The Cologne Podcast
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The Cologne Podcast
#304 - Tonka Cola By Mancera: Season 6 Episode 01
What if a fragrance could bridge the gap between youthful exuberance and elegant sophistication? Join us as we kick off Season 6 of the Cologne Podcast by recounting an unforgettable evening in Milan. With noses slightly more seasoned, Myke and Ryan jump into the scent-sational world of fragrances, sharing their impressions of Mancera's Tonka Cola, which left a striking impression during an Italian Uber ride. From the bold blend of cola and cinnamon to the subtle gasoline undertones of Diptyque's Eau Rhila, our noses guide us on a journey through scent and memory.
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Ryan:Cologne Podcast Bullshit. Hello everybody and welcome to season six, episode one of the Cologne Podcast.
Myke:I'm Mike. I'm Mike, I'm Ryan. We're two best friends. We're still going on this same fragrance adventure, smelling fragrances, giving you uneducated opinions just slightly more educated.
Ryan:Five seasons worth of education, yeah, and today we're smelling for the first time me, not yours, because you smelled it before. Yeah, Tonka Cola by man sarah. Oh yeah, baby mike has some ties to this.
Myke:I have a little story, a little story to tell, a little web to weave, a little yarn to spin. It was almost a year ago and it was a cool spring night in Milan, italy. Yeah, and it was me, tony, steve and Chris, you know, just hitting the town like we do in the evenings, chasing around trying to crash cocktail parties from brands and stuff like that, mm-hmm, and Steve wore this and you loved it. I did love it, and I was smashed up against him in the back of an italian uber and I was just like good god, just kept doing that. Oh god, yeah, what's that?
Ryan:yeah, tight, tight, tight why do I feel like you guys are just riding around? What were they called? Those little fucking Mini Coopers or something? Wasn't it like in the Italian job, that dumbass, when we were all driving tiny cars in Italy or something? Yeah, was that the.
Myke:Uber situation over there. No, but it was your normal size, like a car you would drive. Ryan, okay, compact car.
Ryan:I'm talking all this shit.
Myke:I'm driving the mini cooper. Sure, yeah, it wasn't luxurious and spacious like an f-150, but uh, yeah, I mean three grown men all smashed into the back of this thing and smelling good damn, yeah, you smell great. So you know, I immediately wanted you to smell it because it reminds me of some of the fragrances you really like.
Ryan:Yeah, it's supposed to be similar to, like Roger Dove's Enigma, right? Yeah, do you feel like it is? Is it in that same wheelhouse or is it a little different? We're going to find out.
Myke:Okay, I'm not going to say, but I've got my fingers crossed that you'll like it, because I remember liking it on somebody. I never wore it on somebody, I never wore it and thankfully, you know, a year later, here we are smelling it. Speaking of smelling it, ryan, I have a Fragrantican review.
Ryan:We're still using Fragrantican season six.
Myke:Still Okay, we got to lean on it for this and then we got to memorize the notes so later we can be like, oh, I'm really smelling the Tonka in the Cola in the cola. But for a grant to get a review from Orz who says, man, this ain't it the smell, ain't it? Cola and cinnamon to the max, they last. So. So much Projects, so loud, I cannot stand this.
Ryan:What is he bitching about?
Myke:that all sounds great cinnamon and cola look, if it's that and it lasts forever and it's super loud, man, I'm hyped up for this, me too but first, ryan, we've got to get into our one night stand review of Don't Tell Me it's been a full season. Don't say anything, don't say a word. It's right on the tip of my tongue, it's Orilla by Tip Teak, hit the music Snazzy yeah, one night snazzy, yeah, yeah, one night snazzy view.
Ryan:Well, mike, after spending an off season, yeah, with diptych's orilla, uh-huh, what do you have to say?
Myke:about it. You know it was pretty good, it didn't do anything mind-boggling, or you don't remember calling you later and going oh my God, are you smelling this on your skin, bro? I feel like it did have decent longevity.
Ryan:It did, but it was really kind of a skin scent though.
Myke:And it was very similar to right out of the Atomizer. It stays kind of in that vein. So if you love how it smells right off the bat, you're going to love it the whole way through.
