Latest / Day Drinking With Dog / Gina @The_Happyhourhunter
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Viva Tequila Seltzer, the number one hard Seltzer in the
- 0:04Speaker 1: world and the official hard Seltzer A Day Drinking with Dog,
- 0:08Speaker 1: ditch them all, add tequila.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Welcome back Day Drinking with Dog. This is actually gonna
- 0:15Speaker 2: be a very fun show today. It's beautiful outside, the
- 0:18Speaker 2: weather's getting better, spring is in the air, and we're
- 0:21Speaker 2: actually doing a show today that is really centric around
- 0:25Speaker 2: day drinking with Dog. So, my guest, Gina Thomas, you
- 0:29Speaker 2: are the Happy Hour Hunter at Happy Hour Hunter.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Yep, at the underscore happy Hour Hunter on Instagram.
- 0:36Speaker 1: On Instagram. Check her out.
- 0:38Speaker 2: She's got way many more followers than I have, So
- 0:41Speaker 2: I'm gonna actually lean on her a little bit today.
- 0:44Speaker 1: But thanks for coming on the show leaching out.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Apparently I have these like things locked on my Instagram
- 0:50Speaker 2: that I don't know. I just can't receive messages from
- 0:53Speaker 2: people I'm not friends with.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Which sometimes is not a bad thing. But now when
- 0:57Speaker 1: you're trying to promote something, I guess right, right, Yeah, So,
- 1:02Speaker 1: so you are the Happy Hour Hunter. Let's before we
- 1:04Speaker 1: get into the event that you So you have a
- 1:06Speaker 1: week long event going on this week. We'll get into
- 1:08Speaker 1: that in a minute. We're going to have some Viva's
- 1:10Speaker 1: on the show, of course, my boys from Viva Seltzer.
- 1:12Speaker 1: She's got the Hope there, I got the Uh, which
- 1:15Speaker 1: one's this? Oh this is the elder Berry. Yeah it's good? Right?
- 1:19Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:20Speaker 1: Are you tequias cheers?
- 1:21Speaker 3: I do like tequila.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Yes, you look like a tequila drink. I don't know
- 1:26Speaker 1: what that means really, but you do. So how did
- 1:29Speaker 1: this all start where you got to?
- 1:30Speaker 2: I mean, you've probably been on Instagram a long time,
- 1:32Speaker 2: but are you You are officially like an influencer?
- 1:36Speaker 3: Now, Oh my god, I hate that word. Come, I
- 1:40Speaker 3: know it just it sounds so weird. It's very like,
- 1:42Speaker 3: oh my god, Like I call myself a content creator
- 1:45Speaker 3: because like anybody.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Who's that is a much more professional sounding. Yeah.
- 1:49Speaker 3: But yeah, So I've been on Instagram since. I've had
- 1:53Speaker 3: my personal page since like twenty ten. I remember like
- 1:56Speaker 3: being in college and starting that page, and then after COVID,
- 2:02Speaker 3: you know, I had been like blogging on my personal page,
- 2:07Speaker 3: just posting on my stories. Whenever I would go out somewhere,
- 2:09Speaker 3: I would be like, oh god, the service sucks, or like,
- 2:12Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I really love this, like need to
- 2:14Speaker 3: try it, just like on my stories on Instagram, and
- 2:17Speaker 3: then even when I wasn't posting, people would message me
- 2:21Speaker 3: at like random times and be like I want to
- 2:23Speaker 3: go to happy hour, like where should I go in
- 2:26Speaker 3: New Haven? Or like where should I go out to eat?
- 2:28Speaker 3: Or like just like ask me for advice. I'm like
- 2:31Speaker 3: where I go? And I'm like okay, and then I'm like,
- 2:34Speaker 3: maybe I should make a page for this, and then.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I start you have a reputation for being yes, yeah,
- 2:41Speaker 1: I mean for.
- 2:43Speaker 3: There's a social Oh, I'll give you all the tea.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I won't hold back.
- 2:47Speaker 3: And that's what people know me for that. Like I
- 2:49Speaker 3: don't do fake reviews because that's very common for Connecticut,
- 2:53Speaker 3: like foodies, because I'm like, even though my handle is
- 2:56Speaker 3: a happy hour Hunter, I do a lot of like
- 2:58Speaker 3: food blogging too, not just like happy hour blogging. And
- 3:02Speaker 3: I tried people try to.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Can have like like handles on Instagram for different reviews
- 3:09Speaker 1: or food reviews or.
- 3:10Speaker 3: I actually just started because I'm into like beauty and
- 3:14Speaker 3: like fashion stuff too, and I just started a page
- 3:16Speaker 3: for that. I don't have time for it. I literally
- 3:20Speaker 3: just opened the page a couple of weeks ago. It's
- 3:22Speaker 3: called Lashes and Loui's.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Lashes and Louis the fashion. I mean, I get it,
- 3:30Speaker 1: but I don't get it.
- 3:33Speaker 3: I haven't even posted anything on it yet, but I
- 3:35Speaker 3: will not that I have much time to do it.
- 3:39Speaker 3: But yeah, so what was the question? Oh?
- 3:42Speaker 1: No, So so everyone was asking you where to go?
- 3:45Speaker 1: So now you're you're basically looking to start this page
- 3:49Speaker 1: because you're like fuck it.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, I I try to put out
- 3:54Speaker 3: there what I would want to see from somebody I
- 3:56Speaker 3: don't want to see. I don't want to go through
- 3:57Speaker 3: a feed, and it's just all recommendations, like there's no
- 4:00Speaker 3: way that you went to all these restaurants and one
- 4:04Speaker 3: of them were amazing and great and everybody has to
- 4:06Speaker 3: check it out, like no, like, just be honest.
- 4:08Speaker 2: It's like when someone posts on you know you live
- 4:10Speaker 2: in Milford, Oh, what's a what's a all right, what's
- 4:13Speaker 2: a great place for happy hour? I actually would say right, no,
- 4:16Speaker 2: but like what I'm no, it does nothing to do
- 4:18Speaker 2: with it. What I mean is like you're gonna get
- 4:20Speaker 2: a hundred responses, so how does that even help you? Like, Okay,
- 4:24Speaker 2: so out of the one hundred different responses, like where
- 4:26Speaker 2: am I gonna go now, Yeah, you know, I'm gonna
- 4:28Speaker 2: take the I don't know, like it's just I think
- 4:31Speaker 2: it's like you should really like when you ask a
- 4:33Speaker 2: question like that, like really like tighten it up, like
- 4:35Speaker 2: all right, where's a great steakhouse or you know, because
- 4:38Speaker 2: happy hour to me has really been a dying breed.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Like in the early two thousands and Stonebridge Fridays were
- 4:44Speaker 2: like fucking crazy.
- 4:46Speaker 3: For happy Hour.
- 4:47Speaker 1: We had a steamship round, we had the wings, the nachos,
- 4:49Speaker 1: that drink specials and just over time, and COVID obviously
- 4:53Speaker 1: like basically fucking nailed Coffin.
- 4:56Speaker 3: Yeah, because that was like it was like right before
- 4:59Speaker 3: covid and and I think I created the page and
- 5:01Speaker 3: then COVID hit and so I couldn't do that many
- 5:03Speaker 3: posts because I couldn't really go out. And then when
- 5:05Speaker 3: everything was opening back up, a lot of places weren't
- 5:07Speaker 3: offering a lot of Happy Hour yet because they're like
- 5:09Speaker 3: we need to recoup our money, like we can't have
- 5:11Speaker 3: happy hour, like we can't give discounts. But then now
- 5:15Speaker 3: like a lot of places are kind of getting back
- 5:17Speaker 3: into it, which is good, but a lot of people
- 5:19Speaker 3: have like crazy jobs where they can't even make happy
- 5:22Speaker 3: hour times.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Right, right, so some of those people are still work
- 5:26Speaker 1: at home.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, like it's just I just feel like
- 5:30Speaker 2: it's something that we kind of lost its way.
- 5:34Speaker 1: You know. COVID obviously her restaurants in many different ways
- 5:36Speaker 1: than just happy hour. And you know, now we're seeing
- 5:40Speaker 1: you know, like the chains are all you know, they're
- 5:42Speaker 1: fucking disappearing. Yeah, the TGA Fridays and I.
- 5:45Speaker 3: Love Chili's happy hour. Their happy hour is.
- 5:52Speaker 1: No no. So can I tell quick Chili? Yes? Yes,
- 5:55Speaker 1: So my girlfriend or mom, I might have told this
- 5:57Speaker 1: on this show before and probably told like right after
- 6:00Speaker 1: I went. It was a Friday, and they really wanted
- 6:04Speaker 1: and me as well the Nashville Hot mouceurrel Sticks, which
- 6:08Speaker 1: by the way, go get them is they're fucking awesome.
- 6:11Speaker 1: And we walked in at like five o'clock and like
- 6:15Speaker 1: there was I mean, the bar is weird, it doesn't
- 6:17Speaker 1: really hold many people. So we got three seats though
- 6:20Speaker 1: they have location. Yeah yeah, and they got the high
- 6:22Speaker 1: tops and the whatever. Long story show.
- 6:26Speaker 2: I don't want to like exaggerate too much, but it
- 6:28Speaker 2: took probably six to seven minutes to get a bartender
- 6:32Speaker 2: because she was waiting tables in the dining room all
- 6:34Speaker 2: while the manager was what it was I remember it
- 6:37Speaker 2: was baseball because baseball playoffs were on. It was in October.
- 6:40Speaker 2: He was just sitting leaning against the bar as the
- 6:43Speaker 2: bar died, like now they wanted to leave. But me
- 6:47Speaker 2: being in the business for this long, I was so
- 6:49Speaker 2: entertained at how this ship was sinking and the manager
- 6:52Speaker 2: was just standing there. And finally a waitress came behind
- 6:55Speaker 2: the bar and took our order, and the like took
- 6:57Speaker 2: our drenk order. Our food came out in three minutes
- 7:01Speaker 2: and our drinks took fifteen.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Like that's happened to me too.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is.
- 7:06Speaker 3: What it is.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Every restaurant has those nights. I'm not shitting on Chili's.
- 7:09Speaker 2: But but what made up for it was those fucking
- 7:12Speaker 2: fried Moosticks.
- 7:13Speaker 1: They're fucking banging.
- 7:15Speaker 3: They're Nashville Hot chicken tendes. They are very good, like
- 7:21Speaker 3: they're not that spicy, but they have like really good flavors.
- 7:24Speaker 1: And they sauce the shit out of them. Yeah, which
- 7:26Speaker 1: I appreciate.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Like when when like my husband and I when we know,
- 7:30Speaker 3: like like we want to have a shitty meal and
- 7:32Speaker 3: we're gonna like shit our pants. We're gonna go home
- 7:35Speaker 3: right after this. We're gonna shit our fans.
- 7:38Speaker 2: That might be a first on this show four years
- 7:40Speaker 2: of doing their show. Like everyone said they're gonna go
- 7:41Speaker 2: home and ship their pants. Let's I got to write
- 7:44Speaker 2: that down the archives of d dwds, Like we're.
- 7:47Speaker 3: Gonna make no plans after our chili. I'm fine.
- 7:52Speaker 1: It's like Taco Bell.
- 7:53Speaker 2: There's certain places you go to You're like, all right,
- 7:55Speaker 2: we're just we're gonna eat here and we're gonna go home,
- 7:57Speaker 2: you know, I in.
- 7:58Speaker 3: A timely fashion. Taco Bell is like I'm drunk, I'm
- 8:02Speaker 3: going home and that's my meal. Like I don't really
- 8:06Speaker 3: ever eat Taco Bell sober. I'm not gonna lie.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Who does.
- 8:10Speaker 3: I don't know. There are dark who like sits.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Down at it, like orders and sits there and eats it.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Not me, Nope, not me.
- 8:20Speaker 2: When my girlfriend I first started dating, we were obviously
- 8:23Speaker 2: not living together, and I was all fucked up one night,
- 8:26Speaker 2: and you know, she had a she has a son,
- 8:28Speaker 2: so she's hard for her to get out and I'm like,
- 8:30Speaker 2: I got home and I text her, She's like you
- 8:32Speaker 2: want anything?
- 8:32Speaker 1: Said, yeah, can you bring me some Taco Bell, and
- 8:34Speaker 1: I'm very specific. I'm sure you are with your order.
- 8:36Speaker 1: I get the same thing every time. So I wake
- 8:40Speaker 1: up the next morning I just passed out. So she's like,
- 8:44Speaker 1: fucking texted me. I fucking went to Taco Bell. And
- 8:46Speaker 1: I live in a condo, so it's not like you're
- 8:48Speaker 1: bang out my door at the time. And she's like,
- 8:50Speaker 1: I want to talk, blah blah blah blah. You know
- 8:52Speaker 1: what my response was, you fucking didn't leave it. I
- 8:55Speaker 1: wouldn't e still just leave it at the door. That's amazing.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Come on, Taco Bell is good.
- 9:03Speaker 3: Your I've fallen asleep with Taco Bell, like laying down
- 9:07Speaker 3: like on a couch, like with Taco Bell, just like
- 9:09Speaker 3: on my stomach. And then I woke up and then
- 9:11Speaker 3: I finished eating it. Nothing that I was like, I'm hungry,
- 9:15Speaker 3: it's here. I was like, it's probably still fine.
