0:00

Great minds to collect that I think so too , and

0:02

I think for our next trip , josh , we've got to

0:04

do this hands down . You're the first

0:06

, and then I'll order first the next time and just

0:08

see if that's actually the case . I

0:11

got to prove to myself , to you , that I'm not copying what you're

0:13

doing , because that sounds a bit stalkerish and weird .

0:25

Do you love to travel ? Do you love road trips

0:27

? Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns

0:29

all over the USA ?

0:31

Hi , I'm Joshua and I'm Craig . Welcome

0:33

to Treasures of our Town . The podcast explores

0:35

the unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United

0:37

States .

0:38

Join us as we venture into some of the country's

0:40

most intriguing destinations , uncovering

0:42

hidden gems and local secrets along the

0:44

way .

0:45

On today's episode . Josh , we're sweet

0:47

home .

0:48

Alabama .

0:52

We explore the Gulf shores of Alabama and

0:55

a little bit of Flora Bama as well . And I

0:57

am sitting across from you right

0:59

now , face to face

1:01

.

1:02

This is exciting . We're actually

1:04

in Alabama . Yes

1:06

, wow , we spent the whole

1:09

weekend together , like many days

1:11

. Yeah , let's say Wednesday , thursday , friday , saturday

1:13

, saturday .

1:13

And this is day five .

1:14

Day five together , but we have

1:16

so much that we have done . This

1:19

has been just such an amazing

1:21

trip . Yeah , we have done

1:24

so much , so much . We've seen so much

1:26

, we've heard so much the sights

1:28

, the sounds , lots of sounds . Last , night

1:30

.

1:31

I know right , and you think about as well when it

1:33

comes to sights . We're sitting right now in

1:35

these beautiful cabins and we overlook

1:38

and gorgeous Frosted

1:40

Lake , or Frosted with , with fog I

1:42

say foggy Lake , with a pier outside

1:44

and etc as well .

1:45

like mate , we can't get any better than

1:47

this . My wife always says when she travels

1:49

on social media she goes

1:51

beautiful , wish you were here . We

1:54

wish you were here , Listeners , 100% wish

1:57

you were here . As we're looking out our

1:59

cabin window , which we're going to talk about

2:01

a little bit , because absolutely boy have we

2:03

been treated ?

2:04

This has been next level , like

2:06

media passes we're

2:08

talking , you know , letting backstage

2:11

passes , yes , and you know

2:13

insanely good , well

2:15

, well treated , even a package . We got little

2:17

packages , josh , too .

2:18

Yes , it's so many cool things

2:21

. I'm looking at my care package back

2:23

here . You've got coffee and all this stuff . It's

2:26

been such an amazing trip and

2:28

I don't know We'll see .

2:30

Josh , this may have to be . I'll look to the show notes

2:32

, mate , it may have to be a two-part .

2:34

A double episode , so you get to hear

2:36

us talk about Alabama

2:38

for a month .

2:39

Yeah , that's right , Because we do every

2:42

two weeks fortnight for Australians and

2:44

the rest of the world .

2:46

Oh , so before we dive in , had

2:49

you ever been to Alabama before

2:51

or these last few weeks ?

2:53

Yes , you have ? Yes , I have

2:55

. But all I did was I went

2:57

, I flew into Atlanta , in Georgia , okay , and

3:00

then went across , directly across East

3:02

sorry West , I'm getting my directions wrong Directly

3:05

West into Alabama itself and only

3:07

to like where the Crimson

3:10

Tide and the college there

3:12

and that sort of thing . So I literally it was just one

3:14

road in , did a few caches etc and

3:17

got my souvenir , as you do , and

3:19

then one road back to Atlanta

3:23

.

3:23

So you've never been this far south .

3:26

Oh no , not in Alabama anyone .

3:29

This is just such a unique area . This

3:31

is the Gulf shores . I'm

3:33

looking out the window right now and it's like

3:35

the Gulf is right there .

3:37

The Gulf is right there . We

3:39

can almost see , like the Mexican waters , the

3:42

Gulf of Mexico .

3:45

Yeah , we're right by the sea , and

3:47

I had never even stepped

3:50

foot in Alabama till four days

3:52

ago . Really . Yeah , I see , I thought you'd been before you actually

3:54

started . I thought I had , but back

3:57

in the day we took a road trip

3:59

from Minnesota all the way down to Florida , for

4:01

you know , the Disney trip , oh yeah , and as

4:03

I looked at my path , I we hit

4:05

Mississippi , but we didn't hit

4:08

Alabama because we

4:10

came down through Georgia . So

4:12

I realized when I got here is like oh , this

4:14

doesn't look familiar at all . I've never

4:16

been here before .

4:17

Overall , if that's the case , then this isn't in the show notes , so

4:20

this is what happens Overall , because you have any states you've

4:22

actually been to . Now I don't

4:24

know . I'd have to look .

4:28

Yeah .

4:28

I'd have to look over 40 states . It's well over 40 states . If

4:32

that's the case , then what do you think about Alabama

4:35

as a general , as a whole , since you've been down here for the last five years ? I

4:37

mean well , I haven't seen all of it .

4:39

No , no , but I'm guessing that this area of the Gulf shores is maybe a little bit different

4:41

than the rest of the Gulf , maybe

4:43

a little bit different than the rest of Alabama

4:46

than the inland , but what do you think about

4:48

the actual people that we've met and you

4:50

know , I mean I've been down here . It's just kind

4:53

southern hospitality and

4:55

let me just say the Gulf shores is a

4:57

party down here .

4:59

It's a lot of fun and it's a party for all

5:01

ages we found out which will

5:03

get to very . I mean , there's a lot of snowbirds .

5:05

There's a lot of snowbirds down here . There's

5:07

a lot of retired folks and you know I don't blame them . There's

5:10

so much to see and do in the . In the weather

5:12

is beautiful and , yes

5:15

, I'm just looking right now how many geocaches

5:17

I've found , or how many I'm sorry

5:19

. I'm looking at how many states

5:21

that I found geocaches in . And

5:23

the count right now is

5:25

I've found geocaches in 42

5:28

states 42 .

5:29

There you go , so I think I'm up to 42

5:32

as well . We're tied . Have

5:34

you been to Hawaii yet ?

5:36

I have been to Hawaii , but geocaching

5:38

was before geocaching .

5:39

Oh , there you go . So , yeah , that's a big one

5:41

for you to get . So there you go , and you've got all the Northeast

5:43

to do , etc . As well .

5:45

That's once I hit the Northeast . Oh boy , like

5:47

I'm almost done . I just need Hawaii .

5:49

Yeah , no , that's fair enough , Mate

5:52

. What are we going to crack on with this

5:54

little podcast and let them know what we've been doing

5:56

day by day ? Yes , the

5:58

sites , the sounds , the tastes , the

6:00

people , everything .

6:02

Oh , there , from the , you guys are in for a treat

6:04

for this podcast because we've got like audio

6:06

clips . This is going to be a pretty epic episode

6:09

and you're really going to . You

6:11

might have a little bit of FOMO because we just had so

6:13

much fun

6:15

down here . Yeah

6:18

, and so the reason we're here

6:20

, craig , of course , like the primary reason

6:22

, We've done so much but the primary reason is

6:24

is we are here for a geocaching mega

6:26

event mega event which , if you're not a geocacher

6:29

, then let's be honest , most of you are . Most

6:31

of you are . That is a geocaching event

6:33

, a big one that has over 500 attendees . It

6:35

was called Bama Ramma . This is the second

6:38

year that they've done it , second year in a row , and

6:40

San Marquis , the leader of

6:42

Bama Ramma , contacted me several

6:44

months ago and he really wanted us to come down

6:46

here . So here we are .

6:48

So yeah , thanks for the shout out to San Marquis

6:50

, for that too . Thanks for the invite . Exactly , exactly

6:53

. But , josh , before we start off with all

6:55

the good stuff , all the great stuff

6:57

that we've done , your little

6:59

trip didn't start so great

7:01

.

7:03

Now this is going to sound a little bit like first world

7:05

problems , but I was not

7:07

pleased with my flights . I

7:10

am a Delta loyal customer

7:13

and I really , really

7:15

look forward to my flights

7:17

because I love flights . It's relaxing

7:19

and everything about

7:21

this just kind of was not so great .

7:24

Well , you got bumped .

7:25

First of all , first of all yeah , I was supposed

7:27

to have a flight that left at five , which

7:29

meant I had to get to the airport at 3 30 . So

7:31

actually , secretly , I was kind of a little bit

7:34

happy that I got bumped , because that was really early , but

7:36

I got on my flight so I got bumped . I had , you

7:38

know , I had picked my seat on my previous flight , so

7:41

I had to , you know , do a different flight . And

7:43

, of course , because I had to get

7:46

a different flight at last minute

7:48

, I got the dreaded middle seat .

7:51

Oh , cause they just bump into the middle seat ? Whichever

7:53

is spare and free , which normally

7:55

is the middle seat , which is unfortunate

7:57

, and that was fine .

7:59

I mean it's okay .

8:00

But then you I don't know anybody who's fly Delta

8:02

. They have a great like in flight . You

8:05

know movies , tv shows

8:07

and the screen and the seat back in front of you and

8:11

everybody else is , like you know , have their headphones

8:13

on . They're just jam listen in watching

8:15

their shows and all mine is just like a frozen

8:18

screen that says Delta , just frozen

8:20

.

8:20

Oh , so not the frozen as in the movie , frozen

8:22

like Elsa but actually like literally not

8:24

working . It's not working .

8:26

Like and I'm looking around everybody else's working

8:28

. I'm like , of course I got put in the seat where

8:30

it doesn't work . So you know , I press a little button

8:32

Ding the lady can I help

8:34

you ? Yeah , cause

8:37

I've had this happen before . Yeah , would

8:39

you please go and reset my screen ? Oh , yeah

8:41

, no problem . And then she walked away . Hour

8:44

later , nothing's happening

8:46

. She literally forgot about me

8:48

. So then another flight

8:50

attendant came my way after I pressed

8:53

the button Ding . She goes is

8:55

there anything ? And secretly I was like I want

8:57

the first one to come because

9:00

we've already had a conversation . So I kind of went all

9:02

like you know , hey

9:05

, an hour ago I asked

9:07

the other attendant to fix the screen . Could

9:10

you please reset ? Oh , yeah , yeah , yeah , I share no problem

9:12

. In the meantime , the

9:14

drink cart is going by during this whole process

9:16

and completely skips our row . No

9:19

drinks .

