Welcome to Big Blend Radio's Virtual Cafe. Pull up a seat and let's find out who we're having a happy hour conversation with today. Hey everybody, it is time to celebrate Fall Y'all and since we're recording this from New Orleans, I can say y'all. So hello Fall Y'all. It's not quite Fall as we record this but we're going to get ready for Fall and this is happy our time. But as we go around and introduce our different guests, we are getting on the Big Blend Party bus. That is the new thing. We've been doing the Big Blend Radio Party bus for a while. Priscilla, our pink sock monkey is the driver and cocktail mixer food deliverer server and she does not drink and drive so she's good. But we're going to go across the country today and have a good time with our guests and we're going to find out what they want to eat and drink to celebrate Fall Y'all. So let's see. Today we're in New Orleans. Nancy, so we're going to start the bus here so you're the mother. So Nancy, what would you like Priscilla to serve you for Fall before we go off to our next destination? I love mulled wine. You eat it gently, you never boil it, you put some spices, cloves, cinnamon in it and you serve it. And I like, I used to serve it at parties in a crock pot because we had a lot of guests and they could just dip their glasses in and have warm wine that was, there's nothing like it. I'm down by wine. What would you like to eat with that? All by cinnamon, cinnamon is good. I'm all good with this. What would you like to eat with it? I don't care about eating. She's watching that slim. Let's just figure. I'm just feeling honest. I'm just feeling honest. Okay. Okay. Like cold drips are good. Okay. You don't even want a pizza or anything, like a little mini pizza, I like the taste to be the taste. All right. Well, she's gone with the mulled wine. Well, cool. You're doing that. And since we're in New Orleans, I don't think Austin's that far away. I don't know. But we're going to go to Austin, Texas to hang out with travel writer Sharon Kurtz, an amazing photographer as well. And everyone, you can keep up with Sharon, go to SharonK Kurtz.com, everyone. Look in the episode notes for the links for our guests on the show, so you can connect with them and see who we're chatting with. So Sharon, welcome back. How are you? And welcome to the big blend radio bus. Thank you. And hi, y'all. I can say that for real because I'm in Texas. Not Louisiana. Yeah. Well, you know. We can't say. Yeah. Louisiana and Texas share borders and good food. Can we just agree on that? Yeah. But you have the wine. I've not been to Louisiana winery yet. And I know there's wine in all 50 states, but we have not been to a winery in Louisiana yet. Have you? Oh, no. No. In fact, I've never even heard of one. So that is very interesting. Well, well, I suppose we all have a to-do list now already. It's getting started. Do it. Yes. You know, the big blend radio party bus, do you approve of the design? And no, everyone, the password because it is a speak easy on the bus, right? You would not recognize the bus as being the big blend radio party bus because it's a speak easy. And so you won't from the outside know, but when you get in, you can only get in with the password. So I don't think that Sharon will know the password, but Matt Cost is on the show. We're going to pick him up in a bit. And let's see if he can telepathically send us the password so that Sharon can get on the bus. Matt, you're the king of happy hour. What's the password? Well, the password that I used in Velma Ganna Rye was Mayor Hyman, who was the mayor of New York City at the time during prohibition. So I think we should go with Mayor Hyman. Are you mean you're kicking out the wiggy? Okay, oh boy, oh boy, King of happy hours getting in trouble here now. Okay, Mayor Hyman, we're going to have Mayor Hyman as the password today. No, no, we can go back to it. After there was a happy hour, I remember that I'd written that. So that's good. Now that's good. You look at him. Good book promo right here. I love that. I love that. I love that. How about we all have our own passwords, Sharon. What's your password? Make one up because you get in because you're already allowed. Bats has also known for its bats. Yeah, you do. You have one of the best bat colonies in the country. Yes. Yeah. Mexican split tail bats or something. It's like one of the only colonies that lives under a bridge in North America. I think. I think we have that disease. Yes. That's true. I listened to a whole podcast on it. Great. Like a three hour podcast on bats and the bat dude was, it was all about Austin. And he was like, that is the bad place. It calls bat caverns and National Park in New Mexico is good too. So that lady and that bat thing and again. Yeah. And apparently Nicole Kidman only wanted to be in Batman so she could kiss Batman. I don't know. I saw it on a real day. I don't know what that was about. But Sharon, what would you like Priscilla the pink sock monkey who's now going to have to be on bat patrol? What would you like her to make you to eat and drink on the party bus? Okay. What caramel apples real caramel apple and spiced cider? Oh, yes. This is good. Well, that's good. Oh, very good. Are you ready to go on a road trip? Yeah. Okay. Because we're going to go to Southern California. We're going to go pick up genealogists and writer Aaron Youngless. And I encourage everyone to go to Aaron's website because she will dig up the dirt on your family. Literally, I mean it. Well, not literally. I don't know if she'll go in the graveyard or not, but go to genealogybyaron.com. That's A-R-Y-N genealogybyaron.com. Welcome back, Aaron. How are you? I am well. How are you? Doing good. What's your password? Oh, you know, if you're saying Southern California, I mean, how about the 405? Oh, my gosh. And can you just put traffic as well? Gridlock. Yeah. Gridlock. That sounds like a good cocktail too. That's a good password. Gridlock. Gridlock. That's a good band name. I bet you there's a band name called Gridlock. I know. There's got to be. So how are you doing? Have you been digging up any good stuff lately? Always. Always. Always. Always. Yes. Somebody, there was a travel writer was talking to me about a podcast and she says, "Well, I want to talk about Cisco, oh, it's Frisco. Oh, that's different. Frisco, Texas, two different places. I was picking up on the last time we talked and with Cisco that you wanted, the Cisco kid toys with the bank robbery, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Cisco, not Frisco. Well, Frisco could be a password today. What would you like to eat and drink? You know, Priscilla, the amazing Salka Monkey, who likes New Orleans, by the way? She's into New Orleans because she has Mardi Gras beads on. So I'll have to put a photo out there for everyone to see. She does have Mardi Gras beads, but don't tell anybody. She got them from Nakadish and she got them from Southwest Louisiana and Lake Charles, not New Orleans yet. But I can take a photo of her with Mardi Gras beads. We have them everywhere here. They've been, they've been culturalized. I beg your pardon. They've been culturalized. They've been culturalized. All right. All right. So if you dip them in the water, it's good. They'll go outside and drink. It's all good. It's all good. Aaron, what would you like to drink? I'm just going to go with more apple cider. Mm. And some in the eat? Apple pie. Apple's all around. We're at Apple-y. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And didn't you just come back from Salem? I did. Did you find out stuff about witches? Some. Some. I didn't get to all the places I wanted to go to, though. But it was fun. Cool. Did you eat the rye bread? Because is it true that it was rye bread that caused the whole thing about women to be feared was from the grain or something? Like a grain that was fermented or got, was bad and they ate it. They hallucinated and then everybody thought they were witches? No. I just think the little girls made it up because they were bored. Overly? Yeah. One of the young girls, her family had a maid and the maid was from Haiti or the Dominican Republic and she liked to tell tall tales to the girls just to entertain them. And then one of the girls just started making up stories. I guess later in life she actually slightly admitted to the fact that she made it all up. But she was still of a wealthy family, so nothing happened to her. Tichibao was the name of the slave and Tichibao was sold off. Wow. Wow. And you knew that we were going to say this was a tall fall, like podcast, like the tall fall stories. Like I can't even say it again. I know that I put it that the tall fall tale together, we're going to make a story together. So I think you already started it. That's really cool. We're going to go over from Erin who is in the Los Angeles area, we're going to leave the gridlock and go to the Redwood trees and we're going to go up the coast. We're going to take one on one and one and then one on one again. I think doesn't it go back and forth on that as I recall and we're going to go pick up organizational trainer and author Rita Severe and she's always on our show talking about how to run organizations with supervision, but that is compassionate, kind, but direct. And you can go to our website supervision matters.com. Welcome back, Rita. How are you? Hi. I'm doing well. Thank you. Hey, I'm excited to have you on a happy hour podcast. The last show you were on was on the Boomer show and everyone, you know, I'm going to have the link to her podcast with us before, but you're in the Redwoods. That kind of feels like falling away, doesn't it? I know it's all colors, but that red is amazing. Right. It's a very powerful presence in the county. And that's my password. I'm in Sonoma County, so my password is Sonoma. Ah, you have good wine. So what would you like to drink? Absolutely. It is wine country and Redwood country. So I am going to drink a very nice warm red blend today. You said the word blend. You know we love you for that. For many other things, but like you said, blend. So like, yes, she gets the extra cushy scene on the bus, you know, no, no bad springs on the bus. Okay. What would you like to eat? I'm thinking you got a creamies too. Oh, sorry. Yeah. I'm going to pair that nice red blend with a baked brie with figs and how did you know? Like that's my thing. Really? It's three cheese. Wonderful. Yeah. Sounds like a wonderful fall evening. Oh my gosh. But now you're putting with fig on the side too, because that's a season now too. It's raccoons love figs. Our friend Andrea had a farm in Fallbrook in Southern California and a bed and breakfast and she had an organic farm when she was doing lettuce and strawberries, the best strawberries, I mean, monster big strawberries and you bite into them and they were sweet. Not the strawberries where you bite into them and go like, dang it. You know, what, no, sweet, like sweet, sweet, amazing, I mean, it's just all organic and beautiful. But she had these fig trees and one night her and I were going to bed, you know, it's lights out at the end. It was Hacienda style, right? And I go to my room, I'm like, what's, we're looking for the cat? I think that's what it was. When I turned the light on and you just saw all these sea of eyes in the fig tree, like look at us, how dare you. They were pigging out like you wouldn't believe. She had probably 10 raccoons in the tree and raccoons are cool, man. They're so cool and they want to wash their food and everything. Yeah, she didn't have, well, she did actually have figs. She did figs with Greek yogurt and everything she was an amazing chef too. Yeah, she still is an amazing chef. Yeah. I love your passwords and I love your area. But are you ready? Erin, Sharon, Nancy, Rita, we are going across country and we're going to see a lot of beautiful fall colors as we go because we're going to go through the top states. We're also going to go through Michigan and all of that area that just when the fall comes, y'all, it's cool, it's beautiful. Even the end of August, it's beautiful. But we're going to Maine, which we haven't been to yet on our tour. I don't know if everyone else has been to Maine on the show. But we have to go pick up Matt Cost. He is the king of Happy Hour here and an incredible author and purgy goes website mattcost.net. He's already said his password, so we just need to know what he wants to eat and drink and so welcome back, Matt. Again. Well, thank you, Lisa. I'm sorry about complicating the password issue, but... But you created a whole new thing now. Have we have a whole new thing? So here we go. I am going to Texas in the end of October, so maybe I'll see Sharon down that way even though I'm going to make it to Austin. I will be seeing a friend from Elgid and right outside of Austin. Well, I'll be a bad girl and you can be a bad guy. Okay, I'll be a bad guy. I have a bunch of the bridge there, so... I'm glad you didn't say "bad boy" that would be weird, but I don't have that for just a minute and then I made that quick adjustment. No, I just... Sorry. I'll go there. I couldn't let that go. You could be bad boy, but listen, you know, if you go to Austin, you have to keep Austin weird, so I think that is cool. But Matt, you have been doing so many book-like events. I mean, you need happy hour today, I think. You've been busy. Absolutely. I'm right now drinking a red blend, a big blend, but right now, you have competition. That is called "fiction." But I think when you pick me up on the bus, I'll plan on drinking, cracking open an IPA, maybe a Baxter Stowaway, and because for me, fall is football season, I would like Shilly to go with that IPA. Well, now you're just doing exactly what we're having for dinner, right, Chile? No, no, I'd make a killer chili, but now, last night, so our friends at the line in the Rosebend in breakfast in Asheville, North Carolina, we're leaving, and Steve makes beer, so when you check in at the end, they give you a glass of beer that he brews himself, and if you stay for four nights, I'm not just trying to give him a plug, but seriously, if you stay for four nights, you get your mini-keggarator in your room, so it's cool. And people keep going, why do you keep going back to Asheville? Well, hello. The Victorian Mansion, the Monford Historic District, there's beer, there's dogs, there's friends, you know, it's cool, but they are good friends, and we do our show every first Tuesday with them about Asheville, and anyway, as I'm leaving, he goes, "Hey, I have, do you drink IPAs?" Because he doesn't. I'm like, "Oh, hell, yeah, I do." He gives me four cans of IPA, and they all look different, and I get back, we get to New Orleans, and I'm like, "Dude, put these in the fridge, I love a good IPA." Turns out it's stone brewing. Nance and I were at the opening of stone brewing, and we opened our magazine the same month in San Diego, same region, same, like, to the date of stone brewing company. And we were there in, they had an industrial park, I think it was Escondido or San Marcos, and went to their opening to the local chamber of commerce, and I'm sitting there, this was incredible beer, and they're known for arrogant bastard, and I just wanted to say that I'll go on the show, because I can't, because it's a happy hour, but it's really good beer, and their IPAs, they were like three different ones that I had from these cans of beer that they gave me, and I was in heaven, like, it was like an IPA that wasn't too over the top, it was just so smooth and good, still rich and deep, but not too over, you know what I mean? Because an IPA has to have a balance that they can get so thick and chewy, and it wasn't too chewy. Do you like chewy IPAs? Do you know what I mean? Matt, am I getting weird? I actually do like a little chewy, a little hate-boo. There are people, and then you sound like one of them that likes the more fruity, but I like the chewy-boo ones. No, don't go, don't, I want that, that fruity, no, it has to be a balance. I want the chewy, and I want the, like, it all smells skunky almost. I want all that, but I don't, I want to be able to have a second drink, is my point. That, because IPAs can be heavy, like, you don't want it, you can't have more than