Do Bars Help Us Live Longer Or Just Feel Better?

Summer doesn’t ease in around here, it hits like a switch, and season two starts with us trying to catch up. We’re back at Paddle Bar in Sandusky talking about the first real signs of the rush: the weather jump, the boaters rolling back into town, and that moment you realize the calendar moved faster than your brain did. Then we do what any self-respecting bar podcast would do and argue about the drink of the summer, from a dangerously nostalgic Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill cameo to new canned contenders like Minute Maid’s pink lemonade vodka seltzer.

From there we get into bar industry trends and what they mean for what you’ll see in coolers all summer. We talk Mark Anthony (the White Claw group) making moves around Long Drink, why some ready-to-drink brands explode overnight while others take years, and why “transfusions” are suddenly everywhere thanks to golf culture and canned cocktail hype. It’s all tied to what people actually want when it’s 90 degrees and they’re looking for something easy, cold, and not too complicated.

We also zoom out past the drinks into the real reason bars matter. A Harvard study on adult development points to strong social bonds as a key predictor of longevity, which lines up with our favorite “third place” argument: regular hangs, familiar faces, and a place to talk to your neighbors. We hit Teaks updates (equipment arriving, inspections ahead, aiming for mid-June), the reality of gas prices and tourism on Lake Erie, our Put-in-Bay bar picks, and a few necessary rants about email etiquette and stressed-out drivers. If you want a mix of local bar life, summer travel vibes, and what’s actually changing in drinking culture right now, press play, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find Bar Pod.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

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Um boy, I'll give you a peek.

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I'm gonna peek somebody right in the mouth.

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Give us a countdown. Okay, here we go.

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This is how it is.

Season Two Returns At Paddle Bar

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Hey, it is uh season two, episode one. We're back in barpod. I can't freaking believe it.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Yeah, we gotta knock the rust off here.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

I don't know what's going on. Um Jesus. How the hell did May get here? I don't know. I mean, I dude, I I we gotta talk about the last couple weeks, but first let's uh let's get to the fact that I had a lot of people come up to me and say they wanted to hear bar pod. Like one or two people.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

One or two. We were uh we were some people miss the the barpod, it sounds like. But was it more than one and two? It was more than one.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Who it was a couple, but I mean who the hell is gonna miss these two dicks talking about drinking?

SPEAKER_01 1:07

We are kind of crazy. But it listen, I'm I I can't believe, I cannot believe it's episode one of season two.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Uh it is, it is. It's it's it's nuts. It's three bonkers. That is it's fantastic. Let's get going. May is here, and uh I mean, things are moving fast here uh in in downtown Sandusky. Like the heat is on. The energy is up.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

This is how it happens every year, though. We get to this time, and it's like you're just kind of cruising, almost still on winter mode almost, and then all of a sudden, boom. You know what's gonna happen. It's the same thing every year. It gets it gets the weather kind of takes its time, and then boom, it's 90 degrees. Right. You don't know what you're doing. Right, right. Your face gets more.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Well, let's get into before we get going, let's talk about

Boone’s Farm And Summer Drinks

SPEAKER_00 1:47

a couple things. People have got to be wondering why there is a bottle of Boons Farm Strawberry Hill.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

I don't think anybody's wondering. Well, I think that's pretty standard.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

So if you re if you recall from the last episode, we were talking about what the summer drink's gonna be. Boone's Farm, our our our Zoom pod track P4 thing, just decided to turn off for no fucking reason. I don't know why it does that.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

Are we getting popular enough now where I can like bitch about product and they'll send me a new one? Hey, Zoom P4. I don't think so. Whoever is listening in China, send me a new one.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

I don't think they're gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

We're not getting it because the Strait of Vermouth is closed, so we won't get the new one for a while.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Straight of Vermouth.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Anyway, so Boone's Farm. We're talking about drinks of the summer. Uh, and you know, it's probably gonna be you know, it's been high noon, it's been white cloth, it's been sunny day. Uh, but Boone's Farm was the drink of the summer, I believe, in the 70s. Yeah, late 70s. Oh, yeah. We hear about it from uh from T Dub, who's back there behind the behind the camera there, uh dealing with he's got a he had some dental issues today. He got the uh Stefano take care of you there in the office.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yeah, we and in fact we we heard that we yeah, we heard the the ladies over at Stefano's office love the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

