Welcome To The River Cabin

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Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back slipping it in with you. I'm Megan, and I'm here with Maddie and JJ. Hello. We are coming to you from the banks of the Osabo River in northern Michigan. And we have a few special guests with us today to celebrate America 250. So we have Melissa back with us again almost one year later from her initial appearance on the pod. As our regular slippers know, hello, she is our West Michigan correspondent. Well, air quotes. Yes, I should qualify it. So welcome.

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What I realized when I auditioned, when I sent in my application for the role.

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Never got it.

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Well, I proposed that being a position for me until I realized how much effort it would take to be a correspondent. And then I decided, no, it's not for me.

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No. No.

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Yeah. It's a lot of work. You guys go through a lot of work and I'm not interested.

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I mean, we would feed you headlines of things happening in the world.

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And you're like, I um, I don't know. I can't go out today. Like Game of Thrones. Like, I yeah, sorry. So I did fail. But you were just for having me back, and I love to just be a guest star every once in a while.

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You were a part of one of our most iconic apps, I would dare say, which is Pigs Gotta Eat. It's in our library. We're back in the Osaba. And uh the Duval brothers.

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Oh, right? Big story. Big story. Very big story.

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Killed a couple other men that were deer hunters and then fed them to the pigs, allegedly.

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Yeah.

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So if you want to listen to that up, and then we've got some true crime coming into this one. Not as not we'll get there.

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Not as there is a mystery. There's a mystery.

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Brewing. There is a mystery. But anyway, so look it up. We won't go into the details. Uh, but yeah, you are part of that, Melissa.

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Thanks for having me back.

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And can I ask? Have your nuts changed?

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Absolutely not. Your nuts are no nut change. Nuts are the same.

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One, two, three nuts.

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You know what? I checked this morning. My nuts are still there. Not change. No other change.

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That's good.

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Maybe a mosquito bite here and there, but that's fine.

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She is loyal to yes. Denise said.

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You're loyal to your nuts.

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Yeah. She's a diehard nut. Yeah. Okay. Well, Miss Amigan. Yes. Tell the folks who else is with us besides our Michigan correspondent.

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Well, we also have Kyle and Denise here with us from Savannah.

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Savannah representative. Thank you.

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Super excited to be on the show.

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Yes. Happy to have you.

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And this really takes us back to the first uh episode that we launched. We really launched it when we went to visit you guys. So I mean in the 912. In the 912.

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We did not record.

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What is 912?

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I'm assuming. 912 is the area code.

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And that's what people in Savannah say. I'm from the 912. Okay.

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Really? This is why she didn't get the job. This is why. Um but we didn't really record in Savannah, but we launched it. We hit launched publish our very first one. Do you guys know that?

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Feel honored. As you should.

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I don't think I remember. Okay.

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Well, there's reason. We'll get into that. Listen to it together. Okay, so yeah, sorry. Go ahead. So Denise and Kyle, have we said their names?

Top Three Nuts And Nostalgia

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Yeah. Okay. Again.

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Because we always ask our guest, what are your top three nuts?

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Alright. I'm not really a big nut eater. But if I had to go with three, I would go with walnuts.

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As a knot. As your favorite knot. This is well.

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If you went to the store, you had a nut craving. You went to the store, you would get a walnut?

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No, I'd get pistachios. Maybe no, no, no. Nut is not your favorite nut.

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Maybe you don't understand the rules.

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I didn't know we were ranking them in water, but I would go with pistachios because that's like my everyday nut if I'm going to eat a nut. And then I would go almonds because when I go hiking, I usually have a bag of almonds.

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So walnut is not even one or two.

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And then walnut would be my third because my grandfather used to eat maple walnut ice cream. So yes, nostalgia. Nostalgic nut.

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Nostalgia. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Okay. I'm sure that if I recount, I might have a nostalgic nut before. You love the references. Well, I mean, Denise, what are your top three nuts?

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So my top nuts are pistachios, macadamia. Love me a macadamia.

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A cookie. However, it's not in my top three, but if you put it in a cookie, skyrockets. Love it. Are you cookie or just handful? Both. Oh.

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I love a macadamia. I love a mouthful.

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Oh. Okay. Well, they're catching on.

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It was macadamia. This whole life, I thought it was macadamia. Like a macadamia with an N at the end. I didn't know it was macadamia. Yes. That's a little matzer. I did not know that.

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Good thing we've added it. Good thing we've added it. And do you have a third nut? No.

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I love peanuts.

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Oh, the lonely horror of the peanut.

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According to Anderson Cooper.

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I like them salty. Oh.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes I like them roasted.

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Yes. Insert some ASMR. Okay, we gather nuts.

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Yes.

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Out of the way.

How We All Met Over Years

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So let's get into kind of how we met you guys and know each other.

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Sure. So I had a good friend that used to live in Savannah and he got a new job in the Detroit area. And in 2012, I came to visit him for the first time. It was my first time ever in Michigan, too. So on that we I flew in on a Friday, and on the Saturday, Michigan State was playing Notre Dame. And I'm a big Notre Dame fan. Okay. So we went to the game. So we were supposed to tailgate with my friends' friends, but on Friday, we got a little carried away at a bar called the Oakland. Okay. And we didn't quite fill up to tailgating, so we showed up a little bit later. So the following day on the Sunday, I finally make it at all. We made it to the game, but the it already started. Okay. So we made it within the first quarter of the game. Okay. But there was no tailgating, and I don't think there was any drinking either.

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And we were there whatsoever. A bunch of us tailgating, and they kept we're supposed to show up, but we kept texting, like, what's going on? Are you coming? Are you what's happening? Never appeared, never showed. So we packed up and left. We were just tailgating that day.

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So on the Sunday, you did Sunday Fun Day? We did Sunday Fun Day. We met in Detroit. I think we met um in Corktown.

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Yes.

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We met there, and that's when I met Megan for the first time. Nice. And some others. And then Matt and JJ, Matty and JJ, I met them in St. Patrick's Day Parade 2013, also in Corktown. Yes.

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We met.

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Yeah, after we did the 5K.

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I was there.

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Yes. Yes.

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Was I there for this meeting?

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You may not remember, but you were there.

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Yeah.

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We were at Slows.

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Back when they ran.

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We went to Slows barbecue.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. And if you guys have never done St. Patrick's Day in Detroit, it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. Yeah.

