Hello and welcome to Tiny Tunes Tuesday, the musical subsidiary of your favorite podcast, Ron Prechins. This week, Adele and Lou talk fan mail. Take it away, you two. Yeah, like snail mail.
We got actual mail. True. In our mailbox. We have gotten some very nice emails, but this was like actual mail.
Two of them. Packages. Interestingly, the name Morgan is common to both. True.
True. Our most recent package came from Morgan. Thank you, Morgan. We would like to acknowledge how nice your gift was.
It was actually multiple gifts, right, within the package. Yes. Can you describe what was in it? Oh, well, for me, there was coffee in it.
Like really good coffee beans in this person, Morgan, lives in the Pacific Northwest. I think just over the... I think she's Canadian. Right.
No, I think she's Canadian. She is. But the name of the coffee was sort of a tribal name from Pacific Northwest. Oh.
A lot of those names, it's very familiar to me. But as we all know, as I know, as I understand it, the best coffee is in the Pacific Northwest. True. It's known for it.
That's for sure. So she sent this bag of beans. I'm actually using it in my espresso machine. I've had an espresso machine for years, five, six years and now it saved me thousands of dollars.
Definitely. Christmas present. Oh my God, good one. You're welcome.
Yeah. Yes, I was excited because I thought, oh, I drink coffee every day. This is exciting. You also drink all you drink espresso.
But then you stole the beans and you put them in the espresso machine. They worked. Which is really unusual. I mean, espresso machines, I mean, you got you grind.
Right. I was going to say it's because of the roast. If you just put like a coffee roast into an espresso machine, espresso is the way that you're roasting the bean. And it's like a darker, oilier result that happens as that process.
And when you have regular coffee, the lighter the roast is, the drier the bean is and the darker the roast is, the more oily and darker the bean is on the outside. And espresso really works well as a dark roast and oily bean. And I was worried that because if you put that into an espresso machine, trying to wrap this up, it's too dry. And it needs that to kind of tamp together.
I had no beans. Espresso beans. I'd run out. But I put some of those in there and they worked.
Yes. That's great. That's great. The little needle went into the espresso zone.
Oh, in four. Wire cutter cuts. This is from Morgan. I'm not strong.
You don't believe me. Like a lie. Unp resist you. Too loved to really miss you.
In fact, I'm frozen all my joy. But in yes, I want to. But nothing good can come to. Someone pretending he's alone.
But nothing good can come to. Someone pretending he's alone. But nothing good can come to. The more than pretending he's alone.
Bring you. From Morgan, home from Emo. Emo, which is home backwards. Indeed.
This was a request from her very nice letter. She sent. And I also wanted to say thank you to Morgan for the bath bombs because she included these really cute. They're tiny.
They're tiny. They're like little mini bath bombs. They're not like that huge thing that the size of baseball or something. True.
Yeah. They're like little mini ones. And is he had a bath the other night? She had a lot of fun dropping them in the bath.
And it was great. And oh, also she gave me a taco seasoning mix that seems like a local thing. And I'm very excited to try that because I love tacos. So you know what?
I'll use it tonight. I'm making fajitas tonight. I like to just for a second. We were on the subject of espresso.
You came in second place in the Caribou National Barista off. Yes. This was so long ago. Over 20 years ago.
Oh my gosh. Almost 30 years ago. Well, you really helped me when you got me the little espresso machine. My brother.
Yeah. It's a small espresso. But it's an actual espresso machine. It's a real espresso machine.
Yeah. You have to do everything. But you taught me how to use it and you taught me how to use it pretty well. So I'm very now in very particular about the grind has to be right in order for it to come.
And the tamp and the grind. These all of these things. Because you want to have the crema on top which is the beautiful kind of caramel color. I got the crema out of these regular roast beans.
It is surprising. It is surprising because I've had a lot of, I get nervous when I have to switch espresso brands because they're all different. You have to balance the grind and the tamp. Oh my gosh.
All things that you taught me. Oh, that's nice. Well, I definitely had my coffee era. I worked in, I don't even know.
I mean, I could go back and count some day. It was like six different coffee shops. I was really, that was what I did after high school. I didn't go to college.
I worked in coffee shops in Minneapolis. And I didn't work ever in one in St. Paul. Anyway, but I worked for Caribou Coffee, which is like the Midwest version of Starbucks.
It was kind of neck and neck with Starbucks for a little. I was like, which one was the two go? This was the 90s, you know, like the mid-90s, 95s when I was working there. And so coffee scene, the Seattle Sound, Grunge, all of that was really big at the time.
So coffee shops were everywhere and hanging out in them. And I think they are still somewhat. Coffee revolution happened. But now when you go into most coffee shops or a lot of coffee shops, it's much more automated.
You just like press a couple buttons, which is totally fine. And I don't personally care or have any, you know. But you were like analog, espresso. You were, I mean, I didn't have a choice.
That's just what it was then. You came to second place because you were second fastest. Well, yeah, second fastest. It was me and a teammate and we had to, I believe it was complete three different espresso drinks under a certain period of time.
I don't remember the time. I just remember it was like three of their drinks where, God, guys, I don't even remember. But one of them was like a mocha and they used to put a bunch of shit on their mocha. It was like a snicker mocha kind of thing where you had like break up the snickers and put, I mean, it was just you had to do it a lot more.
