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- 1:56nice i wasn't gonna go that far no no all right minigun no no no no violence oh okay
- 2:10all right all right just like a little bit of a you know t-shirt cannons irritating
- 2:16door-to-door salesman type approach there you go we're here talking to your neighbors today about
- 2:22you know blah blah blah fill in the blank and we thought you might like to also know about these
- 2:27things better idea the annoying ice cream truck but it never leaves your neighborhood ever did i
- 2:36ever tell you that story i think so maybe but let's hear it go oh like dude this thing was like
- 2:44just blaring for like i don't know it felt like hours it was probably more like 10 or 15 minutes
- 2:50so I went out there and I'm like dude I was not in a good mood already but this thing's pretty
- 2:55loud I was just you know like I kind of lost a little bit on them they didn't come back for like
- 3:00eight years did you get a free bomb pop out of it no I did not dude weak
- 3:07weak yeah we had one that used to drive around our old neighborhood before we moved out of here
- 3:14and this thing was the most annoying thing because not only did it do the music right and
- 3:21at peak volume like over a freaking like you know weimar republic loudspeaker type of tinny
- 3:30you know what i mean this is like so bad but then like every i don't know 10 seconds it would stop
- 3:37and go hello hello and it was like i i was just like i i want to just take that thing out i really
- 3:52badly just want to rip that loudspeaker off of that thing but hey they had good ice creams and
- 3:59kids loved it so it was a good deal anyway how did you get me onto ice cream trucks man i tried
- 4:04to put that out of my brain i don't remember now we talked to something happened the door to door
- 4:10now yeah selling the uh there you go thing there you go that's what it was the subscribe button
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- 4:27to sit in your driveway and play that horrible horrible music for hours on end right right
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- 4:39getting nudes until you pay us to stop or hit subscribe
- 4:42wow wow you're you're serious about this aren't you
- 4:49we're almost at 50 man we're so close it's kind of a cool thing
- 5:01A little milestone.
- 5:04It's pretty cool.
- 5:05It's pretty cool.
- 5:06Gotta love it.
- 5:08So alpaca wrapped up.
- 5:10I thought that was yet another amazing year.
- 5:12I think that's year eight?
- 5:15Is it really eight?
- 5:16Oh, wow.
- 5:17It's either seven or eight.
- 5:19I want to say it's eight.
- 5:24I'll have to look at the T-shirts in the closet and see what years they're from.
- 5:29I don't even know.
- 5:30Yeah, right?
- 5:30you know what we didn't do this year is we didn't do a group photo
- 5:34oops yeah i know yeah that was a that was a mistake we should have oops well we didn't have
- 5:44shirts this year either so that's okay yeah we don't need shirts we don't need shirts shirts
- 5:50like i'm running out of room in the closet i get too many green shirts taking up all the space
- 5:54we'll just get rid of a few with holes in them yeah i thought about that then i'm like man they're
- 5:59Perfectly good, like working on the car shirts or, you know, working outside shirts.
- 6:04Yeah, I know.
- 6:06I mean, why throw away his shirt just because it has, you know, a little tiny hole in it or.
- 6:1140 of them.
- 6:12My lovely wife's got some bleach on it.
- 6:16Hmm.
- 6:17They're not that bad.
- 6:18Well, I've got some that bad.
- 6:19I still refuse to get rid of them.
- 6:23Because they're, you know, you know how you were saying like the car hearts are so thick.
- 6:28They are thick.
- 6:29keep them for three or four years they're no longer until they get like paper thin you can
- 6:35see through them that's when they get good you put them on you're like oh that's so awesome
- 6:41like you i have a shirt like that too yeah yeah it's the best isn't it i mean
- 6:47it's literally like a piece of tissue paper it's that thin yeah but yeah it's too big for me now
- 6:54i can't really wear it i'm like get all tangled up and then stuff but i still can't throw it away
- 6:59because I'm just, you know.
- 7:00You could tie one of those Daisy Duke knots.
- 7:02That's an idea.
- 7:04I mean, you know.
- 7:08That's an idea.
- 7:10Get your jorts on, go out there working on the car
- 7:13with your Daisy Duke knot on the side.
- 7:17Or we could just have a get-together like every week
- 7:19because every time I get totally thrown off my entire regimen
- 7:24of how I eat and stuff like that,
- 7:27and I get lured into eating all the stuff that's horrible for me.
- 7:32Nobody lured anyone.
- 7:35Oh, dude, it's, yeah.
- 7:37It was not luring.
- 7:39Yeah.
- 7:40The fact that it was there and available and you chose, yes,
- 7:43that will go in my mouth nicely.
- 7:45Yeah.
- 7:46What is that?
- 7:48I don't know why I get the term, like, when the police set you up.
- 7:52Entrapment.
- 7:52Entrapment.
- 7:52It's entrapment.
- 7:53Yes.
- 7:54It's entrapment.
- 7:55You can't just leave like a, you know, an entire Tupperware container of homemade baklava just sitting there and expect not to eat some.
- 8:07Come on.
- 8:08And turtle brownies homemade.
- 8:10Yeah, right.
- 8:11Exactly.
- 8:12I actually had to hand it.
- 8:14You made the caramel.
- 8:17You let me burn it a little bit.
- 8:19It wasn't you.
- 8:21You were running the timer.
- 8:22Yeah, the stupid.
- 8:23And the thermometer.
- 8:24The stupid recipe book says to do it on way too high a heat.
- 8:28My wife and I always argue about this every year.
- 8:33We always argue about this.
- 8:35I'm like, that's too high.
- 8:36It's too high.
- 8:36And she's like, that's what it says.
- 8:38And I'm like, I don't care what it says.
- 8:39I'm telling you what's going to happen.
- 8:41It's going to go from perfect caramel to burnt in about 14 milliseconds.
- 8:48If it makes you feel any better, I didn't notice any difference.
- 8:51It tasted perfectly fine to me.
- 8:53burnt caramel is actually a dessert topping right and this one yeah and this one it has a bit of a
- 9:00a bit more of a i'm gonna say a bitey smoky kind of a flavor to it you know what i mean
- 9:06so it's used in confections right in in desserts um and this actually turned out perfectly just
- 9:14like that right but typically i go way lower and let it rise a lot slower and then we get to that
- 9:24perfect temp and we pull it and it turns out to perfect caramel it just takes a lot longer to do
- 9:30it that way but the problem is is you know that sugar is just pulling heat in right it's molten
- 9:35essentially at this point and you're getting that stuff like dumped on you by accident do i had that
- 9:41happen uh i was what yeah i was making peanut brittle a long time ago and had had the peanut
- 9:47brittle stuff it's basically the same thing come across a stripe on my hand boy that hurt
- 9:54but uh did it leave a mark uh it did it didn't scar me it didn't scar me no no which is weird
- 10:02yeah it never scarred me but it did burn me good um but i just turned around turned the cold water
- 10:09on and then the fun part was picking the brittle off of my skin did it come off in like one piece
- 10:16no little pieces kind of shattered like it's stuck yeah it wasn't fun but um yeah so anyway
- 10:24every year we do this and this year i was just like i'm not gonna you know start the the whole
- 10:28it's not an argument it's you know yeah it's not right oh well but it says i get what it says but
- 10:34it's not right oh but we should use what it says and i was like i'm just in a chill mood i'm not
- 10:41going to do that so we'll do it your way and maybe next year we won't be doing that well let me ask
- 10:47you this did you make a notation on the uh the recipe page because that recipe page was not new
- 10:53it's been around the block a few times so like you need to make a little notation on there like
- 10:57hey next time well like i was telling you you guys while we were sitting on the couch i'm like oh
- 11:02here it comes
- 11:04like what
- 11:05she's gonna be like
- 11:08Havoc
- 11:10can you come to the Carmel
- 11:12for me
- 11:13I was like I know she's gonna do it and then she was doing it
- 11:16and I was like maybe I
- 11:18passed and then all of a sudden Havoc
- 11:20can you come to the Carmel
- 11:22I was like I don't wanna
- 11:24how did I get roped into it
- 11:26did I volunteer
- 11:27you volunteered you walked right up and went
- 11:30I'll do that for a little while
- 11:31I'll do that if you want.
- 11:32That's how that happened.
- 11:33There you go.
- 11:35Nice.
- 11:37A lot of stirring.
- 11:39Yeah, it takes a good amount of stirring.
- 11:42A little bit more than I expected, to be perfectly honest with you.
- 11:46Your arm gets tired.
- 11:47A little bit.
- 11:49It's good cardio.
