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Happy Hour #189: SMNTY Takes a Train · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcome to stuff I never told you Production by
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  Speaker 2: Heart Radio.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to another happy hour, in which if you
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  Speaker 1: are participating in any happy hour ish things, do so responsibly. Also,
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  Speaker 1: any of the things we're talking about, they're not sponsored,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me sad because the things that I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, you should sponsor us so that I
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  Speaker 1: can have more trips like this. Yeah, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why I sounded so angry, is that it really entices
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  Speaker 1: people to want to help us out. Definitely, Annie, are
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  Speaker 1: you doing happy hours? Is things?
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  Speaker 3: I am so for listeners who don't know. Work on
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  Speaker 3: another show called Saver, and we're doing an episode.
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  Speaker 2: On wine quirks. Oh yeah, and uh, I learned a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot about cork tank, which is basically why they they
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  Speaker 3: have you smell the wine or like. It's not to
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  Speaker 3: see if you like it. It's just to be like,
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  Speaker 3: see it doesn't smell bad because if the cork went bad.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, I had an old bottle of wine and
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to go through it because if you have
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  Speaker 4: cork tank, no, but now that I know what it is,
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  Speaker 4: I have experienced it before.
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  Speaker 2: It smells horrible. It's it smells like molds and not
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  Speaker 2: in a good fun way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever experienced that.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad news. It was enough that I poured it out,
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  Speaker 2: and you know me, I don't get rid of stuff severe. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: it was bad news.
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  Speaker 1: Worry about you put a fire?
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  Speaker 2: Where's that old bottle of wine?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad to hear your mode. I learned.
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  Speaker 2: I learned a lot from that episode, to be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I don't know any
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  Speaker 1: about that. So we'll have a conversation later. M Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so this happy hour is going to be happy. I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving a review of my birthday trip to Upstate New York.
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  Speaker 1: Ray was like, hey, one of our favorite people's friend
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  Speaker 1: of the show listener. I was like, give us, give
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  Speaker 1: us a rundown, let us know what you did. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I got you, And it's fun. It's
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  Speaker 1: fun to remember and love things. I will say my
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  Speaker 1: anxiety was super high in planning this because it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty last minute. I want to say last minute. Usually
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  Speaker 1: i'm like six months if a trip is coming up,
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  Speaker 1: at least three or four months in advance. This was
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  Speaker 1: like two to three weeks before, so we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: like rearranging things. Initially, we'd planned to come up north
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  Speaker 1: to a different state with my partner's family, but things
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  Speaker 1: kind of failed apart, so we had to cancel that.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't do refundable things because I don't to
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  Speaker 1: pay the extra money. And that's just me being cheap,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. But at the same time, I was like, ugh,
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  Speaker 1: but the fact they do give you a year to
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  Speaker 1: try to reuse it, so we did. We decided to
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  Speaker 1: take the birthday drive last minute and trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out where we wanted to go. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: if you have listened to the show previously, I am
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  Speaker 1: very anxious, even more so my middle name is anxious now.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, because traveling also means a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: scares with the world and the country and the place
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  Speaker 1: that our country is at. And I will say I
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit of a fright at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain a bit. And so we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: going international travels, but I'm kind of too scared to
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  Speaker 1: do so, just because I don't know what people are
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  Speaker 1: looking at. I don't know what is fear mongering versus
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  Speaker 1: what is not fear mongering. And I will say we
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  Speaker 1: also had really great timing in that sounds very privileged
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  Speaker 1: that we did all the traveling before the show down
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  Speaker 1: the government shut down, so I was like, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard many travels. Two days after we landed back
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  Speaker 1: the airport that we were left from with the airline
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  Speaker 1: that we used, they got in a crash. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what is happening? And this has happened the past few
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  Speaker 1: years where every time something has happened, we were like,
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  Speaker 1: how did we miss that? Because I think it was
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  Speaker 1: last year, was it last year or year before last
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  Speaker 1: in which we left the LaGuardia and then a day
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  Speaker 1: later it was flooded. We were like, what is happening?
