New Foods and a Music Doc.

Since the last episode came out I have tried many a new foods and will be sharing my thoughts on these items. They range from being a meal to candy the easter bunny would leave you as a child. To talking about a music documentary I heard about on social media through someone I follow. Did I enjoy the documentary listen in to find out.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-simple-discussion/id1843198044

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https://castro.fm/podcast/1e732887-adca-4052-afd4-4dbce3d1caf8

Transcript

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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Let's Talk podcast. My name is Hannah Covington, and I am so glad to be back with you again for another episode of this podcast. And before we dive into today's topic, I have tried quite a bit of different foods I would love to talk about real fast. Because your homegirl has not shared some of these, and I feel like sharing them before I record another episode for this podcast pretty soon. Because it is a season where there's a lot of different foods coming out, and I've just been lucky to try some of these foods. One of them being because Easter was just a good while ago, not that long ago, but it was it wasn't that far ago far away. And I was able to snag some different flavored peeps. I know is very controversial of if you like peeps or not. I thoroughly enjoy peeps myself, and there are some crazy flavored peeps I've seen. I've seen Sunny D flavored peeps, I've seen Dr. Pepper flavored peeps, fruit punch. Wasn't there a watermelon flavored peep I've I've heard about? But there's a lot of crazy flavored peeps you can get. I would like to try the Dr. Pepper ones, but I did not get around to getting it, and I used to drink a lot of Diet Dr. Pepper. I saw some at the store just the other day on sale because the day after Easter, Easter candy goes on sale, and that's the best time to buy the leftover candy. I have snuck a little bit of Easter candy because it was on sale, so do not be surprised. But getting back to the peep flavors I tried, I tried the rice crispy treats flavor and the strawberry pop-tart. Did I share these peeps? Heck no. They were all for myself, and I'm not ashamed. Not ashamed at all. Because I do enjoy peeps and I enjoyed every single one. I slowly ate them over a couple days span. I didn't eat them in one sitting. I was good. But you can only have them open for so long before they get too stale, you can't eat them. So I ate them in a timely manner. My thoughts on the rice crispy treats flavored one was it was just a marshmallow coated in what their usual stuff is, but was the coloring of what a rice crispy treat would look like. So nothing fancy with that one. Now the strawberry pop-tart definitely had the strawberry flavor and was 100% better than the rice crispy crispy treat flavored one. And I would highly recommend getting the strawberry pop-tart one if you're you're a fan of the strawberry pop-tart. If you're wanting more of that strawberry flavor, that was a really good flavor I tried and would highly recommend that one. What else have I tried? This came out a year or two ago, and I'm finally getting around to trying it. Just got it just recently, and it's another Reese's item. I can't stay away from the Reese's, don't judge me. And I got a r another Reese's big cup, but with sprinkles in it. I thought the sprinkles would have flavor. I was dead wrong. The sprinkles just added a crunch to it. Nothing too fancy about it. I don't know why I bought it to try it, but it was still worth an E. It was only 75 cents. That's why I got it. When something's 75 cents, you do not pass up a 75 cent piece of candy. Especially if it's regular size and not those minis. Well worth it. It was so good. I have also gotten a new jelly bean flavor to try, which is I I had been eyeing it for a while, and I finally got the last bag of it the other day when I had to run to the store for something, and I haven't gotten to try it yet. But trolley's came out with a sour jelly bean that's two flavor and one jelly bean. And I can't wait to try that. Another flavored jelly bean I almost got, but I didn't because I was very hesitant, and I'm will probably try it next year. If it is back, is the Swedish fish candy made of jelly bean flavor. Very hesitant in getting it. I almost got it to share with some my cousins, but I was very hesitant. I'm like, if I'm stuck with a whole bag of jelly two bags of jelly beans because they didn't like it, that was my thoughts. They said, I wish you had gotten it, but that's okay. There's next year. I'll wait till next year to see about getting it because it's pro they're probably gone by today. The candy was pretty cleaned out yesterday, and I'm pretty sure it'll be fully cleaned out by the end of today. Or whatever doesn't sell probably got thrown away. I don't know what they do after almost five days of having candy on sale. I'm curious to know, do they donate it or does it go into the trash? Just curious. Just curious, curious, curious. But that is some of the stuff I have tried. Another thing I tried, and this has been out on market for a year. Yeah, a year or a hint more than a year. Bloom is a pre b prebiotics brand. I I drink a lot of their prebiotic energy drinks they have. They're not, they don't have as much caffeine as an Alani, but they have enough to keep you awake at the end of the day. And I like drinking those. I have always thoroughly enjoyed drinking those. And I'd heard a lot of people talking about the Shirley Temple flavored just regular soda they have. And I don't drink a lot of soda anymore. Very rarely do I drink a L8. So I was interested in trying this, and I'm glad I decided to try this. It was really good. Yeah, the