Chad has moustache

We sit down for Bar Pod Season 2 Episode 2 and try a slightly softer approach, playing with natural light, dialing back the heat, and still ending up exactly where we always do: laughing at the chaos of running bars and living in Sandusky when summer is waking up.

We talk Mother’s Day, busy patio energy, and what it means when Paddle Bar adds more breathing room and more beer on tap, including a Pacifico draft that just tastes right when the weather finally turns. From there we go deep on nostalgia and marketing with our favorite classic beer commercials, from “Wassup” to Real Men of Genius, plus why alcohol brands seem to be pushing harder again as drinking culture shifts.

Then it is the operator side of hospitality: insurance frustration, the never-ending “what broke this week” list, and a real update on Tique's in Bay View. We share what is happening with construction, why plumbing costs sting, and the vibe we are building toward, including mojitos, fresh fruit variations, and a farmers market special that keeps the cocktail menu feeling local and seasonal. We also hit real-world detours like Spirit Airlines drama, airport stupidity, the email-and-text double tap, and the funniest misunderstandings of what “OG” actually means.

If you like bar owner stories, small-town business talk, and the kind of local commentary that sounds like your funniest friends at the end of a shift, press play. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find Bar Pod.

Transcript

Roundabout Cold Open

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It's fine. It's beautiful.

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Now, is it just a standard roundabout?

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Well, it's a two-laner.

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It's a two-laner.

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So that's adding a level of confusion for uh folks that aren't uh that are that are watch yourself.

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I love roundabouts.

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Bob coming at this is how it is.

unknown 0:35

Yeah.

Natural Light And Calmer Energy

SPEAKER_07 0:36

Hey, here we are. Uh episode two, season two of Bar Pod. Two two. Uh two two. Yeah. Uh let's uh get right into it.

SPEAKER_05 0:44

Let's fire it up.

SPEAKER_07 0:45

I think we should find out. First things first, we're trying it without the lights today. So we're using some natural light. So we thought we were a little blown out last time. We were a little blown out. Blown out, and we're not talking about hair. Um and so we're gonna try it without the lights and see what that does. Uh, but first things first, I'm gonna try to you ready for this? It's here. I'm gonna try to mellow out a little bit. Oh I had some feedback. Softer Ryan. I had some feedback last week from a few folks that said I maybe came in a little hot. A few folks.

SPEAKER_05 1:16

Or are we talking, are we now we're talking family members? Okay. Loyal Barpod listeners. Ooh. Now, was it was it did all the F-bombs have something to do with it?

SPEAKER_07 1:26

Maybe too many F bombs. Uh, I guess I was just a little too fired up. So I'm gonna try to take a calmer track here today on Barpod and uh see if I can bring her back mellow out a little bit. Watch how calm you get though, because this is not a podcast about like health. Well, I don't think I'm gonna it's not, yeah, we're not uh a yoga podcast, although maybe I do need some of that. Here's something that I was uh self-diagnosing Benoit Balls. I was I was self-diagnosing my my rage cast last week.

SPEAKER_05 1:56

Uh oh, rage okay. Rage cast. I was very fired up. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:59

You know, that's why I listen to a lot of uh jam ban and like Grateful Dead and like reggae music because it's very chill. Yeah. Could you imagine me at like a uh like a guar concert? I think my head would blow right off. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:12

Uh you know, it's tough. I'll you know, let me I'll be the let me give you a little bit of grace here because it is hard these days to remain calm. What means notifications and uh things gas propping and shit. Things war.

SPEAKER_07 2:27

All right, yeah. War. Right. Straits of removed.

SPEAKER_05 2:29

Okay, so you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_07 2:30

Okay, so I'm gonna try, I'm gonna tone it down to tone it down a little bit. Okay. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna really fucking tone it down. Hey, hey, hey, see, I still got an F bombs.

SPEAKER_05 2:41

Tone down the rage, turn up the laughs.

SPEAKER_07 2:44

Oh, hey, now we're talking about we.

Mother’s Day And Pacifico On Tap

SPEAKER_07 2:46

Okay, here we go. Uh what else is going on? Uh it was uh Mother's Day. We had a great Mother's Day. Shout out to all the moms out there.

SPEAKER_05 2:53

Yeah, especially ours. We had a great uh we had a let's call out Wake Up and Waffle. That place is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_07 2:57

We had good food there. We took our mom there. Um I saw Mackenzie's mom. Uh Saturday they stopped by. I know they had some fun.

SPEAKER_05 3:03

Yep, we got to talk to Amber's mom last night. Yep, she had to do space time with the kids. She's doing well. She's almost retiring. Happy good for her.

SPEAKER_07 3:09

And then uh grandma had a good time, I hear, having some walleye at uh the house last night. So that's good stuff. So shout out to the moms. By the way, the moms uh showed up at Paddle Bar yesterday. Yes, they did. Man.

SPEAKER_05 3:20

Great Sunday.

SPEAKER_07 3:21

Great Sunday with the moms. A lot of kids running around. It was a cool time. Sunshine was out. It's we're we're the the weather's almost here. Hey, I'm drinking a Pacifico.

SPEAKER_05 3:29

Okay.

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On draft.

SPEAKER_05 3:30

You're drinking and it tastes good, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_07 3:32

It tastes great. You know why it's on draft? Because obviously the uh front bar or the daiquiri dock uh bar has been open the last two weeks, and we have Pacifico on tap there all the time. And it has proven to be uh a successful bar. People are loving the extra space.

SPEAKER_05 3:46

Three, yeah, three new beers on tap up front, which is incredible. So now we have a total of what is that, 11 beers on tap?

