The Toilet Seat Museum and Texas Nights at the Truck Yard

A virtual geocache pointed us toward one of America’s most delightfully odd treasures: Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Museum. What started in a San Antonio garage now lives inside a soaring, neon-kissed shrine at The Colony’s Truck Yard, where porcelain “columns,” floor-to-ceiling seats, and a playful ceiling homage to Michelangelo turn folk art into a full-sensory experience. We swap FOMO for wonder as we tell the story of a hospital-door detour that became a permanent exhibit piece, the final geocacher pack-out before the move, and the ongoing hunt for seat #1341—still tucked away somewhere, if our banana-box notes are right.

The Truck Yard itself is a vibe: backyard party energy, rotating food trucks, live music, and the Beard Science Sour House pouring high-character drafts and cocktails served in IV bags. Step out of the museum and into a private tiki-adjacent karaoke room, where we belt Elvis under a parade of taxidermy squirrels. Then expand the map. In nearby McKinney, Tupps Brewing mixes rustic mill charm with patio fires, Martin House pours Texas-strong favorites, and Arcade 92 resurrects joystick nostalgia for one flat entry fee. It’s a perfect loop for geocachers and Munzee players who value the chase as much as the destination.

We also dig into why location-based games keep delivering: they nudge us off the highway and into the places locals love, where stories linger longer than any log entry. If The Colony is on your route, go see the museum, scan the hidden caches and Adventure Lab, sip a sour, and sing one song you didn’t plan on. And if you spot that elusive 1341 plate, send us a photo—we’ll cheer from anywhere. Enjoyed the journey? Follow, share with a friend who loves roadside Americana, and leave a quick review so more curious travelers can find their next stop.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Toilet Talk Cold Open
• 2:45 Texas Trip FOMO And Guest Intro
• 5:50 Pee-wee Fun, Halloween House, And Demogorgon Roof
• 9:45 Delays, Birthdays, And Goonies With Live Orchestra
• 15:30 The Legend Of Barney Smith Begins
• 19:40 Get-Well Toilet Seat And Museum Craft
• 23:50 Packing The Museum And Final Geocacher Visit
• 28:30 The Colony’s Truck Yard Display Tour
• 33:40 Searching For Seat #1341 And Hidden Caches
• 37:55 Backyard Vibes, Food Trucks, And Live Music
• 42:20 Private Tiki Karaoke And Squirrel Decor
• 47:20 Games, Neon, And That Tequila Performance
• 51:40 Beard Science Sour House And Quirky Cocktails
• 55:20 Cache Details, Barney’s Ribbon Cut, And Plea To Truck Yard

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

I mean, don't you listen to the podcast? Do you didn't you know it was coming?

SPEAKER_02: 0:04

I don't know if it did if everybody you don't listen to our podcast. I do. If everybody that listens to Treasures of Our Town, do you love to travel?

SPEAKER_00: 0:21

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

SPEAKER_04: 0:27

And I'm Craig. Welcome to Treasures of Our Town. It's a podcast that explores unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United States.

SPEAKER_00: 0:32

Excited by our love for location-based games like geocaching. Join us as we venture to some of the country's most intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way.

SPEAKER_04: 0:42

On today's episode, Josh, we're gonna go to the Dunny, the Crapper, the potty, the lavatory, the bathroom, or the toilet, Josh. Whichever it might be. But we're actually this this this uh podcast is going down the gurgler.

SPEAKER_01: 0:56

The gurglar. The gurglar. Dunny? What's a toilet? Is that a toilet? Dunny's a toilet in Australia.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05

Absolutely, yeah.

unknown: 1:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06

Do we have the dunny? Tim, Tim, do we have any other words for we got crapper? We got what well do we have any other words for toilet?

SPEAKER_04: 1:14

Potty, lavatory, bathroom.

SPEAKER_00: 1:16

I don't know. Can you hear me still? Oh, the the throne? The throne of the throne.

SPEAKER_04: 1:21

The throne, yeah. The throne's another one as well. So yeah, that's a good one, too. So that's a good one. Yeah, even even uh Goliath in the background. I bet you he needs to go potty soon too, just saying.

SPEAKER_00: 1:30

Yeah, sounds like it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:32

Gosh. Anyway, Josh, you just quickly introduced, we've got Minnesota Boy, Minnesota Boy, Minnesota Boy with us. Tim, a good friend of the podcast, a patron of the podcast as well. And the reason we have Tim with us today is because Tim, you and I, mate, uh, last week we we went to Texas together for a uh a Munzie trip, and we gave Josh the biggest FOMO you'll ever hear in your life, and that's what we're here to talk about, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 2:01

We're here to talk about my FOMO.

SPEAKER_04: 2:03

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 2:04

Well, not exactly, not exactly complete FOMO because I experienced something that you guys didn't experience. So I experienced like the front end of something, and you experienced the back end of something.

SPEAKER_02: 2:17

Oh, hello, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 2:18

Well done.

SPEAKER_02: 2:19

We are kind of making this a tradition, Craig, you know, because we have been to the Dallas Fort Worth area twice now without Josh.

SPEAKER_04: 2:26

Yes, yes. Yes, we have.

SPEAKER_01: 2:29

You have? Yeah, absolutely. Remember we were there last year. What was the other time?

SPEAKER_04: 2:32

Munzie events as well.

SPEAKER_01: 2:34

Remember? Yes.

SPEAKER_04: 2:36

And remember, we we stayed at that hotel that wasn't really up to scratch because they were renovating. I had to move rooms because of uh water gushing from the dunny upstairs down to my dunny downstairs.

unknown: 2:48

Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 2:49

I remember that. That was one of your our delays back then with it.

SPEAKER_04: 2:53

Correct. Speaking of delays, Josh, let's get into it. Uh, yours like what's what's your delay?

SPEAKER_00: 2:59

My delay is this FOMO. I you guys were sending me videos, you were sending me photos of like Josh, you would love this. Josh, everything we're doing, you would love. Um, Dylan's house, who works for Munsey, he he is like a big fan of Pee-wee Herman. He's like his whole house is like a Pee Wee Herman museum. Like, I was missing out, and that is my that is my delay that I did not get to enjoy Texas with y'all.

SPEAKER_04: 3:24

And even to the point as well, Dylan's house, like he is he is that neighbor, you know what I mean? The one who actually goes all out for Halloween as well. So all around the front of his house was all stranger things, Josh. They had these that's so cool. He's got these. I obviously he's made them himself in regards to phone, but like uh Audrey, uh one of Josh's friends as well, Audrey from the musical, uh what's the music called, Tim?

SPEAKER_00: 3:46

Oh Audrey 2, Little Shop of Horrors.

SPEAKER_04: 3:49

Little Shop of Horrors, that's it. He had Audrey coming out from the base of a tree, sort of thing. Um he's got a sign, he's got a sign out the front, and then every now and then the sign itself talks about the cemetery, but the sign flickers, the lights flicker like it would be in a spooky cemetery, too. So oh yeah. But the biggest thing, Tim, tell us, tell us the biggest thing on the rooftop from that movie.

SPEAKER_02: 4:09

What is that big spider like looking at?