You know, that's it's because uh dentist office listens to things, they don't have a lot to do during the day other than like they gotta do all the but they can't go anywhere. So you're saying we're only popular from because it's we're popular in doctors and dentist office. Pure boredom, I believe. Yeah, pure pure boredom is what I'm saying. Well, anyway, thank you, ladies. Yeah, thank you very much. It's that it's we're back. It's us and the weather channel. We're back. So anyway, the the Boons Farm idea is I watched let's see what happens. We're gonna carry it. There's a few bottles in this building, and if you want, and I highly advise against it, but you can have one of these bottles, an entire bottle, for six dollars. Forcing Boons Farm. Six dollars for a bottle of Boons. We'll put it on ice for you. Sit out on the deck, have a little Boons Farm.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Forcing Boons Farm to be the summer drink.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Here's what I want to say. If you vomit, please do it over the rail and not in the bathrooms because I don't want to clean it.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Yeah, it's got great value and it comes with a predetermined headache.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

It's it is. So there you go. Boons farm, strawberry hill. I'm getting that out of the way over here.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

So you know it's funny. You know what I think? I don't know what the summer drink will be, but did you see who came out with uh seltzer's? This is interesting. I just don't know if they have the I don't know if they can capture the youngins. Minute made. Oh, Minute Made. Yeah. Came out with a pink lemonade in vodka, which could do okay because all uh like out of all surfsides, lucky dogs, all this stuff, nobody's done a pink lemonade.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Minute made's interesting. I think we'll have to get those in. Yeah, we'll have to get those in. Um uh T Dub, you're gonna have to keep track of time for us back there because I have no idea. I didn't do a recording or anything. So, and we probably don't have the time code, right? 1225 is where it's probably messed up. So just take a guess, it'll be fine.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Anyway, we're drinking uh Trogue's Sunshine Pilsner. Dude, we haven't had much of them in the bar, and I forgot how good their beer is.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Trogues is great beer, and uh it's been it's it's all the summer beers are starting to come back out. We've got Dell's on tap, the Trogues, and it's it's I love the summer beers.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Trogues, and it's uh independently owned brewery out of Hershey, Pennsylvania, which I like.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

They come with a candy bar. Yeah, no, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. Uh all right.

Aging Pains And Check Engine Lights

SPEAKER_00 4:51

So we're talked uh people are getting a little loose, it seems like it's springtime, and we'll get a little bit more into that. Um but Chad, you said something recently.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

What do you got?

SPEAKER_00 4:59

That uh we're talking about our age and and things breaking, and and you you feel like maybe your check engine lights on.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Yeah, that's what I said. I uh you're when when you get over the age of 40, your check engine light pops on and you start like so. The other day, let me give you, I got two things, and I'm sure everyone that our age will identify with this. I played golf um and then came home, and my big toe on my right foot was just, I mean, crazy pain. Oh. And I think I've developed, I think as a 40-year-old, I think you're a lot, I think I developed turf toe from playing. Turf toe or club foot? That's something, that's something very athletic football players get when they're like 20s. Yeah, you gotta just picking up children. And the other day, uh, I took a drink uh uh at home aggressively and hurt my neck. So just be aware when you're for you don't drink things aggressively. You know, you you crush one back and then boom, my my neck hurt. So I I it's bad. It's bad. Things are bad.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

You check that's not good. I my knee has been hurting all day uh last couple days because there's been so much transition in the weather. And I woke up uh yesterday and my knee was not hurting, but it moved to my elbow. You know, you know, it's like my it's like tennis elbow, and I do not play tennis. You know, there's another thing you do as you get older too. You start paying attention to the pressure for the barren. It said when the the day's gonna hurt. Birding and weather. All right, so the check engine lights on.

