Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Nate.
And I'm Mike.
What are we smoking today, Nate?
We are picking up where we left off a couple episodes ago.
Not that last episode or the episode before that, but we are doing the Saison by Oliva,
Oliver, and it is the first Harvest 2011 edition.
And I'm trying to think if my memory serves, I believe this wrapper is a smidge lighter
than the other one, the 2009, was it?
Yes, I think so.
Okay.
Don't quote me on that.
Mike, I procured myself a new cigar cutter.
You did?
I did.
What kind did you get?
It is a X-I-F-E-I, a Z-F-E, so you know it's American made.
It's a V-cut.
It also has a little screw out on the bottom that is a cigar punch.
And if you set it upright, it has a cigar holder on the top.
So it's kind of a three in one.
It's metal.
It's blue and gold.
Interesting.
Is it high quality?
And it's a V-cut.
Well, this is the first cigar I'm cutting with it, Mike.
Oh, well, there we go.
But it did make short work of this.
And I did the Mike Cross V-cut patent pending trademark, et cetera, et cetera.
See, and I didn't do that on this one.
So there we go.
Interesting.
What were your reasons for not doing that, Mike?
It's pretty narrow gauge.
So I was like, well, I can get away with a single.
Like a bigger gauge cigar like the Banker, I will probably do a cross cut on.
Not that that makes it right.
It's just my...
Or wrong.
Yeah, yeah.
What are you pairing your stick with, Mike?
Water.
I am so boring today.
Just water.
That's all right.
I'm doing a little liquid aloha.
I come in a big wave.
The big wave is always a good choice.
Yes, indeed.
So far, I like this.
It's a good start.
Yeah.
Good start.
Nothing, nothing overpowering.
Nothing, I guess nothing overly fabulous, but it's good.
All right.
I know we typically enjoy the spice, like spicy wrappers or, you know, but this one
is not that.
It's not spicy, but it doesn't have to be either.
So I think good start so far and I'm excited to smoke the rest of it.
I liked the 2009, so this one should be hopefully just as good, if not better.
Right.
And it says spice to it.
At least I'm picking up spice.
Maybe you're not, but...
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't get any initially, but there might be some coming.
Who knows?
Could just be me.
No, there's a small bit of spice there.
Now that you mention it.
Now that you mention it, Mike.
Yes.
Yes, indeed.
Well...
We don't...
Oh, go ahead.
Yeah.
We've done this before.
We've done an episode or two of podcast before.
No, there's not...
There's a very, very loose kind of like topic and it's just kind of like a project update.
I had quite a few projects that I undertook that I thought might be interesting to talk
about because I know I briefly mentioned on an earlier episode about my car kind of being
disassembled for a little bit and actually when Mike was here at my garage studio, I
had the gasket valve cover or the valve gasket cover off and I had to put all of that, shove
all that stuff somewhere because it was on my workbench, which is where I record.
And so I had to make room for Mike and myself to do our podcast.
Do you know much about valve covers and stuff like that, Mike?
I know basically nothing about fixing motor vehicles.
I used to change oil when I was younger, but that's about it.
Well, changing oil is a young man's game.
So I have a 2004 Honda Civic and I was informed that I should probably change the spark plugs
in it and changing spark plugs is not difficult.
However, mine, I don't know that the spark plugs have ever been changed in my car and
it was 2004.
And I told somebody that and they said that they were surprised it still starts.
So I watched the YouTube video on how to do it.
It's a four cylinder car, but for some reason there are two spark plugs per cylinder on
this thing.
Every other car out there in the world, I think mostly has one spark plug per cylinder.
So I don't know what they were thinking when they made it.
Do they spark at the same time?
I have no idea.
No clue.
I don't know.
Interesting.
So I got the, there's a front row and a back row of these spark plugs and I got the front
row out.
No problem.
So it's a spark plug on top and it's like a, like kind of a, I don't know, kind of a
boxy, roundish, roundy boxy thing on top.
And there's a kind of a long stem that goes down and then sits on top of the actual spark
plug.
And that's what delivers the electricity to the plug to ignite the fuel and all that
stuff.
Don't quote me on that.
I'm not a mechanic, but I'm fairly certain that's how it works.
And then I pulled the back four out and two of the ones in the back, just the top bits
popped off.
And the little stems had, cause they're plastic, they had become brittle and snapped off in
the, in the tube or in the, the, I don't know what you would call it, the chamber.
So I had to get, I had to get a pliers to pull this tube out of the hole, let's say,
so that I could get the socket, the spark plug socket down there to get the plugs out.
Well then I have two broken coil packs.
So, and kind of my thing is, and we might've mentioned this on the show even, is anytime
I'm doing a home project, the goal is to never go back to the home goods store, the, the
home improvement store, but it's always like a two or three extra trips to the store in
the middle of the project.
Right?
So I found some replacement coil packs on Amazon.
And the moral of this story is don't trust when Amazon says this fits your vehicle, because
the ones that I got did not fit the vehicle.
But I was able to find the ones that did and they came, but then in two of the chambers,
the spark plug chambers that were full of oil.
So when I would use to accelerate, it would kind of chug a chug a, you know, but not in
like the cool I'm a choo choo train kind of way.
And more in the, I think this car is going to die soon kind of way.
And apparently it's because there's a gasket on the valve cover that prevents oil from
getting into the cylinders or the spark plug wells.
And so I got a new gasket, which again was, even though it said it fit my car, it did
not.
So I had to return that and get a different one.
And then I was told by someone that I needed to get a torque wrench to put the valve cover
plate back on, which is metal.
And there's little gaskets on all of these, you know, like machine bolts that go in there.
So I got the torque wrench.
I looked up on the internet and it said something like 80 some whatevers.
So I cranked the thing on the torque wrench.
I cranked it to 80 whatevers.
And the first bolt I put in promptly snapped off the head and the shank of it was stuck
down in the block there.
So then I said, well, these bolts have a, they have like a collar, so they only go so
far down.
So it's not like you can tighten them any extra, right?
It's like a little stopper kind of thing on there.
So I was like, I think hand tight is fine.
You know, like whatever I can do with just a regular socket wrench.
So I did the rest of them and I was like, geez, like, do I need this extra extra bolt
or not?
And I was still waiting on the, the coil packs, right?
I had all the new plugs in, but I was still waiting on the coil packs.
So I kind of like closed up the hood and I thought about it.
And then I did some research and apparently according to the internet, yes, you need every
single bolt to be tight in there.
So then I thought, my God, how am I going to get this shank out of there, the threaded
bit?
And I was talking with Dev and he was like, dude, I don't know.
You cranked it like 80 pounds down in there or something.
And I'm like, no, no, I didn't.
I cranked the collar 80 pounds and that's what snapped off the rest of it.
The rest of it should be loose down there.
So I picked up two different styles of like screw extractors and you've seen these things,
right, Mike?