SPEAKER_04: 4:11

Stranger things, stranger things, the demagorgon, the demagorgan up on the top of his house. A full-size demogorgon on top of his bigger, it's bigger than his garage. Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 4:24

And and the head back to somebody that commits 100%. He commits. I love him.

SPEAKER_04: 4:30

He does, he does. He did say he has a couple of issues every now and then in high winds. He's lost a leg here and there, and then he's jumped back on the roof and and reattached the leg or whatever during those times, which he said, like, yeah, it doesn't go too well with his wife, but you know, these things happen. But no, yeah, absolutely. This is where we were, Josh. So you had biggest FOMO in regards to last week of us in Texas. I will say, Josh, that is my upgrade was all of Texas last week. Um, that's my full upgrade. Tim, we'll go to Tim. What's your upgrade, mate? From uh last few weeks.

SPEAKER_02: 5:00

Noah's gonna be put on the spot for these upgrades. I know. Um, my upgrade was I don't know. Don't you listen to the podcast? Do you did you know it was coming? I don't know if it busted. If everybody don't listen to our podcast, I do. If everybody that listens to Treasures of Our Town obviously knows about geocaching and Munzi and the fact that we three play these games. And um I've recently started working for Munzi myself, doing some uh shipping and production of certain physical items. And um, my biggest upgrade of the week was just getting to know everyone else on the team, you know, just having fun together, working together, and just finding out where they're coming from, and I have a much better idea of where that what they're doing, which is very cool.

SPEAKER_04: 5:45

That's really not a bad upgrade, team. Really good up on the spot. That's a good upgrade, man. Good upgrade. Um my delay, Josh. You're running you run on my delay.

SPEAKER_00: 5:54

Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_04: 5:55

This this podcast is a day late.

SPEAKER_00: 5:57

I know that's the first time that's the first time this has ever happened.

SPEAKER_04: 6:01

Yeah, no, we've had we've actually skipped weeks before, remember. Of course.

SPEAKER_00: 6:05

But this is the first time we've got a day late. So apologize. Listen to this on the first day. Sorry, your Monday was horrible. Tuesday is gonna be way better. You're gonna you're gonna hear our sweet voices.

SPEAKER_04: 6:17

But they're gonna they're gonna drive to work on Tuesday now, Josh, thinking it's Monday and thinking they've got another five days of work up this week.

SPEAKER_00: 6:23

Oh, that's not good. Everybody, it's Tuesday now. It's Tuesday.

SPEAKER_04: 6:28

It's a Tuesday upgrade. Josh, Josh, we we need to get into your upgrade before we move on to this uh seat music.

SPEAKER_00: 6:35

Okay, so this is actually my birthday weekend. My birthday is tomorrow, which is happy birthday. Thank you. When people are listening to this, it's my birthday if you listen to it on the first day. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04: 6:45

And uh, you know, you've got to do something special on your 49, 50, 51, 52, what is it called? 48. The baby of the three of us. 48. Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 6:57

48.

SPEAKER_04: 6:58

I remember 48, Tim, because it's only two years ago for me, but do you remember 48? Because that's 11 years ago for you, mate. Just ask me.

SPEAKER_02: 7:04

No, I don't remember what I was doing then.

SPEAKER_04: 7:08

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00: 7:09

Anyway, this weekend I went to the Minnesota Orchestra, and you might think, oh, that's whatever. But if you remember at this time last year, what's my favorite movie, guys? What's my favorite movie?

SPEAKER_04: 7:21

Back to the Future.

SPEAKER_00: 7:22

Yes, I saw Back to the Future where the Minnesota Orchestra played the score. Oh, yeah, I rem I remember that. It was so cool. It was so amazing, it was so cool. But this year it was goo. I saw that they were doing Goonies.

SPEAKER_04: 7:36

So it's like your second favorite movie of all time.

SPEAKER_00: 7:39

Pretty much, almost very, very geocaching adjacent to the Goonies. Yeah, so that was really cool. I got to see the Goonies in concert with the score. It was I was speaking out.

SPEAKER_04: 7:52

Did you do your little hey you guys?

SPEAKER_00: 7:55

A lot of people did. You know, uh people dressed up. I I kind of regret that I didn't dress up because I do have a full sloth, I do have a full sloth costume.

SPEAKER_01: 8:04

Of course I did. Yeah, yeah, of course you did.

SPEAKER_00: 8:06

I didn't, I I didn't.

SPEAKER_04: 8:07

I just do my normal clothes. I do remember that video, one of the videos you did when you were in Oregon and you did visit the Goonies house. Because I remember it well because you did the the the fat belly dance thing. What's it called?

SPEAKER_00: 8:19

The the truffle shuffle. The truffle shuffle. That's it. The truffle fat boy.

SPEAKER_04: 8:25

Fat belly dance. I said the fat belly dance.

SPEAKER_00: 8:27

Oh, I thought you said the fast belly. It could be called the fat boy dance. No, the fat belly dance. Chunk is a little chunky.

SPEAKER_04: 8:35

The truffle shuffle. That's it. I remember you doing the truffle shuffle. I watched it in slow motion to see uh see the actual waves arronging your stomach, but anyway.

SPEAKER_00: 8:43

Yeah, you edited that video, so you're very familiar with that video. I actually watched it this weekend because it's so, you know, the the city of Astoria, Oregon is basically a character. I mean, you you it's just filled with um sights and sounds of of uh Astoria, Oregon, which was one of one of my favorite places to visit. So um, yeah. Goonies in concert. That was an upgrade. That was a good one. That was that's that's a good upgrade. I don't know if I would trade it for your week. I mean, we'll find out. I mean, we're gonna talk about what I missed.

SPEAKER_04: 9:13

You would have a hundred percent, a hundred percent, you would have traded it for the week we had. A hundred percent. So you would have traded it for that one night we had at the uh at this place we're talking about tonight.

SPEAKER_00: 9:24

Yeah, okay. At the at the colony slash truckyard. Oh, we're getting ahead of ourselves.

SPEAKER_04: 9:30

You are, you get you getting ahead of yourself.

SPEAKER_00: 9:33

So let's get into our topic. Our topic we said is toilets, not really toilets, but more specifically toilet seats. And so um, let's go back in time. Can maybe you can put a like a TikTok like sound effect, Tim, like tick tock, tick, t-shirt.

SPEAKER_04: 9:49

Tim Craig, you mean Tim doesn't do anything with the I don't do anything?

