Have you ever heard of a Pizza GeoTrail? We hadn't either, until we stumbled upon a tantalizing journey through 19 local pizza spots in Tiffin, Ohio. Over a two-day adventure, we indulged in various pizza varieties, discovered unexpected treasures like hidden caves, and even discovered a secret family pizza crust recipe. Alongside our gastronomic feat, we also experienced the thrill of geocaching.
As we navigated through each stop in Seneca County, we were joined by a fellow geocacher and enthusiast who had spotted us on social media. Bryce Riggs from the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Board also made a special appearance, further enhancing our geocaching experience. But let us tell you, it wasn't all just about the pizza and geocaching. We found ourselves deep in conversation, exploring the importance of the people and relationships that make up the community. The mix of flavors we tasted was as diverse and vibrant as the stories we heard and the connections we made.
So, dear listeners, we invite you to join us on this unique journey. We guarantee it won't just be a feast for your ears but also for your soul. Whether it was our encounter with a claw machine, Craig discovering TouchTunes, or the taste of the unforgettable pickle pizza, every moment shared on this episode is a slice of life from Seneca County. Experience the joy of discovery, the thrill of adventure, and appreciate the people and stories that make a town more than just a place on a map. Come, let's explore the Pizza GeoTrail together!
Josh Youtube Channel
Seneca County Pizza Trail
Hampton Inn, Tiffin
Fatheads Pizza
BigC Smokehouse
Left Field & Bullpen
Reds Pizza Fostoria
VC Tiffin - Icecream
Have you ever heard of a Pizza GeoTrail? We hadn't either, until we stumbled upon a tantalizing journey through 19 local pizza spots in Tiffin, Ohio. Over a two-day adventure, we indulged in various pizza varieties, discovered unexpected treasures like hidden caves, and even discovered a secret family pizza crust recipe. Alongside our gastronomic feat, we also experienced the thrill of geocaching.
As we navigated through each stop in Seneca County, we were joined by a fellow geocacher and enthusiast who had spotted us on social media. Bryce Riggs from the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Board also made a special appearance, further enhancing our geocaching experience. But let us tell you, it wasn't all just about the pizza and geocaching. We found ourselves deep in conversation, exploring the importance of the people and relationships that make up the community. The mix of flavors we tasted was as diverse and vibrant as the stories we heard and the connections we made.
So, dear listeners, we invite you to join us on this unique journey. We guarantee it won't just be a feast for your ears but also for your soul. Whether it was our encounter with a claw machine, Craig discovering TouchTunes, or the taste of the unforgettable pickle pizza, every moment shared on this episode is a slice of life from Seneca County. Experience the joy of discovery, the thrill of adventure, and appreciate the people and stories that make a town more than just a place on a map. Come, let's explore the Pizza GeoTrail together!
Josh Youtube Channel
Seneca County Pizza Trail
Hampton Inn, Tiffin
Fatheads Pizza
BigC Smokehouse
Left Field & Bullpen
Reds Pizza Fostoria
VC Tiffin - Icecream
I think I'm a little bit of a stalker. I was watching you live as you were at the train station and, josh, you got a little bit embarrassed. You're like, oh, and you're looking me later on, you go. Did I swear too much?
Joshua:Do you love the outdoors? Do you love to travel? Do you love finding hidden treasures and towns all over the USA? Hi, I'm.
Craig:Joshua 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:Join us as we venture to some of the country's most intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way.
Craig:On today's episode, we're heading to a county in Ohio where we eat and eat and eat some pizza, some pizza, I know right, we eat a lot of pizza so much. We're coming to you now. We're actually together, josh. You and I are together right now.
Joshua:We're live and in person. We are in a Hampton Inn in Tiffin Ohio.
Craig:Exactly if you want to see the quick little snippet video of our little setup, then go to our Facebook page or Instagram. It'll be on there as well. But why are we here?
Joshua:I can't believe we're here I know right I feel like I manifested this trip.
Craig:You really did you want to give them the backstory first.
Joshua:Sure Well, I was hearing on several different podcasts the main one I heard was on the Geocaching podcast that there was this brand new GeoTrail. Now we got to back up for the people that don't know Geocaching.
Craig:Yes.
Joshua:We've talked about GeoTours. Now we're talking about GeoTrails. Well, it's essentially a GeoTour Several Geocaches that highlight one area, but there was something very special about this one. Yeah, it was a Pizza GeoTrail.
Craig:A Pizza Pizza. Now, josh, you, I remember you messaging me. Oh, it's going to be a couple of weeks ago now, yeah, and you said to me you said Craig Craig, or you said Craig. You said Craig Craig. Did you see this? And you sent me a photo of a GeoCoin.
Joshua:It was one of the most beautiful GeoCoin's that I've ever seen in my whole life. I know because it was a GeoCoin. That was a pizza.
Craig:A pizza. Not just a pizza, but it had a slice in it, so it was a slice.
Joshua:Yeah, the slice could come out of the pizza.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I was like isn't that beautiful?
Joshua:I was like we need to figure out a way to get to where we are now.
Craig:And that is.
Joshua:Seneca County, ohio and do the slice of Seneca Ohio GeoTrail 19 Geocaches that feature pizza places all over the county. I can't believe that there are 19 pizza places in this county.
Craig:I know. Now, just to give you a rundown as well. We have just completed this tour. I'm talking I'm going to say just I'm talking, an hour ago we finished this tour. We come back to the Hampton because this is where you actually, this is where you pick up your, your products as well, yeah, we'll talk about it very shortly. Prizes, prizes. But, josh, what are we consuming now to try and wash down the pizza that we've had?
Joshua:Yeah, let me just say we're a little full right now, but right now we are washing down the pizza. I can't believe there's still room.
Craig:There is.
Joshua:Miller High Life.
Craig:Yes, the champagne of beers Not sponsored but we want a sponsorship. We wouldn't want it, wouldn't want it. Yeah so yes, that's where we are. That's what we've just done.
Joshua:But I manifested it. Yes, you did, you did, you did Because we were just talking about it.
Craig:We were talking about it and thinking to ourselves how can we do this?
Joshua:Yeah, wouldn't it be cool. And then I would say what a week later? Yeah, a week later, nancy, nancy, yep, I believe her geocaching name is 24 Jack, yes, and she's the one that set up all the geocaches.
Craig:I know between she. She set up the actual geocaches themselves. Obviously, the tourism board helped, yeah, a few different things, and then they, they just they backed on. We didn't even know this about it, but they backed up to the geocaching with non geocaching. So if you're a non geocache, if you don't know what it is, you don't want to know what, that's fine, but you can still come here and do the pizza trial and you still get a shirt.
Joshua:There's two sections of it. Yeah, there's two different. So if you're not a geocacher and you're listening to this, you might be thinking gosh, I don't know. I should probably turn this off because no all they're going to talk about is geocaching. False, nope, in the words of Dwight Schrute. False because there are two sections. There's the pizza trail and you have to visit at least six of the 19 pizza places and consume and consume pizza related, yeah, pizza.
Craig:It doesn't have to be all pizza. We found out, yeah, pizza related. So in which we'll talk about very shortly and what, what we actually had during that time, yes, yeah, yeah so you can do that, or, or you can, or, and, or you can do the 19 geocaches involved in it and get the coin.
