Caffination s2e2: Espresso for the rest of us

AMBER: Hello everybody welcome back to the show it is season 2 episode 2 also known as episode 561 today we are talking well tonight we're talking about geeky TV AI aquatic mammals and of course ice cream what more could you need everybody who are you
AMBER: I'm Amber.
PAUL: I'm Paul.
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PAUL: All right, everybody, we have a great show lined up for you.
PAUL: What did you do geeky this week, Amber?
AMBER: Actually, you know what?
AMBER: You know what?
AMBER: Something might find a little geeky.
AMBER: I got a hundred of my geometry tests and just went to school for that.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: Well, geeky this week, Amber and I have actually been trying to watch One Piece live action.
PAUL: The second season came back on Netflix and we've gotten about halfway through the first episode because we keep getting stopping and starting.
PAUL: So it's it's going to be a problem.
AMBER: I mean, I'm mainly busy.
PAUL: I am almost caught up on Jujutsu Kaisen, Samurai Troopers, and sentenced to be a hero.
PAUL: So yeah, I'm watching a lot of stuff.
PAUL: Got a lot of balls in the air.
PAUL: You know what I mean?
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: Next thing we got going for you.
PAUL: Firefly is coming back.
PAUL: So Firefly, a show that everybody loves to talk about, but nobody wanted to give a home when it first came out.
PAUL: Amber has never seen the show.
PAUL: I'm going to let her make her watch it.
PAUL: Let her make her maker.
PAUL: So it is a space Western
PAUL: So it is really fun and it follows Nathan Fillion as Mal Reynolds and it is a really interesting universe and world and it only ever got one season before I believe Fox cancelled it.
PAUL: So a lot of people got together because they loved the show so much and they
PAUL: begged the studio enough so that they actually came out with a feature length movie called Serenity.
PAUL: And then after that, now it has been many a moon before, since Firefly was on TV, and they are now trying to do an animated version of the show, a new, new stories.
PAUL: So it's going to be kind of interesting to see where they go with it.
PAUL: Nathan Fillion has been going around and collecting everybody.
PAUL: And he didn't tell anybody, uh, when he was doing it.
PAUL: Like you would just, if you followed him on TikTok, all of a sudden he was knocking on somebody's door and it was the pilot.
PAUL: It was Alan Tudyk.
PAUL: It was who, uh, who Alan Tudyk is also, uh, Duke Wesselton.
AMBER: Don't know who that is either.
PAUL: You don't know who Duke Wesseltown is.
PAUL: He's the guy in Frozen who yells and says, it's Weasel, or when somebody said Weasel Town and he said it's Wesseltown.
AMBER: Oh, that's the dude that was dancing around Anna.
PAUL: Yes, he's also Heihei, the chicken.
PAUL: He is that studio's good luck charm.
PAUL: He has a part in every movie.
PAUL: And there's a very famous video of him recording the lines for Heihei.
PAUL: You know, like, and like he like screamed as a chicken and did all that.
PAUL: And then he looks at the camera very, very demurely and says, I went to Juliet.
PAUL: So he went to Juilliard just to make chicken noises.
PAUL: But anyway, they're all coming back.
PAUL: It's going to be animated.
PAUL: I can't wait to see it.
AMBER: Personally, I would not really like animated stuff because in the past they have done like live action into an animated thing and it hasn't turned out extremely the best.
AMBER: But I mean, we'll see what you sure about that.
PAUL: I mean, I agree with you most of the time, but we were just talking about one piece, the live action.
PAUL: And I think that broke the mold.
AMBER: Think out of everything.
AMBER: I think that one's the one that broke it, but everything else now
AMBER: I tried.
AMBER: I just don't see the appeal.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: The next thing we got coming up is talking about some Steam games may actually have malware in them.
PAUL: Now, I tried talking to my son about this and he told me that he didn't install them.
PAUL: So that's fine.
PAUL: That's great.
PAUL: All kinds of wonderful stuff.
PAUL: But here's how it works.
PAUL: You are
PAUL: going about your business, you're finding indie games instead of giving the big studios all the money, and then you download a fun game that you think you're going to play.
PAUL: And what it does is installs malware and viruses on your computer and craps your entire computer up.
PAUL: So it's it's going to be a it's a big problem.
PAUL: But Steam is supposed to check all of the games that are newly listed for malware or any other kinds of bad things that could happen to your computer.
