Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 164 - MRE Guys with Chris Locke

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

See us live on 6/5 at The Royal Theater in Toronto! Get tickets here https://www.theguysery.com/ This week we had stand up comedian and one of the hosts of the The Evil Men Podcast on to talk about MRE Guys. They love old food and they will eat it no matter what. We introduced a new guy to the guys stable. How moldy is too moldy? Can i eat food that washed up on the beach? What is a romantic MRE for a date? There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashowand I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201  

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We wanted to post a little message here for... Hey, before you hit two minutes ahead, you listen to what we have to see. Don't hit two minutes. Well, don't, and we don't even know how long it's going to be. You might hit two minutes ahead. You might not even get out of this bullshit we're doing right here. Let's do nine minutes.

Let's do nuts. Let's do a nine minute commercial before the music. And just like they're like, surely they got to be done soon. They're just skipping ahead over and over again. And then all. But it's the worst. You're skipping ahead. You're skipping ahead.

And then boom, you're right where you're right into the show. Yeah. Where we're talking about guys eating old food. Yeah. You miss the even the intro. You don't even... Food talk. Yeah, you miss some old food talk.

Well, in the beginning of this episode, you missed Brian calling me a bully. Anyways, so... He is a bully. We just wanted to mention our live show so that the regular listeners of the normal regular episodes here, we are in Toronto, June 5th.

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improv. We're going to, we're going to, it's going to be a lot of fun. I think there's a ready to improv. I'm ready to improvise now. They have a great. Renumeration. A great. That's, we got it wrong. I know. So that's, that's, that's, that's for everyone. If you didn't listen to the hot life.com slash guys podcast. Don't do it. We're doing an ad in the ad. We're doing an ad in the ad. So yeah, there's, we drop the second part of the Bubba doc on the hot life tier on the Patreon. But yeah, they have a great video set up there. And, And I think it's going to be really fun watching some of the video stuff. And yeah, it's just going to be great. We only do, we do very few of these shows.

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Bye. Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys. I am Brian. I am here with Chris James, who we will call the jerk this episode. Oh, okay. Like Steve Martin? No, like the mean jerk. I was going to call you my bully this episode because our guest's name is our guest.

Oh, we have a double Chris situation here. Well, I mean, Chris, Chris Jay and Chris L, I think work okay. Chris James, you can just call me by my name. You don't need to. I don't think, please don't feed it. I went on to your Blue Sky account. Why would you? Oh, I forgot I typed that.

I was reading some of your Blue Sky posts, and I noticed that you do seem to really push me being a bully. I think there are actually people. My bully's Canadian. Yeah, I think there are people who really actually think that. Like, maybe that we're not super good friends or something like that. That's silly. That's crazy, though.

Okay. Yeah. So just for, it's all in good friends. good friends we like we like each other we like each other a lot we talk often we're it's not an opi anthony situation anymore we talk a lot but anyways let's introduce our guest and i'm going to introduce it because it's a canadian guest go i think that's kind of a cool thing moving forward if i introduce a canadian guest this guy's a my opinion show it's my opinion he's the funniest comedian in canada i really believe that and his name from the evil man podcast uh chris

Locke. Chris, thanks for joining us here. Hey, what's up, dogs? I wanted to ask, are you guys friends in real life? Yeah, yeah, no, we are. We get along super, super well. You could, you heard before the show started. Unfortunately. We were taught. We were really, really having a good time. Now, I, I just want to say, Brian, we're doing MRE guys. I can't wait for you guys to know what this is. This is a good episode because I'm teaching. Yeah, because I, I had the same exact experience as, because I told,

Chris, hey, we're doing meals ready to eat guys. And his reaction was the same as mine. You said, you know, is like hello fresh. Hello fresh. Like those type of things. And I was like, no, no, no, much crazier than that. That's what I initially thought like, oh, just ready to eat meals. But no, these are something to do with the military. This is kind of our first like military episode. We've never really covered any military stuff. Okay, Brian, can I say one thing before you start teaching? and I see you've changed to a military expert there. I believe you a wholly 100% without even hearing anything, but I did check a few guys showing their MRE packages.

Yep. Like on YouTube videos. And it seems like each guy has to have a giant framed American flag behind them as they show you the package. I can't wait for you to see the guy. There's a very famous MRE guy. Like we have the top star of MREs. Oh, in the industry, he's like super, super well known.

He ate a meal from 1889. Okay, so hang on a second. These are old meals. Very old meals. I love that. You have no idea how many times I've seen a guy take a big bite out of a piece of beef from 1984. Did he just eat it with like a rusty knife? It's like this.

It's real small. It's like this big. But yeah, he just pulled, he was like, this beef seems, I don't know. I mean, it seems fine. I'm not like a health expert, but is that not, is that not a, are you not, you're not supposed to do that, are you? They say you are. And it is a very much a badge of honor. The oldest food you've eaten.

They're like, oh, this guy ate some. That's why the guy, Steve, the guy we're going to look at later, he ate a meal from like 1819 or something, like 1800s or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And he's like the king of these guys because he ate the oldest meal. I guess you have to be like brave. I guess it's like there's something to that where it's just like, hey, I'm willing to take that risk of eating this, you know, 250 year old meal. So you do deserve some credit, I guess. Well, you got to remember the portions back then were a lot smaller than today.

The portions back then were a lot older. No, this guy. I actually did get a thread here off R slash. MRE, oldest MRE slash ration eaten. So they'll have conversation. Okay, so this is just straight up people flexing their oldest meal. What's the oldest MRE or military ration you've eaten? I think mine was a U.S. 1997 chicken noodle back in the 2010s.

Oldest ever that I've seen someone eat was a British Army meal kit from the South African War in 1899. I love the idea of just having a 1997 bowl of noodles. That sounds very less important. I think I've thought of something. Best I would do, I think, would be maybe like sour cream and onion pringles from the 80s. I'm not eating any old food. These guys will say like, because my wife is this way too. She's insane.

Like she'll just be like. Okay, Brian. Let's calm down here. Oh, we know. He's crazy. She's like the most normal, well-adjusted. person and Brian is just completely nuts. She's nuts.

And she doesn't get a shit about the expiration date on stuff. She'll like smell it and stuff. Yeah, I do the same thing. It depends on what the kind of food, what kind of food it is. But speaking of sour cream, Chris, I'll do it with sour cream often because I always say like, sour cream has gone bad already. So it's like, what are they really even talking about? It's already sort of turned.

So I will smell foods depending on what the foods are. And I will eat past the expiration date. sometimes as well. I trust the government in one place and one place. And that's expiration days. You think the government is the government? In the United States, the government are the one that decides what the expiration dates are, I believe. And that's the only, that's the only people I trust. Really? It's the only the government can say anything else. I'm like, I don't know about that. But when they put an expiration date on a package, I'm like, do not go past that day. Have you had a bad experience? Nope. Okay. I don't even, I hate old food.

That's, I guess, it's like a thing with me. It's like my wife likes to save stuff and do leftovers. And then she puts them in a refrigerator. Of course, a lot of times you don't eat leftovers. It happens. That's not her fault. You know what I mean? But then you have to throw the leftovers away.

And one of, there's two things that gross me out so much. One is a condensation on the outside of a mayonnaise jar. And the other thing is opening like a Tupperware. with old food in it and having the waft happen. Yeah, no, it is. Black beans? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Even if it doesn't smell like rotten food, it's even just smelling the food grosses me out because it feels like the air is old. So you, so you don't think that big expiration date are not in cahoots with doctors' organization. I think they,

I believe that the government is right about all expiration dates. and nothing else. But I think it's been proven, like, scientifically that those aren't, those are just an estimate. You know what I mean? Like, I think that people can say, there's, like, I've, I can just say from my own experience, I've eaten lots of stuff past the expiration. I just did. And it, I wasn't, I didn't get sick.

The only time I got sick from eating anything was from brand new subway sandwich. And so. He just had food poisoning. And when you have food poisoning, you're the most delicate boy in I am, at least when I get food poisoning, I'm the most delicate boy in town for the next. next like two weeks. You're already eating fucking expired food. But again, it was just sour cream. I was having some tacos and it was just like five days after the expiration date and the tacos were fine and I feel fine. Well, the first reply is from a guy that says standard

MRE two. There's they're dope and he goes this one's from 1984 and he ate it this year. That's my day of birth. That's my year of birth. Well, then he ate an emper at your age and then the other one was 1978. He ate one. I would love to know what the food. is that's what this most interesting to me is like we can get into the food it's always would you eat okay would you eat a canned soup that came in the hand of a baby born in 1984 yeah i would i like canned soup is good forever isn't it i don't know about that man the baby so how did it grow in there this guy goes i always wanted to try those pre 80s field rationed kits but i'm not brave enough to really eat something that old and sometimes they could be a bit pricey because they're expensive

because people collect these and like we'll put them in a display case in their home. That's so, so it's sort of like connect. It's a flex too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The older it is, people are like, this guy is the king.

You know what I mean? Like that guy that ate that one from the 1800, Steve, they're like, this guy's the fucking king of us. I just think the idea of paying like a premium amount of money. Like if you're collecting it, it's one thing.

