- Today, we're going to share with you
some of our dirty little secrets.
- Yeah. These are things
people will be really surprised to hear.
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- All right, our first dirty little secret,
Stacy don't really like people.
- Okay. That's partially true, partially, not true.
I do like people, I like people a lot.
But I really, really hate that phase of small talk,
getting to know you,
awkward first date kind of thing.
(Phil laughing)
I'm a true introvert.
So, - She is.
- I could be by myself forever.
- She is.
And she really, really loves her alone time.
I mean, she'll go to a movie theater by herself.
She'll go to a restaurant by herself.
- Oh, easy.
- Me, not so much. No.
- So basically what he's saying is,
I've been practicing for quarantine,
for COVID my whole life.
I'm great at that.
- Yeah. But it has really helped the channel
that is has really helped break her out of that
you know, hide behind me while we meet people phase.
She, she's really gotten a lot better and,
and I can see it.
And I know friends of ours have seen it as well.
- Yeah, for sure.
I was the wallflower at a party,
more than four people in the room
and I'm kind of hanging back,
letting everybody else do all the talking.
- Oh, hold on. We have a boat.
What we failed to mention is I love talking.
I love meeting people.
I can talk to this light post for hours.
Well, maybe not for hours,
but I could talk to it.
Is my point.
Stacy, she just doesn't understand my gift of gab.
- I'm thankful for it because it eases my burden
of having to gab when I don't know what to say.
But Phil is one of those people who'll go in the grocery store
and he'll talk to 10 different people in the grocery store
full conversations, standing beside the apples.
Me, on the other hand, I go to the grocery store prepared.
I have my list on my phone, my headphones in, a hat on,
and I make sure I don't make contact eye contact
with anybody.
- She just doesn't like talking.
- Well, I just don't like talking to people I don't know.
So once I get to know you and we're friends, I'm great.
But I'm very awkward before that point, so...
- [Phil] we got another one.
- Anytime we go to a rally or a big meetup,
I'm telling you that exhausts me.
I sometimes have to at a rally
in the middle of the day,
I will sneak away and go hide in the RV
just for alone time and quiet time.
So I can kind of process a little bit.
- No don't, don't let her fool you.
She's left me standing mid conversation with people.
I'll turn around to say something to her and she's gone.
She's like, she saw a squirrel.
And off she goes.
- I don't mean anything by it.
It's just, it's difficult for me.
So if you see me, what we call in the wild
so out and about somewhere,
and you feel like I'm ignoring you
or I'm not really talking to you.
Just know in my head,
I'm like, "I don't know what to say,
I don't know what to say? What do I say?".
- That's why she has me.
I guess I do more just.. - He's a mouth.
- I do more than just drive the RV,
now I'm the conversation starter too.
And I keep it going.
- He's always been the conversation starter.
We probably would have no friends at all.
If it wasn't for this guy.
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- Our second dirty little secret,
is things don't always appear to be what they are on video.
- That's right.
We might do a little fudge factor every now and then.
What, what happens is, or as our kids say,
what had happened was
- All the time
- Is the clips get messed up.
Either, something is a messed up the sound
or we said the wrong thing, or...
- Or we forgot to film something
that was imperative to the story.
- Or it was just dumb.
And we wanted to retake.
- Or a lot of dumb retakes.
Yes.
- So if you're ever curious,
one true telltale sign
that we had to do a retake
and we're lying about where we are
and what day it is,
it's Phil's clothes. (Phil laughing)
So we'll finish that day
and we'll put all our stuff in the dirty clothes hamper.
And the next day,
I'll make Phil go drag it out of the hamper.
And then he's all wrinkled.
- Yeah.
So there has been many, many shoots
that I had to go back into the dirty clothes hamper,
pull up my shirt
and it might be a little wrinkled on videos.
So if you ever see that,
or sometimes I'll have not shaved for a couple days
and then shaved and then we've had to re-shoot.
Now I've got a clean face.
So those of you that have caught us, before with that
you know what I'm talking about.
- Yeah. Now, you know why.
So when this happens,
what we'll do is
we will only record in front of our RV.
So you can't see any of the surrounding area
or we'll record inside the RV,
so you can't see out the windows. That way we're not busted.
- Yeah. So if there's a video of us
and it's wide open boon docking, BLM land
or whatever, and then all of a sudden
you see the rig behind us?
Chances are we screwed something up.
- And we screw up a lot.
- We do.
Hence our earlier videos, and all the bloopers.
So there's number two.
And I don't know,
-[Phil] I don't know why you stopped right next to it.
- [Stacy] No! I don't like snakes!
- [Phil] Well, I don't like them either!
And I'm definitely not like stopping next to him.
This is what we're going to do.
- [Stacy] (beep) my pants?.
