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A train rolls by with distributed power and somehow that turns into a perfect warm-up for the kind of wide-ranging bar conversation we love most: the little details of everyday life that say a lot about where we live and how we treat people. From Dunkin’ coffee and a quick World Cup check-in to a full-on rant about ordering pizza online, we’re bouncing between laughs and real talk from our stools at Paddle Bar in Sandusky, Ohio.

We spend time on Pride Month and the local Pride parade, because community only works when people decide to be decent to each other. The ugly side of social media comments comes up, and we’re blunt about it: kindness is the baseline, and hate doesn’t get a seat at our bar. If you’ve ever felt worn out by online negativity, this part will hit home.

Then we get nerdy about weather apps and “fear forecasting” and how a constant storm icon can change behavior, crush plans, and create chaos for small business owners who have to schedule staff, book bands, and guess what the weekend crowd will do. We also hit Guardians talk, the back-and-forth rules around THC drinks, the reality of Amazon returns taking over stores like Staples, and a Tique's update as we wait on a liquor license transfer that’s way more stressful than it should be.

Stick around for dive bar nostalgia, a local trivia question, and a closing run of old toys that would never survive today. Subscribe for more Barpod, share this with a friend who lives for bar stories, and leave a review with your most accurate weather-app complaint.

Transcript

Train Talk And Railroad Hierarchy

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Saw a uh train um go through the other day that had the mid uh what do you call it there? It had the mid uh the mid engine. What do you call it? Uh precision railroading. No.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Distributed power.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Okay, but yeah. Isn't it precision railroading? The uh it was a train it was a train uh thing uh last night here in Powell. Um I'm blinking on his name right now, but uh the guy who's a conductor on the Amtrak who comes in here. Oh he was in last night. Do your dad's never talked to this gentleman? Uh no, he comes in quite he's a he's an Amtrak conductor. He was in here last night. We were talking trains. Oh man. Do they still call him conductors or engineers? He is a conductor. No, no, there's a conductor. I got the scoop on that. Oh, okay. So the conductor is the boss of the uh boss of the train. And the engineer is under the conductor. Correct. Oh. And so uh, yeah, so your conductor is a good one. There's a hierarchy. Yeah, so he said that uh he was talking to his uh engineer the other day and he said, Hey man, I need you to make a wake up two minutes or make up two minutes because they're a little behind schedule. Oh and the engineer he said he's a buddy of his and said, I get paid, I don't get paid to make up time. So he said he warm up out of bed and as a joke. You know what?

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Two butters in the bug.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

This is how it is! Hey,

Coffee Pizza And World Cup Buzz

SPEAKER_01 1:26

here we are, back at Barpod. It is the precipice of July. Soft lighting. And uh dad forgot to turn on his soft lights. Try that again. Keep talking. We'll just go. We'll just go. Soft lights. Soft lights. Um the lighting will get better. Um by the way, we were messing up uh a little bit on I think it's fine online, but this is episode nine. We were posted one. I think we're right all right online, but I was getting emails that said eight, and we were doing eight, and whatever. It's okay. We're still we're still nine. We're still going on this thing. And we're drinking Dunkin' Donuts again. I did it again. Well, on the way down. And now you got it, and he's drinking one too. Look and he tasted it too. Look, he's halfway this is halfway down again. He tasted it and said it's good this time. Now you like it? Dunkin' gotcha? Not like Starbucks, but that's pretty good. It's coffee, isn't it? Um I tried to order pizza last night. Oh, you had a Pizza Hut rant, do you? And I got it. You know, I'll get to that. But yeah, I got a Pizza Hut rant. It's all pizza. Anything online now you try to order. I'm still a Domino's guy. Um uh I'm digging some of the World Cup energy that's in town. I think we can get to that too. Oh, yeah, we just I mean, it's not just big cities. It's people are jamming here in Sandusk. Dude, I was watching that. I was watching that Morocco Netherlands game last night late while building a desk in the basement. I got I made it home just in time after getting out of the. I watched the most of it here while I was working, and then I got home and got to watch the edit with Ken's, and that was uh quite fun. That was a bit of an upset, even though Morocco was ranked high. They're in the like top 15 or something like that. Um, nobody expected them to win that game, I don't think. No, I don't think so. Well, some big upsets, and then uh you know, Germany got beat. Germany got ousted. Paraguay. I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. What movie? Gross Point Black. Very good. Thank you. All right, so I think we did the did we covered the the World Cup stuff now. But yeah, it's just cool. We try to have it on a paddle bar uh as we go through the end of the eliminations here. It's it's been fun to watch, and I gotta tell you, I uh I'm getting into the football. It's awesome. Uh what do they call it? The the what do they call the uh the pitch? The fields, the pitch. Uh my you know, Nick Barber, my buddy, Colorado buddy. Yeah, he's a big before you know, before I feel like it's gotten a lot popular since then, but like 15 years ago when I was out in Colorado, yeah. He used to have a uh thing on this TV called Footy Tube. He's a big Arsenal fan. Oh, that's still a thing, yeah. Premier League Tube, yeah. And so he, yeah, so he we used to go over to his house and watch it all the time. It was awesome. Anyway. Uh, pretty cool. Speaking of buddies, uh, shout out to uh uh a loyal fan and good friend, Mike in Orlando. Oh uh he's been doing he's been commenting and loved the dive bar episode, gave me some good ones. And so uh Mike, hey, a hat's coming your way. Hey, and you know what we have. We haven't done, I'm not sure. I didn't look over the notes very well, to be quite honest with you. But uh we do have to talk about some some other people have have commented and and sent me Facebook messages and stuff about dive bars. I think we should get in, I got that in the notes later. We'll talk about dive bars uh because if we start doing that now, the show will take a turn, and next thing you know, we'll be in a dive bar somewhere uh in this we're planet.

