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A Birthday Pour With Bar Owner Rants And River Stops
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A birthday morning at the bar turns into the kind of freewheeling conversation that only happens when the mics are on and the to-do list is already screaming. We start with studio quirks, beers on deck, and that familiar moment where you realize your body has a check engine light now. Then we jump straight into a customer service rant every bar owner and regular will understand: delivery apps that can track a driver to your block, yet still can’t manage a knock on the right door. We argue that every platform needs a “moron button” and we mean it.
The day before is a reminder of why we love this industry in the first place. We share highlights from a river bar crawl, including a tucked-away spot with a beachy vibe, plus Topgolf and an old favorite where you can sit outside and watch the boats roll by. From there, we veer into the big stuff: taxes. Income tax, sales tax, property tax, even taxes on gifts, it all adds up to that nagging feeling that you’re paying to rent your own life. If you run a bar or any small business, you’ll hear your own thoughts out loud.
We also give a boots-on-the-ground update on Tique's as we push toward the health inspection and liquor inspection, and we talk drink trends behind the bar, from canned cocktails to what’s too sweet to stock. Add in frozen drink machine drama, a Back to the Future detour, and our take on what actually makes a bar great: the bartender, the music, and the culture in the room.
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Birthday Banter And Studio Setup
Okay. It doesn't have the what do you call it? The genese kwa. The genese kwa. No, what's the what that's what I was that's what I was gonna say, but that's not what I'm talking about. What are you talking about when you're uh arranging furniture in a room? Feng shui. Feng shui. Yeah, the feng shui is not here. It's like you like coming at this is how it is. Hey, here we are, bar pot episode five. Yeah, you're right. I'm a little louder. I don't need your facial reactions back there. I'll tell you what, TW, you see how he's he's he's infiltrating the space back there. Yeah. Now he's got a uh a stand for his mic so he can sit down and have the mic right in his face. He is he episode by episode, he's making himself more comfortable. Making himself more comfortable. I'll be in the sitting between you guys anytime now. Oh my gosh. Oh boy. Here we are, season two, episode five. Uh your birthday. Right now. Today. Today. Today. 44. I woke up 44 years old today. That's rough. Jesus. That's rough. Things are things are creeping. When you stand up, even for good news, you you're grown. We said it before. I drank, I took an aggressive drink of juice last week or a couple weeks ago and hurt my neck. Yep. The check engine light is on. Check engine light is on, buddy. The warranty is expired. The warranty is expired. I need to buy an advanced warranty. Yeah, you wouldn't want to extend it. Can you pre pre-bill your healthcare? I don't think so. Um anyway, uh, so it's your birthday. Um we are uh this this is gonna be a freestyle episode because we didn't do much because the last episode was recorded so late in the week. This this week in the morning. You want to go golfing here in a few minutes. I'm trying to for my birthday. It's nice that you can just get a day off once in a while. Well, it's on your birthday. I think that's the one day. Didn't we do that yesterday? Uh yesterday was a day off. This is a Monday. You own a bar. This is a weekday. Yeah. What day is this? What day is this? On a weekday? On a weekday? You don't go out like that looking for a job, do you? On a weekday? Quote, where's that from? A movie. Big Wave Bows. Very good, very good. Okay. The Bombs Lost. The Bums Lost. Bombs Loss. Every time a rug is miterated upon in this fair city. All right. Before we get going, we're drinking some big wave today. Just your normal classic, big wave. Classic, always available paddle bar. Nice, nice drink. We got not have I'm not having an NA beer on my birthday. No, you can't. No. I think, yeah, I don't know. I see some shot glasses sitting over there. We'll see what happens. This is weird. When my we so for the viewers out there, not so much the listeners, we move my beer to the right side because the left side, the sunshine's creeping in. Yeah. And it's uh see the things a little weird. The advantage of having this studio out here where people can see it, it's cool because people talk about they go, Oh, that's where you guys record barbed pot stuff. The problem is then we have to deal with like audio and lighting and stuff like that when you really should be in a hole somewhere. Right. But yeah, we'll we'll deal with it. I can use my right hand to drink. Yeah, you'll be fine. Yeah. All right.