- 9:18Speaker 2: We started to figure out why people are coming to
- 9:19Speaker 2: you where to go for having.
- 9:22Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about this week. So you
- 9:25Speaker 1: have the you you you talk about. It's in Milford
- 9:28Speaker 1: and so what's going on?
- 9:29Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Downtown Milford Business Association d MBA. Yeah,
- 9:34Speaker 3: it's a long name. I became friends with the president
- 9:39Speaker 3: because she found my page online and she owns shop LaVette.
- 9:44Speaker 3: It's like, you know where like Wanda Sugar Shack used
- 9:46Speaker 3: to be. Yeah, it's like in that boutique. So I
- 9:50Speaker 3: went there to like cover her store, and then I
- 9:53Speaker 3: found out that she was the president of the d NBA.
- 9:55Speaker 3: So that's how we kind of got connected. And she
- 9:57Speaker 3: was like, we want to do you know something and
- 10:00Speaker 3: like the colder months, something new, something fresh, like Milford
- 10:04Speaker 3: Restaurant Week was, which was told to me that like
- 10:07Speaker 3: it kind of like doesn't do that. Well, we want
- 10:09Speaker 3: to do something it's kind of fresh. So she's like,
- 10:13Speaker 3: what do you think about like a happy hour Week?
- 10:15Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, that sounds that's something I would
- 10:18Speaker 3: go to for sure, like give me like some cool
- 10:22Speaker 3: different things you know, on the menu and it just
- 10:25Speaker 3: helps kind of like boost you know, move for businesses.
- 10:29Speaker 3: So I'm like cool. And then she said, well, what
- 10:32Speaker 3: do you think about having like some kind of like
- 10:34Speaker 3: finale event, which they're calling it a happy hour ho down,
- 10:39Speaker 3: but it's basically like a happy hour crawl with participating
- 10:42Speaker 3: restaurants downtown. So you check it at stone Bridge you
- 10:47Speaker 3: get a little map and you can actually vote on
- 10:50Speaker 3: like best drink, best app, like best overall experience. So
- 10:55Speaker 3: you go do the crawl, you vote, and then at
- 10:59Speaker 3: the end it ends stone Bridge with band.
- 11:01Speaker 2: So there's uh, there's like each bar has like its
- 11:05Speaker 2: own specialty drink.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, per.
- 11:09Speaker 1: Okay, cool? Yep, you think I would know, But I've
- 11:12Speaker 1: met a stonebridg yet this week. I'm gonna go tomorrow though,
- 11:15Speaker 1: I gotta check this out.
- 11:16Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:17Speaker 1: So yeah, so you end up there and what time
- 11:20Speaker 1: does it start?
- 11:21Speaker 3: Five?
- 11:22Speaker 1: And then its and the band is eight? So whatever? Yeah, okay, cool?
- 11:25Speaker 1: Who's playing?
- 11:27Speaker 3: Good question?
- 11:28Speaker 1: Come on?
- 11:29Speaker 3: I know I'm not like this is gonna sound terrible,
- 11:33Speaker 3: Like I'm not a band person. What kind of music
- 11:35Speaker 3: do I look like? I like?
- 11:37Speaker 1: Uh? Ska, what's that?
- 11:41Speaker 3: I honestly I don't know what that is?
- 11:48Speaker 1: Like pop music?
- 11:49Speaker 3: Oh, I guess I like some pop music, but like
- 11:52Speaker 3: I really like like rap and like hip hop and
- 11:56Speaker 3: like Spanish music. I'm half Colombian, So there you go. Yeah,
- 12:04Speaker 3: you want to.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Find it for you, just go to Stonebridge's page.
- 12:10Speaker 3: We've posted so many different things about this.
- 12:12Speaker 1: I will say you you definitely are posting a lot.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Of stuffsh not in a bad way.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're all over it. Yeah, so you had yesterday?
- 12:25Speaker 1: I was watching You had a gentleman by the name
- 12:27Speaker 1: of Dame drops.
- 12:29Speaker 3: Yeah, blues in soul rock and roll.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Losing soul rock and roll. That sounds fun actually yeah, yeah,
- 12:37Speaker 1: that's good for live music. That stuff so tame.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:41Speaker 1: I don't know. I've seen him as Stormbergs before. I
- 12:45Speaker 1: just know I follow all his pages and stuff and
- 12:48Speaker 1: even following it for at least a couple of years,
- 12:51Speaker 1: if not a little longer. And I remember him from
- 12:54Speaker 1: the Burger king commercial days.
- 12:56Speaker 2: And it's funny because like his I don't know his Instagram.
- 13:03Speaker 1: His Instagram went from.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Like kind of you know, I'm here doing a quick
- 13:09Speaker 2: review to like completely opposite, like I don't know how
- 13:15Speaker 2: you describe it, but like very sexual, like dog sex, right,
- 13:19Speaker 2: Doug sex.
- 13:20Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't wait for him to watch this. Yeah.
- 13:24Speaker 1: And then and I was just kind of scroll because
- 13:27Speaker 1: I would.
- 13:28Speaker 2: I would watch his Facebook things, his video and like
- 13:32Speaker 2: what really got me turned on to him was when
- 13:33Speaker 2: he went to TGI Friday's in Orange because they were
- 13:36Speaker 2: voted the worst burger in Connecticut on YELP, and I
- 13:40Speaker 2: spent countless days there when I was younger, and I
- 13:43Speaker 2: just and I knew a million people that worked there,
- 13:44Speaker 2: and I shared it with everybody, like.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Oh, he's talking about your restaurant.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Actually I forget how he ended up reviewing it, but anyway,
- 13:51Speaker 2: So I was just scrolling on Instagram one day and
- 13:54Speaker 2: I just saw this like chick shaking her ass and
- 13:59Speaker 2: it was very ful girl. And then I'm like, okay,
- 14:02Speaker 2: and then like a couple of weeks later, I saw
- 14:04Speaker 2: it like it's something different, and I see it again.
- 14:06Speaker 1: I'm like, the fuck's going on because he's got a family,
- 14:11Speaker 1: right yep, and uh, I just I gotta read the comments.
- 14:14Speaker 2: And I read the comments and somebody kind of like
- 14:17Speaker 2: shot back at him, like yo, what the fuck's this shit?
- 14:20Speaker 1: And then he shot back, He's like, oh, yoh, this
- 14:22Speaker 1: is my thug life fucking page. You want to see
- 14:25Speaker 1: food reviews, go to this page.
- 14:26Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you that. Like that's what he says,
- 14:29Speaker 3: Like it's like family like kind of like pretty much
- 14:34Speaker 3: anybody could watch his YouTube and digest that. And then
- 14:37Speaker 3: he is just a thug on Instagram. Like there's no
- 14:41Speaker 3: other way to say it. Like literally I open up
- 14:44Speaker 3: my Instagram feed and it's like a big black, fat
- 14:48Speaker 3: guy like AI thing with like his face on it
- 14:52Speaker 3: transpots of like I kind of I'm like, why are
- 14:55Speaker 3: you doing this to me? He just doesn't care, and
- 14:59Speaker 3: that's why I so much about him. Yeah, because like
- 15:03Speaker 3: this is his like main source of income, blogging, you know,
- 15:07Speaker 3: so and for him to not care what people think,
- 15:10Speaker 3: like I respect that. Yeah, I find it inspired.
- 15:13Speaker 2: He and he one of the things that I like
- 15:17Speaker 2: when I watch him and not outside of that, like
- 15:19Speaker 2: his food stuff. Yeah, I mean he's a big boy,
- 15:21Speaker 2: big beard. So am I not as big, but I'm
- 15:24Speaker 2: pretty big, and he takes these like huge bites and
- 15:28Speaker 2: like nothing gets on him like that's a professional. Like
- 15:32Speaker 2: I'll take it like a bite of a big mact.
- 15:34Speaker 1: It's sucking all over my face.
- 15:35Speaker 2: And ship this dude is like I mean sometimes you
- 15:37Speaker 2: might go like that with a napkin, but he just
- 15:39Speaker 2: like devours this ship and nah. Actually when I love
- 15:42Speaker 2: seeing his reviews because like he does a lot of
- 15:44Speaker 2: obviously local stuff, Connecticut stuff and.
- 15:46Speaker 1: You know, bed to half the places he's been too.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Some of me like puts on like I don't I
- 15:51Speaker 2: can't figure out what the place is and then like,
- 15:54Speaker 2: which is good? Which kind of good because he suckers
- 15:56Speaker 2: you in like to watch it, so you finally figured
- 15:58Speaker 2: it out at the.
- 15:58Speaker 3: End, like by the title of the video.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't tell really where he's at, but he
- 16:02Speaker 1: just like I like how we reviews the worst reviewed stuff.
- 16:05Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool. But yeah, so you guys
- 16:07Speaker 1: were were you at Stormward yesterday or you posted it yesterday?
- 16:10Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think it was probably still on my
- 16:12Speaker 3: story because the stories were twenty four hours. We were
- 16:14Speaker 3: there on Tuesday, yep, yep. So we basically like bar
- 16:19Speaker 3: hopped a few of the participants for Happy Hour week
- 16:22Speaker 3: because I'm like, I'm not going to promote something and
- 16:23Speaker 3: then not go right. So we went to Stonebridge flip
- 16:28Speaker 3: Side Mediterranean Bistro and Dockside. We had ourselves a night.
- 16:34Speaker 1: So docs, Okay, it's for the eight so far in
- 16:37Speaker 1: one day.
- 16:37Speaker 3: Yep.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Oh, you were gonna say how you met him?
- 16:40Speaker 3: Yeah. So when I started my page, I probably had
- 16:46Speaker 3: by the time like him and I became friends on Instagram,
- 16:49Speaker 3: I had a like around one thousand followers something like that,
- 16:53Speaker 3: and I had gone to this bar and I was
- 16:59Speaker 3: just continuing to have a bad experience. So I'm like,
- 17:02Speaker 3: that's it. I'm like, they're they're they're going to get
- 17:05Speaker 3: a review. And I started talking about it when threads
- 17:09Speaker 3: dropped on Instagram. Are you familiar with threads? It's it's
- 17:14Speaker 3: like the Twitter version. Yeah, of yeah, I don't use
- 17:16Speaker 3: it anymore, Like it's just yeah, it's just too much.
- 17:19Speaker 3: But I'm like, okay, just dropped, like let me try it,
- 17:21Speaker 3: and like my the first thing I posted was like
- 17:24Speaker 3: a me giving a bad review, like yeah, I tore
- 17:28Speaker 3: them one pretty much. Yeah, And I had left them
- 17:31Speaker 3: like a yell review with like three stars, and I
- 17:34Speaker 3: gave like positives and negatives, like I gave them plenty
- 17:37Speaker 3: of chances to get it together. So I put out
- 17:40Speaker 3: this bad review and it was going like viral in
- 17:45Speaker 3: the like the Connecticut foodie scene because I gave a
- 17:48Speaker 3: place a bad review. I guess, like that's frowned upon.
- 17:53Speaker 2: So this is post covid. Yeah, yeah, so you're a
- 17:57Speaker 2: little sensitive for a while.
- 17:58Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand, but it's either way, like positive or negative.
- 18:02Speaker 3: It's still pr and people are be like, well, I
- 18:04Speaker 3: want to know, like if it's really that bad and
- 18:06Speaker 3: I'm gonna go there and check it out either way,
- 18:08Speaker 3: you know, And it was all it's not like I
- 18:12Speaker 3: fabricate anything, Like I'm one hundred percent honest. So all
- 18:17Speaker 3: these people started coming from me. I didn't even know
- 18:19Speaker 3: who they were. And then I'm like, okay. I was
- 18:22Speaker 3: like whoa. I'm like, we're back in like middle school.
- 18:26Speaker 3: I'm like getting bullied over here. I don't even know
- 18:29Speaker 3: like all these people. A girl was texting me that
- 18:33Speaker 3: I knew that I met in this space, and she
- 18:34Speaker 3: was like, what's going on? And I'm like, what are
- 18:36Speaker 3: you talking about? She's like, all these people are like
- 18:38Speaker 3: posting about you and like talking to you. I'm like, oh,
- 18:42Speaker 3: oh shit. And I was like, wait, oh now I
- 18:44Speaker 3: feel like kind of bad. I'm like, should I take
- 18:46Speaker 3: it back? I was like I said to my husband,
- 18:48Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know if I want to blog anymore,
- 18:49Speaker 3: I gotta either like double down or like stop. And
- 18:54Speaker 3: I was like I'm gonna double down y. So then
- 18:58Speaker 3: I posted a reel just like a talking head saying
- 19:02Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna do fake reviews, Like all of
- 19:07Speaker 3: the reviews on my page are gonna bee hundred percent honest,
- 19:09Speaker 3: not every place is a good is a good experience,
- 19:12Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna be honest about it. And then
- 19:15Speaker 3: Dame sent me a message and he was like, I
- 19:18Speaker 3: built my business off of doing real reviews. He's like,
- 19:22Speaker 3: don't don't listen till what anybody says, like you keep
- 19:26Speaker 3: doing you stay authentic, and I was like thank you
- 19:29Speaker 3: so much. So then like we became friends. We would
- 19:31Speaker 3: like reply to each other stuff. And then I said
- 19:36Speaker 3: to him, I'll never forget this. I might have even
- 19:38Speaker 3: taken his screenshot of it because I was like a
- 19:41Speaker 3: little starstruck that, like we like we're becoming like friends.
