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287 — Mic Drop
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Ty & Eric reveal their new podcasting equipment as well as discuss getting Seinfeld’d on an airplane, the lonely construction worker’s footlong, Joe Biden weather, being the first table at a restaurant, peanut butter footlongs, the bottled water program at Erewhon, a (late) Hailey Bieber smoothie review, Korean Thanksgiving, and mingling with other degenerates.
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Transcript
Eric's Deep Voice and New Microphone
00:00:05
Speaker
Oh, boy. Oh, no, no, no. What is going on, everybody? You sound great, Eric. Wow. Did your balls finally drop? How is your voice so it's so deep and clear? Dude, my balls did not drop like recently, but my my dick got super black and hard.
00:00:33
Speaker
I'm talking about this fucking huge microphone in front of my face. Damn. Yeah. The only thing that dropped was the mics. The mic dropped, uh, right into me and everybody laughs. We are both miked up now professionally.
Zen Castor's Audio Equipment Contribution
00:00:48
Speaker
Uh, thank you to Zen Castor for not supporting us with our podcast and endeavor by supply and equipment. That's it. Nonetheless, here we are.
00:00:56
Speaker
That's right. This shit is out of pocket in more ways than one tie. We pay for this shit ourselves just so we can say our own crazy shit on this pod. And that's right. If you're listening to this and it sounds extra crispy, that's because we purchased two new microphones. We're just reinvesting back into our business. That's all. Dude, it feels so weird to talk into this phallic looking object. I'm putting my lips so close to it right now.
00:01:24
Speaker
There's like, uh, isn't there a family guy clip where he's like, he's like, why am I talking into a bunch of robot penises? That's literally how you look right now. Dude, it's crazy. I need to take a screenshot
Microphone Size Humor
00:01:37
Speaker
of this. Like.
00:01:37
Speaker
We're both just talking into the same microphone, perfectly centered in our Zoom background. It's so funny. The symmetry is incredible. To visualize this for the breadheads, it's pitch black. It's like titanium black. And it's quite large. This microphone is at least a six-inch sub in Z, X, and Y indexes. For all sides. Absolutely.
00:02:06
Speaker
Um, this is, it's weirdly similar to a six inch foot long or six inch sub. It's bigger than the Peroni bottle that you're holding. Like it's sizeably bigger. It's actually, it makes it look like a little tiny Peroni bottle. Roni gang, Roni gang, Roni gang, Roni gang. Uh, Ty, I was in, I was at John and Vinny's last week in Los Angeles and I ordered a Peroni. And then when I finished that, the guy came by and said another Roni.
00:02:36
Speaker
And just because of how we asked me, I said, yes, I wasn't planning on getting another one, but I had to. Dude, another Roni is like, that's my mantra on a weeknight. I ask myself that all the time. Yeah, dude. Rigatoni, a Roni. What else could I possibly ask for?
00:02:56
Speaker
I'm happy. Did you sound like a contemporary Drake first? When you, what do you rhyme pasta? When you rhyme pasta and then you like, um, make fun of like a fast casual place. That's the most drink you can get. I actually decided where I was going to eat based on some Drake lyrics this past week. Oh, really? You found yourself at our bone. Where
Thanksgiving Restaurant Dilemma & Drake's Influence
00:03:18
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were you? Where did you go? Well, Ty, as the breadheads know, I was in Los Angeles this last week.
00:03:24
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And I had, if you listened to the last couple episodes, you'd know that I had a hard time trying to find a place to eat Thanksgiving dinner at as a lonely traveler with no family. And I was taking a look at Open Table and it turns out that Benihana was available for reservation on Thanksgiving. But then I remember the Drake lyrics where he said, to me, Benihana is pigeon food. So I just, I couldn't do it.
00:03:51
Speaker
Dude, I totally get that. You got to make sure that you are aligned with his taste. Mm hmm. Totally, dude. But yeah, we can we can get straight into it, man. I had a lot of good ass food over in the city of angels. And I got to say, man, the weather was absolutely brilliant. I heard someone say this is overheard in L.A. I heard someone say that we were having Joe Biden weather. Do you know what that is?
00:04:19
Speaker
Does that just mean? No, I actually I can't. I know it's going to be whatever you're going to say is funnier than what I come up with. Just tell me. Joe Biden weather is 80 and hazy.