- 11:53Yeah, I don't know about that, but it definitely puts a hurting on your shoulder,
- 11:58you know your rotator right as you're doing this the whole time it starts to feel like stiff or
- 12:04whatever i don't know mad props to the baker people out there that do this stuff on a daily
- 12:09basis and the cooks right especially the cooks that are whisking eggs all the time yeah oh boy
- 12:15right imagine being in a busy we got those gigantic hobart mixers like 87 quarts or something
- 12:21depends depends i see them for sale once in a while and think man that would be neat to have
- 12:28like for a second and i'm like where would i put it yeah see the only way i could justify that is
- 12:34if it doubled as a concrete mixer or something i don't know maybe thin set concrete and cakes
- 12:41just don't get them mixed up yeah right
- 12:51I think your building might suffer on that one and so so would your guests this cake awfully chalky oh dang it that was the drywall this year
- 13:12yeah yeah our desserts were good had some good meat did my first brisket with your supervision
- 13:21you did and it turned out fantastical i thought it turned out great it was it was it was very very
- 13:30tasty and we you were a little bit nervous there like i was going to chop my hand off or something
- 13:34you you play awfully loose with that uh breaking knife and it is a sword man that thing wasn't even
- 13:42a knife it looked like like something out of aladdin like like a big scimitar thing like
- 13:49like what the heck is that thing dude yeah and it's it's sharp and and pointy and if you touch
- 13:55it it will cut you it just will it wants to poke you so yeah you were just i was i was more concerned
- 14:04that we were going to end up having to go and you know reconnect tissue at some point we had we had
- 14:13No unscheduled trips to the ER whatsoever this entire time.
- 14:17And no scheduled ones, thankfully.
- 14:21Right?
- 14:22Who would schedule a trip to the ER during Alpaca?
- 14:25I mean, come on.
- 14:29No, it went good.
- 14:30It did.
- 14:31So we were talking last episode about what car we were going to get.
- 14:34We did end up getting the Mazda.
- 14:36Yeah.
- 14:37How'd you like it?
- 14:38It was a little Mazda CX-5.
- 14:40Actually, I was a little skeptical at first.
- 14:42like i don't know about this dude it was actually pretty nice yeah i i was pretty happy with it
- 14:48comfortable like i i mean so so happy that i actually looked at them like yeah maybe i wouldn't
- 14:52mind owning one of these things but the price of a new one forget it i don't think it's worth that
- 14:58oh yeah yeah i mean they're like you know 30 grand plus pick for a little tiny little thing
- 15:03yeah and and mazda isn't exactly the longevity king on the road dude i think they're okay
- 15:13some are i mean it actually it has a regular transmission it's not even a cvt which i would
- 15:18never own a cvt yeah but you know regular six-speed transmission which is okay by me
- 15:24little 2.5 cylinder you know 2.5 liter four cylinder it ran all right man yeah i mean mazda's
- 15:30no turbo none of that garbage yeah that that definitely increases your uh
- 15:36likelihood of service events yeah yeah it rode nice though it was quiet you know it was
- 15:45comfortable i was impressed yeah not bad had a had a leatherette seating surfaces which is you
- 15:52know fake leather hey you know what he heated heated seats and didn't have the cooling seats
- 16:00but we didn't really need those in florida
- 16:02but the heated seats that like my wife back she really likes it for her back yeah even though we
- 16:09don't need them she likes it you just park the other way in the driveway all the seats will be
- 16:13heated already that's true look pretty heated seats 280 degrees ready to melt flesh
- 16:24yeah no we stopped at uh what's that i was gonna say those are nice the heated seats i don't have
- 16:33them in my truck yeah i think it's yeah i think it's pretty nice yeah i stopped at uh
- 16:38bucky's for the first time you ever been to bucky's yeah yeah insane place we actually went
- 16:46there twice we went once on the way up because gas was cheaper much cheaper there than any other
- 16:51place and uh it was early in the morning nobody was there it was pretty nice to walk around and
- 16:56look at the crap then the second time we came through oh it was packed packed to the gills and
- 17:01it was we went in to use the bathroom it was not as enjoyable with a full house yeah they have nice
- 17:09bathrooms though very clean they do they get like endless like private little stalls that you can go
- 17:16win yeah they're i mean they get like full-time guys and they're cleaning everything up yep very
- 17:21i'm assuming it's women in the women's side but you know like full-time crew cleaning everything
- 17:25up as you go damn it was nice yeah it is and no trouble finding a pump although trouble finding
- 17:33you might want to try and choose one not a mile away from the front door but you know whatever
- 17:39yeah we had to drive a little bit further like i mean the first time we went every pump like all
- 17:44867 of them were available this time we actually had to drive a little bit to find one yeah yeah
- 17:50the only weird part though like because so the windshield was dirty no windshield squeegees at
- 17:57the pumps i don't know if they had them somewhere else maybe in the facility but they tip the pumps
- 18:02they don't have them they typically do and they put them over by the air the tire air yeah that
- 18:09kind of stuff i didn't make it that far you know i actually when you and i were talking about this
- 18:15i looked it up and apparently it's a theft thing people come and steal the squeegees
- 18:19of course they don't i mean how much does a squeegee cost exactly i mean they're you know
- 18:25fairly nice so i'd imagine they're probably you know i mean if you got them in bulk probably five
- 18:30bucks a piece but if you're going through i mean i have one my wife bought one i guess i need to
- 18:35ask her how much she paid for it yeah i mean a nice one for a consumer probably cost you 30 bucks
- 18:4130 40 bucks no i don't think that was nice one that much is it nice better she better not have
- 18:46spent 30 bucks on one the stout wood handle one with a little pad on the back and the scrub this
- 18:52one's exactly like the one at the gas station all right you got it off amazon let's say 20 bucks
- 18:56do you want me to look go look give it give it a look let's see you're gonna make me look right
- 19:01don't look at timu that's not that's not no i'm not gonna look at nobody's buying timu squeegees
- 19:08with the two inch squeegee squeegee on the end
- 19:11big picture and you get the thing you're like what the hell is this
- 19:17hopefully it's in oh man
- 19:21oh that's nasty which little cleaner tool is that what it's called i think what it is
- 19:31no oh when she'll squeegee right here there you go seven dollars and 99 cents yeah is that really
- 19:41like a nice wood handled one it's no it's not wood and nobody's yeah the wood handled one exactly
- 19:47like the one you get at the gas station big heavy duty handle it's a plastic handle i'm gonna show
- 19:55it to you no i won't show it to you i probably got other stuff on there you don't want to say
- 19:59Yeah.
- 20:00You can put a picture of it up if you want.
- 20:03Okay.
- 20:04So still, let's say it's five bucks for them, right?
- 20:09Yeah.
- 20:10If you lose 10 of them a month, that's 50 bucks a month.
- 20:12But keep in mind, they have how many freaking bays?
- 20:16Dude, I don't know.
- 20:18I felt like a million of them.
- 20:20Yeah, right.
- 20:21I got to guess there's probably at least 100 bays there.
- 20:25Oh, at least.
- 20:26And if you're losing, you know, 10% of your squeegees a month, that's 50 bucks a month just going out the window.
- 20:37So throw them over in a different spot.
- 20:40Those that know, know, and it's not like a super easy thing to just pull your car up, be washing, throw the squeegee in with you and take off.
- 20:49Yeah.
- 20:50I mean, if you're, I guess if you're going to steal, dude, I would like, where do you put it?
- 20:55It's going to be soaking wet.
- 20:56You just throw it in the back seat.
- 20:58Like, man, whatever.
- 20:58Some people, you know, they don't, you know.
- 21:02And then what are you going to do with it?
- 21:03You don't have the tank to dip it in.
- 21:07Yeah, but you could have the tank of soapy gunk to do it.
- 21:13Can't steal that part.
- 21:16I feel like buckets are pretty cheap.
- 21:20I don't think it'll fit in a bucket, will it?
- 21:22Yeah.
- 21:22it's not it's not too wide to fit in a bucket no all right i'll have to test that later it's in a
- 21:28bucket you know what else they don't have at bucky's what big trucks no big trucks allowed
- 21:35yeah yeah you were telling me that yeah yeah that's pretty cool signs i guess yeah isn't that
- 21:42like discriminatory like i think it is i want you here i think it is i could swear the one i went to
- 21:49The entrances.
- 21:50I could swear the one I went to had trucks at it, though.
- 21:54Like a whole area for trucks, but maybe I'm off base.
- 21:58When I looked it up, I guess that's their thing.
