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Think Fresh: What is on the menu, breadheads? Ty and Eric. Back in the booth. Ox eggs. Back. Back. Bizzack. Bizzack. Ty, we're back in your booth.
Think Fresh: Same spot. Same spot. Different topic. Different day. Maybe different listeners if you missed the last episode. Yeah. I'm getting hungry. i don't know about you. You're always getting hungry, dude. Not That's because you've ah converted me to a full-time salad enjoyer, Ty. And that's why i get hungry at 4 p.m. every day.
Think Fresh: Yeah, that's not a enough for your lifestyle, eh? You need some carbs. I need some carbs, some protein, some lager, some, I don't know, taco, taqueria.
Think Fresh: Not me, dude. I thrive on the green. The greens go down easy because they're all oiled up. All this guy sees is green. That's true. They call me the green goblin. Mm-hmm. Because he's gobbling that green. Because I'm gobbling those greens. That's right. That's right. What a great bit.
Think Fresh: um Eric, this episode is recorded post-humorously. Oh, whoa. we we We're no longer funny. oh ah No, both of us, we are not in Vancouver at time of airing, are we? No, that's right.
Think Fresh: We are both in Europe. What are the odds? Unbelievable. Unbelievable odds. I feel like we've traveled before to the same place at the same time multiple times. like There was a time where we were in LA at the same time, never talked or hung out. Yeah, so funny.
Think Fresh: I feel like we've been in Europe at the same time as well, or maybe just a couple days apart. i don't know. Yeah, and it's happening yet again. will both be- Right now. Right now. It's happening. It's happening, dude.
Think Fresh: Wow. So are you having fun there? I'm having fun. Yeah. Great. Assuming I'm still alive. Yeah, dude. So hold on. So wait, ah what day is it? What day is it today? Today should be, it's a Friday. This is a Friday. up This is a Tuesday episode. No, this is a Friday episode.
Think Fresh: I have no idea what day it is. So right now, Ty, it should be October. No, September 30th. Maybe that it doesn't.
Think Fresh: it Maybe. Maybe. So what does that mean? That means, hold on, this is really fun for our listeners, isn't it? Yeah, you guys probably love us hearing us try to make sense of time. If it is indeed September 30th. They're just yelling right now. They're like, it's the 31st. That means I have officially linked up with you in Europe.
Think Fresh: We are hanging out right now. The 30th is the day we link up in Europe. All right. So what are we doing? Are we getting some tortellini together? i don't know. This is like kind of weird fan fiction now. Yeah. What do we what are we doing in this hypothetical thing? We're role playing. Let's get off this topic.
Think Fresh: We'll report on what we actually did when we get back, which will probably be the next episode. Most likely. I don't think we're going to record anything while we're there. Yeah, I don't think so. If we do, that's a bonus for you, the listener. But expect a bit of a break for the next couple weeks and while we tour to Italy, tour to Europe. That's right.
Think Fresh: ah Try to like inspire our palates and our minds with fresh content for this cheeky little project. That's right. ah The things we do for this podcast. We fly all the way to Italy to try the sandwiches there. Yeah, dude. All that money we made off of merch and Glenjet and Inchcoin. it all gets It's all R&D, baby.
Think Fresh: It all goes straight to Air France. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, straight into big big airlines' pockets. That's right. But, um Ty, one maybe one of the best sandwiches I've ever had in my life was in Florence.
Think Fresh: No way. Yeah. And it's, um, Oh, I remember you telling me about this, like episode, like one 20 dude. Yeah. It was in 2022. I was there. And, um, yeah, it's called El Antico Vinayo.
Think Fresh: El Antico Vinayo. And you've probably heard of it. It's like a really famous spot. There's, um, like four storefronts all on the same street. That's how big it and ah popular. Right. You got to queue up for this bad boy, right? Oh yeah. You got to pick one of the four.
Think Fresh: And as I'm assuming this location right in the heart of Fiorenze, not the one that's chilling at the train station, which I actually have been to. I think we might hit the train station one. Because the day that we pull up and then head to where you're staying is going to be a tight turnaround because we're gonna train in and then pick up our car right by the train station and then immediately head off. So I think we might actually hit that exact sandwich spot.
