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446 — Porkin' Some Swine
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Ty & Eric discuss the concentration of talent at Philippino weddings, Ty’s eventful male wellness retreat, the liminal aura and carnivorous cuisine in Montreal, swallowing the limitless pill before tackling your footlong, hangover prevention hacks, the big racks at rib fest, getting priced out of van life, Airbnb slum lords, and how to ruin the vibes at the Scandinave spa.
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Transcript
Catching Up Post-Hiatus in the Park
00:00:50
Think Fresh
Valu-tations, breadheads! Buongiorno. Bu-bu-bu-buongior. Ty, how are you doing man? It's been a long, long time since our last pod.
00:01:03
Think Fresh
It's been three or four days. yeah We are hanging out in the booth, sunroof open, park side, airplanes overhead, bird shit overhead. and I'm feeling great. I think i there's a crow above us now. No way, really? Yeah, we're terrified we're going to get just missiled through this open air ceiling.
Ty's Montreal Wellness Retreat
00:01:25
Think Fresh
Bunker busted through the sunroof of the bends. these alfresco episodes come with some danger but you you weren't even joking there is a crow there you see that right well uh it's a bit risky but uh if we do get shot on we'll just have to pause or handle it live on air yeah we will play the appropriate soundboard um sound for that but uh ty you had i don't know how much detail you want to go into whether whether it's uh covered by and NDA or if there is some incriminating evidence that you don't want to share with me, but you just got back from a boys trip from a lad's holiday yeah from ah the beautiful Canadian city of Montreal. Isn't that right? From Montreal, yes, indeed. I've been practicing my parents there.
Exploring Montreal and Local Shops
00:02:10
Think Fresh
um yeah so i'm one of the founding members of a wellness club for men we just had our inaugural male wellness retreat four beautiful days in the old port city of montreal on the banks of the saint lawrence river and yeah dude i gotta say that like wellness is great you you've gotta like take care of yourself yeah dude um we had like quite a few adventures along the way but Montreal, that was my first time visiting that fine city. It's a very interesting place.
00:02:40
Think Fresh
You've been before, I believe. Yeah, I was there in 2019 for a week or so. Beautiful city. um Super walkable. Super walkable.
00:02:51
Think Fresh
you know Compared to the most North American cities.
Unique Wellness Activities and Spa Experience
00:02:55
Think Fresh
You have old town. You know me can kind of strut around there, check out some shops or whatever, pop into your local wine establishment. Yeah. Nothing like a jaunt down at Brick Lane Alley.
00:03:06
Think Fresh
Totally. Pop into Aesop, pop into the Essence Store. I did, yeah. um I noticed you went to the Essence Store, but you didn't get to check out the cafe on the top floor because that is defunct now. It is. It's been removed.
00:03:19
Think Fresh
I inquired with the... I guess the sales associate on the ground floor. And he said that boots on the ground. He said they don't, it was gone in like 2019 forever, which is a shame.
00:03:33
Think Fresh
I wonder how many people like weekly ask him about that. Like, can I go up to the cafe that no longer ex exists? Yeah. You asked them six years later. That's crazy. Like if I had like so much staff turnover since then. Yeah, totally. So,
00:03:45
Think Fresh
Yeah, that was kind of an interesting spot. Yes, the essence store. There's only like 10 pieces of clothing inside the store. Yeah. And it kind of looks like that room that ah Kanye lived in on. It's like the that stadium in Atlanta. Right. There's just like i like an old bed in the corner and a few racks of clothing.
00:04:04
Think Fresh
Right. Like one pair of Bottega boots and a leather jacket. And then it's like, you're you're allowed to touch it, but you can't try it on. Exactly. Everyone's wearing a Margiela face mask. Yeah.
00:04:16
Think Fresh
So, okay. So what else did you get up
Balancing Late Nights with Wellness Activities
00:04:18
Think Fresh
to out there? Did you black out or what? Well, the thing with a male wellness retreat, because you have to experience both the highbrow and lowbrow aspects of wellness in order to really grow.
00:04:30
Think Fresh
So there were some late nights, but there was also some really early mornings. Let's talk about some of the the like more traditional wellness activities. Doing yoga with 10 dudes is awesome.
00:04:43
Think Fresh
Just a private yoga class. every all All my dogs are downward dogging and sweating up a storm. And like that's a really special experience. I would highly recommend doing a yoga class with only men.
