What's the Best Seltzer Water? With Mike Mason from Lake961

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Hello!

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Hello, everybody! This is weird. Welcome to being in somebody's basement.

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Welcome to the newest special episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. We are joined by radio celebrity Mike Mason. Celebrity. Yes.

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Love it. Wouldn't you say you're a celebrity? I wouldn't say.

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You're categorized as public figure, right? Sure. Yes.

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That's what my Instagram says. Short feeds.

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Yes. It's got a blue verified checkbook.

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They deny me every time. I don't know why. Because I'm more important than I think I am. I don't know.

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You're very important to us.

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Well, as you guys that listen or watch frequently know, Bridget and I, we love our bubbly. We love seltzer water.

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Yeah, I mean, we are um brand freaks here, so we're gonna test our brand knowledge.

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And we've had a number of listeners say, why don't you try other seltzers? LaCroix is better. I like the Target brand. Well, listen, you're wrong. So we decided we're gonna test it out, but it has to be blind. And if it was just Bridget and I doing it, it wouldn't work. So we recruited our friend Mike from Lake 96.1. Yes. We do a segment with him Friday at 420 every week. It's weird being on the other end of the day. I know, this is so fun.

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I love making you feel uncomfortable. Do you feel uncomfortable? Oh, darn it. Not even in this basement.

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No. It's a studio at an undisclosed location. Why is all that rap over there weird?

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I am listening to crime podcasts, learning all the tips. Mike, you don't have a lot of experience with the seltzer water. What experience do you have? None. I've never had it. Yeah, you guys never ever. Never had a seltzer water. You have fancy water here, though.

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Well, this is just faucet water. Oh, it's faucet water? In a fancy bottle. I usually walk around with this smart water. I just fill it up all the time. I buy it once and fill it up for like a month. Buy the bottle once, fill it up. People are like, wow, that guy, look at him. He's drinking smart water.

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I'm like, yeah, it's a few. Yeah, it came out of my bathroom sink. So we're gonna have the novice try. We're gonna have the expert try. And you guys are gonna rate each of these five. Uh let's go over the five. We have LaCroix. The OG. I would call that the OG.

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LaCroix. Yep. Because listen, I'm taking a break here because I have to tell you this that neither of you will understand. I never drank bubbly water until I was pregnant. And then, like, every pregnant woman drinks it because they miss having other fizzy beverages with caffeine or alcohol in them. So everyone was like, have LaCroix, have LaCroix. So anyway. This is the book. I digress. So LaCroix. Then bubbly. Which is a crowd fave.

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We have Good and Gather, which is Target's store brand. Bridget made quite the expedition to Target to gather this all up. We decided to do all lime flavors because pretty much everybody has lime. We want it to be even.

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Yeah, normally. That's that way they're all green. Yes, so everyone is lime. After Good and Gather comes Spindrift, which I don't have to look. I actually know who I thought this was a Target original, too. Somebody. I don't know. Anyway, Spindrift. And then the fanciest Perrier. Perrier.

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Sleek can. So it's definitely fancy.

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So yeah, they're all green because like normally, actually, I'm not a lime seltzer person. So I haven't. I think I've had lime bubbly, but the other ones I have not had.

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We drink a lot of lime stuff too.

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I like the other flavors. Unless I'm mixing it with a cocktail, then this is what you want.

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Got a whole fridge full over the colour. These are so popular. You can't target's out all the time. Pig is out all the time.

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Yeah. You might find, Mike, that you like to drink cocktails with this now.

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Yes. It's great for making cocktails.

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Mix it with some vodka. Lime bubbly.

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I'm normally not a vodka drinker, but maybe I could become one. We have vodka in the house because my lady likes to drink vodka.

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Okay, gin?

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Gin. I'm a southern comfort. If I'm gonna drink like hard stuff, it's southern comfort. I don't really know what you drink with that.

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Okay, fine. So maybe you can make some or white claw.

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Oh kidding. What we're gonna do is we're gonna open them in a random order. I'm gonna open them. You guys are gonna judge them on a scale of one to one hundred. One to one hundred on this really professional campaign. One to one hundred. Well, you guys need to have some room for nuances. Room for nuance. We can make 10,000. One to ten, and Bridget decided that she would just give everything seven to five.

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Anytime it's a one to ten scale, I can't decide, so I just make everything seven.

