1973 Podcast
1973 Podcast Episode 73
- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. Here we go, the 1973 podcast, episode 73. Is that like an anniversary? Does that mean anything, hold weight? I don't know, what do you guys think? Does that hold any weight at all, Ed? - Good to hear. (laughing) - We're all 51 of us has taken Alzheimer's medicine. (laughing) - Chris, you're already 50? - I feel like it, sure. - Okay, okay. So big things, no brad this week. We're recording on 4th of July weekend. It's the Phantom's birthday weekend. So we got to mention that right off the rip. It's just funny how the Phantom's birthday in episode 73, 1973, all kinds of, you know, just kind of stuff going on, a lot of stuff. So speaking of brad, we're gonna pose a toy question to the panel, no email this week. We wanna know from growing up. And this is the lead-in for what Brad brought to the table this week. What is the greatest toy from our generation? From the 1973 till now, what is your pick for the greatest toy of all time? I'm gonna start with the birthday boy. The man that is still holding on at 50, by the fingernails. - Very true. - Yod pick better not be my pick, 'cause I'm gonna be pissed. They're better not be food you more than. - I'm gonna throw it out like three things. (laughing) How many times I'm trying to listen to a list. - All right. - We should have three. - We'll try to see, just for you. (laughing) - What's your pick? (laughing) - I'm gonna have to go to LJN wrestlers. That was my thing. Yeah. I feel like I was already a little bit older that I had a better imagination when I was playing with them. And we talked about wrestling it on here. And that was like full booking, whole nine yards. It wasn't just playing random toys. It was a full operation where I was playing those things. So I'd have to go with those. But I got some solid honorable mentions, but I don't wanna steal anybody else's thunder here. So I'm going with the LJN wrestlers. - We'll circle back to your honorable mentions, right? - Okay. - Chris, if nobody says it. - I'm gonna drop down a little bit. We're gonna go to Chris. Chris, greatest toy growing up, what was it? - So my generation, which is a little more recent than all y'all. I'm gonna say, I wasn't the biggest toy guy, right? I was into the board games and whatnot. But, 'cause that was kind of my generation, the early nineties, board games were huge in video games, right? That's when video games started to explode, Sega Genesis and all that good stuff. But if we're gonna get to plastic and actually having fun playing stuff in your hands, all I can remember back is being in the sixth grade, fifth and sixth grade. And I had every single WWE little wrestler with the little mini ring going on. And the best part is, I bought the WWE Championship belt I had bought. And we're talking those phone cheap shitty belts, right? With plastic on it. It's a tag team championship and the intercontinental belt. Those are the three belts we had, the rest we've made out of cardboard. But me and my friends would go every day to the schoolyard or to the church parking lot. And we would wrestle the fuck out of each other. Slowing coals, throwing each other pedigree. I had to greet some dude and one of my boys and dog shit one time, okay? You know what? Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to win a match. But I would recall just the whole wrestling for me. That was like my best time of life, the best time remembering playing with toys, the championship belts and all the figurines. I really enjoyed it at that time, definitely. - So Chris, you're talking about the, not the ones that Ryan's talking about. You're talking about the snapback ones right there. You just want to add a different thing to it, right? - Yes, yes. - All right. So the ones that the fandom's talking about, the ones that were bigger, the rubber ones, the little ones. - Big rubber ones, yeah. - Yep. Thomas, y'all pick. - I'm going to go away from the wrestling. And my personal, when I was a kid was, I'd have the Hot Wheels where I'd be bringing them wherever I went, if I'd go over my grandmother's house, I'd have the little box, I had the little compartments for all your Hot Wheels and shit. But because we're looking for women viewership on here, my, in general, if you look at total population, Barbie's got to be up there, man. If you look at what's still popular. - You did have an older system. - Yes, I did. So I got to say, Barbie, I mean, if you look at money from back then to now, Barbie's got to be one of the more popular ones. - All right, Edge, you're on the clock. What do you got? - The green machine. - The big wheeled green machine, right? - The big wheeled green machine. - Let's go! - I mean, that thing was bad ass, man. You could fly downhill and stuff that thing, spin that thing around, almost get hit by cars and keep on going. I mean, that really was probably one of my most favorite toys that I'll possibly have back in the day, you know, you'd get around on it, you know? - I'm gonna have to get confirmation on this one from Ed, but if you ever