Pride Month And Being Decent

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Um quick quick Pride Month thing I want to talk about. Uh uh it's June, Pride Month. They had the Pride uh parade here in Sandusky last weekend, and it was a fantastic weekend. Everybody's having a good time. I saw some shitty comments online. Uh-oh. And I tried I tried not. Did he just say that on the show? I can't. I'm literally trying to like say some good stuff about you said I'm going to the John. Anyway, fuck it. Hit the head. So anyway, I saw some shitty comments online about uh pride and stuff. Yeah. You know, fuck you. Yeah, I know. You know, these fucking small-minded morons. I'll tell you what, if you're you probably don't watch the show because people that watch this uh watch or listen to barpod have, I'd like to say they have above average intelligence. So they're probably not making ignorant comments online. But if you are, turn it off. We don't fucking like you. There you go. That's how I feel about that. Be nice. Everybody should have a good time. Well, that's my thing. Just be kind, dude. I had to get that out. I was listening to it, I was I just listened to it on the way, and then shit that happened to uh um uh Pete Booty Judge up in Michigan. I know bullshit. Get out, get out of here. We don't we don't have to belabor the point, but yeah, just is it hard to be. Don't be hateful. Is it hard to be nice, dude? Apparently it is. I don't think, I'm gonna say this. I don't think I have ever, I'm dead serious about this. I don't think I've ever written a negative comment on social media one time. I because it's it's for assholes. Yeah. Just don't do it. I yeah, I I don't know if I I mean I I I've I'm sure I've had my asshole moments, but like learn from it too. Like just go, you know, educate yourself, man. Create a book. I have two kids, dude. And the the best thing is. I'm worried what they can see, what they're gonna see sometime. Just teach them to be take the upper road, man. Yeah. Anyway, okay, so moving on to that. Uh anyway, yeah, great event. Uh, you know, we love everybody here at Paddle Bar. Come down, have a good time. I saw a note on here, and I was actually very excited to talk about it. Yes. Yeah, okay. So we should talk about that. Ball's

Weather Apps And Fear Forecasting

SPEAKER_01 6:12

hot out. It's insanely hot. I think I walked out this morning before I put my contacts in, to let the dog out, and my glasses fogged up. That's how hot it is. Because I have it. I'm not gonna lie, I have it at 70 degrees in my house. Oh, yeah. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not 74. Like I know people like no no no. I got it's cold. I got mine, I got my my my split out in my uh living room area set at 72, and I got my bedroom set at freaking 67. Dude. So okay, so but you I you brought up a thing here, and I I I'm glad you had put it on here because it's a note that I I wouldn't have put in the notes, but the goddamn apps, dude. The all all every single one of my apps for every day this week has a rain like cloud emoji. Right. It it hasn't rained yet. No, there hasn't even been a lick of rain. No, there's nothing. So why if it's a 35% chance of rain, which is below the Mendoza line there at 50? That's a baseball thing, but it's anyway, it's stupid. Um so you would think, just do me a favor, weather people, weather app designers, if it's less than 50% chance of rain, leave the sunshine emoji up. It's it's it's all about the fear. Obviously, the the uh the Duncan Donuts got the dads and he's gonna take a little time out and and use the facilities upstairs. I just cleaned those, by the way. Um it will do that. Anyway, yeah, the weather in general, and you know, he's he's light. God. Uh, you know, I uh we're all weather nerds here. There's no doubt about it. I mean, I I you know, back when I used to work um out west, I got to spend time with a bunch of meteorologists like you know, Jim Cantori and Goodlow and Marciano and all those guys that are all uh big shots on the T on the TVs. Um but it stops scaring the shit out of people all the time. There's a thunderstorm, don't leave your house. It's too hot, don't leave your house. There's a snowstorm, don't leave your house. That's not good for the business. Weird. It's weather. It's weather. It's gonna be windy on the lake today. Don't get near it. It might come up and bite you and pull you in the water and take you to Canada. There settle down. Of course, of course, there's you can have a healthy, like, like a healthy, not even fear of weather. I mean, yeah, of weather, because certain things you don't want to stand outside with a golf club in your hand when it's lightning. Yeah, don't run out in a lightning storm. You know, take shocking. I knew that was coming. Speaking of conductors, no. Oh, uh, but yeah, I I I hear you, dude. I gr it's hot, right? But we've experienced heat before. I'm not if you're above the age of 75, of course you're not gonna want to go do landscaping out today, right? Don't trim any bushes. Is he calling you out? I think he is. Well, I would uh I would stay cool there, but no. I am we are we're going water skiing. You're going water skiing. Oh, we are maybe if we can. Yeah. I'm bartending while you're uh no, I think we're going during the day. Okay. Anyway, uh yeah, I agree. And just do me a favor, please. The um the the little pictures next to the day, the icons, less than 50% sun. Leave the sun up, maybe with a little happy cloud, little weather rack.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Get rid of the lightning bolts.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

