1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: and I'm Holly Frye. This week, we have spent the 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: whole week talking about Charles Sumner. Yes, but we're not 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: spending behind the scenes talking about Charles Sumner because we're 6 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: not done with Charles Sumner yet. And that's just it 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: felt weird and confusing to try to separate out our 8 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: behind the scenes thoughts into two different episodes. What we 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: are going to talk about is Morocco because this is 10 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: the first thing that we are recording after returning from 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: our trip to Morocco, and so we thought since we 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: have this behind the scenes that we need to do, 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: it would be a good time to talk about what 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: that was like. Yeah. First, I want to thank Michael 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: from Defined Destinations. Defined Destinations is the company that we've 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: worked with on planning all of these trips, and this 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: I think is the fifth trip that we have gone 18 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: on with Defined Destinations. They have all been great. Also, 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: wanted to thank Hudah, who was our local guide in Morocco. 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: I love that woman. Hudah was great. We've been texting 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: Huda was with us the whole trip. My spouse and 22 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: I got a little sick. Part way through the trip. 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: I was more sick. It was not a serious situation, 24 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: but Huda was so gracious and very attentive to whether 25 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: I was doing okay. And also when we stopped for lunch, 26 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: I was not going to be having any lunch. The 27 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: idea of trying to sit at a table for the 28 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: next hour was not acceptable to me, and so I 29 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: asked her if I could just like hang out by 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: the pool while lunch was happening, and she arranged for 31 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: the restaurant to bring out some some sick people food. 32 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: They yeah, you had like a little soup out there. 33 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: They brought me some soup and some and some Moroccan salad, 34 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: which is was not a leafy green salad. It was 35 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: a plate of the various vegetable dishes that are sometimes 36 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: framed as Moroccan salad. I ate like three bites of 37 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: each of the things, and then I after a good 38 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 1: night's sleep at the hotel that night, we were both fine. 39 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: Yeah you rallied, Yeah yeah. Yeah. That trip was intense 40 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: in the best ways. Yeah, it was funny. I was 41 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: just posting on Instagram about it, because like we were 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: on the bus a lot. Yeah, because we really went 43 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: all over Morocco and I would be sitting there on 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: the bus and see everybody asleep, and I would be like, look, 45 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: I know everybody's tired, but you're not gonna see this 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: ever again probably look out the window. This was a 47 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: problem I had. Yeah, I was forever just glued to 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: the window like a child. Yeah. I was looking forward 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: to the time on the bus because I was expected. 50 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: I was like, I knew we were gonna be driving 51 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: through really scenic places. I also can be a little 52 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: prone to motion sickness, and usually I'm fine on buses, 53 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: but a lot of our bus time was in wind windy, 54 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: mountainous areas with switchbacks. Yeah, there were a lot of 55 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: switchbacks and those were bothering me and I so I 56 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: had to take some less drowsy dramamine. And I think 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: the combination of jet lag and the less drowsy dramamine 58 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: and possibly also my blood pressure medication, staying awake was 59 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: not an option. Like I was just involuntarily unconscious on 60 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: the bus if I had taken any dramamine, and I like, 61 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: I really I wanted to be awake. I wanted to 62 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: be looking at the landscapes we were passing through, And 63 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: what really would happen was like I would open my 64 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: eyes and the view out the window would be radically 65 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: different from the last time that I opened by it 66 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: did have even though I was really bummed to just 67 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: miss the sight seeing out the bus window aspect, it 68 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: did help me be more functional the whole trip. I 69 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: tend to have a really hard time with the time 70 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: zones and the jet lag, and the fact that I 71 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: slept on the bus did seem to let me be 72 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: more functional all of the rest of the time. Yes, 73 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: did I tell you about my weird night at one 74 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: of the hotels? And I don't think so. I don't 75 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: think it did either. So let me preface this by saying, 76 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: I know this sounds weird. To set the scene for 77 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: our listeners. There was one night where we just stayed 78 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,239 Speaker 1: at this one hotel. It was kind of a quick 79 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: stopover because we were, as we said, traveling all over 80 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: one I'm pretty sure that hotel was highly instrumental in 81 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: the development of Animal Kingdom Lodge Disney World. Oh