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Vacation In Piegon Forge Tennessee and the tale of Crisp P. Bacon · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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SPEAKER_04: We are kicking, we are getting right into it with episode 20.
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SPEAKER_04: Episode 20, 14 of 40 for this season, which is titled Vacation and the Tale of Chris P.
1:44
SPEAKER_04: Bacon.
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SPEAKER_04: First, before I start, uh I wanted to know that I do have a special guest in the uh in the studio today.
1:51
SPEAKER_04: It's not other than my oldest daughter, Emma Gillespie.
1:54
SPEAKER_04: Emma, what's up?
1:55
SPEAKER_01: Hi.
1:57
SPEAKER_04: How are you doing?
1:59
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
2:01
SPEAKER_01: Hi, guys.
2:02
SPEAKER_04: So this is Emma's second episode after the initial interview that we had with her a couple episodes back.
2:07
SPEAKER_04: And now we got her in here because this one involved mostly meat.
2:12
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this one, this one, she just went straight ham with that.
2:16
SPEAKER_04: That being said, we're going to get straight into the first one, which was titled Vacation.
2:21
SPEAKER_04: Uh vacation started a couple months ago when we decided, hey, let's go on a family vacation.
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SPEAKER_04: This will be the actual first vacation we've ever been on as a family together, a family of four.
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SPEAKER_04: And uh that's to say it was interesting because we went to pit we went to Pigeon Forest, Tennessee.
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SPEAKER_04: And uh people and we well, actually, we went we we got an Airbnb at a um cabin a law cabin, thank you, of the uh vacation in um Tennessee.
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SPEAKER_04: Yep.
2:48
SPEAKER_04: So um with that being said, we uh packed up, but before we packed up, everybody said, everybody said, and you do know there's bears out there, right?
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SPEAKER_04: And then so that mindset stuck with me, my wife, my own my youngest daughter, and especially Emma.
3:04
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
3:05
SPEAKER_04: The oldest daughter here was actually like before we we even got there, we were flipping out, but let alone we got we all packed up, got in the car, and went straight to Tennessee.
3:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_04: Yep.
3:20
SPEAKER_04: So we packed up our bags, went straight to Tennessee.
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SPEAKER_04: So with that being said, we um we got there, and uh again, the fair bears was already in the uh in the mindset of all of us.
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SPEAKER_04: We were like, oh my god, you know what happens if we actually see a bear and everything, and then um eventually that didn't happen.
3:39
SPEAKER_04: So we were driving all the way from Ohio to Tennessee.
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SPEAKER_02: It's very long five-hour and plus car ride.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it wasn't that bad.
3:47
SPEAKER_04: It wasn't that bad at all.
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SPEAKER_02: It wasn't that bad, but like still, it's a five-hour car ride.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was plus with stops and everything.
3:53
SPEAKER_04: Right.
3:54
SPEAKER_04: So again, it wasn't that bad.
3:55
SPEAKER_04: We uh stopped in Kentucky to go to what was that, Bucky's, that store.
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SPEAKER_02: Bucky's, it's a really popular store.
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SPEAKER_02: It's kind of been trending a little bit with like TikTok and everything.
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SPEAKER_02: It's a store that is like it's not really a store, it's a gas station and a store.
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SPEAKER_02: It's like really cool, and it has like clothing.
4:12
SPEAKER_02: It has uh sandwiches and everything that they make specially just for Bucky's.
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SPEAKER_02: It's really interesting.
4:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
4:18
SPEAKER_02: What sandwich did you guys get?
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, I got the at first I got the turkey, and then my wife, she got the uh brisket?
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SPEAKER_04: The brisket sandwich, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: So uh yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: You should guys we recommend it for all you guys out there.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_04: If you get a chance to go down to Kentucky, uh exit, I think it's 83, might be around there.
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SPEAKER_04: Go ahead and get you some Bucky's, man, because it was it was uh they have everything.
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SPEAKER_04: Everything you possibly want is at Bucky's.
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SPEAKER_03: Yep.
4:41
SPEAKER_04: So as our as we're driving down there, um, it was a big four out of five hour trip, and then we know we're going up the up and down the mountains of Tennessee and everything.
