1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: And we're back with another episode of American Gravy. I'm 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: chef Andrew Gruhl. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 2: And I'm Lauren Girl. 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: And if you listen to the first episode, you know 5 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: what the format of this show is. But just so 6 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: you know, we're going to be covering food topics, politics, family, freedom, 7 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: everything in between. This is really just good old husband 8 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: and wife couple. We're both chefs, we like talking about food, 9 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: we got kids, we've got restaurants, and here we are. 10 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 2: That's who we are. We are back. 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: I guess you could also say I'm a politician. I 12 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: am a Huntington Beach City councilman. 13 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 2: He is, and I'm so proud of him. 14 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: That she said that through gritted teeth. That is not 15 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: even funny. The one thing that you learn when you're 16 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: on like city council is is that so in the 17 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: public comments section of city council meetings, you have to 18 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: sit there and take it for three minutes. You are 19 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: not allowed to respond to anybody. They could walk up 20 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: to the mic and say absolutely anything. Actually, there was 21 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: a story that went viral from California last week where 22 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: the lady walked up to the mic and just started 23 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: taking her clothes off did you see that. Yeah, it 24 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: was in response to like it was a I mean, 25 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: it was a trans issue. She was like trying to 26 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: make a. 27 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: Point about where clothes coming off. 28 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: I don't know, She's like if you can see naked 29 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: people and rest bathrooms or something. I don't understand the 30 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: full point. She was even a little loopy, But. 31 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: I thought it was prett you didn't even understand. 32 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: I think it was emblematic of how crazy these city 33 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: council meetings have gotten. We didn't plan on talking about this, 34 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: but city council meetings have become, especially in the open 35 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: comment section, have become like the old poetry slams, the 36 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: open mic nights of the eighties and nineties. 37 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. 38 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: You should see some of the people that come to 39 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 3: these HB city council meetings and what they say. So 40 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: half of it doesn't even it's not even Huntington Beach related. 41 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: No, it makes absolutely no sense. And actually, I mean 42 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: this is a bipartisan thing. I think it's people realize 43 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: that they've got three minutes that they can get a 44 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: clip and they can go viral, and so they're using 45 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: this and you're having like actors and people come in 46 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: and do funny things. Alex Stein. 47 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: Really it's hilarious. 48 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: He is hilarious. But Alex Stein, you know, he'd been working. 49 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: He's a comedian and he'd been working on shows and 50 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: all this stuff, and then suddenly COVID hits and he 51 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: makes city council meetings his platform and it works. It 52 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: is absolutely hilarious. So in any case, if you want 53 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: to watch some of our content, you can tune into 54 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach City Council meetings every the first and third 55 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 1: Tuesday of every single month. Just watch the public comments section. 56 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: It's hilarious, so funny, and like I said, I learned 57 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: things about myself I didn't even know. I love when 58 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: I sit up there and they're like, you're bought and 59 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: paid for. I'm just waiting for the where. 60 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 2: To get So, where's the paycheck, Andrew. 61 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: Where is the you know? The other day there was 62 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: after the city council meeting. The next morning, there was 63 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: a knock on the door and I opened the door 64 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: and there was a white envelope on the mat, and 65 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, this is it. I'm finally getting my envelope 66 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: full of money. We're laid on the utility bill. That's 67 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: what it was, all right, Well, back to food, back 68 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: to politics, back to all the good stuff. Well we 69 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: were already in politics, I guess. So the story this 70 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: week that caught my eye. One of them was this 71 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: global food commodity price shift. So the UN's Food and 72 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 1: Agriculture Organization, which is known as the FAO, they reported 73 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: that global food prices fell in September. We've been hearing 74 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: about us how food prices have gone up and up 75 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: and up, but global food prices fell. Well, guess what 76 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: they're using to gauge the decrease in those prices? What 77 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: can you take a guess? Sugar, wheat, flour, some dairy products. 