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Bars are one of the few businesses that don’t let you lie to yourself for very long. The numbers are real. The feedback is immediate. The mistakes are expensive. Bar Pod is a podcast about what it actually takes to build and run bars—and by extension, any small, creative, high-risk business—without the hype, the shortcuts, or the guru nonsense.
Hosted by brothers Ryan and Chad, Bar Pod is a candid, conversational series about ownership, operations, and the long game of building something that lasts. Ryan handles the day-to-day reality of running multiple bar and hospitality concepts, while Chad brings the perspective of someone balancing bartending, ownership, and family life. Together, they talk through real decisions, real mistakes, and real lessons learned the hard way.
This isn’t a how-to manual and it’s not a highlight reel. It’s an honest look at what works, what doesn’t, and why most good ideas live or die on execution. Episodes explore everything from finances and branding to staffing, burnout, risk tolerance, and knowing when to push—or when to walk away.
Bars are just the lens. The lessons apply to anyone who’s started a business, thought about starting one, bought a building, managed people, taken on risk, or tried to design a life with more freedom and fewer illusions.
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Nobody Ordered a Script This Week
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It's Monday, we have no script, and we're drinking NA beers at 11 AM — so naturally this is one of our loosest episodes yet. We break down why every distributor just moved order days to Monday (and why that screws small bar owners first), give a Tiques construction update including busted pipes and busted budgets, debate whether text message marketing is annoying or genius, and go deep on which celebrities we'd most want to drink with — Christopher Walken, Bill Murray, Doc Holliday, and one drag racing legend. Plus: a bachelorette party uses Paddle Bar as a bathroom and leaves snap pops everywhere, doors keep breaking, Chad's miser corner sends Ryan to a discount appliance goldmine, and we shout out some of the best breakfast spots in Sandusky. Episode 13, no plan, all vibes.
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Cold Open And No-Script Setup
SPEAKER_01Please give me a captain and code wire you know phenomenal. One bat legit.
SPEAKER_00If you imagine drinking with him, I'm gonna use John.
SPEAKER_01I'll be right back.
SPEAKER_03Two bottles in the bar. Barpod coming at you. This is how it is.
SPEAKER_02Hey, it is BarPod episode 13 coming at you. Um, and it is uh, dude, it's Monday. Yeah, and so we don't have really a script today, but I printed out a few little things.
SPEAKER_01We were both busy this week.
SPEAKER_02This is this is we're going freestyle today. Usually I'm jamming on the notes section for us.
SPEAKER_01Nothing.
SPEAKER_02I got nothing. So I don't know what's gonna happen or what we're gonna do today. Um and we're drinking NA's this morning.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_02Uh because it is it's 11 a.m. So we could have a beer, but uh, you gotta drive to Cleveland for some things. I got running around to do. Teaks is going crazy, so I gotta go over to Cedar Point or Cedar Point to Bayview.
SPEAKER_01And I went to a buddy's 40th on uh on Saturday, Saturday night, and had, I don't know, maybe 15 fatheads, head hunters. So I'm Fathead's a fine Cleveland brewery. Yeah, very fine Cleveland brewery.
SPEAKER_02All right, so we don't have a script. We're gonna go anyway, we're gonna see what happens. Uh I I don't freaking know. Uh, we're trying a new camera right now. We're actually using my iPhone instead of the iPad, uh huh. Uh, which the iPad has been bequeathed to you. So I got a new computer so I can edit on the fly.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_02Um, you're on vacation next week.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So we don't know if we're gonna have do a remote bar pod. Or maybe we do like maybe we do like a you and I do a few minutes remotely. Yeah. And then we'll have a special, I'll have a special guest here in studio. Oh, I like that. And then we can kind of do a little double up actually. If we do that, we're gonna keep the special guest surprise until Yeah, I'm not even gonna talk about who it is. Okay. Because I actually I don't a hundred percent know. I've got some ideas. Okay. Uh, but uh I I think that would be a good way to go
Distributor Order Days Shift To Monday
SPEAKER_02it. But let's talk about why we're here, which is uh a little bar pod industry news or bar news. We're here on a Monday recording because all of the distributors have now switched the order days from Tuesday, which is the day before delivery, Wednesday, to Monday. And now you have to do everything on Monday and then wait for your delivery on Wednesday. Jed, why do you think that is?
