Hero or Dick - S2., Ep. 20 - BELIEVE IN THE SOUP!

Welcome, Heroes!

Believe in the Soup!

In our 20th episode of season two, we’re stirring up festive cheer with cheesy debates (literally—think aerosol cheese), holiday movie nostalgia, and the joy of advent calendars. As Christmas approaches, we celebrate loyal listeners (shoutout to Cassidy!) and tease some exciting season three swag.

Then, it’s all about soup! From ancient bacteria-fighting broths to modern culinary classics, we explore its fascinating history, debate whether chili counts, and share our favorite varieties—from French onion to dill pickle. Toss in some pop culture soup moments and you’ve got the perfect recipe for cozy fun.

We also tackle holiday traditions, from blow-up Santas to fruitcake controversies, school Christmas programs, and caroling quirks. Whether you love soup, the holidays, or just need a laugh, this episode is your ticket to warmth and joy!

As always, thanks for listening!

~ Kate & KJ

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

Hey, welcome to.

Speaker 2 0:04

It's Hero or Dick. Yeah, podcast.

Speaker 1 0:06

It's a podcast? It is. It's episode 20.

Speaker 2 0:12

Of season two.

Speaker 1 0:13

And our anniversary's coming up.

Speaker 2 0:14

In.

Speaker 1 0:14

March and we're going to have a.

Speaker 2 0:16

Wait, surprise is coming.

Speaker 1 0:17

Yeah, we didn't do it last year.

Speaker 2 0:19

No.

Speaker 1 0:20

And if we don't do it next year, we can say we'll do it the next year.

Speaker 2 0:22

Well, no, we're doing it In March.

Speaker 1 0:26

Easy cheese Before we get into our topic.

Speaker 2 0:29

Okay, we talked about this briefly.

Speaker 1 0:30

Kate says there's no difference in the flavor between your top shelf Nabisco brand spray aerosol cheese.

Speaker 2 0:42

And aerosol cheese. Oh, aerosol cheese, spray cheese from the aerosol cheese. Only I'm not including, you know, gourmet cheeses like real cheeses. No, no, can aerosol if you're getting like canned?

Speaker 1 0:52

cheese, canned cheese. So and I do think I used to get every year my wife and children, believe it or not to help with my health would get me a can of cheese in my stocking Because they're trying to kill you. Yeah, they're doing it multiple ways now, but this the cheese was the start, and last year they skimped out and they got me the cheapo cheese, which is fine.

Speaker 2 1:11

Now, what brand was it though?

Speaker 1 1:13

I think it was like whatever Meijer brand was.

Speaker 2 1:15

Okay, I got American Choice, I think, and I don't even know who does that. Is that from?

Speaker 1 1:20

Dollar General.

Speaker 2 1:21

No, it was from. I don't know where it was from. Huh, but you said that, but it was, I thought it was fine. I think it's fine too.

Speaker 1 1:29

It's just different.

Speaker 2 1:30

Maybe it wasn't as good. I guess I'd have to do a side-by-side.

Speaker 1 1:34

You know, one of my favorite mentions of spray cheese coincides with the holidays and four Christmases when Vince Vaughn goes to visit his brothers at his dad's house.

Speaker 2 1:47

Excuse me, he does. I think I just had some spray cheese.

Speaker 1 1:50

And he goes oh, spray cheese from the famous aerosol, whatever spray aerosol. And his brother jumps him. Oh God, that's funny.

Speaker 2 1:58

That is a funny movie, I'll have to watch that one again.

Speaker 1 2:00

You know that's coming up.

Speaker 2 2:01

Christmas or four Christmases.

Speaker 1 2:03

Yes, yeah, we watched four Christmases already. Yeah, here it's.

Speaker 2 2:05

Christmas pretty soon. Today's the what 11th. Yeah, no yeah 10th, 11th, something like that.

Speaker 1 2:11

Wait, does the 12 days of Christmas start tomorrow, or did I just make that up?

Speaker 2 2:16

No, it'd be 12 days tomorrow. 12 plus 12 equals 24. It gets you to Christmas Eve. Wait a second 12 days of Christmas. So if you have an advent calendar with only 12 things in it, you can start it tomorrow.

Speaker 1 2:28

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, oh, a partridge in a pear tree. Yeah, oh, so that's tomorrow.

Speaker 2 2:35

Tomorrow.

Speaker 1 2:36

Partridge.

Speaker 2 2:36

Yeah, I was going by advent calendars.

Speaker 1 2:39

Yeah, you love those things, I fucking love them. Yeah, no one knows, I fucking love that yeah.

Speaker 2 2:42

Oh my gosh. Thank you, emily. She got me an advent calendar from Trader Joe's and it's a little tiny chocolate every day, but they're delicious and the packaging is adorable.

Speaker 1 2:54

Is it?

