Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 87 - Shower Secrets and Smoker Surprises in the Holiday Aftermath
Kicking off the New Year with a bang and some sore muscles, my wife's postpartum journey has us both discovering the wonders of the Normatec massager—trust me, it's not just for her! As we tackle topics from marathon training to cryotherapy's chilling embrace, we're peeling back the curtain on our personal experiences with recovery and the sometimes hilarious side effects of the carnivore diet. And for those who've ever wondered about the mysterious intensification of shower farts, we're diving into that conversation with a mix of curiosity and humor.
The holiday season may be over, but our tales from festive gatherings are just too good to keep to ourselves. From the canine chaos that begs the question of pet insurance to the culinary competitions of mac and cheese mastery, we've got anecdotes that'll have you laughing and nodding along. Plus, we're sharing the white elephant exchange that turned wild with unexpected gifts, proving that even the best-laid plans can go hilariously awry.
As we gear up for an exciting job in Costa Mesa, we're inviting you along for the pre-show buzz, weighing the serious decision between local food indulgence and optimal scheduling. With our commitment to keep you entertained and informed, we're ensuring that the start of 2024 is anything but dull. So, pull up a seat and join us for a dose of everyday madness mixed with insights, laughter, and the occasional life hack we stumble upon.
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Kicking off the New Year with a bang and some sore muscles, my wife's postpartum journey has us both discovering the wonders of the Normatec massager—trust me, it's not just for her! As we tackle topics from marathon training to cryotherapy's chilling embrace, we're peeling back the curtain on our personal experiences with recovery and the sometimes hilarious side effects of the carnivore diet. And for those who've ever wondered about the mysterious intensification of shower farts, we're diving into that conversation with a mix of curiosity and humor.
The holiday season may be over, but our tales from festive gatherings are just too good to keep to ourselves. From the canine chaos that begs the question of pet insurance to the culinary competitions of mac and cheese mastery, we've got anecdotes that'll have you laughing and nodding along. Plus, we're sharing the white elephant exchange that turned wild with unexpected gifts, proving that even the best-laid plans can go hilariously awry.
As we gear up for an exciting job in Costa Mesa, we're inviting you along for the pre-show buzz, weighing the serious decision between local food indulgence and optimal scheduling. With our commitment to keep you entertained and informed, we're ensuring that the start of 2024 is anything but dull. So, pull up a seat and join us for a dose of everyday madness mixed with insights, laughter, and the occasional life hack we stumble upon.
Follow us @DriftingOnArroyo
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Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo podcast. This is Mig.
Lano:Lano, RK67. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Happy 2024. We are back.
Rick:We're back in late show that we're actually recording on a Thursday.
Lano:Yeah.
Rick:So the show will be out Thursday night, right now, right after we record.
Mig:Apologies for missing the Christmas episode, so be late in. Merry Christmas. Hope everybody had a great time with their families.
Lano:New Year's episode. I thought we missed Christmas and New Year's. We missed.
Mig:Christmas.
Rick:We missed two weeks in a row, yeah, christmas and New Year's.
Mig:Well, I mean well, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, but we completely missed Christmas, Completely missed. We're just late on New Year's we're late on New. Year's yeah, yeah, anyways.
Rick:So I don't think we so we missed two weeks in a row. We haven't missed two weeks. We missed two weeks.
Lano:Okay, so I don't think we very missed two weeks in a row. We didn't do the one before Christmas, we didn't have one before Christmas and we didn't have one before New Year's.
Rick:Oh, the last one came on the 21st, yeah, so the 21st, yeah, we missed, we missed before.
Lano:Christmas, so happy belated Merry. Belated Christmas and happy belated.
Rick:Yeah, that was right. Yeah, the 21st. Well, so we missed the 28th, today's the 4th.
Lano:Okay, yeah, so while we're starting off pretty good because you have snacks in the studio right here.
Rick:Studio requests like I promised more in 2024.
Mig:Producers using breaking off some of that merch profits there and yeah providing snacks in the studio we got some snacks.
Rick:We're working on the studio for video, having some clips out on YouTube soon, so stay out for that. We'll get a YouTube channel set up.
Mig:Just to show you where the producer's priority is he'd rather have a video going on in here than keeping his talent warm. Yeah, you know we're freezing our pretty cold in here, or?
Rick:took it, took his off. Wow, I'm nice and cozy and warm in my sweater.
Mig:This guy just cares about getting us on camera shivering.
Rick:My Christmas ugly sweater. I'm nice and warm. I'll probably buy a hoodie next Lawn is warm.
Lano:Well, you guys should be warm, because that is insulation. Yeah, it is. It insulates the body very much so. Hey, what was okay for the new year. What have you guys done? Or in these, what we're in four days in? Whatever you guys done, that you're starting off the year right. You're starting off on the right foot, on the right foot this new year.
Rick:Anything these past four days.
Lano:Have you got up, got out to walk, have you?
Rick:I mean I've been trying. Like I told you, I'm gonna lose this baby fat this year and during the time I'm not working. But I haven't got nothing done with the baby.
Lano:You accumulated out of baby fat with the baby with the yeah, so I was gonna. I was gonna lose it, like I had six weeks off of work, so I was like I'm gonna get on what, what, what, what, what shoe or or sock thing, whatever is going to help you for those swollen ankles you got.
Rick:It's just, it's just. What are you gonna do? Is this gonna be the drive, just to watch, I'm gonna maybe you should.
Lano:Maybe you should elevate your feet, dude.
Rick:Oh, you know what? When I got my wife for Christmas, it's called on Norma Tech.
Lano:Norma Tech what is?
Rick:that it's like a like a massager ad for her birthday Her birthday like over, I had bought her this.
Lano:Are those? Those Is like a foot massage.
Rick:It's like some sleeves like you put on your legs, oh, and it does like like compression. They're the compression socks, but it's all there.
Mig:Like see it, right here.
Rick:Oh, okay okay, so then like it. Oh, the one you see at the month, Damn you bought her a pair of those For for no, you know, this was. This was her push present, because apparently, when the when your wife has a baby after giving them a push present.
Lano:So I bought those things are expensive.
Rick:So and it like a massage is, like it squeezes out, like whatever. So I'll show you that you put it. You can put it 60 minutes, 30 minutes, 15 minutes and then like it's circulation and stuff. It's for runners and stuff.
Lano:So that's probably my legs are always. They've always been sore. Like the soreness never goes away. I wonder if that'll help.
Rick:So the there's an attachment for $699 for Christmas. I bought her the attachment. And it's this, this hip attachment, and this thing hip attachment, normatic, no, I say Norma tech, but Norma tech, the hip attachment. Right, this is on your hip and your thighs and, like it squeezes, like your lower back. Oh yeah, and it does the same thing, but this is just for your like your thighs.
Lano:That's what you bought her for Christmas.
Rick:You bought her just a tight one for Christmas, the leg one I bought for her push present and then this one I bought for Christmas. How much is that one? This is just an accessory that goes with it.
Lano:But oh my god, that's like almost $1,000.
Rick:Well, I mean, she's my wife. What am I gonna?
Lano:Well, no, I know I get that. No, I'm not saying that, but just that's. But this is supposed to be for money for like recovery and stuff.
Rick:So this is going to help out, like with the postpartum.
Lano:I mean, of course, laura, laura deserves that because she's got to deal with you. Yeah, so that's at least you can do.
Rick:So this? So then I use it every once in a while, right?
Lano:And why are you using?
Rick:it. This is pretty, pretty like she'll use it and I'll be like hey, like can I borrow it for a minute?
Lano:It should be like All right you put that on, and you with your five toe socks and put this on and this massage is.
Rick:it's weird because like it starts like compressing and suck and then you just feel like like your blood like rush to your legs and it feels like you're just getting all the like the toxins and all this stuff out. But it's like you know what is that?
Lano:What is that called your soreness or whatever in your legs, or what's that?
Rick:like, like, yeah, so they're supposed to relieve all that. So this is so. They have all these different programs like the gas and like that yeah like that, so it has all these programs like you could do it.
Lano:You do it 15 minutes.
Rick:That's like and like you do 15 minutes and then like, like it'll loosen up your legs, like to go for a run Nice, like it. Or after, like it, like you know, for your healing and all that stuff. I'm gonna start getting on this and then start my massage therapist.
Mig:He said at that place they have those things and I tried it once. I didn't really feel much different after, I mean you got to keep on doing it though.
Rick:You got to do it at more regular basis.
Lano:I had these for the cast and having this at home, I mean, you'll be able to do it every night I mean I think it's better.
Rick:I mean, well, I don't know if it's better, but like you know, those massage chairs, those are like really big, like I don't got room for massage chair, but this one it folds into a little backpack. I've had these for like a year that I used to use.