Canned Cocktails And Bar Trend News

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Uh, what do we got in bar news? Uh speaking of the summer drinks, the Mark Anthony group, which they own uh White Claw, yeah, I think they bought the long drink. Yeah, so you mean long drink's funny? So I think that just tells you that that you know, obviously white claw isn't as popular as it used to be, but they were kind of the like of the big surge drinks that came back recently. I mean, that that drink was the big, like super popular one. So the fact that they're um bought bought long drink kind of tells us, and we've said before long drink's getting popular, that probably is gonna continue to be a popular one.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Oh, they're gonna yeah, they're trying to remain relevant. But yeah, isn't it funny? It's funny how some burst on the scene, it's interesting though. Some burst on the scene and get popular right away. Long drink took about two years.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Yeah, yeah. We've had it for three, four years, I think, or pretty much since the bar opened, I believe. We had like one and now we have four.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

I think the fact that the label says gin on it kind of scared people away. And then but people started trying it and they realized that it tastes pretty wonderful. Yeah, the gin, it doesn't taste like gin. Yeah, it doesn't taste like gin.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

It's a great, it's a great drink. I like gin, but that's uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

But yeah, that it it is interesting. Um another one, um, what's his name that owns High Noon? Dave uh the Boston guy bar stool. Uh he seems like a dick. Portno. He does. Portno, yeah, he goes around and does the pizza things. Yeah, yeah, fuck him. So anyway, he did do something smart though. If I I didn't say he's not good at what he does, he's just a dick, man. He's a dick. Uh he came out with transfusions. Have you seen these? You I don't know, you don't golf too much, so you may not have heard of it, but golfers.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

I use a transfusion, I'd tell you that.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

Yeah, yeah, right. Blood transfusion? Yeah, yeah. They do this thing on the golf course. It's basically and they usually mix it up for you. The cart person will, cart girl, will mix you up a drink, and a transfusion is vodka, grape juice, ginger ale, lime juice, right? So it looks kind of purple. Yeah, yeah. And people on the golf course.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Oh, that's a big golf thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

It is. They crush them. So what did he do? Uh, the only I think there's like one or two brands that has it. Welches has one in a can. Okay. But he's kind of one of the first, I don't want to say, big uh brands that came out with one. And they last week came out with a transfusion, and apparently it's pretty darn good. Um yeah, I think he I think I had one of those when I was golfing with you one time. Yeah. They're pretty good, but anyway, he canned it and apparently it's limited edition and it's been going bonkers, like nobody can keep it in. Anytime it rolls into a grocery store, it's gone, what have you. But that's limited edition stuff. So look out for uh high noon transfusions.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

I bet you they're pretty good. That could be it'll be we'll just have to carry uh different ones throughout the summer. I'm not gonna get some orders today. I just held that up. And we'll uh we'll see, we'll see what's going

Social Bonds And Living Longer

SPEAKER_00 8:41

on. Um here's here's a study that came out.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Uh oh. A study?

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Harvard study of adult development. Dr. Robert Waldinger. That's a name, innit? Waldinger. Um the strongest predictor of life expensity expectancy is uh people with strong social bonds. 50% chance, greater chance of survival. Guess where you have strong social bonds? Uh taverns, sir.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

I'll tell you what. So you're saying paddle bar is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

So I'm saying come to battle bar and you will live longer.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Uh dude, hey, listen, and you can can I bring you full circle back into uh an episode in season one? Yeah, drink yeah, drink, drink heavily and you'll live longer. No, I didn't say have I said come to paddle bar. Yes. That's uh have one to two beverages and and uh and chat with your fellow.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

I feel like I'm gonna get my PhD and do some things.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

No, but you see where I'm coming, do you see where I'm coming from? Do you remember back in season?

SPEAKER_00 9:32

Yeah, the third place argument.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

The third place argument, but we're talking life expectancy, which you're just talking about. Remember, remember, I think it was episode one or two. I was talking about uh the two places in the world where they have the most people over the age of a hundred of a hundred. Oh yeah. And it was it was a place in Japan and a place in Italy, and guess what?

SPEAKER_00 9:49

And also the corner of um Shoreline and Hancock Street.

unknown 9:53

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Anyway, it all points to have a have a cocktail and uh and uh chat with your fellow your neighbors.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

And it also points to the fact that just seven minutes ago we were pissing and moaning about our check engine lights being on. So I don't know where that how that ties. Well um gotta numb it. I I gotta some note about GLP ones in here. I'm not gonna talk about that. GLP is stupid. I don't know how that got in the notes.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

They ruined productivity?