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  Speaker 1: And then we had another incident similar to that before
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  Speaker 1: we were like, either we were bad luck for this airport
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  Speaker 1: or we just have really good luck in missing out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, but yeah, So that was we
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  Speaker 1: have planned to do this and we got everything aligned.
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  Speaker 1: I will say like timing in New York and I
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  Speaker 1: figured this part out was like expensive because if we
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  Speaker 1: had stayed the night before, it would have been three
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars cheaper, but because of the night that we
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  Speaker 1: needed to stay, it was significantly increasing, and the more
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  Speaker 1: we waited, and I have feeling people are gonna come
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  Speaker 1: out and be like, you know, Google tracks you and
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  Speaker 1: increases prices, blah blahlahlah blah. Yes we know that, but
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  Speaker 1: there was things that were happening in which things were
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  Speaker 1: getting booked out and or prices increased by thousands, not hundreds,
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  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars for per night, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what is happening. So a lot of things went down.
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  Speaker 1: But we got there and we landed on day one
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  Speaker 1: and it was gorgeous weather. We went and got into
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  Speaker 1: our hotel, very old hotel, wonderful location. So it was
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  Speaker 1: one of those two things that were like, oh okay,
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  Speaker 1: so the switch up is but the location was on
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  Speaker 1: Washington Square, so it was gorgeous location. We walked everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I picked the wrong shoes, I will say that, but
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  Speaker 1: we got our bagels from our traditional bagel place when
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  Speaker 1: we got there. We explored the area, We walked forever.
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  Speaker 1: That day, we went to see a really cool arts
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  Speaker 1: exhibit called Unseen at the Loom or for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: we gonna call it loom Ma, but I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: it's Loom Studios in New York City, and y'all. It
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  Speaker 1: was about the North Korean women who are struggling and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of like human rights crimes happening, humanitarian grabs,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the women, and the amount of enslaved people
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  Speaker 1: that are still happening, the amount of deaths and persecution.
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  Speaker 1: So it was an incredible exhibit. It was very small.
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  Speaker 1: I think we may have missed the floor, but it
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  Speaker 1: was so awkward going in. So my partner and I
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  Speaker 1: walked in. There was one person at the front and
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  Speaker 1: they were nice, except they didn't explain anything. Usually they'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you take this, do this, look at this. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: it just said go for it. And we were like,
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  Speaker 1: oh okay. So we walked in and there were QR
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  Speaker 1: codes so that you can like get the information. So
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  Speaker 1: that was nice to see. There was things like you
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  Speaker 1: can touch this, don't touch this, you can do this.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool. But then it was also like intertwined with
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  Speaker 1: some European white women stuff that I was like, where
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  Speaker 1: did that come from? I don't understand. Okay, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that just ran out of people. But then
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  Speaker 1: we were walking it was very cool and we walked out.
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  Speaker 1: Another person kind of came in and sat in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't know if they were an artist. They
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  Speaker 1: were just chilling on their phone. I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know, I don't know what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: So and it was just my partner and I. So
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  Speaker 1: it was super awkward. But the showing was fantastic. The
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  Speaker 1: art was beautiful. At one point my partner was looking
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  Speaker 1: at something thinking it was an art exhibit, and then
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  Speaker 1: it turned that I was just like lighting. So we
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  Speaker 1: did have that moment. But finally we're like, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: guess there. We'll leave. And as we were leaving, the
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  Speaker 1: hand us a whole like tote and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the items. I was like, oh, that's so nice, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And then as my partner walks and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if we're supposed to donate anything, I'm very confused.
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  Speaker 1: They really don't tell us again much. And as we
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  Speaker 1: were leaving and my partner was like, I think there
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  Speaker 1: was a downstairs portion. There's a little side that says
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  Speaker 1: there's a downstairs portion. I was like, uhh, we're done.