Get rid of the lightning bolts. Well, and this is where it becomes hard if you own a um a bar, um, particularly one like ours, which is inside outside, but even an inside bar. Like now you're if you the weather's gonna be really bad, you gotta think about how you're gonna staff for it. Do you know, you know, okay, maybe you don't need that band, maybe you gotta do this. And like it there's and so we watch it all the time, and then when you get like the chaos behind it, like you know, if you leave your house, more people die from heat exhaustion than they do, you know, on the toilet. I don't know. While it may be true, just stop it. And now you've got these armchair meteorologists on social media. Oh, yeah. I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, everybody everybody, everybody's a storm chaser, yeah, exactly. Right uh a myriad. And you know, you've got uh a bunch of different uh myriad twice. Good work though.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah, it's rolling through the Ms and the You've got you've got Channel 11, I watch uh their app. I watch uh Acu Weather, I watch Weather Channel, and sometimes they're diametrically opposed to each other.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Let me ask you a question. So now you're talking about regional weather analysts. Yes. It's is this is this it's the Toledo folks always have us at about five to six degrees warmer than the Cleveland guys. Is that because of lake effect lake lake breezes? I I think yeah, I think if you look at weather around here, I think Toledo tends to do a little better job in Cleveland. I think we're similar weather patterns to Toledo than they are to Cleveland. However, we are our own little anomaly here at the southern end of the donut hole. Yeah. Look, you see you see how you see how jacked up we're getting about weather? This is almost like dive bars. Yeah, it is. And well, you we you brought in the Duncan today, too, so I'm all fired up. I already had two cups of coffee this morning. Oh jeez. Jacked up all over the place and get a lot done today. Um before we move on to the next one, let me just pull

