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we're doing our 30 minute episode. We're going to be talking about our weekend coming up.
Gavin, I just caught that you said, oh. Little inside joke there for the listeners. We have
the intro written down and for some reason there's an O at the end of the intro. So Gavin
was just adding the O that was excluded. Yeah. I have a copy down on Word and my son likes
to come in the room because this is actually his room. I just have a quarter of it set
up for podcasting and then the rest is literally the baby room. And so sometimes he'll come in
and see my RGB keyboard and he'll just start mashing. So wait, do you have your keyboard
still set to rainbow puke? No, I have it set to the colors of my tower. So it's dark green.
OK, so it's better than rainbow. No, my my tower set it like a forest green and then my
keyboard set up for screen. And so is my mouse. But mine, everything is yellow, bright yellow.
Yeah. But he'll come and see that and he'll just like. So that time I said whoops on our chat
were all those random letters. That was him.
So come in here in the morning and just just mash the keyboard. I came in here one day and I had like
37 windows pulled up command. I had command prompts. There was like a bunch of like weird
letters and commands. He was like trying to hack the government. So we I keep coming in and
Jackson's big thing is he likes to turn the knob on my keyboard. So I'll come and see
the knob on my keyboard. So I'll come and I'll start like going to like play YouTube or something.
And it just starts screaming at me because I have a really good sound system at my computer.
And I mean, literally, he'll turn it all the way up and then he'll hit the print screen button for
whatever reason, which then locks the computer so he can't do anything unless he hits the
picture take button. But he doesn't know how to do that. So. But yeah, he the same thing, dude.
And he like messes with my gain on my mic all the time. So before we start every
I every recording session, I have to like recalibrate everything.
Kids, kids, kids. Well, we got our our upcoming weekend update, guys. So
I don't have much going on. I know I have Saturday off and seeing us getting a haircut
and maybe I'll clean the truck out and.
You know, do something fun with it. I don't know. I super glued a Lego man on my dash.
We found him last year when we were camping at the botches camp.
It was a Lego Star Wars man on the trail we found.
You should just at this point, just sticker bomb your fender like you're a ricer, dude.
No, it's just it's just like it's like memorabilia, like from memories like he so like he's he
he super glues a Lego man to his dash. He puts a wood shifter on his shift knob.
Yeah, there's like there's memories behind it, though.
You're a ricer, dude. No, no, no. Sticker bombing.
Yeah, I want to slam my FJ to put airbags on it.
Don't go that far. You can be a trail just be a trail ricer. It's OK.
I have a Toyota. Aren't we all ricers?
Get the world's ugliest carbon fiber steering wheel like you'll be set, dude.
Yeah. So I need so I need to put my single din radio as Rainbow Puke then to join the Ricers.
Yeah. Don't I?
Yes. We need we need Rainbow Puke underglow for all three trucks.
Yeah. Yeah, no, I for me, for me, it's just like memories.
So like I carved that little wooden toy for Jasper and now he doesn't use it anymore.
And it's just kind of a fun memory of our botches yearly.
So I'm like, fuck it. You know, it's the same size as my shifter knob.
And I hate my old shifter knob and I don't want to buy like a 200 billet steel one.
Like so. And they're all like there's no you do want to buy it.
No, like they there's not like a lot of cool ones out there.
They're all like, who do you want this cool, shiny stainless one?
Or do you want like this like bright red one?
I'm like, I don't want any of those. They look like the old one.
I want something like give me like one of the newer like Toyota TRD shifters or something.
But no. So I just threw that on there. It's a little bit of memory.
And then that. Yeah, I found that Star Wars guy on our botches trip in the sand
or in the like on the trail when we got out to pee.
So I just threw it in the truck.
We should. We should definitely do sorry.
I had I had to cough. We should get you.
Damn, that cough made me lose my track of thought there.
Oh, we should get you one of the Ford shifters that like sink down into the console.
That would be worth putting into your FJ.
No, that's silly. Maybe we'll see.
It's so it makes roadhead easier.
No, I don't. We don't. We're married. We don't. You do that.
Right. Yeah, you're right. We're married. We don't get ahead anymore.
No roadhead. Never. Well, you would have to.
You would have the necessary equipment for roadhead.
I don't have the necessary equipment for roadhead.
I got roadhead in my crew cab because I had a bench seat one time and then it never happened again.
Very disappointing. Yeah.
Bench seat you could actually like spread out and untuck it and actually get it out there.