Oh yes.
I've seen one or two different kinds of the house.
I've seen several different styles.
Yep.
So I got kind of a tapered squarish one.
And for that one, you're supposed to use a different drill bit and drill in and then tap
this in and then kind of like, you don't really use a drill or anything.
You just kind of use like a screwdriver, like a wrench to turn this thing in there, but
that wasn't getting any grip.
But I also picked up a pack that had, they were bits for your drill.
So I put it down to the lowest speed and the lowest everything and they're two sided.
One side has the drill bit for the appropriate size of the extractor bit on the flip side.
So I drilled down there, flipped it, drilled out and the thing popped right out like easy.
And I found like the last bolt for my car on eBay.
So I got the last bolt from eBay and that came and the car runs like a dream.
It's got so much horsepower now, like it actually accelerates and there's no chugga chugga.
So hell yeah.
Where did you go to get your extractor set?
I did a lot of research kind of online, different forums.
Usually when I'm looking stuff up that are like real world, I need to know what the best
extractor set is.
I usually search Reddit because a lot of those subreddits are really friendly and they have
a lot of like real world things and they're not paid promoters and stuff.
And they'll be like, yeah, this one fucking sucks or this one's great.
So I ordered both of them from Amazon, but I did like extensive outside of Amazon research.
Okay.
I was expecting to hear Harbor Freight.
No, that's where I got the torque wrench because I'm not going to pay more than $18 for a torque
wrench that I'm going to use once.
Right.
Yeah.
Did you do foot pounds instead of inch pounds?
Was that your mistake?
I think my mistake was I just took the first number that I found on a Google search and
didn't search any more beyond that because when I told Dev, Dev did some research, he's
like, dude, it's supposed to be eight, eight pounds or whatever and not 80 pounds.
Yeah.
Like eight pounds I can do with my hand.
Like I don't need a torque wrench.
Like that's just hand tight.
That's yeah.
That was going to say eight pounds is like, you're going to get more than that just with
a small quarter inch ratchet.
Yeah.
So I think, you know, when I took these bolts off, they weren't that tight.
Like so I figured if I would have just not listened to the other person who said, go
get a torque wrench, I would have been fine and I wouldn't have had to buy a new bolt
and stuff and wait extra days to get a car that works.
But because I was just going to hand tighten them.
And then somebody was like, well, you should torque them down there because that's like
the actual cover of the thing that does the stuff.
But you know, it's fine.
And there hasn't been any oil leaking.
And I used to have a slow oil leak and I'm sure it was because it was going into those
cylinder wells or whatever.
So right.
Interesting.
Well, that's cool.
That's how projects always go to it's just a pain in the ass.
If you let it be that, you know, your attitude is everything.
At least my attitude is everything for my projects.
My attitude is everything for my projects, my life and everything else.
But you know, it was like frustrating, but I was wasn't I wasn't really overly worried
ever.
It was just kind of like, oh, this is another setback.
And I kind of really took it as this is a good experience because I didn't grow up in
a car household.
You know, my parents always took their cars to the the Jiffy Lube or whatever to get the
oil changed and always to the mechanic to fix things.
My dad was never under his car fixing anything or never in the hood fixing anything unless
he was like putting in a window washer fluid.
You know, that's the only thing that my family ever did car wash.
So and I've done, you know, I've changed my own oil and I've cleaned out my ERG valve
and just done some things that save a ton of money.
And they're not that hard because nowadays with YouTube, everything's on there.
So for me, it's just kind of a neat learning experience, even though I still get frustrated
because I think my car was out of commission for, I don't know, a week and a half, two
weeks because with all the wrong parts and the broken things and this and that.
So sure.
I mean, and you're in a good position to do that.
So yeah, we've got more than one vehicle.
So it's not like we had to have my car running.
Right.
Yeah.
My coworker traditionally has had two vehicles because when one breaks down, he can drive
the other one while he fixes, you know, goes back and forth.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
I don't know if I would ever take a project like that on with my pickup, but
Yeah.
If I was there and goading you into it, you would, but on your own, probably not.
Probably not.
No.
So I got one last thing to fix on that because I'm trying to get it to 400,000 miles.
It's almost at 320.
So but it's the air conditioner.
So the fuses are all good on it, but I think it just needs a recharge.
It might need a drain, a complete drain and a recharge, but I'll dig into that.
I think a little bit later.
I mean, I don't need it now, hopefully because it's getting cooler, but
From what I understand, that's something you can do from home, but I don't know if it's
something you can do and not have an environmental spill.
If you know what I mean.
I don't know what that means.
And I would hate to have one of those.
Right.
Especially on your concrete.
I mean, I have a hose.
So right.
You have to put your old car batteries.
You dump them in like the lakes and the oceans that charge up the electric yields there.
Something like that.
That's what they do with the Tesla batteries.
Yeah.
You would know more than I, Mike, how that electricity stuff works.
Yes, I would expose.
I suppose.
You have a project that you just did or got done.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been doing house projects, so I put up a chandelier finally, which the contractor
put a chandelier in my kitchen.
Right.
Yeah.
And this home was built in 17 and I took it down.
17 17 or yeah, 17 17 2017.
OK.
And so I take the chandelier down and this whole time it's been held up by one screw
because they had the box takes 1024 screws.
They had one 1024 and one 824 and 824 were just pushed in and it was it wasn't holding
anything.
It was straight out.
It looked good, though.
It looked good.
It looked great.
Yeah, but it was holding nothing.
So fortunately I had a machine screw kit and all that fancy stuff and I put new machine
screws up.
Oh, yeah.
And I think you're.
Oh, go on.
Oh, go ahead.
I was going to say, I think like a little machine screw set is a perfect, perfect thing
to have on hand.
Yeah.
And you can get them.
It doesn't even matter what you don't need stainless steel machine screws.
You can get them.
Doesn't matter.
Yeah.
Home Depot has them, I know.
And you're going to want like 1032s, 1024s, 832s, 632s.
Yeah.
I mean, if you don't use a lot of them, just whatever the variety set is that you get,
you know, just get it, toss it, toss it somewhere in the basement or in the garage.
If you ever need one, it's there.
You don't have to go around for one.
When you're doing receptacles at your house, you know, you need 832s and 632s constantly
and 1032s.
So and for those who don't know, a 1032 is typically used as a ground screw and it does
not need to be green.
So you can just use a regular 1032.
Yeah.
But that's like a pop quiz question always for the electrical code.
A bar, a bar trivia game for your trivia team at the bar.
Basically.
Yeah.
Drunken electrician trivia.
That's kind of been my mission here since we bought our house three years ago is kind
of like, you know, I had tools to begin with, but if you don't have a house, you don't realize
how many kind of tools that you need.
