Speaker 1: 1:30

Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure, the podcast for cyclists who understand that riding is not just about getting to the destination, but the experience along the way. Now here are the original Cycling Men of Leisure Adam and Michael.

Speaker 2: 1:44

Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure. As usual, I am Adam, but this time, ladies and gentlemen, in person. Right next to me is is my good friend, mr Michael Scharr. Hello, greetings, adam. How are you? Oh, man, man, I am good. We're here in sunny Florida. If the wives are listening, it's 40 and raining. Actually, it was raining this morning. It really was raining this morning. Miserable, I had a golf club in my hand yesterday. You did something really weird with the hot dog, and we'll get to that later. Whoa, I mean, ladies and gentlemen, hold on for that story. So we went to Podfest man, podfest 2025. We were there and they offered to sell you tickets for PodFest 2026. Did you sign up? No, not yet. What'd you think?

Speaker 3: 2:44

of PodFest, you know. First off, I would like to thank Buzzsprout for hooking us up with creator tickets. It was very nice of them. It was a great and interesting experience. Uh, it's interesting because you get all types in this type of thing. It's like you've got the people who are just doing it for a hobby. You got the people who are wanting to make a million dollars off of it. You got the people who are making a million dollars off of it. Uh, you've got the people that are doing things on really obscure topics, like you know.

Speaker 2: 3:18

Uh, I don't know, making courses, making, uh, I mean, oh yeah, how to do?

Speaker 3: 3:23

mini courses and and then you got people who are doing courses for their job, for like the work their work has hired them to do it. So you just got this vast array and a lot of the breakout courses. Um, you know, you have your basic ones, you know how you start and all this kind of thing, but you know, a lot of it is around monetization. A lot of it is around writing books, which seemed a little I don't know little, not real podcasty, but it was interesting. There was a wide array of people there. It was fun. We took in a couple of sessions. We did learn a couple of things, which is kind of nice. I don't know if I could go and spend the whole weekend there.

Speaker 2: 4:05

Yes, you know it had early stuff happening on the 15th and then the official expo kicked off on the 16th. You had some travel issues We'll get to that in a little bit but I went for the official kickoff of the expo and then it had breakout sessions and lunch sessions and evening sessions and you were invited to a bourbon thing, but our dinner ran over. Last night there was comedy shows. So I mean, if you had traveled there and you wanted to eat, breathe, learn, all things, podcasting there was something for everybody, um, you and I. Um, the platform we use is called buzzsprout. Yep, they gave us free creator tickets. Um, paid, paid for, or I don't know if they paid for it so we'd come, or I don't know. I'm sure there's a back-end deal from the hotel Like, hey, get people here, we'll help you out. That's how that game works sometimes. But nevertheless, they gave us tickets, they gave us all kinds of swag. They made fancy, they had a laser printer and made fancy key chains and with QR codes on the back, and even designed a logo for our podcast, which wasn't what they were doing for everybody. They just happened to I had wrote it into the show. Looks really cool. It does look really cool. So they gave it to us an SVG file so we could do whatever we want. We could make a hot air balloon out of it if we were into hot air ballooning. Maybe, maybe, but that would be cool, that's a new, that's leisuring, that is definitely leisuring.

Speaker 2: 5:39

So, but no, I, I, you know, it was um in renaissance, uh, hotel by sea, world, um, and beautiful place. Oh, it's fantastic. Huge, huge hotel, lots of breakout sessions. I did go um, you and I, divided and conquered. I went to the monetization, because have you know our monthly subscribers, um, so I was curious about how to, how to circumnavigate the additional core idea of the show, which is to reach our audience and and and tell, tell our stories, um, without you know sounding and begging for money or how to do it. And so there was some some really cool ways to do that, like sponsorship levels, and we're going to look into doing maybe a little bit of a media kit, but not just for monetization, a media kit just so we can have a guest on. That's right.

Speaker 3: 6:42

So we can introduce ourselves to people who might not know us, but we'd like to have them on the show as a guest.

Speaker 2: 6:48

So interesting, interesting stuff. Ironically, we didn't plan the trip to come to pod fest. We decided that, hey, you get monday off because you work for the federal government. And you got monday off and then, um, I I had a bunch of bank time and I said let's go and we were gonna come down here and just pod fest and golf. And now we're gonna get better podcast, but yeah, sorry, podcast, you're right, um, podcast and and then play golf, which we did play golf yesterday. And uh, uh, you know, yes, that's what you call it we were, we were, we hit it, we hit a ball. Yeah, I mean, we hit it a lot many times. So, um, we had some good shots. Yeah, you know, first drive, I hiked it right down the middle. I was just I'm like that's a good start, I like that, you know thing. You have to worry about out.

Speaker 3: 7:41

Here is the wildlife started out and there's like turkeys all over the place, like wild turkeys. Hey, that's a little weird, uh. And then we went. We ran into an armadillo. I mean, we didn't physically run into the armadillo, but it was there. Um. And then we got to one area and there was a couple of alligators just hanging out.

Speaker 2: 8:00

Yeah, yeah, so definitely a first lady. We met a wonderful couple here and and Florida there, uh, from Ohio and and Ted and Tina and you know, um, they were wonderful. And when they first started she had an Ohio State Buckeyes and I was like oh no. And then he had a Buckeyes bag and I was like oh no, but we had a good time with the rivalry and joking around and so it was a lot of fun. It was an awkward thing when Ted said, hey, I want to thank you for waking us up after Michigan beat us, and I was like I don't know how to. Yeah, I didn't practice, you didn't play. I mean, I made some bets, if that helps. But speaking of betting, did you make any bets before you left? I did not. Oh, okay, well, we'll get into what I did. We'll see how well I did. But in getting back to the, should we talk?

