Welcome to the Jungle Gyms Podcast. What's up, Banana Bunch?You know what time it is.It's time for another episode of the General Jim's Podcast.I'm your host, Mark.Welcome to the show.You know the drill here.
This is the part where I thank you a bunch and all that good stuff and talk about some upcoming products.Of course, guys, we got the International Wine Festival coming up on November 9th.Tickets are still available.
Get those connoisseur passes so you can eat.I was just talking with Chef Mike, who's doing a whole new spread for this.I'm really excited to eat his food.I'm really excited to eat a lot of food.
It's kind of a problem, actually, but you're not my doctor.He won't watch the show. Yeah, we've got all kinds of fun stuff.Before I dive in, I know you can see there's like a pile of goodies here on the table.
And I always love whenever we do a tasting episode like this, when we've got a fun guest in, I always go to the managers.I'm like, hey, what's cool in your department.So today I got a couple good ones sent my way.I'm really excited about this one.
I wish I had a blender in here.This is a brand called Live More Smoothies.So in this cup, See if you can see it, oh yeah.In this cup is a bunch of fresh frozen fruit.That's probably a bit of a misnomer, but whatever.
These are made in Chile, that's cool.You take the fruit that's in here, you pour it into a blender with your favorite choice of liquid.So there's like a fill line in the back of the cup.I'm gonna fill it with TTC soda probably.
It won't be a good blend, this is magic mango.So this one, for example, has mango, strawberries, cherries, grape, and goji berries in it.
So you take this stuff, fill it to the line here with liquid, pour it in a blender, blend it up, dump back in the cup, you're good to go.It's got a sweet little straw hole in the lid.These are 99 cents right now.
I think this is one of the better deals in the store.You just have to own a blender.That's cool.
You know, I made the THC soda joke, and we may end up trying some of these together on the show today, but I've got from Seltzer 8, these are back in natural foods, so not in beer and wine.These are natural foods.Thank you, Brie.
This is a 25 milligram Delta 8 hemp extract Seltzer.It's black cherry flavored.That sounded good to me.We've got, This is actually part of the Jones Soda Company.This is Mary Jones, and I hear the root beer one's a killer one.
So these are all pretty low dose.This one's a Delta 9.Delta 9 is a little closer to the real thing than Delta 8 is, just to give you a heads up.Yeah, that's funny.The photo just says, this isn't a rock.Love it. Um, that came in.
This is a brand new set of gummy edibles that are back there.Um, I have a feeling we may try these.
I have a whole THC soda episode that we've already recorded that's coming out soon, so I may have to update my intro with some of these, but this is from a brand called Lume.I picked this flavor because it was seasonally appropriate.
It's sour caramel apple kush, which is apparently on the, according to the packaging, a combo of sour apple diesel and white caramel cookie. 15 gummies in here.It looks like each gummy is 10 milligrams.So also Delta 9, pretty cool stuff.
It's really crazy.I know I think about this all the time, how it's like, we used to just buy this at a parking lot from a stranger.Now I could go to the world's largest grocery store.And that's the way it should be, damn it.
So those are some of the big things that are in here.Lou's also got another crazy deal on these Amaretto chocolates.They look kind of like Ferrero Rocher, but maybe a little bit better, but this is 99 cents a bag too.
That's exclusive to those of you that have the Jungle Gyms app.So before I introduce our guest, Make sure you download the Jungle Gyms app.You get the weekly ad in there.You get weekly exclusive deals in the store.
So you can just scan it right at the register and get an extra discount that the normies are just not taking advantage of.And then last but not least, of course, my favorite part, you can see the five most recent episodes of the podcast on there.
But realistically, there's a barcode scanner in there.You can find items, there's a map, so you can see where you are in the store.It's very handy, so you should get it.
I'm starting my day off right now, and you'll see an episode of these guys coming up soon.But they got me hip and hooked on Karma Water.It's like, I got a little cap, it's like white people raminé.
So you just push this little button in the top, which of course I can't now that the camera's rolling.There we go. But in it and it releases in this case probiotics like probiotic cultures They'll tell you all about it soon.
But what you need to know is it's delicious and here at the store So on that I'm pretty excited about this one.I've known our guests for a long time.Not particularly.
Well, I feel like today's the day We're gonna actually really get to know each other a little bit, which is fun for me and fun for you He's a comedian.
He's very funny guy He is the host of the longest-running show in Ohio and we can't quite verify that but like most claims They're all bullshit.So on that I want to you to my friend Carl Smith.What's up, Carl?Not much.How are you?I'm good, buddy.
How you feeling today?First, let's just start right here.This is so cool.You'd posted online that you were doing, let me make sure I got a good frame.Here we go.You'd posted online that you're doing a bunch of, you do everything, right?
Maybe you should talk through this a little bit.I get that.
Yeah, so I do illustrations for people.I'm trying to get better at it.I think I'm okay at it.I think, dude, this came out great.Listen, it's pretty fun.Yeah.It was a fun one to do because we were talking about what to do and you wanted like
jungle-ish theme, and we decided Jurassic Park.
I loved it.My whole thing is I'm always like, you can be mean to me if it's funny.You know what I mean?I'm like, lean into it.I love it.Dude, it came out so good.I'm very excited to hang this in the office.
This is my second piece of art that's come in this way.
Yeah, the other one was from a child, but she's very talented too.
Well, I'm going to be honest.I'm probably better than her.
You know, you're right. It's almost like all of those years of living paid off.
Yeah.One thing I guarantee with my, my art and anything is I'm better at it than a child.
That's, I heard that's actually how you're, that's how you're promoing the comedy special you're taping.It's better than a kid.Yeah, exactly.Have you seen a kid do standup?Yeah.I saw Amanda Bynes do it in a documentary once actually.
There's kind of, there's a whole, um, Instagram page.It's just kids doing standup, but they're all very clearly like Forced to do it by their stage mom parents write the jokes for them.
Yeah, and then like every comments just like kill yourself It's like it's still like that one's for your dad.It's a definition of what?What is bad about social media?
Oh gosh, don't get me started cuz it's like The conversation I often have, people are like, but Mark, you're good at it.And I was like, that's not the same as loving this.This is a necessary evil.You know what I mean?
I personally hate it and I suck at it.
I think you're decent at it because I think it plays to your style of comedy in general, right?You've got like a little of that like sardonic thing happening.
To me, well, now that you're saying it out loud this way, to me, I was just always like, Carl's doing his bit.
Like that was- Yeah, I do a lot of bits on it, but like not anymore. I'm so over it.I wish I could just delete it.
