0:01

Beth, do you have a confession to make? It's

0:06

a really embarrassing one. That's

0:09

all I know about it is Beth. He would refer Scott

0:11

and she's like, I have a confession. I was like, well,

0:13

don't tell me now. Save it for

0:15

the show. I have

0:18

something to tell you too. Is it

0:20

a confession? More

0:22

of a story. Okay.

0:26

Does it? Okay. I'm

0:28

really embarrassed to tell you my

0:30

confession. Does

0:32

it involve like the chins up challenge and

0:34

the food? It

0:36

involves a conversation from last week. It's

0:39

an update from last week. A confession.

0:42

God, there's so much to update. Okay.

0:45

Lots to get to. Oh, you really

0:48

kicked my intro. Hello,

0:50

I'm Ross Matthews. And

0:53

I'm Ross's bestie since high school, Bethy

0:55

Hungerford. And even though we

0:57

live on opposite sides of the country, we talk

1:00

on the phone every single day. And what do

1:02

we talk about most? Food. Yes, food. And

1:04

you're a non-existent dating life. Oh my God.

1:08

But mostly food. I'm a cookbook author. Yeah, you

1:10

are. And I've taken the reins

1:12

of my health by cooking every single day. I

1:14

call them my Ross-a-pees. They

1:17

crack the code on delicious food that's actually

1:19

good for you. And now

1:21

we're sharing the food obsessed convos we have

1:23

every day with all of you. Yep. It's

1:26

all about food, friends, and fun.

1:29

This is Hello Ross-a-pees.

1:33

And welcome to the program.

1:35

Hi, it's me, Ross Matthews

1:37

joined by Bethy. You know the drill. Hi.

1:39

Okay. I got, I kicked, don't daily down. I need to

1:41

know. So you, you, you tell me

1:43

I have a, you actually texted me in the middle

1:45

of the week. I have a confession. And then I

1:48

forgot. Okay. Did I

1:50

text you in the middle of the week or in the middle of

1:52

the night? I don't remember. It was whatever it was. It was like

1:54

a confession. And I said, save it for the show. to

2:00

know what is it tell me

2:02

because Ross you're gonna think I'm

2:04

a disgusting terrible person with

2:06

no willpower hey I need you to

2:08

know I need I need you to

2:11

know something right now I already think

2:13

all those things about you okay I

2:15

mean that I don't

2:18

doubt it so wait okay so

2:20

do you remember last week I admitted

2:22

to eating a bag of Lucky

2:25

Charms marshmallows that I bought yeah uh-huh that made

2:27

you sick and hurt your teeth and you were

2:29

like up all night feeling gross about it you

2:31

admitted it and we all sort of judged you

2:34

because it was a big bag of just the

2:36

marshmallows from the Lucky Charms yes

2:39

for my kids for Valentine's Day

2:41

and because I bought these two

2:44

bags and I ate them you

2:46

have two kids so

2:49

with the second bag I assume you split that into two small

2:51

bags that you'll then give to the kids on Valentine's Day well

2:54

I would have done that if I hadn't eaten it

2:57

you know I knew it I can

3:00

I tell you when you said to me I really honestly

3:02

audience Rossip peeps we didn't talk about this before but when

3:04

you said that in the middle of the week I mean

3:06

he was in the middle of the night middle of the

3:08

week you it's like you went to church

3:11

and I'm confessional right and as soon as you said

3:13

I know you need to confess something my first thought

3:15

was she ate the other bag of the lucky was

3:17

it really honestly my very first

3:19

thought uh because you

3:21

know me so well it was still

3:23

in my room but did it not

3:25

but you remember the feeling you had

3:27

how terrible you felt after the first

3:30

bag of Lucky Charms oh I remember

3:32

but you but then why that they

3:34

don't we need to learn from our

3:36

mistakes okay but repeating it is

3:39

problematic I repeat lots of

3:41

mistakes on a regular basis well

3:44

that's a mistake why you keep repeating that mistake

3:47

I don't think I

3:51

do you know what the the

3:53

mistake here was keeping it in

3:55

my bedroom at arm's reach

3:59

and And not just throwing

4:01

it away when I realized I had

4:04

no willpower around it. Because I've also

4:06

bought like little candy.

4:08

What are those chocolate samplers for my

4:10

kids? I haven't touched those because if

4:12

I open it and then like those

4:15

were more expensive. The Lucky Charm marshmallows

4:17

were a dollar. So

4:20

I'm not going to like. I

4:23

don't know, I'm justifying it. Here's the deal. Listen,

4:26

if people want to eat a bag of Lucky Charm sugar,

4:28

make yourself sick, I think you'd go for it. Go nuts,

4:30

right? Except I know you don't want to. I'm

4:33

writing it because you're my, you know, we like my bestie.