SPEAKER_00 10:19

I I well I think that you know a lot of people are taking those, but then it like ruins like your like it's like good for you because you're losing weight and stuff, but you have no desire to do anything. So like I I think that might be an issue with like your your your your mood gets very meh. So like you don't want to go out, you don't want it's good because you don't want to eat, you know, you know, you lose weight and it's good that way. Um, but it also can like because people are taking it to like not drinking stuff too.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Wait, so what does it do? Is it like block receptors or something? I guess I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

I haven't haven't done the research on it. We we can we can skip over that.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

We can skip over that. But you know what I'm a little Oh, Zempic. You know what I'm is that is that what it is? Oh yeah. You know what I'm a little concerned about with that, all the GLP 1 stuff? Yeah, people just started like some of them you a lot of them you just use needles at home, right? I don't know how they're injected. So some of I think anally, actually. You don't do that. That's a that's a whole different story. You uh but that wasn't funny. I thought that was funny. Uh there hasn't been a whole lot of long-term studies. I'm nervous that all these people who are taking GLP ones like daily are gonna get some weird diseases or stuff. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Yeah, I don't know. I just say be careful with the old GLP ones. Have a Budweiser instead. Don't put it up your butt. Don't put it up your butt. I don't think that's the way you're supposed to do it. I don't think you're supposed to do that. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

What was that old joke? Was uh about a what's a proctologist drive? A brown probe.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

That joke was uh was relevant in 1993.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

That was in the office, I think. That was in the office. Yeah, yeah. It was the game.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Does anybody remember the Ford probe? What a name for a car. The probe. Probe. Perfectly set up for that joke. Oh man. Yeah. All right.

Gas Prices, Boaters, And Teaks Update

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Um paddle, Volstead Teaks update. Oh boy, gas prices. Gas prices. Uh, I don't think we need to talk about them. It just, it's I'm worried that it is gonna hurt um tourism this year, uh, everywhere. Um, I think in the our area we have an interesting dynamic. Um, we have two things that help, I think, the kind of shores and islands, um, you know, Lake Erie area. A lot of folks that don't want to spend the money, obviously, airline prices are going up and happen to live in Cincinnati or uh Chicago that were gonna take their trip to the Bahamas or their big Disney trip, they're gonna come to Cedar Point, they're gonna come here instead. Yeah so that could be a good thing, but it also screws up the whole, you know, well they may leave their boat in the marina because marine. Yeah, I think we're gonna have uh the speaking of boaters, boy, they're back, aren't they?

SPEAKER_01 12:37

Yeah.

unknown 12:38

Woo!

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Yeah. There are more C-ray license plate frames running around town lately. Sea ray license plate are everywhere. Wide beams. I love the boat. The boaters are back there. We got a we got a good uh we got a great group of boaters that come in here. They're pretty awesome people. So I'm glad that everybody's getting in. It's good to see boats in the water again. I can't wait till I like to put mine in, but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. No, you're a little too busy with Teaks over there in this place. We're yeah, you're just nuts. It's not happening. Teaks is uh coming along. Um give us the update. Give the update. Okay, so I was over there this morning, the restaurant equipment, the you know, the freezers and the kegerators and stuff got delivered. Um I uh so that's being done now. Plummer is gonna hook that up tomorrow. We still have to finish those bathrooms, and then we've got to do inspections. I I I hesitate to, you know, you know, I was shooting for Memorial Day. I don't think Memorial Day is gonna happen, but I'm pretty confident that we'll be open uh sometime mid-June. So look for teaks. It's coming along. Uh, it's gonna be a good time. You can a bartend over there once in a while. Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

Of course, of course.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

I think it's gonna be a dude just sitting behind the bar there in the summertime is gonna be a great place to hang. Yeah, you can't. The views are great. I'm moonlighting over there. I'm just gonna have a couple, it's gonna be fun. We're gonna do um you're gonna moonlight? I don't know what that is. What did I say that for? Is that what it is? So let me tell you a little bit. Is that what that means? Little just going over there once in a while. Yeah, you're you're moonlighting. Sunsetting over there. Sunsetting. There is sunsetting. I don't know. Um, I think a little bit on the drink menu over there that I've been uh trying to figure out. You know, we are gonna have uh some nods to paddle bar, of course. Yeah, I believe the paddle bar lemon shakeup will be available over there. Over there, okay. Yep, yeah. Um hot nuts are gonna have to stay here in Sniasky. We cannot take those. That's good. So I'm gonna have to figure something else. Yeah. Um, but I think we're gonna lean in heavily on the mojitos over there.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

I like that.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Um growing mint on property, um, and then maybe have some blueberry, raspberry flavors, a little muddled action.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Do a dragon fruit.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Dragon fruit, okay. So mojitos, and then of course, you know, uh you know, every other drinks we're obviously gonna have a great margarita. You can't not. Yeah. Um, eight beers on tap, and yeah, a little uh a little simpler menu than paddle bar. Yeah. Um but I think it's gonna be a good time. Uh so we're we're going over there.

