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Talk Sauce #97 - Chopped Cheese
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The boys are back with a new flow of podding. Great talking and great technical difficulties
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Transcript
Introduction and Excitement
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Yo, what is good, dude? What's up with the theme song? I thought I would hear it. Oh, well, no, I can play it whenever I want. So I was thinking we do some initial chitchat. Oh, okay, cool. Yeah, I like this. We have a bit of a different thing going here. We're using a new hosting platform that I think is going to up the
00:00:21
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talk sauce game. It's possible. Before we really get into the podcast, I think we need to shout out Trey Eazy, AKA Bowen Lofton, known pilot and listener of talk sauce podcast.
00:00:38
Speaker
Yeah, he shared the link, which was unbelievable support from from the community. So we appreciate that, Trey. Yeah. And it shows us that he's one of our few subscribers because he found out like that it was live and posted it before we did. Yeah.
Theme Song Troubles
00:00:56
Speaker
OK, let's let's try this theme song here. Let's let's see. Yeah, let's see how this goes. It's not like.
00:01:11
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Is it working? Oh, there it is. Is it really quiet for you? It's very quiet. Maybe we're just hearing it quiet. Maybe it's like playing louder. I think it'll fix it whenever we change it. That's kind of what I'm thinking. Anyway, that was weird. Hold on. Hold on.
00:01:38
Speaker
Now it's loud. It is louder this time. Anyway, we're here. There's the theme song for you guys. We have one of the best theme songs in the podcast game.
Podcasting Consistency Plans
00:01:51
Speaker
Yeah, I need to reach out to that guy and just send him a link to the podcast. We made 100 episodes with your theme song. Well, we've made one without it.
00:02:01
Speaker
True. Maybe a couple. I was looking for the screamo one to add, but I couldn't find it. I just need to dig through. I did it like just before. So I just need to dig through the files on my computer. Because I think it's worth throwing that one in, especially with this new software. It's easier to kind of change it up.
00:02:17
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. I still need to download the full soundboard, but we're going to try and edit everything through this. Let us know what you guys think. We might have some other surprises coming your way. I don't want to spoil too much. I sincerely have no idea what surprises Jack is alluding to. Dude, we were just talking about it.
00:02:37
Speaker
I guess it wasn't necessarily a surprise, but- Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. I want to confirm that it's a possibility before we make any promises. Yeah, I don't want to sell overperform. Yeah, we've let down the community too many times. Yeah, going three months somewhat regularly without recording. What's nice is assuming we do two today, which I think we will. Yeah, it's a Saturday. Four weeks in a row.
00:03:02
Speaker
That's huge. That's probably our best run in like a year. Probably. Yeah, I think we can keep it going, too. I've been I feel like we've we've had some good times. I feel reinvigorated with the sauce. It's like it's like going to the gym. You know, it's it's easy to get into the habit of it, but you have to do it and do it. Yeah, exactly. Because like now that it's somewhat fresh that we recorded, it was like, oh, yeah, like I have time. Let's figure out if we can also recording on the weekends kind of rules.
00:03:30
Speaker
It's the best. I wish I was still drinking because then we could do beer episodes. I was just thinking that. I was like, man, I could crack a beer right now. That'd be sick. I still might. I could get some non-alcoholic beers. Some NABs. Maybe do nabs. Maybe for part two. We'll see. Some nabs, record some sauce. Some nabs, dude. Yeah.
Credit Card Adventures
00:03:51
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Hell yeah. Jack and I have a pretty huge personal development too that happened yesterday. What was it again?
00:04:01
Speaker
We're credit card boys now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this is very important actually. Yeah, this is like why we pod. So Jack could refer me to his credit card. Yeah, so for those of you interested, the Amex Gold.
00:04:17
Speaker
The credit card points are pretty unbelievable. You get 4% on food and groceries. You get a ton of benefits. And Bo, Big Man Bo over here has been just up in his credit game lately. My credit score was shockingly high. It jumped so much out of nowhere. And it's funny because I applied for this credit card yesterday.
00:04:39
Speaker
An Amex checked my credit score. My credit score went down because someone checked my credit score. Yeah. But now it doesn't matter. But anyway, I'm getting a referral. So I looked into it. So last time I did the referral, because I think I referred Alex previously for the credit card as well.
