We Try To Predict The Drink Of The Summer

Sweet 16, a great Maine IPA, and the kind of behind-the-bar honesty you only get when the mics are rolling at a real place with real problems. We’re closing out our season with a rapid-fire check-in on what it takes to run a seasonal bar as the Sandusky area shifts into summer mode: longer weeks, bigger orders, tighter cooler space, and the constant pressure to keep guests happy while everything changes at once.

We get into the stuff bar owners and bartenders actually deal with right now, from distributors who never seem ready when warm weather hits early, to the slow creep of surcharges and credit card fees that keep showing up everywhere. We talk through why small businesses feel forced into these choices, why customers hate surprise fees, and how the math looks when margins are thin and costs keep rising.

Then we lighten it up with a Hilton Head recap, a little golf talk, and our annual debate: what will be the drink of the summer? Surfside is still crushing, High Noon and White Claw fight for space, and new products keep coming whether we want them or not. We also share renovation updates from Tique's, vent about changing code requirements, and pitch a few new ideas for the next run of Bar Pod, including interviews, audience participation, and an adult colouring night that will probably turn into chaos.

If you like bar industry talk, restaurant operations, seasonal business stories, and drink trend predictions, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who lives for patio season, and leave us a review so we can keep making more.

Transcript

Sweet 16 And A Great Beer

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Main wolf's neck. What a great beer.

unknown 0:04

Great beer.

SPEAKER_02 0:05

IPA. Good for your what? Oh, your facial. Yeah, it's good for your tongue.

SPEAKER_03 0:11

I don't know where my phone is. Your phone's recording. Yeah, that's my one that's recording. So that's gonna not work. So you gotta be the one to keep track of the time. Okay. Your phone is recording. Your phone is the one recording.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

We got a floodwatch. Expires in one day in 18 hours.

SPEAKER_03 0:26

You moron.

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Your phone's recording. Hey, you're dumb.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

This is how it's hey.

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Hey now. Episode 16. No, it's not. Sweet 16. Sweet sweet 16 coming at you.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

We're taking it, we're taking a break after this one.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

I'm ready for about we'll take a two week two weeks break. Get back in the things when May get here.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

I like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

So it's why am I speaking without middle words? I'm not sure. You sound like I said May get here.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

You sound like you're from middle earth. So wait, so wait. So wait. Yeah, so we're saying seasons are 16 episodes.

SPEAKER_03 1:17

Seasons are 16 episodes. I guess we've made that decision just. It's a nice round number. I like that. Yeah. 16th episode. So that's why we're ending with such a good beer. We we I did I poured us a main wolf's neck. Oh, quality.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

It's got some ABV to it. It has 6.5%. It's not crazy, but man, that's a good beer. Maine just crushes it. Everyone knows. I mean, most people know who come here. We always have one at least one or two main beers on tap, and yeah, there's a reason for that. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

We've got new, you can't see them if you're listening, but if you're watching, we've got new coasters at Paddle Bar, which you might want to come in and snag one.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

Those are sweet, aren't they?

SPEAKER_03 1:47

Good stuff. Got the name. Yeah. Nod to some nice taverns in Key West, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

We'll talk. I think we actually have it in here, don't we? We'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

So, what uh you got something about a hamper?

The Hamper Handle Trap

SPEAKER_02 1:56

What do you got? You know how I like to have one maybe funny personal uh like home folly type story? Yeah. Um yesterday, you can't you can't see there's a little mark right here, okay? It may look small, yeah. It doesn't seem that big a deal. But I was doing some laundry trying to help out get some tiles done. Uh-huh. And you know, laundry baskets, right? The the newer ones, they have little handles on the side, they're all plastic. Yeah. But they bend and flex a lot. Oh, yeah. You got caught between the little plastic. Well, our kids like to use those as like as like a turtle shell and stuff like that. Right. Um go down the stairs. Go down the stairs. And so I just was doing stuff quickly before or right after coming down here, and I went to go grab it, and both sides were broken. So when when you pulled on it, it flexed and opened a gap in the handle. And both of my both of my hands got caught in it. Oh. And I'm not kidding you. Pain on a eight out of ten pain. And you're just stuck there. I'm stuck. Because you can't, you got no hands to work with. Correct. And not only that, so your first instinct.

