This One Time | Comedy, Travel & Relationship Advice From Shevo

Full Show Script [confused] EVO:  This week's show is going to be short and sweet. As much as I really wanted our 10th episode to be The Perfect Show, it's just not going to happen this week. SHE: It's not that great things didn't happen to us this week. It just that, well... we kinda forgot to record them. EVO: We, apparently, are poor audio journalists. Did we record either of the two extremely painful "sports massage" sessions I had with Rowan at Elite Health? No. We did not.  SHE: Did we record us as we experience the incredibly flavorful beer and surprisingly good food we found at Brew Dog in Manchester? No. We did not. EVO: Instead, we have hours of pub background noises punctuated with my incessant coughing, forty-five minutes of wind blustering across our microphones, and several sessions of us calling the dogs back from various perceived dangers. SHE: (Please note that the dogs weren't really in any danger. We're good pet and house sitters, we promise!) EVO: The one day - ONE DA

Four days in Brussels with Evo fighting a cold isn't the best time ever. Still, we got out, did some things, and made it to England. Along the way, we managed to get some recording done, too!

Hjortur conducted a video interview with me, and I nabbed a little audio with him as well. The clip will do a much better job of explaining why, if you go to Copenhagen, you probably should get to NOHO and grab a coffee with Hjörtur and see what amazing things he's up to.

Full Show Script [intern] EVO: Fair warning: This episode will be all over the place. Our last week on our own in Denmark was... well, it's hard to label. I mean, how many people get to experience craft beer, innovation, random kindness of strangers, and beating a cat out of a barrel as they travel the world? SHE: What about you, dude. EVO: Even the cat and barrel thing? SHE: OK, that is a little random, even for you. And it's as good a place as any to start this episode. Denmark celebrates the most awesome holiday you've never heard of. It's called Fastelavn, and it's a little like Halloween mixed with Christmas mixed with a Mexican birthday party. Seriously. The kids dress up in costumes (Halloween), go door to door singing songs (Christmas) and get candy for their efforts (Halloween again). And it ends, rumor has it, when someone beats on a wooden barrel until a cat jumps out.  EVO: We don't have first-hand knowledge of that last part. But we did witness an awards ceremony-slash-celebration of sorts

Full Show Script [cough medicine] EVO: Copenhagen, like many metropolitan cities, isn’t very car-friendly. The city grew organically, with lots of tiny streets, wide-gapped cobblestones, and an extreme aversion to anything resembling a grid pattern. And with a car registration of tax of up to 180% -- yes, that’s 1.8x the value of the car as a tax -- keeps car ownership at pretty low levels. SHE: Instead, the preferred mode of transportation in Copenhagen is the bicycle. Every day, tens of thousands of people use their bikes to commute to work, take the kids to school, shop for groceries, or go out on the town. Even when it’s cold (which is now). Even when it’s wet (which is always). And even when it’s windy. (Which is…) [Uphill] SHE: That’s our buddy Alex Berger from Phoenix. He came over here about 3.5 years ago to get his Master’s degree -- and never left. He likes it that much! (He's got a great travel blog, too!) EVO: Before we left on this grand adventure, I too was a bike commuter, tho

Full Show Script [Step down places] EVO: So… we made it to Denmark. Copenhagen, actually, and to be even more precise, a small, bedroom community 30 minutes by train to the north that I’ve been calling Kokkedal. I mean, it’s spelled like Kokkedal - K o k k e d a l -- Kokkedal, right? SHE: Not quite. It’s not all that surprising that Evo’s first conversation with a local -- nearly everyone here speaks excellent English -- was about beer, specifically about the apparent lack of quality of craft beer in Denmark. I say “apparent” because Susanne Willie -- EVO: It’s pronounced Soo-sana-ah VEE-lay.. [Susanna Willie] SHE: Hey, she said it could be pronounced differently in English. Don’t get smart. Anynow, here’s how Susanne said the name of the town is really pronounced. [Kokkedal] EVO: And now you know why I had little choice but to pick this show title. SHE: What are you, eight? EVO: Childish humor is still humor, Love. What’s not so fun, however, is this nagging, recurring back issue of

