<v Speaker 1>Jerry, Katy and Josh six one hundred.

<v Speaker 2>We did our called it the Cowboy road Trip.

<v Speaker 3>This summer.

<v Speaker 4>We hit the road, put about two thousand miles on

<v Speaker 4>the old family suv.

<v Speaker 3>We started out.

<v Speaker 4>We went up and spent a few days over the

<v Speaker 4>fourth in Cody, Wyoming. From there, we zipped across and

<v Speaker 4>stayed in West Yellowstone, Montana, went up to Gardener, Montana,

<v Speaker 4>back into West Yellowstone, down to Victor, Idaho, into Cheyenne.

<v Speaker 3>Wyoming, and then back home.

<v Speaker 4>So we kind of just did this giant loop, yeah,

<v Speaker 4>and was out in the wild wild West, and we

<v Speaker 4>had a really good time. I like going to these

<v Speaker 4>like little off the beaten path towns and just seeing

<v Speaker 4>how life is there.

<v Speaker 2>I've never been to Idaho. Idaho is beautiful.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

<v Speaker 4>First of all, thank you very much, Cody. I could

<v Speaker 4>see myself living in Cody. There was a great time there.

<v Speaker 4>Yellowstone was fine.

<v Speaker 2>It was probably very it was fine.

<v Speaker 4>My thing this summer is I was like, let's go

<v Speaker 4>somewhere where we're.

<v Speaker 3>Not in a big city.

<v Speaker 2>I don't want to be around a bunch of people.

<v Speaker 4>I just want to be out secluded, somewhere out in

<v Speaker 4>beautiful nature. Well, I forgot it was America's two hundred

<v Speaker 4>and fifty to say and not to mention. I mean,

<v Speaker 4>I think it made it ten times worse. But the

<v Speaker 4>Yellowstone area.

<v Speaker 2>What a cluster that is.

<v Speaker 4>I mean, you got to get into the park at

<v Speaker 4>the butt crack of dawn to try to see anything

<v Speaker 4>because by eleven o'clock or so packed. I mean that

<v Speaker 4>you cannot get into any of the sites because there

<v Speaker 4>is so many people and so much traffic. It was

<v Speaker 4>like that for the Grand Tetons as well, because we

<v Speaker 4>went to the Grand Teton National and I mean thousands

<v Speaker 4>of people thousands, we one day found one secluded spot.

<v Speaker 4>I was like, I gotta find somewhere where we can

<v Speaker 4>just sit and enjoy some of this quiet, the quiet.

<v Speaker 4>And we were out on like a stream, this boardwalk

<v Speaker 4>that went out onto the stream, picturesque quiet, and I

<v Speaker 4>kid you not. Within four minutes you hear behind us

<v Speaker 4>another family come, you know, trapesing down and sat down

<v Speaker 4>like next to us.

<v Speaker 3>I was like, are you kidding me?

<v Speaker 4>And we laughed because Yellowstone in that area is such beautiful.

<v Speaker 3>Pristine scenery.

<v Speaker 4>Okay, it's a beautiful part of the country, but you're

<v Speaker 4>sitting there trying to enjoy all this and you hear like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

<v Speaker 4>all this traffic, and there's a kid over here screaming

<v Speaker 4>his brains out as you're trying to hear, like a

<v Speaker 4>ranger tell you what's going on, and people talking.

<v Speaker 2>It's like, oh my god, this was a bad idea.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, I'm sure you were regretting at least the

<v Speaker 1>Yellowstone Stop.

<v Speaker 4>There was you guys, there was so much noise and

<v Speaker 4>so many people that it really does take away from

<v Speaker 4>the beauty of this National park. It really really does.

<v Speaker 4>What else did we do, Katie? So many waterfalls.

<v Speaker 1>You showed me some videos of the waterfalls you saw,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm jealous.

<v Speaker 2>A lot of really big waterfalls too. So much good food,

<v Speaker 2>really good food. I'm jealous of that too.

<v Speaker 3>The parade for the.

<v Speaker 4>Fourth in Cody, Wyoming was like literally four hours long.

<v Speaker 4>So Cody is like a very patriotic town and I

<v Speaker 4>guess it's like one of the main spots to go

<v Speaker 4>for Fourth of July parades and in the West, they're

<v Speaker 4>like kind of known for their parades. Like to kick

<v Speaker 4>things off, they had a helicopter like flying low to

<v Speaker 4>kick off the parade. That was the first thing. So

<v Speaker 4>he's you know, as he's going down the street and

<v Speaker 4>you're looking up.

<v Speaker 2>At him like, oh my god.

<v Speaker 4>And uh like small town but yet bombastic. Like they

<v Speaker 4>had a they had a part where it was all

<v Speaker 4>the John Deere tractors and it just kept going and going.

<v Speaker 4>They probably had like three hundred John Deer tractors in

<v Speaker 4>the parade.

<v Speaker 3>It was so many.

<v Speaker 4>And I'm not even exaggerating. It was insane, absolutely insane.

<v Speaker 4>As Josh would say, that's cool, but yeah, it was.

<v Speaker 3>Just a good time.

<v Speaker 2>I bought a new Cowboy hat.

<v Speaker 3>I felt very rugged in that. Was that the one

<v Speaker 3>that you sent the picture of us? Like, was that

<v Speaker 3>the new one you were rocket? Yeah? That looks good.

<v Speaker 2>You look good in that hat.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I really feah it does.

<v Speaker 4>But yeah, two thousand miles and it's a it's a

<v Speaker 4>part of the country too where there is essentially no cell.

