you understand what all these events are, etc as well. And especially if you're a geocacher from outside the US, especially in Australia, you got to understand this is a mega event, these mega events that you have here, especially geo Woodstock is like more like a convention. Yeah, Josh, no one leaves, everyone stays. There's lots of to do's lots of talk. There's things happening. There's vendors, there's all this. So everyone kind of just stays in one location. Everywhere else, like, especially in Australia, or the mega events, everyone comes together at night. And then they go out during the day caching. But this one is one big day, one location.

Joshua: 50:39

I think that makes this one unique. I'd say also the United States, there's a lot of caching happening, but there's stuff happening all day. Again, this was a great location for people to stick around. And let's you know, the geocaches are always there, as well. So, yeah, we they're their speakers. So Greg, we should tell them, we had an opportunity to do something really cool with this podcast that yeah, that we didn't know we were gonna do until until two days before. Yeah, exactly. So the geo Woodstock committee reached out to me, and asked me if I like to, and Kreg if we'd like to, to do some speaking to like, do a talk, essentially, in front of an audience of people. And additionally, I was like, ah, like, we don't have a lot of time to prepare. But then it dawned on me. We don't prepare much for these conversations. No,

Craig: 51:32

we don't we literally have point notes. That's it like,

Joshua: 51:36

level. Exactly. So I was like, Oh, my gosh, what if we did a live podcast? In front of real people? Yeah. At the event? And yeah, it happened. Yeah. And that

Craig: 51:47

that show is coming up next. Next episode. Josh. I'm gonna put that on next episode. So after this one, in two weeks time, you're hearing this now in two weeks time is that episode of live? And our topic we chose as well was so significant to treasures of our town and the podcast. And that is geo tours,

Joshua: 52:05

yes. All about geo tours, which is, you know, series of geocaches that is designed to highlight a community. So we talked about our 10, some our 10 favorite geo tours. And we even got to ask people in the audience to what their favorite was. Exactly. So it was so cool. That was so cool. And were you nervous?

Craig: 52:24

That's coming up? Not really, no, it's surprisingly not

Joshua: 52:28

too nervous. But no, it was a new experience. I know. It wasn't a new experience for you, because you've done live podcast before. Yeah,

Craig: 52:35

exactly. But also, I mean, again, if you follow us on our Instagram page, you would have already seen us, you and Josh are sitting up on stage on our stools with you know, the the logo in the background on the screen. You know, it was pretty, it's pretty kind of professional, it

Joshua: 52:49

looked professional because it was in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame theater. It was a theater that seated probably about maybe 500 People I say and yeah, it was it was really fancy. And I felt I felt really professional.

Craig: 53:05

I know I got a lot of a lot of good feedback after it as well and I'm sure you did, too. So yeah, it was it was really cool for those who attended said they got a lot of information out of it and yet they were entertained at the same time and so that's that's what we proposed to do isn't it Josh? You and I, we'd like to entertain but also still give some sort of quality there as well sure. But then we had to go out and you ate

Joshua: 53:26

ate food your food trucks food trucks and I want to give a shout out to Jays good grub. Had a very good chicken sandwich, man they had like the 90s like Pump up the jam pump it up. Yes, they had the 90s music pumping out of this play this food truck that I walked up to the food truck and I was like I'm loving this vibe. Music and then all of a sudden out the side came I think an owner which was probably Jay himself himself. Yeah, I got a photo and man that was a good chicken sandwich a lot of these things you know a lot of these events Craig I remember a couple years ago when we were in Cincinnati there were 5000 people there it was very difficult for me to like get away from the from the crowds and find something to eat so got that chicken sandwich kind of hidden we hid behind a tree by a picnic table and just had a lovely lunch so there are food trucks there there was some you had some really good lemonade

Craig: 54:25

well that's my first actual lemonade from a lemonade stand as such here in America as well so and eliminate in Australia if you're listening from Australia it's not it's it's the stereotype lemonade you see on the movies element A Josh in Australia we call you call Sprite or seven up you know that's what we call lemonade. We don't have the true lemonade like you have here. So yours

Joshua: 54:48

is more like like bubbly. Yeah,

Craig: 54:51

and it's sprite and that's our brand of lemonade in Australia sprite i Seven, and there's also chips, but But yeah, so that's It's very different. This lemonade, no bubbles, it's literally made with real lemons, ice and sugar, water. And lots of sugar.