Guardians THC Drinks And Retail Grind

SPEAKER_01 10:48

up. We I feel like this is a new one. No, no more weather. Uh my guardians need a little help. I will I was watching what did the final score bit end up being last night? 6'3. Yeah, I turned it and went to FIFA because I was just smart move. Smart move. I uh I I wore my old school um slider shirt today just to see. Trying to rally them up a little bit. Trying to rally them up a little bit. They're they're struggling. Jose's gone until after the all-star break, and now Angel Martinez is gone too until then. We got chased to lauder back, but man, they looked funny. The old bartender across the street, the the one that works at the mixologist that works at Volstead, uh, who would not be mentioned by name, is not too happy with the old guardians right now. He's not too happy. Yeah, I talked to him about it on uh uh on Sunday, yesterday. Uh yeah, they're two days ago. They're they're foot? They're tough right now. Well, no, and there's still what's what's funny is they're only one game behind um the lead in the central division, but it still just feels it feels like they're light years away for some reason. I don't know. Anyway, guardians. Sports talk. You got a little THC action in there? Uh I think um, yeah, well, you brought it up. Now we can sell THC drinks again for a couple weeks, but then we have to take it away. And like it's too I'm not dealing with it. It's too much of a pain in the ass. Yeah, figure it out. The guys over That's all I got. I I I I had I had half a mind too, because the guys over at uh Hellbender are cool about it. They plan they're they guarantee they'll buy back anything you don't sell if if it gets um if it gets cancelled again. What do you do with it? Uh take it home? No, no, no, they'll buy it back. Oh, they'll buy it back. Which which that's nice, but I like I'm with you. I'm not sure. I'm not sure I want to deal with it. And I feel like I feel like there's been so much ping-ponging now that the the energy's lost. Yeah, yeah. I have nobody's really been asking for them or anything. Yeah. Um, so that's what's going on. I think all the people that are teaching, if they want to go do it, just you're smoking weed at your house. Like, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've seen a few people that were coming in here when we were doing it and they knock down two HTC THC drinks and just sit in the corner like a cat and play with yarn. That was a weird analogy. I can see it though. I was out there. I was uh I was out there. I was out there. I was returning um some uh Amazon product the other day and I went to Staples. That's where you return it now. Oh, I think it's a lot of Coles. It moved to Staples. Oh. And I gotta say, I feel bad for the the people that like you know applied for a job at Staples thinking they're gonna be, you know, maybe working selling some office products and paper and what have you. And they're just literally just sitting there sweating their ass off, stuffing Amazon boxes and putting them in different boxes, and like it's funny because the guy was not happy. And I I tried to be, yeah, I was really nice to him. But could you imagine when that he was like, uh, I can't take these boxes I could he took the stuff out of the box, like I can't take these boxes. I was like, man, I'll take the boxes, don't worry about it. You know, trying to help them out. Could you imagine when that TPS report flew across the Jeff Bezos is really uh not making things easy for everybody? Yeah, making things easy for the consumer as but as he's gonna, it's not good. You're about to look good. You're about to see the uh the rich are getting a little too rich, I think. Employee turnover at Staples is about to go through the roof. Nobody wants to sit there. Nobody wants to do that. Yeah, no, and that's I think that's probably box stores trying to hang on for dear life. You know, a little bit of that. Get anything they can. Ah man, that's tough. So that's tough. That's that. I drove out to Lowe's in uh Fremont yesterday. Oh, yeah, yeah. You brand one of those one of those cooler things. It's pretty sweet. You see, uh my daughter had a softball. The Lowe's is sweet? No, no, no. The thing I bought. Oh, okay. How let's you know what? It's a right. I'm an ego guy because of dad. Yeah, I know. You got a pretty big ego. Yeah, I would agree. Uh they make a little uh it was 90. Nobody got that. Yeah, I no fucking response? Nothing. Oh, the ego? Yeah, he's had a pretty big ego. I don't know. I used to. I don't any longer. No, I don't know. Age takes a toll on your ego. Sure. Uh huh. It really does. It's just bullshit. The living. Anyway, sorry. You like that thing. No, it's awesome. This guy is really pissing me off. Yeah, we got flies coming for us. Oh, the Winnebago makes me. The Winnebago. Flies coming fucking flies. God damn son of a bitch. If anybody's out there and wants to see a classic, it's it's one of the original viral videos. The story behind it's actually pretty sweet. That's where this like fly comment came from. It's called, look it up online. It's called The Winnebago Man. If you've never seen it, it's this guy who does is try it's the outtakes from a Winnebago infomercial back in the day. And apparently it happened in Southern California. A whole bunch of teenagers got a hold of a VHS tape of it. Yeah. And they started making copies of the VHS tape. There's a documentary on that. There is. And so if you watch the the video online now, you can see it's even got the what do you want to call it? What are the marks from the from where the tape's been burnt out, you know? The the the VHS tape. You can see the lines. Oh, yeah. Just wrinkles. Yeah, wrinkles from when they were dubbing it. And uh, dude, it is hilarious. He just, it's every other word as fuck.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's fine. He's worse than we are.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Oh, he's way worse than we are.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

You know, you you need to watch that. You turned me on to that years ago.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Who was the I get so goddamn diuretic? Who is this just get this do one here, guys? Yeah, I'm gonna give you a clue here now. I don't want any more bullshit. Jimmy, Jimmy? Anytime during the day that includes me. Dude, I can't. Early on in social media, who were the guys used to call and make prank calls, the brothers, of jerky boys. Jerky Boys. Yeah, yeah. What are you doing there? Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna fire you off the fucking roof. Yeah. I got you got the guys over here with a hot mop. That was so good. All right, homework. You visit uh Winnebago Man and the Jerky Boys and the Jerky Boys. Um, I had all those tastes jerky boys. Yeah, yeah. It was so good. My wife killed me all the things. Throwing up, throwing up my wife. Oh god, Winnebago man. That's the Winnebago man. Um yeah.

