Are you ready to swap the smooth strokes of a keyboard for the smooth taste of whiskey? Get set to be whisked away on a ‘Monthly Malarkey’ adventure where H Derringer bourbon whiskey takes center stage, cork shaped like a trusty firearm and all. Sit back and sip along as we share our candid taste test findings, from the intricacies of its flavor profile to whether it truly deserves a spot on your top-shelf. But that’s not all – join us as we dissect the online shopping landscape, hunting for those electrifying deals, and rev up the conversation with our thoughts on the latest electric vehicle trends.
Ever had a face-off with carpet stains and lived to tell the tale? In this episode, we share our own showdown with the notorious Stanley Steamer and our relentless pursuit to vanquish persistent pet odors. Parenting is tough enough without adding finicky food preferences into the mix, so we’re also spilling the beans on our strategies for dealing with the dietary whims of little ones and the ever-present battle over screen time. Plus, we ponder the all-important question: To gaze or not to gaze into the camera? Your insights might just steer the future of our show.
As we roll out the red carpet for your ears, we recount an escapade through the cobblestoned streets of France, reliving the epicurean ecstasy and the occasional eyebrow-raising dish – oyster ice cream, anyone? We also get real about the pressures of dining in the lap of luxury and share a slice of our Halloween costume conundrums. So, whether you’re here for the whiskey wisdom or to peek behind the curtain of our family dynamics, this episode is packed with laughter, revelations, and the kind of honest chatter that feels like a night in with your best pals.
Key Takeaways
[00:39] – Introducing a New Segment: Monthly Malarkey
[01:15] – Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Derringer Whiskey Review
[04:03] – The Whiskey Tasting Experience
[05:00] – Rating the Whiskey
[05:13] – The Price of Whiskey: Is it Worth it?
[08:11] – Moving into a New House
[08:56] – The Debate: Online Shopping vs In-Store Shopping
[15:06] – The Future of Electric Vehicles
[19:31] – The Stanley Steamer Story: A Moving Catastrophe
[27:40] – The Cost of Living and Inflation
[29:25] – Debate on Food Choices for Kids
[29:54] – The Struggles of Parenting Picky Eaters
[30:22] – The Challenges of Introducing New Foods to Kids
[30:59] – The Evolution of Kids’ Food Preferences
[31:17] – The Dilemma of Meal Choices for Kids
[32:20] – The Impact of Screen Time on Kids
[33:12] – The Debate on Looking into the Camera
[34:13] – The Fun of Sending Unusual Gifts
[35:11] – The Benefits of Beflow Desks
[35:36] – The Importance of Cable Management
[37:59] – The Joy of Family in Lego
[42:59] – The Experience of Dining in France
[53:33] – The Excitement of Family Halloween Costumes
[57:39] – The Fascination of Kids with Video Games
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Hey everyone welcome to your favorite podcast men growing beards where we watch men grow beards mhm you’re going to be on this episode for a while cuz it takes me a long time and we’re St like two days for me enjoy but today we have some special content that’s not normally on men
Growing beards where we’re going to talk about just whatnot um so we are going to do whiskey and we have some web components in your Malarkey whatnot so well that’s why don’t you just this is a segment this is a segment we’re going to call monthly Malarkey because I have
This feeling that people just don’t give a about tech sometimes and it’s just going to be us talking about what’s going on in our lives and the world and whatever and having some whiskey we just lost our one listener good idea Robbie we’ll see okay well while we’re still at
The beginning if people want to drop off because there’s no Tech let us know that and we’ll never do this again and that will be just fine that’ll be that so anyway so this is whiskey web and whatnot but you’re only getting a few parts of that sorry yes and I thought
Since we’re just going to be shooting the we would have the daringer whiskey today with this ridiculous gun cork thing yeah yeah so it comes in a special collector box cuz those are a thing and uh gives you a second cork yeah because the main cork it’s like
Actually a nicely shaped like crystall like bottle and it has this like normal Corky thing on there I don’t know I think like you’re probably paying for the for the bottle itself this is like I’m upset that this little gun thing won’t let you like it and pull the
Trigger that would be fun it’s a cork and it’s just yeah all right so let’s let let’s at least make that continually official so this is the H daringer bourbon whiskey it is 92 proof it’s not age stated but it has to be a fouryear minimum I did read somewhere on the
Internets that it used to be 6year age stated but it does come out of Indiana so it’s NGP sourced the mash bill is 75% corn 21% Rye with a remaining 4% for your barley MTT yeah we’ll see we’ll see if it’s just kitchi or if it’s actually not
Yeah we’ll see I am I’m going to put my gun back in the top here the gun has like what looks like a real Cork and the other one is like plastic yeah yeah so exactly the gun does have a real cork I can tell you because M yeah exactly I’m
Glad this is a video episode and that we do video from now on but the thing is is that when I was playing with the gun cork cuz I played ahead of time it broke off it was like kind of dry and broke off so I was like the whole thing is
Garbage the hell with this but hopefully I am pleasantly surprised with the whiskey well it is from it has a sticker on it that says Jim Murray’s whiskey Bible 2022 so and it’s scored an 88 According to Jim I don’t know is that good I don’t know I would think I don’t
Know it’s like the wine scores too yeah doesn’t oo I smelled it and I’m thinking 88 is not good yeah on a scale of what to like 380 I don’t I don’t know yeah not the last time we rated one a two have I smelled this smell well luckily you overpaid for some
God is this even like real like all right I’m scared to try it but I’m going to do it okay but let let me give you some some scent notes first yeah scent notes I get musty it smells like yeah musty like a a big pile of moss like
Exactly yeah like mildewy Moss yeah like if you’re digging in the dirt and the Moss outside like that smell the taste is better actually yeah yeah better than the smell it’s more palatable but it’s not fantastic though actually I think it’s kind of weak tasting given like you get a
Little a little bit of that I would have expected a lot more sweetness and maybe a Ting of that like if you took some Mossy grass and mixed a spr sugar on it it’s like all the bad flavors of scotch and bourbon into one thing but like like
Tiny amounts of it so it’s not like like the worst Scotch ever where I’m like oh my God I can’t drink it but it’s like has those notes that make me not love it um that’s fair so I mean it’s growing on me a little bit it’s I don’t think it’s
As bad as the one that was a two but if anyone happens to be listening to just this episode we’ll tell tell you the scale it’s 0 to 8 tentacles it’s very scientific and I’m going to give this one a three and a half I think it needs to
