Do you want my social or everybody I'm Vince
I'm Nathan. I'm Monica and I'm Emily you're listening to the lighthouse slow down
All execution everybody have we have we had any guests on other we had Dylan on at one point
Oh, that was a good sound I enjoyed that
We ordered opened a bottle of champagne earlier, and I'm glad we did not do that in this room
Yeah with the headphones on this spill everywhere. No
Why does it sound like gunfire
I
We popped one yesterday, and I did it over like a towel
So it wouldn't go everywhere and people were judging me for like trying to protect your eyes
So lame I know I like do it off the balcony. I just catch it with your bare hand
I'm just into the into the towel. You know
Yeah, but I don't even want to risk that it's like what if it spills I'd like to have the towel there just in case
I'm just a practical guy first. That's right
White cheddar, Wisconsin from price chopper. Oh
Imported oh you're rolling my mic
I can still hear you well. I think it's headphones. Sorry. I said Mike, but it's headphones
So if you need adjustment any time was no so we got a plate of imported cheddar from price chopper
Yeah, so and it's for everybody typically what we'll do first
That's good. It's tasty. I like it. It's really great. I'm a cheese. I'm not a cheese snob
Like a cheese avoider just turned down white cheddar. I know but it smells like the most basic
I'll eat it with a grape and honestly great combination
Just
Cats
Is that what that was both staring at like I thought someone drove into your house
Everyone who's not here with us, which is everyone?
This is the riprap studio riprap is like when they build out up here
It's the loose rocks they put together to build that. Yeah, so that was one of our previous
Lighthouse buoys history buoy is what we call them a little fun fact in history
All right, but riprap studio. We have moving blankets two by fours bolted together
Conduit rod and then Amazon's version of sound acoustic tiles. So sometimes you hear cats upstairs. I
Bet you didn't think I would come with this fun fact today
Well, is this gonna be our history brewery or do you have one? I don't have one this could you know the full?
How to say riprap like the full word riprap is an abbreviation
Excuse me. What was it like French? What is this?
It's like engineering terms. Oh my revetment stone riprap the technical name is revetment stone
We're vetting it revetment. I won't even try to say that
I'm probably like butchering it but the IT
Are EVET. There's no rap. Yeah, it's some like hillbilly was like throw that riprap down there and then
Whatever whatever it's called. He just kind of did that. Yeah, he just pointed at it and did the hand wave
Like, you know, just throw that down there
Revetment stone
Like the word so what let's let's get started because we'll have plenty of conversation but that meant stone
I want to come back. Okay, the first drink and no one knows what we're doing
Yet because I haven't told them. Yeah, you should this episode is the lighthouse lowdown cocktail hour. Welcome to it. Wait
Sure like it's funny
Oh
I like that. Yeah, we should label these that's what this is for. That'll be the Nathan mutton
That's what these lines are for us. So I was a bit ambitious. I have
Four cocktails on the list for today. I don't have to drink all of them
You might not want to try one if it doesn't sound good to you. That's totally fine
We also have little snackies here Rainier cherries grapes and strawberries and white cheddar cheese
Is my voice cutting out or is it just me?
It did cut off for a second
Cool. I'll get over here. Super fun. So this Ferrari headphones are super reliable. Yeah, just like their f1 team
Great strategy our equipment is
Buried this is very nice. This is sweet. This is a hell of a setup. Sorry. Am I allowed to cuss?
Oh, yeah. Okay. So you let shit all day
I just want to make sure you didn't I can get you like banned from like, you know
There's a button where I upload the audio and you can say if it's an explicit episode
Oh, oh is it made for children? That's what I have to do when I'm on youtube a little e
Next to it. We should just be explicit. We should just drop an f-bomb or three in every episode
That way we're like, you know tests of people. Yeah, like it's not just any lighthouse podcast. It's an explicit
Yeah lighthouse. There's only one and it's us. That's right. So the raunchiest out there the most explicit
So today is the cocktail hour we got four cocktails we got some water and snacks
And I'm just going to show you the first one and then I I'm going to show videos
But we're not it's just going to be like playing. I mean I tried to make so I made all these videos
You mean we're not being recorded? We're being recorded not optically
Optically Vince has been trying
Luckily for the viewers
Not visually, yeah, Vince has been trying to have us do video for like youtube and stuff
But I have never authorized it. Hey, I think I mean I think it's good
You're like getting getting it established getting kind of comfortable doing the board everything, you know, and then boom you're gonna hit him
Thank you
Then you're gonna come back and be like, oh my gosh
And then you're gonna come out with some good like, you know the good video and then everyone can see the riprap studio
Yeah, because I feel like the way you described it
It paints a different picture. It's way better than you probably made it sound technically
There's only one light bulb in this space. So you did a good job with it. Good placement. Yeah
Like hundreds of bulbs. Yeah christmas lights some of them are dying. Oh
All right, so lots of jokes
Way too close too much going on
So you're gonna show us the first cocktail of the four that you're gonna have today. Yes
Do you want a table to mix drinks on?
Um, i'll just do it right here. Sure
Yeah, this is gonna be impressive but you got long arms. So
I gotta describe you since there's no video that the
The listeners don't know what you look like. There's no proof that you're six feet tall. Yeah, barely
All right, um, he rides a motorcycle he catches a lot of wind
Sometimes his helmet rattles
Fuck you guys, what's it like shopping for helmets these days?
Um, did you make this video? Yeah, I made this video. Um, and it's not great. Oh heck yeah, man
Sorry, hell. Yeah, so everyone who's witnessing on youtube can see they can follow along but this is so
So the reason this episode came about is because there's a bunch of lighthouse named cocktails. Okay on the internet machine
and this is um the classic most common
one
um, and so obviously we've got kaluha baileys and
Overproof drum. Yeah
Fancy
That oh, yeah, you can be my assistant on that. Thank you very much. You guys cut any any audio or is it all just oh, okay
Silences really where i'm like what you speed it up?
I feel like anything you're thriving here in the podcast where i'm just listening and laughing. Yeah, that's what i'm doing
You know, this is like a dream gig for me being able to hear myself talk like
What there's nothing better
It's gonna be loud. I just enjoy I enjoy the crisp audio as well to be honest with you
So it's only gonna be shots
Oh, this is a shot. This is a shot. Okay
This first drink's a shot. I was like, huh?
So are you following along like this is your recipe right now?
Yeah, so none of one of the four drinks is my recipe
So you'll have to trust me on that one
The others are all from the internet machine and I have tried them when you say internet machine because i'm i'm doing something over here
Suspiciously, but when you say internet machine, does that mean you used?
Chat gpt to tell you what?
Good lord, i'm gonna see i'm gonna have my list over here. Whoa, you set this one on fire on fire
Flammea how you say it flammea flammeado
Oh
How do you say it crepe susette, yeah, usually flambe is when you you know light up the pan
So for everyone this is oh a little spill this is uh one for the boys
Kaluha uh 10 mils followed by
By bailey's irish cream. We have minis for convenience sake and then an overproof rum because a normal rum will not catch fire
So don 151
Just so you guys know I went with vince to buy all of this alcohol and I had no idea I've never seen or tried
Anything that he's made except for?
uh
One of them which he graciously gave to me after his trial. I'm missing my little black bag of tools. Oh, I know where they are
Where you just had like this like that's so raven flashback moment. You were like
I know where they're on the kitchen counter
Behind where this liquor was
I think monica hates how much I like doing this
Yes, she's so frustrated with me right now. It's like can you just stop saying stop? Yes
It's not your show nathan
I don't want to talk at all
Hey, we were invited to be guests. He's even doing some research in his phone so he can be more like, you know
You should be a guest and run an episode on tillamcrock. Hey, um, i'm very down for that
Um, I have all the notes on it and never did it
Oh from that from that lighthouse you went i'll have chat gbt summarize the notes for me. Why chat gbt?
I don't know. I just I really like it. I'm embracing ai and
That's actually who gave me this list of the top five in chat gbt's opinion. So this could be
You know this list might not be all-encompassing but
the number one cocktail on the lighthouse cocktails, uh
Provided by chat gbt is the beacon breeze. I thought I kind of like that name. It's just the beacon breeze
No
Would it
Yeah, yeah, let me tell you about the drink we're not having um
Two ounces of vodka one ounce blue curacao three ounce lemonade in a splash of soda water
That sounds refreshing that actually does sound good. I was waiting for the coconut to come in and i'm glad
Shaker with ice and then you strain it into a high ball
That would be that would be nice. There's an the second one on here is the sunset at the cape. It's a rum drink
Is that one of them?
Incitement we have in at this time. We have we have the guy we have the guiding light
Which is weighed with gin and elderflower
We have a fancy. Yeah, we do we bought it for a st. Patrick's drink once and then we've never used it again
I mean st. Patrick's was just in march
Yeah, but i'm just saying it was the same drink
Uh, I it was elderflower in another liquor, but the elderflower when you mixed it and it made it green so yeah
Oh, no way
It wasn't super greeny there's a coastal storm that's cocktail number four
I think chat gbt was a little lazy
But at the same time I you know to vince's earlier point there are a lot of lighthouse cocktails top
Did you see that i've never seen that before?
Yeah, it's little. Oh, yeah, it's like a strainer. Yeah, it's so high proof that they have to you know
Like throttle down the flow make sure you don't over serve yourself
Last one's the seaside sipper. I like the name of that. It's like tequila drink. I think that you salt the rim invented
Drinks or those are on the internet. These are all on the internet chat gbt
I think went and just scraped google. So that was the top five
We'll see if the next three drinks made the top five list, but do you have the chat gbt app on your phone?
I just use whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What about mike?
I just use google
We have an open flame
Is so cool blow it out before you drink it. Oh wait, what's hardcore about that? Do you not?
You can't come out. No, like you let it pour it on blow it out
Can I mix it can I mix it together?
Sure, I don't like that. There's a clear line in between them
liquor
Yeah, so they're on fire
And uh, it does get a little warm so i'm gonna blow mine out and i'm gonna drink mine
Oh, so you don't let it just come away flickering
Um, oh you blow it out you gotta you gotta stay on it real good
The drink is just me taking shots in front of you
I would like this spoon as well. Yeah, can I have this? I'm i'm just worried about the temperature
Like if you can touch it, it's probably safe here let me just make everyone wants to hear this
Yeah, the glass was hot it got hot yeah glass got hot. Oh, yeah, that is hot. I'm sorry mine mine did not
Uh, I did have the unfair advantage of doing this once before so
Again, it's you tried all the drinks that you made. Yeah, I made these and I got a little
The kalua
The kalua is a nice like it's a refreshing topper on that, you know
It follows the harsh stuff down. Yeah, that is 151 for sure
Emily says oh no, jesus. Wait, it's not i'm not done. Oh, she's not done. I can't take a whole shot
I can only sip shots. You might want to set it aside in case you like something else better
Oh, wait, i'm gonna burn my lips. Yeah, I had to like lick my finger
And cool I like pulled off the glass where I put my ice cube
Isn't she a chemical engineer doesn't she know about like thermal properties
Well, it's so when I did this on my own
No one was there to help me and it did surprise me that it was hot
However, I was overcome by the amount of fluid
Oh
Overcome
A feeling you're very used to
Oh, I think like the alcohol is still in my mouth. That's strong. Okay, that's a strong one
That's the rum. Yep. So I didn't come up with that one. You're not gonna have my feelings. What's everybody's out of ten?
I actually like it
well
So my theory on like out of tens when you have a lineup like you got to start lower
You can't you can't go eight eight
So your actual opinion of is going to be higher than whatever you say right now
um
Can go but yeah, that's not even sure
No, I had to I had to think through and process through that but she's correct
I really like the kalua but I think I gotta go like five out of ten
I don't blame you. I was gonna go six. I like the kalua taste but the alcohol from the rum is too potent
Yeah, and i'm allergic to melons
Yeah, yeah
Six a solid six as well six. I'll go with the six as well. I like it
I like it. So i'm gonna
No, you're actually six. Yeah, right. We're rounding. I feel like if I drink one more i'll be drunk like it's already gone up my head
Oh, wow quickly the 151 that's why we started with it. So we you know, we got the podcast heebie jeebies out of you
Get you comfortable cb what the hot the podcast heebie jeebies
Is that from what's like just nerf like the heebie jeebies another podcast you've heard? No, that's from nothing. That's just
It's from something. Yes, you made that up. That's like a
American word to you've never heard the term heebie jeebie like oh gives me the heebie jeebies like it gives me the creeps
Oh, have you heard all these words that I tell you in spanish before?
All right, we don't have to go there. This is a special one. Heebie jeebies wouldn't be in the dictionary, would it?
I don't know. I don't think so. Do you want me to? Yeah, you want me to?
What do you want me to ask exactly? Is heebie jeebies the origin? How do you spell heebie jeebies? That's the real question
Just spell it. Speak it. Speak it. Do like uh, siri
Heebie jeebies is a real word
Informal term used to describe a feeling of unease nervousness or discomfort. So
therefore my term my
Description of you getting comfortable and getting rid of the podcast heebie jeebies
Makes perfect sense. Yeah
Yeah, this is blow out flame before drinking
Which is very important
Oh no, you can't see the rest
All right, we'll go the next one
Oh, I'm very excited for that
You saw old fashioned
I'm getting a sneak peek. The first one was called the lighthouse. Wait, wait, wait
What did you use? Um any of the orange the candied orange peel that I bought? I did not uh, uh
Oh my god, where did you get that? Emily the recipe? I got it at um
No, no lucas lucas lucas luke's
Lucas lucas. Okay, so I had it right in your action like it was ruck. Lucas. No, it's a liquor store
I think you have to say it like with an italian accent if you're gonna say it
Lucas hey, that was good. Yeah, we're gonna get started on the accents already. Yeah
This is a 50 minute
impersonation podcast
Yeah, lucas was cool. There's a lady at the checkout and we were buying quite a bit of
Uh different things and she goes, uh, what are you making some fun drinks? And I was like, yeah
she goes
What for like like it was rude that I hadn't elaborated she kind of leaned in we had like hello a podcast
She says I because I was alone at the checkout. I said I have a like you should have
You should have just laughed and be like, oh, come on like you're gonna do a joke here like
You don't know who I am
Yeah, so she I don't know her name but she's probably gonna look us up and enjoy uh, enjoy this
Well, this is for the uh, this is for the cashier at lucas. Yeah
Not isn't there a liquor store called lucas's also?
Uh, I don't know. Oh, maybe it's a different guy. I'm pretty sure it's lukas is the one
Yeah, gotcha. Is it that little corner one right up here? It's not small. It's pretty big
You know which one i'm talking about. Is it gomers over here? Where is it? Is it close to hobby lobby?
All the viewers are gonna listen and know exactly where we're talking. We don't want them to try
They're gonna triangulate your location
All right
All right. So the first one's called the lighthouse cocktail
I think i'm gonna call it the lighthouse shot for future reference. Yeah, yeah
For future reference. Yeah, I agree. Oh, yeah, definitely the next one is actually a cocktail
so
They're both named the same
Yeah
listen
That's why I think
The beauty of this is you can go rename this whenever you want. I think we renamed that first one to lighthouse shot
Right now. Yeah, but the lighthouse what about like the we got it. No, no, it's something
Something something more creative like the lighthouse screamer or like, you know
A sand sand shot or something. It's like it was brown looking
Yeah, it was like the missouri the missouri river shot. Oh, maybe we should reference one of the explosions
Lots of lighthouses have exploded. We're not referencing any exposure. Yeah, that's kind of like is that something to like
Honor people die honoring it people die. We pour one out for the boys
Oh my god. Oh, he's right. It's for the little droplet from earlier. So this one
Uh
5.5 out of 10 as a as an average did you record this in m studio? Oh, yeah, you see that plant you know it. Yeah
One studio to another
Okay, what are all these pieces coming out here? And yeah, what do we got going on? This is mine
That looks cool. That looks like a old, you know
Like the best rum i've ever had a shout out to what is how do you pronounce it you think bumboo?