But if you're going to eat it and you're like, I'm actually paying. like 10 times the amount you would and my food is super old. That just seems not very smart. You want to hear my favorite thing about this is they really want foreign country MREs, right? So they want a Russian mountain MRE. They would love that, right? Oh, yeah. And they go online. They pay $70 to get a Russian MRE. And then it goes through customs. Not allowed to import meat like that. They open it up. They throw all the meat away and just send it to you without the meat.

and it pisses them off every time. Because they want the old meat. They want the old meat. The main thing is the old meat. You took my old meat. I paid $100 for that. It's old meat. And you just throw it in the garbage.

Like you're acting like my 75 year old roast beef is fucking garbage. Yeah, that's insane. But also imagine you ate like ancient beef and then all of a sudden you could see the battle happening around you. Ancient wisdom. This beef has wisdom in it. There's cannons going.

up. Horses falling over. This guy goes, the oldest ration I ever ate was a 33-year-old 1991 USMRI menu 7 beef stew back on June 1st of this year. He purchased it from a guy named A.K. Fuckery. And as part of the run of Brown Bag she was offering, I did make a video of it that I'll be posting after it's all edit. These guys all do videos, by the way. They're all celebrities. And he goes, aside from the cherry nutcake, everything was in fantastic. condition. The nuts and the cake and unfortunately turn rancid. I can safely say I never want to smell another one of those things again. I mean, how, so it's, they're like preserved in

some way? Like, are they dehydrated? Like what, what, well? Some of them are the beef stew held up incredibly well. And it tasted as if it was made yesterday. Let me tell you, it was all so much better than today's beef stew. It was packed with, okay. I don't know. I'm not sure about that. That's like, we covered this on the bonus episode and gotten a Guy's talking about like, man, Chef Boy R.D. was like so much better back in the day. But this is crazy. You're trying to tell me that 40-year-old beef stew, like, that was actually made at that time, eat now is better than the current beef stew. Yeah.

But it's also like a humble brag. Like, trust me, y'all don't know stew like I do. And also. They believe that, by the way. They believe that like, oh, back in World War II, the food was better. Well, that might be the case, but like better the food if you're eating it then. But I'm just saying like for it to be like 40 years old and you're saying just getting that actual food eating it now is better than the current stew. And what beef stew is he talking about? There's not like a standard beef stew.

The beef stew that the military gives you. Oh, I see. I just pictured a bunch of guys with trench foot going, this is delicious. Yeah, yeah. Well, he goes, it's packed with a savory and salty flavor rather than a chemical flavor that's prominent in today's. beef stew. Wouldn't it have to have chemicals? It's probably right. It does. But doesn't it have to preserve it? It doesn't it can. It has to have preservatives, right? I mean. The peanut butter also held up perfectly, and it too tasted much

better than the peanut butter of today. No, dude, but there's going to be all kinds of weird microbial creatures that you have no idea about like, you know, some space shit. Yeah. And that also ever tasted like an old shoe, by the way. Yeah. But okay, but does space food count with these guys? No. No. That's a different thing. I mean, they would eat space food in a second. They would probably love to eat space food. Yeah. It would have to be, it would have to come from an ancient space war.

Yeah, it would have to come from like the moon landing or something. Yeah. They would do that. They would, you know they would do that because it would be like, oh, that's a 1969 meal and it's been to space. Yeah. Let's, I can show you guys, Steve, Steve, 1989 MRE Info. This is the guy. This is the guy.

He's the king of it all, man. Nice. This is the Michael Jordan of MRE. He is the Michael Jordan of MRE. He ate a 2018 Chinese type 13 MRE. That's not that impressive to me, 2018. That seems reasonable like, you know, a canned food from then. I think when you see exactly what he ate, it'll be impressive to you, I promise.

Okay, sweet. This is a Chinese People's Liberation Army, type 13 individual soldiers self-heating meal. It weighs 1 pound 12.8 ounces or 815 grams. And it contains 1,171 calories. The type 13 is a no frills, straightforward ration. Okay, so that is another big thing, right? As they have desserts, these guys love the desserts. So if it doesn't have a dessert, it's already.

You know what I mean? He doesn't love a dessert. You know, you've got after a nice meal, it's nice to have. So I'm going to move forward a little bit so you can hear. Where's that big spike? There's a big spike. I love the idea of eating dessert in war. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I guess you've got to have a little treat. But that's also what I was thinking, Chris, is that like this food is not good food, right? Like when you're talking about food for soldiers, it's nutrient heavy. So it's just like fuel type food. Right. It's like it's not going to actually be like well made or anything like that. So it's like you're actually eating shitty food for a really long time ago. Yeah, well, here you go. The reason I picked 2018. instead of the 1800 one is this is a good episode

here. Oh, okay. It's napkin. Good sound. Thanks for that sound, Steve. Napkin. Napkin's not very tough. Mapkin. We need a warrior's napkin here. You would think they'd have one in there, like with them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A warrior's napkin. Not for the pork chalemain.

Pork chal mane. I like chal mane. Well, yeah. Ooh. It's really turned into a block. So it looks so disgusting. It was like in it all, as you can imagine, it all like congealed together into like a big block. Even well, and they heat it up with like a hot hands. You know what hot hands are?

No. Yeah. Those heaters you put in your, those heaters you put in your hand and shake them up and they keep your hands warm. Oh yeah. Okay. I know. Okay. They have a heater in the MRE so you can heat it up in the bag.

Yeah, that makes sense because they don't have like, they're out in the, like, trenches or whatever, right? So they don't have like stoves and microwaves and stuff. Yeah. At all. There's just like a greasy, savory smell like a food truck, but then like rotting,

breaking down, you know, like liquefying vegetables. Because you're not going to eat it, right? He's not going to eat that. he's not going to eat it right he just said it smells like it's rotting he's not going to eat he might oh oh fuck dude oh man that looks so bad it looks like a brain yeah it looks like a brain you'd find beside a raccoon on the road so nasty looking

So gross. Here, move one ahead. One more time. We'll read some more posts here. It's really like gooey. Yeah. Oh, wait until you hear him talk about it now. Actually, the third time I've run into a PLA ration with this issue. It has greens in it. Look at this. Even the pork is green. Look at this. Maybe this is like chlorophyll that leeches off or something. Perhaps it is. Look at that pork. Oh. It looked like a dead bee. Yeah. In the noodles.

And this very well could be like a chlorophyll leaching onto the, the noodles from... No. You guys should be... Everyone who's listening, you should be so grateful that we do not do a video podcast for the main episodes because this is like easily more disgusting than the phartologist's worst Indian blasting. This is the first time I've ever gotten diarrhea from my eyes. It's so, so nasty looking. You could tell it smells.

Like you can tell that it smells. Yeah, I can smell it. That did send him to the hospital, by the way. It took them down for like a month. Yeah. But there's more of it. We'll watch more video. So he's an actual psychopathy.

Yeah. I know, but he gets a million views. Yeah. He's got two and a quarter million subscribers. I guess influencers are always doing crazy stuff to get more. views and shit, but it's like he's sort of, it seemed to me like he was aware that this is, food's probably going to make him sick and he just ate it anyways. I think he just eats everything. Like when he gets one, he eats it. It's not like a, uh, yeah, yeah. Because if he didn't, well, but, but,

but that's, I was just, he's not doing a live stream. Someone would beat him at, uh, the game, beat him at eating old food, but, but he, but he didn't want somebody beat you at eating old food. But he could just, he's not doing a live stream so he could just not put the video out. You know what I mean? And nobody would know that he didn't eat it. It just, it seems like... He could lie. Yeah, but I guess there's got to be honor amongst old food eaters for sure.

Guys, I just want to say, I'm dying. So thanks for the ride. It's been awesome. Best fans on the internet. Hi, this is Steve's wife. Steve left in his will that I have to eat the rest of these meals. He doesn't want to see him go to waste. He doesn't want to see his rotten meat go to waste.

This guy found a holy grail for only $5 at a Chicago estate sale. I can't believe they had beef chamein all the way back in 2018. Well, this one's a little older. It comes with cigarettes, matches, can opener, water purification tablet, chewing gum, and toilet paper. And so this is, so he's eating food from an estate sale. Yeah. An ancient cigarette sounds cool. Yeah, that's something.

I would give that a go. I would smoke an ancient cigarette. They are all want to get, because they packed cigarettes in those things to like the 90s. Yeah. They all want to get some cigarettes. Imagine a world, you got a World War II siggy and a World War II shot of whiskey or something. Oh, yeah. That does sound kind of bad.

I would smoke a World War II cigarette. I wouldn't eat a World War II food. No. No, yeah, yeah, of course. I think we're all in agreement. I think probably most people listening feel the same way. Like this is completely crazy to eat old food. Guy goes, I'm trying to figure out if it's worth selling or opening it.

Any ideas about what it's worth? Oh, buddy, you sound like a, you sound like a fucking loser, man. Eat that shit. What do you talk about? For $5, he goes, for $5, you may as well open it. But if you're desperate for cash, they go for $250 to $300 on eBay usually. So old food fetches big prices. Holy shit, man.

I'm going to start just keeping some of my food. You know what I'm saying? That's my retirement plan. Just put it away for retirement. Yeah. Yeah. I invest in canned food. It's not even canned food.

I'm going to put it. I'm just going to put like meat into bags, you know. Well, I mean, there are people to do that, actually. This guy goes, if that's the case, I'm definitely going to open it, open it. But then it gets where he goes, I regret to announce it. I plan to open it with my dad to celebrate his retirement, which will be in three years. Hey, dad, congratulations. I'm going to open this old food with you.