Lano:So what does it do is squeezes your legs. It squeezes them, yeah, I think so Squeezes on. Yeah, or inflates air and energy fills that.
Rick:Yeah, your legs squeeze on. So we got all of them separate, like the arm attachment. But but now this is pretty, pretty cool, like you're healing your back, like me was talking about his back. I'm excited about me because Mickey just told me a story. He's gonna go to this Instagram chiropractor on Monday. Oh really.
Mig:No one else talking about. On the time and testing.
Lano:You know I'm gonna start doing it on a regular basis. I got you know I have to start damn running, dude. I have to damn start training for this damn marathon.
Rick:Oh the marathon in March.
Lano:Yes, March 17. Oh wow, I have to start now.
Mig:I'll tell you what two months I should have started two months ago.
Lano:Why.
Rick:The first show after the marathon. Get on the. I'm gonna let you get on this. All right, you're gonna feel it.
Lano:All right, you're gonna buy one.
Mig:You get your. Uh, you're gonna buy one.
Lano:I'm gonna document this run because I got a this is my.
Mig:What's it called the loyalty, or loyal, loyal, loyal.
Lano:It's my 10th year, 10th Ali marathon. So I finally get to get my hoodie, my loyal hoodie, get that thing, and that thing's not leaving my side. I'm gonna wear them for like a month straight.
Rick:Well, tell me, tell me what you're gonna wear. You were on North about what is the new balance.
Lano:Yeah.
Rick:Get all your stuff early, because then we're gonna we're gonna put, like drifting, a row of decals on it for sure, so you could represent All right. I mean I want drifting a row to sponsor your 10 year run.
Lano:Okay and all this stuff. And then, oh yeah, I gotta go, I gotta get, I gotta get new shoes too, because I gotta start breaking in my shoes, ready for the breaking men.
Rick:But if you start training like I'll tell you, try this, I want you to try, like try for 15 minutes and you'll, you'll feel it.
Mig:Yeah, listen to the grizzled experienced marathon runner over here, come, come 15 minutes early, are you?
Lano:would you? Would you do cryotherapy? Would you try it out?
Rick:Yeah, you would try it out. No, the one, not the plunge one, but the one where you go in there, and no in the capsule, Whatever. Yeah, like you stand up.
Lano:Okay, so when I go, I'm going to call you that we go.
Rick:I'll.
Lano:I'll teach you. I'll teach you your one.
Rick:Have you done it before?
Lano:Yeah, how many minutes is it? You do three minutes and you're just wearing your trunnies, right Boxers you're. You're wearing socks, in in in crocs Boxers.
Rick:They provide them, or you know they provide them.
Lano:Well, no, no you're in your boxers, but they'll give you socks. You put you, you, you get in with your crocs and then you put gloves on. If you want, I think you can have. You can leave your robot or something like that, or a towel, but now I just go in with the, with the socks, the gloves and your boxers.
Rick:They don't have like a hooky, put the rope in inside or whatever.
Lano:No, you, when you're walking to the, to the, the fruit, I guess, like a freezer or whatever is you just hang the robot side, you walk in and then they start, they close the door and then they'll play music.
Rick:Oh, and then when the music stops.
Lano:So you'll, you'll connect your phone to the their speaker, their blue tooth speaker, so you play one song, whatever song you want to keep your mind, you know, occupied, because when you're into the first time, dude you, you, panic man, you're like because when then they start pumping the nitrogen in there and it's coming from down, below and up.
Rick:But it's not like dark, it's just no, no, no, it's bright, it's bright, but you start feeling all this cold and you're like, oh shit. I was like pins and needles, like you just start freaking out.
Lano:So they and then they'll have. They'll have a window there that's closed and if you want, they'll lower it. But then you, you release a lot of the cold.
Mig:So you want to have it up.
Lano:Right. But that way you have the music playing and you're just your mind's occupied and you're in there and, man, it's when it's creeping up and you're just like after what messy? Maybe after a minute you're like All right, you're like all right, catch your breath and everything you just stabilize. Yeah, you stabilize, you're like and then you're just going and going. You feel it like, but, man, when you get out you feel so good because I guess what it says, like your blood recirculating.
Lano:Yeah your blood, your blood, all your blood, goes to your core. And then as soon as you get out, it just recirculates everything. Your whole blood recirculates and man, you feel so good, you feel where you feel like going to go for like a 10 mile run, like you, and I guess it like your metabolism is going to, it keeps, keep kicking, kicks in your metabolism Starts it, fires it up.
Rick:Yeah, man, so you feel so how long are you in?
Lano:there for three minutes but, three minutes of them getting it, getting pumping in the nitrogen and it gets down to like it goes to certain levels of what you want and I think like I think I've done one that was like minus two, 230 degrees or something, minus yeah. So so you get in there and then, but they cut it off at three, at three minutes. It turns off, it's not like they cut it off, but he's right there talking to you and he's still asking. He's asking you, are you okay?
Rick:Are you okay?
Lano:Yeah, you talk to him whatever you know, and then he'll let you tell you. As soon as you hit the three minutes they'll cut it off and you can still still in there because it's cold, right. So you can stay in there, right, you know, and just get the most of it out, and then then you just knock on the window and then you walk out. But, man, once you get out there and you're like warmed up and you feel amazing.
Rick:How many times have you done?
Lano:it. I think I've done it three times.
Rick:And this is like after the marathon, before the marathon, I've done it.
Lano:I've done it, yeah, before the marathon. This has always been before like enduring training, because right now, like I've been, like like getting out of bed.
Rick:I've been having all these aches and pains and all the time my wife yeah, why am I like hurting all? This stuff and she's like because we're not getting sleep, your body heals when you sleep. When we're not getting sleep, I know, like I've been seeing YouTube, like the new hot thing is like those plunge baths.
Lano:Yeah.
Rick:Like they sell these little like tubs, or like you put them outside and it keeps it, but it brings it to 38 degrees and you said minus two. I was like, wow, so this, that's more advanced.
Lano:So what they say is this it's kind of a good way, because it's kind of like indirect cold where you're, you're plunging into ice. You feel that damn, it's physically.
Mig:It's physical, you know, the ice is burning against you Like, when you're in the shower you know you try to do that blast the cold water so you're feeling it right.
Lano:It's such a shock, you know and then you compare that to when you're out in the cold. You're like oh man, you're like you know, you're feel more, more amped up, more you know, so you can get more. I guess it's you can benefit it.
Rick:Now I heard Joe Rogan say he'll do it Uh huh, well, I know it's the plunger or the cryo.
Lano:He has a tub, he has a nice tub at his house, and then he'll do like a sauna after this, like double the.
Rick:Whatever is on the way, the sauna.
Lano:Yeah, he'll double the double it up crazy. Yeah, there's some good stuff, man, I want to get on that damn carnivore carnivore diet too. I think he does it every January, yeah, but he says you get like like, like, like.
Rick:You go through like spells of diarrhea, like you do, like like your body hits the wall and then you have like diarrhea for like three days. But once you get past that diarrhea stage, yeah you're feeling like incredible. He says he just get like the squirts, like you don't trust any farts, Like you went through that stage but like but.
Lano:I don't trust any fart man no but after you know.
Rick:but he says he does it every January he does that carnivore diet.
Lano:We just, I just make him very, very carefully when I got a fart. Stake in meat every day Like yeah, I think it's like hey, you guys fart in the shower.
Rick:What's this? Time to time, they'll make me in on this like that. Yeah, isn't it always like?
Lano:the nastiest damn fart that comes out in there, Like when you fart in the shower. It's like the nastiest damn fart. Like what? Well, because what water and all this? What the hell did I eat that made that smells like?
Mig:Why is it the water covering?
Lano:it what it's like damn.
Mig:It's like a barrier or something knocking down.
Lano:Water run down my back Like I'm watching like a, but they is like damn man.
Rick:Are you just farting? You're like splitting cheeks.
Lano:No, man, You're just you just. You're right there watching you just fart. You give a good fart, but man, it's just like the nastiest farts come out when you're showering dude.
Rick:Now I asked me like a couple days ago or a few weeks ago, you drink mineral water, mineral water no. Like you don't drink topochicos and stuff.
Lano:No, I don't.
Rick:You ever tried it? You drink it.
Lano:Um, yeah, I've tried it, I can't get into it, you don't like it.
Rick:Like me said you didn't like it either. I can't get into it either. I can't get into it, but me it's like I'm at the like. I need to have it after, like dinner or right before bed.
Mig:Like it's me. It just like clears out all the carbonated yeah.
Lano:Carbonated yeah, but topochicos helps you, helps you digest.
