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In this engaging podcast, a dad and his two sons explore their personal interests while rating a variety of alcoholic beverages. They dive into discussions about nerd and geek culture, travel experiences, and an array of intriguing topics that pique their curiosity. Join them for a fun and lighthearted conversation filled with laughter, insights, and, of course, plenty of drink reviews!
Hello, and welcome back to the three hamster boys podcast. We are here again for another episode. Team, I'm running out of count running running out of track of how many episodes this is. I think this might be seven. Seven.
Alexander:Seven.
Nick:Yeah. Yep.
Alexander:We're almost there to double digits. Last episode, if you watched it, was a bit of a downer. We were talking about, like, death in media. And, of course, a lot of that kind of, you know comes back to Artists expression of death and mortality in our own life and that got a little little sad so this episode we want to do something a little bit different a little fun, a little more light, and just kinda have have a little little fun with it and not kind of be quite as as down in the dumps. I think it was a great episode, but it gets a little depressing.
Jeff:So we picked one that I'm not gonna be very good at because I have no imagination.
Nick:This is more of an exercise than like Yeah. A personal feel. But I think it it's just entertaining. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. So before we get too deep into the topics we're gonna be talking about, Nick, do you wanna talk about what we're drinking?
Nick:Absolutely. So, we have Ragged Branch. It's a rye.
Jeff:A rye whiskey. So Ragged Branch, once again, is a very local distillery to us.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:They're out in the middle of nowhere. I mean, they're hard to get to. But
Nick:Surrounded by, like, vineyards and
Jeff:Yeah.
Nick:Farmland, basically.
Jeff:And I've seen them, you know, available nationally right now. So they're they're getting bigger and bigger. We actually have a friend that was one of the initial investors in it.
Nick:Yeah. It's true.
Jeff:So it's kinda kinda cool to see them getting popular. They started with just, I think it was a single, malt bourbon or single they started with a bourbon and then they've gone to a single malt and some other things. So the rye I'm really curious about the rye because we've not tasted this yet.
Nick:Yeah. We tried others while we visited, but the rye was untouched for today.
Jeff:And rye is very different. I don't think either one of you has ever tasted a rye that you can remember.
Nick:Probably not. Maybe. You can remember it's interesting phrasing. I I might have had it with other things.
Jeff:Right. You you might have. Rye is definitely a different taste than other whiskeys.
Nick:Would you compare it to more of like a a spiced rum to rum or
Jeff:No. We we talked we were talking about this before and a lot of people describe rye as spicy, but not spicy as in like spiced rum. Spicy as in, it has a lot more, tingly notes on your tongue when you drink it compared to other whiskeys.
Nick:I was about to say, is
Alexander:this gonna kick me or is
Jeff:this No. No. No. It's not gonna kick you, but you're gonna you're gonna be like, okay, that's not bourbon at all. Mhmm.
Jeff:So you're you're definitely as someone that drinks a lot of whiskey and scotch
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:I can definitely taste the difference when I taste a rye. So
Alexander:So as us newbies, we might not be able to taste as much. So Cheers. Cheers. This is just a shot. Just on the rocks.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:So like when you smell it, it's very different.
Alexander:That's fun. I like that.
Nick:It's got like something after.
Jeff:Yep. Yep. It's got more of a tingly on the on the back of your tongue when you drink it.
Alexander:Yeah. It definitely just kind of lingers after a while and I kinda like that. This is definitely something that you'd wanna like, sip.
Nick:Yep. This is like the,
Alexander:you know, like, you go to a noir style bar and you just bartender. Give me a rye, and he just slides in.
Nick:Rye on the rocks.
Alexander:Rye on the rocks. Rye on
Jeff:the rocks. Yep. Sipping this. So, you know, it's it's it's,
Alexander:it's It's good.
Jeff:It is good. I I do like it. It's, it's very similar to why I drink scotch because it has a more full body Yeah. And it more of a sipping one that kind of it doesn't warm me as much as scotch does, but it does. It is good.
Alexander:Alright. So now for the the topic here, we're being a little silly. And as Nick kind of said, this is more of a thought experiment. If you think about it or actually as a little backstory, This is kind of one of the icebreakers that Nick or I will use during camp when we're like introducing groups of people to each other as like, hey, we're gonna do this and also introduce your your name and things like that. So to kick things off, the the prompt here is if you could live in any sort of and we'll start with fruit and we'll evolve it as we go.
Alexander:But But if you could live in any sort of fruit, what would it be? So kind of as an example, if you think about Spongebob Squarepants, he lives in a pineapple under the sea. But what would you live in? And that's the question that we're proposing to ourselves and to each other and even to you audience. So, dad, I know you've you've said imagination not my thing.
Alexander:But let's kick it off with We'd
Nick:love to see you kick it off. Yeah.
Jeff:Okay. So when I was thinking about this, I'm thinking structural because I'm living in it. Yeah. And so I I I came up with pomegranate to live in.
Nick:Okay. I get it. Yeah.
Jeff:And mainly because it reminds me of the adobe villages that live in the side of mountains.
Nick:Oh, okay. Okay. When you said adobe Yeah.
Alexander:I was thinking, like
Jeff:So so, like, you you you see these these, Native American Indian villages that are built into the rocks.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:And so when you open up, a pomegranate, you have these different layers of skin inside of it and the seeds are in different sections of it. Yeah. So I was thinking that each one of those sections could be a living compartment inside the pomegranate. Mhmm. And then you had the seeds so you could you could plant more pomegranate to see get more food so you can have life sustaining food.
Jeff:Okay. And then the pomegranates are supposed to have high antioxidants. So it's supposed to be really good for you.
Nick:Uh-huh.
Jeff:So like I said, it wasn't an imaginary pig. It was
Alexander:You're you're thinking about, like, the colony. You're using
Nick:this, like, very practical. I'll like, use every part of the the buffalo. Yeah. Exactly. It's it's sort of, like, be the most efficient option.
Jeff:Because, you know, you got the seeds to plant and keep going with food and all that stuff. So like I said, I when I looked at this, I'm like, oh god. This is so boring. It's not it's so engineering. You know?
Alexander:But I I think that that's what makes it interesting. Because, again, like, a part of this is it's telling you, telling us a little bit about your psyche and, like, what you're thinking about. Right? And so engaging in this might seem silly, but in a way, it's like, okay. We know that you kind of don't think of your imagination as that, like, out there, but you do think about, like, very logistical heavy things.
Alexander:You're thinking about the engineering side of it. You're thinking about how do how do I make this settlement prosper
Nick:if we're forced to live in a pomegranate?
Jeff:That is it.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I get it. It makes sense.
Alexander:Yeah. It's like fallout shelter.
Jeff:Yeah. Exactly. It's
Alexander:like fallout shelter. Yeah. I'll I'll go next. I think this is very kind of topical when we are recording this we are within the midst of fall. And I just think it would be very fun.
Alexander:Mine is less kind of engineering and like very like logical focus. Mine's just because I think it would be fun. I'm thinking about a pumpkin. I'm I'm thinking about living in a pumpkin.
Jeff:Looking out of the eyes of the
Alexander:jack o'-lantern.