Joshua: 55:09

What was

Craig: 55:10

who was, it was it was okay, it was exceptionally sweet. But the real lemons that were in the actual drink itself, kind of really balanced it quite nice at the sweetness. It was It wasn't too overly sweet, but it wasn't sour. So it balanced it quite nice. So I actually actually quite enjoyed it. And because she heard from us from Australia and thought that I was going back to Australia, she gave me the recipe which I will not say on it.

Joshua: 55:34

Start your own standard New Jersey. I

Craig: 55:36

could, but I'll just say this, you guys get through a lot of sugar here in America.

Joshua: 55:43

So basically, the rest of that afternoon was us walking around just talking to

Craig: 55:47

people. Yeah, yep. Yep. We had to sign the logbook. Of course we did. Because was that on boards? Like the name geo Woodstock.

Joshua: 55:57

That's cool. Yeah. So if you're not a geocache, or you're like, cool, you signed a piece of paper, no, no big events. It's usually something crazy.

Craig: 56:06

So this was the Word, geo Woodstock each individual letter. And each letter so I'm gonna say is it was six foot tall. Yeah, you know, each of these letters.

Joshua: 56:13

Yes. And it was, you know, we always take pride in like, what, you know, you turned to me and on camera and said, what file is this for you? And I was like, oh, it's like, 7314 Yeah. And then you you're you were mostly behind the camera and that you decided I'm going to jump in front of the camera. 100% Because you were like, oh, I need to tell you what number this is for me. humblebrag.

Craig: 56:35

Yeah. So it was a milestone like like in any gaming you play no matter what it is, you get to a particular level as such. And I Josh, I am now now I'm in the five figure level. That was my 10,000 Find geo Woodstock. Congratulations.

Joshua: 56:51

Thank you. Amazing if we had a sound effects.

Craig: 56:57

We had we had Darryl W four as well, a good friend of the good friend of us, ours, fellow podcaster. And his his 10,000 Find as well. So we actually shared 10,000 finds together doing the same same signature on the same event. That's pretty cool.

Joshua: 57:13

That is so cool. So signing the logbook is an essential. But also, it might sound kind of weird. But another key moment, everybody asked the question. Yeah, at these events. When is the group picture?

Craig: 57:29

group photo? Everyone's a group photo, everyone one of the Griffith Now Josh, we had like I said, like 2000 people. And so how do we actually try and organize 2000 people to do a group photo. It was on a slight Hill, slight incline. They were all lined up perfectly. Everyone did a great job of getting in the frame.

Joshua: 57:47

One of the things I take pride in one of my gifts, is getting people to do things. Yes, yeah. And everyone listens to you. Yeah, well, and I thought, you know, I'm not going to be able, I didn't have a microphone, you don't need it. And I, you know, I'm not gonna be able to get everybody's attention, but because they were so nicely on this like incline on this side of this hill. Everybody could hear me. And we had the most epic like CIO, Woodstock night team, like chant with cheering, and I was basically running like a wild man trying to get the crowd hyped. Yeah, it was, I'd say it was one of the highlights of my weekend. And you'll get to see that video.

