Mayor Rita Frealing joins us today to talk about the first annual Gettysburg Loves Love: Love is in the Square, which is a mass renewal of vows involving over 100 couples.
Plus our usual shananigans.
Support the show by becoming a Patron! www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg . There’s a 7-day FREE TRIAL waiting for you there.
And we are live oh from the Gettysburg Museum of History Studios P top Baltimore Street in a maximum security facility complete with central air it’s AG today hi this is Darren and mayor from the Civil War Breakfast Club podcast this is Dan cassella from the no pollution of
Cowardice podcast this is Wayne MZ from the Gettysburg Foundation hi I’m John Rothman hi this is Bo rman hi this is Joseph fuk and you’re listening to addressing guest you’re listening to you’re listening to addressing Gettysburg with Matt Gallery don’t ever go in America Got Talent you
Won’t make it so are aren’t you glad I’m back he was a moror man did you say a lincol Third Battalion third Marine infantry regimen 33 you’re listening toing to love this podcast this idea come from we can just get real nutty Matt had his Muck Boots on I was in a
Weapon Splatoon it sounds like you have a an excuse shuffler that just comes up with this magic card as soon as you need it every time you lose one get a new one you’re not Problem Colby doing Veronica’s oo there and uh hello everybody Welcome to AG today sounds more like a mouse click dude like an old school Macintosh Mouse click did yours making noise like that kind of col’s playing uh what was that stupid game what was that game we all played
You know about the organ Trail yeah and he’s it’s every time he’s clicking the M that’s me dying of a snake bite dis you not bro you not bro anyway Hey Beth how are you hi I’m well and you oh I’m fine I’m fine you
Know I have to tell you uh I have a headache it’s it’s i’ I took a 16 Advil and no sorry eight Advil and 16 Tylenol so it’s starting to kick in oh good and you said before I look pale that’s probably why you start yeah your blood
Liver failure your blood count level is low yeah yeah it’s really thin from all that Tylenol yeah you start bleeding out through your nose let’s not cut me we don’t have to worry about a heart attack at least no ex oh no I am heart attack proof
Today Matt had his Muck Boots on yeah well and mud proof the problem is when you do it on there I can’t tell which one is actually that’s the beauty of it all it sounds so intense cuz I got this like buz to my noise my it’s very intense we can just
Get real nutty well we could cby we could we also get crunchy now yeah so Colby made the uh the the the board there as you can hear uh with those beautiful things from last week’s show but we also have a couple of uh just two
I think for uh Beth here oh no your first ones oh no you got three do are they even good well let’s see here we go all right you [ __ ] up for some food all right so there you go you’re doing oh a redo of [ __ ] up for food
All right you [ __ ] up for some food all right not as much uh passion as Veronica’s but uh still it’s your version of it okay all right you [ __ ] up for some food you [ __ ] up for food I like how [ __ ] sound a lot more intense you know you [ __ ] up for some
Food you [ __ ] up for food I’m freaking hungry at that point right and then uh this one here laugh okay I like that that’s a good laugh you go all over the place I do I have like seven different honestly yeah you do it’s kind of like a Colby [Laughter]
Laugh and I don’t know what this is does his wife know about this I don’t know what you were talking about there does his wife know about this who who was that that we were talking to I know if you mash that up Matthew Lee if you mash
That up with he was standing as erect as I am right now that’s a that’s a good one dude he stood as erect as I am now does his wife know about this all right anyway uh so how was your Valentine’s Day what did Mark do something for something romantic for you
I’m assuming he asked me what I wanted for dinner and I said steak and he made me steak oh very nice what kind of steak what was the cut a cow okay I know nothing about was it Chewy was it fatty was their bone no
There was no bone cuz I don’t eat things with bones in them uhhuh that’s smart you don’t eat chicken wings no really no I my biggest fear in all the universe is skeletons oh yeah that’s right I forgot you’re more scared of skeletons than anything else yes than uh than like fire
Like burning to death or drowning or probably but a SK what’s a skeleton going to do about that for a minute cuz fire is pretty freaking scary right I’ve never had dreams about burning and I’ve never had dreams about drowning but I have had many dreams with
Skeletons well I’ve seen a lot of skons I can tell you they’re not that bad they’re not going to do anything to you it doesn’t matter I it and I understand like logically that there is one inside of my skin right that I’m walking around
With a skeleton in me at all times but I cannot I guess I guess I can relate to this a little bit because I have no problem with blood guts Gore any of that but I hate watching Bones break well who would like that like like um like if you
Used know the 411 skateboard videos back in the day oh I can’t I can’t watch that nut themselves on some rails dude like I like bones breaking though is I have to look away yeah no I’m with you on that I I I couldn’t uh I mean like I have no
Like another version of my weirdness is I have no trouble public speaking but I am very intensely upset by other people doing it so I have a little bit of trouble public speaking uh but I cannot you’re right like there okay certain what do you mean by this cuz I’m kind of
Confused well I I’ll give you an example and I think you were there when you talking about cam when cam that’s different that doesn’t count that’s so different you give me a different explan CU AEL his me that’s why that right there is why I can’t this is why I don’t
Go to the lectures but like you’re not you’re not gonna be nervous for Matt Atkinson freaking lecture I was I get so I mean huge sweat but these people I’m not nervous for I’m not nervous for right exactly that’s what they do you know cam when he
Was doing it I was nervous for him CU I I knew how much it meant to him and I knew that he didn’t have a lot of experience doing that I I don’t it wasn’t his first time he did a round table but like you know it’s still it’s
A nerve-wracking thing I but he wasn’t nervous until I was nervous for him I was nervous for him too I was white knuckling it on the chairs the whole time my hand my fingers were so sore the next day from squeezing those armrests is that why they were sore yeah
Sure from pick on my nose right so the first time Jamie ever did a tour at rup house for the kids yeah I had to leave the room and I think well she did think that I was it was a comment that she wasn’t doing well but I was so nervous
For her I couldn’t watch so I had to leave and walk out of the room and go somewhere else let me ask you this would you be nervous for me giving a public spe now you have to think about this I’ve been I’ve because you go on I can
Go on I am not embarrassed or shy ever and I’ve been in front of people since I was like four years old right kind of got out of hand we had our um mandatory safety training today you got nervous for the safety brief yes oh my
Why I don’t know did you did you talk or did you but at the end for five minutes it was totally fine so were you nervous for you talk or you nous watching everybody else I don’t mind me talking but the so you think everybody else is incompetent is what it is no
That is not it I just I think you’re I worry about people I worry about people I I can’t handle either of you I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry we can just get real nutty all right go ahead no I have nothing more to say no no no
CU are horrible let me go back to Valentine’s Day I’m interested in this uh phenomenon because I’m I’m similar similar similar to you he’s similar in the sense that I I I can put myself in the shoes of the other person and I get nervous for them
You know what it feels like when that voice starts getting a little tremolo to it and you have a hard time breathing exactly and I know how hard time breathing you have a hard time catching your breath and it feels like every time you finish a sentence you don’t have
Enough breath to finish so that so when I had know exactly what that’s like when I had to do the uh the the uh uh what do you call the panel with B yeah the movie were you there Co you were there right there I was sitting next to your lady
Man I was that’s right you keeping I was keeping an eye out on everything and I had to read a prepared statement that uh the the ACs prepared that I didn’t prepare and the one about the gold Lincoln needing to be moved no no no it wasn’t somebody with a
Parking problem it was it was um it was a thing about the the the strike the actor strike was going on so it was like we support whatever and everything but it wasn’t my words and I didn’t necessarily mean what they were saying uh and so that I’m uncomfortable doing
That but you know I’m a team player so it’s like okay you asked me to do this I’m going to do it I went out there and uh first of all I didn’t really expect uh that many people so I walk out and it’s a wall of people but there’s lights
In my eyes so I only see Silhouettes I thought I saw a rifle pointing at me at one point I wasn’t sure I was getting nervous so then I get up there and I you know I I try to get a little Rapport going with the audience but I’m also you
Know time time and they don’t want to talk to me they want to talk to the the actors right so I’m like all right all this pressure so I read the thing and and I’m like I have no air I I’ll get like three words out and all of my air
Is expelled because I can’t pull in enough air to speak that tight chest yeah and I’ve never ever had that happen before never had that happen before know if it’s a full-blown panic attack that really only ever happens in public speaking yeah I’ve only ever had it
Happen to me uh when I’ve had to talk so right when I first came back from Afghanistan my stepdad was the mayor in new subna beach where I grew up and he went to me to get up and give a a he was giving a speech somewhere and he just
Like willy-nilly was like come up here and talk for a minute and I didn’t have anything ready you know it’s all really fresh and I had to get up and talk about you know Memorial Day and and and like you know what what that meant for me
After my experience and that is the only time I’ve ever experienced that where I like I would get I would get half my sentence out and I’d be out of breath you know um and how old were you I mean I I was 22 maybe 22 okay but I’ve been in front
Of people since I was four man right so I really can work a crowd uh that that that’s not you know that’s not the problem it was just that it like I don’t know it might have been the sub like you like the problem for you was the subject
Matter I think for me it was the subject matter I was just not ready to talk about that if I could if I could have done it extemporaneously or off the top of my head I’m much better improv yeah if but it’s now I got you know and it’s
Somebody else’s wor and I had time to look it over in fact the night before I was reading it over and over and over again but the minute you know the moment of truth comes it doesn’t matter I it doesn’t sound like you that’s why no it
Doesn’t it’s not my words I would never use certain phrases that were used in there they’re too um do you guys want to know where I got really comfortable corporate what was it in Afghanistan well no no surprisingly it had nothing to do with the Marine Corp I had a I had
An uncle growing up that was evangelist he was a very successful evangelist and very popular and I used to go um we would travel Jimmy Swagger no but I’ve met Jimmy Swagger I bet you have many times actually sinned against you I’ve met Oral Roberts I’ve met I’ve
Met all those guys CU my my uncle this Uncle his name is Eastman Curtis and he uh he was super successful and like to the point I don’t know this for a fact but his son my cousin um would tell me that it would it would cost like it’s
Something stupid like $20,000 for him to open his mouth at a place wow and uh um I would go and he you would do you’re talking crowds of like 200,000 300,000 people um like not even in stadiums like in these in these parks where they have a stage set up yeah and
I like he would make my cousin and I go out and give like the intermission like talks you know what I mean like we got to do this this and this and this before this next person comes out like talk to the crowd that’s honestly where I got
The most comfortable talking in front of people cuz that’s broad daylight there is no lights in your face it’s just the Sun and you can see everything and it was uh it was definitely educational yeah right right right um yeah well anyway I’d like to I just notice
Something that the the great host of The Daily Show John Stewart is in the comment section hello Mr Stuart uh I’m glad to see you back on The Daily Show it has not been funny since you left so welcome back and thank you for watching this wonderful com other TV theme songs
So uh but okay let’s get back to you now what what happened how how was Thanksgiving what did you do Mark made you a steak Valentine’s Day that’s so weird yesterday I was saying it was Thanksgiving all day long that’s really weird um that is weird now we should
Explore that but we don’t have time yeah the mayor is coming up kid yeah true story it’s called Catholicism um yeah uh all right no so steak did you have hold did you have any vegetables with the steak or potatoes just potatoes so meat and potatoes is what you got for
Valentine’s Day well he asked me what my favorite things were cous couscous all right so couscous is a that’s a pasta right it’s a grain it’s more like it’s more like a rice it’s these little pellets yeah but isn’t it isn’t it more of a pasta it’s very good couscous
Doesn’t grow couscous is made isn’t it it grows I don’t know man I just know it looks more like T good I know what it looks like all right the point is get I asked what I wanted yeah and it that’s what I got and it was
Wonderful yeah so you you asked what you wanted no he asked me what I wanted and I and then and right and that’s what I got so you got it yes and it was wonderful and you liked it it was perfect okay dad came over all right now
Cuz he’s now single ah and so he came over and hung out with us your dad or his dad my dad what’s your dad’s name Dallas I like that as a first name whoa what’s going on with my uh I I don’t know here let me see keep talking keep
Talking check it check it whoa something going on there and he came over and we watched um the movie Spy with Melissa McCarthy which is hilarious do you like her who who else oh sorry I I have it uh I’m just go ahead and it was a very nice
Evening who else is in that spy movie uh Jason Stam that’s why you wanted to watch it a there you go I mean he is cute a lot of people say I look like him yeah I bet they do you know what’s funny is I cooked I
Cooked for my wife yesterday W did you really and I also made her steak mine’s a little different setup though all right what did you have I did a now what was the cut it was riby boneless ribeye boneless ribeye I marinated them for a
Day in soy sauce okay I like to do that yourself and uh and then I uh I you know I cooked them in a fry like a frying pan but but seared them really good got a good chard Y and uh I made white rice with uh lime juice o homemade Pico Deo
Beans corn a homemade chimy cherry well honey it’s not that hard so I love I love my husband with all my heart and soul and he is a fabulous cook fabulous he really really is right but he is very picky with his food so we are very meat and potatoes
Very very plain not a lot of so chicken or beef pork or beef someone commented cast iron in the comments and I just want them to know cast iron’s great until you have to clean that thing freaking salt that’s the most annoying pan in the world it is I don’t mind
Doing that oh well then you can come over and clean mine I’ve used it once since we got it yeah it’s not a big deal but um I think what Kobe was saying with his extra flavors would not have flown at the Yingling house all right do he like
Does he like chimmy Cherry has he ever had chimmy cherry honey does he like Chinese food Cricket I think it’s funny that you think he likes any other kind of condiment than ketchup oh he’s so that’s like cam cam only it’s ketchup plain Burgers not even cheese plain Burgers
Ketchup oh he’ll eat the the pl the burger so okay I’ll give you an example we go to Panera Bread uhhuh and we order he orders the same thing every time he the turkey Bravo okay which no what’s on the turkey Bravo it’s lettuce tomato Bravo sauce you’re going to have to elaborate
Onu like a spicy must mayonnaise with okay like a spicy mustard and um bet he doesn’t like mayonnaise does he no I hate mayonnaise too so he orders the sandwich and I love watching the lady at the counter because he completely changes the sandwich by the time it’s
All said and done so he gets rid of the Tomato the greens the goua and changes it for uh cheddar gets rid of the Bravo sauce so now it is just cheddar cheese turkey and bacon and then he changes the bread so why doesn’t he start from
Turkey and just add the bacon and the cheddar and not go give me this elaborate sandwich you can order like that so the poor lady usually it’s a lady at the ticket at the register is like so you don’t want the turkey Bravo you want a completely different sandwich so you
Want a completely new sandwich is what you’re saying it’s like that old uh polio string cheese commercial you remember that where the kids go into the pizza place and they’re like uh is this a New Jersey commercial you don’t remember polio string cheese I mean it
Could be I don’t know I I only watched it in New Jersey but the kids the group of kids go in and they’re like uh they go to the pizza place the pizza guy and they’re like uh you know hey Louie uh give me a cheese with no crust or no I
