Live @ The Overlook: Cincinnati Traditions

A city’s personality shows up in its weirdest traditions and Cincinnati has plenty. We go live from Overlook Lodge with a bar full of listeners, a stack of merch to give away, and just enough chaos to turn the crowd into co-hosts. From the jump we’re talking Flying Pig Marathon energy, the kind of local pride you only understand after you’ve watched people dress as pigs at sunrise, and the small moments that make a live podcast feel like a real neighborhood hang.

Then we dig into the stuff people argue about like it’s politics: Cincinnati food, goetta, Taste of Cincinnati, and the eternal Skyline Chili vs Gold Star showdown. We also get into why Reds Opening Day feels like an actual holiday here, what it’s like when downtown floods with people, and why some traditions like the WEBN fireworks are beloved until you remember the crowds and traffic. Along the way we veer into entertainment news with a Resident Evil teaser that promises more survival horror than action, plus a Reddit “birth plan” debate that turns into a real talk about boundaries and consent in someone else’s home.

The second half is pure live-show fun: Cincinnati trivia rounds for shirts and stickers, “would you rather” questions that get oddly personal, and a quick brain-health detour on how board games can support cognition as we age. We close with a special guest, author Anthony Bolton, who joins us to talk about his murder mystery Cat’s Got Your Tongue, his writing process, and where to find the book on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. If you like Cincinnati events, local culture, and unfiltered group chemistry, hit subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Transcript

Live Show Warm-Up And Vibes

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Is this thing on? Welcome welcome everyone. Everyone come come I'm coming to you.

unknown 0:07

Coming to you.

SPEAKER_02 0:08

OLR OL OLR Studios Studios. This is FMJ. This is FMJ. The FMJ. The FMJ podcast.

SPEAKER_05 0:26

Anyway. Everybody good? Everybody said? Ready to rock and roll? Yeah? Yeah. I'm ready. Heck yeah, brother. Okay. Wow, this is strange. Well, hey, let's welcome everybody here. Y'all at the bar, what's up? What we drinking?

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Really strong fucking. What we drinking?

SPEAKER_05 0:46

Nothing? That's cool. Well, if y'all don't know what we do here, this is this is our this is our fun little podcast. If you're not if you're unaware of what we do and how we do things, if you could just imagine a morning show, but condensed. You know what I'm saying? Minus the music. But you get all these personalities. You get to get to see what we do, how we how we think, and um the fun stuff we get to we we like to say, and we tell a lot of jokes, inappropriate jokes sometimes. We'll try to tone it down today. But uh to get us started, we're gonna go around the room, get some um, get some get some pulses, check everybody's pulse. We'll start with me seeks. Practice that while you're off mic.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

That's all he's been thinking about since you've been talking. I know. I know. He's just been trying.

SPEAKER_05 1:42

How do I say this? Sound it out. Yeah. Go ahead, Miss Meeseeks.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Ah, absolutely. Hold on. I never know how to work this.

SPEAKER_05 1:50

The watch? Maybe a new watch.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

For like 10 years and still no clue. Uh, but anyways, if I had to guess, my round my heart rate's normally like 80. And I feel like that's pretty literal and figurative. Okay. I've been pretty steady eddy in life lately. And you know, just kind of coasting some ups, some downs, and here we are.

SPEAKER_05 2:15

Yeah. You excited to be here? Kind of do a soft eh period. No, we're we're not gonna do that. Anyway, but no, that you're right. This is kind of exciting doing doing a little bit of a live show. Everybody can kind of see how this works behind the scenes, right? So but that's good. That's awesome. Let's move on to Yeti here. Good afternoon. What's your pulse look like, bro?

SPEAKER_03 2:39

120 next.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

Ooh, okay, Templeton. Yeti Yeti's stressed right now, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

We gotta give him a minute to figure this out. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_05 2:50

Definitely gotta give him a minute. Steady Yeti. Steady Yeti. Yeti needs a spaghetti. If you know, you know. 121. Is that is that you? 121? Is that you?

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:04

You stressed?

SPEAKER_01 3:06

It's that much better than Yeti.

SPEAKER_05 3:08

Got it, got it. So, so it's not a competition, but if it was, Templeton would be winning.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

I win.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

So his is bigger.

SPEAKER_05 3:16

That's what she said. Anyway, I don't know. We'll try to well, like I said, we'll try to tone it down a little bit, but I don't know, we'll get a little crazy. But anything new with you, Templeton? Anything at all?

SPEAKER_01 3:27

No, man. Just life, work.

SPEAKER_05 3:30

Cool, cool. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

That's it.

SPEAKER_05 3:33

Okay, well, Grizz. Yo.

SPEAKER_04 3:36

What'd you post look like? It's a lot more chill now. Is it? Yeah, this morning it was sitting at like 180 at some points. Oh my god. Other points it got down to like 16. I've probably floated at 168. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

I mean, it's not like you ran like a 10k or anything.

SPEAKER_04 3:56

It is not like I ran a 10k or anything.

SPEAKER_05 3:58

No, it's definitely because you ran a 10k.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

No, I definitely ran. Yeah. How was that? It was great. Um, I'm very excited to be back home hanging out with everybody. Um, I was excited to do something with my city. Uh I understand why people run this thing every year. It was kind of cool running through the streets of the city. Okay. Uh I don't know. You you get to see the city from like a different perspective. Yeah, yeah. Driving or like walking to dinner. Like, I found a tunnel today.

SPEAKER_05 4:32

You found a tunnel in the middle of Cincinnati. Was it like a tunnel or no, no, no?

SPEAKER_04 4:38

I couldn't tell you what this tunnel's called. Yeah, that feels like it looks like a place where goth kids would host a rave.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

Okay. Yeah, it does. You're right, Miss Meeseeks. This sounds like a code for something. I found a tunnel in Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Tunnel in Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_05 4:53

That's crazy. If the FBI is listening, don't worry about it. Don't come looking over here. We're fine. We're totally fine. Grizz didn't do anything illegal anyway. He just ran a lot.

SPEAKER_04 5:02

It's chill.

SPEAKER_05 5:03

We're not even that close to the border. Exactly. We're not even that close to the border. We're so far away. So what did what um speaking of your 10k, what'd you run today? Like what what marathon? Let the let the listeners.

SPEAKER_04 5:13

The uh Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon. Um, 10K. And I am currently wearing my medal because got his medal. I got my participation award.

SPEAKER_05 5:23

Um is that what we're calling it? I participated. He said he got a participation medal. That's yeah, that's awesome. Here, way to go. Thanks for running so many miles.

SPEAKER_04 5:34

Thanks for being here. I know it was early.

SPEAKER_05 5:37

Yeah, we we yeah, we appreciate you being here. Come up come back next year. That's how they get you. Exactly. But no, that's awesome. I know the flying pig is pretty big here in the city of Cincinnati. In case nobody knows what's going on, I'll look at you right now, real quick. Um, we are here at the over Overlook Lodge in uh in Cincinnati here. So if you are in the area, you want to stop by, see how it's going. Got some merch to give away. Got some you can get you can get a drink, hang out, see how, see how it goes. I mean, that's really up to you. But uh, the flying pig. Anybody out here doing the flying pig? Anybody anybody at the bar do the flying pig? No? I th I think they did, they just don't want to talk about it. They were just really, really sweaty, and they were like, not today. That's probably what that was. Y'all plan on running the flying pig at all? Ever? Not one time.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

No, amen, brother. Amen. Never once.

SPEAKER_05 6:32

No, so none of you you don't like running. Good God. You so you need a reason to run. Listen, I feel that because I think I've got like 30 seconds of fight or flight left in me, and I'm saving it for the very important stuff.

SPEAKER_04 6:47

That makes total sense.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

Doesn't it? Doesn't it? Like, I don't I don't want to I don't want to waste that. Exactly, exactly. Because if I'm not gonna lose, I'm going home.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

I went through an active shooter training uh like a few weeks ago. I know we're really jumping, yeah, but this is so important because the the teacher comes in, he looks at me, he's like, I'm the shooter, what are you doing? And I said, accepting my fate. So that's where I'm at. And like fight, flight, accept the fate.

SPEAKER_04 7:14

Okay, I do think that's where I am. Acceptance is very important, whether you're fighting or flighting.

SPEAKER_05 7:19

No, for sure, for sure. You gotta accept the fact that yeah, but there's also a neither option that I that I'm taking. I didn't hear a C though. It was it was A or B. We've lost C Mr.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

So acceptance is perfectly fine.

SPEAKER_05 7:32

Exactly, exactly. It's that you gotta accept either like you know, your fate or you gotta accept that you're you're gonna try to run. You may not get far. People are gonna judge me while I'm running, but it's okay. So, but no, I get that. I totally do. So, all right. Sounds like everybody's doing good. Nobody really wants to discuss their flying pig marathon experience over there. It's all good. Yeah, we'll let we'll let it slide.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

Shame meets people at the bar on our first night out. Nobody too unboard to talk about that.

Resident Evil Teaser And Tech Chaos

SPEAKER_05 8:02

Do you have you have you listened to the show? Do you know what do you know what we do? Like, you know what we do here, right? You know what we're about. Anyway, um, who's ready for some entertainment news?

SPEAKER_01 8:10

I think we are. I think Yeti is. I'm very much ready.

SPEAKER_05 8:15

Are you sure? You look a little nervous. So we're gonna we're we're gonna discuss a little something. I don't know if y'all are interested in this uh out here out here in the in the crowd. I know this man is. He looks like he's interested in it. So uh they just released the teaser trailer for Resident Evil, the next film. I don't know if anybody's interested in that. Uh Zach Kruger is behind it. He did, he was responsible for Barbarian and Weapons, in case nobody knew. Check those movies out, they're actually really good. So he's trying his hand at adapting the Resident Evil into a um into a film, um, leaning into the survival horror part of it. He's not really like doing the over the over-the-top action type deal. Um, he's really when you watch the teaser, it really does give from like Resident Evil 2, it gives like scarce supplies, all that kind of stuff. Like, literally, a part in the trailer, he opens two drawers and finds absolutely nothing. And most people that are Resident Evil fans are like that tracks because you spend a lot of the you spend a lot of time in the game looking for stuff and not finding anything.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

I haven't seen the trailer. Is it is it a reboot or is it like a sequel?

SPEAKER_05 9:20

So the way he is operating this, it's not necessarily a reboot, it's gonna be more of an expansion on the universe because it's supposedly taking place during the Raccoon City incident. If anybody remembers that, back in 1998. Um, and it's just the pre from the perspective of like your run-of-the-mill citizen uh getting dropped into survival horror, essentially. So yeah, yeah. I'm kind of I'm pumped. Like, if you haven't, if you haven't checked it out, please, please check it out. I don't know what's going on over there.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

I don't I know everyone. Alright, we're having a few just live technical difficulties over here. I don't know what that means. My hair. That's all they see. Is that all they see?

SPEAKER_05 10:05

So, people of TikTok. Enjoy. If you're watching, I hope you like hair. For free is crazy. So it sounds like Miss Meeseeks is gonna do some adjusting. You can find us on Twitch. You can get us on. Oh, is is is the chat going? Are they firing off? Are they saying, hey, all we see is your fire off. That's amazing. So while Miss Meeseeks get us straight like that, does anybody have any thoughts on the teaser trailer? Has anybody watched it? Has anybody seen it?

SPEAKER_01 10:36

I have not seen it, but I would be very interested in seeing it. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Neither have I. I haven't seen it yet either. What a bond.

SPEAKER_05 10:47

Hey, Miss Meeseeks, get it read the chat, see what they're saying. What do they say? And they say much better. That's the thumbs up the green button. Please hold. Please hold.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Oh, yeah, let's yeah, yeah, totally ignore it. Uh totally, totally didn't happen.

SPEAKER_05 11:02

So, Grizz, you got any thoughts on this?

SPEAKER_04 11:04

Yeah, my thoughts are that totally didn't happen.

SPEAKER_05 11:09

So much hair.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

Do you think with the Resident Evil uh focus on survival horror, will it feel like Left For Dead a little bit? Not Left For Dead, I'm sorry. Um, what's the other I mean it'll most of us?

SPEAKER_05 11:29

Okay, yeah, no, it'll it'll kind of lean toward it and kind of toward like lean into that. Yeah, but I mean, if you are a fan of Resident Evil, if you've played Resident Evil up until five, kind of got a little like four is when they really stepped up the action. Five, they kind of like were like, you got Call of Duty in my Resident Evil game, and then six was just we don't talk about that, and then Resident Evil 7, they really went back to the roots of Resident Evil from like one and two, and a little bit of three, um, and really leaned into the more darker survival horror aspect, and it was a hit. So there are a lot of people out here kind of judging because you don't have the big name characters from the game, and they're like, Is it Resident Evil if you don't have Leon S. Kennedy or Claire Redfield? It's like, yeah, it can be. We had a whole new pro tag in Resident Evil 7 through 8. Perfectly fine. Perfectly a-okay. So why can't we give that a shot?

SPEAKER_04 12:27

Yeah, and especially if it's like subtitled, then people know that it's not the main story arc.

SPEAKER_05 12:34

Right, which which he's he's really stressing that, that it's not yeah, I mean, it'll be it'll be canon, it'll just be a different perspective of everything that happened in Resident Evil 2. Another vantage point, if you want to. Yes, another vantage point. Because, you know, there's more people than just Leon S. Kennedy and and Claire Redfield and all them running through the running through the city doing the stuff that they do, so you get it. But yeah, um, Miss Meeseeks.

SPEAKER_06 12:58

Yeah, are you interested in it?

SPEAKER_00 12:59

From your social media manager, there was just about like 40 people who just hopped on and hopped straight back off because they were like, what the fuck is this? All this thing. All they seen was hair, nothing, but like I think we're good now. We're all set. Yeti uh confirmed that the view is much different than before. So yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_05 13:18

Okay, that's very nice, very nice, very nice. Well, hopefully that hopefully we got all that squared away. So, okay. Well, anybody interested in the Resident Evil movie at all? Anybody? Miss Meese? Not really. I don't know why I'm here. She don't even she don't even care. She's she was literally about to say, I'm only here so I don't get fined. What did you say? No, I listen. I mean hold on.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

I gotta do a tribute to Grizz over here. I'm only here so I don't get fined.

SPEAKER_05 13:50

There we go. Thank you. We got it, we got it. You hear that, people? She's only here so she doesn't get fined.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

Asteroid, she doesn't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 13:57

Beautiful. Okay, well, with that being said, Yeti, I think you have something for us.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

I do want to object. I made a frogger reference earlier today, so add that to the list. She did do that.

SPEAKER_05 14:11

She did do that.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

I was the list.

SPEAKER_04 14:13

I was the froger.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

You were the froger, and you did that.