Be less than a four but it definitely needs to be less than a four and here’s the thing is I know it’s over $100 bottle and at that price to be like so underwhelmed like literally well again I I think I discussed it in a recent
Episode is sort of like I know I can go spend $25 to $30 get myself a maker Mark or a Buffalo Trace and be like this is fine people will sip it most people will like it it’s not going to blow your socks off but it’s not going to
Disappoint you and it’s very approachable financially right cuz you’re drinking this stuff this isn’t Trophy this is a weird whiskey trophy that they threw like to increase their margins they threw whatever was on sale and MGP they were like yes what’s that Mash but let’s put it in here that’s
What I feel like and yeah I think only thing they put thought in to was the like the gun itself because it’s pretty heavy it’s pretty intricate the cork part of the gun is obviously less quality but like the gun itself is nice and then whiskey all right all right I’m
Going to I’m I’m so underwhelmed the smell is bad maybe it’ll open up I do have some water here I can add a couple of drops and I’ll give it a chance in those ways but I’m so I I don’t like the aroma I’m underwhelmed in the flavor it
Does nothing to me in the for the finish for the most part it almost has like remnants of a like the metallic bits of a flat soda you know when like maybe if you have a soda that you left overnight and then you’re just like you wake up in
The morning and you’re just like I I don’t know I’m just thirsty and you take a little sip and you immediately regret it and then there’s this metallic like auminum Flavor that just kind of lingers it does have that yeah and that is how I feel about about it and
So the bottle looks cool I guess I’m I’m almost talking myself down even further every time I think about it a little more and I’m like why does it deserve a two you know like okay it’s not like yeah I’ve had worse things like it doesn’t come out of a plastic bottle
So it’s not a zero it’s I’ll probably finish this and then I’ll take the bottle and make some cocktails out of it to cover it up and not waste it Andor just give it away and and oh mine will be gifted for sure yeah right so I’m I’m
At a one or a two I’m really talking myself around this one I don’t know I’ll just give him a two I’ll stick with the two that’s the best you can do yeah I might come down cuz now that you mention it we didn’t have zero before as a
Number everything was at least a one so if we’re our scale has shifted since our last two then maybe this is a two yeah but anyway it’s not it’s not the great not the greatest and I would not recommend buying it no I wouldn’t waste your unless you want that that bottle
This much and yeah if if you do hit me up I might still have it and I’ll send it to you yeah we’ll give you a deal yeah pay for shipping get it out of my face all righty all right so we just have a list of random and we we
Don’t have to do all of it but I’m just going to start with for anyone who hasn’t noticed if you’ve been watching the videos you’ve probably seen I moved around a different spots the cameras were worse before and then have been getting better my backgrounds have been getting better Etc that’s because I’m
All settling into my house we’ve gotten moved in not with my parents anymore which is great love them and everything just I don’t want to live with them all the time that’s fair so yeah great news yes yes Caitlyn is very happy we’re now not like an hour from everything we can
Like drive to Target in 15 minutes which is awesome has she heard of the internet where you can just buy and they deliver it to you wherever you live well this is a constant debate because we’ll go to Target and we’ll be looking for a thing and I’ll be getting frustrated cuz
It’s like 10 minutes have gone by and we haven’t found the thing or whatever and I’m like why why didn’t you press byy now on on Amazon she’s like well I like to go to the store and see the thing like no no no just press by now like it
Never disappoints you because it will show up right to your house and it’ll be the thing you were looking for so exactly like and you know it’s in stock and all these things right and also like the side effect is if you go to the store you inevitably like walk past like
A clearance rack or something or you walk past something not on clearance you’re like oh I didn’t know I needed this I need this oh I need this blanket or whatever it is and I yeah I used to like look at the clearance areas too and
Just be like is there any like I don’t know nice deal here or something you know what what I’d say like and I got in that habit for a bit cuz one time I was there and ended up getting like this actually pretty decent battery powered Black &
Decker drill that I’ve had for like 20 plus years and I think I got it like in clearance I don’t know why it was like 15 bucks or something and it’s just forever I mean it’s been this forever drill and for a while I was like look at
This amazing deal that I got and what if I find another one of those probably never did again and wasted money on so much garbage so I was just like I like shopping online because you know I’m sure they want me to buy extra crap but
I just buy what I need yeah it’s harder to discover impulse buys online for exactly yes so anyway so yeah the internet is a good thing and e-commerce is kind a long way you know they really will just like mail you things and quickly yeah yeah the fact that I don’t
Know what it’s rolled out on yet but like Amazon has like buy with Amazon Prime like at different places now so you can just like at like a third party vendor you can hit like buy with Prime and get the same like 2day or less shipping and like it’s all free and
Whatever like if they can take over all of that that’ll be amazing so I would love for everything to be two-day shipping I mean they they are really upping the logistics game and I wonder how much that hurts like well we know it hurts USPS right because USPS was trying
To Pivot to do more package shipping and obviously being leveraged by companies like Amazon to handle those increases and then Amazon’s like I got one more for you we’re going to do AWS but for delivering and and here they are you know there’s the rivan Amazon Vans all over
My neighborhood and oh yeah I haven’t seen one of the new ones yet o yeah we’ve got a lot actually there’s quite a bit I don’t know if they have some sort of like solar charging setup in Arizona that makes it more appealing but I I’ve seen a lot I was pretty surprised
Basically as soon as I started seeing or maybe even just before started seeing rivan SUVs I was seeing that that truck so this does bring up an interesting point of you know no one will make a big I guess okay not no one we’re making a little progress that there’s
Like a F-150 that’s electric whatever but people don’t like making big electric vehicles and the Amazon Vans are way bigger than like the SUV rivan why can’t we just make a full I guess the rivian is maybe full size it it’s hard to say it looks big in the pictures
But when I see it in real life it looks a little smaller I’m not sure if it’s full size or not it’s definitely full size so unless full size you mean a Tahoe and which is essentially an R so I mean like a like the fulls size Range