Want to no give me a large cheese and then uh the other kid goes yeah but hold the crust and the other kid goes and hold the sauce and then the Louis turns around and he goes hey Jimmy give me a cheese with nothing and then it cuts to
Louis or Jimmy and he looks at the camera goes nothing and then it’s polio string cheese the best part of the pizza without the crust or whatever they’re yeah that’s what it kind of reminds me of defin that’s Northeastern commercial right there oh that totally New York I mean
It’s give me a cheese with you want to know what commercials we were getting down south is the freaking El Paso salsa commercials the Old El Paso no the the ones that are like uh New York City oh yeah I remember we got those we got
Those too yeah but pass the Old El Paso taste the old Southwest isn’t that isn’t that how that went no I think you’re hallucinating I think you’re right you had one too many meds today buddy I did one too many one too many Tylenols tanol hits from the what is that from anyway
It doesn’t matter anyway so I think I think we forgot though I just want I just want to point out I went pretty big on my freaking Valentine’s Day meal and no one has complimented me on it yet I made hemade chimmy Cher I said so proud of you and I
Said Mark has a lot to learn you went right back to talking about the other Valentine’s Day meal well you both guilty you both look guilty right now great Colby it was wonderful we are so proud you are such a man Colby wow you are my hero say
That no but so you have the plain and boring one now here’s my my question uh I’ve known adults full grown adults that and I don’t mean to say this to be insulting to Mark yeah um because I know other adults like this they eat like children very picky right I mean for
Instance I don’t eat seafood but you’re not a picky eater though I’ve seen other things that you eat and there’s a lot of people that don’t like seafood so I’m going to let that slide Colby but if it’s like I’ll only have Mark eats according to
Color oh really bro I haven’t heard it broken down like that explain elaborate he doesn’t eat green he eats brown he doesn’t e any vegetables he eats green beans and that’s about it okay so he will eat some greens as long as they come in the right shape correct and then
He doesn’t eat Brown without red and he what does that mean no meat without ketchup oh hit it Y and he’ll eat offwhite but not actual white so no chicken no well he’ll eat chicken cuz it’s brown he calls that brown it’s like
A it’s like a beige yeah now if I if he were here he’d be pissed at me because he’d be like I don’t need a cordon color I don’t know why you’re say that but here’s the deal here’s the deal yeah when I put something in front of him and
He won’t eat it and I say what is it about this that you don’t like it’s always the color see for me it’s a consequently ipof facto I think the reason you’re not eating it is cuz it’s brown right the color correct Brown without the red yeah without the
Red if it was covered in ketchup it would be okay now his dad now he dous his breakfast potatoes and ketchup he does his dad also douses chicken noodle soup and ketchup oh my God that’s disgusting I almost made me gag I’m not I don’t like that at all that is gross
That is gross yeah does he like does he like Ranch no I knew a girl in high in grade school who put ketchup on her pizza that’s disgusting that was disgusting that is truly a gross combination it was and then in college I learned to like blue cheese on my pizza
I don’t know about that that’s a little different I don’t like blue cheese but a lot of people like it so you know I think it’s just as gross as ketchup it Pizza doesn’t need doctoring from any cond give me a good pepperoni New York style freaking oh my god there you go
Pepperoni you had me at at at P I had you at P yeah you know bro yeah you did I what I worry is Ezra is now picking up these habits oh you got to you got to widen his Horizons a little bed bring him out to dinner with us yesterday when
He was little little he loved hummus humus you want to know who will get that boy eating crazy things are you GNA say you no not God no I’m not a crazy either but my wife sure will let let him hang around Taylor for a few days that boy
Will be eating things you’d be like oh I can’t believe you’re eating that yeah that would be lovely because I went over to the Yingling which is what I call my in-laws Yingling um the yings the Yingling and Sandy and I my mother-in-law are very similar like we
Love all kinds of foods but Chuck and Mark are not like that and so she said to me the one day she was like Bethany I made us each a half a sweet potato and I started to cry because I was like oh my God cuz the guys don’t like them I
Haven’t had that in so long thank you so much so you’ve been living like kind of you’ve been having you’ve had like a British diet for so long maybe a Spartan diet would be more ACC a Spartan diet you eat what the Spartans eat yeah and now in Mark’s
Defense he will make things for me if I request it Mitchell Randall pineapple on Pizza is a sin that is a sin yeah that is a sin uh and John Stewart of course now why am I surprised by this he is after all the great comedian John
Stewart can’t even get decent food right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup what movie is that from from that day on They carried my mom’s groceries across the street out of respect there you go good Fellas
That’s good Fellas ladies and gentlemen that’s the beginning and the end there I I did John had the end and Colby had uh something in the beginning uh all right listen let’s let’s do this here uh take a break uh now listen it’s Valentine’s day was yesterday but of
Course Wednesday when it falls on a Wednesday it’s kind of anybody’s guess when and where you celebrate Valentine’s Day do you do it the weekend before do you do it the weekend after I would argue if you’re a Valentine’s Day uh celebrator and it falls on a Wednesday
You have the pick of the litter which makes it easy and most people are probably gonna both are you out of your mind I me listen once is once is enough Colby once is enough we don’t need so look now I would say the smart people do
It before you go to dinner before the weekend before cuz everybody else is thinking let’s do it the weekend after right and then there’s other people there and it’s like a Mentos commercial kind of where like it’s not really Mentos commercial but it’s kind of like
You see another guy and his wife sitting down yeah you kind of wink and you’re like ah you went ahead right you know you didn’t go but um but that’s also where we going with it where we’re going with it is that uh the reason that
People do that is cuz they don’t want to deal with the crowds the res all that right so they’ll do it that’s why it’s good to have it on a Wednesday but it only Falls that way every what seven or eight years or I forgot how it
Goes point I’m trying to make is uh this coming weekend is really Valentine’s Day weekend okay and this is when the real observances and celebrations are happening and so we have a very special guest very excited about this uh this is our first uh dignitary our first commanderin-chief if
You will person of import a person of importance on this show and um I I combed my hair I got my hair done and everything today for the occasion it looks really nice buddy thank you thank you very much I waxed my scalp and and uh and and so we have uh mayor
Rita freeling who is coming in she’s going to talk about uh what is it called now love Square it wait it’s Gettysburg loves love love is in the Square yes like Love Is in the Air triple love if you will what triple love if you will what did you say I have no
Idea the triple Love Oh I thought I thought you were doing The Princess Bride thing M love to love marage is what brings us togethers us a long week you guys I know it has but anyway we’re going to take a break we’ll come back with Marita freeling Love is in the air
And everywhere we’ll be right back aren’t you glad you Ed dial we are too we’ll be right Back hey Gettys nerds 2024 shaping up to be a fun year for addressing Gettysburg and we want you to join us our get out of the car tour is put together and led by licensed Battlefield guide Le Trot kickoff in April and will be available
At a later date for the first time ever on our YouTube channel speaking of our YouTube channel Gettysburg National military Parks winter lecture series is available exclusively over there from January through March so be sure to subscribe and click the notification Bell so you don’t miss a single one we
Also brought back our in-person events for you join us at the Adams County Historical Society on March 16th as we record an episode of our popular biographical series Spotlight on this one is a double header featuring Tim Smith and Gary Adelman tickets are available on our website under the
Events Tab and if you’re a patron you get a discount how about an outdoor summer concert to make your summer Sizzle man was that cheesy anyway Billy Webster is bringing his band to town to perform his entire album of civil war songs Marching through Georgia just for
You tune in to AG today every Thursday to find out when tickets go on sale for that one we have much more in the work so be sure to follow us on Facebook Instagram YouTube and now for free on patreon we hope to get to meet and spend
Spend time with many of you this year as we spread the word about the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War help us teach the masses that history is not boring movies and documentaries about history are spread out across the internet and their quality is often suspect history fix delivers curated
Historic programming to your preferred device using their website or branded apps join history fix for movies documentaries short films and how-tos addressing Gettysburg podcast fans receive 20% % off their first annual subscription so what are you waiting for sign up at www.his.com and use promo code add gber
That’s ad GB RG want the freshest cup of coffee in Gettysburg then visit bantom roters formerly 82 Cafe at 82 steinar Avenue they roast all of their coffee in house and they have a full coffee bar to keep you caffeinated during your trip visit them at www ragged EDG rc.com for
Their menu and shipping options for all of their freshly roasted coffee use promo code Hancock for 10% off your order in the cafe this episode of addressing Gettysburg is brought to you in part by Me audiobook narrator Mike Scott narrator of savis bey’s bloody Autumn the shenendoa valley campaign of 1864
And unlike anything that ever floated the Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads if you are an author or publisher interested in having your titles produced as audiobooks or even just in learning more about the process give me a shout you can find my contact
Info on my website mik scott.com that’s Mikes scott.com and Civil War Trails it’s the world’s largest open air museum and they offer over 1300 sites across Six States Drive the Gettysburg campaign turn by turn paddle to Frederick Douglas’s birthplace or hike to remote Earthworks and artillery positions visit
Civil War trails.org to request a brochure and explore their interactive map follow Civil War trails and create create some history of your own engaging with our complicated past helps us understand there is know them there’s only us even when we disagree and are divided for nearly 50 years my films
Have explored American stories I’m honored to announce that I will return to Gettysburg with my colleagues for a festival of screenings conversations and events that look at where we’ve been where we are and most important of course where we are going you’re listening to the dressing Gettysburg
Podcast cover your ears it might be too loud welcome back to addressing Gettysburg today my next guest was her class president sophomore and junior year of high school student council president senior year of high school it somehow had no date to the prom we’re going to find out about that
When we get into this a little further she was a polyi major at PSU and apparently her class or when she was there we’ll we’ll find out the details about this as well but they’re the ones who started the Penn State champ uh you know the chant where
They got we are yeah whatever uh and then uh then she became the weather anchor for wtpa television in Harrisburg okay then that that wasn’t exciting enough Law School Dickinson College uh held some County and state level public service positions wait there’s more board member for the greater Harrisburg NAACP served on the
Board of the local YMC YWCA here in Gettysburg active in the Lincoln Cemetery project and finally mayor of Gettysburg probably though the crowning achievement of her career is being here on addressing Gettysburg ladies and Gentlemen please welcome our guest Rita freeling mayor of Gettysburg Pennsylvania welcome mayor
Thankk you Matt how are you tonight good it’s Madam mayor I found out yes okay so we will call you madam mayor from now on so you you’ve had so you’re from here born and raised MH you’ve had a very interesting uh career I mean you were
You got into student uh government in high school MH did you always want to be some kind of a politician or did that come later on I always want to be mayor of Gettysburg since I was a little girl since you were a little girl there’s an
Aspiration yeah I know I’m sorry I have the wrong thing there so okay so since you were a little girl do you remember the moment that sparked that desire in you I can’t really say really so just since you’re a little girl as long as you can remember you’ve wanted to be
Mayor of Gettysburg we’re president of the United States okay there you go I like it let’s do it this is this is the first step y we can make that happen so you uh okay so you want to be mayor of uh Gettysburg now what was it do you
Remember um when you were a kid not as you Grew Older and understood the world more but as a kid what was it that seemed alluring about the job of Mayor of Gettysburg who was the mayor at the time do you remember I think it was um
It was either Franklin or William Troxel okay so yeah was wait the late Bill Troxel how long was he mayor for forever okay forever so um and then Ted streer came right MH yeah okay so so Bill Troxel was mayor for like decades yeah I
Would say oh wow the top of my head I don’t know but yeah he was mayor for a while okay okay interesting so all right so he’s mayor and I went to school with his son High School all right what was his son like he was nice he’s cool yeah
Cool MH all right and uh all right so you decide that you want to be mayor uh you get it into uh student government in uh High School what what so I I didn’t pay attention to that when I was in high school student government right I didn’t
Care who was running I didn’t listen to what they said or whatever so I don’t really know what it is in my mind it’s like I promise we’ll get more Snapple in the vending machines and but there’s got to be more to it than that right well I
Tell you junior junior class is you have meetings but junior class we were in charge of the prom okay and we were the first class to take it out I’m yeah to have it outside of the high school for a long time okay so yeah you have to do
Things like that whole meetings supervise other groups it’s fun um then you go to college you become a polysi major and uh and then how do you go from that to television weather good question what happened was this one day my mother looked at me and
She goes you got to start looking for a job when I was in college okay okay University so I was sitting in the Harrisburg bus station got ready to go back to State College and this was at a time when jobs are advertised in a newspaper and I sold this job
Advertisement and it was um looking for I forget what it was something they were holding auditions and I act okay I do some acting I also do commercials yeah what don’t you do good question you’re very busy yeah but it’s good to be active idle mine is the devil’s Disney World I
Agree it’s so true you got to stay busy yeah yeah so anyway so I went and I auditioned and it was to be a weather we were called weather girls in for the weather person and I got it out of like 500 people is that where you worked with
Sonnie Diamond yes okay yes I love Sonnie yeah she’s really cool she is who now who’s that I don’t know her um she works at a local television station does a program that’s like about local things that are happening on N paa for seniors okay and she did a thing for volunteers
At for the foundation and I met her and she’s super cool okay and then we invited her for lunch with us because they may Madame mayor yes just point and say her that’s well it’s rude listen I’m a horrible person we’ve all known this and so that
Was the first time that I met the mayor okay all right so this is something funny when Sonny and I were on the news together Richard senica was our anchor and I used to call us Kitty news because we were one of the youngest news teams in the
Nation Kitty news and how many years did you do that for uh just for what a year and then I went to law school but I was there during PMI too much information no three mile oh Three Mile Island okay really grew up in New Jersey and that was what
78 that was 78 yeah9 79 okay so I was a year old there you go see see that that was really frightening though oh I bet it was well there was a documentary on Netflix about that not too long ago and I was watching that is that is that the
Uh the cult thing on the island three I’m young man I don’t know so the what Three Mile Island is that with the with the cult out on their own Island where they drank the Kool-Aid no no no no this is what the this was the first nuclear
Accident that was in Ghana I know I don’t know I pred it by that was Jim that was Jim Jones Jim Jones was Jonestown m Island outside of Harrisburg a nuclear power plant that melted down in the 70s a little Chernobyl you could still see it yeah it was like pyl in my
Father’s eye at that time so don’t judge it was it was March 28th 1979 and that were were you living up in Harrisburg at the time M oh so that’ be really scary it wasn’t but it was the town was just like everybody left yeah