Put-in-Bay Party And Bar Picks

SPEAKER_00 14:38

Hey, uh, what about uh our employee party?

SPEAKER_01 14:42

So uh did we reference that on the last episode?

SPEAKER_00 14:46

I don't know if we did or not.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

Uh so for those of for those who haven't heard, you I don't know why you would if we didn't reference it. But we um as a crew went over to the whiskey light at Putin Bay last Sunday, and we had an absolute blast. We took a party bus from here um and just man, we had so much fun. I don't nothing crazy happened. We actually, everyone, everyone uh stayed pretty. I don't no, I don't want to say anybody stayed sober, but um no no uh no crazy things happened.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

No, just a good time. Just a good time. You know, a lot of bar uh restaurant owners have Christmas parties and things like that. We have whiskey light parties. We have whiskey light parties.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Man, I ran into so many people I knew over there. Yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Yeah, you always whack wax nostalgic when we go to South Bass Island. I worked over there for 10 years, um, so I get over there and it just, you know, dad's got his got whiskey shirt on, isn't it? I see this. We'll reference the old roundie. Look at he's still yes, I got my whiskey shirt on. Real quick, why we're talking about South Bass Island, why we're so numb for the dentist's office. Um if you were to choose your ideal bar um tour at South Bass Island, what would you do? You have four bars to go to. That's we're gonna limit you to four because you can say, well, I can just do everyone on the island, which again, of course, then you'll be sleeping in bushes, and they do frown upon that there.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

I have done that.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

Yes, sir. Not in a bush, though. Leave it.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Oh, I knew no. Leave it out. Leave it out. Leave it out. It's an ocean's eleven. Leave it out. Leave it out. All right. Um, I'm gonna you ready for this? Yours might ours might mirror each other. Let's see. That's very possible. Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

Um Joe's Bar's number one for me, Joe's bar.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Yeah, that's a fantastic establishment. Um it is put in bay, and it is the oldest bar on the island, and it still is one of my favorites. I'm going to the roundhouse. You're going to the roundy, okay. I'm going to roundy. Um I am probably gonna put I'm putting Frosty Bar on there. I'm gonna put Frosty on there as well. Because that's one of the OGs. You're on to three now. Uh that's three, and I got one more. Yeah, yeah, one more. You know, you ready for it? You this this was where we might differ um because of one of my really good friends over there. Yep. Um, who's no longer with us. Yeah, I'm going boathouse. Yeah, yeah. That's my four. Yep, yep. That's my four. Okay. Not that there's I I will go.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

Well, yeah, I don't have a bad bar on that island for the most part. But I would have to say Joe's agreed. Yep. Goat. Oh, I love the goat. I love the goat. Love the goat.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Um the problem is, though, it's not open as much as the other ones. No, it's not, so it's harder to get it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

But I like to go goat, have a nice lunch, sit at the bar, have a German beer. Fantastic. They got the beer garden outside now. Goat. Um, I uh am gonna have to say frosties as well. Yeah. I'm skipping the round bar. Not that I don't love the round bar, but I I you said it, you said that's too. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the roundy. Um, I like it when it's a little bit more mellow, so I like more of a weekday round. I'm not gonna say top. Love that bar too. Yeah, but I like the sidebar at the forge. Oh, it's a great outside little sneaky bar. I did that. I did that too. That's a great bar. But once again, you know, I'll shout out to Sean Great. Mark. Mark, yeah, talked to Saul Mark uh recently, actually. Great spot. Um, so yeah, forge is uh another one, and at that little sidebar when the shade's out, and it's just a nice, nice jam. Yeah, that is a good bar. Um yeah, I had a great employee party, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

And that's the thing. If I was gonna really do that that test, I'd need 10 bars.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Yeah, that's why I made it hard for you.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Um, so uh we talked about Strawberry Hill already.