SPEAKER_03 2:55

You Edward Fordyous is everything.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Oh my god. And your your first instinct is to what? Yank them out. That doesn't happen. They were caught so hard, I couldn't pull them out. And I thought, if I do, it's gonna rip a giant hole in my hand. Both of them. Yeah. So so I sat there, you go, I was going, oh god, what do I do? I'm stuck. What do I do? And it was like five seconds where, oh hey, dummy, push out on the plastic, right? Or try to pull best you could, and then you can and then you can do it, but I had to do it one at a time. I'm not kidding you. I was home alone. I felt like I needed a you know life alert at that point.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

That's uh that's not good. You uh I might have a lawsuit there against the laundry conglomerate. Who makes those? Uh probably sure it's someplace that uh place right now you're not getting any of them, they're stuck in the straight hormouth. Anyway, yeah, that's where those are at right now.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

That's probably exactly that's what I've said Iran's using or put them on chips to get people caught. Anyway, don't if just uh word to the wise, if you're uh trying to do things quickly at home and and you're you didn't know that your handles on your um hampers were broken, watch your hands.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Yeah, yeah. You still have a bar to win. They'll pinch the shit right out of it. Yeah, yeah. Can't have another year, another uh finger this year.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

I almost lost it.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Yeah, that was bad.

Why We Are Taking A Break

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Uh okay, so the reason that we're taking a little time off is one once again, 16 shows every week was 16 weeks of fury. Uh pretty good. But we uh need to get ready for the summer season. We're open seven days a week now at Paddle. Yep. Um things are happening quick. I mean, all of a sudden, inventory is doubling in size. We got to open the new front bar um with all that, get that all stocked up. So we just need a little time to reset, get the bar going. I'm busy over at Teaks. We're actually putting drywall up right now. Concrete's getting laid tomorrow. So things are happening. There's a lot going on quickly. I'm uh Employee Party. Uh yeah, employee party at uh we're going to take all the uh paddle bar and Volstead staff to Whiskey Light over at the round bar on South Vass Island. Can't wait. In the lovely town of Putin Bay. Can't wait. So that's gonna be a good time. Um and then uh what's going on? Oh, you know, I I gotta call it out. Uh the landmark, you know, we've the beer family and the crews down there. Uh-huh. Uh they're having a uh next Monday, April 20th, I think that's the Monday. Okay. A beer pairing dinner. Uh Chef Michael is cooking something up. Nice. So I was somebody asked me, say, hey Ryan, you want you would you talk about that on bar pod? And I'm like, at least three to four people will hear about it.

unknown 5:11

Uh right, right.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

Hey, but if we get those people in for the beer pairing, it looks good. I got got a little taste of the menu, and they've always done good beer uh pairings down there. So good spot. If you're out in Sandusky on a Monday, check it out.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Landmark, baby.

SPEAKER_03 5:25

So that's what we're doing. Uh here's the things I'm noticing in the bar news

Distributors Lag Behind Summer Demand

SPEAKER_03 5:29

stuff right now. It's here. What do you got for me? The distributors are not prepared for summer every year around here. So, you know, everybody knows the Sandusky uh island in northern Ohio area is very seasonal. So the distributors tend to sit on their asses a little bit, and then all of a sudden, we all order a bunch of things collectively and half of it's out all the time.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Yeah, and you know, I'll I'll give a tiny bit of a grace, I suppose, because this year, every year it seems like it's getting warmer earlier. Yeah. So we're getting busy earlier. Yeah. Um, and that you know, that probably goes for every bar down here. Um, but yeah, you it it does seem like why don't you have uh why don't you have regular serve sides? Why don't you have this? Why don't you have that? Well, we didn't order enough. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

Or they're calling the Strait of Vermouth, maybe. But if they're you say the Strait of Vermouth, is that the bar one?

SPEAKER_02 6:20

The Strait of Vermouth. That's the different one. Oh yeah, that's the martini one. That's north.

SPEAKER_03 6:23

Yeah. Um and then I'm uh and they're they're all moving their they're all moving their order dates now, which we talked about a little bit, I think, which it's fine, I guess. Yeah. But yeah. Any ways they can get you going.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

You love when they switch uh a lot of them like to switch uh B2B platforms. Oh yeah. They they just switch looking you saying B2B. What's that sound for?