Delivery Apps Need A Moron Button
Uh I'll tell you what, I gotta tell you about something that annoyed me yesterday. Or no, Friday. Yeah. You door dash or do any of that stuff? Well, occasionally. So every Friday I usually get uh some orders uh to stock up for Volstead across the street. I do Walmart delivery. Okay. And you know, it just makes it easy so that they get there when the bar opens and it's ready to go. Yeah. And um they uh the all of a sudden the app just said driver couldn't find driver couldn't drop off, and uh, and you know, we're returning, we can you can reschedule. And it's like the drop like I watched it on the map. The guy, whoever, whoever, guy, girl, whoever delivered it was just too, let's say it, oh, dumb to figure out how to knock on the door or go through the door. The instructions I wrote down literally are like two green, by the way, everybody say I'm back. I'm uh out of my mood after last week. Yeah, for sure. Fuckers. Yeah, for sure. Um, anyway, and so this guy, it says two green doors, says Volcid bar on map, and and like, and so Walmart doesn't give you an option to like driver screwed up, person is there's no moron button. Oh boy. There should be a moron button. Oh boy, in life, probably in life. I mean anytime, like every place should have a moron button. I got an itchy nose. I think. You know what I mean? Like, like and like like trying to blame it on me, like you can reschedule once. Well, I'm not the dipshit who couldn't figure out how addresses work. Here he's back, baby. He's back, baby. Kidding to be fair, to be fair, what? No, no, no, no, not. I read it from my phone, but it's recording. No, we uh we had uh not not not the same situation, but we did um what day was it? It was a holiday part of the holiday weekend. Amber tried to do a an order on a Friday? Was it on Friday? It doesn't matter. Tried to do an order at Aldi, right? Was excited about getting this order because she wanted to get her stuff done for the week, yeah, meals-wise. And they closed early, which in hindsight we should have thought about. I think it was actually Memorial Day, maybe. So they closed it. Aldi does have some earlier closing hours once in a while. But that's my favorite place to go. So we she put an order to pick up and we went, I went to go pick it up after I was down here helping out. Yeah. And they closed earlier than their normal schedule hours, but didn't give people with orders in to pick up a heads up. So you're you're out, you're out there. So you just so when you go to I showed up there to pick up my thing, they're closed, and it just said order canceled. Right. And you're like, once again, moron button. Wow. And you're like, well, I get it. That's on my end. I should have maybe thought about the holiday weekend, but at the same time, you could give people a heads up. Yeah. Like, hey, you know what? Get here before six o'clock to pick up your order. Sorry, order canceled. Yeah, your order's canceled. You're gonna starve. You're putting your beef back. You're gonna starve to death. Screw you. Anyway, yeah, anyway. So I don't know. This is where the technology stuff is uh, we could we could get a little better. Frictionless turns into fuckless. Yeah, yeah. That's that's right. Too much friction. Yeah, uh, so it's your birthday.
River Bar Crawl Highlights
We uh did some little bar hopping yesterday. We had a day yesterday. We did. You ready for this? Now this is I'm jumping into it. I'm jumping in a little early for our segment that we'll we'll we'll we'll circle back to it later. Sorry. Um we'll come back to it later, but we kind of discovered a fun little bar in Lorraine yesterday. It's called, you ready for that? It's called Trench Joint on the Black River. Yeah, under the bridge. Under the bridge, kind of Coast Guard station. Kind of tough to find if you're GPSing. Yeah, GPS doesn't like it. Um, but dude, it's out in the open, kind of uh, I want to say like a tiki vibe. Yeah, a little bit of a tiki vibe, beach vibe. But on Sunday they were playing uh like 90s rap, which wasn't I like that. So I mean I was we were jamming. Wasn't ideal since we were toting kids shows, right? Yeah, but a lot of F-bombs going on. I would like to go back uh Sans Kids and and do it again because the place seemed pretty darn cool. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so Trent's Trent's joint. We did uh we did a Route Six bars yesterday, I guess. I felt like a troll under the bridge, you know. Cave troll won't be here. Yeah, no, that's I don't know. Troll. Remember those fairy tale? A troll under the bridge. Yeah, troll under the bridge. Nice place, though. Liked it. Yeah, it was good vibe. It was anyway, really cool. Uh we did top golf yesterday, which man, that's I haven't done it since twenty. That's a good time. It is a good time. That's a that's a good venue, family venue. You get out there and and then hey, and then we hit up. I mean, we will come back to this, but we hit up one of our old favorites in Huron as well, which is the old fish house. Fish house, another great bar. I agree. We did river bars yesterday. We did river bars yesterday. Old fish house is a classic. That place is a good spot, yeah. Outside chill, watch the boats go by. Yeah, I like that. Yep. Good perch. Good perch. Cheetos and lemonades over there. Good. According to you, the best perch around. Best perch around. All right, there it is. There it is. Okay. So yeah, fun day yesterday.