- 21:59They just don't do trucks.
- 22:01They're more like just traveler-oriented.
- 22:05I guess RVs are okay, but no big trucks.
- 22:09Yeah, no commercial drivers.
- 22:12Just come in, shop until you drop, get your gas, get the hell out.
- 22:18Weird.
- 22:19i guess and visit they do that tons of tons of stuff in there i mean the store was gigantic
- 22:25yeah like a little fudge factory thing in the middle and like clothes i don't eat
- 22:30oh clothes out the yin yang tools yeah all kinds of like tents tchotchkes tents yep
- 22:37there was canoes and someone posted i don't know yeah someone posted one uh i want to say it was
- 22:44in texas somewhere but i'm not positive and maybe it was a meme i don't know so i have no no way to
- 22:51back this up or anything but they had bass boats for sale it wouldn't surprise me it really ton
- 22:58of camping gear there yeah yeah it wouldn't surprise me so who knows i mean hey why not
- 23:04but if you ever need like a sweatshirt or sweatpants with like a big beaver head on them
- 23:09dude that's that's your place to go you'll find them yeah i guarantee don't know that i've ever
- 23:15found myself in need of clothing with beaver heads on them but you know you know trends change
- 23:24you know who knows maybe that'll become the new fashion trend right trade in your your old
- 23:31faithful champion sweatpants for some bucky beaver sweatpants only if they're done right
- 23:39What if they have the cuffs at the bottom that you really like?
- 23:43Then fine.
- 23:43I'll trade them in.
- 23:44I don't care.
- 23:46I got like a big beaver head on the butt.
- 23:47The champion doesn't even make the good sweatpants anymore.
- 23:50They just make all these stupid sweatpants with either open legs at the bottom.
- 23:54It's like, that's not sweats.
- 23:56That's just pants.
- 23:56We're not going to go down that road again.
- 23:58We already been down that road.
- 24:00I don't want to get you all fired up this early.
- 24:02It's a conspiracy.
- 24:06They're out to make our ankles cold.
- 24:09hmm it's what it is
- 24:11i got a pair i'm pretty happy with i got a sam's club i'm content they're uh not that i'm like you
- 24:22know setting any brand you know things because they don't support us at all but the under armor
- 24:26ones is the one they had those are pretty good i'm happy with them oh cool yeah my wife got me
- 24:31some sweats that she found that are actually they're like old school sweats you know elastic
- 24:37waistband elastic elastic cuff they're kind of upscale they're thicker um but they're really
- 24:46i mean they're really thick and they're but they're very comfy like i can't wear them in the
- 24:50summer here oh they're probably no good for here then it's too hot but that's me that's me um
- 24:58that's me you're like that's 80 i should probably put a coat on
- 25:03like it's 70 it's kind of warm t-shirt and shorts is good so that being said i can't wear them in
- 25:13the summer just i can in the house i mean they're fine in the house but if i have to go outside and
- 25:18go do something i have to take them off and put something more reasonable on otherwise i feel like
- 25:23i'm in ski clothing in the summer right but they're really nice they're super comfy i love
- 25:30these sweats and now it's cool again so i can rock these bad boys yeah nice yeah yeah i'm very
- 25:38happy with them i don't know where she found them probably instagram or something like that i don't
- 25:43know maybe we can uh talk to the manufacturer get some like space tomatoes branded uh like right
- 25:51across the butt space tomato butted pants yeah take the pockets out of them and we can market them the women I feel like we might have a better shot of doing that if we leave the pockets in i thought women don want pocket i don know isn that
- 26:10how women's clothing goes without the pocket women want the pockets they do they very much
- 26:15they do they very much like pocket my wife gets so excited i'm not kidding you she's like oh and
- 26:21got this and i'm like oh that's cute and she's like oh we look at this pockets
- 26:25okay pockets you know what that's a novel concept if we double or triple the price call them premium
- 26:35premium hotcakes premium ladies sweatpants with pockets spoke bespoke bespoke that's the new
- 26:46Bespoke.
- 26:47Keyboard, yeah.
- 26:48Yeah.
- 26:48Premium ladies bespoke sweatpants with pockets.
- 26:55Mm.
- 26:55Uh-huh.
- 26:57Uh-huh.
- 26:58Uh-huh.
- 26:58Space Tomatoes logo with our faces right across the butt.
- 27:01That'd be great.
- 27:06Yeah.
- 27:07No, we can.
- 27:08Oh, man.
- 27:08I can just see it now.
- 27:09Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
- 27:12Are you counting pennies?
- 27:13We can't do pennies anymore.
- 27:14We're selling like pockets.
- 27:15Dang it.
- 27:15They don't make pennies anymore.
- 27:18Oh, well, all right.
- 27:22You don't go anywhere either.
- 27:24I was going to ask you if you run into that in the wild
- 27:27where they're not giving you change back,
- 27:28but you probably don't go out enough to know.
- 27:32Not really.
- 27:33I probably don't.
- 27:35I probably don't.
- 27:36Yeah, I have this love for here.
- 27:43Me too.
- 27:44Yeah.
- 27:44here is very nice we did make an excursion together that was fun yes we did yeah yeah
- 27:52like out in traffic and everything yes yes and our wives went and played frogger yeah
- 27:57running across the street dodging cars crazy ladies oh we weren't we weren't there for that
- 28:08we would put a stop to that silly nonsense right away.
- 28:12We would have been like,
- 28:13yeah,
- 28:13no.
- 28:17But yeah,
- 28:18we did.
- 28:19You got all cleaned up.
- 28:23What?
- 28:25Yeah,
- 28:25did.
- 28:27He did.
- 28:28Look at that.
- 28:29Look at that.
- 28:29Clean cut on the stash.
- 28:31Yeah.
- 28:32You can see my mouth again.
- 28:33Hello.
- 28:33Right.
- 28:33beards cleaned up nicely a little bit yeah no the guy did a good job i think he did a good job too
- 28:43yeah he's a good dude yeah good dude and kept you entertained too
- 28:49i thought it was pretty funny he was talking all the sports stuff with you and then he's like i
- 28:54I don't know anything about sports, but I cut hair.
- 28:57Yeah.
- 29:01I was like, so to do this job, you probably have to be a pretty people-friendly person.
- 29:07He's like, eh, we're just an antisocial person that's real good at pretending to talk about sports.
- 29:11And I'm like, all right.
- 29:12There you go.
- 29:13Sounds like a plan.
- 29:14Yeah, yeah.
- 29:16I'm sure he does a lot of talking about sports.
- 29:18Probably.
- 29:19I don't know why.
- 29:20I always just clam up in the barber chair.
- 29:24Like, I don't know.
- 29:26Just do the thing.
- 29:30Do that part.
- 29:31We'll get through this together.
- 29:33Yeah, I don't know.
- 29:34I mean, get like a flat razor to your neck.
- 29:36You probably don't want to say too much, right?
- 29:37That's true.
- 29:38That's true.
- 29:39Yeah, because my guy does use a straight razor.
- 29:42I saw him over there.
- 29:45So, like, I was, you know, like, I don't make it to the barber sub very often, as you could probably tell.
- 29:51But he had this gigantic mirror in front of me.
- 29:53Like I'm watching them the whole time, which is like slightly unusual.
- 29:56I've never like, usually they get the mirror afterward.
- 29:59Like, Hey, now you can look.
- 30:00And I don't know.
- 30:01Yeah.
- 30:02That's, I would say most of the, you know, better barber shops will, will give you a
- 30:08view into what's going on.
- 30:09So you're not freaking out.
- 30:12Um, and they do really, I've just, I've never had any bad experience with them.
- 30:17So just, I mean, it's a little weird, like having another dude, like running his fingers
- 30:22through your hair and i mean like dude i don't even touch myself that much you'll be all right
- 30:27you'll be all right but it worked all right you'll be all right the hot towel on the face thing
- 30:32yeah you get like a little nose hole to breathe out of i'm like all right feels good though
- 30:37yeah it does it's a little unnerving at first and then you're like okay this actually feels
- 30:45pretty good yeah i didn't die no i made you didn't even snore i did so are you supposed to fall asleep
- 30:54i don't know i have a couple of times i missed that part i have a couple have you really yeah
- 30:58nice i i used to go to them before every once in a while get a full face shave
- 31:03straight razor which is great because it lasts like three days um oh yeah i mean it's super close
- 31:12but uh three full days huh that's a lot if you're shaving you need to shave daily right
- 31:20otherwise the stubble comes out um with the straight razor it took like three days before
- 31:26my stubble came back it was like no i'm scared of you dude i'm not coming back yeah so but uh
- 31:33they put the hot towel on my face they do it for a little bit longer right and uh i was leaned back
- 31:39in that thing and that chair.
