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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We welcome back our buddy, mister Spike Mendelssohn. Spike, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I am doing fantastic now that I'm here big.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
When is the last time I saw you? Man?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I mean since maybe maybe the last time the Habs
want to Stanley Cup, maybe the either of us were.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
By the way, so Spike is a montural guy, but
had been here forever.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Actually, what was it? The oh?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I saw a picture that you posted when the Caps
were playing the Canadians where you had the how it
started where it is?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yes, totally. I'm glad you got that. I love that.
That's perfect, right, Yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The the well, anyway, there's I feel like there's a
hundred million things that you're You look great, by the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Way, Listen, I'm feeling great, looking great. It's all this
iced tea that I'm drinking. It's just keeping me young.
How did you how did you? How did you fall
into that? I shouldn't say fall in. Fell in was
exactly what it is. Well, you know, you've known me
for years now, so you know I like to hustle around.
I like to take a lot of projects, and you
know I've grown the network in the DMV quite a bit.
But I met Seth Goldman by chance, which was formerly
(01:08):
from Honest Ty. You know the brand, yeah, right right,
it's a d m V. It's a DMV brand. He's
from Bethesda. We're actually in the same offices now still
are you all these years?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah? Yeah, and they're they're iconic.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's like, but the most of the furniture there still
is from the Honesty days.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
To be honest with you, is it really it really is.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's like you walk into I was just thinking we
should sell tickets as a museum to walk through the
Honesty offices.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So what was what was it? Because he started Honest Tea?
So yeah, so he started Honest Tea.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know, at that time it was about a less
sweet beverage and leaning into organics. He's one of the only,
like the first ones to do it with a beverage actually,
and now about fifteen years later, you know, he had
a you know, a great a great time with Honesty.
He sold it to Coca Cola. He remained uh, you
know teo as he says it, for for a number
of years, right. And then I met him shortly before
(01:54):
COVID at a panel and we just kind of hit
it off. He had snuck Honest Tea and uh Beyond
Meat Burgers, and he's like, hey, I heard you're like
the burger king.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Could you take these home and tell me what you
think about them? And right? Were they good? Uh yeah,
at the time they were great.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, my wife's vegan and she loved him so
Happy wife, Happy Life. I was like, hey, you got
something here, and I called them up. I was like,
could we do something like, you know, I kind of
feel there's a you know, this is the future of
fast food. And he, you know, he was a little
hesitant first to jump into the restaurant business. So we
just started to work together a little bit with Beyond
Me and then eventually he kind of leaned into Plant Burger,
which was the vegan brand that we opened up, right,
(02:30):
and then he wanted to get back into startup mode, right,
so we opened up a snack company with Mushroom Jerkys.
We're making all these snacks and Coke called them and
basically discontinued the brand, you know, just overnight, right after COVID.
They couldn't keep up with the supply chain, you know,
they thought it was very difficult.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So at first when they called him. At first, when
they called him and they were like, hey, it's Coca
Cola calling. Yeah, we want to we want to take
over Honest Tea.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yes, like you have to take that phone call. Yes,
I mean for sure, I wasn't part of that. Yeah. No, no,
but if you're him, like I don't, I don't know totally.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, like, you know, there's a lot of people
that said, like, maybe it was too early for the
Honest Tea brand to sell to a brand like Coca Cola.
But that's why just say just iced t exists. Now
you know, we're gonna do it right again. And I
don't know, but you know, like, listen, you I would
do the same thing. I would have sold right like
it's it's such a big brand. And he remained for years,
you know, I was on the board, and he totally did.
(03:25):
And then and I think just Covid kind of really
disrupted the supply chain enough for Coca Cola to be like, uh,
we're not into it anymore. And and so they gave
him a courteousy call and said, listen, we're gonna we're
gonna discontinue this brand. But we're keeping honest kids right, right.
And because Seth was like, hey, should we take the
brand back? You know, it's like, no, we're gonna keep
on his kids.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He had no non compete And and then he did
it like a LinkedIn post, and I don't think he
was really thinking too much about what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
He was just very emotional about it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He was like, hey, this legacy brand and this LinkedIn
post had hundreds and thousands of views and and impressions
and likes, and it just kind of went viral, and
he started hearing from all the tea farmers, all the
suppliers that Coke just kind of left left, you know,
to dry. They didn't really tell anybody, and so it
was it was just by the the you know, by
(04:14):
people reaching out saying, hey, you can't, we can't give
up on this less sweet organic brand, right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That got him excited to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And he looked at me the next day and said,
we burned tea, And I was like, let's brew some tea.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes. Because the snack business was hard, I have to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We were like yeah, we were kind of like like
mushroom jerkys and kids, uh, snacks carrot snacks, and they
were great products, but they were new products, you know,
disrupting categories. And you know, from when he you know,
accepted honesty to today, people are very acceptant of better
for you drinks, right, organic, less sweet drinks.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's kind of like very common now.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So it's almost like this, this brand is primed today, right.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And one day maybe maybe mushroom jerky will be accepted.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You're giving me nightmares. I'm like talking all about you.
I'm forgetting to hand it out. Look, he got a
mango white for you over here, a little green. You
seem like a just a nonsweet guy.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You seem like do you seem like a very unsweet ken?
But I read this, Smike, tell me if this is true.
