Stop Stealing Plungers You Weirdos

Somebody is stealing plungers from bar bathrooms and it’s not even the weirdest part of our week. We’re back with Barpod energy, bouncing from fermented-food gut health talk to the real-world chaos that shows up once summer crowds hit Sandusky and the Lake Erie shoreline. 

We take you with us to Cleveland for a Guardians trip, a stop at Masthead Brewing, and a long, honest love letter to Johnny’s Little Bar. It’s the kind of old-school dive bar you can’t fake, built from time, history, and the people who keep it alive. From there we jump to Put-in-Bay, ferry constraints, live music, too many Bud Lights, and the return of backwards hats as a full-blown social signal we can’t unsee. 

Then we zoom out to bar industry news: bourbon demand cooling off, distilleries pausing production, tariffs and Canada’s boycott crushing US spirits exports, and why shelves suddenly look more stocked than last year. We also hit the rise of THC drinks nationwide and the frustration of Ohio rules keeping bars from selling what customers ask for. Plus: a Tique's opening update, storm damage fixes, generator talk, and a quick brain teaser on why we all turn the music down to “see better” while driving or docking. 

If you like bar culture, local travel, whiskey and bourbon talk, and the messy truth of running a place in the summer, hit play. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find Barpod.

Transcript

Pickles, Ferments, And Gut Health

SPEAKER_01 0:00

They are. You should eat you should eat pickles. There's a pickle festivals all across the country. Did you know that? Well, did you know that uh eating Are we recording? Oh, so we got some cold open stuff here right now. Oh, yeah, we do. Pickles.

unknown 0:11

Yeah, pickles.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Eating uh, you know, I try to get more sauerkraut into my diet. Sauerkraut. I gotta do that. That stinks your butt up though. Well, but apparently it's really good for your gut health. Sauerkraut? Mm-hmm. Really. And kimchi. Kimchi is supposed to be a thing. Yeah. All right, should we start the show? We just went on a gut health conversation there. I think we gave dad some butter for the cold opening. Everything stems from your gut health.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

Ryan! Two butters in the bottom.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

Barpod coming out.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Hey,

Summer Kickoff And Sponsor Jokes

SPEAKER_01 0:50

it is uh Barpod. We're back. It's episode seven. We are getting into the grind of summer here season two. Yeah, we really are. And technically it's not even summer yet, which is weird by the calendar. It sure freaking feels like it. It is. It is. Nice little cool down right now, though. Big in the weather. Yeah. Yeah, it's like 75 outside. That's perfect. Let me tell you. You got a fly on you. Just landing on your head. We got flies coming for us. What president did an interview or a fly? It was Obama, remember? And he just snagged that thing out of the air. That's like the Manu Ginobili thing in the finals that one time. He ripped that bat out of the air in the in the basketball game. Spurs. Anyway. Get you some chopsticks and let me tell you, let me fire this up. Okay, what you got? Can I fire this up? Fire it up. Get it

Cleveland Trip And Dive Bar Love

SPEAKER_01 1:32

going. I had one of uh Amber and I went up to the Guardians game, and I'll I'll touch on the Cleveland trip a little bit more because it's always fun going up to Cleveland. But we went up Sunday, Monday for the game, and uh no, I'm sorry, Sunday. And we were at Masshead Brewing and I had one of the most aggressive handshakes of my life. Really? Yeah. We can we'll circle back. Do you want to get back to that? We'll get back to that. Did you just drop a circle back? We did a circle back. Because I was looking right at you. Do you want to get a thousand-foot view on this? Uh, you know, let's run it up to flagpole in the note session next time. All right. Okay. Well, we'll talk about that. Um, I went over to Putin Bay uh on Friday night to blow off a little steam. And uh we can get back to that too. But I can tell you that you can get drunk from a lot of Bud Lights. Uh you think you're just hydrating. I I found out the same thing about Miller Highlights. And then you will pee all night. Yeah. Speaking of drinking, uh big news for Barpod. We are now sponsored by Dunkin' Donuts. Check this out. So we won't be drinking beer anymore on the show. Dunkin' Donuts only. Just kidding. That is not true. It was 10 30 in the morning and Chad brought Duncan in. We didn't really feel like drinking beer. That's all. Be be uh yes, because I think there was way too much light beer um consumed. However, any sponsorship opportunities out there, uh, much like the UFC spa, we'd be glad to sponsor anything. We can sponsor the lighting system, we can sponsor the the fly that came by could have his only sponsor. We could uh sponsor the closed captioning. A couple of my nose hairs, a couple of your nose hairs.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Yeah. That'd be a big sponsorship. That'd be a big sponsor.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