00:04:54
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And it gave
Chopped Cheese Obsession
00:04:56
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me just like points straight up. But I'm pretty sure now what the referral is is every dollar I spend on food, I get 10 points. So for three months. So it's like 10 percent cash back up to a very specific type of for food. Yeah. Like to be fair, it's probably my number one expense. Yeah. I put on the credit card. Big food guy. You know, does that include grocery stores? I don't know. I need to double check.
00:05:23
Speaker
Yeah, because grocery stores, you get 4%. Restaurants, you get 4%. I've spent like 130 bucks since I've had the credit card at those two places. Yeah, you've already earned like $6. Yeah, that's huge, dude. $6, that's a chopped cheese.
00:05:39
Speaker
I never thought about it that way. I need to calculate how many chopped cheeses I've earned in credit card points. That's all we should use credit card points on. What if we made a credit card where that was just your whole point system was like every $100 you get a chopped cheese? What would that credit card be called?
00:06:03
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the chop cheese credit card. I feel like we need to make sure people are aware of how great of a deal this is and exactly what they're getting. Only the right kind of people would want this credit card too. It weaves out a lot of the fucking losers. Oh my God, yeah, you can't hang if you don't.
00:06:20
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if you don't like chopped cheese, which it's been too long since I've had a chopped cheese. You knock one of those bad boys down anytime recently? No, it's been a while. I was actually thinking of going to get one today at some point, actually. Every time my Instagram sends me a video of a chopped cheese, I send it to Kelly and Jack.
00:06:40
Speaker
I've never seen anything quite like Kelly and Jack discovering a chopped cheese. It broke their brains. It was like they took psychedelics and saw God.
00:06:57
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Yeah, you should go get one and then eat it live on Pod. I'm not hungry right now, but if I was, I would. It would be an unlistable Pod, not because of the eating, but because of what it does to my personality. Probably wouldn't be able to focus either. I'd just be salivating. It was the only time, like,
00:07:23
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in recent memory that I've been on the receiving end of trolling in the friend room. Usually I'm at the forefront of finding the trolly, but not this time. Yeah, Kelly and I talk about that often. It's so funny. I'll be honest, I did not handle it well. That just made it go more.
00:07:48
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Oh, yes, that's the beauty of trolling because if someone isn't taking it well, it makes you want to do it so much more and go so much harder. I don't even know how to describe what was happening either. Well, they kept saying that the chopped cheese released the dog in them and they would bark at me and they were very night at the Roxbury where they're sandwiching the person between them and dancing.
00:08:16
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But it was Kelly and Jack just like barking in my ear. We're also very drunk if I remember. I remember it was probably like two in the morning or something. That's like optimal chop cheese time. Yeah, we went to daylight savings tonight. You eat a chop cheese at two in the morning. It goes back to 2 a.m. You eat another chop cheese. What happens if you eat a chop cheese on leap day?
00:08:38
Speaker
Oh, the world might end. It's like the end of Oppenheimer, the formula where they thought they might end the world. It's just me standing by a pond looking solemnly and it's you and Kelly just destroying the world. It's a non-zero chance that the world ends.
00:09:00
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Uh, but yeah, I just remember it was like two in the morning we were in that bodega and you were like walking around like getting stuff and Kelly and I would just like go around in the opposite direction and then just like block your path. I'd be like, so ridiculous dude. It's very funny, but in the moment I could not have been more. I remember afterwards Kelly and I were like, I think we broke him.
00:09:31
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That was good times though, but yeah. We're credit card boys, so we have a dog alliance. Yeah, I would never do that to you. Now that we're credit card boys. I got you extra points on food for three months by using your referral. Actually, I would like to spend it on chopped cheese if possible. At least get two points back. You should come up to New York soon. Yeah, I would love to. Do you think our listeners know what a chopped cheese is?
00:09:56
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So I discovered a chopped cheese like a couple months after I moved to New York, I was hanging out with some friends and one of the people I was with started talking about the chopped cheese and I was like, what's a chopped cheese? And he said a chopped cheese is like a self-aware Philly cheesesteak. And I don't like that description of it.