Bumboo b-u-m-b-u you're a rum girl. I am I used to drink
I only drink rum and coke and then I branched out to my long islands and gin and tonics
I was gonna say you're a gin and tonic girl now. Yeah, I've morphed to something less. Um, I am my rum and coke
too
Rum and cokes are good, but they uh, they've gotten the best of me a time or two
Yeah, they just go they just go down too good. You know about prosecco
About that I hope there's no prosecco on the menu today. I had a run in last night with prosecco. So
Are you recovering
A little bit. I had it. I gotta get impressed. I'm actually very impressed how well I feel great with it woke up too
I don't know how to say woke up
Do we have limits on what we can talk about on this? No, oh a market is explicit
No matter what you say
I'm just gonna say the reason i'm doing well said that like doing so well is because I'm doing so well
Said that like doing so well this morning is because I took an edible before I went to bed
That's the best part. It like mellows you out. Yeah, I think it's because he pukes
Hold on
I'll just say aren't you the barfing type?
I pass out and I puke
Pass out some pukes baby. It's not something to be proud of. Um, okay, Vince keep on going
Yeah enough about my prosecco experience. Yeah, we want to drink some more
What do we have like there's like a lot of bottles in front of us so many bottles
So there's a lot in this drink. Um, and that's why it's a proper cocktail not a shot. I spent a lot of time looking for
equano
Equano light rum. Oh, is that the rum that the light rum that you could not find it
It's and it looks great on the website. I tried. Um cruzan, which is what's in the video
Not good wouldn't I would skip cruzan, but bambu is what we're gonna steal for this one. Is that all right?
Yes, that's all right. It's very good. Thanks. I'm here and you didn't ask me beforehand. I thought I had my mistake
I'm just kidding. Some of it's going to me. So it's okay. Is it expensive?
It's a mid kind of mid level
It's nice. It looks I mean it looks like the theme it looks like a pirate bottle that you're like
It's floating on the water with a message. Well, it's a secret message
I message or yeah, I followed them on instagram for like a year and they don't have this
Uh rum just anywhere. So but lucas lucas's
They had it
What is nathan chat gpt i'm googling how to properly pronounce this word
The bomba boom boom boom boom boom. Oh, that sounds a lot more
Which makes sense with the u they're two u's. Yeah
Boom boom boom boom
Well, yeah, it looks like I could see jack sparrow drinking this yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking
Have you done a pirates of the caribbean episode yet? No, we're going to do pirate episodes here pretty soon
Heck yeah booty episode. So you're gonna have me back me and all my thickness
We have a long list of people waiting to get on the podcast
Yeah, you may be pretty is that how you politely tell me no
Oh, you'll have to audition.
I mean, we're open for support.
Please tell me what that audition entails.
I can't do that on air.
It's all based on juiciness of foodie.
It is the foodie podcast.
Okay.
I need large cracked ice in this thing, and I forgot the cap, so now I got the cap.
I'm gonna put all these in there, and I'm gonna shake it and put it in these martini glasses.
We're gonna get some nice martini glasses.
These martini glasses that are high balls.
These Irish ale glasses.
What is that fancy?
Oh, it's your shaker cap.
I was curious what that fancy thing was.
For those listening, our cocktail maker here has a bag of crushed ice.
Our mixologist, Vince.
I'm pretty sure that's... it wasn't crushed ice, but that's what we heard him doing earlier.
Emily, I would like to get into something.
I'd like to turn this over to you.
What's it like dating a man with so many talents?
What is it like?
I only get one at a time spread out, so...
Oh, shoot.
Just kidding, everybody.
There's a lot, though.
Wait, wait, wait. Should we tell how this romance happened?
Oh, yeah.
We're just past the two-year...
No, no. Yeah, two-year of us meeting.
It was my birthday, yeah.
Anniversary is in...
It is two weeks.
Does he know?
We know because it's a ridiculous date to have an anniversary.
Should we be dating? Yeah.
You said July 11th?
She keeps coming over.
I guess we should date.
She's showing up at my door.
She left her cats here.
He lives at my house.
I did ask him, so there's a chance that I may have, like...
He may have just been unable to say no all this time.
Yeah, I was building up to ask for her phone number.
And then she asked you out.
Right. No.
No, that was on the walk after your birthday party.
My birthday party.
So everyone here in the audience should know.
You tell it how it is.
Emily and I went to chemical engineering together for many, many years.
Many, many years.
Actually, the appropriate amount of years for...
And if anyone's wondering, that means they're smarter than us.
You guys are both mechanical, right?
Whoa.
What?
Civil.
Nathan started as a chemical, couldn't make it, and changed to civil engineering.
That's too bad.
Did someone gift you a chemical engineering book during one of the fraternity things we had?
Yeah, they did.
For like my pre-lum.
I think it was for like my graduation or pre-lum or something.
Yeah, it was like Secret Santa.
And they gifted me the intro to chemical engineering book as my gift.
I got absolutely roasted.
But I'm a good sport.
But I thought it was very funny.
Mad respect.
I think it was actually Ashley.
Well, to keep the story going, Emily and I became really good friends from chemical engineering.
And then Nathan, Vince, and I all went to the same professional fraternity for engineers.
And that's where I met Nathan, now husband.
That's right.
Cute.
We are almost a month in.
One week away.
No, not a week.
Two days away.
Let's shake.
Look at that bicep.
The muscles are out in full force.
Pull these sleeves up a little.
But did you guys know that Vince and I had classes together all those years before I joined?
Yeah.
And I always wanted to be friends with this guy.
He seemed really cool.
How do you know? Because he's blonde?
He's like barely six foot and blonde.
But then when I knew we would be friends is when him and I both showed up to Calc II the second time to retake it.
Because we couldn't pass the first time.
So I knew this guy and I got something in common.
We're tough.
We're tough individuals.
We just had to do it.
That's right.
Is this the drink that you gave me?
Yeah.
So we're not going to have the sugar rim this time?
No sugar rim this time.
Because I didn't bring the sugar rim plate down here.
Alright ladies.
Thank you.
So we were celebrating your 25th birthday party.
That's right.
And we were living downtown Kansas City in a big tower.
And we were up in the tower throwing a party.
What happened?
Can you tell people where we're at?
You can't dox us like that.
You don't live there anymore.
So we were throwing a party there for his 25th birthday.
And both Em and Vince were invited.
And they both separately liked each other and saw each other.
But did not talk to each other.
And they both separately liked each other.
But did not talk to each other.
But talked to the other people.
But that wasn't the first time you had met though, right?
Like you'd been around other things that we had done.
Well we've determined that it's not the first time.
But they really have never like...
We were both in relationships.
I was going to say, neither of them were in a position to be like in pursuit.
Yeah.
Interested.
I used to be a lot more shy than I am now.
Look at you.
You have your own business.
You have a podcast.
Remember that like the time that we played Twister at your house?
Yes.
He was there.
But I was too shy.
I didn't want him to say hi to me because he was a stranger.
So I didn't look at him the entire night because I was like, don't talk to him.
Well you know I was intentionally like...
I was doing the spinny thing.
And I was intentionally calling the wrong letters.
So you guys would end up intertwined together.
You weren't playing Twister.
We did not play at the same time. She was in the kitchen.
Wow, I was just testing you to see if you guys remembered clearly.
So he really was paying attention.
That was a fib.
I'm sorry.
Emily and some other girls.
I think I only know Bri at that time.
He only had eyes for you.
I think there were other girls there.
But I know you were there.
They went into your bedroom and looked at like clothes.
I was rebamping my closet and giving them clothes away.
So we ended up going out.
Downtown.
I was going to go out.
I was wearing a t-shirt.
She didn't want to go out.
I posed her like I normally do in our relationship.
To go to things that I want her to do.
So I was like, do not worry.
I have a closet.
You can pick whatever you want.
So I got her in the sexiest white dress.
That was very accentuating.
For my assets.
Yeah, for her assets.
And we have the same thing.
I was like, I'm going to go out.
And now she's saying, I'm going to go to this closet.
And we have the same size shoe.
So it worked out.
For the viewers at home.
Vince, can you let us know what that means?
Just kidding.
It's her brain, everybody.
It's all the knowledge I have on lighthouses.
We all went out and they didn't end up.
I forced Vince to go.
Emily wanted to go.
Can't we tell a nice story?
I said, Vince.
Do you mind going with Emily?
So she doesn't have to go alone
Walking downtown to her car. I hadn't okay, and then I mean I bet you were interested, but that kind of make the little push
Okay, Vince's story
I'm gonna back Monica up here
I'm gonna back Monica up in one detail there of like she did encourage him to go but what Monica doesn't recognize
I think is that he clearly intended to go already
I wanted to go I think she's taking more she's taking the credit for it, but Vince was already it was like
That's all I wanted to say
I'll let you have this story is that I would not have allowed that to happen
Monica had to intervene otherwise I would have just I don't know you I was gonna walk out without
Giving him the chance to say anything
So I told Monica hoping that she would force Vince to walk me to my car what she did no you didn't tell me
I did I said I'm gonna go. Oh, yeah
Let's give it this is just oh, can you edit out my stutter?
Yeah, really bad crickets we didn't design these
You know we paid a lot for this you'd think they'd work a little harder
Can you not customize it we can okay, so we're gonna get some him like saying things funny
Oh, yeah, he used to say um what did you used to say all the time on the podcast?
It was like a me ultimately but
Amazing oh, I might have said amazing a lot amazing amazing amazing. Yeah, I've noticed I've said that's right
Wow
There was a lot of your side of the story
Are you gonna tell and then and then you need to tell us about this let's talk about the cocktail
First cuz then we can drink and have it yeah, but we've all cheers. We've drank it Maraschino liquor
Which is hard to find when Cointreau Contro
Cointreau
Queen trow
Great are it's got American brandy, but I chose French because I like it better
on broken ice
Crushed ice yep, that's a thing shaved ice
fresh yesterday squeezed lime juice
Got a agent a day. That's what they say. Yeah, it's very good. There might all in simple syrup
That's why I forgot the simple syrup the sweetness you want so simple sir
And then we can mix it
Taste like what you gave me last time just a splash tablespoon is all you need in there
You can even do this as well so you make this simple syrup. Yeah, it's it's these two really
Challenging ingredients to procure water and sugar
I added equal parts of my drink equal parts water equal parts sugar bring it to a boil let it cool
For those wondering at home the show notes
Yeah, it's pretty good
It's much better with this rum and with the cheaper rum that I showed in the video
And do you need the spoon? No, I'm good. I just did some whirlpool action
whirlpool action
Vincey would you like some in yours that bottle? Oh you're gonna run it for me. Yeah for me run it run it
Very exact members measurement over pour the spoon boom. It's like a tablespoon
So missing your orange peel for garnish. Yeah, we're gonna garnish also salted well sugar
Okay, that's that's what it needed
Well sweetness to cut would go good. It's pretty strong. This is like a long island. It's good. Sorry. What would go good
I'm just gonna say my my orange
macarons
Made them they're failed. They're a bad. I know that's cap. I tried knowing her. I know that's cap
Yeah, he can vouch that they're not right. Don't do this. They're not perfect
But as a
In church we heard a psalm today
Oh my god, there was a thorn in the skin of man
There's a fault. None of us are perfect and no macaron can be perfect. Oh
They can be delicious. I
Have a few questions
Did you finish
Worrying him in
We were having a great time
Oh, I thought we weren't recording for a moment that'd be great
So
The drinks we want to rate these
Each lighthouse drink had a backstory like a lighthouse related story
No, they all have lighthouse themes or names
Sorry, there's no story. There's one surprise I have for you that I think you'll be happy about
Oh, I'm gonna tell our story after we rate the drinks and then I'll surprise for you. Oh
Good she's not happy what I just thought there was gonna be stories I
Could make one up the the I also made a drink for us drink tonight
And then I tried to make it for the first time like three hours ago, and it was horrible. It was really wasn't horrible
Yes, it was. Do you want to drink it again? I?
I would have drank that if you give it to me. Yeah, but I think that's you being an animal gentleman
No, you being my boyfriend and being a gentleman. It's made with shochu, which I got from Japan and I
Sorry about that I
Asked Chad GBT to write us a short story and it gave me a novel. So oh, yeah
I was gonna help fill it in
Yeah
I said write me a story about a cocktail a lighthouse theme cocktail
And it gave you something. Yeah, can it be a shorter story?
But you know
the drink that I made up had
Symbolism and a lighthouse a specific lighthouse
backstory
She's throwing you under
Well, how's doing you off call it out the latest Call of Duty had a lighthouse in it
It wasn't even correct. What do you mean? I didn't know you served
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a veteran in the room this man plays Call of Duty. Yeah, I saved
What's it like to put your body on the line? Yeah
Okay, let's go back Vince your story
Yeah, what's Monica's reading first
I'm gonna stick with the six. I still need it to be sweeter for me
Let me try it again
For me I would I could definitely like I would love to mow the lawn and sip on this like it's very refreshing
I'm gonna go with a seven. I think it's a seven out of ten. It's a good sipper strong enough
The sweetness made a difference. I'm gonna say
The drink that you gave me when you filmed these videos was like an eight
Wow, but this doesn't taste the same. Yeah, so I'm gonna rate it as an eight as well, which is high
But it's because there's there's more potential these could be made better
My measurements my my area for those who are not here is about he's got four inches by 12 inches
Third of a third of a square. Let me clarify the drink that you made me before was an eight. This one's like
Six and a half, right? Yeah, I messed up
So you're saying yours is an eight. So if you made them one at a time in a cocktail shaker
There'd be more water mixed in
And I had my sugar rim. Yeah a little more sweetener. I forgot the you want more of them. It's okay
I so I forgot the sugar. Can I have some? Yeah, and then the sugar rim also helps a lot. Yeah hit her up
She's gonna run a simple syrup. No, I made the whole bottle just drink the bottle girls. Those are my mead bottles. Oh
When are we gonna feature when's the meat episode? I had one bottle. It was pretty good
Can we do a can we do a boys episode do a mead tasting?
Emily may not put it on the lighthouse lowdown, but you just
Know if you have light house stories, I can I can do some prepared with content spooky lighthouse stories not JP
Mead and do like medieval lighthouse stories
Wait a minute. That's what about a show on the road. I
Want to go I want to go to Nashville for Halloween
What?
Guys trip no
Golf trip
No, he wants to go to a concert. Yeah, we're having a party here. It's not on the actual Halloween
Oh, it's the weekend before Monica's at the pink concert. Oh
Who's playing at the pink?
Do it to the pink concert. No, it's too expensive
Okay, so all right Vince's side of the story of how him and Emily not just two years
I'll go quickly but
I
Had worked out and I was super late to your birthday party. It's okay. So I'm blasting down for 35 on
Pizza shuttle pizza cream cheese flavor shot out and PD light
For hydration reasons any protein on that pizza. No, I had the protein shake as well though. I forgot about that
Of course, and so I was brewing my way to the party got there late and then it was weird
I walked in and Nathan was like very excited to see me which was nice and then immediately was like you've been in the gym
Working out that was the first thing I heard
Nathan yeah, you were like this dude never leaves the gym. I
Mean he is almost six feet tall was in the gym a lot almost just shy
Yeah, and then I sat at the bar. This is a rooftop bar at her apartment. Well, you're welcome for the compliment
Thank you. Thanks boss. Well deserved dad. It was nice. It made me feel good. I'm glad man genuine
But yeah sitting at the bar and she was on the other side and she was doing this thing where she'd like turn and not
Look at me
Trying to get her attention. So finally I I think I waved you asked you asked Brogan what my name was and I was like
Literally next to me a foot away from you guys. So I had to acknowledge the fact that you had
Yes, that was at the time that and you said I'm Emily which is nice
Yeah
But that was at the time Brogan was invited me to her wedding because Brogan I was just like meeting having a good conversation after that
It already happened
Come to her way that was eight days before like a month ago
Exactly eight days eight days before that. Yeah, June 11th. They just hit their two-year. Yeah, that's awesome
so but yeah, that was so really enjoyed talking to Brogan and then I think like I
Asked you for a drink. Yeah, I was getting people drinks from a little mini fridge
That was our first talk and then I like don't know how to talk to her
So I talked about because I am running away from you. No
What was the drink?