Craig: 58:28

Absolutely. And I'll be honest, that's one of my highlights of the weekend as well, because as being a video guy, you know, trying to follow, I put my put my camera on a proper gimbal as well, because I had to keep the study, I knew you had a lot of space to cover in a limited amount of time that you're going to be running. So I had to run next to you or alongside you. And so I end up getting into a sprint as well here with my camera. I wasn't even kind of looking exactly where I was going. So luckily, there was no one in front of me. Because if I had to go on and you know, head over or would have been gone, but But yeah, I was running alongside you. And guess what, Josh? You were perfectly in frame for 90% of the time. I was like, Yes, we didn't have to do it again. How good is this? You know, we also had a drone guy there as well doing some drone photos up top, which is really cool. Yeah, again, yeah. All in the video. It was awesome. Yeah, yeah, that was a that was an awesome highlight, too.

Joshua: 59:18

Another thing that's just awesome about that riverfront area is we've mentioned it before the Bluegrass Hall of Fame. Yeah, is right there. It's a real Hall of Fame. But it's also, you know, the Hall of Fame is upstairs. You see all the plaques of all the people that have been inducted into that hall of fame, but it's actually a museum. Yeah. And I could have spent a lot more time in there. Yeah, there was a special geocache type thing called an adventure lab up there that you you did learn a little bit you answered questions. So I really enjoyed the Bluegrass Hall of Fame. There's instruments you can play band. Well, at least try to play banjo or stand up bass.

Craig: 1:00:00

You can even play it with just a like an audio over the top of

Joshua: 1:00:04

of your video. Also in there in one of the rooms they had a museum basically all about geocaching. And it was called the GPS maze. Nice. And you know there were a lot of people we ran into some people that had never heard of geocaching before they were locals. They knew there was a geocaching event in town and that you know, that was that would be a great place for people to learn about what what our game is all about.

Craig: 1:00:28

Exactly, exactly. Now, the other thing with islands borough town or Chamber of Commerce and the the whole of fame as well is that normally you have to pay to get an entry into these things. They opened up for us for free just so cool. That was so cool. And for two days so they opened up for two days the Saturday and the Sunday so we could go in there for free do the adventure labs and do all that sort of stuff and and also experience that the Bluegrass has to offer so that was really cool of the again, Owens Barrow as a township might incredible.

Joshua: 1:01:00

So we've covered bourbon, we've covered bluegrass, yeah, but what about the barbecue?

Craig: 1:01:08

This year the barbecue well. Again, I've had barbecue several times though in the US and predominately I think my first real barbecue again Josh was with you just saying it was in Mesa Mesa Mesa mesa. It was in Mesa in Arizona when we had that beautiful barbecue there again video on your YouTube channel. But yeah, so you we didn't have a seat sit down one like we actually could be served the bayou Yeah, so we went to the place was called Old Hickory BBQ

Joshua: 1:01:40

only hickory Yeah. And I had never been an old hickory because the both the two other times I visited Owensboro I did a different barbecue place called Moonlight which is I think is also a very famous blue barbecue place in town. And I decided let's let's try something different. And they both had similar reviews. The one thing about moonlight if you go is that that was more of like a buffet style. So if you want more of like your all you can eat not necessarily anybody serving you have to go into a line. But you can get a whole whole lot of that check out the moonlight but I really enjoyed Old Hickory BBQ. It was more of a they had combination plates. And I did you know, they had mutton they had pork they had chicken they had, you know all the typical things, but a lot of the barbecue places I've been to in the US they don't have mutton and mutton was sort of like their specialty. So I thought Oh, I gotta give it a try.

Craig: 1:02:40

You gotta try it Josh. You know, if you don't like it then I mean that's what you have tattooed on your on your arm. Just try it. Just try it

Joshua: 1:02:46

now button is more popular. I think in Australia Correct?

Craig: 1:02:51

Well, we don't we don't have mutton as such we have lamb. But because mutton is an older lamb. Yeah, you see, and what use mutton for you have to smoke mountain you have to slow low and slow cook to get the tenderizing of the mutton. So we don't have that we have more predominantly we have young lamb in Australia and they like lamb chops, you know, on the on the bone and stuff like that. So not actual mutton mutton because it was a bit more of a gamey flavor. Yeah. Then the lemon Australia.