SPEAKER_07 3:52

11 beers on tap at this place. That's a lot of beer. That is a lot of beer. A lot of beer on tap. So that's good. Um what else

Gas Pump Scam Warning

SPEAKER_07 3:58

you got, man? I we're are we getting into the bar news section already here?

SPEAKER_05 4:01

You know, um, I uh what you know, we like to do real quick, and I'm gonna get this is interesting. So I always do what did you call it? Chad's miser tip of the week. Chad's miser tip of the week. What do you got going on? No, and this is this is not necessarily a budget saving thing, it's just something I saw. And I don't know if it's true or not. I just saw a thing about it on social media. With gas prices being the way they are and kind of crazy, apparently there's some scammers out there. Listen to this that little flap. This is not advice, this is commentary. This is commentary. This is commentary. Disclaimer, please. When you go to put the gas nozzle back into the unit, yeah, okay, there's that little flap in the back.

SPEAKER_07 4:38

See, there's a comment there with placing units. Listen, I heard I saw it.

SPEAKER_05 4:43

No, our dad is back there again, and I saw it.

SPEAKER_07 4:44

Yeah, T Dub's back there.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

He's gonna have a trivia question. There's nothing sexual about this thing. This is talking about fuel. Talking about fuel. Yep. Apparently, there's some scammers have been putting they'll they'll before anybody gets to the pump, they'll put a little a little uh screw or something back there to wedge that flap open or closed. Oh, so that apparently when you go to put it in there, the sensor doesn't trip and it keeps your transaction going. So if you're one of those people that's in a hurry, you fill up, put it back in there, it doesn't go all the way in, you roll out, they come in, they finish your transaction. I don't know if it's a real thing, but I thought it was.

SPEAKER_07 5:18

Well, so basically they're trying to figure out a way when your card is pre-authorized for say a hundred bucks or whatever to continue the transaction. To continue the transaction right to the end of that pre-authorization. So be careful. Be careful if there's any people outside the gas station with a bag of screws. Just say it. Two things about gas stations. Always be careful with people with a bag of screws and also people smoking cigarettes at the pumps. That's never a good idea. You gotta keep your head on a swimming. It could be an inflammatory situation.

SPEAKER_05 5:40

You gotta keep your head. Oh God. Inflammatory situation. You gotta keep your head on a swivel at gas stations, bud. We have things going on. I wouldn't know. Oh yeah, you gotta, yeah, you have a you're right. You don't visit gas stations I have. Fucking EV on it. I have an EV.

SPEAKER_07 5:54

Yeah, you're right. Well, I'm EVing right by the gas station, suckers. And there's no, there's nobody putting drywall screws in my charger.

SPEAKER_05 6:03

No, no, there's just rain getting into your moisture getting away.

SPEAKER_04 6:05

Well, there are some moisture in my port.

SPEAKER_05 6:08

Nope. Moisture in my port. Gas units. Okay, let's stop. All right.

Trivia And Midwest Dad Talk

SPEAKER_05 6:16

On to bar news.

SPEAKER_07 6:16

All right, before we get into bar news, uh put uh T dub on the spot back there. Um you have to talk louder when you're because you don't have a mic yet. So people want to hear when you have a comment. You did say you had a trivia thing, and yeah, I know you want to do emails, but what maybe you could try to stump us with the trivia question. What do you got?

SPEAKER_03 6:31

Oh, right now.

SPEAKER_07 6:32

Do you have it? Are you ready? On the spot? Send it. I'm always ready. What is it?

SPEAKER_03 6:37

What is the longest road in Erie County? Not a state road.

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Longest road in Erie County, Ohio, not a state route. Mason Road.

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Oh my gosh! Whoa!

SPEAKER_07 6:50

You can't stump it. There goes that. Okay, a softer tone. Yeah, that runs that runs the whole county basically.

unknown 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:02

Uh over into uh where you where's it switch? Over in the Brown Helm area, is that correct? Brown area. Yeah. Let me point out something.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Or Mason Cross in 60. Brown Helm Station. Last one.

SPEAKER_07 7:16

Brown Helm Station, no? No. No, no. Station. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's gonna be tough. Um I'm lost in the street. I know where you're at. It's at the end of Mason Road. Um, but tell me, tell me it, get it. What's the grocery store? Axtel, Ohio. A-X-T-E-L, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:33

Can I listen, and this has nothing to do with did you you just did something that made me laugh, and it's because something that usually maybe 65 plus people do. Oh, I'm age. Where are you? Boy, I'll tell you. Yeah, I know. And whenever you start your sentence with boy, comma, and then you go on to the the rest of the sentence, that is that is indicative.

SPEAKER_07 7:53

Well, it's also a very Midwestern thing, too. That is uh I I you know I lost a lot of those Midwestern tendencies when I was uh out in Colorado for so long. Sure. And now I've been back for what 12 plus years, and I'm you know, I'm open all over the place. Yeah, um, and that's too. I called something, I think I said I added an S to something that shouldn't have an S the other day, too. And Kroger McKenzie caught me. Well, it was something like that. And I am it's funny though, because I she's not even she's calling me out less because I think it's happening more. Instead of saying it, she's just rolling her eyes.

SPEAKER_05 8:20

Well, here's the thing though, but she is also her.

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And it's funny because I can't see her eyes roll because of you know she'll listen, she'll get it.

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It'll she'll time is undefeated, as they say.

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Tennis elbow going.

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That's hilarious.

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We're into booze

Greatest Beer Commercials Ever

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commercials.

SPEAKER_05 8:36

You're you're starting to see them again. Yeah. And there's a reason for that because uh people are we've talked about this at length on this podcast in general. Um, you know, the there's been this anti-alcohol trend, but now you're starting to see you're starting, yeah, you're starting to see more commercials, more marketing because they want to get it back. They want to get these people back.