PAUL: They are apparently a little bit lax because this is the second time in two years that they've had to delist a bunch of games for having viruses in there.
PAUL: So isn't that pretty crazy?
AMBER: I mean, I'm not really much into that stuff, but I mean, hey, you got to keep up with the times.
PAUL: So she used to play video games and she still does play video games, but she's not a PC gamer.
PAUL: So it's one of those things where it's just not in her wheelhouse.
AMBER: Yeah, I'm more of a Nintendo, and sometimes a little bit of Xbox, but not too much.
AMBER: I used to play with Slime Rancher.
AMBER: Do you remember that?
PAUL: Oh yeah, I remember Slime Rancher.
AMBER: Loved Slime Rancher.
AMBER: I also played… Viva Piñata?
AMBER: Yeah, and I also played Killer Instinct.
PAUL: Yeah, she did.
AMBER: You got pretty good at Killer Instinct.
AMBER: Not anymore.
PAUL: Alright, so what's the next thing we got coming up for you?
AMBER: Uh, it is the dolphins kidnapping a man.
PAUL: So there is this viral story going around that a man was found in Florida on a beach and he was drawing what they called blueprints into the sand.
PAUL: And when, and he only had a bathing suit and he had, he was very sunburned.
PAUL: and then the police arrested him and he said he had been kidnapped three days before that by dolphins and made to work and build an underwater city.
PAUL: So yeah, so this this came out and they said it the man was from Florida and Everybody kind of just took it and ran with it because hey, it's Florida.
PAUL: I mean anything can happen down there, right?
PAUL: So then it got so bad that a couple days later
PAUL: the police department from the county that's mentioned in the story actually had to let out a official press release and say that nobody has been kidnapped by dolphins and they don't have a deputy by the name that's in the story on the thing.
PAUL: So it's, it's, it's just kind of funny.
PAUL: Uh, I, I, I love when memes and things like that can kind of blow up and, uh, it, it, it's kind of interesting.
PAUL: So what's next Amber?
AMBER: Next, I'm so excited about this.
AMBER: It is Punch the Monkey.
AMBER: If you're not online or not really anywhere, then you will not know what this is.
AMBER: Punch the Monkey is a monkey in a zoo in Tokyo.
PAUL: You were right when you were starting Japan.
AMBER: It was in Japan that I wasn't really accepted by the other monkeys and brought around this plushie of a different monkey and it would drag it everywhere.
AMBER: It's the cutest little thing ever.
AMBER: And then just a little bit ago,
AMBER: Apparently a monkey is starting to become friends with them.
PAUL: I mean, they said that the poor thing's mother actually abandoned it.
PAUL: Like when it was really young and another mother has taken some interest in him.
PAUL: So he's migrating away from the plushie and he's actually hanging out with people or with, not with people, other monkeys, other monkeys.
PAUL: So that's kind of cool.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: Next thing we have up here, a thought on how to track 3d guns goes nowhere.
PAUL: Now tell me, I'm going to lay out what this guy proposed and you tell me if you think it seems logical.
PAUL: So there's a crime committed and it is done with a 3d printed gun.
PAUL: So they have no serial numbers, no nothing on them.
PAUL: So they were thinking in Australia that what we can do is we can take the 3D printed gun and look for trace elements of different chemicals and things like that that are in the plastics to try and identify which kind of filament was used to print it.
PAUL: So they could say, okay, well, you know, X number of people bought this filament.
PAUL: These people all bought it and we have records from their ISPs and they said they downloaded the plans for a gun so we can go for it.
PAUL: That sounds logical, right?
PAUL: Yeah, it seems pretty logical.
PAUL: Okay, well the problem with that is all of the filament that's on the market, so all of the stuff that is used to actually 3D print anything,
PAUL: is made by like three companies so there's no difference between half the brands you buy they're all what they call white label sources so one big factory factory x might come up and they sell you know their own brand and then they sell the white label version where other companies come in and they can buy in bulk
PAUL: change the name and sell it as if they made it so it's uh it's kind of interesting but it unfortunately it didn't go anywhere because since so few companies actually make it they can't really track it but it was a good idea is marathon is back but it is not ready for prime time now amber do you remember ever playing halo
AMBER: I do, I played it like once or twice.
PAUL: Okay, so the company that made Halo is Bungie.