And if you are going to do some light automotive repair or even lawnmower or small engine repairs
type of stuff, like it takes a bit to kind of amass just enough tools and enough little
things to kind of be able to do stuff without having to run out and get new things, you
know?
Oh yeah.
Yep.
And I like tools and I had a lot of hand tools before I bought a house because I was working
construction.
I haven't had to buy a lot of tools.
I've been buying, I bought a lot of, and I need more clamps because now.
Oh yeah.
Clamps.
Yep.
Yeah.
My, of course everything in the house is new as of 17, right?
So why wouldn't the stools at my center Island be broken and fallen apart?
And one of the, one of this, uh, my, uh, kitchen or not my kitchen, my, uh, breakfast table
out here in the smoking porch, one of those chairs fell apart too.
Okay.
So now I have to like, I got a bit set.
I ordered it on Amazon and it's Alan bits that fit in a, uh, ratchet, a rattle gun,
you know?
Okay.
Yep.
And I think I spent seven bucks for, uh, 24 of them, you know, 12 metric and 12 standard.
Yeah.
I've been working on picking up adapters for the sockets for different drives to go up
and down and down and up and, and I picked up a set of extension bars for sockets and
they're the wobble bits or the wobble connectors, which are actually fairly nice.
Um, but yeah, I mean, just, you don't need to have a whole bunch of different socket
handles as long as you've got the adapters to go up or down, or if you're borrowing
a bit from your buddy, you have to make sure you can put it on whatever you've got.
So right.
Well, I have a full set, uh, a quarter inch set, and then I got a full three set and a
full half inch set, uh, impact set.
And what I've noticed is that I use my quarter inch set all the time and I use my half inch
set all the time and I never use my three set for anything ever.
I don't know why, but I don't ever use it.
My quarter inch set goes up to nine sixteenths and my half inch set goes down to seven sixteenths.
So there's no reason for me to ever use my three eight and set.
And I have a mid torque.
So if it's like a big project, I just take the mid torque out and bang it in.
So, yeah, yeah.
Building decks.
Cause I, I had to repair all my garden beds this year and that took a week of, uh, evenings
and that was, uh, I pounded in, uh, four foot long stakes into the ground with my mall.
And then I took leg bolts and leg bolted everything together.
Yeah.
Back to the chairs.
So my plan now, I'm going to have to get more, even more clamps, but I'm going to take apart
the chairs, uh, and put them back together again with glue and with Loctite because they're
just coming apart.
It's insane.
Yeah.
Nobody even sits on them.
They're just falling apart.
That's a what?
Just attrition, just general attrition, right?
Yeah.
Uh, one, one, somebody sat on one of these stupid, uh, the breakfast nook chairs and
it broke.
Yeah.
Uh, you were here.
Yeah.
They put them together with Elmer's glue or something.
There's well, so what I found out is I don't think that they were ever tightened correctly
to begin with.
Oh, okay.
And of course they're, they all spin and there's like three layers of parts that all have to
be put together.
So I wanted these bits so I could take them apart and put them back together faster.
Yeah.
Um, and then they got wood screws and I'm in the wood screws are falling out and all
this crazy nonsense.
And I'm like, F this.
I'm going to glue all the wood together and just put them together, right?
The first, like now the second chairs, any chair that moves seems to like fall apart
quicker than anything else.
Oh yeah.
And they have like lock washers on everything.
That's just not good enough.
I'm going to have to use Loctite.
I have red and blue Loctite.
So yeah, so we, um, we bought a, how great, what are they called?
They're called the gliders, a glider chair, uh, as like a recliner, but they're specifically
designed for newborns, right?
So you can rock in them, you can recline in them and the baby can sleep on you even though
you're not, the baby can sleep on you, but you're not supposed to sleep with a baby sleeping
on you.
And that never happens.
Nobody ever sleeps when a baby's sleeping on them.
But it was held onto the base by like, as a big, it's a big bolt, but just a regular
nut and it kept loosening up.
So the chair would wobble and wobble and wobble.
So finally I took that thing off.
I went down to the hardware store and I got a lock washer and cranked that thing on there
and it's been fine ever since.
But why they didn't put a lock washer on the bottom of this, like five, $600 chair to begin
with is beyond me.
Like it should be working just fine without anybody having to modify it.
Right.
It's goofy.
And like Sarah likes to complain about the chairs and how crappy they are, but it's kind
of like the chandelier.
This is a custom built home.
Everything should have been top notch and it's just very clearly not.
I have to replace another receptacle.
I broke another fricking receptacle in the house.
So that's another to do project.
What are you doing with all these receptacles, Mike?
The GFI, I burnt the GFI out.
So Oh, sure.
Now I found another wasp nest today doing dog training because we've been doing those
fucking things, dude.
Oh, I found one on a deer stand out in the woods.
It's not out in the woods.
It's like on the edge of the field, you know, and we were doing some training and I saw
it and I'm like, Mother effort.
That's the fifth or sixth wasp nest I've found this year.
Yeah, we have one that's right next to our neighbor's house and they're in this kind
of like and this is going to sound weird because these things aren't supposed to rot, but they
do this kind of like rotted, hollowed out railroad tie.
But it's it's where we can get in.
We've we've collectively between us and our neighbor have dumped maybe five or six cans
of like ground nest killer, regular wasp killer and everything and they come back every time.
So it's a very deep, deep thing.
There's a trick and I learned it from the internet.
So don't don't blame me if it's life is a lie.
You use the ground wasp killer, you get rid of it so you can go there like a day or two
later, right?
They don't sting you.
You spray foam and you spray foam inside of it until you can't spray foam anymore and
then it'll fill it up with spray foam and they can't get in anymore.
Yeah, I know that was gonna be my next thing, but I think what we're trying to do is put
some pressure on our neighbor to pull those out because they're literally right next to
her house.
Oh, sure.
And in between our two houses.
So and we we spray the ground killer and then the next morning they're all coming back out
again because I just I think the nest is so deep in there that even with the spray foam
being directly in there, it's not getting back far enough.
Sure.
Yeah, if you got like the great stuff, spray foam, it was plug it.
That's what we used.
I use that all around the garage and around our stoops on our house because there was
just too much gaps because the people that lived here, our house was built in the 60s
and so the people that lived here didn't really upkeep a lot of things.
Not not all the people that lived here, but I think the most recent people that lived
here didn't upkeep a lot of things.
So there's a lot of like dirt that had been dug away or what whatnot.
So yeah, that's crazy.
It's crazy.
The build quality of stuff is just junk nowadays.
Seems like but pretty much.
So my other project has to do kind of with our podcast, dude.
So I don't know.
You know this, Mike.
I don't know how many listeners know this, but it's kind of the same thing as how can
you tell if somebody is a vegan?
Wait a minute and they'll tell you.
How can you tell if somebody is a Linux user?
Wait a minute and they'll tell you.
So I run Linux on my laptop.
