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344 — High Tea, Low T
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Sandwich lovers rejoice, because Ty & Eric are exploring niche styles like the bread sandwich, the sauce sandwich, the lettuce sandwich, cucumber sandwich, and the english breakfast sandwich. They also discuss how the tennis ball industry is a scam, why breakfast in monogamous, high-spend Subway patrons on payday, whether competitive eaters dine for free, and trading in your entrée for side dishes.
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Transcript
Hungry Hosts and Quirky Lunch Reactions
00:00:04
Speaker
Oh man, whenever I hear that, I just get chills down my spine. What about you? Oh dude, i my toes are wiggling. My heart is palpitating. It's almost like I'm digesting a foot long. I mean, we're both, we're two hungry boys, Ty, because we just had our lunch, a little late 3 PM lunch for both of us. What did you eat today? I had a soup and salad combo, double sides. Two sides, no main. No main. but
00:00:35
Speaker
Damn man, you're in a polyamorous relationship with your lunch. yeah And I'm the main character. That's the best part. If, if, if both your entrees are sides, that means you're the main. Oh shit. I like that. I was a side dish to my main dish today because I had, uh, some bread to, to, uh, fried eggs and two strips of bacon. Hmm. So you had a child's grand slam twice.
00:01:06
Speaker
I guess so. The bread was quite thick and wide, so I don't know if that would count as like a child slice, but you're probably right.
The Rule of Twos in Breakfast Pairings
00:01:16
Speaker
I guess where I'm going with this is that for some reason, breakfast always follows the rule of twos. You can't just have one egg, one slice of toast, one sausage link. There's ah there's always a pairing. It's true, because if you have three, You're just kind of like a grotesque animal. You're having, you're having three sausage links. Yeah. Like grow up, yeah yeah have a balanced breakfast. Yeah, dude. So why, but like, is it entirely the ick that prevents us from transcending past breakfast monogamy?
00:02:01
Speaker
Um, I don't know, dude. I really don't know what it is. I think there's maybe a comfort in twos. You're having like easy multiplication for, um, all the different types of food on your plate. I guess even I'm thinking about the Denny's grand slam right now. Cause I think that's kind of like the gold standard of breakfast. Do you agree with that statement? First of all, the golden gold syrup standard. My answer depends on if you still have shares. of Yes, I'm still long on Denny's and I don't think it's going anywhere but up. You're still feeling bullish still. Okay, great. Well, then in that case, I do agree that it is the gold standard. Excellent. Yeah, we need to pump and dump this thing.
Stock Market Strategies and Disappointments
00:02:48
Speaker
After that recent GameStop run, I don't know, dude, i'm I'm just going to start helping you. I think I'm going to start talking ah my piece about all the companies you're invested in.
00:02:59
Speaker
Yeah. If you have a friend that's ever once bragged about managing their own TFSA or 401k, then go check in on them right now. I think the fact that ah if someone knows what a TFSA is, then they're probably not investing in game stuff. If I'm being honest, you might be the outlier. ah tim It's crazy how you go your thought process, your your thought process, Ty was, Let's get a game stop in my TFSA. That way when I make a ton of money, I don't have to pay tax on it, but you didn't make a ton of money on it. so yeah So what now? It's called capital losses, bro. And you can carry them forward to the next tax season. So when I hit a lake in 2025, I ain't paying nothing on it. Oh, that's what I like to hear. It's a strategic one step back for a future two steps forward. Yeah, dude.
00:03:54
Speaker
It's always like your next lick could be the next pull of the slot machine or the next trading day or the next quarter. Who knows?