- 19:44Speaker 3: And I was like, I know I'm small now, but
- 19:47Speaker 3: like one day, like we're gonna collab, like we're gonna
- 19:50Speaker 3: do a review together. And he's like, I don't give
- 19:52Speaker 3: a shit how many followers you have. He's like I'm
- 19:54Speaker 3: gonna be here, Like it was like two days time.
- 19:57Speaker 3: He's like I'm gonna be here like tomorrow or the
- 20:00Speaker 3: next day. He's like, meet me there, and like he
- 20:04Speaker 3: like didn't really say anything. Else was like, oh shit.
- 20:07Speaker 3: I was on the couch next to my husband and
- 20:09Speaker 3: I was like.
- 20:10Speaker 1: She just got real.
- 20:10Speaker 3: I was like Joe, I was like I was like,
- 20:12Speaker 3: I don't know, like should I go. I'm like, I
- 20:14Speaker 3: get because he's he is literally like the king of reviews,
- 20:18Speaker 3: Like he is like a poet. The way that he
- 20:21Speaker 3: speaks like it is literally he turns on like he'll
- 20:27Speaker 3: be talking, talking, talking, and then when the camera goes
- 20:29Speaker 3: on he is like in the zone. Yea if he's
- 20:31Speaker 3: like a one take wonder.
- 20:33Speaker 2: I was just gonna say that, Like you watch him
- 20:34Speaker 2: and I'm like, how the fuck is this ship flowing
- 20:36Speaker 2: out of his mouth?
- 20:37Speaker 1: It's one take.
- 20:39Speaker 3: He's built for this, like he has a gift for real,
- 20:42Speaker 3: And I'm like it's in that.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Like you know, it's in that I don't know what
- 20:46Speaker 2: word you would like how he talks like, it's like
- 20:50Speaker 2: I don't understand all of it.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yeah he like makes up words too,
- 20:54Speaker 3: which is like fun and you know whatever.
- 20:58Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. It's like I'm like I
- 21:00Speaker 1: can't follow along on some of it, but like it's
- 21:02Speaker 1: but but he's like mesmerizing, Like I just listened to it.
- 21:04Speaker 1: I'm like, this is fucking entertaining.
- 21:06Speaker 2: And that's I mean that, I'm sure that's all he
- 21:07Speaker 2: cares about, you know, giving just review, Like, what's the
- 21:12Speaker 2: point of not like, you know, there's I mean, I
- 21:15Speaker 2: think it's a crowded space, just like podcasts are, so
- 21:18Speaker 2: are reviews of restaurants, and there's you know, million people
- 21:21Speaker 2: you just go down on Facebook and you scroll over
- 21:23Speaker 2: and reels about its food food, food, food, food. And
- 21:26Speaker 2: the funny thing about food or restaurants is everybody, obviously food,
- 21:31Speaker 2: just like music, has different tastes, So somebody could review
- 21:34Speaker 2: something bad.
- 21:36Speaker 1: I think.
- 21:37Speaker 2: I think more like like when it comes to service,
- 21:40Speaker 2: I think that's very subjective too, because like people can
- 21:43Speaker 2: come and see me at Stonebridge and if I know
- 21:46Speaker 2: you or I or if I even if I don't
- 21:48Speaker 2: know you.
- 21:49Speaker 1: And you're just I have a very well what a
- 21:51Speaker 1: lot of people don't.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Realize is that people in this business that work the
- 21:54Speaker 2: bartender and servers whatever, we have a very good sense
- 21:58Speaker 2: of of of people. And I could pretty much tell
- 22:02Speaker 2: you within five seconds whether you're a fucking tool or
- 22:05Speaker 2: a really good person. And I, naturally, as a human
- 22:08Speaker 2: who are going to gravitate to the really nice people.
- 22:11Speaker 2: And I'm sorry if I'm busy, and I may talk
- 22:14Speaker 2: to you more than I talked to Doucheboy fucking already
- 22:18Speaker 2: asking where his well done burger is five minutes in,
- 22:20Speaker 2: you know, like shit like that, and it's like, I'm like,
- 22:22Speaker 2: I just paint them. I've been doing this way too
- 22:24Speaker 2: long to even give a fuck about that guy.
- 22:26Speaker 1: But it's not.
- 22:27Speaker 2: But that doesn't by any means, I mean, I'm not
- 22:30Speaker 2: going to give him good service. So back to like reviewers,
- 22:34Speaker 2: you know, if you're just strictly doing a food review, like,
- 22:37Speaker 2: you know, a lot of people take their food to
- 22:38Speaker 2: the car. Jame does it sometimes, so yes, but he
- 22:41Speaker 2: goes into restaurants too, but yeah, he rolls someone in
- 22:44Speaker 2: his car. And you see a lot of those, and
- 22:46Speaker 2: I think sometimes that's you know, if you get I
- 22:50Speaker 2: almost like want to fluff up a couple points or
- 22:52Speaker 2: a couple of decimal points because you're basically taking the
- 22:55Speaker 2: food to go, and it's I like the food to
- 22:57Speaker 2: be put right in front of me and I eat
- 22:58Speaker 2: it there and take a picture and look at it
- 23:00Speaker 2: and all that stuff.
- 23:01Speaker 1: I don't do reviews, but you know what I mean, Yeah,
- 23:03Speaker 1: I always take pictures of my food though, And you
- 23:07Speaker 1: don't really deal with customer service except for maybe one
- 23:09Speaker 1: person at the front. Now, when you go into a restaurant,
- 23:11Speaker 1: obviously it's different, and then you're dealing with everything I can't.
- 23:14Speaker 2: I don't really think you can film it, so then
- 23:16Speaker 2: you almost you could. You can film a little snippets,
- 23:18Speaker 2: but you're not gonna film your waiter walking over and
- 23:20Speaker 2: how they're acting.
- 23:20Speaker 1: And I had one of the worst.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Ever experiences at TEJ Friday's, like right before that big
- 23:25Speaker 2: brawl broke out two years ago, and then they end
- 23:28Speaker 2: up closing down. But like I just I don't know,
- 23:31Speaker 2: like like you said, like the negative review could be
- 23:35Speaker 2: positive for the business, Like you don't know, and everyone
- 23:38Speaker 2: has it. Like I could go in and you're my
- 23:41Speaker 2: waitress and I fucking love you and we have a
- 23:43Speaker 2: great time and I'm going to come back to see you.
- 23:45Speaker 2: And there could be a guy that's having a bad
- 23:47Speaker 2: night and the other reviewer sits down over there.
- 23:49Speaker 1: And he's like, what do you want? You know, the
- 23:50Speaker 1: guy's like, well, that guy was rude, and I'm like,
- 23:52Speaker 1: this fucking girl was awesome, And it's just, you don't know.
- 23:55Speaker 3: Everybody has a different experience, and so like that business,
- 23:59Speaker 3: you know, like everyone should have the right to say
- 24:04Speaker 3: how how their experience was. That's my opinion, Like, I'm
- 24:07Speaker 3: not out here to tear down businesses. Most of my
- 24:10Speaker 3: reviews are good, but sometimes there's not. Like I went
- 24:12Speaker 3: to Bartaco for a happy Hour a couple of weeks ago.
- 24:15Speaker 3: I haven't been able to post it yet, but hmm,
- 24:18Speaker 3: that'll be an interesting one. That was not a good
- 24:20Speaker 3: experience and they're gonna be hearing from me, Oh bad service?
- 24:25Speaker 1: Which one?
- 24:26Speaker 3: I'm the one in Westport?
- 24:29Speaker 1: Is that? Is that? Where it's that?
- 24:30Speaker 3: It's like on the it's in Westport. I think that Bartaco.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Yeah, so you do like the shoreline or.
- 24:37Speaker 3: Like you anywhere anywhere, Like my husband and I went
- 24:41Speaker 3: to Miami a couple of times, and I like, yeah,
- 24:45Speaker 3: like wherever I'm at mostly Connecticut though.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Yeah, like you don't announce or anything like that, like, hey,
- 24:51Speaker 1: I'm doing a review or you like you if you
- 24:52Speaker 1: start filming shit that people ask you are you a
- 24:54Speaker 1: blogger or now?
- 24:56Speaker 3: You know not a lot of people ask like I
- 25:00Speaker 3: guess like it.
- 25:01Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people take their phone down.
- 25:02Speaker 3: Yeah, pictures anyway, but sometimes like people just think like oh,
- 25:05Speaker 3: they're like posting it on like Instagram, they're out you
- 25:08Speaker 3: know whatever, Like they don't necessarily know that, Like I'm
- 25:10Speaker 3: a blogger and like I'm doing a review. You know.
- 25:14Speaker 1: What's like the most nastiest message you've ever gotten it
- 25:17Speaker 1: on like Instagram or Facebook or whatever. Oh or DM
- 25:21Speaker 1: as an owner or an employee ever reached out to you.
- 25:25Speaker 1: But you gave a bad review too, Yes, I mean
- 25:30Speaker 1: care to share, but yeah, tell me after the show.
- 25:32Speaker 3: I don't know, no, no, no, I'll share it. I'll
- 25:34Speaker 3: share it because we're good. So the bad review that
- 25:38Speaker 3: blew up, I can say it because I don't. I'm
- 25:41Speaker 3: one hundred percent candid.
- 25:42Speaker 1: So it was people listening to this show.
- 25:44Speaker 3: So is that nineteen twenty eight? The speak easy in Branford.
- 25:50Speaker 3: It's down, It's like right now, it's never been there yet.
- 25:52Speaker 3: So i'd been like my husband and I moved to
- 25:55Speaker 3: Branford shortly after we got married, and we're like, okay,
- 25:59Speaker 3: like let's check this spot out, like craft Cocktails, like
- 26:02Speaker 3: that's my jam, and they had happy hour at the
- 26:04Speaker 3: time too. But we kept having like the same bad experience,
- 26:08Speaker 3: and I noticed that it was with the same bartender,
- 26:11Speaker 3: this guy. We would sit at the bar, it's not
- 26:14Speaker 3: even that busy, and he's like talking to people down
- 26:16Speaker 3: there now I used to be a server. I've been
- 26:22Speaker 3: like I used to I used to serve in multi
- 26:24Speaker 3: like I used to work on parties and stuff like that,
- 26:26Speaker 3: like one offs. So like I've I've been on the
- 26:29Speaker 3: other side, like I understand so if anything, like I'm
- 26:31Speaker 3: more understanding than the average person who's never worked that
- 26:34Speaker 3: kind of job. And he just let us roast there
- 26:38Speaker 3: at the bar for I have to say, at least
- 26:41Speaker 3: ten minutes, not a huge bar, wasn't very busy, and
- 26:45Speaker 3: he just he didn't even you know, like you give
- 26:47Speaker 3: like a little nod, like an acknowledgement. Yeah, give me
- 26:50Speaker 3: like yeah, be back, yeah, nothing. And that's happened multiple
- 26:55Speaker 3: times then, like just like the way that he was
- 26:59Speaker 3: kind of like what do you want, Like they just
- 27:01Speaker 3: like so rude, and I'm just like, wow, this is
- 27:05Speaker 3: just such a terrible experience. It happened a few times.
- 27:10Speaker 3: I'm like all right, so I let the review go
- 27:13Speaker 3: and then I didn't know this at the time. Drink
- 27:18Speaker 3: They're good. They're good. Yeah, they weren't like blowing me away,
- 27:23Speaker 3: but I would say that they were good, like they're
- 27:25Speaker 3: definitely like craft cocktails better than like what you would
- 27:29Speaker 3: get at an average restaurant, and so one of the
- 27:34Speaker 3: people that worked there started like I didn't see it.
- 27:37Speaker 3: I was told about it. They were posting like about
- 27:41Speaker 3: me and like how I shouldn't like give these reviews.
- 27:44Speaker 3: But I guess she worked there and she was pressured
- 27:46Speaker 3: by I found out this recently. That's years later. She
- 27:49Speaker 3: was pressured by the owner to defend the restaurant. Yeah.
- 27:56Speaker 3: So I'm trying to remember what your question was now.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so they reached out to anyone some nasty shit.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Yeah, and they one of the employees there started like
- 28:07Speaker 3: going off about me. I don't remember what she said,
- 28:10Speaker 3: but it was like very if you're like an employee somewhere,
- 28:13Speaker 3: like you can't be writing like this. I can't. It's
- 28:17Speaker 3: this happened years ago, but they kind of came after me.
- 28:21Speaker 3: But I would say, like the worst comment that I
- 28:27Speaker 3: ever got, well, I mean one guy, he was just
- 28:29Speaker 3: trolling all my videos and just calling me fat. Like
- 28:33Speaker 3: the other day, Dame Dame posted like he came to
- 28:36Speaker 3: one of my events that I did, and somebody commented
- 28:39Speaker 3: there like they're like, oh her football like blah blah blah,
- 28:43Speaker 3: like just like stuff that's like not even and I replied,
- 28:47Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, I eat good and like
- 28:53Speaker 3: like there was an ad that I boosted and somebody
- 28:55Speaker 3: was commenting replying to other people's comments and was like
- 29:00Speaker 3: it was to promote Happy Hour week and this guy
- 29:03Speaker 3: was like replying to people saying like, oh, you know,
- 29:07Speaker 3: Milford doesn't have the best food, blah blah blah. I'm like,
- 29:10Speaker 3: first of all, nowhere in this reel did I even
- 29:13Speaker 3: say that Milford had the best food. Then he's going on,
- 29:16Speaker 3: He's going crazy replying to all these comments, and then
- 29:20Speaker 3: I reply back. I'm like, thank you so much for
- 29:21Speaker 3: your support. Every comment like boost my engagement, kiss kiss Kiss.