Speaker 2 2:59

And then Cassidy and Cody got me a really cool advent calendar. It is called Mini Brands and every day you open it up and there's a little mini, something Like one day it was a Rubik's Cube.

Speaker 1 3:08

No shit, tiny tiny Rubik's Cube, that's really cool.

Speaker 2 3:10

It was fun. Yeah, it's fun. I didn't open it today.

Speaker 1 3:13

I forgot oh for God's sakes, I got to go. Yeah, okay, it's been good. Everyone have a good day.

Speaker 2 3:20

But my favorite one I have and I haven't even opened it yet is Bluey, the cartoon Bluey.

Speaker 1 3:25

What is that? A dog?

Speaker 2 3:26

Oh God, have you ever watched it?

Speaker 1 3:28

Nope.

Speaker 2 3:28

It's fabulous.

Speaker 1 3:29

You're going to rip on me like the Simpsons episode.

Speaker 2 3:31

Well, no, but.

Speaker 1 3:34

I know Somebody wasn't very happy.

Speaker 2 3:36

There were people complaining.

Speaker 1 3:37

I was complaining.

Speaker 2 3:38

Our listeners were complaining.

Speaker 1 3:40

But look at, look at what I have.

Speaker 2 3:41

Most people say that.

Speaker 1 3:47

Look at what I have in my hand Notes. Is that your notes? No, the printer's working. Oh, okay, I didn't have my notes last time.

Speaker 2 3:53

Well, it helps if you watch the Simpsons too. I don't think you do. No, I don't, and I think you should. That's your goal for 2025.

Speaker 1 4:02

New Year's resolution. Watch more Simpsons Watch more Simpsons Actually do more research. That's your job, you and Nathan, the production assistant.

Speaker 2 4:13

And I just want you to know I saw the lists of all the top 10 podcasts and we didn't make any of them.

Speaker 1 4:20

No, Did we make the top 20? No, 50?.

Speaker 2 4:22

No 100?

Speaker 1 4:23

Probably not, no, no. Did we make the top 20? No 50? No 100? Probably not. No, no, no, that's okay. Who cares?

Speaker 2 4:29

When we begin season three in March, we're going to have 10 followers. Some swag, swag. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 4:36

Swagalicious.

Speaker 2 4:38

And I just do have to give a shout out to Cassidy, because she got something that said that Hero or Dick is her top podcast that she listens to, and she had, like I don't know, 800, not from us 800 listens or something like that 800, I don't know. You'll have to send me that again, cassidy.

Speaker 1 5:01

There was some statistic with it.

Speaker 2 5:04

But she listened to us the most out of any podcast.

Speaker 1 5:08

Well, we got to get her some swag.

Speaker 2 5:10

She's the top of the swag list.

Speaker 1 5:12

What if we came up with some heroic cereal?

Speaker 2 5:20

I think that'd be gross, but Come on, it'd be great. If you can find a supplier, I'll look at it.

Speaker 1 5:26

Now didn't you say there's some of our fans that don't like the name of the podcast. They don't want to say the last name. There are, yeah, I ran into that when I was asking Is it the word bureau? They don't like yeah.

Speaker 2 5:36

Yeah, yeah, they want us to change that word.

Speaker 1 5:39

Yeah, like what I'm saying, dick.

Speaker 2 5:41

I don't mean like a dick I do oh, you do I mean like a jerk a jerk yeah, yeah yeah, that's.

Soup

Speaker 1 5:48

Isn't that not like it, not like you know, yeah, we know, okay, all right. What's the topic today?

Speaker 2 5:54

the topic has been popular christmas no it's not christmas, it's not christmas, oh, but it's something equally as warming to your soul, maybe more so, because the topic today is soup, soup. Who doesn't love soup? Actually, there's a few people who don't love soup.

Speaker 1 6:14

Some people. So wait, I'm going to start it off. Okay, I suspect, from what I've researched and this is the only research I did for the whole thing from what I've researched and this is the only research I did for the whole thing was that back, way back, way back, folks needed soup to break down food. Yes, it lasted a while. Yes, you could throw shit in there all week if you want, you can put rocks in it. And actually that's one of supposedly one of the first ways.

Speaker 1 6:44

Yeah, they would heat the rocks. Okay, they dig a hole, put animal hide in it or maybe some plant leaves Okay, they would put water in there. They heat the rocks up in a fire and then put the rocks in the liquid water with whatever grains or meats or whatever, and heat it up. Isn't that pretty cool.

Speaker 2 7:03

That is cool that it's been around for a while, because it's easy to do and most everybody has the means to do it. No matter what you're putting in your soup, you have something to put in it, you know, be it grains or animals or plants or whatever.

Speaker 1 7:28

They were saying over there that 20,000 BC, but recent discoveries note that the Chinese 50,000 BC. But you know what? It was probably even before that. People were probably making soup.

