Treasures of our Town
Embark on an exhilarating voyage through the heart of America's captivating towns and cities with the enthralling travel podcast, "Treasures of our Town." Join your experienced hosts, Craig (Seemyshell) and Joshua (Geocaching Vlogger), as they unveil the hidden gems and extraordinary treasures that lie beyond the surface.
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Treasures of our Town
10 Strange Town Festivals In the US
Ever wondered what makes a town truly unique? Picture yourself in the heart of America’s quirkiest festivals, from the hilariously chaotic Testicle Festival to the high-stakes North American Wife Carrying Championships. As we narrate these tales of eccentricity, we also weave in personal stories, such as Josh's emotional farewell to his loyal Ford Edge after a whopping 273,000 miles and his new adventure-ready Subaru Crosstrex, perfect for Minnesota's unforgiving winters.
Get ready to be part of our geocaching escapades as we traverse the land of winter wonders and upcoming events that promise thrill and camaraderie. Discover the world's largest ice maze in Minnesota, set to make its dazzling appearance in our next YouTube video, and join us in anticipation for BamaRama in Alabama and the legendary Texas Challenge. And don't miss out on Geowoodstock’s "giga" status celebration, where we’ll reconnect with geocaching enthusiasts and live stream the pulse-pounding excitement of finding hidden treasures.
Ever tossed a mullet fish or flaunted your worn-out sneakers for a prize? These bizarre contests across America spotlight the joy found in the unconventional. Our hometown boasts and quirky tales will have you laughing as we explore everything from the dawn of the hamburger to slides of ketchup. Don’t forget to support our quirky pursuits on Patreon, where you can indulge in extra giggles and exclusive content. Buckle up and join our zany journey through the unexpected gems and colorful festivals that make America wonderfully peculiar.
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Speaker 2:On today's episode, we're going to keep with the weird, the quirky, the themes, like we did last episode as well. But this time we're going to keep with the weird, the quirky, the themes, like we did last episode as well. But this time we're changing it up, josh. We're going more the town's festivals. And I'm telling you, josh, I looked at my five and then I looked at yours. These are weird, quirky and strange. So, yeah, yeah, we've got five each, just like we did last episode as well. Mate, mate, what did you think about this? Even your research for this.
Speaker 1:Oh, um, yes, mate, mate, what did you think about this when you're research for this? Oh, I enjoyed it. You know we really love to celebrate in the united states so much, in fact, that we make up the weirdest stuff to celebrate and you know, every town wants to be known for something. So I think this is one of their ways to be known for their different thing by the kind of festival that they put on.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly you got anyone in particular of festival that they put on, exactly, exactly. You got anyone in particular of yours that what number that you'd like to sort of enhance more than the others before we start, or?
Speaker 1:No, let's just go along.
Speaker 2:Let's just go with the flow, let's go with the flow. Number two for me. Again, there were no particular order, but number two for me is is is quite quite particular order, but number two for me is uh, is is quite, quite humorous.
Speaker 1:I dare say yeah, but aren't we going to go to our delays and upgrades before we go? Of course of?
Speaker 2:course I'm just letting people know ahead of time oh, you're yeah yeah, I'm teasing, yeah, yeah I thought you were jumping right into the content. No, no, no, no, no. And when I get to number two, teasing number two, get it. Yeah, exactly there you go. You see what number two is. You'll get my little joke when I get to my number twos, anyway I can't wait.
Speaker 2:Josh, I saw speaking of what's been happening in your life. I saw a recent photo on uh on your instagram. I think it might have been is that what's going on there?
Speaker 1:let us know, let us know, one of my delays is my car died. No, I've had this car for a long time. My Ford Edge 2007 Ford Edge Get this, craig had 273,000 miles. Wow, wow, that's insane. I drove it into the ground.
Speaker 2:You got your money's worth out of it, yeah.
Speaker 1:So this week, this week, it was making really horrible nor noises in the front end and I knew it was finally time to not drive it anymore.
Speaker 2:When it started smoking no, and and not like the cigarettes or cigars, and actually at the back end it was about to start on fire, I believe.
Speaker 1:So, wow, so I knew I, you know, I probably should not be driving this anymore. And you know, when the car starts smoking and it makes weird noises and it has 273 000 miles, you're like I don't think, I don't think it's worth fixing this thing anymore. So I guess this is one of my upgrades I got a brand new car.
Speaker 2:Well, not brand new I got a new used car. New to you? New to you car it looked. It looked quite new. What, what year? Model? New used car? New to you? New to you car? It looked quite new.
Speaker 1:What year model is it? It's a Subaru, I take it. Yeah, it's a Subaru 2017 Crosstrex oh, yes, I know the ones. So it's like a little. It's basically like a little Outback yes, kind of a sportier outback. But I love the Subaru because, especially up here in the north, they're all four-wheel drive. No matter how big they are, they're four-wheel drive, which really comes in very handy here in Minnesota in our snowy weather.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's snow and ice and sleet and the things you go through, Exactly, exactly. So what did you do with the old one, Josh? What did you give it away? No, we're going to junk it, we're going to junk it, you're going to junk it, you're going to junk it.
Speaker 1:Some guy's coming over on Thursday and going to take it to its grave.
Speaker 2:I don't know what they do.
Speaker 1:I don't know what they do. It's probably scrap metal. They probably pull parts off of it. The sad thing is you know how it goes is you always put nice tires on them before your car dies? So that's a bummer. There's good tires on them, but what?
Speaker 2:can you do? What can you do, mate? What can you do, what can you do?
Speaker 1:So that's actually my delay. Yeah, that's your delay, oh delay.
Speaker 2:I've got a new car.
Speaker 1:That's a delay. Well, yeah, it was a delay, though, because you know, yeah, a new used car you have to still put down some cash.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly how about you?
Speaker 1:what's been your delay?
Speaker 2:uh, my delay, I'm still, you know, like it's got. It's obviously van related as well. Um, you know, like last last week as well, I had the the issue with my, my vent, my roof vent thing, and you know, now that's all fixed, it's all good, um, but I'm, I'm, I'm juggling the electrical in this van. And when I say juggling, juggling the electrical, um, the batteries in it themselves, they are only agm batteries, they're not uh, they're not the deep cycle, but so they can only go down to 50 and overnight, you see, it draws a fair bit going through, because I've got my fridge on, I've got, you know, maybe, some lights on. Sometimes I even have a CPAP as well that I use too. So it does draw it down quite a bit.
