From Porch Chairs to World Affairs

World news is heavy, and sometimes the only honest way to talk about it is from a front porch with a friend and zero pretending. We kick things off with what’s happening around Iran, the fear of escalation, the anger over violence against protesters, and the question nobody can dodge: how do you respond without signing up for another forever conflict. That spirals into a blunt border security debate, assimilation, and why “moderate” feels like a dying word in American politics.

Then we turn the volume down and talk music like people who actually listen. We get into Blackhawk’s harmonies and why mellow, love-leaning tracks hit best in a playlist, not on repeat all day. We also check in on The Warning and their newer sound on “Kerosene,” from the bass groove to the poppier edges that can take time to grow on you.

From there it’s rapid-fire modern life: doom spending, AI therapy chatbots, “silent walking,” streaming subscription fatigue, locked cases for deodorant, and fast food chains testing menu chaos. We finish with a deep dive into weird Lay’s potato chip flavors, a quick daylight saving time rant, and a few fresh band recommendations you can steal for your next Spotify run.

If you like smart laughs, real opinions, and a show that can pivot from geopolitics to snack culture without losing the thread, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review so more porch people can find us.

Transcript

Disclaimer And Setup

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey, listen up. This program is for entertainment only, all right? Not facts, not advice, and absolutely not safe for serious people. Listener discretion advised, common sense encouraged. Volume control, that's on you. This is the MT Alternative Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Tom, here we are again, bud. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you while you're hitting that, bud. A little too soon. Little bit. You said you were ready, man. You were ready, I was ready. You can't do that. I'm ready now. Okay, cool. Here we go. Here we are again. Beautiful day on the porch.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Excellent. You're looking a little lost over there, bud. Nope. Nope. I know exactly where I'm at. All right. On the porch. What a great day. Beautiful day. Beautiful day. We're in summer here in the Carolinas. May or March. March. March just came in. So I thought March came in like a lion. This is a lion? This is a lamb. Supposed to go out like a lamb. Uh-oh. Yeah, we could be in trouble. It's supposed to get colder next week. It is. Yeah. But hey, you know what? It is what it is. Life in the Carolinas, right?

SPEAKER_02 2:27

We've had some big snows on my mom's birthday, which is April the 5th. Anywho. Anywho? Not any of them. You have to be more choosy.

Iran Fears Borders And Moderates

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Okay. You want to talk about what's been going on in the uh world? Might as well get that off our chest.

SPEAKER_02 2:44

Let's do that.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Talking about what's going on in Iran. Now, people, we are not experts. I think everybody knows that. Tom and I have our opinions. And I'll be honest myself, I've only seen little clips of stuff on YouTube. That's pretty much it. I don't watch the shows. I'm done with it. I don't know if you're the same way.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

As most of the American people do. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

The only thing I understand, I know it's something to do with the nuclear weapons. Some cash maybe Obama sh sh shouldn't have gave to Iranian. But anyways, that's back in that time. But right up now now. Killing protesters. The Iranian people seem to be happy about it. Trevor Burrus Well, they're curious. And you figure if you look back on Iran before 1979, they were Western culture. I mean they were no different than us over here. Exactly. Then you had this Islamic frickin' idiots come in. How does that even happen? See, that's what I'm worried about's gonna happen here. Look at it already in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

People to what you are.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

We don't know who was let in here either. No, that's the sad part. That's what scares me.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

This is why border security is very There's nothing wrong with borders.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

You know, all these people that complain about it? They lock their doors. That's it. They probably got fences around their houses, these rich people. Why? Well, we don't want Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

So why is it okay to people just come in? Listen, I'm we already said before many times, Tom. Come here.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yeah. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Do something, you know.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

Some of the best people we've ever worked with were simulate.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