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SPEAKER_04: And um the mindset, you know, of us again was like, hey, you gotta, you know, you when you go up to the mountains of Tennessee, you might see a bear.
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SPEAKER_04: And then that affected the mindset, like I said before.
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SPEAKER_04: So uh we're going out and driving, and my wife, she's done, she's drove most of the trip, so we made a gas station stop.
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SPEAKER_04: And I took over because it's over the um the hills or the mountains of Tennessee, so the roads are are bendy, swervy, all that good stuff.
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SPEAKER_04: Really tight.
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SPEAKER_04: Yep, so you know you can't go too fast, right?
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SPEAKER_04: So we finally get to the entrance of the cabin, right?
5:27
SPEAKER_02: And it wouldn't open.
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SPEAKER_04: No, no, no, no.
5:30
SPEAKER_04: No, not that one.
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SPEAKER_04: We drove.
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SPEAKER_04: Remember, we're we drove, we're at we just got to the gate, and this is the first time.
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SPEAKER_04: So the first time So we get we pull up to the gate and we're moving all slow and stuff.
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SPEAKER_04: So it was like, this is the perfect opportunity to see the scare level.
5:45
SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
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SPEAKER_04: The scare level of you, of you, Emma.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's very me.
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SPEAKER_02: My sister is probably more brave than me.
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SPEAKER_02: Consider I'm older, she's way more brave than me.
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SPEAKER_04: So we get there, we just get there, and it's not the sound of a bear.
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SPEAKER_04: All I do is I yell, bear!
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SPEAKER_02: That screwed me so bad.
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SPEAKER_02: I jumped.
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SPEAKER_04: And she literally well, mind you, we're in a car.
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SPEAKER_04: We're in a car.
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SPEAKER_04: There's no way a bear can get you.
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SPEAKER_04: I just say bear and she jumps.
6:14
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
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SPEAKER_02: It was like, it scared me because I'm a little bit more paranoid with things like sicknesses, and I'm more cautious, I guess, than you know, typically.
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm a little bit more, I guess you could say chicken little.
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SPEAKER_02: That's what my dad calls me, because I'm a little bit more scared, cautious and paranoid.
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SPEAKER_02: So um, my sister isn't like she's paranoid and not paranoid, but she's more cautious, but she's not like scaredy cat me.
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SPEAKER_04: Right.
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SPEAKER_02: Basically.
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SPEAKER_04: So all I did was just say bear.
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SPEAKER_04: She jumped.
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SPEAKER_02: I jumped out of my seat.
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SPEAKER_04: So when we pull up to the secluded cabin, it's in the woods and all that, so it's really quiet.
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SPEAKER_04: And it's again, it's a it's an atmosphere that the nobody's nobody's used to, right?
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SPEAKER_04: Nobody's nobody's been in in the woods in a log cabin and all that stuff.
7:03
SPEAKER_04: And then to top it off, we get to the cabin at first, and then the code to get into the uh cabin was not working.
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SPEAKER_04: Was not working.
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SPEAKER_02: So that freaked me out.
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SPEAKER_02: And then I had a panic attack for like an hour because I'm like, what if the bears come out and get us?
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SPEAKER_02: And I was just so scared, and like it was just I don't know.
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SPEAKER_04: No, so she was all paranoid except for the bear that hasn't showed up yet.
7:26
SPEAKER_04: We haven't even seen a bear yet, so they're paranoid.
7:29
SPEAKER_04: They're they're running back to the car.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we're trying to contact the uh manager of the Airbnb to see if what's going on with the code.
7:36
SPEAKER_02: But there was no service because of how deep we were into the woods.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and that's another thing.
7:41
SPEAKER_02: That's like a bad thing.
7:43
SPEAKER_02: But like you still would at least have one bar.
7:46
SPEAKER_02: But also with calling, you we couldn't really call anybody from that long of a distance because our different area codes and everything like that.
7:55
SPEAKER_02: But with uh we didn't have no service and then so we had to go up further further down to get more service.
8:07
SPEAKER_02: So my so our mom or my mom can so my mom can text and message the guy who was helping us Air B the cabin.
8:19
SPEAKER_04: Right.
8:20
SPEAKER_04: So uh we eventually get a hold of him and then we finally get in the cabin.
