Treasure Hunting and Play Structures

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, welcome back to the Miles Palfcast, the flagship podcast of Treasure Hunting. I don't know what it was the other day. I was driving on the road and whether it was the light thing just right or me seeing something, but it was one of those moments where like a memory just pops into your head because it was from this time of year and it was from a long time ago. Wait, I think I was a sophomore in high school. This has been like 2006, late May, early June, and we were at Treasure Hunting because we heard this story. Mom's, mom has these, got a couple of friends who were telling us this story and these friends are, they're very, what's, oh, the best word is it? They're very well off and they're very trustworthy. So what I say that because it'd be easy to think that this story is just hogwash and made up, but it wasn't. Anyways, they told this story at these, my mom's friends about this, this friend that they had and that this friend, let's call him Frank. I have zero idea what his name was, but let's call him Frank and Frank had some cognitive delays. He was intellectually delayed a little bit slow and because of this, he wasn't really close to his family but they became close to Frank and they got to the point of like having dinner at his house. He'd find him over, yeah, Frank will come over to dinner at your house and he's like, I want, I want you to come look at this and he took him down to the basement and I think they were pretty hesitant and he took him over to this freezer and these friends of mom, let's call the guy, his name was Bill. Bill was like very hesitant and he's like, hey, that's a cool, cool freezer, Frank. That's a really cool freezer you've got there because again, this guy was a little bit slow and he's like, no, no, no, come over here and look and he opened the freezer and again, he's like, oh, Bill's like, oh, wow, Frank, you got some, you got this is really cool food, you got it here, this is a nice freezer and he's like, no, no, no, look and he takes some of the food out of it and we're the perceived food and opens it up and I always picture this when I hear the story of like one of those like orange juice like cylinders that you get that are in the freezer. Anyways, he opened up this canister of food and it was just jam packed full of dollar bills of all denominations and he's like, oh, Frank, what are you doing with all this? And I think it was a situation where he didn't want to put in the bank because if he was to die then his family would get it and he was not close to his family so instead of trusting that when he'd get his social security money he would just cash out the checks and just fill his freezer full of these food containers full of cash. Anyways, time goes by, Frank passes away and his family does a really, really small little ceremony of life and mom's friend, Bill is there and Bill goes up to the family and say, hey, what do you guys do with like Frank's house? Like all this stuff and they're like, oh, well, we didn't care, we just got rid of it. It was just all junk anyway. So he just lived in the junk house and it's like, well, he did a really nice freezer. What did you do with that? And I was like, well, it's just like everything else. We took it to the nearest dump we could find and just threw it in there. Well, anyways, this story gets later told to us to me and my brother and dad and we got treasure hunting because it's happened in Waverly, Washington. This tiny little town between like Spangle and Spokane, awesome old backroads. It's a very, very small little town. And when I say dump, there wasn't like an official dump in the sense that like if I was to take something to dump and Spokane you go to like an official place and they have it all organized and all that. Small town dumps are just like the spot on the road where somebody probably dumps something once and then everybody's just kind of followed suit. So we go treasure hunting because this sounds legit. Like we may have to go to these little dumps and the little town awayverly and if we can find a white freezer with some old food stuff in it, maybe just maybe we could open these things up and find a whole bunch of money inside. So we always start looking, we find the first dump, nothing there, like and again, this is, when I say dump, this is just like a pile of old stuff. There's old couches and old refrigerators, old freezers, there's clothes, there's everything you could think of. People just like kind of go into the side of the road and just dumping stuff. Anyways, we sort of throw all of it. We find a freezer too. Unfortunately, you see these things in your heart just gets going and you creep up and you open it up, nothing in there. Anyways, we check two or three different dumps. We find a couple more freezers, no such luck. We're still in the like, I think we like talk to some townspeak or some town, because I sound so, I don't know. We talk to some people in town and they told us some different dumps around the place and we go check them out. Anyways, long story short, we