SPEAKER_05 14:17

He did. He hopped he hopped from one stripe to the next. It was kind of funny.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

What we're talking about is visiting us from Seattle, and he was crossing the street, and uh, what's your name again? Oh my god, no, go for it. Yeti, give it to us. Hell yeah. Hey, it's like playing the game with Frogger, and that's when Grizz decided to hop across the street. Because he wanted to represent Frogger.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

That's right. I am Frog.

The Inanimate Object Rabbit Hole

SPEAKER_05 14:46

He is Frog. I am Frog, Ribbit. But Yeti, you got something for us?

SPEAKER_03 14:52

I believe so. You better can't wait for this. Um so the other day I was driving and I seen a bald eagle like 10 feet away from me, come from like tall grass. I was like, well, that'd be pretty cool to be a bird. And then I went down a rabbit hole. I was like, well, if I was an inanimate object, what would I be?

SPEAKER_05 15:12

If you were an inanimate object, what would you be? Do you know what inanimate means? Yeah, Yeti. Something that doesn't move.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

I went down rabbit hole and I just went further, deeper, and deeper. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

I was driving and I was like, We just started at a very living thing, and yeah, and I wanted to make it.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

Everybody heard bald eagle, right?

SPEAKER_05 15:30

It was a statue.

SPEAKER_04 15:31

It's all a bald eagle statue.

SPEAKER_05 15:34

It's totally a statue of a bald eagle. That's the inanimate object, the statue of the bald eagle. I got it, I got it, I got it. Okay, so so what did the bald eagle do?

SPEAKER_03 15:44

It just it just flew away. Like, and it just had me thinking, like, oh, that's pretty cool. It would be cool to be a bird. That's why that's what it started off as. It'd be cool to be a bird. Like a dead bird?

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Or how to be switched to non-living.

SPEAKER_05 15:57

He yeah, he you went to inanimate objects somewhere. Where the story is short, but I was like, I kept thinking about it.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

It's just a giant leap. No, I'm very interested in how you got there. I just was thinking about that, and then I thought about what other things I would be. And then eventually I made it down to like if I couldn't do anything and just sit there, what would I be?

SPEAKER_06 16:16

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_04 16:17

This is not a rabbit hole. That's a rabbit tank. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

I apologize for making the joke or the so it okay.

SPEAKER_05 16:28

If but ultimately, ultimately, if we were an inanimate object, what we would what would we want to be? What would you want to be if you were an inanimate object? Nothing. Light pole? That's why we have Yeti on the show. To think of those questions for us.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

I think of the hard questions.

SPEAKER_05 16:52

Absolutely. So you don't have to. Yeah, for those of you listening. One of our people in the audience suggested he never thought of being an inanimate object. So he has he has no words.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Doesn't even know where to start. I mean, I don't know where to begin. How do you narrow that down?

SPEAKER_05 17:11

If I were to be an inanimate object, I'd want to be like a kickstand, something helpful.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

I like that.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

That's beautiful. Yeah. That's super beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 17:23

You like that? See what I did there? No, not so much. Not a kickstand.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

Meanwhile, I was like, I'd want to be a yacht. I'd want to be a yacht because that means I'm in like I'm with rich folks. Like, I've we're I'm in a whole nother tax bracket. I've been seeing lizard people and everything. Lizard people.

SPEAKER_04 17:41

Lizard people's crazy. We're in a throwback.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Wrap around.

SPEAKER_05 17:47

If you know, you know.

SPEAKER_04 17:50

Can we break down the boat, the yacht, though? Because like that means that you're owned by somebody.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

Oh. It's in my blood, baby. Oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 18:01

Listen, I don't have the drums. I don't have the drums. I'm sorry about for the joke. I don't have them.

SPEAKER_06 18:13

I do not have guy up here.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

That's actually generational. I don't know how that's called generational curse, Chris. That's actually wild, Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 18:25

What the f okay, Yeti, what would you be if you were an inanimate object?

SPEAKER_03 18:29

I told you a lava lamp.

SPEAKER_05 18:30

A lava lamp. Templeton, what would you be?

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Yeah, no, because I don't know. High people are getting high and crazy. I do like a good lava lamp. Like a fly on the wall by a lava lamp. Probably like a uh bong.

SPEAKER_05 18:45

A bong? Yeah. Is it because you want people's lips on you?

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Oh, knew it. He would blow smoke every time.

SPEAKER_05 18:57

Templeton just blowing smoke. Oh day long. Grizz, did you did you tell us what you would be if you were an inanimate object? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 19:09

I don't like that word. No, I don't said it too many times, and I'm not confident anymore in how it sounds. It's terrible. Um inanimate object. I think I would be a bed sheet? Close.

SPEAKER_05 19:22

I don't know about that because a bed sheet would see some things.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

I was just following his heritage. Where are the drums? I'm sorry you're under attack today. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_05 19:38

It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

I don't know what happened.

SPEAKER_05 19:40

Miss Mises, are you okay today?

SPEAKER_03 19:43

Did he call you a name?

SPEAKER_05 19:47

Don't answer that crazy. No. So crazy. She was about to say yes. Just so we're clear, she's about to say yes. Don't hey, I won't, I won't accept the Grizz slander, okay? That's not okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

That's actually legitimate atrocious, and I would never accuse him of that.

SPEAKER_04 20:04

This man ran a 10K today, and you are just Yeah, I already beat myself up.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

He ran a 10K before I even got out of bed today.

SPEAKER_05 20:11

That's what I'm saying. Before I even thought about it. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

And Miss Mean Seeks over here just being rude as fuck.

SPEAKER_04 20:19

Uh no. No PR.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

You've done faster?

SPEAKER_04 20:23

I I've done faster. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

Why?

SPEAKER_04 20:27

I did it an hour and six minutes. Today.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

And well, how have you done faster? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 20:35

Oh, I see what you just asked.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Today, 10K.

SPEAKER_05 20:38

Today was my hang on, he's sketching up.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

I'm so sorry I've assaulted you this much. I'm so sorry I've paid you down. You're flustered. I have CTE. Called on one.

SPEAKER_05 20:49

Anyway, we are way off track. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I know. If you listen to the show, you already know that we are on. We're on course. We're par for the course. So do you have anything from Reddit?

SPEAKER_03 21:04

I mean, I'm ready. I need a number one through five.

SPEAKER_05 21:06

One through five? Crowd peck.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

One through five.

SPEAKER_05 21:10

Pick a number one through five. Four it is. Let's go. You got it.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

Watch me scroll live.

SPEAKER_05 21:19

Crushed it.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

One. Three. Three. This one's for you, baby. Four. All right.

SPEAKER_05 21:39

I'm so stoked. No, I'm stoked, bro.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

Okay, am I the asshole for ruining my daughter-in-law-law's birth plan? Her birth plan? What? Birth plan. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_05 21:54

Everybody, everybody hear him out there? What are you saying? Yes.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

I don't know anything about birth plans. I think we're all about to learn a little something here. I got my notebook ready.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

He's gonna write some notes. On this situation, my son and daughter-in-law are starting to stay with me at the moment. Their house is being fixed with flooding issues that happened. About a week ago, a fire hydrant broke and flooded the house near it. Due to this, the home used from repairs. Why are we not talking about what you should talk about? And it does not stay for them while their contractors deal with the damage. My daughter-in-law is supposed to give birth to her first kid at the beginning of next month. And their home will not be fixed in time. They have been staying with me and set up a little nursery in the guest bedroom. My home is not big. I've downsized years ago, so I live in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom home. I learned this weekend that she was planning on having a water home birth and a midwife journey. Do we know what a water home birth is? She used to have the kid basically that goes in the house. The only two places that will fit are the living room and if my move my bed out of the master bedroom. I thought about it, and I'm not comfortable with that happening in my home. I told her this today and she was pissed. We got in this huge argument, and she said that she's mad and I ruined her birthday. My son wants me to apologize and have it here again. I'm not aga I am against it. I don't want her giving birth in my living room.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

They're gone. They're having to move out because their apartment flooded.

SPEAKER_06 23:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

That's the universe telling you that you should not have a water birth there, mate. Okay. That's what I'm covering.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Nicely put, Miss Meaty. I guess from my position, like you're perfectly welcome to have your birth, like as a mother, like however you want to have your birth, but nobody is like obligated to provide you the space to have that.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

And I'm also still trying to figure out why she can't just birth the child in that environment and then maybe go to stay at their mother-in-law's.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Yes, but I think part of the problem is she has nowhere to put the blown-up pool. The only two places were the living room.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

What happened to the apartment? Have they already moved in there? Have they already moved in with the mom?

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Yeah, they're living with the stuff. That's what I missed. I thought that they were considering that space. Yeah. Okay. And she said the other option is to whoop the bed out of the master bedroom and put it in there. No.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

On the other side of things, pregnant women are not wrong, and you kind of can't convince me of that. Like, whatever, do whatever. It's her true. It's a very like touchy type of topic where like she's entitled, but is the outside out of the question? I think. No, here's the thing. Maybe her. So I think that's what it is.

SPEAKER_05 24:53

Like to call it a And that's yeti, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

I think it's dramatic.

unknown 24:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Hold on, hear me out.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

What if okay? You're talking about cleanliness and talking about being clean clean. Go buy a hundred dollar tent, like a state person tent.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Put the this is a crazy option. Okay. It is an option. No, no.

SPEAKER_05 25:10

So are we thinking like hazmat style? Like, yeah. I do want to point out like just hello. Welcome in.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

I do want to point out that in this in this podcast, only two people like have children. I've never pushed a baby out though. One of them has to birth the child. Um, but my my the point that I'm making is like it's definitely up to the parents how they want to like bring that child into the world, but it's nobody else's obligation to accommodate that.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Yeah, absolutely. She it's on her. But I'm saying it to call it a ruining of a birth plan seems dramatic, right? Because then the burden of how she wants to execute her birth plan is on her, and people should be consenting to that. Right. I'm not gonna lie, I don't want placenta all over in my living room. No, I get that. That's that's a mess.

SPEAKER_05 26:03

Like that sounds like a mess.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

But honestly, and then like if something goes wrong, do you want the trauma of something going wrong in your own home? Better juju. She could go to a hospital and request a water birth in a hospital or a facility or like request some other place. She's just depending on like an Airbnb here. That is also happening.

SPEAKER_05 26:23

I mean, you're not using somebody else's house. Okay, I do online from his house.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

I also want to take it to a hotel. I also I also want to add that in these circumstances, that's why it's also you think so?

SPEAKER_05 26:38

Have we been blacklisted? It's also friends.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

It's also very helpful, especially for the mother, to have a doula. That's crazy. Because they will advocate very strongly for the mother and for the baby.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

I I guess here's the thing, though. And it's just you're in someone else's home. Yeah, that part. That's what happened to like my my house bar rules.

SPEAKER_04 27:06

It's 2026, baby.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

What does that even mean? Everywhere. What does that even mean? Whoever's home it is that you're living in.

SPEAKER_05 27:16

That's crazy. That's crazy. 2026, baby. That's true. I can do that.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

There's so many options for her, though. Like, I know we joked about that Airbnb thing, but like you genuinely could do that. You could rent a space to be able to do that. Should you? There are options.

SPEAKER_05 27:30

Yeah, should you?

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Well, I think she has other options, and I don't think she's the asshole. I don't think it's even ruining a birth plan. Okay. It's adjusting a birth plan, but also as somebody who has birthed a child, I wanted a natural birth. I couldn't have that because I was gonna stroke out and die.

SPEAKER_05 27:46

Yeah, that's no good.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

And so I wanted to choose to live. So my birth plan's very far away from what I went in there thinking. That's also just the reality of it. I don't think she's the ass.

SPEAKER_03 27:57

But you could have had a birth plan to birth plan you wanted, people only would have one.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

But this whole thing, like again, yeah, I wouldn't, I'm not, I'm not pitching anybody, but I'm just saying like these circumstances are why like people like doulas and midwives and things like that are really, really important because they will advocate for the mother, for the baby, and help you come to like really good decisions for everybody. Oh, 100%.

SPEAKER_04 28:29

I have a stupid question.

SPEAKER_05 28:30

No stupid, no such thing, Grizz. No such thing.

SPEAKER_04 28:33

If there's a stupid question, does that imply that there's a low and a high wife?

SPEAKER_00 28:40

I was a high wife for a really wait, come on.

SPEAKER_05 28:44

Okay, do you hear the middle? Do you hear his question? Okay, he said if there's a midwife, does that imply that there's a low and a high wife?

SPEAKER_04 28:56

I mean, if it seems like the implication is there, yes.

SPEAKER_05 29:01

Like, what's the what's the low wife, though? Yeah. What would you classify a low wife as? And what would a high wife be?

SPEAKER_04 29:10

Listen, it sounds like we're gonna divorce people.

SPEAKER_05 29:12

That's what it that's kind of what it sounds like.

unknown 29:14

That's kind of what it sounds like.

SPEAKER_05 29:16

Divorce rate suddenly skyrocket. Highest it's ever been. Whoopsie!

unknown 29:21

100 milligram gummy bell today.

SPEAKER_05 29:23

That's a high wife. High wife, got it. And then she hit the floor because of it, and that's the low wife. Hell yeah. Perspective. 180. That's actually wild. So ultimately, what are we thinking? Not the asshole?

SPEAKER_01 29:39

1080? I don't think she's yeah, so not the asshole?

SPEAKER_05 29:43

No. I think it's because as you said, it's it's their health.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

Boundary for her, super valid. Yeah, yeah. And it's that's the reality that birth plans don't work out. And it's not even rune, she can still have what she wants. She just has to find a different location. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

That's their space that they provided for them to live in, but that doesn't mean that they get to do whatever they want to with it, for sure.

SPEAKER_05 30:06

Okay. So not the asshole. What are you guys saying? Not the asshole?

unknown 30:10

No, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:10

You wouldn't want anybody's placenta all over your yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Would you let somebody just like whoop here's a baby? All right, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:19

Yeah, that's not like to walk around the house naked, but I can't. But you can't move it but grenade like that.

SPEAKER_05 30:25

You're not, you're not, you're not wrong. For those of you listening. Yeah, for the for those of you listening, he said he would like to walk around the house naked, but he really can't go to his his significant other's dad's house and just do that. You can't do that. You're absolutely right. Can't do that.

SPEAKER_04 30:41

So that's so fine.

SPEAKER_05 30:42

Yeah, good point. Solid point, y'all. See, we this is why this is why we have our audience here. So okay, so not the asshole. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 30:51

What did the audience ask? What's up? What did the audience ask for the people listening? What did they ask?

SPEAKER_05 30:59

Oh, he didn't ask questions. He was he was telling me what he was um oh yeah, I was just repeating what he was saying. That's all. It's all good. High thoughts from Grizz. It's all good. I'll be over here. Yeah, he ran a 10K. His brain is still like re-energizing.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

It's kind of running on like Internet Explorer right now.