Joshua:Yeah. So Nancy said we want you to come. Yes, josh, we want you to come. Yes, we want you to bring Craig with you. Why not, of course why not, and so we've just spent the last roughly 48 hours experiencing Seneca County. Now let's just give them an overview. Where the heck are we? Where is Seneca County? Give me some reference points.
Craig:Very, quite it's not too bad.
Joshua:So everyone should know where Cleveland Ohio is Cleveland Rocks, and you know what I found out?
Craig:Craig, yes, cleveland indeed does rock Absolutely, josh.
Joshua:That's for another show, that's true, it is for another show, yeah it does so everyone knows.
Craig:You know we're Cleveland, ohio is, so we flew into Cleveland Ohio. We got a hire car.
Joshua:That's a rental car. And then we drove.
Craig:It's, it's going to be about an hour and a half. I'm going to say south, south, west.
Joshua:Yeah, yeah, it wasn't quite. It wasn't quite much over an hour, maybe an hour, maybe an hour, south hour before we got into the county.
Craig:True, true, but yeah. So then our southwest of of Cleveland Ohio and we are 45 minutes south of Toledo.
Joshua:Yes, oh, there you go, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and so we're?
Joshua:we're in the middle of middle Ohio, middle west ish of Ohio. Yeah, and I don't think I would have visited here unless, definitely, pizza, the geocaches, the beautiful coin, the t-shirt. Mm-hmm, it was. It was a ton of fun.
Craig:It has been. It has been a ton of fun. I didn't realize this is sort of area Josh as well what we actually see, and we see farmland, we see corn, we see we drive these beautiful roads like I felt to me honestly, it felt a little bit Oklahoma-ish whereby you know, it's very flat and very green here as well. I was kind of waiting for a tornado to come past like that sort of feeling for me, especially coming from New Jersey.
Joshua:Yeah, I love, I love how you just like appreciate stuff like that, because me, being from Midwest, from. Minnesota. I mean it looks. Looking out this window, it looks pretty much like really Minnesota from here. Yeah, especially southern Minnesota.
Joshua:This is a sparse yeah yeah, well I'm, I lived in southern Minnesota. That's pretty much Iowa, true true, so but it's just beautiful prairie cornfields and great people. We're in the Midwest, yeah, friendly, friendly people and we've experienced nothing but friendly people and delicious pizza and great geocaching, yes. And so what we're going to do, we're going to just kind of tell you our experience. Yeah, we've got some clips.
Craig:Yeah, we do some live clips. We recorded live with some people, with some servers and also the Bryce as well, from the tourism place Exactly.
Joshua:Yeah, so we're gonna. We're gonna give you a sense of what it's like, and our hope is that you would also join us in our, in our t-shirt, wearing victory coin holding to wearing victory dance and join Seneca County and have some pizza and it was interesting having a lot of pizza. Man, this is like a variety of different types of pizzas, a variety of crusts. We're gonna get. We're gonna get it all that. If you're a pizza lover, you're gonna love this episode.
Craig:Exactly, you don't have to be a geocaching, pizza lover, food lover if you, if you eat food. Listen to the rest of this episode Foodie, everyone should eat food because of the dog. Yes, anyway, so here's the thing.
Joshua:so Craig and I, craig and I- what we usually do on these trips, yeah is we meet each other at the airport and then we share the rental car Exactly, and I just kind of realized we flew in on Saturday. Yeah, I flew from Minneapolis, you flew from New Jersey, yep, newark, and I asked you, craig, and I was like how long was your flight? And you said oh, an hour, an hour hour and a half. Mine was, like I'd say, about almost two hours.
Craig:Yeah.
Joshua:Cleveland is pretty much, or at least where we are right now is pretty much halfway halfway between the two where we live.
Craig:yeah, that's pretty cool, so it was perfect.
Joshua:Nobody had like a longer trip. No, no, no like when we went to Lompoc it was like you had a long trip compared to me.
Craig:Yeah, yeah, this is true, I left. You were in. You were still in bed when you went to Lompoc and I was flying anyway.
Joshua:So Cleveland was the destination, and we experienced pretty much the whole day in Cleveland. Yeah yeah, and again, that's for another show. I don't know if that is going to happen on the next episode. What do you think it?
Craig:may. It depends on what we get, what we come up with.
Joshua:Two episodes in a row about Ohio.
Craig:Why not? I mean, let's be honest, cleveland is a city, but where we are now, this county is a treasure of their town.
Joshua:Yeah, yeah yeah, and if we're going to stay here longer, we might be saying the famous saying why oh, why oh, why oh? Did I ever leave Ohio?
Craig:See, it must be famous in the US. I don't know that.
Joshua:It's not famous it's from a movie. I can't remember what movie it's from, but I think it's. I think it's from the movie. Oh my god, it's from the movie Funny Farm with Chevy Chase.
Craig:Oh, I love Chevy Chase.
Joshua:Yeah, I think it's from that and he says why, oh, why, oh, why oh? Did I ever leave Ohio?
Craig:See again listening to this podcast. People get these, you know.
Joshua:A lot of pop culture references on this podcast. Let's be honest and so we started the tour first thing, monday morning.
Craig:Sunday morning. Sunday morning, thank you for correcting me.
Joshua:I'm glad we're here. We're both here this tour. The geocaching is made up of letter boxes, traditionals, multi-stories. There was a library cache that was pretty darn epic.
Craig:Yes, it was.
Joshua:And we finished it up today, so it took us a total of like A day and a half. Yeah, a day and a half.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Joshua:You could do the geocaching in a day, but we took our time.
Craig:We took our time. We filmed it, we spoke to the locals. We had some good food. We took our time. So the hints are why it's a day and a half for us.
Joshua:But the first stop, I was shocked. Were you shocked? The first geocache stop. Why? Because we're in the middle of a cornfield and we see a cemetery. Now here's the thing. We didn't know what to expect because we thought, OK, every single geocache is going to be at a pizza place. So I'm looking at the satellite map and what do I see? At the first geocache, it's a cemetery. A cemetery.
Craig:That's where you end up After you ate too much pizza?
Joshua:Yeah, if you ate too much pizza, but it wasn't actually at the cemetery geocache.
Craig:It was next door to the cemetery, it was kind of the similar driveway and you could walk to the cemetery directly next door to it. But it is a, it's a cave. There was a cave. There's a hidden cave, but not just any cave either. The cave itself, normal caves themselves are actually done with erosion and the water washes away and you go inside the cave and it's like a big open room or a small open room, but it's a water erosion of the rock and that's how the cave is formed. This one itself is formed very differently. This one's formed by like tectonic plates, basically Not the same, but two plates in the Earth's crust sliding sideways and opening up a gap between the two plates. That's how it works.
Joshua:Wow, yeah, you know an amazing amount of facts about caves. Well, I didn't even.
Craig:I didn't even do any research, I didn't even look at the notes for that. See, that's just off the top of the head.
Craig:So I was just baffled that there was a cave there, because it literally just was a cornfield and I'm like there's a cave on there and you can tour the it takes an hour if you want, and it's about 30 bucks If you want to tour the cave itself and there's a tour guide with you as well, and you can walk down inside the cave and literally walk under the shop in which you walk into and you walk under the road and you walk under. I think they even walk under the cemetery, josh.
Joshua:Yeah, you walk under the dead. Yeah, what a way to start a pizza tour.