SPEAKER_00: 9:52

Oh, yeah. It's not my Wayne's world when they go back in time, they go Okay, we're back in time. We're back to the year 2018. All right, this is before the pandemic. This is before the world changed. And I had noticed on geocaching.com that this very special virtual geocache was the number one geocache, virtual geocache in the United States. And I was like, oh my gosh, I've gotta get there because the guy that owns this um place is like in his 90s. So I was like, I gotta get here. Um, because you know, this guy might not be around forever. And so this is Barney Smith. Barney Smith and his toilet seat emporium. And so 2018, I flew down with Tammy and we went. I I got a we got plane tickets, hotel rooms, just to meet this guy in his toilet seat museum. And I I I was sure to call ahead too, because I wanted to make sure he was home and all that stuff, right? Yeah, yeah. So we get down there and we beeline it, we go straight to his house. And now, so this this toilet seat museum is in his garage in San Antonio, just in a neighborhood in San Antonio. Yeah, and we get there and we like go and knock on his front door of his house, and there's a sign on the front door that says, I'm sorry, Barney is in the hospital. Oh my! He he fell, he fell, and he's recovering in the hospital. Oh wow, and uh I was like, Oh my gosh, bummer for Barney, poor guy, nine 90 years old. I think he fell. I think he fell. Yeah, and bummer for Barney, but also big bummer for us. We spent a lot of quite a bit of money just to go down here to meet him in his toilet seat. Yeah, and so I looked at Tammy and I was like, oh gosh, I feel like because I wanted to make a video, I'm like, we gotta do something. So we went straight to Walmart and bought a toilet seat and bought a bunch of Sharpie markers. There's a video of this out there, yeah a bunch of sharpie markers. And Tammy, who Tammy is much more artistic than I am, we did a get well card in the form of a toilet seat. On the toilet seat.

SPEAKER_01: 12:08

Very nice.

SPEAKER_00: 12:08

Yeah, on the toilet seat. On the toilet. And we just put it, yes, we put it at his front door.

SPEAKER_04: 12:15

And so what's happening with that toilet seat now?

SPEAKER_00: 12:17

So what happened was, well, this is that's part one. What happened was I got a message from one of his caretakers, uh, uh uh like a kind of a phone video. He was with his toilet with the get well card toilet seat, he goes, I've never, I mean, this guy's been making toilet seats forever, does you know, doing artwork on toilet seats. He goes, No, I've never got a get, he's like, I've never got a get well card on a toilet seat before. And he was smiling, he thought it was so cool. And so I guess he then I found out he so he the way he makes these permanent, because we just did it with a sharpie marker, he takes like a dental, a dental tool, you probably learned all about, and he like etches inside it. So that's how he makes it permanent. So he etches all the lines, and so the so he and it he goes, that's the way to make it permanent, and then of course he put it in his museum. Wow, and so now, so now I'm like, okay, now I now I'm a part of the museum, guys. I gotta get down there. So literally a year later, uh, my friend Brad from Washington State, he does he does this thing called uh his geocaching name's quads in the mud. Um, and he does these what what he calls insane train geocaching trips where they will like go do an area and they'll just like rent a car and they'll like stay up all night and drive all over and like you know, switch off driving, never sleeping. He calls it insane trains anyway. He's like, we want to do an insane train to to San Antonio. I was like, I'm in. So a year later, so then I fly down again. And this time I'm with Brad, but this time we call them ahead, we called ahead, and he's like, Yes, I'll be there. But um, I have sold the museum and I need I sold it. And one of the things with Barney, he was he was not going to uh he knew he was getting up there and he wanted to, you know, make sure the toilet seat museum was in good hands before he passed, right? And but one his one stipulation is that the whole museum had to stay together, people couldn't like pick and you know, yeah, a seat here, a seat there, a seat there. So he sold it to the colony, uh, which is also the truckyard, which is where you guys went. But here's the thing, guys we were the last ones. He goes, Thank you so much. It was a group of geocachers, probably about 15 of us, and we were the last ones to experience his toilet seat museum. We were the last geocachers to log the find, and we helped him pack it up. We helped, we put all afternoon, we put toilet seats in banana boxes and packed it up, and we were the last ones to see it. And I did, there's a video, I did find the box with my toilet seat in it. It was certain, I sent you guys the box number. I sent you the he's got these all in a book.

SPEAKER_03: 15:03

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 15:04

And and uh I but I found the box, I took it out, and I kind of you guys, I kind of regret it. I think I I kind of wish I would have stolen. I kind of wish I would have stolen it because we're having I'm having troubles getting it back.

SPEAKER_03: 15:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 15:18

Um, because I would love to have that back. But I didn't find it. Got my picture with it, and uh and so that was cool to be able to see the the permanent, you know, get well card in the museum. And guys, we're the last ones, we were the last geocachers because six months later, so we were there in February, six months later, um, he we found out he passed away at 98 years old. Wow. 98.

SPEAKER_04: 15:42

Wow, you and you turned 48 tomorrow, Josh. He was he was 50 years older than that.

SPEAKER_00: 15:47

I know. Wow, crazy. So that was 2019 that he passed away, and then and then the museum was heading up to the colony. And then I guess the museum went up to the colony before he had passed, so he sold it. I don't know if he ever got a chance to get up there and actually see it. I don't know if there were any pictures of him up there.

SPEAKER_04: 16:04

I mean, he's San Antonio to it did, and it just took a flick ahead just for two seconds, and that is in May of 2019, it actually was located in the truckyard in Texas. So if he uh you were last to find in January, May February, February, sorry, mid-February, yeah. Uh, and then May, it was in the truckyard, and then he passed in uh the July. Yes, two months after.

SPEAKER_00: 16:29

So I don't know if he ever got up there and got to see it because the pictures I've seen of it, it is displayed, it is just compared to what I experienced. Which they were mostly in they're mostly in um in banana boxes, yeah. A lot of them were packed up, but now they're just like displayed. It's like this this like epic, beautiful like display of all these toilet seats. I'm so glad that was preserved. But I've guys, I've never got to visit the colony. I've known many people that have gone there, and I keep on saying, my toilet seat is this number, it was in this box. And I they're like, it's not on the wall, it's not on the wall. It's in a box somewhere. Oh, I know. Everybody that goes there looks.

SPEAKER_04: 17:11

We looked, we looked very methodically as well. So, like Tim took one wall, I took another wall, and we're going from top, like all the way along the rows, top to bottom and down. And uh, and again, just to skip ahead as well, just a little bit. We're talking this used to be displayed because I've seen photos and I've seen your your video as well, Josh. And this used to be displayed in basically uh his back, his backyard garage or his garage is his garage, yeah. That's what it was.

SPEAKER_00: 17:33

So his garage is very small compared to this building.

SPEAKER_04: 17:37

The doors were open and the toilet station along each side of the doors and inside and whatever else. Well, this now, where it's displayed now, is almost like a cathedral, Josh. Like it's it's almost three stories high in the ceilings, a three-story ceiling.

SPEAKER_00: 17:51

They built they basically built a room for it. I mean, it's built before it was seats.