Tell me if this is true.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So I was reading something where it said the are
we gonna eat the pizza and just open the box.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I'm dressing it for you. Why are you talking? I'm
a sho If I could do multiple things, you know,
I'm multitasking here.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I know I know the So so he gets the
call from Coke that it's done. Yes, that it turns
out that that may be the best because when he
got the call that they were buying it from him.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I'm sure he thought that was a great day.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The call that he's not going to be around with
them is actually the best day of his life, because
at least the stuff that I was reading was for whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Honest, he was just iced. Tea will surpass that by far.
By the way. I read something that called it a
billion dollar business.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It can. It can definitely be a billion dollars billion
dollar business.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
A billion is going to be a billion dollar business.
I fell into a billion. I look at Seth. I
was like, I spent my years training as a chef,
so I can end up in the beverage business. But
and I'm happy about it. I'm happy about it. Yeah,
I mean, look, listen, you know, it's kind of a
loose to what I was talking before, Like he was
(06:25):
pedaling a movement that wasn't really accepted back then.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Organic less sweet tea.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, you had the liptins of the world, you had,
you had a Snapple, you had uh, you know, purely
if you had all these sweet sweet beverages. Today today
is you know, today is the time for a beverage
like this. And I think that's why we're seeing so
much quick success. But you know what it is sweet
slightly yeah, just sweet enough?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, say no no, but I mean it's like because
when you hear that and on the heels of the
great mushroom jerky too.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, no, you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Would think like, oh, nothing, but no, it's it's it's
plenty sweet.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It's plenty sweet. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And one of the big differences reaching an oversuit to
here though, by the way, Bubby's pickle.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Pizza from We the pizza with ranch dressing.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wow, Yes, I mean, today is the day, guys, Today
is the day.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, But.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Did you know did you know a ton about honestly,
did you know a ton about tea?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, not so much. I mean, you know, funny enough,
like when I had good Stuff Heater. We still have
good Stuff Heater on Capitol Hill the bookstore across the
street when bookstores existed. And so it's the first time
I drank honest tea. And I kind of giggled with
myself because I took a sip. Was the first time
I drank it. I took a sip and then I
read the tagline that said just a tat sweet. I
was like, that's exactly what this is. I was like,
who's this brilliant person? And I just like forgot about it.
(07:44):
And then years later I met seth and and and
you know, you know, brewing, brewing tea is It's not
it's not too difficult, right, You're just taking tea leaves
and you're brewing it. The difficult part is coming up
with the right type of balance of teas and bitterness
to sweet, and then the flavoring and then just the
beverage business. Like I didn't I'm I'm from the restaurant business.
(08:05):
I didn't know the beverage business.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Right. People come into the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yes, they need them, and I get instant gratification from that.
With tea, I put the product out there on shelves,
and I'm like, I don't really get to see unless
people are posting on social like the instant gratification, But you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Don't just stand inside target and wait to see I do.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I do.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And by the way, Target, we just launched the Target.
That's massive, massive. We got the get a four pack?
Hey do you have you get a four pack? Do
you have peach? Do you have pea?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Do you like you want to taste smart peach. Our
peaches are number one selling tea. I love peach by
far Is. Can you hand us Alison? Thank you so much.
It's hurry.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah. But you know what the great thing about this
this problem bottle. Yeah, because my other one's in a can. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The oh this is our premium stuff right here. This
is a premium and a bottle. You know, there's such
great you know, I love the brewing of the tea,
but the big piece of.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It is the sourcing. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So Seth and I traveled to mozon Beak to a
tea garden which we sourced from. It's the largest organic
tea garden in the world. It took us sixty plus
hours to get there. It's all fair trade tea, so
meaning there's fairway fair wayes.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You got it. You got a quote under there too, right, yeah, yeah,
a quote. Yeah, it's just for you. Look at that.
You want to read your quote? Yeah, every quote it's Elliott.
Your cough is cancer.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning
how to sail my ship. When they when they when
when Louisa created the quote, you probably said it a
little better than I did.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That shouldn't throw cancer. Wait, so you had to go
all the way to Mozambique to do this.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, we source. We have a global supply chain which
is really interesting. So we source from India, China, we
do the peach.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Is good, the peach is good, right, yeah, which is good.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And but Mozambique is one that we leaned into for
our cans, right, so we source all our cans uh
which are recently in target.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I don't know if I said that the to you.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, they they all the tea comes from Mozambique and
it's the largest organic tea guard in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And like I said, there's fair wages, so the community
votes on where they want to put the extra money
that comes in from the fair wages that we pay
towards education.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
This year they're going to build a pathology clinic.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Actually, you know, the life expensity or life expectancy over
there is fifty six years old, right if you can imagine, right,
So it's like they need all these things. It's just
these common things that we take for granted we're doing
at the tea garden. So it's just a great story.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know what. I'll say this about you and this
this may be the last nice thing is no, no,
but that that's always kind.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Of been you like, whether it was like, like, was
good stuff maybe the first thing that we met you, yes, right, yes,
But so whether it was good stuff or we the
pizza or anything else that you were doing, like number
one is it had to be good, right, it had
to pass that test. But as long as it was good,
it was always about being good to people and making
sure whether it was your staff or customers or people
(10:58):
that you were dealing with. Yea was just being good
to people, to make sure that people were taken care of.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, and you know what, you know, that's exactly what
it is. That's what the way I've led most of
our companies and our lives, and that's why I fell
into this billion dollar tea company.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, it's just karma, you know, it's just amazing karma.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And what can I say, Guys, put it out there,
it comes back at some point.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You can't time it, but put out the good vibes.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But you know, part of it, it's it's kind of
magical what's happening with this tea brand? I have to
tell you. I mean, it's it's such a purpose led company.