Vegas bombs, I think we had a lot of eggs. I was like we're gonna go to the bars
You're gonna go out. She's like no, I was like you should come out. I was like we'll make some we'll get Vegas bombs
Like I don't know why that was the
Time
What's a Vegas bomb so then I was that guy right and then she had it and was like, oh god
You real Emily in his Vegas mom
So it's time to go out we go down to your actual apartment and then you give me a tour and this I swear
This is coordinated absolutely coordinated
She had just changed into the dress and you like knocked on the bedroom door and you're like, yeah, it's fine
Come in we went into your bedroom and she was there with the girls and I was like
Staring at her and then we walked around the court. You're like, this is a bathroom
This is the other bedroom and you like close the door. It's like so what do you think?
And I was like, it's nice. It's nice. It'd be nice to have two bedrooms, especially downtown
Yeah, and you're like no about Emily and I was like, oh, yeah
You said you didn't recognize me in my dress. I didn't at first. I didn't know who you were
She was in a Cinderella story
A Super Smash Brothers t-shirt
Pink shorts, pink shorts
I'm still a fan of pink shorts and shorts. They were pink, weren't they? Yeah, and probably like flip-flops or something
Look for the photo because we have a picture
Vince I want to pause for just one second and just like this is my version of the fact I was no
That's what I'm impressed with is the amount of details and I think
Clearly you're a charmer if you remember all these details and you know, this is you know
Your this isn't just any kind of relationship
Look at Em in her Super Mario Bros t-shirt
Yep, let's go Vince baby
There we go
Well he was wearing a t-shirt too so
Yeah, that was ripped
Dogs gotta eat, dogs gotta eat
I wasn't trying to meet anybody
Look how cute we are
Man, that was more hair
That was a good picture
We had less of a beard
That was in better shape
We're kind of down on ourselves. Let's say nice things about each other
I was a nice young man
That was before I had bangs
Is that a compliment? Is it bad?
No, it's pretty neutral
Bangs are cool
So we had that conversation, you and I
And then went out to the bar
And I was like, she wasn't gonna walk near me
She was like trying to avoid me
That's how you know I'm interested in somebody
It's hard to see you in a crowd
Right? Cause you're not only like 6 feet
You're actually below average
So we went in, rooftop
Beautiful night
That was a fun party
I didn't remember the Super Mario shirt so I'm glad she got out the photos
I'm glad I was correct
And the pink shorts
It was a Mortal Kombat t-shirt
I have a selfie of me in the dress
Let's see if I can find it
I know I should gift it to you because it looks way better on you
At this point I've gained
You still have it? Yeah
But
Even better, makes it even better
Before that dress threw
Went out to Power and Light
And went to Shark Bar
You guys bought a table
We did a little booth or something
I didn't do it
My sister I think
I think Monica did it actually
Yeah I bought the table
Cause your brother was there too right?
Yeah Danny
He's so fun too
There it is
Cute, look at us
You see that
Accentuation
Of her assets
I thought she looked nice
Her brain
He just turned a little more red
Shaking my head
So we got a table impulse by
And it was so worth it cause it was busy that night
It was a really fun vibe
Saw some old school mates from KU
Don't know why I called them school mates
They were school mates
We saw a guy from college
There were a couple other mates we saw
It was a fun night
And then M had to leave
Hold on
His side of the short story
Good point
I'm so glad this is what this turned into
Someone bought a bottle of Jack Daniels
We got a bottle of Jack with the table
In true
Midwestern bottle service
Style or fashion
There were 17 of us
I'll show you
I went to the bar
I couldn't buy her a drink cause I didn't have the personality for it
I bought everyone a drink
Vegas bombs
Oh my god
That was expensive
You sold his truck the next day
The bartender was actually excited
I was like they're gonna absolutely hate me
That was fun
I think you should have bought me
Just me the drink
I was annoyed that you bought 17
I was like why are you spending that much money
That's stupid
You're trying to be a cool guy
Life is short
I had the money at the time
Then you start dating me and it all just went down the toilet
I know what that feels like
Anyways
Bought us drinks
Tried to dance with her
She would not dance near me
She migrated away
Bree looked at me
Because I was staying close to her
Does that mean I should stay away
Am I being weird, annoying
Whatever
Then it was obvious that she was gonna leave
I was talking to her
About walking her to her car
Then Monica comes up
Hey hey hey
Dance
Emily's gonna leave
Emily you need someone to walk you to your car
Someone
You were gonna walk Bree to her car
You weren't talking to me first
You were talking to her
He makes it seem like
This is all the plan
But it definitely needed
Some extra push and coordination
No no you have to
You have to remember
You would have never known
That I had left
I wouldn't have said that to you
Because I didn't talk to you all night long
You told everybody
I'm leaving because it was like 10pm
I just told Monica
It was early in the night
It was early
I just told Monica
Because ideally I would have done an Irish goodbye
Just left out the door
Classic Emily
So I'll say
I'll say it's a contest
As to who said walk her to her car
Probably Monica
But I did
I think we all thought it
You thought it before her
I think you did what I normally do
You said no
But I thought it
She said no
You said no
And I said no
You said no
You don't have to do that
You said no again
And the third time
I was like this is it
I'm going to get cancelled
Totally cancelled
I really don't mind
if you would like that.
And I said, okay.
Yeah, I was like, this is the last thing I can say
without getting canceled.
Yeah, and then walked through the crowd.
That was kind of fun.
And then talked about cats.
Kind of crowd going on.
Talked about cats and such on the way to the parking lot.
I was like trying to work the conversation
towards asking her for a number whenever we reach her car.
Not before, not too late.
Right, because then it's like after you give it,
it's like, what do we talk about?
And then it was the rain of the conversation
and I just talked and talked the entire time we walked.
He couldn't get a single word in.
I was just like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So clearly she was comfortable.
Yeah, that's good.
And as I'm like, well, you know, it's been nice to meet you.
I hope you have a great night.
And she's like, can I get your number?
And I was like, yeah.
You had a problem with that?
I also didn't, yeah, no.
It was unusual.
I had not experienced that before.
How do I say that?
In his head, he's like, is it really this easy?
Is this what I would have to force her into it?
College was way harder than this.
And then college was sad.
We don't have to go there.
I told her, like, I was going to ask for your number.
All stupid.
I was just about to say that.
Just so you know.
Actually, for the record.
It was just what I was going to say.
And then I was like, all right, well, I didn't know.
I wanted to say, like, I don't want
to get into a texting thing.
I don't like a big thing.
Yeah, I was like, people text.
They text forever.
They try to get to know each other on text.
You didn't say any of that.
You just said, I'm not a big texter.
I wanted to say that.
I didn't know how.
I know what you mean.
So I was like, oh my god.
So I shouldn't text him?
So then we spent a week not communicating.
I actually remember that.
It was two days later we met at the peanut with Vince.
Yeah, and they wouldn't tell me anything about you.
Why?
He was going to.
Yes, we did.
No, he was going to.
And you stopped him.
I was like, he has to figure it out too.
She was being mean.
I was like, no.
Figure out that she's frickin' weird.
No.
She's like, Nathan was trying to give you the warning.
He's going to have to figure that out as well.
Monica's like, shut up.
I was like, dude, run.
No.
Yeah, it was fun.
She's freaking awesome.
That was our first peanut experience.
Yeah, it was.
Shut up.
I can go get another one.
I have a card that says so.
From the wedding.
I do.
Oh, yeah.
Did you save those?
The peanut, man.
Hey.
Do you have mine?
I have mine.
I saved yours.
I'm about to have my hardest.
Next time we go to the peanut, you can't get a salad.
You got to order wings.
Salads aren't bad.
No, you got to get wings.
I cried.
And then I went over to you guys to thank you
and sobbed like an idiot.
I was like, I can't believe I walked over here.
Emily, you know you were the only one that did that, though.
You were the only person that came out.
It was so sweet.
So thank you for doing that.
All those other ladies, screw them.
Yeah.
So I was like, I don't want to text all.
Like we're both busy.
I don't want to do like a Tuesday night dinner.
I don't know.
So it's going to be just weeks.
How was your day?
What is your favorite color?
You have sibling?
I just met you.
You like cats and dogs?
It's way better in person.
What did you do today?
I'm going to forget all of it.
So when we talk, any of those things come up,
I'm going to totally forget.
It's actually a good plan.
Let's not talk about it.
It's actually a good plan, let's not talk a lot
until we're in person.
And then we can dump all of the information.
I don't think we texted a lot.
No.
And that's what I've always appreciated
about the relationship is like we can go.
In the beginning, I mean, we like messaged and Snapchat.
I mean, we saw each other every day, though.
We saw each other all the time.
And then I love that we can go do things.
And we won't talk to each other for a whole day.
And it's just like, hey, I've been thinking about you.
How was your day?
Neither of us care.
It's none of the like, where are you?
Why aren't you texting me back?
You didn't text me for three hours.
What are you doing?
I've never.
I hate that.
I hate that, too.
Yeah, I had a high school girlfriend
who was very much like talk all the time.
And like if you don't respond within a certain amount
of minutes, like they're worried that like you're pissed.
Literally.
I think for me, too, I was like in a distance relationship,
which it was all through message.
It was so toxic.
So I appreciate it so much that it was so easy.
No need to, you know, like, yeah.
It's good to have something to talk about.
Exactly.
Just this handsome engineer.
Oh, she rolled her eyes.
Everyone heard her roll those eyes.
I think he's handsome.
I think you're pretty handsome.
His personality is better.
You see him in that jacket?
I was expecting her to say something else.
P for personality.
Yeah, that's right.
It's not that.
It starts in a P and ends in.
Firetruck.
Not Enos.
Right.
Texting is better.
So you you were scared to text him then, right?
Because he established this rule of like, I'm not a texture.
It was so random.
It's healthy.
Like 30 seconds at my car.
And one of the few things he says is I'm not a big texture.
So I'm like, oh, like, OK.
Why we were only through two cocktails.
We got four to go.
Four to go.
Yeah.
I thought it was four total.
Four total.
Sorry.
It's two to go.
Two to go.
This man calculates, you know, he designs your buildings
as you do stuff in people.
The air and the sewage.
Be careful.
Big money.
Don't breathe.
We're going to go to number three.
So number three.
Hold on.
I think we need to bring this short story to a head here.
Can you close this out?
So it's dragging on.
30 seconds, you open the door after you tell her you're not
a big texture and she just awkwardly drives off
into the night or what happens?
Oh my gosh.
They already know the story, don't they?
Because I forgot about this part.
Did you slam your finger in the door?
I go into the stairwell and I thought she had driven away
and I was overwhelmed with joy because I was really excited.
So I go.
Why is she laughing?
Woo!
In the stairwell.
Hell yeah.
Loud.
I heard that.
And she heard it.
Dude, hell yeah.
She was so cute and she was blushing.
I go upstairs.
I'd had a drink.
I go upstairs down to the road and I'm walking and I'm like,
I don't know if I want to go back to my truck
or go back to the party because it was like 10.30.
Sure.
I was like, I just go home.
I'm not going to go back there and get back in and text you
guys, hey, so I can you.
So I was like, I'll just go to my truck.
Didn't know where it was.
So I'm like wandering the street.
Like where's the other parking lot?
In the middle of the road, like off to the side
as I'm driving out.
I just see him standing there staring at his phone like,
where am I going?
Did you bark at him?
Embarrassing.
You drove off.
Yeah, I did.
She 100% drove off and didn't look.
I love the detail about the woo because I
know what you mean.
Like one of the first nights I dropped her off,
I was like cheesing ear to ear, like fist bumping
in the car on my way home.
First time I've heard this.
It's true.
No.
Totally.
This is the first time I've heard this.
Yeah, when am I ever going to be like, did you know?
I don't know.
Two dates ago when I dropped you off, I was.
Six hours ago we've known each other.
Maybe.
Yeah, when has this ever come up?
We never really talk about the origin story.
This is the moment.
I always ask you, and you're like,
stop saying hypotheticals and looking back.
No, you're, you do the like, would you still love me
if I was a worm?
Is this what being married is like?
Yeah, it's fun actually.
Just bickering at each other like the noise.
We haven't stopped since then.
We are so in love.
Didn't you see?
Not since you've been married.
I haven't seen him really.
We haven't hung out.
But before you were married, often when you're asked about,
hey, how's the relationship?
You just be very brief and very excited.
He doesn't want to talk a long time about it.
He's clearly excited about it.
Very happy.
That's right.
I didn't want to jinx it.
Especially early on, I didn't want to jinx it.
Too good to be true.
Big hearts.
Big heart gang.
Are you having a reaction going on here?
Your eyes are so red.
Yeah, it's the cat, isn't it?
Probably.
I'm fine.
Do you need something?
I feel great.
Now you guys are making me self-conscious.
No, you are scratching your eyes.
I've been watching you.
Yeah?
Your eye is red.
It was red coming into this.
I forgot about the cat allergy.
I told you I was allergic to rum, right?
No.
You're lying.
He's lying.
I said it in the beginning, and nobody reacted.
I was like, I'll leave that there.
I'll leave that for the listeners.
I actually feel fine.
I don't feel hurt, so don't worry about me.
Have you taken venadryl today?
I took my Zizel this morning.
Shout out to Zizel.
Thank you for sponsoring this episode.
They did not.
We have no sponsors today.
Zizel is fricking incredible.
If you're a Zyrtacker, if you're at Claritin,
jump off that shit.
Get Zizel.
What about Walletton?
Can you stop making this a thing?
Walletton's good.
It's OK.
Walletton?
The Walmart variant of Claritin.
Bro, we've got to get you on some real meds.
Put it under your tongue, and you just crunch it.
Ew, gross.
What are you talking about?
Oh, dude.
That just made me.
Oh, god.
Oh.
OK, next one.
Drugs?
Cocktail number three.
Truly a cocktail.
Wait, sorry.
What was our rank?
So we were a 5 and 1 half on the first one.
The net ranking of this one was like a 7 or 8, right?
Yeah, it was pretty good.
So it has high potential bad execution at this time.
That's OK.
Too much pressure.
What did you say?
8?
I could do these for a bargain.
I said 8.
Did I say it?
Did I say 7 or 8?
I think you said like 6.
7.
No, I said 5 on the first one.
You said 6.
I went 6.
I said 6.
Nathan said 7.
6, 7, 6, 8.
8 was the previous version.
No, it's 6 and 1 half.
6.
And he's an 8.
So I think this.
So we'll just call this one a 7.
Last one was 5 and 1 half.
Right.
OK.
A sip of water.
I'm almost done with it.
Do you need more sweetener in yours?
She just drinks slow.
I inhale.
You don't need to drink anything you don't want to.
All right, this next cocktail, I want to make it
before you know what it is.
And then I'll tell you about it.
Awesome.
My invention, kind of.
I had some inspiration, you'll see how I got there.
But like, thank you.
This is not a clear.
This is a cocktail that's on the internet machine.
Why is it internet machine?
I just think it's funny.
You're like an old person.
On the internet machine.
On the Yahoo.
On the interweb.
Are you looking at your red eyes?
Yeah, it's actually really bad.
That's cool.
I know.
Can't even tell.
So it's cool.
I'll take a Benadryl later.
It'll be fine.
Oh my gosh.
It's the cast and it's the alcohol.
Is this OK, Emily, you may need to cut this.
You have a cat hair on your microphone.
Oh my god.
We subjected you to this environment.
No, that's cool.
I would do anything for this podcast.
I'd do anything for you two.
Yeah, you're going to be back here.
Yeah.
Monica is canceled, but Nathan will be coming back.
Well, you like it so much.
The torture.
Like I said, I don't know what is wrong in my head
and how my wiring is, but I think
I like hearing myself talk.
It's like a normal, like, narcissist thing.
So those bottles are supposed to break, right?
Yeah, they're supposed to click around.
Emily, this is a surprise that you haven't known about.
Does it have a story?
I've kept a secret.
It has a fun fact.
Do you have like a, like, da-da-da-da-da-da,
like a news flash type sound?
No.
Try the pink one.
No, that's the outro.
Oh.
No.
Yeah, do that one more time.
Wait, so say the intro about how this is a surprise,
and then we'll be like, oh, this is a surprise.
Oh, that's great.
It's the Emily liquor.
Wow.
What is this?
It's a lighthouse.
She's so excited.
Red wine.
She's so excited.
Is this what Carly was talking about?
I don't know what Carly's talking about.
Why?
What?
She said for Christmas or my birthday,
she was going to get her hands on this wine bottle that
looks like a lighthouse.