00:04:57
Think Fresh
Okay. And um from what I understand, Ty, everyone in your crew, in your posse, is either married or getting married. Except for one guy.
00:05:08
Think Fresh
And the one guy didn't come to the yoga class. It's true. He bailed on the yoga class. He doesn't know that yoga classes are like the new Tinder. It is historically ah like a hotbed for hot teas, but not when you book out the entire session.
00:05:26
Think Fresh
so Damn. Yeah, dude. Which is, honestly, I tell you, it's better that way. Because you can like just stretch your pelvis and your ass crack and all of the other parts of your body. You never really get to stretch yeah without the, like,
00:05:37
Think Fresh
ah meandering, objectifying the eye of a woman. You can just turn to your boy and say, don't mind me, I'm releasing. Exactly. I just gotta let it all out.
00:05:49
Think Fresh
That rocked. Totally recommend that. I also went to Skandinav Spa with 10 dudes. Also awesome to just do an entire spa takeover. What's really funny about that is like most time the spa is for like couples trying to have like a relaxing day. yeah and You know how they're always silent, right You can't talk whisper or whisper even. yep no so You can't even belch.
00:06:11
Think Fresh
feel Which is tough when you had like 17 volatile glasses of red. Yeah. they meant bor or Whoa. Did you see how close that was to us? We just about got bombed. That landed on the car in front of me? It landed on the sidewalk right there.
00:06:24
Think Fresh
Dude, a crow just shat like two feet from your door. Jesus, dude. Oh, wow. Danger zone. I think that's where we parked last time. It is. So I think that's a like their living room or something. Yeah, we're clear now.
00:06:36
Think Fresh
um Anyway, so, okay, you go to the spa, no one's talking, but the problem was the spa was pretty small. i only had like one pool, one sauna, one like eucalyptus steam room, et cetera, et cetera.
00:06:47
Think Fresh
So imagine you're, you're going to the spa. You just paid like a couple hundred bucks to take your girlfriend there. You're going to have a romantic time. Maybe do some hand stuff over by the lounge chairs. You just get robed up. You walk, you turn the corner.
00:07:01
Think Fresh
into the single hot tub in the entire spot and there's just 10 men sitting silently and they're all staring back at you damn yeah dude it's hilarious so funny that's kind of wild to have like 10 dudes sitting in silence yeah um so you mentioned it took over the entire yoga class How much of the spa did you guys take over? Because I'm sure if you have critical mass, you can just invent your own rules.
00:07:27
Think Fresh
You'd think. Yeah. so I think we had about 50% of the capacity of the spa covered. 20 people total. and Okay.
The Montreal Airbnb Experience
00:07:35
Think Fresh
Even with best intentions, 10 guys going anywhere ruins the space.
00:07:39
Think Fresh
Every coffee shop, every bar, every restaurant, 10 guys walking in just absolutely ruins it. yeah The aura is gone. The vibe is gone. Nobody wants you there. The host doesn't want you there.
00:07:50
Think Fresh
Other customers don't want you. You don't even want to be there. You're just sad that you ruined it for everyone else. yeah The whole time you're thinking, like how how why do we invite so many dudes? Exactly. so The only way to get past that is to engage in the sacred male act of drinking 1,000 beers.
00:08:06
Think Fresh
you you know Until you forget see about your own sense of social mannerisms. Throw those all away. Lovely. So the Scandinavian Spa, is it the same as what we have in Whistler?
00:08:20
Think Fresh
Yes, but the Whistler location is outdoors. Montreal's location is indoors. Montreal location is quite a bit smaller. The hot tubs are not as hot and the cold pledges are not as cold because the French are Whistler.
00:08:34
Think Fresh
Gotcha. Okay. That
Personal Wellness Goals and Self-Growth
00:08:36
Think Fresh
clears things up. yeah ah Yeah. So, dude, we had a crazy Airbnb. Had... almost enough beds for everybody. it had You had 10 guys in the same ten guys with same Airbnb, a few guys on couches. Some guys just slept on a mattress on the floor.
00:08:53
Think Fresh
I do that nightly. Yeah. yeah Yeah. You did. It's true. Wabi-sabi vibes, right? Yeah. Uh, But, like, I don't know. were staying in the, like, gay village, which was a funny place for 10 men to pick an Airbnb. You know some stuff's happened there.
