The 101st Episode Spectacular

We hit a weirdly perfect milestone and immediately prove we learned nothing: our 101st episode turns into a live phone call experiment where the tech barely cooperates, the jokes definitely do, and our community shows up in the best way. We call loyal listener Michael, then Phil, then our behind-the-scenes MVP Producer Mellin, and even catch up with Colonel Smyrski. If you like podcasts that feel like you pulled up a chair with longtime friends, this is that kind of energy.

After the thank-yous, we shift into current events and dig into the rumored United States and Iran peace agreement. We talk through the uncomfortable questions that always come with war and “rebuilding” headlines: what happens with the Strait of Hormuz, what the real end goal is, whether nuclear limits are actually part of the deal, and why the price tag matters when everyone is already feeling higher costs. It’s candid, skeptical, and very much us trying to make sense of a messy situation.

Then we lighten it up with a reaction to UFC at the White House, a quick sports check-in, and a teaser that turns into a full Southern foods bracket: Texas beef brisket vs chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits, Nashville hot chicken, gumbo, Tex-Mex fajitas, plus the desserts we’d defend to the end. Subscribe for the next round, share this with a friend who loves a good food argument, and leave a review if you’ve been with us for the long haul. What’s the one Southern dish you think should win it all?

Transcript

Welcome To The 101st Spectacular

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Three guys around the table. By three guys, we're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent.

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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.

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So, ladies and gentlemen, this is our 101st episode spectacular.

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How did we ever forget the last one was the hundredth?

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Well, we'll never really keep track of the episode. That's true. Did they send you another?

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I would have had no clue.

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I got an email. I can't believe it's been a hundred. I got an email. Congratulations on your 100th episode.

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It feels like a thousand.

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How did we find a hundred things to talk about? We really should have like come up with some catchy song. Do you want to try right now? No. This is our 101st episode. No. Should I give myself crickets?

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Yes, I would. Oh. That's mad too. There you go.

Figuring Out The Call Setup

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So we're going to do something. We're going to do something a little different today.

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We are. We are going to we're going to call some people. And um You got the number, don't you? I think I do. I'm I'm uh I'm uh we're gonna call some of our favorite uh these are definitely not our favorites.

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Not our favorites the first one, the first one is definitely not our favorite.

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Let's put it this way we're gonna have people on the show today that have helped that have been around the whole time. That have been this the help this podcast get to where it's at. Some may be in person, some may be on the telephone. Yeah, I just hope that one guy shows up.

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We have a we have a series of guests. I don't I do not have him in this one, it's in a different one. So um that's the problem with you people who have multiple phones.

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You you dial it, you dial it. We should say this number on the air.

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Don't have multiple phones.

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That's the issue there. That's true.

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He's in here.

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Yeah, if you press call, it should start ringing through here, I think.

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It's not.

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I don't hear anything.

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Crickets. Uh roadcaster, yeah.

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Hello?

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This is good. This is good. This is quality.

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This is difficult podcast.

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This is terrible. Uh hello? Maybe we should have tried this.

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I think his phone might be in a bad place because it did answer. We'll we'll try it again. Alright. Okay, we'll try it again. Because it does say, yeah. I think it's I think it was a phone issue. He sees this number and he's like, I don't know who this is.

Michael On Why He Listens

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Yellow. Michael. Did you just say yellow? Did you say yellow? Yep, just like the color. Okay. Uh welcome to the 101st episode spectacular of Three Eyes Around the Table.

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Oh my goodness, I can't believe it's been that long.

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How how lucky are you to be live on there?

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Yeah. Well, the honor and a privilege.

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Your first time long time.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Ooh.

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Ooh. Multiple times long time, but we just want to reach out and say thank you to some of our loyal uh podcast listeners and uh contributors. That uh we may be calling one in Helsinki. Oh, absolutely. That's facts. But reach out to say thank you and uh just also thank you for some of the unsolicited advice you've given us. I'm not saying thank you to Michael, first of all. And some some some complaints.

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Yes.

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It's all positive input.

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It's all input.

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I agree with that. Michael has been a guest on the podcast. He's sitting a chair. He has sat right here before.

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Yep.

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And uh that's that's been a minute now since he's got a lot of people.

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That's true.

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Oh, because it was minus 30.

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It's cold. Don't worry, it's cold in here today.

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It's 68, baby. Hey, if you had to uh if you had to say one thing today to describe how much satisfaction and gratification you get out of our call or out of our uh podcast, what would you leave our loyal listeners with?

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One thing to describe what I get out of your podcast. It's uh it's definitely entertaining to say the least. Wow. It's uh do a lot of driving for work, and so it's always something that I uh whenever I see a new episode pop up, I throw it on and take a listen.

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Well, we appreciate that very much. We thought we were gonna hear the word strategy.

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There's definitely a little bit of that, I'd say.

