The Get Together

The crew kicks off the fall season discussing trips to the grocery store. We get into a discussion about being creeped out by scary movies. Shaun gives us a preview of an upcoming trip to Florida. Mike has an upcoming appointment that might become a followup to a previous appointment. We then discuss preliminary plans for a trip we are taking. We close with an update on the kittens.

Shaun, Liz, and Mike are back and are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of the podcast. We discuss Liz and Mike adopting some new family members and coming up with names for the new family members. Shaun and Mike take a road trip to Saratoga for a concert and then Shaun encounters an unruly person at a comedy show. Liz and Mike then recount some details of their trip to Salem, MA and to Maine. There's a trip to a museum, a first time occurrence at a hotel, and a slight car issue along the way. Finally we finish up the episode reading some poetry.

In this episode full of adventures, Shaun starts it out by telling us about a dream he had and how he may actually have a different name. We then travel to Pennsylvania where we meet up with friends, enjoy a Smorgasbord, and visit a tattoo parlor. MIke gets a haircut and introduces everyone to Nico the Barber. Shaun and Mike then head out on a camping trip which ends rather abruptly for Shaun after he has an accident.

Mike, Liz, and Shaun conclude their series about their trip to Alaska. We recount our adventures in Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Hoonah, and Anchorage. We go whale watching and visit glaciers. Mike books a tour that has a coincidental trip to a brewery. We see a ton of animals along the way. Shaun and Mike experience some next level nachos. The trip concludes with some interesting airplane and airport experiences.

Mike, Liz, and Shaun return to discuss their cruise vacation. We make our way from our Airbnb to the cruise port and embark the ship. We have some trials and tribulations along the way but we ultimately sail away from Vancouver and head to Alaska. We sing it if we know it and discover the drink of the cruise. Liz scores a ride and we have an awesome French dinner. We then make our way to Ketchikan and discover what happens when you lick a banana slug.

We kick off the episode with Shaun and Mike discussing some recent adventures that they had in Syracuse during a concert weekend. Then we pick up where left off on our trip to Vancouver and Alaska. We talk about going to Granville Island and the immersive experience of going to the Richmond Night Market. We wonder if Rob knows what cumin is. Mike, Shaun, and some of our group visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Mike has a moment with Shaun on the bridge. AFter the bridge we take a historical tour of Gastown. We close this one out giving some over all impressions of Vancouver.

We are back from our trip to Alaska. We start with some initial impressions of the trip overall. We then kick into our first couple days of the trip. Listen as we attempt to fly from Rochester to Vancouver. We end up with an all expenses paid trip to Chicago instead. We encounter Gordon Gecko and Charm School James along the way. Eventually we make our way to Vancouver via Los Angeles. Fried chicken is enjoyed while we await an Instacart order. Stay tuned as we continue to chronicle our epic adventure.

We kick off the episode discussing some preparations for an upcoming trip. Everyone gets their hair did and then we discuss the prospect of a brother's spa day. Mike brings up a way that he is planning to document their travels.We also go into some of the places we will be visiting and give a rough idea of some things we will be doing. Finally we close this episode out with a discussion of weird food combos.

We receive an email that signals a change to our podcasting world. We got through it though and tell all about it. Mike then talks about a stomach issue. We then talk about us attempting to exercise ahead of our big trip. This results in a trip to urgent care and explaining to Shaun that we bought a massage gun. Finally Liz asks us a question about 1990's television.

We kick this episode off discussing clean up efforts we are making around the house. We discover (or in Liz's case rediscover) a musical artist that has sold several million copies of his albums. Liz then recounts another artist she heard in her youth. Mike discovers something stuck in the garage door. Mike tells a story about getting some great customer service. We then discuss another commercial. Liz closes us out with another good customer service story.