- 31:41It's all the way back.
- 31:42And just, that was it.
- 31:46They start shaking you like,
- 31:47hey, dude, we've got other customers here.
- 31:49You're scaring away.
- 31:50No, he came up and just touched my shoulder.
- 31:52He goes, it's relaxing, huh?
- 31:55And I'm like, oh, sorry.
- 31:56He goes, yeah, you got a little noisy for a second there.
- 32:00Nice.
- 32:01I apologize.
- 32:03It's not the first time he'd heard it though.
- 32:05So apparently it's a thing.
- 32:09Oh, you know what else we did?
- 32:11We did, we talked about everything we did.
- 32:14The karaoke thing.
- 32:14That was fun.
- 32:15We did.
- 32:16We did.
- 32:17And it was fun.
- 32:17Singing is harder than you think it should be.
- 32:21At least I thought so.
- 32:22Yeah.
- 32:23Yeah.
- 32:23And you have to like make noise with your mouth.
- 32:27Yeah.
- 32:29Wow.
- 32:29I chose the wrong song for me, I think.
- 32:31My throat was actually hurting after that.
- 32:35Well, yeah.
- 32:36I did the Louis Armstrong song.
- 32:37And after that, my throat was hurting.
- 32:43It's very hard to make that sound.
- 32:46I mean, he's, yeah, or was, yeah.
- 32:50Everybody mostly took a turn, sometimes more than one turn.
- 32:54Yeah, a couple of our friends hid.
- 32:57Two.
- 32:58Throughout that.
- 32:59We won't mention any names, Yukon and Nas.
- 33:04I won't throw him under the bus too much.
- 33:06shameful shameful they could have tried one they could have done a duet together yeah
- 33:17they would have been cool they could have totally done that could have even just been
- 33:22i tried that with my wife it was horrible we all enjoyed it i did it
- 33:26it was fun we just had fun that was the cool thing about it little
- 33:32the caterers and stuff so food got brought in we didn't have to go anywhere we had the bartender
- 33:38ladies they were super cool um that one sang really good yeah who was it so what were their
- 33:46names again shania that's what she's saying uh
- 33:52hannah hannah was her name and her friend was lauren yeah and this this hannah girl just
- 34:02belted out Shania Twain like
- 34:04yeah
- 34:06it was pretty good yeah fantastic
- 34:08actually
- 34:09very impressed made us all look or even worse
- 34:12yeah
- 34:13yeah we all had
- 34:16to like hide after that we're like
- 34:18fine put the karaoke
- 34:20machine away now
- 34:21thanks for ruining it for everyone
- 34:24lady you and your
- 34:26professional voice come
- 34:28in here
- 34:28now we had a blast
- 34:31That was a really fun time.
- 34:35And the girls, bartender girls, so my wife and I went to Hawaii for a work thing.
- 34:45And there's a place there called the Monkey Pod.
- 34:48If you are in Maui, Lahaina area, I would highly recommend going to the Monkey Pod.
- 34:54Great food, amazing staff, great location.
- 34:58and they have this monkey pod Mai Tai that is just, it's amazing.
- 35:08It's fantastic.
- 35:09So we had them try and recreate that.
- 35:12They did a pretty darn good job at that.
- 35:14And it's got a special like whipped cream foam that's got like passion fruit puree
- 35:20and an egg white and freaking honey and I don't know what else.
- 35:27but it's what's in it rum yeah both it's a hawaiian dark rum uh from lahaina lahaina dark
- 35:36rum and a lot lahaina hawaiian light rum and then other stuff yeah i did not try one so i can't even
- 35:48begin to tell yeah it's got like some everybody seemed to enjoy them macadamia nut or or or
- 35:54or O-R-G-E-A-T.
- 35:58I don't know what the heck that stuff is,
- 36:00but apparently it's pretty good stuff.
- 36:03So it's got that and it's got something else.
- 36:06It's got a bunch of stuff in it.
- 36:08It's a highly doctored up,
- 36:10not your beginner level, let's make a cocktail.
- 36:15Nice.
- 36:16But yeah, it turned out really nicely, really nicely.
- 36:18I was pretty amazed.
- 36:20They did a fantastic job and they were so fun.
- 36:23It was such a good time.
- 36:24I had a great time that night.
- 36:26I really did.
- 36:27The caterer kind of pissed me and my wife off, but home or whatever.
- 36:36It ended up working out okay.
- 36:37But yeah, no, I could see why you were a little bit here.
- 36:40Everyone enjoyed the food.
- 36:43Everyone was taken care of.
- 36:46And so at the end of the day, it was fine.
- 36:47But we got overcharged for what we were supposed to get.
- 36:52and we didn't even get what we were supposed to get out of the whole deal and two hours late.
- 36:58And so, you know, at the end of the day, it worked out well.
- 37:03Everyone was happy.
- 37:04Everyone was fed.
- 37:06And that's great.
- 37:07But, you know, as the person that coordinated, planned and tried to do all this stuff,
- 37:13persons, my wife and I, we didn't get what we were told.
- 37:19You know what I mean?
- 37:20It's one of those things.
- 37:21yeah that's the part that pissed me off let it go the review has been written yet no
- 37:26oh no i'm just gonna just gonna water off i mean the food was pretty decent i i thought it was i
- 37:35mean the steaks are great the only the only complaint i had was the asparagus i they could
- 37:40have snapped the little woody part of the goodness that's pretty much my only complaint yeah there's
- 37:44a caterer right you're supposed to be doing weddings and stuff and part of his his menu
- 37:48was Parmesan, what was it?
- 37:55Parmesan something asparagus.
- 37:59Okay, that sounds yummy.
- 38:00We'll do that.
- 38:01So I get some of the asparagus and I go to chew on it
- 38:05and literally like four inches of just wood at the end of the asparagus.
- 38:11And I'm like, oh, that was a miss.
- 38:13So I try the next one.
- 38:14Freaking four inches of wood.
- 38:16And I start looking at them, all of them.
- 38:18for the guy didn't trim any of the asparagus in other words had no idea how to prepare asparagus
- 38:25like yeah you flopped really badly and then turns out that the parmesan was just like you know uh
- 38:32you know uh what do you call that the you know the the parmesan cheese you get in the like
- 38:38craft there you go the green exactly yeah that's that's what was on the stuff right i'm like for
- 38:45the money we were paying I expected something a little more
- 38:50elevated than that but yeah hey we almost had a shellfish
- 38:57allergy issue that was that not disclosed I guess yeah you should probably disclose that when you uh make your menu huh
- 39:08i mean what it was like macaroni and cheese right or something like that like you wouldn't think it
- 39:15would have shrimp in it yeah it was a surprise it was a what what was it a jambalaya cajun mac and
- 39:22cheese or something it was really good okay had like some spicy sausage and shrimp in it and stuff
- 39:28but they didn't disclose that there was little shrimps in there.
- 39:31So one of our folks had some,
- 39:34and we had a little panic attack and ran around looking for Benadryl.
- 39:37And then we found Benadryl at the barn and everything was okay.
- 39:41But that's one of those things you should probably tell people about.
- 39:47That and peanuts.
- 39:48Peanuts would be another good one.
- 39:50Yeah.
- 39:51Mmm.
- 39:53There was no peanuts in the macaroni and cheese, though.
- 39:56Thankfully, no.
- 39:57Yes.
- 39:57no no peanuts in the mac and cheese what that that would have been an interesting one just
- 40:04checking i'm like uh just checking man that's a no there guy that's a big no
- 40:10no but it it was very nice besides that yeah we had a good time we had a nice fire
- 40:20and that was fun the fire was great yeah yeah nice little mellow fire this year
- 40:26We were only able to do it the one night.
- 40:28It was a little windy the rest of the time and dry, super dry.
- 40:31Yeah, the dryness.
- 40:32We didn't want to burn down the whole city.
- 40:34Dryness was the big issue.
- 40:35We had a little bit of wind the night before, but I set a sprinkler out there for a few hours just letting it go over the edge of the deck, you know, wetting down everything in its range.
- 40:48And so, you know, we keep a hose on the deck as well just in case.
- 40:53So we're, you know, pretty responsible when it comes to that thing, but it was very dry.
- 40:59And then the next day, the wind was just, it was too much, you know, too, if it being as dry.
