Taste Buddies

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Go out to la. [00:00:01] Speaker B: La. Coming from the city with no pity. Somebody needs to do a song for la, straight up. Hello, my name is Elaine and I'll be your tour guide through South Central Los Angeles. Look, count my nose. Smoke up. I'm from California. Where you from? So what? I'm from California. California, this is Los Angeles. Well, where we going? West. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Do you remember the sad feeling of when your favorite VCR tape was eaten by your vcr, man? Listen, I had so many VCR tapes. There was things that I would tape on tv. There was videos that I would tape. And God forbid, if your VCR tape got eaten, all of that information is gone. Like, so you can't get it back. Like, it's one thing to record. Let's just say I recorded Rhapsody for an entire week. The things, the videos that are going to come on that particular week were priceless. But here's the thing. You're not going to see those videos in that particular sequence of time ever again. So if you lose that tape, you've lost those memories. So I had a couple of times where the VCR ate my tape, man. [00:01:15] Speaker B: And I was hot. [00:01:16] Speaker A: And for me, there was nobody I could go to to go fix it. It wasn't like your cassette tape. When your cassette tape pop, you could fix it. VCR tapes, not so much. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Hey, and he not lying. That man ain't lying at all. And when I. And that's our. And that's our guy, 12 cow right there. Yeah. If y'all want to check out more of that episode right there, I mean, he take. He take it back. He take it back to the vintage days. I don't know nothing about that. And 12 counter answer your question. Yeah, I did. I used to do the same thing. I used to record. I used to record a lot of Lakers and Bulls games. Highlights. I stayed on Sports center, you know what I mean? I used to record my cousin as well, you know what I mean? Like, I used to. Football, college, NFL. College basketball. NBA. Yeah, I had a highlight tapes, man. And nothing worse than when that old vcr. See, y'all don't know what a vc. Y'all don't know what a vcr. Okay. Y'all don't know what a VCR is. He brought up in that episode, man. He brought. Oh, my God, Hollywood Video. But Blockbuster. Block. Blockbuster. Hey, you had to return that mug. You had to rewind the tapes, bro. Remember the dual 12 cal? Let me know if you remember this. Remember the dual VCR where I'm giving a game Away. But it's over now because it. It had his as events. If you hear some trucks in the background at the time of this recording, shout out to 12 Cal. The Lakers just beat Phoenix in the second game of the season. Came down from being down, came back from being down 22. And in the middle of that game, Freddie Freeman hit a walk off grand slam in game one of the World Series. So that's, that's giving you a time period of when this episode was actually recorded. But. And there's been gunshots, fireworks, and, you know, fire trucks going off for the past 30, 45 minutes anyhow. Yeah, man, I had a lot. You know, the one commercial in the old. And the commercials, remember the Nike commercial, You know, the infamous Nike commercial with the. What was that commercial called? But you know, you know, Jason Williams was in it, Lamar Odom was in it. They was dancing. You know, we all did the moves after. Who didn't go right outside after between and one and that Nike commercial, everybody went outside to do those moves. I still can't do the ball between the legs. You throw it behind the back. Like. I still can't do that. I still can't do that at all. I still can't roll like roll on the ground. But all that. I can't do that. I can't do that. The Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Michael Jordan commercial, that was hard because that was over. Over Joy, the Overjoy song. It was so many, man. And I remember we used to record our video game highlights and I used to re. I didn't know. I don't remember how to do this, but I used to record. And Keon can attest to this. I used to record our. Our highlights off the NBA Live and, and 2K. Look at, look at me. Look at me. And I used to record cartoon sounds in the background. I don't know how I did it, but there was. There was a highlight tape that I made and the background, the cartoon background noise. And again, Keon can really attest to this. Would match up with the highlight. And it was all just random. It wasn't nothing that I had to sit and find certain songs. No, I'm not a producer. I just ran and it just randomly went together. That's just how the guy, the creative gods work. You know what I mean? But shout out to 12 cal. You need to check out that latest episode. He really go back with it. He