PAUL: Back in the 90s, they made, well, back in the early 2000s, I think into the 90s, I'm pretty sure it was the 90s, they wrote a game called Marathon that was very similar to Doom and very similar to Wolfenstein in that it was a first-person shooter and you were running around an alien ship and doing all kinds of cool things.
PAUL: So Bungie is now, many years later, reviving this intellectual property with a new thing.
PAUL: And it's going to be kind of cool, except for the fact that there's a lot of microtransactions.
PAUL: So that's if you buy a game for $60 and then in order to do everything you need to do in the game, they charge you like $1.25 for something.
PAUL: or maybe five dollars to access this new map.
PAUL: So what do you think of that?
AMBER: I would hate that.
AMBER: I kinda like when stuff's free and you don't have to buy too much.
AMBER: When you start a game and everything's free in the starter pack and then if you want to do more going into the game farther than just having the starter stuff or unlocking stuff, then you buy it on your own.
AMBER: But if you have to buy something for everything, then it's just kind of a waste of money in my opinion.
PAUL: Yeah, it used to be that if you bought a game, and you went out and you bought a game, you put it on your computer, you had the game.
PAUL: That was it.
PAUL: Like, the game was there, there were no updates.
PAUL: Like, it was a problem.
PAUL: So if somebody released a bad game, you couldn't update it and fix it.
PAUL: Like you had to work with it that way.
PAUL: So there were these and then it moved on to somebody saying there's downloadable content.
PAUL: Oh, no, there's extra stuff that can go along the game.
PAUL: So it's not just Mario Brothers.
PAUL: But if you want to hit and beat World 8, you need to pay us extra money.
AMBER: It's also kind of like the characters in Killer Instinct.
PAUL: See, when I first played Killer Instinct in an arcade back in the 90s, on my way to school, there was an arcade that had Killer Instinct.
PAUL: It was one of my favorite games there.
PAUL: They also had a game called Primal Rage.
PAUL: We will play that later.
PAUL: But all the characters were there.
PAUL: You didn't have to unlock anything.
PAUL: So when we got it, I was really excited to show my kids this game because I had so much fun playing it.
PAUL: And would you say about half the characters were locked?
AMBER: yeah almost all of well not really all but there was a bunch like locked and you had to pay for it and now the mario game that i have actually there's like all different worlds that are locked really yeah did you not see it which which mario game uh the galaxy not galaxy uh the mario brothers like the curt game
PAUL: Oh, Mario Kart.
AMBER: Sorry, I'm tired.
PAUL: OK, yeah, no, I didn't know that parts were locked away in Mario Kart.
PAUL: The last Mario Kart I played was the other one, and Paul had everything for it that I played.
AMBER: Yeah, it's the Mario Kart.
AMBER: They updated it, and they actually created all these different worlds that you have to pay for.
AMBER: Yeah, it's like the exclusive pack.
PAUL: All right, moving right along.
PAUL: What do we got next, Amber?
AMBER: We have for a new Xbox there is going to be Project Helix, which is going to be where anyone who has this Xbox is able to play PC games with the Xbox.
PAUL: That's kind of cool.
PAUL: It's kind of bridging the divide a little bit.
PAUL: There's there's people who play games on consoles.
PAUL: That's Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, Sega Genesis, like all these all these different things that have existed.
PAUL: And those games are what they are.
PAUL: And then PCs were always kind of like the Wild West, like random stuff could happen.
PAUL: You could get crazy games and, uh,
PAUL: So it, and you had to do more as a PC gamer to get your game to run.
PAUL: Like it's something that Paul really didn't realize when he first bought his first computer.
PAUL: He's like, okay, so great.
PAUL: So I bought the computer, I turned it on and I installed steam.
PAUL: Why can't I run this game that I just bought?
PAUL: It's like, oh, well you need to check your video card drivers.
PAUL: You need to do this.
PAUL: You need to do that.
PAUL: Like PCs require a lot of up, upkeep.
PAUL: consoles don't so it's gonna be interesting to see if this Xbox is going to be requiring a lot of upkeep like are you gonna have to update drivers on this thing because if you do then it's not an Xbox it's a PC
AMBER: yeah I mean I'm not too into that stuff but it seems pretty cool but I hope it's not like PC where you have to do all the upkeep for it and you can just play games that you buy
PAUL: I mean, that would be the goal, you know?
