Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: Did we name this podcast?
[00:00:04] Speaker B: We called it Trips and Giggles.
[00:00:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's right. Because I was gonna say, welcome back to Trips and Giggles.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Okay.
So unfortunately, we were just talking for 15 minutes.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: I thought it was longer. I felt like we were, like, talking for an hour.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Not an hour.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah, like an hour.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: No way.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: Maybe two hours.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Definitely not deep.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: Intense. Deep in depth conversation.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Really funny, comedic stuff that now is just lost in the universe.
So we talked about hacking and capybaras.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: We'll get. Okay, hold on. I'm not gonna. We're not gonna use the episode to lament.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: The. The loss. We're gonna. We're gonna go back to where we were.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: Okay. So we're going back and we're recapping our second week in Northern Ireland.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: Right.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Okay. That's where we are.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: I feel like you started somewhere, though.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I was talking about how you wanted to go back to Maryland, but you didn't want to die there.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I don't want to die in Maryland. Yeah, I was saying that. And then I was saying it was kind of a dichotomy for me because I'm also the one that's like, I do want to go back because this is difficult. There's a lack of stability. Which you've also agreed to at the same time.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: And then simultaneously, I've been like, oh, I don't want to die there, so where do I want to be?
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I was saying, you know, I think that every place we go to, I'm, like, on real estate listings, and I'm looking at, you know, what's available and what would it be like to live here?
And I think that that just drives you insane.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Well, I think it's the timing factor. Right. Like, if you're going to be looking for your next partner, at least give it, like, a few days.
I can't remember where we moved into. It was one of the rentals in Seattle, But I feel like the moment we moved in that night, you were looking at real estate, which, again, these could just be an investment property. So I'll give you credit for that situation, but I feel like there is the level where you feel contentment in your living situation is rare.
Would you agree?
[00:02:16] Speaker B: Agreed. Yeah, I would say. I mean, I think our last house, I. I did actually love the house in many ways.
I didn't love the location. I didn't love our neighbor, who was very grumpy about how our neighbor is so. Grumpy.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Did we tell.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: I don't Think so.
No.
Yeah. Anyway, our neighbor was very grumpy. I. We could spend an entire episode talking about how we call him the angry neighbor, because he was basically angry for.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: The entire seven, as of, like, two and a half.
Referred to our neighbor as, like, angry neighbor.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, the angry neighbor.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: Like, she knew him as angry neighbor. Yeah, like, early words.
Why is he so angry?
[00:03:02] Speaker B: She even drew pictures of the angry neighbor.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: Drew pictures of the family, like, us holding hands, and then him in front of his house with his wife with an angry face. With his angry face that went on our fridge.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: It was awesome.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: This is amazing. Like, we must talk about this. Or it's either emotionally impacted us to some extent where she's feeling it and wants to draw and crayon his angry face.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: I think she actually drew his wife in the basement of a house with some bones, which was pretty morbid.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: That had to have come from you. Like, I am not talking. You're the one that's like, she's probably locked in the basement. He probably was locked in the basement, you know?
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Well, we just wouldn't see her for weeks at a time, so it was a little suspicious.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: It was sus.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: She might have just been hiding away. But you're right.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: We didn't see her for weeks at a time. I don't know that we want to. Like, we could go on a tangent and talk about this. I don't know if we want to go into.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: No, I don't think so. It's fine.
We're gone. I didn't. I was basically just making the point that I liked our house. Like, I was content in our house, but I wasn't. I didn't like the location, and I didn't like the fact that we had an angry neighbor.
But if we could have picked that house up and moved it somewhere else, I think I would have been semi content with that. Except for the fact that towards the end, we kind of realized that, you know, it needed a lot of work, and we didn't want to put the time and energy and effort and money into it.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Well, we were spending a fortune on trees that were falling on the house. And we had a complete heating system that died.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Which we had to replace.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: And then we had a sewer issue. And it kind of goes on and on. I think our house, which I did love, honestly, we also outgrew it for our current situation.
So being kind of the digital nomad family, which, you know, happens to some people, we didn't have an outside office, and therefore we were attempting to have Our bedroom, A bedroom for each kid and then two offices, which is basically a five bedroom place. And we did not have that. And the basement was musty and. Or had some kind of mold because our oldest had nosebleeds for like two months.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: And they completely stopped.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: I mean I will say like we brought in a mold that like a mold remediation time after we had like a little bit of a flood.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: And they, they, you know, checked all the walls and like they did a.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: Full on test when they did the whole thing. I mean they did multiple testing in the basement. There was still something wrong.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: Well, it could have been the radon.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: It could have been the radon. We had the radon mitigation at the end. In case you want to know about radon mitigation. We can go into that whole situation.
Probably the least attractive thing you need to do with your house when you run PVC pipe up, you know, from the basement and just stick it out into a fan that's blowing on the side of your house.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: I'm sure some like people in new houses do something different than that. Terrible system.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, I'm not sure people want to hear about our old house, quite frankly.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: This old house.
Bob Vila, you ever watch that show? My parents love that show.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: I think I knew of it, but.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: I didn't watch it relentlessly watching Bob Vila.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: I could see your parents watching it.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: Makes everything look easy. It drives me up a damn wall like that and HGTV where they're just like, I did my remodel for $5,000 because I did all this myself.