00:04:31
Speaker
That's perfect. Perfect weather. That's the new 72 and sunny baby. Yeah buddy, 80 and hazy.
Conflict with a Picture-Taking Passenger
00:04:40
Speaker
But yeah dude, amazing trip. Actually before we talk about the food, I want to tell you about this crazy bitch I had on my flight who sat next to me in bay. She was third wheeling me in bay.
00:04:51
Speaker
oh no okay before we get into this i just want i just want to know art is anybody in this story on a no fly list now um she's on the priority boarding list because of handicap and you my friend are on the terrorist watch list so
00:05:13
Speaker
That's right. That's right. You've got to make the guest list somehow. Yeah, I had. Oh, fuck. What was I watching? Oh, the podcast I was watching on my phone, I had like a 9-11 segment on it, which I had no idea I was about to like listen to until I was like in the air and I was like listening to this like fucking 9-11 bit. I was like, why? Like, thank God no one can hear this right now.
00:05:37
Speaker
Oh dude, the amount of weird ass shit people are watching on airplanes nowadays, like I'll like look around the cabin and there's just like the most racy looking television that HBO's ever made will be playing. On my flight to Spain last month, the woman next to me as we were taking off was watching a TV show of a woman piloting a plane. And like, we were literally leaving the runway as the plane in her TV show was taking off too. It was so confusing to me. Just look out the window, my guy.
00:06:07
Speaker
Yeah how is that more entertaining than i guess like i guess seeing like you know brad pit land the plane is more interesting than whatever some anonymous captain who is. Only you're only interfacing with him when he's like tell me to put your seatbelt on.
00:06:24
Speaker
Yeah, but it was so drab looking this like, particular segment. It was almost lifelike. So at that point, you're just playing the Sims really you, you're watching some you're watching live Sims gameplay, you know, you should have done you should have put the like onboard camera on your screen.
00:06:45
Speaker
where it's like a live feed of the landing gear. And then just be like, which one? I actually like the show better. Have you seen this one? How do I switch to that angle? Yeah. Which channel are you on? But what happened with you and this presumably terrorist on your United Flight? Well, she was a social terrorist. I can tell you that much. So as soon as we get on the plane,
00:07:14
Speaker
She was sitting there for like half an hour already because she probably sat down first, even though it was at the back of the plane. Didn't save up enough points for this time.
00:07:26
Speaker
When we got on, this person immediately starts talking to Bae, right? Immediately starts talking to my girlfriend and is showing her things on her phone, random creepy photos of mannequins and stuff like that. Suddenly weird makeup or hairdresser type of
00:07:47
Speaker
I don't know, convention, some weird shit. I immediately tuned it out. I put on my AirPod Maxes and I said, sorry, Bae, like you're dealing with that yourself. I'm going to go noise cancel mode and just like get into my podcast.
00:08:01
Speaker
Dude, that sucks. I hate having to entertain the old white woman on the plane. Like, last time I had a neighbor like that, I had to help her solve the word all over the day. Oh, no. Oh, shit. Dude, the things people use the inflate Wi-Fi for, you know? Just log out for a while. Just take some time for yourself. Work on yourself. Yeah, disconnect, will you?
00:08:28
Speaker
Um, but I ignore this bitch for probably the entire like 98% of the flight completely ignore her. She's not really causing a problem. She's kind of, she's talking to Bay, but Bay's able to shush her up a little bit. Um, and then as soon as we start approaching the beautiful city of LA tie, um, as we're like, kind of like the landing gears down, we're like doing a low approach. You know what I mean? We're, we're flying over the hood.
00:09:00
Speaker
And then I take a nice little flick from outside the window as you do and then She starts like flicking from the aisle seat. She's like trying to like get in there taking a photo through the window Actually, I actually kind of like
00:09:15
Speaker
They actually tapped me on my shoulder and said can you because I had my face like up against the glass like taking in the views, right? I paid for this window. See I'll take in the view as much as I want and they taps me the strong says Oh, can you like move out of the way? She wants to take a photo. I said, okay, I back up and She's like taking flicks for like a good 30 seconds just like way too long like you don't need like a hundred photos of like
00:09:45
Speaker
I don't know. What do you fly over? What's next to LAX? Skid Row? I don't know. So she's like, well, we're coming from the city side, but.