Speaker 3: 8:53

about golf. Yeah, sure, um, it'd been like a year and a half since I picked up a club. Yeah, felt good. I got some really good solid hits, uh, at the beginning and at the end, kind of in the middle there, I really like the right side of the course, out in the woods, in the swamps, um, which I didn't go look for those balls because clearly there's alligators in those swamps. But what was really cool is it was getting. We had a tee time at like two or something. Yeah, uh, what was really cool is it was getting.

Speaker 3: 9:24

We had the 18th hole and it was starting to get dark and we were just like, oh, let's just hurry. And uh, ted and Tina were like, oh, you guys can play the last hole. It's like, oh, you know, it's kind of getting dark and he's like we have glow in the in the dark balls and it was like you guys can try a couple. So they went in the bag and pulled out a couple of these balls. I'd never seen them. They look like kind of like a regular golf ball. The dimples aren't as big, I'd never seen and so you put them down, sail out, and then they light up. There must be the impact activation. Um, so that was something I never tried, which is really cool. You hit them and they're just like jet out there and then like they stay lit up for like eight minutes so you can find them so that was kind of that was neat.

Speaker 2: 10:05

I mean, I was a little bit concerned because there was like a like a creek, like like a little waterway that boats probably go, you know, through through for Disney moving around and stuff. I was like man, I was afraid because when I drove it I didn't know how far. He said they don't go as far, yeah, and you know, I hit it and my second shot was going to be very, very problematic that it didn't, but I thought it was going to just when you think it's going to go in the water. It cleared it, but I put a junk ball down and then I handed it back and they were really nice to loan it to us. So, no, wonderful meeting those guys.

Speaker 2: 10:43

We went to the Palm at where Shades of Green Beautiful course, had a great time, and today we're actually heading back out. We're going to play Lake Buena Vista golf. We've played that one, yeah, we have. And so nice forgiving course, thankfully, because I need a little bit of forgiveness, but no, it was a good time. So, but before I go on, should we? We left the listeners hanging on our last show, did we? Yeah, our leisure community, we did not do the listener spotlight. So do you want to give us the clues from last time?

Speaker 3: 11:26

Yeah, I can give you the clues. I've got them right here and, forgive me, I am fighting a cold so I've got all sorts of issues going on, so but it's not going to stop us, that's okay, we're rolling, all right.

Speaker 3: 11:42

Here are the. Here are the clues that I gave you two episodes ago. Two episodes, benji, wouldn't let me do one last episode. But um, this town was incorporated in the 1880s. The early economy depended on mining agriculture and timber Fathers should really thank this city. It started as a trading post. The city's name comes from a native language. This city was in the world spotlight in 1974, and a former resident of this city helped influence our version of a perfect Christmas.

Speaker 2: 12:37

What do you thinking? Well, that last clue with our version of a perfect Christmas? I'm thinking something north.

Speaker 3: 12:50

That might be a good guess. That's the best I got. Wow, so basically he a guest North. I mean that rules out what half of the half of the cities, Just saying so he's in the upper 50%, literally the upper 50%. Okay, you want to know what it is. I do the city for this episodes, or last episodes's listener spotlight was Spokane Washington.

Speaker 2: 13:22

Hey, didn't we have somebody guess Spokane Washington?

Speaker 3: 13:26

Thank you, franklin, because after you guessed Spokane Washington, I looked up and we do have some listeners from Spokane Washington. Ok, so I said, well, let's just do.

Speaker 2: 13:35

Spokane, washington. Okay, I thought maybe I was an episode behind. So you know, normally when I'm, you know, I'm kind of a little bit out of my element here. We've, we've packed up all the gear and brought up everything, all this element. For sure, I normally have all my, you know, leisure community notes and I, you know, as soon as someone writes me, um, like oh, I need to get my phone because Paul Wade wrote us and um and so, um, I usually have all that stuff laid out like on boards and and and now I'm here and, yeah, a little bit different, but I'm, I'm rolling with it here. So, yes, frank, well, I don't have headphones either.

Speaker 3: 14:12

So yeah, that's okay, I brought them.

Speaker 2: 14:15

You just I didn't have the right hookup and then that's because you can't hear me do this.

Speaker 3: 14:26

You're so funny. Well, you know what? Now two can play that game, Pushing buttons.

Speaker 2: 14:36

Stop pushing buttons. You're pushing the wrong buttons. You don't know what you're doing. I couldn't hear any of it either.

Speaker 3: 14:42

That's right. Okay, so you want to know how I got to Spokane Washington? I do. It was incorporated in 1881. Obviously, the early economy depended on mining, agriculture and timber. Fathers should thank this city. You know why? Because this city is the birthplace of father's day, first proposed by sonora smart dob, a uh spokane native, in 1909. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it started as a trading post, which was the spokane house, uh, which started in, which ran from 1810 to 1826. The city's name, spokane, comes from a native language and it means children of the sun, uh in 1974, I thought this one would give it away.

Speaker 3: 15:32

It was. The city was in the world spotlight. I would have gotten this one based upon World spotlight yeah. Not an Olympics, no, but you're very close. 1974, spokane, washington, hosted the World's Fair Expo 74.