That's what makes me get up every morning, gets super
excited about selling tea. So different from the restaurant business,
but it's such a it's such an enjoyable ride right now.
It's just like, you know, doing good. How's how is
the pizza? Have you had dy'll pickle pizza before? No?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But I get we the peacha all the time from yes,
that's right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So I get in there all the time. I've never
had it. Yes, And I'll say this, and this is
where I'm rude. I'd never order it, right, No, you wouldn't. No,
you would never order it. It's an Instagram pizza. But
it's yeah, it's really cool, you know. It's there's like
these trends in pizza.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
This is these are one of the trends right now,
as as dill pickles are just like super hot and
so you just threw them on a pizza. We put
a little bit of ranch stressing, which is also trending
hot these days.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Right What is the what did I just see you want? Well,
you're doing everything. You just did another top chef thing for.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I did another time putting my my mug back out
there these days. I took a little break from TV.
But yeah, I just did Top Out for fourteen years.
I was I was listening to have an eight year old.
Now he's a teenager. Basically, I got a kid.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You have one, you have to have too. Yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah there their dad. Though, my kid's dad isn't going
to be a billionaire. Your kid's dad is.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
We will see, We'll see. We you know, listen, we
focus on growing a great brand. This might mean yeah,
DC politics coming. That's where we're focused on, just growing
a great brand and the best speak for itself. Yeah, yourself.
Whatever happens happens, We're happy.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
How did Why did you end up going back to
Top Chef though you just went back as a joke.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, yeah, we went back for a pizza episode as
a judge. You know, I just did a couple episodes
of Bar Rescue as well. I did three episodes. Uh
you know this my inner John Tafford just unleashed. So
check those out. They were awesome. And you know, I'm
just trying to put myself back out there. We're we're
starting to franchise with the Pizza nationally right now, so
(13:20):
you know, I'm just trying to pick up my TV
creds a little bit and trying to get the word
about out there, about pizza, trying to just mark the
brands a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Who was the woman?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
There was one of the episodes of Bar Rescue where
the woman gets all frustrated and is all stressed out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Is her name Lucy, where she gets all stressed out
missy Goosey one shot bitch. Yeah, But she goes outside
completely in the weeds and in the bar in.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The restaurant's disgusting, which is obviously why you're there doing
thew and like it's it's disgusting, and she is stressed out,
and she looks the part and she goes outside.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
She's like, I gotta go outside. She she goes outside
out to the back. She has a drink, and she's
smoking the whole time. So I love I love not
smoking like hot now smoking cigarettes. I love her.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And then and then you and you and John are like, oh,
I don't think she washed her hands when she came
back in and she's digging.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
In people's food and stuff. Oh my god. She drove
me crazy, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And she you know, she was yelling you give me attitude,
pushing back a little bit She's like, I'm one shot
bench and that's all she had to say. And I
was like, oh boy, you said the wrong words. I'm
about to unleash on you. And and and I did
you know? I call it therapy. Bar rescue for me
is therapy. It's like everything you want to do in
your own restaurant, but you'll get sued for, you know,
(14:40):
so I just get to do it to other people's restaurants.
Are you gonna do You're good on that show. Though
you're good on that show. I'm good on that show.
I think it's a little bit outside my character, you know,
total Like the people that know me best, they're like,
whoa like you know, I was like, but the fact
is is that's how I used to operate restaurants back
in the day when I was working in French kitchens
and in New York City.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You have you have to be a hard ass, you
have to be on top of everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
So it's a little bit of the old Spike But
but but yeah, but it's.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Totally and you're right, it's totally out of character, totally like,
that's that's totally not you. Also, you come across as
smart of like knowing like all the stuff, which is great, Well.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's the that's the piece I like if I could
lean into, you know, if I could do more of
the show and leaning more into that piece instead of
like the one time yeah, early episodes that broke up
frozen pizza over my knees, frozen pizza.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I just went flying. So you know it's harder. You
got to step into John shoes. He's been doing it
for ten years, you know. I was.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was a chef guest on one of his first episodes,
were you really Yeah? On his first season, and I
remember saying to myself, like, this show is amazing. You know,
I would love this, and so I want to be
a recon spot totally. That's what I wanted to go
to the DC area. They would have you. I have
to be totally have.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You as I just like when people sit there and
they go, oh, that drink doesn't really look the right color.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You got plenty of those, right, you know, like or
ordering like, you know, a fancy drink at a dingy bar.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So I feel bad for them. I'm like, of course
you're not making that drink?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Hare did?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I Like I can't remember where it was.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I like there was like the one restaurant that's like
one hundred years old?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Was it? The airliner? The airliner, the airliner that's right, Yeah, yeah,
it's like one hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, and it was run down and disgusting totally, but
then you you kind of like put a new Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That place was funny because it was a mother daughter operation.
They had lost their father to like cardiac arrast or something.
