Speaker 1: It's a special pre vacation edition of One More Thing.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong.
Speaker 1: With Me board operator Michaelangelo and executive producer Mike hantson
Speaker 1: joining us today. One thing I gotta do, I gotta
Speaker 1: it's it's it's important that I not get in the
Speaker 1: mindset of its vacation. So you need to eat more
Speaker 1: or or or eat crappier. So easy to slide into
Speaker 1: that it's vacation. Let's have donuts or a cake or
Speaker 1: whatever the heck. So I'm trying to fight.
Speaker 2: That or spend any amount of money on all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff like food or T shirts or that extra
Speaker 2: little whatever, fun thing that you don't need to spend
Speaker 2: money on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I give halfway on that. But yeah, it's very
Speaker 1: easy to go too far. So here's my questions before
Speaker 1: I head on a vacation. Part of it is because
Speaker 1: I want to. I've only got a couple of vacations
Speaker 1: left with my kids. Hanson, You know how this is.
Speaker 1: You count how many summers you got left with your kids.
Speaker 1: It's shocking. Yeah, and you think I only have this
Speaker 1: many more summers of vacations with them. I may ever
Speaker 1: go on vacation with them again in my life after
Speaker 1: a couple of years from now, it's really quite shocking.
Speaker 1: What's the best vacation you ever went on as a
Speaker 1: kid or the one that you remember the most as
Speaker 1: a kid with your family, Michaelangelo, You go first.
Speaker 3: We went in an RV together up to the Organ Coast.
Speaker 3: It was an adventure because my dad didn't know how
Speaker 3: to drive the RV and actually ripped the mirror off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was that the enjoyable part or just a side
Speaker 1: memory of it?
Speaker 3: This is a side memory. There's a lot of good memories,
Speaker 3: but it was stuff that I thought was funny. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that that does. That sounds fantastic because you
Speaker 1: all got to be together when you're an RV, and
Speaker 1: it's the being together part that like really makes the
Speaker 1: vacation to me, I think, But anson vacation.
Speaker 2: See, we were a simple people there in South Dakota,
Speaker 2: so vacations didn't happen all that often. A lot of
Speaker 2: them revolved around I guess if it was a vacation,
Speaker 2: it would be more like going to my dad's softball tournaments.
Speaker 2: But there is a place called Lake Okoboji. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: They have this old carnival totally worn out rides, super dated.
Speaker 2: They had a bumper, cars that hadn't worked in thirty years,
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But for a little kid, it
Speaker 2: was a pretty neat place to hang out. So going
Speaker 2: to Okoboji was always a good time.
Speaker 1: You both have made My point though that I wanted
Speaker 1: to make is like my memories of the vacations. We
Speaker 1: didn't do anything extravagant either. We drove to Grandma's house,
Speaker 1: but we'd stop at some tourist trapped things along the way,
Speaker 1: and you stay in a hotel like a Super eight
Speaker 1: with a pool and just stuff like that. It was
Speaker 1: freaking fantastic. It was fantastic. And I know all y'all
Speaker 1: some of y'all don't do that. I know somebody who's
Speaker 1: taking their kids to the south of France for the vacation,
Speaker 1: and fine, you know, if you got the money, But
Speaker 1: I just I don't know, do you get more memories
Speaker 1: out of that as a kid? Does that matter more
Speaker 1: to you than just just hanging out with the family
Speaker 1: doing stuff. You're at a restaurant, you're at a pool,
Speaker 1: you're in an RV or whatever. My youngest son loved
Speaker 1: our longest road trip we took. We went through Wyoming
Speaker 1: in Montana and all across South Dakota. We stopped over
Speaker 1: Custer's Last Stand was then we went to Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1: But just it was just a road trip. And when
Speaker 1: you're a kid, every stop at Big Giant truck stop
Speaker 1: is fun because there's a slushy machine and just whatever.
Speaker 1: It's all fun. And I love those memories. Now, my
Speaker 1: oldestes he has a little more expensive taste. He really
Speaker 1: liked when we went to New York City, and but
Speaker 1: he likes Hubbub. He likes the crowds and noise and
Speaker 1: cars and stuff like that. But I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just I don't feel like it takes a lot. If
Speaker 1: you're together and you're hanging out and you're laughing and
Speaker 1: you just have that vacation vibe. But we got nothing
Speaker 1: to do, are you. One thing that really sticks out
Speaker 1: in my mind about vacations though, my dad, So my
Speaker 1: dad my whole life. You could see his jaw moving
Speaker 1: when his mouth was shut because he was under stress.
