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boboballew: I got a question for you.
Jack Gardner: We're back again. I've got an answer, maybe.
boboballew: Do you think the guy who made that remembers that he made that song?
Jack Gardner: Probably not, dude. I bet he cranks out so many of those.
boboballew: i don't think so either. yeah
Jack Gardner: I was actually thinking about the song because I haven't really listened to it that much. um And when we were just recording the previous one, I was like more excited for the podcast, but I didn't have as much time to just like think about the song.
Jack Gardner: like The song is so funny.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Just the fact...
boboballew: it's It's the greatest theme song to a podcast of all time.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, because we gave we gave the guy, he was like, tell me what you want it to be about. And we're like, just about a couple dudes recapping live and it's called TalkSauce. And he's like, do not say another word to me. ah You said exactly what I need.
boboballew: It's so funny that he did it so literally like he like literally every lyric that is in that theme song was something Jack and I wrote in the description of the podcast for this guy.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Like he didn't write one original lyric.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. he did He did say TalkSauce more times than we put in the description.
boboballew: Yeah, we only said talk sauce at most twice.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. ah
Jack Gardner: Dude, it's so good. um
boboballew: It's so funny. We need to maybe next year's episode. We need to bring back the screamo version that Sanson did.
Jack Gardner: Oh, yeah.
boboballew: The screamo version ah is so good.
Jack Gardner: ScreamoSauce. Oh, yeah.
boboballew: We need to like, it's,
Jack Gardner: Let's do that next time. Remind me before and I can get it set up on here.
boboballew: it's so like, we should have like figured out a chance to do this, like post wedding, like ah a wedding recap. One would have been really fun. Like there was some stuff we should have been potting about over the last year.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, lot to discuss, but here we are, talking about nonsense.
boboballew: Yeah. Podcasting. Yeah. Yeah. So you were going to say a story or something on the last one.
Jack Gardner: Okay, yeah, so... I was, this was, it happened a couple of weeks ago and I was like just kind of figuring out all my work stuff and like I was getting over the hump and things were like really busy.
boboballew: hmm.
boboballew: Sure.
Jack Gardner: Um, but I was just getting through it and everything was kind of sorted out. And then the same day, my sink had started to have a bit of a leak. Like it was just dripping a little bit. So I turned the water off under the sink and then Alex and I had our landlord send out a guy to, to fix it. Um,
Jack Gardner: And when he came over, he, I was actually supposed to go play golf. I was like completely dressed in golf clothes. And then my friend was there. He was going to, and I was like all right, I'm go to try make tea time. This guy's got to come and fix my sink, but I should be able to make it. And when he comes, like everything's going well, initially he replaces the sink.
Jack Gardner: He hadn't cooked hooked it up to the water yet.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: And. I was like, okay, I should be able to make golf. And he's like, yeah, like everything's looking good. And then he's like, got the cold water thing on, but he's like, yeah, I can't get the hot water on.
Jack Gardner: Like, I'm i'm not sure what it is. Like something's wrong with the threading or something. He's like sitting there messing with it. And then at one point he does something and then water just starts going like, gushing, gushing out from under the sink.
boboballew: No, shit.
Jack Gardner: And he's like, turn off the water, shut off. And I was like, oh my gosh. So I like run to my garage.
boboballew: Did anything get, like, damaged?
Jack Gardner: So, I run to my garage and i like know where a, a water shutoff is and I turn it off and it doesn't do anything.
boboballew: Mm-hmm.
Jack Gardner: and he's like, no, you've got to turn off the one down the street.
boboballew: Oh, no.
Jack Gardner: And I'm like, i don't know where that is. And then he was like, okay. And then in the meantime, this guy's like holding a trash can like over it. And he's like soaked, like head to toe, like ah his clothes are like completely drinch.
Jack Gardner: Like it literally looks like this guy jumped in a pool and the water's like, he's just getting like, yeah, he's getting like, the water's coming out with some, heat too like he's getting blasted by the water it was crazy and i was like oh and i i'm like just standing there like in my golf clothes like what the hell is going on and um he eventually like does something to get it back on but then there's water like so my place is all wood floors which is like obviously bad like you don't want it to get wet and then
boboballew: He's literally that wet.
boboballew: Yeah. Yeah.
boboballew: yeah
boboballew: Right. i
Jack Gardner: there's water, like my whole kitchen and like going into my living room has like a good chunk of water. Like the floors are soaked. So then, he and I just like get out towels and we're just like drying, like everything.
Jack Gardner: And it was like, I didn't have enough towels to dry everything. And then it was still like there. And then he went and got a ah shop vac from his house or something. And then he was like vacuuming up all of the water and he like moved.
Jack Gardner: We like pushed all the furniture to like the other side of the room and he like pulled out the refrigerator and the dishwasher and stuff and was like vacuuming up all the water.
boboballew: dude.