Mig:I mean because they sell some like all those like La Croix and all those you know they're, they're um, they're flavored, like just slightly flavored, but I don't know what are those waters that we used to buy, that we liked a lot. Crystal Clearly Canadian, clearly Canadian, yeah.
Rick:Oh man, those were so good. Did I have gas, mineral water?
Lano:Flavored water.
Mig:Look at the bottle, look at it.
Lano:Clearly, clearly Canadian, clearly Canadian, those damn things were.
Mig:They were good dude, we we drink so much of that stuff. We would get them at the store.
Lano:huh yeah, we would go to the Chinito store and we, we were some kids.
Rick:Yeah, dude, there you go.
Lano:Those things were delicious and they're still up. Look at that. They're still making them.
Rick:It looks like it's um carbonated, or is it?
Mig:sparkling water, sparkling, sparkling, yeah.
Lano:Sparkling water, sparkling water. Clearly, canadians have a bunch of different flavors. Yeah, dude, the grape, the grape.
Mig:When we were when we were younger, like our teenage years. We would pound those things like crazy man.
Lano:Those clearly Canadians are delicious.
Rick:Well, I feel like it has like the right amount of like bubble size.
Lano:Uh huh.
Rick:Where, like after dinner or before bed, like like it gets all your bloat out, like like you'll do these like burps from like deep down in your gut, like you'll burp out stuff from like yesterday. Oh man.
Mig:Like if you don't like if you have it every three days Just get a good diet coke for that man.
Rick:So this, like I'll, I'll drink it and like like just to clear out all them, like my gases and stuff. Because when you're talking about a fart in the shower, like this is like opposite, this is like a burp, a burp before bed, but like I guess that all the the gases and like like we have to have like a case of it. We buy a case every week, me and my wife.
Mig:Well, you, know how, right now the the thing is um, all these like everybody's making like a hard soda or hard seltzer or whatever yeah. Well Haritos has a hard seltzer, they're hard, they're hard sodas they're. They call them cantalitos. Oh yeah, and I thought um, they're really hard to find. Uh huh Cuz uh I. I just knew of one liquor store that Luis Licker out in. They have alcohol yeah, they have alcohol in them. Saw their flavors, but they have alcohol.
Rick:This one. Cantario. Yeah, uh huh.
Mig:Okay, and all the Costco's other they Costco actually sells them, dude. Oh yeah. Yeah, I should have bought a box. I have one. I'll stay at home.
Rick:How is?
Mig:it. They're pretty good. The best tasting one is the orange, the the Mandarin.
Rick:Oh, by Haritos, but they're all pretty tasty. Oh, look at that Like like a minty lot of type or someone made that.
Lano:Yeah, someone made that.
Rick:So, but you've had Topo Chico right, you just didn't like it.
Mig:Yeah, something about I don't know man, it's just something just about the taste of mineral water.
Rick:I don't know. I'm gonna bring some for you guys.
Lano:Just try it like if you had a while I'll try it, but you've had cuz you know. Uh, mark likes that shit yeah.
Rick:Does he like it?
Lano:He drinks a lot of it um we're in Mexico.
Rick:After meals and stuff.
Lano:No, just like that.
Rick:Yeah, yeah, I just want like it clears you out.
Mig:Oh, I need a burp. I just get a soda To me something coke won't do it. Yeah, especially coke, dude. Coke has so much gas in it, so carbonated Sprite does it for me. You know that I'm explaining it anymore. What I know it's Sherry or what is it called? Starry or something?
Rick:Yeah, Starry what.
Lano:Yeah, they replaced.
Rick:I'm at it.
Lano:I just saw Sprite the other day when it when it bought sodas for the right out of it.
Rick:I heard. I heard they were gonna stop making it.
Lano:Yeah, that's what I thought I heard. No, I saw I, but I got seven up. I saw seven up in Sprite because Sprite.
Mig:Sprite is a Pepsi product.
Rick:I thought Sprite was coke.
Lano:Yeah, sprite's coke, but I didn't hear.
Rick:Starry's gonna like oh, starry's Pepsi.
Mig:Pepsi. So what did they? Oh, probably Sierra Miss, then. So, yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, okay, sierra Miss.
Rick:That's the party. Oh yeah, say goodbye to Sierra Miss Pepsi to find another lemon. Yeah, sierra Miss, oh yeah, okay, that's, that's seems like that.
Lano:Actually it's not that bad. You know what then?
Mig:Stupid news report. I don't even know why I didn't click dude, but I thought I'd seen it on the news that they said that that Starry replaced the Sprite. No, and I don't know why they clicked that.
Rick:Sprite is coke Sprite's iconic yeah On the news, like I think it was on New Years or like a shooting Okay so we're sorry to cut job, but right now, remember this.
Lano:right now, meg, remember the Sierra Miss. Right yeah, replacing Sierra Miss. Remember that there is a Sierra Missed before this guy goes down the line like 20 years from now, and says the whole Mandala damn effective. It was never. It was never Sierra Miss, it was always Starry.
Rick:I want to talk about that. Hold on, let me say the news report. So I think it was New Years. They're like there was a shooting in the Highland Park, like the five people dead, and then it's like on the corner of Normandy and something else is like that's a Highland Park.
Mig:Hide Park.
Rick:Hide, but they said Highland.
Lano:Park. No, you gotta go. Nah, I bet you you heard it wrong?
Rick:No, I'll find it, I'll find it.
Mig:I heard, of the radio. The same thing they said Hide Park. I'll find it.
Lano:Nah, you, you, you, man, fake news, fake news with you.
Rick:No, no, it said Highland Park and then I was like that I go, that's South, south LA, but you heard it wrong dude. Did you guys see that that video? I sent you the YouTube one about the Mandala. That's the one I had saw. Yeah, you watched it.
Lano:You showed it to us.
Rick:No, you showed it to us, I talked about it and then I sent it to you guys. I showed you, like, like Google images and stuff of the oh yeah, we know, I'm watching the one that says like we're in a simulation, the matrix or whatever.
Lano:Oh yeah, yeah, it was a guy talking about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you watch it? Yeah, I saw part of it. What did you think, was it not?
Rick:Yeah, no, it was like 30 minutes or something.
Lano:But I was gonna watch all that bullshit.
Rick:But that's right. I watched that's right, saw that Mandala aspect, it's all bullshit. I wanted to hear what Mark said about it. I'm gonna remember, I'm gonna remember that it's.
Lano:There was a Sierra Mist and I just always sorry, okay, like what was before Sierra Mist. Yeah, you know, Sierra Mist was Sierra Mist.
Mig:Because, before Sierra Mist. You know what they should get rid of?
Rick:No, because it was a drink that I used to like.
Lano:It was company it was like made by Pepsi I mean. I was gonna say I don't mind them getting rid of Mountain Dew, but I don't drink it. I know there's a lot of people that are passionate about that crap.
Rick:Well, that's what I was gonna say.
Lano:There's like a, a fan, you don't even taste good.
Mig:Those are fan like for for Mountain Dew I remember, I remember hearing that, uh, that shit would make you sterile, yeah, if you drink a lot of it. Yeah.
Lano:Yeah, I heard that too. But you know um, I put that up with that crappy, ruby red shit.
Rick:But that's what I was gonna say. Like the, the drinks we know are like our region, like you go to, like Texas or something.
Lano:They have a different, something else, right? So right here we have Dr Pepper. There would be Mr Pip.
Rick:Oh yeah, Something like that. Well, Mr Pips is just like a brand.
Lano:I think right, it's Pepsi, you know.
Rick:I mean they all have to have their like rivals Like no, I think Dr Pepper is its own.
Lano:No, Dr Pepper is Coke. Dr Pepper is Coke, but Mr Pip, I think, is Pepsi. I don't think it's the only owner. It's Pepsi.
Rick:Pips is Coke.
Lano:Mr Pip.
Rick:Yes, his parent company Coke Coca Cola.
Lano:Holy Nike. So what about? So so Dr Pepper. Um Dr Dr Pepper is let me see, is it what he says by itself, I thought I was, but no, it's under Coca Cola.
Rick:Dr Pepper is under the Snapple Group, which is, I think, a Pepsi. No way, oh, parent company Snapple. And then Coca Cola.
Lano:Coca Cola.
Rick:Yeah, oh, wait, wait, this is all wrong. Then it says Pepsi here too.
Lano:Dr Pepper's everything. So, mr no wonder Mr Pips, so good too, huh.
Rick:Now, every once in a while, I want to Dr Pepper, because I remember I used to always drink it at your guys's house. Dr Pepper man, I can't get it, so every once in a while like like I'll surprise Laura, like she like give me a Dr Pepper when she asked me, like on a meal and then just because I remember that that taste like from, I relive hanging out your house that flavor. But the original Dr Pepper I think tastes better than because original was like the 27 herbs and spices, right or 23.