- 29:26Speaker 3: I'm like, no, dude, And then he leaves a second
- 29:30Speaker 3: to last comment like good thing your husband makes money,
- 29:34Speaker 3: because clearly like you're not like monetizing, and I'm like, hm,
- 29:39Speaker 3: I was like, little, do you know how much money
- 29:41Speaker 3: I'm making?
- 29:42Speaker 1: Dude.
- 29:42Speaker 3: I'm like, you know whatever, and then he leaves a
- 29:46Speaker 3: last comment. He probably left about like twenty comments in
- 29:49Speaker 3: the course of like an hour at like nine am, Like, bro,
- 29:52Speaker 3: what are you doing with your life? And he goes, oh, no,
- 29:55Speaker 3: like I'm not supporting you. I just went and deleted
- 29:58Speaker 3: all my comments like are you a cycle? Are you okay?
- 30:03Speaker 3: Very like when your page grows, you get these like
- 30:07Speaker 3: randoms that just like our little Keyboard.
- 30:10Speaker 1: Warriors, there's so many of them.
- 30:12Speaker 3: And like Damn told me, He's like, I don't know why,
- 30:14Speaker 3: like you reply, I'm like no, no, no. I was like, well,
- 30:16Speaker 3: I'm still small on this platform. I was like, You're
- 30:19Speaker 3: not going to get away with a shit comment on
- 30:21Speaker 3: my page. Nope.
- 30:22Speaker 2: I usually don't do like Keyboard Warriors. Well no, not
- 30:26Speaker 2: not towards the podcast now.
- 30:28Speaker 1: But you know, I used to post a lot of
- 30:30Speaker 1: stuff like politically or socially, and I kind of don't
- 30:35Speaker 1: really post it anymore. But I comment now, but I
- 30:38Speaker 1: usually comment with people I align with, like not like
- 30:42Speaker 1: nasty comments. And then I just you know what's funny
- 30:46Speaker 1: is like, you know.
- 30:47Speaker 2: Politically, people like just just there's there's two sides and
- 30:50Speaker 2: that's it. No one's crossing the line for no matter what,
- 30:53Speaker 2: and you know, each side's the worst in the history
- 30:55Speaker 2: of the world.
- 30:56Speaker 1: So I just I just stay on one side. I
- 30:59Speaker 1: call it a day.
- 31:01Speaker 2: But but but if it's midnight and I just got
- 31:06Speaker 2: back from Citrus on a nice little four hour bender.
- 31:09Speaker 1: And I face. Now, I don't call myself a Cubo warrior,
- 31:14Speaker 1: believe me. But I'll wake up the next morning and
- 31:18Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh fuck, I got like fucking, you know,
- 31:20Speaker 1: fifty notifications. I'm like, what did I start last night?
- 31:24Speaker 1: You know whatever?
- 31:24Speaker 3: I don't have, I don't, I don't care.
- 31:26Speaker 1: I love it. I think it's hilarious because people take
- 31:28Speaker 1: it so seriously.
- 31:29Speaker 2: It's like their life depends upon it. Me, I just
- 31:31Speaker 2: laugh at all. I mean, how can you just not laugh?
- 31:33Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I you could say whatever. The problem
- 31:38Speaker 3: that I have with like shitty comments is like you
- 31:41Speaker 3: know that that person would never say that shit to
- 31:43Speaker 3: your face. Like, whatever you say, say it, but make
- 31:46Speaker 3: sure it's something that you would say to my face. Yeah,
- 31:48Speaker 3: because if it's not, then just sit back down.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Yeah, tough guy. Everyone's a fucking tough guy.
- 31:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:53Speaker 1: It's been funny.
- 31:54Speaker 2: I mean it's been going on for so long, and
- 31:56Speaker 2: it's it's you know, everyone thinks it's a lot of
- 31:58Speaker 2: it's just politics.
- 31:59Speaker 1: No, it's it's food, it's sports, it's.
- 32:01Speaker 2: It's it's everything, and everyone just you know, if you
- 32:04Speaker 2: if you just ran down an X you know, feed
- 32:07Speaker 2: for you know, a half hour. Just just pick a
- 32:11Speaker 2: topic that they're talking about and click on the comments
- 32:14Speaker 2: and it's just it. No one's ever like, oh good point.
- 32:18Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I never saw that side of the story.
- 32:21Speaker 2: That's that's very valid.
- 32:22Speaker 1: No, it's you know, they just double down on each
- 32:24Speaker 1: other as they go along. It's like it's like, I
- 32:28Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's, it's it's. It used to frustrate me.
- 32:31Speaker 1: It doesn't anymore because I don't care. I just don't.
- 32:33Speaker 1: I'm skinting too old. They'll give a fuck. Yeah, so
- 32:35Speaker 1: I really don't care. I laugh, you know. My Granfa's
- 32:38Speaker 1: like would you stop.
- 32:39Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, like I said the other day,
- 32:43Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, and and not to be political,
- 32:45Speaker 2: but I was like two years ago, I never would
- 32:48Speaker 2: have bought a Tesla. Now I'm like, shimm I wrote,
- 32:50Speaker 2: maybe I'll buy a Tesla just so you see someone
- 32:52Speaker 2: come up and key it and you know, and I
- 32:54Speaker 2: wrote like fa fo like fuck around and find out
- 32:56Speaker 2: and like all these like fucking people came, Oh, you
- 32:59Speaker 2: fucking you're you're you're antagonizing and you're a violent person.
- 33:03Speaker 2: And I'm like, dude, I'm not going to spend sixty
- 33:06Speaker 2: thousand dollars so I can fight some person king my car.
- 33:10Speaker 1: It's a fucking joke, you guys, just relax anyway about me.
- 33:16Speaker 2: So we've named basically four of the bars you've been too,
- 33:20Speaker 2: because you were there on Tuesday.
- 33:22Speaker 1: Yeah, so the other ones we got cafe. I went
- 33:25Speaker 1: there on Monday, So what's I were they pouring espresso,
- 33:28Speaker 1: Martinis or something?
- 33:29Speaker 3: Martini's pretty damn good. Name's fresh espresso, which I appreciate.
- 33:33Speaker 3: And that's like a requirement for me. Espresso Martini.
- 33:37Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to. Are you a Bailey's or non
- 33:39Speaker 1: Bailey's girl? No Bailey, No Bailey's. I'm just a touch okay,
- 33:44Speaker 1: And I wanted to level up and get the creamy top.
- 33:46Speaker 3: Yeah, but I could go either way. And it's like
- 33:49Speaker 3: funny because it's like a thing that Damon and I
- 33:52Speaker 3: go back and forth about. I basically call him a
- 33:54Speaker 3: little bitch for getting me. He's like, give me the
- 33:56Speaker 3: most Bailey's you can put in there. I'm like, you're
- 33:58Speaker 3: a little bit. You can't.
- 33:59Speaker 2: That's like this, I haint some coffee with my cream
- 34:04Speaker 2: taste of Tie local little Gem. I will admit I've
- 34:08Speaker 2: never been there.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Tie isn't my thing, but I would definitely give it
- 34:11Speaker 1: a try. What's their a little happy hour going on there?
- 34:14Speaker 3: So they picked like their best selling items, which are
- 34:18Speaker 3: some of my favorites, like the drunken noodles. I don't
- 34:21Speaker 3: know if you like spicy, but like their drunken noodles are.
- 34:24Speaker 3: I used to order from them all the time. He
- 34:26Speaker 3: used to live in the apartments like that are right
- 34:28Speaker 3: behind Citrus, so I would get to go from them
- 34:31Speaker 3: all the time. Yeah, the pad tie, the padsay you.
- 34:36Speaker 3: That's like it's like got like peanuts and like carrots
- 34:38Speaker 3: in it, and like their noodles are just they do
- 34:41Speaker 3: a good job.
- 34:41Speaker 1: What's their drink it's.
- 34:43Speaker 3: Just twenty percent off their cocktails?
- 34:45Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah nice. Now. Plan B Burger Bar is
- 34:49Speaker 1: a place I used to frequent a lot when my
- 34:51Speaker 1: buddy was the GM there years ago. Since left, but
- 34:55Speaker 1: a good friend of mine bartend's there, John LaRusso he's
- 35:00Speaker 1: like he's like a manager slash bartender. Yes, yeah, so
- 35:03Speaker 1: I'll go and see him every once in a while.
- 35:04Speaker 1: But fantastic bourbon selection there. Yes, yeah, and they're feeling
- 35:09Speaker 1: their burgers are really good.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Yeah, their burgers are good. I remember going there like
- 35:12Speaker 3: shortly after they opened. I had like just turned twenty one.
- 35:16Speaker 3: I was drinking like these big they had. They were
- 35:18Speaker 3: selling them in the Mason jars. I don't know if
- 35:20Speaker 3: they still do it, John Daily. It was like such
- 35:22Speaker 3: a big thing at the time, and like I'd go
- 35:25Speaker 3: there with my friends have some burgers and John Daly's
- 35:29Speaker 3: and those things are They're dangerous, They're lethal, they are.
- 35:32Speaker 3: I'm like, it's just limited cool cool, cool, cool cool cool.
- 35:35Speaker 1: Honestly, that's like a home drink for me.
- 35:37Speaker 3: Now.
- 35:37Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, I'm sitting on the back deck by the pool.
- 35:40Speaker 2: I'm just gonna make those all day if I go out.
- 35:42Speaker 1: And drink them out, and I'm like, I'll be like whoa, Yeah,
- 35:44Speaker 1: I could just stumble to my bathroom or bed or whatever.
- 35:47Speaker 1: All right. So here's the interesting one.
- 35:49Speaker 2: They don't serve Booze scratch baking, which is not necessarily
- 35:54Speaker 2: a newcomer in this area, but they've only been in
- 35:57Speaker 2: that location for about probably five six years. Yeah, somewhere
- 36:00Speaker 2: in that area right downtown on the green, like right
- 36:03Speaker 2: next to the Webster Bank. I want to say that
- 36:05Speaker 2: because that's my bank, and so what are they offering.
- 36:09Speaker 3: Two dollars organic iced coffees and gourmet iced tea, which
- 36:14Speaker 3: is like where and it's like a full size right right?
- 36:18Speaker 3: So like where can you for two bucks? Nowhere?
- 36:21Speaker 1: Either this is like four to seventy nine for a large. Yeah,
- 36:24Speaker 1: and that's just fucking crappy iced tea.
- 36:26Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a pretty good deal.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Now, what's a gourmet iced tea? I've never been in there,
- 36:30Speaker 1: like like like.
- 36:32Speaker 3: Higher end kind of I've I've tasted them. They're they're
- 36:36Speaker 3: pretty good, Like they taste good without even sugar, Like
- 36:39Speaker 3: it's just higher end stuff. I would say, And you've
- 36:42Speaker 3: never been in there, and you.
- 36:43Speaker 1: Said no, I've actually no actually know what. I'm sorry.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Hold on, let me give you a good story about Scratchbakka.
- 36:49Speaker 1: It was fuck what holiday was it? Was it Thanksgiving?
- 36:57Speaker 1: It was a hot fuck I'm sorry. I can't remember
- 36:59Speaker 1: the holly, but it was. I was running around. It
- 37:03Speaker 1: might have been even it was Christmas.
- 37:04Speaker 2: It was like Christmas Eve, and my girlfriend ordered something
- 37:08Speaker 2: from them, a couple of things for Christmas dinner. And
- 37:12Speaker 2: you know, we're fucking busy where everyone's running.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Around and I'm like, fuck, I didn't go to scratch baking,
- 37:19Speaker 1: and it was like three o'clock on Christmas Eve, so
- 37:22Speaker 1: I'm like, let me swiss. So I fucking spin down
- 37:24Speaker 1: there and they're fucking closed.
- 37:27Speaker 2: So I run up to the door and I'm like, fuck,
- 37:29Speaker 2: the lights are out and I just see like somebody
- 37:31Speaker 2: walking in the back. So I fucking bang on the
- 37:33Speaker 2: door and this I don't know her name, but she
- 37:36Speaker 2: came over and she opened the door. I said, listen,
- 37:40Speaker 2: I literally would give you fifty extra dollars if I get.
- 37:42Speaker 1: I don't want to get in trouble with the girlfriend.
- 37:44Speaker 1: And I totally forgot, and she's like, you know, you
- 37:46Speaker 1: don't have to do that.