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Yeah, that's right. Well, cool, Michael. Well, thank you so much for uh being a part of it, and we hope to have you around for the next hundred episodes. We'll call you again, don't worry.

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We do we do as long as Taylor does, right?

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That's true. That's true. That's a true story.

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We plan on being on this podcast for as long as as that little beautiful little baby of yours can can go is three. Yeah, as she can run down grandpa on the podcast. She can be like, let me tell you something about granddaddy.

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That's gonna be funny. We're not too far off from that, I'm sure.

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I can see with that attitude already. She's close. She's close.

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That'll be funny. I like that. That's right.

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All right, Michael.

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We appreciate you, man. Thanks, Michael. See ya. Yep. All right, that was a fun one. Now, do we need to? It was it was?

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Yeah. I really want to call this next guy just so because I got him primed.

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All right, well, can you let me answer? Make sure you text him and let him know where the phone number is coming from.

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So he knows it's a legit number. Oh, he knows. Does he?

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Oh, yeah, he knows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I told him to be sure to answer. Um Mark, I know if you've met this guy. Greg, I'm sure you have.

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I have met him on multiple occasions. I feel pretty comfortable about it.

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This is my buddy Phil.

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Then you've got to be the one that's just how I paint a demon picture.

Phil Confirms The Family Fortune

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Hello?

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Phil!

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Yes.

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Hey, you got three guys around a table. We're sitting around uh at our 104th first episode, and we're wanting to talk to people who 104th? 104th. We just wanted to call people that never contributed and say, why? Why haven't you done anything for us ever? We just got the phone with Michael. Michael's contributed. You've done nothing.

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I don't know, my man. I'm just out here living my life.

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Somebody's gonna work for a living, unlike some people in this room.

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That's true. There's some people in this room that just sit around and live off of their uh massive portfolios that mummy and daddy sit up to them.

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Whatever.

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Phil, are you a loyal listener like you say you are?

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I am.

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Then tell us.

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I don't think I've missed an episode.

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Good. Then tell us why they call you monkey boy.

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Well, I think this is a family uh.

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I'm not close to the little dump button.

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But look, you do have experience with Chris's vast family fortune. Yes, you do. You can verify that he had multiple estates as growing up.

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I can I can confirm.

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That's evidence. Valuable evidence.

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All right, Phil's great talking to you, buddy.

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You I can now say you have greatly contributed to the podcast.

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And we will and we will have you on, we will have you on once again.

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Thank you, guys.

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Thanks for anybody.

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All right, see ya.

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All right, give them the good work, guys.

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Yeah, all right, bye-bye. So that right there, evidence, valuable evidence.

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And where do we put medical evidence? In the back. That's right.

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Put the evidence in the back. So that's look, now people can't think it's just me and you making stuff up. We have Chris's buddy who confirmed it.

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There's no way.

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No way.

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No way.

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You know what I'm gonna do when I get home? Yes, I do. What?

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I'm gonna call producer Mellon. Maybe he can tell. Doctor? Doctor, doctor, doctor.

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What'd you say? I'm gonna run right up and smack your mama. Do right in the mouth. What's the answer this time?

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Doctor Doctor.

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He's screening for sure.

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I can't he sees your number, Doctor Doctor.

Producer Mellon And The Bracket Truth

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Hello, hello, producer Mellon.

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Doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor.

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How are you guys doing? We are living La Vita Loca. This is our 101st episode spectacular. And you are live.

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You are the producer.

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Yeah. Well, congratulations to the three of you. Thank you. I'm probably uh I would have to say, uh, in that top one percent of your fandom out there. I would think so.

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Are you from Helsinki? Yes, we we do have, uh and I wish I could call. We have a uh an amazing fan base in in Helsinki, Finland. So shout out to all of our listeners there. Yeah. But having said that, producer Mellon has contributed so many ideas to this show.

SPEAKER_04 9:25

And uh we have to while you're on here, Doctor, we have to ask about the um uh the bracket challenge with what was it, the vegetable challenge that was so obnoxiously crazy? Sweet potatoes versus uh black hominy versus something else.

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Never makes the list.

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All right, so I would have to tell you that a lot of those lists I find and just fored them uh to use on the show create that.

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Oh I would take credit for it.

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You just changed, you just pulled the curtain back now. The magic's gone.

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Now it's just now it's just I've got a good chat GPT.

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So no, so the uh the ones that you are criticizing, those are the ones that I found online. All the ones that you had the problems with, those are the ones I came up with.

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That's I knew you'd be right there for us. And here's the good news about producer Mellon, even though he is in a remote location from where we film and and you know, record, I should say, not film, but record soon to film. Soon we've been saying that for 60 episodes. Um anyway, um, he will be in uh in location on local. In studio a couple of times this year. We will be doing an episode with Dr. Doctor. Dr. Doctor. Um that makes me so happy. I like that.

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Did we have a ballpark time frame when that might be? Uh yeah, I think probably fall and spring, right?