Teeks License Anxiety And Bar Chaos

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Uh Teeks update. Let's let's hear it. I'm ready to go. Uh we are literally just waiting on the liquor permit to transfer, which is uh I'm I'm starting to have panic attacks of like, you know, what uh could they find you know is it gonna happen? Is it not? You know what I mean? And like uh so like I kind of emailed to like see what it does, and then they they call it an incident. They're like, oh, it's an incident update. It's not an it just means that they're processing, but they call it an incident because I reached out to them and like it's like how can we just literally make you just take your anxiety through the roof? There's kind of some there's some parallel weather. But it is literally some guy at the state just needs to go, all right. You're you're you're good. But there's it's it's very, very, very frustrating. So the folks that are waiting for teaks, I promise you is coming. Everything on the the the uh other end is ready. As soon as that license happens, as soon as I get the email, I will probably wait one day and then open her up. And then fire up. So that's where they're where we're at there. And you got bartenders ready to go. Got bartenders. We're having a bartender meeting tomorrow, as a matter of fact. Nice. Um, so got some good people that are that are interested in working, and I'll be there as well. So you got a whole nother life outside of Paddle Bar, right now. I do, and it's uh it's wearing me out, sir. Um wearing me out. When I went into uh I don't know, is it because I just said Jesus? I think it is. I when I went into Volstead on Sunday. Call me Ryan. Yeah, oh that's John.

unknown 17:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yep. Um I I went in there and there was a uh father in there. I forgot his name. Very nice guy. Oh, a Volstead? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's a he's a lot. Very nice guy. And uh I didn't know Potentate. Potentate. I didn't know, and I said, Give me the priest. The what? A priest? Correct. You said a father? A priest? No, I was gonna say a father. I was hoping Ryan would finish it. A priest? A priest? A priest? I'm a priest. What movie's that? Oh, uh uh I'm a priest. Oh, you're not gonna get it. Nobody's gonna get it. I will tell you it has Danny DeVito and Bet Midler in it, and Casey Catholic and uh Yeah, who's the other one? It's Drowning Mona. Yes, Drowning Mona. Is it Nev Campbell that's in there? Nev Campbell, yeah. Yeah, Nev Campbell. Uh one more quick Drowning Mona effect. What um cars were there all driving? You go. And what city were they in? Verplank. Very good. Verplank New York New York. Nicely done. Yes. A fictional city, by the way. A fictional city, yeah. Everyone should watch that movie. Yeah, it's great. Call it classic. Anyway, anyways, I didn't know who I was sitting around, and John told a terrible joke, and I said, God damn it. We were trying to get it. And he goes, he goes, ooh, ooh. I like dominoes, you like dominoes, y'all like dominoes. Oh boy. Um, the spaz factor. Yeah, I was just uh, you know, I was down here, we'd have a uh bar back on Saturday, and and we had a busy day. So I was I was doing some bar backing and and uh Nathan was working the front bar, Gino's working the back, and those guys were kicking butt. Yeah, but it is the ups and downs. I just want to talk about the spaz factor of the bar. Like keeping your shit together in this business when you're when it's rough is is just insane because you know, you know, all of a sudden there's just lines out the door, you know, all of a sudden the soap, the soap's gone in the bathroom, someone's yelling at you because the soap's gone, someone's mad because we don't have fucking Aperol. Like, you know, it's just I had some girl go, you need Aperol. I was like, I we have that from a previous episode, remember? We knew that I guess we're gonna get Aperol for four. We know the Gen Zero's were gonna start clamoring. Yeah, she she was not she was not happy with me when I said, Well, we might get it. She goes, Well, you need it. You know what I can't you know what I need you know what I can't imagine is uh That's probably sexist. I shouldn't say round. Uh uh the dark the the uh the bear the bear. Yeah, the talk about a show that'll give you anxiety on F an FX or whatever it's on that show does a very good job of explaining what it's like to work in the experience. I can't even imagine the the the people out there in the food industry. Yeah, that's gotta be good on it it's yeah, seriously. Do your thing, and uh and my goodness, I we've got to be a good thing. Because I mean even the evening tougher. Even the even the uh you know, like when it's a let's say it's a slower night, and it's like it kind of happened to me a little bit last night. It's like it's like it's like 10 15, and I get and I'm like, ah, 10 30's coming. All right, I'm gonna close it up and then all of a sudden a group of 20 walks in the door. They all want, you know, every kind of drink we you know imaginable, and of course you're out, most things are already cleaned up. I'll tell you what. Yeah, it's tough. It's ups and downs of it. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Ryan, you just got a text from uh Mackenzie. Well, you didn't both spell.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

She wants with like a kiddie pool now. She's requesting a kiddole? Plastic kiddie pool. I am in for that. Nine dollars at Aldi. Yeah. There you go. Picked one up. Or we could just walk across the street and jump in the bay. That's a good point. Yeah, but the K-pool would be fun on the back of the page. K-pool would be fun. Yeah, pool or pond, whatever. You're over there on Briar, right? Yeah, kitty shed. Yeah, yeah, Briar. Yeah, Briar. One.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Two.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Ah, I gotta revisit that. Classic. That show's great. Um what's that noise?