SPEAKER_07 8:55

Yeah, I think that's one of the issues is it's just it's moving slow. It's uh they're trying, they're doing yeah, they're gonna market heavy and see what's going on. Yeah, okay. There it is. That's what I want to get into. The best beer commercials of all time. I think I think I think the what's up is probably the best. There's some other ones. Remember Real Men of a Genius? Real Men of Genius. Yeah, that was kind of a play on the dad thing. Was that Bud Light? Real Men of Genesis. That was Bud Light.

SPEAKER_05 9:20

Yeah, Bud Light had a real hot.

SPEAKER_07 9:22

They had some great ones. They had the frogs.

SPEAKER_05 9:23

Do you remember the frogs?

SPEAKER_07 9:24

Yeah, yeah. Uh they say I think it said Bud Weiser like that.

SPEAKER_05 9:29

Was that Bud White?

SPEAKER_07 9:30

Yeah, something like that. There was um Dosecchi's the most interesting man in the world. That guy was good. I really dug that one. That guy was good.

SPEAKER_05 9:37

I don't always drink beer, but when I do, it's Doseki's. It's Dosecchi's. The what's up one is hilarious. Remember the guy's just answering the phone? Yo, dookie!

SPEAKER_07 9:47

Yeah, that was a just drinking a bud. Just drinking a bud, hanging out. That was great. What's the that was a Super Bowl? Uh Spuds McKenzie. Spuds McKenzie. That's a long time ago. That's a very good one. I had a Spuds McKenzie wallet at one point.

SPEAKER_05 10:05

That's before it was that.

SPEAKER_07 10:06

And that was Velcro, so you can judge me if you want. Um you have a what now? I had a Velcro wallet there for a while. We all did at some point.

SPEAKER_05 10:13

Mitch Hedberg had a joke about that. I remember he goes a gambler with a Velcro wallet. You can't get away with it, man. It's like a sound of your addiction. You open it up.

SPEAKER_07 10:20

Mitch Hedberg. Oh, one other one beer commercial. Probably don't remember this. Remember, it was a Miller Light uh one. Taste Great, Less Filling. Taste Great, Less Filling. I remember being over at Cedar Point, and this ride is no longer exist. I think it was called Ocean Motion. Ocean and Motion. Remember the Oh yeah. It was the ship that went back and forth. Yeah. And I would, you know, I was probably 13, so I wasn't drinking beer yet at that point. Yeah. I don't think. Um, but like the when the it would go to the top, someone would go, taste great, and the whole thing would go taste great. And then the other side would go up and they go, less filling. And it was like a built-in. That's that's that's genius if you can get people to do it.

SPEAKER_05 10:52

Miller Light, even though I'm not a huge fan of Miller Light taste-wise, um, I'm I can't drink it if I have to.

SPEAKER_07 10:56

There goes our Molson sponsorship.

SPEAKER_05 10:59

Right, right, right. I'm gonna give them credit for two things. The can is classic. The white can, it's a classic. Oh, it's a good-looking can. And then you know what else they get huge props from me right now, commercial-wise, because if you'll notice, they uh they instituted a new character on their commercials, a new rap.

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What do they got? It's Christopher Walken.

SPEAKER_05 11:19

Oh, they got Christopher Walken doing?

SPEAKER_07 11:20

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:21

Well, yeah, if you have walking, it's I'm in.

SPEAKER_07 11:23

It's over.

SPEAKER_05 11:24

I might start drinking Miller Light because he's on.

SPEAKER_07 11:26

Can you go ahead and give us a quick uh walk-in uh Miller Light?

SPEAKER_05 11:29

It's my favorite, it's phenomenal. It was when I reach into the refrigerator, I grab one or two sometimes, maybe a case. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 11:37

Fantastic. We should there's no reason that walk-in shouldn't be on every bar pod.

SPEAKER_05 11:43

So good. Oh, I'm I will get back into it because I'm my walk-in used to be great. It's it's at 60% now. I'll get it'll get there. It'll get there.

SPEAKER_07 11:50

So I, you know, I think to wrap the beer segment up, I think what we're what we figured out here is the uh the marketers, the beer companies are gonna do everything they can to try to boost sales, but really it's kind of on us to create the spaces where people want to drink it.

SPEAKER_05 12:05

It is. It is it's good, yeah, yeah, agreed.

Why Insurance Drives Us Nuts

SPEAKER_05 12:08

Um you have insurance companies.

SPEAKER_07 12:10

I got a quick note about insurance companies. It's it's a pain in the ass to to run businesses. They want to like can I see what you if you had any claims? No, I didn't have any claims. We're changing things all the time. Yeah. And just in general, fuck you guys, because I'm paying you. And oh uh oh shit, I raged. I raged. I raged. Bring it down.

SPEAKER_05 12:30

We need some like we need some soft jazz music when he drops an F Bob.

SPEAKER_07 12:33

I love insurance companies. I love dealing with lost lead what are they called? Lost lost leads and lost runs, so you can see if you can fuck me more by taking money out of me because I made a claim one time.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Libbity bibbity.

SPEAKER_07 12:48

No, what's the uh nibbity bibbity. Libbity bibbity. I think Safeco bought heart one of the two bought each other recently. Anyway, so scruck fuck that anyway. We're beyond that. Three how many do I have? Three?

SPEAKER_05 13:00

That was four total.

SPEAKER_07 13:00

What do I get per show?

SPEAKER_05 13:01

I'll give you a 10 F bomb allowance.

SPEAKER_07 13:03

That's pretty hot. I don't think I'm gonna get that.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

I don't think I'm gonna go that far.

SPEAKER_07 13:06

I'm trying like do you see I brought it right back down?

SPEAKER_05 13:08

So to just to wrap this all off, put a bow on it, insurance sucks.

