Thick & Hardy Pickleball Vibes | Pt. 2 Brian Bradley w/ Structural Health Expert

We’re coming in hot with:
 🔹 Thick & Hardy: the jean brand that never was
 🔹 Gas station snacks as adult therapy
 🔹 Why your warmup should not include stretching before pickleball
🔹 “I eat meat but identify as vegan” — Brian Bradley’s wellness mic drop

Plus, Brian Bradley from the structural health world joins us to talk about fixing your body from the inside out, biohacking smarter, and why structural alignment is the flossing of fitness.

🎧 Listen now before Summerween becomes a felony.
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Chapters

• 1:51 Kitchen Talk - Hot takes, weird news, and what’s on our minds this week
• 11:30 Just The Tip - Pickleball Wisdom
• 12:17 Pickle Pals - Deep Dive with a Pickleball Court, Club or Influencer
• 24:00 Dink or Destroy- This-or-that debate: Love it or trash it?
• 31:21 News You Can Use
• 35:10 Wrap-Up & CTA - Final thoughts, shoutouts, and how to engage with us

Transcript

Speaker 3 (00:00.462)
We had to go to Thicken Hardy or whatever it's called. my gosh. Wait, isn't that called Thicken Hardy? That's A1 sauce? That's A1 sauce? My gosh. What is it called?

Now Now it is. Close you where I thick and hardy.

Speaker 2 (00:14.616)
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Speaker 2 (01:48.022)
In our kitchen talk today for the uninitiated, I'll just let you know the kitchen talk is where we're just hanging out. Grab your drinks, sit around with us. And this is something, I don't know why I always start this way, but this is something that came up in my week and I felt like I had to address because it really impacted me. I felt a certain way about it. But for me, I've shared it before, I grew up kind of poor-ish. We could see middle-class, we were adjacent to middle-class, but we weren't even middle-class. So if you grew up poor and I think kind of we all kind of have that vibe.

That's why we're playing pickleball so we can just shove those feelings way down with our pickleball. What's something weird you maybe do now to make up for it? So, you you didn't grow up with all the fancy, the frills and all that. What is something maybe you do now to make up for that?

So why we're not playing golf in tennis?

Speaker 3 (02:35.468)
I was a little bit like Ricky Schroeder. I had the train.

Silver spoon. Silver spoon in it.

I used to watch that show and be like, my God. now I think, my God, it's the-

Clutter. Video games in his house, the train.

I just am like the clutter. But back then, you thought, Richie Rich. I would say mine would be, I do it with my kids more than, well, I guess myself too, but I just let them get stuff at the gas station. We never got to do that. Maybe once a month, if my mom was getting gas, she'd be like, do you wanna Snapple or a Clearly Canadian or something like that?

Speaker 2 (03:13.868)
a snap of the drink that snaps back.

And it was like, my God, we can get something. And then now I feel like every fricking day I'm like, it's fine. I like Chico sticks. Yeah, I do. yeah. And the Laffy Tab. But no, we would only get drinks. Like we weren't allowed to even get a snack. Yeah. You know, but now it's like grab whatever you want. It's like $47 at the gas

Did you ever get that Chico stick?

Speaker 1 (03:31.854)
There you go.

Speaker 2 (03:42.83)
Yeah, but our kids are so far ahead of where I was like they have a savings account They have a cash app card they can go they can make their decisions that you know They have they have Amazon Prime. Yeah, son has Amazon Prime at 15. Yeah, he chooses to pay for that and he buys stuff

But that's I mean for me that's something that I overcompensate for like and

because we weren't allowed That's a question. How do you overcompensate for your mac and cheese days? Right. Yeah, I mean, we still have mac and cheese.

But yeah, that would be mine would be, you I'm like, go ahead and get whatever you want. Unless it's Bucky's, because I ain't try to walk out there $150. Yeah.

Valid.

Speaker 2 (04:18.7)
Yeah. What about you, paddle princess?