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Yeah, fall and spring. I am available. Very good. Very good. I like that a lot. How's the weather, by the way, producer?

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Oh, it's brutally hot down here. It's about 95 degrees and 100% humidity. Oh, yeah. So hot.

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Yay. I'm sorry. Don't you have don't you have a beautiful pool though? They've got multiple pools. You know, I it's a good one.

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He's like you. He's a lot like you. He's got multiple residences. Don't you overlook the ocean?

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I do overlook the ocean. Yeah. Uh when we're out in uh Clearwater Beach.

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I was gonna say it's your other residence, right?

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I believe his his estate overlooks the Gulf of America. Oh, that's facts. Is that correct?

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You know, uh, you you you get teased all the time about these uh your multiple homes, but it's two it's two and two right now, so we can give it right back to them.

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You know what? I think we should.

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You know, the mind is for the falsify that's the rich picking on the poor. I agree. I mean it's America, right?

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That's that's yeah, yeah.

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Uh I mean from I won't repeat, I won't repeat one of my favorite lines from uh history of the world part one, uh but uh there is a segment in there about the poor.

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Yeah, that's true. That is true. You could repeat the one about um what how it's good. It's good to be subject to be the king. There you go. I wouldn't know. Yeah, nope.

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All right, you say a no. Nope. I have no idea what you're talking about.

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You have multiple properties. Oh my god.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Always have, always will.

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As as always, thank you for your dedication to the show, all the all the great ideas, and we look forward to having you in the studio soon. And thanks for being a doctor. Uh I'm looking forward to that too. All right, take care of you. Thank you. All right, too.

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Bye.

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Doctor Doctor.

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Is is he here or is he here yet? Or or what do you mean? Is the old man across the street coming over? I I I did not ask him to come over.

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Well, you don't have to. That's the challenge. Yeah, he just shows up. Well, I've got I've got a special guest that I was going to call uh right now. I prefer that because we'll keep the old guests. And this will be an absolute out of the blue. I don't know if this person will answer, but this is this is also a a a former podcast guest.

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Oh, one general.

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The general.

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The ring general.

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I forgot about that.

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He said right there across that. Doctor, doctor.

Colonel Smirski And A Flag Day Shoutout

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Mr. Superintendent.

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Colonel Smirski! Colonel! Hey, so John, I just wanted to say uh you are live right now on the 101st episode spectacular of three guys around the table.

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101st spectacular. Absolutely.

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So uh equivalent to the 101st airborne. Yes.

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I mean, very similar. Very simple. No, no, no. I want to ask, so um, what makes you think that the 101st is gonna be spectacular after the history of the first 100?

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That's true. You know what? It was so spectacular. We didn't even know we did it. As as as one of us would say, details, yeah. I don't get mugged in details like that. So how's how's it going, Colonel?

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Oh, uh lake life is good. Oh, another example of you have rich, wealthy friends.

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We do, we have multiple residents friends. Wow. This uh and now is this the estate in Hawaii or is this the estate in Minnesota?

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Oh, Minnesota! Minnesota!

SPEAKER_06 14:45

Ah, so uh by the way, I do have to legally ask this question. Are the mosquitoes there larger than the ones in Kentucky? I'm just battling.

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Oh, without a doubt. Yeah, I mean, yes.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's like a salamander and a T-Rex.

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There you go. Oh, wow. See? So short arms. That's fantastic. Right, yeah. So we are fighting.

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So, John, we uh, you know, we we loved having you on as a guest. So we're using uh a couple of minutes on on this episode to call our former guests and to call some of our listeners. So we just wanted to say thank you for your contribution, and we look forward to having you on again here one of these days.

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Uh, I look forward to it too, and um, I'd be remiss if I didn't say that yesterday was flag day, yes, as well as the 251st birthday of the United States Army. How about that?

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Congratulations, United States Army, 251, a year older than the country. A year older than the country, and it was also President Trump's 80th birthday. Yes, it was, and he fell asleep at his birthday party watching a cage fight.

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Yeah, not that I'm awkward, you're awkward.

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Happy, happy birthday to the U.S.

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Army. Absolutely.

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We love the Army and the Armed Forces.

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Absolutely. Uh, so John, thank you for your service, thank you for your friendship, and thank you for your contributions to this uh to this awesome show. Fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Well, thanks for the call. Um, I I wish I had something profound to share.

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Uh if if Mark would have FaceTimed you, you could have shared the lake, but he didn't. So there you go.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Yes. Well, you know, um, sometimes you get what you get there, and the guy operating the equipment there.

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Right. Very good. I don't know why we have the one who is the least competent when it comes to equipment operating the equipment. Oh, 100%.

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The oldest person has to do all this. That's true. That's awful.

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John, you enjoy your I'm sure it was based, I'm sure it was based 100% on looks.

