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Think Fresh: Bing, bing, bong.
Ty Fresh: yeah yeah yeah yeah
Think Fresh: Jesus Christ.
Ty Fresh: Oh, Eric.
Ty Fresh: That started as like a like a bit and then it became a real cough. And I'm not going lie, I'm really under the weather, Eric.
Think Fresh: Oh, no.
Ty Fresh: And that's saying a lot because the weather is down pretty bad.
Think Fresh: Yeah, you're somehow under this weather. That's crazy.
Ty Fresh: Yeah. Yeah.
Think Fresh: This weather is so horrible, dude. We've had probably, i don't know, a month or two straight of just rain, like one day of sun. If anyone wants to move to Vancouver, the most livable city on on earth, don't do it.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: I don't know how we qualify for that fucking list every year.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, it's it's because everyone's an introvert. They stay inside. They watch they watch a show. they they paint. And then they wait for the groundhog.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: But not me and you. We're out and about. We're dreary. We're sad. We're drenching. We're dripping. And we're coughing.
Think Fresh: Yeah, Ty, I have, ah as your co-host, I have a lot of concerns about your health habits, to be honest.
Ty Fresh: Thank you.
Think Fresh: Like, um I mean, we were hanging out a few times and you were, ah I don't think you were dressed for the weather that time when we were hanging out in Chinatown.
Think Fresh: You were, it was raining that day too. And you were just out there in a light spring jacket, you know, I was, I was kind of concerned. I was like, what's going on with this guy? He's going to catch a cold soon. And then here we are two weeks later, you're sniffling and sneezing on all over the podcast.
Ty Fresh: Well, that's because i heard i heard that once that you're supposed to dress for the job you want and the weather you want. So that's what I do every single day, Eric.
Think Fresh: but
Ty Fresh: And I'm going to tell you right now, I didn't catch this because of any sort of pouring rain.
Think Fresh: I don't know, man.
Ty Fresh: I'm coughing my lungs out because I was belting my heart out at the karaoke last weekend. That's why i overdid it at karaoke.
Think Fresh: That's right. That's right.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: Dude, I don't know how that night transitioned into you screaming at the karaoke machine because when I walked in, you were sitting there like a good little boy coloring. And i was a little bit concerned because I was like, wait, I think I'm way too early to this party. We got Ty sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, coloring.
Think Fresh: i i had to make sure it was you. I tapped you on the shoulder. Is this Ty?
Ty Fresh: You did catch me off guard. I screamed. Yeah, Eric and I linked and built, at i guess you it was kind of like a a podcaster's convention of sorts.
Think Fresh: Oh, fuck.
Ty Fresh: um ah And it had a variety of activities that were mostly audible. it was I was doing a visualization activity, which is a non-podcasting form of media, and it felt good to stretch.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm. Totally. People in our field usually do whiteboarding, but you are white papering because you are coloring with crayons on a giant mural.
Ty Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: Is this like a Mural Fest preview, Ty? What is going on here?
Ty Fresh: Yeah, I'm about to make my debut. Dude.
Think Fresh: i know you love Mural Fest so much.
Ty Fresh: If ThinkFresh got to do a mural at MuralFest this year, that'd be so sick. you could I could just put like a giant tomato slice on the side of a building. would look so awesome.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm. Honestly, that would be fucking amazing. But I think there's some Emily Carr graduate who's already thought of that, unfortunately.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, it's kind of funny to be like as a non art school grad trying to like, like take ah take their few jobs, you know, it's like.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm. You don't even have a degree in this shit, bro.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: ah
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: Dude, that's that's tough. um But I don't feel bad for them because they're like actively gentrifying the community. Right. By painting some kind of liberal arts degree mural on ah on a busy alleyway where people are doing fentanyl.
Think Fresh: um So why can't I do it? You know, i mean, I'm taking their shit, but they're also taking our shit.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, it's so funny that they do that because they're like, then one, two months later, they're like, oh, my rent went up. My brother in Christ is because you painted the mural.
Think Fresh: yeah Everyone thinks murals are all fun and games until they gotta pay more rent.
Ty Fresh: oop
Ty Fresh: Yeah, exactly.
Think Fresh: Ah, shit.
Ty Fresh: geez. So, yeah, Eric and I had to.
Think Fresh: But Ty, this...
Ty Fresh: Oh, sorry. Go for it.