Rover size not the sport say it’s pretty similar I’d say it’s pretty similar and it has more interior room I don’t know what Range Rover does with all that space But you know when they basically give you a four-seater and a fullsize SUV I’m like how are you doing this
Wrong or does everybody I know British people are not 7ot tall naturally so like yeah it’s for like I don’t know what everyone else buys them for cuz people drive them themselves but it’s main Market is for like chauffeuring people around like you get the long
Wheelbase and it have the huge back seat room and you can just like recline and it’s like a elevated town car market right like oh it used to be the black Town Car picks you up or the Cadillac or whatever and it’s like that but SUVs are
In favor so we’ve shifted this thing that used to be designed for off-roading and we made it luxury yeah it’s like can’t afford a mayback by this yeah yeah next next level quote unquote down right so anyway I can tell you we have uh the
Q we have a Q7 and it’s bigger than a Q7 and the Q7 has third row seating so okay yeah I’m I’m just really kind of waiting to have more SUV options because the we love our model X but it’s not an SUV and like if you want to haul
Anything like you need to go to Home Depot and buy a board or a whatever it’s not going to fit in there um so it’s a minivan with cool doors yeah a smaller than a minivan cuz a minivan can actually haul stuff too but I refuse to ever get a minivan yeah
I’m with you I’m never getting a minivan I don’t care about the practicality aspect if I was in a position where I need van like it’s definitely going to be a van I’m either going to get like some 70s retro van and then mod it up or
One of those like cool Sprinter vans where you can kind of have a back there or something yeah like that’s which obviously the you know the entry into that market is different so which is probably why I’ll just refuse it for life but if I had to I’d go one of those
Two directions like it’s no way I’m getting some Honda Minivan and I hear they’re great and good for you that it makes you happy I don’t care I mean I don’t care what I used to drive Honda Odyssey right I don’t care what other people buy it doesn’t affect me or
Offend me if you ask me what I want to drive it ain’t that yeah so yeah I agree yeah I don’t know so I mean that’s just don’t you just need to convert the restom mod to Electric then you’re set well yeah I mean that’s the problem
Though is that would probably cost as much as buying the whole yeah start from the beginning I saw that what is that company called that makes the platforms we were looking at I don’t know I don’t remember what I did yday they they sent an email out and they were like uh you know we are ramping up production on these they’re like really trying to be the thing not just classic cars but like if you have a
You know older car that you for some reason want to keep and it’s not really a classic they like electrifying everything gas is their like yeah yeah and I know that’s their mission which I think is super cool actually like that’s that you can make a bigger Dent into
That by you know giving a platform for existing cars on the road to convert like that’s pretty cool but their platform I think is like it’s over 100 Grand I feel like so so the barri of Entry still exists yeah so I think it obviously as they sell more and more of
Them I’m sure the price will go down but right right now it’s it’s not really a thing and I I think I’d rather wait and get that cuz it looks so much nicer than doing like the crate drop in battery thing like so yeah there’s still a big
Gap between like you kind of have to be very subject matter expert in in engineering Automotive Engineering to a degree and electrical engineering to another degree to do these DIY projects right like you there’s a lot of risk there too so um yeah the drop in crates and stuff are like approachable because
They’re like $3 to $50,000 but there’s still a lot of risk in that so yeah yeah I don’t know there’s no easy answer but I do like old cars mhm that stay on the road for longer so I think that’s kind of cool oh yeah I came zero Labs by the way zero
See it was Z I’m not crazy there was there was one I came across recently it’s called Kindred Motorworks and they have a few different like Resto mods and stuff and they do some full electric ones and they do super cool like 60s VW bus completely
All redone so nice glass roof and all the cool windows and stuff and and then all electric but it’s like $200,000 yeah like you know yeah that is the problem it’s so specialized that like until people can do it easily at home you’re going to pay
A premium cuz even just like the kits that tell you how to do it you know quote unquote still require tons of like I’m sure it doesn’t work perfectly like you have to know as the installer oh in Step seven like you got to cut this hole differently than they say and like
Whatever right takes a little bit of like going through the process I just don’t know like all these companies are starting but like who is buying like who is buying I mean I guess cars like a year ago everyone had infinite money there was no recession and right inflation whatever everybody
Tapped their equity for cheap in in the real estate it’s a dangerous game to buy cars diminishing you diminishing returns on that let me take my low interest home equity and buyer car well if you’re going to buy some kind of car though a classic car is a better investment than
A newer car cuz it’s they will go away like more of them get crushed every year and then yeah theoretically the value will always go up not like exponentially like it maybe had for a while but yeah the last few years the rise in classic
Cars like the price doubled on a lot and it was just like yeah you want anything that says Porsche on it 70 grand yeah yeah I did feel that was weird like not all of them but there are many 911s that like the median entry level price is
Like $70,000 it like didn’t matter if you wanted to get you know a 2,7 911 997 or if you wanted to get an 83 SC it felt like they all cost 70 grand yeah it was like it was crazy yeah it’s kind of still like that because the
Porsche Market is just their they’re Bulls yeah so I do want to regress back to something related to moving into our new house did I tell you the Stanley Steamer story The catastrophe catastrophe no I was going to ask about cat as what about the cat
Ass so yeah so I’m intending to write a blog post about it because I feel like people need to know but so this is what happened we B we buy the house we’re moved in or moving in so we’re here like a few days before move in getting things
Cleaned up whatever we’re like it’s probably a good idea to steam the carpet so we’re you know thinking do we rent a Rug Doctor do we hire Stanley Steamer you would think Stanley Steamer would do a better job than we would do with a Rug Doctor but I don’t know if that’s true
So Stanley Steamer comes and like they they steam okay but as soon as they get here they’re like you know we’re going to do the steaming whatever you know they make sure all the rooms are accounted for probably charge us a little more like oh you didn’t count
This hallway or whatever so we’re already paying a little more than I thought and then they’re like do you want to add like this deodorizer and protectant which are two different things two different charges per room it’s like 50 bucks per each of them per room okay and so I’m like well no