It's a Dell, not a Dell.
It's a space Dell laptop.
And I was looking at different things because it's a little bit older.
I mean, it's not as old as your computer, Mike, but it's a little bit older.
And I had a Dell previously that I was running Linux on.
And I remember I upgraded like the Wi Fi card.
And I think on that one, I was able to upgrade the CPU and maybe even the graphics card on
that one.
But this one, I decided that I was going to upgrade the Wi Fi card.
So it does, it'll do Wi Fi six now and it does Bluetooth 5.2, which is like the latest
Bluetooth protocol.
Sure.
It's not super, not super important for anybody to know what those technical terms means other
than Bluetooth is by definition a low energy kind of pull, you know, so you're not using
a lot of energy.
That's why your Bluetooth headphones can last quite a long time.
And the newer protocols use even less power and energy.
So and they've got better connectivity.
So I did that.
And then I ordered some RAM because I've only got four gigs of RAM in this thing.
So if I want to open Google Chrome, I'm going to need way more than that.
But I ordered 16.
So I'm going to, you know, quadruple the RAM.
I think it'll take up to 32, but that was too expensive for what I use it for.
So but when I was doing the Wi Fi card, I noticed something in my laptop, Mike, the
battery was a little bulgy.
And so they've got the lithium ion batteries.
When they go bad, they'll get puffy.
And even if they they'll still work.
But there's a whole sub Reddit called spicy pillows.
And it is people with videos showing what happens when these batteries, they will either
burst into flames or they will shoot acid about 40 feet.
So so I was like, man, I better get that out of my out of my laptop.
And so I pulled it on my laptop.
I found a free disposal place here that was run by the county.
And all I had to do is put it in a Ziploc bag and then drop it off.
So I pulled the battery out, put it in Ziploc bag, I put it outside the house and then,
you know, grabbed it to go and get rid of it.
And I ordered a new battery.
You can run you can run your laptop without a battery.
You just plug it into the wall.
Oh, yes.
Or I ordered a new battery.
And it's an internal battery, right.
So it's not one you could see from the outside.
And I popped the new battery in and I was going to go hook the cord up to the, you know,
the little connectors in there.
And I'm like, oh, fuck.
When I when I took the old battery out, I put the whole thing, the cord and all in the
bag and donated that.
So I had to spend another $10 to order a new cable that goes from the battery to the motherboard.
So that came this morning.
I was pretty pretty stoked about that.
But it was funny because I just wanted it gone.
So I didn't want to explode on me.
Right.
So I was like, OK, God, get out of here.
And forgot about pulling the cord off of it.
That's hilarious.
That is funny.
Things like that happen.
Yeah.
If you have an older laptop, it might not be a bad idea to kind of pop it open and just
check your battery status.
Yeah, probably not.
My battery on this laptop still top notch.
It runs eight to 12 hours on the battery.
Yeah.
Well, my ran just fine on battery, but it was still blown.
You know, it was still puffing.
So sometimes you get in there.
I should send you a picture, too.
I sent Sarah a picture and you just send her another one because I put a new light bulb
in the chandelier.
OK, those who don't know probably didn't share it on the show.
We got at a swap meet in Cambridge last year.
We got a glass chandelier that is stained glass and we had to repair it.
And we got some assistance from your Sarah on that.
Yes.
And I finally just put it up.
But then I replaced the bulb with an Edison bulb.
And it's like a seven inch long, long filament Edison bulb.
Pretty cool LED, of course.
Yeah.
But it looks pretty sharp.
Nice.
And it's like a thousand lumens, I think.
Pretty sure it's a thousand lumens.
So plenty bright for a kitchen table that never gets used.
Just supposed to look nice.
Yeah.
It's one of those things when you're doing the house tour, you turn that on and this
is the kitchen table.
And they go, yeah, oh, it's that light.
So yeah, it's nice if I'm chilling playing Skyrim or something and I don't want a lot
of light, I can turn that on.
Yeah.
And lights up the whole upstairs fairly well.
Yeah.
And it matches the storm light.
OK.
I think I'm about halfway or maybe a little more than halfway on this on this thing.
I am as well.
So far.
I like it.
Yeah, it's good.
Yeah.
The spices gotten a little more prominent as we've been going along, I think.
I agree.
This is not a beginner cigar.
No.
I would not call this like a good cigar for somebody who does not smoke cigars.
Yeah.
But it's good for us.
Oh, yeah, it's wonderful.
It's great.
So I'm still working on my deck, by the way.
OK.
I'm like, this is like the project that's never ending.
Nobody that's listening knows, but I started working on this GD deck last year because
I did the front deck last year or the entryway deck completed.
And then I started this one last fall.
Never got it done.
It's been too hot all year and it was too hot last week to continue to working on it
either because it has to be a certain temperature.
And I'm still working on it.
I feel like an idiot.
I just need to get it done.
Yeah, that sounds very familiar because you came down and you helped us put a we tore
out the ceiling above our stairs to the basement and there was no entry light at the top of
the stairs.
So Mike came down and helped us wire in a fixture mount or whatever.
And then and then it took us, I think, a full year to kind of put drywall back up there
and then mud and sand and paint and then actually install the light.
You know, like a small child, it's hard to kind of do stuff that's noisy when they're
asleep.
So we had a couple like work weekends to where we kind of worked at it, but we could have
got it done a lot sooner if we were a little more diligent.
But it's kind of one of those things where it's like, well, OK, it has to dry now.
Like when you soak a pan after you cook something, you like, it's got to soak for four or five
days.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And with us, I mean, we don't have children, but we're I'm getting very diligent about
dog training because we we want to take her on longer hikes, but she pulls so hard on
our leash sometimes.
So now I've been focusing really hard on that.
And it takes energy out of me to like do a half hour to a 45 minute training session
with the dog.
Yeah.
Because she's a stubborn and man, I did one today with her and she was so mad at me by
the end of it.
Like we're turning for no reason.
It's like, yeah, I know.
So always interesting.
Oh, yes.
Did I tell you that I went I made a project this summer of fixing my bibs?
So I had like, I don't know, four pairs of work bibs that all needed patches.
OK.
And I had pants on my pants, get holes in them, my work pants.
So I patched those two and I.
Yeah.
So now I'm all done.
And it took a long time because it takes three days for a patch to set with the gorilla glue
fabric glue.
And you got to wait it down.
But now I'm all done with all the patching, which is like not that big of a deal, but
it is just time consuming.
Yeah.
So and I'm rebuilding my bowling ball rack.
Nice.
Is that is it a custom rack builder?
So I have my plastic shelves down in my room and then I have foam ball cups.
OK.
And what I'm doing is I am making the ball cups thinner and I'm going to shape them down
smaller to make so I can put more bowling balls per shelf.
Oh, and then I'm going to put a single layer of foam on the bottom to like make it just
a little more durable.
OK.