Nick:Exactly. Yeah. Specifically a jack o'-lantern.
Alexander:Ex exactly. Specifically, like, a cutout jack o'-lantern. Nick and I had this conversation before. I think it would be windows. It wouldn't just be, like, straight up open, for you to, like, walk in and out of the the mouth of the pumpkin.
Alexander:But I think with that, you've got a spacious interior. I'm not thinking about a colony. I'm thinking about a a single person home, if you will. Yeah. It's a yurt.
Alexander:Yeah. A yurt. Exactly. If you wanted to, you could add another floor. I feel like you have the space for that.
Nick:You could cut it in half.
Alexander:Yeah. Make it a loft.
Jeff:But you could also do like a snowman pumpkin to have three different sized pumpkins and stack them up.
Alexander:I didn't even think about that. But you could have like a you know, it it's expandable. You you can make it a duplex. But again, I I think it matches, like, the the fall vibes, have some, like, Halloween inspired interiors, some witchy vibes. Maybe just throw a cauldron in the middle because why not?
Nick:Yeah. We we talked about this. In order to get that, like, jack o'-lantern glow Yeah.
Alexander:You have to choose, like, warm lighting for the inside.
Nick:I think we we said, like, a hearth in the middle Yeah. And then the chimney going up to be the True. The spouse. Yeah. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:Because you get the stem out.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. The stem. A big kinda hearth in the middle. And now that makes me think like a hearth, like, what am I gonna do as a single person?
Alexander:I want, like, people to come over and enjoy a hearth with me. I I I can't have that on, like, daily by myself.
Nick:Yes. So what the pumpkins a party pad?
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe.
Jeff:Well, it's an open space because you get a lot more people in it.
Alexander:Or or like, you you know, Apex legends, the way that they have some of those buildings is like a cylinder, and then it's like a branch off into another cylinder. Maybe it's like something like that where we're in a pumpkin patch, and it's it's just connecting
Nick:in there. Giant commune?
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. Big commune.
Nick:Well, it's like a it's like one of It reminds me of, like, space colonies where they're Yeah. You know, you're like, oh, we build the house and we, like, connected.
Alexander:Right. Exactly. That's kind of where where my thoughts are. I get it. Originally, it was just a single thing, but now I'm thinking, like, we could just
Nick:add more and more. Giant.
Alexander:Back into the back into the colony. Well, I just I just like the idea of community and like having like a walkable area. We were just out, visiting, a place nearby for an arts and crafts festival And we were we're, like, oh, we need to go to a restaurant. And we we went to this Mexican restaurant, and it was in the middle of a, like a development in
Nick:the middle
Jeff:of it. Usage development. So that apartments, townhouses, and houses. Yeah. And then really three levels of houses where you have, like, a one bedroom
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:A three bedroom, and then, like, a bigger one.
Nick:So, like Six bedroom.
Alexander:Yeah. And it's it's it goes back to, like, I dream of, like, being able to walk to, like, anything that I need. So, like, there is, like, a couple restaurants in that little area. There is, like, a physical therapy place. There's a gym over there too.
Alexander:It just, like, having that accessible in that, like, community area.
Jeff:Just like unlike where we live now.
Alexander:Yeah. We we do not live anywhere near life. We we have to drive, like, fifteen, twenty minutes to get to anything.
Nick:We can't walk anywhere. No. Our only hope was a chance of a gas station being built near us. And the neighborhood said no. And I
Jeff:was It's not even really neighborhoods. It's just like a rural area and all these Yeah. All the people that lived in the area said no. We wanted to be rural. So
Nick:That was my hope.
Jeff:Yeah. Anyways.
Nick:Alright, Nick. Okay. I said I wasn't gonna do it, but I think it's just my favorite and my go to. Yeah. So so I have a I have a common answer whenever I do
Alexander:this. Mhmm.
Nick:I choose grapes. Grapes I feel like they're versatile and I it's specifically on a grapevine. Yeah. Where they're all together, they're bunched, and and my addition to it to make it, like, livable and more personalized for the design standpoint is that all the grapes are attached by rope bridges, where they're, like, all, like, sort of daisy chained together on the Yeah. On the grapevine.
Nick:And so, like, each of them have like their own rooms, and I mean depending on the size of the grape to be honest. I was like, are you building a colony too here? I was not intended. It
Jeff:was
Nick:like, oh, they're close by. So it's it's more like if you can imagine like a train where you have like, you open the door and there's like
Alexander:a small little like walk through. Yeah.
Nick:Because like rope It's
Jeff:like the Ewoks.
Nick:That's probably more and which is what? Basically A colony.
Jeff:Colony of treehouse. It's a colony of treehouse. Yeah. Zinc pipe.
Nick:I mean, the treehouse is cool. I'm gonna be honest. And I think that is the sort you know what? That is a pretty comparable vibe Yeah. That I'm trying to capture.
Jeff:I was just thinking, like, it's just like that. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. It's just like that. It's exactly like that. Yeah.
Jeff:I've I've I've read some other sci fi books where there have been huge plants that were like droplet size fruit that people lived in. Yeah. And they're connected by bridges too. Yeah.
Nick:The I you know, it's not to say that this prompt isn't uninspired. Right?
Jeff:Like Right. You
Nick:mentioned Spongebob and the pineapple. I think the go to was James and
Alexander:the Giant Peach. Yeah.
Nick:I feel like that's the one I can connect a little bit more to, to be honest.
Alexander:I I just like I couldn't think about it for a second. But, yeah, Jane James and the Giant Peach. Yeah. I think this prompt is really fun, especially when you introduce it with kids, and they're like,
Nick:oh, heck,
Alexander:of course, I've thought about
Nick:this. Yeah. They they are unfazed by this.
Alexander:Yeah. They get so into it. And I think that's kind of the fun part about working with kids, is because they're just like unfiltered, unfazed by this where you're like, alright, little Johnny. If you could be any kind of ball, what kind of
Nick:ball would you be?
Alexander:And he's like, meatball. And you're like, great answer. You're like,
Nick:yeah. I wouldn't have thought of that, but you're right. That's a good answer.
Jeff:Yeah. I'd be a wrecking ball.
Nick:Alright. There you go. Yeah. Fun little exercise.
Alexander:Exactly. I always say I'd be a snowball. Alright. But, yeah, very fun. Let's let's move on to another drink.
Alexander:This is this is good. I'm like this. I'm excited to see how you'll incorporate this with other items. It's
Nick:gonna be a boozy night.
Jeff:This isn't always a boozy night.
Alexander:Yeah. I feel like we have these, like, sections where it's like, oh, we're gonna have beer or cider. And it's like, this is light. This is easy. And then we've got, like, gin and rum, and it gets very boozy very quickly.
Alexander:I try
Nick:and find the interesting cocktails, and I don't just choose alcohol and soda. You know, I'm like, oh, wow. I've never heard of this before. Anyway. Alright.
Jeff:So Let's take a break.
Alexander:We'll see you right back. And we're back. Thanks for joining us again.
