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What new dads in the Park Cities must know with Ryan Scripps · The Bubble Lounge (Highland Park & University Park Texas)

• 0:00
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• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bubble Lounge.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I am Martha Jackson and there is a lot of people traveling in the neighborhood right now.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: The streets are slow and it's a beautiful thing.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: There's also a lot of new people moving into the neighborhood this summer and we wanted to welcome them by inviting Ryan Scripps, a longtime resident of Highland Park, to visit with us today and tell us everything the new dads need to know about living in the Park Cities.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Ryan has been one of our most frequent guests and he's lived in the neighborhood for quite some time.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: A lot of you know him, we all love him and he's the perfect person to provide a dad's perspective.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: If you're new to the neighborhood, ryan, welcome back to the show.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: I'm always so excited to be here in the famous Bubble Lounge In the lounge.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Well, it's been a while, hasn't it?
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: You know, we're office neighbors, separated by a kitchen, but it's been a while since you've joined us on the show.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thanks.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: I always enjoy being here, like I said, and it's exciting to finally be back after, I don't know, maybe a six to nine month hiatus.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: A little hiatus there.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's so many new people in the neighborhood right now, so many people moving in, it's that time of year and lots of new dads, so we just thought we'd talk all things dads and what you need to know as a new dad moving to the Park City.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Well, great, yeah, yeah, we can certainly do that.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Where we get to dads.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: What's been going on in the Scripps family?
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Well, we have a high school graduate now, so we're getting ready for moving her off to college and we've been doing some summer travel and, as a matter of fact, oftentimes I am here with Nancy, but she's doing some of her own summer travel.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: She's got a girls trip right now.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, very nice.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good for her, Good for them.
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: And we got a couple more trips planned, and then we get into August and you know, all of a sudden the school starts up here in Highland Park and then, a week or two later, we'll be moving our little girl off to school.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Well, so tell me about that, because our oldest just went off to college a year ago and I know all the things I was feeling leading up to it.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: But as a dad, like, tell me what's going on.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: You know, at the baccalaureate and then, of course, graduation ceremony, there might have been a little dust in the room there.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: Allergies.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it must have been my allergies, but no.
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: So of course it's emotional, but you know, when they get to this point we're excited that we feel really good and feel really confident that she will be very successful moving on.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: You know it's going to be difficult to not wake up and have her in our house, you know every day.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: But you know we'll still be seeing her all the time and you know so there's, know we'll still be seeing her all the time and, um, you know so there's, there's a lot of components there.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, I like to look into it kind of more from the dad's angle, uh, also to kind of you know, mechanically, how are we going to get her there?
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: How are we going to ship all this stuff there?
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: You know we can't check 18 bags, um, you know, can we put it in ups boxes?
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: Is there?
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: Do we have a mailing address for her dorm room or her new dorm building?
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Anyway, those kinds of things.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: And so you're moving to Boston, correct?
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, she will be going to school in Boston Exciting.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Well, that's where Sean went to college as well, and he and Blake were there this summer for lacrosse and he got to show them all over the town.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: It's a great place.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: I have not been there in probably at least 20 years, so I'm excited to get back there and I finally plan on making a trip to Fenway Park and, as a matter of fact, we're going to go see the Boston Red Sox.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: We'll be hosting the Texas Rangers.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somewhat early mid-August.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: So my daughter and I will be making a trip up there because I have not seen her new school yet.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: I just haven't had an opportunity to go up there on the visits that she made with Nancy.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited about that and I'm very excited about getting to see Boston and getting her to show me around her new school and where she'll be living and just kind of getting to know the area.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: So hopefully we'll be able to get up there and visit her.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: You know at least a couple few times a year?
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: I bet you will.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a fun place to visit.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: So much history.
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  Speaker 1: What made her pick the school?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she wanted to go to an art school and she really wanted to be in someplace like Boston, a larger metropolitan city, someplace like Boston, a larger metropolitan city.
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: So, you know, she was able to find a fantastic match with the school that she chose.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: Oh good, Is she ready for the winter?
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: She says she is, but she has not truly experienced a winter like that.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see.
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: She says she knows that she's been through many winters but ski resort and Colorado winter is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: But no, she'll be fine.
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: And she actually has been buying winter clothes.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: She loves to thrift, so she's been finding all these great finds.
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: She loves to come show them off to me.