Tourists, Regulars, And Annoying Emails

SPEAKER_00 18:18

That's good. Um I got a little rant. Uh-oh. It's a quick one, it's quick. Uh-oh. When you don't you don't email a lot, you don't have to deal with it. You don't get a lot of I so I deal with a lot of the emails and all the bullshit. I don't like it when someone emails me and then two days later I get a hey, just bump into the top of your inbox. Oh, they do. They tell you that they tell you. If they're emailing you again to tell you that you didn't email them back, what I do automatically that's essentially a second text, right? Yeah, it's the same thing as a second text. You know, I don't like it. Don't do that. Don't make it, don't give me more. So I I usually archive you when that happens.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

I archive, you're out.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

So do not email you twice. Don't I mean if I don't email you back in like a week, sure. But like a day? Yeah. Come on, people. I got a bar to run. Isn't it like that?

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Do you still run by the? And I believe it was you who told me this, the the phone the 24 hour rule.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

24 hour rule, right? I try to, and I got I I'll be honest, I'm not always great about that either.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yeah, but it is the same thing. You're right. I'm I don't I don't email nearly as much as you can.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Just bumping your inbox. What the fuck? Bumping your inbox? I think I was doing that in college. No.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

Oh that's I that's the sex sextant?

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Sextant? Sextant? That's a navigational tool.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah, that is. Sextant. That is a navigational tool. That's the second time. Um we gotta there's some innuendo. I'm I must have to do some editing.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

I don't know. We could be in trouble.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

We're allowed to.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

We can do whatever the hell we want on this on this show. We're not getting a free, we're not getting a free Zoom tech thing. Um I sent you this, the uh the uh onion piece I saw. I think Tom sent it to us. Somebody did. Um, regulars angry, regulars angry dive bar, now popular enough to be financially solvent. That is real, man.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

It is so funny because we yeah, we uh they will they would never say it because they're just all too nice, but some of the you can tell like Dale and Bess are a great example. You know, they're probably they're probably sitting there on those busy nights just going. We want our bar back.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

But in general, I think most of the most of the locals here, and not just this bar, but in general in Sandusky and this entire tourist area know that um that uh the tourists and the summer visitors uh keep keep this place alive, and we uh we are we are thankful for them. Um so I think we're good there. But I thought that was a funny piece. Uh I gotta worry about the that the the bathrooms are actually clean. What's going on here? Like those sort of things. Um that does bring me to something that I forgot. Uh oh. Fired up. Uh yeah, I think my check engine light just turned on. Right now. Just now. I forgot what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Oh you oh you're oh you're saying wait, it just turned

Local Drivers Need To Chill

SPEAKER_01 20:48

on because you forgot something. Oh local drivers. Oh yeah. You have another rant.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

His lip hanging down is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

I told you.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Local drivers. Oh, yeah. I was behind someone today and they're like honking at the person in front of them because they're not moving fast enough at the stoplight. It's just like settle down. Everybody needs to settle down a little bit. Take the temperature down, relax. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's tough times enough already. Why don't you just chill out?

SPEAKER_01 21:17

That's coming from you. Are you telling people to take their temperature down?

SPEAKER_00 21:20

When I'm driving, I keep it mellow mostly. Sure. My hypocrisy only goes so far.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Oh, that's a tombstone quote.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks for that. What else we got?

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Thanks for that. Thanks for that. Um, I'm with you on that. Oh, you're doing the Letterman thing. I didn't go anywhere though. I like that. There it goes. There you go. There you go. I just went to go grab my mic and drink it instead of my beer. This, I'm I'm gonna say it again. That beer's phenomenal. It is really good. I haven't I didn't I didn't really in uh uh partake in the booze this weekend. So I that tastes very good. I've got the I've got the taste. You got the taste? So yeah, that's that's trouble. I wish I I had the taste too, but I got too much work to do. Um let me see here, time wise. Oh no, five more five more minutes.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Five more minutes. Okay, we're doing

TV Overload And Movie Rewinds

SPEAKER_00 22:01

good. Uh, you know, something we kind of didn't bring up this time that we always talk about, uh uh bar TV shows. Um we didn't when we were going through that last time, we didn't bring up it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Oh, dude. Uh that's such a good is it still going?

