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(phone ringing) - Hello, welcome into episode 4, 32 of Girls Beer Sports, a conversation with girls about beer and sports and whatever else, because it's our show and we do what we want. I'm Carrie coming to you from Stanley Man or Studios. So I'm right is Sarah. - Hello. - And Summer Breeze makes her feel fine, flowing through the jasmine in her mind. I can't get that low, but it's Lauren. - It is me, here I am. - Yeah, I thought that was an appropriate introduction for today. - Yes. - Since we still-- - We got some Summer Breeze's going on out there. - Yeah, well we're still in the throes of summer. - Oh yeah, this is the long hot days of summer that we're in now. - And that song was actually done by Seals and Croft. - Great, but has the most excellent cover in the version that I like is from type O Negative. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's, have you heard that? - That would be the version that I have heard. - Okay, so you've heard that version, Sarah, I know you haven't. - I listened to it last night. I'm gonna disagree with you. Maybe type O Negative's not my jam. - I think type O Negative's not your jam. - Yeah, his voice emulates voices of other bands that I wish I could like and I can't take that. - That's fair. - It's like a deep, deep tone. - Yeah, if you don't like, if you don't like type O then you're not gonna like that cover, but I really like type O so I really dig that cover. - I enjoy the original, I like covers of other songs. - Well, what about, before we get to that, 'cause I do want to talk about covers of other songs, I was actually gonna ask your all the opinions on Yacht Rock because technically Seals and Croft in the original would be Yacht Rock, right? - Yeah, oh yeah, actually maybe I know the Yacht Rock version 'cause yeah, I always think of that as kind of a Yacht Rock 'cause I'm so, maybe I have, don't know the- - Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, yeah. - Yeah, I think I know the, yeah. - Makes me a deal. - It's at the, it's, they play part of it, the original Seals and Croft at the end of Days to Confuse. - Yes, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, I was on the same track, I believe. - Lots of iterations of that group and how they all, they all were one and they split off and then they teamed up separately, but together, yeah. - Is that one of those bands? - Yeah. - I feel like a lot of those Yacht Rocky bands were kind of like that, they were all like, I don't know, there was a bit incestuous, in a way. - Fair enough. - Crosby stills Nash and Young and then they all broke off and then some came back and then their iterations and then they were all so, yeah. I love Yacht Rock, I'm not gonna lie, I'm into it. - I don't know. - And I went on there, I'm having a good time. - Yeah, I had small doses, like I don't always want to go for the arc, but like if you know, I'm, you know, if I'm on a nice summer's day, like hanging out on the back deck, I might turn some of it on and like, you know, having it play in the background or something, it's some chill hanks, good vibes. - I don't know if you call this Yacht Rock or not, but someone was talking about the Doobie Brothers on a podcast of the day, so now I just catch myself, turning on the Doobie Brothers for now. - I would not consider the Doobie Brothers Yacht Rock. - No. - Only the same era, right? - Only the portion of the time when Michael McDonald was in it. I think that makes them more Yacht Rock-y. When he's not there, no. - He brings the Yacht. - He brought the Yacht right up to the shore. - I mean, I don't feel like China Grove is-- - No, I'm talking, that's the cream of it. - Yeah, okay. - I'm talking about like, what a full belief in that era. - Maybe like adjacent, Yacht Rock adjacent. - Adjacent. - Fair, yeah. - It's in a dinghy park next to the Yacht. - It's on the water. - Yeah, it's on the water with the Yacht, but not actually the Yacht. - It's the tender for the Yacht. - Yes, yes. - But yeah, let's get back to cover songs real quick, because like I said, that the typo cover, I do enjoy more than the Seals and Croft original, but that got me to wondering, what are some other cover songs that you all either like? Hate, think you're good, think you're awful. - I have a few. I've been thinking about this. - Yeah, I have one in my head right now. - Or cover songs that are better than the original I guess. - Yeah, if you like, hell storm it all, they do a bunch of cover albums, and they do a really good one of, all I wanna do is make love to you. It's a very, very heartfelt and very like, like hard rock balladie, I like that one a lot. - Nice. - I really like, and I got carried to listen to this yesterday, like Newfound Glory does a lot of good punk covers. - I king a wishful fan, he's a banger. - That's an awesome one. They do a cover of Kiss Me by Six Pence and On The Ritcher. That's also really good. - Their cover of the Promise was spot on. So, I know in terms of like, bad covers personally, that I think are bad, like Sturgill Simpson did a cover of the Promise, you know, that went and runes on. - Sorry that I'm just thinking I'll be right. - I wanted to say that song, I can't stand it. - Did you do a bluegrass cover of that? - It's not really bluegrass cover, it's almost like a funeral dirge cover, and I don't like it, and I like funeral dirge. I mean, I like type of negative. - I mean, yeah, it makes sense. - But there, his, I just, yeah, it just gave me all the bick, right? But this Newfound Glory, I was like, okay, they just took this song and just sped it up and made it more punky. - And you know, that's-- - But like, kept the vibe. - That's kind of what I like about a lot of covers, is I often like, like, punk covers of things, because I feel like, yeah, they just, they take a song that's already probably, you know, either good or has like a memorable hook to it or something enjoyable about it, and then they just make it real fast and like, fun. - There are a lot of bloopers. - Yeah, one band I really liked in high school was Alien Ant Farm, if you remember that. - Yes. - They did a cover of "Soothed Criminal." - That's great. - I love that song. It's, you know, Michael Jackson's great and all, and the original's fine, but I don't know, there's something just about the punk version of it that I really like. - Yeah, I was a big Alien Ant Farm fan. - Yeah, so for my money, those, I did not know that Newfound Glory did all those, but I went down that rabbit hole last night and I was like, yeah, bangers, bangers. But, you know, in terms of punk, people doing punk covers of stuff, me first in the Gimme Gimmies, it begins and ends with them, in my opinion. If you've ever heard me first in the Gimme Gimmies, they cover everything from me and Julio that the plus, that's my favorite cover there. They do Karma Chameleon, they've done Jolene, they've done "Over the Rainbow." Their cover "Rocket Man" is amazing. They've done "Fam of the Opera." Like, they run the gamut. - I gotta check this out. That sounds like a lot of fun. - They are, they are the premiere cover band, in my opinion, but Newfound Glory is right there. - Oh, yeah. - But in it, you know, I think you gotta go Johnny Cash. - Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, 'cause again, in it's that whole like kind of like, taking a song that's already good and then flipping genres, I think, is always interesting. Because, of course, the-- - Nine-inch nails hurt. - Yeah, the Nine-inch nails hurt was the original song, and then he covered it, and like, I don't know, it just made a completely different song. - But it made it better, yeah. - Yeah, it made it so good, it's like dark. - It was so good. People thought the Nine-inch nails had covered him doing it. Like, that's how well it was. Yeah, how well done it was. That's a really good one. - Yeah, his cover of "Johnny Cash" is on that same album, his cover of "Rusty Cage," "Sound Garden's Rusty Cage," is pretty good, too. - Yeah, dude, it could be a cover. - Yeah, for sure. I was also thinking a cover that I really like, and I don't know why, because the original is so good, but I really like the "Wall Flowers" when they did the "Godzilla" soundtrack, and they did "Heroes," you know, it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad for the time. Like, now I'd be like, no, no, no. - Yeah, if it comes on the radio, I listen to it. - It's fine. - We can be here. - Yeah. - It's definitely got like the Dylan flare on it there. - Yeah. - Yeah, also not a big Bob Dylan or his son. - Yes. - Oh, I was the Dylan franchise. - Yeah. - Now, I was never like really a fan of the "Wall Flowers," but for some reason, I like that cover. - Yeah, they have other songs I like better, I think, than that one. But it's a decent cover, I would say. - Well, and for those of you who don't know, if you know the Bowling Pursuit song 1985, that is actually a cover. - I didn't know that. - The band SR-71, who actually has a pretty good punk band. They had a couple, they at least had one big song that was out there for a while, but 1985 is actually theirs. They recorded it first, and then Bowling Pursuit recorded it. - Weird. - Did not know that. - Yup, yeah. - Oh, and then I think I would also go with some like Nirvana, the unplugged stuff. Man who sold the world. - Yes. - You know, obviously. But yeah, there's so many. For me, there's so many good ones out there. The good ones that way, the bad ones, because if there's a bad one, I don't even want to know about it. - I can't even think of 'em. I'm gonna look 'cause I can't even think of 'em. - Well, I can tell you one off the top of my head. Motley Crew, and they did the movie "The Dirt," right? Based on the book, "The Dirt," Motley Crew, for some reason, decided to cover like a Virgin Madonna, so it is terrible. Like it is unlistenable. - Yeah, it's awesome. - It's awful. - Let me just get to the cover behind "Blue Eyes," now that I'm gonna know about that. - Oh, that's not a great one. Deaf Tones does a cover of "Simple Man" by Leonard Skinder, that's decent. - Oh, yeah. - I wouldn't put it in like the great, but I wouldn't put it in the worsty there. It's like a Cully Locks. - What about, well, how do you feel about that cover? Oh, I can't, I can't, I'm blanking on the sound of silence, and I'm blanking on the name of the-- - Oh, for sure. - Disturbed. - Disturbed. - Disturbed. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Actually, I like it, I think it's pretty good. - I'm in the camp move, I don't like it. - I mean, it's a, it's a slow kind of boring song to me anyway, but, and it's like a song I wouldn't normally listen to, but I do think it's kind of interesting, though, like show, like the disturbed guy who's like all, you know, grunting, growling, making noises in his songs. Like, he actually does have a fairly decent vocal range. So I think it was cool to showcase that like, he wasn't just the, you know, screaming to the microphone guy, but like, as far as just listening to it, man. - Yeah. - Bad wolves cover of Zombie is very good. It's like a metal cover of Zombie, and it's like, it's probably like their most famous song. We, I've heard them play it live at a festival and like, the whole crowd just went like crazy nuts, like singing along and stuff. Check it out, that's pretty good. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Oh, Metallica did some quality covers on Garage Days with the Misfits. I got something to say, where Eagle's Dare, whatever, Green Hell's a good cover that they've done. I don't like whiskey in the jar, 'cause I don't like that song. - I do like that. - Yeah, just not a fan of that song at all. I'm trying to think of a couple of other ones. Like, I think, I guess I've just kind of like gotten all the bad ones. Like, oh, so for my money too, and if you can find it, and because I recorded it live on a bootleg, and I have it, they've never actually recorded it, and they probably never will. In fact, they don't even play it live in concert anymore, which is a shame because Blackberry Smokes cover of Man of Constant Sorrow is amazing, because it just kicks into the electric guitars. - That's fun. - So good, so good, yeah. So anything to me is that there's a good cover, is something that kind of keeps the basic structural integrity of the song, but adds to it. Just, I hate covers, like I said, that "Sturgle Simpson" cover, I was like, what the hell am I even listening to? This is not the song. - Yeah. - You know? - Yeah, if you try to recreate the song, I mean, especially in these modern times in which we live, we can all have every song known to man in our pocket at all times. - Sure, yeah, yeah. - Like, if I want to listen to that song, I can listen to that song. What you need to do as an artist is to add something to it, make it different, show me a side of the song that I've never heard before. Another one that I'm thinking about that was actually kind of a more unusual one, was I think it was Lord. She did, a version of everybody wants to rule the world. - I've not heard that. - It's really dark, which, if you listen to the artist, it's that song, that song pretty dark. So like, whenever-- - Oh, she's kind of dark. - Yeah, whenever she did that, it was like, oh wow, that's really a disturbing song, now that I think about it, which was kind of cool. - Yeah. - And of course Guns N' Roses did the whole spaghetti incident, which is nothing but covers. All right, it's all covers. But almost, you know, a lot of people hate that album, I don't hate that album, you know, people are like, "Oh, this is, you can tell the bands falling apart "on this album," and I like a lot of the covers, and it, that's the other thing, it introduced me to like, the bands that they cover. So I was like, I go look at their catalog, right? - Yeah, what about the Mick Jagger and David Bowie classic dancing song? - I hate that song, I hate that song too. - And the video's worse. - You're a Stones fan, I'm a Bowie fan, we both can agree, we hate that song. - I don't like songs, right? - And I can't, I also can't stand, and again, this is personal preference, it's not to say that musically the cover is bad, this is personal preference. I cannot stand, I can't stand a song pretty woman anyway, I don't like that song, and so Van Halen's cover of it does zero for me. - Yeah, what do you guys think about Counting Crow's Big Yellow Taxi? 'Cause I used to have-- - I don't like that song either. - I used to hate it, but-- - No, call it to mind. - I wouldn't turn it off. - I wouldn't turn it off every time. - Can't paradise and put up a parking lot. - Oh, it's the Johnny Mitchell song. - Yeah, it was never a fan of the original, so that's my thing too, is if I'm not a fan of the original, nine times out of 10, I'm not gonna be a fan of the cover, right? - Yeah, unless they do something really interesting with it, I think. - Yeah, but it's got, you gotta really do something with it, you know, for me to get a cover of a song that I don't like in the first place. - Yeah, yeah. - And of course, there are a lot of bands out there, bar bands and such that are doing real bad covers on a nightly basis. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, there are people out there covering their hearts out because, yeah, you gotta make that money and it's hard to write songs. - But, overall, I think covers can be fun. - Yeah, sure. - It can be a lot of fun. And again, like I said, Sarah put me on this new flound glory thing and I've had no idea it was out there, but I'm glad and I know now. - Several cover albums, it's up the sales storm with you, lots of them left here. - There you go. Oh, I would be remiss. I'll mention this one last one because she was on the show way, way, way, way, way, way, but she probably doesn't even remember, but we remember Kelly Ogden from The Dolly Rods. - Yes. - And they do a banger cover of the Lisa Loeb Song Stay. - Yes. - I love this song. - It is, it's good. - I've not heard their cover, but I just love it. - I have, yes, I have heard that. - I like the Lisa Loeb one. I'm sure theirs is, yeah, I'll check it out. - They punked it up. - Yeah, it was again. - Like it's just fast. - I was just like, you can't get it wrong with punk. - Yeah, if punk rock wants to do a cover, they are gonna be able to do it because it's just fun music. It's just fun. - But I think Sylvia would really dig me first in the Gimme Gimmies. - She probably would. - I really think she would. - She enjoys some punk. So I'll have to look into those for her. - And then there's one, I think maybe the first new Found Glory cover album is all like 80s movie soundtrack. Like the never-ending story song, the Goonies soundtrack. - Ah, that's awesome. - It's not a very long album, but I think it's like six or seven songs. But they're all- - Bangers, yeah. - And they'll bring you back to like your childhood watching those movies. - Nice. - Yeah. - So she might dig that. - Get a little nostalgia in there too. - There you go. - Something for everyone. - That's exactly right. So there you go. Go listen to some covers. And we're gonna drink some beer. - Yeah. - We've got that covered. (laughing) - Oh! - Boo! - We're gonna remix these beers in our bellies. - And turn them into pee. - Boo! (laughing) - Turn them into peeing. - I like that. Well, I'm back on the Taft train, I guess. You could call that two weeks in a row now. So this week I have Tafts. I have Tafts, raspberry sorbet ale, a raspberry fruitidale, five percent. And then it has a little story on the back. This ale is slightly tart, slightly sweet, ever-so-easy drinker, balanced by lactose for refreshingly smooth and sippable brew. And it's a nice little pink can. Old Tommy looking, so we'll see. Let's see how it goes. - Nice. - Well... - Oh, two Tafts. - Two Tafts. - Yes, we've got two Tafts. - Two Tafts, I guess. This is the Nellia's Orange Creamsicle Ale, which I think Sarah had not too long ago. - She had it last week. - Ah, yes. - But that's okay. - Why I don't know about it when I hear you're... - That's okay, so this is their Orange Creamsicle flavored ale. It's 4.8%, so it's a light drinker. So I wanted to get this one in while we still are in the summer season here, since this is definitely what I would think of as a summer beer invoking the tastiness of ice cream treats. - Yes, and so, yeah, it'll be interesting to get your opinion on that. - Absolutely. - And I will be the one who will not have had it. - Yes, odd, no, no. - Yeah, oh, super excited about the Sharon beer this week. - Yay! - Yay! So Lauren went to Hendo for 4th of July and was able to go to Henderson Brewing Company. - Henderson Brewing Company. - And they-- - And located on Second Street. - There you go. - Lovely Henderson, Kentucky. - And they do have cans? - They do, they have a freezer or a fridge full of them. And even if they are out of the cans that you so desire, which they were in this case, I just said to the very nice bartender behind the bar and he was like, "Hang on a second, I'll get ya." He ran outside, they have a big container, a shipping container out back parked, and he went in there and got the beers for me. - Oh, nice. - Yeah, so apparently, yeah, they've got plenty stocked up. So get on over there if you're in the Western Kentucky area. - It's quality customer service too, like that. - It is, it was very, very nice, friendly little tap, tap room there, yeah, it's real cozy. You can order food there. They even have some really cheap, janky pizza that you can order in-house. That's reminiscent of like bowling alley or skating rink pizza. - That's good pizza. - It is, like if you're, if you've had a lot of beers, you need that kind of pizza to stop that up. - For sure. - That is the pizza you need. - I'm telling you, in Richmond, for my money, the best pizza in the city of Richmond is it Cosmic Bowl and I'm not even kidding. It is flippin' delicious, trust me. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, it's good. - So this is Henderson Brewing's coconut head, coconut IPA. So I'm pretty excited about this, just again, because I haven't had them in forever. There's one time y'all brought the grower. - Yeah, they were only doing growlers now. - Yeah, they are canning. - And they are canning. There's a lot of writing on this that's very small and I'm not gonna read it. But yeah, that's super cool. - Yeah, apparently this was their big cellar last summer and this was their like a beer of the summer. They've got a few more beers this year. Like as their summer beers and. - It's awesome. - They're doing pretty good there. - All right, well good. I'm glad to hear they're doing well. - Yeah. - All right, so the Sturt Rice Whirlhouse youth class is a bit sad today because the tour de France is over. - Two, one. - Tottie. - Wow. - Tottie Pigatcher. John doesn't dislike him though. - He made that a point to let us know. I don't dislike Tottie, but whatever he likes. - Pigatcher. - Pigatcher. - I don't dislike him. - I dislike him. - Tottie Pigatcher sounds like a drink or something. - Tottie Pigatcher. - Yeah. - Gotcha. - I don't know. It just like sounds like some sort of drink you door and be like, oh, I can't make the Tottie Pigatcher because we're out of simple syrup. I'm sorry. - But yeah, he pretty much wrapped it up a couple of stages ago, but you know, credit to Jonas Vingago, who I think, 'cause I didn't get to watch all the time trials because I had to leap and come here. But I'm pretty sure he got to leap and come here. Pretty sure Jonas Vingago finished second and credit to him. His team wasn't great this year. The one guy who always helps pacing through the mountains got COVID and so did not participate. - Oh. - And, you know, for having crashed in April, broken a collarbone with three ribs, collapsed lung, ended up in the ICU for, you know, in the hospital for several weeks. To finish second and the Tour de France. - Yeah, that's a comeback, you know. - And this being his first race after that crash. So he didn't even like really train during that time. So that's pretty impressive. - It is. - I know he wanted to win, but he just, between the wreck and the not having his full team. But yeah, I'm just sad because I really did it. I really, I enjoy watching it. I do, I do. And I watch just about every single stage. I think I only missed like a handful of stages. - Yeah, it's awesome. - Yeah, it's fun. - Yeah, that was, it made me laugh. It makes me think that John doesn't like Tony. - He doesn't. - And he was like, well, I don't dislike him. I said, I think you, I might dislike him, and he's like, I don't dislike him. - No, he does. He's a Jonas Van Gogh fan. He likes Yambo Vismo, which is Jonas's team. So yeah. He just keeps telling himself that, right? - He doesn't dislike. - So anyway, the, the beer in the Stuart Rush from World House, to the class today, is from Evil Twin. And I had to try this because literally the name of the beer is our most popular IPA. - Oh, okay. - So what? - All right, then. - Don't know what makes that simple enough. - Right? - Easy enough. - Popular beer. - Yes, yeah. - The most popular beer. - Yup, all right. So we have one RIP this week. And yeah, I was sad to hear this, even though he was a old, he was 94. That'll make you think, right? But RIP to Bob Newhart. - Oh yeah. - Yeah. - One of the best dead paying comics to ever do it. - Oh, absolutely. Yeah, he's a, he's a treasure. - For real. And we always, I remember growing up, we always watched the, watched the Newhart Show. The one, not the Bob Newhart Show, where he's a psychologist, but Newhart, where he's the innkeeper in Vermont or whatever. - I've not watched either of those shows, but I would like to, I'm currently making my way through the Dick Van Dyke show. - Well, Dick Van Dyke. - I would like to see a host of the Newhart Show. There is such good humor in that Dick Van Dyke show. It is, it is good. It's really good. It's funny, right? For it had been made in the '60s or whatever. But yeah, Newhart, this, I'm Larry, and this is my brother Daryl, my other brother Daryl. I mean, that was such a huge thing back when that show was on. And then of course, the ending, spoiler alert, right? The ending is a, it just-- - It's controversial ending. - Controversial, but classic. And what a brilliant like to come up with that. So the very end, I guess, of Newhart, the last episode. Bob Newhart, the innkeeper gets like knocked out with a ball or something, and the screen goes black, and then it cuts to this bedroom, and he wakes up in bed, he's like, "Honey, honey, wake up, I had this dream." And the woman who rolls over is his wife in the Bob Newhart Show, where he's the psychologist. So it's like, it was all a dream, right? - It was all a dream. - But it was a quite a quality ending, I think. But yeah, he was in a ton of stuff, but he just had this dead pan. Like, he was, you wouldn't think it was funny, but when you watch him, it really is funny. - I think a lot of the younger folk would know him as the grandpa, Elf. - Yes, Papa Elf from Elf, yes, yep. Yeah, he was in that. - But he's like getting so many things, so influential, I think. - Yeah, for sure. - Oh, comedy. - Yeah, absolutely. - So, thank you, Bob Newhart, for your contribution to society, Salud. All right, we had to talk about this sporting event thing that happened this weekend on Friday, actually, because I watched some of it, and it truly was interesting, because the arena football league-- - Okay. - Who, this was their 33rd championship. It's arena football league championship 33, whatever. They played it in a mall, in New Jersey. It was on-- - Wasn't an abandoned mall, or were they squatting for this game? - Nope, it was not an abandoned mall. - Oh, but it does look like a mall, though. - It is mall. - It's very molly. - Yes. - It's like the food court. - Yep. - It's like they cleared out the food court of all the tables and put turf down. - Right? - So, on TV, you can see people just in the mall just walking in the background. - Yeah, it's like a two, it's like an atrium of a mall, because there's the two levels. There's the big old round '80s style columns. - Yep. - Like it looks like a mall from the '80s. - And it's a fake stucco effect, kind of in the background, looks like. - Yeah, apparently it's actually a working mall. - Yeah. - Yeah, but they did. They had this arena football league championship game in the mall. I watched a little bit of it, and then I just got bored of it, but I had to at least see it on the TV in the mall. - Yeah, it's a verify that it's reeling at a fever and drain. - Yes, there were shops open, you could see in the background, there were people walking like they were shopping and stuff. - Where people like watching in the mall. - Someone's just like, so they were drinking all these Julius in the background. - Like on the balconies and stuff. - Yeah, I mean, that's some people. - Well, it's not a lot in that picture. - There were people wearing the team's jerseys. Now, it could have been the parents of the players, I don't know, but-- - Oh, it just seems like a whole, oh, what's going on down there? - Yeah, let's head on into the Victoria's Secret. - So my quick question to you all, though, is what other sports would you like to see be played in a mall? Or what other sports should be played in a mall? - I don't know, maybe I'm alone in this, but it seems kind of sad that this has been played in a mall. - Oh, it's pathetically sad. - Okay, I was like, we're not encouraging that we play sports in the mall, right? 'Cause this just seems like a real low point. - Yeah, it seems like a low point, or it seems like, I don't know, like let's not play real sports in the mall, but let's play like weird sports. Like Spagomi World Championship. That would be a great fall sport. - That would be the perfect place to be. - I know that Eastland Mall, in Evansville, Indiana could use it, 'cause they've got a lot of trash everywhere in their mall, so yeah, they could use the Spagomi teams to come in there and pick up some garbage. - I mean, I've seen this in at least one mall, like a pickleball, you have a pickleball tournament. - Oh, yeah. - I've been to like one of the malls in Nashville had built in pickleball courts, like in one of the big Korean parts. - Yeah, see, that's a good idea. Or, oh, like dog trials? Like the-- - Like a dog show? - Yeah, or like jumping through the agility trials. - Yeah, agility, yeah. 