2025 Year in Review

In this episode of the Treasures of Our Town podcast, hosts Joshua and Craig reflect on their experiences over the past year, sharing personal stories, family updates, and insights into their podcasting journey. They discuss the unique towns and quirky attractions they've explored, engage with their listeners through patron submissions, and celebrate the growth and achievements of their podcast. The conversation highlights the importance of community, family, and the joy of discovering hidden treasures across America. In this engaging conversation, Craig and JJ explore a variety of themes related to travel, geocaching, and unique roadside attractions. They discuss the excitement of March Madness, memorable experiences from the Texas Challenge, and the underrated charm of St. Louis. The duo also delves into quirky topics like the Boring Town Challenge and the whimsical Uranus, Missouri. They reflect on the largest geocaching event in Morgantown, the unique Porcelain Pilgrimage, and the fun of navigating block parties. The conversation wraps up with insights on full-time travel, discovering small towns, and a spooky exploration of the most haunted webcam in America, along with behind-the-scenes details of their GIFF film.

Texas Challenge Video

Haunted Library Video 

Chapters

• 0:00 New Year Banter & Back To The Future Jokes
• 2:10 Life Updates, Snowstorms, And Home Studio Upgrades
• 7:30 Empty Nest Joys And Frustrations
• 11:20 Setting Up The Year In Review Plan
• 13:30 Guests And Quirky Museums Revisited
• 20:40 Oldest Geocaches And Hairy Hikes
• 27:30 March Madness Patron Picks Setup
• 31:40 Roadside Attraction Bracket And Winners
• 36:40 Texas Challenge Filming And Survivor-Style Edit
• 44:00 St. Louis Birthday, Skydiving, And Underrated Finds
• 48:40 Boring Town Challenge With Jeff Wag
• 51:40 Uranus, Missouri And Route 66 Shenanigans
• 54:30 GeoWoodstock In Morgantown And Event Lessons
• 1:00:30 Porcelain Pilgrimage And Best Bathrooms
• 1:03:20 Why Munzee Helps Travelers
• 1:06:40 Wisconsin Dells As The Best Tourist Trap
• 1:10:30 Midwest Geobash And West Bend Deluge

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Beautiful male. And I was just like, it was very funny.

SPEAKER_03: 0:04

You're literally handwritten buried by a child on a script piece of paper.

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Do you love to travel?

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Do you love road trips?

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

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And I'm crazy. Welcome to Treasures About Town as the podcast that explores unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United States.

SPEAKER_00: 0:31

Guided 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_03: 0:41

On today's episode, Josh, happy new year! But we're gonna go, we're gonna go back in time and revisit 2025. I know how you love back to the future, so we're gonna go back to the past.

SPEAKER_00: 0:53

Going back in time.

SPEAKER_03: 0:57

We are lucky that this is an audio-only podcast. Josh is showing me some uh DeLorean uh Lego that he must have got for Christmas or something.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04

I put it together. I put it together yesterday.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07

And you put it together yesterday. Look at that. There's the there's the the 14-year-old Joshua coming out um again with his show and tell Lego. Yeah, with his Lego, his uh DeLorean Lego. So, mate, uh, what else has been happening? I see that there's some snow outside uh your house as well. You've been plowing the snow on your driveway.

SPEAKER_00: 1:26

Wow, yeah, we don't talk about the weather unless you have to plow four times in the last four days.

SPEAKER_03: 1:33

Yeah, yeah, just to get out and actually go geocaching and stuff as well.

SPEAKER_00: 1:37

No, we're buried. We're buried alive. I'm buried alive. But uh yeah, it's it's a beautiful winter day here. Happy New Year. How are things down in Alabama?

SPEAKER_03: 1:48

Very, very good, mate. Very good indeed. In actual fact, why don't we just start off straight away with the uh the delays and the upgrades?

SPEAKER_00: 1:55

Cue the sound cue.

SPEAKER_03: 1:59

There you go. So, what's what's been yours, mate? What's been happening with yours?

SPEAKER_00: 2:04

Well, the family's been home. You know, I'm an empty nester now, yeah, but now not one, but two children are home and they're back. They were back for the holidays, which is awesome. Got to go to a Timberwolves basketball game with them. Oh nice visit, visit family, and it was all good. It was all all fun, good times. It's good to have Jonah and Hayden back. Reese is still in Colombia. Yeah, she did not make the trip home, but it was good. It was a it was a happy holiday.

SPEAKER_03: 2:34

How did Reese uh enjoy Christmas in Colombia? She must have uh that was the new experience for her.

SPEAKER_00: 2:39

Oh my gosh, it was like a party. Yeah. She's like, here's a funny tidbit for you. It's kind of like the Fourth of July down there. You know, they're in the they're in summer right now, and and so when it hits midnight for Christmas, it's like fireworks, it's like celebrating in the streets, it's very, very much Fourth of July vibes. And it's so funny because they don't really have Santa Claus, they have baby Jesus. Baby Jesus comes and delivers the presents magically. So the children have to go to bed because baby Jesus is going to arrive and magically deliver presents. I thought that was really interesting. Yeah, it's not Santa, it's baby Jesus.

SPEAKER_03: 3:20

See different religions and cultures throughout the entire world, but either way, um, let's all have have a uh a happy and merry time, a Merry Christmas, and a very happy and safe new year as well, Josh. So yeah, did you do much for your New Year's uh New Year's Eve?

SPEAKER_00: 3:36

I stayed home and watched Stranger Things. Of course you did with a lot of with all the other nerds.

SPEAKER_03: 3:43

Yes, this is true. This is true. Well, uh for me, Josh, I will say that uh my upgrade for for me is I've got a brand new studio. Yes, studio it's not in the van anymore. So uh uh I got myself a little spot in a in a garage area. It's got a brand new, beautiful, you know those, you know, see those timber live edge um slabs, and that people varnish up and they polish up and they resin and all that sort of stuff too, and it's got holes in it from worm holes and stuff too. Um, but then the worm holes are covered in a clear resin. That's what I got. I've got a brand new beautiful desk with a good backdrop with my name on my backdrop as well. You know what? I'll post pics for our patrons. So if you're not a patron, then you can see picks on there.

SPEAKER_00: 4:27

Or you could watch the geocaching podcast probably and see it in the future as well.

SPEAKER_03: 4:31

In the future, yes, in the future. But you'll only see, you'll only see my backdrop. You won't see the desk, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 4:36

That's true.

SPEAKER_03: 4:36

You need to see the desk, the lighting. I've got soundboards I create creating when I say soundboards, I mean you know those ones where um they stop the sound echo in a room, and they're like a foam uh crimpled foam boards. So I'm making portable ones of those so they can actually uh go around my desk.

SPEAKER_00: 4:54

The most important thing though that you didn't mention is how's the chair? The chair is important.

SPEAKER_03: 5:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The chairs, the chair's nice, the chair's comfortable, it's a leather reclining sort of style chair. So I can spend many hours here doing my editing work or uh any Munsey work that I need to do, building gardens and stuff like that too. So yes, yes, yes. So that's my upgrade, my delay. I I tried to think of one, Josh, and I couldn't really think of a delay. Only the fact is that you know I had a very somber, you know, relaxed New Year's Eve, New Year's Day sort of thing. Um I did a very American thing. I lit fireworks on New Year's. On New Year's I lit I lit one firework on New Year's in the front yard, and uh we watched it go off and then we went to bed.

SPEAKER_00: 5:40

I I can't remember when I've ever done this, but I went to sleep before midnight. I don't know if I've ever done that before. Really? It's that's a very significant milestone in the world.

SPEAKER_03: 5:52

You're almost 50. You're almost 50, so I'll say that.

SPEAKER_00: 5:55

I'm almost barely almost 49.

SPEAKER_03: 5:59

Well, that's almost you're closer to 50 than you are 40, so we'll just say this is true.

SPEAKER_00: 6:03

This is true.

SPEAKER_03: 6:04

Yes. Anyway, Josh. My delay. Your delay.

SPEAKER_00: 6:07

You want to hear my delay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 6:09

Because you upgraded the two boys being at home. What's your delay?

SPEAKER_00: 6:11

I have to say this kind of quietly because they're sleeping.

SPEAKER_03: 6:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 6:14

My delay is that the two boys are home.

SPEAKER_03: 6:19

How's the mess?

SPEAKER_00: 6:20

How's the uh oh gosh, you get I got real used to a clean house.

SPEAKER_03: 6:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 6:25

I got used to having the dishes done and every light. I wake up, I woke up at three o'clock in the morning, every light in in the house was on. Yeah, nobody was awake. No. So full dad frustration mode. That's full dad frustration. Oh my gosh. The the moment I get home, the toilet's plugged. Oh, of course. I was like, plug, plunge the toilet. Yeah. I don't know how to. Exactly. I don't know. It's just been one maintenance thing after another.

SPEAKER_03: 7:00

And the thing is that your boys, they're not teenagers anymore, they're in their early twenties. They're adults. They're adults. I'm putting in quotes right now. You can't see me. How do they how do they live outside of the family home? Yeah. Have you got gas in your car? Have you got any other trash in your car as well? And have they been driving your car?

SPEAKER_00: 7:21

Well, here's the new thing. Joan has his own car. Oh. So that's good.