You know, listen, I'm not handy, okay? But I got a little bit into doing things when I was trying to make some cables and stuff for audio. And the amount of times I effed that up before it actually got good was like, I don't even know how many times. Which is normal. Right. It's like you're weaving or you're crocheting or like any of those woodworking situations. You suck before you're good.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: So do you really have the time to suck that long if you're redoing a room in your house?
[00:06:57] Speaker B: Yeah. I actually saw a TikTok. It was funny where the woman tried to replicate an easy do it yourself kind of home project.
And they were like, oh, you could get it done in one day. And then she was like three weeks later. And then she's showing all the mistakes and I'm like, thank you for at least like demonstrating how difficult this actually is.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: I Appreciate that. I was supposed to meet your aunt and uncle for a dinner one of the times you went to your mom's house. And I also decided on that day, I was going to install a ceiling speaker. I had to call them and cancel because, like, there were pieces of ceiling all over the basement. And I was like, I'm not gonna make it, because if they come back, they're just gonna see pieces of ceiling all over the floor.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: Like, I.
I drilled the wrong hole. I cut into the duct system. I had to repair the duct system and then repair the ceiling.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: That was multiple trips to Home Depot to cut an 8 inch hole in the ceiling. What a shit show. So I'm glad that the show actually showed something. We're off on some other tangent, so I need to go backwards. I want to come back to your real estate thing, but I do want to talk about the aggressiveness of street crossing.
So we're in Mexico and there were no stop signs. Right. We talked about this. No lights, no suns.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: We did talk about this. And people do stop for you, but.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: The eye contact, they actually. Like, they looked at you.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: First of all, I'm looking at the wrong side of the car. That's causing a problem. So I'm staring at a passenger who give two shits about this old bald guy on the side of the road being like, hey, will you stop?
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: Now I'm staring at just overweight white dudes, which is basically like everybody. And they don't stare back at me. So they're just driving, avoiding eye contact. And then finally, somebody stops. They just look angry. They're pissed off.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: They.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: They take their one finger and they just swing it across the steering wheel like they're like.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Like Captain Hook.
Damon's making an aggressive, angry face with him and now moving his little finger around like a hook.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Is that not a good hook reference?
[00:09:05] Speaker B: It is a good.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: I'm so back and forth.
Smee.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: Smee.
Oh, there you are. Peter.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: That's.
You know when you're with somebody for a long time and you have movie references, but they're not like main movie references, you know, they're not like, I'm walking here. Like, they're random references. Oh, there you are. Peter is one of our two.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: I know.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: We say it all the time, relentlessly, and it's just such a random piece where they're smushing Robin Williams face around.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: I know.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: That's just odd as shit. Anyway. I just feel like they're so angry at you.
And earlier, which you.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: How Dare you cross the road.
[00:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah. What are you doing? Like, why are you taking on my speech? I just. I don't know. For some reason I thought that, like, pedestrian traffic was more accepted here.
No, no, but, like, I was trying to explain this. I don't know. I think I was telling one of our friends this, but, like, usually there's just like a wave. Like, it's like, it's like, you know, come on. Like, just like, come on through. But I mean, it's aggressive, it's quick, and it's like.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: I think they just do that to you because I feel like I've had people stop and wave me across.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: No one's waving at me. They're just.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: They're like, oh, hey, go across. Very smiley and happy. So I must just like, you know.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: I mean, I'd be smiling happy if you walked in front of my car.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Oh, God.
Telling you that story about, oh, dude.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: We'Re not gonna get. Yeah, do it. Go do it, do it. We're just not gonna get to this. Let's just blow this to pieces. Well, I was listening to this show to learn about Northern Ireland, and these people just talked about random shit.
I don't even understand.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: This is.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: This is random ass shit. They were talking about their house and Bob fucking B. Law. Like, what is this shit? I have no connection to this hook.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: I know you were trying. You were trying to be so organized.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Multiple times I've, like, sat down. Like, let's talk about these things.
Where are we?
[00:11:09] Speaker B: Okay, I'm gonna tell the story. Okay. So the other day, I was walking. I was pushing the stroller for our little one because now we've gotten to this habit where she only falls asleep if we're pushing her in the stroller at night. But she is going to sleep after.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: How long we've walked. I've walked more miles than I think I've done in any of our. Even Portugal. I am, like, plowing through like six to eight miles a day. Like, I'm exhausted and thirsty.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I. Yeah, it's love. But it's a really nice walk. It is a beautiful, gorgeous.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: And the sunsets are out of control.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Yeah. So anyway, I'm walking. It's probably now 10 o' clock at night, the one day and it's. It's getting darker.
And Damon will maybe expand on this, but there are these, like, teenage guys that just drive in circles around the town.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Support Rush is like. How would you describe it? You can do like a loop of Port Rush. Right. So there's a couple of different routes, but I see it as like a triangle.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: Because it's a peninsula. So you can kind of follow this triangle. Peninsula which comes to a head at the amusement park which is like across from where our house is basically.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: Right.
So there's these like teenage boys that drive their souped up cars around and one of them like comes to a stop. There is a pedestrian crossing at one point and these two like teenage girls in their like very high short skirts and like crop tops. Crop tops?
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Is that what they're calling them now?