SPEAKER_06 16:51

That's yes. Yes. John, you enjoy your evening. Hi to Meg, and uh y'all take care. We'll talk soon.

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I look forward to being on an episode when I can spend some time with you guys. Perfect. Having more coffee, maybe even. There we go.

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We did have good iced coffee when we were here. I forgot. I'm against that as a gender rule.

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Perfect. Boo finished. Okay.

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That was fun. He's a great guy.

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We should have given him the award. I wanted to say it, but I didn't want to offend him. But the best accent of anybody's going to be.

SPEAKER_06 17:25

Oh, you betcha. Yeah, yeah. That's good coffee. And and by the way, uh, since the Stanley Club uh Stanley Cup uh clip.

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Since the clip clip since Stanley Cup the Hurricanes win. Yeah. A winner event.

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Yeah. Seems weird. Yeah. It was weird. Uh they they were, I mean, good gracious, 16 and three in the city.

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Vegas couldn't do anything last night. No, I actually watched that. Yeah. They couldn't do it. Well, I fell asleep, but they couldn't do anything.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_03 17:53

Yep. So um I watched UFC last night.

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Well, and now might be a good time to transition from our thank you phone trials.

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Oh, well, hold on.

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We still have can can he come in now? Uh no, he's not alone.

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He's got to come in.

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He's out. You're out, Tom. You don't know that line, do you? You've only seen it once. Godfather.

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Yes. Oh, yeah, Tom.

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You're out, Tom. Tom is the conciliari. Yep. Tom. What's his last name? Mr. Tom Hagen. Hagan, that's right. Uh, now's a good time to transition over, talk a little bit of current events.

Iran Peace Deal And The Price Tag

SPEAKER_06 18:30

So um that was something that Greg definitely wanted to bring up.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

So yeah, so I mean, a couple big things happening right now. Yes. Uh what what are your thoughts on the peace arrangement between the United States and Iran that's supposedly getting signed on Friday?

SPEAKER_04 18:50

Well, uh, as we are well aware, uh President Trump's at the G12 summit. Seven. Whatever. Seven. That's beautiful. And our vice president's on his way to sign this peace agreement. I have not heard any of the details, but is it a complete and total ceasefire? And what happens with the Strait of Hormuz? There's I think there's some issues. And are they saying they will not have nuclear or as George Bush said, nuclear weapons?

SPEAKER_03 19:22

I've obviously not seen it, but my understanding is that's not part of it.

SPEAKER_06 19:26

I sent you a I sent you a video that uh uh Marjorie Taylor Green who used to be a huge drunk trunk girl and she is blasting this agreement due to the.

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We're giving them a gazilla not a gazillion $300 billion to rebuild. I never do that. I never understand it. Why would you blow it up if you're gonna rebuild it? Right. If you've made the decision to blow things up, how'd that work with Japan?

SPEAKER_04 19:53

I'm a pave it and put a Walmart on it kind of guy, but that's just me. And if it was Kentucky, it'd be a family dollar or dollar general store.

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That that's valid.

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So um I you know here But yet we're in debt. How do you come up with $300 billion if you have no money?

SPEAKER_06 20:08

If you are Yeah, I can print more. If you are if you are truly uh conservative minded in terms of fiscally, I I'm you know, I I think it would be foolhardy for anyone to be happy about having to pay $300 billion to get back to where we were prior to this war beginning. What what strategic advantage have we gained? Strateger. Strategery. What strategy have we gained?

SPEAKER_04 20:38

That's my point. Unless they agree to no nuclear weapons.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

Which is the whole reason we've got to be able to do that. And I do know Israel is not very happy. Or not.

SPEAKER_06 20:52

I've always been of that of the ilk that you know you can't you can't go into anything like this and do it do it halfway. Either you you go in and okay, you know, we're going to go do regime change and we're gonna bomb their weapons things and take them out and blah blah blah. Either you go and do that if that's what you're going to do, but you cannot go in and uh after a couple weeks of of uh you know stagnation, then say, Yeah, we really need to get this straight of whore moose opened because our gas prices are ridiculous and the price of oil's going through the roof.

SPEAKER_04 21:30

Well, I think this is one of those, and I hate to say this, I think this is one of those knee-jerk, all right. Now I've done it. Now what do I do? How do I get out of this because it's not going the way I thought it would? I mean, let's face it. Two things you got going on here. Number one, the Middle East, they're going to fight forever. They've been fighting since biblical times. It says it in the Bible. They're just going to fight. On a on a on the on the second hand, they're crazy. They're gonna they're gonna do what they want and how they want and they don't care. You know, you take out one leader then nobody knows who's the leader, so who do you negotiate with?

SPEAKER_06 22:11

Well it's hard to uh it's hard to bring rationality to an irrational uh group of of folks.