That's what you have to do. Yes, yes. You have to simulate A lot of these Iranian protesters, I mean not protesters, people like celebrating. Right. They're showing their flag, and what are they saying? This is our second flag. The United States is our first flag. Right. They're more freaking patriotic than some of us. Some of us probably right. But I do want to say the leftist, but I'm not talking Democrats. I'm not talking people in the middle. I'm pretty much there. I've said that before, too. I understand. Moderate. You gotta be you should be moderate.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Just for most reasons. You could be See there's a difference now between Republican and Conservative. I would say I'm a little more conservative than I am Republican.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Well, me too.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Okay, so that's the difference right there. Yeah. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. But anyways, it sucks what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Hopefully, you know, gas prices are going up now because it's really sad that we have to divide by left and right and this is should be something though.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

People should be coming together. I mean, I know nobody wants a war. One common goal. But nobody wants a war either. That's where I'm stumped at. Are we right to do what we did? Were they gonna attack? Is it just because we attacked for what reasons?

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

See, I don't want boots on the ground.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Exactly.

Blackhawk Harmonies And Listening Habits

SPEAKER_01 5:58

That's when we get in these conflicts that I don't want. If this is something that's gonna be done in a couple weeks, fine. But we both know, I'll finish it up. We both know how Iran is probably never be done, so it's probably foolish. But anyways, let's get back to uh something a little more uplifting. Yeah. Your band, Blackhawk. I like Blackhawk. Yes. They sound I like it for what let me just put it out there. I do like the music. Me too. Okay. If I was gonna listen to the music though, I could not listen to it consistently consistently. And here's my reason why. I'd put it in a playlist because a lot of the songs are very mellow and more like lovey. Right. Or, like I said, the songs I'll listen to on a playlist. Right. Slow, but I gotta have fast and it's definitely not something I would listen to at work. No, I could be chilling on a porch listening to it. Right. Like I said, I don't hate it. I love the harmonizing.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Oh, they're not. That's kind of what grabbed me. Right. Is the bluegrassy harmonizing. Okay. And there's a lot of mandolin and the music.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Like I said, it was just shit. I listened to of course I listened to a list of their greatest hits on Spotify.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

But everything just seemed in that mellow, real mellow.

SPEAKER_02 7:22

But they have here's here's the only thing I don't care about. They have a lot of uh music on some of their other albums that are like she kicked me out, she she's gone, blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

I think I told you to. I should have put off the greatest hits and maybe went to an album. Right. And tried a couple because hey, there's even songs if I went to my favorite bands. My favorite and I picked the greatest hits, it'd be like, uh yeah, these are good songs, but my favorite uh album of theirs was Love and Gravity.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

I wore it out.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

That's one song I can admit that I did not like Love and Gravity.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Right, but the song itself. Right, but the album was so well. I I played it so much that yeah, I burnt it out and I had to go buy another one.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Now, I'm sorry to be ignorant on this. Are they still around and doing so? They are okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

They are. Um I'm actually I've got them on Facebook.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

I should have done that.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

They still tour. Okay. They still tour, but not around here. I don't understand. It's mostly uh Oklahoma. So it's Midwest type. By Midwest by Texas, where they're from.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Out that way.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Well, they originated in Tennessee, is what I'm under. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

So I think I should I apologize because I've sat so long, you know, listening to all the music. Yeah, like the chat.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Background check on everything. I just know I love their music so much about every album they had. Right. And what caught me by surprise was I thought their band had dispersed. Okay. But it didn't, and has a whole nother album I have never even heard of.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

So something newer.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Something newer, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

But it's here's what original people in the band or I You're not sure.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

You just Here's the thing. Uh when I was looking at it, I I look back into it. Uh the new album was like three years ago.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Okay. So I talked with bands that I like. I go, when did this come out?

SPEAKER_02 9:38

There might even be another one that I don't know about. So that was three years ago. But what's weird is that.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

First of all, I'm sorry to spring this on you because I know we were supposed to do this last week, right? We had a little incident. We had a mishap. A little bit. Caught the house and wanted to land this out. Leave it at that. Yeah. So I know that was I brought it up quickly, like oh yeah, Black Clock. We want to talk about that.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

So I didn't mean to just page and that was weird. I never even thought that they had uh another album. Okay. But they toured. Well, that's cool. And and still see my. I thought they dispersed, but I was so excited to know that they have it. So Blackhawk, check 'em out.

