Vegans Talking Shit

Major Announcement

• The Tofu Trio • Episode 86

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All three members of The Tofu Trio are back together, and they kick things off with a major announcement. Sorry, no spoilers here. You'll have to listen to find out the big news. Joey then dives into his recent trip to "Scary Empire," which is actually called Spooky Empire, but his brain completely short-circuits in the moment. He goes through some of the overpriced crap he bought at the convention, holding some of it up for the viewers. Next up, Jon and Vanessa share more details from their trip to Japan, including a t-shirt they brought back for Joey. He proudly holds the shirt up, and then Vanessa continues the trend of using visual aids by showing off her Goshuincho, which is a traditional accordion booklet used to collect commemorative stamps and calligraphy from Buddhist temples. She displays the ink and stamps she collected, but audio-only listeners will have to use their imaginations. Later, Jon talks about his decision to stop carrying a physical wallet, a move that backfired on him while in Japan. The situation got so desperate that Vanessa literally had to convince Jon to ask total strangers for cash! Finally, Joey closes the show by reminiscing about the early days of their friendship, specifically the time he lost his own wallet after an outing with Jon and Vanessa. Clearly, the audio crowd is temporarily forgotten in this episode. The trio was too excited about playing show-and-tell!

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Vegans Talking Shit is hosted by Joey Di Girolamo, Jon Missirlian, and Vanessa Silva. Main podcast image artwork by Diego Orellana. Theme song "Flying" by TrackTribe. Visit @veganstalkingshit on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube and @vegans.talking.sh on TikTok. Send questions, comments, and topic ideas to veganstalkingshit@gmail.com, and you may get your email read during the show.

SPEAKER_00

Hey everybody, welcome to Vegans Talking Shit. I'm Joey. I'm John.

SPEAKER_03

I'm Vanessa.

SPEAKER_00

And this episode's gonna be pretty different. We have a major announcement to make. Uh, some of it, yeah, it's one announcement that some of you may like, some of you may not like, but it's kind of it is what it is. Uh, we for the past couple of years been doing an episode a week. We've been publishing a new episode every single week, and we've been pretty good about it. We haven't missed a single week. But our busy little lives have caught up with us. And we have decided that we'll be doing an episode every two weeks moving forward, or at least for a little while. Maybe it's temporary, maybe it's permanent, we're not sure. But for now, because of our busy schedules, we're gonna have to release an episode bi-weekly as opposed to weekly. And uh that does not necessarily mean that the better the episodes will be better now. They're still gonna probably be very clunky and we're still gonna be talking shit. And chances are there might even be an episode or two where we don't even talk about vegan veganism like the last two episodes. But yes, moving forward, we will be we'll be releasing an episode bi-weekly as opposed to weekly, and I think that's just gonna help us mentally because this can be a lot, you know. We're we all are very busy, and also we've been spending a lot of money on this and made none in return. Uh, sure, we have our merchandise that we're selling, uh, but we're not selling nearly as much to make up for how much we're spending.

SPEAKER_03

Not even that much. And if you guys decide to help us go to our store and buy some merchandise, it would be great.

SPEAKER_00

Buy the vegan's talking shit teddy bear. And hey, Father's Day is right around the corner. Buy your dad, a vegan's talking shit teddy bear. That'll make his day. A vegan's talking shit. Yeah. Oh yeah. I actually I really like the zip up hoodie. Um, I haven't bought that for myself, but I think I will. Um, I love the zip up hoodie, so yeah, I'm gonna make a contribution. So yeah, so John, Vanessa, do you have anything you'd like to contribute to our major announcement?

SPEAKER_03

Not really. If you guys miss us very much, you guys can call us.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I mean, if you guys um you know, once once we start with this, you know, we'd if you guys uh we'd like to hear your feedback. If there's some of you out there that really want us to go once a week, and um or if you're like, hey, we we only want you once a month, like whatever it is, you know, let us know.

