Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
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Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Red, White, and Pet Peeves: A Candid Conversation About America's Birthday
Three friends gather around a table to air their grievances about Fourth of July celebrations in true Festivus spirit. With Independence Day approaching, they dive deep into what works—and what definitely doesn't—about America's birthday party.
Fireworks immediately divide the group. While spectacular displays at iconic locations like Disney World, the National Mall, or over Niagara Falls earn respect, the seemingly endless neighborhood pyrotechnics that terrorize dogs and disrupt sleep for days on end receive unanimous condemnation. One host captures the sentiment perfectly: "I hate them. Look, oh, it's pretty. Oh look, a big boom thing went off and it's colorful. You know what I like? I like when people video it. Who in the hell is going to watch that video?"
The conversation takes a nostalgic turn as they share childhood memories of community fireworks displays, dangerous "bottle rocket wars," and one particularly ill-advised adventure involving a homemade cardboard tank that nearly ended in disaster. These stories reveal how their relationship with this quintessential American tradition has evolved over time.
What truly unites these different personalities is their love for Fourth of July food traditions—particularly smoking meat. They animatedly debate the perfect technique for ribs using the "3-2-1" method, share tips for pork butt preparation, and reminisce about baseball games that feel uniquely American when experienced during the holiday weekend.
As the conversation deepens, they reflect on changing attitudes toward patriotism since the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations, wondering aloud if next year's 250th anniversary will generate the same nationwide enthusiasm. Social media receives much of the blame for today's more divided atmosphere, with one host noting, "It's easy to be negative behind the screen."
Want to hear three distinct perspectives on American traditions, delivered with humor, occasional disagreement, and surprising moments of unity? This episode offers exactly that—plus some unexpected Japanese chocolate taste-testing at the end!
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Speaker 3:We're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer and a school superintendent and just like our personalities, our opinions vary and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of, things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around much like festivus.
Speaker 2:We have to have an airing of the grievances about the fourth of july holiday. We're getting close, it is two days away as we record this and hopefully we will publish tonight. But um, we got a lot of problems with the fourth of july in this country. Me not so much, obviously, from a historical perspective, the historical perspective is great. This is our 249th birthday in this country Fantastic, however.
Speaker 1:Are we going to party next year for 250?
Speaker 2:Oh there should be. I think we should I remember 200.
Speaker 1:You remember 150 as well it is.
Speaker 3:I do remember 225.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Fair and I remember what about 228? I don't remember making a big deal about it. I should have.
Speaker 2:So, uh, so we're going to talk about the 4th of July and then just some some various rambling pet peeves. I think today it's today it's getting hot. People get a little anxiety, a little frustrated, work a little too hard. Some of us, Some of us, Some of us do. Others who are independently wealthy and don't have to work, don't have to work. But having said that, where would you? Like to begin.
Speaker 1:Okay, fireworks. Yes, I'll start. Oh yeah, fireworks. What are your thoughts on fireworks? I hate them. What about? Do you like the public fireworks? I don't, or do you just not like fireworks in general?
Speaker 2:well, look, yeah, hey, oh, it's pretty. Oh look, a big boom thing went off and it's, and it's colorful.
Speaker 3:You know what I like? I like when people video it.
Speaker 1:Who in the hell is going to watch that video? Nobody, nobody's ever, going to watch that video it's ridiculous. Did you all shoot fireworks when you were little? It's different now. Well, we actually Hold on. Now he's getting to the good part.
Speaker 2:We used to shoot bottle rockets at each other At each other holding a stick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've done that, I've done.
Speaker 2:bottle rocket wars, Drive around the back of the truck and you know.
Speaker 1:In Little Mud we were up on the hillside in the abandoned coal mine shooting bottle rockets.
Speaker 3:What about in the creek, on your couch? That was abandoned in the creek.
Speaker 1:Look, you had to have a place to sit. Oh, I guarantee it, but we growing up. Growing up, we weren't allowed to have fireworks Because my uncle had a thumb. He's a digit down. He's dead now, but he was a digit down because of fireworks.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's not good. No, no, no, no, no, no. Because of firework, because of dynamite.
Speaker 1:I don't get bogged down in details.
Speaker 3:That's what I figured. Now the truth comes out.
Speaker 1:I mean, why get bogged down in details? Now we know.
