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How do you navigate the emotional rollercoaster of a loved one's health struggles? Join us for a heartfelt episode of the Powerspoint Podcast, where we blend laughter and tears. We start with some light-hearted banter and a catchy hot dog song before diving into a deeply personal story about my mother's recent health challenges. Facing themes of family, guilt, and the preciousness of our relationships, we talk openly about how these events have disrupted our podcast schedule and my motivation, and the incredible strength and support I've found in my wife during these trying times.
Ever tried to catch a bug without harming it? We share our hilarious experiences with a bug vacuum gun and Jimmy's adventures at an invention camp that sparks kids' creativity. As we reminisce about our less structured childhoods, we also touch on some recent space news that captures our imagination. Our conversation then shifts to the fast-food industry, discussing the closure of Pizza Hut locations in northwest Indiana and the downfall of Burger King's service and infrastructure.
Do you prefer ketchup, mustard, or something more exotic on your hot dog? We debate this and more as we dive into a spirited discussion about hot dogs. From personal favorites and regional variations to the ever-controversial question of whether a hot dog is a sandwich, this segment is packed with fun and flavor. We even explore childhood memories, unique topping combinations, and the drama of hot dog eating contests. Wrapping up with some hot dog wisdom, we remind you that sometimes, a simple treat can make the world a bit brighter.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the Powerspoint Podcast, scott and I do a little catching up with each other and we talk about what else? Hot dogs. Hey Scott, grill us up a beat. I'm a hot dog, I'm a hot dog. I'm a hot dog. Look at me, look at me. I'm a hot dog. I'm a hot dog, I'm a hot dog. Look at me. Look at me Looky, looky, looky, looky. I'm a hot dog, I'm a hot dog. Look at me, look at me Looky, looky, looky, looky. I'm a hot dog. Everybody party I'm a hot dog.
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Speaker 1:Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me.
Speaker 2:look at me, I'm a hot dog. Well, hello, hello. Welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 20. Jim, we're finally here. We're back. Yes, we're back. Folks, and this is mostly well, it's all because of me.
Speaker 1:you know that we've taken this hiatus and the emails have been piling up and asking what's going on.
Speaker 2:Oh, no wait, I would say, no, we just just got one. It's from my mom, you know, but that's the whole problem, not not her email, uh, but yeah, so I I've been like so busy last month, so stressed out, so and thank you for being patient with me on this, and uh, so yeah, my mom, she's been really super sick. Uh, I at one time I didn't think she was going to make it. She couldn't move, she was introducing me as her brother and uh, uh, yeah, she couldn't talk, she couldn't do anything. I, you know, I like I was hand feeding her at the hospital and you know I even had to do like the airplane thing.
Speaker 1:Come on open up the runway air.
Speaker 2:You know like stick it up your nose in a minute here and I'm like this is embarrassing, you know, on her and I'm trying to do it, you know, because she's 76 and uh, and doctors don't even know what happened to her, which is the crazy thing. So spending my time in the hospital and now she's in the nursing home and that's good because she progressed, she got better.
Speaker 2:She was refusing to take her medications and that kind of like offset everything you know for weeks. So she's better now, but she's still on that like can go either way. Yeah, you know, if people don't watch her and it's, it's, it's very like unnerving, you know, because I've always said I'd never had a relationship with my mom. Really, you know, we always fight for like 52 years and I came out arguing with her, you know and all this a birth it's, it's. It was a little tight in this place.
Speaker 1:You know, no, serve it, nope, no drinks or nothing. It took my, my water away, my food supply and it off for me. Marty's starting off bad and literally.
Speaker 2:But no, you know, and then I was sitting here one day, you know like, when she first went to the hospital and I was like I don't care, you know, like she's always in there, and then this time I I legit didn't think she was gonna make it, so the guilt was getting me and yeah, you know like, oh man, I better go hang out with her, because I don't want it to be, when she's not here, like, oh, I should have did this, I should have did that. You know, I don't want to be one of those people because, you know, I know a lot of people are like, oh, I wish my parents are still here, you know, and you don't know what it's like until they're gone one day and nobody's picking up the phone when he called them because they're no longer here, you know, and I don't want to miss that opportunity to get like a little bit of a relationship with my mom.
Speaker 1:So, as best you can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as best as I can, and now she's like calling me every like half hour. Can you, as we speak, my phone?
Speaker 1:just went off. She heard what you just said you know like.
Speaker 2:Now she's like can you give me arby's? And I'm like I, I don't know if you can eat arby's. You know, like you know. And then she'll call and she's like hey, can you get me a diet pepsi? I'm like yeah, oh, yeah, sure, you know you're 76, I'm not gonna deny you whatever you want.