All right, before I get in my putting bay trip, uh I gotta talk about TikTok. Oh. I'm noticing, and you know, we're on TikTok, but it's pretty much just clean, it's just cuts from stuff we talk about. Yeah, yeah. That's that's what it what it what it is. Yeah it's not complicated. But man, I am seeing so many businesses, locals and all around, that are just really diving into the short videos on TikTok. Yeah. And I don't know, Dad, you might need to need to jump in and really start studying TikTok and doing some paddle bar TikTok videos. I don't know. Do we need do we need to do it? Well, I mean I mean it's good stuff. I was looking at the Soul Stay guys over there, they're that place. They're they're crushing it. They're crushing with TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Well, we found it's vertical video. I won't do it. Oh, you're just anti-vertical video. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Yeah. But that's where everything is now. Everything's vertical these days and it's ups and downs. Guess what? Our uh oh, stop. Yeah. Uh vertical horizon. No, I we she's everything you want. She's everything you want. Uh you're do you remember correctly? One of our um, I believe it was a bar pod where we focused heavily on Cleveland, got a lot of love on the city. That was the first like TikTok launch. It got crazy views. We went viral. We did. It was like half a million views or whatever it was. And there was one reason for that, and I think it's a certain little tavern that you were at. If you want, I can I can talk about it just a tad more because it's the best. Go for it. I before we get into the bar news um and other things. Uh yeah, I'll go right back to my Cleveland, our Amber Ice Cleveland trip. We spent at least probably three to four hours in Johnny's little bar. Cool. That's uh that's a good shift with, and I'll give him a shout, Billy and Amanda behind the bar. Those two are awesome. They're always they're always great bartenders. Um man, uh we drank uh I drank High Life for three hours. Yeah. And I there you know what it is. A couple of shooters here. Couple little shooters here and there, I believe this is the Canadians say. I uh I will I'm gonna say it right here. Johnny's is in Johnny's Little Bar in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of my top three bars. Okay, big big thing. I'll lay the hammer down. And what it is that we Amber and I were talking about when we were there, it is the old school Americana dive bar. You just you don't you don't get those that much anymore. Right. It has the soul and the and the vibe of what a bar should have. I was joking the other day, and McKenzie almost killed me because you know, I'll tell you where we're at with Teeks here in a minute. Um and I'm like, I was joking with a with a friend and I was like, you know, I I thought maybe I got one more bar, I could open a dive bar. Oh, geez. Well, but here's the deal, I want to do it my way. I mean like a bar that you don't have to try to make money off of. Yeah. Like a dive bar, not open late, just a dive bar, door open, think Key West, think Johnny's. But there's no financial stakes, so you can really just do what you want. Yeah. You can be like, well, we only serve three drinks. Yeah. Like it or don't. You know, and here's the thing, here's the thing about opening. Good. It would be a good time. You know, here's the thing about opening a dive bar, though. There's one thing that's hard to replicate, and that is all the history of it. The history and time. Time that has passed, the the the notches in the in the in the in the bar top, you know, the the dirt up in the corners of the it's like it's everything. Right. It's everything. And Johnny's has it all. Man, God, that place is good. It is. And they have great burgers too. So yeah, there you go. Yeah. So anyway, Johnny's. The best. All right. I'll tell

Put-in-Bay Stories And Backwards Hats

SPEAKER_01 6:14

you about my Putin Bay trip quickly. Do it. Uh went over to Putin Bay, did it differently this time. Uh went over to see Nick Brownell. Of course, Nick plays down in Key West. Yeah. You know Nick, he'd just uh his show's a little bit of adult themed. He does the and then of course his thing, he was a hundred dollar bill, hundred dollar bill. How many series does that guy smoke during a show? It's hilarious. He does a version of Scooter Blues, dude, that's my favorite. Yeah, he's he's he's good. So Johnny Blues guys only was at one bar the entire time as a Southwest Island. And you and it was It was real bar. Because he was playing. Yeah, because he was playing. That was it. And due to time constraints with the ferry boat, I couldn't, you know, go to other ones, which was good. I probably shouldn't have.