Speaker 2 7:39

As long as there's been people around, there's probably been a version of soup.

Speaker 1 7:44

So it didn't actually start with Joseph Campbell.

Speaker 2 7:47

It started before that? Was he the first one to can it, though I don't know.

Speaker 1 7:52

I think he was. We'll get to that, okay.

Speaker 2 7:56

Well, I just want to say, when I started asking people about their soup interest, I got this Seafood chowder. That was chowder soup.

Speaker 1 8:09

That's debatable, but I believe it is.

Speaker 2 8:11

I think it is too. How about gumbo, though? What about gumbo? What about chili?

Speaker 1 8:15

Somebody told me chili is their favorite soup. That's not a soup. What?

Speaker 2 8:18

they say I don't think it's a soup, I don't think it's liquidy enough.

Speaker 1 8:22

Some people make it liquidy enough.

Speaker 2 8:23

Are these soups Stew versus soups? If stew, has less liquid. Soup has a higher liquid to solid ratio.

Speaker 1 8:33

What would you rather have? A chowder or chili?

Speaker 2 8:36

Oh, it depends on the day.

Speaker 1 8:39

Wednesday Today.

Speaker 2 8:42

Today, I choose chowder.

Speaker 1 8:43

Today is Wednesday. Yeah, today is Wednesday.

Speaker 2 8:45

Soup Wednesday you, I choose chowder. Today is Wednesday. Yeah, today is Wednesday Soup.

Speaker 1 8:48

Wednesday You'd pick chowder.

Speaker 2 8:49

I'd pick chowder today, holy shit.

Speaker 1 8:50

You know what? What I had? Chili yesterday. Oh Wait, you know where I got it from. We don't get paid for this Purchase, iga. What's it good Makes chili and they put it out for Mm-hmm Best chili I've ever had in town. Wow, I'm not kidding you, wow.

Speaker 2 9:05

I never order it because we make it a lot at home and I like the way we make it.

Speaker 1 9:11

What's that? Chili, I know Wow, and so we?

Speaker 2 9:14

I don't know, I just make it, and then it lasts for a long time too.

Speaker 1 9:18

It's better you have chili dogs.

Speaker 2 9:20

You can have chili nachos. Those are good Chili's better the next day.

Speaker 1 9:24

But I don't think chili's it's a soup.

Speaker 2 9:26

It is better, but I don't think it's a soup. I think it's going to be categorized in the stew category, as is gumbo just because they're thick.

Speaker 1 9:35

So stew is.

Speaker 2 9:37

Stew has less liquid.

Speaker 1 9:40

Gotcha, but chili is different than stew. All right, let's not talk about stew. Yes, it is no more chili, and neither one of them are soup so go away. Sorry.

Speaker 2 9:51

So soup dating way back, probably to Neanderthals.

Speaker 1 9:56

Yeah, and it was simple.

Speaker 2 9:57

I mean if Neanderthals could make it.

Speaker 1 9:59

Yeah, like Geico.

Speaker 2 10:00

Insurance.

Speaker 1 10:02

And it reduced bacteria, though I don't know if they knew they were doing that back then.

Speaker 2 10:06

I don't think they were too concerned about that.

Speaker 1 10:08

But then you wonder about that week-long soup. Does that really reduce bacteria when you keep throwing stuff in the same pot?

Speaker 2 10:15

Does it keep boiling the whole time? I hope so. If it keeps boiling, then Okay, or boiling at you know a certain time.

Speaker 1 10:23

Anyway, it allowed folks to stretch their resources. And I always think of my grandma Wachowski with this, because she one I remember she's always don't waste any of the animal Like. So she would make the bone, put the whole carcass in the chicken or whatever it was in the thing and you know you got the stock, a lot of nutrients in that, and then all the nasty gristly pieces.

Speaker 2 10:43

Yes, A lot of nutrients in that, and then all the nasty gristly pieces.

Speaker 1 10:45

Yes, kind of gross. Then you've got to.

Speaker 2 10:46

I don't know. Then I take a sifter and you get that gross stuff out. I mean, neanderthals probably didn't care, they weren't worried about that, and they had to eat it because they didn't have Campbell's soup in the pantry. But we don't have to eat that now, so let's not do it. No, where's the word soup come from?

Speaker 1 11:04

Oh, I have that on page one of my research.

Speaker 2 11:07

Hear it everyone We'll see if it's the same thing I have.

Speaker 1 11:11

It originates from the old English term sop, referring to bread soaked in liquid, highlighting the dish's early form.

Speaker 2 11:17

Okay, I have that. It's French, but same thing. Okay, meaning bread soaked to broth, right, sure, which that makes sense. Mm-hmm, if you're having soup, you're usually having bread with it or some kind of bread. I love bread. Yeah, that's a different type. That's a different. We could do a podcast on bread.