That like if you does it smell I mean well yeah I was like if you are supposed to be good at steaming carpets why do I need another thing to like make it smell better because cuz like if you’re good at cleaning it should be clean what are
You talking about and they’re like okay fine we won’t like we won’t charge you for that stuff we’ll just steam it so they start steaming the basement and they’re like yeah are you sure you don’t want the deodorizer stuff and I’m like no I told you no then they like go and
Ask Caitlyn they’re like hey do you want this deodor and I was like these guys like stop trying to upsell us because I don’t want the deodorizer but then but then but then they finished the basement and they’re like hey I know you say you don’t want
The deodorizer I hear you but go smell the basement so I smelled the basement there was like secret cat pea under the floor and Cat Pea only gets more angry and smelly if you steam it like you cannot get it out um so I think it was all in
Like the pad and then came to the surface when they steamed it and so I was like oh this smells bad like yes give me the deodorizer whatever it costs put it down so they do all that I think it was like an extra 250 bucks because it was cheaper than new carpet
If they guarantee that they get it out that’s the problem though is it still smelled awful when they left and like did not get any better a day later so we went and bought all of our own aftermarket cleaners and the cleaners didn’t help we got yeah yeah the only
Thing that worked was like the little Shake on granule things so they like absorb the smell and like anything wet just makes it angrier you need to keep it dry and like so doing that a few times and vacuuming got it like manageable and it’s it’s just been
Slowly going away since then but Stanley Steamer their customer service for not having a way to like contact them and be like look I gave you an extra 250 bucks and it smells like I want that 250 bucks back there’s no way to contact them like yeah so if
If they had made it to where I could get my money back I would be less angry cuz like they they did steam the carpets but the deodorizer upcharge thing no one ever pay for that it doesn’t work and also like if you think there’s any possibility of catp don’t steam at all
And like they should tell you that too like if they steam a little and it starts to be evident there was C they should stop yeah they’re not going to stop cuz they want that money yeah so I’m I was not happy with them and that’s that’s my story I would think leaving
With a very unsatisfactory result I mean what do you think that’s going to like of course you’re going to say you know thumbs down I don’t want this and yeah like what is the what is the tiny language there’s got to be some sort of contractual cover your ass there where
It’s like if you you know if you have cat urine we have no promises of eliminating these SS and stains and blah blah I mean cat urine is destructive it is yeah I mean it can result in just having to tear not only the carpet out but the baseboards and and whatever you
Know you have for flooring I don’t know you know for that house structurally or whatever how old that stuff would be but like you could replace flooring and everything else on top of that because it just soaks down and whatever else it sounds like like in the basement it’s
Probably where like previous owners just like this is where we put the the litter box and I think there was a litter box I can’t I can’t pinpoint where it smells the worst so we could never like because everything online says like oh we’ll get like really good cleaners and clean just
That area where it is but I’m like well I don’t know where it is it smells everywhere so we couldn’t do that but yeah I think they like the guy’s mom was living in the basement and she was pretty old and had a cat so like probably was not can’t just clean that
Well and yeah yeah probably wasn’t keeping up with the litter box so it was probably like peeing in the floor cuz they didn’t want to get in all the poop or whatever so yeah well we DC and some of them were old so we had hardwood
Floors and stuff and we had two cats and and we tortured them a couple of different times by like trying automated litter box things we we wanted to hide you know you’re in smaller spaces you’re in an apartment in the city and all that and so you’re like how can I hide this
Litter box well okay now we’ve hidden it but it still kind of smells so then how do we like mitigate that more and yeah we tried a couple of things that really freaked them out and resulted in them pissing and everywhere and poop is a little easier to clean up from
Things PE can actually like soak into things so I had to get some pretty Advanced I remember you know it would be like May oh I was we were at work and it’s probably like four hours on this hardwood floor but it is like soaking in
And looks like it could be standing a hardwood floor so I had to like buy spe special chemicals and sprays to like get that out soak it up and stuff so I learned a little about how damaging their urine can be yeah yeah it’s it’s apparently like especially
Like it’s the worst of the urines like I don’t understand exactly why there’s like some kind of special bacteria in there that is like very destructive and smelly part of their defense mechanism and then the whole thing where they like spray too is kind of urine and you know I mean
Ours were neutered I guess it is for males yeah yeah yep spay and neutered I don’t know remember kids spay and neuter your pets I Bob Barker would do that at the end oh yeah yeah Drew Carrey still does it I guess just out of respect I
Don’t know no no Bob no prices right for me but you know I love prices right man I used to watch it especially in college they had this old like you know the big screen TVs where they were like the size of a desk they so deep projection thing
In them they were like a big case with like the RGB they were like their own furniture they would like yeah so it was like that and I it was just I don’t know why they never like replaced it but and they would always just put on what is a
What is pric is right on CBS or something they would have like CBS or whatever it’s on just going and so I would go and do a really early lunch at like 10: or 10:30 or something and it would be on so yeah um H have fond
Memories of that and I don’t know I think it’s fun to watch I think it’d be fun to be on but I would like just lose immediately cuz it would be like how much is this high heeled shoe and I would be like 50 bucks like no 3,000
Like you know yeah yeah that is actually an interest well I do like prices right and I have no issues with the current show or anything I just haven’t watched it in a long time you know I watched it as a kid or and things I’m sure some as
An adult you know vegging out I don’t think during work so it’s harder to watch turns out if I’m not going to work I don’t choose prices right you know that’s just never my outlet but I have no problem with it and yeah I think like
The cost the standard cost of goods I actually was having uh a talk with Sarah about this is like resetting our expectations when we think certain things are like what that’s $200 now that’s ridiculous it should be like $50 and then you’re like well maybe maybe it’s not though because we’re getting