SPEAKER_01Um, I believe um I'm just I'm just theorizing here. Um they need 48 hours of notice now. I think what I would what I would think is they're probably condensing their delivery routes routes because um cutting down on staff, I would imagine. Uh-huh. Gas prices, and it's all about uh saving a little money.
SPEAKER_02It's all about fucking us.
SPEAKER_01Oh boy. It did it change our schedule.
SPEAKER_02I don't love having to do everything on so really we're gonna have to now prep a bit on Sunday nights and then do all the orders on Monday, which I'm kind of gotta be honest, I'm still recovering from the weekend. You know, busy we think about this in July when we have busy weekends and we gotta come drag our asses back in here on Monday.
SPEAKER_01Now, and for me, for me, you know, I'm I'm uh getting the kids ready for school for the week on Sunday night and doing all that stuff. It's you know, at the at the family household, it's bath night, it's getting all the stuff ready. So it does change things a little bit. Um now, granted, for the summertime, I just realized I won't.
SPEAKER_02You have to talk into the microphone. You gotta talk right into it. Right into it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, did you hear that? Did you hear that?
SPEAKER_02We got our producer back T-dubs in the background over there. There you go.
SPEAKER_01Well, you made me scoot over. I'm normally I'm over here a little bit.
SPEAKER_02I know he's he's he's cleaning us up again. We got a little out of control. We had to bring the professional in and get us back and get back going again. We were getting a little loose.
SPEAKER_01We were getting a little getting a little loose. We don't even have a script today. Yeah, but we're not drinking, so it's good. That's a good point. Uh but yeah, so Mondays.
SPEAKER_02Um, shouldn't it be recording now? Oh so boy. Oh boy. See, I actually panicked there for a minute. I did too. I got a little warm. I got a little warm right here. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01Uh, but anyway, yeah, so we're moving to Mondays because the distributors have changed things around. Um everybody's feeling the feeling the pinch from gas prices, and uh unfortunately I think everything's gonna continue to go up because I don't see any relief in sight at the moment.
SPEAKER_02And I think, and you know, the reality of it is if you're a small business owner or a bar operator or anything like that, it's gonna hit you harder first. I mean, that's just the way it works. As the uh, you know, the uh fucking you know, the structure, the the pyramid, whatever, the lower you are on that totem pole, the more they're gonna take it out of your trickle down economics. Oh yeah. So anyway, so that's what's going on. So needless to say, in this industry, you are at the mercy of your wholesalers. Yeah. Simple as that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02We are. So you can either have a bar manager that does all this or you can be uh bar owners like we are and and deal with it.
SPEAKER_01What do they say? Uh we wear many hats. Speaking of uh many hats, how's your uh TEKS hat?
TEKS Build Update And Budget Reality
SPEAKER_02Okay, so TEKS is rocking and rolling, dude. Uh we uh are finishing up with the plumbing this week. Uh drywall is going up. Um so that is like after that happens, uh restaurant equipment has been ordered. So once that gets delivered and drywall's up, it's time to start doing inspections, like bring the health department, the liquor department out to get those things done. And in the meantime, we are also um redoing every room at the Cedar Resort, the micro resort, as I like to call it. And I just got the writer's room done, which if you check out stay at the cedar.com, you can uh you can uh check out the rooms and what we're got going. As a matter of fact, we have some folks that are already booking the entire place and then they're gonna party at Teaks.
SPEAKER_01Hey.
SPEAKER_02So that's gonna be kind of fun.
SPEAKER_01I think I we were talking about before, but so I think we'll do some special deals for that. If you want, if you're interested, yeah, get a hold of me. Now let me ask you something that's probably a little sensitive over there. Sensitive. Yeah, we've talked about how it doesn't matter what you're doing, anything involved with construction, things don't go as planned. Right. Are are you did you go over budget? Oh, absolutely. By a lot? Yes. It's not funny, but it it is that's what happens.