Jack Gardner: And This whole thing took like hours and I had just gotten through like, a no, I did not.
boboballew: So I'm guessing you didn't en golf.
Jack Gardner: I, we're just going to play nine holes. This was after work. And I was still working on the stuff with the guy when my friend finished nine holes. Like it was crazy.
boboballew: ah
Jack Gardner: Um, yeah, it it took like the better part of two hours, but it was wild. And then, um, he ended up leaving his like some fans for us to just blow and like dry the, the floors and stuff.
boboballew: the floors.
Jack Gardner: Um, And then I don't know how this is related, but I think it is. We started getting ants in our house afterwards. Like there were a shit ton of ants. Like, is that a thing?
boboballew: Ansel of what would, yeah. I don't know. Probably not.
Jack Gardner: Okay. I was like, wow. right. I was like, that answers my question. I've been i've been postulating on this. um But yeah, ants start coming in. So I got some of those ant bait things. Do you know about those?
Jack Gardner: Like those little house things.
boboballew: Let me ant bait trap. Oh, sure. Yeah, no, I had an ant problem like a couple years ago, i because they take a little bit of the poison out and bring it back to the like nest or whatever, right?
Jack Gardner: and you Do you know how those work?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, isn't that crazy?
boboballew: Yeah. And then it like kills them there, which is kind of nice.
Jack Gardner: And you know that... Yeah. And what's insane about ants is like, I noticed there were a ton on the ground. They were all dying. And there were dead ants on the ground. I came back later and there weren't dead ants on the ground anymore. Apparently they pick up the dead ants and like bring them back to their...
Jack Gardner: colony too and like put them in a separate like graveyard area so that it's it's insane
boboballew: Whoa. Ants are crazy. They have like a real society and shit. and you're like
Jack Gardner: i know it's insane
boboballew: It's funny to imagine that like if there was a species relative like our size to ants like and they look down on our society and just viewed us like we do ants and like, oh man, there's a person in my house. I gotta get the person poisoned.
Jack Gardner: ah
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. um But yeah, it was it was crazy. um And then the guy so he left his fans there and I still have his fans and I'd like text him i'm like, hey, do you want your fans back?
boboballew: How long ago was this again?
Jack Gardner: And he said, this is like two weeks ago.
boboballew: Damn, it's been a minute too.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, it was pretty crazy, though. I've just like will never forget this dude just getting.
boboballew: The floors are good?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I think they're fine. Luckily, we rent.
boboballew: That's so funny he was that wet.
Jack Gardner: so It was getting absolutely blasted by water.
boboballew: Like a fucking fire hose or something.
Jack Gardner: Like, it was so... Literally. And then he was, like, he was like covering it like with his hands, and he's like, turn off the water! And I was like, oh my god.
Jack Gardner: It was so funny.
boboballew: so So ah how is the new place been?
Jack Gardner: It's awesome. I absolutely love it. It's it's the best.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, because we have um three bedrooms now, and three three full bathrooms.
boboballew: Whoa.
Jack Gardner: So...
boboballew: Three full bathrooms too?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, and we used to just have two bedrooms, one bathroom. So like the three bathrooms has been amazing.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: And then it's laid out like um the first floor just has this room, which is my office and then a bathroom and then like the living room and kitchen. And then upstairs is our room and then the guest room.
Jack Gardner: um And we just have so much space now. It's awesome. And like we have a garage and and everything. it's It's been really cool.
boboballew: Yeah, um have you it's probably much more conducive to having people stay. I imagine.
Jack Gardner: Oh, yeah. That's that's the thing is like when people stayed previously.
boboballew: Have you guys had people yet?
Jack Gardner: um Yeah, like my brother stayed here and then Alex's mom has come up and like some people have stayed. But it's we have like plenty of room now. and we We got a new couch, too, that has this like it's kind of crazy.
Jack Gardner: Like it has a chase lounge on one side, but then the rest of it will like.
boboballew: A chase lounge.
Jack Gardner: It's like that part that's like long and you can put your feet up.
boboballew: Oh, sure. It's like a sectional.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, basically. And then the, it has another part that just like pulls out and like gets even with that across the whole couch.
boboballew: ah
Jack Gardner: So that's like another bed too.
boboballew: Oh, nice.
Jack Gardner: So we have like plenty of room for people to stay and it's like, it's pretty big. It's, it's like a townhouse. So we share a wall with, um, on one side, but not on the other.
boboballew: Oh, nice.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: You have a backyard too?
Jack Gardner: It's, it's kind of, it's like a little patio. Like it I wouldn't even call it a backyard really.
boboballew: Like you couldn't put a grill out there.
Jack Gardner: It's like, No, we actually do have a pizza oven out there. um You can put a grill, but there's like there's no grass or anything really.
boboballew: ah Oh, okay.
Jack Gardner: it's just like kind of a...
boboballew: So you wouldn't like really want a grill out there anyways, but the pizza oven's nice.