Older and inflation is happening and the cost of goods is rising whether we agree with it or not is something else altogether but like I do feel like okay I worked a long time to to uh build a career and increase salary and you know earning
Potential and all these things and for a little while felt like all right I’m doing all right and then I don’t know last couple of years I feel like I’ve regressed quite a bit because the cost of things is outpacing the work that I put in over the last decade even you
Know oh yeah it’s like geez what does it take to have what is middle class in America right I I don’t know how people afford anything cuz like you know you and I on paper make very high salaries compared to you know most of America but
You know the people that don’t how do they even buy groceries because like we can’t go to the grocery store without spending like 250 bucks and we’ll buy like nothing I’m like what are you talking is even really eating food like you know most of our
Money of these days goes into well part of is cuz they’re little jerks and like you just don’t know I mean hot dogs pretty much always work mac and cheese pretty much always work that but like a lot of things like corn dogs or chicken nuggets even sometimes like lately they
Don’t like french fries what that’s like allite french fries right like it was that’s annoying anyway because we’ve you know tried fried everything in this time oh you like french fries great here’s tater tots and they were like this is disgusting like this is this is better I
Don’t know what’s wrong with you Tater Tots are better than fries for sure yeah yeah I think yeah I mean they’re mini portable hash browns right like texture is so much better texture is great yeah so anyway and they don’t like that so I think we end up spending an excess and I
Have this debate with Sarah sometimes with like why are we giving them 14 choices for breakfast I don’t give a can we just scale back cuz half the time they won’t eat any of them let’s give them two choices and it’s like here here’s three choices cereal eggs or nothing I
Don’t care go in yeah you know and then you’ll be hungry after a little bit like they’re not going to die they have food all around them all the time they’re not going to die we have the same debate of like and it’s harder like when you know Finn’s at the age where
He has decided putting on weight matters though right yeah but like he’s decided that he knows what he likes and what he doesn’t like even though he hasn’t tried like any foods so he won’t try stuff and then like so we always want to get him
To try stuff so we make something for him and then he doesn’t eat it and so it’s the same thing of like well we should have just bought like a Costco bag of french fries and fed him just that because you’ll get there don’t worry Papa I mean we did we were like
Especially my son he ate everything for like the first two years of his life and then one day he woke up and he’s like everything is garbage but hot dogs and sometimes pizza and then they’re like oh I love pizza great let’s give pizza and then and then he’s like actually I don’t
Like pepperoni anymore like it’s just random stuff it just happens and we have you know we used to be like okay we’re not short order cooks and we cook for the family and these are the options we will omit parts of those options for you like definitely but then at a certain
Point how many meals do you want to spend in argument and tears and all that like I are you going to play the old school game of you don’t get out of that seat until you eat it and you’re going to have this asparagus and everybody wins tomorrow it doesn’t they have the
Same fight and then eventually you’re just like all right I’ll microwave some some mac and cheese for you like because that’s just going to make this all more pleasant for all of us and you are getting food and I survived on way worse things than that so you know
Yeah and I think probably until you’re like going through puberty or later it doesn’t really matter you just need to like have calories to exist but I’m sure yeah I mean I’m sure there are plenty of studies to the contrary of like how you can improve your sit situation but what
Is like the micro percent difference between a b or c like I sure that’s debatable like you know they’ll say don’t watch certain shows and yeah you know screen time screen time is bad for everybody but that’s a you know whole other problem and I I watch tons of TV
As a kid clearly it’s benefited Society because I’m good at trivia if you need someone on your trivia team who knows pop culture call me up I’m it’s different per person too is like you know if it really negatively affects your kid to do any one thing you
Shouldn’t do that like some other kids could watch TV all day but still then like be able to flip that switch and like oh I’ll get all my homework done I’ll like get a job when I’m supposed to and like you know it it’s hard to know
Exactly what every kid will do so yeah you know there’s no advice that works for everyone so listener if you’re still here I have to I I do have one production side note that I’m kind of curious about and I’ve thought about this a whole bunch so I think I should
Just ask the question and see if anybody answers me which is do you prefer that we look into the camera and are speaking to you or do look off looking cool and as if we’re talking to each other we’re having a private conversation well that’s that’s like I kind wonder about
That like film 101 is you never look into the camera right break don’t break the the yeah don’t break the fourth wall yeah but then again like that has its own funds ups and downs anyway feel free to provide feedback on Twitter that’s the only place because I’m nowhere else
On the internet but or stop by Robbie’s house and let him know and he’ll tell yeah yeah yeah you can I live in Phoenix I’ll give you my address later okay you better give him this office address and not my home address otherwise there are so many bags of dicks coming your
Way I don’t know if anybody’s seen this but I have done this a few times and I’m very proud of myself for it there’s a website called like it’s bagad dicks.com and you literally can mail someone like gummy or chocolate penises in a bag and I’ve I’ve done it it’s
Amazing oh God we’re not sponsored by them I just think it’s that would be an amazing sponsor though if we had to this episode is brought to you by bagad dicks.com to be shoing for dicks online to mail to people this is an obvious solution and they’re tasty you know I don’t
Know yeah don’t don’t have too many in one sitting though there is a such thing as too much tick God gag that never stops so I hope somebody made it this way so side note which maybe shouldn’t go right next a bag of dicks but a sponsor that we
Actually do have B flow desks um you haven’t gotten yours yet but I’m not sponsor just wanted to mention that that will be coming we’ll give you more info and full reviews on I love mine I it’s like got like nice cable management and plugs and it’s a standing desk and I
