Who would have thought that Noah's Ark, a legendary BBQ showdown, and an epic Left-Handers Day fail could co-exist in a single conversation? Welcome to this week’s episode of Drinks and Things! We promise it's just as fascinating as it sounds. We dissect the intriguing tales of lost continents, Atlantis, and the enigmatic 'Mini Gods of Mu', as discussed on Mysterious Universe. Amidst the mystery, we even make a daring proposition: could all known languages have a common progenitor, and does the Pacific Rim hold the key? Buckle up, because we're setting course for an enlightening journey.
Have you ever found yourself engrossed in reality TV, cringing at questionable culinary choices, and cheering for your favorite contestant? We've been there too! This week, we dish out our candid thoughts on the latest season of American Barbecue Showdown on Netflix. From the surprising production budget to the audacious use of Reaper peppers in coleslaw, we leave no stone unturned. Hear us out; it's not just BBQ talk. It's a hearty discussion on character development, strategy, and sometimes, just plain bad luck!
Finally, we share some interesting bits about supporting the show and our future plans. But every entertaining chat comes with its fair share of hilarious anecdotes, and we've got plenty! Tune in for the behind-the-scenes action as we recount our glitter bomb experiences and a certain Left Handers Day oversight. Join us for an hour of drinks, laughter, and everything in between! It's a wild ride, and we promise you won't be disappointed.
As always, you can reach us on almost any social media and email us your ghost stories at drinksandthingspodcast@gmail.com
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Who would have thought that Noah's Ark, a legendary BBQ showdown, and an epic Left-Handers Day fail could co-exist in a single conversation? Welcome to this week’s episode of Drinks and Things! We promise it's just as fascinating as it sounds. We dissect the intriguing tales of lost continents, Atlantis, and the enigmatic 'Mini Gods of Mu', as discussed on Mysterious Universe. Amidst the mystery, we even make a daring proposition: could all known languages have a common progenitor, and does the Pacific Rim hold the key? Buckle up, because we're setting course for an enlightening journey.
Have you ever found yourself engrossed in reality TV, cringing at questionable culinary choices, and cheering for your favorite contestant? We've been there too! This week, we dish out our candid thoughts on the latest season of American Barbecue Showdown on Netflix. From the surprising production budget to the audacious use of Reaper peppers in coleslaw, we leave no stone unturned. Hear us out; it's not just BBQ talk. It's a hearty discussion on character development, strategy, and sometimes, just plain bad luck!
Finally, we share some interesting bits about supporting the show and our future plans. But every entertaining chat comes with its fair share of hilarious anecdotes, and we've got plenty! Tune in for the behind-the-scenes action as we recount our glitter bomb experiences and a certain Left Handers Day oversight. Join us for an hour of drinks, laughter, and everything in between! It's a wild ride, and we promise you won't be disappointed.
As always, you can reach us on almost any social media and email us your ghost stories at drinksandthingspodcast@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/DrinksandThings
We also have a buymeacoffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/drinksnthings
Music in intro/outro by Skilsel on Pixabay
Hello and welcome to episode number 30 of Drinks and Things.
Speaker 2:Podcast where we drink and talk about things.
Speaker 1:I'm Alicia and I'm Carver. What are you drinking, Carver?
Speaker 2:I'm just drinking vodka with some sparkly water in it, but we're using these like glitter bomb things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like bath bombs for your drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure mine is the spicy margarita.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mine's like this weird rose flavored one.
Speaker 1:It's pretty good, you're not gonna lie. It's a little too spicy for me.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what to think of the rose one.
Speaker 1:We got a cool little card that doesn't match any of the colors properly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're all. They all look a little bit too weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so good effort, but it's a no for me. Dog, I'm just kidding. It's resounding as I think they're cool as fuck.
Speaker 2:They are pretty cool, but you gotta use them right, Because the first time you tried to use one it didn't go so well. What the fuck is that going on?