Think Fresh: Dude, you got to be careful with the train stations in Italy because if the train, every day they go on strike. Every single day they strike. They're on strike now, I think. Yeah, they probably are. The airports in Italy, I think, are. Yeah, time of recording, they are on strike. and We'll see if they're off by the time you have to get on that train.
Think Fresh: Yeah. I've been to Italy before where they canceled my train ride. Me too. i think it's just like a common thing. Culturally, they're like, we get there when we get there. Yeah, totally. I complained to my hotel concierge being like, dude, our fucking train tomorrow morning is canceled and it's like 10 o'clock at night.
Think Fresh: What do I do? And he's like, don't worry about it. It's okay. Everything will be fine. You get the next one. Yeah. Luckily, they have it all sorted on the train app. It just tells you, like, your train's canceled, take this one instead. Your ticket's good.
Think Fresh: Wow. They've built infrastructure around it. Dude, like here in Vancouver, like the subway train train line is like six minutes. If I walk and it's like six minutes till next train, I like lose my mind. I'm like, this is insane.
Think Fresh: as Yeah. Over there, it's like, train tomorrow or today? It does not matter. It does not matter. I have a long lunch. I have some vino and I forget about my problems.
Think Fresh: We should all live like that, I think. I think the difference is, like, there's such a mindset over here. And, like, people in Italy, they think about life as, like, they I think they think about, ah like, a way longer horizon. They're like, we've been doing this since some Roman times, baby. Like, what's another day?
Think Fresh: You know, talk that's a great point. You've only been around for a few hundred over here in North America. They're like, this train station is a thousand years old. Like, no, it's actually a really good point.
Think Fresh: um Fuck. I mean, we've got it all wrong here, Ty. Like if I'm six minutes late to work, I could get fired. Like my boss just might be like, you know what? You've had it with you. You're done. Yeah, dude. In Italy, they go.
Think Fresh: Oh, you're coming to work today? a lot Why? Why you come to work with today? why Today is nice August day. Such a nice day. You're so right, dude. Imagine being a sandwich artist being 10 minutes late for work Think about how many footlongs you could have handed to a customer at that time.
Think Fresh: You're probably going to get slapped for that. and subway like yeah That's like second down yards. That's true. Yeah. Flag on the play. Exactly. ah um Ty, there's this old Serbian joke where obviously I'll translate it for you. But yeah the whole point is like your buddy calls you.
Think Fresh: He's like, hey, Ty, what's going on today? It's like, what are you up to? He's like, nothing. I'm at work. Nice. love that. I'm at work. What do you mean? I'm not doing anything. There's nothing going on.
Think Fresh: Exactly. And that's how I like to live my life, Ty. Yeah. Couldn't do less. ah Why would you? Yeah, you're right. Or more. Wow. I've been thinking a lot about sandwiches these days, Eric.
Think Fresh: and Precisely twice a week? Yeah, precisely twice a week. um And I had this like crazy thought, you know, like you know there the Subway bread's engineered already. you know We know they're injecting hormones and plastics and other interesting things into there.
Think Fresh: Stem cells. Stems. That's where they're putting them, hey? They do all that research just to put them there. Yeah, just so it can stay fresh. Yeah, exactly. ah But then, like, why wouldn't you eat Subway?
Think Fresh: Because it's going to make you fat, right? Except for Jared. That was the inverse. The genetic anomaly. Everyone else that I know that eats there, they get bigger, not smaller. Jared actually has this rare disease where he likes to fuck kids.
Think Fresh: That made him ah get smaller after eating at Subway. Everything's backwards. Yeah. It's like whatever the Benjamin button of body weight is. The BMI button over there. Benjamin BMI.
Think Fresh: Oh, fuck. So hard to explain the anomaly, but that's why the Subway celebrated him for so long. Unfortunately for them. Anyways, they're already putting stuff in the bread.
Think Fresh: The bread makes you fat. Why don't they just put the Ozempic in the bread? Huh? Right? Like, why are we taking ingesting the Olympic separately? Just put it in the bad food.