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In Detroit, uh, the big day is the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day. That's when they do the big St. Patrick's Day parade. They do a 5K. And Corktown is the Irish part of Detroit. Yeah. So it's all sorts of craziness. And it's very, very fun.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. And you usually want to make sure and proactively take Monday off.

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Yes.

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Do you want something?

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It's a good idea. Yes. Yeah. Whenever you're doing the date, right? Of when the shade.

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Whenever you're doing a Sunday fun day or even a saucy Saturday, like Monday needs to be.

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Well, it used to be I had to take Monday off for a Sunday fun day. Now I have to take Mondays off for saucy Saturdays as well. Because it's the recovery.

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I can't.

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The recovery is real. It's real. It's real. Yeah.

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So after after my 2012 trip, my first trip to Michigan is it turned into probably like 50 to 80 trips after that. And in 2018, in June, I believe, I met Melissa.

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Oh.

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We went boating on Spring Lake that goes out into Lake Michigan.

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Yep.

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And had a blast. And then we became good friends after that. Did you go there with like your family and your boat? Oh my God.

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Was Matt there that day?

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So many stories. Was I there? I remember Brian. I remember. No, I don't remember Matt. Was Brian? I think he was. No, we I was not there. No, I know that. No, no. Jay wasn't. Maybe it was just me and you, Megan.

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It was. Yeah.

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Yeah. Oh. And then if we want to keep going with it, I met Denise at a party in Vail. Oh. And that's where we really need to get out of here.

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And that was was that was that love at first sight, Mm.

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It was a connection.

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Okay.

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Um, but we were both I was in and out in like 48 hours. And uh of what? It was a connection. The visit. Of Vale. Yeah. So so one of my best friends from college invited me um to a weekend at in Vail, and she didn't tell me or the guys that she invited two other guys.

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Single.

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Single to set us to figure out it was a setup, kind of setup, and it was like Denise, you have a choice. It was a competition. It was a competition.

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Thank you. They had one guy who had us and they had me coming from Savannah.

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Kyle, did you know? Oh, you didn't know either. No. You didn't.

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No. So then it we there was there was a click, but then seven months later we got together and it was crazy magic.

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You know, and Donkey Kong.

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And then and we're it's seven years later, there's no itching. Wow. No. No, it's great. Yeah.

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One thing that I'm sure that he's told you before, but one thing that we've I mean, we've had plenty of conversations while we always come here. This has been kind of a tradition for all of us to come in to the Asaba River around the 4th of July. And I he didn't have to tell me that, but you could tell that you don't just love each other, but you like each other. You you like each other's company. Um absolutely.

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He's my best friend.

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Yeah, I would say the same, right? And that's different from what I've had in the past. But um, we don't have time for that. But it's important.

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Yeah, for sure. You two are just, yeah. You can see it in everything you do. You guys are best friends.

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I know we're gonna get a lot of fan mail about this. Can you, for our listeners, um, tell them what your accent is?

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Oh Northeast Georgia.

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Northeast Georgia.

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Um I was born in Rhode Island.

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Yeah, from the real housewife of Rhode Island.

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Absolutely. Representing. I love it so much. That's a that's the 401.

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Oh, the 401.

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The 401.

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He parks the cat. He parks the car.

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Yeah, so I left in 2002, and uh apparently the accent didn't go away. Yeah.

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We love accents. I know Kyle. I know a thing or two about accents, so we're good. Yeah, gotcha.

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Look at this. He doesn't like Duncan.

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It's just the main uh donut chain, and it started in New England. I believe it started in Massachusetts.

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We know what Duncan is. But why do you hate Duncan? That's it. Well, we want to know why Kyle dislikes Duncan. That's what I want to know.

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Probably for the same reason because it was forced on me. Oh, well, the smell makes me want to throw off.

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It was forced on him.

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And I will say it is like an East Coast I love it. It is an East Coast thing, like how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon do those Duncan commercials. Which I love those commercials. Well, who doesn't love Ben Affleck?

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And the Saturday Live stuff.

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And mate, Matt Damon. Yeah. But like I will say, from a like food drink perspective, Duncan is really not that great.

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Agreed.

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Well, he agrees. Shots have been fired. That's all I have to say. So, Matt, you have some facts about the river that we are in.

Grayling History And River Facts

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Thank you, JJ. So I like to make sure that if when we go out on location and shoot the pod, uh give a little nod to the area that we're shooting in. And so, as mentioned earlier, we have been here and did an episode previously with Melissa and we focused on pigs gotta eat. And so Grayling in that moment, I guess we didn't give it its finest moment because it was about two men killing two other men and feeding them to the pigs. Yeah. All right. So I got an I got something this time that's a little bit more just interesting in general. So Grayling was originally called Crawford. Oh, wow. Which is now Crawford County, right? Again, we talked about this yesterday. So Crawford County, but like it the city was actually called Crawford, but in 1874, there were fishermen on the Osaba and they caught this fish, and nobody knew what the fish was. They sent these fish to Washington, D.C. And they studied the White House. Well, it times were different. Okay, and ship the fish. Yeah. And at that point in 1874, they're like, we got nothing to do. Let's check these fish. Yeah. From the Osaba River, it turned out that the fish were graylings.

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Okay.

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So then they named the by God, we're calling that place Grayling.

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Yeah. So from Crawford went into Grayling. Yes. Oh wow.

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But the kicker is in nine nine, this takes a turn. 1936. Oh wow. After stream logging, overfishing, and somebody had introduced brown trout into the stream, which put pressure on the graylings, the gray lings disappeared. So now there are no graylings in Osaba, yet the name has persisted. And apparently these graylings can only live in three United States states. One is Alaska, one is Montana, and the third is Michigan. And they still are thriving and alive in Alaska and Montana. And there is a group trying to reintroduce them. No, these are these people are up to good stuff, JJ. They're trying to reintroduce the graylings into the Osaba. So in a future episode, we'll keep an update on that.

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So what would be different this time around if there's still trout in the river?

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When the trout well, I'm gonna that is a great question. And I really I'm not sure. I just feel like the the trout are gonna have to behave.

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Yeah. Well, the grayline, the grayling really ghosted the trout, and they're like, it's not you, is us?

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Uh-huh. Well, I think the trout came in like bullies, and now they're gonna have to get along. And they're just be like, listen, we can't there's room enough. There, you know what? There's room enough for us all.

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Yeah, yeah. There is tell that to the animals in the Everglades when the Python got introduced.

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Yeah.

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Well, all right. I think though. I like the grayling story. That's right. I still think there's a couple graylings still in the undergrounds around here, and they're like, we're still here. Yeah, we're just self-populating.