00:09:08
Think Fresh
It's the only place that kind of Airbnb is offered. Exactly. That's true. It's the only place they're going let you book it. The freak-off size. Yeah. The freak-off bun. Yeah, there's stains everywhere. We just don't really look too much. Don't turn the big light on.
00:09:21
Think Fresh
Yeah, do not turn on the black light. Yeah. ah There's... like I think our host was a bit of ah like an Airbnb slumlord. Okay. Because like the toilet seat was broken. The i like the the couches were all broken. There was no light bulbs in the lamps.
00:09:38
Think Fresh
Things were falling off the wall. You'd see paintings in random locations. And then you'd pick it off and look behind it and there'd be a hole in wall. nice. Yeah. So clearly this thing has like seen its fair share of either gay orgies or fights.
00:09:50
Think Fresh
Yeah. Yeah, don't don't pay too much attention to the holes in the wall. You know don't want to touch those. But that's okay because we so we're seldom there. We were all amongst the streets, taking in the city, and going on. Everybody had their own unique personal wellness journey that they were embarking on over the weekend.
00:10:14
Think Fresh
So, didn't spend much time there, thankfully. Okay, cool. Yeah. And do you mind sharing what your wellness objective was? Or is that under NDA? No, no, no.
00:10:27
Think Fresh
I think it's so important to share with the breadheads. Before I do that, I'll tell you some examples of other itineraries that the men had. One man was tasked with learning to redefine what love meant to him, which required getting a pedicure that he did not choose to get.
00:10:47
Think Fresh
Another man was responsible for learning how to believe in himself. So he was tasked with ah taking up conversations with strangers and also teaching the group some of the tasks that he believed he was good at.
00:11:02
Think Fresh
Mm-hmm. Another man was responsible for improving his gut health. So his job was to track his outputs throughout the weekend and share it with the group, as well as make everyone a very fibrous meal.
00:11:17
Think Fresh
He cooked us all overnight oats. No, chia pudding. Chia pudding. Okay. Yeah, dude, it looks like concrete. Wow, okay. So you can imagine the types of like wellness journeys people are on, somewhere to grow in all regards.
00:11:32
Think Fresh
You know what I... Hearing about this trip kind of just erased all FOMO that I had, which is which is kind what I was hoping to get out this conversation. I did have a bit of a um lively weekend, but I was wishing that I was on this journey with you. But hearing what you put everyone through, I'm glad I missed out.
00:11:53
Think Fresh
Well, dude, sometimes you got to get a little uncomfortable if you're going to really grow. Like one guy, his goal for the weekend was to... develop his own sense of voice, his own unique voice.
00:12:06
Think Fresh
you know like he He quotes a lot of things, but he doesn't really have a lot of his own material original material. You don't have this problem, clearly. Do you still have friends after this? Are all these people they all kind of blocked? Anyways, we booked him a session with a ah stranger we met on Craigslist that said they worked in radio for a while to workshop a new catchphrase.
00:12:28
Think Fresh
So one of these club members had to go meet up with him at a bar We paid them like 50 bucks. And then they were gone for two hours for shopping catchphrases.
00:12:38
Think Fresh
And they hit it off. It was awesome. So great to see real real male growth. Ended up hooking up in a gay village. it Probably. we didn't ask that many questions. ah Yeah, dude.
00:12:49
Think Fresh
It was great. So my goal. I'll tell you about my goal. If you're still willing to tell. Okay, sure. a I have a history of avoiding celebrating myself at all cause.
00:13:02
Think Fresh
So my own goal this weekend was to practice celebrating myself, in particular my birthday. So I had a pseudo birthday party this weekend. Everyone hosted
Curiosity About Van Life
00:13:12
Think Fresh
it for me.
00:13:12
Think Fresh
ah That's right. Everywhere I went, they sang me happy birthday. I had to wear a birthday sash. A hat. A hat. Exactly. I had to wear a crown, actually. you King of the birthdays. Birthday boy. It's my birthday.
00:13:27
Think Fresh
I developed a pretty good derivative bit off of that. Yeah. when people would say happy birthday to me, I would say, thanks, I just turned 17. Lovely. lovely Yeah, that never landed with people. They always gave me the weirdest scrunched up face.
00:13:42
Think Fresh
Like some people would say, you don't look 17. Try not to cut you off here, but we have some evidence in front of us here that we've entered the last stage of hell.
