Think Fresh
A podcast dedicated mostly to Subway is exactly what you need right now. The charming and culturally tapped-in co-hosts go deep on the sandwich institution’s brand, business, clientele and quirks. This lo-fi, highly captivating talk show is guaranteed to fill you up with 12 inches of inspiration, twice a week.
Episodes
Sandwich lovers rejoice, because Ty & Eric are exploring niche styles like the bread sandwich, the sauce sandwich, the lettuce sandwich, cucumber sandwich, and the english breakfast sandwich. They also discuss how the tennis ball industry is a scam, why breakfast in monogamous, high-spend Subway patrons on payday, whether competitive eaters dine for free, and trading in your entrée for side dishes.
Ty & Eric deconstruct their experience at Canada’s Olive Garden, the Old Spaghetti Factory. They discuss becoming the manager’s favourite customer, what makes a chicken tender, and getting catfished by pasta sauce, as well as Joey Chestnut’s exile from competitive eating, miso barley bowl expectations vs. reality, and rubbing car windows with the cops.
When Ty & Eric see a medley of food, they start chomping. They discuss Ty’s tour of a vegan night market, Eric crashing a TV set’s free lunch program, finding unidentified objects in your sandwich, getting sneezed on at the restaurant, catching a cold during a heat wave, which body hair is most palatable, when the DJ sounds wet like Subway sauce, whether men should send back their food, and whether anyone cares about what a hot...
Ty and Eric are joined by Patrick from How Original Podcast to discuss their demented evening procuring spinach dip, carrot butter crostinis, and vegan sloppy joes. They also discuss Ty’s toaster innovations, getting wined and dined by another man, combining chip with dip, and how the male body generates urine.
In this shocking tell-all episode, Ty & Eric reveal their experience patroning Subway for lunch, including the cost of quadruple meat, getting rizzed by the sandwich artist, going to Subway with a male escort, ordering the artist’s favourite sauces, and trying to bring home the bread. They also discuss subsidizing lunch with 4 pints of Guinness, sharing the restaurant table with strangers, and the Subway pickleball club.
Ty & Eric dissect a viral Tik Tok of how the Subway steak is prepared, as well as discuss getting double cheese on your Subway Series footlong, becoming a professional chewer, recording your sandwich artist for value and safety, patenting sandwich making strategies, trespassing on Subway’s turf, shrinkflating the footlong, sipping the forbidden tomato juice, and when Sandwich Artists whistleblow online.
Ty & Eric set sail in celebration of their newly acquired pleasure craft operating certificates (PCOCs). They discuss eating, drinking, and podcasting on the open ocean, as well as patroning mom & pop sandwich shops, BBL Drizzy, school lunch sandwiches, Eric’s ice fiasco at a Teezo Touchdown concert, drinking tomato juice at 30,000ft, and Sexyy Red’s brand promise.
Ty & Eric trail blaze through Oregon’s dining scene, discussing liberal donuts, overspending on mashed crab potatoes, self-initiating food poisoning, and Portland’s war on weird. They also chat about Eric’s agricultural era, dropping $600 on omakase, stealing vs. buying dirt, who is making the butchers close friends list, whether the veggie delight is freaky or normcore, and growing your own footlong.
Ty & Eric discuss whether it’s a worse to work for Subway or parking enforcement, becoming a personal chef shareholder, corporate merch from Subway, dropping $400 on omakase, dating apps for sandwich artists, becoming a remote husband, and getting publicly shamed for being a sandwich enjoyer.
Ty & Eric hop in the toaster oven to chat about Eric’s spicy salsa dancing, clobbering your sandwich artist, the warlocks who patron Subway, Biden’s plot to make America fatter, how to get the ideal Indian male summer bod, the Dune spice wars, and where Sadam Hussein was really buried.
Ty & Eric post up in a Canadian Goose nest for another outdoor casting. They discuss the fighting flocks amongst them, the footlong glizzy Eric gobbled last night, whether The Weeknd engineered the Drake / Kendrick beef, their homemade lemonade secrets, taking on a double-decker grilled cheese, and whether Subway appeals to the Jewish community.
Ty & Eric subject themselves (and the listeners) to a breezy benchside conversation about how Subway’s business model is falling apart, the Drake vs. Kendrick front lines, cheating the Subway series menu prices, artfully squirting chimichurri sauce, and inviting a helicopter as their latest guest.
Ty & Eric post up outside the ‘Way to discuss their experiments with new Subway sauces, including Tandoori Spice and Cuban-Style. They also discuss the manufactured rapper beef that has infected the music industry, Momofuku’s legal battles for proprietary sauces, augmented reality ordering at Subway, the Chinese restaurantification of the sandwich menu, and paying $3 to add some paprika.
Eric returns from colonizing Japan to share his stories, including consuming raw eggs, solo-dining at Ichiran, mogging other men in the onsen, as well as installing privacy walls in Subway, the Rimowa espresso maker, YZY (tentacle) porn, when restaurants squash the beef with their patrons, closing early because you hate your customers, and building a wall to hide Mount Fuji.
The boys discuss why Eric took his pants off on his business-class flight to Japan, Ty’s freaky Vanderpump Rules restaurant tour, how to make Subway appeal to incels, fishing for your own tuna medley, the emerging business of magic mushrooms, why Top Golf is top dawg, Air Canada’s premium meal options, throwing actual ninja stars, why Melrose Ave. is a ghost town, and selling hand rolls at Subway.
Ty & Eric briefly pivot Think Fresh into a film review podcast so that they can discuss the 1948 neorealist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves. They talk about resurrecting ‘*capiche*’, the male urge to funnel all emotion into a vehicle, how handsome dudes can be down bad too, finding a serious movie for Ty, how the rich eat at Subway, how men used to put that shit on, and whether all movies are for children.
Ty & Eric discuss gobbling beachside glizzies, public domain vegetables, becoming cursed by magic garlic paste, fighting hot dog inflation, looking at literal feet on the literal Subway, forgiving Kendall Jenner for her Pepsi ad, whether Coca-Cola is ACAB, and becoming an *autotelic* Subway enjoyer.
Ty & Eric discuss in 8-bit quality, whether dijon mustard and yellow mustard have political affiliation, why country music is trending, being pro-probiotic, whether Subway’s fish is farmed or line-caught, empathizing with your baristas, flashing the sandwich artist your meat, the forever problematic question of ‘what bread’, ketchup prohibition, and shoving Subway into REI.
Ty & Eric discuss the secret bakery in the grocery store, washed rapper beef, munching on crusty rusty dusty bread, Subway’s variable lineup at lunchtime, putting hot honey on the menu, rotting on the restaurant waitlist, influencers destroying the good spots, eradicating shrub, and dunking *Hot Ones* into some sour milk.
Thank you for flying with Fresh Air, please put on your AirPod Maxes to listen to this important safety announcement. Ty & Eric discuss copping complimentary beverages on airplanes, peeping adult content at 30K feet, getting an A+ for being a good passenger, flying business on KLM, and borrowing the airplane AUX cord. They also discuss roasting whole animals over an open flame, exploring Amsterdam by bicycle, and ending u...
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