Speaker 2:And let alone the times when we do these podcasts, et cetera my live podcast on a Wednesday night with Scott Burks, and stuff too on the GCPC. I need my Starlink up and the Starlink draws the battery as well. So it's like ah, so I'm just, I'm, it's not really a delay, it's just a. It's a bit of a headache how I'm just juggling the battery life of of the van and, uh, I need to upgrade the batteries. I think I do. I need to upgrade them to the, the, the heavier duty batteries, um, where they can literally go all the way down to zero percent, you know, rather, rather than 50%, before they have any issues. So that would be my delay, josh. What about your upgrade?
Speaker 1:What about your upgrade, apart from your new car? Yeah, yeah, question about batteries. I'm curious Does it charge when you drive it? Is that how it charges?
Speaker 2:Okay, it's both. So I've got two big solar panels on the roof, um, so it charges via solar and direct sunlight, um, and it also charges as I drive as well. Uh, I can, I got a big actual, like a separate battery pack, itself a jackery battery, um that I charge the jackery battery only when I drive, but again it's got to charge through the battery system. That's that's you know in there at the moment. So that's the way it works, um, either when I drive or via the two big solar panels on the roof as well.
Speaker 1:So I say yeah, yeah, okay, cool. Yeah, it sounds like you need you do a lot of stuff where you need a lot of power, so I do. I think it's time for an upgrade for sure exactly speaking of upgrades, my upgrade, and I'll just be honest, it's tough to find an upgrade when I'm I'm just cold. It's just cold up here. You're down in florida and I'm just cold, um, but you know, us minnesotans, we have to embrace the cold. So yes, last weekend I visited the world's largest ice maze I did see this.
Speaker 2:I did see it might have been. What was it on? What was on your be real, josh. You had it on your be real as well. I love that hat that you wear when you go outside in.
Speaker 2:Minnesota, you have to wear a warm hat the one, the one with the fur, and it goes down over your ears and down your neck. It's, it's, it's the same. What's his name? The uh, the uncle from, uh, that movie that wore that hat as well. Oh, there's Goliath. No, it wasn't Goliath. It wasn't Goliath. It's okay, we'll keep going. Yeah, what was his name? The uncle in that movie.
Speaker 1:Uncle Buck, yes, uncle.
Speaker 2:Buck, it's an Uncle Buck hat. Yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:Oh, you got to stay warm. My uncle, uncle Buck hat, yeah. But I visited the world's largest ice mage and it was official. Guinness book of world records came and they gave this ice maze and award is actually on the field of where the Minnesota Vikings actually practice and so they have this big ice festival and it was a huge maze. It was really fun because I'd say mazes is kind of geocaching adjacent, so you you walk in there and you're trying to navigate through and you're having to find, like these different objects and if you find all the objects and you get a prize. So it was like a little bit of like a scavenger hunt inside the maze.
Speaker 2:It's not just getting out.
Speaker 1:No, and then also through the whole maze, there were ice sculptures. So there was like Olaf and like there was like a bear and there was like eagles and like so it was. They had like actual ice sculptures inside the ice maze and we're talking these were huge chunks. I mean, there were giant walls that they had created. Anyway you will see it, because next weekend the video will come out on my YouTube channel.
Speaker 2:There it is. I'm not just sharing. I'm not just sharing because of that but that actually was.
Speaker 1:That was a highlight for me. Uh, upgrade, uh, as I embrace the cold weather. How about you? What is your?
Speaker 2:upgrade. Well, my upgrade, josh, is I'll just say this a bamarama baby this. So, bamarama, I'm going to be there this time. So, bamarama, remember you and I went last year, and with Tim as well, and we were there for like four days and that was four days filled full of events and full of fun and full of geocaching and friends. This time, josh, they're doing events 10-day or nine days out from the main event. I'm going to be there for the first one, so I'm going to be in for the first one. So I'm going to be in the Bamarama area, in Foley and the Gulf Shores for like 10 days straight. So, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You're going to get to know them well, because I kind of wish we had a little bit more time, because how cool was that giant fire pit at the two Laura's house out in the country? Yes, like it looks like a ton of fun. I bet you they have multiple events out there. They do.
Speaker 2:They do, and the two Laura's. They have multiple bonfire events as well, so there's more than one, just the one. The main one, though, is on, I think it's the night before Bama Ramma on the Saturday night, and, josh, I'm going to be late to that. Why? Because I've got to drive to Pensacola to pick up Scott Burks from the airport. He's flying in late Saturday night. He's going to be at Bama Rama for Sunday. He's going to stay with me. I've got an Airbnb for us as well, so he's going to stay with me at the Airbnb, and then, after Bamaama, I drive him straight back to Pensacola again so he can fly home. He's there for 24 hours.
Speaker 1:Wow, and he's really only going to be there 22 hours because you have to drive him there and back. This is true, this is true, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that'll be Scott Burks. I'll be picking him up in that too, but no, that's going to be absolutely my upgrade. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to spending some time with some other geocaching mates as well. And yeah, just sometimes not traveling, sometimes too much is a good thing, you know.
Speaker 1:So having a little bit of a home base, I'm so jealous because you know we were there for, I think, four days. So the fact that you get more time there, you can take your time. You're not rushed, we have to max out every single day exactly. So I am excited for you and I'm again very jealous.
Speaker 2:But but next month, next month, craig, we will be reunited and it feels so good right you've always got to get a song in josh oh, that's right, we're gonna be in floralsville, that's right.
Speaker 1:That's right. That's the texas challenge, which is the the middle weekend of march. We're gonna be there for like four, four days enjoying the texas challenge, a geocaching event I have never been to. I've never been it's the og it's like the original geocaching event.
Speaker 2:It's the original mega. Like it wasn't, it is the number one mega ever. I think happened. No, it wasn't. No, I don't think it was the first mega geo.
Speaker 1:Geowoodstock, I believe, was the first mega, but I think, oh, the first event ever.
Speaker 2:Event ever, yes, that's what it is that's what it is the first event ever. Yeah, yeah, it was in a. It was in a bar or something. I remember that now too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, okay. So it's literally the OG of all geocaching events, full stop. Yes, yes, so that's really cool, and there is big news this week.
Speaker 1:And that is big, big news Geowoodstock, which is another event that we will be reunited and it feels so good.
Speaker 2:I'll have another sip of my beer while you sing. Yeah, go ahead while I sing.