8:23
SPEAKER_04: And one thing I will say about this is that the cabin was absolutely it was beautiful.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was really nice, nice, nice atmosphere, nice uh bedding, nice view, and then the thing that everybody seemed to love was that we had a hot tub.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was in it 24-7.
8:40
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, she was in it all the time.
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SPEAKER_04: So all the time.
8:42
SPEAKER_04: Yep.
8:43
SPEAKER_04: So um we we had a good time in the cabin and then we got to go to Gatlinburg and go get shopping.
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SPEAKER_02: It got hot fast though, because it was more humid.
8:51
SPEAKER_02: It we it really did get hot.
8:52
SPEAKER_02: It got hot, like really hot, like at 11 or 10.
8:56
SPEAKER_02: It was already really hot outside.
8:58
SPEAKER_02: Um, the cabin was amazing.
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SPEAKER_02: We had me and my sister shared a loft because uh which is like we went up so like there's the kitchen and the dining table, they're like in the same area, and then you go straight up the stairs, and that's our loft with our own bathroom, just not a shower.
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SPEAKER_02: And a TV and a really amazing view.
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SPEAKER_02: We could see the other cabins and we could also see like the trees.
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SPEAKER_02: I for one of the times I looked out, I saw a really big spider.
9:25
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: I think it was a tree, I think it was like a certain type of spider, but it was really big.
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SPEAKER_02: It was bigger than your normal spider hanging in the tree.
9:33
SPEAKER_02: And then you could hear at night you would hear the crickets and animals and the like you could hear everything with no sound.
9:40
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
9:41
SPEAKER_04: And that was that was, you know, part of being like in the woods in the cabin and all that that scenery, which makes it a um good experience.
9:49
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
9:49
SPEAKER_04: And then the following morning we got to and then there's another thing about um pigeonforge slash um Gallin Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is that there is like a million pancake houses.
10:01
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
10:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: So we we we we had an open house.
10:05
SPEAKER_02: If we didn't like this one, we would go to a different one tomorrow, you know?
10:08
SPEAKER_02: We went to breakfast out once, but still amazing.
10:11
SPEAKER_02: Um this pa this there were every other corner or like the pancake house, then a random store, and then a pancake house.
10:20
SPEAKER_02: There's pancake pancake cake houses everywhere.
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SPEAKER_02: They were all filled too with the parking because you know, a lot of people I guess get breakfast and they're good.
10:30
SPEAKER_02: The place we went to started with it was like a I don't remember what it was called.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: I me neither.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: I might have it in my Snapchat memory.
10:40
SPEAKER_04: So rest assured that we we all well, no, actually, I got the uh biscuits and gravy and everybody else got pancakes, I think.
10:46
SPEAKER_02: No, I got my I got French.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: No, you got French toast.
10:48
SPEAKER_02: It was really good with powdered sugar and a little bit of syrup because it was so that was the downtown experience.
10:55
SPEAKER_04: We also uh did go-karting.
10:57
SPEAKER_04: Yes, uh we didn't like Mario Kart almost.
11:00
SPEAKER_04: And uh we did the old-fashioned photo.
11:03
SPEAKER_04: Yes, we that was fun.
11:04
SPEAKER_02: That was really fun.
11:05
SPEAKER_02: Uh huh.
11:05
SPEAKER_02: Expensive, but really fun.
11:07
SPEAKER_04: And then the uh one man goat, it said goat on a roof.
11:11
SPEAKER_02: Goat on a roof mountain coaster.
11:13
SPEAKER_02: So basically it's your own roller coaster, except for kids that are under 54 or 54, 56 inches.
11:21
SPEAKER_02: So my sister and my mom went together on a cart, and basically all you have to do is control your speed and your brakes.
11:28
SPEAKER_02: If you want to go slow, you can just pull it back and it's slow.
11:31
SPEAKER_02: If you want to go fast, you just let it go, basically.
11:34
SPEAKER_02: Especially with the brakes too, you gotta be careful.
11:36
SPEAKER_02: But it was a really fun experience, and I recommend that if you go to any place that has a mountain coaster.
11:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was it was really a unique experience doing that.
11:44
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's also the Alpine coaster as well.
11:46
SPEAKER_02: It's another coaster.