Speaker 2:So get it yourself, right, right. So that's where I've been, that's where we've been as as a podcast, you know, and I I was thinking about this, but I well, geez, now she won't stop, uh, it's. You know, honestly, I wasn't thinking about this, just the editing parts, for what what threw me off?
Speaker 1:and then I was so unmotivated by everything that was going on, that well, yeah, it's a change you're, you're worn down because all of a sudden you're introduced to all this stuff you got to do and me and the wife went through this with her mother and when she was, uh, deteriorating and stuff, and it was just like, like you said, it's all day consuming. You're thinking about it. When you're not thinking about it, you have to react and go do something or get something, and then the rest of your normal life, or your regular life, tries to like come into and it's like good god yeah, you know, and one thing that's getting me through this and is is my wife, you know, like she's, she's like always been my rock here and she's like you know, don't have regrets, go go, you know.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, well, now I'm taking time away from them, you know, and then I would go sit at the hospital for a few hours and then I'd go to work you hospital for a few hours and then I go to work, you know, or more than a few hours.
Speaker 1:so I come home, I sleep and then get up and go there, go there, so, and then, uh, we're late with the podcast today with the uh comfort you can have, like you said earlier, that, um, at least now that she's in a place that can give 24-hour attention and that'll like, instead of a hospital where, where they they're like yeah, I don't know, but this one they have special nurses that come around and deal with this situation. You know it's similar, right right, and you get a little bit, a little bit more of a break again.
Speaker 2:that's where I've been unmotivated, super stressed, super tired and uh, you know I seen you at the last backbreaker show and it's been, I think, a little over a month since we've sat down and talked on here. But what have you been up to, man? I know you were waiting for me to ask that question.
Speaker 1:I was um well, some stuff that's just been going on. I I know you were waiting for me to ask that question. I was um well, some stuff that's just been going on. I would you know, besides the regular day-to-day, I um just some goofy things and stuff like uh, I got jimmy and murrah um a bug vacuum gun yeah, the assault gun or the vacuum is that I should have just grabbed it upstairs.
Speaker 1:It's um, it's like, it's like a, a gun, but it has a little vacuum tube in it and you it, when you uh, you turn the valve to open up the tube and then you uh, shoot the gun and it's like a little uh handheld vacuum, like you'd clean your car out, and then you stop and then you shut the, the door and it keep the traps and you unscrew the, the chamber that it's in and then you can go, let it out and stuff outside oh, she mean yeah, because, well, whenever I try killing the bugs around here, they're like no, don't kill it.
Speaker 1:Jimmy's like put it outside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I grab it with my hands and take it outside. I just would grab it.
Speaker 1:And it's just like a battle of insects in here. I gotta spray again and stuff and get the house good, because first we had those electric tennis rackets that they had, that they gave out a couple years ago, and I grabbed a couple of those and it's like I sentence you to this, you know.
Speaker 2:I need to sit in my brother with that See if it works.
Speaker 1:And then Merlene would like tell me she always like makes spiders look bigger than they are. You know, like in Lord of the Rings or something. She has like this sword and stone trying to kill it. But um, she'll hit it with a tennis racket and it'll just like sometimes it'll just sizzle and then the spider will keep moving and stuff. She'll be like freak out. That thing ain't normal. It's just laughing at me when it's smoking and laughing at me I go what. But pretty much the first time Jimmy caught one with the, the new gun, he he tries to suck it up, but I guess the angle wasn't right so it wasn't sucking it up, and he like threw the gun down at it and like no, like, look, I'm getting all these steps. You're gonna have to just toughen up a little bit with some of this stuff. I mean, it's just the whole uh gun is hilarious uh, which one got they got the one?
Speaker 2:does it have like a dome on it, you that you put it on top and pull the trigger and suck, yeah, yeah, I've seen those too. The the one bug that I've seen this year more than any, and it's weird man earwigs. I've never seen this many earwigs in the like. I open up this, uh, the towel, uh the container in the back, and then there's like 100 running around in there. I turn the grill on, there's a lot of them in there.
Speaker 1:I open my door and they just fall off the damn door and Maybe they're trying to build up their population, the natural enemy against the cicadas, or something that are attacking us this year?
Speaker 2:See, I haven't had that issue. I go to Sean and Lynn's house and it's like a UFO over there and their neighbor's over there collecting buckets of them because he eats them, he fries them in like garlic butter, the brown, uh cicadas are you kidding me? No, you can eat. You can eat cicadas, man I didn't know that you know. And then you see the squirrels are double fisted. Only got one in each hand just eating them.
Speaker 1:You know eating them like crackling and stuff I don't know.
Speaker 2:But yeah, man, you could eat them.
Speaker 1:They sell them in some stores like gourmet snack shops, like a cicada on a stick. Yeah, you could have a little business right now this summer you probably could have like fishing bait and stuff and eat them.
Speaker 2:You got a lemonade stand and a cicada stand.