The Warning New Song Kerosene

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Yeah, check them out, folks. You like good music, good harmonizing. Kind of reminds me of some songs a little like the Eagles a little bit. A little, yeah. I think I heard like maybe the Outlaws or Marshall Tucker or something. Kind of that kind of uh music, but uh I love Southern Rock, so uh now to finish, talk about the warning. They dropped a new song, right? It's called Kerosene. Cool video, I mean I guess. I don't know what it has to do with the song, but when I first listened to it, I think I told you yesterday I was a little disappointed. Right. It has a good rock sound, but there's elements that were a little poppy to me. And hey, bands expand, bands go on different routes. People my favorite bands, I grumble about them when why'd they go this way? That's them growing as a band and whatever.

SPEAKER_02 11:23

We do that with our football teams too.

The Little Dudes Drop In

SPEAKER_01 11:25

Whatever they do. So more I listen to it, I watch the reaction, people react to it and stuff. The bass line just kicks ass. So and I the groove is good, and uh it's growing on me. It's just I think I'm stuck with the old warning when they were kids that were more classic rock sound. And I love that. And but hey, the young girls, young ladies, they evolve. Well, just like us. They like different music. Right, so of course you're gonna hear it which is fine. And like I said, I'm listening to it starting to grow on me a little more. But I just wanted to throw that in there. I know Mike always talks about the warning well, and I bring up Black Hawk a lot. And that seems to be Squeak's little uh problem, too. But, anyways, so uh that's it. And speaking of little dudes, I think it's a good time to bring him in. Bring him in, and uh we'll take a little break, folks, and uh we'll be right back at the little dudes.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

Hello, Squeak. What the hell's up, bud? Hey, man. Here we are again. Yep. Right here. I wanna uh I can't believe you actually made it to my party this last weekend. Uh I asked you not to bring Skillet and Bumba, but you did. No, I didn't bring him. Actually, Skillet was very nice last time, so I didn't mind him, but there's a problem with Bumba. I didn't bring him. He came with you, he followed me. He didn't come with me. You looked like you were together when you walked through the door while I was trying to tell him. I didn't believe my apologies. Didn't have the room inside. Right, I understand that my door was not that big. Okay. Okay. I just didn't want no hard feelings. I want no hard feelings. The more I stay inside, the more outside, the better I will. Okay. So uh I saw you over there getting uh pretty uh chummy there with tackle. I was just I'm gonna snap clean. I was just telling him what a stupid idea he had. I saw you both laughing. Yeah. I said, you know what? What did you say to him? I said, Snap and pop like they're just so big and cattle, snap right in the middle. I said, You want to be the big one. Why do you want to snap problems? I don't snap problems, I'm just telling you. Okay, okay, okay, wait a minute. Okay, well, I don't care how cattle slap snap. That sounds dumb. I don't care how it sounds as long as I between sweet. I had a I had to get together at the house. Yeah, get together. Okay, well this explains why and uh stab haven't talked to me. I don't talk to you. I haven't spoken to him since last weekend. That's a shame. It is a shame, but now I know why. Why? Why? I told you why the crack you want to. You're gonna apologize. That's what you're gonna do. That's what you're gonna do, I will apologize. You know, when the people make fun of you, I don't get um upset. They don't make fun of me. They do. Okay. They ask me, why? Why do you even hang around with sweet? What do you see in that guy? And you say, I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea. I know exactly why. That's what Tom said. No, Tom never said that. I talk to Mike and Tom all the time. Yeah, I know you do. And you should hear what they say. They want to know why you're even here half the time. Why, why? Why do you let sweet do this show with you? Well, because I give you the stop, and I give an alternative view the thing. You give an alternative view all right. I'm here when I'm here sweet. I want to do a nice show for the people. Okay. Whatever this is that you do, you know, kind of you wanna come with that. That's their show. It's the M Picas. Okay. One thing I will say though, I don't know if you notice this. Oh, listen then. You wanna talk about that? You shouldn't bring it, bring up like that. Well, this one, we whoop goes. Okay, so I didn't say it like that. No, you needed to. No, no, no, no. Right, um we need no disrespect. Thank you for letting us in the studio. I mean no disrespect. Thank you for letting us have it. Okay, let's talk about something else. Okay. What are you doing? What'd you do after the party? What'd you do, Louis? You did nothing. I did something. What did you do? Don't say nothing, Louise. Anyway, it's not and again, you just made it sound like a gym. I mean, yeah, I'm excited to find the way it's not a long time. Sometimes it's just uh maybe think of getting some a gym at your house or something. A gym. You would have the Louise can work out together. Maybe both of you lose a little weight. Okay, wait a minute. Why don't you let her get on you? Okay, I remember the last time. Was it fun? Was it worth it? Okay, listen. Was it fun when you had your first tooth? No. Okay. Was it worth it? No. Was it worth it when you had your first teeth?