Ryan:Yeah, I mean it was like a lighter version of ombre leather is what we kind of said.
Myke:Yeah, but different too. Not as sweet, yeah, not as sweet, not as kind of fruity yeah.
Ryan:It's definitely like a leather jacket, but very light, really toned down.
Myke:Yeah, with a little bit on the skin toned down, yeah, with a little bit on the skin. We were smelling that, with like a little bit of that gasoline sort of vibe, you know. But on this tester strip which who cares? Right, we're not a walking tester strip, yeah, but on the tester strip there was a lot more going on and I really did like it it was good.
Ryan:It just wasn't like you said, wasn't mind-boggling. Yeah, it wasn't great, I think I mean it's a sample for me. I mean it's a sample for me. I mean it's a sample to skip, because I mean I've probably more of a skip now that I've sampled it. But I just I think there is somebody out there that may like it. If you want something, if you like ombre leather, but it's a little bit too much, you know, on how you know it's a little too heavy or something like that.
Myke:Yeah, this, might be up your alley. Or, if you like kind of cigarette smell, because I feel like ombre leather does have a little bit of that at times. Okay, and you don't want to drop the sweet coin for the ombre leather parfum, yeah, maybe you can get a real added discount, I don't know.
Ryan:Yeah so there you go.
Myke:There's a season five, we're done yeah, we're dude, throw that shit away. We're on to new seasons and new adventures.
Ryan:Before we smell this, two things, uh-huh. One this was sent to us from Cynthia. She is a Patreon. She has been a avid listener since fuck, probably season one Long fucking time.
Myke:Yes, I remember the first sort of interaction we had with her and she was basically just talking about how you laughed way too much in every episode. She fucking hated it was basically just talking about how you laughed way too much in every she fucking hated it. She was like done, she's done with this podcast because of all your laughter.
Ryan:just like that, just like what you're doing right now she fucking hates this, but she stuck around and somehow I guess she got stockholm syndrome. I don't know. That's right, yeah, but she likes this podcast, she loves it, actually because she's a patreon, and if you're not a Patreon, you should be, because let me tell you what's happening and why I'm mentioning the Patreons. Okay, the next week's episode, monday, will be over Lamar Noir by Kajal, and the reason why I bring that up not only just to tell you that it's going to come up, but we are also going to be sending out this week, as you're listening to this, over 45 decants of Le Mar Noir given to us by Kajal. We're giving it to our patrons in the Patreon.
Myke:Yes, Travel atomizers Badass travel atomizers so badass. Refillable, by the way. Yes, and you'll hear on the episode, because we talked to Mo about it. He's like you can put whatever you want to in it after you're done with that. But I think you may want to put some more Lamar Noir Possibly, so You'll hear more about that later. But, speaking of Kajal, sending me back to Milan Again, yes, this year, three years in a row now.
Ryan:Yes, let's hope this fragrance sends me back to Milan and those sweet memories with my buddy Steve. You go first, since it's got this tie of memories to you, ooh, yeah.
Myke:In the air. Very sweet cinnamon. I haven't put anything up to my nose yet.
Ryan:Whoa, yeah, this is, if you're familiar with Enigma, slash Creation. E is what it used to be called in America before they did some whatever bullshit and fixed that, I will say, and that's by Roger Parfums. It is very much in that wheelhouse, but there is something very uniquely different and I think it's that really rich cinnamon.
Myke:Yeah, very sweet, though the initial difference that I smell between the two is that this doesn't have there's a certain maturity to a Roger Dove fragrance. Yes, exactly, it has a little bit of an age gap on it, I agree, and this is bridging that gap. It's that same sort of vibe, but it's not like as mature as a rajah dove would be it is insane on my fucking skin. Yes, this is where it matters, folks. Oh my god, the skin.
Ryan:What the hell? It smells totally different than the tester strip. Yeah, what the hell is going on. Okay, I'm going to jump into this actually kind of quickly we kind of take our time sometimes getting to this, but I got to read the notes, okay. So, and I'm getting, I'm already seeing one, I'm already getting it on the skin, that's what it is. Top one. I'm already getting it on the skin, that's what it is.