[00:12:41] Speaker B: I don't know. That's what they're calling tube top.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: They're wearing jellies.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. They just. And they're like two friends and they're just like sort of huddled together but crossing the road, but like sort of prancing across the road.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Like prancing like antelope.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Like kind of laug kind of looking at the car, kind of prancing.
And then they like go across the road and the one girl just sort of like looks back with this like little grin on her face. And the guys in the car had like waved them across, you know, as.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: We'Re talking about aggressive waving.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: No, no, they were very happy to wave them across. And then they honked the horn and the one girl goes, do you know them?
And the other was like, no, I don't know them. And then they like.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: Was it with a northern Irish accent?
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that was my valley girl, but.
And then there they sort of like giggled together and then like pranced away and I was like, oh God, teenagers. And then I was like, okay, I asked you this, this driving around because you and our other friends, male friends, talked about how as teenagers you would drive around in circles in your car hours. You even talked about this when we were in college. And I'm just so glad that I didn't know you at that time. But what?
Why? I mean like you're not picking anyone. It's not like they were like, hey girls, get in the back of the car, let's go hang out. There's honking at them, laughing and then driving away. But like in a flirty way.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they had a moment. What if they were in each other later at the tilt a whirl, you know, grab some funnel cake. Hey girl. Or when I beep at you, what's the point? I got you some funnel cake.
Wanna go on the long flume?
[00:14:38] Speaker B: I mean, what is the absence?
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Okay, so I will say that. Well Let me go to this. Like, it is pretty exceptional in this town on the weekends. And I was actually saying that some of the real estate you've been fawning over is in an area where there's just a bunch of people in a parking lot with tricked out cars.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: There is a big parking lot.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: A lot of BMW is a lot of just, you know, kind of. It looks very similar to the Fast and the Furious kind of situation, but with less money and clearly less of your favorite actor ever, Paul Walker.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Oh, God. I mean, I.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: He's dead.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: I'm sorry, he's dead.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: He was driving a buck 35 and a Porsche.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: Absolute worst accident.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: He was not the worst. We can go to the worst. There's. There's worse than Paul Walker. Okay, okay.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: So nepotism at its finest.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Who's his dad then? Why are you saying nepotism?
[00:15:31] Speaker B: I'm just. He had to. He had to have gotten a job because of nepotism. He was that bad.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: I feel like we gotta look this up.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Well, yeah, okay, keep telling yourself.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: Continue this. So clearly there's a piece where you drive around in your car, and for some people, they're revving engines.
Not a lot of, like, playing music, but trying to acquire the attention of whoever is out there. So I would see it as this. Did you never in your life was there no point where someone tried to impress you?
Like, no one ever did anything to attempt to impress you?
[00:16:12] Speaker B: I don't know, maybe. But I guess, like, that stuff didn't impress me, it just sort of, like, annoyed me.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: You said that don't impress me much.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: That don't impress me.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: But that's kind of the idea. The idea was like this some kind of weird.
I don't even know what it was like. I'm sure there's levels of insecurity and you can hide that behind the fact of saying, oh, well, I have. This is impressive. And I think this is impressive impresses you. Listen, I've never met anyone that was like, oh, you have a cool car. I don't know. I've never had, like a Lamborghini or something. So I don't know. But usually I think what that's more indicative of is, like, wealth. And wealth is security. But in this case, you're still 17 years old. You got nothing. Okay, you're not Mark Zuckerberg or something. Like, you are not ready to blow the world open with your ideas. So what is it about? I think it's gaining attention with the fact. But, yeah. Did I do that? Of course I did that.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, you talked about how we went to this very small Christian college. Oh, God. And it literally had a circle around the campus.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Campus loops.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: And you said that you would drive your purple car.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: It was burgundy.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: Burgundy.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: And it was a 3000 GT. It was a Mitsubishi 3000 GT. Okay, let's be super clear at a beige exterior.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Well, like your seat leaned back.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: Well, it was comfortable.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: And you would sort of like with your arms or like draped over the steering wheel. Yeah.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: You'd slightly drape your arm. Like your wrist is resting on the.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Top and you're just like one arm's at the.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: On the, on the outside of the window. Know you're just holding onto the door.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Frame and you would blast music because you had big speaker system, of course.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: I mean, this is an ongoing theme with me.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: And I was just like, I probably would have vomited in my mouth. If I had met you at that time, I would have been like, ew.
Ew. Like what? Ew. Who is that?
[00:18:14] Speaker A: You like my playlist, though? It's a good playlist.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: No, no, I would have been like, what is. What is he doing?
[00:18:23] Speaker A: Like my playlists.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: I mean, I do like your playlist. You are good with music. That's.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: You like the wedding stuff, you're good with music. But finally there's something that you want to stay together with me for.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: I found the, like, let's drive around and hey, everyone, look at me. Look at me in my 3000 burgundy GT. Whatever.
I loved that car.
[00:18:44] Speaker A: It was great.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: I mean, I'm sure it was a very nice couple car.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: I don't know. It was a very nice car. I enjoyed it at the time. I would never do anything again cuz my back could never handle it. But like, I enjoyed the car.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: Did it. But I told you this earlier. Did I ever randomly pick up somebody in this car? No. There was never a single moment where I pulled over, like, honked at someone and they went, get in. That never happened.