- 37:48Speaker 2: So I walk in and you know, it was under
- 37:49Speaker 2: Nicole Tucker's name, so she had everything there, and there
- 37:52Speaker 2: was a bunch of people that haven't gotten their shit yet,
- 37:54Speaker 2: but apparently they were like kind of figured that they
- 37:57Speaker 2: just didn't want to stay open for like people that
- 37:58Speaker 2: don't have stuff for them. They're coming into ordershit the street, right, Yeah,
- 38:02Speaker 2: I know that, And she was very nice. She came
- 38:04Speaker 2: back and was all like wrapped up, and I'm like.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Is it paid for? She's like, yeah, it's paid for it.
- 38:09Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'm like, here's your fifty. Oh
- 38:12Speaker 1: stop it. I'm like, no, fucking Merry Christmas. I thought
- 38:15Speaker 1: I was ass out.
- 38:16Speaker 3: That is the type of people that work in the
- 38:19Speaker 3: restaurant business. Yeah, I would say are no matter how
- 38:23Speaker 3: much money make, are more generous. I would say overall
- 38:26Speaker 3: than than people in general, because they get it, like
- 38:29Speaker 3: they understand.
- 38:30Speaker 1: You know, that's fifty dollars I spent as a tip
- 38:34Speaker 1: was so worth it for me not getting in trouble. Yeah, yeah,
- 38:39Speaker 1: deal with that.
- 38:39Speaker 3: You didn't get the fucking bread. Yeah, but it's like
- 38:41Speaker 3: you didn't even though they were kind of open, but
- 38:43Speaker 3: I didn't know.
- 38:43Speaker 1: But yeah, they were super nice. I just I've actually
- 38:47Speaker 1: so I've had some of it. I heard nothing but
- 38:49Speaker 1: phenomenal things about their stuff.
- 38:51Speaker 3: I have to show you a picture of this, Like
- 38:54Speaker 3: it's been like a staple item, this cinnamon walnuts going
- 38:57Speaker 3: like I'm not a big scone person, but when I
- 38:59Speaker 3: saw it in the win, I was like, oh my god,
- 39:01Speaker 3: I'm like I need to taste that thing. Huge. You'd
- 39:05Speaker 3: be like, what is this thing? I posted it on
- 39:07Speaker 3: my stories on Instagram. I think it got the most
- 39:10Speaker 3: amount of like views I've ever gotten, Like on an
- 39:13Speaker 3: Instagram story. The thing was going like freaking viral. I
- 39:16Speaker 3: gotta show you a picture of it. But they they
- 39:20Speaker 3: do such like a good job, like there hasn't been
- 39:23Speaker 3: anything there that I haven't been like, okay, yeah, I'll
- 39:27Speaker 3: go back again, you know.
- 39:29Speaker 1: So, Yeah, there was a guy. I don't know if
- 39:31Speaker 1: you ever followed Nick Metcalf. He's a feud reviewer. He
- 39:34Speaker 1: was out of like Buffalo, New York, but he did.
- 39:36Speaker 1: He did. He came into downtown Milford. That's when I
- 39:39Speaker 1: started following him.
- 39:40Speaker 2: And he did scratch baking and he would do like
- 39:42Speaker 2: he would do Bakery Mondays where he just hit all
- 39:44Speaker 2: the yeah, it's.
- 39:46Speaker 1: Crazy, like look at that thing, it's huge, huge. Yeah.
- 39:50Speaker 1: So he did them and he just like I don't
- 39:54Speaker 1: know if I forget how he read it.
- 39:55Speaker 2: He raided like Portnoy with the pizza, but it was
- 39:57Speaker 2: it was like over nine h and then he went
- 40:00Speaker 2: to Kathy's Cookies and got one of her scones and
- 40:04Speaker 2: he was like, geez, those are huge too, rated them
- 40:06Speaker 2: very well. And then I'm not afraid to say because
- 40:09Speaker 2: I've never been there, but he went right over here
- 40:11Speaker 2: to the Greeks. Yeah, so I'm like I've never even oh,
- 40:17Speaker 2: this is this is this is this is getting into
- 40:19Speaker 2: like the fucking war online.
- 40:22Speaker 1: So this gild one of the kids.
- 40:23Speaker 2: He sits in his car and he's got this dog
- 40:25Speaker 2: that sits in the back seat. It's cute like whatever.
- 40:27Speaker 2: So he's traveling the country. Now I kind of don't care.
- 40:30Speaker 2: I just want to see the local shiit. I can
- 40:32Speaker 2: kill what the fuck's going on in like Chicago. It's
- 40:34Speaker 2: a deep dish place. So he goes here and he's
- 40:37Speaker 2: in his car and he gets a he gets a
- 40:39Speaker 2: chili cheeseburger and a hot dog with the works and fries.
- 40:46Speaker 1: So he starts. He always starts with the fries and whatever.
- 40:49Speaker 1: And he gives a fry to the dog and it's cute.
- 40:51Speaker 2: And he takes the hot dog out and it's got
- 40:54Speaker 2: like bacon underneath and then the topping's on top. So
- 40:57Speaker 2: he opens it up and like he takes the dog
- 41:00Speaker 2: and like there's the bun and it looks like literally
- 41:03Speaker 2: sand the bacon like, so it's a ground. So he
- 41:07Speaker 2: went like this and the bacon like flew into the
- 41:10Speaker 2: camera and like and like he took a bite and
- 41:13Speaker 2: he's like, this is fucking disgusting. So he wraps it up.
- 41:16Speaker 2: He's like two point two.
- 41:17Speaker 3: He didn't even eat it.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Took the one bite, I think, and that okay. So
- 41:20Speaker 2: then he brings out the chili burger. He opens it
- 41:24Speaker 2: up and the like the chili looked like you after taco.
- 41:29Speaker 1: Bell, Like it was fucking it was. I mean it
- 41:33Speaker 1: was like so like gross looking, and he took like
- 41:35Speaker 1: one bite of that and he like he's like like zero,
- 41:38Speaker 1: idn't remember when he gave it and whatever. So he
- 41:41Speaker 1: posts his review and you know, he doesn't get it.
- 41:45Speaker 2: You probably get way more interaction, but he had like
- 41:47Speaker 2: twenty five comments on Facebook or something. So I just
- 41:50Speaker 2: click on and I'm scrolling down like everyone's like eyeah,
- 41:52Speaker 2: that looks gross, but they're probably not even from Milford.
- 41:54Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, it's a Greek guy
- 41:56Speaker 2: that owns it. I see this Greek name and this
- 41:58Speaker 2: long fucking thing, and.
- 41:59Speaker 1: He was calling him gay and oh.
- 42:02Speaker 2: Yeah, going in yeah, he's like yeah, I need to
- 42:07Speaker 2: do yeah exactly. And then people started comment on that
- 42:11Speaker 2: like dude, you're not helping your business, bro. And so
- 42:13Speaker 2: this Nick Metcalf like shot back and he's like he's
- 42:17Speaker 2: like guy, I don't know where you're going with this,
- 42:19Speaker 2: but I'm just you know, you could have reached out,
- 42:22Speaker 2: you could have d m me like, I'm.
- 42:24Speaker 1: Just I just do it like you said, I do
- 42:25Speaker 1: honest reviews. Yeah, you know, and uh I was. I
- 42:29Speaker 1: was so tempted. I you have more balls than I do,
- 42:33Speaker 1: Like I'll talk to him the mic in this in
- 42:34Speaker 1: this thing, but like I won't put like a video
- 42:37Speaker 1: out there like me doing a review. I don't think
- 42:39Speaker 1: I'll think I'd ever go down that road. But I
- 42:41Speaker 1: was so tempting. It's right there.
- 42:42Speaker 2: I was like, oh, let me run down there. I
- 42:44Speaker 2: get the same order he got, get in my car
- 42:46Speaker 2: and just see, if you know. I was like dame
- 42:48Speaker 2: reviewing the word reviewed places, and I just I couldn't
- 42:52Speaker 2: get it in me.
- 42:52Speaker 1: I was like, fuck it. Plus I get heartburn and ship.
- 42:57Speaker 3: I would love to see that.
- 43:00Speaker 1: You and I one day we'll go down there. We'll
- 43:02Speaker 1: do a dual car review of Yeah, I'll show you
- 43:06Speaker 1: the video after the show. It was. It was. I mean,
- 43:09Speaker 1: it's one of those like food reviews. You like you
- 43:11Speaker 1: felt for him as he was eating it, like oh god,
- 43:14Speaker 1: oh my god. Yeah, you know, in the place it's
- 43:17Speaker 1: been a while. Yeah, I mean it's you know, I mean,
- 43:20Speaker 1: I'm a mister Max guy all day long, so I'm
- 43:23Speaker 1: not going to go cheat on him over there. But
- 43:26Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I've had it before. I
- 43:28Speaker 1: can't remember. But do you remember Paul's So yes, well,
- 43:32Speaker 1: I wish that was still around. Though I loved Paul's
- 43:36Speaker 1: with their shakes, their shape.
- 43:38Speaker 3: It looks now just like.
- 43:42Speaker 1: No one bought that.
- 43:43Speaker 3: Property, something like, it's you. You're embarrassed, you're building all.
- 43:46Speaker 1: These fucking You're tearing down the bridgeport flywer to build
- 43:48Speaker 1: fucking condos. Fucking do it there, get it out of there.
- 43:52Speaker 1: It's just the price too high. I don't know. I
- 43:54Speaker 1: tried by it all the time.
- 43:55Speaker 3: It's so sad. I loved it.
- 43:57Speaker 1: What was the one that was it's now a bagel
- 43:59Speaker 1: place right on the other side of the Strafford Bridge.
- 44:02Speaker 3: It was, Yeah, it was like a drive in right.
- 44:04Speaker 1: It was just like Paul's, but it was just a
- 44:06Speaker 1: different name of it because they lasted for a little longer.
- 44:09Speaker 1: So I started going there. Yeah, and they were They
- 44:11Speaker 1: weren't as good as Paul's, but there was there was
- 44:12Speaker 1: nothing like Pauls.
- 44:13Speaker 3: Pauls like I was a kid and I still remember
- 44:15Speaker 3: how like that and the bond. It was just there's shakes. Yeah, sad.
- 44:23Speaker 2: You don't really find any of that anywhere. No anymore,
- 44:26Speaker 2: little sock cop kind of place, short order cooks.
- 44:29Speaker 1: Yep, it's yeah. Now, I mean I won't I don't
- 44:32Speaker 1: go to outside of talk about it midnight. I don't
- 44:34Speaker 1: go to any places. Yeah. I don't go to fast food.
- 44:37Speaker 1: Yeah it's awful.
- 44:39Speaker 3: Yeah No, I'm not like a big fast food fan.
- 44:44Speaker 1: Yeah. Personally, I might get like McDonald's once a year.
- 44:47Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm like fucked up, the only thing that's open,
- 44:50Speaker 3: and like I don't have food at home, I'm like,
- 44:51Speaker 3: all right, where are we going? Like I need to
- 44:53Speaker 3: eat something.
- 44:54Speaker 1: But like if I do go to McDonald's, like I
- 44:56Speaker 1: get everything. Yeah, I'm like I'm fucking here.
- 44:59Speaker 3: I'm going to live yep.
- 45:00Speaker 1: But I don't care. I don't want to eat it all.
- 45:02Speaker 1: I just want all right, I want to try bye
- 45:03Speaker 1: to that. All right, give me some nuggies you know,
- 45:05Speaker 1: you know, like you do like a little picnic, Yeah,
- 45:07Speaker 1: and the until I get full, and then I'm like
- 45:09Speaker 1: see you like just toss it, I know, what terrible,
- 45:11Speaker 1: but it's great. I also noticed you were on another
- 45:15Speaker 1: former guest of mine. Uh, you were on the Brian
- 45:18Speaker 1: and pam Land Brian uh Smith and Brian was so.
- 45:22Speaker 1: Brian was here for the porch Fest. He's kind of
- 45:26Speaker 1: a mister Milford. He was.
- 45:27Speaker 2: It was him and a couple other guys, Jamshad and
- 45:30Speaker 2: uh ship him. The other guy's name is slipping my mind.
- 45:34Speaker 2: I apologize put so many people on the show.
- 45:37Speaker 1: Ye, but yeah he was Uh he sat right here,
- 45:41Speaker 1: and the minute he talked, I'm like, fuck, yep, he
- 45:45Speaker 1: fucking radio voice of all radio voices.
- 45:47Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, as soon as you hear him, you're.
- 45:50Speaker 1: Like just that Basie fucking I was so nervous when
- 45:53Speaker 1: I were Yeah, Oh, I was so nervous.
- 45:56Speaker 3: I was like scared because like when you're on the radio,
- 46:00Speaker 3: like this is being recorded, right, so like you're gonna
- 46:02Speaker 3: put it online and you're gonna see us interactive, but
- 46:05Speaker 3: the radio like nothing was being recorded. I was like
- 46:09Speaker 3: recording some stuff, but I knew that like broadly it
- 46:12Speaker 3: wasn't you know, you weren't gonna be able to see.
- 46:14Speaker 1: Us, right.
- 46:15Speaker 3: So I had this like weird feeling like when he
- 46:18Speaker 3: ever was speaking like, I was nervous that like he
- 46:22Speaker 3: wasn't done with what he was gonna say, so I
- 46:24Speaker 3: would like wait to respond. So I found myself like
- 46:27Speaker 3: when I thought about it when I left, I was like, wait,
- 46:29Speaker 3: I spoke a lot less than like what I typically
- 46:32Speaker 3: would have, like if it was like a natural conversation, right.