Lano:It says 23. Is that the Kirtles?
Mig:recipe it's a soda.
Rick:Okay, look okay. On the UKP it says United States Dr Pepper's Coca-Cola, and then in Canada it's Pepsi. So it's its own thing. That's correct. Kirtles Dr Pepper in the United States. Yeah, coca-cola, coca-cola. And like they own everything, pepsi, you know all that stuff.
Lano:But I do prefer 7-Up over Sprite.
Rick:Yeah, oh yeah, made with 23 flavors. So yeah, 7-up, you can get it everywhere, like at a restaurant, only in and out.
Mig:Hey, you know it's funny cause 7-Up. I like it when it goes flat. Really, that's what I don't care.
Lano:Yeah, I can drink it when it's flat.
Mig:Yeah, that's like the only soda that tastes good if it's flat, yeah.
Rick:Now, when you guys grew up, was, like my grandma, always sort of giving 7-Up when you're stiffening thick or something. 7-up and Vicks. Oh yeah 7-Up, yeah, yeah, that's why I think I like 7-Up, because my grandparents used to have it all the time, so I was always like that and my mom would always have a packet of cigarettes in the cabinet.
Mig:They would be there forever. So if you ever get an ear, ache or an ear infection. What they do. They just would light it up and just put the the filter in in your ear, I guess it was like air when you get air in your ear, something I don't know man cause, like it dries it out, like it sucks the moisture, maybe something, yeah, so she lights up a cigarette and just stick the cigarette in your ear.
Mig:That's funny cause there was a few weeks ago, man, I had like a really bad ear ache. It hurts, so bad dude. I just thought about that.
Lano:I was like damn dude.
Mig:I wish I had some cigarettes, just like sticking it in my ear.
Lano:Did you put one of your pipes in your ear? I remember my sister, my mom like rolled up a newspaper like in a cone, and then she lit it on fire Said to get the same effect, same thing, the same concept or whatever, and all she got was like a dirty ear with the ink.
Rick:It was black, then you know it went well, and then they would just tell her like well, like it would be a dirty ear, and then they said you have to go wash your ear off. Yeah, that's why the washing killed the infection.
Lano:You know you would get water in the dog's ear and then it's done. Poor dogs get like a near infection and shake. You know the time that's from the rain or just from like a bath. No, from a bath.
Rick:Oh yeah, you have dog insurance, huh.
Lano:No I haven't.
Rick:Is that like worth it or whatever? Some, you know, I haven't looked into it that much Because I saw this YouTube video where, like the guy was giving away like like rescuing dogs and like giving them to owners, but he was giving away free like dog insurance with them and people were like like it was like free pet food and free like dog insurance, so they're just like taking the dogs.
Lano:I really gotta see the benefits because I think something with Costco too, something Costco they offer or something.
Mig:Something. All that depends on how much you're paying a month or whatever, but I mean it'll turn out to be worth it that one time that you need the dog to have a surgery or something. Man, and those the what me and Rick had gone through with our dogs Now as much as they fought and everything, and we had to pay for gunner.
Lano:Gunner is walking the lion man because that stupid dog eats everything. He eats beds, blankets, the rubber toys. He eats everything.
Rick:My baby sister. One has a dog like that too.
Lano:Yeah, I can't give him anything Like he's just, he's just locked up in a damn kennel with just brick, brick floor and chain. You know, while this dummy, when I was letting them out, he it was twice that happened to him, the one the first, it wasn't the first time, but when it happened to him again he got so plugged up, he wasn't eating for like about a week and a half and he got so damn skinny, just skin and bones, man, because the dummy was plugged up and then until I told him, dude, I looked at my go, dude, I can't afford a vet right now because who knows what the hell they would want to do to you to get you unplugged.
Lano:So I go, you better push that thing out, or I don't know what's going to happen to you.
Rick:Everything's all exploratory.
Lano:Yeah, like you pay off my just to figure out what's wrong he eventually ended up, you know, crapping out what he ate, and it was like pieces of the, that rubber toy, that spiked toy.
Rick:The clown or something like that. No, it was like something like.
Lano:It was just like a little spiky toys I have like the squeaky thing in there. I don't know where you got it from, but he ate. That was in his shit. Pieces of that dumbass dude.
Lano:And then I knew he was just like all sad and everything like for about a week and a half until he, you know I guess he crapped it out. Boom, he was back to eating and everything. So you know, but it happened then it had. Then after that first time it happened to him again, but then he was only like that for like I think two days. And I go, let's see if you learn stupid. I go, let's see if you learn man.
Rick:But now you think how is it? You know, we don't know two and a half years like when do they grow out of it? Like when do they become chill?
Mig:Some might not ever do?
Lano:Yeah, I don't think those, those do their ever because that's what we're waiting for.
Rick:My baby says I'm waiting for a dog. This is like get over there. This is, like you know, laid down all the time, but she has one of those, um, those Asian dogs I forget what they're called.
Mig:Lakitas.
Rick:Lakitas yeah.
Mig:I mean in in in general. In theory, year three or four, they're supposed to calm down already. But that doesn't mean that you can't like do nothing. You still gotta like walk them and exercise them and tire them out. It just means they're gonna be better behaved you know, I thought I've already passed those years. But if you're still like not doing anything and leaving them just pinned up, you know they still got a ton of energy and it's never gonna go away.
Lano:They, that dummy got some couple of uh, loudest tablecloths, he they ripped one up. Who Stupid Gunner, oh does Oreo come down? Oreo. Oreo is damn old man, he's gonna he's be running around. No, he's he's, he can barely move, he just, he just sleeps all day.
Rick:What about um, your Doberman that stays there. What's her name? Zoe. Did she ever come down? Yeah, she's super chill, dude Zoe's like damn, perfect, damn dog Zoe.
Mig:right now she's a perfect dog because she was wild before I remember she's so perfect.
Lano:yeah for the the house man.
Rick:So right now it's just Mac. He's the wild one.
Lano:Yeah, fucking Mac, that fucking guy.
Rick:Yeah, but that's the thing like, once you get that point where they come down, you've got a few years left Suplexing that damn dog.
Lano:What will?
Rick:he do.
Lano:Yeah, what does he do? Is he chewing up a?
Rick:bunch of stuff and tearing up everything.
Lano:No, that's the good thing is you can leave him in the room and he's good, I leave him every day.
Mig:I leave him in my room every day and all he'll do is um. I wish I could do that with these assholes, man, but you know, the only thing I do is I block out the sofa because I don't want them on the sofas all the time. I'd rather he mess up my bed yeah because it's easier to replace blankets and it is a sofa and um, yeah, he doesn't chew anything up anymore. He doesn't do any of that, but um the.
Rick:Thing is.
Mig:It's like when people come over and other dogs come over and stuff, it's like he's he, just he's too much excitement for, for you know, he starts going crazy.
Lano:So the dogs are all dogs in the front, and then he's like left in the back. He's like yeah, stay back there. You think you're still locked up.
Mig:It's like I could have him with us with all other dogs and everything, and we actually need to do that. So with all, so he learns to be calm with them and they all learn to be calm with him. The problem is with my sister.
Rick:Oh the front house dog you're not talking about Ricky's dog. You're talking about the front house dogs.
Mig:Yeah well yeah, with with any other dogs, you know, because, um, whenever we have like the get-togethers, you know, my, my, my niece and and nephews, they'll bring over their dogs.
Rick:What do they got like? What breeds? Just small little.
Mig:I don't know what they are. They're on like muts, but um, you know. So they'll bring them over and then, with our dogs in the front, you know, bring them to the front and he'll just like. He brings too much nervous excitement and the other dogs are already used to each other. So when he tries to like stick himself in there, you know, they all like start reacting, you know, and then everybody starts to panic. Dude.
Rick:Yeah, I can imagine your sister.
Mig:You know, and everybody wants to start picking up their dogs and everything, and and I'm like this is just you just gotta let them work it out, you know, just let them figure it out, you know. But if everybody starts panicking and everybody starts tying them, no, and everybody starts this and that or whatever you know, then they're never gonna come down, he's never gonna learn, you know. And then it's like um, you know, my niece, um her husband, he, he comes sometimes and takes them so they can play with their dog at the park. You know so, naturally, every time he sees them, he associates somewhere in the park, so he gets all excited and everything.