Speaker 1 11:39

We could, because bread is multi-delicious. So the health benefits of soup? Okay, boiling the bones releases collagen, calcium and other nutrients, so drink that broth. It's good for you, kate.

Speaker 2 11:52

It is Well. That's why, when you're sick, you gotta have chicken broth.

Speaker 1 11:56

You know, there's no evidence, I guess, that supports that. However, it is one of the most effective placebos.

Speaker 2 12:05

Yes. That's amazing, it's just to feel good. Believe in the soup, Kate. Believe in the soup.

Speaker 1 12:11

Yes, I like that. Believe in the soup? I do too. I own a soup company.

Speaker 2 12:15

I would have that as my tagline. Damn that's good. Believe in the soup, Heroic. You should make that the title of this podcast.

Speaker 1 12:26

Yes or a dick. You should make that the title of this podcast Believe in the Soup. Okay, I'm going to jot it down for you, thank you. Seasonal flexibility, fresh ingredients in the summer, preserved Ones in the winter, so it's like an all-around thing. And ooh, the Chinese have all kinds of soups. Actually, more people per capita eat soup in China than they do anywhere else, and one of their really good ones, apparently and popular is a winter soup. That's actually. You eat it in the summer and it's like a cooling, calming effect.

Speaker 2 12:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:57

So anyway, I'll let you talk now.

Speaker 2 13:02

I will say Campbell's versus Progressive. Which do you say, would you rather?

Speaker 1 13:08

I don't know God, you know what I actually think. I like progressive soup better.

Speaker 2 13:15

I like progressive soup to eat, but you can't beat Campbell's cream of mushroom or whatever, no, all the base soups are really. It's for base of every casserole known to man.

Speaker 1 13:27

And you know they got the chunky I used to love.

Speaker 2 13:30

Progressive has a pretty chunky soup.

Speaker 1 13:32

Do they? But not the chunky soup. Not the chunky soup, no. And Campbell's was the first to condense soup.

Speaker 2 13:40

They stole the idea from.

Speaker 1 13:42

Bourne Milk Company with the condensed milk. They'd steal it. Joseph Campbell's son-in-law, whom he wasn't really fond of. But when he was 24 years old he got word. Hey, you got to give your son-in-law a job.

Speaker 2 13:56

Come on, daddy, hire my you know.

Speaker 1 13:57

And so he hired him for like $7.50 a week to be his chemist.

Speaker 2 14:02

Now, what year is this, do you think?

Speaker 1 14:04

I think it's 1897, somewhere around there, you know at first. $7.50 doesn't sound like much, but it's not horrible, and because he nailed this condensing the soup and got the water out of it Did he get a bonus. A $1.50 a week raise.

Speaker 2 14:18

Wow.

Speaker 1 14:19

But it obviously revolutionized the soup industry because before that the soup actually came in huge cans with the water in it With the water already in it. And so it was inefficient to transport it just to make those big cans, and so it actually changed the whole industry. However, it's not so good for you because of the high sodium content oh, there's a lot of sodium in it. But there are low sodium.

Speaker 2 14:43

There are.

Speaker 1 14:44

And Healthy Choice is progressive, is it not? Or is that Maybe not?

Speaker 2 14:49

But anyway, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 14:51

So that's what I know about Campbell's.

Speaker 2 14:53

Campbell's. Yeah, I say they're a good soup base, but overall I'd go to a Progressive. If I'm going to eat a soup, I mean definitely homemade. Over anything, and every, every culture has their own soup. Every country, every culture. There's Asian, there's Polish, there's Greek, there's everything. There's French onion, tortellini, coconut curry, greek lemon rice soup.

Speaker 1 15:23

Oh, so good have you had it.

Speaker 2 15:25

Yeah, sorry, I didn't just make it up.

Speaker 1 15:28

I didn't know what's going on. Could be from a Simpsons episode.

Speaker 2 15:31

You wouldn't know about that I do.

Speaker 1 15:33

actually, the Simpsons has featured soup in various episodes. Yes, the Paul.

Speaker 2 15:39

McCartney one. Lisa the vegetarian, the Treehouse Horror which we mentioned on our Simpsons. One because it's my favorite.

Speaker 1 15:46

We did. Kang and Kodas prepared a meal featuring the Simpsons family, with Lisa being served in a big thing of soup Brush with Greatness. Season 2, episode 18. Homer dreams of Andy Warhol throwing Campbell's soup cans out. Okay, and then the mysterious voyage of Homer. Homer consumes several bowls of Chief Wickham's chili, leading to a hallucinatic journey.

Speaker 2 16:10

And then the food one that was good.

Speaker 1 16:12

Bart and Lisa become foodies and explore various cuisines, including soups. So there you go, Cassidy.