SPEAKER_00

You know, and we forgot to do the thing we were supposed to do. Uh, like, subscribe, ring the alarm bell, check us out on social media at vegans talking shit, or just search vegans talking shit. And there's a link to our merchandise store, our Shopify store that has uh vegans talking shit t-shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, the teddy bear.

SPEAKER_03

Coffee mugs are so cute, guys. Yeah, I feel like you should have one.

SPEAKER_00

I have two actually. I have one at work and one at home.

SPEAKER_03

Wow, we have two, but it's one from you, one for John.

SPEAKER_00

So well, that's sweet. So, aside from our major announcement, I just want to throw it out there. I went to Scary Empire uh two weeks ago. That is a horror convention. I got to see uh Freddie Kruger, Robert England, the man who plays Freddie Kruger. I saw him there, the cast of It Welcome to Dairy, they were there. Um, it was really cool. I spent a lot of money, but it wasn't a comic book convention, and I was hoping there would be at least one comic book vendor, but there wasn't. But I did buy a lot of useless crap. I probably spent, let's just throw it in the air, maybe $200, and I regret every penny. Not because the convention.

SPEAKER_01

What did you buy?

SPEAKER_00

Uh okay, talk amongst yourselves. Oh, you're gonna go get it. So I'll show you.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, I thought he spended this to get in the place, the convention. Yeah, but you have to pay to get in the conventions.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, I would assume.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, how much you pay to get in the conventions?

SPEAKER_00

What happened?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, how much you pay to get in in these conventions?

SPEAKER_00

Not that much. I think it was like 60 bucks, but the bright line ticket was expensive because my friend Arnie, uh, he um he and I neither of us like to take that long drive to Orlando, so we took the Bright Line and the ticket to Bright Line. Yeah, yeah, it's a maybe like $120 in total for the round trip. I mean, still worth it.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, much better than we should all leave in Japan. The better train is so much cheaper than that.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm gonna show you what I bought at this convention, but I have to tell you, a lot of it I don't have anymore because I literally threw it away. Um, why did you buy it then? Because I'm an idiot. Okay, there's this, it's in its wrapper, but it's a squishy, it's a stick of butter squishy. So I I like squishies, but here's the thing. Why bought three squishies? For what reason?

SPEAKER_02

For what?

SPEAKER_00

Because I'm an idiot. That's why I buy stupid shit.

SPEAKER_01

How much were the salted butter squishies?

SPEAKER_00

I think it was like $20 for four, and I gave one away. Who the hell wants one? I don't know. I just I buy stupid fucking shit. And here I bought a Beetlejuice puzzle. I love Beetlejuice, it's a great and okay. And last week I actually wore a t-shirt that was a Beetlejuice reference.

SPEAKER_01

Uh, it's a t-shirt puzzle is for like a five-year-old. Well, my mental maybe you can give it to your nephew.

SPEAKER_03

My nephew's like, we can put in the frame. We can put the frame with the thingy.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, give that to Virginia. Virginia, she'd like this. Oh, yeah, she loves she loves Beetlejuice.

SPEAKER_03

She doesn't have Beetlejuice. She put anything else, she has too much sheet already. She has like that though.

SPEAKER_01

You can frame it for her next person.

SPEAKER_00

It was a t-shirt that read, I myself am strange and unusual, which is a line from Beetlejuice. Uh Lydia Dietz, um, Winona Ryder's character. That's a line she says when um uh what why is the what's the context? Oh, her parents. Um, no, I don't I don't remember, but anyway, Lydia Deets says, I myself am strange and unusual.

SPEAKER_03

Um, so yes, that was my uh Joey bought all this this butter thing to squeeze then just to squeeze with my little digit. Can you imagine Joy in Japan stores, John? Who'd have come back with 10 bags?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he would. You would but you know you'd have to buy a suitcase like us to bring back, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But we bought two pillows, so we bought it.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we could have bought we could have bought a lot more, but you know what? If we didn't buy the pillows, we probably would have bought other stuff to fit.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, next time we are going to do that.

SPEAKER_01

I know we have amazing shopping there.

SPEAKER_00

We're not well, you did you did buy me a t-shirt. I should uh tell our listeners you brought me back an amazing t-shirt.