SPEAKER_04 31:19

He's running on bananas right now, dude.

SPEAKER_05 31:21

Bananas and apples.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Did you say bananas and apples?

SPEAKER_05 31:25

Bananas and apples, yes, yes, yes, bananas and apples.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

So, alright.

SPEAKER_05 31:32

I'm gonna make a quick switch here. Where are you going, Miss Mees?

unknown 31:34

First of all, relax.

Cincinnati Trivia Round One

SPEAKER_05 31:35

No, I'm not gonna relax. Not on your business. You just you're just gonna walk away from this? You can't do that. I mean it was meant to be like a thought. Ah, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Not on his watch. I gotcha. So what they do. What I want to do for those of you listening, just a quick reminder we're live here at the Overlook Lodge in Cincinnati, off of Montgomery Road. Um, if you want to stop by, see what we're doing, hang out, win some merch right now because I think we're gonna have beautiful faces. I think we're gonna break this down real quick. We're gonna see if we can get some people involved. Maybe we'll see. We'll see what kind of shirts we can hand out. Right? Yeah? So uh how long y'all been y'all live close to Cincinnati, yeah? Big Sin big Cincinnati fan? He said, you see the jacket. Yeah, he said he's you see the jacket. It's it's it's literally Cincinnati. No, no, no. Secretly he hates Cincinnati. So alright. Do I like anime? No. What's a goku? Yeah, I don't, I have, I have no idea what that is. Absolutely not. Why would you even ask that, bro? That's crazy. So, what I want to do is I just I just want to ask a couple of questions here. Um we're we're gonna give away some merch. We'll see if we'll see if uh a couple people at the bar want to get in get involved in this, but um we're gonna do some Cincinnati trivia. See what you know about Cincinnati. You think you know Cincinnati pretty well, huh? Kinda both. No, kind of both. The city of Cincinnati is you know, things that are related to the city of Cincinnati. You know what I'm saying? He's asking what you're getting at the bar. What kind of drinks?

SPEAKER_03 33:30

Oh, she's getting me a jack and code.

SPEAKER_05 33:32

Okay, do you need it? Need a little reset? Alright, so the first question I do want to ask is this. It might make you cry to find out that what veggie is the only one that comes to standard in a Cincinnati five-way chili? The only veggie. Five-way chili. Veggie? She'd be right. It's an onion. You want a shirt? Of course you do. What size? What size do you want? Large, extra large? Extra large. Fine that. Fine. Long sleeve? Oh, see, I'm not gonna lie, not gonna lie, the long sleeves turned out really nice. Yeah, you're gonna enjoy that. Okay, okay. Y'all gonna have a lot of shirts today. Y'all are y'all are gonna have a lot of shirts today unless somebody in the unless somebody else comes around and steals one of them questions from you, but I don't I don't see it. I don't see it happening. Maybe we'll have to see. So here's our next wonderful question. We're only gonna ask five, okay, because we got we got we literally have 15 shirts to hand out. So really this you're gonna sweep this first round. So uh ask Louise to get them a broom. Get the brooms out. Okay, next question. Opening in 2005, Monmouth Avenue in Cincinnati is home to a museum dedicated to what specific advertising motifs. I'll give you a hint. Ace of bass saw one of these in 1992. My boy, look at you. It is a sign with he knew. He said ace of bass, absolutely. So you want a large, extra large, extra large it is. Short sleeve, it is. We only had one long sleeve, I think. No, we literally have five of them. Oh, I thought we have 15 in total. So five long sleeve and ten of the short sleeve. So that's what we got. Exhale, exhale, exhale. So look at that. Two questions down. So far, so good. Everybody's yeah, y'all about to sweep this. How about sweep this round? Yeah, exactly. You're gonna have you're gonna have bragging rights. Just so we're clear. All right, next question. Either a Procter and Gamble dude who worked on the patent or a name picked out of a Cincinnati phone book, those are the supposed origin stories behind the name of what stackable chip? Pringles? You got it, buddy. It's the only stackable chip, bro. Lay's dude, Lay's does have stackables, but what size do you want? And you want short sleeve, long sleeve?

SPEAKER_03 36:25

What size do you got?

SPEAKER_05 36:26

We it literally only large and extra large. Perfect. Short or long sleeve. You want me to you want me to yell these questions, Miss Mees? You want me to yell them?

SPEAKER_00 36:38

Maybe you do like a maybe do like a quick this is open to the bar if anybody wants.

SPEAKER_05 36:43

Yeah, I'll do I'll do this one real quick. Yeah, yeah. I'll do this one.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

You also trail off a little bit. Like I struggle with your costume.

SPEAKER_05 36:50

That's fine. I'll keep it. I'll keep it, I'll keep it level. I'll keep it level. It is aggressive. All right, we're gonna go for our next question. This next question is open for the bar if anybody wants to win some merch today. Um, what alliterative adhesive product has its headquarters based in Cincinnati and was infamously and incorrectly used by Tessica Brown for a hairspray in a February 2021 viral video. Gorilla glue. Look at you killing it.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

That was such a crazy plot to follow up. That was crazy.

SPEAKER_04 37:29

I would have never got that.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

You would have never got that? Oh man, oh my gosh, it was like a spray. Oh, yeah. I know you don't forward. Did you watch that? But it was like a spray.

SPEAKER_05 37:40

It was, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:41

And so usually you do like a rampage. He's like, just pick one out, hand it to him. He's gonna have so much merch. It's gonna be ridiculous. You usually use like a got-to-be glued spray. And so she picked up a gorilla glue spray and was like, this will probably do the same thing. It didn't, it did not. It was a medical emergency for this woman. Yes, it was like it was crazy.

SPEAKER_05 38:05

Yeah, that that that that incident was wild to follow, that's for sure. But she was super mad about that. All right.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Why would you put gorilla glue on your head? That seems like a crazy decision.

SPEAKER_05 38:16

I don't know. I don't know. We have we have warning labels for a reason, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Yeah, I mean, it says probably for external use only, but like so. She technically probably was within those parameters.

SPEAKER_05 38:28

Probably, probably. So is that four down? Is that four down? Is that four is that four questions down? I think so. So we got one more for this round. Anybody want to win some merch out there in the bar? We have we have a question going on here. If you want if you answer it correctly, you'll get a free shirt. So here we go. Last question. Broadway Street in Cincinnati is home to a casino based on what musical business franchise, often associated with a chain of cafes and its collection of music memorabilia. You didn't even let me get that whole question out. Look at this. Sweet, sweet. Some people might be, you know, they might be stuck on like uh Jack's. You know what I'm saying? So, all right. You want it you want to collect your winnings? Or or you know what? Can I offer you a sticker? Did you say hard rock? Yeah, he said hard rock. Yeah, yeah, he said hard rock.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

I don't know why I didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_05 39:21

You just you just you just say listen, we do have stickers. Grizz, go ahead and reach reach in there and grab grab the stickers we got. Hey, look at that. Got some stickers to hand out, got 25 of them. You can stick them on a refrigerator, you can stick them on a laptop, you can stick them anywhere you want to. Just don't put it on your forehead. I mean, you can. Yeah, you're right. I should I shouldn't be telling people what to do. That's kind of rude. So that ends our first round of trivia. Good job, guys. Give us give give our give our give our winners a round of applause. Woo! Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, at this point we might as well.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Don't worry, coming in to get super jazzed back here. Like, I know the answer.

SPEAKER_05 40:05

Yeah, that would be that'd be really that'd be really dope. That's kind of what I'm that's kind of what I'm expecting. I'm still yeah, that's that's kind of what I'm expecting. But congratulations. You now have some of our very first merch. That's our first merch, man. That's it's it's awesome to see you in that shirt. Yeah, you're you're very welcome. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming out. So um, we gotta we before we move on, okay. I didn't I just need to ask y'all a question. What's up? Have y'all ever just like had a plan? Like a like a birth plan?

SPEAKER_03 40:34

No.

SPEAKER_05 40:35

Never think that I have. No, never? One time. Never that one time, that one time, and then all of a sudden you're like, you know, I don't I can't, I can't really, I can't really think of a good spot to like have this have this like what is it, water birth going on? Correct. Have you ever seen one of those? I've never seen it, and I kind of don't want to, but in case you don't, in case your brain isn't completely working, it's the water and it floats up to the top. That's kind of strange. I could have did without that, I could have done that visual all day long.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

But if you have a hard time recalling, he's like fine when she gets born because they're in the water.

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SPEAKER_00 42:17

Speaking of the Cincinnati, the Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_05 42:20

Cincinnatians. Cincinnati's guy. What's our what's our topic? Anybody? No one? Is it butts? No, it's definitely not butts. But we're gonna talk about Cincinnati traditions.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

Oh, oh, that's even better.

SPEAKER_05 42:33

Yeah, that is a lot better than talking about butts. I mean, some people might be into it. I don't know. You know, there's I think there's a whole like corner of the internet.

SPEAKER_04 42:45

I think it's more than a corner.

SPEAKER_05 42:47

More than a corner? It's a whole block. Hey, Jenny from the block. Jenny from the block. So Cincinnati Traditions, I think uh, I think we all brought one that we kind of either either we really appreciate, we don't know why they have it, or maybe it was a first for you. Because I just remember the first time I tried Getta, I went to Getta Fest. I dedicated an entire festival to something that I never tried before. And what's crazy about it? And they said, You want to go? I was like, fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

What's crazy about it is you'd pick like pretty much any other state in this country, and you talk about, oh, I love Getta. And they're like, What the fuck is Getta?

SPEAKER_05 43:25

Yeah, Getta is definitely it's it's honestly, I want to say it's like an acquired taste, but because I remember the first time I tried it, I was like, it's my favorite. Maybe by far. You don't like Geta? You love Getta.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Geta.

SPEAKER_05 43:39

Do you like Geta?

SPEAKER_00 43:40

It took me a while to warm up to Geta. I'm not gonna lie. It took me a few tries before I was like, maybe I do like this sometimes under certain circumstances. I mean that's the uh really hot take for me. Um that's a crazy take for me. She said, No, not for me. Sometimes you can maybe elevate breakfast. Like just a little bit with just sometimes with Getta, but like Lisi because I know that like your family isn't originally from here.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Like, did you grow up here or like here's the thing?

SPEAKER_00 44:09

You know what I was just thinking about was I didn't try Geta until my second go-round here. I moved away. Like I moved here, I moved away for quite a bit of years, and then I came back. And that was the first time it was my ex-husband that introduced me to Getta. And also, maybe there's a bias somewhere in there.

SPEAKER_01 44:25

A lot of people probably don't even know Getta exists, and they like that why you wouldn't that left the bad taste in her mouth. I was gonna say, like a lot of people don't nice exactly. Like I said before, a lot of people don't know, like they've never heard of Getta, they have no idea what the fuck that is.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

I lived here for for a few years, for like four years, and then I moved away, and then you came back and was like I never heard of Getta. Like it just wasn't anything that existed for me in my life.

SPEAKER_04 44:54

Really? Would you say that Geta brought you back? That's right. Just by the look on her face.

SPEAKER_05 45:01

Did Geta bring you back? Absolutely not. I'm not a fan of Getta. That's because you're stupid. I mean, well, I wouldn't go that far, but over Getta. What what would you choose?

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Chorizo.

SPEAKER_05 45:14

There's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Yeah, then you're gonna do it. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 45:23

Not with chorizo.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

No. Yeah, no, I get it. I don't like spaghetti. I like white waffles.

SPEAKER_05 45:30

Fair enough. Grizz, how do you feel about ghetto?

SPEAKER_04 45:36

Uh I mean, I haven't had it in a long time. My my grandmother used to make it a lot. Okay. And I kind of got burnt out on it. So that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 45:44

I mean, you don't live, you live like way far away from the rest of us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:48

I live in a land with no getta.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

But I would I would tell you though, like, if you want to make it on your own one day, it's it's not that complicated to make.

SPEAKER_00 45:55

Yeah, it's just like uh just like throw some oats and some meat. Yeah, right. It's an amalgamation of ingredients and maybe some seasoning. Sum that up.

SPEAKER_01 46:05

It's like it's like pork and pork and like some some um seasoning. I can't even think of the name of the seasoning right offhand, but like it's really easy. There's a lot of seasoning, so a lot of pork.

SPEAKER_00 46:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just get sausage, just buy some jimmy dean sausage, and that's kind of extreme. Yeah, buy like a roll of sausage and like roll that in. That's even better.

SPEAKER_04 46:32

You could just buy it from the grocery store. No, literally.

SPEAKER_05 46:35

You just buy it when it's already pre-made, cooked up, ready to serve on a plate. It's crazy. Really? Your dad makes it?

SPEAKER_00 46:43

So so you can't. We just revealed a family thing. Oh no!

SPEAKER_05 46:49

Listen, it's okay. I don't think I don't think it picked it up, but if you want to come up here and tell your dad's microphone and repeat what you just said, she didn't mean it. Okay, so let's go.

SPEAKER_01 47:02

Let's let's names and likenesses have been redacted for the safety of the public. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 47:07

So maybe maybe just change, maybe just change his name. Okay. Smart man. Well, let's let's run down the list here. Um, Grizz, like, what kind of tradition in Cincinnati do you appreciate?

SPEAKER_04 47:22

Yeah. Tell us. Um or don't care for. Or don't care for.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

What are we doing care for either one specifically? Or like no, either one. I think you get to perfect. Can we do can we do either or? Either or.

SPEAKER_04 47:35

Either or. Okay. Let me know. Does it have to be either or?

SPEAKER_00 47:38

I'm so overthinking this over here. You really are. Don't don't complicate this. I'll just prefer. Got it. I'm doing both. Okay, you're doing both can't stop me. Damn, okay.

SPEAKER_04 47:51

We'll have to circle back because I'm just going to focus on the one I like. Okay, let's go. And it's only a recent acquisition of liking. Okay. Because I've never done it before. But I do like the Cincinnati tradition of the flying pig. Of the flying pig. Yeah. I think it's kind of fun. It's a little corny, but it's overall fun.

SPEAKER_05 48:12

What do you mean it's corny?

SPEAKER_04 48:14

I saw people dressed up as pigs. What's wrong with that? That's corny. They do that everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 48:20

That's tradition. That's the whole thing. Yeah, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_04 48:22

That's what I'm saying. Like, that's the corny part. People dressed up at everybody. Yeah, but I didn't mind it, you know. Okay, okay. It was fun.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

Um, especially if you ran it. I don't remember exactly when, but I can definitely remember when like the flying pig became a thing. Yeah. And now it's like like a major it's huge.

SPEAKER_05 48:42

Yeah, it's huge. It's a huge Cincinnati tradition now.

SPEAKER_00 48:44

And you know how strange they thought we were when we just started putting painted pigs on every corner of the city? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:49

Do these pigs have wings?