Myke:Top notes cinnamon, check, cherry, not sure, maybe sicilian lemon check for me on the skin really okay, nutmeg check and you know about some nutmeg because you like to add that into a specific dessert you make. That's right put a little extra.
Ryan:No wait, clove, it's clove and nutmeg, because you use nutmeg for that. Oh okay, I always put a little extra in my spices and middle notes coca-cola, indonesian patchouli, orange blossom, base notes, tonka, bean, vanilla, benzoin, labdomum. I don't, it's funny, I kind of get the coke vibe. I mean, I know it's a middle note, but I kind of get the coke vibe on that first initial burst, that ever vestence of it and shit like that. Totally get that the evanescence of it, yeah, the old evanescence of it and shit like that. Totally get that the evanescence of it. Yeah, the old evanescence of it. Oh my God, this actually smells really good. I guess the reason why I'm so hyped and I'm excited about it smelling so good is that if you have Enigma, which I do, you can still get this, as far as I'm concerned, right now yes, they're not like.
Myke:This is not a clone of that. This isn't clone or twinsies here.
Ryan:This is right, it's in the vein, but this is done totally different and I love it. I think it's doing exactly what you're talking about. It's fixing that age gap that a Roger Doe fragrance can have, and that's not to be insulting to the fragrance.
Myke:I love that. I think Steve called it Enigma's younger, cooler brother.
Ryan:I can agree with that. I really can.
Myke:I am surprisingly getting more citrus here than I remember whenever I was sniffing Steve.
Ryan:Well, how was the sniff test over there this?
Myke:is great. I mean, I really was there. Sometimes you get excited when somebody wears something around you Absolutely. Oh, I really enjoy this. I'm glad you're wearing this. I want to smell this. Yeah, very few times is it another man, at least in my case, you know. Sometimes you got your lady that wears something and then you're like, oh god, yeah, you know like you smell so good. What is that? Monger lawn, or it's like what is that? And he's like tonka cola, like, oh, you smell so good. That was the case with steve in milan. I was glad he wore it and then I was taking every chance possible to get a little whiff man.
Ryan:He smelled like a fucking baller. That smells really good. This could not have been a better opening for a season starter.
Myke:And here's what you would think with this fragrance it's sweet, it feels kind of playful, the sweet cola type thing. Yeah, it doesn't feel like dressed up right, yeah, but he had on like the full thing, the old full Monty, yeah, the suit, I think he even maybe had like an overcoat sort of a thing, you know, like the jacket, the dressy jackets that go on over a suit. He was holding a box in front of him. Yeah, cut a hole in the box.
Ryan:Put your chuck in that box he made me open the box. It's Steve's dick in a box Wow you know it's Christmas, yeah.
Myke:Steve's dick in a box. His dick in a box, babe. You know it's christmas, yeah we'll probably cut that out.
Ryan:Cut that out, dude. I am pleasantly surprised. You know, it's been a while since we smelled just a mancera fragrance Time out.
Myke:Was there any Tonka bean in the list of the notes? Yeah, at the base. Oh, okay, because I was getting. I felt like every time we smelled a fragrance that had Tonka in it, I was like it's got a cherry vibe? It definitely has, but it has cherry in the note as well, Exactly, but that's what I was trying to say is like are we picking up? Do we think we're smelling cherry and we're smelling Tonka?
Ryan:I do have to say one thing, though, really quick. I know we just did the whole age gap thing, but I'm you know we're. This is the show guys. We smell nonstop while we're talking and yapping and singing. Dick in the Box, yeah. But there is also, like I've been to somebody's grandmother's house and it was this cinnamon smell kind of thing going in there.
Myke:Oh, I can see that. But yeah, that kind of goes along with what you think about grandmas, which is one. They're real sweet. Yeah, you know, every time you walk in the house they're like baking some sort of pie or dessert. Oh yeah, and this kind of has that. I wonder if Steve still has a bottle or if he sold it off.
Ryan:I don't know, but I'm going to tell you this one smells good.