That really sad story. No one told me from production,
are you serious? Obviously I have to find out on
camera from the daughter. I held my father around his
last breath, So I was like, okay, production, that would
have been nice to know.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Cool, but the pizza is not really perfect exactly exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
But they were just holding onto this baggage, you know,
you know, you know, no puns intended, but they were.
They were just holding onto this old like thought process
of the airliner when their dad was running it, and
they just to kind of loosen it up a little bit,
right and just kind of let it be and and
move on and improve and that. And I was able
to get him to that point. You know, part of
being on Barresco, you're carrying a storyline, right, and so
(17:12):
you got to make but also you're really there to
improve the bar, so you have to kind of do
both simultaneously.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It's a it's it's a great show.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And they get so sad not sad like happy, sad
like when they turn around and they like see what
it is like that's really nice emotional.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, And and that's that's the moment you can't wait
for on the show.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Because there's one guy who turned around. He was the
one where like all the girls went Lennon and they're like,
there's nothing in the closet. I was like, okay, yeah,
but the but like he started crying. I was like, dude,
you're boohooing on too.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yes, yes, he's till boo who And I think he's
still booho and.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I hear it. I don't know the three I've made
three I redid.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
He's the one that's resisting some of the change because
you you hear it, you know from the from the
Great Vines.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So he's resisting some of the change. But yeah, you
know we uh, well, then you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Should threaten to go in and go listen, you don't
want to change, I'll just come in and pull it
all out.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's right, break another frozen piece over my my thing.
All right, So most important thing is the is just
Ice tea Justice, I have to tell you. So we
just launched it. First of thanks for having me over here.
And just atter, we just launched in Target. It's mega
for us, right. Actually today we're starting a social campaign.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
So if you go into Target, you buy a four pack,
you take a picture, you tag us, we enter you
into a contest to win one hundred dollars certificate to
spend it Target.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So these are flying off the shelves. They're really they're fun.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The reason we came out with the cans is cans
can go wear a glass can, right, so beaches, bulls smart. Yeah, yeah,
we need to diversify, you know, the options of where
people can get our tea and so it is a
premium tea, but we were all about democratizing it, you know,
so cheaper price point for the cans obviously, but still
the same high quality ingredients that you get in the glass.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And what is the show other than and listen, launching
the Target is awesome, but that's not the only place.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So we're okay, so.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We're in, We're let's go let's go down think where
moms were whole food's work.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
We just launched a target.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We said it Walmart, CBS signing up with seven eleven.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm a seven eleven Chef winner. By the way, I created.
I did the seven eleven competition. Did you realize I did?
And I want to I won the slurpe trophy there
I was. I made I made a pizza of all things,
and you can imagine in a little oven over there,
some microwave oven and made a bechamel sauce, the whole,
the whole thing. But Jack Daniels in the coke slurpie.
(19:36):
I was like, dude, that's all my my, my greatest claim.
The fame is winning the seven eleven Chef Competition show,
and the good fam is great. Wife is doing good,
you know, son is living his best life as we
as we like to put it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You know, dude, things are going great. Man. I'm so
glad you came. Yeah. Did you go with some hockey games?
Did you go watch some games? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I did go watch. You want me to tie two
things together for you? Please? Do you did you do?
I'm trying to think if you were there last year,
I was not.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But Carl Awlsner who plays for the Carla for the Capitol,
you know, right, And so he last year started a
charity softball thing totally and did in a home run derby.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So he's doing it again this year. You know who's
coming in to do it? He texts me about it. Yes,
uh y Price Price, dude, I got to read about
it at press release. You got a text. Are you
gonna go?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh you don't understand that. Oh you don't understand that
my kids don't be carry Price. I don't if I don't.
He's doing it on June the thirty first or something
like that, next Saturday. That's next Saturday. Are you going
out to Carl?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I can't go because I'm taking my wife for her
birthday of the Sidona and I'm and by the way,
I'm super bommed.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I booked this trip way ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
She's gonna listen to you what wife would say, A
good wife would go.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We can go to Sedona at any time. I tried.
I tried explaining that, like people.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Have seen Carry Price on TV, play to see him
play in person, like from behind the Glass, is is
a treaty. The fact that he's going to be five
ft away from you playing softball.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't even know if he's any good at softball,
I mean on a field. I can't believe it. So yeah,
no that I'm not missing you, gotta I'll send you
a picture I've never met. Is a stand you should
bring you met? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, no, Carl is great, but I won't pay attention
to him next Rnaday.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I mean he's no price. Once I have is always
a half. That is true. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
All right, very good. Thank you for the pizza. Of course, everybody,
go get just Iced tea. Whether it's in glass or bottles,
it doesn't matter. Go to a go go to get
that and go to Target today.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
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you just purchased and tag us at just iceed t.
It's our Instagram. You can tag Target if you want.
You can tag Elliott the Show, whatever you guys want
to do. Tag everybody and you can enter to win
one hundred dollars gift certificate. Of course, the Bubbies pickle
pizzas on on the menu for another two weeks and
we the pizza, so get it while it's and it's good.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You would never think to order it, but it is good.