Speaker 1: You could see this little moving right here or just
Speaker 1: under stress, just kind of daily on vacation that would
Speaker 1: go away. Huh. I always noticed that his little jaw
Speaker 1: stress thing that he had days when he worked was
Speaker 1: gone on vacation, and he'd become a different person where
Speaker 1: he'd be just he was just like, sure, get a
Speaker 1: can of coke like normally be it. Can I get
Speaker 1: a can? Go? No, We're not gonna spend money on coke.
Speaker 1: Vacation we did and it was just so exciting.
Speaker 2: My wife refers to me as a vacation Mike, and
Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had a long vacation before I started working with
Speaker 2: you guys on the show, is like about three months.
Speaker 2: And she said vacation Mike was one of the best
Speaker 2: mics I've ever known. She said, you were so well,
Speaker 2: so happy, and so well adjusted. And I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess you know. I had nothing to do, but
Speaker 2: uh yeah, vacation Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that something we should work on all the
Speaker 1: time to be more like vacation Jack, vacation Mike, vacation
Speaker 1: my dad all the time? Or is it just part
Speaker 1: of life Michael Michael Angelo.
Speaker 3: See, I only like vacation for a short time because
Speaker 3: it drives me crazy. I have to stick to my routine.
Speaker 3: I think that's why I work all the time. It
Speaker 3: drives me crazy, did not do anything.
Speaker 2: Got to tell you what, I got used to being
Speaker 2: on vacation for three months. It was pretty freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: Actually, well, you weren't exactly doing nothing because he had
Speaker 1: two young kids, so I was doing close to nothing.
Speaker 2: Jack, I really stayed up late.
Speaker 1: No, I see.
Speaker 2: We Actually I continued with their you know, kind of
Speaker 2: to Michael's point. I didn't want to disrupt them, so
Speaker 2: we continue to take our to daycare and just you know, like,
Speaker 2: let's let's keep their social existence together. And meanwhile, I
Speaker 2: just I had a guy coming over to work on
Speaker 2: our house, and otherwise I would go out to coffee
Speaker 2: and I'd fart around and stay up late and watch
Speaker 2: every show that I hadn't watched over the past couple
Speaker 2: of years. And it became a lifestyle that I really
Speaker 2: really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I should talk to my dad about this. I've never
Speaker 1: said anything to him about it, but it was vacation, Dad.
Speaker 1: He was a different guy on vacation. He would he
Speaker 1: would he would just relax in a way that he
Speaker 1: normally didn't. And you know, when you're a parent, you
Speaker 1: know that feeling you got, you got, you got your life,
Speaker 1: You're doing your life you're doing your job, you're doing
Speaker 1: your gotta get kids here, and you got this paperwork
Speaker 1: to fill out, and we got things to do, and
Speaker 1: just you got to get to bed on time and
Speaker 1: got to get to the pharmacy because your medicine's almost out.
Speaker 1: Just all these different things, and on vacation, all that
Speaker 1: goes away and just a new thing happens. I think
Speaker 1: that's what retirement would be like. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's exactly, exactly a complete loss of months
Speaker 2: of time. I know my in laws how often they'll
Speaker 2: tell me what day of the week is this? I
Speaker 2: say what? They don't know what day it is. It
Speaker 2: could be Sunday, it could be Tuesday. It could be noon,
Speaker 2: it could be ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: They don't know.
Speaker 2: They don't keep track.
Speaker 1: The only reason my parents keep track is because they
Speaker 1: know what days. They have what at the Senior center
Speaker 1: to eat lunch. It's Wednesday, so they have, you know,
Speaker 1: roast beef.
Speaker 3: I picture my Walmart job as my retirement. I'll be
Speaker 3: a greeter with no filter, basically somebody.
Speaker 1: You're not a good relaxer.
Speaker 3: No I'm not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not really eat I can.
Speaker 3: Do it for a day or two, but then that's
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: I love road trips. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: hate them. Never do them, try to avoid having to
Speaker 1: drive anywhere. I love man When we get in the
Speaker 1: car and we head out. My youngest is on boy
Speaker 1: scout trips. So my oldest Sam and I are going
Speaker 1: to go to Nevada and ride dirt bikes. But just
Speaker 1: get on the road. I get a cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: he gets an energy drink, and you listen to some
Speaker 1: music and just a freaking love that.