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  Speaker 1: We already walked out, we already got grabbed that gritty bags.
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  Speaker 1: We're done. I can't do this anymore. So that was
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  Speaker 1: an experience, but it was really like, it has a
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  Speaker 1: great exhibit. I don't know if it's there there, still there,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a few weeks, but you know, whatever, whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: That night we immediately had on a casse because if
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  Speaker 1: I'm in New York, I'm gonna get a ma casse
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  Speaker 1: at any This one was much cheaper than the others
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  Speaker 1: that we've done, and so good may have been our
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  Speaker 1: top favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Oh jealous, So I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like this may be a spot that if you and
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  Speaker 1: I go back, I'm gonna take you two because you
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  Speaker 1: could upgrade it. And my partner usually he's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's just because you eat. Your eyes are bigger than
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  Speaker 1: your stomach, and it's true. I like, I want everything,
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  Speaker 1: and by halfway through, I'm like, I'm done, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want this no more. But he was like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: think we should do a whole upgrade, and we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was so so good, so good, Like I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, everything is delicious, and then they came
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  Speaker 1: and singing happy birthday to me. Oh I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: that for you, No, I don't. I don't, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like it. There was another dude, so we were both
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  Speaker 1: beings saying too, So that felt less. But when I
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  Speaker 1: say that, they didn't sing it. They turned the lights out,
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  Speaker 1: had some music playing and people dancing. Yeah that's too much,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: but yeah, so it was still fun. And then we
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  Speaker 1: got ready for the next day and we had a
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  Speaker 1: train right andy, so we took the Amtrak from all
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: the way from New York City and Penn Station to Albany,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: rind Cellar. I believe that's how I say it. And
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  Speaker 1: it was a gorgeous ride. I will say we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get there early enough, so we were kind of back
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: in the line. So if you're doing the you know, coach,
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  Speaker 1: which is big enough for me. It's much bigger than
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  Speaker 1: an airplane and easy to store things like we got
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  Speaker 1: a smaller window, but we got it on the right side,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: the correct side, that is, so we got to see
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  Speaker 1: all the like water and then the leaves. As we
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  Speaker 1: were going further and further north, it was prettier and prettier,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was gorgeous to see and I was
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  Speaker 1: just excited. At one point we were talking about like
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  Speaker 1: trying to find the snack car and my cute partner
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: was trying to get in the back to get like
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: as a coffee or something. He got yelled at at
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: the conductor because he opened the wrong door. Oh no,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: he came back quickly. I was like, well, that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't right, not getting up again, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: fair enough. But it was a wonderful train ride. I
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  Speaker 1: would I highly recommend if you need to. I think
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: you have to be on the left side, just if
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  Speaker 1: you're on that specific train, because you can see all
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  Speaker 1: the lakes. And then when we arrived, we got our
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  Speaker 1: car and started driving up and it was a gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: ride all the way up. It was cloudy and rainy
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  Speaker 1: or so like. At that point I was like whatever,
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  Speaker 1: But by the time I made it, it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: We found a small spot and eight in Albany. Great food,
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  Speaker 1: probably the best lovester role I've had, I know, and
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  Speaker 1: y'all it was just a buttery, gooey goodness with no
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  Speaker 1: Mayo top tier, top tier. And from there we just
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  Speaker 1: made a whole adventure of the days. We arrived in
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  Speaker 1: the lake View, so we were right on Saraanac Lake.
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  Speaker 1: The hotel was gorgeous view. We finally woke up the
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  Speaker 1: next day, got some coffee coffee machine in there we
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: went I'm gonna say quote unquote hiking, but not really.