Speaker 1:It has officially gone giga and if you don't know what that means, that means that there will be over 5,000 people there. This is only the second time ever in the United States that a geocaching event has gotten that big and, craig, it went giga, I think, sooner than the last time it was giga, so I'm guessing this might be the largest geocaching event ever in the United States. We're going to be there, we're going to be on stage, we're going to do this podcast on stage at 12.15 pm.
Speaker 2:Be there, it's going to be awesome. I can't wait. And not just that, if you are there as well, josh, we're going to organize you and me are going to organize a one-hour-long Adventure Lab at that location. That's it one hour long. So if you're not there, you're going to miss out on five finds. If you're there and listen to us, you're there and listen to us, you're going to get the five finds as well.
Speaker 1:So that's really cool, we're going to turn it on when the podcast starts and we're going to turn it off when the podcast ends.
Speaker 2:And Josh. We always say as well this podcast itself is we love travel and our travel is guided by a love of location-based games like geocaching. And let's be honest as well, the reason why I come over to the US in 2018 in 2018 was for the first american giga in cincinnati. You remember, if that cincinnati didn't go giga, I wouldn't have come over, uh, and driven across, I wouldn't have met you face to face, I wouldn't have josh, I probably wouldn't be here, right now, just you would probably be in australia yeah, exactly, exactly so how?
Speaker 2:how the table turn tables, how to say like a giga event has changed your life and it does this next one might change your life as well.
Speaker 1:Who knows, maybe, who knows who?
Speaker 2:knows what's going on, josh, who knows what's going on? So, no, it's really really cool. And congratulations as well to all the uh, all the ambassadors or the, the hosting uh crew, the whole lot, uh, for their hard work that they all put in to try and get the the word out that you know this is going to be a big event and everyone should attend. So you're going to be there, I'm going to be there, we're going to um, spend some time with tim minnesota boy as well, and our good friend rob coach v is going to be there as well. So the four of us are sharing a dwelling, an Airbnb, with some beers in a hot tub, I dare say.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's going to be fun, and you know what I mean. Everybody's going to be there, like the who's who of geocaching is going to be there. So, if you're thinking about it, if you're thinking about gosh, I would love to go to a geocaching event this year to celebrate. I mean, this is a big year, 25 years of geocaching. It seems appropriate that we have a gig event for 25 years of geocaching. Get to this event. Get to this event. If you only have one choice, that's right, because it's going to be special.
Speaker 2:It really is. It really is. And Josh moving in now speaking of West Virginia, guess what? West Virginia is my very first place for my weird and wonderful festival quirky things. What a segue.
Speaker 1:I have another, segue, I have another segue, you segue as well. This was a planned one, because this is coming out. This episode's coming out on February 3rd, correct. Well, yesterday was Groundhog Day, that's right. That's right, and I can't think of a more iconic, quirky festival than Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:This poor groundhog, literally reefing him out from his nice little warm hidey hole, just for the sole purpose of holding him up in front of a crowd of people just to see if he looks at his shadow or not. That's insane, it's quirky.
Speaker 1:It is quirky and someday I would love to celebrate groundhog day in pensatoni, pennsylvania, but I wouldn't mind celebrating in woodstock, illinois, which was the shooting location for groundhog day, the movie which is just as just as iconic.
Speaker 1:So, yes, there's a. And this year gosh, this year was the year to go, because groundhog day lands on a sunday. Yes, it's, it was yesterday as this, as this is being posted. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, we know, in america we love to celebrate weird things. It's a big celebration. Towns have these festivals and a lot of these towns. They have the festivals to put themselves on the map. Yes, because they're smaller towns that that want to be known for something and they're towns that that want to be known for something and they're like what do we want to be known for? It will be this. So, craig and I, we're going to talk about 10 of them, and now, now now now I can go.
Speaker 2:Now I can go Number one. And again, as we said last episode, josh, these are in no particular order whatsoever, it's just random order itself, and the links to all these are in the description, as you're listening to it as well, so you can click through and have a look at the websites that we found in relation to it. Okay, josh, as I said before, my number one is in West Virginia and it's in Marlinton, west Virginia, and it's called ready for this, the Roadkill Cook-Off. The Roadkill Cook-Off. I saw this straight away. I went oh, that's got to be in mine, that's got to be in mine.
Speaker 2:So it features dishes that are actually made from animals commonly found as roadkill. Not necessarily they don't have to be on the road, you don't have to pick it up, but they have to be the roadkill type. So, like squirrels, you call them opossums, raccoons, that sort of thing, the things you find on the side of the road normally. But you can actually cull these yourself and make delicious dishes out of them too. So, josh, they're chefs themselves. They compete to create the tastiest roadkill-inspired meals, and the festival embraces a quirky, like survivalist type approach to the whole dining experience. Now, would you try anything from the roadkill festival?
Speaker 1:No, n-o-no, it's just, you get so. It's so disgusting and actually yet one time get this, get this Craig. One time when I was like freshman year in college, there was this like maintenance man. I went down to school in Texas and there was a maintenance man of the building and we walk into like the common area and he lived in where, in the where we lived right. We walk into the common area, there's a stove and we're like why does it smell so nasty in here?
Speaker 2:and we open up the oven and he is cooking a squirrel no that he found on the road. No, yes, that's true story oh no true story.
Speaker 1:It was so disgusting.
Speaker 2:That's one of those college high school myths where the janitor who lives in the basement is cooking up squirrel.
Speaker 1:It happened. It was so gross. And the guy if you saw this guy, you met this maintenance guy you would be like, yep, that tracks.
Speaker 2:Well, I have seen in my travels, I do. I do see a plethora of different types of people. So, yes, it's. I just suppose there would be people like that in especially good old us of a but yes, yes, yes, no, look, I'll be honest, josh, I would try these dishes. Um, they are chef in, like actually chef. So you know, they're not. They're not going to look like, as I said before, they're not actual roadkill. They don't pick them up from days old from the side of the road. They actually, you know, um, butcher them themselves for the sole purpose of this event. So they're healthy meat. Um, I'm I'm guessing that they're not going to look like what they used to, that you're not going to pick off a little, you know, bones of us out of a squirrel's leg, for instance. You know, and suck a bone out of a squirrel's leg like you do a turkey leg at another festival. It's not going to look like that, and so I would try anything and everything that they have on sale. I would, and you still wouldn't Thinking about it.