Mig:So whenever he comes over, it's like boom, it's like excitement is triggered, you know, because he, he figures it's like, oh, we're gonna go play, we're gonna go play, we're gonna go play, you know. So that's why they can never calm them down and I'm always like you know what, they just leave him back there. Then, you know, since everybody's gonna panic and be out of control over here in the front, you know, just leave him back there. And, poor dog, you know, he ends up being by himself he was by himself for the holidays yeah, the exile, my dog man sucks and where are you?
Rick:you're just at the party save them a plate or no?
Lano:save them a plate what you could have done is is walked them for a long walk before the, before everyone came over.
Rick:Yeah, all right. Well, before we start talking about um new years, um oh, look at those tamales no, that was good those are your mumps, yeah and then we never. We never had the Christmas show or the new year, so we didn't have the champolada. I was waiting for me. The champolada was delicious.
Lano:Yeah, we had a rough week well, I mean we, he can still make it. It has to be like a big mark. Make more um for especially whether being as cold as it is for next week when we break into the heater over here. Yeah, you know, you know, I had the, the, the white elephant, right past saturday and they left a lot of damn a lot of food wait, wait.
Rick:I want to talk about the party, but let me um before we get there. Um, I don't know if you heard, because we're talking about sodas. Did you hear them? Um, in and out. Added new menu items no secret menu or just regular menu items and it's like their first in the history, like the last oh was it? They changed the lemonade color, or something?
Mig:so what?
Rick:what do you think they added that's new to the menu? Like a big, their big breakthroughs food wise.
Mig:Yeah, they changed the lemonade color food, yeah, and they did something else, I think they added a different soda or something yeah, are we talking about beverages or food doing?
Rick:well, look at new. New menu items in and out added the first time in there okay, so did they add anything food wise? You would think, but this is what they added. They added um um the pink, pink lemonade and cherry coke to their menu.
Mig:That's the big. Thing.
Rick:That's the big thing over the news. Yeah, cherry Coke and then peak lemonade.
Lano:Why are you bringing it up like it's some kind of big thing? Dude Two added soda and flavors.
Rick:We were talking about sodas. That's why I wanted to see if you guys heard the news about the sodas. Were you guys ever a big cherry coke fan?
Lano:Yeah, I like cherry coke.
Mig:I like cherry coke. Well, now there's a closest thing to Dr Pepper without it being Dr Pepper.
Rick:Because when I made it I was 7-up, because you can't get 7-up like at places. But now I'm gonna have to add cherry coke, I'm gonna have to add a cherry.
Lano:What was the other one?
Rick:Pink lemonade.
Mig:Wasn't there lemonade, always pink yeah.
Rick:That's why I thought they had lemonade. But it said oh, Medellofix. Cherry Coke and a light pink lemonade. That's what it is.
Lano:Light pink lemonade these are the two. So that's, it.
Rick:Alright, now let's talk about your news. I want Mark to comment on the Mandela Effect. I sent him the video to see what you guys remember. But yeah, let's go to the New Year's party.
Lano:It was a success. Great turnout Made kick-ass on the turkeys, but even though the new smoker, he was breaking it in figuring it out, he probably would have been more satisfied if he would have been able to slow cook them.
Rick:But they still came out. Was that Migs House or your house?
Lano:My house. They were juicy.
Mig:Yeah, they were juicy.
Lano:I was cutting the rest of the turkey out getting all the meat off of it and they got a whole damn tray full of stuff. And then Vanessa was like, hey, you got to show Migs how to get the meat off of that turkey and I go. He was just getting the meat because people were lining up.
Mig:So, it's not like he could have, you know, get all this underneath and everything I know, a lot of the dark meat I didn't get out and she's like, oh, he didn't have time, he saw people already lining up already.
Lano:So, Saturday morning they're placing their hands cooking this.
Mig:No dude, I didn't start cooking until almost like three o'clock and that's why I kind of panicked and I didn't think I was going to come out, because instead of going low and slow all day the way, I wanted to. I had to go hot and fast and it actually. They had two in there and they came out black, so like the skin burned Because it was too hot.
Lano:But I was able to. I'm eating the little bit of everything you know making my plates and that turkey could still, as soon as you open the lid of the tapoor, have it in. You already smell the smokiness of the damn.
Mig:Yeah, it's good man, yeah, because the one thing I had to put on my Christmas list was and the thing is man, our older brother, he had already given me this before and it was like a little thermometer, but like remote thermometers, no cable right, well, yeah, with cables. Or were they his Bluetooth wireless?
Rick:I've seen some with the cable, I mean like it kind of hangs out the side.
Mig:But he had given it to me before I did the remodel on the room.
Rick:So you can find it.
Mig:Yeah, I don't know where it's at. I don't know where the hell I put it, or if my sister gave it away or tossed it or what.
Rick:So that thermometer is just inside the chamber or inside the meat In the meat In the meat.
Mig:So I was like going crazy looking for it and I have no clue where it's at, and I hope it pops up because it was an awesome thing.
Rick:Because those are like a hundred bucks, those Bluetooth ones.
Mig:Yeah, I just bought a cheaper one, for like 30 bucks that had wires on it, just so I could have it For this, for this. And yeah, dude, they ended up saving the day because I was able to monitor the temperatures of the meat and once they got up to like 160, I pulled them out, let them rest up to 165, and started carving them up. Dude.
Rick:Because I see those with the wire. The wire doesn't burn, it just like hangs out the lid or whatever.
Mig:Yeah, no, they're insulated, they don't burn. Yeah they were bombed, dude, yeah. And then when I finally got finished carving up the one and I started carving up the second one and everybody got their plates and came and got seconds and everything and I was finally able to sit down, I started carving up the second one, got my pieces sat down, took a bite of it and I was like dude, I was like man, this came out good. Yeah, I was like son of a bitch, this came out good.
Lano:A lot of compared to last year. The process more of a pain in the ass last year, the way you did it.
Mig:Yeah, well, about the same. I mean, can you still sit there and baby it?
Rick:But the new. It's not easier than the new Smoker.
Mig:It could have been. It could have been, but the thing is me and Rick miscommunicated, and because I knew we were going to need charcoal to run it and just like the wood chips were for flavoring, and he had figured the wood chips were, Was the charcoal, or would keep it.
Mig:Yeah was the burning source and everything, and I'm like no dude but that's what you have like a gas, you know, they just put that in a tray and get the smoke, you know. But the gas keeps the constant heat man, don't give me that look. And so we use the coal that he had brought and then we run out and I was losing my heat and I told Rick. I told him hey, dude, that's how we either got to go buy another bag of charcoal or I got to finish these in the oven it's like it's one of the two. And so we send my Vompedal oh, he was it.
Mig:Yeah, yeah, vompedal, my interference and we send him in Home Depot and he was able to handle the task of bringing charcoal oh at Home Depot.
Rick:They have charcoal at Home Depot.
Mig:Yeah, they got all kinds of stuff.
Lano:Oh, you're just like the barbecue stuff, that dude man. They go hey, vompedal, go get some charcoal. He's like, oh, where did I get charcoal from? I was like I fucking swear man Sometimes. This dude, I just want to punch him. I want to punch him in the mouth back from the stupid stuff that he just says.
Rick:Well, that's when people was like three blocks from the house, so that was good, huh, yeah, you're going to grab it.
Mig:So he came back with it, finished it off and it turned out good man when you say baby it like you're moving it around or basting it yeah, or like smoke, and that I messed up and I didn't baste it. I wasn't basting them. As far as baby it's like it's stoking the fire and just making sure the fire stays hot enough or, you know, it's just taking care of the fire.
Rick:Now you said you got it was a bullet smoker.
Lano:Yeah, you know you don't just throw all the like a bunch of charcoal in there. Let it all just that we don't got to be checking on it so much.
Mig:Well, I mean you could, but then if your temperature drops too low, you know it's not really going to cook that one right in the middle.
Rick:This one.
Lano:No, no, no, no to the right.
Rick:This one.
Lano:Up up Right here To the right.
Rick:Right, oh, this one, no, that one, okay, but it looks like this like the chambers yeah.
Lano:Yeah.
Rick:So I just want to see what the chamber. So you have the charcoal on the bottom, the one here. One turkey two.
Lano:See where they have the chips right there.
Rick:Uh-huh.
Lano:Where the chips at Wood chips.
Rick:Well, this is.
Mig:Well, that's why you soak the wood chips in water and you just throw them on top of the coals. I'm looking kids with the chips being wet. That's what's gonna cause it a smoke and not just burn up.
Rick:So, so this it like there's. No, I mean there's not a flame right, because the Turtles is like smoldering.