Speaker 2 16:18

Okay, see, you did your research, but it's a week late.

Speaker 1 16:23

I still did it. In today's educational system it's okay to do that.

Speaker 2 16:27

I guess. So yeah, we're ending in a homework late. I just want to say I did poll some people and got their favorite soups and I would say French onion was overall the favorite. A lot of people like potato soup too and I don't argue that point at all. If it's a good potato soup, there is nothing like potato soup. Julie likes potato if it's made right. Or clam chowder, cassidy French onion, or if her friend Sherry is cooking ganache soup, hmm, which, okay, my friend Marcy says the old alphabet soup by Campbell's, not the new stuff, the stuff from when we were kids.

Speaker 1 17:12

Gotcha.

Speaker 2 17:12

She said it's different now, but it used to be the favorite. Hmm, hmm, jennifer said chili. And that brought up the whole chili debate. But then she said chicken noodle. Harley says potato and chicken noodle by Corey, because he makes a good chicken noodle. Leanne says French onion and her second choice is kale and kielbasa. Oh, that's good, really, yes, I think. Anytime I hear the word kale I cringe a little. Kielbasa too Kielbasa stays with you in many ways it does.

Speaker 1 17:46

Hero or kielbasa.

Speaker 2 17:49

I'm sorry. And then Suzanne chose foie gras, which I think I'm saying that right or P-H-O-G-A.

Speaker 1 17:59

Yeah, that's Chinese soup, isn't it?

Speaker 2 18:01

It's Vietnamese chicken soup Sorry, vietnamese chicken soup which she said that's her favorite. Her second is Reuben soup. Ooh.

Speaker 1 18:11

I bet you that's tasty yeah.

Speaker 2 18:12

And her number three on her list is dill pickle soup.

Speaker 1 18:16

Oh shit, they have that at the Polish restaurant.

Speaker 2 18:18

Oh, do they. It's really good, is it good?

Speaker 1 18:20

Oh man Brooke loves it yeah.

Speaker 2 18:22

I'm not a big pickle fan.

Speaker 1 18:24

Well, hero or pickle, go try it, it's good.

Speaker 2 18:26

Okay, I'll still try it. Yeah, I'll try any soup. Hey, what'sire soup?

Speaker 1 18:33

Isn't that what it's called? I don't know.

Speaker 2 18:36

Is it cheesy? They have the black sheep. Is it cheesy?

Speaker 1 18:39

I think so.

Speaker 2 18:41

Like a cheese-based yeah, like a thick soup versus.

Speaker 1 18:46

Maybe it's not a soup, I'll take it Well no, I think that's still a soup.

Speaker 2 18:50

When it's like a cream of soup, okay, cream of broccoli, cream of broccoli. I like that, I do too.

Speaker 1 19:01

You know who really, really, really, really really likes chicken noodle soup Jovi.

Speaker 2 19:04

Brie, stevens, jovi. Good choice, I mean we have to stock up on that stuff. I like homemade chicken soup and it's not hard to make. It's so easy to make.

Speaker 1 19:12

And turkey soup this time of year. All you need is celery, oh yeah, turkey.

Speaker 2 19:16

Still, chicken is better.

Speaker 1 19:17

It is, I don't know why.

Speaker 2 19:19

But you just need, you know, onion, celery, carrots, chicken stock and some chicken. Boom, you got soup. Mm-hmm, easy to do, man, I like soup. What about? I know I'm kind of hungry now.

Speaker 1 19:31

It makes me angry though what I'm angry though what. I eat soup. When I eat it, I get like mad.

Speaker 2 19:36

Oh, why does it make you angry? I looked it up Because you're still hungry.

Speaker 1 19:40

No, I think it said the salt content could make me angry oh maybe Otherwise. I've got some emotional imbalances I've got to get checked. That can't be it.

Speaker 2 19:49

So tell me what you eat with soup. We will briefly go over that Like crackers, oyster crackers.

Speaker 1 19:55

Yeah, and I know it depends on the soup. I like the ones with crackers in there. Noodles.

Speaker 2 20:01

Mm-hmm Rice, you know like a okay chicken noodle or chicken rice.

Speaker 1 20:04

Noodle.

Speaker 2 20:05

I say rice.

Speaker 1 20:06

And then, well, bread, different types of bread, yeah, and crackers.

Speaker 2 20:11

All kinds of crackers, cracker. Sometimes a basic saltine is all you need, mm-hmm. And do you crush them all up or do you dip them? The crackers, some people yeah crush up the saltines and put them on top. Yeah, I like to sprinkle them on top, but then they mush out really quick. They do so I'm not fond of that.

Speaker 1 20:27

Okay, tortillas. Tortillas are good Cheese, mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 20:33

Mm-hmm. Depends on the soup again.