Think Fresh: No, I was just gonna say the same thing as you probably. This this party, Ty, it was a bit of a podcaster's convention. There was phone four known podcasters in attendance. Us and two others.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, incredible.
Think Fresh: Incredible stuff.
Ty Fresh: yeah ah and
Think Fresh: Luckily, it was not talked about at all, which is good.
Ty Fresh: yeah That's the beauty of the holiday season. It just brings ah like minds together, Eric. You and to your deranged unk at dinner.
Ty Fresh: You and odd fellow podcasters at parties. Yeah.
Think Fresh: Totally. i mean, i actually appreciate how, i think this is the first year where I've been to a multiple multiple Christmas parties hosted by friends. Like, feel like as I've like gotten older, that's becoming a bigger theme.
Ty Fresh: whoa
Think Fresh: Like prior to reaching my 30s, I don't think I've went to a single Christmas party hosted by friends. It was only just, you know, mommy and daddy's house. That's it. Yeah.
Ty Fresh: right right well uh i feel like as you get older you like start to like abandon your you're like
Think Fresh: Yeah.
Ty Fresh: your family, you're kind of in that interstitial stage where like, I'm like half a decade away from starting my own family.
Think Fresh: yeah
Ty Fresh: My family's kind of disowned me at this age.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: Like I can't keep coming home and expecting us stalking under the tree for Eric, you know?
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: so it's like, no, crazy, right?
Think Fresh: Growing-ass men coming home for Christmas? What are you doing, bro? Go start a family.
Ty Fresh: yeah Go provide for somebody.
Ty Fresh: So like you kind of have this interstitial period where nobody wants you and you have to find your own chosen family.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: You have to go and that's so all the friends come together at this age.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: Totally, dude. Being a military-aged male is one of the hardest things in on earth.
Ty Fresh: With no act of war, it's super tough.
Think Fresh: Dude, it's so it's all these drones have taken our jobs. You know what mean? like The AI bots have come in and there's nothing less for us to do, dude. So we're kind of in this limbo where you're right.
Think Fresh: We're too old to go home for Christmas, too young to, don't know, pretend that you're Santa, you know? Yeah.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, just in time to Moonlight as an Amazon Prime delivery driver on Christmas Eve.
Think Fresh: but
Ty Fresh: Mm
Think Fresh: Oh, shit. Well, that was a fun party, though. What I really appreciated by what I would what I really appreciated was there was a constant stream of fried food being prepared.
Think Fresh: i don't know if you've if you indulged too much, but like so somebody brought the air fryer into the um party event space and was just kind of cooking the whole time.
Ty Fresh: hmm.
Think Fresh: So like every like 15 minutes, like another batch of like chicken nuggets or spring rolls would just come out and be piping hot.
Ty Fresh: dude
Ty Fresh: yo it's a crazy move to roll up to the party with an air fryer but like really smart just bring the air fryer and the whole freezer bring the deep freeze bring the air fryer and just get to work you're kind of like you can be grill master anywhere you know you're like crushing a beer you're working the grill you know you're serving up dogs
Think Fresh: Yeah, dude.
Think Fresh: Oh,
Think Fresh: shit. Dude, it's it's such a Gen Z or like late millennial thing to like not know how to use a grill, but have like the best air fryer recipes. You know what I'm saying?
Ty Fresh: Yeah, dude, that's because air frying is honestly, it's the vaping of barbecuing. if
Think Fresh: Dan, that's a great point. That's a great point. You're literally just augmenting the heat source. You know what I mean?
Ty Fresh: We're going to call it vaping it from now on.
Think Fresh: There's no more heat source.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, you want me to like quickly vape up some samosas for you?
Think Fresh: Totally. Wow. The electrification of our world. It's pretty amazing.
Ty Fresh: hmm.
Think Fresh: Henry Ford would be proud.
Ty Fresh: yeah Henry Ford is rolling in his grave right now.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm. I mean, Nikola Tesla, did he pave the way for the air fryer? Let's be real, you know?
Ty Fresh: Yeah. RIP Tesla, you would have loved the air fryer.
Think Fresh: ah
Think Fresh: You're telling me air fried this fucking whatever.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: yeah, dude, I also appreciate just the sheer variety of food that was coming out of that thing. We had lots of chicken nuggets, spanakopitas. um What else?
Think Fresh: Spring rolls.