Craig:I know right, they go from six feet below to six feet above, but anyway, so there was no, there was no pizza yet, but what an interesting location.
Joshua:We talked to the owner and it was really unique.
Craig:I just couldn't be a young worker as well, yeah?
Joshua:I just couldn't believe that there was a cave there. You would not think that otherwise. I guess the history of is like two boys in the 1800s fell in a hole. Yeah.
Craig:They're like we found a cave. Well no, the dogs fell in the hole first. Oh boys went after the dogs.
Joshua:Okay. And then they fell down deeper, and that's how they found the cave Sounds like something straight out of like Mark Twain.
Craig:I know right, Only in America.
Joshua:Only in America, but I was ready I was ready for some pizza.
Craig:You were. After that You're like, okay, enough of this cave.
Joshua:So this tour it's the county, right, yeah, so you're going to several small towns.
Craig:I think we went to eight, yeah, eight or nine small towns, and some obviously being small towns, some of us smaller than others, Like we're currently in Tiffin right now, which is probably it's the center of the towns and the biggest of the towns. I think it's the county seat. I think it could be, because I think we saw the courthouse. Oh, true, true.
Joshua:But the amazing thing was that in every one of these small towns there was a pizza place. It's sometimes two, Sometimes two In a.
Craig:Really small town, there were two Across the road from each other Whoa Reds and seasons.
Joshua:But so here's the thing. It's Sunday morning. Yeah, 10 am Sunday morning.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Joshua:And guess what? Opens up A little establishment called Fatheads.
Craig:Yeah, this OK. So Josh and I thought to ourselves OK, this one is going to be on our route, and we did it in a good route order too. So if you're in an actual geocache, have a look. There are offline lists in which you can download, for this, this, this, what's it? Trail, trail, yeah, I get confused. For the trail, you can actually download the offline list as well. So we do your route, in which you're going to be the best way suited, the least mileage, so to speak. And so we get there and it's 10 o'clock and Josh is out the front. Now we find this big cache like yeah, yeah, not too much geocaching talk, but we did find a big bucket cache as well On top of that cache. You saw a sticker on top of the geocache. What did it say?
Joshua:Said this is not an ashtray, because it was next to a bench outside of the bar or bar outside of this bar pizza place.
Craig:So we're out there with signing this little Josh's sign in the logbook. I'm doing some video work for him as well. Of course, the links for the video is going to be in the description, of course. But we're out there and next minute, josh, the door opens up, opens it up, yeah. And this lady looks at us and goes and says to us oh, are you here for the, the trail, the pizza trail? Yes, and we said, oh, yes, we are. Are you opening now? She goes just in time. And it opened up right there as you were signing the log.
Joshua:We were the first customers of the day, first of the day, 10 am.
Craig:Not for very long, though, because two local old guys came in like after their beer.
Joshua:Yeah, Everybody else was at church but us and those local guys.
Craig:And they weren't at church.
Joshua:They're not church guys.
Craig:But we went into this, this bar, now this to describe this. You think about it and close your eyes if you're not driving. It's dark, it's dingy. Yeah, didn't. Didn't actually smell bad at all, which surprised me a little bit.
Joshua:No, there's you can't smoke inside of bars. I know it's great, it's.
Craig:I personally love it. So we went in and it's dark, dingy, there's there's a restaurant component as well, but you go around the corner and there's like the bar goes around, you know, and this, this, this lady server, she's up there and she's chatty and she's lovely. Yes, and we told her. Obviously we're there for the, for the pizza tour. But we said to her, we said look, we don't want to start with big pizza. Yeah, this time of the morning, too early for pizza, too early for a big pizza, such. So she, what did she? She said from then, about the bread. What bread was it? Well, we have a clip.
Joshua:Oh, we do, we do have a clip, we do let's play the clip, all right.
Craig:Hear that. Hmm, Maybe people don't like like food eating noises ASMR.
Joshua:It's also disgusts people.
Craig:True, so these are the most delicious breadsticks I've ever had.
Joshua:We are at Fatheads in Republic Ohio. I've never been to Republic Ohio.
Craig:And nor have I, of course. But these breadsticks, just talk us through, these breadsticks, how do you?
Joshua:They are warm, they are like twisted.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Joshua:They're handmade Soft Hot out of the oven here in Seneca County.
Craig:They're parmesan crusted as well, so they look like a parmesan crust on top, and then you dip them in this marinara sauce.
Joshua:Yes, oh wow, it's pretty standard, but they're just like warm and they're good and they're soft, they are a meal in themselves. They really are, they really are. And the funny thing is, on the pizza tour which we're doing, we haven't eaten any pizza yet. No, so far it's the breadstick tour. That's right For us, and we're playing touch tunes. I just introduced Craig to touch tunes.
Craig:And I just then introduced Josh to Black Betty from Australia.
Joshua:That's a song. Yeah, it is. Yeah, true, and the Green Day's playing in the background. And happy, we're drinking Coors Light, keeping it light. It's right In the morning. Yeah, it's not even noon. No, it's 11.30. But we're enjoying the pizza trail here in Seneca County. Republic has a geocache right outside. It's a huge geocache, and now we're eating breadsticks. We're happy and we're getting off to the next one. How do you say Parmesan? It's Parmesan.
Craig:No.
Joshua:Parmesan, parmesan, parmesan. Please, please, american listeners, garlic Parmesan Right in Parmesan Garlic.
Craig:Yeah, because we're not going to talk about how Americans say different words when we all know that. Without being rude, you guys bastardize the English language.
Joshua:But let's talk about touch tunes. I was happy to introduce you to touch tunes. I've never seen touch tunes.
Craig:I didn't realize you can actually like remotely, remotely interact with a machine in the bar in dingy bar in Ohio and play whatever music you want. It's a jukebox, yeah, but you get to be the DJ. Yep from the bar, josh.
Joshua:You don't even have to leave your seat.
Craig:No, you sit there on your phone, on your device. So, of course, what did I have to do? Download the app, get the credits up and play Black Betty for Josh as well. Yes, which is a song by Spider-Bait, an American band, and you actually enjoyed that song. You thought it was too bad.
Joshua:Yeah, I thought it was great, and this is the moment that we discovered, you know, we've traveled a lot together and we thought, you know what, we should have a Spotify playlist for the podcast.
Craig:That's right.
Joshua:And then we thought so we might share that with you once it's complete.
Craig:Yeah, if not, we'll share it to the Patreons first, josh.
Joshua:Oh, that's a good idea. They can listen to what we listen to when they're on the road, on their trips and whatnot. Yeah, so Fatheads was great. Then we left and we went to another small town, was it Green Springs? Well, yeah, is that what it's?
Craig:called, yeah, green Springs. I think it was a cool name. I'm sure it was Green Springs Because we got told as well by the lady from Fatheads where are you going next? And we said Green Springs. And the old guys, josh, the old guys overheard us and one of them turned around and says oh, that means you're going to go straight past my house.
Joshua:Yep. I waved at his house as we drove by.
Craig:We didn't know which one it was, but anyway we had no idea.
Joshua:But we went to Big C's Smokehouse and Pizza.
Craig:Yep, now there was a special something about their pizza, the reason why we had to get their pizza there. We recorded the clip as well, with the server there too. Yeah, let's roll the clip. We'll roll the clip.