Economic Musings on Subway Orders
00:04:04
Speaker
Yeah. Just keep going brother. Yeah. Fiscally your 26 is going to treat me real good. Yeah. It's like, damn, uh, FY 25 already fucked up. I can't wait for FY 26. Right now my site said on the five year plan, we were looking at yeah FY 29 at this point. Damn, man. that That's a fact for sure. Well, I don't know. Payday to the breadheads. Yeah. Yeah. To the, well, we had the mid month, the mid month paycheck week, poor breadheads Thursday, yesterday. They're probably on their last dime before their EI check comes through. Yeah, dude. Exactly. It's like,
00:04:53
Speaker
Thursday the 13th, it's like ice soup. And today everyone's eating like filet mignon, you know. Damn. Everyone's getting to double meat today. We're getting bottle service tonight for real. I wonder if Subway like feels the effects of payday at their locations like on the Friday, you know, mid month when everyone gets paid. Are people getting the footlong when and they usually get the six or what are they doing? They're getting the ten dory spice. I would imagine that subway is preparing by ah putting a little extra guac in the war chest, you know, put it, put a few extra slices of cheese on the bench. You don't know who's going to double up on that. Dude, I might be the only person that thinks um we should sanction subway. I think you had to stop giving them guac and not let them put guac in the war chest, dude. I don't know. There seems to be some nefarious Brown activities happening.
00:05:53
Speaker
Yeah, dude. ah They're getting all the ugly avocados, the ones the cartels didn't even want. Oh, dude. I don't know if they begin ugly. I just think they get ugly very quickly, you know? They just turn brown right away. Yeah, dude. They they peaked in middle school super early. That's a Jared Fogle type of comment.
00:06:20
Speaker
The jury folk will be like, I only eat young avocados. Yeah. Not, not even ripe yet. Yeah. It doesn't even have a pit. Yeah. Uh, speaking of the pits and speaking of payday, uh, I read, I learned about a new type of sandwich the other day that maybe subway could put on their menu in the, uh, value picks section. It's called a bread sandwich. Oh
The Bread Sandwich Concept
00:06:45
Speaker
wow. It's so just straight bread. You take a slice of bread and ah just like any other sandwich, you got your top and your bottom piece of bread and and you butter it. And then as substance in between the slices of bread, you put an additional third slice of bread. Bread sandwich. A big Mac, sans Mac. Yeah. A big Mac that's never been to the garden. Let alone run through it. Damn.
00:07:17
Speaker
Would you try something like this? I think this would be nice. Too bad Subway doesn't have slices though. So you can't put a slice in the bread. Trying to stick a loaf of foot long bread inside another loaf of foot long bread. ah like That creeps me out for some reason. Yeah, it does. Or maybe they can just slice it in two places. Like instead of cutting it down the middle to open it up in half, just cut it like a book. you know So kind of like the same amount of bread, but you can so segregate the meats and veggies, you know, bottom shelf veggies, top shelf meat. ah Oh, so it's it's feathered. Yeah, yeah you just cut it open into two parallel lines going down the length of the sandwich.
00:08:05
Speaker
I'm imagining that it's, so you have these these sections kind of like a duotang and then you have the, you can like, you can almost slide the salami in there or the the cucumber slice. Kind of like a conjoined twin, you know, like those people who have two heads. That's that's kind of what I'm picturing. You can just slot the salami in between their two ears.
Tennis Tales and Coaching Offers
00:08:32
Speaker
Interesting. I'm imagining it more like um a man's wallet, you know, it's all of these little compartments that are just stuffed and over flown with old gift cards for like, I don't know, Mark's work where world. The manliest retail store of all time. Facts. Dude, I have a exactly sixty four dollars on a sport check gift card that I'm desperately needing to purge.
00:09:02
Speaker
And so I've loaded up my cart and turns out they're having an amazing sale right now, which is great timing. I've had it in my cupboard for like a two years or something. This is not a sponsored episode FYI. No, I'm just thinking about tennis. Tennis has been on the mind and I got to get some new balls cause Ty likes to hit them over the fence. Hell yeah, dude. It's, I'm just so strong. Dude, Ty thinks we're playing baseball and he's like another home run. Wap. Wap. I'm actually really working on my finesse. The trick for me is as long as when, when I'm responding to a hit, I don't lunge into it because if I lunge into it, there's too much power, just residual power in my body. So I can't, I, it's uncontrollable. So I, I like to, this is a, it's kind of a weird move, but step back while, while swinging forward to just control the power. I see.