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: Dad, look at this jacket that I bought for $14 at the thrift store or whatever.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: So those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: So she's excited about it.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, new chapter, it's always hard.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: It took me a bit to get used to Alexis not being around.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: And then now she's been here for the summer for so long because the college summers last way longer than the high school ones do, and so now I'm used to having her around again.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to have to go through that whole acclimation when she goes back and withdraws sometimes.
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: It is interesting and, as a matter of fact, right before I stepped in here, I was over there printing out and laminating the academic calendar for her school for next year.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: Oh my, god, that's so cute.
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that way I could reference it and see when is spring break, when is Thanksgiving break.
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: Well, thanksgiving break should be pretty obvious.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: My guess is they do it right around Thanksgiving.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: Well, you never know how long they're going to get off.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they get off two weeks.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: The high school gets off one week, so you never know.
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• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Well, let's get to being a Park City's dad, because you have been quite the active dad, which is why we wanted to talk to you today and just you know, sharing your tips of somebody who just moved into the neighborhood.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: How should they like integrate into the community?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as many people know, especially if they've heard me on this show, I am very active with the Dad's Clubs and the Dad's Clubs really all across all seven campuses.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: I know technically we have eight schools, but the middle school and intermediate school we treat as just one campus Across all seven campuses are all very active in wanting to provide an environment where dads can interact socially as well as in a, you know, service-oriented fashion.
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  Speaker 2: You know serving the schools, helping out at the schools, but that's always a really great way to meet new dads, new families in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: At the elementary school level, there's always a lot of activity.
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: At the middle school, they're doing a great job too.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: At the high school we still do a lot of fun things, but, as you're aware, at the high school the sports really dominate a lot of that social interaction.
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: Plus, most parents by that time have met a lot of people.
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: So I will encourage people though reach out to the high school dad's club or the middle school If you're new coming into one of those two campuses.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: I know that's a little bit more difficult than coming in with young children who you're meeting the other parents who are coming in with their young children, coming in with young children who you're meeting, the other parents who are coming in with their young children.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: So we do want to help people out and I'll just personally say I'm not that difficult to find on social media, especially if you're in chatter, so please reach out to me personally and I'd be happy to point people in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: You know, on the mom side, I'd be happy to point people in the right direction On the mom side.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: The PTAs also do serve a very similar function and they are very, very active in being involved in the schools when it comes to serving the schools with volunteer hours and everything else.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, if you're coming in as just an incoming preschooler pre-K or kindergarten level all five elementaries have pre-K or kindergarten level.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: All five elementaries have a pre-K group.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Preschool association.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: Preschool association.
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  Speaker 2: And the minute you move here.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone tells you you need to join it, and that is very true.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: I definitely agree.
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: That was a fantastic resource for our family and that one's pretty much the moms that seemed to join that they didn't seem to be super excited about having a dad on there, so that was filtered through, nancy.
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: But that was always a great resource for us for all kinds of things.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: And then you know there's just a lot of great places to come hang out around here in the park cities.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: I honestly my wife and I go to Snyder Plaza and specifically Banditos, and now that our kids don't really want to come and have lunch with us on a Saturday anymore, we'll sometimes just sit at the bar right there and watch.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: In the fall it'll be a football game that's on the TV right there.
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: Spring and this time of year hopefully, there's a golf tournament on.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: That's compelling.
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  Speaker 2: So we do that and then inevitably we'll end up talking to the couple next to us or someone sitting next to us.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: So if you scroll through my phone and if you search for Met at Banditos in the contact list of my phone, you're going to see there's quite a few hits in there.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: So that's another great place just to meet people, many of which I still regularly communicate with.
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• 11:46
  Speaker 1: We're so big on supporting our small local businesses here and like really pushing for Snyder Plaza right now because it's under construction and it's kind of difficult to park right now, but just like really encouraging everyone to go.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Anyways, you can just circle around a few times you will find a spot.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: But Banditas is such a great place I mean tying in with Boston it's almost like cheers, right?
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Everyone knows your name, Everyone that walks by.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Chances are you know them already.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, like you were saying, you just start talking to them at the bar and you meet new friends.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: And even then the staff are great, because if you do go with any degree of frequency, the staff will get to know you and they'll recognize you.
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: They may not remember you by name or anything, but they'll recognize you and remember you.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: So that's, it's a fun place.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: At least that's the, and there are others.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: That one just happens to be the one we particularly.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, my son called me about 10, 15, or, sorry, an hour, about 10, 15 minutes before noon is what I was trying to say and I said hey, dad, I just finished practicing.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: He was out practicing practicing some golf and he said will you come meet me at banditos for lunch?