Jack Gardner: Maybe, i mean, it's ah it's been out there.
boboballew: Pizza oven's dope.
Jack Gardner: i've been I've been smoking cigars out there occasionally. I've been like kind of getting into cigars.
boboballew: Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. Time comes for us all, huh? You're just like full on.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. You know, it's funny right before we did this, when i like right after i got my car washed, I went and to total wine and I bought three cigars and I was just like standing in there, like contemplating which cigars to get for like 10 minutes.
boboballew: Yeah.
boboballew: Oh, wow.
Jack Gardner: I think I landed on some good ones. so I was like, I'm going going splurge a little bit here.
boboballew: ah Do you get a big one?
Jack Gardner: I did get one like decent sized one, yeah.
boboballew: Like what? Like.
Jack Gardner: But I kind of like smaller ones.
boboballew: Because that's my problem with cigars.
Jack Gardner: Because the big ones, the big ones, it's it's too much.
boboballew: I like small ones take too long.
Jack Gardner: it's I don't need all this.
boboballew: I don't want to sit there for two and a half hours, like smoking a cigar.
Jack Gardner: And it's not so much that, like, it's the it just makes me feel kind of sick. But my...
boboballew: Oh, dude, the the last time I smoked a cigar was with Alex Kennedy, like in 2020. And like, like the next day I woke up and like my mouth tasted like cigar.
boboballew: I actually think I've had like half a cigar since then once or twice. But like, I woke up the next day, my mouth tasted like cigar. And like, I felt like I had a terrible headache.
boboballew: i was like, I don't like this.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. And it's interesting. So I like went with my dad. This is previously. um and We got some cigars at the smoke shop he goes to in Grapevine.
boboballew: Oh, I smoked a cigar with you and your dad golfing. Okay, so I've smoked.
Jack Gardner: Ah.
boboballew: Yeah, okay. I've smoked a handful since then. Maybe I've gotten better at it. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, though.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, but we got some there and I liked the ones that he got. But my my dad was like, yeah, these weren't that great. Like they kind of like had a taste in your mouth and stuff. And I was like, okay, well, I've never had like a nice cigar.
Jack Gardner: So I went and I spent like, I bought three cigars and they were like, two of them were like 16 bucks and then one was like 10. So I was, I got some like, whoa.
boboballew: Okay. I mean, that's like... I, what?
Jack Gardner: Oh, I just, I just opened a new tab on accident, but nothing.
boboballew: I would have thought this a nice cigar was more expensive than that. So that's like, honestly less than I have thought.
Jack Gardner: Now they're the it's interesting. The more expensive ones are like pretty small, but they were, they were like had such good reviews.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: And I was like, I'm just going to get, I'm going to get the,
boboballew: What is there like some sort of website where people like review cigars and stuff like.
Jack Gardner: So they have, um there's at least a total wine. i don't even know like how this where this number comes from, but they have a score out of 100, basically.
boboballew: huh. Oh.
Jack Gardner: And then I saw one of them, like this company made, like it was rated cigar of the year or something. So i was like I'm going to get some nice ones and then see if I i' like it. But I'm excited.
boboballew: I mean, I suppose it makes sense that there'd be like a sommelier for cigars.
Jack Gardner: I might smoke one this afternoon.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: You know what I mean?
Jack Gardner: People are into it, dude. But that's like with anything, because now that I've been kind of getting into it, I want to do some research and like make sure that I'm you know getting good stuff.
boboballew: If you're going to do it, do it.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, exactly.
boboballew: Yeah. Sure.
Jack Gardner: But whenever you go, it's particularly on Reddit. When I'm getting into a new hobby, you just see how deep people go into everything.
boboballew: Sure.
Jack Gardner: It's it's unbelievable.
boboballew: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. hu But that's like like what I was talking about earlier with the keyboards. The mechanical keyboard subreddit, those people are insane. like They'll have like 15 keyboards and stuff.
boboballew: Dude, yeah. I mean, you don't need more than one.
Jack Gardner: ah one for One for the office, one for at home.
boboballew: The fact that you have two is like, that's a lot of keyboard, man.
Jack Gardner: That's reasonable.
boboballew: Yeah, I guess that makes sense because you're like hybrid now. Yeah,
Jack Gardner: Yeah. Yeah.
boboballew: yeah i ah I don't know all this target cigars and stuff that was making me want nicotine really bad. Like I haven't had nicotine like four days. And now we're talking cigars.
Jack Gardner: No.
boboballew: I'm like, I'm like, do I go steal one of my roommate's cigarettes? with like and No, I go step outside, but my roommate wouldn't care if I smoked inside.
Jack Gardner: and Just smoke it inside. ah
boboballew: We have like an occasional indoor cigarette policy.
Jack Gardner: Nice.