SPEAKER_04 6:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Um when he's playing, you can't rip yourself away. He's that no, he's so good. So it had a blast over there. And uh yeah, I had a good boat ride on the way back. And then I wrote some notes on my way back about barpod, yeah, that I really don't know what I wrote because I was you know probably 15 Bud Lights Deep. So one thing said ferry boat, sunshine. So I I'm assuming I was in the in the you know the beauty of of uh Lake Erie in the western basin, the sun was going down and I was getting a little nostalgic. But then I'm assuming then I put backwards hats. So I'm assuming I was disrupted by some bros. You probably didn't like the backwards hat. And I probably made a comment about backwards hats. Why are the why are backwards hats back? I can almost guarantee what you said. You you probably at the time said turn your hat around, pull up your pants, and turn up. I didn't I'm sure I didn't say anything because I'd probably have a black eye if I did. Fair. But I'm sure that's what I thought, and then I aggressively took notes, is what I what I'm guessing. The only time backwards hats are in right now. It's interesting. I uh the only time I ever turned my hat backwards is if I'm riding a bike. Yeah, oh yeah, there's there's reasons for it. But then Foster rolled in, Foster, my little dude, rolled into the soft Ren softball game with a backwards hat on yesterday, and he looked cuter. Yeah, but a little little nug. They can have it sideways, it doesn't matter. He can do anything he wants. Uh speaking of funny, like taking notes and stuff when you're a little when you got a little buzz on, when you're a little chiefed. Yep. A little what? Chiefed. Not chiefed. You know what they sayed. I don't say they say right drunk, edit sober. Yeah, yeah, true. But uh I I've been I've been a bit of a party boy the last six, six, seven days. Yeah, you've been really on a little roll here. Well, Amber was down here with her friends for the birthday, and then I sent her a text from home that just said everyone should have a beard. A beard? Yeah. And then I woke up in the morning to a text back from Airma that said lol, what? So instead of good night, I just texted her everyone should have a beard, and I have no idea why I said that. Yeah, see, that's that's the same situation there. So I gotta I gotta relax, hence the coffee. I'm gonna I gotta get back on the workout train this week. Uh I got one more uh thing, just kind of you know what's going on, and I think it's the it's we're getting in this is why you know we're into summer here. The thing's starting. Yeah, the oddballs are out. Yeah. The weirdos are coming out of the woodworking. Yeah. There's just been some some folks walking into the bar that just I I don't know how they get out their door in the morning, let alone get to a bar. Yeah. I think they just I think it's continuously drinking. Continuous drinking for those folks. Some of them aren't even drinking. They're coming in just to use the freaking bathroom or drop water or stuff, and they're just that freaky. And I I don't like it when you use the bathroom and don't buy anything. Yeah, you're right. When I go to a place, even if I'm not there, I'll buy a I'll buy a pack of gum or something. I can't just go in and dump out and then come right dump out.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Chad has the weirdest phrases.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

No, actually, that comes from, and I bet you I can name it, and nobody else can. Oh no, I know where it's. That comes from a uh David Milch uh production. John from Cincinnati. See? Oh the uh creator for Deadwood. It was a extremely weird show. Nobody's that yeah, it didn't, he didn't he actually quit Deadwood to go do that show, and that was uh not a I actually really enjoyed it, but it was weird. John from Cincinnati. John from Cincinnati, but his term was I think John was like Jesus. I remember that. It was pretty good. It was. It one maybe a half of a season. They surfed, right? Or I think they were surfs. They were actually in California. Yeah. I think it took place. I don't know all of it. John from Cincinnati. It might be worth a look back though. Look it up and see what's going on.

SPEAKER_04 10:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Uh what else we got? I got a Luca update. Everything good there? Oh my dog. Um he's good.

SPEAKER_04 10:25

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Yeah, we gotta keep updated with him. Uh, we had um I had Amber's mom was in town helping us out so we could go to Cleveland for the guards game, which got postponed, by the way. Yeah. Do you see do you get to go to another one now? Uh we it actually opens up kind of a sweet possibility. They're replaying it on in a double header on September 5th, 4th or 5th. So we might go up that day and catch both games. Oh, a little double header action. I don't think I've ever done that as a baseball fan. Easier now than it had been in the past with the new rules. I can see that as a possibility for sure. Um, but yeah, so right when we were checking in a hotel. Dad does not like the Duncan. He doesn't like it, no. He's making faces back there. I think it's fine. It's a you probably like anything else you gotta get used to. It's a little different than I hated, I gotta be honest with you. I hated it. It's it's it's sweet and bitter. And bitter at the same time. It's kind of why I like it. It's really a my taste buds are very confused. Dancing around, dad's hating around there. Well, dad's making faces back there.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

But thank you for bringing it down.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Yes, I appreciate that. Little thanks for that note. Breakfast taco things were pretty good. Yeah. Um, but anyway, I I think you may have stayed there. We also a little we stayed at we it's our third time staying there when we go up, I think, but the Fidelity Hotel in Cleveland. Oh, yeah. That's a nice spot. It's a really nice spot. Not crazy expensive. It's like vintage. What floor? Uh 10th. High Fidelity. Okay. I believe it's I believe he said that same joke last time. Let's take a let's say, oh, let's get a little bit more. Let's have a moment of silence for this joke and fucking bury it. High Fidelity. Two weeks is good. I won't use it for the third. Yeah, you might. Amber booked us a queen suite that had a claw foot tub in it. It's a cool spot. It's a nice time. That's a cool spot. Anyway.