This one is hard for me, because I grew up pretty spoiled.

Yeah, I'm what show breaks. What was the word? spoiled. Thank you for translating.

Spoiled?

You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (04:34.626)
Yes, I grew up pretty spoiled anything that I mean we weren't by far We were not rich, but we pretty much got anything that we wanted I mean I remember one time begging my parents for a trampoline and my dad said no and I asked my grandma and I had one in the backyard that day like All I had to do is ask grandma. I got what I wanted but one thing that like

But I'm well.

I find myself doing that I didn't do. Like as a kid, I would use my shampoo and like it would be empty and I would put water in it and mix it so that I could use more. And now I'm like, if I don't like that shampoo, I'm not going to use it. I'm going to throw it away. I'm not going to hoard it. use it. Shampoos, perfumes. I don't keep all of the perfumes that were gifted to me that I don't like. It's a good one. If I don't like them, I'm getting rid of it.

You don't have to.

Speaker 3 (05:22.371)
Yeah, that's

My husband has been a big proponent of this because he hates the abundance of things that we have because I do tend to hoard. I think that that's a trait that I got from my

But if you don't like sweet pea lotion, No, why do I have? I mean, could give it to somebody else.

And I do, I try to give a lot of my lotions and things like that that I've never used to friends, family, things like those lines. for instance, I just purchased this shampoo and conditioner set and it wasn't an expensive one, it was just Walmart. But I don't like it, it left my hair greasy and nasty and I'm sitting there going, well I paid for it, I gotta use it and David, my husband, he's like, throw it away because I'm tired of hearing you complain about it and go get new shampoo. It was $4.

Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:10.158)
Yeah, so for me, I guess I just like always, I have a ton. It just kind of rose to the top. I mean, that's why I brought this up. Like in our house, I put the air conditioning to 68 at night, especially at night. When I come home and I take off my, people say bulletproof vest, it's not really bulletproof, bullet resistant vest. When I take off my vest and all my gear and all that stuff, I do not want to remain hot, especially here in the United States of Texas. It is,

hot. I want to be, yeah, I want to be cool when I take my stuff off. another one is name brand cereal. We buy name brand cereal and I don't, it's not that I wouldn't eat the Malto meal or whatever the name, the non name brand is. Equate. Equate. Equate. But I just, I never had the boxes, you know, and if I did, was, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, it was very, uh, yeah, circly fruit.

Yeah, we do by name brand series

Speaker 3 (07:02.562)
Their goals for Fruit Loops.

Speaker 2 (07:08.302)
It was very rare to get the box. And the only place we did get the good name brand was my grandmother's house. And grandma had the good stuff. The cookie crisp and all that kind of stuff.

We I don't think we got a lot of brand name cereal growing up either. Well, I mean I make it sound like we were like I say it like that but It wasn't bad. It's just that's just how our parents generation grew up like yes So that's just what they did, know, and I mean it wasn't like we couldn't you know, right? had to rub two sticks together, but just looking back we were just frugal

When we are on the side of the track

Speaker 1 (07:44.558)
Yes, that's how I grew up as well. My mom would be like, okay, well, you know, this costs this much, this costs this much. It's the same thing. We're getting the cheaper one. I mean, why buy something just for the brand? And I remember the first time that I wanted to go to like Abercrombie and get like really name brand clothes. Cause those were the, that was the only store that sold my size jeans. And my mom about had a heart attack when she found out how much they cost. No, it was Abercrombie kids. And it was a 12 slim and I was like 17, but.

Wasn't Gap Kid.

Speaker 1 (08:14.08)
I had to get the 12 slim because I was like a stick, but I was so short that I couldn't wear like a double zero because I would be way too long.

were my double zeros? Yes, yes. Never. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:32.182)
I'm all those Rockies though.

We had to go to Thicken Hardy or whatever it's called. my gosh. Wait, isn't that called Thicken Hardy? That's A1 sauce.