SPEAKER_04 22:17

Said more eloquently than what I was saying, correct? Um I agree. So makes no logical sense to me. I don't know. I it's but something's got to change because I don't I don't care. I think look I believe in I believe in global safety, I believe in trusting everybody, but it's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_06 22:36

This was not Venezuela, and I think that's what it was sold to what came out of that. I think it was sold to the president at the guy um very similar to Venezuela. We'll go in, we'll do what we gotta do, we'll be right out, and oil prices are will be low, and we'll you know, we'll prevent them from having a nuclear weapon.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

So is this is this the US's equivalent to Putin's Putin in Ukraine? Because that's been going on for what, five years? It's been going on a long time.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

I don't think it's that extent.

SPEAKER_06 23:07

Yeah, and it it's a little different in. Of course they don't want to negotiate, they don't want to do anything. I mean, the number of of people that have died, uh the Russians I mean we're talking significant thousands upon thousands of Russian soldiers have died. As have Ukrainian uh soldiers. We we lost what thirteen that's thirteen too many, okay.

SPEAKER_04 23:31

Well, what I meant bored by it is both completely avoidable.

SPEAKER_06 23:35

Yeah, a hundred percent. You're correct. Umprovoked. If you polled the country and took out the whole, you know, the MAGA and all that, just poll the country who wants this war? I'm curious as to what it would have been before the war, the first two weeks of the war, and now if the end goal was truly removing all nuclear threat.

SPEAKER_04 24:04

If that truly was the end goal.

SPEAKER_06 24:08

Do you think it was? I've done it. I mean, I thought we did that. I thought we did that. I thought that's what the first strike thing was.

SPEAKER_04 24:16

Well, I think we did do that according to the news, but then they're also saying we want them to say they will not have nuclear weapons. Greg, what do you think? I think it's always about the money.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

Oh, I agree. And I think it's about the oil. Oil and the Strait of Hormos. You know, I I think that's what it's about. I think it's always what it's about.

SPEAKER_06 24:33

I uh look, you ever watch the movie Wag the Dog? 100%. That's exactly what's happening here. You know, uh what what was going on in the country, what was getting hot, the Epstein files, right? How do you distract from a another situation? You go to war. I I I'm not saying that that's 100% what it was, but I guarantee that that's I mean, look, Trump is on on you know a recording saying that I'm not gonna go down. If you're gonna if I go down, you all go with me. Start a war, do do something. I mean he said it and then it happened. So I I don't know. There's um I I don't think that it would be very popular. I mean, I think I agree with that. I think the polling would be bad.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

I think when it hits citizens where it counts in the wallet, in the wallet, then it's never and you can't stand up there and lie and say, well, things are getting better.

SPEAKER_06 25:31

No, they're not. No, they're not. I uh I was actually at uh at the uh Walmart way today. That's my piglet. And uh I I heard someone sing to another person uh that very thing about they saying that these prices are going down and they're not blah blah blah blah blah. You know, just uh there's a lot of that going on right now. So anyway.

UFC At The White House Reaction

SPEAKER_06 26:01

So what did you think about the UFC at the White House last night? What do you think?

SPEAKER_04 26:05

Oh, he asked you.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

Oh, you asked me first? It doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what I think. I mean, um I I don't have a huge huge problem with it. I mean, I know some people do. Uh I don't have a big, big problem with it, but you gotta look at it as to what it was. To me, it was the 80th birthday party for Donald Trump. That's what it was. I agree. Yeah. And if you look at it that way, yeah. What's what's what's it matter?

SPEAKER_06 26:33

I mean I I think you gotta take politics out of this part of it. Just uh I understand there's gonna be no matter what they did, there's gonna be people that will politically attack that situation. Uh, but I kind of I kind of take the same view just in terms of I mean, did I watch it? No, I don't I'm not a UFC guy. I watched I watched part of it.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

Um but um I I mean they had they had some great flyovers for the national anthem.

SPEAKER_06 27:01

As an American, do I care?

SPEAKER_03 27:03

No, I I really don't. Right. They had Medal of Honor recipients walk and and be in a wheelchair and bring the fighters to the rings. That was all kind of cool. They honored the military that was there. I mean, that was pretty neat.

SPEAKER_06 27:17

Um, but you know a company wanted to do that, they made it happen. I mean, uh, okay, it's over. Move on with your lives, folks. Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

There's more there's more important things to be worried about.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

And that's where I'm at with it. Take the politics out of it. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay. It was fine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

I don't, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:33

My son loved it. My voice.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

Yeah. Reagan and Cameron watched it all night, and I watched a few of the facts.

SPEAKER_04 27:40

Logan said, and it wasn't over until like 1 20. Yeah, it was late.

SPEAKER_06 27:43

Yeah, it was late. Well, our president did get a little sleepy during it. I did notice that video.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

I'd have got I'd have got sleepy at it, too.

SPEAKER_06 27:52

He's eating. What time do I go to bed? 7 30.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

About an hour. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

What was it that one fighter said at the end of the match, though, when he won?