Speaker 2: 15:51

I have a crazy question. Yeah, do we still do World's?

Speaker 3: 15:55

Fairs. Believe it or not, they still do them. I don't think we do them here in America, but they do have them overseas, okay.

Speaker 2: 16:01

I mean, because you know I'm, it used to be a huge deal, now they're not quite as big. Okay, because you know. I mean here we sit on the Disney property and then of course, walt Disney built Carousel of Progress for the World's Fair, and then you know different items that were at the World's Fair, world's Fair, and so I didn't know. But they do do World's Fair still.

Speaker 3: 16:22

Yeah, a former resident of this city hoped to influence the vision of a perfect Christmas.

Speaker 2: 16:40

Santa Claus and Coca-Cola? Yeah, no, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 3: 16:44

Wow, bing crosby, I'm dreaming of a white christmas. Yes, uh, attended college in spokane at gonzaga university, released the hit song white christmas in 1941 and then later it became a movie, a feature film, in 1954 him and danny k one of my favorite christmas movies I'm dreaming of a white christmas. It's a great christmas movie. It starts out in the war, there's some shelling and then it goes, goes on to there, to really good movie yeah, okay, good, I'm glad that you've never seen it.

Speaker 2: 17:28

So, uh, I think there's been all kinds of movies. You know, christmas time and my house is different time we have like traditional movies that we see, like alone and Chevy Chase's Christmas vacation and do not tell me you're watching diehard. Oh, we did this year, Lauren, Lauren not a Christmas movie.

Speaker 3: 17:46

Don't let me start rants, okay where's that mute button?

Speaker 2: 17:52

um, so lauren wanted to know what all the hubbub was about, and so she said I'm going to watch die hard. And she said it's not a christmas movie. It happens that he's going to a christmas party, but it's not like a christmas movie. So, and then somewhere someone told me that uh, I I have no proof of this. I just heard this that bruce brings I mean bruce, bruce willard is not a christmas.

Speaker 3: 18:14

Yeah he didn't. But if you start that way, I mean, does that mean the godfather is a christmas movie, because there's a segment of the godfather that takes place at Christmas? Does that mean that? Oh, the original Ocean's Eleven. What most people don't know is that Ocean's Eleven, as we all know George Clooney, brad Pitt Right, it's actually a remake from the 50s. The Rat Pack did an Ocean's Eleven, which was the original one, right, which actually started. The beginning of that movie starts off at Christmas time. So is that a Christmas movie? No, I don't know it's not.

Speaker 2: 18:51

You're going to have to talk more into your microphone. It's not there you go. Unfortunately, we're using different microphones than we normally use, so they're very directional. So when you turn towards me, the audience is going to be like what is he doing? They're not, they're perfect. Towards me, the audience is gonna be like what is he doing? They're not, they're perfect. Um, well, I mean um, there's all you know. They we always. The new one for us is the 8-bit christmas the what? 8-bit christmas with neil patrick harris and um. It's about like how he won a nintendo. Is this? Is this like a homework movie? I don't know what's it's. Is this like a homework movie? I don't know, it's actually a homework movie.

Speaker 2: 19:32

Have you seen it? No, but it just sounds like a homework movie. I think it's a Netflix movie. It's where, like when he wanted it's a pretty cool movie. He wanted a Nintendo when he was growing up. Stop, stop what, go ahead. I'm not. This is why the show works better. When you're in central time, you're an hour behind. You don't get the jokes. It takes you an hour to pick up on them, but this Eastern time zone is messing with your head. But anyways, in the movie still going back to that, okay, just listen, okay, listen. Okay, my gosh, he wants a nintendo, but his parents won't buy him a nintendo and so he figures out ways and and it's kind of interesting. So, uh, I don't want to give it away, but it's actually a decent movie. If you and maya are looking for a, a movie for the day, look at 8-bit.

Speaker 3: 20:22

Spoiler alert I've not seen the movie. Guess what? The end of end of the movie, he gets a Nintendo Done. You're welcome, am I wrong? I'm not wrong. See it's, it's. I just saved an hour and 35 minutes of my life right there.

Speaker 2: 20:39

Oh my gosh, Okay Well that's all right.

Speaker 3: 20:43

Uh, don't you like it when I'm hopped up on cold medicine and I'm in Eastern time? This is fun.

Speaker 2: 20:50

Let's do this more. Speaking of Eastern time, how'd you get to Eastern time?

Speaker 3: 20:56

Planes, trains and automobiles Okay.

Speaker 2: 21:00

Do you want me to spill the whole bean? Oh man, please, please, because if not, here's the problem.

Speaker 3: 21:06

This is the second time I've been to Orlando in three weeks. I'm coming back to Orlando in two weeks. When I looked at my little Delta app to set my clock the morning of my flight out here, I pulled up my flight to Orlando. Well, I was under a lot of cold medication and I pulled up my flight to Orlando, no problem. Problem with it is is the flight that I pulled up to Orlando was the flight that I have in two weeks which is an hour off. That one, this one left at 7.03. That one left leaves at 8.05. So I was going off the 8.05 one. So show up at the airport. Sorry, Mr Sharp, we can't let you on your flight's already boarding. Okay, they could get me standby to Atlanta in, like you know, 20 minutes after well, I guess it was two hours after my regular flight. Get to Atlanta. If you've ever been on standby in Atlanta, I never have. Yeah, Just like you know, bring a tent camp out because it's going to be a long time. So I went in there, went to the lady at the counter yeah, You're standby for this flight.