But yeah, that's like the worst part about being at a creative space right now.It's like you could just well here before we complain about the Internet in the world.Let's at least get show promo out of the way.So you're taping at Motor in Cincinnati.
Yes down and over the Rhine on Main Street 1345 Main Street.I'm taping a comedy special November 2nd and 3rd. The second is Doors at 7, Show at 7.30, and the third is Doors at 6.30, Show at 7, with bands afterwards.Oh, cool.
You can do Big Acid Show, too?No, I hate playing Music Live.
Oh, really?Okay, I wasn't sure.I just own your catalog.
Well, I don't own it in that way.You know what I mean.It's my least favorite thing to do.
Is play Music Live. It will be fun.It's just going to be stand-up, but the final version of the special is going to be a mixture of stand-up and filmed sketches.Oh, cool.That kind of tell a story of my birth to death.
Of course, I love it.And you're working with, I'm forgetting his name, but he shot all the future science stuff.
Matthew Hontenosis, one of my dear friends, very talented.I work well with him.I'm very excited.It's going to be very surreal. The final thing will be very surreal and silly and that's awesome.Absurd.
Has this, is this your first special?
Yes.That's awesome.So this is like all my jokes from for 14 or 13 years.Wow.Really?
I'm actually kind of surprised you haven't done a special before this.
I didn't feel ready.That's good though.And I just want like, now I feel like it I'm at a point in life where I can just start retiring material.
I'm about to get married, there's all this stuff that's happening, so it's just like, all this old stuff is probably time to go.
You got a clean house a little bit, it's winter green.
I just want to change it up, do new stuff.
Has that always been like a part of your mentality when it comes to creating comedy?
Like as far as like just creating like an ever, not ever repeating, but like, you know, you're like, I want to do something new.I'm trying to push the envelope a little bit.
Yeah.And I get so bored.Yeah.I have like too many mental illnesses to.
do like the same thing over and over again like any great entertainer you have to be completely like getting ready for this special taping every set i've done i was like i gotta get this tightened up and then i end up just riffing for like half my set because i'm so bored with like the material because i've done it for so long i'm like about to stop doing it but um
Yeah, it's just like, I mean, a lot of it's just jokes that like a 40 year old probably like shouldn't tell anymore or it's just like, it's like just starts to feel like a little old, you know, or it's just like, well, like, cause I have my life together.
Like it's not like, and like, it's a bunch of jokes I wrote, like from like 26 to 40, it's just like, I'm a completely different person.
And there's like a wide breadth of it where it's just like, like I have jokes about my engagement and stuff, like getting engaged, which are like, Very new, but for the most part it's like a bunch of jokes that I've told since the very beginning.
Or close to the beginning, like two years in probably.
I was trying to think today, I was like, how long have I actually really known Carl?I mean, it's been at least 10 years, I think.
I started in 2011, stand up, and I think we met shortly after that.
Yeah, it sounds about right.Because I was always at the, like back when I had less ambition, I was always at the club.And I say less ambition because now I'm just doing stuff to do whatever, you know what I mean?
I think I met you at like a music open mic that you ran.
Yes.And I didn't really understand how to run a comedy of a mic.That's right.It was a, it's an ax throwing place now.Like all good comedy shows, you throw an ax there now.
years ago it was Radio Down.
experiences I've had as a creator in my entire career outside of Jungle Gyms, truly.Like, and I'm not saying that because I'm on the show.I'm just like, two companies have been good to me.Like really good, right?And they were one of them.
And then I guess it got wind of whoever the guy was that owned, I don't even remember what it was called.It was like a fire station as well.It's like a lightweight firehouse vibes.
Yeah, and then the, it's not even an ax throwing place anymore.
Oh, that's, oh, of course.Because who wants to actually do, I did that once.I was like, oh, I'm just.
That's a fad where it's done.Right.It has to be done.
It felt like it was done before it started.
I was amazed, like, people were like, oh, we're gonna go throw axes, like, why?
Yeah, don't you have a tree in your life?
Like at each other?Yeah, that would be cool.That would be fun.Yeah.Like dodgeball with axes?Dodge axe, it's really popular overseas.It's called for keeps.
I would play it, look, that's what we're opening, that's actually what Jungle's opening in the back right now with all the thing, it's gonna be crazy, it's just like medieval fighting.Honestly, that'd be so sick.
I just can't get over the dude that ran that place.Do you know what he wanted to charge me to do Thursday night shows?In, that would have been 2013, 14 ish probably.I think before that.Well, oh yeah, yeah.That's right.
Cause I, I think that was maybe how my name got tossed.You're right.Yeah.But I'm thinking when he asked me to run events there as like me, he was just like, here's what my operating costs are for like midweek.
He's pretty much trying to get me in there to do local bands and clear like a, just under a grand a night.That's insane.At the door.And then I was like, what am I getting out of this deal?He goes, well, you can have whatever after the door.
I was like, dude, so you're not going to pay me.You're definitely obviously not paying artists for free.All artists do, right?It was so crazy.And he was an older man.He was nice.
And I remember running into him at Kroger.This had been like probably a few months after that.And he goes, well, do you give it any more thought?And I was like, dude, you're going to have to like, first off, there's nothing in there.
There's not like a, it doesn't look like you have kitchen staff.And I remember just kept laughing.I was like, bro, who is, where's this money going?Do you have a gambling problem?And if that's the case, there's like an 800 number for that.
Not, you know, so I never ended up doing it, but I did do that open mic with them and my buddy Chris Lee for a long time, which is fun.But I felt so bad that night that you came because I was like, oh, I don't know how to run a comedy open mic.
And I feel like I look like an asshole to this guy that I barely know. That's my whole life with comedians.
That was back when I was just trying to do as many sets as possible.
It was funny.I think we had a full band show up that night too, if I recall.
Back then, there was no comedy open mics at all.Yeah.So comedians, for the most part, would have to, if they wanted to do stand-up on a Thursday, they would have to go and do music open mics and just bum everybody out.Yep.
Nobody likes being surprised by stand-up comedy.
which is kind of a bummer.And as somebody who has had that happen once, no, it's funny because like, I remember when I was doing more music myself, I remember going to like RP McMurphy's open mic or something like that.
And they were just being like a guy that came up there and he pretended like he was gonna play music and then just did bad standup.And I was so bummed because I was like, I'm here to laugh, for sure, I'm down.
But he kept feigning like he was gonna play music, and I was like, don't do that, just come up and just.
That's kind of a funny bit if you do it right.
Right, exactly, but I remember the time the audience was just not okay with it, and I was just like, man, fuck this guy.
Yeah, where it's just like, almost abusive. It's like, what are you doing?