That's been hidden in the closet in the room she stayed in?
Did she happen to see it?
I think she's saying that Carly was
going to purchase this separate from your transaction.
I'm aware of that.
How did she learn about it?
Because it was in the room Carly stayed in.
She was looking for a gift to give me.
This was months ago.
Well, now we know if it's any good.
There can't be that many lighthouse bottles.
So it's probably the one.
Because she said it's in Florida.
That looks awesome.
St. Augustine, Florida.
This would add up.
Emily, you had such a genuine reaction there.
I love that.
How did you get your hands on this?
In Florida, I bought that.
You're joking.
Did you go visit Jackson?
Yeah.
Nice.
I saw Jackson two months ago, and I've
had that hidden since then.
So I've never tried it.
I don't know if it's any good.
But it was at Publix in Florida.
Nice.
He told me, he's like, there's a lighthouse bottle.
And I was like, I have to go see it.
So you're like, Publix at this store?
Yeah.
The shopping store?
Yeah, with the X.
Amazing.
I almost got a little bit emotional.
So $600 later, here we are.
No.
Oh, no.
Do you need a knife?
That's probably got a blade on it.
It should.
Nathan, do you know?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
There's a blade on the top of that.
Correct.
That is amazing.
Emily, I want to make sure I have your approval
to open this.
There's probably a keyhole thing there.
Open it.
No, go up.
Up, up, up, up.
We will need it.
And then up.
Cut it up here?
Yeah.
So this is the winery that this wine came from,
San Sebastian Winery.
Go to their shop.
And they have it coming up on the right side,
St. Augustine Lighthouse.
So it's a $25 bottle.
So it's not going to blow you out.
But you can order it.
Can order it, yes.
So this must be a different wine bottle.
Because Carly was saying that she couldn't order it online.
So she would have to.
So maybe we didn't spoil this.
Carly, if you're listening.
It's the story in St. Augustine Lighthouse.
So we're going to cover it as it's on episode.
OK.
But I do want to say.
But.
Go ahead.
I was going to say that it looks exactly like the Hatteras
Lighthouse that we've covered before in our podcast.
But instead of a red base, it's a black base, I think.
It's got a red top.
Red top.
Sorry for that.
Oh my gosh.
I don't know what's in the bottle.
I'm shocked.
Do it this way.
Go to Google Pictures, maybe?
Yeah.
Oh, that's not a good idea.
That was nice.
I enjoyed that.
You have to save the cork.
Let's see if I can get the cork coming off the.
Oh, that's beautiful.
It's a white base.
That was wrong.
So it's accurate.
Like, there's a red roof.
The windows, the shape of the base is an octagon.
How cool is that?
You should turn it into a lamp.
I will definitely do something.
Ooh.
Be really cool.
You know, like put it like a shade.
Melt it down.
I can make a shade out of stained glass.
Yes.
Oh, now.
Now we're talking.
There we go.
You have to be careful.
Sell it for $7,000.
This bottle is.
Because of the emotional attachment.
That's right.
It's part of the proceeds of each sale
go towards the lighthouse as a foundation.
Oh, that's cool.
Like maintenance and just taking care of it, repainting.
And set it down, please.
Thank you.
Is it active?
Like they use it?
It is active.
And I'll say I'm excited to cover it.
I got to get this out of there.
Can I ask a dumb question about lighthouses?
Please do.
Are there any lighthouses that are still existing that
actually aren't in use?
Like they're not on?
Oh, yeah.
You know what?
We were in our honeymoon.
We were in that dinner scene.
We were like seeing the sunset.
It was like right at the verge of the beach.
And.
Yep, in Menorca.
And there was a lighthouse.
And it was going on.
Oh, yeah.
And it made us think.
It was like, look, there's a lighthouse.
We thought about you.
And I thought you would love it.
That is the energy I want to bring into this world.
Yeah.
We just covered.
And there's a cool hike up to it.
The lighthouse way.
Camino de Ferros.
Yep.
In Spain?
North of Spain.
Yeah.
So what is that area called?
Galicia?
Galicia.
Yeah.
Galicia.
OK.
They're going to do a live play by play.
Currently, Emily is tackling Vince.
Thank you.
Bathroom break.
Emily's stepping away.
I can cover this.
You didn't have to tell him what you were doing.
Does it matter?
A bathroom break?
She's taking a shit.
You red raccoon.
It's a lighthouse-themed shit.
Yeah.
She's shit in there.
So.
Nathan is at lighthouse right now with white and red stripes
in his face.
The allergic allergy.
The cat allergy is his wife.
Cat allergy and the rum allergy are really getting me.
You haven't had anything ginger, right?
I think I'm allergic to ginger.
No ginger that I'm aware of.
All right.
He's messing with you.
No, I'm not allergic to ginger.
I'm kidding.
Ooh.
I should use these little ice claws I got.
But I'm getting a red dank and I'm just grabbing them.
You're not bothering me.
For those at home, Vince is currently
filling some whiskey glasses with some very nice ice cubes.
Big whiskey cubes.
You got some audio issues?
There we go.
Oh, busted.
It's really funky, isn't it?
I lost it for a second earlier when Emily was talking.
I can't figure it out.
I mean, it's the connection right of the.
It's these connectors.
It's like the converter.
Have we been recording for more than an hour?
An hour 12.
Wow.
It's felt like nothing.
Yeah.
I let my audio cut out.
I actually didn't even hear the sound.
We're at studio.
Nice.
But yeah, what was I saying?
Oh, Galatia?
Galatia.
So.
Galatia.
It's not Spain.
It is Spain.
Hey, Bruce.
No, no, I'm asking.
Because, well, we just covered it in an episode.
And it was mine.
And I didn't do enough research.
There was one website that was my source that was O Camino.
The Santa.
If the Ferris.
Ferris.
It's not Camino.
It's Camino.
Camino.
There's no Enya.
It's not an Enya.
Camino.
Their website says Camino.
What's the name of the lighthouse?
It's a series of them.
It's a hike that has several lighthouses.
Because over there in Spain, in Galicia,
there's Finisterre, what's called.
Yes, that's the end of the trail.
Yeah.
And it was thought to be the end of the world.
Because there's like this more outer.
Until Columbus showed us what's up.
We mentioned that in our podcast.
Yeah.
Before we went west.
Outer, yeah, west point of Spain.
And it was all flat.
And then you can only see this ocean.
So the name is Finisterre.
So it's Finis, it's like fifth, like end.
And Terres, like earth in Latin.
So it's like the end of the earth was there.
So is that why you're talking about the Finisterre?
It's like the end of the hike is there.
And then it's, yeah, I don't know why you guys talked about it.
So you guys should go.
We researched it.
We talked about it the whole episode.
If people aren't interested in this thing.
But it looks like fun.
I just said Finisterre Lighthouse.
I just outed myself.
120 miles, 112 miles.
That'd be a hell of a trip.
But you could do it in like five days.
1853.
No.
That'd be a solid five days.
It's a granite tower.
Ooh, granite.
Emily, do you want to save this?
I do.
Cool.
It says it on the side.
It's cool.
Thank you.
I assume you don't want this, though, right?
No.
That means nothing to me.
So for those at home, Vince has made,
in those whiskey glasses with the big cube ice
that I mentioned, we had a clear,
and now he's doing a red wine float on the top with the.
Coming out of her.
I'm doing a terrible job.
The table's drinking with us.
Could you grab those?
Yep.
OK, so so far, best presentation.
I know the flambe was really cool with the fire cocktail.
This looks awesome.
Especially that one.
I had one turn out.
Again, when I did the video, which I'll show you in a second.
The video, it went well.
So I poured too hard now, I guess.
I don't know.
Are you going to show the video?
You're known for going hard.
I will show the video.
But I won't show the video of how this was made.
You'll see what I mean.
Looks like a vampire drink.
Or a red and white lighthouse.
I named this the Red Lantern Room.
I like.
Thank you, sir.
Ooh, and the Jameson glass.
St. Augustine.
I like St. Augustine.
And we often talk about black lantern rooms.
I like red.
And our glasses are the ones I got you.
Yeah, Bailey glasses here.
And those are from Jameson.
Are we supposed to mix it or no?
No, we kind of drink through it.
OK, cheers, guys.
Cheers, team.
Cocktail three out of four.
And cheers to an hour 15 in.
Felt like five minutes.
Smells good.
I like that wine.
That wine's great.
Ooh, that is good.
That, ooh.
It's pretty good.
Nine out of 10.
This is the best.
Yeah, this one's the best.
So 10 out of 10 presentation.
Nine out of 10 on the beverage.
Red Lantern Room.
This is the other one.
And the clear part of the cocktail you didn't see.
It took me two hours to make this amount.
Wow.
Because what it is, it's a clarified Manhattan.
Oh, did you use milk?
Yes.
Nice.
To do this, and I didn't let Emily see it at all.
You used milk?
Yeah, clarified milk.
It's how you can make like preserved cocktails.
You do like clarified.
Oh, my.
There's that thing we drank the other night,
clarified whiskey drink.
That's what they use milk, and they clarify it,
and then it can preserve.
And you can make batch cocktails in bottles.
I had no idea.
So you prepped this beforehand?
Yes, this is what took me so long.
What does the milk have that makes it preservative?
I don't get into the science.
I just watch the videos on reels.
So this is chemical engineering.
If you look up a clarified, like Manhattan
was the clear base of this, you make your Manhattan
in a shaker without ice, just the liquor combination.
You pour it into whole milk.
Whole milk separates out the colored parts of the mixture.
And then you filter out all of the milk.
The cheese?
Spooner?
Eww.
Coffee filters.
I used about 50.
So all of this is at least filtered three times.
I wanted to get all of that out.
I didn't want anything.
Of course, chunky perfection.
And I thought it's weird enough of a process,
I deleted the video.
It doesn't look good.
So this may help paint the picture
of why it doesn't look good.
So clarified batch cocktails are a pre-made cocktails
that undergo a process called clarification.
The process involves removing impurities and sediment
by combining the cocktail ingredients
with a substance like milk or gelatin, which
binds to the impurities and allows them to be filtered out.
The result is a visually clear and smooth cocktail
that can be stored and served later,
making it convenient for large gatherings or events.
So it removes the impurities, but it doesn't really
preserve it.
Here comes the pours.
It lasts like two weeks in a fridge.
That's why you make the batch cocktails in the bottles.
And then you can, like, bars do it
when you're making bulk.
See, this one comes out good.
Also, that's a $5 wine from Trader Joe's.
Yeah, I know.
Next time, Vince, you have to move your hand
to be in the side.
You got to do a, I did that too.
It looks beautiful.
That's a great one.
That stop motion video I made.
Yeah.
Not stop motion.
You know what I'm talking about.
Excellent execution.
My steel video.
Yeah.
You remember that?
Steel video?
I remember.
I remember that.
That got me so much, like, brownie points.
No.
Brownie points.
Hate.
Shout out.
Hey, shout out to Professor Bennett.
She was awesome.
Brownie points to make a steel video?
I made my video for my final in my steel design class.
And, uh.
Your raccoon eyes are just killing me.
Hey, I feel great.
So I'm enjoying this cocktail.
So what do you guys rate it?
I said 9 out of 10.
Monica, what do you say?
Not that high.
I really like this one.
I don't know why.
Because you said you downplay it.
So it'd be 10 out of 10.
I'm keeping it in the best cocktail you've ever had.
No, that's the spicy margarita from Mead Meal.
OK, so Vince, what is on the clarified?
Yeah, so in the clarified, it's rye whiskey.
And the rye specifically has a stronger flavor.
I cannot taste the whiskey.
So I'd say Manhattan.
If you used bourbon or Irish whiskey or brandy.
Scotch.
Yeah, Scotch.
Thank you.
The smokiness would very much make it different.
Rye is a spicy whiskey to say a very simplified form.
Common in the old fashions in the Manhattans
for its flavorful properties.
So four shots of rye went into the mixture.
Two shots of simple, two shots of lemon,
four dashes of Pichard's bitters.
Two and 2 third shots of rye.
Because shots an ounce and a half.
Well, a short shot, an ounce shot.
Way to go be technical, Nathan.
And now we're in this.
That's how you can leave.
That's fair.
I just don't want to be shorted.
People want to have the recipes.
I don't want to be shorted.
That's a half ounce difference.
It's a big deal in a cocktail.
It'll make or break it.
Well, and I just poured two.
I just split two drinks instead of this is not
four drinks of quantity.
I didn't think we needed that much.
We can drink more, obviously.
No, this is great.
No.
This is all clarified.
I definitely do not taste the whiskey,
which is good because I'm not a whiskey drinker.
That red wine is a nice touch.
The red wine is great.
It's like sangria.
I'm giving it an eight.
And the presentation is a nine and a half.
And she needs your paper towels.
You need a cherry, maybe.
What do you think?
That would be good.
Kind of moppy.
Cherry.
Ooh, Luxardo would be good in here.
Or what's the one?
You guys have filthy.
Filthy cherries.
Shout out filthy cherries.
Go to Amazon.
Buy the big court.
Just do it.
Buy the big $40 one.
It'll last you forever.
Best cocktail cherry money you can buy.
You can just keep them forever?
Forever.
They last so long.
It's in this nice little tin.
You've got to watch the little sticky juice
because it'll get on your cocktail cabinet like mine did
and I had to clean it.
But I would put it up against any cherry on the planet.
Any cocktail cherry.
I mean, I personally, I don't know
why I like this drink so much.
You see that?
Yeah.
It's called poppa toppa.
But I like the wine.
I have never tasted it on its own.
So I don't know if it's any good as a wine.
But it probably is.
Oh, based on the smell, I think that's a good wine.
Yeah.
I would have not liked this drink so much if it was bad wine.
Would you like it less if you had been described
that it had been through whole milk and separation
before you tasted it?
No, no.
I'm saying the wine, I would have smelled this and been like,
ooh, ooh, no.
But I like it.
You don't like wine?
No.
Oh, really?
Although I liked the white wine at your wedding.
What did you do in Spain?
I went crazy.
Spain is just wine capital.
Well, he was saying that he didn't like the white wine.
And he's like a wine drinker.
But I loved it.
Oh, I love that white wine.
It was so dry and so dry.
Well, at the wedding, we could get you on a good.
I like Riesling and sometimes Moscato.
But I don't like a lot of dry Riesling.
Yeah.
The dry Riesling specifically is great.
The drier, the better.
Anyway, my rating is an 8 out of 10.
Everybody's headphones still working.
Yeah, mine's been cutting out.
But I'm good now.
Love it.
So 9 out of 10, 8 out of 10, 8 out of 10.
I also say 8.
All right.
So we've got a solid 8 point.
Was that an influenced answer?
No, because I don't know a 10 out of 10.
So it's a solid, what, 8 and 1 3rd?
What's your favorite drink?
I mean, compare this to that.
It's a 7 and 1 half.
But you felt like it's 8?
My favorite drink is an old fashioned.
And I've never had it.
But we have a whiskey right now that's
limited run from Tomstown.
We opened it.
Yeah, so good.
Poor funky town.
It was aged in rum barrels.
So it's got a rum flavor to it.
Second pass or full pass, aged in rum barrels?
I think second.
We should do the Tomstown tour.
I've never been.
I just did it.
But I would love to go again.
Yeah.
Did you go with your parents?
I went with her.
No, we went with my work group.
What about J. Reegers?
I've never been there.
Oh, I haven't been there.
Never been to Bull Creek Distillery.
Never been to Casey Wine Co.
I want to go to Union Horse because I think they're great.
Their bourbon is great.
131 proof typically.
It's hot, but it is smooth.
I would say their distillery tour is better than Tomstown.
Because Tomstown is all in the same room.
So you just stand there and then you leave.
Emily, look at me.
I just thought of a lighthouse question for you.
OK.
So it's a quiz.
And I apologize if I missed an episode on this already.
But from where we are right now, locationally, what's
the closest lighthouse to where we're at right now?
That is a great question.
I would say.
Do they have lighthouses here?
No.
Do you think it would be a yes?
We should know about one in Salana, Kansas.
Does the river need lighthouses?
There is a par 3 with a lighthouse.
There are lighthouses on rivers, but not around here.
Oh, no.
I'm thinking of a silo.
Never mind.
I was like, oh, there's a lighthouse here.
There's a silo.