- [Phil] We're gonna back up and go real fast by him.
Don't even look, just hit it full throttle.
Okay?
- [Stacy] What if it bites my legs?
- [Phil] Huh?
- [Stacy] What if he bites my leg?
- [Phil] I shouldn't have said anything.
I didn't know you're going to stop on it.
(Stacy's laughs)
- [Stacy] Oh, he's going back.
- [Phil] Come on.
Let's go.
- [Stacy] It's so scary.
- [Phil] All right.
So we're good, he's going away.
So just hit it full throttle and go.
- [Stacy] Holy (beep) that was so scary!
- [Phil] Yeah, that was a big one too.
- [Stacy] I couldn't stop.
I hit my brakes, but I wouldn't stop.
- I literally almost peed my pants.
Like I couldn't even scream. (Phil laughing)
I was so scared.
I can't, you shouldn't have said anything.
- [Phil} I know. - [Stacy] He was big.
He was like, what? Four feet?
Okay. He was 12 feet.
Let's just be real.
He was 12 feet long.
He was the whole length of the street.
- [Phil] We'll, we'll let them be the judge
when we put up the picture.
- [Stacy] But he's curved,
so they won't be able to tell accurately.
- [Phil] Yeah they will.
- [Stacy] He wasn't a straight line.
- [Phil laughing] You fraidy cat.
I almost peed my pants from the laughing.
- [Stacy] I'm surprised you didn't crash into me.
- [Phil] I almost did. - [Stacy] From my sudden breaks.
- [Phil] Oh, here comes a guy running,
he would have seen it.
- [Stacy] Oh my gosh.
- [Phil] All right, go.
- [Stacy] Maybe he's not scared like us.
(Phil chuckles)
- [Stacy] Okay. Like me.
I'm being swarmed by the bees now.
- [Phil] Oh yeah.
There's a nest right there.
- [Stacy] I'm telling you,
the critters are going to get us.
- Our dirty little secret number three,
- Happens to be,
we are terrible YouTubers. - yeah
- Like we really suck.
- Yeah. We like to put the camera down a lot.
I mean, I know you don't believe it
because we put out a video just about weekly.
But when we're with friends and family,
we put it down a lot.
- Well, almost always with friends and family.
But we actually put it down a lot
just when we're out and about.
So, we're YouTubers that come Monday
when I start figuring out
what's gonna go out on Saturday.
A lot of times, I have no idea,
I have nothing recorded
because we haven't recorded for weeks.
- Yeah. We were told early on in this YouTube process
to not live through the lens of our camera.
And we took that to heart and we literally...
you know sometimes we'll get to a place
and we just want to enjoy it like everybody else.
- With the camera in our hand,
we're always thinking about the next shot,
am I positioned right?
Can they hear me?
Is a lawnmower going off?
Do I need to turn?
Or.. you know, did I get this B roll or whatever?
And you sometimes lose the moment.
All of our YouTube friends that we know,
they will have four to six months of backlog.
Right now, I have...
- Four to six minutes. - I have, yes.
- For what we recorded today.
- Okay. He's right about that.
(Laughing)
- And I'm gonna turn, I'ma stop and turn.
And if he comes at me,
then I'm just gonna hit - [Stacy] If he comes at you, really?
- [Phil] I'm gonna hit the throttle.
- [Stacy] Phil, what the hell is your problem?
- [Phil] He's not gonna come at me.
- [Stacy] If it comes at me?
- [Phil] You know what I mean.
- [Stacy] Dude, I cannot drive that rig.
So you have to stick around.
(Phil laughing)
- [Stacy] I can not have you
like, falling out and losing a leg.
You're already broke enough as it is.
- [Phil] Well, let's just hope
that he grabs the bad leg then.
( Stacy and Phil laughing)
- [Stacy] But that's your pedal leg.
- [Phil] It is.
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[Phil] Oh, he's a big one too babe.
- [Stacy] Oh, he's a big one.
That does not instill confidence. (Phil laughing)
Alright, now hear me now.
Don't do anything stupid. [Phil] Oh I'm not.
[Stacy] I'm recording this.
There's a witness that you said you wouldn't.
- [Phil] Yeah no.
I'm just going to ride by
and my angle,
the bike there and get him on film,
and we keep going.
- [Stacy] It wouldn't be better to hold it.
Just like this, like this.
- [Phil] I could, I could try it.
- [Stacy] Instead of putting it on the bike.
- [Phil] Yeah. I can try it.
- [Stacy] You can bike one handed, right?
- [Phil] Yeah.
- [Stacy] I can't. But you can.
- [Phil] Let's try it.
- [Stacy] It's still recording, oops!
I hope it didn't get that.
- [Phil] I hope it did.