00:10:00
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, coaching staff over all around the world have just breath a breath, the sigh of a disappointment. Yeah, dude, they're, they're shaking in their Nikes right now. Yeah. They're listening to this on the way to the coaching sash. Like, God damn it. We're going to get a lot of DMS from thirsty coaches looking for a new, a new client. I was offered coaching lesson. Um, um And this was after I had played because a coach was taking over the court after me. And, um, I was like, no, sir, I can't be managed. So sorry. Um, but he was sincere in that. He was like, Hey, if you ever want a coaching lesson, I got you. Wow. I don't know, man. and Like as a dude, having another dude approach you in any activity and offer you a lesson. Yeah, dude. I'm hurting for you.
00:10:57
Speaker
Thanks. Yeah, it was a shot to the ego for sure. um I did open up conversation with him first, so maybe that's what made him feel comfortable. um But yeah, on second thought, I don't know, maybe this was like a challengers-esque kind of like situation that I should just avoid entirely. Right. He doesn't want to give you a private lesson. It's a semi private lesson. If you know what I mean, it's like your polyamorous, my polyamorous lunch. Yeah. Someone's privates are getting a lesson. That's for sure.
00:11:34
Speaker
ao Yeah. mean so It's unfair though. Cause that time I was dominating. So I don't know why this guy felt the audacity to offer. me lessons. Maybe he saw potential in me or wants to get a piece of this, uh, this future success. You know, it's true by low sell high. he says he He's like, this guy can go pro you go international recruiting people from Chinatown and taking them all the way to Paris. Am I right? tax Yeah. Um, the other possibility is that he wants to learn something from you, Eric.
00:12:12
Speaker
Maybe yeah you have that magic. You're like, you're like the the magic man, you know, every, every movie, every, every outstanding, especially sci-fi film. There's always like a Jedi, you know, you're like Anakin Skywalker. You just discovered. Right. So like the gifts that I have can't be taught and he's looking for me to maybe revamp his coaching program. who He wants the secret sauce and he's not thinking of sweet onion. That's right. I mean, or he's looking for some life coaching, you know what I mean? Because I did actually kick him off the court because I was like, yo, bro, I got here first. shit ah So I had to negotiate my way onto the court and he had to wait. um And then exactly 30 minutes later, I had to give up the court to him. So you win some, you lose some, you know,
00:13:08
Speaker
who That's some big big tennis balls to be willing to kick someone off. I commend i commend you for that. Thanks. Yeah, I had to do it after he started unpacking his 100 pack of tennis balls. who brings all Dude, that happened to me yesterday. I was at the court and then I was kicked off by a guy who brought literally 100 tennis balls to like practice with his son. Dude, it's like I get that this is like an elitist sport, but you don't have to signal so hard, you know, just keep it keep it to two cans, please. Dude, you know how many tennis balls I own for three from a can and one I found. I was going to say you had six, but two launched over the fence into the river. Whatever. yeah They're sleeping with the fishes now. Mm hmm.
00:13:55
Speaker
Oh, man.
Tennis Equipment Economics
00:13:56
Speaker
um I've been on a bad streak with tennis balls lately, Ty. I've lost two in the last two sessions that I've played. Ah, so this is a He Who Smelled It Delta kind of episode. It is. Yeah, I'm projecting my ball woes with you right now. you So what's caus what's causing you to be such a loose cannon? Is it your risk? dude Well, actually, I played on Tuesday and my partner launched two balls over the fence, which were unobtainable.