78 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: But guess what did not fall. 79 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 3: Meat and actually had the highest recorded so far is meat. 80 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: So one of the points that I've been making over 81 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: the past decade is how there is a this is 82 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: not a conspiracy. There is a motivation to decrease our 83 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: meat consumption. Now, typically that's under the guise of environmentalism, 84 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: because of the theoretical carbon output of cattle farting methane, 85 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: the way in which they interact with local environments. I 86 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: have always been a huge advocate of regenerative farming. I've 87 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: said that farmers and ranches are stewards of the environment, 88 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: and that when you're properly cattle farming and you're moving 89 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: your herds around and you know, you follow some land, 90 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: which is where you let it lay dormant. But by 91 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: eating and grazing and walking, they're actually improving the soil 92 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: health as opposed to stripping it all away and growing 93 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: like one of our monocrops in place of it where 94 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: it's treated with a high amount of chemicals and fertilizers 95 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: and pesticides primarily glyphosate, etc. Which ruins the soil health. 96 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: The soil health is ultimately the health of our environment. 97 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: Right, And I don't think people realize that. 98 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: So when I saw this report about how all these 99 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: other prices are coming down on the junk products which 100 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: create the byproducts that are making us sick and leading 101 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: to the chronic disease, things like seed oils that come 102 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: from the soy and that come from all of the 103 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: corn high fructose corn syrup. I mean, we only grow 104 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: like four major crops here in the United States, wheat, soybean, corn, 105 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: and cheetos and hot cheetos. That's the fourth crop, right, 106 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: and that's known as monocropping. So in the nineteen twenties 107 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: and the nineteen thirties, coming out of the dust Bowl 108 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: and the Great Depression, the US government and the USDA 109 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: at the time said, you know what, we need to 110 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: give farmers a lot of money. We need to subsidize 111 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: them growing some of these staple crops. And they realize 112 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,239 Speaker 1: that in order to get the money from the government 113 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: and to aggregate our food system, they needed to remove 114 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: the biodiversity of crops that they were growing, right, the 115 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: hundreds of different varieties of certain types of fruits and vegetables, 116 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: and ultimately also raising meat, sheep, cattle, you name it. 117 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: And instead, if they wanted to really suck on that 118 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: government teat, then we needed to grow one of these 119 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: four crops. And you saw this mass consolidation of our 120 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: farm system in the United States. And all of those 121 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: products are ultimately the by products that end up in 122 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: our food system. And that's why we have so much 123 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: inflammation in our bodies is because of the omega six 124 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: to omega three imbalance, because we eat so many of 125 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: these omega six six is because they're byproducts of these 126 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: these ingredients. Sorry, Lauren fell asleep there for a second, 127 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,239 Speaker 1: I went off on a little bit of a tangent, 128 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: but there there is a global initiative in order to 129 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: continue to globalize our food supply and the protein that 130 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: they want us to eat, they want us to develop 131 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: in labs. This is a fact. This is not conspiracy, 132 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: and I think that there's some credence to innovation in food. 133 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: But when I see reports like this and I hear 134 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: about how expensive beef is and we need to eat 135 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: less meat because it's not just expensive to our wallets, 136 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: but it's expensive to the environment. People, what you need 137 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: to realize is the reason why meat is expensive is 138 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: because it's not being subsidized. The reason these other products 139 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: are cheap is because they're being subsidized, and that's not 140 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: taken into consideration in these reports, right. 141 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 3: I mean there is some sort of like supply and 142 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 3: demand issue though, because I feel like a lot of 143 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 3: people are consuming more beef than they have before. 144 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: Bingo, So I see the silver lining in this report. 145 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: That's a great point you make, Lauren, she's my little 146 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: macroeconomist over here, is that there is less of a 147 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: demand for a lot of these bad products, and therefore 148 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: you're going to have higher supply because lower supply right 149 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: supply demand basic one oh one, macro economics one on 150 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: one one. Yes, yes, we maximize our profits at the 151 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: cost at which marginal cost equals marginal utility. 152 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 3: I don't know what this is. What he does to 153 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 3: me trips me up. Just let me say supply and demand. 