Bourbon Slump, Tariffs, And Shelf Surprises

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Um little bar news. Uh, nothing crazy. You know, I see uh Jim Beams closing uh or pausing production on distillery. His demand slumped. I mean, it's the same thing we've talked about in the past. I think that um um that they everybody was everybody was just really rocking out during COVID. So all these all these uh alcohol manufacturers got really excited and just overproduced, and now they're sitting around. There's a there was a a craft distillery somewhere around here. I forgot which one it was or where it is, but um same thing. They it was a it was a craft distillery and they had to close their doors and they cited tariff sales. Well, are you ready for this with tariffs? You know, Canada's boycotted American spirits since March. Yeah. U.S. whiskey sales in Canada down 60%, and overall US spirits exports are down eighty-five percent. Jesus. Q2. Okay, so let's talk about this. Now, now you know this correlates with the fact Ryan and I have been sending each other photos. He will send me the photo first of really good bourbon that we were able to acquire through the bar. Yeah, we're for the bar. And well, sometimes for the bar, sometimes you don't get to see it. Right, right. But but it but if you notice, I have been going into Dick's um liquor down there to see for myself once in a while, and I don't there's no joke that you need to do that. I didn't say anything. Uh it's just named Dick's liquor.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

Right. I didn't say a thing. I wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

Well that's better. What's the one in remember the one in remember the one in uh Beaver Creek, Colorado? What's the name of that one? Beaver Creek. Not Dick's liquor, it would be the opposite. Liquor Dicks? No. Beaver liquors.

SPEAKER_04 13:31

No, there was the opposite. Did you get liquor dick?

SPEAKER_01 13:35

I said liquor dick, which would be more the the inverse. I was thinking the opposite, which would be beaver liquors. Beaver liquors. What was that tackle shop? Uh uh that was masturbated. Yeah, masturbator. All that they're very close to each other. Yeah. Interesting. Masturbator. Wild out there. But anyway. Wild in the mountains. Wild, yeah. Oh, we got a bee. We got a bee coming for us. Get him. Dead get him. Take him out.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Going to kill a honey bee.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Those are deserved, those deserve certain death. That's like that meme. It says GitHub. And he's no one. Get him. Nice work. Yeah, that's not, that's not, uh, PETA's not going to come after us for that. There's a little meme that's funny. It says uh when you're approaching summer, it says it's three bees. It's like one that's fuzzy and nice and spreads pollen around. And then it goes all the way to the wasp one, it says shithead. Yeah. Shithead. Those fall in the same category as those uh red wing things that you're supposed to smash when you see them. Oh, lantern flies. Lantern's flies, yeah. Yeah. That might have been a lantern flying. Um, anyway, so your story about bourbon right now and its downfall or whatever. Somewhat apparent downfall. But it's uh you could tell there's a lot of good bourbon if you're a bourbon drinker on the shelves right now. And that's way more abundant than it was last year at this time. Yeah. Also, I'm seeing, I'm seeing all the goods that are out there. They're trying to push it. They're trying to offload existence. If you wanna, if you, you know, if you wanna wanna, you know, this is a good time to stock up. Um I got a note about THC drinks behind the bar and how that is up all across the country, except for Ohio, because we're not allowed to fucking sell them. God damn it. Thank you, Mike DeWine. I think that's all we have to say on that subject. Yeah, why dude? It's like always getting in your business. This country, the state voted for it. We wanted to pot. Now they're trying to take that away. They're trying to regulate, you know, you know, you can't have a nice thing. I thought, I don't know. Without without getting too political here, I thought that I thought Republicans were anti-government, correct? It doesn't seem to be the case these days. I think I think, you know, I once I think traditional Republicans. Traditional. I don't know what we're doing now, but traditional Republicans tend to be, you know, less, less, you know, less government, more. Don't tread on me. And I and I, you know, there's uh yes, capitalism. Let's go. Stay out of my business. Stay out of my business. Stay out of my business. But this is the out of that. When the people vote for it and then they want to take it away, that isn't not the thing. So let me hear you. So this this is is it is it because of alcohol lobbyists in chirping in the ear? Uh, there's a lot of that. I think that's why it doesn't matter what side of the table. You're taking a piece of my pie tea. Let's go ahead and get the and let's go ahead and get the uh money out of politics. And unfortunately, it looks like within the next few weeks, the last standing you know, to to uh the Supreme Court, I can't even tell you where we're going, but it basically looks like uh there's even gonna be it's gonna be easier for uh corporations to uh give money to politicians here. So we're really going right direction. Good job, everybody. Now that I said it though, I'm gonna I'm gonna knock my own point off the pedestal. Because that actually wouldn't make sense. I said, oh, it's alcohol lobbyists chirping in the ear. They're the ones that all make this stuff, though. No, they're not. No, no, there's a lot of alcohol lobby. No, I I've read there's a lot of alcohol a lot. Like like stop be trying to stop the weed. Like the place in bowling green, they were making THC in on dragon. Right, I think the smaller, but the big guys in Bev doesn't make weed. Okay, okay. I know. So that does make sense. So that does make sense. So that's that, you know, screw off, screw off, whatever. Uh Elon Musk is a trillionaire now. Did you see the SpaceX? Dude, it's it's it was at 2 12 this morning. That's a meme stock all day. That's a that is a meme stock. The way they've they they they've forced you your 401k is going to that, whether you like it or not. Yeah, I know. So rules were broken. Well, rules were changed. They were changed. And then that is a meme stock. That is a classic. Like, the people that are actually getting rich aren't the people who go, Oh, here's my chance. It's not your chance. So here's my thing. You know, I like to dabble in some day trading once in a while. Yeah, I know you're into that. When this thing just goes and you have a backwards hat and a pop collar. I'm gonna start taking creatine and peptides here.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