SPEAKER_03 28:04

One fighter went a little political that he should probably shouldn't have done.

SPEAKER_06 28:07

And and you know, that's your that's your moment where you've trained and you've worked that hard, and that's what's in your mind to say.

SPEAKER_04 28:17

Yeah. Uh we're talking about we were talking about the former first lady, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Uh well, he was. We're not. He was. He said he he he was complimentary of the president for having this fight at the White House, and he was not complimentary of this Obama, first lady.

SPEAKER_06 28:34

That's right. Yeah, yeah.

unknown 28:35

Good.

SPEAKER_06 28:35

Any other current events that we want to talk about before we get to our final topic of the night. Oh, yeah. We're just gonna have a little tease. Yeah, hold on. Just a little taste. Okay, yeah, just a little taste. He's here. He's not coming. He's here. Nope. Okay. All right. Allow him to come in.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

Well, I but while he while he's while he's coming in, I'm gonna give an update on our bet because people are here. Look, the Cubs have been terrible too. Let's not get confused about that. I mean, they're not as bad as the Reds, but that's true. Uh but they've been terrible. So where we stand at currently is the Reds are 33 and 37.

SPEAKER_06 29:22

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

Not good. Oh the Cubs are a little better. They're 37 and 35, but the Brewers are starting to run away with the division. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 29:32

So um is

Norman Crashes The Party

SPEAKER_06 29:34

he coming?

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Hey, uh, um, hey, uh, uh Chris, it's normal. Just want to say hi to you and Greg and Mark, and y'all know that I think you have a great podcast. And I hear you talk about me all the time on the on the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Speak of the devil. And uh no shirt. God's honest truth. No shirt. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

I wish we had video. Put your shirt on, Norman. The man's 84 years old, people. Awful. 83 and a half, to be exact. And he told me 84. Because his 84th birthday is in January.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

Put your shirt on.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

Yeah. I just want to say thank you. You guys are great. And if you don't mind to come over, look at this. I mean looking at turn and look. I mean, looking. Is that a basketball?

SPEAKER_06 30:25

I think that's a goiter. It fell.

SPEAKER_04 30:28

Would you uh mind to come over and do these uh seven post-it notes that I had? What? But that was happening. I'll come up with another 10. What is happening? I mean, where's he going? What is that?

SPEAKER_06 30:38

What is oh, he's not feeling good. If he killed over right now, you'd feel bad. No, I wouldn't. If something ever happens, we know who did it. That's all I'm saying. So um now I'm gonna tease some of the we're going to do it. The whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

Let me ask a question. Yes, let me ask a question. Seriously. Yes. How often do you go around outside of your house with no shirt on? At the farm. Right. At the farm all the time, never at home.

SPEAKER_06 31:10

Right. I live in a neighborhood.

SPEAKER_03 31:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:12

Where are you? I wear a swim shirt in the pool that I have. Right.

SPEAKER_04 31:16

So when I'm on the boat or if I'm at the farm, the problem is people in my neighborhood, people try by and throw money at me if I don't have my shirt on.

SPEAKER_06 31:27

Yeah. And by money, we're talking about rocks.

SPEAKER_03 31:30

I mean, no, in your neighborhood, it's gold bars. Gold sovereigns. I wear multiple shirts. Yeah. I have on multiple shirts at all times, including now.

SPEAKER_06 31:42

All right. So um I got nothing. Uh for our next 102nd episode. Remind me never sit on his couch spot. Yeah.

Teasing The Iconic Foods Bracket

SPEAKER_06 31:51

We are going to be doing a uh a bracket challenge, which we haven't done in a while. We're going to do a bracket challenge of iconic foods across the country. We're actually going to do I like it. Um different regions are going to go against each other, and then they're going to play out to see which iconic food wins overall. I figured we would tease. Maybe we should do like one region. We'll do the south.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

And and like do one region an episode and then bring it into a let's do that.

Southern Foods Bracket Decisions

SPEAKER_06 32:19

Let's do it right now. Let's start right now with the south. All right. So and and there are eight regional foods in each region. So this is 32 total iconic foods. Cool. In the South. Number one, Texas beef brisket versus number eight uh seed, by the way, Southern fried chicken and waffles. This is a tough one. Right off the room.

SPEAKER_03 32:45

Let me tell you up. Okay, let me let me just weekend. Yep. As you guys know. Yep. There's a food truck on this golf course that's chicken and waffles. And let me tell you uh, it's handheld and it's as good as it gets.

SPEAKER_04 33:03

I love chicken waffle. I do too.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

But we're talking Texas.

SPEAKER_06 33:07

I love Texas brisket too. That's hard. If that's the one in eight seeds. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking chicken waffles should have been a two-seed or a three.

SPEAKER_04 33:18

Yeah, it's definitely not an eight-seed.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

I think I think brisket's as good as it gets for one bite if it's done right. Yep. And you've had burn-ins at my house before.