SPEAKER_00 48:50

That was forever, like 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

That had been forever ago. Those things are everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 48:55

They're everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

I don't work downtown. So I go to all these different locations, and there's like statues of flying pigs everywhere. These people have bought these.

SPEAKER_04 49:04

The pig's got wings. We love it. Crazy tangent. I feel like every city does that now. Really? Yeah, like um, I'm pretty sure Seattle has like salmon statues like painted around because like they're known for salmon.

SPEAKER_05 49:19

That's less than a lot of people. I don't know. Yeah. Well, hey, it could be well be a trend setting city that we're sitting in right now.

SPEAKER_01 49:28

I'm sorry, I don't I don't I don't mean I'm not trying to be like Ruder, but I don't I don't know what river you mean.

SPEAKER_04 49:32

Uh if you go across the Ohio River, okay, um Northern Kentucky has like painted bourbon barrels.

SPEAKER_05 49:41

They do. Yeah, so it's like because they're known for bourbon.

SPEAKER_04 49:44

The painted bourbon barrels. Bourbon barrels, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I feel like it's it's slowly catching on because I've seen like I think Lexington also has like horses. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

They do. They have like a horse fountain and like a big thing.

SPEAKER_05 49:59

They do that may not know. Come on in, don't be don't be shy.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

When it comes to like alcohol. Oh, here it comes. He's coming in. Like champagne is only really champagne if it comes from a very specific region of France. I learned about that recently. And bourbon is only technically bourbon if it comes from a very specific region in Kentucky called Bourbon County. That is true.

SPEAKER_04 50:25

Yeah, but they like soft lifted that because you can buy bourbon made in Oregon now.

SPEAKER_01 50:29

Yeah, that's true, but I'm just saying, like, that's like the standard. Right, right, right. That's fair. So flying pigs flying pigs.

SPEAKER_03 50:40

It is the largest first-time marathon in U.S. isn't it? There you go.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

Because those pigs have been up for like 20 years. Yeah. It wasn't like a first out-of-the-gate thing. It was when they were getting really good.

SPEAKER_04 50:51

I don't like that 1999 was 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_05 50:54

It ages us when we say 1999.

SPEAKER_00 50:57

That was like it. Because 20 years ago was the 90s. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 51:02

I don't love that. We don't talk about that. Let's not talk about that.

SPEAKER_00 51:05

And forever, in my heart and forever, change my mind. Time isn't real.

SPEAKER_05 51:10

I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

Tableton here. What's up?

SPEAKER_05 51:13

You got a Cincinnati tradition that you enjoy, maybe don't like, maybe don't care for?

SPEAKER_04 51:19

Is it flying pigs?

SPEAKER_01 51:21

It gotta be flying pigs. Like I love the flying pig marathon, but I don't like running, so we're not gonna talk about that.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

Um look at this really pink car, real quick. Look at that bad boy. Oh, that is pink. You know what? I stole that. I need everybody to see that brother. I needed that. I need the full stop it.

SPEAKER_05 51:38

Stop the show. Everybody's a pink car.

SPEAKER_01 51:44

It's a pink Mercedes. I saw that person on the way home from work yesterday on I-75.

SPEAKER_05 51:50

Is that your favorite Cincinnati tradition seeing the pink Mercedes?

SPEAKER_01 51:52

No, that's not.

SPEAKER_04 51:54

I like to drive around and have all the pink cars.

SPEAKER_05 51:57

All of the pink cars. So what you got for us, Templeton?

SPEAKER_01 52:00

I don't know if I have. Like you know what? Actually, I do. Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest.

SPEAKER_05 52:06

I love Oktoberfest. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

And I will fucking call off work and take like a date unpaid to do Octoberfest. Okay. Um, I fucking love that. But I do want to point out that like one of my like most favorite like Cincinnati traditions is it doesn't exist anymore, was tall stacks. Tall stacks?

SPEAKER_00 52:32

With the boats. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

When did they end that? When did they when did they stop doing that?

SPEAKER_00 52:40

It was like a boast boat race or something like that, right? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:43

I got busy being like an adult. It's like adulting sucks. Since to provide some context to people who are not from here. Cincinnati has a like major steamboat tradition.

SPEAKER_05 52:59

Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

SPEAKER_01 53:01

And for like as long as I can remember, they had like an annual event called Tallstacks where they would have like steamboats come and you could like look at them and they would race and all that stuff. It was really cool. And they eventually stopped doing it. I think it was because people stopped coming. But it was fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_00 53:24

No, I feel like we used to have a really big, like a bigger enthusiasm for boats because BB Riverboats also used to make a fucking killing around.

SPEAKER_05 53:32

That's very true.

SPEAKER_00 53:34

So river used to be.

SPEAKER_05 53:36

I know they still exist, but like do you all go to BNB River Boat River boats at all? Not at all. I do remember that, yeah, back in the day. Which is which is very strange. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

Unless we're just like out of the circle now.

SPEAKER_05 53:53

We very well could be, because you know, getting older and doing life. Maybe it's some secret. You fall behind on a lot of things. Are we old?

SPEAKER_01 54:04

We are very old. Is that is that what we're is that what we're saying right now? We're old? I was talking to somebody about this recently, and I do want to point out that people like want to like point at Cincinnati and say, like, it's a boring city to live in. There's nothing to do. Oh. There's plenty to do. I was going to there's so much. Exactly that. I was gonna say, like, what do you what can you do here? Or can't what can't you do here that you can do at any other place? Go to the beach. Like, there's no beach. There's no other than that, what else was there? I mean Walt Disney World. Call the beach. Or go to Walt Disney World. Correct. We don't have beaches, we don't have oceans, but what else can you not do? I mean, you can climb a hill, right?

SPEAKER_03 54:43

No, we do have do you do you enjoy doing that kind of stuff? What beach? Like mountain climbing and what's like mountain spots. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:51

I mean, that's we do have some good hiking spots around here. Yes, we do. But if you like it, you're gonna get sick of it pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_01 54:57

If you want to go hiking, if you want to go mountain climbing, how far do you have to drive from Cincinnati?

SPEAKER_03 55:03

At least I maybe an hour to West Virginia, in my opinion. Sorry, you go out in Red River Gorge. Maybe an hour. Oh, Red River Gorge.

SPEAKER_04 55:10

Red River Gorge. Yeah, you go to Red River Gorge. No, it's an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

Two hours.

SPEAKER_03 55:14

Yeah, hour and a half, two hours. So one of the coolest things that I've done in my lifetime is I went to Montana and I actually did mountain biking. I went, I actually did it. Literally stop talking. Yeah, like it was it was crazy. He said, he said, I have heard enough. I did uh actual mountain biking. It took me probably three hours to get to the top of this mountain and 15 minutes to get down it. It was just it was insane. How long ago was this, though?

SPEAKER_05 55:44

I need to know because I know it wasn't like last year.

SPEAKER_00 55:47

Crazy ratio. He was heating himself off the shot.

SPEAKER_04 55:50

His numbers were inflated.

SPEAKER_03 55:51

No brakes, all gas, no brakes on the way down. Obviously, I'm over-exaggerating on the 15 minutes, but like the crazy thing is like 15 minutes. Like there's parts where you gotta like pick up the bike a little bit or whatever, and it just takes time to get to the top of the mountain. And it like I said, it the time was definitely cut in half coming down because you're just you're just going.

SPEAKER_05 56:12

I don't know how I feel about that. Like honestly, yeah, it's it's holding them brakes. Throw it over my shoulder.

SPEAKER_03 56:22

Yeah, I don't have brakes if I did white water wrapping. Um it was it was it was probably one of the best outings I've had with an out in the wilderness ever. Probably. Well, that's pretty dope. And you asked when did I do this? Yeah, when did you do that? Probably 09. He didn't. That was a while ago.

SPEAKER_05 56:46

That was a while ago. Yeah, it was when you were young and fit. Yeah, when you can actually make that happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so I want I want I want you to gauge it right now where you at. Could you do it now?

unknown 57:00

No, you go.

SPEAKER_03 57:01

No. So I think the time to get up the mountain would be like seven hours, eight hours.

SPEAKER_00 57:09

And it's possible.

SPEAKER_03 57:11

I'll meet you at the summit. I would need to be dropped off via helicopter.

SPEAKER_05 57:18

I will meet you at the summit. I'll see y'all up there. That's crazy. You can take the gondola up and then just bring the series. Yeah. I don't know. I would just have to throw that thing over my shoulder and just like walk, essentially. Why don't you bring the bike? I don't know. For when my legs get tired. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 57:36

This is another accept my fate moment. I died in the wilderness.

SPEAKER_05 57:40

Accept your fate or run. Just hop on the bike. Just hop on the bike. Okay, well, Yeti, thank you for the story.

SPEAKER_03 57:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 57:47

But since you want to like, you know, you want to take your turn? You got a Cincinnati tradition that you think I do.

Taste Of Cincinnati And Chili Loyalties

SPEAKER_03 57:52

Do you think you do? I think so. Hell yeah. So I like to taste Cincinnati. Oh, that is a good one. I like to taste Cincinnati. Crazy, isn't it? It is. It is. Yeah, it's come it comes out. Yeah. It's usually pretty pretty hot when it comes out. Well, what would you say Cincinnati tastes like? Wait, what? Dirty. Like dirty water.

SPEAKER_06 58:16

What did you ask?

SPEAKER_04 58:19

Did you ask what Cincinnati tastes like? Cincinnati likes the taste of Cincinnati. So I said, what would you say?

SPEAKER_01 58:24

That's a fair question. That's a much worse question. Catfish. No, no, no, no. Kissing heroin.

SPEAKER_05 58:34

Bottom dwellers.

SPEAKER_03 58:35

Speaking of catfish, would you guys eat fish out of the Ohio?

SPEAKER_05 58:39

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

Out of the Ohio. If I wanted to accept my fate, I would. We're right back to the here's the thing.

SPEAKER_05 58:47

If you eat it, me see, you can't run from it. We all know how Spider-Man got his powers, right? So you're risking it. What kind of powers do you get? I was gonna say what kind of powers do you get from a cat? You just grow some whiskers.

SPEAKER_04 59:01

Some gills. Mermaid, man.

SPEAKER_05 59:05

Crazy. So so taste of Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_03 59:09

Yeah, so what I like about it is obviously it's it's all the local uh shops and what stops and whatnot. They all get together and they have that festival, and you're able to go down there. And what I enjoy about it is everyone in the group gets something small, y'all share them, and you get it to taste pretty much anything and everything that Cincinnati really has to offer. From Cincinnati, like Skyline Chili.

SPEAKER_05 59:30

Or Skyline.

SPEAKER_01 59:31

You know what's funny to me is like the only person who actually lives in Cincinnati in this group is me, but we still all love this city.

SPEAKER_05 59:41

Yeah, yeah. But Skyline. Let's let's let's circle back to Skyline. Okay, okay. Who likes Skyline? Show of hands. Skyline. But round of applause. Who likes Skyline? Really? That's more that's more than I am. But it's not my favorite. Okay. What about Gold Star?

SPEAKER_01 59:56

No, I like Gold Star, but it's not my favorite.

SPEAKER_05 59:58

Eh, really?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

Really? Oh, you're you're no, no.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:03

Thank you. Thank you. Right there. Excuse me? No. Gold Star is definitely a step up from Skyline. I believe.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:09

I didn't know there were so many fans of dirty meat sauce.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:12

No, there were so many people that no Dixie meat sauce. Have you had dirty meat sauce on a coney though? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:19

Honestly, I can't even hang out. Loaded with a mountain of cheese? Stadium conies are like the best, objectively.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:25

Like you live in Christmas, correct?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:27

Yeah, as far as I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:28

Have you ever heard of Dixie Chili?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:30

I have heard of Dixie Chili. Enough said.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:34

Is that your favorite?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:35

Dixie chili? Really?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

Shit's all over and gold songs. What's up, Gris? We're ranking a scale of disgustingness.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:44

When did we start calling it dirty chili?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:46

Meat ever since Meatheat called it dirty chili.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:49

It's called dirty meat chili.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:50

Dirty meat.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:51

Sorry, my bad. Sauce.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

Dirty meat sauce. Dirty meat sauce. You gotta say it right. Yeah, you gotta say it right.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:56

That's what it is. It's dirty meat.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:58

But I'm offended by it. I mean, you know, everybody has their opinion about it. So I want to know, Yeti, when did you actually start liking Skyline? If I remember correctly, it was almost immediately out of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:10

Immediately was my official answer for him, actually.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:13

Like expeditiously. Like the moment he ate it, he was like, Yeah, this is this is my chili. Love it first bite.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:19

It was during the football season. Love it first bite. And we all had the team dinners the Thursday before the game. Yeah. And the people were having it at uh Skyline. And everyone's like, hey, have you ever had a Coney? Like, what's a Coney? And then they had it like made it a big secret. They were like, no one tell them what a Coney is. It's gonna be epic. It's gonna blow your mind. And so I go to this team dinner and they prep it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:43

It's gonna blow your mind, is what they told me. Then they gave them Skyline.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:48

Because mind not blown.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:53

A chili dog.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:54

That's all it is. It's the same thing, just changing name.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:57

That's that's actually crazy. I mean, I liked it ever since I had it. I mean, it was ever from yep, just from first bite. Yeah, feeling good and hungry.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

Sorry, Dick, that was your like that's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:11

It was that is I that it was fine, but it was funny though, because I was like, yo, this is just a chili talk, guys. Why do you guys call it a coney? And no one really gave me a definite answer of why.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:20

I I don't know how I don't know how I feel about it. I mean, you know what? There's an ass for every chair, as I've as I've been saying for a long time. And if you love Skyline, I will never yuck your yum, okay? Thank you. You're welcome. I will. Why did both of you say thank you?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:35

Disgusting.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:36

That's actually crazy. Uh yeah, I'll have to try Dixie Chili. Miss Meeseeks. I will have to try Dixie Chili. I've never had Dixie Chili. I can actually say that with full confidence. I've never had Dixie Chili. I've made it once.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

Audience knows Dixie is the shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:53

Audience is absolutely fed up with me right now. So I got a question: is the canned Dixie Chili any better than the actual restaurant?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:02

Yeah, do you recommend going to the restaurant over buying it at like Kroger or if they're gonna make it right?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

I'd rather have it there. So it goes to the country. So just the can will suffice.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:18

Alright, I'm I'll have to get a can and report. For sure. For sure. Yeah, we'll have to we'll have to try out some Dixie chili and see how it see how it turns out. Four ways or just some regular conies? What?