Speaker 1:Put them in the ice cubes. It's good for you eat it.
Speaker 2:What else has been going on, man um?
Speaker 1:jimmy had a invention camp he went to for a week at the at his uh school. They have like uh different, uh like topics like luminary stuff or hydro stuff and they would build like with batteries and like to make the light go and like different models and stuff that show how stuff works and pretty much inventing stuff and like creating stuff, like creativity.
Speaker 2:Do they come home nightly or do they?
Speaker 1:no, it's just like a school day. They go leave. They go there at like 8 30 in the morning and get off at like three, three o'clock or something now they built something good, the school's not going to hurry up and patent it and be like well that was our idea.
Speaker 1:You sign the contract. It says everything goes to us in the fine print. But he brought home like the last day I had to bring, like these big aldi bags and they were all like bringing all this stuff home in the car, like all these projects, these huge cardboard cut out and they asked for supplies to bring in that, and like empty bottles and stuff and cans.
Speaker 2:It's pretty cool just, uh, sit them down in front of the tv with the old mr wizard yeah, it's kind of like. It's kind of like that, oh, okay, that's, that's cool since he doesn't like favor any sports and stuff yeah and he doesn't seem to do any kind of sports.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping that he'd like go to this invention and like uh uh more for his mind and science and all that and creativity that's.
Speaker 2:That's cool, man. I wish I had something like that when I was well. Maybe my grades weren't good enough and they did have it, and oh, when we were kids, they didn't care where you went.
Speaker 1:They were like he'll work at the mill or something. What?
Speaker 2:right, right, right. They didn't have no space camp except on the movies, uh, but did you hear about the scare recently? Oh yeah, those people are trapped in the space right now. Oh they are yeah, and definitely I didn't know that, and russia ain't going up to help us. So uh, wow, until we get something.
Speaker 1:They're talking about mid-august now we'll be able to look that up. I, I was just, I was just spitball. I had another emergency, but I didn't, uh, I didn't think about the, I didn't know about the space one yeah, it's, it's. A couple of american astronauts are up there by themselves damn well, if we're gonna go exploring, this is gonna be the problems that are gonna pop up, right right. So now we're trying to like we're going to go exploring, this is going to be the problems that are going to pop up right, right.
Speaker 2:So now we're trying to like, we were supposed to go up there this this week and but there was issues with with the capsule and we couldn't do it instead of like a ship to go get them, could they send like tubes or just like rockets with like supplies or something that'll be quicker? Got me, man, I'm not a rocket scientist. Why don't they just get like a big pole and slide?
Speaker 1:down it. Send some magazines. We're bored. The Wi-Fi isn't working. You'd think it would work.
Speaker 2:We're closer to the satellite Can't watch the adult content.
Speaker 1:No. The other scare was did you hear about Pizza Hut? Oh yeah, they closed, right, yeah, all the locations in Indiana, northwest Indiana mainly that their local group owns them, like like eym or something group and they were. They filed a lawsuit against pizza hut and that there was a breach of contract or something. I guess it's a contract dispute, but at first I didn't. Before that news came, I thought they were closing all pizza huts and pizza was like going under and stuff and I was freaking out. I'm like no, I want one last personal pan. No, it's just in our area. Yeah, exactly, I was like why is it just northwest indiana? And then all of a sudden the uh pizza got on the internet and said hey, don't worry, we're gonna resolve this in court with the owners and I don't know if they're gonna like buy them out and like get new owners to fix up the old locations for us and make it all new and better.
Speaker 2:Well, some Pizza Huts need to shut down.
Speaker 1:They said they're going to relocate and re-evaluate a lot of areas around here because some of them have just been terrible.
Speaker 2:Like the one in Ridge Road in Klonheim. There's a pizza hut there and they don't even have half their tables up from COVID. They never re-put them up. So when you go sit inside there they stare at you like what are you doing in here? And then me and my little brother we were the only ones in there and it took us like 15, 20 minutes just for the guy to come to our table. And they're staring at us. So that place needs to close. Burger King needs to shut down the whole franchise.
Speaker 1:I keep hearing bad things about Burger King no-transcript.
Speaker 2:That aren't even good.
Speaker 1:But it's like nobody cares about Burger King anymore. They're not even trying to like find a good one. It's like all of them are just bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think Canada put a curse on Burger King when they bought out Tim Hortons. Yeah, but yeah, burger King sucks man. They can go away.
Speaker 1:Or unless the company like made your overhaul or something, something they're going to go the way of old fast food places and and the one in chesterton.
Speaker 2:It sucks because if you go into the drive-thru, you know the way. You can't get out of the drive-thru because the it's like well, one lane and it's like a cement wall up on the one side so you're not going to like drive over it. You know you're stuck there.