Jeff:I just wanna say one thing. So we kinda joke about this. When when we go to buy these mixers for it, one of the things that Nick's been doing is picking alcohols he's never heard of or never tried.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:So in Virginia, alcohol is controlled by by the ABC store. And so now I'm getting to know these ABC employees pretty well.
Alexander:Like, oh, no. He's coming back in here.
Jeff:Because I'll go in there and go, I need this. Do you know what this is? I've never seen that bottle before. So it's been it's been quite the adventure just getting some stuff, and we we haven't been able to find everything.
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:And we've had to replace some things, but I don't think there's been a bad replacement. I think we've been really lucky in that the the drink has come out still good even with the replacement.
Nick:Yeah. I you know, I think we're it's a lot of these, especially tonight, we've we've done a lot of substitutions from, the recipes that I found. But most of them, they've at least been, like, it's recommended as a substitute. Yeah. And although it's not like true to the recipe, yeah, I agree.
Nick:I don't think any of them I'm like ick, you know. Right. Like I'm I'm grossed out by.
Jeff:Yeah. Like is this the one with the sambuca? Or is that the next one? This one this one has the licorice in it.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Nick:So like Wait.
Alexander:This is supposed to have sambuca in it?
Nick:Yeah. This has some sambuca. Oh, yes.
Alexander:Let's go. But yeah.
Jeff:So like like this recipe called for anisek, and we could not find anisek anywhere. Which
Nick:it's not it's not actually the most uncommon thing.
Jeff:No. No. It's not. It just we we couldn't find it.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff:But anyway, so we have sambuca in here right now for the licorice thing.
Nick:Yeah. Alright. Heck yeah. And at the same time, this is also the one it recommend okay. So let me let me give you this is this is the the Valstead, which is, Anisette and or Sambuca, orange juice, raspberry juice.
Nick:It recommends a Swedish punch.
Alexander:What's a Swedish punch? It's spelled oddly.
Nick:It's like p u n s c h.
Alexander:Oh, is it alcohol?
Nick:Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That there was no chance we were getting
Jeff:that. Yeah.
Alexander:There was
Nick:so instead, we have the, Caracha. Kachaca?
Jeff:Kachaca.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. Kachaca. I think it's What
Jeff:are you saying?
Nick:I think it's
Jeff:Kachaca. Kachaca, which is a Brazilian rum.
Nick:It's a sweet rum. Oh.
Alexander:Yeah. Oh. Oh. That's what I was smelling earlier. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. Okay. Cool.
Jeff:It's it's called 51 or something like that.
Nick:Yeah. And then obviously the the rye whiskey. The color is very pretty.
Alexander:Yes.
Jeff:And we couldn't get straight raspberry juice, so we basically muddled some raspberries in it. So there's
Alexander:the No weak Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They they they gave
Jeff:them a bag. So yeah. So so this has got this has got real fruit in it besides the the orange juice in it. So it should be really tasty. This
Alexander:Very real fruit.
Nick:Is the least alcoholic drink of the night.
Alexander:Let's go. Yeah.
Nick:And there's still a decent amount, but it's just saved by the raspberry and orange juice.
Alexander:It's it sounds like a really sweet drink, so I'm very excited to
Jeff:see that. It again?
Nick:It is the Valstead.
Jeff:Valstead. Okay. Cheers. Cheers.
Alexander:You know, even with the other flavors, I feel like it doesn't really cut down on that end note of the rye.
Jeff:But the rye the rye still doesn't get the rye.
Alexander:It just, like, comes out there. I like it. I think it adds like a little bit more complexity where you have more of that sweet notes coming forward in the beginning and kinda at the front of your tongue. And then you get the the rye at the end with more of those notes near the back.
Jeff:I think that having the muddled raspberries did not add the enough raspberry taste to it. I think so too. I think that if we had the raspberry juice per se, it would be a little bit better.
Alexander:Maybe it's because I'm not a fan of fruit, but
Nick:I taste plenty of raspberry.
Jeff:So both of us really like fruits.
Alexander:Yeah. Sorry. Both of
Jeff:them. Yeah.
Nick:It's also I think the muddled raspberry has changed the expected consistency of this as well.
Jeff:It definitely has.
Alexander:Well, well
Jeff:But you know what? I didn't catch the rum at all.
Nick:I get, like a lighter, like, on the tail end. There's, like, a there's, like, a hint of it. I think it's Yeah.
Alexander:Because we did
Nick:no. We did, like, very little.
Alexander:Was that the dashes?
Jeff:Know the I was thinking about the rum.
Nick:Yeah. Even then. Compared to everything else,
Jeff:it wasn't as much. And the licorice is not coming through at all. No. I think we we could have put more licorice into it.
Alexander:Yeah. I think it's still a good drink in in general. Yeah. It definitely tastes more of that fruity beginning and then the right at the end for sure. I don't
Jeff:think it's enough fruit.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. Alright, Nick. Moving on. We did fruit to kick us off.
Alexander:I think it's only fair that we also hit up vegetables. So if we could live in any kind of vegetable, what would we do? Again, this is just kind of a fun episode. We wanted something a little lighter. So Nick, what what vegetable if you could live in a vegetable, what vegetable would you live in?
Nick:I'm deviating slightly in regards that I wanna make my house out of it. Okay. So I'm using it.
Alexander:Okay. Okay. You wanna use it as a building materials, not necessarily like James and the Giant Peach style where he's just like living in a in in a
Nick:But you could still say you're living in it.
Alexander:Okay. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. Right? So I'm choosing celery. Okay. And Lincoln Logs.
Alexander:Oh my gosh. I love
Nick:that. You know, it I think it has the perfect shape to be able to manipulate it. It's basically a log already.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. That's really fun.
Nick:This is just the clear choice. It's really dense, so I think insulation isn't a problem.
Jeff:You insulated with ranch. Right?
Nick:Oh, no. No.
Alexander:I feel like that starts smelling bad immediately.
Nick:If anything, peanut butter.
Jeff:Peanut butter.
Alexander:Yes. I just imagine like builders coming in and like setting up like celery blocks and like as like mortar, like dipping into a jar of peanut butter.
Jeff:You're checking it with the
Nick:peanut butter. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
Nick:It it's not ants on a log. But if we needed a mortar substitute Yeah. Peanut butter makes sense. But, yeah. Celery, I think it's just a very sturdy thing.
Nick:I think living in a celery could also be interesting. You know, like you you like stack them together.
Alexander:True.
Nick:And you're it's like a it's like a shipping container. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Alexander:I see what you're saying now.
Nick:Like on on its side? Yeah.
Alexander:I would say you like straight
Nick:up and I was like, how
Alexander:would that work? But yeah, on
Nick:the side yeah. Standing up, you'd you'd be like, my wizard towel. Oh, celery.
Alexander:My prison. I I think I love going back to the idea of like a shipping container. I love the idea of like having a house that's like made out of a shipping container. Yeah. Not only because it's supposed to be like cheaper, but also you're like reusing these these containers.
Alexander:And I think a lot of the housing designs can be really interesting. When I was in, when I was in Amsterdam, they had, near one of the universities, I think was Amsterdam University. They had a an area set up with a bunch of shipping container houses, not houses, like buildings that were kind of stacked on top of each other, with a common area in the middle. And this was, set up to be like a place where students from the university could come and try and set up, like, businesses. So either students or people in the community could set up businesses and, like, run out of this area.