00:13:53
Think Fresh
No, is that what I think it is? We are looking at a $80,000 Sprinter van fully converted into a living space. Wow. The entire time we were parked here, there was no one around, and then this guy just came out of the van.
00:14:07
Think Fresh
Wow, he's been in there in the it was just longer than we've been sitting here, too. Yeah. So, pretty cool stuff, I would say. I'm curious what the rig on that would be like. We could ask him. Yeah, I'm curious, too. Yeah.
00:14:20
Think Fresh
I didn't have the balls to ask him. He just walked by. i don't want to engage with this fellow. His shirt said Fulbatsy on it. Dude, yeah, van lifers in 2025 feels like it's a dining art.
00:14:32
Think Fresh
I think though there will be a resurgence because of the economy. i mean, i think if you're a van lifer, you've got to be in a van and not a $100,000
Experience at a Filipino Wedding
00:14:41
Think Fresh
car. I agree. That's the problem. Or a Springer, I mean. It kind of defeats the purpose. Everyone's priced out of living van life nicely.
00:14:49
Think Fresh
yeah They should be able to, think we need to get better conversion setups. Like maybe Teemu could create a category for that. So you could turn these like RAV4s and this Prius into a van lifer setup too. Like strip the back seats out.
00:15:03
Think Fresh
I agree with that. i don't know why there isn't any of that. um Okay. Well, anything else you want to say about your trip? ah I think the best... Did you grow from it, Ty? think we did. Are you somebody who's going to celebrate their birthdays going forward?
00:15:17
Think Fresh
Or are you going to let all this effort kind of go to waste come next year? We'll see if there's any regression. I walked away feeling a lot better about celebration because it's fun, you know? It's fun. It's just an excuse to have more beers, Ty. And I can't believe you've ever rejected that.
00:15:32
Think Fresh
You're right. I mean, I love drinking beers. I love sitting in a room with 10 guys watching street takeover videos for two hours. Street takeover. You know when they The drifting ones? The drifting ones. Oh, okay. I've gone down that same YouTube route goal.
00:15:47
Think Fresh
For sure. I love going into karaoke bars and then having them bring out a cake with sparklers and bubble guns because you told them that you just turned 18. That's lovely. Yeah.
00:16:01
Think Fresh
So, yes. I think celebration is wonderful. Great. And speaking of celebration, you were also celebrating this weekend, no? yeah that's right. I went to a Filipino wedding.
00:16:11
Think Fresh
Hell yeah. I went to a Filipino wedding. What happens at a Filipino wedding? Well, everyone I tell about this, they're like, oh, it was a Filipino wedding. It's all like something I didn't know about before.
00:16:26
Think Fresh
But they are just a party people. I believe that. A nation of partiers. They're happy people. They love celebrating. And talent just oozes out of them, Ty. It's true.
00:16:38
Think Fresh
I won't go into too much detail here, but one kind of really surprising moment for me was when the father of the bride and the father of the groom collaborated on a duet.
00:16:50
Think Fresh
So they both pick up the mic and sang a song together. Dude, this was like a surprise. Like, this is like, they both just stood up? Oh, yeah. Mid-meal at reception? The DJ just played a song. Or basically, they announced, like, okay, now we have and we have a performance for you.
00:17:04
Think Fresh
And they stood up. The DJ fucking hit a song. And then, yeah, they just sang it. And it was, like, incredibly well done. i don't know. Like, I don't know how that's possible. Like, when I think about my dad singing, it's just, like...
00:17:17
Think Fresh
yeah Not even fathomable. No kidding. I don't think my dad said more than one word. so Totally. Wow. But yeah this this wedding tie, like no expense was spared. It was just a rager. Oh, so this was like a 1% wedding.
00:17:33
Think Fresh
It felt like it, yeah. Sometimes people just got to treat themselves a little and treat everyone they know. Plus they're close ones. Yeah, exactly. So, okay. So besides like the dads doing the this, what what are those called? The dance mobs outside of the library? What? A flash mob? Flash mob. Yeah, they do a flash mob.
00:17:55
Think Fresh
um Flash dance. they They broke into song and dance, song which i only thought happened in Family Guy. No kidding, that literally sounds like a bit. Totally. What were some of the expenses that they did not spare?
00:18:07
Think Fresh
um Well, obviously, open bar. Of course. ah Beverage of choice for a wedding? What was it? I mean... I tried everything. I fucking ran it through the bar. Nothing this guy won't try. Yeah. I think I started with a custom Bellini they had there.