11:48
SPEAKER_02: They are both at uh six to seven minutes six to seven minutes of the ride time, and it's um like a mile long.
11:55
SPEAKER_02: But you go you go up the hill slowly because that's when they control it, but then after that hill, there's a person or a s audio that tells you to like push push your brakes up or down or whatever, and then you would just go the rest, and it was really fun.
12:12
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was.
12:13
SPEAKER_04: And that was something unique that I've never done before, a one-person coaster, which was actually pretty cool.
12:18
SPEAKER_04: So on the way back, so we after going in town a couple times, we're uh coming up on the way back, and then uh we're going up the hill, go back to our cabin, and we see this.
12:29
SPEAKER_02: I swear to why I hate each other.
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SPEAKER_04: We actually see.
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SPEAKER_02: We actually see a bear.
12:36
SPEAKER_02: But we were trying to find the pool, but mom found out that it was like way up the mountain.
12:42
SPEAKER_04: But here's the thing.
12:43
SPEAKER_04: It was now here's the thing that she's she's uh glossing over.
12:47
SPEAKER_04: When we said, I was like, oh my god, that's an actual bear.
12:49
SPEAKER_04: She's like, Where?
12:52
SPEAKER_04: In the car.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, in the car.
12:54
SPEAKER_04: Mind you, we're in the car.
12:55
SPEAKER_04: This bear cannot get us.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
12:58
SPEAKER_04: And she freaks out, like, where?
12:59
SPEAKER_02: I screamed.
13:00
SPEAKER_02: Where's the bear?
13:01
SPEAKER_02: I screamed.
13:02
SPEAKER_02: I I was I was out of control.
13:05
SPEAKER_04: Emma, calm down.
13:06
SPEAKER_04: It's outside.
13:07
SPEAKER_04: It wasn't in the car.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: It was crossing, it was probably a cub.
13:11
SPEAKER_04: It was it was small.
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SPEAKER_02: It was small.
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SPEAKER_02: Luckily, it wasn't a big mama bill bear or something, because that would have scared me more.
13:18
SPEAKER_02: So But we did come across a bear.
13:20
SPEAKER_04: Right.
13:20
SPEAKER_04: So we did come across a bear, and it freaked her out again.
13:23
SPEAKER_04: So that's the second time she was freaked out.
13:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh then after that, everybody took it as like a meme or a joke, so that they would just say bear.
13:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
13:32
SPEAKER_02: My sister would say that like five times each day.
13:34
SPEAKER_02: So then I'd be like, What are you doing?
13:36
SPEAKER_02: I did scare me though.
13:37
SPEAKER_02: Uh, the first I think it was the first night we slept.
13:40
SPEAKER_02: I was a little like paranoid.
13:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I was very paranoid.
13:43
SPEAKER_02: But then I wouldn't sleep.
13:44
SPEAKER_04: But so yeah, we went there and then uh we're on um on our last day there, our last day on vacation, and um we were getting ready, you know, we're on the road, heading out.
13:54
SPEAKER_01: Oh god, no.
13:56
SPEAKER_01: Seriously.
13:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
13:58
SPEAKER_04: So we're driving around, and then again we see an animal animal in the middle of the yard, and she's like, oh my god, it's not a big no, calm down.
14:05
SPEAKER_04: It was just a big dog.
14:05
SPEAKER_04: It was a dog.
14:06
SPEAKER_04: It was just a dog.
14:07
SPEAKER_01: It was a dog.
14:08
SPEAKER_04: Boy, I tell you what.
14:10
SPEAKER_01: It was a dog.
14:12
SPEAKER_01: It scared me so bad.
14:17
SPEAKER_04: There you go.
14:19
SPEAKER_04: It was a dog.
14:20
SPEAKER_02: It was a it was a big dog.
14:22
SPEAKER_02: My mom thought it was a coyote, which I would have believed.
14:24
SPEAKER_02: But it turns around as a dog face.
14:26
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh my god, that scares me.
14:28
SPEAKER_04: So yeah, it was just a big old dog, but nevertheless.
14:31
SPEAKER_04: That was that was the end of it.
14:33
SPEAKER_04: So, overall, that how do you think of the vacation?
14:35
SPEAKER_04: Was it good?
14:35
SPEAKER_02: I think the vacation was pretty good.