SPEAKER_02: 7:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:27

And Hayden doesn't.

SPEAKER_02: 7:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:29

He asked me to drive my car once, and I said no.

SPEAKER_03: 7:33

I said, go get a ride from your friends.

SPEAKER_02: 7:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 7:37

No, that's fair enough. Well, there you go. I like your upgrades and delays. Yeah. They're the same thing. They're the same thing. Because there's there's always positives and minuses to most things in life.

SPEAKER_00: 7:47

So I'm sure people that are empty nesters can relate to this when the kids, kids come home.

SPEAKER_03: 7:53

Yeah, absolutely. And it doesn't matter what age the kids are, let's be honest as well. Like the kids could be in their 30s or 40s. And all kids are going to be kids, and that is that's their family home. They're used to just going to the kitchen and opening the fridge and getting what they want and then not putting it away. And because mom and dad will clean up after them. Because that's what they're used to. That's what they do. Yep. I can guarantee it, their house isn't as dirty or as messy as what it is when they leave it at mum and dad's house. Because they have to live in it.

SPEAKER_00: 8:20

So maybe we're talking about a college kid in a dorm.

SPEAKER_03: 8:25

Oh, this is true. This is true. I've I've only been there, I've been there once, but that was a few years ago. So my dorm was actually very clean because we had uh it was a police, a police college, and so we we had inspections, so yeah, it was extremely clean. It was like military sort of style. So very, very clean, very tidy, nothing was left out, everything was always vacuumed, and and yeah, so very different to I dare say other college dorms, but anyway, I'm sure we we are digressing, Josh. Should we jump into the show?

SPEAKER_00: 8:54

Yes, this is gonna be kind of a loose show. We've done this other years, it is our year in review. We're just gonna go through our year in podcasting of the Treasures of Our Town podcast. We might divert to some of our our personal travels that we didn't necessarily cover on the show because as I'm looking at the list, and I know Craig, you're looking at it as well. I don't remember some of these shows. Oh, I know these shows.

SPEAKER_03: 9:18

I know. Some of the shows you know, I can't remember. Because you come up with the uh the title of the episodes each single time, and they are very good titles. I will say that. And they are very specific of what we were talking about at the time. But yeah, sometimes it doesn't spark a uh a little a brain cell in me to go, oh, that's right. I don't remember that. So we'll soon see. We'll soon see. But Josh, I I asked ChatGPT what was our year in review like? Do you want to know what they said?

SPEAKER_00: 9:42

Yeah, I want to know what they said.

SPEAKER_03: 9:43

So ChatGPT said this 2025 was a year packed with quirky museums, roadside oddities, small town stories, and unforgettable travel moments from haunted webcams and tourist traps to geocaching mega events and cross-country road trips. Tresses of our town continued celebrating the places that make America a wonderfully weird. So there you go.

SPEAKER_00: 10:04

That's pretty good. I like it. I like it. That's pretty good. That should be our new uh intro. Welcome to Treasures of our town podcast, where we got the quirky museums, roadside oddities, and small town stories, and unforgettable travel moments.

SPEAKER_03: 10:19

Absolutely, where we are wonderfully weird. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, Mike. Well, do you want to know the numbers first? Be sure we should we get into the numbers first before we get first of all.

SPEAKER_00: 10:28

I'm gonna go with the very first number that you don't have on here. It says on iTunes that this we have 73 episodes. Now, does that include the trailer or not include the trailer?

SPEAKER_03: 10:40

Oh, I think that includes the trailer.

SPEAKER_00: 10:42

It does include the trailer? Okay, so so this is our 72nd episode. Yeah, we're yeah, we're approaching 100.

SPEAKER_03: 10:52

We're approaching 100. But it's it's it's slower than other podcasts because we are a uh Fortnite or bi-weekly, whatever you want to call it. Um, you know, every two weeks we have an episode come through.

SPEAKER_00: 11:02

So yeah, and according to our stats, it's gonna take us four years of podcasting to get to 100. 100.

SPEAKER_03: 11:07

As opposed to one of my other podcasts, the Munziey podcast, which uh we've uh we're well over a hundred now because we we do that every single week with Rob, the the president of Munzy. So there you go. Uh mate, 2025, some numbers for this podcast, Treasures of Our Town. Total episodes released was 25 episodes in the year, which makes sense. Uh we have a total of downloads of just over 7,000 downloads in total for the year. Uh is that good? Hold on. That's good. That's good. That's good.

SPEAKER_00: 11:34

Is it good?

SPEAKER_03: 11:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 11:36

I got a TikTok video that gets more than that, and I just it takes two seconds.

SPEAKER_03: 11:40

I know, I know. But TikTok videos are much different to uh long form podcast videos or audios. Um, and that's just the total downloads themselves. That's some people uh you know will download it and then listen a couple of times or whatever from there too.

SPEAKER_00: 11:56

So yeah, many times, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03: 11:58

Why would you or never? Well, that's right. Um, the average download per episode is just over 300 uh average downloads per episode, which is quite good. Um, the average uh podcast episode downloads is around 50 per episode on average. So 300 is actually quite good. Um, we're no Joe Rogan, but you know that's what it is. Um most downloaded episode. Now, this one surprised me, Josh, because in previous years our most downloaded episode was our March Madness. Yes, everyone loves our March Madness. Not last year, it wasn't. Last year, America's largest geocaching event, the Geo Woodstock, was our most downloaded uh audio podcast.

SPEAKER_00: 12:41

Oh, you know what I think happened there is you know, we were we did the live podcast at Geo Woodstock. Oh, you know. People probably subscribed then, and then and then it came up on their feed, yeah, and they're like, Oh, it's the show that I watched. I wanna I wanna listen to it. And then they listen to it and they're like, Nope.

SPEAKER_03: 13:00

Nope, that wasn't one. It's not the same one. We had major issues, major dramas with it. Uh every time. As we have done every single year at Geo Woodstock. So, and uh, I think for 2026, Josh, I think you and I have spoken about it as a possibility where if we do do Geo Woodstock this year in 2026, we're gonna do a live podcast and not record it, not worry about recording, just do a live podcast from there.

SPEAKER_00: 13:25

Or we could try, or we could try. I know it's stressful for you. Well, I know it's stressful for you. Try and try and try again. I mean, the worst thing that can happen is it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_03: 13:33

Yeah, I know, but you don't understand the stress I go through. I know you go through trying to plug it in and get it work. I know.

SPEAKER_00: 13:40

I wonder, I do wonder if we just like set an iPhone up there, like on the stool in front of the room. We've done that before. We've done that before if it'll pick a pick it up.

SPEAKER_03: 13:50

We've done that before. The issue has always been the size of the room, and each room has been very, very different. If you remember the first time we did it too, we did it in actually a nice theater. Uh and that was that was nice. And we did have a um a two recording devices in that theater, um, but again, it was very echoey through the theater. The second one was in Flagstaff, and we had the open-air theater as well. And again, I did a secondary backup for that one being the recording device outside, and again, you all you heard was the people talking around and whatever, too. So that was very hard to pick up. Uh, and then this recent one was extremely echo because we're in like a basketball stadium.

SPEAKER_00: 14:30

So it was yeah, but last year we're getting closer.

SPEAKER_03: 14:33

Last year almost were almost the levels were a bit too too high to peak, too hot, too, way too hot. But maybe just turn it low.

SPEAKER_00: 14:44

I don't know, we'll see.

SPEAKER_03: 14:44

We'll see. We'll we'll give it another crack, Josh. We wreck. I think.

SPEAKER_00: 14:47

All right. So, what was our longest episode?

SPEAKER_03: 14:50

Oh, the longest episode. This was by far March matters because it always has to be the longest. This one, this one went for we try and make them about an hour, roughly. This one went for an hour and 54 minutes and 49 seconds. So two hours, two hours long, but we don't get paid for listening time, Josh. This is not YouTube.

SPEAKER_00: 15:12

Although I wonder if listening time is factored in in the algorithm, like on Apple or whatever, if they know that people you know, because they can't they can't they can't uh track track it, they can't track listening time.

SPEAKER_03: 15:23

It's not like YouTube where you literally they can track it as you watch, you know, live because you download the episode. You see, this is the issue. You download the privacy issue.

SPEAKER_00: 15:32

They can't like go into people's phones and know that they listened.

SPEAKER_03: 15:35

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00: 15:36

So or they know that they listened, maybe, but they don't know how long, maybe.

SPEAKER_03: 15:40

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 15:41

I'm sure they know when people click on it.

SPEAKER_03: 15:43

They still don't know as long as it's downloaded, that's all that matters. If it's downloaded, it's downloaded. People don't even have to listen to it at all. It's just uh it gives you a download number, that's all it does. But anyway, Josh, but as I said before, the only thing we can actually get paid through the podcast is through commercials and sponsorship, which we don't do. So there you go. But we got our patrons, we do have our patrons, and we'll talk about that very, very soon as well. Because we've got some a few things coming up for them. Meanwhile, Josh, our shortest episode. Do you remember what our shortest one was?

SPEAKER_00: 16:13

It was probably it was probably an interview.