Speaker 1:Did he just say what I think he just said?
Speaker 2:I think so. Yeah, he said can you come give me a hug? I'm on my scooter.
Speaker 1:Amazing. I don't know what did you say before that happened?
Speaker 2:I said that you learned the hard way that there's a specific way to use these things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did. You're supposed to put the sparkling water in and then the bomb in. Wait five minutes and then put your alcohol in.
Speaker 2:I just put everything in. I just had a glass of drink and then dropped it in there and it was just like boom.
Speaker 1:I'm lucky it didn't shatter the glass.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But it just like foamed everywhere and I had a mini panic attack.
Speaker 2:I was like ah, and I looked at the instructions and I'm like Lisa did you read the instructions at all?
Speaker 1:And I was like no.
Speaker 2:No, of course not, I just fucking went for it.
Speaker 1:I just fucking did the thing, yo. So what happened for you this week? Car?
Speaker 2:This week not a whole lot. Same Pretty standard.
Speaker 1:When this episode comes out, we'll be at a wedding.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, we'll be going to a wedding at the end of this week, and that's the most exciting news.
Speaker 1:The most exciting news.
Speaker 2:yes, yes, and there is one more thing.
Speaker 1:today is Left Handers Day. Hurray Carver didn't buy me a present, so I'm a little bit annoyed. What? Because I'm left handed.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's Left Handers Day. We don't get enough appreciation. Everything is made for you right handed freaks.
Speaker 2:Right handed people, like the vast majority of the population. The left handers are the freaks.
Speaker 1:Rude. Other than that, nothing really happened for me this week. Well, things happened, but I'm not going to get into them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't trust small town rappers.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:That's all we got to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, always decline rap CDs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what this comes down to. It's also really good to have friends.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So if your friend list sucks to be you, I guess We'll be your friends, don't worry.
Speaker 2:We're all friends here.
Speaker 1:We're all friends here. What are we talking about, Carver?
Speaker 2:Today we got a bit of a multi-level, multi-tiered episode, multi-tiered Two-tone, if you will.
Speaker 1:Two tiers of cake.
Speaker 2:Yes, we're going to start out by talking about what is it? A continent that used to exist?
Speaker 1:So it's okay. If you've listened to the Mysterious Universe podcast, you would know.
Speaker 2:Truck. We have to deal with this because we have all the windows open, because it's hotter than hell in our town right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so we have all the windows open trying to keep the house cool, and people just keep driving by.
Speaker 1:We're coming by on their scooters.
Speaker 2:So, if you hear anything, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:Okay. So if you watch the Mysterious Universe episode watch, listen to the Mysterious Universe episode the many gods of Mew, it's like it's a fucking rabbit hole. Anyway, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2:We're also talking about we're talking and then after that we're going to be reviewing the latest season of American Barbecue Showdown.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is like our favorite show on Netflix right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so which one do you want to get into first?
Speaker 2:Let's do the, let's do Mu first.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I Don't know how much you were paying attention when this episode was playing in the truck.
Speaker 2:I was. I'm like drifting in and out usually when I'm driving, because sometimes I, you know, pay attention to the road more. Sometimes I don't okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I was in the passenger seat, some passenger princess and I. I Was really hyper-focusing on this episode. Yeah, because I was probably highest fuck coming home so. I was hyper-focusing on the episode and the episode basically was like so Atlantis.
Speaker 2:Atlantis.
Speaker 1:Atlantis. Lots of people think that it existed and and Lots of people think that it has direct Correlation to the flood of Noah's Ark in the Bible like when it Like it went away when the flood hit yeah okay. So there's this Doctor I can't remember her name um, she theorizes About the different stages of like man, like you know how we have, like the chromagnum and the neanderthal like, like the huge, like Ancestors, like evolutionary ancestors to humanity. Yeah, except for what we know about, evolution is wrong. That's what she's saying.