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  Speaker 1: So we ended up going to the High Falls Gorge,
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  Speaker 1: which you have to pay like twenty dollars just to
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  Speaker 1: walk in per person. I was kind of shocked by
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  Speaker 1: this because yes, I expect to pay part fees. I'm
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  Speaker 1: all about paying part fees. I think this is handled
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  Speaker 1: by the state. There was another falls near this area,
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  Speaker 1: and it's privately owned, so you like and you have
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  Speaker 1: to be sixty dollars to walk around the areas that
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I feel a certain oddness when
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  Speaker 1: it's a privately owned natural park that you do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of activities with it too, so they do like
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  Speaker 1: you can raft and all these things. It just felt odd.
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  Speaker 1: So we were able to like look around without paying,
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  Speaker 1: like they could go on bridge and to crictures and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we did. But like, I get it main
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  Speaker 1: but it was very touristy, like more so than I
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  Speaker 1: had expected. I will say. So White Face Mountain was there,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people went to go and hike
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  Speaker 1: that we were thinking about going to hike that. I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of the plan, but it turns out they
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  Speaker 1: were haavy Octoberfest and it was gonna be chaos, and
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  Speaker 1: it was already pretty crowded because of the beginning of Foliage,
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  Speaker 1: like it's not super super but like pretty crowded. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Eh, not good, we good, We're not
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  Speaker 1: doing all that. My partner was like, you know, Octoberfist
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  Speaker 1: and a place called White Face Sus And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that that's the case, not at all, y'all. Although
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  Speaker 1: I did see a lot of conservative gear being sold
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  Speaker 1: at souvenir shops, really concerning to the point that when
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  Speaker 1: we saw it and the fact that it was so
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: big that it was a souvenir shop for the Adirondacks,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: yet they had political things, very conservative things, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, we gotta go. We can't be here. I
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: can't be There was some of that that was in
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  Speaker 1: Lake George. It was interesting because there's so many places
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  Speaker 1: that you can go, like the Catskills are below Albany,
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  Speaker 1: and we went above all these different places. So we
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  Speaker 1: stayed at Sara Nac, which is probably about two and
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  Speaker 1: a half hours above Albany. There's Lake Placid, and then
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  Speaker 1: there is Lake George, and I kind of qualified each
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  Speaker 1: one as like in what I know of the South,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: which is not necessarily fair, but trying to describe it
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  Speaker 1: to my friends, and I'm sorry if this defends people.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I don't mean to, but the way that we had
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  Speaker 1: seen it, it felt like Lake George was the pigeon
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  Speaker 1: Forge of the North, or Gatlinburg rather or as where
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  Speaker 1: Saranac Lake was a little more like Ashville. If you
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: get my drift, I must say Lake Placid maybe more
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  Speaker 1: of Charleston. Okay, if you get my fields, do you
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: get my fields? So people in the South, I think
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: I understood that. Like Caroline friend of the previous host
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  Speaker 1: slash friend, I was texting with them and told them
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  Speaker 1: all of that because I was kind of shocked by
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  Speaker 1: the differences of the touristiness of these areas. So that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of how I describe it. I will say I
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: had my birthday lunch was at a place called the
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Shepherds at our Low West, which is noted as being
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: a castle. I'm not sure if it's actually a castle.
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  Speaker 1: Someone can tell me the history of this. If they
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: know the history of this, anybody from New York. I know,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I've had a couple of people let us know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. It goes down. It was noted to be
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  Speaker 1: a castle. Interestingly small castle odd when there's a wedding
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: there because we showed up when the wedding was happening,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: and because it's such a smaller blaze everywhere, like, even
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: though we had reservations for dinner, everywhere we went, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like we were in the middle of their wedding party.
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  Speaker 1: So we were like, oh God, we're in the wrong place.
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  Speaker 1: That was a whole interesting thing. But the dinner was beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: the time was great. They gave us a little cute
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  Speaker 1: little dessert even though we weren't going to order any
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: ended up going to ice cream later. It was so sweet.
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  Speaker 1: They were so kind. The next day we decided we
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: were going to try for a different spot and we
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: drove even further up and it was gorgeous. An It
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: was a beautiful day. The scenery is gorgeous. I need
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  Speaker 1: to post this up. I just can't do the album.