Yeah.
And then I'm going to put a layer of foam as crazy as it sounds, a wood rack or any
hard racking will warp the shape of the bowling ball over time.
So the foam is necessary so it doesn't damage itself.
You know?
Yeah.
And that's again, I'm using all my clamps and everything to glue the foam together.
Yeah.
And like it's just time consuming.
Everything is.
But it's worth I mean, you know, it's worth it at the end.
Sometimes it's like, man, I wish I could just, you know, I do the same thing as I paint like
some minis and stuff like some miniatures every once in a while.
I'm not like the Warhammer, whatever guy.
But some of my board games and things have minis or, you know, like minis you can upgrade
to.
And, you know, it's like this is the same thing.
You know, you got to do the prime.
You got to wash them.
Wait for it to dry.
Do the primer.
Wait for it to dry.
Do the you know, I just want it all done.
I kind of like to do those projects where you can get into them and like, like just
know like, OK, I have two hours dedicated.
I could totally get this project done.
But with things like what you got to wait for glue to dry or like parts to arrive or
whatever, you know, it's like it's not a I can just focus really hard and work really
hard and get it done.
It's I have to do a little bit over a long period of time.
Yeah.
For me, like, well, you've seen my work area downstairs.
I only have the one table.
So once I get like a glue project laid out, that's it.
Like I can't I can no longer work down there.
Yeah.
And that's fine.
Oh, yeah, it is what it is.
You got to make it is what you got and get enough tools to do most projects that you
would ever need to do.
You know, right.
Exactly.
And I found now that I'm buying like home home tools.
Yeah.
Like Harbor Freight is I hate to say it, but I buy a lot of Harbor Freight tools.
These really.
Yeah.
You know, I think and I was talking to somebody else about this, too.
It's like a lot of people like to poo poo Harbor Freight.
But I'm telling you, like, eighteen dollars for a torque wrench and anywhere else, it's
like one hundred and twenty dollars for torque wrench no matter what.
You know, and it's like I'm not how how often am I going to use it?
I don't know.
It was eighteen bucks.
So I'm not going to go back and return it.
And I know these places have like tool rentals to, you know, like Home Depot and and Lowe's
and even the automotive stores let you rent tools.
But you know, there's some tools if they're not highly specialized, it's just better to
have on hand.
And that's where kind of Harbor Freight really comes in.
I've bought a lot of stuff from Harbor Freight.
And if I were, you know, if I were an electrician, I'm not buying my tools for electricianing
from Harbor Freight because those are going to get used all the time.
Right.
But if you're a homeowner or somebody who's just trying to build out your collection,
so you've got enough stuff to do enough stuff and they're not going to see heavy, heavy
use, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Harbor Freight.
So not a sponsor, by the way.
Yeah, not a sponsor for the listeners.
I would not buy Harbor Freight insulated screwdrivers or anything like that.
I would still get I would just go to the Home Depot and get the standard Klein insulated
screwdriver set, which for 40 bucks, you can get the main four.
It's like a quarter inch blade, eighth inch or not an eighth inch.
It's like three sixty.
It's a cabinet blade, a number two Phillips and a number two square.
And those are the sizes you need to do everything.
Basically.
Oh, that was the whole point of me trying to tell you the laptop story, Mike, is my
Klein insulated little screwdriver that came in the kit you got me.
Oh, yeah.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, that's a great little little tool.
Yeah, fantastic.
Yeah.
That popped everything right out and, you know, it's insulated and then it has one of
my favorite features of screwdrivers.
I think that's like the only one that I have that has this feature on it is the end cap
that spins like where your hand goes so you can just do your fingers and spin, spin, spin.
So that's a proper electronic screwdriver.
It's nice.
Yeah.
I was so stoked when I saw those kids.
I was like, I bought everyone they had in the store.
I'm not going to lie.
Because I'm one of those guys, I guess.
Yeah.
So I will tell you the extractor set that I got.
It's right here and it came in a really nice little like plastic case that closes and then
it's got the sizes all lined up, but it's a THOSIF, T-H-O-S-A-F and it's a THOSIF extractor
set.
One side has a drill and the other side has the extractor and these both the drill and
the extractor go counterclockwise or lefty loosey.
Yeah.
It'd be lefty or whatever.
Yeah.
They're inversed.
Yeah, they're inversed.
Yeah.
I think it was fairly inexpensive, but that worked like a charm for me.
So also not a sponsor, but as long as we're talking a little bit about tools and stuff,
like that was well worth it.
Yep.
Oh, I wanted to give a shout out.
So my employer provides me with tools and I have a Blue Point regular half inch socket
set and three eighths regular socket set.
And then I have a Snap-on impact set.
And they're like $500 for these sets.
They're extremely expensive.
Yeah.
And I got Snap-on ratcheting wrenches.
That's a $500 set and all these crazy like top of the line tools.
And I don't really use them often.
Yeah.
Right.
Like I use like three sizes and that's it, but they buy the whole set.
And I have a three eighths Snap-on impact set too.
Okay.
The only thing that provided me for a half inch ratchet is from Harbor Freight.
It's the half inch Pittsburgh swivel head ratchet.
Okay.
And it's like 25 bucks.
And the thing is incredible.
I would have poo-pooed it if I hadn't have used it.
I broke one after five years of using it.
I like it so much I went to the store and bought one for myself when I had a 25% off
coupon.
Oh, nice.
But if you have a half inch socket set at home, anybody listening, go to Harbor Freight
and get that damn swivel head socket or swivel head ratchet.
It's awesome.
Okay.
Yeah.
They're great.
I'm using them on like two inch nuts at work.
Okay.
And I'm tightening them tight, you know?
And yeah, they're great for 20 bucks.
You can't go wrong.
Yeah.
I don't know about the smaller ones, but I know the half inch one's good.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm going to go with the half inch because I think my...
I've just got a Stanley set and I think it's the three eighths.
I had a three eighth set for years.
That's all I needed.
Yeah.
But I do have some sockets that are the one inch.
So that's why I've been picking up all the adapters and stuff, you know?
Because the adapters are inexpensive, the size uppers or downers.
It wouldn't be bad.
And if it's a highly recommended from Mike, it wouldn't be bad to have one because I have
the adapters now to go up and down.
So like I say, I couldn't believe that my employer was providing this at the time on
my head.
I was like, this is like a POS Harbor Freight Tool.
I have this Harbor Freight Tool with a $500 impact set.
Like what the hell is going on?
Yeah.
But it's great.
It actually, it's great.
They have a, I think it's a Bauer, like B-A-U-E-R.
And I got a cordless drill from there for, I don't know, birthday or Christmas or something.
And that thing is great.
I use, I have a Black and Decker cordless drill as well, but I always go for the Harbor
Freight one.
It's just as nice.
Yeah.
Some of their stuff is good.
Yeah.