And if you want to open a franchise and with
a pizza, call me. That's what I'm done. I think
did I cover everything? I think perfect? Dude, Thank you
for coming in. You look great. Thank you. Same to
We welcome back our buddy, mister Spike Mendelssohn. Spike, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I am doing fantastic now that I'm here big.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
When is the last time I saw you? Man?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I mean since maybe maybe the last time the Habs
want to Stanley Cup, maybe the either of us were.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
By the way, so Spike is a montural guy, but
had been here forever.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Actually, what was it? The oh?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I saw a picture that you posted when the Caps
were playing the Canadians where you had the how it
started where it is?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yes, totally. I'm glad you got that. I love that.
That's perfect, right, Yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The the well, anyway, there's I feel like there's a
hundred million things that you're You look great, by the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Way, Listen, I'm feeling great, looking great. It's all this
iced tea that I'm drinking. It's just keeping me young.
How did you how did you? How did you fall
into that? I shouldn't say fall in. Fell in was
exactly what it is. Well, you know, you've known me
for years now, so you know I like to hustle around.
I like to take a lot of projects, and you
know I've grown the network in the DMV quite a bit.
But I met Seth Goldman by chance, which was formerly
(01:08):
from Honest Ty. You know the brand, yeah, right right,
it's a d m V. It's a DMV brand. He's
from Bethesda. We're actually in the same offices now still
are you all these years?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah? Yeah, and they're they're iconic.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's like, but the most of the furniture there still
is from the Honesty days.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
To be honest with you, is it really it really is.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's like you walk into I was just thinking we
should sell tickets as a museum to walk through the
Honesty offices.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So what was what was it? Because he started Honest Tea?
So yeah, so he started Honest Tea.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know, at that time it was about a less
sweet beverage and leaning into organics. He's one of the only,
like the first ones to do it with a beverage actually,
and now about fifteen years later, you know, he had
a you know, a great a great time with Honesty.
He sold it to Coca Cola. He remained uh, you
know teo as he says it, for for a number
of years, right. And then I met him shortly before
(01:54):
COVID at a panel and we just kind of hit
it off. He had snuck Honest Tea and uh Beyond
Meat Burgers, and he's like, hey, I heard you're like
the burger king.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Could you take these home and tell me what you
think about them? And right? Were they good? Uh yeah,
at the time they were great.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, my wife's vegan and she loved him so
Happy wife, Happy Life. I was like, hey, you got
something here, and I called them up. I was like,
could we do something like, you know, I kind of
feel there's a you know, this is the future of
fast food. And he, you know, he was a little
hesitant first to jump into the restaurant business. So we
just started to work together a little bit with Beyond
Me and then eventually he kind of leaned into Plant Burger,
which was the vegan brand that we opened up, right,
(02:30):
and then he wanted to get back into startup mode, right,
so we opened up a snack company with Mushroom Jerkys.
We're making all these snacks and Coke called them and
basically discontinued the brand, you know, just overnight, right after COVID.
They couldn't keep up with the supply chain, you know,
they thought it was very difficult.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So at first when they called him. At first, when
they called him and they were like, hey, it's Coca
Cola calling. Yeah, we want to we want to take
over Honest Tea.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yes, like you have to take that phone call. Yes,
I mean for sure, I wasn't part of that. Yeah. No, no,
but if you're him, like I don't, I don't know totally.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, like, you know, there's a lot of people
that said, like, maybe it was too early for the
Honest Tea brand to sell to a brand like Coca Cola.
But that's why just say just iced t exists. Now
you know, we're gonna do it right again. And I
don't know, but you know, like, listen, you I would
do the same thing. I would have sold right like
it's it's such a big brand. And he remained for years,
you know, I was on the board, and he totally did.
(03:25):
And then and I think just Covid kind of really
disrupted the supply chain enough for Coca Cola to be like, uh,
we're not into it anymore. And and so they gave
him a courteousy call and said, listen, we're gonna we're
gonna discontinue this brand. But we're keeping honest kids right, right.
And because Seth was like, hey, should we take the
brand back? You know, it's like, no, we're gonna keep
on his kids.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He had no non compete And and then he did
it like a LinkedIn post, and I don't think he
was really thinking too much about what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
He was just very emotional about it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He was like, hey, this legacy brand and this LinkedIn
post had hundreds and thousands of views and and impressions
and likes, and it just kind of went viral, and
he started hearing from all the tea farmers, all the
suppliers that Coke just kind of left left, you know,
to dry. They didn't really tell anybody, and so it
was it was just by the the you know, by
(04:14):
people reaching out saying, hey, you can't, we can't give
up on this less sweet organic brand, right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That got him excited to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And he looked at me the next day and said,
we burned tea, And I was like, let's brew some tea.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes. Because the snack business was hard, I have to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We were like yeah, we were kind of like like
mushroom jerkys and kids, uh, snacks carrot snacks, and they
were great products, but they were new products, you know,
disrupting categories. And you know, from when he you know,
accepted honesty to today, people are very acceptant of better
for you drinks, right, organic, less sweet drinks.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's kind of like very common now.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So it's almost like this, this brand is primed today, right.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And one day maybe maybe mushroom jerky will be accepted.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You're giving me nightmares. I'm like talking all about you.
I'm forgetting to hand it out. Look, he got a
mango white for you over here, a little green. You
seem like a just a nonsweet guy.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You seem like do you seem like a very unsweet ken?
But I read this, Smike, tell me if this is true.