Myke:It do be smelling good. Does it smell like you thought it was going to smell? Like no, what?
Ryan:did you think? I thought it was going to be very similar to Enigma, but also maybe like more Coke or something. And honestly, the Coke thing is on the opening but very quickly it's this cinnamon kind of thing going on. Yeah, but it smells damn good.
Myke:It's very spicy. Yeah, you know a lot of times you'll get like sweet spicy and now this is sweet, yeah, but there is like some power behind the spice to where it almost it does smell like you're smelling spices in a way, like it has like a feeling to it, not just like a scent.
Ryan:Yeah, I don't know if it's as loud and as obnoxious as the the review you read from fragrantica I mean it might be, if we actually like lace up on this in a second.
Myke:It might be pretty loud because mancera has been known to put a little punch in that bottle yeah, which the perfumer?
Ryan:as always, it's, uh, pierre montal, who also runs montal, that fragrance house. Right, sister company. It's good man, and let me get into the price and popularity. It's Pierre Montal who also runs Montal, that fragrance house Right Sister company. It's good man. And let me get into the price and popularity because it's pretty interesting here. Price if you hit on Mancera's website, four ounces of this about $190.
Myke:Not bad, not bad, not bad.
Ryan:That's like 150 mil, 125 mil maybe Now if you're here in the States, and especially if you're as lucky as us and you live in the same state as this company. Right, yes, quick shipping, yeah. And they're not sponsored. We've said this many seasons ago. We've actually wrote them an email to be like you want to want to jump on this sponsor wagon and they never responded. But we still have to give them praise, and that's. Their prices are good, but you can get this for 74 fucking dollars from our fragrances for the four ounces.
Myke:The big daddy, the old big daddy, wow, 74 dollars. Pretty shockingly good deal it is fucking crazy good Popularity.
Ryan:The votes are in 4.08 out of 5. I consider that pretty good 3,500 votes.
Myke:Pretty popular. That'd be like an 8-1. 3,500? Yeah, that's big. That is big, it is super. If David Portnoy was grading it, it would be an 8-1.
Ryan:Let me tell you why that number is actually significant. Not the 8-1 part, but the amount of votes. This was released in 2022. A lot of times when I'm telling you guys, hey, this thing has 3,000 votes, it came out in 2011. Yeah, it's been like over a decade. Yeah, so it had time to build some recognition, this man that's a lot of votes in a short amount of time.
Myke:For sure it got on the old hype train.
Ryan:This is badass, guys. It's different, it's super badass. I'd almost say you can't compare it to Enigma.
Myke:Would you say this is hypothetical here. Would you still give it a good rating if it wasn't for you? I'm not saying this isn't for you, let's forget this fragrance right now while we're talking about it. But I'm curious, because when somebody votes down a fragrance, would you give it a low rating just because it wasn't for you? Or could you go I like a fragrance, I think it's really well done, but it's not for me, and then would you still feel good about giving it a high rating.
Ryan:Or, if it's not your vibe, you give it the low rating, and then would you still feel good about giving it a high rating, or if it's not your vibe, you give it the low rating. I guess, if I'm being totally honest, if it wasn't my vibe, that would factor in, but I wouldn't strip it down and say it was garbage. Yeah, I mean, I may not be giving it the 8.1 that these people are giving it, but since I love this, yeah, and it is my vibe and something I would absolutely wear and I think you could wear too I'd probably give this an eight, five or nine. Wow, it's pretty damn good, dude. In fact, on the skin, you know we're getting that lemon. It's like you smell this, really like. It's not like the lemon you get the grocery store. No, it's the zest. You're kind of like a little bitter lemon with, like this cinnamon on top, which kind of makes sense.
Ryan:This is such a terrible thing I'm about to say but and I know you're going to know what I'm talking about, I'm listening this is like the poorest thing I've probably make every once in a while, food wise. Okay, you just get some pork chops. You cut you an onion. Okay, I know what. You put a lemon on there. I know the same recipe.
Myke:Brown sugar and ketchup, everybody's had that at some point.