AMBER: Yep, the ideal situation.
PAUL: Alright, now the next thing we got, sticking around the small cubes and consoles, Valve's Steam Machine.
PAUL: Now, I personally would love to have a Steam Deck.
PAUL: My son has one, because of course he does.
PAUL: but but i i have a huge library of steam games and i don't have any place to play them right now so that's okay but the next thing coming out is a steam machine so it's a little cube it's going to be able to run all the games and it's going to be wonderful except for the fact that every time it's announced every time something's announced about it it
PAUL: gets delayed.
PAUL: So now memory and storage shortages created by AI are going to be a problem.
PAUL: So now they're delaying it again, and we still don't know how much this little console is going to actually be.
PAUL: And so, just for a frame of reference, Amber, the Steam Deck goes from $450 all the way up to like $700.
AMBER: And that's probably why I'm never getting one, and I don't think I would play one.
PAUL: That's okay.
PAUL: But the, the, the, so I mean, by contrast, the Nintendo and even the new Switch, they're around 300, right?
AMBER: Yeah, actually, uh, the Nintendo 2 is around like 500 right now.
PAUL: Oh, it's 500.
PAUL: I'm, I'm sorry.
AMBER: The, uh, old X, not Xbox, the old Nintendo was like 200 bucks, which not, not bad.
AMBER: for what you could get it was 250 by the time we all got nintendo switches my son got it first and then during the pandemic everybody else except my wife got one yeah and then this next one it seemed pretty cool at first because you're like okay like it's a new one we all kind of want to get it and then it's 500 bucks so me i don't have a job so slid
AMBER: very rude, but I would never be able to get one with just not having a job.
AMBER: That's okay.
AMBER: So maybe in the future when the price goes down.
PAUL: All right, what do we got next, Amber?
AMBER: We have Pokemon Game, which it features the Pokemon Ditto as a human.
AMBER: It looks so bad.
AMBER: It is a female.
PAUL: I didn't know.
PAUL: I mean, I guess, I guess ditto could be a boy or a girl.
PAUL: It doesn't matter.
AMBER: Um, I think it looks disgusting because the face does kind of actually, it kind of looks like, um, what's it called?
AMBER: Animal crossing.
PAUL: Yeah, it does.
PAUL: That's, that's what they're trying to do.
PAUL: So it's like a cross between animal crossing and Pokemon.
PAUL: And what's it called, Amber?
PAUL: Uh, say it right there.
PAUL: I don't want to front drive.
PAUL: So it has like a weird aesthetic to it.
PAUL: It doesn't look like a normal Pokemon game, but it is going viral right now.
PAUL: People seem to love this.
PAUL: So I reached out to the Caffe Nation podcast resident Pokemon expert, Paul, and he told me in no uncertain terms that that game was stupid.
PAUL: So, there you go, from a 19-year-old Pokemon fan.
PAUL: He is not a fan of this game, but a lot of people seem to be.
PAUL: I mean, you liked Animal Crossings, didn't you?
AMBER: I did, but I got way too busy for everything, so I could not look at it much.
PAUL: That game felt like a job, though.
PAUL: It did.
PAUL: Like, every day you had to log in and do something, and it was just, like, over the top.
AMBER: Yeah, I mean, you would have to check in with all your residents.
AMBER: You would have to fish.
PAUL: You would imagine doing all that and having to deal with Pokemon.
AMBER: I would never do that.
PAUL: So that's what they got going on there.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: And the last little thing that we got for you here in the geek cruft section at the Caffe Nation podcast is a shipment of Bronze Age swords, arrowheads seized by Philadelphia Customs and Border Patrol.
PAUL: How crazy is that?
PAUL: So I love archaeology.
PAUL: I love when archaeology comes home, but it's not that I expected an ancient artifact heist to show up in Philadelphia.
PAUL: So I just thought I would share.
PAUL: It was kind of interesting.
PAUL: And that wraps up the Geekcroft section.
PAUL: Moving right along to the food and caffeinated bits section.
PAUL: What are we starting off with Amber?
AMBER: what people ate in medieval times.
AMBER: So in medieval times they would have Boccanod, I don't want to say that wrong, but I think it's right, which it includes quality meat and herbs.
AMBER: It would have been served at the upper class taverns.