Speaker 1:They might have to do like Portillo's. You see that in Merrillville that they did the drive-thru is like a kind of a two lane thing. What the hell happened? Are you there? Yeah, this thing just cut me off. Wait, what are you doing? Hey, black my screen out. You don't want to make changes. No, what are you doing? What Like?
Speaker 1:I see you perfectly. Oh, my screen went to my wallpaper and then it had just a box that said do you want this app to make changes for you? I'm like what? I'm in the middle of doing something. How are you just going to pop that up?
Speaker 2:See we talk bad about Burger King. It's that crazy.
Speaker 1:They're trying to shut me down here. I can't remember what I was saying, oh well.
Speaker 2:We got a good topic today. Yeah, we do. It's one of america's favorite foods. We want to take a commercial first. Yeah, yeah, so I'm just giving a little build up here. Oh, I thought you were going right into it. No, it's one of america's favorite foods. It's one of america's unhealthiest foods, but we're here to discuss it, so, uh, when we come back, we're going to talk about hot dogs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want toys. Well, you go to Ye Olde House of Toys if you want toys, 545 East 110th Avenue in Crown Point, Indiana. They have toys.
Speaker 2:The toys. You want the toys. You collect the toys you need. All right, welcome back, and, jim. Before the commercial, we said we were going to talk about one of America's favorite foods, and it may not be our invention. We sure do devour a lot of them in this country. I'm talking about the hot dog. It seems to be everybody's favorite. They have a competition every 4th july, with people from around the globe shoving hot dogs in their mouth. Are you a hot dog fan?
Speaker 1:yes, I am a hot dog fan, even though I I do what most americans do. I do not pay attention to what it might be in there and I just make sure if that's the type I like, okay, I'll like, I'll eat that one, because if you think about the ingredients you're gonna go no I used to like ask my hot dog.
Speaker 2:I used to eat on cold. The beef rings right out of the pack. Oh my gosh, yeah, you know, like when I was hungry. I mean we eat jerky and everything, yeah, and it's, it's beef, and it's already like, uh, and it's beef and it's already like cooked.
Speaker 2:It's not moving Right. So, yeah, my mom used to give me a hot dog right out of the pack and go play. There you go, I fed you. Now leave Not even a bud. What's your favorite kind of hot dog, man? My favorite kind of hot dog is the creation I've made. I take no, I mean brand, brand wise, oh, brand um I like nathan's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2:Nathan's is the top quality one and then hebrew nation right behind it yeah, definitely, but those are the main two.
Speaker 1:that because, uh, she buys, she'll try different kinds and stuff and I'm like thank goodness for toppings, right, right, because you can't really go wrong. How about topping wise toppings? I, my little creation, I don't know if I've named it yet. Um, I take sweet baby rays, barbecue sauce on one side, dijon mustard on the other, and then I'll put cheese in the middle like zigzag pattern, kind of Like shredded cheese or no. I take a Like Cheez Whiz, like Cheez Whiz, squeeze cheese, put it in the middle. Once in a blue moon I'll throw Sounds like a heart attack, man. No, once in a blue moon I'll throw relish on there a little bit, but usually it's just the barbecue, dijon and cheese.
Speaker 2:All right, I could see like the sweetness of the barbecue, the tanginess of the Dijon, and then the cheese is just in there.
Speaker 1:You just got to have cheese with a hot dog. That's basic.
Speaker 2:See, for me I like, uh, I like the chicago hot dog and a lot of uh. You know I love the cucumber or the pickles and the tomatoes and the sport peppers, but a lot of people don't know this. But a chicago dog doesn't have ketchup. You know it's like chicago, so anti-ketchup. Yeah, that most of the hot dog places you go to in chicago if you order a hot dog with ketchup you have to ring the bell in the in the restaurant and everybody boos you oh my god.
Speaker 1:See, that's another reason I'm down on chicago. I don't like the chicago hot dog. Well, they, they run it through the garden and stuff and you just grab everything in the garden and put it in there.
Speaker 2:I love lots of onions on my hot dogs, man.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's the number one. Topping I don't like is onions. Oh my God, Really.
Speaker 2:You and our other friend of the show, keith, are anti-onion man. Do you eat onion on anything else or no?
Speaker 1:In like little bits. Only if it's little bits and like chili or some white castle, yeah, okay, now that's the where I'll tolerate onions, as in a white castle burger I don't even grow onions, they're just like dehydrated.
Speaker 2:Just, I used to ever love eating the onion like raw man. Oh god, dang man, I'm gonna throw up. You know, like the shriners they sell the big bags of onions that went from five dollars to uh 750 and they're like the sweet medallia onions and I'll eat it only if I was on an island and that was the only food, or something, or we're gonna starve.
Speaker 1:We don't eat onions. Oh my god, I don't.
Speaker 2:I never liked onions and one of the big things we have here on holidays is, uh, we use the green onions and then we we put like cream cheese on salami and roll up the salami on the onion and, uh, we just eat them. So good times man thing I don't.