The Never Ending Tax Rant
I was thinking about taxes the other day. Oh, yeah? Taxes. Taxes. You know the state? Just taxes in general. Love death and taxes. The state? Taxes? Just I got an uncle from taxes. Dallas, taxes. What are we doing here? Dallas. Dallas. We gave him the mic, and it all hell has broken ice. Keep in mind, I can't do that off. Taxes. So what about taxes? So taxes. I was thinking about, you know, taxes, we all hate paying them. And some taxes go to good things, some go to I don't know, stupid arcs. But um think about taxes. So you pay your sales tax, you get taxed on your salary, you get taxed when you buy anything. Those people get taxed on paying you your salary. Like you're you're basically renting everything your whole life. You don't own shit. You pay off your tax. Say you pay off your you pay off your house. Yeah. You pay it off. You own it outright. And say, Congratulations. I spent 30 years paying this thing off. And they go, Oh, great. Pay your property taxes. Yeah. What do you mean I bought it? No, no, no. You have to pay property taxes. What happens if I don't? We're taking your fucking house. You will own nothing and you will buy it. You will own nothing and you will eat bugs. You know, and think theoretically, think about if and if you were to say, uh, give me a gift of $100,000. You would get taxed on that. As I got to say, I want a million bucks. Yeah. I'd get taxed, what, 40, 50% on? And I'm like, I want to gift champ a hundred grand for his birthday. Yeah, I'll tax that too. It tax you for that hundred grand. Double tax, triple tax. They get you coming and going, and then it goes to get these sleazy politicians spending our money. Don't like it. Oh, what Beatles song uh uh relates to that. Tax man. Very good, very good, Ryan. Yeah, tax man comes to your door. So anyway, that was my little rant about taxes.
Busy Weekend And Paddle Bar Microclimate
Uh bar dirty. Bar's dirty. We gotta we gotta we gotta please weekend. We got some. I'm sure anyone who was out about it was a big weekend. It was a big weekend. And I think you got bike week starting, and then you also have uh Memorial Day weekend can fall on that pre on this past weekend. Right. Memorial day weekend is typically the last weekend, I think, in May. So we had like a bonus weekend and people were out. And and you know what, let's be honest, it was a perfect storm. The sunshine for the first time in a while that was fairly well, it wasn't that warm, but it was warm enough. Well, you know the secret of paddle bar. Obviously, the boaters couldn't go anywhere this weekend because it was blowing northeast. But the paddle bar deck not only is is shielded from the northeast wind, but that sun hits the brick and it just warms up and it's just a great place to be once a little cooler. A little microclimate. Microclimate. Paddle bars are the banana, the banana banana republic, banana belt? Banana belt? It's not a banana republic. What's going on over at uh
Teeks Opening Countdown And Inspections
teeks? You have this update for Teeks. All right, okay. Because here it is, because you're out of your funk, which means I had a good night's sleep last night, as a matter of fact. It was the first time in a while. Slept well, was up at 7 a.m. I was over there at 7 this morning getting things done. Uh health inspection Wednesday. Oh boy. At uh at 10 a.m. So I have a lot to do before then. I want to make it perfect so that no one there's nothing wrong. But uh uh we're busting our butt over there. It is um we have we're we're we're close. And then you know, the way it works is once that health inspection starts, yeah. Uh then after you get that, then you get your liquor inspection. Then once that's done, you just kind of wait until they print your license and then we open for business. I love that. So it's coming along. The hotel itself has been rocking. Um, had a great weekend over there. So I I'm I'm feeling better this week than I was last week. Good. Um, yeah. Well, and then you know, when you're doing these things, then all the bills start coming in at once and you realize how much money you're spending, and the bar's not open yet, and you're like, ugh, like yeah, you know, yeah. And you're getting taxed on it too. That's back to that. That's back to that. Let me uh let me ask you one thing
Canned Cocktail Taste Tests