It was just like a goose Town yeah where did you go here no I came down here to my aunt’s house who I absolutely adore uh and I said you know this is scary and she looked at me and she goes well what we’re going to do is have an end of the
World pizza party best kind of end of the world party pizza yeah that’s the way to be solves it all it did and she was like you what are you going to do so I went back to work and um we had to wear dissers that would what gauge if you how you
Were so like you like a little U what do they call those a gauge like a radioactive oh I never heard that term okay so and then so you would walk around and then you would Just like somebody’s stomach growling now wasn’t it one of those things that make that crackling noise no the nuclear physicist would just look at it okay but we had people from all like um newscasters there it it was really bizarre yeah and um that’s when I met
Max Robinson he was um an anchor for ABC News okay and just a lot of people from wpv in Philadelphia and stayed friends for years so you go to law school what kind of law did you want to study I don’t I I it’s General we study General law but my
Idea was I wanted to go back into newscasting and be like a oh like a legal expert on the news oh that’s a good idea like Tim bran I think he was at the White House that time and horado Rivera is a howbert
Cel that I did not know I think so if I remember correctly okay but anyway so what happened was I came out here’s another one so I I believe you only liveed once so I became a flight attendant really there you go that wasn’t in the article I
Read for for Freedom Airlines how long Freedom Airlines yeah for how long a year until I got a job back in television until Freedom went out of I’ve never heard of Freedom airlands it was a owned by the winstons and it was out of Cleveland Ohio okay and they just
Had a like a regional yeah and I did turnaround trips to Boston every day wow how’d you like that job it was fun yeah yeah now and people think that you’re the airlock the waitress why they why you’re on that plane is in case a fire breaks out or there’s an emergency you
Have to know which fire extinguisher use how to get people out when you’re coming in you are actually are seeding people in seats like if anyway it’s it’s there’s more to there’s there’s yeah there’s something that you’re doing when you’re seating people it’s not where where would you see Matt just looking at
Him by theom in the your ticket prob but right but then but you have like those exit there’s um there’s an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where uh where Larry is asked he’s he’s s his ticket has him by the emergency door and the steart comes over she’s like you know in
The event of an emergency you know would you be able to open this door and you know help us get people out he goes no no give me another like I I can’t open any doors I will panic I you know all neurotic and everything and so that’s
What you’d have to do is like look and you know let the person know okay something happens we need you to man up here right yeah yeah so anyway so then after that I went back into television and I forget how I got involved with this they were looking for a
Woman to um work on governor Casey campaign okay and I meant James Corville oh the that’s who the Raging cun the ring cun but I just knew I I wasn’t right for the job so I went back to television and they told me at oh here’s
A good one they told me at television that when I got back I couldn’t do any because it would a conflict app sure yeah that I couldn’t do any political stuff because you had worked on the casy campaign what but before you go on with that why did you think that you weren’t
Cut out for that it just wasn’t me I don’t do things that I know that it’s too Cutthroat no was something that it was just it wasn’t right for me okay it was I just wasn’t right I I can’t you feel that yeah so it’s not right for me you think I
Could so anyway so I went back and they told me I couldn’t do any political coverage okay I was so delay and lucky it was a snowy day and I’ll never forget I done my morning whatever it was I was doing and um my photographer and I went so I could go
Home and change my clothes and cover what children do on snow days and Jim sinkovitz he went down you you’re probably too young for this to cover Bud dwire who was our state treasurer I know the name he was I don’t know I he was given a news he was given
A press conference about something and that’s when he shot himself at the press conference oh I’ve seen that yes forgot that was this yes Bud DWI that’s why I know the name wow so anyway with a 357 so that could have been you that could have been me but I had been
Working so you went to cover the kids but oh that was a scary time so we went down we went down to the hospital and they that’s why we had walkie-talkies we didn’t have cell phones and and they said go up to I forget what the finance
Building and they said get the tape cuz they weren’t letting them out I walked in I’ve never seen grown men shaking like that yeah CU of what they had witnessed so I just popped the tape in my purse and went back to the station
And they said do you want to see this I was like absolutely hell no hell no I have seen it it’s horrible it’s awful I didn’t know I was seeing it you know on the Internet it’s you know you were going through YouTube and then boom I was like H it was
Horrible and I mean I don’t know who the guy was I was a little kid when it happen so there’s no connection to me today or not today but that when I saw it but you know you see somebody go through that I mean it’s hard to watch
The zuder film and I’ve seen that a million times it’s hard to watch that it is but anyway so then I went back and worked for the casy administration and stayed there for eight years to both of his terms can ask a question yes Coe go
Ahead I loved I have loved your story so far this has been I mean I feel like we could make a movie out of this and it would be it would be a blockbuster hit but I want to know what’s James carille like what’s the rag and cinjun like you
Said you you mentioned that off like like offand like I met I met the ra well I guess well I’ll tell you what I interviewed him he’s very focused and um at that time Governor Casey was referred to as a three-time loss from Holy Cross because he couldn’t win right James
Corville got him elected yeah but it’s hard to understand the word he’s saying isn’t it oh yeah with that accent oh I like him though man I I like him too you know but talk like it’s really hard to understand so um all right this the Penn
State thing I know we’re going back in time now but the Penn State chant you know what I’m talking about okay no no I was watching an interview that Amy did with you and you claim that what is it your class or the era that you were
There where does it tell the story please I was a Penn State cheerleader it was my cheerleading squad of course she was ah okay you were a cheerleader and what happened this was before I got there they were at Ohio and Ohio has a champ which I’ve never really heard and
They were just like we have to get something like that for Penn State right so what we did was there’s is where are we from Ohio it’s kind of boring is that really what it is no Ohio actually it’s um Ohio spend a week here one
Day there you go so anyway we we and we get we gu acknowledge this year or no three years ago we’re doing it right so so Penn State what did they put a statue up to you guys cheering or something or like what how do they acknowledge you
They did a little show on us and they B us on the field one more time at half time that’s cool that’s really cool I was on Dumbo Tron yay which is the real reason for anything be on the so so was your cheerleading squad but you say it
Was before you you got there they no that they were at Ohio okay got it and then when I was on the squad we started this thing like teaching people going backward were you say pen we say State Penn State Penn State you say J we say
Turner J Turner joa Turner okay and then it just finally went down to We Are Penn State I got it okay so it all so that goes back to to then mhm wow I didn’t know that what a life I know really now let’s go back to what Colby said about a
Movie who would play you yeah that’s a great question what age that’s a good question we have that’s right it’s it’s spanning a life so we have to have more than one all right all right uh let her answer first High School age College age
Okay go ahead career age H Berry oh man oh man he on the head all right all right that’s not bad work on that see what you can do I was thinking Alfrey Woodard but Hy Berry’s probably better I think she I think the best yeah well she
Could be mean call well that’s right we have many many stages there yeah yeah and there’s what’s that other woman I like she’s in everything Alfrey Woodard I can’t I can see her face angel no Angela Basset well that’s one but the woman who’s always with Octavia Spencer
Is she was on television and she who’s that horrible my brain just went there it’ll pop back it’ll pop back in it I at least you havea Davis she’s fantastic and Octavia Spencer is fantastic no I don’t I don’t know if I know her Octavia did you see
Um the hidden figures movie nope is that the is that the NASA one y oh oh I know her though she is a good actress I I okay that you said all you had to say was NASA I haven’t seen the movie but I do know who you’re talking about isn’t
There a movie called gift it to that she was in about the little girl that was a brainiac oh I don’t know that one that’s a good movie that I don’t watch movies like that cuz they make me jealous I think she’s the wife in Jango Unchained
Yeah oh no no that’s not her that’s not her no it’s not her I just realized it’s not thanks thanks can we look her up is a googler back there please is there a googler um okay well whatever so uh there’s many actresses that would uh play you throughout your life uh okay
You have two cats I have my my cat passed away few weeks ago sorry to hear I have two cats I have one cat now and two dogs two dogs what are the dogs names Cocoa Puff and Max what’s the what’s the yeah what kind of dogs they’re pomapoos or as I said
They’re expensive muts yeah they’re cute what about um the cat what’s the cat’s name puss puss puss puss that’s the actual cat’s name mhm it’s not a nickname mm puss puss that’s cute well I I what was the movie One Puss and Boots Breakfast at Tiffany’s that was cat that was cat I
Had it I had a cat once just cat yeah but this is the movie where um the woman was B Midler is in it and beaches beaches yes they called the little girl puss cuz it was a name of endearment okay so I really love my cats
So I said you get two of them really really love the c um all right now let’s get into uh now the Highlight so we’ve heard a lot about what you’ve done but the big highlight is about to happen this weekend exactly that’s right this is really the crowning well aside from
Being on the show this is the second crowning achievement of your career all those things we talked about and this is Amy Welsh from destination I just about to get Amy Welsh destination Gettysburg and uh Community media as well you’re still doing community Media stuff right
All right so Amy what did she came to you with this idea how did this come about she was interviewing me and she asked me what I could do as miror and I said oh one of the things I can do I can perform marriages and of course I said
She was like wait a minute and then she just talk off how many how many have you done I haven’t done any and I said I’m going to change that wow you haven’t done any marriages well now you’re about to do hundred renewals right right we’re up to
111 couples couples not people couples that’s 240,000 people yeah now so this is really interesting though so what are you going to do are you going to go up on the balcony on the hotel we can’t get the balcony it’ll be the stairs so the stairs that’s close enough and then
People are going to be there and it’s just a renewal of V so if you want to come we what you say three couples from addressing Gettysburg so yeah there’s six people from addressing gett is that including her Bethany you’re going right I we are but we didn’t register because
I didn’t want to I didn’t want to not show up I we’re trying to convince Mark to do this H there you go Mark is very um he does like to leave the house well let me give you the scope of the day in in case Mark is listening so here’s what’s
Happening from 2: to 4:00 p.m. in the square of Gettysburg right in front of the Gettysburg Hotel is where we’re going to be set up there’s going to be a kissing booth drawings really during cold and flu season Amy yeah okay drawings it we’re going to have music by hyper
Trophy they’re a jazz band oh very nice we’re going to have hot chocolate and we are going to have some other surprise and Delight moments for the audience um about every I would say 10 to 15 minutes I’m going to be doing a a raffle drawing because we have over
$1,500 worth of raffle prizes and they are everything from a one night stay at the Gettysburg Hotel there is a brick by Main Street Gettysburg that’s going to get your name on it the couple name get BOS like like carving it into a tree but live right there in the history um lots
Of boutiques and shops around and restaurants have given us gift certificates so about every what about like Adams County Winer are they going to open up and do anything special there cuz they don’t they have a Tasting Room on the Square there they do so Adams County Winery actually did a special
Label for this event called get gburg loves love and they’ve created their own wine label and they will have that at the Gettysburg location as well as the Adams KY Winery the the big location for purchase and they’ll be doing a little special so how will people know what the
Specials are every single person that shows up is going to get a lanyard and it’s going to have our logo on the front and a QR code on the back they’re going to scan it and they’re going to be told where to go for all the specials that
Are happening around well this sounds pretty organized it is the organizer is pretty on it this isn’t just a like a willy-nilly thing just like hey let’s do this you’re the organizer is a musical performance she’s excellent she’s the organizer no she’s she gets things done getting it done the only thing that’s
Missing so far is a musical performance from Matt and Colby that’s true that is true maybe next year so here’s what’s going to happen people are going to show up from 2: to 4: where they’re going to start you know just engaging hanging out with each other uh doing the raffle
Prizes doing the kissing booth Community media is going to be there for two reasons one they’re going to have a stationary camera at the kissing booth so anybody can leave a message of love that they’ll then stitch together and that will like you did with the Christmas stuff just like with the
Christmas one and that will live on their social media in their platforms and the second um thing they’re going to do is at about 2:45 they’re going to start a live stream of this event and they’re going to live stream all the way to the conclusion of the ceremony so
That’s going to be really great for friends and family and then people to rewatch later yeah um so we’re we’re guesstimating about 300 people will be in attendance and watching and everything um and then at 300 p.m. the mayor is going to sit at the top of the
Stairs of the Gettysburg Hotel and do a vow renewal ceremony with all of these couples and then at the conclusion she’ll have certificates to hand out they don’t have to be signed or anything they’re just Keepsake certificates and then we’ll open it up to um a dessert
Table where the couples can then go and get their little wedding cake so very ni well that sounds like it’s going to be a fun day now I I’m not going to be able to go because I have uh the lectures at the thing that I have to record and then
I I’m doing I’m hosting a trivia night afterward so and it’s all during that time so I’m not going to be able to go to it but I’m but you can watch it later I can watch it later on community media and Beth you’re going to go so you’ll be
Reporting next week right we’re trying to get Mark to go yeah excellent see here here’s the problem my husband’s time of his life was Co like he was living his best life nobody was out cuz he couldn’t go anywhere he didn’t have to see anybody he didn’t have to look at
Anybody got yourself a good one she married Oscar the gr just an introvert through and through 100% he is a fantastic human but he is an introvert but I’m just going to plug this real quick one of the things that’s going to be a raffle prize is we’re going to do a
Member voucher are we yeah um to the Gettysburg foundation for a family membership um so you get a free family membership one of the things you’re raffling off what is the value of that that’s really amazing 7 hold that up for everybody to see here
Give it to me oh I I went to her but all right oh sorry well that light’s going to wash it out here here you go look at that what that also gets you is free entrance into the museum and Visitor Center for a year wow as well as um into
The Children’s Museum if you want to go and a discount at the um train station at ticket to the past it also um gets you discounts throughout town I love it this is really cool so I’m going to give you some stats if you have a second well
I have a second for stats yes here we go all I wondering who would come to such a such an event married coupl love PE people in love people who are in love so you might want to check your your man no I’m just kidding I wonder sometimes so
Um 76% of the people are from uh Pennsylvania we then we have Maryland New York New Jersey Ohio West Virginia Virginia Michigan and Delaware nice of the 11 couples it is almost perfectly split 5050 for for this next stat you ready 50% of the 11 111 couples have been married zero
To 30 years okay so under 30 and 50% have been married from 30 get ready to 70 years oh my God so we have three couples that’s a lot who have been married more than 50 years we have one couple more than 60 and one couple at 70