Speaker 1 20:36

Yeah, I don't know. Grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, mm-hmm, any grilled sandwich, I guess Cookies Cookies Depends on the soup.

Speaker 2 20:50

Tomato soup, though, is a standby too.

Speaker 1 20:53

Yep, we have that often, the grilled cheese sandwiches.

Speaker 2 20:56

You know, you always have it in the pantry or on the shelf.

Speaker 1 21:00

You know, while you're eating soup, you have to be mindful of some things. Well, for instance, in 2024, which was this year, Marks and Spencer, whoever that is- oh, you don't know, marks and Spencer. Cassidy, so they had a recall.

Speaker 2 21:16

You can hit him.

Speaker 1 21:16

They had a recall of their butternut squash soup.

Speaker 2 21:19

Oh no, I love butternut squash Because of metal shards. Oh, it's fine.

Speaker 1 21:25

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:25

Marks and Spencer is a beautiful store in the UK.

Speaker 1 21:28

Oh well, they're killing people with their soup. Just kidding Marks and Spencer. If you want to send any to us, it's 119 West Washington Avenue, alpena, michigan.

Speaker 2 21:36

I do love all the roasted squash soups.

Speaker 1 21:41

Yum 2019, plastic pieces were found in canned soup, if you recall 2020, glass shards in tomato soup 2018, an exploding soup can.

Speaker 2 21:54

What.

Speaker 1 21:55

Yes, a lady sued, whatever. That was her fault, yeah.

Speaker 2 21:59

It was her fault. It yes. A lady sued. Whatever that was her fault. It was her fault. It probably was. It was she left it on the stove or something Idiot.

Speaker 1 22:06

You don't like her, do you? No, I? Don't you want some fun and strange facts about soup. Yes, please, the world record. In 2000, campbell's produced the largest serving of soup. They filled a 6,300-gallon container with soup.

Speaker 2 22:22

What kind?

Speaker 1 22:23

Tomato. Oh Easy yeah. I could have done that Come on Then I was trying to find it does seem like a waste, it does. Who eats 6,300 gallons. Do they have people line up like a soup kitchen?

Speaker 2 22:36

Yeah, oh, another form of soup, soup kitchen.

Speaker 1 22:40

You ever go to a soup kitchen?

Speaker 2 22:42

I have you work it or go there, both, both, both and I know our soup kitchen, which isn't a soup. You know they don't just serve soup, but you can, anybody can go there. You don't have to be, you just have to be hungry. Yeah, they don't ID you.

Speaker 1 22:57

That would be a good place to do a podcast.

Speaker 2 23:00

We could do a soup.

Speaker 1 23:01

I think that'd be cool.

Speaker 2 23:02

Well, I don't know if they'd let you, because some people don't want you to know that they're sitting in the soup kitchen. Well they don't have to talk to us. We're not using video Anyway.

Speaker 1 23:12

Soup in Popular Culture.

Speaker 2 23:14

Okay.

Speaker 1 23:15

Stone Soup, yeah, a folktale about cooperation and sharing A very famous children's book. Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Speaker 2 23:22

Yeah, yeah, I hate those books.

Speaker 1 23:25

In my tender years. I read a couple of those.

Speaker 2 23:27

Did you yeah, did they influence your writing?

Speaker 1 23:30

Probably Don't write like that. That's how come I'm not very published anymore, they're just so heartwarming.

Speaker 2 23:36

I feel like punching someone in the throat.

Speaker 1 23:38

Oh my Lord, have you had soup? Are you angry because of the?

Speaker 2 23:42

soup. Maybe I'm angry because I haven't had soup.

Speaker 1 23:46

When's the last time you had soup?

Speaker 2 23:49

I just had soup recently.

Speaker 1 23:52

It's fun just to say soup. What kind was it it?

Speaker 2 23:56

was. I can't remember what kind was it it was. I can't remember. I think it was chicken noodle. But I think it was out of a can too Progressive.

Speaker 1 24:04

That's all right. There's nothing wrong with canned soup. It's got to come somewhere.

Speaker 2 24:07

How about the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld?

Speaker 1 24:09

Yes, he was on my list. No soup for you, yep TV show, soup Nazi and then Friends. They often featured people eating and talking about soup, apparently.

Speaker 2 24:20

Oh did they.

Speaker 1 24:21

Oh, that reminds me. I know I get off track, kate, and I'm sorry. No, but when we lived over there, just a few blocks away, we got invited to be part of a group, the soup group.

Speaker 2 24:33

It was the soup group Right there.

Speaker 1 24:38

I like it, and every month a host would host in the neighborhood and you would make the soup and have everybody come over and have a few drinks and eat soup.

Speaker 2 24:42

Oh my god, that's a great idea. It was a great idea In the winter time.

Speaker 1 24:45

And it worked for a little while.