14:36
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
14:37
SPEAKER_02: Um, it was pretty good first vacation.
14:41
SPEAKER_02: Considered we had a hot tub, too.
14:43
SPEAKER_02: Like the hot tub.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: Also, like the things that we did, like in the places that we ate.
14:49
SPEAKER_02: We ate at this southern place that only goes for so far to Kentucky is Zach Speed's.
14:55
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, Zach Speed's.
14:56
SPEAKER_02: It's like if you've ever had raisin canes, it is better than that, except for the toast.
15:01
SPEAKER_02: It's the only thing that's not so good, but everything else is amazing.
15:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I agree.
15:05
SPEAKER_04: Zach Spee's one of the uh southern jewels of of eating.
15:10
SPEAKER_04: But then at the same time, we also got Bo Jangles.
15:13
SPEAKER_02: Okay, we don't we have to talk about that.
15:15
SPEAKER_02: This is the re whole reason we're doing a podcast right now.
15:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah basically.
15:21
SPEAKER_02: So Bojangles is a chicken place.
15:23
SPEAKER_02: You would think, like, oh, casual, like almost like KFC or Popeyes.
15:28
SPEAKER_02: No.
15:29
SPEAKER_04: No.
15:29
SPEAKER_04: Disgusting.
15:30
SPEAKER_04: It was trash.
15:31
SPEAKER_02: It w the only thing that was good was the biscuit.
15:34
SPEAKER_02: Liter like that's like uh uh do not recommend it for people that are picky, and we do not recommend it for people in general because like it was a big disappointment.
15:44
SPEAKER_02: I was really hungry too.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: I agree.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: It was like two o'clock and we were hungry.
15:49
SPEAKER_02: And agreed.
15:51
SPEAKER_02: Funny, um, talking about chicken.
15:53
SPEAKER_02: My sister ate chicken every day.
15:57
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
15:58
SPEAKER_02: For four like four or five straight days.
16:01
SPEAKER_02: No, probably almost a s almost a week of just eating chicken.
16:05
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
16:05
SPEAKER_04: So uh every again, we stopped at Zagsby so we could experience that because that is a good that's a good spot.
16:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's what they said when they were in Georgia.
16:12
SPEAKER_04: When I say this girl, again, she's nine years old, orders chicken, tenders, and fries no matter where we go.
16:19
SPEAKER_04: If we go to a if we go to a Mexican spirit, if we go to a Mexican spot, chicken tenders and fries.
16:24
SPEAKER_04: Wendy's chicken nuggets and fries.
16:29
SPEAKER_04: Caines, chicken, tenders, and fries.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: Anywhere.
16:32
SPEAKER_04: Freshest chicken, tenders and fries.
16:34
SPEAKER_04: It it it doesn't it doesn't matter.
16:36
SPEAKER_02: Stop.
16:36
SPEAKER_02: Literally, one time she went to a Mexican place just to order those chicken tenders and fresh fries for her birthday dinner.
16:42
SPEAKER_02: It was so funny.
16:43
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you think you she would adventure out?
16:45
SPEAKER_04: No.
16:46
SPEAKER_04: Chicken tenders and fries.
16:48
SPEAKER_04: So we go to uh what was that place?
16:50
SPEAKER_04: Um the Guy Fieti restaurant.
16:52
SPEAKER_02: Oh, Flavortown.
16:53
SPEAKER_02: It was amazing.
16:54
SPEAKER_02: We should talk about that next episode.
16:55
SPEAKER_04: Flavortown.
16:56
SPEAKER_04: You think you think you would adventure out?
17:00
SPEAKER_02: No, chicken fruit.
17:01
SPEAKER_04: Chicken tenders and fries.
17:04
SPEAKER_04: And it's like, you know what?
17:06
SPEAKER_04: You're gonna turn into a chicken if you keep eating all this chicken.
17:08
SPEAKER_04: I've never, I mean, like, I like chicken.
17:11
SPEAKER_04: We do have that much.
17:13
SPEAKER_04: I don't know anybody that likes chicken that much.
17:16
SPEAKER_04: And plus you would think that you're at Guy Fieti's restaurant, you would try something.
17:19
SPEAKER_04: Anything trying something different.