Don’t know it’s it’s good we’ll tell you more about it once Chuck gets his but yeah I I think cable management is a huge thing I actually kind of deal with it a bit on my current setup and keep Evol trying to evolve it but you know
It’s always like tolerable not great and that is Vindicated so I was listening to a recent episode of syntax syntax. FM sponsored by Sentry who doesn’t sponsor for us but you on GitHub does that count oh well that’s nice yeah that’s true I forgot high five thanks David and they
Having a comfortable office setup and cable management is like a big part of some of the things they’re talking about of like easy wins you can have in your own personal setup doesn’t have to be a whole crazy thing yeah yeah I mean I think as programmers automating anything
Or like having everything solved is like the you want to have all of your cable management solved and like this desk has the whole bottom has like the a full width velcro thing and so you can like wrap stuff in velcro and put it just so
Where you want it and then it has like a bar where you can there’s little things sticky things that you stick on whatever and then slide on the bar so I have like my little EVO 4 stuck on there and then like the cloud lifter and like all a
Bunch of stuff is on there so it’s like it’s very clean very nice there is I have way too many cords so it’s like kind of at its capacity but it’s doing a good job job I yeah I think I need some sort of Hub or something like I I have
Like a bunch of different dongles with like three or four different inputs into them so I can turn this USB C Port into four us normal usba a ports and oh but I need some more C’s so now I’ve got another one that also has some
Additional C’s and all this kind of crap off of it I think it’s like half and it gets complicated when like because you have to maintain the Thunderbolt chain to get to your screen or your monitor won’t work but so you got to keep that
Direct one to one so that’s yeah so I did get the only Thunderbolt 4 KVM switch that exists I think it was like 300 bucks like it’s expensive cuz they’re the only one right now I need that I didn’t even know one existed I just assumed they’re not out there well
There they weren’t until like like when I moved into the house and was setting all this up they didn’t exist and then like I just looked a few weeks later and they existed so is that like on Amazon or is that a special provide no it’s on
You have to send a link yeah I’ll send it to you I need room for stuff like this which is my family in Lego you know cool stuff like that yeah but yeah I have the switch so that I can like I have my desktop and then if I
Want to plug in my work laptop I can switch to that and use the same keyboard and stuff so o o that’s hot yeah I’m going to need that I’ve been wanting that forever and like I’ve since I started working at Amazon which was in January we’re in almost the end of
October now I have just laid on the couch to work because I’m lazy and like didn’t have a I was like oh I’ll eventually once we move and get settled in I’ll like set up all this plugin stuff and now I’ve got it so no excuses
Well I refuse to say that name because they don’t pay or sponsor me in any way and I just be pimping myself yo well you can get a affiliate link for stuff and yeah I saw that a long time ago I don’t know I mean I guess you have to have
Something to drive that traffic from for it to be useful I remember way back in the day Tim Ferris would do that and he would he was one an early person I think that he either would say these are affiliate links or he’d offer both affiliate and non or something like that
I don’t remember most people say they are I don’t know if it’s just to avoid backlash or if like you’re supposed to mention like maybe you’re legally supposed to say it’s a I don’t know I never implemented I remember being like my website doesn’t say but they are affiliate links yeah they’re all
Affiliate links so are you able to get a affiliate Revenue through clicks like that and work for them is there any conflict of interest there are you breaking rules honestly I’m not sure but luckily I’m not a popular media personality because I haven’t gotten any clicks so right so or maybe there were
Like a few clicks but like I’m I think you have to get like a really high number like I mean really high is relative but for me it’s high like hundreds of clicks a month for them to not turn your account off right so like I think I’m just going to get mine
Turned off and then I I’ll reapply in like six months maybe I’ll be more popular then after that comp you know all right yeah you talk about that a smidge I know it is B borderline technology with which you want it to avoid but we are we can touch on it sponsored
By that conference yeah have you been to this conference well you haven’t been to that conference t h a t and it’s not an acronym that I’m aware of it’s just yelling that yeah we are going to be doing we’re not really sure the full extent we’ll be
Doing at least one live episode on the main stage other than that we may be mcing some stuff and like doing other in a random room somewhere type of episodes but we’ll definitely be there we’re going to record as many episodes as we can so you know check out the live one
On the real stage as it’s happening and then yeah check out the other ones wherever later I guess wherever you prefer to ingest your podcasts yeah YouTube is really pushing to be the number one thing now not not for us but for podcasting as an industry yeah I
Have heard more and more people are interested in like visual podcast like they can just put on a podcast playlist or whatever and and take that in from YouTube which is interesting cuz people were doing that for quite some time creating like playlists for music videos right I was
Yeah yeah I mean whether you’re watching the video or not like they they’re making it basically so you could have playlist like you said you know on YouTube now they’ve just basically got a little tag where you say your playlist is a podcast but then starting next year
They’re going to take those playlists marked podcast and make them an RSS feed so it will be like you can ship it straight from there to all podcast hosts and like you don’t you don’t have to host elsewhere you just upload upload your videos to YouTube that’s your
Hosting and like it’ll just get shipped everywhere so they’re making a big play to like and I think a lot of people will do it because they’re already publishing to YouTube so they’re like well why don’t I just stop publishing elsewhere and I’ll do this one step so I think
That thought I guess yeah could be interesting meanwhile Spotify won’t let you publish video unless you use one of their platforms so right right so well you know it’s a different business model I am kind of like hesitant to lean into one entity too hard you know so like
Google just owns so much of my life Amazon owns so much of my life yeah maybe this isn’t one part I want to give them but I don’t know maybe it’s not that Ser I me we’ve been switching around a lot and mhm I don’t mind continuing to switch it makes
Sure that we’ve got everything set up to be you know agile and able to move to whatever at a moment’s notice and that’s helpful we’ll leave you ass yeah so I do want to find out know you went to France youve told me a little bit about it but I guess precursor to