PAUL: And the, this stew is really strange because they take eggs, they whisk them up like you, like we would make scrambled eggs.
PAUL: You whisk it up and then you slowly introduce it to the beef broth until the entire thing is this eggy mixture with beef floating in it.
PAUL: And apparently you love medieval times.
PAUL: You want me to make some egg beef stew, stew, right?
AMBER: I would never.
AMBER: That sounds disgusting.
PAUL: So, all right, Boccanod is off the table.
PAUL: So, but the funny thing that this video that we actually linked to, if in case you were interested and you'd like to try making your own medieval stew, is what the guy talked about forever stew.
PAUL: Now, Amber has never heard of a forever stew.
PAUL: Am I right, Amber?
AMBER: Uh, yeah.
PAUL: Okay, so now I'm going to explain what they are and then she's going to tell me if she would ever try one.
PAUL: Imagine a restaurant with a big kettle and they threw everything in for a normal stew and they served everything, right?
PAUL: That's what you would expect to happen, right?
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: Now, then at the end of the day, there's still stew in there.
PAUL: So what they do is they fill it up with more stuff and then they keep it heated all night so that it stays around.
PAUL: And then the next day,
PAUL: They serve this new stew.
PAUL: It could have been new ingredients.
PAUL: It could have been the same ingredients.
PAUL: It changes a little bit each day.
PAUL: And this keeps happening.
PAUL: So, and the funny thing is the longer I talk about this, the worse her, her lip crawls up her face as she is more and more disgusted.
AMBER: yes because could you imagine all the bugs and all of the germs that get into that stew?
PAUL: the funny thing is this was a very common practice like in homes and taverns and like
PAUL: you didn't have meat very often.
PAUL: So you'd throw meat in there when you had it.
PAUL: And then on other times you would just throw in vegetables and stuff like that.
PAUL: There are different and it's kind of funny because there are things like this in nature that you are in cooking specifically that you can keep recycling over and over.
PAUL: Like have you had kimchi?
PAUL: You've had kimchi, right?
AMBER: I have.
AMBER: I didn't really like it too much because it had a really, really vinegary taste to it because we got it from the shop, right, which it's okay.
AMBER: But if it wasn't so vinegary, I would probably like it.
PAUL: Yeah, I've had kimchi made by a lovely Korean family that has a food truck down at temple.
PAUL: And I got to tell you, it is amazing.
PAUL: And the thing that they do because it's fermented and it's kind of like Korean sauerkraut.
PAUL: So it's fermented, it's put vinegar in there.
PAUL: They add a lot of fish sauce.
PAUL: So it has like a slightly fishy taste, but it's really, really good.
PAUL: And you can add it to everything.
PAUL: But, like, I've seen tell of people continuing to use the same container of kimchi over and over again doing the same kind of thing that they do for a forever stew.
AMBER: Sorry, I'm trying to stand up right now.
PAUL: Alright, so would you eat kimchi that was like that?
AMBER: Probably not.
AMBER: Or definitely not, as I probably should say, because that sounds disgusting.
PAUL: I'm going to try and talk to mom and see if we can get us a pot of forever stew going in the house.
AMBER: Oh, she would not let that.
PAUL: I know.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: Moving right along.
PAUL: More old booze.
PAUL: I don't know why.
PAUL: Maybe it's because I found the two articles last week about people finding really old alcohol and then drinking it.
PAUL: But now I'm getting a lot of really old alcohol that people are finding, not people selling.
PAUL: It's not like, you know, really high class bourbon or anything like that.
PAUL: But it's more along the lines of, uh,
PAUL: Like this story here.
PAUL: How would you feel if you found a bottle of a 170 year old beer?
AMBER: I would not want to drink it.
PAUL: I don't know.
PAUL: I might want to give it a shot.
AMBER: Yeah, no.
AMBER: I mean, at least if it wasn't like just put it in a bottle and then put like something over it.
PAUL: I mean, these bottles are closed.
PAUL: Like the cap is still on.
AMBER: Yeah, I wouldn't try it.
AMBER: I mean, you never know what they put in there.
PAUL: I mean, hey, they used to put cocaine and coke.
AMBER: Yeah, no, that's probably why everyone was happy.
PAUL: No, so, yeah, so the my problem with this is should we just stop making alcohol?
PAUL: Do you think maybe stop distilling it?
PAUL: Because we haven't even finished what we have.