- 41:06Now, if it was more like our normal this time of year, I wouldn't have cared.
- 41:11You send off fricking fireworks into the middle of the forest and ain't nothing's going to light.
- 41:16it'll probably make a big when it thuds into the mud
- 41:23yeah it was like raining leaves out there literally dry crispy leaves at that yeah yeah
- 41:32i think we we we had like 70 days with only like one and a quarter inches of rain that's not much
- 41:40No, that's like, you know, California-style rain, not here rain, you know.
- 41:47Yeah.
- 41:47Yeah.
- 41:49So, but hey, you know, we got to have a nice fire, and that was nice, and the weather was beautiful.
- 41:55It was absolutely gorgeous, like 75 during the day, you know, puffy clouds, blue sky, light breeze.
- 42:04It was gorgeous.
- 42:05I had an amazing time.
- 42:06yeah no i brought a lot of clothes that i didn't get to uh even use i didn't even get to wear my
- 42:12jacket mostly at all that's sad yeah so i maybe next i got that that electrolyte stuff your your
- 42:23wife likes oh yeah i reordered it and made a mistake in my ordering and i chose the unflavored
- 42:32oh yeah yummy no no no it's like salty chalk is what the water tastes like it is
- 42:42well you're supposed to put your own flavor i put a bunch of lemon juice in it it's not helping
- 42:46it's not helping about apple juice apple kind of defeats the purpose i think
- 42:53but here's some electrolytes with a bunch of sugar let's dehydrate and hydrate at the same time
- 43:02yeah i think the one she gets with like lemon lime or something but i mean it's very very subtle it is
- 43:08not like overpowering like gatorade it's just just a little bit yeah it is and that one i honestly do
- 43:14need to add a little bit of lemon juice too um just because it's a it's an interesting flavor
- 43:20to me um but with a little bit of lemon juice it's it's great it feels very citrusy and refreshing
- 43:26um this one is just ass it's total ass it's is that what you're saying in your in your bottle
- 43:34right now it's horrible it's really really horrible i i don't like it at all the worst
- 43:40part about it that stuff ain't cheap i know so you gotta you gotta drink that whole game of this
- 43:45up man it's gonna last you a long time two of them too so what's worse than buying one that sucks
- 43:52buying two of it sorry chug it down man keep chugging you'll get used to it by the end that
- 44:02stuff lasts quite a while too i don't think i will i really don't think i will that's just
- 44:08really really terrible it's good for you helps keep you hydrated i figure if i can suffer through
- 44:17durian fruit and end up enjoying it i'll figure this out nice whatever
- 44:23so i got back uh i had ordered it before i left i did get that little red light device
- 44:31I brought it for show and tell.
- 44:33Oh, nice.
- 44:35Yeah.
- 44:36I can look weird.
- 44:37Watch.
- 44:40Oh, my gosh.
- 44:42You could use that to light your background up, man.
- 44:45Yeah, right?
- 44:46I'm telling you, that's some nice light.
- 44:47I've been using it on my psoriasis.
- 44:52Actually, I have some metatarsal pain in my foot,
- 44:56and I've been using it on that every night for like a week.
- 44:58I think it actually works.
- 45:00I don't know.
- 45:00Maybe it's just in my head.
- 45:01I'm giving a little more time.
- 45:03But, I mean, the pain has subsided.
- 45:05Even if it's in your head, if your head is telling you it's working, that's enough.
- 45:12That's what I'm thinking.
- 45:17Your brain can do a lot of things.
- 45:23You know what I mean?
- 45:24I mean, I'm going to give it some more time.
- 45:26But, I mean, so far, I'm happy enough with it.
- 45:30I mean, it'd be nice, you know, like the bigger panels to spend a little less time doing it would be good.
- 45:35But I mean, for travel and the cost point of it, I'm pretty happy with it.
- 45:43Yeah.
- 45:43This one does blue too, not just the red.
- 45:46So it does red and near infrared.
- 45:48And this one does blue as well, which is good for skin stuff, supposedly.
- 45:52I don't know.
- 45:53I'm a little skeptical.
- 45:55I'm still a little skeptical on the whole idea.
- 45:57But so far, I mean, like, you'd think if I'm skeptical, like, I wouldn't think it works at all.
- 46:03But I think it actually helps.
- 46:06Well, good.
- 46:07Who cares?
- 46:09You don't.
- 46:10No.
- 46:10If it's helping you, it's helping you.
- 46:13Doesn't matter.
- 46:14Yeah.
- 46:15You can say all you want.
- 46:16Doesn't matter.
- 46:17It's helping.
- 46:18So.
- 46:19That's true.
- 46:20I'll let you know better in a month.
- 46:22Let's just try that.
- 46:24Big fat raspberries for the poo-pooers.
- 46:27It's helping.
- 46:28Dude, I'm one of those people that would say, like, dude, shining a light on you.
- 46:32What do you think shining a light on you is going to do?
- 46:34That just sounds ridiculous.
- 46:35It does.
- 46:37Admittedly.
- 46:39Oh, yeah.
- 46:40No, it sounds completely stupid and a waste of time and money.
- 46:42Then again, so does a lot of things that actually do work.
- 46:47You know what I mean?
- 46:49Yeah.
- 46:50I don't know.
- 46:51So, hey, just keep doing that.
- 46:54if it makes if if it helps it doesn't matter right even if it is all in your head i mean you're you
- 47:03know there's a lot of information that suggests that we are capable of doing pretty amazing things
- 47:10just by changing our mindset you know what i mean that's true so even if it turns out to just be
- 47:17that as long as it's changing that mindset that's all that needs to happen so hey i mean in my mind
- 47:25it's still way better than loading up on a bunch of pharmaceuticals so even if it does nothing i
- 47:31would still better i would say that's just a truism there right there you know because
- 47:37pharmaceuticals are always a double-edged sword right i mean always every single one of them is
- 47:45a double-edged sword. And what do I mean by that? Pharmaceuticals are, look, I don't want to say
- 47:56they're great, but when you need them, they are great. It's a good thing we have them, right?
- 48:03But every single one of them has a list of side effects. Every single one of them. And in some
- 48:12cases you're just trading some very disastrous side effect for a disastrous you know primary effect
- 48:20and then you get into the the whole the way this is all set up which is oh now i've got this
- 48:31disastrous side effect and they're like instead of we got a drug for that instead of you know what
- 48:38Maybe we should take you off this and try something else or whatever.
- 48:41No, it's I've got a drug for that side effect, which also comes with its own list of side effects.
- 48:49And the next thing you know, you've got, you know, 20 medications you're on, 14 of them are to counter side effects from the other six of them.
- 48:57Five of them are to, you know, assist in whatever the primary cause for the very first medication was.
- 49:04and you're now stuck for, for life on 20 medications. And the only thing that's ever
- 49:11going to, you know, occur with that to change any of that is it's very likely you're going to end up
- 49:16with more medications to either counter the side effects or to whatever the case is, right? It's
- 49:23just this building block of just more, more, more, more, more. Um, and the thing that really bothers
- 49:30me is, you know, doctors for, for all their, their intelligence and, and all of their, you know,
- 49:38their, uh, learning capabilities and the time that they spent mastering these studies, they lack
- 49:48basic, basic knowledge on human function for things like every doctor should know nutrition
- 49:58in and out like that shouldn't even be something a doctor doesn't know but almost none of them
- 50:05could go and pass a nutritionist's course right because there's no medicine there
- 50:13and so that that right there is one of the things that really kills me right it's like
- 50:19the first thing a doctor should be going towards is you know healthy lifestyle uh changes to you
- 50:27know, whatever you can do that will, you know, limit or mitigate whatever you're going through.
- 50:33Right.
- 50:34Now, obviously, if you broke a bone, this doesn't apply.
- 50:37Right.
- 50:38But in a lot of cases, the stuff that we have medically going on with us can be directly
- 50:44attributable to what we put into our body and what we do with our body on a regular
- 50:51basis.
- 50:52That is 100 percent.
- 50:53And the doctors don't look at that.
- 50:55They look at that as a last resort, maybe.
- 50:58Or if you prompt them, they will look at that, potentially, in a very cursory manner.
- 51:05But, you know, in general, they don't.
- 51:08They don't even bother looking at that.
- 51:10I got a med for that.
- 51:11That's all they do.
- 51:12I got a med for that.
- 51:13Let me grab my script pad.
- 51:15I got a med for that one.
- 51:16Oh, and here, this will counter the side effects you're going to feel from that.