SPEAKER_06 1:03:29

Chili cheese fries.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:30

Oh, chili cheese fries. Chili cheese fries. Or or as Miss Meese would say, dirty meat sauce fries. Yo, can you imagine putting that on the menu?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:39

So disgusted by this whole conversation. Why?

unknown 1:03:42

So disgusted.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:43

Dirty meat sauce, skyline, dirty meat sauce, feeling good and hungry.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:46

Her facial expression during every word that came out of Yeti's mouth. Really?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:50

Just disgusted, huh? Disgusted with Yeti. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:53

Well, the can suffice. He said can, and she goes, I mean, well, who doesn't like it in the can, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:01

What are we talking about? So, like if you go to PF Changs, and do you get PF Changs in a can, or do you want PF Changs at the question too? But then what was even crazier? What was even crazier and told me all I needed to know about the quality of Cincinnati style chili is when he was like, I mean, if they make it right, it's all trash.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:21

So, real quick, Miss Meese screen did something behind you. It's got a picture of a dog or something. Oh shit. Does that mean we've been on too long?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:32

It says it was gonna end in five minutes. We actually had four minutes and 32 seconds. Oh, okay. Okay, very nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:38

Very nice. My my my apologies. I just seen the picture of a dog pop up.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:41

But honestly, great eye.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:42

Yeah, I just seen the picture of a dog pop up, and I just wanted to see what that was about. Listen, I don't do TikTok lives.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:48

So honestly, I don't either. I'm really good for the gold.

unknown 1:04:55

Yeah.

Opening Day As A Real Holiday

SPEAKER_05 1:04:56

Okay, so Miss Misics.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:57

What's up?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:58

Do you have a Cincinnati tradition that you appreciate?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:01

Dislike? Indifferent to? Boy, do I. So I think we covered my dislike on the last topic. So thanks, Yeti. No problem.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:08

Covered that. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:11

My favorite tradition of all time. This is actually opening day. Oh, okay. Okay, yeah, yeah. Cannot be topped. You can't change my mind about it. It's like the kickoff to outside season. It's beautiful. It is a beautiful experience. I got this sick ass, like heavy twisted T chain. Okay. This year, I should have worn it here. What an L.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:33

Yeah, you should have. I wanna I wanna like add to that. Like I fucking love Opening Dam. Although the Reds always had. But I work downtown and Opening Dam makes my job five times more difficult.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:53

Yeah, sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:56

But baseball. Honestly, it's a lit time for me. So like it is it makes it so much harder, and there's so many more people.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:07

That's okay, it's just a challenge.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:08

Yeah, I'm not decent. Yeah, I mean I hate the holidays because of my job. Right, right, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:14

I'm just saying, like, as much as I love the Reds, and as much as I'll have opening days, that is a counterpoint.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:22

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:23

No, that's bad. Okay. So, Miss Meeseeks, when did when did you oh I'm sorry, go a go ahead, Yeti.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:29

I've never been to opening days.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:30

Neither have I.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

Oh my gosh. Have y'all been to opening days? Those tickets are so expensive.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:36

Oh yeah. You don't like baseball?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

The game, you do. There's plenty of festivity.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:42

I'm talking about you think baseball's boring.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:45

Have you oh you watched it recently? So they've done a lot of changes for the game to really speed it up. It makes scoring easier. And so you get higher scoring game, which in turn I think makes it a little bit more interesting. So if you haven't, I suggest giving it another shot because you might enjoy it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:06

And as a crazy baseball fan, the athleticism of this season has been crazy. It has it has been making have been crazy, and there's so many fights. It's like hockey season right now. Clear them benches.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:21

The bench clearing brew.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:26

Absolutely. Or the or the arguments with the um like yes, no, no, no, my favorite fights are like when it is a like football game and you're losing by so much, and like the Raiders swing on somebody.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:38

I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:41

I love it. I love it. Just like a good full adrenaline moment, especially when it's building, when they've kind of been jaw jacking like the whole time and it's building, and finally something good happens. You're like, oh, thank you for that. It's fantastic.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:54

It's the gratification of everything that was happening. Yeah, building up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:59

It doesn't happen in every game, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:02

Okay, to be fair though, it takes a while to get to that point sometimes. So you kind of have to, you know, sift through the boring parts if that's okay with you. He said, I'll catch he'll I'll catch on ESPN tomorrow.

unknown 1:08:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:15

If you're like a baseball fan, that's probably all you need, honestly.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I gotta agree with you. Like back in the day, I used to hate baseball. It was long, it was boring. Because like games used to take like four or five hours, it felt like sometimes the win one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I okay. I'm telling you, these changes in the scores, you it's pretty often that you get teams.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:38

Yeah, they now have like pitch timers and stuff like that. Like you can't catch.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:42

Yeah, they got timers now, so they can just can't stand on the back mound and wait. Like, they got like I want to say it's like 80 seconds to like pitch the ball or something. It's something crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:52

But yeah, it's it's definitely sped up and it's it's yeah, they they they have made quite a few changes to the game of baseball.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:58

So I would say just the tradition in Cincinnati about it, like Cincinnati being one of the first major league baseball teams. Yep, and Cincinnati really does it right on opening day, like it is legitimately like a holiday. Me and me and my girls, I got on a group chat once that happened. I am I'm outside a lot in Cincinnati, so I had a few DJs that were like, where are you stopping on opening day? Come through. Like, it is a whole party down here. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:24

So I am way off on the pitcher time.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:27

Oh I don't know. It's like 25 seconds. Yeah, so okay, so yeah, I knew you were very far off. Yes. 2023 was hard to finish lift the ball.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:34

He doesn't watch a lot of baseball.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:37

But the bases are empty, and then 18 to 20 if there's runners.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:41

Yeah, it's a tighter time.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:42

Yeah, I don't like step on basics too much. But do want to point out that not only is Cincinnati like like one of the first like opening day teams, but they are the first opening day teams because they they are the first professional Major League baseball team that ever existed, right? Um dropping knowledge on you. There used to be a day. There used to be a you knew that where yeah, I think that's kind of the whole thing. Cthulhu Red's opening day was the opening day for the MLB. Well, some people probably did. Like our opening day is basically a holiday.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:28

And it honestly should be treated as such, because a lot of people do take that day off.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:32

Every year, and then it's collapse with the sweet 16 games for March Madness. Let me be super official here. It is always on a Thursday, and I set up for opening day, and then my night goes into some March Madness basketball. It's a beautiful thing, dopamine hits all over the place. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:49

I got you things about because are you you go to the uh parade and and everything else? What are some of the things of opening day that you like?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:58

It's just the vibe, like the community, and like it's truly for me the kickoff of the season, right? Right? Like the seasonal depressions finally lifting. I'm being so heroic, it's finally getting warm outside, like, and it is just a sense of community. I went down, I and you start a little early, right? Like we went to a breakfast, we went to this spot in Clifton called Hangover Easy. Then we went down to such a good spot, right? Then we went down to the banks and just people vibe together. We did have an unfortunate incident down at the banks uh later on an opening day, but I think that's also just poor city management a little bit. We also had a concert down at Heritage Bank. It's a lot of people you have like hundreds of thousands of people converging on a single space, right? So, from a planning and logistics perspective, can Cincinnati do better? Sure, whatever. But it's still so much fun, and it's just this sense of like community, and then if it's if you're lucky you win this year, I went to opening day and we played the Red Sox in our opening series, and I flew up to Boston the very next day, and I was up there in my Cincinnati gear, and we took the series. We won the the next we lost the first day, but we took the series, and I was at a Boston bar in my Cincinnati gear when we swept when we took the series, and people were talking so much shit. Like people were like, Oh, you just happen to be here in your Cincinnati gear. Yeah, well, specifically because you're from Boston.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:26

Fix your accent, bro. It was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:29

Fix your accent. Good feeling, good feeling to be up there.

WEBN Fireworks Crowds And Drone Shows

SPEAKER_05 1:12:32

Okay, very nice, very nice. Knock so so I want to kind of pose this question for y'all out here in the bar. You got any Cincinnati traditions you like? You care for? You used to like the WEBN fireworks. Okay, why why used to?

unknown 1:12:52

I don't like crowds.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:52

You don't like crowds. Amen. Yeah, that's that that can be a big turnoff.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:58

Because as I've gotten older, I think I've tended to get away from the crowds. Like I'm cool being in smaller gatherings and and whatnot, but if there's a crowd, like I'm good.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:12

Rab it up, rab it up, we gotta go home. There's also just a crazy more, like a bigger concentration of people in the area. Like that's true, just in general, right? You see it stacking up, like you go across the river, you think about the metro, right? You go across the river, and just Florence is packed, Covington is packed, everything that used to be, oh, I'm not going all the way out there, is just kind of part of the city almost at this point. Right. Like it's part of and that's and and like take take warning labels off. Take warning labels off, and we're solving a lot of problems, okay?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:48

Like, say you have the WBN fireworks, this is like an annual event, it's been happening since before any of us were even born to get from like the river to Florence is like a 20-ish minute drive based on traffic during that event well over an hour, easily, huh?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:13

So, yeah, crowd, crowds are a huge turnoff for sure for a lot of people. Wow, and I do remember growing up, uh, everybody went to the WDBM fireworks. It was like the thing to do. If you didn't go, you were probably lame. And eventually I was just kind of like, I don't give a fuck, I'm lame.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:30

So when was the last time you think you went to the WEBM fireworks? To the fireworks?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:36

Oh my COVID. God. It's been I think that they stopped doing them, didn't they?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:42

No, this is I'd probably I'd probably say I was 17 or 18 when I went last time I went to the WEB and fireworks. Yeah, yeah. It's been it's been it's been a hot minute.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:52

And the the very first WEBN fireworks took place August 30th, 1977.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:58

1977? They've been around for a while.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:02

That is they have been when they were like walking across the royal.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:05

Yeah, that's what that's what they were doing.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:07

I mean, it is really it's a really fun event because it's not just like the fireworks. There's like a whole festival, and there's events, and there's booths and there's food and all kinds of stuff, but like the the fireworks are like the main event.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:23

So, what do you say was the last time you went to the fireworks? Asking our audience, by the way. I think he's doing quick maths. 2013?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:44

So about about 15 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:46

Yeah, so yeah, yeah, rough roughly That's probably about the last time that I like it's been some years since I've been to I think the thing is everybody loves the fireworks, but nobody likes to crow. Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:58

Yeah, because I can also go to Villa Hills, like also like for a real long time. I was just going to a friend's apartment in Villa Hills that overlooked the river anyway. Right. That's what I and so that's what I think we do. You can just have a house party and get the same effect with people you actually.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:15

Yeah, yeah, and that kind of that kind of pulls you away from it.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:20

You know, the front and watch it from there, and then just a couple years into it, I was like, you know what? Let's let's just do some house parties.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:28

I think the novelty starts to wear off. Like, I think there's some things you should do in Cincinnati at least once. Like I think you should go to opening day. I think you should go to an opening day game. I think you should do all of these things, but it can get really old. It's taxing to do a lot of these things on a regular basis. Indeed.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:44

Now, what I would think about Cincinnati is it's the culture. It isn't like the people, it isn't the things, it isn't the events, it isn't the teams or whatever, it's the culture that comes along with it. It doesn't there's nowhere else in the country like that. I'm not saying it's better or worse than anything else, it's just different.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:05

Right. Now, one thing I would like to do is like with the WD and fireworks, fireworks as a whole is changing. Yeah, they're starting to use drones, yeah, and you're losing the fireworks.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:20

That's very true.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:21

And now I would like to honestly, they did. I would like to see one now firsthand, because it is different to see that kind of stuff firsthand versus TV, just to see what it looks like first.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:34

Okay, Seattle does drone shows.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:37

See, so that's where I'm at. Because it's like when that is that not the allure of fireworks, like the big explosions, and the ooze and the odds. The waterfall yeah, yeah, that was that was that was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:52

That was one of the coolest things I'd have.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:53

That was that was that was really neat that year, but it just when you do drone shows, fireworks always hurt my ears. I'm a very like audible type of person, so I always need like some noise canceling headphones. I used to be real afraid of fireworks. I used to have to go out during any pyrotechnix.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:07

So if you add that to the mix, think about how many people they're they're they're inclusion, yeah. You're including more people, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:15

It's 2026, baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:17

So then so then do you still call them the EBN or W EBN fireworks, or do you just call them Fireflies Fireflies?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:25

So just so we're clear, they're probably gonna take that stolen, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:30

Stolen. I don't know anybody that's ever not called them just the fireworks.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:34

Right, but I mean if you're if you if you go away from fireworks, they're no longer fireworks.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:39

That's very true. That's very true. That's that's that's tough. That's tough because if you still incorporate the fireworks, you know what I mean? I if if I had to guess, they'd probably do like half fireworks, half drone, maybe, or something like that, some kind of split. But I don't know. I don't know. What you got? I said fireflies is a great name. It is a great name, The Last of Us. So they probably couldn't use that anyway. Um you got a tradition from not re not really? Nothing? Nothing at all. Dang, that's tough. Well, anybody else got any other traditions?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:19

I do have to take a quick break real fast, so pardon me. What break are you taking?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:25

Yeah, we are nosy. We have people listening. What the frig, brother? Yeah, lit.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:34

Anyway, I didn't say shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:36

How about y'all back there? You got a tradition in Cincinnati you like? That you love? A tradition in Cincinnati that you're you're kind of like really a fan of?