9:21

For your row .

9:21

No drinks for my row , no in-flight

9:24

entertainment . So , she resets the

9:26

screen and

9:28

then she's like it should take seven

9:30

minutes for it to boot , and

9:32

I'm watching it as it's just like frozen screen

9:35

.

9:36

How long into the flight was this Cause ? It's

9:38

an hour long . It's not a long

9:40

flight .

9:40

No , it's a two hour flight , so this is over

9:42

an hour into flight Now . I only have a half hour

9:44

left now , so I'm like at this point I don't care

9:47

and so , and

9:49

then finally she comes back after

9:52

it has rebooted and

9:54

it goes oh sorry , it's not working . So

9:57

after all that , I didn't get any drinks , I

10:00

didn't get any in-flight entertainment Again

10:02

. First world problem , I know . But you know

10:04

, Josh , you got content

10:06

.

10:07

Yeah , just now you got a story .

10:10

And I got some . I

10:12

got some Delta points for it too . Only

10:14

500 , which is only worth $6 . I

10:16

think I deserve more for

10:19

a $500 flight Hashtag Delta definitely

10:21

not sponsored . Yeah , Delta , if you're listening

10:23

. So it did start

10:25

well . But you know what , as soon

10:27

as I landed in Pensacola , Florida , it

10:30

started well because I you

10:33

pulled up in your mobile

10:36

house .

10:38

Yes , my converted SUV , yeah

10:40

, and four wheel drive .

10:41

If you don't know , Craig has been on a road trip

10:44

across the country

10:46

, you know , sleeping at cracker

10:48

barrels .

10:49

Living the life . Yeah , living the van

10:51

life , but not in a van , but it's okay

10:53

.

10:54

And , of course , as you're picking me up , I'm recording

10:56

.

10:57

Yes .

10:58

And I get in the vehicle

11:00

and what do I say ?

11:02

You say , look at me and go , craig or

11:04

you go Craig Craig . You're

11:06

like , take me to Alabama . Take me to

11:08

Alabama and say , Josh , this is what got me

11:10

, because I know you and I hear you record

11:13

and you weren't holding your phone like a normal

11:15

person holds their phone , like you know , in the vertical mode

11:17

. So you weren't recording for a TikTok , no

11:19

, but you were holding it in landscape mode . So that means you're

11:22

recording for a YouTube video .

11:23

Yes .

11:24

I had no clue what you had actually done or

11:26

whatever . So

11:28

, yeah , I didn't know itself . Until you get in the car

11:30

, you settle down , you're relaxed . Yes , you

11:33

know what was the temperature like here . I know we don't

11:35

talk about the weather , but on these

11:37

types of things we have to talk about

11:39

the weather , because that is one of the good aspects

11:42

of this location .

11:43

Yeah , so we're visiting here in the

11:45

end of February .

11:47

Beginning of March . Beginning of March .

11:49

So if you're listening to this later and it was like a nice

11:51

70 degrees here , it was nice

11:53

and , let's be real , like the weather in Minnesota

11:56

has been really weird . Today , march

11:58

3rd , when we're recording this , it's 70

12:00

degrees in Minneapolis on March 3rd . This

12:02

is it's wild weather , so we've

12:04

got the same temperature here , as we're gonna sold it

12:06

right now . Isn't that weird ?

12:08

That is very strange , that is really strange , but

12:10

we don't talk about the weather here , so that's over . But

12:12

we can talk about it if it's a product of

12:14

the actual quality or quality of the location

12:16

. We gotta paint the picture we do , we

12:18

do , so I said take me to Alabama .

12:20

And I did and you did

12:23

. Thank you , Because

12:25

I have never found a geocache in Alabama .

12:27

No that's right . We've never been to Alabama .

12:29

So check one . I have to get

12:32

to Alabama , and I also had to get to Alabama

12:34

for a special mission that we'll talk

12:36

about later . I just published a YouTube video about this

12:38

special mission . I did say that so I had

12:40

to get to Bamorama , but the first

12:42

part of getting to Bamorama is getting to Alabama

12:45

, so I needed to find

12:47

a geocache as soon as possible .

12:49

And it was actually on

12:51

the border sign .

12:53

Yes , yes

12:55

, a great cache right on the border in

12:57

this little space . So we visited

12:59

a location that we visited not

13:02

once , not twice , but three times

13:04

on this trip . It was so epic .

13:05

Yes , yes , and apparently

13:08

it's the last road house in the

13:10

USA .

13:10

That's what they say . The last road house in America

13:13

.

13:13

And it's called Flora-Bama

13:15

.

13:15

Flora-Bama , because it's basically right

13:17

between Florida and Alabama

13:20

.

13:20

Yeah , so if you don't know and I didn't

13:22

know this either but the border line Josh is

13:24

very strange down here in the

13:26

peninsula area it

13:29

follows , it goes sort of like

13:31

sideways . It actually goes from left

13:33

to right or east to west , and then

13:35

automatically just turns straight back

13:38

down to south again . So it kind of got like a

13:40

it's a panhandle of a panhandle

13:42

.

13:42

Yes , yes , it

13:44

is kind of a strange border , yeah . But

13:46

yeah , flora-bama , it's

13:48

like a world's last road

13:51

house . They say , Kenny Chesney

13:54

, the country singer , wrote a

13:56

song about it . He did .

13:56

You can search for it . He did .

13:58

And this is I mean it's

14:00

a complex man , it's on the beach

14:03

. I mean all these different rooms with all these different

14:05

music venues and all these different bars

14:07

inside one it's one

14:09

giant bar .

14:10

Yeah , should we talk about Flora-Bama right now

14:12

?

14:13

Well , yeah , we'll get back to it , so let's

14:15

not talk about it right now , but that's the area that we were

14:17

, and so I found the geocache

14:20

Check Done . I

14:22

now have Alabama .

14:23

And then there's of course Adventure Labs around

14:26

that area too , so we had to do those adventure labs Totally .

14:28

We were doing the Adventure Labs , yep , and then , of course , I

14:30

was getting footage from my YouTube channel and

14:32

sometimes I hand you the camera .

14:34

Yes , you do . Quite often you hand me the camera , tell them

14:36

what we went out to appear .

14:37

Tell them what happened .

14:38

So , basically , what happened is Josh being Josh . He's

14:40

like . You know . Give me a b-roll of this , get some footage of this

14:42

. Ok , get me walking here , get me walking there

14:44

. I want to talk about this , and that's all normal , that's

14:46

fine , not a problem . But this time

14:48

we were out on a pier , but

14:51

the pier wasn't into the ocean . The pier

14:53

was into the lake on the other side of the peninsula

14:55

, right , and so the

14:57

pier itself went past and onto the pier . Now I'm

15:00

already in what do you call it Like Florida

15:03

, alabama ? Oh yeah , gea . So

15:05

I'm in the shorts , I'm in the shirt

15:07

. It's beautiful weather , it's like it's summer

15:09

.

15:10

Yeah .

15:10

I'm even wearing slides , for instance . Well

15:12

, not even wearing clothes and shoes .

15:14

Pause Tell the people what a slide

15:16

is , because that's not what we call them . Oh , you don't call them

15:18

slides . No , we call them sandals , sandals

15:21

or thongs . We do sometimes call them thongs

15:23

.

15:23

Yeah , anyway , it was a slip on shoe of

15:25

sorts . Yeah , your toes are bare

15:27

, your heels are bare , like it's just one

15:30

bit of strip going over the top of your foot

15:32

. There you go . If you haven't got that visual

15:34

now , you should have , because I can't say

15:36

thong , because people don't think of other things here in the

15:38

US . But anyway , I'm there

15:40

and Josh is like OK , I'm going to go , I'm

15:42

going to stand here at the end of the pier and I want you to walk

15:44

back away from me and pan up .

15:47

Yeah , what's the name of the shop when you back up ? We

15:50

should name that shop , we should name the shop . So

15:52

when we're out there , you know what I'm talking about

15:54

. I think it should be a backup shop . A backup

15:56

shop , yeah , we should call it a backup shop .

15:58

Backing it up , backing it up , exactly so . I was doing

16:00

a backup shop and , sure

16:02

enough , me being me , I'm halfway

16:04

, not even halfway through . I think I took two steps

16:07

. I took two steps .

16:08

There's video proof of this , the video just

16:10

published today . I left it in .

16:12

Oh , you did . Yeah , I left it in . I took

16:14

two steps back and , sure

16:16

enough , one of my footwear

16:18

. It caught Josh on the

16:20

boards of the border of the pier

16:23

and it just automatically flicked into

16:26

the water . Lucky

16:28

for me , it floating because they're made out of that

16:30

floating material , but it was floating away . Now

16:32

I've got all my clothes on

16:34

. I've got no swimwear on . I've got my phone

16:37

in my pocket , luckily Car keys

16:39

and my wallet . But

16:42

I turned around and I saw a little

16:44

boat . That was actually not a little but it was

16:46

a nice boat . It was tied up to the pier

16:48

. There was a guy in there and three

16:50

lovely ladies and I ran over

16:52

to him and I asked . I said , excuse me , are

16:54

you like a fishing boat ?

16:56

You should have a gaff .

16:57

We call it a gaff , which is a big hook on a

16:59

stick . He's like no , I don't have anything on there . He goes

17:01

, what's wrong ? And I said I told him the story . What

17:04

did he do ? He straight away

17:06

disrobed his shirt , bare-chested

17:09

, pulled his pants down he had swimwear

17:11

underneath Pulled his pants down , comes

17:14

running Like what's that guy's

17:16

name ? On the beach . You know the in

17:19

the old TV show Josh , the

17:21

old TV show Baywatch , baywatch , what's that

17:23

guy ?