It never happened.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: You know, I mean, really, like, I'm glad it didn't because that is kind of creepy too.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: You have to pick somebody up in their car.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: Yeah, just randomly pick somebody up.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: Maybe there. Okay. You can't yuck somebody else's. Yum. Maybe there are people out there that are very attracted to people who drive around in their car with loud music and loud engines and are just driving around.
They beep out on the crosswalk and they go, tee hee. And they hop in the passenger seat and. And guess what? They're still together today.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: I mean, I'm sure there's a person out there that, that's a story.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: I'm just saying it's possible.
So let's go back to real estate.
So at this point.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: How many of the buildings in this town have you purchased in your mind, would you say?
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Well, like I mentioned earlier, that got deleted, I think.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Yeah, that was deleted. I'm. I'm trying to bring it back.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: I know. Yeah.
I think that there, there's two different veins in my mind. One is like, oh, if I just had like throw away money and I was going to buy a vacation home here.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: I would say there's at least like one there that. The Strand that you mentioned earlier, there's these like big giant four story Victorian townhomes that are just like gorgeous and they have awesome view. And if I could like buy one of these ones that are, you know, they are, they need to be renovated, but they could be brought to life and be gorgeous.
That I think I would love. That being said, for your personal use. For my personal.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: You would have a four story, all stairs, inaccessible building for your decrepit husband. And so he could just put an elevator in there.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: Definitely could.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: Oh yeah, you just drill a shaft down the center. What are we in Mexico?
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Hey, listen, one of them was made into a hotel and they have an elevator, so it's got, it can be done.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: Yeah. If you, I guess you rip the insides out completely, you probably could do that.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: That's fair.
I'm saying throw away money here. Okay. I'm not saying realistic.
[00:21:22] Speaker A: I completely missed this.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: I'm unrealistic. I'm not saying realistic. I'm just saying throw away.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Okay, fair. Gotcha.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: But I also have seen tons of different buildings around town and I have come up with lots of business ideas in my head of how I would buy this real estate and I would create such and such business or I would renovate this and I would sell the apartments or we would come become a landlord or like, I mean, I've come up with lots of ideas, all of which are totally outside of any realm of expertise that I have. But, you know, it's just a nice little like exercise to do in my mind.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: I feel like I, it's not like I don't do this. Like, I don't want to completely sit there and say, you know, you're off base. Like, I definitely thought about the idea of having wealth and doing things with it. You know, I think what I haven't done is like, you Know, creepily scope out an antique shop that I could possibly buy. Like, I don't think that I've done that before, you know.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Well, I just, you. I generally like to look at real estate pretty much everywhere that we go.
Or we'll be passing by something and I'm like, oh, that has a for sale sign on it. I wonder how much it's cost. I wonder what the inside looks like. And then I go and look it up because. Curious, you know, I'm just curious.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: So like again, like this is the depiction of whenever we move to multiple places. I got, I almost ended up getting three different certifications and school counselors in different states. And we would drive by a school and you'd be like, you can work there.
Oh look, you could work there.
Oh, you could work there. Like I could just walk in and go to the principal like, hey, give me your job. Meanwhile, there's like two counselors or one counselor, an entire building and a lot of those sit there for 25 years and don't leave.
So I mean, it's not necessarily the case, but. Point is, your perpetual optimism in the situation is kind of a good or a bad thing. But I guess you get distracted, right?
[00:23:20] Speaker B: I mean, yeah. But you know, like on that point though, I think that there's something to being optimistic about this. Like both of the job, I would say the two jobs that I had, you know, like getting my faculty position, that job wasn't listed. I actually emailed, you know, the head of the department or the head of division and I was like, hey, I'm looking for a job and you know, here's my CV and here's my credentials. Like do you have anything coming available? Right.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: I thought you got that job by hacking.
[00:24:00] Speaker B: I was hacking.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: You were hacking to get that job?
[00:24:03] Speaker B: Yeah. I came to Baltimore and I was just taking my two fingers, flipping them.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: To the side and you flip them to the side and it's clearly telling oncoming traffic and drivers, hey, here's. I will give you something if you give me something.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Little quid pro quoid, pro quo.
[00:24:20] Speaker A: Little.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: This is, this is a Baltimore thing, I think. I don't know if it goes outside of Baltimore. Does it? The hacking Maryland thing.
[00:24:27] Speaker A: Local too. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, three listeners if there is hacking outside. But yeah, and we did see it, which is.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: You know, I thought, I think it's.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: More a city because people would like tack in order to get. It's like almost like a taxi service esque, but like Just, it was like the Uber, before Uber. You know, it's like people are hacking to get rides from, you know, just random people driving.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Meanwhile, they're not using an app to make payments.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: It's a very different situation.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: So.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: But anyway, like, I'm just saying that there are times when you could just, like, throw stuff out there and it works out. And there. I mean, there are many times where I've done that and has not worked out, but there are multiple instances where that kind of thing. Like, oh, email the principal and see if they, you know, it could be that they just heard that one of their counselors is leaving and they haven't posted the job yet. And, like, you get your foot in the door, right? Like, it may or may not work out, but why not just try, right?
[00:25:32] Speaker A: Well, let me ask you this. When back in the day prior to me, which I, you know, I can't remember, if you wanted to date people, did you just go ask everybody? Like, I'm gonna ask them. I'm gonna ask them. I'm gonna ask them, ask them. Because, you know, at some point, someone's available.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: Well, you know, there is a psychologist that has a very famous writing about this.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Casting a wine.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: No, I didn't. But I also. I didn't. I think when I was, like, on the prowl. Just kidding.