SPEAKER_06 1:19:45

Or opening day parade?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:52

That's kind of what she was talking about. You want to come up here and kind of give your thoughts on it? Or I got a microphone right here for you. Zero thoughts. Have you ever been to the opening day parade? A few times? And what was what was the vibe like when you were there? You're ready to get hurt again. That is a Cincinnati, yeah, that's a Cincinnati tradition. Absolutely. So I take it you're you're a Reds fan, yeah? Let's go, let's go. I got the jacket here too. Listen, one year, one year we will get we'll we'll get a ring, right? The Bengals will absolutely they'll get us there. They've made a lot of moves, man. They have made a lot of moves. But being a Reds fan, being heartbroken, opening day, opening day parade, I mean, do you take the day off for that? Do you think it should be treated like a holiday? That's fair. Yep, that's fair. Just kind of does it just kind of align with your schedule that you just wind up off? Is that on is that by design, or is it like it just kind of happens?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:17

Okay, okay, okay. Did you go to opening day this year? Oh my god, it was so beautiful. It didn't rain for like the first time ever. It was so good. You really missed out. Not to rub you not to rub that in for you. That's funny.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:43

But I'm like, yeah, yeah. We're taking the day off. Yeah, the city shuts down. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's how that's how it's gonna work. That's how it's gonna work. And especially if we are in the Super Bowl, kind of like uh, you know, a few years ago that we don't like to talk about with the Rams and everything. Yeah, it was very disappointing. We still had to go to work and we were all heartbroken. Yeah, it was it was it was tough. It's tough being a Cincinnati fan, no matter which way you go. Now, I do know FC Cincinnati does great things. Your face does great things. You bet your ass my face does great things. But FC Cincinnati is fan is fantastic. Cyclones games. Cyclones are a lot of fun. They are cyclones games are a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:32

I don't know if they're good or not, but the games are banging. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:38

For sure, for sure. But but is that it? Any other traditions in Cincinnati that you might care for? Oktoberfest? Get a fest? It's not like food stuff. I've seen that. I see I've seen the sign. And literally, we just had a whole topic about Skyline versus Gold Star. Skyline or Gold Star? That's a tough question. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:11

Really? That's a good answer.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:13

That's a good answer.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:14

How do you feel about that, Yeti? Go Skyline.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:17

He's a loyalist. He's a Skyline purist.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:21

Give me the restaurant.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:23

Yeti does make a good Skyline chili dip. Like, he makes a fantastic Skyline dip. Like, it's it's yeah, I mean, you're right, it's not hard, but you'd be surprised how many people fuck up Skyline chili dip. So yeah, you're right. It's Skyline, it's not gold star.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:40

Skyline household and we don't say that.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:42

What? Gold star? Yes. We don't talk, we don't say GS. That's that's just not what we do. Okay, well, I appreciate I appreciate you. Pleasant Ridge Chili? Just up the road, yeah. Yeah, I've never had that either.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:57

It's really cute little place, too.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:59

It tastes just like Skyline. So Pleasant Ridge Chili. It sounds like I've got some places to stop after this show, is what I'm hearing. Okay. Okay, okay. Because the game plan was good, fellas, but now I'm thinking Pleasant Ridge Chili. Hey, PRC, he even got it, he even got a name for it. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Okay, okay. Uh, anybody else at the bar got a tradition from Cincinnati? They're willing to I think I think their trip favorite tradition is the flying pig. They just don't want to talk about it. You got you guys do the flying pig at all this year? Or not at all? Not interested. I know somebody who did. You did it a couple years ago? Okay. Why why haven't you returned back? Did you run and do and find find out running is not your thing? Ah. Okay. Valid.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:58

Valid. One more point for him. We were talking about that earlier.

Cincinnati Trivia Round Two Live

SPEAKER_05 1:25:06

Yeah. For sure. Yeah, because you're going to have to do that. Hey, man, write them down. Write them down. Grizz, write that down. Okay. Alright. So anybody else got any traditions they want to share? Is that it? So Cincinnati Traditions, those of you listening again, we are live here at the Overlook Lodge. If you want to stop by, have some fun, listen to us chit-chat a little bit. I think we're going to go round two of trivia. I think we got, I think we might have two people back here that might want some uh merch, though. Y'all, y'all, y'all interested in some merch? Interested in some merchandise that we have here? Because we're going to do some trivia. We got five questions. Okay. And if you get it right, you get a shirt. You cool with that? Come on, come on, come on up here. That's right. Get closer.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:57

We love a relocation though. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:03

Yeah, come on, come on, make it make yourself comfortable. Now, as you can see, we have so many people just biting at the, you know, chomping at the bit to come up here and talk to us. Um, what we're gonna do here is we're gonna, like I said, we're gonna ask five questions. If you get it right, you get a shirt. Um, we did have a talking stick, unfortunately, nobody's gotten to use it. So, which what you would have done is you would have came up, grabbed the talking stick, whoever had it. You gotta sit in front of the microphone and give your answer, and then we can give you give you your merch. You know. So, but since we have a small crowd here, here's what we're gonna do. How long have you lived in Cincinnati? All your life? So, do you think do you think uh you think you know plenty about the city of Cincinnati? Okay. No, no, no, no, it's all good. It's all good. Yeah. He's like I'm a Cincinnati expert. Misses every question. It's okay. Listen, no pressure. All right, we'll we'll start with. I don't know if this is an easy one, but let's ask this question. Born and raised in Over the Rhine, Ronald Howes got the idea for his kitty cuisine invention after watching street vendors use heat lamps to keep their food piping hot. What name did he give the classic children's cooking toy?

unknown 1:27:31

Easy bake oven.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:32

That's my man right there. Easy bake oven. Oh my god. Let's go. Are you gonna give it to him? Okay, so it's a purse each other. Oh, yeah, it's it's for it's for whoever answers first. So we have some merch. We got we got large and extra large shirts. We got long sleeve and short sleeve. Your choice.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:51

What do you take a large long sleeve?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:55

Large long sleeve. Should have should have one up in there. Oh no, not teams. Not teams. It's cut it's cutthroat competition out here, man. That is the name of our podcast there. FMJ podcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:14

The artwork. The artwork is done by that gentleman right there.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:20

Yeah, by our guy Grizz. That's right. That is Yep. That is all handmade. We do have some stickers. Oh, he's gonna put it on now. That's what I'm talking about. Rock our stuff, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:30

I really love your commitment to our shower.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:31

For sure. Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. You know what? Wear it all night. That's my challenge. Okay. Yeah, we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll know who are who the real fans are, right? Alright, next, next question. Oh, look, our audience has gotten so big. Okay, Ted the Ribbs King Gregory founded what legendary Cincinnati area barbecue joint in 1951. Montgomery in, let's go! What size shirt you want? I had no idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:06

Large shirt.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:09

Large short sleeve. You got okay, okay, okay. Oh yeah? Are they great? They fit, they fit nice. Okay, comfortable? Uh just says podcast on the side there. Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, you're about you're about to be you're about to be walking around the city in style, my dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:33

These two are gonna go home and they're gonna be like, how's your night?

SPEAKER_05 1:29:35

And then they're gonna be like, Yo, look at this merch we won.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:40

I want to have great house.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:42

Hey, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. And if you're and if you're curious, this episode will be aired Monday morning around 6 a.m. just so just so we know. Um next question we got which suspension bridge in Cincinnati was designed by the same architect as NYC's Brooklyn Damn, let me audience.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:03

Okay, look how nonchalant you are still didn't break a sweat. Right, next question. Light work.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:12

So what would what would you prefer? I mean, you swept the first round, so I mean we'll do another long sleeve. Long sleeve. What size? What size? Okay, okay.

unknown 1:30:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:30

Oh, there we go. You got it, you got it? Okay, very nice, very nice. Is that three down? Is that three down? Two to go? It's it's let's see, let's see if uh somebody can get some more merch over here or over here, maybe. Who knows? It is on Spotify. You can find us on Spotify, iHeartRadio, really anywhere that you download your favorite podcast. But yeah, take a find us, follow us. Followed. My man, my man. All right, so our next question for some merch, for some winners here. Let's see what happens. What product was invented as a wall cleaner in the 1930s before being marketed as a fun craft to Cincinnati elementary schools? What'd you say? My guy, he's just he's a Cincinnati king over here. That's impressive. Yeah, I listen, I didn't know about that. Yeah, Mr.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:26

Clean.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:26

Was it really? Magic!

SPEAKER_00 1:31:31

The confidence was on a hundredth.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:33

Yeah, that's that's wild. You do another sticker? Sticker perfect, perfect, perfect.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:40

He said, I'll save some shirts for another people from Miss Cincinnati and to the rest of the world. You're welcome. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:48

Oh, is that what happened? Said, hey, those are our shirts they're giving away. That's fair. Okay, last question. And I'm I am Are you sure? Are you sure? Do we want to utilize the talking stick at this point? See if there's a mad rush to the talking stick and see who can get there first. We could we can give it a try. All right, yeah, let's see.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:12

I kind of I kind of want to see this happen. So for this down. You can only answer if you grab the stick.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:17

That's kind of what I'm going for. So the last so for this class one, we're gonna try this out. The first person to the talking stick, you got it, you gotta flip it once because we gotta hear it, right? Because, you know, just for shits and gigs. And then you gotta come over here to the microphone and give your answer, and then we will give you your prize. So, last question we're gonna ask. Because of a prominent Pepsi advertisementslash sponsorship, the Python roller coaster in Cincinnati has often been known as the Pepsi Python. Since 1999, the Steel Coaster has been located at what amusement park in Cincinnati that shares its name with a famous New York boardwalk in Brooklyn neighborhood. Gotta flip it. Let's go. Go ahead, grab the microphone there. If you want to state your name. What is Coney Island? Oh my god, we got a winner. We got a winner. Give Joe a round of applause. All right, what do you what do you want, Joe? Another shirt? You want a sticker? So you can slap it on a fridge or a light pole? Short sleeve shirt, it is.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:22

Ooh, I like them.

Would You Rather Pixie Dust Or Sticky

SPEAKER_05 1:33:23

Optional. Extra large? Large? Okay, okay. Absolutely. Absolutely. You have somebody in mind you want to hand it to? I work hard for this. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. You're like, you know what? Get your own. Yeah, you can let them know. Hey, if you want this shirt, get your own. Next time they do a live event, go over there and answer some questions, right? Put some work in. There you go. Like and subscribe. All right. So that ends our second round of trivia. We're gonna have one more at the end of the show here. Um, just to kind of we had enough for that. We wanted to be prepared for it. So um, but next thing we want to talk about is a fun in games, which is typically if you haven't listened, we just kind of do we've we've been having a lot of fun with uh uh uh would you rather questions. So this will go for you guys as well. Y'all, would you rather shed pixie dust or stick to every surface?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:25

How often am I shedding pixie dust?

SPEAKER_05 1:34:28

That's a valid question. It is a valid question. Um it doesn't really like specify, but I would just assume kind of like uh like your natural dead skin just follow up. I'm magical as fuck. It's pixie dust. It's pixie dust every single time. Okay, whimsical and magical as fuck to every surface to every surface. So kind of be like Spider-Man, but it doesn't specifically say that you can like choose at will like what you stick to. Right, but I don't like right now, you're sticking on the couch. Right now you're sticking to the couch.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:55

Did you know specifically?

SPEAKER_03 1:34:59

Or you get up and there's just a pile of pick chick pixie dust.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:03

Fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:04

Like, like imagine scratching your head and pixie dust just falling out. That's worse than dandruff. It could be glittery. You want to carry a toll in the assholde?

SPEAKER_04 1:35:16

Either way, you're cleaning up a mess, so be sparkles.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:21

Because everybody would hate me for Pixie Dust.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:26

I think to be clear, I'm a woman.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:29

There's Joe, there's Jonas Pixie Dusty from there. We know who that was.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:37

Sticking to me. If you're gonna pick something up and you're like, why is this sticky? That's very true.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:45

Yeah, that that's very true.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:46

I've been leaving glitter behind since like 1988. So, like, so Pixie Dust.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:53

Equivalent to equivalent to glitter. Is that what's the shoes? Okay. If you played football, anything that touched your hand would stick to you, right? I mean, essentially, yes. Isn't that cheating? I mean, not if it's like natural, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:04

Not if it's you know, you're the best receiver ever.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:08

Yeah, sticking to the field. Well, okay, do we count yeah? I was gonna say, do we count the shoes? Yeah, there's a layer of the side.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:21

I still think I'm leaning to split hand the ball.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:24

Isn't that crazy? They're like, Can you please let go of the ball, sir? I can't.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:32

That was on Little Giants. It was. It's a big one.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:38

Like, I don't like Pixie.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:40

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's one of my favorite movies, honestly. He said, but coach, it looked like I jacked off an elephant.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:47

Have you ever touched a toddler and you're like, Why are you sticky?

SPEAKER_05 1:36:51

I mean, yeah. I can't get my baby off because it's stuck in my hand. So, Grizz, you you you were pondering here. Yeah, pixie dust.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:59

I think pixie dust, because I want to be. I just want people to. I mean, you would be hated.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:06

Yeah, you would be hated.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:07

But I like what Miss Misek said about like just being magical.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:14

Okay, be being whimsical.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:16

I got you. And I like people knowing that I've been there. That you've been there?

SPEAKER_00 1:37:20

Oh, absolutely. Imagine popping up.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:24

Oh, yeah, they will they will know that you're there if you stick to them. Like you shake their hand and now you can't let go.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:29

Just bump into them, and you're like, well, I'm here for the life. And now wherever you're going, I'm going.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:34

My name is Grizz, and now we're forever, forever.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:38

Instant friends, let's go. Let's go. Okay, well, well, that y'all, y'all pixie dust or sticky pixie dust. Easy. Okay, easy peasy. All right, well, that's always fun. I would rather I'd rather stick to things. Kind of do a kind of do a Spider-Man thing. You know what I'm saying? Just like scaling a wall. Like, are we serious?

SPEAKER_00 1:37:58

It's also giving slimy, I guess. Like, I'm associating like stickiness.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:03

Well, like a slug?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:04

Sliminess. And that's not great for me. You're a mom. That's how I live anyway. Yeah, my kids been slimy for seven years. So you should be used to it. But you wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:17

And I don't like it if you were slimy. Because I would just be your next one.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:20

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_04 1:38:20

No, I think you would know. I think you would know. Why are you sticky? Just like you know what you're doing for seven months.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Your your father telling you that you'll grow hair on your eyes if you continue doing that. He's like, son, you keep doing that, you're gonna go blind. You're like, Dad, I'm over here. So yeah, exactly. They're like, I can't get my son off the roof. I don't know what's happening. Yeah, for sure. For sure. My son is stuck to the ceiling. Grab him. I can't.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:57

I can't, I can't do it. A very long time, like in my personal and professional life.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:02

And like Did you say professional life?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:04

He said professional.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:05

I'm sorry. I'm you heard what he said.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:06

He didn't study.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:08

Yeah, I'm stepping back on that. Never mind. I went to the children's hospital for a very long time. I'm walking that.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:13

You touch something and you're like, why it's sticky? And they're like, never mind. I don't want to know why it's sticky.

Board Games Dementia And Uno Drama

SPEAKER_05 1:39:19

Very nice. Very nice. Okay. Um, with that, I got a fun fact for everybody here before we uh try to try to tie this up. Um, who wants a fun fact? Y'all like fun facts?

SPEAKER_01 1:39:31

Fuck no.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:32

You don't like fun facts? Golly! That's regular facts. Yeah, just just the facts, sir. Just the facts. I need you to tell it to me with a straight face. Well, in case you all were wondering, did you know? That board games can reduce your risk of dementia. Say it again. Board games can reduce your risk of dementia.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:05

That sounds like somebody who has never played Monopoly.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:07

Oh, yeah?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:11

Monopoly increases my risk of anger. Yeah, let's let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. Flipping tables.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:18

Or is it good for your mental health, right, to get your anger out? Right? Yeah, no, no. I feel like I have never played. Fair, fair, fair. So, do we want to know more about that? Do you want me to read on that?