And dad, I got food from when you started your job. He said it. It's going to be three years from now. Oh, oh, I hope it on to it for three years and it opened him with his dad. Oh, that's like telling someone not to push the button. I couldn't wait that long. No, he's, every day you wake up, you're looking at your old food. Here's the thing.

You get a three pack of Reese's peanut butter cups. Do you eat two and save the other one? There's no fucking way, right? No, yeah. Brian definitely doesn't. Brian, I've said before, when I came in Vancouver, I came into his hotel room. He had a bunch of Reese's products laid out. like it was a police seizure.

Every different type of Reese's product, you can imagine. The cops gather it up and burn it outside. I would kill them. Yeah. Have you tried the nutrageous? I like the outrageous more than the nut rages. Okay. I like Reese's pieces more than I like nuts.

I got you. Have you tried the big cup with the chip chips in it? No. You know what I like? Is that Canadian? No, the Canadian thing I like. The Canadian thing I like is the Reese's O. Henry. That thing goes hard.

Oh, dude, that's. We don't have that here. I got the O. Henry Reese's bites, like the, the break, the pieces, like in my fridge right now. He had those. He had those. He had, like, the bars. He had all of the stuff. But it's really funny listening to you guys talk about it.

I will say, like, okay, let's flash forward to the future. Pretend we're one of these MRE guys. if there was like a frozen like Reese's warehouse full of goods I would literally walking dead everyone's head with a knife I'm with you what I'm with you Chris that I'll eat old candy I think well if it's frozen if things are frozen yeah you guys just fighting it out over Reese's oh Henry bites I I feel like if stuff is frozen it's like different you know what I'm saying like frozen stuff isn't frozen for sure it just sits on a shelf Yeah. This guy goes, don't open it. And then the O.P. goes, it will be open. And then I love this reply. Shame to ruin a piece of history like that. There's loads of videos of them being open. And these are becoming harder and harder to find. I hope you reconsider. The sigs aren't worth it to open it.

Oh. This guy's like, don't open it because it's history. Well, that guy does have kind of a point though a little bit. Take a picture of it. No, but it's like that's the type of thing that could go in a museum or something, right? Like if it's a super super super super super. or old but I guess them yeah I don't know how many there are but this guy's kind of saying like hey these aren't there's too many MRE guys who cannot handle keeping them close so like all of these are now opened and eaten and made people sick and we actually needs to preserve some of them you know this guy he this guy asks says it's not a holy grail uh it's a three or four hundred item well that could be a holy grail what he that's pretty fucking good for old food that you paid five dollars for it's true

the guy appealing to him you can feel the kindness in his appeal like he's not going full troll he's like going you're a fucking idiot if you eat it but he's been like just please kindly reconsider yeah please we need I almost like feel for that guy I picture I'm just picturing like antiques

road show like you paid five dollars for this old food well let me tell you like it's kind of a nice thing like I've seen a couple of those antiques rochill where it's like I paid a couple bucks for this is like it's worth $400 and they're like oh that's incredible so I think that could be a holy grail for someone i think this person here is a classic redid well but then he says out of curiosity what would you consider to be the holy grail of m rees so we get an answer a true one of one

the only known example of something is what i consider he's looking for the one piece is what i would consider a holy grail item for example i have a complete world war two mountain ration i know of no other remaining examples of this ration anywhere it's sister ration the jungle rations Oh, he's got a sister ration. Oh, my God. I love the lore of this stuff. I do, too. I do too.

His sister ration, the jungle ration, has no known complete examples. Finding one of those would be a holy grail item. I see. I see. So he wants a one of one specifically. And in World War II, so that's an old, that's a very, very old. I mean. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's like 80, an 80-year-old meal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he just one. a jungle ration because he already has the mountain ration. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, if I could get my hand on one of those jungle rations and then, that I'd have both. There aren't any other examples of it. So you would have to. It's like collecting G.I. Joe's yeah, yeah. It's totally like

a collecting thing for some of the people. But I guess he must have a YouTube channel or something, that guy to make it unless he's just collecting for himself. But it's like, if you have that, that one of one, it's like you've got to want to show people. And he did. He posts, he posted picture. I didn't get the picture. Sorry. I apologize. But it's in a display case. He's got it displayed in his home. I'll make it the picture of the episode. Yeah, it's in like a museum clear display case like you'd see in a museum and it's all sitting out. All these guys have display cases for their oldest ones. Yeah. Like the new ones are like, ah, or if let's say you get 15 rations from 1982. You're going to eat one or two of those. Steve, is that Steve guy just like busting out like a

crazy like heist like a like someone stealing a rare diamond or whatever he has the rarest stuff people send him so they're like this looks gross let's send it to steve oh yeah yeah yeah yeah do these guys collect like weapons and stuff too maybe but i have not seen any example of any of these guys collecting anything other than morees that's a good question though it's like some of them are just like you know war memorabilia like completists maybe where they're like i want every aspect of this stuff yeah remember that you John Wick intro to like two or three where they're in the they're grabbing all the war ancient war museum stuff writing with that I pictured their house like their garage looking like that or something yeah probably some of the guys are like that and they're like this is just an element of that but it does sound like there are guys who the old food specifically is what they're interested yeah this guy goes when I was in the boy scouts in Hawaii we went to showfield barracks we had the sea rations for lunch I remember that tin fondly I had pork and beans then we all choked on the cigarettes

We had a really cool scout master. He was a ranger and he let us do all kinds of stuff You wouldn't get away with nowadays. Well, yeah, you can't take the scouts on a smoking trip. Wait, excuse me, you can't? You can't take children and smoke cigarettes with them anymore. We all coughed on the cigarettes. Then we went skinny dipping.

I'm angry at woke now. Yeah, you can't even go smoke old cigarettes anymore as a young child. A child can't go smoke old cigarettes. cigarettes. He put whiskey in our Coke cans. Let's go to check in with our guy. We can't see it. Can you share the video? I do want to see this guy, Brian. I know. Sorry. Okay. Oh, this guy's kind of young.

He's handsome too, isn't he? This guy's kind of like young and like looks in really good shape. Maybe he was in the military or is in the military possibly. Okay, he's got a map on the wall. Yeah. Yeah. Of so. Oh, Okinawa. They love Okinawa, by the way. I'll be honest with you. His setup is like, it's pretty cluttered and dirty looking. It kind of looks crazy. It's got like just a bunch of pieces of paper. I guess there may be letters. It does. Oh, I thought, who's that a image of it? It almost looks like Chuck Norris on. Oh, that would be awesome. But yeah, it's, it's not displayed in a really, he doesn't seem to be like it's kind. He just has so much of the stuff. Yeah, it doesn't seem like

it's like displayed in a way, like a collector. have how would you cut would you put a bunch of old food behind you if you were this guy yeah I would put all my old food but all my old food back there yeah that's what I would do probably but yeah this guy does seem to be into the military he's got other military stuff yeah a lot of these guys are yeah yeah I ate it yeah it was just over a week ago I was fully recovered like two days later that was the worst I got it in just over three years I had a Ukrainian ration was highly suspect I believe that was the cause like 90% certain because of E. coli October 2nd. Yeah, man.

The ER October 2nd, 2015 was the most expensive rationer ever had. That was the Ukrainian. So he paid, he paid an insane amount of money to get E. coli. Yeah. That's, yeah, it's like part and parcel to the, the habit. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, totally. Yeah, if you're to be eating this stuff all the time. You're going to be getting all these crazy. They're addicted to ancient food and ancient sickness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here we're going to move to one more and we'll read some more posts here. These are the kind of guys that was like, if something's freshly killed, you'd be like, would you eat that? And they'd be like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here he goes.

Just early this month, I eat 112 year old U.S. Army emergency ration. You know, for Sorry, Brian, can you pause it for one sec? We also, I don't know if you guys described in the video, too, to the listeners, but he's standing with a tray. It's weird. He's not even at a table. He's not sitting in the corner of his bedroom or something. I think it's because he's like, maybe he pictures that's how the soldiers would be eating it or something like that. I don't think the soldiers had a tray.

Yeah, I don't think the soldiers had a tray. Yeah, he's got like an old shitty looking metal tray with like a glass. It's like kind of dating because he's got a glass. like filled with some sort of liquid looks like that's a beverage uh what what do they call they call it something beverage beverage flavor or so okay it looks yeah it just looks like a like a flavored water or whatever but he's got it in a big glass and it's like he's got to balance it on there it doesn't seem like the best way to be eating at all yeah and i'll say this it's a badge of honor to have one of those metal you can buy them online but all these guys have one of those metal trays you know yeah

yeah yeah like you would get in like the mess hall yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. September 1906, didn't get sick, dried beef and chocolate, eight and not even one-year-old Chinese PLA this thing just over a week ago and got sick. Hey, pause it. USA. USA. You're right. Here's a question you see so much.

This is from R-slash-Prepers. how to tell if your MREs went bad. I mean, just the same way as you tell if any food went bad, I think, right? Because I live in Texas and got them summer of 2019. They've been stored in a garage. I just opened a cheese pack and it was fine. If the cheese is good, does that mean the entrees are still edible and safe to eat? I know now to keep them inside as we barrel towards collapse.

I did some research and fear they're getting to be an edible. And he goes, edit, I guess I should just try one. Edit two. They're U.S. military MRIs. the entree packet was not inflated. I tried to heat it up with the packet, but it were barely warm, then had to go to work and didn't get a chance to open it. So you'd also be surprised at how many of these guys eat these for lunch at work.