00:14:33
Speaker
One landed on a major road, a major artery in Vancouver. The other one landed in, looks like some, I don't know, city kind of property that you knows when the next time someone will show up at the key, it's gone forever. um And then actually the third time was my own fault. So I lost i lost three in the last two sessions. One of them was just into the bushes. Just, just Babe Ruth that all the way into the forest. That's great. Back where once it came from, the natural resources have been returned to the earth. Right. Except it's got a half life of like 8 million years. It's a forever chemical. Uh, dude, every time you hit a tennis ball into the bushes, it eventually ends up back in your subway bread.
00:15:30
Speaker
This ends up in the tuna. Yeah, exactly. The tuna is like neon green this season. I don't know why. No, it's because of challengers. Yeah, because of challengers. Exactly. Wilson. I named this tuna Wilson for the reason.
00:15:46
Speaker
Oh, wow. Damn. Cool. Well. Can't be too safe. So anyways, long story short, I'm buying some new tennis balls from Sport Check. Yeah. I feel like I need to go pick up some new balls too. I've been riding these four for a long time. And now when I like do the drop test of the court, they just go split. it doesn't happen yeah yeah It doesn't have a nice boing to it anymore. Yeah. I mean, I've noticed that it can really affect your game, you know, like, um, the balls are not bouncing. Then you have like 20% less time to hit it, you know,
00:16:23
Speaker
You've got to move a lot faster and pair that with a poorly strung racket. And it's just everything is just the wrong type of jiggly, you know?
00:16:34
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Dude, whose more racket could have cellulite? am i My racket needs some Botox. A Botox, a detox, all the toxins. I think they they make the tennis balls ah purposely extra bouncy so that it is easier for a novice like you and I under 3.5 to hit them out into the ocean or into the bushes. they're They're trying to get, because if you lose a ball, you buy a ball. And that ensures an ongoing business model. It's racketeering, really.
00:17:13
Speaker
Oh, shit. That's clever. um Yeah, I mean, it's possible that they don't design it actually for the highest level of the sport to have a consistent experience at the French Opens and whatnot. Mm hmm. The entire tennis ball industry is hinging on threes like us to the back. Exactly. we we We support the economy so that Djokovic can you know have a platform. Mm-hmm. He's not paying for his tennis balls. They're gifted. That's right I mean, it's actually a great point because when they play professionally they use a ball for like Max two games and then it's just like all the balls are thrown away i mean It's actually very wasteful if you think about it, but kind of like Aspirational at the same time like I want to use a ball once and then just leave it at the court every time and
00:18:08
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's the same thing as like kind of similar top tier as like the Department of Defense, you know, they'll like just do it like a flyover and spend $300,000 on jet fuel. Yeah, exactly. They'll ah unload the clip on a like a drone and it's like, oh yeah, that was like $4 million. dollars so
00:18:32
Speaker
similar degree of waste, just to ensure that everything is tip top. It makes me think though, if we were at the top of our game, not podcasting, but ah eating.
Competitive Eating Perks and Subway Sponsorships
00:18:43
Speaker
Goes without saying. Do you think we could procure some free meatballs from Subway? Like if we were actually like a competitive eater, could we potentially walk into Subway and eat for free? We definitely could. Do you think Nathan pays for all those dogs that he's swallowing? Nathan, the CEO or Joey Chestnut now retired competitive either. That's okay. Wrong white name. Um, but yeah, I don't think, uh, Mr. Chestnut is, you know, tapping the Amex for like 30 hot dogs.
00:19:18
Speaker
There's no way. those Yeah, those for competitive purposes, those are obviously going to be paid for by your entry fee, whatever the ah entry fee is into a hot dog competition. Like I think to get into like a PGA, it's like 50 grand. I don't know for poker, what's up the buy-in on the competitive poker, like a couple mil. Oh, that's really interesting. I guess you're right. It costs money to enter a tournament of any kind. You got to pay your dues. and then As an individual athlete. Yeah. Yeah, it's like the person's right. So I think he's probably getting for sure the free dogs during the ah during the competition. That would really slow down your eating time if you had to tap a Visa card between each hot dog.