Speaker 2:See, look, I called them boom-booms when I was a kid, so that stuck around with me. Yeah, sure they look so nice. Did you have the boom-boom room?
Speaker 1:No, oh, so do you have a childhood memory with fireworks?
Speaker 2:that's good or bad or indifferent. I never really cared for the really loud ones. I was always kind of a little yeah, what about you?
Speaker 3:So we never had fireworks as a kid. At home, dad had firecrackers that he hid somewhere. Every once in a while he would pull them out. We'd be at the river and he'd bury one in sand and it would explode. Whatever.
Speaker 2:I'd go to my cousin's house in Versailles.
Speaker 1:Versailles.
Speaker 3:We would go over to. Was that the palace?
Speaker 1:They had to go across the pond.
Speaker 3:We had to ride across the.
Speaker 2:My destined cousin, louis the 16th.
Speaker 1:They're over top of 60 in Versailles.
Speaker 3:You go over and we used to go to the Versailles, we'd go to the little grocery store over there and buy the little spinners. She's a little spinner.
Speaker 1:She's a little spinner.
Speaker 2:I can't remember what they got them. They the spinners. She's a little spinner. You know what I'm talking about. She's a little spinner.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what I'm talking about those little. I can't remember what they got them.
Speaker 1:They got a name.
Speaker 3:They spin. You know what I'm saying. But this is because you couldn't buy this stuff illegally, because good fireworks were illegal, but my uncle would go to Tennessee or something and bring it back. But anyhow, my cousin, and one memory I have and we play- with them all the time.
Speaker 3:One memory I have is we found a piece of round pipe it could have been sewage pipe, I don't know what it was. It was a piece of metal pipe Pipe and we found an old refrigerator box or something and we made a tank with the gun sticking out and I thought you know I got a great idea.
Speaker 3:Let's just put duct tape over the backside of the tube, so the fireworks will stay inside the tube and the smoke will roll out. That's pretty cool. So we go to do that, we hop in the tank. I mean, we're probably eight years old.
Speaker 1:We hop in the tank. This is the engineer.
Speaker 3:We hop in the tank and I'm like all right, let's put them in there. We throw a couple down in it, we get back inside and we're getting ready to fire the gun. Next thing you know all around us sitting inside the tank.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I'm like I am burning up the day I die. I'm going to die. Well, we never bought fireworks as a kid.
Speaker 1:But we would go.
Speaker 2:Every year. The town had a fireworks display and fine, whatever. But here's where we're at as a society with fireworks. They sell them everywhere. They're legal, basically everywhere, right? People spend thousands of dollars and think they're putting on a show, for you know, macy's parade fireworks thing or whatever.
Speaker 3:How about we do the Derby Festival? Let's compare it to that?
Speaker 2:What's that called the Boom Boom Festival?
Speaker 3:That's called.
Speaker 2:Thunder Over Louisville.
Speaker 3:That's Thunder Over Louisville which is the world's largest fireworks display.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we didn't have fireworks when we were growing up either. We would go to Archer Park you all have been to Archer Park. That's close to the Dairy Cheer Close. You all have been to my Archer Park that's close to the dairy chair Close. The one memory that sticks out to me is I remember riding in the back of the truck back to Little Mud after the Archer Park fireworks show and I remember freezing to death back there. I remember laying down in the bed of the truck because the wind was so cold.
Speaker 3:Did you go by the Velocity Market? Yeah, yes, you did I remember going here and in the big city I don't know if I actually remember it.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was this year I was private show they were putting on, or was this for the public?
Speaker 3:this is in frankfurt, this one. They used to launch them off the private show. They launch them off the barge on the river. And uh, I was little I don't know if I remember it, or people told me about it, but uh, they lit the fireworks and I was little and I kept yelling uh boom, daddy boom, and was crying and scared to death and all that yeah, I guess I'm on line with your boom, yeah, boom booms no, not a big fan in in waverly they used to be the um the lions club, where it was where they took place.
Speaker 2:So you would go down to the big bear parking lot, which is, uh, it was a grocery store. Everyone parked in big bear parking lot. You could watch them down there. Then, later they transitioned and moved them to the river, uh, where there was a baseball field, and you go and park down there and watch them. Uh, having said all that, okay, great, I, I I'm not going to bash that kind of a show too much, if you want to celebrate Sure.