I guess.

Speaker 2 (08:40.908)
I it is. Close you where I thick and hardy. I got a high calorie wife over here.

What is it called? H-H-H-H-H

we went to Hefty

my gosh. Damn it, stop. You know what I meant. Thicken, not thick and hardy.

Just like Apple bottom. Yeah, thick and hardy same thing. What else is a gene sponsor by a one? Yeah

Speaker 3 (09:15.362)
Poor and

One of the other things I noticed I do, and I didn't notice this till I started thinking about it, but like when we get something to put together in this house, whatever it is, I keep all the extra nuts and bolts. Like I'm hoarding them. They're all on the tool button. They're organized around the toolbox, but I don't throw away like extra nuts and bolts. I'm in the dad zone, I guess now where I'm like this, that we'll have a project one time where this specific bolt.

and combo here with the screw and the washer and all this is going to fix a problem. So yeah, yeah, that's, that's another one. And I hoard clothes, you know this. And I don't know where that stems from, we did not.

I do.

I'm like, we can let go of the Mossy Mo and Tommy Hilfiger from 1999, please.

Speaker 3 (10:08.504)
They're going to come back.

I still have clothes from high school and I graduated from high school well over 20 years.

If they fit, it- no. No.

if it fits a chip. You know why I'm keeping the cross colors? I might go on a Carnival cruise at some point. That's true. I might fit in.

Wore them last night.

Speaker 3 (10:21.486)
You look it in. You did used to wear cross colors though. I, yeah. I'm just saying. That wasn't a J'carre too. That wasn't a joke, folks.

That's okay, okay.

Or no art.

And Tommy Hilfiger. Heck yeah. So tell us what yours are. If you grew up poor or poorish or adjacent to poor or near poor or you saw poor or even you saw people and you wore A1 thick and hardy jeans. BDEpodcast.com or on the social big ding energy podcast.

Just the two

Speaker 2 (10:53.614)
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All right for just the tip this week, we're gonna go over the safe zone So there's two safe zones either back at the baseline for returning serves or up at the kitchen to Volley and win the point that middle area. That is what we call no man's land. We Nobody so that's no man's land. You're too far back to dink You're too close up to hit any drives. So you're just standing there looking all nervous

Yes.

Speaker 3 (11:57.25)
So either get in and get out. Hovering in the middle is how you lose points and pretty much your dignity.

That's where dignity goes to die. Love it.

Just the two

Speaker 2 (12:11.502)
It's time for Pickle Pals!

Speaker 2 (12:17.698)
Welcome back to part two with Brian Bradley. If you thought part one was good, this one goes even deeper. Quick reminder, Brian is still offering that free 15 minute console. DM him on Instagram at TheBrianBradley and say, Big Dink Energy sent me. Let's jump in. I have IR that I use on different parts of my body. I don't have the sonnet yet.

Do you have an infrared sauna?

Speaker 4 (12:38.092)
You guys will 51 % drop in all heart related mortality after two days. So that would be my number one recommendation to people in the biohacking world. would just say, look, we all like heat. mean, I know you guys in Texas right now, you hate the heat, but you like the heat as long as the house is air conditioned. You'd get in the ingrat's on us. So I have it in my garage. That's fine. I did the cold plunge this morning. It was only like 38 degrees. So I did three minutes. Fine. I get out of that. You can feel like you run through a brick wall, but the boosted testosterone from the cold and then the

cellular effects from the heat shock proteins at night in the infrared, I'm bookending the day with start finish along with hydrogen water and danger or bulletproof coffee. And then I ended up picking up one of those blackstone grills, the flat ones, you the griddle.

Yeah, yeah, we got it. is dude. Yeah, you get better food that way. You're putting better fuel in. If you want to have a Ferrari, you're not just going to get 88 octane, you know what mean? And so many people want to have a Ferrari as far as their body, but the fuel they're putting into and the maintenance they do is so minor and ridiculous. They're never going to have what they're trying to achieve with it.