'Cause I would love to go in a mall and pet some dogs. - Yeah, that would be cool, I like that. - She all of the barks would echo. - Squash. - Yeah, squash, racquetball. - I was thinking like hockey, because that's a perfect-- - I like that. - That's a perfect shape for hockey. - Yeah. - Anyway, in the arena league picture anyway. - It was true, but like roller hockey with roller blades. - Oh, okay. - Straight hockey. - Straight hockey, that'd be a good one. I was thinking wiffleball possibly. - Yeah. - That could be fun. - Kickball. - La Crosse. - Maybe a little dangerous though, for a errand ball went out into one of the shops. - Yeah. - Yeah, La Crosse could be, could work also. I feel like that this could be a new like, forget building multi-billion-billion-dollar arenas. - Yeah. - It's just repurpose old malls. - Yeah. - I'm here for this. - Yeah, definitely. Especially if it's like a half abandoned mall, 'cause those are always fun to wander around in anyway. - They're already built and no one's in them. So I just call it just like, make use of a building that's already there and paid for. - Yeah, I'm beyond here for this putting sports, but forget building arenas, let's put sports in abandoned malls. - Yes. - Yeah, let's do it. I'm totally here for it. - Right next to the Orange Julius. - Yeah. - The Wet'sles Presents. - Time out. Let's run over here and get a hot dog real quick. - Yeah. - Get an Annie's. - Get an Annie's. - From the Chinese buffet. - Yeah. - Can I get a sample please? - The Saboro. - Yeah. - Yes. - Saboro in every-- - It's Halloween. - That's a small pizza right there. - It's a small pizza. - It's the best small pizza. - Ah, man. - Can't change about it. - We used to, I remember when we go to foreign small, and we used to try to scrounge for Taco Bell. That was always my favorite at the mall for some reason. - I was tumbleweed every time. - Now, I love me some tumbleweed. Love me some tumbleweed. Do we still have one in Fayette Mall? - A tumbleweed? - Yeah. - I don't think so. - I don't think so. - There's a tumbleweed in the local though, I'm pretty sure. - Their rice is delicious. - Yeah. - A real banger. - We had a tumbleweed in Henderson, but it was not attached to a mall. - The one in Florence wasn't attached to a mall either. - A great baked potato company. - Yeah. - That's a mall food. - Yes, that's a mall staple. And what's the cheesesteak place? - Oh yeah. - The Philadelphia Cheesesteak Company or something. - Yeah, me. - Something like that. - It's always something companies. - Yes. It makes it real legitimate, real official. - We have an actual company. It's all about cheesesteak. - Yes. - That's how we can be at a mall. - From Philadelphia. - Like no. - You're an American cookie company. - Yes. - Yeah. - They all do say company. - Yes, they really do. - Yeah. (laughing) - Auntie Annie's get you some good-- - I'm trying to think of what else we used to have. - I do love those pretzel bites with the super, super orange cheese so good. - But I think the staples at your anchors, your anchors or saboro. - Oh yeah. - Anchors that's important. - Yeah. Well, this is important for us. - They're also the last ones to close often too. The saboros is usually hanging in there tooth and nail. - But this is where your concessions comes in, right? You don't have to eat Chinese. - I think your staples are the Chinese, the saboro. This is your anchor, your anchor restaurant. - If you're real fancy mall, you got the potato. - Right. - The potato company. - There's a subway in there. There's always a subway 'cause where else would you have a subway, you know? - Yeah. - For Florence Mall head, I remember McDonald's in Taco Bell. - Orange Julius. - Now, Orange Julius was in the Crestwood Mall. We didn't have it Orange Julius in Florence Mall. - We didn't have it Orange Julius in Evansville either. But once I learned of Orange Julius, I was like, wow. This is amazing. This is a revelation. - I didn't have a mall in my town. - Yeah, but anyway, I digress. Let's put more sports in malls. That's what I'm saying. - Yes. - But it was a site to be held on television and it was kind of pathetic, I agree. - Yeah. It's gonna say, it's not champion this for football, but maybe for the lesser. - Okay. - Yes. - You know what's not pathetic? - What's not pathetic? - And it's coming, it's sports, it's the Olympics. - Oh yes, that does not go in a mall. - No, it does not, it's in Paris this year. - Yeah. - Right. And you know, I'm probably gonna watch the opening ceremony because they're supposed to just be putting all the athletes on boats and sending them down the scene. - Nice. - I'm serious. - That's hilarious. I like that. - Sending them up to sea. - Down the scene. - Yes, and we never see them again. - Again, right? - I haven't seen them in a while. (laughing) - But more importantly than the spectacle that is the opening ceremonies and you know, the actual athletes doing their sports is the mascot. That's like the most important thing. - Indeed it is. - Yes. - So the mascot for this year's Paris Games. - Paris, oh man, it's a giant baguette. - It is not, it is a hat though. - Is that right? - It's a hat? - It's a free Gia. It's the free Gia hat. - Free Gia hat. - Yes, it looks like that. - Huh. - Yeah, it's a. - Wow, that goes in. - Famous Paris hat. - Even though it has a name of what it is, I think that that goes into my category of blob mascot. - Yeah, it looks like the hill topper. - Yeah, with the hill topper and like that orange fuzzy thing. - Or grimace. - So grimace, yeah. - It is based on a floppy red cap that became and remains to this day an indelible emblem of the late 18th century French Revolution. - I wish they'd gone with a berry. - It's a deep cut. - Yes, I do too. We chose an ideal rather than an animal said Paris 2024, President Tony Esteungut at a press conference. For French people, it's a very well-known object that is a symbol of freedom. And so yes, this is a better picture of them. You can see. - Little, little berry or a little. - I think it. - It definitely looks like the baby of a hill topper. - Yeah, that's what hill toppers got together and had a little baby. - Yep, that's their offspring. - So the hat actually dates back much further than, and thank you to Smithsonian Magazine, by the way, for this article, dates back much further than either of those revolutions. Many historians trace it to the filis, a cap worn by the formerly enslaved in ancient Rome to indicate they had been freed. I'm like, "Dobby." - Okay. - "Sock." - Yes. - Great. The name comes from an ancient region in what is now Turkey, where similar hats were worn sometime before the 7th century BCE. The cap was characterized by a distinctive cone on top that could flop over towards the front or the back. - Like a dwarf cap. - Yeah, kind of. - Oh, it is like a dwarf cap, a little bit. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - Okay, I know what that looks like. - Kinda looks like the smurf hat a little. - Yeah, or like, yeah, or, I guess you'd see those in like, you know, medieval art too, that weird, 'cause it has like the flaps on the side, it's got like the long, flappy side, kind of like a deer stalker, but like, thinner. And then it's got like a flappy dwarf, seven dwarf kind of cap on the top. - Yeah, yeah. - So it's like, it's a very floppy hat. - Right, yeah. So this is a hugely long article, and I'm not gonna read the whole thing, 'cause it really is very long, but at least wanted to get a little bit-- - A lot of hat history. - Yeah, a lot of hat history. - I will say, lots of hat history in this one, but I wanted to at least get that, a little bit of history in there, so you at least know kind of what you're looking at when you see it on television. - Unless you know, I don't think you would know, unless you're Parisian, or like a hat historian. - Yes, exactly. - You guys don't know any hat historians? - You know, the Habadasher historian is out there. I guarantee you. - I'm positive they are. - And I guarantee you, they call themselves Habadasher historians. - I'm sure they do. - Habadasherian. - Oh, Habadasherian, I like that. - Habadasherian is hard to say, but you know, they probably want it to be hard to say. - Yeah, it's very-- - To make it sound pretentious. - Very elite. - So then of course, you know, after seeing the current mascot that's a hat, I'm just gonna call it a hat, right? It's a hat-scot. - And we get to buy the hat. - Oh, it's a hat-scot. There you go, right? Hat-scot. - I like that. - It's a hat-scot. I figured we needed to take a look at some other Olympic mascots over the years. - We do, 'cause I wasn't aware of their mascots for the years. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Sam the Eagle in 1984. Oh, man, I had a Sam the Eagle shirt. I had a Sam the Eagle beach towel. We actually have, John has Sam the Eagle plushie that we still have at the house. - I really just don't pay attention to the Olympics, do I? I had no idea who to hit Matt. - I think when it was, there was like a tiger one year, right? - So I'm in Asian country. - I had a tiger. - Yeah, maybe. It might have been Korea. - Okay. - But I'm gonna get to the list. - Oh, okay. - So the first Olympic mascot, and thank you, Wikipedia, was born at the Grenoble Olympic Games in 1968. It was named Sush, S-C-H-U-S-S. - Okay. - Sush, Sush, Sush, Sush. And it was a little man on skis, designed in an abstract form of painted-- - 'Cause there's no Sush. - Yeah, there you go. - All right. - Sush, Sush. Okay, so I was reading that correctly. Painted in the colors of France, blue, red, and white. However, the first Olympic mascot, official Olympic mascot, appeared in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and it was Waldie, a Dockson. - Aw, Waldie the Dockson, that's cute. - A popular read in Bavaria, and it represented the attributes required for athletes, resistance, tenacity, and agility. - And stubby little legs. - On it were three of the colors of the Olympic flag, blue, yellow, and green. - Okay. - Yes, so let's give a rundown. Now this is what I didn't understand about this article, so it tells me in the history portion that this Dockson was like the first official Olympic mascot in 1972. But other Olympic mascots, it lists 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles as a Scottish terrier. So I'm not sure maybe it's kind of unofficial that one. - Maybe, maybe they just had it like as a logo or something, or like. - Yeah, so '68 Winter. - This winter log just got loose in the Olympics. - I don't know what I was saying. - Everyone just really liked it. - Oh, look at that, no. It's going for the gold. - So, you know, we tied in the skier, and then 1968 Mexico City, a Jaguar. - Okay. - The dog in '72, '76 Winter Olympics, a snowman. Oh, this is possibly my favorite one. 