00:09:57
Speaker
Regardless, she's like taking way too much time. So then I like start to, you know, lean back forward. And then she like taps me again and is like handing me her phone to be like, hey, can you take the photo for me? And keep in mind, actually, she was like coughing into a mask the entire flight. And I was like, no way. I just straight up said, I'm good, thanks.
00:10:25
Speaker
Like I do not want to touch your phone. It had like it was like a purple phone case like an iPhone like 11 or something. Purple phone case with like a gold trim and then one of those like weird like nipple rings on the back. You ever see those things?
00:10:39
Speaker
Oh yeah, dude, the little finger holders. The finger holder? The septum piercing. If your iPhone has a septum piercing, I don't want it near me. What are you trying to do? Fold a napkin neatly and tuck it in there? What's that thing for? Exactly. I have no clue.
00:10:56
Speaker
um maybe it's like a kink thing like maybe she likes if someone yanks her phone away from her like that anyways i'd be yanking i i hit her with the jerry seinfeld i'm good no thank you i don't need your hug type vibe um and then she's like looks at me is like really and i was like yeah i'm not touching your phone and then she's like you are such an ass
00:11:18
Speaker
Wow. What were you expecting the response to be? Oh, I'm sorry for bothering you. Go back to both breathing all over the window like you're doing this microphone. Yeah, exactly. Just be like, okay, fair enough. I'm the weirdo. I should have bought the fucking window seat.
00:11:36
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Um, and then she proceeds to reach across Bay, who's in the middle seat and is like shoving her phone in my face while taking photos of the outside. And I let that go on for like five seconds and I'm like, okay, that's enough. I like move her arm out of the way.
00:11:53
Speaker
I was like, get to your side, you know what I mean? Like, you're starting to piss me off. Stay in your seat. Yeah. Yeah, like, get the fuck out of here, bro. Like, and I just closed the window shade. I'm exacting my window seat privileges in this case. Yeah, dude, that was a real, like, dad move to shut her down like that and close the window. You're like, you're not allowed to have fun anymore. I hit the child lock button.
00:12:19
Speaker
Yeah. So I'm sure she didn't react very positively to that. Definitely not, Tai. She then said something along the lines of,
00:12:32
Speaker
You're going to have to wait for me to get up now to leave the plane. So we got we got a hostage situation. Yeah, dude, this is like way too much aggression, like T minus like plus T plus three hours into my trip. You know what I mean? I'm like already like at wit's end about to like like punch this woman. You know what I mean? And in my head, I'm like pretending not to hear. I have my headphones on still.
00:12:59
Speaker
Um, little does she know they are in transparency mode. I'm going to jump over this bitch when the plane lands. I do not care. Like whatever she says to me, it's completely irrelevant. I'm getting off this plane. I mean, one way or another in handcuffs or not, it doesn't matter to me. Yeah, you go into the penitentiary. So yeah, she doesn't know that she's messing with a crazy person as well.
00:13:22
Speaker
You're just more stoic. You're more of a master manipulator slash murderer where she's more of a chaotic neutral. Really. Exactly. Exactly. Lawful evil versus chaotic neutral.
00:13:39
Speaker
Thanks, bro. Yeah, so that's the story, Ty. When we landed almost immediately as if the flight attendants knew the entire situation, they came over and said, why don't you move over so these two people can get out? And then just immediately shoes her to the side and then
00:14:01
Speaker
Yeah, I just get up and then she says some bullshit to me like kindness is contagious. And then in my whole time, the whole time in my in my head, I'm like, you look contagious. Get the fuck away from me. That like a nuclear iPhone 11 in the purple case is contagious. Stay away from nothing. Yeah, dude. How did the TSA pass that?
00:14:25
Speaker
How come you're not allowed to bring organic eggs across the border, but you can bring that thing? That thing's a Petri dish of all kinds of who knows what, you know? With the coat hook on the back, some medical grade weapon. So anyways, that's my story, Ty. I got off the flight, got into my Uber black, and off we go.
00:14:47
Speaker
I feel really bad for you that you had to get through that, Eric, because if I was like zooted off five draft beers at the airport bar, and then I had to deal with that, I would have no patience for it. And you actually did surprisingly well for what I understand your personality to be.