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: What?
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: absolutely, I will absolutely so he'll be.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: Uh, he's an incoming junior this year oh my gosh, I didn't realize yeah, he made the golf team this year and playing in some exciting tournaments this year, but anyway, I just I happen to have just been there a couple hours ago well, that's so fun.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's just so many great places to go to.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: But you know you were talking about going there with Nancy, but a lot of dads just go on their own.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: For me to sit at the bar there and run into, you know, other other guys or other other men and women mostly the guys that I'll know from, not just because I met them there, but but that I know and we'll sit there and same thing Watch a golf tournament Hang out.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Well, going back to what we were talking about with volunteering and just getting involved with the schools talking about with volunteering and just getting involved with the schools- Is there anything else?
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Besides the Dad's Club that you have found for yourself, that has been helpful.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Boy, that's interesting.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: You've worked in the cafeteria.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: That's always a fun thing, yeah, but I do that primarily via the Dad's Club and I will continue to do so.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: It's pretty rare for me to miss a Dad's Club day, and then I also am able to often come in and sub in on the other 27 days of the month or whatever many the PTA has to staff, so they get people that get sick, have to take care of a sick kid, so they all need subs at every single campus.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: So that's another great way, but that is done through the Dad's Club in PTA.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I think most of the volunteer activities that I'm thinking of through the schools are going to be organized by one of those two groups.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: And I could just be not thinking of something.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Well, there's always opportunities.
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• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So is there anything that you wish that you had done differently?
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: That's a good question.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't think I have a whole lot of regrets, but you know, I also am, you know, still do, and it I had great role models and so you know, when I came, when I got here, it just was something that I did and I would encourage other people to maybe explore that.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: If they're not, if they didn't, you know, I know that that's kind of a different thing maybe in this community.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, every community has their, has that kind of engagement.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: But I find it to be something that maybe is a little different here and it's just kind of built it's because it's really built into the fabric of the community.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: So I don't know that I have too many regrets.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's just.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I just think that that's the key word is community.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I was visiting a friend in another state recently and she was talking about how her area really didn't feel like a community and she missed this a whole lot and I was like you know, you're so right, you know you may have the better weather over there in the other state, but you don't have this community that we have here and we really do have a special thing going on here.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: You can't find this just anywhere.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, If somebody, if people are coming here from out of the area, then you know that might be something that is a little different.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But again, I have a sample size of one throughout pretty much my entire life, so I guess I can't really say with any certainty, but I know that to be absolutely true and I might just be a little biased here.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: So is that weird to have grown up here and stayed here.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, so there's so many of you that are in the same situation.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Like that's why they call it the bubble.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You know, people are born here, they go to school here, a lot of them even go to SMU.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: They literally never leave the bubble, and I just am always curious if you're happy with that, or would you have liked to have tried something else?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll go ahead and age myself here.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: So when I was graduating from Highland Park High School in the early 90s, I never in a million years would have thought that I would be moving back here and then raising a family.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't think I'd even be back in Dallas at all, to be honest.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: But great opportunities presented themselves.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: And then, the next thing, you know, you met this girl and then, the next thing, you know, you somehow talked her into marrying you and then all of a sudden you're buying a house and then, oh no, kids are coming, and so I've really enjoyed it and there are a number of us and it is interesting to kind of how we all kind of organically kind of reconnected with each other, because early on in our kids' early elementary school days, social media was not the thing that it is now you could start kind of connecting with people, but people didn't interact the way that they do now.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Now it'd probably be really easy to find people that you went to high school with, but back then it was a little different but it still happened, you know cause, of course we're all here at about the same age.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You know, we, if they were, if they were people that I went to high school with, then obviously they're, they're, they're my age.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of clubs and different things that you can join out there and I know when my kids were little we were really big into the YMCA.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Were you ever a part of that?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, as a family Growing up here, it worked the same as it does now.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: It was kind of the hub for all of the young, the youth sports prior to getting into the seventh grade, when the UIL, you know, official school-sponsored sports start.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: So that's obviously a big part of it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Also, another way for parents to meet each other, and it shouldn't even just be new parents.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, at any given school the class size, even at the elementary schools, is still large.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I was amazed how many parents I didn't, you know, didn't really meet.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I was aware of their existence but you just don't necessarily interact with all of them.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the YMCA Youth Sports is a great thing to do.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: It's a fantastic facility and organization is what I should say.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: But we're very lucky to have, you know, have a really, really fantastic facility here on Preston which has a great gym, offers lots of great fitness programs and lots of other programs, you know another great place Right like classes for everybody, and it's a beautiful facility.