Jack Gardner: ah Ah, as long as it's occasional.
boboballew: Yeah, occasional. Yeah, like, like very, very rare.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Like, Like one time I had a girl over I was seeing and I was like, all right, this is I'm I'm I'm checking my occasional cigarette inside.
Jack Gardner: Still look cool in front of her.
boboballew: I'm cashing it in. Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Check this out. ah Like, geez, this guy's a monster.
boboballew: yeah You want to see I'm a dirt bag.
Jack Gardner: Yeah,
boboballew: ah Those shoes kind of grows into that. ah
Jack Gardner: yeah, nice.
boboballew: Oh, man. Yeah, but every once in a while, like, just, like, to not be, like, a normal thing. I don't know. It's crazy because they're, like, the best, but they're so, like, bad.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, what's up with that? It's like the same thing with Mike and Ike's. Like, if i could if I could, I would just sit there and eat Mike and Ike's.
boboballew: Is that really, like, your candy?
Jack Gardner: No, I don't know. I just came to mind.
boboballew: Mike and Mike says it's good candy.
Jack Gardner: Yeah,
boboballew: It was my favorite candy when I was a kid.
Jack Gardner: yeah I like Mike and Ike's a lot. I like, um you know what i really like is hot tamales.
boboballew: It's like a candy I would like a couple of.
Jack Gardner: like cinnamon.
boboballew: I used to buy a box of it at the movies when I was a kid, too.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: But like the idea like eating a whole box of like Mike and I or because a big box, too, I'd be like, this is too much.
Jack Gardner: Hot tamales.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: I could do it. I could do it. How do you feel about good and plenty?
boboballew: um So when I was in Europe, I went i was walking to a grocery store and they hand someone they were giving out samples it like artisanal like Good and Plenty. like Really good black licorice covered in chocolate, covered in like a candy shell.
Jack Gardner: Like dark licorice? Whoa.
boboballew: And I was like, oh, fuck, this is really good.
Jack Gardner: whoa
boboballew: but So i'm like like I decided when I was a kid I didn't like Good and Plenty. And I up literally up until like a week and a half ago, it was like, I don't like good and plenty. And then I had that. I was like, you know what? Maybe I would like a good and plenty if I had it now.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I know that that's one of the most disliked candies is just anything that's like black licorice. I feel like some people really dislike it, but I love it. That's like my favorite stuff.
boboballew: I haven't had good and plenty probably since I was like seven or eight. So maybe I try it again now and come around on it because i really enjoyed the black licorice candy I had at the grocery store. Like I almost walked back in and bought a box of it. was like, this is really good.
Jack Gardner: Nice. um Yeah, I love that stuff. I'm a big candy guy.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: and love candy.
boboballew: What's your, like, I mean, i guess you don't go to the movies that much, but like what, what's the scenario in which you would eat candy? Are you ever just like, I'm like just you and Alex are watching a show or something.
Jack Gardner: So I don't usually buy... So Alex and I have talked about this. She's like
Jack Gardner: if in the area that she lacks self-control is like buying the candy and the area I lack self-control is like moderating the amount of candy that I consume.
boboballew: i
Jack Gardner: So what usually happens is yeah, she'll just have like a few.
boboballew: Ah, sure. So she can eat like a normal amount in one sitting. She could be like, I'll eat like a handful.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, it's crazy.
boboballew: Oh, wow.
Jack Gardner: But so I, I never buy candy, but she'll bring candy home and have a few.
boboballew: That's insane, dude.
Jack Gardner: And then I'm just like, like I just eat ah all of it.
boboballew: Oh, yeah, dude. That, yeah.
Jack Gardner: And then she'll like hide it from me because I'll eat all of her candy. But yeah,
boboballew: Of course. Yeah. I mean, that's, I'm the same way. I, if, if it's, if it's not there, i don't need it, but if it's there, it's all going down.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, it's it it doesn't stand a chance.
boboballew: isnt down Yeah.
Jack Gardner: like if ah Why does it matter when I consume the calories? Because I'm not going to buy more candy.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: You know what I mean?
boboballew: Right.
Jack Gardner: So I might as well eat like a thousand calories of candy in one sitting as opposed to spread it out across the day.
boboballew: That's kind of I feel too.
boboballew: Yeah. so so what's like a context in which like you and like, does she just like kind of have candy around in case she like gets a craving for a little bit or.
Jack Gardner: No, not usually, but she'll like go to the grocery store or something and occasionally grab some candy. What what she really likes are the Nerds gummy clusters.
boboballew: Yeah, dude. Yeah.
Jack Gardner: And those, that's not, listen, that's not something I would have bought myself originally.
boboballew: I'm all of about nerds gummy clusters, bro.
Jack Gardner: But now that she brings those in, man, she'll eat like two or three and I just pound the rest of the bag.
boboballew: Those are elite, dude.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Those are really good. I had some at the airport a couple weeks ago. it was like this is It's elite candy.