never did find this freezer. So if you're ever in the small little town of Waverly, go around and look for some dumps. At this point, this would have been a long, long time ago because I think when we did this, I was a sophomore in high school. So that was forever ago. But if you're going to go treasure hunting, apparently there is a freezer somewhere around Waverly that is stuffed full of old food containers that are stuffed full of cash. And man, when we were going to look for that thing, they were just sheer excitement because you start thinking about everything you do with all that money and, ugh, it was great. I don't know why. It was a fun story. I remember doing that and something about something I saw took me back and we just could have found it. We just could have found it. All right, all the usual stuff on the show today, back to normal, back to normal after last week. Tell me something good, the IOU1, got to talk about last weekend. It was awesome. And then Sean's video into something we just got around. Something we finally found. We've been looking for it. We finally found it and it's going to be great. It's an Emmy Gabby edition of the Sean's What Are You Into. All right, tell me something good. Tell me something good. I grew up loving Mariners baseball. That's no secret. But each hero is always like one of those guys that was, he's just like a cornerstone for so many people in my age, like he was the guy growing up. He was the, when he debuted in 2021, when they won 116 games, like he was the AL, MVP, and Rookie of the Year. It's never happened again. He was awesome. And he's since retired. He's been inducted into Hall of Fame last year. He's in the Mariners Hall of Fame. And he has all the money in the world and he could be doing whatever he wants to do. But that's not what he's doing. Because if you go to a game early and you're out watching their warmups every single day, at least for all the home games, each hero's out there in his full uniform at, he's in his 50s now at the very least. And he's out there in his full uniform and he still, he still warms up with the team. He's still doing long toss, probably longer than a lot of the players can. He's like throwing it across the field. He's, he's doing everything. And it's just, it's so cool because it is just for the sheer love of the game. And I love that because I feel like I was kind of the same way when we were in FFA in high school, like I remember just loving it. And I kind of stuck around and went back to the high school afterwards, even when I was in college to help. I loved it so much. And that's what he Tiro's doing. He could be anywhere in the world. He's all the money. He's retired. He's in the baseball hall of fame. He's got hit records all over the place. And here he is. Just dressing up full uniform and you know, going through the motions and just doing it because he simply loves it on the radio there telling stories about Tiro and there's something else that I love. Like it's just for the love of the game because this, it was spring training and he was this spring like out on one of the fields. Like no one else is out there with him. He's on one of their practice fields and everybody else is on another and they look over. He's over there and he is off of second base and he's practicing his like secondary leads. So like when you're playing baseball and you're on second base, like you get a lead, like if you're as if you're going to steal and then you kind of get like a secondary lead. Like if somebody hits the ball, like you go a little bit further just in case like you can keep going or you got to go back at the ball's cot. And he's out there again. He's retired and he's in the hall of fame. And he's practicing his secondary leads off a second base and he's like looking back into right field to see if they've caught the ball or not and he runs back to the base. And this is something like people don't enjoy doing when they're in baseball. And this is why you're retired. You never have to practice your secondary leads off a second with imaginary balls hitting the right field. But that's what he's doing. And he's again, it's just for the sheer level of the game and I think that's so cool. Like he's he is one of my, if not my favorite Mariners player ever. Like he's just he's steeped in the style of all those years of him playing. Now it's growing up and the fact that he's still out there doing that all of these years later. I mean, he debuted his rookie season, which he'd already played in Japan for a bit, was when I was 11 years old and I'm now 36 and he's still out there on the field doing his thing. Just it's just it's so so cool. I mean, like you always see the thing like never meet your heroes and I feel like each row is one of those ones that you'd want to meet. And there's another story about how he was, it was during the COVID season and they, it's very very limited as far as like what like practices you could do and I, the team was on the road at the time. It was during the baseball season, team was on the road and the Mariners had a player who was on the like I L and he'd been activated