Do you think the closest is in Michigan or Texas?
Great Lakes.
Ah.
I think Great Lakes.
Because Texas, they're not all along the coast.
You can get to Chicago quicker.
Yes.
OK.
Must be Chicago.
It's got to be Great Lake.
Or no, it's probably Michigan.
That's cool.
I thought I'd throw that one out there.
I just want to make sure we kept this about lighthouses.
Chicago has a lighthouse?
Like Michigan, of course.
Well, even Navy Pier.
Navy Pier?
Navy Pier, you can see, it's a Chicago lighthouse,
like 200, 300 yards out.
Are you talking about the Ferris wheel?
Maybe 100 yards out.
Is the Ferris wheel a lighthouse?
It's a rotating lighthouse?
That'd be kind of cool.
No, stop.
OK, oh, all right.
Second question about lighthouses,
Emily, while you're Googling what the closest lighthouse
to us is, what are some of the coolest lighthouse amenities
that you've seen?
Do they have like bars in lighthouses?
Do they have like candy shops?
Do they have Airbnb lighthouses?
Yeah.
One of the lighthouses that we've covered
is not an Airbnb, but it's a bed and breakfast.
And they have a bar in it.
And they serve you like a chef meal.
Did you stay in it?
No.
Is it expensive as shit?
Not actually that bad.
Where is it at?
And it's a popular Bachelorette destination, because.
Where, Emily?
Where is it in the US?
San Francisco.
What is it called?
East Brother Lighthouse.
How many rooms are there?
Can we go?
Watch our episode on East Brother Light.
I think there's six rooms?
We've been really bad about outing ourselves
on how many episodes we've kept up with.
I swear to God.
The nerd.
This is my top podcast on Spotify.
When you look at my Spotify rack.
Mine does come up.
Because I do not focus.
I'm used to Apple Podcasts.
You can just listen to it right now if you want.
No.
All right, everyone.
Listen to us.
Listen to this episode.
Right there on the screen.
East Brother Lighthouse, episode 20.
East Brother Lightstation has been shaken and burned,
yet rose from the ashes to become
one of the most beautiful and unique bed and breakfast
we've ever seen.
Wow.
Listen in for tales of earthquakes, explosions,
and the Joe?
Journey.
And the?
It's got to be Journey.
Probably Journey.
I don't remember what I wrote.
It's not Job, right?
Oh, it actually might be Job, because they
were hiring at this time.
Oh.
There was no thing.
And the Job opening.
140 grand a year, right?
Whoa.
What?
For two people.
Wow, San Fran.
That'll get you a frickin' studio apartment.
Lighthouse.
Maybe.
It appears.
Yeah, it's your lighthouse.
There you go.
Am I on?
Yeah.
OK.
I can hear you.
I guarantee that this is not an actual lighthouse,
but the closest lighthouse to us is the Mark Twain Memorial
Lighthouse in Missouri.
In Missouri, yeah.
Great National Forest.
What do you mean?
He knows the most random facts.
How can you know that?
You don't know Mark Twain National Forest?
No, Nathan.
Oh.
No, Nathan.
Says, hey, I'm not an OG from the Midwest.
All right.
Well, I know it.
She's like a nine-hour flight from here.
Yeah.
More than that.
But yeah, that's the closest one.
I would say the real.
Hang on.
Let me zoom in.
While you're doing that, Vince is doing yet another.
Bailey's.
Another.
I know it's another shot.
Gosh, what's the term for that?
I had it earlier when you use the spoon to do a pour over.
There's a name for this, and I'm blanking on it.
I will say I poured this a lot better than the first one.
Maybe there's some science to that.
We got a double layered cocktail.
Was that a clap for his?
Is there a clap like, no.
Woo.
There we go.
Way to go, Vince.
We're so proud of you.
There's just a little bug flying around.
I'm trying to catch.
If only you didn't spill it on the table.
Womp, womp, womp, womp.
Excellent memory of the location of the song.
Thank you.
She's not a whiskey drinker.
Correct.
Bourbon?
No, no, it's OK.
I will still try.
I'll still try.
There's so much other stuff.
Which one's easiest?
Bourbon, probably?
Wait, you're saying instead of the rye?
Do it how it's designed.
She'll drink it.
It's designed with bourbon.
Let me grab one.
I will try it.
Oh my gosh, just use whatever you have right here.
Yeah, just use the rye.
Use the rye.
Isn't it?
It'll be better.
It's right next to our bar.
Yeah, so for everybody at home, let me paint the picture for you.
We're in the Rip Wrap studio, right?
The Revament Stone studio.
Exactly.
Right next to a bar full of Bottles O' Bourbon.
Oh, yeah.
I see a Basil Haydn's from here.
Oh, I see.
That was so cool we were bringing out.
And now I see a Basil Haydn's next to me.
That's what he grabbed.
Why do you have multiple Basil Haydn's?
Because they were gifted to us at our housewarming party.
I just got one the other day in another basket.
I got a Basil Haydn's.
We need another housewarming party.
Yeah, we'll stock you up.
What about a housewarming party for renewing your lease?
Yeah, should we do that?
We just renewed.
Should we do that?
We just renewed.
You did too?
Yeah, we did.
Well, technically, we signed a two-year lease.
That's right.
So it's a rollover type of thing.
It's a year deal.
For how long?
Another year.
Vince said he doesn't want to move after this,
but I want to move.
It's going to bother me if I can't figure out
the term for what he's doing.
Oh, my god.
Just look it up.
Yeah.
What is it?
Check, GPT.
A float.
He's doing a float.
Thank you.
Is that what that is?
He called it a float.
Yeah.
For those listening at home, you can correct me
in the comments.
So if Vince doesn't want to move, what do you mean?
You want to buy a house and then move?
What is this, like no more renting moves?
I just think at the end of our contract,
I don't want to set expectations about if we're
going to stay or leave to either the owners or to her.
Because we have another year.
We'll look at it.
We'll look at what the rate is going to be
and what options are around us.
And we're not going to buy a house right now,
but we might rent somewhere else.
This is the least amount of whiskey.
Hashtag renters lives matter.
OK.
Are we mixing it or no?
Thanks, dog.
You're welcome to.
I'm going to show you what this is called.
All right, Vince, tell us what this is.
I don't like that I like curdles.
Is this the brown cum shot?
Nathan.
You can edit that out.
I'm sorry.
These girls.
My bad.
Give me a little twisty twisty.
Well, we shoot it, right?
Yeah.
And we don't set it on fire, right?
No fire this one.
If you don't hit the table, what does that mean, Vince?
I don't know.
No lighthouses.
That's right.
No lighthouse sex.
You didn't cheer with us.
Yeah, how rude.
What are we, like chopped liver?
What do I need, another one?
Chopped liver.
That's what my mom used to say.
Are there any light?
So you mentioned the amenities at my bed and breakfast
being the top one.
Are there any restaurant lighthouses?
Yes.
You got to shoot it.
Get all the flavors.
What's the Homer one?
Salty Dog Saloon.
Which is also episode 69.
Oh.
21.
Oh.
21.
That's two plus one.
What's nine plus 10?
21.
It's not an official lighthouse, but it
is labeled as a lighted tower.
OK.
I'm going there next week.
So where's it at?
Alaska.
Oh.
Are you going to Alaska yet?
Yep.
What about lighthouse at the beach?
Are you actually?
Yeah.
And I'm going to get this drink.
And Emily is very mad right now.
This drink is world famous.
He's been like, oh, no.
I don't really know if we're going to be able to make it.
Alaskan Duck Flirt.
So are you going?
Oh my god.
Emily, hold on.
Because you have to update your schedule.
We are going to try to go.
See, that's the thing.
We can't guarantee anything on a motorcycle ride in Alaska.
Can't guarantee anything.
Ladies and gentlemen.
You guarantee you're going to come home?
Yes.
Come home.
He's coming back.
Especially after he drinks the Alaskan Duck Fart, which
is what this cocktail, or this shot rather, is called.
If you had listened to our podcast episode about Salted
Dog Saloon.
Which you hadn't.
This is their number one, or what is it called?
It's their famous drink.
Signature drink from their.
I didn't know there were Alaskan Ducks, first of all.
And I didn't know ducks could fart.
But I guess that makes sense.
They poop, Nathan.
They poop.
They can fart.
Is that a direct correlation?
Is that a given?
Yeah, it's gas.
It's probably a combo deal.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
Dude, same ducked.
With that duck.
Was that a duck one?
Look at this fucking place.
Wow.
That's cool.
Doesn't that make you want to take a shot?
Yeah, it does.
It makes you want to steal it, though.
Duck fart.
It makes me want to grab all the $1 signs.
I think there's like a bra or something up here.
Dala, dala bills.
Yeah, there's a bra, some underwear.
Yeah.
So you're going to try to go there?
Yeah.
So I've been right past it.
I've stayed there.
Listen to the episode.
I stayed on the Homer spit, which is the rip rap spit.
And this is before we were officially dating,
but after we had been on dates.
But not texting.
Yes, texting.
But I hadn't asked him to be my boyfriend yet.
Because she asked you out.
That's right.
Yeah.
Once again, right before I asked her.
I was like, it's OK.
This was my idea.
I'm pretty sure Nathan and I kind of had the same similar
conversations.
Like, do we make it official now?
Do you want to be my boyfriend?
Back to my prior statement.
Mine was a little bit more clingy.
I was like, are you seeing anyone else?
Stage nine clinger.
Can we be boyfriend and girlfriend?
Stage nine clinger.
Back to my comment earlier.
I didn't want to jinx it.
It was just like, hey, I'm not going
to rush it and ruin a good thing and be like,
do you want to go out with me?
And she's like, hold on, silly rule.
Well, let's go back to a good thing
like being in a committed relationship.
It is.
Yeah, but I think that's the nice thing about us.
This isn't applied to everyone because there's
some really shitty people out there.
But for both of us, we both like.
You know we have listeners, right?
You're right.
I'm sorry.
But we both, we're like, hey, we're committed.
We're not like a sleep around and just be loose and free
kind of type.
I don't know that.
Sorry, let me correct my statement.
We're married, but that doesn't mean anything.
We've had our.
Her wife is like, what?
We had our phases.
It's funny that you say all of this,
but I had to ask you multiple times
before you went in the first day with me.
But the context of this is I had just finished a co-op.
I was coming back to school to finish my last semester.
I was working two jobs.
I live my life by my Google calendar.
And I got this chick texting me at like 3 o'clock
on a Tuesday, wanting to hang out.
Like, hey, I got a job.
I got to work.
Thank you.
I have stuff to do.
So it was just like genuinely, it was just bad timing.
Every time you talked or texted, rather,
I had something going on and I couldn't get out of it.
But then you told me.
Nathan, I'm begging you to stop talking.
Those college girls.
This chick kept talking to me.
This fucking chick is broad.
Do you remember when you married her shortly?
Yeah, right.
Five years later.
Three years later.
And here we are.
Four years later.
That's kind of crazy.
Did you ever think you'd be on a podcast together?
No.
And I'm enjoying it.
I don't think she is.
I am enjoying it.
I feel like I just, you come up with wittier things.
Yeah.
This is my element.
And then I just, like, my English
does not come fast enough.
You can speak in Spanish.
We just want to say.
Never had that problem.
Anyone else want some wine?
Ha, ha, ha, Nathan.
I got it.
But no one did.
You need the glass?
I would love a glass.
I'd love to try it.
I mean, it's a gift for Emily, so I
want to ask her permission.
Can I have some wine?
I authorized the sharing of this wine.
Knowing it's $25, it's your next party.
I'll bring you a bottle of this.
You better.
We'll order one on one.
Now it's official.
So then now she can have two Lake House's lamps
for her nightstands.
On either side.
Matching.
Thank you.
I can grab a little sip from it.
It's not that sexy.
No, we're not sharing.
Yeah, you'll take the rest of this.
I just want a little bit.
I have four glasses.
Oh, that's very sweet.
For the rare occasion for the four of us who want wine.
That is amazing.
Just kidding.
You pour some more.
It's for yourself.
Are you?
Mike, you're drinking that, right?
No, here.
OK, so only pour the one, Vince, because she's
going to give me this one.
You don't want it?
This is for me.
I do.
I mean, no, it's good.
I taste it.
You keep that.
You keep it.
The thing about wine.
We're going to finish that bottle.
Oh, yeah.
That's what I was just going to say.
The thing about wine, same thing about mead
is that it doesn't really keep.
Like, you have to drink it within a couple of days.
But have you heard of reserves in like really old aged wine?
Nathan's going to give me another bottle.
It's sealed.
And Emily, you get to aerate it, right?
Once it's open, you drink it.
Yes, yes.
Or making a cooking wine.
Nathan, this is disgusting.
No, you're airing it.
That kind of helps.
It's cool.
You got to aerate the wine when you drink red.
That's not a joke.
For everyone at home, we just saw the cutest interaction.
First podcast kiss.
Wow.
Oh my goodness.
Usually we're sitting across from each other.
Oh.
I think that was not a good one.
What?
Could there have been like a.
How dare you?
So trashy.
That's the best like.
This is the intro.
What's this one?
I don't know.
Hit it.
Oh, that's so bad.
This is real laughter.
Crickets.
Yeah, kind of.
Whatever that is.
Shitty crickets.
This is.
I do like the wine.
It's like a metal cricket.
It's like Happy Communion.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
Do do do do do do do.
That's what I should have been.
This is like a joke.
This is stupid.
This is laughter.
No, that's laughter.
Oh, what is this one?
This is the good one.
Oh, cheering.
Can you play them all at the same time?
I guess so.
Unfortunately.
Oh, God.
Oh.
Oh, all right.
So the salty dog saloon.
Yes.
We just talked about the Alaskan duck fart.
That's right.
It's the most popular menu item at the salty dog saloon.
I actually think it's delicious.
I really do.
I like it.
That's a good shot.
Bailey's and Claude.
Oh, yeah.
We didn't rake it.
Oh, yeah, we didn't.
What's your rank?
I like that.
So I think that was my second.
It was my I said rake it, didn't I?
I think instead of rank, I think.
I get up, baby.
Did I say I said a nine on the last drink?
I'm going to go with an eight.
That was a solid eight shot.
Like, you give me that over a Sex on the Beach any day.
I had to resist the sunrise on this episode.
We did no sunrises.
Keyless sunrise.
I'm going to do another eight.
I like I like Bailey's a lot.
Yeah, it's good.
So this wasn't as overpowering as the other one, like alcohol wise.
Yeah.
So I liked it.
I like I would be able to have several shots.
It's a pretty good shot.
Yeah.
I would say seven and a half because the last one was a six because of the rum overpowering.
The fire rum.
Yeah.
Which I think is cool.
It's on fire.
But like it's more of a one time thing.
Like I still feel that first shot in my head.
Yeah.
Let me I'm going to stick around.
But Vince, don't you want to do one.
Emily, what did you rank it?
Six and a half.
I mean, seven and a half.
Damn.
Your hair's on your nostrils just burned off.
Yeah.
It wakes you up.
I can't.
Like three inches away.
I'm allergic to rum.
Vince, what did you what did you rank it?
This one's going to be a nine for me.
And this is this is the one she mentioned the Bailey's being good.
Have you had Buffalo Trace bourbon cream?
No.
From the like same folks at McBlend's.
Buffalo Trace.
Buffalo Trace makes a bourbon cream.
They didn't have that.
And it is incredible.
He loves that.
I always keep BT below the table.
You know, you're supposed to be about a fist away.
I know.
Like he loves touching.
Buffalo Trace.
Always into the table.
There you go.
You got wasn't any of these drinks.
But I have been.
A rate that wine, Vince.
There you go.
It brings out the flavors.
So I know.
I like a bird sound.
Does this wine have legs?
No.
No, not in this glass.
Too sweet.
No legs.
It's the wrong glass.
It's lumpy glass.
You don't know.
Can I mix it?
Yeah.
Do what you want to do.
You want a little spoon?
Who you want to be with barbie.
Here.
Let me wipe.
I have that.
I have a towel as well.
If you want it.
I bought a new cocktail set just for this.
When you come back, I'm going to have a game ready for our
supply, OK?
Oh, no.
You should have told us.
We have several.
But now I have one.
We could have gifted it.