were in my basement between the years of 1983 and 1990, there was an entire section of my basement dedicated to GI Joe. - That was correct, sir. - When those GI Joe's came out, that was right in the wheelhouse of imagination right there and I had the USS flag. I had a step that they made from like, mash that I turned into like camps for the GI Joe figures. I had the sky strike, I hang it from the seal and I had the cobra rattler hanging from the other side. It was like nonstop. They, I've talked about this a bunch of times with different people that when those file cuts came on the back of every guy, it like gave you the template for a blueprint of a backstory who this person was, where they were from. And then you just, if you had a vivid imagination and you were only child like myself, it was like game on. So I'm gonna have to say for a pound-for-pound my pick, had the biggest impact on my toy collecting growing up was probably the GI Joe, the smaller ones. There was a big fan of collecting the vintage ones for a while, but nothing was like those. That was a rainy day, winter day, down in the basement, playing that, didn't need anybody to have at it. That's my pick and before we move on, I wanna say that Brad was on location in Dallas, Texas. He had a chance to go to a vintage toy store, promote the podcast, and he took some video and we promised that we would add it in. And you wanna do the lead-in with some goon guide before I show the- - Sure, this is Brad's spot at the toy store, I brought you by goon guide, goon guide.com, check him out, Beth, my best mouth pieces out there, discount code, 1973, and we're gonna drop right in here right now. - So I just wanna, just a little quick review of what you saw from the video. What did you think, Ed? What did you think of Brad's little video they just sent in? - Man, I, you know, it was fun working with Brad for, I think, almost two years. You know, I never realized how big hot wheels were as far as collectibles were. And then to see what they had, the store, when he went into the store was just truly amazing. And that was just incredible to see that. And to see all those wrestling guys all in one spot, that was pretty huge too. - Chris, thoughts on Brad's trip? - Yeah, quite the, quite the store, right? So the first thing I thought of was Bowser's basement. I don't know if you any of you guys know that in Totten. Pretty decent little place, but it's more tailored to around gaming and Bowser. But you get a lot of like old school stuff. They get, you know, a lot of older style toys. And there's also a store in the Dartmouth mall that's pretty cool, but that store is amazing. The fucking ceiling tiles painted as comic books. Like, who thinks of that shit? You know, awesome, awesome video. Good job, Brad, you killed it on that one, buddy. - I'm gonna add-- - I think-- - Oh, go ahead, Ed. - I was gonna say before we leave this, I think we should at least go through, at least go through the birthday voice honorable mentions, I think, you know, I mean, it's gonna be, you know. - I'm hoping to get some, I'm hoping to get some tomorrow. - The vintage, vintage LJ and a big bucks now, Franco. - Yeah, yeah, now it's out of the price range. Can't, can't swing it, can't swing it. - And then those things are too heavy to hang with in the thumbtack. (laughing) - The retail value sucks, I love to be chipped off. - That's true, that's true. Tom, what was the name of the store? Dallas Vintage Toys? - Yes. - And if you close your eyes while you listen to him, it almost brings Robin Leachback, you know, lifestyles of the rich and famous. - Franco, what was your honorable mention on that list? - Well, you know, it was the G.I. Joes, which I knew, I knew you were going that round, so that was like my one B, but you gotta go back to the Star Wars. I think the Star Wars guys, was the ones that started off all this, anything after Star Wars, I was like a collector. If I had, I had to have all the Star Wars guys. I had to have all the G.I. Joes, I had to have all the wrestlers said, and it was a whole different mindset of wanting toys, and it was like, I didn't want one of them, I wanted all of them. And that all started through all the Star Wars movies from when we were kids. Like I said, carried into the G.I. Joes, carried it to start lineups, and you name anything, anything from there, it all started with Star Wars. - Hey, I just want to give you the platform to tell a funny story that we've talked about for years in a personal setting, but it's a great platform to talk about as theirs. - I have a choice. - The Sunday Flyer, running for toys, hiding them. - Yeah, you go into a store, they have all the guts. And like I just said, you didn't want one, you needed them all, and those fucking things were hard to find. So you'd have to decide. - My mother was usually pretty good, so I was getting more than one, but she wasn't buying a wall. I'd fucking go all around that store. Road map, I'd hide them in the curtains, I hide behind the puzzles that nobody wanted to play with, the models, you name it, there was wrestlers hidden