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Just Call Us Rock Hounds · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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  I'm Nick. That's Kristen.
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  We're married, we got a 7 year old and you're all caught up on
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  who who we are and what we do here.
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  So we just came back from rock hunting and we've got some rock
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  hunting woes that we want to discuss.
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  We're here in the Pacific Northwest, which is like, we're
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  in Washington slash, Oregon. And Kristen's been wanting, he's
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  been on a rock kick lately, I guess.
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  Yeah, she's once precious gemstones and things like that.
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  And so we had a free day to just kind of do what we wanted to do.
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  And so we went up to a river nearby and went rock hunting,
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  looking for agates and jaspers and all the different rare gems
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  that are around here. We don't know anything about
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  rock hunting. And that's where the woes come
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  in. Yeah, it like so.
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  It's called rock hounding. Yeah, rock hounding.
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  And so like, I wanted to find some agates.
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  Agates are really cool. They're shiny, you can see
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  through them. They're like really pretty.
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  And apparently they're like littered in the Pacific
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  Northwest. Like everybody stumbles over
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  just palm sized agates. So I was like, all right, let's
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  go down to the Creek and look, you know, for agates.
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  And we did, we were like out there for like an hour, maybe an
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  hour, 20 minutes something. And I could not find an agate.
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  And I was getting really annoyed and I was like looking up
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  content, like, OK, what? What does an agate look like?
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  What am I looking for? Yeah.
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  Are there special things that should be looking for that shows
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  me that's an agate, Yeah. We couldn't find anything.
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  We found a lot of yellow Jasper, red Jasper, green Jasper, maybe
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  some like kind of interesting looking things that we don't
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  know what they are. And so when Nick and I got home,
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  we enjoyed it. It was a good experience.
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  And we were like, you know, we got to learn more about rocks
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  before we do this. And so we go to YouTube like you
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  do, and we typed in like rock hounding Southwest Washington,
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  like information, that kind of thing.
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  And there is a niche audience for this, and there is a huge
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  gap in the market for entertaining people talking
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  about rocks. Yes, I need a Bill Nye for rock
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  guys. Like I need someone that comes
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  on and makes this easy to understand because there are
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  there's one that had like she has a personality and she's like
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  very personable, but like doesn't understand that I don't
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  understand what the hell she's talking about.
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  Yeah, she got deep into like you got the sedimentary and then
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  rudimentary and then. She was a professional geologist
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  and so, like, she was geeking out over, like, certain things.
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  And I'm just like, girl, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Someone for the casual nerd like this casual rock guy.
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  This video was was labeled like rock hounding 101.
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  Yeah. And so I was like, OK, very
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  basic. Yeah, let's start here.
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  Yeah, and she's like picking stuff up and she's like, see,
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  you're going to everything she picked up was like a Geo.
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  Yeah. And I was like, girl, like stop
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  right now because like that's not going to be all our
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  experiences. Like pick up some normal looking
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  rocks and tell me what they are and tell me what to look.
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  For yeah, there's a gap in the not only the presentation on
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  YouTube, but also like are there?
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  There should be rock hounding people here in the Pacific
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  Northwest that have like tours, like you go with someone that
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  knows what the hell they're doing.
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  You get a little group together and you go rock hunting.
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  Like whether you find something or not, he's there to answer
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  questions, tells you what to look for.
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  This is a very big gap in the market.
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  But maybe just people that grow up here know this stuff, I
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  guess. But like, like someone's got to
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  teach us, right? Yeah, I mean, like, and that's
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  The thing is both Nick and I were like, we just have to get a
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  book. Like we have to get a book that
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  we can flip through. But it's like, it would be so
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  much better if there was a walking guide or a walking tour
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  or something where they're like, here's what you do.
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  I did the Dang thing with mushrooms.
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  Yeah. Exactly.
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  They took us to a park and they're like, here's what you
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  look for, Go nuts. And then when we found a
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  mushroom, she was like, oh, it's this kind of a mushroom because
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  it's yellow or whatever. Do I remember any of that?
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  No, but like I'm. Not I want to see a cool rock on
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  the ground like, oh, what's this?
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  And he goes, oh, that's nothing. And.
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  You go, OK, because I mean like you get exposed to it and then
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  you do it. And like my big thing, this is
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  training me because my goal is to go and search for gemstones.
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  This is my big deal. I want to go to these sapphire
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  mines and I want to go those. Are pretty obvious though.
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  Yeah, Well, no, they're not. I mean they're.
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  Where you're like, oh, it's blue.
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  Well, yes, but there's all different colour sapphires,
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  right? But like, they have these places
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  and these national parks where you can go and you pay like 100
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  bucks and you can dig around on their property and whatever you
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  find you keep or whatever it is. I'm dying to do one of those.
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  Itching for? It I'm itching for.
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  It once we both get jobs again, first thing on the list.