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the name of the mascot was Amic, and it was a beaver. - Oh, nice. - 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where the miracle on ice happened. - Nice. - Right? The US defeats the Soviet Union. It was Ronnie the Raccoon. - Nice. - Okay. - 1980 Moscow Olympics that the United States boycotted was Misha the brown bear. 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was a wolf. - That's cool. - Wolfs. 1984 Summer Olympics Sam the Eagle. He was, I'm telling you, I had all this stuff. 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary was polar bears. - Chew. - '88 Summer Olympics in Seoul was a Siberian tiger. - Okay, yeah, there was a tiger in something. - 1992 was a man. That's what it says. It's just like the little bathroom symbol, guys. The Winter Olympics in Albert, Albertville. 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona was a sheep dog. - Cute. - 1994 Winter Olympics in Lilla Hammer, which that show had so much promise and did not deliver, was humans. - Humans. - Humans. - Oh, it's like the community. - The regular bartenders? - Yes. - Are the human beings? - Jackie Daytona's. - From my community. - Yes. - The human beings. - The human beings. - Yeah, from community, either one. 1996 in Atlanta, this is unknown. The name was Izzy, but even Wikipedia doesn't know what it was. That whole, that was a weird game, right? Yeah. 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan was owls. - Ooh. - Like that one. Okay, so the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney had three. Had a Kookaburra, a platypus, and a chidna. - A kidna. - A kidna, yes. Yeah. - I like this. - Yeah, it was almost two. - The 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake also had several. Had a snowshoe hair, a coyote, and American black bear. - Cute. - '04 in Athens was a brother and sister. - Oh. - Okay, the inbreds. (laughing) - The winter-- - The flowers and the attics. (laughing) - Bravo. Bravo. That was, that was-- - Yeah, yeah. - You know you know. - Read the book. - That was-- - Read the book. - That was really-- - Did what you wanted. - It was brilliant. (laughing) See that since six winter Olympics in turn was a snowball and an ice cube. - Nope. - The '08. - I tried to get that snowball. - The '08 in Beijing was a coyote, a giant panda, Olympic flame, and a Tibetan snow antelope and a swallow. - Wow. - Oh, oh, oh, oh. - It's right in the game. - There I guess. - 2010 in Vancouver, the winter, Olympics was a sea bear, a Sasquatch, and a Vancouver Island Marmot. (laughing) - Two animals and an encrypted dog. - Okay, so we've had, up to this point, animals and humans, basically, right? - Yeah. - London, and I vaguely remember this in 2012, it was a drop of steel with a camera for an eye. Come on. - Yup. - They could have done an eel. - Like the Lehigh. - Lehigh. - It was a what? - It was a drop of steel with a camera for an eye. - I don't know what that means. - So it's just like-- - It was like a drop, like a drip. - Like a drip. - And they had-- - Why was it steel? - 'Cause the industrial revolution is in London. - 'Cause it's a city. - Why is the steel dropping? (laughing) - Because whoever was out there-- - Is it melting? - Because whoever came up with this was on LSD, I don't-- - Well, it's something that's on fire a few times, right? - Well, that's not my fault. (laughing) - The Sochi Winter Olympics is a polar bear, a snow leopard, and a door hair. - What's a door hair? Sounds like it's a doll hair, so-- - Yeah. - Shout that I had back home. - 2016 in Rio was a hybrid animal representing all Brazilian mammals. - Oh, wow. - Oh, God. It sounds like a step of nightmares. - It sounds awesome. - Is that like a liger? - Yeah. (laughing) - Back to 2018, I believe that was back in Korea. The Winter Olympics in 2018 was a white tiger. - Okay. - 2020 in Tokyo was a robot. 2022 in Beijing, Winter Olympics was a panda. And now we have the hat, right? The hat's got for the Paris Olympics coming up. And then actually they've already named the one in 2026, for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Its name is Tina. - Okay. - And it's in-- - It's in a llama. - It's in a llama. - It's in Ermine. - Oh, okay, that's like a ferret kind of thing. - Okay. - Okay, yeah, yeah. - It definitely says its name is Tina. - Tina of Ermine. - Ermine, yeah. - So there you go, there's your rundown of Olympic mascots over the years. I think there's been some good ones, mostly. I always felt, until I was looking at that list, I thought most of them had been really weirdos, like very strange ones, but most of them had just been animals. - Yeah, I'm still baffled by the London mama. I'll look up at that. - Yeah, I remember that thing. It was a very weird dumb thing. They had some strange marketing choices, I think all around London games. - Now they're opening ceremony when they had the James Bond with the queen, and then the queen quote unquote, jumped out of the hell. - That was cool. - That was brilliant. - That was cool. - And I still will watch that James Bond thing. - That was fun. - Yeah, that's it. - Yep. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's real weird. - No, I don't know what it is, but yeah. - And ain't it. Anyway, there's your rundown of this year's Olympic mascot and Olympic mascots have passed. Speaking of weird, it is now time. For the GBS, news of the weird. (humming) Okay, Dateline Switzerland. Welcome to the international competition for mermaids, the Merle Olympics. A bi-yearly competition invites mermaids and mermaids from around the world to compete in a variety of events to win, and there's a new world record holder. The Merle Olympics started in 2015 as a celebration of and competition for the group of performers and athletes who wear grandiose and vibrant mermaid costumes. If you thought swimming 100 meters was hard, try doing it with one leg or rather one fin. The competition held in Geneva, Switzerland, invites these fantastical athletes to compete in five events. Ecology, diving and picking up as much trash as possible in 90 seconds. Figures, perform three mermaid figures posing, pose for a picture underwater before quickly swimming away before the next participant arrives, rescue, recover a dummy from 25 meters underwater and speed, which is a 50 meter race. Participants are required to wear full mermaid regalia including the mono fin. The 2024 Merle Olympics celebrated a new world record from a 22 year old American mermaid named Mia Sim. Although Sim came in 15th overall for the whole competition, she won the speed event and set a new world record. "I am a fastest to date," she said. "I currently hold the record." Her time was a little over 38 seconds to fit, to swim 50 meters in a mermaid tail. - Wow. - Yeah. Sims is from Provo, Utah, which she uses to focus on conservation efforts. I love water conservation, said the desert born mermaid. I think it's really cool and very applicable to us. Sims hopes she can use her success to bring more attention to current issues with water scarcity in the desert and to convince more people to think about the future. - Nice. - It's a Merle Olympics. - The Merle Olympics. That is, I mean, I guess you know what their mascot is. (laughing) - It's a hat. - Yeah, it's a hat. - Yeah, you're wrong. - It's a drop of oil. - It's a drop of oil. - It's a drop of oil with an eye. - Fish scale. - Made of a plastic bottle. (laughing) - I've seen a YouTube video where I like one of the fitness people that I watch goes and does swimming lessons with the mermaid person. So this actually isn't like shocking to me that this is the thing. - Yeah. - Like having to put on the fin and then trying to swim without looking like you're using both your legs is actually quite hard. So kudos to them for being able to do that. It's not as, I still tore up about that mascot. So this is not weird to me. (laughing) Yeah, I mean, there's been weirder things for sure. I think that's kind of cool. They have like their own little Olympics thing. Yeah, I bet it would be super, super, super hard. So you'd have to be like a really good athlete to do that. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's pretty cool. - Where did you say these games were being held at? - Switzerland. - Switzerland, huh? - She's an odd place. - That is an odd place. I would have thought maybe a tropical location with warm waters and things. But you know, whatever, I guess mermaids can be in all waters. Why not? - Maybe they wanted to honor the Geneva Convention, I don't know. - Yes, perhaps. Well, whatever it is they're honoring, I think it's a really cool thing. I love that there's like, you know, obviously like a physical athletic element, but also just like a, you know, hey, look at those pretty costumes underneath the water element. There's an artistic quality to it as well of like, you know, posing, which I thought was kind of funny 'cause I just imagined like people like dressed as mermaids, booging. - Like a boog top of thing, yeah. - Yeah, but I think that's really super fun. And I've seen, I've seen these things at the Newport Aquarium. I know every now and then they'll have the mermaid swim. - Yeah. - So they'll be, you know, usually young people with the mono tails on and they'll get in the tanks and swim around and kids love it. - Yes, it's very nice. - Yeah, I feel like this like used to be really popular in like the 50s rate or something like that. Like in Vegas, they would have these water shows and stuff like that. I think it could be incredibly dangerous too. - Oh yeah. - So what? - I know if you put me in a fan and threw me in a pool, I would drown. - Done. - Like I'm gonna get like drowns. - Just sink to them all the same way. - Yeah, done. So I'm a little disappointed that they don't have this on television because I feel like I would watch it, especially I'm interested in the speed thing because 38 seconds to go 50 meters wearing a mermaid tail. - This could be on the Ocho. - I agree. - Could be on the Ocho. - I would be interested in watching the speed thing and the garbage picking up thing. - Yeah. - Yeah. - How much trash can you get? - This mermaid thing could be in a mall. Let's flood the mall, put some mermaids in it. - I'm here for it. - What if they were picking out trash while they swam in their mermaid tail? - Well they did, that's one of the things. - Yeah, that's one of the things. - That's a ecology. - Yeah, they have to dive down and pick up garbage. - Diving and picking up as much trash as possible in 90 seconds. - Oh. - So yeah. - Yeah, I definitely miss, I'm sorry. I must have had some sort of... - You were still thinking about that, Matt. - That's cool incident. - Yeah. - No, you were still thinking about the London mascot. - The London mascot is really good. I can't do anything else today. I will only be thinking about these stupid Olympic things. - Yeah. - We've broken Sarah's brain with the London mascot. - Yeah, it's blacked out. I don't know what's happening. - But no, I'm here for this. Is it kind of weird? Yeah, but it sounds like it's super fun and it sounds like that the people who are into it are into it, right? And you actually have to practice and train in that kind of stuff too for this because you can just throw on a mermaid tail and like you said, three in the deep end. - No. - You've done so. - Most people would drown. - I'd have to wear the left jacket first. - Yeah. - Some of those little water wings. (laughing) - 'Cause you've got to really have strong legs to be able to like... - And strong core. - Right? - Yeah, that's your core and back at that point. - Yeah, to be able to kick like that in just one... - To wiggle your whole body. - Yeah, yeah. - Unrelate. - How did she die? - Well, she had on a mermaid fin and she just sank to the bottom. (laughing) And did she get get back up? - Yeah, it sank like a stone. Yeah, but I'm here for this. I thought it was interesting and they should put it on TV. - Yeah. - All right. - Okay. - Well, that's gonna do it for this week's GBS News of the Weird. (humming) - Okay, time for some take it or leave it Taco Bell. They are advertising... They're calling it a retirement home, but the more you read into it, it is and it isn't. Okay, so let me give you the rundown. Taco Bell opens a retirement home for anyone over 21... - That's gonna ask for this was a millennial. - Called the cantinas. Okay, but here's kind of the catch. The retirement community will be open starting August 17th through the 18th, 2024 in San Diego. While there you can enjoy aerobics, pickleball and more senior inspired activities. What's not 100% clear is how much Taco Bell will be involved. Though pictures provided to press include shots of folks holding Taco Bell bags and drinking from Taco Bell cups. So presumably there will be Taco Bell somewhere on the campus. You can get a day pass for $50 that includes access for you and a guest to the cantina including recreation, dining and more. So Sarah, you are a... Oh, I'm sorry. You can get a full weekend membership for $150 that includes an overnight stay as well as full access to the minities, recreation, dining, entertainment and more. So Sarah being a fan of Taco Bell, what do you think of this? Even though it's like a pop up two day type of thing. - I'll take it 'cause I mean, what you're spending the night, right? For $150, that's a pretty cheap hotel rate, honestly. And you get to do all those things and then hopefully you get some Taco Bell in there somewhere. Even if you have to pay for the Taco Bell, it's not 'cause expensive or anything. I mean, I'd be into it. - Yeah. - Yeah. With my fellow Taco Bellians. - Yes. - All right, some Hellions. - Nice. - Taco Hellions. - Taco Hellions. - Taco Hellions, yes. - Yeah, I don't know. So it's a retirement community. - That's what they're dubbing quote unquote. - But like, so is this actually for like senior citizens? - Just 21 and over. - Okay, 21 and over. Okay, I see. 'Cause I was curious to say, I'm pretty sure that anyone who's like 50 plus probably isn't supposed to be eating Taco Bell through to like the salinity and the fat. - Did you just say 50 plus? - Yeah, okay, sorry. - Uh-oh, uh-oh. Sorry you're hitting the-- - But I'm including myself. I just know that most people don't have my crappy health. - You can take a little bit of a fence to that. - As sensitive. - As next month, it'll be one step closer to that, if you're okay. - Yeah, but like, you know, like Taco Bell isn't exactly known for its health benefits. It's not the thought me youth here. It's actually the opposite. - I don't know that. (laughs) - Keep trying. - That's why I look like this. So youthful and young. - It's so glowy. - It's so bright, yes. - It's all the melted cheese. (laughs) Yeah, I don't know. I guess if you enjoy Taco Bell and you enjoy those activities, why not? Go there, it does sound like it's kind of a bargain. - Yeah, I agree with Sarah on this point that $150 for a whole weekend and you get all this stuff plus you get to spend the night. - I mean-- - That's a deal. - Hell yeah. - Like in today's climate, that's a flipping deal. - Yeah, I assume it's not a roach motel. - Yeah, I'm kind of here for it, but I wish that Taco Bell would take this and run with it like for reals. Jimmy Buffett, you know, they have-- - Oh yeah, I was retirement coals. - Yeah, those are huge as my rate of retirement communities. So why not Taco Bell, why not? - Yeah. - I mean, if you're already, if you're already that old, you might as well, who cares what you do with your health at that point? - It's true. - I mean, come on, if you're 50 or over-- - You're over 50, yeah. - Well, no, I feel like if you're, I don't care, I'm just gonna eat Taco Bell for the rest of my days, it's like 70 plus. - Okay. - So that's like, that's like-- - That's like 55. - Yeah, that's at the point where you're just like, I don't care. Taco Bell and Marguerite is for the rest of my life. - Yeah, I do, I'm gonna take this just for the $150 weekend past price points. - It's true. - It's a bargain. - That's quite a steal. - It's a huge steal. All right, so it's still ice cream time, 'cause we established the beginning of this episode that is still summer, right? - I want to add the leap today as we record this national ice cream day. - Okay. - A leap, okay. - All right, well-- - I totally knew that. That's why I selected this bear. - Keep seeing it on Twitter. - Or write up the people who make french fries, which we're on in a-- - Well, you're on on this. - No, but-- - You're gonna be out on this, but you can take-- - I'm aware of what a french fry is like. - But you can take or leave the concept. - Okay, of course. - Okay, of course. - So, Oraida has teamed up with a good pop to make a fudge and vanilla french fry pop. So, yes, it's exactly what that sounds like. It is basically an ice cream bar with french fries on it. Yeah. - Well-- - So, as you can see, it's like, it is, it's on a stick. It's dipping chocolates. - Okay, so yeah, it's like a, it's just an ice cream bar, like a good humor bar or something, and it even looks like a good humor bar and the size and shape of it. And instead of like sprinkles, it looks like it's got chocolate covered french fries. - French fries, yep. - Like kind of sprinkled along coating the outside. At the first reaction of this, I was like, ew, gross, but then I got to thinking about it, and I've had chocolate covered potato chips before, and those are delicious. - So, and I used to enjoy a french fry and frosty from Wendy's, you take the fries, you dip it into the frosty. I don't know, this couldn't be surprisingly good. - So, it is an oat milk frozen base. - Oh, no. - Yeah, so it's not even really-- - Man, I can't have this in like all the way. - Well, I'm just trying to kill you. - Yeah, I can't drink oat milk 'cause that kills McGutty whatts. But, if this wasn't Lauren poison, I would eat this, I think, because it does, in concept, sound actually pretty good. Probably wouldn't want like a whole box of these, but you know, if you could get one of those little singles out of the dairy case there. Just to try it, I would enjoy that. - You can get a box of four for $9.99. - Oh my god. - $10. - That's a pricey treat, but that's a luxury frozen treat there. - Jesus. - Oh my god, what's missing? - What's missing, visceral reaction. - That's criminal. - I just wanna not stand. - I think Sarah was gonna take