SPEAKER_03: 16:16

No, it wasn't. It wasn't interviewing. No, it wasn't. Actually, no, it was an interview. Yes, I forgot it was an interview. The most haunted webcam in America, the library. Remember the library, and we did have an interview there as well with uh one of the librarians.

SPEAKER_00: 16:29

So yes, that was a great episode. The by the she talked about the well, we'll get to it. We'll get to it.

SPEAKER_03: 16:34

We're gonna go through all the episodes. 43 minutes, someone, 43 minutes and 29 seconds. So that was the shortest. Uh still not too short. That's it's not not too bad at all. Not too bad, Josh. By the sounds of it, this one's gonna be one of the longest already. We haven't even started yet. So anyway, we start with Josh with January 6th. We had the shortest travel tours on the internet.

SPEAKER_00: 16:55

Do you remember this one? Oh, yes, with John from One Minute Tours.

SPEAKER_03: 16:59

Yes, yes, exactly. That was this was a fun episode. Uh John was a great, a great uh uh guest we had on the show as well. Um, and again, any of these, if you hit listen to this and go, Oh, I missed that one, go back and listen to it. They're all still on there as well if you listen to.

SPEAKER_00: 17:14

It's cool because John now has a podcast. When we talked to him, he did not have a podcast. So if you remember, John does one-minute tours on TikTok and Instagram where he would will just talk about a thing with no cuts for one minute. Well, it's called one minute tours. So guess his podcast is called this. It's called One Hour Detours.

SPEAKER_03: 17:35

I like it. I like it.

SPEAKER_00: 17:36

So he has has a guest and he talks to a guest, obviously, for an hour. And he has like it's it's video recorded, he has a little clock. Oh, okay. And the clock clock is counting down. And when the clock is done, the episode, the episode is over. That's stressful. No matter what.

SPEAKER_03: 17:49

That's stressful.

SPEAKER_00: 17:51

Yep. And John also released his TV show, um, which which I went to the premiere of, which was really cool. Uh it's called Hidden Middle. So if you want to check that out, Hidden Middle on YouTube, you can see all the full episodes there. So John is doing a lot of great stuff, yeah, here, especially in Minnesota. And so, yeah, we were really lucky to have him on.

SPEAKER_03: 18:14

Yeah, no, I I very much enjoyed that too. A great guy and very well spoken, too. I wonder if he uh if you reach back out to him, if he would like us on his um podcast, John.

SPEAKER_00: 18:25

I don't know. We might be we might be out of his league now because he's had the mayor of Minneapolis. He's had like he's got had he's had big names. Why haven't we had big names?

unknown: 18:37

Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 18:40

I try. I try I know, I know. We have I did I did interview somebody from Survivor, so maybe we could get him on the show because I'm now I'm kind of friends with him. So yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_03: 18:50

And we did have Dave Basky on the show a couple of years ago. Oh, yeah. You know, he's he's Dave Basky's Cory Happola.

SPEAKER_00: 18:57

We just had Corley Happula. He was he was the anchor for Kerr 11, which is a big news state, big news station here in the district. You know, we we got some minor minor minor celebs.

SPEAKER_03: 19:07

Some uh what would you class them? M or or n grade celebs. Maybe, maybe. Uh January 20, Josh, we went on to 10 hand-picked quirky museums in the USA. This was actually a fun one. This is one of our research ones, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 19:23

Yeah. Can you remember any of the ones that we talked about? Not really, no.

SPEAKER_03: 19:27

This is four months ago.

SPEAKER_00: 19:30

If I think about the quirky museums I've gone to, I'm the first one that comes to my mind is the UFO museum in Roswell. That one is quirky.

SPEAKER_03: 19:38

Oh, yeah. Yep, yep, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 19:40

You've been to that one, right? You've been to that one.

SPEAKER_03: 19:41

Yes, yeah, I went to that one as well. You went that that one with your son, didn't you not?

SPEAKER_00: 19:46

Yes, we we did uh that breaking bad tour. Check out check out season one on that episode.

SPEAKER_03: 19:51

That's right. I remember that one too. Um, and the reason why I remember that is because uh, Josh, last night I started watching Breaking Bad once. Again. Again? Season one, episode one. Yes, yes, yes. What a great show. I know. I know. Uh, someone who was with me at the time has never seen Breaking Bad, so I was like, oh well, we've got to start this show. Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00: 20:11

Yeah. You know what? You will gotta watch, Craig, if you're not watching. This is a diversion, but it's related. Vince Gilligan, he's the he's the person that created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saw.

SPEAKER_02: 20:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 20:20

He has a show on Apple Plus called Pleuribus. Have you heard of Pluribus? Oh, is it is it a good idea?

SPEAKER_03: 20:27

I didn't even realize he was I didn't realize he was the writer or creator of it.

SPEAKER_00: 20:30

He's the director creator of it. Wow. Yeah, so season one just ended. Highly recommended listeners to check out Pluribus. Even it's worth it if you get just Apple Plus for nine bucks and then cancel it right away. Yeah. It's one of the most if you like the Twilight Zone, if you like kind of like the X Files and then the style of breaking bad.

SPEAKER_02: 20:50

Yes, that's what I thought too.

SPEAKER_00: 20:52

I love how he like starts things where you don't know where they're necessarily going, but then it all makes sense at the end. That's very much a breaking bad slash better callsaw style. Anyway, it's really good. You gotta check it out. But here's the sad thing, Craig. I looked at they haven't even started see shooting season two, which means the earliest that we're gonna get a season two is 2027. If that. Wow. If that and why do they do that for when it well, I think in the first season they don't know if it's gonna be a hit, so they don't they don't necessarily record it right away, but then I think in the middle of it, they're like, Oh my gosh, this is a hit, we better get on it, you know.

SPEAKER_03: 21:28

Yeah, I will say, I will say again, we're still in that in that rabbit hole, Josh, at the moment, and that is Apple Plus TV. I would prefer that over Netflix any day of the week. Their shows, yeah, their shows. I have not watched not one bad show on Apple Plus.

SPEAKER_00: 21:43

They have quality, they have quality shows.

SPEAKER_03: 21:46

Maybe not as many shows as not as not as many, not as many, but their quality. And I'm talking about the TV shows, the binge-worthy TV shows as well. Yes, silo was another one, Josh. If you've not seen that one, you've got to watch Silo. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant uh TV show. Silo. It's got Severance on there as well.

SPEAKER_00: 22:04

Oh, Severance is Severance is Severance is like the Twilight Zone too. I love these modern Twilight. And it's so funny because I heard an interview by Vince Gilligan. He his he Vince Gilligan also created the X-Files. Did you know this? Oh no, I didn't. Yeah. I think that's I think that's right. Fact check me. Um but he says in the interview that his one of his greatest influences was the Twilight Zone, which you totally you totally see in Plurbus.

SPEAKER_03: 22:30

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All right, Josh, jumping back on board. Here we go. Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 22:35

Hey, hey, listeners, we told you that this was going to be a loose episode. We might we might rabbit trail. And mainly we're rabbit trailing because we have very little recollection of the episode that we're talking about.

SPEAKER_03: 22:46

I remember the third one, Josh. Do you remember this one? Ten strange town festivals in USA.

SPEAKER_00: 22:53

I remember it. Yeah. I remember, but I don't remember any of the festivals. Do you remember any of them? I remember the um the Bowls Festival, the oh, the Bull Testicle Festival.

SPEAKER_03: 23:03

The testicle festival.

SPEAKER_00: 23:05

Yes. It's the only one I remember. Well, it has a great name. Talk about great marketing.

SPEAKER_03: 23:10

Yeah. Absolutely. There's one other that I do recall as well, and uh, that's down here in Alabama on at Florabama. It's the mullet toss festival as well. We uh we featured that one. And the reason why I remember that one a lot, Josh, is because part of Bamarama this year in 2026, we're hosting an event there. Uh, it is the mullet toss event we're hosting, but it's not gonna be a mullet, it's gonna be a flip-flop instead.

SPEAKER_00: 23:32

So what do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean by mullet? Like uh like hair mullet? No, mullet as in fish. Oh, it's like when I when I hear mullet, when I hear mullet, I I hear I I think of uh business in the front, party in the back. Yeah, it's like what you're gonna tossing mullets like hero fish, fish, a fish toss event.

SPEAKER_03: 23:56

So yeah, that's what happens down there in uh Florabama, and as you know, Florabama Josh, it's a place to be. I'm telling you, it is a party scene.

SPEAKER_00: 24:05

That is uh sneaky promotion.

SPEAKER_01: 24:08

Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_00: 24:09

I just I just talked to somebody yesterday. I went to uh geocaching beginning of the year, you know, uh event at IKEA. Oh, not a brewery. No, Ikea is a morning event at IKEA, which is a good hey, that's a good idea. If you have an IKEA, there's plenty of seating, they will block off an area for you. You don't have to worry about food, you just get in line and the the prices are reasonable. Like this is a good place for an event.

SPEAKER_03: 24:38

You don't need you don't need a uh membership like Costco to get in.

SPEAKER_00: 24:42

No, not at all. Anyway, I asked, you know, we went on the table and we're like, hey, what are your do you have any big geocaching plagues plans for 2026? And one of the most prolific cachers in the area, the first thing out of his mouth was, I'm going to Bamarama. That was the first thing. First thing out of his mouth. Who's that? Who's that? B Falen J Bart. Beefle NJ.