SPEAKER_06 33:30

If you have bad brisket versus bad chicken and waffles. Oh, bad chicken and waffles are always good. Hundred times out of a hundred. Yeah, if you have a bad brisket, it's awful. You don't eat it. It's bad. It's like you can't eat it. No. It's like eating that table that we're sitting around. But I'm still gonna go brisket just because of the one.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

Because if it's good brisket and good chicken and waffles, good brisket wins. Agreed.

SPEAKER_06 33:53

Agreed. All right. No, the next one is four versus five. New Orleans pow boy versus low country shrimp and grits. I'm shrimp and grits. I love a po' boy. Yeah. But low country shrimp and grits.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

I I don't, I've never had either, but my family loves a low country boil where it's got the corn and the sausage and the shrimp and things like that. Now, I'll eat the sausage out of it. Yeah. But I mean, Hallie wants one of those before she goes to off to college. Or low country boil.

SPEAKER_06 34:23

I love grits, period. What about you? I don't even think the Po Boy is the number one sandwich in New Orleans. I think the muffaletta is. Agreed. So I'm going low country. Muffaletta. They're good. Oh, fantastic. Yes. Yes. You got to dive in there and eat it. Low country shrimp and grits. Number three seed versus number six seed. Number three seed is Carolina pulled pork versus number six seed Nashville hot chicken. Nashville hot chicken all day because I hate vinegar-based pork.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

What are you? Sauce.

SPEAKER_06 34:51

Nashville hot chicken.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

I I am too. I do he loves vinegar sauce. I do not like Carolina sauce. That's a lie. That's uh that that is 10,000 percent a lie. Uh I don't like Carolina barbecue. My wife loves vinegar-based sauce. I I do not care for it at all. Yep. Um, so I gotta go Nashville hot chicken. I can go.

SPEAKER_06 35:15

All right.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

You love vinegar and bitter. You love dark, dark, dark chocolate.

SPEAKER_06 35:21

And then the the next coffee. That's true. The next one is Louisiana. This is a number two seed, Louisiana gumbo. Oh, that is not better than chicken and waffles. I agree with you a million percent. Versus the number seven seed, Tex-Mex fajitas. Gumbo.

SPEAKER_03 35:36

Tex Mex fajitas.

SPEAKER_06 35:38

Fajitas close.

SPEAKER_03 35:39

Fajitas move on. In the upset.

SPEAKER_04 35:41

Boo. In the upset. Gumbo, little gumbo. All right.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Look, how's chicken and waffles not too? Right.

SPEAKER_06 35:49

I agree. Yep. Some gumbo. I agree. It got it got poned. So, all right.

SPEAKER_03 35:55

So wait, wait. Before we go into the next round, what southern foods are missing? Hot brown from Kentucky. Bingo. Dude, I had it at the brown, and it was terrible.

SPEAKER_06 36:04

Did I not tell you that's the worst one you'll ever have? It was terrible. If you wanted to not do that one, you could do burgoo. I love burgoo. You love the Keeneland Burgoo.

SPEAKER_04 36:12

Keeneland Burgoo's where it's at. Okay. Track kitchen up there. I like okay. What about Alabama barbecue?

SPEAKER_06 36:17

Uh, how about Memphis barbecue? Memphis ribs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

Rendezvous.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

I don't like the white sauce. Janie loves the white sauce in Alabama. Uh on chicken, loves it. Um, what about like bread pudding? Oh, I love some bread pudding. I mean, it's it's probably there's a restaurant in Destin, Lulu's. That I will go there and not eat an entree to get the bread pudding. Last time we were there with you, you ordered bread pudding. I ordered two servings of bread pudding, one for my dinner and one for dessert. That's awesome. I mean, and I mean, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_06 36:53

And and it's good. Uh I I I you know what one's missing? Ogle dog.

SPEAKER_04 36:59

1000%. An ogledog. Where's the ogledog?

SPEAKER_03 37:03

Ogledog's good.

SPEAKER_04 37:04

Well, think about this like southern fried fish. I mean, there's so much they missed out of there. Now, what about just fried chicken? You know why everybody likes fried chicken, Craig? Because it's fried chicken, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 37:16

So then we move on to Texas brisket versus this is an easy one, low country shrimp and grits. To me, that's easy brisket. Brisket. Yeah. Brisket. All right. And brisket losing. Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 37:29

Yeah, I think it's coming out of the south, honestly.

SPEAKER_06 37:31

Then we got Nashville Hot Chicken versus Tex-Mex fajitas. Nashville Hot Chicken.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Tex-Mex fajitas.

SPEAKER_06 37:37

Fajitas moves on, my friend.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

Seven seed. It's my guest by the way.

SPEAKER_06 37:42

I don't love Nashville Hot Chicken. I don't either. I don't either. It's I don't love it. It's uh it's almost ammonia-y or something to me. I don't like it. I like fajitas too. Don't we like it?