00:18:27
Think Fresh
Nice. Pineapple. No, peach Bellini. Hell yeah. Then I migrated over to the Pilsner. Had a few of those. Had some red wine.
00:18:38
Think Fresh
um Had a pina colada. Nice. Had a ah
00:18:45
Think Fresh
like like probably 10 shots of tequila tell it was a big night tie and um i
Montreal's Culinary Scene and Challenges
00:18:52
Think Fresh
gotta say one key unlock here is uh in japan they sell these like little vials of like god knows what it's just like a little drink you can have and um i have no fucking clue what it's called but there's just a picture of a liver on it a cartoon with a little smile Yeah, pretty much. see Very cute little liver on there. I was like, I heard that you can have these before a night out of drinking and zero hangover. like you're not Nothing bad will happen. Yeah, it's like taking a limitless pill before you go out.
00:19:24
Think Fresh
And I gotta say, I had like minimum 20 drinks that night. And the entire night, I was like a 5 out of 10 drunk. Really? I was so coherent and like on the ball. And I was just like slamming drinks.
00:19:37
Think Fresh
You are the liver king. Yeah, I was... I was a liver king and queen that night. Holy shit. So this pill like prevented the al alcohol from entering your cranium.
00:19:48
Think Fresh
Basically. Wow. That's so awesome. But it removed all kind of like filter and like apprehension on the dance floor. know I mean? I was just vibing out.
00:19:59
Think Fresh
Like it was just perfect. Remove that kind of self-consciousness that you enter a scenario with. 100% confidence, 0% vomit. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, dude. Miracle drug.
00:20:10
Think Fresh
It was incredible. So highly recommend those. um You can Google them. I have clue what they're called, but you'll you'll know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's a great unlock. yeah I wonder if there's something that exists that's similar for eating 12 inches of sandwich.
00:20:24
Think Fresh
Because I want to eat it. Here we go, back to Subway. don't want to deal with the repercussions. can No, totally. I think there used to be like a digestif at Subway. You know, it's like, maybe it's just a shot of like, i don't know, probiotic after ah after a big meaty sub. like whent the minute you walk in the door, they just, like, feed you a scoop of yogurt. Yeah, totally. Yeah. ah system Yeah, that would actually go down very well. Or if they made, like, a kimchi sandwich, that would probably be nice, too. They should add some more fibrous options to the menu. Ty, on your trip in Montreal...
00:20:58
Think Fresh
Was there any kind of smoked meat inside of a 12-inch baguette situation happening? Or did you go to Subway? Did you see any Subways? Do the French eat Subway?
00:21:09
Think Fresh
Do the French eat Subway? I did spot a couple. One of them had the word restaurant below in it, which is a funny thing to try to have to clarify. Right. The challenge with the Montreal food scene is it's very carnivorous.
00:21:24
Think Fresh
So for me navigating, and there wasn't a lot of optionality. So I didn't get any smoke me. Didn't make my way into Joe Beef. No beef for Joe. Joe Beef is incredible.
00:21:35
Think Fresh
I did watch the Anthony Bourdain episode where he went to Montreal. yeah And then he like got really drunk with the Joe Beef guys and was like drinking out of a brown paper bag in the back of a truck at like midnight driving around the city. and like That's so awesome. Dude, hell yeah. That me for real. Joe Beef leads to things like that. Yeah, exactly.
00:21:52
Think Fresh
Yeah, i watched that episode before I went and it informed so much of my trip. Totally. I did try to hit a few of the spots. Like, we went to Bartomania and that place was really awesome. I hit St. Viature for the bagels. They were pretty good. Did you do little banquise action?
00:22:09
Think Fresh
No, no banquise. What the hell is that? That's the late night poutine spot. Oh, no, I didn't make it there. but Because it's really hard to find um vegetarian poutine, right? The gravy's always got a beef base.
00:22:21
Think Fresh
But then I did. And it was at a place called, I don't know how to say it in English, but they call it McDonald's.
Cultural Vibes and Urban Quirks of Montreal
00:22:29
Think Fresh
Is this like a Pulp Fiction joke? like No, it's Royale with cheese. Yeah, basically. The poutine there was so good, dude. i Maybe it was because I was like geeked off 10 years. I was just like, this is perfect right now. I love poutine in Montreal.