And with younger kids, like my son had a game yesterday, he's home from college and he's playing in a pretty high level men's league and they're in the semifinals and they're going to the finals on Wednesday and they won pretty handily over a team, blah, blah, blah. And I said, well, what are you going to do? He goes, I'm just going to take a couple bottles of water, drink them on the way down there. And I said, you're just going to drink water. said, here's some electrolyte. He goes, well, you know, I had some salt on my steak this morning. go, no, we're pouring that on there. That's what I need you to drink because it'll sustain you for the game. Like, why wouldn't you, if you just said, no, I already have gas in my car. Well, here's little bit more.

Like why would you turn down more when you know you're going on the track so I don't have to stop again? So, you know, sometimes you have to break the belief system that people can really affect themselves. So for the listeners out there, take me up on the idea of at least getting some of the exercises from us because I have a link that I can send you, you know, that will run up there where they can say, at least I want to do these exercises or, you know, I have this pain-free book over my left shoulder in here. The yellow version is the one that's in Amazon right now. It's a $15 book. Get the Amazon book called Pain Free because

Speaker 4 (14:45.664)
you can start doing a self-help thing or eventually you're going to be investing in me. I want that, but only if you're truly ready to invest in yourself.

And that's sometimes the problem that people have is they want the performance and then they think, and now of course they think, AI will give me what I'm looking for. There's no substitute for a human that's been studying something for years and years and years to take a look at you specifically, to fix you specifically. You're not a piece of furniture from Ikea. You're an individual that has different.

you know, different makeup, different values, different background, and different goals. So, you know, I encourage everybody that's listening, however you're listening to this to seek out Brian and his offer here and go after what you want. You, you can have better outcomes. You can have less inflammation and you can just enjoy life even more. You'll actually like getting out of bed. You know, when you take that step to invest in yourself, to, you know, sort of

in a way biohack what you currently have.

Yeah, it would be nice if people could wake up and say, okay, what do I have for the day versus going, okay, I need my coffee versus I want my coffee because I use a mold free coffee for, I can get people that recipe too because it's a game changer.

Speaker 2 (16:09.408)
You mentioned bulletproof already.

stuff is good for you. A lot of times, know, an RFK and what they're changing mentally now is they're starting to realize the sugar fix we've been on for the last 50 years. gosh. Cheerios with oat milk is good for you when it's completely inflammatory for the system.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, people, you, some, the modern medical, you would think it would be getting better, but it's, I, I know, there's, well, we all know, you know, there's no benefit for them curing you. They need a patient for life. And if we would just have conversations around sugar, and your doctor would have a conversation with you about sugar, especially people suffering, you know, cancer diagnosis alone. I mean, we would, we'd start building, we'd start having better people out there.

100 % here imagine they're already finding that the ADHD by pulling high fructose corn syrup and coloring and fluoride out of stuff has already been affected now Can you imagine if we find out I'm gonna venture out and say when we find out that we created the ADHD at the level that it is because I have a version of ADHD which I hold on to and I just tell people like it's a superpower I can walk into a room where I'm doing therapy with people there could be four other people getting worked on and I can hear it

And when I hear something that doesn't make sense, go, excuse me, one second. If you put the leg off the table, you might get a little bit more internal rotation. yeah, that's because the heel was there. And they're like, I missed that. said, no, don't go to self judgment. Don't go to judging it. Just learn from it. Do it again. Because we all go, I made a mistake versus saying, I know what I don't know and I'm okay with that. You know, I mean, that's, that's why in the biohacking world, I've made enough of a name for myself where I, know just enough to be dangerous. You know, the experts who do the Carol bike know that an eight minute ride

Speaker 4 (17:47.606)
is equivalent to a 47 minute run, eight minutes. That gets me 47 minus eight, 39 minutes of my life back. my gosh. What? So when I adopted this five years ago, okay, great. That means I can spend 10 more minutes on the power plate. I can do two 12 minute sessions on the biocharger. That's what all these things are. Like that's a Tesla coil. There's the Carol bike. I mean, these things are no joke. I, I, I do them because the three guys I'm going to play with this afternoon at five 30.

they're gonna get a good dose of what it's like to be healthy.