17:21
SPEAKER_02: I only got chicken tenders and French fries twice.
17:23
SPEAKER_02: And that's what I'm saying.
17:24
SPEAKER_04: Well, that's at Zagsby's though.
17:25
SPEAKER_04: That's the only thing they offer.
17:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, other than yeah, I know, but I try well, we had pizza.
17:32
SPEAKER_02: But talking about my sister, she's a little bit picky.
17:36
SPEAKER_02: She's picky.
17:37
SPEAKER_02: So her go-to meals are Skyline, anything with noodles, to be honest, except for probably ramen, and like she's like because she had allergies.
17:48
SPEAKER_02: That makes sense, but also eating not even trying a burger because she loves beef.
17:54
SPEAKER_04: She'll eat a hamburger, right?
17:55
SPEAKER_02: She'll eat a hamburger, yeah.
17:56
SPEAKER_02: If she has to.
17:57
SPEAKER_02: Right.
17:58
SPEAKER_02: But like, you know, I'm that was kind of expected.
18:01
SPEAKER_02: We we m me and dad were probably gonna we should have made a bet that she was gonna eat chicken tenders every day for like six or a whole a week, basically.
18:10
SPEAKER_02: Pretty much.
18:11
SPEAKER_02: Because the day, you know.
18:13
SPEAKER_02: So thankfully we went to a Kroger and we got frozen pizza.
18:18
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, every other every day.
18:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, chicken tenders and french fries.
18:23
SPEAKER_02: I never knew a girl who loved chicken tenders and french fries so much.
18:26
SPEAKER_02: That's right, that's right.
18:27
SPEAKER_02: That's probably why she was for it.
18:29
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
18:29
SPEAKER_04: So that concluded the uh the the journey to Pigeon Force Tennessee.
18:34
SPEAKER_04: It was uh it was fun.
18:35
SPEAKER_04: We had a good time.
18:36
SPEAKER_02: And uh you forgot one thing though, Flavor Town.
18:39
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna talk about Flavortown.
18:41
SPEAKER_02: The food they have there and Guy Fierdi's, he his food amazing.
18:46
SPEAKER_02: The servers and the waitresses are so good.
18:49
SPEAKER_02: They also have a built-in arcade and a bowling and we bowling alley.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: So we got to do the arcade because of something.
18:57
SPEAKER_02: I think she just gave it to us.
18:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think she gave us like two uh two thirty-five yeah, a coin ticket, whatever.
19:04
SPEAKER_02: With that got us each like five sixes games.
19:07
SPEAKER_02: But like their food was amazing.
19:09
SPEAKER_02: I got the Alfredo, the Alfredo, amazing.
19:13
SPEAKER_02: I had never really had Alfredo before, so like that was really good.
19:17
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
19:18
SPEAKER_04: I agree.
19:19
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
19:19
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
19:19
SPEAKER_04: So Flavortown was uh a nice spot, a nice way to end vacation.
19:23
SPEAKER_04: So now we gotta talk about next year's vacation.
19:26
SPEAKER_04: Like, what what do you what's what's on your what do you what would you like to go for vacation next year?
19:30
SPEAKER_02: Well, I think since we hit the woods this year, I think we should do something like the opposite.
19:35
SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
19:35
SPEAKER_02: Not something like Disneyland or that big, but like something that is like a big tourist spot.
19:41
SPEAKER_02: I don't know for sure, but like something in the city.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: Not bear in nature.
19:47
SPEAKER_04: The bear is on mess with our mind.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
19:51
SPEAKER_02: Stop that.
19:52
SPEAKER_02: You're gonna make me have nightmares tonight, and I haven't had nightmares for a while.
19:57
SPEAKER_04: So yeah, that that, my friends, was Pigeon Forge, uh Tennessee, and we had a good time.
20:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, shopping was pretty good too.
20:05
SPEAKER_02: They had lots of malls.
20:07
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, yeah, they they sure did.
20:08
SPEAKER_02: An outlet mall.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: We went to an outlet mall.
20:11
SPEAKER_02: They had so much toys.
20:12
SPEAKER_02: It was never ending.
20:13
SPEAKER_02: It was you would get your steps in that day.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: Like there was Converse, vans, every shoe brand, like everything.