SPEAKER_04: 17:55

Absolutely, they really did. So uh again, we we we we're there now, so we might as well. So you walk through, and when you walk through these double doors, Josh, first and foremost, on each side of the doors, you know that the white columns you normally see on a Colosseum, they had those white columns, but those white columns, they're actual toilets like lined up next to each other, like on top of each other, one on top of the other on top of the toilet. Amazing porcelain toilets. So it was really themed. Porcelain toilets. Yeah, it was really themed. You walk through the double doors, and already it's lined up through this little hallway, and then after the hallway, you go through and all the lights are there, and you look all the way up to the ceiling. So there, I I didn't count exactly, we didn't count how many were actually on the walls itself. There was a few hanging as well down from the rafters that was like a little overhang area, looked like another secondary area. There's there's tables and chairs in here too, Josh. So you can stand around and having have your beer, drink your beer, go through the whole toilet seat, etc. But one of my favorites, Tim, and uh I pointed out to you as well when we did the video. Yeah, is uh the the roof, Josh. So the ceiling, the ceiling itself, yes, the ceiling itself was absolutely amazing. It's oh I can't think of it now. It's the uh the Michelangelo, you know Michelangelo, it's yeah, it's from the ceiling. And on the ceiling in the Vatican City in the Vatican City. Yes, where they're where they're they're touching each other's fingers, and it's called The Creation of Adam. That's the actual name of the that painting itself. So they've reenacted that, except except it is actually that's two fingers, but on one of the fingers is a toilet roll being passed to the other hand.

SPEAKER_00: 19:29

So that's amazing.

SPEAKER_04: 19:32

It is really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 19:34

There's got to be a lot of toilet seats in there because my toilet seat number, I I texted it to you, Tim, is 1341. So there's no way a thousand. There's I mean, a thousand. Are there a thousand in there? There are probably not a thousand. Very hard to tell, but there's a lot.

SPEAKER_01: 19:51

There's a lot.

SPEAKER_00: 19:52

Well, but and so the thing is, we and we can talk a little bit more about the truckyard and the toilet seat museum, but my my toilet seat is in a just in a box somewhere. You know how frustrating that is? It's and you know what? I and I've had people I don't know how I don't know if you asked anybody, and nobody probably knew, but I tried asking.

SPEAKER_02: 20:15

I tried asking a couple of their employees there, but you know, they're just moving tables around, they don't know anything about it.

SPEAKER_00: 20:21

I I message people, I've I wrote emails, they've ignored me. I just think if we have enough geocachers or enough people that listen to this podcast that go there, people, my my toilet seat is 1,341, and it's stored, it was stored in banana box 116. So I I mean that how specific can you get that? Yeah, just like where are they? Where are the rest of them?

SPEAKER_04: 20:45

I'm just sitting in the storage unit. I know just to let you know, just to let you know, Joshua, just to let you know, that you're not the geocaching star that everyone thinks that you are, because there were other actual geocaching toilet seats on the wall.

SPEAKER_01: 20:58

Oh, I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_04: 21:00

There's there's there's one on the wall from the oh, what's it called, Tim? Oh, it's it's it was a red, it was like full-on red um, not not down under geocaching. What is it? The dirt bag.

SPEAKER_00: 21:10

The dirt bag geocaching. The dirt bags were up there?

SPEAKER_04: 21:13

Dirtbags are up there, exactly. And uh, and there is actually a physical Munsey, uh Munzie, physical uh geocache inside there as well. And now there's a physical Munzie inside there too. The physical mud the physical munsey is hidden behind the uh the toilet seat with all the uh barcodes on it. So there you go.

SPEAKER_00: 21:31

Oh, that's so cool. So wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. There's a geocache in the room? Where is it? Correct.

SPEAKER_04: 21:39

Correct.

SPEAKER_00: 21:39

It's not outside, it's inside.

SPEAKER_04: 21:41

We didn't see it because we didn't open the geocaching at all. I know.

SPEAKER_02: 21:47

I know that's a that's a lot. We had already we had already experienced an open bar.

SPEAKER_04: 21:54

Yeah, it gets worse and karaoke. It gets worse because there's a five-stage adventure lab inside there too.

SPEAKER_00: 22:00

Which you could have got six fines there in there, yeah. Correct.

SPEAKER_04: 22:04

But by that time, as Tim just said, we we did have an open bar experience, and so yeah, our eyes, Josh, weren't as sort of you know uh focused, a little say that uh focused as they they should be when you go out jacket.

SPEAKER_00: 22:17

Oh my gosh. So the truckyard, the truckyard is in the col is in a what city is it? Is it's north of Dallas, right?

SPEAKER_02: 22:26

Well, I think the city is called the colony.

SPEAKER_04: 22:28

The colony is the city name, yeah, or town name, yeah. Suburb name for Texas, the colony. Colony, Texas. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00: 22:35

And the place is called the truckyard. So you guys have described the the museum. Is there like a is there like a logbook? Is there something that that um that tells of the history of like of I'm sure there's stuff about Barney in there?

SPEAKER_02: 22:51

Yes, as you enter past those those porcelain columns that Craig described in that little hallway, there's plaques and things there describing Barney and his life and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 23:03

And there's like there's like paintings and stuff of him, probably too. I've seen some of that too.

SPEAKER_04: 23:08

And that's and that's all in the beginning as you walk through in that little uh alcove area, the hallway, sort of thing. So they really do pay homage to him um as such before you go in through itself. But let's get back to the truckyard because I'll tell you now, we've got the rest of the podcast can talk about this truckyard. The truckyard itself, I would class it as a backyard party vibe. Like, so we we had it, we Ubered there. And Tim, we we all said this, we're in the Uber, and as the Uber's going around the corner, we're looking, going, this is a dead end street, and we're in the middle of a suburban area, like what the heck? And then we got out, turned to uh to our left, and there it was in all its glory, the truckyard. And what we're talking about, so Josh, you know of um uh those upside-down cars that are nose deep uh in different locations. What's it called? I can't think of the name.

SPEAKER_02: 23:57

They have like a car henge one that's all like Cadillacs stuck in the ground out west.

SPEAKER_04: 24:01

Yes, that's right. They do that on this one in truckyard, but they're all along the actual main uh walkway as you go into the truckyard itself. And I'm I'm saying uh there's probably about 30 plus cars nose deep into the into the ground, lining each side as you walk in. It's all very rustic, it's got the truckyard sign, it's it's got the uh the the Ednot LEDs. What do you call it? Your your favorite type of lights, Josh. There as well. Neon lights, it's got the uh it's got all the metal stuff, the metal works happening as well. Um, it's even got an old truck to begin with at the front, parked at the front, that says uh be careful, live snakes within, you know, uh and things like that too. So that's really, really cool. And yeah, it opened up. We walked out, and literally it was. I felt like Tim, you walked into someone's big backyard and they were ever having a party. You were having a party.

SPEAKER_02: 24:53

Yeah, it's a great, it's a great entryway. It kind of goes downhill as you're walking in. And then you when you get to the bottom past all those cars sticking out of the ground, you get to the bottom and it kind of just opens up into this backyard area with lights hanging above and a stage and food trucks, you know, kind of surrounding a big area. Very nice. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04: 25:15

You are you are encouraged as well to to bring pets like you know, your dog around or even kids and stuff too. Um, but after uh 9 p.m., and then all those under the age of 21 have to be out of there too. So by 9 p.m. Because that's when it becomes a bit of a uh adult party, a bit of ruckus happens, you know. But but the live bands there, and even to the point where and we we went around this particular corner um and we had it having a beverage and we looked up. And Josh, you know that old school cat I call them caravans in Australia. What do you call them here? Like um camper vans. You call them campers. But the old school ones, you know, the ones with a rounded front and rounded rear end, like really old. It was one of those, right? A camper van, an old camper van. The whole side of this camper van has been cut out and removed. It is sitting there, and the all the inside's been uh gutted out, but it's got a bench seat all the way around the edge with little tables, so you can actually sit, like the whole group, the whole our whole party of of 11 of us sat in this little camper van area.