Jack Gardner: They're good, man, because because nerds are good.
boboballew: because
Jack Gardner: But then the gummy and the cluster.
boboballew: Nerds and gummy? Yeah, dude.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. the
boboballew: i i i'm all in that's if i'm getting candy that's the candy i'm getting now what about like yeah but i don't eat candy that much anymore like if i'm craving like because the only context in which i would eat candies at a movie and i go to the move like i go to the movies enough to where i'm like i don't need like the candy and stuff to like feel like i'm at the movies but uh
Jack Gardner: Oh, is it really? Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: yeah I rarely eat any candy. The one time I will is if I'm like on a road trip, like if I'm driving to Dallas, I'll usually get a little, get a little candy.
boboballew: Oh, if I'm ah if I'm in on a road trip or at the airport, I'm getting candy for sure.
Jack Gardner: m
boboballew: But I've kind of like pivoted more recently into like, like, so if I'm like, I want to like, get junk food, I'll go to the but it's like a fire truck or something.
Jack Gardner: that a cat?
Jack Gardner: Oh, okay.
boboballew: um
Jack Gardner: Sorry, go ahead.
boboballew: If I'm like craving junk food, like I'll go down to the bodega at the bottom of my building, I'll get like a pint of ice cream. Like Little Debbie's, Pop-Tarts, and like a chocolate, like a Reese's or something.
boboballew: I don't get like candy candy anymore. I've kind of pivoted more towards like shitty like pastries, like gas station pastries and ice cream.
Jack Gardner: Okay, I respect that.
boboballew: You know i mean? And chocolate too, I guess. I guess that's candy, but I consider it more chocolate than candy.
Jack Gardner: yeah Chocolate and candy. ah Chocolate's like very different than other candies. You know what i really like is Warheads. you like Warheads?
boboballew: I that's another one. i would like a couple of them, but I wouldn't want like a whole bag of warheads.
Jack Gardner: Oh, you know what I'm buying usually?
boboballew: When I was a kid, I thought they were cool, though.
Jack Gardner: i'm I'm buying sour Skittles if I'm like left left on my own to get candy.
boboballew: Oh, interesting. Interesting. I like sour Skittles.
Jack Gardner: Or anything sour. I really like sour candy.
boboballew: Do you like Zowers?
Jack Gardner: What's that?
boboballew: They're sour market nights. There's ours with a Z. Z-O-U-R-S.
Jack Gardner: Dude, I didn't know these existed.
boboballew: that I liked to them a lot when I was a kid.
Jack Gardner: Oh my God, these look amazing.
boboballew: They're really good. They're just Mike and Ix, but sour.
Jack Gardner: How did I not know about these?
boboballew: They were never as available.
Jack Gardner: Wait, that...
boboballew: like i only I didn't see them nearly as frequently.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I've never even seen these.
boboballew: But they are good.
Jack Gardner: Dude, we should do a candy podcast where we just eat candy.
boboballew: You know how bad I want to do that right now.
Jack Gardner: we We sampled. we sample We sampled the candy.
boboballew: God, are you Girl Scout cookie people?
Jack Gardner: Dude, I don't let myself buy them because it's it's the same issue where i I have no self-control eating them.
boboballew: I'm kind of the same way.
Jack Gardner: um
boboballew: I also don't feel like I see them around all the time. Like, no, I don't know where people... like i i my
Jack Gardner: I see him a fair bit. I see him a fair bit around here.
boboballew: What, like the grocery store or something?
Jack Gardner: Just like random spots. Yeah, grocery store.
boboballew: All right. So yeah if you were like, I am going to indulge. I am going to get Girl Scout cookies. Which ones would you get? The
Jack Gardner: It's the Caramel Delights. And I feel like anyone...
boboballew: Delights is that the coconut ones?
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Oh, man. All these fucking grown-ups think they're so fucking...
Jack Gardner: Dude. What are you going to say? Thin Mints? Thin Mints?
boboballew: No, all these but all these people think they have such refined palates because they like the fucking coconut samosas the best.
Jack Gardner: Dude, that one's objectively the best one.
boboballew: No, it's not.
Jack Gardner: I've liked it since I was four.
boboballew: Not even close.
Jack Gardner: Okay, what's what's your favorite then?
boboballew: The peanut butter patties.
Jack Gardner: Peanut? Dude.
boboballew: it The chocolate covered peanut butter sandwich cookies.
Jack Gardner: that's
boboballew: Are you kidding me? Easily the best.
Jack Gardner: Dude, no way.
boboballew: I don't even think it's close.
Jack Gardner: right i want to you say You're calling me... dude Are you serious right now? Caramel Delights are like objectively the best Girl Scout cookies.
boboballew: They're good. I like them. But sometimes sometimes people will be like, yeah, I like samosas the best. And they have like an air about them.