SPEAKER_01

Go get the t-shirt, go get it.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, they both talk amongst yourselves again. We spent and I bought it a building.

SPEAKER_03

The listeners cannot uh see exactly the t-shirt, so we probably have to describe John. Normally, he has such a good eye to pick gifts to people that they like it. Is it's very it's very interesting. I never see that shirt and thought about Joey, but John can do that all the time.

SPEAKER_01

So Joey is funny. Oh, yeah, he can't find it.

SPEAKER_00

I'm not gonna know what you guys are saying until I actually start editing this episode.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, I'm not going to tell you.

SPEAKER_00

So John and Vanessa were nice enough to bring back this t-shirt from Japan.

SPEAKER_01

So for those of you, it says New Japan Pro Wrestling, and there is a bunch of uh wrestlers characters of wrestlers and and the month Fuji in the back. And the Mount Fuji. Oh, I didn't even make that connection. Okay, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00

So he's Joey's really into wrestling. So what's really funny is that John, you you you kind of kept the poker face when we were we were recording an episode, and you know, you had already come back from Japan and you had already bought me this while you were there, and I was talking about wrestling, and I mentioned uh Japanese wrestling, so it's just perfect symmetry right there. Perfect.

SPEAKER_03

Well, super funny because uh John really he looked from far. You say, Oh my god, that's perfect to joy.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, one store was amazing, though. I I was kind of I don't know, I thought that we'd be able to find Joey something because for for like a full day we were looking for you. Oh we're looking looking. Well, there were just so many stores in uh was that in Kyoto or was that in Osaka?

SPEAKER_03

The the the shirt was is Osaka, but we were looking Kyoto for something for Joey. Yeah, well, there were great stores in both nothing was like, Oh my god, this is so much Joey, you know. Yeah, we didn't, you know, you have to feel really good about it, Joy, because we didn't bought stuff for basically anybody else that was our family. That's it.

SPEAKER_02

No, I am honored.

SPEAKER_03

We were the only friend that got some gift from that's why I love you guys.

SPEAKER_01

You guys think of me saw that though, because if we didn't see that, I don't know what we would have bought. If we didn't see that, we it might have been like just a Japanese chain, you know, Batman boxers with like a magnet.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we were we were looking for like a comic book. John one day we were in a store that he found like a bunch of comic books, but the store was closing. Oh so and then they closed the cashier in Japan, you know, it doesn't matter. And uh this was in Matsumoto. Did you remember John? You were upstairs, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That was like the that was the bookstore. So Joey, I was telling you that like the uh the bookstores in Japan, they have entire sections, not just sections, literally, like the entire floor was graphic novels and comics, like just manga or American comics too. No, not American, no, just manga, just Japanese, yeah, like the entire floor. It's so we're talking like graphic novels for um every different age group, every type of demographic. It was it's crazy, yeah. Wow. Um, yeah, there weren't actual comics in that in that store. Um, Vanessa, those were all kind of graphic books. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

I I knew that I had to remove John from that section because I need to buy there. Was a book I I think I commented the the other the other podcast about Japan. They you you can get like some kind of book that every single tempo you go, you give them and they they kind of like uh draw something for you with that beautiful uh handwrites that they do, you know?

SPEAKER_01

It's like calligraphy, kind of right calligraphy, it's super cool.

SPEAKER_03

Every single tempo you get one of this thing, but you have to have this kind of book, and I want to buy it. And the card that we were using abroad was with John, and John was upstairs looking for the comic books, and I was like a desperate collie, and then they saw closed, and John said, Oh, tomorrow morning, maybe before we leave, we come back here. But I had to leave super soon, so yeah, it didn't work out.

SPEAKER_00

Uh next month, it's oh, I'm sorry, go ahead, John. You bought the book though, you ended up buying the book, right?

SPEAKER_03

It's beautiful, my book. Yeah, awesome.

SPEAKER_01

I will say though, if you if you're for our listeners, yeah, yeah, yeah. Show us for our listeners. If you ever go to Japan, make sure you have cash on you. Really? No credit card. Yeah, I mean, most places we'll take credit card, but the temples do not right in the temples.