one. Right, that's why you move the whiskey afterwards. Oh, I have a third. Can you talk a mind language? Oh boy, here we go. Nancy, you're in a tunnel again. I don't know, she's in the rum barrel, that's really what she is. She's in the rum barrel. I have to keep holding in. Yeah, yeah. Well, let's, let's, we're gonna, what is the main like right now, and the, the fall colors coming in, you said 49 degrees is happening already. So are the fall colors, when did they happen? We got a few weeks, and probably two or three weeks until it really starts to kick in, and maybe a month until it's full tilt on of fall foliage and leaf peeping season. So, so it's still pretty green out there. It's just started cooling off in the, in the mornings. Nice though. That's nice. So we're going to go south, right? And it's going to be warmer than Maine. We're going to go pick up Joe Clark. You know her, y'all, she's here on the shows all the time, and she has her own podcast with us. Joe goes everywhere because she will. I didn't say she does everything, but I do say she goes everywhere. And she normally has a glass with her when she travels, a travel writer, and photographer Joe Clark, go to halfglasswilltravel.com Joe, how are you doing? I'm doing great, Lisa. Good to be able to hear you today. Yes. Last couple of times you've had almost no voice and scratchy sore throat. All kinds of allergies affecting you. I'm healthy. I'm in New Orleans with rain, and I've got a really good beer. So, you know, you're, you're perfect. Yeah. Oh, I wouldn't say that. Next you will. I know. I can say that. Oh, you can say it. It doesn't mean it's true. I'm trying. I'm trying. You know, I'm a Virgama annoying that way. But what is your password, bro? The beach babe. What beach babe? Beach babe. I like that. That's because she does yoga on the beach. I love that you do that. So what can Priscilla make for you? Well, I've been drinking a really nice unoaked Chardonnay that I discovered last week at my local total wine from River Road Vineyard in California. And it's wonderful, but I'm sort of in the mood for some mulled wine. I was glad that I didn't have to be the first to ask Priscilla to make it. So it's already, it's already man, it's been, yeah, it's been, it's been blooming. Blending those flavors. I had some last weekend at La Bellamy Vineyard here at the beach and it was fantastic. And I think I would like some apple slices with a cream cheese spread to go on them to go with. Oh, that, that leads me to Matt again, because he didn't tell us about his food. I snuck in and talk about IPAs. So what would your food be Matt? No, I did speak about chili. I didn't get to. Oh, that's right. Chili. Yeah, we didn't get to. Yeah, I would leave it up to, you know, you all to, you all to figure out what kind of chili and how to make it. I think we just have to quickly run back to Sharon and Texas for some chili because the chili in Texas, there is no such thing as just beans. You will get meat in your chili in Texas as far as I know. We have the best chili. I'm sure yours is good, but Texas chili, you can't beat it. That's the way it is. Y'all, y'all. We're all going to do y'alls now. So now we're going to go up to Maryland to Julie D. Sue Mann and she's an amazing travel writer and photographer. She loves nature and history and I'm so glad to have her back on the show. Julie, how are you? I'm great. How are you? Good. Good. Maryland for fall. Oh, gosh. Well, you know, I have to agree with Matt, football is a big thing. So that's a definitely, you know, I must do. I also grew up in western Pennsylvania. So, you know, football is fall to me, but, you know, there's so many great festivals here in the fall and, you know, I'm a big into birding and so we start towards the end of fall. We'll just see that migration to the Chesapeake Bay area of different birds. So it's the great time of year to be here. Ooh. What is your password? Oh, my gosh. I think we'll have to go with the Chesapeake, the love of the Chesapeake Bay. Nice. Yes, except for your bridge. Your bridge sucks. You know. Oh, you know, I have a love. I have a love-hate relationship with that bridge. I'm always happy. It's another world once you get across it. Oh, my God. It's terrifying. I'm just, I'm glad you're here. So what are you going to eat and drink? You know, for some reason, fall to me says bourbon. I think I'm going to have myself a nice, you know, bourbon cocktail and, you know, the other thing that says fall to me are apple cider donuts. Oh, yes. Now, suddenly I want an old-fashioned. I don't know what happened. Yeah. I'm glad I could just your arm there, but yeah, I'm just, you know, just, you know, sit outside and, you know, maybe you're right, fire, sip of cocktail, you know. Does anybody know if Goldschlager exists anymore? I think this is a carry-on from a previous podcast, but I'm still trying to find if Goldschlager is still around. Does anybody know it or did that get taken off the books from teenager shenanigans? I was going to say, I might have drank it all when I was in college, but, you know, yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a different podcast. That's a whole different. Oh, okay. Julie. Well, I think Nancy's going to join you on the bourbon trail part of this too, but I'm, I'm really glad we went from Maine to South Carolina to go up to Maryland. See, this is how our big blend radio tour bus travels. And that's how our love your parks tour is. We just keep going in circles and doing great stuff. But okay. So we want to talk about fall escapes. So I want to ask each of you, if you could spend a few hours with someone on a fall outing or an activity, some kind of cool experience that says it's fall. Where do you want to go? Who do you want to spend that time with? Why we want to know the why and where? So I'm going to start with you, Julie. Where do you want to go? You know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I, my husband's going to get the, the, the luck, the short straw here and travel with me. But I've always wanted to go out to Colorado to see the ass things changing in colors in the fall. Like maybe Breckenridge or something like that. Um, you know, just to do some hiking and just enjoy those, those bright yellow colors from the leaves. It is gorgeous. All I can, we have, we haven't done it at that time, like Breckenridge, but we've done it outside of Trinidad and there's the dog bar at, uh, gosh, Nancy, where was it with Gemma out there? It's, um, between Trinidad and Ludlow. So it's in the southern portion and, um, there's like a whole national forest you can go into. And there is a dog bar where people bring their dogs in the bar. And then it was so fun. It was so much fun and I'm going to look it up for you now, but, um, there, they have a whole pool table room, um, there's, there's a pool, like a pool table that only the locals know about or something. And we were with the locals and, um, they were, there was a lot of bedding and other kinds of smoky shenanigans going on, but it was really cool. It was fun. All I can say is we drove through this national forest on like the back roads, which was crazy. But the fall colors, it was the first time I'd experienced fall colors in this country. And we even lived in a mountain town in San Diego, which the fall colors are there. But this was, um, incredibly, I can't even, it was just amazing, amazing. And I know that you kind of get that from where you are, um, up north in the northeast, but, um, that was incredible. But who are you going to go with? Who do you want to spend time with when you do that? Oh, I got to take my husband because, uh, we'd like to hire you. So he's going to do that. Yeah. Yeah. And plus he's retired now. So, you know, oh, wow, you know, retirement is a big deal that like to actually retire, that's a whole thing. Right. To, yeah, from a career and then suddenly go now what? And then let's go party. Let's do stuff. That's cool. That's cool. So follow me, well, and so he's going to carry the camera bag. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah, actually he does. He, um, because I do have a big lens, I have a four millimeter lens, which is quite heavy. So he is quite handy at helping to prop that thing up. Well, that, yeah, because that is big. That is a big deal when you think about it, right? Yeah. It's Kachara. I'm trying to think of Kachara, um, in Colorado. Check it out. Okay. We'll do. Look at it. Look it up. Look it up. It is really cool. Okay. So we're going to look the buses going on back roads in the forest and everything in Colorado. Breckenridge is beautiful. We've been there, but not in the timeline that you're talking about. It's gorgeous. So I'm going to go up to Joe. Where are you going for a fall escape and with who? I think I want to go to Cade's Cove out in the Smokies and my friend Kurt is a fabulous photographer and he has the patience of Joe, like I do, when you're waiting on animals. You just have to be patient when you're a nature photographer and the bears are gorging right now on ripe walnuts, getting fat for the winter. And then after it gets dark, the cool nights are a perfect time for the fire pit outside of a cabin and another cup of that mold wine and I think it's interesting. You didn't find a speakeasy. You found a billiard easy. Exactly. Exactly. Right? Why not? Well, that's a thing. Well, it's a thing. They all have fun and I googled. I had plenty of time while we were waiting for the bus to pick me up. I did some googling. When you are really, really close to Shreveport and they have a winery, I want you to go check it out. The name of it is On Cloud Wine. On Cloud. Shreveport is important. Shreveport. I love it. Well, you're a lot closer than I. Well, yeah. Shreveport is like the top part of the state where at the very bottom, but we will go through Shreveport again. We do it all the time. Shreveport is home to the American Rose Society's garden and roses are America's national flower. Now, there's a whole other history of that that ties in because of the peace rose and during World War II and I think there's this whole thing. I'm going to get it wrong. So I'm not going to go in there, but there is the peace rose over a thousand different kinds of roses. Yeah. It's amazing. And they've gone through a hurricane, of course, have gone through more. But they're also on the Jefferson Highway and as all you all know, we have our show every third, fourth Thursday, excuse me, on the Jefferson Highway, which was started in 1915. Think about road tripping. We're on our bus right now, but road tripping in 1915, just think about when Ford and, you know, oh, that's a whole other show, I'll go crazy. But because it's really covered in dust, we had cars that were just coming out in the first thing, Ford Edison, Firestone got in the car and started road tripping. There's a whole book on it. It's on our site. I'll put the link in there too, hopefully I'll remember to. But anyway, 1915, the editor of Better Homes and Gardens said, we've got to do something for these small towns that are agricultural driven, but not really making as much money. So for tourism, started the Jefferson Highway, which was our very first vacation route. Goes from Winnipeg, Canada, down to Nordens, where we are, and today. And it's really an amazing history. Nancy's gone down the gazillion rabbit holes on the history. If you want to talk about jazz, I mean, Matt Coste, I'm just going to say as a writer, I think you should just like start writing a Jefferson Highway mystery series because there were moonshineers, there were bank robbers, Bonnie and Clyde, all of it. I mean, Jesse James, everybody. Bonnie and Clyde were epic, but yeah, you know, I'm not pro-violent or bank robbery, but they were epic. No, it's crazy what happened on this highway. But anyway, Shreveport is part of that highway and part of No Man's Land in Louisiana, and Matt, you're going to have to correct me on my history because you're the historian and history teacher, but it was kind of like where the Battle of New Orleans happened. And I think it's one of the most fascinating battles that ever happened in this country. And I don't think our country, Matt, would you agree? The Battle of New Orleans went sour. We wouldn't be where we are now today. I don't think. The Battle of New Orleans was pretty interesting, seeing as it, you know, it took place after peace had been concluded. Yeah. But there was a treaty in place when Colonel Jackson on the Mississippi kicked some butt on the British in 1814. So that was kind of funny. But he wasn't saying though, I mean, Jackson is horrible to the Native Americans and everyone, right? But he got the Native Americans. He didn't like him to come and fight in the battle. Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Scots came out even in this battle. And it's just the craziest battle that just did happen overnight, but it also protected what was New Orleans and is today. But also Louisiana doesn't just have to do with the Louisiana purchase and also kind of an extended thing from the battle, the war of 1812, right? Isn't that part of that? Like it was like this offshoot from, am I totally spinning out on my wars? That was the battle of 1812. The Louisiana purchase was earlier than that. Yeah. Okay. So it's about, yeah, because at that point, Nakadish, Louisiana, which we cover, you know, all the time, do a show every Thursday, got to give a shout out to them. Also in the Jefferson Highway is the oldest settlement in the city in the state of Louisiana. And so there's this area called No Man's Land that goes from Shreveport down to Nakadish. And I think even to Alexandria. And for three years, there was, after the Louisiana purchase that had to do something with the battle of New Orleans, maybe I'm getting that messed up, but it was probably the Louisiana purchase because Thomas Jefferson was the president who sent Lewis and Clark to explore the new land that had been purchased recently from the French. So that's probably why the Jefferson Highway got named after him. I don't know. But that would be the step in my research when I'm writing my new book on the Jefferson Highway. No, I just say, no, they actually named it because they had named a highway, the Lincoln Highway and the people felt guilty that they hadn't named anything after Thomas Jefferson so they named it, not that it has anything to do with him. No, they just named it. I mean, I read this thing, I'm like, I don't know if that's true or not, but I read this whole thing on it. It was his turn. Yeah, they just said that he didn't have a highway named after him. So they just named it after him. It really has very little or nothing to do with him. Wow. So that's kind of a little potential for me because the Lincoln Highway was a book that just came out a couple of years ago. It was very famous and a bestseller, so maybe I can get dibs on the Jefferson Highway. Well, you should, the Jefferson Highway crosses, Jefferson Highway crosses the Lincoln Highway crosses the Jefferson Highway because the Lincoln goes, you know, horizontal. Same as Route 66. Route 66 is about to have its hundredth anniversary in a couple of years now. So it's kind of like all this is cool history, but anyway, go back to Shreveport in no man's land for three years there because there were all these wars and certain parts of our own. Like there's Los Adeas, Tejas National Historic Site was a fort and at one time Tejas, like it was Texas and it wasn't Louisiana, not Louisiana, everybody, they were Spanish. They were French. There was these different colony kind of settlements going on and no one knew because it took so long to get information, nobody knew who owned what for three years. So there was no law and order for three years in Louisiana and it's insane what went down. And I mean, you've got to think about this. This whole area, law and order out privateers can come in on the bayous with rum and they were making rum because there's also sugar cane fields out here and stuff. So it's really fascinating, I want to quickly, I know we're talking about fall, but Aaron, as a genealogist, do you ever find these kind of gaps in history where it gets wonky like that with three years, like there was no law and order? I