SPEAKER_02The budget has gone over. What what's happening here?
SPEAKER_00Put it over here. Will you did he just pop did he just pop right in?
SPEAKER_01He came in high.
SPEAKER_00He took through his headphones on the floor and came and told you what's up.
SPEAKER_01Now here's the thing. I have never noticed. Correct me if I'm wrong, if my the audio has been bad for any of these episodes. Uh it's because I do a lot of postwork. You do a lot of postwork. Yeah. Um, but now you just put it right on top of my sheet of paper. Uh I can't see what's going on. Just bleating disregard. Disrespect. For the co-host. I'll tell you what. You stay back there.
SPEAKER_02You stay back there. Yeah. Uh I you know, I've gotten some some feedback about uh me looking. Remember a couple episodes ago, I was looking all over the place. So I've been trying to tighten it up a little bit here, be closer to the microphone, look at the camera more. Sure. Uh, but you know what?
SPEAKER_01So fuck it. So you don't look at the camera and and I don't talk directly.
SPEAKER_02But I'll tell you what, you haven't tapped your pencil once. No, I haven't been working on it. Oh man, I've been working on it. I was gonna do a count on the screen. Were you? Yeah. Yeah, no, it feels good. Um okay. So anyway, Teeks, that's what's going on over there. And you brought up uh budget stuff, and yeah, we're over budget. Um and it's just the name of the game. You know, especially when you start digging. So when we started digging for the plumbing, we found some old pipes that needed replaced. We found uh under the one building, after you got through the concrete, guess what? That building was built on old like chunks of asphalt and stuff back the building in the 50s, just like a lot of the piers around here and things like that. They just throw whatever garbage they can, they put a building on top of it. So had to dig through all that. That was fun. But we're rocking and rolling. I'm still shooting for Memorial Day. I you know, but I'm not not saying it uh for sure. Uh so that's what's going
Text Marketing And Ad Overload
SPEAKER_02on over there. Uh here's bar news uh that we did look up. I did do a little lookup, um, and I think I'm just gonna cross one thing off here because it doesn't matter. Um and I'd like to get some feedback on this. You know, people are starting to do text message marketing. I've seen this, and we get it. You know, you're your phone, you like a you know, you got a special here or whatever. Um I think it would annoy people. It annoys me. So I'd be curious what our customers would like. Would they like to get text messages from Paddle Bar and say, hey, this is who this is the live music this week, or would they rather just go to the website? Um and we do an occasional newsletter when we have big events, uh like when you have the lobster fast and things like that. But that's about it.
SPEAKER_01That's email though. That's email. That's email, which you you know you don't get necessarily, and most people don't have their email notifications on because you just get spammed all day.
SPEAKER_02Let us know in the comments what you think.
SPEAKER_01Uh I'd like to hear from you. I would, I would, I would automatically say no, but uh it would be chat or I writing it. Because if you if you got a text message from uh let's, for example, say I was just in Cleveland, right? Yeah. So I I get a text message from, mind you, maybe my favorite bar up there. I think one, the first time I'd be like, it's all right. And if if I kept getting them on a weekly basis, I'd get it in.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I start deleting things when I get over-marketed to. Yeah. As a matter of fact, I signed up for a there's a balance website, and of course I made the mistake. I put my email in because I wanted the 10% discount code. I was ordering some stuff online. Right. And now they I'm getting fucking four text text messages, emails from them a day. And it's like, all right, guys, well, now you just blew it. I'm done with you. It's because you're you're annoying me.
SPEAKER_01It's see, you know, it's it's for the same. It's kind of like T-Mobile. It's for the same reason. Do you know what do you know what social media uh um it's an older app now, but you know what social media app is the worst about this? And it actually this is a good this is a good uh segue into this about how marketing and ad stuff should be balanced. Because guess what? The worst offender on social media, and I can't I can't seem to turn them off is Snapchat. Oh, Snapchat. I turned them off.
SPEAKER_02I I got it turned off.
SPEAKER_01It's it see, I turned them all off too, but I'm still getting them. I will occasionally I'm still getting them. Like, oh, would you like uh and it's like pictures of stuff. I don't give too much.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, I only want the only thing I use Snapchat for is to see pictures of your kids when you when they're doing stuff and you're getting funny stuff.