Okay, so the earlier thing that he said, is there a doom prepper connection with these guys? Very much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the preppers buy these. But they only, from what I can tell, they only last, they're only supposed to last five years.

These guys like it when they're really old. Yeah, but they're not like unlimited. No, but that does. That makes sense, though, that like, you know, hey, if I got to test how I'm eating this thing from 100 years ago. That means if I buy one now, then if it really goes down, I'm going to have food for however long or whatever. So it does.

Yeah, like will, will a hundred year old beef stew still help me defeat a mutant? Yeah. Yeah. When he comes out of his shelter, he's got to battle mutants, you know? This guy. So this is a review of a. cheese pizza one. They either hated or beloved menu number 11 because they're all number cheese pizza.

How do you feel about this menu? So this guy goes, what a coincidence. I had this for lunch today. Reminded me of a cheese pizza flavored pop tart with an MRE bread for a crust. Cheese cheese pizza flavored pop tart. I don't know that I can really necessarily imagine that. I do love the idea of these guys bringing it to work for lunch is just like, um, man like fucking Nathan like just heating it up in the microwave not even using the microwave

eating it up with the heating pack 60 but you're annoyed at the guy who like heats up fish or whatever in the microwave and then you got these guys who are bringing like 75 year old meat and eating it up at lunchtime I do I looked a lot and like most of the time the only lunch they're like they looked at me like I was crazy at lunch you know what I'm looked at you appropriately. They looked at you. Yeah. So he tried the cheese pizza.

Here's some, here's some reviews of it. And this guy goes, at least it's not the tuna pouch, which we'll read about a tuna pouch later. Uh-oh. Yeah. Yeah.

I would want to stick away from fish. Yeah. You don't get the pick. You don't get the pick. So he goes, tuna's the only one I haven't tried. All I get is chicken. Once I open it and found chicken instead,

and the next time I got two chicken menus. They want fit. This guy is like, Well, the rarity of it, I guess, right? And then this guy, oh, man, lemon pepper tuna is actually pretty good. I won't say I look forward to it, but I'm definitely never upset about it. Got to tear the corner and squeeze between your palms to get the extra liquid out. Open pouch and fluff tuna with utensil, add a little mayo, boom, tuna salad.

Not horrendous like the veggie omelet. No meatballs, but no meatballs or cobbler either. And the veggie omelet is actually called. So the meatballs and the meatballs and cobbler are like top menu. items. And the veggie omelet, they call it the vomlet. Oh, because it's so, it's, it's uniquely disgusting. They're saying, unlike the other stuff, like it's really good. Yeah. And then this guy goes, I was expecting something that I wouldn't eat unless starving, but this was technically edible. It wasn't bad at all from that perspective. So this is technically edible. And then this guy goes,

I never read the vomit, but I'd like to think the pizza variations are today's equivalent to it. I work with a guy who was in the army. He said he'd trade people for the vomlet. He's the only guy who liked them, L.O.L. That's kind of cool, though, if you're, like, at school or whatever, nobody likes the one thing, you know, and then you can just, like, you can get, like, you can get maybe a lot of them for a smaller amount in a trade. But, like, how is the pizza? I'm just trying to, like, because you're not heating it up in an oven, obviously. You are, you can heat it up, though, with the heat up bag. Yeah, the heat up bag, but I'm just saying, like, is it melting cheese? Is it coming like I'm melted and then you melt the cheese? That's why when I'm trying to picture what it is when he says like a cheese pizza flavored pop tart. I could show you what it looks like. Oh, yeah, I'd love to see. I'd love to see what it looks like. Give me two seconds here because it'll, I have to switch the thing. I just, and I'm curious how often these guys are eating these if it's like a regular part of their meals for some of them. It really does feel like they eat them quite a bit. Okay, so this is...

Please excuse me for breaking protocol, but we got to spice this up. And because the pizza is probably the worst thing in this main, we're going to top it off with some salsa cheese. Okay, so let's hear it start. Cheater, cheater, you're not legit. That's why you got one point five. Salsa cheese? Yeah, that's modern.

What are you going to bring salsa cheese with you? That's modern brand new salsa cheese. That's brand new salsa cheese. That's why this guy has 1.5.8. thousand subscribers by the way because he's doing Steve would never do that Steve would yeah that if you handed that

this guy's giving a way that he knows about current grocery stores yeah yeah yes yes yes yes this is so here we go I'm gonna open up our oh he's got a sick army knife there

yeah so it's like it's like It's a vacuum sealed, all the food, just for everyone listening. It's, as you can imagine, it's like vacuum sealed in these bags. Yeah. We're going to get to the main event here. Hold on. I'm getting us to the

pizza time. Here we are. Which are good? That's... Taste a little flour. So he's got crackers, nuts. 16.9. So that, the cheese, the cheese, the pizza, is that it like under his hand?

Yeah, I think that's the pizza. I think it does look like a paw. So I guess maybe it has like filling that's like cheese pizza flavored or whatever and has some cheese on the outside. When Pop-Tarts known also like when they're more popular, like they could go to space too? Like astronauts took them or am I wrong? I mean, I don't know that for sure. But I think that they it's like, yeah, it seems like that's a good way. Like you can enclose the like stuff inside the the like outer shell or whatever that can last longer.

Oh, it looks so nasty. Oh, there's a close up of it now. it's unmelted cheese that's all like kind of stuck into the pizza sauce it's browner cheese that you've never seen a more brown food it looks oh my god the cheese looks so nasty and so I would never it looks like cheese if you like leave and uh you know if you were to leave it in a bowl like when you're younger you know and you just kind of like leave food around or whatever like it looks like that like it's been sort of sitting in a bowl like you you know you made some some dip or something and it's been sitting there for a couple of months or some shit.

Okay, so you remember I joked earlier about how like, it's the first time I got diarrhea through my eyes. Yeah. Like the close up now that we're seeing that Chris is describing, it's like literally ancient panic's biology is happening inside my brain. I'm seeing an image of it on a video and my body is still like, get away from that. Yeah.

Like it's sensually. This really, really looks. The two examples we've seen so far looks so disgusting. The applesauce, I think that's applesauce. That's brown applesauce. It's brown apple sauce. It's brown. Everything is brown. So brown. I mean, the pizza, I think, I'll make that the picture for the episode,

the pizza. But you already said two things now. I know. Well, I mean, you know, you can find Steve. This is a little bit, uh, this guy's off the beaten path. I wouldn't say. Yeah, because of his fucking flagrant use of modern cheese. Modern. Yeah. Yeah, this guy's a modern cheese user.

Here's some vomit reviews. Hey, can we take this picture off the screen here just while we read these, while we read the next ones? Thanks. We'll go back to Steve. Okay. Because he's going to eat. Let's move us here.

All right. I'm going to move us to the Steve eating the food to get got him really sick. But you're just reading posts right now. Can you not just take the disgusting images off the screen completely? No, I like, I'm into it. But my body is panicking. Like I can feel my nerves. Yeah.

This guy goes, uh, the always, he's talking about the veggie omelet, cheese and veggie omelet. Uh, I have not seen a picture of it. Mm-hmm. And I'll bet you that is not a good picture to look at. Yeah, if these guys are saying it's disgusting, you know it's like so bad. This guy goes, I've tried the veggie omelet. I went in with an open mind.

It genuinely tasted like vomit. I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth. Gum, Coke, coffee, nothing. Couldn't get the film off my tongue. Always wondered if the meatloaf was any good. That last part. Yeah. I ate this one in it like completely altered my ability to eat any other foods.

I was wondering about the, yeah, but the meatloaf, which meatloaf sounds like it would be the fucking worst. It's like reading a review and someone's like, Dracula sucked my blood. Wolfman ripped me to shreds. I have always wanted Frankenstein to step on my head. Because I got one in the field back in 2011. Pretty sure even then it was a few years out of production.

Had no idea. Had no eggs, dude. Eggs. Like, my body's like, it's disgusting. We're 40 minutes in now. I'm like, it's something beyond my.

mental is like freaking out my body. Are you gonna, yeah, like, I'm trying to think of what I'm gonna go eat after this, but it is, I'm actually thinking like I'm feeling a little bit nauseous and sick and like not wanting to go eat lunch after this. Chris is going to go to the restaurant and say, what's the oldest food you have in the restaurant? Yeah. Do you have anything that you maybe forgot about for a couple of months and it was like sitting in like a cabinet or something? You guys have any old food? You know, this guy goes like, and he goes, I remember heating up the main and then pouring all the Tabasco I had on the main.

Cheater. I know they, Tabasco comes in the thing. Oh, okay. So this is old, Tabasco. Tabasco probably like last forever.

Yeah, yeah. Tabasco would be, yeah, that would last for sure. The ketchup is powdered ketchup. That's kind of. Yeah, but that's better.

Can we get some hinds? No, I don't. Yo, this ketchup is suss. Yeah. Telling a guy, why isn't this hinds?

You can't get a deal with Heinz? You're the American military. Yeah. What the hell? I hate, listen, I go to a restaurant and it's not Heinz on the table. I'm like, this place is already starting low score. There's another one.

This is starting at three stars? There's another type of, is it like Frenches or whatever? Yeah, that's Canadian and it's patriotic for you guys to eat that up there. You guys don't eat Heinz. We have to eat it now, yeah. Yeah, we have to now since everything that's been happening. But I do like Heinz. I do.