SPEAKER_03: 25:02

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00: 25:03

I think he's been before. He's a big souvenir hound. As you know, I'm a big souvenir hound. I have 408 souvenirs. As we, yeah. You know, you you were on it was so funny because you guys were doing your year review on the geocaching podcast. And I don't get I don't get to I just listen, right? I'm not a part of it. And you guys are all Be Real just went off, by the way.

SPEAKER_03: 25:24

I know. Yeah, you're talking about the podcast.

SPEAKER_00: 25:28

And you guys were talking about how many souvenirs you had, and and you all had less souvenirs than me. And I just wanted to shout. I was shouting at my my car stereo. I was shouting, I got 408 souvenirs. I got you on something.

SPEAKER_03: 25:45

And you did, you got me on a lot of things, Josh, too. 408 souvenirs. I think I'm at 337 or something similar to that. Uh, I'm not sure exactly. But yeah, you know, you've got me on souvenirs still for the time being. And yeah, one of the reasons for it too is because you always go to Germany and do all those ones over there.

SPEAKER_00: 26:00

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You you you I think you probably got more souvenirs than me this year, Craig, because of all the uh block parties. Yeah, so you were you're catching up, but not fast.

SPEAKER_03: 26:13

I only went to nine block parties, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 26:15

Yeah, I did get a couple geo tours that you didn't get. I did I did get a block party that you didn't get. Um, so this is true. This is true. I've been to Germany like six times now. I'm not getting souvenirs anymore.

SPEAKER_03: 26:29

Look at you. You're gonna speak German very soon. So all right, Josh. Next on, moving on to February 17th, we had the U.S. oldest geocaches and the local treasures near them. So we this one here we spoke about the uh the oldest in each state, or very similar to. Um, and then the areas around the oldest. That's what we spoke about. Uh this show. You don't have much recollection of this one, do you? I can see it in your own.

SPEAKER_00: 26:55

I mean, the oldest geocache in North America is Mingo. I don't know that we probably talked about Mingo. I don't know. That's a good, I mean, that's there's a Colby, Kansas, because they've had so many events there. That's a good geocaching destination. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 27:10

And they've got another Mingo Madness, not this year, but the next year it is too. Mingo Madness is coming back. This year instead, you can go to uh and actually get Mingo, the geocaching uh oldest active physical geocache in the world is in Mingo, and you can go there to Kansas this year for Geo Woodstock. Um, because Geo Woodstock is nearby for that one too. So it's just a quick trip from Geo Woodstock to grab the oldest in the world.

SPEAKER_00: 27:34

Yeah. Yeah, I I mean I know where a lot of old ones were, but I don't remember what we talked about. I remember there's some cool uh okay. So here's the thing I do remember a lot of those, it was a challenging show to research because a lot of those geocaches are in very remote areas where there's not a lot. So I remember there when we went through it, it was like, oh, there's a camping, a great camping place, and there's great hiking. Of course there is, because it's in the middle of nowhere.

SPEAKER_03: 28:01

It's always great hiking when it comes to the geocaches oldest because originally when they were placed, geocaches themselves were placed well, they weren't in urban areas, they were always in the outskirts, in the bush, in the woods. You know, you had to hike to them, you know, with a with a map and an old school GPS.

SPEAKER_00: 28:17

What's your favorite oldest cache that you found?

SPEAKER_03: 28:21

Oh, that's a good one. Actually, one of my recent ones of the oldest that I found, I really enjoyed too, was uh the one in Colorado.

SPEAKER_00: 28:27

Oh, that's not what I thought you were gonna say.

SPEAKER_03: 28:29

I knew I knew you were gonna say that. No, the one in Colorado I very much enjoyed. Terry Ole, yeah. That's the one. I haven't got that one. Oh, I thoroughly enjoyed that one. That's still it's still very much active and well looked after, well maintained. It's a Home Depot bucket, and it still is the Home Depot bucket with the original Home Depot bucket kind of inside it still. So they've still got sort of. Wow, nobody stole it. No, no, it's broken up in bits and pieces and stuff too. See, so that's yeah, that's what it is. But um, one of the best parts about it is I was there for a block party this year. Uh, and I went up to and they had an event nearby at the parking lot. Now, there's a parking lot, and you can go for a hike uh if you wish to. You go for a hike along and and uh and and yeah, it's gonna take you a good 30 to 40 minutes there, 30, 40 minutes back hike, or there's a dirt road that uh that the guy said when I arrived early, he said, Oh, you can drive up the dirt road, and it's only a two-minute hike up to the top of the mountain, up top of the hill. I went, you know, I'll drive up there in Tuesday in the van in sand and dirt. On this at one time there, there was an angle uh in it on a corner that was high. And I'm Tuesday's tall, she's very high, so she's top heavy, you know. Um, I looked at this and thought, if I hit this at a at a higher speed than normal, I won't topple over because the centrifuge will push me down towards the ground rather than flip over. And so I did this at uh quite a speed, and she went all the way through and she almost toppled, but she didn't. So wow, yeah, yeah. That was that was that was a bit hairy for me. But yeah, anyway, I got up there, I got the top, and it's a pretty, pretty cool bucket and stuff too. Went back down to the uh the event, and at the event, Josh, get this. They had little, and I'm not talking little, I'm talking two-inch high, mini 3D printed orange um Home Depot buckets. So for the event. So if you went to the event, you've got the little Home Depot bucket uh to signify you were there. That was really cute.

SPEAKER_00: 30:33

That's one I need to get. I I was close to that when we did the Geocache Fort uh Geo Woodstock 14er, but that was not on my itinerary. My favorite old cache is the one you almost died on.

SPEAKER_03: 30:46

Oh yeah, so that one in Nevada. We recently we spoke about that recently as well.

SPEAKER_00: 30:51

Yeah, that's the one way up on top of the hill, right off the ET Highway. It's just kind of a cool little, it's not a super long hike, but it's but it's like it's almost like on a plateau. It's yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03: 31:02

If you go up there, just be wary of the edges. I'll just say that because there is a couple of rocks there that may move if you stand on the don't dance around like uh you know what. Exactly, exactly. Anyway, Josh, speaking of dancing around, the next episode we went into, we actually reached out to our patrons. And this was a this is a like a lead up, um, a lead up episode. Roadside attractions, march madness patron picks. So this one here, Josh, is we reached out. Do you recall what we did? We reached out to the patrons beforehand.

SPEAKER_00: 31:32

We reached out to the patrons and they submitted nominations for different entries for roadside attraction, march madness. And we I believe we discussed it on the show, and we decided the I think the how many did we enter? Like four or five, five of them, I think.

SPEAKER_03: 31:53

Five. Yes. Yeah, we each had five. Five for you, five for me, five for uh Courtney, and five for the patrons.

SPEAKER_00: 31:59

And a couple of them went pretty far. I remember I mean we're gonna segue into March Madness here for the next episode. But remember that one city with all the the wind, the wind things, and that there was that was uh Tivia.

SPEAKER_03: 32:14

Nancy, she's she's the one that submitted that too. A brilliant, a brilliant one too, Nancy. That's that's now on my personal to go list as well to visit.

SPEAKER_00: 32:23

Yes, and I remember I was trying to explain it to you, and it's really hard to explain. I was like, I I remember during the show, I was like, here, you gotta watch this YouTube video because when you just talk about it, you're like, what a park fill of full of wind things, wind chimes, yeah. Wind chim, what whatever. And then you see it and you're like, whoa, these are not normal wind chimes.

SPEAKER_03: 32:41

So yeah, that was that fair.

SPEAKER_00: 32:43

I remember another one that the patient submitted, the j that went pretty darn far. The giant globe. Globe, that's right.

SPEAKER_03: 32:50

For the GPS globe. Yeah, was it a Garmin? Garmin, yeah, the Garmin building. And because they've got trackables inside there as well. Yeah, so and you can see that during the night. If it's closed, you can see through the window. Yeah, I still remember all these things. See, remember, I was I was the one for the patrons, Josh, not you, that was always me.

SPEAKER_00: 33:09

According to Michael, who Michael who sent you Michael who sent us mail. Yes, he did. And yours was pristine, beautiful mail, and mine was just like it was very funny.

SPEAKER_03: 33:24

Yours was like handwritten burying by a child on a scrap piece of paper. Mine was with calligraphy writing with like an ink in it. It wasn't a stamp. It was like an embossed it was embossed, yeah. It was one of those wax, wax seals, Josh. And it was like he wrote it calligraphy writing with an old school um feather, you know, and the calligraphy ink. Like wow, yeah. It was amazing. I've still got that too. So thank you. Thank you for that. I I love that. I love that so much.

SPEAKER_00: 33:52

So we might have to do this again because the patron submissions, yeah, several of them went pretty darn far. I think another one was the Superman um statue. I think that was uh yes, that was a that was the one that went pretty far as well.

SPEAKER_03: 34:07

I've seen seen that I saw that this year as well. Yeah, no, I saw that this year too. So thank you for that.

SPEAKER_00: 34:12

That's what we love about it. It's it kind of guides us to like, oh, yeah, and oh my gosh, oh my gosh, Craig. We're not gonna get a chance to talk about this, but it was this year that I saw our first year winner. And it was so amazing. And it deserved to win.