Ty Fresh: Spring rolls.
Think Fresh: um
Ty Fresh: M&M's.
Think Fresh: All the finest that Costco had to offer.
Ty Fresh: Dude, I love me a little smorgasbord of little finger foods, especially when they're all piping and hot, like when they're all like burn your tongue hot.
Think Fresh: ah
Ty Fresh: It's like, get over here because that's like so often it's um the selection starts and ends at carrot sticks and dip. But as soon as you get into like hot food territory, you're really putting on a spread.
Think Fresh: Oh, dude. It's been so long since I've been to a house party with hot food.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: And it's kind of sad, you know?
Ty Fresh: Like, it's like, it'll be like cucumber sticks in a bag of Doritos.
Think Fresh: Yeah. And then everyone's like, i brought more Doritos. Fuck's
Ty Fresh: is Exactly.
Think Fresh: sakes.
Ty Fresh: I've lived that so many times.
Think Fresh: Is Cool Ranch vegetarian?
Ty Fresh: I think Cool Ranch is considered a vegetable.
Think Fresh: It's a valid question. Yeah, I agree. um But yeah, Tai, there was also a very large pot of vegetarian chili.
Think Fresh: And like just the pot of chili in a like slow cooker um combined with kind of the liminal space that we were in, it was giving like office vibes. Like, you know that episode where they cooked the batch of chili?
Ty Fresh: Oh, for sure. And thankfully, this one didn't end up on the carpet, but it ended up in my mouth a couple times.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm. Yeah, fuck. I was actually, I left the party regretting that I didn't get a chance to try the chili, but I was just so enamored by the air fryer that was just hovering on the other side of the table the whole night.
Ty Fresh: It's interesting because like, not to like go tradition versus modernity again, bring that conversation back, but like the crock pot that the chili was festering in is kind of like the unk of the air fryer in a way.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: Like they have a similar form factor. They can sit side by side on the counter. One's got slick beveled edges. The other's got this like ceramic and glass shell.
Think Fresh: yeah totally i mean it's really interesting because they're both from different eras they're from different eras but they both are looking to achieve the same goal of convenience like I remember when my family was first blessed with a slow cooker we took that thing for a whirl every day like you know you set it up before work come home and dinner's ready it's like pretty fucking incredible if you think about it
Ty Fresh: h
Ty Fresh: incredible it's actually whack when you think about it yeah you're just running the dishwasher type of thing
Think Fresh: Yeah, it's kind of like getting a robot a vacuum. It's like, it's not as good, but like the fact that you don't have to do anything is quite nice.
Ty Fresh: The slow cooker is, yeah, they're gen there's these like generationally defining appliances, you know? You and I come from the microwave generation, but these Zoomers, they get the air fryer.
Think Fresh: Mm hmm.
Ty Fresh: I don't know what Gen Alpha is getting as their like cooking utility of choice. i think maybe it's too early to call it.
Think Fresh: Yeah. Well, I think this is why and you are rejecting microwaves, but embracing air fryers. You know, it's like you have to reject the stuff that was just starting to get popular when we were teenagers.
Think Fresh: And then like once we enter unk status, we're like, yo, have you heard about this new thing called, you know, the Ninja Creamy? It's like everyone wants a Ninja Creamy for Christmas this year.
Ty Fresh: who
Ty Fresh: Yeah, now you got to put it in the nuke tube. That's how you do it now. and It uses fusion.
Think Fresh: Yeah. Nuclear energy is warming up my shawarma.
Ty Fresh: whom It's different than microwaves.
Think Fresh: Incredible. Yeah. um But yeah, why why do we hate appliances, Ty? Well, I'll answer the question first. I hate how everything kind of does the same shit, but like we're so impressed by the novelty of it being 1% different.
Think Fresh: So we just buy a whole new thing, a whole new rig to place in the kitchen. like Holy shit. like if Thank god they didn't invent a new type of dishwasher because we would have that too, you know?
Ty Fresh: h Yeah, I think they did. Have you seen like these micro dishwashers that are just for ah a quick a quick rinse?
Think Fresh: No, I haven't.
Ty Fresh: of Yeah, you just put a couple dishes in and then they're done real fast. So you can be like in and out.
Think Fresh: Oh, wow.
Ty Fresh: It's probably an actually like better it iteration on the format, but now you got two dishwashers.