00:10:16
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One, because I love Philly cheesesteaks and two, how are Philly cheesesteaks not self-aware? I have no idea. It didn't feel like inappropriate. It's something you thought was profound, but it wasn't. We were not sober as we were discussing this. So we were in the park and I was like, oh, I got to try this chopped cheese. So basically chopped cheese, it's like a New York bodega, which is like
00:10:45
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a deli kind of convenience store thing that is all over New York, if you didn't know. Um, and chopped cheese is, it's basically like a cheeseburger, but they like on the, on the griddle, chop everything up. So it's like the, they take ground beef, cheese, whatever, and like chop it up into like
00:11:06
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like it's so it's not like a patty but it's like all the same things as a cheeseburger but yeah it's on a bun yeah it's on uh it's on like a sandwich roll yeah it kind of does remind me of like a filly on a bun it is very similar to a filly i will give him that but the self-aware thing i think he was just saying because like
00:11:24
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The Philly cheesesteak is like so hyped up like nationally that it was like, that it was like the chopped cheese is like the humble cousin or something. That's the name of the episode. Humble cousin. I like that. Oh man. I feel like if you opened a chopped cheese shop, like in Texas, it would just take over. Yeah. Cause there are probably a lot of people from New York who at least live in like Austin now who probably would like chopped cheese. Oh my God, dude.
00:11:50
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Maybe we should, with all of our credit points, instead of buying chopped cheeses, we buy a chopped cheese like food truck or something. We don't even take people's order because we only serve one thing. Yeah, the menu just says chopped cheese. Chopped cheese. It's $11, too. It's an expensive chopped cheese. Honestly, I feel like that wouldn't be that bad in Austin from a food truck. No, honestly not. You can charge like $17 for that, probably. Because of the mystique of a food truck. Put it right by that.
00:12:19
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that pitch and put downtown.
00:12:23
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Ah, yeah, dude, dude. That'd be huge. Can you imagine going to a pitch and putt, you're working up an appetite, you leave and you get a chopped cheese? Sounds like heaven. Yeah, that's a perfect day. I couldn't pick a better day. It's what Lou Reed sung it about in the song, Perfect Day. It's really just about golfing and eating chopped cheeses. Yeah, that's- If you read between the lines of the lyrics. Yeah, it's not about rap. If you look at my rap genius, that's what it says, actually.
00:12:51
Speaker
Yeah, it says Blue Reed love chopped cheese. He gave those two things. He hid his chopped cheese addiction with heroin. Dude, in the two weeks since we've recorded, Shogun and Dune have taken over the world.
Movie Enthusiasms
00:13:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah. What a good time.
00:13:17
Speaker
Dude, Doom was so sick. Doom was awesome. I freaking loved it. It was because I think, you know, people had that complaint. Some people that the first one was like too slow or whatever. Mm hmm. What are you doing? I know. But I was just like, can't describe it. It's just moving very irregularly. But.
00:13:44
Speaker
Yeah people are complaining about the first one being slower whatever but this one was not that there's so much it happened it was crazy do the first one is. Amazing but the first one and i understand that some people are like what is i didn't realize this was like a movie set up a second movie. And then the second movie is like a four year pay off of the first movie and boy does it pay off.
00:14:08
Speaker
It was awesome. And it's cool that they basically just confirmed in the movie they're gonna make another one. I need to read Messiah. Dude, it's weird. You should read it. Let me know what you think. I definitely will. I think it's on my list of what I want to read this year. And the Shogun book is like I'm considering. It's so long. But it's 1326 pages. Yeah, apparently my dad really likes that book and then my younger brother read it too.
00:14:37
Speaker
and he had like the reading challenge or whatever, he was trying to read however many books for the year last year and he's like, I feel like Shogun should count for like five. Yeah, I just finished my first book of the year and it took me up until like earlier this week to read it and it was 300 pages.
00:14:54
Speaker
So I can't imagine what like Shogun would take me eight months to read at that pace. Yeah. I'm really trying to, because I looked at it in the past couple of years, I read like five and three books or something. And before that, I like always read at least 12. During COVID, you, me and Kelly were on a tear. Yeah. I mean, there was nothing else to do. So yeah, this year I'm on, I'm probably like a third of the way through my third book. So I'm doing. That's pretty good. That's pacing for one a month. Yes. That's the goal.
