July 1, 2025 • 39 mins
On this week's holiday episode.. we cover it all.
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- Dog Stuff
- Drama between restaurant & content creator
- EstPhest Begins!
- Phish is in Town
- CB's headed to the Hotel California in Baja Mexico
Thanks to our sponsors NOBO Cannabis, Meraki, Flower Union & Fat Grams for the supplies for a perfect weekend. Let's celerbate what's left of this country & it's dignity!
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as well. Without further ado, let's dive into the week
of July fourth episode cheers the suppression of.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The use of marijuana and is looking behind it the
most talking jobs talking.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The records on marijuana and.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The Washington Office is a narcotic vision.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Actually building mall corner like that today they built pattern.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, Coloradians and everyone that's mort enough
to listen from the outside. One of the most amazing
plants we've ever discovered.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The pot poking, the trippers, the glasstops, the hip books,
all gathered in secrecy and flying high as a company.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another week of stolen
up a tete with your host. As always, it's me
kipping across the compute tron. I got all CBCB you
packed the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm getting there. I'm so ready for this vacation, though
I cannot tell.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You well how you been thus far, just through the
week early on, you know, started July. How's look?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I mean obviously you know this past week with
losing uh my bestist friend besides you of course, yeah, no, yeah,
you know, like I don't know it just number one,
I would like to say that like shout out to
(04:17):
the community that we built around here, and all the
kind words that were said. I read through all of
them and they were all very nice, and some of
the ones that I loved the most were like how
he may have influenced that person to get a dog
or something like that, because that happened with Steph's brothers
and sister in law, Like they kept Chocko while we
(04:40):
were at the wedding and they ended up.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Getting a lab.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
So, you know it, it feels good to hear people
who knew him or met him say kind words, because
he really was a sweetheart. But yeah, man, I don't
think you know, you obviously experienced it with Jerry. But
I don't think anything prepares you, even as you know
the time is nearing. I don't think anything can really
(05:06):
quite you know, prepare you for that moment when the
decisions made. And you know, I don't think I think
we're I think we were both pretty lucky to have our.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Dogs for so long.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I don't know if if some people always get to
experience that, like ten plus years with one dog, but damn,
I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He lived with me through so much.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And it definitely like I feel just kind of like meh,
you know, like like I mean, like it's like I'm sad,
but I cried so much on Friday that I can't
even muster up any tears, Like I don't think it's
physically possible anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But like now I'm just.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Left with this like gap, and and it really sucks.
Like I think yesterday working from home was one of
the worst things ever because like you know, when I'm
sitting here, you come in and lay in the office
right beside me, and you're you're just I don't know
when it's when they've been with you that long, you're
(06:13):
just so used you never even think about them not
being there.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So that's it. And you know, I think what we
were talking about the other day, it was and well said,
it was like you missed the clack of lacking that
comes in the door. You know. It's like they nudge
like pardon my you know French, but like when you're
taking a shit and they like nudge in the door,
like what are you doing in here? Okay, I haven't
heard from you in a few minutes, and I hate
to be crude, but it's like those small things that
(06:39):
when that doesn't happen, it reminds you. So, yeah, you're
kind of basking in a fart, you know, and that's
why you're just like in a funk. You're like, I
got it. And so yeah, you notice it when you're
more around the house. But it makes you, you know,
it makes you appreciate the good times and at least
he's not in pain anymore, and those are one of
the joys, you know. And then you just get you
(07:01):
get to think all the positives and how many folks
he affected the community and in our friends circle and
you know, in the family. It's just it breaks your heart.
But at the same time, he's probably at peace now
and so that we get a little joy out of
that and being able to be with him, you know,
on his final days rather than it happening, you know,
God forbid the week before or the week after when
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you know you're headed out of town. And so at
least you were like with him when it happened, because
I feel like that gives you the opportunity to kind
of create or have find that resolution. So I'm glad
you're feeling well blah An it's you know, it's not
gonna I think. You know, you do the ugly cry
of the shower like a week later, and you know,
(07:44):
like you just got to keep getting it out. It's
like rinsing out your underwear when you're you know, it's
like still a little bit wet.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, it's it's gonna be bad, Like next time I
fire up the grill or something outside because he always
like used to love to come out there and lay
in the grass and just grill and then maybe drool
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But yeah, So everybody just hug your dog a little
tighter this evening, That.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is for sure. That is for sure. Speaking of hugging dogs, Chris,
I got another one. We For those that don't keep
up with the podcast regularly or maybe just recently, John
Dawn after our bullshit Antics and Aspen, don't worry we'll
have guests coming down the pike as soon as Chris
gets back. We're kind of in that busy season both
(08:30):
with work and life. We're traveling all over the goddamn place,
and we have a lot of cool life things going on,
so we haven't been able to jump on and I
kind of flicking the wrist of when our guests maybe
have free time to chat. But once Chris gets back,
once I get settled as well, well, we'll hit the
ground running with guests. But for those that are tuning
(08:51):
in for really if not ever, and then are here today,
we foster dogs, preferably senior dogs. This one is not
a senior dog, Chris. It's like a three to four
year old German shepherd that came from like a mother's
breeding farm kind of thing in Houston. What we do
is we try to help save dogs that are on
(09:12):
the ethanasia list, and Colorado usually has a pretty quick
turnaround on adoption times, so we just try to help
facilitate that conversation and we use the platforms available to
us to help promote dogs that are in need. This
new one that it's a real piece of work. She's
three years old, she's a German shepherd and we got
old dogs. We got like ten year old's, twelve year olds,
(09:34):
foster fails, dogs that have been with you know, with
us since the start, and said, this dog's just a
bundle of joy, always wants to be around the people,
like what's love up on you? And all these other
dogs are like, what the fuck? Who is this stealing
all of our thunder? But she recently got spained right
before she came to us, so she's got to wear
(09:56):
the cone of shame and she just runs into you
notes to like that it's on her head and just
like hit you in the ship. It's not as bad
as like a razor scooter to the leg right with
a good head full of steam and positivity, which she's
always like running like happily to come say hey, and
she just gives you the old mee knocker with the cone.
(10:18):
It's like, but she's on the men, so you come
off the cone and saying she sleeps in the kennel,
she loves walks, she loves people. So if anybody is
a GSD, as we've been told, that's the phrase for
people that like German Shepherd dogs. They they just use
the abbreviation because life's too short to type out what
(10:40):
kind of breed the dog is, but if you were
looking from one, we have a three year old that
I swear to God as pure breath as fuck. She
doesn't look well. She's a little thin, maybe due to
living circumstances, but don't you worry. If I know how
to do anything, it's bulk a dog up. And I
don't mean we're going to the gym. I mean she's
(11:01):
getting some fucking New York State strips. She's getting that
fat off a river. I mean the strip She's getting
the whole kit kaboodle, chewing bites, the Rivi. We're gonna
share the love and with July fourth. This weekend it's
grilling and chilling. You need a dog like al She
and el they're like vacuums. They'll fucking eat anything. I
(11:22):
mean fucking spinach. We were giving them raw lettuce and
carrots last night, which by the way, are safe for dogs.