and he needed to like throw a bull pin back in Seattle. Obviously no one was there to do it, but each row. So again, each row comes out. He like orders like specially made Ketchers gear. Like everything just like perfectly tuned to his body because he's not built like a Ketcher in the slightest and he comes out and he does bull pins for like this picture just to help him out or to the super expensive Ketchers gear just for him and everything and it's just, that's the kind of guy that he was and the kind of the guy that he is, like he's still out there doing it. And it's just it's the coolest thing. Like I would love to go to game and just like watch him out there doing it. You see the videos of it that he's out there doing all the stuff that pop up on social media here and there and it's just basically the coolest thing. And people keep comparing another one of my heroes, Rick Rizz to him, like Rix, the only announcer that I love and he's retiring is into the year and he's kind of said the same thing. He wants to be like each row and he's still gonna be around the team. He's still gonna be there in spring training. I think that's so cool. The fact that the Mariners have built that legacy where these guys, they could be doing anything in the world and that they're right there still sticking around just because they love being there. I think it's just the coolest thing. So tell me some good. Each row just continuing to be awesome. And he still does a batting practice. Like he could probably still look out there and go one for four in any game at the age that he is and probably still outrun several people and it's just so cool. Love him. All right, I owe you one. (upbeat music) ♪ You know who you are, yeah who you are ♪ We did not send me in last weekend, which we've been planning this for a while and the weather didn't exactly work out, but it was good enough. Tyson's been really wanting to have a barbecue at my Karen and Uncle Kins house. And we had a planned out. And it was on the ropes because the weather wasn't great, but we ended up doing it. And it was so cool, 'cause we went out to their house and this IOU1, by the way. IOU1 is for Ken and Karen for hosting and for making delicious food. It just perfectly cooked food in the barbecue, the meat, the veggies, it was fantastic. And they went way out of their way and did so much. And it was awesome. Because the whole family showed up, it was obviously me and our girls and Kendall and my brother's family and my sister's family and Ken and Karen and Alexis family. And it was so cool. It reminded me of an episode of Modern Family. You know, at the end of them, where everybody comes together for one reason or another and everyone's just there hanging out. And it's just, it was so cool. And we got to have Gabby's birthday that was canceled at the end of March, 'cause she's in the hospital with RSV. Man, it's just crazy. And we finally got to have it here in Mid-May. She finally got to have her birthday. Another one of IOU1 for Morgan for making an incredibly delicious cake. And it's so fun having that opportunity to have everybody there, have her birthday, have cake. They went swimming. Another IOU1 in this moment for Tyson. He really wanted to go jump in the river. And it was freezing cold. He's trying to get us to do it. No one wanted to do it. But Emmy stepped up, Evelyn stepped up, Tegan and Gabby all stepped up. So he went out there swimming in this freezing cold river with all the little girls. And it was, it was just a really great afternoon. I hadn't been feeling great at all that day or the last couple days. And I was worried about how it was gonna go and it could not have been better. Like it's one of those things where, even if you're not feeling great, you go to and you just had the best time. And again, Ken and Karen went way out of their way. It was so cool to just have everybody there. We were all at their house and going swimming in the river and eating cake and opening presents for Gab's birthday was a really cool weekend. So the IOU1 for all those people because it took all of them to make it great. And it was so much fun. Very excited for the like this time with everybody again. 'Cause it's fun when we get all the family, all the cousins together. Now all the younger cousins together. Like it was when we were growing up, they'd be really fun. Hopefully this weekend too, we're out of the lake. Whether it be great, great boating weather. Very excited. All right, last but not least, Sean's what are you into? Emmy Gabby edition. - All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing they didn't know miles was obsessed with. Buckle up, it's time for Sean's, what are you into? - We've been looking for a long time on marketplace. I say we, Kendall's been doing all the work. Kendall's been looking on marketplace for a long time for like a place structure for the girls because they really really wanted a place structure where the slide and swings and whatever else it may come with. We were lucky to get a playground right by our house, but still it'd be really cool to just have something of our own so the girls can go out and play and just enjoy it. We finally found one that we were gonna get a couple weeks ago and it turned out another family came and got it before us. That went out the door. It had been really convenient 'cause it's in our neighborhood. And then we found one in Pullman. That would have been cool this weekend. That we could, it had been a pain because you gotta take a trailer down to Pullman and detach this thing, bring it back up and reassembly. And then by sheer luck, we found one that was like, just several blocks from our house, super, super close. And it was after a very, very long day. This week's been crazy 'cause I have a student who's starting, which it just, it kind of front loads a ton of work. 