- 46:35Speaker 3: I was just so nervous. And then he was like,
- 46:37Speaker 3: you know when you're on the radio, when you hear
- 46:38Speaker 3: like a promo like oh, this is like Nellie and
- 46:42Speaker 3: you're listening to Hot ninety three seven. He wanted us
- 46:45Speaker 3: to do like something like that, and the first one
- 46:48Speaker 3: I sounded terrible. I was so nervous, and I was
- 46:51Speaker 3: on Instagram Live and Dan was watching and he's like,
- 46:54Speaker 3: get it together.
- 46:55Speaker 1: So oh I saw that. Yeah yeah yeah, And.
- 46:58Speaker 3: I finally like pulled it together and it came out fine.
- 47:00Speaker 1: But I was like, so you're doing like a read
- 47:03Speaker 1: for them basically?
- 47:05Speaker 3: He no, I I yeah, but like I came up
- 47:07Speaker 3: with it on my own, you know. So it's like
- 47:10Speaker 3: basically like introduce yourself, say like something you know in
- 47:14Speaker 3: the middle, and then say you're listening to you know.
- 47:17Speaker 3: I'm like, I was like, I don't know if it was.
- 47:22Speaker 3: It was cool though, like I like to try to
- 47:24Speaker 3: like push myself, you know. I was like, oh, that
- 47:28Speaker 3: sounds cool. I'd love to do it. And then once
- 47:30Speaker 3: I was like, the day came and I'm like, oh no,
- 47:32Speaker 3: I was like, should I get sick all of a
- 47:33Speaker 3: sudden and just like not go?
- 47:35Speaker 1: And then that's what I did to you the show
- 47:39Speaker 1: on Monday, nervous. I got nervous.
- 47:42Speaker 2: I guy postponed it. I said, any more days to
- 47:44Speaker 2: prepare for this? She just got wait, she got ten
- 47:47Speaker 2: times the followers. I do no, actually, I actually uh.
- 47:52Speaker 2: I have like bad ass or reflux. And last week
- 47:55Speaker 2: was my birthday week, and I drank all week. I
- 47:59Speaker 2: ate out stupid. I've been dieting, but I kind of
- 48:03Speaker 2: broke it a little bit. And Sunday I didn't drink,
- 48:06Speaker 2: didn't really eat much, and and then I woke up.
- 48:09Speaker 1: I go to bed like nine for I gonna be.
- 48:10Speaker 1: I get to get at like four forty five for work.
- 48:12Speaker 1: So I went to bed at nine. I woke up
- 48:14Speaker 1: at ten thirty and I was like gargling. And I
- 48:16Speaker 1: take medicine for it. It's just just every like six months,
- 48:19Speaker 1: it just comes up on me, and so I didn't
- 48:21Speaker 1: sleep at all. I called out of work and I'm
- 48:23Speaker 1: just like, I probably could have done it, but then
- 48:26Speaker 1: I called out of work and I'm promoting it and
- 48:28Speaker 1: a lot of people follow me at work like, oh,
- 48:29Speaker 1: you couldn't come to work, but you're doing a podcast,
- 48:31Speaker 1: you know. So I'm like, yeah, you know whatever, but
- 48:34Speaker 1: you were, thank you very gracious to an extent. The Thursday,
- 48:38Speaker 1: trust me, you text me back, You're like, hey, I
- 48:40Speaker 1: get hungover.
- 48:41Speaker 3: I like, I'm out of commission. I can't. They're like
- 48:47Speaker 3: on my deathbed.
- 48:48Speaker 2: So we actually hadn't so so Brian Smith, if you
- 48:51Speaker 2: don't know him, he's well, I mean now he's for
- 48:53Speaker 2: Wow Radio. I think it's it's an online radio station, right,
- 48:57Speaker 2: and but he used to be PLR. Uh was it
- 49:00Speaker 2: was Smith and Barber in the morning on PLR way
- 49:03Speaker 2: before your Time? I think, yeah, I used to listen
- 49:06Speaker 2: to it when.
- 49:06Speaker 1: I was growing up.
- 49:07Speaker 2: And he came on the show and he didn't drink,
- 49:12Speaker 2: you know the other guys and we were drinking, and
- 49:14Speaker 2: then we actually asked him to be because he is
- 49:16Speaker 2: like he's like the mayor, like the pseudo mayor of Milford,
- 49:20Speaker 2: and we were doing We did the You might have
- 49:22Speaker 2: been there. We did the espresso Martini contest at Stonebridge
- 49:25Speaker 2: a couple of years ago.
- 49:26Speaker 1: You missed that.
- 49:27Speaker 3: No, I don't think I knew about that.
- 49:29Speaker 1: I can't believe we didn't do it again.
- 49:30Speaker 2: It was a little chaotic because it was the first
- 49:32Speaker 2: time we did it and we haven't done it again.
- 49:34Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get it going. We should have done it
- 49:36Speaker 1: in the summer. We did in the winter.
- 49:37Speaker 3: It was all the bartenders.
- 49:39Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, it was like it was like
- 49:41Speaker 2: one bartender from like eight bars in Milford downtown and
- 49:45Speaker 2: they all brought their own recipes and I ended up
- 49:48Speaker 2: like kind of not seeing it, but I kind of
- 49:51Speaker 2: like directed it and got everyone up where they needed
- 49:53Speaker 2: to be, and it was it was a big.
- 49:55Speaker 1: Chaotic, but it turned out really good. And Brian was
- 49:59Speaker 1: a judge.
- 50:00Speaker 2: We had three judges and he sits down and the
- 50:04Speaker 2: first person that went but you know, made the three
- 50:06Speaker 2: Martinez for the three judges and he just scored it
- 50:09Speaker 2: and looked at it and I'm like, you try it.
- 50:12Speaker 1: He's liked, oh, I don't drink. I'm like laughing, Oh,
- 50:18Speaker 1: Like I tell you what, I'll sip it for you
- 50:20Speaker 1: you look at it, I'll give the fucking the drink score,
- 50:23Speaker 1: and you give the look scored.
- 50:24Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's funny.
- 50:27Speaker 1: I didn't know he didn't drink. Didn't drink.
- 50:28Speaker 2: Actually I might have known that, but I don't. I
- 50:30Speaker 2: don't think it dawned on me when he was sitting there.
- 50:34Speaker 2: But yeah, so, uh, great guy like he he was.
- 50:38Speaker 2: He Actually I didn't take it up on him yet,
- 50:40Speaker 2: but he said, you know, come to the studio. I'll
- 50:42Speaker 2: show you how you know, the radio.
- 50:43Speaker 1: Side of this stuff works. So that's just on me.
- 50:45Speaker 1: I haven't really you know, give him a call and said, hey,
- 50:48Speaker 1: when a guy come down there, and.
- 50:50Speaker 3: I'm sure as soon as you do, he'll.
- 50:51Speaker 1: Be like, Yeah, how was how was your outside of
- 50:54Speaker 1: cool studio? Cool experience?
- 50:56Speaker 3: So cool? So it's on the second floor of the
- 50:58Speaker 3: Wallingford Toyota. I guess like it's a new building and
- 51:01Speaker 3: so they literally built like his room and it's pretty.
- 51:07Speaker 3: It looks like I was like, oh, this is like
- 51:08Speaker 3: what you see like in the movies, Like it's there's
- 51:10Speaker 3: a lot of equipment. Yeah, and it was a really
- 51:13Speaker 3: cool experience. I think we're going to go back to
- 51:16Speaker 3: talk about another event.
- 51:17Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, so that's what that was my next question
- 51:20Speaker 1: before we get into my douche of the week. Yeah,
- 51:23Speaker 1: what's coming up?
- 51:24Speaker 2: So obviously tomorrow is the finale of the first this
- 51:27Speaker 2: is the first annual I guess right Milford, Yes, Milford's
- 51:30Speaker 2: a happy hour week.
- 51:32Speaker 1: What's coming up on your agenda?
- 51:34Speaker 3: So they're the Downtown Milford Business Association is doing a
- 51:39Speaker 3: foodie fest. So the idea is that, like it's not
- 51:43Speaker 3: going to be like any old food trucks, any old vendors.
- 51:45Speaker 3: They're all going to be curated by me. So like
- 51:48Speaker 3: I know these places, Like I'm a foodie. I've been
- 51:51Speaker 3: to a lot of food truck festivals. Like I'm picking
- 51:53Speaker 3: like the best of the best, and it's going to
- 51:56Speaker 3: be down by like Wasson Field.
- 51:58Speaker 1: Like near a lot of bad comments. Some one of
- 52:01Speaker 1: your trollers is going to go and say I went
- 52:03Speaker 1: to this funny Oh yeah, what the fuck?
- 52:05Speaker 3: Do you know?
- 52:06Speaker 1: Just kidding like not really though, that's how people are.
- 52:09Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh there's always a little negative people. But
- 52:14Speaker 3: it's gonna be cool. It's on April twenty sixth and
- 52:16Speaker 3: twenty seventh. There's gonna be live music, you know, is.
- 52:20Speaker 1: That a Saturday and Sunday.
- 52:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a wedding. Fuck oh no, I mean
- 52:25Speaker 2: I'm happy to going on the wedding. But it's someone
- 52:26Speaker 2: from Stonebrige. But I think it's that weekend. Yeah, it's
- 52:28Speaker 2: Easter of the week before or wait, no, it's.
- 52:31Speaker 3: Uh I think it is. I think April twentieth.
- 52:35Speaker 1: Okay, so then yeah, so the twenty sixth seventh.
- 52:38Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not in it's not around here. Well the wedding, the.
- 52:44Speaker 1: Weddings that tides in Milford. Oh yeah on Sunday and
- 52:48Speaker 1: then but Saturday night they're having a something at Stonebridge. Yeah, okay,
- 52:52Speaker 1: there's one. One of them works the groom works at Snowbird.
- 52:55Speaker 1: So nice, so easy for us. You know, if you
- 52:58Speaker 1: travel that.
- 52:59Speaker 3: Far, you can stop by earlier in the day on Saturday,
- 53:01Speaker 3: or you can go say yeah, well no you wouldn't
- 53:04Speaker 3: go on Sunday at all.
- 53:04Speaker 1: But like, what time does it start at?
- 53:06Speaker 3: Like ten am on Saturday?
- 53:08Speaker 1: Oh all right, oh Saturday, I'll go yeah, so yeah,
- 53:11Speaker 1: stop by.
- 53:12Speaker 3: See let's see what's going on.
- 53:13Speaker 1: It should be now the host of the show is
- 53:16Speaker 1: not listening, so where is it again? Where are you
- 53:18Speaker 1: having it?
- 53:19Speaker 3: By Wasson Field field. O. Yeah, so how many is
- 53:24Speaker 3: that side street between the field and Parsons and the
- 53:29Speaker 3: food trucks are going to be lined up on that
- 53:31Speaker 3: street and then there's gonna be like vendors too.
- 53:34Speaker 1: Yeah, so how many food trucks you got coming? Do
- 53:37Speaker 1: you think?
- 53:38Speaker 3: I think like twenty five? Oh wow, Like it's gonna
- 53:41Speaker 3: like you expecting, Well it's been is it a lot
- 53:46Speaker 3: of work? It's good?
- 53:48Speaker 1: I like any alcohol lenge?
- 53:51Speaker 3: Did you get like we're gonna go, Yeah, there's gonna
- 53:54Speaker 3: be did you get.
- 53:54Speaker 1: The rambling in to Come that's the Irish bar on wheels.
- 54:01Speaker 3: No, I haven't heard of them, but like we're gonna
- 54:03Speaker 3: so there's gonna be like we're gonna have some like
- 54:06Speaker 3: mobile cocktail bars like come to But there's also gonna
- 54:11Speaker 3: be because we're partnering with JML, the baseball it's like
- 54:18Speaker 3: a baseball nonprofit organization, and they're gonna be working like
- 54:25Speaker 3: I don't know, it's some large alcohol distributor. I can't
- 54:27Speaker 3: remember who that they We picked a whole bunch of
- 54:30Speaker 3: beers and stuff, and like they'll be there'll be something
- 54:33Speaker 3: for them you're in like Seltzers. But then they'll also
- 54:36Speaker 3: be like vendors for like if you want like cocktails
- 54:40Speaker 3: mixed drinks.
- 54:42Speaker 1: So this is you have to pull some permits for
- 54:43Speaker 1: this thing.
- 54:44Speaker 3: Huh oh yeah, yep, yep.
- 54:47Speaker 1: That should be fun though. I'm definitely checking that out.
- 54:49Speaker 3: Yeah, ten to seven on Saturday and then eleven to
- 54:55Speaker 3: six on something.
- 54:58Speaker 1: That's awesome. So that's almost coming to fruition. So what's
- 55:03Speaker 1: after that? I know people like you always got something
- 55:06Speaker 1: brewing down the door.
- 55:07Speaker 3: Yeah, so actually before that next Saturday, I believe it's
- 55:13Speaker 3: gonna be Have you heard of Crust Issues in Norwalk?
- 55:17Speaker 1: Crust Issues?
- 55:19Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to check them out. Like I would say,
- 55:24Speaker 3: they're probably like top three restaurants in Connecticut for me,
- 55:28Speaker 3: like just very very good, like Italian Americans going to say, like.