But this weekend they'll be able to spend the holiday
celebrating all the same and be able to put a
little couple of lbs on her. But she's a sweetheart, dude,
So okay.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Always with this upcoming weekend, you gotta worry about the
dog anxiety shut out.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's like, but we still have some leftover from our
last dog or something. Maybe it's Rocos from last July fourth,
but we got some something that just kind of puts
their mom and body at ease. I think it's like
a Percocet makes of his ax because I think it's
meant for like when you come out of surgery, but
it may just be so that you don't like try
(12:09):
to chew. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's like a modern day for dogs.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, the case that may chop ups in those tags
try out pop like twelve of them. But uh yeah,
Trasi for fucking the fourth of July. I mean it's
a Necessityismo.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Did y'all have l flast fourth of July?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
She's so deaf though she's an old dog, she'll just
like she doesn't give a fuck. Rocco, on the other hand,
gives Miny a fox and so I feel bad for him.
And then obviously we don't know just yet. When you
were a kid, what age did you start popping off fireworks?
Was it a day or two before? Did you test
(12:54):
out one or two as soon as you got back
from the White trash shed, Like how what what's the
method that have? Uh? What's the protocol the standard operating procedure?
Like are you allowed to dip your toe in the
water before the fourth.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Well, I feel like there were some differences here, Like
when we were kids too, we would just have a
bunch of black cats, Like it didn't matter the time
of year or time of day, Like if we had
black cats, whether us we were gonna like those motherfuckers
on fire or like the m eighties.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The eighties and a portage on or an Aunt Ben.
I mean, we were sweat to god. We're not psychopaths
or destructive, but we were just bored rednecks. And that's
what Southern people do. They're like, oh, you want to
blow something up? Or maybe about fire or drink by
a body of water. Those were the three hobbies everyone
had from the ages of eleven to forty eleven. Like
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our friends' dads used to be, like you into a
Roman candle fight in the backyard, Like fuck yeah. But
now now as a homeowner with dogs that you know,
I'm not a vet and I obviously empathize with them,
but Jesus Christ, I feel so bad for all dog
owners and kind of like pet owners and that this sweet.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I would say.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I would say the like, if you know, if you're
like a family of assuming fireworks doing like you know,
if you want to get out and test some maybe
the day before.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The third, that's fair game. Like don't be firing them
on Sunday night the thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Dude, They've been going off over here this week and
I saw like big ones going off this weekend from
like way way down the ways, and I'm just curious,
like why why are why are there so many different
fireworks shows not on July fourth, Like if you're doing
a big production, it's the fourth or nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I feel like the Rockies and a few others
can capitalize on family nights, right doing like a third
and a fourth or like hey, come through for the
third and then at the fourth through sparklers in your
backyard with brons and beers, or you know if the Rockies,
like we sucked so much ass that it's like the
nights when you do fireworks are the number one sellouts.
(15:06):
And then when you do like Burder, you know, dollar
hot all night, and then it depends on the await
like Dodgers, Cubs, Yankees, met all those teams. Cardinals, if
they're in town, no sell. But if it's the fucking
Cincinnati Reds, You're like, let's do four nights of fireworks.
We got to sell some goddamn tickets because our team
is miserable. Yeah, oh well, Chris, I know that we
(15:29):
kind of both had up and down weekends. Obviously dogged forward.
But you know, there was some news over the weekend
that broke in the Colorado hospitality industry, and really it
kind of touches to the the larger points of what's
going on in the across the country, and that is
there was a local content creator who was doing a
(15:49):
collaboration with some breakfast diner down in the DTC, which
obviously I don't know them, or you know, going out
of our way to a diner that far'll be tough
for us justifying. So I don't know anything about the restaurant,
but Caesar the unfocused Foody posted on social media and
then it took wind on Reddit, and I feel like,
(16:12):
you know, most of the blog folks posted about it,
restaurant tours posted about it. But he was tabbing out,
getting pennied out because he wanted to tip the staff
of this restaurant after getting a meal to talk about online,
and one of the staffers typed in lamigra, which is,
you know, a connotation directly associated with the ice situation
(16:33):
that's going on across the country. And Caesar happens to
be Hispanic and are of Hispanic origin whatever, maybe Mexican,
but all the same, he was like, excuse me, uh
the fuck? And I think he probably said it with
a little more kouth than that. And the staffer, from
(16:55):
my understanding from what we've read online and has been
that they did not handle it at all, like properly
in any capacity. And you know, we've done podcast episodes
where it's a p R one oh one for fucking
idiot restaurant tours, but this post obviously went viral for
the lack of couth the restaurant handle handled the situation
(17:18):
with as well as the situation itself. And I thought
Caesar handled it with unbelievable amounts of grace by trying
to give like he told his truth, which you know,
he tried to make sure that all the details were
available to those that were following along with the social
media campaign are talking about the incident that happened with
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this restaurant that he had previously worked at, so it's
not like it's a one and done, and he just
got like, what the fuck, Like he obviously either knew
the team or like knew that the food was good.
He had gone back, and the restaurant just totally not
only made him feel inferior and less than him, but
their first response was just fucking atrocious. Had somebody even
(18:02):
called them out that it was a fucking chant gpt answer,
which I know you're King of the AI, but you
had to have seen this story that was going viral
through the local community over the weekend about the insensitivity
and how the restaurant handled it.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, and you know, I mean, fuck, maybe we should
start an online school just pr one oh one the basics,
because like, I don't know how many times this has
to keep happening. And granted, like restaurant owners and stuff,
they can't always necessarily predict the actions of their employees
(18:38):
or how their employees will handle situations. But the second
you hear about that, you just, I mean, just come
out right away and just say all you really need
to do is say I'm sorry, we are looking internally
to fix fix things and we will you know, get
(18:59):
back to you soon or something like that. It doesn't
have to be some long winded, you know, apology where
you go in depth about all these different things. Just
flat out come out and say, I'm sorry, that type
of behavior is inexcusable, we do not tolerate that, and.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
We are going to come up with a plan to
correct this, and then like I'm glad you later on.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You can always be like, hey, here's what we've been
doing to work.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
To show that it's not just uh, you know, face
you know stuff like you know, lip service, I think
is the term. And realistically they did exactly that. So
at the time of this recording, they came out with
the new post that had a little bit more empathy
that addressed Caesar directly apologized to him, talked about what
they're doing currently to correct so that this issue doesn't
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happen again, but also having all hands on deck meetings
talking about like is it what do we need DEI
training because they, you know, like other folks had come
to their defense that restaurants will sometimes use some sort
of code and some kind of dialect to put a
ticket in so that a back of house member would
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know if they maybe were an undocumented worker, that maybe
somebody was in the restaurant that came from Homeland Security
or ICE or any of those fucking cunts, and so
that was some folks defense, but realistically, there's no excuse
for you know, someone you've not only worked with in
the past, but how the staffers handled it. But today
(20:31):
they made you know, strides in that direction by letting
everyone know they let go of the person. They had
meetings of their general managers, managers. They've made sure that
it's not on their POS systems going forward, and that
it was in fact an isolated incident and that it's
not something that's on all of their POS systems, which
makes it harder to believe that that first instance could
(20:53):
be the case. But at the same time, they both
like I think Caesar handled it unbelievable, like with Grace
and was like, hey, look, this happened. This should not
be allowed to happen, especially in a time like now.
But he's also left a door open for conversation and
you know, like trying to make sure that you know,
(21:15):
someone doesn't just like lose everyone doesn't lose their livelihood
over the actions of one asshole or somebody that may
be so indecent they don't have any kouth, and so
it was it was kind of tumultuous. The postment very viral.