really go back with it. 12 Cal podcast, y'all go check him out. That's the big homie. But Another big homie. King Germ hit me about last week, and he had this dope idea, and it came about. We started talking about a couple of soaps, sodas, and he said he wanted to, you know, hear my input, my creativeness on certain sodas that we drink in general. You know, I wouldn't just say in, like, our community, but, you know, it's almost one of those. It's similar to, like a judgment episode, and I was gonna mix it up with different foods, but I was on a roll with the soda. So King Germ. King Germ is the. Not necessarily the ghostwriter, but he is the. He's the creative idea director of this episode. Got to get him credit, you know, Pied and saved my marriage. Go check him and his wife out. Queen Germ, top three podcasts in the world right now. Not sure how much they getting paid over there, but their segments is Barton Dog. It's not too many podcasts that have segments. They stick to their segments, too. And I was on. I was the latest guest on their podcast. Only me and 12, I think me on and me and 12 cows. The only two we rich niggas is gonna get on there. That's what. That's one thing I need to realize that that Money Talk and Shout Out Rod is live because he just dropped this episode that I did some months ago, I think, or at least a month or two ago. That one was dope. I gotta hit up Rogers. Rogers, if you listening, just know that I was listening. And now that. Now that you listening, you know that I was listening. Fire episode. Go check out Riders Live. Yeah, he sent that check and it went to an offshore account, but we got it, though. Everything is. Everything is good. But let's get to it, man, because the first. The original soda that he brought up, man, is a very. I heard Dolomite mention this soda and his disdain for it, but the Homegirl Bread Bread. Pretty Brit is one of her favorite. Is not her favorite soda, you know what I mean? And Britt, that's my dog, you know what I'm saying? That's like. That's my dog right there. We go to war together, you know what I'm saying? And it's like, she don't do too much shit that I actually disagree with outside of. I think she might be a candy corner. She might be. And that right there is like, you have to. You have to accept certain things, you know what I mean? Because that's my dog. Everything she checks off on all the other boxes. But when it comes to that candy corn. And she a Prince fan, but I love Prince. I just like picking on Prince fans because they're so serious sometimes. So much controversy. Get it? But I fuck with Brit because that's. That's my dog right there. Like, it's. It's not too many. It's not too many. That's going wherever I go. Like, Brit, right there, that's my dog. You is. There's no. You're not detaching us. You know what I'm saying? You get you. If you get Brit, it's a. It's a package deal. The tailors come along, vice versa, you know what I mean? Anyhow, she likes Dr. Pepper, and I'm not mad because Dr. Pepper is just one of those. It's just one of those. So it's a very unique taste, you know what I mean? Like, I didn't find out until I was an adult that it could be, you know what I'm saying, Like, a cherry cola. Who really knows, though? You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a questionable cherry cola. Right? That's how I look at it. It's like a questionable cherry cola, but you can also use. It's also car oil. Yeah, yeah, you could. You could substitute it. You can substitute it for car oil. It only goes on Buicks, though. Buicks and Cadillacs that would. That. But Cadillacs, that was. That was made before. Prior to 97. Yep. Yeah, that's true. That's true what I just said. And I'm not mad at it. I'm not mad at it. I am not mad at it. Do your thing. I remember Britt used to hit me up, and she was like, man, Britt, I have a headache. And she like, I gotta go drink a Dr. Pepper. She would. She will dog a Dr. Pepper. That's her thing. And don't. Not too much on a homie. Not too much on a homie, okay? Just because she liked Dr. Pepper does not mean you need to judge her right now. She hires a kite. I could tell you that right now. Off GP I just. We just finished talking. She's in the clouds right now, and she probably drinking Dr. Pepper, making the avocado. Brit likes avocado toast. So there you go. There's certain that drink Dr. Pepper that like avocado toast. Avocado toast, my nigga. No, I said avocado toast. And I'm not me. Is healthy. Is healthy. We gonna move on to Sprite because it's not too much on Dr. Pepper, but we gonna move on to Sprite. We know what Sprite is in the black community. Sprite is the devil's spit, okay? That shit's so strong, if you leave Sprite in the freezer too long, it becomes a hazard in the neighborhood. Yeah. And everybody knows who got