SPEAKER_03

Um microphone that's bad. That's bad.

SPEAKER_01

She is um what she's getting right now. Is the book that you bring to the temples, and you can buy these books, and and then the temples will give you a stamp, or they'll do a little drawing, and it's very cool. It's like um, I I don't they're called something. So this is I forgot the name.

SPEAKER_03

I'll this is like the ood, and there's like uh opening, so you open then. Look, there's some cool ones here. Let me show you.

SPEAKER_00

Look, oh, that's beautiful, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

From different temples. So look at the ones you got for the vegan restaurant. No way, that's they had like stamps because it's so common people walk with these books everywhere there to get the stamps and the things for is that specifically made for tourists?

SPEAKER_01

So no, it's not, it's it's more it they're called. I they're called gauche. By the way, uh, I'm looking this up on chat GPT. Of course you are.

SPEAKER_00

Chat GPT moment with John Mr. Lean.

SPEAKER_01

I just uh I just wasted a couple liters of water.

SPEAKER_03

Some places look, they just have these stamps. So that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01

So this is called a gauche and nucho, and what they are is they're small books that people collect stamps and signatures in while traveling around Japan. There are famous types. Uh it and this is this what that's it's called. It's called a gosh and nucho. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um actual cherry blossom.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_03

I got from the tree and put in the the and you just flattened it, yeah. You just flat it and let's get it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you did that yourself, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah, I did by myself.

SPEAKER_01

So, but each Buddhist temple and Shinto Temple or Shinto Shrine, they have their own little you know, stamp or their own little writing that they do, so it's cool. Yeah, but each of them charge, so charge like not a lot, like three to five hundred yen, which is how much is that three to five hundred? No, two, yeah, two hundred.

SPEAKER_03

It's like the one dollar, two dollars, one or two dollars.

SPEAKER_01

So not bad, but but a lot of them only take cash.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, did you told that this part? And I don't remember if you talk about that. I'm I made I well I made ask money for America.

SPEAKER_01

I'm done, like I'm done uh carrying cash in my life. Yeah, like I was done even even before I went to Japan, and now I'm done for sure because actually I lost my I'm gonna tell two stories. I lost my wallet probably about a month ago. I put it on top of Vanessa's car, drove away, and my car. I put it on top of the Camaro, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You were driving Camaro F J Sunday.

SPEAKER_01

One day I had to drive it. I had to drive it one day. I can't remember why. I think I had no electric, that's why. But I drove it one day, didn't like that.

SPEAKER_03

And you know what? I knew because the position of the seat of my car.

SPEAKER_01

Can I finish the story?

SPEAKER_03

I didn't like it this way.

SPEAKER_01

So wallet gone, credit cards gone. I had like $80 in cash in there, but whatever. It after that, I was like, okay, I'm never bringing a wallet again. Because a lot of times what would happen is I'd sit down on the driver's side seat, and a lot of you men probably have the same problem, and it's it's uncomfortable. And then you're taking out your wallet and you're putting it in the middle, and you're always kind of like worried about where your wallet is. And with Apple Pay now, why the hell do you need I don't know what that is, but this is push punishment for you. I I don't know with Apple Pay, you don't need your wallet anymore. So after I lost my wallet, I made the decision to um never carry a wallet again. But before that, we're in Japan, and in Japan, you might actually need cash because of the reasons I explained the temples, even some restaurants, like they don't all take credit cards, like the little ones on the street and and such. So we had no cash, and there were a couple temples where Vanessa couldn't get a stamp, and she was very sad about it, very disappointed because she loved it. Did you use an ATM there? Uh, we don't well, it's a lot of money to use ATMs in Japan if it's not your you know we use it.

SPEAKER_03

So, anyways, I um with Vanessa's you know coaxing, she had me like ask Americans for money, and uh I was like well we were paying venomo and just get off then, you know.

SPEAKER_01

I found a guy I'm like, I'm like, dude, I just need a couple bucks, I'll I'll Venmo you. And he looks at me, he's like, Okay, whatever.