- 51:19Oh, and this one's going to counter the side effects you're going to feel from that.
- 51:22so we usually put people on these five meds when we want to put them on this one med so you'll be
- 51:27happy with these five meds that's true and you know at the i think they kind of take it in the
- 51:33position of um i'm almost like a car mechanic like if they're working on a specific model and it
- 51:39always has those problems like we're just going to fix this this this and this because like if it
- 51:43ain't broke it will be soon and they i think they kind of treat people in that way too so if you have
- 51:48this wrong with you you're also going to have this and this and this and we'll just give you
- 51:52but you're right you're right about the diet thing they they almost never ask i mean they'll
- 51:56ask whether you smoke and they ask about caffeine intake but i've never once had them ask like
- 52:02what do you eat yeah yeah on a regular basis
- 52:05ever yeah and what you said is absolutely true that's the training they receive and that's the
- 52:10way the medical institutions are all set up 95 of the time you see this this is the course of action
- 52:18so they don't even bother because they'll spend too much time looking at looking for that five
- 52:24percent so they treat based on the you know most likely thing and don't even bother looking at the
- 52:34other. That's why diagnosticians are in such high demand and there's so few of them, right?
- 52:40People that actually come in and, and try and figure out exactly what's going on, et cetera.
- 52:46And they're, they're also extremely expensive, right? Um, whereas, you know, yeah, I mean,
- 52:53the whole industry is built up around the, you know, you, you will operate on that 95th, you know,
- 52:58that 95th percentile, right? If you come in and you're experiencing X, Y, and Z, then medication
- 53:04A, B, or C will fix that in 95% of the cases.
- 53:08I mean, the other half of the equation is even if you told people, like, you have this chronic condition and you would see 95% improvement if you cut this out of your diet, cut this out of your diet, and started eating this, they're not going to do it.
- 53:28Yeah.
- 53:28either because of convenience, because it's more difficult, or it costs.
- 53:37I mean, good food costs more money.
- 53:39There's just no way around that, really.
- 53:41So do medications, so do health complications, so do health problems,
- 53:45so do hospital visits, so do ER visits, so do ambulance rides.
- 53:51All of those cost a lot more money on any given day
- 53:55than changing your eating habits.
- 53:59I think the convenience factor plays a lot into it
- 54:02because, I mean, for a lot of people,
- 54:03it's much easier to just take a pill once or twice a day
- 54:06than it is to change their entire lifestyle.
- 54:10Without question.
- 54:10I mean, you know, it's not easy.
- 54:12It is not.
- 54:13It is not easy.
- 54:14You know, this year for me has been, you know,
- 54:17and I'm going to say largely because it wasn't entirely,
- 54:21but largely sugar and carb-free.
- 54:25Right.
- 54:27It's not easy, especially that first 30 days.
- 54:30You feel like crap and you feel like something's missing.
- 54:34You know what I mean?
- 54:35Like I'm constantly hungry, but I'm not hungry.
- 54:41Yeah.
- 54:42And all it is is my body going, I want those carbs.
- 54:45I want that sugar.
- 54:46I want this stuff.
- 54:48You know, it's, it's a freaking addiction, dude.
- 54:52It is.
- 54:53So, like, for people watching, I mean, maybe you can comment down below and let us know because, I mean, everybody's different.
- 55:00But, I mean, people eat a lot of breads, man.
- 55:02I mean, like, dude, that's a major portion of a lot of people's diets.
- 55:05Just imagine if you take that out of there.
- 55:07Like, I've had people ask me, you don't eat bread?
- 55:10What do you actually eat?
- 55:12Like, there's, like, you know, there's a lot.
- 55:14Everything is bread.
- 55:17Everything is bread.
- 55:18Well, how do you possibly function?
- 55:20Well, you learn.
- 55:21You can't have a sandwich.
- 55:22You can't have a hamburger.
- 55:23you can't eat pizza you can't like what's left so you can make a burger we do this we make burgers
- 55:30we do them exactly the way we would everything we would normally do cheese and tomato and onion and
- 55:37pickles and all the stuff right if you want to throw jalapenos on there you throw them
- 55:42get whatever you want and you get yourself two two big sheets of iceberg lettuce you put your
- 55:51burger on top of one and you put the other one over the top of that and you eat it just like a
- 55:55burger and it tastes really good without the bread or if you're like me and you don't like lettuce
- 56:02just just skip the lettuce sure that's option you can do that too you can i like i personally like
- 56:07lettuce so that's what i mean i use a fork instead i don't actually pick it up like sure and you can
- 56:13do that as well and i don't always do this sometimes i'll just take those two pieces of
- 56:17lettuce and cut them up into chunks and then put it in a bowl and it'll be a burger salad
- 56:21for me i like lettuce if you don't like lettuce you do just have i do yeah you just have your
- 56:28wife loves lettuce have your burger it'll be dang good without that bread i promise you
- 56:32um pizza is good pizza there are ways around this right um they're not going to be the same
- 56:39but it will be good right you can do cauliflower crust you can do some of this keto
- 56:46uh um pizza dough right which is really more eggs than anything else and there's a number of ways
- 56:54you can get around that for pasta like i just made pasta not too long ago spaghetti squash
- 57:01is it spaghetti no will it will it get to at the store yeah will it be the perfect replacement and
- 57:08you'll just be like oh my gosh this is just like no it won't but it does give you that satisfaction
- 57:14It does have that same noodley texture and everything else.
- 57:17And if cooked right, it actually does work really well with it.
- 57:22And it's really tasty.
- 57:24It really is.
- 57:25In fact, now I would say I would prefer it that way than with the noodles.
- 57:31Just because I kind of like the flavor of it.
- 57:34I like the flavor and the texture is pretty much the same.
- 57:38So, you know, you can do stuff like this.
- 57:40You can make zucchini boats, right?
- 57:42So you know those French bread pizzas, right?
- 57:46Take zucchini, right?
- 57:48A little bit larger than what you would normally pick out.
- 57:51We're not talking baby zucchini.
- 57:52Get a large-ish zucchini.
- 57:55Cut it lengthwise down in half and scoop out all the seed area, right?
- 58:01Throw that sucker in there with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper in the oven for a little bit.
- 58:06Let it get a little bit softer.
- 58:08take your your you know meat sauce spaghetti sauce your whatever kind of sauce throw that over the
- 58:15top throw some mozzarella over the top of that and then throw it in the oven and let that sucker go
- 58:22until that mozzarella gets all bubbly and yummy pull that sucker out hit it with a little fresh
- 58:28grated parmigiano reggiano type cheese serve it up and i'm telling you it's like a french bread
- 58:34pizza it really is and it's i have to try that really good and if you want something resembling
- 58:40bread a little bit more you can use yellow squash same same way to cook it everything else
- 58:47but yellow squash the the the meat of it has at least to me kind of a bready kind of a texture to
- 58:54it so there a lot of things you can do that you just don you just don think about Right And and you know again I said largely so there have been areas of time where I I you know gone a little
- 59:10off track and, you know, whatever, right. Alpaca being one of them, right. Vacation time, special
- 59:16occasions, things of this nature. And it's just about, you do it, you realize, Hey, I'm doing this
- 59:24and this is because I'm special occasion, vacation, whatever the case is.
- 59:29And then you don't keep doing it.
- 59:32And that's all.
- 59:33That's right.
- 59:34And, but I will tell you this after Alpaca, my, I felt it.
- 59:39I felt it.
- 59:41I could totally feel the difference.
- 59:44I felt heavier, gassy, bloated.
- 59:47uh do you get any inflammation in your joints and stuff when you eat that stuff or no yeah it's hard
- 59:55for me to tell because i'm already inflamed but yes it feels like i get more sore more
- 1:00:00inflamed in general yeah you know i have a great time doing it but i realize this is not
- 1:00:09my body's not happy with me after it right so you know it's it's one of those things you just
- 1:00:15you know
- 1:00:16you make a change
- 1:00:20and see how it goes for you
- 1:00:23I mean here's a challenge
- 1:00:26for anyone right
- 1:00:27that's struggling with health stuff
- 1:00:30etc just cut out
- 1:00:32two things out of your diet
- 1:00:33just two yeah don't try to do it all at once
- 1:00:36if you try to do it all at once forget it it's never going to work
- 1:00:38two things and in fact you could just pick
- 1:00:40one of these
- 1:00:41okay but these two
- 1:00:43are the two big
- 1:00:44pieces. No more carbs and no more sugar. And when I say sugar, I'm talking refined sugars,
- 1:00:53you know, that kind of stuff, caramels, that kind of stuff. Uh, honey, you can use as a substitute
- 1:01:01for sugar. It's far better for you. Now, if you have insulin issues, obviously this is not for
- 1:01:07you, right? You need to play by different rules. But if you don't have insulin issues, honey,
- 1:01:15fruits, berries, these are all sweets, right? Like we make a, an ice cream and you tried that. Was
- 1:01:22it, was that pretty good? Yeah, it was great. Yeah. That's it's yogurt, honey, a little bit
- 1:01:28of cream, vanilla beans and organic lemon. And that's it. And it tastes freaking amazing.