it, but now that she knows it's four for $10, she's like out. - Yep. - This is no Taco Bell retirement community here, people. - Yeah, well, it was going downhill like step by step, because I don't like fries that much. Yeah, come for me. I don't like fries. I'll eat them on occasion, but I'm not just like clamoring for a big ol' bowl of fries. This sounds gross, to be honest. Mash potatoes over here. But I would try it because I had two, like a fried dip in a frosty, but first of all, I like oat milk. I don't want oat ice cream. Oat milk ice cream. If I'm gonna have ice cream, let's just have real thing and deal with consequences. And then also $10 for four of them? - It's a lot. - In this economy? What are we doing? I can buy so many more ice cream things with $10. At the grocery store where it's super expensive. - You buy like an ice cream cake for that much. Ooh, those Dairy Queen ice cream cakes. - They're so good. - Banger. - So good. - Yeah. - Best ice cream cake on the market. - Hands down. - Hands down. - Don't argue. - Not even gonna argue with it. - So yeah, I was gonna take it, and now I'm gonna leave it. - I'm gonna leave it because I don't like cold french fries. - They're probably soggy too. - Well, no, I think it sounded like it was like more bits, like potato bits. But you know what? No, I don't want oat milk. I want full on full fat ice cream. Dang it. If you're gonna put french fries on it, make it as unhealthy as hugely possible. - I mean, I want the oat milk to be in my life today. I don't want it to be in my life. I am almost 50 and I am gonna eat my way through Taco Bell and drink beer. - So you die and eat. (laughing) - I feel like you're just here living at 50. - And eat chocolate covered french fries been full fat ice cream, and the consequences be damned. - That's right. - Amen, brother. - I am. - I don't know. - Live it up. - I'm leaving this. They lost me in oat milk. When I saw vanilla oat milk, I was like, get out. - I'm into oat milk. I just don't want to oat milk. - All right. - You really want to have a heart attack. You should go to the Kansas City Royals game because the Kansas City Royals are not messing around. And this is, I actually captured this from Sports Illustrated Twitter. Fans can now get the $25 taste of the K Taco, which includes a hot dog wrapped in a cheeseburger quesadilla topped with barbecue brisket, French fries, lettuce, pickled red onions, sriracha cracker jacks, and 816 sauce. - Wow. - And that's what it looks like. - 25 bucks. - That is a big ol' massive food. - Yeah, I saw this the other day and sent it to Carrie, and she's like, don't worry. I already got it. - Nice. - So Sarah, what do you think of this creation? - I'd try it. You know, I like a ballpark creation to look at. I've never tasted one 'cause we keep saying we're gonna go to one and then we don't, so, you know. I mean, I don't know that I got away to Kansas City for that. I feel like we could recreate that here. - Oh, totally. I mean, to give you all the ingredients that they put in on it. - Yeah, thanks for giving me the recipe for me to try it out. It's a lot of things to purchase. - I wonder, but I wonder if you could get away, I wonder how much it would cost you to purchase and make this it 'cause they're charging $25, right? - That's true. - I wonder if it costs more. - Yeah. - I bet you could make it for cheaper at home. - I bet you probably could. - Well, what the cheeseburger tastes of dia? - But you have to, we have to think about it in the cost per, like, the amount of ingredients. Not like, I'm gonna do the store and spend it $150 bucks to make this. - Yeah. - Like, it's portioned for the price 'cause, yeah. I don't know of anyone around here making brisket quesadillas that I know of, but if you are, please let me know, I'm interested. But, yeah, I feel like we could make that. For at least $10. - Well, it's a cheeseburger quesadilla, and it's top lip brisket, it's top lip brisket. - We'll say, thank you. - I thought the cheeseburger-- - I don't know anything. - And the cheeseburger quesadilla is wrapped around the hot dog, correct? - Right, yeah. - And the quesadilla is like the bun. - Yeah. - Yes, yes. - Uh-huh. - Yeah, I try. - It's the hot dog sheath. (laughing) - For your hot dog's sword. (laughing) - Is it ribbed for your pleasure? - Between that? - It's probably greasy. - Between that? - Greased for your pleasure. - Okay, between that and flowers the attic, I'm out. (laughing) - I'm out. - It seems, to me, it seems like it would potentially be kind of delicious, but also incredibly messy, and also, why are you putting lettuce on this? - Well, I thought I have some vegetables. - That's the big question mark to me. It's like, why bother with lettuce? - Point taken. - This is a big pile of brown. Let's just admit that this is just beige food, piled on beige brown food, and it's going to look like a mess. If you just have a few pieces of wilty, sad lettuce, like poking up, like, you know, little fumes out of this, like, you don't need that sad lettuce, guys. Just get rid of it. - Let us be. - Let us be. - That is not the title of this episode. - Come on. - Just don't even write it. (laughing) - I saw it, Lauren. - Let's get Lauren in my mouth. - And then it went back down. - I saw Lauren getting ready to type, and I'm like, no, I ain't even going there. (laughing) - Dang it. - That would be our own personal title, but it will not go out in public. Sir, are you leaving this? - Yeah, I think I'm leaving it. Overall, it could be tasty, but I don't know. It sounds expensive and kind of gross. - That's what she says. (laughing) - So, I'm leaving this. This is going to be so messy to eat, trying to sit in a seat, stadium seat, and it's going to be so heavy. And, you know, you're sitting out there and it's hot. And I guarantee you, it is not going to look anything like it is in the picture. I guarantee, it's like two cracker jacks on top, and like two pieces of lettuce. - Yeah. - And, you know-- - And most of it's going to be all shmooed out on top. - Yeah, it's going to look like a-- - The paper boat, you get your math of what would be after you ate it. I mean, I still want to try, oh my God, that's going to be-- Still, I still want to try it, but does it take five years off my life? Maybe, but, you know what, it is a lot, it is a lot. - Yeah, I'm going to leave this just because it's, it, you know, I get it. Ballparks try to create interesting foods, but in the Pantheon of ballpark foods, this is just not something-- - Probably too much. - I have any interest in eating. Okay, so, if you weren't aware, this weekend has been the open. It's not the Scottish open, it's not the British, it is the open. It's a golf tournament, like it is, you know, Claret Jug and all of that stuff, right? And Tiger Woods flamed out, Rory McRoy flamed out, Bryson Toh Shambo flamed out. Not three of them didn't make the cut, surprisingly enough, but it is open weekend. And I think that this last take or leave it has been around for a while, but I don't care because I just found out about it, so there you go. There is a golf course in North Carolina that rents out llama caddies to carry your clubs. - Nice. - Yes. - Club llama. - Sherwood Forest Golf Club in Brevard, North Carolina. - It's very magical. - Yes, it's rapid hit there. - Yes. So apparently, these things have been around for a while, but again, I just heard about it, so I'm all here for it. I mean, look at these things. - Oh, they're so cute. - Right? Now, llamas can be honoring mean and spit at you. - Yes. - Right. But apparently, you can legitimately rent these llamas. And apparently, llama caddies have been around since the early 1990s. I have no idea. Golfers are assigned their own llama, along with an expert to escort each for some. Sorry to all the human caddies out there, but this might be the future of golf. It may be time to head back to college for all the loopers out there to pick up an animal science degree. The game is constantly moving. You don't want to fall behind. And that's from Golf Digest, is kind of the pictures in the article that I got. - Nice. - But, Lauren, I know you love animals doing jobs. - Oh, yeah, I love animals doing jobs. And those llamas are magical, and they are providing a wonderful service to those golfers. - They have literally just strapped golf clubs to the sides of them. - Yep, and they're just, the llamas are just like, yeah, this is what I'm doing today. Whatever. - They look majestic. - They do, they look regal. And I'm sure that the yes, they probably spit on the golfers. They probably nip on them. - Oh, I think that's what the handler is for, so. They're not just gonna, they're not gonna turn people. (laughing) - Just like let the llama loose onto the golfers. - That's not gonna be as drunk because the golfer's been feeding it beer. Yeah, it's like got parts of it, it's like fur shaved off 'cause they were like, check this out, we're. - Or like a golfer just comes limping back with like, covered in llama bites. (laughing) - Yeah, but you do love llama. You do love animals doing jobs. - I do love animals doing jobs. And I love it that the llamas are doing this. Yeah, they can be cantankerous animals, but. - I think that it's great. - I mean, look at this llama watching this guy putt. - It's awesome, like, if I was a golfer, if I was like, you know, especially, you know, playing the open, and it was like a high stress moment. And, you know, it was all very serious. And it's, you know, the integral part of your golf career. What better thing to have to break some tension than a goofy llama toting your golf clums