Dive Bars Pizza Apps And Billionaires

SPEAKER_01 21:36

I don't know. We're at dive bar recap. Let's just talk about the dive bar episode. And uh we weren't sure if it was gonna be a good episode, and we've gotten more feedback and talking about that episode again. Um we definitely need to do another dive bar episode and expand it to I don't know, we missed different places. We missed different places. Well, I think I think college bar episode has its own thing. Yeah. College dive bar episode. So yeah, and a lot of people uh brought up some great dive bars on the comments. Oh my gosh. Madigans in Ellicateville on the city. Madigans in Ellicottville. That was one uh well uh Dave was just there uh recently. They were there. Uh just goes to show you we could talk about we could we could do another entire episode about dive bars. Yeah, yeah. And I think we will. I think we will I think we will. Oh. Let me get back to my Pizza Hut rant. You're back at it? Oh, we didn't we can't do that. I didn't tell you why. I want to I want to rant about the Pizza Hut thing. So, or Domino's, when you order on your app now, you get served up 50 million ads. Like, I'm glad you've ordered uh pepperonian pizza. Would you like to apply for a credit card? Would you like to get a discount at staples? Like why is all just I just want to order pizza? Hey, you can thank your thank your buddy Jeff Bezos, man. You can't watch Amazon. Let's cut the cord. I don't like that guy. We did cut the cord. I don't like how all these nerdy billionaires. When you look at them when they were in the the create mode and they were like kind of they were like nerds and they were like, you know, building these companies, they were all bald, kind of fat, you don't like squirmy. Now they're all on fucking GF whatever and steroided out and you know, gold things and cowboy hats and shit. Sorry, bud, you're still a douchebag. Elon Musk and Bezos are the worst example of it. Look at them. Look at go back 20 years and look at them and look at them now. They look like fucking turds, don't they? Elon Musk still looks like a weirdo. He just got well, but now he's got his hair. Remember, he didn't have any hair, now he's got it. He got plugs or whatever. Bezos is just a whole chainsaw thing. Remember that? Oh, I'm not sure. You ever seen Elon Musk without a shirt off? It's weird. Oh, he's an alien. I think Elon Musk is actually a late alien. You brought up that portal that was open rather closed. Do you think if they close that uh particle accelerator, Elon Musk is just gonna scoop back to planet XZ5? He dude, you're right. Okay, so you bring up is it Kern, I think. It's in Switzerland. Is it Switzerland? I think it's over there. It's the large hadron collider. Anybody, anybody that likes physics and uh what you're doing there. Yeah. They c they they turned it off this morning. It's a particle accelerator, um, and it's it's it's done, it's it's fueled all sorts of scientific discoveries that are way above our heads. But there's a lot of people out there, um, especially if you get on old Elon Musk's app X Twitter that say that say the particle accelerator, uh the large hydron colder, is does all this crazy shit, like creates portals and alternate realities, and blah blah. And so everybody's saying that as soon as they shut it down, you're gonna start seeing more weird stuff happen. Or vice versa. I don't know. It's a weird situation. I said Elon Musk might just go back to his home planet and then so maybe he's gonna fly right through that portal. We will be free of him. Yeah. Doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo, doo, doo. Do you think it's all have you ever seen any of the stuff about his uh his daughter despises him? Oh, yeah. Who doesn't? Doesn't he have like 12, first of all? I mean oh he's got like yeah, that's another billionaire thing. They think they're trying to populate the earth with their seeds, so they have like 50 fucking kids that they don't even take care of because they just pay people to do it. They just pay people to do it. Yeah, yeah. It's a weird thing's a weird thing. Yeah, it's stupid. I don't think he's actually doing space exploration. I think it's all fake. I think he's an alien. He's throwing satellites up there, but he's not gonna colonize Mars. What are you doing, dude? It's not gonna happen. It'd be cool if it did, but it's not gonna happen. Get out of here. It's gonna be like Arnold Schwarzenegger, total recall. Remember, that guy goes outside, his friggin' head just pops off. A lot of movies brought up in this episode. Total recall. Always are a lot of movies. We like movies. We're dudes. I saw uh I saw something uh the other day on social media, uh, some business owners through their business whining about like not being treated fairly on social media by like like uh you know I that that you know I I had to do this, I do that. Don't even if you're don't whine from your business accounts. Yeah that is my guess. Don't whine on social media if you're a business owner. You look bad. Yeah, yeah. Um you know what speaking of businesses in town, uh, I want to give a nice little shout-out. I had a I had a good it was a couple of weeks ago. I had a great experience at Soren Oak. That place is good. It is good sushi. They got all the all the uh you know uh beer that I like there. You know, Sapporo and Dad, do you realize how much noise you're