SPEAKER_03 6:44

I first graduated college. I was had some job and they said B2B and like like I like acted like I knew what the do it meant. I didn't know what it meant. B2B? That sounds what is it? Bar to bar. Weird sexual act in college. I don't know. Oh boy. That's not funny. Oh boy. Um anyway. It

Surcharges And Credit Card Fees

SPEAKER_03 6:59

was kind of funny. What do you think about surcharges? Everybody's everybody's trying to hit you with surcharges these days. I haven't seen any direct from our distributors yet, but I hear that that might be coming. Uh credit card surcharges have already been a thing. That was that but I feel like things are gonna get nasty.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

It is tough, right? And and as a uh as a business, someone who runs a business, you they're it's always in the back of your mind. I I think what COVID is probably what started the credit card surcharge. You saw that happen hard. Right, it happened then, yep. And now I think, I mean, I don't know what the percentage is, but I would assume more restaurants and bars have it than don't. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

And and and I and I don't fault the the small business owners for doing it because the small business gets pinched so hard from the top down. So I totally get it. We're trying hard to not do it here. Yeah. Um, and we have not not succumbed yet. But it's uh it's it's it's difficult because you start looking at those numbers that you're just giving away and you're like, geez.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Well, and now with uh everything that's going on in the you know political landscape and blah, blah, blah. Um, you like you said, you're seeing people are starting to do fuel surcharges.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Yeah, and that's that's another thing. I you're starting to see that on a bunch of delivery. I think I think uh did Amazon announce that? Oh, did they? Was it Amazon or wouldn't surprise me? One of the one of the larger companies, I mean it wasn't, but one of them uh maybe it was some delivery company did say something about fuel surcharges, which that's yeah, you know, you're making billions of dollars and you gotta get us for fuel charge. Fuck you. Oh hey, that's what I feel about that. You have one of those days? Me? Yeah. Hey, I'm a little busy. A little busy. Yeah, a little busy, but it's all good. Once in a hit a hard F bomb. I like it, it makes it feel better. Yeah. And we have we have to keep the explicit um distant rating. We don't want to like back off and all of a sudden we're bluey or something. Yeah, fucking hey.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

So there you go. So surcharges. Well, I I assume as things progress here, uh with uh I got some bad news for you.

SPEAKER_03 8:47

This is a really weak script. That's all right. I didn't write shit down.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

Well, you know what? I added a whole bunch of I added some stuff yesterday, but I, you know, I just got back from vacation, so let me and and I was I didn't put that on.

Hilton Head Trip And Golf Notes

SPEAKER_02 8:58

I would like to talk about Hilton Head a little bit. Okay, you know, we I gotta talk about coming back from vacation. Yeah. Um to golf? Uh twice. Nice. Twice. Yeah. I played uh a course called Old South and a course called Hilton Head National, both really good. And getting to play on vacation for me is a treat because that's not typical. Right. So you took your clubs and the whole nine yards. Yep. Oh, that's cool. Yep. But aside it from being, you know, way more expensive um than it is around here, man. Those courses were gorgeous. Yeah. Yeah. But I had a blast. Yeah. We had a blast with the family we went with. Um, the only thing that was not great about Hilton is the weather sucked. Yeah. You said it was just 60s and we had two two days above 70 while we were down there. Most of them were lower 60s and lower uh, you know, lower 60s, mid-60s, kind of like it was here. So the weather wasn't good, but we clearly we found a way to have fun.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

Speaking of weather, our uh fearless producer, uh TW, is uh down in Florida right now. Uh our parents are down in Florida, and I talked to dad this morning, and uh they were walking on the beach, and he uh within two minutes. It's nice down here, but it's already 85 and humid. I couldn't live here. I couldn't do it. With it. I said, Dad, you've only been there for four hours. Settle down, go get a beer. It's humid. It's humid. I couldn't do it. I don't know how these people the traffic down here is horrendous. It's April. Well, everybody's down there. That's right. The traffic isn't it is nuts down there. But that's where there'll be no call outs from T Dub today. Yeah, we've got nobody behind the behind the mic. That's why we're a little discombobulated back here. Yeah, for sure. Um so yeah.

Predicting The Drink Of Summer

SPEAKER_03 10:26

All right, here's something that that we gotta do every year.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

What do you got?

SPEAKER_03 10:30

What's gonna be the drink of the summer this year, right? So remember when it was White Claw, White Claw, freaking fever? Yeah, then for a while there it was the uh remember the sunny alcohol, sunny D's?

SPEAKER_02 10:39

They last for one summer.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

It was like not even a full summer, I think. They would for a while there you couldn't, you know, everybody wanted them, and then I don't know, they must have you remember do you remember uh and then high noon came out of the play? Yeah, high noon came out of the play. Now we're last year we were into surfsides, and and those are still those are still hot, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Surfsides are still hot. Do you remember do you remember when uh I read a story about the uh the what'd you say, the the um Sunny D ones? Yeah. Do you remember? So do you remember they were kind of indistinguishable from like energy drinks, kind of? Oh right. Kids were in smaller towns where they don't have automatic ID checks at like checkout counters. Kids were rolling in and just covering the alcohol portion of the label and rolling up to you know, like uh bet Betty up, you know, she's been working there since she was 16 and going, she's not I'll just take this and okay, hon, enjoy your day. There's like 13-year-olds rolling out with sunny to get good on you, good work. But I don't know what it's gonna be. I I did see some new things. We've saw uh we've seen what fresca?