Speaker 1:Yes it's not Darwinian of Evolution, it's just like is Darwinian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:Darwinian evolution, it's. It's not just that it's. There were like these giant men and then there was these little people, because, apparently, every civilization along the Pacific Rim. So like have you ever noticed how big and empty the Pacific is? Yes okay, it's. It's bigger and emptier than the Atlantic. Okay so they think that there was a continent in the middle of the Pacific that sunk 40,000 years ago. Yes or whenever the flood of Whenever the flood happened whenever the flood happened, for the Bible Well it's not just the Bible.
Speaker 2:It's not just the Bible but like ultra on earth has a flood myth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, and a Lot of these Pacific Rim communities and civilizations like all North America, south America, like Australia, Polynesian islands, the coast of Japan? Yeah, they all Say that there are. There was a boat that came with five people on it and they were little white men with beards.
Speaker 2:Little dwarf looking.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Okay so Basically it's like Well, why do all these cultures have these? Where do these people come from?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, why are they all the same?
Speaker 1:Yeah, why are they all the same myth like you can trace drawings, the mysterious universe has this all in their show notes, so I looked at their drawings that they have and it's crazily Unganny how similar these drawings are, just because of subject matter.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna look hold on, I'm gonna look up their show notes here so I understand what you're talking about okay, but so yeah, they all have this like myth of these five little dudes and and what one is it?
Speaker 2:Oh, here let's see. With recent genetic research it is known that ancient migrations were made into the Americas from people living in Australia slash New Zealand area of the South Pacific. Some American archaeology museums are now accepting that there were at least two and possibly three ancient migration routes. This map from the Mona Museum in Arkansas shows the southern route at the bottom, the standard Beringia route in the top left and an eastern route shown in the upper right. Okay, yes, so this is depicting literally like an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1:Like they all say the same thing and they all explode with technology and they all explode with art and advancements. So like what if Atlantis was really like a thing and it was like this advanced civilization that got fucked up?
Speaker 2:Yep, and then it shows this all these pictures drawn by the various cultures.
Speaker 1:Yep, like just think about it, it would explain a lot.
Speaker 2:Easter Island, india and China.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:They all have a very similar drawing.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:There's drawings of this in Egypt, there's Inuit drawing, there's a Chromagnon cave drawing and there's some in Columbia.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they're everywhere.
Speaker 1:They're everywhere and it's like what were these things? Who were these things? Where did they come from? Where did they go?
Speaker 2:There's also a lot of there's also I was watching some videos on it earlier, and so some places they don't just call it Mu, they call it like Lemuria.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is there was a lot of legends about it, also from quite a few different places. Greece and India were two big ones and there was there was like some, and the only time that I heard about it being like little, little white skinned men was out of the Mysterious Universe episode. There was quite a few of them that said they were like straight up aliens.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That looked nothing like people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's also like this speculation that they're like part of this advanced civilization that got like fucked up by nature.
Speaker 2:Which would be like the Atlantean thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And apparently the Atlanteans were like one of the, there's more like various tribes on this island. The Atlanteans were one and then there was a couple others.
Speaker 1:The Atlanteans were and like to reject Darwinian evolution is kind of like career suicide apparently.
Speaker 2:Supposedly, I don't know. I don't know how true that is, but that's what they were saying on the podcast. But one of the legends that I was told or was told that I found, I should say came out of I believe it was out of India, and they said that there was a nuclear war thousands of years ago and that's why there's no more island. There's people who say that there was a massive volcano that went off which destroyed the island, and then, of course, some say that got flooded, as sea levels are much higher now than they were 40,000 years ago. So it's a rabbit hole if you really look into it.
Speaker 1:It's a rabbit hole.
Speaker 2:Like history channel had stuff on it. Yeah, there's just all kinds of stuff. There's a little more esoteric stuff, like when you get into the more conspiracy theory side of it. Yeah, absolutely which is when you start getting into their aliens other, this other that they couldn't reproduce, so they had to become like hybrids with people of Earth, which is where humans come from, or something. It's a bit of a rabbit hole.