00:20:05
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Okay. So obviously he's not paying for the hot dogs during the competition, but what about training days? What about it's it's not leg or arm day. It's jaw days, you know, he walks into, let's say he goes into subway because there's a similar dimensionality between a glizzy and a foot long. And he, so he's like, that's how you train, right? You got to pay to train. Or do you think they're giving them for free? Like it's good press of Joey Chestnut of all people is sitting in Subway eating. Well, if you, okay, this comes down to the sponsorships again, like Nathan's is sponsoring the hot dog eating contest.
00:20:44
Speaker
Are they sponsoring the athlete as well? Cause that could be one way to get free shit. i think that's so but blend For sure. It's shadow to blind jet. Uh, I think that's a conflict of interest if they sponsor both the competition and one of the participants.
00:21:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. that's This is a good point, Ty. I didn't think of this through.
00:21:11
Speaker
so I don't know. This is this is tough. Maybe ah it just costs money to be great you know and we have to accept it. I can't believe this this is the second episode in a row that we've fallen into chestnut talk. Oh ah no. um I don't know what to say, dude. I think that's just the cost of doing business. like We have to buy these MacBooks, these microphones. this gaming chair that you're in. This podcast runs on very expensive Nvidia chips. Yeah, exactly. um Think Fresh is what makes the stock pop.
00:21:51
Speaker
This is now two stocks that we've like name dropped for you to buy so we can make money. Yeah. We're now a financial podcast. Yeah. We're pushing, uh, we should just make our own coin. Well, haven't we done that yet, Ty? Yeah, I think we should. Uh, you should all go out and purchase lettuce coin. Let us be rich. Hell yeah, dude. I mean, salami is already circular. So if we need to create a graphic, I think that would be easier. Um, salami sounds like the name of a crypto coin already. Hey, do you own any salami?
00:22:31
Speaker
ah Damn. It's, this is the problem when you name coins, something very common in the English language. You know, it's like, no one ever says, do you have any doge when they are not talking about the coin? You know? Um, so we need to come up with like something unique. Um, Nah, I like this. It's salami. It's on the salami chain. That's the network, which sounds very similar to three sausages in a row. Oh, um, i want to actually that's a good one too. Thanks. Um, I want to talk about the awful sandwich that you mentioned early on in the episode. Um,
00:23:16
Speaker
I saw a reel where someone described two sandwiches that they, as in the sandwich artist, witnessed as the most gross sandwiches that that they've ever made. And um one of them sounds like exactly like what we ordered before. Wait, we ordered? And I say we. Yeah. No. What? We ordered it, Ty. This is just an every saw sandwich, a soup sandwich. Yep. It's a veggie delay. All sauces. Oh, that's a wet one. That's exactly what we blended up. If you remember. Oh, I remember. Shout out to blend jet again, dude. That's a monsoon season sandwich right there. Yeah, dude. It's very possible that we caused the blend jet recall that which followed shortly after because that thing was overheating.
00:24:09
Speaker
Dude, do we pushed it to the limits or maybe it was faulty technology. I don't know if this is a Boeing situation or a user error.
00:24:18
Speaker
I mean, some screws were rattling loose as we tried to blend this foot long, so it's possible that it was both of our faults. ah Yeah, because those screws are in our head, dummy. No one should stick a foot long sandwich in a blender.
00:24:33
Speaker
Okay. Who are you? The ops? You're right. Sorry. I don't know why I'm gatekeeping our create creative impulses. Dude. These are our creative outlets. You can't do anything to stop it. So you saw someone make a sauce sandwich online or you just heard about it. Yeah, unfortunately. That was when you log in to the think fresh Instagram and you click on the explore tab. This is the kind never go there. yeah Try to avoid at all costs. Um, but yeah, I saw that one. And I laughed because we literally ordered it. The other one was a lettuce and mayo sandwich.