4:35

I've known you I think 69 years

4:37

now. And

4:41

I know if you want to call me, should I do

4:43

this? I'd be like, Beth, you know, you don't you're not going to want

4:45

to. Do you regret it? Yes. So

4:48

this is then this is the one this is the right here

4:50

is the best thing I'm speaking to this happy who regrets it,

4:53

the best I read it who understands

4:55

who knows things, right? Yeah.

4:59

What do you want to tell the Bethy who made

5:01

the choice to make herself sick again?

5:04

I eat it. Are you think you think

5:06

you're doing it on purpose? Do you think

5:08

you're punishing? Do

5:11

you know what? Well, this time I didn't eat

5:13

the whole bag. I just ate most of the

5:15

bag. Where's the rest of the bag then? On

5:19

my bed. On

5:21

your bed. So how much can I see how much

5:24

is left? Oh, my God. Like what percentage of the

5:26

bag did you? Yeah. Yeah. So I'll explain to the

5:28

audience if you run and go get the room. One,

5:31

I want to see how big this bag is. And two, I want to see

5:33

if you're lying. So she's getting

5:35

up and leaving going to another room. So

5:38

the bag you listen last week, it's like,

5:40

Ross, I'm talking to you. Why

5:43

is it like a grab bag of chips? You

5:45

know, it's a 99 cent bag that like Cheetos

5:47

or Funyuns, by the way, Funyuns underrated chips anyway,

5:49

that the eight that much. So how much is

5:51

that? Oh, she's bringing the bag back. I'm

5:53

seeing there is a good. OK, Bethy, I

5:57

you are a woman of your word. OK, there

5:59

is a good. one-third of that

6:01

bag remaining. Yes.

6:04

And you can you crinkle the bag so we

6:06

everyone can hear this in a big pla- go

6:08

and crinkle. Oh that's

6:11

satisfying. Okay so that

6:13

bag last time

6:15

you ate the whole bag this time

6:17

you start this is progress. This is like

6:19

I ate like half the bag. No that'd

6:21

be like two-thirds of it. But

6:26

I didn't eat the whole thing. Well that is progress.

6:30

But I'd like to speak to the Bethy now. So

6:33

Bethy who realizes like you don't want to do

6:35

all that. So what does this Bethy know?

6:38

And this let's go to everybody because listen I'm talking

6:40

to you like I don't make a mistake are you

6:42

nuts? I promise you I do

6:44

but let's talk right now you and I are

6:46

in our right mind. We're not being haunted by

6:48

the thing in the cupboard. Anybody understand that?

6:50

Just listening about the monster in the

6:53

cupboard and you can hear- only you can hear

6:55

it screaming at you in the middle of the night.

6:58

Right? So you succumb to the

7:00

monster in the cupboard. Right now

7:02

you're not. So what is this Bethy now know

7:05

that weak Bethy who succumbed

7:07

to the monster doesn't know? That

7:11

it's not worth it. And like looking at

7:13

this bag right now I have very

7:15

little desire to do this because I know if

7:17

I have one I'm gonna eat the whole bag

7:19

and I'm not in even in the mood for

7:22

it. It doesn't

7:24

sound great right now. So

7:27

what are you gonna do about it? Are you gonna like you

7:30

could just leave in the cupboard and ignore it and

7:32

have power over it like the monsters not gonna hear

7:34

you or the next logical thing to

7:37

do with that is to bring

7:40

it outside, get

7:43

a shovel, dig

7:45

a hole six feet deep and

7:48

bury it. Build

7:50

a structure, lay cement down like

7:53

a shed but like really do a foundation cement

7:57

and then in that shed store bricks.

8:00

Okay. And then that's

8:02

the easiest solution. Every

8:07

time you want to eat something, just go to the backyard and do

8:10

that. And move

8:12

the bricks around. Yeah.

8:15

Okay. Okay.

8:18

You can't get to it. Okay.

8:20

Well, a third option. Yeah. So

8:22

short of that. Yeah. What's the other

8:24

option? I could

8:26

just throw it away because I

8:28

know I have no willpower. Or give

8:31

it away in my home. Okay. Or, or short

8:33

of that. So because the other option

8:35

is you exercise willpower and have, you know, 10 marshmallows a

8:37

day until the bag's gone. Okay. Or

8:40

do we go, and I try to do

8:42

this. I go

8:44

to how I felt after I ate the thing

8:46

that made me feel that way. And

8:48

that's what I did. And

8:51

then I went, oh, I'm

8:53

going to eat two thirds of the bag. As

8:55

I was opening up this bag, this second bag.

8:59

I was opening it, opening it up, going last time.