'Cause I'm busy explaining everything to her and there's zero time off and you're just, you're on even more so than when you're to working with kids all day long. And it's a very long day and it was like, hey, do you wanna go get it? And it's like, we cannot pass this opportunity up. A, to avoid having to drive down to Pullman and hold one thing back on the road, but because it was so close. So I go to this guy's house and he's selling it. I guess it's third hand. He got it from somebody else in the exact same way several years ago. It's one of the giant Costco ones that, he said it costs north of $1,000. And it's really cool. It's like this two story, like play structure. It's got like a rock wall. You can climb up into this little clubhouse. It's way up high. It's really, really tall. And it's got the swings branching off of it. It's got a slide. It's got everything you can possibly want. There's like a lower storey and upper story. It's really, really cool. Anyways, go to this guy's house. It's worked out great because he's just down the street. We actually walked to his house because he got a little like lending library, one of those little library things outside of his house. We were there all the time, getting books. And went to the backyard and met him. His name's Mike, awesome guy. How you went to Mike? You were fantastic. But the whole thing set up there. So it's, again, it's now like seven o'clock and his family's eating dinner like we're out there trying to disassemble this thing. 'Cause you got to get the slide off. And you got to take the swings off. And you got to take that whole branching piece off and then you're trying to figure out how to possibly get this hauled away. And we finally get it all off. And at the end of the day, it's not being like three trips between our house and his. Like just bloating, really got him to my pick up, hauling it there, coming back, getting more stuff. And it reminded me of a job on the farm. 'Cause I think of all the times that, like, rewind the clock back. I don't know. What is it? 15, 20 years. And like, we're out. It's Garrett, Dad and I. Just cleaning out drain pipes from a field. And it should be a simple job. And one thing leads to another all of a sudden, you've got a back out there and you're trying to dig up the thing. And what was supposed to take 20 minutes takes four hours. And that's what this felt like. It's like one of those things where it should be inevitably easy and it just, for whatever reason, things keep popping up. Like one of the bolts got stripped. So we had to go through all that. And then we were trying to like detach the whole thing and it ended up being a lot of pieces. Now you're trying to like, you have this giant play structure. And we ended up just like, let's just see if we can like load the entire thing up in the back of my pickup. So we're trying to like duck walk this thing across the yard because it's so big and so heavy. And we can't like dissembling further. Gupta's gate is gates like literally two inches to narrow for this thing. So now we got to, if we take his gates, like swinging fence off, though, it'll fit. So he's trying to take the gate, swing and fence off. And like one of those things strips. It was just one thing after another where it just ended up taking a really, really long time. But then the flip side of that, though, is like we were able to like tip into the back of my pickup and my pickup was just just wide enough that it would fit in there. So you could like lay it straight. The pictures are hilarious because like this is a giant play structure like laid sideways into my pickup bed and half the tangen out the back and got the ratchet straps in. And again, it was close enough that I didn't have to worry about like flagging it or worrying about like any cop seeing 'cause you're just trying to go down a simple road to get there. But anyways, I'm sure all of this work of trying to disassemble this thing, loading it back up, taking to our house. We know how a giant play structure sitting in our driveway, haven't got it set up yet. It's just one of those things where it's gonna take more time to get into our backyard. But man, the girls are excited about it and they are super into it. They're always asking if they can go out there and work on cleaning it and just kinda playing with it as it is. Again, I think I've got the slide reattached, swings aren't attached