SPEAKER_01 1:40:35

I guess so. We're all here.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:36

Yeah, you're right. So lower dementia risk and live a better quality of life with an occasional round of go figure, Monopoly.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:44

No way.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:45

Uh-oh. Whether you're pondering a chess move, thinking up a high-scoring word in Scrabble, or deciding on your investment strategy in Monopoly, board games are great for getting you thinking. Playing them not only involves a wide range of cognitive skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, memory retention, and concentration, but also provides a way to connect face-to-face with others. Given these cognitive and social benefits, it's perhaps no surprise that playing board games can help keep our brains healthy as we age. A 2013 French study found that board game players aged 65 and over had a 15% lower risk of developing dementia, while a 2025 Spanish study found that nursing home residents who participated in twice-weekly board gaming sessions had improved cognitive function and quality of life. But board games are beneficial at every age. They've been shown, for example, to improve the numerical skills of preschool children. How about that? When it comes to specific games, a lot of research has focused on the mind-boosting properties of chess. A 2025 review of Neuroimaging Studies comparing the brains of expert and novice chess players found that expert players tend to have greater activity and connectivity in brain regions associated with visual processing, spatial perception, and decision making. So if you like your board games, go play some board games. Brain healthy.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:08

You know, it makes a lot of sense that like chess. It makes a lot of sense that chess is like you're sharpened decision making because I'm awful at chess, but I'm also awful at decision making.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:21

Yeah, that makes sense, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:42:22

So I think that's super important. It correlates Hey Jay.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:27

Did you know for you?

SPEAKER_05 1:42:28

What you got for me? Did you know? That Monopoly will cause intense rage. No.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:34

How did you know? Oh you just mad I got it so fast, that's all it is. Did you know? I'm listening. That playing board games, such as Monopoly, or Uno, heavily increase your chances of getting punched in the face.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:50

So yeah, causes intense rage. Okay, speaking of Uno, does anybody know that there are so many different versions of Uno out there? I'm tired of variations on the card sizes. No, like variations of how the game is played. There is literally like a Uno, there's like an Uno Extreme or something like that. Yeah, where they literally have like a draw 10 or 20 card.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:16

Fuck that. Yeah. It's an Uno Jenga game.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:21

Uno Jenga?

SPEAKER_00 1:43:22

Yeah, Uno Jenga. And he is obsessed with every form of Uno, and I'm so sick of it. You want play sets? I'm so sick of it.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:29

I think we're done with that.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:31

I first of all, I started beating him on purpose because he needs to learn.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:36

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:36

And then people were like, you gotta take it easy on a seven-year-old. No, you don't.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:40

No, you don't.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:40

Seven-year-olds need to learn how to lose.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:42

At some point, teach him early.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:43

And so once he starts getting real, he started getting real confident. Let me also be clear on that. He started the king of the house. He started putting titles to his shit, and then I was like, I gotta beat you now.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:55

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:56

He was losing his humility in the scheme of things. And so I was like, all right, now I gotta beat you.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:02

No, that's that's fair. That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:04

Sit down, be humble. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:06

Ooh, what Kendrick say? Bum. Okay. Well, with that being said, we do have a special guest here.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:17

We do.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:17

We have a very special guest here. And I wanted to save this little this little ending here before we get to our last round of trivia and hand out some more merch. We have we have a we have a local author in the building. His name is Anthony Bolton. Come on up here. Find your seat. That's right. Give him a round of applause. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I know you've been here the whole time.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:40

I said I should have been here the whole time.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:43

I mean, I mean, that's that's fair. Um I'm gonna I'm gonna need you to take the microphone. We need it up again. We need up there you go, because we want to hear your beautiful voice. So the book that Anthony wrote, in case anybody, anybody like a good book? Y'all like a good book? I love a good book. Our fellas over here, we like a good book?

unknown 1:45:00

Love them.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:01

Love them. Got a good murder, murder mystery here that our man here wrote. It's called Cat's Got Your Tongue. It's actually really nice. I read this, uh, read this not too long ago. He does a great job at uh setting the scene in in a city he's really never been in.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:15

And that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:17

That's hard. Never been there.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:18

Just never been there? Never never been there. So I stand corrected. He's never been there. But we're gonna we're gonna do a quick little interview with our guy here so you guys can kind of learn a little bit about him, and he can tell you more about his book. And if you're interested in reading it, he can tell you exactly where to find it. So you can pick it up and uh get lost in those pages like I did. So welcome, Anthony, sir. Appreciate you, appreciate you coming. Oh yeah. Um, I do want to start with this question because I do I I really appreciate the uh um the relationship between between daughter and um um your main your main protag. Where did you pull that inspiration from for that relationship? Uh well I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:02

I I have daughters. Um a lot a lot of Emily is is inspired by my daughter Cadence. Okay. Uh uncle relationship though that kind of just can't just came through.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:23

I gotcha, I gotcha. No, no, no, no. I was curious because the way the way the way they would talk to each other about especially you being a Bangles fan, because they just so happen to be huge Bangles fans.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:35

And one of them.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:36

One of them, but but still, but still them being it's not let nobody in the book be a bit. Well, obviously, because because whenever somebody writes, they always gotta have a little bit of them in the story, right? So I just that that's what made me curious as to what where you drew that inspiration from because it almost sounded like the way what the way I read it, I was like, I just envision you this is how you are with your kids.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:00

Right, yeah. I mean, I argue with my daughter a lot, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:06

Does he does he? Okay, it's constant. And and and how how old is she?

SPEAKER_03 1:47:13

She's she just turned 16.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:14

Okay, so definitely old enough to be a smartass. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, and you guys do you guys butt heads a lot? Is it kind of yeah for sure?

SPEAKER_03 1:47:23

I told her like last year, like I think we're just gonna stop talking until you're you're about 22.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:29

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:31

It's always all right.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:32

He said, You don't you don't talk to me about anything until you're old enough to drink. You're grounded till you're 21. Yeah, that yeah, essentially, essentially. Okay, so tell us tell us where where you got the idea for this book from.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:47

Uh man, uh the story itself. I don't know, man. I just sat down one day and it started. I I sat there and I was actually watching UK basketball. Really? Yeah, and I wrote down so so Marcus and Mitchell Reeves, basketball player, his last name was Reeves. Makes sense. Basketball player, his last name was Mitchell. I was like, oh, I got my I got my main character.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:14

I see what you did there. I see what you did there. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:19

But so it was actually my birthday, and I had always wanted to write a write a book. You always wanted to write a book, always wanted to write a book. Okay. So I sat down on my birthday two years ago now, maybe three, and started writing. I wrote like the first six chapters that day. Really? So your hand was hot that day. Pen and paper, and then I had to turn around and type them, and so much changed between the paper and the laptop.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:51

Oh wow. That's that's incredible. Six chapters in a span of like how long would you say?

SPEAKER_03 1:48:57

Uh man. I I spent the I spent the whole day sitting there.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:03

Obviously long enough for a UK basketball game, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:49:06

Oh, it was way after the UK game.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:08

Way after the UK game. Gotcha. Yeah, he said he said final buzzer blue, and I was I was I was already right and I was still right.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:15

He said he started at the 316 and finished with the championship.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:17

That's what he did. That's what he did. No, that that's that's really cool. Okay, so New Jersey. That's the setting for your book. Yes. Why New Jersey?

SPEAKER_03 1:49:29

Uh so Google search. Google search. Google search, see what cities have the highest crime rates for the past several decades. Gotcha. Camden, New Jersey is up there, man. Really? No, this is so interesting just hearing the process of how you started writing and and and and and where you're going with it. It's very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:51

Also, am I the only one shocked about Camden, New Jersey?

SPEAKER_03 1:49:54

Camden, New Jersey.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:04

You'd be surprised.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:05

Their crime rates are insane.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:07

That's insane to hear.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:08

So you so you learned a lot about crime rates and everything, especially gotcha. So, okay. So I don't I don't know what they're discussing over there. Um so I think one of my biggest things because we we go way back like mac and cheese, right? We go we go way back like like like recliners, you know what I'm saying? And I remember back when we were what 16 years old, we used to go to the studio. We made music.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:36

Are we playing these tracks here?

SPEAKER_05 1:50:38

Unfortunately, no.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:41

I think it's on rap.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:43

I don't want to makes me so sad, but I mean, if if Yeti wanted to be like real slick, he could probably find it on his phone and start playing it into the microphone.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:52

What's your favorite track? What's your favorite hottest track that you guys drive?

SPEAKER_05 1:50:56

So what what would you say? What did you what would you say was your favorite track that we ever made?

SPEAKER_03 1:51:03

The We Together Ever Made? Yes. It would have to be Devils Don't Die.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:09

You know, you know, you know what's funny? I appreciate Devils Don't Die. It's called Devils Don't Die.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:15

So we'd have to you guys are like rapping real fast.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:17

Yes. That one was actually that one was actually very that one's actually very solid. Prior? Yeah, it just it just wasn't it. At least you guys are honest about it. Listen, listening to the old stuff, we we kind of chit-chatted about it um like during the week. Um is devil's don't die, is that on YouTube or anything? What's that? On what YouTube? No, but we took we chat. Yeah, exactly. It was on MindSpace. That's how old that was. But we chatted about it and we we both agreed. Every time we hear that song come on, we just cringe so hard.

unknown 1:51:55

I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:56

But but but again, you're sit we're 16 years old, so I do want to know like it like does that play a part in you writing?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:03

Was that something that kind of so as you know, I I continued to do music for a long time.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:09

Yes, I I followed you for a little bit, and and my music got substantially better.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:15

Okay. So but I grew up, had kids, settled down, settled down, and had to had to give up that. Okay. But so writing was always before before music, I was writing short stories in the school and interesting. Yeah, I always accepted it.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:40

Very nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:44

I always wanted to do it. Okay. Life always found a way to life.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:50

Life always be life and just interrupting everything.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:53

Years and years later, I decided I was gonna see that through.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:59

So the short stories that you wrote, what what did you find yourself leaning more toward? Did you find yourself doing more so who done it or so back then it was more horror ghost stories and things like that?

SPEAKER_03 1:53:16

And but so thrillers. I read a lot. You read a lot, I read a lot. Okay, I'm always it gets on my way better.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:26

How often does he read? Every day? Really?

SPEAKER_03 1:53:32

Yeah, I'm I'm a reader then. Okay, nothing wrong with that. I love thrillers. Very nice. So naturally that's who are some of your favorite authors, yeah. So right now, my favorite author is actually the woman from Louisville, Kentucky. Uh, her name's Carly Black.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:54

What kind of what kind of what kind of books has she written?

SPEAKER_03 1:53:57

So she has two pen names. So under Carly Black, she writes thrillers and horrors, and under Carla Bryant, okay, she writes romance and very nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:17

So are there is there an author out there that maybe kind of like you kind of lean toward writing in their style, or that like how'd you study that?

SPEAKER_03 1:54:26

So as far as I wouldn't say writing in their style, but as far as corrupting my book, I want short, fast chapters that if it's 10 o'clock at night and you need to go to bed and you're reading, you're like, oh, it's only three pages. I'll read this next chapter. Next thing you know, it's two morning and you're still reading. It's funny you say that because like the times I have read a book, which is slim to none.

unknown 1:54:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:57

Don't don't do that to yourself, Getty. I don't read it. Anyway, but no, but seriously, I I would base what I read or the amount of reading I would do on how long a chapter is. So that's really that's a really smart move in my opinion to make them smaller.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:12

I like so you know, young adult authors like R.L. Stein are very popular for that type of writing, actually. Right. And let's talk about the historical significance of R.L. Stein, yeti.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:26

That's that's why he that's why he loves goosebumps. No, and and honestly, when I when I read the book, that was something that I did appreciate was the shorter chapters, because I it did feel like you were getting through the book rather expeditiously. You know what I'm saying? You're you're moving through the book, it's constantly moving. Yes, instead of instead of reading a chapter that's 45 pages long, and you're like, oh my god, when is this fucking chapter end?

unknown 1:55:53

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I did I did appreciate that like more, like less is more kind of kind of kind of idea. And I do think, especially nowadays with um with you know TikTok, social media, everybody's attention span kind of dwindling down a little bit. I think that's what I think that's what helps um I think that's what makes your read, you know, your book a really good read, honestly. So with uh oh, I I think I don't know what they're doing. They might be talking to people out there. Um so with that being said, um y'all got y'all got anything you want to ask them?

SPEAKER_01 1:56:27

I mean, I've yeah, I've got a few questions. Go for it, Templeton. First and foremost, is like in what platforms can someone access your book?

SPEAKER_03 1:56:35

So you can you can find my book on Amazon. Uh I've got hardcover, I've got paperback, I've got ebook, uh, it's on Kindle Unlimited. If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, you can read it for free. Uh or you can always buy it from me.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:55

Right. Buy it from him directly. Awesome. I mean, I just want to make sure you get like the support for your work and everything because it's fucking awesome. Um secondly, like I don't even know if the rest of the group knows this, but I've been like floating ideas around in my head for years about like writing a book, but I don't have any writing experience. Um type book, just like yours is. Um do you have any advice for somebody who's wanting to start out in that?

SPEAKER_03 1:57:31

Just do it, man. I mean you you would be surprised with what you can do. I mean, if it's if you write it down and you think it sucks, show it to them and they might think it's the best thing ever written. I mean that's fair.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:54

Yeah, that's that that's fair because a lot of the times, I mean, you are kind of like your biggest critic, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 1:57:59

So absolutely. So going off what you just said, real quick, when you were writing your book, were you giving it to your significant others or your people so your family to kind of like guide you a little bit? So as I wrote chapters, like singular chapters, my wife would read that one chapter I wrote that day. I would send it to one of my friends, Justin. He'd read it, and then he'd be he'd be texting me the next day, like where's the next? Where's the rest? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Did they ever give like that's awesome? Yeah, that's that is awesome. I'm glad you had a circle of people that was supported support group. Would you be able to lean on to help you through this process of writing the book? Now, did they ever give constructive criticism saying, hey, I don't think you should have this, I think you need to change this to this. So yes, and then so I can't always trust my best friend being like, hey man, this is fantastic. That's fair because there might be a bias. They might lean into your face, yeah. They'll they'll have a bias. They're gonna have a bias no matter what. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:05

Yeah, and I think people are also they care about.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:13

So I I've I've had I've had to to take it to other people to get to get honest beats. Well, that's fair. That's so I I do know though, if if my friend is messaging me on his own, not not me sending him things and then just texting him like, yo, what did you think? He he was texting me, like, where's the next chapter? Where's right, right? Come on, dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:40

And that that's gotta be such a great feeling when you have people just like ready, like just curious. What where's the next chapter of this book? Like, was that was that a really good feeling? Oh, yes, yeah, because it you know, you know you're doing something right, you know you're going in the right direction.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:53

It was a lot of pressure, but I can imagine.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:56

Plus, it's like you know, like these stories and these characters and stuff, like that's very, very personal to you, right? So to like to present that to people who you care about, because you wouldn't present them to just anybody, like, hey, random person on the street, read a story. Like, these are people whose opinions and thoughts matter to you, and for them to like come back with such positive results, like that's gotta feel really good, and it makes you inspired to just keep going.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:24

Right, and that's and I think that's the biggest thing is inspiration to keep you coming back to writing that book, which is that's that's half the battle, honestly.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:33

There were definitely days where I just didn't actually didn't have it in you, didn't have it in me to write anything. Yeah. Yeah, it happens. That's what and then you're like, hmm, am I ever to finish this?