It was all over local feeds here in town. And
so we just want to let season know that we
stay with ya. We thought you handled it beautifully and
(21:37):
we hope that the restaurant does in fact, like Chris said,
show you know their actions rather than don't just talk
about it, be about it and that you know, because
like other posts on their page are promoting you know,
folks of Hispanic or backgrounds promoting dishes on their ve
you and it's like, are you fucking tone death? Like
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read the fucking room. You really have people working in
your house that think lesser than of other people on
your team, Like fuck out of here. So it broke
my heart, but you know, it needs to be called out.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And it's just wild to that to the person who
ever did this, like just take a minute and like seriously,
like think about what it is you did and what
you were thinking about during that time, because like there's
no there's no reason for it, and I mean, it
doesn't it doesn't accomplish anything, and it's not funny it's just.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You're showing your bigotry and it helps rude. It is,
it's bad, and you know, it sucks that the way
that it came about because had they used that a
time or two before and it had been noticed by
somebody that was you know, unsuspecting or didn't you know,
was it paying attention and just put their card down,
like had they been derogatory towards other guests, and they
(22:59):
just now got called out on it because somebody had
a platform, you know, a larger platform, and so yeah,
it hurts your heart that, but obviously we see it
fucking every day. I mean, let's look at the fucking
federal level. We just passed fifty one to fifty with
that fucking big awful bill whatever they want to call it,
they can that just strips people of their livelihood healthcare,
(23:22):
and raises costs from everything from electricity to the cost
of food. So, I mean, seriously, there's the evil all
across this world, and now they're starting to kind of
show their colors here in the country. So hopefully we
can kind of weed that out. But you know, Chris,
why don't we do Let's do a refresher, Let's take
an edible. Let's do happy thoughts, let's talk happy things.
(23:43):
Speaking of happy things, we would be remiss if we
didn't give a shout out to our friends over at
Flower Union Edibles. I don't know if y'all saw on
social media. You can follow on Flower Union. They have
got a new campaign me and launch with a litany
of different flavor profiles that still have you know, full
integrity of fruit turpens as well as cannabis. You can
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tell that they're using the real ingredients and not those
bullshit fake turps like a truffle oil is to food.
They're making sure they skip out on all of those
bullshit ingredients and their edibles, and you can find them
all across the community. I snagged mine at Oasis you
heard us talk about earlier. That's where we get our flower.
I get my edibles at Oasis and I get flower.
(24:27):
Those things are my bread and butter. They're twenty five
bucks out the fucking door, and they have new strains
and flavors popping up every single fucking fuck. Shout out
the Flower Union.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Do what kind of flavors are you working with on
those edibles?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Do they have?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What? This one is just my basic balance the cream
smoothie where they have a lit the new ones. They
had one one what was it a muscadine Chris. It
tastes like you're having a wine go and it gave
me the effects of the bowl. Fact perfect. But they
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have a litey of different ones and they'll be doing
fun collabse with people not only from the hospitality industry,
but with the cannabis industry as well, finding great sources
of cannabis products. So you know you're getting a quality ingredient.
It says it right there on the back. This is
from Egozi you can. I mean, they're wonderful. We thoroughly
recommend them. They're a clean head change. Everyone in Aspen
(25:23):
loved them. Chefs, partiers, i mean, business professionals. Nobody was
turned away. People kept asking from all the day. Two.
So shout out to our friends over at Flower Union, Chris.
Let's talk about some positive things.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Well, if you're really smaller, you'll pick up a few
a few pouches of that before this weekend if you're
going up to folsom Field.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, I mean, there's you can see it on our
social media. There's a little survivor pack of things that
you carry in a fanny pack to fish. It's I
got debate pin from fat Grams. I got some flour
and rolling papers from a Rocky. I got ten of
flowered Union edibles. I've got no racan because it's better
to have and not need the need and not half.
(26:08):
I've got chapsticks, a liquid IV. That's a sleeper right there.
Mix it in with the water because it's gonna be
hot as the motherfucking dickens this weekend. That's a little
sleeper right there. But let's before we start talking about
fish stuff. Let's talk about what you're doing. Your motherfucking
ass is headed across the border.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Dude, So jazz about this because really it's it's crazy.
Like the only place I've been to in Mexico is
Mexico City and Chhuahua. But that's a different story.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But when you're a drug runner, yeah nice back in
the day and everybody did it, it was not a
big deal. It was a quick way to make fifteen
hundred bucks. Is either that or sell sperm mixed with
plasma aka plasma And you're gonna do that once every
ninety days.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I know, right, But no, so I uh, I'm going
to this place called Toto Santo's And so you fly
into Cabo and then it's about an hour and a
half drive from Cabo up north, so you're you know,
you're on that you're on the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It's more of that Baja area.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
And I guess, come to find out, I think Hotel
California is in this town.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
So you hate the Eagles Man?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Fuck that.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Had a rough day? Can I just hear anything but
the fucking Eagles Man?
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Jesus Christ the version of Hotel California, and that movie
is great.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Anyways, I didn't mean a railroad the conversation. So you're
gonna be in the same location as the Hotel California.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
It's it's somewhere in those parts. So I think we're
gonna go there for a drink one night or something.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Get picks outside and the inside be a good old
fashioned OBG. Why I want to see the guns?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I will?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I will, but yeah, no, So we're staying at this
kind of hotel. There's gonna be a big crew of
us going down with my wife's family and stuff. But
it looks like it's going to be a pretty cool
little getaway. Like we've got fire pits on the beach.
I think they've got like a Batchi ball court down there.
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They've got they've got horseback riding and stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
All of the beach is a bochi ball course. That's
literally what the part of bachi is. You just chunk
that white ball over there. I know that our friends
go chasing.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I think they have like a whole like official setup,
but apparently they have a lot of they have a
lot of farm land and stuff. And then one day
we'll go into town. So I plan on bringing back
a couple bottles of some A gave spirits that you
can't find here.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yes, I need a new one. Please bring you one.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I sat on that bottle of rope Pisada the rest
Posada rope Berto's Menscal from Mexico City for like a
solid year because I just didn't want to, like, I know,
I lost some evaporation and I was trying to like
just seal it with a condom. I was like, please know,
because I can't find that ship anywhere, and I'm not
sure if they fucking ship that ship to the States,
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and I hadn't found it in Colorado. So I do
need you to mule me some stuff back like your
Chihuabo days.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yes I will, but yeah, I'm looking forward to getting
away like Friday to Tuesday. I'm feeling good about my
chances sitting on a beach getting real liquored up.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
You canna take some mushrooms down?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, I mean some medicine. Yeah, it goes to my doctor.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Fuck, it goes in the bag with Tom's because it
helps with stomach aches.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That's exactly true. And we've already done the power ranking
of like places to eat, medicine and the beach definitely.
Even when we did the poland it was number one,
Red Rocks was third and number two was the mountains.