And go get your doctorate from Miami University.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

What was that about? Well, he does. I mean he's he's an OU guy. I don't think it's I don't think a doctorate has anything to do with uh Miami University, so traditionally you don't need a doctorate, you just need a you need a 2004 Mercedes. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No, they're newer. It's newer than that, whatever. No, but uh but anyway, yeah, the stock just went vertical and people are still buying it. It was $186 yesterday, $212 this morning. I was like, it just went straight up. So when it when it comes down and everybody starts selling it because they are making money off of short-term trading, is is everything gonna go down with it, or is it gonna, are the funds gonna fan out to other stuff? That's what I want to know.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Did Chad just say the stock went vertical? It did.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

He knows his stuff like that. I know he does. Just because I know a couple, you know, some vocab from trading doesn't mean I know anything. Yeah, I can tell you that. Um moving along, Teaks, bro.

Teeks Timeline And Soft Opening Plan

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Dude, we're here. You look like a little lighter. I'm lighter. We got it. We got all the stuff done. Um, I would, and I'm not gonna make a big announcement on it, but I will do it on BarPod. I would uh predict that TEKS should be uh up and running within two weeks. No, yeah. Let's go. Yeah, things are up there. I really it's now it's a matter of ordering product and getting things uh getting things going. And I want to open it with a you know a slower, let's figure out the butt, you know, it doesn't need like you know, like we don't need to go bacon. We did you know we did that here if you remember. We did a weekend before we said anything. Just turn on the lights. I was just gonna ask you, because I'm sure I'm sure there's some people that are curious, um, the you know, the six or seven people that are listening. But what what you're how you're gonna roll things out. So you're gonna do a soft, kind of a soft, slow opening and then maybe do something late summer. Start launching it, and like it'll really be. I mean, uh we'll rock and roll July 4th. Um, and then you know, as the summer, and I think it's really gonna be a uh uh really focus on late summer, mid to late summer, and try to roll into the fall as long as we can with the weather. I'm gonna roll through there at 1 30 a.m. and toilet paper the whole place, teepee it old school, get a gang and just tepee it. Okay, well when you do that, I'll fork your yard.

unknown 19:57

Fork?

SPEAKER_01 19:58

What is that? You know what that is? What no fork? That's you take a bunch of plastic forks and break it off in your yard so it kills your grass and you gotta go out there and pick them. Oh my god. Diabolical. All you had to do was just pick the toilet paper off the trees for mine. I don't that's no, your yard will be fork. Alright, well, I won't do it. So fork you. I won't do it. That's crazy. Yeah. So anyway, that's what you're rocking. Ooh, I forgot to turn off my stuff there. I'm getting text messages. It was just urgent. Yeah, that's the way it goes. Oh. Uh, you know what? We're gonna take a little pause real quick. Oh. I gotta let someone in. Oh. And then we will be right back. Okay. Okay, hey, we're it's a little break there. Had to prepare for some things, but that's all good. Um, so that's the update on Teaks. I'm happy. Things are rocking and rolling. You look sprightly. I feel better. That was a stressful uh stressful so yes, a stressful uh last couple months. And when I told Mackenzie, well, maybe we should open a dive bar, she was ready to just I'm sure. Murder me right here on the spot. Well, you said you said she's right. You said this one has been, which is funny because it's smaller, it's never, but it's been more just more stuff going on. Yeah. Uh, you know, between different things. And things are looking up. Things are looking up, we're good. Uh so people are drinking less. Yet yet again. Is that what I see? Uh well no, that's we're past that. That was just kind of that just was talking about some of the bar news. But uh people may be drinking less nationally. Um there's an a loneliness epidemic. There, there, you're you're you gotta get out of there. We did not even use those notes. No, no, that was about the THC drinks. We're no yeah. It just kind of got up there for certain. We're we're we're down. We're down. Let's number five.