Speaker 1:Another thing I don't like is a yellow mustard, like the bright yellow mustard, the I just don'ty.
Speaker 1:I just don't know. It tastes weird and I've been scarred lately in the last couple years. I'll order a burger from somewhere and they'll put on the ketchup and mustard and I don't want them to, and you try to wipe. You know how you try to wipe off toppings if somebody put it on there. Yeah, for some reason regular yellow mustard just stains any buns or any patties or anything and you can't get it off and you smell the mustard and I'm like I didn't want mustard on this wow, man mustard, just like hits you, can't take you nowhere, man no, but I I get dijon mustard or the ground mustard.
Speaker 1:I like those, but the yellow is like nuclear.
Speaker 2:I used to be anti-mustard anything and as I grew older man I learned to appreciate it, like bell peppers and all that. But I just eat whatever's on the damn hamburger man. I don't care no more.
Speaker 1:Now here's a question. Yeah, I got a question. Are you one of those people that and I said people no Is that considers a hot dog a sandwich, that is?
Speaker 2:a like long time question. Uh, it's between two pieces of bread yeah, that's what everybody's saying but I don't know, man, what else would it be?
Speaker 1:I think it's like separate kind of. It's a separate thing. I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't personally call it a sandwich but if it ain't a sandwich, what is it? I know it's like chicken or the egg?
Speaker 1:it's like one of those questions you eat.
Speaker 2:You eat. Go to subway and they give you the bun and they put the food in it. Everybody calls it a sandwich. Yes, when I go and get my chicago style hot dog, it has the same toppings that that sandwich has on it. Meat, uh meat. Onion, ketchup, mustard, sport peppers, cucumber, tomato. It's the same damn thing. So to me it's a sandwich. When it's that way. If it's just a hot dog and a and a piece of bread, uh, it's, it's a snack. Yeah, you know, when I can't find them in the middle of the night and the light bulb ain't working in the fridge, you know I don't know what this is but okay.
Speaker 2:Are you one to always have to have it in a bun, or would you eat it in a piece of bread or a tortilla?
Speaker 1:well, I grew up, just like you, in a poor midwestern town and, uh, believe me, I grew up with it. We don't have buns, just get that bread, or we don't have bread, you put it on a, cut it up and put it on a cracker. Who cares?
Speaker 2:yeah, I'll eat it anyway yeah, me too, that I you know, and I have grown to like it rolled up in a tortilla. Yeah, yeah, keep that tortilla. And uh, those are pretty good too, except when it rips and everything falls out of it. Lots of hot dog places in our area oh, we got new boz's hot dogs. Uh, they're popping up everywhere. I'm not a fan of their hot dogs. They, they make their own. And when you get them they're like kind of whitish, yeah, and there's no skin, so there's no crispness. You know like there's no snap to it. It needs the case. And then, like, I like the little sport peppers, but then they use the big pepperoncini peppers. Oh, okay, I like the pickles, but they use cucumbers.
Speaker 1:You're doing something off by everything.
Speaker 2:And you know what you got them? You got simon says and merrillville, but my favorite place and my wife, uh, she took me there for my birthday dinner. No shit, uh, she took me to home depot man to get some hot dogs for my dinner yeah, that one dog place or something. It's called dogs or something, dogs or no, no, that that that was lowell's before they shut all their hot dog places down. But home depot, it just says hot dogs on the stand.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I, I see that every time I whenever I go in there, but I never have had a hot dog there they make amazing hot dogs and then for like old, old time people in our area, we used to have in the village uh, chuck wheeler's, uh hot dogs and they had it in the mall but then they shut it down, the hot dog place, not the mall, but they had like the vienna beef hot dogs that had like the snap to it. Oh yeah, they steam their hot dogs and you know there's, there's another way. Do you bake it, grill it uh, boil it or fry it like what's your favorite way there?
Speaker 1:rolling has to be the favorite because it kind of gets that that like snap, you said and stuff and it real the texture on the outside. But and there's different ways you can like score it and stuff, yeah, or wrap or wrap. Some people wrap bacon around the hot dog.
Speaker 2:That's just sounds like heaven like when my wife eats a hot dog, she'll take the knife and she'll like cut the hot dog like halfway down, like lengthwise, and then hot dog ketchup on the on the hot dog, like that.
Speaker 1:And yeah, sometimes, uh, like you said, with bread, even my wife will cut them in half, like, like you said, cut it down the middle and it because you don't have a bun. If you don't want to wrap the bun around it, you could like cut the hot dog flat, cut it in half and it becomes flat and then it's like a you're like eating this like a sandwich kind of.
Speaker 2:Then then it is a sandwich all right right, got a peanut butter hot dog sandwich.