00:15:24
Speaker
So that's my goal too, which is part of why I don't want to read Shogun, which I guess like holding myself to a goal, preventing me from reading a book isn't necessarily a good thing. You know, my, my issue too, is since I'm watching the show.
00:15:39
Speaker
It'll feel less like fresh. You know what I mean? Yeah. Maybe I read Shogun like next year or something. Yeah. Well, I wonder how much the first season does of the book. It does the whole book. Oh, it does really. It's like a mini series. Just the whole book. Oh, dude. I love when shows have like a specific set of material that they're going to cover. Yeah. Instead of just like keep. Yeah.
00:16:03
Speaker
That's what I really liked about that show, Chernobyl. It was just like five episodes, and they were all freaking bangers. And then it just ended. And I'm like, why don't more shows do that? Because sometimes just shows end up getting so bad over time, and it just ruins the allure of the entire show. I'd rather a show end. And I'm like, god, I wish there was more, rather than the office and being like, fuck, I wish it ended like three. Yeah, yeah, I wish you didn't do this to us.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yeah, I totally agree. Oh, well, that's exciting. So it's. Yeah, I watched the first episode last night. I really liked it. I'll probably watch another one tonight. Dude, it's the best. I think Shogun's my favorite thing I've watched this year, including Dune. Really? Wow. I fucking love that. I love samurai shit. There are three episodes. How many are there going to be total? Ten.
00:16:54
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Samurai shit's so cool, dude. It's the best. It's like if Game of Thrones and Akira Sawa movie had a baby. That's how good this show is. It's like when Game of Thrones was good and like an old samurai movie combined and it made this awesome show. Yeah. I really liked the first episode. Yeah. Alex and I will probably watch another tonight. It gets better too.
00:17:20
Speaker
Yeah, I can imagine it did. I mean, a lot of it was just kind of like setting up setting up what's going on in the first episode is great, too. But the third episode did some like there was some awesome stuff in it. I was like, this is fucking maybe I'll be able to watch two tonight. Hell, yeah. Are you doing anything this weekend? No, dude, I have like there's probably the least I'm ever going to do in a weekend because Alex is working all weekend. Nick and Kelly are out of town.
00:17:48
Speaker
none of the people I play golf with usually can play golf. Yeah. And then my friend that I climb with is like busy too. So I wouldn't climb yesterday and I'll probably climb again tomorrow, but like just kind of chilling.
00:18:00
Speaker
Yes, I think I'm just chilling today.
Weekend Plans and Dining
00:18:02
Speaker
I had a date yesterday, which is how I started racking up sweet, sweet credit card points. It's the only reason I went on the date. I was like, baby, I'm trying to get some more. You're a total bore. No, it was good. It went well. I need that 4% on this. Dude on food.
00:18:23
Speaker
And then today, I'm just chilling because tomorrow I'm going with some friends. We're going to a bottomless steak and frites restaurant. Oh my God. That sounds sick. That sounds amazing. How much does it cost? What is frites? Like potatoes? Fries. If fries come with a steak, they're called frites. It's the rule of pretension. You can't have steak and fries. Are you fucking nuts?
00:18:48
Speaker
That pisses me off. What about steak fries? Are those called steak frites? They should change the name of a steak sandwich to make it sound fancier. Steak pond? Nah, dude. Usually I'm on your side, but dude, I love a good steak sandwich. I do too. I got a steak sandwich last weekend after I saw Dune. We went to a restaurant, made steak sandwiches.
00:19:17
Speaker
And one of the people there was like, I watched a video that said, if you order steak sandwiches, you're a schmuck and here's why. And I was like, well, color me a schmuck because I love steak sandwiches. That pisses me off. Did they give any, like, do you remember their reasoning? They said proportionally, like you're paying more for the steak than you would if you just ordered a steak and that the steak dries out because they let it sit out for when they put it on sandwiches.
00:19:46
Speaker
Dude, that pisses me off. Alex, well, she makes steak and she'll, she'll like make a steak sandwich for me. And it's always so good. I'm like, this is just, there's something about it. Like eating a steak can be so like much sometimes. It's one of my favorite foods.