Never on the prowl.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Butter on the prowl. Well, we know you weren't driving around looking for people, so that's true.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: I mean, I think when I was open to connection.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: What is it, the LinkedIn profile for dating when you're a teenager? Open to connection.
Oh, my God.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: I don't think I was ever like, oh, this. I.
This makes me sound very narcissistic. Maybe I just. I think I just was sort of like.
I mean, I am attractive. There's like, not. Not in a. Like, I'm so hot because I'm. I'm certainly. I've always thought of myself in sort of like the. The medium. Kind of like I'm in the mediocre bucket. But I'm not ugly.
I think, like, people pretty much like me generally. Not always dating profile.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Now be like, well, that's like the first line. Not ugly. I got my first job through hacking, and I love dreaming about real estate and spending money I don't have.
Date me now. Only. Only true guys.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: I just. I guess I was sort of like, you know, I was pretty confident in myself, and so I, you know, if I was interested in somebody, I would, like, talk to them, and if they showed interest I would keep talking them. If they didn't, I would go elsewhere. Like, I never really.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: You would make the move, though. That's. That's the point. The point of this conversation is about you putting yourself out there, which I'm not gonna disagree with you. Is a good thing. But. It is a good thing. But I'm just saying, like, what you were saying is, like, opportunity exists for those who go out and reach for it. Right.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: I don't think I'm missing 100% of.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: The shots you don't take.
[00:27:43] Speaker B: Oh, God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's bring in those things.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: Hang in there.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: I don't think I, like, went up to people and was like, hey, date me.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: But that's what I'm saying.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: But I do think I was like. I was like, smiley, and I showed interest.
[00:27:59] Speaker A: That's not the same email to someone at a university and being like, I am job.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: Do you have any openings?
[00:28:11] Speaker A: You know, like, that's different. And my point is, like, being dating.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: And looking for a job are two totally different things.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: They're pretty similar, if you think about it. They have a lot of similarities.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Well, I mean, the person that you're interviewing with has to like you, like, or you have to.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: I hope so.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Some extent. Unless you just.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: We are so off on a dance anyway.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Just throwing that out there. Okay, so point is, is you have been hardcore in real estate, and I guess this would probably go for next week, but, like, I know you've been looking at multiple buildings.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: Two hotels. You looked at one building that has an antique store in it, and then multiple places that we walk by, and you're like, that was for sale, but then it sold. This is sold. This is for sale. This has five bedrooms and five ensuite bathrooms. Can you imagine what this. Like, this place has a rooftop deck. Did you know it has a rooftop deck?
[00:29:04] Speaker B: It doesn't say for sale.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: It's number six. It has to be this one. Here's my app. Want to see the pictures?
Holy.
And I was like, I'd love to just look at the ocean a little bit. That'd be great.
Take a moment.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: I think that real estate is, like, a hobby of mine. Not actually buying it, but I think just looking at it online, that's okay.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: I'm good with that.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: I should probably be a real estate agent.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: But then you have to, like, deal with people, do the paperwork and do the paperwork, and, like, there's a whole piece of that, and some of that is, like, it's what they want. Not what you want.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:41] Speaker A: You know, and that I think that really changes things.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: Things.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: Because, like, whenever you're cold, you think our children are cold.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: And it doesn't mean that they're cold, but you're cold, so everybody else should be cold.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:52] Speaker A: So I think that would. Wouldn't be great for you.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: Probably not.
But yes. I have been looking at a lot of real estate, so. And our daughter also was very interested in the hotel that's for sale and said, can I look at the pictures? So I showed her the pictures, and then she wanted to buy the hotel and move here and run a hotel. So.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: And you're going to support her entrepreneurial spirit and say, yes, let's get in the hospital.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: I said, well, you're gonna have to talk to your dad about that. What?
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Why is that my decision? You're like, yes, yes, eight year old. You could run a hotel because that doesn't violate child labor laws and. Or make life better.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: We were, like, talking about something that. Oh, she wanted to open, like a cat cafe or something, and she wanted to.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Capybara and corgi cafe.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: All three.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: Yes. Don't steal this, people.
And she wanted to make it so that kids could come in and work for her at this. And we had to explain to her child labor laws and why they.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: She didn't understand. She's like, what do you mean I can't get kids to work? I'm like, listen, this is good business acumen. Recognizing you don't have to pay people that work from you is the American way. Yeah, that is the American way.
[00:31:07] Speaker B: Yeah. So restaurant owners have been doing it.
[00:31:09] Speaker A: For almost 100 years now.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: Someday when she's a multi billionaire, because, you know, I think. I think that could happen. She'll be taking care of us someday.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Someday. I just think, like, there has to be some level of limits of, like, I have to make the decision to tell her that she can't buy a hotel. Like, why do I have to be the bad guy in that logical decision process?
[00:31:31] Speaker B: I said, well, we don't live here. She's like, but we could live here. You're right, Cordy. We could live here.
We had just a few steps that we have to move through the other day.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: You're just like, you can do anything you want to do. And I was like, not exactly. I was like, that's not totally true.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: You know, you do a lot of things.
[00:31:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: It just takes figuring it out.