You're fucking with us right now?Yeah, exactly.Oh my God.It was, it's still a good time.That is funny.And now there's so many, like the comedy world has really kind of exploded.It feels like in the last couple of years.Am I crazy for saying that?
No, it's like, there's definitely a comedy boom.I think we're like on like the downturn spiral of it right now.Sure.Like where it's as big as it can possibly get with like Nate Bargatze selling out arenas, like all these arena comics.
Yeah, like people I used to see for free at Go Bananas are now like, hi, I'm the biggest star on the planet.I'm like, oh my God, we threw up together at McLeavy's.
Right.So like, I just think it's like, it's unsustainable.Sure.And like, but there's like all these big shows and like smaller shows are kind of falling by the wayside a little bit.
What, which do you really prefer in that regard?Do you have like, do you prefer like the smaller gigs like that?And like, you know what I mean?
I mean, yeah, like not that I get like the bigger ones anyway, but like not yet the. I just see it like it's comedy is better in like low ceilings and intimate environment.It just is.
Yeah.There's that like palpable thing.I don't know how to explain it.
There's like an energy to the room.Yep.People are more like you hear the laughs better.Like one of the reasons I love Commonwealth Sanctuary, the new club in Dayton, Kentucky.Sean's awesome.Sean's great.Nathan and Jacoba that own it are awesome.
They're getting really good comics in but it's in an old church so the acoustics are just like out of this world good. So like you could have like a half full room and it just feels like amazing when you're on stage.That's cool.
The acoustics are so good.And it just like really like pops when people laugh so.Damn.Everybody should go to Commonwealth.
I was so excited because he brought in, they brought in Michael Ian Black this summer and then I got hurt right before it.And I was like, oh cool.I was so excited about it.And then I just.
He was great.Yeah, I'm sure it was.Todd Berry's there.Oh, no joke, really?Yeah, my buddy Max Fine's coming with him from New York.
Oh yeah, I think I found Max through you and Logan back in the day.He's really funny too.Wasn't he writing on some show?Wasn't he on a show maybe?
No, his roommate Michael is on that, Michael Rowland is on Animal Control.
Okay, that's what I'm thinking about then.They're both great.Huge Joel McHale fan, you know.
It wasn't.No, I don't know.He's a very likable guy.Yeah, he's a... Smarmy.Right, exactly.
I kind of miss the soup sometimes.I just, I feel like as a culture, we still just need somebody angry at pop culture publicly.
You know what I mean?Yeah, I feel like that, it's kind of like all talk shows have kind of just gone to the internet, but...
which that's a weird thing too.I guess that's all podcasts are now.I mean, that's how I pitched this.I was like, what if I did late night TV, but in a grocery store?Great, you're hired, you know?
Yeah, like it's all podcasts and reels and stuff, but yeah.
Crowd work. How do you feel about that for real, Carl?Just on this modern, before we start diving into snacks and trying to regain some semblance of happiness in our lives, with the way comedy has sort of shifted as far as the consumer goes, right?
We were joking outside before about things like the nature of how it's real.I feel like now, just having an audience, it's like I could cut a fake clip and put up a hundred thousand views with no effort.
And that bums me out because I like want all talent.I want talent to really be appreciated, you know?
Well, it feels like none of it matters right now.Yeah.Like you can get like however many followers that doesn't matter for views on reels.And then views on reels don't matter to the people booking. So it just becomes this nebulous whatever.
And I just feel honestly bad about the state of entertainment and want to see a pushback towards physical media and face-to-face promotion, which is how I've mostly been promoting my special taping.
I imagine, and well, you know, we didn't really cover this before, but you're down to just like the last couple tickets being available to both shows, right?So that's all.So it works.
I think the audience, you know, it's this weird thing I think about social media because we really should complain about it.Actually, what do you want to open first?And then we can complain while we munch too.You want to do drinks first?
Let's go drinks first.I'm bringing back Wild Bills again today.Which flavor did you get?I got the orange cream.Cool. I really like this brand.They have like the savor untamed flavor.I actually would put that on if I was on a dating site.
That would be my headline.And then they would ask me to please put it down.But I really like about them. It is, actually.Find out firsthand.I'm doing, I'm actually, that's how I do dating sites, is just in-person promotion.
I just put up flyers of things I like about myself.But they do, they crack some up on the side of the can.Do you see it has tasting notes?Oh, I didn't see that.
Yeah, mine is acerola cherry, black cherry, and vanilla bean.But they use pure cane sugar and they're caffeine-free.
Dreamsicle, okay.Okay, I love a Dreamsicle.I know this is exactly what I think it's gonna be.
Right. It's always funny when it is something like that, where you're just like, mm, orange cream.It tastes exactly the way I thought it might.
One of the tasting notes is a made up thing.Dreamsicle?Yeah.And then orange and vanilla.Like, that's a dreamsicle.
Right, exactly.Like, what were you thinking?I do think it's cute still.Oh, the black cherry goes pretty hard.
Yeah, this tastes exactly how I wanted it to taste, and it's good.Good, hell yeah.Well, I love that.That's a good start to the day.Good job, Wild Bill.We love him.Hope you don't get shot in Deadwood.Yeah, that's right.You know?
Yeah. He's not my huckleberry.This other guy is, I think we should bust out, now that we got sodas, I feel like this is a Carl pick today.This is from a brand called Pork King Good.These are pepperoni pizza, but they call them fried pork rinds.
I thought it said something else.
I love a pork rind, like love a pork rind.And pepperoni, I picked pepperoni pizza because I was like, there's a decent chance this might suck.
Yeah, no, I get it.Whenever I get samples, I always try the one I think I'll hate the most first.That way I'm like, well, the blue raspberry is good.What a surprise.What do we think?
It doesn't suck.I kind of like it.
Oh yeah.Oh, and it smells kind of like those old pizza snacks that we had when we were kids.
Yeah, it kind of reminds, it's like a spicier version of that a little bit.
Damn, that's crazy.It like actually tastes like pepperoni.Yeah. I mean, I guess there is pork product in there, so that makes sense.
Yeah, this is like better than I thought it was gonna be.
It's way better than I thought.
I've tried a couple of the Pork King Good stuff before, and all the flavors are... Actually, I think that might be their thing, is all the flavors at first, you're like, I don't think I want that, but I'd like to try it, and you're like, oh.
It's pretty Pork King Good.Yeah.This is how we get, well, we talked earlier, this is how we get you with an Utz sponsorship.
Yeah, yeah, I love Utz.Love Utz.Every Utz product is great.
And you start saying that, I was like, okay, Carl.And then you're like, have you tried these?I was like, oh, he really loves Utz.