Speaker 1:No, no, it did. The squirrel that I saw cooked in that moment. It did look, the meat looked like chicken. It looked like the legs the legs looked like chicken. Yeah, but it did not smell like chicken.
Speaker 2:It smelled nasty, cooked right. Everything tastes like chicken. Just saying All right, josh, there we go. We started off with a nice little flavor taste in the back of everyone's throat. Let's go to your number one. And what do you have for your number one? Let's? Let's wash out their throat with what?
Speaker 1:with some water. Oh really nice transition. So we're going down to where you are currently well you're not far, this far south but it is the lower keys, florida and what is it low in the lower Florida is the Underwater Music Festival. Underwater Music Festival. It combines music and marine conservation and fun.
Speaker 2:I did see some photos of this as well. But yeah, you keep going. What else have we got for us so?
Speaker 1:the musicians actually are divers and they, they dive down and they actually play music underwater. That's, that's.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know you could play music underwater well, you think about it though, josh like how do whales sing to each other from miles away? Water does carry audio quite well wow, it does it, can't it?
Speaker 1:It's got to sound weird. So I wonder, if the musicians are down there, they're playing or whatever, then other divers are down there to listen to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Must be, must be. I want to see the go-go dances with the bubbles going up from their mouths. But if you have a look on the post itself, josh, some people are pretending you don't have the good old air guitar. They don't have the air guitar. They've got water guitars, but they're in the shape of a big starfish and they're pretending because there's obviously no strings on them as well. But they're pretending, so they're doing air guitar underwater with a big starfish, so it looks really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it looks like they have puns for musical instruments like a Trom bonefish or a flukalele A flukalele, I like it, a flukalele. And they play ocean theme music. I guess they play like the Beatles Yellow Submarine. Yeah, they actually have like a special underwater speakers to make this happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, because obviously you can't have electricity going underwater, but there's actual speakers that can go underwater.
Speaker 1:So this has been going for over 35 years Wow. It's a big deal. It looks like, it's like, also like a fundraiser, fundraiser for a coral reef conservation. Oh yes, yeah, that makes sense. You know, you know all about coral reefs because you're from australia, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly yeah. The great barry reef in australia, um, and it does need conservation as well. The coral reefs, because they are slowly dying off with the different temperatures and different things happening underwater, and plastics and all that sort of stuff too in the ocean. So it it is, it's, it's good to actually promote, um, you know, because when you think about just, we don't normally see that as humans, we're never hardly underwater, and the ones that are minimal percentage, so you don't see what, uh, what's actually happening underneath the ocean.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's good to consider these sort of things too and according to the government, that's where all the aliens are living.
Speaker 2:So this is true. This is so we got to help we got to help the aliens.
Speaker 2:We can't ruin their, their life no, exactly, we've got to help them out too as well. So so that's maybe that's the reason why they come in and flying over New Jersey. But anyway, all right, I'm going to get on to my number two, josh. Now we're ready for this. We teased this before. I know, I know, and it's okay it's okay to say this because I can still make it sort of PG-ish and that is it's in Montana, it's in Deer Lodge, montana. It was formerly held in Clinton in Montana as well, but it's called the Testicle Festival, or I shortened it myself and call it Testy Festy. But anyway, it has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 1:It just rolls off your tongue. The Testicle Festival.
Speaker 2:The Testicle Festival off your tongue the testicle festival. The testicle festival, the testy festy, um. And it is exactly what it sounds like, and that is. It focuses on eating deep fried bull testicles, also known as rocky mountain oysters. It's known for a very rowdy atmosphere, obviously, with wild contests and adult themes. Entertainment, obviously, bull riding, lots of alcohol involved. You know these single things like too. So some events, though, have been shut down due to excessive partying and of alcohol involved. You know these single things like too. So some events, though, have been shut down due to excessive partying. And now josh, after 35 years of events due to lawsuits, etc. America can't have anything fun. By the sounds of it, it is now closed for good as of this year, so I know, I know, bring back the testy-festy.
Speaker 2:That's what I say.
Speaker 1:I imagine, though, just the marketing of the testicle festival. I'm sure it brings in a special crowd. Well, I'd be there for sure, my 15-year-old self will be there 100% with shoes on, all right, so get this Craig. Yeah, shoes on Alright, so get this Craig. I said I wouldn't eat roadkill, but I have had deep fried bull testicles.
Speaker 2:So you've had Rocky Mountain oysters.
Speaker 1:I have and get this. I had them with Scott Burks. We had them together. Oh, how romantic that was yeah, we had them together at the Geocoinest in Nebraska there's an old Periscope that he has somewhere where we did it. Live on Periscope and we did it for a path tag. If you eat it, you got a path tag, okay.
Speaker 2:If that's the case, did you actually enjoy it? What was it flavored like? If you can recall for you, I'm gonna say now you didn't like the texture you know, fried anything is good yes, pretty much so I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's just like kind of just tastes like pork that was deep fried.
Speaker 2:Deep fried pork, yeah, but the the, the texture of it is quite. It's different compared to a normal meat because it's a, it's an organ rather than the meat. It's like when you have a deep fried liver, for instance. It's an organ flavor, so, and it should be more of a gamey flavor too, rather than the actual meat themselves.
Speaker 1:So it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good. No, you know it was worth, but it was worth the path tag. I have got the path tag somewhere.
Speaker 2:You still got the path tag, so that I eat bull testicles or bull balls. Bull balls, yeah, exactly, and one day, one of your grandchildren. You're going to pay one of your grandchildren $10 to actually log all your path tags. I've heard too.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's my plan. All right, josh. Moving on to your number two now as well, what is your right number two? We're heading up up north, up to the northeast of a newery maine, oh, craig, newery maine. I want to visit maine for many reasons and now craig. I have another reason to want to visit maine, because maine is the home of get, get this. I love this. The North American, that means there's other. This is in other places.
Speaker 2:No, it's also open to Canada. That's what it means. It's open to Canada as well. Cause in Maine.
Speaker 1:That's for the North American wife carrying championships. It's a competition of wife carrying carrying your wife around, yeah, so I've actually seen this. It's like on ESPN eight. I've seen this on ESPN eight. It's a sport, but it is a Finnish tradition where you know, back in the days, the origins of the Vikings. You know they would have a wedding and then they would the the men folk would steal the wife would have a wedding, oh yeah, and then they would the the men folk would steal the wife, yes, of the way, and steal her away or whatever yeah and they would carry her away, and so that's.