SPEAKER_00: 26:18

Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_04: 26:20

Out of the out of the wind, out of any rain or whatever, and and and yeah, just literally had a little chat. And so that's really cool too. So I love that camper van, uh Tim. That was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00: 26:29

Yeah. I'm looking at the pictures of this. Are there a lot are there were there a lot of like um food trucks and stuff out there, or do they serve their own food?

SPEAKER_04: 26:36

Both. Bit of both. So they do have a rotating food truck um uh festival going on all the time as well. So sometimes there's like barbecue, other times there's uh tacos and the Mexican style one. And then they even had like an Asian fusion sort of uh uh truck as well when we were there. But they do have food served in-house kitchen as well. Um the in-house kitchen one is served to your tables with a QR code. Um like you got bench seat tables, like a picnic tables, if you like, all the way around the area, or you can walk out and and get one of the food truck foods as well.

SPEAKER_02: 27:09

So one of the tables we also sat up for a while, Craig, was the uh back end of a pickup truck. So you actually literally there was like a table in the middle and you sat on the edge like you were sitting in the back of a pickup. It was very cool.

SPEAKER_04: 27:24

Like like actual tailgating, you know, where we we tailgate for real. Yeah, and and a good friend of ours, a good friend of the podcast as well, Lou Varterman, that's Rob's uh wife, she was there and she's from England. And uh like myself from Australia, we don't do the tailgating thing like you do in America. And so her and I were sitting there together as two uh immigrants tailgating uh in the middle of uh Texas. So that was really cool. A couple noobs, exactly. But as Tim said though, this this uh this tray, this truck tray, it was cut off from the rest of the truck. It was literally just the tray sitting on the ground, the table in the middle, and you sat on the edge of the the tray and uh and had the things like that, I think to me, Tim, as well. It was very rustic, very unique, and uh you know it gave that feel to it as well. Again, that backyard feel that would look really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 28:13

Yep. Wow, very cool. And besides zip lining there, looking at zip lining. I didn't see that. Fritz Adventures, it says Texas Fritz Adventures. I don't know. That might be something else.

SPEAKER_04: 28:28

We didn't see we didn't look up and see anyone go rah. So no one was on the lines going past us at all. What we did see though is uh a lot of live music, so there was another area um where they do have a full staging setup, etc., and a lot of live music, live bands are there. Uh we just saw a solo guitarist there as well singing um local music stuff as well, which is really cool. Um, but and that but they change it up every single day, it's different. You know, they there's not the same thing, you're not the same band, it's not the same person, it's not the same food trucks, it's so it's always switched up. So for me, if I was a local that lived around that corner, you you go there once a week and experience something new.

SPEAKER_00: 29:06

Yeah, that's what I like. For sure. Yeah, yeah. It looks like a party. Did you do karaoke here or was it somewhere else?

SPEAKER_04: 29:14

Yeah. Tim. Hang on, hang on.

SPEAKER_00: 29:16

Karaoke jam.

SPEAKER_04: 29:18

Before we start, before we start, all I say is we did it here, the karaoke we did here. Tim, he was the karaoke. Surprising me, the karaoke king.

SPEAKER_00: 29:27

It was surprising. You said a video, I was like, I was like, how many drinks did Tim have?

SPEAKER_02: 29:32

It was very well like we have been in karaoke situations before, but those karaoke situations have been like in a public setting.

SPEAKER_00: 29:42

Yes, this was just with you guys.

SPEAKER_02: 29:45

The last time we did karaoke together, Josh, you did a great Elvis tune. I forget which one. Yeah. I don't remember. Many turns. It was really, really good. And so uh as an homage to Josh, I picked an Elvis song.

SPEAKER_00: 30:00

Which one was it? It was Now or Never. Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_04: 30:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 30:06

And uh but it was cool because Rob had prearranged to rent out a private karaoke room for our team. And so we had it all to ourselves. And it's also in the same building as the tiki bar, which was a very cool room. And so you could just order drinks like through the wall while you were doing karaoke and he would just hand them to you.

SPEAKER_00: 30:28

Yup.

SPEAKER_02: 30:29

Very cool.

SPEAKER_00: 30:30

Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_02: 30:31

Flashing lights, uh crazy wallpaper, great microphones, and loud music, and it was a it was a great time.

SPEAKER_04: 30:39

Tim, my favorite part of that uh private uh karaoke room. Josh, you love this. Up on top of the wall along the ceiling line itself, there was no less than 15 to 20 stuffed squirrels that were all in different poses and they all match different uh uh workplace themes. So one was a blind squirrel, another one was like a doctor's squirrel, another one was a teacher's squirrel, another one was a police officer squirrel. Like they're all in different poses, they're all featuring different sort of uh hobbies and different different workplaces. So that was really cool. Um the the the wallpaper was next level, but as you said, Tim before, this is a private function room you hire out privately. At first, you know, um I mean these are this is a kind of a newish team, and me, I'm I'm a I'm a for a singer, I'm a good dancer, I've always said that. And so I got in there, I got in there, and and to begin with, Josh, it's you know, it's a bit somber, a bit quiet. You have one or two, you had Dylan who's very good at singing as well. He got up, started singing, Tamara, she got up, started singing. And that's the thing, when the the good singers get up, the rest of us go, I'm not, I don't want it now. I feel really so I feel like we should have started with the bad stuff and ended with the good, you know. But but in saying that, by the end of the night when we're there, all of us were up dancing, partying, singing, all together, and uh it was an absolutely fantastic night. And a big shout out to Rob and Lou and the rest of the team as well for making that night so much fun. But yeah, surprise me, Tim's voice, but but only with certain songs. There was a song that trick it was a song that Tim attempted to sing where he was really good up to a point, but that got too high for you, Tim. What song was that one?

SPEAKER_02: 32:26

That was uh Billy Joel, New York State of Mind.

SPEAKER_04: 32:29

Oh, that's right, yes. It got to that point, it just went but I can't, I can't, I can't talk. Yeah, have a guess what song, have a guess what song I picked to sing. I picked two, but have a guess what one of them. For yourself or for myself, for myself.

SPEAKER_00: 32:44

I sung one. I know, I know you did um men at work from a land under a land and under.

SPEAKER_04: 32:50

And I I talk it, I don't sing it.

SPEAKER_00: 32:52

It's a rap. You rap it.

SPEAKER_02: 32:54

It was a really, really good like poetry spoken word reading.

SPEAKER_00: 32:59

I I we heard it.

SPEAKER_04: 33:01

We heard we've heard that it that but Josh, my favorite, my personal favorite all-time karaoke song that I can sing really, really well is uh tequila.

SPEAKER_00: 33:12

Yes, tequila, tequila. Did you do that? Did you do that?

SPEAKER_01: 33:16

Yes, I did. I absolutely did.

SPEAKER_02: 33:19

Well, Craig, you also Craig, you joined in on a couple other songs too with Rob and you did uh Ice Ice Baby, and you were able to show off some of your dance moves during that one.

