Tokyo Roast, Wallet Toast

Show notes

Houston and Stitch open Monday with a $105 cup of coffee out of San Francisco, complete with Brazilian beans, Tokyo roasting, and a blind taste test that went sideways for the owner. Houston has some very specific ideas about what would make that price worth it. Then they meet Chantz, who pushed a shopping cart across the country with $250, a machete, and a jar of peanut butter. A mathematician also crunched your odds of finding the one on any given day, which leads Houston to explain how he met his wife of thirty years at a bar while hardly saying a word to her.

Show transcript

00:00:01: What'd you

00:00:01: do this weekend stitchy?

00:00:03: You know make fun, you know to be honest with

00:00:05: you.

00:00:05: um These are good.

00:00:07: You'd

00:00:07: be proud of me.

00:00:09: I think i only drink a total Of four beers

00:00:12: and i'll believe you

00:00:12: that was it

00:00:13: and i don't Believe you.

00:00:15: yeah i didn't Do anything.

00:00:16: so i've stayed at home saturday.

00:00:18: It Was A really cool day though.

00:00:20: Saturday We did our five live broadcasts of course And i noticed

00:00:25: there wasn't a bottle of special reserve in my office.

00:00:27: well

00:00:28: tomas was not There So I couldn't ask him, but he did say that he has it somewhere.

00:00:33: But anyways we were at Caesar spirits one of our sponsors from out west beer fest which is this weekend and We drew our name.

00:00:40: his name was Joe.

00:00:42: He's the winner.

00:00:42: Congrats,

00:00:43: Joe!

00:00:44: I think it was... I mean you know how like when people write down their registration names?

00:00:48: Like sometimes its hard to read.

00:00:49: so i think It is Joe.

00:00:50: Romeagle even tried to call him but couldn't get a hold of them.

00:00:53: either way he Is our winner.

00:00:54: handwriting has fallen off

00:00:56: and really yes And that Was Really cool.

00:00:58: But then I got To spend The night in Deadwood.

00:01:01: We're actually lead

00:01:04: Doing your little.

00:01:05: yeah we did A fundraiser for the Lead Deadwood Arts Center and They had

00:01:10: gonna survive.

00:01:12: Yes, so there was a silent auction.

00:01:14: There was live auction and there's bunch of people from lead Deadwood in their.

00:01:19: it Was such a really cool event But I got to try over twenty five different order herbs And like you

00:01:23: had twenty different twenty-five different

00:01:25: our derbs.

00:01:26: yes We have the judge

00:01:27: thing.

00:01:27: what's going on?

00:01:28: stop that?

00:01:30: They were delicious and i get to try Like ten different cheese which is awesome too.

00:01:34: so my god It wasn't really good night for

00:01:36: your

00:01:36: it was.

00:01:36: it was nice community think and we did it at the Homestake Opera House.

00:01:41: There's so much history in that place, And

00:01:44: you

00:01:44: got a really cool event.

00:01:45: You've

00:01:45: gotta whole Sunday where he didn't have to watch The Vikings lose

00:01:48: because

00:01:48: they're gonna do tonight.

00:01:50: They saved for ya buddy

00:01:53: You really wanna go there?

00:01:55: It's speaking of...it is a must win game For The Vikings Tonight.

00:02:00: I agree!

00:02:00: They have to win.

00:02:01: I Agree!

00:02:02: They don't win tonight.

00:02:03: They are not going make the playoffs.

00:02:05: My prediction right there

00:02:07: Okay Stop it

00:02:08: Because the Bears, Lions and Packers crushing it right now.

00:02:12: Crushing It!

00:02:14: And when we say beating the Dolphins by ten is

00:02:16: crushing... The Vikings have to win.

00:02:19: I agree

00:02:20: in order to advance anywhere.

00:02:21: Yeah

00:02:22: We had keep up with North but you know the north's best division of football By far.

00:02:28: But yeah, I mean but we already beat the Packers and the Bears so And will be the Packer's next week too.

00:02:33: But i do feel like We Will win tonight.

00:02:35: it'll Be a close game.

00:02:36: It'll be A home Game.