There was a glass container full of snickers bits. Well, you'd get them, but then you'd have to like kind of hack them up and because otherwise you'd have just like a half a snickers bar anyway. And then we made our whipped cream, you know, so anyway, you know what a whip it is, guys, right? Anyone whip it?
Some people might know that as we had to make our own whipped cream and doing whip it. You know, I'm just saying maybe I knew what that was, but it's just a different time. Put vodka on your drinks. Who did that?
This is all like pre, way, way pre 9 11 and so things were a lot looser those days back. Your male friends playing Captain B fart. They did. Before streaming services totally.
It's totally before streaming services. Decided what was going to be played. You could, you were. We had like a six disc changer in the back and someone would have to go there and shuffle and we all have to argue over what to play.
I mean, let's be honest, we played wildly appropriate music. It was so, I'm sure grinding and irritating. Also at MSP. Yeah, yes, at Minneapolis State Hall Airport.
It was just so funny when I think about it, but it was a time. It was an era and there are some funny charming things about it for sure. When you look back at that, just the control we were able to have over like this very, very successful company. And at the time, the original owners, this husband and wife still owned it.
And so it wasn't like sold off to some big boardroom of people or whatever yet. And they would come because that particular one was like the big money making one in the airport. And so they would come and like sometimes do a shift with us. Really?
Yeah, they're like sweet babe. Yeah, that's exciting. And I still have my caribou mug which was from when they, you know, when I worked there, it was like actually like a handmade mug for them. Or they were having local potters and things like that.
One last question. Enough about caribou. One last question. Did you receive a trophy for your second place?
No, I don't even. It's kind of a blur guys. I mean, I maybe I got a certificate or something. I don't know where that would be or what.
I was, I don't know. So are the other person that sent us snail mail? Yes. Fan mail was Thomas Morgan.
Yes. Thank you, Thomas. We have, he sent a beautiful letter to and I just, it's so nice getting a handwritten letter, right? It feels so again, analog.
What is this? They put pen to paper and wrote a letter and he included some vintage TV guides from the 80s. So we're working off the amazing. I've done like the Grizzly Adams theme, and I've done cheers and we were talking about TV guides.
And then he sent us some. And I, because I think I said like God, what I would give to have like a 1980s TV guide to disproves. And Thomas, your TV guides are actually part of our living room decor. They are displayed on a side table in our living room.
Thank you. You know, some people might have like art books or things like that. We have TV guides now. We have TV guides now.
And they're in really good shape. So thank you, Thomas. They're like, you know, they're, they're not moldy. No, they don't smell like.
They're from the 80s. Musty asked. They're great. Musty asked.
And if Thomas, if you have a request, which you've probably asked or made one, send it again. This time through Ron Prussian's podcast, that's email. And we'll, we'll try and honor it. And I'm sorry, we forgot your request because I'm sure you did request it.
Morgan's package just came. So it's fresh in our mind. Well, Thomas is, I found Thomas's letter in the office. I'm cleaning the office.
We haven't told people about the big thing that happened was we had a roof replaced. Yes, the roof is finally replaced. Remember, we did talk about it. But the cool thing was that they dropped this enormous dumpster, enormous dumpster, the size of our driveway down.
And then we could, I mean, of course, all of the roofing came up and was put into this. But then I asked, I asked one of the one of our team. It's like, Hey, can I just throw anything into this dumpster? And they're like, Yeah, you can.
So I really took that to heart. And I was throwing things into that dumpster until it was taken away. Yes. And just, I mean, we're talking about just stuff from the attic.
Oh, I felt like so good to do that. Such a purge. Yeah. I threw away a lot of stuff.
Yeah. We really needed that. We've lived in our house 10 years this year. And honestly, we've, we should probably do a dumpster every year or something because there's, you know, small dumps are not that size, but that dumpster life, I could get into that.
Not saying I want to consume a bunch of stuff. I want to dumpster. Throw things away. But I just dumped it from a birthday.
It happens every year on your birthday. I have a dumpster dropped off in our driveway. This dumpster had a big American flag on it. It said USA.
USA. That's right. I'm glad it was just, you know, Oh, the sound of the wire cutter cuts means that you two need to cut it out. When you don't have to, there's really the limit on time is something.
It's a self-imposed thing. This is something that you do. You could just keep on talking and people might listen to three wire cutter cuts. I'm going home.
Thank you. Oh, if you watch this episode on YouTube, Morgan sent this really cute little painting she did of Lou and I and it's very personal because she definitely listens to the podcast. And so she personalized these little characters and Lou and I are mushrooms that are butts, like your asshole, not your asshole, but your butt, your butt cheeks, they're mushroom butts. And you're adorable.
Mushrooms look like penises. They do. They look like a penis with a butt, which is totally, I'm totally done with that. She gets us.
She really gets us and you're holding your little fax book, which is adorable. She has like little knitting by my, my, my feet and a little cup in my hand, which indicates she also knows that I'm often drinking something during the podcast. God damn that awfulness is killing me. I'm going to take a picture of this and put it in our post today.
So thank you to Morgan. Thank you to Thomas and we hope you enjoyed. Oh my God. I just realized she put, she actually also put a brace on your leg.
Like it's supposed to be your knee, your little, your knee. Oh, these details. I love someone who notices details. Thank you so much guys and thank you for listening.