Mig:Yeah, see another the other thing to those throwing me off and and this was both thermometers because of thermometer that comes with the, with the smoker, it didn't go above 200 the whole time and the thermometer that I was using. You know I had four leads, so I had two of them in one, in one of the turkeys I had. I had one in the breast and in the thigh, in the middle or the bottom turkey and on the top grill. I just put it a monitor or probe in the In the breast and the other probe I just left it lying on the grill so I could get an idea of what the temperature was up there. And even with that one I don't know if If I left like maybe a crack open or something and it wasn't really staying that that hot up there, but it didn't really seem like the temperatures were up there also. So it was like kind of it was throwing me off.
Mig:Hmm but I'm I'm tired. It's just. I was good, I was just going by the temperatures inside the mean and I'm glad I had those thermometers, because what? Those thermometers, man? It would have been a disaster Because I was just doing it like that. I would have been so confused now those triggers they have like.
Lano:Like it's all just make it so easy.
Rick:It's a whole different compartment right and then like there's a pipe or the smoke goes into all that stuff. That way.
Lano:You just need a power and that that thing makes it so easy.
Mig:So this, you have to worry about the, the fire temperature, and then this is not smoke, huh, you see, because other thing too is that since this one you know it's kind of like on the lower end budget Smoker it's not really like insulated all that well, so it doesn't retain the heat all that well. Is the smoke supposed to release? They're supposed to stay in there. No, it's supposed to release, okay. And um, the day was, it was a cold day. You know saturday was really cold, yeah. So that's why I was like kind of wondering, you know it's like, if the temperature was really I had rain that morning, right, yeah, yeah.
Mig:Yeah, so I was wondering if the temperature was where I was supposed to be at, and Now, um so, you, would you?
Rick:I mean I want to get a smoker. Would you recommend it? Or go with those trigger ones?
Mig:trigger.
Rick:This is too much to fiddle with, even as a beginner.
Lano:Or I say I say trigger because this dude likes the, the bluetooth.
Mig:Oh yeah, shit.
Lano:You'll be coming home all your smart devices. I mean I want to set it and forget it.
Mig:I mean this way you're like moving it around, like yeah, if you don't want, if you don't want to deal with having to Take care of the fire and stoke it and keep your eye on temperatures and everything.
Rick:Then, yeah, you're definitely gonna get a trigger then but the trigger you have to buy, like trigger chips and stuff, or no?
Lano:Like the wood chips and the pallets, the pallets.
Rick:I don't like being locked into one System what the hell you talking about, dude?
Mig:You're an iPhone person.
Rick:You're a Mac person. What the hell do you?
Lano:mean You're talking about not being locked into one product. Well, oh, is that what you mean? Locked into one product? No, no, no, no, like one, one flavor, or what do you mean?
Rick:the trigger that, like they sell those chips at home people.
Lano:Yes.
Rick:Yeah, I might have. I don't want to go like I have to go special trigger online. I buy the wood chips or whatever, like.
Mig:I can get you.
Rick:I mean I could get charcoal anywhere or whatever, but those chips.
Mig:Shut up, just shut up, just keep burying yourself. More and more would have been.
Rick:Alexa, order me two more bags of cherry patterns pallets All right, you okay, um, let me tell you this, you guys, um I don't. Oh, that one's here right there, this, this one.
Lano:Yeah, that, exactly. Yeah, that one's right there.
Rick:Oh, I have the lockers on cheap server. Um, I don't know if I told you guys last time what you guys have on amazon prime right, like the yeah. Yeah, we guys ever do like the subscription services. Did I talk about this last time? What do you mean? What services Like, um, like if you buy something, they're like oh, if you subscribe to it, like you get like five percent off or 10 percent.
Rick:I don't do that or you'll see it, and I like I know, by one time. So I did that like on some, like like vitamin stuff, and then like every month, like I put it to see but like buy me these vitamins. Once a month, I was like, oh, I'm gonna be buying these vitamins. And then like, every time the month comes, it's all like, oh, like your items out of stock, like we're gonna bump it till next week, and then like Then next thing though, like oh, we still don't have it, we're they're bumping into three weeks. And I'm like, dude, if I'm a subscriber, I should be like priority.
Rick:Yeah getting this stuff but they keep bumping in and then, like they bumped it to the end of the month and then like so then that order gets bunched in and then the following week I get another one that's on time. So then I got like two products and I was just like if you guys ever experience it, because I don't think it's worth it, just buy it.
Lano:I don't do that shit.
Rick:Just buy it when you need to get it, because Now I have two products and then like now, like I don't, I don't need it, well, the next one's coming, and blah, blah. So what cause?
Mig:but you're like being locked into one product.
Rick:So what cause you start to um smoke this turkey late? Or will you working that morning?
Lano:or you got there late.
Rick:What, knowing the party with parties at what? Seven, six, five, five yeah.
Lano:You just got there, no, I mean. I mean, you got there late, you got no well, that was because I was you say you're gonna start at 12. Yeah, and you end up getting there like at I don't know one 32.
Mig:No, it's 11, 30 dude. No, yes, it was.
Lano:We got there, then started. No, you started.
Mig:Yeah, I started prepping the turkeys there I got them out, I got them ready, and then you said we still had to do a preburn to it and and I don't know what, and we didn't have the charcoal.
Rick:So I was just like the like unexpected stuff with the yeah priming the grill or whatever that stuff. Yeah, when I bought the flat top, I was already start cooking and I had to like prime the grill for like 30 minutes. I was like what though? Even the pizza they're like, let it run to, like um To let it break in, or whatever.
Lano:When are we gonna get some pizza?
Rick:Oh, I'll make some, just like I told you. You gotta like eat it fresh. I guess we could just be cooking it out here when you guys Come. You guys say you come in, then the next thing I know it's like 10 o'clock, dude, you guys are here, but I'll make, I'll make some. Make some pizzas, because we're gonna do more in 20 for 24.
Lano:Yeah, let's. Let's see what. What you got for 2024, dude.
Rick:So we'll have pizzas. I got the snacks here.
Lano:Just let me finish. All the food that was left over. Look at that.
Rick:So, okay, what else he had?
Lano:the turkey, um man he made some, some pulled pork sandwiches with. You put a. He made hey, this, this fucking guy, dude, is you see those damn two trays of damn coleslaw he made. Why they make so much, dude, I don't know man, it's like he made that one tray of pulled or the the Crockpot of pulled pork and then he's two damn trees and two full sheets of coleslaw, dude?
Mig:Yeah, that dude, you're supposed to make sandwiches.
Rick:Yeah, put a little bit of coleslaw in each sandwich, yeah, and he makes two full trees, two damn full trays of damn coleslaw that I got right there.
Lano:Now I've done like what. How am I supposed to do with this?
Rick:He buy it. That's his recipe. Like for two trays, it doesn't know how to shrink it.
Lano:It's like. It looks like you had to put the damn coleslaw in the sandwich and then a little bit of pulled pork on the sandwich yeah, exactly, and then, and then he tells his friend to To to make mac and cheese, and then he, he makes mac and cheese. It's like why do you do?
Rick:that Because he wants to like compete on my back and cheese man.
Mig:No. And then the funny thing is is like he makes the pulled pork and as people are getting there, he's like have you had the pork? Have you had the pulled pork? He's like what's that pulled pork? He's like what's that pulled pork? And that was what you think. Have you had the pulled pork? Have you had the pulled pork?
Rick:I've been there.
Mig:No, get some pulled pork, get some pulled pork, get some pulled pork. I was telling everybody.
Lano:Hey, hey, relax man. You try the pulled pork time that it time that it sucks.
Mig:It's like why, why, why you need so much affirmation dude?
Rick:It's like how did he make his pulled pork? He had it like on the grill smoky, or how did no, the crackpot just to the crackpot, yeah.
Mig:One of those deals where you probably just throw a pork butt in the crackpot and dump a jar of barbecue sauce and just let it go for like eight hours. Yeah, wasn't much to it. It's a good sauce, good tasting sauce.
Lano:Um, they brought this big old damn jar of damn green salsa. Mm-hmm, you saw that that, nah, it was a big green. It's like damn man, it's like that much damn salsa like you could have brought a little bit less. Vanessa gave me At her work she they had like a salsa little contest when I think, uh, I don't know, maybe like 10 people made salsas. Yeah, yeah and they all brought their salsas and they tried them out right and she had given me like Six of them and not necessarily like hot right?
Lano:No, some of them were yeah.
Rick:I mean some are hot, but like some people like the hotter the better. Like to me, like yeah, yeah, it depends.
Lano:Yeah, some flavor or whatever. This was back in October, I think, mm-hmm, end of October or whatever. Yeah, I was back in October, think. So they're like I, she gives them to me, I put them in the fridge and I'm, you know, meeting them, whatever December. They still had some. She's told me you better throw them away. I'm like, what do you mean? I'm not gonna throw them away but they're in jars, right?