Because it really is perfect. It makes just like a
tranquil environment, a tranquil environment where your feet are levitating,
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or colors blur together, or.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Although the one thing that gets me that is like,
I'm not sure how cold the water is going to be.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
The PACIFICA is a bitch, Chris. We grew up on
a totally different body of waters. So they may say
some words about you. I'm gonna need you just hold
it up. For the whole South and for the Rocky
Mountain region. I mean, we got rivers like this, lakes
like this. It's not a big deal. But where I
come from, the beach is much crisp or sand. That's
how you have to say it, like create dominance. But
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it sounds like you've got a great weekend in storm
and we'll see that's calling down. I've seen you trying
to run. You're like, fucking baby, what's it called? Well,
you won't be missing too much here. It's only one
hundred and four degrees with four days of woods and
quilted pants and yeah and Pa truly Nicholson and Fish
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is coming to Folsom every year. They usually do dicks
Fish dicks. From the first year I moved here twenty
eleven until last year Labor Day they celebrated here in Denver.
This year they've grown to a larger capacity and they
probably saw what den and Code did last year was like, shit,
we're leaving money on the table because we could easily
sell thirty or forty thousand tickets. Instead of attend to twenty,
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you get a dix and to twenty. Maybe exaggerating, but
and so anyways, Folsom will be decked out and fish.
I did shake down last year with the Dead and
Coast shows there, it's going to be a vibe. And
what I've learned about this year is not only is
the Esters moving their party from the Virginia Park location,
which was very close to Commerce City, they're now doing
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it at their st Fest, which was on Labor Day
last year, is this year on July fourth weekend. Every
day they throw a big ass party in their parking lot,
and then they have buses shuttle all these spun yours
up to Boulder and then bring you back so you
have a safe ride to and fro. You usually get
a little couple of perks with having to pass, whether
it's beverages on the bus before after, et cetera, or
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if it's something in the restaurant before you go. I
don't know the full details, so I don't want to
speak out of pocket, but s Fest is a great
place to pregame, even if you're not riding the bus.
They're gonna have so much fucking party going down and
they usually have live music. They have vendors set up,
all of the owners I mean funk. The whole bar
is a fish named bar. It's the place you want
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a pregame if you're here in town. But the Boulder
food community has really leaned into it this year. And
so you know, obviously they have got sun Dance coming
next year, They've got Deadko that came this past year,
and so they're like, hey, how do we capitalize on
this influx of people coming up to Boulder, whether if
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it's only for four to five six hours or if
it's for the whole weekend and they're coming from out
of town, which you probably get a hodgepodge of both.
But the restaurant seat has really gotten fucking behind. If
you're gonna stay up there, here's a couple tips. We
talked about our survival kit earlier. You definitely want to
have your flower union. You want to go by Nobo
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if you're staying in Denver. They have the best prices
on fatgrounds, they have a great selection of dabs, their
flower game is fucking strong as shit, and they keep
building out their edible program over there too. So check
them out. Nobo's at nine to seventy Lincoln. But fill
up your fucking fanny pack. But if you're going up
there with an appetite, I mean, here's a couple of
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restaurants if you're staying up there. Go to Black Belly
one day to get a burrito, go to Dry Storage
one day to get their breakfast, like Croissants. Their their
bakery game is second to none. The grains they use,
they're all there, They're all theyres. But they also have
owned the Geary breakfast pizzas things of that nature and
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coffee and a fun patio, and it gets you away
from like the Pearl Street area. Check those out for breakfast.
If you want to do lunch, I mean, obviously I
would say probably places like your Jungles, your zoo Mans,
your pastages right there on the main drag. But you
can also go to Seabar, the new burger spot that's
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by the same family from Karita. You could go to Barkeeta,
which is one block off of Pearl Street. And obviously
pizzeria what is it, Alberico is what it is? Yeah, yeah,
which is the Frosca group. So if you're looking for
casual munchies, those are all great options. What were you
(34:45):
about to say, Ceb, I.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Was gonna say, I've been thinking about this place for
a while and I've been meaning to get back up there.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
But Ephrans, Oh yeah, yeah, they're also Moose.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I think they have I think they have like a
like Boulder Boulder location, Now, yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I remember I.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Think we used to have to drive out towards Longmont
maybe uh yeah, yeah that's.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Where it was. But man, that place, I remember. I
used to love going there.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I think Audrey introduced me too when we were roommates
and we would always go and get the Fray burrito
and a pink Cadillac margarita and does fucking slap.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You're not wrong, And I mean, realistically, there's so much
dankcass food up and Boulder. We don't go up there
all the goddamn time, so we can't speak as eloquently.
But I mean even they have an Avanti up there
with the crowd is not as bad as the one
in Denver. And then you have a variety of food
like boy check for Mediterranean New York. KISSI up on
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the top floor has great views and a kick ass pizza.
There's a full bar up there, but there's a lot
of vibes you can hit off. And then I think,
you know, we don't like to give them a little
flowers often because we don't support them. But mister OsO,
the Boulder edition is doing late night venues so you
can get food late night, and I think a lot
of restaurants are leaning into that as well. So if
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you're going up, it's obviously gonna be a jaunt. It's
to be hot as the Dickens shake down Street well
obviously have fucking very middle tier food with hands and
having been washed, so your mouth may go numb, which
is kind of cool. But at the same time, you
can get a cheese, you know, you can get a
grilled cheese there, or you can go to you know,
the Organic Sammy, or go to Mountain Sun and pre game,
(36:34):
either which way depending on what your cup of team
may be. But Boulder is the place to be this weekend,
whether you're going up for a short jaunt or the
whole weekend. Vulder is gonna be popping off with the fish.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, that will be fun.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You aren't going to I may go one night, and
that's kind of how I've done it the last couple
of years. Like last year I did Sunday when the
fucking show got delayed because the lightning, and I was like, God,
damn it, I'm tired already, So you know, I've lost
my fastball in terms of doing four night runs. But
you know, we just talked about doing a three night
run in Aspen, and my July is a fucking loaded docket,
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so I got to pick my battles a little better.
We'll probably do a grill and chill on the fourth
and then so Thursday, maybe Saturday. Thursday's looking like the
day for me if I'm going to go so TVD,
But I think everybody else and their mom will be
up and Boulder this weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, this should be a good time.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah, well, Mexico will be a good time and we
hope everybody has a great time after the holidays. CB
is back on Tuesday. We'll get a recap from Mexico,
and next week we'll start our interview series again. We've
got both great local people as well as chefs, restaurant
tours award winners from around the country that will be
picking their brain not only about the hospitality industry, the
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cannabis industry, but also so just life in general. So
we're about to get into that dog days of summer
where we pick up the slack where all of our
sports podcast friends cannot deliver any anything, So anything we
miss Chris.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Uh No, but I am excited.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I was looking at this menu down in Tota Santos
and on the wineless they had mechs net, which is
just like Mexican pat Net.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Can't wait to get my lips on some of that.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I mean, I feel like city to bring a bottle
home for us, those ones with the lucidor masks on
the bottles, and they're all like hand drawn. There's a
brand that does like different variations based off the great
but the Mexican natural wind seing or biodynamic wine scene
has really, like I feel like it's grabbed a stranglehold
(38:49):
in the industry. You can find it in a lot
more of our progressive, smaller wine shops that kind of
lean into that biodynamicsy And I think Troy over a
Noble Riot probably has a few his menu too. So
we're gonna need you to come back educated, hand and
buried gifts if that's okay with you.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, absolutely, I got you.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Hey until next week, y'all, we want to say thanks
to our sponsors, thanks to the community that reached out
and said all those kind of things to Chris and
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We appreciate all y'all support. Until next week, y'all have
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Hungry, adopt, don't shop.