9:01

I almost threw up. And then I went. Mmm. These

9:05

are crunchy and good. But you know what? I want to sing a

9:07

phrase is you did then only eat two thirds of the bag. You

9:10

stopped yourself as opposed to it's progress, Beth. You

9:12

give yourself, give yourself some credit. And I've felt.

9:16

Horrible ever since. I've

9:19

felt. Embellished on my.

9:25

Or expand rather on my confession because this week. And

9:28

I haven't told you this, I also had a

9:30

quarter pander. I had a shamrock. Shake

9:33

from McDonald's. I had taco

9:35

time. I

9:38

had pizza. I

9:42

also went to the gym. So. We're

9:45

okay. We're going

9:47

to do a chin's up challenge. We're

9:51

trying to lose our chin to make them go up. Stop

9:54

it. I'm not saying that I'm like,

9:56

you know, I just know. If

10:00

you want to eat a quarter pounder girl, just go

10:02

nuts. I will be good Of course it was if

10:04

you I've honestly if you look at me and tell

10:06

me like Ross Life is so hard right now. What

10:08

I need is quarter pounder and like a charm charm

10:11

charm charm talk time to do with pizza I'm like

10:13

put me in coach. I'm your biggest cheerleader. I will

10:15

sit there and jump up and down and you have

10:17

in the past Give me a pee. Give me an

10:19

eye. Give me a VA. Okay.

10:22

Mm-hmm, but I believe I also I'm gonna be a

10:24

friend to tell you that You

10:27

are stronger than that Yes,

10:30

I know but I've

10:32

been I've had the chins-up

10:34

challenge in my brain So

10:37

the day after I went to McDonald's

10:40

I went to the gym The

10:42

day after I ate

10:45

the marshmallows. I went to the gym

10:48

So I went to the gym this morning

10:50

Wow Bethany. Yes, so I

10:53

am in the game I'm still

10:55

in the game, but I'm not a perfect Person

10:58

well, and how's your mom doing? How's that? She

11:00

cuz I know she joined the jump gym with

11:03

you. How is that going? she

11:05

has still not gone to the gym, but so

11:09

I live with my mom and You

11:14

know my mom we were in and I love your

11:16

mom with her Yeah, I love your mom because I

11:18

joined the acting group that she was in charge of

11:20

because they had pizza everyone say and

11:22

a fresh tub of red vines. Yes,

11:24

that's the whole reason I joined. Yes,

11:26

and that is

11:30

So my mom Red vine she

11:32

yeah, and I could count on your mom every

11:34

Wednesday and let me tell you and she never

11:37

let me down She never

11:39

let herself down Yes

11:44

But she also sells Soothes

11:47

with food and

11:51

You know her husband just died a couple

11:53

months ago like she's been going through a lot

11:55

but This morning I went

11:57

in and was chatting with her. She's like Oh,

12:00

I can't sleep. I didn't sleep last

12:02

night. And I was like, why? And I'm

12:05

going to quiz you because she said it's because

12:07

of something I ate. Oh,

12:10

a quiz. Okay, let's do it. So

12:13

what do you think my mom ate

12:16

so much of that

12:19

she couldn't sleep all last night? Oh

12:21

my God. I'm going to go. Oh, let me

12:23

lock in on ice cream. Nope.

12:30

Give me lock. So is it a sweet? It's

12:33

not sweet. It's savory. Oh, savory. Lock

12:36

me in on a can of Pringle.

12:39

No, you can sleep all

12:41

night. Okay. Lock me

12:43

in on an entire jar of pickles. No.

12:48

Um, crunchier. Crunchier

12:50

than pickles. Crunchier

12:53

than pickles. There was something about

12:55

to go off in the fridge

12:57

and she was like, let's just cook the whole thing. I

13:02

have no idea. And then I think she ate

13:05

the whole thing. So it wasn't a

13:07

snack. It was a full meal of food that

13:09

she ate the whole thing. So I'm out. I'm

13:11

out. Ross. Okay.

13:14

And this, I think says

13:16

a lot about me and who I am

13:19

and how I eat because this is my

13:21

role model here. Okay. What did your mom?

13:25

A whole package of bacon. A

13:29

whole package of bacon. It's

13:37

so much. Oh

13:41

my God. So real quick. And was

13:43

it like a regular package of bacon? So what

13:45

is that? Like 14 strips fish?

13:49

No, it was like a big, it was probably like 24 strips.

13:52

Like it was a big thing. A

13:54

bacon. Like a family pack. A

13:56

bacon. Yes.

14:00

24 pieces of bacon. That's a

14:03

lot of bacon. You know, your

14:05

mom was just baking for it. You

14:10

making fun of my mom? No, I'm making

14:12

fun of bacon. Okay,

14:16

I only brought that

14:18

up because. How does she feel? Like why,

14:21

she was, she bloated? She's

14:23

bloated her face itches. She said, I think

14:25

there were nitrates in there and.