Think Fresh: Okay.
Think Fresh: Yeah, I mean, the first thing I noticed when I moved into a big boy house was yeah have to like fill the dishwasher completely because I don't have, ah you know, a lot of dishes.
Think Fresh: before I like run out of space in the dishwasher. So I got like no cups left, but the dishwasher's still half empty. Oh fuck, I gotta run that shit.
Ty Fresh: ah Eric, that is... an you're're You're falling for NPC suburban logic. You don't need a full dishwasher to run it.
Ty Fresh: Just run it. Run it with one fork in it Who cares? We're in a water-rich country.
Think Fresh: I totally agree. That's right. We don't pay for water in this free land that we live in. You're right, Ty. I don't necessarily wait for it to be full, but the thing is, I just forget.
Think Fresh: You know, I remember once I opened the cupboard and there was no cups.
Ty Fresh: Hmm.
Think Fresh: That's when I remember I got do dishes. Same thing when you do laundry. You open the closet, no t-shirts. All your S-tier t-shirts are in the fucking wash.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, that is the worst.
Think Fresh: Yeah.
Ty Fresh: OK, OK, I see where you're coming from. Yeah.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: Yeah. Yeah, um
Think Fresh: So how do you deal with this, Ty? I know you react i know like not long ago you were actively against dishwashers too. So how do we come around on that?
Ty Fresh: yeah well, I have an anti application just mindset in general. No apps, and only appetizers.
Think Fresh: Getting a hold of this guy is impossible. This guy's got no apps.
Ty Fresh: So I guess I love a hand-washed shirt. I love a hand-washed dish. ah I love a hand-cooked meal. No slow cookers or air fryers in sight.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: If I could make fire by rubbing my hands together to like fry my tofu, I would.
Think Fresh: dude i think we're paying you too much here i think fresh incorporated sounds like you have somebody hand washing your shit hand making your shit and i don't know some other shit but you're all everything is just bespoke you know no appliances everyone you just got a guy for everything it sounds like
Ty Fresh: h
Ty Fresh: It's just like when the job is by hand, that hand job is so much better.
Think Fresh: God damn it. Ty, speaking of hand jobs, we had a big announcement recently.
Ty Fresh: Oh, yeah, we got to talk about this.
Think Fresh: We got we gotta to talk about this. Real hard pivot. um But the Epstein rollout has begun, Ty. We're seeing more and more photos drop. I don't know if you caught the most recent one where you know Bill Gates was flicking up with some underage pics.
Think Fresh: and Have you reviewed the footage yet or what's what's going on?
Ty Fresh: Damn. I've gone through as much content as I can. It's I love the rollout cycle. It feels like when like Kanye goes on like a tweet storm and it just like rapid fire.
Ty Fresh: but you know what? It's super smart because like what the House Democrats are doing here, Eric, is they're dropping them in like Instagram, like whatever the max Instagram carousel length is. They're dropping them in that size so that people can just like immediately get like 20 picks up and then wait a couple days, 20 more picks up.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: You don't want to double post.
Ty Fresh: It's by design. No, it's by design so that it can fill a carousel.
Think Fresh: It's actually brilliant. Like they're just optimizing it for the modern news outlet. You know, no one's watching the news where we're getting our news from academics and, you know, we're seeing it in bite sized chunks.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: um
Ty Fresh: Yeah, certainly not the failing CNN. ah It's crazy, though.
Think Fresh: definitely not
Ty Fresh: Like, um we're what we're getting is kind of like Epstein wrapped, like happy December. You're getting you're getting the summary of like the year in review, you know?
Think Fresh: Mm hmm. Yeah, you did. It's like you you bang 10 chicks this year underage.
Ty Fresh: crazy.
Think Fresh: Damn. Mm hmm.
Ty Fresh: It does kind of, the photos are so funny because they kind of offer, like, there's a very, like, contemporary aesthetic on Instagram of just, like, photo dumping, and it doesn't feel too far off from that aesthetic, you know?
Think Fresh: Mm
Ty Fresh: Like, say what you will about Jeffrey, but he caught the vibe.
Think Fresh: hmm.
Think Fresh: Dude, was Jeffrey one of the most prolific creative directors of all time?
Ty Fresh: yeah He's ahead of his time for sure.
Think Fresh: Yeah. He's like, guys, another vibes post this fall. You know, it's just a close up zoomed in photo of a palm tree. Damn. He really had the vision, you know?