[00:31:53] Speaker A: Everything. Like, if you were like, I'm going to, you know, shoulder press a car 30 times. Like, that's not realistic. Like, there's certain things that you just physically or maybe are unable to do well.
[00:32:03] Speaker B: But if you had an exoskeleton.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Exoskeleton.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: And then you did it, you could see, like, there is a book. And I don't know if it was really that great of a book, but I was part of a book club for a while, and the book we read was called Everything is Figureoutable.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:32:20] Speaker B: And it was basically this. It's like you don't know how to do that. You can figure it out. There's somebody out there who knows how to do that. So, like, problem solve through it. And I like that. I feel like that. That sort of explains me in a nutshell.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: You know what else explains you?
When we were at our house and this happens sometimes, there are trees, and if you don't prune some of the branches, they grow until there's tons of giant branches, and the tree basically ends up becoming unstable and will die because they can't handle having 30 branches going up without a main trunk.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:03] Speaker A: Sometimes. You got a prune buyer.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
I think my brain naturally prunes some of these ideas because I have, well, undiagnosed adhd, but pretty sure I have adhd, and I'm like, you know, half the ideas that I come up with just sort of float away in the breeze.
[00:33:21] Speaker A: Well, I mean, we're here.
That was an idea.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: And here we are.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: See optimism at its finest.
[00:33:28] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:33:29] Speaker A: So should we do the weekend?
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. We should actually talk about what we've done here.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: So you spent an entire day where I have to give you credit, when we say we're gonna do something with our children. Like, we say we want to go to X.
When I. When I compound that and say we're gonna go to this town and check out some stores and go over to, like, this tour. The tour never happens.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:56] Speaker A: We get one thing done. You somehow managed to do three separate things on Friday.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: Yes. So we.
My friend who lives here has off on Fridays, and you are working. So I. And I also have off on Fridays. Or I'm not working on Fridays.
[00:34:13] Speaker A: You're only boss.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: I gave myself off.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: You don't have off on Friday.
[00:34:17] Speaker B: I gave myself off from my business. This.
And we. I. We met up and. And she had told me, like, oh, I found, like, a bunch of stuff online. There's like, this family, like, field day, basically, at Giants Causeway. And then there's, like, what they call soft play, which is basically like, A bounce house or like an indoor playground.
There's a. A soft play bounce house at this other town that's in called Ballycastle. And so I got over to her house and the Belf. The Giants Causeway field day games didn't start for like another hour or two.
So we were. She was like, well, we could just like hang out here, but why don't we go to the beach? So I was like, great, let's go to the beach. So we went, drove like two minutes down the road, went to this gorgeous beach. Lots of beautiful rocks and cliffs.
My. Our oldest put on her wetsuit, jumped in the ocean. You know, the kids got really sandy. It was a challenging transition away from the beach because of course they were all having fun and didn't realize that the next place would also be fun. Plus we had to clean them all off, which was kids in sand.
[00:35:38] Speaker A: I mean, forever. You know what I mean? Like, the amount of sand in every cranny of an individual to do something afterwards. Which. Side note, did we explain that like getting a wetsuit. Like how freaking cold the water is?
[00:35:49] Speaker B: Oh, the water is very cold.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: The water. I mean, it makes sense because like, we are basically on the same latitude longitude. I'm gonna screw this up as like northern Canada. Like, you know what I mean? Like, you were talking about like the upper end of Scotland. Right. And yet people here are just in the water every morning.
[00:36:07] Speaker B: Every night. Yeah. There's like a group of. Look, older people that like every morning when we're getting ready to walk to our co. Working space, they're out there, no wetsuit, just wading into the water and like hanging out in a circle, talking to each other.
Freezing water.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: I saw it. At night. I'm walking nuggie.
Like there are people. It's 8:30 at night. It's 56 degrees and they're in the water.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: Just hanging out. Happy. Chilling.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: Anyway, so anyway, our oldest gets a wetsuit for a used wetsuit at a good price and is very happy with that. But you had to clean her off.
[00:36:51] Speaker B: And I had to peel the wetsuit off of her body.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Wet body. Which is covered in sand as well.
[00:36:56] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: In a bathroom where you're not supposed to chew.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Where there's signs that clearly say absolutely do not change in these bathrooms. So.
But our daughter also is like, you know, does not like she wants her privacy, which I fair.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I give her credit.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: Very fair.
But she does not want to get changed anywhere else. So we're in there. I'm clearly violating the rules. Somebody that's like, works there, comes in and starts sweeping. And I'm like.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: You'Re shushing a worker.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: Cody's like, I'm just. I'm just gonna pretend that I'm pooping and not changing.
It was just. I don't know, I was. I was stressed out. She was stressed out. It was. I don't know why it was so stressful, but it was, I think also our friend was waiting with her three year old. She was watching our little one so I could try and get the older ones sorted. And it just, it, you know, all of that stresses me out. I don't like people waiting.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: Who's watching your kid?
[00:37:58] Speaker B: You feel bad? Yeah.
But then we went to Giants Causeway and they had basically just like, there's an open field at the top before you walk down to Giants Causeway. And they had lawn games, you know.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: Like the lawn darts.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: Lawn darts.
[00:38:18] Speaker A: They did have lawn darts.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: Yeah, they had bubbles, they had hula hoops. They had. I mean, it was just like kind of silly lawn games, but it was. The kids loved it. They had a great time.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: Because you said our oldest was not impressed by Giants Causeway. I don't know if people have seen Giants Causeway. You can Google it if you want to see it.