okay, yeah, 82 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: but two in the morning I had cause to ask 83 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: who to Hey, there are any ever been any rumors about 84 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: this hotel being haunted? What was the answer? Well, I 85 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: will tell you after I tell you what happened and 86 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 1: why I asked that question, Okay, okay. And it's one 87 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: of those things that as I was I didn't initially 88 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: want to even talk about it while I was still 89 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: in the hotel, huh. I wanted to wait till we 90 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: were outside of it. But then I ended up talking 91 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: about it at breakfast outside of my room because three 92 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: very weird things happened to me in the night. Okay. 93 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: And when I say these things and I go and 94 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: then I go back to sleep, I know that sounds 95 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: very kooky to people, but please keep in mind that 96 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: I also preface this by saying I have since I 97 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: was four had night terrors, so I'm used to weird 98 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: things happening and then being like, oh, that's my brain. 99 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 2: Huh. 100 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: So this could have all just been oh that's my brain, 101 00:05:57,839 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: but they were extra weird, and one of them is like, 102 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: my brain couldn't do that. So first of all, I 103 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: awakened in the night to a noise and I thought, oh, 104 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: Brian must have gotten up and gone to the bathroom 105 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: and it was pitch black in the hotel room, but 106 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: I thought the way your eyes adjust to the light, 107 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: that I could make him out in the bed beside me, 108 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: and I reached out to him and said something like, 109 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: are you awake? And I felt his hand in my hand, 110 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: which is what he would always do if I reach 111 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: out to him, and then, you know, and then the 112 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: bathroom door opened and he walked out of it, and 113 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: I was like, what just happened? Okay? And I was like, well, 114 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: I must be having a really intense night terror. And 115 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: then I kind of shook it off and I went 116 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: back to sleep, also helped by the fact that we 117 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: ran long days. We were exhausted every day. They were 118 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: very long. And then I woke up like a couple 119 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: hours later to a ticking noise and I just thought, 120 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: that's a weird, you know, hotel sound I'm just not 121 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: familiar with. And I sat up in bed and I 122 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: couldn't identify where the ticking noise was coming from, and 123 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just going to chalk it up 124 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: to the hotel and I laid back down, and as 125 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: I laid back down, I felt what felt like a 126 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: hand on my shoulder from the opposite side of the 127 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: bed of where Brian was Like, I was facing Brian 128 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: and it felt like somebody behind me put a hand 129 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: on my shoulder and I just once again, again being 130 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: a child of night terrors. My coping mechanisms are things 131 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: like saying, hey, be cool, I'm a friend. Yeah, and 132 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: I went back to sleep. And then the third thing 133 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: was because I can be a heavy sleeper sometimes, to 134 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: wake me up when I have asked him to do so, 135 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: Brian will pull all the comforters off of me because 136 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: he knows that will wake me up. Okay, And I again, 137 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: this is not a mean thing he does. It's like 138 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: a sanctioned activity we have discussed. And I thought I 139 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: felt him do that in the night. The covers were 140 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: certainly gone, but then I realized he was snoring, and 141 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: I was like, that's not Brian. And when I sat 142 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: up to get the covers, they were like four feet 143 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: away from the bed. Wow. And I'm like, did I 144 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: just kick really hard? And my brain made up a scenario. 145 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: Don't know. Again, this could have all just been stuff 146 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: going on in my brain. But we got down to breakfast, 147 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: an amazing Houdah who I adore with all of my soul. 148 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: At this point, I said like, hey, hoodah, has this 149 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: hotel ever had any claims that it is haunted? And 150 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: she her initial thing was Holly, this is a very 151 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: nice hotel and I was like, it is. It's lovely. 152 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. And she said I've slept here many 153 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: times and nothing has ever happened to me. And I 154 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: was like, huh, maybe it's just me, and she goes, well, 155 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: last year my daughter stayed here and she said some 156 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: very similar things to what you're saying right now. Oh wow, 157 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: maybe that hotel was haunted. I don't know. Yeah, it 158 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: was very, very wild and I just woke up and 159 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: I was like And the thing was, I did actually 160 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: wake up to Brian, who had gotten up earlier than me, 161 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: and was like, hey, I'll take a shower so you 162 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: can sleep a little longer. He walked over to my 163 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 1: side of the bed and gave me a kiss on 164 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: the forehead to wake me up, and I woke up 165 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: in one of those like At that point, I was like, 166 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here? Is this goes 167 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: and he was like whoa, what's the matter? And I 168 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: was like I will tell you later. Yeah, that was 169 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: my haunted Morocco story. Yeah, that is the That is 170 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: the hotel where we became unwell. So in the the 171 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: next day, I think you said something to me like, 172 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: did you think weird happened in your room last night? 