154 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I like that. It was better. So that 155 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: was an interesting food headline, and I think that that's 156 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: really it's something that we need to follow closely. Is 157 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: this supply and demand curve? The second thing that I 158 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: saw this week, which you know, let's just say it 159 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: chapped my elbows. I don't want to say it chapped 160 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: anything else. We don't want to be grossier. Shoot, Lauren, 161 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: give it to me. 162 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 2: Oh yes, Chelsea Clinton's podcast. 163 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: Chelsea Clinton has come up with an anti Maha podcast. 164 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 3: It's literally everything against Maha. Yep, anything that Maha has 165 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: been talking about she's against. 166 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: She's against it, and she's actually suggesting this is where 167 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: everyone always goes. I love this, like high hyperbole that 168 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: when there's a movement, and perhaps it is somewhat related 169 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: to bringing back individual liberties like making food choices for 170 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: yourself and breaking from the aggregated supply chain of food 171 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: that's making us sick. And suddenly it's get this. 172 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 2: Dangerous, so dangerous. 173 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: It's a threat. It's dangerous. You know, it's fascist food. 174 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: And that's what she went into. She suggested that RFK 175 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: and President Trump want to harm children by pushing these 176 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: Maha points. 177 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 3: Oh, and also she suggested that it's dangerous to suggest 178 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 3: that it's better for mothers to raise their kids instead 179 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 3: of a daycare. 180 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: Yes, that is a big debate recently, is that is 181 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: it healthy to be staying at home for women and 182 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: raising their kids. And I can't touch on that. 183 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 3: I can speak on that because I work, but I 184 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 3: also have, you know, the privilege to stay home with 185 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 3: the kids. And I will say when I was working 186 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 3: a lot during I think it was Jack, he's seven now, 187 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 3: I felt so sad that I couldn't be with him 188 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 3: because I'm like, I'm his mom. I should be with him. 189 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 3: So I don't know where she's coming from to suggest that. 190 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 3: And I think, you know, they want to say that 191 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 3: it's you know, it's I don't know, bad for the 192 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 3: woman to stay home because it makes her oppressed. Is 193 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 3: that the word that I have no IDEA fancy word 194 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 3: they're using. 195 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 1: I'm not using any of those words. Don't cancel me, No. 196 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 3: I'm just saying I just I feel like you can't 197 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 3: say that because then women start questioning their self and 198 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 3: their worth and are they doing enough for the family unit? 199 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 2: And I think staying home with your. 200 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 3: Kids is the hardest job you can have because sometimes, 201 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 3: you know, if Andrew's on the road or something and 202 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 3: I'm home alone, I'm like, holy crap, this is so 203 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 3: tough to be help with them, like twenty four secday. 204 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: It's funny, how like, and I've even heard men, you know, 205 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: talk about it and they're like, oh, well, you get 206 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: to stay home, you know, during the day and just 207 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: watch TV whatever. Okay. Sometimes Laura and I will trade 208 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: off because Lauren's a trained chef. She runs the restaurants 209 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: with me. People don't realize that is that the two 210 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: of us, We've opened over forty restaurants over the past 211 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: ten years together, arm in arm, hand in hand, hand 212 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: in hand. I was about to go into a song. 213 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: She usually puts her hand in my back pocket in 214 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: the kitchen. It's very unsanitary. But the h R Department like, 215 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: sometimes I will be at home with the kids and 216 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: they are running me ragged, and I'll just text them. 217 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: I'll be like, can I please come to work? Yeah? 218 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: He's like, can we please swish? Can I go to 219 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 2: the restaurant? Yeah? 220 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: And she's bouncing around, you know, she's running a ten 221 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: thousand dollars lunch hour, expoeing and dealing with angry customers 222 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: and coordinating everything, flipping bottles, making drinks. It's like an 223 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: episode of Cocktail. She's my little female Tom Cruise and 224 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: she's like, no, I'm good. 225 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it is hard. I will say that being a 226 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 2: stay at home mom is the hardest job in the world, 227 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 2: but it really is. 228 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: But who is Chelsea Clinton to tell us that whatever 229 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: women want to do, the decisions that we make, do 230 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: what you feel is feel feels right for you. 231 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 3: Exactly because I know some moms, like I talk about 232 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 3: this with my girlfriends. Sometimes you're a better mom when 233 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 3: you're able to step away from your kids. And that 234 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 3: might sound weird, but not stepping away from them, meaning 235 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 3: like you have you know, a couple hours to yourself. 