don't know how much was even documented back then. I haven't researched that area. The families that I've worked on have not been in that area. So I've heard stories personally about things like that or with the expansion of the United States with the Wild West and how lawless, I guess you would say, there was law and order, but that's how like Bass Reeves had a job. And then once it became the United States, Bass Reeves was demoted, if you will. But I know through the expansion of our time, there's always been pockets of different lawless areas just because of the reach versus the people because the people moved faster than the government moved. Oh, that's a good point. That's a good point. Well, no, but I mean, that's funny. Well, I want to I want to bring Peter in on this because it doesn't this boil down to human resources, like why we have this in a way, like, you know, the lawlessness and everything. People were just like, it's a free for all. And in a company now today, we need HR, right? And it kind of boils down from that in a way. It all comes down to human interaction for sure. And we need guidelines when we're working together, whether at work or at play. Wow. Wow. Hey, listen, I just did a podcast with Ward Heinrich, he's an attorney, employment attorney in San Diego. And he was all about the workplace violence prevention act. And all I know is like, you better everybody who has a business in California, you better go get a HR person. That's like a, like it's like a book. I try to read it. He said, I mean, here's the document. I'm like, I can't read that. Did you guys do that in HR? You have to read all of those, those acts like, and then I was starting to read this and I wanted to call you and say, Rita, what the heck is all this? Yes, I would get an updated book that was like four or five inches thick. That was a summary of all the labor law guidance. So I didn't, I'm not a lawyer. So I didn't have to go into it and as much depth as he does, but there's a lot there for sure. Well, he said that everyone, the lawyers is the last resort, like that. And he said, you don't want to be calling me, you know, you have to put these things in place and, and labor laws, you know, it's no one. Supervisors. Yeah, that's what I'm all about. Well, labor laws come in from like historically, you've got to think about kids and minds and stuff like that. I mean, even over in England, kids went through prevention now. Preventing. Why? Yeah. If there's a law, if there's a law, somebody has been hurt because it wasn't there. That's how I try to look at it. Wow. Wow. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to try and get back on track here. Happy hour never stays on track. I'm going to try and get back on track. So Matt, what are you doing for your fall? Happy hour. What activity and with, and whom like, and we don't want any shenanigans that are too dirty for our audience. How much would that be? I mean, it seems like the parameters are pretty wide open, right? I know. It is. You're unhappy. I was a big blend. Anything can happen. Hey, whatever you want. I would say that I'm going to take two people on my event, my fall adventure. And for me, football is a big part of fall, but so is Halloween. So I'm going to bring Marie Levo, the voodoo queen of where you are now, New Orleans. Because to her time was parallel. So she still lives out there somewhere. And I'm going to take Stephen King of the New Orleans. Oh boy. Oh boy. You're green. And we're going to go down where Aaron just was to Salem, Massachusetts, Halloween and the festival of the dead. Oh, dude. Okay. We need a whole new cocktail. Yeah. No, wow, I love that we're getting set up for Halloween early because like, why not? Let's go for it. They always do Christmas early. I'm always like, let's bring Halloween and early. This is cool. This is very cool. So Salem. Wow. I love this. And Stephen King, he's very vocal on Twitter. I follow him on Twitter. It's interesting. I love following him on Twitter and just anyway, he's one of the thing is he made me look at cats differently when you started to realize that if you die, cats will start to eat you. And as pet sitters, I always think about that. I'm like, am I eat worthy or not? You look at a cat and you go, have you eaten your last owner? Yeah. Like, you know, because cats rule the house. I guess what you two have to figure out is if you both died, which, which of you would the cat eat first? I know. It could be like once like, oh, don't start because he'd be young and tender and I'd be old. No, but you could be aged, but you could be aged and aged meat is good. And you know, and so it depends, it depends, but I eat a lot of cheese and cats like cheese. So, okay. This is nice. This is such a good conversation. We need to go to you in the redwoods. We need to escape from this conversation. Where are you going for fallen with food? Are we going to play the pumpkins at all? Fall to me is about comfort, and I think for my fall day, I'm going to go out to the coast. I'm about half an hour from the coast. And for us, the fall is the warmest time to go to the coast. In the middle of summer, it's going to be freezing out there because the winds and just the way it fog. So I'll go out to the coast and have a nice walk along the bluff with my sweetie, and then come back to the redwoods and home and have my wine and brie. That's my getaway. She wants her wine and brie, man, she's there, but listen, your area, I'm going to the coast. I've been all, oh, it's, it's just, yeah, it's everything. I mean, the coast, and it is, and the fall, too, is when tide pools start to happen. And, oh, I love this, we're recording this on National Beach Day, so we do get to go to beach. I like this. So I'm going to go to Aaron. Aaron, genealogist, do you want to go for a walk with someone now or in history? I'm going to go with my husband. Where are you going? I know what I'm getting myself into that way. I just enjoy this time. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. No, no, it's beautiful. That's gorgeous, you know, that's an amazing thing. You know, I love it when people want to be with their loved ones. You know, that's the best thing. Where are you going though for that fall vibe? Well, you know, I'm taking a page from Rita's book and she is absolutely correct. Ellie is the same way, so I'm going to go to the coast because it's warm. The ocean's warmer. It's also not tourist season, so it's more open and you can enjoy it and get there early and see the dolphins. Oh, I like that. The dolphins are important to be able to have that moment and sometimes you have to do early morning for them, don't you think, or is it at the end of the day? Early morning is what I've seen them the best. I've seen a whale also earlier in the day. Yeah, fall is the whale season. It's starting October going up and down the coast like, you know, well, it's not up and down. But that is the season for California coastline. Matt, what's your season like, oh, and Joe's on the coast, on the east coast? We've got two coasts represented. Sharon has to go to Port Aransas. That's right. The season in Gulf Shores though, so we kind of got the country covered on the coastlines. But Aaron, you've got, you know, October on is the whale season for California. Joe, you've got whales? Occasionally somebody will spot something out, like fishing boats or something. I don't know if we've ever seen one from close in. We see the dolphin all the time, I saw dolphin last weekend, a lot of times we'll see them during yoga. Oh, wow. They want to come play. Yeah. Well, it's early enough in the morning and when the water's nice and still, we'll see them swimming along. And I went out on, I went out to Shell Island on Monday and we had one dolphin that made an appearance during our cruise, but the water's been super warm this summer. So they're further out, I think, and we don't see them when you're on the beam. Yes. Yeah. It's Sharon. Sharon got to see a dolphin up close, wasn't it? It was a dolphin of purpose. We were on a boat ride out to see the Whooping Cranes in the Port Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Yes. They