SPEAKER_00

John, though.

SPEAKER_01

And then you're you're making you're like you're making small talk with these guys.

SPEAKER_00

And you and I are like the worst with that.

SPEAKER_01

Well, like he's sending you probably better than me, though. He's sending me, he's giving me ten dollars in yen. No, he gave me five dollars in yen, and I'm like, I'll give you a little tip. And I gave him like seven dollars. He's like, Okay, and this guy clearly didn't need it. He was like a lawyer from like New York or something, right? Okay, thanks for the two bucks. And like it was pretty funny. Like for like a full afternoon, we were like looking at people, like, should we ask them? Should we ask them? They look American, you know.

SPEAKER_03

We can just take some money and they can venmo us, but but you know, and next day we just uh we just uh went to an ATM. We found the one ATM and uh removed like $100.

SPEAKER_01

I forgot the other reason, and paid like uh 20%. I forgot the other reason the city tax. So these hotels they all have city taxes. Now they're very cheap, they're like two dollars US or like three dollars US. But most of them again, they they'll take credit card all day for your room, but for the city tax, you got to pay cash. Wow, which means you gotta pay yen. That was the main reason we actually needed to take out yen Vanessa was because of those city taxes.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that was the main reason because we were like in a tiny city, uh, but after problems, as they say. Yeah, they have like so many good stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Look, it looks like Hello Kitty. Is that Hello Kitty? This is an episode. Those of you listening via podcast, like Apple Podcasts. This is one where you should probably be watching it on YouTube.

SPEAKER_03

This is another vegan restaurant we went.

SPEAKER_00

What is that? A patch or a sticker? Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, uh, was a good, really good one. Vegan restaurant.

SPEAKER_01

I liked the vegan restaurants in Japan. Yeah, unless I didn't like them as much.

SPEAKER_03

I think I well, it's because it's because they use a lot of um soy soy meat, and my digestion is not very good.

SPEAKER_01

So what's interesting is though when I'm traveling, I that's pretty even the vegan restaurants that maybe are not as good as the ones that maybe I find in the states, I kind of give them a little break. Just because it's like for me, it's just like so cool when I'm in a vegan restaurant in Japan or in Amsterdam or Germany or whatever, right? Like, or even like another city in the United States, like like to find a brand new. I remember on our road trip back to Chicago, we ate at that's a cool one. That's very cool. Yeah, it's not it's not just uh stamps in temples. We went to the Olympic Museum in Japan and we got some stamps there.

SPEAKER_03

Begame such a uh big thing in Japan that everybody go everywhere you go, they have stamps. Look at the monkey ones.

SPEAKER_00

Again, those of you listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, whatever, uh you should be watch this on YouTube, otherwise, you might not understand what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_01

Um, it's funny you guys let me finish my point on the vegan restaurants. Like, I don't I know we've talked about this so many times, like on a happy cow, about happy cow and traveling around and going to, but I there's like a weird, I don't think nostalgia's the right word, but I have this feeling when I'm in when I find another a new restaurant in like a city in the United States, or especially a city out of the country, yeah. Um like that, it's just like this whole encompassing feeling. Like I'm supporting them. Um I found this like gem of a restaurant that just like so cool that like um. I don't know. It's just like this good feeling all the way around.

SPEAKER_00

For sure.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, absolutely. You know, um, I don't know if you feel like that, Joey, when you're in it when you're in a different city, like a foreign city, and especially when it's a really good meal, it's like, wow, you know, it's not, it's a completely different feeling of when I'd found a good restaurant, you know, 10 years ago when I was not vegan.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Um no, you feel it almost like uh you feel like you're contributing not just to veganism and you know helping out the animals, but you're actually supporting a restaurant who has the same goals in life as you have that same mission about saving the animals. I remember when I went to Portland the very, very first time, and I went there like Jesus, I think like eight, nine times. Um, it was everything, it was like everything vegan. I went to a vegan grocery store, I went to the vegan restaurants every single day, uh, the vegan um clothing store. And even though I didn't get a tattoo, there was a vegan tattoo parlor. Like you can live your vegan life like better there, as far as I've seen, than anywhere else. And I just and and I mentioned this before, Portland also has a vegan strip club, which I did not uh go to. Um, maybe it's something I should have done, but I did not. Uh, but yeah, I I I totally get what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01