SPEAKER_01Aaron and I basically send it back and forth to each other um when when the kids are playing or whatever or doing something fun. But now I'm getting I'm just like, oh hey, it's a guy shooting a basketball or a guy like licking somebody eating candy. I'm like, well, who are these people? You start saying a guy licking, licking what?
SPEAKER_02Uh hey, uh what whoy hey T dub, what's our uh time check back there?
unknown1046.
SPEAKER_021046. We still got a little time here. You count you count you counting down the minutes? Uh no, I just want to know. I didn't, I forgot that we're using my phone to record this thing, so I uh I can't see my little timer. Right. Uh, which is okay. Uh what else we got going on? Oh, uh Paddle Bar is opening seven days a week starting next week on Monday. Yeah, so we added Tuesdays last week. Talk to Giovanni. Oh, he you brought up again on the podcast.
SPEAKER_01No, you mean the Saturday bartender?
SPEAKER_02The Saturday bartender. And uh I said, hey man, and he's just asking when it when uh when we're gonna start doing uh uh doing Mondays, and uh I said, Ah, it's up to you. What do you think? You want to wait till May? And he said, No, how about next Monday? That kid's a go-getter. He is, he's a grinder, dude. He wants to make that money. Yeah, he does. I love him. I love him. So okay, here's a fun one that we did talk about.
Celebrities We’d Drink With
SPEAKER_02This was a note. Celebrities you'd like to drink with. Can you name one? I'd say three. I know number one already. Three. Who you got? Christopher Walken. Christopher Walken.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, that's a good one. Could you imagine? He'd be like, my friend. Please give me a captain code wire. You know it's phenomenal. One patent at a time.
SPEAKER_00Could you imagine drinking with him? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna use John. I'll be right back.
SPEAKER_02That's yes. I think that that well, you nailed it. Walking. That's my number one. That's a good one. That is my number one. What about yours? Oh man. Um, I you know, probably Bill Murray would be a good one. He would be good. He'd be fun. He would be good.
SPEAKER_01Um, you know, Bill Murray would be good. I gotta think another somebody else. How about T Dub? What do you got? Chime in.
SPEAKER_03I like it about a beer with John Forrest.
SPEAKER_02Oh, John, oh, the city. Oh, he's talking about drag racing. He's got this thing about drag racing. It's uh I said celebrity.
unknownHe is a celebrity.
SPEAKER_02Well, in the drag racing world, yes, he's a celebrity. Yes. He said we've met him though. He's a he's a he's a good dude. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Could you imagine he'd probably if if if if he John Force for anybody that doesn't watch any kind of drag racing NHRA, he is in your face. He is loud, he talks at a decibel three or four times. He's louder than everyone's. No.
SPEAKER_02Put it on the other side of the room.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, give me a butt light. I'll take three.
SPEAKER_02That guy, talk about a talk about a marketer. Oh, dude. That man knows what he's doing. Yes, he does. Um I would say probably another one would be Bill Murray's a good one. I'd like to, I'd like to have a beer. Not a is he a celebrity? Not really. Who? Uh the CEO of Rivian. Oh, what's his name? Uh RJ Schmirnish Scarfight. Schmirnish? Starts with an S. I don't know. It does.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, no, because you're a Rivian guy.
SPEAKER_02Well, not so much that, but uh it's it's interesting, like just all that technology and all that stuff. And like, you know, you know what, that brings up another celebrity I would have liked to have a beer with. He's no longer he's not a celebrity, he's once again we're in the CEO world. Steve Jobs would have been great to spend an hour with. Yeah. And really just get his take on things. For sure. But other celebrities.
SPEAKER_01I gotta tell you, I don't know. Scott Galloway.
SPEAKER_02Scott Galloway from uh yeah, he's a podcaster. Well, he's podcaster, he's also a like a really brilliant finance guy. I've seen him, uh he's got a podcast called Prof. Markets. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's on pivot, he's got a few different ones. He's he's uh he's just he's a smart cookie.