the. Everybody knows who got the elite Sprite despite. You could throw spray in somebody's face and that's an assault. But if you don't know. If you don't know, then you just don't know. Tell me that you don't know about McDonald's, Sprite, McDonald. If you got a sore throat, go drink a McDonald's Sprite. Yeah, something caught up in. You got a loogie, go drink a McDonald's Sprite. You need to clear your throat. You're going to clear your life, stupid. If you drink too much Sprite, you're gonna set yourself on fire. I'd seen it, I sinked it. You could wash somebody hair with Sprite. You can get that rust off all that. You got old tools in your garage. Go get a bucket, go get the tools, all the rusty tools. Pour about three, no, that's too about four five liter Sprites in that bucket. And then just set your set, set your tools inside the Sprite bucket for two and a half hours. Come back then. Gonna be super silver, stupid. Super silver. Sprite is dangerous, bro. In 1987, they passed a law to where you can't say Sprite more than five times in a row. It might be it. It's a terrorist threat. Hawaiian Punch, Listen to me. Come closer to your radio. If you're in a car stereo, put your. Even if you driving, put your ear up to the speaker. If you at home, you got a pill or whatever type of, whatever type of sound device that you use. If you got your headphones on, put your ears again, press them, press, press against them so you can really hear me when I say this. No matter how much ice you add, my nigga, talk to these niggas, man. Talk to him. No matter how much ice you add to that drink, to that Hawaiian Punch, that liquid will avoid every temperature change you think is supposed to make with that ice. You've never. If you was born, if you was born in the 21st century, you've never, you've never had a cold Hawaiian Punch. You could put that bitch in a freezer. It will shut down your freezer because it does absolutely nothing but suck up the, the heat. It's the only hot soda that's made and it's good. Don't get me wrong, it's good, but it's always warm. It's like. It's like Hawaiian Punch is always happy. You know what I mean? The drink should definitely come out in the fall or the winter, but it's a summer drink. But I think that. I think it has a mind of its own. And I think it's summer. That's Hawaiian Punch, man. And certain people drink Hawaiian punch, too. Like, Hawaiian Punch is usually served to kids with crowns on their teeth because I ate too much candy. And it's always at it because, look, let me tell you what the competitor. Competitor is Shasta. Shasta Fruit Punch. Now, Shasta Fruit punch is fire. It comes with a little bit of diabetes to it. But the alternative to Hawaiian Punch, because Shasta actually gets cold. Yeah, Shasta. Shasta is the. You niggas don't deserve that much fruit punch soda. But it's really good, though. And then it's like we make it cool so other people drink it. That's what Shasta is. And Shasta, I even like the advertisement. You know, it's just. It just look better than Hawaiian Punch. Hawaiian Punch looks warm. Yeah. Shout out to Hawaiian Punch. Now, see, my personal favorite. My personal favorite is root beer. I love root beer. I love grape. I love orange soda. But my personal favorite is root beer. And it's. It's an aged vanilla drink. See, root beer is for niggas. First of all, root beer was created in the 1800s. Nigga, I don't even know what kind of humans they made back then. Those are the 1800s. Is that like is. Is is the 1800s game of thrones. If niggas was drinking root beer during the Game of Thrones, my. That should tell you what type of people that drink that. Now I'm a Capricorn. Me and. Me and Brit had a deep discussion about these zodiac signs and stuff like that. If Capricorn was a drink, they might be root beer. Capricorns might be root beer. It's different. They don't mind being alone. And it's good. You can make a root beer flow that shit overrated, but it is an acquired taste. See, and then they got cream soda. Cream soda is like Drake, like you. This is gonna sound so cliche. You not exactly root beer. You're cream soda. Like, what the fuck is cream soda, though? Like, who said, oh, I got a flavor idea. That's right. Cream shout out to Wu Tang. But no root beer. That good dog. Cold one. Oh, my God. Fire ass root beers. But you have to Be they got a root beer candy. Whoever did that probably should go to jail for a very long time. Don't do that. Don't make root beer and candy farm. That's stupid. That's a lot of. That's stupid. We can't be too stupid in this world. And that's just. That's. That's. That's doing too much. But root beer overall is good to me, you know, I know there's a lot of people out there. You could be like, if you a Drake fan, then you probably don't like root beer. Root beer is. Is for