raced our boat. They were at the bow, like a little pot of them, and they were just having so much fun racing our boat. It was a blast. Julie, what about you out in the Chesapeake area, but do you get to see them, the dolphins at all? I don't know if Julie's there, she's muted, I think. So Matt, what about you and me? I'm here. Sorry, sorry. I'm here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just couldn't get off mute, man. We do see dolphins at the beaches in Delaware and Maryland, occasionally a whale. And then in the springtime, some of the seals come in to the Delaware Bay, so you can go and watch some seals as well. I guess that's not really fall-related though, but we can see some-- Well, I'm trying to figure it out about the different seasons. Matt, do you see them in Portland area of Maine? We have a lot of seals, so I regularly will see seals when I go to the water, which Brunswick is pretty much on the coast. Oh, Brunswick. And there are whales, but I've never seen whales, but they've been known to be out there, and people have seen them, but no dolphins. There's a lot of lobster, though, apparently. Yeah, yeah, they're just skimming along the top of the water, those lobsters. Yeah, just waiting for people to come on. No, they go in rural cages. I don't know. I don't know anything about seafood, but Joe, let's talk about your fall retreat. Where are you going, and who, and where? It's Cuz, the bears. She's still going to the bears, that's right. No, that's what I-- That's right. Yes, I did do that. I got myself all twirled around, but that's what Happy Hour is about, right? We went everywhere. Really? Mm-hmm. Have another apnea. Have another apnea. Actually, are we talking here, or bear? No, no, no, no. But we didn't get to Sharon, that's-- Sharon didn't do hers, that's the one who didn't do it. So, Sharon, where did you go? Yes. I have a brand new tradition this year. I have a two-year-old granddaughter violet, so we will be going to the Dripping Springs Fall Festival. You know, I live in Southwest Austin, and Dripping Springs is this frontier community from the 1800s that I could throw a stone and hit Dripping Springs. It's like the gateway to the Hill Country. So they have this traditional, wonderful fall festival with the hay rides and pumpkins and a corn maze, and I'll take violet, and that's going to be our grandma and violet thing from now on. Cool. That's cool. That's sweet. I love that. I love that you're with your grandkids, too. I think we're doing so much more with families having these unity meetings, you know, like multi-generational travel. Joe, have you seen that as a travel writer, too, that destinations are starting to understand that they have to appeal to more than one generation? Yeah, yeah, definitely. And I think when you come to the beach, there's something for everybody, for sure, and the trip that we were on Monday, you can only get to North Island, Shell Island, by boat. So we were on a pontoon, and you know, there's things on the boat where he's got a box of shells that you will see on Shell Island, and so he's educating the little kids about what they will see, what they can expect, and some of those little kids were with their grandparents. So it's two and three generations. That's incredible. That's cool. That's cool. Cool. Okay, real quick. Okay. So trivia time, you know, this happens in, you know, think about a cozy pub and a fireplace, maybe a band playing, and then it gets to trivia night. And trivia night is cool, so I wanted to go around to each of you, and I may have to ask Joe twice or three times, you know, just for fun. What is a trivia question that you would put out to others that actually really goes with your career? So I am going to start with Joe. So Joe, what is your trivia night question for everyone? And then everyone, go for it. At the answer, just jump in. That's right. All right, how old is the oldest winery in the world? And extra points, if you know who where it was. Michael, everybody answer at once. Michael, Angela, no, no, Google allowed Michael Angelo's vineyard. Yeah. No, he just made one from Mona. And eventually he's vineyard and 11 on now, but people were already making wine, or he wouldn't have had the idea. So it was 11 on. No. Jesus. Yes. Water in twine. Remember. Oh, so Jesus. But there was already one being made. Okay. He wasn't the first. Okay. Anybody else got any anybody else got an answer? My guess is somewhere in the Middle East. I picked the whole region. Yeah. You go. The original question is how old is it? How far back are we going? 3500 years. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Back farther. Come on. What is it? Come on, Joe. Tell us. 4100 BC. And it was in Armenia. Okay. No. I say Aaron gets the point. Yes. Yes. Aaron gets the point. I don't know what that means, but I'm putting a one next to your name. She gets it. She gets it. You get it. Okay. So Aaron, what is your trivia question? What census no longer exists? What U.S. federal census? No. No longer. Oh, I thought you meant like the five things. 1890. Yes. 1890. No. Who burned you? 1921. There are very few counties, and they were the ones that didn't turn them in all time. Still have. Most of them are in the south and like Georgia and that. Yeah. We're not. We're not motivated. We need a new pub. We don't belong. No. But if you don't turn in the census, you don't have to pay taxes. Exactly. That's why. Yeah. So oh my gosh, I love that. I love that. Sharon. What's your trivia question? All right. This is related to travel, and it is, where is Lake Titicaca, and what is the unique feature that it is known for? And as being, for funny names. It's in Peru, right? Yeah. Peru and Bolivia, it splits the two countries. That's good. Because the likes don't care about boundaries that man put in, they don't really don't care. And what is unique about it? It's at like 16,000 feet, right? Well, it is high, yes. Do you want me to tell you? Yes. Because I guess you're closest. It is the highest navigatable lake in the world, a 12,507 feet. The highest navigatable, I can't say that word, navigatable navigatable navigatable navigatable navigatable. Yeah. But some Matt gets a point because he knew where it was. Yeah. So he gets a point. The king gets a point. Matt, what's your trivia question? That was a good one. I just shut up because I interviewed Sharon on Lake Titicaca, and I didn't even giggle like a child. But you know, Nancy, before we went to do that podcast, Nancy's like, you're going to have to say Titicaca. It makes all school children giggle. That word. Yes. Well, I'm going to join them as well. And women. And women. So, okay. So I'm going to go. I'm going to Matt with his trivia question, which scares me a lot. Well, Lisa, I think that I'll do this one just for you on the eve of your birthday. So this trivia question should be right up your alley. What author has published the most works according to the Guinness Book of World Records? Oh. And how many? Oh, yeah. What is with you and Sharon with the second follow up question? I just did it because she did. Wow. Oh, my God. I was going to just go Shakespeare because like, I don't know why, but I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I have no clue. I have no clue. I got a guess. Yes. So, James Patterson? Nope. It's a, it's an upcoming big blend radio show. Oh, cool. It is Elron Hubbard. It works as the founder's Scientology. Are you kidding me? Oh, books. Oh books. Are we doing Halloween now? Like, really? Are you kidding me? I had no clue. Wow. Wow. Okay. You actually made Nancy. I was speechless there for a second. Everybody. I have to go get a glass of wine now. Like, really? Wow. Okay. You win. So who was closest on this? Who had like anything close? Joe? No? No. No. Wow. Matt, you get an extra point. I think Nancy had the closest. I did. Nancy. It's hard looking for a good author. Oh, whoop. Well, no, but Elron Hubbard has to be good because he got everybody following them. Everyone started, well, not everyone, but a lot of people started following him. So that's fascinating. I get it, but