around, just like chewing on some grass? I mean, that's a great way to just like keep life and perspective and just like, you know, have something with a little levity in the moment. So I think that it's a wonderful service. More animals need to be caddies, more animal caddies. St. Bernard's could do this job, too, I'm just saying. - Could you think they could carry a whole golf club set? - You could put them in a little cart. - Oh, that's true. - They could pull a little cart. - They could, huh? - That'd be so cute. - That would be good. - Yeah, I'll take this, this thing's fun. I guess it gives the llamas a purpose. And we all know that they need a purpose. - I don't know. - All those lazy, powerless llamas. - All those llamas just wandering about. - Sitting in grandmother's basement. - He's running as a gap year for college, you know. - Stupid, out of work llamas. - The one on Europe. - Yeah, get it together. No, I like that. I mean, they're not hurting the animal. The animal's doing a job. You're getting some extra entertainment. - Well, llamas are designed to carry things. I mean, they're packing them. - Yeah, they're packing them. - Yeah, so it's not like it's putting any extra. - No, absolutely not, yeah. It's probably lightest stuff that they've been asked to carry, you know, aren't it? - Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's really cool, it's different. And I mean, you're not hurting the environment with the emissions of a golf cart that you're gonna slam on the brakes. - Just the emissions of a llama. (laughs) - And the shims of a llama. - It's like memorification. (laughs) - Next to my llama, right to memorization. (laughs) - Emissions of a llama. - It's the next blockbusters I remember. - My life is a caddy. It sure would force golf cart. - Yeah, it's my life as a caddy, Colin. - The emissions of a llama. - The dimensions of a llama. - That's a dinosaur. - Yeah. That's a long one. - Yeah, that's a long one. Yeah, I'm definitely taking this. This is hilarious, and they need to get the llamas to also be the food and beverage cart, because come on, hilarious. I would buy, I would totally buy a beer from a llama. - It would just pull like a little cooler on the bag, like a little cooler saddle. - Yeah. - And then just cooler on each side. - Yeah. - Just drink some of it a little high. - Love it. Love it. - Yes. - Hilarious. But yes, good for the llamas. Stupid lazy llamas. (laughs) - A jobless llama. - Stupid unemployed jobless lazy. - It's a sexy llama. (laughs) - It's a sexy flan, you're just. - A sexy flan. - All right, this is gonna do it for this week. Take it or leave it. (laughs) So, Sarah, what did you think of the Taffs? Raspberry sorbae. - Not a favorite. I should have known this when I picked it up though, 'cause I like raspberry. I'm not in love with raspberry. - Okay. - So, it's fine. I like it mixed with other fruits in a beverage, more so than on its own. On its own, it's just in beers. And I'm sorry, I know a lot of people like this particular one I'm about to trash on, but the founder's Rubeias. - I like that one. - I like that one. - It's too sweet. - Fair enough. I could see that though. - It's like sickly sweet, and the lactose doesn't really help. So, it's fine. If you like a really strong raspberry flavor and like a really sweet beer, then yeah, go for it. But yeah, it's for like beer purposes, it's probably a little too raspberry. It delivers on the raspberry, but that's a little too much for me. - For you, okay, fair enough. - Yeah. - Your mileage may vary. - Well, the Taffs Brewing Company is Nelly Orange Cream Sickle Ale, which is, of course, dream sickle inspired. It was quite orangy. I had a little bit of vanilla in it. I could've done with kind of more of a lactose punch there, especially if they're gonna say-- - I think that's what you said, Sarah. - Yeah, it needs a little bit more lactose, I think, to really be like a cream sickle vibe. But the flavor, actually, it wasn't bad. It was a very good beer. It was a very tasty beer. And maybe they were going for something a little bit lighter that wasn't kind of like a lactosey thing. I feel like Taffs is usually kind of a lighter beer for most of their things that I've had anyway. So it doesn't surprise me that this wasn't like super heavy on the vanilla ice cream portion of the cream sickle and that it was sort of like more of an orangy vanilla-y flavor. Still quite tasty, a good summer drinker. - I feel like that was almost your exact assessment on that. - It's almost as if you listened to what I had to say about it last weekend. - But yeah, I do agree that if it had a little more lactose it would be good. And then if mine was cold, or I'd rather put it in the fridge or whatever. - It was quite cold, which was very refreshing of this. - Yeah, 'cause you did say it was like a lighter summer drinker, almost borderline like lawn mower beer type of situation. - Yeah, especially at 4.8, so it's a really light one. - Yeah, okay, so what do we think of the coconut head, coconut IPA from Henderson Brewing Company? - I liked it. You know, I'm not like a big coconut head. But this is good, it's not like smacking you in the face with coconut flavor. Like you get that natural coconut flavor and not the artificial one. And I like the flavor of coconut. - Cocoa-hut. - Cocoa-hut, god. - Job of the coca-hut. - I'd guess it's not a well or something. I like the flavor of coconut, but the texture is what gets me. I hate the texture of it. So this gets rid of the texture. - Much better way to imbibe the coconut. - Yeah, so you get the coconut. It's a nice, like, it's the IPA, but it's not overly hoppy or heavy. So yeah, I really enjoy it. - Yep. - Yeah, I think that the IPA that they made this with and added the coconut to is like a nice light kind of lemony refreshing IPA. - It's clean. - It's clean. It's not overly grassy in any way or better, which pairs really nicely with the coconut. I love a coconut beer. Like every time I see a coconut beer, I'm there because I really like coconut. The texture is kind of weird, but I do really enjoy the flavor of coconut. And this was a really great IPA for that, I think. So, yep, really good one from Henderson Brewing Company. - Yeah, I liked it 'cause yeah. Sometimes with coconut, you can get artificially, you can get, like, way too heavy on the coconut. And this just had like a hint. Like you knew it was there, but it wasn't like smacking it in the face. And the IPA was light and clean. And I thought like, I thought they did a good job with balance. So, good job, Henderson Brewing Company. - Yeah. - Good stuff. - Good stuff. - Yeah. - Good stuff in the hint. - If y'all can start distributing cans across the state, that would be awesome. - Yeah. - 'Cause I would totally buy it. - They might one day. - For sure, yeah. And if you ever go back there at some point, like in the next, like when was the next time you probably scattered, it'll be back, like. - Oh, I don't know. - We might try to get another summer visit in. There's a lot to do. And the Hendo and Hendo adjacent during the summer. - Yeah. - There's of course, you know, holiday world theme park. - Absolutely. - And we haven't hit just yet. - 'Cause you gotta get, you gotta hit that and then give an assessment on the Thanksgiving roller coaster. - Yes, the world's largest gravy themed roller coaster. - Yes. - Yeah. - Probably the only as well. - Yeah, goes forwards and backwards. - Yep. - Yeah. And then bring back more Hendo beers. - Yep. - So evil twin brewing's are most popular IPA. Okay, I could see that. I mean, it's an IPA. I have no problem with it. I don't know if evil twin makes other IPA's, but if this is their most popular, I could see that. - Okay. - I usually go, when I get evil twin, I usually go for like their, they do the more Jesus in those types of beer. So I go for more of their weirder beers. - Yeah, they're a lot of experimental. - Yeah. - Yeah. The peanut butter, porter kind of thing that they have. - Yeah, right, yeah. So, I was hazy and poppy and definitely wasn't wet hop, so, you know. - It was the best IPA. - I'm here for that. - The proper hop. - I could say popular, you would say? - I could say, see where it was their most popular. Yeah, so I'm gonna agree with that. You know what else I'm gonna agree with? That we did an episode of Hungry and Kentucky. New one. - Yeah. - I will agree with that as well. I was there. - You were there. - Talk to you remember that. It's one of the only things I remember showing. Yeah, so if you wanna hear whatever we talked about on there, a lot of the prom day ranting. So, if you have an interest in prom day. - Yup. - You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @hungryny. You can email me, hungrynyny.com. And then our show is every other Wednesday wherever you find your podcasts. - Absolutely, and the history was fun. 'Cause I think we've had on a new history theme. - Yeah, a series of sorts. - Yes, a series of sorts we're gonna do for the histories, which I think will be fun, until we run out. - I mean, there's a lot of things I can do. - It is true, it is definitely true. Yes, all right, well, we're gonna go and put our flowers in the attic. - Nice. You can, I'm not going to. - No, go to the screen. I don't know where I was going with that. Anyway, you can always catch us on the Twix at JRL. That's your sports, our Facebook or Instagram. We are on the fired up network, we're on Apple Podcast, we're on iHeartRadio, we're on Spreaker, we're everywhere. Good podcasts are free, and we will see you next week. See ya! Bye. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]