- 55:36Speaker 1: A play on pizza the crust part or yeah, yeah, okay,
- 55:40Speaker 1: but they serve obviously other things.
- 55:42Speaker 3: Yeah, Like they so on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, they
- 55:46Speaker 3: do this like family dinner style thing where it includes
- 55:52Speaker 3: as much as you can drink, like don't be a
- 55:53Speaker 3: govn but like as much as you can drink. And
- 55:58Speaker 3: it's literally a seven coarse meal for forty dollars and
- 56:05Speaker 3: the food is phenomenal, like blown, Like every time I go,
- 56:11Speaker 3: it's like amazing. So I was there yesterday and I
- 56:16Speaker 3: had a buffalo chicken palm with caesar salad like on
- 56:25Speaker 3: top of it. Like it's just like like scarp mozzarella sticks.
- 56:30Speaker 1: Oh man, like this speaking my language right now.
- 56:34Speaker 3: He comes up with it's literally like he comes up
- 56:37Speaker 3: with like the most delicious like combinations of food and
- 56:41Speaker 3: like just perfection.
- 56:44Speaker 1: You know what I learned a long time ago through
- 56:46Speaker 1: a deal.
- 56:47Speaker 3: You have to take a couple of pills.
- 56:48Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah to go there.
- 56:50Speaker 2: I'm just glad you mentioned that that recipe with that
- 56:53Speaker 2: that food, because one of the craziest things you can
- 56:57Speaker 2: like people like just look at caesar salad as a
- 56:59Speaker 2: caesar salad. I was introduced to a caesar salad on
- 57:03Speaker 2: top of a chicken palm as a sandwich, and like
- 57:07Speaker 2: I just asked this.
- 57:08Speaker 1: So it's it's Matt Wikner. He is now one of
- 57:10Speaker 1: the owners at Tribis and he used to be a
- 57:12Speaker 1: sus chef at stone Bridge.
- 57:13Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know.
- 57:14Speaker 1: And so on a Sunday, I was just hot outside.
- 57:16Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, man, you want to make me a
- 57:17Speaker 1: sandwich for launch he's like sure, and this thing comes
- 57:21Speaker 1: out and what the fuck is this? He's like, oh,
- 57:22Speaker 1: it's it's chicken palm. You know, legit chicken parm and
- 57:25Speaker 1: it's top of the caesar salad and you know, it
- 57:27Speaker 1: was on a grinder roll and it was the combination
- 57:32Speaker 1: was unbelievable. And I'm like then, I'm like, you know
- 57:34Speaker 1: what I put If I order a caesar salad? Sometimes
- 57:40Speaker 1: my meat is buffalo chicken because that works, Like you
- 57:43Speaker 1: just said that, it's it's it's just it's like Caesar
- 57:46Speaker 1: kind of like fits with a lot of things. That's great.
- 57:49Speaker 1: I gotta try that.
- 57:50Speaker 3: Like you know pastina. Have you ever had pastina? Okay,
- 57:55Speaker 3: so it's like an Italian pasta. They're like little they
- 57:59Speaker 3: look like like little beads. A lot of like Italian
- 58:02Speaker 3: people will eat it when they like don't feel good.
- 58:06Speaker 3: It's kind of like a I don't really feel good
- 58:07Speaker 3: kind of like chicken soup for like just like.
- 58:09Speaker 1: Little tiny brown noodles.
- 58:11Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, but he did them like vodka style. Like
- 58:17Speaker 3: I was like, I've never even heard of this before,
- 58:20Speaker 3: and like I had a bite and I was like,
- 58:21Speaker 3: oh my god, what is this sorcery? Like Seriously, every
- 58:26Speaker 3: single thing I've tried there, I've been like super impressed.
- 58:29Speaker 3: Like that does not happen like for like for me
- 58:31Speaker 3: to be like super impressed, Like it's gotta be like
- 58:35Speaker 3: next level. Yeah, So we're gonna do a lunch where
- 58:42Speaker 3: all the courses are like different kinds of sandwiches, Like
- 58:45Speaker 3: you're gonna get like not a whole sandwich, You're gonna
- 58:48Speaker 3: a little sting like there. His sandwiches are like long,
- 58:53Speaker 3: and it'll probably just like cut them off. Yeah, and
- 58:57Speaker 3: the menu looks pretty good. Like so we haven't announced
- 59:02Speaker 3: it yet. I guess I'm announcing it, announcing it right
- 59:05Speaker 3: now on Saturday. I think I know, because I think
- 59:12Speaker 3: I might have said to him, like I don't want
- 59:14Speaker 3: to start doing the promo until after Happy Our Week,
- 59:17Speaker 3: because what I find on my page is like when
- 59:20Speaker 3: I get involved with promoting too many things, it's just
- 59:22Speaker 3: too much for people to take. And then like you
- 59:27Speaker 3: just don't you just really don't want to promote too
- 59:29Speaker 3: many things at once because then like each event doesn't
- 59:33Speaker 3: really get the like attention and focus that it deserves.
- 59:36Speaker 2: So and if people are like literally following you, they
- 59:40Speaker 2: might pick and choose. Yeah, you know, like, oh well
- 59:43Speaker 2: let's skip this one, but let's go to that one.
- 59:45Speaker 3: Yeah. So his restaurant is like mostly to go, and
- 59:49Speaker 3: then he started doing these dinners and he's there's been
- 59:52Speaker 3: a lot of like influencers or content creators that our
- 59:56Speaker 3: foodies that have like really good followings that have been
- 59:59Speaker 3: going there and like do reviews and they've been like
- 1:00:01Speaker 3: going viral and stuff. So like his dinners have been
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: like selling out because like it's like one seating, so
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: it's mostly to go, and it's very good to go,
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: I'm sure. Yeah, but I've only ever eaten there, but
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: oh my god, phenomenal.
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: So I'm getting a little upset. So, oh, the Crust
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: Issues event, yeah, is April fifth. Yeah, I will be
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: in Boston at a Red Sox game.
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: Ah.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: Your next event is the twenty sixth and twenty seventh,
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: where I have a wedding weekend. I hope they will
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: make you know, the Saturday morning. Yeah, I can't get
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: all bombed up and you know, well I could.
- 1:00:42Speaker 3: Just show up, you know, feeling nice.
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: It's ubers. Yeah, well actually Sauray, actually no Saturday, I'll
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: be able to go. So I'm not that upset because
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: it's just a it's a cocktail party basically Saturday night. Yeah,
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: Sunday's the wedding. Yeah, I'm afraid to ask you what's
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: after that because it's probably gonna be like Memorial a
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: weekend and I gotta work.
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: I don't. You know. There's some things that like I've
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: been talking about, like some things are brewing, but nothing
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: like set in stone that like I could announce right now,
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: Like there's nothing nothing else crazy. So when I was
- 1:01:12Speaker 3: working with the d MBA on the Happy Hour week
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: and the Foodyfest, basically like the committee approved both of
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: the events like at the same time, and so I
- 1:01:22Speaker 3: just had to like hit the ground running on those
- 1:01:24Speaker 3: two events. So to work on those two events at
- 1:01:27Speaker 3: the same time when we didn't even talk about it.
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: But like this is not what I do full time.
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: It's like my side.
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: Awsome yeah right right now, same yeah.
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: Yeah, So like with all like you know, I haven't
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: really been able to like focus too much on like
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: other stuff for like my like future events.
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: Right right. It's a lot of work, Yeah, a lot
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: of work.
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: It's a lot of work.
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: Oh, I get it, you know.
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: It's I've been involved in golf tournaments and all that.
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: It's just like there's so everyone just thinking, hey, good job.
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: It's like, no, you really got to see what we're
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: doing behind the scenes. Yeah, you know, pulling permits and
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: and you know, you get rejected on some stuff and
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: you try to figure out other ways to get it going,
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: and then you have to get everyone to.
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: Fucking commit to you yes on the same day. Yes,
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: you know, And it's just it's hard. I get it.
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: I totally get it, even like for the Happy Hour week,
- 1:02:15Speaker 3: like trying to get restaurants to buy into it was
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: kind of hard. Like I wasn't.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: Expected like all right, it's downtown Milford, let's go. And
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: I'm like like a couple hundred bucks and they're balking
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: at it.
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: I'm like what. I'm like, it's not going to be
- 1:02:28Speaker 3: like that much work on your end, Like I'm gonna
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: come in here, like I'm gonna get all this content,
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: I'm gonna edit it, I'm gonna promote you, like we're
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: gonna we were offering you like so many things for
- 1:02:39Speaker 3: like such a good rice, Like why would you not
- 1:02:41Speaker 3: want to participate? Like I have to say, I'm like
- 1:02:43Speaker 3: really disappointed that Archiees isn't participating and they are members
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: of the d MBA, so it would be two hundred
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: something bucks for them, right, I'm like, this is like
- 1:02:52Speaker 3: the perfect place for to be like on the crawl.
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: Like no, Like I love Archie's there all the time.
- 1:03:00Speaker 3: I love Archie and like the managers that I spoke to,
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: like they were into it, but like I guess they
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: never got like approval from the owners. And I'm like,
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: why this is, Like, so this is such a good.
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: Event I've had. I've tried to get Viva in there
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: before and I get the same pushback. They just can't
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: get the ladder.
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, I will be in here every Sunday
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: in the summer crushing fucking twelve of these if you
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: can't get rid of them, you know what I mean.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: And that was two summers ago, and now they're like
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: I don't think, I don't know if they'll bring them in.
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: But so that's part of what you do, you like
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: help get Viva.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: Into like sponsorship role with them.
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: That's really cool.
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: Yeah. I've done some you know ride alongs with them
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: and uh, you know along the east the coastline. Yeah,
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: and just try to get them into bars and you know,
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: they're growing, they're getting uh, they're getting pretty big.
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: This is really good. Yeah, I would definitely buy this.
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: Where what liquor stores.
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: Is this that they're at? Total, They're at my good
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: friend Coreysoops over It, Wines and more. They're not everywhere
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: in Milford, but you know, bar wise, they're at Stonebridge
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: and Citrus and you know they were in my bar
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: for a little while.
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: But so you're friends with the owners of Citrus.
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: Yeah, they should have participated.
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: You know what left me on Red?
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: I hate left you on Red. Yeah, I don't know.
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: I mean next next year, if this is an annual thing,
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: I'll get them to sign up. Did you talk to Kenny? No,
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: you gotta talk to Kenny now.
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: Every time I went there, they like weren't open yet,
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: and like it was so much work to go to
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: all these places, Like I can only go so many times,
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: and like if nobody's there, like whatever, and I can't.
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: I'm like I can't. You know, It's just I'm like,
- 1:04:46Speaker 3: all right, I give up.
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: But I also noticed you you you posted a lot
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: of these videos that you know are free. I mean,
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: I know you're paying for the week with the business
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: associate but you're posting a lot of these videos and
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: basically highlighting these restaurants, and you know you have a
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: ton of followers and you do a great job on them.
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know me, I'm like her, they drinking dog,
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: you know, like, but you were professional with it about
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: all that. But like the I mean that that adds
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: a lot of value to.
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: What a couple of hundred bucks, you know, like these
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: you know, you know what you I can almost guarantee
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: you if you talk to County he would have said, yes.
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: An RB, it's just they don't open, you know, they're
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: not really open for lunch. Yeah, I mean they are,
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: there's drinkers in there, but find County is not always
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: the easiest during the day. But but yeah, no, great job.
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: Where are you going tonight?
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: So let's see. So I already went to Cafe Atlantic
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: on Monday, then Stonebridge, Flip Side, uh B, stro Mediterranean,
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: and Dock Side.
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: You've been to Plan B too, right, I.
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: Think I'm going to go to Plan B tonight. Yeah.
- 1:05:58Speaker 3: I haven't been there for like a happy hour week yet,
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: so I think I'll go there and then maybe.
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: Are you hitting them all tomorrow? Are you be stationed
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: at Stonebridge.
- 1:06:11Speaker 3: No ideally like I'm I'm also participating because I want
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: to make sure that like all the places are like
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: you know, doing what they're supposed to do and like
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: make sure everything's like going well and you know whatever,
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: do you have a do you have a like a.
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: Like are people signed up to do this kind of
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: crawl tomorrow or is just kind of So we were.
- 1:06:31Speaker 3: Pre selling tickets and then yeah, we were pre selling
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: tickets and then my tickets a day up fifty bucks
- 1:06:38Speaker 3: to go to five places to get food like a
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: like a sampling of food and like a half poor
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: of a drink, but like some places might offer more,
- 1:06:46Speaker 3: but like that's like the minimum, so I think like
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: half Atlantique is going to like offer like a little
- 1:06:50Speaker 3: bit more.
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: Stonebridge we're definitely sticking to that a half drink.
- 1:06:58Speaker 3: So when I went in there on Tuesday, Phil is like,
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: I was like, oh, do you know what you're going
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: to offer for food yet? And he was like, yeah,
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: we had some ideas, but I said no, like we
- 1:07:06Speaker 3: need to level it up a little bit more. Like oh, okay,
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: because you get to vote, so there's you got a
- 1:07:11Speaker 3: risk band when you check in and then you also
- 1:07:14Speaker 3: get like a map, and on the map, on the
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: back side of it, there's a voting card for you
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: to pick like best drink, best app, best overall experience.