Cause when, all right, when you're on the road, in particular, going out East and then you start to get to the sheets and the wah-wahs.Oh yes, please.There's always Utz and then you get bored of the same snacks you always have.
So then I try different Utz products and it's my favorite thing to do.They're white cheddar popcorn rips.Okay.Like better than like any other white cheddar popcorn.
I will definitely dive into that.
It's great. These extra dark pretzels rule.
That's one of the only ones I haven't tried.Actually, funny enough, the two that you brought in today were two that I haven't tried.
The crab chips are awesome because they're just Old Bay chips and what can go wrong?Old Bay is the best.It really is. And like, I can't have shellfish anymore.So like- And there's no crab in there, right?There's no crab in that.
So it's like a good substitute.It's not really.Yeah, I like, no.It's nothing like eating crab.
We'll edit that part out just for the inevitable- No, keep it in.
It tastes nothing like real crab, but I love it.
They're good.They're kind of salty, but like in a good way.
Oh yeah. I forget, what's the other brand back there?Herr's, I think.They had tried, I forget where I was, but they had done an Old Bay crab one.I'm trying to be very progressive now.I'm open-minded in my chip selection.
I think they do have Herr's, too.Herr's crabs.
The long and short of it is the other ones suck.These are good.Yeah, these are great. They were cattle cooked, that was the only pro in the competition.I love a cattle chip.
I love the crunch of the cattle chip, but there's something about the texture of a regular Utz that I love.And I can just keep eating these.
I think the catch was growing up, we were not like a chips household. you know, as a fat kid, they were like, how do we get him to be less fat?There's probably like, yeah.So it was like all of those like rites of passage that everybody else had.
I'm just like, I don't know what these are.So when I eat these, I have no, there's nothing in my brain that does that.But because we had pretzels in the house, anything that's crunchy and thick always tracks. These are great.
You described these so well, by the way.They are a little salty, but in the perfect way.It's just in that moment where you're like, is that too salty?It goes away.It's like it knows.
But then it also stops you from eating the whole bag in one sitting.For sure.It's salty enough that you're like, I'm good for now, but I'm going to come back later.
I'm in.Yeah.I love it.Yeah, the whole after the show wrap up of today is just ASMR of us eating all the snacks left over.
Here's how much I love Utz.I've gone to their website to look at their merch. Let's get this man a shirt.As like an anti-capitalist comedian.Yeah, for sure.I like, chill so hard for the Utz brand everywhere I go.Utz?Utz?
Yeah, they're looking.They need, listen, like I said out there, it's like, they need a good spokesperson who loves them.And I think you're the person.I think I am.
I'd hate to force against your identity with the anti-capitalism thing, but at the same time, there's a lot- At the same time, I'm broke and
It's society is society, and I need money.I'll sell out in a heartbeat.I will sell out in a heartbeat.Yeah, whatever.Just keep the chips flowing.
Keep those crabs flying into the space household.I'm going to actually request that you open the special darts, because I really do want to try those.
All right.The best part about every pretzel, right?Thank you.Is the burnt part of the pretzel.Pretzel stick, the end.
And these, it's a whole bag of these ribs.
And they got a good texture in your hand too, as silly as that sounds to say.
It's a good hard pretzel.That's a great hard pretzel.This and like a, like a French onion dip or something.
Oh man.See, I'm just really sitting there sucking on a bottle of mustard.
Or nacho cheese.Oh yeah. But like ballpark, shitty yellow nachos.
If it didn't come out of an aluminum can, I don't want it.Don't call it queso, that comes in plastic, that's gross.Damn, dude, you just unlocked a new, this hit in so many levels.
This was a Sheetz purchase when I was driving back from Cleveland one night at like four in the morning. I left right as soon as my shows were done, because I thought I had to work brunch the next day.Turns out I didn't.Oh my gosh.
So it was like, probably like, the headliner went way over his time.I won't say his name, but he's awful.Yeah.
Can't wait to ask him when the cameras are off.
I tell everybody I can that he sucks.Oh, awesome.That's someone I've heard of.But he did an hour and a half, which is too long.Yeah.Nobody wants to watch stand-up for an hour and a half, or two hours, I guess, including myself.
I had gotten a flat tire on the way up there.I remember that post.It was awful.The first night in Cleveland was objectively one of the worst nights I've ever had on the road.I had to spend $140 on Ubers. To like get there and back to my car.Sure.
I was up till like two in the morning waiting for AAA to change my tire because I don't know how to change a tire.I'm an artist.Right.So like by Saturday show, like the late show, I was like, I'm going home.Yeah.Hilarity is a great club.
I was like, I'm going home.I had to buy a new tire like that day.Yeah.So I just spent like more money than, almost more money than I made.
But I did get the best pastrami sandwich I've ever had.Was it Slimans?No, that was closed on Saturdays for the Sabbath.What?How?Shabbat. Larders, delicatessen, and bakery place ruled.Those are the two I always hear to go to.
And then I spent like 50 bucks there too, because the sandwich is like kind of pricey, but delicious.And then they were pulling out Cinnabons, and then like pouring the icing all over it.And I was just like, well, that's not fair.I need that.
But anyway, driving back, it was like two in the morning, like around Columbus. Actually, it's the sheets at exit 69.I have a good sheet story coming up too.
Last time I was coming back, I was with Blake Hammond and Ian Squintz, and we walked in to get snacks at Sheets, and then Osha Dwyer, our other comedy friend, walked in.Oh, that's so funny.We were like, are we all just stopping here?
Yeah, you're like, actually, they're dosing a mic in the back at Sheets.I mean, they do it all.
Why not?We were just all on the road coming home. Osa's hilarious too.Osa is opening for my special on Saturday.
On Saturday, and then Blake is opening Sunday.
I've been trying to get Blake and Ran in here for like three years.Yeah.We're doing the thing that you see in the memes where you're like an adult and you're just like, we should totally do this.
And we're all like, hell yeah, we should totally do this.And then a year will go by.Then I'll do this and be like, guys, you should totally come on here.And then I'll later be like, hey, we'd love to do that.And then it'll just.
You guys both like to eat.You should do it.And I'm buying lunch, guys.I told Carl to come hungry.
And I did. I'm so sorry.Sheets, exit 69.So I grabbed these.I was like, I have to try these.I then had them.I was like, I've never won another pretzel.These are the only pretzels I buy from my house.
Dude, these are like kind of frustratingly good.Yeah, please.That's the hardest part of my job is restraint.
on the guy.Like it's just exactly what I personally want from a pretzel bite.
Yeah it's it's like crunchy it's got the perfect amount of salt on it because some of them they'll get a little too salty.Like Grippo's brand gets too salty.