00:02:37: Adrian Peterson getting inducted Into The Ring of Honor For Minnesota Vikings Hall Of Fame Getting The Purple Jacket.

00:02:44: Did he leave his belt at Home?

00:02:45: I Feel Like His Switch.

00:02:46: You Mean Come On Man Stop Taking Stop Taking

00:02:50: stop that Russell Brands Going to jail.

00:02:53: I know man, you know what's crazy is like just that whole movie Get Him To The Greek now makes more sense than anything in the world.

00:03:01: Because it was definitely a bird's-eye view into both Diddy and Russell Brands'

00:03:06: life.

00:03:07: Well this isn't because...I never watched alot of them.

00:03:11: You gotta

00:03:11: stroke the furry walls dude!

00:03:13: What?

00:03:14: It's in the movie.

00:03:15: Okay,

00:03:15: go ahead I watched...I mean i did-i never followed.

00:03:18: Why'd my mouth work over here?

00:03:19: I just heard some sound on my headphones!

00:03:21: I thought you had a sounder for like A car crashed!

00:03:24: Cause' My joke didn't

00:03:25: land!

00:03:26: I want to make

00:03:27: one Um..

00:03:29: I Never Thought He Was Funny Ever And I Never Really Followed Him That Much.

00:03:33: Yeah man, he's in there.

00:03:34: This was at Like The

00:03:35: Peak of His Fame Is When All this Happened wasn't it?

00:03:37: Well

00:03:37: yeah well he is also pretty far right too.

00:03:40: Early two thousands?

00:03:40: Well that doesn't

00:03:41: wanna

00:03:41: throw that out There.

00:03:44: The judge criticized Branford's casual and arrogant disregard for women, highlighting how he abused his fame to exploit vulnerable individuals.

00:03:52: Like

00:03:52: so many do!

00:03:54: How disgusting...

00:03:55: It really is.

00:03:56: um like I said did you have a point of this story?

00:03:59: No i just wanted it's in the news its big new story today because happened today.

00:04:02: So that why?

00:04:03: well I mean don't know how you want us positively there

00:04:06: something positive.

00:04:07: glad somebody being held accountable their actions.

00:04:12: Stitch and Houston were live this afternoon in the old studio on a real nice Monday afternoon.

00:04:17: We got brand new microphones, a brand-new podcast room...

00:04:20: This entire studio is turning into something kind

00:04:22: of neat.

00:04:24: Yeah I think pretty soon you're gonna be able to like it or not?

00:04:26: You can't watch Stitch & I do this show

00:04:28: Which I think, are you gonna dress up better than your hoodie and weird pants that you have on?

00:04:33: Actually do ya even hat pants

00:04:34: on?

00:04:34: Well don't look down there.

00:04:36: Oh so i can see directly.

00:04:37: I know

00:04:37: it goes right under... You can see under this desk!

00:04:41: People are going to see what happens

00:04:42: when the video skirts on

00:04:44: well y'know maybe wear

00:04:45: underwear.

00:04:47: Hoodies are all-you're wearing same thing every day.

00:04:49: Wow

00:04:50: So do I?

00:04:51: we just-I'm wearing purple today.

00:04:52: buddy Skull Vikings.

00:04:53: let's go.

00:04:54: I

00:04:54: am wearing navy blue.

00:04:56: Adidas, navy blue.

00:04:59: What's

00:04:59: the most you've ever paid for a cup of coffee?

00:05:01: I don't know man like Starbucks like eight bucks probably... what's the-what's

00:05:05: the MOST you would pay?

00:05:07: Eight bucks?

00:05:09: You know

00:05:10: hundred and five dollars!

00:05:11: What?!

00:05:12: Wild Fox in San Francisco.

00:05:13: it's a coffee house where you can buy this expensive cup of Coffee.

00:05:16: okay

00:05:16: why then?

00:05:17: um isn't that?

00:05:19: Why is California always do this?

00:05:20: because remember that strawberry That was like twenty dollars.

00:05:23: It was more than that.

00:05:24: In LA?

00:05:24: Yeah Well, I think a lot of states.

00:05:27: if they could get away with it They'd do it right.

00:05:28: A nineteen

00:05:29: dollar strawberry!