Plunger Thefts And Bar Weirdness

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Let's talk about something serious that's that's that's that's plaguing Syndusky and its plungers going missing. Yeah, yeah. So listen, there's this is serious business. It's very serious. We got uh we got a we got a text from uh the guys who own Clubhouse, Ryan and Max, and uh they uh they said, Are you guys missing plungers? And they got on a video some guys going in the bathroom and stealing plungers. And sure enough, they struck paddle bar as well. They got they got stole the plunger from the disco bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

What?

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Yeah, they're stealing plungers. I don't know if it was like a like a like a challenge. Like apparently they're all at the yacht club. I mean, we know who they are. They know that there's shit on the end of those, right? Yeah, those are covered in shit. So I don't know what your deal is. I I I did notice one thing from the video, and I'm just gonna throw an analogy in here. Okay. They were wearing backwards hats. Oh. You know what? As soon as I heard of it, you guys, everybody was trying to, I think somebody called them the turd bandits. The turd bandits? I thought, yeah, I automated. It made me think of it. I saw somebody made a meme of the turd bandits. It made me think of Home Alone. Do you remember the Home Alone? The bad guys were the sticky bandits. Sticky bands. The stinky bands. So yeah. So that these guys were stealing this week. And I gotta tell you. It's probably like some sort of um what do you what do you call them? Like uh you go to a fraternity and it's scavenger hunt. Yeah, the problem is from the video, these guys look like they were in their like late 20s or early 30s. So maybe they're starting to. Sounds like something a teen would do. I mean, these are probably the same people that were eating Tide Pods when they were teenagers, I bet.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

So I hope they see this bar pod. I really hope they see this bar pod. Don't fucking seal plungers, you dork.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

What did I I saw some something where how many glasses are actually stolen from a lot of bars? Oh, it's a it's a top.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

People love stealing glasses from we lose a lot of uh we lose a lot of uh when we first open, we have those cool um um what do you call them? Um oil cans or b beer can glasses. Oh yeah, people like this. People like those, but that it has moved to our wine glasses for some reason. People love jack and the wine glasses. People love jack and wine glasses. Guys, this costs us money, man. Come on.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Back in my younger days, I will admit, me and my buddy stole a bar stool once. A bar stool? Yeah, the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Yeah, you guys also stole a dog.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

We did in Steamboat.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Yeah, so I kept it. We returned cop cars. I did have a friend who stole a cop car. Yeah. Well, he didn't steal it either. He just moved it. He moved it. He moved it. That was oh say his name. No, he was a hilarious dude. Hilarious dude. People love to jump. I don't know that happened, but yeah, that was fun. People love to jack stuff long. Can we can we just can we just roll into that? I don't know. It might have been a security guard car. I don't know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

People love to pill for things. Um, yeah, that's uh that's fun. AL break things that broke this weekend. Or this week. Yeah um paddle bar, uh the plumbing uh issue under the sink. That happened. I kind of fixed that's a yearly thing. Yeah. Uh the other buildings, some stuff blew off in that storm. That storm was nasty. So um, but no, we know nothing major here this week. We got caught walking down. We were sitting at Masthead Brewery, and we were walking. I said, Amber, we can Were you guys in Cleveland all that storm rolled through? Yeah. Okay. We said we can make it to Johnny's. And Amber goes, Are you sure? Because I was looking at the radar, you know. And we started to walk, and I look over, and Amber, I was I was in it, but but just on the outside of it. Andrew was Amber was caught on the sidewalk in one of those like little dirt tornadoes. I saw there's there was like a styrofoam like to-go food thing that hit her in the leg. It looked like it's just kind of she's got dirt in her eyes and hair. Oh no. I I was in it too, but I was not dead center like she was. She looks at me, she goes, We're turning around as a game. What was that movie where the paper bag uh you know the guy who was filming the paper bag going in the circle? Had Kevin Spacey in it. Oh, oh, American Beauty. American Beauty, yeah. Good memory. There was a water spout out here. There was a couple, yeah. It sounds like uh, I mean, clearly that's why the Guardians game got postponed. It sounds like you got it worse here than Cleveland did. Yeah, I think too much. I think Lorraine got it really bad. Again. Again, they're getting hit hard. And you know, you can let's go back to the whole Sandusky base split. We're getting beat up this year. Yeah, the uh the the weather has been pretty fierce. Yeah, two inches of rain here. Luckily, just a side note for everybody, uh, at Paddle Bar we have a generator. So if the power goes out where you're at, come on down, grab a beer, give you some free ice. Is it weird that no, we've talked about this? No free plungers. Ice. I I want the power to go out once during operating hours so we can use our generator one time. I'm very excited. Yeah, very excited. Um that's about it there. So yeah, it's summertime here.