SPEAKER_02: 34:28

That's right.

SPEAKER_00: 34:29

I I went to the biggest ball of paint.

SPEAKER_02: 34:31

Yes, and you got a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00: 34:32

I got a great video of it. I was a world record holder, I painted it purple for Prince and Minnesota Vikings, and it was it lived up to the hype. And and Craig, I think we said this on the podcast. Yeah, I talked the treasure, it's like the toilet seat museum, which we also had an episode about. Yeah, the treasure, the ball of paint is amazing, but the real treasure is the guy that created it, yeah. And he's he's in there, he's cockadia, he's painting it with you. He has story after story of all the celebrities that came to paint the ball. And and I told him, I said, Hey, you won you won our podcast for roadside attractions. He's like, I did. I was like, Yeah, we we thought about you know sending you a certificate or something. He goes, Would you? And so I created this, and he goes, he was so sad. He goes, People always tell me they're gonna send me certificates, but they never do. Oh and when I heard that, I was like, I made a certificate, it was it looked like it was all splattered with paint. You saw it?

SPEAKER_03: 35:31

That's all right, that's really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 35:32

And we we sent it to him, and I'm guessing that it's framed. I gotta go back. You got Craig, you gotta visit because because I bet you anything, that thing is framed in that room.

SPEAKER_03: 35:44

Absolutely. And the other reason why I gotta go visit too is that I need to uh beat your world record holder, Josh, and and have it as a heavier, heavier item as my certificate than yours. So I can have to go back.

SPEAKER_00: 35:56

I have to go back and penal again.

SPEAKER_03: 35:58

Oh don gosh, so bad for me. Mate, uh next up we're leading into that, into the actual March Madness itself. So 2025 roadside attraction, March Madness. This is on March 17. Again, as you said, Josh, we're gonna do this again this year. Not sure about our special guest. We might get a different special guest this year. We'll soon see. We'll see who uh who who floats the boat, Josh, and who uh who gets in there.

SPEAKER_00: 36:24

So we need a third.

SPEAKER_03: 36:25

Yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_00: 36:26

Preferably, preferably, we need a female perspective.

SPEAKER_03: 36:29

That's I do like I do like a uh ladies' perspective on this too, because it's just too much with two men all the time. It's just too much, even for me.

SPEAKER_00: 36:36

Um, yeah, just watch just watch the geocaching podcast. There's a lot of alpha alpha male energy.

SPEAKER_03: 36:43

I know, way too much, and I'm one of them. But anyway. 2025 Rosh Attraction Marchmaster. Do you remember the winner, Josh?

SPEAKER_00: 36:50

Yes, of course I do, because I was mine.

SPEAKER_03: 36:52

Yeah, again.

SPEAKER_00: 36:55

I've won two years in a row.

SPEAKER_03: 36:57

So what was it?

SPEAKER_00: 36:58

Um it was the field of dreams, which you know what, Craig? Yeah, it seems appropriate. It very much because that was what our what our gift was about. That was our it was a parody of Field of Dreams. So it seems right, it seems right, yeah. And it's really interesting, Craig, because we made that the we made that was the champion of roadside attraction March Madness, and we had not even filmed the gift yet.

SPEAKER_03: 37:24

No, no, not at all. Not at all. So we didn't know that that was gonna be. We had the we already spoke about the idea. We had the idea for over 12 months.

SPEAKER_01: 37:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 37:32

So the idea was already there, but uh, but no, we hadn't actually filmed it yet. And and it just so happened to be the winner of uh March Madness in 2025. I wonder what will be the winner this year in 2026. March Madness. Uh patrons, if you're listening as well, which I hope you actually are, start getting some stuff together already. Start thinking, start thinking, start looking, start researching about it and go from there.

SPEAKER_00: 37:55

So we're gonna try not to have any doubles, which is it's gonna get harder and harder, Craig. It's gonna be more, it's gonna become more and more obscure.

SPEAKER_03: 38:02

You know what we could do, Josh? We could do 2025 Roadside Attractions March Madness, Australia version, Europe version, and do it all research.

SPEAKER_00: 38:13

Right. We could, but uh, this podcast is about America. Uh oh no, yeah, no, mainly except for one of the hosts. Here's the thing. Well, here's the thing. I think we need to be continue to do new ones in America. This is just my opinion. Yeah, yeah. And then when we get to like year five, we do all stars.

SPEAKER_03: 38:34

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's fair enough. All stars. Yeah, yeah, that's and then we can come back, they can come back just like uh survivor all-stars, that sort of thing, too. So I like that idea, Josh. So you do like the top five uh of each year, and they can they can pin against themselves because then it's year five, then you got 20 because there'd be four years of five top five each.

SPEAKER_02: 38:54

I like that idea, Josh. Uh-huh. Spitball and live.

SPEAKER_03: 38:58

Spitball and live. I know you're full of something, but sometimes it's ideas. Anyway, moving on. Speaking of full of something, Josh, uh, this was actually full of energy. This one here. It was the Texas Challenge in Floresville, Texas.

SPEAKER_00: 39:10

We went together.

SPEAKER_03: 39:11

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_00: 39:12

We were there together.

SPEAKER_03: 39:14

Yeah, this was a big, this is a big, big thing we did, like with the video and non-stop. Uh Tuesday wasn't working properly. She had spluttering and splattering everywhere. I was stressed.

SPEAKER_00: 39:27

Uh, chill. I know.

SPEAKER_03: 39:29

I was just you're telling me to chill out, but that's my house. Broken. My house is broken. I've got nowhere to live.

SPEAKER_00: 39:36

You can live there, it just doesn't move.

SPEAKER_03: 39:39

That's not good. But yeah, no, Texas Challenge in Florida's little. And I do remember this one too, Josh, because we recently had one of our listeners reach out to us and uh was very loved the idea that we featured local coffee shops as well as part of the uh part of the town. Um, local businesses there too. I still remember do you remember the um The little thrift store or the the old wares. Oh, yeah. You got finders keepers. That was a great little store. Yes. We interviewed the mayor as well of Floresville.

SPEAKER_00: 40:11

Mayor. Yep. The mayor. That's that's back to the future if anybody knows. Oh, okay. That's how he says mayor. He goes, Mayor.

SPEAKER_01: 40:18

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_00: 40:20

Um, yes, I love Finder's Keepers. That's where the big mural was. Those people were so kind. They were really excited to talk to us because maybe I think they thought we were more famous maybe than we were, which is fine.

SPEAKER_03: 40:34

You sound like you are sometimes. You speak very well, you say. And I'm me with my accent, they're like, wow, he's come all the way to Australia just for exactly.

SPEAKER_00: 40:42

Exactly. But this is Texas Challenge, the first time we have ever been to Texas Challenge. I've been to MOGA, MOGA several times, which is a different kind of geocaching competition. This is Texas Challenge is a little bit more whimsical and a little less well, they were competitive, like they were competitive. But they're not, but they weren't like there was an individual, but the individual was clearly not as a big a deal as like the teams and areas. And I'll just say this, Craig. I think this was maybe your most challenging video edit of the year. It probably took you a long time. We tried to make the episode like an episode of Survivor. Yeah. Please, please, please go back and watch it. Just search Texas Challenge, Floresville, Texas. I'm sure it'll come up because Craig did a killer job on that video. And it was a long video, but it's it's cool. It's an episode of Survivor. It needs that video needs more love, Craig.

SPEAKER_03: 41:38

I still I still remember in part of that video in the very beginning, Josh. We actually went to the uh that that thrift store place as well with the mural in the background. And I had my um I had you mic'd up too, and it wasn't a drone, it looks like a drone, but it wasn't, it was actually a 360 on a big, big, big pole. And um, I had it really nice and close, just like Jeff Probes does as well on Survivor. Yes. And you're like, Welcome to Texas Challenge, and then it goes all the way back. Uh, and you're there with your arms open and shows all the whole area. That's really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 42:06

It was it was really fun to make, yeah, even though you were stressed out the whole day.

SPEAKER_03: 42:10

That was the only bit. I was only stressed out that because of the the van issues, that was the only reason. Otherwise, otherwise, not so much. And you were running around like a truck with your head cut off. I would say that as well, because you took my uh 360 a few times and you were just running around with it, getting interviews live in the field as they're finding and stamping. Yeah, that looked really cool. I was I had my big camera and I was uh standing underneath different trees at some point in time where people are climbing up ladders in different tree areas, and I'm trying to get different angles and views. And and then, if you recall, we did all the the interviews after they finish the challenge.

SPEAKER_01: 42:41

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03: 42:41

And then when in in the edit, I have to piece together those interviews and then put what they're talking about over the top of what they're talking about.

SPEAKER_00: 42:49

It's such after we're done recording this, I'm gonna watch it again. Me too. It's such a good video. It's such a good video, and and we didn't have the stress of actually competing because a lot of people are like, Oh, you're here, you should compete. But it was nice to be able to just focus on the video and not focus on the geocaching, which a lot of times, let's be honest, I'm I'm trying to do both, which yeah, it's it's hard.

SPEAKER_03: 43:11

It's very hard, it's very hard. Uh, next up, Josh, after that, we had in April, we go into April and it said Meet Craig in St. Louis.