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One to fifty is hard. So we're gonna do one to one hundred. Give us a seventy-nine.

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Well, that's a C plus.

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That's a solid C plus. Oh, I get what we're doing. Okay.

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Oh, I didn't actually look at it that way.

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Now I'm stressed again. You guys are to judge this on overall refreshingness, because bubbly water should be refreshing. Does it and does it taste like lime and does it taste good? So just give that, you know.

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Refreshing lime, does it taste good? Those are the thoughts like when you're something might taste like lime, but it might not taste good. Okay, let's do it. I'm gonna go grab here.

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Pro seltzer tip, it's gotta be cold, okay? So you're new to this game here. Bubbly water warm is like the grossest thing.

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Wait, am I not supposed to look at Nick right now?

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You can look at Nick if you want. Or the so you on YouTube watching Nick is right behind you, digging out all of the seltzer out of our special beer fridge here in the studio. So you can watch him. He's gonna go in the other room. Nick is our server, our waiter extraordinaire. So Nick is gonna, our Maitre D of seltzer. Nick is gonna go in the other room, pour a little blind sample for us, and come back in.

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And we're just gonna chat.

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We're just gonna chat.

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This is what dinner and drinks is. I I talk about it every, like we said, every Friday at 420. And now I'm actually stairs.

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Yeah, it looks like we know what we're doing.

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This is almost fancier than the Lake Studio where I work in, that nothing works.

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Except that we forgot our headphones.

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I forgot my headphones. Their headphones are under here.

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We weren't a good host, reminding you.

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As a radio host, I probably should bring my own headphones, but I don't.

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But we made you come out of your element here to the basement. A little bit. So thanks for doing that, venturing out here. Absolutely. I'm watching Nick come in and hopefully not dropping any of these seltzers. Whoa. Okay. We're not filling you all the way up. Yeah, that's a lot of bubbly. We're very stringent here on our bubbly water.

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Go ahead. Cheers. Cheers.

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Nick, are you drinking with me?

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Yes, I'm gonna try it too. I haven't tried all of these.

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That's a fantastic start. My goodness. Wait, can I?

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This is not.

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Oh my god, this was exactly the reaction I was hoping for. Listen, I'm conditioned to like it because again, during pregnancy, this feels like a treat. Can I swear on here? Yeah, man.

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This is just shit.

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Do you need a dump bucket? No, you look good.

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Um all right. That was number one.

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I must just spit my bubbly water on you. I gotta tell you.

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Okay.

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Um, I feel like I'm gonna judge this very poorly because it's my first one. I agree. Can I change it or is this like a hard number?

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Well, what's your what's your so other than shit, what's your does it taste limey? Is it refreshing? Can I make a guess? Can we guess at the brand? Sure, you can guess. I'm not gonna confirm nor deny.

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If I had just mowed the lawn on a hundred degree day and I came inside and somebody gave me this, I'd be like, we're not friends anymore because this has not refreshed me. I feel worse.

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I can't. I'm gonna spit my water all over you. Okay, um, I didn't finish it. We'll keep these in order, don't worry.

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This is nothing like my faucet life water.

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I'm gonna, um, can you hand me that marker? I'm gonna make some notes because I'm a note taker. Oh no, I'm just gonna write it on here. I'm gonna be a brat and guess the brands here because I've had enough seltzer in my life to think I know what I'm doing. I'm gonna be really embarrassed when it's wrong.

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Oh, should I score it?

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I would I feel like I want to wait too.

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All right, I gotta remember.

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Do you need to make notes? Do you need to type?

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They're all up here.

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I need to make notes.

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The only note I have is shit.

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Shit.

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I will tell you awful. Terrible. What are the synonyms for bad?

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What was bad? The bubbles, it wasn't cold enough. I'd like it even colder.

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It I I couldn't taste any lime.

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I was gonna say, are you a lime person? Okay, I get that. That was an issue of mine. Ooh, which leads me to believe maybe maybe this brand is it? That's your cup. Thanks, thanks.

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Thank you.

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I just smelled it like it's a fine wine.

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Here's again.

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No, I don't know why I did that.

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Fast line.

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Oh god. Oh, I know which one this is.

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Oh my god. This is better. It's like not much better, but better.

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This one is like pure lime concentrate, I feel like. It tastes like you can smell the lime.

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So it seems maybe you're looking for the lime flavells like a foot.

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There's no smells like a foot. It definitely does not smell like a flavor.