SPEAKER_00 22:15

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

I can't still be 15 seasons at this point.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

I gotta revisit that. Speaking of TV though, I tell you what, I had a moment last night. So there's so much good television out there right now, right? I mean Apple TV. I got a story. Apple TV, Netflix, uh, they all have great T all all great ones. Um and last night we were getting re relaxing and watch Friends and Neighbors. Yeah. Are you laughing alright?

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Yeah, I'm just thinking about this show. I just got done watching. I'll tell my story after you're done.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

And I fell asleep. Uh oh. And I think I'm off. I think I'm, you know what? And I last night I woke up, you know, I've missed Friends and Neighbors. I fell asleep. And now I don't want to go back and try to watch it and you know, figure out where I fell asleep and where it didn't, and I hate doing that. I feel it feels like an obligation. So I'll tell you what, I'm off TV. You're I'm off TV for the summer. It's too much. You're off TV? I'm off TV. You're just gonna I'm done. You're done. I got too much going on. All right, okay. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Let me make it timestamp this. I'm off TV. Let me time 1215.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

I'm watching movies only because May 4th. Movies I've seen too.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Oh, wait.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Today's May 4th. May the 4th be with you.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

It's the Star Wars thing.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

That means that means tomorrow's single de mayo. Tomorrow's what? Look at where we're at. I don't I don't I can't. Well, you I told you about what I did this weekend with the live music. Let me finish my note. You're trying to. Yeah, this is you.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

No TV, Ryan. We're gonna bring this back up next week. No TV. See what I did? All right. You'll you'll last till what's today? Monday? You'll last till Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

We're gonna make it at the end of uh is that the John Alvar show where he does all that makes fun of the news people.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

So so Amber was gone all weekend. Uh uh she was going to her mom's birthday down in North Carolina, so I was had the kids all weekend. So Saturday I put the kids to bed, and I had some time myself. And and I watched, I started watching a uh on Netflix that's called Bloodhounds. I don't even know how this happened. You know, you might be the same way. I have a little bit of this weird affinity for kung fu movies. Yeah, you do dig the kung fu stuff. Okay, I know it's weird, whatever. I enjoy it. Kung Fu Hustle, great movie. It is a Korean series called Bloodhounds, and it's all dubbed to English, so it's one of those ones kind of fight me tonight after school. And you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 24:30

I don't know if we can get away with that. I think we can. All right.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

But they're taught, they're clearly saying things in Korean, but you they're trying to dub it. It just looks it just looks funny. Squid game, but it's it it is, it's so out there because it's uh you know, it's it's dubbed over to English, but it dude, it is some of the craziest boxing like action sequences I've ever seen in a show, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

I've actually been revisiting The Matrix. Oh, yeah. We watched the last two, and we're gonna watch the the last one tonight, I think. Um with AI and everything right now, yeah, I don't recommend watching The Matrix. It'll freak you right out, man. They called it they called it. They called it the the Wikowskis or whatever who wrote that. You're saying we're gonna be batteries here in a couple of weeks. We could be batteries real soon here. I think we're gonna be. I think if you're if you're on display at an AI zoo, you're probably better doing better than most people.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Body heat.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Oh, and that guy, that guy nailed it, isn't it? You are a virus. Yeah, well, yeah. We kind of are a virus. We kind of are. I'll tell you what. Luckily, we've got good beer. Um, so yeah, I'm off TV. I'm onto movies, although I did start watching. No, maybe I'm not completely off TV because I do want to finish this series. Wait a minute. I didn't say I didn't watch it yet. Don't mark it yet. Don't mark hold on. 1220 last five minutes. Did you watch made the change right as we're recording? Did you watch uh did you watch uh Beef? I heard it's good. It's so good. Season two just started. It's uh it's a good show.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Did they change characters, right? It's a whole new thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Okay, it's it's uh yeah, it's nothing to do with the first the first round. Right. Um, the last five minutes is just a TV section. What are you watching? Oh, hacks, yeah. I can tell because I don't know that I probably can't say this. Who cares? I loaned you my HBO account and you're using my name to log in, so all my TV's messed up. Use your own. I created your own thing. It's the one with the Tweety Bird.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

So he's he banged up your algorithm?

SPEAKER_00 26:22

Yeah, he banged up my algorithm. Oh I'm getting I'm getting ads for Ozempic. I don't know what's going on. GOP1 drugs.

unknown 26:28

What?