17:24

The Hasselhoff . Hasselhoff , the hoff , the

17:26

hoff . He was like the hoffer .

17:27

He was the hoff . He was there and he bounded

17:29

and he didn't just like just jump in and grab

17:31

it , no , he dove . He dove in Like

17:33

head first in like a swan

17:36

dive . I've never seen a dive like this before

17:38

. To be honest with you , so excited

17:40

by this guy , he picked it up and then

17:42

he swam back around to where he could climb up and

17:45

handed me my shoe back .

17:46

Greg , we actually have a live . Well

17:48

, we do Clip of this , we do

17:50

, we do , we actually we thank to be in person

17:53

and we recorded it . Let's , let's , let's flick

17:55

to it now .

17:56

Let's take a listen , Josh . We're recording

17:58

live right now as we speak .

17:59

Yes , we are . We're on a . We're on a pier in Florida

18:02

, Obama . Yeah , I don't know if we're in Florida or Alabama

18:04

. I think we're in Florida right now

18:06

.

18:07

Florida . They call it Florida Obama . Now , josh

18:09

, I'm there filming you doing some stuff

18:11

as well . Yes , yeah . And what happened ? I

18:13

tripped over on the actual pier itself and

18:15

lost my shoe into the water .

18:17

Yeah , it's just floated away in a sad sort

18:19

of fashion , lucky for us .

18:20

Lucky for us , lucky for us , we've

18:22

got Navy Nick and three lovely ladies

18:25

sitting on the boat next to us . Navy

18:27

Nick , guess what he did , Josh , what did he do ? He

18:29

, he took off . He , he breasted himself and

18:32

took off his shirt itself . Yeah , he

18:34

, he took off his pants , disrobed , he took his pants

18:36

off . Well , he's got , he's got swim around underneath as well . Well , yeah

18:38

, we're in . Florida , and then literally dove in

18:40

like a swan , diving from the the

18:42

depths of above down below . He didn't

18:45

jump in , he dove . He dove right in , exactly

18:47

right , and got my , my , my

18:49

, my thong sandal , whatever you want to call it .

18:51

Yeah , it's not , it's not .

18:54

Sure , I think it's a slide here at America . A

18:56

slide , sorry , we call them thongs in Australia . There

18:58

we go . So no , you had different thing here , I forgot

19:00

about that . Very good , so there we go . So a big

19:02

thank you very much to Nick and

19:05

Navy Nick .

19:06

And this is amazing , it only cost you four beers

19:08

for the rescue program .

19:10

Well , and and it's , it's , it's

19:12

content , josh , it's all content .

19:14

I love it .

19:14

I love it . Thank you to Navy Nick and the

19:16

three lovely ladies we

19:19

hope you guys enjoy your time here .

19:21

Big thank you to Navy Nick .

19:24

Navy Nick and those three lovely ladies Like

19:27

, yeah that we

19:29

run into these girls . Sometimes you call them the

19:31

fun girls , yeah .

19:32

The fun girls . If you've ever seen the Andy Griffith show

19:34

, there's an episode called the fun girls where these

19:36

fun girls show up with

19:38

Andy and Barney and they all want to just go

19:40

on fun dates and they are really

19:42

worried about the fun girls because they're afraid that

19:44

their girlfriends , Thelma , Lou and Helen are going

19:46

to find out about the fun girls .

19:48

Yeah , yeah . But they were fun girls . They were

19:50

fun girls All of the the sense of the

19:52

show . So , exactly , there we go . That

19:54

was that . Then we moved on and

19:56

we came to check in to

19:58

these beautiful , gorgeous

20:00

cabins .

20:02

So we're staying at the Gulf Shores

20:04

State Park . Yeah , and I don't know what you think

20:06

of when you think of a state park . You know , sometimes

20:08

I think rustic , I

20:11

think like rustic cabins

20:13

, sometimes like old cabins

20:16

.

20:16

Right yeah .

20:17

But we're staying at Gulf Shores State Park and we are

20:19

staying , Actually we're sitting in them right now

20:21

. The most beautiful new

20:25

cabins three bedrooms

20:27

, two baths , full kitchen

20:29

, beautiful . We got TVs

20:31

in every room , Every room . We got a new

20:33

couch . Oh my gosh . Orange

20:36

Beach Tourism , Gulf Shores and Orange

20:39

Beach Tourism . Shout out to Kay there

20:41

.

20:41

Yes , she hooked us up ? She

20:43

really did , josh . Did you know ? I'm

20:45

sure if you knew or not , but we're actually the first people

20:48

staying , so you're the first

20:50

person to lay on that bed in your room . I'm

20:52

the first person to lay on the bed in my room .

20:54

Wow , we broke it in .

20:55

We broke it in .

20:58

So yeah , yes , and the Gulf Shores

21:01

State Park . Let me tell you why

21:03

it's great . Now Minnesota , Greg

21:05

, you can't even have really

21:08

geocaches unless you get very special

21:11

permission in our state parks

21:13

golf shore state park . If

21:16

you look at the map , if you're a geocacher

21:18

and you look at the map , we're talking

21:20

hundreds , hundreds

21:23

of geocaches , geocaches . The

21:26

state park is huge and it goes around the lake

21:28

. There's bike trails and

21:30

this is a place . If you're a geocacher

21:33

, you could take a serious , amazing

21:35

geovacation here 100

21:37

percent .

21:38

You wouldn't even let's be honest as well , josh to be able to things

21:40

that are close by to where we are in these

21:42

cabins as well . Like , as

21:45

you said , you can spend the entire day in

21:47

the state park on bikes and

21:49

we'll get to that soon because we did do that as

21:51

well you can spend the entire day doing that and

21:54

then in the afternoon or evening , you know , wash

21:56

up , have a beautiful hot shower

21:58

in your beautiful brand new sort of bathroom , jump

22:01

in your car and then go to visit one of the many

22:03

, many restaurants in the area

22:05

. I love seafood to die for

22:07

. Yeah , seafood galore , galore . And

22:09

I'm one of the ones , josh , where , if

22:12

I'm any further than , like you know , maybe two

22:14

, three , four hours inland or away from I

22:17

don't eat seafood from those

22:19

places . I like seafood on

22:21

the shore , whether the salt spray you can

22:23

smell , yeah , the salt spray , and you

22:25

don't need any extra salt on your fish and

22:27

chips , for instance , because you just wave it in the air

22:29

and get some salt from the air .

22:31

You look at that , you're like that's that just came

22:33

from the sea today .

22:34

Yeah , exactly , Exactly it's kind of even

22:37

still , you know , kicking on the plate a little bit . No , no , no but

22:41

yeah , so you could do that if you , if you came

22:43

here , and you could do it with because of the size

22:45

of the rooms . We'd spoke about this . If

22:48

you've got two families , Josh can

22:50

stay here because there's a king room and there's a queen

22:52

room and then the third bedroom has

22:54

bunk beds . Yeah , so if you had

22:56

two families like right , two couple adults

22:58

and they both had one kid each or

23:00

one family had two you can easily stay here

23:03

and share the costs because it's quite cheap

23:05

and we looked at the price .

23:06

It was pretty reasonable for one night for what

23:08

this is . There's laundry , downstairs

23:11

, outside we have a little porch

23:15

area that is all screened in , so no

23:17

bugs . And then there's there's

23:19

a pier that goes right out

23:21

into the lake . It's amazing . And

23:23

also on the premises of

23:25

the State Park , there's a restaurant .

23:27

Yep , yep .

23:28

And we hadn't have not had

23:30

the opportunity to visit yet , but we drive by it and

23:32

it's a beautiful , like new looking restaurant

23:34

. There's all kinds of activities planned

23:36

throughout the State Park . Yeah , you

23:39

could spend your whole time here and not leave

23:41

. There is enough to do Exactly At

23:44

the Gulf Shore State Park and stay

23:46

in the new cabins . Man , these are beautiful

23:49

.

23:49

Now they are brand new for one reason

23:51

, and one reason Only , josh that they actually had

23:53

the hurricane come through that one

23:55

, the last one that came through itself , and

23:57

all the cabins here they all got

23:59

, you know , demolished and

24:02

rebuilt and we're on stilts as well . So

24:04

we're we're on stilts , josh , in case the

24:06

water gets too high , or so they get gators

24:08

, josh , the gators can walk underneath the which

24:11

. We haven't seen any yet .

24:12

Yeah .

24:13

I'm a bit bummed about that .

24:14

Yeah , they're out there . I

24:17

don't know if I would need to see them .

24:20

But now Josh , I mean we're , we're what you know

24:22

20 minutes into this episode . Yeah , have a look

24:24

at the window right now . The sun

24:26

has come out , the fog has lifted

24:28

the glistening I'm talking glistening

24:31

off the light . It's beautiful , it is

24:33

absolutely stunning and gorgeous

24:36

.

24:36

Yes , this is the place to stay

24:38

. Yeah , like you can stay at a hotel , but

24:40

this is your . You got the nice mix of

24:43

nature , but also a really nice

24:45

, like , basically , apartment . Yeah

24:47

, yeah .

24:47

And to be honest , josh , I looked at the prices . If

24:50

you stayed in a hotel along the peninsula , there you're

24:52

probably it's a little bit more expensive than

24:55

what these cabins are . Yeah , but not

24:57

only that . I will say this in the

24:59

last time for these cabins and that is not

25:01

only do you get the cabins , not only do you get

25:03

the entry to the state park is

25:05

all inclusive , but , josh , you get your parking

25:08

ticket like on for your car

25:10

Right and therefore you can use it not

25:12

just within the state parks parks , but

25:14

the state parking as well along the shoreline

25:17

.

25:18

Oh , that's a big deal .

25:19

That's normally $10 a day yeah .

25:21

So if you want to go to the golf beach

25:23

, yeah , yeah , yeah , you

25:25

got free parking with your park pass .

25:27

Yeah , that's amazing , that's pretty cool . It's all inclusive

25:29

. Yeah , all inclusive . So there you go , must

25:31

visit , must stay .