SPEAKER_05 2:00:48

Yeah, it's gonna be just like just put it on the back burner and it just stays there.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:52

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes um sometimes motivation and inspiration I don't meet.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:59

So I'm gonna kind of like take it to the end of the process, okay? We've been talking about the beginning, a little bit of the middle. I'm gonna take it to the end. So after you had everything written down or typed or whatever, how did you get the process from paper or from type paper, copy paper, whatever, into a book format? Yeah, it's a good thing. And who's pre- who proofread it, who edited it, how did that what did that process look like, and how long did that process take? So after I I had half of my book written on paper, half of it written on a laptop. So I'd have to go read it from the paper, type it into the computer, and then proofread, non-stop proofreading. And and even then, so I I edited my things. I did I did it all. I okay from start to finish, every single thing that was done on this book was all like that. I wish I wish I had the money to go get professional editors and line editors, and you gotta start somewhere though. So I mean you can't hate on yourself for that. I mean, to be honest, you've done more than I probably have done in my lifetime as far as making a book out to a public. I've never even thought about doing anything like that. And I've taken a look at your book, I've read the back of it. Um, I have not read it yet, but just the back alone has me interested in what the story has to offer. Um, as far as looking at the book itself, the visualization of it, I like the artwork of it. Um, I like how the pages have the cat design on the edges. Um, there's a lot of small details I do enjoy. And I'm oh that's actually pretty even if you didn't read the book, it'd be nice to just have as like a as an artwork, to be honest. Right. So, I mean, kudos to that. And so, how did you get the design of the book and the pages of the cats? Like, is that all for you? How'd you get there? I did I did it all, man. So I designed the cover. This is actually the third cover I designed for this book. Wow. The first two were not as good, and I just couldn't I couldn't settle, so I had to keep going until I got something that I was okay with as far as the cover goes. Um the edges, though. That was really crazy. It's really cool. Yeah, it's really cool. That was a pain in the ass. I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:24

The blood splatter was such a nice topic, right?

SPEAKER_03 2:03:27

So I had to I had to wrap the book with with pages of magazines that I bought out of the his old Playboy magazines. That's what it was. That's what it was. Yeah, five dollar magazine. FHM. Remember that sticky comment we were talking about? I had to cover sticky the covers and then get clamps and squeeze these books so tight so paint doesn't bleed onto the pages. Then I had this I I sprayed them solid black, and I got these little cat stickers, I put the little cat stickers on on the black pages, then I sprayed it blue, then I took some red spray paint, sprayed it in the lid of the spray paint can with a glove on, dipped my finger in there.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:25

Oh, just flicked it on there. That's really that's really cool. Yeah, that's really cool. That's creative.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:29

Shout out Carly Black. She taught me that.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:31

Really?

SPEAKER_03 2:04:33

Any chance you have any Carly Black for real? Dang. Um, I have I have the regular page ones. Yeah, not the I do have some spray dash copies at home. Uh in which he just said she don't live in Cincinnati. So you can always see me in northern Kentucky. Well, I'm gonna tell you, I'm going to buy a copy. I'm gonna read this book, and I re I will report back to the podcast on holy shit.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:07

You inspired Yeti to read.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:09

No, no, that's you woke up his reading bone, and that hasn't been awakened in 30 years.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:17

The sleeping giant. I mean, it's a brown can move. And I want to give credit where it's due. You know, I want to, you know, yeah, absolutely. So I will I will get your information. I will definitely buy one today.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:29

You are inspirational, my friend.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:31

Look at look at you just inspiring people already. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, all you had to do, all you had to do was show up.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:37

You have any plans for any future books? Uh, I'm actually currently working on a sequel to this. After that, I've got a standalone novel that I'm working on, and then I'm coming back for a third installment of this series. Nice, awesome. My man's got a plan, and there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, and here's the crazy part all it takes is is doing the stuff because you never know what that one thing is going to set off a wildfire.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:08

I mean, for sure, but it's also like it's just just an outlet. Like, you have these ideas in your head and you put them out, and you create them, and then whatever happens, happens after that.

SPEAKER_06 2:06:20

There doesn't really necessarily need to be a goal beyond just making what you want to make.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:27

No, you're not wrong. And that's why that's why he you know put the advice out there. If you got something in your mind, do it. Just do it. Just do it. Don't be don't be afraid of what people are gonna say.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:37

I'd love to read it. I'm a reader. Hey, confirmed.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:42

Confirmed. No, but that's awesome. I I I love that you I love the book, love the work you're doing. I'm excited to see where that goes. Honestly, Yeti, I think you'll love this book.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:53

I have a feeling I will too.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:55

It's a fantastic murder mystery.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:57

I love crime, and like the back of that book, that's exactly what I read when I read it, and that's what made you like me really interested in wanting to read it. And and as I was saying, you never know what's gonna catch on. And it's going down this road, you make two of these books, three of these books. All it takes is one of those books or something to catch, and then next thing you know, you've got the next Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:21

You have the next well, let's let's let's let's be real about this. Uh, how many states are you in now? How many states you got books selling in?

SPEAKER_03 2:07:30

So I would have some looks. It's a lot. I've it's a lot. So I want to get it into every state in America, obviously. But uh we've got a significant number of states, and Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, one, and then other. I don't know what other is. I've got a book. It don't matter. It's an alley down some crazy head.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:58

The unknown. Yeah, it it it don't it doesn't matter. Just know the upside down. That's what it is. We made a Stranger Things reference. That's how we roll around here.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:11

But no, he has he has been uh we are in 37 continental states, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:08:18

Yo, that is awesome. Awesome job, man. So again, keep that up. Um I think I want to ask one question. This is the these are the heavy questions, right? Go ahead, go ahead. Heavy questions? Okay, so I gotta know they're gonna kill me for this. You ready? Do you put crushed Doritos on your peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Not on peanut butter.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:45

If you're saying are you gross or on lunch meat, yeah. Who does that?

SPEAKER_05 2:08:51

It's a challenge for every interview.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:53

No, every interview who asks that.

SPEAKER_05 2:08:55

I have to ask every person. Yes, everybody that is interviewed on this show has gotten one, has gotten that question.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:01

I was just wondering who did that. I was like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:04

Hard left. You never know what the fuck to expect, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:09:08

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:10

So you said not on a PB and Jack not on a PB and J. Would you put it on any sandwich? Absolutely. Yeah, with like a ham and cheese sandwich?

SPEAKER_03 2:09:18

Ham, turkey.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:19

My boy.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:20

Give me some lunch meat, I'm putting chips on you.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:21

Okay, that's that's perfect. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. No, no.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:28

Coming from a guy that likes Skyline.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:36

A lot of shots being fired here, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:09:38

Shots being fired everywhere. Done. No, but that is uh that is awesome. Um, again, love what you did. Love what you did with the book. Um, sorry for the off question. It's just it's a challenge, it's just what we do.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:51

I've I've listened to many episodes.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:54

You have you have you caught up with the show? Caught up, no.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:58

But I've listened to quite a few episodes.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:00

Okay, okay. And what are your thoughts? Oh, Jesus. I love it. Does he have us playing in the background while he's a lie?

SPEAKER_01 2:10:09

That's the way we like it.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:11

Mess, let's be honest. That's that's the way we kind of want it. Like our mamas love us, but basically.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:17

Only slightly worried about being canceled coming up.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:20

Oh, yeah. Only only slightly worried. You hear that? Only slightly worried. So how okay, so with that being said, how do we do so far? We you you you kind of we didn't get too crazy, did we?

unknown 2:10:32

No.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:33

That's the way I like that's that's what I like to hear. I feel like the public setting kind of had to reel it back a little bit. No, no, no, that's fair. That's fair. That's fair. We don't want to we don't want to get kicked out of the place, right? My face is always fair, bro. So I appreciate you coming on the show. I do want you to let everybody know. I know he said, you know, um, you've you can find it on Amazon. Do you have any plans for like a website or anything like that?

SPEAKER_03 2:10:56

Or so I will have a website. I do not yet. But eventually, eventually that'll that will be. Uh I feel like I need more than one book.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:06

So that's fair. That's fair to put to put out there on a website. I gotcha. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:11

So find find one clickable link on an entire website.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:14

I mean, hey, that's your best seller. I'm just saying. Um, but okay, I appreciate you coming on, my guy. Absolutely. Anything else you want to ask them? Miss Meeseeks, Grizz? Anything?

SPEAKER_00 2:11:27

Any questions? No, but good job on writing the book, man. Like, so proud of you for just like that's commitment. Yeah, that's hard.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:36

Hey, so I just want to say that I just went on Amazon just now and I started typing in Cat's Guy, and your book came up like as as a search option. So I would hope it does on Amazon. I just want you to know that. I mean, every little bit of every little bit of credibility. Words are hard for Yeti, by the way. All I'm saying is every little bit of that makes you feel some type of way. So again, so I'm just saying congratulations to what you've done and congratulations to what you might achieve. So keep going, man. Keep going. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:12

For sure, for sure. Um, appreciate you coming on. Uh, we're gonna try to get this last round of trivia done. So, Grizz, if you want to do me a favor and hand me that laptop, we're gonna do I gotcha. I appreciate you, my guy. No, it's all good. We can we can we can pass it over to them. Hey, hey, uh Templeton.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:32

Hey, so you know, my order has been placed. Booyah, look at that. So live on the show.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:40

Yet he bought you a book. All right, well, we're gonna get back to June.

unknown 2:12:46

Six months or six.

Merch Plans Final Thanks And Wrap

SPEAKER_05 2:12:47

Oh, it's not it's it's no, it's good, it's good. Give them like two years. Oh, yeah, honestly, it it it was it was pretty quick. So okay. Well, again, appreciate you guys coming in. Uh, hope you enjoy the shirts. Show those things off, man. Seriously, show them off. Like wear them everywhere. That's what I'm talking about. Appreciate you guys. Have a good, have a good, safe trip. Have a good day, man. Go enjoy some skyline chili. Okay. Well, that was fun. Anthony Bolton, y'all. Wasn't that exciting? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it had a writer. Okay, so we got uh we got one last round of trivia if anybody wants to join. Anyone back there in the at the bar setting? Anybody want to join in on some trivia? I don't know. It's that flying pig thing, man. Anyone want to answer some questions? Get some merch? Not so much. Do we do a final round? All right. Then what we will do, we'll hold on to it. Um, what we'll we'll see, we'll see what we can do. We might be able to throw it up on uh oh my god, fourth wall. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah, we might be able to throw the rest of it up up on fourth wall. Um, I mean, hell, if you uh if you don't follow us on Facebook, um maybe we can do something there.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:17

TikTok. Look at all that stuff.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:19

TikTok. Yeah, we'll we'll have uh we'll have ways of you getting this merch. We'll let you know exactly where you can find it, where you can buy it, um, how to get how to get uh stickers and everything. So um let's remind our people listening um before we get before we get the fuck out of here. Oh, you know what, Grizz? I am so sorry. We never did a high time with you. But I think now wait wait wait. I was gonna say, now would be the perfect time to have high time the universe provides.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:49

The universe provides. Thank God that I wrote this down earlier because space and you would not remember he would have forgot. When you lose weight, where does the weight go?

SPEAKER_00 2:15:04

It's magic and it's none of your business.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:06

Damn, why does it gotta be magical? Oh yeah. You know, I never thought about this. Right?

SPEAKER_03 2:15:12

When you when you gain it, where does it come from?

SPEAKER_05 2:15:13

I have an answer for it.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:14

Well, if fat cells drink it. Grow and shrink, right? So do you always have the fat on you?

SPEAKER_05 2:15:22

I have an answer for it.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:24

I have an answer for you. I don't know how that works out.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:28

There's actually there's actually a whole answer for that. So when you begin to lose weight and you burn the fat in your body, do you want to know what it turns into? Sure. Water. And you actually urinate it out, and obviously. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:43

So when you lose suck anything up, my body.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:46

What? He doesn't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:48

He doesn't know the stick as a vacuum.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:52

We were in a public setting.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:53

I was gonna say that.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:54

That's actually that's actually crazy that you would even say something like that. Elephant brings a new meaning in elephant drum. I wish, I so wish we had our drums right now.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:07

I don't really appreciate the fact that somebody made me think about yet stick.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:11

Uh yeah, that yeah, that's that that's if I had a nickel for every time that happened, I'd have one nickel and I don't want any more. Yeah, I'm not happy. I want to give this nickel away, but but scientifically, yes, the the fat that you burn turns to water, and the water gets uh, you know, ejected from your body through waste.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:35

And probably sweat too, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:36

Yeah, sweat and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, that's that's exactly how that works.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:40

So when you're sweating, when you're sweating, you're losing. But you're winning.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:44

You're you're winning at all times. And hopefully you're not sticky, right? No? Okay. All right. Well, we want to go ahead and wrap this thing thing up, put a pretty little bow on it. Please do not forget if you want to try Magic Mind, just stop by www.magicmind.com and use our discount code FMJpod20 at checkout for 48% off your first subscription or 20% off uh one-time purchases and see how it works for you. In the right, Miss Meese.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:13

That's so correct.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:14

That's so correct. You are so yeah, yeah, hell yeah. Astronauts around me. That's what I that's that's what I've got. Some of us are on the moon. So some of us are way up there.

SPEAKER_04 2:17:26

Art of the three, baby.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:27

Yeah, no shit. So um where is the plane? It's Grizz and Britt. Before we go anywhere, uh Joe's Miss Cheeks. Joe and your name? Sean and Joe. Appreciate you guys giving no seriously, we we we do appreciate you giving not a problem.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:47

You guys are like our first in real life fans, like right, IRL fans, and not RL fans.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:53

Yeah, it's and we appreciate that. So, like, like if you get once you get out into the wild, right, you can just put that thing on in the background, and I promise you, a lot of our conversations will make you say, What the actual fuck? What's FMJ? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the the the FMJ podcast is here to just fuck shit up, man. You know what I'm saying? And have a good time, absolutely. So spread the word, get more people following. But other than that, till next time, y'all say ta-ta to your fans.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:22

We did it. We did it.

SPEAKER_05 2:18:25

We did it. And that's a wrap, fellas. Good job. Good job. Appreciate you guys. Seriously, appreciate you guys. And I'm unplugging my mic. Jesus Christ. Thanks for listening. Please remember to follow us on Facebook at FMJ PodcastPros or on XetPros FMJ. Don't forget to find the FMJ Podcast on YouTube. And if you want more of us, please subscribe to Extra Lives.