SPEAKER_01Let's now let's reverse course here just for a little bit. And I'll tell you what, I I I don't know. I I'm trying to talk into the microphone a little better, but I I feel like I'm hunched over. I'm doing it. I need a little I need a little more. I got one more. One more that you want to it's a fictional celebrity I want to drink with.
SPEAKER_02Fictional. Fictional. Who? Fictional. Skink from the Carl Hyacen books. Oh nobody's gonna drink. If anybody's gonna get that reference who reads Carl Hyacin, it's all about South Florida.
SPEAKER_01We'll leave it there. That's a good one. That's a good one. Now, real quick before we move on, this is a little bit different. Who is a celebrity that you the that you would least not not a chance? Okay.
SPEAKER_02Kid Rock.
SPEAKER_01That's really good.
SPEAKER_02That's really good. And also it probably wouldn't be drinking, it'd probably be meth.
SPEAKER_01Well, we know it wouldn't be Bud Light. It would not be Bud Light. That guy just seems like a douchebag. He does, doesn't he? That's pretty good. I don't know if I can do any better than that. No, you can you can you can get one. Oh let me see. You gotta think about it. I do, I do. That's tough. That is tough, but that's there's a lot of oh man, there's a lot of political pundits. You want pundits that I would not like to get.
SPEAKER_02And I will tell you what, there's political pundits on both sides of the aisle that I wouldn't want to get close to.
SPEAKER_01On both sides, but I don't want I'm gonna stay away from that stuff. I'm trying to think of a celebrity that I would not like to.
SPEAKER_02How about Guy Fieri?
SPEAKER_01You know what? I mean I wouldn't mind having a drink with him.
SPEAKER_02You have a nacho with him. Have a nacho, just a single nacho? Because he'll come in spiked out. I'm gonna let's move on. How about John Tapper? Oh, wait, he doesn't drink, and yet he's an expert in the bar business.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, right. Impossible. I don't trust people that don't drink.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, me neither.
SPEAKER_01We're drinking as I sit on my NA beer. I'll move back on. I can't think of anybody. Sorry about it. You nailed it with Kid Rock because that is the worst. Yeah, he's up there. Who's the guy? Uh he's extremely obnoxious. The guy who lives up in Michigan and he talks about he's all Ted Nugent. Oh, Ted Nugent.
SPEAKER_02Ted Nugent. Ted Nugent and Kid Rock might be the same people. They're probably they're probably related. Of course, I got a feeling that family tree goes straight up and down. Zero branches. Zero branches. Zero branches.
SPEAKER_01Hilarious. Hilarious.
SPEAKER_02Okay, fun, fun trivia question quick. Uh T Dub, you might get it, because one could argue that Kid Rock is not a talented musician, but one would have to agree that although Ted Nugent might be a douchebag, the man was talented.
unknownHe was.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. What what what band was he in that featured a Amboy Dukes featured a song that was called Journey the Sendure of Your Mind. And to this day he said he didn't know it was about psychedelics.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, sure he didn't. Oh, you know what? Now this isn't who I wouldn't want to have. Another one, who I would, because we said anybody, it can be alive or dead. What you got? Man, I'd want to have a drink with an old cowboy. I'm talking like Wyatt Earp. Ooh. You know what I mean? Doc Holliday would be my number one.
SPEAKER_02Doc Holliday from Tombstone.
SPEAKER_01Could you imagine having a drink with Doc Hirk? Wyatt, I am rolling. I am rolling. I have not I have not yet begun to defile myself. Oh boy. There you go. Any just tombstone. Tombstone. Any of those guys. Any of those guys. Probably Doc Holiday number one. Doc Holiday. Morgan. Virgil. Morgan Virgil.
SPEAKER_02Johnny Ringo would be an interesting one too. He would. He would. Just went down a real tombstone all day. Johnny.
SPEAKER_03You could do a whole show, whole podcast, and just on uh lines from movies.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah. We could do that. We wouldn't have to have a movie. This is the we don't know what the hell we're doing episode.