Speaker 2 24:46

Yeah, but then Maybe you need to bring back the soup group.

Speaker 1 24:50

People found out they probably really didn't like each other that much. You know we're just neighbors.

Speaker 2 24:54

That's one way to find out Movies.

Speaker 1 24:57

Tortilla Soup. Have you ever heard of that one? I have not. Okay, it's a comedy, so we should watch it. Claudia, with a Chance of Meatballs, had Soup Right from the Sky.

Speaker 2 25:06

I like it.

Speaker 1 25:07

It's a book too.

Speaker 2 25:10

That was a kid's book.

Speaker 1 25:11

The Dead Kennedys have a song called Soup is Good Food. I like the Dead Kennedys.

Speaker 2 25:17

Don't they sing? No, maybe not. No, that's Presidents of the United States. Bowling for Soup is a band. Oh, Bowling for Soup, yeah.

Speaker 1 25:26

Don't they sing 1985?

Speaker 2 25:28

Stacey's Mom. Don't they sing that too? They should. Stacey's Mom has got it going on. I think they do, do they?

Speaker 1 25:36

I think so. I think so too.

Speaker 2 25:37

I believe you. I'll double check it. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 25:41

I guess that's good enough.

Speaker 2 25:43

Is that enough soup and culture?

Speaker 1 25:45

Well, I mean, there's sayings too, what Like, if you're in the soup, that means you're in trouble. Soup to nuts, have you?

Speaker 2 25:52

heard that one Soup to nuts yes, what's that mean? That means everything.

Speaker 1 25:55

Okay.

Speaker 2 25:56

You got everything. You got soup to nuts.

Speaker 1 25:59

Alphabet soup. It means an overabundance of acronyms or abbreviations. I didn't know that one. I think that's made up?

Speaker 2 26:06

I think that's made up and then if it's all souped up? It's modified. Yeah, now I think they say pimped up no, pimped up no. They probably don't even say that anymore.

Speaker 1 26:14

I don't think you can say pimped up.

Speaker 2 26:16

Why. Because, you're offending, they're still pimps.

Speaker 1 26:18

I know, but you're offending the pimps.

Speaker 2 26:23

Are they going to come and beat me up? Maybe, maybe.

Speaker 1 26:27

It gets pretty dicey over here, so anyway, that's what I had on soup.

Speaker 2 26:32

All right, I think that what we should do is open up our email to To soups, soups, soups, recipes Okay, recipes too, recipes, sure, give us what you like about soup.

Speaker 1 26:43

Recipes Through email and then we will make the soup. Kate will make the soup, I will make the soup, and then we'll taste it and we'll pick our favorite.

Speaker 2 26:57

And we'll tell you hero or dick on the soup.

Speaker 1 27:00

People aren't going to want to submit for that, because who wants to have dick soup, but you can't. Or not. Hero soup. You know what I mean Hero or dick soup.

Speaker 2 27:08

So where can you email it?

Speaker 1 27:10

Hero or dick 2023. At gmailcom.

Speaker 2 27:13

Yes, that's it. So soup I say before we get into our fast five. I think we agree on this that soup is a hero.

Speaker 1 27:23

It is.

Speaker 2 27:24

Although.

Speaker 1 27:25

If there's something higher than a hero.

Speaker 2 27:27

There are some soups that are dicks. Thank you, Beth. And she says split pea soup and anything with lentils.

Speaker 1 27:36

I like split pea with ham or bacon Lentils. What are lentils? It doesn't look good, though. Is lentil a weed?

Speaker 2 27:43

I don't know what lentil is. That's why it's not good in a soup. Hmm, okay. So, overall, though, overall Hero Hero. So overall, though, overall hero. We're in agreement.

Speaker 1 27:53

Right on.

Holiday Traditions and Festive Dilemmas

Speaker 2 27:53

Okay, here's our fast five. They're all Christmas related because it is the Getting close First day of Christmas is tomorrow again. Partridge soup. That's probably a thing. I don't know how many partridges are around anymore. Are there a lot, yeah?

Speaker 1 28:12

I've seen several this year. Oh really, along with bunnies and foxes, I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 2 28:15

Can you kill? I don't know. Do you want to kill the partridges? I don't want to kill anything.

Speaker 1 28:19

No, Not anymore. Maybe a bad guy, but no animals A bad guy.

Speaker 2 28:27

Okay, number one, carolers.

Speaker 1 28:33

Hero? I think they have to be very brave.

Speaker 2 28:36

I'm going to say dick, because they come to your door singing. Okay, how?

Speaker 1 28:44

about outside decorations Heroic and lovely.

Speaker 2 28:47

Depends. It can be overdone.

Speaker 1 28:50

Yes, there's a few of them not far from here. Oh, can I throw in there?