Speaker 3: 22:15

So I went to that gate, waited an hour, didn't make it. It was like 12 people. I then that when I was told, well, my, it would roll over to another gate, I went to that gate. Didn't make same Pete, same 12 people Just like we were like herd animals went from this gate to this gate. So finally I was like, okay, the same 12 people are going to be following me, or I'm going to be following them to the next gate.

Speaker 3: 22:45

So I went to the customer service people and I said is there any way I can get to Orlando? In fact, I don't even care if I get to Orlando, Can you get me to Tampa, Cause then I could just rent a car drive over it's like an hour and a half or something. She's like Hmm, that wouldn't do you any good. I was like, okay, no-transcript T.

Speaker 3: 23:29

If you've ever seen like an apocalyptic movie or an Old West movie, T is like the outpost that's on the fringes. No one goes there unless you have to. It's kind of like Mos Eisley on Star Wars. You know, just a collection of really weird stuff all thrown together. You're kind of out there on the fringes of everything, Don't know what's going to happen, and it's a. It's the newer one, so it's not as developed. There's a lot of spaces where shops haven't went in and things like that. So, uh, trucked it all the way down there, had a three hour wait and of course it wasn't like you know, right at the beginning. I had to go all the way. I was at the edge of the end of the outpost so I was like, I mean I was out there barely surviving. I mean it would have made a good story, so I'm waiting you three hours later you didn't choose to like maybe hang some stucco or hang some wire.

Speaker 3: 24:26

Well, and that's a funny thing, I'm sitting there for three hours pounding my head against the thing, saying God, I hope I get on this. And that first thing that popped in my mind what is that movie? It's got Tom Hanks in it. Terminal Terminal. I started thinking about that. I was like, oh my God, I'm just going to be here all night. And I was like I was actually thinking because some of it's still under construction. It's like I wonder if there's like any uh bricklaying they need or something. Now my skillset has a very limited uh masonry job that I thought you know what, I could find some and I don't know put something together. And two days later they find it and go, what the hell? Who did this? It wouldn't be that pretty thing that Tom came up with. But three hours later, same 12 people Plus we've added a couple more to our little colony now, because everybody else apparently thought the same thing I did. They start talking and they're like hey, ladies and gentlemen, we've overbooked this flight. We need like five people to come. And I was like there's no way I'm getting on this flight. So then I, after the flight leaves cause I held out went to customer service again and this guy was like, oh well, you should have been at a 17. You could have got on that flight. I was like, wait a minute.

Speaker 3: 25:40

The lady over there three hours ago said I had no chance of getting on that one, that I had a better chance. She was like, well, she was wrong. I was like, so he said there's this thing called I guess it's a certified or something confirmed, confirmed. And the lady in Kansas city gave me a number to call to confirm to see if I wanted to confirm, and I was. I called the number right in front of her and I was like, yeah, what do you got? And he's like, yeah, we can confirm you, but it is going to be like $1,180. And I was like, what? That's like way more than I paid. I'm not going to confirm for that much.

Speaker 3: 26:22

Well, talking with this gentleman, uh, he basically said, oh, yeah, it was. It would have been $75 to confirm your flight. And I was like that's not what I was told. And he's like, okay, okay, he had to apologize for everybody who worked for Delta other than him pretty much that day. And I was like, well, I would have paid the 75 dollars. So, needless to say, he did a standby and then I had to confirm for the next day. The next standby came, got right down to the wire a family of three, which I apologize to you right now. I'm sorry. I'm sure it ruined your kids evening or whatever. You didn't make it to the gate on time, so me and my three brethren uh, standby people got to sit in your three seats so we had a little section in the plane. All three of us sat right together. We were the standby guys.

Speaker 2: 27:08

Well, um, I uh made it just fine.

Speaker 3: 27:15

Yeah, okay, we don't need to hear what. I was first class and I had an omelet and I had two wood ferns and she gave me a moist towelette with lemon scent in it and it was just delightful and wonderful. And, oh yeah, I was upgraded, of course, and yeah.

Speaker 2: 27:33

Yeah, one of us knows how to read the schedule and one of us unfortunately had him.

Speaker 3: 27:39

it was a legitimate mistake and the problem with it is is I was coming to the same flight all three times, but anyway I got here you're here, but I have a serious question.

Speaker 2: 27:49

I've been thinking do you not check in? 24 hours before I did check in and then on that boarding pass it clearly says boarding time, did you not see?

Speaker 3: 27:58

it. I just looked at my thing and it's. You know, I mean, I didn't guys really pull up the boarding pass?

Speaker 2: 28:04

all good, you're here, life is, life is gone. But uh, yeah, I uh. But you know, we, what's a funny story? We, you, we were actually gonna. We rented a car and we were gonna put the rental car in your name. And I'm glad you didn't, because I took the 725 out of Detroit and got into Orlando at 1010 and in the morning let's hear it and wasn't sure I know. I'm just saying it's a good thing I rented the car, because then I was able to what was?

Speaker 3: 28:35

on your omelet. Mm-hmm, that was delicious actually.

Speaker 2: 28:41

Well, listen, I'm a big wheel. I mean, Delta calls me and wishes me You're a big something.

Speaker 3: 28:50

Anyway, we're all here. We're in Florida, that's right. I've got a little bit of a cold, but from the last time I was in Florida, it's the Florida crud it is.