Speaker 1:It's a fun rabbit hole, though. I've literally run into this conversation with people like at least three times since we've listened to that episode.
Speaker 2:Nice. There's also another thing that kind of compounded it, like so when the Spanish came to North America not to North, to South America the Spanish were in South America. When they had first contact with the tribes there, the tribes actually like worshiped them apparently. Yeah, they thought they were the. They didn't think they were just like white-skinned humans. They thought that they were these white-skinned deities. Yeah they thought they were gods, they called them the white gods or something, and they were saying well, maybe these white gods were the Mew people that came on that boat and that the Spanish were mistaken for being these people.
Speaker 1:That would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2:Because I've heard that story quite a few times. I guess they forgot about the part where they were supposed to be dwarves, but you know, I guess not everyone's perfect.
Speaker 1:Plus a lot of tribes like that. They have oral traditions, so it could have been lost.
Speaker 2:My understanding with the, was it the Aztecs that they found, or the Mayans?
Speaker 1:Mayans. It was the Mayans. Are you talking about the Kalender?
Speaker 2:No, I'm talking about the tribe that the Spanish oh, I thought it was the Aztecs.
Speaker 2:Was the Aztecs or the Mayans? Because, because my understanding of the situation there is that one of them came before the others and like, okay, I'm just going to assume it was the Mayans that came first. The Mayans are who built everything and built that civilization, which was effectively, you know, the Egypt of America, but they had apparently long since died out. And it was the Aztecs that came in, but they just they were sort of inhabiting like the bones of the Mayans, like they weren't, and their society had been in decline for a long time. That's why they were sacrificing people, that's why they were doing all this stuff, which is what you know, these once great civilizations in decline always eventually become, and so maybe they had just lost some of that knowledge at that point.
Speaker 1:Probably.
Speaker 2:And they never had the whole story properly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh. There's also, you know, kind of the idea that like why did we all figure out that rocks can be stacked in pyramid form and live forever? How did we all figure that out?
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't find that very compelling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like.
Speaker 2:Because it's just, it's just a good way to stack rocks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's like we all found out about it around the same time. I feel like Were.
Speaker 2:They all built at the same time.
Speaker 1:I don't think they were built at the exact same time, but I think they were built close enough that it's kind of a weird coincidence.
Speaker 2:There certainly was. There seemed to be like a boom in technology and culture at some point in the history that then died away.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't until you know really the rise of Europe that civilization became as Globalized and far reaching. I suppose you could say yeah, I guess so because I, what am I thinking here?
Speaker 2:What am I thinking? Okay, hold on, my thoughts are all scrambled. It was like, no, it wasn't. No, wasn't rise of Europe, your eyes, a year came after it was the rise of, like, china and India. Okay, so there was okay. Okay, here I have it, I have it. Okay, so there's like an initial, seemingly like an initial big boom in culture and technology and all of this that happened, which would have been your like, samaritans and Other places like that, samaria, egypt, yeah, obviously, like I think. I think this is when the Mayans were big too is at the same time, I don't know if they would have been Connected or not. It's hard to say because, like In Eurasia and Africa, with these calm, everything's connected, right, so it's easy to see why things would happen. But obviously, with America, you know you got an ocean on each side surrounding, you know cutting, basically cutting it off yeah, exactly which is exactly why disease was so deadly here versus, you know, every other place on earth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but if the, if that island in La Meria or Mew existed, that would be like. You know the link. Yeah where it would be reasonable to go each side of it To influence or build culture for cultures to influence each other at the same time, right. Yeah and Then, at some point there, there's the. So At this time, egypt, samaria, everything else, everything else that I can't think of, every, every single one off the top of my head. They all describe the attack of, like the sea people.