Speaker 2 28:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 28:56

Related to the decorations and I don't mean to offend anyone. I'm just asking Kate's honest opinion on the blow-up decorations.

Speaker 2 29:05

I'm not a fan of them but I am a fan of when my coworker when I was working, Brian, had a blow-up Santa in his yard and was snow blowing, and then Santa got in the snow blower and was just flying around his yard. I hope children were watching. I just hope they were Old man hamming out there ripping up Santa.

Speaker 2 29:32

So that one I liked, but not a I don't know. They just seem like you're wimping out. If you're gonna decorate, decorate. Don't plug something in. Although, how about the snow globes? I don't like those. And I like the ones you can crawl inside. Is that a thing I don't know? Maybe not, maybe I'm making that up.

Speaker 1 29:50

What are you doing?

Speaker 2 29:53

Like a bouncy house.

Speaker 1 29:54

You can put kids in there and that would be fun it seems dangerous, but you know it's the season.

Speaker 2 30:01

Okay, how about fruitcake? No, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 1 30:06

I feel bad because I've received it from people and people are trying, but I just don't want that much fruit and a piece of bread.

Speaker 2 30:12

I know, can I just have cake you?

Speaker 1 30:14

can, or fruit, and a piece of fruit on the side.

Speaker 2 30:16

Yeah, and I think it's another tradition that people started it because they didn't have all the buttercream frosting to put on a cake. They just had fruit, that's all they had.

Speaker 1 30:28

Put it in the cake or bread.

Speaker 2 30:30

I will also say apples in a cake are good, but not a lot of fruit, maybe just. And carrot cake's good, but you know, you put a chunk it all up and put it in one loaf. No, no, no. You can put all the icing you want on it, it's not going to help it.

Speaker 1 30:46

It's still a dick.

Speaker 2 30:47

Yeah, how about bell ringers?

Speaker 1 30:53

Heroes.

Speaker 2 30:54

You lie His face, said dick. It's that fucking awkward pressure Every time you walk in somewhere, I'm digging for change and I don't want to be the guy that sticks a quarter in there and you don't want to just put a quarter and then, if I just got a, five or a ten.

Speaker 1 31:09

come on, man, I'm not getting change on the way.

Speaker 2 31:12

And if it was just one time you're like yeah. At the beginning I'm always like, oh yeah, I'm going to give you money, and then I'm like, eh, yeah.

Speaker 1 31:19

By December 20th. You're like I'm broke. Sorry, I don't have any money.

Speaker 2 31:22

Yeah, yeah, but good for you guys for all ringing. And you know, yeah, they do. I assume they could do good stuff with that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 31:34

What if they don't? I suppose we should research it. Maybe they're just buying booze and drinking it up on December 26th. Take that can and run.

Speaker 2 31:42

No, I don't like them, Dicks. Okay, one more. How about Christmas school programs? And it makes me think of the Simpsons, Because, as Homer is sitting through the school program and they get to grade whatever and he goes. Oh, how many grades are in this school. That's how I feel about them.

Speaker 1 32:08

They're cute but yeah, I enjoyed going, except for the parents, because people are so disrespectful, getting up talking during it, leaving early all the time. I mean, like I get it if you gotta go somewhere.

Speaker 2 32:21

Just do it quietly.

Speaker 1 32:22

Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 2 32:24

I don't know, but I like watching those kids trying. Yeah, the kids are cute Until they puke. That happened once at a Hinks program.

Speaker 1 32:33

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 32:34

Yeah, somebody hurled on the riser. Oh no, that wasn't good.

Speaker 1 32:39

I don't know. I'm going to say hero.

Speaker 2 32:42

Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 32:43

I feel like a dick when I'm there and not wanting to be there.

Speaker 2 32:48

Yes, because you're like, can I just come and watch my kid?

Speaker 1 32:50

But that seems rude yeah but if you're in the moment and you let yourself get taken in by those little farts up there, man, you can get emotional. It's cute, it's like chicken soup for the soul.

Soup Talk and Contact Information

Speaker 2 32:59

Oh, one of those moments. It's not that bad, no, okay, but all right, so there you go. What else do we want to talk about? We?

Speaker 1 33:18

talking about believe in the soup, believe in the soup. And what are we talking about next time? I don't know. Okay, well, we will take suggestions at our email address which give it to them one more time.

Speaker 2 33:22

Oh hero or dick 2023 at gmailcom.

Speaker 1 33:24

yeah, send us your soup info and I think people could text us from our site too. Okay, buzz bro our website. I think you can go and hit text. Send us a message and it will come to us, and somehow magic. We don't know, nathan knows. Try it, try it Nobody's tried it yet I guess we should have tried it.

Speaker 2 33:40

We could In the meantime go have some soup.

Speaker 1 33:43

Yes, enjoy, leave in the soup.

Speaker 2 33:45

Bye, bye.