A hundred dude that's like the one thing look as a non-native a lot of the Cincinnati things were hard for me to grasp onto it took me a long time to get to the Grippo's barbecue.
Excuse me but I get it now but the the pretzel loops or whatever They're my least favorite pretzel ever.They're so salty.And that's it.
Anytime I got to like sit there and like bust out the belt sander to get into an edible lover, I was like, I don't know if this is for me.Yeah.I mean, no shade because I eat those, I've got other grippos on the table.Yeah, yeah.You know what I mean?
Which I'm excited to try.Yeah, me too.Yeah, I just want like, I don't need that much salt on a pretzel.Cause like a pretzel is usually for like, yeah, mustard, cheese, like French, French onion dip, like other salty things.Yeah.
Like I don't need that much salt on it.It's like a crazy. overstep by grippos.
It's one of those things where I get that, you know, I'm usually eating them raw, right?But at the same time, you want balance in the dish.As silly as that, the dish, you know what I mean?I'm like, here's a plated extra dark hot pretzel.
Just imagine like fine dining plating.They're just fanned out on a plate.It's like a smear of mustard across the plate, then like one pretzel.
And I'm like, can I actually get a usable amount of mustard, please?
The chef says this is the right amount, actually.
Yeah.I have a cousin in Germany who's always getting mad, you know, because we're like the dumb American contingent of the family and everyone else is all overseas.And he's always like, why do you guys put mustard on your pretzels?I'm like.
what am I supposed to put on it?Because they're bread, you put butter on them, I'm like.
I did, I found that out recently.Yeah.Germans put butter on pretzels.I bet it's delicious, by the way.It has to be, with like good butter.
Yeah, and good, and like a good soft pretzel.I love a soft pretzel too, you know what I mean?
Have you been to Tuba?Oh my God, yeah.
I had Drew on the show once to talk about it when it was like National Pretzel Day.It was just one of those happy, and they're like, oh, you're here, and it's National Pretzel Day?Come in the office, buddy.
Those pretzels are so good.Dude, all of their food is so good.It's like ripe.
in front of commonwealth so like oh i don't think i realized it was that close yeah it's like there's that like shared parking lot and commonwealth is like right there oh that's crazy so anytime i have a show there i like eat at tuba and like get like the chicken schnitzel and some potato salad and a pretzel yes the hot and spicy mustard oh dude it goes so crazy they did a trout special there a couple weeks ago i went and took my mom and it was like insane she's like
She's like the skinny health conscious member of the family and it will normally not enjoy not that she won't enjoy eating out.That's probably an overstep, but she's like.
you know, the idea of ordering a schnitzel, that's just never on her list, right?But I was like, listen, they got this trout special, it looks crazy, let's go try it.
And then she blew my mind even further by getting there and trying to order the Swabanadian, which is like their three-way play, which is delicious, by the way.Yeah, it's so good.
And it blew my mind, I was like, you ordered a dish with fatty things on it in public?It was crazy.But anyway, fish dish was crazy, we love the raft family.Damn, so that's a good double feature then at Commonwealth too.
I really need to go over there, I feel so bad. I finally bought, like I said, I finally bought those tickets and then broke my ankle and foot.
Yeah, you should.Yeah.It's like my favorite place to see comedy.
It's like, I feel like the only time now I, you know, you mentioned this before, but I think that is a thing because like all the shows I've been seeing are either arena tours or I'm at Go Bananas. You know, but there is, like you said, low ceilings.
I haven't been heckled at Go Bananas.I got heckled at an audience last week.Yeah, it was crazy.
I actually, this is, I'll tell you the whole story after the show because it's one where there's a few words in there that I wouldn't say publicly that that's why they made fun of me.Yeah, one of those.Yeah, it was crazy.
Oh, I mean, of course.Where else do people say things that are tasteless?Yeah, that makes sense.
I mean, it was still funny.Don't get me wrong.I mean, the second worst third.Actually, it's in the top five worst states.Yeah.Oh, Indiana.If for sure.Yeah.Indiana, Missouri.Arkansas has got to be on that list.Mississippi's on there.
I said he might be number one.
It probably is.And ranked 50th in education.It's weird how that works.Isn't that crazy?
Wild.Wild that certain things make a state suck.
What's even crazier to me is I can't name anyone from Mississippi.I don't think I've ever met anyone from there, so that means one of two things.Either A, everyone that I've met from there lies about it, or they don't leave the state.
I think it's mostly they don't leave.
Mississippi fans, sound off in the comments.
Let me know how mad you are at this section.And then Missouri sucks because Kansas City Chiefs fans are the worst people alive.Oh, I love it.Even more so than the team, the fans are so annoying. The fans ruin everything for everything.
It's kind of unfortunate.Star Wars fans are like, just grow the fuck up.
Yeah, you're like, and I get it as one of them.
It's like that thing for, right.I like Star Wars.I don't really watch any of the new stuff, but like.
The fans are such babies, like in both regards, like in both ends of the pendulum, too.It's like insane where I was just like, can I not just be angry over on this side?I was like, oh, we got to be angry both ways.
But have you been on speaking of hating social media?Have you been on threads at all?
Oh yeah, I hate read threads so often.
I had a feeling we would be bonding over that.It's like, right now I have like almost all of my social off, but I kept threads.I was talking to someone, they're like, why do you keep threads?
I was like, I hate people on threads more than any other platform.
They're humorless.It is insane how they don't understand jokes.And then we'll also just post like, things like, why are you telling the world this?
And they get indignant when people respond.Yeah. You made a public post on a site that none of us know how it works.I don't need to know about your, the rogue polyp in your bowel, but you posted about that.
I like reading the posts about people's bad dates.Like there's like an element of like Just like, so glad I'm like out of the dating world entirely.
But then just like people may like, I met this guy on Hinge and I'm like, they tell this story, like there's like, and like the guy's probably an asshole too, but like, they always seem like crazy by the end of it.Where it's just like,
And then he ghosted me after I said I wanted to get married in five years.
It's like, this is your second date.Yeah, that shouldn't even be a topic of discussion.You should be really talking about what you're eating today.
That's probably where you are right now.What's your favorite movie?Right, exactly.Star Wars.Star Wars, but only the white ones.What?Exactly.
It's a red flag.Yeah, it is.Exactly.Which is why I dress in red flags if I go out with people I haven't met yet.I'm like, can't say I didn't warn you.It's hard not to see.There's a lot of real estate over here.
Yeah, yeah.There's a lot of, uh, I like to, uh, my fiance is still finding things out about me probably.She's like, Oh, you're kind of like I had a night terror.It's kind of funny.