Think Fresh: And then the bad food will be good now. I don't think you know how Ozempic works. do you I don't. Do you know how it works? I don't know anything about it. Yeah, it basically like suppresses your appetite. So imagine you take like one bite of your sandwich. You're like I'm full.
Think Fresh: That would that all that would be is good marketing for Subway. like this shit fills you up. Yeah, totally. But then people will just get the six inch. That's true. one would ever get the 12. That's true. But they're always going to come to your business.
Think Fresh: You know, like fast food would be the most filling food on the planet. and I guess so. But then like, I don't know, you're throwing away like five out of the six inches. You know, it's like not save for the planet. guess so. Dude, just bring it home. Have a bite for dinner. Have a bite for breakfast the next day.
Think Fresh: Wow. You really, you got 12 meals right there. One sandwich could take you through the entire week. Yeah. That's amazing. Well, okay. You don't have to put a full dose in. You can micro dose it. All you have to do is put enough ozempic in there to offset the carbs that you're going to intake from the sandwich.
Think Fresh: Well, are you still hungry after a footlong? Because I'm not. No, I'm not. good So I would say Subway is ozempic. It is a great appetite suppressant. As soon as I see them like use their fingers to touch my sub, I lose my appetite.
Think Fresh: So I think it actually works better than you might think already. That's a good point. It is an appetite suppressant in the sense that it just like bombards you with...
Think Fresh: overwhelming like umami yeah umami but also like you gotta be a real dog to want to eat that sandwich after seeing them make it that's like there's nothing part of the sandwich creation process that like elevates the sandwich yeah you never like umami can't wait to get a bite it's more like no no poppy no poppy you know it's like once i see the the bucket of tuna Like I, my appetite goes down a few percentages points, right. A few basis points.
Think Fresh: And then, and then I see them fucking reach into the lettuce bucket when I said tomato. And I'm like, ah, I'm leaving less hungry now. And then, They fucking take their knife and squish the thing down.
Think Fresh: Playboy. And then I'm like, fuck, why am I even here? Like the whole thing is like, you're starting off high. You're slowly, slowly losing your appetite. And then you got a sandwich in front of you and you just got to eat it, I guess.
Think Fresh: Yeah. Yeah. You know how like the, as the idiom goes of like seeing the world through rose tinted glasses is like, it's nicer. Right. Because, or and that's true. You put on your, yeah.
Think Fresh: Oakleys with the tint and the sky does look better. ah Subway's biggest problem with their ingredients is the tint. You know, some vegetables are gray and some meats are purple and some lettuce is brown.
Think Fresh: But why don't they just rose tint, just like warm tint the sneeze guard? It's like they're not doing themselves any favors by being completely translucent. Right. They could do a warmer glass.
Think Fresh: I know too much by seeing the sandwich artist. Exactly. They're showing too much of behind behind the sneeze. Totally. I mean, fast food should never have been on display. Like imagine if McDonald's did the same thing and they fucking squeeze that pink liquid into the fryer like right in front of your face. you would you would not be eating that shit.
Think Fresh: Yeah when they're ah like I I'd globbing the the the nugget goop in. That's what i mean right? Yeah yeah the nugget goop. Yeah you're like can I get some more perp in there? ah Yeah.
Think Fresh: So like some things are just better left behind the curtain. You know, I don't want to see how the sausage is made. True. Or the sandwich in this case. Exactly. So, um, dude, it's sometimes like the analogy is better than the thing that it's analogizing.
Think Fresh: Totally. You don't eat a sandwich. You're eating a metaphor. Yeah, exactly. You know, you want to eat a symbol. ah symbol Yeah, totally. Totally. So do you think, though, like circling back the that we should be like, I really think there's an idea here where like you just put the Ozempic in the food and whoever does that. I'm not going to give up on that one. No, think there's a good idea there. I think that's it ah business model for like a protein bar. Something small, isn't it?
Think Fresh: You know, like if Snickers started putting a little little bit of dietary supplement in there, you know. You're now looking at, like, that Snickers bar is going to go all day. You don't need a Big Mac. You don't need an entire meal.
Think Fresh: Because you got you got Mars Inc. is supplementing it. But I guess that's, like, the whole point of a Zempick is to eat as little as possible. So then why would you put it in food? That seems counterintuitive.