Speaker 2:Great, it's the people that have been sending them off in this neighborhood now for three days. Are you a get off my lawn? Get off my lawn with those fireworks.
Speaker 1:Now you want me to tell you, I agree, I don't like fireworks. I mean, down from us there's somebody who sets them off and I mean you think the world's coming to an end. But I'll tell you one of the coolest things I've ever seen with fireworks Two different things Watching them on the national mall in washington dc when that would be cool that was cool.
Speaker 1:When we were up there, when janie and I lived up there, we watched them and that was a neat deal. Yep, and the second thing that was neat is have you ever flown on the 4th of july at night? Because janie and I have, you're in your plane and you can see all these fireworks down below from all these different places and it's pretty neat to see. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Fireworks at Disney very cool.
Speaker 1:Sure yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it's a show. It's a lot more than just boom-booms right Fireworks over Niagara Falls. That's incredible, very cool. Never seen that. I did that on Canada Day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's that all about it was fantastic, it was awesome.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you where else I felt it was so cool, did you get some?
Speaker 1:poutine. That same day I ate all the poutine All of it.
Speaker 2:All the poutine Beaver tails or whatever.
Speaker 3:Love beaver tails in Las Vegas over top of the strip. That's really cool.
Speaker 2:Well, you know Billy Joe and Jim Bob firing them off down the street here. I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 3:Sorry, but here's the problem. Though They've been firing them off for a week, yeah, and they're going to fire them off for another week, oh, yeah, okay, guess who doesn't like them. Any dog, that's right Any dog.
Speaker 1:Luna doesn't care, luna's like. She won't even lift her head up.
Speaker 2:Bruno can't hear so luna doesn't care. The ring general, yeah, he's not a fan and, by the way, uh I I should mention we're looking at the ring.
Speaker 1:General the ring general gunther.
Speaker 3:Uh, I'm, I'm a huge fan why is he wearing a smoking jacket?
Speaker 2:well it, it's a wrestling robe.
Speaker 1:Why are his hands not on him? They're separate.
Speaker 2:Oh, that is Wow. They're off to the side. That's a little weird. This is a Elite Series WWE.
Speaker 3:A symbol required.
Speaker 1:You want to know something I do love about the 4th of July. What is that? Smoking and barbecuing and things like that.
Speaker 3:Smoking meat. Oh okay, Thank you.
Speaker 2:I didn't know where you were going with that. I'm down, I'm down.
Speaker 1:That's my favorite aspect of the 4th of July.
Speaker 2:So what's your favorite thing to smoke on 4th of July? My kids always want pork butt.
Speaker 1:Always. Yeah, yeah his shoulder, though, come on, it's a pork shoulder why do they call it pork?
Speaker 2:but it's a shot of boston butts where the name come from, because the bostonites have no idea where the butt actually is it's on my shoulder, I get it um but yeah, that's probably you know what I may do, one I mean, I like brisket the best, but yeah, my people like I might.
Speaker 3:I might do one too, because I want to, you know, for me it's a help. Help your well, I'll take some of the old man across the street well, my smoker is permanently I mean, you were declared his son today, daddy, oh no, it's not even stepdaddy anymore. He's getting a little loose with that time so I would love to smoke some ribs.
Speaker 2:Uh, oh I love some.
Speaker 1:I like some ribs, but nobody likes them except me, my house.
Speaker 2:My smoker is permanently stuck on 250 degrees you can do ribs.
Speaker 3:I told you to get, I can order the whole control you can do ribs at 250.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, what three. Two, one, right three. One on for three, then wrapped for two and then yeah, you gotta watch it.
Speaker 1:That may get them a little over.
Speaker 2:That seems like it'd be a lot it can be a lot.
Speaker 3:I love the drawback on those ribs. So you said probably two.
Speaker 2:One point four. I'm more of a.
Speaker 3:Two I'm more of a two, one and a half, 30 minutes yeah, yeah, I think that's what the last time was 245, by the way going back to gunther the ring general.
Speaker 2:This is the first wrestling action figure I've purchased since I was, I think, 15 years old, so I'm pretty excited over a hundred years ago the last one was gorgeous, george back in 1953.
Speaker 1:The last one was the founder of wrestling, oh my. God, well, we've uh what else You've been to a baseball game?
Speaker 2:Yes, I just went to a Reds game where they actually won. It's one of the rarities.