25:33

Oh , one more thing I want to add too . There's like a kitchenette

25:35

here , like fridge , full kitchenette

25:37

, so you can bring your food . You don't even have to

25:39

go out and eat at the restaurants

25:41

which you should , which you should , but you don't have

25:43

to .

25:44

You don't have to . There's a Walmart around the corner

25:46

as well that we can get all your Miller High Life's

25:48

from .

25:48

Yeah , which we did not sponsored . Not

25:50

sponsored , but if you're listening , so

25:53

we're still on Wednesday . This is still a

25:55

rival day . We checked into this beautiful

25:58

cabin and then we went to the very first geocaching

26:00

event and I believe that was

26:02

. It was an orange , orange city

26:04

orange beach . Orange beach Sorry , it's an

26:06

orange beach , and it was at

26:08

a , not a brewery

26:11

, but a place . I've been to one of these

26:13

places before and you

26:15

love I do Love this , I do .

26:17

This place was called the poor . The poor , as

26:19

in P O you are .

26:21

Yes , it's like you pour your

26:23

own Beers yes

26:25

, explain to people

26:27

what what it's like , because this is really

26:29

, if you're a beer lover , this is a paradise .

26:31

Yeah , and , and I am , and when I come

26:33

to say be lover , I love

26:35

trying all different types of be

26:37

because , like you know most , as said before

26:40

most of our listeners , we like collecting things of the digital

26:42

souvenirs and I'm on untapped

26:44

the app . I'll tell people what untapped is

26:46

, if they don't know okay , untapped is basically a social

26:49

media app for beer Drinkers and

26:51

so every time you drink a new beer in a new

26:53

location , you can log that be

26:55

on your untapped under your profile . Your

26:57

friends can see that you had that beer as well

26:59

. You rate the beer , you put a photo of

27:02

the beer . You can do a little . You do a little blurb

27:04

of how you felt when you drank the beer

27:06

, for instance . And then , josh , you actually get

27:08

digital badges . Yeah , you know from

27:10

the app itself . So again , untapped hashtag

27:13

, not sponsored , but if you're listening , yeah

27:15

.

27:16

I do love untapped game of fine

27:18

, you're drinking . I don't know whether that's a good

27:20

thing or not , but what it does though .

27:23

What it does , josh , to be honest with you . Yeah , it

27:25

makes me try so many different

27:27

types . Yes , like you know , I could . We

27:29

could sit here and you know , for the last

27:31

three or four nights drinking Miller , high Life , that's

27:33

it . But no , you know , I've had , I

27:36

mean IPAs , I've had Sours , I've had drafts

27:38

, I've had luggers , I've had all different types . Because

27:41

I don't want to , I want more badges , josh

27:43

, or badges

27:45

and At

27:47

the poor .

27:48

You get like a little card yes , that

27:50

you connect to your like Credit

27:53

card yeah , this is dangerous and then

27:55

you put the little card in the wall

27:57

, like wall where the beer pours

27:59

out Mm-hmm . And then it like charges

28:01

you how much you've poured , ounce

28:03

Per ounce , into your glass

28:06

exactly . And then when you check in on untapped , you

28:08

didn't say this . This was a like a verified

28:10

location , yes , so our faces

28:13

got put on the screen exactly .

28:14

Yes .

28:15

Craig's here he's drinking again .

28:18

Yeah , there it is . Make sure , if you've

28:20

, if you got untapped , make sure you have a nice part of

28:22

yourself . Yeah , one after you've been drinking , just

28:24

perfect . Yeah , so that was

28:26

the poor at the wolf over

28:29

in orange be . Oh , yeah , the wharf .

28:31

Yeah , it was not warf , not warf from

28:34

Star Trek next generation

28:36

yeah

28:38

, warf , and Like

28:41

there's a place that were people like live there

28:43

. Yeah but it was beautiful . It looked very

28:46

new .

28:46

Yeah , and we did a walk after , yeah

28:48

, yeah , the then finished and we

28:50

walked up and down the main street . There the

28:53

lights were on this beautiful red . You

28:55

did you , I think you put a photo on your yes , I did

28:58

. Absolutely stunning , and there's that big ferris

29:00

wheel there which you looked away , craig . We

29:02

need to go on that , but unfortunately it's closed

29:04

for the season .

29:05

Yeah , it was . We got

29:07

a media pass . It was a part of the media pass

29:09

. It's like I want to do everything on the media pass . And

29:12

then , yes , I think the night we were very it

29:14

was open , but then they just like closed it down

29:16

for maintenance when we went back . No , I

29:18

think that's what happened . No , but , it's a really cool

29:20

area lots of shops . The poor is there

29:22

. There's a AMC

29:25

theater there .

29:26

So , it's .

29:26

It's a newish area . It was beautiful

29:28

.

29:29

And if you're a geocacher , there is , like I

29:31

think , three or four adventure labs

29:33

down that street as well , which ?

29:34

is really nice . So this

29:37

was just Wednesday . We were tired

29:39

, yeah .

29:40

Yeah , we , yeah , we were really tired

29:42

. Are you probably more tired than what I was ? Because you're travel

29:44

and Wednesday was your travel day , see so

29:46

yes , so get back to the , the rooms

29:48

, the cabins , you know fall asleep . Bed

29:51

was comfortable . I will say nice

29:53

hot showers , bed , comfortable

29:55

. Everything was fine . And , josh , are you

29:57

gonna tell the listeners your most favorite

30:00

part of the , of

30:02

the whole cabin here ?

30:03

Well , I took a photo when I sent it to you yeah

30:05

, you know . And then I also put it on the treasures

30:08

of our town Instagram

30:10

story feed , and

30:12

I Knew this was here

30:14

before because it was listed as one of the things

30:17

here . There's a hairdryer here of course

30:19

, there's a hairdryer . This , this

30:22

is important . I was so

30:24

happy we had . It was a nice hairdryer . I think it's

30:26

brand new . I think I was the first brand new . And

30:31

I think I noticed that the cabins here , the

30:34

cabins where we're staying , mm-hmm . Of course

30:36

you can book it through the Gulf Shore State Park , but

30:38

it's also on Airbnb .

30:39

These are an Airbnb , so this is actually also

30:42

an Airbnb , oh .

30:43

so if you have a Airbnb and they don't

30:45

have Hair dryer , that's

30:47

, that's messed up .

30:50

So just to let you know . You didn't see because you haven't been in my

30:53

room , but there's a hairdryer in my bathroom

30:55

to separate well , so there you go .

30:56

No surprise this place not one , but two hairdryers

30:59

, so that made Josh's . Yeah , craig

31:01

got the king's suite .

31:02

Well , it's only because I just walked through and put my bags

31:05

.

31:05

Yeah , yeah , we didn't we just take it .

31:07

No , I'm fine with it but we will say this as

31:09

well . We , you know , we had a friend of ours . We

31:11

spoke to a friend of ours and we said oh , this is beautiful here and

31:13

he's his wife , said her

31:16

first thing to come out of her mouth was Did

31:18

Josh check if there's a hairdryer ?

31:21

I have priorities .

31:23

You're being known , josh . People are starting to know your

31:25

little intricacies .

31:28

So Thursday yes , now Thursday

31:30

morning , yeah , and we're in this beautiful state

31:32

park and I turn to you guys , and

31:34

I'm like guys there's

31:37

hundreds of geocaches here , good ones

31:39

too . Hmm , let's explore

31:41

the park .

31:42

Yes , and that we did . Now

31:44

that's this another perk , josh , and I didn't

31:46

know . I'll be honest with you . I didn't know this perk until

31:49

you brought it up at the time and and

31:52

they've got Free

31:54

. Let me say it again .

31:56

Free . I'll say it so people can understand free

31:58

, free , push bike hire . Push

32:01

bike hire , that's what you're

32:03

calling it . Well , what are you push by

32:06

hire ? That's what three bike Reynolds

32:08

.

32:09

Well , you're . You're speaking to the US , I'm speaking

32:12

to the rest of the world , okay . Okay

32:14

, that's great , we're more free .

32:15

So you , that's so funny push bike

32:18

hire .

32:18

I've never heard that . Yeah , because you hire the push box

32:20

. Yeah , but it's free and

32:22

you do it with an app .

32:24

Yes , yes , it was really . It was really kind of cool

32:26

. Yeah , because usually when you rent bikes

32:28

they're in some sort of like lock station

32:30

, you can't get them out . These were like free

32:33

standing Yep and we're like people

32:35

could just steal these or whatever .

32:37

No , they can't there's a little lock on

32:39

the Tire , so when you can unlock the

32:41

lock on the tire , through the app , through the

32:43

app and again and it scared Josh a little bit too , because

32:45

he's doing the app and he's very , you know , into

32:47

it and X , but you hear this and

32:50

the and the lock undead and you like turned

32:52

around your oh .

32:54

It's kind of like geocaching a bike , yeah

32:57

, like unlocking a bike , yeah , a gadget cash

32:59

or yeah and we we

33:01

got on those bikes and and they

33:04

were a lot of fun .

33:05

They were a lot of fun . You more fun for

33:07

you , and you'll see it on the video as well , which

33:10

I do because , like telling you now

33:12

, people know you by now , josh . They

33:14

know that your love of pee , we hone

33:16

, and they know what you do

33:18

. And so , all of a sudden , you know Josh is

33:20

there and he starts to , like , you know , do a little dance

33:22

as he goes around , and the bike's going side

33:25

to side , and I was awaiting Josh

33:27

. I honestly I was waiting for you to sort of flip

33:29

or fall off for some sort , but

33:31

, but what got me , though , is that Josh

33:33

found the bell

33:36

.

33:36

Yeah , it wasn't obvious that there's

33:39

a bell on it , but then I found you guys were using

33:41

the bell , yeah , when you were passing people . I'm

33:43

like , oh crud , I don't even have a bell . But

33:46

no , and then I noticed it was just a little crank

33:48

on the side , yeah . And then when I noticed that I just

33:50

kept ringing it , yeah , like a seven-year-old

33:52

child , and then started singing and dancing , like

33:55

Because

33:59

they're the bikes were kind of pee , we hermit

34:01

ish .