Yeah, it's hard enough trying to get trying to get two inches out of four inches of car heart.
But while you're sitting down, it's even worse.
I need that middle seat to just kind of let my my dick hang out and relax,
you know, just normal driving.
Well, right. Whatever.
I can't.
He's got to be able to see what's going on in front of us.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe maybe in the future, I should just mark all half hour episodes explicit and
leave the hours as clean.
Yeah, right. Well, on that, we'll we'll actually move on to our weekend updates.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe this is maybe maybe Friday, I'll go and we can get the winch installed on the truck at the
botches off road headquarters and then Saturday don't really have anything planned Sunday at work.
So that's my fun weekend update.
What about you, Mark?
Oh, well, hopefully we help you with the winch on Friday.
Sounds like a good time to get that on for you.
Yeah. Other than that, Saturday, I got to celebrate my mom's birthday
with like the most fun thing you could do for a mom's birthday.
You're going shooting.
No more fun than that laser.
Take you to Griffin's game.
Oh, yeah.
This is a laser tag.
A game.
I'm I'm a big hockey fan, so like, yeah.
And tomorrow, which is going to be the listeners yesterday, I'm going to watch the Red Wings beat
up on I forgot who they're playing.
Oh, man.
But I'm going to watch the Red Wings win either way.
So if they lost, then just pretend I didn't say this.
What are you doing this weekend, Alex?
Well, Friday, I've got baby birds coming at one p.m.
So I can't leave the farm all night until like two in the morning or three in the morning.
So I mean, that works out for you because that means I'm stuck here helping you.
But then Saturday, we're going to work on my upstairs studio
so that I can get rid of this echoey, shitty sound quality that you all know.
I mean, shitty sound quality that you all hear all the time.
And I think we're going to go to Seoul Market and get some kimchi.
All right.
Because I'm really craving kimchi.
Sounds good.
Yeah, we had a conversation about kimchi last Friday.
Did we?
Is that why I'm craving it?
Yeah, because we were at Myers and we saw that random squid tray that they had in the deli.
I thought it was kimchi when we first saw it.
But yeah, dude, literally like all week, I've just wanted kimchi so bad,
even when I was sick, like I would wake up and be like, man, kimchi sounds good.
You know, I got a hot take here for anybody from Michigan.
Meyer sushi is fucking amazing.
Terrible.
No, it's so good.
No, it's good.
As far as like cheap sushi.
I got a hot take when being fresh to make it.
They freshly make it every day.
And fresh.
I got a hot take, guys.
Wednesdays, it's half.
I know you're I know you're overseas, so you have a high.
Overzealous.
High.
Let me make it worse for you.
I don't like sushi.
I lived in Korea where sushi was very common and I hate sushi.
That doesn't make sense.
Yeah, I know.
But you know what?
True authentic sushi over there, though.
Yeah, but it was so gross.
Sushi is terrible.
Yeah, I don't get it.
But I do like spring rolls and summer rolls and like the sushi adjacent stuff that doesn't
have any fish in it.
It's delicious.
Sienna doesn't like fishy sushi either, but she'll like she'll try the stuff that I try.
She'll try like she likes the California ones because they don't taste fishy.
But they don't have fish in them.
Well, they have like crab, but they don't taste fishy.
It's fake crab.
Right.
I mean, what imitation crab is just like a bunch of different fish and crabs.
So that's that's when I when I say the sushi adjacent stuff, that's what I'm talking about.
I mean, are you talking more of like the the fish on top of rice or are you talking about
the rolls with because those are those.
I think you're just talking about the veggie ones.
Well, I'm just if it's got if it's got raw fish in it, it's disgusting.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, that's that's sad.
But so you like the cook ones.
Yeah, they make even know that exists.
Yeah, dude, they make something that are like fried.
Yeah. Maybe I would like that.
Yeah, I bet you would.
Just sushi.
I like most of the stuff that goes in.
I like seaweed.
I like rice.
I like most of it.
I just don't like sushi.
Yeah. OK.
I think most sushi is cooked.
There's just some that are raw.
Yeah. I mean, it just doesn't realize it's cooked.
Yeah, it just depends.
I know. Well, at least CNN on Wednesdays at Meyer, sushi is half off.
So we would we would go like every Wednesday and get the half off sushi.
It's like 10 bucks for a roll.
It's like five bucks on Wednesdays or something like that.
We'd go get a few rolls and we'd have our little sushi date.
