E (2:29)

I don't even know if it was a Ford. I remember he said if. If my. If the shop, there's enough room on the credit card.

D (2:35)

I think you're right.

E (2:36)

Pay for the car, then I'll get it out of the shop. And if the car's declined, I'm gonna have to get a job in Vegas until I can pay off the bill.

D (2:43)

So, as luck would have it, in Vegas, he got the car fixed. He went on to Reno, didn't really like it, so went further down the road to Tahoe and actually loved it there. And so then found a job as a blackjack dealer in Tahoe and found. Started living with a guy and basically started his whole new life. So we've been kind of following him as far as how it's been going.

C (3:07)

He's even grown a mustache.

E (3:09)

Did he really?

D (3:10)

Yeah, he told us that the other day.

E (3:12)

So he's doing that right now in Tahoe. And that got us to thinking that there might be somebody in Atlanta right now doing the same exact thing.

D (3:21)

Like, they came from Tahoe and had the reverse path or came from wherever.

E (3:25)

And it could be as simple as Ben's story, where you weren't doing well in school and you weren't proud of it, and maybe you were in school for something you didn't like, so you bailed on whatever you're doing there, and you came here and you started a whole new life. And maybe you're back in school doing a completely different major. It could be after a terrible breakup. You could have been dating some girl, and she broke your heart, and your friends were her friends, and your worlds were just so meshed that you're like, I can't do this.

D (3:57)

Maybe you were on your way to Birmingham and just stopped here.

E (3:59)

Yeah. You know, that could have been it, too. Maybe I got a cousin in Birmingham and to stay with him for a while. But for whatever reason, you fell in love with Atlanta and you're still here.

C (4:08)

Or your car literally broke down here, and you couldn't afford the repairs, and here you are.

D (4:13)

Yeah.

E (4:14)

And it may be a situation where we get zero phone calls, because I think with Ben, the situation was completely. I mean, that was so lucky. And it might just be. It might be a guy thing, but Burt and I Are both way into that story.

D (4:27)

Just to have the courage to actually follow through with a thought like that.

E (4:31)

Well, and just like the whole guy blazing a trail across the country, like driving the beat up car from Atlanta over to, you know, in the Vegas thing. I think it's just such a guy thing, like, oh, stop it in Vegas. And.

D (4:44)

Well, and I think doing it alone is such a guy thing too, because I think for women, like we would think, is that safe? Can we actually do that? You know, I don't think you'd do it with a girlfriend.

E (4:54)

Sure. You need somebody to talk to. You can't be in the car alone.

D (4:56)

Yeah.

C (4:57)

Oh, we'll talk to ourselves.

A (4:58)

Whatever.

E (4:59)

Just sing along with the radio. Change your plan to unlimited minutes so you can always make a phone call on the way.

D (5:04)

No, but that's true. Who would you talk to? That would be a long trip. A lot of phone calls.

C (5:10)

You'd unload on the person at the diner that you stop at for lunch.

D (5:14)

Yeah, the waitress at the diner would become your best friend. So you just have to tell somebody about every little bit of the road trip.

E (5:20)

You're begging for a hitchhiker. Please let me see a hitchhiker. I don't care if he's got an axe over his shoulder.

C (5:26)

I couldn't get her to pay the bill quick enough and get her out of here. She wouldn't stop talking.

E (5:30)

I will pick up a hitchhiker just so I have somebody to chat with. But, yeah, I think. I mean, it's kind of cool in a romantic, you know, way, but it's, you know, I think that might be a guy thing too. Hey, Vicky.

F (5:43)

Hey, guys. Good morning.

C (5:44)

Good morning.

F (5:45)

I've actually done the same thing. I've lived in Miami my entire life and I was about 20 years old, woke up one day and said, I'm done. I packed up my Beetle, drove up to Atlanta and been here nine years now.

D (5:56)

All right, that's cool. Why did you pick Atlanta?

F (5:59)

I had cousins here that I would come to visit and I basically hated it and figured I needed a break because I was tired of the party scene going out every night. And now I basically love it for everything. I used to hate it for. It's just more laid back. I had an opportunity being bilingual to just start fresh and had better opportunities here. And I've been here nine years and six and a half months. After I moved up here, my family followed me and they've been here as well.

C (6:25)

Fantastic.

D (6:26)

That's cool.

E (6:27)

Did you leave any deep, dark secrets in Miami like something that's down there. And we should have picked you up on the Voice disguiser and giving you a fake name to get the true answer. So you don't have to tell us what the secret is if you don't want to. But was there anything that got left in Miami that you were like, nobody in Atlanta is going to know?

A (6:42)

Blank?

F (6:44)

Unfortunately not. I probably wish I would have. Would have made it more exciting, but no, I just. I got bored and decided to come here.

C (6:51)

Very nice. Well, welcome to Atlanta. Nine years later.

E (6:53)

Nine years later.

D (6:54)

Nine years later.

E (6:56)

You know, I bet there are people who made their way here from the Olympics. Like, don't you think people who showed up for the. For the Olympics would have just come stay, you know, to work the Olympics or volunteer at the Olympics maybe.

C (7:11)

I think a lot of people saw it because the population in Atlanta has grown tremendously just since the Olympics.

E (7:18)

And they just decided, hey, this is a cooler town than wherever I'm from, especially because I think Atlanta is a good city. That's comforting to people who are from small towns.

C (7:27)

Yeah. I mean, it's not a small town feel, but at least you're in a big city and can do more things and meet more people, you know, and

E (7:36)

it's not crazy intimidating like in New York or Chicago or in la, the spurt show.