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as well. Without further ado, let's dive into the week
of July fourth episode cheers the suppression of.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The use of marijuana and is looking behind it the
most talking jobs talking.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The records on marijuana and.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The Washington Office is a narcotic vision.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Actually building mall corner like that today they built pattern.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, Coloradians and everyone that's mort enough
to listen from the outside. One of the most amazing
plants we've ever discovered.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The pot poking, the trippers, the glasstops, the hip books,
all gathered in secrecy and flying high as a company.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another week of stolen
up a tete with your host. As always, it's me
kipping across the compute tron. I got all CBCB you
packed the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm getting there. I'm so ready for this vacation, though
I cannot tell.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You well how you been thus far, just through the
week early on, you know, started July. How's look?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I mean obviously you know this past week with
losing uh my bestist friend besides you of course, yeah, no, yeah,
you know, like I don't know it just number one,
I would like to say that like shout out to
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the community that we built around here, and all the
kind words that were said. I read through all of
them and they were all very nice, and some of
the ones that I loved the most were like how
he may have influenced that person to get a dog
or something like that, because that happened with Steph's brothers
and sister in law, Like they kept Chocko while we
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were at the wedding and they ended up.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Getting a lab.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
So, you know it, it feels good to hear people
who knew him or met him say kind words, because
he really was a sweetheart. But yeah, man, I don't
think you know, you obviously experienced it with Jerry. But
I don't think anything prepares you, even as you know
the time is nearing. I don't think anything can really
(05:06):
quite you know, prepare you for that moment when the
decisions made. And you know, I don't think I think
we're I think we were both pretty lucky to have our.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Dogs for so long.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I don't know if if some people always get to
experience that, like ten plus years with one dog, but damn,
I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He lived with me through so much.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And it definitely like I feel just kind of like meh,
you know, like like I mean, like it's like I'm sad,
but I cried so much on Friday that I can't
even muster up any tears, Like I don't think it's
physically possible anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But like now I'm just.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Left with this like gap, and and it really sucks.
Like I think yesterday working from home was one of
the worst things ever because like you know, when I'm
sitting here, you come in and lay in the office
right beside me, and you're you're just I don't know
when it's when they've been with you that long, you're
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just so used you never even think about them not
being there.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So that's it. And you know, I think what we
were talking about the other day, it was and well said,
it was like you missed the clack of lacking that
comes in the door. You know. It's like they nudge
like pardon my you know French, but like when you're
taking a shit and they like nudge in the door,
like what are you doing in here? Okay, I haven't
heard from you in a few minutes, and I hate
to be crude, but it's like those small things that
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when that doesn't happen, it reminds you. So, yeah, you're
kind of basking in a fart, you know, and that's
why you're just like in a funk. You're like, I
got it. And so yeah, you notice it when you're
more around the house. But it makes you, you know,
it makes you appreciate the good times and at least
he's not in pain anymore, and those are one of
the joys, you know. And then you just get you
(07:01):
get to think all the positives and how many folks
he affected the community and in our friends circle and
you know, in the family. It's just it breaks your heart.
But at the same time, he's probably at peace now
and so that we get a little joy out of
that and being able to be with him, you know,
on his final days rather than it happening, you know,
God forbid the week before or the week after when
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you know you're headed out of town. And so at
least you were like with him when it happened, because
I feel like that gives you the opportunity to kind
of create or have find that resolution. So I'm glad
you're feeling well blah An it's you know, it's not
gonna I think. You know, you do the ugly cry
of the shower like a week later, and you know,
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like you just got to keep getting it out. It's
like rinsing out your underwear when you're you know, it's
like still a little bit wet.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, it's it's gonna be bad, Like next time I
fire up the grill or something outside because he always
like used to love to come out there and lay
in the grass and just grill and then maybe drool
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But yeah, So everybody just hug your dog a little
tighter this evening, That.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is for sure. That is for sure. Speaking of hugging dogs, Chris,
I got another one. We For those that don't keep
up with the podcast regularly or maybe just recently, John
Dawn after our bullshit Antics and Aspen, don't worry we'll
have guests coming down the pike as soon as Chris
gets back. We're kind of in that busy season both
(08:30):
with work and life. We're traveling all over the goddamn place,
and we have a lot of cool life things going on,
so we haven't been able to jump on and I
kind of flicking the wrist of when our guests maybe
have free time to chat. But once Chris gets back,
once I get settled as well, well, we'll hit the
ground running with guests. But for those that are tuning
(08:51):
in for really if not ever, and then are here today,
we foster dogs, preferably senior dogs. This one is not
a senior dog, Chris. It's like a three to four
year old German shepherd that came from like a mother's
breeding farm kind of thing in Houston. What we do
is we try to help save dogs that are on
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the ethanasia list, and Colorado usually has a pretty quick
turnaround on adoption times, so we just try to help
facilitate that conversation and we use the platforms available to
us to help promote dogs that are in need. This
new one that it's a real piece of work. She's
three years old, she's a German shepherd and we got
old dogs. We got like ten year old's, twelve year olds,
(09:34):
foster fails, dogs that have been with you know, with
us since the start, and said, this dog's just a
bundle of joy, always wants to be around the people,
like what's love up on you? And all these other
dogs are like, what the fuck? Who is this stealing
all of our thunder? But she recently got spained right
before she came to us, so she's got to wear
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the cone of shame and she just runs into you
notes to like that it's on her head and just
like hit you in the ship. It's not as bad
as like a razor scooter to the leg right with
a good head full of steam and positivity, which she's
always like running like happily to come say hey, and
she just gives you the old mee knocker with the cone.
(10:18):
It's like, but she's on the men, so you come
off the cone and saying she sleeps in the kennel,
she loves walks, she loves people. So if anybody is
a GSD, as we've been told, that's the phrase for
people that like German Shepherd dogs. They they just use
the abbreviation because life's too short to type out what
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kind of breed the dog is, but if you were
looking from one, we have a three year old that
I swear to God as pure breath as fuck. She
doesn't look well. She's a little thin, maybe due to
living circumstances, but don't you worry. If I know how
to do anything, it's bulk a dog up. And I
don't mean we're going to the gym. I mean she's
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getting some fucking New York State strips. She's getting that
fat off a river. I mean the strip She's getting
the whole kit kaboodle, chewing bites, the Rivi. We're gonna
share the love and with July fourth. This weekend it's
grilling and chilling. You need a dog like al She
and el they're like vacuums. They'll fucking eat anything. I
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mean fucking spinach. We were giving them raw lettuce and
carrots last night, which by the way, are safe for dogs.
But this weekend they'll be able to spend the holiday
celebrating all the same and be able to put a
little couple of lbs on her. But she's a sweetheart, dude,
So okay.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Always with this upcoming weekend, you gotta worry about the
dog anxiety shut out.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's like, but we still have some leftover from our
last dog or something. Maybe it's Rocos from last July fourth,
but we got some something that just kind of puts
their mom and body at ease. I think it's like
a Percocet makes of his ax because I think it's
meant for like when you come out of surgery, but
it may just be so that you don't like try
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to chew. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's like a modern day for dogs.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, the case that may chop ups in those tags
try out pop like twelve of them. But uh yeah,
Trasi for fucking the fourth of July. I mean it's
a Necessityismo.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Did y'all have l flast fourth of July?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
She's so deaf though she's an old dog, she'll just
like she doesn't give a fuck. Rocco, on the other hand,
gives Miny a fox and so I feel bad for him.
