The Funky Panther
The Funky Panther podcast: Chad, Javier, and Tim deliver high-energy, hilarious banter with random commentary, raunchy humor, and featured guests. Join the fun for an hour-long show that takes you on a refreshing, informative journey through the colorful world of music, news, arts, and entertainment.
The Funky Panther
Unfiltered Chaos
Ever tried capturing the best intro but ended up with hilarious chaos instead? That's exactly where our Funky Panther crew—Chad, Javier, and Tim—found themselves as they stumbled through a wildly entertaining session filled with laughs and candid moments. Starting off with a nostalgic trip back to when radio ruled our lives, we reminisced about the good old days with Disney Radio and Radio Oz. From spontaneous stories about hurricanes and swimming pools to winning games despite questionable decisions, we served up a hearty dose of unfiltered camaraderie and humor.
As we journeyed through the past, we couldn't resist revisiting our musical upbringing in Fort Worth, recalling quirky antics like recording songs on cassette tapes and sneaking glimpses of late-night TV. Our tales of State Fair magic painted a vibrant picture of fair food temptations and the thrill of nearly splurging on Cutco knives. We even indulged in some car talk, sharing dreams of new wheels amidst today's economic challenges. It was a light-hearted chat that evoked laughter, fond memories, and a sense of just how much we've evolved over the years.
Our culinary adventures took a delicious turn as we explored Italy's rich food scene, from savoring Michelin star dining with Massimo Bottura to reminiscing about Florence's wine windows. We shared personal travel tales filled with humor and sincerity, leading up to the excitement of our ACL weekend plans. With a potential live broadcast and a casual meetup on the horizon, we wrapped up the session with gratitude for our listeners and a promise of more lively updates and adventures. Stay good, and catch us soon from the Funky Panther team!
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I'm too big for this. I get it off the strength. Heard it a way in a while. Never seen a night like this. I had to do it for me. Brought it back now. I'm a one game. I don't care what they say, I'm a one game. I don't care what they say. I'm a one game. I don't care what they say, I'm a one game. I don't care what they say, I'm a one game. I don't care what they say. I'm a one game. I don't care. Losers hey.
Chad:I won. Thank you very much. I won my game even though I had two guys with over 30 points on the bench.
Tim:I picked the wrong quarterback this week.
Javier:That's a lot to unpack with the whole Diddy thing. I mean, look, it was a long time coming and there was always jokes, gross, fuck, sorry, I'm sorry, I guess like Freudian slip, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chad:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Tim:Yeah, hurricane, I thought it was from people spinning around really fast in a swimming pool.
Javier:Oh, so are you saying that we caused Hurricane Katrina?
Chad:Yeah, 15 years ago, in the above ground pool. We gotta start the show, didn't we this bad man?
Javier:We gotta start the show.
Tim:We gotta bring those back.
Javier:We need a new theme song, what the dub dudes Track suits.
Chad:Oh, hello everyone, and welcome to the Funky Panther Coming to you from Fort Worth, texas. We have got a decent show for you, a tiddler of a show, as it were, here on episode 183. Oh, that was sexy, nice, so sit back, relax, enjoy or try to, and let's get into it. I'm Chad, I'm Javier, I'm Tim and we are the Funky Panther. We're the Funky Panther. Y'all fucking suck. Javier. Where were you?
Tim:I did it, I did it.
Chad:I know, but it was lame, it was no. Yell Left me out to gel.
Javier:You know, left me out to jail. You know what I mean. All right, so I guess, hang on, hang on. Okay, hang on, fuck me right fuck me running.
Chad:Yep, sorry, get in here. We gotta start the show. We're not doing it again. Gotta start the show.
Javier:This is what you do when you bitch chad.
Chad:This is what happens I've made a huge mistake. Oh, hello everyone, and welcome to Funky Panther, coming to you from the Fort Worth, texas. We have got a decent show for you here on episode 183. So sit back, relax, try to enjoy. Let's get into it. I'm Chad, I'm the Diddler and I'm Tim.
Javier:And we are the Funky Panther.
Chad:Yeah, that was strong. Okay, was that better, that was, that was Is baby happy, is baby happy Got my blood pumping where it needs to go.