SPEAKER_04: 33:29

Uh well, I know. I yes, yeah, this is true. I mean uh but I will say is I didn't realize, you know, you start doing rapping now. What am I, 50 years of age, doing this rap song that I've remembered since I was 18, 17, 18 years of age, that I memorized, that's still in my heart wired into my brain. I don't realize though how much how much fit you fitness you need to actually be able to sing in this. So I have a new, I have a new uh what do you call it? Uh a new, you know, um appreciation. Appreciation, that's it, for those singers out there who actually sing and dance at the same time. I'm like, yeah, I couldn't even stand and sing or let alone stand like sing and dance at the same time. So yeah, wow. I just I just wasn't breathing properly. I don't think I was breathing at all, but anyway. I don't know how you do it, Josh. I don't know how you do it.

SPEAKER_00: 34:22

I say's baby has a lot of words to it. That's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_04: 34:25

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_00: 34:26

Like I remember like the first couple lines, but then it's like a lot of other oh no, I know, I know it all. You know them all. You know him. He's a favorite. He is he should be in the rock and roll hall of fame.

SPEAKER_04: 34:36

Exactly, as we've spoken about in previous episodes. That's right, that's right. So man, yeah, it's a private room.

SPEAKER_00: 34:44

Is there anything else about the colony that we need to know?

SPEAKER_04: 34:46

Um, there was actual games outside as well. Like you we're talking about because it's like an adult playground. So, you know, you've got your you've got it's not just a bar to hang out and whatever else. Well, you can actually, there's the uh the the what do you do it in America here, the between the sandbags and each other's holes. What's it called?

SPEAKER_02: 35:02

What's that called? Well, it's either called bags or cornhole.

SPEAKER_04: 35:06

Cornhole, that's it. Yeah, the like you know, your cornhole, then there's the jenga, the big oversized Jengas and all those sort of games as well. So it's it's more interactive fun uh with that sort of stuff. And it's yes, yes, you can go there with kids and stuff as well, but it is actually kind of aligned towards the outside.

SPEAKER_02: 35:23

Up up near the tiki bar, right outside the tiki bar, too. They had one of those massive chess sets outside.

SPEAKER_04: 35:29

Mm-hmm. That's right. They didn't. Oh, that's fine. Yeah, they do too. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02: 35:33

So multiple multiple drink venues in this place. I mean, they had the two-story bar area was more kind of a regular bar by the toilet museum, and then all the food trucks, the stage, and then uh another building that's basically a brewery where they make their own beer.

SPEAKER_03: 35:48

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02: 35:48

And uh and then tiki bar. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 35:52

Yeah. The brewery though is uh predominantly uh with sour-based sort of sort of beer. So Rob was really on point with too.

SPEAKER_00: 36:00

I love that too.

SPEAKER_04: 36:00

24 taps were there as well with signature draft cocktails. Um it's a they call it a sour house, and it's called the Beard Science Sour House. So it is predominantly sours that they they do serve. And um, even to the point where they do all these different mixed drinks, a lot of cocktails were served as well. There's one cocktail, Josh. You ready for this? There's one cocktail that's served. You know, you know those blood bags that you see in hospitals where they're they're dripping blood into IV bags, yeah. One cocktail, one cocktail served in an IV bag. So it's very, it's very cool, very clever, very quirky. Um, and yeah, must a must-go. I'm gonna say it's a must-go, must-see.

SPEAKER_00: 36:46

Okay, so we're gonna move on from the colony, but I want to I want to mention a couple things. I want to wrap this up. Yeah, uh Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Museum version 2.0 Geocache. Yeah. If anybody's interested, is it the GC number is GC8E as an Elvis 7 W A as an Apple. And there's 64 favorite points on it. On the cache is hidden by the the per the original person that that owned the virtual, so that's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_01: 37:18

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00: 37:18

And and it does say in the description that um shortly before he died, his collection was enshrined in the in the museum here. He was able to travel to Dallas to see his artwork's new home and cut the ribbon at the grand opening.

SPEAKER_04: 37:32

Oh, that makes me happy now. That makes me much more happy now that he was there to actually see it in all its glory.

SPEAKER_00: 37:39

See it in its glory, and it is gosh, it is displayed in such a cool, beautiful way.

SPEAKER_01: 37:44

So it really is really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 37:45

I'm really jealous. I gotta get up there. I and the thing is, I will make the colony. If you're listening, I'm sending this to them. Yeah, yeah. We're promoting you call the colony, we're promoting you. People go to the colony. I mean, sorry, the colony is the name of the town. Go to the truckyard, at the colony, visit the museum, spend your money there. And if you're listening, owner of the truckyard, yeah, you own my you own my gift that I gave to Barney. And I want you to look in those uh wherever it's stored, it is in a banana box. I put it in the banana box. You're lucky I didn't steal it. Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_04: 38:25

Can you imagine, Tim? If Josh was there actually with us, how long he would have spent hours going from like manager to manager to manager to manager trying to talk to someone to see where the boxes are being held.

SPEAKER_02: 38:37

I think so, yes. I don't doubt it.

SPEAKER_00: 38:40

I have emailed them so many times, they never message me back. So anyway, I and here's the thing. I will make a very I told them, I said, I will fly, I will make a very special trip. I will go down there, I will make a video, I will make a TikTok, I'll promote the place. I just want my toilet seat. It's in a box. You don't mean I'm doing anything with it.

SPEAKER_01: 39:01

I want my sheet out. I want my I want my thing stuff back.

SPEAKER_00: 39:07

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02: 39:09

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 39:10

Anyway, um, so we have a little bit more time. Tell us this is a podcast all about how location-based games guided us. And the the location-based game guided you to not only to the the colony and the truckyard, but also to McKee. Were you were you back in McKinney too? Did you go to McKinney?

SPEAKER_04: 39:29

Yes, yes. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 39:30

So we were there for meetings.

SPEAKER_04: 39:32

Yeah, we were there for meetings for Munsey. So uh Rob Vaderman, uh, who runs Munsey, president of Munsey now, runs it all up. Um, he was basically, there's been lots of happening uh in the back end of the business side of Munsey as well. And so he wanted to get a whole team together uh for meetings all week long. And when I say all week long, for me, it's it's still Wednesday, Thursday, Friday all week long. Um, and then do things in the evenings to sort of you know do that camaraderie, the team building sort of stuff as well. So uh Tim, I I was there since Tuesday. Tim joined us on Wednesday as well. Um, I will say if you're a Munsey player listening to this, and and that is Tim and I, we bring a different aspect to the to the actual Munsey team, and that is we we come from a player first component. So Tim and I, we're players first, you know, before anything else. Yes, we've got different ideas about the things, and we can see the what's happening in the game and where it's going, and and we discussed 2026, for instance, you know, what's gonna happen in 2026, which way we're gonna go, you know, that sort of thing, too. And so um uh, but yeah, we got asked a lot of things about like player first. What do you think for this idea from a player point of view? And so that's what Tim and I bring mostly to the team. So um, but yeah, Rob and I, uh Rob and I, Rob and the team, we all went out and we saw different locations. We went to a what was that brewery we went to the last one? Tim was uh we got the glass and everything. This is actually pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02: 40:54

Martin House Brewing.