That how did the workout diet challenge thing go went awesome until I went to France so um wait but they have nothing but vegetables and no cheese or not at all all that’s not all the butter is the best cuz it’s full fat they use 80 85%
Milk fat that’s like one of the big reasons why French I mean I had the sandwich once that was literally like a baguette smear of butter and some ham and it was fantastic so simple was so good so I had a lot of rich foods so I would say that wasn’t necessarily great
I did do a lot of walking like I think on the average was somewhere around 10 to 15,000 steps a day easily and then they were higher and lower days but like the average was around there so obviously that’s kind of a good thing oh yeah it was wonderful folks were really
Really kind we spent we we didn’t really spend any time in Paris it was mostly like getting in out of there and then we went South to Leon and Aon ainon is really cool because there was like a few decades there was like four successive popes that were primarily based in they
Were French they tried to kind of like there was this like pool back and forth between you know Rome and and and you know it would be like those provinces or whatever those areas trying to pull back and forth between like who has the pope Italy or France kind of thing in general
But obviously it wasn’t like Italy the country quite the same but so there’s a Papal Palace there and kind of like a second home and then they ended up having like four successive popes there and it’s like a really cool beautiful walled City next to this River and just
Like so clean and well preserved we did like a cooking class there that was like a lot of fun saw some medieval towns made our way down to nice and then like did like a day trip to Morocco and some towns in between and everything else it was like really really beautiful people
Were friendly very people are like very passionate about their regions too and so that’s kind of fun and I didn’t realize it was just that much agriculture everywhere I mean everywhere you go they’re growing something and so like they’re very self- sustainable as a country like they’re they they have a
Ton of things in country that they make themselves and that’s the products of France and so this import export business that we do in the states like they they don’t do that I mean they obviously do it but they export a lot of wine yeah of course and they have a ton
In country too so don’t worry yeah yeah I had some nice meals and stuff we had one that was like probably the weirdest meal I’ve ever had in my life though okay and so it was in Aon and it was at this Michelin star restaurant and it was
One of those where it’s a prefix menu it’s in this you know oh gosh I mean that restaurant probably is almost or the building not the restaurant but the building itself is probably like at least 600 years old or so and and they do this multi-or prefix thing and you basically choose
Meat or veggie but it’s not you know vegetarian or anything it’s just like not meat forward and so they’re like we still do fish and some other things here so we chose meat yeah we like okay that’ll be fun and and you don’t have a
Menu though and I don’t know I think we must have had like 12 courses or something there was just so much food all different Meats of just different stuff in general like the Amo or whatever that comes out and like your initial like pallet stuff so there was like this crispy trout
Thing in a ring with row on top and like that was different and interesting and then there was this little thing of like ice cream with like this olive oil kind of thing on it but it was oyster flavored ice cream and then some other
Thing and so but and and we got a lot of like we had this like kind of tacoy thing that was really good but it was made with a bunch of like French I I’m going to have to like come back there was parts of it that were like oh very
Good but parts of it that were a little like weird and traumatizing to a degree in that like there was one and they brought out again like it would be themed courses and so you’d get like two or three things each course and it would be like this is more seafoody this is
More meat this is almost like a little like Street Foody but fancy and they brought it this thing that like had like a foam cream on it and there little langostino tails and then like something else go there and we were like oh okay good and our like one of our servers
Came out and she just like thought it was funny and she was like so what did you think of that and we’re like oh yeah seemed pretty good and this and this and she’s like so the cream sheep’s spring cream and then runs away so we’re like
Oyster ice cream sheep sheep brain cream okay I don’t know what’s going on so there was and then they bring us back for some like pallet cleansing course which was good it was like a black currant kind of you know ice cream with like a little Brandy drizzle on it and
You go back to the kitchen and and you know see what’s going on and like they like talk to you a little bit and then I see this chart at the corner of my eye and I was like you know what’s going on over there oh man okay like this is this
Looks familiar this is some of the stuff we definitely got and I see on the list pigeon and I’m like I’m not going to say anything I’m just going to like let’s see what happens and go back and that next course is Pigeon themed and on the
Plate it has like a pigeon leg that’s been kind of charred and and what you know like a tiny little leg but the foot’s still on it and then there’s a bre and like it’s not like Street Pigeon I guess it’s like you know bred for this
Purpose in a certain region of France and a delicacy but like maybe not in this form there’s like it’s kind of like a little sliver of breast it’s you know like a duck breast would be like kind of oily kind of like meaty and there’s that but very like
Rare and there’s something else cuz I forget because the next thing is it’s almost like a little crocetta you know like a little mashed potato fried ball thing but apparently has a pigeon heart in it oh God and I’m like I don’t know I’m just going to go for it so I just
Popped the whole thing eat it and I was like I don’t know Sarah I think this is uh I I think this is just potato or maybe it’s stuffed or whatever else it just tastes like potato so just do that and she just can’t she can’t blindly
Trust so she’s peeling it back and she peels back and it’s a big like after the Crusty layer you got a big pigeon heart there which they may be stuffed with more potato or something I don’t know but she was like and I’m out I can’t do
That they dessert stuff it worked but you know I get very traumatized with that sort of situation and I I think on some level like it’s they’re just showing off like the the chefs that are really good are like how can I get the most disgusting ingredients and make it taste amazing
Cuz that’s like wow you’re a great chef right and on some level that’s cool like give me a thing that’s a little weird like not as weird as a pigeon heart a croquet but like you know things that I normally wouldn’t try and make it taste good good to me that that’s kind
Of cool but like don’t make it like so visceral and like I don’t know it’s it’s just a little strange and hiding it well was fine you know like the oyster ice cream I just finished it even though I thought it tasted weird yeah and that’s that’s the