Poor Emily's going to have a lot of editing.
I think, hey, guys, you guys, I know.
This should be Halloween drink as well.
Resonation room.
And you can put like an eyeball.
So there are a lot of spooky stories.
And lighthouses.
I see Augustine.
Yeah, like they have ghost tours.
I was going to talk about it.
We have so much to talk about.
So they have ghost tours.
Not lighthouse related.
Yeah.
Or Alcatraz Island.
I can remember that one recently.
I really liked that episode.
I've been to Alcatraz.
No way.
What was it like?
I was young.
I remember I was kind of a little bit mortified.
And they had the fake people or the manikins.
The manikins, as big as this is where they used to be.
I remember I was just a little freaked out about it.
But I enjoyed it.
And seeing the porter potty, where
they would go to the bathroom.
So sorry, I cannot really talk much about it.
Because I was like maybe six years old.
Yeah.
But I have a vivid memory of being scared.
Just because of the manikins?
Just being there.
It wasn't a haunted tour.
You just did a normal one?
Yeah, a normal Alcatraz tour.
Is Alcatraz considered a lighthouse?
Oh.
So that did not mix, or did mix too well.
You got to float the wine on the cocktail.
You put in lemon?
So you're doing a tinto de verano?
No, that's not what I think.
Tinto de verano, Don Simon.
Tinto de verano, que calor.
These are surprisingly good microphones, aren't they?
This is the cocktail from earlier.
Yeah, they make her such a great sip.
Such a great singer.
You're such a great singer.
Ah.
That sounded great.
You guys, I have a game for us to play.
Oh yeah, I've been waiting.
Brought to you by Chad GBT.
I'm sorry that you're allergic to cats, and I forgot.
It's OK.
And rum.
No.
Do you actually allergic to rum?
No, he's not.
He's lying.
Also, this rum that she bought, it smells so good.
Oh, they bum bum.
Smell that.
They make a couple.
Boom boom.
So Iquano.
I'm going to look it up.
Boom boom.
Boom boom cha cha cha.
I want to go back to Spain.
You guys are moving to Spain, right?
Three years.
2026.
So.
Oh, that smells like gum.
Yes, it smells like bubble gum.
Oh, my mead making stuff.
It's a cleaning brush.
That's all right.
It's replaceable.
You know it's not replaceable?
Love and cats.
What's that for?
Cleaning bottles.
Oh, I was going to say, looks like cleaning your toilet.
What's that got to do with it?
No, I emptied my mead making bin so I could use the bin for this.
Oh, this smells so good.
It smells like bubble gum.
That's really nice.
So this is.
You're going to be sad.
It's OK.
You'll come see us really fast.
I'm going to be very sad when you leave.
Yeah, why are you guys leaving?
Not yet.
Let's segue into something way more fun.
But it's home.
You saw it how fun it is.
I know.
You'll have a great life together.
Ladies and gentlemen.
And they can come and speak Spanish and learn Spanish.
And then we can flip flop, you know?
Yeah, that's right.
And do a couple of weeks together and flip flop.
Welcome to our podcast.
These are our kids.
They can be friends.
They're such good goals.
I love that.
It's so cute.
They'll call each other cousins.
Our kids are going to suck dick at soccer.
Auntie M.
Auntie M, Auntie M.
Welcome to our podcast episode of Would
You Rather, the Ultimate Challenge.
Today, today, we want another drink.
No.
I'm going to finish.
Today, we have four daring individuals
ready to dive into some thought provoking scenarios.
Each of us will take turns presenting a, actually, we're
not.
I'm going to take turns presenting you
with Would You Rather questions.
This is chat, chat.
And you're going to get ready for some lively debates.
Tough decision.
Four cocktails is a lot.
And a whole lot of fun.
All right.
So.
Two shots would have been enough.
Emily, you're.
Two shots of vodka.
Two shots.
Glug, glug, glug, glug.
Emily, you're first.
All right.
Some lighthouse themed Would You Rather questions.
So, Emily.
Would you rather have the ability
to control the intensity and color of a lighthouse's beam
or control the sound of its foghorn?
Beam.
I asked Emily.
Did I answer?
And thank you.
The world just learned how she can never not answer something
immediately after it's asked.
OK, so I have to say, OK, as a lighthouse podcast,
that neither should be messed with.
Because.
Are you four or one?
Four.
He needs to turn you down.
Are you muting me and kissing me?
It's rude.
Good to know.
The color, brightness, and intensity of the foghorn
are all set to a specific standard of each, everything,
to each lighthouse, depending on distance,
OK, yeah, the height, the conditions
that the lighthouse is in.
So, OK, technically, I wouldn't want to mess with either one.
But if I was going to be in control of either one,
it would be the light, because it's
seen more often than the foghorn.
Yeah, exactly.
The foghorn is goofy and fun, but it's also
annoying to the people that live nearby.
Yeah, like a train for us.
Exactly.
The train.
So Vince, what would you answer?
Would you rather control the.
Foghorn for sure.
Same.
Because it's supposed to be annoying.
I would do an Alaskan duck fart foghorn.
I do this whistle that's two tones.
It's high and low.
No, it's not special.
Ah.
I know what you're doing.
You're welcome for everyone with headphones on.
That's right.
But listen, so there was a video I took on my camera nine years
ago when I went to Canada to Victoria Island.
And it is featured in the podcast.
Yeah, and on one of at least one of my episodes,
we replaced it for this sound.
Triangle Island, Triangle Island.
I just want to think.
We replaced it with mine, and it was like, yee.
It was very satisfying.
That sounded really nice.
The sound came from a video I took on my really nice camera.
So a real foghorn.
A long time ago.
When I was on the ship that had the foghorn that bounced off
of the land and came back.
I'm on a boat and it's going fast.
That's right.
It was a boat.
It was a ferry.
Yeah, I was on it.
And it was a boat.
And it had a foghorn.
And they blew it.
But not a lighthouse.
Probably by law as they came into the port in Canada.
And I just was like, that's one of my favorite sounds
I've ever heard.
So for me, the answer is foghorn.
That's why I like going to hockey games when they score
goals and they play the foghorn.
Wah, wah.
It's so nice.
So Monica, what would you?
The light.
You'd control the light?
Of course.
I'm with Vince.
It's the foghorn.
Like, don't get me wrong.
Shakes your chest.
Yeah.
It's so annoying.
I think I just never grew up with those type of sounds,
like the trains and things like that.
So it just annoys the heck out of me.
You will love this.
And then the light.
Think about how many times is there fog versus there's night.
It's usually nighttime.
Every night.
Almost every day.
I am controlling a lighthouse in the foggiest part of the world.
So which is jokes on you.
Yeah, that place.
Exactly.
Next question.
Trying to.
All right.
I've got a fun fact for you.
Emily, could you help me out deliver this?
So before foghorns, because those are kind of in before
foghorn leghorn chicken.
Crickets like crickets.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, and the crickets.
But.
Before foghorns or as an alternative, there's a say, I say cannons.
They have fired cannons every five minutes.
A guy used to have to go down there and light a cannon.
I see a video.
No, because this was like before videos.
It was written, Nathan written, and it was no reenactments, nothing.
There are reenactments in Canada.
Just like that.
Also, there's triangles.
People used to do.
No, no.
That was one instance.
One giant four foot triangle, four foot triangle.
Wait, that was hard to visualize.
I talked about this recently, which is weird.
Right.
I listen to my own podcast, but it was like the guy realized that lower
frequencies are more audible over distance than higher.
And they made the comparison to Newton.
Isaac, no, Newton of the Isaac gravity.
Oh, yeah.
Isaac Newton.
Yeah.
Thank goodness.
Yeah.
About sitting under a tree and realizing the apple fell and the gravity is
constant force based on mass and on one direction.
It's a vector.
Anyways.
OK, nerd.
So this guy, he was listening to his daughter play piano on the island
and he was far away.
Fuck you guys.
Questions.
Move on.
I'm done.
What's the point you're trying to make?
This is my episode.
Four foot triangle.
I've worked on this.
You know, the hours I clarified this fucking cocktail to we appreciate it.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Everybody give it up for Vince Bailey.
This has been an awesome episode and we're going to keep rolling.
I'll wrap it again.
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Tell me that doesn't sound good.
You need it for which drink for our Long Island ish drink.
The second one, number two Lighthouse Cocktail.
Speaking speaking of the second one, the lighthouse cocktail.
Here is the second would you rather and Vince, we're going to start with you.
The host of today's episode.
You can start with me.
You only asked her.
Yeah, they've been taking over the host of the episode.
Everybody.
This is a this is a I'm on.
It's my time to shine.
All right, Vince, would you rather be the sole keeper of a remote lighthouse
on a secluded island or part of a team operating a famous lighthouse
on a bustling coastline?
How is that even a question?
No, no, no, it's a question.
That's a great question, because I know we haven't posted.
We know too much.
Oh, we have a post that we haven't done yet about.
We'll have to stay tuned.
Yes, stay tuned and go check out the Instagram.
All right, Dylan, stay tuned for the surprised episode.
Oh, wait.
It sounds like an intro to like that's a horror movie that scream.
Yeah, three, six mafia song or something.
Oh, like, no, no, no.
What is it? What movie did you watch?
Halloween, mafia.
I'm thinking of the Daily Double Sound from Jeopardy
when I think I'm going to hit that button and then I get disappointed
because it's a scary song.
It's not that horror movie.
No, it's not that exciting.
We could change it, though.
Next episode, you can actually do.
Why are you reaching so far?
You can see it.
You know, make sure the logos towards you.
I can see the logo.
You're not. All right.
So I would definitely do part of a team,
although I would say like if I could do the lone lighthouse for like
three months.
No, it's not even three months.
People go crazy.
I know. I would like to do that.
I would. The question didn't specify.
I know. I'm only controlling.
Do you have books?
Do you have? Yeah.
You get your normal life.
You get to go surf. You get to go catch fish.
You get to have a couple of hours that are like to myself that it wasn't planned.
I usually have a really weird, good time.
Yeah, it's not an offense to anyone.
I know. And the least space.
No, it's like it's because what I do during that time is think about all the people
I know. The question is that I question when I was gone for two weeks.
Are you happy? I worked on your car the whole time.
Oh, I waited. Happy.
I waited for you.
What happened when you got home?
You just told me today.
He appreciated more when you're here.
He appreciates you more when you're here.
He was very nice.
He gave me leg rubs.
It was very nice when I came home.
That's right. I did say that.
It was nice. It was nice.
My feet are sore. Can you tackle that for me?
So your answer is what?
If it depended on the period of time, three months or less, I would go on my own.
I think I would enjoy it.
It'd be good like recovery.
But most of the terms are longer than that.
So do not put me on my own.
I'm going to go crazy.
I'm going to be killed by like a mermaid or something.
That'd be sick.
I'm going to hang myself or it's going to be black and white all of a sudden.
I don't know.
Speaking of all of those things, don't watch The Lighthouse on Amazon Prime.
Why? Why?
Because it's gory and it's terrifying and there's.
I want to watch it though.
We did an episode on it.
It'll come out soon.
I like scary stuff because she doesn't really like it, so I enjoy it when I get to watch it.
I like horror movies, but only if they're not gory.
Like I like paranormal horror movies.
He likes horror movies and he's like, is it horror if there's no gore?
I'm like, what's the what's the.
Oh, what about Shutter Island?
The vampire itself.
Yep. Shutter Island is a great movie.
Shutter Island is great.
Better to die a good man.
Looks weird.
A fun fact to everyone listening.
This is the the movie The Lighthouse with Robert Pattinson.
And who's the other guy?
The dude from.
William DeFoe.
Yeah. The Green Goblin.
The Green Goblin.
Shout out Spider-Man.
For this movie.
Oh, they built it.
It's crazy. It costs.
Actually a very good movie.
Millions of dollars.
So, Emily.
What?
Out of stone?
I think I know your answer.
You're going bustling coastline.
I'm going bustling coastline.
Busting coastline.
See, this is look, look, look.
This is what happens to you if you live solitary.
I know. I don't like that.
The Green Goblin.
Well, is it like a crustacean growing in his forehead?
Yeah, a lot of this movie was what's it called?
Like not real.
It was like in their imagination.
I have that phobia.
Do you know that phobia, the whole phobia?
Yeah, I have that.
Dude, let's talk over each other.
I hate looking at that too.
Everybody, let's yell at each other.
It's off the screen.
All right. So.
Yeah, you're good.
I like going against the grain, so I'm going secluded because.
There's no way, Nathan.
You're going to end up like this guy.
Everyone will leave me alone.
He needs constant.
No.
Reassurance.
He needs to hear himself talk.
Damn, I didn't realize this was a therapy session.
OK, watch this movie.
This is actually for you.
We've all come together to talk to you about stuff.
This is an innovation.
Two hours later, now we're into the intervention part.
Are you ready for question number four or three?
Sorry.
This is a restroom, but you.
Yeah.
But wait, wait, why would you say you would like to be alone?
Because secluded island doesn't mean you're not far from.
Other shit.
So I would have a boat and I would go where I need to go.
No, you don't.
This is my hypothetical.
I get whatever I want.
It's not hypothetical. It's real.
Yeah, it's a hypothetical from chat GPT sponsored by.
Look, you get stuck with one or the person who actually wants to kill you.
And you don't have a boat.
And I'd murder his ass.
Is Robert Pattinson the bad guy?
Don't spoil it. Don't spoil it.
Don't spoil it. Really?
I'd watch this. I'd like to.
You're going to watch.
I want to see a scary movie.
OK. Yeah, there's a lot of like
like they both go.
There's lots of a book.
Craig Craig. Yeah, there's lots of cricket.
Oh, Emily, this is a good question for you.
OK, I'm ready. And Monica.
Would you rather so your picture yourself, you're at the top of a lighthouse.
OK, OK.
Would you rather witness a breathtaking sunrise or a mesmerizing sunset?
That's the dumbest question.
That's not the dumbest question.
I teed this up to be like super sweet and you just shit on it immediately.
You took an Alaskan duck fart on that hypothetical, would you rather?
OK, I'm.
Like a hundred times more of a daytime person than a nighttime person.
So I'd be more excited about a sunrise than a sunset.
OK, you would wake up that early.
I would in some places, it's not that early.
Also, depending on the time of year during the winter, I go to work before sunrise.
So like I'd be awake anyway.
Yeah. Yeah.
Um, it's very difficult.
I would do both, but I will say I will say sunset.
OK, because like you've enjoyed a full day
and that's your moment of relaxing completion, completion coming down.
I need there's a little.
What's wrong with those?
The same, the same better job already taking this to that camp mix.
I have a 24 hour I've taken, so I can't I can't mix.
It's OK. Thanks for trying to help them.
I just want to say I appreciate the thought.
Did he did you go all the way up there just for it?
Been a trill. OK, OK.
I was really fast.
Are you opposed to ordering food instead of going out for food?
Yeah, we're definitely ordering food.
Chinese drive actually just because just because I don't want people to see the raccoon.
Yeah, that's a Chinese.
Self-conscious, they don't deliver.
They only do pick up.
OK, but what was the delivery option?
Dude, I was crazy. Pretty good.
I was crazy. Chinese.
So Vince, are you ready for the would you rather we have Monica and Emily's answer.
So hold, please.
Holding for you to get your.
Farah.
Hang on.
Skrrt skrrt skrrt.
Box box box box box box box box.
Wish you the push push push push push.
Mode push.
Where did you go to get the wine?
Publix in the grocery store,
he went to the Florida Price shopper.
It was like three minutes from his apartment.
Yeah, I worked hard.
You ready?
All right.
Picture yourself.
You're at the top of a lighthouse.
I look fucking good.
This man lives in the gym.
You just got done squatting on your squat rack.
Leave the gym.
Let's go back to the lighthouse.
What are you doing?
Picture myself doing what?
Top of the lighthouse.
You're at the top of a lighthouse.
This is the wine she was going to buy me.
Oh, she's holding another bottle.
The shit's good.
Yeah, actually, I agree with that.
No, she's just excited that I have it.
Emily, Monica, Vince,
you're at the top of a lighthouse.
What would you rather picture?
Would you rather witness a beautiful sunrise
or a mesmerizing sunset?
Mesmerizing.
Would you rather see a sunrise or a sunset,
God damn it?