Speaker 1:I believe that's where it got it started. Started, um, but get this, it's, it's. It's exactly what it sounds like. There's an obstacle course where you carry a woman around a 278-yard course with hurdles, sand traps and a water hazard called the Widowmaker. It's just like a pit. It's a pit of water that you carry your wife through, or partner actually, Because, get this Craig, anybody can be a wife.
Speaker 2:It doesn't have to be a wife. I was going to say so. Tammy doesn't need to go, you and I could go there instead, and you?
Speaker 1:could be my wife. Yeah, you could carry me, or I could carry you.
Speaker 2:Well, I know who's going to be carrying who You're not going to be carrying me.
Speaker 1:I'll give you the hot tip right there that's not going to happen, yeah yeah, so it could be friends, siblings or any, any teammate, you just have to carry them. And um the carrying styles. Oh my gosh, oh the carrying styles. Piggyback is allowed, but that's not. That's not good for speed. You need estonian carrying style where the wife hangs upside down on the carrier's back legs wrapped around his shoulders. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, so it's for optimum speed and balance, so fair enough fair enough, so get this, okay, they don't win.
Speaker 1:They don't win money, they don't win money they win.
Speaker 2:They win their weight in beer oh, oh, now I'm keen, now I'm interested yeah, whatever the wife's weight in beer and five times her weight oh, I guess they do have cash and five times her weight in cash.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, so if she's, she's a hundred pounds, then you win 500 bucks yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is a we got to go.
Speaker 1:We got to go. I've got to find a very light case Exactly.
Speaker 2:But then see, that's the thing and I like the idea of that too, josh and that is, if you've got a lighter wife, yeah, you're more inclined to be up ahead. You're possibly going to win, but you're not going to win as much as someone with a heavier wife who can pull out all the stops to get over the line first with a heavier wife, A 200-pound wife 1,000 bucks.
Speaker 2:Imagine that. There you go. There you go, exactly. Now also going back to the styles of Carrie, I did see a photo of this too when I did click on the link, and I see what you mean. Yeah, she's literally like hanging over the back of him with her head down near the top of his butt crack, basically, with her arms wrapped around his waist and her legs like like knees over his shoulders and and locked her her ankles around his forehead. So yeah it's really strange, but no, I like it.
Speaker 1:It would be really fun to watch. Yeah, yeah, it'd be really fun to watch. So newer remain, get up. Be really fun to watch. Yeah, yeah, it would be really fun to watch. So newer remain, get up there. New remain To watch some wife caring.
Speaker 2:Or get up there not to watch, but actually involve yourself into some wife caring as well. Why not? Exactly, exactly. All right, josh, my number three. I don't know what it is, but it looks like I'm going the food trail. I didn't even even know until, like, I've got to number three now. I'm still on food. I'm still on weird food this one.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna pronounce this wrong, but this is the way it come out is homogenous or is a homon humongous? How?
Speaker 2:would you say it humongous?
Speaker 1:it's a humongous, is it humongous? Oh, I think, I think it's humongous because it's it sounds humongous, humongous fungus humongous fungus festival is located in crystal falls in michigan as well.
Speaker 2:Humongous Humongous Fungus. Humongous Fungus Festival. It's located in Crystal Falls in Michigan as well. Humongous Fungus, I like it See.
Speaker 1:It has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 2:It does. It does now.
Speaker 1:It's like the testicle festival.
Speaker 2:Testy, festy, humongous fungus. Exactly, look at me. Wow. Anyway, it celebrates 37 acres underground mushroom. There's a 37-acre underground mushroom called the amyrella fungus, one of the largest living organisms on Earth, josh, wow, yeah, it features mushroom-themed food, including giant mushroom pizzas as well. See, I need to go to this too, josh, because you know me, I'm a fun guy, just saying.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:You are a fun guy, just saying, oh yeah, for sure, you are a fun guy. But then it also includes fungus themed parades, games and even fungus related science talks.
Speaker 2:I don't know, you know, I don't know what science talk would be a fungus they're going to talk about, like the feet fungus, the kind of fungus on your feet no, no, no, maybe, maybe fungus maybe how a fungus isn't is one of the obviously big living organism in the world as well, and it's also how it relates to the world itself, because you think about it, josh, everywhere in this world has something to do with everyone else and there's a reason for it being on this planet, and fungus is the same. So fungus feeds a lot of organisms.
Speaker 1:Yes, Think about this though.
Speaker 2:Craig, 37 acres, think about how big that is.
Speaker 1:It's one giant mushroom under the earth. It's the world's largest living organism.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. How many football fields are in an acre or?
Speaker 1:whatever, I have no idea but I know an acre is like. When you think of acre, you think of like a farm, right? Yes, so you have acreage, so it's like I'm far. I'd say. Acre is like a farm yes somebody needs to write us.
Speaker 2:You know our friend da truck he will yeah the farm, yeah dan you know?
Speaker 1:you know how big an acre is?
Speaker 2:tell us I guess we could just ask google, but we have.
Speaker 1:We have dan da truck who is also a patron. Right, he's a patron yeah, he is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he is, yeah, proud patron of that too. So, yeah, the fungus fungus, humongous fungus, josh, would you try again? Would you try any of this? Would you try a fungus pizza? Would you try any of these sort of fungusy stuff?
Speaker 1:are you a fungus? Are you a fungus girl? I don't like mushrooms, josh. They have kind of like a slimy texture. Oh, it's a texture. It's a texture, josh, it is texture. They have a slimy texture and they really don't taste like anything.
Speaker 2:See, I disagree with you, josh, in this regard, because I think they're delicious. I love mushrooms. I do a sauteed mushrooms with a nice little creamy jus as well. Put that over some buttery like buttery toast. Oh my wordy lordy, me, that is a delicious breakfast.
Speaker 1:So so yes, josh, I like some mushrooms, some buttery mushrooms, on a steak, but that's just because steak is so good that you can put anything on steak, exactly.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't mean to be disingenuous, but you know what I'm talking about. Like you know, I don't want to argue with you, but the fungus is delicious and mushrooms are delicious.
Speaker 1:There you go. This is coming from a guy who loves Vegemite. This is true. Let's just take that all in.
Speaker 2:Take that all in Americans. It's not deep fried, so it's okay. All right, josh. What's your number three? Josh? What's your number three? Mate, what's your number?