SPEAKER_04: 40:56

Martin House Brewing for a$25 at Martin House Brewing, only at these particular times, you get a wristband with four beers on it as well, and any beer at all you want, plus you get to keep a free Martin House glass that you can refill each time. So that's really cool. So uh, and when are we talking beers? Uh this isn't a beer podcast, I know, but Tim or you and I both said the same thing. Texas do it different when it comes to beers. Oh boy, heavier beers, Josh. They are heavy beers. We're talking 12-15% beers here. They are heavy.

SPEAKER_02: 41:29

Yeah, the alcohol content in most of their beers was much higher than it is here in Minnesota, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_04: 41:36

Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely so. But yeah, Martin House Brewing again, uh one of those really cool places. Uh, we also went to another brewery called Tupps, where there's a uh a Munsi event on there as well at Tupps Brewery. Tupps itself, they uh they took over from an old flour mill. So you've still got the old flour mill, you know, things there and the machinery there and stuff as well. And literally you just walk around this flour mill machinery and then grab yourself a beer from this, you know, made-up bar area with the taps on board and stuff too. Really cool. I do, I really do love that rustic feel rather than just all clean and brand new stuff.

SPEAKER_02: 42:14

And Tupps again, Tupps again has was kind of like the truckyard in the sense that they have a lot of outdoor space where you can sit outside and tables or circles of chairs around fire pits and all kinds of things. It was just a really cool location.

SPEAKER_04: 42:28

Now, Tim, let's let's let's grab the salt in our right hand. Let's grab Josh and his cuts in his in our left hand. Let's rub that salt into Josh's cuts because after Tufts Josh, we walked up the road, walked up the road to a place. It's another it's like a bar location. This bar you hit beers, but you're there, and every single what do you call it, computer game, video game, video in there, and the audio wanted arcade, and it's all free. You pay you pay an entry fee and then you can play as many times as you want, all free, Josh. We're talking pinball.

SPEAKER_00: 43:06

This is in McKinney. This was in McKinney?

SPEAKER_04: 43:09

Up the road from Tupps. So yeah, in McKinney.

SPEAKER_00: 43:11

Oh, up in McKinney. Near McKinney. Do you remember what that place was called? Remember what it was called?

SPEAKER_04: 43:15

Oh, I was trying to think of it now. I did have it on the show notes, but uh Josh said he wanted to talk about the toilet seats only, so I did have it in the show notes. Um but while Tim's looking up now, um, yeah, it's it was great, Josh. I think I've sent you a couple of videos too. Yes. Josh, I played I played in memory of you, even though you're still alive. Um the the commander game that you taught me last time I was with you. Remember the commander game.

SPEAKER_00: 43:38

Oh, the 1942? 1942.

SPEAKER_04: 43:40

No, no, no, no, no, no, the one with the one with the the the things and the buildings and smashing the buildings.

SPEAKER_00: 43:44

Oh, rampage.

SPEAKER_04: 43:45

Rampage, rampage, yeah, yeah. I played that one as well. Uh just for you. Tim and I had a had a play of that one until Tim got bored, and then we moved on.

SPEAKER_00: 43:52

So um well, the and the but the last time we played, Craig, was when we played 1942. Remember? That's right, with Ted West Bend, yeah. That's right.

SPEAKER_04: 44:03

There was there was a shoot-em up, it was a shoot-em-up game with aliens and stuff too, with uh automatic weapons. So it's very American style. We Tim and I played that for a while until Tim started getting a bit motion sickness. Um then we went down. Um, and when we're playing the pinballs, in the corner, you got sit-down like actual Super Mario games, like handheld, like the Nintendo 64 games and stuff too, all in beautiful seatings where you can sit down and relax atmosphere, have your beer and enjoy an old school retro game. They had the dancing games as well where you can stand and dance and like dance dance revolution and stuff. Yeah, all those ones where you you have to actually physically dance on the boards to get forward, forward, back, back, and side to side and stuff. Yeah, all those ones. So yeah, Josh, I'm telling you, mate, you would have loved this entire trip.

SPEAKER_02: 44:50

Okay, so that pinball, that pinball bar was called Arcade 92 Retro Arcade Bar. That's it.

SPEAKER_04: 44:56

That's it. That's the one. Thank you too.

SPEAKER_00: 44:59

Um, so the Munzi, let's talk a little bit of Munsey real quick. Yeah. A little bit more time. Yeah. So you had there, how many Munsey events were there?

SPEAKER_04: 45:08

Four in total. So the Munsee headquarters, so Rob, uh, he hosted the very first one on the Friday. Then there were two hosted by players on the Saturday and one on the Sunday as well. But that was slightly out of the area, not in McKinney. So we had to move around. They were a bit further south down. Um the one in McKinney itself with Rob, literally, it was just a normal sort of meet and greet sort of style, not you not your normal Munsey event. Um, if you don't know what Munsi events are, you meet and then you can actually do a walk around a beautiful park or region collecting more Munsies, collecting more points, collecting these things called cake and everything else as well. Um, but the two other events on a Saturday and then the one on Sunday were hosted by the local players there. And a big shout out to them as well. Uh Denali, you're one of them, and uh and a few others. And yeah, there was cake to be had, the beautiful, beautiful parks, Josh. Beautiful parks, gorgeous, all of them were really good parks. There were a few caches in a few of the parks as well. Tim uh and I arrived there early on Sunday, yeah. And um we did uh we did an adventure lab, we got the adventure lab uh uh mystery cache there, and we did a really cool traditional cache, Tim.

SPEAKER_02: 46:16

Tell us about the traditional yeah, the really cool one was kind of on the opposite corner of the park, so we got to walk all the way across the park, and um it was in an it was underneath an old cabin, like a log cabin with you know where that's filled in with mud. Um very cool location. It was very hysterical cabin, and uh the cache itself was disguised very well to fit in just perfectly.

SPEAKER_00: 46:39

It was like a log, like a log cabin kind of dis disguise.

SPEAKER_04: 46:44

Yeah, I don't know. It was a rock, rocky.

SPEAKER_02: 46:48

It was a rocky disguise. But it was actually the base of the cabin was rock.

SPEAKER_04: 46:52

Yeah, yeah, but it was actually quite large as well. Like it was a trackable hotel, a travel bike. It was actually quite large.

SPEAKER_00: 47:01

Yeah, that sounds awesome. Um, so you teased on the the Munziey podcast, Craig, that there was maybe a special thing that was gonna be announced and featured.

SPEAKER_01: 47:14

Look at you, Josh listening to other podcasts apart from ones.

SPEAKER_00: 47:18

Was there something special that was revealed? Or is it still under lock and key?

SPEAKER_04: 47:23

It's still under lock and key. No revealing of that one yet. Uh it didn't happen. It uh it's not uh it's not ready yet for the uh for the reveal.

SPEAKER_00: 47:31

So we won't that one didn't talk about that anymore.

SPEAKER_04: 47:37

I know that sucks, right? But anyway.