SPEAKER_00: 43:19

Man, these titles are awesome. Who comes up with these titles?

SPEAKER_03: 43:21

I know some some guy with a with a hairdryer hair, you know, like blow-drying hair. So anyway, meet Craig in St. Louis. This one here, Josh, I remember very, very, very well. You did a lot of cool stuff. It was my 50th birthday, Josh. And I was in St. Louis for my 50th birthday. I went skydiving. I went, I went, I fine-dined at this restaurant that was quite a bit of cash at this spine. It was uh a nine-course meal, it was uh stunning. We went to this museum that I thought was more of a museum, but no, it was more of like a child's play area museum. That was brilliant too. Um, had a lovely dinner as one of the dinners was actually on the river, too. Um, and then did the archway too, the St. Louis, you know, went up top of the arch and did all the things, uh, obviously, all the virtuals, all the geocaching related stuff too, adventure labs, Munzie stuff, the whole lot. Yeah, I remember that one very, very well, my 50th birthday. And then obviously with the skydive to end it too.

SPEAKER_00: 44:23

Our conclusion on that, I believe, was that St. Louis is an underrated city. Very much so. Not a place where people tend to like, hey, I'm going to St. Louis for some fun.

SPEAKER_03: 44:33

Yeah, no. So that's definitely a place to definitely a place to have a look at if you're in the area or if you're driving past, or if you want somewhere new to go that that I totally, Josh, there wasn't that many, it wasn't that that busy either. You know what I mean? Like there's enough people there, but it you're not going down to Orlando and uh you know Universal Studios and all that sort of stuff, too. There sometimes you you get too much of those. Try something new friends, try something new.

SPEAKER_00: 44:56

Yeah, I really do want to visit that museum, that children's museum downtown. That's where GeoCoin Fest was one year, actually. That's right, it was too.

SPEAKER_03: 45:03

It was too, it was too in that museum. Very interesting, very cool music. Easy to get lost in that museum, like physically get lost in that museum.

SPEAKER_00: 45:11

You can't don't you crawl through like tunnels that like end up going outside and like it look it looks really cool.

SPEAKER_03: 45:18

Yeah, I didn't, but I was I my I had issues, leg issues at the time. So remember my ankle? I I almost broke my ankle.

SPEAKER_00: 45:26

Yeah, you had you had some ankle issues this this year.

SPEAKER_03: 45:30

That was at that other the other joke channel, MOGA. I attempted MOGA for the first time and won't be doing it again, Ryan if you're listening.

SPEAKER_00: 45:38

Likely I will be going to MOGA this year because it's in Iowa, it's only four hours away.

SPEAKER_03: 45:42

That's right, it's so close. In Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines.

SPEAKER_00: 45:48

All the Iowans are like I know.

SPEAKER_03: 45:51

They're yelling at me right now.

SPEAKER_00: 45:53

It's Des Moines, I know it's Des Moines listeners.

SPEAKER_03: 45:55

I know it's I know it's Des Moines, I know it's Des Moines. I say Des Moines just to annoy people. Um, but speaking about annoying, so I said, well, the next episode is the Boring Town Challenge. This one here, we had a recurring guest come on, Jeff Wag from uh a Van Live podcast. Jeff Wag is a great guy. He did this was his idea to do this boring challenge too. And he said, like, you know, I can I can do this, let's let's do this. And so he did the boring town challenge. What was the boring down channel?

SPEAKER_00: 46:24

Basically, we came up with like five towns that we thought were just gonna be so boring, and he was gonna share, he was gonna do some research and he was gonna share why they were interesting. And he did a great job. He did a good job. And he like knew uh he he deep dived into some of these places. I was like, wow.

SPEAKER_03: 46:41

Yeah, no, he does a great job. And uh again, if you want to listen to more about uh with Jeff Wag, as I think he's a great creator, a great podcaster as well. Go to uh a Van Life Podcast. Um uh oh, I can't think of the the actual show now it's called um the Van Life Podcast show that he does. Anyway, Jeff Wag, Van Life Podcast, it's on there. I'll put links in the description as well. So but no, he's a great guy.

SPEAKER_00: 47:04

I think the previous year he was a requested like by our patrons, like bring him back, bring him back. So we're like, we're gonna bring him back, and then we're like, what do you want to talk about?

SPEAKER_03: 47:13

So yeah, yeah. No, exactly, exactly. And normally, Josh, you're the butt of all our jokes. But this next episode, we went to a different type of butt, and that is Josh and Craig Explore Uranus, Missouri.

SPEAKER_00: 47:24

Yes, what a great title.

SPEAKER_03: 47:27

I know Josh and Craig Explore Uranus. I like it. In brackets, Missouri. Oh do you remember much about this one, Josh?

SPEAKER_00: 47:34

That was fun. It was a good time with me, you, and Rob for uh a big Munzie event in Uranus, which is uh whimsical property of stuff right off of Route 66.

SPEAKER_03: 47:49

Yeah, scanning codes in Uranus. It was fun.

SPEAKER_00: 47:52

Yep. Yeah, there's a I have a video, I have a video of it. There's not much else to say. It's just one of yeah, it's one of those places that you're like, yep, that's right. It's a the whole place is a just a joke. It's it's a big joke.

SPEAKER_03: 48:05

It is, it is that's all it is. It is a big joke, and you've got to take it for that too.

SPEAKER_00: 48:08

So I went to another Uranus, though. I went to the other location in Indiana. Do you know there's another Uranus in Indiana? I drove past it. It's not as big, no, it's not as big, it's not right on the highway.

SPEAKER_03: 48:19

It's a small uranus.

SPEAKER_00: 48:20

Yeah, it's a smaller uranus. But it was like a mini version of the big uranus.

SPEAKER_03: 48:27

That's right, that's right. All had the same slogans as well.

SPEAKER_00: 48:30

Yeah, same shirts, same plumber is there as well.

SPEAKER_03: 48:33

Like marketing, exactly, same marketing vibe, the whole lot. So there's no different. Uh, next episode, Josh, we went to America's largest geocache event, Morgantown, West Virginia. This was the largest downloaded one, too. Hour and a half we went for on this one, and we spoke all about uh Morgantown in West Virginia and why the uh the Giga event was such a hit, Josh. It was a brilliant, brilliant location, too, for it too.

SPEAKER_00: 48:56

So and speaking of brilliant location, I've been looking on social media. I don't know if you saw, but they're having another event in Morgantown this summer. But it's have you read about it? It's very similar to like it feels very much like uh going caching. It's story driven, there's cards, yeah. Like they they are gonna be it. Sounds like they're gonna attempt to be like the new going cashing.

SPEAKER_02: 49:24

Yeah, it's called cashmore, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 49:28

I I don't know. I'll never never say never, but the tough thing is I was I was just in Morgantown, you know what I mean? That's the tough thing.

SPEAKER_03: 49:35

And you you've done it already as well. That's the other thing, too. Unless you they refresh the game board, that's the hardest part. And I know, for instance, doing all the being on the committee for Bam Rama, refresh refreshing the game board here is the biggest thing that we can do. Yes, um, yeah, that sort of thing too. So for for people who uh actively come every single year, you want them to be able to find more caches and get more numbers and you know have different experiences too.

SPEAKER_00: 49:58

So yes, my guess though is that this is probably being put together by Mark Webb, who put together Gia Woodstock, and I'll just say he him and his team did a knock-up job.

SPEAKER_03: 50:11

Oh, yeah, brilliant.

SPEAKER_00: 50:12

On on so I'm guessing that this is gonna be a quality event, uh, there's no doubt. But the challenge is again like, do I want to go back to Morgantown another year? Yeah, no, that's right, never say never.

SPEAKER_03: 50:23

That's right. And it's very hard to try and replicate other mega events that uh have have since stopped, for instance, like going caching. Going caching was loved by so many cachers out there and people out there that if you try and replicate it even just a little bit, some people would would would not like that. You know, they're like, no, no, no, it's this is not don't be like going caching because it's you know, we love that going caching, but going caching was more as well about the people involved in it too. Um, people love the actual the hosts and the uh and the the committee members and stuff too. So very different. Anyway, moving on, Josh, we have the next one, the Porcelain Pilgrimage, a road tripper's guide to America's finest facilities.

SPEAKER_00: 51:05

A great title. This one, this one, this one has lower downloads, which is disappointing. I mean, don't people want to visit bathrooms across America? Exactly. Very important, very important.

SPEAKER_03: 51:19

I love it, Josh, though, how there was the uh the Morgantown, West Virginia episode in between Uranus and the Porcelain Pilgrimage.

SPEAKER_00: 51:29

We were very much in potty humor. You know what? I think this episode, I as I I think I th I think I thought of it, but I think it was inspired by our friend Minnesota boy. Yeah. Because when he was on the brewery adventure, he would do he would do bathroom reviews of the breweries. And I thought, oh my gosh, let's do the best toilets in America.

SPEAKER_03: 51:50

Yeah, that's it. So there you go, Tim. That's just for you, the best toilets in America. But yeah, it has got quite a low number of downloads in comparison to others. Um the next one actually surprised me with the downloads, and that is why Munsey is great for travelers. We had Rob Vardman on the show, the uh the president of Munzi, and um, he's basically we we spoke about Munsey, the game of Munsey, how it's uh changed now compared to what it used to be, um, and and how you can get out there and use it for your travels as well.