making with your drink back there? Well, those are directional microphones, aren't they? Well, you have one that you're shaking, you're doing this you're going. Boom. Listen. What? That's actually that's actually a nice little bit. Better than the sound effects you added the last couple episodes. Well, we didn't have to hear him going to the hearing. We didn't even take the mic to the John. Yeah, that's good. Anyway, I'm sorry. Sorinoka's fantastic. It's a great spot. Um, we got a lot of good places in town. We had lunch of dockside the other day. It was quite quite excellent. I'm bringing my tripod and figuring out a way to put this camera on my tripod. It just sits there and this phone starts doing this a little bit. It's driving me. Well, it's because you didn't do the little thing where you got the wire pulling it down before you've been having the wire. Yeah, before you've been looping it around the like that, so the wire's not pulling at it. You know, now there's this weird thing called gravity. Yeah, you're not Newton hasn't talked to you recently. Oh man, do we need to do that? On that note, five more minutes. He does. He's very strict about that. Like like, you know, like like the cable company's gonna shut us off here. Well, actually, after uh talking about Elon Musk so much, we'll probably get deleted from the internet. Uh, somebody told me, um, I forgot who it was on Friday, but they were like, we saw I I opened your I opened barpod the recent episode and I saw that it was 39 minutes, and they were like, Yes! I was like, dude. I know people want more of us. I just do that for a fact. Yeah. Yeah. Brings back the old days. I like the old days. Um I got uh JD Vance has been on a book tour. He'll be able to do that. I just want to say no, he's a new one about converting to Catholicism. It's funny, do you know the church they that's in the photo? Isn't even the Catholic church? Like they screwed that up. It's like an Episcopalian or something. Anyway, I just want to say that guy's got no Riz, does he? He's just so he's just so lame. I give him credit for going on like Bill Maher and stuff, but man, he gives you credit for bringing up the word riz. Riz. He's just he's just boring. Like, well, I'll tell you what. I don't know. He's a what is Riz? He's a boner. That is short for charisma. Oh, I didn't know that. There you go. Wow. No Riz. That's what the kids say. Yeah, the kids always kid. He wears eyeliner. Uh uh, and he just his face is like kind of kind of looks like a little kind of little fat kid. I don't know exactly what you're typical. He's your typical politician. Remember? Oh, yes. He's I mean, yeah. It was like five years ago. He was like, I hate Donald Trump. He's a moron, blah, blah. And he's like, Oh, did I did I say that? That may be an edit. Oopsie. That's that's uh yeah, cut that out. That might be an outtake for if we already have subscriptions. Cut that out. Listen, everyone that we know would laugh. Everybody would laugh. Over the line, Smokey. I don't know. Okay. Uh speaking of um, I was listening to a commercial for Canva. You know the Canva app. We use it for changing marking tools once in a while. Yeah. And the commercial, their whole thing was like, Canva, it's your idea. It's your or no, your idea turns into your thing, and Canva can help you with your thing. Show everybody your thing. That was the commercial. Yes. No. And I don't, I mean, I it I we're talking about it. It literally said, show everybody your thing. Uh so I I either marketing fuck up or marketing brilliance. Well, I'll tell you what. You be the judge. Handjobs nail salon did pretty well for a while. Yes, they certainly did. They certainly did. We'll keep that one in there. Keep that in there. There you go. Hey, show everyone your thing. Mackenzie. The camera commercial told me to do it. Yeah, show it says show your thing. It was create your thing, and then show your thing. I thought the people at Subway wanted to see it. That's what happened to Jared. Oh, Jared, the Subway guy? Yeah. Yeah, he's uh Oh boy. You get in trouble for showing everybody your thing. Don't do that. Do not show anybody your thing. Uh horizontal bird poop? Uh no, but before we get to horizontal, yeah, okay, we can do that. Horizontal bird poop. Well, how is that happening? Like, I look at the windows here and I clean them, and like they're under the roof. How are these birds? They have inside my house. How are they shitting horizontally? Well, it is because we've had strong winds lately. So the birds are waiting for the wind, taking a deuce. But you're right, sometimes they get up underneath the eaves. Oh, they're pooping. I don't even pooping everywhere. My white car gets smoked, dude. Oh, I got a black truck gets it all low. It's ridiculous. It seems like you're sinking all the time. It's just hilarious. Oh things are moving. Because it well, you're gonna have to get a tripod. I am. Are we sure five years haven't just passed? They shut off the hadron collider. That could be it. That could be it. We just it is now a wrinkle one. One time 38. Well, yeah. No. No, Mackenzie uh gave me a good uh good quote the other day. We were dealing with some some some stuff, and she and she said, Well, don't forget, that person's a professional pontificator. A pontificator? And I think that's what politicians in general are professional. I like that word. It's hard to say. So