14:29

You can't think each other. So

14:31

this is a real problem. I thought, you know, I

14:33

didn't realize what a problem this was for you. And

14:35

I think a lot of our Ross boots can understand

14:37

the monster and the cupboard. So that this is something

14:39

we have to really tackle. Okay. Wow.

14:42

All right. Well, I want to hear from, listen,

14:45

here's the deal. I don't judge your mom. Just like

14:47

I don't judge you. I don't judge even myself when

14:49

the monster wins, you know, I'm not going to judge,

14:51

but we have to have a game plan to fight

14:53

back. Got it. We

14:56

must. But if that bacon hadn't

14:58

ended up in the house, this would not have

15:00

happened. So I'm just behind.

15:02

Just keep it out of the house. Yes.

15:05

Okay. Yes. Keep

15:07

it out of the house. What's your

15:09

mantra? What do you say to the monster when it's calling? What's

15:12

the mantra? And I don't want to throw up. Beautiful.

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16:07

welcome back to the program. Listen, I

16:09

want to be very clear, Bethy, I don't want you to feel

16:11

judged. I don't want your mom feel judged. Okay. Unless she's like,

16:13

I would never want to be judged. I don't want any

16:16

of our Rossies to feel judged either. Okay. But

16:18

the whole pack of whole thing is

16:20

just excess going on. It's

16:24

a lot of bacon. It was a lot

16:27

of bacon. It's gone now. Listen, and I really

16:29

want to be very clear that I'm not coming from a

16:32

place of judgment because do you know what my downfall is?

16:34

It's like salty snacks. I,

16:39

man, do you know there was, I have something

16:41

I want to tell you. So I

16:43

love a, like

16:45

a bar. You know what I mean? I love

16:47

to go like, for example, perfect

16:49

example, there's this bar called two cans in Palm

16:52

Springs. And for the first decade that I lived

16:54

there, I would go every Friday

16:56

at five for trivia. I

16:58

loved about this bar. Have you taken me

17:01

there? I'm sure, honey. I'm sure. Okay. What

17:03

I loved about this bar is that

17:06

they had, and this one I

17:08

first found out when I first started going to Palm

17:10

Springs in 2002, Donald Trump invited me to Palm Springs

17:12

to be a judge from his team USA. And

17:15

I met him and he's the reason I love Palm

17:17

Springs. And

17:20

I was like, when I

17:22

put this to true story, when I pulled in to Palm Springs,

17:24

I was like, this is the

17:26

mothership. I just felt like home. I

17:28

loved it. And my first night there,

17:30

the producers who like handled the celebrity

17:33

judges of Miss Teen USA,

17:35

which by the way, I've never been more

17:37

qualified for a job in my entire life.

17:39

Judging teen girls. I did it all through

17:41

high school. Okay. So they,

17:44

they say, Ross, we want you to be

17:46

a judge. I've been on TV for like

17:48

a year at this point. I would, they

17:50

didn't even pay, but it was a free hotel room in

17:52

Palm Springs. I was like, well, what I have $0 and

17:55

zero cents free is exactly how much money I can

17:57

spend on a hotel room. So I'll do it. Yeah.

18:00

brought me out there and the first night they were like,

18:02

all right, we're going to take, where do you want to

18:04

go? And I was like, well, is there a gay bar?

18:06

I mean, all the producers are gay. So there you must

18:08

know. And they're like, oh yeah, let's take you to two cans.

18:11

This is back in 2002. They brought me to two cans. And

18:13

I walked in and there was trivia on and they

18:15

had, Bethy, what did they have behind the bar that

18:17

I was like, this is where I'm always coming.

18:19

They had, are

18:21

you ready? What popcorn

18:24

machine? Making

18:26

fresh popcorn. Like it, they put the squeeze

18:28

the butter packet in and the bubbles out

18:30

with like red and white stripes, like a

18:32

popcorn machine. It was so filthy. Like the

18:35

way the popcorn came out because they've been

18:37

doing it for 20 years, but AKA season.

18:40

So I, so I was like, well, how much

18:42

the popcorn? They're like, it's free. I was like,

18:44

Oh my God. So I was very

18:46

loyal to two cans that I would go

18:49

then all the time. And when I first started going to

18:51

Palm Springs, I didn't know anything outside of two cans. I

18:53

would just go get a, like I call it the poop

18:55

motel. It was $39 because it smelled like poop and I

18:57

would stay there with my friends and then we would do

18:59

two cans. Okay.