niggas that listen to K Dot. That's what root beer is. And it. Root beer is. Root beer is a drink that helps you get through depression. But niggas don't really like it that much, so they take other avenues or they, you know, try something different. But root beer will help you get through depression. If you frustrated, go drink a cream. Cream soda just sounds like. Cream soda sounds like an all gender bathroom. That. Okay, well maybe that's too much. All right, I get it. I get it. That. I get it. I get it. And I've had. I've had. I've had cream. I've had cream soda before. And it just sad. It just. It's like, oh, y'all didn't finish adding the ingredients to root beer. That's what it tastes like. That's what it tastes like. I think people that drive. What is it? A Fiat? A Fiat. That's a cream. That's. That's a. Your. A cream soda goes in that type of car. People who drive that type of car. Let's get to the OG one. King J. I know King German is. You gotta be proud of me. Wanna know why? Because 98.9% of black people drink ginger ale. Not for the taste. And ginger ale is a phenomenal taste. Ginger ale to me, ginger ale and root beer isn't like in the same. It's like two old niggas at a sports club. Because ginger Alex is the. Is the ginger rail. Ginger rail is the foreplay when it comes to medicine. That's what it is. It's a teaser. They. Because I don't know if ginger ale technically helps with anything, but in our mind like ginger Alex to black people can help slow down cancer. You know what I mean? And ginger ale. Ginger ale is. Everybody drinks it. It's a popular drink. But it's even more popular when you sick. When you know somebody's sick, the first thing they go do is go get A ginger ale or a 7Up. And the 7yo, 7Up is like Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. It's like, nigga, you, you used to be that nigga. You know what I'm saying? But 7up. 7up is a nigga who lost more fights than Sprite. Cause you got some strong 7 ups out there. But it's not, it's not Sprite though. It's like, it's like, nah, go get your big brother, we might need him. We about to play sideline pop and we need a quarterback. Can you go get your brother Sprite and seven? I'd be like, no, I can play nothing. No, no, no, no. Go get, go, go get Sprite. No, but ginger ale, it just feels like it, it feels like ginger ale comes with manners. It feels like ginger. Ginger ale is definitely at your grandparents house. And it's all good, man. Like, and it. Cause it still tastes good. But black people still stuck on the fact that they think ginger ale will help cure a lot of common colds, you know. And now they got them like in the little small cans. Cause they just want to tease you with that shit, man. They just want to tease you with that. Now this Pepsi and Coca Cola, that shit ain't nothing but Republicans and Democrats. That's all it is. Like Pepsi drinkers, drinkers versus Coca Cola drinkers. Like, these niggas really don't like each other. But I feel like there's more Coca Cola people that try to convince people that Pepsi isn't good rather than Pepsi trying to convince people that Coca Cola isn't good. First of all, you don't. And I look at Coca Cola, I like how I look at Republican. First of all, you don't really have nothing to stand on because y'all, y'all in the 80s, you. They was an extra ingredient. There was an extra ingredient. Y'all was going to work super energized. It wasn't found in that Pepsi. Now Michael Jackson did get his burned up at that Pepsi commercial. That's the only thing though. Pepsi, Pepsi ain't got. Pepsi ain't got too many Coca Cola. They said y'all put that Colombian inside the. It was part of the ingredients. And they. We just found out as an adult, you could put Coca Cola in your. You put that cola, you put all of that cola in your toilet to clean it. If I'm telling you this right now, first of all, I like Pepsi better. It tastes better. I don't care to drink Coca Cola, but I would if I had To. And they have a Coca Cola candy like the gummy bear. And I think it's something else. I think they have the. Remember the bottle tops? Remember the Soto bottle bottle tops? I used to think. I think it used to come in cola. I'm not sure if it came a root beer or not. I could be adding. But I do remember it came in cola fire. Fire. Total opposite of what I said about root beer fire. The cola candy fire. But I think Pepsi tastes better. It just got a different, different. Oh, Mexican cola, though. The Mexican cola fire. Because they use a different type of sugar, that Mexican cola fire. Anytime somebody offered you a Mexican cola, take it, nigga. Take it. Now that might have some. It might have a cartel ingredient in it. I don't know. But I know that shit fire. It's way better than Coca Cola. Way better than Pepsi. Yeah. But, yeah, them niggas been beefing Them niggas been beefing for years. Mountain Dew. I feel like. I feel like Mountain Dew is like, for niggas that play Fortnite and Call of Duty, it's liquid sugar. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a food stamp energy drink. Mountain Dew. Cause don't even fuck it with your sperm count. I found out. We found out about the we found out about the Mountain Dew sperm count thingamajig back in high school. I was in high school from 97 to 2001, so that's when I found out about it. I left that shit alone right then and there. And then they came out with, like, different flavors. And the commercials was always dope. The Mountain Dew commercials is always fire. But like I said, I think, like, niggas that still eat pizza rolls, drink Mountain Dew and play Fortnite, like, these niggas are ranked in the top 300 in online Fortnite games. Those that's in Extreme Sports. Mountain Dew and Extreme Sports go together. All them niggas on the snowboards and skates and skateboards and bikes, the BMX's and shit. Those are the niggas that still drink Mountain Dew as well. Sperm. They not get no kids. No kids at all. They dogging that shit. Niggas as PC gamers. Yeah, that's Mountain Dew. You know what I'm saying? Sierra miss. You know what? Sierra missed it. Sierra miss. Always wanted approval, always looked for our approval. And Ann used to just stick his chest out when that was the only option because you need you. You never seen Sierra Mist and Sprite in the same building at the same time. Sierra Mist, Sierra Mist is a temp. Is a temp hire for Sprite. When Sprite is out the office and is on vacation, they call up Sierra Mist. That's what that is. That's what that is. And then, like, when you watch those Lifetime movies, are those documentaries that didn't get approval from the estates? And you. And you get a Michael Jackson that, like, Flip from, you know, like, not. Was it not Flip. Was it Flip? Damn. I can't think. I can't think of my nigga name right now. What was my nigga name? Brit. I know. Help me out. Help me out. Flex. Flex. Yes. That's who it was. That's what. That's what. That's what. What you call. It was RC Cola. Yo. Remember RC Cola? RC Cola is for truck drivers. They made that shit for truck drivers. Not. Not the Dolomite truck drivers. The truck drivers that. The truck drivers that. That. That wore glasses and the hat and the. And the net hats, you know what I'm saying? From the 70s. And yeah, those niggas that drink RC Cola, RC Cola is. That's. That's that in the back, bro. That shit way in the back. RC Cola should come with some type of expiration date automatically, and it should be big. Big. Fine. Because you shouldn't have RC Cola in your house longer than 30 days. Get that shit up out of there or I'm calling the police. Orange soda. Like Crush. Oh, Fanta. Is it Fanta? Yeah, that shit right there. That shit right there will kill you. And they had crazy. It more appealed to teenagers. So that's what. That's why it was. That's why it was big back to me. It was just big in high school. Like, you don't go nowhere past high school when it came to Fonta Sodas, you know what I'm saying? They had the grape, they had the strawberry, they had the pineapple, and they had the orange. And don't get me wrong, they was fire. But it's like, you didn't grow up. You know what I'm saying? You didn't grow up, nigga. So, you know, like, you just gonna stay like you would you had. Let me tell you what, Fonte is. Fonte is like Soulja Boy, you know what I'm saying? It was just something different, you know? Like. Just something different. And it was cool because it ran middle school, high school. It did out. No, no, it's. No, is. They have. They're. They're in the history book, you know what I'm saying? So I can't I can't knock them, but, you know, man, at the end of the day, I don't think that made it past a certain. Now, let me tell you. This one. This one right here. Yo, who was it who was in the creative chopping board room when came up with Squirt? Did drink Squirt for a minute, though. You know what I'm saying? Like, it was like Squirt to me. Like, Squirting Funyuns is, like, the same thing. Like, they in the same family. Like, them is weird. Like. Like the Squirt family. Like, them is kind of. Because what the was Squirt? It was like a lemony dog. Squirt was like a depressed lemon soda. Was it lemon, though? Like, what. What the was Squirt, though? I want to look it up, but I don't, because I don't really care so much. But what the hell was Squirt, man? That was. Wow. Sun Kiss. Sun Kisses. They still sell Sun Kiss, too. Sun Kisses. It's like a. That shit like a. Like a Volkswagen Passat. You know what I'm saying? Like, you had a quick little run, and that was it. Squirt. The hell is Squirt, though, man? Squirt and Sun Kiss. That's wild, man. But