Wow yeah so 70 years yep what were they like 10 when they got married they or are they 20 now yeah so um so the the new the the Newly Weds we have 20 um 20 Newly Weds so that’s under 10 years we’re calling that um 10 to 20
Years we have 32 people in the crowd who are celebrating that 20 to 30 20 people and then 30 and above are the rest it’s pretty amazing that’s pretty this might not be uh a a cheerful uh statistic to come up with but how many of these
People people are uh on still on their first marriage so we didn’t ask that question because it doesn’t matter cuz we’re celebrating life oh right right right right right okay I’m just curious you know but I laughed really hard after that I just want you to know I heard you
We we weren’t curious about that cuz we’re celebrating love and whether you’re on your first or third marriage Love Is Love and um but you know it’s interesting to find out you know I wasn’t interested I would pay to hear that statistic yeah you know we can find
Out we census Mark and I are at 15 nice you’re right there since your divorce the 15 years are you really 15 years see long time man right cuz I forget that’s that is good so you know people say a lot you you hear a lot of Statistics like the divorce rate or
Something and Gettysburg was just named the most romantic small town in Pennsylvania yeah it was and we are also the most welcoming small town in the United States that and so we just wanted to create something that we welcomed people in to celebrate love with us because we absolutely know if you focus
On something your energy is going to go to what you’re focusing on so when you have an opportunity as a mayor to choose something for your town to focus on love is a pretty good one it is and I think that um you know when you think so I I
Moved here originally in uh 2005 and it was like you know a regular Old Town uh small town I I always liked it and stuff but there is I I sense more of a not that it didn’t exist back then but there’s a there’s more of a sense of
Community now and a lot of these events that um are just kind of about you know being alive and you know just like the nice things on uh in life and and I I think it’s cool that this Town kind of Embraces that sort of stuff I can I can
Agree with you man I moved here two years ago and it’s the only place I’ve moved outside of the South that has Southern Hospitality I feel like I moved here and everybody wants to be my friend everybody’s interested in what I’m doing they want to help any way they can they
Want to be famous on your podcast no they my podcast didn’t have any followers at that time you know no people are just helpful they’re super I mean even even listen and I hate to do this because it’s going to make his head get that much bigger but even Matt with
His podcast where it was at was super helpful to me super super like welcoming let me let me use a studio for a long time you’re welcome C see look I knew it was I knew it was coming but this this town is special it’s special and there is like a
There is a uh a welcoming atmosphere here that’s very unique to story I’m going to say one more thing to add to that here’s what’s really great about what you said Matt it just feels more warm and welcoming recently so that’s an that’s a testament to not only the
Businesses that are local who are stepping up in supporting this event it it’s the local people who live here sometimes people believe in tourist towns there’s a disconnect between the local community the business community and the tourism Community Gettysburg these stats right here really just speak there’s no disconnect people love this
Town so here’s another beautiful thing that we’ve created is everyone’s going to get a lanyard and there’s a few reasons why I decided I thought this was a good idea one everybody gets a Keepsake they can all look at one another and feel the same and a part of
Something so it doesn’t matter if you’re 23% out of state 25% outside of Adams County or the 50% inside You’re All In This Moment you’re you’re here for the same reason you support the same cause which is love marriage and family and you’re celebrating that together another
Reason is now the businesses can really look around and see how as a community other community leaders step up to to bring in business and to make that profitable so the businesses are going to see droves of people walk through their door wearing lanyards and they’re just going to have that immediate con
Okay cuz and what’s great about that is there’s locals and out of state all together so it we really are welcoming and communing together together to create this beautiful experience of Love is is speaking of families coming together is Ezra allowed to attend families her son my son of course there
Are so many someone’s bringing their dog okay yeah okay yeah this is for this is a vow renewal ceremony this is free um we do have an RSVP site and that was important because we wanted to have stuff or or some surprise and Delight items to give people that was a great
Way for us to keep track of that you’re welcome to just show up everything is on until it runs out kind of um and a lot of people are bringing their family their grandchild their children how exciting to see your your parents or grandparents get married and um a lot of
Support so I anticipate the restaurants are going to be busy the shops are going to be busy our hotel industry is going to be you’re bringing 200 people here like 300 the hotel somebody already told me they stand at the hotel and you can anything you want one couple told me
They’re to come dress as World War II oh nice yeah there’s another couple she has her 1941 outfit her they’re putting on you’re going to get Mar is there any is there any uh Abraham Lincoln’s coming no I don’t know you’re you’re going to get
Mark and a peric khakis with a Like a Star Wars t-shirt fop General cam show it up as well oh well it’s renal it’s not yeah they’re not married yet they can’t do that I almost want to get divorced so that I can be the first official wedding right
You haven’t done any weddings huh no h I’ll talk to Mark about this we’ll have to say Okay I have to say go ahead could you imagine her officiating Madam mayor is speaking Madame mayor is speaking carried away I got carried away if she knew cam she’ think it was
Funny so we’re really excited and it’s going to bring people into town and hopefully this can become an anual event that’s I I was going to ask you is this going to be an annual thing or I mean it sounds to me like it’s a hit at least as
Far as interest in it goes the interest is in just wonderful it’s like mean sock even imagine yes and all because we mentioned it on the show it’s amazing I me I have mentioned it every week in the news she has she has yeah so six people
Are showing up because of that so thank you it’s really great and two of them are you and Mark Amy come on give me at least eight people that if you mark show it will be thank you so right so that is give me the time
Again and the the date so the actual whole event is 2 to 4 p.m. it will be cold we’re looking at maybe some snow so the ceremony this is what people are most interested in 300 p.m. um maybe 20 minutes half an hour for the ceremony
Not that one 10 minutes for the ceremony 5 minutes it’s going to be cold and um we we’ll break it down and I am also one of those people now I did talk a lot tonight but when I’m usually speak just boom boom well I me from where Lincoln
Gave us gettysburger dress what do you think I learned right keep it brief keep it brief gravity is the soul of wit right soer that was the best line all night that was the best line all night did not expect that that’s that’s Dorothy Parker you you just that is Dorothy Parker well
Done that you made the sound B Madam mayor what did you say you’re I have I have a little uh board here where like people will say things H you know like here I’ll give you one that uh uh uh where are we here uh here this is one
That Beth said last week she said this does his wife know about this and you know it’s something out of context I don’t know if it was loud enough here let me pull it up a little does his wife know about this so it’s a little phrase
That’s a little odd out of context and you know sometimes it actually fit fits into some other context and we’re definitely going to use that one yeah that was good so all right I have I have two questions I’ve always wondered and this this this isn’t about love on the
Square this is about Gettysburg it you they used to have it on the website the the buroughs website where they were almost bragging that they have a strong Council weak mayor system and I went looking for that today to see if it’s still there I didn’t see it
Anywhere but is that still the case and what is the advantage of that the advantage of that is the counil we’re different branches of government right the council has the budget and all that they take care of that the mayor has four things if there’s a tie vote on
A council I get to break it but there’s seven members so somebody would have to not be there right um I can perform marriages but with the budget or any of that I don’t have any of that I’m trying to think break it high so can you like you
Know how like when when a president runs and they say when I’m president we’re going to do this and I’ll get Congress to do the can you do that type of stuff or is it more like you have seven presidents and you’re kind of the one
That signs off on things it’s more like no they’re Council people they’re no I know that but I mean yeah but I sign off on any legislation or ordinance as they pass I mean I don’t sign off I sign it sign and I sometimes can um talk about
That the one thing that I and the mirror is what you make it ped streer told me that okay the job is what you make it okay and I like to get out in the community I’m more like an ambassador for Gettys okay a cheerleader yeah well cheerleader somebody told me they said
Once a cheerleader always a cheerleader and the other thing I have to take seriously I have over cited the police department oh yeah that’s right so all right and then so then that brings me next question I I got to work for people like Amy right right serly thank
You most importantly though my next question is is there a way that you can like get me uh like a parking pass that so I don’t have to pay the meters and I don’t have to worry about any just a lifetime no all right most most of the burs
Revenue comes from parking I know I don’t only thing I don’t but that’s the thing I don’t park in town that much that I’m you’re going to be losing any revenue from me it’s just that who carries I don’t want another app on my phone and I don’t want to carry quarters
Oh shut your mouth oh that’s enough come on you know I’m going to tell you don’t say AP me I get scared I don’t want any more AC no so you’re with me on this yeah but I I carry quarters well so do I when I remember to Madame mayor I think
What he’s asking for I just want a free park is a hand out a little sign for his car that says the mayor mayor says I can park here or friend of the mayor no no or mayor’s lifetime parking pass that’s all I don’t have oversight of the
Parking department so that’s not my purview how no that’s not true mayor I once got out of a ticket I went to Mayor Troxel I knew you were going to say that don’t say that oh no wait let me let me bleep my uh we go no that’s not yeah
Sorry we’re live you should you should probably just just write on a piece of paper I’m the mayor’s friend and so now it’s down to I’m I’m the mayor’s friend yeah I met the mayor you could write that yourself yeah then just get her to sign it like we’ll
Just do it on this notebook paper I met the mayor all right I was Mak I was making that up you can’t get rid of parking tickets as mayor I was making that up we just had a little stick that we did there and we worked that out earlier no I
Know try to say thank you thank you by the thank you thank you very much you’re welcome before you leave let me fill him in this is Octavia Spencer oh yeah oh she been a lot of stuff let’s see let’s see it what was the she was in um uh uh
Oh I just saw it The Help The Help yes that’s not what I saw oh yes you’re right yeah well Biola Davis was in that too they’re in a lot of things together yeah yeah now via Davis is the one in the NASA movie that talks about having
To walk like two miles to the bathroom she’s a good actress that girl can act she can act I that’s why she keeps getting jobs I would imagine that’s why I isn’t wasn’t she in the movie is she the one that can sing really well too oh
I don’t know she was in a movie with Beyonce or something and kind of outperformed her no I don’t know I don’t know that was uh you know which one I’m talking about yeah it look they’re similar they look like their acting is very similar H are you talking about Jennifer
Hudson yes that’s what I was thinking yeah because that sounds a lot like Viola Davis Viola Davis and Ray was making is she what was she and Ray didn’t she play Ray Charles’s mother no but but she is um she is is his uh like doop girlfriend
Like the doop girls the singers she’s the one I think that is his girl that was more what was her name see yeah the girl the girl who played you mean the one that he was having the affair with yeah that was uh she was from a a sitcom
That she was from was it another world not another world a different world wasn’t she on a different world where’s our googler Deb Debbie’s on it okay Debbie’s on it all right well anyway listen mayor I appreciate your here’s here’s what I think do she could sign your your wall
Well she yeah we’ve got a marker out on the wall of fame I would love it if you would sign the wall Fame that’s I think the signature you’ll get from her today that’s well and then I’ll transfer it to my parking pass uh seriously Madame mayor uh Rita
Freeling ladies and gentlemen uh thank you very much for coming on thank for so much fun talking to you and please anytime you want come on again oh I will you know what I think uh you should do a monthly weather update we oh yeah cuz
You were a weather lady that would be fantastic and I think they they they could change they could see the monitor I bet they could change that and just put your face on it and then with a background of like a map of weather we could figure something out there and you
Could or you could just come on and talk about Gettysburg since you are the mayor yeah I like the weather part though that would make we could maybe you could do weather and Gettysburg it’ll be we’ll figure something out we have new sidewalk conditions in the weather and
The weather with the mayor I love it yeah I love it too a moment with the mayor work out the rhyme scheme there a little well we we’ll come up with a catchy title anyway that’s it we’re going to take a break thank you very
Much mayor uh see you all all you lovers out on the Square on Saturday we’ll be right back after these Words who can forget the sounds of the 60s the 1860s I can’t and you can’t either now there’s marching through Georgia the exciting new album by Billy Webster all of your favorite hits of the 1860s in one place such hits as Gary Owens the battle hym of the Republic Glory Hallelujah All quiet along the pomac Tonight marching through Georgia and much much more so what are you waiting for go to Billy songs.com and order your digital download of Billy Websters marching through Georgia today that’s Billy song Seminary Ridge mum and education center Gettysburg’s Premier museum is housed in the historic Lutheran Seminary building constructed In 1832 a witness to the first day of battle the Museum’s three floors of exhibits connect visitors to the dilemmas that led to the Civil War provide a powerful and personal view of
The battle’s first day and explore one of the battlefields largest hospitals no visit to Seminary Ridge Museum and education center is complete without a guided tour of the building’s famous Koopa where on the eve of battle officers and civilians saw thousands of Confederate soldiers campfires burning to the west and Brigadier General John
Buford watched for Vital Federal reinforcements as fighting erupted on the morning of July 1st today you can stand where Buford stood and discover how this view helped chart the course of the Battle of Gettysburg your trip to Gettysburg is not complete without a serious visit to Seminary Ridge Museum and education center Gettysburg’s
Premier Museum purchase tickets online at Seminary RDG museum.org or call 717 33913 to get tickets or a Copa tour listeners may call or walk in and mention address in Gettysburg or by ordering online using the promo code ag1 1863 for 20% off Seminary Ridge Museum and education center it began here
There’s a devil to pay if you’re a lover of History then go to T historical. comom there you’ll find apparel drink wear decor and more featuring a wide range of interests from the ancient world to the Cold War looking to make an impression with the perfect gift well TR historical now
Offers gift cards and a vintage wrapping service for a truly unique presentation and our listeners will receive 10% off plus free shipping in the US when you use promo code gerberg 1863 so go to trh hisorical dcom trh hisorical for the love of History think outside the bus and let
Family-owned Gettys bike tours take you on a cycling journey across the picturesque and historic Gettysburg Battlefield there’s no better way than by bicycle to gain a feel for the terrain of the battlefield slow enough to see it all yet fast enough to do it all follow the route of Union troops
Entering the fry as you ride to the sight of the first shots of this epic 3-day battle feel the drama as you put yourself in the position of a confederate soldier just before he steps off to make piage charge take a stand with a ioic Colonel Chamberlain on the
Slopes of little Roundtop just before you view the fields of Honor beneath you from its Summit all of our guides are officially licensed by the National Park Service so don’t get a sore neck trying to see out of your car and saddle up with Getty’s bike tours for a 360° view