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Fresca, which uh there's that, and I saw a Limpton iced tea version now, too.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Those those might be a Lucky Dog thing, but Lucky Dog already hit a couple years ago. That's right. And then Fresca, it's it's weird how this stuff works, right? I don't think the younger crowd even know barely knows what fresca is. Yeah, yeah. If you were, if you if you know, not uh the caddyshack reference. How about a fresca? How about a fresca? You know, I've sent uh sentenced kids to the chair younger than you. Didn't didn't want to felt I owed it to them. Very good. Um, but no, so I always you know which one I think would destroy, and I don't know why they haven't done it yet. And Capri Sun booze in a booze in a bag. Oh, that would light it up, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Why wouldn't they do that? I don't know. That's a great idea. Maybe they're maybe they're too close to the kids. 100% kid. Could you imagine?

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Every every bar, at least for one summer, would have a section for yeah, bags.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

So and that that light touches that's the problem is always trying to figure out what what what's gonna pop next and like what's not selling so you can kind of get rid of it. Because we only have so much cooler space, right? And you know, we're pretty maxed out. We've got we carry a lot of like the white claws and and high noons, and I feel like we're gonna start backing down on maybe the claws a little bit. But don't worry, we will have lime white claw. You know who I'm talking to. Like lime white claw will be stocked. Yeah, mango as well. Mango as well. So there's there's but there's I don't think anybody drinks passion fruit.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

No, no. But it is funny though, it's a it's a cool thing to talk about for folks that aren't directly uh you know involved in the bar business is trying to manage what people like. Trends. Yeah. Trends. It's tough. Uh like you lately, and you'll probably, if you come here a lot, you've already noticed or may have noticed, but uh surfside our surfside range has gotten bigger. Yeah. So like our high noon and white claw are slightly shrinking, and the surfside and long drink have gotten bigger.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

Yeah, yeah, the long drink. That that it's funny, that's one that took we've had long drink probably since we started. Yeah. Um, but it took a while to get going, and now it's it's rolling. Dude, yeah. I feel like people are getting those like crazy. So that one took took took a little bit to get there, but it's there.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

And it's gin too, which I feel like is probably the least least uh popular of all hard alcohols. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

But but yeah, it's uh it's trying to keep up with the trends, is interesting. I was talking to another bar manager about it the other week, and you know, we're like, why don't they have to do this every year? Maybe get one year, give us a break. Don't don't don't introduce anything. The beers of the summer are kind of the same as they were last summer. Maybe one is a little bit more flowing this year. Mick Alter, man. Billy Bob Thornton got it.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Yeah, he did. He did. Bushlight's still number one. Bushlight destroys it. I think still number one. And there we've talked about this for, but I love they they another smart thing that uh somebody has done, they the the cans. I think we talked about it last week.

SPEAKER_03 14:11

Yeah, the the the branding the cans.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

The branding of the cans. But anyway, anyway, so we'll see what it is this year. But right now, I it's I don't think anything's happened. I think it's still surfside, it's still crushing it.

unknown 14:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Was it bushlight apple that was crazy there for a while when you could get it? Is it was it apple or peach? Remember they did a bushlight flavor. I think it was apple. Yeah. Because they didn't call it Brapple.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Yeah, remember then so many people asked for it. They actually brought it out last summer once. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

But then it didn't go as as hard last summer because we had it and it was like people were like, eh.

SPEAKER_02 14:37

Well, it's they brought it out in the fall when it was when they brought it out when they, you know, did it for the first time, and then they brought it out in the middle of summer, and people are like, what are we doing with an apple flavored beer? Right. That's more of a fall situation. Yeah. So anyway, we'll see what it is, but uh it it is interesting to talk about the trends and and what people like and switch to and blah blah. But we'll uh we'll see. So so far, nothing has emerged for this summer. Yeah, we'll see. We'll keep up, we'll keep you up to date. How about that?

SPEAKER_03 15:00

Yeah, yeah. Um, well, so I'm glad you're back because fuck you for being gone for a week. Getting your ass in too, yeah.