Think Fresh: Yeah. but Yeah, guess so. Like, why wouldn't you... Why can't it just be a shot like it is today? And then you don't eat anything. You you ingest zero calories, and that's even better. Because you still want to eat the stuff because it tastes good, Eric. You see? You want you want to satisfy the palate.
Think Fresh: Right. But you don't want to do any harm to the belly. I think there's actually a better strategy here where you just inject, like... know, maybe like Buckley's or something in it. So it tastes like complete shit. It tastes like shit.
Think Fresh: So it just tastes awful. And then not only do you get full from it from pure disgust, but you never want to eat it again. Yeah, a good point. You know? I mean... Could imagine eating a Buckley sandwich?
Think Fresh: that would fucking wreck sandwiches for you. And if you do that to every food group, you will be hung. Dude, we should prototype this. It could be the summer. I turn hungry, you know, like let's just try it with a few different groups and see what works.
Think Fresh: love that. Um, ah love that um I mean, it's the summer I turned full. I guess so, yeah. The summer I lost my appetite. Yeah.
Think Fresh: Okay, well, just an idea. Someone's going to take that run with it in in Big Sandwich, I'm sure. It's a million-dollar idea, Ty, and I don't think we have the means to pursue it.
Think Fresh: Unless you do. don't know. No, dude, I'm just a mouthpiece for Think think Fresh. That's right. We're in the idea degeneration business. Yeah, that's a fact. We're pre-idea over here. That's right. Pre-revenue, pre-idea, pre-customer base.
Think Fresh: Yeah. If any venture capitalists want to hire two idea guys, I know an email you can email. Venture into our DMs. That's right. Hey, I had another big idea.
Think Fresh: ah want to run by you. Do you like big ideas? Yeah, I do. It's a big sandwich. It's 12 inches. Whoa. We know that. Whoa. Don't get me too excited now. With or without the OZAMPIC ejected in it. It's a big sandwich.
Think Fresh: That's right. I think there should be... um It's not an age of consent, but like... ah You shouldn't... like At what age is it appropriate to eat the footlong?
Think Fresh: blake At a certain point in your life, Eric... you started eating the footlong and you never went back. But like probably before then you were a sixer as a kid, you know, like a, like a minority to a full bridge adult sandwich. But like, there's got to, I don't know if it should be a legalized age or if it should just be like an unspoken kind of like rule of society.
Think Fresh: Maybe it already exists. I don't have a child. I don't have the parental kind of comprehension to know but if you had to put a say a number right now what would it be that would be a crazy thing for you to like struggle with when you have your kid like yeah totally it's like when do i let them eat the 12 inches well i think about every kid like you go to a high school lunch break you walk past the subway it's filled with kids and they're all getting footlongs and it's like at a certain point every single one of these kids had a parent that said you can have a footlong now okay ty i have a question for you This is kind of like the gay son thought daughter debate. Yeah, a little bit. um But would you rather have a kid?
Think Fresh: Would you rather have to say no to your kid who is begging for 12 inches? Or would you rather have to convince your kid that they should be having a full 12 inches? Oh, I want to. I want my kid to want 12 inches. I want them to be like, I'm ready for it, dad.
Think Fresh: Come on, daddy. And you're just like, not until you're 12? twelve Yeah, yeah. Like, what the fuck do you... Like, maybe it's 12. That seems appropriate, you know? When you turn 12, you can have 12 inches. Yeah, well you can have an extra inch for your birthday. Exactly.
Think Fresh: That's pretty cool. I mean, for me, i think it all comes down to, like... when the first when your kids like checking account first gets opened you know oh yeah when you have a bank account of your own once you start buying the sub then you can buy the 12 inches i ain't buying you 12 inches bros you know that you ain't that big in in the year 2040 that's like 30 it's a really good point like by the time you and i got 12 year old kids it's gonna be a different world yeah how old can you be to open a bank account or can you just open it indefinitely you just have to have your parents kind of manage it co-sign it yeah i think so
Think Fresh: So maybe that is also a slippery slope. But those two things should happen around the same time. And I agree. Like, yeah, like you are like a third of my size. I'm not letting you eat as much sandwiches me.