Ryan:Right, it's kind of like that, not without that meat smell, obviously, but like you know what I mean Like that brown sugar and that lemon mix well. You wouldn't think the cinnamon and this lemon would mix well is what I'm trying to say, and it does.
Myke:You went a long way to add those two things together. You added ketchup and onion and pork, just to say that this smells like brown sugar and lemon snazzy, scratch it.
Ryan:I'm over here, damn, oh shit. The lemon smells good with the cinnamon okay.
Myke:Yeah, smells good. I can really smell the citrus on the card, for sure it smells incredible, man, it smells good.
Ryan:Let me read pros and cons really quick too. Opens with a blast of cola for a unique and enjoyable opening phase. Unisex fragrance with a warm and cozy feeling. Strong, unique and pleasant scent. I kind of agree with all those cons. Yeah, or pros, sorry. I agree with all those cons. Yeah, or pros, sorry. I agree with all those pros. Um, cons may not be suitable for blind buy or those sensitive to certain notes. Maybe may not be suitable for all occasions or seasons, I don't know. I you know us guys. We wore spice bomb in the summertime, right, yeah, 113 degree weather, don't care. Uh, not everyone may enjoy the strong patchouli or herbal. I don't get herbal or patchouli, do you? No man? This I have to ask, though, who's wearing it.
Myke:This is a tricky one because for me again, I wouldn't initially go. You know he's 40 years old, he's in the city of fashion, dressed to the nines, wearing that. I wouldn't typically do that. Yeah, in fact, just smelling it on him, it didn't feel out of place. And thinking back to it now I'm like maybe this changes my mind, for what fragrance can be worn in those times? Because it worked, that was a thing. It didn't feel off. Yeah, even though it's, that was the thing it didn't feel off. Yeah, even though it was sweet, it was spicy, it was playful, it didn't feel off. And we were also going to the brands, cocktail parties and stuff like that too. Yeah, it didn't feel out of place, it smelled great, it worked with him.
Ryan:So this could be for a formal event.
Myke:It could be, initially I wouldn't think to reach for something like this, for something like that.
Ryan:But I kind of disagree with you. I feel like I'm not saying a bad thing. I mean, like, if it's a company Christmas party, maybe, no, I feel like this is such a unique smell that I think you are kind of dressed up. I don't think this is a chill fragrance. Oh, I disagree.
Myke:Really yeah, it's too playful.
Ryan:It's too fun. That's why I think that it can't be chill. If it's too playful and fun, then I think that's for the. You're dressed up, you're showing out, you're showing your ass.
Myke:Huh, you know, when I think of something like that, I think of elegance. I think of elegance, I think of, like, what's going to be a timeless scent. I mean, that's kind of.
Ryan:but this is where it gets kind of subjective, because it's like the Met Gala People wearing like ketchup bottle dresses and shit you know what.
Myke:I'm saying yeah, but if somebody invited me to that I wouldn't go. Let me wear this pork chop and onion and ketchup outfit. Let me wear this lemon and brown sugar.
Ryan:This shit is good, dude. It is fucking good. I am shocked. This is a great opener for season six, episode one. Hmm, are you gonna skip it?
Myke:sample it or buy it. What are you gonna do, ryan I?
Ryan:mean for 74? Dude? That is the question. That is a crazy deal, dude. For four ounces? Yeah, there's designers that are on discounted that ain't $74 for 100 ml. That's like three point, that's three ounces. Yeah, I don't know, man, that's a hard one to pass up. The only thing I'm thinking because I do think it's so unique that I think it's I don't know if I could everyday wear this thing. It's like I don't know if I would get. I don't know if I'd get a lot out of it, because it'd be every once in a while I'd wear it. This is definitely I'm dressed up going somewhere. Really, yeah.
Myke:Because you're almost done with that Parfum Cologne of creation. It's, it's, absolutely done I think it's done. Last time I checked, that's a lot of wearing you've been doing on that one yeah, I guess you're right.