Bathroom Etiquette, Trivia, And Closing

SPEAKER_01 26:19

You uh mentioned this the this aggressive handshake. That was at Masthead. That was at Masthead. And you said, but why does it say pea shake? Okay. It was in the bathroom? Okay, yeah. I I uh had a couple light pilsners there. Okay, and um had had to go to the John. So I walked in the John. And listen, every male knows this, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:43

You shake it, but don't break it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Thank you. There's all the jokes. Shake it more than three times, you're playing with it. Right, right. You'll get drippage on your pants there. Okay. And this is this is what what do you want to talk about? This is like um uh uh talking about societal, societal norms, things like that. This gentleman that was next to me in the stall did two things that got me. Oh no and I immediately started laughing when I walked out of the bathroom today. What are you doing? I look over, I look over and and and I'm kind of also just finishing, and he makes eye contact with me above. Yeah, you're when you say you look over, tell me you were up here, not down there. No, no. That's a whole different thing. You're like that uh that senator from Wyoming years ago. You know, you know, you know, you that's great. I think his last name was Craig or something. Yeah, you you know, you know when somebody's looking at you. What's up, Lindsay Graham? You can feel he never lets me land my jokes. You ever notice that? It just starts going. My bad. Go on, go on. I thought this was a joke. I thought it was a story because he jacked up on Dunkin' Donuts. It is I want to hear this. It is a story. You know, you can feel somebody looking at you, right? Well can I talk? Because you're asking questions. Of course you can. Okay, right. What you can feel someone looking at you. Exactly. Anyway, I'm I'm finishing, I'm finishing peeing, and I feel eyeballs on me. I look over and he's staring at my face. And then he better than your biscuits. Yeah. And then you know when you're shaking it, you can't, you shouldn't be able to tell from five feet that you're shaking it. And nobody, it's gonna be hard for listeners to see this, obviously, clearly. But he went so aggressive on the shakes that his whole body was shaking. So he was going I mean, like a leaf on a tree, dude. He was like a he was like a like a dog getting out of the water at a beach. It was there, it wasn't just it wasn't just hand, it was entire body. Like he was like there was a I don't know, like there was something on there sticky that he was trying to get off. Was it Michael J. Fox? Oh, oh, oh, come on. Jeez, it wasn't a continuous shake, it was one after. Oh, okay. He makes a hell of a martini. But anyway, I what? I'll tell you what, you're on fire. It was the when I so we joked around about it being the most aggressive handshake, and he was just getting it. To the fact I was worried, I was worried that like like Aaron P was gonna come hit me across the side of the head. Like above the the barrier. Rogue urine. Oh my god, it was so that's uh that's a wild, that's a good story. But anyway, uh but I never I never talk about Massed's an excellent brewery. Massed is an excellent brewery, just be careful in the battery. They have a rice. Be careful in the bathroom. Somebody's gonna shake you. Um good story. Sorry I interrupted that. Wow. That's a story. I got one, and then you got another story I want I want you to I want you to talk about. But I I I did I do something, we all do this. I I set it so that I'm like when something weird happens or something bad, like say say you see a car accident, right? And you say, Well, they really did a number on that car. What what what is that? Where's the reference? The number. What why is it a number? Or that storm really did a number on that tree there. What's that about? Well, what number and what number is it? And what number is it? You did a number? I feel like I've heard you say that, I've said it. I feel like it all said it. We've all said it. I don't know. All right. Let's come. Hey, let's let's research that and come back to it. I don't have an answer. I don't either. I'm just very curious. Everybody out there knows why we're doing numbers. They did a number. Oh, dad just gave us the old. Oh, we gotta shut it down?

SPEAKER_00 30:29

No, we got trivia yet.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Oh, we got trivia. Okay, okay. So let's do let's do uh you're uh turning down the music thing. This is just something do some trivia and then we'll get out of here. This is just something I noticed on the way home from Cleveland, and it I I've thought about this many times. You ever notice that this I always think about it when I'm going into a turnpike toll. I don't have the pass thing, so I actually have to like stop and pay. Why do we what? You don't have a pass thing? A turnpike pass. That's easy. Why do you not have it? I don't know. I don't know. That's uh the epitome of laziness. Well, no, we had one and then it got turned off or we lost it. I don't know. You can just stop and get one, you can order one online, it doesn't cost money. It's never that busy this time. Anyway. Yeah. Anyway, you ever notice when you go? It can happen in a stoplight, it can happen in a parking lot, it can happen at the toll booth. Why do we always?