SPEAKER_00: 52:16

So great conversation.

SPEAKER_03: 52:19

Yeah, that was fun. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_00: 52:21

And here's the thing uh we want to get more location-based apps on this podcast. We want to interview more people. I've attempted to. I'm gonna sh I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of let people know I tried so hard to get untapped on this show. Oh they just won't, they just won't do it. We're just small with small potatoes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 52:41

Yeah, that's right. So anyway, it is what it is, unfortunately. Um, the next one after that, the Munzie episode was America's best tourist trap, the Wisconsin Dells.

SPEAKER_00: 52:52

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_03: 52:53

This was a fun one because I had no idea. I'd never been there, and so I was the yes and uh person for you talking about the Wisconsin Dells. And again, after the episode, Josh, I'm telling you, you you made me want to go there and visit the Wisconsin Dells.

SPEAKER_00: 53:08

Yeah, it's very easy to accidentally drive by Wisconsin Dells and not realize the best tour. It's a tourist trap in all the best ways. I think that's what I said on the show.

SPEAKER_03: 53:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 53:20

So if you want to hear about Wisconsin Dells, there you go.

SPEAKER_03: 53:24

July 14th was actually when that came out. In August 4th, Josh, we had Wandering the Wolverine State and Midwest Geobash. Again, it kind of like we spoke about where I was traveling for first block party after block party. Nine block parties I went to last year. Wow. Nine.

SPEAKER_00: 53:39

That might be, I don't know whether you know Europe, Europe they have quite a few. I bet I'm not saying it's a record, but nine's a lot. Nine, that's a lot of block parties. Well done. Well done. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03: 53:50

I I did, I think I spoke about it uh late last year in one of the episodes. I did start to feel like I was getting a bit burnt out with block parties. I was like, this is just another block, which uh you shouldn't feel that way. Every block party, every mega event should be exciting, should be thrilling, should be, you know, oh my goodness, I'm gonna go to a geocaching mega event. Yes, yes, yes. But when you start to do the nine block parties and a mega as well in the same year, it's like, well, there's over 10. I was like, oh, here's another one, here's another one, here's another one. That's all we can say.

SPEAKER_00: 54:19

I'm wondering if you can look on Project GC and just see where you rank in the United States with block parties last year.

SPEAKER_03: 54:25

Block parties only. That's a possibility. I'll have to go back and have a look at that after we finish the episode. Meanwhile, Josh, the next one again is all about a geocaching block party, never getting West Bend's cash bash in August 18.

SPEAKER_00: 54:37

Together, it was a cash splash.

SPEAKER_03: 54:40

It was a cash splash. Great video though, Josh. Uh, if people don't uh have a look, have a look at Josh's video. This one here, we did a live like we did, uh like we did for the Gigastock as well on your channel. We did a live as well at the West Bend cash bash slash cash splash because it was rained that hard, that heavy, that much that they had to cancel the next day because it was washed out.

SPEAKER_00: 55:04

So but it was a good time, Craig. The day before we did a lot of fun caching together, I got my 10,000th cash yes, you did, which it was a great video, which was themed. Um I'm if only you could see the video. I have my DeLorean Lego right next to me.

SPEAKER_03: 55:28

I know.

SPEAKER_00: 55:29

Uh digressing Craig's like, move on.

SPEAKER_03: 55:32

Your eyes, Josh, your eyes are just glazed as you look at that thing. It's just like wow, he's really, really obsessed with this.

SPEAKER_00: 55:38

But yeah, I love the West Bend cache bash. I've been there many times. It's probably the closest mega to my home. So I enjoy I enjoy going. They always always have quality geocaches. Talk about refreshing the game board.

SPEAKER_02: 55:53

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 55:54

They put out 66 new caches every time, and you think, okay, they're just gonna be almost they almost all of them are not or something unique. Yeah, like none of them are just like a pill bottle or an ammo can. They're all unique or they're themed. Yep, and the the this the group of hiders that there's about five or six hiders that hide, they're all I could tell they're all kind of trying to one-up each other. They're trying to they're trying to be the talk of the event, you know.

SPEAKER_03: 56:21

Yep.

SPEAKER_00: 56:21

Um, and there's some really great ones. You remember the car wash one, which is had the marble technique, the marble technique. If you're a Joe Casher, you know that with cars, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 56:31

Um, and I loved it as well when you opened it up uh initially, too. You had all that sponges, the car wash sponges inside the chamis, the chamis, all themed really nicely, really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 56:41

So um, another one that stuck out was the X Marks the Spot one, a strategy that I've never seen before.

SPEAKER_03: 56:46

I've never seen that before.

SPEAKER_00: 56:47

Like that could ease that's an easy gadget cache to be replicated.

SPEAKER_03: 56:50

Like that could be replicated really easy, except if the string breaks, but anyway. You have to get a nice string, you have to get it a bit hard string or rope. Any way to do it. It would be fun though, if the you can imagine too, if that rope uh that you could actually get it a lot longer than what it was, just so you can actually do that circumference a lot a lot.

SPEAKER_00: 57:09

It's tough though, because people move move around. If you we're not do explaining it, but basically you get to the cache and inside of it there's an X with it on a rope, and you have to walk the circumference of the all the way of the of the rope all the way around because the cache is within that circumference of the well it's it's at the end of the circumference, it's a rope. Yes, yes, the end. I'm not explaining it well. Yeah, um, but you could see how the rope could easily break as people are trying. It would be good to do it, you know, it'd be good to do it in a wide open space. Yes, you know what I mean? Like like a tree in the middle of a prairie, and just have the cache just like kind of like kind of out in the open, but you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: 57:49

Like I'm I'm I'm more evil. I'm like, you know, no, no, I want it I want it in dense woodland whereby you have to keep on walking in and out of the trees.

SPEAKER_00: 57:57

But the spra strangle break. And that wow, yeah, because people people are not gentle with geocasts.

SPEAKER_03: 58:03

This is true, this is true. Anyway, moving on, Josh. Uh speaking of being gentle, this one was actually really cool. Taking the leap to become full-time travelers, featuring me and her travel. We had a couple uh on here, me and me and her.

SPEAKER_00: 58:16

Me and Meander, Meander.

SPEAKER_03: 58:18

That's true.

SPEAKER_00: 58:18

Meander, but it's called me and her. Yeah, yes, my friend Tony and his wife Julie. Yes, and they decided to take early retirement. They're in their early 50s, they decided to quit their jobs and travel the world while they're still healthy. What a great idea. What a good idea.

SPEAKER_03: 58:35

And they've started documenting their travels as well. Um, I think they started the podcast, a podcast up with it as well.

SPEAKER_00: 58:40

Yes, they have a podcast.

SPEAKER_03: 58:41

But also video work too. So have a look on their all different channels too.

SPEAKER_00: 58:45

I got good feedback from this episode. I don't know. We don't get a lot of feedback because A, we're not live, yeah. Um, and B, we're not on YouTube, so we don't get comments on YouTube. But I I always get feedback word of mouth, and I had a lot of good feedback about this this episode.

SPEAKER_03: 59:02

Yeah, no, no. I enjoy I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. Uh September 1 is that one there. Next off, we have uh checking off roadside attractions bucket list locations. This was this was like a uh a preamble, I think, to uh March Madness, that sort of thing, too.

SPEAKER_00: 59:17

So I don't know what our what was our angle here. This is I don't really have no recollection.

SPEAKER_03: 59:23

This one here, we we did it. It was a research um one where we actually researched the top the top 10 or whatever it was of uh roadside tracking bucket list locations, you know, and we spoke about the top different ones too. So there you go. Uh next up, Josh, we have Allow the Beer to Guide You.

SPEAKER_00: 59:39

Yeah, Untapped, Listen Up.

SPEAKER_03: 59:42

Yeah, the how Allow the Beer to Guide you in your travels. This one, uh, we had the brewery adventure on uh on our show too. So Courtney was on, I think, for this one. And um, yeah, we thoroughly enjoyed it. It was actually a really good show. I quite quite liked it. Again, though, the downloads weren't uh weren't weren't getting up there like the We're in the other shows, Josh.

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:02

I think this episode was just you and me, Craig. I don't recall it. Yes, I'm pretty sure it was just you and me. I thought we had a guest on.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:08

I thought we had Tim or Courtney on. No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:10

I don't think we did. Because I remember thinking, thinking, oh, I wonder if Tim is going to be upset that we didn't have him on this show.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:16

This is true. This is true. And I know he listens too now, so he's gonna let us know. He listens to one of these episodes, but anyway. October 13, Josh, we had Top Fun in San Diego on Signals Island. Now we're talking all about you and your travels. This one.