Speaker 2:Yes you know the sea people, right? Yeah, no one knows who the sea people are, but they apparently attacked and that's what caused the downfall of Egypt and the downfall of everything else around there, which sort of opened up, kind of opened up the world, opened up the For lack of a better term like the I, I just caused a power vacuum that would then allow for the rise of China and India, who were the next two big players because they had the most people, most land. Would that have been the time that Mew fell? When that happened?
Speaker 1:but all of these are about 25,000 years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is a very long time ago, very, very long time. And then, at some point, the Mayans fell and.
Speaker 2:There, there's structures and their, their way of life, I guess, was taken over by the Aztecs, or again I might have that throw other way around and then that was basically the Order of the world. Was China, china on top, of course, you know about every dynasty and All that stuff. There's supposedly some evidence that there were, there was like a Chinese ship that made it to America at some point during this time, but they obviously never made it.
Speaker 2:Sad it really wasn't until the Industrial revolution that Europe really overtook overtook China and India, and the Middle East is, like the, the center of power in the world. I think I think I have that mostly right. I don't know, maybe I'm completely wrong, but yeah, if we're wrong, correct us, feel free. But I'm not gonna read it, so maybe don't. Oh, anyway, back to me you. So I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 1:That's all my thoughts on it.
Speaker 2:Just a weird amount of coincidences, a lot of Very similar stories come coming from very different places in the world.
Speaker 1:Yep I.
Speaker 2:Don't know if this is related to me or not, but I found another little tidbit interesting that I that I Think it was also mysterious universe that talked about this, but there seems to have been one progenitor language which every single spoken language on earth can trace back to, can trace back to be, and it was some form of. It was like some older form of the German and like every single spoken language on earth, including like Un uncontacted tribes I guess they wouldn't be uncontacted if we knew this, but, you know, like tribes that have had very minimal contact with yeah any outsiders will have words that Are very similar or identical to this old form of German, which was, I've always thought was a very interesting little bit of.
Speaker 1:Quinkie dink.
Speaker 2:Quinkie dink.
Speaker 1:Interesting stuff.
Speaker 2:And then, of course, you know, every religion has all of the same stories. Yeah like the flood myth is one, the Garden of Eden is another one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe this place was like the Garden of Eden, the hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Which is also, I think, atlantis. Yeah, very interesting very the overlaps are very interesting very so I don't know, is that it for the mini gods from you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so, at least for today. Maybe we'll learn a little more and we'll have to come back to it. I'm just opening this link here. Hold on, I Think it's just to a book, okay, susan B Martinez the mysterious origins of hybrid man, crossbreeding and the unexpected family tree of humanity. This is a refutation of traditional Darwinian evolution theory. Yeah of the origin of man. Anyway, I.
Speaker 1:Have a special delivery for us.
Speaker 2:What's that? What is this for? Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1:All right. What else are we talking?
Speaker 2:are we? Are we transitioning?
Speaker 1:or I think. I think we're gonna take us a short break To get our drinks filled and then we're gonna talk Barbecue and we're back. And we're back Now. We have two different drinks. I have Warhead sour watermelon soda with vodka.
Speaker 2:And mine is a sour black cherry.
Speaker 1:Tastes like a jolly rancher liquefied.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does. Good chip, we got them at the import section of the grocery store.
Speaker 1:Yep, the imported candy section of the grocery store.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, now we're talking. Another fucking barbecue. American barbecue showdown, showdown.
Speaker 2:Which is just one of those silly little reality cooking competition. Reality TV cooking competition shows, obviously barbecue themed.
Speaker 1:Yep this season I kind of guessed who was gonna win.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we both we were. The guy who won was the one that we were rooting for.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which was nice, because last season it was definitely not that.
Speaker 1:Nope, we were rooting for one person and the other person won and we're like fuck.
Speaker 2:The person that we were rooting for from the very beginning lost in the first round.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the first season, yep.
Speaker 2:This season, the guy we were rooting for almost lost in the first round.
Speaker 1:But he didn't.