19:02

That's the conversation for another

19:04

time. But so,

19:07

um, it was, uh, I would

19:09

just be very loyal to two cans. And

19:11

then one day I showed up

19:13

and I was like, popcorn me. Have

19:15

I noticed the aroma

19:17

of fresh popcorn was not in the

19:20

air. And

19:22

they said the machine is broken. And so

19:24

we, rather than fix it, we've decided

19:26

just to scrap it because it's expensive

19:28

to repair it. The popcorn is expensive.

19:30

And so we were the only one

19:33

who eats it. We have

19:35

thrown the popcorn machine out and I said

19:37

to Bethy at this point, I was no

19:39

longer working for free. This was like 10

19:42

years later. I said to them, I will

19:44

pay for a popcorn machine.

19:46

I will buy a popcorn machine, put it in and

19:48

I will do, I will pay for all the popcorn

19:50

for the rest of eternity. Like I will just

19:53

carve out a budget in my life for

19:55

the popcorn at the chance.

19:58

Sounds like something you would ask. do.

20:00

100% of course I want to plaque Ross

20:03

Matthews on the you know, bronze statue, whatever

20:05

it's not too much or just make one

20:07

out of popcorn. Anyway, they

20:10

turned down my gracious offer because it was too

20:12

weird for everybody that I think they thought it

20:14

was serious and I was, Bethy, tell the people

20:17

you know. I believe that you

20:19

actually would have committed to that and

20:21

done that and felt great about it.

20:24

To this day I would still be

20:27

sending a check every month to cover the popcorn expenses. I

20:29

believe you. I truly do. Because it's not only sometimes

20:32

about what I want but what I think it should be

20:34

in the world and what should exist. Yes. That should be

20:37

in the world. Yes.

20:39

They turned me down and so the truth

20:41

is I haven't been back to weekends lately

20:44

that much since I started going somewhere else.

20:46

Is this

20:48

new place have popcorn? They have different kind of snacks

20:50

but I'll tell you this, they have what I they

20:52

have like a check mix and this is not where

20:54

they leave it out and everyone's fingers go in

20:57

like that's the old way. Now

20:59

it's like do you got some of that check mix

21:01

and they give you a little bowl and great but I love a

21:03

salty snack. There's a place in Manhattan

21:05

called Mondrian Orient or

21:07

in Mondrian whatever. It is very

21:10

fancy but I love going

21:12

because they have a nut medley and

21:14

it's no almonds but it's like nuts

21:16

covered in almost like a I

21:18

don't know like kind of a sweetness but

21:20

super salty it's a great I don't I

21:23

can't explain it but I asked them

21:25

and this is like where like

21:27

celebrities go right. I like

21:29

the nuts that's why I go there and

21:31

I made friends with the people and I go

21:33

where what's the how many about the

21:35

nut mixture here like what do you so they

21:38

brought it out the bag out so I could

21:40

take a picture of it online that's the point

21:42

anyway did you order it oh

21:45

yeah yeah I found I tracked it

21:47

down I got you girl but okay

21:50

there's that's a fancy place

21:52

I don't need a place to be fancy okay and

21:54

there is a bar near our

21:56

house here in New York terrifying

22:02

looking in the

22:04

best possible way. What way?

22:06

Like when you look at it, like neon

22:08

sign, dive brick.

22:11

Like when you picture, close your eyes and

22:13

picture like the diviest of dive bars. I'm

22:16

thinking of that one in downtown Mount Vernon

22:18

called the town pump. Divier than

22:20

that. Okay. Like I

22:23

always thought like, God, if I went there, I'd need to pull up

22:25

on a, you know, like a big hog.

22:28

It's like a Harley Davidson, not the kind of hog

22:30

your mom eats all night. I

22:33

mean like a big. A

22:41

big Harley Davidson. Okay. Understood.

22:44

And for two years I've been

22:46

telling Wellington, we're

22:48

going, we're going to that place. And he

22:50

was, so every time we drive by, he's like, pull in

22:52

there. You know, one time he was like, I'm taking it somewhere

22:54

special. And he pulled in and like, what are we going

22:56

here? He was like, just kidding. And he

22:58

pulled out like it's been this ongoing joke. And so finally

23:00

I was like, last weekend, most

23:03

recent weekend, I said,

23:05

we're going. So Saturday,

23:07

I think it was Saturday or Sunday, I forget.

23:10

About three o'clock, we

23:13

pulled in. Three o'clock, that's my peak hour.

23:17

And I went in and when I'm

23:19

telling you, I love, I

23:21

prefer dive. I prefer

23:23

it to be a little funky, you know, a

23:25

little. It's how we were raised. I'm

23:28

not a fancy person. I'd rather go

23:30

to down home paper, tablecloth,

23:32

no tablecloth, whatever. Give me

23:35

a little dried barbecue sauce

23:38

on my menu. I'm good. We

23:42

walked into this bar. I'm not going to name the name

23:44

of it because it was a disgusting.