Tell me if this is true.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So I was reading something where it said the are
we gonna eat the pizza and just open the box.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I'm dressing it for you. Why are you talking? I'm
a sho If I could do multiple things, you know,
I'm multitasking here.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I know I know the So so he gets the
call from Coke that it's done. Yes, that it turns
out that that may be the best because when he
got the call that they were buying it from him.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I'm sure he thought that was a great day.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The call that he's not going to be around with
them is actually the best day of his life, because
at least the stuff that I was reading was for whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Honest, he was just iced. Tea will surpass that by far.
By the way. I read something that called it a
billion dollar business.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It can. It can definitely be a billion dollars billion
dollar business.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
A billion is going to be a billion dollar business.
I fell into a billion. I look at Seth. I
was like, I spent my years training as a chef,
so I can end up in the beverage business. But
and I'm happy about it. I'm happy about it. Yeah,
I mean, look, listen, you know, it's kind of a
loose to what I was talking before, Like he was
(06:25):
pedaling a movement that wasn't really accepted back then.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Organic less sweet tea.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, you had the liptins of the world, you had,
you had a Snapple, you had uh, you know, purely
if you had all these sweet sweet beverages. Today today
is you know, today is the time for a beverage
like this. And I think that's why we're seeing so
much quick success. But you know what it is sweet
slightly yeah, just sweet enough?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, say no no, but I mean it's like because
when you hear that and on the heels of the
great mushroom jerky too.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, no, you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Would think like, oh, nothing, but no, it's it's it's
plenty sweet.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It's plenty sweet. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And one of the big differences reaching an oversuit to
here though, by the way, Bubby's pickle.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Pizza from We the pizza with ranch dressing.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wow, Yes, I mean, today is the day, guys, Today
is the day.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, But.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Did you know did you know a ton about honestly,
did you know a ton about tea?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, not so much. I mean, you know, funny enough,
like when I had good Stuff Heater. We still have
good Stuff Heater on Capitol Hill the bookstore across the
street when bookstores existed. And so it's the first time
I drank honest tea. And I kind of giggled with
myself because I took a sip. Was the first time
I drank it. I took a sip and then I
read the tagline that said just a tat sweet. I
was like, that's exactly what this is. I was like,
who's this brilliant person? And I just like forgot about it.
(07:44):
And then years later I met seth and and and
you know, you know, brewing, brewing tea is It's not
it's not too difficult, right, You're just taking tea leaves
and you're brewing it. The difficult part is coming up
with the right type of balance of teas and bitterness
to sweet, and then the flavoring and then just the
beverage business. Like I didn't I'm I'm from the restaurant business.
(08:05):
I didn't know the beverage business.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Right. People come into the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yes, they need them, and I get instant gratification from that.
With tea, I put the product out there on shelves,
and I'm like, I don't really get to see unless
people are posting on social like the instant gratification, But you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Don't just stand inside target and wait to see I do.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I do.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And by the way, Target, we just launched the Target.
That's massive, massive. We got the get a four pack?
Hey do you have you get a four pack? Do
you have peach? Do you have pea?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Do you like you want to taste smart peach. Our
peaches are number one selling tea. I love peach by
far Is. Can you hand us Alison? Thank you so much.
It's hurry.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah. But you know what the great thing about this
this problem bottle. Yeah, because my other one's in a can. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The oh this is our premium stuff right here. This
is a premium and a bottle. You know, there's such
great you know, I love the brewing of the tea,
but the big piece of.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It is the sourcing. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So Seth and I traveled to mozon Beak to a
tea garden which we sourced from. It's the largest organic
tea garden in the world. It took us sixty plus
hours to get there. It's all fair trade tea, so
meaning there's fairway fair wayes.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You got it. You got a quote under there too, right, yeah, yeah,
a quote. Yeah, it's just for you. Look at that.
You want to read your quote? Yeah, every quote it's Elliott.
Your cough is cancer.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning
how to sail my ship. When they when they when
when Louisa created the quote, you probably said it a
little better than I did.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That shouldn't throw cancer. Wait, so you had to go
all the way to Mozambique to do this.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, we source. We have a global supply chain which
is really interesting. So we source from India, China, we
do the peach.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Is good, the peach is good, right, yeah, which is good.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And but Mozambique is one that we leaned into for
our cans, right, so we source all our cans uh
which are recently in target.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I don't know if I said that the to you.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, they they all the tea comes from Mozambique and
it's the largest organic tea guard in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And like I said, there's fair wages, so the community
votes on where they want to put the extra money
that comes in from the fair wages that we pay
towards education.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
This year they're going to build a pathology clinic.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Actually, you know, the life expensity or life expectancy over
there is fifty six years old, right if you can imagine, right,
So it's like they need all these things. It's just
these common things that we take for granted we're doing
at the tea garden. So it's just a great story.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know what. I'll say this about you and this
this may be the last nice thing is no, no,
but that that's always kind.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Of been you like, whether it was like, like, was
good stuff maybe the first thing that we met you, yes, right, yes,
But so whether it was good stuff or we the
pizza or anything else that you were doing, like number
one is it had to be good, right, it had
to pass that test. But as long as it was good,
it was always about being good to people and making
sure whether it was your staff or customers or people
(10:58):
that you were dealing with. Yea was just being good
to people, to make sure that people were taken care of.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, and you know what, you know, that's exactly what
it is. That's what the way I've led most of
our companies and our lives, and that's why I fell
into this billion dollar tea company.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, it's just karma, you know, it's just amazing karma.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And what can I say, Guys, put it out there,
it comes back at some point.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You can't time it, but put out the good vibes.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But you know, part of it, it's it's kind of
magical what's happening with this tea brand? I have to
tell you. I mean, it's it's such a purpose led company.