00:22:45
Think Fresh
That's great. Yeah. um Wow. But yeah. yeah Where else it can you even try a vegetarian poutine? Like, do you have anything to compare it to? Yeah, yeah. You can find a few places here. Charlottesville's got vegetarian poutine, it's really thin gravy. It doesn't stack up.
00:22:58
Think Fresh
I gotta start like fact checking all your recommendations because you always recommend that spot and now I'm finding out for the first time it's because they have a thin gravy poutine. Dude, in my defense, like there is very few good pub menus that appeal to my dietary preference and charlatan's one of them.
00:23:15
Think Fresh
Okay. And they sometimes have Guinness on special. For me, all that matters at a pub is the beer's cold and and the patio's good. Yeah, totally. It doesn't even have to be great. Like, the patio can be a five out of ten.
00:23:26
Think Fresh
Patio can be still like... and but They built it in 2020 and never took it down. Totally. I'm fine with that. Yeah, me too. Well, great, Ty. You had a nice ah culinary chef's tour of Montreal. Yeah, I think I got a good sense of the kind of general culinary scene. I feel like we ah like dunk a lot on graphic design on this podcast, but I think Montreal's restaurant scene has really figured out like palatable graphic design.
00:23:54
Think Fresh
And like what they're doing over there, their signage scene, their menu scene, it's all really the perfect combination of like crafty and classy. you know It feels elegant. It feels not too much. It feels effortless.
00:24:07
Think Fresh
yeah ah It's restrained. It has some personality. A little bit of personality. that Everyone's doing a little Sharpie face or a little like cheeky wine glass drawing with it. yeah So there's some homogeny to it as well, but in like the right way. like They're all nailing the vibe.
00:24:22
Think Fresh
<unk>s great It just made me so happy because I walked around the streets of this city or any city. You go to even Los Angeles. like The graphic design is all over the place with restaurants. Same with like Toronto. But there they were locked in.
00:24:36
Think Fresh
yeah Very sensible people. think it's because of France, personally. right like I don't think we can give Montreal any credit whatsoever. i think they just kind of take whatever they can from actual French people and just kind of claim it as their own.
00:24:51
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and Like that, all that, uh, little Sharpie smiley face logo shit. That's from, it's gotta from Europe, right? That's true. Yeah. They've been doing that from new york they've been doing that in La Marais forever. Um, yeah, dude, no, you're right. Like, I feel like Montreal takes, they take the kind of like the elegant aspects of France.
00:25:10
Think Fresh
And then they also take all of the like greedy, like urban experience aspects of North America and they just mush them together. And I think that's really cool. It just got away. It's cool. Such a weird combination of things. You really feel like you're in liminal space everywhere.
00:25:24
Think Fresh
Yeah. Yeah, dude that's actually a great point. and It's neither here nor there. Especially in the old part of town. like There's something like really... It just reminds me of like World War II in the old town. When you would just like look up at the buildings, and they're all kind of just gray and weathered.
00:25:42
Think Fresh
And they're all very uniform. Mm-hmm. And it's kind of like France in that way. You know, all the buildings look the same. Totally. But it's just a more brutalist version of it. You know what saying? I know. I know exactly what you're saying.
00:25:54
Think Fresh
And then you kind of go down a random street where there's no shops, and it's just like, there's nothing there but all these uniform-looking buildings. you're just like, where the fuck am I? yeah You ever get that vibe there? Oh, yeah. You get that vibe. And then you like pull out to the busy tourist streets, and then it's just like full of people, but it's wider than European streets. There's cars.
00:26:13
Think Fresh
yeah it kind of just feels like i'm in like world war ii disneyland yeah you know like if disney the walt disney corporation was like we're gonna make a park that's an ode to and another like this that kind of era or like that's the old town of montreal yeah totally yeah so it's pretty whack there um did you notice how all the streets have like sand and shit on them I did not. Like, the streets suck there. Like, the like the quality of the pavement.
00:26:42
Think Fresh
Oh, dude. I did notice that, like, um I was in an Uber, and the Uber driver just, like, drove over a pothole so big that me and him had to get out and, like, inspect his tires. Yeah, He's like, oh, for real about that.
00:26:55
Think Fresh
Yeah, that's standard. That's average Uber ride in Montreal, dude. But straight up, though, like, the Uber driver was there was terrible. Like, every Uber driver was, like... almost getting people killed. Like I just like saw so many like run red lights and almost T-bone people, almost bikes.