34:03

Now , I think that's spiked on the audio but okay

34:06

, you can fix it . So

34:08

yeah , so we . And the reason why you can get

34:10

these Bicycle hires for

34:12

free is that you can ride around

34:15

Josh , around this whole state park . Now

34:17

, if you're a jikas Because you probably are , there

34:20

are , how many it's ?

34:21

just power trails , it's power every 500

34:24

and some feet . I'm happy . You cash , you cash

34:26

, you cash and it's just a great way to

34:28

get lots of you cash is lots of fast , lots

34:30

of fast , very

34:33

quickly . And

34:36

there's there people that like the

34:38

high numbers yes , you want numbers too

34:40

. Yeah , like this is the place to go .

34:41

And let's be honest , to the actual containers themselves

34:44

. They're not microbes in the woods , no , they're great

34:46

. They're great containers , they're ammo cans

34:48

. Out there , there's like little . There's

34:50

even a photo boot , or not photo booth

34:52

, but a very what

34:54

we call photographic I'm thinking the word photographic

34:57

one where you know you may

34:59

or may not be killed like a big mouse

35:01

or rat .

35:03

You'll see that video yeah photos of

35:05

that . Yeah , so we spent

35:07

probably a couple hours Just geocaching

35:10

and biking in the park We'll take advantage

35:12

of this amazing location that we are .

35:14

and then , craig , where do we had we headed

35:16

back of

35:21

the Flora Bama house and Rightly

35:23

so , because so when we headed back , so the first

35:26

time we were there , it was sort of no

35:28

, it was late , late afternoon , but

35:30

this time with it we're there in mid morning

35:32

Josh morning on a Thursday

35:35

.

35:35

On a Thursday , you're thinking boy

35:37

, the Roadhouse probably isn't , you

35:39

know , going on a Thursday morning

35:41

.

35:42

No , because I thought it . We're just going to

35:44

be a geocaches there as well , it was a geocaching

35:46

event . It was a geocaching event . That's the reason why we're there . Yeah

35:48

, so it's geocaching event and by that time

35:50

a lot of geocaches had come through

35:52

. So they know , maybe you know one or two hundred

35:54

Geocaches at this event , because it was a pretty

35:57

cool scavenger hunt game , which we'll get into a sec . But

35:59

just what got me was that this

36:01

place , this Flora Bama place , is

36:03

like like a rabbit warren

36:05

. It's just like room after

36:08

room , yeah , room and bar

36:10

in Music venue , music venue

36:12

and another bar , and then an outside bar

36:14

and a smoking section . And , to the point , josh

36:16

, we're , we were doing this little scavenger

36:18

hunt around inside like

36:20

rabbits ourselves . You know we had to find these

36:23

letters and again you'll see it on

36:25

the video . We had to find these letters around the

36:27

whole place yeah , bras hanging from

36:29

the ceiling , for instance .

36:30

Yeah , let's talk about that . The geocaching

36:32

event was in the dome room . Yes , and

36:35

this was like , imagine , like a , a

36:38

Kind of a black box theater

36:40

, mm-hmm , you get , there are several levels

36:42

up there and , yeah , there were bras

36:45

hanging from the ceiling . Like

36:47

thinking , like the word I

36:49

have for it is scuzzy yes

36:51

, but but in a really

36:53

fun way yeah like cuz it just

36:55

fit . It fit where we were fit

36:57

the vibe . Yeah , so the event was actually

37:00

in this in the dome room . Yes , and

37:02

we'll get to that later , maybe in the next podcast

37:04

.

37:04

Yeah , because we visit again

37:06

later .

37:08

But yeah , this was just a

37:10

really unique .

37:11

It felt so Authentic yes

37:13

, but I didn't realize . So I go upstairs

37:15

and I'm looking around for these scavenger

37:17

hunt letters and here's this woman

37:20

upstairs because they , you can . You could smoke upstairs , josh

37:22

, you can actually smoke upstairs , because that everything

37:24

the cigarette goes up .

37:25

Is that weird for you ? A little bit , yeah

37:27

, because we can't smoke anywhere inside

37:29

or even really near places .

37:32

Like , oh , you know , 30 feet

37:34

from the front door , you know , and which is

37:36

fine because I'm a non-smoker , I'm an avid non-smoker

37:38

as well . But this woman there , she's up the stairs

37:41

and she's , she's got a drink in a hand

37:43

, she's . It's 10 , 30 in the morning , 11

37:45

o'clock in the morning . Yeah , she's got a drink in a hand

37:47

, a big cigarette in a finger and

37:49

she's Sucking

37:51

it away and the puffer smoke comes up . And

37:54

she looked at me . She goes oh , because you can

37:56

see upstairs , you can actually see down

37:58

into the dome room area , so you can actually see

38:00

. You can see what was happening downstairs . And

38:03

she said me what's going on down

38:05

there ? What's going on down

38:07

there ? I looked over and then realized

38:09

she's not a geocache .

38:10

Oh no , there were a lot of geocaches there

38:12

at 10 she was just drinking and smoking

38:15

and enjoying her time . It's five o'clock

38:17

somewhere crack .

38:19

Hey , no shade , no shade , just saying

38:21

that . But that's when I realized , josh , yeah , there was more

38:24

than just geocaching people there . You

38:26

know we're there and then , like we walked into

38:28

another bar area , there's a band playing

38:30

, and then , yeah , 10 30

38:33

in the morning , they've got a band playing

38:35

. It was packed too and they have these

38:37

special drinks there . Oh yeah , you

38:39

want to talk about we wanna , we want our , we want

38:41

our drinks .

38:42

Yeah , so we did a scavenger hunt where you had to find

38:44

letters throughout the Bama Ram and

38:46

then you had to unscramble

38:49

them like a good clever Girocash

38:51

or would . Once you did that , you told them

38:53

the word and they gave you a drink

38:55

ticket . That's cool and everybody was like you

38:58

got to get the world famous bushwhacker

39:00

bushwhacker .

39:01

I never heard of this bushwhacker before . There

39:04

were several versions of the bushwhacker there was

39:06

, there was , but we had more later . We've got

39:08

the original , first original . What was your idea

39:10

? Well , firstly , what is the bushwhacker ? Do you remember what

39:12

was in the bushwhacker Tequila

39:15

, I believe yeah and it's kind of a fruity

39:17

drink , it's a slushy drink . Yes

39:19

, and it's a milk slush too . Yeah , more

39:21

of an ice cream .

39:22

Yeah , it was more like an ice . It was an ice

39:24

, it's sort of an ice cream . Yeah

39:27

, alcoholic drink .

39:29

Ice cream really good . It was very tasty

39:31

, yes , it was .

39:33

I think the bushwhacker was like that kind of a tropical

39:35

field .

39:36

Yes , it did . Again suited the area

39:38

.

39:38

Yeah they had it , but they had a Reese's

39:41

version of the bushwhacker they had a

39:43

Like

39:45

I got a red bull

39:47

version and there's a coconut . Coconut

39:50

is like my green daiquiri version

39:52

.

39:53

It was it was , it was tasty , they

39:55

really , really and we . We had a couple

39:57

more a couple of days later , just saying

39:59

yes , so

40:01

that was a scavenger hunt inside itself

40:04

. And then Josh is like okay

40:06

, we can't just be here any longer , we need to go

40:08

out , we need to actually do some filming , we need to find some

40:10

caches . Yes , they're gonna be good quality caches

40:13

as well . Yes , we can't just , yes

40:15

, sit here with all the all the older

40:17

generational people watching and drinking

40:19

at midday as fun as that would

40:21

be , a hundred percent . And do you think I'll be doing that

40:23

in my retirement years ?

40:25

Yes , I might need to do visit for before

40:27

I get on the plane . So

40:33

San Marcus , the leader

40:35

of the Bama Ram event , sent me

40:37

all like the best caches in the

40:39

area , which is really nice , because they hid

40:41

new gadget caches just

40:43

for this event . They archive the old ones

40:45

. Yeah and then they set them up as a

40:47

venture lab . Yes , smart . Very

40:50

smart and then they have new ones . So people

40:52

that are revisiting Bama Ram

40:54

from last year this is the second one they get

40:56

new caching adventures

40:58

. Yeah like every year they come . So

41:01

what were some of the highlights ? I

41:03

know this is not a geocaching podcast , but there are some unique

41:05

locations .

41:06

Ah , very , very unique locations , and one

41:08

of which I'm gonna throw to you now because , like

41:10

anything down here , I find , josh , they like to repurpose

41:13

things . They repurpose the geocaches , like you just

41:15

said as well , but one of the geocaches

41:18

sent us to a location

41:20

that is . I had

41:22

never seen this before . Just to be honest , it was

41:24

an art studio . First and foremost , it was

41:27

an art studio . Yes now

41:29

I called it the swing arse , but there's

41:31

no end .

41:31

No , this is not swinger , it's swigga

41:33

swigger , swigger , swigger swigger

41:36

, swigger , there you go .

41:38

swigger , she's with it .

41:39

I have to roll my arse , put your country in it .

41:41

Swigger , it's a swigger , no swigger

41:43

, oh swigger , there you go close

41:46

enough , and Swigger was the name

41:48

of the actual artist himself . Now , what

41:50

he does ? He

41:52

uses repurposed

41:55

trash as he's

41:57

art . So what I mean by that is

41:59

he'll walk along the beach and

42:01

he'll literally pick up Josh . He picks

42:03

up all the cigarette butts that he can

42:05

find , for instance . He then

42:07

takes them all back to your studio area

42:10

and it's very well ventilated , because

42:12

he said it's really bad . He's got gloves

42:14

on , he's , does it all you know , hygienically

42:16

as such as well , but then he uses

42:18

the filter , he uses the what

42:21

do you call it ? The wrapper outside Yep , and apparently

42:23

there's only two colors on a cigarette . It's

42:26

like a dirty orange . So , yeah , I know white

42:28

and a white , yeah . And then what he does

42:30

is he uses that For different

42:33

art pieces and then frames them

42:35

up and it's really cool .