That's what makes me get up every morning, gets super
excited about selling tea. So different from the restaurant business,
but it's such a it's such an enjoyable ride right now.
It's just like, you know, doing good. How's how is
the pizza? Have you had dy'll pickle pizza before? No?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But I get we the peacha all the time from yes,
that's right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So I get in there all the time. I've never
had it. Yes, And I'll say this, and this is
where I'm rude. I'd never order it, right, No, you wouldn't. No,
you would never order it. It's an Instagram pizza. But
it's yeah, it's really cool, you know. It's there's like
these trends in pizza.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
This is these are one of the trends right now,
as as dill pickles are just like super hot and
so you just threw them on a pizza. We put
a little bit of ranch stressing, which is also trending
hot these days.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Right What is the what did I just see you want? Well,
you're doing everything. You just did another top chef thing for.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I did another time putting my my mug back out
there these days. I took a little break from TV.
But yeah, I just did Top Out for fourteen years.
I was I was listening to have an eight year old.
Now he's a teenager. Basically, I got a kid.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You have one, you have to have too. Yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah there their dad. Though, my kid's dad isn't going
to be a billionaire. Your kid's dad is.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
We will see, We'll see. We you know, listen, we
focus on growing a great brand. This might mean yeah,
DC politics coming. That's where we're focused on, just growing
a great brand and the best speak for itself. Yeah, yourself.
Whatever happens happens, We're happy.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
How did Why did you end up going back to
Top Chef though you just went back as a joke.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, yeah, we went back for a pizza episode as
a judge. You know, I just did a couple episodes
of Bar Rescue as well. I did three episodes. Uh
you know this my inner John Tafford just unleashed. So
check those out. They were awesome. And you know, I'm
just trying to put myself back out there. We're we're
starting to franchise with the Pizza nationally right now, so
(13:20):
you know, I'm just trying to pick up my TV
creds a little bit and trying to get the word
about out there, about pizza, trying to just mark the
brands a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Who was the woman?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
There was one of the episodes of Bar Rescue where
the woman gets all frustrated and is all stressed out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Is her name Lucy, where she gets all stressed out
missy Goosey one shot bitch. Yeah, But she goes outside
completely in the weeds and in the bar in.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The restaurant's disgusting, which is obviously why you're there doing
thew and like it's it's disgusting, and she is stressed out,
and she looks the part and she goes outside.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
She's like, I gotta go outside. She she goes outside
out to the back. She has a drink, and she's
smoking the whole time. So I love I love not
smoking like hot now smoking cigarettes. I love her.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And then and then you and you and John are like, oh,
I don't think she washed her hands when she came
back in and she's digging.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
In people's food and stuff. Oh my god. She drove
me crazy, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And she you know, she was yelling you give me attitude,
pushing back a little bit She's like, I'm one shot
bench and that's all she had to say. And I
was like, oh boy, you said the wrong words. I'm
about to unleash on you. And and and I did
you know? I call it therapy. Bar rescue for me
is therapy. It's like everything you want to do in
your own restaurant, but you'll get sued for, you know,
(14:40):
so I just get to do it to other people's restaurants.
Are you gonna do You're good on that show. Though
you're good on that show. I'm good on that show.
I think it's a little bit outside my character, you know,
total Like the people that know me best, they're like,
whoa like you know, I was like, but the fact
is is that's how I used to operate restaurants back
in the day when I was working in French kitchens
and in New York City.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You have you have to be a hard ass, you
have to be on top of everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
So it's a little bit of the old Spike But
but but yeah, but it's.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Totally and you're right, it's totally out of character, totally like,
that's that's totally not you. Also, you come across as
smart of like knowing like all the stuff, which is great, Well.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's the that's the piece I like if I could
lean into, you know, if I could do more of
the show and leaning more into that piece instead of
like the one time yeah, early episodes that broke up
frozen pizza over my knees, frozen pizza.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I just went flying. So you know it's harder. You
got to step into John shoes. He's been doing it
for ten years, you know. I was.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was a chef guest on one of his first episodes,
were you really Yeah? On his first season, and I
remember saying to myself, like, this show is amazing. You know,
I would love this, and so I want to be
a recon spot totally. That's what I wanted to go
to the DC area. They would have you. I have
to be totally have.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You as I just like when people sit there and
they go, oh, that drink doesn't really look the right color.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You got plenty of those, right, you know, like or
ordering like, you know, a fancy drink at a dingy bar.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So I feel bad for them. I'm like, of course
you're not making that drink?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Hare did?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I Like I can't remember where it was.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I like there was like the one restaurant that's like
one hundred years old?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Was it? The airliner? The airliner, the airliner that's right, Yeah, yeah,
it's like one hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, and it was run down and disgusting totally, but
then you you kind of like put a new Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That place was funny because it was a mother daughter operation.
They had lost their father to like cardiac arrast or something.