00:05:30: They had the owner put a reporter through blind taste test and The reporter guessed the five-dollar cup Was the one hundred and five dollars version.

00:05:38: That

00:05:38: guy obviously don't know coffee.

00:05:41: I think the owner made a mistake in doing that for starters, but he justifies it.

00:05:45: because get this.

00:05:46: The beanstard as coffee cherries grown for competition and Brazil.

00:05:49: next they're fermented an oxygen-deprived tanks for seventy two hours then roasted in Tokyo.

00:05:54: how does it give from brazil to Tokyo?

00:05:57: boats planes i mean.

00:05:58: we have been able to travel years now ship stuff all across the world.

00:06:02: okay alright

00:06:02: go ahead.

00:06:04: He's seen coffee go for as much a thousand dollars a cup.

00:06:06: I

00:06:07: would assume based on the beans and how, you know that process...I get it!

00:06:10: You don't like-.

00:06:11: No

00:06:11: no YOU DON'T GET IT!

00:06:12: THERE'S

00:06:12: NO REASON!

00:06:13: Well...EVER!

00:06:16: But its just like the same How U Like with your whiskey, you know

00:06:20: what I mean?

00:06:20: Be careful

00:06:20: buddy.

00:06:20: Like if it's aged in a barrel overseas... Coffee

00:06:23: beans though take an afternoon to roast and make.

00:06:26: Not necessarily.

00:06:27: Whiskey

00:06:27: can take up to twenty

00:06:29: years!

00:06:29: But what have you roasted for long

00:06:30: time?!

00:06:31: I'm gonna roast you now.

00:06:32: Hold

00:06:32: on no-no you didn't.

00:06:34: I'm going to roast you.

00:06:35: so good right now.

00:06:35: Stitch Are ya?

00:06:36: Yeah How?

00:06:37: Because y'know how i can tell somebody that knows nothing about the NFL How They wear Vikings hat.

00:06:46: We're filming this.

00:06:47: you can see that stitches a Vikings head on

00:06:49: idea.

00:06:49: Yeah, okay?

00:06:50: Anyway we were talking about his expensive cup of coffee.

00:06:52: hundred and five dollars a cup.

00:06:54: You know that we have our Essence of Coffee downtown Which

00:06:59: is there's not a good coffee place as dark Canyon.

00:07:00: essence

00:07:01: no I know but essence specifically yeah They they get their beans from Australia because they're from Australian And the their process is from Australia.

00:07:10: So like to me that I that's worth paying an extra whatever it is To have that experience.

00:07:15: No, I know i'm not saying but im just saying like That particular experience Like...I would pay Just because I want to try.

00:07:24: That is something new.

00:07:25: But even if you're You'd most be paying maybe fifty cents extra for the cup From the beans from Australia.

00:07:31: Maybe not a hundred and five damn

00:07:33: dollars!

00:07:34: I mean..That coffee better.

00:07:36: Maybe they should take a note And start charging a hundred Five dollars For

00:07:40: their Australian Beans.

00:07:41: It's better come with foot massage.

00:07:43: Okay,

00:07:44: weirdo.

00:07:46: At the coffee shop?

00:07:48: You want a foot massage at The Coffee Shop while you're drinking your

00:07:51: coffee and

00:07:52: then you would pay one hundred five dollars And

00:07:54: somebody sexy whispering sweet nothings into

00:07:59: my ear.

00:07:59: That Would Be Your Wife.

00:08:01: Yes it would be.

00:08:03: She

00:08:03: does that for free.

00:08:06: This was A Question They Asked.

00:08:07: Of Millennials Which You Are One Stitch.

00:08:11: Um, the most irrational childhood fears that never happened when I was growing up.

00:08:17: The childhood fear was quick

00:08:19: sand quicksand.

00:08:20: Yeah,

00:08:21: I always saw it.

00:08:22: That's how is gonna die.

00:08:23: well

00:08:24: right and we come to find out that?

00:08:26: It's not that serious.

00:08:28: my irrational fear Was probably like I don't know dying in a plane crash or something.

00:08:35: did you see that

00:08:35: rational though?