SPEAKER_01It's his a bar-related one. I like I watched an old school movie the other day, and it was this is off topic, but um, you know what's a really good movie that you just forget about is the color of money. Oh, great movie. Paul Newman. Yeah, dude. Tom Cruise, right? Uh huh. Yeah, about it's about their uh uh playing pool.
SPEAKER_02Playing pool, pool hustlers, is that what it was? I've seen that. That's a great movie. Great film. All right.
Local Breakfast Spots And Rumors
SPEAKER_02Uh so I had breakfast yesterday at um Jordan's Country Diner over in Huron. That place is phenomenal. Fantastic breakfast. Yep. It is. Um, and then I also a little just segue into breakfast spots if you have any favorites.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so let me let me hit you with a piece of disturbing news. Um, that they got torn down right now.
SPEAKER_02That building's gone. That's a sad rest of R.
SPEAKER_01Ip. In the days of Green Door, that was the first one. Where the elite meat to eat. Where the elite meat to eat, um, taco night. Um, but I heard some news, and you might you might you kind of have an ear to the ground for what's going on around here. I heard that if it doesn't sell, because it is up for sale, Jolly Donut. Oh, it's been sold, from what I understand. It's been sold. Yeah, I heard it's sold. No, I heard the person who bought it might close it and do something else.
SPEAKER_02Is this well that I don't know, but um uh yeah, I actually know who bought it, I think, from what I've heard, but I I don't know what their plans are. That's an institution. I used to go there before school. Breakfast there the other day. It's pretty good stuff. I don't know. I don't know what's gonna happen there, but I don't know that we should uh talk about local rumors on the podcast. No, that's a good point. Which means I probably have to edit out this segment.
SPEAKER_01Oh, am I not allowed to talk about Jolly Donuts?
SPEAKER_02Well, I just don't know. You know, it's do we really want to like. Well, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know if it's gonna if it's I just heard that breakfast or not.
SPEAKER_01I don't know, I don't know. Wake and waffle is another great breakfast spot. You know, I have a new one I want to give a shout-out to that has it's not a breakfast spot per se, but it's over by my house, it's over by your house. Um they are crushing the donut game and breakfast sandwiches. Oh, that new bakery? Dude, sweet bakes by the lake. We were in there, that was great.
SPEAKER_02Sweet, they're crushing the donut game. Sweet bakes by the lake, man. It's amazing that they're so good at it because they all have holes.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_02That was pretty bad, wasn't it? What? That was bad. Oh man. Oh man.
SPEAKER_01I got a I got a line. I got a line. I got a line. I got a line for you. Tell me which movie movie this is from. What do you got? A donut. A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no holes is a Danish.
SPEAKER_02Caddyshack. Yeah, there you go. Speaking of people celebrities you might not want to have a beer with would be uh Chevy Chase, because I hear he's a real dick. I heard he's just psychotic. Yeah, I watched his documentary, it's pretty interesting. Yeah. Um what else we got? Uh so oh, one other breakfast place I'd like to talk about uh that's just fantastic and also a great bar. Sail in. Oh, yeah. Over on Make Street Saturday morning.
SPEAKER_01We are that's a good place. We are not uh devoid of great breakfast spots around here. There's a lot of them. Um you know what's great out on 250? Uh Sunusky Bay Pancake House. They do a great job. They do a great job.
SPEAKER_02Uh they do a great job. Um hey, let's bring back things that broke this week.
Things That Broke This Week
SPEAKER_02Uh what I had, uh we're back to doors again. Doors seem to be the problem for me again this week. The door at the uh the Airbnb above this uh broke last night, I didn't tell you that. So I had to come down here and fix, well, fix it. I kind of temporarily repaired it until I can really get it fixed. There's something going wrong with the lock mechanism. And the handle broke last week, right? And so now the lock mechanism's screwed up.
SPEAKER_01I on I on the on a on a good news, the toilet is holding up nice.
SPEAKER_02The toilet's holding up nice after some foibbles. The toilet's back in the foebles. It's uh it's it's you had to fix it again, though, didn't you? Yeah, I had to fix it again. It's flushing like crazy now. Um, and then I had then I got home after that door broke and I opened my door at my house, and all of a sudden I hit rip and the damn weather stripping on the bottom of the door of my house just ripped up for no freaking reason. Nice. I got a little frustrated yesterday.