unknown 20:42

No.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

Okay. I didn't let it. She said, Wait a minute. How long did it last? Well, because it passed out, it lasted longer than it should have because I saved it when it was on. Okay, like you say, all right. I did, but she said, I didn't know if you meant the black or the damn colour. Sound like an adjunct. I don't want to be grassy. So I'm gonna be taking off with the Uber driver again. Nice living this jet-set lifestyle. In the meantime, might be around next time, and maybe his Greek won't be around. I will be around, okay. His Greek will be around. We'll see you later, people.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Okay, and we're back. Those two little dudes.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

I have to giggle.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

You have to giggle?

SPEAKER_02 24:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Why is the microphone way over there?

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Well, because nope.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

It's gonna sound better right there. Oh, okay. Yeah, because when I put it on, my voice is getting I got you.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Just because I can hear it don't mean everybody. Exactly. I got you.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Want that good sound. Boom. Boom. We're on a poetry member. I do. We don't have a little mic holder anymore. Nope. Oh, I'm not holding it. Here.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Here, Mike. Hold it. So, yeah, it's strange.

Doom Spending AI Therapy Silent Walking

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Anyways. I dug up some stories, some strange stories. Okay. The little dudes are there. Okay. Did you know Americans are doom spending now? Doom spending. Okay. I guess it's uh financial anal analysis say people are spending money because they feel the future is uncertain, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Yeah, might as well not.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

I'm gonna get the good chips, man. I'm gonna buy the expensive stuff now.

SPEAKER_02 25:51

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

They say people are buying concert tickets, tattoos, and expensive dinners because savings feel pointless. They have money to save?

SPEAKER_02 25:59

Who has savings to be money? Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Paycheck to paycheck. Here's another interesting one. People are replacing therapy with AI. Oh. More Americans are now talking to AI chat boss instead of therapists.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Well, of course, because AI is gonna tell you what you want to hear. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Yeah, well. No, I don't want to hear that. Tell me this instead. Yeah. Thank you. The rise of silent walking. Silent walking. Zombies. Shh. Don't walk very loud. It says a viral trend where people walk without headphones, phones, or podcasts. We did that all the time. What? Yeah. I guess you'd be just I walk like that every time. So that's silent walking. We used to do that all the time. Yeah. And if I'm walking, why do I have no, no, no. I can understand though sometimes. You need a little music.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Yeah, I like I like a little tune in my ear once in a while.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Like a great walk just in the wilderness. Yeah. And I don't need headphones or my phone.