SPEAKER_07 13:12

It's just a pain. I you know, it's a necessary thing, but like it's just the way they screw you over all the time. They want to dig into your business. It's like it's not just I I've paid you for the last 10 years. Why are you asking for this now? Because you know what sucks?

SPEAKER_05 13:24

Rarely do you get one over on insurance companies. Like I uh it was like remember four years ago, three years ago, we had a big flood situation. Yeah, my basement flooded, it ruined everything down there, and we made a claim. And guess what? A year later, no, six months later, when I went to go renew my flood insurance.

SPEAKER_07 13:39

Yeah, they said, Oh no, no.

SPEAKER_05 13:40

Yeah, they go, they said no.

SPEAKER_07 13:41

Yeah. They can do that.

SPEAKER_05 13:43

What do you mean no? I'm not in like a technically, I guess I consider I'm considered our house isn't a FEMA zone, but like it's a creek. It's a creek.

SPEAKER_07 13:51

Yeah, a FEMA zone in Perkins Township, Ohio. Okay, this isn't I didn't I don't remember Katrina rolling through there. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 13:57

So whatever. It's like that was once.

SPEAKER_07 13:59

That's a little bitch about insurance. So once again, we will not have any insurance sponsors, so that's out.

SPEAKER_05 14:05

Let me yeah,

What Broke In The Bar

SPEAKER_05 14:06

yeah. What do we got here? What do we got here? Oh, hey, you always like this one. This is one of your favorite segments. What broke in the bar this week?

SPEAKER_07 14:14

Uh let's see. This week in the bar, what broke? I'm trying to think. I had to fix the gate. You saw me doing that this morning. Yeah. Not that big of a deal. Nope. Uh just a 10-minute fix. Wait, yeah. What do you got? I you know, I don't think we had any major. Oh, yep. Nope. Uh, not here. I gotta get the sink is broken at Volstead. I gotta go across the street and fix that after this show.

SPEAKER_05 14:32

Oh, no, and I got one. Our uh our gate up here is ruining the floor.

SPEAKER_07 14:36

Yeah, but that's what I just fixed. But you just fixed it.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

So that was something.

SPEAKER_07 14:38

So that's it. That's not a minor, minor, minor tweak. Uh so kind of light on the uh on the fixes this week.

SPEAKER_05 14:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:46

Uh, which is nice. We had and it's you know, a busy week. Uh people are ready for good weather, though, I'll tell you what. This this weekend actually looks good.

SPEAKER_05 14:52

Sixties and seventies, maybe some eighties in there on Sunday. Oh man, get down here and have some fun. We're already we're all we are all ready. We're all ready. Let me uh let me pop something in here that we

Movie Mustaches And The Trend

SPEAKER_05 15:02

didn't have in the notes. Okay. Um, and I'll address the uh third um eyebrow in the room, which is on my lip.

SPEAKER_07 15:10

I grew a does that did you notice that I grew just a just a standard it's creepy, and we didn't want to bring it up because we don't want to scare anybody.

SPEAKER_05 15:16

Oh well, uh let me beg to differ. I got some real good feedback on Friday. So where are you going with this? Um since since I have a mustache, it's not normally there, and it's not gonna last very long. Amber doesn't love it, right? She's not a huge fan. She told me I could keep it for as long as I want, but listen, I'm not gonna torture her. Yeah. Uh we like to do these little movie segments about certain certain characters you like, certain. We remember we did the uh the last one was what um films had bars in them that we like.

SPEAKER_07 15:43

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:43

So you're going, who's got the best stash? Give me give me a movie or a character in a movie that has a great mustache.

SPEAKER_07 15:50

I got one right out of the box. Burt Reynolds Smoky in the Bandit. Oh top notch stash. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 15:57

That's in yeah, yeah, that that's in the top five stashes of all time.

SPEAKER_07 16:00

I think Sally Field makes a says something about it too in that movie, if I recall. There's a whole no, I don't think it's a mustache ride. I think that's super troopers. Somebody had to buy it. That was super troopers, remember?

SPEAKER_05 16:09

He goes, I do it. I find fun. I find fun. That's yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_07 16:14

Super trooper three coming out here soon, by the way. Can't wait for that.

SPEAKER_05 16:17

Um, mustache-wise, though, who else has a great one? Oh, there's there's like five great mustaches in Tombstone, one of your favorites.

SPEAKER_07 16:23

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:24

Obviously.

SPEAKER_07 16:25

Sam Elliott. Sam Elliott's probably one of the most iconic mustaches out there, uh, all time. Moustache. Moustache.

SPEAKER_05 16:32

Who yell you got?

SPEAKER_07 16:33

T Dub was quite popular for his mustache. He had a great one. As a matter of fact, if you come into Paddle Bar and you look behind uh the tap, you can see a uh old t-shirt from the trivia days. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:44

I've got a random, this is a deep track. What you got? Have you ever seen the movie? It's got Tom Selleck in it called Mr. Baseball. Oh, yeah. He goes to Japan. He's a kind of a kind of a Selleck also a good mustache. Yeah, Selek a great baseball player and magnet the eye days as well. Yeah. Phenomenal movie, but his mustache is stellar in that one.

SPEAKER_07 17:00

TC, where's the van?

SPEAKER_05 17:02

Where's the what car does he drive in uh oh, he drives a Ferrari.

SPEAKER_07 17:06

There you go. Yeah. I don't know the model number, though. I'm sure someone can get that very quickly. Unlike Don Johnson, who drove a white Ferrari. Of course, he drives a red. It's Higgins Ferrari. It is. It is. And actually, it's not Higgins, it's the who's the owner. Here you go. Higgins runs the property. Right. There's an owner of the property that lives on, and I don't remember his name.

unknown 17:22

Author. The guy was an author.