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This is spindrift. It's gotta be spindrift. If your feet smell like this, I mean, okay, it's a refreshing for whatever.

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So what lime lotions are you putting on your what lime foot?

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What is happening on your feet? Well, fine. Maybe foot isn't the right description. I don't want to drink the rest of this one. Just down it. I don't think I can. You can do it. Do it. It tastes like I'm squeezing a lime directly into my mouth. Well, it's good for you.

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You know, British people are called limeies because they drank straight lime juice on the Royal Navy to prevent scurvy.

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Oh.

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It's your dad fact of the day.

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That almost just made me gay.

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Uh two is better than one.

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I just can't do it. I can't do it.

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I should be keeping these scores in my head. Let me get up. Let me get on my notes app.

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We have really important technology over here. You guys, I will say, um, we try all the brands at my house, and I did buy Spindrift before because I think it's more natural, if you will, than the others.

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Is that the Target one?

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Yeah. One of the well, so there's two, there's two up here that I think are Target brands, Gooden Gather and Spindrift. But my husband loved it, and I thought it tasted like the bile when you throw up. So very different reactions. Which is exactly what just happened right now. So that's why I believe it's this one. We'll see. I could be way wrong.

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And number three.

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Oh, I'm nervous now. Like this is hard seltzer. This one smells refreshing. Now we're smelling them.

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This one smells like lysol to me. I can't smell any lime in this.

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Yeah, you're not gonna like this one. It doesn't really taste like lime. It tastes like weird water. Here's my guesses.

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Oh, this is worse than the first. So far I have shit 40 and better 75. Wow. Worse?

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Worse. Wow. Wow. I think the problem for me is I'm not usually a lime flavor person.

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I'm not gonna be a puss, I'll finish it.

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Like me.

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Please.

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Okay.

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You guys drink your beverages so much faster than I do.

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There are sips in there. How long does it take you to finish? Should I come back in that hour?

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I spend most of the time trying not to spit it out on you guys. Okay, talk amongst yourselves.

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How are you doing, Nick? I'm great. It's a beautiful day.

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I'm stressed out. Oh my god, downtown Lake Geneva is hammered, though. There's trees down everywhere. Anyway. Oof, okay. That one wasn't fair.

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Kenosha right now.

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Oh yeah, you're right. Anywhere is better than Kenosha. We'll edit that right out. S4. I'm interested in your notes over here. All right. We're coming up with number four here. There's only one word bad, terrible, and worse. I think that one was good and gather.

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And what brand, like what is that?

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This one? Although I'm not confident, like I'm gonna be pretty embarrassed if I can't guess bubbly, but I don't ever have lime bubbly.

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So there's no carbs in any of these? Like it's carb free.

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I honestly can't figure out what's in these beverages. Yeah. Thanks.

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Except for this one has four calories.

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Yeah, that's the one that tastes like a lime squeezed in your mouth. This one smells nice.

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I was trying to hide that.

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Because we're jugging carbonated beverages.

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Gag.

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I love drinking bubbly water with people who don't like bubbly water. Wait, is this one worse or better? Where does it go?

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This is worse than number one.

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Wow. This is the worst one to you?

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No, not the last one you have as. This is worse than number three. Wow, this is worse than worse.

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I think this one's bubbly. Nick, I can't wait to guess the brands. I know that's not part of your scoring here. But I don't care.

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You go ahead and you guess. I forgot to mark which one that I had.

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Okay, I just chugged that one before you. Must mean I liked it. Okay. This is my numero Uno.

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That's the only way I could tolerate any of this.

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But do you okay, wait, have we talked about hard seltzer? Do you like that?

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I've never had them.

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None of them?

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I've spotted the high noon on the floor over there.

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That's a surprise for the end of the show. We promised you an alcoholic beverage. So we gotta end with a lime hard salt.

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It's gonna be a fun show today.

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After work.

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I've never had a hard seltzer. I'm not really one of those guys that drinks those kind of drinks.

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Truly all day on the boat?

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No.

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Thanks. You do your milk Mic Ultra and Ultra Miller Light lately.

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Actually, I like Mic Ultra. Did we talk about that?

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We almost did this in Miller Lite camp. Um we did because we talked about we talked about Miller64.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. This is vastly different.

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Corona premiere?

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, it was a big discussion in the studio a few weeks ago. Corona premiere that this one didn't know about.