23:49

And when I tell you,

23:51

smokers. Smoking

23:54

inside. Like the bar. I

23:56

thought that was illegal. Right. It is. There's a big

23:58

day of smoking. no smoking.

24:02

Everyone was smoking. We sat there. I like looking while I'm

24:04

like, I don't, I don't, but

24:06

they're like, can I get you? You know, they come up like that.

24:08

And I was like, yeah, I ordered a drink.

24:10

And I was like, I'm looking at like, I'm panicking.

24:12

I panic. And like, what do we do? And then they go, it

24:15

was, it was Sunday. Cause she goes, on

24:17

Sunday, you get free lunch if you

24:20

order a drink. So what do you

24:22

want? And I look at it as a big chocolate that

24:24

says free lunch with a drink. Hold on. What

24:26

was the free lunch? And I tell you,

24:28

Bethany, I cannot wait.

24:31

I'm going to tell you the truth. And this is what

24:33

I want. I'm telling, I'm setting up how much I love

24:35

a snack with a drink at a bar. So much. I

24:38

will pay to, I will offer

24:40

to supply popcorn for the

24:42

rest of my, my life. I would have

24:44

put it in my will that even after

24:46

I believe you that my estate would then

24:49

pay for the popcorn for the rest of

24:51

the time. You understand? That's how much I

24:53

love getting a free snack, a

24:55

snack with my drink, a salty snack. I

24:58

don't care how many fingers have been in that bowl.

25:00

I want it all. I want to get it. What

25:05

do you think I said to the lady when she offered me my

25:07

free lunch with my drink? I'm

25:10

guessing you said no. Bethany,

25:14

I said, well,

25:16

you know what? I'm full. Yeah.

25:19

Yeah. That's going to be a no. Thank you. But

25:21

thank you so much. Okay.

25:24

And the, the

25:26

lunch was what, like a big sandwich? Can

25:29

I tell you something? What? Too

25:31

scared to ask. Oh,

25:34

yeah. Okay. You just didn't trust anything.

25:37

Honestly, no. And I, maybe that's gross.

25:39

Maybe that's me growing up a little

25:41

bit because I, to turn down

25:44

free food, it's gotta be pretty gross.