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: but
Ty Fresh: You see the future first.
Think Fresh: So I looked through the footage, Ty. um I've noticed there's a few pictures of Bill Gates standing there with his lean gut, like arm around some ah some fine shit.
Ty Fresh: Yep.
Think Fresh: and And um you know there's others of like random, I'm gonna assume world leaders. you know I don't know who they are. I saw one with David Blaine in there.
Ty Fresh: Oh,
Think Fresh: um Yeah, David Blaine just doing some tricks, making the dick disappear.
Ty Fresh: oh he's doing some tricks for sure.
Think Fresh: um yeah
Ty Fresh: He's tricking.
Think Fresh: He's tricking all right. I'm trying to think what else. Yeah, there's like a girl's foot. i don't know if you saw that one. It's really like kind of dark shit, man.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, yeah
Think Fresh: i don't know. It's like pretty nasty, but Right.
Ty Fresh: A lot of like ah so much of the material is like so self-referential, you know, like all of the Lolita references. There's like all of the like I saw this whole thing about how Jeffrey Epstein made a chessboard.
Ty Fresh: Did you catch the chessboard?
Think Fresh: Chess board.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: No, I have not seen that.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, he like made a custom chessboard and he was both the king and the queen on the chessboard. And then all the pawns were like teenage girls.
Think Fresh: Whoa.
Ty Fresh: it's just like, there's just like they're building, they were building so much lore surrounding this for so long in secret. It's almost just like a, like an emerging culture develops in isolation.
Ty Fresh: And they had so much isolation there to like develop this. Like I'm going to say like rich culture surrounding their like nefarious acts. It's crazy.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: And it's just like mind blowing how deep it goes.
Think Fresh: Yeah, dude. That's what that's what ah Bill Clinton was saying, too.
Ty Fresh: Maybe that's why they call it the deep state.
Think Fresh: shit. um Yeah, dude. Pretty wild stuff. like yeah Yeah, the self-referential stuff is like kind of dark. Was bro-inspired by Yeah. you think...
Ty Fresh: I don't know.
Think Fresh: and yeah do you think um Did Drake ever go to the island, Ty? We never talked about this, but is it is it possible that bro's just into young girls, you know?
Think Fresh: Did he ever go to the island?
Ty Fresh: I don't see... I didn't see a lot of musicians on these lists. Like, I think I saw one pick of MJ there.
Think Fresh: Okay, I was going to ask about that, too. If you think that's a real or not.
Ty Fresh: Which is like... Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's not real. But, like, it makes so much sense. Like, clearly, same industry.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: Same. Yeah, dude. Game recognized game for real.
Ty Fresh: Exactly.
Think Fresh: Oh, shit. um Yeah, dude.
Ty Fresh: I don't...
Think Fresh: I mean, it's kind of.
Ty Fresh: Here's the thing is, like... Oh, sorry.
Think Fresh: Go ahead.
Ty Fresh: I was going to say, I don't think Drake needs Epstein's like systems to pull underage girls. like He could build his own systems. So I don't think he was involved.
Think Fresh: Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
Think Fresh: Yes, I think you're right. I'm trying to remember a joke I saw the other day it was like, when you're barber talking about something, like, it's like she's a nine, but on her birthday, she's 10. And then buddy, buddy's getting your shit right. So you just keep quiet, you know?
Think Fresh: God damn it.
Ty Fresh: that's amazing um yo
Think Fresh: Ty keeps going in and out of mute just to hack one out, but you don't have to die.
Ty Fresh: yeah let it spray on mike yo okay dude i feel like uh
Think Fresh: We're in different rooms, luckily.
Ty Fresh: You don't go to the barber anymore because you just kind of like set it to a two and just rub yourself down at home, right? this
Think Fresh: That's right. I buzzed myself down, Playboy.
Ty Fresh: Yeah. yeah And myself, I've permanently hired my partner to shave me down in the tub as well.