I am a fan of the Heinz ketchup. I don't know that I know. Yeah, Heinz is awesome. The best kind of ketchup I've ever had, and you call me, crazy for this i don't even like beats but i had in los angeles once i used to go to los angeles oh i was right recently yeah i know um and had a good time had a lot of burgers yeah you ate a bunch of burgers and you clogged up the toilet in the uh lobby of the hotel and and but it was beat ketchup at some like fancy lunch place it was beat ketchup and it was like yeah it was really fucking good i think it was in

somewhere like sanomon or something like that beat the crap Okay, I got a little information here just for a sec, if you guys want. It's like a super side quest. It's an AI overview. While Pop-Tarts were not specifically invented by NASA for space travel, they were developed in the mid-60s to capitalize on the air of space age excitement. And their packaging techniques were influenced by food preservation methods used for space travel. So they were just being like, yeah, check it out.

Kids were like astronauts. And AI is all doing it. The Google AI is always right also. Yeah. And they were doing a little, I actually think Pop-Tarts was doing a little, a little gimmick where they were like, you know, you could take this to space if you wanted to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder if they had the commercials. Sort of like on the sly space NASA pitch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were like, you know, people love these pop tarts. It was Tang. Tang. Tang is the one I always remember. Oh, there we go. Yeah. Tang, Tang. Yeah. And I know what you're thinking, Brian. We're not talking Poon Teng. We're talking about the, the, the. powdered drink you love putang but have you ever tried have you ever tried powdered puttang

daddy loves poo tang i think he said yeah he said poo tang yeah because i was talking about my burger situation yeah yeah yeah in la where i was just at last week yeah uh here's one found on the shores of okinawa hmm dated nine three three four my wife and i found the pack washed up on the beach looks like something ate through it and got the tuna fish. Do y'all think it's safe to eat? Everything's dry. Yes, of course. It'd be crazy not to eat it.

You idiot? Ask the R slash MRE if it's safe to eat is probably the worst possible place to ask that question. You found it. You washed up on the shore from the ocean and it's open and it's been eating. It looked like something ate it. Like you don't even know what creature was in there. It could have been anything. Yeah. There's slugs on it. Can I eat this?

Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I wiped some bugs off of it. Oh, these guys can't be thrown off by bugs, though, right? Like, we saw that Chalmane looked like dead head, dead bugs in it. Yeah. And I've eaten bugs. I'm not the only person out here that's eating bugs. Well, you don't know. Chris, have you eaten bugs before? Well, I've eaten canned like zoodles and shit. And I've eaten Taco Bell so probably. I ate crickets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard they're delicious.

I heard they're delicious. They're not. And let me tell you something about the, let me tell you about, there was crickets with taco seasoning on. Yeah. They were like mixed up on taco seasoning. And it just tastes like taco seasoning.

Yeah, but what it does to your stomach is really something to be old. Listen, I had, listen, I had Subway sandwich, like I said, and it gave me food poisoning. Maybe you just had a bad batch of crickets,

possibly. I didn't. They were vacuum sealed like these guys's food is. Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying it's a, And they made my crap the hardest crap you've ever seen in your life. It was like crapping a brick.

And that's what these guys complain about that a lot too. Because this food does not have much fiber in it. So they're having huge problems taking craps out in the, uh, out in the shit. So this is, this sounds like just a brilliant hobby to pick up. Great hobby. Yeah, yeah. This guy goes, the MRE was designed to withstand the abuse, to be honest. Rinse the pouch as well in an open document. in my humble opinion, consider it a torture test.

Yeah, yeah. That's always a good thing. Ew, you sure you could do this if you just consider it a torture test. It's so crazy to ask this subreddit. Like, yeah. What I would do is maybe find a food science subreddit. But I feel like them. Yeah, I feel like the people.

He's asking like survivalists basically or like wannabe warriors type of thing. Yeah, he's, but I feel like the people who are asking the question. they're just like they want somebody to say eat it. So that's why they're coming there, right? They're just like, I don't want to go to some science fucking nerd who's going to tell me all about like the horrors and things that it could do to my body. I want to eat this. Let's go somewhere and find some people who will tell me that I'm smart to want to eat it.

This guy, this is such a bad decision this guy makes. I'm going to wait until I get back to the States just so I don't end my vacation short in case I get sick. I'll video and keep you guys updated. I mean, I would do it in Japan only because if you get sick, healthcare doesn't cost a billion dollars. Chris and I live in Canada. I know.

Well, I'm saying, I got to get back to the United States to get sick is the stupidest thing you can possibly. But he probably has a doctor. I do understand, you know, you feel more comfortable getting sick in your own home country, probably. This dude, because airlines might have a problem with the ration heater, just FYI. And he replies.

You know what you could hit him with the airlines? be like, it's better than the damn meals you serve me. And then you look at everybody like, am I right, everybody? You know, see if you get a big laugh. I got a meal on my flight home. Mm-hmm. And it was, they were like, you know, you get to pick from all these meals. None of them looked appealing to me.

You know what I mean? Yeah. But they had Shake Shack Cheeseburger. Oh. And I was like, oh. Oh. Okay. Hey.

You know, that sounds great. I eat Shake Shack sometimes. I really like it. I think it's one of the better burgers out there. I've never had it. I've never had it. I had it. I was going to ask if you had it.

It's like the best. Oh, it's great. I know Jesse, Jesse Farar has said that it's good. I've heard a lot of people say that they have good burgers for sure. Yeah. It's really good.

So like I got it in the bun on top. The bun on the bottom was scorching hot. And the bun on top was ice cold. When I'd say, I mean, so cold that like it made it. It just feel, it made it feel like I was going to get food poisoning. So I just said, you know what?

You didn't even try it. I tried it. I ate half of it. Yeah. But it was disgusting. Yeah. See, it's kind of like, listen, it may be not as bad, but we've talked about it like White Spot around here in BC.

They have the White Spot restaurant. Then you go on the ferry to the island and you get the white spot on there and it's not the same. You know, it's not like the quality is not going to be there. It's like, you produced in a different way or. whatever. But it's interesting. Demi, past guest, Demi, was, she was here and she said that the, that the food was really good. She flew from Australia to here. I've had good food on an airplane. Yeah, she said it was really good. So, yeah, I don't know that I've ever had like a, you, sorry?

She probably flew first class. I wonder if she did. It would, it would be not totally unreasonable when you're making a flight that's 14 hours long. But yeah, I'm not sure if she, if she did or not. Well, the guy goes, update. I ate it about 24 hours ago. Everything tasted about as good as you could expect from an MRE. Nothing was moldy or had any water get into the bags. I'm not running a fever. I haven't been violently throwing up or nothing.

So I think it's safe to say it held up to the elements. Very cool. I'm not violently sick. We're going to call this a big W. I mean, that is the best case scenario for them is they're not violently six. We're going to get this five stars Yeah, we're going to five star this one, and I'm going to suggest it to everyone to try it because I did not

get violently sick. My life has not been like irreversibly altered in any way. Yeah, honestly, I recommend it because it didn't make me shit to death. This guy goes, do you often eat things you find washed up on a beach? I mean, the question in this subreddit, it's like probably yes, the answer is yes.

Yeah, that's awesome. And he goes, my new year's resolution was to try new things. And the guy replies, it goes, be careful, bud. Lots of chemicals washing up on that same beach. And you don't know how long anything's been floating around. Maybe try new things like a honey mustard on a sandwich instead of just mustard. Something like that. I used to test local.

I like the kindness of this guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very reasonable. This guy is like, that is the advice I would give you. I get your, you're saying try new things. But that maybe doesn't mean, you know, eating water. washed up, half-eaten food, you know, on a piece. I'm so used to people online being such, so mean.

I love these guys. Yeah, there is some, you're right. We, and we encounter them all the time where they're just like the biggest assholes ever. And these guys are surprisingly pretty cordial with each other. I love the idea of, I know you're trying to be adventurous. Have you considered honey mustard over mustard? Well, he's making, I think he's being a little, he's being a little silly, you know. he's just kind of saying like hey maybe you don't need to go so crazy with this new idea

uh this guy goes ninth or three four means it was made november 30th of 2019 so not too old you know yeah checks out the rees expired in 2021 i believe i couldn't figure out if it was oh nine or 19 and then he ate it before he could figure out if it was from 2009 and when is this when is this post is from that 2025 so this is a six year at the best it's been expired for you know for yeah yeah four years yeah yeah this guy goes can probably guarantee that it's not full of radiation it's it's for more than likely a marine got pissed and threw it in the water i know this because i was in the marines and i've seen this firsthand thank you for your insight it doesn't have radiation well he's saying that it's not a

marie dropped it in the water yeah oh my god i love the idea of like an angry marine on a shipping like Fuck this. It's a vomlet. It throws it out of it. Vonlet again. I'm not vegetarian. Give me some old beef. Here's a good one from our preppers.

I keep an ERE in my truck for 20 months, then ate it. What's that? What's ERE? What's that? MRE. Oh, you say, okay. Yeah, he said he kept an MRE in his truck for 20 months and then he ate it. And he goes, I keep a U.S. military MRE.

in my truck that I purchased from a local surplus store. I've been doing this for over 10 years. Typically, I rotate this MRI about every six months and consume it. Replace it with a new one. How come? Can I ask you why you're doing this exactly? Yeah, like they never explain what they do otherwise.