Speaker 2: 29:00

I told my staff. I'm like well, guys, this is my normal voice because when I get back I'm sure I'm going to have the crud.

Speaker 3: 29:06

So anyway, par for the course. So we're here, we're golfing, we ate well. Last night we did Attended Podfest. Life is good good.

Speaker 2: 29:29

So, speaking of pod fest, um, you know we learned a few items and I am going to put it out there. We are in the hunt for sponsors and so, um, let's, let's discuss just a second what, what that means. A sponsor, um could be something as a small, a small token, something, um that you'd like your name mentioned on the show a couple of times, or could be larger. I mean, we are looking for, um, a few people who might want to, you know, listen to us and and and like what we share and and enjoy our humor and everything else, um, and get value add from the show. And if you think that you know your uh, business or idea or something um is that interest you, to spread that, reach out to us. Let us know that that's something that you're interested in doing, um, and so, uh, we can definitely communicate.

Speaker 2: 30:18

You know off the off the show about that. So communicate, you know off the show about that. So you can go to cyclingmenofleisure at gmailcom or anywhere you find the podcast. You can probably find our communications or Facebook, or They'll finish what you're saying, or any way. I mean, there's many ways to reach us. Are you dealing?

Speaker 2: 30:36

with that topic. Well, it won't be TikTok.

Speaker 3: 30:41

Don't reach us on TikTok, because less things changes. As of tomorrow, Chinese will not be getting our information. So they say it's going to go to another communist-driven site and you know, Russia's going to be getting our information.

Speaker 2: 30:56

I know what about all those things that you can buy on the TikTok shop. Just kidding.

Speaker 3: 31:03

I haven't bought anything there so far, so I guess I'm okay. Anyway, we're done with that. Yes, we're going to be putting together some sponsor levels and different things. We've got some ideas just flowing and when we're done with this we're going to have our own pod fest and do some brainstorming and put some ideas together here in beautiful Orlando, florida, orlando. Thank you.

Speaker 3: 31:26

What I wanted to say is you made me think we are going to Bourbon Country Burn. We are, and we've already got a couple people signed up, multiple For our team Multiple. And when you go to sign up, you register for Bourbon Country Burn. You can put in your team there so you could put in Cycling Men of Leisure. So if you've not been, could be the last year, no guarantees, just kind of what they've hinted at. Certainly, come, we'd like to invite you, join our team. We're going to have a good time, we're going to cycle, we're going to see some horses, going to see some horses and we're going to drink some bourbon. So come and join us. And we also are going to Big Brag again, bike ride across Georgia and we've already had a bunch of people say they're going to be joining us there. So come and join us there and we are still looking for another ride. We've got a couple of ideas. Hopefully we'll be able to announce that the next couple of months.

Speaker 2: 32:19

Yeah, absolutely. For the Bourbon Country Burn to be on the team, you're going to need a password, Just private message me Anyone who's messaged me. I get back with them instantaneous.

Speaker 3: 32:31

It's the same password of his luggage combo, if you know what that is.

Speaker 2: 32:35

Actually, no, my luggage combo is 0000. I've never changed it, it's factory default. No, okay, combo was zero, zero, zero, zero. I've never changed this factory default. No, okay, I mean tsa can get in there anyway. I mean, what's the point?

Speaker 3: 32:47

I love the. We were back in the day when we did we locked everything. Yeah, we didn't want anybody to get in there, and then yeah, but you change.

Speaker 2: 32:53

Then remember when they came out with the tsa locks, you could get a special design tsa. They had keys like yeah, that they could just like yeah, oh, that's it, lock four, you know, or whatever on the bottom. And then sometimes I would go to the airport and I see like people bring Pelican cases, big plastic Pelican cases. It has lots like all four sides, and I'm like there's no way they're letting you get on. No, no, oh, that reminds me of what we did around the summer when we get our bikes back and they had those TSA notes. That reminds me of what we did on the summer when we get our bikes back and they had those TSA notes and then we dude, we should be, we should, we have inspected your luggage again.

Speaker 3: 33:25

I still think what you said was funny is we should get like a hundred of those and just tape them on the inside thing and say yeah, and put a big message in the middle yes, Thank you again for inspecting my bicycle. I hope you've enjoyed it.

Speaker 2: 33:38

If anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about is when you like my golf clubs. When I got here to Florida I opened it up. I had a big old TSA was in here, but a note, I guess as a courtesy they let you know. Hey, we were in here, but yeah, I mean there's nothing in there. Go ahead and look, look all you want. And I mean weird because you take all the. You know you're trying to be nice and you're trying to take all the effort of putting it in there and protect everything. And then the worst was when you and I were in georgia last year and we saw those guys monkeying with our bikes.

Speaker 3: 34:08

They're like taking the bikes. You know everything.

Speaker 2: 34:10

I was like no, we got everything in there just right, can I tighten that before you put the case back on? And so we were both. We both made our flight, so we were both very heated and so we were watching. And so, by the way, and normal airports and big airports, you don't see that, but this was like yeah, that's just like right out in the open.

Speaker 3: 34:28

And so it's like and that's not metal, it doesn't bend, it just breaks, cause it's.

Speaker 2: 34:33

Excuse me, sir, do you actually know what? You know what carbon fiber is? Could carbon fiber is? Could you please not do that?

Speaker 3: 34:39

So uh, but so we're looking for people to join the team. Yeah, uh, we've already got some things and we've got a couple of uh for, like big brag. We've got a couple of ideas of potential other things we're going to do there for the as a team. So that'll be fun. So I just wanted to throw that out there.