Jeff:I mean, we've seen a couple of them. We were in Camden in England.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:And they had a food court and it was three levels.
Nick:I think
Jeff:it was three levels.
Nick:Three levels. Yeah.
Jeff:Three levels of of cargo
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:Things that
Alexander:were just I think that's so cool. I I think it's such a great idea especially in like city spaces where like space is important.
Jeff:I I I don't know. I read something where it was like something like 60,000,000 empty containers are just sitting around in these places.
Nick:Yeah. Because like one part gets damaged and the whole thing is like Yeah.
Jeff:It's not it's not sturdy enough to be stacked in in these ship Yeah. Ships now that have to have, you know, 20 stacked high on
Nick:it. Yeah. Yeah. You know? And I I just like it aesthetically.
Nick:Yeah. It's against the brutalism in cities as well.
Alexander:Oh my gosh. Yes.
Nick:Because like cargo container shipping containers, they're already, like, a blue or a red or something like that. So you already have that base and people obviously build on top of the colors. And I think it adds so much more personality and character to the, like, the space that it is put in.
Jeff:And we and we talk about the high density ability of certain buildings. You start putting shipping containers. You can do high density and have multiuse around it. You can have restaurants
Nick:right next
Jeff:to apartments, right next to stores and whatever. Mhmm. You'd also create local areas of business where local people could have their own business. I I I love the idea. I I've always been from an engineering perspective, these are these are very structurally sound containers
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:That are meant to be stacked, so let's use them.
Nick:And you can I also really like that you can tandem them together? Yeah. Like, if like one shipping container isn't enough, then you can, put one next to it and like cut out holes and like stick them together.
Jeff:Well, one of
Alexander:the things Very modular. Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff:One of the things that I looked at was is setting if we were to get our own space for the bakery. Right? Yeah. Is is if I wanted to do a building, I was definitely gonna look at a shipping container building. There's so many cool designs where you don't have to have them straight on.
Jeff:You can have them angled. You can have them at 90 degrees. Yeah. You can do all this stuff and then it creates
Nick:I've seen like the horseshoe. I think it's really cool.
Jeff:It creates spaces due to the voids,
Nick:which is
Jeff:kind of a cool idea.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah.
Alexander:I think I've seen, like, one on either side and then one running across
Nick:them over
Alexander:top. And again, yeah, it adds kinda like courtyard area. Yep. Yeah. Again, really cool.
Alexander:I love that idea. Brutalism sucks. I don't know why we ever thought that was a
Nick:good idea. Man, shipping containers are my favorite vegetable.
Jeff:That's true.
Alexander:But I'm just thinking about, like, replace a shipping container with celery at this point.
Nick:It's perfect.
Alexander:And it's perfect.
Nick:Just makes sense.
Alexander:Dad, what do you got going up second here?
Jeff:So once again to structurally, I was thinking is bamboo
Nick:a vegetable? Oh my gosh.
Alexander:No. I
Jeff:was like, I'm gonna say no.
Alexander:I feel like you people do eat bamboo.
Jeff:You do eat bamboo shoots. You do do bamboo shoots in like Asian
Alexander:You make humans. I make humans. I
Nick:mean Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Jeff:But but I was like, I'm not gonna use that one. Because it was it was I was only looking at it from a structural standpoint. Right. So then the reason I thought of the eye drop thing was I said, I'm gonna be string beans because you have this line where the beans are hanging down.
Alexander:Oh, okay.
Jeff:So it's like a string of lights, but they would be ladders and pulleys in order to get from one beam to the other beam to the other beam. So once again, it's a it's a it's like a string beams are like a a light a string of lights, but each light would be a place to stay.
Alexander:Yeah.
Nick:Okay.
Jeff:I love that. Okay. And then, you know, you can either do like cable car back and forth or Yeah. Something like that. So I I was thinking the engineering side said bamboo was the good choice, but that's kind of a stretch in my mind as a vegetable.
Jeff:Right.
Nick:A little bit.
Jeff:I was thinking also sugarcane. Oh, interesting.
Nick:Okay. You'd you'd be you'd be close to the bamboo idea.
Jeff:Yeah. But sugarcane, once again, it's not really a vegetable. Yeah. It's more of a
Nick:I I It's a plant.
Alexander:I'm a bit embarrassed to admit. I have no idea what real sugarcane looks like. I only know what it looks like from Minecraft.
Jeff:It looks it looks similar to bamboo. It's it's like a shoot.
Alexander:Okay. It literally does look like some from Minecraft. Yeah. Yeah.
Nick:Yeah. It's it's lore accurate.
Jeff:Yeah. So that's what, because I was thinking I could build with it like you did with celery. I don't know why I didn't think of celery, but that's such a good idea.
Nick:I'm I was a little we didn't talk about our choices at home. I was like He could pick celery.
Alexander:I I was kinda thinking about this. We normally at least, like, briefly mention a concept or an idea of what we're gonna do before this. We did not talk to each other before this at all.
Nick:No.
Alexander:I was kind of I had a couple backups just in case I needed to pivot really quickly. But so far y'all had very similar ideas. Nothing like mine.
Jeff:But so so string bean is my choice.
Nick:I love it. Unexpected? I like it a lot. Yeah. I know.
Alexander:I I really think that's fun. For me, I went with a very different idea. And this goes back to Ewoks. This goes back to the childhood dream of always wanting to live in a tree house.
Nick:Doing broccoli.
Alexander:I wanted broccoli.
Nick:It is so ironic. I hope you know because you were the one being like, I'm allergic to broccoli. When you were younger, you were you were like so against it.
Alexander:I was adamantly against broccoli when I was younger. I'm a changed man now though. I love broccoli now. I I broccoli, cauliflower, give me veggies. I'll eat them.
Alexander:I don't like fruit as much, and I've been forcing myself for years to eat fruit in hopes that, like, I won't hate it.
Nick:Well, I
Jeff:mean, we joke about it, but you you you like brussels sprouts before mom and I did. Yeah.
Nick:You know,
Jeff:because we just brussels sprouts are really a tough eat
Nick:for me. I'm not I'm not there yet. I'm gonna be honest.
Alexander:I won't say I love brussels sprouts and, like, when when we were cooking them for Ooma, like, not for No. No. No.
Jeff:No. But I'm I'm thinking, like, pan fried with some bacon.
Nick:I think that's the only way to eat them, to
Jeff:be honest.
Nick:Super good. You want the you want them crispy, not gooey.
Alexander:Yeah. How good do you enjoy that? Pan fried with bacon?
Jeff:I don't. You know you know what? I the the the way I eat usually brussels sprouts now is in a salad. Shredded up raw in a salad because it adds crunch to it.
Nick:Yeah. I'm gonna be honest. I think eating the whole brussels sprouts isn't ideal. I like the the different parts. It's like
Jeff:It's like an artichoke.
Alexander:I was just about to say artichoke.