00:15:07
Speaker
That's a huge asterisk at the end. Like what you understand my personality because I could have taken it to a hundred and I only took it to five, you know, like I'm capable of way more. But obviously like, I feel like you are in the right here. You paid for the window seat. She paid for the aisle seat. Like you, she gets a few picks out the window. You get to go to the bathroom one time during the flight. That's the arrangement.
00:15:31
Speaker
Yeah. You know what? You didn't even use your privilege, did you? No, I didn't go to the bathroom one time because I know my place as a window seat holder. That's the trade-off you make, right? I chose the window seat in the Air Canada app and she clearly did not.
00:15:49
Speaker
Yeah. And if you're a window seat holder, you better believe you're holding it down and you're holding it in. That's right. I'm the window captain today. So anything has to go through me. Welcome to Eric's flight. The time will be. We'll be landing at 12 o'clock and the weather is 80 and hazy. That's right. Six, six past 12 inch. Mm hmm.
00:16:15
Speaker
crazy. So flight flight and trip is off to a bit of a rocky start, but I'm sure you salvaged it through many dining activations. Oh, absolutely, Ty. But let's see here. Well, the first stop was we went to this burger spot. This is like a tricky like situation, actually, because we had a early, early dinner rezo at horses at 530. The coveted
00:16:43
Speaker
opening dinner rezo. The dinner rezo at time of open is underrated because you get to choose where to sit. You get to just like say exactly where you want to sit. And so we chose the spot immediately next to the kitchen, which had the most action out of any table. It was awesome. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It's always overwhelming though on the reservation site when they ask you, do you want the bar, the atrium, the lounge, the dining room? So many options.
00:17:12
Speaker
Totally, but the best way to do it is like do it exactly when the restaurant opens that way You can just point to where you want to sit instead of like choosing from a drop-down, you know Every restaurant is first come first serve if you are the first to come there
00:17:28
Speaker
Exactly, exactly. But it was tricky time because we had an early, early dinner as oh, due to the Lakers game that we're going to afterwards. And we had landed kind of around lunchtime. So by the time we got back to the hotel, checked in, put our bags down, we had like maybe a 30 minute window to eat or else it had been too late and we wouldn't have been hungry for dinner. So we made the quick game time decision to
00:17:57
Speaker
Hoppin' in Uber, go all the way to Fairfax District for a nice little smash burger. Is that this place called Burger She Wrote? Have you heard of this place? I've heard of this place, I have. I think Think Fresh follows them on Instagram.
00:18:12
Speaker
Oh yeah, my bag. We do follow him on Instagram. Yeah, that place rocks man. That place was really, really good. A lot of like skater kids came in after us. So I think that's probably a good sign that that place is pretty popping. Dude, it's good to know that the odd future odd future crew still has a chokehold on Fairfax district in 2023. 100%, 100%.
00:18:38
Speaker
Um, so yeah, that was really good. After that, I got to check out era one. You know
Exploring Erewhon's Water Variety
00:18:43
Speaker
what I mean? It was just down the street. So we walked over to that and, um,
00:18:48
Speaker
I think the most impressive thing about Aerowon type outside of the smoothie and juice program is the bottled water program. I was just going to say the bottle water. The fact that they can sell probiotic water for alkaline water for 60 bucks a liter is genius. We're in the wrong industry.
00:19:10
Speaker
I know. What are we doing talking into a microphone? We should be peddling water. Um, but this place has like 800 varieties of water. Like, I don't know if you noticed when you went, but it's just like a full shelf of like, I don't know, two of like each thing. It's just like an endless variety of water with like probiotics, some with alkaline water, some with
00:19:35
Speaker
I don't know infused with like adaptogens or something raspberry syrup and random shit. Yeah, exactly. So that was most impressive. I went for the straight, um, you know, middle of the road mountain Valley sparkling in a nice little glass bottle.
00:19:53
Speaker
The classic move. And that kept me hydrated, you know, post-flight. Dude. After that flight I was dehydrated as fuck. I would be too. It makes sense that they offer such extensive water varietals because everyone has got to drink it. So there's such a huge opportunity to connect a particular strain of the fluid to your personal identity. You just got to find like what water represents you best.