[00:38:37] Speaker B: It's gorgeous.
[00:38:38] Speaker A: It's awesome. Super cool rock formations. Volcanic rock formations.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: Well, that was in April. We went to Giants Causeway. I don't think that. I think she liked Giant's Causeway because you can climb all over it. And she liked that.
She did not like the walk down or the walk back. And it is quite a walk. There is a bus that runs back and forth. But we did the walk because we were like, oh, it's a beautiful walk, but it is.
I don't know how far. Like a mile maybe or more.
And the entire time she's like, oh, there's a walk over yet. Like, just.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: I thought she was kind of bored with Joan's Causeway at some point.
[00:39:14] Speaker B: Well, like, she saw it, she climbed. And then she was like, ugh, okay, I'm done.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: Like, it's like the guys driving around the cars here. And I was like, well, these are driving around a place where it's beautiful. And you're like, they don't care about their surroundings.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: No, I just. I asked the question. I said, do you think these teenage guys are actually looking at their surroundings? And you said, no, they're just hunting, just different surroundings.
[00:39:39] Speaker A: They're looking at other surroundings.
Okay, so lawn darts. And then.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we all piled back into the Car. Again, difficult transitions.
And we made our way to Bally Castle, which is a town that's about 30 minutes away.
And they have a hotel on the water that had just like a room in it where they had blown up bounce houses. Yeah.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: Because we went back on Sunday and it made no sense to me. There was zero signs. You walk into this hotel and there's like a coffee shop and a restaurant and you have to, like, go down a hallway by the bathrooms, and then there's this random door and like a person sitting at a desk and bouncy houses. Like, it's like a speakeasy almost for kids.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:31] Speaker A: Like, how would you even know that was there?
[00:40:33] Speaker B: I mean, our.
It was listed on some website. That's how we knew it was.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: Nobody has websites here. It's driving me insane.
[00:40:41] Speaker B: Okay, well, there is at least one website.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: Facebook page. Who has a Facebook?
What is it, 2006.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: 2006.
But I mean, our kids loved it. Even the little one, like, she was having a ball, so. But that also it had a playground that was like right on the water.
[00:41:03] Speaker A: Sand playground.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: And so we went there afterwards. There's ice cream. So of course they were happy. We went back like. Like you said the following weekend. But you are not as impressed.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: We went. That was the same. Not the following weekend. You went on Friday. We went back on Sunday.
[00:41:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you're right.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: The Saturday we didn't cold rain about. And then we went back on Sunday and you asked me for you. I thought it was nice. It was like there was a whole beach area with stones and kind of like a tributary off of the ocean into almost like a cabin canal.
[00:41:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:34] Speaker A: And there was a town area and then a long walk into this small little beach area. I mean, I like the beach playground, which was a lot like Port Stewart. And we brought the kids again and they absolutely loved it. But it was small and there wasn't much to walk. Like, your walk was like the. The beach walk was short.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: And there wasn't a whole lot of businesses or restaurants in that area, so there was like.
[00:41:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it was hard to find a restaurant.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: There's like three ice cream shops and there's no restaurants.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:02] Speaker A: So what do you want to finish that part? We can get to that day of trying to find food and why we always end up as a disaster trying to find food.
[00:42:08] Speaker B: No. Go. Just go. Yeah, it is.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: So we.
I don't know if other people can commiserate with this.
I feel like going out to eat with our family is A disaster.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: It's very challenging.
[00:42:20] Speaker A: And yet I still find us doing it way too often.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: Because we, we don't want to be in the house because we're in the house.
It's like a battle to come up with activities. I personally don't think I'm creative with activities. I kind of can do a couple of things and then I just lose steam. And you have to keep coming up with these different activities over and over and over again. Or it just turns into tv. Tv, tv, TV or something. Or iPads. So I love being out. But inevitably we all get hungry.
[00:42:47] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: And we have dietary restrictions that we have to figure out.
And then it's just so easy as an adult to walk in somewhere and figure it out.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: And then when you have two kids and a little one in a busy restaurant, it's just such a struggle.
[00:43:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: So we walked a mile into town and we just started going door to door to restaurants.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: Nobody has any.
[00:43:14] Speaker A: Go to five different restaurants.
Walked in? No. Walked in. No. Walked in. It's a public house. They're just drinking. There's no food.
And this happened in. This happened both in Ballycastle and in Coleraine.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: Which Coleraine didn't make any sense because there's more food. I was actually using a Google app, trying to find stuff. And of course they didn't update their hours or day because people just don't want to do that here for some reason because it's kind of like a walk in situation. Not everybody, but some places anyway. Of course, like at that point, I'm getting hangry. The kids are hangry.
I've lost it.
[00:43:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: And you know, we're trying to find places. We. After five places we went into that you checked and asked people for, we finally end up at a pizza place where they told us there was no room. And our oldest was really good, was like, oh, no, can we use that table? They're like, oh, we have a table for two. And she's like, we can make this work.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: And so she figures it out. We get a chair and we sit there. But like, you know, first of all, the, the service was abysmal.
We waited over like an hour for one pizza.
No pizza. Nobody's pizza. I don't care who it is.