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And for those of us like you and I both I mean, I'm not as long as you have been here, but we've seen the place completely be torn down and rebuilt and it is such a neat facility now.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're lucky to have it here and they really did such a great job of striking a good balance, of getting a world-class facility that really did fit into the neighborhood really well, without being, you know, dominating the neighborhood in terms of any kind of architecture or anything.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: It really fits well.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with that, and it's just such a hub for everyone of all ages to go to, like you're talking about.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: We have all done sports with our kids there and it's such a great way to meet other parents and then just continuing on.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Teenagers go there with their friends and go work out.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Adults go there and take classes and work out too.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just something for everyone.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And then we can't forget I guess this is what it's called now the Adventure Guides.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, it's changed names so many times.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I think that's the current name, I'm not sure.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: So Y Guides or Adventure Guides.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: That's another great way for the young, young, young kids to kind of have a great experience with.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Uh, I think it still focuses on, you know, dads and sons, dads and daughters.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I think so I think the moms get peripherally involved, but no, another.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Another great one and so when our kids were in kindergarten, we were having a hard time finding a group to break into, because people get these groups and they're you know, kind of want to stick with their friends and everything.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: So Sean ended up forming a group for both Alexis and Blake and he was the leader of it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Of course, because he can't sit in the backseat of the bus I always say he always has to drive the bus and so they had a great time and I mean to this day the friends in the neighborhood that he has are from those two groups and he just had a blast, the kids had a blast.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's such a great organization.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of great stories that come out of those groups, some we probably shouldn't talk about.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I will mention just another great one are the Cub Scouts, then leading into Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Absolutely Great organizations also, especially if your younger kids want to get involved in something like that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: That's another great way to do that.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, and Sean and Blake were definitely involved.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And what's fun is when you see these kids start at a really early age with Cub Scouts and then they stick with it and the next next thing you know you see them in the newspaper and they're Eagle Scout and it's just so fun to see the pride on their face and you're just so excited for them.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, though getting to that level for both the boys and the girls, is a that's really a commitment on their part, and of course, the parents are very involved in that too, but it's really a commitment from the kids themselves to get there.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's a huge time commitment and just such an honor to make it there.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: So there's always a lot going on in the neighborhood.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of new restaurants opening, businesses opening.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Just wanted to see have you tried any of our new restaurants?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You know I haven't had a chance to yet.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: We've been doing quite a bit of traveling.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: You sound like you've been busy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're settled in for a little bit and then we got another trip or two planned.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: But no, there's a few that I really want to try, and you know, one that Nancy and I just kind of I shouldn't say we rediscovered it, but we just decided that we were going to start going back there more more frequently is the old S&D down on on McKinney Avenue.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I forget how much we really love that place and we've been having a great time going there and you know is people may be aware that it's such a great job job on that remodel work they did.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And you know they've got another fun little place where the two of us would go sit at the bar back there and we just kind of share a couple of entrees and some other things.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cute yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I wish I could talk about some of the newer places, but maybe you'll have to have me back on in another month or two, we'll do a restaurant review.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I remember S&D.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I used to work down in that area probably early to mid-90s I guess it was and we would go there after work and it was always a neat place and I think that that's fun, because I think so many of us get stuck in a rut.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Just going to the places that are near where you live, you don't feel like thinking about it, you're like I love this place, I'm just going to go.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: But then when you kind of go back and revisit something that you used to like a long time ago and it doesn't disappoint, you're like, yes, we can add this back into our rotation.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Absolutely no.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: It's a fun date night for the two of us, just because it's casual.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: But it's fantastic and we're also lucky this time of year.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Everyone seems to be traveling, so it's really not hard to walk in and get a table or get a couple of spots at the bar or something like that.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So, who knows, my tune may change a little bit when I have to sit there and wait 45 minutes to an hour.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: When the crowd comes back in town To get a table.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But no, you brought up a really good point.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: This is a really good time to get out there and try some restaurants, because the town is kind of cleared out.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Like I love driving down Lover's Lane right now.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Apparently everybody watches their fireworks on July 4th and then just clears out.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I guess up in Colorado, I don't know everyone seems to be scattered to the wind.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: That I know.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I've noticed that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, martha, I guess, since I got to ask you now because I'm apparently not very adventurous right now and I should be, so let me ask you where do I need to be checking out?