- 1:01:36no it was it was awesome yeah and and you're not eating gobs and gobs of refined sugar and
- 1:01:43you know you know the yogurt has enzymes and cultures in it right so you're you're getting
- 1:01:51something that's a little bit better for your gut health uh honey you know i'm a big proponent of
- 1:01:57honey again insulin issues aside honey is a wonderful amazing substance you know
- 1:02:06i mean the other thing is like once you give up some of these things that aren't that good for you
- 1:02:14for a while the healthy stuff actually tastes better believe it or not which i'm finding it
- 1:02:21does you now then then you prefer that over you start craving it yeah yeah no no doubt you start
- 1:02:28craving it like the other day i was craving uh spaghetti squash spaghetti and so i made it
- 1:02:36now you know i that's that's one of those you know convenience things you were talking about right
- 1:02:43if you want to increase the convenience if you want to eat better eat healthy and increase the
- 1:02:50convenience of it, the best way to get there is meal prepping. Set aside a couple hours of one
- 1:02:56of your weekend days or your day off, whatever that may be, and meal prep. Put together some
- 1:03:03meals, put together the basics, and then, you know, store them. If they can be stored in the
- 1:03:08fridge, great. You pull a container out with a meal in it, heat it up, you're done. I like freezer
- 1:03:15bags, you can take a whole, gosh, excuse me. It's that chalk dust I'm drinking over there.
- 1:03:24You can take a whole meal in a freezer bag, right? And just put the whole freezer bag in a pot of
- 1:03:31boiling water for like 10, 15 minutes, pull it out, dump it out. And it's a reheated meal, no
- 1:03:36microwave, which microwaves are wonderful cambrios in my opinion.
- 1:03:44That's, that's a serving thing for a caterer or whatever to keep food hot, right?
- 1:03:50Like you take something hot and you put it in the microwave and close the door.
- 1:03:54It's a small enclosed space that's insulated.
- 1:03:56So it'll keep it hot for longer.
- 1:03:58They're great for that.
- 1:04:00They're also a really good clock unless you lose power, in which case they're not a great
- 1:04:05clock but yeah so a big proponent of microwaves for clocks and for cambrios they're really good
- 1:04:15you don't like chef mike i don't like chef mike in general i am not a microphone microwave enjoyer
- 1:04:22air fryer oven boiling water whatever some other way of heating the food up and yes i can i can
- 1:04:31spare 12, 15 minutes.
- 1:04:34Pretty sure. Okay.
- 1:04:37Yeah.
- 1:04:39Yeah. But then again, I actually
- 1:04:41spell out the whole, you know, Y-O-U
- 1:04:43in text instead of just using
- 1:04:45the letter U.
- 1:04:47So I'm willing to put in a little
- 1:04:49extra time, is I guess what I'm trying
- 1:04:51to say.
- 1:04:56It's your prerogative. It is.
- 1:04:59I'm allowed. I allowed it.
- 1:05:01Yeah.
- 1:05:02Have you eaten any of your sweet potatoes yet?
- 1:05:05I got to see them all in person.
- 1:05:07They were pretty big.
- 1:05:08Yeah.
- 1:05:08We had some good size ones.
- 1:05:10I haven't, we haven't eaten any yet.
- 1:05:12They'll be cured off this weekend.
- 1:05:14So this weekend they'll be cured off.
- 1:05:16We usually try and wait until they're cured before we start munching on them.
- 1:05:21You don't have to, right?
- 1:05:23But I like to get them cured off and then they can go into a box and be left alone in the garage until.
- 1:05:29later in the winter when they turn into science experiments and start growing for life i didn't
- 1:05:36even think about it i should have stolen some from you you could have i didn't i
- 1:05:41went right over my head totally could have like man i should have snagged some of those things
- 1:05:47they never be able to eat all those probably not honestly probably not they look pretty good No Anyway next time Yeah for Christmas Ours all fit in a box like this big It ain much I mean we got some so we good
- 1:06:03Throw them in containers.
- 1:06:04That's the way to do it.
- 1:06:06Yeah.
- 1:06:06We take, you know those fire rings.
- 1:06:08We get these, I want to say they're tartar, but it doesn't matter the brand.
- 1:06:15It's just these fire rings you'll find at, like, tractor supply or, you know, feed location.
- 1:06:20and it just sits on the ground.
- 1:06:23It's a little corrugated ring.
- 1:06:25It's about 36 inches across
- 1:06:27and it's maybe 18 inches high or so.
- 1:06:32It's not super big.
- 1:06:34We just take those.
- 1:06:36We put hardware cloth down on the ground.
- 1:06:38We drop the thing on top of it
- 1:06:40and we fill it with soil, garden soil,
- 1:06:42and then we just throw the slips in there
- 1:06:45and let them do their thing.
- 1:06:47What's the hardware cloth
- 1:06:48from keeping stuff to come up from eating them?
- 1:06:51Voles, yeah.
- 1:06:52We have a big problem with voles.
- 1:06:54And we've done this before on the podcast,
- 1:06:56but just in case you're new here,
- 1:07:00voles are not moles.
- 1:07:03Moles are your friend in the garden.
- 1:07:05Moles are wonderful creatures.
- 1:07:08Moles are carnivorous creatures.
- 1:07:10They like to eat bugs and stuff
- 1:07:13that comes and messes with your garden.
- 1:07:15They're also really good at aerating a garden.
- 1:07:17Now they can mess up every once in a while and dig through a root ball, but they're not trying to hurt your plants.
- 1:07:24Voles don't like bugs.
- 1:07:28Voles are herbivores.
- 1:07:31Voles like to eat your gardens.
- 1:07:34They will eat your root vegetables.
- 1:07:36They will eat your sweet potatoes, your carrots, your beets, your whatever you have in there.
- 1:07:43and they will do a really really outstanding job of messing your food up so the voles are the big
- 1:07:51problem and uh yeah we don't we don't have either of those we got squirrels though nasty they dig
- 1:07:58little holes everywhere they're like digging all the stuff up yeah sand might be a little
- 1:08:04off-putting for a mole or a vole like every time you dig it just collapses around you more
- 1:08:10you know what i mean i mean i have moles i've seen them before yeah okay not not in the garden
- 1:08:18but like in the yard like a little trail yeah so that's what we put the hardware cloth down for
- 1:08:26and uh that just keeps them from getting in there and you know we'll we'll go harvest and
- 1:08:32you know without doing that maybe 20 to 40 percent of our sweet potatoes or whatever else
- 1:08:39will have, you know, chunks out of it from where the voles came in and help themselves
- 1:08:44to some of our food.
- 1:08:47Nice.
- 1:08:47It's nice of them.
- 1:08:48Yeah.
- 1:08:49They're going to eat too.
- 1:08:50I guess.
- 1:08:53Well, well.
- 1:08:54But hey, it's part of life, I guess.
- 1:08:58Giving back to the community.
- 1:08:59Yeah.
- 1:08:59I mean, there's enough around for them to go eat.
- 1:09:01Go eat something else, man.
- 1:09:04Yeah.
- 1:09:04You know?
- 1:09:06You don't cut any milk.
- 1:09:07Between them and the deer, I'm surprised you get anything left.
- 1:09:09Yeah, the antlered lawnmowers.
- 1:09:14Yeah.
- 1:09:14Those things, I swear, those are the worst garden pests right there.
- 1:09:19There is no garden pest that compares to a deer.
- 1:09:22None.
- 1:09:23Period.
- 1:09:24And you got them everywhere around there.
- 1:09:26Like, yeah.
- 1:09:27I was nervous we were going to hit one.
- 1:09:29I mean, they're everywhere.
- 1:09:30Yeah, I had chaos out.
- 1:09:33I have to take her outside on a leash right now because of her surgery.