real quick. And it just it just this is as close as I can get T. Um, let me this just popped in my head. Let me get your thoughts on twisted tea. Oh boy. How do you feel about twisted tea? I don't like it. This That's it. I'm gonna leave it at that. Leave it at that. I'm gonna leave it at that. I don't love twisted tea either. It's too sweet. It's too sweet. If you know you know. If you know you know. I don't like I'm partial to surfside. Surfside, surfside. Okay, here you go. Surfside versus Sun Cruiser. Surfside. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. Although Suncruiser is putting out a big, they're putting out some money right now. I see Sun Cruiser umbrella. You know, they're not distributors give bars free stuff to put around. They're not supposed to give umbrellas, I guess, anymore. Some new state law or something like that. Well, because they can buy it, but somebody'd do it anyway. Yeah, remember somebody because that lady got killed by friggin', yeah. Remember? Dangerous. Death by umbrella when you're just sitting there enjoying yourself? Good lord. Yeah, that's that happened. It's that did happen. Anyway, umbrellas are rough. Sun cruisers are not bad. I just uh I like the taste of surfside better. I think sun cruisers have a little bit more of a aspartamey taste to them for me. I had a lot of people asking for carbless the last couple of years. We might have to start carrying at least one flavor. It's a car, it's it's exactly right. Can't we just drink beer? Not anymore, dude. People are jamming carbless, you know. Eyebrowless. I don't like it. Eyebrowless? That's not right. You say eyebrowless? Yeah, I was going somewhere, it didn't work. Isn't there some sort of insurance called umbrella insurance? I mean, in real life, there's um yeah, that's uh that's when you buy a that it's okay. But this lady was hope the bar had umbrella. Can we stop talking about people impaled by umbrellas? I'm just well, it's in the news. It happened. I'm turning them down, dude. It is getting two in here. He thinks it's his show again. Listen, you're retired from your show. You want to do trivia again? Fire it up. We got the set for you. You're in. Yeah. I'll sit on that side and harass you. Just don't make eye contact.
Frozen Machines And Back To Future
Uh what broke this week? Anything? Uh yeah, that so walked in today. The frozen machine decided to take a walk off the thing there. I don't know what that was about. Those things, as much as we like the Dacquery Dock, those frozen drink machines. Frozen drink machines. No one has ever you find a person who's made the technology to keep those things clean and working on a daily basis. Why can't they make them smaller? They're so heavy, too. I man. Oh, I hate them. Yeah, they're terrible. I hate them. They're they they make tasty drinks. But they make good drinks, so we gotta keep them and and you know, we're trying to figure out what drinks to stock this year. And I some I I didn't have we didn't have margaritas this weekend. I got a little shit from the shit about that. Yeah. So I think the frozen ones? Yeah, get better. Bring back the frozen marks. They just take up so much power too. 1.21 gigawatts. There it is, and you've gone into what I was talking about. Back to the future. I watched all three this week. Did you see the nighttime setup? You watch all three? Yeah. Yeah. Well, can't say I watched the last two. We watched the other three other night. That's a that's a fun game. Give me, I know what's one I what I know what number one is, but give me them in order because I would see what do you like better, two or three. So in order, it goes one, two, and three. Okay, same. Your order, your favorite order, not the my favorite is probably one, uh, one, three, two. But you gotta realize two, it's funny because mine's actually one, two, three, just in order. You know, two is like the darker one, paints the picture for three. I mean, two, you could argue we're basically living in Back to Future two right now. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's like Biff Tannen's fun house. Mom, when that pizza's ready, can you just put it in my mouth? Remember that she sure does hydrated pizza. Yeah, hydrated pizza is like none other. Uh, there's trains in Back to Future 3. The ending scene is I got a time machine train. You know, big pizza for the foamers out there. For the foamers. Big train coming through uh Sandusky or next week. Next week, I think it's June 8th or 9th. What is that? A uh the Big Boy. The Big Boy steam engine. Yeah. They call it the Big Boy? Yeah. That's not a very original name, is it? It's one of the per people working on it named it years ago. That's a large locomotive. Large locomotive. Uh, give me one quick trivia question from Back to the Future one. Okay. What is the name? Um, at the very beginning when he first travels back in time and he runs into the sign of the the tree farm that he's on. Oh. Uh that is uh my pines. Um man, Pine Hill Mall. Uh oh, what is it? Is it Pine Hill? Yeah. I'm trying to think of it myself. Oh, I what? Nothing worse than asking a trivia question, expecting someone to know the answer, and then when we don't know, we go, eh? Well, somebody can tell us. I it's not Pine Hill. It's Pine Something. Yeah. Oh, the Mall. Yeah. Yeah, but what's the name of the farm? But what's the name of the farm that the old him out of the barn where he's in the alien the Martian suit? He thinks he's a Martian. I'll look it up while you guys do your show. Twin Pines Mall. God damn it. There it is. Man. Twin Pines. That's right. My Pines. Still got it. My Pines. And he comes chasing after himself. Yeah, that's right. He has the the nuclear suit on. Um, so no big bri nothing really broke this week, which is nice. That machine kind of acted up. Yeah, just our spirit. Um, just our spirit. It's only June, bro. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's only June. I'm kidding. Oh, yeah. It was a great weekend. It's a lot, it's a lot. It was a great weekend, a long week, though. So um staff seems to be doing pretty good. I think everybody's rocking. Like you talked about Teks,
What Makes A Bar Great
we're coming along. Yeah. Keep you updated there. Oh, I had someone, uh, one of our regulars said something to me about they want to hear more about bars we've been to. Oh, nice. So here's a thought. Uh, we always talk about Key West. We talk about Colorado, obviously, our favorite places. So let's talk about some other bars that we've been to that are elsewhere, or maybe you've been to that like you you shared the story about the uh but you're checking your watch because you gotta go golfing. No, no, no, I just got a birthday text. Yeah? Well, you know what? That's listen, if I make it my tea time I've got to be a good one. Doing a television show down. All right. You'll make your tea time, don't worry. What time is it? We're fine. We're gonna be just fine. We're fine. I can see that I'm gonna be doing the rest of the orders, though. I already did them. I already did them. They just get called in. Uh-huh. So I do think that as much as the bar itself, where Paddlebar is a great example, Paddlebar is a mix between great bartenders, good staff, but a good vibe because of the way it looks, the way it feels. Yeah. But you can have a bar that is absolutely an institutional place and you have the right bartender. And now, granted, this one probably lost his job, but that bartender at the Jackson Hole Airport bar. Oh. The one telling the jokes. Telling the dirty jokes. We were coming back from vacation one time, Jackson Hole, and this guy started telling dirty jokes for some reason. And I'm talking jokes we couldn't even talk about on bar pod, probably. Uh bad. But like, so we started bullshitting with him telling jokes, and then other people traveling started. Started doing the same thing. And the next thing you know, there's 25 people at the bar getting hammered at 11 a.m. in Jackson Hole. Telling dirty jokes. Telling dirty jokes. It was fantastic for such a fun time. It was fantastic. I do think that, you know, not only does the the the the exterior and how the bar feels, but you the staff is so important. It is and the person behind the bar matters. You know, we talk about the you know, looking up and all that stuff, but like just the attitude of the person does make a does make a big uh a big a big impact. You know, we like to talk about the details of a bar that make it good, and it's funny too. So not only number one is clearly, like you said, the the bartender themselves, right? Like a good a great bar with a bad bartender can turn can turn bad. Yeah. Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, and it it's it's weird, but music in a bar is big for me, right? Oh yeah, yeah. It's actually big. Yeah, I think controls the vibe. Cultivating your culture in your bar is huge. If you're could you imagine what bar what what paddle bar would feel like on a s on a on a regular day if we just played rap all day? Yeah, it would be completely different. It wouldn't be as late. It's not that I don't like some rap. I just it's it's it would be a completely different vibe. We're more like laid back. Reggae style. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So yeah, it's it's wild. Um, another bar, I think we have talked about it, but I don't think we've talked about it at length. We're back down into Florida, is Alabama Jacks. Oh, okay. Yeah, you're not into Key West, so that's good. Alabama Jacks first stop into the Keys. That is a good bar. Card Sound Road. Card Sound Road. It's a great right before the bridge there. That was in what television show was Alabama Jackson? It's been in a couple, no. One, nothing. Which one are you thinking of? I'm thinking of. No, go ahead. I know. I know I know. Go ahead. Bloodline. Bloodline. That's a great Netflix show. Oh, dude. That's a good Netflix. That's a good sit down if you're if you're in good. I can't believe it didn't get renewed. It was like two or three seasons and they canceled. Yeah, I don't know what happened. It was a it was a deep thinker. You had to get kind of not deep thinker, but it was