Speaker 1:Okay, that leads me to that one. What's the weirdest? Topping you've had on a hot dog that you personally have had, I think mayonnaise. Yeah, I've had mayonnaise on them. The weirdest one I've had is peanut butter on a hot dog.
Speaker 2:Really, that was just making that up off the top of my head. That's what it reminded me of. How was it?
Speaker 1:That was just making that up off the top of my head. That's what reminded me of it. How was it? It was good. I mean it tastes weird, but I've tried peanut butter in pretty much everything I try to like. Just hey, I wonder how that tastes. I'm never going to know.
Speaker 2:Wow, you're one of those. Yeah, exactly, you just carry around a jar of peanut butter with you and take to a restaurant and slather it in your steak.
Speaker 1:Hey, pb, don't put it on, don't put in the ramen. What?
Speaker 2:now see, that would be good, but uh, no, man, I love hot dogs, man, and I will drive out of my way to go get one. How about this? So if you're eating a bun, a plain bun or sesame bun, plain bun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I don't like those sesame seeds that get all in your teeth and stuff and see, that's, that's the way I like it.
Speaker 2:you know my teeth and all that, but uh, it just adds to the hot dogs, especially when those are being steamed as well. Yeah, you know, and then the bun's not all dry and everything. How about a Polish? You can almost call that a hot dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, any kind of Polish sausage or, like you said, the other ones, different companies and kinds, anything hot dog-esque like that are just great for me, you know one of my favorite hot dogs and I'm not really allowed to make them here because, uh, the wife she don't eat it and neither does anybody else, but nathan's colossal dogs love them. Those are quarter pound, quarter pound hot. You'll know if you had them, dude, but yeah, I had them. I ordered it off Nathan'scom. Yeah, and they're like real fat, nothing but beef, basically, man, and they're like a steak almost. And man, I enjoy it. It's good on the grill or the air fryer.
Speaker 1:What they put on the pad. Do they have some on the package that, like a tagline, that said once you get this beefy wiener in you, you're going to?
Speaker 2:love it. Would you put our meat in your mouth?
Speaker 1:No, they used to have a well, what's it called? Um, it might've been Nathan's or another kind used to have like these firecracker ones. They call them firecrackers. Oh, it would be a real spicy hot dog. I'm like, oh my God, this is great and that was Nathan's I hot dog. I'm like, oh my god, this is great and that was nathan's. I can't remember if it was nathan's or hebrew national.
Speaker 2:It was one of those I'll have to look it up. What do you think about cheese dogs like, uh, the, the hot dogs that had the cheese in them already?
Speaker 1:merlene mainly buys that one. She'll buy the cheese dog because jimmy likes the overdose of cheese, and nathan's has those too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and this show's not sponsored by nathan'scom.
Speaker 1:Everybody loves their meat, but speaking of hot dogs, you know we should be sponsored by pacos.
Speaker 2:There you go, our friends in toledo, uh, with the hot dog sauce.
Speaker 1:I mean, call it like chili, it's just sauce well, it's chili with chili, with added Hungarian ingredients and stuff.
Speaker 2:What do you think about? Like a chili dog? Chili dogs are great. I love chili dogs, you know. This is why America has a weakness for hot dogs. I mean, you can do anything, nobody's wrong, unless you're putting some like-wrapped tentacles on the hot dog.
Speaker 1:Well funny, you should say. In Japan they cut a hot dog to look like an octopus.
Speaker 2:I've seen those. We've done that too. You cut it in half and then slit it up just a little bit, and then it boils.
Speaker 1:There used to be this thing online. They sold it back in the early 2000s. I'm so mad I never got one. It's this hot dog thing. It looks like an octopus, okay, and it's two pieces of plastic and you take it apart I'll send you the picture and you put the hot dog in the middle when you put it together and then you put the plastic eyeballs on it.
Speaker 1:It scores the hot dog while you put it in there and then you take it out and it, it, it scores the hot dog while you put it in there and then you take it out and it has it look like an octopus with the tentacles. It cuts the bottom, they look like tentacles and the eye holes for the eyes make it look like the eyes, and then you just take it and fry it on the pan and stuff and they stopped selling it for some reason. And I saw one on ebay like two years ago and they were asking like 50 or 60 bucks for it and I I'm like, ah, should I pay it Not? And I waited too long and it's off eBay. Someone bought it and now you never see it for sale.
Speaker 2:You know who might have it? Who? Our friends at Timu you can check them out at a discounted rate or AliExpress.
Speaker 1:Well, if they do, I'm going to become a member. I'll tell you what because I've been wanting that hot dog octopus thing for years.