That really sad story. No one told me from production,
are you serious? Obviously I have to find out on
camera from the daughter. I held my father around his
last breath, So I was like, okay, production, that would
have been nice to know.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Cool, but the pizza is not really perfect exactly exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
But they were just holding onto this baggage, you know,
you know, you know, no puns intended, but they were.
They were just holding onto this old like thought process
of the airliner when their dad was running it, and
they just to kind of loosen it up a little bit,
right and just kind of let it be and and
move on and improve and that. And I was able
to get him to that point. You know, part of
being on Barresco, you're carrying a storyline, right, and so
(17:12):
you got to make but also you're really there to
improve the bar, so you have to kind of do
both simultaneously.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It's a it's it's a great show.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And they get so sad not sad like happy, sad
like when they turn around and they like see what
it is like that's really nice emotional.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, And and that's that's the moment you can't wait
for on the show.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Because there's one guy who turned around. He was the
one where like all the girls went Lennon and they're like,
there's nothing in the closet. I was like, okay, yeah,
but the but like he started crying. I was like, dude,
you're boohooing on too.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yes, yes, he's till boo who And I think he's
still booho and.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I hear it. I don't know the three I've made
three I redid.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
He's the one that's resisting some of the change because
you you hear it, you know from the from the
Great Vines.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So he's resisting some of the change. But yeah, you
know we uh, well, then you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Should threaten to go in and go listen, you don't
want to change, I'll just come in and pull it
all out.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's right, break another frozen piece over my my thing.
All right, So most important thing is the is just
Ice tea Justice, I have to tell you. So we
just launched it. First of thanks for having me over here.
And just atter, we just launched in Target. It's mega
for us, right. Actually today we're starting a social campaign.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
So if you go into Target, you buy a four pack,
you take a picture, you tag us, we enter you
into a contest to win one hundred dollars certificate to
spend it Target.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So these are flying off the shelves. They're really they're fun.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The reason we came out with the cans is cans
can go wear a glass can, right, so beaches, bulls smart. Yeah, yeah,
we need to diversify, you know, the options of where
people can get our tea and so it is a
premium tea, but we were all about democratizing it, you know,
so cheaper price point for the cans obviously, but still
the same high quality ingredients that you get in the glass.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And what is the show other than and listen, launching
the Target is awesome, but that's not the only place.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So we're okay, so.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We're in, We're let's go let's go down think where
moms were whole food's work.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
We just launched a target.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We said it Walmart, CBS signing up with seven eleven.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm a seven eleven Chef winner. By the way, I created.
I did the seven eleven competition. Did you realize I did?
And I want to I won the slurpe trophy there
I was. I made I made a pizza of all things,
and you can imagine in a little oven over there,
some microwave oven and made a bechamel sauce, the whole,
the whole thing. But Jack Daniels in the coke slurpie.
(19:36):
I was like, dude, that's all my my, my greatest claim.
The fame is winning the seven eleven Chef Competition show,
and the good fam is great. Wife is doing good,
you know, son is living his best life as we
as we like to put it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You know, dude, things are going great. Man. I'm so
glad you came. Yeah. Did you go with some hockey games?
Did you go watch some games? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I did go watch. You want me to tie two
things together for you? Please? Do you did you do?
I'm trying to think if you were there last year,
I was not.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But Carl Awlsner who plays for the Carla for the Capitol,
you know, right, And so he last year started a
charity softball thing totally and did in a home run derby.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So he's doing it again this year. You know who's
coming in to do it? He texts me about it. Yes,
uh y Price Price, dude, I got to read about
it at press release. You got a text. Are you
gonna go?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh you don't understand that. Oh you don't understand that
my kids don't be carry Price. I don't if I don't.
He's doing it on June the thirty first or something
like that, next Saturday. That's next Saturday. Are you going
out to Carl?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I can't go because I'm taking my wife for her
birthday of the Sidona and I'm and by the way,
I'm super bommed.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I booked this trip way ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
She's gonna listen to you what wife would say, A
good wife would go.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We can go to Sedona at any time. I tried.
I tried explaining that, like people.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Have seen Carry Price on TV, play to see him
play in person, like from behind the Glass, is is
a treaty. The fact that he's going to be five
ft away from you playing softball.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't even know if he's any good at softball,
I mean on a field. I can't believe it. So yeah,
no that I'm not missing you, gotta I'll send you
a picture I've never met. Is a stand you should
bring you met? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, no, Carl is great, but I won't pay attention
to him next Rnaday.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I mean he's no price. Once I have is always
a half. That is true. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
All right, very good. Thank you for the pizza. Of course, everybody,
go get just Iced tea. Whether it's in glass or bottles,
it doesn't matter. Go to a go go to get
that and go to Target today.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Target Today, post a picture of the four pack that
you just purchased and tag us at just iceed t.
It's our Instagram. You can tag Target if you want.
You can tag Elliott the Show, whatever you guys want
to do. Tag everybody and you can enter to win
one hundred dollars gift certificate. Of course, the Bubbies pickle
pizzas on on the menu for another two weeks and
we the pizza, so get it while it's and it's good.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You would never think to order it, but it is good.
And if you want to open a franchise and with
a pizza, call me. That's what I'm done. I think
did I cover everything? I think perfect? Dude, Thank you
for coming in. You look great. Thank you. Same to
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