Ryan:I guess I could get somewhere out of this. What? No, it took almost two years to do that. It took a minute. That's a long time for me. I can spend a fragrance in a couple months. Man, this is a hard fucking sample to a buy. I think I could lean into buying this because that is a good smell. Dude, this is like if you've already got Cedric Boise, you've already tried red tobacco, but maybe there's been a couple of Mancera you tried, you didn't really care for, like Oud Lemon Mint was kind of whack, you know, and you just wanted something good for Mancera. I feel like this is a good buy. I really do.
Myke:You think it's masculine or feminine? Where does it fall On the spectrum? It doesn't have to be binary here. Where does it fall? 75% masculine, 25% feminine or 50-50, 70-30? What do you think?
Ryan:Honestly, it's a good question. I wasn't thinking that until you did it. And now I'm like maybe it's more feminine than it is masculine. Yeah, that's when I'm kind of, I would say, safely, I think, because it's I want to say 60-40, it's feminine, more feminine than it's masculine. Okay, but I think 60-40 is safe. It's just a little, it's edged out a little bit. Yeah, for sure, I think you can get away with that. It wouldn't stop me from wearing this. I'll tell you that right now.
Myke:No, I think you. It's a good question. I'm still trying to think am I buying this? Am I sampling this? I loved it, absolutely loved it on steve. I thought it was fantastic. Does it smell a little different than?
Myke:when it did them no, it's not too far off. I'm getting more of it because I'm so close to it right now, smelling it but just catching little wafts of it. Yeah, it lives in the same apartment complex as like Layton to me. Okay, with that same type of vibe, it's sweet. It's in the same vicinity of like Angel Share. It kind of has that which I think could go either way, smells great on either man, woman, whatever, smells great all the way. I think this is very similar to something like that. Okay, I don't know, I might. It's close. Let me tell you the fragrance that I want to buy and I feel like it would compete for the same type of fragrance as this is Soma's Halcyonude. Really, yes.
Ryan:When is the last time I've smelled that? I feel like you wore it sometimes recently. Yeah.
Myke:I did, you loved it.
Ryan:Tony, this was last Milan trip as well brought me 5ml of Halcyon Oud and I loved it. I mean, now that we have an in with Dan, hopefully you can get another 5ml of it, yeah, maybe.
Myke:So I mean I'm glad we would buy it. I think it's fantastic. I mean I'm gladly would buy it. I think it's fantastic.
Ryan:I mean, I've personally bought Soma fragrances. I need to smell that one again because I feel like I've smelled around you. You're saying I loved it, but I don't remember what it smelled like. Hmm, that's another episode.
Myke:I think, just to compare these, it's very similar in that it's sweet, it's spicy Okay, that has some woodsy-ness to it. I'm not saying that these are similar, I'm just saying the vibe of them. They would compete as far as they're the same type of fragrance.
Ryan:God that is a good smell.
Myke:Yeah, and as far as quality and smell goes, it trumps this one.
Ryan:Let me get off subject real quick before we get out of here. Okay, sorry, no, you're good. Should we reach out to ScentSplit?
Myke:Oh, you're asking the audience.
Ryan:Yeah.
Myke:Let us know. Why should I try to reach out to them to sponsor the show? Is that what you're saying? Something I mean?
Ryan:they're so damn close and they do. Decanting that's what we've always pitched is decanting, yeah, sampling, sampling, decanting, yeah, yeah, decant, yeah, yeah. So it's like, I don't know, the atomizer was great product, smells freaking amazing. I know they didn't make it, but you know right. Well, guys, you made it to the end not of this show not, this isn't it for us. Oh yeah, okay, but you made it to the end of this episode and the end of another season yeah, you're joining us.
Ryan:We're starting it all over again. We're trying to just keep them coming, no matter what. We've been doing good and you guys have been doing good by us. We seriously cannot. We do it all the time. I know we thank you guys all the time, but it'll never get old to me to say thank you no you guys have opened a door for us.
Myke:I mean because you listening, yeah, you know has built this podcast up and through this is open up relationships with people like Kajal and Mo, and that has then, in turn, changed my everlasting soul. It has Again, just the Italy trips. I'm a new person.
Ryan:We've told you before, I picked him up from the airport from the first time he ever went, yeah, and you could see him. It's like somebody that's been and done something good or bad. They've done something really fucking life-changing. They come back and they're different. They're kind of changed a little bit.