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  First thing. There is a fire Opal mine in
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  Oregon and I am desperate to do it and it is $250 a person and
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  I'm like this is can't be like a family activity I want to do it
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  as a family. Didn't we watch someone do that
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  on YouTube? And it was like, they were like
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  this big. Oh yeah.
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  They're like, oh, look at the fire Opal.
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  You're like, oh, you're. Not like walking into like
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  crystals hanging from the ground.
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  That's what I want. But here's here's the rub on
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  this. So like I'm going to Arizona in
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  October and I was kind of just like being like, are there any
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  gem mines in in Arizona 'cause there's not a lot in the Pacific
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  Northwest. There is an amethyst mine.
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  The only amethyst mine in the United States is 5 minutes from
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  where my hotel 5 minutes. And I was like, Oh my gosh, this
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  is insane. In a helicopter.
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  Well, so there's the gift shop, OK.
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  And then the mine is up a hill, and you have to take a
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  helicopter ride up there. And then when you go in, you can
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  you can chip away at the walls. You get to keep whatever it is.
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  And it's like little fragments. You're not walking away with
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  huge chunks of amp, but still. But just like little, little
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  dust. Yeah.
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  And I desperately want to do this, but you're like, you have
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  to take a helicopter that you're going to die.
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  Yeah, I think you should do it while you're there.
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  I think that it would be something that you would enjoy.
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  I think you would rather have us there, but you can't.
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  I think if you have, are you going to have friends with us?
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  No, I would probably fly in. Oh well, your friends are there
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  though, right? Yes, they're going to be there,
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  but nobody else wants to do this.
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  You. Know.
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  What I want? I haven't, but I know them.
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  They're not. Jenny goes to Antarctica.
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  She can at least go but. Jenny doesn't go and and dig
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  around. She walks amongst the Penguins
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  and take selfies with them like she's not a digger.
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  Like, I mean, I'll ask, yeah. I would ask because then you
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  might not have to go along because I.
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  Feel like on this helicopter with me I.
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  Feel like you'd at least die with a friend Well and then if I
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  don't know if I would go I want to go but I have a strict no
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  small plane no helicopter thing. I just, I just don't want to do
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  it. So like I this is your.
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  Chance I was telling Nick I was like if I die in this helicopter
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  at this point in my life I won't even get a name check because
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  I'm not on the radio anymore. It's not like Oregon based radio
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  host plus fifteen others died in this mine.
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  It's just 16 people died. Yeah, that's they're.
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  Not going to say Kristen, a local therapist.
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  Like I'm not even going to get a name mentioned.
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  You'll be mom and wife, Crystal Flowers and therapists.
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  Yeah, Now we talk about that all the time.
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  It's like when we die, will will I be in a is the crash?
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  Am I the only one that's going to be name checked?
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  Like am I going to get name checked at all?
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  Like I want to be to the point in life where I'm famous enough
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  to get a name. Checked if we were at least
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  locally, if we were still on the wolf, something tragic happened
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  to our family, it would be it would be local headlines, local
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  morning show, tragic accident, wipes out whole family.
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  We would be on in the news for at least one news cycle.
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  Yes 1. You know one 5:00.
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  News. We'd be at, we'd be a headline.
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  At this point in our life, no headline.
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  No, just be. What is even the points?
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  And others. And others.
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  That's the only reason I'm on the radio, so I can get name
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  checked. No, we maybe at this point we're
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  only like 2 months into this former morning radio host.
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  No, we're already forgotten that.
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  Yeah, I know. Yeah, we, we didn't have a
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  career out here long enough to be considered former.
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  That's true. We had been here for entire 20
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  years. Yeah, yeah, then we'd get it.
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  But. Yeah, where it's like, yeah,
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  local radio icons. Yeah, yeah.
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  Oregon Hall of Fame radio host. Yeah, we're just.
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  Some nothing, yeah, But yeah, if you want to go in a helicopter,
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  I think you don't have a no helicopter rule, no so.
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  I mean, how many times have you heard somebody die in Arizona on
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  a helicopter? Yeah, to an Amethyst, mind I?
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  Mean at least not happening not more than twice.
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  Yeah, exactly. So what are the odds?
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  You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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  I shifting gears on something that I've been hunting for.
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  I saw someone, one of our radio friends somewhere in some city.
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  I follow a lot of radio people. They presented Thrifty's ice
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  cream in a in a tub. Oh, really?
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  Yes, and the one that they were holding was the rainbow
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  sherbert, Thrifty's ice cream, which is like I was immediately
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  locked in. I was like, Oh my God, that's
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  the rainbow sherbert. I compare every other rainbow
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  sherbert to in life. And it's the ice cream that I
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  compare all other ice creams to is Thrifty's ice cream.
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  Because I grow up. I grew up in California.
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  I don't know if it was anywhere else but the California.
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  Thrifty's was popular in California.
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  Yeah. And so it's a, it was a, it's a
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  grocery store that has an ice cream shop.