Oh, we just lost Brian. Oh, shit. Okay, Brian left the episode. We just had a good point to make there. I think what happened, was because it says device is not connected. I believe he turned his computer off. No, Chris, normally, normally you'd say,

this is a real nightmare situation, but this is actually, there's a group of listeners of our show pretty significant. I want to say it's about 85% of the listeners who are part of a group called the Flubheads, and they are obsessed with Brian flubbing and making huge mistakes on the show.

And so for them, this is like New Year's Eve, this is crazy they'll be talking it'll keep them satiated for you know months and months and months and and we just hope that he comes back all what i'm going to do is i'm going to get on the the text with them and say yeah he's here he's coming my camera some for some reason isn't working okay your camera stopped working you can hear me we can hear you most definitely and and you didn't turn your computer off i didn't do nothing oh the flub heads are going to are going to beg to differ on that. I think they're going to place some blame in

your court, but it is, it makes it a little harder not seeing you. It makes it a little, but you didn't stop your local recording. Everything kept recording. Oh, it fucking stopped that too. Oh. Okay, that's not ideal. What the fuck

happened? Hmm. You'll be to start it now and Yeah, restart it again, yeah. Yeah, it's all good. Okay. My local is working. You might have to edit at 55. No, I am going to have to do some I'm not. I apologize. I don't even know what happened. And we're not ahead either. So I just

like dawned on me like this episode comes out not that long from now. So I did just get a little, I started feeling a little overheated, a little hot because I have quite a bit of stuff to do. It's Charlie's birthday coming. Oh, Brian's back on the video though. That's good. Yeah, Charlie's birthday is coming up. His second birthday is on Sunday. So two days ago when you're listening to this. So I do have quite a bit of stuff to do, but it's fine, Brian. I can. I'm very sorry. I can just piece it together. I can piece it together. I'll piece it together. I'll All right. So this guy, he's got his truck MRI.

It's important to realize that when you buy a new MRI in a military surplus store, that these MREs have been sitting on a shelf somewhere. So while MREs in a military have a shelf life of three to five years, ones that civilians get their hands on are already aged and presumably have a shelf life of one to three years. Sorry, you're telling me that like it's a bad thing. Yeah, that's what I want. I want the food to be as old as possible. Yeah, dude.

I'm trying to eat old food. here yeah uh shit where's my okay let's get back to our our guy oh god i am so very sorry this is this is don't worry about it it'll be totally fine nobody everyone who's listening is like what do you mean everything is fine everything is good and i yeah because i have your your stream yard recording as well that just for like that minute that i can just uh splice in there but this is the same chalman right this is the same yeah and we're gonna go so he he he well He didn't eat it this time, but he did eat it a week earlier. So we're going to watch him eat the chalmain from earlier.

Okay. I'm going to first check out this pork chalemain with, it looks to be some shredded carrot and a green mustard or kind of hard to tell. You really don't like the color of that. It really comes out with a smell of chlorophyll. I don't really want to get on the spoon too well either. Maybe. There goes.

Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. The first flavor I pick up is the strong smell, but now in a flavor, is chlorophyll. That's generally how. I don't even know chlorophyll taste like. That's generally how taste works, though. If you're smelling it very strongly off of it, you're usually going to taste that as well.

And here, here, let's go here. so this is from a week ago he's in the same setup standing up eating it yeah yeah tray style not for long he's not no oh that's a terrible napkin too oh what yeah man it just has such a strong flavor

of a grassy you know like yard weed type chlorophy flavor with a little bit of a fish tank smell and flavor as well Oh, fish tank. Oh.

Very off pudding. That was my favorite line. Oh, that was very off pudding. And also to the viewers, he's, he said that right before he shoveled a huge mass. He's eating so much of it right now. Like he is, like, sometimes Charlie will eat, you know, like put a little bit too much in his mouth, you know, or like, did you maybe take a little bit too much? That's what it feels like here.

Like, he's actually putting too much of it into his mouth. I know. He's like, it smells rotten. It's very off-putting. Here, let me shovel most of it in. Oh, God. He just ate so much of it. My stomach hurts. That is probably one of the least appetizing things I've eaten out of a ration. Out of a retort, out of any ration that's supposed to be fresh. It doesn't really taste fresh.

It doesn't even taste safe. It's low quality. it hardly even tastes safe as he continues to eat this thing. I think this might be unsafe. He's serious about this. I guess that's like kind of, he is, he is kind of like one of those like shoe nice or whatever.

You know, do you know who that is? Like he's like some guy who's just like eating crazy shit. And so there's an element to that of why he has such a large audience is that. So I think that's why he's leaning into it a little bit and being like this out, actually seems unsafe and I'm still eating it. Yeah, the danger is definitely a big part of it. Yeah.

Infusing. Eating those few bites, actually several bites, I probably ate more. Yeah, I definitely ate more of that than I really wanted to. Yeah, that's what we were saying. Let's try another bite. Let's try another bite. That was a big mistake. That was a matter of fact.

That I shouldn't have done. I maybe should have done Nat bite. Yeah. It looks like there's something like some sort of fried rice there or something as well. Oh, it's curry. Oh, he didn't mind the curry. He ate some of that. I think he really believes that the chalmain is what got him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He would know. I do trust him on that. It seems like he's eating a lot of this old food. This guy. That's the thing. He is an expert at this point. Yeah, he is.

Yeah. Here's another guy. He goes, I noticed one of the orange stickers on a box of military MREs had finally started to turn so I opened it up today to eat it before it went bad. It's so crazy. The inspection date is 12, 2021. I bought it in November 2020. My wife had the meatballs in marinerra.

I had the beef stew. We had some peanut butter, garlic mashed potatoes, multi-grained snack bread, etc. Everything was wonderful until I opened up and took a big bite of the applesauce cake. The bottom has a bunch of white mold. And the rest of it was fine. and the rest of it has a fine layer of white fuzz growing all the way up.

Oh. So what do I do? I just pictured. I just pictured imagine like a guy for a first date having a girl over for dinner. There are guys that do that. And she's like, yeah, what are we having today? And he bust out one of these things. Like, would you like the beef stew or the meatballs, my lady?

Like. Yeah, he puts it down and goes, you're not leaving my apartment for two weeks. or just the idea of like this is one of my very old ones so it's special for you this is actually special she's like she's like oh do we eat a newer one he's just like no you are actually important to me

and that's why we're going to eat this one that's 75 years old but to me also in my opinion this is exactly what's wrong with Western society right now we're so advanced technology we have all the knowledge we want at our fingertips since we're children

and we reach a point where we get bored and we start trying to unlearn things in front of everybody. Yeah, trying to be like regressive in our, yeah, trying to be like, no, yeah, we're actually going to eat old, disgusting food that's bad for you and makes you sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should I eat this brown chicken? Yeah, yeah. I ate a little bit of moldy cake. Is that bad?

Yeah, is that? It's like you knew it was bad when you were sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Am I in trouble here? Yeah, it's true. A child knows not to eat this stuff. And then it's like these grownups who are like, actually, maybe it's not such a bad idea now that I've gotten older.

My point, though, is when you have access to all knowledge, it's boring. So you regress to spice up your life. Yeah. And I, my, my wife seems utterly. unconcerned with mold. Now, she won't eat it, but she'll eat the other side of a piece of bread maybe sometimes where it's like there wasn't mold here. Like I said, she does not, she doesn't follow the rules and it's crazy to me as a big rule follower in that department. Yeah. So what do I do

now? Do I toss the whole case? Any, but yes. I mean, my answer for that is yes, but I just throw this moldy food away or what the hell am I supposed to do? Yeah. It's like, You have empathy for the old food? Like, I feel bad for it. It never got to meet my teeth. Yeah. So anyone else have any experience with just the cakes going bad? Or is that an indication that the whole bag is bad?

I've eaten hundreds and never had a moldy one. So I wasn't expecting this. What would you do? This reply is so military. Use it as an opportunity to practice discernment. Are you not preparing for there to be no food, no services? Then that's all you. When that's all you have, you're just going to shrug and throw it out, starve to death,

contentedly knowing you did the right thing? In that case, you're practicing starving. Are you prepared to have no food? Wow. This guy's mad. That's a prepper. That's a hardcore prepper, yeah. That's a general.

You're prepared to have no food. And he's like, you'll eat the moldy food and like it. You should. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's like the other guy who was like, just look at it as practicing being, what's it called? A torture test. Yeah.

Yeah. It's totally, they are really thinking of, but it's like, I guess, I don't know, man, like I've always said,

if it comes down to it, I'll probably just die if it's like, you know, a situation where it's really, like, I don't think I'll try to survive if it's really turned into like a prepper scenario. I think I'll eat food out of the ground.

Yeah, I'll eat. And then when it's all gone, I don't think I'm going to like, I'm not, I'm not up to like just in, these guys are a lot of just in case, right?

Yeah. Where it's like, hey, eat a bunch of moldy food now just in case there's nothing else available. But it's like there is other stuff available now. So I'm not going to practice eating the moldy food. That's my in-laws, right? They're shitting in a fucking bucket in their 70s. Yeah.

You know in old war movies like when the guy is lost behind enemy lines and he finds an old widow's house and she takes care of him for a bit? I would just do that. Yeah, that seems smart. That is the way to do it. Did you catch that though? Chris, by the way, is his in-law's shit. they live in a chicken coop and shit in a bucket.