42:36

Yeah , did you . I think you bought . I bought one . They're

42:38

so cool it had a lucky

42:41

strike . That's cover on it

42:43

. So not only I think he actually

42:45

found the outside of the lucky strike Container

42:48

and put that as a part of it . Yeah

42:50

, I believe my dad back in the 70s

42:52

smokes lucky strikes so . Yeah

42:55

, my wife won't listen to this podcast , but it's gonna be a

42:57

gift for her for .

43:01

No , that's fair enough , mike , but the

43:03

not only just did that sort of art , but I did notice

43:05

as well he's had it hanging art on the walls

43:07

. Yeah , there was like a surfboard , josh . The

43:10

surfboard was like Made

43:12

out of cigarettes actual , not cigarette

43:14

, a cigarette butts and cigarettes that he'd found

43:16

there for still full cigarettes

43:18

. And then what he does is he like glazes

43:21

over them with the epoxy resin

43:23

and so you can see straight through and so

43:25

that you can , you can surf , josh

43:27

. Yeah , on cigarettes .

43:29

It's so cool . You know what ? We could continue

43:31

just to describe how cool we was , but we

43:33

talked to him . We talked to JD Swigard

43:36

.

43:36

Oh , I forgot , we did .

43:37

Yeah , let's just hear from him

43:40

about his artwork and what he does and why

43:42

he does it . Greg

43:44

, yes , this podcast

43:46

is called Treasures of Our Town and we found one

43:48

. We just found a treasure that was guided by Geocache

43:51

and the purpose of our whole podcast

43:54

. You gotta love when this happens . It's so

43:56

serendipitous .

43:56

Yes , yeah , I love it .

43:58

I love it . Mike . We are at an art studio

44:00

called Swagger Studios , Swagger

44:04

or Swagger . Well

44:06

, this guy we're about to talk to does have Swagger

44:08

.

44:08

Swagger .

44:09

What are we asking them Bring ?

44:10

him in now Swagger . Shady come in

44:12

, Mike Come in .

44:14

This is the owner and , I assume , the artist

44:17

of this studio . And

44:20

right now , guys , this is audio . I'm looking around

44:22

. I'm seeing a shark created

44:24

with .

44:25

Well , we'll find out , we'll find out . I'm

44:27

seeing a crocodile , a

44:30

hammerhead that you wore on your head as well

44:32

.

44:32

Yes , I'm seeing shards of glass on

44:35

the floor with paint . This

44:37

is a really cool location .

44:39

I find that a lot of it's all reused

44:41

, josh . It looks so secondhand .

44:43

Yes , jd hello , hello , sir

44:45

. Tell us a little bit about your artwork . What do

44:47

we have going on here ? This is amazing .

44:49

So I'm from Gulf Shores originally and

44:51

I really respect where I'm from and I try

44:53

to take it for granted . And the main

44:55

point of my upcycled artwork is really

44:57

to raise consciousness and awareness

44:59

. In my hometown I have an ongoing

45:02

problem that we have not only here in Gulf Shores

45:04

but any town in the

45:06

world really . I'm picking up beach

45:08

trash , things I'm finding in the

45:10

community on the streets , and

45:12

kind of framing them in a canvas or

45:14

in a three-dimensional sculpture . I can kind of

45:16

raise some awareness and it's

45:18

a bit of activism in itself .

45:20

That is amazing .

45:21

That is really cool .

45:22

So there's like art you got to love . When there's it's like art with

45:24

a purpose and taking something that's kind of

45:26

a negative and making it a positive

45:29

and making it and it's so cool and I've

45:31

seen on the walls . You know you literally

45:33

like you go on the beach and you pick up like old

45:35

cigarette butts and tell me

45:37

what you do with them . That's amazing , that's really cool

45:39

.

45:40

Thank you , I appreciate it . I'll

45:42

have , you know , gloves , of course . And picking up mainly on the beach is the

45:44

best story . It's the best visual

45:46

kind of picking something out of the sand . Once

45:49

I have a cigarette filter , that medium

45:52

specifically gets broken down . It's

45:54

where the tobacco is taken out and the actual

45:56

plastic fibers are taken out and

45:59

the cigarette filter is kind of flat

46:01

laid onto the canvas . You see that they're brown and

46:03

white . Yes , well

46:05

, that's the only two colors that cigarette filters come in in the entire

46:07

world really unless you're smoking cloves

46:09

. But the brown and white

46:11

creates a highly contrasted two color image

46:14

. So you're really able to make nice

46:16

visuals with cigarette filters , believe it or

46:18

not . Like you said , making something beautiful out of

46:20

something ugly .

46:21

Yeah , yeah , and

46:23

this really is something that could be done around the world . Let's be honest

46:25

, you know I do love here

46:27

in the golf course as well . You do say the

46:30

whole theme is leave only footprints

46:32

. So I love that too . So

46:34

yeah , all your plastic bottles , all your cigarette butts

46:36

, all that , give them all off our beaches

46:38

all around the world .

46:39

But yeah , you're doing a great job here in golf course , mate , I love it , I

46:41

appreciate that and

46:43

what brought us into here is actually a geocache that

46:46

I mean , tell us what we're looking at here

46:48

. It's a Marble-O Marble , marble

46:50

, marble .

46:50

Marble , marble , yeah , a giant Marble-O box and

46:56

it's used as an installation , it's

46:58

used to kind of use in the community

47:00

. People kind of walk by a giant

47:02

Marble-O box , you know , thrown up against a trash can

47:04

. It's kind of a pun in everyday

47:07

life . It's kind of raising , you know

47:09

, awareness . You might walk by a regular sized

47:11

one that's discarded , but to have this in

47:13

your face , kind of like I said

47:15

, punny Marble-O boxes , it's eye-opening

47:17

yeah .

47:19

Reminds you . Hey , you know , but what is

47:21

it actually made out of ? So it's cardboard

47:24

.

47:24

A lot of my three-dimensional figures are the anatomical

47:27

forms made from cardboard stripping

47:29

, so the cardboard in itself is upcycled

47:31

. You know I try to use all materials that are

47:33

, you know , being thrown away .

47:35

Yeah , yeah Well , thank you so much for

47:37

what you're doing your artwork . This is really

47:39

a great treasure . If you're in golf

47:41

shores , or we're in golf shores right now

47:44

, check this place out Swiger

47:46

Studio . Yeah , it's right next

47:48

to the Walmart .

47:49

Yeah , can't miss it , can't miss it , can't not miss

47:51

it , so yeah , wow . That

47:55

guy was so cool , I tell you he's

47:57

one in a million . There should be more like him

47:59

. If there's more like him in the world , there'd be less trash in the

48:01

world .

48:02

Yeah , and he's making a really

48:04

ugly thing a beautiful thing , yeah , Like

48:06

I just really have a lot of respect for that Josh .

48:08

I'll be honest with you before we move on to the next one . You

48:11

putting your head inside

48:13

a hammerhead shark made

48:15

of like bits of plastic bottles

48:17

that he'd found on the

48:20

beach here in golf shores

48:22

.

48:22

That's pretty cool . And why did we go there

48:24

? Though ? We didn't even say why we went there . Oh

48:26

gee , Remember there was

48:28

a geocache . Inside that was a gigantic

48:31

cigarette box

48:33

.

48:33

Box Like a cigarette packet . Yeah

48:35

, but it was a gigantic one . It's probably

48:37

I'm going to say , Josh , it's probably over a hundred

48:39

times the size of a normal cigarette packet

48:41

.

48:41

It was pretty cool .

48:42

And that box itself was made out of

48:45

cigarette packs that he'd

48:47

found on the beach . Wow

48:49

, wow , very cool .

48:51

We were hungry , we're like it's time

48:54

to eat some foods . So

48:56

you know we're not really familiar

48:58

. We went on the golf shores and

49:01

Orange Beach Geotourism

49:04

site because we were like we wanted to find

49:06

the good stuff and one of the places

49:08

that was on there I was like if it's

49:10

on the website it must be good . So

49:13

we went to the Cove bar

49:15

and grill .

49:16

Oh , you remember that crack .

49:17

Yes , yes , it

49:19

was good , it was tasty , we

49:22

both got . I've been giving you a hard time all

49:24

weekend , I know , because I'll order something

49:26

and then you'll order the same thing , and I know you're not

49:28

copying me , but I think we

49:30

just , it's just great minds think alike .

49:33

I think so too , and I think for our next trip

49:35

, josh , we've got to do this hands down . You

49:37

order first , and then I'll order first the next

49:39

time and just see if that's actually the case . I

49:42

got to prove to myself , to you , that I'm not copying what you're

49:44

doing , because that sounds a bit stalkerish and weird .

49:47

But we I went to their

49:49

website because you see some

49:51

of the Yelp reviews on there . I love . Yelp reviews

49:53

and everybody was talking about the stuffed

49:55

avocado blackened chicken .

49:57

I know I love

49:59

avocado .

50:00

I'm a big avocado fan , then you

50:02

knew you were going to love this .

50:03

Exactly , I knew straight away . Like I said , avocado

50:05

was the main , one of the main ingredients . I

50:07

knew I was going to love it . And a stuffed avocado

50:10

, josh . It came in its own shell

50:12

. I mean , it was halved , of course , Right , and

50:14

the pip was removed , but

50:17

it came in its own shell and then it had

50:19

salsa drizzled over the top . It

50:21

was actually the avocado was cooked in

50:23

size Well , like it was a baked the

50:25

salsa dripped over the top , then the blackened chicken

50:28

over the top , then the cheese grilled

50:31

over the top With a little bit of crust

50:33

on the cheese . Dude , that was excellent

50:35

and there was like a sauce to it there ?

50:37

Yes , it was served with

50:39

tortilla chips Yep .

50:41

Yep , yep .

50:42

It , it was fantastic .

50:44

You can have like your own little dip up with the tortilla

50:46

chips . And yeah , definitely shout out if

50:48

again , if that you're in the area , that's a must

50:50

.

50:51

And you know , as we're eating , you remember

50:53

I looked over to the side of the wall . You

50:55

remember what I saw and I was so excited

50:57

.