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We're back. Yeah.

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I would like to comment that it is pronounced Osabol.

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Oh.

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Not Osab. I don't know.

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You're saying something I'm saying Osabol.

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And that's not correct.

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Osable.

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No.

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What is it? Osabol. Osable.

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Okay. All right.

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And it is one of the top fly fishing rivers in the country.

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Yeah, you could answer that when we were.

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So if you're into fly fishing, you probably already know about it.

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Just don't come thinking you're catching a grayling. No, that's not happening.

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It is a big, it's about trout.

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And the canoeing, right?

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Uh well, there is a big 24-hour canoe race, which is one of the few with maybe only in the country, where they start and they literally canoe all night long, all day long in the ground in the dark with like little lights or with no light.

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And can I just say that your family's place on this river for all these years? I came up when I was a little girl with Megan to her grandparents' house, and now her family has built another home. It's absolutely beautiful. And I wouldn't trade coming up here for anything. So thank you, Megan, for always having us up with you.

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We have nice furniture and stuff, but you gotta keep your eye on it.

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Well, that's very true.

The Missing Dock Chair Mystery

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I was all aflutter the other morning because I came out and we have new black plastic Adirondack chairs that we got from Target this year. And I got this foldable wood table from Aldi, and I had them on the dock, and a chair and the table were missing. So I was adamant that there had been a theft on the river.

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Until JJ wakes up.

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Yes.

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Hold on. Hold on though. There was a thunderstorm, a brewing, a literal thunderstorm the night before they went missing. Yes.

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Yes.

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Which is gonna is an important character in the story because that is this is why this chair probably and this table blew off into the water.

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I woke up to the whole initial lift off.

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I I agree. Yeah, probably.

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I woke up to the whole fluster, and obviously, as we've known in the up on the slip it in, Megan was already surmising what the story was behind the chairs.

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Oh, yes. There was there was an alert.

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I immediately went into that is I don't think that is the case. We've seen we have not you didn't experience that storm, the storm that Maddie and I, because Maddie and I came in earlier, and the one of the biggest chairs was moving. The wind was crazy. And I'm like, I went on a mission with Megan's dog that he was very excited about. I went in a trail, and I'm like, poking through the water, I could see the corner of the chair, and I just immediately came back and said, the chair is well and alive. We could we I could not see the table, but the chair was there. What was her original theory?

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Somebody came and stole the chair off her back.

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God, you know her or canoe.

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Well, it would have been a little bit of a deliverance moment there.

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There we go.

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100% it would have taken two. Fast forward, JJ went to go retrieve the chair.

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A day after.

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And yes, and he had a run-in with the neighbors across the river.

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Yes, and she immediately was like a positive run-in.

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You make it sound like a you make it sound well, and it was friendly and pleasant.

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It was very interesting.

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Talk about the facts.

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Yeah, it was very interesting because as I was I was clearly looking for something.

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Yes.

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Because I went on a mission. I went on a trail, I saw it from the trail, and I'm like, I'm gonna go in the water, I'm gonna check, I'm gonna retrieve that chair. Yep. There was nowhere to be found. Like it was not poking through anymore. So I thought, I mean, it kept it. We had more rain. So we I thought, okay, maybe it's something. I mean, it's it's still like on the on the bottom of the water. There was nowhere to be found. I was looking for it, clearly. And here comes our neighbor, and she immediately came in and she asked me, like, are you guys renting there?

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And I said, Point.

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Not really.

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She wants to know if we're gonna be around or we'll be leaving.

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Or she's just being a kind human being.

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Well, so she asked me if I was we were renting. I said, No, this is a family cabin. We're here with I I'm here with my best friend, and she immediately went into I wish I would have known because I saw the kayakers snatch your chair from the river. And they they immediately said, Oh, that's such a nice chair. Let's just take it.

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But all the correct chair. Correct, Melissa.

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Melissa, don't give her any.

SPEAKER_04 21:41

All that was sticking out was just the top of it. Like, there was a corner, like a little corner, yeah. A little black corner. So you couldn't say, see the cup holders, the foam holders, or any of the other things. $25.

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$25. Okay.

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$25 plastic chair.

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Fum Target, so it has a little style.

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Non-spond. They look like chairs. The funny record.

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What? They look like $75 chairs for the record.

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The funny thing about the turn of the story and my interaction with our neighbor is like, so I am Mrs. So-and-so. And immediately her uh son was right next to her. And he's like, and I am the one that's always yelling. And she was like, You are a piece of work. That's who you are. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 22:28

Well, and we heard that son last year. So Megan, what we we do know about the yelling. Yeah. Well, let's piece of work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 22:34

Megan, why don't you tell our audience listeners what this neighbor now you think is guilty of?

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My now, this isn't our next door neighbor. They're across the river and downstream a bit. But we can kind of But you know them.

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So don't say they're not your neighbor. They're your neighbor across the river. You've known them for people.

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People know that they're not like next door next door.

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Well, how long do you think they lived there?

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I mean, they've been there like through families and things for years. For generations.

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And they're not just random.

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And a neighbor doesn't have to live next to the house.

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Yeah, so you guys know you can see their house from both properties. We can actually listen to them. We can hear and see them, and they can hear and see us.

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I can see them right now.

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I think personally saw some shenanigans sticking out of the river and they went and got it. Because how does a kayaker say she said, Oh, the kayakers were kayaking by and said, Oh, that looks like a nice chair when only a little black corner was sticking out of the river, and then they stopped and pulled.

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Just FYI, I was the only one, I was the only witness of the corner. So nobody knows how much of what's sticking out.

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And I'm listening to your facts. And I questioned you, and you said, JJ, to be clear, it was a little corner. You couldn't even see that it was a little bit more. Well, the kayaker would see it before.

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I'm just going off how she presented it to JJ.

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Yeah, and I I do also think that Maddie has a valid point as if you were to be the kayaker.

SPEAKER_08 24:12

If you were the kayaker where the chair was located, it was not in front of anyone's specific property. I gr I give you the fact that there's five other chairs that are similar here. But like if you're going to seven, but hold seven, hold on though. Jesus. Hold on though. Like, I am not going by people's house looking at their patio furniture and counting them, and then I get 300 feet further and be like, oh, that's their missing set piece. Like, no. I am finding a chair in the river that then I'm like, well, part of my responsibility as somebody who enjoys nature is to help keep the river clean. So I'm gonna grab it. I don't know who to give it to. Honest to God, they're not gonna remember like 300 feet prior, those had matching chairs. I'm gonna just take it with me, a good find, and I'm cleaning the river.