Speaker 2: 34:55

And I saw On my way down to Florida that big brag had shared our link again for the show that we did with Franklin. So please check that out if you haven't, just to give you an idea. Franklin was awesome. Put together some really neat things for each stopover town and breweries, distilleries, a little bit of humor, a little bit of trivia format. Yes, a little bit of a trivia format. Yes, a little bit of history and and uh and one thing I I re-listened to the show I was hiking and I re-listened and he said awesome, bill from Dawsonville. And after he said that I remember, I remember that from the movie and stuff. But you know, it took a little bit to click in, but, um, no-transcript.

Speaker 2: 36:03

Which is interesting, because last night two nights ago, sitting out here on our balcony and, uh, we had a discussion about the difference between moonshine and whiskey.

Speaker 3: 36:10

So it was cool. I'm looking forward to it. Moonshine you enjoy under the moon no, just kidding. See, that's the problem. I'm going to get into a rant here. I'm not going to do that, so we'll save my liquor rants for another episode.

Speaker 2: 36:19

Oh, when he's maybe not doped up on decongestants.

Speaker 3: 36:23

Decongestants night quill, day quill yeah.

Speaker 2: 36:27

Half the face is like it's time for a nap. The other face is like I'm ready to go.

Speaker 3: 36:32

Last night I crashed hard, you did.

Speaker 2: 36:34

They were like you want to go out and have a drink and I was like no, I just I know it felt weird there I was on the balcony having a little bit of a you know, and then a true friend would have said no man, I'm hanging with you if you're not having one.

Speaker 3: 36:53

I'm not having, because that's what I would have done and adam's like okay, fine, I'm gonna go have my, my cigar and my bourbon, you're right.

Speaker 2: 37:01

You're right, I'm not a true friend. I decided that I was going to be selfish. Now, the reason I'm selfish is because in my little humble abode Don't blame me, no, no, no, I'm not blaming you Go ahead. In my humble abode, where I choose to live, it's six degrees outside, so you know. To have a, a cigar, I have to heat up the garage, and then I gotta gotta wait until it all heats up, get it acclimated, then crack the door because I don't want it to smell. And so I? I sit right at the end where the, where the heat is going out, which takes a cigar smoke with it. I could not smoke at all. This is why you don't live in. But but I'm not living in central time, that's true, anyways. So actually I would live in central time. I have many times we are going to have another listener spotlight. I'm not going to leave you hanging on Michael's hot dog experience. Oh, we're getting back to that. Well, we're gonna. It's like I okay, go ahead.

Speaker 3: 38:17

You make it sound like I broke some law or something. Fbi is gonna pound down the door here at disney world and arrest me or something. It was a hot dog we.

Speaker 2: 38:28

There's the FBI right now. We're good. You better go check. I don't think so. I mean it's the FBI.

Speaker 3: 38:43

Well, I'm coming. Okay, now that he's been taken away, we can have some real frank discussions about Okay, they're taking a visual check here, so, um, come on in, we're doing a podcast, hey isn't that okay, thank you have to do a visual.

Speaker 2: 39:06

Okay, all right, we're leaving that in. We're totally leaving that in. That's really interesting. They have to do a visual check. Okay, all right, we're leaving that in. We're totally leaving that in. That's really interesting.

Speaker 3: 39:12

They have to do a visual check to make sure that I don't know, I'm dead on the floor in here or something.

Speaker 2: 39:17

Now, hold on, I do have a little bit to add to that. So when my house was destroyed in 2013, I lived in a hotel. I lived in a hotel for two months and at that time, they told me that every 10 days, they had the right to come in and inspect. And we knew that and that makes logical sense. It's their property. We had a pet. We had a cat at the time. I have two cats now, and so what we did is I said well, hold on a second If you're going to come in. I've got a pet, that is, we'll wait for the door. They would do a scheduled 10 day visit. Okay, we've only been here 48 hours. That's really weird. What's?

Speaker 3: 39:59

funny is both you and I have been here many times to many of the resorts. Right, I was just here two weeks ago. Right, we were there for six days, seven days, right, and never once did they do a visual check, except if you went to the parks.

Speaker 2: 40:15

they come in and they empty your garbage, and maybe that might have been the visual check.

Speaker 3: 40:18

That's true. Well, yeah, they did come in and check. But yeah, maybe that's it Okay.

Speaker 2: 40:22

I don't know. So Michael and I I'll be frank on here we go again. Buddy, I'm sorry, but Michael and I both are members for their vacation club here, timeshare, and so what they do is they call mouse keeping. So you don't get housekeeping every day and I'm not here to sell you DVC. You can look it up. But I just want to be clear.

Speaker 2: 40:45

When you're looking at it, you only have new, fresh sheets if you're staying here four nights. Besides that, it's considered what they call welcome home, quote unquote. So you have to use the same towels. You can't just like think, oh, I'm going to get new towels because I'm staying at a hotel. You can request them. You can, but sometimes they can actually depending on where you're staying and how long. You can actually get fees for that, because it's part of the agreement. So, but if anyone can go to the pool, let me use your brain. Go to the pool and you can get you know other things. So, but, um, exactly like um, but this is really weird. We're sitting here recording um, and the guy comes in and and and says I need to do a visual check, which, by the way, he didn't check the bathroom, he didn't check the bedroom. I assume you're doing a visual check to make sure that people are alive.