SPEAKER_00: 47:39

Um one more Munsey thing is, and I will congratulate my friend, the Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, who has now passed me on the in points for Munsey. Yes. So a little history. Uh he passed me, um, and then I passed him recently. Yeah, and then he re-passed, he retook. Yeah. Um, and it's really it's gonna be hard now that I'm not that you're a Munsey employee. I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch up again.

SPEAKER_04: 48:10

Maybe you should work for Munsey too, Josh. Just saying.

SPEAKER_00: 48:12

Maybe that's how you catch up.

SPEAKER_02: 48:14

It's a fun team.

SPEAKER_04: 48:15

But if but if you're a geocacher listening out there as well, don't worry, we've got you covered. And that is geocaching, uh, as always, no one really knows, like, oh, I found so many caches. Oh, I found that that's not really a thing. There's not really a competition per se in geocaching. That's very different to Munsey. Munsey is very much more a points-based game, it's very much a competitive game as well. Yeah, and so it's it's very, very different to geocaching. It's no longer can you call Munsey geocaching with stickers um or QR codes? It's not that anymore because you've got so much more to this game than just finding QR codes on light poles. You know, there's much more, there's deploying, there's uh different boosters now as well that you can utilize for your for your gameplay. So, yeah, there's lots happening with the Munsee world, a lot more, and it very much focused upon competition. So that's when you hear Josh saying about uh you know the competitive nature of uh Tim going above him and then him above Tim and Tim above him. That's what it's about, more so than geocaching.

SPEAKER_00: 49:16

Yeah, yes. So um Dylan, who is an employee at Munsey, does he still live in McKinney? Yes, yes, absolutely. Oh wow, he he didn't leave when when HQ left. You know why he didn't leave? Oh, you know why he didn't leave?

SPEAKER_01: 49:31

Here we go.

SPEAKER_00: 49:32

Because he's proud of his town.

SPEAKER_01: 49:33

Wow, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 49:34

That's a rare thing these days.

SPEAKER_01: 49:36

He got it in without me prompting you. Look at you. Good job. Well done. Well, you know, we have a little space. Some freedom.

SPEAKER_00: 49:46

Yeah, Dylan is proud of his town. It's a rare thing these days, and he's proud of his demic organ on his roof. Yeah. Oh, he's um all right. So we've talked about uh, you know, a lot, I'll just say this geocachers. I know a lot of geocachers that have regrets. I'm glad I don't have the regret that I I I was so diligent in getting to this toilet seat museum that I didn't go once, but I go twice. Yeah, but people have like the regrets, like, oh, I wish I would have like gone and met Barney. That's fine. Yeah, but now there's a geocache there, there's adventure labs there, and you're gonna get to see them displayed in a beautiful way. So I I look forward to my visit to the truckyard to um and make a video. Truckyard, if you're listening, I'm proud of that seat. That's a rare toilet seat. You're proud of a toilet seat.

SPEAKER_04: 50:39

That's a rare thing. That's a very rare thing. Yeah. But I will say, Josh, uh, and that is uh when we looked at doing this uh podcast, I went back and had a look at your video um on YouTube. Links in the description for that one as well. Yes. And it I'm so I'm so happy. I never got the privilege to meet uh Barney at all, but I'm so happy that I can I can live that uh and meet him in person through your videos, mate. I do appreciate that too. So uh links for that one are in the description as well for for that video. So you can actually meet Barney before you go out to the truckyard and and see his work in in all its glory.

SPEAKER_00: 51:15

Yes, he was. It's one of those things, it's like the ball of paint, the biggest ball of paint. The treasure is Barney. I mean, that I mean, but it's really cool what he created. But the treasure was really meeting him and just like the commitment, the can, I mean, years of just like making toilet seat art. This is true America, Americana folk art. So yeah, I can't wait to be able to visit. I'm glad you guys got to do it. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad that I think it's cool that Rob decided to make that kind of a place for you guys to like have a have kind of a team building partying.

SPEAKER_04: 51:52

Um and I will say one more thing before we close out, and that is that uh I am very appreciative of the truck, um, the truck place as well, truckyard, um, for picking it up, you know, and not not having it, um, not having it sort of buried with him alone. Like this is now going to be living on in memory of Barney. So it's a cool place. It's so cool. Like to and to add that as a feature to the rest of the place, like people people would go absolutely, people would go there just for the actual toilet piece, toilet seat museum. They would, but predominantly you're there for the sort of the party atmosphere, the night out, and everything, and that's just part and parcel of that experience that you can have as well. So that's really cool.

SPEAKER_02: 52:33

Yeah, and if you want to have you want to have a party locally there, they rent out that room.

SPEAKER_00: 52:38

Oh, that's cool. They rent out the toilet seat room. Yes, you can you can rent it out for whatever you need.

SPEAKER_04: 52:45

Maybe, Josh, maybe you need to talk to them, rent it out, and then have them deliver you your toilet seat so you can then dance alone. You can dance alone in the middle of the toilet seat museum with your toilet seat by yourself.

SPEAKER_03: 52:57

I should do that.

unknown: 52:59

I should do that.

SPEAKER_04: 53:00

Now that would make for good viewing.

SPEAKER_03: 53:02

Yes, for sure.

SPEAKER_04: 53:04

Absolutely. But uh no, we enjoyed the the toilet seat museum, we enjoy the truckyard too. And if you've been enjoying this podcast, Josh, how can people uh support us from there?

SPEAKER_00: 53:15

Yes, we are a fully listener-supported podcast, and you can support us on Patreon by supporting us. You're helping us create even better content, keep it free, keep it going, no annoying commercials, and you get golden nuggets. And actually, I saw pictures of the actual physical golden nuggets of the three printed ones. We have to post pictures of those. We should can we post pictures of those on our Patreon so our patrons can see the physical golden nuggets. And before you go on, our patrons get to see it.

SPEAKER_04: 53:47

Before we go on, I've still got some video as well. So that may that may that may go into the patron only feed as well. Yeah, and video of Tim singing and video of me, video of me talking and like okay. So that may that may make it to the patron page, Josh. Watch, watch.

SPEAKER_00: 54:11

We're gonna get like 10 new patrons off of that.

SPEAKER_01: 54:14

That's great. And then negative 20.

SPEAKER_00: 54:18

Anyway, to get some of those golden nugs, golden nuggets, uh, consider joining us on Patreon. It's patreon.com backslash treasures of our town.

SPEAKER_04: 54:28

Very cool, Josh. Otherwise, Josh, if people got ideas of what they want us to do, what they want us to talk about, where they want us to go, how can they contact us or find us, Josh?

SPEAKER_00: 54:36

Yes, feel free to reach out to us to us at Treasures of Our Town Podcast at gmail.com, or you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or our Buzz Sprout site. If you go to Google, search Treasures of Our Town Podcast, you'll find us there.

SPEAKER_04: 54:49

Yes, yes, yes. And by the way, Tim, thank you very much for joining us, mate. We have to send to you anytime. That's it for our show today. Please subscribe, rate, and review on your favorite podcast camp. And as always, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 55:03

Air travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hit of this. Like the toilet CD. By the way, that should be an entry from my own.