cherry wasn't as strong, and I like a good, strong cherry flavored drink. Some people may disagree with me, but it was good. I enjoyed it, but I wanted that stronger cherry flavor, is what I'm getting at. Is I love a good flavored cherry drink. I liked it. It could have been a hint stronger cherry-wise. And it had a good fizz, which every now and then it's good to have a good fizzy drink. If you're not a soda drinker, because it does help. If you have a buildup of gas bubbles, I have learned that since not drinking soda. I drink a lot, I drink a lot of ice drinks, like fizzy waters, like club soda e waters, and it has helped a lot with my stomach and getting all the trap gas I might have a buildup of, and it's really helped me throughout the years. Because people ask me this question of how do you deal with not drinking soda? I have my soda alternatives. What else have I tried food-wise that I want to talk about? Oh yes, this is has been popping up in my social media feed. And I did an episode on this film, by the way. K-pop Demon Hunters came out with a meal at McDonald's that you can get. And what were my thoughts? Well, I enjoyed the fries. I will say that. I enjoyed the flavor shaker that they gave for the fries. I really liked it. It was delicious. Some people did not like it. I liked it because I like I like to eat ramen. And I didn't think they were too strong, even though I dumped literally the whole packet on my fries. It was so good. And the meal consists of chicken nuggets, fries, a packet of, I don't know what to call it, that you put on your fries that are so good. And you get this like specialty card, which I got, which I wasn't for that, but I thought it was cool. I was more there for the fries and trying the dipping sauces because I like a good dipping sauce for fries, and if I have some kind of chicken. And they ask you when you're ordering if you want the theme sauces, which I'm glad I got both sauces to try to try, which one is a demon sauce and one's a Hunter sauce. And some people have said they liked more of the demon sauce than the Hunter sauce. I am gonna have to disagree with them because I like the Hunter sauce more than the demon sauce. I don't know what I didn't like about the demon sauce, but the Hunter sauce kind of reminded me of a spicier version of their sweet and sour sauce, was the vibe I got from it. I heard there's a specialty McFlurry that you can get. I was not able to get it. It's actually supposed to come with your meal, and they just decided to not give it to me in the meal for some reason. I don't know if they were already sewed out of it, but had plenty of the sauces and other stuff. I don't know. I'll just have to wait and see and maybe try to get it again and see just my luck. But I would be willing to go back through and get another Hunter X meal because that was really, really good and really delicious. I really want a bunch of the Hunter's sauce because I really like it. I am tempted to pay money to get a bunch of this Hunter's sauce if I can. And I might ask for a bunch of Hunterx sauces when I go to McDonald's again. Don't tempt me, I might actually do it. So just a fair warning, I might get more hunter sauce. Now, moving into today's topic, after talking about all those amazing new foods I tr I've tried. Hope you have tried some of these and maybe share some of your opinions on these because I know every year Easter comes out with some good stuff. I know good movies do different things, but I want to move into today's topic, which is not that, but does contain the word hot in it, which is the re the band the red hot chili peppers has a documentary out on Netflix, and I finally watched it, even though I really did not know much about it until I heard about it by word of mouth. Yeah, that's always an interesting way to find out about a documentary. How did I hear about the documentary? I found out about it through social media. Somebody that I have worked with in the past had posted about it, and I was like, okay, and they were raving about it. They're a big movie buff themselves, and if they're raving about a documentary, I'm like, okay, I need to watch this documentary and learn more about why they liked it. Is the reason why I watched it is the best way I explained of how I learned about the documentary because I follow Netflix on YouTube and I saw no trailer for this film at all. Didn't hear much about it, so I didn't know this was a documentary until somebody posted about it. And yes, it the streaming service it is on is it is on Netflix, and Netflix is really bad about posting all these trailers for all these movies they put out yearly because they'll they'll post trailers about stuff I don't care about, but then I hear about a documentary that catches my interest, and I'm like, I didn't know about it, I didn't even see a trailer for it. How was I supposed to know about this? And I don't even see a trailer for it until I find out about it through social media. It's so wild how the world works. I just didn't know about this documentary until they're like talking about how they had watched two movies in one week and how and one of them being Project Hail Mary, and they were like, Project Hail Mary is an eh. I might have to ask them later their thoughts on Project Hail Mary, because I've been hearing mixed reviews on Project Hail Mary. But that was one of the movies they had talked about, and then this documentary, and they were recommending out of the two p films they had watched, they were like, You should watch the red hot chili pepper documentary on Netflix if you have a Netflix account over seeing Project Hail Mary, which is saying a lot because everyone has been raving constantly about Project Hail Mary. I think it's been one of the top books to read this year so far because of the