I've never had a night terror in my life.Yeah, and then like woke up just like screaming.She woke up just like what's happening?Yeah, she's like I thought somebody like broke into our apartment.
She's like you think if somebody broke into our apartment, I would scream like a cartoon ghost.You think that's what I would do?I mean, I've never slept with you Carl.I'm gonna go.Yes, maybe though.My dog got scared.My dog jumped up.
It was like licking my face and then like Anyway, that was a new thing for our relationship.Red flag, probably.Sure.
Well, no, I mean, so it's one of those things that, like, I never really know.You hear the expression night terror.Yeah, dude, eat everything.Hold on.Let's bust.Oh, yeah.We got to find out about these.
Let's before I go into my I don't know what night terrors really are.I think these are from grippos.These just came out recently.They have two.They have a tasty barbecue one.
But I felt kind of like I was cheating on grippos eating a different barbecue chip from them.And this I don't really know what to expect.I'm hoping these are just The only thing I like from Montgomery Inn, the Saratoga chips.
Yeah, I'm curious about it, because... Well, visually, I think we got a winner.
Looks good.They look great.Here you go, buddy.Nice and thick.
Yes.Oh, man.I got a lot of thoughts about that.Positive ones, I think. It looks like an apple chip.
It does.And it almost has the same texture.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.It's like, it's hard to explain.It's very thick.I'm trying to get a good crunch in the mic.It's good.Yeah, it is good.I love it.Right.It's a little under seasoned.
But then again, what do you always dip these in there?Barbecue sauce. So I think this may have done that same thing where, yeah, I probably wouldn't eat those plain by themselves all the time, but you give me a little dipper, I'd rock with that.
They feel thick enough to withstand dip.
That's probably the purpose of it.
Yeah.Yeah, I'm like sitting here going like, wow, it's like an eighth of an inch thick.That's a lot for a chip.Oh no.Well, I'll have to eat that one off the floor later.Yeah, crawl under the desk and.
Oh yeah, I just craft down there, sidle under the desk and shove some more chips in my mouth.
Oh, my gosh.We've burned through so many things today.I just realized how many of these were chips.I found these.These were in International.I was curious about.We have a lot of chips from the Mediterranean.
I think these are, let me double check, these are produced, yeah, these are from Ibiza.But I guess you're supposed to say it with like a TH sound, right?Ibiza?Ibiza, yeah.Yeah, Salda Ibiza.I don't really know what these are.
They're just, it just says chips.And I thought that was also funny.It's just like chips.
This is a thing, this keeps coming up on our shorts, because pretty much if you're on the internet and you're at all visible, people are really nice to you all the time, which is not true at all.They're mostly mean as hell.
I joke, half my job is just dealing with the ramifications of people saying horrible things to me all day long. But like the international chip bags, they tear this way.You know, like the American ones, you can see we open them wide.
Yeah, it's the other way.It's like they open sideways.Oh, look at that.The golden tear on the bag.That feels like that's for me.Curious.Oh, they feel crunchy.
A little unremarkable.I do, one of the weird things I keep finding about some of the Spanish chips, there's another brand we carry called Torres.They have a bunch of wild flavors, like we tried a black caviar one recently.That's cool.
They're all, dude, they have a fried egg chip that is like the most insane thing I've ever tasted in that it tastes, I'm not exaggerating, exactly like a fried egg. and weirder, there's no egg in the package.So I don't understand how they get it.
And, Carl, I'm not exaggerating.It is 1 to 1 taste ratio.You're like, that is, it's insane.You're just like crunching on it.You're like, that is a weird texture for an egg.But then I kind of want to make a sandwich with it.You know what I mean?
Yeah, I don't like that at all.Yeah, it's very weird.Oh, the one you'd hate.They have a sparkling wine flavored one.And why?Who is that for?You know exactly who it's for.You can see her haircut already.
Dude, it tastes like somebody took the whole wedding buffet line and just dumped it into a bag and they're like, make that food.It's like a little cake, a little bit of bad chicken with white sauce.It's definitely a ton of sparkling wine.It is.
Some people love it.I'm just not on that list.That sounds terrible.But what's crazy is like the regular ones are awesome.
They have one that they fry them, I think in olive oil, which gives them kind of like a silky texture, which is interesting to me.But I'm like, yeah, so long as you just eat the plain ones, they're incredible. You know?
They have like an Iberico ham one.I love Iberico ham.It goes pretty hard.There's a lot of ham ones too.Speaking of Iberico ham, this cracked me up the other day.I went to Jacob Trevino's new spot in Finley there.Yeah.
And then he has a whole Iberico ham on display.He's like, would you like some while you're here?I was like, of course, I'd love some.Do you offer that to everybody?
That shit is expensive.Yeah.Like a leg of that is like $1,500.
Is it really that much?We sell them here too.And we'll get like, we had some good deals.I just want, listen, any meat that comes with its own sword.That's a meat for me.
And like pigs, they just feed acorns too.So it's like such a nutty ham.So good.
I was talking to someone today about a couple of years ago, I picked up a piece of this olive fed Wagyu, same concept, but instead of feeding them acorns, they were just feeding these.And I don't even love olives. I was curious.
And it's still, to this day, one of the most interesting pieces of meat.Interesting in a positive way.I was like, I love it.It's like one of those flavors I can taste, so anytime I get to talk about it, I'm like, yeah.It's pretty good.
That sounds cool.It was really good, dude.All right.What else we got here?As we wind down to the end of the day, we got some baby ramen.
You want to do the baby ramen?
Yeah, bust into whatever feels good.I'm going to grab a tasting cup for us, too, while we're doing this.Sure.
Embarrassingly like not being able to open a bag on camera It's just like a whole clip of me not having the strength to open baby ramen, yeah I don't have like the best like grip strength.
No, it's okay.You're comedic.You're an artist.You don't need it My joke is
You know, they based a book off this hat.
I think Cormac McCarthy would be okay with that.What do you think of those?
They're good.They taste like a garnish, but they're good.
That's a great way of describing it.Yeah.It's like one of those snacks where I never was this kid, but I remember feeling like I knew a lot of kids that were this snack eater where they're just like open the bag, grip it and rip it.
This feels like this was designed for that.I think the flavor's the best out of these.They have a couple others.There's like a spicy tonkatsu one that I want to be the good one.It's okay.
This is just... Have you had the hot and spicy chicken ramen flavored Funyuns?No.They're awesome. It's like whatever that brand Starts with an M. I can't remember it off the top of my head or the ramen brand.
Oh, yeah Marjan or whatever.
Yeah, but it it's like a funny and funny texture and just has like Ramen seasoning on it like a season pretty good.It's awesome There's what I was like one of those like I walked by it and then like took three steps back I
and just roll through the store.