So for our listener, for the average rec player, like my wife and I, I think she was with her sister when she did that, what's the pregame warmup you would recommend for the majority of people? Everybody's body is different obviously, but what you would consider, okay, here's a great Brian stamped approval warmup.

Stop stretching. It's a waste of your time. Number one, you can stretch tight tissue all you want and then wonder why the next day it's just as tight. Instead, remember a muscle has two attachments. For example, the hamstring you're attaching to the pelvis and then below the knee. So if you look at the two bones you're attaching to, maybe those bones and the position or the tilt they're in have an effect on how much tension's in that muscle. When you're trying to stretch the muscle, your chiro or your osteopath are the closest people to correcting you. Now let's make their job easier by doing a little bit of work. So I wouldn't just think about

inactively stretching before you play and then thinking that dink is going to warm you up. I would do something to change your alignment of your shoulder blades and wake up your big hip flexor called your psoas. call that the circuit breaker for the body.

Speaker 2 (19:27.65)
Yeah, man, the so as is so, so freaking important. If people aren't paying attention to that, they're missing the mark.

My dog's behind me and he just, he basically just hotbox my office, know Frenchies. So that means my diaphragm is working because I can smell his butt. There's the psoas and diaphragm working together. And when you get one to work with the other, your cardio will automatically increase because now you're going to be in your diaphragm to breathe and your shoulder is the unlocking mechanism for And because we play a one-sided sport, meaning everything's done with the right arm, left arm's there to help.

There it is, yep.

Speaker 4 (20:01.656)
but it's mainly done with the right arm, just like a golfer, just like a tennis, just like a fighter. There's a favorite side. You're building a rotational scoliosis into your body, which shuts down breathing. When you choose to bring that back to normal, it'll pay you back in spades. Be ready for the next day.

That is awesome.

So there's a lot of stuff on my Instagram and people can DM me there too because I want to have these conversations. I want them to be a little skeptical going, Brian, I'm a physical therapist and you know, when a person has this, it can't be that quick. And I'm like, can you imagine what your therapy would be like if you had a little bit more faith in what the human body can do?

I know. I know. Yeah. It's, get so frustrated at the industry that just sells people pills and quick fixes and doesn't teach people how, you know, like, like we said earlier, putting good fuel in and, improving your chassis will, will give you results like nothing else. Yeah. And I heard, I heard you mentioned you're a vegan too. So I wanted to talk about that a little bit. Yeah.

You're right. It's cheating.

Speaker 4 (21:04.654)
In fact, my last post, you'll see my sweatshirt that says, I eat meat, but I identify as a vegan. And what I do is I just store the vegetables in the cow and then, you know, then I eat the cows. And that's why I hooked up with that company, Forward Farms, because they're a net zero emissions cattle farm. Net zero. So between that and my electric bike, dude, I'm an environmentalist.

I believe it. Absolutely. I mean, you're saving the planet one steak at a time. I love that. We have a doctor that raises no hormone beef for us. I can almost eat a steak at night. Okay. So give me the two minute argument why someone should care about structural health. We've been saying it all along here, but let's put a bow on it for people.

Only brush the teeth you want to keep. Brush and floss the teeth you want to keep makes sense to everybody. Your joints are no different. Your blood supply, your lymph supply, the way you breathe is no different. And you don't have to hack with the 7,000 things to do when on my Instagram it says, purposefully, I'm the dude you want in your corner as you age. Because I'm going to tell you and sniff out the BS for you. So those of you who are out there, be T-H-E Brian Bradley. And now listen, let me.