SPEAKER_02 27:03

No, because it's all around you.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

It says here, yes, this is apparently revolutionary now. Revolutionary. Congratulations, humanity. You just rediscovered walking. Yay! Woohoo! In the 70s, it was just called going outside. Yeah. People are quitting streaming services, Tom.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Well, they ought to.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Let's see. Viewers are getting tired of paying for six, eight subscriptions. It's true. Okay, this is on this. Okay, but I want to watch this. I gotta get this. Right. Streaming it. No, no, no, I gotta get this. Because they don't see it now. That's another thing. Used to just, okay. CBS, Fox, ABC, NBC. Well, I wonder if we're gonna have it. Nope.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

No, no. Oh, but it's Amazon tonight. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Or Netflix tonight now.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

Yeah. Or or what was it? Uh it was one time of ah crap. The Nickelodeon had it one time. No.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

No, no. Nickelodeon never had it, no. It's always been Amazon. Netflix had it one time. Uh, there's another streaming service that had it. Hulu. No, uh, what's that? NBC one. Peacock. Peacock. Yes. So if you didn't if if you were local and your team was on, you could watch it on but if you were like a new I gotta have Peacock? Yeah. Anyways, it's ridiculous. Yeah, they get you got it. Here's a good question, though. What three services would you keep if you had to cancel everything else? First of all, if I had to cancel everything and I had to pick one. Hmm. I'll be honest. See, that's where you're stuck. Yeah. You're stuck, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:44

I mean everything's good.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

I mean I would say if you're gonna get YouTube would probably be the better one. Right, because you could have your local channels. Right. Where if you have Netflix, it's what they have on. What they do, right? It's to be and all those other ones, whatever they have on. Right. Their live TV is like Roku, SoundCo. Right. But it's I don't know that's tough. And if you want to pay for regular cable, you're paying out the ass for bullshit. Well, see what you're paying for.

SPEAKER_02 29:15

If you live where I do and you don't have access to regular cable, and I'm not paying satellite prices all the crap.

Streaming Fatigue And Fast Food Experiments

SPEAKER_01 29:24

I'm gonna be honest, though.$300. I do miss my uh direct TV. Direct TV was good. Not the payment wise, but the picture quality they had. And when I got spectrum cable, I was like, well, this doesn't look that great at all. What did I do? But uh it got too expensive. I wasn't paying, that was outrageous. Yeah. That if you wanted to get the NFL game ticket, Sunday ticket, you had to pay an extra$300 a year. Yeah. But, anyways, uh, let's move on. Okay, fast food chains testing weird menu items again. Weird. Okay. We got a race going on somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

I think it's right here in front of your house.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

No, it's this truck coming up. He's in front of the house now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Here he comes.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

There you go, big truck. How are you doing? All right, so examples floating around. We got chicken nuggets with new sauces. Well, what are the new sauces? They don't tell me. Desert fries?

SPEAKER_02 30:22

Desert fries.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Dessert fries. Oh, dessert fries. I was gonna say, what is it? But then they have spicy dessert items.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

Ooh. What is spicy dessert?

SPEAKER_01 30:34

So I guess this is McDonald's and Taco Bell. I'm gonna say Taco Bell has a spicy dessert items. Oh, right. And chicken nuggets with new sauces gotta be McDonald's. Right. What are the new sauces? See, this could be interesting.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

Yeah. Some new sauces. I don't know. I like that honey mustard pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

Oh, look, there's a strange supermarket trend going on. What is it? Stores are putting locked cases around everyday items like deodorant. That's not new. That's only in the big cities, too. Yeah, too, yeah. I I just want to get why can't I get this toothpaste?

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Well, because you gotta call for a manager with a key to.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

There it is. Someone actually, excuse me, sir, can someone unlock the toothpaste? We used to lock up diamonds, now we lock up shampoo. Oh, here's one that sounds pretty interesting. It's right up our alley. A dog won a local election, sort of, in parentheses. Several towns in the U.S. have ceremonial animal may Okay. One famous example is Max the Dog. Max the Dog. Okay. Hey, how about that sheriff? The guy that killed his daughter's rapist. Bring him bastard. Went to jail. They let him out. Then he ran for the yeah, but then he goes to the house, so the guy catches the daughter with the guy. Right. Shoots him. He gets arrested. He waits. He calls the cops. Yep. Kill the guy. Yep. He runs for the freaking sheriff and wins. And he's still in trial. And it's still going to trick trial. Man. But he's their sheriff now. I vote for him. You guys wanted to let this freaking pedophile out? Yep.