And then obviously we don't know just yet. When you
were a kid, what age did you start popping off fireworks?
Was it a day or two before? Did you test
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out one or two as soon as you got back
from the White trash shed, Like how what what's the
method that have? Uh? What's the protocol the standard operating procedure?
Like are you allowed to dip your toe in the
water before the fourth.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Well, I feel like there were some differences here, Like
when we were kids too, we would just have a
bunch of black cats, Like it didn't matter the time
of year or time of day, Like if we had
black cats, whether us we were gonna like those motherfuckers
on fire or like the m eighties.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The eighties and a portage on or an Aunt Ben.
I mean, we were sweat to god. We're not psychopaths
or destructive, but we were just bored rednecks. And that's
what Southern people do. They're like, oh, you want to
blow something up? Or maybe about fire or drink by
a body of water. Those were the three hobbies everyone
had from the ages of eleven to forty eleven. Like
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our friends' dads used to be, like you into a
Roman candle fight in the backyard, Like fuck yeah. But
now now as a homeowner with dogs that you know,
I'm not a vet and I obviously empathize with them,
but Jesus Christ, I feel so bad for all dog
owners and kind of like pet owners and that this sweet.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I would say.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I would say the like, if you know, if you're
like a family of assuming fireworks doing like you know,
if you want to get out and test some maybe
the day before.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The third, that's fair game. Like don't be firing them
on Sunday night the thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Dude, They've been going off over here this week and
I saw like big ones going off this weekend from
like way way down the ways, and I'm just curious,
like why why are why are there so many different
fireworks shows not on July fourth, Like if you're doing
a big production, it's the fourth or nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I feel like the Rockies and a few others
can capitalize on family nights, right doing like a third
and a fourth or like hey, come through for the
third and then at the fourth through sparklers in your
backyard with brons and beers, or you know if the Rockies,
like we sucked so much ass that it's like the
nights when you do fireworks are the number one sellouts.
(15:06):
And then when you do like Burder, you know, dollar
hot all night, and then it depends on the await
like Dodgers, Cubs, Yankees, met all those teams. Cardinals, if
they're in town, no sell. But if it's the fucking
Cincinnati Reds, You're like, let's do four nights of fireworks.
We got to sell some goddamn tickets because our team
is miserable. Yeah, oh well, Chris, I know that we
(15:29):
kind of both had up and down weekends. Obviously dogged forward.
But you know, there was some news over the weekend
that broke in the Colorado hospitality industry, and really it
kind of touches to the the larger points of what's
going on in the across the country, and that is
there was a local content creator who was doing a
(15:49):
collaboration with some breakfast diner down in the DTC, which
obviously I don't know them, or you know, going out
of our way to a diner that far'll be tough
for us justifying. So I don't know anything about the restaurant,
but Caesar the unfocused Foody posted on social media and
then it took wind on Reddit, and I feel like,
(16:12):
you know, most of the blog folks posted about it,
restaurant tours posted about it. But he was tabbing out,
getting pennied out because he wanted to tip the staff
of this restaurant after getting a meal to talk about online,
and one of the staffers typed in lamigra, which is,
you know, a connotation directly associated with the ice situation
(16:33):
that's going on across the country. And Caesar happens to
be Hispanic and are of Hispanic origin whatever, maybe Mexican,
but all the same, he was like, excuse me, uh
the fuck? And I think he probably said it with
a little more kouth than that. And the staffer, from
(16:55):
my understanding from what we've read online and has been
that they did not handle it at all, like properly
in any capacity. And you know, we've done podcast episodes
where it's a p R one oh one for fucking
idiot restaurant tours, but this post obviously went viral for
the lack of couth the restaurant handle handled the situation
(17:18):
with as well as the situation itself. And I thought
Caesar handled it with unbelievable amounts of grace by trying
to give like he told his truth, which you know,
he tried to make sure that all the details were
available to those that were following along with the social
media campaign are talking about the incident that happened with
(17:39):
this restaurant that he had previously worked at, so it's
not like it's a one and done, and he just
got like, what the fuck, Like he obviously either knew
the team or like knew that the food was good.
He had gone back, and the restaurant just totally not
only made him feel inferior and less than him, but
their first response was just fucking atrocious. Had somebody even
(18:02):
called them out that it was a fucking chant gpt answer,
which I know you're King of the AI, but you
had to have seen this story that was going viral
through the local community over the weekend about the insensitivity
and how the restaurant handled it.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, and you know, I mean, fuck, maybe we should
start an online school just pr one oh one the basics,
because like, I don't know how many times this has
to keep happening. And granted, like restaurant owners and stuff,
they can't always necessarily predict the actions of their employees
(18:38):
or how their employees will handle situations. But the second
you hear about that, you just, I mean, just come
out right away and just say all you really need
to do is say I'm sorry, we are looking internally
to fix fix things and we will you know, get
(18:59):
back to you soon or something like that. It doesn't
have to be some long winded, you know, apology where
you go in depth about all these different things. Just
flat out come out and say, I'm sorry, that type
of behavior is inexcusable, we do not tolerate that, and.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
We are going to come up with a plan to
correct this, and then like I'm glad you later on.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You can always be like, hey, here's what we've been
doing to work.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
To show that it's not just uh, you know, face
you know stuff like you know, lip service, I think
is the term. And realistically they did exactly that. So
at the time of this recording, they came out with
the new post that had a little bit more empathy
that addressed Caesar directly apologized to him, talked about what
they're doing currently to correct so that this issue doesn't
(19:49):
happen again, but also having all hands on deck meetings
talking about like is it what do we need DEI
training because they, you know, like other folks had come
to their defense that restaurants will sometimes use some sort
of code and some kind of dialect to put a
ticket in so that a back of house member would
(20:09):
know if they maybe were an undocumented worker, that maybe
somebody was in the restaurant that came from Homeland Security
or ICE or any of those fucking cunts, and so
that was some folks defense, but realistically, there's no excuse
for you know, someone you've not only worked with in
the past, but how the staffers handled it. But today
(20:31):
they made you know, strides in that direction by letting
everyone know they let go of the person. They had
meetings of their general managers, managers. They've made sure that
it's not on their POS systems going forward, and that
it was in fact an isolated incident and that it's
not something that's on all of their POS systems, which
makes it harder to believe that that first instance could
(20:53):
be the case. But at the same time, they both
like I think Caesar handled it unbelievable, like with Grace
and was like, hey, look, this happened. This should not
be allowed to happen, especially in a time like now.
But he's also left a door open for conversation and
you know, like trying to make sure that you know,
(21:15):
someone doesn't just like lose everyone doesn't lose their livelihood
over the actions of one asshole or somebody that may
be so indecent they don't have any kouth, and so
it was it was kind of tumultuous. The postment very viral.