PAUL: We're finding all this old stuff.
PAUL: I'm kidding.
PAUL: I loved her.
PAUL: So, okay, moving right along.
PAUL: What do we got next?
AMBER: Next, we have protein ice cream, which has 260 calories and 30 grams of protein.
AMBER: It seems pretty interesting.
AMBER: I don't think I would have it, even though if you want to get 12 probably would like this.
AMBER: I personally don't think I would have it because there's very little sugar.
PAUL: I don't know.
PAUL: I'm pretty sure if we ever find this in the supermarket, I could, uh, I mean, I could need it because of the lactose deal, but I'm pretty sure I could get your mother to try that.
AMBER: But at the same time, everyone probably would be like, uh, that's a lot of protein and I probably would need a lot of it.
PAUL: I don't know if, uh, you saw on TikTok recently, but, um,
PAUL: they're selling protein water it is canned water it is still clear but it is it is canned water it is clear it is not it is not carbonated or anything like that and it has 35 grams of protein so there's some kind of chemical wizardry going on yeah that just seems like processed water
PAUL: I don't understand how you would make 35 grams of protein.
PAUL: So I don't know.
PAUL: Again, I something I've seen on tech talk a couple of times, but I didn't save the video.
PAUL: So I didn't share it here, but it's just something I wanted to talk about.
PAUL: I thought it was funny.
PAUL: What do we got next, Amber?
AMBER: We have a different ice cream spot, which is the Custard Hut, which is kicking off their 49th season.
AMBER: And it's at Jersey's shore.
AMBER: So if you are in the neighboring place of Ocean City, you would probably want to go there.
PAUL: It's at Somers Point in Ocean.
PAUL: on the Jersey shore.
PAUL: So it's kind of cool.
PAUL: Uh, 49 years.
PAUL: That, that's a really cool ice cream thing.
PAUL: But, um, we've, we've had this thing where we've been trying a lot of cafes and that's all well and good, but we've also been on the lookout for good ice cream, right?
AMBER: Yeah, we have.
AMBER: I mean, we found a good one.
AMBER: Aunt Betty's amazing.
AMBER: We found out from a family friend and we went with them.
AMBER: Do not ask for two.
AMBER: They are ginormous scoops.
PAUL: Yeah, you get to say, isn't it one, two or three?
PAUL: Could you imagine?
AMBER: I would not imagine three.
AMBER: no we okay me and my dad got two because we're like okay from the places we've gone to it's been pretty small scoops and so me and my dad get two and then they were way too much and we were so full afterwards
PAUL: it was roughly the size of her head at the time so yeah these these were massive servings of ice cream and the funny thing is we we placed our order and then we're both standing there we were the last two to get our order because mine is non-dairy and it doesn't
PAUL: carve as easily as other stuff.
PAUL: It gets a little icy, so they always hate me and it takes them a little bit of time to get it.
PAUL: So we're watching everybody else get their ice cream.
PAUL: They all got one.
PAUL: They all got one scoop because they're responsible people.
PAUL: but we let go and gave in to our inner demons and we ordered two.
PAUL: So as people are getting their ice cream, we're noticing these are like softball sized scoops of ice cream coming out.
PAUL: And this was a single ice cream and it was taking up the entire cone.
PAUL: And then Amber and I looked at each other and we're like, we got two of them coming.
And
PAUL: And when they actually served it to us, it was like, I mean, did it take us like a half hour to eat it?
AMBER: And then even the one scoop, everyone was done only 10 minutes before us.
AMBER: And I got the
AMBER: I think hooky dough, because that's usually what I get at ice cream parlors.
AMBER: And it took me so long.
AMBER: And I don't think I would ever get to again.
AMBER: I think ever since we got it the first time, we have only gotten one.
PAUL: And I had chocolate, I believe they had a non-dairy chocolate and it was wonderful.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: But that's enough about ice cream.
PAUL: But we're going to stick in desserts.
PAUL: What are we talking about next, Amber?
AMBER: We are talking about cake mix.
AMBER: And we are trying to figure out which best yellow cake mix it is.
PAUL: So there's an article we linked that is they asked professional bakers to rate how many different types of mix.
PAUL: Give me a sec.
PAUL: Sorry, I shouldn't be quizzing you on this stuff.
PAUL: But no, they asked them to rate popular types of cake mix and pick their favorites.