And I bought a Harbor Freight circular saw and it comes with a guide and a laser sight.
And that's been working just fine.
You know, light use, I'm not building like Noah's Ark or anything, but you know, when
I need to cut something.
Yeah.
I have a 20 volt circular saw that I've never needed anything more than that at home.
Yeah.
I think I rock the Harbor Freight folding plastic saw horses too.
And those have been really good.
I got my ratchet clamps there.
Half the price.
Oh yeah.
The ratchet clamps and they're like the, the saw horses are half the price of like the
Menards plastic saw horses.
So.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
It's a saw horse.
Well worth that.
Yeah.
Like a rule of thumb is that if it's really simple, it's probably okay to get it at Harbor
Freight.
You know, you don't need.
I don't need to snap on a impact socket set at home.
I just don't for 50 bucks.
Well, for my entire impact set and all my extensions and swivels and adapters and everything,
I'm probably a hundred dollars in including the ratchet.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And it's all the Pittsburgh stuff and it does me fine.
You know, I don't, I'm going to use it on leg bolts and on the lug nuts of my truck,
you know?
Yep.
So if you're going, if you're going Harbor Freight, you have to at least buy the Pittsburgh
line.
Probably.
There's a couple more expensive lines, but they have a couple cheaper lines too.
And I know I told you this story when you were here, Mike, but I think it bears repeating
is and I think, I believe this set came from Harbor Freight.
I can't be sure because it was unbranded, but it was a little socket set in a plastic
thing and it had, you know, the socket handle, the socket wrench handle.
And then it had around the outside, it had, you know, kind of the standard metric and
standard SAE sizes.
And then it had, you know, the adapter for the real small ones and stuff.
Well, I was working on my car and I think I was using the 10 millimeter because that's
what every everything needs, right?
You always need more 10 millimeter sockets for whatever reason they disappear.
And so I was changing sockets.
I set the socket like on the hood of the car, you know, somewhere under the hood and it
rolled off the car, you know, so I don't know what, what do you think Mike, like a three
foot fall?
Yeah.
I think it was a three and a half foot fall from my car, it fell onto the driveway and
this socket cracked in half.
You told me that.
Yeah.
So, you know, I think going Harbor Freight, at least by Pittsburgh, I think that's a decent,
decent line that they have.
Don't buy anything less than that.
So if you see the Pittsburgh and then you see something that's like $5 cheaper, just
buy the Pittsburgh.
And the Pittsburgh, you can get the whole color coded set for, I don't know, if you're
not getting the impact stuff, I think they're like 13 bucks or something like that.
It's pretty reasonable.
Yeah.
And you can get, I think I've got, I think it's the Pittsburgh and they're color coded
too, like red and the blue, the deep sockets.
Yep.
Cause I've actually used like deep sockets for the win.
Oh, for sure.
Like a lot of things need a deep socket.
Yeah.
I, I have a gear wrench quarter inch socket set that I acquired when I was working in
North Dakota.
Yeah.
And that thing is great.
I don't think I would spend the money on that now for sure.
Okay.
Yeah.
May I take a brief aside here?
And I want to talk about the cigar a little bit.
I have a bit of the wrapper and this, I don't think this is going to affect anything or
impact anything, but a bit of the wrapper that appears to have not maybe been glued
or sealed down.
So I've got like a bit of the leaf wrapper kind of peeling up.
Yes.
About half halfway between the ash and the end there.
So I don't know if that's just cause it was under the, under the label.
Interestingly enough, I have the same thing and it's personally flapping up and it's about
where the wrapper was.
Yeah.
It's like a partial flap.
Okay.
Yeah.
I just, I wanted to call that out because you know, sometimes when we're smoking these,
we encounter weird things like there's that one cigar that I had to use like a penny nail
or something and poke to get the airflow in cause it was packed too tight and it's not
necessarily indicative of every stick of that, that brand or that, that line.
But it's interesting that yours is doing it too, Mike.
And it's underneath the, where the wrapper was the exact location.
And I did not take my wrapper off early.
I wait until they're warm to take them off.
Yep.
So I waited till mine slid cause it, you know, it'll slide once it warms up.
Yep.
Interesting.
Yeah.
That means, but just something to be aware of, I guess, if you're smoking this and it
doesn't, it doesn't bother me.
I just wanted to call it out because we are a cigar podcast.
So I figured we should mention it.
Yep.
I'm sure I mentioned it to you, but I bought a plastic welder this year and that's been
one of my major things this summer is I've been going plastic welding crazy this, this
last spring and summer.
Okay.
So plastic welder, Mike.
So I got mine from Harbor Freight.
There's one online.
It's like a gin poor maiden, you know, I'm sure made in America.
I think that's the capital of Iowa.
Yeah, exactly.
That's better.
But it just, you heat up the plastic when it, when plastic either breaks or cracks, depending
on the type, you can melt plastic back into it and it'll reform like a new piece of plastic.
And it does not look like a million dollars, right?
It looks like exactly what I just described.
Like somebody with plastic welded it.
But I fixed my mailbox, that little plastic tab on the mailbox broke, fixed that.
Oh sure.
I fixed my freaking garbage can because the garbage was not picked up and Sarah made a
complaint and then for about a month, the garbage guy was maybe accidentally on purpose
throwing the garbage like into the ditch.
Okay.
Until the garbage can got cracked.
Yeah.
So I had to fix that and then I got a big plastic two wheel wheelbarrow that the previous
owner had used in the winter to haul wood.
So it was cracked everywhere.
So I plastic welded the whole shell of that and repaired it back to normal and I got it
for free.
So all I was out was the man hours to like fix it.
I think I've done some plastic welding.
So I have a 3D printer and sometimes depending on like your file or the print or whatever,
and I've gotten it dialed in now, but sometimes you get gaps in the print.
And so I was reading how to fill those in and what I ended up doing was taking a piece
of the filament and attaching it into my Dremel tool.
And then you just spin the Dremel tool and put it in there and the friction kind of melds
and melts that plastic into there.
Sure.
Similar concept.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So yeah, well, this is like a solder iron.
It doesn't look great, but you can sand it.
So right.
Yeah.
You can do it with like a triangle tip.
You can do it with a solder iron.
And I was doing it with a soldering iron, but it looked so bad.
I ended up just spending 20 bucks and getting the proper tool.
And then you can buy plastic rods right at Harbor Freight with different plastic types.
And man, it saved me a ton of money this summer.
It's very time consuming to fix stuff, but whatever, you know, I can spend.
Sounds like a good winter project, you know, like just bring stuff into the house and plastic
weld.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Bring the wheelbarrow into the entryway.
The house.
Yeah.
Into the kitchen.
Exactly.
That's exactly what would happen.
On the nice dining room table under the stained glass chandelier.
Oh yeah.