50:57

So in a previous trip with Josh he's

50:59

actually shown me this and what it is it's

51:02

. It's a jukebox , basically Touch tunes

51:04

, touch tunes , but touch tunes has

51:06

an app on your phone that

51:09

you can secretly . I mean , obviously

51:11

you have to pay if you want to . You know , like you

51:13

normally do with when you touch tunes or

51:15

any jukebox , you have to pay for your . What you

51:17

select , so you can pay for

51:19

it , but you do it within the app and therefore then

51:21

you can secretly pick your

51:23

songs , so no one knows who's actually doing

51:25

the DJ .

51:26

You basically can be the DJ of the of

51:28

the place , yeah .

51:28

Yeah .

51:29

And I always take pride in trying to like match

51:31

the vibe . You do

51:33

, you really do Like what are these people really

51:35

going to ?

51:36

love yeah .

51:37

And this was felt very country . We walked

51:39

in there and everything was . Kc Musgraves

51:41

, I think , was on the touchers , yeah yeah . So

51:43

we were thinking about all the country songs and the

51:45

first song I played was Rawhide

51:48

from the from the blues brothers

51:50

movie . Had them up , boom , I'm

51:52

on . Hit them up , Rawhide . We're like

51:54

. I'm like , oh , these people are really going to love this . They

51:56

did .

51:57

They come and looked over . They come and looked over and went oh yeah , and

51:59

then not in their heads , and they liked it . They thought it was pretty

52:01

cool , and so Tim was with us .

52:03

Minnesota boy , yes , and it's so fun because Tim

52:05

Tim was just learning about touch tunes too , so

52:07

he was downloading the app and then he started

52:09

playing songs .

52:10

Yeah , yep , and my first song that

52:12

I played . I land down under

52:14

I had to play yes . I

52:16

didn't really go down too well , but that's right

52:18

.

52:18

Hey , you have to represent right , exactly

52:21

, exactly . We took several geo

52:23

breaks . Yeah , we did , Because now

52:26

just imagine , between all of this , we're finding

52:28

geocaches , great geocaches . Yeah , and

52:30

we had this press pass that K gave

52:32

us . Thank you K , thank you K . And

52:35

on this press pass was the

52:37

what was it ? The track

52:40

family amusement park . And that's what's called

52:42

the track , the track , the track . And we

52:44

drove by it and what did we see ? We just saw

52:46

not one , not two , not three , not four , not five

52:48

. Well , probably five , I think it was five , or

52:50

maybe six , maybe six .

52:52

Go kart , tracks , go kart tracks and

52:54

they were go kart tracks for all different skill

52:57

levels . You see , that's why they were spread out , so you

52:59

had , like the family track . That you can take your kids

53:01

on Right and you could even ride the . You know

53:03

the parent and the child sitting

53:06

next to them as well .

53:06

So cute .

53:07

It's cute and it's slow . But then

53:09

they go all the way up to the

53:12

wooded track where you go up over

53:14

, down , spiral in almost like

53:17

little jumps . The go karts were

53:19

backfiring as you're popping it down

53:21

the hill and trying to break to

53:23

get around the corner quickly . They

53:25

had that one , we , we , we did ride on

53:28

that one , and then we , they had the , the

53:30

slick track , the slick track , and

53:32

it was too slick for you , josh .

53:34

I went out like seven times and

53:36

the thing with these , these go karts , is they don't have

53:38

a reverse no , so the teenager has

53:40

to come out like facing in the right direction . You

53:42

feel like an idiot . You're like sorry , this will be the last

53:44

time . And then it wasn't the last time , exactly

53:46

, but yeah , I hadn't been on

53:48

go karts for a while and it was so cool because

53:51

this is a Thursday afternoon , yeah , so

53:53

there , we got the whole place to ourselves .

53:55

Every track to ourselves . You know the go cuts

53:57

. Are they ready to go ? The the , the teenage

53:59

, as you say , the teenagers , the workers . They're

54:02

there waiting for people to turn up as well . So again

54:04

, a big shout out to the media

54:06

pass for helping out with that .

54:08

Yeah , the big shout out to the golf shores

54:10

, tourism and Orange .

54:11

Beach . Now the track family amusement

54:14

park . Josh , isn't just about go karts

54:16

, oh no , we did a bunch of other stuff .

54:18

We did a bunch of .

54:18

We got a card full of points that we could

54:20

use , so inside is an actual

54:22

like amusement area .

54:24

Arcade .

54:25

Arcade . So you've got claw machines

54:27

after claw machines . Actually , I call it a

54:29

child casino claw machines . I

54:32

call it a Josh casino , to be honest with you , because

54:34

you should have seen Josh , I'll give you the tip now

54:36

. There was a claw machine in there

54:38

that I've never seen the size of this claw machine before

54:40

. It was . I'm going to say Josh is 10

54:42

foot tall . This claw machine huge , huge

54:45

claw machine , right Over six foot in

54:47

width in both directions and it had these

54:49

big balls inside and the claw

54:51

, josh . The claw was the size of me , almost

54:53

you know . So what does Josh do

54:55

? He has to go go big or go home . And

54:58

Josh being Josh with claw machines as we all

55:00

know from all these other videos that

55:02

he loves them so much and so he gets

55:04

the card and he swipes and then

55:06

he attempts one , it picks it up and it

55:08

drops and then he swipes a card attempts

55:11

one , so frustrating it picks it up and it drops

55:13

. This happened no less , josh

55:15

, than eight times on

55:17

that one ball At least eight times At least eight

55:19

times on that one ball . And I'm like Josh , are

55:21

you ever going to get it Like ? He kept on and you're

55:24

always saying oh , these are rigged

55:26

for so many .

55:27

Once you get so many done , then the claw holds

55:29

on stronger for one , but

55:33

I was a patient . I gave up eventually .

55:35

Yeah , and then tried another claw machine . Yeah , I tried

55:37

to win a baby Yoda . And then tried those

55:39

coin pusher machines . Those are fun

55:41

. They are fun . I like the coin pusher type machines . They're

55:43

pretty cool , but we were like a kid in a candy store

55:46

.

55:46

Track family amusement park . Yeah , shout

55:48

out to them .

55:49

Yeah , they had other rides there too . Oh

55:52

yeah , it's a family park Like bumper

55:54

boats . Yeah , yeah , I saw the bumper boats . I

55:56

saw there was like a little ferris

55:58

wheel thing there . There was a roller coaster

56:00

thing for the kids too . So that was pretty cool . The sheer amount

56:03

of effects that we did .

56:04

It was just like I know I'm looking through it . It's

56:06

so crazy .

56:07

I think , to be honest with you , we , I think we closed

56:09

out this episode after this

56:11

day Because then , on the

56:13

next episode , we'll do Friday and Saturday

56:15

.

56:15

Yes , perfect , perfect , that's perfect

56:17

. So after we did

56:20

the track family amusement

56:22

park , we went to

56:24

another unsanctioned secret

56:27

yes , geocaching

56:29

event .

56:29

It's a secret and it's a secret

56:32

to non geocaches

56:34

Muggles . They don't know about this . No , you

56:36

know , but this place it's in

56:39

Alberta , which is just outside of Foley

56:41

in Alabama here . A little

56:44

bit towards the north . A little bit towards the north . You know

56:46

, half hour drive north , which isn't too bad .

56:48

Everything was like a half hour away , like the city

56:50

, the city , every city was like a half hour

56:52

away .

56:52

Yeah , or town .

56:54

But yeah or less yeah .

56:55

So we go to this Alberta place and then we go

56:58

up and , josh , we were in farmland , like

57:00

I felt like we're in farmland area , open space . It

57:02

felt very different , very different , very different indeed . And

57:04

then we come to the point

57:06

of the road where the road turns left

57:08

to right like a Tina section , and you look

57:11

to your right , josh , and you see

57:13

an amusement park for

57:15

geocaches . Pretty much

57:17

, we see pretty much . We saw the geocaching flag hanging

57:19

up . We saw a big fire pit . There

57:22

was people sitting around the fire pit . Places to see , places

57:24

to see .

57:24

It was the most amazing fire pit I've ever seen , like

57:26

there was a youth Autorondacks chairs

57:28

yes , All over the

57:31

fires and it was a big fire too , like

57:33

there was a bonfire . Yeah .

57:35

You know , there was a youth , or what do you call them ? Trucks here , yeah , the

57:39

trucks being you know , the ones with the pickup trucks , yeah , and

57:42

inside the pickup truck , josh , you saw all these boxes

57:45

with Randy's .

57:45

Yeah With random names on them .

57:46

Presence Now , presence , geo presence

57:48

, geo presence for all who attended , amazing

57:51

.

57:52

Yeah and shout out this is owned

57:54

by some geocachers called the

57:56

two Loras , and they're just

57:58

I feel like they're just very prolific

58:00

. Yes , we would turn every quarter and everybody would be

58:02

talking about the two Loras .

58:03

Yeah , and we met one of the Loras , at

58:05

least one of the Loras .

58:07

And then she had like a little geo world

58:10

out in the woods .

58:11

So what she did was I'm not sure if you heard this

58:14

or not , but with the tour that we did

58:16

so this little geo

58:18

tour in her woods area

58:20

on her property , is all the old

58:22

caches that she's archived . She's

58:25

just put them there as their burial

58:27

ground . The resting place , that's a resting place

58:29

for all her old caches . It's a cache

58:31

cemetery . Yeah , josh

58:34

, there was even what we call a big mirror ball

58:37

was hanging from in the middle of

58:39

the woods .

58:39

It was so funny . It was just kind of like

58:42

folk art kind of out there it was very

58:44

folky , very arty very Dolls

58:46

with knives in them . Exactly

58:48

, exactly . It was wild . I bet you

58:50

it's a blast there at Halloween .

58:52

Oh , oh , yeah . Well , apparently she does host

58:54

other events , the Jikers' events here all the

58:56

time .

58:57

During the winter . She said she posts an event

58:59

every month . Wow , wow

59:01

, and so , anyway , it's a

59:03

potluck , there's chili .

59:05

The chili was great .