236 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: You come back, you know, refreshed and recharged and you know, 237 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 3: ready to tackle on the rest of the day. 238 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, usually what I do is is that I 239 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: will lock the kids in the closet for a little while. 240 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: That's totally fine, say that. I don't do that. I 241 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: do not do that. First of all, we have huge closets. 242 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: Actually we don't. We have small closets. We don't have closets. 243 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 2: We actually don't have closets. 244 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have closets. We have closets and we 245 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: don't have cabinets. Everything is wide open. We have we're 246 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: real open family. 247 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 2: We have one closet. 248 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and I do sleep in that closet sometimes. 249 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: I also I sleep in a drawer. Did you know 250 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: that Costco dropped a new cow Zone? 251 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: I did not. 252 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, Costco dropped a new Calzone. I think in what 253 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: is it about Costco's food? 254 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 2: I don't know. It's so good, the pizza, everything. 255 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 1: And we know, once again back to our original point, 256 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: we know it's not good for you, Like we're all 257 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: going to indulge some times in this food. I don't 258 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: think that the junk foods that we become addicted to 259 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: are actually taste good. After eating well for years and 260 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: understanding what real food tastes like, a lot of that fake, 261 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: highly processed food leaves me an acrid and bitter taste 262 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: in my palate. But there is something about the ouey, gooey, 263 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: meltingly tender bite of a Costco chicken bake that, like, 264 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: I can take one or two bites. It really is memorable. 265 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: It really is. It really is. Also, can I just 266 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 2: touch on this. I saw something the other day that 267 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 2: was absolutely crazy. 268 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 3: This lady I bought a fountain drink, but she was 269 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: refilling it over and over again, and then like filling 270 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 3: up a gatorade jug, like you know those big ones 271 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 3: like sports games. 272 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: The like five or ten gas ones. 273 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: So she was refilling her cup over and over and 274 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 3: throwing it into the gatorade. She was probably on her 275 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 3: way to her kids like baseball game or something, And 276 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know if that's genius or like. 277 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:45,719 Speaker 1: Well, first of all, why is she bringing soda to 278 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: a kid's sports I think she was. 279 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 2: Actually filling up mountain dew. 280 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure mountain dew. That's good. Oh, I haven't 281 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: heard mountain dew for a while. You know, the only 282 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: people that drink mountain dew nowadays are crackheads and kitchen cooks. 283 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 2: Why is it? 284 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. 285 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 3: I actually heard something about mountain dew the other day. 286 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 3: I think it was like meant or a chaser for whiskey. 287 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 1: Oh see, I thought that mountain dew originally was anti freeze. 288 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 2: I don't know. 289 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: I like mountain dew. 290 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 2: We got we gotta study mountain Yeah, I actually. 291 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: Like mountain dew. We'll talk about that on the next episode. 292 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: We'll get into the scientific formula of mountain dew and 293 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: why crackheads love it. So go check out Costco's new 294 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: calzone and give us a little bit of your feedback. 295 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: The point about the soda is really interesting because I 296 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: think a lot of people think in food service operations 297 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: or retail operations that people make their money on soda. 298 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: How many times have you heard that, like, well, you 299 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: make your money on the soda. That is not true. 300 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 3: People don't realize sell our what our SODA's like two 301 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 3: point fifty and they're refilling like three times a lot 302 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 3: of the lawd how expensive the bibs are there? 303 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: Bibs now, which just so you guys know what a 304 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: bib is, even though I am wearing one right now 305 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: because I drool he has nothing on but yeah, I'm 306 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: wearing nothing but a bib. We could have probably broke 307 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: FCC's coming after us. But the bibs are bagging a box. 308 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: So they're those bags that come in the boxes that 309 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: then connect to your soda lines and then they mix 310 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: in carbonated water. Thus you are fountain. So but one bib, 311 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: which is five two point five doallons five gallons five 312 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 1: gallons one bib now costs about one hundred and thirty dollars. 313 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 3: It's it's up there now. Yeah, it's about I want 314 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 3: to say, like one hundred ten to one thirty, depending 315 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 3: on which one it is. 316 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: So that makes like your basic fountain soda sixteen ounce 317 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: fountain soda maybe fifty cents. So if you want to 318 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: make money on that, you've got to charge at least 319 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: two dollars. We charge two fifty I think for our sodas. 