It was all over local feeds here in town. And
so we just want to let season know that we
stay with ya. We thought you handled it beautifully and
(21:37):
we hope that the restaurant does in fact, like Chris said,
show you know their actions rather than don't just talk
about it, be about it and that you know, because
like other posts on their page are promoting you know,
folks of Hispanic or backgrounds promoting dishes on their ve
you and it's like, are you fucking tone death? Like
(21:58):
read the fucking room. You really have people working in
your house that think lesser than of other people on
your team, Like fuck out of here. So it broke
my heart, but you know, it needs to be called out.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And it's just wild to that to the person who
ever did this, like just take a minute and like seriously,
like think about what it is you did and what
you were thinking about during that time, because like there's
no there's no reason for it, and I mean, it
doesn't it doesn't accomplish anything, and it's not funny it's just.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You're showing your bigotry and it helps rude. It is,
it's bad, and you know, it sucks that the way
that it came about because had they used that a
time or two before and it had been noticed by
somebody that was you know, unsuspecting or didn't you know,
was it paying attention and just put their card down,
like had they been derogatory towards other guests, and they
(22:59):
just now got called out on it because somebody had
a platform, you know, a larger platform, and so yeah,
it hurts your heart that, but obviously we see it
fucking every day. I mean, let's look at the fucking
federal level. We just passed fifty one to fifty with
that fucking big awful bill whatever they want to call it,
they can that just strips people of their livelihood healthcare,
(23:22):
and raises costs from everything from electricity to the cost
of food. So, I mean, seriously, there's the evil all
across this world, and now they're starting to kind of
show their colors here in the country. So hopefully we
can kind of weed that out. But you know, Chris,
why don't we do Let's do a refresher, Let's take
an edible. Let's do happy thoughts, let's talk happy things.
(23:43):
Speaking of happy things, we would be remiss if we
didn't give a shout out to our friends over at
Flower Union Edibles. I don't know if y'all saw on
social media. You can follow on Flower Union. They have
got a new campaign me and launch with a litany
of different flavor profiles that still have you know, full
integrity of fruit turpens as well as cannabis. You can
(24:05):
tell that they're using the real ingredients and not those
bullshit fake turps like a truffle oil is to food.
They're making sure they skip out on all of those
bullshit ingredients and their edibles, and you can find them
all across the community. I snagged mine at Oasis you
heard us talk about earlier. That's where we get our flower.
I get my edibles at Oasis and I get flower.
(24:27):
Those things are my bread and butter. They're twenty five
bucks out the fucking door, and they have new strains
and flavors popping up every single fucking fuck. Shout out
the Flower Union.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Do what kind of flavors are you working with on
those edibles?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Do they have?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What? This one is just my basic balance the cream
smoothie where they have a lit the new ones. They
had one one what was it a muscadine Chris. It
tastes like you're having a wine go and it gave
me the effects of the bowl. Fact perfect. But they
(25:02):
have a litey of different ones and they'll be doing
fun collabse with people not only from the hospitality industry,
but with the cannabis industry as well, finding great sources
of cannabis products. So you know you're getting a quality ingredient.
It says it right there on the back. This is
from Egozi you can. I mean, they're wonderful. We thoroughly
recommend them. They're a clean head change. Everyone in Aspen
(25:23):
loved them. Chefs, partiers, i mean, business professionals. Nobody was
turned away. People kept asking from all the day. Two.
So shout out to our friends over at Flower Union, Chris.
Let's talk about some positive things.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Well, if you're really smaller, you'll pick up a few
a few pouches of that before this weekend if you're
going up to folsom Field.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, I mean, there's you can see it on our
social media. There's a little survivor pack of things that
you carry in a fanny pack to fish. It's I
got debate pin from fat Grams. I got some flour
and rolling papers from a Rocky. I got ten of
flowered Union edibles. I've got no racan because it's better
to have and not need the need and not half.
(26:08):
I've got chapsticks, a liquid IV. That's a sleeper right there.
Mix it in with the water because it's gonna be
hot as the motherfucking dickens this weekend. That's a little
sleeper right there. But let's before we start talking about
fish stuff. Let's talk about what you're doing. Your motherfucking
ass is headed across the border.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Dude, So jazz about this because really it's it's crazy.
Like the only place I've been to in Mexico is
Mexico City and Chhuahua. But that's a different story.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But when you're a drug runner, yeah nice back in
the day and everybody did it, it was not a
big deal. It was a quick way to make fifteen
hundred bucks. Is either that or sell sperm mixed with
plasma aka plasma And you're gonna do that once every
ninety days.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I know, right, But no, so I uh, I'm going
to this place called Toto Santo's And so you fly
into Cabo and then it's about an hour and a
half drive from Cabo up north, so you're you know,
you're on that you're on the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It's more of that Baja area.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
And I guess, come to find out, I think Hotel
California is in this town.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
So you hate the Eagles Man?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Fuck that.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Had a rough day? Can I just hear anything but
the fucking Eagles Man?
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Jesus Christ the version of Hotel California, and that movie
is great.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Anyways, I didn't mean a railroad the conversation. So you're
gonna be in the same location as the Hotel California.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
It's it's somewhere in those parts. So I think we're
gonna go there for a drink one night or something.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Get picks outside and the inside be a good old
fashioned OBG. Why I want to see the guns?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I will?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I will, but yeah, no, So we're staying at this
kind of hotel. There's gonna be a big crew of
us going down with my wife's family and stuff. But
it looks like it's going to be a pretty cool
little getaway. Like we've got fire pits on the beach.
I think they've got like a Batchi ball court down there.
(28:23):
They've got they've got horseback riding and stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
All of the beach is a bochi ball course. That's
literally what the part of bachi is. You just chunk
that white ball over there. I know that our friends
go chasing.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I think they have like a whole like official setup,
but apparently they have a lot of they have a
lot of farm land and stuff. And then one day
we'll go into town. So I plan on bringing back
a couple bottles of some A gave spirits that you
can't find here.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yes, I need a new one. Please bring you one.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I sat on that bottle of rope Pisada the rest
Posada rope Berto's Menscal from Mexico City for like a
solid year because I just didn't want to, like, I know,
I lost some evaporation and I was trying to like
just seal it with a condom. I was like, please know,
because I can't find that ship anywhere, and I'm not
sure if they fucking ship that ship to the States,
(29:16):
and I hadn't found it in Colorado. So I do
need you to mule me some stuff back like your
Chihuabo days.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yes I will, but yeah, I'm looking forward to getting
away like Friday to Tuesday. I'm feeling good about my
chances sitting on a beach getting real liquored up.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
You canna take some mushrooms down?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, I mean some medicine. Yeah, it goes to my doctor.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Fuck, it goes in the bag with Tom's because it
helps with stomach aches.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That's exactly true. And we've already done the power ranking
of like places to eat, medicine and the beach definitely.
Even when we did the poland it was number one,
Red Rocks was third and number two was the mountains.
Because it really is perfect. It makes just like a
tranquil environment, a tranquil environment where your feet are levitating,
(30:09):
or colors blur together, or.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Although the one thing that gets me that is like,
I'm not sure how cold the water is going to be.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
The PACIFICA is a bitch, Chris. We grew up on
a totally different body of waters. So they may say
some words about you. I'm gonna need you just hold
it up. For the whole South and for the Rocky
Mountain region. I mean, we got rivers like this, lakes
like this. It's not a big deal. But where I
come from, the beach is much crisp or sand. That's
how you have to say it, like create dominance. But
(30:40):
it sounds like you've got a great weekend in storm
and we'll see that's calling down. I've seen you trying
to run. You're like, fucking baby, what's it called? Well,
you won't be missing too much here. It's only one
hundred and four degrees with four days of woods and
quilted pants and yeah and Pa truly Nicholson and Fish
(31:02):
is coming to Folsom every year. They usually do dicks
Fish dicks. From the first year I moved here twenty
eleven until last year Labor Day they celebrated here in Denver.