Speaker 1:Fourth of July. Baseball is awesome too. Fourth of. July baseball is where it's at it's American.
Speaker 2:Um you know, With a hot dog.
Speaker 3:Yeah, big Red Smokey. Did you get a Big Red Smokey?
Speaker 2:I did not, oh my.
Speaker 1:He was in the diamond. I was in the. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:What I like to refer to as the Chris.
Speaker 3:Seeds, I'm sorry. Did you have the shrimp cocktail in your seat?
Speaker 2:Actually it was a 140 game. So they had a Sunday brunch. So they had chicken and waffles and steak and eggs. So they had chicken and waffles and steak and eggs, no chicken and waffles was legit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's pretty good, I gotta say they have the syrup on it.
Speaker 3:No, no syrup.
Speaker 2:Chicken and waffles legit. The syrup was off to the side, so you could just put it on whatever you want, everybody needs some syrup. Um, so yeah, baseball hot dogs, apple pie Chevrolet.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm all, I'm all for all those but no fireworks, Nope.
Speaker 2:What is your earliest memory of 4th of July? I mean, is it one of those firework things? Yeah, riding in the back of the truck. I remember I swear it was almost like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1:When they signed the declaration, I was in Boston. That's right.
Speaker 2:The Bicentennial of 1976. That's Ben.
Speaker 1:Franklin, the great signature. I literally was not born yeah. So, the.
Speaker 2:Bicentennial celebration. I remember it. I mean there was so much patriotism in the country, red, white and blue, everywhere, the quarters that had the you know, the old, the minute man on the on the back. Everything was just. It was different times and I remember that fourth of july like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1:Well, it's been 49 years ago time out.
Speaker 3:Boy, that's changed a lot now, hadn't it?
Speaker 1:a little bit, just a little bit what uh we're at the point that people don't like each other.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, I think it's safe to talk about in this room. What are you?
Speaker 1:talking about in general.
Speaker 2:Well, look, I, I don't discriminate look the the times, though at that time in in 76 it wasn't rosy, I mean. We just came out of vietnam, we just come off of. Uh. Gerald ford pardoning nixon. Gas was 48 a gallon and jimmy carter was getting ready to be the president. Interest rates were through the roof, and you know it was.
Speaker 1:It was a wild time but everyone was everyone was excited about celebrating the country do you think that's the way they'll be next year for 250?
Speaker 2:no, I don't, I don't I don't disagree. I don't disagree I think social media is the reason. I could not agree more. I think that giving everyone a voice where they can just go on and be negative um, it's easy to be negative behind the screen.
Speaker 3:Yes, yep, say it to my face exactly why can't people just get along, yeah, yeah, but because, they get to say what they want whenever they want, with no consequences.
Speaker 2:that's's true, um so nonsense, yeah, so anyway. Uh, we're almost to the midpoint of baseball season. Uh we're getting close to the all-star break next week.
Speaker 3:Uh, the reds after next Cincinnati.
Speaker 2:Reds have been doing a little bit better. They have absolutely Uh their cubs have not been doing as well. Uh, but the cubs still have a commanding lead in our bet. So I I mentioned to my two brothers who I went to the baseball game with right.
Speaker 1:Um, I mentioned to both of them that I had this bet, right and so were they willing to pony up some cash for you, because they knew you're gonna lose the.
Speaker 2:So mike. My brother actually said you need to do a bet where you do wins per dollar spent on salaries oh and I was like I'm already bored with that. I'm already bored with that conversation which one's mike the good one, oh yeah, but I gotta say my oldest brother will had a had a wonderful time at the game it was like we were all kids, again, again. It's the first game we all went to together since I was seven years old, 1978, 1878 I didn't know they even had baseball then.
Speaker 1:Was that costly?
Speaker 2:no, it was. It was riverfront. The first game of pete rose's 44 game hit streak. It was against the cubs and we were there at the game together and they both remember the game. I remember it as well. Um, but that's the first one we've been to all together since then, right so that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so everybody's been to a game this year except me.
Speaker 2:That's a problem, but the two that's a problem now for the birthday coming up in a month, are you going to?
Speaker 1:probably not. It's not looking good really why yeah? It's not looking good.