SPEAKER_07 17:24

Yeah, okay. Oh, no. Uh that's gonna be tough. If you think about it, bring it back in.

SPEAKER_05 17:30

So, anyway, that's fun. Mustaches are fun. But then I realize it kind of is the trend now. Amber called me this, and she's like, Do you notice there's a lot of younger kids with mustaches?

SPEAKER_07 17:39

Oh, mustaches are coming back in a big way. And I like that. I'm into it. I'm seeing some like the wax stuff going on. You Googling back there? That is cheating, sir.

SPEAKER_05 17:45

I like that.

unknown 17:46

I'll have one of the views.

SPEAKER_07 17:48

All right, we'll find it. One of the seven folks. One of the seven folks listening. Yeah. Uh, what's going on over at Teeks?

Teeks Update And Mojito Plans

SPEAKER_07 17:55

Ooh. Okay. It's going well in the sense that we are moving forward. Um, I think construction crews will be out of there in the next two weeks. Wow. Hopefully. That's where we're at. But I will say this it is over budget.

SPEAKER_05 18:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 18:11

Yeah. Yeah. Plumbing is very expensive. Ooh. Um, when you run into plumbing problems, that's also very expensive. That's a bunch of shit. It is a shitty situation. Never trust a plumber who bites his fingernails.

SPEAKER_05 18:24

I love that joke.

SPEAKER_07 18:25

That's a great joke. Yeah, that is a great joke. Um, so it's coming along. Um, it is looking good over there, though. I'll tell you what, the landscaping has been in uh Jack uh and the crew from uh Turf Rehab, those guys did doing landscaping over there, and it is looking fantastic. So if you get a chance to go drive by uh in Bayview, drive by it, and you'll see the landscaping. It is gonna be a chill place. When we get it done, dude, the views, the relaxation, it's gonna be think. I mean, you know, it's gonna, it's we're gonna do, I think we're gonna focus on mojitos over there. Uh so a little different than paddle bar, but similar vibe, maybe even a little bit more toned down than paddle bar. It's very laid back on the water. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:57

Uh Jack and Molly are neighbors of Amber and Ice. That's right. They do great work, don't they? Yeah, yeah. Really impressed with those things. They crush it. They crush it. Um so I I saw a little note on here, and this is news to me as well. What uh what's going on? Tell me about the what's going on with the drinks over it, Tease. What are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_07 19:14

So that's what, yeah, mojitos are gonna be um probably the the kind of our our our go-to with uh fresh um uh fruit versions if you want, you know, a blueberry mojito, a strawberry muddled in with them. Yeah, dragon fruit mojito. Um obviously we're gonna have we're gonna have eight beers on tap as well. Yeah. Um we will have the paddle bar lemon shakeup with a nod to paddle bar, of course, on the menu. I like that. Um and uh so a little simpler menu than we have here. Uh but I think one thing I want to do over there is I'm gonna start going to the farmer's market every Saturday. See what kind of new fruit concoction or whatever I can find at the farmer's market, and then make that a special that Saturday over at Teaks and just have it till we're out. So um I'm gonna go ahead and call it bar to table.

unknown 19:59

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 19:59

You know what? I got a great nutmeg wholesaler.

SPEAKER_07 20:02

Can we do a laugh track in this show? I'd like that, you know, if you want to get it.

SPEAKER_05 20:05

Bar, I got a great nutmeg wholesaler I can set you in touch with.

SPEAKER_07 20:07

Yeah, nutmeg. I'm growing you should grow a mustard.

SPEAKER_05 20:10

I'm growing, yeah, that's bar to table. Bar to table.

SPEAKER_07 20:13

I kind of table. Uh I'm I'm I am uh growing a lot of mint on property too, uh so we can really uh really uh take advantage of that. So that's what's going on at Teaks. Nice. Uh the cedar is up and running. Uh the rooms are done. Uh matter of fact, we're sold out this weekend. A lot of people booked over there. Um so if you're looking for a place to stay and relax and kind of get out of the traffic but still be close, uh basically right in the middle of everything, right in the middle of Sandusky, Cedar Point, the island.

SPEAKER_05 20:37

And you can pop over the bridge from right there if you want to.

SPEAKER_07 20:39

So you're right there. So that's already up and running. We're just waiting on the bar, and when the bar's running, that will be a complete project, and then I will be able to relax in October. I can't.

SPEAKER_05 20:46

Yeah, you've been you've been working your fingers.

SPEAKER_07 20:48

It's been rough, yeah. After having a really busy Saturday, uh, the text messages at uh midnight uh uh on Saturday night because someone couldn't figure out how to turn on their television was awesome. Oh boy. That's one thing you gotta deal with, and you gotta I've learned to be don't answer right away because if you because a lot of times these people figure it out in like five minutes, like they're like, oh, I can't figure out what to turn on TV. And then you get a message, oh got it. So you know, be patient. Figure things out. Don't reach for your phone right away.

SPEAKER_05 21:14

No.

SPEAKER_07 21:15

Uh so that's what's going on. We already talked about the scam at the pump. Okay, I got one for you.

Band-Aids, Elbows, And Getting Older

SPEAKER_07 21:21

We're gonna get we're let me hear it. We're gonna get uh a little uh little bit into the little maybe uh bitch session here. Oh, nuances of the bar. Nuances of the world bar. It can go anywhere. Have you ever noticed when you need a band-aid those fuck uh things? No, that counts. That's number five.

SPEAKER_05 21:38

Yeah, that's number five. That's four and a half. That's four and a half. I heard the C. I heard the C.

unknown 21:42

Fuck.

SPEAKER_05 21:43

Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Oh I don't. There's an old joke about it. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not doing it.