SPEAKER_02 32:17

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Yeah, anyways. So now I want to move on to the exciting part of our That was pretty exciting.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Yeah. Well, we have some strange new Lay's potato chip flavors, Tom. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Remember a couple years ago we did a segment on a little thing on that. They got new ones? They have new ones. Okay. Well, let's see if they improved or got more numb.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

I think you'll like some of them. I will. Okay. How about a bacon grilled cheese potato chip? Now see that would hit the spot.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

If it tasted like a chip. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

Well, according here, it's combining bacon cheese and a buttery toast flavor. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

I can get into that if that's what it really tastes like. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

How about a wavy Korean style fried chicken chip? Sweet, spicy Korean fried chip. Yeah, I'd try it. I'd try it. I would try it. Korean fried chicken. Okay, here's a lot of Mexican sides. Valentina and Lyme. What's Valentina? Inspired by the Mexican hot sauce snack combo. I have no idea. But I would try it. I would let someone else buy it and give me a chip to try.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

Yeah, let me have some of that.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

Okay. These were sold in stores in 2025. Okay. And bacon grilled cheese even came back again in 26 because people liked it. So I guess people didn't like it, though. Well, it does say here it was a 2025 winner. Right. Which, okay, stands a reason.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Okay, other limited U.S. flavors in 2025. The Thai style red curry. It's a little windy here, folks. We're on the porch. We're on the porch. Thai style red curry. Curry spices and chili flavor. I might try that too. Yeah, me too. Ooh. Loaded nachos. Bang. Cheese, taco seasoning, and spice. Bang. Yep. Yep. Cheesy buffalo dip. Oh, come on. Bang. Yeah. Double bang. That's a no-brainer right there. No doubt. No brainer. All right. New flavors introduced for 2026. Okay. Loaded baked potato. Didn't they have that on that?

SPEAKER_02 34:16

They have that. I thought they did. Maybe. Muffles maybe did that.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

This one sounds good. Roasted garlic and herbs. Yeah. See. That sounds good. Tammy.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Tammy like. Or some other lady likes that.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

It's it's these launched in early 2026 as part of Lee's baked chip lineup. Oh, one big flavor that just came to the U.S. Okay. It's called All Dressed. All dressed? Oh, God. Canadian, a Canadian classic flavor combining barbecue, ketchup, vinegar, and spices. Well, you know what? I'd probably try it. Okay, but first read read Is it the Canadian part that got to you? Yeah, because you said the US. One big flavor that just came to the U.S. US.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Oh my God. Canook.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

So they say the weirdest Lay's flavors from 25 to 26 are probably the Thai style red curry, the Korean style fried chicken, the Valentina and lime, baked grilled cheese, or bacon grilled cheese, sorry, and loaded nachos.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

See, which are grilled cheese, everyone.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Yeah, I would try them all too.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

Especially the the last one you read.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

Yep.

unknown 35:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Grilled cheese. I'm gonna read a couple things to you, and you tell me which one is real. Okay. Okay. Bacon grilled cheese. Okay. Thai red curry. Okay. Korean fried chicken. Gotcha. Or dill pickled milkshake.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

That's real. I think you're right. Dill pickled milkshake. People are just that stupid.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

I don't believe that's one. You don't? No, it isn't. Wait a minute. They actually have a chip that tastes like beer, Tom. Oh, give me a bag. Oh, wait a minute. It tastes like beer and peach. What? No. You get How about one that tastes like a cucumber salad? Okay. What are you eating? Meeting healthy. It's a cucumber salad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

Guys, I eat all those bags of chips.