<v Speaker 3>Phone signal in a lot of it.

<v Speaker 4>And there were many times when we were out in

<v Speaker 4>the middle of nowhere, like the only car on the

<v Speaker 4>road for like an hour or two, and the maps

<v Speaker 4>on my phone kept going in and out because it

<v Speaker 4>kept having to go into SOS mode because there's no signal.

<v Speaker 2>Uh, huh.

<v Speaker 4>And I started freaking out a little bit because I

<v Speaker 4>generally like throw in an atlas or a map or something,

<v Speaker 4>and I didn't. And I'm thinking, we are out in

<v Speaker 4>the middle of nowhere, and if my map truly goes down,

<v Speaker 4>i am I'm lost. I have no idea where we

<v Speaker 4>are or if we have car issues anything like that.

<v Speaker 4>I'm like, we are so screwed.

<v Speaker 1>And you're the adult.

<v Speaker 2>You're in charge.

<v Speaker 1>I know.

<v Speaker 2>My dad was here.

<v Speaker 4>I started calculating, like how much water do we have?

<v Speaker 4>How many snacks? Like how long can we just hang

<v Speaker 4>before somebody rolls up on us? Maybe stops nothing's happened.

<v Speaker 2>You just keep thinking a head yeah, yeah.

<v Speaker 3>So are you like that?

<v Speaker 2>When it comes to road trips, to you have a map?

<v Speaker 1>I usually grab a physical map, but it's because I've

<v Speaker 1>had I mean, I moved to Colorado from North Dakota

<v Speaker 1>when I turned eighteen, so I've made so many trips

<v Speaker 1>back home way before the days.

<v Speaker 2>Of GPS, yeah all that stuff.

<v Speaker 1>So I've had to get physical map apps from gas

<v Speaker 1>stations and make my way through Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming

<v Speaker 1>a lot of the time. So yeah, I I'd like

<v Speaker 1>to also have the physical hard copy of the map.

<v Speaker 2>Just in case. See, Katie, I'm too young to where

<v Speaker 2>I'd be like, where's the little blue dots?

<v Speaker 3>Why is it? Where am I?

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Like, I'm pretty sure, Josh, you would have problems

<v Speaker 1>just a physical map. And that's baby not not could

<v Speaker 1>make her way.

<v Speaker 2>She could barely get through the metro area with a

<v Speaker 2>great dressers like mom, not a bolder Sure. I love

<v Speaker 2>the question off the air in regards.

<v Speaker 4>To me being up in Cody, Wyoming for the Fourth

<v Speaker 4>of July parade, Katie's like, did they kill candy?

<v Speaker 2>Well, yeah, because we don't get to do that.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>The place where I went to see the parade up

<v Speaker 1>in New York as well as just a small little

<v Speaker 1>old town up in upstate New York, they had a

<v Speaker 1>parade and they were throwing candy off of their like

<v Speaker 1>I mean with the scoops you would see in the

<v Speaker 1>candy store when they're filling bags. They had those, and

<v Speaker 1>they were throwing them out into the streets. Not. This

<v Speaker 1>is the problem. Was there's only like two hundred people

<v Speaker 1>in this town, and a good seventy five percent of

<v Speaker 1>them are like eighty, So none of these people were

<v Speaker 1>picking up the candy.

<v Speaker 2>So then you just saw the streets lined with cany

<v Speaker 2>and it.

<v Speaker 1>Was the good stuff we talk of, chocolate, the fruity

<v Speaker 1>tutsie rolls, all those things. So then you have me

<v Speaker 1>going up and down the street by pockets were so

<v Speaker 1>full of candy, and everyone was laughing at me because

<v Speaker 1>I was like pushing children out of the way, like

<v Speaker 1>that's my about our cup. But yeah, it just it

<v Speaker 1>made me really nostalgic from the parades that grew up with.

<v Speaker 3>There's not a lot of that here.

<v Speaker 1>He don't throw candy in our parade liability, And I

<v Speaker 1>get it, we don't want to hurt somebody. But I

<v Speaker 1>remember the year they were trying to throw marshmallows and

<v Speaker 1>I was like, Okay, this is not it, this is

<v Speaker 1>not There was.

<v Speaker 2>A lot of candy in the the announcers.

<v Speaker 4>We were set up kind of right by the announcers,

<v Speaker 4>and they were very concerned if there's a white line

<v Speaker 4>on the street and you couldn't cross the white line

<v Speaker 4>to get the candy. And the whole time this this

<v Speaker 4>Karen is on the mic, don't.

<v Speaker 2>Cry for the white line, for the white line.

<v Speaker 4>Like in her defense, though there was a ton of

<v Speaker 4>horses in the parade, and I don't think she just

<v Speaker 4>wanted the small children to get trampled.

<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, there is that.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's all part of growing up safety. She also

<v Speaker 1>got a microphone and got some power.

<v Speaker 4>At one point, I looked at Nicol's like, my god, relax,

<v Speaker 4>you're ruining this. All right, guys, We're gonna play a

<v Speaker 4>little Olivia Dean for you. We'll be back in about two

<v Speaker 4>minutes and forty seconds. We're gonna read this email that

<v Speaker 4>came in over the past week.

<v Speaker 3>It wasn't even an email.

<v Speaker 2>It came in on our Instagram from Polly.

<v Speaker 4>And the email has to do with hitting it well,

<v Speaker 4>Jeremy hitting it.

<v Speaker 2>What are we hitting well?

<v Speaker 4>She find out about two minutes and forty seconds hitting

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