320 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: So if you're getting even a half a refill, we're 321 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: losing money on it. It's crazy how it's actually not 322 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: how you make your money. They're making their money like 323 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: Coca Cola's making their money. 324 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 2: Oh, they're definitely making their money. 325 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: The trick. Just so everyone knows this, I'm going to 326 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: go off on another tangent line. So taking nap so 327 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: the way in which it works in the food service industry. 328 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: And why like these sodas and these single you know, 329 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: single source food manufacturers are so prevalent and pervasive in 330 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: every single restaurant and school system is because of rebates. Right. 331 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: So what they do is that they tell you, okay, 332 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: how many bocks do you think you're going to buy 333 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: a year? Well, probably buy one hundred. They say, okay, 334 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: we're going to charge. We're going to give you a 335 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: price of a dollar twenty a bib. Their real cost 336 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: is a dollar ten, And they say, we're going to 337 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: give you a rebate of ten dollars a bib for 338 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: everyone you buy, and they project that out over a year, 339 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: and then to get you on board, they say, you 340 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: sign our contract for two or three years. We're going 341 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: to give you a check right now upfront for the rebate. 342 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: So they actually pay you to use their products. So 343 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: that check would be twenty thousand dollars thirty forty fifty 344 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. 345 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 2: I didn't see that check. 346 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: Well, you know, we'll talk about that later. But you 347 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: get that check up front, and then you're in. You're 348 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: stitched in. They basically they own you. Well, this happened 349 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: in the early two thousands in school systems. It was 350 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: called pouring rites. And before that they had water and milk, 351 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: and that was it, right, chocolate, milk, milk and water, 352 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: that's what you got at school. And then suddenly you 353 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: started seeing soda being served in all the public school 354 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: cafeterias and then ultimately all the potato chips and the 355 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: vending machines, and it was just everywhere. And that correlated 356 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: with this increase in childhood of obesity and an ultimately 357 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: ar chronic disease epidemic. So what they were doing is 358 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: they were going into school system and saying, oh, you 359 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: need a half a million dollars for that new football field. Well, 360 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: if you become an exclusive Coca Cola distributor through the 361 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: school systems, we're going to give you that rebate in 362 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: form of a check up front for a half a 363 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: million dollars. Now you can grow, you can build that 364 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: new library, you can build that football field. So they 365 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: were touching on people's heart springs and they're like, well, 366 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: we know that we might be getting the kids sick, 367 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: but we got the football field, we got the library. Yeah, 368 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: And that's how they broke into our school systems in 369 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: the early two thousands, which led to a chronic element 370 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: of diabetes across our entire youth. 371 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 3: You have these kids who have this easy access to 372 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 3: all these foods that maybe their parents wouldn't otherwise buy them, 373 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 3: you know, and they're eating how many bags? 374 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 2: You don't know. You don't know what they're doing at school. 375 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: No, she's I. When I was a kid, I actually 376 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: got caught inside of a vending machine. 377 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 2: Did somebody put you in there? 378 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: They did. I got beat up a lot as a kid, 379 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: but that's how I learned karate. No one messes with 380 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: me anymore. So I actually, I will tell you this 381 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: is totally off topic, but we created a magic dollar 382 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: when I was a kid. So you put a dollar 383 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: into the vending machine, and of course the food comes out. 384 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: So we put a fishing line on the dollar or 385 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: duct tape and you put it in. It reads the 386 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: dollar and you rip it out and it still gives 387 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: you the food plus the change. I was. I'm also 388 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: a Catholic altar boy, so I was lying. I actually 389 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: had to. Every week I would make confession with the priest. 390 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: About what did the priest say? 391 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: He was like, you need to give that money back somehow, 392 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: so I did community service, but then the next week 393 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: I got my big I don't do that anymore. But 394 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: that's just a little story about my past and my history. Lauren, 395 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: what the fork? 396 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 2: What the fork? Andrew? 397 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 1: What the fork? So this week's what the fork? Food story? WTF? 398 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 2: This is interesting? 