Speaker 2:He succeeded, and then proceeded to show everybody up after that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so this season we had actually wasn't very many people in that. I thought there was more the first time, was there not?
Speaker 2:I think it was the same amount of people, but what I'm getting at is like the people, like we didn't have anyone that we really disliked in this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's a lot. I just liked a couple of them who, the guy from California and Eduardo no.
Speaker 2:The other one.
Speaker 1:Texas, then the guy with the hat, oh. I didn't really like him. He just like seemed like kind of like flat as a character.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Even though it's just him, I feel bad saying that I'm sorry, I didn't really like him and like how he was like so confident and like it felt like he was like his mistakes were like whatever, nothing to be, like, taken seriously or anything.
Speaker 2:And then the geriatric lady, the lady who was in a motorcycle crash and broke every bone in her body. Yeah, I liked. I liked how she left because she thought it was a brilliant idea to just put the straight Reaper peppers. Not even into a coleslaw.
Speaker 1:Carolina Reaper, not a California Reaper.
Speaker 2:Carolina Reaper.
Speaker 1:Carolina Reaper.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she just, she just put straight Carolina Reaper peppers into some coleslaw, as if that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh my god, I would die. That was absolutely hilarious, but like I was rooting for Logan from the start and I was rooting for T from the start. Yeah, because like I wanted Logan to be like hell, yeah, like, get over that imposter syndrome. Mother, I was going to call him motherfucker, but that was that felt rude, but yeah, like get over that imposter syndrome. You're a barbecuer, barbecue guy.
Speaker 2:Barbecue guy. Pit master it also apparently an actual chef.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like straight up, like an actual chef. So I'm surprised, I'm not surprised he got that far.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, being a pit master is different from being a chef.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like, if you know the technicalities, you should be able to do the thing.
Speaker 2:He's probably better at doing something he's never done before just because he knows how the technical, how to technically do things so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like T's been barbecuing for like his whole life.
Speaker 2:Yep, sort of how the last season went too. At the end you kind of had like a less experienced one going up against the more experienced one.
Speaker 1:But the less experienced one is doing so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, doing real good, but they're just not quite able to cook the whole hog.
Speaker 1:Not, not quite no.
Speaker 2:As good as the guy that's done it a million times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Michelle got as far as I thought she would. She was. She was one of my favorites too.
Speaker 2:The New York girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was like. Wait, she seemed like the way she talked. At the beginning I didn't think she'd go very far because it sounded like she's just the one operating like a regular ass barbecue and family gatherings and stuff. Except she actually did know what she was doing. Yeah, but I think I think she sort of downplayed her power level at the beginning, though I think that's what it was, because you know everyone else is talking oh, done this, done that.
Speaker 2:you know and she's like well well, my dad died and I wanted to run the barbecue.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I ran the grill and it's like, okay, well she's. I figured she'd like run into a situation where it's like I've never done this before and I have no idea what to do. But no, nothing, none of that. No, she was, she was good and she's probably even doing all of this stuff and just kind of downplayed it maybe, or or the show did it for dramatic effect. Could have been. Yeah, it could have just been weird editing.
Speaker 1:But, like I wonder what the budget of this set was.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:Like the budget for this, this the show had to be in a pot.
Speaker 2:I think it is for all cooking shows.
Speaker 1:Because it's like that's a lot of meat.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Like a lot and like even. Even. Then there were some parts of it where they were like oh, I did this wrong, gotta throw it away, and it's like a full-aiming y'all.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And you're like what the fuck it's like, as you do, okay.
Speaker 1:Sure yeah.
Speaker 2:The other thing I liked about uh Logan, there the chef, is that he was like kind of doing like fancy shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was being all fancy shmanji.
Speaker 2:He was like doing fancy shit along with the regular barbecue and it was like, okay, this is kind of neat.