SPEAKER_00 26:29

How many people uh can be on an HBO account at once?

SPEAKER_01 26:32

I I it's when we switched over to T Mobile, I lost my HBO account.

SPEAKER_00 26:36

Yeah, yeah. Don't get me started on T Mobile. It's no good. We'll we'll we'll keep that one for for another episode. Yeah, well I'm gonna blow you to go fix that. One more thing. No, we don't

Live Music Schedule And Season Rush

SPEAKER_00 26:46

need to worry about it. I did I want to talk about how the season started so fast and and Saturday night. Um, you know, we opened the front bar. Yeah. So um the old daiquiri dock, which still serves daiquiries, is now a full service bar open every Friday and Saturday now here at Paddle. And it was supposed to be a test run, it was pretty busy. Um and then it was great, but I'm like sitting there hanging out, like making sure everything's going, and then here comes uh uh someone with a guitar walking in the door. I'm like, oh shit, I booked a band tonight. Isn't that a good like I mean it worked out, people were stoked. Sure. Um, but so I realized it is May. We now have bands every Saturday night. Um, and then um once uh Memorial Day gets here, every Wednesday, every Friday. And you know what's funny? We're here, we're in the season.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

This is how things talk about the hell. Talk about communication lines, how things get busy and you forget about things like like today's May the 4th, tomorrow's cinco tomorrow. Right. And I should have known because guess what? I responded to somebody on our Facebook page like three days ago, or no, a week ago, that said, Oh yeah, our summer PJ schedule starts on May 1st. So I should have known.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

Right. Yeah, you yeah, it's just like how is this happening? There's just so much going on. I am losing my my mind here, but it's an all notifications. This is why I'm off TV again.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Oh, hey, listen. So 12 1225 is back on.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Oh boy, oh boy.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

Back off of it.

Live Shows, Guests, And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Well, hey, we are uh gonna wrap up. We can't wait to see you. Um couple things we're gonna try on season two. We're gonna start having some guests, I think. Yeah, we should talk to a few people, so we'll probably do that in the next couple episodes. And we're talking about doing some live shows. Um, we'll broadcast live to YouTube. Um, and we will also do it live when the bar's open so people can shout out some questions. A few people can sit down here.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Listen, okay, listen. I could get a little bit more. I don't I didn't I don't think we talked about this. I kind of like that. We're gonna do that, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

Well, we talked about doing a live audience in the bar. So I'm screwing around, it's very easy for us to just do live uh right to YouTube as well. Yeah. So I think the ones that we do live um uh in in the in paddle bar will do those live YouTube as well, and then of course you'll be able to listen to it afterwards as well. I think that's how we would handle it.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

So it's gonna be like a Zeus is.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

It'll be Zeus. People will be able to hang out up top.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

No, I mean, literally, like like we'll be like the the the bears because they'll be looking down on us if anybody falls over, then we'll attack.

unknown 28:53

I'll have to come out and get a couple local tribute.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

A couple local tribute questions, sure. Like we'll probably I don't know, maybe we get a mic up there so the questions can get I don't know. We'll we'll figure out the logistics is coming.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

You're gonna hear somebody just go look at these idiots. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Oh, it's gonna, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Put a mic up there. Yeah, we might hear things we don't want to hear.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

There'll be some bleeping, which is probably warranted at this point. Fair, that's okay. Um, so anyway, that's what's going on. Uh, you know, where can you can find us all over the place? Uh comment, you know, your favorite bars uh where you like uh at South Bass Island, things like that. Episode one, season two. Episode one, season two. Wrapping up. Let's do it. Get to work. Cavs won last night. I said what a great game. Man, the Cavs just fired up out of nowhere. Yeah, they they should play like that the whole time. Uh hey, they're going. Detroit, Cleveland Rivalry. Guardians in first place. Hey. Hey, go northern Ohio. All right. All right. Well, hey, it's we're out of here. Um, I don't think there's anything else until uh episode two next week. Next week. We're back on it. We're on it. Welcome back. Welcome back. Here's summer 2026. We'll see you down at can I go like Hammy? We'll see you at the corner. Uh Shoreline in the handcag. May the fourth be with you. Alrighty.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

Ryan. This is now with the Let's go. Let's go.