399 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 3: So have you seen those viral videos of people doing 400 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 3: weird things with food on airplanes? 401 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: Like have you seen that in the bathroom or no? 402 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 3: Like at third Trade table, this one lady was making 403 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 3: sour dough bread. 404 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: I did see this, Okay, like what I saw somebody 405 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: making pasta salads. They'll bring in green made me. 406 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 3: Brought their own pour over coffee, little set up and 407 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 3: did pour over coffee thirty thousand feet in the air. 408 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: First of all, just go get on the plane and 409 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: get to your destination. Okay, nobody needs to be involved 410 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: in your culinary experiment on an airplane. 411 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 3: But like, I don't get it, Like I would never think, 412 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 3: Like everyone who follows me knows how much I love sourdough, 413 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: I would never think to bring all of my ingredients 414 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 3: and start making a loaf on the airplane on a 415 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 3: dirty tray with who people coffin behind me, farting behind me. 416 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 2: No thanks people. 417 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: First of all, it makes me angry enough when somebody 418 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: gets some redolent food on the plane to begin with, 419 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: you know, like a burrito or like Mexican tacos, which 420 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: I absolutely love. But you got the onions, you got 421 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: the sauces, and it's wafting through the air with that 422 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: pungent garlic smell. It just makes me nauseous. 423 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 3: Like I My biggest pet peeve on planes is when 424 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 3: people buy food before and it's still like steaming hot, 425 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 3: and then you sit next to them or behind them 426 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 3: and it smells so bad. 427 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 2: There's no The other. 428 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: Day when I was flying back from New York, I 429 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: didn't tell you this. Somebody got Indian food. And I 430 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 1: hate curry like you know that. I hate curry, curry anywhere, 431 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: like curry on my food, curry in a diaper, you 432 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: name it, don't work, Curry in my hair, curry up. 433 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: And they the whole plane stunk so bad that later 434 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: in the flight, I think it was either the lady 435 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: sitting next to me, or was the kid in front 436 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: of me just starts to ripping them left and right, 437 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: Just those hot rank farts that go on the airplane 438 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: and just start moving around like Casper, the friendly ghost 439 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: that was actually a welcome smell against the curry. 440 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 2: I believe it. I believe it. 441 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: You know. They also say that eating on a plane 442 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: is so bad for your stomach because the pressure. 443 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 2: Who told you this, he goes, They say. 444 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: Well, you're a they, You're a they. You're that important 445 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: that I consider you more than one person. I'm not 446 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 1: touching on your boxy status. 447 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: Don't let me in with that. 448 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna move on quickly. Laura, can you sharpen 449 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: our skills? 450 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't have any sharpen I don't 451 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 2: have any skills right now. You're better at this. 452 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: I'm better at this, holl You just are all right. 453 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: You know what I've talked about this before. This is 454 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: gonna be how we're gonna sharpen your cooking skills. So 455 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: everybody asks me about when do I salt my meat? 456 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: But I'm bumped che So there's this thing called the 457 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: dry brine, and it's a little play on words. It's 458 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: really more osmosis. It is where you salt meat, Okay, 459 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: any meat, so anything over like an inch thick. You 460 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: saw your meat ahead of time and you let it 461 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,959 Speaker 1: sit for at least two hours. The salt actually breaks 462 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: the meat down, It goes into the meat, it comes 463 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: back out of the meat, it goes back into the meat. 464 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: As it's doing so, it's denaturing the proteins, it's tenderizing it, 465 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: and it's also bringing moisture back into the meat. That's 466 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: what's fascinating about this. So just like a wet brine 467 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: where you put a turkey in a gallon of water, salt, sugar, 468 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: et cetera, you are actually allowing the meat to bring 469 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: more moisture, to retain more moisture, and it's called the 470 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: dry brine. Now, if you're doing it for roasts we're 471 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: getting into holiday cooking season in the next couple months, 472 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: you can do it for up to forty eight hours. 