Lano:Yeah, they're in jars in the fridge. This is they're gonna go back. She's like they're from from. Like like almost two months ago you got thrown away. Don't be eating it. I'm like they must still be good. I go. I go bad. They're gonna be alright. I go, it should be fine. It's like. No, he was like he goes. It does not. The ones that the, the salsa's at the south, the stores where they have like per preserver.
Mig:No, but so I mean. But I mean yeah, and if she put vinegar in them, then no, no, these are different.
Rick:I know Different stuff like yeah, yeah, that's why these were homemade salsa Sound like they're.
Lano:Like I was like, all right, I throw away if I was gonna eat it. And then it's opened up a jar and then I saw, like them mold, like not even mold man. It's you know, like damn science experiment, like white cotton candy in there. It was like no, it was still yeah it was still, but I was like looking at it like okay. Well, yeah, that you toss that I go. Let me, let me jiggle it, maybe you'll go away.
Lano:Oh no you don't like that. It was a those deadly lines like Okay, I guess a bit.
Mig:She was right.
Rick:Are you? The majority of this is also. She's at your house.
Lano:No, I, usually on the weekends I go to her house. She cooks good. Yeah, yeah, she's um, she's Not picky, but she's like, yeah, she's like, she's in tune with, like Figuring, like the ingredients when she eats something.
Rick:Oh, that's like me. He knows that, so I'm like yeah. But when she's at your house, like she's not like destroying the way, stuff like, like you said, like salsa, oh no, no, I have food right now because of the party party.
Lano:Usually I don't have shit in my fridge.
Mig:All I all I have is like a If you have a lot of turkey left over, you should bring it over to my mom. Yeah, those are something I should take her.
Lano:I'll just have stuff for like maybe turkey sandwiches and cereal, that's it. And then I started buying almond milk because I'm look last longer than milk, hmm. It's like I'm not even. I'm not even drinking the almond milk, because, oh, I want to be. You know, I actually like the taste of the damn.
Mig:My core flakes, you don't know. But a Few weeks ago it's funny cuz I'm gonna start no For the champurado, uh-huh, because I bought a two gallons of milk and since I didn't make it you know, for the, for the event I was gonna make it for I figured like that got all this milk, you know. So I had a Like a bowl of cereal like two days in a row, mm-hmm. So I like all that milk and everything. It's like, I think, like one bowl of cereal, like here and there, like a week, I'm cool, but having those two days in a row made me so gassy dude. I was like I couldn't figure it out doing like dude. What the hell's wrong with me?
Rick:Well, I don't know.
Mig:I started thinking I'm like that's probably the, the two bowls of cereal, that was cereal, the honey net Cheerios, but um, like the whole green ones.
Rick:Because, um, like Laura's like a big coffee drinker you know where is like boring coffee, like yeah, and like I'll get a, I'll get. Every one saw. But then I'm like, oh, we're gonna be all day like I don't want to, like it's gonna mess up my stomach. So then, like once I started telling her like, oh, I'll pass, I don't my stomach to be messed up, then she's like I'm gonna order you with oat milk or whatever. And then, once I start getting a little bit more, stomach was getting messed up and she's like how was it? I was like, oh, it's fine, she's like no house stomach. And I was like, fine, she's like that means your lactose intolerant. So now, like when, short of my coffee, always orders oat milk and like I don't have the issues of like my stomach being upset.
Lano:I mean, as soon as you drink milk, do you need it? Do you feel the mud? But coming on.
Mig:Oh, that's.
Rick:I don't think so. But you know what? I don't drink milk as much as I used to, like I mean we haven't at the house, I mean cuz the babies, that's all they drink, yeah. I was drinking them like cereal and stuff, but um, I Think it's when it's vitamin like in coffee, like when they warm it up or something.
Mig:Vitamin D See, baby, that's what it was. Dude cuz those vitamin D when I make Trump with all of instead of the 2% yeah.
Rick:No, vitamin D is a better one. No.
Mig:Yeah Well, yeah, it's a better tasting. It's real milk.
Rick:Through milk. But since you've been using almond milk, have you noticed a difference or no, like in your stomach? No, I feel good. I mean you put in almond milk in the area.
Lano:Yeah, I'm in milk in my cereal or your coffee no, and I'm a coffee. But yeah, I mean having the almond milk with my cereal. Farts still smell in the shower, still right circle right back.
Mig:It's like it's crazy. Just when you thought the shower fart talk was over.
Lano:I think it was crazy man.
Mig:Oh.
Rick:So let's, let's quickly um. The whole party was the white elephant. Yeah, how hot did that go.
Lano:It was good. It was like 30 gifts. Many, many's people were real perverts.
Mig:Yeah, they give, yeah, so explicit.
Lano:Yeah, they bring that explicit shit Like I got bamboozled, I got damn, I got a box. Then there's a damn 25 dollar taste and no, what's it?
Mig:wine, taste and wine give all wine and wine and taste Total wine, total wine. Yeah, yeah, got bamboozled, no they got more than wine there. Dude, what do they got Cheeser, they got alcohols, they got a kind of sugar.
Rick:Oh yeah, they sell beer and stuff, kind of like a bad mom, like more wine, I'm kind of.
Lano:I'm kind of pissed because because stupid, stupid vampiro dude, he, he brings a gift and then he leaves. So there's, extra so then I, I mess up. You're counting the number in the man, he gets like two pigs, but one was like just the date that he took there. Yeah, and he that that asshole end up getting the two best gifts the droid, the drone. I mean the drone and the, the decanter and the decanter wine set.
Mig:What kind of droid or drone?
Rick:was it?
Mig:It looked like a pretty good one. I.
Lano:Mean. I don't think it was a little for propeller ones yeah.
Rick:Well, they're all mostly for propeller not that big probably like.
Mig:Maybe like a 12 by 12 inch. Yeah, I.
Lano:I messed up because I made it like an ugly sweater. So then, like the, we voted on the ugly sweater.
Rick:Yeah, well, I got ugly sweater gets an extra ticket, or something.
Lano:Well, I got it a $30 lottery ticket For the winner, but I think next time just do a damn gift card, because that thing was bullshit, because Vanessa sister one, and then she, she scratched the this, the scratcher, and she didn't win anything. Oh, so that's a damn $30 lottery ticket, yeah well, welcome to my world.
Rick:I need some damn ticket or something, or, damn five bucks or something with the dude, but so it wasn't like so.
Lano:I'm gonna do a damn like an Amazon gift card or something, whenever.
Mig:I get those inches dude to gamble and shit, I'll go in. I'll spend about a hundred bucks. I'll get like maybe three of the $20 ones and $30 and some.
Lano:Vanessa got a Ken with with lottery tickets in it and her three dollar. There's like a $5, $3, $2 dollar lottery tickets in there and on the $3 she won 25 bucks.
Rick:That was the way that's it. Yeah, that's the one she got what'd you get me getting a little bit. What'd you get then? What'd you give I?
Mig:Gave. Well, actually the gift I wanted to give Didn't come in. I was pretty upset about that. I'd order on Amazon. It was supposed to be there Friday and I gotta notice on Friday saying it's not gonna come in no show until January 2nd Something like that's Amazon's, like memories.
Rick:We like two days now yeah no, it's not two days.
Mig:The world and this, this was on the on the prime it was a two-day thing. So I'm like perfect, and it was actually or something that I think, like Rick or some of the other guys you know, the us that work on the field what it really liked. It was like a lunchbox, but you could connect it either to your car or or a 1-10 outlet oh and it would keep your food hot or heat up your food yeah, but this thing.
Mig:This thing was cool because it has like a removable stainless steel Bowl, you know, so you can like, maybe even put like soup in there, or something. You know, kind of you know, but uh, yeah, it was really cool. And who wanted you don't know? No, I didn't come in. Oh yeah, I didn't come in. So then I told Rick, I told him dude, I'm my thumb, I was just gonna buy some scratchers and just like put them in a bag, and the thing that we had to stupid remember from the very first.
Lano:Right after white elephant. I love that. Kenny G, no the.
Mig:Kenny G Sexy keep it sexy yeah.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:Well, that stupid game was still light around Rick's house. So I told them. I told me they get some. Uh, I thought I'd give him 40 bucks and talking like 40 bucks worth of scratchers. They will just put it on there and see if you can get rid of this damn thing, you know, okay, if you just put the game out there just like that no one's gonna want it. Yeah, but if you put some scratchers on it and people are gonna want to steal it or whatever, they let they left the game.
Lano:They took the scratchers and they left the game.
Rick:So you got that total wind, but would you so, ricky?