Myke:Yeah, this is for the good though. Yeah, for sure. It expanded my mind, it opened up new areas of the map for me. Literally, it changed me. It changed my perspective, my worldview, because look, here's where we are.
Myke:In Texas, we have people that you know, come up from Mexico, yeah. And you have the people that are like, they come up, they don't speak a lick of English, right, yeah. And then you'll see people that get really frustrated with that and they're really shitty to people like that and they'll be like you know, hey, learn english or go back to where you came from. You know, motherfucker, those type of guys and I got to be one of those motherfuckers over there because I didn't speak a lick of italian and just trying to order a sandwich was difficult A panino, you know Just trying to. And there are people that were out there that don't. They don't speak English. I mean, why would they? They're in Italy, they're speaking Italian and trying to.
Myke:On my way back, even from the very first trip, I go to the train station, which is like an hour-long train ride from Milan to the airport, and if you get on the wrong one, you're fucked. You are absolutely fucked. And the kiosk, the English selection, is. You know, it's kind of it's almost like somebody who doesn't speak English, like formatted all the English, yeah, so confusing. And I was running down, I was trying to talk to different people, like which ones? To the airport, to the aeroplane, to the? You know, I'm like trying to, and they're like no, no, yeah, a hundred percent like I'm, and that little moments like that. I mean there were great fun moments too where, like I talked with people in ubers and broken Spanglish plus Portuguese to make made up Italian words and we had a great time. But then moments like that too, where I'm like I'm really struggling with the language and I'm just trying to get where I need to be and I was like I loved it. Yeah, it was an adventure, it was.
Myke:But then I come back to where I'm at it. Yeah, you know, it was an adventure, it was. But then I come back to where I'm at and now I have this newfound empathy for people that are in our neck of the woods, even for sure, that kind of struggling, and it makes you want to help them a little bit more. You've, like, you've worn their shoes, you get it. You know, it's just like the lessons and stuff have. You know, they've translated into my, my own everyday life.
Myke:I wasn't ever the guy that was like I know, but now I'm like. I see me as them and them as me. Now you know, but I had never been in their shoes before. Yeah, it's so cool, I just like I said, life-changing. I just can't express enough gratitude. That obviously was brought on by the podcast. It was brought on with our connections with Kajal through this podcast, and so at the very catalyst of it is you guys. Absolutely, you made it happen. You turned it from something that only me and Ryan were listening to each week to now there's a great handful of you out there, isn't that?
Ryan:wild dude. We literally, when we go back and look at those months, we know just those couple of bumps are just us on the stat line.
Myke:Oh, dude, I remember the first time we saw that 10 people listened to an episode. Holy shit. Yeah, I called you. I was in the bubble bath. I was taking a bath I remember calling you. You sound so spoiled. Not all the time I was in my bubble bath and I was watching Pretty Woman, I checked my phone. Well, I mean, the truth is we've talked about it. I have lower back issues, so I was actually soaking in like Epsom salt. But you know I'm in the bath.
Ryan:He was watching Pretty Woman, yeah.
Myke:Julia Roberts. She was sobbing watching she gets to shop. Yeah, rodeo, but I remember calling you and going. Can you fucking believe it? There's 10 people out there, 10 people we don't know. Don't know and they're listening to us, and now there's like 25 of y'all.
Ryan:There's a lot more. But all to say, seriously, guys, thank you so much. And going forward just like every other season, progressively we've gotten better and done more for the show. We're going to go hard at this this year. That's right. We have a lot of cool things planned Now not this episode, unfortunately, or ironically enough, but we are going to be leaning into video. So much this year, so get ready.
Myke:You guys are building kind of growing our video platforms that we're on. You're showing interest in some of the short form content that we've done. We've put some interviews out there and occasionally we will drop some full video episodes of things. If you're just dying to see more of those immediately, you can always be a Patreon. But even if you're not a Patreon, we're just thankful that you're listening and you're helping us grow this podcast, and so we love you and until next time, spray it up, y'all.