Javier:On the group chat. Let's see. Johnny says what did y'all talk about on the first 30? I All ditty, all day baby.
Chad:It really was Hold on, it was too much ditty, it was just all ditty.
Tim:Here cheers. Let's see if this is any good. Probably not. It's not going to be sweet.
Chad:Yeah, all right, it's like the thing that we get in Nickel City, where I get in Nickel City yeah, like a little like a highball.
Javier:Yeah, just a little highball. It's not bad, I like it, alcohol right. So thanks, obviously, everyone. Thank you for listening, thank you for watching, if you have. Normally we do the first 30 on YouTube. Are we going to put this? What we've done on the episode? I'm just going to throw it. We're going to throw it all out there, we'll throw it all out. So you know, obviously we didn't get into the stuff we happened to talk about or what he has done since. We've all been gone. Words, Words, son of a bitch, my mind. I know it's beautiful.
Chad:You're listening to the Funky Panther with Jed Tim and Javier Dude. We need to do a radio show, we just need to like no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Probably middle school is probably more likely. Did y'all ever listen to the disney radio? Always, I really. Yeah, well, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on now it was whenever I was growing up.
Javier:It was radio oz, it wasn't, and then disney bought it. Oh, is that what?
Chad:happened is that what?
Javier:that's what happened. And they played like uh, remember they had the disney jock jams? Yeah, did you ever listen? To that yes, I loved that. I fucking loved it. I loved those listening to q102 of course you were, you fucking dirtbag and what was that 99 jesus christ?
Tim:99, 7 or z rock 99, 7 the ditty see we, we could totally do radio things. We, we could do radio things, and we've been accused of doing this as a radio show.
Chad:So I mean, couldn't we just play music and then just talk, and then play music a little bit and then act like you're listening to the Funky Panther with Chad Tim and Javier.
Tim:That's you, that's you.
Javier:So if you were, if you grew up here in Fort Worth God damn it, Tim Shut it off, Tim shut it off. If you grew up here in Fort Worth, I would like to know what you listened to growing up, Because my parents, it was always. I had to listen to Radio Disney or Radio Oz on my own, Like I had my own radio in my room growing up.
Chad:I mean I listened to Kiss FM too. Oh yeah, yeah, I loved Kiss FM, obviously because I remember trying to record Coolio on my tape and missing it three times.
Javier:But luckily it played like four times in an hour on the radio so I could finally got the beginning of it, start my mixtape. But like what did everybody listen to? Because my parents listened to? There was a one called la pantera and to this day I've wanted to get the tag like the radio tag. They played for that because it was always like uh, and I wanted to get that drop. So bad is that here in dfw.
Tim:Oh yeah, it was yeah, I'm sure we could probably find on youtube I want. I've tried I've tried.
Javier:But um, yeah, I listened to radio disney, but then all the time was kiss fm and then, whenever it hit like 98, 99, I was listening to uh, k-104, k-104 and started watching Flava TV. Did you ever watch Flava TV?
Tim:No, no, I don't feel like I was the Demographic. Yeah, I was not the right demographic for that.
Javier:There was. They played rap videos like at 11 o'clock at night.
Chad:No, I watched it at 11 o'clock at night.
Javier:Wait, let me guess Deep Ellen Live.
Chad:Hell yeah, what, what oh, I love it I love those commercials.
Chad:I was like oh, this came up in italy actually because they were doing I don't know if you remember they would do these like spray paint, they would flame up these like things. They would make like uh, I don't know, they would do these like street paintings and like sell them at deep ellum and they were doing those in italy and I thought about it was like I remember watching this show about deep ellum late at night. It got a little raunchy, like right before the commercial.
Tim:At the same time all the commercials for like girls gone wild yeah or jerry springer too yeah they were just like at night it got no, I remember the commercials, but I don't remember this deep lm live you don't do?
Javier:you never saw it. No, like I wanted to go to deep lm because I was like, oh, there's titties here, yeah it's like titties here.
Chad:it seemed like the best place to be and then you realize, realize that people just die there, respectfully.
Javier:Now people die there, but back in the day, they were probably dying back then too. It was just people like all the videos were women flashing the camera and I was like, oh fuck, this is cool.