PAUL: So what was the winner, Amber?
AMBER: Betty Crocker is the super moist yellow cake mix winner.
PAUL: Alright, now do you know that they they have all the stuff at their disposal to make cake mix more complete?
PAUL: Like you could just pour it in add the liquids and you'd be done but they when they first came out with cake mixes in the 40s and 50s and They did tests people didn't like that.
PAUL: They just added water or added milk and they had a cake and
PAUL: So they said they needed to feel more involved.
PAUL: So they now have to add the eggs, the oil, like all these other things that they have to add were not originally needed or they were originally needed, but they were pulverized, made dry and turned into the ingredients.
PAUL: So you could have a lot easier go baking just one box and
AMBER: I would never do that.
AMBER: I mean, my dad and my mom tried to get me this pancake mix that I just had to add water to.
AMBER: I didn't like that.
AMBER: I like to try to actually make stuff from scratch, even though my cupcakes and stuff are not fully from scratch, but they are from some of these cake mixes.
AMBER: But if I would have just liquids in it, I don't think I would want to do that, because then I couldn't be like, oh, I made it.
AMBER: I'd be like, it was a box.
AMBER: It was just a box.
AMBER: I just put a liquid.
AMBER: That's my look on that.
PAUL: Now here's something that I know Amber didn't read because she probably would have yelled at me if I had said it, but there's an article about the worst chocolate chip cookie dough out there.
PAUL: And what they found was in this article, at least as they found that Yasso creates the worst chocolate chip cookie dough.
PAUL: And this seems to be,
PAUL: roundly agreed upon, but I know somebody who enjoys the worst cookie dough ice cream that's out there.
AMBER: I do.
AMBER: Okay, in my opinion, it's just good.
AMBER: I don't know.
AMBER: Like, I don't know.
AMBER: It's just delicious, in my opinion.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: Now the next little thing, this is, we're going to, we're going to speed up a little bit there.
PAUL: If you are following along and home the, uh, our CEO's human, maybe, but can they eat normal?
PAUL: This all started.
PAUL: And I think Amber and I both separately saw this video of the video of the CEO of McDonald's sitting down and trying to do a promotional video where he ate one of their sandwiches.
AMBER: He had the tiniest bite you would ever see.
AMBER: It's like if, uh, let's say, Ant-Man tried to eat a regular sized burger.
AMBER: That is the smallest bite.
PAUL: Yeah, and he's like, mmm, this is great.
PAUL: And like everything looked forced.
PAUL: He looked barely human.
PAUL: And so people kind of took this and ran and
PAUL: The best part is that marketing agencies from other fast food chains came out.
PAUL: We have a link to one from Burger King where the CEO actually cooks the patty and does all the stuff that they do and then eats it.
PAUL: And he sort of looks like he's enjoying it.
AMBER: He sort of does.
AMBER: And he took a big bite.
AMBER: I think that was kind of out of spite, but we never know.
AMBER: You know, we don't know if this video was before this all happened, which I don't think it was.
AMBER: But I'm pretty sure.
PAUL: No, it wasn't.
PAUL: This was in direct response.
PAUL: It was.
PAUL: You're right.
AMBER: I was right.
PAUL: So we have the CEO of McDonald's messing up.
PAUL: Then we have the CEO of Burger King, Jack in the Box.
PAUL: Well, Jack in the Box, it was the mascot Jack.
PAUL: And he tore off his sleeves.
PAUL: So you need to watch that one.
PAUL: It's kind of funny.
AMBER: I haven't seen some of this stuff by the way.
PAUL: That's okay.
PAUL: And then the last one is from Wendy's and Wendy's made me want to talk about, I don't know if you've ever seen any of these, but Wendy's has some incredibly sassy social media.
PAUL: Like they're constantly doing it.
PAUL: I posted a video here.
PAUL: I just wanted to share it and I thought it was funny.
PAUL: So I wanted to pass it along.
PAUL: The next thing we have coming up for you here, one of the best cafes in the world is where?
AMBER: in new york city it is rare i'm going to say this wrong and i know i will uh moody space serving rare panamanian yeah i'm just gonna leave panamanian beans i know i was gonna say it wrong
PAUL: It's okay.
PAUL: You tried.
PAUL: That's what matters.
PAUL: So, so this is one of the hundred best cafes in the world and it is called Moody what?