Renovation Costs And New Code Rules

SPEAKER_03 15:09

Yeah, I got uh well between here and the bar, um, antiques, the new bar, and the I'm trying to redo all the hotel rooms. Right. Uh, which I've got seven done at this point, which has been a lot of you know, paint and new uh decor. It's been I've been running back for I was a little tired. Um I was a little tired uh over the weekend and yeah, someone uh called me out for being tired. Oh, at the at the bar. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't happy about that. Oh boy. Well, I mean you're you're burning the candle. Jesus, it's like somebody's calling you out. You're like, I just got off a 70-hour work week. Call me some slack people.

unknown 15:43

Stop.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

I'm I'll get it. Anyway, it was fine though. It was fine. Uh but uh yeah, it's going well. So I think we're gonna hit that um that early summer mark. The big challenge now is uh so uh the construction part is going to T other than the price of things. Oh man. Yeah, just best so and then and then here's what happens. Here's what happens. Fuck this. Oh, the laws change, right? So you have to have a G uh if you know what a GFI outlet is, you know, you gotta do by water. Of course. Well, now because this is an outdoor building, even though it's inside and waterproof, you gotta do every plug, so you just add another 12. Like they keep changing the rules and regulations, and so they just keep coming up with new things for you to spend more money. Just moving to and why? There's gotta be there's gotta be a fucking lobbyist behind all this. I still say that I got one for you. I remember when I first opened uh Volstead, so we're talking 13 years ago now. Okay, you're gonna talk about the bathroom? The fucking bath the bathroom. So the the the you know if you go into a bathroom, the toilet always has that U shape on the front of it, you know. Oh, the the the it's a U, it's a U toilet. So you know you gotta be careful if you're if you're you know cock channel. You might, yeah, yeah, it's cock channel. You might you might get your biscuits caught on the porcelain there, never good. But so they do that. So well, I don't know. So here's the thing. So I did some re and so you're not allowed to put a full, like you have at home, a full um oval in a public bathroom. Yeah. And so I was like, there's no way that that is an actual sanitary thing. It can't be. It's not, it's not. I can't remember. I did some freaking research. It had something to do with a lobbyist for fucking kohler or something in the 70s. Just why and and and but I had to change a toilet seat because of that because the inspector came in and said, You can't have that. Nope, sorry. I wonder why I I remember this.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Yeah, this was this was 15 years ago.

SPEAKER_03 17:25

I was hot.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

I remember this. So I wonder, so I wonder why they still continue with it.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

Just so that some somebody's getting somebody's getting paid. Because you know, we're we're clearly everybody's real uh real real on the up and up in our uh in our government. I know the the the older I get, the more the more I believe. Anyway, see that guy from California got in trouble? What happened? He's out. He's he was gonna run for governor of California. Yeah? Star Starwell, Eric Starwell? Stalwell.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

I mean, that's the guy that's the guy that farted on live television one time.

SPEAKER_03 17:51

Uh turns out he was doing some bad shit and he is no longer a member of Congress.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

He did. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

He had to drop out from his uh government uh oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

He's a younger guy?

SPEAKER_03 18:00

Younger guy, yeah. He had all kinds of hopes. Turns out he was doing some naughty thing, he was going out and partying a little too hard with his interns, from what I from what I gather.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

For sure. So we got the TEAKS update. Yeah. Um everything's getting more expensive. You're on track, but you're you're you're tired. Things are going, it's it's all right.

SPEAKER_03 18:15

Yeah, it's it's rocking and rolling. Uh but yeah, just tired. So, but that's all right. Weather's coming. Yeah, um happy

New Show Ideas And Bar Activities

SPEAKER_03 18:21

with that. And uh we've we're we've had uh we had live music on uh Saturday night, which uh we had Susan play. She was awesome. Crushed it. Um I told her she should be an interview on the uh on the podcast. So that's one thing we're talking about. And you and I have talked about this. I think when we come back, we're gonna start trying to do a few interviews and um maybe do some audience participation.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 18:41

Do it while while the bar's open.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

I love it. Okay, you know what? So you just you just um sacheted, right? And it's something else I wanted to talk about. Sashed. I did say sacheted. I brought up something, I don't even know if I put it if we put it in here. Um Ken's came up with a drunk history. Yeah, and that worked out real well. Um and this isn't something I'm talking about for summer because uh we don't necessarily things are busy enough.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

Summer's live music and that's and a couple good events.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

Yeah, and you and you do it. But uh I I had an idea two weeks ago and I never really brought it up. But how when it's mellow.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

Drunk spelling, is that what it was? No, um drunk coloring. Drunk color.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

No, no, yeah, you didn't have to be drunk, just adult coloring. Adult coloring. So uh I and I got this idea because when we were down at vacation with our families.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

Do they make OnlyFans coloring books? I well, we don't need to be No, that's not that's not where you're going here. Oh, I was okay. Why'd you go there? It's Eric.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