in that store. More chance than not, I came back and they were still there, but they had some damn good employees, 'cause they found those fuckers. (all laughing) - What you're saying is that you show up, they got the whole series, so cheers of the like six, let's just say. - They got a wall. - They got a wall. - You can't buy a mall, let's just say. So Corporal Curse is going behind the models, and he's seen bullets coming home. - Guarantee. - Yup. - There's probably still one hidden somewhere in Stasto, because I hit it, and then I found it in ZAs later on that week. (all laughing) - So if you go to UMass Dom at that Stasto, it's probably there. - It's probably there. - Hit the penis store with your grandmother, and then swing over to Stasto, and see if you can find it. (all laughing) - All right, so let's move on, and we're gonna speak in a wrestling, we're gonna talk, this is a lot going on, we're recording on Friday night, so that we can watch Money in the Bank, and NXT's got a pay-per-view on Sunday night heat wave. So quick rundown of the wrestling stuff. Chris, you've been watching a wrestling lately. - I can't say I have my man. - Okay, the thing that I took away this week was a lot of some crossroads by Cody Rhodes onto a security guard. Great sell, bounced the guy right out of the ring, it was really good if you didn't see it, it's definitely worth going and watching. The return to Dr. Britt Baker, she had a free soft with, I'll call her Sasha Banks, 'cause I don't know if it's Mercedes, Monet, Monet, whatever it is. Tom, you wanna bring us up the speed on all things Dr. Britt? - Well, she's broke, I guess. She looked fine, coming back, so we'll see how she looks. - She looks fine, all right. - I'll have to second that. - Mom and Chris. - Yeah, she looked really healthy, let's just say. I don't know if the Phantom has any insights on the 101 with Sasha Banks, what do you think, Ryan? - I just think that it's kind of cool that, she comes back, they bring her back with this big fan set, but you can't fool the fans. So they bring her in as a face, and the fans are already born. Like, I guess they came out that she has creative control, so now she's already got all these belts, so the people already figured it out, and they'll turn on you in a second, and now Britt's back, and they're all team Britt, so it should set up pretty well, and I'll give E.W. credit, they sniffed it out, and they're already turning her heel out, they're not even gonna mess around with it, so they're good on them for that. - Professor, what do you think about them giving her creative control? What do you think? - I think it's ridiculous, but at this point, that's the only way they're gonna get some of these guys, or girls from WWE, is to give them creative control, and granted, there's nobody there that can, like, try to, I guess, tell a 20 car not to, and show them what happened, just show them the WCW documentary, and you'll see what happens, but nobody's gonna, nobody, they all want to work, so nobody's gonna say tell 'em not to do it that way. - In Tony's defense, too, their women division kind of stinks, so, I mean, you're bringing her in here, you're putting the belt on her anyway, so whether she wants them to put the belt on her, or you want 'em, they're like, she's gonna end up with a belt no matter what, I guess that's the pressure you're gonna kind of pay to bring in the styles like you said, though. - Chris, did you, I know why the last couple of episodes, you weren't not able to make it, but did you finish watching the Who Killed WCW? - I did not, yeah, this is my third episode, I missed three episodes in a row, guys, you know? Well, I spent a little crazy, and what not, with plans and summertime was here, but no, I didn't even get to finish a lot of that. - Yeah, we finished it last week, and I was gonna throw it to you, and I wanted your opinion after it's all said and done, and I want you to tell me who you think killed WCW. - You really killed WCW? - Yeah, yeah, when we get around to that. Yeah, so I'm curious to see what kind of build they do with this weekend in Toronto, they're kind of setting the whole thing around, maybe there'll be some surprises, maybe something will go down, maybe somebody will show up, but I'm kind of intrigued with watching NXT just to see if Ethan Page, they give him the belt on Sunday 'cause he's in the main event, so it'd be kind of cool to kind of go in a different direction to kind of show that there's not a thing to keep back, guys that come in from other companies where Vince was notorious for doing that when guys jumped shift, he kind of made an example out of him where they had to lose for a while, and then kind of give him a run after that, but it'll be interesting to see, and we'll stay tuned with that, and we'll cover it when Greg comes back next week, he'll be all up today on all things wrestling. - You see, WWE tonight, I don't know if you saw her any smackdown before we came on, but Triple H announced Tristratus, he brought her out, and she's gonna be the host of the whole pay-per-view, I guess, so I don't