Speaker 2:It looks like I'm college visiting uh, well, that that does take some priority.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, um, even though, if you know, you guys know hallie was supposed to go to New York for a program at Pace starting next weekend. New York City Guess who. Best salsa in the world. Do you know what the greatest part of that trip was going to be? No, guess where the Cubs are playing next week, oh, come on Next weekend. No, yankee Stadium, yankee Stadium, wow, and I was going to go. We were dropping her off on saturday.
Speaker 2:they played saturday night at yankee stadium fly back home on sunday, uh, but no, the thing is not happening, correct?
Speaker 3:so another reason why I hate pace not good, I'm just gonna throw this out there we can still go uh, number one, yes, we can still go. Number two we can go to chicago, for God's sakes. We drove to Gatlinburg for an Ogledog for lunch.
Speaker 1:I'm ready to go again.
Speaker 2:I am too, and we got to go to the Hulk Hogan store in Pigeon Forge.
Speaker 3:Let's go brother, let's go. Hey, I've got tomorrow off.
Speaker 1:But how are we going?
Speaker 3:to look. I'm in.
Speaker 1:I'm driving we going to do this because now myron mixon has a barbecue restaurant in gatlinburg we can eat there and then I need a dog to go. So so we go to myron mixons and eat, we go to the hulk hogan store.
Speaker 2:We get an ogre dog to go stop at public's and bounce done yeah, and make sure we get our knives sharpened that's a true statement.
Speaker 1:That is a true statement, yeah I've never, you know, I don't think I've been to gatlinburg since since the last time we went, I haven't either.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, I have Nobody's surprised by that. I'd like to go 12 more times.
Speaker 1:I mean, nobody is surprised. Look, I've also not been out of the country since then. Oh, I have.
Speaker 2:Three times just this past week. You know what?
Speaker 3:The day I've had today. It seemed like I was in a couple of different countries. I was in a third world country, briefly today called Western.
Speaker 1:Virginia Sizzling.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:There's a video going around on Facebook that I've sent you boys. It talks about the worst chain steak restaurants. It says number three is Texas Roadhouse.
Speaker 2:That's booze. I poo-pooed the video instantly. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3:They said it's a $16 ribeye and it's dry with no flavor and it takes 45 minutes. I have never spent 45 minutes inside of the place ever, Texas.
Speaker 1:Roadhouse may be the best chain steak restaurant.
Speaker 2:And it's not even close. 45 minutes I mean.
Speaker 1:Longhorn's good Yep it is. But it doesn't touch Texas Roadhouse, but Longhorn's way more expensive too, correct.
Speaker 3:Exactly, but I can go to Texas Roadhouse Within 45 minutes. I can eat a dozen rolls, a salad, a steak, a baked potato. Peanuts oh yeah, and peanuts and get out of there. Yeah, they said oh, it takes 45 minutes.
Speaker 1:He must have been who knows where that guy was. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Now Outback don't care for it.
Speaker 3:You know it used to be good when the Victorious Filet was rolling and all that, but it's not any good.
Speaker 2:And now, they're not any good, but Burns was number one. Yeah, and Burns was number one, yes. Is it for chain steakhouses. That's what it said. Was it B-U-R-N or B-E-R-N? No, it was B-U-R. Oh okay, yeah, I'd never heard of it. I'd never heard of Burns. That way, b-e-r-n-s is the steakhouse in Tampa.
Speaker 1:And then what about the ones that I sent you today that had the most sanitation violations? I didn't see that one yet I don't care. Golden Corral was three. Yep, waffle House was two. Don't be knocking the Waffle House. Do you know what number one was? Popeyes?
Speaker 2:That's just sad. That's just sad. I mean, how can you have health violations when you're frying everything to 8 billion degrees?
Speaker 1:But look, their chicken sandwich is legit. Oh, it's good.
Speaker 3:Just the regular one, not the spicy. The regular.
Speaker 2:Look, boys, I'm the one that turned you on to this. Yeah, it's a good call I talked it up for a long time and now, finally, we went.
Speaker 3:It's worth every bit of it.
Speaker 1:So do you know what's going in at the West Banco I?
Speaker 3:have no idea they're building a new West Banco by the old West.
Speaker 2:Banco Right what have you heard Jaggers, is it? You know what that is? I don't know. I've eaten them in a little while. I don't know what that is. Do you know who owns?
Speaker 1:it no, texas Roadhouse.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's good.
Speaker 3:I don't know what it is. There's one over on, are you?
Speaker 1:sure, that's what it is. Because, I heard something different. I hope you're right. What'd?