00:08:36: Did you say that Learjet man?

00:08:37: That

00:08:39: was terrible.

00:08:40: Uh, did you ever worry about spontaneously combusting?

00:08:43: No.

00:08:43: But that would be awesome

00:08:44: because then why- Why wouldn't it be awesome?

00:08:46: just out of curiosity?

00:08:47: maybe I have superpowers in?

00:08:49: no you'd be dead

00:08:50: flame

00:08:50: on and technically uh i don't think any person in history has ever spontaneously combusted.

00:08:57: they've never had an accurate reputable

00:09:00: report.

00:09:01: so I don't Think this is the thing That happens.

00:09:02: what About The Apocalypse?

00:09:04: I mean yeah I mean, because like you know when i was going to church they preached the fear of God in a lot of ways.

00:09:10: You know what i mean?

00:09:10: Which is kind of weird.

00:09:11: were you ever afraid of having go into the witness protection

00:09:13: program?

00:09:16: No no i don't think

00:09:17: so.

00:09:17: have you done anything To make it Go Into The Witness Protection Program?

00:09:20: you Don't Know Me.

00:09:20: i know.

00:09:22: Getting Arrested At The Moment You Turn On Your Interior Car Light at Night

00:09:25: getting arrested.

00:09:27: that used to Kind Of Be A Fear Because I remember people turn that on and be like you can't have it all.

00:09:32: That's illegal.

00:09:32: You get arrested.

00:09:33: they'll pull you over.

00:09:34: what yeah for turning down your light in your car when you're driving It is distracting.

00:09:38: well, yeah

00:09:39: For sure but don't think about gonna Be the case?

00:09:41: I Have a story About almost getting arrested.

00:09:44: They had nothing to do with me.

00:09:46: When did it happen?

00:09:47: happened uh-huh when i was probably Twenty years old maybe twenty one.

00:09:51: so wait let's Let Me clarify here before we move forward though you've never been arrested.

00:09:56: i have Been arrested One time of my

00:09:57: life okay

00:09:58: and it was for being out past curfew in Arkansas.

00:10:02: Let me rephrase, I was put in handcuffs once!

00:10:06: And

00:10:07: not on the sex anyway?

00:10:08: No

00:10:09: no all right we'll talk about your almost arrest coming up.

00:10:14: kids do NOT do what i'm about to say happened.

00:10:18: have you ever had one of these days stitch where you just ask yourself like man?

00:10:24: oh well...I want..i just wanna be free bro.

00:10:28: I don't want responsibilities, i dont wanna have to deal with anything man.

00:10:35: You ever had one of those?

00:10:37: Yeah all the time!

00:10:39: I wish because I feel like this rage inside me anytime I get overwhelmed or stressed.

00:10:44: Is it against a machine?

00:10:47: Yes sometimes yes.

00:10:48: um what would you

00:10:49: do?

00:10:50: bring that freedom to yourself

00:10:51: ?

00:10:52: I don´t know man be a millionaire where I didn´t have

00:10:54: to worry about

00:10:55: money.

00:10:55: maybe no

00:10:56: because thats the opposite This Chance Rivera.

00:11:00: You know that... His name's

00:11:01: Chance, C-H-A-N-T-Z.

00:11:03: You Know That The Roadhouse interviewed this guy right?

00:11:06: He stopped here in a few minutes.

00:11:07: This is

00:11:07: the one they talked about.

00:11:08: yeah

00:11:09: when was this?

00:11:10: he just finished.

00:11:11: sure it wasn't

00:11:12: Washington if pushing a shopping cart.

00:11:15: yes yeah

00:11:16: two hundred fifty bucks in his pocket.

00:11:18: he was unemployed.

00:11:19: yet attempt peanut butter a machete and bear spray.

00:11:23: an absolutely no hiking experience.

00:11:24: you push to shopping cart along us route fifteen Nevada.

00:11:27: He covered twenty to twenty-five miles per day, which is impressive as hell!

00:11:32: If you're not a hiker... Uh he's sleeping in the Tantor Cheap Motels.

00:11:36: when asked why I love his answer.

00:11:38: ...I just wanna be free.

00:11:40: Hmm.