173 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't think we're talking about 174 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,599 Speaker 1: the same thing. Yeah, yeah, I had. I had a 175 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 1: weird one. I had a weird one, which, again I 176 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: want to be very clear too, none of those activities 177 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: felt dangerous to me, you know what I mean, if 178 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: it was in fact a spirit, which is not a 179 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 1: thing I really believe in, but sometimes I wonder, they 180 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: all felt very benign. They didn't feel like anything nefarious 181 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: or evil, just weird. Yeah. 182 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 183 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: We wrote Camels in the Desert. That was a highlight. 184 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: We rode camels in the desert. So a lot of 185 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: our bus days were ultimately a product of getting to 186 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 1: the Sahara Desert to spend a night at the luxury 187 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: camp and ride the camels. Yeah, which was one hundred 188 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: percent worth it. Yes, I had never seen, like I 189 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: had been in arid desert environments before, but I had 190 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: never seen those kinds of dunes that are in that 191 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: part of the Sahara desert and they're beautiful, and I like, 192 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: I was looking forward to the camel ride and our 193 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: night of desert lamping, which is where we left. We 194 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: left on the camel ride from the place that we 195 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: were doing our desert lamping, so I was looking forward 196 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: to that from the beginning of the trip. It was 197 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: one hundred percent worth it. The ride out to see 198 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: the sunset was very fun. I enjoyed it. I hope 199 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: the other folks that were with us. I think there 200 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: was a variety of comfort levels of riding on the 201 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: camels in terms of how secure people felt about doing 202 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: it ahead of time, but the folks that were leading 203 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: the camels, I think tried to help make sure everybody 204 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: feel safe and confident. Yeah, And then at least our 205 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: group on the way back after the sun had set, 206 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: there was still plenty of light. It was like a 207 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: twilight level of light as we were on the way back, 208 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: but the whole group was just silent, and it was 209 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: like we silently rode back to the camp and everybody 210 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: just seemed to be kind of absorbing what we had 211 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 1: just watched. With the sun having set while we were 212 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: watching it from the dunes of the desert and it 213 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: just was very peaceful and moving. Yeah, yeah, it was beautiful. 214 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: I had discomfort on the camel because our ride out 215 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: to the desert, you and your beloved and Brian and 216 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: I were all in one vehicle with a driver, and 217 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: I was on the it'll see in the back, which 218 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: had very little cushioning and yeah, you're not on roads, 219 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: you're just driving through rock and desert. My badonk was 220 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: very bruised by the time we arrived, and so then 221 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: to get right on a camel was like, oh, yeah, 222 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: it's still worth it. But it was like I was 223 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: very bruised for a couple of days. Yeah, but it 224 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: was funny because I had been My biggest concern had 225 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: been what if my camel does not like me? Oh 226 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: I don't think my camel did like me, But that's okay. 227 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: It wasn't, you know, angry about it or anything. It 228 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: was just like, girls stopped trying to hug me. I'm 229 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: not here for that. The camel behind me gave me 230 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: a little a little muzzle now and again when we 231 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: would kind of stop and be close to one another 232 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: because you're yeah, several camels in a row are tethered together. Yeah, 233 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: and it was like, my arm's got to work out 234 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: from holding the bar hu but like amazing, yeah he's saying. Yeah. 235 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: Patrick's camel was very smart and on the way to 236 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 1: watch the sunset, un tied the tether. Mine too, camel, 237 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: Well mine was not Mine didn't do that. It did 238 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: what horses will sometimes do where they puff up and 239 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: so the saddle gets loose. Oh yeah, and so before 240 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: I could mount to go back, they had to reset 241 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: the saddle, had to adjust things. Yeah. Yeah, I was like, 242 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: I see