And it didn't just, wait, what? Yeah. I was getting ready to tee up my World War II idea. Okay, tell me all about it. Well,

people, the listeners know all about it. We have covered it. They're preppers. They bought a chicken coop and modified it into a house and they live in my brother-in-law's backyard. They live around back. And there's no bathroom.

So sometimes they go in a house, but most of the time they have a little bucket. They take a, crap in like you can buy them like they're portable they're like called gray toilets or something for some reason it's so funny how doomsday preppers actually create doom around them now i agree it's like what's the fuck at your 75 shit in a toilet until the shit goes down yeah what the hell you know yeah like you could live like after yeah when when the bombs have dropped and we're living in a post apocalyptic nightmare i'm going to need to know

how to shit outside. Yeah. It's true. You're right. You can just figure that out. Yeah. Yeah. They're just like, well, we got the toilet now and we paid for the toilet.

And the chickens like watching us. Well, they don't have any chickens. Yeah. There's no chickens to be clear. Oh, no. The chicken coop is now a human coop. Yeah. For humans.

God. And they're laying eggs now, too. A couple of humans live in there. And yeah, I just, I feel like like a lot, like this guy, right? is like I get a piece of moldy cake now. Of course I'm just going to throw it away. Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't I?

Yeah. You know, there's no reason you can get more MREs. You can order more off of Amazon. Now, if you're worried, in my mind, if you're worried that like in the time between shipping and getting them that the whole world's going to fall apart, you're going to need your MREs, that I understand as a concern. concern, I'm just not sure it's going to happen. Yeah.

You know? I think you're going to be able to tell a little bit in advance. I don't know about that. Well, before you have to literally be eating moldy, you know, there should be some signs that all of the food is going to be gone. Yeah, I'll go to the grocery store when that happens. If I start going to the grocery store and they got no food there, that's nervous. Then I'll start thinking about it. Like, okay, maybe I'll start figuring out what I'm going to do, you know.

But as long as I go, I just went yesterday. everything was fully like stuff they were missing a couple of things that I like but you know they were they're gonna be in next week yeah yeah yeah like a cereal that you like because like you can go to a store here and I mean you can get anything you know we got a lot of shit in our stores over here we got awesome they always have giant bins and like aside from produce and fresh food they always have giant bins with like granola bars or fruit roll-ups or something or or anything on sale and because they can't get rid of it. Yeah.

I always, it always blows my mind as like how much, uh, food like packaged food is just floating around in this universe. Like we can't even eat it all. Yeah, we can't even get through all of it. It's like there's literally too much of it at this point.

And now you're going to tell me that we're going to run out of it. I just don't believe it. Okay. So I'm going to just pause it for a sec then at the end of this conversation that these MRE guys could be also, uh, experiencing a form of mental illness. Possibly.

I mean, a lot of our guys are. Probably some of them possibly. I mean, they're nervous about the world ending. And, but I'll tell you this. There was a lot more nostalgia that I would have expected in this episode.

Because there's a lot of guys that were in the military that are like, I eat them because I love them. We used to eat them in the military. We'd go out in a field. We'd have to eat them for a week. You know? Right. And they're just like,

I like it. Or, and then I just thought of another type of, of the guy, which is like guys who never got into the military, you know, they wanted to be in the military, but they never got in. And this allows them to feel like what it was to be a soldier or whatever. Those guys are really something. That's like a type of guy. If we did like army guys, that it was only guys that haven't been in the military because there are so many of those guys. Here's from Quora. This guy goes, what are a couple of the best MRIs in the world?

this guy answers he goes each to their own i suppose uh he goes the royal thai army does of course provide Thai food for their ration even as an MRE stir fried beef basil anyone given Thai food's global popularity i suppose ours will be going up for be among the most popular MRE in the world but let me say this i absolutely hate this piece of filth it always reminds me of the horrible school lunch this guy's from Thailand yeah but he he calls it a horrible piece of filth he goes I always reminds me of the horrible school lunch I always

had as a kid we're still it's so damn spicy but oh that's that Thailand guy that can't eat spicy food oh damn I also want to say if there are any MRE guys in here I take back the mental illness I do understand having a super

specific niche interest yeah but also i don't think we i doubt there's any m re guys who listen to our show i will say i that's what's safe that's what's safe about it because i think this one is so niche i don't do not think this is a popular thing that people and having military guys don't listen to this show because of my sometimes we do i know but just from all the messages that brian's reading it's a robust uh oh yeah it's a whole culture it's definitely because like sometimes sometimes people and i actually want to say this the beginning and and I I want to this episode uh originally like a year and a half ago

Caleb Horton who is dead now said I want to do MRE guys with you and I like so thank you to him he was very funny and really great and when I started looking into these guys it was like because I get suggested guys all the time and some of them are just straight up like impossible to find you know like there's some guys that people are getting so insanely specifically niche that there's no real community around it when i found out that there's a real fucking community around this i was thrilled because this shit is yeah i mean like you said you're teaching and that i really do feel like most of the time we do a guy and i'm at least familiar with it i don't necessarily know all the like ins and outs but i'm familiar with that as an idea i had no idea that this existed that

people were doing this. No concept of it at all. Well, here's a question. MRE for a romantic picnic. This is like the joke. I was doing it. I know. I know. Believe me. Hello. I've been a lurker for a bit. Love the community. My girlfriend and I regularly watch Steve before bed. And while she isn't really into the nerdy military shit I'm into,

she really likes his videos and seems like she's genuinely interested in the contents of different MREs. I think she's really, I think she'd really appreciate the irony of me invited her to a picnic with all the usual romantic trappings just for me to reveal our main course is something unexpected. Looking for recommendations on MRE courses and websites. I can browse to put together perfect MRE lake. This guy's making a mistake. Yes. Yeah, 100%. He's making a big mistake. He's about to realize that his girlfriend or wife, I forget what he said, but that is actually just thinks this Steve guy is a fucking hunk. And that's why she likes watching the videos because he's like a jacked up dude.

He's so handsome. Yeah, he's like a handsome jacked up dude. And so I don't think she's interested in, has she like even said that she's interested in doing this at all? She said I'm interested in the contents of it, but I was like, you can get the contents by watching Stevie. Yeah,

that's, I think that's probably a normal, I think there's probably a lot. Like he has so many million subscribers. probably a lot of people who are like, well, this is really interesting to watch. I would never eat this stuff myself. I think that's probably the majority of them. I will be watching a lot more Steve. I find it fascinating. Yeah, it is pretty fascinating. Definitely. I would love to see him. I know you said you didn't have. I'd love to see him eating that 1800. I would love to see what that looks like. We could do that on a stream or something. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that would be fun. Like once it's, once it's come to us. Yeah, because it is like, I think that the fundamental mistake of thinking like, oh, my wife is interested in MREs and stuff like that is that like she's maybe also you have to consider she's maybe watching it like a freak show sort of thing also she's maybe just like it's a nice thing that partners do sometimes is like take an interest in the thing that you're really interested in so that you can experience it together and spend more time together you know that maybe her interest in it is more she likes how excited it makes it gets you you know like that you love it so much.

And it's just funny because then you picture the picnic happening, right? We're on our picnic. We're in like the most romantic place. We lay down a blanket. We got the basket. And she's like, this is fantastic. Oh, this is such a beautiful romantic thing he's doing for me. And then he tosses a beef stew in front of you.

He's like, you want some beef stew and a mold cake. I got some old food. That's the other thing, right? is like if you're trying to do a Steve gimmick, you're going to want the food to be old. Yeah. And special for her. To show you how much I love you,

I got you potatoes. Potadies. I got you potatoes from Operation Desert Storm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's like she's again, this guy goes, if you're not in the U.S., I suggest looking at epidemic proof website. They offer main sides, desserts, and et cetera.

You can basically pick what you want. I would make the most romantic. meal based on her known preferences and then watch her smile all night. Yeah, does she like old cake or does she prefer disgusting formaldehyde noodles? Um, is she into chlorophyll? Yeah. You know what though? It would say, it would be funny if there was like a a limited edition Valentine's Day MRI ration. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Special one. Comes with cinnamon hearts. Yeah, yeah. Well, here's a, here's one. Uh, this guy found 10 year old, tuna.

Hmm. And an MRI. And I think I'm going to have to show you because there is a telltale sign that you probably shouldn't eat this when you look at it. And, uh, I mean, I, I have all the information I need to know that I shouldn't need it. Oh, you know, you have all the information. Oh, this is 10 year old tuna. Yeah, but.

Well, yeah, let me show you the picture, though, so I can explain. Has anyone died from it? Uh, no, just that. Well, maybe, but Steve got box. botulism. Bautilism, okay. So, okay, here's, or E. coli, I'm sorry. Yeah, E.

E. coli. Yeah, we heard that. So here's the tuna and the bag is inflated. And I think that's bad. Oh, yeah. I don't want you, I don't want to bum you out any, but 10 year old tuna with the bag being inflated means there's something in there. It looks like it's about to pop the bag. Yeah. It's, it's, this is just not what you're picturing maybe if you're, if you're listening. It's like Star Kiss, tuna creations, lemon pepper. This is not this. This is just like a package

from a store, it looks like. Right. I literally got shivers down my spine. And 10 years old, 10 year old and the bag is inflated. He goes, uh, 10 year old tuna, no thanks. I think the mayonnaise is still good, though. And then a guy replies and goes, the tuna might surprise you. Yeah, might surprise you. I agree on that. Yeah. Surprise. Surprise. I don't know if the diarrhea would be in. surprise. Yeah, it might also surprise your toilet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In a good way. People talk crap about it, but it isn't all that bad. He goes, yeah, I should probably have clarified. That stuff can last an age if stored well, can seem good as now, good as new even after a decade, likely much better condition than the mayo. Yeah, don't use the mayo. I think the mayo may be bad.