Of America’s most important piece of real estate Gettys bike tours think outside the bus go to Gettys bike.com or call 717752 7752 to book a battlefield experience you will never forget you’ve heard us promote various ways that you can help us keep the show going but one way we haven’t pushed too
Much is our sutlery at addressing gettysburg. c/ shop that’s a shame because we have designs over there by talented artists like TI to wit of 1863 designs and Mike stretch of the Heritage Depot so now we’re promoting it buying shirts hoodies mugs and other items from
Our sutlery not only helps us keep the lights on but it also helps guys like Ty and Mike and it helps spread the word about the show every time you wear an item or you sip from your mug so head over to addressing gettysburg. comom sshop and grab some merch it’s the
Perfect Christmas gift for the Gettys nerd and your family that’s addressing gettysburg. c/ shop our favorite bookstore in Gettysburg is for the historian located at 42 York street it’s because they have the best selection of civil war books in Gettysburg both new and used and online
They have even more to choose from and if the Civil War isn’t your thing that’s not not a problem this is for the historian after all they cover history from the ancient world to the 21st century with a strong selection of World War II and American Revolution books
It’s astounding how many thousands of titles from Osprey savis Bey UNC press and more they have in their store and that’s because well they have a warehouse too and that’s where they keep all the books that are available online at for the historian. and folks if you go to for theori
Docomo until you’re bleue in the face be sure you mention that you heard about them on a dress in Gettysburg in the note to seller box and they will refund your shipping costs and if you prefer to stop by when you’re in town well you could do that too just mention address
In Gettysburg at checkout and they’ll take 20% off the retail price of your item so go to for theori and.com stop by 42 York Street or you can call them at 71768 5527 that’s for theori and.com or 71768 55207 You’re listening to addressing Gettysburg seems like we haven’t seen you in forever welcome back to addressing Gettysburg today here’s Matt you [ __ ] up for food all right you [ __ ] up for some food you [ __ ] up for food all right you [ __ ] up for some food remember that part does his wife know about this I ah all right we are back ladies and gentlemen where am I am I thing here man I am discom so Colby is joining us in the studio tonight tonight um look at that what was watch out guys was that your idea Co or was that uh it was my
IDE IDE it was my idea but I you know I I I get to wa it’s like looking through the the Looking Glass all the time I see all the fun happening in here and I just watch it from the other side of the window actually the fun is you and me
Having fun through the window you can’t tell everybody that they’re supposed to figure that out on their own now you’re now you’re poking through the fourth wall going to therapy after this poor uh is trying to get through everything you and I are acting I wish we could just share our text message
Stream what the one we did the other night from Valentine by the way if you want to call in and talk to us BR uh Jamie said she’d be calling oh the session ended why did it end what session oh damn it what you talking about the I’m the the session for the
Phone uh thing I don’t know why sometimes you know when you when you deal with the internet guys you know that’s it all right so what what have you got uh for us there oh no no no hold on what the hell I’m sorry forgive me uh that was really cool having the
Mayor on it was really cool she she was very funny she was cute I I thought she was so entertaining man she’s quick witted she made me she made me laugh quite a few times yeah no she’s good and uh uh that we talked to her after and we
Said you should come on like once a month or quarterly or whatever and just like update us on what’s going on in the burough and she’s like sure I would do that does she call it Gettysburg or Gettysburg I didn’t she said Gettysburg gett God thank God uh when she was
Walking out you guys were all in here but she was down at the door at the top of the stairs and she turned around and she goes great crew pointing to all of you guys so I said well you only met them once well you know if you only meet
Us if you only meet us once and we leave that impression well we’re pretty awesome either really good at trickery or right hey you want to hear an email let me I have so many that have been piling up I’m not going to read them all I’m going to give you one
Are these positive or negative well these are um ambivalent no I like the negative ones uh I read that one about the PTSD right and uh I don’t I don’t know I don’t know no I did I did I did I read that one there
And all right let me let me give you this one here hi Matt I wanted to take this time and let you know your podcast got me through a tough couple of months this fall I found out my job of 21 years would be ending in December of this year
Upon finding this out in November I signed up as a second Lieutenant both to get more access to material which Powers me but also to be a contributing member and help make sure this endeavor continues as I stated your podcast enabled me to get through tough times
And enjoy the history of gettsburg and learn so much more about the C War your AG Today Show that’s this show uh is an is also a needed amusement and silliness that distracts me from the day-to-day grind I grew up in the same area of Maryland as licensed Battlefield guide
Lewis Trot great morning radio shows like haard Stern and the grease man were part were the best part of morning drives outside of DC I will say your AG Today Show is fully worth that comparison well done and don’t listen to the people that say too much Cam not true love the
Show I’ve recently found a new job and I am relieved that I will not be out of work as I worried I would be um I hope to be making some trips to Gettysburg in 2024 to make at least one trip to get out of the car tours and maybe to meet
You in person thanks again John B you’re welcome John thank you for the kind words thank you John you know John brings up uh a couple of great points listen he he didn’t know how much he’d be inflating your head by comparing you to Howard Stern though I know and you
Know what Howard sucks now but he’s like listen to it but but listen if everybody if anybody’s curious out there that’s like Matt’s like like for me I’m I’m obsessed like I’m obsessed with Ray Charles right if I could be really and and it’s very obvious for calling post
And call screen I would trade in I would trade in every concert I’ve ever been to to go to a Ray Charles concert dead so that’s not going to happen I know he’s dead you don’t have to remind me this like how I feel about Joshua
Chamberlain maybe I guess yeah I was the girl that instead of having back poys and Instinct posters on my wall I had a you had on the wall dude I had Chamberlain on my wall I was an awesome early 2000s teenager no I was no wonder you couldn’t get any dates in high
School you had Joshua Chamberlain on one can grow hell yeah a poster size no one can grow that kind of must who is your first celebrity crush Joshua Chamberlain how about yours Bry Spears dude how about your I forgot how are considered a celebrity sure of course uh how about yours Debbie back
There well I don’t know she my first my first celebrity crush yeah for teenager era probably be Brian White who was a country singer When I was a high schooler Ryan White Ryan White Brian with B okay country s and but that’s in high school yeah that’s
When you had your first celebrity crush was in high school I think well if you want to go much earlier than that well I want to go to your first I was very much um when I was a kid the old Disney Zoro TV show was on rewinds
And I was 100% in love with Guy Williams the old one like the the 1950s yes wow yeah do do cartoon characters count cuz I had a major crush on Aladdin I don’t know I don’t know if Britney Spears was like my first but that’s the one that
Like if someone would ask me that’s the one I will go to cuz I remember seeing Hit Me Baby One More Time come on TV for the first time was that the one where she’s High School tied dude you talk about a little boy’s head just exploding
In front of the couch really that’s what happened to me uh Cindy Crawford was my first I didn’t like man oh I love the mole I love the mo love the mole and I love the eyebrows and the way she kind of like was able to now that I’m an
Adult she’s a beautiful woman don’t get me when I was young I was a lot more picky I think oh I was too yeah but no Cindy Crawford was beautiful see Chamberlain was is very handsome was very handsome but I liked him for his intellectual mind which are so much different which
Is why I married Mark Yingling because he’s very intellectual he only likes brown with red he only likes brown with red it’s very intellectual yeah um let’s see here somebody has a question about Joshua Chamberlain and the poster go ahead you’re on the air okay this is six questions
And and to be fair Bethany um I also had a poster of Joshua CH I love you oh my God was he your first crush too dude oh my Lord did you yeah he was your first celebrity crush Mike absolutely that mustache come on 110% oh my God I can’t believe that Mikey that and Long Street right you know the beard what James Long Street you hold on a minute Mike hold on a minute yeah let’s go James Long Street over over Jackson over Jackson Mike how how old are you
GH I’m 36 okay so we’re very similar you’re only a year older than me you’re 36 no I’m 30 you don’t have to say if you don’t want to 30 something wait am I 37 or 38 I don’t know I I am some doesn’t matter what’s the what do we what but no
He would have been the same a similar age to have what was he 33 when he was here when the Gettys how old was chamber when he was here boys and Instinct were a thing I can tell you I can tell you War wise what I was what I was as as I
Am now give it to us give us the other one which other one does his wife know about that he stood as a wreck as I am now does his wife know about this now listen if we’re o that might be my favorite noise on the
Board I think it is that one and then cam cam talking about ail oh yeah ail my favorite is emptying my kazoo yeah good AEL F his men elegantly were there that day though yes I was there but the night he aired that good god dude I couldn’t get my [ __ ]
Together well you were in the other room doing this I was I was losing I think I was crying his men elegantly I was crying and and in all fairness he sent me some of the tracks before I even came in so like I had already heard some of
Them and I was still crying you not bro you not BR you’re not BR but if we’re talking about like military guy crushes oh my gosh no we aren’t but go ahead I think I was I think I was more on like the the John bassone aie Murphy train when I was
When I was you like the I the guys no not even I I wanted the guys doing it you know like Chamberlain’s great but he you know he’s doing it but he’s the colonel he’s doing it is not a colel like toel you seen the mustache going to give a damn about the
Must I want to know body count bro I want to know body count and slayage on the battlefield yeah uh he was also very smart which I appreciate and you know when you look at pictures he has very nice hands I look at Men’s hands I found
Yeah a lot of women like men’s hands makes me want to pull my hands in but I you know what is that about I don’t know let me see your hands I’ve been told that I have proportion proportion no no it has nothing to do with proportion it
Has to do with like the weathery leathery usage of them yeah well I don’t think Joshua Chamberlain had leathery hands I’ll bet you he did he have well you were the one that what do you think he had soft soap with hats hats hat these people use their hands all the
Time they’re they’re handling R stuff teacher I don’t think he was using his hands prior to the war maybe he had soft hands but once the war was on and he’s living out that lifestyle you kidding me is he had callous buttocks his whole
Body all these guys I bet his I bet his main was calloused because of that wound he gets right outside of petersbur okay okay guys guys yeah guys yeah so who had callous buttocks on their bingo card tonight for a scum D I want to know what’s on this bingo
Card ah something bit me you know that’s actually where grandpa one of his wounds was in his butt dude do you know how many people so we had the abanded Brothers folks in here last last week do you know how many people in the platoon in that company in Easy Company the 506
Got shot in the ass really dude I think it’s like 12 people got shot in the through what was the what was the name the nickname for an ass shot what do they call that uh beautiful wound or something like that it it’s the um no it’s the million dollar shot like you
Get to go home usually no no it was it was no like oh maybe I’m maybe I’m jump I’m going tell you the ass is the only place you can get wounded where it won’t affect anything inside of you and you still get the Purple Heart you get shot
Anywhere else like I had a buddy get shot in the wrist we’ve been in country like two weeks he got shot in the wrist he still can’t use his thumb and his pinky through the wrist right after like after like 40 Purple Heart yeah 40 or 50
Surgeries but you get shot in the ass everything works the same not necessarily he however stood as erect as I am now now if if you’re kill Pat what is the Irish guy kill Patrick that got shot up like up the butt uh at um uh Lin what’s the battle right after second
Manasses antium an no no no no no the shanly chantant who’s the guy who’s the guy that gets shot riding away on his horse oh Carney Carney carne Carney he got shot well you know where he got shot in the uh spinter says what in the SP in the woohoo you’re not
Funny I think that’s what he was saying as he was riding away please stop ruining history all right so Mikey what what else there now did you get your uh your Chamberlain question in I I don’t know if we went off I got I got in it did fun
We’re good we’re good I think you’re wonderful get off before I get canell here wait I I have I have a question for Mike he’s always asking I have a question for him right why Long Street over why Long Street over Jackson OH much better looking guy you covered up
His answer I can’t I’m going to give you a visual demonstration no I want to know Mike I want to know mics okay okay okay okay okay here we go first of all if I had to choose bigger men with more full beards I mean come on that beard let’s go well
You hear it you heard it here first ladies and gentlemen bigger men with bigger beard I don’t know if I have that’s gonna be a sound drop I know it’s gonna be sound drop you thank you and you’re welcome man wow dear God what has this turned into I know okay I’m glad
The mayor was on before this yeah me too well you see what happens when I come in the bo she’ll never come on again we’re so sorry Madame mayor we we’re we can be adults when you’re around we promise Mike lens thank you very much for your question thank you so much I’ll
I’ll talk to you later I’m good all right byebye see you Saturday Michael all right let’s talk to uh Larry from Zimbabwe or who do you think this is gr exactly Grant you’re on the air oh okay name time Larry I want to talk about Zimbabwe
Is what the talk to Tex says go ahead Grant what do you want to talk about who was your high school crush your yeah yeah well who’s your first celebrity crush Grant pman was it because of Star Wars uh yeah I guess of Natalie I was in
The I was in the same boat dude she she has that white outfit that gets like sliced off practically yeah mhm what hell you don’t even know all right grant gr Grant please every girl in the audience was like uncomfortable what was the what was the outfit she what is you
Talking about she has like this white jumpsuit on is what it looks like and then it gets like cut at the belly cut at the sleeves there’s like cut across the chest so she she ends up hanging out of this thing yeah halfway through the
Fight scene and uh God it it’s a nice picture man I well you know Natalie Portman okay so that was your first crush there Grant Natalie Portman and uh uh that’s great how what how old are you you you I take it you’re young not nearly as old as you but [Laughter]
Uh can I guess2 I’m 40 I’m for go ahead what born in 982 so I’m 42 I’m 42 this year oh so you’re what are you talking about he wait so Natalie not nearly as old as you you’re three years older no no you have the same age as me
You have to have the same age as Debbie back there you have to have an earlier celebrity crush than that cuz now Portman from stars is is like my age range I’m 88 yeah first celebrity crush was Natalie were you like in a in a in a in in a in a cave
2000 how how were you you’re what 20 years old she got she got picked for Star Wars when she was when I was 15 so that’s about right age you know it’s around there let’s do the math here when did Star Wars come out with Natalie Port
Because I was in she was cast 96 and 97 so 96 and is that when they started ruining Star Wars was 96 and 97 yeah cuz it’s GNA be oh my God I she was responsible though oh my God oh my god Becky look at her butt it is so
B I brought out the snaps for you dude yeah the first Star Wars that Natalie Portman is in came out in 1999 wow I feel like I should I remember that year CU it was y 2K baby yeah Children’s Museum and what we’re talking about oh my Heavens I’m going to go like
This that Y2K was the first time i’ ever had beer in in consum like I actually had consumed well we’re going to die why not right I mean you know I didn’t really think it was going to happen what I was think I think I was
13 and I had had like maybe four or five beers I was feelings a lot hey man you know there’s prerequisites to join in the Marine Corps I’m sure the same bingo card bingo card Grant do you watch dungeons or do are you into Dungeons and Dragons he was a Mordor
