Bucket List Destinations

[00:00:05] Speaker A: Hello, hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory. [00:00:12] Speaker B: I'm your host, Michael. [00:00:13] Speaker A: And we're here to show you just how weird this world of ours really is. So today we're gonna set up for. I'm gonna go ahead and just put this out there now. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Okay. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Season two of Weird World Adventures will be releasing on Amazon prime in the fall. So we're gonna dedicate the next series of episodes to highlight an episode from the season until we cover all 10. I'm gonna keep talking dramatically. [00:00:41] Speaker B: What is happening? [00:00:42] Speaker A: It's been a long day and we're having fun. You're the one laughing over here. So we're gonna highlight each of the episodes leading up to the release in the fall. [00:00:51] Speaker B: To 10 episodes leading up to the release. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Yep. [00:00:55] Speaker B: Okay. [00:00:56] Speaker A: It's gonna be an adventure. [00:00:57] Speaker B: An adventure. [00:00:58] Speaker A: And we can kind of talk about, like, the behind the scenes of filming each of the episodes and what people can expect. The BTs, the fun stories they might not know about two guys admiring penises in Iceland. [00:01:08] Speaker B: The debauchery. [00:01:09] Speaker A: The debauchery. So it's gonna be fun. But first, before we do that, I think it'd be fun to just have a practical, fun travel podcast. Or really you did. Cause it was your idea. [00:01:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Credit where it's due. [00:01:21] Speaker A: I gave the credit. I just took credit first and then redirected it back to you. So we're gonna talk about three places we each would like to go see and why that we haven't been to yet. [00:01:34] Speaker B: Bucket list. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Bucket list. [00:01:36] Speaker B: 3 bucket list places and why. [00:01:39] Speaker A: And I only have one in my mind right now. [00:01:42] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:01:42] Speaker A: We'll see how this goes. Yes. Okay. [00:01:44] Speaker B: I've got three. [00:01:45] Speaker A: You start. [00:01:47] Speaker B: All right. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Just one. [00:01:49] Speaker B: They don't have to be in order. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Nah, I just start with one. We'll go back and forth. [00:01:52] Speaker B: No, I know, but no particular order. Three are not in any particular order. [00:01:56] Speaker A: No particular order. [00:01:57] Speaker B: All right. Australia. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Really? [00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:00] Speaker A: Why? [00:02:01] Speaker B: It's far away and just different from where I've been. It's like almost as far as you can go from where we are before you start coming back. It's just very different. [00:02:14] Speaker A: And they have like dog sized spiders. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I mean. They have crazy stuff in Australia. [00:02:21] Speaker A: What would your ideal Australian vacation consist of? [00:02:27] Speaker B: Part of the reason I want to go is I just don't know a whole lot about Australia. [00:02:30] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:31] Speaker B: But if I had to just. I guess also in preface this. You have as much time as you want. No time constraint on It, I mean, I would want to start probably in Sydney. It's like the only place I know. [00:02:44] Speaker A: I was gonna say, do you have. [00:02:45] Speaker B: A city of mine in Australia? But I would like to just see a lot of the outback type. [00:02:51] Speaker A: So like full adventure. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Adventure safari. [00:02:55] Speaker A: The dingoes. [00:02:56] Speaker B: The dingoes ate your baby. Not my baby. Yeah, I just like to explore the whole area. Adventure. Adventure, vacation. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Can you name any other cities in. No, absolutely. I can. I can name two more. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Oh, maybe I can. Well, there's the. I mean the famous Barrier Reef is right off Australia. [00:03:16] Speaker A: The Great Barrier Reef. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if there's a city attached to it. [00:03:19] Speaker A: I think it's near Sydney. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Okay, then. No. [00:03:23] Speaker A: You've never heard of Melbourne? [00:03:24] Speaker B: Oh, I've heard of Melbourne. Okay. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Queensland. [00:03:27] Speaker B: I've heard of Queensland. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, there's some places. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Okay, so those, I'd see those and. [00:03:32] Speaker A: You go snorkel or dive. [00:03:33] Speaker B: I do the whole thing. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:34] Speaker B: I wanted you. I'm not, I'm not certified yet, but I would get certified before I made a big vacation to Australia. [00:03:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:41] Speaker B: But yeah, diving Great Barrier Reef. See the main cities. Do adventure outback trip. See the crazy stuff. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Rent a Jeep. [00:03:50] Speaker B: Rent a jeep. [00:03:51] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:52] Speaker B: All the crazy, very deadly stuff out there. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Giant spiders. [00:03:56] Speaker B: I definitely see the giant spiders. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Muscle kangaroos. Yeah, yeah. [00:04:01] Speaker B: Just jacked. [00:04:02] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:04] Speaker B: It's just weird and different. I've been, you know, I mean, obviously I've seen a bunch of the U.S. i've seen some, but not as much as I'd like to of Europe. I've seen a fair amount of Asia just because of growing up military and living in Okinawi. Bounced a bit around there. I haven't seen really any South America, any Africa. So. Yeah. [00:04:32] Speaker A: Okay. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Australia just seems different. It seems the most foreign from any of the places I've been. [00:04:37] Speaker A: Would you want to hop over to New Zealand? [00:04:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought about, I thought about making it New Zealand instead of Australia, but I didn't. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Lord of the Rings. [00:04:44] Speaker B: I know I could do that. [00:04:45] Speaker A: You could follow the Lord of the Rings trail. [00:04:47] Speaker B: That's true. And I do have a, a work friend who spent six months or so in New Zealand like in between jobs. Did like part time work between two jobs in New Zealand and loved it. [00:05:02] Speaker A: It's very nature y and green. [00:05:04] Speaker B: He said if he, he brought his whole family over there for at least a chunk of that time and said if he didn't have a family he wouldn't have left. Like he would just stay in New Zealand and Kept working there. Yeah. [00:05:18] Speaker A: Interesting. You know, I've gone diving in the second largest reef in the world. Do you know where that is? [00:05:24] Speaker B: Well, I'm trying to think where you would have gone diving. [00:05:28] Speaker A: It's where I got certified or. It's not where I got certified. It's where I first did my first dive, my discover scuba. [00:05:35] Speaker B: I don't know. Where is it? [00:05:37] Speaker A: Honduras? Roatan. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Oh, I would never have known that. [00:05:40] Speaker A: Roton is like divers paradise. They have a bunch of shipwrecks and, like, I think there's like hundreds of dive spots. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Really? [00:05:47] Speaker A: Mm. [00:05:48] Speaker B: That's cool. [00:05:49] Speaker A: That's cool. It misled me into believing that diving was really an awesome experience all the time. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:56] Speaker A: It's only sometimes an awesome experience. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. [00:06:00] Speaker B: That's just true. [00:06:01] Speaker A: I know if I had gotten certified, if I had not gone diving prior to getting certified, I probably never would have dove again. [00:06:13] Speaker B: Well, not going prior to getting certified sounds awful. You just, you know, don't know where you're. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Someone does it for you. You go with like a dive master one on one, and they, like, lower you. You learn the basics. [00:06:26] Speaker B: Okay. [00:06:26] Speaker A: Like how to get water out of your mask and what, like, what to do and not to do, like, the really important stuff, and then they deflate. [00:06:34] Speaker B: They do all your stuff. [00:06:35] Speaker A: Yeah, they do all your stuff for you. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Okay, well, that doesn't sound as bad, though. [00:06:37] Speaker A: Yeah. And you're like, with them the whole time, so it's like, very hands on. But. Yeah. Don't ever dive in Los Angeles. It's terrible. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't need to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, to be honest. [00:06:49] Speaker A: You slept through all of Los Angeles. [00:06:51] Speaker B: I saw parts of it. That's not what mattered. [00:06:54] Speaker A: Like the highway for five seconds. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:00] Speaker B: It's not my scene, the big city. I don't know. I mean, I have no problem visiting New York and LA and those kind of places, but I have no interest in living there. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Yes, I agree with that. [00:07:11] Speaker B: There's very few places in the world that I would choose, like, not would want to live less than that. I mean, that's not true. There's plenty of terrible places I wouldn't want to live. But in the US there's very few places in the US that I would have a lower likelihood of living than the giant cities like New York and la. For any experience, extended period of time. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:35] Speaker B: I could do like a year or whatever. [00:07:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:37] Speaker B: Like, I looked at internships and stuff in some of those cities. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:41] Speaker B: To settle down no, not for me. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Okay. My first and, like, my big bucket list place that I still want to go to is Papua New Guinea. [00:07:51] Speaker B: That's a good one. [00:07:52] Speaker A: Yeah. It's near Australia. [00:07:53] Speaker B: I mean, you dropped enough money on that. Papua New guinea penis gourd. Penis gourd. [00:07:59] Speaker A: So this is why I want to go to Papua New Guinea. Not the penis gourds. [00:08:03] Speaker B: Well, that's why I want to go. [00:08:04] Speaker A: It's because it's one of the most. It's one of the safest still tribal locations you can visit. It's still very tribal. They have villages, like you would think for a tribal village, and parts of it are so separated that they have a bastard version of English that they speak that is so bastardized, you have to have a translator to help you figure out what they're saying. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Okay, interesting. [00:08:31] Speaker A: Like, for instance, how old are you? How much Christmas you. Like, how many Christmases have you lived? But, like, so bastardized. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Okay. [00:08:41] Speaker A: To like. [00:08:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:42] Speaker A: So there. [00:08:42] Speaker B: It's like, you wouldn't be able to understand it even as a fluent English speaker without. [00:08:48] Speaker A: And it's not because of accents. It's because it's a completely bastardized version of English. That's not what we speak. [00:08:54] Speaker B: So is it still considered English? At what point does it become its own language? I mean, all languages are. You know, the vast majority of languages develop from another language at some point. They're just a new language. [00:09:05] Speaker A: I wonder if they call it something else. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm curious. [00:09:08] Speaker A: I'm curious. It would be great if this would work. Okay. [00:09:13] Speaker B: And Australia has a fair amount of the. The tribal stuff too, right? There's still a significant Aborigine population in Australia. That's pretty untouched, isn't it? [00:09:25] Speaker A: I think so. But again, I don't know. Papua New guinea has the houses on sticks, the stilt houses. Or we had that whole. That trivia game that we played, and that was one of the answers, and I nailed it. I'm like, oh, I know this one. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Stilt houses and penis gourds. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:41] Speaker B: If the question's about that, you're gonna nail it. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Right. And then there's also a bunch of, like, ruined planes and things from World War II that are just hanging out there. It's a very, like, weird, weird, weird place. They speak English and then there's a few different tribal languages, so they. I guess maybe one of the tribal languages is that bastardized English. [00:10:04] Speaker B: Got it. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Those languages talk pissing. That's how I would say talk pissing and hirimotu. [00:10:17] Speaker B: I Like it. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Yeah. It's also where the phrase, at least for me, poop on a stick comes from. Because they still have. They still believe in witchcraft and they will have, you know, like, people that do magic and protections. And I think they. I had to learn this when I was doing my anthropology class and I wish I retained more of it, but. They curse you with your poop. So be like, hide your poop. Because they put your poop on a stick, it curses you. [00:10:43] Speaker B: Well, you'd be in trouble there. [00:10:45] Speaker A: I know, I know. [00:10:49] Speaker B: I don't know if that's your place if you're gonna get cursed with poop on a poop. [00:10:52] Speaker A: I know. Gosh. Oh, gosh. Poop on a stick. [00:10:56] Speaker B: I mean, I used to say that too, but I don't think it was in any reference to Pop. Not that I knew. [00:11:03] Speaker A: At least I heard about the poop on a stick and was like, well, that's where that came from. I don't know. That might have been a logic leap for me. But anywhere else have you ever heard poop on a stick besides just an exasperated sting? [00:11:14] Speaker B: In the all time comedy classic Random Acts of Stupidity, we did a whole scene where we chased. We chased kids around with poop on a stick. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. That's right. [00:11:27] Speaker B: You sure that scene was called Poop on a Stick? That's where I heard it from. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Okay, what's your next pick? [00:11:36] Speaker B: Well, so. Cause that has no. [00:11:38] Speaker A: Okay, all right, give the context. Give the context. [00:11:40] Speaker B: That was a cobbled together movie my friends and I made. Imitating Jackass in high school. We called it Ran Max of Stupidity. That's the context. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And we watched. [00:11:50] Speaker B: But we called one of the skits Poo on a Stick. [00:11:52] Speaker A: That's really funny. Me and Marissa, maybe. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Maybe one of my friends got it from Papua New Guinea. I have no idea. That's all I think when I hear that phrase, though, obviously it didn't come from us either. [00:12:02] Speaker A: But I think of you guys using each other as bowling balls and crashing each other into lawn chairs. [00:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's just good old fun human lawn bowling. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Right? I remember that. We watched and laughed at you. [00:12:22] Speaker B: Well, we laughed at you for a lot of reasons. Two younger losers, my sister and her friend. [00:12:31] Speaker A: You guys talked a lot of game about, when you go to middle school, we're gonna push you in the lockers and close you in. And we were all scared that you were gonna bully us. And then we actually saw you at school and you averted eye contact and dashed away as Fast as possible. [00:12:44] Speaker B: You've brought this up a few times recently. I feel like you're almost insulted that we didn't follow through on our. [00:12:50] Speaker A: You were so afraid to be, like, around us or acknowledge our existence in any way that, like, you averted eye contact and peaced out. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Well, I don't know if afraid is the right word. We were concerned that your uncoolness would be contagious. Wow. [00:13:07] Speaker A: We were also, like, the two tiniest kids in middle school. We were the smallest children at that school. [00:13:12] Speaker B: You showed up. Let's see, I would have been. Me and my friends would have been eighth grade. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:18] Speaker B: So at the top of the totem pole in middle school. Right. Right before you get reset to the bottom in high school. And you guys were, you know, the new sixth graders, but you looked like third grade. I mean, you were built like third grade, both of you. Yeah. You were tiny. [00:13:35] Speaker A: So we were like the two smallest kids, I think in our class. [00:13:38] Speaker B: There's already can be a pretty significant just development difference between an eighth grader and a sixth grader because you hit puberty in there at some point. So there's kids that are more adult. More adult sized, and there's kids that are. That's just a young child. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Right. [00:13:55] Speaker B: So it's already that. And then you guys show up as. Even amongst sixth graders would have been. Well, that's a young child. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Yeah. We were freakishly small. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Yep. Yep. What's your second place? [00:14:10] Speaker B: Rome. I mean, Italy in general, but specifically Rome. I am one of those guys that thinks about the Ancient Roman Empire on a regular basis. [00:14:21] Speaker A: You brought that up a few times. It's just always on your mind. [00:14:23] Speaker B: It's always on my mind. [00:14:25] Speaker A: Mm. [00:14:26] Speaker B: There's just nowhere. There's nothing cooler in history than the Ancient Roman Empire. And a lot of that stuff is still standing. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah. So you'll be excited by our. [00:14:35] Speaker B: I mean, all of, like, western culture gets its roots from Greece and Rome. You know, ancient Greco Roman. Greco Roman. Yeah. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:44] Speaker B: The U.S. constitution is largely based on Greek and Roman history teachings. [00:14:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:14:52] Speaker B: The Roman Republic. [00:14:53] Speaker A: Right. So you'll be excited by our trip on the Orient Express. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Oh, for sure. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:14:59] Speaker A: Through Italy. [00:15:00] Speaker B: I mean, I wouldn't mind if I have unlimited time, you know, popping into Greece, but I'm trying to keep it to one place. So there's a lot of places in Italy I'd like to see, but Rome, because I just. I just like the Rome. The Rome stuff. Ancient Rome stuff. [00:15:14] Speaker A: Mm. I mean, great. Greek mythology was my favorite subject in school. And when we. We did a semester of just Greek mythology and I think we also then moved into Roman mythology. I got a hundred. I was like so into it that I didn't ever miss a single question. Like, that was my. That was my thing. [00:15:35] Speaker B: And you went on to do folklore. Great things. I guess that's true. You did use it. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Okay. [00:15:42] Speaker B: All right. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Yeah. I found my calling when I was 11. [00:15:45] Speaker B: We still haven't done an episode in Greece. [00:15:48] Speaker A: I know. Now that's on the plan. I know it's on the docket. [00:15:52] Speaker B: Whose idea was that? [00:15:53] Speaker A: That was your idea. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Credit where it's due. [00:15:56] Speaker A: I'm heavily leaning to making one of my places Greece because of that. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's gonna get checked off your bucket list sooner than later if you. [00:16:04] Speaker A: It is. For years it was Romania and now we did that. [00:16:08] Speaker B: We did it. [00:16:09] Speaker A: And if I had to pick see somewhere in Europe, it's not to be in Europe. I know, I know. But I'm like trying to. I'm trying to. I have no interest in Australia. I would go to say that I went, but that's like not on my list. [00:16:23] Speaker B: Well, your ass is getting dragged there anyways. [00:16:24] Speaker A: I know. I'll enjoy it. Antarctica would be on my list, but I just hate boats so much that getting there. I don't know if it'd be worth it for you. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Well, I'll spoil it for you. That's my next one. [00:16:38] Speaker A: Canada. I have no. I've never been to Canada and I have no interest. [00:16:41] Speaker B: I've been to Montreal and Vancouver. [00:16:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:16:45] Speaker B: It just feels like you're in the U.S. if you ask me, it's close enough to United States culture that just feels. I went to Montreal for a bachelor party and we drove it, which was awful because we drove it. We were only there two days a weekend and we drove from Richmond in one go. It was a 19 hour drive back, but we just drove across the border. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:14] Speaker B: And honestly, I wouldn't have known I was in a different country. Really. I mean, I did know what I, you know, there was. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Until you get further up. [00:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:24] Speaker B: Same with Vancouver. I went there for a conference and Yeah, I mean, obviously I flew there. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Right. [00:17:32] Speaker B: But other once I was there, I was like, this is just a nice. That's like the same English speaking as the US is. [00:17:41] Speaker A: It's Hollywood number two. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Built like the. Yeah. It looks. The architecture looks like a nice modern US city. And. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:50] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, you would just not know. [00:17:53] Speaker A: And then if I think about Going to South America. I just want to go back to Argentina. [00:17:57] Speaker B: You spent a lot of time in South America. I spent zero time in South America. [00:18:01] Speaker A: I would like to go. This is not my choice, but if I had to pick somewhere in South America, it would be Peru for the Peruvian Amazon. Actually, I'm gonna go with that. I'm gonna go with the Peruvian Amazon. I really want to do that. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Okay. [00:18:12] Speaker A: So through Earthwatch, which is the organization I volunteer with, sometimes you can volunteer on a riverboat expedition, but you hate boats in the Peruvian Amazon. But it's a riverboat. I will. I will. I will add the addendum. When it's a river, it's usually fine. And it looks like Jungle Cruise. [00:18:31] Speaker B: It's like you just want to live out Jungle Cruise. [00:18:33] Speaker A: I do. It's like a 1920s steamboat. Like, re fixed up so there's, like, bathrooms. You have your own bathroom and a little, you know, area. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Hopefully it's not accident. [00:18:43] Speaker A: But it looks like one. And you get to work with bats and pink river dolphins, and that just sounds great. And you stop in a lot of the tribal areas along the way. So that would be, for me, definitely the Peruvian Amazon. [00:18:58] Speaker B: That's a good one. [00:19:00] Speaker A: And I want to say that I went to the Amazon without, like, really going into, like, the Brazilian Amazon. I'm happy keeping it, like, you know, in the outskirts in Peru. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:10] Speaker B: Okay. It's a good one. I do the Amazon. [00:19:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Amazon would be fun. [00:19:14] Speaker A: And you get to say, I've been to the Amazon. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what. That's what it's really all about, right? Getting to say you were there. [00:19:21] Speaker A: No, it's really about getting to live out my Jungle Cruise fantasies. [00:19:25] Speaker B: You just want that. Is the rock gonna come with you? Yeah. [00:19:29] Speaker A: You know, he's not my cup of tea, though. I like him because he's goofy, but not because I think he's attractive. I have respect for him because he took probably. I'm just gonna say it. The most boring, like, uninteresting ride at Disney. The most outdated. One of the most outdated rides at Disney and turned it into a great movie. I was not expecting it to be any good, which is probably why I was so happy with it. And it also. It really feels like the Mummy meets Pirates of the Caribbean. [00:20:04] Speaker B: I'm just gonna say, at the risk of getting you on another full Mallory rant, Jungle Cruise felt very much like the Mummy to me. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:13] Speaker B: Because it's one of those where you go in with no expectation that this is going to be anything but throw away, you know, a throwaway experience, then it's pretty good. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty good. [00:20:27] Speaker B: It's not gonna win an Oscar, but it's way better than it should be. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And I like the, like, brother sister dynamic. Like, I like the Evie Jonathan dynamic in the Mummy. And they do a good job in the Jungle Cruise with, like, her and her brother. And I also, like. It wasn't a good nod, but the nod to the Explorers Club because they don't let women in because it's the 30s. Right. [00:20:46] Speaker B: See, I didn't catch that nod because it was pre. My interaction with the Explorers Club. [00:20:52] Speaker A: She's trying to basically join the Explorers Club. And they're like, you're a woman. And she has silly women. They keep rejecting her for being a woman. And then so she has her brother go in and try to read her thing. And they're like, we just know this is all just a sham. Like. Yeah, yeah, it's very good. [00:21:10] Speaker B: So your pick is the Jungle Cruise. [00:21:13] Speaker A: Jungle Cruise, yeah. And Poop on the Stick. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Man. What pics. [00:21:19] Speaker A: I know. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Mine is Wilderness Adventure and the Coolest History ever. And yours is. I want to see poop Sticks and live out this movie. This fake movie experience. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Yes. [00:21:36] Speaker B: With the rock. [00:21:38] Speaker A: I just respect. He produced that movie. He, like, turned that into something good. And I have lots of respect for that. [00:21:45] Speaker B: But you're not into the big jackda guys. [00:21:47] Speaker A: No, I'm really not. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Well. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Why are you with me? Wow. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Wow. I mean, my other idea, which I can't do now. Cause it's also too tribal, would be Indonesia for the Maneine Festival. But that's just. I feel like something's gonna happen. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Well, it's on your. [00:22:06] Speaker A: Yeah, we're gonna do it for Weird World, so I feel like I don't want to. [00:22:09] Speaker B: You already have contacts to get that episode. [00:22:11] Speaker A: If we sacrifice. If we pay for the goat to be sacrificed. This sounds awful. I'm an animal lover. This is just. That's just how the world works in some areas, Right? If you buy them the goat, then you get to be a part of the ceremony. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Can't we just. I mean, money's fungible, right? Can't we just be like, we'll buy you this table and then you can spend money that you are going to spend on a different thing on the goat. [00:22:38] Speaker A: That's what I'm gonna tell myself as that happens. [00:22:41] Speaker B: So you're gonna lie to yourself. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Right? [00:22:42] Speaker B: I'll make sure to point out that you're lying to yourself. [00:22:45] Speaker A: No, it's it's hard. It's a hard line sometimes to be a good anthropologist and respect other cultures. Like, I really don't like people having. [00:22:57] Speaker B: A whole talk on. [00:22:58] Speaker A: But I did. I did. Yes, I did give a whole talk on this. It's a great podcast episode. [00:23:03] Speaker B: Check out Mallory's adventures that you didn't talk about in the beginning. [00:23:09] Speaker A: I didn't. Well, I didn't. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Okay, well, it's on there, right? [00:23:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Okay. It's a good talk. [00:23:14] Speaker A: It is a good talk. It'll be pretty great. And. Yeah. So, I mean, it's one of those things where I'm like, you know, I just have to respect the process. And this is a really old, fascinating tradition that I want to be part of this ritual, so I'm just gonna go along for the ride. [00:23:36] Speaker B: The goat murder or the festival? [00:23:37] Speaker A: The festival. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Okay. [00:23:39] Speaker A: The goat part just kind of happens. It's very, like, old school. Early Destination Truth, when they would go to all these weird tribal places and be forced to, like, eat certain things that the chief gave them because they were there, and then everyone would get sick. [00:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker B: All right. But you're not picking that. [00:23:57] Speaker A: No, I'm not picking that. [00:23:58] Speaker B: You picked Jungle Cruise. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Jungle Cruise and Poop on a Stick. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Got it. [00:24:03] Speaker A: And you got the Outback and Rome. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Yes. Like I said, I would also see Florence and Venice and all the other places. [00:24:12] Speaker A: I almost meant to Milan one time. [00:24:16] Speaker B: What happened? [00:24:17] Speaker A: There was a train strike. I was in Cannes, and Milan is actually pretty close to Cannes. It's like the south of France. Really hits the side of Italy there. And I was going to go on our day off, and it was already questionable because I'm like, man, I have a single day off and it's been torture. Do I really, like, go at five in the morning to Italy to come back at, like, three in the morning the next day? Right. So I was like, debatable if I was going to go through with it. And then there was a train strike. So I was like, well, I guess I'm not going. [00:24:47] Speaker B: Decision was made for you. [00:24:50] Speaker A: Yep. [00:24:51] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah. What's yours? [00:24:52] Speaker B: Well, I told you, the next one. [00:24:54] Speaker A: I know. Antarctica. [00:24:55] Speaker B: I blew the lead. [00:24:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:56] Speaker B: Antarctica. [00:24:57] Speaker A: That's. I mean, that's a really solid choice. [00:25:00] Speaker B: I mean, just so few people get to step foot on Antarctica. That's been on my list for a long time, since I was a young kid. It's so hard to get to. It's so remote. [00:25:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I think Arthur did one of those. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Really? [00:25:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:12] Speaker B: You're just in such a Small subset of people who have seen it. There's very little like it. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah. On Earth, there's a lot of penguins. [00:25:22] Speaker B: See, that's the selling point for you. Penguins aren't a selling point. I mean, not that I dislike them, but they're just not. Yeah, there's. Okay, there's penguins. [00:25:29] Speaker A: Those are the big penguins. [00:25:31] Speaker B: I always thought in my like, you know, fantasy work environment, like, man, what if I, you know, got my degree and then went on an Antarctic expedition and was just like the doctor for the expedition with the expectation of kind of not having to do that much. Right. Like, hopefully we're all kind of healthy and nothing bad's gonna happen and I'll just chill out here. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Well, you join the right club. [00:25:55] Speaker B: You guys do like, do some stuff out here and I'll just chill here. Unless there's an emergency. And hopefully there's not gonna be an emergency. And then I'm just gonna bring my PlayStation and be, you know, not a guilt free time to play my games. I'm sure this is nothing like what it's like actually going on this. But in my head, this is the expedition. Nothing goes wrong. I don't have to do any emergency procedures in Antarctica. Everyone's just healthy and fine, doing their thing, and I'm just there playing video games guilt free. Because what else am I gonna do? I'm in Antarctica, you know, I can't. Can't do a whole lot else. Don't have to make up excuses to not go to social events. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Although you will have to deal with the polar nights and midnight suns. [00:26:37] Speaker B: But you're gonna be like underground. Yeah. Like in ground, like indoors. You're not just camping outside? [00:26:45] Speaker A: Well, no, but I mean, you're gonna step out at some point. [00:26:47] Speaker B: Oh, I wan. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah, but I, you know, and you're gonna have to do all your doctor work on the boat heading into Antarctica when everyone's sick. [00:26:56] Speaker B: That's fine. [00:26:57] Speaker A: You don't get really that motion sick? [00:26:59] Speaker B: I don't really get that motion sick. I mean, if it's very bad, sure. But you just bring a bunch of like scopolamine, the patches and stuff. [00:27:06] Speaker A: That's true. [00:27:07] Speaker B: There's like legit anti nausea drugs that. Not over the counter stuff. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I legitimately think I would be down and out the entire boat ride. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Well, I hear it's a pretty long boat ride. [00:27:19] Speaker A: That's why I'm afraid to do it because I really hate being. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Well, you're gonna be shit out of luck because I'm not going alone. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Oh, I know. Oh, I do it with the addendum of I might be incapacitated for a month. [00:27:32] Speaker B: Well, I'm also not gonna be the expedition doctor on this, so good luck. I'm just gonna have to find someone else. Yeah, I'm just going for funsies. [00:27:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. See, I want to say Greece now because I really, really, really have always wanted to go to Greece, but I'm torn between Greece and Japan. And Japan is really because. Studio Ghibli Museum. I'm gonna go with Japan because I have to go to the Studio Ghibli Museum and park. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:04] Speaker A: I mean, the giant Totoro ticket master like that. Just. Just everything that's right with the world. [00:28:10] Speaker B: I just like the idea that the reason you want to go to this famous island nation with a magnificently robust history and samurai culture and all these things is for the modern Studio Ghibli amusement park. [00:28:27] Speaker A: With Totoro. [00:28:28] Speaker B: With Totoro. [00:28:29] Speaker A: Totoro is a selling point always. [00:28:31] Speaker B: So you want to go to Japan to see Totoro? [00:28:33] Speaker A: Yes. Okay. [00:28:34] Speaker B: You know, he's not real. There's not actually. [00:28:38] Speaker A: A child. We're not breaking my spirit today. [00:28:40] Speaker B: There's not a car bus. There's not a car bus. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Cat bus. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Car bus. There's not a cat bus. [00:28:44] Speaker A: There's not a cat bus. I don't believe in this at all. [00:28:48] Speaker B: It's not gonna be an actual cat. [00:28:49] Speaker A: Well, there is a cat bus. You can get inside. [00:28:52] Speaker B: It's fake. [00:28:52] Speaker A: Well, that's. [00:28:53] Speaker B: It's just a bus painted like a cat. [00:28:55] Speaker A: Don't ruin my fantasy here. [00:28:56] Speaker B: It's not gonna be an actual cat. You're not gonna get up inside a cat. [00:29:01] Speaker A: It's a little weird. It's a little weird. Think about it. I also want to go to that. I'm forgetting what it's called now, but the town with all the dolls. [00:29:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I know. I don't remember. [00:29:15] Speaker A: It's like a very small village, and there was an artist that lived there that left. Like, loved her childhood there and left, and then she came back, and a lot of the people that she knew there had either, like, passed away or people were just moving out of the village because it's so small. There's nothing going on. So for every person that lived in the village that she remembered, she created a doll for them. [00:29:37] Speaker B: That's cool. [00:29:37] Speaker A: So now everybody in that village has a doll. [00:29:41] Speaker B: It's like a stuff mostly in an abandoned village. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Mostly. [00:29:44] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:45] Speaker A: It's now kind of a tourist attraction because it's really cool. But there's not much going on there, so it's mostly. Some people live there. Just a few people live there. [00:29:54] Speaker B: The artist is just like, I'm just waiting for you to die. To replace you with a doll. [00:29:58] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. Or to move out. You can also move out. That's fine. She replaces you with a doll. [00:30:02] Speaker B: Okay. [00:30:03] Speaker A: So, I mean, that's just really cool. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Well, they have also at least one village, if not a few, that are set up to look like they would have during, like, the height of samurai culture. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Definitely got to do that. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Also Kyoto. Kyoto looks beautiful. [00:30:23] Speaker B: You know, ironically, I've never been to mainland Japan because we lived in Okinawa. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:29] Speaker B: And I'm sure I went to. I'm sure we, like, stopped at the airport, but I never left the airport to see mainland Japan because we were. My parents had already lived in Japan before I was born, so they didn't have a huge need to see more of mainland Japan at the time. And Okinawa is very much similar now. A similar culture. They used to be distinct cultures until Japan took it over. But they have a lot in common. And we just instead went, when we left Okinawa, would go to Korea or Guam or Singapore or Thailand. Different places. [00:31:04] Speaker A: You've been all over Asia. [00:31:05] Speaker B: I know. I've been all over Asia. Japan, though, is a good choice and probably would have been on my three list if I hadn't already lived there. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:14] Speaker B: But it's on our episode list. [00:31:15] Speaker A: It is. [00:31:16] Speaker B: I want to go there in search of the legendary Hanso Masamune while I. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Hang out with Totoro. [00:31:24] Speaker B: So we're both kind of going there to live out childhood fantasies, right? [00:31:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:27] Speaker B: The Masamune is just always a legendary video game sword item. Yeah, it's always, like, one of the end game items. The Mass Immune, which apparently was an actual sword, doesn't have any special powers, obviously, but there was a guy who. I think he was named Hanjo Massimune. [00:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:45] Speaker B: One of the great blacksmiths from the samurai era. And I believe there are ledgers showing the sword being, like, sold. [00:31:54] Speaker A: That's really cool. [00:31:55] Speaker B: You know, across cultures and then just lost. [00:31:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:58] Speaker B: To time. So, yeah. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Really cool. [00:32:01] Speaker B: I want to do that. You want to go to Studio Ghibli Park. So we want to go to Japan to live out childhood fantasies. [00:32:07] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely it is. Because, you know, I've only been to Asia for a grand total of, I think, three weeks, and 99% of that was in Cambodia. And I had a layover in Shanghai where I went to Disneyland. [00:32:23] Speaker B: It's funny that you went to Shanghai, Disneyland during a layover. [00:32:27] Speaker A: I legitimately, you know, I think I had. I think I was just SOL and my layover was going to be 16 hours and it was like, well, I'm not gonna be in the airport for 16 hours and you can actually get a 24 hour visa. There's like a very set stipulation of rules that you have to follow to be released into Shanghai on a 24 hour visa. And you don't have to, like, plan, you just have to know what to do. So I had to have like my checklist on. Okay, this is what I need to do. And you have to go in the right line and go through and I got my 24 hour visa. [00:32:58] Speaker B: You should write a little article about how to do that. [00:33:00] Speaker A: That's a good idea. Yeah, definitely. That's a good call. [00:33:02] Speaker B: I'm sure I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have known that. [00:33:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. I did a lot of research because I was like, well, I'm doing this and then, you know, you just get a car and drive to Disney. I was at Disney for which side. [00:33:15] Speaker B: Of the road do they drive on? [00:33:17] Speaker A: Our side, I think. [00:33:18] Speaker B: Is it. I'm pretty sure Japan's opposite. [00:33:20] Speaker A: I think it's just Japan over there. I'm pretty sure. I mean, I wasn't exactly paying attention, but I think I would have noted if we were on the opposite side of the road. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. [00:33:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And that was an experience. [00:33:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I bet we've probably talked about this in the podcast recently. Yeah, recently. But the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is the greatest ride in Shanghai Disney. In any Disney park at all. That pirates ride, it goes backwards. [00:33:52] Speaker B: So you just want to go places where there's rides? [00:33:55] Speaker A: No, I'm not really that big of a ride person. For sure. [00:33:58] Speaker B: You want to live out Jungle Cruise. [00:34:01] Speaker A: Okay, that's fair. [00:34:01] Speaker B: I love Disney based on a ride. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Okay. [00:34:04] Speaker B: You want to go to Studio Ghibli Amusement park, where I'm sure there's rides. Yeah. There's a Totoro ride. [00:34:09] Speaker A: Okay. The poop on a stick, though, is just not right. [00:34:12] Speaker B: That's just good old fun. [00:34:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Old fashioned fun, Right. I would love to ride horses again. [00:34:18] Speaker B: Well, you can just do that anywhere, right? [00:34:21] Speaker A: Yes. Shenandoah. [00:34:23] Speaker B: Yeah, they're all over the place. [00:34:24] Speaker A: We gotta do that. I miss my horses. [00:34:25] Speaker B: We're in horse country. [00:34:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:34:30] Speaker B: See, I am so uncomfortable on horse. I, you know, I've been. [00:34:34] Speaker A: You have control issues. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I've Ridden horses. But I have no experience being like trained to ride horses. Growing up, that was not something I. I know you did. So the times I've gone, I just get there and ask. I need your oldest, slowest horse. I'm looking for something that is akin to a recliner, that moves for me, that walks for me, that just knows where it's going. Because I'm gonna have. When I get on this thing, I'm gonna have no idea how to maneuver this animal. [00:35:05] Speaker A: I just don't like that they have personalities. [00:35:06] Speaker B: I don't. Yeah, no. [00:35:08] Speaker A: The horse I used to ride as a kid, her name was Lucy. [00:35:10] Speaker B: They're very. They feel unsteady from where I'm sitting. I know they're steady, but they have four legs. I know, but from where I'm. One side goes up and the other side goes up and there's. You're shockingly high when you're up there. It feels so high. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:26] Speaker B: Up. And it's just this jittery dinosaur animal that. You're right. I just. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Dinosaur animal. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Not my. I don't think. I don't need that thing going faster than a snail's pace. [00:35:40] Speaker A: The horse that I was trained to ride on, Lucy, was just so stubborn. And you did like, part of the training is like, you gotta get it to listen to you. And sometimes they don't want to. [00:35:51] Speaker B: My first one as an adult, I never read one as a kid was Thunder, which was ironically named because that's. [00:35:59] Speaker A: Autumn's favorite name now. [00:36:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. That's funny because that thing moved. I mean, as slow as. [00:36:10] Speaker A: So you're the jerk holding up all the other horses behind. [00:36:12] Speaker B: I was in the back. I stayed in the back. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Did they leave you behind? [00:36:16] Speaker B: Maybe it wasn't all the way in the back, but no, I did nothing. It was. They were. It was a slow moving tour through Shenandoah. I went through like the. And I guess I was back, middle to back of the pack, but I was like, I don't know how to do any. Like, I will have no control over this animal once I'm on this thing. [00:36:34] Speaker A: So do what's pretty easy just to steer. Okay. [00:36:38] Speaker B: I didn't even want that. I didn't even want that responsibility. They're like, you just like, you know, they're. You know, you just edge in with your foot a little bit here and you pull there. I'm like, nope, nope. It needs to know where it's going. I'm not going to have any ability to deal with this on a Tour. I was also. I felt under pressure because, you know, there's, like, 10 other people. I'm not going to be responsible for ruining everyone else's time. I'm fine with my time being wasted by myself and my own incompetence, but I don't like wasting other people's time. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Well, they do also. When you do something like that, they have a planned order of which horse is where for various reasons. [00:37:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Thunder. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Knew where he was going and slowly followed the horse in front of him. And I did nothing. I literally did nothing. [00:37:21] Speaker A: They'll put, like, the slow horses in the middle to keep the horses from. Get, like, some of them going, too. If they know a horse is going to go too fast, they'll put a slow horse in front of it so it can't really go around. [00:37:31] Speaker B: So I was a blocker. [00:37:32] Speaker A: You were a blocker. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Thunder was the blocker. I'm just here for the ride. [00:37:37] Speaker A: It is. I'll say I rode. I rode a horse in Kaukoslauten in Finland, in the Arctic. And it was a little like, I'm not afraid of horses. I've always ridden horses, and I love it. But, like, they would flip a few times because you're on the ice, and you would feel it and be like, I don't even know. That horse just fell down in the snow. [00:37:59] Speaker B: Yeah. No, thank you. [00:38:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, one more thing about horses, I have to. I have to tell the story. When I was learning to gallop, so. So you. You start just walking, which is what you're gonna do on those tours. [00:38:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Then you start to try. [00:38:12] Speaker B: I'm good with. I'm good. Beginning and ending at walking. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Trotting is where the horse is kind of, like, going kind of slow. It's like the pretty. [00:38:19] Speaker B: Probably. I've probably done that. [00:38:20] Speaker A: And you have to kind of go up and down with the horse. Like, you have a motion. You do, so it's not like hurting you while you're on the horse. So there's trotting, and then. So you kind of go through that, and then cantering is like the in between. Between, like, the trot and the run. It's like when they're developing a little bit of speed, and then you gallop is the full stride. Full stride. And they. They had us gallop in this. It was like a pin, but it was a huge space, and there were trees, and that was probably one of the few times I feel like I just lost control of this animal. And my life is in this horse's hands because it's diving in and out of trees really fast. Just went, yeah. And I mean, what do you do? Right? So I just. And you kind of like assume the position. Position and lean forward and hold on. And I'm like, okay, well, if this horse hits a tree, I'm dead. So. [00:39:07] Speaker B: See, I don't need. I don't need that in my life at all. I don't even like giving up control to other human beings. I don't need it given up to this monster animal. [00:39:18] Speaker A: It was a little intimidating, just like weaving in and out of the trees. That was one of the few times I'm like, oh, oh my God, what have I gotten myself into? [00:39:24] Speaker B: Yeah, no thanks. [00:39:25] Speaker A: Yeah, but there was a while, you know, I wanted to have a horse farm. [00:39:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:30] Speaker A: I loved horses. [00:39:31] Speaker B: It seems like a lot of work. [00:39:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. You'd have to have like workers to work in the horses. [00:39:37] Speaker B: You'd have to be an actual farm. [00:39:39] Speaker A: Yes. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Right. Or you'd have to be. You'd have to be doing something with the horses, like running a. Learn to ride horses. [00:39:47] Speaker A: I mean, that's the easiest thing I would think to do is like, you have a stables, you have stable hands and you're teaching people or having someone there teach people how to ride horses. But you also kind of get some free labor in that because kind of like the deal with taking care of horses is learning how to take care of horses. So if you're going to learn how to ride, you have to be responsible for getting the horse ready and then cleaning it off afterwards and brushing it and doing the whole thing. Brushing. [00:40:13] Speaker B: I like that. [00:40:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fun. So it's kind of part of the experience. So you kind of like the people that are coming to ride kind of do that for you. [00:40:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. It's a good scam. [00:40:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Although not so much in the places where you just kind of pay to like go in a circle. [00:40:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Like your Shenandoah experience. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that was my kind of horse riding. Just a bride, just a semi alive ride. [00:40:37] Speaker A: I used to have my own helmet and everything and crop the riding crop. I know. Fancy. I was an English style rider. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Oh. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Do you know what the difference is? I want to hear your guesstimate about the differences. [00:40:57] Speaker B: All right. I feel like I at one point in my life did know the difference between this. What's the other style? [00:41:02] Speaker A: Western. [00:41:02] Speaker B: Western. Okay. Does it have to do with the. [00:41:06] Speaker A: Saddle part of it? [00:41:07] Speaker B: Okay. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:09] Speaker B: Well, first of all, we're not talking about like side Saddle. Woman riding style. What is that called? [00:41:15] Speaker A: Side saddle. [00:41:16] Speaker B: Is that side saddle? Okay, that seems like that was back. [00:41:19] Speaker A: When women just didn't have rights and wore dresses and couldn't straddle a horse because they. [00:41:23] Speaker B: Oh, that's why. That's why. Oh, wow. That's really funny. [00:41:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:26] Speaker B: It seems like a terrible way to ride a horse. [00:41:29] Speaker A: Right. It doesn't seem sturdy. You would hold on to a man. That's what you would do. Someone else would shadow the horse, and you hold on to them. I know. [00:41:36] Speaker B: Okay. [00:41:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:38] Speaker B: Okay. All right. So it has. Oh, man. I know. It has something to do with the. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Saddle is a part of it. [00:41:45] Speaker B: Saddle. And what's the novel saddle called? [00:41:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:41:49] Speaker B: The horn, the horn, and the reins. [00:41:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:51] Speaker B: I don't know what the difference is. [00:41:52] Speaker A: The Western has the little saddle horn. [00:41:54] Speaker B: Okay. [00:41:55] Speaker A: And the English doesn't. [00:41:56] Speaker B: Okay. [00:41:56] Speaker A: And because so in Western, it's way less. It's like there's no rules. The English are all about rules. There's so many. There's rules for everything. Western is kind of like a free for all. There's way less rules. And you use one hand to hold onto the horn, and then you keep the reins in a single hand and kind of maneuver the horse with one hand. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:15] Speaker A: With the English, you kind of like hold both the reins and there's. There is no horn. [00:42:20] Speaker B: I think I've done both ways then. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Yeah. You hold the reins and then you have a riding crop. So you kind of like. You kind of like use it to. It doesn't hurt the horse. I mean, the horses have thick hides. You're just kind of like, not. It's like knocking it to say, hurry up, hurry up. And there's different. Like, the horses learn. There's different, like, taps and maneuvers you do to get them to move into the different positions, like trotting and canter. It's way more structured. [00:42:45] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure I've done both Western and English style then. And I've never used a crop on a horse. [00:42:55] Speaker A: Wow. I feel so called out right now. Wow. But yeah, I could ride horses all day. [00:43:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:05] Speaker B: 30 minutes to an hour is good for me. [00:43:07] Speaker A: Throw in some horseback riding in Greece and then we're all set here. [00:43:10] Speaker B: I don't know if we need to do that. [00:43:11] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. [00:43:12] Speaker B: I don't know about that. [00:43:14] Speaker A: Or we could do out west, just full free for all western horse ride. You love westerns. [00:43:19] Speaker B: I know. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Okay. [00:43:22] Speaker B: I'm open to it. I just don't love. I've done it A few times. And it's not like I got up there and immediately regretted it, but the whole time just like, I'm not gonna have any control over this thing. [00:43:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you get. [00:43:36] Speaker B: I guess if I knew what I was doing, I would feel better about it. [00:43:39] Speaker A: I mean, it's really just like steering a horse with the reins. [00:43:44] Speaker B: For those of you listening, she's doing a rein steering motion. [00:43:49] Speaker A: I mean, it just looks like driving all day. [00:43:51] Speaker B: That told me nothing because they have. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Like a little bar in their mouth and you're just pulling on the reins, which pulls the bar. [00:44:00] Speaker B: And you know what they do in that bar when they're doing the, like, gnaw thing? What's that called? [00:44:04] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:44:04] Speaker B: What's the saying? [00:44:05] Speaker A: What is it the horse saying? What's the saying? I don't know. [00:44:08] Speaker B: We just talked about it. [00:44:09] Speaker A: Oh, chomping at the bit. [00:44:10] Speaker B: But it's champing. [00:44:12] Speaker A: It's champing. [00:44:12] Speaker B: It actually is champing. Yes. [00:44:14] Speaker A: Was that on Larry David? [00:44:16] Speaker B: It was recently on there. [00:44:17] Speaker A: It was in Caribbean. [00:44:18] Speaker B: But it's a common. I mean, it's a common one, but it is actually champing. [00:44:21] Speaker A: Champing at the bit. [00:44:23] Speaker B: And the champing is specifically the, like, gnawing they do at the back. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Okay. [00:44:29] Speaker B: How about that knowledge drop for the non horse rider? [00:44:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't know that one. Well, yeah, I guess that was fun. We kind of did our whole little tour around the world there. Of all the places to go. So you have Antarctica, the outback, and Rome. Rome, right. The Roman Empire. [00:44:48] Speaker B: Of course. I think about it. I'm not even joking. I know. It was a meme. You know how often I would say I think about Rome? At least for a few, you know, 32nd period. [00:45:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:02] Speaker B: Every other. To every third day. [00:45:05] Speaker A: That's crazy. I don't. [00:45:07] Speaker B: It's relevant. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Just. [00:45:08] Speaker B: It's always relevant to something. [00:45:10] Speaker A: Is it? [00:45:11] Speaker B: Yeah. In the same way, more modernly, Seinfeld is relevant to things. Seinfeld, I would say I reference almost every day or think about every day. [00:45:19] Speaker A: It stresses me out so much. [00:45:21] Speaker B: It's just relevant. Always Ancient Rome, always relevant. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Okay. All right. Come on. [00:45:26] Speaker B: Who doesn't. What guy doesn't have a fantasy about being like gladiators? I don't know. The gladiators were slaves. I don't want none of that. They're to die. A Roman centurion leading army of legionnaires. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Right. All right. Yeah, Yeah, I can see that. [00:45:44] Speaker B: And I got the giant tower shields and the short swords. [00:45:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:47] Speaker B: Carried. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it. [00:45:49] Speaker B: It's very innovative warfare techniques. Obviously they beat everybody for a long time. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Right? Damn it. I forgot my main one that I have been. I see. I knew you just went through three. [00:46:02] Speaker B: And didn't pick your actual one. [00:46:03] Speaker A: I didn't pick my actual one. How? [00:46:04] Speaker B: You don't get a bonus. [00:46:05] Speaker A: I don't get a bonus. You know, I'm so disappointed in myself. This is like. [00:46:09] Speaker B: We all are. [00:46:10] Speaker A: I'm like, there's a place that is number one on my list that I'm just totally blanking on right now. And it's gonna come later. And I could not put it together. And you know. You know what it is, too. You know what it is. And I can't believe I spaced on it. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Don't you put the pressure on me like I'm supposed to. You didn't even know what it was. Apparently. [00:46:25] Speaker A: We even talked about it here just now. Kind of. Kind of roundabout. [00:46:31] Speaker B: I don't know. What is it? [00:46:32] Speaker A: Egypt. [00:46:33] Speaker B: Is that your number one? [00:46:34] Speaker A: Yes. [00:46:34] Speaker B: I know it's on the list. [00:46:35] Speaker A: Oh, it's the top of the list. Is it? Yes. Because it's your whole outback about how the outback is so different. Egypt is just so different to anything I've ever done. [00:46:45] Speaker B: I'd love to see it. It just seems maybe a little dangerous right now. [00:46:48] Speaker A: You have to go the right way. You have to go through a guide. You have to get a credible guide agency and have someone with you the whole time. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Dangerous in a way. Not a wilderness. I don't mind the wilderness. Danger. It's dangerous from other human beings making it dangerous. [00:47:05] Speaker A: You have to know what you're doing. You have to look like you know what you're doing. That's the real thing. You can't look like a tourist. And you have to have someone with you that will, like, stop people from coming up to you. [00:47:14] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:47:15] Speaker A: But yeah. Damn. Damn. I missed that opportunity. We just talked about the mummy. [00:47:20] Speaker B: We're not doing it. I know. [00:47:22] Speaker A: Number one. I had this whole Egypt trip plan for Egypt, Jerusalem, which is definitely out right now. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah. That episode's taken a back seat for a while. [00:47:36] Speaker A: Petra. [00:47:37] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of very obviously very famous, historically significant things in that region. [00:47:44] Speaker A: Masada's like, my top. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyway, I missed that opportunity. I knew I was gonna drop the ball. I'm so bad at picking up. [00:47:51] Speaker B: We did not know your own number one on your bucket list. [00:47:54] Speaker A: I'm just tired. And I was sitting here like, I know that there's just a number one, and I'm like just not thinking of it and then I'm like, maybe it was Romania and I just like have crusted off. Nope, it was Egypt. [00:48:04] Speaker B: Good job. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Okay, on that note, thank you guys so much for tuning in today. 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