Hit me up! What's the handle?

B-R-I-A-N, B-R-A-D-L-E-Y. The Brian Bradley. Now let me just be clear. I'm not that narcissistic. Okay, I'm narcissistic, but I'm not that narcissistic. Brian Bradley, who played for the Tampa Bay Lightning, just got put into the Hall of Fame and he wouldn't sell it to me, so I just put the in front of it. The Brian Bradley. I do answer my own DMs. Just tell me where you guys came from, what podcast, how much we will BS about how much we all love pickleball, but I'm in love with you falling in love with yourself.

Speaker 2 (22:29.038)
What a jerk he is.

Speaker 4 (22:41.238)
Like aligning your car. You wouldn't even want to drive a car that was wearing down your front left tire every six months because you're sick and tired of paying for a new tire. Fix the alignment and it'll last three years.

That's right. So all of you go find the Brian Bradley over on the Instagram. He has already said he's going to talk to everybody that reached out to him from the BDE podcast. He's going to give you 15 minutes and that will be 15 minutes that will change your life. I'll tell you that's true. Absolutely. So go find him on everything. Send him all the love. Send people in your life that need to hear from Brian Bradley as well. You know you've got loved ones out there that aren't living the best life they can. not driving the Ferrari they want to drive and they're not having the outcomes they want to have.

Please send them over to this man right here. He is going to help like you would not believe. Brian, I'm so thankful we met virtually. can't wait to meet in person. I know we'll do that and we'll stay connected, brother. I'm so appreciative of you being on the podcast.

I appreciate you and thank you so much for your service. I can't put enough out there to my military friends and the thin blue line, the red line, everybody. I have so many Navy SEALs and my business partner is a Marine, retired from Vietnam. So I've been around this for so long. So there's a special place in my heart for you guys. Love what you guys do. Guy, I appreciate it and I'll catch up to you later.

Speaker 2 (24:02.51)
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So on Dink or Destroy, this is something we choose to dink, send it over the net, it's thumbs up for us, or it's a thumbs down, we destroy it. And this week, in this episode, I wanted to talk about self-checkouts that- No. Yes, self-checkout or cashier. And I think we're seeing an uprising here lately, where people are demanding that cashiers come back. And I wanted to hear your all's take on it, what you think about it. Do you use a self-checkout? Do you not use a self-checkout?

Okay.

Speaker 3 (24:59.938)
I have my groceries delivered, so I don't use any checkout. However, at the other stores, I enjoy self-checkout, especially because I'm only picking up a couple things. But, like at Five Below, Five and Below, Five Below, whatever, they changed everything over to self-checkout. But now, you're not allowed to self-checkout. So, the lady stands there, walks to the self-checkout with you, and takes your stuff and self-checkouts you. They're not, so they went back and they don't allow people to self-checkout anymore, but all they have...

is self-checkout areas. I don't know, cause I was like, I got it. And she was like, no, we have to do it. And I was like, well,

I'm valet-ing my gross- my-

Speaker 2 (25:36.086)
because people are scamming the system like they at Walmart and everywhere else will self check out. yeah, all these stores that thought they were getting over saving money on getting rid of actual people figured out they started losing people. And that's why you have the people hovering around you and the Walmart self checkout because I don't know if y'all know, but Walmart is able, every one of those people is able to see what goes through and get scanned.

Well, Target has the cameras up there too. Yeah. Which you look terrible in. Yeah.

The over shot. lord. The only time an over shot is good is if I'm putting something together as a tutorial.

my gosh.

It just, that I looked up one day and I was like, damn, like what is, what is that? But speaking of.

Speaker 2 (26:16.738)
Was that where you were buying your A1 Thick and Hardy pants?

But like we were talking about tip culture last episode. It's like, well, I ain't getting extra paid to check out my own groceries. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, now I'm doing all the work and.