Think Fresh: That doesn't make sense. You ain't ready for this. You ain't ready for this. You're still sticking up to the sixer until you're older now. I'll tell you when that is. i just don't know what it is. Do you think it's around the same time you'll let your kid have their first sip of beer?
Think Fresh: e probably like they're equally as bad for each other yeah you know i wouldn't say that one is like a worse worse evil yeah because like there's like a time there's like an age where like eventually your kid's gonna be like hey dad can i try that like what are you drinking can i just have a sip and then to their surprise you say son have a sip yeah yeah you know and then you have a sip and they have a sip and they're like oh what the fuck is that and then they don't ask again till they're like you know a few years older yeah yeah oh there's totally a sweet spot there where you want them to be old enough to be curious and kind of know what it is but young enough to be like this tastes nothing like seven up yeah totally like this isn't tropicana
Think Fresh: Yeah, there's, I don't know, I think surprisingly little time between, you what is that? And can I have seven more? Yeah, exactly. They grow up so fast. So maybe it's the same case with the footlong, where it's like, you want your kid to have the footlong just a hair before they're ready.
Think Fresh: yeah So they realize it's too much sandwich. Yeah. Or they don't mess around with it. I've never thought about this, Ty. Let's just pause quick, because there's a truck here. Yeah. And we're back. Ty, I want to ask you, how exhilarating do you think it'll be to finally have a beer with your son?
Think Fresh: Whoa. That must feel fucking electric. To look your spot in the eye and cheers them? Yeah, dude. Like, i I kind of vaguely think of this when I, like, have a beer with my dad. I'm like, this is, like, kind of awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you know.
Think Fresh: how many more do we have left? You never know. It's too bad, right? You never know what the last pint is. But then you kind of like birth your own offspring and then you just kind of create a teammate. You know, you just like, you just created someone to drink beer with. Isn't that fucking magical? It's so great. And then you get to like teach them how to split the G. I'll be so proud of my son when they split their first Split their first G. Damn, tapping in. Wow.
Think Fresh: You know, moms always love to see their kid walk and we love to see them have their first shotgun, right? Yeah, yeah, that's true. Dude, I keep listening to, you know, the like hit song of 2010, I Love College by Asher Roth.
Think Fresh: Does that ring a bell? i feel like I should know. it Yeah, it's like the course goes like, love college. I love drinking. I love women. I love college. Yeah. And you just thinks about doing cake stands and shit. It's so awesome. It's such an awesome song. that's one point in song that it stuck in my head relentlessly, which is like, they just start chanting, do something crazy, do something crazy. This is song about peer pressure. Yeah, totally, dude.
Think Fresh: Iconic. I'm going raise my kid on that song. Okay. Have you ever seen a cake stand ever? I've done a cake stand. You've done one? I've done multiple cake stands in my life, dude. I thought this was only something that happened in like movies. No, no. I'm actually the perfect specimen for a cake stand because I'm a petite male. So it's really easy for other guys to pick me up.
Think Fresh: Right. you got Because you got to have a couple of guys on the legs, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And ah like less distance for the beer to travel. Exactly. It's just a quick right up, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you got a leg management team. You got easy access.
Think Fresh: pretty fun. Walk me through it. So like, what is the whole point of it? Does it get you drunk faster? Like what is the fucking point of a keg It's just the novelty of it. I think it's pure novelty. Just drinking upside down. You know, we've run out our ideas where we're like, what if we did it upside down Yeah, I don't really get it. I think it's maybe a little harder. i haven't done one in a decade, but just to be clear. Dude.
Think Fresh: I don't know if anyone has actually, like if you've done a keg stand in the last 10 years, TM us. We want to talk to you. Yeah. Well, I've seen somebody do it before. You have never partaken? doesn't seem like your kind of thing. It's too novel. No, but it was like fascinating to watch. I was like, I didn't know if people actually did these.
Think Fresh: I guess like you do it because ah you hear about it in culture, but you actually like, there is no reason for it to exist. You know? Yeah. Real drinkers just drink. Yeah, totally. you i mean They don't need the novelty. You don't need to make it fun. It's already fun i don't know if you felt this time, but like at parties, maybe like earlier on in your...