I don't like it. Erin. Erin, do you have to deal with that in genealogy? Like cults? Like how families can disappear into a cult? I'm sure. I haven't had that experience, but I can see that. It's coming. Oh, no. I have. I am like trying to in a soft way. Because I can only take so much information at a time. My family history, which is bizarre beyond bizarre. You know, Erin's looking it up and finding all kinds of weird stuff. Thank you. Always bizarre. You're welcome. Yes. I thank you and deal with it and make sense of it, but the historic part of it really interests me because I've been in different houses of different things. Yeah, it's what we're going to do a whole show on that. Yeah, where I've seen the first thing I do is look at what books do they have. And some have none, which makes me go, whoa. She'll really uncomfortable in a house where there's no books. Really uncomfortable. But now, and this is, I'm talking about older people not talking about the new place where everybody's got their books online. Yeah. It's hard to find. Well, yeah, we're looking at this as we travel the country. Yeah. Be clear. Over home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I have a thing about that now where I get, I don't want you to cut down trees, print a book. But I want a book. The absence of books on the shelves makes me really uncomfortable. I'm just coming to terms with it. But I'm coming to terms with who my family is, was, and hopefully in the future. Oh, there you go. That's a whole other thing. I'm going to move on because I'm time here. Rita, what is your trivia question? Okay. My trivia question is, what color clothing do the most successful candidates wear to a job interview? Blue. Right. Blue or brown? Blue. Brown is negative. It's blue. It's blue because it's a more trusting color. Yes. we were taught that. I thought that was fascinating. But it's a and I wonder if it ties to water in a way. Yeah, about the calmness of water. Wow. So I got the point. Sorry. I didn't even mean to be bothered. Do you think you're supposed to be? Right. But okay. Read it. That was a good. Julie, let's go to you. What is more trivia question? I'm worried about this. She's going to ask us when wingspan. Oh, no. So, you know, what you should know, Lisa, is that even though I have a PhD, I really, really am not good at trivia. So we're going to try and tackle a question related to Maryland, Western Maryland, where we have some great wineries, Joe, you'll need to come visit. So my question is, naval support facility thermon and Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park is the official name of what presidential retreat. Cam David. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yes, it is. Oh, I said for David. Cam David. Cam David. You got it. Yeah. Cam David. Okay. President Falco hang out there. Yeah. That's right. Well, we'll probably never get to see it. But yeah. But it's in another part of the country. Well, we got some good winners here. I think everyone gets points because we all tried. We all did good. We got 111. I'm looking at the little list here. Okay. So I'm going to go around real quick because we got to close up. We're trying to be an actual happy hour and it never works, but I'm going to go around real quick. And this is a question I got from Rita because of her organizational trainer success insider question now she had this as a question. If you could shake a tree and a million dollars came floating down like fall leaves. She didn't put it that way, but because it's a fallen by a show. I am. What would you do with that million dollars? And she was asking this to the actual company. If the company had a million dollars. Remember that, Rita? I stole from you. I'm sorry. But at least I'm honest, right about thievery. So does that still make me a thief? Yeah, probably. Even still, but I'm an honest thief. Well, let's do that. If you had a million dollars right now, what would you do with it? So Nancy, what would you do with a million bucks? I would go to every. Sounds pound, and take all the animals and I would buy a gigantic farm and let them all be happy and free. I love it. Can we be? Can we live next door to John Stewart, then? Like he's got one of those farms with animals too. He's nice. Yeah, he is. John Stewart's nice. I can't stand animals and cages because we think it could be that way. I agree. I would like to empty the zoo. I would like them all to be free in the natural world. Okay, I vote for you. Okay, Deb. It's probably part of humanity. Yeah, I vote for you. Let's save the animals. I'm with that. Rita, I have to go. I should have gone with you first too. But you know, I thought my mom on the show. So like, you know, mom is right. But what would you do with that million dollars? Well, I'm thinking about a million dollars probably doesn't go as far as it used to, but I wouldn't want to. Here's your cocktail. I would I work with nonprofits and I would want to train HR managers in nonprofits to be user friendly and mission driven and kind and compassionate. So train them to be a full service HR that supports the staff to do the work. I love that because I love that. Not about a job. It's about who you are. If you're passionate. Yeah. Julie, what about you? Well, I think I'm just going to get a camera. Oh, well, I could buy some real glass with that. Yeah, and then maybe it also spend the money to go on a national geographic cruise because I would really love to do that. And they are so expensive. But seriously, I would probably donate some of that once I did my trip to lung cancer research my my father passed of lung cancer and it's a really underfunded area compared to other, you know, monies that are spent on oncology. So I would that's where I would put my money. Oh, that is awesome. Lung cancer is brutal, man. It's brutal. It is so I really agree with you on that. And the research and the medical world. Oh, my gosh, y'all, I can't even tell you what's coming up on shows that's going to be going to air by the time this airs. But the medical world is advancing in incredible ways that we just don't see all the time. Just there's so much that is happening because of technology. And I think, I think Julie, it's a we're in a in a good time for the medical world right now. For sure. Yeah, patient see it because they don't feel it yet. They don't get it yet. But technology is actually on the side of the patient right now. It's just not quite there yet, but it's there. It's happening. We're making good progress. I'm so excited about it. We don't get the news from the medical world as fast as we get from other places. That's why I give an eye toast today to documentary filmmakers because they do such good work on that. All right, so I want to go to travel writer Sharon. What are you doing with a million bucks? Well, let's see. First, I would, I would get a giant trampoline and put it right under the trees and the leaves would fall into the trampoline. And then I would build up a squirrel proof safe to hold all my money until I became secret Santa and gave it all the way to kids all over the world. Uh, I love that. Oh, that is cute. That is so sweet. That is. That's, that's awesome. Oh, all right. I'm going to go over to Aaron. What is your hundred, a hundred million bucks, a hundred, one million bucks a hundred million would go much better. Yeah, I know you do need it in L.A. Like the gridlock is Aaron's getting her hundred million. Everybody stopped. But what are you going to do with it? Yeah, you got a raise. Um, but it's a very good question. I feel lame, but I'd probably pay off my debt. And then after that, I don't know, I would travel more. For sure. Go to all those antique shops. I didn't get to go to New England. Oh, the antique shops. You see, they're like museums and you never know. Um, in genealogy, I have to share this real quick. A friend of ours. A friend bought a photograph from an antique shop and it was an antique photo of people. And shared it with her friend and it turned out it was her friend's grandfather. Oh, wow. Is that not cool? So, like I'm just saying, I just bought a wedding certificate from 1887 