Nick:It's like an artichoke. It's there are many cabbages. I'm not gonna just chunk into it like a whole cabbage, you know. You're
Jeff:gonna No. But but that's how I look at brussel sprouts is when when I like I like adding shredded bread cabbage or regular cabbage to whatever. You know, you put that on a taco, you put that on a ramen or whatever. It's really good.
Alexander:Yeah. But yeah. So broccoli, again, it's like a a treehouse, basically, is what I'm thinking of. If you wanted to, you could probably put, like, different little houses in, like, each of the little florets that are kind of on the broccoli. But I was mainly thinking of just, like, one one big piece of broccoli that has, like, an inside and then, like, outdoor patio area where you can walk around the the side of it, enjoy my my tree house life.
Alexander:I I like that.
Nick:I I was considering broccoli for a second. I'm like, but it's a little dense and, like Yeah. When I think of it.
Alexander:Yeah. It's funny. My backup was carrot. I was either going up or going down.
Nick:Oh, underground. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Nick:I get it. You would actually be followed shelter.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. It would actually be
Nick:a shelter. Follow it out. You know? Okay.
Alexander:Well, I feel like with carrot. Right? Because this is what I was thinking. With carrot, you would have I would have to have some way to get to the surface quickly and easily because I do not wanna be, like, underground the entire time. I feel like I would go crazy.
Alexander:Yeah.
Jeff:Yeah. Same here. Yeah. Okay.
Nick:I I thought you were gonna pick mushroom, though.
Alexander:Dude, mushroom? Look, sometimes I don't know if mushroom counts as a vegetable.
Nick:Culinarily?
Alexander:Yeah. Like It's a fungus. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.
Alexander:And I love mushrooms, but I think if I had something that I really, really liked eating like mushrooms, I'd just be like, oh, man. I'm cooking up
Nick:something for dinner. Yeah.
Alexander:I'd be like, let me just cut a little bit. And after a while, like, guests come over and they're like, why is there a hole
Nick:in your wall? I'm installing a new window. Wait.
Jeff:Hold on. Don't worry about it. It always grows. So it would be growing as you do it. So you'd have to cut it off and cook it.
Alexander:Also, if it's mushrooms, it's gotta be on something like decomposing. Right? Yeah. So that wouldn't be
Nick:Well, just like
Jeff:No. It could be on like a tree.
Alexander:Yeah. Like a dying tree.
Jeff:No. You you see mushrooms on live trees all the time.
Nick:Yeah. It
Alexander:just I guess so.
Nick:You know?
Alexander:Yeah. A little bit.
Jeff:Just gotta keep it moist.
Nick:Basically. Dark and dark and moist.
Alexander:You gotta water my house. Exactly.
Nick:I think all of us would have to have that issue. Yeah. But I
Alexander:mean, that would be like the good thing is like, if it rains, you're like your house gets water.
Nick:All of our houses need to be in England or Oregon. Yeah.
Alexander:Oh, my gosh. A house in Wales doesn't sound too bad. Yeah. Should be what? Alright.
Alexander:Cool. I think we're moving on to drink number three. And we've almost finished these all. Almost. One of us has.
Alexander:I'm I'm taking my time. I I don't wanna get as
Nick:You're enjoying my creation. I Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I am.
Nick:Alright.
Alexander:We'll see you back in a second. Alright. Thanks. Hey. Welcome back to part three.
Alexander:I honestly don't know how we're gonna be breaking these up or how, like, the cuts are gonna look. But welcome back. Thanks for joining us here. We are on our third and final drink of the night. I've been told this is the booziest drink of them all.
Nick:Yeah. There there's not a lot of,
Jeff:Not an alcohol.
Nick:Yeah. So this is called the Lafayette. Okay.
Jeff:And We're about to go design DC. You didn't get that joke. No.
Alexander:I don't understand what you're saying
Nick:to me. I'm sorry.
Jeff:Okay. It's fine. Lafayette is the one that did the architectural design of DC. Washington. Gotcha.
Alexander:Oh, I thought it had something to do with, like, a French warps, like, soldier
Nick:or something.
Jeff:Probably did.
Nick:Well Yeah. In any case, this is, obviously, we have the rye, and then it has a it it recommended a dry vermouth, but we didn't have a dry vermouth, so I put in a vermouth rouge in it. Sweet. And then it recommended a a dubonette dubonette. Dubonette
Alexander:rouge. The Dubonnet Rouge, which we We're saying words now.
Nick:We didn't find, so we're using a Tawny Port.
Alexander:Oh, wow. There's a lot of substitutions. A lot of substitutions. So,
Jeff:the the Dubonnet Rouge is a little bit sweeter because we when we went to go get it, they said, we're supposed to have one in inventory. Yeah. And they looked and they said, no.
Nick:We hunted for it. We hunted
Jeff:for it. We could not
Nick:find it.
Jeff:And they said, well, something close to it would be a fortified wine, which is a port. Okay. So the Tawny Port is not as sweet as a regular port. So this is gonna be not as sweet as a Daubanay Rouge. And here's the other thing about it is when we once again, getting to know these these people that sell alcohol, they're just like, oh, yeah.
Jeff:We also have a Daubonay Blanc that we don't have in stock either. So there's a dry kind of white wine version of this. Because basically, it's a fortified wine that's almost like a liqueur.
Nick:Which has like spices on top
Alexander:of it. Woah. That would be
Nick:I was looking I was looking forward to it, to be honest.
Jeff:Once again, we we live in a fairly rural area and a fairly small town around. So the the options are not as good as if we'd, like, lived in a big city.
Alexander:Why would these people be wanting this?
Nick:So there's, the the port, the, Vermouth, dash of bitters Okay. And then two shots for each of us of the rye. Oh, yes. Yes. This is the booziest thing of the night.
Alexander:That's great. Alright. Let let's let's get this started then. Cheers. Cheers.
Jeff:Has a great smell. Woah.
Alexander:It has a good taste. I I was expecting this to be a little heavier. Like, I thought I would be like, you know? But honestly, I I could drink this.
Jeff:I could think if the port was sweeter, it would be even better.
Nick:Mhmm. It's like it's honestly like an enhancer of the rye. Yeah.
Alexander:It is.
Nick:I feel like the rye is so apparent, but there's like other notes on top of it. Oh,
Alexander:no. Oh, no. He's a man down. I got him. I got him.
Alexander:He's going down. You forgot how to drink and breathe at the same time.
Jeff:I'm breathing the thing. He was
Nick:trying to smell it really well.
Jeff:Yes. And but no.
Nick:I was, It's very aromatic with the bitters, with the vermouth, with the port.
Jeff:You can definitely taste the bitters in the port on the top of your mouth.
Alexander:Yeah. We talk about dangerous alcohol as something that we can drink really easily without, like, tasting the alcohol taste of this. I think this is dangerous in the fact that I could really drink this, fairly easily. And I know that there's alcohol in this. It tastes like alcohol, but I still feel like like you said, it just enhances the flavor.
Alexander:Like, it just it makes that alcohol flavor really good.
Jeff:Yeah. And like I said, the the rye is such a different flavor compared to the bourbon, you know. And I think the other thing is is, you know, you're drinking alcohol because this is the one that's the warming one. The rye warmed you a little bit. This one definitely warmed me.