Jack Gardner: Okay, we need to we need to run a poll on the TalkSauce Instagram for favorite Girl Scout cookie.
boboballew: There's like an arrogance to it.
boboballew: There's like an arrogance to samosa people sometimes. I'm like, I get it.
Jack Gardner: Okay.
boboballew: You like coconut and caramel. Cool.
Jack Gardner: It's called samosa.
boboballew: I believe so.
Jack Gardner: Oh yeah.
boboballew: is samosa just like Indian food?
Jack Gardner: No, it's like the same thing.
boboballew: the Oh, yeah.
Jack Gardner: Those are the best, dude.
boboballew: Oh, wait. No. Yes. Samosas are the coconut ones. Okay. Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, but they're also called... Wait, was it what's Caramel Delight then?
boboballew: I'm pulling up. Yeah, I'm pulling it up now because I'm curious as well.
Jack Gardner: Oh, they changed...
boboballew: Peanut butter sandwiches, do-si-dos I would put above samosas. um
Jack Gardner: Whoa.
boboballew: Don't get me wrong, Alex. Dude, I would put like one of the lemon ones above samosas.
Jack Gardner: Dude, this is so weird. It's it's regional. The name is regional between Caramel Delights and samosas, depending on which bakery makes it, but it's the same thing.
boboballew: Oh, weird.
Jack Gardner: Hmm.
boboballew: Interesting. So this is the lineup.
Jack Gardner: That's...
boboballew: It looks like this year adventure falls indulgent. Brownie inspired cookies topped with caramel flavored cream and a hint of sea salt. That sounds pretty good. I'd eat that before samosa, I think.
boboballew: Um,
Jack Gardner: You can't even, you can't just read a description and say you would eat, that's ah that's not cool, man.
boboballew: The coconut, I like samosas, but like coconut caramel, it's never like, that's never like the one that I'm like, I want that one more than chocolate peanut butter. I just, i just won't.
Jack Gardner: peanut Dude, just go eat a Reese's, dude.
boboballew: Yeah, but it's got the cookie and it's like more expensive than Reese's. You know what i mean? um
Jack Gardner: Yeah, and you're doing some good for the the Girl Scouts of America.
boboballew: as Yeah, allegedly. I'll believe it when I see it. I would definitely eat peanut butter sandwiches, do-si-dos before. oh I see what you mean. The regional. Yeah. Caramel de delights, samosas, peanut butter sandwich, do-si-dos.
boboballew: um
Jack Gardner: don't, is Do-Si-Do the peanut butter sandwich?
boboballew: It's just like peanut butter cookie, peanut butter in the middle.
Jack Gardner: Dude, I don't even know if I've had that one.
boboballew: Oh, that's a big one in my house. All the peanut butter ones are big growing up. My roommate bought these ones and I had some of them recently. They were okay. It wasn't as good as like you want Girl Scout cookies to be.
boboballew: I put them in the freezer and did make them little better.
Jack Gardner: um no, I've had those, yeah.
boboballew: Explore mores.
Jack Gardner: Explore mores.
boboballew: It's like Rocky Road flavored.
Jack Gardner: Explore more.
boboballew: sandwich cookies with chocolate marshmallow and almond flavored cream it's pretty good it wouldn't have been my first set i'd eat i'd eat a samosa before i ate that one i yeah i do like them and don't get me wrong you know you know what the the context in which i would do like them it's give bowl vanilla ice cream crush them up in the ice cream yeah yeah thanks man um toffee tastic sounds pretty good yeah them mints get a lot of hype i agree i
Jack Gardner: Can we
Jack Gardner: can we agree that Thin Mints were overrated though?
Jack Gardner: Milk.
Jack Gardner: Whoa. Dude, that's innovative.
Jack Gardner: I feel like everyone loved Thin Mints, but they were just like okay to me. And then the Caramel Delights, man, those were just...
boboballew: Yeah, I don't get me wrong. I like the car, the samosas. This isn't like, so I'm going to go through this list right now and tell you every flavor that I've had that I would eat before I ate a samosa.
Jack Gardner: got I've got a... um As you say that, I'm pulling up a most popular Girl Scout cookies.
boboballew: Samosas are probably top three, I'd imagine. Um,
Jack Gardner: Oh, I've got it by State.
boboballew: Oh, interesting. Okay, so I'm going to give you my list first. I would eat peanut butter sandwiches before I ate samosas. I would eat um either of the lemon ones before I ate a samosa.
boboballew: I would eat peanut butter patties before I ate a samosa. I would eat a samosa before ate a Thin Mint, but it's close. um I would eat a samosa before I ate the classic shortbread, but again, it's close.
Jack Gardner: All
boboballew: I like that classic shortbread one lot too. Okay, go ahead.
Jack Gardner: right. Look at what I just sent you. The link.
boboballew: Oh, okay.
Jack Gardner: It's it's ah a graphic of the United States with Girl Scout cookies.
boboballew: Yeah, samosas, all these fucking arrogant people.