Yeah, Stallwell. We need lots of peach colors and reds. Anyway, anyway. But but uh like wouldn't it be interesting just for uh uh a night, all the tables in here have like a big coloring sheet on them, yeah, and crayons and pencils or whatever, and you just sit down. I don't know if it'll work or not. It just sounds interesting. It sounds like a fun time.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

I'm gonna tell you this. You you you may say it doesn't have to be adult-oriented. You don't have to make it, it will be nothing but boobs and penises. That's a good point. It'll be a good point. Boobs and dongs, because we have we already have that one table here that is the chalk table. You know, you jumped on it. Every time I come here and clean it in the morning, there's just a giant rocket dog staring.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

Rocket dog, dude. It just reminds you this isn't this is completely Amber Amber uh made me laugh the other day. She goes, You know what your son said the other day? She was looking looking at Foster, my four-year-old, he was looking at Amber's um uh luggage. And he, of course, there's like you know, there's there's you better, oh boy. No, no, it's fine. He goes, he looks down there and goes, there's nothing but undies and boobies in there. Great, dude. Kids are the best. Uh nothing but boobies. But anyway, you're right. If we did uh anyway, so if you if you're hearing, if you're watching this or listening to it and you want to leave a comment, if you think that'd be interesting, say something about it. Because I think it'd be pretty, pretty cool. Something different anyway. But yes, there would be lots of also while you're at it, let us know what the hot drink's gonna be this summer, so we don't have to figure it out, so we don't have to figure it out. I like that. Um, another little small thing, and we pointed out to it at the very beginning. But how cool are these? You can't see them if you're listening, but it's little paddle bar coasters. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

And Ryan made mention of it before, but when you're down in Key West, a lot of a lot of nice, cool, not nice bars. I don't want to say nice bars, I want to say cool bars, dirty bars, all kinds of bars have their branding on their coasters. And so uh I think Amber kind of was one who pushed for this, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:20

She was. She was because we went down, we noticed it last time we went down to Key West. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah, but Sloppy Joe's always has Sloppy Joe's has it. Uh uh Hawksbreast have them.

SPEAKER_03 21:28

Bull and whistle, schooner. Schooner, yeah, yeah. So yeah, then you know, people collect them, take them home, whatever, and then they remember your bar.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

And they just look good sitting there. And then that brings up uh another thing that I wanted to talk about is I feel like we we like to go to bars and research and look at things and see what they do, what what they don't do. And that is just one of those little things that I love. Yeah you know, it's it's it's in bars a lot of times, it's the little things.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

It is the I gotta stop.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

What are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 21:56

I I had a paper clip and I was pulling a chad.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

You know, and I just noticed it's because it's because I don't Have my pencil and you don't have your pen. I I right. I'm I got no I got no hand placement here. What do I do with my hands? What do I do with them?

SPEAKER_03 22:06

What's that from? What's that?

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Anchorman. No, is that no no no unique New York? No, that's not Anchorman. That's uh um Teladega Knights. Teladega Knights. He's doing his first interview, remember? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. What do I do with my hands? That's a great show. It is. But anyway, uh I think I'll well I I notice things about bars that I really love. There's a lot of little touches. And little uh little paddle bar coasters are one of them.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

Okay. Uh little things. Give me a time check, Chad, because if if depending on how much time we have, I have some uh I have something that we could talk about.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

We're golden. 2220.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Oh gosh, we're great. Okay. So people have brought it up, and we've done this before, but let's continue it.

Best Bar Movies Shows Songs

SPEAKER_03 22:42

Favorite, we're gonna go movie TV song. Favorite movie TV, or just a good example. Movie TV song about bars. Movie TV song bars. What? Can you do one? Can you name three in a row? You want me to start? Yeah, you start. Alright, I'm gonna go with Waiting. So good. By the way, I just had a conversation tonight. What was Waiting? What was the name of the restaurant in waiting? And it was also in another movie. Bullshan. Yes. Okay. So what was what other movie? Super Troopers.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

Nailed it. Nice work. Let's go. He goes, he goes, he uh he says, hey, uh, what's what's the name of that bar you like, you know, with the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks? Ooh, shenanigans.

SPEAKER_03 23:23

Shenanigans. He says, oh, pistol whip the next guy who says shenanigans. Alright, next one. Show. I'm gonna go with the classic because it's just it's there. Cheers. Still arguably the best bar TV show ever. Cheers. I mean, you just can't. Sam Malone is the man. It's a great one. You're kind of the Sam Malone of our area. Sam Malone. Except it's golf instead of baseball.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

He's got a much taller head.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

Yeah. Well, and you also like to have a beverage once in a while. He was a recovering alcoholic, so let's not go down that route. Um, and for songs, you ready for this? Yeah. You're not gonna get this one. Uh your Crazy River by Robbie Robinson. Oh, I know that's what's name of the what's the name of the bar he goes to? Oh, I don't know. Nick's Cafe.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

Nick's Cafe.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

The wind just kind of took me there. Dang. That's it. Robbie Robinson from the band. The wind just kind of took there. That'll enjoy that part. So those are my three. Can you do three? Okay. I kind of took a I did I did some low-hanging fruit with cheers.