SPEAKER_01Can I tell uh I I didn't usually I like to have one funny little skit here on uh on bar pot. I got a little something, uh a kind of a weird story from Friday when I was working.
Bachelorette Bathroom Chaos And Bar Etiquette
SPEAKER_01Um there was a a crew of about 16 or 17 um women, girls that walked in and they were all wearing green. So they were doing like a late St. Paddy's Day bachelorette thing because I noticed there was a a girl with a sash on. Okay. Um, and it was the weirdest thing. They came in and I said, Hey guys, blah blah. Oh, we're going over there to use the restroom, we'll be back. They all went over there and um this uh they started, you know, those little snap pop things? You throw? Yeah, you throw. Yeah, yeah. Uh the the main girl started dancing, and then like three or four girls were throwing green snap pops at her inside. Did you say something? Yes, of course. You get what the fuck? Of course. It was it was kind of odd. I wasn't I wasn't trying to like ruin their buzz and their good time. Yeah, but don't be an asshole. Um but then they took off. They just all came in to use the bathroom.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. Okay, let's go with that right there. Bar etiquette 101. If you're gonna go in and use the bathroom, you buy something. Any bars, restaurants, whatever, buy something, unless it's like corporate like McDonald's or Walmart or something. But come on. It's ridiculous. So they made you clean up shit. They did. They used the plumbing, they did, and then they rolled out. They did. They did, they did, they did, but they were I wish her a happy marriage. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, people are having a good time. It's fine. And Chad's nicer than me. I think you guys have all been. But it was just weird.
SPEAKER_01I was like, wait, you guys came in and use the bathroom and then throw snap pops at at your friend, and then
SPEAKER_02Roll out weird. One of them didn't take a big deuce in there. Explosive party. What's that? Big poop in one of them. Probably. Yeah, probably. Probably. Glad that flush was.
SPEAKER_03Oh, jeez.
SPEAKER_02Hey, you know what? Everybody poops. Everybody poops. Anything else? How are we doing on time? I think we're probably starting to 22. We are right where we need to be here. Yeah, we are. I'm gonna have to get a little timer thing. Well, you can use your phone to do the timer because I I like to keep track of the time when we're going. I don't know. I don't want to go too long. Um you're going down to Hilton Head next week.
SPEAKER_01I'm going down to Hilton Head with the fam. It's our it's it's the kids' spring break, so we're going down. Um I've never been. I've I've I've been to Hilton Head, but just on passing through, I've never hung out there and I've heard it's a great spot for families. Yeah. So um The problem is though, it looks like the weather is gonna be Man. The Carolinas this time of year is it's it's it's dicey. It's dice.
SPEAKER_02Because you're right on that that area where on the fucking
Phone Recording Fail And Season Pressure
SPEAKER_02phone call. You're gonna put your headphones on so we can go. Listen. No, so here's where yeah, I screwed up here. So I don't know where we're at. We'll we'll see where at, but we're back on the air here, I guess. Uh someone called me. Yeah. Um, because we recorded my phone now, and of course that stopped the recording. So I gotta be smart enough to put the damn thing in airplane mode.
SPEAKER_01Let's give yourself a little grace here. This is the first time we're uh trying with your phone. Um, it's supposed to, it should have a better camera than the iPad. So we can already tell, though, we made a mistake by drinking NA beers.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we can't drink NA beers. We have to drink real beers from now on, which is ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01We do, because we need to get a little loose. Although I feel like this uh, despite this episode being extremely loose, I feel like it's been pretty funny. You think so? Uh yeah. We'll see.
SPEAKER_02It's gonna be uh, yeah, I think I have to spend a little bit more time in post in this episode, though. Like I do some actual editing. Most likely. Things were just bombers.
SPEAKER_01I don't know about you, but man, my week was just crazy. I just didn't even have time. I didn't even have time to set up the new iPad that I got.