25:46

But I, I found myself saying no. How

25:49

was your drink? I

25:51

had half and then I had to get out the smoke. Couldn't

25:53

do it. And what did

25:55

Welly think? He talked at me

25:58

because I'd been obsessed with going there for

26:00

two years and he he knows me like

26:02

I'll get I get obsessed with things and then

26:04

I get too close to the Sun and I get burnt

26:07

I've seen you do that yes and

26:11

it's always something weird and I get like I gotta do it

26:13

I have to go I need to do this and then I

26:15

go and I'm like get me out of here get me out

26:17

of here get me out of here this is bad this is

26:19

weird this is weird so he just looked at me and like

26:21

I mean like you know like

26:25

a news channel was on the TV a

26:27

new channel that like I don't watch and everywhere

26:29

and it was just like okay I'm

26:34

good I'm good he's like you happy good did you get

26:36

did you get to come here are we

26:39

here you okay I

26:41

am but I got it let's guy understand I know

26:43

I'm the problem it's me understood

26:46

but like here's

26:48

the real question did you fear for your

26:50

safety if I

26:52

ate the free lunch yeah

26:57

but you felt safe I

27:00

don't know I don't know I'm good I just

27:02

try it try to step to me I'll take

27:04

you outside bro no you

27:06

wouldn't yeah I would no

27:11

I'm fine but but I would

27:13

not have been fine had I eaten whatever it just was

27:16

so grody and I just wanted to say you know maybe

27:18

I and we're all talking about self-growth here maybe that's part

27:20

of my chin's up challenge that I was able to walk

27:22

away from a free bar snack you know

27:24

yes you know what it was it was the

27:26

word lunch if it would have been like free snack

27:28

I would have been like whoa what you got let

27:30

me see it you know like are you yeah what

27:32

is it but lunch weirded me out and

27:35

you know it's gonna be mostly bread oh my

27:37

god I can you even I don't even want to

27:39

imagine what sort of what sort

27:41

of deep-fried yuck they'd have to blow cigarette

27:44

ash off to bring to me I'm good

27:46

I'm good thanks so much I'm imagining

27:48

like a big hoagie roll with like

27:50

a slice of slightly

27:52

sketch turkey or something you know

27:55

what I pictured I pictured

27:57

like a microwaved corn dog

28:01

Quite possibly, yeah. Or

28:03

microwaved pizza. See,

28:06

now that we say it, it kind of sounds good. I

28:09

had microwaved pizza the other day. When

28:12

was that time you had a corn dog? It's

28:16

been a while, but so my

28:18

mom loves junk food and here's

28:20

some... No. And

28:23

bacon. We

28:28

have many corn dogs,

28:30

fried mini corn dogs in the

28:33

freezer. See,

28:35

now that I can stay away from. That would be

28:37

screaming my name all night. No,

28:40

because I don't know what it is, but that

28:42

just like... Corn

28:44

dog dipped in equal parts ketchup and

28:46

mustard. That

28:49

is a great bite. It's

28:52

a great bite. Don't

28:54

make me think about those corn dogs. When a

28:56

corn dog is like hot and like the outside

28:59

is really crispy, but then like the corn meal

29:01

is still like mushy on the inside. The

29:04

hot dog is so salty and the ketchup sweet

29:06

and then the mustard is tangy, man.

29:08

And then you have to like kind of pull it off the stick

29:10

with your teeth. You know what I'm saying? Oh

29:13

yeah, the batter. But in the bits

29:15

of the batter that get stuck at the very end

29:17

when you're done, you bite them off on the stick.

29:21

But there's no stick because they're mini. You know

29:23

what? I'm going back to that bar

29:25

today. I got to go. You

29:28

know that's what they're serving. That

29:30

was cider bacon. Yeah. Oh

29:32

man. Anyway,

29:35

Rossipice, what's your favorite bar snack? Where do

29:37

you get it? Tag your bar. I

29:39

want to know. It's like travel around. Because like

29:41

I will go to these bars. For example, the best bar

29:43

snack I've ever had was at the saloon in

29:46

Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have the best tater tots

29:49

I've ever had in my life. You're a

29:51

tater tot fan. I don't care where I am

29:53

on my... I think the tater tots is the

29:55

most underappreciated potato product in there. I've said it.

29:57

And I don't care where I am on my

29:59

head. health journey if I'm in Minneapolis I mean

30:01

I'm pounding a pound of the saloon tater tots

30:03

you know what I mean what do you dip

30:06

tater tots in would that be a pure ketchup

30:09

that would that would be yeah I would I mean

30:11

if there was a ranch option yeah there's a barbecue

30:13

I'm gonna do that but I'm telling you right there

30:17

I mean of course I would dip in a tater if

30:19

there are tartars there's a tartar sauce I would dip in

30:21

a thousand island I would dip in a honey mustard and

30:25

what is the number one dip and sauce for

30:28

tater tots for you touch up you hate to be

30:30

pure but that's if I had to choose wine and I

30:32

hate to live in that world but I'd have to choose

30:34

ketchup I'd hate for you to live in that world what

30:36

were if you were lived in a world where you get one dip in

30:38

sauce with your tater tot what are you choosing blue

30:41

cheese dressing I love

30:43

it so much you need more help than I can

30:45

give you understood

30:49

but it would be delicious and we also have

30:51

tater tots in the freezer what's going

30:53

on didn't you weren't you just lecturing me about

30:55

bringing in good food into the house

30:57

I live with my mother we have

31:01

a lot of junk food in the house so

31:03

I'm just gonna go ahead and give myself pups

31:05

for how well I'm doing given all this stuff

31:07

I have in my house but I need to resist

31:10

out of us and

31:32

welcome back to the program at Bethany what's

31:35

our ingredient of the week it is

31:37

something that we've talked about kind of recently

31:39

but we haven't really done a deep

31:42

dive on this spherical

31:45

item it's spherical but

31:47

more vehicle wait

31:53

a watermelon I'm

31:58

talking here about the

32:00

classic chicken egg. An

32:05

egg. Eggs. My

32:07

ingredient of the week. Egg. Is

32:10

this some sort of yolk? Say

32:15

it again because, sorry, something about, I think our

32:17

signal is scrambled. Eggs.

32:22

Eggs. I'm sorry, I'm interrupting. I'm

32:24

gonna let you finish. Understood.

32:29

You got one more? I'm sorry,

32:31

he's not cracking you up. One

32:34

more? I'll be honest,

32:36

that last joke wasn't mine. I poached it from someone else.

32:39

Okay, I think he's done, guys.

32:42

Eggs can be sweet or

32:45

savory. He's still laughing

32:48

at his own joke. It's

32:52

good. They're good. I say I buy

32:54

them. Yeah, eggs. Yes,

32:56

eggs are an ingredient. Okay,

33:00

of course, much appreciation for eggs. I

33:02

will say I can't do eggs too many days in

33:04

a row. You know, like eggs for me, I've got

33:06

to vary it up. So I like that eggs can

33:08

last in the fridge for like a month because I

33:10

don't need more than 12 in a month. You know,

33:12

like I'll mix up one morning, I'll have an apple

33:14

with peanut butter. One morning, I'll have yogurt

33:16

and berries. And then one morning, I'll have a

33:18

couple eggs, you know, and then I

33:21

don't want to get bored. But they're definitely in

33:23

my rotation. I'm not a fan of a

33:25

hard-boiled egg. I don't like the yolk. Oh,

33:27

I love, like

33:29

a perfectly hard-boiled

33:32

egg that isn't, doesn't have the

33:34

powdery yolk but is like still

33:36

kind of like, I don't like

33:38

a runny yolk.