Chad:And there was some show called Perfect 10. And I don't remember anything about the show, except for there was a lot of titties, but that is all I remember. My favorite was the Hawaiian.
Tim:I think it was an actual show, but I didn't care.
Chad:I was there for the show but not the show. You know what I mean. Did you ever watch the Hawaiian tropics?
Tim:No.
Javier:Oh, I do remember that.
Tim:Yeah, it was a bikini contest.
Javier:Yeah, bro, like the stuff you used to try to get away with, to look at nudity on TV was wild Channel 21.
Chad:I'm going to tell you, come through staticky, but every now and then I'm going to tell you the best hack.
Tim:The best hack. So if you didn't know this, but DirecTV, they had pay-per-view movies that you could rent. Yeah, did you know that they show the first five minutes?
Javier:Yeah, Do they really? Oh, yeah, and in the first five minutes soft core porn is happening like they had. It comes right into it. And so what?
Tim:you draw you in so what you do is you just got to make a. It takes a little time, but you got to make a mixtape? Did you make a mixtape?
Tim:I made a mixtape oh yeah, you gotta, you gotta get old, uh, one of the old cassettes and you just like record. So, like that, you know the as it's going on, like you know, like you're in it for the long haul because you can't do anything and you're just got to take care of this and get this all set up and then just give me two minutes of good action and then I'm good.
Javier:Just two minutes, that's all I need yeah, but you don't want the same.
Chad:Don't give me the time I don't know man sometimes I picked the good video. You took this, but except for you, this one's a winner for at least three months but you gotta yeah, you just gotta make the uh, you gotta make the mixtape so like boner jams 08.
Javier:Speaking of which, I was watching, hervey, a long-time listener, first-time caller, had the video. I was watching the Four Loko video of Jesus' bachelor party and I remember I was watching it and I was chugging it.
Chad:And then Hervey was like Boner Jams 08.
Javier:chugging it and then herbie was like uh, herbie was like a boner jams, oh wait, because I was like I think I was saying, uh, my brothers get my truck, my older brother gets my debt. And then at one point I was like some friends I have and yeah, we're all like, ha see, I told you he would say that shit.
Chad:Remember, because I was really emo back then like being a real baby back bitch. You've changed a lot since then.
Javier:I may I'm still kind of lame, but yeah, no, those were the days I looked so funny and young.
Tim:The more I think about it. Instead of getting a perm, let's get Javier to get a scene haircut, like one of those scene boy haircuts no.
Javier:Is it because of the way it looks?
Tim:right now. Yeah, like just kind of over one side swooped, like your brother something like your brother had oh my god, yeah, let's get a little eric haircut, a little eric hair going. Yeah, I don't remember. I don't remember the deep lm yeah, man, that's.
Javier:I just wanted to hang out over there for the longest time it was for the longest time.
Tim:Let me, let me. Let me ask a question here, because it's been. It's been what? Two that's bad. How long has it been? Since it's been two weeks since y'all recorded since we recorded, and it's been what two it's been. How long has it been?
Chad:It's been two weeks since y'all recorded Since we recorded and it's been almost a month since you recorded, I think three weeks for us since we recorded no, it's been two weeks, Two weeks two weeks.
Tim:And three for me. So a lot's happened in the three weeks. Yeah, oh yeah.
Javier:I went to the State Fair.
Tim:I went to the state fair. I went to the state fair too. We went together, we ate food.
Javier:Oh, we ate food, we. Uh, I was about to buy cutco knives he was.
Tim:He almost got suckered into it. How come you?
Chad:always both get suckered and buy some shit. The state fair. What is wrong? I didn't. I didn't buy anything this year.
Tim:Yeah, because you blew your load on the mattress, and it's I mean you're not wrong it's a good mattress though it's a good mattress but those Cutco knives. I have Cutco knives at home why'd you need to buy new ones?
Javier:well, they had these new, like hatchet, looking like cleavers, like they had a cleaver for bone cutting through bone, because you cook so much that you cook things that you need to cut through bone.
Tim:I mean he would. He would cook more. I think if he could cut through bone he would line, sack his shit.