SPEAKER_07 21:48

We're not we're not XX rated. No, no, we're not. Um but anyway, the point is uh I caught myself the other day, which I do probably five or six times a week at this point.

SPEAKER_05 21:55

Right there. Look at that.

SPEAKER_07 21:56

Oh see, there it is. Um Band aids somebody. Needs to make a band-aid that is if you don't have someone to put it on for you, that is easier to open. And you can't. I mean, I'm bleeding on the thing. I'm so by I had went through four band-aids with blood all over by the time I got it open to actually uh band-aid myself. I'm gonna point out something again.

SPEAKER_05 22:14

I'm gonna point out something. He's gonna go with age again, isn't it? Yeah, this is an age thing because band-aids are fairly easy to open. This is not no, they're not.

SPEAKER_07 22:20

No, especially if you have wet hands because you've just cleaned your wound.

SPEAKER_05 22:23

Okay, you know what? Okay, maybe you're right. See what band-aids, band-aids, band-aids are you gotta have a clean wound. Band-aids are a regular thing in our house because I have children. Young children. So I always if you ever see my band-aids, I'll have it. That'll have like a cartoon character. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. But but but do they make them maybe they make the kids' ones easier to open? Because I I usually don't have problems opening band-aids.

SPEAKER_07 22:46

I have a real problem opening band-aids, it doesn't work for you.

SPEAKER_06 22:49

Well, hey, boy, I'll tell you. These band aids are.

SPEAKER_07 22:51

Boy, I'll tell you these band-aids are tough, you know? You know? You know, I mean uh speaking of that, is uh I've discovered I have tennis elbow.

SPEAKER_05 23:01

You talked about this.

SPEAKER_07 23:02

And I think you have golf elbow. It's very similar. I bought one of those band things that once again, uh almost impossible to put on by yourself. Sure. You know? You're gonna have tough go. I'm falling apart, bro. Falling apart. I'm gonna try to go for a hike today at some point if I have time. But of course, I uh the time thing is I got a lot to do. It is um it is what else we got.

Spirit Airlines Chaos And Runway Story

SPEAKER_07 23:22

Spirit Airlines Spirit Airlines. I'll tell you what, you're not catching the spirit anymore, are you?

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Did you hear? I took them down. Uh I flew you flown, yeah. I've flown spirit to um South America one time, like uh ish, Costa Rica. Yeah. And it was not great.

SPEAKER_07 23:36

No.

SPEAKER_05 23:36

They don't they and then every time you get on spirit, they some somebody walks around with a credit card offer.

SPEAKER_07 23:41

They're very angry at that point. It's ridiculous. I I mean, I understand the uh the business concept of it. It does make sense. Some people just they don't even want water, they want to just get on the plane and get to where they're going. I'm more of a like, I like that like I want to be on vacation for the time I leave my house to the time I get back. So I enjoy the airport. I want to relax. I do like the pop and circumstance of it. I love it.

SPEAKER_05 24:00

Now, did you hear that uh there's been talk of Elon Musk trying to buy spirit? There's two things going on here. Well, that's what we need. We need that dickhead on and something. The one I like though, the one I like, there's a gentleman, a younger guy who started a basically a GoFundMe.

SPEAKER_07 24:14

By the way, don't cut off our Starlink, Elon.

SPEAKER_05 24:16

Uh yeah, right. Uh a GoFundMe. He's trying to get like a lot of money. He's trying to hear about like a he's gonna call it the People's Airlines. He's like an influencer. And that's all it is.

SPEAKER_07 24:26

I'll tell you what, that's all it is. If you're an influencer, you can buy a freaking airline.

SPEAKER_05 24:29

And last week, I want to say he's already had 185 million donated to buy Spirit Airlines.

SPEAKER_07 24:34

I'm dead serious. That's pretty amazing. Uh, you know, the thing is, is like, yeah, you know, the business model failed, obviously. I probably think there's a way to do it. And it sucks because they screwed so many people because they just shut down on a Saturday night. But there's no way to wind down an airline because they had no money to give refund people. So they just had to say sorry, we're done.

SPEAKER_05 24:50

Well, and here's the thing the CEO of Spirit Airlines threw um the uh Trump under the bus citing um high jet fuel costs. Oh, did he? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, he threw him in a in an interview, he threw him right under the bus.

SPEAKER_07 25:02

The government tried to bail him out or wanted to, but then they wanted to be the first to lose. I don't know, so it didn't work out. So anyway, um what about that poor guy in Denver who trespassed? Oh, the guy who walked across the uh sucked up by an engine? Yeah. I don't know if he got sucked up or he got so some guy just jumped across the some guy who jumped the the fence. He went into the turbine? Well, I don't is that the rule? Uh okay. Well, so a guy a guy uh jumped the fence at uh DIA and a frontier flight hit him. I mean he's you know poof toast. Uh and uh yeah, that's uh a bummer.

SPEAKER_05 25:34

Oh man. But everyone inside thought it was a seagull, I bet.

SPEAKER_07 25:39

Moral of the story is don't jump airport fences, I don't think. That's not a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 25:44

No, a runway is not a smart place to go and play tic-tac-toe. No, I don't know. Whatever you're doing on the other. Anyway, that's that's yeah, that's I heard about that.

SPEAKER_07 25:50

That's weird.

SPEAKER_05 25:51

Tic-tac-toe. What am I talking about?

SPEAKER_07 25:52

I don't know. Yeah, they got everybody off, no problem. You know, that I feel bad for the guy. He probably had some mental problems or something. That sucks. Yikes. Yikes. That's a that's a rough story. Um, anyway, so Sayonara to Spirit Airlines. Um I mean, Allegiance's still out there. That's a budget airline.

SPEAKER_05 26:14

Jet Blue is the one I heard that's next on the chopping block. We'll see.