So that's like I say, that wheelbarrow probably took me three evenings to fix, but whatever,
I got a wheelbarrow for free out of it.
So.
Yep.
Did you pick a different color plastic?
So it was kind of like that.
The Japanese.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I used white rods on it.
Oh nice.
So yeah.
And the garbage can is like dark green and then the rod I used was light green.
So you can see exactly where I fixed it.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Whatever.
I don't care.
What do you do?
That's one of those tools where it's like, I would never have one of those unless I owned
a house for sure.
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
Like if you're renting, whether it's a house or an apartment or whatever, like you don't
do any of the maintenance, so you don't really need anything more than like, oh, I need a
screwdriver to change the batteries in this thing or whatever, but you don't really need
a whole lot of tools.
Right.
You know, pick picture hanging maybe.
More or less.
Changing the bulb in your microwave or oven or whatever.
Right.
I always turned all the screws on my receptacles and on my switches to vertical because a lot
of these apartments, the owner of the apartment is doing all the maintenance and they're not
professionals.
And it drives me batty when you go into a house and all the screws are turned every
which way.
It's like, yeah, they're there to look nice.
They're not there to like do anything other than be aesthetically pleasing.
Okay.
As I'm, as you're saying that I'm looking at the plate that we put in, well, and I was
the last one to touch this one.
So they're going vertical now.
Yes.
Mike's not going to OCD freak out when he comes over next time.
To me, it also, it's incredible how long projects at home take.
It's too long, too long.
It always takes more time than I think it's going to.
And the other, the other problem with home projects is even if you think you're done,
there's another one that's either already happening or just happened or is about to
happen that you're going to have to do.
So yeah, man, I think, yeah, what do you think for the, I think like the, the standard home,
home things are the standard tools you need is you probably don't need a whole lot of
like screwdrivers, but you need one of those, what are they, the four and ones or whatever,
six and one like husky or something screwdrivers that have the two different sizes of the flat
heads and the Phillips drives?
Sarah, I got her a Klein, of course.
It's screwdriver that's ratcheting.
Okay.
And in the handle, it's got all the bits and they're like just drill bits.
Like, yeah, impact bits.
The drive and one of those is pretty much all you need.
Yeah.
I had her use them.
One of my, probably a socket set and a hammer.
And then you probably set for most things.
Yeah.
If, if you don't have any equipment, probably three socket settle, do you?
And if you do, like I say at my place, I use the quarter inch set and the half inch set
and I don't use a three, it's set at all.
Other than for like, I have a specialty tools like tap sets and like ratchet taps and all
these things that I have because of my profession that I use at home.
And that's got a three is drive, but the average person doesn't really need a tap set or a
die set.
You know, I have like a tap and die set.
Yeah.
When I've got a, you know, I've got a, a rivet machine or not a machine, but like it's the
handle and you squeeze it.
You can put the rivets in, you can rivet metal together.
But I don't really use that, but you could, you know, like a box cutter and then something
that I have really, really, really been enjoying and using a lot this summer with my projects
and stuff.
And it's a Pittsburgh, the magnetic, a little magnetic bowl to put the screws in and stuff
that you take out of whatever you're taking out of.
And you just, you put it right in there.
It's magnetic.
They stick.
They don't roll around the driveway or the workbench.
And that I've been using that more than almost anything else, or I should say that comes
with me on everything that I do, everything I work on.
So yeah, one of the things that I picked up after buying the house was, and it's a Harbor
for Eight.
It's a Quinn.
It's like a seven in one painter's spatula.
Oh, okay.
And it's like a hard, it's like two and a half inches and it's hard.
And it's got like a little hook to clean off your paint rollers.
We've got the same one.
I think.
Yeah.
That thing is awesome.
And it's really good with caulking because there's a lot of caulking around here to do.
Yep.
It makes it a lot easier to work.
Oh yeah.
And take care of things.
And you can scrape paint off if you're repainting.
It's nice.
Yeah.
It's a scraper and it's got a couple other like paint tools on it.
Yep.
It's got functions.
Yeah.
You can use it for mudding too, like drywall mudding.
Yep.
Oh yeah.
We ended up using a little like thinner, what do you call them?
The drywall spatula thing or whatever.
Because that.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah.
But there's no reason you couldn't use that thing if that's all you had.
You know, if you're not doing a big drywall project, you don't need to go get specialty
tools.
Right.
Yeah.
I got it to do the decks because I needed a scraper.
And I was like, well, this thing will do the job.
Yep.
And it definitely good.
I think that most people should get, should invest in a expensive caulking gun, not a
cheap old one, like the good one that you can get for like 15 bucks.
Okay.
Because then you actually have trigger control and it's got a release on the handle so it
doesn't continue to come out after you're done.
Yep.
Yeah.
I think I've got a cheap one, but I have to do a little bit of caulking yet.
But if I end up doing more, I'll get a better one.
It all depends.
Like I have to caulk.
I had to re-caulk everything on the outside of the house.
Oh, sure.
And I got like a wood planking around the basement and I had to fix some of that with
black caulk, you know.
Okay.
Yeah.
And other things like that.
Yep.
And a power sprayer, man.
That's one of the things that I, yeah, I got my pressure washer.
I cleaned up some of the concrete and it looks sharp.
Yeah.
I want to get a pressure washer.
I've got a sandblaster, but I don't want to use it because then there's like sand everywhere,
I guess.
So I don't know.
I should pick up a pressure washer because that would be handy.
Because when we first moved in, we pressure washed all of the sidewalks and stuff here
because it was, everything was kind of gross because it hadn't been upkept.
But you can clean more than just sidewalks.
I mean, you can clean anything with that.
Clean your house.
You can, like, unfortunately the decks here are painted, so it'll get paint off deck.
You clean it to use as cleanup equipment and vehicles and things.
Yep.
It's just handy all around.
I have a Sun Joe, like the cheap one off Amazon.
I got a little Sun Joe kind of like dust buster thing.
Oh, okay.
I've been using that quite a bit.
Well, because you know, like our daughter's three, so she's getting a lot better about
keeping food on the table and plate.
But I remember when she was like, what did I have to like, it was always okay.
She's done eating.
Let's break the vacuum out and vacuum everything up.
But and I was like, oh, just a little dust buster would be nice.
So this is a little Sun Joe.
It's made for cars.
Like it's an automotive one, but it's small, USB-C rechargeable.
So cheap, but it works.
Oh yeah.
One of the things that we invested in was a Hoover smartwash carpet cleaner, a stand
up one.
And that thing is a lifesaver.
We don't have carpet.
We have rugs, but the grubs look filthy.
You know, they would look absolute shit if we didn't have that thing.
And when you wash it, it's like black sludge that comes out of the carpet.
It's insane.
So one of these days, maybe I'll bring it to down to the cities and you can do your
carpets.
It's pretty dry afterwards because it's cleans it out and man, it's shocking how much stuff
comes out of the carpet, you know?