how it is, cammell, I understand. Yeah, you 243 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: don't love me, It's fine. Yeah. What were some of 244 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: your other favorite things for Morocco? We did a cooking 245 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: class that I was in love with. I love that too. 246 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: I was in love with it. Yeah. It was one 247 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: of the most fun things we did. It was hilarious, 248 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: It was adorable. The woman that was doing the demonstration 249 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 1: was hilarious and adorable and very fun to work with. 250 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: I also, I mean I just was very moved by 251 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: all of it. Like I chef showIn is so beautiful, Yeah, 252 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: which is the blue city that people have probably seen 253 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: lots of pictures of. But stairs will destroy you. Yeah, 254 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: I had no concepts. Even though I had seen pictures 255 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: of the city from kind of above or a distance, 256 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: and so I understood that like that's that's it's a vertical, 257 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: vertical verticality there. I was not prepared for the number 258 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: of stairs at all. I had no concept that I 259 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: would be climbing that many stairs that day. Well, I 260 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: think like are comparable, right is when we were in 261 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: Italy and we were visiting Chinquitede, Yeah, which also has 262 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: similarly laid out towns that are very vertical, there were 263 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: still like pathways through them that were easy grades, right, 264 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: chef showing is like, by the way, here's a hundred steps. 265 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: They're not uniform and they've been here a long time. 266 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: There are no railings. Good luck. Like some of those 267 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: stairs were as tall as like my leg from the 268 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: knee down, so like getting up and down them was 269 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: a little bit of a hiker for me. Worth it again, 270 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: one hundred percent worth it. Yeah, Folks who could not 271 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: or did not want to do the steps again. After 272 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: we had dinner down in the square at the lowest 273 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: level of the city, took a cab back up. I 274 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: did not. I walked back. We walked slowly on the 275 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: way back up, and I saw one of the cutest 276 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: things on that walk back up, which is there are 277 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: a lot of cats. Yes, there were a lot of 278 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: cats everywhere we went in Morocco. There were particularly a 279 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: lot of cats in Schiffshawan and there was a person 280 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: whose I'm assuming home was there, who was feeding the 281 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: cats out the front door. And I could not like 282 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: the person was behind the door. So it was just 283 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: this group of very polite cats waiting to be fed. 284 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: And I took the opportunity to take a picture of 285 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: these cats and also to catch my breath a little bit. 286 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: And so Patrick and the other folks we were with 287 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: were walking ahead, and I was like, I got to 288 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: take a picture of these cats and the person behind 289 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: these doors, behind the door, who I cann't see what 290 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: you need to smile, You need to smile. That is 291 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: very It was great. Yeah, when we we went down 292 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: into the city center as part of our tour in 293 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: the morning, and after that we walked back up to 294 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: the hotel because our hotel was at the tippy tippy top, 295 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: and then we walked back down for dinner, and then 296 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: after that we were like, let's take a cab and 297 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: like we were in the Medina, so there are no 298 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: cars allowed there and I right knew that, but I 299 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: did not realize how long the route was going to 300 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: be to get us back to the hotel. Because of it, 301 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: Like we left at the same time as Michael who 302 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: runs the tour, and Scott who was one of the 303 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: people on the tour. They were walking back up and 304 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: we took the cabs and they beat us to the hotel. Yeah, 305 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: because it's a very long ride. I mean, it's not 306 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: like arduously so, but yeah, when we left that hotel 307 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: to get back on the bus, our bus had been 308 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: blocked in at the parking area by other buses, and 309 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,239 Speaker 1: so we had to take cabs from the hotel at 310 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: the top, like just outside the wall of the Medina, 311 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: at the very top of the of the hill there 312 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: had to take cabs to get down to the outside 313 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: the city center where the bus was, and they just 314 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: loaded us all up in what must have been a 315 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: significant number of the taxis in the city. And they 316 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: weren't actually racing each other, but it felt a little 317 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: like we were in a movie in which there was 318 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: a car chase scene of thirty different people split up 319 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: across like Tilly for sure, yeah, and then we had 320 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: a similar experience going out to the desert camp because 321 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: we were split up across four wheel