That's so funny because I think about these every so often I'll find stuff like in some of the other, it's funny because it's not usually near the other ramen, but I'll find it in some of the other countries back there in international, but they'll have somewhere, it's just like a little package.
And then you dump the seasoning in there.Actually at that conference I got hurt at, one of the snacks I brought was from that company Buldak that do the really spicy ones.So it was literally just bricks of ramen, the seasoning packet you open up.
That's Korean, isn't it?I think, yes, I'm pretty sure they are Korean. Until I say it out loud and then someone writes me a comment to be like, actually, no, but no.
In Mark's defense, I said it first.
Send all of your hate mail.
And I'm positive about it.I thrive off hate.
I like to do like direct takes to the camera.
Hell yeah, please.Anytime.It's your house too, Carl.Sorry.
I did a podcast recently and the host complained about how chaotic I was.Really?I feel like you're not chaotic enough.I don't feel like I'm chaotic at all.Really?I want to watch the episode.Can I ask who it was?Yeah, David Stewart.
I don't think I know him.He has a music podcast called The Full Spin and I just kept doing a bit where I was taking over the hosting of it. That's funny as hell.That was intense.
It was honestly, I won't lie.I was a little threatened by this.It's got one of those weird, like the resealable soda can tops.Have you seen these?
No, this is my first time seeing those.
So it's like, it's the, and then even weirder, you can kind of see in the can, there's like another lid inside.Like there's another layer.Yeah.You probably have to hold it to look at it.
But if you look, see right there, like in the mouthpiece, there's like another little piece of metal.I'm like, I don't know what the
Do you want to try a little of this?I'll do like a little sip.I don't like want to get like... No, I'm not trying to have you have trouble here.Crazy stoned.Is that?Yeah, it's perfect.Okay.Just enough to taste it.
I was told that this flavor was really, really good in particular, so I was curious about that.
This is root beer.Root beer, hemp infused soda.The whole can has five milligrams of Delta 9, so that probably won't even move the needle, hopefully. But yeah, hemp-derived THC, zero alcohol.Yeah, it's so crazy.Maryjonescannabis.com.
Actually, that's- It tastes like Jones Soda root beer.Yeah, it really does.It's really good.
I was like, oh, that's dangerous.I know we were talking about it earlier, but I do- Yeah, that's good.
Yeah.10 out of 10.Would drink again. I'm gonna pour a little of the seltzer in here too, since Bree sent this in here.This is a good drink day, between my caramel water, my Wild Bills.I really like the Wild Bills.Yeah, their whole line's great.
Do you wanna try any of this too, the seltzer?Yeah, I'll do a little bit.Okay.This should be even less potent.This is Delta 8.They say 25 milligrams in the whole can, but they were telling me, they're like, it's not as potent as the Delta 9 stuff.
I can taste the distillate a little bit.
Yeah, it's um... This is, I mean, I guess the problem with all seltzers in general is it just tastes like, especially flavored ones, where it just tastes like flat soda.Right.
Damn, I think you just ruined... Not flat soda, like watered down soda.
No, watered down soda.It's like you put ice in it and you came back and you're like, oh, it's still fizzy, but not as flavorful.
You can taste the weed in that one.
Yeah, for sure.By the way, I do think it is overall pretty good for a seltzer.
But I think the catch is now, I'm worried... Look, a lot of people... Well, here's what they probably love about this.There's like no calories in this.You could just sit there and rip this and then eat whatever you want.
So maybe a good move I think because I am a disgusting human being now that I know you can get these in soda form Yeah, that's gonna ruin my life.
Yeah, cuz all I've ever wanted was I was like, I remember this thing Well, not that it was coke zero at the time But I was like if you can just make me a can of coke or whatever that later made me forget about the troubled relationships in my life or hyper fixate on said troubled relationships
I'd be in for that.And so now they're kind of doing it.I mean, like, you've seen what Urban Artifact's doing with their whole line, right?Yeah.And they've got them on tap now.It's crazy.What a wonderful life.What else should we try while we're here?
Is there anything else you're super excited about that we've got on the lineup?
Did you want to do that chocolate bar you thought was funny?Oh yeah, this is funny.Yeah, I don't want to do an edible.
Okay, that's totally fine.
No. Weak.I'm kidding.Can you imagine?Do I have to drive back downtown?
No, I know.I can't admit it.Honestly, I feel bad.You know, the worst ones I feel bad.Maybe it's because I don't really drink alcohol much anymore, but like you'll have like the alcohol gas and like, great, well, I'm driving back to Indianapolis.
I was like, bro, you just poured like four espresso martinis out of that thing.Like, see ya, bye.Yeah, I'm like, okay, well, please don't.And I said it on camera, so we're good.
No, this one I just found back at International today while I was hunting stuff down.Let me see where this is from.This is a product of Switzerland, but licensed by Nestle in Canada.
But it says here, there's a little, thankfully I didn't have to flex my high school French.Macintosh's coffee is made, toffee, excuse me, is made with simple ingredients like butter and sugar and has no added colors or flavors.Okay.
But I was excited because the packaging on the box, it says it here, but it's hard to see. On crack, poor Mac.And then it just on the, in the English translation says, smack the Mac.
So I think we're supposed to break this and then we open it and try pieces.You want to hit it?How do you feel?You feeling aggressive today?Like that?I think so.Did it break up?Yeah.Let's find out.
Hell yeah, dude.Finally, we can work together.Oh, shit.There we go.Oh, it looks like good toffee though.
My dentist is going to be horrified by this.
Which is crazy because he watches the show all the time anyway.You should have that Carl guy on.
He's a comic.Is he really?I'm not going to say his name, but.But is he good?Yeah, he's good.Oh, OK, cool. I just don't think he wants Dennis people to know your comment.
That's got to be, you know, I'm glad I haven't really had that in my career or I just haven't listened to it.Because I remember, I always think of a friend of mine who tries to come around a lot now, who about 10, 15 years ago said to me, Mark,
I'm trying to start a business and I'll tell you what his business is afterwards.And you will laugh a billion times harder at this story.Oh, I'll tell you everything.Yeah.Um, I can't be seen with you on social media.And I was like, what?
And like, I'm not like insane.Even back then I was just kind of being myself.I was like, this is what social media is supposed to be for.It's like my diary and you're allowed to read it.Yeah.You know,
And it's very funny now because things obviously, I think I was right.I was like, yeah, I should just be myself.And then eventually this happens.And yeah, I think about that, honestly, every day of my life.
So when I hear stuff like that, I'm like, I can't imagine being in a line of work where people are like, we hate what you do when you're not here and we're judging you for it.It makes you worse at your craft.And we might fire you for it.