dark. It was dark. Dark. Yeah. So yeah, Alabama Jacks, fantastic. Give me a bar that's not in any of the states that we frequent that you really like. No, no islands, no Putnam Bay, no, no Colorado, no, no Florida, no Keys. Shit. Um struggling here. I am struggling a little bit because that's what How about the zoo bar at Boeing Highlands? That's a good bar. Zoo bar at Boeing Highlands? Zoo bar at Boeing Highlands. Have we talked about Ellicottville yet? Ellicottville's got some good bars. Well, obviously the the best. I think we might have, but we could revisit Ellicottville, New York, where Holiday Valley is, of course. Um, it's the one we like in Ellicottville all the time. You got it? Who's got it? Uh it's the Irish one. Yeah. Um, anyone? Help me. Ooh. Help me. I'm struggling. Why are we struggling with this? I'll get there. We always get tequila when I go there. Well, we get tequila, but we used to get they used to serve OVs. OV, mini bottles of OV. I got it. And they would just Madigans. Madigans. Well done. There it is. So there you go. If you're ever in the wintertime, you can jog your brain right now. It is. If you're ever in the wintertime, going up to Elakville Ski, Holiday Valley, Madigan's is I that's the that's the bar there. And then the one up from Madigan's is also pretty good, the gin mill. Not gin mill. It used to be. It moved. It's not as good. I it's still a pretty good bar. Well no, it's a good bar. It's not Madigan's. It moved. They change locations, and that's another thing. Sometimes when you change locations, it changes the vibe too much. It's tough to pull that off, I think. It is. You know. It is. Uh that's why I think a lot of bars when they try to franchise, they uh they they they struggle because it ruins the vibe. Yeah. Let me bring up one more. Oh, what you got? Since we're on this, right? Uh you got some people wanting to hear more bars. There's one around here that I don't think gets enough love that I think is pretty fantastic. A local. Yeah. What you got? Food beer. Oh. Oh, Kataba Inn. The Kataba Inn. Yeah. I mean, if you like dive bars, that's a classic establishment. Good burgers. They've cleaned it up recently. They have. They put some money in the bathrooms and stuff like that. So it's still a dive bar. Whether clean or dirty, it's always a good thing. You will not stick to the wall as much as you used to. Yeah, that's a great bar. Great bar. Yeah, over there is some good stuff. Twin O's is fun too. I like one of those. Twin O's is awesome with kiddos. Yeah. Yeah, because you let them run around. Snowflake loft at man's field. Well, we have brought up the snowflake loft. Ad nauseum that goes snow trails as well. Ad nauseum. That goes with the last the last run is really the hooples. Hooples. Yeah. Hooples and hooples is great. We talked about hooples. We've talked about hooples before. So yeah, that's kind of the bars. Anything else? I'm gonna have to rack my brain for some things. Like I know I've been to a couple good bars in Chicago. Yeah, I'm having a hard time. I can I'm thinking of bars I've been to that I really like. Uh and like what I liked about them, but I can't I can't remember the names. I was in a great bar in Hamburg, right outside of Buffalo. Oh, I thought you were talking about Germany. I was in a bar there. Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg, uh, yeah, and I can't remember the name of the bar, but it was like an old Irish bar, it's fantastic, and I can't. I'll I'll look, I'll figure it out for next bar pod. We should also talk about, I'll just gonna bring one up uh quickly, uh maybe for another segment. Airport bars that are good. I can think of two of my favorites. The fountain bar at Detroit Airport on the McNamara terminal. Okay. And um O'Reilly's daughter, and I don't know if it's still there, it's been a long time. I used to go there all the time when I was flying all the time for work uh in at Chicago Midway. Chicago Midway, and that was that one. That was a great one because the the guy who owned it used to own a bar in Chicago on the South Side, which was uh uh Irish bar where a lot of a lot of political events were done. So both both sides. Like, and so like Obama was there, like I think uh George W or one of the other presidents Republicans were there, and they like that's where they hosted rallies and stuff. Nice so this guy has got stories, and you go in this bar and you're layover and you'd and he'd tell you all the cool stories. You you sent Amber and I to a good one in DIA, I think it was called was it called Root Down? Oh, Root Down. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a there's one that did it right. They have a restaurant in low lodo, Denver, and then they did one in the in the in the airport. Rootdown's a good bar. You can bar hop airports. Oh, listen, listen. I've done it. Let me we're still going. Now, see, now you see it happens. Once the engine gets started, well, it just took a while. The train flies on down the tracks. Uh uh in in Frisco. I love in Frisco, I love it's your birthday. I love a nice moose jaw. Moose jaw in Frisco, Colorado. In Frisco, Colorado, because I lived in Frisco for four years. We're gonna do what we call a one-way trip for Chad's