Yeah, well, and so then it extends a little bit further because then they have the person at the door ready to your receipt. get involved in my purchases and you'll know if I paid for them or not. absolutely. And yeah, there was a big uproar on social media about that. I'm not stopping. And then people are like, you legally don't have to stop. I'm like, what does it take out of your day?

After the fact check.

Speaker 3 (26:52.556)
and now if you do go you know this

Just make it $5 an hour.

They don't care. But like the receipt comes in my phone now, you know, because you use the Walmart app or whatever. And so, and I forget and then you go to walk out and I'm like, hold on. And then I got to pull up my app and pull up the thing. that's frustrating. you see it's a case of water, whatever it is, you know. Yeah. It's my A1 sauce. So let it go.

Yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't like that, you know, I'm overheating. If something interrupts the process, that gets me even more frustrated. Cause then I gotta go find the one person you assigned to this area, the red lights

yes sharpies. Yeah. Yeah, had to wait around because I was buying a ding sharpie. Yeah I was like look at Target. Look at this video. Damn you see You see I'm over 18 or whatever. Yes

Speaker 2 (27:40.919)
If you've got those high speed cameras, can't you check the wrinkles on my face? Feet. Let them go. let them go. They probably should be huffing paint.

Look at my crows.

Speaker 1 (27:49.777)
my gosh.

Yeah, but then you see these other things on the social media news or whatever where these people walk out with like five TVs and stolen and it's like, you're checking my cart for the bleach and water.

I that shoplifting at Lowe's at one time because they didn't care. I saw this person clearly walking out with a whole flatbed cart worth of, you know, thousand dollars worth of stuff and the lady was following behind her asking to stop, but she wasn't. So I got involved. I'm not going to let you raise any prices at my Lowe's with stealing stuff.

Yeah, yeah, I don't I mean I like self-checkout. like to do my own thing I don't have to wait on anybody on how to talk to anybody I don't have to do anything if it's working the correct way And I don't have a crap ton of stuff because there's no conveyor belt Yeah, so you're like just digging back and forth, so I think it's good in some circumstances. I mean I like it

It depends. Like you said, if I only have like a handful of things, then totally fine. I'm down for self-checkout because it gets me out of there faster. I just want to get out of the store at that point because too many people. But if I have an entire cart full, which hasn't happened in years because I had to get my groceries delivered, but if the odd chance that I do, I just want to put them on the belt. I don't want to bag them. I don't want to scan them.

Speaker 3 (28:59.598)
I'm tell you, I don't know, I ain't trying to weigh no bananas, don't know those codes. Because you know, they're fast with those codes. they, know, scan groceries all day. But I'm like, I don't know what this organic apple is, nine five one five seven.

No, I don't

I'm for honey, Chris. I'm looking for the first thing that looks like an apple.

And I don't want to wait for somebody to come and scan their little badge and be like, okay, she's over 21. You can give her her wine. Just, are you buying wine? No, no, never.

And I don't want to be there whispering to a machine like, sorry, when I screw something up.

Speaker 1 (29:31.354)
Or when it tells you that you didn't put it in your bag. Like, it's right! I'm sorry that it's a card and it doesn't weigh more than anything, but it's in the bag.

is so aggravating.

Right there!

Speaker 3 (29:42.926)
That is agor- I think it's better now. Like when it originally started it was terrible. So bad. Like it would beep at you a hundred times. But I mean, I guess I'm a dink. I like it.

put your stuff in the banking area

Speaker 2 (29:55.834)
It's convenient, but like you said, I gotta put some caveats on it when it's working the way it should. When I don't have to get on a first name basis with the wait for help guy. Or I don't have to argue over my yogurt coupon.

You're not bringing no yogurt coupons.

Sometimes I do, I'll surprise the thing. I sneak up on it, come from the side. Yeah, it's a thing for me. It's convenient when it's working right.

Speaker 1 (30:18.71)
Yeah, I guess it's a it's a middle of the road.

side thumb. Yeah.