Nick:Feel it going through.
Alexander:And I I love that feeling.
Jeff:I I
Alexander:think that's a really fun feeling. I I feel like I I felt it more with, like, scotches where it just, like, I feel it head to toe. Yeah.
Jeff:And that's why that's why I like sipping it. They last longer. You have this this feeling of warmth and I I just like it.
Nick:Yeah. Wow. I'm a fan of that.
Alexander:Yeah. This is fun. I I really like this one. Alright, Nick. I'm gonna have you kick us off here for this.
Nick:Woah. Wait. You're usually the one rounding it off.
Jeff:What's happening? He's gonna go last because he's got something special for us.
Nick:Okay. Alright.
Alexander:Alright. I I wanted to hear from you.
Nick:You're you're running the show. Are you afraid that I might have chosen the same way?
Alexander:No. I'm not afraid at all, but I do I'm really curious to figure out what Okay.
Jeff:So you gotta tell them what the
Alexander:thing Yeah. So the prompt here is we've done fruits. We've done vegetables. We wanted something a little different to round out the night. Obviously, because when this prompt is normally used, it's just as a icebreaker and normally Five second answer.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. We can normally just do this really quickly. And from, like, session to session, it doesn't really change. We just have the same thing.
Alexander:But we wanted something a little grandiose, and I was kind of I was mulling it over. I was thinking about it, and I was messaging Nick about it. And Nick was like, this is it. And I was like, oh my god. That's it.
Alexander:You're you're absolutely correct. So, instead of having us, live in some sort of oversized fruit or vegetable, it is if we could live in a fantasy world of our choosing, a fictional world
Nick:of
Alexander:our choosing. Sorry. I said fantasy, but I meant fictional. So like sci fi and this kind of ties back to our our normal theme of talking about media talking about movies, TV shows, media things, anime, things of that nature. So what fictional world would we live in?
Alexander:I'm really excited to hear both of your answers, especially because I don't know what you would even
Nick:think about. We I also gave it to you when you went, okay. Got it.
Alexander:And I went
Jeff:instantly instantly.
Nick:Oh my gosh. You you he took like maybe four seconds to figure it out. I was very shocked.
Alexander:Alright. Nick, kick us off. I'll go I'll go second and dad, I'll have you finish this off. Yeah.
Nick:I'm curious about it. Okay. Well, to no one's surprise, I chose an anime. Woah. Because I gotta live up to that sort of reputation that I'm establishing.
Nick:But it's an unconventional one. Okay. I think. Because no one no one says this answer. I haven't seen anyone talk about it, which is I would live in the world of an anime called Toriko.
Nick:Mhmm. Toriko is an anime all about cuisine and food. Oh. It its entirety the, the premise of it basically is everything in this world is edible, and the stronger that it is, the tastier it is. The stronger the If it's an animal Yeah.
Jeff:Like And
Nick:if it's like a real like like, if a dragon showed up, that would be one of the tastiest things you could show up.
Jeff:So good.
Nick:If if it's like, oh, this fruit only produces fruit every one thousand years. It's it's like it's like so good. And this is one of the few worlds we talked about this, like, just now. Quality of life in a lot of media worlds, not good for the average person.
Jeff:Yeah. We were joke we were joke I was joking that one of the things that it was an afterthought was, I'd love to live in fifth element world, but that would be horrible. Yeah. Because it's dystopian and it just Not great. Not great.
Nick:But Toriko You
Alexander:have two points left on your driving license.
Nick:The average person eats some of the best food that we would compare to in our world. Mhmm. And only the the super strong people would eat, like, the, you know
Jeff:The dragon.
Nick:The and, you know, like, you know, you can't even describe it.
Alexander:It gives you a reason to fight for Exactly.
Nick:It's quality of life. It's, like, futuristic. Everyone is living good, and, like, you could find random shops that are serving, like, the most delectable things you could find. And so going off of what I love, it's food and and whatnot. The it's like the perfect world, to be honest, because it's like everything is so, like, enhancing, and and the cuisine is, like, the focus point of it.
Nick:And the whole, like, premise of the show is, like, every person has a, like, final meal, like, their life's meal. Wait. What? And when they find a dish, there's, like, I think there's, like, 12 choices. So you choose your beverage, your dessert, your main dish, your salad.
Nick:Like, they there there's, like, every single dish. And when you eat something, you can choose to assign it somewhere on your life's meal.
Alexander:Woah. Okay.
Nick:And that's the whole premise of the show where it's, like, you have these main characters that are traveling the world Trying
Jeff:to fill their menu.
Nick:Trying to fill their menu.
Alexander:That's fun. I'm actually
Jeff:really wanna see that animated.
Nick:It's it's it's an old one. It's a classic. Yeah.
Alexander:It's a classic. I know it's an old old one. I haven't seen it.
Nick:I've just heard about it. But, yeah. Quality of life, super good. Futuristic, it's good.
Jeff:Yeah. That sounds awesome.
Alexander:That sounds awesome. Sounds delicious. Yeah.
Jeff:What am I doing? I'm trying to figure out my final meal. Yeah. This is
Alexander:how I'm gonna do it. I would die fighting a dragon. Maybe I could defeat it so I can eat
Jeff:some snacks.
Nick:That's what I'm saying. And and they make the food they describe the food. It
Alexander:oh my gosh. Yeah.
Nick:It's good.
Alexander:That's awesome. I I love, like, food based anime. It always makes me hungry. Like, Delicious and Dungeons, we were talking about it last last episode. Heck, yeah.
Alexander:I'd eat some sort of monster. Like, they're like, you would eat that monster. I'm like, yes, I would. The mushroom guy on-site. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. Drew. My choice I'm curious. Is, I think a bit basic if you've talked to me for a little bit, and not great to be honest, but I think it's so interesting that I'd wanna, like, be there to see. So one of the main reasons that I got into anime was this show called Darker Than Black.
Alexander:And in this world and the reason why I got into the into the show is not necessarily because of the characters. If I'm gonna be honest, the main character is a bit bland and I think intentionally so. But the world I think is really interesting. And in this world, there are people called contractors, which are essentially people with superpowers. Like it could be literally anything.
Alexander:Could be the ability to swap bodies with people. Could be the ability to control gravity. Could be the ability to reverse time or manipulate time, to set people on fire just by thinking about it, to electrocute people. There's, like, a variety of powers and abilities.
Jeff:That sounds like a wonderful place to live.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. It's a wonderful place.
Alexander:It's like modern Japan with, like, a little futuristic. Yeah. It's only, like, very a little bit further ahead.
Nick:But
Alexander:the reason why these people with superpowers are called contractors is because every time they use their ability, they need to pay a price of some kind, a contract, if you will, that needs to be fulfilled. And oftentimes, as the show kind of discovers and kind of looks over, oftentimes, this price that needs to be paid is something that because these people are, like, were normal people and then became contractors was something that these people hated in in their normal life before they became contractors. So oftentimes, this price is, like, awful for them specifically. And I think that's really interesting.
Jeff:So you pay a price you pay a terrible price Yeah. For the ability to have a superpower.