Think Fresh: but
Ty Fresh: So neither of us have been to a barber in quite a few years, like an actual barber. And I'd imagine the state of barber conversations right now is like, hard i don't think i could sit through that and again like i've gone so long without it i don't want to go back i don't because if you're sitting at a barber you're basically how it's like being like forced to listen to this podcast but you don't get to shut it off when you when it gets cringe or bad
Think Fresh: especially if he's getting your shit like looking right you know i mean like not getting interrupted when when when your barber is genuinely in flow state
Ty Fresh: yeah the only way you're gonna stop listening is if he clips an ear off
Think Fresh: oh fuck but ty you're actually wrong i have gone to a barber very recently it was actually i think a day before your wedding yeah i was in florence
Ty Fresh: Oh, no way. Oh, you went to an Italian barber. Good good on you.
Think Fresh: That's right. It was in Florence. i had to get right for my boy. um But it's the conversations at the Italian barbershop are very interesting because
Ty Fresh: Yeah, I'm sure.
Think Fresh: You know, you just, you know, you exchange a few words, like you say, you know, numero uno up top, you know, and then give me a nice skin fade and then kind of pray that they know what you mean.
Think Fresh: um But then, like, I think throughout the course of my haircut, I think four or five different Italian gentlemen walked through the door and just talked for like five minutes and then left. So...
Think Fresh: I don't think barber culture really exists over there. I think it's more like a stop and chat culture. Like I know where you work, so going to pull up on you, tell you what happened and then leave.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, I could totally see that. um I was like eating at a panini spot across from a barber in particularly Anno.
Think Fresh: Yeah.
Ty Fresh: And I was watching the guy get an old man, like just got faded by an old man. Obviously, it's only like old man. don't know where the young guys get shaved.
Ty Fresh: But ah yeah, people are just like rolling up and chatting like a lot of like old hands in the in the hood would come by and like like make a passing remark.
Think Fresh: that's right that's like this like a barbershop is a spawning point for like you looking at your best you know Like, especially when you have like, you don't have short like long hair, like short hair, like you got the nice fade going. It's like, you're just like walking out of there looking crispy. So you got all the birds kind of lined up on the opposite sidewalk, just looking at the fine young cocks coming out of there. know what I'm saying? Cuckoo!
Ty Fresh: Oh, for sure. Yeah, dude. Well, yeah, you're you're nice and slick. you're There's no loose loose hairs. You're streamlined. you're like ah You're like a wet seal coming out of there, you know, lubed up.
Think Fresh: Oh, oh, oh.
Ty Fresh: ah Well, I know you subscribe to this philosophy of getting a haircut wherever you travel to, which I think is really admirable. And I tried doing that, Eric. I've tried doing that. I think I even mentioned it was this pod.
Ty Fresh: Last time I did that was in Manhattan Beach. And I, because I was like, Eric always gets a
Think Fresh: Oh. i don't know if you told me that.
Ty Fresh: oh, Eric always gets a haircut on vacation. I should do that. So i was down in LA for the week. i was like, swung by this Italian spot. Like old Italian dude ran this spot. i'm like, this has got to be the place. Old dude, empty shop, just minding his own business.
Ty Fresh: I go in there. Guy's not in sight. Don't know where he went. I keep shouting like, anyone here? Anyone here? he eventually comes out of the bathroom. I was like pretty sure he was like jerking off in the bathroom.
Ty Fresh: I'm almost certain.
Think Fresh: Why is your right hand warm, Monly?
Ty Fresh: Yeah, but then it's like they're always so like ah abrasive when they're like, they're like, come on, sit, sit, sit, sit. I was just like, I couldn't get out of the situation. So I just sat there and let him like cut me up.
Ty Fresh: And he did like a pretty mids job of it too. But it's probably because I caught him off guard. Like, I think I made him rap early.
Ty Fresh: So he's like, I'm going to give you a bad fade.
Think Fresh: Definitely. Yeah, he definitely pinched one off for you. Damn, that sucks, man.
Ty Fresh: Yeah. Yeah.
Think Fresh: So I think you got to do your due diligence, though, when you're traveling and looking for a barbershop. Like for me personally, my tips um include scoping it out on Google Maps as, you know, carefully as you can, because you don't want to go for the place with the highest reviews.
Think Fresh: You want to go for the place with um like the best looking guys. I think that's usually a good sign. Like if the dudes there have nice hair and the place is decorated like like a like a cool guy's apartment, then that's a usually a good sign, you know?
Ty Fresh: Right, you're just trying to find the most tasteful spot.
Think Fresh: Yeah, exactly. You know, you don't need the good reviews. You don't want the extremely local spots either. Because I did that in Korea and I got probably the worst haircut of my life in Korea.