And it keeps our rugs looking good.
You know, you spend money on this crap and then it starts to look like ratty.
And yeah, I'm not into that.
Sarah's mom has a carpet shampoo.
We've borrowed.
I think we, I think we borrowed it.
I think Sarah wanted to do it when we moved out of one of the apartments that we'd for
sure get our deposit back, which I felt was overkill because they're going to do it anyway,
hopefully.
But we did it in the house when we moved in because it was, you know, not kept up in the
vest of standards.
And you know, like the carpet was all kind of new.
It was just the contractor special though.
So all the people traipsing through with their shoes and stuff and we still did it, you know,
the carpet shampooer.
But yeah, the one that Sarah's mom has, you definitely have to leave the windows open
and let it air out when you're done.
Yeah, this one is like, it gets all the water out.
You know, it's not, I'm assuming the one that Sarah's mom has is more industrial than this.
This is like a home appliance, you know, but it works great.
That's good.
Yeah.
Well, my fingers are kind of burning here, man.
Really?
You got, you got done faster than I did.
I still have like a inch and a quarter left.
Okay.
This one's, this one's been good, man.
It is good.
Yeah.
I recommend it to people who are already scar smokers.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't hand this to a newbie.
Yeah.
It's not the, the starter stick for sure.
No, no, it's not a starter stick, but it's spicy, not overly spicy.
Yeah.
It's not the spiciest we ever had, but it's a good level of spice.
Like it's a really nice, a nice flavor profile.
I didn't, I didn't, I don't think there's much of a change other than the spice got
more prominent as we went through.
Right.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It was satisfying for sure.
Yes.
And I'm glad I went with a lighter beer with this one.
Oh yeah.
I think it's a little bit more power or conflict.
Yes.
Or have like two kind of like spice heavy things or whatever, you know, sometimes you
get into situations like that.
Yeah.
I wouldn't want to drink like a Christmas ale.
No, man.
They got all like the pumpkin, Oktoberfest things out.
I'm like, uh, I'm not a huge pumpkin spice fan guy though.
So I mean, Oktoberfest beer doesn't mean it's pumpkin spice, but I just, it's kind
of like, I want the weather to match.
Right.
I can get into this later, but I do not like Oktoberfest beers at all.
And I don't like flavored beers unless it's like, I like Christmas beer, like this Christmas
spice beer.
Yeah.
Because it's not trying to be a flavor.
Like the mulled wine kind of stuff.
Like that is good.
I don't like pumpkin spice.
I don't like flavored beers.
I like sours, but I wouldn't, there's those that are flavored beer.
I do like the Natterdays though, and I would consider that a favorite beer.
Is that really a beer?
It's kind of like a lemonade beer.
But it's good though.
You were the one who told me about them, weren't you?
Yeah, it is good.
Yeah, I did.
Yeah, it's good.
Yeah.
Especially when it's natural ice.
I mean, it's like, yeah, it's pretty good.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not a truly white claw.
So that is right.
Yeah.
I'm not crushing any claws.
Yeah.
I don't like flavored beer, but I like the spice beer.
I don't know why, especially in Christmas time.
It's not trying to be a flavor.
It's just beer, dark beer with some spices on it.
It's trying to be a festive beer as well.
Yeah, I like it.
I don't like the cough syrup beers, where they put the fruity flavors in there and you're
like, is this cough syrup?
Yeah, no thanks.
I don't want-
Not my favorite.
Cherry vanilla flavored beer or anything weird like that.
I used to like the peanut butter chocolate porters, but I got real bad food poisoning
off of some, off of like a six pack of bottles.
Really?
It's just ever since then, I haven't been able to go back to them.
Recently, I was able to drink one, but the joy of those has forever been lost to me now.
My Sarah is a fanatic for the peanut butter flavored beer and I try them all.
There's a couple that I thought are good, but most of them just taste like burnt peanut
butter to me.
Well, it's like, and it tastes like artificial peanut butter or whatever.
It doesn't have the... Okay, so do we ever talk about peanut butter cups on this podcast?
I don't know.
Okay.
So one of my favorite little treats, let's say is Trader Joe's.
They have these tubs of dark chocolate peanut butter cups and you get them and you put them
in the freezer and they're really good.
I thought they were the best peanut butter cups in the world until Dev said, have you
tried the Aldi peanut butter cups?
Well, I hadn't because I don't really go to Aldi ever.
And it's weird whenever I tell people about these, they're like, where are they in the
store?
And I'm like, I don't know.
They're like, which Aldi did you go to?
Which aisle was it in?
I'm like, I don't know.
Just go find the peanut butter cups.
Aldi's are like the size of my garage.
You can find peanut butter cups.
It's the smallest store.
It's like slightly larger than a gas station.
You can find the peanut butter cups in this store.
I promise you.
They're not dark chocolate, but the chocolate has a snap to it when you bite in and the
peanut butter that they use is like the best peanut butter filling I've ever had in a peanut
butter cup.
Hmm.
So, and I think there's an Aldi's by you, man.
There is an Aldi's by me.
Okay.
Yes.
It's right next to the dollar general, I think.
No, I'm just kidding.
Anyway, so go pick up a bag of those if you'd like peanut butter cups or if Sarah likes
peanut butter cups, they're hands down the best peanut butter cups you can buy commercially.
Like if you went to like a chocolatier or I don't know what you would even call them,
like a place that does those like the chocolates and the things, like of course those are probably
going to be better, but you're not buying a big bag of those to put a new thing.
And one of my buddies also loves peanut butter like I do.
And I was telling him when I bought this, I was looking them up online and people online
were being like, okay, I will eat a whole bag of these.
Well, I bought a bag for me and a bag for him.
And we looked at the back and the serving sizes, like the amount of calories you would
consume eating a full bag in one sitting is like ungodly.
And I'm like, I would be sick like a quarter of the way through eating a bag.
So I can't believe people will just down the...
I mean, I guess I can believe it, but...
You've seen people.
I mean...
I've seen people.
I've been out in the world.
I saw somebody...
All the peanut butter cups, they're in a little bag, like a resealable bag.
And I think about the Aldis versus the Trader Joe's is the Trader Joe's have that black
plastic cup wrapper thing on them, but they don't have the foil on them.
But the Aldis ones don't have anything on them.
You can just scoop them out of the bag and eat them.
So less waste.
So that's good.
Well, reduce, reuse, recycle.
Yeah.
So cool.
Yeah.
Well, I suppose that's it for the cigars because you're done, I'm assuming.
Yeah, I'm done.
Yeah.
I just put it out because I tried to get a bit more off of it, but the last tiny little
bit was getting a little sour.
So not overly so, but as they tend to do when you try and suck them down to the fingernail.
It happens that way.
Yes.
Well, thanks for listening.
Be safe.
Cheers.