20:22
SPEAKER_02: They had like a K, jewelry, they had like a Converse, they had a lot of things.
20:29
SPEAKER_02: And some stores that we haven't heard of before.
20:31
SPEAKER_02: Like they had cupcake stores, they had it sugar, and it's just they had a lot of things for an outlet mall.
20:36
SPEAKER_02: And that in Ohio that we have an outlet mall, but it's like not it's not as big.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: No.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: No, it's like not as big.
20:44
SPEAKER_02: But like those are some spots that you should really hit, except for bojangles.
20:49
SPEAKER_02: We ain't talking about that.
20:50
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
20:50
SPEAKER_04: So go to Pigeon Forge, but don't eat bojangles.
20:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, don't eat bojangles.
20:53
SPEAKER_02: We ate it f just for you guys.
20:55
SPEAKER_04: There you go.
20:56
SPEAKER_04: Well, that was that's the first half of the story of doing Pigeon Forward, Tennessee, Tennessee, Pigeon Forge.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: We we kept on doing country voices.
21:08
SPEAKER_04: No, we didn't do no country with that.
21:09
SPEAKER_04: So no.
21:10
SPEAKER_04: So that's what's that?
21:12
SPEAKER_04: I didn't.
21:13
SPEAKER_04: No.
21:13
SPEAKER_04: So that's the first part of the story.
21:14
SPEAKER_04: Um we're gonna take a little break and go do the second half of uh today's podcast, which is titled A Tale of Chris P.
21:23
SPEAKER_04: Bacon.
21:24
SPEAKER_04: We'll be back right after this.
21:32
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21:40
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21:45
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21:46
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21:50
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21:53
SPEAKER_04: So with that being said, we're gonna go kick it off to the second part of the story, which was a what I'm calling it a of crisp pea bacon.
22:04
SPEAKER_04: The reason why it was that because um we had scheduled a lu out at work.
22:10
SPEAKER_04: And um what the plan was to get a pig and then cook it on Friday for everybody in in the rest in the in the restaurant in the facility.
22:21
SPEAKER_04: And um we we uh we ordered a pig and we sat it out in the refrigerator Monday.
22:27
SPEAKER_04: Now when I say that when I see every time I walk in the refrigerator the pig was unraveled still in plastic but you can see through the plastic and you can see the black beady eyes of the pig immediately it's like I'm not hungry I I don't want it I'm not I'm I'm vegan today.
22:52
SPEAKER_04: I'm not eating none of that because I can see his eyes the beady eyes of the pig just made it like I was like I'm not hungry.
23:00
SPEAKER_04: I don't want to eat bacon I don't eat no ham I don't I don't want nothing nothing from the pig because you can see you see the eyes of it and it just made me um just disgusted with it exactly so um when that happened we planned for Friday to cook it so as we're as we're getting ready for the lu out um we uh get everything prepped we have a a um a rotator I guess you call it rotator where you can put the pig on the rotator and rotate it on the heat so therefore it's even cooking on the pig we bought it from Walmart now when you order from Walmart it's either a hit or miss very yeah it's uh hit or miss on the um on what you buy there you know especially for clothes yeah general stuff you get it you know general stuff like you know clothes entertainment DVDs etc those usually fit but when you buy something very expensive like this rotator thing for the pig it's like let's hope this works because you know we're paying big bucks for it so we buy that we get the pig so we were just ready to uh to cook we're ready to cook ready to cook this uh pig up right so I arrive I arrive uh in the morning and I already see the pig and the and the um pig on the rotator I can't think of what you actually call it we're gonna call it rotator from this point forward and I noticed something like there's a lot of coals on that rotator there's a lot of coals and if you go back a couple episodes ago on this podcast on the WDYM I even talked about this on July 4th tips for barbecuing and all that stuff and this is what I said number one too many coals too many coals that's what we do that's what we do as culinarians we we don't mess up put too many coals on there and I notice it right so I go in there and the thing's not rotating I'm like oh shoot what's going on we got this thing from Walmart it's not working what happened so I come to find out that the cord ripped when they pulled the thing out from the inside to bring it to the outside it got snagged on the door and got ripped so we had to call maintenance to fix it real quick because we got to get this thing going.