SPEAKER_02 24:13

You did. You did. Let me go. I'll go I'll go reverse. I'll start song first. Okay. Okay. I love Piano Man, dude.

SPEAKER_03 24:18

Piano Man? Yeah, it's a classic. Um I thought you were gonna go with Jimmy Buffett, but okay. Okay, yeah. Piano Man's great.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

And Billy Joel does another one that that mentions a bar. Let me let me since we're going through this, I'll give you a little piece of trick. Alright, I think I know what you're at. Go ahead. Just say it.

SPEAKER_03 24:32

You're talking about scenes from an Italian restaurant?

SPEAKER_02 24:34

No. Oh, no. I'm talking about in the song Moving Out, what bar do they mention? You got me. Yeah? No, what is it? Uh it's it's uh uh Oh, he works uh he works a bar. Mr. uh Mr. Cachatories.

SPEAKER_03 24:50

Mr. Cachatoris. Is that a bar, a Chinese restaurant?

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Uh no, you were no that's Mr.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

Cachitoris down on something.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

Sullivan Street. Nice. So uh I'm gonna go P I'm gonna go Billy Joel. He writes about bars a lot.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Yeah, Billy Joel wants to get another famous alcoholic. Correct, correct.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

What does that say? Uh ooh. Um show or movie about bars. God, it's hard. I'll do I'll do another low-hanging fruit. Cocktail's so good. Oh, movie.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

That's a movie. Okay, so you're kind of taking a cocktail's so good. Yeah, cocktail, obviously. I mean that you know that whole Cogland's Law situation. And this, I'm gonna go, this is not TGI Freddy's, right?

SPEAKER_02 25:25

This is not a lot of flare bartenders. Yeah, not in there. There was um God darn it. I'd have to think about it more to find my favorites.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

TV show. I can think of two cartoon TV shows right now that have great bars in them. Tailspin? Do you remember that? Where'd you get that? But yes, Tailspin had a great bar. Tailspin was basically Jimmy Buffett for kids, right? It was a margarita. Correct. And you know what? There's my answer. I was gonna go blue. Nice work. I was gonna go with Family Guy and uh Simpsons.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

I love yeah, oh yeah, that's great. I love the bar in New Girl. Oh, yeah, that's the one he Nick works at the market.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

Nick ends up buying it, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_02 26:06

Yeah, they end up buying it.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

But that's another one that has a great bar. Here, their toilet flushes in reverse. Oh yeah, the up toilet. The up toilet. Um what's the real quick before we move on from this? What was the name of the bar at tail spins?

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Oh, I don't do that. Because Baloo was the one who drove the seaplane, and the guy like basically that didn't the duck like surf but he basically wakesurf behind the plane before wake surfing was percent, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

And then Baloo was the big bear who has a pilot hat on and he drove a seaplane.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

Who knew that tailspin was revolutionary? Why did I just think of that?

SPEAKER_02 26:39

I it's it's a monkey who owned the bar, and that's where he hung out.

SPEAKER_03 26:43

Was it Lou?

SPEAKER_02 26:45

No, Baloo. You're probably thinking Baloo.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

We're gonna have to do some wise. Come back. If anybody makes it, if anybody knows, please comment in in the in the sections about what the bar is in tailspin. When I was watching, which was like you this is 80s for sure.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

When I was like nine, that was part tailspin was part of my like when I got home from school.

SPEAKER_03 27:03

I remember you watching it. Yeah, it was part of it, because I would come home from school and you'd be watching it and I would just sit down and watch it with you. So I remember Tailspin.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

Tailspin and Darkwing Duck were part of that too. Darkwing Duck, yeah. That was my uh it was like an hour and a half of shows after school. God, tailspin. We'll think of the name of the bar. I just can't off the top of my head.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

Were they actually drinking in the bar? Or were they did they have like beers or was it like fruit juice or coconuts? Probably, but they always were drinking out of coconuts. That's that's I remember them drinking out of coconuts.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Blue was hammered.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

Blue was smoke, he was smoking. And he takes it out on the plane. He's having a good time. They have like some mission, right? Because isn't there a girl duck too?