Joshua: 1:03:20

Yeah, and I just want to say I could tell when I tried the mutton that it was it was high quality. Oh, yeah. But I just I did the the like shredded, chopped Charles at a chop and I just couldn't get into the texture of it. It was just so like a little, it was a little too pasty for me.

Craig: 1:03:39

Whereas I could have I could have easily got some Ritz crackers or something like that. Use it as a dip. You know, that was would have been delicious for me. I had the top mountain as well. I think we had the same meal to be honest with Josh. I spoke ribs.

Joshua: 1:03:52

Yes, the red all the ribs, the fall off the bone. The ribs, the pork ribs are so good. But Craig, have you ever been to a place where you will have been brought drinks so often and so quickly and so much we both we both got Mountain Dews. And then we were like two steps into our Mountain Dew and all sudden what comes back of a mountain, another mountain to

Craig: 1:04:18

exactly. I couldn't say we didn't have that in Australia at all. We don't have free refills in Australia, like pretty much at all. And so that's new to me as it is let alone literally not even getting halfway through the next minute another and she didn't take sometimes she took it away the old one away. I'm like, I wasn't even finished that one like you know, don't waste the Mountain Dew and then other times she'd left like she'd leave another cup so she she double parkas Josh. She double parked us.

Joshua: 1:04:45

It was Yeah, I think she served us at like at least a two liter each. Yeah, we certainly didn't drink all of it. But the service she was on top of it. So let's just say that like yes, she was on top of the service. We ordered the food we got it pretty quickly. Yeah. Um, I love to Old Hickory. Yeah, I would go

Craig: 1:05:02

see Josh. It's service like that. For me that deserves a good tip. You know mean like, that's what tipping was originally for. So when you get good service like that, that's when you tip you know, this, the standard tipping here in America. It's a bit strange, but But Josh, how about Owens borough overall as a destination? What do you what do you think about that? Yeah, I

Joshua: 1:05:21

think the city has a lot to offer. I looked at the size of it Owens burrows about 60,000 people it is it is sort of that perfect size where it's not too big, like you can get around you can get around the whole city. You know, you can go anywhere within 15 minutes. Yeah. And so easy to get around has a lot to offer. The Bluegrass Hall of Fame is a destination in itself, the distillery it has a lot to offer. And I love these medium sized cities that just have a lot to offer. And the river River was beautiful. It was a great destination to visit.

Craig: 1:05:56

The bridge was beautiful as well that that bridge lights up at night to we didn't even talk about how that bridge was an adventure lab at one point.

Joshua: 1:06:04

Yeah, the bridge was actually like a puzzle for geocaches to figure out another way to get a geocache find. It was very, very flashy. And it was cool.

Craig: 1:06:15

And let's, let's be honest, let's give big thanks to Mark from visit Owensboro along with Amber Tuttle, who's the geo Woodstock host for the collaboration, you know that the collaboration would have been like, you know, over 12 months in the making, let's be honest, well, probably

Joshua: 1:06:28

more than that, because this one, yeah, this one got pushed back, because that's because of COVID. So they had been planning this thing for well over two years.

Craig: 1:06:36

Well over two years. But But yeah, the collaboration between Mark from visit Owensboro and Mr. Tuttle would have been incredible. And just mark as a general. I mean, we spoke to him as well and from visit Owensboro he's very accommodating guy, you know, and, and is very helpful and very proud of his town. And as he shouldn't be, too, so yeah, he's proud of his town. Yeah, of course, a

Joshua: 1:06:56

rare thing these days.

Craig: 1:06:57

Yeah. We found some treasures of the town low. Let's be honest.