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Okay, well, I'm gonna go ahead and do it.

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It's okay.

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You're making fun of us for this.

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I just figured out what one of these tastes like. You know, your lady's gonna watch this.

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Clorox wipes that are out of stock.

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I just got, I just we just got uh a box of wipes and made by Arm and Hammer. I'd never noticed them before, seen them, but we bought them because I was the only one on the store. But you know, the Target ones that are yellow or blue.

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Yep. Yeah? It kind of tastes like the yellow. It kind of tastes like what I imagined that. You know what? Have you tasted them, Mike? Yeah, if you were to ring out.

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So that's on school supply list this year is Clorox wipes. I'm like, you gotta be joking.

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This is this is strong. This is a strong flavor of lime.

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Oh I don't know, man. I actually think I'm gonna have to do this.

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Two. I feel like that one's more like kafir lime than uh Persian lime, you know? Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

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It's a little different. A little different. Nick, you took the words right out of my mouth.

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It's a little different.

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It's got that uh let me ask a question. So people voluntarily drink this?

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I mean, I don't think it's a few. Sarah has two a day.

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I have like two a day. Bridget, you have like seven a day. Because you drink this much of it and then are done with it.

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What enjoyment do you get out of this? Because I gotta tell you, after drinking five of these. I'm in a bad mood now.

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Well, I'm in a terrible mood. After drinking all the limes, lime's just not my favorite. I could see like I'm a pineapple or a blueberry or a watermelon.

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Fruit punch.

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Fruit punch. Fruit punch all the way.

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I hate coconut. Oh no coconut. No coconut, but fruit punch, yes. Pineapple, not so much.

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Uh, they don't have a fruit punch flavor per se. They have cherry, strawberry, grapefruit.

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I know we're getting off topic. You know those sparkling drinks that you can get? I forget the. Are they called ice? Yes. Yes, those are good.

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Okay. Yeah. You like generally more sugary beverages, maybe. Yeah, but there's no sugar in there. All right.

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We're gonna open the good salad. High noon. This has got booze in it. Mike, what time should people tune in to listen to the booze show? Drunk show today. Is it just it's it starts at two, I think.

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Hopefully.

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I'll wake up from my stupor around 2.09.

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From all this lime bubbly.

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So this is the one with booze in it?

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This is the one with the booze in it. This is not being rated.

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Nope, we're just this is a she literally just poured herself some more.

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Did you see that?

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No, I had to finish my last one still.

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I didn't like that last one.

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It is refreshing. This is high noon, so it's vodka. Vodka and seltzer and flavoring. This is this better. Does it make it better for you, Mike?

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101.

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Oh, 101. Yeah, this one has flavor. It tastes like something.

SPEAKER_04 16:37

Can I see the bottom? There's calories in it.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

Yep. Yeah, I mean. That's why it tastes good.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_04 16:45

Just reset my diet today after getting nine pounds.

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And you've only had three sips, so it's like four calories.

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Okay. I like this.

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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right, Bridget. What? Okay, I ranked them. I didn't score them. Let's do, let's do your you want me to guess the brands or tell you my rankings? Guess the brands. Okay. So I think number one was LaCroix. You were correct. Yeah. You know that. I've drank a lot of bubbly water, man.

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You had Perriera before.

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I didn't change it because I had changed it to a different guest.

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And she's typed a yay exclamation point. She's so proud of her accomplishment. Okay. What if I get all five?

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I'll give you a bonus. Ooh, a high noon. Okay. Number two. Spindrift?

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Let's check. Let's check. I have the photo. Yes, you're correct.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

Yay! I knew that one because that was your favorite, my least favorite.

SPEAKER_04 17:41

Oh, that one of the sugar. So wait, spindrift is Target.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

Spindrift, I think it's Target, right? Good and gather for sure is Target.

SPEAKER_04 17:49

Spindrift. This is the one.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

I've only seen that one at Target. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 17:54

It doesn't real squeeze fruit on the bottle, on the candy. So this one like this has calories too.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

From my understanding, yeah. You like calories. You like the ones that have things.

SPEAKER_04 18:04

What are you trying to say, Nan?

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Watch it. So this one I've never really, I've only had the brand like once, so I'm not totally positive. But is number three good and gather? You're correct. Yay! Again. Yay! Okay. Um number four, booblay. Booblay. You guys. And number five, Perrier. Okay, so I didn't.