Full Show Script [Public toilettes] EVO: Our time in France is coming to an end. So far, neither of us want to kill the other, at least not that we’re willing to admit out loud. Spending 24/7 as a couple has, thus far, been relatively easy. Of course, we’ve built up more than a little tolerance over the last 27 years. SHE: But in all honesty, being stuck inside is starting to wear a little thin. Even though it’s been cold and rainy -- it sleeted for most of today -- we’ve braved the elements and ventured out on occasion. Our local pub/coffee shop is called Carpe Diem, and we’re starting to be recognized. Even if they don’t greet me with the double-cheek air-kissing that’s all the rage here. EVO: The beer selection, well… sucks. It’s Stella. That’s my only option. Or at least I thought it was, until three locals ordered some sort of beer cocktail. It started with a few ounces of some mysterious black liquid in the bottom of a beer glass, topped off with the fizzy yellow stuff from the tap. By the

Full Show Script [Jesus Christ, more farmland photos?] EVO: We’re officially one week into our grand tour of, well… the world. If you’re just joining us, we’re currently in France. Specifically, we’re about as far northwest as you can get, in the middle of a small peninsula of land known as Brittany, or Bretagne. Yes I mean France, not the UK, though this area does share some history with Britain. But you can look all that up on Wikipedia. You didn’t come to us for a history lesson. We’ve been referring to this as the French country side. Which is really just a fancy term for farmland. Really, really clean farm land. [Clean] SHE : And it’s not only clean, it’s moist. Like, really, really wet. We’ve had rain or drizzle at least half the days we’ve been here. The soil is soaked, and I’m not sure I packed the proper footwear for such a boggy place. My boots have seen better days. Water does more than stand and soak. It flows. At every turn, it seems there’s a brook, stream, or some other type of ru

Full Show Script [.50 well spent] EVO: As I write this episode of the ShEvo Studios On Tour podcast, I'm hurtling -- literally hurtling -- through the French countryside on a super comfy train. Waze tells me we're clocking in at over 230 KPH, which is -- and I just checked this -- pretty damned fast, especially for an American who typically drives faster than trains. About every five minutes, another high speed train goes rocketing by mere inches -- OK, maybe mere feet -- in the opposite direction. When that happens, the sounds goes from idyllic -- like what you're listening to right now -- to this: [loud train] SHE: Yeah, I never heard it. In the last two "biological" days, we'd been through four airports, three busses, and miles of hiking through some of the less desirable places State-side. When you add in drinking and dining with good friends during that time AND zero sleep, the comfy chairs of Eurorail had me out before we pulled out of the station. EVO: You totally missed out on some bea

Full Show Script [Speculating] EVO: Did I mention we’re not quite the world travelers you might imagine us to be? Sure, we’ve done plenty of travel to other countries in this half of this hemisphere. But never for anything more than a handful of weeks, and never one with multiple country stops. So as you might imagine, there are a lot of things we don’t know. We need to educate ourselves. Which is leading us to some interesting learnings: [Discovery] SHE: Italy, as it turns out, is part of the Schengen area. According to Wikipedia, The Shangin’ Area is comprised of 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border control at their common borders. It mostly functions as a single country for international travel purposes, with a common visa policy. EVO: That policy allows us, two US citizens, 90 days of travel in those countries within one hundred and eighty days. If that doesn’t immediately make sense to you, it didn’t to us either. In fact, there was more than a l

By now you know -- or you should know -- that we’re leaving. Not just Arizona, where we’ve made our home for the last 18 years. But the entire country. For at least a year… or until we run out of money. Which is a distinct possibility, as we’re certainly not independently wealthy. But we are crafty. And we tend to land on our feet. So we’re good. It’s probably another safe bet that you know of our new website, ShEvo.wtf, where we’re documenting this grand experiment with blog posts, gear run-downs, checkins, photographs and podcast episodes, more or less like this one. OK, probably less. Because this one is just to give you a taste. Don’t get too caught up in the format, as that’s sure to change. We’ll figure it out as we go along. But I digress. This episode is all about one thing: how we decided on just the right domain name -- Shevo.wtf. WTF, indeed. Best of all, it’s not a re-creation. It’s the actual conversation between the two of us. Enjoy. (Oh, and that crazy noise you here underneath from time to tim