know if she'll get involved at all, if at all in this thing or not, but... - And you wanna, Tommy, you wanna mention that thing you were talking about about Dijek getting the axe for being a mole? - Yeah, they fired Donovan Dijek, or they didn't fire, and they did not renew his contract, and he's been saying for like the last three weeks that they weren't, he knew that they had already told him that they weren't resigning him. Well, now it's coming out that they may have fired him or let him go because he was the leak to the dirt sheets with all of the spots and who was coming, who was going, so if that's true, maybe that'll stop some of them coming out. I don't think you're never gonna stop everything because you're always gonna have somebody that's there that's like a mid-carder or lower, that thinks they should be higher and pissed off, and that this is their payback and revenge is to leak stuff. - Yeah, I just want more wrestling tidbit before we go, there's a toy store downtown, I don't know if Chris knows it, at Kojo's Toy World, Dan Hellesen's coming again on July 30th. - Right next door for my barber now, they just move right next door to the New Bedford barber coming, that's where I go every couple of weeks with Riley, get our haircuts, store looks great, the outside, they got the windows all painted, looks nice now. - Yeah, did you see the ad for it, Chris, that he was coming? - Yeah, they put it, they actually, the ad's on the barber shop when I walked in, I seen it actually when I walked in last Saturday. - Yeah, really, the thing that's cool, bow down, if you ever get a chance to meet him is he's in character, so he does the whole gimmick, it's really good. - They've got Kojo's World, is that what it's called, Andy, he's got Tommy Dreamer coming. - Oh, I didn't see that. - Yeah, so the other day, I saw an ad on Facebook. - Oh, all right, you know, the thing that I always say about that stuff is when it's local, try to support it because then, you know, it'll just, rather than driving to Providence or Boston, it's close to home, so if you can, you know, support it, that way they bring in more guys, might not be a cup of tea, but something, you know, kind of do. So, let's get ready to talk some sports and go into some hot dog heat and contest with your sheet picks. - Before I do that, let's just mention what you showed us online a little while ago, Kevin Sullivan, I guess he's doing it very good. And they started a GoFundMe page. He's in pretty rough shape. I don't know if you clicked on the GoFundMe thing or not, but he's, he, I guess he had an accident sometime in May and he's in really bad shape. He's ended up, I guess he's got insurance, but it's been so long that it's not covering anything anymore. So looking for money, and you talk about the wrestling world banding together. If you look at some of the names that have donated, I mean, as much as people get on Jim Cornette, and his wife are the top donor right now with the, I'm not going to say what he donated, but it was in the thousands. Cody Rhodes has donated, Dutch Mantell, who I think started the GoFundMe page, him and Kevin Sullivan's wife. But I guess Perez got to go out to Kevin Sullivan because he does, he's in pretty rough shape. - Yeah, and I kind of hope that he would already have been in the Hall of Fame for WWE. They have a bad habit of putting guys in after they pass. And it's just not the same when you get a family member up there accepting for him, rather than said person. And after some of the people that they've let go in the Hall of Fame, we should have went in a long time ago, even as a creative mind that he had. Like I said, that gimmick that he did, not the taskmaster one, but the one in the early 80s. That was a game changer for me watching wrestling at the time. So Tom, time to do your thing. Let's talk some of Jim Hicks. Tom Schitt picks as brought to you by Brock Street Brewing Company, located at 244 Brock Street South in Whitby, Ontario. Everything they brew is in-house, including their beers, salters, vodka sodas and their hard iced teas. So if you're in the Whitby area, check them out and tell them the 1973 podcast, send ya. Now, my pick this week, from two days ago, I got to say I'm a little disappointed with our masterful, Jeffrey Esper. He talked a good game, said he was gonna dominate and he was gonna, said he was gonna eat 50, he said he, if he could eat 51, he'd win. Well, he ate 52 when he lost by five. So somebody's gonna step up their game, do a little more training, I guess. But I got beat by a guy from Chicago. So that pick and in honor of him, I'm pretty sure he's probably shitting a quite a bit right now. So my shitty pick of the week, there you go. But just come and look at that. - Is there any truth? Is there any truth to the rumor that his training got screwed up because he was eating lobster rolls with Chris? (laughing) - That's a possibility. - They are some damn good lobster rolls. - I'm going lobster rolls over hot dogs every time. Just saying, just saying. That even with Coney Island. - They fault you on that one, right? - Whoof! Nope, I'm