473 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: But you've got to do this with roast. So you 474 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: do a nice a liberal salt all over the outside 475 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: of a roast, put it in your refrigerator uncovered. And 476 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: that's why this is important because when it's uncovered in 477 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: a refrigerator, the X tier of your meat actually dries 478 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 1: out a little bit, which creates a pellicle. So when 479 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: you do roast it, you get a better browning on 480 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: the meat itself, and the salt just keeps going in 481 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: and out of the meat, and once again, like I said, 482 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 1: it's breaking down the proteins as it's going in and 483 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: out of the meat. So that's my tip this week 484 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: to sharpen your skills is to pre salt your meat 485 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: steaks up to one plus inch thick. You only need 486 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: to do it for a couple hours, and the roast 487 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: you can do it for twenty four to forty eight hours. 488 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 2: I love your tip. 489 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: Thank I'm not even going there. I'm not even going there, Lauren, 490 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: let's eighty six. 491 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 2: That joke, Hey, I like that joke. Okay, what is your. 492 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: Eighty six, which is our segment every week where we 493 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: talk about things that need to end, food trends that 494 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: need to go. My eighty six at this week is 495 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass you the mic. 496 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna pass me the mic? 497 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 3: Okay, just everything everything, Like no, okay, this is my 498 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 3: biggest I gripe. 499 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:15,479 Speaker 2: Okay. 500 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 3: There are so many contradicting food trends, especially in the 501 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 3: fitness industry or like lifestyle diet whatever, like eat like 502 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 3: eat all this protein, noe. You don't need all this protein. Okay, 503 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 3: do this type of diet. No, that's actually bad for you. 504 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 3: Like there's so all of these things are driving me 505 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 3: absolutely up a wall because as women, you like, I mean, 506 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 3: I'm a woman, I know, I go on Instagram and 507 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 3: I try to see like, Okay, I really like that 508 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 3: girl's body, like what is she doing? 509 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: Whoa whoa whoa whoa wah wait what that not? 510 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 3: Like that like an inspiration type, right, and then you 511 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 3: like look and you try to, you know, follow her diet, 512 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 3: but it's like too ridiculous. So then you find somebody 513 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 3: who has like a you know, you like how they look, 514 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 3: and then they're totally opposite. 515 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 2: And all these trends are driving me up there. 516 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: So fitness trends, So social media trends is what social. 517 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 2: Media fitness food trends drive me insane. 518 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: All Right, you want to know what my eighty six 519 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: it is? Macha Why it's just everywhere like Macha lattes, 520 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,239 Speaker 1: Macha smoothies, Macha baked goods, ice cream, savory recipes. You 521 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 1: can't even taste it. It's tea, Like you can't taste it. 522 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: How much is a macha? What are they called that 523 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: you get at Starbucks from time to time. 524 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 2: I don't ever get those. 525 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: I did that one time, horrible Lauren returned something else. 526 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 3: I'd never return anything, especially being in the restaurant industry. 527 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 3: I'll just like suck it up and deal with it. 528 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 3: I returned it. 529 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: So it was one of the most disgusting things I've 530 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: ever tasted. She had me tasted and it tasted like 531 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: it was. 532 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 3: Like clumps of powder. They didn't even mix it. And 533 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 3: then he said, that's how they do it. 534 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 1: And I was like, what, our son was playing in 535 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: a dirt outside the other day and he took like 536 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: a cup from the kitchen and then he put dirt 537 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: and air and then he poured water in there, and 538 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: he was like, Dad, taste my chocolate milk. You know, 539 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: he was just playing being a kid. But of course 540 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. So I tasted it, and it was 541 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,479 Speaker 1: dirt that tasted better than the macha. 542 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. I'm not a big macha person. 543 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: I think it's the colery. I like it because of 544 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: the color. 545 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 2: And it does create pretty layers. 546 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: It does create pretty layers. You are right, I have emotionally, 547 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 1: I have a layer of macha inside my body. It's 548 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: soft and sweet and somewhat green. That was incredibly weird. 549 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: So eighty six macha. That's my that's my point for 550 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: this week. And keep an eye out for those food trends, 551 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: as Lauren mentioned, and make sure that they don't influence 552 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: and inform your life and every single thing that you do. 553 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 2: Do what feels good for you at the end of 554 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 2: the day. 555 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: Do what you do in living color. Wow, I just 556 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: dated myself. Wow, Yeah, Lauren want do you know that 557 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: Lauren wanted to start a career, wants to be a singer. 558 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 2: Okay, we don't need to go there. 559 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: So we went to karaoke one night. This is absolutely hilarious. 