film. I was watching a YouTube video where they said the Project Hail Mary book had gotten close to 1.4 million reads on good reads, if I'm understanding correctly. Yeah, it was close to 1.4 million, which is interesting. And here this person is saying, you can waste your time going to see Project Hail Mary, but you should really be watching this red hot chili pepper documentary. And I was like, Well, okay, I'll just go watch something at home, then going and spending money and watching Project Hail Mary, which is exactly what I did. And the documentary is an hour and 35 minutes long. And this is one of those documentaries I didn't take pauses really. I sat down and watched the whole thing in one night, which is very unusual for me because most of the time I'll like watch half, pause it, and come back to a documentary is what usually happens with me, but that was not the case for this red hot chili pepper documentary. I was glued in and I was interested into learning what makes this documentary a very good documentary to watch. Because sometimes you'll stumble across some documentaries that are meh, but Netflix has been upping their game on the documentary side and producing some good ones because I have found some good ones lately. Before this documentary, I had watched Reality Check, which you have heard my thoughts on. Before you listen to this episode, please go, please pause this episode, go listen to reality check, then come back and hear my thoughts on this episode. Please and thank you. The reality check was all about a reality show, and this is all about a musical band, which I'd never watched a true documentary on a musical band, by the way, until I heard about this red hot chili pepper documentary. And I'm like, Well, first of all, I know nothing about this band. Is like, what did I know about the red hot chili pepper band? I knew jag squad about this band, other than they produce some pretty interesting music between somewhere in the 80s to today, and that it's very interesting sounding, and that it mixes rock and rap, if I'm understanding correctly, what the band stands for, and that the logo of the band is a very interesting logo, and that it was very prominent in its time, and it's still prominent to this day, and that people still talk about this band, and it and they are still played on some radio stations to this day. If you flip across to a station, you might hear red hot chili peppers. There's some stations in the company I work for currently that played the red hot chili peppers, and I have heard some red hot chili pepper music just recently. Uh I can't name the station off the off the top of my head that has played it, but I have been reintroduced to what the red hot chili peppers are because of that station. So I really didn't have many expectations of this documentary other than I'm gonna be learning a ton about this band I had zero knowledge of until I was told about this documentary by a person I follow and know very well. Which I'm glad they recommended this documentary because I would have probably saw it on Netflix and would have been like I don't know if I should watch this and I'm glad I did. Because when you have zero knowledge, you have zero knowledge. What did I learn from the documentary is that all the the three main guys of the original band went to the same high school in California and that is how they met. It was back in the late 70s, yeah, late 70s, and that the main guy of the band that started this whole process was a part of a another band that really didn't get that successful, and that many bands came to be within this group of friends within a time period from one of the guy uh main core guys becoming a part of the band that just dis associates is the best way I can explain. And then and that they were all just really good friends and very artistic, and that the main guy, Hillel, yeah, the main uh let me get this straight. The main guys of the band were Hillel, Flea, and who else was a guy named Ant? I don't know what I'm saying. Please forgive me. I am looking this up real fast. I should uh looked this up of who was in the band. Okay, let's look at the members. It was the main members were Anthony Anthony, Hillel, and Flea, which were the main guys of the band, as I was talking about. And so they were a core group of people that were very artistic, and you find out about some of their other friends that were interviewed in the documentary who played a big part, and that out of all the bands they were a part of, the Red Hot Chili Peppers was the band that took off and did the best out of all the bands they had been a part of, and that I think it was Flea also worked a part-time job of also trying to make it in the music world. He did something working for a vet office for a short period of time while the me while trying to get set up in the music world. He was very open to talk about that. What else happened? They went through several several different people that helped produce them. Is the best is the best way I can explain it. Because certain band members had some a sort a certain problem I don't feel like sharing, and that you need to watch the documentary to find out about it. But yeah, they had some problems in the band in the early years while getting produced. They worked they got to have make some um amazing. Friends outside of high school that they became really close with in their early years of the band. And it was interesting how the band started was they were asked to perform at an art gallery showing for a friend of theirs that was an interesting soul and appeared several times throughout the documentary being interviewed. I think he was one of my favorites that got interviewed. Yeah. And that the three main guys were very intertwined in their lives as well to the point of they