drive vehicles with 322 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: four passengers and a driver per vehicle, and that definitely 323 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: felt like the drivers were racing with each other a 324 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: little bit, not in a way that felt unsafe at all, 325 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: but like different drivers took slightly different paths through the desert. Well, 326 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: some of that was so that they wouldn't clump up 327 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: and make everybody right right and like not put extra ruts, 328 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: like if everybody was driving on the same path, there 329 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: would be deep ruts. But it definitely felt like there 330 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: was like a playfulness to the drivers and and they're 331 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: getting in and out of the area, which I enjoyed 332 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: because I was not on the middle seat. The middle 333 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,959 Speaker 1: seat was bad. What else did I super love? I 334 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: really loved Fez? Yeah, I did too. The architecture of 335 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: Fez made me cry because it is so beautiful and 336 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: so carefully made, like there's so much ornamentation in every 337 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: single space, and you just know that so many hands 338 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: had to touch it with such care and devotion, and 339 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: I found that very moving. Yeah. Yeah, A lot of 340 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: the places that we stayed on this trip were really gorgeous, 341 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: ridiculously gorgeous. And the hotel that we stayed at in 342 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: Fez had previously been four different ri odds that have 343 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: now been combined into like one hotel, and the interior 344 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: of it was gorgeous. I walked around a little bit 345 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: and just took pictures of things on the inside of 346 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: the hotel. Our room had a little balcony that I 347 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: initially thought overlooked the lobby, which did not make sense 348 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: in hindsight. I was like, the lobby was not built 349 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: that way. What it actually overlooked was like an interior 350 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: courtyard that was opened to the sky. Ours overlooked the lobby. Okay, okay, Yeah. 351 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: If we opened up our windows, our little space there 352 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: looked right down to where we had been when we 353 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: first walked into the building. Yeah, that was what I 354 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: thought I was looking at the first time, and then 355 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: Patrick was like, no, look up and I was like, oh, 356 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: that is the sky. And so it was cool to 357 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: see that part of the traditional way of building housing 358 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: that was off and around a central enclosed courtyard that 359 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: was cut off from the rest of the city. We 360 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: also had a tiny little window in the bathroom that 361 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: also was open into this like interior courtyard area open 362 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: to the sky, and there wasn't really a way to 363 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,479 Speaker 1: secure the little bathroom window, and I kept imagining being 364 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: in like an adventure movie and somebody having maybe a 365 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,959 Speaker 1: trained monkey to come into the window and to steal 366 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: the diamond out of our room or whatever. Anyway, that 367 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: was one of the favorite places that we stayed of 368 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: all of our hotels, for sure. I also really liked 369 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: visiting the tannery that we visited in Fez. It had 370 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: an odor. Not because of that, I just I've reached 371 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: a point where I don't really wear leather. Oh yeah, 372 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: I don't really either, But I liked seeing they took 373 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: us out into a sort of balcony area that overlooked 374 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: where they are curing and dying leather in a way 375 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: that has been done for centuries, and that was really cool. 376 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of other major highlights. It's it 377 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: was such a busy trip with so much that we 378 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: packed into it that some of it, to some extent, 379 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 1: is still a blur. Yeah, it was a lot of trip. 380 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: I mean we went every Yeah. I also want to 381 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: thank everybody who went with us on the trip. Super Yeah, 382 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: all of this is I think I said earlier, this 383 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: is the fifth trip like this that we have gone on. 384 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: Always his a great group of people have come to 385 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: be there with us, always, people who are kind and 386 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: interesting and thoughtful. In addition to all that, I particularly 387 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: appreciated that what we needed to leave for the airport 388 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the morning, every single person was 389 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: on to the hotel lobby. Yeah. Yeah. That started our 390 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: arduous trip home, in which I was awake for almost 391 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: forty hours. I returning to Logan Airport, Patrick and I 392 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: were getting into a lift and I heard someone say 393 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: something along the lines of are you on a podcast? 394 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: And I said yes, And it was another person, a 395 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: listener to the podcast. I'm trying to remember. I feel 396 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: like they said I texted you about it. I feel 397 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: like Leah from Alabama, if I'm remembering correctly. And it 398 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: was just a person who happened to also be in 399 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: the area to get into a car, and I was like, Hi, 400 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: I've been awake for forty hours, except I was so 401 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: tired I almost said I've been asleep for forty hours. 