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Yeah, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

I don't remember the whole deal. That was one of my favorites, dude. Dive into tailspin.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Tailspin.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

You might better break that out at home. The kids will like it.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Tailspin?

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

Yeah, probably. They're there right now. It's all bluey or nothing.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

It's all it's it's all bluey. Bluey or nothing, huh?

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Yeah. Well, no, I mean, kind of.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

All right. What anything else you got before we wrap it up for episode 16? And then uh, yeah, then we'll uh take a couple weeks off. Come see us the next couple weeks. Uh the weather's cooking, you know, starting to just crap here I go again. Well, I'm having a hard time. I'm just having a real hard time today. Uh but the weather's been looking up. We had a you know, the weather was good the other day. Um today's today's warm but rainy. Uh but the weekend's looking decent.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

It looks like if you look at the long term, it looks like we got one more cold special.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

One more cold snap.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

And then after that, it looks probably pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Um, but you know, I gotta I gotta tell you, for not having a large I got one more segment.

Stuff That Broke This Week

SPEAKER_03 28:24

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

What do we have time on?

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Stuff that broke of the week.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Perfect. Oh, you can we can't skip that.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

And I wasn't here, so what yeah, I gotta make sure we're kidding. Uh guess what? Here, nothing uh we ran out of gas and someone didn't know how to how to you know fix it, but that was no big deal. That was easy fix, no problem, that happens. Okay. Uh was able to get that handled. So that's not a CO2. Yeah, something, you know, it's not that anything broke it. But uh it my house is breaking all the time now. So like I have fucking more shit breaking at my house right now for some reason. It's like it's just like you know, wood, it's a wooden house, so things flex with the warm and cold. So now all of a sudden my door frames are off and I I gotta adjust the locks and uh the wind stripping ripped off during a thunderstorm. I was uh my house is also made of wood.

unknown 29:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

Well, I'm gonna move into a brick freaking house because I'm tired of dealing with this.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Oh my you know what? My first our house downtown was brick and it was awesome. Sleep through a hurricane.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Yeah, I'm over here last night. It was windy. I'm waking up, there's a hurricane going by, it's a whole thing. Anyway, so you're telling me all your what are your door broke? Uh the weather stripping broke, and of course I was lazy on replacing it, so it rained yesterday. A heavy west wind. And boy, I had a nice big puddle at the bottom of the stairs. So I fixed that this morning. Uh then I went back to my garage. Uh, the garage lock was broken, it's not locking properly. Jesus. Um, and then my garage door won't open all the way because uh and it's every time this time of year, and then as soon as it warms up and it's consistently warm, it works again. I don't know, like that's crazy. I don't get it. That is crazy. It's kind of like that car I had in college, that Honda CRV. Yeah, yeah, not CRV, yeah. CR CRX that in the cold you could start it, but you couldn't turn on the lights until it warmed up because they wouldn't turn you'd have to just turn the lights on and wait about five minutes until all of a sudden the lights would work. Don't tell me how that works. You let me borrow that for for six months.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

Yeah, you had it down in Athens. I had it down in Athens. We used to pile everybody in there, and it was remember, you could see the you could see the ground filling. Yeah, you could you could see, yeah. So you would you would flint stone it. Yep, yep, and we'd drive it on the sidewalks.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

That little thing was beautiful. It's about the size of a golf cart. Yeah, it was awesome. I got it for 600 bucks in Lucky, Ohio. Lucky. So there you go. There it is. Story of the Honda in college. Well, on that bombshell. On that bombshell. What which what is that? Top gear. Top gear. Very nice. We're probably gonna get we're gonna get a call from the BBC here any minute.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

Knock it off with on the bombshell. I gotta feel like for a uh for as little as we had in the script, I feel like this is uh we had a fun time.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

I'm gonna start doing that at the end of the script. Well, I didn't do what I wanted it to do. Who uh that's that's from a ship. That's from Letterman. That's Letterman.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

No, no, he threw pencils.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

He threw pencils. Somebody threw paper at the end. Was it Daily Show? Was it uh Jon Stewart back in the day? He does, he still does it. He still does it, yeah. Yeah, anyway,

Break Plans And Closing

SPEAKER_03 30:57

good stuff. Hey, thanks uh for tuning in. Yeah, uh, you know where to find us. Make some comments about the dumb stuff we talked about today. Um, we'll see ya, we'll see you this week at the bar. And um, yeah, two-week break. Yeah, and then we'll be back with some more fun content and uh probably some more tequila. I like it. All right, we're out. Later.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

Ryan. Two bottles in the bottom.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

This is now with the bottom, let's go, let's go.