not going over there, Andy. I don't want no secret sauce on the dogs. (laughing) - I will say the best hot dogs I ever had. I think I was in the seventh grade. Andy, your dad took a slap, placed a ball. - Walk them over there and fall over. - Nope. - Two inches dirty dogs in the dirty pit. - Yeah, dude, he opens up the tin and all the fucking flies fly out of the alley. I'm like, I'm good. (laughing) - I'll go back in Doritos. Thank you. - Two inches, king of hot dogs. Fall River Mass. Fire it up. Let's go. Go ahead and follow us. - My pretty pick for this week, I'm going back to baseball. I'm going to go with Logan Gilbert, starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He's got two starts next week against San Diego and the Angels. He's averaging six Ks a game in his last five starts and he's only giving up four runs twice and 15 starts. Now, his biggest problem this year is run support. The Seattle offense is terrible. So as well as he's doing stat-wise, he's just, he's got five wins. He probably should have nine or 10. But the San Diego offense is kind of beat up right now and the Angels are the Angels. So I think he's going to come away with two wins and probably 15 to 20 points total. So that's my pick. - All right. So let's talk some hockey. Let's talk a little bit of a fridge and frenzy. Let's talk about a little bit of disappointment. Let's talk about the man that has the only brewing jersey on on this podcast. Chris, what the hell are we abruins doing during these last couple of weeks? - Nothing but good stuff, okay? We finally found a first-line sentiment, which is something that we've needed for a long time. Although Lindholm has had a couple of shitty seasons. He had 40 goals two years ago, okay? So let's see what he can do. All right, we're going to need him to step up and with Posnock and Zaka. I mean, I can't see that being a problem there. So I think we're going to have a stellar first line. And you got to love Zataroff, that defenseman. Yeah, he's probably going to be paired on our third, third defensive pairing. But I'll take that all day because we were already scary defensively as far as the Bruins go. I think we were very strong defensively. So that's just going to add to it. - So quick question. How are you scaring when you lose to the Panthers? - Everybody lost to the Panthers. - Thank you. Good answer, sir. Good answer for most of you. - Tom, I'm not asking for anything. (laughing) - Now, but listen, my true winner from this whole free agency, man, I want to go with the predators. They did some serious moves with it. I know Stan goes up there on age, but Marge Assault, amazing sign. Reds, sleighs, whatever, I know it's not skitties. - Brady J. - Yeah, Shijane, okay. And then they locked up Yarrows, I think, and Sorrows, I think he is one of the better gold tendons in the league. I just think the predators are weak defensively, but they made some huge moves. They are my number one pick for NHL free agency anyway. - Thomas, you wanted to talk about gold tendon. - Bruins gold tendon. - I just, I hated the trade, I'll be honest with you. They did, to me, it made no sense for what they got back in return. I was, I was gonna wait to see what they got with the pick and I didn't like the pick, but that draft was so thin after like the 14th pick. It was like all crapshoot. So to me, I think they should have tried to get a little bit more, but they gave them away for nothing. And you can't really say they were doing it to free up money because corporate Sorrow is only making, I think, a million dollars less than Elmark is after they say, I guess, I think they had to keep them, they had to pay a million of it. I think Otto was gonna pay a million of his salary. So it's still one or two million dollars less. I mean, to me, just didn't make any sense. - Phantom thoughts on the whole draft, the chef, will go to your area of expertise. - That was pretty good. I mean, I was kind of hoping that my Hawks would get that number one pick. Mackle and Celebrini, he looks like he's a stud. He watched a lot of his games for BU, so he's the real deal so that they made our right. I was hoping that the Blackhawks were gonna take that Russian kid, slip to five, so the habs got him. Well, I'm not disappointed with Lachete-Noffe he's supposed to be really, really good defenseman. So you kind of, you don't want the meat and potatoes, you want the dessert. So we'll have to wait and see over time to see how it ends up working out. Then I guess like the big thing of the draft was that I was a man kid that was like before when they were doing the pre-rancings and all that. It was like number two. And more recently, I guess it's like a one-way play. I said he just scores goals. Like, who doesn't need that? Well, he ended up, Blackhawks, for me, they picked again at 19. He's still there, and they still, they didn't take him after he slipped all that way and the Islanders ended up getting him at 20. So going forward, it'll always be a guy that I kind of will pay attention to, but I thought draft was good. I thought they did the draft