Speaker 2:I'm looking on Timu now. It's one of my favorite all-time sites. But lately things have gotten a little expensive at Timu and I'm like, oh no, they're turning into it because everybody is buying from there. Now, now they want to start making it put in hot. I put hot in the search bar and it comes up with hot tubs for adults, so you can even buy hot tubs there?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think. No, I think you've been searching lately. Yeah, pretty much. Hot dogs are pretty much like pizzas. You almost can't go wrong with hot dogs and pizzas and different uh you oh man, I see a bunch of stuff I'm gonna end up buying now, did you hear the controversy with the uh nathan's hot dog eating contest? Did we talk about that?
Speaker 1:oh, we talked about it off air, but uh, go ahead for those that every uh, since july is the national hot dog month, uh, and nathan's has hot dogs, has a eating contest where they get everybody at the what Major League Eating Committee or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they just start stuffing their faces in 10 minutes how many hot dogs they can eat, and every year, pretty much for the last. What eight years or so a guy named Joey Chestnut has won, and he would get like somewhere in the 70s 76 or 72 different hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:Right, he wolfed it down.
Speaker 1:But this year, right before the contest, Nathan's banned him from the contest because of his partnership with a rival brand, Impossible Foods.
Speaker 2:Which is vegan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, plant-based hot dogs, and because he has a contractor or partner or he's partners with them, they said, no, that's our competitor, you can't be in our hot dog contest anymore. And he's been like 16 time champion and the guy who won it this year, um, Patrick Bertolelli, Bertolelli whatever From Chicago?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he only.
Speaker 1:Bertoletti, whatever From Chicago. Yeah, he had 58 hot dogs. He won this year. So you know, if Joey Chestnut was in there he would have totally probably annihilated him.
Speaker 2:You know, when I first heard that Joey wasn't going to be in there, he's got some competition. He's going against his old rival on August 3rd or August 4th with another brand. But I was like well, the now the field's uh, even you know so, but now yeah, the controversial uh winner. You said for plate switching or whatever.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, see how, because there's judges like right everywhere and there's like five cameras on all them at that long table and they got everybody standing around them. How can you see that he switched a plate that was finished or not?
Speaker 2:I don't understand this other guy yeah, so I'm calling the bs on that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they just don't want a chicago guy to come into new york and win and they want it and they want to like a um media or something, because they feel like they got bad media for kicking out chud joey, but you know who the real champion is at the nathan's hot dog competition.
Speaker 2:Who dmc? That guy is so awesome when he's announcing where he's got the derby hat and stuff yeah, he's got like an old school, like step right up, you know like a bar the bearded woman. Yes, and he is so amazing man. I would love to have him on here and talk to us, because he comes up with some awesome introductions and we'll have to see what can get him it actually. I mean, what else is this guy doing? You know he ain't running like boxing or wrestling, announcing it's. How did he get into it?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's like probably a mega multimillionaire from doing the announcing maybe they should have another, uh, like joey or someone else, start a another kind of eating contest league or something against this other league so what's the most hot dogs you've ever eaten?
Speaker 1:that one time um I haven't counted, but I'm pretty much just at a meal or something at a friend's house or a family event. I can freaking polish a ton of them. I really have stopped over the years because I you know that crazy thing of wanting to live a long time. Uh, I used to polish like I can almost still polish uh, probably six or eight or something if I really wanted to, and that's like average and that's with buns and toppings. That's just not. That's not like what they do in new york with the uh, what is it?
Speaker 2:the buns and the hot dogs soaked in water or something yeah, man, it's so gross, it's like just hanging out their mouth, man. Uh. So I gotta give credit to this guy of who I just mentioned. I gotta give him a name. His name is george shea. Okay, and uh, I guess I'm gonna go on a hunt for old george shea. You know, it's kind of weird because my wife's sister's married name is shea, so I think a distant cousin be kind of weird, but I'm gonna check it out um, what's your, what's your top three hot dogs like uh so let's, do you mean as brand or well, just kind of hot dogs uh, so number one is chicago style hot.
Speaker 2:Like you said, it has the whole garden on it. I like a good chili cheese, but I don't want the chili to like be like pouring off of the hot dog. Yeah, I don't want it all over my lap when I'm sitting there eating it in the car. Just put a line on it, we're good.
Speaker 1:Now, do you like a lot of beans or not? A lot of beans in your chili?
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter to me. It's all going to the same place. Man, I eat onions raw. I don't care.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love onions man, and then I like a cheese dog with onions. That's good. No, no ketchup or mustard on that, it's just cheese and onion.
Speaker 1:Mine would be number one would be my type of dog, the one cheese and onion. Mine would be number one would be my type of dog, the one I invented. Uh, number two would probably be like a chili dog with cheese, like kind of pacos would be preferable. And then I think the third one would probably just be a basic cheese dog. Just you got to go, you ain't got much, just put cheese on it and a dog, that's it you like spicy cheese or regular cheese, regular cheese okay oh they have a basic they have in downtown chicago.