- 1:09:36um but had her out going outside and i hear this crashing uh on the wooded area between us and our
- 1:09:43neighbor and uh out comes this buck and then a doe and then another smaller buck and i was just like
- 1:09:52man i looked right they're like looking at me like oh crud i'm like man this is the wrong season to
- 1:09:59be crashing through the woods out into open fields your guy you should know that they just
- 1:10:06looked mean like uh when does hunting season open up pretty soon right oh it is it's been
- 1:10:15all right yeah i think it's late october for us is archery uh something like november 16th i think
- 1:10:23for us was rifle season.
- 1:10:25So it's probably coming close
- 1:10:27to an end here, I think, pretty soon.
- 1:10:29Yeah.
- 1:10:30But, yeah, it's
- 1:10:32not the time to be coming crashing out
- 1:10:35into open fields right now.
- 1:10:38So, bang!
- 1:10:40That was it.
- 1:10:43So.
- 1:10:45But, hey, you know,
- 1:10:47life is good.
- 1:10:48Life is good.
- 1:10:49Life is good.
- 1:10:50It was a good-sized buck, too.
- 1:10:51It was young,
- 1:10:53but still a good-sized buck.
- 1:10:55I would have taken him.
- 1:10:56I wouldn't even know what to do with one.
- 1:10:58I wish somebody would have taught me that.
- 1:11:01I know a guy.
- 1:11:03You do know a guy?
- 1:11:04All right.
- 1:11:05I know several guys.
- 1:11:07Three of them.
- 1:11:08Not that I'm against hunting.
- 1:11:09I don't know personally.
- 1:11:10I probably feel bad about it at first
- 1:11:13until I ate it.
- 1:11:14Then I'd probably feel better about it.
- 1:11:17Yeah.
- 1:11:17I mean, it's a personal thing, right?
- 1:11:19Some people just can't do that.
- 1:11:20Some people can.
- 1:11:21That's okay.
- 1:11:22you don't have to but if you ain't gonna hunt you gotta go forage you gotta go tend the vegetable
- 1:11:29gardens you gotta do something there guy so something yeah yeah yeah so but yeah i mean i'm
- 1:11:39sure i'd get over it it's a personal thing it's like when we moved out here right i mean my wife
- 1:11:43was a absolute no go on culling chickens now you just send her off and you know she'll go kill
- 1:11:51She's just a murder machine now.
- 1:11:53Absolutely.
- 1:11:54She'll go wipe out five roos in a heartbeat.
- 1:11:59I think that's what my wife would do.
- 1:12:01I think she just wants to be a murderer.
- 1:12:03I don't think she'd have a problem with it at all.
- 1:12:06They're pretty good.
- 1:12:08They're pretty tasty.
- 1:12:09I mean, as far as it goes.
- 1:12:11Maybe we should keep those two apart from each other.
- 1:12:15I don't know.
- 1:12:17We'd eat a lot better.
- 1:12:18Watching those crime dramas on TV.
- 1:12:20and it just makes me nervous.
- 1:12:21Just keep them chock-full of chickens.
- 1:12:23They won't have time for us.
- 1:12:25Yeah.
- 1:12:26She watches those police interview things
- 1:12:30so she knows all the techniques they use.
- 1:12:31So, yeah.
- 1:12:32Yeah.
- 1:12:33She'd probably get away with it.
- 1:12:35She probably would.
- 1:12:37She'd be like,
- 1:12:38no, sir, your honor.
- 1:12:39I did not kill that chicken.
- 1:12:42Yeah.
- 1:12:46Yeah.
- 1:12:47Next year we'll be,
- 1:12:48we probably going to go with the older Coop is going to I pretty sure we going to end up going with and I don know if we going to go with dual purpose this go around
- 1:13:03I think we might actually end up going with like a Red Ranger or something.
- 1:13:08Try and put 60 birds up next year.
- 1:13:12Wow, nice.
- 1:13:13yeah well i figure if we can put 60 birds up that's you know one roaster per week one roaster
- 1:13:22will last us a couple of days and then uh go to soup stock so you can get about
- 1:13:29four days of meals out of one chicken and some vegetables how many do you have at a
- 1:13:37Freezer camp right now.
- 1:13:39Oh, we don't.
- 1:13:40Like a big freezer full of them?
- 1:13:42No, we don't have much of anything in there anymore.
- 1:13:46All right.
- 1:13:47Yeah, not much.
- 1:13:49I need to clean out that stupid chest freezer.
- 1:13:53That's one thing about those things.
- 1:13:54They're nice.
- 1:13:55They're really nice, but they don't have auto defrost or any of that good stuff on them.
- 1:14:01So this thing's got about seven.
- 1:14:04I'm so happy we bought that upright one.
- 1:14:05That thing works so bad.
- 1:14:06Yeah.
- 1:14:06I'm really a big fan of our upright too.
- 1:14:10And we got about seven years worth of permafrost in there.
- 1:14:16That's how it goes, man.
- 1:14:17It's just like that thick off the walls.
- 1:14:20It's like, damn.
- 1:14:22So got to do something about that at some point.
- 1:14:25Eh, well, what are you going to do?
- 1:14:27I think we're going to move that one.
- 1:14:28There's always tomorrow, right?
- 1:14:29There is always tomorrow.
- 1:14:32Procrastinators of America.
- 1:14:35That's right.
- 1:14:35meeting tomorrow.
- 1:14:39Maybe.
- 1:14:42I was going to
- 1:14:43reply to the
- 1:14:44Procrastinators Guild
- 1:14:45but I'll get to it
- 1:14:46later.
- 1:14:47Yeah.
- 1:14:47I was the same.
- 1:14:49I actually even
- 1:14:50started and then I
- 1:14:51was like I'll get
- 1:14:52back to this later.
- 1:14:54Mm-hmm.
- 1:14:55Yeah.
- 1:14:57It's a good thing
- 1:14:58though.
- 1:14:58Nice.
- 1:14:58They don't expect
- 1:14:59us to come.
- 1:15:01Mm-hmm.
- 1:15:02I don't think
- 1:15:03anyway.
- 1:15:04But yeah I think
- 1:15:04that chest freezer is
- 1:15:05going to go in the tack room we're going to throw a chest chest freezer down there and we'll put the
- 1:15:10the folding table and gear for all that i need to get a foot pump or something for for clean water
- 1:15:18but uh hey we can just use the hose i guess maybe i'll see if i can find like a like a rocker foot
- 1:15:26pedal or something that i could use as a valve to turn on and off the hose or something i'm sure
- 1:15:33they got something.
- 1:15:35That'd be nice.
- 1:15:36For culling chickens.
- 1:15:40Not killing them.
- 1:15:41We cull them.
- 1:15:43That's right.
- 1:15:45Chicken murder.
- 1:15:47We wrap them up
- 1:15:47in space blankets
- 1:15:48and put them in a nice,
- 1:15:50happy,
- 1:15:52climate-controlled environment.
- 1:15:55You send them to freezer camp.
- 1:15:57Oh, yeah.
- 1:15:58space blankets and climate
- 1:16:04controlled environment
- 1:16:05sounded a little nicer
- 1:16:07it's a vacation
- 1:16:11anyway
- 1:16:12you ready to wrap things up
- 1:16:16yeah I'm ready to wrap things up
- 1:16:19alright well hey
- 1:16:20it was an awesome alpaca
- 1:16:22had an amazing time
- 1:16:24I love that time of year
- 1:16:25it's always kind of bittersweet
- 1:16:26for me though you know
- 1:16:27because like we all get together and then
- 1:16:30we all go away and
- 1:16:32we don't see each other for like a year
- 1:16:34bye
- 1:16:35anyway
- 1:16:37we get to see each other every week
- 1:16:39yeah okay
- 1:16:41but we can't like engage in
- 1:16:44like shenanigans over the
- 1:16:46podcast
- 1:16:47we try we could try
- 1:16:52a little bit we could
- 1:16:54hold my beer
- 1:16:56y'all watch this this is gonna be good
- 1:17:04that reminds me of the night we took the truck out on the side field with noz
- 1:17:12he was not expecting that i don't think he was expecting it either when i got out of the truck
- 1:17:18and I said, okay, you drive.
- 1:17:20And he was like, ah.
- 1:17:25Yeah, I was a little bit skeptical.
- 1:17:26I'm like, I don't know how this is going to end.
- 1:17:29It's either going to be really great or not good at all.
- 1:17:32What's the worst that happened?
- 1:17:34I got a tractor.
- 1:17:37Need a new farm truck.
- 1:17:39I got a tractor.
- 1:17:40I can pull it over.
- 1:17:42Get it off its side.
- 1:17:47Nice.
- 1:17:48hey, you know.
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