00:11:40: I'm just walking because..

00:11:42: Hold on let me see.

00:11:43: Maybe

00:11:43: it's not him but there was guy that came

00:11:46: here.

00:11:46: Yeah i do remember them talking with him.

00:11:50: Strangers gave him rides food cart repairs along way Social media grew to sixty thousand.

00:11:55: GoFundMe exceeded ten grand And on day one forty nine, he started in the Bronx.

00:12:00: He ended up in the Bay Area feeling quote more free than I've ever felt ever a walk.

00:12:06: that's awesome

00:12:07: and now is going to consider doing it across Europe which would be half of time.

00:12:12: don't be fast at all but good for this guy.

00:12:15: i love it.

00:12:15: um you know just one dude taking control his own life hit the road man.

00:12:22: we got Veterans Day coming up this Wednesday, so there's going to be kind of a lull in the middle Of The Week which is nice.

00:12:28: Which should give you enough time To get yourself together for the ninth annual Mountain West beer festival which Is happening

00:12:35: at

00:12:36: LaCroix Hall In The Monument This Saturday.

00:12:40: tickets are available At mountainwestbeerfest.com.

00:12:42: if You want to have the VIP Tickets that gets hit it noon.

00:12:45: It gets you the food.

00:12:46: I mean There's gonna Be Food For Everybody But the VIP has their own little food section And you get in an hour before everybody else to wander around and try all of these two hundred plus odd beers that they're gonna be serving.

00:12:58: I did the Rare Beer Fest Saturday, which happens at Independent Ale House- You

00:13:04: went and saw Justin?

00:13:05: Which was also very... They had here's why- Did you

00:13:08: go with Rob?

00:13:09: Did you hang out with Rob or were you even hanging out

00:13:11: me?!

00:13:11: Well i didn't know where you are on saturday!

00:13:13: You didn't even call

00:13:14: me!?

00:13:14: Oh

00:13:15: well I figured you'd be busy because your never around on a weekend so always off drinking Which is exactly what we were doing, but anyway.

00:13:22: No I didn't call you But I'm here's why?

00:13:25: I do a podcast.

00:13:26: it's called whiskey at work.

00:13:27: I drink whiskey.

00:13:28: I like whiskey bourbon scotch Irish Japanese doesn't matter.

00:13:31: like it all beer Is starting to creep up there.

00:13:36: in ABV.

00:13:39: There was some beers at rare beer fest on Saturday.

00:13:43: sixteen percent alcohol In a beer!

00:13:47: I don't even know how that's possible.

00:13:50: had the equivalent of maybe three beers total during The Rare Beer Fest, I had to have a driver take me home.

00:13:59: And i don't think that's happened in forever just because of the alcohol count.

00:14:09: Get a hotel room if you need to because the alcohol content of these beers anymore is just insane.

00:14:17: They're delicious, don't get me wrong but make sure that your driver and take care yourself this weekend.

00:14:22: Details at mountainwestbeerfest.com.

00:14:25: We were talking about beer fest this week.

00:14:27: maybe it's going be the weekend where we ask somebody out.

00:14:31: You go on date with Beer Fest which was great.

00:14:37: I don't wanna jinx anybody who might be looking to head out on a date this weekend, but the thing is your odds right now of finding The One are not great.

00:14:51: In five hundred sixty-two chance at finding The one on any given day So you'd have to hook up with about... Not hookup, didn't mean it that way?

00:15:01: You would need about five hundred and sixty to sixty-five people And maybe one of them will be THE

00:15:06: ONE.

00:15:07: Maybe That sounds like a fun time,

00:15:10: dude.

00:15:10: Okay I'm not talking about the hookup

00:15:12: No!

00:15:13: I am just saying that meeting five hundred and sixty two people set it up.

00:15:17: You know how they did.

00:15:18: fifty dates in fifty states or whatever?

00:15:20: Yeah

00:15:20: But what if we were setting one five hundred sixty-two people over five hundred six days?

00:15:27: Here's the silver lighting on this.

00:15:28: That is

00:15:28: insane to think of

00:15:32: The work you are putting into It.

00:15:34: The work your're putting into it Is improving your odds.