Man Third Battalion third Marine Infantry Regiment 33 I was in a weapon Splatoon all right nowy boys what was I asking him I forgot what I was ask I got to tell I got to tell him I got to tell Grant while we’re on the subject of the
Marine Corps yeah oh my God I did get to work with the Aussie Marines and I have to say out of out of the British the Canadians all the like the respectable Allied militaries that we have around the world right Aussies I respected the most they were the most
Like they’re like the other Americans they were the most like Americans man they were hard charging they they likeed like I’ll put it to you this way Americans like to fight more than and I I know I’m a little biased but I’m trying not to be biased in this
Observation Americans are more willing to fight at a quicker Pace than most places definitely more so than Brits Aussies are on the same train it doesn’t take much are they going off the rails on a crazy train maybe they might they might very well be and and I respect that about them uh
Grant yes sir what do you what do you do for work I want to get to know Grant what you used to do you do video work you sell insurance I do I do video I do uh special effects and things for weddings and corporate functions parties
All that stuff you want to start working for Matt me I I was just gonna say you uh yeah we could you know I might be I might be having a what we call an influx of cash coming in and I’m going to need someone to uh edit I don’t have an
Influx of cash but I need someone to soon so what I’m gonna be there soon so we’ll see you’re going to be here to that little town awesome when are you come Brookville I’m keeping that a surprise I’m just going to show up one day when you least expect
It well listen if he shows up does it if he shows up here you got to take him down the road to my place and I’m going to have I have to buy him a foster if he comes we’ll we’ll all go out to dinner and we’ll take him out to dinner and
Make him pay you know that old trick where we make him pay because we all go to the bathroom at the same time yeah just leave I didn’t know if Kobe could survive though listen I can survive he will survive as long as he knows how
To love no no I don’t need to know how to love I I I just know that I’ll survive Taliban can’t get me alcohol can’t get me either Heisenberg you’re goddamn right all right I’m so glad that you have you got to have the second part that’s the best
Part of that whole thing you knew I was going to say Heisenberg I felt like you knew it the first time the other last week when I was in here I was glad you did I’m glad you caught it and I was like great cuz I’ve got your Goddamn
Right on the next button Grant what else can we do for you we’ve got must move on to the news what do you want to do when you come visit bro just one L or what did you want to talk about we didn’t even Zimbabwe why do you want to talk about
Zimbabwe uh it’s just a random exactly name I always used um Larry talking about I just wanted to the only thing I just I just wanted to come on and talk sh as always and um that’s why I love him dude yeah too and
Um um but I also just want to give one shout out if I can go ahead with your bad self um just shout out to all the people in the chat because they watch all these shows and they’re very nice like six questions and everyone else they’re very
Friendly and and all that so I just wanted to shout them out makes the show fun well that’s very nice of you m uh not McNair I’m sorry certainly doesn’t can I can I point out that the chat is almost its own show it is its own show
Like if you read the chat as the show’s going on a lot of the times it won’t even be it has nothing to do you know what we should do one one day is like just randomly in the middle of the show start reading the chat everybody takes
Differentes right oh that would be good what happened to karaoke oh we we’ll get to it no I don’t believe you oh no we’ll get to it are you going to do it I was yeah yeah cuz that was the thing verica was going to she wasn’t really into it
And I was like we shoulding thatch back just for karaoke no she won’t do it she won’t do it so that’s why I was like her get her SAU up well that’s a different story have sing my kazoo yeah when you get her saued up that’s a different story it EMP
My oh my gosh what do I do oh my God have you not seen that video before I love that one can just get real nutty that’s when he chugged the milk right no it was the sparkling water but he like he like projectile vomits no no he he he chugged it and
He’s like he could feel the gas building up he’s like oh my gosh what do I do and he turned around and the garage door was behind him but it was only half closed and he goes what do I do and he B whacks
In who is who is he it’s just some kid on a internet video that made the rounds what is what was that like forchan is that where you would see videos like that no it was like uh uh no what’s that uh who’s that guy has got a show on Comedy
Central what’s that comedian name on Comedy Central as a show where he uh does these clips you know he he like show who Bill Cosby no no no no no it’s he always names on the tip of my tongue Daniel Daniel Tosh Tosh.0 you know it was probably a show
Like that came back he’s he’s come back in in quite a big fashion he’s funny dude he is funny he is funny all right listen Daniel or not Daniel what’s your name I don’t even know his real name because of all these fake names he uses Larry thank you Larry thank you very
Much for the call it was great talking just one second I just just one second I just want to finish up on the chat oh yeah go ahead uh just to just to finish the chat thing uh cobby was right it’s always like different stuff um than what’s actually happening but that’s
Usually when Matt that’s when Matt’s draining on about something but when the guest is on we’re all paying attention it’s true that is true I do not it’s not even a joke like that’s the truth yeah I mean yeah when when when you’re given something brilliant do you listen to my
You guys go off into into [ __ ] land but then when it’s just some somebody else bril brilli that’s the think Grant you you’re so dumb you can’t even recognize it when you hear it you sound like what’s the what’s the movie they made I sound like a guy who’s pissed off and
Put upon and I’m sick of it I’m sick of this kid from Down Under where the bath where the water goes the other way in the toilet you know what you sound like what’s the Mozart movie where the where the amadas yes you sound like the you
Sound like the guy fromus dude is it saler I think the guy’s name is the jealous one yeah the jealous you can’t dud teach right no I’m just teasing you grant I love your aeric wit and uh did you say cervic wh a cic Oh I thought you
Were talking about his pelvic are no and I meant to say cic Knit Wit is what I meant to say but I didn’t anyway we have to we have to eat soon you know the the restaurants Clos very early around hey I’m ready to hear some news up in here I always have
To mess with her from back in there now I got to do it in her face hi Ty web Bethany you’re the only reason we’re here damn straight Bethy do you rescue I think so on the news wait wait wait hold on we got we got to say goodbye to Larry
Say goodbye Larry goodbye Larry wait for your music this is a new person that has their celebrity crushed and then we’ll go to Jamie when it’s a celebrity crush uh well let’s see uh who is this Peter 518 go ahead who is your celebrity crush oh Peter hey what’s going on celebrity
Crush it’s kind of dirty though oh jeez well she was a dirty girl Christina Aguilera but uh Anna Nicole Smith oh that’s not dirty yeah uh really Anna Nicole Smith interesting her infatuation with the elderly kind of drove me drove me away from her yeah it wasn’t an
Infatuation with the elderly it was an infatuation with money yeah there was a period of time in her early days an Nicole was as cute as uh as a button let’s talk about car you know who was cute in her early days was uh Pam Anderson when she was on skiffy she was
On What’s That Home Improvement before she got all the plastic surgery even on bayat in the early days that’s where she lost me but Home Improvement she was that’s her best that’s her best look car Electra can we just get there together can we be there she aous she
Reminds me of a mouse what you’re wrong I am wrong you’re all wrong Peter thank you for uh offering your celebrity crush uh I’m sure the audience is much more uh enlightened now because of that I I thank you very much sir I can’t believe no one else has said
Spears like I did all right have a good one and now all the News That’s fit to print and a good deal that’s not here’s AG today’s lead anchor Bethany yling with current events and sidewalk conditions the Gettysburg School District logo is back in the news with merch fatal car accidents are still
Cropping up on Adams County Country back roads the library is still planning on moving but moving outside the burrow means zoning changes uh mini golf comes back to Gettysburg all this and more on today’s news that was a good one that was good you finally got it the whole time I was
Over here like I know you like my over there do it again I’m not doing it again I’m not doing it again I’m not doing it again I’m never in here now and good that’s not with AG’s lead anchor Bethy Yingling is that’s your no there was no Q in that one
You’re supposed to do it over the singing all right who cares wait wait wait yeah for my birthday wait yeah for my birthday I want you to find the original the it’s gone it’s gone no you have to be able to find it because I
Looked for to make this I I have to explain oh when you make so many things you lose things you lose things things lose they can you record it off the show I lost I I have lost in the park I have lost entire episodes can you record it
Off the show probably okay see so shut up all right first Merry Christmas what about the night that we cried should we just do karaoke this last bit no so the last week we talked about a lot of accidents that are happening in the area and I looked in
The news and there’s still more happening so uh this time it was a 72-year-old man died Tuesday after a single vehicle crash in Mountain Joy Township all right that’s not funny a single vehicle crash wait a minute so was he hit by the vehicle no he drifted
Across the road before hitting a mailbox in a tree hey and that sounds familiar when they uh he was taken to the Gettysburg Hospital for serious injuries where he was pronounced dead oh um but the where did that happen in Arlo two two taverns oh yeah that’s now guys I’m
Looking at you look at me into my eyeball okay these back roads yeah are actually very treacherous yeah stop driving like you like they’re AR like you like the road side of the road doesn’t exist stop driving like bow and Luke Duke yes cuz you’re not cuz you’re
Not except me man except for Colby col’s bow and Luke both um I passed a nasty accident on the way home last night as well where was that um where was I I was between Abbottstown and cross keys uhhuh where’s adown at that way it’s the other
Circle you’re going to York I yeah I was coming back from from church which I go to a church in New York and um they whoever it was ended up in a field but they had hit a telephone pole and it was not good bent over the road
It was it looked pretty nasty did you start hearing Leonard skinnard in the background ooh that smell o you’re in my way no no there’s a line Mr O that’s what that song is about yeah I’m not making fun it’s about uh isn’t it drug use C it’s about drinking
And driving drinking and driving yeah all right so who having fun I’ve been around a lot of death I have I have that Gallows humor anyway he fought for your right to laugh at his sick jokes or think he’s crazy both yeah so um remember several weeks ago we were talking near the
Election season we were talking about the lady who uh oh yeah copyrighted the ah yes her wait let me get the right uh theme music trademarked yep go ahead the Gettysburg School District’s logo for the Warriors right um she’s putting out Merch online oh my God woman has no
Shame she has no shame what are the chances we get her on N I bet she’ do it I bet she list listen I got to tell you Colby I learned a few lessons when you see someone acting insanely from afar you stay AAR away like you do not invite that into your
World so she I saw pictures of shoes um with the warrior logo and things like that on the site but it doesn’t officially drop until March 1st so can the school sue her for that so the district is this is their official response the district is aware of Miss
Miss D demp merchandise using the district owned logo the district is currently in communication with our legal council to determine appropriate steps Beyond this I cannot make further comment at this time when they reached out to this is though this is the the kind of ballsy thing that kind of made me
Go I she I the only thing I can give to her is that she has kahun um when there’s a fine line wos is what they in Spanish when reaching out to Demps she referred CBS 21 to the Department of State who still have the official logo on their record
Trademarked to her business so she basically just said listen I own the trademark so what are you going to do like there’s nothing you can say um so I thought that was interesting but my my question is on this whole thing uh to what end what I mean why of all things
Also it’s not like Gettysburg Warrior are selling a ton of merch that’s what I’m saying like it of all the things that you can try to steal and make money off of why would you choose this like go to Gettysburg College try to steal theirs like get Gettysburg School
District gburg area school like who previously who cares when this whole thing started they didn’t even care enough to get it trademarked yeah well they didn’t they never in a million years thought this would happen because no one would be so ridiculous but they her original premise was that she was
Going to use the money that she got from the school for using her trademark right she would put back into like after school programs and stuff like that what she doesn’t understand is that that money you’re now taking it away from the school it’s already doing that yeah I declare bankruptcy
Bankruptcy oh boy all right next Adams County Farmers Market announces its 2024 opening day oh We’re going to have him on is set for Saturday April 27th from 8:00 to 1 at the Gettysburg wreck Park um and there’s a lot of the same vendors a lot of people came back which is great to hear but they’re also putting out a call for
New vendors so if there’s anyone out there that um is interested in being part of the Adams County Farmers Market now is your time uh you can get on to their website and uh become a vendor um Reza is uh the man in charge the man
With the plan he’ll be on I do too he’ll be on I believe either I think it’s in April uh that he’s coming on a couple April 27th exactly he kind of reminds me of uh what’s the actor that’s really good at voices from SNL that does
Portlandia now Fred Armon he that’s who he reminds me of I don’t know why he reminds me of the leader of Digital Underground the Humpty Dance guy I don’t know why Fred armastad is who I get from him I have not met this gentleman yet
You haven’t haven’t you oh he been on so many times but not when she was not it was a Veronica situation he’s a good guy you’ll like him he’s he’s an awesome guy he’s an awesome guy I’m excited yeah all right yeah right yeah next the library the library yeah what is this
About okay so the library I was just kiding ready has requested an amendment to facilitate their move from the former post office at Baltimore and high streets right beautiful building to 4.5 Acres on United Lutheran Seminary campus now we had talked about this previously and somebody asked what would happen to
The buildings the article does say that the three dormatory buildings on the site would be torn down um so then wait they’re I’m missing this okay so they want to move the library which is on the corner of high and uh Balmer Street here okay right over there what used to be
The post office it’s the old post office way back but it’s little right now no it’s this big old building with with the Lincoln statue in front of it’s right on the corner it’s that big old building with the columns and the stairs that’s the library why do you call it that what
The library I’m sorry the liberry he thinks he’s being funny I think that I think that yeah did you just move the microphone with your nose that’s gross that’s how you do it that’s how I keep it that’s how everybody’s going to get me sick now CR you
Literally I’m okay now we all where’s my you sniffed my drink earlier where’s my rubbing alcohol love but what the hell all right all right all right so go ahead so so they want to they’re they’re they want to move it from there over to
The Seminary out by the Y uh you know between the Y and the Seminary but it would be on the Seminary property correct dude I hope they don’t build out there though zoned for that but they would have to tear down the the old dorms uhhuh so it is currently
Zoned uh let me find it here I did underline it now I find W she’s checking that as a institutional one zone meaning that it is because it’s the institution is the Seminary um and in that kind of zoning you cannot have a standalone Library oh man well how do they come up
With that ruling stupidest R because the I don’t know why it’s just how it’s zoned um but you can have a library if it’s part of the institution hence why the Seminary can have its library because it’s part of the institution the college can have their library because
It’s part of the institution but it can’t have in that zoning does anybody does anybody else think zoning is just a big freaking joke I think zoning is like a bigger version of an HOA yeah like just it’s just there to piss you off it
Is there to piss you off it’s a bunch of people who you know look it’s a bunch you know what it is it’s a bunch of NES it’s just a bunch of the down the street that just wants to be in your business it doesn’t need to