Pressure too is like you have such a tiny little plate of like a taste so you have to finish it all or they can tell you didn’t like it so it’s like you know I always feel the pressure of like all right I it’s only like four bites I can
Do this like and also like this in a way is almost like a little bit of an impostor syndrome just for me as an individual right because this is a fancy restaurant you dress nice you go in and you’re paying them a bunch of money to do this and at
The end of the day if I don’t like it why can’t I just be like I don’t care but then I feel like well now I look like I’m I don’t I don’t get it or I don’t fit in or something I don’t know in the moment I have some of these like
Impostor syndrome kind of feelings and so I just do the best I can and I I’m usually someone that says like I pretty much will eat any I mean I’ve eaten inside Parts before I’m not like completely opposed to that but some of it just tasted weird and some of it just
Looked a little too close to home too close to the real thing I was just a little like that’s why I don’t like bug that’s why I don’t want to eat bugs because they just like roast them and then put a bug in front of you they
Don’t put a cow in front of me are you kidding me yeah yeah the texture and the presentation matter like there are a lot of things where the flavor is probably fine but like if you can tell what it is still it weirds you out like right yeah
Now that’s said I do love oysters though in general I don’t want them in my ice cream but I do like oyster I actually I think it’s cuz I see it I know okay it’s like you’re going to have some whiskey okay you know you salivate a little bit
You know a little burn and stuff is coming like I’m not surprised by this I’m I’m not eating I don’t know I’m not eating like a jelly bean and then all of a sudden getting whiskey flavor you know like burning my throat like I know this is
What’s coming for me oh here’s an oyster this is what’s coming I you know I’m kind of prepared mentally I go into it now I’m like thinking about those flavors great I eat some ice cream and I got those flavors I’m like what the hell just happened so yeah anyway so that was
France France was great enjoyed all of it it would recommend yeah 10 out of 10 would recommend n is incredible large large city too and it’s pretty expensive the closer you get to the Sea like it’s ridiculous that you’re like I would like a cocktail it’s
$25 well I’ll just have one of those everywhere now though yeah a lot of places that’s the thing this is the inflation thing too that I’m thinking about like what used to be like well this is a a nice vacation cocktail it’s 16 bucks now it’s you know whatever if
You go into town though you don’t really get those those same things so it’s kind of nice yeah so I do want to we don’t have a ton of time left but I want to find out do you have a family Halloween costume this year of course we do
Because you do this it’s ridiculous this one is Mario themed and I am going to be I’m think now I forgot his name with the mushroom guy oh toad toad yeah I’m toad so a Aiden is Mario Charlotte is Peach and Sarah is Luigi that’s that’s what the kids picked
So and I get to be toad I was like toad really thanks Toad’s fine yeah everybody likes he doesn’t have as fun of you know just spouting off random italianesque phrases right yeah New York City Italian yeah New Jersey Italian really uh yeah I was like how about Bowser how about how
About Yoshi Yoshi’s a fun one can I be Yoshi no Yoshi’s my favorite yeah yeah I didn’t get to be any of those they voted and then I’m like Sarah when when can we be done with this family stuff so they can just do whatever they want and she’s
Like I’m milking this as long as I can yeah okay yeah we are doing Sesame Street so I’m going to be big bird and Finn is Elmo and Caitlyn is Abby nice so I don’t who’s Abby a newer one she’s like a like a fairy costume kind of so
Okay it it doesn’t really make sense it doesn’t scream Muppets or Sesame Street so it’s like it’ll make sense in context when she’s like standing next to us but otherwise people would be like are you a fairy what are you yeah I I know that even Zoe was a newer character that I
Was like you know kids got some set or something I was like who is this oh okay I mean evening new ones for like diversity and like like I know one of them is like a foster kid or something like just to have more relevant like I don’t know woke things nobody loves
Grover anymore that’s the problem you know that’s the thing zelmo came into play and he sort of stole the Limelight from yeah I was I was wondering about that because like Elmo wasn’t an original right no he’s not and then like when exactly did he become popular was it the
Whole like when when Tickle Me Elmo came out and like people super popular so he was kind of like a baby Monster you know that was like the thing it was like he’s you got Grover and then Elmo came on it’s like it it’s me Elmo you know
I’m a baby and I’m figuring things out so he was not an original and I don’t know I mean I I feel like he was he came into play like he was more like my brother’s time frame so it would have been like 7 to 10 years later and and
You’re like oh okay I’m familiar ha it’s funny and I think I used to do the voice some as a kid to be funny but before we bounce off of that topic by any means yeah so we I did a thing with my kids last night where we
Like took had some TV time but we were doing more like episodes or shorts and it was like let’s all take a turn and like I picked the ’90s X-Men cartoon first and cuz I thought yeah the kids might be kind of into that Aiden was asking me questions about Wolverine and
Stuff it’s like kind of cool and I was like great now Aiden it’s your turn do you want to watch more of this or something else and they both were like something else this was for you Dad and they watch their things there’s like a
Mini thing and oh a Groot I am Groot which is funny so whatever so then my next turn I watched on Disney plus you can watch the original Muppet Show too so I did an episode of that I was like Muppet Show we’re doing that that
Actually got a little more yeah they got a little more Fan Fair out of that one so nice nice yeah I feel like everything now is so fastpaced that like most of the older stuff won’t keep kids attention anymore they’re just like no I don’t want that can’t tell you how many
Times my son chooses to watch other people playing Minecraft I was like I would rather you just play does that like like let me watch a full like some of them make a little bit of sense like if it’s a game where it’s story based and it’s like I
Care about finding out what happens in the story I don’t want to play the game okay watch that but like sure yeah things where it’s just like there’s no end or whatever it’s like why why why don’t you just play it like if you think it’s fun to watch them you could you
Could do that you can just be that you’re controlling that anything you want I I kind of thought at first it was like oh you’re just learning how to do a couple of things that’s cool yeah and then it was just like you’re picking that over D doing the things I don’t understand
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