402 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: And so that was just a fun little happenstance to happen. 403 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: I'm sorry if I have half remembered your name wrong. 404 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: I really had been asleep or awake for almost forty hours. Yeah, 405 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: I had a similar thing. But the next day, because 406 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: I did the ding Dong move of like, the next day, 407 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: I got on another plane to go to Orlando because 408 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: it was Life Day and I wanted, right, I'm not 409 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 1: going to miss Life Day. They had Chewbacca in his 410 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: Life Day robes for the first time ever. I was 411 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: going to miss that. But I got to Batu in 412 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: Hollywood Studios and someone said I'm a huge fan, and 413 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: I'm like h and I was just like, I'm crazed, 414 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: Like yeah, and I feel very bad because she was 415 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: lovely and amazing and I asked her her name and 416 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: it flew right out of my brain. Yeah yeah, but 417 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: it was very dear and I appreciated it greatly, and 418 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: I was slightly crazed. I was. I was very eager 419 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: for my ronto rap right, and I was meeting up 420 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: with a friend so because Brian was like, I'm not 421 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: getting on another plane, what are you crazy? And I'm like, well, yes, yes, 422 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: in fact, this is perhaps the evidence it is what's happening. 423 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: But yeah, what a what an amazing adventure. I mean 424 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: it was just a venture around every corner, which was 425 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: really fun. Yeah, really fun. Yeah. I feel like I 426 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: still need to review all of the pictures I took 427 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: and just remember some of the stuff that we did. Yeah, 428 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: I did not remember the taxis getting us to our 429 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: bus in chef showIn until you said it just a 430 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 1: few moments ago. Fun. We Oh yeah, we did have 431 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: like ten taxis waiting at the door and we just 432 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: kind of got rushed into him, loaded into him, and 433 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: to go great. So yeah, we are in the process 434 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: of working on another future trip for next year. Yes, 435 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: so hopefully we'll be able to announce that scene. I 436 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 1: really loved visiting Morocco and learning so many more things 437 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: about the history and culture. We may or may not 438 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: have some kind of related episode at some point in 439 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: the future. Some of the things that came up were 440 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: things we'd already talked about on the show. 441 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 2: Yeah. 442 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: I have one thing that I'm definitely working on, but 443 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: it is also related to a European living in Morocco. 444 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: And then I have another that I'm trying to figure 445 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: out how I want to position it and if I 446 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: can get enough English language literature around it to actually 447 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: put something together. So okay, fingers crossed. We didn't even 448 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: mention that we made mosaics. Oh, we did make mosaics. 449 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: We made a little mind broke before even getting to 450 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: the hotel, so we gotta we gotta glue it back together. Yeah, 451 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: Patrick's did not break. Patrick bought a piece of artwork 452 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: and then spent he bought it on like the second 453 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: or third day of the trip, I guess the second 454 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: day of the trip. He bought a piece of artwork, 455 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: and then we spent a lot of the rest of 456 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: the trip wondering how he was going to get it home. 457 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: And the answer was carry it onto the airplane. And 458 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: it arrived. Yeah, so now we got to get it framed. 459 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: I had to buy additional luggage in Morocco. Yeah, carry 460 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: my many treasures. Yeah, which was hilarious because that's another 461 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: great hoodom moment where I was like a little dazed 462 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: on our last night and I was like, I gotta 463 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: go buy luggage. She's like, Nope, we're gonna handle that. 464 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: And like the assistant on the trip, rab literally went 465 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: out and found me a piece of luggage and delivered 466 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: it to the lobby. Oh lovely, Thanks RB Army was great. 467 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: He was amazing. He and Abdullah who was our driver, 468 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: who did things with that bus that, like most people 469 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: could not do with a Minie Cooper. I mean, the 470 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: way that he could manage that huge vehicle was incredible. Yeah. 471 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: What an unforgettable trip. Yeah yeah, So at some point 472 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: we will hopefully be announcing a future trip and tomorrow 473 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,919 Speaker 1: we will be back with a Saturday Classic. Monday, we 474 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: will come back and finish up the story of Charles 475 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: Sumner and then later have a behind the scenes actually 476 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: talking about the creation of that episode. 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