Speaker 2:It's hidden, like legit hidden. You gotta walk through some buildings to get to this like alley, to get to this other building that you can't even see on the road. But they just sell gourmet hot dogs and I admit those are really weird. It's got like hot dogs and then it's got like weird toppings that even I would question before you get. But yeah, man, whenever there's a hot dog there's a place called. It's right under the Skyway on 41, and it's called the Dog House and that looks great. I have yet to step in there, but I'm definitely yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to like oh the summer, you're going to get them.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm going to start. We should start doing hot dog reviews on here too.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say I need to get a map of all the hot dog places I was trying to think. I can't think of a lot of hot dog places around here.
Speaker 2:Really, we got two bazas now it looks like Bozo Hot Dog or three hot dog Bozo Hot Dogs, as Simon says, over by your work. Okay, it's over by Myers across the street, like any of the Greek, like George's one and two, they got hot. Here's where the catastrophe happens. Man, at George's one and two and those kind of places, yeah, they deep fry their hot dogs to cook them, so you have to. If the grease is dirty, you have that taste. And uh, also, we got pops in, uh, all over the place. Now they got a good hot dog, they got the monster dog. It's like a. The damn bun is actually a vienna loaf of bread, oh my God. And then, uh, yeah, I like Indiana beaches, footlong hot dogs. Those are good. What do you? How do you feel about footlong?
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, it's just like. It's pretty much like two or three hot dogs at once. You just saves me time.
Speaker 2:And the bad thing is is when you shove down two of those. Orlando has a two-foot hot dog. Wow, at universal. Oh god, it's crazy. Yeah, so now ballparks are starting to sell like these crazy foot-long hot dogs I looked up, I looked on, what would they have on it?
Speaker 1:everything, like everything man they're trying to be chicago right, right.
Speaker 1:So and now, with all this talk, man, hot dogs are starting to like I'm gonna go throw a pack of nathans and after this, what you, what I found out also, is that online you look up under like images and you look on uh, put hot dog charts or on the maps, on like beer, and then they have america, every state or every kind of hot dog in every different type of area and what they have on it, and some look interesting. I'm like I might try that, like some people at coleslaw hot dogs or I like kraut.
Speaker 2:Kraut on a hot dog, that was good. I'm not a kraut guy. I'll see. If you washed a kraut man, it takes that tanginess out of it, so it's that's pretty decent. If you like, wash it, yeah. Now I'm not talking about taking each individual piece and scrubbing it, but yeah, you just let the water run over it, man and uh, that's good uh, uh.
Speaker 1:Anyone listening wants to uh tell us how they like their hot dogs and wherever they're listening.
Speaker 2:We would be interested come on, man, that sounds good, but you know, no one ever. Oh, come on right.
Speaker 1:We need a challenge. We've got to get five listeners at least, or something. I say one Jesus. I'm tired of talking to you all alone.
Speaker 2:You know, like when I had a money contest on here once, we had like four or five people for $50, and all they had to do was leave a review, man, and that was it, should we have.
Speaker 1:Then the winner got 50 bucks oh my god, should we have like we have such little people listening that we actually can say their names on every episode or something. We thank them at the end.
Speaker 2:Shout out, yeah, shout out to this person hey, man, that that's all I got for hot dogs, man. And and yeah, like, like Jim said, if you guys uh got a particular hot dog style that you like and brand and fun tortilla bread, just pull it out of the packet and shove it through your mouth.
Speaker 1:You know anyone listening? Sorry, sorry, if we were so frank with everybody. I know, I know we're the, we're the worst frank, your worst, I know so, bratwurst.
Speaker 2:Uh, you, you've been waiting all all day to say this man, save the puns, save the puns, right, right. So tell us about this. Your favorite hot dog and uh, or, if you're anti-hot dog, why, what's right? You don't love wieners? Put a wiener in your mouth, shut up. Yeah, put a wiener in your mouth and shut up.
Speaker 2:There's a new slogan. Copyright 2024, jim Banks. So don't be, you know, like everybody loves to beat the hot dogs, Jim. Yeah, we're going to get out of here real fast, real fast, but before we go, go, man. People missed this quote and uh what do you got today?
Speaker 1:today I got something that'll help us all out.
Speaker 2:Remember everybody, nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles you know, I felt like, uh, felt like I should be playing some kind of inspirational music behind that quote. I'll have to slow your quote down real fast. I gotta stop saying real fast today, because nothing with me is moving real fast when in doubt put a hot dog in your mouth.
Speaker 2:Shove it and gul it. That's all I got. Jim, do you have anything else? So that's all I got. And Jim, you have anything else? No, that's it All right. And for those just tuning in again, I apologize for this long hiatus. Well, it's only a month, but God, it felt longer than that. So we appreciate each and every one of you guys and we will talk to you next week. I hope to get back on the schedule. Bye, we'll get no-transcript.