Yeah, I would think that the may, any sauces and stuff like that, mayo is like eggs, right? I mean, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, let me tell you guys something. If I take a creamy garlic dipping sauce for my pizza crust, then I have some pizza left over. I put the shitty unwrapped top of the, like, garlic dipping sauce back in the fridge for the night. Then I have a pizza slice the next day. And I take the garlic dipping sauce out and peel back the thing.

And there's a bit of yellow on the sides. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm fucking scared of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that exactly. No, I don't want anything to do with it. Yeah, that's why those sauces, those cream-based sauces or whatever, I just think I would stick right away from that.

Yeah, yeah. So he goes, this guy goes, I can verify that I had one that was 10 years old and it tasted just as good as the one that was a year old. That's nice. Yeah. I mean, good for the military, I guess. This guy goes, I ate one that was 10 years old and another one shortly after that was one year old.

Tasted just fine. The 10 year old tuna wasn't stored well either, but tasted just fine. I think a lot of it has to do with the lemon pepper. The lemon works as an antioxidant for shelf stability. I skip the fat-free mayo. Yeah, I mean, full fat mayo. Yeah, dude, you're going to war. This guy goes, I ate a 2006 dated tuna this spring and it was fine.

Hmm. That's cool. And he goes, 10-year-old tuna as well as 10-year-old mayonnaise. Yes, sir. Roll the dice for me. yummy. These guys are great guys. They're there I think like part of me is like they're very encouraging to each other but then the other part of me is like they're encouraging people to eat really old food to get sick and stuff like that and it's like yeah what's the worse it's

going to happen you're going to get sick and die and it's like right you're right it could be I could flip it and it's like almost like the old 4chan guys that were like telling people to go do something crazy like yeah yeah yeah that'd be fun. Except for I truly do believe these guys aren't doing it from like a malicious place. I agree. They're like, hey, I would do it. You know, whereas the 4chan guys are like, go do this thing because they're trolling them and they think it would be funny to see what happens.

Whereas these guys are like, no, that's what I would do. I would eat the old tuna genuinely. You know what? I agree with you. I think so, too. I think that's the case. This guy goes, no, that mayo is a lost cause. I wouldn't risk eating it.

I ate a 2012 brisket and got sick. 2012 brisket like it's a bottle of wine go without food for a week or 10 days you'll be licking the wrapper clean most expiration dates are complete bullshit agreed sounds like you guys yeah like these guys having like an MRE package seller in their basement yeah I mean yeah I love the

these guys must just fucking laugh at expiration dates like you think about me being like this isn't This doesn't mean anything. They must be like, give me a break with this show. They're like, oh, yesterday I saw one. Yesterday I saw milk that said it expired in three days. Give me a break. Get out of here, man.

You can even still eat it. You can still drink milk if it's past the date. Like, it's chunky. It's basically sour cream. Yeah, totally. Exactly. They serve you sour cream and that they saw yogurt. Yogurt.

Yeah. Yeah. This is a review from. Amazon of Better Bundled 2026 inspection MRI MRE USMRI meals so these are from the military. And these are new MREs? Yes, I believe

they're yeah, they're 20th. They have a 10 year shelf life but here's a review for four stars. Excellent quality with only a small quibble a great value for the money. These are a wee bit old but they taste just fine and are of good quality. The only quibble is the Skittles candy

seems to have been crushed or melted. This was true in every meal that had Skittles. You know what? That's a quibble for me too, dude. Yeah, I want full Skittles. I don't want smashed Skittles. And they've melted. So they were like, they've been stored in too hot of a place, obviously, or whatever.

Yeah. Guy is eating emergency food. And he's like, the Skittles are all smashed. Yeah, my Skittles. And you can picture a guy in the military in the desert being like, shit, the skittles are all fucked on. Yeah. I mean, I think the guy in the desert, he would just eat the skittles however they were. I was the thing.

If you're like leaning, if you're on your belly in a trench in the desert and your skittles are fucked, nothing makes you feel farther than home at that moment. You just got to eat your 10 year old dude. I like it, you know. He goes, this was true in every wheel. It's indeed a small thing. And the crushed candy is perfectly edible. But I note it for the sake of transparency.

If you're expecting an Epicurean delight. you're in the wrong place. If you want good solid shelf stable meal option that can take a beating, this is the good stuff. Is that what you're looking for? Yeah, I want my food to be able to take a beating. A lot of the food I eat is very like,

sometimes I eat chips and it's like the things just crumble, you know? Yeah, dude, chips are pussies, man. I want a hard-ass fucking meal that you can fucking toss around the barracks, you know? This person goes five stars more for my zombie. Apocalypse Cash. Happy with what appears to be a great product. I've not opened the boxes since it's part of my end-of-the-world zombie apocalypse food cash. But for now, I'm happy with what I can see, no damage to the boxes or bags, easy to read creation and expiration dates.

Once you know how. Very happy indeed. And finally, this guy gave it five stars. And he says, I bought these for longer-term storage because they have such a long shelf life. and they have decent nutrients at a great price. I ended up eating them all as easy, convenient food. That's like when I buy pizza pockets for emergencies, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I got a little emergency here. I'm just getting one more. You know, every time he ate one, he felt guilty, and he was like, I'll want more. I'll eat less. He's like, well, let's be, let's be honest. It's not going to be an apocalypse anytime soon. is he's eating more or more. His wife sees him eating it.

She looks at him and he's like, they have them on Amazon. I'll just order some more. Like he refreshes the news just to eat before he eats it. There's so much stability. I know it seems unstable, but there's a lot of stability in the world currently. It's a long way away. Am I actually kind of crazy? No, no, I'm not crazy, but.

I ended up eating them all as easy convenience food when I would have gotten more expensive gas station or vending machine. This guy's got a stomach, man. I loved almost everything but the entrees, which are just okay at best. The salt level is high, but not crazy. If you don't use the large salt packets that come with it, I used them at home, so I can't vouch for how well they heat with the included tools. I really like having them by my desk for when I'm sore from work and just don't want to leave my desk. that is the funniest. Wow.

I'm at my desk. I'm fucking tired, man. Sometimes you got to survive a day at work and you need a survival kid. If you just can't make it to the fridge. I picture it like my office where I'm in it at most for like two hours a day. Yeah. And it's like, oh, no, but I'm hungry. I'll just open this drawer over here and eat an MRE real quick.

So I don't have to. So anyway, he goes, they also work well to stick in my bag or locker if I forgot my lunch at work. So by the way, the one by his desk is at home by his desk. Home desk. Home desk. And at work, he gets up to go to his locker. Yeah. To get an emergency ration.

But I feel like, yeah, I guess who knows where he works, but it's like, yeah, that's like your only option. You can't just like go. Well, if you have a locker at work, you're a fireman or a stripper. True. Yeah. Or a minor maybe, but he sits at a desk. Very obvious.

sits at a desk. Yeah. And that is MRE guys. I think, that was amazing. I think Steve will show up on the stream and on the bonus episodes because Steve will show it. That's a little shout out to internet.

People will understand that reference. Okay, good, good. And Chris, do you have anything you'd want to plug? Well, yeah, thanks. Not you, Chris. Oh, Dars, Mark. Well, first of all, thanks so much, guys, for having me on.

Nice intro, Chris. I didn't say that, but thank you. I appreciate it. Brian. It was mid, but, you know, I got to be nice. I think he was commenting that I said a nice thing about him, Brian, is what he's talking about. It just wasn't a good intro. Brian usually does the intro.

That's the first intro I've ever done, actually. So I think he's getting a little territorial now. There you go. Trying to influence people's. Well, good job on the research, Brian. You did a great job with the research. I can do an intro though, too. Well, do you want to do the intro now?

Do you want to do an outro for Chris after he does? Wait, I just. Yeah. Let me say my things. I just, there's a stand-up special, a month old on YouTube called Tiki Madness. And my name is Chris Locke again. I'm a stand-up. And then, yeah, my other, my podcast is called Evil Men with Mike Belazzo.

I've been on it before. I've done it. Chris has been on it. Two other hilarious comedians. You should have Brian on it. You should have Brian on, definitely. But yeah, the, and yeah, check out Chris's stand-up. I'm not just saying that because he's here.

I've had plenty of people on and I haven't said the same thing. I really do. Chris is my favorite stand-up comedian in Canada. He's silly and hilarious. And you guys, if you like the show, I'm sure you'll like his stand-up. So go watch his YouTube special. Brian, you want to do an outro for him? Thanks, Chris.

I do want to do one outro. We are performing in Toronto on June 5th. Oh, if you would like to go to the show. Well, we don't need to do that because we're actually, Brian, we're going to record what's known as a thing before the episode starts where we talk about it. And we mention all of that stuff. So, sorry, I don't want to, I'm sorry to step on a road show as well. Fine.

Hey, we're out of here. We'll see y'all next week. Goodbye. Bye.