Joshua:We are at Big Seat's smokehouse in Pizza in Greensprings, ohio and we are here with Ashley. Ashley is our server and we just had some delicious pizza here, but you were saying that there's something special about the crust here.
Speaker 2:Yes, we have a very special recipe for now. On, tell Our Customers it is different.
Joshua:It's different. That's all you can say. Is that it's different. You can't say exactly what it is. It's a family secret and tell us a little bit about the family, like where's the family? Okay, that's cool, that's awesome. If somebody comes here, what should they order?
Speaker 2:The pizza, the pizza. The pizza is loaded with pork fries.
Joshua:Yes. Any of the wings are really really good. Awesome. Thank you so much. It was delicious, thank you. It's different, it's very different. That's their secret. Yeah, it's different.
Craig:And Josh, it is. Yeah, what was the difference? Do you think, personally in the crust, in terms of what was most different about?
Joshua:it. It was texture. Yeah, it was a different sort of texture. It had that thin, hard crust.
Craig:Yes.
Joshua:But it wasn't flaky, no, it was more hard to describe and it's hard to describe.
Craig:It wasn't doughy at all either. Yeah, it was more of a thinner sort of base and it was very soft. I found the base quite soft as well. It wasn't quite as filling, no, which is quite good.
Speaker 4:That was good for a pizza trail.
Joshua:Yeah, and good for us. We're going to have pizza a lot, exactly Because I had to go to the grocery store for something later.
Craig:Yeah, yeah, you do, and I'll talk to you about that maybe when we get to it.
Joshua:Because the next city is where I went to the Kroger's and got that special item. Exactly, it was Fistoria, fistoria.
Craig:Fistoria.
Joshua:It sounds like a magical place, like Astoria, oregon, where the Goonies is filmed.
Craig:Cool, let's get a ring there.
Joshua:But you know what's so magical about Fistoria? I think there were five to four or five pizza places.
Craig:Pizza places in Fistoria yes.
Joshua:Yeah, but first.
Craig:Oh, here we go.
Joshua:We got to talk about amazing name and locations of a place? Yeah, this is called Treasures of our Town, and is this place a treasure?
Craig:Okay, so just to give you an idea and run down as well, this place would be a treasure of the town for Josh, not so for me.
Joshua:Why not? It has a funny name.
Craig:It is a funny name, you're a funny guy yeah, but I'm against what they were selling. That's why You're against it. Cigarettes yes, I'm not a smoker. I never have been.
Joshua:Nearer by. Yeah, no. I'm not for what they were selling, but I'm for the name.
Craig:Yes. Because, it caught my attention. We were in Parson and then you had to do a U-turn. I nearly said the Australian word you had to do a U-turn.
Joshua:To come back to it, we needed a photo which we should put on the show notes.
Craig:Yeah, the photo will be in our socials. The photo will be in our socials.
Joshua:I've never seen anything like this. This place is called but Hut.
Craig:Yeah, just but Hut. And then something in America, wasn't it after that? It was something in America after that but Hut of America. That's right, but Hut of America. But the thing is, though, this but Hut, so to speak. It was a huge sign. There was a big cigarette going across the sign as well. So Josh gets out. He stopped traffic. I'll be honest, he stopped traffic. He stopped traffic. Josh actually stopped traffic to go out and get this photo.
Joshua:The reason I stopped traffic is because it's a drive-through. It's just a drive-through where you get your beer and your cigarettes and your cigarettes tobacco At the but.
Craig:Hut, at the but Hut, and they lined up through the drive-through. There was like a queue. Josh, there was a queue of four cars in the drive-through at the but Hut, I mean. Anyway.
Joshua:It was a popular place. It was the but Hut of America.
Craig:It's popular for you. But after there we actually went to our next pizza joint as well. Now, this pizza joint, I really enjoyed it More, so I enjoyed the pizza, don't get me wrong, but the experience that we had here it was at Red's Pizza, red's.
Joshua:Pizza in Fistoria, in Fistoria and a shout out to them as well.
Craig:Yeah, they were great, they were really.
Joshua:Because we were filming for my YouTube channel. Again, that will be in the show notes once it's done. But we went in there, I looked at the menu and I saw something. I was like, oh, we got to try that. And so I got a pickle pizza.
Craig:Oh, okay, let's do the pizza first. Delicious If you've got a chance to do a pickled pizza, you must try a pickled pizza. It was just incredible. But also for this one. This type of pizza was well, for me it was the dough. So this was a thicker based pizza and the dough was spongy, soft and fluffy on the inside.
Joshua:Yeah, the dough had a great texture to it and later on, after we spent some, time there.
Craig:we did spend some time there, we spent some time there. The dough boy came in. He did the actual guy who flips the dough. He came in.
Joshua:Sixing in the morning.
Craig:Yeah, he comes in at 6am every day. And he flips that dough for six hours until lunchtime and gets it already prepared for them.
Joshua:But you were in heaven.
Craig:I was in heaven because I saw an opening. Josh, I was there at the counter and I could see the opening to the kitchen and to the big ovens that they used to cook the pizzas in. And I just explained to these two ladies that were there. I said look, we're doing some filming as well. I had my camera. That said do you mind if? Is it okay if I come back inside your kitchen and record you making our pizza? They got excited. They said yes, we're going to be famous Little did they know?
Craig:They thought I think they think they're going to be on a news channel or something in the local news. But yeah, so I got backstage, backstage, back in the kitchen and she was really good, she had the gloves on as well and she was showing me and again, the video is going to be in your YouTube channel. She was showing me all the way around and then I was doing some tricks and tips with the actual camera itself to make it look a little bit more epic, with the tomato base sauce going on and then the pickles going on and the cheese going on and the ham that was hammered as well, then the ham going on, sliding it into the oven, pulling it out of there, flipping they were flipping the spatula thing that they use to pull it out of the oven for me.
Craig:They did a great job and they're going to be famous, they said.
Joshua:It's going to be like a pizza hype clip. Yeah, pizza hype clip. You're going to watch and be like I want some pizza.
Craig:Even one of the actual other customers that was there at the time. He wanted an autograph from her because you know to be saying that I've got an autograph from her before. She's famous. That's how famous they think they're going to be. It's great, I love it.
Joshua:I love it so fun.
Craig:They were lots of fun and a shout out. Then Red's Pizza in Fistoria Great job.
Joshua:Well then we went slightly off the pizza trail because we want to try a unique geocache.
Craig:Oh yeah, remember it was by that train. That's right, it was a train. So, yeah, you're going to talk about the geocache.
Joshua:Well, the geocache is unique because it's a virtual geocache, no physical container there, but it had a webcam on it and you can actually it's a YouTube channel. You can see yourself live on the webcam. You get a screenshot of it. You got to find Well, the funny thing about this webcam is it had audio.
Craig:Yeah, and it's an actual live feed. I mean, there was a couple of seconds delay, but not much. Yes, a full, constant live feed. And if you go there now, josh, you can actually see people around the train. If they're there, you can see that night when it's in the dark. You know, it's a constant live feed. So, josh and I, we go and do this and then there's another. Obviously there's a traditional, big, traditional cache on the train.
Joshua:On the train. It's an ammo can. It's an ammo can. It should be easy to find.