SPEAKER_07 25:06

I'm cleaning the river. It's a part that I feel like it's it's valid. I would have probably done the same thing. We're all very conscious of our name, like the nature and everything.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

I would have probably My dad used to say, why ruin a good story for the truth?

SPEAKER_07 25:20

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_08 25:21

Thank you. So Megan's neighbors have stolen her chair. And every night we go to bed, another one is gonna cut turn up missing. Because now she's on the hunt for a set.

SPEAKER_05 25:31

They want that one odd chair that costs 25 bucks. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_04 25:34

But let me just it was cheaper.

SPEAKER_07 25:35

Now we're it's 25.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

Let me tell you, I plan to keep an eye out on their property because I think they have it back there and we're gonna wait till we're not around to bring it out to you.

SPEAKER_08 25:48

Well, Megan, I did bring my Binox.

SPEAKER_04 25:50

Yes, so we can monitor. I don't think it's gonna be seen this weekend, but I'll be back in a few weeks and I will be.

SPEAKER_07 25:57

Oh, right when they let their guard down.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Cameras. Correct.

SPEAKER_07 26:02

We can install some cameras.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

We can talk to Kyle about that. There may have been a river crime, and until I feel confident that there wasn't, which means I never see the chair over there, then I do feel you're outnumbered here, but I don't think.

SPEAKER_08 26:17

Do you guys think can we do a quick does anyone here think that the neighbors have stolen that chair?

SPEAKER_02 26:25

No. No, I'm Switzerland.

SPEAKER_07 26:28

Oh, Switzerland. Oh, wow. I I do not think that they have it, but I think that there is a neighbor that we're gonna see further down with it.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

Maybe, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:39

All right, let's. I think we had enough of the stories.

SPEAKER_08 26:42

I'm a I'm a hard no. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:45

I'm a hard no. Let's just move on.

As Ever Rosé And Spreads Review

SPEAKER_04 26:48

Yes. Well, so you may or may not have noticed some of us are drinking a little rose today.

SPEAKER_07 26:55

In a very fancy glass. Oh, somebody already drank hers, but she loved it.

SPEAKER_08 27:01

She loved it. She loved it.

SPEAKER_04 27:03

So cheers, Denise. Cheers. It's a very special rose. It is a very special one. Maybe should I say a susic?

SPEAKER_07 27:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 27:11

So we are sampling today the as ever rose, as well as we also sampled at breakfast the as ever raspberry spread and strawberry spread.

SPEAKER_08 27:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:29

So all it's just part of it. And yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:33

I can show these edible sprinkles.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

We also had a little sampling of the flower sprinkles.

SPEAKER_08 27:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:40

So it's chic.

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Yes. So let's ha talk about the tea. So these are for anyone.

SPEAKER_08 27:46

It's magnetic. It picks up my phone.

SPEAKER_06 27:48

Well, it's a it's a metal container. It's a metal container. So yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:53

I love it already. I love it already.

SPEAKER_06 27:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

So everyone knows I'm a fan of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, otherwise known as Megan Sussex now. And Megan has anyone who's watched her Netflix shows, she has an as ever line. And it's a line of kind of pantry stable staples along with some wines. Um, we have the as ever rose, which is really great. The raspberry spread, the strawberry spread, and the floral sprinkles. So I really love the raspberry spread. It's rich in tart, but it has a little lemony taste to it that you don't normally find in a traditional raspberry jam. It also has um less sugar than your standard jams. So it's perfect if you want to try to stay healthy, but you still want a little sweetness, but you don't want to get too crazy with your sugars. So, what did everyone think of the raspberry stuff?

SPEAKER_07 28:55

To quote the great RuPaul.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 28:58

Oh boy. I first I thought it was jelly and not jam because it there is a very famous song from RuPaul that says it must be jelly because jam don't shake. And it was a little shaky. So it was a little watery, but I do have to say that the taste is very natural forward. Um, and I think Denise was the one we were talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Yeah, it was nice and tart.

SPEAKER_07 29:26

The tartness of it, I think that that is what did it for me. If you can just give the mic to Denise.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Oh, yeah, I love the tartness. I like the consistency.

SPEAKER_07 29:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

I don't like a lot of sugar, I don't like a lot of sweet. I thought it was kind of perfect. And I loved the raspberry and the strawberry.

SPEAKER_07 29:40

Yeah, I am a big strawberry aficionado. So the strawberry was like my favorite 100%.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

I am not a big jelly or jam person. So it tasted like any other raspberry or strawberry jam or jelly I've ever had.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

I highly disagree with that. I think it is double advancing.

SPEAKER_07 30:06

Here she comes that she doesn't like when she call her we call her.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

If you don't like it, what are you measuring it against? Yeah. There we go. I didn't say I didn't like it. I'm saying it's a strawberry and a raspberry jam that I've had numerous times in my life.

SPEAKER_05 30:22

And I agree. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

Oh wow. Well then you're not getting yelled at for being a baby. No, I think the reality.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

No.

SPEAKER_04 30:31

If you're not kind of more along the lines of a jam aficionado, that's what I said.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

I don't eat a jam or a jelly very often.

SPEAKER_05 30:40

Same here.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

Like any other jam or jelly.

SPEAKER_05 30:43

Tell it, Kyle. Tell jam is like nuts. I very seldom have it.

SPEAKER_08 30:50

Worse of wisdom from Kyle. Wow. Put that on a card and a poster. But I want that t-shirt. Put that on a shirt.

SPEAKER_05 30:57

But it's a tasty jam. Yeah. I just can't tell the difference between that jam and other jams.

SPEAKER_08 31:01

Well, do you have a nostalgia jam?

SPEAKER_05 31:04

That would be jelly.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

All I'm trying to say is if you if you're all saying you don't you don't taste that stuff often, why are you qualified to kind of determination?

SPEAKER_03 31:17

I'm just I'm not.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

I'm not an official.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

If I would have known that I had to be qualified, I would have said no, I'm not qualified to jump.

SPEAKER_08 31:27

Does anyone hear for our listeners, are they able to say what is different between a jelly and a jam?

SPEAKER_03 31:33

I can 100%.

SPEAKER_08 31:34

Okay, the aficionado can.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Well, I'll let Megan because she'll be the correct answer. Well, you say it, Melissa, if you think you know. Jelly is just like a jiggly whatever. A jam actually is like the preserve and like the seeds.