Ty Fresh: Yeah, that's fair.
Think Fresh: Because some guy like, like i don't know, the guy before me was like 100 old. And that was just me and him.
Ty Fresh: i I kind of think that's it, Eric. I think it's just like local spots are never good for barbershops. You got to find like the super gentrified place with like a very aesthetically decorated bookshelf, you know, like some cool swag as a part of their like
Think Fresh: No.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Ty Fresh: offering. like they don't say and There's like a nice comb brand and then maybe like a hat with their logo on it.
Think Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: Yes, perfect. yeah You don't want the hyper-local stuff. I think there's three kinds of like places you get your hair cut. Four if you count your bathtub. One is an extremely local place that people who are only going there if they're 100 years old and they've lived in the area for 100 years.
Think Fresh: ah There's the gay spots, which is like the chicks go there.
Ty Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: And the third one is like in the middle, you've got like just the bros. You know I mean? And that's where you want to be.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: you want to be with the bros.
Ty Fresh: The bro zone, for sure.
Think Fresh: who Now not talking about Man Cave.
Ty Fresh: The friend zone.
Think Fresh: yeah You yeah you'd never ever go Man Cave in Yaletown?
Ty Fresh: No, what's man cave? do they Do they trim just ah uppers?
Think Fresh: It's like...
Think Fresh: Just the shaft.
Ty Fresh: Or uppers and lowers?
Think Fresh: No, dude, Man Cave is like if a vape shop opened a barbershop.
Ty Fresh: Hmm.
Think Fresh: That's like what it is.
Ty Fresh: So you can vape in there. Sick.
Think Fresh: I think you can vape in there, yeah. It's kind of like um if you were to like get in a fight at celebrities, like the guy would beat you up and then you would see him at Man Cave the next day.
Think Fresh: you know
Ty Fresh: Gotcha.
Think Fresh: yeah I wouldn't recommend going there.
Ty Fresh: Interesting. I don't know. That seems like kind of like my people, dude.
Think Fresh: It's kind of fun to be like the most normal guy at like a shitty spot. And then you just kind of like stand out, but in a good way. you're Like, damn, all you guys have like nothing going on.
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: Just listening to rap music in a barbershop.
Ty Fresh: it
Ty Fresh: Sometimes if you want to be a muse, you just have to go to the wrong places, you know?
Think Fresh: yeah Yeah, you just want to be someone's muse for the day. That's how I feel when I walk into Subway, you know?
Ty Fresh: Yeah.
Think Fresh: Like the artist is like, damn, this guy's like, you know, I want to be him one day.
Ty Fresh: Follow me.
Ty Fresh: That guy's really got it together.
Think Fresh: yes
Ty Fresh: You want to be the best customer at the worst restaurant, right?
Think Fresh: but I think so too. think so too. Being the worst.
Ty Fresh: And that's kind of all... Oh, sorry.
Think Fresh: No, no, no, you please.
Ty Fresh: That's all micro-influencing is, Eric, is just being the best in the worst environment.
Think Fresh: think so too. Yeah. You're creating a contrast, you know, you know, there's no, uh, there's no light without shadow.
Ty Fresh: Mm-hmm.
Think Fresh: You know I'm saying?
Ty Fresh: Yeah. ah There's no...
Think Fresh: There's no meat without lettuce.
Ty Fresh: That was going somewhere it's very similar.
Think Fresh: ah okay cool There's no ketchup without mustard.
Think Fresh: That's right, Ty.
Ty Fresh: Well, well, well. This has been um pretty wonderful talking with you again, Eric. Do we get through like all of our topics today?
Think Fresh: Not really, but I think we can call it. We have you know big big movie coming out December 25th, Marty Supreme.
Ty Fresh: All right.
Think Fresh: I do wanna talk about that, but we should watch it and then talk about it.
Ty Fresh: That's a great idea. ah Let's try to get another episode in before Christmas because I think the breadheads deserve that. It will be a Christmas miracle.
Think Fresh: That would be just like whole lot of red, Christmas miracle.
Ty Fresh: Yeah. A whole lot of bread dropping December 25th.
Think Fresh: That's right, notifications are on. Okay, guys. Well, thanks for listening. Ty, a pleasure talking to you and we'll catch you next time.
Ty Fresh: Yeah. Think fresh, everybody. chow
Think Fresh: Ciao.