Craig:Yeah, not for Josh. So we're there. We're there trying to find this ammo can? And Josh, I'm going to ask, he's in the midst of trying to find this ammo can, getting slightly frustrated, of course, here and there, and so Josh is. Josh is like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and you know a little curse word here and there trying to fight because he was I'll be honest, I wasn't getting down and dirty like he was- he was you, Josh.
Craig:you were under the train. That's the only way to find it. You were getting under there, you were going, and then again he'd make a prediction. Oh, I hope I don't hit my head on this. Boom and there it is and so yeah, we did that, we did those ones.
Joshua:We did find it, but Nancy was watching us.
Craig:Well, that's what I'm going to say. We then made our way to the left field.
Joshua:Yes, left field. Where is it? What city is it in?
Craig:It's not a city, it's a little at a small town.
Joshua:Well, a city, town. It's a new regal, a new regal.
Craig:That's even smaller than the town we're in.
Joshua:It was the most southern part of the tour.
Craig:And get this. This is my favorite part. Nancy was there waiting for us, yes, and the car smiling, yeah, we waved at her, she got out of the car and then, after a little bit of discussion, she's actually said to us Josh, she admitted. She said, oh, I think I'm a little bit of a stalker. I was watching you live as you were at the train station, and, josh, you got a little bit embarrassed. Oh, and you're looking me later on, you go. Did I swear too much?
Joshua:Well, the funny thing is is that she was able to follow us because I was logging. My cash is live so she could see where I were. I don't do that. I say no, I was just logging them live, so she knew where I was at, and we had a lovely dinner Guess what? We didn't have pizza, we had something different. We were related. Still, yes, let's go to the clip.
Craig:Oh we have a clip. Josh, I'm with. We were Cindy right now.
Joshua:That's a great name, because that's my mom's name.
Craig:We're at left field. Yeah, which, which? Which town are we in left field? New Regal. New Regal is very, very small town. Now, our, our treasures of our town is all about finding the hidden gems within small towns in USA.
Joshua:I think we found another hidden gem just looking at these, these balls of bread that have meat in them. We did the ranch dressing as well because we've had a lot of pizza already.
Craig:Now, cindy, you said before. You said that we're here doing the pizza tour, and this is the first time I've heard this today. If you do the pizza tour here and you got, you get a coin. We're getting coins for doing pizza tour. The coin is beautiful, by the way, but if you bring the coin in here to left field, you get 25% discount 20% off, 20% off, 20% off, 10%.
Speaker 4:Just for doing the trail, wow. So if you come in today, you'll get 10% off for doing the trail. Once you get the coin, you get 20% off every time you come in after that?
Craig:Oh my goodness, that's amazing. So, cindy, how long have you actually owned left field here in the bullpen?
Speaker 4:It's two years. Two years, two years this summer.
Craig:And so what do you? Is it just a bar area restaurant? What actually Bar?
Speaker 4:restaurant. We have a patio out back that we do live bands. Almost. It's basically Friday, Saturday, Some Thursdays we do trivia nights.
Craig:Right, so that's actually the bullpen.
Joshua:That's the bullpen. That's the first thing I noticed. Yeah. I was like that's an awesome patio, Exactly, I really like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and we're adding on to it. We just built the stage, we're putting some silos, we're seating in it off to the side, so there's a lot of changes coming at that in the next couple months here. Awesome.
Joshua:I have a question for you. Have you ever been geocaching before?
Speaker 4:I have not.
Joshua:Okay.
Speaker 4:When they came in, I was like you're to ask me.
Joshua:what is this? I'm assuming that you've met a lot of geocachers over these last three weeks. Absolutely, absolutely.
Craig:So you're going to learn a lot more about geocaching and what the people actually like when they do come in and what they actually like to eat as well. So thank you so much for putting this on and we really enjoy it. We really appreciate your hospitality and we're going to eat because we've got more to do, Josh.
Joshua:What are these exactly?
Speaker 4:These are six pound, I don't know which ones did you get first.
Joshua:Yeah, what do we?
Speaker 4:get. Which ones you got? Some more to do you got pepperoni and cheese on them? We've got chicken bacon ranch ones that we do. It's just a foul ball. Oh wow, we have plain. We have jalapeno cheddar ones, which are pretty good If you like jalapenos, a little more spice to it.
Craig:These balls, josh, look delicious. They do, they do.
Speaker 4:They're stuffed and deep fried and they're made out of our pizza dough, which is, my opinion, fantastic. I don't even eat pizza anymore from other places, and I mean, I'm not a big pizza eater, but our pizza is the one I'm going to get.
Craig:Delicious, delicious. Well, you bite hand ASMR, you bite into one Josh.
Joshua:Okay, are these mine? Are these ours? Yeah, yeah, these are ours. A little worried how hot they are they're.
Speaker 5:Oh, listen to that ASMR. Oh, it's steam coming out of it. It's steam, it's hot, it's hot.
Craig:It's hot, it's hot, it's hot. Why are you going with her? Red for Josh.
Speaker 4:So just let you know his face.
Craig:He's going quite red right now. He's got a little sweat from the brow happening Jeez. But they look. What's inside them. What's inside them? There Is that chicken. There's chicken in there. There's chicken in a pizza dough roll. It's good to have a little protein after all the bread. Well, we are at the bullpen and these are the foul balls. Love it, love them. Thank you again.
Speaker 4:Cindy, awesome. Thank you guys. Thanks for coming in, enjoy your trip. Thank you.
Joshua:Those dough balls were great.
Craig:You said like you loved them.
Joshua:You know I was so pumped up about that place.
Craig:Josh, I love the ASMR. We've done Like in this couple of clips, Again some people probably love it.
Joshua:Some people are disgusted, true True. But before we left, I was filled with pizza and I saw a magical thing.
Craig:Oh, you did. And I'll be honest, though, I've heard about this magical thing with you and I've heard the quality of you as a human being with this magical thing, I kind of didn't believe it to a certain degree. But you witnessed it, but I witnessed it in person and I think I got it on film as well.
Joshua:You did.
Craig:Yeah, of course.
Joshua:I saw a claw machine, Craig.
Craig:But let's be honest, you do have a claw machine in your house.
Joshua:I have a full size, real, like grocery store quality claw machine in my house because, fun fact, my daughter, when she was like 11, had a YouTube channel called claw versus girl.
Speaker 4:Reast of money, yeah.
Joshua:So we won so much plush over the years and I almost promised her we'd get a claw machine. And I didn't get a claw machine until she was 21. And I'm a man of my word.
Craig:Does she play it now though?
Joshua:No, as much as me.
Craig:And that, I'll be honest, that is obvious, because here he is, it turns to me, of course, and says Craig, have you got a dollar? Because you know, and it was good that you saved that dollar. Yeah, it was, it was.
Joshua:Or that I lost it earlier. That's for another show.
Craig:That's right. So he puts his dollar in and I'm there getting the camera sorted and everything else as well, and he's into it and the intention is he's in his eyes. It's like. It's like he changed human, like his face just went totally blank.
Joshua:I was in the zone.
Craig:He was in the zone and he was staring. He could not be, you know, intimidated by by any soft plush at all. And here he is. He moves to the side, he moves to the back, moves to the front, moves to the other side again, then presses that magic button and the claw comes down.
Joshua:What do you? What do you think was going to happen? Do you think I was going to get it? No, I first try.
Craig:Every other time like I've played it, and 90% of people play these things that they don't usually lose. They always lose. If they didn't lose, people who own these plush machines wouldn't make money.