And it's this feeling of kinship that you have, yes, with the owner, with everyone else that's eating in the restaurant. I mean, we have it here when we go to Love Life or Vegan Tira or a local restaurant, but I just feel like when you're out of state or out of country, it's even more like oh wow, there's all these other vegans in Nashville or yeah, Munich, Germany, and it's just it's cool. I don't know, it's a cool thing. When we were in Japan, the the the the stamp she just showed you, uh we went to a little burger joint called Silverback, and everything in the um restaurant was like it was supposed to be like Silverback Gorillas. Like he this guy had like a a theme of gorillas, and he was the nicest, friendliest guy who's who really tried to speak English, but his English wasn't good, and he just felt this like brotherhood with them, and um yeah, it was just cool.

SPEAKER_03

He has his stickers and he had uh stamped shoe look, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, these little sorry guys, my dog's marking.

SPEAKER_00

Oh wow, that's really isn't that cool? That's really cool, and I love gorillas, and it the food was amazing.

SPEAKER_03

The food was really, really good. I love the food. Was the first time the uh I had in Japan the soft serve, macho soft serve uh vegan. Okay, they have soft serve everywhere, but vegan was hard to find, and I found in this place. Uh, but you're you guys are talking about supporting the restaurants. Uh, I was in Brazil the last uh three weeks, yeah. And in Junjay, my city, even though it's almost 500,000 people, you know, with the combined cities together, uh doesn't really have much vegan, uh 100% vegan restaurants. So there is basically two. One is like a burger place, and one that is supposed to be like a fine dining, like a really nice restaurant. And I thought many times about you, Joy, because I could pay there eight dollars in a meal. Did you remember you saying, Oh, I missed the time that a meal could cost eight dollars? You remember this? You say that in one of our podcast, and we were like a Joy, it does not exist anymore. In Brazil, it was and it's super nice, it's a waiter that serves you. The owner was super cool, few of the nights, he and his wife came and sit with me because I was by myself. Yeah, uh, unfortunately, my Brazilian friends they don't really are so open like that. Uh, they are open one day and that's it, no more, not two days there.

SPEAKER_02

Ah, that's that's a shame.

SPEAKER_03

Was so empty, Joey. It's such a nice space. They have like a big backyard, like it's a big space uh space, you know. Yeah, and every single time we went there was except like a weekend, weekend was better, but during the week, many times I was just me having dinner there for two hours and talking with the waiter and waitresses, with the owner, with the wife of the owner. Everybody's coming, and then they really were sitting at the table, bringing me new food. They were testing, you know. Yeah, oh my god, they made like a tofu pizza. Incredible, incredible. I have the pictures of that, and but was sad, and in my mind, every single day I was going was basically to support then, and of course, was basically the only place I could have a full meal with a good amount of protein, yeah. And they also don't use many of um, you know, they they kind of like follow some kind of a religion that don't use garlic and and um and onions because the Italian-American half of me right now is very upset. He must have I understand, I understand, but they have some Italian dishes pretty good, they figure out a way to make everything like a good, so and I was feeling good. And then my last day when I went there, like I say bye to then, and you'll be back in a few months, and blah blah blah. And then they only like thank you so much, you support us so much this month. Like it, they know, you know, they know that you are helping them, and it's kind of like a lot for Brazilians, you know. And anyways, and it has another one that is vegetarian. I eat a few days there, but only in the the lunch time in the burger place. I just stay twice, but most of the day I was going to the vegan restaurant, vegan restaurant, yeah. I don't care. People invite me to go in other places, like, well, I'm going to eat first, and after I meet you guys, or maybe after, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, your money should go to the vegan places, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I did that.