Speaker 1:three. All right, I've been to this place, craig. I haven't been to the festival, but I've been to this place because we're going to the hawkeye state. We're going to this, the state of my birth. We're going to near where all my family lives. We're going to a little town called mount vernon, iowa, mount vernon, mount vernon, and you might think what's mount vernon known for? Yeah. Town called Mount Vernon, iowa, mount Vernon, mount Vernon, and you might think what's Mount Vernon known for? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, this is an example, I think, where they created something just to be known for something, because Mount Vernon is the home of the grump. What? The home of the grump.
Speaker 2:You know what a grump Is it.
Speaker 1:You know what a grump is.
Speaker 2:Like just a grumpy old man.
Speaker 1:Yes, An old, crotchety, grumpy old man. So they celebrate the grump, wow. And they elect a town grump, wow. So the town votes, votes for the grump of the year, wow. It's celebrating the grump of the year, wow, celebrating the grumpiest attitude. So locals nominate and vote for the most delightful, cranky person in town.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:So I guess maybe there could be a woman grump too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Possibly. I mean, this one sounds like a blast to go to just saying.
Speaker 1:The grumpy people. Yeah, so there's a grump parade, of course Of course, grump parade.
Speaker 2:There's always a parade.
Speaker 1:People dress like grumpy characters. Yeah, you know it's cute. They have an anti-fun festival, so it's grumpy things.
Speaker 2:So you know the clap and cheers that everyone's got to be. Everyone's got to boo the, the parade that goes past.
Speaker 1:It was gonna boo the parade like oh, this is horrible, I can't stand this. Why? Did I even come here but it's so funny because they celebrate grumpiness. But they'd all do it for a laugh. Of course it's. This is just. This is americana right here, just like let's celebrate something really weird, let's celebrate the grumpiest guy in our town and maybe make him happy. Basically, that's the plot of the Grinch who Stole Christmas.
Speaker 2:Basically. Basically, it is Exactly right. But how would you feel, josh, if you lived in that town? How would you feel? People nominating you for the Grump of the Year? Honored? Really, I would feel honored. Would you live up to the grump? Would you need to live life like a grump?
Speaker 1:I think I would just really, because I just want to win, I just really go for it, just be a real jerk.
Speaker 2:You'd be all in. For 12 months beforehand You'd be all in.
Speaker 1:Be just a real jerk for one year. So I can be the be the grump of the year, and then you know, then I wouldn't have to be grump again.
Speaker 2:Oh geez, you see it's very, it's very typical american, a very typical american. So I'll say that. All right, josh. Moving on to my number four. Now, my number four, um, this actually came from australia originally when I was doing some research. Yeah, and it, and it's called the Tuna Rama Festival. But here in the US it's actually in Floribama, in the Bama Rama. That's where they do it in Floribama, and it's called the Mullet Toss.
Speaker 1:Wait, they do it in the bar.
Speaker 2:No, no, they do it. No, no, no. They close the road and what they do is the line between Florida and Alabamaama, that actual, the state line, the borderline. Right there is the line which they've got to toss from. So they can try and toss the the, the mullet. They use a mullet, not a tuna. They toss the mullet from the border, so from in florida, as far as I can, into alabama, you see.
Speaker 2:So that's the mullet toss, and but, it did start in port lincoln in south australia and I've been there as well. Um, I didn't participate because I was like 12 at the time, but now it inspired events and along the us coast towns, like like for obama as well with the mullet toss um, the main event is the actual tuna toss or slash mullet toss, fish toss, whatever you want to talk about it. Uh, the competitors hurl large dead tuna fish as far as they possibly can, using like normally hanging onto the tail and doing like the what do you call? It's like the discus sort of style. I dare say you know that sort of feel. I do believe like they try and use some sort of centrifuge to try and spin that thing around and then fling it as far as they possibly can. Um, and it is inspired by local fishing culture.
Speaker 2:But now is an international oddity and uh and other as well as fish contests, such as like the slippery pole climbing too You've seen that as well around where they literally get some like fish guts and that and slime up a pole and you've got to try them and they put the pole on. I think it's maybe like a 20 or 30 degree angle going out into the water and they put a flag on the end of it and you've got to run out and try and get to the flag. But literally people just slip off left, right and center into the water all the time without getting a flag. But there's obviously money involved in regards to the person who can toss the most fish, the person who can get the flag, that sort of thing as well. So yes again, josh would you?
Speaker 1:try this one it sounds like fun, it sounds but it's probably more fun than the grump festival I don't know. Don't knock the grump festival until you tried it.
Speaker 2:Craig oh, now, now he's going for, you're going for king grump straight away um, when you first said mullet toss, I thought you meant like they would throw a guy.
Speaker 1:They would throw a guy that was wearing a mullet.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, the mullet fish. There's a fish. There's a fish called a mullet you know what?
Speaker 1:There's a trend now with yours they're all stinky and gross. A mullet, a tuna fish, we got mushrooms. We got testicles. I got a question for you, Josh. And we got roadkill. Why are all yours so disgusting? Because that's what you're after weird and quirky?
Speaker 2:No, not disgusting. I've got a question now for all Americans out there why do you call it tuna fish? Why not just tuna?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Because there's lots of kinds of fish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you don't call it fish for everything else you know you call a flounder, a flounder swordfish?
Speaker 2:no, but swordfish is actually called a swordfish. It's not called a sword. Tuna is called tuna, uh see. So what do?
Speaker 1:you call tuna fish english is, english is a um is a real tricky language for really smart people, I guess you don't call it a mullet fish, you don't call it a flounder fish.
Speaker 2:You don't call, you know, you know, flake fish, shark fish. It shark fish. It's only tuna fish. That's the only thing you call it. So very strange, but again, that's the only thing that I can think of. In regards to America being different from the rest of the world, you love tuna fish rather than just tuna. I'm going to eat a can of tuna fish. No, you can just eat a can of tuna. Let's be honest. But anyway, I'm digressing as I always do.
Speaker 1:Yes, all right, are you going to yours? We're, we're, we're staying up east. Okay, we're going to. I'm gonna murder this name yeah, you are.
Speaker 2:Uh, you did last episode montpelier montpelier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds about right montpelier, montpelier, montpelier, montpelier, montpelier. Oh, I'll say it like that Montpelier, montpelier, montpelier, vermont. Never been to Vermont, but you might want to visit Montpelier Vermont in mid-March, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because that is the time of the rotten sneaker contest. Oh, now he's got the smelly festival.