Joshua:So true, yeah, but did I lose?
Craig:No, it's just like magic, though, josh. It up come from the sea of plushies, the absolute sea. You can see it all the way across and there's little waves of it as well. And up comes this pink crab from the sea of plushies and he's waving to Josh like hello thank you for saving me, sir, thank you so much for these carded across to the hole in which we class as the boat the boat, and he has dropped into the boat or the whole of the plushy machine, and out he pops and, josh, you changed back in like it was like no big deal.
Joshua:Yeah, I think I was. If you watch the video back, I was pretty like, yes, I did it. I was so impressed to win in front of you because I saw the doubt in your eyes and Nancy's eyes.
Craig:She was watching too.
Joshua:She was throwing away a dollar Exactly.
Craig:But I didn't. Craig threw away another dollar, but again it surprised me and it surprised you probably. You got on the first go because you turned around and went oh, I get a second shot.
Joshua:Yeah, it was only 50 cents.
Craig:That's very rare. In the city.
Joshua:they're a dollar.
Craig:This was 50 cents a play If you don't get there for the pizza, go there for the plush toys, the plushy machine. We should get back to the tour. Anyway, you didn't win the second one. Okay, back to the tour.
Joshua:So guess what you think? Oh my gosh, this has been a long day. Is the day over? No, it's not over. We have more geocaching to do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we're out of pizza.
Joshua:We're pizzaed out. But we have to go to another pizza place and we go to.
Craig:Where do we go? Vc Tiffin Cameo.
Joshua:Yes, yeah, and this is. This was an ice cream treasure and a first for me.
Craig:Tell them what you got.
Craig:Well, we get, we go, we got, we got that. Of course there's the geocache out the back. Yep, first, of course, as part of the tour, we did that. First Come around the front. And while you were getting the sign of the logbook, josh, I was in like inspecting the actual board itself and having a look at exactly what they have. I had to research one thing, because a good friend of of the treasure of our town, um Carson he's that is is also known as Buckeye casher as well. That's his geocaching name. There was a Buckeye's Buckeye Sunday.
Joshua:Yeah, we're in the.
Craig:Buckeye state we are, and but I never, I never. I'd only heard of them, because of the castan as well. So I had to do some research and I researched what does Buckeye Sunday's taste?
Joshua:like. My understanding is that a Buckeye is a nut. Is that right?
Craig:Kind of because it's so, buckeye, if you don't know, if you don't know because you're not from Ohio or if you're from any other country. It tastes very similar to like Reese's peanut butter cups. Oh so this one means peanut butter, so it's the nutty flavor.
Joshua:So it's like Buckeye butter Cuz the nut yeah, kind of like butter with chocolate. You see, I hope, or I hope, are saying the right thing yeah.
Craig:Yeah, well, that's what it tastes.
Joshua:You can, yeah you. Well, good, you can correct.
Craig:I had I researched it, I Google, okay, and that's what it said. When Google as well said peanut butter chocolate, yeah, in in the Google. So I had to get Buckeye Sunday. And what did you get?
Joshua:I got a strawberry shortcake Sunday.
Craig:Yeah, but it wasn't short. Let's be honest no, cuz I got the large, it was huge.
Joshua:But to be honest, after all that, yeah Pizza, yeah, it kind of did settle our stomachs a little bit.
Craig:Well you, you had to settle your stomachs first as well, with your pepsid.
Joshua:Yeah, I got pepsid AC. That was. There's a tip for you. If you do this, if you get, if you have a problem with heartburn, get your pepsid on for sure.
Craig:Yeah and and contrary to us, you know popular belief Josh does have a heartburn. Cuz he does have a heart, that's alright.
Joshua:He's a nice guy. I do have a heart.
Craig:Sometimes it burns so you had this strawberry short and then I was beat. You were gone. You, I saw again. I saw it in your eye. You look at me. Go, craig, let's go back to the hotel now. The hotel we're staying at is the Hampton Inn. As we said, yes, the podcast as well. The Hampton Inn, and if you're coming to do this, this tour the pizza one or the geocaching?
Joshua:Yeah, either one, either one you can stay, josh.
Craig:You can stay here at the Hampton Inn and get a discount as well.
Joshua:Yeah, so, and you should stay. They're part of the tourism board. Yeah, you should stay. Yeah, take your time. Yes, enjoy, enjoy it. Don't just like I got my 19 caches. I'm done. Oh, I visited six places. I got a t-shirt going home yeah no like enjoy it, the food, the drinks, yeah, but there was actually some hiking and so the next morning yeah, the next morning we found some multi caches, and this is this is very common with geo tours and geo trails.
Joshua:Yep, that's right, you know sometimes they bring you the coolest places, but if they're in urban areas they're sometimes too close to another cash. So what they do is you find the stage one, get some information at the cool place and then it takes you out into the, into the wilderness. Yeah so we had a little bit of hiking this morning with Well we're a buddy.
Craig:A buddy, carson buck, like Kasha. What well, he showed up. What last night? Josh say okay, when you got into a room last night, josh, because we are staying in separate rooms as well. When Josh went into his room, I said to him you know, do you want to get a beer tonight, or something? You're like, yeah, I'll just, I'll see how it goes. I'll message you Within half an hour after you close your door. I messaged you and said like, oh okay, what time do you want to meet up tomorrow? He didn't answer me why? Cuz he's asleep, but I'm tired. But meanwhile, carson buck, I Kasha had seen on our social media that we were here and he lives like two and a half hours away and so he was stalking us too.
Craig:Yeah, a few people have been, a few people have told us about what to get, what to get here in town, but but yeah, so he was message you, me, and he said wish, and he was basically worked today as well. And then all of a sudden, oh, craig, I've managed to swap shifts with someone, so he was talking to me about coming up today anyway. So he came up and again he kind of stalked us a little bit, will stalked your login page where we were. And then all of a sudden we were in the Library cash Josh.
Joshua:Yeah, do you want?
Craig:to talk about the library cash first.
Joshua:The library cash is great. I'm not gonna say anything else other than it was great it was probably my favorite one of the tour to it. Yeah, you don't want to skip the library cash. It was very well done. Yeah, great job Nancy.
Craig:Yeah, and then we were in there, and who loves walking in it comes walking he yells out at the time, hey guys were like it's a library, shh quiet.
Joshua:No, that didn't happen.
Craig:No but he did say. He did say, oh, what are you guys up to? You know, like that sort of thing? But but yeah, one of the best things about these multi cash, multi cash is, josh, is what you were saying. Yeah, is that they did. It does take you away and these a lot, a couple of multi's we did. We're a nice little hike through what's the area outside the skirts of town. And, let's be honest, after the pizza and food we've been eating. Needed a little walk. Needed a walk it off.
Joshua:Yeah, yeah and then we were pretty much done, yeah, with the tour, yeah, but we had to go to one more pizza.
Craig:One more. Well, we had to go one more because we had to meet up with Bryce from the tourism board here. Yes, well, we had to meet up with him, but we were slightly early. So Josh turns around to me and says, oh, let's pre game, let's have a pre game. He says yeah, let's go back to Reno's Pizzeria, which is one of the last ones we did. Was was closed at the time when we did the cash at the front Right, let's go back there and actually look inside and maybe get a beer and and a pizza.
Joshua:Why not?