So.
From the top of a lighthouse specifically.
The end answer.
Not the bottom, the top.
Okay, from the light room.
Light room, that's right.
So.
That's what I call it.
The lantern room, as we name the drink,
the red lantern room.
You're welcome.
You were here with the origin.
I was.
You're welcome.
The answer's gonna be the sunrise.
Interesting.
I think sunsets are often more beautiful.
The colors are better.
Maybe it has to do with the light going away from you.
I don't know.
But it's beautiful.
But the sunrise is something I see less often
as a person who sleeps.
Yeah.
You sleep?
I find it really rewarding to be,
I've got to hike at sunrise before.
Just like short stuff.
Colorado with my family as a kid.
Yeah.
And so I would like think that's somehow more special.
Like oh, we intentionally did this when we were here.
Yeah.
Not like oh yeah, the day's ending.
Right.
Oh, look at that.
And we get this nice thing.
There's something to be said about that.
Like a sunrise is a different experience than a sunset.
Like a sunrise is morning, you get that real fresh air.
You could maybe have a coffee.
Maybe your hiking.
But greens are slow.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
But if you're in a lighthouse, yeah.
It's maybe a little different.
But then the sunset, maybe you've been drinking
or it's been a long day.
It's commemorative.
It's like oh, like this is such a nice close to the day.
So I think,
in me now, I think I say sunset.
But me in the future, I think I say sunrise.
Really?
Yeah.
You want to elaborate on that?
I think.
She's thinking of our honeymoon.
No, future me.
Me now is like, me now is I sleep
and I don't experience sunrises.
So I like sunsets.
But future me, I think I would be like old man
that's like up at five, like well, better get up.
Check out the sunrise, grab an espresso.
Definitely be up early as an old man.
All right, that was a good question.
All right.
A quick question.
Yeah.
Is this the end of the cocktails?
This is the end.
Do you want to do number five?
Yes.
All right, we're going to do number five.
Really?
There's a fifth one?
Okay, what do we need?
I will say that I don't like shochu,
which is the alcohol that is in the drink I'm about to make
because it's made with rice, I think.
Okay.
And I can smell it.
It's rice alcohol.
I can smell that it's made with rice.
You don't like rice?
And for some reason, it's just like not my favorite.
You don't like rice.
I love rice.
Okay, but just know that to make this drink,
I have to dump Bo.
Yeah.
Oh, I could do it.
Yeah, he's a cat.
You could dump him anytime.
I could do it.
He threw up today.
Oh no.
Multiple times.
So he's sad.
Yeah, well, he's a cat.
He's a cat, so.
She had to clean it.
Dogs are way better.
I did clean it.
Can't wait.
Okay, I would say no because.
You want me to get up and get the stuff?
That's a yes.
Yeah.
So I need the shochu bottle.
Shochu?
Which is the ceramic bottle, right?
The shochu?
Pink, Moscato, and Maraschino cherry bottle.
Okay, and short glasses, tall glasses.
I don't think it matters.
I think it's whatever.
We can even reuse some of these.
That one right there.
Do we need ice?
Yeah.
You have any in your cooler over there?
We have enough for four.
Hold, please.
Thank you.
Well, while he's doing that.
Oh yeah, next question.
Emily.
Ooh, okay, this is, all right.
I feel like this is.
Oh.
For those wondering, Vince was leaving the RipRap Studio
and ate it on the.
Because he built in this giant trip hazard
right at the entrance.
In order to stabilize the post,
he thought he had to put four foot wings on the bottom
of the platform, and that's what he tripped over
was a two by four.
All right, Emily, since this is your show,
this is the lighthouse lowdown.
Thank you.
You, I think you're gonna appreciate this question.
I'm very curious your answer.
Are you ready?
Yes.
Would you rather have the power to restore
any dilapidated lighthouse to its former glory
or travel back in time to witness the construction
of a historic lighthouse?
Oh no, it would be restored dilapidated
because we're talking about.
That's a hard word, I struggled with it.
What is it?
Dilapidated.
I had to read it like three times before I said it.
I didn't know there was a C in that word.
A Paradise Island, Paradise Island Lighthouse.
They've been going through a giant court battle.
Is Paradise Island, is that the Netflix like dating show?
No.
That's Love.
Love Island, nevermind.
I thought it was Paradise Island, sorry.
No, Paradise Island Lighthouse is some 1800s.
There's a guy that owns it now.
His name is.
Smith.
What?
Something Smith.
Toby Smith, oh my gosh, I can't believe it.
What was the name of the lighthouse?
Paradise Island.
No, the lighthouse.
Paradise Island.
I thought you said hog or something.
Well, originally the island was called Hogs Island.
Hogs Island.
There was Hogs Island.
Wild hogs, did they exterminate them?
Exactly.
And now it's home to.
There's a.
Atlantis.
Atlantis Resort.
Okay.
Oh.
And he's in a court battle with Bahamas.
Toby Smith who owns the new, the.
Paradise Island Lighthouse.
He's in a court battle with the.
We've spoken cigars.
Okay.
Ooh.
Okay, you gotta talk about it.
Oh.
Those.
Come on over here.
No, no, you drink out of your glasses.
Those are really.
They're untouched.
No, you guys drink out of those.
We drink out of those.
Okay.
These are my friend Jackson's.
Yes.
I love the bottom of this glass.
So for the listeners, Vince just handed over
the glasses we bought in Sweden from an antique store
that was all nautical theme.
Yo, these are.
All nautical lights.
Awesome.
Nautical.
Very regal.
Models.
True.
Glass.
They have the Swedish insignia on them.
Three crowns.
These make me feel fancy.
Can you take this?
My leg is falling asleep.
I'm very excited.
Is this that little thing?
So keep going, then.
Cat.
With this story.
So, Paradise Island is under duress because.
It's dilapidated.
Because, Bahamas sold the land to both Toby Smith
and to Royal Caribbean.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
One of the largest.
And so, they're in a fight right now
about who actually owns the lighthouse.
Whoa.
And it sounds like.
Title issue.
The conclusion of the legal battle
was that Toby Smith didn't get to have the land.
And so, he's fighting past that
to like re-ignite the conversation
about who owns actually.
What does he want to do with the lighthouse?
He wants to re.
That blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Re-develop?
Reverse dilapidate the lighthouse.
Fix it.
He's restoring the lighthouse.
That's his plan.
He wants to develop a beach club at this lighthouse
that employs local people so that they.
So, he's also an entrepreneur at the end of the day.
He wants to bring money back.
He's not just passionate about lighthouses.
Look at Atlantis though.
Dude's gonna make a quick buck.
Yeah.
Also, if anybody watches The Bachelor,
in the last Bachelor season, they show this lighthouse.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we did watch The Bachelor.
Don't say we.
Emily and I did.
Well, that was a good answer, Emily.
Thank you.
So, I would rather restore this lighthouse.
This specific dilapidate.
I would 100% restore a lighthouse.
I know he'll make money.
How long?
I want Toby to make money.
He's a cool dude.
Yes, he's doing it for a serious purpose.
How long would it take to construct a lighthouse?
I mean, back then.
Like, the, with the new, our new cocktail
I'm gonna talk about here, took four months to build.
So, it also was destroyed.
So, it's kind of.
So, I mean, either way, like, do you wanna be,
when the lighthouse is booming and being constructed
and being part of it?
I don't think that's,
I don't think we need to get into specifics of the question.
I would prefer.
Okay, sir, host, are you the host?
You're the one who's supposed to say.
Yeah, what I'm just saying is, it's a would you rather.
Like, you gotta, you're gonna be around for the duration
of how long it took to build it.
I think, I mean.
I'd rather see the construction, personally.
Yeah, I feel like I'm more of a history person.
So, I would like to be, like, living, like.
Yeah, in the moment.
In the moment.
Now, as a modern, modern day woman,
I would like to.
You go, girl.
I would like to.
Go, girl.
Go back to the past.
I'm a strong, independent woman.
Are you guys go back to the,
do you guys prefer going to the future or to the past?
Future, because the past was not very good for women.
I am past.
I don't know why.
Outside of that, not just women, but.
Wrong.
For a lot of people, the past was not so good.
What past are we talking about?
I think.
Like, 80,000 years ago.
Today is better than any time for anybody.
If I could be a fly on the wall,
I may venture to the future.
Oh.
But I think the past is much more likely.
I agree.
If I didn't have to interact with the past.
I don't know if I wanna know the future.
I don't wanna know the future.
I definitely wanna know the past.
And like, all the little.
But if I could snap my fingers
and fix a lighthouse of today,
it would be to fix the lighthouse.
Oh, which one?
I can't fix one.
I can't choose one, though.
Stan, what about it, though?
Really?
You would wanna fix Paradise Island?
It's got too much controversy
and the whole point of Tobey Smith's fight
is to fix the lighthouse
and to bring money back to local people.
Bring jobs.
Is he fixing it to like, original?
Yeah.
Like right now.
Looks and stuff.
Yeah.
Bring up the pictures again of it.
I can.
You can tell it just needs help.
Like, it's rusting and it's.
It's in rough shape.
Like, even in this picture,
you can see that it's just, has spots.
Like, it needs to be.
That doesn't seem like a really tall lighthouse.
No, it's like 60 something feet.
60 something feet.
Wait, 60 feet?
Wait.
It's about 60 foot tall.
All right.
We need to get, what,
we wanna get you in this lighthouse today.
It's like you can see the top of it
is all rust and stuff.
It needs to be fixed up.
This lighthouse is available for just low, low payments
of 99.99.
Well, what's amazing is.
599.
This is like 10 feet above sea water level
and there are hurricanes all of the time
in the Caribbean.
Like all of the time.
And it was not destroyed.
Historically.
Okay.
So it's been rebuilt a couple of times.
I feel like if you've had like a few hurricanes,
that's a lot.
So.
He takes, so Toby Smith's Facebook, which I may show.
He has like pictures of him sitting up there.
Is Toby a listener?
He's the owner of this lighthouse.
Yeah, but he's also a listener.
We did a interview with him.
Did you really?
Yeah, we did.
Holy shit, that's so cool.
That was my first like phone Skype interview.
No, no, no, no, no.
We did it with a British woman.
Do you think Toby's listening right now?
Carl Lindquist.
Fred Stone.
Yeah, wow.
Stonehouse.
Yeah.
You remember names a lot.
Fred Stonehouse is the author,
writes about lighthouses.
Okay.
Sorry, Fred Stonehouse is an author.
He has like wood at the bottom.
He wrote, he's written like 30,
at least 30 published books about lighthouses
on the Great Lakes in the United States.
Also on the phone call was Carl Lindquist,
who is a superior watershed partnership.
He's the founder and owner since like 1980, I think.
But they do conservation on Lake Superior
and they own a lighthouse at Standard Rock,
which has a really cool, we had covered it,
there was an explosion there at one point.
It's a lighthouse in the middle of Lake Superior
that's built on a coral reef.
So they had to come up with a concrete crib
to match the reef and then the bottom of the lighthouse
to pour it in place.
Right.
And then Lake Superior is like hell on earth
as far as weather goes.
Yeah.
So they have crazy stories of men getting frozen
inside of the lighthouse and then having to like
chip them out. Lake Superior is like Minnesota, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
And they had riprap?
No riprap out there.
Is that midstone?
Yeah, I'm gonna actually pull it up, Standard Rock.
But that was my first conversation.
My second was with Toby Smith of Paradise Island.
I need to be doing something with this blender bottle.
I don't know this drink.
Oh, that is extra Manhattan.
Oh, okay.
If you want it, taking a break.
And for the listeners at home,
it's just Vince and I now.
Just the boys.
Sweet, the boys can get into the real hard-hitting questions.
Hit me.
You have one?
Boy to boy?
You ready?
Yeah.
Would you rather have the ability to communicate
with the spirits of a lighthouse keepers from the past?
Okay.
Or receive visions of ships in distress
and guide them to safety?
I don't know how that's a good question.
That's, it's.
There's so much responsibility in answer two.
Yeah.
All right, while we're waiting,
I'm gonna work on my type five.
I would go with,
I hate to shed the responsibility.
This question was,
would you rather have the ability to communicate
with the spirits of lighthouse keepers from the past?
Spirits, for sure.
Or receive visions of ships in distress
and guide them to safety?
Spirits, because I can't deal with the responsibility of.
But that was the whole point of lighthouse keepers.
I know, like, the light.
That's why I want to.
The guiding light.
Yeah, I want to bond.
I want to bond with them, you know?
You want to bond with them.
But saving sailors was the whole point of.
I would say, if I was a lighthouse keeper,
I would say to get visions of shipwrecks,
because that was the whole point.
Interesting.
So if you had that, you would answer the second,
but you're not a lighthouse keeper,
so you answer the first?
Yeah.
Emily's making us our fifth cocktail
of the afternoon. There is.
Or the evening.
A lighthouse keeper's still on station in the United States.
It is with a.
Sally Snowman, is that right?
Sally Snowman.
Sally Snowman, a Boston light, still on duty.
Last keeper in American history.
Sochu from Nagoya, Japan.
Whoa, she looks awesome.
I would love to interview Sally Snowman.
Sally Snowman, if you're listening,
we want you on this.
I knew a.
I knew a Trevor Snowman.
Really?
But they called him Snowman for different reasons.
Much worse.
Those are little barba.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Really?
I have big ears, but this goes over my ears.
Big earrings on that I shouldn't have.
You could swap.
She thought there'd be video.
You could swap.
Thank you.
Headphones.
Yeah, these Ferrari ones that we've made fun of
a couple times.
Push, push, push, push, push, push, push,
mode push, mode push, box, box, box,
box for hards, box for hards.
Are you actually following?
No.
Oh yeah, we do.
You should.
Well, I watch F1 on Netflix.
Yeah, if that's your survive.
We are going with the media entire.
I don't watch a lot of races.
We are putting on the mediums, Charles.
My brother bought me these
because he thought they were neat.
Yeah.
When I was a freshman at KU.
It's like getting Ferrari driving shoes.
I was like, oh, these are cool.
Well, they're very nice headphones.
Yeah.
But they're corded only.
Yeah.
They're not soundproof or they're not noise canceling.
So they're very particular.
Like, I'm going to sit.
No, like for what use?
Like I'm not traveling, I'm not working out.
In engineering, I would have been, I guess I didn't anyways,
but I never would have met any girls with these dope ass
Ferrari headphones.
That's what I kept them.
All you weren't thinking about?
No, all I was thinking about was failing calculus too.
They didn't fail me in Calc 1
where I could have retaken it all happy.
Albert Hsu.
They failed me in Calc 2.
Albert Hsu.
Schoolboy Hsu.
Big Al, as we called him.
Big Al.
Average on the final was a 39%.
Yeah.
Do you want, I know a guy.
I got a 53.
I won't name him.
I felt so good about myself.
He was a mechanical that graduated on time.
Not like myself.
Graduated passing that class.
He got an 11% on the final.
What?
And passed the class because of the curve.
Wow.
And now, actually not anymore,
but was a major company engineer in the city of New York.
Building buildings.
Yeah, that's scary.
This dude got an 11% in Calc.
What are you actually using that you've learned from school?
That's my thing.
It shows you how much the computer's designed.
Only what?
Only theory.
And how to learn.
And do you look up the theory all the time?
No.
I spent almost three years.
You remember it.
I do, yeah.
Okay.
Well, and I use it every day.
That's nice.
I know, it must be nice.
But the first time I needed to use it for any application,
then I had to look it up.
Or the people, oh, sorry.
The people around me are really good.
They're really nice too.
But computers design it for you now.
Spreadsheets do a lot of work.
It's funny, it's like on that side of the table
is two engineers that are actually doing engineers.
And then on this side of the table
is two engineers doing sales.
And who's doing better?
Well, only one of us.
Define better.
It's Nathan, not me.
Define better.
It's only Nathan.
I'm a woman, so.
What do you expect?
I need, I was talking to Brogan about it.
I was like, I wanna start my own company so badly too.
To do what?
I wanna do events.
Oh, yeah, you've always been great at that.
And I would contract that Em to do stuff like,
hey Em, I need you to contract,
to do maybe a glass class.
Or hey, I need you to draw this whole amazing thing.
But I do really wanna do that.
But then the same thing,
I don't wanna give up the money and the lifestyle.