25:13
SPEAKER_04: We got to you know we got to cook this pig everybody's looking for this lu out so that's safe to say that you know we got that fixed but by the time I'm looking at the pig on the rotator it's a little dark on a little dark on the back of the back of the pig.
25:31
SPEAKER_04: Oh no that's the tail of that's the tail of crispy bacon we burnt they is completely charred it is completely charred it's burnt smelling like next actually smelling like bacon oh no that's terrible yeah so rest assured the pig is burnt and the luau how's the luau gonna happen now if we don't have the man in traction of the pig then everybody and then and it's it's the luauut's gonna basically be canceled.
26:06
SPEAKER_04: And this is this is the reason why I bring this all up as a culinarian when you mess up everybody knows everybody knows that the culinarian is ruin ruined the day because we mess up food and like our job as a culinarian is to do food and when we mess up everybody remembers that everybody and nobody doesn't remember when we do good right nobody remembers like oh remember that one time Michael you made turkey on Thanksgiving it was delicious.
26:34
SPEAKER_04: No it never happens that way never happens that way you remember when you burned a pig on a luauout or you messed up the honey ham on Easter I was about to say that you know see see that people remember when we mess up and it's not fair as a culinarian because we always mess up.
26:54
SPEAKER_04: We're not the growth you know we always it's okay everybody makes mistakes it is that's right but when but see that's that's the thing I'm saying when we mess up everybody remembers it so what happens is the pig is burnt and then everybody's asking everybody in the whole facility oh I can't wait for the lu out I can't wait for the lu out.
27:13
SPEAKER_04: Then once they find out the pig's burnt like well what happened what what happened and I'm not gonna throw my my own team under the bus like hey I don't know what happened I don't know what happened we want to reschedule you know I'm not gonna say hey we burnt the pig eventually it's gonna come out that you know that hey we messed up and burnt the pig it happens ladies and gentlemen culinarian chefs we do mess up we're not cooks we're we are chefs when we do make mistakes but people don't don't know how to accept that they remember when we make the mistakes because we ruin the whole daggone event if we mess up everybody remembers that hey oh you know you burnt the turkey you messed up we got Popeyes instead by the way again again that that day when the bar when the barbecue on july third or july fourth when I burnt the chicken oh my god you people do not forget when you mess up the meal I don't forget the sliders were a little bit charcoal y I remember every bit of it you see that's not have any leftovers you see that no leftovers that is why when we mess up we ruined the whole thing people don't remember when we do the good things when we make something good like today today I made hamburgers and they were the good they were so good banging right amazing people don't remember that you're not gonna remember that in a couple months in a week or something but you're gonna remember when I messed up that daggone ham like a few years ago you hear that so guess what people culinarians we mess up the Taylor crispy bacon we messed up but I guarantee you we're gonna get it right next time or if not we're gonna have a backup plan.
28:53
SPEAKER_04: But I tell you things happen and we are never forgiven.
28:57
SPEAKER_04: No matter what culinarians do what no matter what chefs do if we mess up they remember that for the rest of their damn lives.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: Well it's funny to me in my opinion it's a laugh to me.
29:08
SPEAKER_02: You think it's funny I think it is funny.
29:10
SPEAKER_02: It's like every job there's gonna be something you mess up.
29:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah it's just like this is how the world works quote unquote.
29:17
SPEAKER_02: Exactly like you know might do something wrong with not just only cooking with if you're like a fashion designer my dream um you might mess up the coordinates or like the sizes or the measurements for somebody and that might screw up their whole plan.
29:33
SPEAKER_04: But see here's the difference though you could put the clothes on the mannequin and be like okay this looks good you got time to prepare our prep time is for the minor things the the cheeses the you know sides and all that but if we mess the main entree up guarantee you guys gonna remember that for the rest everybody remembers and gravy for the rest of the day you know they'll be like oh and they were all and then the thing about it all the residents were all bummed and it's like you know things they they can't accept that we make mistakes we may all make mistakes they're old true and and we did we are rescheduling it so stay tuned for the part two of the of of the tale of crisp bacon to see what happens I guarantee you we're not gonna mess it up this time better not all right so that's gonna conclude episode 20 episode 14 of 40 for the first season and that's a wrap Jack I'm your host Michael Gillespie and I'm out Girl Scout peace peace