from Cleveland. And I'm hoping to find the family so I can return it to them. Wow. Like, that's crazy. It's, it's, it's like, you know, it's, uh, preserving history is a very interesting thing because how much space do we have as humans? How do you know, do we digitize everything or do we toss the actual artifact away and just digitize it? What do we do with everything? And it's a very interesting question going on in the world of history right now. What do we do with everything as we keep creating things, you know, and creating memories. So that leads us to Matt Cost, you know, the King of Happy Hour. Um, what do you, how are you preserving history teacher and author? But what is, um, what are you going to do with a million bucks right now? Well, everybody has all these really helpful, fantastic ideas on charities and medical research. Wonderful things. But I think I have to stay true to my calling and I would throw the mother of all happy hours. I'd get a resort off in the mountains somewhere. I'd invite all my friends and family and all the readers of my books. And we'd have top shelf liquors and good. Holy cow. Champagne. And we'd blow a million dollars on the mother of all happy hours. Dang. I'm in. Can we come? Like, yeah, you're all invited. Thank you. Oh my gosh. Joe, Joe, how are you feeling about this? I'm sorry. No, I don't care. Sounds like fun. I know. Joe, what do you, what's your happy hour after that? I mean, that's not hard. Yeah, well, we're also altruistic and I'm sitting here with. I'm putting it in a pension fund and withdrawing 12% a year because then I know it'll last me the rest of my life. Then I can donate each year to whoever I feel like donating to. Like, I research definitely and hire a driver to take me on road trips since I don't feel confident to drive with this tunnel vision in the one eye now. So, a driver would be well spent money. And, and you can have a sexy driver, but it doesn't really matter if you can't see a hundred percent. Oh, I see. I see good enough to see. Yeah. Sorry. I'm looking driving. No, actually, sometimes you don't want to see a hundred percent. No, you don't. No, it's really got nothing to do with it. Pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's it. That's it. Well, okay. So, I have to close this off. I know we're over time. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to all I'm going to get fired from big blend radio club soon, but I can't not do the tall tales because it's the tall fall tale. Aaron started with it and we've got Matt on the show. Aaron is a writer as well as man. And, yeah, we got three, two, three, four writers Nancy and I concluded. Rita is also an author and she, she puts us in line in her books. Basically, that's what her books does. She organizes us all to do the right thing. And so let's write something because we are all writers. So, this is how the show always closes off and it's Matt's fault. So Matt's going to start us off. He's going to get each of us are going to give a word to another person and we're going to create a fall story, a tall fall tale. And so each person gets a word and creates the next sentence off of that word that creates a story. So Matt, you're starting. You good with that? Sure. King of happy hour. Since you're throwing the big party. I mean, geez. You know, so, okay, you're going to, you're going to give Nancy a word. I just kind of feel like that has to happen. Yeah, I just kind of feel that's the way to go on here because she's read a lot of your books. She, she's such a, she wants all of them, by the way. She does. And so everyone met cost.net. All the links for everybody on the show is in the episode notes that you can click through and learn more. And Matt, give Nancy a word because you're going to close this off because if you start it, you close it. But give Nancy a word and Nancy has to start this with a sentence, right, because you're going to close it because you know the closing is as important as the introduction. So give Nancy a word to start one sentence, Nancy, only one sentence. I have to say this to Nancy because you'll give you a book. One sentence, Nancy, from what? Okay, I got it. One word that Matt gives you. So Nancy, the word is moose. Oh, sorry. I got the giggles so bad. No idea how funny that is. I have no idea. I will tell you one card by a mute. That's her sentence. Okay. Okay. So Nancy's got her sentence. Nancy, you're going to give a word to Joe. Help. Okay. Joe, go for it. As the moose was charging, I could hear Nancy screaming. All right. I'm not Joe, give Julia word. Dolson. I have to relate this to the moose. Yeah, you can go. Oh my God. The moose was running to the shore as the dolphins were leaping in the ocean. That can happen. So, Julie, you go girl. Julie. All right. Sharon, a word. Pumpkin. Well, the dolphins jumped so high, they flew over the country to Texas to the Dripping Springs Pumpkin Festival. I love this. This is great. Okay. So Sharon, give Rita a word. Cocktail. Meanwhile, I ran into the local pub and ordered a cocktail and I left Nancy to fend for herself and hope she would make it to join me at the pub. Oh, good one Rita. Rita gets points. I think Rita's going to win this whole happy hour show. I did. She did. Okay. So Rita, give Aaron a word. Bed. But Nancy never made it to the pub because she looked up in bed and it turned out it was all a weird dream. Oh, Matt, I did go to the pub. You just don't know. Matt, you're going to get a word from Aaron. Aaron, give Matt a word. Witches. Luckily for Nancy, a coven of witches came along and transported her to the pub as well as the festival in Texas so she could enjoy a cocktail with all. All right. Very cool. That is a very good story. Everybody did very good. I like that. Very cool. Our family has a history of witches. I know. That's good. They're famous in England. Well, we'll find out. We'll find out because Aaron is helping on that. But there's two different sides, right? So Aaron, that's the other thing. There's multiple sides of your family tree. So does it all go on one tree? I know that sounds stupid. But when you're doing your family history research, does it all go under one tree? It depends on how you want to build a tree. I built my tree as starting from my son. So I wish I wouldn't have. I wish I would have done my husband's tree separate from mine. Oh, but it can be all one tree. Okay. For your father, there's tree for your mother. I want my own tree. No, as you go up the trees. Okay. Each person that is born has the tree of the father of the mother. So new trees are born. So you end up with a forest. Well, there you go. I don't know. You forest for the trees. You're going to have the forest. So Joe, Joe, you guys by Joe never stops doing her genealogy because of the forest, right? Joe has the forest. It is. It's a forest. Going out on those branches. Keep going out on a limb, everyone. Thank you for joining us here on Big Blend radio again. I've got all the links to all of our awesome guests who put up with us in the episode notes. So please go check them out. Go get the books from Matt because he's got a lot of books. How many books now Matt? I have 16 books out now. Dang. What's next? What's the next one? Coming in November will be Mainly Mayhem, which will be the sixth book in my Mainly Mystery series. I love it. Wow. I don't know how you do that all. That's amazing. It's a lot of books. Soon will the Jefferson Highway book be out. That'll come out next week. I got started already. Good, because I don't want to write it all. He's been writing it since 1915. He was also friends with Thomas Jefferson and made it all happen. This is how it all rolls here on Big Blend radio. We've been going since time started. But anyway, thank you all. Everyone, keep up with us at Big Blend radio.com. Keep up with Julie, Joe, Matt, Rita, Erin, and Sharon. Everyone is linked in the episode notes. Thanks for joining us. Cheers to you all. Happy fall, y'all. Thank you. Cheers. Happy fall and happy birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa. Happy birthday. Thank you. 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