How fucking crazy is that?It's like insane.
I'm not gonna finish this. No, you don't have to.
It's the flavor's great.It's so I'm gonna you got to put it in the edible drink now.Make a cocktail, dude.
Just like sugar the rim or something.It's actually citric acid.It's gonna suck.Oh my god.Well, as we wrap this up, dude, what are what were your what were your favorites today?
Where did you did anything get dethroned or are you still loving your classics?Honestly, what are you getting at the sheets at 69?So
I am biased, but my favorites were the Utz's.
Bro, these pretzels are frustratingly good.
I'm sending them your contact info.
The most surprising one was the pork rinds, which I was not expecting those to be as good as they are, but they're awesome.
This is so hard to eat still.
I know, I was like, this is such a bad thing to have on a podcast.This is gonna take like 45 minutes.We should have opened it first, now I know.The grippos would be good with a dip of like a barbecue sauce or a, any sort of sauce.
I feel like barbecue, it sounds good.
Barbecue is like the classic.Yeah.And then all the seltzers, the root beer seltzer, I would, Like, drink that and watch like a horror movie.You know what I mean?Get a little stoned, watch a horror movie.
You have a favorite for this time of year?I mean, The Thing is the best one of all time.Damn, I should have worn my Japanese The Thing shirt today.I forgot it was in good company.
The Thing, I always watch, me and my fiancee always watch Hellraiser every year.Okay, classic.What do we see? Oddity, we saw that in theaters.I was really good.Okay.I was curious about that.
Do you see the substance yet?
I haven't seen that yet.I want to see that really bad too.I love body horror movies.I'm always like, if you give me a little mild Cronenberg vibe, I'm in.I just need to be in the mood.
The reason I haven't is that I just haven't been in the mood for that at the moment.
It is one of those things though, that like, if that is even like, if it does that, if it gets under your skin, pardon the expression, I get it.
Yeah.It doesn't like, I'm never bothered by it.I just like want to be in the mood to enjoy it.You know what I mean?No, of course.Like Gorda is like, it's just like, oh, that's fun.Yeah.You know, that's awesome.And what else?
We always watch Halloween, obviously.Of course.Yeah. but the thing is like my big one.I go on like a big carpenter kick in general, like Prince of Darkness.I was just going to ask about that one too.That one's underrated.
I agree.And I saw it way late.There's like a couple little silly things about it, but like, it's still so good.You know, there's just like, we talked about the mood and the vibe in the room. Yeah.Oh, for sure.Sometimes they are very funny.His scores.
I mean, what are those?The one I watched recently in the mouth of madness.
Me too.I love it.The music is hilarious.His fake, his fake enter Sandman towards the end is probably one of my favorite.I'm like, I know I'm not supposed to laugh at this.I love it so much.It's so fun.Dude, it's a great movie.Sam Neill rules.
Sam Neill, an actor who we could do a whole separate episode about the movies probably.Sam Neill, though, an actor who you like should take seriously.But it's funny how much like schlock genre work he did early on.
Possession.Dude.Which rules.
Oh, my God.Yeah, I just got to actually that was one of the only good threads experience I've had was talking about that movie with someone I've never met.Otherwise, it's just like, you know, everything's terrible and you're awful as well.
I'm like, oh, my gosh, I have a mirror.
Yeah.You know, Yeah, I already think this.I don't need it to be reaffirmed by a psychopath on the internet.
That's where I get all of my good validation from, Carl.
Well, all kidding aside, dude, thanks for finally coming to do this.
I'm glad we actually got to hang out a little bit more.I'm looking forward to the special.I'll be there on the 3rd if you guys want to hang out.Yeah, get your tickets.But both nights are great.Osha's hilarious.Blake's great.You're funny.
It's going to be great.Logan Lotzenheiser is hosting both of them.Aw, that's... Best friend.
My best bud for life, who is very funny, but he'll probably bob.
Yeah, classic.No, no, he's very.I remember coming to see you guys do one of the Motor Mouse one night, and he was just like, I haven't done this in forever, and he was fucking great.
Yeah, he does that a lot, where he's just like, he hardly ever does stand-up, and then when he does, he's frustratingly good at it.Yeah, that's awesome.He's a funny guy too.We did Future Science together, our sketch show forever.So cool.Very fun.
And you just did a recent, didn't you do like a reunion?Yeah, we did a 10-year anniversary reunion show.Me and Logan both lost our voices.
Cause we did a sketch where we were just like Amish people protesting multimedia comedy and didn't use microphones.
Oh my gosh.That's amazing.
I couldn't feel like after that sketch, like my voice like going, and then I was just like, like, well, okay.Then I woke up no voice at all.Yeah.And I went and like, I went to the grocery store to get some like tea and a soup and stuff.
And I ran into, somebody I know, not well, but just a regular at the bar I work at.And with the shake of their hand, I realized I had fake blood all down my arm, and I didn't have a voice, and I was like, I look like a crazy person.That's amazing.
Yeah, that's 2 AM at a Sheetz energy.
Yeah, yeah.He looked down, and I was just like, I'm sorry, I can't really explain it now.
Follow me on Instagram.It'll make more sense. I forgot to tell you this, my most recent sheet, well, aside from the weekend, this weekend, but I was on my way to, there was like a vintage and retro toy show, and I stopped at a Sheetz off Sharts Road.
And I was like, dude, someone at Sheetz rules.
You know what I mean?Like, oh, there's a Sharts Road.Springboro, Ohio.Yeah.Normally you don't want a Sharts in your Sheetz.No, but that week I took it twice.
Carl, I'm so glad you came in.Thanks.Looking forward to the show.Of course, dude.Yeah.I'm looking forward to your sponsorship coming up.I hope so.I'm so psyched if that ever happens. Well, on that note, folks, thanks so much for watching the show.
Thanks for tuning in.We appreciate the support.If you're listening along on the audio platform, that's very cool, but I would love to grow on YouTube.Follow us on YouTube so you can watch us eat the snacks.
And in the meantime, come in the store, get your Jungle Gyms app, get some of these snacks on sale.Lou will be so happy if you try the, what was it?Live more smoothies.I almost said that.I almost said love more.I'm trying to do both.
On that, I'll see you- And laugh more.Live more, love more, laugh more.Oh my gosh.The person who is, what was the product we said who is it for?She's coming in to buy.She's coming to buy that sign from me now.
On that, folks, you can catch me out there in the aisles.
The Jungle Gyms podcast is recorded in the WJJI studio inside Jungle Gyms International Market in Fairfield, Ohio. The Jungle Gyms podcast is produced and hosted by Mark Morrison.