SPEAKER_05 18:27

Actually, I threw in a twist and it's also LaCroix.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

No, I'm kidding. Are you being serious? Because I did have Perrier Dash LaCroix as number one. I wasn't. Tritchett, you are a Nostradamus.

SPEAKER_05 18:37

I didn't score them. I just ranked it. Well.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

Okay, so Mike and I differ here.

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LaCroix was number one, which is what I had.

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That was number, oh yeah, whatever.

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I said shit, and the number was 40.

SPEAKER_03 18:51

40. Oh, you gave it actual like.

SPEAKER_04 18:53

I did.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 18:54

You said rank it from one to a hundred, so I just wanted to.

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I'll just write mine here. I put um what am I doing? LaCroix? Oh, I don't know how to rank this. This was number three on my list, so we're gonna give it. I'm gonna go like this. Guys, give me a second.

SPEAKER_05 19:10

I don't understand what's happening at all.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Just a little bit of hard seltzer. She's all over the place.

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Number four. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 19:19

You scored a zero?

SPEAKER_03 19:20

Yeah, I scored it a zero. It was disgusting. Okay. I've got my numbers.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

All right, I'll write my hand down here.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

So there's a really high tech scoring system over here. I'm just gonna.

SPEAKER_04 19:32

My first one was 40. So we were kind of close with the first one.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

So LaCroix, I gave it a 45. Mike gave it a 40. That was my third, you know, that was my rank. I ranked it number three. LaCroix just like doesn't have a lot of flavor, which is exactly what you said about it. Number two was spindrift.

SPEAKER_05 19:50

I thought LaCroix tasted more artificially than it actually did. So I just wasn't my surprise. Just got worse and worse and worse. I doubt you can see this.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

Oh no, you can see it. Can you see it? You can see that.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

29, 28, 27. Okay, so I think to summarize, Mike did not like seltzer. But Mike likes the hard seltzer.

SPEAKER_04 20:12

But number two, what I'm curious is you have zero for yours, the second one, and I have 75 for my second one.

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I I'm sorry, Target, if that's your brand, but man, the spindrift to me tastes like vomit foot, whatever all of the worst descriptions are.

SPEAKER_05 20:29

I just can't handle it. So if we have more, that's fine.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

You can wait good and gather. I can't believe you gave it a 29. It was just like fine to me. That was my second favorite one. It was, you know, drinking.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

No sugar. It's all garbage. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:40

No sugar. Really glad you participated here, but bubbly clearly is the winner. I gave it a 100 because it's the best one. And I am surprised that I didn't. I thought I would like the Perrier more.

SPEAKER_05 20:51

It was a weird lime flavor. It was like a very distinct one. Like it was like kefir lime. Yeah, it was like.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

Maybe that's what I mean. Like it was a bit tart.

SPEAKER_05 20:59

It was a bit too fancy. This is a bit tart.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

The high noon sunset.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

There's vodka in it. That vodka's a little tart.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

My favorite though is Yeah, my least favorite. Yep, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

But would you drink it again? Um, that was your favorite.

SPEAKER_05 21:17

Yeah, that was the one with the calories.

SPEAKER_04 21:18

Remember when I drink it again? Probably not. If I if if my life depended on it, maybe. If I was shackled and they said drink this can and shackles will come off, fine.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

I guess.

SPEAKER_04 21:30

I guess I'll drink it.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Okay, I'm gonna bring you a bubbly a week at the station of different flavors and get you to like it. Except actually, you like spindle. I don't know how I'm ever gonna be on the same page. We'll find fruit punching. They come in one million flavors. I will say last year, pineapple bubbly was like a hot commodity. You could not find it. Like it's sold out at stores everywhere. This year I stocked up and then, like, the pandemic happened, so no one was going in stores, and you can still find pineapple bubbly on the show.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

I just I don't understand this. I don't understand why someone would voluntarily sit and drink this. Usually you have two a day.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Because it's refreshing.

SPEAKER_05 22:08

I like carbonated things. I like flavored things.

SPEAKER_03 22:11

It's better than soda. And it's carbonated. I mean, it's better than that.

SPEAKER_05 22:14

I used to drink a lot of soda and I gotta cut back. I still like the carbonation. I still like the I'm a big Powerade guy. I love Powerade.

SPEAKER_04 22:21

Okay. To me, that's refreshing.