SPEAKER_07 26:17

Yeah, I think Allegiant's been able to kind of stay under the red. The problem is, and then we'll move on. I think what happened was is Spirit was doing their thing and they were kicking butt for a while. Then the big airlines took notice, the you know, the United Delta, and then they started offering these like economy level seats. But the difference is that you they were getting the same price because then you still have you know 20 people playing first class, so they can have these economy level seats, but then still have the service of like if my flight got canceled, I can call somebody who's spirit. If your flight got canceled or got changed, you know, you had to whip out your credit card, and you know, I don't think I don't think they had any customer service. You know what I mean? Right on the plane, just fucking go. I don't know. So anyway, so that's what happened. Yeah, spirit is gone. You're not catching spirit anymore. I'm not catching the spirit. Uh don't email me and text me at the same time.

Stop Emailing And Texting Together

SPEAKER_07 27:02

Oh, this is it. So we we talked about this last week. Stop it with the well, that was a I think I had a I had a voicemail and a text last time. Yeah. And now I got a like uh this morning, I get an email. Okay. Um this is that's why I have time to check emails. I got about a half hour in the morning before we start doing things. Sure. I check my emails. So I get an email and I'm typing a response, and then I get a text message from the same person. Hey, did you see my email? Hey, did you see it? You're in the archive now, sir.

SPEAKER_05 27:28

Hey, you know what? I like how you kept your cool right there.

SPEAKER_07 27:30

I did. No F-bombs?

SPEAKER_05 27:32

You didn't even raise your own.

SPEAKER_07 27:33

I felt it come up a little bit and I brought it back down. Much like Spirit Airlines. I've landed. Oh, for good. That wasn't very good, was it? No, it's all right. All right. Uh, Chad, you got something in here about boomer versus OG. What is this? OG on the car? I don't know what you're talking about here.

SPEAKER_05 27:49

I this morning, this morning. If you know, you know. This morning when I dropped Foster off to mom and dad's um before I came here and I asked who I I was like, was I talking about this with you guys? The term OG.

SPEAKER_07 28:01

Yeah, original gangster, right?

SPEAKER_05 28:02

Okay, there it is. Original gangster. I'm last week I just learned that a lot of people over the age of 60, 65 say, don't really know that OG stands for original gangster, and they think it stands for other things. So what? Which I think is pretty funny. Um somebody that Amber works with thought it meant old goat.

SPEAKER_07 28:24

Well, that I can see that's a correlation.

SPEAKER_05 28:26

What, like, like you're talking about greatest of all time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 28:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:30

Okay. Um mom thought it was original goat. Original goat. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 28:36

Original greatest of all time.

SPEAKER_05 28:37

Um, somebody else I talked to thought it was akin to OEM parts on a car. So I don't know where that comes in. I don't know. It starts with an O, I guess. I don't know. Okay. Original, it's the original car part. Um so anyway, listeners, uh, viewers, if you have any other funny um, you know, acronym choices for what it is, but I think that's hilarious. Uh uh R Age, we know it came from our time, original gangster OEM. Yeah, I think that's what it was. OG. Yeah, OEM car parts, old goat. I just it's I think it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_07 29:12

Original gangster, you're the OG. We got a lot of original gangsters coming in and uh seeing the dad beer selection uh at this bar.

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_07 29:21

So I had one Saturday, it's the guy came in and he started seeing all the the stros and the and the uh blats and and he got very excited, which is awesome. Um what guess what?

SPEAKER_05 29:32

I'll take a Hams. I'll take a Hams. Hams is my favorite beer up there. I like old style too, though.

SPEAKER_07 29:36

Old style's great. Chicago beer.

SPEAKER_05 29:38

Um yeah, we're about we're about yeah, we're about done here. Um guess what?

SPEAKER_07 29:41

I want to uh interrupt uh for a second. See, dad likes to stick to the he's he's original gank.

SPEAKER_05 29:48

He's original gank.

SPEAKER_07 29:49

OG, so he thinks that we have like, you know, have to like there's gonna be a show on after us. So like, or there's a commercial we gotta get to. So he's like, You got your time's up. Uh we can talk for the next hour if we want. I mean, I think our our followers would go from seven to four, but we can do it.

SPEAKER_05 30:04

So it's all good. So yeah, I like it though.

SPEAKER_07 30:06

Oh, I like to know where we're gonna do it. I like that guy's doing all the the things, but it's an original gangster movie. I don't this is a new one. He gave us the fist, which's weird. You don't want that. The fist? That's yeah, the fist turn it off, is that what you meant?

SPEAKER_03 30:19

Wrap it up. This means stretch.

SPEAKER_07 30:21

Oh this is wrap it up. So wrap it up is a turn of your fist, and stretch means pull your hand. That makes sense. Like stretch means what? Yeah, you do this stretching um like a rubber band.

SPEAKER_05 30:32

Oh we're losing it today. That's good. We gotta lose it a little bit. I do like the OG stuff. That's awesome though. I want the candle in the back. I told you the the comedians back in the day, like old school comedians, some of the dark um like taverns and stuff, would when they would let a comedian know that he's done, they'd light a candle in the back.

SPEAKER_07 30:54

That's cool. Oh, yeah. I that was I I thought that was actually from uh further back.

SPEAKER_05 30:59

That was from like oh yeah, but yeah, it is, it is, but some places still do it to this day to like keep the tradition going. Yeah, which is what Mitch Mitch Hedberg, who I talked about briefly, was one who I heard him talk about that one time. Yeah. Okay, there you go.

Cedar Point Is Back And So Is Traffic

SPEAKER_05 31:12

Um, one more thing before we end. Hey, I love it. You ready for this?

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Yeah, Cedar Point's open.