Nick:It's like a terrible price. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like I have the ability to fly or something.
Alexander:Yeah.
Nick:But I have to smoke, like a carton of cigarettes.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. So so one of the characters, November 11, he is a British operative. He has the ability to freeze, like, water, essentially. Like, he can freeze things and freeze people, basically killing them instantly.
Alexander:Right? He kind of a a main kind of staple of his character is he hates smoking so much. He will literally, like, sit with a bad guy and be like, did you know that secondhand smoke is statistically worse for you than actually smoking a cigarette? Like, you may be actively making the choice to smoke that cigarette, but I didn't choose to be in the same space or the same room as you when you're smoking the cigarette. And therefore, you're, you know, making me inhale the same fumes.
Alexander:Right? He hates smoking. But after he, like, kills this guy, he then has to reluctantly pull out a pack of cigarettes, light one up and start smoking. Or there are other people, like there's, one one operative that's like an opera singer. She has like the ability to like sing really loudly that'll like burst your eardrums and whatever.
Alexander:And she literally eats cigarettes. It can be anything, but she chooses to eat cigarettes because she's like, this is my price and I hate it. But like it it like grounds me essentially.
Jeff:So why do you wanna live in this
Nick:world? Yeah.
Alexander:True trail. Because I think it would be so interesting. First off, I would love to be a this is kind of like where my mind goes in the fact that I think this is a really interesting world where we see a lot of worlds with, like, superheroes, super villains, people with power, and not there's not a lot of times where they have a drawback to that.
Jeff:A consequence of what
Nick:they do.
Alexander:A consequence of using that action. Right? So, like, you have Spider Man who's, like, with great power comes great responsibility and that often means, like, if I have great power, I'm gonna use that to help people as much as I can. But not often is there like a I'm a Superman figure and I'm super powerful, but there are drawbacks to using that. And I think it's really interesting to kind of court that idea and play with the idea of being like, what is the drawback to using powers?
Alexander:And so I would love to be in that world to be like, what would my power be? And what would the consequence be?
Jeff:Because like like in our world, earth now.
Nick:Yeah. Yeah. Earth now.
Jeff:There's very little consequence to a lot of powerful people.
Alexander:Right. Exactly. And I think it would
Jeff:be Getting getting way political. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.
Alexander:But I I think it not necessarily a world that I would, like, love to be in. Like, I think Nick's world would be so fun. I didn't even think about that. I just think that thinking about and being in that world would be so interesting. Obviously, I could be just a normal person in that world or the the show even talks about these characters these, like, subsets race.
Alexander:I don't even know what to consider them, called dolls, which are creatures that are humanoid that typically don't have emotions or feelings, and they just kinda follow orders. But that idea is later challenged by the show as you get deeper in where you're like, wait a second. Some of these actually have free will. Like, the idea is that they don't have free will. But the idea
Nick:is that
Alexander:some of them do have free will and can make choices for themselves. And so it comes into this this question of, like, what are these creatures and what is their place in society and where do they fit? And I think it's very interesting to kind of like think about these things in a in a fictitious sense.
Jeff:Right.
Alexander:And then kind of take some of these lessons that we're learning from media or these questions that are being proposed by media and kind of bring them back into the real world.
Jeff:Well, that that's like when you read something like, 1984 or Brave New World. Right. Right? When you when you where they're they're saying like Brave New World where there was the alphas and the, you know, the Epsilons and the Deltas. And Right.
Jeff:You know, you you look at that and you go, are we doing that but not as
Nick:Not as apparent.
Jeff:As apparently as in a lot of things.
Alexander:That that's kinda why I like media because you can be very blunt with what you're trying to say.
Jeff:Yeah.
Alexander:And it might not be as obvious in the real world. Correct. It might not be like, oh, the dolls. Right? Like, the the idea, the concept is very blunt and very in your face.
Alexander:Like, you're like, yeah. These things don't have, like, free will. They just follow orders or whatever. And then you're like, wait a second.
Nick:Maybe they
Jeff:do. Yeah. But you you can see where media is going. There's so many new series and movies talking about about dolls having AI and having the ability to become sentient now.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. And I will say, like, this show is not as futuristic that it has AI that is like living on its own. But I I do think when you go into more of these, like, futuristic worlds, there is those questions that are AI, sentience. I'm playing through the Mass Effect series right now and there are VI, which is virtual intelligence, which is like what we have now, which is basically like, I'll answer questions that you ask me that I've been programmed to answer.
Jeff:Or that I can find on the Internet.
Alexander:That I can find. Yeah. Or AI, which is like a sentient life that has been created that will act and and move on its own that will, you know, follow what it believes is best. Yeah. And so it's interesting to, like, look into that and be like, what what does that mean?
Alexander:Granted, mass effect also really plays into the fact of, like, aliens being treated differently and and how that plays into effect.
Jeff:So my world is not like that. Yeah. Yeah. Before we
Nick:get to to dad's answer, I would not go to your to the dark of the black world ever. I think I I enjoy it as an observer. Yeah. And getting too close is an issue.
Alexander:It's it's violent. It's brutal that I I think, Wait. Animes. Well, like this one specifically, not all anime is violent and brutal. But, like, I I think, Garnt was the one to describe it as, Hey, the main character is like a Chinese electric Batman Yeah.
Alexander:Where he's like this this guy.
Nick:He just stabs people with a knife and then And then electrocutes the guy. Conducts electricity through it.
Alexander:Yeah. And like all of all of his knives are connected with like a metal like Wire. Wire to him. So he like throws it out and then he electrocutes the wire which electrocutes them. And like some of the fights
Nick:Really brutal. Yeah. It's it's rough. I wouldn't I don't I don't know what he chose. But I think I think it's
Alexander:a really interesting role and I would love to be in it to be like No. What would my power be? What what would my
Nick:You're one of the lucky ones handed out by the government. Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. True. What what would what would my contract be? Food. Would
Nick:I have to kick a puppy? Kick a puppy? You're like You're a monster.
Alexander:Yeah. Exactly. Like what would
Nick:my contract be? What price be? Alright. I just finished this up. I gotta find the nearest dog.
Alexander:Yeah. Alright. I just manipulated gravity. Now where's the closest puppy?
Jeff:Yeah. I'm not anywhere near there. Alright. So they they kind of got a an insight into where I was doing. But, contrary to my first two choices, which were structured, engineering, or whatever Yeah.
Jeff:When I went to a fantasy or fictional world, I immediately went to chaos. And the thing I thought of right away was cloud cuckoo in the LEGO movie with the unicorn cat.
Alexander:Yeah. You kitty?
Jeff:Unikitty. Princess Unikitty. Unikitty. I as soon as I saw that in the Lego movie, I was like, I wish I was there. I just I thought it was just so insane that it matches how I think.
Jeff:It just was all over the I love it. I I I absolutely love it. I just I wanna be life in general is way too structured. Okay?
Alexander:I think you're you're working on helping that be more structured too.
Nick:Your first two answers, like, fortify that. Pun intended. Yes.