SPEAKER_08 31:49

Jelly is a jiggly whatever. That's great.

SPEAKER_03 31:51

That's jelly doesn't the seeds and the actual like fruit broken down in it. It's just like a flavor.

SPEAKER_07 31:59

I did think it had a seed. Jelly is what you're gonna see at uh National Connie Island for the uh in a uh kind of a deli type of breakfast, please. It's just a little so jam is healthier? I think so.

SPEAKER_04 32:12

But Megan will tell us. Yes, so jelly only has fruit juice in it, whereas jam's actually made from crushed or parade or Google has been activated.

SPEAKER_08 32:24

I can see her computer. Google has been activated.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

Well, I did Google, so I was appropriately talking about jelly. So jelly doesn't have seeds or anything like that in it. I personally don't like a jelly consistency, so I'm a jam preserved girl.

SPEAKER_08 32:39

I have a complicated relationship with raspberries. So I liked them, but raspberries and I I don't I've said it before, I'll say it again. I don't like a hairy berry.

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Oh my god, I can't. So I like them.

SPEAKER_07 32:54

Do we have prices?

SPEAKER_04 32:55

Yes. So let the the raspberry spread and the strawberry spread are $12 on the As Ever website, or you can get them in a collectible um like tin or box, and that's $15. The flour sprinkles are $15 and they're edible, but they're great to anyone try these?

SPEAKER_08 33:17

Whoa, it stuck to my phone.

SPEAKER_04 33:18

They're great to sprinkle on over salads, cupcakes, avocado toast, cocktails, or desserts.

SPEAKER_07 33:24

I wouldn't even put it in a in a little topper for the rose. Like if you're having brunch.

SPEAKER_04 33:29

Yeah. So it just I don't like it.

SPEAKER_08 33:31

I don't like no no offense to this particular product. In general, I don't the concept of edible flowers. I'm out.

SPEAKER_04 33:38

Oh, see, I love an edible flower.

SPEAKER_08 33:40

I'm out.

SPEAKER_04 33:41

And I love that you can just add a little fun to your party, your event, your lunch, your breakfast.

SPEAKER_07 33:47

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 33:48

So the other thing that we haven't really gotten into is the rose wine. It is crisp, it's light, it's very easy to drink. It's perfect for a summer patio. It's a great porch wine. Here we are. Yep.

SPEAKER_08 34:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:01

So may I have some more? Yes, absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 34:04

Her glass be empty.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

Girls' night, brunch, whatever. It's a little fruit forward, but it's not overly sweet. And it's a solid crowd. Just like I mean, it may not be your like if you're a total wine connoisseur, but to me, it's that easy, drinkable rose that I'm always looking for.

SPEAKER_07 34:23

Very refreshing.

SPEAKER_04 34:24

And it's it's as ever rose. It's from Napa Valley. All the grapes are from Napa Valley, and it retails for $30 per bottle. But I have to tell you, you can't buy just one. You have to buy them in a three-pack.

SPEAKER_08 34:39

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

And there's a $20 flat rate shipping fee.

SPEAKER_07 34:42

Slip it in some pillows are going up.

SPEAKER_08 34:44

So it's going to be a worse.

SPEAKER_04 34:46

Well, but I will say that's pretty standard. I order a lot of wine from Napa, and that's kind of standard with the flat rate shipping. Yeah. Well, I'm in a wine club. My wine all comes from Napa.

SPEAKER_07 34:58

All right. Sorry. Awesome. I love it. 100%. It'll be a burling tree.

SPEAKER_04 35:02

What? You don't buy European wines? I'm more of a I'm a very American wine girl. I love my California wine, my Oregon wine. Like I'm very comfortable in that realm. It gets dicey for me.

SPEAKER_05 35:15

Washington State.

SPEAKER_04 35:16

I like Washington State wine, but I'm much more because I've gone to Napa. Squirreling wine?

SPEAKER_08 35:20

Squirreling?

SPEAKER_04 35:21

There's no wine in Grayling. I've gone to Napa many times as well as Oregon. And so I'm very, I can talk the wine. I know the wine. I can figure out what's good and bad and what I'll like.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

Denise and Kyle, what do you are you wine drinkers? Where do you get your wine?

unknown 35:36

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 35:37

So like the nuts and the jam. I do not drink wine. Oh.

SPEAKER_08 35:45

Well, we all know.

SPEAKER_05 35:47

What do I drink, Maddie?

SPEAKER_08 35:48

Yeah, what does Kyle drink then? Vaka water. It's just like he likes the more concentrated versions. Vaca. Vodka with no mixer. Well, a chaser is a chaser of diet. Dia Pepsi.

SPEAKER_05 36:01

This is true.

SPEAKER_08 36:01

Is that right? I don't want to, I don't want to paint an incorrect picture.

SPEAKER_05 36:05

I also drink bourbon and tequila.

SPEAKER_08 36:09

Okay. The hard stuff.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

I call him a bourbon connoisseur.

SPEAKER_08 36:14

Oh. Oh, a bourbon connoisseur?

SPEAKER_02 36:16

Yeah, if we're gonna put a label on that one.

SPEAKER_08 36:18

I have talked about you, Kyle, to my friends and said, I am friends with the most impressive drinker of straight vodka I know. He can drink a full bottle of Kirkland vodka, and the next morning he's up, goals, ready to go.

SPEAKER_07 36:34

In a hoodie.

SPEAKER_08 36:35

Goals and ask. I think we're I'm sure that someone spill it out. And we'll get there, I'm sure. I'm not sure. But okay.

SPEAKER_07 36:42

Speaking of time.

Slip It In Pull It Out Begins

SPEAKER_07 36:44

It is time.

SPEAKER_08 36:44

Okay, maybe we need to get to it. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Are we getting to slip it in and pull it out? We are. We are at we are there. I've been counting down for this. Okay. Wow. Who's going first?

SPEAKER_05 36:56

I can go first. Oh. All right. Can I have multiples?

SPEAKER_03 37:00

Yeah, do what you want to do.

SPEAKER_08 37:01

What do you mean? Well, yeah, sure. It's our 250th for our country. Do what you want.

SPEAKER_05 37:08

All right. So Team USA winning and all of us watching it together is a dappling slip it in.

SPEAKER_07 37:17

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 37:17

Another one I would say is just hanging out with your friends.

SPEAKER_07 37:21

U.S. men's national team. Yes, of course.