were asked on the main guy who you'll later learn passes away at a pretty young age to go spend some time with his mother years later after his passing to be a comfort to her, which was very interesting because you think, oh, he's been dead for so long. Like his mother won't care at all, won't want any part of them being a part of her lives because of what happened to her son. No, she still saw them as a part of her family and wanted them to say goodbye to her before she went to the other side. And I was like, wow, that was amazing. You learn a lot of things from this documentary, from some of their hardships to how their songs are written to what else happened in this documentary that I can think of. There was just so much stuff that I soaked in from watching this documentary because it was like a history lesson for me because I didn't know much about this band, and I was just soaking in knowledge of how this band came to be, and how did their songs come to be, and how did the band form all these little minute details that I didn't even know that existed, and I was like, holy cow, this is how this came to be. It's mind-boggling. I think the most interesting thing was how Hillel figured that Flea's first child would be a girl, and she hadn't even been born yet, and he already predicted Flea's first child was gonna be a girl. He thought that was the weirdest thing his bandmate ever predicted, but he he was so grateful that he had a friend that was telling him he's like, You're gonna love this little girl so much, even before she was born, and Hillel left a big impact on this band, and you don't realize that until you hear all the comments and how heartbroken they were over his death, because it was an untimely death. He also had a lot of mental health issues, if you couldn't tell, throughout the documentary. He he kept it very private, he didn't share with anybody his struggles because he kept a journal and journaled all his feelings, and somebody voiced some of his passages from his journal throughout the documentary, which is something I loved. And they showed snippets of the writings from the journals in the documentary as well, which was another cool feature I liked. I also liked some of his drawings from his journals that they showed, it was so beautiful. You got a little bit into Hillel's mind, which nobody thought you would see in a documentary, but with technology, it was amazing. And it took a while for this band to get back on its feet after Hillel's death because you had to find the best person to replace Hillel. They found somebody who what what's his name? Let me look this up, John Frushinett, who replaced him, which that took a minute to find somebody. He also shared his own struggles of trying to replace Hillel because Hillel was such a different personality, and he was he was trying to be Hillel when the guys just wanted him to be himself, because that's what they liked about him. But he was trying to please someone who was gone, and it took him after a couple records to find himself, which he's still with the band to this day. They I think still tore, I'm not for sure, but it took a while. But you but there was a lot of stuff I felt thrown at me, as I've said before, from some certain problems to how the music was written to going through many producers because of some of the people's certain problems that I don't feel like sharing, because this is a family friendly podcast about pop culture. There's a lot of stuff went on, and how the music came to be was very interesting, and in that they just tried to make it a fun, good time, and that Hillel walked out. He knew he wasn't well is when he walked off stage for one performance in Europe. That's when they knew he needed help. He got sober, but didn't really stay sober. This which is utter surprising, and that this band had its ups and downs is what I learned from the documentary. Because you can be on a great high, but there's behind the scenes problems. And that was very much shared, and it was very open. You found out about it. I was like, oh my gosh, I didn't realize this happened, but it did. It was just a lot to take it in. I learned quite a bit in an hour and 35 minutes. They did a good job telling Hillel's story, their backstory. It was just so beautiful to watch. I hope you guys watch it. I'm hoping I'm not ruining it. I was trying to summarize it as best I could while keeping it clean because I'm gonna be honest, like a rock rap band, stuff went on. It is a film you don't watch with the kids. It is very much PG 13. I would not I might recommend the older the youngest HP high school when they watch this for the first time documentary, because it is about what happened in California in the 80s with rock and mixing rap and rock, which is a very interesting interesting thing to come to be because the 80s is when rock kind of changed if you if you look at the rock genre. So it was a very interesting documentary to watch. I highly recommend y'all watch it if you want to learn more about the red hot chili peppers, if you've been sort of listening to their music lately on the radio, because I feel like they have been making a reappearance on the radio. So please go take a listen if you want to know more about the red hot chili peppers. Like, go watch this documentary, go look it up on Netflix. I don't remember the title, just type in red hot chili peppers on Netflix, and you can find the documentary. And I liked how they did the lettering also in the documentary, that was cool. But they were trying to cover many years into one an hour and 35 minutes, and I feel that they did a phenomenal job. It could have been a two-hour documentary, but then it could have gotten a little bit boring. They did a phenomenal job. Hope you have enjoyed today's episode. I'll see you next time. Bye.