00:20:05
Speaker
For like hands down, but sometimes just like the idea of just eating it in sandwich form on like sourdough bread and what's going on? You know, you can make some sourdough put some steak on that bad boy. You kidding me, dude? Yeah, I can't be by I like steak a lot
Food Debates
00:20:22
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but I think steak is one of the most overrated foods. I think steak and bacon are so overhyped. I love steak, so I don't know if it's overhyped for me personally, but I definitely agree with bacon. I think like some, I don't know if it's a meme. I think it kind of is. I feel like the media blew up bacon to a point that it doesn't deserve to be. Yeah, like when we were kids, remember it was like that bacon is good for me, kid. And like all that stuff, there was like so much hype around bacon. Wasn't there something to the one like bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon?
00:20:51
Speaker
I don't remember. Shut the fuck up about. And bacon's good, but I'm like, come on, like chill and bacon's like not the best thing in the world. Is there anything else you think that's overhyped? I'm sure there is. I definitely put steak and bacon and I do like both steak and bacon a lot, but I think a lot of the discourse around it is like that. It's like the best thing you could possibly have. And I don't know if I agree. Yeah. What's like.
00:21:21
Speaker
Do you have a certain, say your top few foods, your food group. So here, I actually have a few questions for you. I'm going to ask. So on like any given night, like basically you don't have to be in a specific mood. Do you have like a certain food? Like if you're going to a restaurant, kind of sitting down with a few friends, like, do you have a certain food that is kind of top notch for you? So you're saying going to a restaurant or just like things that I feel like I could always eat, like generally.
00:21:50
Speaker
both of those together. Like if you're going to a restaurant with some friends and you're like, you have something that you suggest or someone else's suggests that you're like basically always down for, what's it going to be for you? That's a good question. As far as things, I feel like I can always eat like it doesn't matter if I've had it recently or whatever. I feel like I could always eat a cheeseburger and I can always eat chicken wings. I feel like those two things like I don't have to be in the mood for. It's like if that like,
00:22:18
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If it just comes up, I'm like, yeah, I could eat that. I don't know.
00:22:26
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Going to a restaurant, I like going to fancier kind of restaurants and stuff, but I don't always feel like I need to, to go out to eat and enjoy it. So I don't know. That's a tough question, because what's yours? I'm curious what yours is. So for me, there's a clear two, I think, and that's Tex-Mex and Thai food. I was thinking Thai. I could always eat either of those.
00:22:54
Speaker
Yeah, I don't quite know if Tex-Mex is definitely, because Tex-Mex, especially when I have the opportunity to eat Tex-Mex, because I don't have it that much anymore, I'm always down. But growing up in Texas, it wasn't that way. Thai food is definitely up there, Chinese food, pretty much an Indian food, pretty much any Asian food is up there for me.
00:23:19
Speaker
I know probably Thai food or Chinese food would probably be too that I could always go for. Okay. That's a follow-up question. Special occasion. Big date night celebrating something. You're willing to drop some cash. What's the ideal food scenario for you? Special occasion. That's fucking tough.
00:23:42
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I like it.
00:23:55
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That place, it's kind of funny. On Angie's in the West Village is what it's called. That place was amazing. It's kind of funny. It's incredible lasagna. Yeah, it was like swirl. It was like the Fibonacci sequence. That's what it's called on the menu. Fibonacci lasagna. This pattern occurs in all life. Yes.
00:24:25
Speaker
out like so there's this Italian like this kind of upscale Italian place like right by my apartment and Alex and I went one time and for either of us I'm never like I don't really ever want Italian food like I never want to go out and like have a nice Italian meal, but that might be
00:24:41
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related to like the quality of Italian, I think around me. Whereas in New York, that's like one of the primary foods, I feel like. Well, that's the thing with Italian is like, I don't create like sit around craving Italian. I love pasta and stuff, but I'm counting the same way. But like to go. Oh, Beau froze. I'm going to pause it for a sec. So unfortunately, we had some technical difficulties there. We're going to end this one here. But yeah, we'll talk to you guys next time.