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:31

Top fun. Get it top gun. Because there's top top gun stuff. I know. Um, this was a great trip, San Diego, at Signals Island, which was a block party that I attended. I never visited San Diego before, and this was an incredible, great excuse to do that. Yeah. I just had my videos, I posted two videos on my YouTube channel, Shamous Plug, uh, of myself geocaching in Balboa Park with Sonny and Sandy, Podcacher. Shout out to them. And then just a highlight of the whole event. It was a really great. I would totally go back to San Diego and do it again.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:04

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I know I like I'm looking forward to going to San Diego at some point in time. I haven't been to San Diego yet.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:09

It's a great one.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:10

Yeah, it looks like really nice. Uh, next up, Josh, it was me this time in Texas at the Toilet Seat Museum and Texas Nights at the Truck Yard.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:19

You partied hard.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:20

Oh, we did.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:21

Um I mean, maybe your team partied hard.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:26

They parted harder than Tim and I. It's one of those ones, and you know yourself, Josh, you're in that sort of same industry whereby, you know, you you've got younger co-workers, let's just say that, you know, and you go on a night out team building exercises, that sort of thing that they call them nowadays. Um, and you get to a point in the night, you might be like 11 o'clock, 11:30 at night, and and you're looking going, Oh, I think I'm done. I'm not gonna drink anymore. I don't, I don't really feel like this anymore. And they're all still, you know, Yahoo and carrying on talking about it. Drinking, the night is young, it's not even midnight yet, blah, blah, blah. Well, luckily for me, I had Tim, Minnesota boy, with us uh at this these events as well. And so Tim looked at me and he goes, Are you are you about done? I go, Yeah, I'm about I'm I'm done. And he's like, Well, let's just go together. I said, Yes, let's do that. And so uh yeah, we just we just left early together. It was nice, it was comfortable, we had plenty of sleep, and then we we woke up the next morning ready for our meetings, and all the grumbled heads from all the other team members is like, Well, you did it to yourself, you know, you can only blame yourself, but anyway. But I will say, Josh, this one here, the toilet seat museum has been moved from where you saw it with the old guy as well. Unfortunately, he's passed away. Um, but he's the whole memorial is now inside, beautifully uh exhibited inside this area in the truckyard of the Texas. Um I need to go.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:47

That's a bucket list location.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:48

You do, it's I need to get my location, and I need to get my toilet seat.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:53

Yes, you need to get it back. I need confirmation. I need I I told them. I'm sorry, I'm repeating myself. I've emailed them. I said, if you can find it and give it to me, I'll come down. I'll fly down. If you find it, I will fly down, I will make a video, I'll talk about it on my podcast. Here's how many followers I have on TikTok. Come on, promotion, free. All you have to pay me is a stupid toilet seat.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:21

It's not even payment, it's just just giving it back.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:24

Yeah, give me back my property.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:25

Exactly. I want to be an Indian. They call it Indian giving when you get back an item that you've given away already. Uh that is not politically correct, but I think uh the old that's an old school term. I'm I'm 50 now. I can still be like I can be this way now. Um, the next up, Josh, we had the most haunted webcam in America. This was the shortest episode we had uh of the year. Uh, this is about the library we were saying before in um uh with the webcam, the eight or nine webcams in the library. This is I will say, Josh, this here, another great video that we did together, the two of us. Oh, yeah. This was fun video. This is a fun video.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:02

She was a great guest. She worked at the the she was a media specialist. I don't even think they call themselves librarians anymore. Oh, and she was proud. Oh my gosh, she was proud of that haunted place. Yeah, she was she like fully embraced it, you know. Sometimes I think it's like I think people can sometimes take themselves a little too seriously and be like, Yeah, this is our library, this is our historic building, which it had all that. Yeah, fully embraced the haunted nature of that place and the gray lady talking about the gray lady. She had a great story about receiving a phone call in the middle of the night. That was fantastic from a from a room that was locked.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:42

What? That was fantastic.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:45

That was the story of the year. Yeah, go back and listen to that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:48

Absolutely story of the year, that one there.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:50

Yeah, go listen to that podcast. It's a great story.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:52

November 10, 2025, the most haunted webcam in America. Next up, Josh, we had we're talking about a GIF film. If you film it, they will watch behind the scenes of the GIF film. So that was a really cool one, too.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:04

Yes. If you want to know everything we did and creating the GIF film, that's the exhaustive uh description of it all. We didn't hold back.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:15

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:16

Until we told you everything.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:17

And you can see, you can see, Josh, uh, how our episode, when it comes to our uh download numbers, how we we're actually what we call a slow burn with our download numbers because the the ones at the beginning of the year, the the the longer they've been out, the more downloads they've got. You see, so uh you know so people catch up slowly with these some of these episodes. So that's how it works. Uh December 8th. There's no place like the Southwest. This was a fun episode. This is all about my traveling.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:43

You did it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:44

That was a promo for you.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:47

Oh gosh, especially the sphere.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:50

Josh, have you speaking of that now? It's been a few weeks, um, what nearly four weeks now since we did that episode. Have you booked a cheap flight to Vegas and and booked your seat to you have to, mate. You have to.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:03

I'm I after the podcast, I'll tell you, I might be needing to save up. Oh we'll talk about it. Oh, after the podcast.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:12

Coming soon to an episode next yeah, I'm holding back coming soon to an episode near you, Joshua.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:17

People ask me, like, what is my 2026 gonna be like? And I was like, I don't know, we'll see.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:24

And then last but definitely not least, Josh, in December 22nd, we had discovering small town America behind the scenes of the web series My Town with Cory Heppelah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:34

Oh, it was so fun to watch the episode of my hometown that Corey went to after that came out the day after we the podcast. Yes, so that was a lot of fun to watch. He was Corey Heppela, former uh main anchor of a major news station here in the Twin Cities. So well spoken, such a quality, quality show. It is basically the dirty jobs of just like small town travel. Yeah it was really cool. And I got again, I went to a geocaching event yesterday, and I had somebody come up to me and said, Oh, I really enjoyed the episode about uh my town, Corey Heppela. Nice, and they weren't even from Minnesota from Utah, and they were like, I listened to it, I really enjoyed that episode.

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:19

Nice, nice, yeah, yeah. No, Corey was a great guy, great guest, and uh and who knows, Josh, we may have them on once again. Uh, we have to reach out to our patrons as well, Josh, to ask them about the uh the the March Madness again, once again, and also why not ask them which which guest they preferred the best uh or the most and try and get that guest on the show again, talking about something else. Meanwhile, Josh, uh we have a brand new patron as well.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:44

Oh my gosh. You know who this is you know you know who this is?

SPEAKER_03: 1:07:48

Yes, I do. Do you know who it is?

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:50

Do you know who this is? Yes, I do. Valerie Pratt, from Silly America, right? She's from Silly America. Valerie, thank you so much. Yes, we've had her on the show, right?

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:01

I don't think I'm not sure that's the same Valerie. Is that the same Valerie? I think so. Don't think it is.

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:08

No, it's not oh okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:12

Let me have a look here for you, Josh. Uh, it's DT Charlie.

unknown: 1:08:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:17

Geocacher DT Charlie. DT Charlie, oh my gosh, thank you so much. Different Valerie. That's what happens, Josh, when uh we know geocaches by their geocache name more so than their real name. So yes, but no, thank you so much, Valerie. And uh thanks for being our number one for 2026. You're our number one, number one, Josh. And now, if anyone wants to join up with the uh the the patron party, because right, how do they do that, Josh?

SPEAKER_00: 1:08:44

Yes, a huge thank you to our listeners for listening. If you want to be a part of the golden nuggets, these are all the special things we put out from time to time photos, extra audio. Uh, we really appreciate your support here in 2026 supporting us. You're helping us create even better content. Keep it free for everyone. As we said before, we don't have any annoying commercials. So consider joining us on Patreon at patreon.com backslash treasures of our town.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:15

That's really cool, Josh. And I'm not sure if we've spoken about this, but we have something very special in the making, in the 3D making for patrons. Uh it'll be a contest coming up very soon because one of our patrons was inspired by our golden nuggets.

SPEAKER_00: 1:09:34

Yes. And uh and he's my now when do I get to taste this golden nugget? Or put it in my put it in my hands.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:42

I was gonna say I wouldn't put it in your mouth. I'll put it in your hand, but not in your mouth. We'll soon see. But Nesmack, he's uh he's in the process of in the production of something for us very, very special, which we will have to we'll have to do a uh uh a contest on the patron Josh to see who's gonna win one of these special goals.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:00

And this is cool. I'm not gonna tell you what it is, but it's cool.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:02

It is really cool.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:03

I saw it, I was like, are you kidding me? That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:06

Yeah, and it was it was all his idea. It was all uh Nesmuk's idea too. So a big thank you to Nezmuck as well for reaching out to us and letting us know too. A really cool idea. We love it, mate, and we're looking forward to it for 2026. Meanwhile, Josh, how can people contact us if they wish to reach out and contact us with any ideas for shows, etc.? Yes, we love your feedback.

SPEAKER_00: 1:10:25

We don't again, we don't get it as much as because we don't do this live, and it's and um it is our show is on YouTube, but most people don't listen to it on YouTube. So reach out to us at treasures of our town podcast at gmail.com. Or you can follow us, of course, on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or simply search Treasures of Our Town Podcast everywhere, and you will find our Buzz Sprout site. And there's a little button you can press and you can give us uh feedback, even anonymous feedback. You can send us hate mail, you can troll us.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:58

Please don't troll us. I don't like trolls, but anyway, uh that's it for our joke today. Please subscribe, rate, review on your favorite podcast camp. And as always, Josh. You're very proud of you.