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  It's like a Walgreens. It was like a it was like a
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  pharmacist. Yeah, there you go.
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  And it and it had an ice cream shop in it in all of them.
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  And they were called Thrifty's Ice Cream.
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  And they had the this shape ice cream like it was never, it
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  wasn't round. It wasn't like a scoop.
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  It was this shape like a cone. It was like a cone or like a
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  like a like a Dome, like a tube. Yeah, They they had a special.
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  God, I don't remember that at. All you don't.
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  They had a special release. Like if you see the picture,
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  it's the picture of the shape of the ice cream.
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  You're like, Oh my gosh, it's so it is somewhere and I'm
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  desperate to find it. Oh honey, I don't want you to
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  find it. I need to find it.
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  There was a Thrifties. There was a Thrifties in Vegas
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  when I went back with my mom. Yeah.
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  And they just had their own little like, right, like ice
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  cream shop. I was like, oh, damn, Thrifties.
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  We went. Didn't have Rainbow Sherman.
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  So I was like, no, no, I've got it.
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  Why even bother? Why am I here?
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  Well, you're not kidding, Rainbow Sherman, because you're
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  going to find the Thrifties ice cream in the store in a little
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  pint. You're going to take it home,
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  childish Glee in your eyes. You're going to take one bite
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  and you're going to go doesn't taste the same.
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  And then there's going to be nothing left for you on this
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  planet. I know like, is this the
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  desperation that I'm like, is this because I'm like, I've lost
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  my job and I have no goal and future in life?
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  You're trying to recap capture your childish.
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  Whimsy. Yeah, I'm just.
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  Spinning I'm like the little arrow on a like the spinning on
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  a compass, like I have no idea which direction I'm.
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  Going no N, no S, Yeah. So I'm just looking for thrifty
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  ice. Something to just like, come on,
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  man, give me this. So maybe, yeah, maybe I
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  shouldn't find it, but. Yeah, maybe just let this be a
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  dream and be like, oh man, wouldn't it be great if I could
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  have that again? Boy, that was really good.
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  Because now that I know it's there.
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  You're going to peel back the the little container of the ice
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  cream, right? Like little plastic film on it
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  and immediately be presented with ice crystals from the from
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  the sherbert and you're going to be like, EW, this is already
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  gross, but I bought it. Let me see how it tastes.
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  You're going to taste it. You're going to crunch because
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  there's ice crystals on top of it and you're going to go, This
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  is disgusting. I got to make sure it's taken
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  care of before I do that. But yes, I think but what if
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  it's the greatest thing I've ever done?
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  I know what if it re inspires me to change my life again?
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  Like what if I'm like, there is joy left to be had?
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  We got to weigh the rewards and the risks, right?
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  We got to figure out like, I don't know, could this change
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  his life? I don't know.
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  Will it destroy it? It's not in Fred Meyer so far.
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  OK, well, where is it? Where did they?
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  Say, I don't know, I didn't look that far, but I will find the
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  video again and I will find out if it's in like a Safeway
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  market. But I'm going to go to Safeway
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  and I'm going to look in Safeway.
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  Well, there's a place in Portland and I, I need to go for
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  ice cream. They have, it was really popular
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  in Japan and now it's made it out to the US.
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  And apparently, no, it's the Peach.
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  It's like it comes in like it's almost like a display case.
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  It's like this plastic case. There's this, it looks like a
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  real Peach sitting on this little dais.
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  And you open up the, the clear plastic and you're presented
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  with this Peach that's ice cream.
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  And you bite into it. Apparently it's like a, it's a
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  hard shell, like a hard chocolate shell that's painted
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  to look like a Peach. And the ice cream inside is
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  Peach flavored ice cream. And Keith Lee from TikTok,
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  founded in Portland, said it was the most amazing thing he's ever
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  tasted. And like, you can only find out
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  at like, Korean grocery stores. It's like something you could
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  buy in the store. Yes, but at the at Korean
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  grocery stores. But then I've also heard it's
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  starting to make its way into like the chains and I'm like, I
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  have to try this. I don't even really love Peach
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  that much but. The whole ice cream was.
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  Delightful. It sounds refreshing now that
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  it's getting like really hot and stuff like I want to try it.
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  All right, well, we're on a ice cream hunt.
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  All right, if you know where. The diet, the.
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  Thrifty ice cream is, and if you know where the Peach ice cream
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  is, specifically in the Pacific Northwest, let us know.
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  And if you live in California and you listen to this because I
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  know we have a couple California listeners, go get yourself a
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  Thrifty's Ice. Cream.
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  Do they even have them in? California.
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  I don't know if they do, but like they probably have them in
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  your stores and not ours. Well, yeah, because it's
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  California. So go have the rainbow Sherburn
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  and go treat. Yourself today, treat yourself.
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  Let Nick and Kristen say it's OK.
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  It's OK, you can have Thrifty's ice cream.
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  Thank you for watching and we'll talk to you next week.