- [Stacy] I just fell off the edge of the concrete.
- [Stacy] (Stacy screaming)
- [Phil] You scared it.
- [Stacy] Holy (beep) he's bigger than me.
- [Phil] Stacy scared it.
He popped back up right there.
- [Stacy] All right.
Florida is losing its appeal for me.
- [Phil] He was a big fella.
- [Phil chuckling] And look it,
she's way up there.
(Phil laughing)
- And she rode over on the grass.
Big old fraidy butt.
- [Stacy] That, scared the crap out of me.
- [Phil] Well it,
it when you're, when the tripod
- [Stacy] Bounced
- [Phil] bounced it scared him.
- All right, let's move on
to our fourth dirty little secret.
We don't want you to know where we are.
- So disregard the sign behind us,
this is where we are.
- Okay. So really it's okay if you know where we are
but we're not going to announce
on social media, our current location.
So all of our social media stuff including YouTube,
will be at least two weeks behind.
And we will have already left that location.
- As you know, I've got a security background.
That's what I did in the Navy.
So to protect us,
we just kind of keep a low profile
until after we're gone.
And then you know where we are.
- So if you're in the RV park with us and you see us,
we absolutely want you to say hi to us.
We're not saying don't approach us.
We're unapproachable.
We don't want to meet you.
Well, I might have a hard time meeting you
but that doesn't mean I don't want to meet you.
So all we ask is send us an E-mail.
So let us know you're there.
If you don't see us outside. - Right.
- So if we're outside, you absolutely say hi.
But send us an E-mail.
If you send something to us on Instagram or Facebook
more than likely we won't see it until we're gone.
- Yeah. So, I mean, we do like to hang out and meet people.
COVID is making it a little difficult
and because I'm a hand shaker
and we just can't do that right now.
- Yeah, makes it weird.
- But when you do see us in a video,
it's probably something that we've already moved on from.
Unless we're sitting someplace for a very long time.
- Yeah.
And do, please be advised,
if you knock on my door at 7:00 AM
or before I put on a bra,
I'm not answering the door.
If you knock on my door after dark
and that includes 11:00 PM.
I'm not answering the door.
And yes, that has happened in the past.
- Right.
And I've seen her run to the back of the rig.
Early in the morning,
if somebody knocked on the door.
Most of the times I'll answer
just to, you know make sure that there's
nothing going on in the park.
- So, but we just want you to be aware
and know if you knock on our door,
why, why I didn't answer the door.
I probably, was not dressed,
I was in still in my jammies
and it really wasn't appropriate.
- And she hadn't made it a hair and makeup yet.
- Yeah. And that takes a while.
- Yeah. Yes it does.
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♪ Oh woah oh jumping out of my head ♪
♪ Oh woah oh yeah I'm living like I wanna ♪
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♪ And I do it cause I can ♪
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- For our last and biggest,
deep dark secret.
- Dirty little secret.
- We have a family dumb ass necklace.
- That's right.
You heard that correctly.
- And we can only say that once
because we do not want You Tube mad at us for cursing.
- That's right.
So it's, it was a slow evolving necklace,
and it came off of the...umm,
here's your sign spoof.
- And it totally evolved to your trophy.
And then eventually,
when we were in Texas,
- I stumbled across a guy that made the copper names
you know, just kind of twisted your name out of copper wire.
And I walked over to him, after I walked past him.
And it just, the light bulb went off.
And I said, I leaned over to him
and I said, "how much for a.." - [Stacy] bleep, bleep Necklace?
- And he says, he chuckles and he goes, "One word or two?"
So I said one and he goes, "10 minutes, 10 bucks."
So I had it in the house
and I was trying everything I could
to get somebody to mess something up,
say something stupid,
do something stupid.
And then finally my son fell into the trap.
- He was not thrilled
about actually having to physically
put on this dumb necklace.
- Yeah. So we actually did a presentation
(Stacy laughing)
and you know, anointed him the first recipient.
And to this day,
it is still in the family.
- Oh, it is.
It is.
When we were doing all of our purging,
my son wanted three things.
- Yeah.
- He wanted our Harry Potter series,
He wanted our Bose surround sound,
and he wanted the dumb necklace.
And don't think our kids are traumatized by this.
By any means,
that first one Andrew was not very happy about.
But don't you worry, they joined in the fun.
And my daughter told me to make sure
and let you guys know she doesn't need Oprah.
She doesn't need Dr. Phil,
that she has just as much fun with it as we do.
- Yeah, And you know,
the one thing to know about our family
is we're just a family of cut-ups.
We joke around all the time.
So if, if you've known us for any length of time,
that's just who we are and what we do.
- And in case you're wondering
the one with the most wears
or the most awardee, biggest awardee, I don't know.