SPEAKER_00

Are you guys hearing thunder? Because I'm hearing thunder. I don't know if the mic's picking out up.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, but we're we're probably what 30 minutes away from each other, yeah. By car.

SPEAKER_00

Um, you mentioned earlier about your your wallet getting lost. Do you remember early in our friendship that my wallet was lost? And uh I think it was after we had gone kayaking, yes, and then I since my wallet was lost, I couldn't get out of your parking garage because I needed the ticket, and it was this whole thing. I mean, you came down and it was a whole mess. How did it how did you lose that? Did it fall out of the kayak? You think maybe no, it it I don't think so because I I think I I remember checking my pockets after the kayak to make sure. I think it was um some at some point walking from that you know, the the little tiki hut where you paid for it to your car.

SPEAKER_03

Um or to the tree, because we saw the tree. Remember that it had like the tree, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

This was this is before we were recording the podcast. Like I said, it was early in our friendship. Uh and I remember feeling terrible and like because you um you let me you all I remember you loaned me money so that I could get out of the garage. I don't remember how it worked out, but you loaned me money so so I could get out of the garage, and I think you lose any cash or was it just credit cards? That's exactly what I was about to tell you. I had like uh $60, and I mean, you know, $60 that's not too catastrophic, but still $60.

SPEAKER_03

Nobody wants to lose money, right?

SPEAKER_00

I mean, the biggest pain was the um ID, you know, the get having to call the credit cards and the driver's license and all that.

SPEAKER_01

But yeah, I had to go get another ID, but I needed one anyways because the strip on the back was not working.

SPEAKER_03

Uh Joe was punishment. He didn't tell me that he was getting Camaro to have fun in Miami.

SPEAKER_01

No, we drove it to uh was Miami the day you lost your your wallet. No, it was on the way north.

SPEAKER_03

Was Miami? You told me the day you told you lost your wallet. You were in Miami for Jason when they call you.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe it was all the same day. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

Did Jason drive my car too?

SPEAKER_01

No, he did not.

SPEAKER_03

Are you sure about it?

SPEAKER_01

Positive, 100%.

SPEAKER_03

I don't like parking my car in these parking spots, you know, Joy. People open the doors and hurt my door, you know. Yeah, my car doesn't leave the garage. Yeah, frequently.

SPEAKER_01

Some kinds are meant to be driven.

SPEAKER_03

Not my car, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a showpiece of art. That's you know, all right.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I think we should end this episode. We should end this episode, uh, because uh we want to record two today, and I know that you guys uh are what time does Vegan Tierra close? Did you say John?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I don't know. It starts at five. I don't know what time it closes.

SPEAKER_03

Are you going?

SPEAKER_01

What's oh there's uh there's an event. There's an event. Yeah, I'm not in that meetup group.

SPEAKER_03

Well, but are you going? We don't have two RSVP anyway, so oh yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

That's a lot of people. I don't know. I don't feel like being no value.

SPEAKER_03

I think it's value Naomi, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Value that's the only two I don't know. Is a vet going too? Who said they're going? I don't even know.

SPEAKER_03

So she said be before the she she was commenting what value uh shared. I think she's going honestly. Maybe one person that initiated the group.

SPEAKER_00

Which group is this, by the way? Is it the one that's in West Palm Beach?

SPEAKER_03

No, it is not, it's not that group. It's Value that shared, and I only say that she heard from other group too, but nobody really really knows.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know who's going.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe Vialu. We start the group, and we don't know.

SPEAKER_00

No one, no one listening to this cares about any of this. We should just end the episode. Okay, all right. Uh, so once again, uh, like, subscribe, hit the alarm bell, um, visit visit us on social media at vegans talking shit or just search vegans talking shit. Um, and send us an email. Yeah, send us an email, vegans talking shit at gmail.com. So uh yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_03

We'll get some merchandise too from all the stores at our Shopify store.

SPEAKER_00

Give us some money because we're spending way more than we are getting back. So we're vegans talking shit.

SPEAKER_01

I'm Joey, I'm John, I'm Vanessa.

SPEAKER_00

And we are out of here. Bye, everyone. Bye, bye, bye.

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