Super Bowl Stress And Time Change Rant

SPEAKER_01 36:24

But that one's really picking up there, buddy. Yeah. But yeah. So Lay's came out with some more uh chips. Yay. Yeah, yes for chips. All right.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Hooray for Lay's. Yeah, and speaking of Lays, they had a cute little commercial during the Super Bowl this year. I did not see this. The little girl that planted her little potato and it's not.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

I didn't really watch the commercials. The commercials are what I watch. Yeah, but I don't know why I didn't. Yeah. Oh, well, I know why. Why? Because I was too frickin' pissed off. My team was playing. That's right. You cannot enjoy a Super Bowl when your team is playing. You can't enjoy the Super Bowl. You can't enjoy the halftime shit. You can't enjoy the commercials. Yeah. With the game shitty? Frick yeah. All you do is pissed off. I don't want to go.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

But anyway, there's next year.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

Moving on. And they just released digs. Kind of sad about that, but hey, we'll see what happens. I am so waiting for a football season again. Yep, I'm not sure. I could care less about summer. You know what sucks too? What? We haven't talked about this fucking time change again.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Here it is already.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

Moving the clock ahead. I hate this time of year. I freaking hate it.

SPEAKER_02 37:43

Well, and everybody's like, well, I don't love it. Four extra light. How are you supposed to go to sleep in the morning? What time do you go to bed?

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Well, about nine. Okay. So what's the frickin' difference?

SPEAKER_02 37:55

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Why do you need light at nine quarter nine? I don't get it.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

I have hard enough time going to sleep at the six.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

I said before, I like to be on my porch where no one can see me. It's dark. Right. You know, it's dark out. I don't want people seeing me.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

Especially if I'm naked.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

It's sad in. Oh well, yeah, that doesn't help. Well, I glow in the dark then. I don't want that happening either.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

It depends on what condoms. The little condoms that are glow in the dark. You can't see that. What's that little dot? Wait a minute. I think I see some red eyes over there. No, that's never mind.

New Band Finds And Bluegrass Picks

SPEAKER_01 38:31

Never mind. Yeah. So, oh, I'd like to bring up a mention, quick mention on a couple of different bands I've listened to recently. Cool, yeah. Okay. Uh Gunshine. Right. Singer sounds a little bit like old Vince Neal from Motley Crew, somewhat, somewhat. But the it's got a goose, uh good bluesy rock sound. So people check them out. And another one I've just heard of, I don't know how long they've been around, but Framing the Red. They do a great cover of Hair of the Dog from Nazareth. So a couple bands I've just heard recently, because you know, I go on Spotify, put in Cody Parks and then the music, and you know, so I'm like, wow, I I can dig this shit. Right. How about you?

SPEAKER_02 39:11

Any new bands or any other bands you've been I listen a lot, and one that sticks out is old Crow Medicine Shows. Okay. And I like them.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

And Tom's sticking to the the oldies?

SPEAKER_02 39:23

Nostalgia. Well, I like the blue grassy kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

And and well, there's got to be some newer bands that are decent. Why that one is really picking up.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

Wow. And Stevens Siegels. Yeah. They uh they do some really good blue grassy. Oh, yeah, right, right. And they they play different music, but it it's a good stuff. And I like the old gospel sound, you know.

SPEAKER_01 39:48

See, but you need to have bands that tell people like what exactly. Yeah, that that's helpful.

unknown 39:54

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 39:55

So next time when you're listening to your playlist and something comes up you like, I'm gonna jot it down. Right it down might be something that nobody's heard of before. Yep. You know?

SPEAKER_02 40:05

All right, I think I'll that's how these bands get known.

Where To Listen And Leave Voicemail

SPEAKER_01 40:08

Right, exactly. On that note, Tom, I think we're gonna end it.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Yeah, it's beautiful, beautiful day.

SPEAKER_01 40:13

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SPEAKER_02 40:22

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

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SPEAKER_02 40:25

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SPEAKER_01 40:29

And I want to give another shout out to our big listener, Jamie. Yeah, she's so cool. Yep, she sticks right with us. Yep, loves listening to our clients, always giving us encouragement.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

Yep, she sends us messages like everybody should. All you listeners.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

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SPEAKER_02 41:05

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SPEAKER_01 41:07

That's probably pip and squeak. Damn little freaking runs. But anyway.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

Stupid kids.

SPEAKER_01 41:13

But yeah, that's been a good one, Tom. Any last words? Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

As always, we'd like to thank God for the gift of Gab.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

All right, folks. And again, thanks for listening. Take care. God bless. Later. Out.