Speaker 3: 41:31

I don't know, there's several rooms here. He didn't check Well, but um, he didn't even actually look around the corner in the kitchen either. Probably felt uncomfortable when you walk in hey, we're doing a podcast.

Speaker 2: 41:42

He's like oh should we give him creator credit yeah?

Speaker 3: 41:55

We need to get his, we need to figure out what his name was. That's right to get information, but, uh, but anyway, disney, we appreciate you, uh, looking out for our safety. Um, I think he was a little shocked when he walked in because you can't see it, but we have taken the, they've got a, they came, they started out in campers, these, these tables where you can pull the top up and it's higher yeah coffee.

Speaker 3: 42:09

My parents had one in their camper like 20 years ago coffee table, and we've got lights hooked to that, we've got cameras hooked to that, we've got boom arms hooked to that, we got electronics, we've got two monitors going on. We got a computer over there. So he probably walked in and he's like he's probably calling the fbi right now, going there's something going on in this room.

Speaker 2: 42:31

So I was just thinking maybe we should like, uh, wrap it up, so I'm not just getting time to move to another place. That's right.

Speaker 3: 42:38

Um, so what's funny that we're like, oh, the FBI could be coming any minute, and then it's like, oh, hello, housekeeping, anyway, part of our adventures Anyway part of our adventures.

Speaker 2: 42:48

So that's pretty cool. That's funny. So couldn't plan that better. No, that was perfect. Well, so on the agenda is we're going to meet a good friend of ours tonight. Friend of the show team member. We are meeting our friend Armando Armando, which we've hooked up with in Florida before.

Speaker 3: 43:06

We've ridden with him in Georgia a couple times in Kentucky, and so, yeah, this will be fun.

Speaker 2: 43:13

We're having dinner with him and we look forward to, uh to spreading the the joy of, of our friendship with him. So, um, with that being said, uh, we talked about sponsorships. We're definitely in the search for one of those. It could be something small. Sponsorship does not mean like, okay, they want thousands of dollars. It could be, you know, a few bucks, and we'll mention the show, you know, in the beginning or end, this thing called dynamic content, which is where you hear hey, michael, have you heard that we're going to? You know, have a Jersey store. We can definitely put something in the front of there.

Speaker 3: 43:55

So you heard on every show that's downloaded. There's many ways that we can work together. So reach out to us and we can work together. Or just come out with some crazy bicycle invention, give it to Adam, sell him on it and he'll talk about it every single episode.

Speaker 2: 44:02

Speaking of that, did you bring your DeBrim?

Speaker 3: 44:05

I don't own a DeBrim, but I am surprised. Ironically, we're going to talk about DeBrim again. See what I'm saying you don't golf with a DeBrim which I find it funny because you make fun of me when I put sunscreen on, because you say it's causing cancer, it's a carcinogen. Fake news, fake news, fake news, total. But yet when we come golfing in sunny Florida, you don't wear your Debrim. What's the difference?

Speaker 2: 44:32

I actually do have a um Titleist big brim hat for really sunny days. It wasn't really that sunny yesterday Sunny.

Speaker 3: 44:40

What do you mean? You had a Titleist, so Titleist makes Debrims for golfing.

Speaker 2: 44:44

No, titleist makes the same like big, wide brim around your head, so goofy hat is what they make.

Speaker 3: 44:53

Okay, sorry, titleist, he doesn't use your golf balls either, or your clubs or your towels, or actually doesn't own anything. That's Titleist.

Speaker 2: 45:02

The one Titleist I found yesterday. I you donated back to the. I gave it back to the.

Speaker 3: 45:07

He did use your ball once yesterday. He found it alongside the course and he donated it back to them. He did use your ball once yesterday. He found it alongside the course and he donated it to the Alligator.

Speaker 2: 45:14

Show. I am a TaylorMade man. I don't sell TaylorMade Darn it I don't want. No, I'm just kidding. Great, great, great movie. So, brother Wild, if you haven't seen that, you definitely need to see that. So, um, all right, well, why don't we uh wrap this up? We've got a lot of good stuff. Um, we're hoping to get some more content for you. Oh and, ladies and gentlemen, this could be fun.

Speaker 3: 45:46

We haven't went through it yet. It may be nothing. We actually miked ourselves yesterday on the course and we had two gopro cameras, so who knows what we got in there. So hopefully we got a couple little interesting tidbits that we can throw on to future episodes or stick on the website or something yeah, we, we have audio and video.

Speaker 2: 46:05

We're going to take it again today so we'll see how it goes. So, um, yeah, with that we got a lot of good stuff. Good to be together. Uh, um, still think you need to see that 8-bit movie. And before we finish here, before we go to our listener spotlight, what did michael do with that hot dog? Oh, he decided that we went to portillo's.

Speaker 2: 46:27

Now, depending on what part of the country you're listening to, this, portillo's, we learned yesterday, started in Chicago in 1963 as a hot dog stand, and so for anyone in Illinois area and I know that Scott Garwick has been to Portillo's I guarantee it May not eat there. Now, based upon his experience and now writing and everything but guarantee he's been there. They are famous for their italian beefs and and, uh, chocolate cakes and all kinds of, of course, chicago style hot dogs and we do not have those in kansas. I, I completely understand, and I realized that yesterday because we you know, of course the whole world has gone to order your own food on a LCD screen. I didn't even, I didn't even think you could order from a human, could you?