SPEAKER_05 31:21

It is, dude. I'm hearing the train, I like that. I know, you're right. In the summertime, you start to hear the train now. All we need is the warm weather to accompany the train whistle. But uh it's it's great, man. You can tell. People are around town, people are excited about it.

SPEAKER_07 31:34

People are surviving the great uh Syndusky roundabout. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

Talk about the roundabout.

SPEAKER_07 31:42

That's what he just brought up. The great Sandusky roundabout right here. It's uh I I ran through it last night. How is it? Oh, it's fine, it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 31:49

Now, is it just standard roundabout?

SPEAKER_07 31:51

Well, it's a two-laner.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

It's a two-laner.

SPEAKER_07 31:52

So that's adding a level of confusion for uh folks that aren't uh oh that are that are watch yourself.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

I love roundabouts.

SPEAKER_06 32:06

Watch yourself. Oh, what circular confused I don't I don't know how you no, no, remember it's psychologically stranded.

SPEAKER_07 32:19

Oh, psychologically stranded. That's what happens when that when you see a car, you can't with just a car sitting there and doesn't know what to do. They're psychologically stranded.

SPEAKER_05 32:25

They're stranded around about stranded.

SPEAKER_07 32:28

There's no good way to do it.

SPEAKER_06 32:31

No, no, dad, he's back there crying. Dad told me that um one of the Facebook groups, yeah, they put it, they said, Oh, I heard about this.

SPEAKER_07 32:42

Yeah, they had a camera. That yeah, much like that's wrong, but probably hilarious. Oh, it's like in a bone ramp, you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:51

I will give the people coming from out of town, I'll give them, I'll give them a little, a little, uh, a little bit of room to grow. Because you ever notice, and this is we can end on this, you ever notice, and I have done this.

SPEAKER_07 33:03

Yeah, you do get rubber-necked when you get in a place you haven't been to.

SPEAKER_05 33:06

When you go somewhere that you're not, you could be a doctor, you could be a nuclear physicist. When you go somewhere new, you turn into a complete moron.

SPEAKER_07 33:15

Yeah, yeah. There is the you lose a couple IQ points a minute. You get in a unfamiliar zip code.

SPEAKER_05 33:19

And I've done it before. There was a time we were we were down in Hilton Head recently, and I forgot I did something. Dude, yeah, you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_07 33:27

I think the roundabout does add a whole new level, though. Uh, because you know there's a lot of locals that are getting confused in there. It's just a roundabout.

SPEAKER_04 33:33

I I there's arrows on the arrows.

SPEAKER_05 33:37

Oh, the arrows. There, if you'll notice though, every roundabout that ever opens in a smaller town, in every town in the world. Well, you we were in Breckenridge when that one opened.

SPEAKER_07 33:44

And it people were losing their stuff for a while.

SPEAKER_05 33:47

People are tough with change. There's always contention, a lot of contention around roundabouts. There with somebody does need to make t-shirts.

SPEAKER_07 33:53

They actually work though. I survived the Sandusky roundabout as the t-shirts we need out there. Oh my gosh, it's a lot of it's the first one in town. That's the difference. Like there's some roundabouts in the area, basically. Oh, you're right, they're all in the city proper.

SPEAKER_05 34:04

Yeah, you're right. And and not to mention this one's gonna have a ton of traffic.

SPEAKER_07 34:07

Oh, yeah. And I would argue that Sandusky is a town prime for roundabouts because we have all these quick rant. Here we go. Oh boy, we're still we're we're yeah okay. Here it is, and then I'm I'm then we're done. Sandusky has how many points does Sandusky has? It's got four points, five points, seven points, eight points. It's all these intersections that come together with a bunch of lights, and it's good. That those should all be roundabouts.

SPEAKER_05 34:28

And what can you imagine being a- I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 34:30

The the the guy who designed Sandusky. Oh, yeah, the Mason Hector Kilborn. Yeah, not not good at laying out streets. Let's just say that. Well, so so very good at engineering buildings and things, not so much a well, he didn't engineer buildings, he just laid out the he laid out the city of the Sandusky Street to look like a Masonic symbol. Yeah. Which I love it in concept, neat. You want to do it, but it really I mean, Manhattan is a lot easier to navigate than downtown Sandusky.

SPEAKER_05 34:53

So you're telling me when you're on Perkins Perkins Ave and you want to come downtown, you're not supposed to be able to take the same road to the exact five different roads that you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_07 35:01

No, Khomas Ave is the only one that runs straight downtown. Everything else is some kind of whirly bird thing, and you're you're crossing over and you ever I mean five points? There's five roads that come together. What what dumb shit is that?

SPEAKER_05 35:12

Could you imagine I'm no city planner, but I mean, come on. Can you imagine being being here for the first time and trying to take a different road every time and ending up in the same exact spot?

SPEAKER_07 35:22

Oh, and and uh talk about a senior moaner. I still get lost in Susky. I've lived, I grew up here and I've lived here for the last 12 years. Sometimes I'm on, you know, I'm like, how did I get on Tiffany Avenue? I don't know what happened, you know. Yeah, I thought I was down by Mills Golf Course or some of Mama B's.

SPEAKER_05 35:34

What happened?

SPEAKER_07 35:34

Yeah, right. It doesn't, I don't know. It's so like, yeah, I'm for some more roundabouts, if not for uh traffic flow for at least the comedic value. All right,

Sandusky Roundabout Debate And Goodbye

SPEAKER_07 35:43

and with that, we are out of here. Yeah, um, it's time to cut or whatever that meant. And uh we will we will wrap it up. We will see you uh or cut. See you at podcast uh number three. We'll see you this weekend, we'll see you this weekend during the week. Looks like the weather is finally improving. Uh summer's coming. Cheers to summer. We'll see you soon. See you later.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Ryan Gentleman.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

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