Speaker 2:you hear.
Speaker 1:Freddy's.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:That's the. It's kind of a. They're known for their sandwiches. It's kind of like a. It's like burgers and Chicken sandwiches, chicken and food sandwiches, but it's really good.
Speaker 1:I wanted us to get a pop-out so we could have chicken on all corners, I agree.
Speaker 3:Chicken corner I heard it was Jagger's, though.
Speaker 2:Jagger's is run by Texas Roadhouse. I didn't know that and it's their casual place Right place right and they're popping up and they're.
Speaker 3:They're doing one right over, literally right behind texas roadhouse's um headquarters off of the watterson loyal.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's really good, well, really good um. I think we should but I could.
Speaker 3:I mean it could be wrong I don't know where yeah, all right, I heard freddy's yesterday.
Speaker 1:Freddy's, I've been there once I went to the.
Speaker 2:I went to the rat infested one before it was rat infested.
Speaker 3:The one out there by Costco. And I can't go back since then, I've only been once, and it was that one, and I've never been back.
Speaker 2:Me too same deal?
Speaker 3:When's the?
Speaker 2:last time you ate at Frisch's.
Speaker 1:About three weeks ago.
Speaker 3:I always forget about it. Do you know?
Speaker 1:When Janie and I are by ourselves, it's almost a go-to.
Speaker 2:Really Absolutely. On Wednesday nights it's Brenner.
Speaker 1:It's Brenner yeah.
Speaker 3:Really yeah, that's awesome we go.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's probably been a month since we've been, but it's an easy one for us to go to. She loves the Big Boy Burger and I get breakfast every time I go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, boy burger, and I get breakfast every time I go. Yeah, so what?
Speaker 3:breakfast. Look on wednesday nights.
Speaker 1:They have the breakfast bar. I don't like the breakfast bar. I don't like that. I I get. I get eggs and sausage or something like that. I get it every time and she likes the hash browns and I don't eat those.
Speaker 3:Always forget about that place because you know I'm such a cracker barrel guy for breakfast.
Speaker 2:You're such a cracker barrel guy leave off so, so we're what are we? Eating. All right, pass one around. If it's dark, I don't want it. Nope, it's white. Oh, let's go. So here you go this, you guys look all right. So we always have to end now with some kind of strange candy that we're tasting chocolate chocolate, you're reading it the wrong way right to left, one of my one of my employees.
Speaker 2:Her husband just went to Japan and brought back some sweets for us, and so this is a box of Japanese Hokkaido. I can read it now Hokkaido, chocolate blanc et langue de chat. Hokkaido. I can read it now Hokkaido, chocolate blanc et langue de chat.
Speaker 3:Did you just say lingua? I don't want lingua.
Speaker 1:Did you say he's going to make me chat?
Speaker 2:It says Ishia, guaranteed from Hokkaido with love, love and sweets.
Speaker 1:So we're going to try some. What kind of chocolate is this? It's.
Speaker 2:Japanese white chocolate.
Speaker 3:Why is?
Speaker 1:it yellow? Does it melt in my mouth, in your hand?
Speaker 2:They're very well packaged they are very well packaged.
Speaker 3:I need a samurai sword to get into it. Seriously, why is it white and yellow?
Speaker 2:I can't get into it.
Speaker 3:You need a samurai sword.
Speaker 1:It looks like a saltine cracker.
Speaker 3:It does. It's a cookie.
Speaker 2:It looks like a cookie with chocolate in it.
Speaker 3:It's like a little cookie wafer.
Speaker 2:All right, it's cookie surrounding white chocolate.
Speaker 3:There's no chocolate on it, hardly at all.
Speaker 1:It's in the middle. I like the texture, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I like the texture. Oh yeah, I like the taste. I'm pretty.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty down with that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's good, yep, I like the texture a lot. If you're not down with that, I got two words for you. Let me ask you this oh, that's good.
Speaker 1:One more thing, since we're ending on chocolate. Have you guys seen the new roller coaster at cedar point?
Speaker 2:I saw a video of it, but there's zero chance, I would get on it not.
Speaker 1:Not one possibility. Would I get on it. You climb up this hill, it flattens off and then it pauses there for seven seconds. Then the track lifts up to where you're straight up and down to the ground. It connects onto a track below and then it releases and then you go. Zero percent chance. First weekend it was open. People got stuck straight up and down. Oh my God.