Joshua: 1:07:01

So here's, like, we were saying this before. That's one of my favorite quotes for planes, trains and automobiles. That's a rare thing these days. My goal is to try to naturally sneak that into every episode. Okay, okay. Listen

Craig: 1:07:14

for that. So if you listen to every episode, guys, you can. It seems Josh can actually sneak that in. Let's see if he can. But Josh, we got some we got some extra swag and stuff as well from Geo Woodstock. Well, I did because I purchased it separately. So I've got doubles of things. I've got three, I've got three prizes to give away. Josh. That's

Joshua: 1:07:33

awesome.

Craig: 1:07:34

I know. Right? And so what we did was secretly behind the doors behind the doors secretly behind closed doors. We thought to ourselves, okay, if you're Patreon of the show, you deserve an entry, you know, they do they really deserve an entry. Plus, if you've given out a five star review and a actual review on the apps, you deserve an entry as well. So that's what we did. So I've got I've got all the entries here in a wheel of names. I'm just gonna click and spin it right now. Okay, as we go, you probably hear it in the background. Now we will with Minnesota boy and he said, he said, you know, if it's me, you're gonna have to hand it back. Well, prize number one. I can even hear the clapping in the background. That's funny. Prize. Price. Number one is a large geo Woodstock coin, the actual official geo Woodstock coin as well. And that's going Josh, let's go to firefighter Skippy. Oh, firefighter Skippy. Congratulations, mate. Well done for you. Congratulations. And prize number two is going to be a small version of the same coin but just a smaller version. These coins are trackable as well. And that's going to who that one's going to Australia. Whoa. can hear the applause no angel in Australia one that one congrat and then in third, third place. We've got a geo Woodstock patch from the official Woodstock 19 as well. And that one's going to it's going around Oh, that's going to Pennsylvania the truck. Yeah. So there you go. So perfect. You can probably hear the applause in the background there. So those three people well done, congratulations. And I'll post those out to you very soon. Now Josh patrons we were talking about patrons they they deserve this stuff. You know, they deserve the extra bits and pieces. You know, I said before they weren't gonna get physical islands. But you know what, sometimes these things happen, you know? Yeah, but we posted a Patreon only chat the other day.

Joshua: 1:09:27

Yeah, we're putting some extra stuff in there extra audio. And we got some extra video. We didn't even talk about our time in Louisville. We spent almost like two days also in Louisville doing some other stuff. We went to the Louisville Slugger factory for another

Craig: 1:09:43

show. Yeah.

Joshua: 1:09:47

We saw Lincoln's Abraham Lincoln's birthplace Yeah, and we decided to record some audio and some video and as well we saw some other really cool things and we're like this is a great way to to Thank our patrons that that support this show because as we know, podcast it is

Craig: 1:10:06

podcasting is not free. No, not at all.

Joshua: 1:10:09

But you're getting it free. So if you have been enjoying this podcast, we would really appreciate your support. And again, by supporting us, you're helping us create even better content, keeping it free for everyone. You're not going to have any annoying commercials. Well, this one, it's kind of like a commercial. So please consider joining us at Patreon. It's patreon.com backslash treasures of our town.

Craig: 1:10:37

Now just we've had two new patrons to since our last episode, last show, we had Dale and Bob who was on the show from space coast here too. Is there a new Patreon as well so thank you very much for Dale and Bob. And also Brett on it as well. I think he's a Patreon of your personally as well. So I see Yeah, he's an Aussie. Yes. Yeah. from Perth, Australia. That's right. So that's really cool. It's part of the audit family. We won't go into the UNOPS biscuits in Australia, but it's different stories. So coming up in the next episode, Josh, we were we recorded we actually did record live on stage at geo Woodstock. We chat all things, geo tours with the audience itself as well. So make sure you tune into that one. So Josh, how can people find us

Joshua: 1:11:17

feel free to reach out to us at trenches of our town podcast@gmail.com where you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Craig: 1:11:25

So that's it for our shows for today. Please subscribe rate and review on your favorite podcasting app. And that is always Josh.

Joshua: 1:11:33

Me your travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hidden gems like Owensboro around the world. See you next time. Bye