You know what I'm trying to say is,
actually the guys in our family.
So Phil and Andrew,
some of the funnier times.
People have been awarded this necklace,
was when Phil,
we were going to Europe
a few years ago.
And Phil,
kept forgetting or didn't know what something was called.
And he kept telling everyone we were going to a brothel.
When we got to Europe.
Finally, my daughter was like,
and I didn't hear this but my daughter was like,
"Dad, you're going to a brothel?"
And he was like, "Yeah."
And she said, "I hope you mean a hostel."
- Yeah, you know. Brothel, hostel.
(Stacy laughing)
- So yes, Phil got the necklace for that incident.
And then another time,
Phil and I were training for marathons,
he trained for a full marathon.
I trained for a half.
So after we were all done, you know, we were all proud.
We got our, our shirts from the run.
And so Phil put his on
and bright in the center really small was 26.2.
So we train for this race,
for a good four to six months.
- Yeah, if not longer.
- And it like took over our lives.
So my daughter walks by,
when Phil has the shirt on
and she says, "Dad, what radio station is that?"
(Stacy laughing)
- I couldn't get the necklace on in her quick enough!
That day.
- I laughed so hard.
I almost hit the floor. - yeah
- So now you know, a family secret.
So that's it for our five dirty little secrets.
Of course we have a lot more secrets
but we can't share everything.
- That's right.
We don't wanna lose subscribers by the dozens.
( Stacy laughing)
- Dozens
- Oh, it's another one.
- Another boat.
So before we let you go, though,
we did want to let you know
that we're starting something new.
A couple of weeks ago, we did our first ever zoom call,
with what four? - Four
- Four couples.
And it was fabulous.
We had a terrific time.
- Yeah, they were, they were picked at random.
You know, we sent out an E-mail
after we picked their,
name or their email address.
And they all rogered up.
They were excited to do it.
It lasted about an hour
and it just gave us an opportunity to talk,
you know in a smaller setting.
So everybody had a chance to talk
instead of just sitting and listening to us.
- Yeah.
- Which was really, really nice.
- So if we do a large zoom call,
like with a hundred people
or when we're doing a YouTube live,
you know it's always a one-way conversation
and we really liked the back and forth.
I know it sounds weird to hear me say.
Say me talking to somebody.
But it is really cool to hear
about other people's experiences,
you know, in the RV space.
- That was our kind of our test bed.
Those were our Guinea pigs.
- Oh, for sure.
- To see how well it would go.
And you know, how well received it was going to be.
And man was it was a success.
- Yeah.
- So because that was a success,
we're going to do it a little bit more often.
And Stacy has put that information
in one of her newsletters or blogs.
- Newsletter.
So the way we're going to do it,
is we are going to pick people who sign up
every month from the newsletter.
So if you haven't joined the newsletter yet,
it's a great time to join our newsletter.
If you want to do a zoom call,
you will have to sign up each month.
So I'm going to put the date and the time on it.
So you'll know if you're available for that date and time.
That way it just eases up the e-mails that go back and forth
for people have plans or whatever.
So we would love to talk to you guys
and hear about your experience.
So, so sign up for a zoom call.
We might pick you.
I'll put the link down below for that.
And anything else we've mentioned,
any other videos or channels or whatever.
I always like to put those down in the description,
so you guys can check them out later.
Thanks a lot for watching.
Of course you know,
the normal things hit the subscribe button,
join our newsletter, find us on RVillage.
- Gives us a thumbs up,
- Blah, blah, blah,
You guys know the drill by now.
And if you haven't subscribed yet,
I don't know why not?
Because, you really need to.
- Yeah. I mean it's yeah.
It's baffling to me, that everybody has not subscribed.
So subscribe, please.
- Thanks again for watching.
And we'll see you on the road.
- Because you watched the entire video.
I'm giving you a bonus secret.
Oh yeah, and it is all about Phil.
He just got out of the shower and you would think, hmm,
I use all the gel in the house.
I use no gel.
Phil uses more product on his hair than I do,
but wait, that's not all.
(Hair dryer blowing)
- [Stacy] Turn around.
- What'd you? What are you doing?
- So Phil, let me turn off our fan so you can hear.
- Can I do my hair?
- [Stacy] Phil would not travel without the blow dryer.
See his little crazy military haircut? His flat top?
It doesn't stand up all on its own.
Show the people what you do every day.
(chuckles) - You dork.
So I put moose in it.
- [Stacy] And I use no product.
- Because if I don't, it doesn't stand up.
So here's my little handy dandy comb.
My finger comb, older fellows will know what this is.
(blow dryer blowing) -And then I hit it with a little heat.
- We're always having to turn around
and come back all the time to get our cameras.
- It takes us twice as long to do anything.
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