Well, right now you're building for the life, right?
Once you build it, then you can enjoy it.
But the hope is, the hope is,
the hope is when we move back, like at our farm,
we will rent out the space and I wanna organize that.
Host weddings and.
Yeah, events and stuff like that.
Fantastic space for it.
Yeah.
You've proved it.
So, it wasn't the first wedding out there.
My brother's.
Second.
I learned some mistakes.
Yeah, we definitely improved upon the last one.
Paco's wedding?
Yes.
Okay.
You met him, right?
Paco, right?
He didn't come out, didn't sound right when I said it.
Right, when getting ready.
He was awesome.
I don't know how to describe him, but he was awesome.
Emily, can you let us know the name of this fifth cocktail?
Sorry.
Let you gather your breath here while we cheers.
We're getting a little tipsy here.
But you've always had a touch for decoration and people.
Don't taste them yet.
Oh.
It's a mix.
Like a lot of people have one of the two, right?
I enjoy it a lot.
And the thing is, I'm done with my wedding stuff,
but I still gravitate to all that stuff.
I enjoy it, it's fun.
But at the same time, I feel like I'm more,
I have a style.
Actually, if you can get through all of your wedding
and still be interested in party planning and stuff,
then it's definitely your calling.
Yeah, but Em, I will hire you.
Shit, you're gonna hire me?
I will be there.
I will hire you too as the man in the end.
Hey, I don't think we're on record anymore.
What are you gonna do?
It's four by fours, I know where to come.
Are you retiring?
Any signs for baby showers or anything?
Exactly.
I hope I can retire.
Well, I mean, I don't mean.
Stay at home dad, yeah, she just makes the money.
I live on the golf course.
That's not gonna happen, no.
I wish. Unacceptable.
That's my hope.
What are you gonna do?
You gonna do the same work?
Probably real estate, yeah,
something real estate related.
Really good at Spanish.
He needs to get good at Spanish.
That's the problem.
I gotta finish the language learning.
That's the thing is, he needs to learn
how to sell in Spanish.
Like it's all about the.
I need to know how to, I gotta, yeah,
bullshitting in Spanish, how do you do that?
So are there cultural differences
in what people would expect out of a sales proposition?
Yes, but I think he got the, he's got the kind of.
Savviness.
No, but like, I mean. Go ahead, you can talk about it.
He's learned already.
Like I think it's very calm.
And like everyone just wants a good meal and a good drink.
You can translate pretty easily
between the cultural parts.
Yes. Right.
Yeah, my.
And I know all the good spots now.
I think it's easier to go way more relaxed
than the other way around.
Like being relaxed and being more tight.
I think what I will do best.
My goal. Americans are the tightest.
See, that's my thing.
My goal is I think I can loosen them up.
I think you bring the Americans there, get them to invest.
That's what I'm gonna do the best at.
Let me show you a good time, get you drunk.
Cheers.
Oh wait, Emily's gonna tell us about it.
This is called the cherry blossom.
Cute. Hey.
It is made with shochu, which I bought in Japan
when I was visiting.
Sparkling rose and cherry juice.
And I also meant to add glitter,
but that was something I didn't remember until just now.
I'm allergic to that too, so that's good.
You bought it?
Well, I had it from a past.
Edible glitter?
Halloween party.
Yes, exactly.
Weed glitter.
It was like three years ago at a Halloween party
I had glitter.
I don't know.
Why edible glitter?
I know, that's what I'm saying.
Do I wanna ask this question?
Oh, I like it.
Why did you have edible glitter?
Weed glitter?
You do eat it?
No, no, just like for drinks.
The glitter that is edible.
Oh my gosh.
Because then he is such a stoner.
Been transformed into someone I don't recognize.
Did you say edible?
Shit, this is an intervention.
I don't know, I'm not.
Shochu is not my favorite thing.
It's strong.
I like it.
But for everyone listening,
Some air in there.
cherry blossoms are generally thought of a symbol,
sorry, I'm sitting on Bo, of Japan.
A symbol of beauty and love in China.
But in Japan, cherry blossoms are seen as a symbol
of rebirth and specifically the fleetingness of human life.
Scary.
I know.
So this is a representation of the first lighthouse
that was built in Japan,
which we talk about in our last episode.
Oh no.
I know.
Drinking problem.
He spilled them.
You're drunk.
I'm not, actually.
I feel like we're all a little bit losing up.
Oh yeah, I'm definitely, yeah.
The plan was always for you to drive.
Yes, okay, red raccoon.
You're better, like I'm not like.
You look a lot better than you did earlier.
Yes, he does, he does.
You do.
You've definitely recovered.
Guys, you made me feel so much better about myself.
Thank you.
I'm just thinking about Chinese food.
I like this drink.
Oh.
Kanazaki.
Okay.
Kanazaki.
So this is a nice representation of the first lighthouse
built in Japan, which is Kanazaki Lighthouse in 1868
in.
That's Kanazaki, not Kawasaki.
Look.
Kanon-zaki.
I got all of that.
Thank you.
Can I give a little quick.
Please do.
Japanese and Spanish are very, like it's the same
because in Spain and in Spanish language,
you enunciate every syllable.
Oh yeah.
And in Japanese, you enunciate every syllable.
So if you are able to put Japanese words into normal,
I mean, I don't mean normal, but like alphabet,
like ABC, I don't know how you say that,
but and you write that down and you say it like,
Yokohama or Arigato.
Like it's very similar to Spanish.
Interesting.
So my dad, they went to visit Japan for like,
for like a gene conference.
And I think there were like suppliers in Japan,
I think it was Sipper suppliers.
So my dad had no, did not know any Japanese,
but they kind of written in like a little letter.
I was like, okay, say thank you.
I want to say these couple of things in Japanese.
Just say it like put words that are like in the alphabet
and like, what type of alphabet are we?
American alphabet?
No, but like a phonetic.
Yeah.
Like how to pronounce.
You know, like instead of Japanese, Chinese letters.
So he did that and he was like, hey, thank you very much.
But like Arigato, blah, blah, blah,
about saying all of this in Japanese.
And then they were so surprised.
They would come to him and started speaking to Japanese.
Like, I did not know you knew Japanese.
Like, no, no, no, I had no idea.
Like he's like, you did amazing because the enunciation
is the same because we say the same syllables.
Okay.
Well, you know what I thought you were going to say
is the story of, well, I think the first time
I met your dad is he was like saying he knew Japanese
jokingly and then he spoke Spanish,
but he said it in such a way that it sounded
like it was Japanese.
Do you know what the saying is?
Yamimoto no kamina.
Yeah.
But the way he said it was like, he, you know,
he was like, oh, I know, you know, Japanese
and he'd say it and everybody was laughing.
I'm over there like, yeah, that's great.
You know?
Oh no.
That's great Japanese.
But okay, keep going then.
All right.
I only have a couple more notes.
Look at that bottle.
It's a cool bottle of the chochi.
So the reason this relates to cherry blossoms,
which for everyone listening, this drink is pink.
I made it with cherry juice.
So that's how I related it.
It has been destroyed twice by earthquakes
and each time was resurrected and still stands today.
So that's how I related to cherry blossoms,
which are reviewed as like revitalism and rebirth.
The guy that designed it must've gotten 11%
on his calc final too, if it's fallen down so much.
Yeah.
Okay. They were trying their best.
No, it's cool.
It's a beautiful lighthouse.
I love the white.
It's different.
It's different to like a traditional lighthouse.
This is the third.
So anyone looks up a picture of the Kanazaki lighthouse.
It's the third built version of what it was today.
It doesn't look exactly like how it was
when it was designed in the first place.
Can we cover it soon?
What?
Can we cover it soon?
Yeah.
That'd be a good episode.
Like episode maybe 35.
It'll be around.
Definitely.
You had Japanese whiskey.
Ooh.
I like that.
Japanese whiskies are good.
Yeah, very smoky.
So are they like scotch?
I think so.
What I've had, my experience so far.
I've only had one.
I've only had a guy.
Danny.
Yes, my brother.
Yes.
Hey, that was a long time ago.
It was in your old apartment.
Yes, my brother gave it to Nathan.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
You've had the one of the ones I've had.
Yeah.
I don't remember it at all, but I know I had it.
It's the good one that the viewers will know it.
Civil engineer question.
Yeah.
When we talked about our first Japanese lighthouse
that we covered, we talked about how Japan
is a volcanic formation.
So it's rock.
Mm-hmm.
And I said that it probably has to do
with how the Japanese have a lot of fish in their diet
and how they don't have a lot of livestock on the land.
And as far as building lighthouses,
they actually brought engineers from England.
Is that right?
Yes, Scottish engineers.
Scotland.
Scottish engineers, which is not Scottish.
Scottish.
English.
This is pretty good, so true.
But they brought them, and because they brought them along,
they designed Scottish designs in Japan
for the first Japanese lighthouses.
They copied and pasted.
And they didn't work.
Was it because?
It did work.
Seismic.
But was it, do you think that the Japanese
don't know a lot about, traditionally,
did not know a lot about foundations
because they were building on rock,
not on shifting soils?
Correct.
Like sands.
Yeah, I would think so.
I wouldn't relate it probably to the diet piece
of the fish and the livestock.
I don't know.
That might be another thing.
But it does have to do with the geology and the terrain
and what you're.
But around here in Japan, they never
needed to worry about shifting sands and soil and stuff.
It's always been rock.
The whole reason they brought over engineers
to build lighthouses was because they had never
built lighthouses before.
So they were like, how do you guys build lighthouses?
And that's why in this video, if you see the super white.
But.
Not video.
Picture.
The very white lighthouse and this dome
topped with the grid kind of lantern room,
that's all very Scottish English interference going on
with their design style.
They never needed help with foundation.
They needed help with how to build lighthouses.
He is right, though.
And like different locations, you design differently.
But isn't Scotland on rock?
Like wouldn't it be actually a similar terrain?
I don't know.
I know Japan is volcanic.
But wait.
Like Japanese have one of the like are the best.
One of the best engineers there.
Like have you seen their seismic infrastructure?
Seismic infrastructure.
They move.
Those houses and buildings move.
They wiggle.
Well, you know, like control.
Definitely.
What's the difference?
Have you guys ever been to.
Three, four stories height.
Like what's the difference with that?
Perry Reed International Airport in Las Vegas.
It shifts.
The Las Vegas control tower shifts.
They have a system within it.
This super sophisticated heavy system.
Japanese have figured it out, too.
Yeah, everyone's figured it out.
Well, actually, Japanese are considered right now
as the most like technologically advanced people.
And some people don't say that because they
haven't seen it in action.
It's within their buildings that their technology
has advanced so far.
I believe that.
Hopefully you never notice because the truth
is that if there is an earthquake, which my parents
have experienced several times at home.
Really?
Yeah, they've had earthquakes happen.
Nothing ever happens to their house.
Because it's so designed so well.
It's so designed so well.
I believe it.
Yeah.
I mean, I believe it.
But here in 1921, they did not know how to build lighthouses.
They got it wrong.
What's the difference?
So what is it about lighthouses?
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not true.
No?
No, no.
They built this one in 1921.
By now, there was still like influence on design,
like the appearance of lighthouses.
But it's not how.
These are all Japanese engineers that
are building these lighthouses.
But because they learned from the Scottish and the English,
obviously, they're going to have lighthouses
that turn out to have the same dome shape, the white,
and everything.
Because why would they change those things?
They're not really relevant to the functioning
of the lighthouse.
Their functional details.
Yeah.
White.
Interesting.
The height.
The construction.
Why did Japanese were not able to figure it out to begin with?
So in our last episode, the Nomazaki Lighthouse,
which is this one, they were in isolationism
for hundreds of years.
And then in the 1850s, they opened their ports.
And their lives to trading with other countries,
where originally people weren't even
allowed to travel outside of Japan
to see other countries or get any ideas past them.
So then they realized that they needed to advance their.
Westernize.
Yeah, westernize.
They needed to advance their construction and teaching
and dental hygiene, all of these things.
So they opened up in the 1850s.
And that's when they started to realize,
if we're going to trade with other countries,
then we have to make our port safe.
So we have to build lighthouses.
And they didn't know how to, because they
had never done it before.
So they brought in engineers from Scotland.
That's so cool.
Yeah, Great Britain.
They were so ahead of their time on how important
the supply chain is.
I know.
They're ahead of their time.
Have you guys seen those pictures
of how they grow trees without cutting trees?
Yeah.
And grow wood?
Have you seen those?
That's why this is where we want to go, is Japan.
Trees within trees.
So they don't have to cut.
And it's structurally stronger.
Whoa.
Oh, yeah.
This is amazing.
They don't do it like the American style,
like get it up fast.
And it's just like shitty fur with no years on the wood.
It's super tight grains.
Very strong.
Bonsai style techniques are used in Daisuji.
And cedar trees are pruned in order to produce shoots.
So those shoots are then also pruned.
So that's the thing.
It's very vertical.
So then it's perfect for construction
because it's not planks.
And it's tighter grained.
Look at this.
And they just harvest from the bottom, and it just regrows.
Harvest from the top.
Or the top.
This is wild.
All of our listeners need to check it out.
You need to be Japanese if you want to be good at stuff.
It's crazy.
Like how they figured out not deforestation.
They just use trees to make more trees.
But trees that are also straight and useful
for constructions for planks.
Very useful.
Why are we all copying this?
That's the thing.
I learned that in schools.
Wood design, there's so much factor of safety
compared to concrete.
Just because there's so much unknowns
and so many deformities.
Produce a straight, knot-free shoot of wood.
Wood.
It's incredible.
You guys ever beatbox on an episode?
We have not.
Go for it.
No, we tried it for a long time here.
You haven't sang.
This is a very freestyle.
600 years of antiquity of this technique.
See, you are a podcaster.
Can you guys rate this?
Cherry Blossom.
This one's really, is this a 8?
It's grown on me.
While it keeps sipping.
I kind of think so too.
It's more of like a later in the night kind of drink
where you don't pay much attention to it.
I think it's better than the first shot
because that was overwhelming.
It burned my mouth.
This is missing something for me.
I think this is not a cocktail.
Rather, this is a tall shot, like a double shot.
And it would be a little more cherry.
You could add more.
Because shochu is quite strong, right?
Shochu is very strong.
Is it a shot?
And normally in Japan, do they drink as a shot?
No.
Just like shook my eyes.
So I looked it up because this is not a very expensive bottle.
I think most of the money goes towards how fancy it looks.
That it's pottery.
It's more than pottery.
And stuff.
It's like a homemade bottle.
Shochu is a distilled liquor that's like 25% alcohol.
So it's not that crazy.
But people tend to mix it with sparkling water
or just drinking it on ice.
So I like it.
I go 8 out of 10.
I think our bartender did a great job on this one.
It looks beautiful too.
A little bit of mint would be great.
Oh, mint.
That's a great idea.
A little aromatic.
We started growing some mint.
Big growers.
I did some potash.
Like up high in the window, I would say maybe not.
Shut up, Emily.
She's calling out the one plant.
Other plants that are blooming.
She's calling out the one plant.
And I watered today.
The big, bluey?
I watered it today.
Oh, yeah, I've seen those.
We don't do that.
My orchids.
Jeez.
So the pothos is the only one that's suffering.
Yeah, because it's way too high for me to water.
We have four beds of flowers.
And then we got basil, we got mint, and we got rosemary.
Tobacco?
No.
No tobacco.
No marijuana.
Cigar?
Is that what you're going to talk about?
Cigar from the wedding?
Those Cubans?
Where can I get more of that?
Cuba.
That was incredible.
I'm planning on going to Cuba, hopefully.
I need to figure out how to get there.
Can't bring Cubans back though, babe.
Sorry, they'd.
This has been the wildest podcast.
This is a lot of fun.
I'm going to shut it down.
Thank you all for listening.
Yeah, if you've listened this far, thank you.
Because this has really not been a lighthouse focus.
Let us know in the comments if you want us back.
Also let us know in the comments if you don't want us back.
Because we are open to feedback.
I think Nathan was a good addition.
Hey, wow.
Let's get thumbs up for Nathan.
Honestly, that's one of the nicest things she's ever said.
Nathan, would you like to push the button?
Wow.
Close this down.
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I'm going to get my coconut bra out.