560 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: This is a funny story. We go to karaoke and 561 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: let's just say maybe that night we were overserved and 562 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in the karaoke bar and it's Lauren's 563 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 1: turn to sing, and I think you were doing. What's 564 00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: that song? 565 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 2: It's from the mische Star Was Born? 566 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: Yes, Star was Born is Born. I don't name again 567 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: on it. Lady Goga, Lady Goga, Lady Goga. And so 568 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: Lauren starts singing and I don't know whether it was 569 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: loud and narrow, what was going on. So I'm sitting 570 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: there watching, I'm like, oh my god, I've been married 571 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 1: to her for over ten years and I didn't know 572 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: that she had an award winning voice, something like I 573 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: don't know whether there was something broken in my brain. 574 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: And I remember I was like, you did such an 575 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: amazing job. And I had recorded it and I go home. 576 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: She falls asleep, and I'm still sitting up. I'm like, 577 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna be millionaires. We're gonna get some This is 578 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: gonna be a great story. The recording studio is gonna 579 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: find out my wife is just this amazing singer. Will 580 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: go on whatever the voice or one of those shows. 581 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: So I wake her up the next morning. This is 582 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: a true story. I wake her up the next morning. 583 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, why didn't you tell me? She's like, what 584 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 1: are you talking about? And I pull up the video 585 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: and I'm like, listen to your voice and I press 586 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 1: play and it's like show show Okay. 587 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 3: First of all, it wasn't that bad, but you definitely 588 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 3: were overserved. 589 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 2: And I don't know what you heard, but it was 590 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 2: it wasn't me. 591 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: Some people have it, some people don't. 592 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 2: And I don't. I wish I did too. 593 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: Our son's got a great voice. I think we need to. 594 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 2: All of our kids have relatively good voices. But I 595 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 2: don't know. I really wanted to be a singer, but 596 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 2: that's just not going to be for me. 597 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: So I want to be a professional skateboarder. 598 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 3: And there's a guy he's starting to follow, this guy 599 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 3: who's like learning to professional skateboarder. 600 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: How old, forty five years old or whatever? In any case, 601 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: I tried the other day my shoulder ripped out of 602 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: the socket, So I'm still moving on that one. All right. Well, 603 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: on that note, what are we going to have for lunch? 604 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 2: I don't know. 605 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: I love sandwiches. Lauren loves sandwiches, but we still yet 606 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: to find the perfect. 607 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 3: If you can, if you know of any good sandwich 608 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 3: spots in the Orange County, I'll even drive to la 609 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 3: for a good sandwich. 610 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: Well, the Vietnamese owned the sandwich scene here in the 611 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: southern California region. I just want a good sandwich on 612 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: the East coast. I'm from Jersey. It was it was 613 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: really it was the Italians right like. 614 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 2: The Delly's Holy Yeah. 615 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: Those like perfect delies. If anybody knows about the Jersey 616 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: Joe the Jersey sloppy Joe. But you know, and I'm 617 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: not talking about like a Vietnamese bond me, which for 618 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, it's just like a 619 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: soft and warm, crusty bag at pack full of braised 620 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: beef and Vietnamese meats that have been braised and stewed 621 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: and then topped with carrots and cilantro die Conradish, a 622 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: little bit of vinegar on there, and just some raw 623 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: slices of jalapeno peppers and then maybe a slash of 624 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: mayo or garlic aoli on the bun. And if the 625 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: bread is hot and you bite into it and the 626 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: meltingly tender short ribs drip into your mouth and drip 627 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: down your arms, out is a deep, perfect bond me. 628 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 2: This is how he flirts with me. 629 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm staring into her eyes right now, 630 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: and all she's doing is rolling them back at me. 631 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 2: Why do you act like I'm such a jerk. 632 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: I don't think you're a jerk. I think that you're 633 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: sick of my jokes. 634 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:44,959 Speaker 2: I'm not. I love him, she is. 635 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: She's wonderful. 636 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, on that note, On that note, make sure 637 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,239 Speaker 3: to follow us, guys, you can follow me on X 638 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 3: at Lauren Gruel and Instagram at Lauren Underscore Gruel. 639 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: And you can follow me at Chef Gruel on X 640 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 1: me on Instagram at Andrew Gruhle, and give us all 641 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: of your suggestions for what you want to see eighty 642 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: six and some WTF stories. 643 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 2: And a good sandwich spot. 644 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, we need a good sandwich spot. Let's go have 645 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: a sandwich. 646 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 2: Let's go. Bye, guys,