SPEAKER_08 37:25

You're saying Was Megan watching it with us?

SPEAKER_04 37:27

Wait, let's just stop for a moment because I don't think everyone knows really what you're talking about. You're talking about World Cup soccer, correct?

SPEAKER_05 37:35

Well, if we're talking about Team USA, I think everybody knows we're probably talking about the men's soccer right now.

SPEAKER_04 37:40

World Cup. No. Yeah. No, most people wouldn't necessarily know. Yes. World Cup. I think we have to clarify what it was.

SPEAKER_08 37:47

Yes. I think most people don't.

SPEAKER_04 37:49

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_08 37:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:51

So what's your next slip then? You said you had more than that.

SPEAKER_05 37:53

My next one would be just hanging out with you guys, just hanging out with my friends. We probably see each other two or three times a year, but there is something magical about coming to this cabin. I've been coming for like the last 10 or 11 years now. And it's just always a lot of fun, and it's just always a lot of laughter.

unknown 38:10

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

I'm a little newer to the equation, and I'm gonna say I 100% agree. And it's not just here, it's wherever we get together. I love you guys.

SPEAKER_05 38:19

You're in the two-time cabin club.

SPEAKER_08 38:21

Oh, I love that. You have a pull it out, right?

SPEAKER_05 38:24

I do. It's probably where I'm lodging. I'm lodging in a bedroom that's probably 150 degrees. And to try to get a breeze, we have to keep the windows open, which means as soon as the sun comes up, guess who's up? And guess who? And everybody else is sleeping for another three hours.

SPEAKER_08 38:43

Can I say something? I empathize with you. However, when you are up and you're outside and I find you outdoors, you are wearing, you are wearing wool socks, a hooded sweatshirt, a fleece line pants, and a wool hat. And so in my mind, I'm like, that's the perfect bedroom for him. Because when he's out of the bedroom, he wants back in. He wants that feeling. Am I wrong? Am I making it up?

SPEAKER_05 39:14

You're not making it up.

SPEAKER_08 39:15

Okay. This outfit is very January, December. Well, sorry.

SPEAKER_05 39:23

I love me a hoodie. I love me some slippers.

SPEAKER_03 39:26

And wool socks with shirts.

SPEAKER_08 39:28

So wouldn't you think this room, why do you hate the room if you like the heat?

SPEAKER_05 39:33

Because when I sleep, I like it cold and I like to have the least amount of clothes on, other than socks. He's a sleepmaxer.

SPEAKER_08 39:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 39:39

I do have those wool socks on when I sleep.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Oh, well, that's the big problem right there. I think if you took them off, you would feel much cooler.

SPEAKER_05 39:47

Megan, I guarantee you the socks are not the problem.

SPEAKER_08 39:51

Well, I will say heat leaves your feet. So you should try it tonight. I would recommend taking those wools off.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

I can't with you. I didn't know you were sleeping with those socks.

SPEAKER_05 40:01

Sometimes just the socks.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Well, take them off.

SPEAKER_05 40:05

I don't know about that. I don't want my toes exposed.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

Okay. So can I are you done? But that was your pull it out.

SPEAKER_05 40:12

I am done.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Okay. My slip it in, which Matt kind of jumped on. That's totally fine. So I came a day after Kyle and Denise arrived in Megan, which was two days after JJ and Matt arrived. And when I woke up the next morning, came out, I could see Kyle out on the dock on the river. And it was, I mean, it's fairly humid. It's the 4th of July in Michigan. It's very humid.

SPEAKER_05 40:44

No, it was probably like 80. It was like 10 o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 40:46

Okay, but that was a high. Okay, so Kyle was 6 a.m. had been, he brought the rocking chair out as he could to the river on the dock. He had, as Matt pointed out, a stocking hat.

SPEAKER_08 41:03

It looked like we just got done snowmobiling.

SPEAKER_03 41:05

Adidas pants, wool socks, and slippers that were Sherpa lines. Uggs.

SPEAKER_04 41:11

Let's just get to the point. They were Uggs slippers.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Okay. So he had been out there rocking const the whole time, just rocking, doing this cardio. Well, we ended up sitting out there chatting till noon. And I said, Kyle, are you okay? I looked at him, his whole face was beat red like a tomato. Oh my god. He never took off the hat.

SPEAKER_08 41:35

We finally got him to take the wool hat off.

SPEAKER_03 41:38

And the rest of us are in swimsuits drinking ice water, and you were burning up. Do you remember too?

SPEAKER_05 41:47

Remember your little eyes like, oh, I'm sore. And you're like, it's probably because you've been rocking for five hours.

SPEAKER_03 41:52

Oh, it was. By the time you went in, it was noon, and you were out there rocking from 6 a.m. until now.

SPEAKER_05 41:58

Six hours.

SPEAKER_03 41:58

Yes. So that's my uh slip it in.

SPEAKER_05 42:01

God.

SPEAKER_03 42:02

My pull it out is um earlier in the day yesterday, we had the most amazing rafting trip down the river. We all got tubes. We all got different types of tubes. Kyle and I got the same type of tube where we just floated and were at the mercy of the river. The rest of the group got tubes where you actually had paddles where you could navigate how you were gonna go.

SPEAKER_04 42:31

They were known as half tube, half kayaks. Yes. Yeah. What were they called?

SPEAKER_08 42:37

Rockets.

SPEAKER_04 42:37

Tube tracker.

SPEAKER_08 42:39

It's a hybrid.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

Yes, correct. So I'm getting in. Well, I see everybody's kind of like floating off and paddling away. And I was hoping that we would all kind of stick together and chat and you know, just have fun talking together. Well, luckily, JJ was so sweet and let me attach to his tube tracker, which was great.

SPEAKER_08 43:02

Like a barnacle.

SPEAKER_03 43:03

Yeah, okay. Well, as we keep going and we're trying to just chat in different groups, I try attaching to Megan. She kicked me off of her tube and said, I can't do this. I'm not responsible for you. Correct.

SPEAKER_08 43:20

That was the true crime on the river. That was the real crime.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

And then I said, Megan, I want to talk to you. You said that's fine, but I can't manage you and I'm not controlling you. Didn't she hit you with a paddle? No.

SPEAKER_04 43:33

I took my foot and pushed her tube away. She did because I didn't want her attaching to me.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

So fast forward, our ride or our float was two and a half hours. And then we get to the point where we actually I grabbed you. You did, Denise. And so did Matt. Matt let me be a barnacle on him as well.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

I didn't. You weren't a barnacle.