00:15:38: So, a mathematician in England worked with the team of researchers to figure out all the big requirements and deal breakers people have when it comes to dating.

00:15:45: And she calculated that if you don't even try... The odds of meeting someone you could fall in love on any given day are one-in-five hundred sixty two.

00:15:53: That's without trying.

00:15:54: Not trying got it.

00:15:55: yep okay

00:15:57: You can do seven things.

00:15:58: give yourself better odds.

00:15:59: Okay

00:16:00: Using an online dating site ups your chances by seventeen percent Hanging out with co-workers and their friends.

00:16:06: Do

00:16:07: you even enjoy that anymore?

00:16:08: I don't know!

00:16:10: And talking to people at the gym is third.

00:16:13: What

00:16:13: about, what are you talking

00:16:15: about?!

00:16:15: What about daycare?

00:16:17: Well let's see... Meeting people through a shared interest or hobby gives you boost.

00:16:21: Talking to people in bars Bars is still place for me People.

00:16:24: Yeah

00:16:24: it's terrible place though Don't do that.

00:16:26: Meeting your friend I met my wife of bar.

00:16:28: we've been married thirty years bro Thirty Years.

00:16:32: Alright good for ya.

00:16:34: One of the chances is that

00:16:35: actually she was a waitress.

00:16:36: I went up there

00:16:37: because I thought you guys beat the odds.

00:16:39: I thought he was hot and then i would drink, and when i drank?

00:16:42: I don't talk very much And so i hardly spoke to her.

00:16:45: i don't know how we got married

00:16:48: That's not true.

00:16:49: You talked a lot more.

00:16:50: now When you drink i do

00:16:52: not.

00:16:52: yeah get pretty quiet still

00:16:54: good?

00:16:54: no i think so

00:16:56: Maybe i need To start doing that

00:16:57: again.

00:16:57: Then Yeah

00:16:59: And we're out.

00:17:00: That is Monday night for you here on the second shift of stitch in Houston.

00:17:04: It's gonna be really nice weather even through beer fest.

00:17:07: it's going to be beautiful, but you've had thing Is?

00:17:09: You've had nothing But nice days For this entire year.

00:17:14: So don't give me the excuse if what's gonna Be a nice day on Saturday I'm not going do a beer festival.

00:17:19: yeah y'all.

00:17:20: Yeah, well okay people like you know how many

00:17:24: We add don't make money.

00:17:26: Six seven hundred people in there.

00:17:27: Yeah last year it was huge.

00:17:28: It's so much fun, and

00:17:29: isn't the more people that are they're the more fun?

00:17:32: It gets

00:17:33: well anything like I feel Like you always run into People That You Haven't Seen In A while There too like oh Dude I haven't seen you to me.

00:17:39: how's life?

00:17:40: blah Blah

00:17:40: Blah.

00:17:42: What's nice about this Is if The Weather is Nice Enough They'll open up the big garage door on the back Too.

00:17:46: So get that Nice Outside Air

00:17:49: Whether you like This Saturday

00:17:50: Low Sixties.

00:17:51: Oh, nice.

00:17:52: It's been beautiful man!

00:17:53: I can't complain how beautiful it has been.

00:17:55: Somebody was mowing their yard yesterday just to get the leaves up and that is a great idea.

00:18:01: I raked leaves this weekend...I

00:18:02: need maybe do that?

00:18:04: Maybe call my lawnmower guy and say you want to come mow some leaves

00:18:07: Go rake your leafs & get a little exercise.

00:18:09: stitch its kind of therapeutic cathartic The same motion over and over, as the pile gets bigger.

00:18:19: It's like taking all of your anger and frustration in consternation from the weak And you're just making a bigger and bigger

00:18:29: pile up.

00:18:29: I'm gonna ask him those leaves

00:18:31: Shut Up!

00:18:31: I am making really good analogy here.

00:18:32: You are making this big stack of leaves right now Right?

00:18:35: Then take these leaves Grab them by hand Throw into bag Stuff em way down Take that bag recycling and you dump it all into a big recycling bin.

00:18:46: And then, get home!

00:18:48: You realize that was just helping your mental well-being.

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