Speaker 1:He did ramen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he made ramen and one of them and it's like I don't know if ramen's barbecue, let's go with it, but I guess, you know, I guess it kind of is, it's just not really American style barbecue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and. I don't think you can really disqualify it because it's like the inconsiderate of other cultures.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because when you go to a ramen place, you know, usually you can get barbecue pork in it too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a little bit Barbecue pork belly or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah man, that makes me really miss me, so yeah, yeah, and then Korean barbecue is the thing too, which is also quite different from American, although I haven't seen anyone do like he deviated a little bit, but I haven't seen anyone in the show do anything quite like that yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That being said, the fun. It is obviously an American show, so they're going to be doing American style and it seems like all the it does seem like the challenges are based around it, although they did that Brazilian barbecue episode.
Speaker 1:That one was pretty tough for everybody, which was interesting.
Speaker 2:So I wonder if they will have like a maybe further season, if they will try like a Korean barbecue episode or whatever. That would be really cool, I think that'd be really interesting if they did that.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised they didn't do the difficult proteins one that they did in the first season, like the alligator and raccoon and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's kind of surprising, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I forgot that. They never did that, but they had different challenges, like they had the.
Speaker 1:The spicy pepper challenge.
Speaker 2:The spicy pepper challenge.
Speaker 1:The hardest one, I think, was probably the DIY.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they had them like build pits and barbecues out of like filing cabinets and shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That one was interesting. They also had the one where they had to cook underground.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, they also had this wrench.
Speaker 2:I think they had an underground cooking in the first year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so too Two though. Ooh, another show that came up with a second season. Is it cake?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Who do you think is going to win? Is it cake?
Speaker 2:I have no idea. I'm guessing it's going to be that lady.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I forget her name, but they uh, you know, when the show started they were all like oh my god, it's her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, watch her, not win. Watch her. Watch it be like that kid from Mississippi. I would love that.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know what I really liked about, especially in like the last couple episodes of American Barbecue Showdown, like uh, logan and and Thyrin those were their names of the two finalists they like had like a straight up bromance going on, yeah, and they were like so supportive of each other, even when they were going after each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In the end.
Speaker 1:And like it wouldn't have mattered who won, they would have both been happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it seemed like, although I was kind of surprised.
Speaker 1:Surprised about what.
Speaker 2:Can I say who won? Did we already say who won?
Speaker 1:No, well, yeah, I think we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We should have said a spoiler.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I was surprised that Logan lost at the end, because he seemed to do a better job.
Speaker 1:But I think it's because he's inexperienced. Like, they must like he's just just below that threshold that they're looking for.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but if he did a better job you'd think that would be good, because they both seem to have the same issue of certain parts of the pig being undercooked or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But his wasn't never had any burned skin or anything.
Speaker 1:I think it all comes down to that mop sauce man.
Speaker 2:Could be, the mop sauce could be. They could have been just thinking about the whole.
Speaker 1:The whole competition.
Speaker 2:Whole competition too, right? Yeah, I think Thyron won more times than Logan did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's your scrunching.
Speaker 2:Did Logan actually win?
Speaker 1:I think, Logan won.
Speaker 2:He did with his duck right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's peaking duck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that was the doubles challenge though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I'd like to go to a barbecue competition.
Speaker 2:Well, we can. They just call him Edmonton as a rib fest and Kamloops as a rib fest.
Speaker 1:I really want to go to Taste of Edmonton.
Speaker 2:I've always wanted to go there too. I've heard it's good.
Speaker 1:Let's do it next year with my best friend and her husband. They always go.
Speaker 2:And her who band.
Speaker 1:Her who band.
Speaker 2:Okay, there you go. A year from now, we'll have an episode reviewing Taste of Edmonton.
Speaker 1:Yep and we'll get business cards and everything for everybody.
Speaker 2:Yes, it'll be perfect, it'll be excellent.
Speaker 1:Alright. Is that everything you wanted to say about the American barbecue showdown?
Speaker 2:I think that's everything I have to say. Is that everything you have to say?
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