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  Speaker 1: I had one little like video in the fog, but
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  Speaker 1: it's on my TikTok age if y'all tho. My four followers,
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  Speaker 1: including my partner but like, we went up and we
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: went to an apple orchard, picked our own apples, watched
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  Speaker 1: them do the donuts. It wasn't the place that the
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  Speaker 1: listener had recommended because I think that was far far
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  Speaker 1: away from where we were, like three hours and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: we can do an hour. We can do an hour.
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  Speaker 1: But we also got apples, We got cute little trinkets.
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  Speaker 1: We brought some of those apples home. I ate the
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  Speaker 1: last one. It was delicious. I gave us a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them away, including to contributor to show Joey because
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I ended up seeing Joey. They got some apples. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was wonderful experience. It was so funny because I
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: come from a town that is known for apples in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Never have I ever went picking for apples. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going through. My partner was like, we need to. We
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: drove an hour and I was like, fine, we'll go
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  Speaker 1: and take some apples. We did explore some of the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: cute little towns, which we were also kind of scared of, because,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: as Ejene Carroll had said, when you go beyond New
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: York City, it's a lot more conservative, and I did. Again,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I found some of those spots that I was like, yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: this is very conservative that I was like a little nervous,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a little nervous, but it was wonderful. It was still
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a great trip. It was so much fun. And then
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: we came back down. We spent another day and a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: half in New York City again, got to see Joey,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: took them to the Golden Diner, probably one of the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: best restaurants, which in New York City, best pancake, chicken, everything,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Sojo bloody Mary, like, it's phenomenal. It was so good.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: The train read back was gorgeous. We found another I
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: will say the only problem I had is because in
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the trains some of them faced the opposite directions. Yeah,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and I get really emotions sick. Yeah, my back was
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to the wrong area. Like there was no other way
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: for us to see outside besides that way. So because
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: we again we're a little too late lining up. Oh
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and getting the car back was a whole thing, Like
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: y'all Sundays are hard days because they are closed. We
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: got to see cousins of my partner who are wonderful
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and they are engaged, and they were talking about wedding plans.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: It was just such a lovely, lovely time. Got to
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: spend time in Brooklyn, which we haven't done much of.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I love Brooklyn, great area. We stayed in a fun
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: little hotel and fun little area. Went shopping, tons of
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: coffee shops, lots of hipsters. Yeah, lot. But it was
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: such a great trip, and I think my itinerary did
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: really well. I kept saying that I picked the perfect places,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and I picked the perfect timing, and I did such
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a good job on the restaurants. I just want to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: give myself a pat on the back because, yeah, I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: did that.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You should. That's very rewarding when it works out.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It is it is, and I don't gloat about much.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But this trip was like high key. I did that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. It's a lot of work too. People.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at my itinerary now so I can give
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you kind of a rundown because I have a whole
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: itinerary here.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Mm hm oh, I believe it. It sounds like it
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: was great though you got what you wanted.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It was so good. It was so good, and we
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: got to be in nature. I got to see beautiful leaves.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Our locations were great. The train ride was fantastic, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to the fact that I want to do it again,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: but I want to do more expensive ones. So I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was looking at around BEF in Canada. It's like four
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. There's a lot of money. Yeah, I don't
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: know if I could do that. Sponsor US Canada please.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: My dad loved train rides and he got asked to
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: speak at Washington, d C.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: When I was nine years old, and we went to Washington,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: d C. On a train and it was like the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: coolest thing as a kid. I was like, oh my god.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So the train that I was on, specifically Empire Express,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I can't I can't remember, but like it is known,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: like it's one of the top five trains in the US. No,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: there's not many. I will give you that. A few
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: over California, Colorado that's really gorgeous. But this one is
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: over here in the eastern part of the country and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: it goes all the way into Canada. So it goes
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: all the way to Montreal.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: And I had a small fear that we were gonna
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: yeah those things, but like apparently going all the way
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: into Canada is gorgeous, like it continuing on is actually
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: worth the trip.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to. I looked already as like Amtrak,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: because there was in Atlanta. It starts in Atlanta, yeah, yep,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and it goes all the way up to New York.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I can you can you know, get onto different you