Jack Gardner: Texas.
boboballew: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: What's that one? then But the look at all these Thin Mints, dude. The West Coast. except for Except for Washington State, dude.
boboballew: what Respect. Yeah, Montana.
Jack Gardner: Respect. yeah They've got their, they've marched to the beat of their own drum up in Washington.
boboballew: Yeah.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: is
boboballew: Yeah, check it out. Montana, Wyoming, peanut butter... um alabama mississippi peanut butter yeah because it's the best one
Jack Gardner: There's, there's some good representation of the peanut butter, but it's really only, it's really only peanut butter, um, caramel delights and thin mints are like the only ones that are making any chunk. It looks like, what is that? Connecticut likes the,
Jack Gardner: The do-si-do ones?
boboballew: no connecticut likes uh peanut butter patties that is new hampshire or or maybe that's vermont it's vermont or new hampshire yeah um
Jack Gardner: Oh, New Hampshire, yeah. It's to one of the two, yeah. Yeah, Connecticut's that red one.
boboballew: Yeah, but there is like there are people, I swear to God, there are people that when they're like, yeah, I like samosas the best. I'm like, I get it. You like adult flavors. It's like, relax.
Jack Gardner: Dude, this is the one I ate when I was a little kid. I'm telling you, when I...
boboballew: i'm not I'm not accusing you of this.
Jack Gardner: And my prime girls...
boboballew: I'm not accusing you of this.
Jack Gardner: Dude, no, you are. You're coming at my people, man. it Look at this. The whole state of Texas, dude. Samosa country. This is why we had to get you to New York. And you know what happens there?
Jack Gardner: Samosas take over too, you bitch.
boboballew: Samosas? Yeah.
Jack Gardner: ah
boboballew: Every state I've lived in is samosas. Florida, Texas, Colorado.
Jack Gardner: Is that the District of Columbia right there? Peanut butter patties?
boboballew: Yeah, fuck yeah it is, dude.
Jack Gardner: I like that they... I like that that's represented on this.
boboballew: Yeah, Minnesota is Thin Mint too, damn.
Jack Gardner: Dude, this giant thin mint on, a like through California, Nevada.
boboballew: We need a wage war on Thin Mints, dude.
Jack Gardner: All right. So if you had to choose like an army of these states, like of a cookie based on the states, like which one would you choose to to wage war against other cookies?
boboballew: Peanut butter patties, and I'll tell you why.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Because peanut butter patties is like peanut butter patties is like, if you're a dense person, you like peanut butter patties the best.
Jack Gardner: Because you want Mississippi and Georgia South Carolina.
boboballew: So the body mass of our army.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, if it's hand-to-hand combat, that actually might be a good choice.
boboballew: Yeah. yeah yeah
Jack Gardner: But in terms of like population, you might just have to go Thin Mints.
boboballew: Um, Thin Mints or Samosas? Because I mean, Thin Mints, Samosas have New York and Texas. Thin Mints have California. Samosas also have Florida, which is heavily populated.
Jack Gardner: Actually, yeah, so most us probably have the largest population here.
boboballew: Colorado. I don't know where that stands population-wise. I mean, Thin Mints, you're taking Alaska and Hawaii. Probably two of the least popular.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, peanut butter patties does get the capital of the country, so that's just a strategic advantage there.
boboballew: Yeah, for sure. Just from like a land. And it's like, the peanut butter patty people are like, again, like... You're not petite if that's your favorite Girl Scout cookie.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: You know, like a lot of the a lot of these people who like them and some of those are like probably like people on fucking that weight loss drug.
Jack Gardner: Pound for pound.
boboballew: And they like have like one, you know what I mean?
Jack Gardner: Yeah. ah
boboballew: ozempic It's like people who are always picked up.
Jack Gardner: See that picture? See the picture of the Thin Mint on the left? That's like all they eat of it. They just take they take one little bite, then just to inject GLP-1 straight into their bloodstream.
boboballew: Yeah, totally. Like the little bite. It's all these fucking rich suburban white women on Ozempic, like eating half of Girl Scout cookie.
boboballew: And they're like, that's my favorite Girl Scout cookie. And they say I like them. It's the best because the others are too sweet for me. Fuck you. It's a Girl Scout cookie.
Jack Gardner: I bet they they dip it in oat milk too.
boboballew: Oh, dude, those L.A.
Jack Gardner: Oh, man.
boboballew: fucking Thin Mint cocks. Yeah.
boboballew: Samosa and peanut butter patty, I would argue.
Jack Gardner: in
boboballew: Well, I would actually argue samosa and Thin Mints are like, I would say peanut butter patty um is probably the most MAGA coated Girl Scout cookie, in my opinion.
boboballew: Is that fair?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I mean, based on the map, for sure.
boboballew: yeah
Jack Gardner: ah ah
boboballew: And like, samo well and I guess Thin Mints would be the...