Javier:It's like that scene in Garden State when he tries to return the knives. He's like they don't cut cans. He's like why are you trying to return these knives? I saw in the commercial that they cut cans. And look, I just want my money back.
Chad:They don't cut cans.
Javier:And then the is like do you have dreams? I know I do. Um, I want to add that to my list. That's such a good movie. It's been so long since I've seen it. I need to watch it again. It's so I really do, oh did I oh, we'll talk later um, but yeah, no, the state fair, we tried the foods, best food, uh uh, oh, the the chicken, the jerk chicken, yeah, the jerk chicken macaroni cheese oh, that's fucking great, very good we didn't try like we.
Tim:We that was one of try like that was one of the top winners.
Javier:Yeah, okay, the winner.
Tim:Yeah.
Javier:Oh, you had the fried peanut butter and jelly. Oh yeah, I always do a fried peanut butter and jelly.
Tim:That was so fucking delicious.
Javier:That's good, it's good, I had the thing we had corn dog. Before we left. We had a corn dog. I didn't get a turkey leg because at that point I was just full.
Tim:I heard turkey legs are just ham.
Javier:I heard that too. What yeah? But that's a lie, because I've boughten turkey drumsticks at Target.
Tim:I've never seen a turkey leg that big or a turkey have a leg that big. I mean it makes a little bit of sense.
Chad:But ham's not that tindany, I don't think.
Javier:Well, whenever for Thanksgiving my mom always gives me and Gil the drumsticks, the ham legs, the ham legs, yes. So me and Gil always get those. We're the oldest. So she's like they get them, and my brother's like we want those too. He's like, no, no, you can't, they're the oldest. But that's the only thing I didn't get. I was going to get one for Oktoberfest, but I'm like, oh, we're going to go to the State Fair tomorrow anyway, and so what about desserts?
Chad:Any good desserts?
Javier:I didn't get dessert. I think the dessert was the PB&J, yeah.
Chad:Oh, yeah, I get that.
Tim:What else With bananas? It was good.
Chad:We looked at the cars.
Tim:We did the hot, we did the what, what.
Javier:Oh yeah, the bacon, burnt bacon, ends.
Tim:Yeah, it's candied bacon. Burnt ends, mmm no.
Javier:They were okay, oh, okay, I've had better.
Tim:I've had lots of good quality barbecue, like Haim, your favorite, hmm, hmm, yeah, they were good.
Javier:Yeah, those were really juicy and tender. It was a lot of meat and they ruined my shirt that I got in Arizona.
Tim:You got grease on it.
Javier:I had grease on my shirt. He's.
Tim:Don, I look like a slobby boy.
Javier:I try to use Shout, no, use Don Dwan.
Tim:Dwan. Yeah, they use Dwan on the-. They use Dwan on Dux, so put it on your shirt. Get the grease off, baby.
Chad:Dux, get the oil off. Put the Dwan on, let it sit, let it manate the dawn, um, but we we also saw cars over there. We always got to go look at the new cars that are coming out. Oh, did y'all see the new forerunner?
Javier:was it there? I bet you was it there. I didn't see it oh because I was always have the new ones my main thing I wanted to go. I saw that at the detroit auto show they had the new prelude and so I wanted to see the new honda prelude. It's not, and it wasn't there. The vw, the van, the, uh, the vw bus, vw bus was there.
Tim:The all electric one they're bringing that back I think it's pretty cool.
Javier:Um, I was looking because I want to get a new truck, obviously, but, like those new ones, there weren't anything. There wasn't anything over there that was over like 75 000.
Tim:Surprisingly, even the um silverado oh, you know the truck things. No, that ev1 was over 75 000.
Chad:They didn't have the price on there, but that thing starts I think it was they're all showing the fucking minimum though most of the vehicles are going to be 75. That's why like cars right now are like struggling like lots are starting to pick back up again. Fill up, well, the interest rates on are just ridiculous.
Javier:I think starting out it's like nine percent yeah, it's crazy. I want to. I want to get it down to. Maybe if I do get one, I'll refinance to like six or three percent, because my credits let's do at least going up six or three, I don't know.
Tim:I just want to.