SPEAKER_05 22:22

You mean like the poor man's Gatorade?

SPEAKER_03 22:24

Um, Powerade is Coca Cola Power.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

Powerade is way better than Gatorade.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

Yeah. Next episode. Ooh, that is a funny story.

SPEAKER_05 22:30

Porsche drink taste off.

SPEAKER_03 22:32

It's all really like, I need to cut it with water a little.

SPEAKER_04 22:35

Powerade, G2, and I don't touch Gatorade because there's too much sugar in it. Yeah, so much sugar.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

So much sugar. Like that's what they give me.

SPEAKER_04 22:43

I did. Hey, you had Powerade? It's not good. Oh. No, it's you gotta have the one with no sugar. I've not had the power. I don't drink anything with sugar in it. Except this.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

You guys apparently.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

Uh Gatorade perverse powderate debate. This is funny. I've not, I don't really care, honestly. I like Powerade because I like Coca-Cola as a brand.

SPEAKER_05 23:04

Um, I'm usually a Coca-Cola person. I can't stand Powerade.

SPEAKER_04 23:07

I only drink Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Oh, Coke's Coke Zero. I told you about the Pepsi thing I found. Yes. Gentlemen, gentlemen. I haven't tried it yet. Wait, what was it? It's been really hard to find uh Pepsi cherry. Cherry Zero something other than whatever. Cherry Zero.

SPEAKER_05 23:24

All of the carbonated beverages. Well, guys, thanks for tuning in. You're uh watching us on YouTube, hopefully, because Mike's expressions on camera are great.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Camera, you can see him on camera now, not just hear his voice.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

Normally I don't my face is never shown anywhere. Isn't it nice? Nick surprised me one day.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

He was like, oh, by the way, we're gonna be on video this week. I'm like, well, I haven't showered in three days. I, you know, so I shower now weekly just for you guys.

SPEAKER_04 23:52

There were a hat on. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

I don't understand that. Men do that. My husband does that. Takes a shower, puts a hat on. I'm like, well, now your hair is on.

SPEAKER_04 23:59

Uh normally I'll do it if I haven't had a haircut in a while, but I have. Oh, yeah. So I guess I just it was raining outside and I'm literally in a studio all day.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Except for right now.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

Except for right now.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

Glad to have you.

SPEAKER_04 24:12

Oh my god, I'm belching. What have I gotten myself into?

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Oh, aren't you glad you met us, Mike? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

This is good. This is good. It's just it's just weird being on the other end of this. I know, it's just we're gonna do it. Now I know how you guys feel when you come see me.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

I mean, almost. Maybe I'm gonna film our tripod every week for our couple minutes.

SPEAKER_05 24:33

This is 4K.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Actually, I'm digging the setup. I know it's I like the setup. This is good. This is this is professional. You know, if you have a podcast, this is really how you want it to be set up.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

Consult Nick. He's done a lot of work on this. You put a lot of work into this. Look at our sweet microphone.

SPEAKER_05 24:47

A little bit more soundproofing to do and stuff, but there's cushion. I'm standing on the cushion floor.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

I know the floor is the best part, isn't it? Great. Yeah. This is our standing workstation. Just record live remote today. Remote broadcast.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

Our board does. We could do that.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

It's kind of special.

SPEAKER_04 25:03

I have a bag outside. I'm gonna stay for like three days.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

He's just gonna pitch a tent in the yard.

SPEAKER_05 25:09

Well, guys, you can listen to Mike on like 96.1. Streams live over the internet. You can find him on Facebook. Yeah. He puts a lot of cool stuff on Facebook. Good thing I didn't say that before yesterday. I thought I was streaming live all the time. Nope.

SPEAKER_04 25:22

Nope. I just fixed it yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

You know, also hear our segment with Mike on Fridays at 4.20. It's hilarious. And that's not a marijuana joke. It's really at 4.20. It is actually at 4.20.

SPEAKER_05 25:32

Every time Mike says in the intro, oh, it's 4.20. And I start laughing, I'm like, Yeah, I'm like, Mike, are you making fun of us? Are you calling us a body ring? It's really 420.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

Could we change our segment to 421 just to clarify? Around 420-ish, listen to us on Fridays with Mike.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

You guys are fun.

SPEAKER_05 25:51

Thanks for watching. Uh, let us know what your favorite seltzers are.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Or if you hate them as much as Mike.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

And on that note, we'll see you later.