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: have to get onto different cars and stuff. But like
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: at one point I was looking, it's like fourteen hours
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: from here to New York. But it's not the prettiest views.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Well, And the thing is like when I went to DC,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: it wasn't the prettiest views, but I just thought it
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: was super cool, like it's fun because we had a
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: sleeper car.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It was like so I had like a bed to
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the window.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: This is the Sex in the City episode, by the way,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: where they take a train from New York to California.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I want to say, damn.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Oh no.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: But well, my dad he wanted that was like his dream.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: He wanted to take a train from I think it
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: started in New York. He just wanted to go from
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: east to west. He wanted to go across the whole country.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: But he was a big train guy. And I went
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: on trains in Europe and they were really cool as well.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: But that was like my first experience, and I just
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: remember thinking it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Was so like my first experience was when I was
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in Europe. Of course, you know, like that was that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was fun. But again, like I was glad that this
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: youthfully because it was anxious because people yell at you. Yeah.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: This lady yelled at me in French and I was like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I can speak French, but now I'm so intimidated by
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the fact that you're yelling at me.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I can't remember single word.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, the conductors would yell at you. Of course, there
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was also conductors and like people who were just kind
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: when they were like laughing at me. I had some
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: people laughing at me, helping me out, but also had
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: like push me out the way because I was in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: their way. And I was like, I have a giant backpack.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Don't yell at me.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I promised I wasn't. The woman who was yelling at me.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: She thought I was trying to because you're supposed to
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: get like your ticket stamped at every step. Yeah, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I guess I miss stop And she said I was
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: like trying to trickerr and I was like, no, I'm
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: just an idiot.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I just don't know how this works. I remember when
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I first got on. Oh no, I missed several trainings
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: like I've had, so I had so many incidents. I
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, Oh my god, what am
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I doing? But I wanted to do this by myself
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: at the age of nineteen twenty. But I remember, like
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I missed a few, but I got the first one
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and it was so tight that everybody was just standing
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and I barely got on that. I was like this,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and I started getting first class, and that was when
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it was cheaper. It was only like ten dollars. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: was like yeah, and then you would have a seat,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a guaranteed seat, and no one bothered or yelled at you.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, from now on, I'm getting
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: first class tickets. I think it's changed because I was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: looking at upgrading with the Amtrag and I was like,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars more. I was like per person. I was
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: like that significant anymore what I thought, But like, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: remember that. And then when I did the euro Rail,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: which was really fun, although like you just sit in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: darkness for hours because it goes under everything. I just
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a giant. It's like you're sitting at a dining room,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a small dining room place, and I was like, yeah,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: what is this. I was so disillusioned, like I was tricked.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I was gas lit by that train, thinking that the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: rest of the trains were like that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You know, well, my final I have to tell this
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: quick story. Give me When I was in Europe. The
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: only flight I've ever missed was when I was in
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: France and I was flying to Italy and it was
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Ryan Aires.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: It was the cheap flight, you know, and it was
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the faraway airports. And I told the taxi driver that
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: several times he took me to the wrong airport. Oh sorry,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, listen, this flight goes up, Well we're
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: gonna do. And so he took me the train station
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and so early I had to wait for it to start.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I get on it and they went on strike and
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the train stopped.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Walk out.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Red incidents. Before we left that they were striking. I
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: was like, we might be in trouble.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Good for them, But man, was that bad timing?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Yes? I mean I did the same thing with like
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out for the rental car, and I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: was like, we're going to be so late and if
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: they cancel our thing, we're going to be stuck in
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Albanie and we're not gonna like I had get I
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: do too much. But because of like an hour to reading,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: how many trains are delayed, how often are they delayed
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like that delayed quite often for two or three hours.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'm like, actually, it was fine. And our apparently our