59:07

People are just having fun . There's

59:09

prizes about to be handed out , or not

59:11

? Prizes , gifts , basically and

59:14

one of the lorries says all right

59:16

, I hid out in the woods a bunch of containers

59:18

, go get them .

59:19

Yes , and we're like , oh , ok

59:21

. And then she said , because everyone was like slow

59:23

a little bit off the mark , there was a couple of people going

59:25

and she said there's four , no

59:27

, four , yeah , four prizes to give

59:30

out .

59:30

There's some . There's containers , but four of them have prizes . She

59:32

goes don't open them up until you take them back to

59:34

the fire .

59:35

That's right . So you've got to get one , pick up one

59:37

and that's it . And all the containers were the same

59:39

, which was made it handy , and so

59:41

everyone ran in . Josh and

59:43

I let people run past me . I'm not in any rush

59:45

, I'm not in any hurry . So we then walked through

59:47

and people were just grabbing them left , right and

59:49

center , and they were shaking them to see if there's

59:51

anything in them , and didn't feel like anything

59:54

was in any of them . To be honest with you , we

59:56

find out later that there were pieces of paper in all

59:59

of them . But so , anyway , people are

1:00:01

grabbing them left , grabbing them right .

1:00:03

I'm wandering through , josh because I thought

1:00:05

she's not going to make it this easy Josh

1:00:07

, so I'm looking for all the hard places

1:00:10

where they could be , you know , the ones

1:00:12

where a true geocacher

1:00:14

would find it and a muggle wouldn't .

1:00:16

So he said not on the track , no , you know , into

1:00:18

the little bushland area and stuff . And then Josh

1:00:20

, right at the end of the whole trail

1:00:23

there was like this pipe and I'm

1:00:25

going to say like a drain pipe . Now I had

1:00:27

to get half my body in there . Now I'm a big

1:00:29

fella , so I got half my

1:00:31

body in the drain pipe because I could see right at the very

1:00:33

tip of that drain . Josh was one of the containers

1:00:35

. I thought , this is the hardest one

1:00:37

it might be something good it might be something good

1:00:40

. So I'll grab that one , and that was my container

1:00:42

.

1:00:42

Right , so we take them all back to the fire .

1:00:44

Everybody has one , everyone has one .

1:00:46

Let's say , there were probably like 80 people

1:00:48

there .

1:00:49

Exactly Everybody had a container .

1:00:51

She's like all right , open them up . Open

1:00:53

them up and everybody's like whoa , whoa

1:00:55

, like the people are making noise . Yeah

1:00:58

, yeah , and I open mine . There's a $20 bill

1:01:00

in it , really yeah , $20 bill People

1:01:02

. Some people had $100 bill $50 bills

1:01:04

. Well , she's like look a little closer

1:01:07

. Ha ha ha , it was movie

1:01:09

money . They all said copy or fake

1:01:11

on it et cetera yeah .

1:01:12

They're all fake money . But

1:01:14

I didn't get any of those bills .

1:01:16

I didn't get any fake money or whatever .

1:01:18

I opened mine up and I'm like , oh , what's this ? And it's a

1:01:20

little piece of paper . And I opened up a

1:01:22

gift certificate , josh , yes .

1:01:24

I was one of the winners Josh .

1:01:26

Yes .

1:01:27

And thanks to Spacecoast Geostore that

1:01:30

she spoke to as well and they were there , Dale

1:01:33

and Barb . Big shout out to them , their

1:01:35

listeners and patrons of this show

1:01:37

as well . Yeah , they

1:01:40

did $50 gift vouchers and

1:01:42

there was four of them you got

1:01:45

four $50 .

1:01:45

$50 .

1:01:45

$50 gift vouchers from

1:01:48

the Geostore .

1:01:49

You get a lot of Geo stuff for that .

1:01:51

You can get a lot of Geo stuff , you can get some coins , you can get

1:01:53

you know so many different things from

1:01:55

Spacecoast for that

1:01:57

. So , yeah , so a big shout out to them and a big shout

1:01:59

out to the two lawyers as well . That was fantastic , that's so awesome

1:02:01

. But before we ended , josh

1:02:04

, and after we selected our

1:02:06

gifts because you just pick out whatever gift you want from

1:02:08

the tray I

1:02:11

heard she shouted out I've got another

1:02:13

prize .

1:02:14

Did you hear that one ? Oh yeah , that's

1:02:16

funny .

1:02:17

Yeah , I remember that she said to everyone she goes , I've

1:02:19

got another prize , I've

1:02:21

got one one more $50 prize , so

1:02:23

the person who can bring me back the

1:02:26

biggest pine cone from

1:02:28

her woods area . So , josh

1:02:30

, there were people out there , right , and

1:02:32

there were people , and they some had bigger ones , some

1:02:34

had smaller ones or whatever . But some

1:02:36

people coming back , josh , with , like , their shirts

1:02:38

lifted up and full because they didn't know which one's bigger

1:02:41

. They didn't know whether she meant she meant bigger

1:02:43

as in size or bigger as in weight . So they had

1:02:45

, they had whole shirtfalls , josh . And

1:02:48

then everyone came back and there was four

1:02:50

judges to judge the biggest pine cone

1:02:52

. Yep , sure enough , the biggest pine cone was there and

1:02:54

it got a $50 , and they got a $50 prize

1:02:56

. But , josh , the reason she does that

1:02:58

is because she said , okay , all

1:03:00

the pine cones now go over in the little pine

1:03:02

cone corner for fire starters for future

1:03:05

, for future months .

1:03:06

They did work for her . They worked for

1:03:08

her .

1:03:08

It only cost her $50 . And

1:03:12

then her woods are cleaned of the pine cones . That's

1:03:14

good job . Good job , that's funny

1:03:16

.

1:03:16

She's a smart lady and creative

1:03:19

, thinking outside the box mate and we got

1:03:21

we did , we did grab a parting present

1:03:23

from the truck . We did , we did and

1:03:25

we opened it up later and you're going to have to listen on the

1:03:27

next podcast what it is . But before

1:03:30

Friday ended we were still hungry

1:03:32

.

1:03:33

Even after some chili , I know , and I thought

1:03:35

to myself you know , josh , I want , I

1:03:37

really did want some seafood , me too .

1:03:39

Yeah , Tim not so much .

1:03:41

Tim doesn't like seafood . I think he's might be allergic , but

1:03:43

so we found a place that that

1:03:45

Tim could be have his hamburger or whatever

1:03:47

as well . And yet we could have real real

1:03:50

seafood .

1:03:51

Mine was tasty .

1:03:52

Yeah .

1:03:53

So we went to DeSoto's seafood

1:03:55

kitchen . We closed it out . We

1:03:57

closed at eight , we got there at seven . We yes

1:04:00

, we were the last ones there .

1:04:01

Yep , yep , yep .

1:04:02

And I got the different

1:04:05

kinds of shrimp platter .

1:04:06

You got the shrimp basket .

1:04:08

Yeah , well , it was like coconut shrimp , the

1:04:10

saute shrimp , shrimp

1:04:13

, kebab shrimp , burger

1:04:15

shrimp on the Bobby

1:04:17

.

1:04:19

I knew you were going to go into that voice , but

1:04:22

I had .

1:04:22

I had all the shrimp , it was all the shrimp

1:04:24

. It was really tasty .

1:04:25

And I had just a seafood platter to

1:04:27

myself as well , again , very , very tasty . It

1:04:29

had two types of fish . It had the popcorn

1:04:32

shrimp there as well . It had morsels

1:04:34

. It even had the Josh . I'm

1:04:36

the new , I mean , and my new love

1:04:39

is deep fried oysters .

1:04:41

Oh yeah , oh these things , I

1:04:43

can't do them , but I'm happy

1:04:45

for you .

1:04:46

Absolutely , and deep fried as well , actually takes a little

1:04:48

bit of that saltiness off

1:04:50

, like I like that Maybe I should try .

1:04:52

I've never tried deep fried . You should try

1:04:54

deep fried . I mean deep fried , anything Deep fried

1:04:56

turd is good , Exactly , why not ?

1:04:59

So that was our end of our night For

1:05:03

the oh my gosh , we've been having so

1:05:05

much fun here at the Gulf .

1:05:06

Shores .

1:05:07

Yep .

1:05:07

And you're just going to have to wait two weeks

1:05:10

for Friday and Saturday . And let me

1:05:12

spoiler we didn't even . We haven't even scratched

1:05:15

the surface .

1:05:15

We haven't even scratched the surface . I know , I know

1:05:17

We've got other interviews .

1:05:18

We did as well with other people too Before

1:05:21

we end this , though , I just want to give one

1:05:23

more shout out to the

1:05:25

Gulf Shores and

1:05:27

Orange Beach Tourism and Kay there

1:05:29

, who's really taken care of us . If

1:05:31

you're wanting a beach vacation

1:05:34

, a lot of people are like , oh , I want to go to Florida , I

1:05:36

want to go to California . This is a hidden

1:05:38

gem , this whole area . You can experience

1:05:40

the beach life , you can . There's great

1:05:42

music , which we're going to talk about in the next

1:05:45

episode , but come on down here , experience

1:05:47

all . There is San Marquis

1:05:49

. Yes , he does seashell hunting

1:05:52

tours . I saw that .

1:05:53

I saw that .

1:05:54

You can hang out with him Really

1:05:56

cool . Come on down here and come

1:05:58

to Bama Ramah .

1:05:59

Yeah . Yeah , it's a great time to come down here

1:06:02

in February and we'll go into that for next year as

1:06:04

well , because Bama Ramah , they're coming back next year , josh as

1:06:06

well , in 25 . Year three , exactly

1:06:08

, for their third year . But Josh , the other

1:06:10

thing I will say as well , being down here

1:06:12

, being amongst fellow geocaches and fellow

1:06:14

friends , we had patrons

1:06:17

with us down here . Yes , we had a few

1:06:19

patrons in here . We had Nancy was here , we

1:06:21

had Danielle , and Danielle , Dale

1:06:23

and Barb were down here , Tim was

1:06:25

here as well , so there was quite a few down

1:06:27

here that we really , we really enjoy

1:06:29

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