Episode 342 – Essential Industries, Bars and Restaurants, Making Drinks at Home and More

Week two of the stay-at-home version of our podcast, and we're diving in on what is and isn't an essential industry, pondering if the bar and restaurant industries will ever recover, and of course the news, events, and information that caught our eyes over the past week...   Speaker 1: Hey, this is episode 342 of the one and only IT in the D show. We are broadcasting live from our respective rooms. Apparently we have a Corrine pod and we need to come up. We need to come up with a good name. The pod and teen or the the the corner both terrible. Oh, I know is we have a, we have a higher budget that Jimmy Kimmel and we're going to be, we've got like 25 stories this week. It should be a, again, we're all, we're all in quarantine and we're all going a little bit stir-crazy. Randy's in the white claws and it should be a fun one. Dave, you may fire what's happening and this is it in the D show, episode 342 we are broadcasting live in our living rooms and our basements and our places. Uh, this is Bob, the sales guy. That is Dave the geek. Speaker 1: Randy at do the Twitters is figuring out which camera angle is suitable for him and the D. dot. Com and goose favor. Give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine cloud guests are sold yet. Hey, this is usually a where I tell you what are all of our upcoming events and that kind of stuff. And there ain't none where we're all, we're, Oh, I'm sorry. Ready? Were you waving or what do you want? I'm just trying to fix a light. Oh, I didn't know you were trying to get the mother of God my profile. Yeah. No, no events. We're not doing anything. It's not happening. I looked around, there was some people doing virtual networking and it's, it's a, it's a shit show. They're terrible. They're terrible. Like it's one thing. Yeah. I don't mind. Like, you know, we have a, I have a standing call every morning. Speaker 1: I work with like 28 people. Right. And it's the Brady bunch thing, but it's like there's one person talking, you read the speak, you go like this, and then you go, Oh. Then everyone stops. You know what I mean? Yeah. It works. But like for networking it's like, Oh, here's Bob. Hi, my name is [inaudible]. Hi everyone. Well, yeah, it's hard to have, you know, and yeah, you can't have like 37 random conversations going on in a room cause you no, that's what I, that's why I kind of made, made the thing going, Hey, if you haven't met someone, don't sell them something. Just you know, invite them to do something like this. Like there's nothing, you know what the hell else you got to do. Right. Speaker 1: Next thing is, um, you know, my wife went for a walk. We have a bike path that's connected to like a city park and all the playgrounds stuff's roped off. It's not like we're taking our kids though. Right. But just to go for a walk, get some air. I guess the pads were packed like every, like in droves. It was wait and when was this? This was Saturday. Midday. Okay. Cause like I did, I the weirdest thing, like I ran out real quick to grab some smokes today and I'm trying to figure like, I'm trying to figure out like why were there, it seemed like there were a lot more cars on the road than there have been in previous days. And I was like ours and the road that they're driving crazy, like someone, someone called me and they were driving because they had to go get something and they're like, I just got passed by someone going a hundred miles an hour down 12 mile. Like Speaker 3: it did the same thing. Yeah. Cause I did. I went up to the little seven 11, you know, right at that, right at the corner, 15 mile and, and watched somebody, you're probably doing a good 70, 80 miles an hour whipping through food. And I'm like, w like did I miss an announcement? Like are there actual zombies now that we're trying to get away from? Like what, what, what's going on? Speaker 1: There's no one on the road. Well, yeah, Speaker 3: yeah. Don't, don't be that guy that was in that car chase. Uh, although Hey, God bless him for a number one stealing a Kia. Uh, and the number two leading the police on an hour long chase that they couldn't stop before things shattered. Get that tree dude. It basically cut in half. Yeah, it just flew. Speaker 1: That's the, that's the content. There was another one today, like a red car. It's almost like they're going, like the news is like we're sick of talking about Corona. I'm here, here's $1,000, go on a high speed. So we got some pull and some viewers. Yeah. What else could do? Um, so speaking of that, like, so you know, I'm a, I'm a pretty die hard sports guy. I love my baseball and my football in my hall and my soccer and my, all the things and they're talking about doing fabulous sports and I'm, I don't know what to make of it. Speaker 3: So isn't that like non-alcoholic beer and, and no salt, saltines. And Speaker 1: this was WrestleMania weekend. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. In my, in my house, it's the super bowl. Speaker 3: Huge as is with that chat the entire weekend. I, I thank God I figured out how to mute messages. Speaker 1: No, because it always falls in Mark's birthday. So we always get together, get us a big, big cheese and we all, you know, maybe like two or three people come over right also. And Oh, I've been over for it before. Yeah. But it was, it was, no, hold on. There was one fan. There was actually, it was so it was, so let me paint the picture. If you haven't seen it. It was done in a WW performance center, which is like their school warehouse where they keep like all the sets and all the stuff. It's like some meeting room. So at least it wasn't like in a big empty arena. No, no, no. There was no seating. Um, but there was one, it's called big ass fans. You've seen them right at like industrial, like, um, big, huge, it's a big huge ceiling fan. Speaker 3: Oh, like the uh, like the ones they've got at like a Detroit shipping company. The one like those big ass ones that are, yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaker 1: Right. So there was one of those, so that was the running joke is there was actually one fan in it, Speaker 4: uh, Speaker 1: [inaudible] yourself. I could have been worse. It couldn't have been worse. Like the people come out, nobody's cheering or booing. Like, like the one match was like a 35 minute, like iron man, whatever match. Like, you know, whoever doesn't know pin fall, it's whoever stays down 10 count and they were hurt so bad, they were grunting. Like all you heard was grunt, eh, and the rips. And it's like this is awkward. Here's the kicker. For the first time in history, they put on two cinema cinematic matches. Now what does that mean? So like it went to like a movie set and there was like scary, like the undertaker. Okay, wait past his private like Aja styles, who's like in his prime, um, was setting like a movie set and like he comes rolling up in a motorcycle and there's like flames shooting out at the bar and throws them in the ditch. Speaker 1: Again, wrestling is soap operas for do to, would never admit they watch soap operas. I, yeah, it was, it was amazing and it was bad. You didn't know if you should be entertained or if it was the worst thing you've ever seen in your life. Well, so, and just everything in between. We have intentionally, just for as much as I've been around wrestling, you know, cause of you and been to matches and all that kind of stuff. Like, like I like in my head, I don't even understand how fabulous matches work because I mean like so much of it for the guys is feeding off the energy of the crowd or playing to the crowd or you know, the whole heel face thing and interacting with the crowd and going through every scenario in my head because I'm like, okay, I hate the laugh tracks. Speaker 1: Right. And could I watch like soccer that like the, the, the almost like the best part of the soccer matches when the fans start singing and like jumping and yeah, it just adds like D, D, uh, Detroit city football club, like, uh, UCFC the best part of the game. Like the soccer is good. Yeah. But like the whole fan interaction part is like, makes it a thing. So like that's why, yeah. So like all of a sudden it's like, and the winner of the match and like, you know, they crown, like, they changed every belt. So like you expect like just pumping like, Oh my God, everybody's cheering and you know, and it was crickets and you're like, that was weird. So I guess segwaying to speak of weird, um, and, and mostly empty places. Uh, I guess Walmart and a few other stores have now put caps on. Speaker 1: How many people can be in their store at any given point in time? Target Saturday because I buy groceries and apparently Meyer is closing at 6:00 PM on the weekends now. Uh, target was the only thing open at eight o'clock. So right up front of you, as soon as you walk into the store it says we have unlimited this many people. TP is in stock, hand sanitizer is auto stock. Paper towel is out of stock. Okay. We'll well D and T to your point. Yeah. To your point, Bob, I mean, I'm glad to see him do it because there are so many idiots that are well on board. Go ahead and just browse around the store. Oh no. Keep your ass home. Yeah. Yeah. Or walk around, walk to the park and back from the block. Walk your dog. I'm like, you know, it shouldn't a thing like send one person from your family or you know if you're single, you know what I mean? Speaker 1: I don't understand if you're a single mom with like three kids under eight, I can understand having to bring, because you can't get a shipped order to save your life. Right? Yeah. There are no delivery windows ever. Right. That's like my only thing I would ever be like, okay, like you got a pass from me. But other than that in one person, run in, run out, get in, get out, you know, have a list. There's a great idea....