We literally just go in the parking lot and eat sushi.
I just wish that we could get a Korean restaurant nearby that would sell
kimchi and bagoge.
Like if I could just go get bagoge, rice and kimchi like once a week,
I'd be the happiest person in the world.
There's and it's not it's not actually Korean.
But did you know they're opening up a little like Thai foe kind of restaurant
next to Leppings?
Had no idea.
Yeah, it looks it's like a little cafe and they got they're bringing a bunch of little
some of the Asian cuisine in there.
It looks really good.
If they start having kimchi, I will be there at least once a week.
Yeah, I'll look at it.
I'll send you the link at some point.
But yeah, I definitely got to there's there's a little place on Alpine that actually we
were going to a place on 28th Street for sushi.
And there's a place I think of the name of the place on Alpine.
I think of the name of the place on Alpine, Opa.
Yeah, Opa.
Yeah, Opa is actually Korean food.
Well, they specifically Korean sushi.
Yeah.
And we really like the sushi there.
They have like a deep fried mushroom with some kind of like cheese thing in it.
It's really good.
And then the next time we go, I'm going to get the bulgogi there because it looks really,
really good.
Dude, their bulgogi, their bulgogi is the best thing they've got on the menu.
Like I've tried some of their like fried.
I didn't know it was sushi at the time, but like their spring rolls and stuff.
And it's good.
But the bulgogi.
Oh, my God.
And their kimchi is top tier.
Oh, it's so good.
Yeah.
And I don't know.
I'm off.
I have to go and go take her to Opa sometime soon.
I can slam Korean food for.
That's my favorite dish is anything Korean.
I want I want to try soup dumplings like the I've never tried them like the ones that
come in the baskets that are steamed.
I want how they don't have I don't know if they did before they moved.
So that's really disappointing.
Yeah, they don't have them anymore because I tried.
They have like little they have like steamed dumplings, but they're not like the soup
dumplings.
The trying to think who whistled Mark looking at something.
I was looking at the newest there's a new barbecue place over on 44th Street where
famous days used to be the Chinese Korean pot hot pot.
Ooh, that's what I need.
Sounds good.
How expensive is it?
I saw between 30 and 50 dollars on Google.
A person.
Yeah, that's expensive.
Oh, pain.
That's crazy expensive.
I was trying to get a look at their menu.
Actually, see what the actual prices were.
That's like if work was paying 325 for a fountain drink.
Oh, that's like if work was paying prices like.
Oh, I don't know if you guys knew that, but La Tropicana, the little Mexican restaurant
in New York is now open.
Oh, yeah.
Hot pot for adult is $31.99 each.
The child is $16.99.
That's fucking nice.
Well, OK, so what's included?
Five years old, guys.
Well, I mean, what's included?
Yeah, what's included?
If they're throwing in like a giant plate of shit, then maybe it's worth it.
But.
It's all you can eat.
So I guess.
Oh, shit.
OK, so all you can eat for 31 dollars because I would just share that with my wife, right?
And if you want to do both the barbeque and the hot pot, you add $5.99 to it.
So you do both and say just one each.
You can't share.
Usually.
Yeah.
So usually if it's all you can eat, you can't share between the two of you.
Rude.
That's that's pretty normal.
What's it?
Is it K-pot Korean barbecue and hot pot?
Yeah.
It's a label is Hong Barbecue and Hot Pot.
Grandville.
Oh, there's another one called K-pot that's on 28th Street.
And this looks pretty fire, too.
Yeah.
Dinner 30.99 for adults.
I mean, I'd be down for a botches outing if we wanted to go do this sometime.
I don't think I could do one time.
Yeah, I don't think I could do it.
I don't think I could do one time. Yeah, I don't think I could do a hot pot
unless I find a place for my kid because my kid will my kid will literally burn himself
and I don't want to fight him the whole time that we're eating
while he continues to try to reach his hand inside of the pot.
Like, oh, no, it would totally be a guy strip.
Yeah. Yeah.
Guys trip.
Well, then my wife would hate me.
Well, we'll bring them home something.
Oh, here it is. It's called Kinty cafe in New Ango.
I will.
I can find the link for it.
Now that all the listeners know all of the new food places opening in West Michigan.
Oh, my God, it looks so good.
Dear listeners, we're foodies and you got 15 minutes of us
talking about new food restaurants.
So I hope that was I hope that's good and we'll catch you guys later.
Later.