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Bill's Xmas Tree Shopping and Hot Pot for December 16th. 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I went got a Christmas tree and we went
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  to the Robinson Tree Farm, of course on thirty third South.
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  It's out there by the it's unfortunately it's by the
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  sewage treatment plant and occasionally you'll get a little whiff
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  of that. But but they're nice people. They have really
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  good trees. The prices of the point, they've gone up
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  this year a lot. But so we're shopping through the
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  trees and usually we go earlier. I was they were
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  it was kind of bear you know, there were well, yeah,
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  this sold a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: Most people by now have their tree. You're late to
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  the tree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were very quite late this year. But we
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  found a very nice tree. And so as where I
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  always have, the guy loaded up on top of my
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  car and tie it on there with the twine, and
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  he started started talking to me a little bit and
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  he and it turns out he was a friend of
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  the program. His name is Stuart, Stuart Ramirez and lived
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  out in Tuila and he's a friend of the program.
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  And he says, he said, did you did you go
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  try did you go to that Robinson place up at
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  the golf course up on seven.
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  Speaker 2: It's a trick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, no, No, I didn't fall for that
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  the first year they were in there. Uh, it's been
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  about five years or something like that. So this Robinson
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  family tree farm used to be at the Nibley golf
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  Course and they the city up the rent for them
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  to use the space, and so that was too expensive.
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  And this other, this other tree farm is there now
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  and it's called the Robertson something, but it's close to
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  it's close to the same name.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not a discerning Christmas tree purchaser, you might
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  not recognize it's a different place.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to trick you to believe it's it's the
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  same one, but it's not. So you uh, And I
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  forget how I found out that we went there, And
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  I don't know. I forget how we found it. We
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  didn't buy a tree. There was somebody told us, or
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  I think somebody in the parking lot told us said,
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  you know, you know, this isn't this isn't the Robertson family.
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  This is they're out on thirty third, Robinson family. So
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  we so we've been going there and and they're always
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  really nice. But Stuart Ramirez, he he was he was
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  worried that we had gotten tricked by them before. We said, no, Stuart,
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  we didn't. And he he really likes the show and
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  he was very nice and uh he and and he
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  bitched about the traffic into Willa. He said, how come
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  what why do you think it is that we're we're
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  always getting a bad traveling. We can't get in and
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  out at Willa because there's one road, there's one way
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  to get Yeah. And so then but then we went
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  to a dinner afterwards with the tree still of course
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  tied to the top.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you did someone steal your tree?
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  Speaker 1: We went to Chinatown. Uh there on State Street, that
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  Chinatown place, and I think Katie's got a picture of
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  the it's the Chengdu Hot Pot and Barbecue. That is
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  such a cool sign. And I this place is incredible.
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  Have you been to it? Caring I've not been to
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  the restaurant. We go shopping down there though. Yeah, that
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  that it is really it's really good. Uh it is there.
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  It's a set price per person and you can have
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  barbecue or hot pot or both and so on your table.
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  In the center there's a grill that you can grill
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  meat on. And we just had the hot pot and
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  then and then there are these little places with in
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  front of each place, like there were four at our
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  table where you get broth. They bring you the broth
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  and put it in the pot and it stays hot
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  because there's a heater under it, and then you go
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  and pick on the Then you tell them what kind
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  of meat you want, and you can get pork belly
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  and beef and other stuff, and they bring that to
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  the table and it's thin sliced and you throw it
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  in the hot pot and it cooks really quickly. But
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  then you go to this big like buffet bar, and
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  there's all kinds of stuff that you can get and
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  bring back and put in your hot pot. In the broth,
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  there's there's crab and shrimp and various all kinds of
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  vegetables and it's and it's amazing the variety of stuff
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  that they have. They have a sauce bar where you
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  can go, you know, soy sauce and different kinds of
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  hot sauces. How many kinds of sauces, well, at least
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  twenty seven at least twenty seven sauce.
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  Speaker 2: Are they suitable for any meal?
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  Speaker 1: I think these are only suitable for hot Oh and
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  and I was just and it's a big place, and
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  we got there pretty early. It's a good thing we did,
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  and it was someday because as we were leaving there
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  was a line out the door for this place. I
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  had no idea. I mean, i'd barely even I mean,
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  I didn't know it was there, and I'd never been
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  to that market there either. We go to the market
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  there a huge and it's got got everything. I mean,
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  my god, that you just look around and go, who
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  needs this much stuff? You know what I mean. It's
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  like there's like twenty varieties of crackers, and it's just
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  it's just it's sort of overwhelming. You do like a
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  variety of crackers? Oh man, you enjoyey? I bet you
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  would go there, Gina, and of the huge variety they have,
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  you would not find one thing that you would like.
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  It's not true, not one. This looks too strange, you
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  would say, because it's all you know, it's all from it.
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  Most of it. You can't read what it is. You
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  kind of have to go by the pictures on it.
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  If you look on the back there's an English translation sticker. Yeah,
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  but this this hot pot place, I'm I'm gonna go back,
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  but I'm gonna I'll go early because it's it's popular.
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  And there were families there with kids and they you know,
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  you could tell they've been sitting at that table for
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  a long time, just going back and getting more pretty.
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  It's really cool. Not enough turnover a turnover chain do
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  chain do I think it's called Yeah, they're chips potato chips. No,
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  they have kind of potato chips at that market. Oh,
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  they have all the kick that you would like to have,
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  all the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I could find some.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have all the very And I've done the
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  hot pot before you.
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  Speaker 2: And we did hot pots with uh with vegetarians mm
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  hm who like I couldn't share their hot pot like
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  I'm just cooking. No, you gotta have your own pot.
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  Speaker 1: Do not put your you know, well you want to.
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  You wouldn't want to share a pot anyway, No, you
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  don't want to. You just want your own hot pot. Yeah,
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  and it's that it is good for vegetarians. I mean
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  there's all kinds of veggies you can put in that.
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  There's a little Korean shop there where we get a
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  little to go. Stuff is delicious. But all the kit
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  cats and potato chips, you'd you'd be you'd be thrilled.
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  I think there are two hot pot places there in
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  that chinadown