Speaker 1:I will own it, I will own it, I will own it. So this is funny. This started as a gimmick. This is a festival. It started as a gimmick for the brand. Do you know the brand? Odor Eaters.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, we got Odor Eaters in Australia.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, odor Eaters, the sponsor, was trying to find the stinkiest shoes they could find, oh, oh was trying to find the stinkiest shoes they could find, oh. So they're like the big sponsors. So you bring the most nasty, smelliest shoes you can and it's judged, get this. This is a. This would be an interesting job. Ready for it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Judged by professional sniffers humans or dogs. No, it's people.
Speaker 2:It's people, they're professionals.
Speaker 1:And they humans or dogs? No, I'm it's people, it's people, they're professionals and they, they determine the stinkiest shoe wow nasty, you know how you win. You want to hear how you win. Yeah, the judging's based on odor, not just odor, no, but how worn out the shoe is as well, how nasty it looks and overall, overall foulness. Just, it's just like the nastiest, smelliest, sweatiest, grossest shoe and, uh, sponsored by odor eaters wow, and it's open to kids and adults.
Speaker 2:It's pretty cool again being in the us that there'd be a few people I know would actually be in the running to win this and be world champion. Let's be honest, you see them a lot on tiktoks and stuff too. You know that sort of thing as well. But wow, josh, would you have any? You wouldn't have any of yours at all because you think about if you were, if you were to do this type of thing, you'd actually have to probably wear them for months beforehand with no socks on. Don't wear socks. Yep, you gotta have your feet sweat inside them yeah, you need a leather.
Speaker 1:You need a leather loafer. Yeah, wearing no socks and you have to like.
Speaker 2:Every day you have to jog in this leather loafer with no yes, exactly and go through mud go through mud and stuff as well, yeah, to make it look bad, make it look bad bad and make it tattered, and then you'd even. You need to really sweat your feet, need to sweat inside. Yeah, you got to sweat.
Speaker 1:You got to sweat.
Speaker 2:And sweat for. Oh no, I think too much about this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1:But it's worth it, Craig, because you not only get a cash prize if you win, but you get this A lifetime supply of odor eaters.
Speaker 2:I'd be using my cash prize to transplant my feet after that, just saying, because you wouldn't be able to scrub the stench off your feet either.
Speaker 1:You're going to get warts, you're going to get fungus, for sure, and we're not talking about the mushrooms.
Speaker 2:No, no, exactly, Exactly so again, josh, I would prefer eating testicles. I would prefer eating roadkill, I'd prefer in a mushroom. Then go to this one. This one for me is is is really not good out. It's not really. It's not my cup of tea, so to speak aperitif so to speak. I think maybe we should rename this episode the grossest festivals yes, we should we should.
Speaker 1:That was. That's probably the worst one so far. That's pretty bad. That's, yeah, I think it's. I think it's worse. It's worse than all mine.
Speaker 2:You know mine were pretty bad, but yeah, that's worse than all mine. All right, josh, what? What am I up to now am I up to? I'm up to my last one number, last one, last last one. Already. This is not a good timing. I will say All right, josh, this one here you cannot eat. This one is more quirky. This is a bit weird and quirky, but it's not disgusting, it's not terrible. It's called the Woolly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, north Carolina. Woolly worms. What do you think of, josh, when you hear the words woolly worm?
Speaker 1:I think of like a caterpillar. Yes, exactly right, like a furry little caterpillar.
Speaker 2:Yes, it involves races between woolly bear caterpillars. They're called bear caterpillars and Josh, very much like the. What do you call it? Oh, we just spoke about it before the 2nd of February, the Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day Very much like Groundhog Day is that the bear caterpillars predict the severity of the winter as well. You see, in North Carolina the winning worm's markings are then analyzed to forecast the snow levels and temperatures. That's how they do it. So the winning worm is the worm that's analyzed to predict the actual snow levels and temperatures. Thousands of people attend and also Josh, get this. You can bet on the caterpillars and then witness the folk meteorology they call it too. So you can actually put money. See, it's very Australian now when you put money on anything at all.
Speaker 1:Well, a lot of these festivals that we're bringing up involve money.
Speaker 2:Yes, true, why would you otherwise? It's a draw. It's a draw. You got to win some money.
Speaker 1:carry your wife and win some money in your weight and beer. Exactly how big is a woolly bear caterpillar? Are they bigger than normal caterpillars?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, they're a normal sort of size, but they're very furry type caterpillars as well. Sort of size, but there are woolly, like they're very furry type caterpillars as well. Um, this one, this one, to me would be an easy one to go to, just to the sake of being going to it once, you know, and then you, you celebrate the whole festival afterwards. You know, it's not, it's the whole festival, isn't around this. It's very much like the groundhog day sort of style, whereby it happens once and it's done, and and then everyone you know, then everyone goes and drinks woolly bear caterpillar beer at the local pub. Let's just name that for the namesake Exactly. But yeah, so that's my number five, josh, the Woolly Woman Festival. I like that. I finished nice and easy. You went hard at the end there.
Speaker 1:Oh well, you were talking about you still have one more to go. I have one more.
Speaker 2:I have one more. I have one more.
Speaker 1:This is the tenth one oh, I've been here as well more than once. I've been here twice. We're going to seymour wisconsin, home of the cheeseland, and in the month of august seymour wisconsin has get this burger fest oh wow, like hamburgers yes, because, okay, seymour wisconsin claims to be the city where the hamburger was invented. Oh, I wonder how contentious that is. I'm sure it's very contentious but I've done some research um.
Speaker 1:The. The festival honors a guy named Charlie Nugreen they call him Hamburger Charlie and back in 1885, he flattened a meatball and put two slices of bread to the fair goers the local fair and to eat, to go, and the hamburger was born there. It was, see, and there's a big. I have a video of this. I have a couple videos of this. I have a full-size YouTube video and I have a short. Really, yes, I do, it'll be in the show notes, but there's a giant statue at the in the middle of the town and it's it's a giant statue of a hamburger, charlie, and he's holding a giant hamburger. And then you walk across the street and there's the like a gigantic craig, a gigantic grill, huge, and this grill, when it's not in the winter, it has like a statue burger on it, but they take the statue off in august and get this. They cook on this real grill an 8 266 pound hamburger. No, yes, yes, it's humongous.