SPEAKER_03 37:54

I don't like I don't like you like buffalo sauce. I don't like buffalo sauce.

SPEAKER_06 37:58

It's because it's pure vinegar. So coming out of the south is gonna be brisket versus fajitas.

SPEAKER_03 38:03

Easy. Yep. What about Texas? Fajitas. What about Texas bring broto? Easy. Fajitas colabonias.

SPEAKER_06 38:09

Zero percent. Brisket. Briskets coming out of the south. Cool. Well, mark it down.

SPEAKER_03 38:14

We'll have to remember.

SPEAKER_04 38:15

All right. So uh awesome. This is gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_03 38:17

Yeah, that'll be fun. We may have to do that. So, what's your favorite southern dessert?

Best Southern Desserts And Closing

SPEAKER_03 38:21

Oh bread pudding, hands down.

SPEAKER_04 38:25

Uh bourbon bread pudding.

SPEAKER_06 38:27

You know, I I'd I'd say uh pry pralines, pralines. Uh pralines are good, man. Especially in like Charleston, that area. Those are pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

But that's not a dessert, that's something you walk around with.

SPEAKER_06 38:39

Yeah, that's true. Um you know, Derby pie. Personally, I love derby pie. I don't love it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

What about what do you think? Georgia pecan pie? Now, Derby pie is good. It's dry. I'm gonna get old school on you guys. Yeah, my favorite pecan pie. And I call it pecan, but that's beside the point. Went's wrong. It used to be Long John Silvers. They still got it. Do you remember? They still got it.

SPEAKER_06 39:05

Yes, and they still got it. And we are gonna soon have one within a mile of this location.

SPEAKER_03 39:09

Is it like the old school? Because do you remember the old school Long John Silvers? It had the pecans on top of it. Yeah, and then it had that filling in it that was like that thick. Yeah. I would just want I would take my fork and just pull the filling out. I eat it all. Yeah, but I'd pull that feeling on the back.

SPEAKER_04 39:26

By the way, you know what that's called?

SPEAKER_03 39:27

Diabetes.

SPEAKER_04 39:28

Oh, it's delicious. Oh, yeah. After eating all that grease, you needed that. Come on now. You need to firm things back up.

SPEAKER_03 39:37

It's what it's called is delicious.

SPEAKER_06 39:39

Um, I'm gonna throw one out there that's not uh well, I it can't be because it's uh it's Hawaii is where they come from. That's not southern. But in Florida, in Florida, they there's a place that I keep trying to get you guys to go to, Burns, that makes macadamia nut ice cream from scratch. That's the only thing they have to import the macadamia nuts from Hawaii. Yeah, that's my all-time favorite dessert of anywhere. That macadamia nut ice cream that they have at Burns is unbelievable.

SPEAKER_04 40:12

So I love bourbon bread pudding. But I also love to have a good slab of ribs with banana pudding afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

Banana pudding is a great southern dessert.

SPEAKER_06 40:23

Banana pudding is legit. Um, what about that?

SPEAKER_03 40:27

Now, do you like a hot do you like hot banana pudding or cold banana pudding? Cold.

SPEAKER_06 40:31

Gosh, I got another one. Hot. I like hot pudding.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

I'm a cold banana pudding. I'm a cold banana pudding.

SPEAKER_06 40:38

Oh, banana pudding? Yeah. Cold. Yeah, cold. My bad. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. From Texas. Texas sheet cake. It's this uh chocolate with this ganache chocolate top. Oh. Never had it. It's I make it once a year. You still never had it.

SPEAKER_03 40:57

Yeah. Uh well, I mean, how long have we known each other? That's true. Apparently he never makes it.

SPEAKER_06 41:02

That's true. You've had some good cakes from my wife. I did yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 41:05

Yep. I've not had any of it, but Janie and Haley and Reagan. What the Janie, Haley, and Reagan had it.

SPEAKER_06 41:11

Yeah, I had one piece of it. So my birthday was last. No, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_04 41:19

No, it wasn't. Yours was.

SPEAKER_03 41:22

Janie's birthday was last. Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_04 41:24

All right. Actually, Halle's an awesome 101st anniversary episode.

SPEAKER_06 41:29

Uh, seriously, uh, 101? Do you really think we'd ever get to 101 of these things? I can't. I thought we were like number 20 or something. So feels like a thousand. It's pretty crazy. Crazy.

SPEAKER_03 41:41

And the fact that we do you know, you all didn't watch the 1400 episode of OVW, but do you know custom wrestling mats come from a company in Lima? Custom wrestling products. Did the road dog say it? He did.

SPEAKER_04 41:58

Oh, how good was it?

SPEAKER_03 41:59

It was okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:00

I love the road dog. He still got a beard?

SPEAKER_03 42:02

He does have a beard. He's a former Marine. He's former something.