Speaker 2: See you, you traveled a lot before you had kids.
Speaker 2: You traveled a ton on your own, solo trips, spontaneous.
Speaker 2: You just went yes, and you were comfortable in whatever
Speaker 2: environment you were in. You wherever you went, you were like,
Speaker 2: this is great.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 2: I could sit down for five minutes if there's some
Speaker 2: scenic spot that you stopped in and sit and appreciate
Speaker 2: it and not think about anything but that moment. Right that,
Speaker 2: that's how it was with you. I'm assuming because I
Speaker 2: have that same sensation. I did similar trips. You and
Speaker 2: I probably went up and down the coast to similar
Speaker 2: places before we had kids. If I were to make
Speaker 2: those trips, now I'd be constantly thinking about them, and
Speaker 2: it's difficult to relax or to set. Like we went
Speaker 2: to the beach last weekend. I couldn't enjoy it because
Speaker 2: I was constantly thinking of is this one safe? Is
Speaker 2: this has this one drowned yet? Was the sunburn? What's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 1: They? Do?
Speaker 2: They need to eat?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What you know is one?
Speaker 1: Is my wife happy?
Speaker 2: Is my mom happy? Like all these things and just
Speaker 2: checking on everybody that was impossible. I took a five
Speaker 2: minutes to just sit there and listen the waves crashing
Speaker 2: into the beach, and I was like, this is really cool.
Speaker 2: I remember I used to do this for hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah is that a shark out there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, really that that thought crossed my mind to scanning
Speaker 2: the waves make sure there's no shark getting my son.
Speaker 1: I so I've always done this. I think my parents
Speaker 1: did this too. Yeah, back in the day you had to.
Speaker 1: But I don't have a schedule when we go in
Speaker 1: these road trips. I have no idea how far we're
Speaker 1: gonna drive it down and where we're gonna stay. And
Speaker 1: I mentioned that to some people that were just blown
Speaker 1: away by the You don't have your hotels booked a
Speaker 1: long way. I've never even crossed my mind to do that.
Speaker 2: They that's the best way to do it. It's it's
Speaker 2: it's to me, it's the only way to go. He
Speaker 2: only bummer is when you can't find a place, you know,
Speaker 2: when something's booked up.
Speaker 1: But that's happened like once in my entire life, That's
Speaker 1: what they said. What do you do if you can't
Speaker 1: find a room? That's happened once in sixty years of well,
Speaker 1: I have been traveling, but in forty years of traveling
Speaker 1: like this, it's happened to me one time, So it's
Speaker 1: not like it's a common occurrence. I like the if
Speaker 1: you're in the mood to drive, you drive a long way,
Speaker 1: you get tired early, you shut her down. All a good,
Speaker 1: get a room, Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's difficult when you have a plan to be able
Speaker 2: to stop at that one quirky place that you see
Speaker 2: and you go, oh, that'd be really cool. I hope
Speaker 2: to stop there again on the way back. You never do,
Speaker 2: never ever have a chance to get back to it.
Speaker 2: So correct lack of planning allows the spontaneity, and that
Speaker 2: that allows for those moments that you'll never forget.
Speaker 1: I didn't know Cody, Wyoming has a rodeo every single
Speaker 1: night all summer long. It's America's Rodeo. I didn't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we saw the big banner when we pulled in
Speaker 1: the town. I thought we're doing that. I got a
Speaker 1: hotel room. We went to the rodeo that night. It
Speaker 1: was super fun. The kids had a good time. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. Yeah. I love traveling like that. So are
Speaker 1: you doing anything at all, Michaelangelo during vacation. I'll do something.
Speaker 3: You know it'd be much. You know, the show's not live,
Speaker 3: so to be relaxing.
Speaker 1: Do you read? Do you stare at the wall? No,
Speaker 1: I'll read. I mean it'll be great, it'll be great.
Speaker 1: What are you doing Anson, I'll be here with Michael.
Speaker 2: He usually holds me for a minut hours and just
Speaker 2: kind of reassures me that everything will be all right.
Speaker 2: I can't really leave. I need his reassurance, I need
Speaker 2: his warmth, I need his musk.
Speaker 1: Have been waiting for you to leave town, Jack. We
Speaker 1: will leave on musk. There's no doubt about that. Let's
Speaker 1: end this on musk. Good Lord, Well, I guess that's it.