Craig:why not?
Joshua:You know we're on the pizza tour. I was like we gotta continue to get pizza, even if we're not hungry for pizza anymore. I was like yeah, I'm a person that you, you commit. Yeah, a hundred percent yeah. And so we did seven total Pizza places but Reno's, reno's pizza.
Craig:Josh, I had the, I had sausage and anchovy. You and and it's funny because, yes, you looked at me, she's from California, the server, and she's like, you know, oh, and show me, oh, like, are you sure I'm like I'm from Australia. She's oh, of course, and you'd have the anchovy from from Australia, like we have. Our palette is much more Unacceptable, like you guys in America.
Joshua:I guess. So not as sweet as your palette. Yeah, that's probably true. Yeah, so we had another piece. So that was the. That was our first lunch. Yeah, and then we had a second lunch Mm-hmm with Bryce. Yeah, it was the chamber board. I don't know what his title is, but he works for the Chamber of Commerce and the Tourism Board.
Craig:A director of tourism yeah, he's an awesome guy, Really. We've got a clip of him, Josh.
Joshua:We have a clip. We had a conversation with him. And I think this is just going to be a very successful trail. Yeah. His leadership is strong. It really is, and you'll hear it in the clip. We are here with Bryce Riggs. Hi, bryce, hey guys, how's?
Speaker 5:it going.
Joshua:We are talking to you because I would say you are the official ambassador, maybe yeah.
Speaker 5:I'll take it, whatever it were. The official ambassador. I look like the official ambassador. Let's just say that.
Joshua:Now for the GeoTrail, a lovely lady by the name of Nancy man. She did a lot of work.
Speaker 5:She did, yeah she's. She knows her stuff, that's for sure.
Joshua:Yeah, to get all those geocaches out is fantastic, but you, you were the one that is promoting this, getting it out in the world. The pizza trail. First question I have for you is how is it going? It's been out for three weeks.
Speaker 5:It's really really, really well From the cash side of things. We have 100 and I think 140 completes in just three weeks Wow, and then we're about 110, 115 of those have done the pizza trail as well along the way, so it's been really successful. A lot of people come in here just to check it out and you know. Then we joked about how many different pizza places in a small town community you have. Yeah, I think a lot of people are surprised how you know how many we have, the quality and kind of the stories behind each one.
Craig:Nancy did a great job, obviously setting up the actual geocaches themselves, but you are the instigator behind, instigating the businesses and getting the businesses involved. And the pizza tour what was that like? How were the actual pizza restaurants in the area? So you know, accommodate the actual pizza tour itself.
Speaker 5:No, it's really honestly exciting. A lot of our you know what we do is obviously is the educational side of things. They see, you know, the folks walk in the door and support their business, which is always good for the community. But, as you mentioned, with Nancy and her kind of background on geocaching, we work together to say, hey, you know, are you on board? This is what it is, this is what it will look like. And then Nancy from there really took it and met with them and said, hey, this is where it's going to be located. So people weren't surprised, I think. Obviously, in the world of geocaching sometimes you get people who have never heard of it, aren't aware, and they're like all right, so I have a bunch of strangers walk, you know, in front of my door looking at coordinates or look for this and so on, but for us it was just the educational.
Speaker 5:We already have those built relationships and so really you know natural connection from the geocaching to the pizza trail. It really made a smooth process for everyone.
Joshua:And why did you choose pizza? I mean there's a lot of different themes that you could choose, but you're like, oh, pizza is it? I think, I think it's a great idea Perfect.
Craig:Yeah, as we said before, we joke about, as you said before, there's there is so many pizza places in this county. Yeah, really.
Joshua:I'm sure that's part of the reason, but you you were saying before that there were some, maybe some other ideas on the table.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we joked about a couple different options right Pizza trail, funeral homes, ice cream and one of those things we say you know what's every small town community have, you know every village just kind of thinks everyone's got you know funeral home, etc. And so we just kind of said, hey, how do we encompass the entire county? And that's been a big thing for us. And really we looked out into the markets. Hey, you know what else is out there, and so you know there's other different trails out there. We really couldn't find a pizza trail like this. That was unique. And then it incorporated the small business, the small business owners and geocaching. So we just said, hey, we feel like this is a perfect opportunity to, you know, bridge that and bring it to our community.
Craig:That's right, josh. Can you imagine actually trying to do this with funeral homes? Like, let's be honest, you got to get six stickers, so therefore you got to knock off six of your family members and not even a t-shirt?
Speaker 5:But no, no, no, exactly, it was much better, sounds good. Episode of Dayline Wait Now, I love it.
Joshua:That's funny. I'm just imagining the geocoin the shirt for the funeral home tour.
Craig:Oh, it could be a coffin and you open it up like a. Halloween deal with a little little skeleton in the middle.
Joshua:Yeah, don't, don't put that one on the shelf completely.
Speaker 5:I know right Tourism perspective. You know the funeral tour. You know folks are dying to do it, but you know, there you go.
Joshua:And you can have tons of puns. So, all the geocaches are pizza puns.
Speaker 4:They are like for example slice, slice, baby.
Joshua:Another one bites the crust Cheese. The day is the yeast I can do.
Craig:There's just a few examples and also just to let you guys know as well, we did this stuff this yesterday, josh and I. It was the sixth cash in. Josh realized that there were all puns. Six cash is in. He realized that I just wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 5:So, the pizza was going to his head right it was a lot of laying that A lot of foggyness in the brain, in the brain.
Joshua:So how long is this tour going to be going? Is it a year? Is it? Is it kind of open ended, If it's like super successful?
Speaker 5:I think it's really open ended. Really. We said you know, we're going to gauge and see where it goes. You know, as we said beginning, we said hey, we, you know we don't know where it's going to go, how it's going to end up, you never know. But so far, you know, over three weeks in, we've been super happy with us, with with it and I think for us as the chamber and as the visitors, we're going to continue to invest in it. It's going to continue to bring people.
Speaker 5:I said not often in tourism, you know, can you obviously go back and track where people came from, what they do while they're here in tourism. This is kind of our dream, right when you can say they went to these different stops, they did this and the logs. It's kind of nice you can go back and look at, you know, all the, all the things they did along the way. People are so friendly about also sharing their experiences, which which we love. So we're also, you know, willing and excited to continue to invest in, you know, this trail If people keep on doing it and people have fun with it we'll keep going with it.
Craig:Yeah, we're just saying that raw numbers, though if you're contemplating doing this tour, you must get in pretty quick. Let's be honest with you. Bryce was saying before they've got 500 coins, yeah. Now, in three weeks, they've got rid of like 128 of those 500 coins, yeah. So how long have they got to get the rest of the coins? Let's be honest, though. True, they should have come out closer now more than later. Yeah, yeah.
Joshua:It creates an urgency, but I'm sure if it's successful you're going to make more coins, print more shirts, maybe, for sure.
Speaker 5:Yeah, more shirts We've already invested in more shirts. We've been, you know, surprised about them. You know we didn't know how many people were going to do the pizza side of things. Yeah, and you know, see what that opportunity out there. But you know, I think it's this thrill of trying six different places you've never tried before. That's kind of exciting, especially in the smaller town community. You can see, you know again the stories behind it. So every shop you go into they've really embraced the trail and you know they're talking about hey, where are you from? What are you doing while you're here? And it's just that friendly face and atmosphere which I think adds value to the trail itself.