- 1:07:22Speaker 3: So ideally these places we're gonna put in an effort
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: to win, right, and.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: Then you obviously promote the hell out of that. I'm
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: sure the winners and all that for sure, and everyone
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: else is you know, that's participated. I'm sure. Yeah, that's cool.
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: That's a great idea. I'd love to see happy hours
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: get better. You know, I go to Stone Ridge and
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: you know, I'll work there in the wintertime, and you know,
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: I get there at four and you know, really outside
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: of tables, don't get much bar action during the week.
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: You know, the weekends are fine, but yeah, you know,
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: it used to be a you know, everyday thing. You know,
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: people come in from, especially like people that work you know,
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: nine to five or I work early.
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: I'm out at two. You know, if I'm going to
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: drink during a week, it's right now. You know, I
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: gotta I gotta work tomorrow morning. But you know, I'll
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: drink now and then I'll be home by seven and
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: then bed by night.
- 1:08:08Speaker 3: That's what I like That's why I like Happy Hour
- 1:08:10Speaker 3: so much. I'm like, I gotta get I have. I
- 1:08:13Speaker 3: wasn't like diagnosed with like what with whatever you have,
- 1:08:17Speaker 3: but like I've had problems with like aids and stuff too,
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: And like I gotta eat early, like I gotta I
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: gotta be digestive.
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't eat six thirty seven during a week. Yeah,
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: So definitely no like ten o'clock fucking Taco bell No way,
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: no way. Is it Like I could do a whole
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: show and like the psychosis of food and how it's
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: just like, like, you know, I'm a bigger guy. I've
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: I've fluctuated in wait me too, believe it or not.
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: But like I like, there's just some things with food.
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: It's just and it's it's it's you know, I'm a
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: big conspiracy theory guy. So especially the United States if
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: you look at other countries, like we are just like
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: literally just attracted to like the worst possible food you
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: can find in the world, and that being Tacko bell A,
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: McDonald's and these fast food places and even shit you
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: get at the supermarkets and it's so hard to find healthy,
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: good tasting food and it's just it's just fascinating, but
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: like it's funny, Like I'll.
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: Be the first to admit it.
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: You know, I've I've lasted fifty one years on this earth,
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: and I hope I live another thirty five fifty one.
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: Yeah, just turned you don't.
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: Look fifty one.
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: I thank you. Yeah, I would have never guessed that
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: if I think, if I died my beard, I can
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: get like forty. I just like my beard. That come,
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's so funny.
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: I would have never guessed.
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: Yeah. So, like, and I've eaten some you know, you're
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: younger than you're eating some crap too, you know there's some.
- 1:09:48Speaker 3: But I try, I try, like drink when I'm not
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: like out blogging. I really try to, Like I gotta
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: stay balanced, because if I just eat everything when I
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: go and like do these reviews, I would.
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: Just like I'm I'm like infamous for like when I'm out,
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: like like I'm going to Boston next weekend with my
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: girl just does too. Celsia's game Friday night, Red Sox
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: game Saturday, coming back Sunday. We'll be drinking, obviously, and
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: I'll get back to the hotel and I am like
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: only time I'll ever order Domino's pizza.
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: It's like speed dial, like.
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: My orders already prepped and like I've had like so
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: many issues though, but I don't care, Like I mean
- 1:10:30Speaker 2: as far as like it'll take an hour, I'll like
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: pass out, but like I make sure I stay at
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: a hotel and then fucking I don't have to go
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: downstairs to get the fucking Dominoes.
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: Like I make sure it comes up to me.
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: I don't want to be the guy in the boxer
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: shorts and a T shirt running downstairs to give my
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: pizza outside the elevator.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: To do it. But uh, but yeah, I do stupid
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: ship like that. But I mean mostly during the week,
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: I pretty you know, pretty good and good lunches every day.
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: I pack them so but like you and like balance,
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: there's so much shit that's so bad for you, but
- 1:11:04Speaker 2: it tastes so fucking good.
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: Yep.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: And you know the repercussions are coming like Taco bell,
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: like you know, like all right, it's gonna end poorly.
- 1:11:12Speaker 1: But I don't care.
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes you just have to. Yeah, it's all about balance,
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: you know.
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: And you got to help me get Dame on the show.
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, Oh I love to have that guy on.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: He's awesome. All right, you're ready for my douche of
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: the week. Yes, So.
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: This week is actually a little bit of an older story.
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: I wanted to tell it last week, but it just
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: didn't fit the show or the guest, so I pushed
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: it off. And now it's very meaningful to me.
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: So I'm getting Ah, I haven't had a dog in
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: my life in probably thirty plus years, and we're getting
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: a shitsu on Saturday morning. Oh my god.
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: Yes, he is a little white shitsu. His name is
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: going to be Polar Bear and he's adorable. He's twelve
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: weeks old and we're going up to Southberry to get him,
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: and uh it's you know, he's We're so excited.
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: How did you decide on?
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: So we actually babysat one like like six weeks ago.
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: He was a fourteen year old guy. He just like
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: sat on my lap. He was like deaf, you know,
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: and just the cutest little thing. And my girlfriend was like,
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: you know, we were talking about a dog. But I'm
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: very allergic to like bigger dogs and shadding and all that.
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: Shitsus are hypoalogenic. I still have to be careful. I
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: can't like rub my eyes after I pet him up,
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: So that was kind of like a trial. I said,
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: I'll get a shit too. So of course, the next
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: day my girl's online. I found this breeder in Southberry
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: and we were up there, you know. Well, she went
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: up like the next weekend.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: I went up there a couple of weekends later and
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: met him and he's just I'll show a picture after me.
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: You know, They're so cute, and it's the perfect dog
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: for me because I don't have to worry about my allergies,
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: and it keeps her and her son happy, you know
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: what I mean. And you know, so when I saw
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: this article, is kind of right when we purchased the dog.
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: So there's this lady, her name is Alison Lawrence, and
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: she was trying to board a flight in Orlando, Florida
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: with her dog, and she didn't have the right paperwork
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: to get the dog on the flight, so they wouldn't
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: let the dog in the flight.
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: So this is gonna end really bad. I'm just warning.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: So she brought the dog into the bathroom and drowned
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: the dog in the toilet and boarded the flight and left. Seriously,
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: So when I read the article, if I had read
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: this article three months ago, two months ago.
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: I would have been like fucking you know, douche, But
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: but now it like hit home.
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: I'm like, it's funny because you probably really never listened
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: to the show. But like I always talk about how
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: dog owners are like a little different kind of people
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: than normal people.
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: Like they'd probably rather a dog's life be saved over
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: a humans. Yeah, you know, are you a dog owner? No?
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: But you know what I mean now, But like both
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: my family and my husband's family.
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: Like yeah, all dogs, right, Yeah. So and I grew up,
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: I grew up on Doberman's and stuff, and but I
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: just haven't had that real feeling in my life in
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: so long. Yeah. And uh and even though I don't
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: have them yet, I get them. Saturday morning, I read
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: this article on him, like are you fucking kidding me?
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: And she got She eventually got.
- 1:14:29Speaker 2: So this happened in like December, and they just like
- 1:14:31Speaker 2: they just arrested her, Like, well, now it's almost like
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: three weeks ago. Like I said, it's a little it's
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: not while it's right, Well, they had to like do
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: a lot of you know, it's like somebody just found
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: the dog, so they had to you know, there's a
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: lot of investigation with the cameras and they finally tracked
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: her and she got like third degree uh cruelty to animals,
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: which I thought was like you drowned.
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: A dog in a fucking airport toilet, like like you mental,
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: You can't just leave the fucking dog. Just leave him
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: in the hallway and get on your flo and let
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: somebody else like you know, or let him outside and
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: let him run and be free. Like I don't know,
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: like like what what kind of sesses you to do that?
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: That's just an evil person.
- 1:15:12Speaker 3: That's it's time so quiet.
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: I'm just like Lawrence Alison, Lawrence Orlando Orlando Airport too.
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: We've all been to Orlando Airport. You've been to Disney, right, Yeah,
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: that is insane.
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: It's like it's like a.
- 1:15:30Speaker 3: Do you know how old the dog like was?
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: It don't have all that info.
- 1:15:33Speaker 3: No, it doesn't matter.
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: But like she she held the head. Think about drowning
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: a dog in a toilet. You gotta hold the head
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: down as the dog.
- 1:15:42Speaker 3: Is God, I know that is that's like the evil.
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: That's like the mega del literally like you need to
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: have levels.
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: I know. Actually when I was actually like thinking about
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: using that this week I'm like, it's like you beyond douche.
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: That's just evil that there's some very.
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: Six people in this world. I watched too much. I
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: watched too many shows. When we have kids one day,
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: I'm like, when we have kids one day, I'm like,
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: they're not going anywhere, Like I'm gonna I'm gonna need
- 1:16:09Speaker 3: like a full I'm gonna have to like spy on
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: them first, do a few drive bys, make sure there's
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: something fucking crazy going on, right.
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: I just it's just like and for whatever reason, it
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: just like hit home harder, like wait, I'm gonna like
- 1:16:24Speaker 2: I would never do that to my dog.
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: I mean, anyone's like where were you going? Where you
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: were like, okay, I have to drown, Like, well, you
- 1:16:32Speaker 3: don't call it like a like a security officer over
- 1:16:34Speaker 3: and say, hey, I'm really I'm like, say she.
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: Really had to get on that flight. I'm in a bind.
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: Do you guys have a kennel here? Something like I
- 1:16:42Speaker 2: don't have the right paperwork to get this dog on
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: the plane.
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: What do I do?
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: But I have to get on that plane and maybe
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: they could figure it out and then if worst comes
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: the worst, here's the leash. I'm sorry I gotta go.
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: Like, at least at least like somebody somebody will there
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: will have a bleeding heart and we'll take care of it.
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: Right. I don't even know what kind of dog it was.
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: I'm assuming it had to be either a smaller dog
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: or you know, a puppy or you know. I mean,
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: you can't drown like a fucking ground in a toilet,
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: I don't think, but I.
- 1:17:14Speaker 3: Being in the bathroom, went like, how did how did
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: how do people find out about this?
- 1:17:18Speaker 1: Like somebody stumbled upon it when they went into the
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: toilet they found it.
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: She was already gone, that's evil, that's evil.
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: You've had like six I've had you know, six Jamo's
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: at the airport bar and I walk into the what
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: the fuck.
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: Damn fucked up? Oh that's terrible. Yeah, definitely super devil douche,
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: like that devil douche of the weak, devil douche of
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: the week. Man.
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: It's just it's crazy. But yeah, I'll show you pictures
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: of my little pooch after the show. Yeah, we're excited.
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: One o'clock on Saturday. Yeah, twelve weeks old. I mean
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: he's like he's like this big.
- 1:17:57Speaker 3: Did you meet the dog?
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: Yeah, we went up there. You already like okay, you're like,
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: you know, she like the lady is like super sweet.
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: She face times us with the dog like twice a week.
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: She's like, he's gonna be he's coming home like basically
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: potty trained most of his shots except brabies, you know,
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: and she's already like, oh, well, we can't have himself.
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: We need to get another one.
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: Down at a time.
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: I got three chickens in the backyard. I got four
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: fish in a pond. Yeah, oh that's really cool.
- 1:18:26Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: So I'm like, we're like a fucking farm now, and
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: it's like slow down there, doctor Dolittle, Jesus Christ. Yeah,
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: it just fun. Free eggs we don't pay for. Everyone
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: thinks that, they're like, oh, you have free eggs. I'm like, no,
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: not really.
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: I gotta buy food and you know, and clean the
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: fucking ship up, and yeah, you know, it's not really free.
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: But do you sell the eggs?
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: No, I give something these guys at work, and we
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: get like three or four a day, So I don't
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: really eat eggs too much.
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: The kid does a little bit and they start piling up.
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: She'll bake with them and stuff, but they are totally.
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: Different though they're very I'm sure, very yellow.
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: Yes, very yellow.
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: That's how you know they're out there, right, all right,
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: Gina Thomas, I know you have a big two nights
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: left of this Milford Happy Hour week.
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: Follow her at the Bottom Score Happy Hour Hunter, right,
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: and if you.
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: Follow her, follow me at DDWD Bottom Score Podcast right,
- 1:19:23Speaker 2: and you can see the show. Well now, it's ending
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: live on Twitch. It'll be on YouTube by the end
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: of the day, and it'll be on it'll be on
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: Apple and Spotify and all that good stuff, probably in
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: like ten minutes.
- 1:19:36Speaker 3: So oh shit, I just hit ten k. Look at
- 1:19:40Speaker 3: that twit following. Yeah, I'm so happy that I'm here
- 1:19:47Speaker 3: with you.
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: Awesome, absolutely, And now you know, like I said, I
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: recognize you when you walked in, and I'm everywhere I'm
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: sure like I've now now i'll see it's Stone, b,
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: Citrus and all over downtown Milford.
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: I can't wait. So awesome to have you, and we'll
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: have you again. You ever want an event you're doing, obviously,
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: just feel free to reach out. Yeah, we'll bang out
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: another show and hopefully the douche of the Week isn't
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: as bad as the one.
- 1:20:13Speaker 3: Please that my stomach herb.
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: Thanks everyone, we'll talk to you next week. Thank you,
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: you're welcome. Bye bye