Jeff:And so for me, the the exact opposite because okay. So what I do for a living is quality assurance and making sure things work correctly and everything is usable and whatever. And the opposite of that is the world I'd wanna visit or be
Nick:Actually be in.
Jeff:Yeah. That it's just you you don't know whether you're taking left or right or going straight. It doesn't matter because it's all gonna be chaotic. And I just I I just love that there's different textures. There's different skies.
Jeff:There's different lands. There's different seas. There's different people. There's different colors. I I love it.
Jeff:I just I love the chaos of it.
Nick:I get it. I get
Alexander:it. Yeah. I I can combine that.
Jeff:In fact, I'm disappointed that they meet in a building at the end in the one part of it. Yeah. That's true.
Nick:They they do show up in like a very like structured like coliseum.
Jeff:Greek coliseum or Roman coliseum. Yeah. Like meeting area.
Alexander:Yeah. I I thought it was more of like a senate area.
Jeff:Yeah. It's like it reminds me of like the Roman senate
Nick:Right.
Jeff:Or the Greek senate. But yeah, I I that part was disappointing to me. I wanted it to be clouds with different kinds of seats and chairs and whatever.
Nick:Like each part of the pie is a different light.
Jeff:You know, I I could, you know, go into the senate and rather than have a hundred seats that are the same, each seat is different. You know, one's a marshmallow seat, one's
Nick:No. No. I agree. I agree. I agree.
Jeff:One's a beanbag chair. One's a a king's chair, you know, who's got the biggest ego. But, yeah,
Alexander:I just Yeah. Sometimes I I I I think your mind is a is a wonder for me because sometimes I'm like, oh, man. Engineering brain, I get it. Like the structure, I get it. And then other times you're like, I just need chaos.
Jeff:I just need chaos.
Nick:I mean that's when we're seeing like all three monitors doing something else. He's on he's got one phone testing. He's got his other one doing something else. Yeah. You know?
Nick:You're like, oh, I I get it. I see it. Yeah.
Alexander:He's got YouTube shorts on
Nick:one arm, or he's
Alexander:got candy crush on the other one.
Nick:Yeah. And he's he's clearing all of the levels while scrolling through the the shorts.
Jeff:And also testing on an Apple and Android.
Nick:What you would do if you had more than two arms. Oh my god. It would be awesome. Probably be practicing drumming at the same time.
Alexander:Exactly. Undiagnosed ADHD. Very undiagnosed.
Nick:We can diagnose it pretty pretty quickly.
Jeff:But anyway, so that that's that's where I'd wanna be. I I just I there there's a certain freedom and joy that I get from chaos. Yeah. And I think that there's there's not a lot of deep thought into it. You know?
Nick:I mean, yeah. Instinct. Yeah.
Jeff:It's just I think a lot of times as as you get older, you fail to understand that you need to live in the moment. Mhmm.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:Right? And I because I think that you're you've been I and that place is a live in a moment place. Yes. Because every second is different.
Alexander:Yeah. You're just living in the craziness of it.
Jeff:Yeah. Whatever's and you're and you're like enjoying and spectating it too.
Nick:Yeah. So that
Alexander:Ultimate people watch because you're just like seeing a bunch of random stuff.
Nick:It's true. It never is dull. And I think that's the enjoyment.
Jeff:Yeah. A floating bunk bed. It's just a cool idea. Yeah.
Alexander:I think that that's kind of like part of the reason why we love like fiction and and media and, like, the the fantasy of it all. And I think I I've been lately really struggling to enjoy the mundane, enjoy the normal of life, especially when you have something as crazy as bad. You're like, man, that would be so crazy to live in. But it is kinda that that goal, I think, as humans to just enjoy life as is. And so that's something I've been grappling with lately is is really enjoying just the the sameness, but also the the difference that that life brings us.
Nick:Well, I'm gonna be honest doing a weekly podcast episode where we True. Just, talk about random stuff and drink new alcohol. I I think that's a, you know, enjoying the moment sort of stuff. Absolutely.
Jeff:I love it. Yeah.
Alexander:I I mean, I think I definitely came into this podcast with some reservation of, like, oh, this is just dad's new idea
Nick:of, like, what what's what's the list? The new infatuation. Yeah.
Jeff:But for two years, I've been trying.
Alexander:But I I think this has been a lot of fun. I think it's been a great way to just, like, talk with you guys, honestly.
Jeff:Yeah. I mean, we we don't know if anyone's gonna enjoy this. We know that we're enjoying it.
Alexander:Yeah. I think it doesn't matter at the
Jeff:end of the day.
Nick:To be honest, it's my excuse just to hang out and drink.
Alexander:Yeah. We we appreciate you watch if you tuned in, but also, we would do this even if no one tunes in.
Nick:It's honestly the expectation. We are seven episodes in, and my expectation going in, I'm like, yeah, we still don't have any viewers.
Jeff:Yeah. Well, I mean, we we talked about the concept of this would be, what would we talk about if we're in the car or at the dinner
Nick:party? Yeah. Exactly.
Jeff:So it's really is just us together hanging out. Get over my end. Alright. So I think we're we're near the end here.
Alexander:Yeah. Yeah. I think we're here. Thank you all so much Wait. Wait.
Alexander:Wait. For watching. Before we go out here, I'm not gonna forget. I I'll I'll go down the line here. What was everyone's favorite drink?
Alexander:So dad, I'll have you start here.
Nick:Was it on the rocks, the Valstede, or the Lafayette?
Jeff:I am a Scotch drinker, so I like straight up Yeah. Whiskey. So I I think the rye on the rocks this was a very close second. Yeah. I I think the other one needed more fruit flavor.
Jeff:So so but I'll work
Nick:on it. I'll work on it.
Jeff:I think I think the one on the rocks was my favorite. I I am not a big rye drinker, but I do like it occasionally as a sidestep from the Scotch I like drinking.
Alexander:For me, it's gotta be the Lafayette. I think this drink was very fun. I think the other flavors enhanced it.
Nick:I really enjoyed it. I'm gonna agree with you. Yeah. I drank that it yeah. It it does just feel like a slightly more complex version of On The Rocks.
Nick:Yeah. Like, I don't think anything overpowered Mhmm. That might just be the additional two shots of it compared to everything else.
Alexander:I'm feeling good.
Nick:The rye was very apparent, but, like, I loved all the additional notes. And every every time you took a sip, you'd be like, oh my gosh. There's, like, so much depth. And it's not heavy still. Yeah.
Jeff:I mean, I like it that you guys are are being able to taste these different alcohols and not because a lot of times, the way you taste these alcohols is you're at a party and I'm drinking vodka and
Nick:yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm doing gin and tonics and other mixes. Yeah.
Alexander:What did you give me? Okay. But but
Jeff:you're actually we're being able to taste these things and understand what they are. Yeah. And and do them in very complex drinks.
Nick:Yeah.
Jeff:So but but rye is a very different drink. It's not everyone's favorite, but I think it's a very nice drink.
Nick:Yeah.
Alexander:Yeah. Well, thank you all so much for tuning in. We'll see you next time. Yeah. Peace out, fam.
Alexander:I forgot you.
Nick:Thank you. We need a good outro. I I like that. They're like, the where are we fumbled?