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: What should I be talking about the next time somebody asks me?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I have been going out to eat a little bit too much, I would say because Sean and Blake have been out of town three different weekends for lacrosse and then Alexis loves to check out new restaurants, so she has picked some of us.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: It's kind of fun having her in town because she's way more adventurous and likes to burst the bubble and go beyond the bubble to go out and eat.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: So we went to Knox Street Bistro recently and down in Knox Henderson and then Anchor Sushi.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: We went to the one at Preston and Royal.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: There's another one down on Knox Street, but we went to the other one.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That was amazing, like every single thing that we had.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I even put it in my notes on my phone all the stuff that we had.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: The drinks were good, the food was good, the server was amazing.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: But my absolute favorite that I've been to recently is Goodwin's and it's on Greenville and it has only been open probably less than a month or maybe a month max.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And it is where remember, blue Goose used to be.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It's in the same spot there.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Blue Goose used to be.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely it's in the same spot there.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: You would never recognize it as Blue Goose at all.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But the cocktails are amazing, the food was amazing.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: And then they have this kind of they said it's not a speakeasy, it's just a bar.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So off to the side there's a door and you go through it and it's this dark, beautiful cocktail lounge and they serve all martinis in there.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And and they serve all martinis in there, and then they have some little booths that you can sit and have some kind of bar food with your martini.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: That sounds, these all sound fantastic.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to check them out.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And I did kind of forget we did go to Knox Street Pub about a month ago and really enjoyed that too.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, good, good.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've been kind of on a roll, trying all the restaurants and everything.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Well, we were talking about community a little earlier and we have an amazing community.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Can't say enough great things about it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But every now and then we do have some crime that happens.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: So I hear and we are going to go through the crime report this week.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: So, ryan, we have been sifting through the crime reports from UP and HP and you found a couple that kind of caught your eye, yeah, yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So as I tell this one, I want everyone out there that knows me personally that I promised you this one wasn't me, but as I get into the details here, you'll find out why I'm making that reference.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So in one of the local shopping centers a car was observed backing into another car in the parking lot, I would assume backing out of a parking space, and then later drove away without leaving any kind of identifying information, and the car was then traced down to an address.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to give the address on McFarland Boulevard, it's a little close to home, huh.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: It caught my eye.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I think that that just ties in with the things that we're always telling our kids you can't get away with anything in this neighborhood.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: There's always somebody watching and somebody is going to report you.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Well, this one's even juicier than that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: A woman was out walking and she found a money clip in the intersection of Highland Drive and Lexington.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: She stated she did not see who dropped it.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: It had money in it too.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Does that sound like your money clip?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I did lose a money clip.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: What color?
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Is there any description of this one?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It is a silver one, and it didn't have very much money in it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Well, mine probably didn't either, but unfortunately it wasn't silver, so I can't claim it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You can't claim that one.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I love it that she reported it.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: She wanted to get it back to the rightful owner.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: There was many years ago.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I found a Louis Vuitton bag in the middle of Preston Road and I called the police too, and they came to my house and they did a full report.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It's like really exciting.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Well, as you're probably aware, and I'm sure many, many listeners out there are aware, if you spend any amount of time on Park City's chat or on any given day, there must be half a dozen different things that get found all over the place, and it takes what less than two and a half minutes for someone to say oh, here, let me tag them.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Everybody knows not only what it is but whose it is.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So I find that pretty amazing.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I have no idea Again, maybe that happens everywhere, in neighborhoods all over the place.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, do you remember a few years ago when a wedding dress was found in the gazebo?
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, one of my favorite stories.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That is the best I don't think they ever figured out who that belonged to, and I think that is so interesting.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: No, but the number of found items of interest that get reported in that group.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I think we should start a museum somewhere.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: That's a great idea.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I think you're just the person to start it too.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Well, let me see if I can.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I've never started a museum before, but I guess there's a first time for everything, absolutely.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Well, ryan, this has been so much fun catching up and just getting your advice for the new dads in the neighborhood and taking a look at the crime report too.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: This is always a lot of fun, and thank you for having me.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: We'll do it again soon.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Well, that's been another episode of the Bubble Lounge.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I'm Martha Jackson and I'll catch you next time.