00:27:10
Think Fresh
There's not a story where someone got in a car, got out and didn't have a story about how they almost died. Yeah. Every single time without fail. Yeah. What is going on in this city? No, absolutely. And it's the, uh, no right on red rule that really throws me as well. and like sitting in this Uber. I'm like, are you a fucking turn or not?
00:27:26
Think Fresh
I think it's actually like a, that BC only? I don't know. Or like, Western Canada only, only where you can turn right on red light. Whenever you're renting a vehicle, you got to look up your local driving laws. Yeah, that's right.
00:27:36
Think Fresh
You've got to make sure you to pay for that international driver's permit, right? That's
Annual Ribfest Adventure
00:27:41
Think Fresh
a fact. Yeah, that's one of my favorite scams. You've got to get them, though.
00:27:49
Think Fresh
They're kind of fun to own. it's fun It's fun to have certifications, you It's fun to have paperwork, isn't it? Just validating that, yes, I can drive. The more things that tell me I can operate any type of motorized equipment makes me feel cool.
00:28:01
Think Fresh
Yeah, absolutely. Sorry, couple other topics for you. Hit me. This weekend I went to Ribfest. Hell yeah, you did. An annual occurrence. This is the fifth time we talked to about Ribfest on this podcast.
00:28:13
Think Fresh
That's right, dude. Every single year I go to Ribfest, yeah and it is... better and better every year ty it's just it's so nice to be driving you know into port moody and you just see like a big plume of smoke and you just kind of get a whiff of just meat smoking on the grill oh it's so much just growled when pretended to do that yeah it's just a beautiful thing to see and smell and then you walk up and there's a 250 pound man, like just rubbing the meats with barbecue sauce. And um he's just having the best time of his life. You know, it's just a simple, simple pleasure. Everyone's smiling despite being in line and slowly getting heat exhaustion.
00:28:58
Think Fresh
Yeah. Were there more ribs this year? I think there were like seven tenths. Seven tenths all shucking the rib? Yeah. yeah The bone? All pork in the swine, as they say. Yeah, putting the meat on the bone.
00:29:11
Think Fresh
Yeah, I was rubb i getting a rib out the park. Getting ribs down. um Yeah, it was great, dude. Bought three racks. That was was awesome.
00:29:22
Think Fresh
Yeah, yeah they were they were serving beer there as well. so I mean, any excuse to drink in the park and eat ribs is... That's what all festivals should be. It's just good food and drink.
00:29:34
Think Fresh
We don't need anything else, Ty. I don't even want the live music. It's annoying. It's never someone that's a good musician. and It's always too loud. Like, leave all the fucking games and shit at home. Yeah, no porn home. We don't need any distraction from the
Weekend Reflections and Episode Wrap-Up
00:29:47
Think Fresh
food and drink.
00:29:47
Think Fresh
Yeah, and just, like, we want racks on racks on racks here. Like, I don't want to have to stand in line for more than five minutes to be able to work. That's the biggest problem with these food and drink festivals, is that there's never enough supply for the demand.
00:29:59
Think Fresh
Well, they do get quite busy, because half of the game is, like, marketing to the crowd, like, if you've won awards in the past, so... The one we went to had like just trophies lined up outside. and You just knew that they were the boss. Everyone wants that one, right? yeah We pulled up to theirs and good as always.
00:30:18
Think Fresh
so If you don't want a queue, you can go to either like the newcomer on the scene, like the Airbnb with no reviews. yeah yeah Or you can go to the super host. Or you can just go with the one that's always there, consistent, but they have the worst ribs.
00:30:33
Think Fresh
It's just you know yeah just And I'm sure that it's like, there's no signage that says that just everybody just can tell. Yeah, totally. Um, but yeah, highly recommend. I think it's in, in Langley next month.
00:30:45
Think Fresh
So am I might have to double dip. So this is like on tour. Yeah. It just, I'm following them around like a groupie group. He's crazy. Yeah. Can I come along? I just want to, just want to eat on the 60th stop. He had a heart attack. Yeah, dude.
00:31:01
Think Fresh
Wild. Yeah. but That was my weekend. Um, pretty eventful no kidding me too dude yeah well anything else you want to talk about that no that we actually we this was a lot this was lot to digest lot to pick yeah many topics but we'll bring them next episode well merci for listening yes merci and bon air and uh mercy me mercy okay breads ciao