SPEAKER_03 43:55

Thank you. It was fun. I love that. So we're getting to the end, though, in Two and a half hours in, we pull up. We're like, okay, here's the dock. Like, here's the place where we all get off the tubes, all of this stuff. So I have no paddle. I have no nothing. So I'm at the mercy of somebody to pull me in to the edge to get on the dock to get out. Megan was the closest one. I went to grab her. Megan pushed me off of her, pushed me away. I went past the exit and I'm floating well past where I was supposed to get off. So I had to jump off the tube and walk upstream to get off my tube to get out. Yes. Okay. I'm sorry. This is a long pull it out. This is really quick. Okay. I finally navigate myself out of the river, come home, take a shower, get all cleaned up, and I'm walking in the house, and Kyle, what happened?

SPEAKER_05 44:53

I said, there's something in the back of your leg. Can you come over here and turn around?

SPEAKER_03 44:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 44:58

And it was a leech. It was a small leech.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 45:01

And it it had a pretty good suction going on.

SPEAKER_03 45:04

Yep. He had to pull a leech off my foot because Megan wouldn't tow me in to the end.

SPEAKER_08 45:10

Is your pull it out the leech or Megan? Both. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 45:15

All right. I have to add some comments.

SPEAKER_08 45:17

We don't have time. I don't think we have time, Megan. We're going to have to move on.

unknown 45:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 45:22

No, but I agree, Megan.

SPEAKER_04 45:24

It's not true facts what are being told.

SPEAKER_07 45:26

I was there.

SPEAKER_04 45:27

Yeah. But I mean, when you tube, you just the current was strong. But tubing means you have to get in and out of the river. It doesn't mean you have this clean riding experience, which is why I chose the tube track.

SPEAKER_08 45:40

I do agree with Megan on that. Like you can't get on the river and just out act like a helpless infant, which was happening. Exactly. Which was happening.

SPEAKER_04 45:49

And I when she we had to get to the dock to get out, there were workers there that could have been.

SPEAKER_08 45:56

Well, I heard the worker say to the other worker, like, I just bought these shoes. I'm not, I wasn't going to do that.

SPEAKER_04 46:00

They weren't jumping in. And I say it from the wall. I didn't jump in.

SPEAKER_08 46:03

I don't remember that. There were like young teens. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

And there were only two sets of stairs. So I was trying to make sure I got onto the dock where the stairs were. And I didn't have a hold of the dock when she was whizzing by. And I'm like, I can't help you because I've got to navigate myself.

SPEAKER_08 46:21

I feel for both of you. And I think, yeah, the true the I mean, it's all there.

SPEAKER_04 46:26

You said you didn't want her barnacled to you either. Correct. So you know. Correct.

SPEAKER_08 46:31

I feel I didn't like it when you kicked her in the face.

SPEAKER_04 46:35

I kicked her too. And pushed her away.

SPEAKER_08 46:39

At the end, when we were getting off, I felt, Missy, that was on you. Yeah. You needed to like, we're all trying to catch the doc.

SPEAKER_04 46:46

Exactly. We can't help others.

SPEAKER_08 46:48

Early on, 10 minutes in when we're just trying to have fun. And getting kicked in the face to be disconnected. I'm with you.

SPEAKER_04 46:56

It wasn't a kick in the face. It was a push on the toe.

SPEAKER_08 47:00

As Denise said, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story. There we go. There you go. Denise.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

So my slip it in. So I love your ling. Your lang. Yeah. Our leg and speak to each other. It's so much fun. I really enjoyed it. Participating. Participate. That didn't really work. I have to practice. I had to practice and learn the language, but I love it. And also, Megan. Should we the best hostess ever? Yeah. Again. Another year. So fantastic. And thank you, Megan Sussex, and as ever.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

Oh God.

SPEAKER_04 47:44

A little help with the flower sprinkles and the roses.

SPEAKER_08 47:47

Just say thank you. All right. So you like the way we talk a little bit with our abriefs.

SPEAKER_02 47:54

I love it.

SPEAKER_08 47:54

Just for the audience. It's my face. Like it's a little bit of an abrief here and there.

SPEAKER_07 47:58

So it's my face. It's an internal language. Yeah, that's for sure. It's super fun. Do you have any pull out?

SPEAKER_02 48:04

I don't have one. No, it's been so great. I just don't have one.

SPEAKER_07 48:08

I love it.

SPEAKER_02 48:08

All right, guys. Oh, and one other. I love this podcast. Oh fun. We're glad that you anytime you need a guest star, we're in.

SPEAKER_08 48:17

Yeah, I love that. You will be welcomed back 100%. Whose turn?

Ticks Leech Drama And Heat Complaints

SPEAKER_04 48:24

All right. I'll go next. So my slip it in is global warming.

SPEAKER_08 48:33

Oh, it's supposed to be. I can't. Can I just say for the audience, it's supposed to be shit that happened this weekend. And I guess it's happening. Somebody's going very heavy. This is going to be about ticks, I swear. It is.

SPEAKER_04 48:47

I knew it. I knew it. I'm going on to ticks on global warm, yeah. We came back from a little hike yesterday. I took my shoes off. I had a tick on my foot. Then we started to record this podcast. I looked down. I've got a tick. I tried to push it off my foot, and he could, he was starting to like bite in, and I had to like yank him off. Got him off, thank God. So growing up, we never had tick issues up here. It is a very new issue, and they're rampant, and that is due to global warming.

SPEAKER_08 49:21

I got a tick on my neck, and you had a tick and your foot. On your foot, and you had a tick and a leech. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 49:29

Just the leech here.

SPEAKER_08 49:30

Just the leech here.

SPEAKER_05 49:31

So you are right though, because they're in Alaska now too, and they never used to be in Alaska. In Alaska. Wow.

SPEAKER_08 49:37

With the graylings. All right. Global warming.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

Yes. So that is my uh pull it out. Well, that was sorry, I confused him. That was my pull it out. That wasn't my slip it in. My slip it in is my crazy Rottweiler who thinks he has to protect us from every fly around. Yeah, that I can't simply he cannot, he is not getting his sleep in that he normally does because all he's doing is monitoring the air and running and trying to chase after every fly, dragonfly that comes around.

SPEAKER_08 50:09

I think it's cute.

SPEAKER_04 50:10

It is very cute. He's very perked up and he's just he can't get enough. He's on patrol. He is, it is adorbs. It's very big patrolling. So that's it for me.