PAUL: No, Moody Space is the name of the place.
PAUL: You don't have to say Panamanian.
AMBER: It is the 12th spot, actually.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: So that's pretty cool if you happen to be wandering through New York and you were looking for a fun cafe to go to.
PAUL: Well, the next one we have is, Amber, do you want to explain what we do on random Sundays?
AMBER: So on random Sundays, we go to random coffee spots that we see and when we're doing stuff.
AMBER: So this time we went to Sumatra Cafe.
AMBER: It was amazing.
PAUL: Sumatra Cafe is in Windcoat, PA. We just happened to be out there on an errand and it was just a spur of the moment kind of thing.
PAUL: It was like, Hey, you know what?
PAUL: Let's look and see if they have any coffee shops around here.
PAUL: So what did you get?
AMBER: I got an ice coffee that had vanilla in it and it also had some, I believe it was caramel, caramel, caramel, it's a caramel cold foam that had some other stuff in it and I forget what it was, but it was delicious.
AMBER: I think that was one of the best coffees I've had.
PAUL: Yes, I would, I would agree.
PAUL: So if you happen to be in Windcoat, you can first of all, read our extensive article on our trip there.
PAUL: I want to send a big thank you out to the man behind the counter, Terry.
PAUL: He was great.
PAUL: He taught, like he actually, I actually got to talk to him for a little bit and he actually provided us a segment that we're going to do on the next podcast.
PAUL: So Amber, do you want to introduce it or do you want me?
AMBER: I think you should, because I don't know the name of it.
AMBER: Also, before we say anything more, we also had some coffee cake, which was amazing.
PAUL: Oh yeah, it was really good.
AMBER: Oh my god, I loved it so much.
AMBER: I think that's my favorite part of that, is the coffee cake.
PAUL: Okay, very good.
PAUL: So during the course of my discussion with Terry, I told him how much I liked coffee and that I ran this podcast and that I was going to be writing about the cafe.
PAUL: I just wanted to let them know it's not something that I often have done because I don't want people to think that I'm looking for handouts or anything like that.
PAUL: We're always going to pay for our coffee and stuff like that.
PAUL: That's what we like to do.
PAUL: We like to go to random places and just tell people what they can expect when they get there.
PAUL: That's the idea behind it.
PAUL: So when we're standing there, as I was standing there, Terry said that he was going to gift me a sampling of coffee.
PAUL: And I said, oh, that's really good.
PAUL: Thank you so much.
PAUL: I was not expecting that because I had just bought a pound or 10 ounces of coffee.
PAUL: We both looked over and found one that we are
PAUL: going to be reviewing and enjoying later on.
AMBER: Yes, I'm hoping it's very amazing because, uh, yeah.
PAUL: All right.
PAUL: But the cool thing is he actually said, so I have Luwak coffee.
PAUL: And I looked at him and I said I was unfamiliar with it off the off the top of my head.
PAUL: And I said Luwak coffee.
PAUL: He goes, yeah, Luwak.
PAUL: And I said, wait a minute, do you mean Kopi Luwak coffee?
PAUL: And he goes, yeah.
PAUL: And then I realized after we walked away and as I did some research on this, Kopi is actually the Indonesian word for coffee.
PAUL: So he said he had Luwak coffee and I said he had coffee Luwak coffee.
PAUL: So yeah, that, that's why he looked at me like that, but he gave us this incredibly expensive and wonderful coffee.
PAUL: So I am going to, we are going to have it on our next show.
PAUL: We would have had it today, but I forgot, but, um, we are, we are going to be enjoying it during the thing.
PAUL: I will explain all about what makes Kopi Luwak coffee so interesting.
PAUL: And, uh, yeah.
AMBER: Also, to turn back, I know we were forgetting about this, we are going to be talking about the little kangaroo.
AMBER: His name is Doodlebug.
AMBER: And Doodlebug is another animal that actually is…
AMBER: I think it got adopted, but it carries around a little
AMBER: teddy bear and it's kinda like a little buddy same with uh… punch the monkey but i think all we have today
PAUL: Alright, so if you are looking for this episode or any of its episodic brethren, you can find them at c-a-f-f-i-n-a-t-i-o-n dot com.
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PAUL: So either one, either way, it'll eventually get to us.
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AMBER: Stay caffeinated.
PAUL: Thanks for tuning in.