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: car rental was at the training station, so they knew
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and they're like, what time is, what number is your train?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: What's your train number? Okay, we'll get ready for you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So they were ready. So it was perfect, but like, yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: it's a whole lot because you never know what's gonna happen.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Tragedies happen, accidents happened. We did sit for a good
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: ten minutes in the darkness while they were trying to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: figure out what's happening in the back car.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: We were like what, yeah, what it's not come reading?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: They have no But it was fine. Everything was And
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: then like listening to people listening to each stop they
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: barely stopped at some of them, They're like, you got
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: get off now, get on this car, get off now,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, what did they do that to us?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: We have so much stuff, And like as we were
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: coming to uh Albany, the actual station, the people next
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to us gone up like fifteen minutes early and stood
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the way, like they were ready
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to hop off, as if they were the you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: trade hopping.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Are the people who like get up when they announce
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: zone two in their zone seven?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, so, but like, hey, we're in the middle of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the way standing so we couldn't even get up and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: get our backs. In my head, I'm like, do we
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: need to get do we need to get ready? Are
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: we gonna miss stop? And when we finally stopped, there like, oh,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: we're stopping for an hour? Look, wait, why did everybody
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: do this? Like I get you need to get off,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: but standing fifteen minutes before we even arrive, like before
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the announcement even happened, that we were approaching, which takes
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: another ten minutes to get into stop position. That I
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: was like, is there something we don't know? Like, are
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: we are? And they only had a backpack. It wasn't
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like they had huge amounts of you know, luggage, And
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I was just so confused by this point.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I mean that's the thing. I love traveling, but there's
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: always that layer of uncertainty of no, I've never been
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: here before, so I don't know, yeah.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Exactly that those are the moments that have the hardest
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: time with but like I really really enjoyed it. My
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: partner sister was asking pre before we started, like is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: it gonna be a good ride, and we were like,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: we don't know, what'll let you know, and then we
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: sent her decks were like yes, worth the right, like
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: specifically this train ride is worth it, and like the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: amount of space there was, like I get motion sickness
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: again in the air as well, so I don't have
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the deal with like air pressure problems or like the bouncing,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: although like didn't the train was rough, but like there
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: was a lot more like that. I could see obviously
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: out the window and all of these things, so it
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: was much much better. Eight out of ten, eight out
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: of ten, Like the two is because the two taking
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: office because of the whole snack car incident really confusing,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: but it was such a great trip. I feel like
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I love being in nature anyway, but also love exploring
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: new areas. So this kind of is that similar to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: being in Seattle Mountain and are in Portland where we
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: can both have the nature portion but also enjoy a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: new city portion, which New York City we've been many times,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: but as many times we go, there's so many more
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: things to do. Obviously, New York is never ending. Brooklyn
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: is always so much fun anyway, and so being able
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to go and see all of that. We actually walked
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the entire Brooklyn Bridge. Annie. Oh yeah, it's painful and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: a little nauseating because it bounced. Why did it bounce?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: That's my That's on my lists things I like to
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: do when I'm in New York.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Well, we did it. Yeah, I'm very proud of ourselves
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that we did it. And then met up with Joey
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and them. So we were gross and sweaty, but yeah,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it was fun. It was nice to do. But yeah,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: so a ten out of ten trip. Glad we got
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to do it. Had a moment to kind of relax
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and not think of anything outside of good food and travels.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you for taking care of Peaches. I always know
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: she's in good hands.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: We had a great time. She had a blast when
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I had my friends over.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: She she that she loves having parties and we don't bant.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: That made it even better.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: She had a good time. I'm so glad it was
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: such a good trip.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I would love to see pictures and hear about this
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: macasse that was so good.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Oh got you some maple syrup.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, well well we'll talk about that later.
• 29:56
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• 30:00
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• 30:03
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• 30:06
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