Summer Break Plans Trivia And Old Toys

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anyway, uh lastly, I think we're gonna take a little break, a little summer break for Barpod. Yeah, you sp you sp you popped this on me this morning. I think we'll be back at the end of July, but uh we got Teks opening. We are about ramping up for all kinds of stuff. We got the food truck event coming up July 12th with the naughty lobster. Enerril's gonna be here. We're uh gonna have another food truck trying to figure out who's gonna come and then cut a couple bands. No wake's gonna play. Um, you did say that our our fine producer here is is gonna put together a little highlight reel sometime in July. I was trying to talk him into it. We'll see if he puts a little high reel. We'll release that for you guys. Low lights. Um the lowlights of bar police. Low light reel. Yeah. Uh other than that, we will uh yeah, we're gonna take a little time out. See you at the end of July, get this place rolling. I'm gonna trivia question for you. Yeah, do it. Of course. Brian gets them all the time. I feel like I get smoked out.

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Okay, okay. You guys know about your your listeners and viewers may know this. A dive bar. Over in Huron, there is a place called a sandbar. Yep, sandbar.

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Pete's a bit.

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What's the name of the dive bar that was next to it for years? It was a classic summer bar. Screen door slammed when you went in. It was a beach.

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Screen door slammed. It's a Bruce Finching. Yeah. Uh I people have told me, uh, I know you've discussed it before. I have no idea what it was called. No idea? No idea. I mean, all I can think about is the one the Vikings Den over there, but it's not next to it. The Viking's Den's was a good dive bar. And I was thinking of Whitney's Wharf, but that's gone. You'll get comments on this right away. You ready for this? Okay. Fire it. Cooches. Cooches? What? Cooches. Was it a don't read that the wrong way? Was it a adult entertainment complex? Uh no. It was an actual dive bar. Cooches in Huron. Cooches. Was it named after somebody's name? Park Cooch. Oh, his name was Cooch. His name was Cooch. Cooch. Okay. Cooch. You remember Kooch Balls? Cooch balls, yeah. I still have mine. Yeah, so do I. So do I. The kids play with it once in a while. Oh yeah. It's the remember they looked at the colour. It was basically basically a rubber band ball, right? Rubber band ball. Rubber band ball. When you guys were kids, did I ever buy you those little plastic rockets you pump up? Oh, they go in there. Well, okay, the old the old surf shop I put in bay always had. With wall you pump up with water and they go. Yeah, they those are illegal now because two people were getting shot in the eye. And they had break it. Well, it was hard plastic too, though. So you got hit with it. It was like taking a taking a. You know what? That brings up to end this a fun little little ending uh close closure conversation about old toys that that would never see the light of day now, like lawn darts. Lawn darts. Yeah, those take one of those to the dome. You were throwing metal spikes at people. You look like the dude from Happy Gilmore. Yeah, yeah. The nail comes out next week. Just you can count on me. You can count on me, and you can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot. I made lead sinkers and leaders. Lead, yeah, all that stuff. Run, shooter, run. Three wheelers. Three wheelers. Yeah. Three wheelers. Although I think three wheelers are basically coming back with uh electric e-bikes that go 45 miles an hour. That's a good point. It's a good point. I'd say legislation's coming for those soon. Chemistry sets. Oh, it does. Yeah, didn't you have uh didn't you have a lead ball set or something? Oh no, I I built my own little foundry in the kitchen on my house. A metal? Just doing some smelting on the kitchen table? Just light metallurgy. I melt lead and pour it in the pour it in the molds and make uh lead soldiers. That can't be good. Making lead soldiers. That's incredible. Yeah, play with some mercury. Why not? Yeah, for sure. That's a good that's that's I don't know what gets better than that. I'm trying to think of some that I had when we were kids that would be the the rockets. We all I love those things. Those are probably rockets. The the best ones, yeah. Yeah, those were fun. So all right. With that, I think we are out of here. And uh we'll see at the end of July, but we'll keep the comments going and uh and it sounds like we might have a little highlight reel at some point uh over the next month or so. There we go. And it's not quite a month break, it's just uh about two and a half, three weeks. Well, it's 97 degrees out there. Stay cool. Yeah, and uh stay stay cool. Go to the bar, it's cool there. Yes, it is. It is coming in.

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This is how it's gonna be a little bit.