Think Fresh: party career, you know, like house parties and things like that. Yeah. Like, did you ever find it weird that like people had to drink when they lost that games? Like, yeah, I assumed you would drink when you won, like you get to to have a sip, you know?
Think Fresh: That's true. that' seems to speech That should be the reward. it that I get to drink some of your drink, actually. Yeah, exactly. Give me what you got. Yeah, and like every time ah the loser would take a sip, I would just like drink with them. I'd be like, no one should drink co alone, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Think Fresh: You're right. It's all messed up. We need a better punishment. Yeah, it's not a punishment at all. It makes me want to not try it the game. Yeah, like let me lose. Failed race play. Whoa, that's a loud truck.
Think Fresh: And we're back. Sorry about that, Redheads. Big truck coming through. Big truck. ah Yeah, drinking should definitely not be the punishment, Eric. It should be something people already don't want to do. Like, honestly, if, like, drinking games were invented in 2025, the punishment would be you have to watch an ad.
Think Fresh: You know, a 30-second unskippable ad. Yeah, totally. Or pay the bill. Or pay the bill. Yeah, you got to settle up. yeah Get the next round. So that's my take. I think like when everyone's got the new meta glasses on, that's what's going to happen. Like this, you're not going to be able to see until you unlock.
Think Fresh: um you have You have to watch a Clash of Clans ad. And then you can like keep a playing. Oh, man.
Think Fresh: Yeah, that sounds about right. um Ty, speaking of metaglasses, you see the new Oakley ones? I heard about them. I haven't investigated at all. How do we feel? Dude, they look so sick.
Think Fresh: I tried on a pair of the older model of the Ray-Bans and Best Buy this week, and I was like, these are kind of mids, so... I'm actually happy that you didn't pull the trigger because feel like you would have filmed everything at in Italy. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And it would have been super annoying.
Think Fresh: It would have been. I love to sho shove a camera in people's faces. Oh, yeah, especially when they're throwing up in the bush. Ty, Oakley ones are super sick because it's like the running glasses, like kind of like what I'm wearing right now. Yeah. And ah the camera is like right in the middle between your eyeballs.
Think Fresh: Oh, sick. And... it's just like perfect for sports i don't know like pov sports are cool yeah oh for sure but do you if you have like a big honking nose you just like it doesn't like just it show up in it like does it follow the bridge down it's like kind of having like uh the thumb in your photo like yeah perpetually this is awesome we're gonna start seeing like youtube videos that it's like sneeze compilation that's awesome Wow.
Think Fresh: What a fun idea to stick it between the eyes. It's going to look like one of those dog GoPros where it's like following the dog as it like runs through a field. Yeah, for sure. Imagine like let' stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff.
Think Fresh: Yeah, dude. It's just finding its way to the foot long sandwich. Gobble, gobble, gobble. Yeah. That's so funny. I think they're so sick, but they're like $700. It's really steep. Yeah, I don't know, dude.
Think Fresh: This is a... Don't bite the bullet on these ones. like We're entering a new era of like face tech, right? like Google bought a significant portion of Gentle Monster. I don't know if you saw that. oh Yeah, Google like basically owns Gentle Monster now. What the fuck? That's pretty wild.
Think Fresh: And I know Apple's been making some... ah it's kind of they're dabbling in the space too so i think you're going to have more than your pick of sunglass selection coming up here not just that but like all tech i feel like has given up on what we thought was like cool and not you know like apple's gonna make the folding phone next year like everyone's kind of like all right fine we'll do the google glass thing yeah you know like we've all just kind of like you know Our principles have been thrown away. Taste has left the building. It's just like, yeah, we're just going to It's just slop now. Everyone's just slopping around.
Think Fresh: like Maybe this will make us money. Slop. Slop chat is next. Yeah, dude. All right. Well, on that note... DM me on Google Giggle.
Think Fresh: Okay. Well, arrivederci. It's time to drink the rest of Negronis, isn't it? Yeah. Get back to the vino. Ciao. Ciao.