Craig:And I must say this as well, and Josh and I are both in agreement with this. They are very, very happy to have people come in, you know, and they're happy to talk about the towns and whatnot as well. We had that lady from Reds, josh. Well, she was fantastic as well. She let me behind the actual in the kitchen, josh, with my camera and stuff that I'm going to be able to.
Joshua:I hope she didn't break any health codes. No, no, no, she wouldn't.
Craig:I don't think there's that many health codes where she's from anyway. Apart from that, you know a lot of people. You know there's even ones out there like Cindy from the from left field who gives a discount if you come in doing this tour. So they really have embraced it and they really are a really nice bunch of people here.
Joshua:So Bryce, I know this is like maybe picking your favorite child, oh yes, but I'm curious as I look at this list of 19 pizza places what is your favorite?
Speaker 5:It's a good question. So you would think that you know being I've grown up in this community. I grew up in Seneca County pretty much my entire life, and there are some places on there that I've actually never had before. So I like I never had some of these pizza and adicum before. I never had solver sumbulant as well, which is in Bascom, and so just this has been good for me to try different ones.
Speaker 5:Not going to lie, I grew up on Heavenly Pizza and so it's got sweet sauce. It's really good. It got Rino's, which is Frankie's originals. You got Naples, which is their full over. So the nice thing, I think, with this as well, is that when you go try it out, every place has their own special ad to it, whether it be, you know, maybe Feds, you know, with their breadsticks right, best breadsticks in Ohio, we'll take it. We'll take it kind of to fame, but for us I think it's like nice. But for me I guess it depends what I want. If it's a breadstick or those kind of things, I go to fads. If it's a pizza roll, I'm going to Heavenly Pizza. So it's, you know, depends what kind of sauce you want, but for me it just depends on the day.
Joshua:That was a very diplomatic answer.
Speaker 5:It really was Well done. It was. I'm a future politician.
Craig:I guess I don't think any of these pizza shops can listen to this podcast, but anyway, he likes you all.
Joshua:Now, you grew up in Seneca County, so other than pizza, what is like? What is the best thing to do here? What is your favorite thing about this community or something that is a really highlight?
Speaker 5:No, I think my favorite thing is, you know, I think everyone can say, hey, they really like the people in their community. But for me, you know, it's really my favorite thing. So I live in the downtown, my girlfriend and our dog and my cat, and whenever we're out walking around the community, everyone's you know, hey, bryce, how's it going? They want to stop and talk and for me it's just like the friendly aspect of it. There's a lot of different events, things to do, the fact that I live in the downtown. I really like a lot of things, that downtown Tiffin especially. We're going the direction, and so for me, I mean, there's a lot of different things. But you know, seneca Cowan's is another one. I know that was long your stop, but there's always just unique things to do and you would never think, oh, seneca County and have this, they would have that. But for us I think it's like just the uniqueness of things and the people involved with it.
Joshua:Yeah, and there's some bigger communities too. I mean, if you've never visited Cleveland, there's lots of cool spots. I've never visited there before and I've always wanted to go there. Cedar Point is 45 minutes away. It is, I understand, the roller coaster capital of the world, and so, bryce, thanks so much for talking to us, and we just wish you the best of luck with this pizza tour and anything else you think of along the way.
Speaker 5:Awesome. Thanks guys, so much Thank you.
Joshua:You know, when I hear that man talk, you know what I think, what he's proud of his town. That's a rare thing these days. Greg Bryce is proud of his town.
Craig:You have to get it.
Joshua:You have to get it, of course I had to get it in.
Craig:Geez People, will you know people, Josh, they listen up until the point if you say that, and then they probably leave. So well, good thing next time you say it right at the end.
Craig:Yeah Well we're close to the end here. So we are, we are, we're almost finished, because we've actually finished the tour now at this point in time. But Bryce, josh, he's, he's. He said he's grown up, he born, bred and grown up in this county, and yet some of the places that he actually went to to set up the, the trial itself, he hadn't been to. Yeah, and that just goes to show anyone out there itself as well, that there are places out there, josh, that you don't have to travel across country for, that are treasures of your town, and that's what this podcast is all about. Yeah.
Joshua:Perfect, so an overview, mm. Hmm, it was great time yeah. Yeah, I had a lot of fun so much very full Eat more pizza in a short amount of time that I had my whole life, but that was just fun. It's something that you can tell your grandkids about. Yes, and we had a great time and, again, the Hampton is great.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Joshua:Courage you if you come and do this tour. Yep, don't rush it.
Craig:No, no, take your time.
Joshua:Enjoy, enjoy the pizza. Yeah, but we sat at the bar every time and we had great conversations with the bar Attenders yep, with the people sitting at the bar, some of the locals. A part of the treasure of the town is is the people. Yeah, so if you're just rushing to cash, to cash or just you know, getting your pizza and sitting at your table and moving on. Yeah you're not really gonna get the full experience.
Craig:Exactly of, really, and I will say this when Josh said take your time also, josh, why not? If you're a geocaching, you got a geocaching mates. I mean, I had a great time with you Traveling around as well. We had good chats, good conversation, we had good beers, we had good pizza. Why not? Why not actually make it like a weekend or a long weekend away with you and a few few buddies, especially Joe buddies or your mates or whatever? Yeah, friends, yes, you know.
Joshua:You're gonna have memories that are gonna last and you're gonna have a beautiful coin, oh, to remember your trip and model eyes, the memories or a beautiful t-shirt, if you just do that exactly, exactly.
Craig:So yeah, make sure you come. This is a must, has to be done. The Seneca County is a treasure. It's a pizza treasure trove, as they say, totally.
Joshua:Special thanks to Seneca County and Bryce and Nancy for making this trip possible. And you know what? Who else makes this podcast possible?
Craig:Patreons the patrons.
Joshua:That's right, yeah, special thanks to our patrons that make this possible. We have a new one.
Craig:Yes, we brand new one smile makers has joined the 10 as well. My buddy smile makers, which we discussed as well, he's cashes themselves in Wyoming. When Dale and Bob remember, they said about going to Thermopolis yes, yeah they were he's cash.
Joshua:Oh, that's cool yeah that's really well. Thank you, smile makers and all of our patrons.
Craig:We have 19, now 20. We have 20. I didn't update the. I didn't update at least we got 20, now 20.
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Craig:Oh, so our next episode, josh Mm-hmm, are we gonna talk about? I didn't even update these listy. That's fine. I think we know where we're going exactly on our next episode. No, no questions asked. We are going to Cleveland.
Joshua:Cleveland rocks. Cleveland rocks, and you will find out. Does Cleveland in Indeed rock exactly?
Craig:because, josh, we talked about before, about going to these large cities and whatever else as well. We're gonna talk predominantly, predominantly, about the, the rock and roll Hall of Fame.
Joshua:Yeah, let's not give too much away. No, no, no.
Craig:But if you're not, treasures there and more about the treasures in Cleveland next month. We'll be on to the next month, the next next episode. Yes, we will be on there.
Joshua:So how can people find us? If they want to get ahold of us. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions, comments. We love to hear from you at treasures of our town podcast, at gmailcom or, of course, you can follow us on Instagram, facebook, twitter, youtube and so that's all we have for our show for today.
Craig:Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app and, as always, josh. You.