SPEAKER_07 50:24

You or me? You. I'm gonna do it. My slip it in is um when I went on the hunt for this chair, I did after I decided that the chair was not where to be found, I just went in a little solo kayak. Um and I, you know, I I one of the things that I look forward the most about our time here together is really the conversations that we had, but also like I think that we are not. Also the silence we looking at. No, I'm I'm saying that we we in the world that we're living in, we really not appreciate it more the solitude and the nature and the peace that it brings. And I I really enjoyed my 30, 40 minutes that I was like just me and the nature. And um I know Maddie knows this, uh, but I not many know. Like I connect with my mom through butterflies, and there was like a bunch of butterflies around when I was there, and I was just like, it's just like a little conversation that I have with my mom. So beautiful. Yeah, so I'm I love I love the solitude that this you know atmosphere brings uh to me and to my soul. So I love that. Oh my pull it out is that Maddie promised me.

SPEAKER_08 51:42

I just was supportive, just so you know. Just so you know, I was very supportive of this.

SPEAKER_07 51:47

I I was very happy that when we went to New York, he found the best gadget ever. It was a portable bidet. He forgot about it. He did not bring it.

SPEAKER_02 51:59

I didn't know that was a thing.

SPEAKER_07 52:01

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_02 52:02

You feel good about it? No, he forgot.

SPEAKER_07 52:05

Yeah, forgot. So he I was just playing on it, and I was like, and then next thing I know when he's unpacking, he's like, oh my god, JJ, I forgot the bidet. And I'm like, I am not gonna, you know, he instructed me not to use my dude wipes because of the situation that we have. Oh, yeah, I have dude wipes, but in a in the cabin, you should probably not use them. No, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 52:27

See, I told you to hide that. She will not use them when you told me not. Yeah, yeah. Well, they don't actually they can I just do you mind just real quick? Because you brought it up.

SPEAKER_07 52:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 52:38

Because even if any wipe that says flushable, they don't they can say that legally, but it's does it doesn't um disintegrate. Like toilet paper will disagree. It doesn't dissolve. Dissolve. So it is not flushable in the yes. And I said to JJ, I said, JJ, it's okay on night one, but she's arriving night two.

SPEAKER_07 53:02

No, I didn't. After that, I mean I'm gonna pack the dude wipes and I'm gonna just live without the portable bidet that Matt forgot. So that is definitely Apple Out. It would have been a different weekend with the bidding.

SPEAKER_08 53:14

There's something though that passing that portable around is a little because you you gotta take it and stick it underneath it. Yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't have done.

SPEAKER_07 53:24

All right, that's all right.

SPEAKER_08 53:25

My turn.

Pillow Pathways And Closing Plugs

SPEAKER_08 53:26

All right. My slip it in and I have receipts. Let me grab my phone. I have receipts. So this um this thing that we did, this uh tube thing that we did. Um, Melissa, afterwards, I so we I organized uh this group photo and I got us all I got us all in it and in the photo perfect day. Just before you get upset, somebody might want to give Missy the mic. She's probably got something to say. Before you even get up and get riled up, notice that I'm calling it a slip it in, not a pull it out. It's a slip it in. Okay. So I post this photo. I'm doing a selfie. If you know me, you know I'm not great on it. There's six of us, and I managed to capture a pretty great photo, I think. Perfect day, you say. Yeah, okay. Yeah, and and then I put in the I put in the photo in a little space that was unoccupied, perfect day, and posted it. And then Melissa gets on later in the evening and says, and I'm reading. This is in your quote. If you're watching on video, I'm reading a receipt. The receipt says, It was a great day, great day, not perfect. She says it was a great day. Exclamation point. Don't want to go so far as perfect, but dot dot dot. And I read it and I'm like, I gave the wow emoji, like that emoji, and then I said, Maybe because you refuse to navigate on your own. I said nav though, just so you know, Denise.

SPEAKER_01 55:11

I said, Nav exactly.

SPEAKER_08 55:13

Just because you refuse to nav on your own and attach yourself like a barnacle to all of us and made us do all the work. And then she replied to that with, well, one person got a leech on their foot, and five people did not. So perfect for some, it's not perfect for all. And I and I attach I sent a Debbie Donner. And I call it a slip it in because it's just it's a joy.

SPEAKER_07 55:44

I kind of like the friendship that we have.

SPEAKER_08 55:46

I mean, I just I do love it, it's fun. I mean, we're sitting next to each other sleeping in this cabin, but social media playing it out there. So credit.

SPEAKER_07 55:55

Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 55:56

Very funny. I have no I I will just let you run with it. That was funny.

SPEAKER_08 55:59

Okay. And you pull out. My pull it out is we've all been indulging in drinks and stuff. So, JJ, you even though you were drinking, uh, in this story I'm telling, we all were drinking. But I JJ and I are sharing a room with two single beds fully separated. Okay. And in the I get up to go to the restroom several times a night. The first night, I he's a one pillow person, which is shocking. I like three pillows, two pillows at least. So he had put, he would put his pillows on the floor. And I'm okay, fine. But like second night, I'm like, I might have drank more. I want to make sure this pathway is clear. So I say to JJ, I and Megan was there to witness. I say to JJ, if you don't mind, I'd like to sit these pillows over here so that my pathway to the bathroom, I don't twist an ankle. Oh, really? He's like, Well, I like he goes, I like to keep them right here. They are my emotional support pillows. He goes, I do squeeze them. So all no, that's not true. It's a lot. So all of a sudden, I'm in a I'm been put into a position. Do I choose my ankle over his emotional support pillows that he has no attachment to that are laying on the floor?

SPEAKER_07 57:23

I was to pull it out. I was just playing.

SPEAKER_04 57:26

Exactly. It was crazy.

SPEAKER_07 57:27

It was but Megan didn't. It might have been the cocktails talking.

SPEAKER_04 57:34

I said, I think you need you have a little space between the wall and the bed. Like let's put a pillow.

SPEAKER_07 57:39

Between the second pillow and yeah, game changer.

SPEAKER_04 57:42

So we did a whole refresh of bedding at the cabin this year, and I made sure every bed had two to three pillows per person, which I do love. Well, it has become a very big complaint with my brother and his friends.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 57:57

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 57:57

They said there's too many pillows. Disagree. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 58:00

Well, even if you don't use them, you use them for emotional support. So on that note, just put them on the floor. Let's leave it there.

SPEAKER_07 58:07

Let's leave it there. So good job.

SPEAKER_04 58:10

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