yet. It's just sitting there ready to be moved. And man, they're jacked about it. And it's gonna be really cool. It's a great structure. And they don't care that it's third hand. They don't care that you can tell it. It probably needs to have a refinished on it. But they're excited. I've taken all the windows off. We're gonna paint the windows, like all the little things that can be taken off of the paint that we're gonna do that. And at some point maybe like restain it or refinished it. But it's gonna be so cool. I've gotta somehow maybe mow down a section of this tall grass buyer yard to put it. And then we'll again work on reattaching it. It's gonna be a puzzle. We worked really hard on keeping some of the bolts in different things in different places. And I think that I'll get it mixed together so it's gonna be a puzzle and figure out like which goes where and how to reattach it all. And there's obviously no instruction manual this point. But it'd be great. It's gonna be really, really cool. We finally got one. Girls are gonna be excited. It'll be fun to finally get it set up. Jury's out on with the HOA. He's gonna think of this 'cause we're not like supposed to have a fence in our backyard. So God forbid we have a giant play structure. But I don't think they're gonna mind. Girls are gonna love it. It's gonna be cool. Side to get it all set up. It's an absolute process. It's for a very long day. But we got it there. And we're one step closer to having a playhouse and a giant play structure in our backyard. It's gonna be great. Thank you all for listening. I appreciate it. Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. We're gonna be hoping to be at the lake and hopefully I got stories about that next week. Again, thank you for taking the time to listen. Emmy sound by the way out. Now, actually I've thought ahead. I've got this one already. It's Emmy like reading this book. Every now and then we sit down and read the books for bad. And she's seemingly like memorized this book. It's if you give a pig, oh geez. If you throw a pig a party or if you give a pig a balloon or something like that. And I sat down and read the story and she just, she looked through it and she didn't read the words. Obviously she's, we're not quite there yet. We're getting close. She knows a lot of words. But she went through it and like she told the story almost like word for word on each page as she memorized it. And I don't know if I'm gonna put the whole thing here 'cause the whole thing's like three minutes. If I do, feel free to skip through it or just listen to the first part. And I might just put the first part in there depending on how it goes. But it was so cute. I just remember like in second grade, we had to do all those speeches. And one of them was to memorize a book and then repeat that in front of class. And I was so worried about trying to memorize a book and looking back, that was such a helpful skill. But apparently Amy's already got that down because we've learned this enough times that she's there. Anyways, that's coming up next as we fade to black. Thank you for listening. Happy more day weekend and go pickles and go mirrors. Have a good one. Bye. - You give a pig a party. She would ask you for some balloon and when you give her the balloon, she'd want to just like that. - When she, when you give her, when she, she, then, she will. - When she's finished? - When she's finished, put on her favorite party and then she'll call all her friends to invite them to the party. - What a party, what's like that? - When you, when you, when she, when her friends won't be home. So you always have to work for that. And when you go for her friends, just your street friend and she will want you to take her on the bumper cause. And all her friends will be there. She will work for her friends. you're gonna take her on all the way. You want to play her? Go on all the way. Play all the game on the, on the face. When she's done, she'll ask you for some ice cream. And she's done it in the ice cream. Me too. Change her clothes. We'll have it. Yep. You have to take her home. When she's sure ask her for it, they come along. And when she can't put her, her ask her for a higher seat. That's her look in for me. Yeah, I know. There's just no words on the page. So I can one of us put all of that. Okay. Nobody else here. What do you do in the bar? I don't know about these. You know some ways. I know some ways. Don't know. The dogs hidden between the locks. Yeah. Yeah. Teddy, you. And, uh, I think I'm hiding in the car. I don't know. And you get home. And you will have to make sure you have to put a game and then wake it for everyone. You already read that part. What's this? And wake it, son. For everyone. Well, when she sees the pillows. When she sees the pillows, she will want to start a pillow fight. I want a butterfly pill and a pajama like that. This and I go. She'll let her watch as I play with this. And when she's done, she wants to decorate it with the lamp. So she'll ask for some. She'll ask for some. And when you give her the lamp, she will want to eat. She will want to eat. Good job, Ann.