Sidewinder

I can't dink it fully and I can't destroy it fully. I also heard like some companies that are charging more to use the self checkout and call it like a convenience. And I'm like, no.

No, I'm doing the work. You got rid of your employee. bring more money into this thing. You did it to save money. Where I do find a lot of value in it is at fast food places. I don't want to interact with anybody that... Because you're going to get my order wrong.

Speaker 3 (30:47.887)
yeah, like at McDonald's. McDonald's, you type it in on the big iPad. Yeah.

I find a lot of value. It's a touch screen. It's touch screen. She is today with you, huh? The terms you're just coming up with. Loving it. there you go. I'm loving it. All right, tell us what you think. Do you enjoy the self checkout? Do you enjoy the cashier? A combo of both. Do you want your cashier to self check you out? I don't know. Go to Five and Blow. If you want that, let us know. BD podcast.com.

Not a big iPad.

Speaker 3 (31:04.366)
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Speaker 3 (31:21.376)
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The delicious dish. So here's some news you could use. just learned about this and it may be out for a while and I'm just slow to the whatever, the life. Have you heard of summer ween? good. So summer ween.

Speaker 2 (32:07.822)
Can zip her down?

Well, when I learned about it, I first thought she said, when the lady was telling me, have you heard of this? I thought she said summer's Eve and we were going to get into a whole discussion. Why are we talking about this? But anyways, it's not, it's called Summerween. And so I had to look it up, but it's like a playful mashup between Halloween and summer. And so it originally started with the cartoon Gravity Falls. They had it in Gravity Falls. But then now everybody like real, real world tractions. It's like,

becoming major. Like Walmart even rolled out summer frights in like a thousand of their stores. So basically it's like, you know, you take like a pineapple or a watermelon and cut it into like a jack-o-lantern. They have like skeletons floating on the pools. Like you make everything summer and Halloween kind of like Christmas in July.

Yeah, so I'm thinking great for capitalism, 100%.

Jack Skellington in a bikini.

Speaker 3 (33:08.128)
I love Halloween, so I'm all about doing it twice. Like, I think this is a cute party idea. You can, you know, do a little bit of dress up and then more candy, of course, but just cute little things that you could do, you know? I thought it was pretty cool. Never heard of it. Currently, it's becoming big. Brands are treating Summerween as a potential fifth candy holiday, targeting Gen Z millennials with early candy launches and spooky goods in June and July.

Never heard of

summer.

Speaker 2 (33:36.735)
sugar is behind this.

Retailers note 66 % of consumers start Halloween shopping June through August. What? So not me. If I buy Reese's now, they are not staying till Halloween. That's why I would participate in it. Is so I could get Reese's.

Stay till ho-

Summerween. Summerween. The summerween ain't blowin' in.

Oh my gosh. It is interesting. don't know about it.

Speaker 3 (33:58.07)
Interesting, right? You want to have a pool party and do like

This is kind of like all the holidays that Hallmark developed, like Valentine's Day, dumbest holiday ever. Summerween is developed by Big Sugar. I see you, Big Sugar, I see what you're doing out there.

Yeah, but I like Halloween.

I Halloween too, but I feel like it has a time and a place, just like all of the other holidays. know, June is real summery.

Guess I'm not gonna see a Jack O'Millen at your house. No.

Speaker 1 (34:27.822)
June is when you bring out the pineapples and the summer decorations and then July is all red white and blue.

I mean, you could do campfires and s'mores

Excuse me. Pulled up at the house today. Were you thinking, let's do a campfire?

Well, it's a hundred and something here in Texas, but you know what I'm saying? I like it. Halloween or Summerween A1.

sounds like a crime. sounds like a crime. I'm pulling someone over. I'm like, sir, you have your summer ween out. You got to come with me. Go get your summer ween on and send us some pictures of your summer ween.

Speaker 3 (35:04.056)
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2 (35:18.36)
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