00:20:23
Speaker
Mm hmm. Totally. And this decision weighed heavily on me because I knew I had to bring it to the Sunset Tower pool after. And I have to I had to like sit it down next to my my beach towels, you know, had to look good in front of the usual crowd over there.
00:20:42
Speaker
Right. Right. It's got a, it's a high stakes game. You're playing here. So choose carefully from the 800 options, which water will tell people about my like, like, like trend, trendy boomer vibe. Exactly. Like I'm like a cool boomer, like.
00:21:02
Speaker
like a fifty-year-old that wears like Yeezys, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah, a grandparent. Exactly, a grand with an M. Mm-hmm. Cool. So, that was really fun, Trev. That was my first time at the store.
00:21:17
Speaker
I'm really glad that you got to peruse the selection and especially the water aisle. I think it's hilarious that subway, subways value proposition is to give you unlimited free, like real food. And then air one is on the other end of the special charging you the most amount of money possible for the only thing that's free everywhere else. Isn't there kind of an irony to that? Like you go to subway to get the free lettuce and free water and air one, you're paying for the water too. Mm-hmm.
00:21:46
Speaker
Yeah, totally. Like at Subway, you know, you can ask for a paper cup for water and then just like fill it up with Sprite when no one's looking. But at Erewhon, you have to get the juice sample, you know? The only thing free is the free like probiotic juice.
00:22:03
Speaker
Dude, if you, yeah, if you're really want to scam Erewhon, you can buy the like new age craft soda, pour it out and then fill that up with water. Now you're really scamming them. Exactly. Just do a few laps of the samples, fill up like a, you know, clear analogy and then you're good to go. Wow. So exciting. Yeah. So the other thing I did at Erewhon tie was I had the Healy Bieber smoothie and
00:22:33
Speaker
I was actually shocked to find out that the smoothie was the same price as all the other smoothies. Like over here in Canada, we don't have like a perfect pulse on like the smoothie prices down in LA. Whenever we hear about like 18 USD smoothie, we like are all up in arms about like what kind of like
00:22:56
Speaker
hoo-ha funny shit is this. But all of them are bad. The social justice warriors are rioting about smoothie prices in other countries. It's gone too far. Absolutely. But they're all $18. So when I stepped up to the plate and I was like, okay, maybe I won't blow the bank on this smoothie because
00:23:20
Speaker
We have dinner in like an hour. I'm I'll just get like whatever a cheap one, just like a basic one that we can like share it or whatever. Then I was like, Oh, fuck. I'll just get the.
00:23:31
Speaker
the one that everyone's talking about because it costs the same. And then I can talk about on this show. I'm surprised that there's no Bieber family tax for any of their ventures. Like Drew is a fairly, from an entirely financial perspective, kind of attainable. Yeah. What is the Bieber family tax? The Tim Biebs that we copped last year. They were the same price as normal Tim bits. I know. It's idiotic, Ty, to,
00:24:01
Speaker
get anything other than the special Bieber varietal. But also when you said Drew, it took me a minute because I forgot about that failing clothing line. Is that what that is? Yeah, maybe that's why it's so attainable in prices because no one's buying it and they're marking it down. Yeah, Black Friday did a number on them.
00:24:23
Speaker
Um, but yeah, Ty. So wait, wait,
Hailey Bieber Smoothie Review
00:24:27
Speaker
wait, wait. Can you talk about the tasty notes of the Haley Bieber special? Are you a believer in it? Yes. I'm a strawberry sympathizer. I love strawberry flavored things, ice cream, gelato, smoothie, juice, all strawberry things, Ty. The color is beautiful. The taste is sweet, but not too sweet. Um,
00:24:51
Speaker
I love it. So naturally the smoothie was perfect for me. It even had some nice pretty little white swirls in it. I think I gave it literally a 10 out of 10 when I was rating it in the ride home because that's the exact kind of smoothie that I would order. And the fact that there is a beautiful young woman at the creative director role behind it makes it all the better. You got to love the lore. I know, dude.
00:25:20
Speaker
What are we without our history? Dude, I like, I like to imagine you're in the back of your Uber block with Bay. You got your arm around her and you're like talking in your ear about how you gave the smoothie a 10 out of 10. She's like, I wish I never came on this trip. Damn. I had to give the Uber driver a sip though. I was like, you want to try this shit? This shit cracking off right now.