SPEAKER_02Bro, this it's just been nuts. This season's ramping up. We're getting more hours, we're busier. It's just I can't. This summer, it's gonna be wild. It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be a wild ride. It's gonna be good, though. It's gonna be good. Let's see if we have time to actually record this thing. I love it. I love how microphones just make you sound like that. I know, it's really good. I think I I think we can uh I think we can wrap this thing
The Honey Hole Fridge Tip And Wrap
SPEAKER_02up today. What do you think?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, look, give me give me one thing. An end note here. Give me one thing you're looking forward to this week.
SPEAKER_02One thing I'm looking forward to?
SPEAKER_01Looking forward to. What do you got? You got something you're excited about. I know you bought a new garage. I knew that.
SPEAKER_02That place is cool. I'm gonna actually I was thinking about stealing one of our uh we don't really use that old keg fridge anymore downstairs. Do we use it anymore? In the summertime, yeah. So I can't steal that. No. Okay, I won't steal it.
SPEAKER_01You know where if you're if you're trying to get a uh I need a beer fridge for that. You want you want a little, hey, you ready for this? You ready for a little piece of uh we have a little budget uh friendly advice every week? Oh yeah, what do you got?
SPEAKER_02Get yourself out to the fish. Chad's miser corner. I didn't tap it. Oh he's a pretty active day.
SPEAKER_01He is active today. Uh get yourself out. You want a you want a cheap free? You want a cheap fridge? Yes, I do. Get yourself out to the honey hole out in out in uh the what? I knew you were gonna do it. I almost prefaced it by saying this is not weird. This is not weird. The honey hole? No, out in uh out out towards the pond. Listen. Wait, the guy listen. I don't know if if that's where they got it from, but uh what's like is it in the howler? Do you remember the show American Pickers? Do you remember? He always played he always called places where they found the honey hole. Anyway, it's out by the pond, towards the pond at 250. Out in that little uh the old uh Lake Erie um outlet center. Yes, the outlet center. There's a place out there called the Honey Hole, and they've got all this cheap um stuff, furniture. Oh, okay. So you can find a refrigerator. They've got an entire room full of refrigerators, and they all have little dents in them or like a scratch. Oh. And they're incredibly cheap, and some of them are super, super cool. Take the old trailer out there and load it up and get yourself a six, seven hundred dollar, like really nice fridge.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna put a TV in that garage too. Oh, yeah. On the wall there, and just so we can sit out there and drink some beer and absolutely. Because we're gonna have all this time to do that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, right. Well, you know what, though, no, that'll happen in the in the fall. Well, and in the summertime, you forget it's not as crazy as you think. Because right now, we have to do more because we don't have as much staff.
SPEAKER_02Right, right.
SPEAKER_01In the summertime we ramp up, we do ramp up things, so that's a good point. And it things kind of get yeah.
SPEAKER_02So go to the honey hole. Yeah, you've got your trailer, you could just pop out there. Oh, I could fucking get all the honey you need. Get all the honey you need. Treasures at the honey hole.
SPEAKER_01Treasures at the honey hole. That does sound gross. I can you the honey hole sounds gross.
SPEAKER_02Can you just tell me how to get tell me about the honey hole real quick and Christopher Walking's voice?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Uh from here.
SPEAKER_01That's not Walkins' voice. That's not at all. My are you ready for it? My friend, there we go. Head north until you reach it's not north. No, I don't know what it is. You just put me on the spot. He can't walk in on the spot. I I can walk in on the spot. Maybe a honey hole cool. It's a phenomenal place to go and get discounted goods. There it is. There it is. He's got it. Refrigerators.
SPEAKER_02All right, there it is. I think that is a great way to wrap up bar pod for today. Uh, next week we'll try to be a little more organized, but it'll be fun because I think we I like this hybrid. We'll do a little bit with you and I uh from the road. And then your iPad we can use uh Zoom or whatever and record it. Yeah, and then we'll do maybe a guest here. I think that'd be cool as hell. My friend.
SPEAKER_01All right. Thanks for listening. Take us out, Chip. I promise you, Chris.
SPEAKER_02We'll be back next week. Enjoy yourself. And we are out of here.
SPEAKER_03Ryan and turn two bugs in the bottom. This is how it is. Let's go. Let's go.