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Why do you always turn down the music so you can see? You do that. That's true. I do that too. Well, if I dock a boat, music down. Yeah, right. It's you you turn down the music. Let's turn it down so I can see. Why do we do that? It's because we can't like do two things at once. I think it goes back to the fact that humans, a lot of people think that they can multitask. You actually can't. Your brain does not have that capability. You can't multitask. So you you turn music down, you create distractions. Like, you know, everybody says, I like to watch you know mu movies in the background while I'm working. I do that all the time. But you're not actually watching it. You're paying attention to it. I'm doing work, and then when I see then my mind gets distracted and I'm watching a movie and I forgot to work. A lot of the newer cars, do you ever notice a lot of the newer cars do it on their own. Yeah. They'll turn the music down as you slow down. Right, mine does that. But I don't like that sometimes because I don't have control. Yeah, don't tell me how to listen to my music. Yeah. What do you think you're doing? Car Jesus. Anyway, turn turn down so I can see. All right. Turn down for what? Um, trivia question for you? Trivia question.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Okay, let's do a rock question. Rock and roll? Yeah. And the uh Billy.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Igneous or sedimentary?

SPEAKER_00 32:20

What?

SPEAKER_01 32:21

You said a rock question.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

It's igneous, by the way. I said igneous. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

The sedimentary. The answer. What's the third one? Igneous, sedimentary, and uh cemetery.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

Help me.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

It's another eye, isn't it? Igneous sediment. Sedimentary and Metamorphic. Metamorphic.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Well done. That's the volcanic one, right? Or is that igneous? I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Igneous is wall. Igneous as well. Anyway, I gotta go back to Volcanic.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Why are we talking about and also if anybody can get this movie, and I highly doubt anybody in this room, somebody out. The answer is 42. What? The answer is 42. Right now? Right now. For what for your question. Any question, really. The answer is 42. How we got here? The answer is 42. I don't think anybody's gonna get the movie or the book series. No. No. What is it? Try to lay it out there? Lay it out there. Hitch High Trigger's Guide to the Galaxy. That's a good movie. Just watched it the other day. Zoe De Chanel. Dolce Janel and uh Most Deaf. Most Deaf. Yeah. Great movie. Lakeshore Drive.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Lake Shore Drive. One of my favorite songs ever.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

Great too. How did we get to Lakeshore Drive?

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Well, I was going to do a rock question. And you did it dovetailed it.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

Okay. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Okay. Billy Joel's classic. Only the good die young. Yeah. What's the name of the girl in? Virginia.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

Oh, jeez. Jeez. Got it. He's on light speed right now. I'll tell you what, America runs on dungin.

unknown 33:45

Shoot.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

I'm going to bring Ryan a dungeon in every Tuesday. I'm rocking and rolling. T Dub's not having the same effect back then. T Dub's, I think he might have. He doesn't like it. He's going to shake himself right out of here all year. Well, you drank the whole thing. That's a 16-ounce Duncan. Look how much I drank. You got the whole thing empty. No wonder you're going to. I don't feel so. I bet you don't. I like how he keeps saying, I don't really like Duncan. I don't really like it.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

I'm going to bounce right on out of here, man.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

Jesus Christ. All right. With that, we are out of here. Um felt like a good show. Yeah, it felt like a better show. Yeah. Energy's up. I'm back a little bit. You know, you see us on all the channels, and uh, we'll see you this weekend at the bar. Um weather looks good. Let's weather's looking got some thunderstorms, but we'll adjust. Yeah. It's always a fun place to actually watch thunderstorms because you can see the bay get rowdy. And remember, uh, we are on our live music summer schedule. Oh. Wednesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays. I got some news about live music though this week. Uh so Chase is supposed to be here Wednesday as long as the weather holds out. Yeah, I'm still grateful dead tribute. Yeah, yeah. Um uh Matt uh is all canceled, uh, but I don't blame him. His uh baby's coming early.

SPEAKER_04 34:57

Hey!

SPEAKER_01 34:58

So congratulations to them. So uh we're gonna be uh yeah, nothing this Friday, but that's all right. We'll still have a good time. Listen. Um that's a good thing. And then we're yeah, totally. And then we're rocking and rolling again uh next week. Back to it. Sweet. So that's that. Unless uh someone has a guitar and wants to play a little bit. If you do, you know, give us a shout. Just stop, stop up, stop up, grab the stage, have a good time. We'll give you a red stripe. There it is. All right, with that, we're out of here. See you next week. Good show.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

Good show.

SPEAKER_03 35:39

This is now it's not big glass, let's go, let's go.