Tequila Toast And Lake Erie Trivia
birthday. There it is. Yeah, T Dub, I think you hey Todd and Lisa, thanks for this bottle, tequila. Yeah, it's still going because we're savoring it. We're kind of savoring it because it's good stuff. Yep. Here comes T Dub. He's trying to grab one. He's gonna get in the shop. Oh, you're coming back here? Oh, yeah. No, this is there's a red line there that you're supposed to stay behind. Oh, this is a good one. Oh, here we go. All right, cheers. Happy birthday. Tap it. Continue on, gentlemen. There it is. Dude, that's he just really wants to get in the shot, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah. Let him do it. That's a good that's a good kill. That's good. That is really good. It's kind of like Pavarotti. My goodness. All right. Anything else we got? Um I'm done. We're done. We went through some John's barns. You ready to go golfing? Well, no, we'll make a we got a little bit left here, don't we? Trivia. Okay, what'd you got? This has been a loose episode. It has full full freestyle. Okay, okay. Wet bar. It looks like it's the on the southernmost point of Lake Erie. Southern Southernmost point in Lake Erie. What bar? Southernmost point of the lake? Of Lake Erie. Oh, so we were just out of the fish house. No. No, no, no, no. Southernmost point of the lake. Of the w of the lake. Exactly, Ryan. What bar is on the lake? Is Sandusky Bay included? No. Because that's not the southernmost point of the city. Lake Erie. I said Lake Erie. What bar is on the southernmost point of the water? Oh. Think about it. Bar restaurant. Bar restaurant. Is it at Cedar Point? No. No, no, it's gotta be in uh Southernmost point. What's where's the southernmost point? It's it's gotta be uh is it across the street from the water? No. Well, yeah, kind of. It's not on the water, but Okay, so uh now even you're changing things. Well, I guess in me for understand where this is. I need to eat where's the southernmost point of Lake Erie? Middlewanga? You're on the right car. Yeah, yeah. Come on, what's what bar? Are we talking uh yeah uh no, it's not the patio. It's not the patio because Erie Kai's not there anymore. No, no. I just looked at the map bar or restaurant. Angry Bull. That's it. Oh my gosh. Angry Bull. You look at the map. That's the southernmost. Southernmost point of Lake Erie. Yeah, I always thought it was down towards Sandusky. No, it is because of the way the lake goes. I know it's around here on, but I always thought it was I always thought um Volunteer Bay was so did I until I just looked at the map. Well, you sure your map wasn't just turned because phones do that sometimes. He gyroscoped it. I mean, because I can see that happening. Well, we're gonna have to have to we're gonna get we'll get the uh we'll get the production team to to look into that. Yeah. Geez, it's awesome. That's a good one. All right, all right. I think we're good to go. I think we could wrap her up. Really? You got anything else? Listen, I don't think so. All right. Happy
Wrap Up And Where To Find Us
birthday. We'll try to yeah, happy birthday. We'll try to get things a little uh little streamlined for next week, maybe, but yeah, who knows? Sometimes the loose ones are free. I kind of like it for this one's free of editing. Yeah, I don't have to edit. No, you don't. That's good. I hate it when I have to edit. Yeah. You didn't say anything disparaging to anyone. I did, you know, I think I was in a better mood than last week, though. Shout out to Keila made me warm in the neck. I got a lot of shit last week. I got a lot of shit for being little low-key last week. Yeah, people were not happy. People, listen, when we're in such a great mood all the time. Being jovial is tough. Yeah. Jovial. All right, we're out of here. Here it is. Uh thanks for tuning in. You guys know where to find us. We'll be uh we'll be at battle bar all week. It's gonna be a good week. The weather looks good, so give us some sunshine. Summer's here. Your mother actually hit a golf ball yesterday. She did. She did. She did. She did. Everybody looked pretty good at talking. Everybody did all right. Everybody did all right. Ren, especially. Yeah, yeah. All right, guys. If I kill all the golfers, never mind. They'll lock me up and throw away the cue. I mean, golfers, you great, not one one caddyshack quote right here. All right. Bye, guys. Thanks a lot. See you next week. Ryan and Jupiter. This is now with the body.