Lano:I gave uh, I Mean we'd be in a plumber I gave the the poop, the poop game. Oh, when you, when you hit the toilet and you got a cat. No, is it that one Like poop shoot, or?
Mig:oh yeah poop shoot.
Lano:You got. No, you got to shoot the turd into the, into the ball. There was another one where it has like you, you, you roll a dice and then so many times you pump, and then the little turd pops up and you got to catch it, but then I I took down the poop shoot, where you guys shoot the little turds into the ball. Yeah and then I put a Lottery tickets on it.
Rick:Mm-hmm, two, three dollar lottery time it tickets I'll buy everybody drifting shirts, but then, like I just forgot about, like the baby came and forgot, and you know the drifting, shoot the poop.
Lano:It takes like 10 days to get something. That was it.
Rick:So the the best gift was. You say what man. He got the drone in the decanter.
Mig:Yeah yeah, I was a really nice like for anybody that like likes wine you know wine drinker that was a really nice set man, like a nice um.
Lano:When that's the first got a pretty cool boot and then one dude all drinking the drinking glass drinking boot glass ticket.
Rick:And these are all your friends, or many friends who like, who knows?
Lano:more like half, I guess.
Mig:Yeah, there's many there's many co-hosts, because it always seems like yeah, yeah, yeah you know, like takes over that party, yeah, and then I'm so and that's a lot of the dudes didn't show up like his, like I know Well yeah he told them late because I guess he, because you know what he leaves town a lot for work now.
Lano:So you probably kept for where is he at?
Rick:Because he's not at the coin place, right no?
Lano:He was working with rough but he changed.
Rick:I don't know what the company is was he there long enough to get a pension there? Is he like on the?
Lano:third pension.
Rick:Ten years. So we're you know where is that now.
Lano:I don't know the name of it.
Rick:Same kind of thing or different, or what. Yeah, yeah.
Lano:Yeah, I think, fixing printers and stuff like that, fixing machinery like that was rough there. No, no, here you go.
Rick:Well.
Lano:Christie, no Christie. This is the way Christian have you went oh. No yeah, it was a fun night, and then we ended up with karaoke.
Mig:Well, did you finally get that thing working?
Lano:Well, that doesn't carry okey On the old TV, the one I had outside. Yeah, I needed, I needed that, that cable, that that digital coax cable. Hmm, I actually ordered it today. Coaxes on the laser, no digital coax. Digital coax is the orange plug-in. It's on old TVs, but in the, the one with the little laser, the little light on it, yeah, digital up, oh yeah, that's digital up, that's.
Lano:That's a little square one. Oh, on my TV, if I, I put it on there. And then I figured out that, well, you guys went inside after. Yeah, I went inside.
Rick:You left early the party.
Mig:One in the morning man like one 30 in the morning.
Lano:I was still trying to figure out the karaoke thing.
Mig:I'm like I'm out here with the baby. Well, we had to do it different.
Lano:We did it different. I was just playing the off the TV Because I the mic was hooked up to the speaker, but we were playing it off the TV Speaker because the the plug-in was making a sound, right. Oh well, I had to change the setting on the on the audio on the TV.
Rick:It had to be on BCM.
Lano:Hmm. So then I was able to work it through the speaker, the Pathfinder speaker, and work it all because I bought a little mixer and a little digital converter for the whole karaoke setup. And I and I bought, I bought another like monster Coax cable no, it's a Monster did the digital cable and a longer cable and I got another like better coax ox cable, so to to to have a cleaner sound.
Rick:And.
Lano:I and I tried it out. It's like man, it sounds good. Man sounds real good. We're set up for them. A rap battle fool. What time?
Rick:what time was the the gift opening? Because of the baby, we probably didn't stay that long either.
Mig:Like the rap in there About 10. Yeah, I think I was 10, 30, 11.
Rick:Maybe next year when the kids are older. Yeah, I think 10 o'clock and then New Year's Day or New Year's Eve, nothing.
Lano:We went to a Vanessa's cousins of satius. Where's that? It right there? No, rancho Went to the apartment.
Rick:Rancho um. Rancho Cucko moonga oh, come on, that's also ask you to policy, right? So?
Lano:there and then we were there to like about maybe Fuck 3, 30 almost for tonight's on the rule. Yeah, and then we went, we went back, we went home back to Vanessa's and knocked out Like that didn't get up to, like them part like 11 11, almost now.
Mig:I had to work Monday, so I didn't do nothing. The holiday? Yes, sir, we had a. I was how's asleep? Fell asleep with a dog watching TV on the sofa. Let's start hearing all this boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Mig:Yeah, I was like what the hell man? I thought not just those, not for like 15 minutes, because it must have been like 9 30 when I, when I fell asleep and there's like I hear the fireworks, like so much I'm as the New Year's already, or what. Then I go on and look at my phone, it's like 12, 15.
Rick:I mean, we were home. I got lit up over here. I'm like happy new year.
Rick:We went to my baby sister-in-law's house for like a dinner. She lives in Pasadena, so she's kind of like off the Rose prayed route at the very end like by Sierra mother. So the plan was, well, we were gonna come home because of the way of the babies, so we just had dinner and then we left. We got home like a nine o'clock Kind of me and my wife just stood up to see how to meet each other with the fireworks are going. But then, like the baby's been waking us up like at 5 am, 6 am, so we told her like we're gonna head back to your house because, um, she's like a block away from the route, so we're gonna walk and see the Rose prayed.
Rick:And then like if you're able to, we could go back and use the bathroom or whatever, go back and all that stuff. So, um, we were gonna, um the Like I was like the baby wakes up like a 4 am, I go, just would go then. Or 5 am, the baby didn't wake up to like Like 7 o'clock, so we like slept in and they were all like getting ready, rushing to her house. We have to go like the back way cuz you know all the freeways are closed over there. That's also go the back way through, like all-hambra Coming you guys should have been spending the night there.
Rick:Yeah, and then, um, we run out like we parked the car, we're running to like the like, a block from her, like to the Colorado.
Rick:Yeah just to see the stuff bomber go over us. Like I barely caught it at the very end of my phone, I'm up, my wife got a good picture and then we saw the parade and the parade. I was like first time I mean I've seen the parade before, like in the grandstand, but this is my first time like on the sidewalk, like seeing the parade and how big it is and, um, it was pretty, pretty cool. Like Ali was like enjoying it and then, like you know then, well, if you had to use the rest of me, just go like walk a block to like use the bathroom, come back with the homeless. No, no, the homeless, I mean at that side the homeless weren't there, but we were able to like peel the side of a building Two people like in front of me.
Rick:We hear this bougie prick.
Mig:Yeah, the grass doesn't first of every street.
Rick:But, um, we're able, like it's at the end of the routes over, like we're able to like walk up to the curb and, like you know, see the parade, which was pretty nice, and then by then, like we finished, and then we just like drove home and knocked out. We're gonna try to see the style bomber game when it goes over the Rose Bowl, but like we might, for like let's just go home, like we're tired that we came back and then like knocked out the rest of the day.
Lano:Yeah, I'm over all that because wasn't it last year.
Rick:You're gonna go do that. You were gonna go to pray that. No, you're planning a camping out, or something.
Lano:Oh yeah, you know, you're right.
Rick:I'll tell you like yeah.
Lano:Rain or something.
Mig:Yeah, it's kind of always rain. Yeah, oh, that's right yeah.
Lano:I'm glad we did it, but we're in the warmth of her this week.
Rick:I'm gonna save it for next week show, but we went to this place and make it was telling about mm-hmm. It's called a Mercado Gonzalez Northgate In Costa. Mesa review and it's a, it's a Northgate market that they made it like. How would you say like, like, like a Spanish market, like? No, I like a Mexican style Mercado like makes a sound my car, so I'm my car central we wait on.
Rick:My wife really liked it. She wants to go back tomorrow actually. So by the time we'll reveal, go by twice, but if you guys have time to go this week and check it out at Costa Mesa. But I'll talk about it.
Lano:We got a job happen starting in Costa Mesa, so oh, you do look for it, yeah.
Rick:Okay, I'm gonna send you the address, but um we had because the place is full of like food vendors. Food vendors go for lunch or are you really going next week or when is it coming up?
Lano:No, we're gonna start it. It's a we'll be there for a while the job, but I don't know if we'll be there this week or next week.
Rick:Yeah, cuz it's about like an hour drive for us. But, yeah, yeah, maybe we'll talk about it next week or wait for you to try.
Lano:We'll talk a lot. We'll talk a lot about stuff.
Rick:So we'll be better, and what more?
Lano:yeah, it's coming here will be. We'll be on it, people.
Mig:That is a promise we're slugging into the damn.
Lano:Mow for 24 here we go, here we go, keep drifting yo please.