Speaker 2:That's insane. Yes, how many cows died for that thing? A lot, a lot.
Speaker 1:It's a huge grill and it even has flipping equipment, so they flip the burger on this giant grill. It's humongous.
Speaker 2:You'd have to flip that with like forklifts and stuff. Surely I know Wow.
Speaker 1:This is a sight to behold. Wow, this is a sight to behold. This is cool. And get this, craig. I did a retreat. I lead retreats, yes, and I led a high school retreat in Seymour, wisconsin, and I didn't know this was a big deal, but they were like, oh yeah, you got to go down there and see Hammer and Charlie. They're like we have a huge festival in August and then they're telling me about the ketchup slide. I'm like what catch? They're like, yeah, every year we do a ketchup slide and basically it's do you know what a slip and slide is? Yeah, yeah, they just have a big slip and slide, but instead of water, they just fill it with ketchup.
Speaker 1:Oh and they just slide down and they I mean they probably look like they've been murdered.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They just get completely red in ketchup.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Ketchup slide.
Speaker 2:See, because I know myself back in Australia, when we have the slip and slides, you go down the slip and slides. You never stop at the end. You always go past the end, oh yeah, and you're always literally slicing your skin up on rocks and bits and sticks and stuff as well. So you do that with this, but then the ketchup would actually integrate into your skin.
Speaker 1:Oh wow. But I guess yeah they slide down hills in a ketchup slide, Wow, and you know every town has a nice fun, run Well this isn't a fun run. This is the bun run. Oh, of course, 5K, 5k bun run 5K bun run, 5k bun run, get those buns running. Yeah, exactly so yeah, wow. Seymour, Wisconsin. It's, you know, they believe. They believe that Hamburger was invented there. It wasn't Mickey D's, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:You think actually think about it as well when they say that how it was invented in regards to people wanting a meatball to go, and so he flattened a meatball. That makes sense.
Speaker 1:That actually makes sense. It does. It's very believable.
Speaker 2:It is really believable. I mean, that's just saying that the meatball has been around before hamburgers, though I suppose it's possible as well.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I mean like Italy italy yeah exactly. Um, well, I did look it up. I think it is contested. Of course it's yes, but yes, they're, uh, they're claiming it everywhere.
Speaker 2:That's the thing is.
Speaker 1:That's the thing is these small towns. They like to claim stuff. Yes, so, like you know, like this is a bonus one. But riverside iowa, the future birth home of James T Kirk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to bring that one up Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a perfect example of you know, they have Trek Fest. I think down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's a great. What a way to get someone to your town, though. What a way to get people to your town, get excited.
Speaker 1:But I wouldn about going to the smelly shoe one, josh, but I would go to this hamburger one just saying yeah, and I'd go to any of my food ones awesome, although the ketchup slide.
Speaker 2:That's nasty. I mean, I don't want ketchup in all my crevices. No, no, no, no, no. I'd watch it though. I'd watch it happily. It'd be entertaining, especially because the college kids it'd be greater. They'd be like, oh, they'd be hammering down there. You know someone like you know your boys, hayden, they're smashing themselves down. Yeah, you remember what it was like being that age, but you wouldn't do it now for sure, exactly, exactly. But anyway, josh, how was that for the top 10? That was or not top 10, but it was just 10 10 week.
Speaker 1:There are so many towns and there's so many festivals about so many things. Craig, we could do many. We could probably have a whole podcast about celebrations in small towns across the United States. This was fun to talk about. We should maybe talk about it again sometime, as we're thinking about show ideas and, by the way, if you're listening to this and you have a show idea, we would love to hear it. But I think it's okay to repeat some of the shows and have, like you know, like as we're going to do soon, march Madness yes, you know, roadside Attraction. March Madness, exactly Part two it's coming up next month.
Speaker 2:Next month so.
Speaker 1:I think it's okay. We might need to revisit this topic, because this was a lot of fun to talk about. Exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly. And if you do want to reach out to us as well, to, to, if you have a topic or idea, the best way to do it, josh, is becoming a patron. That's the best way to do it. And, and before we get into our little patrons, we've got two brand new patrons, josh. Did you see that Two? I know I know GeoVet 91 and I'm going to ruin his last name. I can't.
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Speaker 1:Mike.
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Speaker 1:yes, if you've been joining our podcast, like geovet 91 and mike m, we would love your support. I you know. I think they joined because the last time, craig, the last episode, we had a little teaser we had some bonus content we did because we offer the golden nuggets. Yes, you, this is treasures of our town. Yes, and we have little golden nuggets that we hide. We hide them in Patreon. We open up a treasure trove, but only the patrons get to hear them.
Speaker 2:And before you go on, before you go on, we've got to let people know as well what it was, because we didn't tell anyone what it was. We didn't even know we were going to do it until after we finish the episode. Last last episode, and that is. There was a contentious issue there. We had the peppers with dublin dr pepper and the other, the other dr pepper, in the corporate, corporate, corporate, yeah corporate in in texas, and so we then discussed josh over the next.
Speaker 2:you know it was only 10 minutes or whatever long. But then we didn't discuss the difference between dublin dr pepper and this is where I made mistake, and that is, the virtual cash was at Dublin Dr Pepper, it wasn't at the Houston one. So we go into that in depth.
Speaker 1:on the patrons as well. The Waco one, sorry, waco one.
Speaker 2:Waco one, but we go into that in depth on patrons. So there you go. That's the reason why they need to become patrons.
Speaker 1:The Patreon is where we correct all our mistakes. So if you've heard any mistakes here, don't worry, we say the right thing over on Patreon. So if you'd like to join our Patreon, we would really appreciate your support. You got to help us, you know, craig. They got to help us get to Geo Woodstock. We got to get to that stage right, exactly. So join us at patreoncom backslash treasures of our town.
Speaker 2:You'll find our patreon there and how else, josh, can people find us or contact us if they do have a show idea?
Speaker 1:yes, feel free to reach out to us at treasures of our town podcast at gmailcom, or follow us on facebook, instagram, x and youtube so that's it for our show for today. Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app and as always, josh, may your travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hidden gems around the world. See you next time. Celebrate good times, come on. Celebrate the grump, the grump, the grump.
Speaker 2:And yes, Josh missed to be proud of his town again. I'm so proud of my town.
Speaker 1:I'm proud that someday I will be the grump, the grump of Mount Vernon, Iowa. I'm proud of it.