hey, man, we at the end of the day, we all drunk that shit. We did. Now they got all kind of different type of drinks now. Like, we not now. Let me tell you a og. You want to know a drink, nigga, where you gonna stand up in a room when I walk through, like, I feel like I felt like this drink. Describe all the cool niggas in high school. You a cool nigga if you had a Cactus cooler. Cactus cooler is fire. Because it had. It kind of remind me like a orange cream ice cream, but in soda form. Yeah, Cactus cooler was fire, man, because that wasn't your typical. That wasn't your typical. Just orange soda, because technically, like, cataclysm. Like orange pineapple put together. See? Like a pineapple soda, though. Pineapple soda was different. Pineapple soda. Pineapple soda is ghetto, though. You definitely date a girl in, like, Hawaiian Gardens when you drink a pineapple soda. If y'all don't know what Hawaiian Gardens is, please go and Google that. You know what I'm talking about? It's just. Just go. Just. Just go Google it, man. Just, you know? I mean, but what the was Squirt, though? Who was it, and why are we drinking Squirt? Yeah, we had it. They came out with so many different. You remember they had the Pepsi clear. The vanilla or orange. Coca Cola, they started getting real freaky, you know what I'm saying? They got all kind of flavors out now, and it's like blueberry sodas. That. That's crazy. That's. Wow. Like, why. You know what I mean? Like, don't do it. Don't do it. And technically, fruit punch wasn't even a soda, though. That was a juice. It's just warm Hawaiian punches. A is a crew neck, my nigga. And y'all stay drinking it. Tell me what y'all favorite soda is. I know. Like I said, Brit. Brit, she gonna defend Dr. Pepper. The only. The only soda I'm a defend is probably root beer and cactus cooler. The wife, she heavy on the spray. Heavy heart, dog. I'm about to say something crazy. I'm about to say her throat, because I do know her throat. That's crazy as well. I know it. I know. I know it also well. Also well. But that. That spray, that's crazy. No. No wonder why. You know, sometimes she be flipping out on me, nigga. She. She immune to that. Like, that should probably get her. Is that shit. Got something. Sprite got something in it. Sprite definitely got something in it. It might. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, man, Shout out to. Shout out to King John, man. That was a great topic. I hope I did it justice, you know what I'm saying? I'm pretty sure you gonna. What's the point of diet Coca Cola, though? That's a stupid soda right there. And when niggas found out that the diet soda was worse than a regular soda, like, what is niggas supposed to do, man? What is nigga supposed to do? I don't know. Cherry Cola Hitch, though. Don't let nobody lie to you about that. Cherry Cola definitely hits on all cylinders, but, yeah, King Jern, I appreciate you for this episode, my brother. I'll return one. Well, you know, I'm gonna have to. I don't know. Cause y'all have, you know, the way I have your show structure, y'all have shit laid out. So however I can help on the creative side when it comes to your show, just hit me. You know what I'm saying? Faygo, I don't think we really fuck with that a lot. I don't know. I don't think we really mess with that a lot, tell you the truth. So I don't know. Shout out to them and whatever. However they living in life, like, shout out to them. But, yeah, And I think anything like, not anything. But a watermelon soda is stupid, too. If you drink a watermelon soda, you just want to be different. You choose to be different in life, and that's okay. Go ahead and do your thing. Go ahead and do your thing and make sure it works for you. But, you know, yeah, this is not for me. But I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. And before I get up out of here, I know I brought up her name a lot this episode, but let's check what Brit was talking about a couple episodes ago. [00:35:53] Speaker C: This is probably one nobody knows. I know my friend Shel knows it because I saw she posted on her story one day. I was like, holy shit. I didn't know anybody knew this movie. Thank God it's Friday. It's got Jeff Goldblum. I forgot the guy's name, but he's in Car Wash. Oh, I cannot remember, but it takes place at a disco. I think it was, like, late 70s this movie came out, but it takes place at a disco. And there's, like, a whole bunch of different stories, and they don't all really connect, but it's just, you see different people and what they're going through at this disco from the beginning to the end, how they get there. There's a dance contest, and Donna Summers in it. I can't believe I forgot that. Yeah, I love that movie. It's a good soundtrack, actually. [00:36:48] Speaker B: And drink more root beer.