in that Vegas. Bro, that dome or what's called? Yeah, there. Yeah, yes. Yeah, that was fantastic. Usually, if you watch their one-show, it's fucking garbage. They had a home run with that draft. They should do it there every year. It was, I thought, it was actually a good show to watch as far as just being a fan and watching the show. So, really, that's pretty good. I think this is the last year that they're actually doing it with everyone in person. I think starting next year. Yeah, yeah, they said they were gonna start doing it over the phone or whatever. Yep. I don't know. I think not just bad, it's like the NFL draft, wherever they show all the guys that are about to get drafted, and they all got cell phones. And it's like, they show them five minutes before they announce the pick and they're on the telephone. So you already know they're gonna get picked. So it, it's usually the NFL's shit's on the NHL, how they go about things, but I prefer watching the NHL draft to be honest over the NFL draft. I have a question for Ed. Did he scour the state of Florida for all of his Florida Panthers, Stanley Cup merchandise? Man, let me tell you, it's very thin. It's very thin here in the old panhandle. I haven't, you know, it's surprising. Didn't see very much. Saw a couple of lessons plates. I didn't see any flags. I didn't see anything like that. I mean, Miami is, you know, a good 12 hours away. So, you know, from where I am. So, I mean, there is that. There is, you know, there's the lightning right in between that, you know, right down to I-75. So there is that. But, you know, I kind of, I was very surprised to see it on how, like, little the state of Florida kind of got behind it. You know, the parade looked like they, you know, a lot of people showed up for the parade and whatnot. That type of thing. So, you know, I can definitely say that the local community definitely supported their team. But I didn't really see, you know, a lot of the whole state, you know. I mean, look, it's the South. There's other things to do here, you know. - There is. So, well, let's move on from the hockey stuff. And now that we have Chris on, I want to talk cooking with Chris. Before we get to this week's episode, I want to sing your praises and say what a fantastic, fantastic job Chris is doing with these little segments. I think it's great. And look at that quality apron. That is a quality, quality apron. Chris, thoughts on your cooking segment. What have you gotten any feedback at all from it? - I mean, I haven't seen nothing yet, but you know what? Everybody loves food, okay? Food brings family to the table. It brings happiness. It brings everybody something good to eat when you're a shit-faced drunk and you want some good food, right? So there's nothing better than a good meal in front of you at the end of the day. There's nothing good at the center of a table with a big family, get together, then meal, a good food. That's, I've been cooking since I was 10 years old, I want to say. My mom used to literally be like, "Hey, it's your day to cook today, "so let me know what you want me to take out," or she would tell me like the day before. And she used to just take out chicken, or linguise out of the freezer and be like, "Here you go, have fun, have that." And I used to cook them probably the shittiest shit, and they used to just sit there and be like, "Oh, this was good, but she would help me." And be like, "You know, next time you should have this, "or do that." And like, I've literally been cooking since I was 10 years old. It's always something I'd love to do. I take pride in it, and food, like I said, is just something to me that I love doing. I worked in a restaurant for 13 years. I was a manager for about 10. Ricottis, which just about everybody knows that restaurant. And I just, you know, I love the fast-paced, going crazy, slaying the stove tops, the sweat dripping down your face. Some of it falls into the food. It's a little extra salt. You guys love it too, and don't even know it. But cooking is the key to life, man. And I love it, and I'm happy that I'm doing this. It's a cool thing to do. I love it. Before we go to Ed and Tom, I want to bring up a... I want to ask you a question. Which Ricottis were you a manager at? Okay, so I start off a new Bedford, obviously, because Faven wasn't even open. When Faven opened, I went there. And I actually worked both for about two years, and then settled back into just the new Bedford one. But I did do both at one point. So from the years of probably 1989 through 1997, me and the Phantom were fixtures in that place, at least once a week. And we were never eating the restaurant. We'd always eaten the takeout pot. At one time, if you were on a budget, I see Kohler in a pizza, there's nothing was beating that. So when I started there, when I started there, a cheese pizza was 467. And the torpedo was 398. So there you go. You can't go wrong with a big-ass meatball sub for under four dollars and a cheese pizza for under five dollars. So I believe when it was a fixture of our rotation, I want to say a cheese pizza was three