00:25:42
Speaker
You did not. You did not give the Uber driver safety. No, I didn't. No, you ain't sharing. You won't even take a pic for a stranger on an airplane. Nice try. So I might have given it a 10, but Bae gave it a 7 out of 10. She's not really
00:25:58
Speaker
a strawberry lover like I am. I'm also a bit of an extremist as you know. So a strawberry radicalist for sure. Um, but I understand your appreciation. Like it is dude, it's such a like hearty and meaty fruit for having no stone in the center. Like that shit is like kind of reminiscent of like a state when you bite into it, you know, that, that crispy, that like kind of juicy, juicy chew, you know,
00:26:28
Speaker
Damn, you're starting to brainstorm some vegetarian shit right now. I can tell you're going to turn it into like, like a strawberry bolognese. Yeah, dude. I was just thinking about that. People, people could take strawberries further. It's yeah. I'll come over on Sunday and we'll have a strawberry sugo. Yeah. You can have some of this, my strawberry ahi tuna rolls. Oh no. Sushi night. Yeah. Some strawberry sashimi for you. Yeah. Um, yeah. Strawberry is the best bro.
00:26:57
Speaker
What can I say? Um, the only other thing that could have made it better was a nice healthy dollop of peanut butter, other smoothie go-to, but usually I'll, I'll hit up a Barry knot of the straw kind for that one. I come. I completely feel you dude. Sometimes side Bay isn't even a side Bay. Sometimes it's peanut butter, you know, and I have a, uh,
00:27:24
Speaker
untreated addiction to the substance, and if Subway put peanut butter on the menu,
00:27:31
Speaker
It would be a game changer for me. I don't even know how I would work it in. I think I would probably eat it with the veggie patty. What would you do with peanut butter? You'd have to apply it at the beginning, right? It's not really an end game sauce. It's like in the same category as marinara. You got to spread it first.
00:27:55
Speaker
That is true, the binary always goes first. But do you remember when triple O's had that peanut butter and pickle burger? Or was like peanut butter jalapeno? Did you ever try that? Dude, that was fire. And we got we got pickle and jalapeno sitting in the roster right now. I'm waiting to team that up.
00:28:13
Speaker
Yeah, dude. So the good folks over at triple O's already paved the way for a PB add on at subway. I would totally hit up the pickles, but it's not something I've ever tried. I'll be honest. Well, they walked so subway could run. If subway picked it up, this would be mainstream in a moment. And I think you'd have to try it. It would be the new Haley Bieber smoothie subway peanut butter sandwich. Yeah, absolutely.
Thanksgiving in LA: A Korean BBQ Adventure
00:28:41
Speaker
Ty, I also want to talk about my Thanksgiving activation. So just to close the loop on what we talked about last few episodes about every single restaurant and business being closed on the great day of Thanksgiving in the United States. I had to navigate that alongside a bunch of, I guess, traveling people or people who either A, left their family.
00:29:11
Speaker
or people who have been disowned by their family. You know what I mean? It's like I'm moving to LA. I hate you guys. I don't want to live in Calgary anymore. You know what I mean? It's like those, those folk. And then also the people who are like, you're like in and out of rehab. We can't associate with you anymore. We've tried.
00:29:32
Speaker
You're done. You know what I mean? I can't look for you anymore. Unfortunately, Los Angeles attracts both those personality types in droves. It is Mecca for those types. And you would think that like more things would be open. But I guess like Vegas is the true capital of degenerates. You know what I mean? Like that's where I would go first if I.
00:29:55
Speaker
had nowhere else to be on Thanksgiving or Christmas or any of these like family days. It's just funny that it's just like an accidental convention of lonely people on public holidays. It was such an accident. And I didn't even like know this when I booked my flight, which is so funny, but here we are. And it turns out, Ty, that most hotels will do a prefix menu
00:30:18
Speaker
for Thanksgiving. So, for example, Sunset Tower had like a Thanksgiving turkey dinner. It was $150. And I was like, Oh, no, thanks. I don't know if I'm good for that. It was all day. So even when I was lounging at the pool, the people behind me were like chowing down on turkey for lunch. And I was like doing cannonballs in the pool, like beside them.