Be there however I mean there there does this is how you work around this is how you use it uhhuh so for example a lot of people in town are upset about the library moving because it won’t be within walking distance from downtown that would be the library it’s the
Library yeah so they’re upset about that yes and I understand that get that that’s still walking dist who who was saying that’s not walking distance cuz that’s like four blocks yeah but you’re in an area with the sidewalks are not you know like you have it it’s not the
Safest place coming up over that Hill no and then so we’d have to do is take Springs Avenue and then all the people on Springs Avenue are going to complain about all the walking up it sounds like everybody lazy CU they don’t want to walk up hill so the
Yes just it’s not just lazy though it’s it’s a lot of people they they’re they’re not able to walk uphill like in town is easier you remember that Australian guy that like a mile you remember the Australian guy that was on YouTube for a while that was like Harden
The F up you remember this guy he was like some Australian gangster no I forget his name I bet you someone in the comments will know who I’m talking about but it is three 3/4 of a mile west of the current Library 3/4 of a mile west of the current Library
Which is a joke that’s a joke if you can’t not not if you’re 70 years old and your legs don’t work it’s not a joke well I mean and there’s no side how okay if you’re 70 years old and your legs don’t work how you get into the library
Right now anyways huh you heard my question okay so of course everybody would love for the library to stay similar to a location of where it is but it can’t there’s nowhere in town for that kind of an why do they have to move to begin with the building is kind of
Falling down around them oh well that’s a good reason is it really yeah it’s pretty I mean they were closed for two weeks over the summer it was closed for two weeks over the summer because like the toilets were spewing sewage out of them I think I had a question when we
Talking oh that’s nothing when we’re talking about buildings you know the Armory building the old like World War II looking Armory building up here on Seminary well Confederate Avenue yes what do we got to do to get that building oh you got to talk to the Gettysburg Foundation We Own It We own
This they own it you think they would let us do a podcast out of it they would never let us do anything out of it why not D we’ll do it’s history they have the Canon shop it’s it’s in front of the Canon shop yeah there’s the Canon shop is in the
Building behind there there’s nothing in that Armory as far as I know right no use it for storage yeah that’s okay use my H I have a basement that’s as big as that Armory you can use my house for storage for free just let us use yeah
Well how much do you think the foundation they’re not going to let us use it for free how much do you think they’re going to charge us that’s a sweet $10,000 a month it’s a really cool building no no there’s nothing in Gettysburg that’s $10,000 a month that
Building is no it’s not they’re The Visitor Center is not even $10,000 a month what their electric bill is $10,000 a month okay maybe the visitor center but nothing else in Gettysburg is that much money um I would love to no I would love to have that space because I would make
It a video you want to know what one day man it is really cool on the one day we’re going to take that building no you know what Colby one day we’re going to buy a farm and build our own buildings one day we’re manif world let’s Manifest
This right now wait we’re wait we’re manifesting things that we’ll all benefit from what are we how we doing it okay ESP baby we need silence so we can manifest our destiny sh try to take over the world I will own 40 acres that’s it 40 acres that’s a
Chunk H you know what we need to get I’m manifesting part of our manifestation I’m just trying to clarify but your energy is too high for manifestation you have to be calm and get in with the the tone I want that high like I want that like no see that’s never happen crazy
Manifestation cuz that’s what works that’s why Stonewall Jackson was so successful he’s dead yeah but everybody from is dead do I feel like I’m suddenly on an episode of Pinky in the brain yeah cuz I’ve said take over the world a few times what we try to do every day pinky
Take over the world 40 acres and the money to build I wasn’t going to say that the money do you know what I thought you I know what you thought I was going to say cuz I almost said it too and the money to refit one of the barns into a Hightech state-of-the-art
Video and podcasting Studio amen well hold on and let’s caveat let’s caveat let’s caveat that that’s filming 24/7 where it sees the shenanigans that we just do in passing and then we can make a show out of shenanigans and let there be light talented people who move to the
Area who can then be other shows on our Network and have the we will enable us to have a 24/7 podcast Network live on mat worldwide boy you are reaching listen listen I want to tell you I’m trying to help with that’s what she said but I got
To tell you J you want to know what Matt Ultimate Dream is manifestation over Matt is slightly stuck in the past and and and and it’s because he wants he wants a modernday radio station yeah but in a podcast format I want to right I want to
I want to take a concept from the old days want and modern 24 hours a day but over podcast networks correct and but the thing is you don’t actually have to do a live show no that’s the thing is you don’t have to do it live with a
Podcast right whereas radio you do yes well no they record radio shows too but most radio shows are done but it’s it’s just stuff is put out on a schedule schedule and uh you know I yeah I might not actually have any legs but you know who knows the thing about live that’s
Nice though there’s no editing exactly that’s why I like doing live shows there’s no editing all right Bethany all right our next zoning situation is for the wait wait wait wait wait I’m sorry the the library this was this was left in the mailbox and I noticed it
Today dated February 11th 20124 Matt help save the historic 1913 Gettysburg Library come to the municipal council meeting Monday February 12th 700 p.m. help urge the rejection of the requested zoning zoning variant spread the word bring friends hope to see you there stepen this my old neighbor oh is that who that
Is yes and I bumped into him on the Square talking to Richie Condon the other day and uh he started going off on uh on the library and I couldn’t care less I just he was like yeah they want to move the library and uh you know
Could you believe that they want to put it up by the by the Seminary you know and I like I don’t care you got to pick your battles man pick your battles he fights them all he’s he doesn’t understand why the the Park Service doesn’t uh take uh Camp Letterman and I
Go cuz it’s not that easy and also there’s businesses there’s businesses built on it now like and well there’s a little bit left but that’s going to that’s gone anyway I mean it’s you know what whatever you in the library all right what’s next all right the next one
Is the mini golf course so they’re thinking of uh is there one is there a mini golf course already no no there isn’t there isn’t anymore they’re looking at putting one there is a proposed in um the area in between the McDonald’s and the KFC what do you think
On Stein War Avenue I think it’s terrible location I think that’s parking lot behind there no but they they don’t need to be put in a golf course that’s too that’s too close to the it’s too small I was just looking at it yester or
A couple days ago with that mind if they got rid of that KFC because it’s the most worthless KFC it’s not even one acre that’s it’s not even an acre that’s the worst KFC in existence why do you say that have you ever gotten food from there diarrhea well case in point we
Used to go there when we were feeling a little I don’t think I’ve ever had I don’t I don’t think I’ve ever had chicken from there that’s not completely burn that’s KFC no that’s not true oh not burnt okay it’s burnt all the way through it’s not even burnt on the
Outside it’s just burnt all the way through it I you know like here’s the thing though about uh KFC or anything else uh it’s well no the you know customer service sucks everywhere you go now it’s gone well it’s the turnover it’s the turnover rate people don’t stay
People don’t feel invested in their jobs anymore especially in those kind of jobs you know you never you ever notied you go to the 71 it’s always someone different it’s always someone different but then when they give you if you pay with cash to give you their change they
Just throw it on the counter like nobody hands it nobody counts it out to you nobody hands it to you they just throw about what about this what about this the entire time they’re on their cell phone oh that’s well that that one kid at 7-Eleven that’s what he does the
Whole time the whole time and I think he’s talking to me but he’s talking to somebody uh on the other side of the he they don’t even they don’t even like no they don’t even it’s like you’re not even there it’s just like they’re just there they’re just there to punch butt
But we’re the idiots that keep going so we can’t complain well I don’t go there that much anymore unless I’m if I need a can and I’m at the studio I will go to 7-Eleven cuz I can walk there ah your turn so this is you asked me how
I feel about this yes it is this is the part that this is the part that bothers me I guess Gettys golf which is the LLC that is looking to do this is under contract to purchase the site from the Gettysburg nature Alliance yeah well so so there’s an on
Approval of the prodject Alliance it’s the the people that have uh sax Bridge don’t they own sax Bridge or don’t the Ghost Bridge you know the barn out by sxb is just in the middle of a field that’s they own that so they don’t own that much but they do own some important
I feel if it was take if it was purchased in order to be part of the nature Alliance why are we suddenly making it commercial probably because the nature Alliance doesn’t make any money nobody cares the here’s what was told to me now whether this is true or
Not I don’t know but what I was told is that when the nature Alliance bought it they took down the building that was on it in order to take it back to the battlefield like take it back to how it would have been and now what are we
Doing are we going back the other way that’s what I want well you know you have to think about okay so I think this is multi I think I think the answer is actually multifaceted here because economics in Gettysburg is is not a single plane you have a multipled
Economic like trajectory right so like there’s a lot more interest now than there was maybe I mean the ’90s obviously there was a huge interest in Gettysburg and reacting and stuff but it it dips and it dips and Rises dips and and right now we’re kind of in a dip
Because when I first moved here we were in a rise it was like super super crowded for the re uh the anniversary of the battle super crowded on um that’s that’s because that was right after they unlocked us from our homes and people were allowed out again that was
That was a fluke year but but I think I think I think honestly some of these organizations are thinking maybe we need to go back to how things were when we had all these Amusement attractions around the battle well I had this conversation uh the other day with
Someone um I I I am very torn on that because you you have to balance the historical Integrity of this place and also the fact that this is a living breathing Town people live here they need to make money well and people visit here and they need to be entertained and
If you’re not going to entertain them with golf courses then everybody should stay past stay open past 9:00 dude places to go God I can I can rant on that forever but but another thing is too is the other day when you said it you had it the perfect example was right
On the show I don’t know if it was you or someone else was saying that going to take pictures with the statue of Abraham Lincoln the most ex is one of the like top three things to do if that is a top three thing in your
Town you need more things to do in your town I absolutely right like not everybody not everybody that comes here is going to be super infatuated with the battlefield you have to have things but Coe how do you how do you encourage you can’t force businesses to stay open how
Do you encourage businesses who say well nobody comes in and I’m not going to pay someone to sit here past 9:00 and it’s one of those chicken or the egg things it’s like nobody comes in past 9:00 so I’m not going to pay anybody I’m not
Going to open but then the word gets out that they’re never open so nobody goes there nobody recommends past 9:00 I bet they would have people instead you have to drive out to Fairfield you have to go to TNA find a bar thing to bring up to
Garma well it would be a great thing to bring know what business would kill here I don’t even know if I should say it on air no don’t don’t say it on a I’m going to say it on air because I want to see what the audience thinks but I’m just
Saying that this was my idea and if anybody’s going to do it it’s going to be me you should say it wait hold on let me mute the mics first so that in case cuz somebody with a million dollars could be listening right now and say I’m going to
Do it tomorrow wait hold on ready like already already don’t say don’t say it with with mus it yeah don’t say it don’t say it CU you know you know I’ll bring next time I uh next time I see you I’ll bring my notebook where I have this very idea isn’t that isn’t
That not like the best freaking idea for this town do you know how many fathers and and Sons would go do that yeah yeah I would go do that I don’t even like I don’t even like the game I would go do that no and
I yeah I I would come up with a whole way oh oh of like redo like I have no actually not would I have I like wrote it all out years ago my friends and I tried to do this we went up to Poconos
To get uh yeah no I yeah this is don’t say anything to anybody I won’t I won’t so but anyway just so you know um a unanimous Gettysburg zoning hearing board on Tuesday granted a special exemption or exception required for an outdoor commercial recreation use in the tourist commercial District so because
They’re outside so this is something you don’t normally do in that kind of zoning so that’s step one towards getting the mini golf I don’t know how they’re going to make it like like I don’t know how they’re going to Dolf course out there that have 53 parking spaces at the
Property’s rear ad joining John’s Avenue you know what so sad why do they even have space for that many landscaping or grass between con concrete paths and a small clubhouse with a restroom and space for Club storage and welcoming customers cannot imagine how any of this
Fits in that space I I can’t either because I went I was walking by it the other day and I stood there and I stared at it and I was like okay I’m not one of these people who can Envision you know a whole neighborhood when I look at a
Patch of woods right but like I can look at this thing and I can be like I’ve been to many golfs before you’re gonna have to have water you’re gonna have to have think be successful well there I don’t that there because with 53 parking spots though
Well first of all I don’t know no you know what you know what Gettysburg needs is a top golf right outside of town you know what this town needs is an enema listen I’ll tell you what this is what’s so sad to me about this going in that
Spot I had an idea so the Heritage Center that’s what the nature align zones yeah there you yes correct um you hear stories oh not stories you hear people say there should be a monument to this there should be a monument to that etc etc etc right bottom one
And how did we hear how did they hear that read Tai webs did you read it no well I don’t know how they got it because you gave away the entire thing as you were talking well no maybe the two of you in your excitement maybe the
Damn good idea dude let’s just be honest that’s a brilliant idea now according to draon it gets real old real quick but it wouldn’t be see you guys don’t have imagination you only need to be open during the summer you wouldn’t even have to work the rest of the year you can be
Open for 3 months and make your killing yeah it doesn’t matter look okay so look monuments people want monuments right there and and I think there there’s some monuments that should still go up but the Park’s not going to do it the foundation’s not going to do it we can’t
What whatever why can’t you partner agreement okay well that all right so um I want it again what about the American Battlefield trust they don’t they can’t either no they can’t why can’t what I mean for the same reason that they can’t what partner are we talking about here
The Park Service Park yeah but they they can’t buy that property because of the par no no no no no they can’t put no okay I thought you were I thought you were with the conversation that we’re I got held up on paintball all right so anyway the
The it’s a long story but for for a while I thought this property I had heard that this property was being offered for very very basically cost yeah nothing yeah right um and then I the person who told me about that I followed up with them and they’re like
No not anymore uh the person who told me that went back to the board the board’s like are you out of your mind this thing’s worth $650,000 no um and then of course someone is looking to buy it I thought it would have been awesome to make a
Memorial Park there where we can where we’d have a board it would be a nonprofit and people would be able to submit ideas and designs for uh for statues for monuments to people um like the civilians in town or the African-American Community or whoever the hell it would be and we’d have to
You know you’d have to not campaign but you’d have to have a good reason to put it up there but of course now now it’s going to be a putt put well speaking of that didn’t someone on your show a while ago that was talking about they’re doing