This year they've grown to a larger capacity and they
probably saw what den and Code did last year was like, shit,
we're leaving money on the table because we could easily
sell thirty or forty thousand tickets. Instead of attend to twenty,
(31:26):
you get a dix and to twenty. Maybe exaggerating, but
and so anyways, Folsom will be decked out and fish.
I did shake down last year with the Dead and
Coast shows there, it's going to be a vibe. And
what I've learned about this year is not only is
the Esters moving their party from the Virginia Park location,
which was very close to Commerce City, they're now doing
(31:48):
it at their st Fest, which was on Labor Day
last year, is this year on July fourth weekend. Every
day they throw a big ass party in their parking lot,
and then they have buses shuttle all these spun yours
up to Boulder and then bring you back so you
have a safe ride to and fro. You usually get
a little couple of perks with having to pass, whether
it's beverages on the bus before after, et cetera, or
(32:12):
if it's something in the restaurant before you go. I
don't know the full details, so I don't want to
speak out of pocket, but s Fest is a great
place to pregame, even if you're not riding the bus.
They're gonna have so much fucking party going down and
they usually have live music. They have vendors set up,
all of the owners I mean funk. The whole bar
is a fish named bar. It's the place you want
(32:32):
a pregame if you're here in town. But the Boulder
food community has really leaned into it this year. And
so you know, obviously they have got sun Dance coming
next year, They've got Deadko that came this past year,
and so they're like, hey, how do we capitalize on
this influx of people coming up to Boulder, whether if
(32:56):
it's only for four to five six hours or if
it's for the whole weekend and they're coming from out
of town, which you probably get a hodgepodge of both.
But the restaurant seat has really gotten fucking behind. If
you're gonna stay up there, here's a couple tips. We
talked about our survival kit earlier. You definitely want to
have your flower union. You want to go by Nobo
(33:17):
if you're staying in Denver. They have the best prices
on fatgrounds, they have a great selection of dabs, their
flower game is fucking strong as shit, and they keep
building out their edible program over there too. So check
them out. Nobo's at nine to seventy Lincoln. But fill
up your fucking fanny pack. But if you're going up
there with an appetite, I mean, here's a couple of
(33:39):
restaurants if you're staying up there. Go to Black Belly
one day to get a burrito, go to Dry Storage
one day to get their breakfast, like Croissants. Their their
bakery game is second to none. The grains they use,
they're all there, They're all theyres. But they also have
owned the Geary breakfast pizzas things of that nature and
(34:02):
coffee and a fun patio, and it gets you away
from like the Pearl Street area. Check those out for breakfast.
If you want to do lunch, I mean, obviously I
would say probably places like your Jungles, your zoo Mans,
your pastages right there on the main drag. But you
can also go to Seabar, the new burger spot that's
(34:24):
by the same family from Karita. You could go to Barkeeta,
which is one block off of Pearl Street. And obviously
pizzeria what is it, Alberico is what it is? Yeah, yeah,
which is the Frosca group. So if you're looking for
casual munchies, those are all great options. What were you
(34:45):
about to say, Ceb, I.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Was gonna say, I've been thinking about this place for
a while and I've been meaning to get back up there.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
But Ephrans, Oh yeah, yeah, they're also Moose.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I think they have I think they have like a
like Boulder Boulder location, Now, yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I remember I.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Think we used to have to drive out towards Longmont
maybe uh yeah, yeah that's.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Where it was. But man, that place, I remember. I
used to love going there.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I think Audrey introduced me too when we were roommates
and we would always go and get the Fray burrito
and a pink Cadillac margarita and does fucking slap.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You're not wrong, And I mean, realistically, there's so much
dankcass food up and Boulder. We don't go up there
all the goddamn time, so we can't speak as eloquently.
But I mean even they have an Avanti up there
with the crowd is not as bad as the one
in Denver. And then you have a variety of food
like boy check for Mediterranean New York. KISSI up on
(35:49):
the top floor has great views and a kick ass pizza.
There's a full bar up there, but there's a lot
of vibes you can hit off. And then I think,
you know, we don't like to give them a little
flowers often because we don't support them. But mister OsO,
the Boulder edition is doing late night venues so you
can get food late night, and I think a lot
of restaurants are leaning into that as well. So if
(36:12):
you're going up, it's obviously gonna be a jaunt. It's
to be hot as the Dickens shake down Street well
obviously have fucking very middle tier food with hands and
having been washed, so your mouth may go numb, which
is kind of cool. But at the same time, you
can get a cheese, you know, you can get a
grilled cheese there, or you can go to you know,
the Organic Sammy, or go to Mountain Sun and pre game,
(36:34):
either which way depending on what your cup of team
may be. But Boulder is the place to be this weekend,
whether you're going up for a short jaunt or the
whole weekend. Vulder is gonna be popping off with the fish.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, that will be fun.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You aren't going to I may go one night, and
that's kind of how I've done it the last couple
of years. Like last year I did Sunday when the
fucking show got delayed because the lightning, and I was like, God,
damn it, I'm tired already, So you know, I've lost
my fastball in terms of doing four night runs. But
you know, we just talked about doing a three night
run in Aspen, and my July is a fucking loaded docket,
(37:14):
so I got to pick my battles a little better.
We'll probably do a grill and chill on the fourth
and then so Thursday, maybe Saturday. Thursday's looking like the
day for me if I'm going to go so TVD,
But I think everybody else and their mom will be
up and Boulder this weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, this should be a good time.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah, well, Mexico will be a good time and we
hope everybody has a great time after the holidays. CB
is back on Tuesday. We'll get a recap from Mexico,
and next week we'll start our interview series again. We've
got both great local people as well as chefs, restaurant
tours award winners from around the country that will be
picking their brain not only about the hospitality industry, the
(37:58):
cannabis industry, but also so just life in general. So
we're about to get into that dog days of summer
where we pick up the slack where all of our
sports podcast friends cannot deliver any anything, So anything we
miss Chris.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Uh No, but I am excited.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I was looking at this menu down in Tota Santos
and on the wineless they had mechs net, which is
just like Mexican pat Net.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Can't wait to get my lips on some of that.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I mean, I feel like city to bring a bottle
home for us, those ones with the lucidor masks on
the bottles, and they're all like hand drawn. There's a
brand that does like different variations based off the great
but the Mexican natural wind seing or biodynamic wine scene
has really, like I feel like it's grabbed a stranglehold
(38:49):
in the industry. You can find it in a lot
more of our progressive, smaller wine shops that kind of
lean into that biodynamicsy And I think Troy over a
Noble Riot probably has a few his menu too. So
we're gonna need you to come back educated, hand and
buried gifts if that's okay with you.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, absolutely, I got you.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Hey until next week, y'all, we want to say thanks
to our sponsors, thanks to the community that reached out
and said all those kind of things to Chris and
to just voice their opinion on everything that we've been doing.
We appreciate all y'all support. Until next week, y'all have
a happy holidays and stay high, stay.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Hungry, adopt, don't shop.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Cheers, cheers,
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