00:30:47
Speaker
I love that dichotomy. Hey, watch my cannonball. I think there was literally an old lady that looked like pointed at me and then her friend turned around and looked at me as well. And I was like floating in the pool, like shirtless, of course. And they're like eating their eating their like prefix menu dinner or lunch. Well, this is such a weird, weird situation. But fuck it. We we ball, you know.
00:31:13
Speaker
That's what Thanksgiving's all about though, is family that doesn't really jive together, forced to occupy, in this case, the same pool deck.
00:31:23
Speaker
That's right. I'm the cousin Greg of this family and I'll do what I want. You know, I'm already, I'm already grandfathered into the will and you can't take me off. Dude, you are really Greg in it down there. Totally. Um, but yeah, that was good. So for Thanksgiving type, I actually learned another thing. Most Korean restaurants are open on Thanksgiving.
00:31:48
Speaker
I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's all Asian restaurants, but the ones that really popped up for me were the Korean ones. And I went to a Korean barbecue restaurant in Koreatown on Thanksgiving, which was awesome.
00:32:02
Speaker
And it was packed, filled with families, dude. Everyone's like going crazy, hitting the soju hard. I finished a whole bottle of soju on my own. And yeah, had a great time. It was so much fun, dude. It was so lively in there. And there's a destination like this packed with like, what type of family is celebrating Thanksgiving at like Benihani?
00:32:29
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I have no clue. That's not where I went because I don't eat pigeon food. But at the Korean barbecue spot, it was all just like normal Korean families. You know what I mean? Kids, parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents.
00:32:43
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Everyone was there, man. That makes sense because Thanksgiving is when you crave a home cooked meal. So as a family of Korean descent, you might want to go find the food of your homeland. Exactly. And you get to cook it yourself. That's true. So there's actually very similar. Yeah. It's being sizzled. It's sizzling right in front of you. It's hard to, it's even better than cooking it at home because the kitchen is not on the table, you know?
00:33:12
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So following that logic, if you went to a subway on Thanksgiving, would you find a bunch of lonely third-generation Italian American men? Yeah, probably. A bunch of lonely construction workers, probably. I mean, sandwiches are dinner for them, usually, because they finish their shift at 1 p.m.
00:33:33
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Dude, I would love to see the late night artwork of a construction worker off shift. He comes home, he crushes seven bud heavies, sits on his lawn chair in his living room and turns on the TV on the floor. He says, his stomach grumbles.
00:33:51
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climbs out of there and goes into his kitchen with the one big cool toned light to make a sandwich. Dude, I bet that sandwich is crazy. I bet it's maybe four layers of meat, three sauces, no vegetables. He's going to the bakery section of the grocery store exclusively for hoagie buns. The man knows how to work the kitchen when it comes to the footlongs.
00:34:18
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one hundred percent he knows exactly how many buns to buy and how many grams of salami to buy to make the perfect sandwich ratio the dude is so consistent with his sauce spreadage but then he like only owns paper plates what do you mean plates he eats it over the sink like a man
00:34:38
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Dude, if it's a meal for one, you are, yeah, you got a napkin as your plate. You're like, I'll just wait. Dude, you can just vacuum later. Maybe just let the crumbs hit the floor. Ants got to eat too, baby. 100%. There's like a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels sitting next to your sandwich, which is just straight on the counter. I'm not even under like a piece of paper or anything. Counter is your counter. Boy lunch.
00:35:04
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I started using my phone as a, um, coaster. What is that? A coaster. Thank you. It's such a weird word because it's used in the roller industry to describe the ride. It is. Yeah. And then also in the automobile industry. Mm-hmm.
00:35:24
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Exactly. So it's really a fun move to like use your phone as the coaster in a pinch because the glass is like pretty waterproof at this point. And it always is generate some reactions from the party at the function. Absolutely. It's even funnier if you have like a really nice phone with no case. I mean, it's like face down on your desk with a bottle of Peroni on top.
00:35:52
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That's literally what I just did. Um, breadheads. Thank you for listening. It's been an episode of think fresh podcast. Um, let's continue the story in the next one, Ty. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I hope this episode was a treat for your ears with these new microphones as much. It was a treat for me to hear about your travels. Eric breadheads. We wish you well. Think fresh everybody. Ciao.