33:41

If I do a deviled egg, it needs to have some

33:44

sort of texture on it. It can't just be mush. I

33:49

love deviled eggs. But I, you have to

33:51

have scallions on deviled eggs for me. I

33:53

just need that little crunch of something. I

33:56

do make a great deviled egg. I wonder,

33:58

I should put that as a I've

34:00

never made my raw version of deviled eggs.

34:04

I think that would be an absolute hit.

34:06

I love deviled eggs. I

34:08

don't like, like I said, runny yolks. I

34:11

don't know. I am very specific about it.

34:13

I don't like soft scrambled eggs. So

34:16

how do you order your eggs if you're in a

34:18

restaurant? And what do you

34:20

say in addition to that? You

34:24

don't say I want scrambled eggs that

34:26

are hard. No, I just trust

34:29

they're going to be hard enough. The thing about eggs, if they're

34:31

not hard enough, just like wait a minute. And like the heat

34:33

of them will sort of cook them further, you know, so they

34:35

become a little soft. I just wait. In

34:38

the UK, when they cook eggs and serve

34:40

them at a restaurant, the white

34:42

is often even runny. Give

34:46

me one second. I'll be right back. It's the first

34:48

time I saw I was so grossed out.

34:54

And yeah, I

34:56

love eggs. If I think about it too much, I can

34:59

really freak myself out. Oh, a lot of

35:01

food I can't think about. You know what I

35:04

mean? I can't think about what it is. I just

35:06

need to detach my brain. It's not that.

35:08

It's not that it's food. Yes,

35:10

like eating an

35:13

unsuccessful chicken embryo. Can't think about

35:15

it. Think about that. Won't think about

35:17

that. Will not. And

35:20

sometimes when you see it's got like veins and

35:22

stuff in it, I can't even

35:24

look. Can't do it. No,

35:26

you're going to this one time will

35:28

make an exception and eat it. Understood.

35:33

Well, what do you think about eggs,

35:35

recipes? Let us know. We'll start a

35:37

conversation. How do you order them? How

35:40

will you refuse to eat them? I

35:42

do believe more than any other

35:44

food out there, we are all super specific

35:47

about how we like our eggs. It's why

35:49

when you order a diner, there's

35:51

like countless ways you can order them

35:53

because you like them. But

35:56

also like eggs, you

35:58

use them to make meatloaf. and chocolate

36:00

chip cookies. You're right about

36:03

that, Beppy. Kind of amazing. You know

36:05

what they go great with? What?

36:08

A 24-pack of bacon. Beppy,

36:10

I want to thank you so much

36:12

for being here. I want to thank your mom for

36:14

her contributions today. Even though she

36:16

did sort of hog a lot of the conversation. Okay,

36:18

here's the deal. Did

36:25

your mom speak pig Latin? Okay, gotta go. Here's

36:27

the deal. Just

36:29

because it's a lot of bacon. It's a lot of bacon. We

36:34

are a judgment-free zone. We don't

36:36

judge. You and I give each other

36:38

a hard time. But I don't want to have people listening to our

36:40

show thinking that we would ever shame anybody.

36:42

We're not shaming you. We're not shaming me. No,

36:45

we're having these conversations because it's

36:47

realized stuff. It's what we do. Absolutely.

36:50

And it's a safe space to talk

36:52

about it. And you and I try

36:54

to keep each other accountable. Yes. And

36:57

we try to make each other laugh. So that's what we do.

36:59

Why am I explaining this? Why do I feel the need

37:01

to? People, you understand and you don't, right? But just understand

37:03

that like, you know, it's part of

37:05

the process. Keeping it

37:07

real. All right. Love you, Bethy. If you want to

37:09

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right there. Bethy, I adore you.

37:39

I adore you, my love. Stay

37:41

sweet. And

37:43

savory. That

37:46

was so gross. We can

37:48

never sign up. And that will be our

37:50

tagline. Oh my God, ready? Let's try it right now. Be sweet. I'll

37:53

say it. We want to thank you

37:55

all for listening. And until next time,

37:57

remember, be sweet. Be

37:59

sweet. Savory. Oh

38:05

my God. It's

38:08

hot. I

38:30

love playing music, bro. I used to be like, what's wrong?

38:32

I didn't even at the time, I didn't love my music.

38:34

I always feel like I'm in a

38:36

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