Speaker 3:Can you imagine being in the back row?
Speaker 1:No Pass, hard pass.
Speaker 3:I was on something called the Griffin one time.
Speaker 1:You were on Griffin.
Speaker 3:Williamsburg, virginia, at Busch Garden called the Griffin, and that's the first one I've ever been on that drops you straight over the front and you're hanging your feet are hanging on it.
Speaker 1:Why would you do that?
Speaker 3:And it's kind of back under itself. It's crazy. You're not going straight down, you're coming even back further, how is that physically impossible or possible? Tracks are spread away. I mean, it's pretty simple you go up like this and you go up like this and you come over here and it goes back down and then you come back under.
Speaker 2:But are they straight G's, straight old school G's.
Speaker 1:It's a no for me. No.
Speaker 2:That's a 0% chance.
Speaker 1:Well, and you know, when Janie and I were in California, we debated on going to Disneyland it's awesome and then we were like we can only go for like four hours, we're not going to ride a ride. So we went to Malibu instead and went on the beach Malibu- Drove up some cliffs Malibu.
Speaker 2:So, what was your favorite thing out there?
Speaker 3:Malibu was pretty awesome. Yeah, how many houses did you see slide into the ocean?
Speaker 1:Not many, because they were all burned up. I was going to say how many fires did you see All of them? I mean there were still tons of damage. And all along the coastline you saw piers where buildings were, but nothing there. The saddest thing is there was a house that burned up. You know how when they burn up then they get rusty and all this stuff. There was a Porsche sitting there. I mean it had just been burned up, it was just a rust pile.
Speaker 3:And that guy's already collected three times the value on it.
Speaker 1:Well, they were selling the lots for millions and millions of dollars. And we ate breakfast at a place in malibu and there happened to be a real estate shop beside of it and they had pictures in the window of places you could rent and buy and things like that, and I mean the average price was tens of millions of dollars. The most expensive one we saw was 75 million dollars, and then there were places you could rent and it was like 70,000 a month besides chris, who could afford that?
Speaker 1:I agree. I mean it was like it was like, yeah, this is the deal, come rent it at 70,000 a month. I was like, yeah, sign me up I'll take well, first of all who's renting a place for a month?
Speaker 1:I mean, I know there's snowbirds that go to florida and things like that, but look, if you're on the coast in California it's cold, yeah, but who rents in Malibu? I don't know. It's pretty nice. That was one of my favorite things that we did. Janie and I went there, climbed up one of the cliffs. That goes, the water just crashes into the cliff. We saw and heard sea lions that were out in the wild and things like that sea lions that were out in the wild and things like that. It was pretty neat.
Speaker 3:That's some of the best, the coolest diving I've ever done. I've done a lot of cool stuff around the world, but diving in the Pacific.
Speaker 1:I've done it around the world.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:I've dove in all four of the ocean.
Speaker 3:Diving off of an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean with all the sea lions Off your oil rig Nice.
Speaker 2:No, it's stepdaddies.
Speaker 3:Anyhow, that was pretty cool out there, but here's what you don't realize. Talk about the water. That water is cold. Yeah, that water is always cold.
Speaker 1:Well, it was one of these things. Janie and I said we're at the Pacific Ocean. We've never been at the Pacific Ocean before. We've got to get at least feet in it. Yes, torture, oh, it's cold. I mean, it's not, it's not like, it's not like.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's refreshing it's like it's dude, this is cold. Yeah, I did the same thing when I was out there, got to put your feet in, oh my goodness, and I'm like it's cold, there's no getting in this and there were some fools in the water and I'm like you. People are idiots, yeah yeah, uh, it's cold yeah but they'll be celebrating the fourth of july there. Yeah, you know where else that they're going to be celebrating the 4th of July.
Speaker 1:I hear there's a big fireworks show at Lima. If you could just go. I mean, we've been asked to come past the 4th of July.
Speaker 3:Have you spoken to my attorney lately?
Speaker 1:I am your attorney.
Speaker 3:Yes, I have. You're going to help this problem.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, they said, you could zoom in.
Speaker 3:Oh no, that's different.
Speaker 2:One of our, one of our fans in new South Wales, australia, uh, reached out and asked what the problem is and I was like we've already discussed it on a different episode. It's been over and over.