00:25:11
Speaker
What do you think of that? Oh, I could be into that. Dare I say, I even entertain the idea of making that for dinner yesterday.
Simple Sandwiches and Childhood Snacks
00:25:20
Speaker
Okay. Tell me, through tell me why, like what happened in your day that you had to make that? Well, I obviously played a lot of tennis and then I came home and I was feeling remnant, like kind of craving childhood nostalgia because I like played outside until the street lights came on and then I went home. And so I was like, what what do kids eat after a big day of playing outside? And then it came to me, a cucumber sandwich with a little skiff of mayo, right? A classic summertime snack with the crust cut off. You don't know if it's high tea or ah just like an adult who is for wishing for the younger years.
00:26:06
Speaker
It's either high tea or it's low tea, am I right? It is low tea. And as I looked in my fridge, I saw some romaine lettuce that were looking for a meal. And I thought, could romaine lettuce be good with mayonnaise and a sandwich? And then I talked myself out of it and I said, no, Ty, stick to what you remember. Don't innovate right now. It's too late at night. Yeah. Sometimes you got to stop innovating, but, um, let's, let's just dissect this a little bit because what's the difference between lettuce and cucumber?
00:26:46
Speaker
They both have crunch. They both have a like a, a wetness to the 80% water. Yeah. of them And they both have no flavor. You can even go a step further and not only cut the crust off your bread, but cut the crust off the cucumber and just make it like extra like denture friendly. o who You just can squish that with your jaw.
00:27:13
Speaker
I think they feed this at the homeless encampment in Vancouver.
00:27:20
Speaker
I think the difference here, because you asked me what's the difference and I could only give you similarities. So I'm going to tell you the actual difference and why one of these things is normalized and one of these is weird. And it's that with bread, you want a certain degree of crunch inside the between the bread. And that's why the bread sandwich is freaky. But the bread sandwich actually wouldn't be freaky if you left the outer bread soft in the inner bread toasted or inverse. Cause you're kind of looking for, now we're kind of talking. That sounds good, right? Now we're cooking, dude. Hell yeah. Like, um, you ever had like a full English where they like, like deep fry the bread? What? ah yeah Like, I don't know if it's actually deep fried. I think it's maybe pan fried, but like a really crunchy, like fully toasted bread.
00:28:11
Speaker
inside of like a soft bun. That would be fucking gnarly. That would be so good. Now we're talking. So with lettuce, it's just the crunch is too similar to bread, toasted or not. Where cucumbers got like a really good crunch, you know, it's like a bite into a pickle, literally.
00:28:34
Speaker
How do you think cucumber feels about that? It's like, well, you're just like pickles. It's like, ah bro, I invented pickles.
00:28:41
Speaker
i water saw Pickles could run. Exactly. Show some respect to the OGs, man. Yeah, for sure. for sure ah Yeah. Sorry for this progressive take. Do you think fresh disrupting the natural progression of cucumbers? It's crazy that when do you actually think about it at subway, like you go, there's the pickles are just chilling side by side, father and son duo going to work. I mean, same with the egg salad and the chicken. Whoa. side That was a little sadder. Yeah, dude. You got the whole familia. Wow. And I guess it's the same with the, the peppers, you know, you've got some raw pep or you can have some pickled pep. That's right. And why stop there, Todd, we got bacon and salami.
00:29:28
Speaker
Again, right next door. Crazy where we live in, right? It is kind of crazy. I can't believe that.
00:29:38
Speaker
You realize something new every day. yeah Today I learned. This is a different type of duality than what we opened the episode with. Yeah. No kidding. Oh man. Well, Ty, that's all I got for you today. Anything else you want to cover? No, thank you for ruining my appetite. You're welcome. Um, Brad heads, thanks for listening once again. I think a fresh, I think a fresh.