Jack Gardner: ah it's like It's because it's the South and then DC, just like It's like neutral.
boboballew: Yeah. And Montana.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, centrist.
boboballew: And I guess like Thin Mints are like like the most lib-coded. Well, Samosas too. ah But samosa Samosas is like the political center.
Jack Gardner: like neutral yes centris
boboballew: Yeah. And then like Thin Mints are like... um are the most lib-coded Girl Scout cookies. This is interesting. We should like take our anthropological studies like to public.
Jack Gardner: yeah
boboballew: Make this more public.
Jack Gardner: somebody needs to Somebody needs to know about this. The Savannah Smiles too, those are pretty good.
boboballew: That sounds... The the like lemon ones?
Jack Gardner: Yeah, I remember liking those.
boboballew: Anything lemon I like.
Jack Gardner: Oh, thanks a lot, yeah.
boboballew: Thanks a lot. That's like the shortbread kind of with chocolate frosting on the bottom. That's a good one. It's weird how they kind of like cycle them out sometimes.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: Like I'm telling you though, the Rocky Road one is just fine. It was kind of like I had that one and I was like, oh, is this like what Girl Scout cookies are? i was like, this isn't like really blowing my mind in any way.
Jack Gardner: Is that, that's not on here, is it?
boboballew: No, no, that was on their website though. I think it's a new one.
boboballew: But like i know like I would buy a box of Girl Scout cookies for like a Saturday night that I'm not doing anything like four or five bucks for a box, I think.
Jack Gardner: wonder how much it costs for a Girl Scout cookie nowadays. Ah, it's gotta be more than that.
boboballew: Oh, yeah. Inflation and stuff.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: I feel like am I crazy and saying that I think Girl Scout cookies are have less of a cultural foothold than they did when we were kids?
Jack Gardner: Absolutely. But it it might just be because we're not the target demographic anymore.
boboballew: But like, i feel like they were like a part of my parents life more so than they are now.
Jack Gardner: But do you think they bought them for us?
boboballew: No, my parents love Girl Scout movies.
Jack Gardner: Maybe it's a... Do you think it's a suburban thing more than it is a city thing?
boboballew: Maybe but like, I mean, there are kids in Austin, New York, like there's certainly Girl Scouts here, you know, um but maybe it is like a suburban thing.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. Grizzled. Yeah.
boboballew: That's honestly a pretty good point. Like I wonder if someone listening who lives in a more suburban environment than New York or Austin could confirm that.
Jack Gardner: I do see the occasional Girl Scout here in Austin.
boboballew: Yeah, I mean, like I was talking to a friend in New York the other day who said he just bought Girl Scout cookies on the street. And I was like, where the fuck? Like, i would love to buy Girl Scout cookies. I like Girl Scout cookies, but I just never see them.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
Jack Gardner: Yeah. um All right. I think we wrap it up there. That was ah some...
boboballew: We kind of like went in the weeds there for a while.
Jack Gardner: some I think we just spent 20 minutes on
boboballew: Dude, did I tell you one time i was on a date like a couple of months ago and it was like a girl I wasn't like particularly like ah I just was a girl I it wasn't really feeling on the date. So I didn't really.
boboballew: ah So I didn't really like give a fuck about the date. But like we started like talking about like food. And like, and we were just talking, like basically the conversation we just had just about like other food.
Jack Gardner: Mm-hmm.
boboballew: And then at one point in time, she like looks at me and she was like, this is the longest I've ever talked about this ever.
Jack Gardner: ah
Jack Gardner: You should send her this podcast.
boboballew: Cause I didn't give a fuck about the date. I was like, I just like talking about food. I'll just like keep talking about
Jack Gardner: it I want to get her thoughts on this podcast. Cause it was like, it was like four, it was five minutes on my, um, my situation with the the plumber, five minutes on candy and then 20 minutes on Girl Scout cookies.
boboballew: Dude, I feel like that was like an interesting conversation. but
Jack Gardner: I liked it. You guys have got to let us know. Let us know what your favorite Girl Scout cookie is.
boboballew: Yeah, let us know. Because I've always said about the TalkSauce listenership is that our listenership is the greatest, like, sample that's indicative of America at large.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, absolutely.
boboballew: So, like, if we... the all I've always said...
Jack Gardner: And India.
boboballew: And India, of course. So if we can get some... Also, Indian listeners, let us know if you guys got Girl Scout cookies over there.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
boboballew: I'd be curious.
Jack Gardner: Imagine.
boboballew: um But... ah So whatever we kind of deduced from our listeners in terms of, like, what would be, like, the most popular... um Girl Scout cookie would tell for like the world at large.
Jack Gardner: Yeah, absolutely. Let us know. right, I'm to play us out here. We'll be back maybe at some point.
boboballew: Next year. Maybe if I don't have a job in a couple of months still.
Jack Gardner: Yeah.