Speaker 2: 47:16

No, ok, that was OK, I wasn't sure. And so 100 percent LCD, which probably cost people their jobs. Which is great? Just kidding, of course, it's not great, but but so we order and he goes through and, ladies and gentlemen, the man decides he's walking away. He's walking away, what are you? Oh, he decided to put ketchup on his hot dog, portillo's.

Speaker 3: 47:56

Oh my gosh, that is so loud Because I still have one with ketchup Because everybody in the Midwest knows outside of maybe Chicago no offense, chicago, a good hot dog has ketchup, it has mustard and it has relish.

Speaker 2: 48:20

I have to beep him. Ladies and gentlemen, he has got ketchup mustard.

Speaker 3: 48:27

Oh, there's ketchup. Look at that Ketchup.

Speaker 2: 48:30

Oh my gosh, you don't put ketchup on a hot dog well then it's going to be dry.

Speaker 3: 48:36

Nobody wants to eat a dry hot dog anyways.

Speaker 2: 48:40

Uh, I'm curious, this kind of this kind of started a little bit of a a debate. I am curious, uh, just on a random thing, go to our facebook page, write ketchup or or absolutely no ketchup. Don't put anything else on there. Just, oh, I know, hashtag ketchup or hashtag no ketchup. Uh, go to cycling man of leisure and we'll see how many people are replying. I'm curious to see what responses we get.

Speaker 3: 49:05

So, um, any self-respecting hot dog eater knows guys, we, we cannot put up with him. So now, I know which button to push darn it.

Speaker 2: 49:21

I gave away the secret. I shouldn't have given away the secret, so yeah, yeah, let's see.

Speaker 3: 49:26

Let's see what Ketchup or no ketchup on a hot dog. Well, I did put the celery salt at your, at your uh yeah Persuasion. Yeah, why we need celery salt on a hot dog, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 49:40

It's just part of the tradition Pickle spears.

Speaker 3: 49:44

Well, there's lots of traditions, but there's a lot of traditions we've moved away from too.

Speaker 2: 49:55

We don't burn people when your neighbor accuses you of being a witch. I think that's a good tradition to move on from, isn't it?

Speaker 3: 49:59

I don't know, I got a neighbor. I wouldn't mind if you burnt, but uh, wow, okay, we're moving on now.

Speaker 2: 50:02

Well, if you live in his vicinity, I would watch out well, trust me, if you came to my street, it's very obvious which neighbor I'm talking about.

Speaker 3: 50:13

So uh, I've been to your street and I know exactly what neighbor you're talking about.

Speaker 2: 50:19

With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for listener spotlight. All right, buddy, okay. This episode's listener spotlight is brought to you by not being brought to you by the brim Spotlight. All right, buddy, okay.

Speaker 3: 50:30

This episode's listener spotlight is brought to you by DeBrim, is not being brought to you by DeBrim I knew you were going there or nor Titleist, because now that you've insulted Titleist, they're never going to listen to our show.

Speaker 2: 50:41

That's a good point, just to be clear just want to make sure we get it out there. Titleist has Phenomenal products. I just am a tailor made man.

Speaker 3: 50:47

Go ahead, I'm a dapper Dan guy, um founded. This city was founded in the mid 1700s, so it's old school. Hmm, um, it was a city that Washington, general Washington, met opposition. That was not the British Army, that would have been during the Revolutionary War. So that gives you some idea of where this city is located. This city brought the luxury of train travel to the road. You could in fact say, say and it is argued by some that the United States was born in this city. This city saw the creation of a candy that is very well known and in fact, bears its name. What you're thinking right now?

Speaker 2: 52:00

Philadelphia. Wrong answer, I know, because there's no Philadelphia.

Speaker 3: 52:05

I'm just letting you know that immediately what you're thinking anybody out there is going to be wrong in 99, 99 of the time. Uh, here's one for you. Transportation was changed forever due to an invention in this city the federal yellow standee line.

Speaker 2: 52:24

I'm just kidding. Um, it's real. Um, there is actually a federal standing line.

Speaker 3: 52:31

So says the transportation guy. So there we have it.

Speaker 2: 52:37

Okay, well, let's thank our listeners from Spokane, washington. Thank you all listeners. Thank you, that was kind of interesting that Franklin did guess that. That's why I was kind of confused.

Speaker 3: 52:49

It was a week off or an episode off. But for the inspiration, franklin, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2: 52:55

It helped um you know, we, we did get uh paul to write in um, uh, and I just paul, wait, I just I, and, and paraphrasing um, his conversations were about, you know, any ride that out there was unsafe or or people don't want to go to, and I'm not that, that was a couple weeks ago and so so he was saying that, if we should, we should identify those rides.

Speaker 3: 53:23

So what do you say?

Speaker 2: 53:23

Yeah, kind of, maybe point those out to make sure to prepare people not to, you know, although a lot of the rides are unfortunately disappearing but, um, you know, he was basically saying you know, unsafe, unsafe, you know rides, and we've never been on one of those. Not that we'll talk about here, nope. So, um, well, anyways, with that being said, we, uh, we are on site together here in Florida reporting, and so this was, uh, um was exciting to be able to do together. So, with that being said, today looks like it would be a great day for a bike ride, absolutely, and some golf, and some golf, and some dinner and some.

Speaker 1: 54:04

Everybody have a great day see, ya See ya, thank you for coming along with Adam and Michael on Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure. If you have enjoyed this, please subscribe to the show on the podcast app of your choice.