A frozen pizza would take less time than an hour.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: I was also surprised, like when it came out, it was small, like tiny. And we were starving.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: Well, that I expected.
[00:44:39] Speaker B: Well, I was just like, I was kind of surprised that when we ordered because we had debated about whether we, like, get two pizzas or like, I guess it should have been more clear, like, how big is the starter salad? Because I was like, oh, let's get a salad and some like, cheesy breadsticks to start with. That will. And then if we get a smaller pizza, that should be plenty of food.
No, I mean, the side salad was literally like in. In the size of a cup. That was like an eight ounce cup.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: That was a pinky nail salad, that kind of stuff. If we have lots of food. But we really just.
[00:45:12] Speaker B: Yeah, like, each of us had our own. But it was not like.
I thought it was going to be like a salad we could share.
And I would have thought she would have been like, you know, oh, the salad's actually kind of small. Or are you sharing this? You might want to get more than one.
Or maybe you should get, you know, because sometimes you go into places and they like, they try to upsell you, which is fine.
But, like, it was a little bizarre that she was like, okay, I'll take your order. That's like enough to feed one person.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: It wasn't bizarre because, I mean, that wasn't bizarre when here. One of the things I love about being here is the fact that a lot of places you can go up to the counter and order.
[00:45:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:56] Speaker A: I love that. You pay them right away. You're done, you're done. You don't have to worry about anything.
It's completely finished. That probably made the mic sound weird because I just readjusted.
I love that. I love that. What I hate is, and this happens way more in the US Than here is like, you've finished eating and you're just sitting staring, looking around the restaurant.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:16] Speaker A: Waiting for the flag. People down like an asshole because your server went on break and left. And I, you know, I get it. Like, Portugal was more like this too. They. They don't want to interrupt you.
[00:46:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:27] Speaker A: They. They want you to enjoy and take your time. But, like, we've got kids and they have a threshold that's extremely low.
[00:46:34] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: And I try to eat as fast as I possibly can in order to chase them around wherever they're gonna go. Right, right. But, like, the fact that we went up to order and she's like, no, I'll come to you. And I was like, no, you're not going to anything.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: And then she didn't come to us for like 20 minutes.
[00:46:48] Speaker A: There's eight tables in this restaurant. There is no reason for you to not be able to handle this situation.
And so 20 minutes later, and then our pizza was an hour later. We were at this pizza place for almost two hours. Yeah, it was a mess.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: I mean, Cordy loved it.
[00:47:03] Speaker A: She loved it. She's like, this is the best pizza I've ever had. Rah, rah, rah. And she did. She ate. Ate super well. And she's like. And I said, we're never coming back here.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: And she was like, can we go back here tomorrow?
[00:47:14] Speaker A: I said, no, they're dead to me. They're dead to me. No, this place is.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: Well, you know, I love Cordy's optimism and her problem solving spirit, because she goes, well, Daddy, all we have to do is just call ahead and then it'll be ready when we come here.
And I was like, you're right. That's a good choice. That's a really good solution to the problem of you wanting to come here and daddy not wanting to come.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: I'm not gonna waste my finger movement of pressing the buttons on a phone to call this place. Okay. That's how I feel about it. You originally said Bally Castle. I thought it was nice. I thought it was a nice place. I thought it nice views. I think after Port Rush and the. How large the, like, the landscape is, like, how much this peninsula. You can walk around and see the ocean.
This was so small, comparatively. Like, it would be hard for me to be like, yeah, this is great. Yes, it's cheaper, but if you want a place. But, like, I just think it just didn't hold a candle to poor Rush.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:15] Speaker A: So also, I mean, again, there's some bias because I had a frustrating situation with this whole restaurant.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Point. So.
[00:48:24] Speaker B: So, well, we. We have some trips planned coming up, so hopefully we'll get to talk about them in the next episode. But we're gonna go see some puffins.
[00:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah. There's apparently a ferry that we're gonna take that off of the same town that goes to an island.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:41] Speaker A: Where there's puffins.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: And we're gonna go to Donegal, the land of my ancestors. Your ancestors land, you know, 22% of me.
[00:48:51] Speaker A: 22.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: What is this, like, tiktoks that talk about, like, the Irish people, like, rolling their eyes and making fun of Americans that are like, I'm Irish too.
My great, great, great, great, great grandfather.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: I mean, the lineage runs so strong in you, you know, so it's that alabaster skin that you have.
That's the Irish side that's clearly coming out.
Yeah. Because we had to do another Port Stewart run. What else we're gonna do we had a. We had a bunch of thing. Trips. So we can talk about those in the future and not go on 45 minutes of tangents about real estate and driving cars in high school.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: And hook.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: Okay, well, I think that ends it there, then. Trips and giggles.
[00:49:37] Speaker A: Why do you say the title of the show at the end of the show? That's the end.
Trips and giggles.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know. You know, like, how else do you end a show?
There needs to be some sort of. Like, they're done. Okay, we're done.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: No, you don't need an ending.
You just. You just walk, you know, you just call it a day and say. And some kind of a. I'll talk to you next time. Or we'll get this in the next one. Or maybe we won't.
[00:50:05] Speaker B: Keep listening.
[00:50:07] Speaker A: Turn your dials in. Turn those dials.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: Keep listening. Or don't. Whatever you want to do.
[00:50:14] Speaker A: If that's not your cup of tea, then whatever. Go hack.