bucks. And Aussie Kohler, that was the way to go. And yeah, we would go there so much, so much. Every Friday night, maybe, before we headed out. That was definitely a staple. Ed, Tom, thoughts on cooking with Chris? - Well, for us, I loved it, Chris. I mean, I know I sent a text to the group chat about Chris. I said, it was on the pasta recipe. It was the anything left in the kitchen that you didn't throw in the pasta. I was like, bro, it was a compliment. I mean, you're like with tossing stuff in there. I thought more stuff was like, come out of the cabinets or something. But no, I look great, man. I think that I know that Andy, Ryan, and Tom, they were surprised that there was a quite a few years ago they came over and they were like, man, this clam chow is really good. And they said to my mom, I'm like, god, it's a great job. And she's like, yeah, Eddie took it, actually. And so, I mean, there is certainly a love of cooking, Chris. And so, I mean, kudos to you, man. I look delicious and looking forward to seeing the Lobster Bowl episode as well. So it'll be episode three of "Cookin' with Chris" this week. I'm not going to say what it is, but Tom, I'm going to let you do the lead in so I can drop it in. All righty, "Cookin' with Chris" is brought to you by the book "Loving Elliot," a fitting tribute to Undying Love written by our own Andy Clark. It's available on amazon.com. Elliot was the oldest special needs Jack Russell Terrier when he passed away at the age of 21. - The poem will drop it in right around and sprinkle it in to like some paprika. - All right, so, Tom, we're going to go back to back with some ad breaks and we're going to drop in. We got an album of "The Week" from "Purchase Street." You mind dropping that in? - Sure. - All right, this week's album "The Week" is brought to you by "Purchase Street Records," located at 53 Pope's Island, Unit 2, New Bedford, Mass, or online at purchasestrecords.com. They also have a Facebook page. "Purchase Street Records" is Southern New England's largest independent record store. - All right, so, let's wind this episode down. It's kind of a light one, got stuff to do. So, let's do some shout outs. So, Chris, you have the floor, you missed a couple of episodes, so have at it. - Yeah, I did. I'm glad to be back. Knocked to rust off a little bit, definitely. I'm glad that you guys gave me a little segment to do on my own. So, my shout outs gonna go to myself, I guess, today. Let's hope that people enjoy the cooking as much as I pat myself on the back. Let's hope that the people enjoy my cooking as much as I do. My family loves my cooking. Everybody that comes over, loves my cooking, says I'm a great host. I just, again, when I see people enjoying and smiling, like, oh, stuff in their face, I'm just happy inside. It feels so damn good. I love filling people's bellies. I bring food to work. This week's cooking with Chris, I literally brought ribs and thrown on the grill at work, which you guys just seen in that video. And again, everybody loved it. And I just have this sense of joy when people have a full belly and enjoy the food. So, it's cool, man. - All right, professor, you're on the clock. Do things. First of all, I want to give a shout out to my niece, Taylor, she's been under the weather and she's going to end up going in for surgery. They're making her wait until the middle of August. So, feel better, kid. And second, I want to wish the Phantom a happy birthday. You all think I'm still celebrating America, but I'm actually celebrating the Phantom. - You're going to follow that one up there, birthday boy. Go ahead. - I'm going to have to shout out all the boys and all the birthday love I've been getting. And getting a good week's worth. Probably get a little bit more tomorrow. But I appreciate it. I guess as we get older, every birthday that you get is a gift. And I just want to say I appreciate all you guys and see you next year. (laughing) - All right, Edge. You're going to follow that one. - All right. I mean, Ryan, happy birthday. And just, you know, and, you know, it's just good to see everybody here tonight. And, you know, we're kind of flying and missing man formation for Brad. And, you know, just, you know, thanks boys for having us. I look forward to this every week. So it's good to see everybody. - Yeah, can't say any better than that. I say it every week. It's like just the whole time, getting together with everybody. And it's not, it's not like it was, but we try to make it like it was. So, you know, we used to get together, we flew up to July for like, well, I think it was over 20 years. And that was the thing. And then, you know, like it's in a way and things happen and expenses and things get too expensive to do. And you got more leftovers than people showing up. And it's all, you know, it's all good. But over the next couple of weeks, it's summertime, we're going to try to get some different people on. We're working on some stuff with Ed, working on getting some familiar faces back for our episode 75. And we'll, we'll see you again next week. So later on, people, bye damn apron.