Something out there by the is it the Sher shery Farm or something dedicated to the African-American experience at the Battle of Gettysburg you’re thinking by The Warfield house yes oh that’s the park but but are they still planning on doing that because the way you described it sounded really cool I don’t think
There’s so much planning on doing it exactly is it’s a possibility cuz it would fall under the like loophole in the law that says if it’s something super important they could still put one up yeah I don’t know anything about it I’m sorry uh Marcia says you know why stores close at 9:
Because the damn ghost Tores kill our businesses we had uh we know we had a store in steinar for 25 years and Matt had his first business on our property that’s true I did um I worked there you worked at uh flex and flanigans no you’re thinking of across the street
Yeah yeah all right what else you got let’s go dinner I put this in here specifically for you oh good in I’m going to read the paragraph because I want to watch your face as it goes inspired by Gettysburg College’s bold and ambitious vision of the future distinguished alumni and member of the
President’s advisory Council Daria lesty wallak from class of 76 has demonstrated her unqualified support for that Vision by making the largest commitment of any living Gettysburg College donor in the 191e history of the institution um W has pledged $10 million to her Alma monor to Gettysburg
College MH wow what did she do to make that money I have no idea what’s her name yeah I don’t I don’t care what she’s given like daro presty Wallock Wallock how do you spell that w l a c h you guys listen I I grew up outside of
New York we got all different types of names up there bet you don’t get the names I so I need you to uh make friends with this woman yeah yeah that’s that’s she’s wasting her $10 million it should be coming to me you think she was
Standing erect as I am right now she made that donation I’ll tell you what’s Pete Karma there’s a very kind of I am now let me see here makes $10 million commitment uh Dar and Eric wallik who are they uh wallik sounds so familiar but they’re oh Eli wck is what I’m thinking
Of are they like the coke family uh yeah Works in Jersey City as the managing partner of Lord Abbott the investment management firm she’s on the board don’t you feel like a loser because you never really could figure out how these investment work yeah like and you see
These people they’re not famous people they’re just people that know how to do work for them instead of us work for the money oh I feel like such a like worthless idiot that was not the point of tell is the point of you telling me
Because I got to beg Mrs wallik for a million and a half dollars just so I could build My Little Empire while the college gets 10 to churn out people uh who probably won’t amount to anything with liberal arts degrees Yeah with B we no the Gettysburg College is a good
School I’ve heard it’s very business focused like it’s a business yeah I mean cuz you know I used to live by the college and so there’d be like college kids walking around all the time and there was a few that lived on my block
And I got to talking to some of them and they were actually like pretty bright yeah it it was the ones at 3:00 in the morning that were screaming and vomiting in the middle of about those ones yeah those were the ones that I hated but the
Other ones were pretty bright all let’s get this over with events uh this weekend is the last I think maybe not nope not the last of the children’s uh story club uh at for the National Park Service they uh reading Adventures this week’s book is Lincoln clears a path Abraham Lincoln’s
Agricultural Legacy by Peggy Thomas there’s ALS and that is at 11:00 at the National Park Museum and Visitor Center in one of the theaters uh also this weekend is only one unless they I don’t think they rescheduled the 18th did you hear yes they did the 18th is
Matt Matt 18 because his his got cancelled cuz that was the first big snowfall gotcha so on Saturday February 17th at 1:30 Abraham Lincoln in the archives new sources new questions by Michelle croll from the Library of Congress yep um and then on Sunday is Matthew Atkinson Matthew James Atkinson
Um and he is talking about what Debbie sickles uh sickles in the monument commission okay so go out and check those out although the park didn’t update their website that’s I hate to beat a dead horse man but that dude is so good at what he does who sickles no not
Sickles uh Matt ainson you know i’ I’ve only acted I’ve gotten to see one of his lectures are you coming this Sunday well I am coming to trivia I don’t know about uh he’s not going to be a trivia I know but I don’t know if I’m going to make it
The I might just honestly it depends I don’t know if Taylor’s working or not and really the weekend is about the only time I I get with her so I got got and shoes you got to pretend to want to be there I get it and then last on my list
There is an evening with the painting um fantastic on the 17th from to when Sue Borman will do it dude she was so good Sue Borman was so freaking good did you know Sue’s moving out of town what yeah what do you mean like out of town she’s selling her pH photograph
Collection yeah I knew that and she’s moving back to Danville Kentucky no no no up where she was from Virginia no up where she was from up near wilksboro oh God why she just wanted to move back home to be close to family and things like oh but that’s a terrible
Place to live I’m very sad that I won’t I mean she still has her guidel she’ll still be coming back you got to see her do the a night with the painting I used to help her with them she freaking good at that man I have I if anybody was to
Ever give Matt ainson a run for his money it would be Sue bourman she is there are a lot of do that way that’s what’s so funny about Matt doesn’t see himself that way either he does no he doesn’t I talked him all the time he’s
Like well I don’t really see myself yes I know I got to agree with Matt on this one I’ve had plenty of conversations yeah he sayson he’s like all these people come up to me and they say they want this he you know he said to me the
Other day he goes you know I was invited to come speak at a thing he go I don’t know what to charge them and I said a lot and he’s like you’re the most popular guy battle he’s like what do you mean and I go I go first of all I think
It was like Georgia or Alabama or something that want him to come down I go first of all you got to get there right uhuh so you got to get there for travel secondly why are they inviting you a round table from Alabama why don’t they invite some Ranger from their one
Of their local parks because it’s you and you uh you have the most views on YouTube and people know who you are D I say you might be the first celebrity Ranger oh he for sure is since Ranger uh Joe or rck Ranger Rick thank you um and
Uh so I said you’re going to charge a lot of money for that and I go I wouldn’t do it for less than $3,000 and he’s like well ain’t going to be able to pay that and I go then they don’t get you like it’s that easy you’re not some
Run-of-the-mill person here you’re like you’re you’re a name but he doesn’t think that way he really doesn’t John Stewart just said that’s a dead on Matt Atkinson impression you need to hear Matt do it when he’s like not sure about something that that little pauses and hesitations
Matt has it you have it 100% example what do you mean I’ll do it like if Matt is like trying to think about something like I’m not you know like the way you hesitate is exactly Matt Atkinson it’s so crazy I’m not sure yeah why that thing right there I’m not sure why
Cameron shows up three hours before the lecture okay and he that okay then that was that was it right there and he’s got a stack of books five deep and he sits over in the corner acting like we don’t see him I always like when he talks
About his uncle that owns the the Minute Market down the road from his house you guys ever hear him talk about that my uncle most of the time he talks I don’t listen well he always has like uh uh something about um he talks about the time he got
Arrested in Ohio no he he’s never talked to me about that the like when he talks about like a family member but he comes into the conversation like he’ll see me at the hallway in the hallway at work and he’ll come up to me and he’ll start talking like we’ve been having an
Hourlong conversation prior to this I have no clue what he’s talking about and then he’ll be like my daddy told me yeah that you should do blah blah blah and I’m like my dad always used to say you don’t put salt on a snail unless you’re willing to eat it exactly like
That and that’s why it’s so funny that you do exactly what he does it’s the it’s the yeah and he’s got a deep voice like he’s he uh except when he laughs his laugh is not deep no but but he like he’ll do like a nasy southern voice but
It he’s actually got like that’s the put on like his voice is really down here yeah it’s really and then every once in a while he’ll bring it up here because that’s what you’re supposed to do yeah but yeah yeah yeah all right I’m I’m starving now I’ll just talk about mat a
Thinking of yeah I was just going to go to Jamie for our uh update on sidewalk God bless Jamie she has been sitting here for days weeks for days on hold waiting I’m sorry Jamie I know I am too I’m just tell them about what you did today Jamie I spent the entire
Day well okay a couple of minutes in the Spangler house attic and I was told never to go up there again really who told you to never go up there again n that’s just Paul because he said if I get locked up there he’s not coming to actually let me
Out Paul’s so mean so what what’s it like up there Jamie it actually quite clean so I don’t know I figured since I joined the Safety Committee with the Gettysburg Foundation because I figured I could go into every place that I wanted to get into and I
Would have like a cart launch to do that and I assigned yeah yeah there’s that too and so I was like oh every place I’ve gone to I’ve been like can I see your basement and yeah I’ve seen the basement of the Spangler files but I’ve never actually seen the attic until
Today that’s not a creepy question at all what’s your excuse then for seeing the building next door they’re not on our safety list well what does that mean I don’t that was my own personal study she literally talked the people at The Brick House in to let her into the basement one day
All right oh Jamie well you know who doesn’t want to see the wealthy house basement no I mean you know like this these old basements and Attic in these houses are really cool yeah I like them I I like I would go yeah oh Jamie oh Jamie oh what are the sidewalk
Conditions Jamie yes Jamie what are the sidewalk conditions well since the lovely rub housee rties as far friend FR likes to call us um decided to uh we we went out to lunch the other day and um we ended up actually going down the road and lo and behold can we
Cross the crosswalk no we got across the freaking hus because they plowed the crosswalk in when they actually plowed the snow over at the gas station aka the battlefield Hotel AKA The Wagon Wheel hotel right it’s not there anymore but whatever we couldn’t even freaking get to the road the sidewalk it was
Gone every once in a while you test your your ambidextrous dxterity it keeps it keeps you on balance and yeah how well can you navigate an obstacle as we were walking back from dinner we were like or lunch we were like this should go on sidewalk conditions this is
Appalling but you know for the be of tacos at blessings it was worth the mountain pass to get there so H it’s a dream which T blessing the beer what are they called beer tacos beer tacos what is a be Taco is is that is that beef
Tongue I think it’s beef tongue no no those are freaking delicious too yeah it is good yes what’s beia no the beia is like you take tacos and make them into like french dip they come with like a little like fried they’re like fried are they fried tacos you just like
Dip no no not even it’s just like beef tacos but like you dip it into like this beef stew as you’re eating it freaking amazing oh yeah like it’s like a it’s like a French dip which is what she I think I think if you get those down at
Um what’s the taco place down uh yeah I think if you get them there they’re fried they’re deep fried but they give you the aou yeah oo I’ll have to try them next time well that is maybe when I’m down at the square now Jamie are you going to Taco
Tuesday trivia night on Saturday on a Sunday this Saturday I am and actually even before that I’m going down to the Love on oh this is are you one of the registered couples I am um and in case you’ve ever wondered the umat love story is actually
Just a I don’t know Google fairy tales New York by the poges and there you go well let me tell you something uh in honor of you going down there uh then uh renewing your vows I’ll give you a little something of this you’ll never
Find wait hold on [ __ ] I’m always on the wrong one you’ll never Find love on the Square like mine it’s on the Square and I’ve got no hair I thought you were to give us a little fllying to the Moon Man the mayor’s going to say I was happy I thought you was going to rhyme it with in my underwear but that’s better that’s verse
Two all right well anything else that you want to add Jamie no other than yes I’ll see you at the square and on Taco trivia night very good we’re gonna kick butt well I hope so I hope but you’re gonna you’re gonna kick butt eating the tacos exactly while
Eating tacos that is a great point it is Bob ladies and gentlemen all right all right very good stop talking about food and start consuming some I know let’s let’s get to that point in the night go eat the park just announced there’s a wner storm watch until 700 a.m. on
Saturday no yeah yes we’re supposedly getting anywhere from 3: to six inches overnight ah it’ll be fine you’ll never find I will still be in the Square snow on the Square like mine we got to get Mark out there Jamie it’s getting Snowy on a square if you bring Helena I’ll bring
Ezra yeah I’m bringing Helena okay cool all right uh Jamie thank you very much we’re going to get going here’re we’re starting to really go off the rails we’re uh that low low uh blood sugar is really uh getting to me is that what it
Is can I make a plug probably well well hold on is that the whole reason why you wanted to be in here but it was a big day I’ve already told Matt about it hold on wait a second hold on now hold on now everybody thank you I already hung up on
I’m sorry Jamie thank you very much Jamie uh okay listen folks don’t forget March 16th uh our last in-person show for quite a while also uh you might have seen an ad for Billy Webster’s show in July I’ve uh I called him today and I said Billy we got to rework this we’re
Going to do that a year from July uh yeah uh well because there’s been some developments and if these things go through I will not have the time for all of this stuff so wow um yes and I’ll tell you what they are when I know more
Well I’ll tell you over dinner I’m saying I’m talking to the audience I’ll tell the audience he knows you’re a jerk yeah well that’s true you know I can Embrace that but I will I will you’ll know I will let you know the audience will know once I know something uh
Positive um and whatnot and anyway so yeah so last chance to come to one of our little uh in-person events uh March 16th Adams County Historical Society Tim Smith Gary Adelman Spotlight on will be a lot of fun with them and uh and then yeah that’s it we’ll do we’ll probably
Do them a year maybe two later uh Billy’s will probably be the first show we do although I am thinking of of Hosting some panels like history panels um where it’s a little bit more history and a little less fun uh so Jamie just texted me she said love you butthead
Hung up oh that’s so sorry j love that be yeah yes you are beas but speaking of beas what did you want to promote there oh this is a big day for us I’m not necessarily plug it was just more share the good news we just hit the uh Milestone with
The watch hours and the amount of subscribers on YouTube to become a YouTube Partner yeah very good so uh congratulations go cont all the audience go contribute to our continued rise in the in the YouTube ranks there and subscribe now if if I walk into that kitchen and I see a
Cantaloupe on that table I will lose my man who’s this I was so hoping you would see that that’s Matt ainson too all right ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for listening we will uh we will talk to you next time see you guys on Saturday
If you’re coming out if you’re going to love on the Square God love you and uh have a great time congratulations for being married so long see you next timee is written and performed by Colin Southfield and the mushroom country band Bumper Music is arranged and performed by Billy
Webster and and sometimes Gavin McLoud AG today is produced by Matt CER Bethany ginging Debbie Jones and Sydney Compton engineered by kobby suner and maybe sometimes someone else guest accommodations are provided by the guests themselves we’ll need a couple thousand patrons to be able to put people up in hotels speaking of patrons
Maybe you’d like to become one you’ll find plenty of perks over there not to mention hundreds of episodes that will help you further your Gettysburg and Civil War education so go to wos Grande the voice of addressing Gettysburg thanks for listening georia we bring the Mak free so to the Sea while we Wereing while we in georia why we were would you get out of here what seems to be the officer problem I’m going to be homeschooled and leave all the pain and suffering of public school behind Me
2 Comments
You have nothing to fear from the dead, only the living can hurt you…. I’m fascinated with skeletons and I’ve worked on Trauma wards for decades and seen plenty of dead bodies and broken bones…
You missed it, Matt. Your song to Jamie should have been "When Loving Lovers Love" from the MST3K episode "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank." Check it out, it's pretty funny. Actually, that song was a duet sung by Bill Corbett and Mary Jo Pehl. Maybe you and Bethany… does she sing? 🤣