Javier:He drives too much I do drive much, I do, I drive you crazy, if you let me. Ah, yeah, but it is a tax write-off because you're using it for work. True, I do use it. I do write that off, yeah, but at least I think it's different.
Chad:Is it completely written off or some shit?
Javier:Different than a purchase that might your tax lady about yeah, but uh, yep don, you already tried, you already dried it isn't there a weight thing, huh?
Chad:isn't there like a weight? Thing that you can write off your business too like how, how much it can like tow and shit like that, like, like that's why people get g wagons?
Tim:because they wear a certain one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's weird you get a g wagon and there's some weird fucking laws and tax things out there that we don't know anything about because we're too poor.
Javier:I should ask trump's tax man, because that motherfucker don't pay tax man. Um, let's see what else did we do over the time chad was gone I did go to octoberfest.
Chad:I missed all october, so fill me in on october it was crowded.
Javier:It was very crowded. It was a lot of people there um.
Tim:I had a beer, had a beer I had a couple beers walked around, walking around, yeah I had no rides.
Javier:We didn't ride any rides in any of the State Fair or the Oktoberfest. There was a booth though that had like-. We don't usually do that. Oh, tammy does. Tammy loves roller coasters.
Tim:They had a booth at the Oktoberfest that was like this tie-dye stuff yeah.
Chad:But it looked the suit, jackets and stuff they had suit jackets that were tie-dyed, but they looked freaking cool.
Tim:They looked phenomenal. They weren't like look at me, I'm a hippie tie-dye. It was very subtle, looking Like this. No, like I look like a hippie. Even more subtle. Oh, okay, you could barely see some of the tie-dye features into it. It was a very neat thing Like marbled with tie-dye.
Chad:Yeah, it looked very good.
Javier:I got a picture of the.
Tim:I wanted to get one, but they were too expensive, not really they weren't too, no, I mean more expensive than I wanted to spend.
Chad:I'm a fan of tie-dye. I want to get into like making my own shit, like the old sweaters. This man's wearing tie-dye. Yeah, but I bought.
Javier:Oh well, I could just fucking tie down that shit, like the ones you just jack off on. Yeah what?
Chad:Is that what you do with your sweaters?
Javier:I mean it's the most comfy. On the group chat, huey says he played soccer with a guy who builds armored SUVs. Are they the Ineos? No Grenadier.
Tim:I love those those aren't armored.
Chad:I've seen a lot of those in Dallas. They're't armored. I've seen a lot of those in Dallas. They're not armored. Those are essentially the fucking Defender Defender. They look just like the old school Defender.
Tim:Speaking of MSRP is starting off at like 72.
Chad:But they're nice and the inside is clean. Ooh yeah.
Javier:I do want to say this real quick, now that we're in the subject of Ineos I think you Fire Ten Hag, fire Ten Hag. He is destroying Manchester United we are in 14th place right now and get rid of him.
Chad:Get rid of him. Is that something to do with Ineos?
Javier:Ineos yeah, sir Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of Ineos. He owns 24% of Manchester United. Oh, no shit they're supposed to get together today regarding his future, but I don't think he's going to get fired.
Chad:Yeah, get together today.
Javier:Regarding his future, but I don't think he's gonna get fired. So, yeah, very oh and well, what else? What uh? We me and tammy had date night one night at uh lucille's, we bought some of those uh thc seltzers seltzers, but also the spirits. Which one did you get? We didn't get nowadays. We got the other one. Okay, which which I tried?
Chad:there's a, there's more than just two. Now did you? Get an agave one or like a brown agave.
Javier:Okay, okay, did you? I had one of the agave ones.
Chad:It was, eh, yeah, like it was good, but it kind of had like this musty flavor to it. Like, yeah, it was kind of like it didn't taste like agave to me, it was kind of like I don't know wet clothes in agave or something.
Tim:I don't know. So it was fine Bong water with agave, sort of.
Chad:But I mean, it wasn't bad, bad, but it just wasn't to my liking. No-transcript. What they taste like it's just hey, this is the thing, um, and it tastes like like cinnamon and like spices and I was like, well, what are we fucking gonna?
Tim:do with. There's no liquor in it, no, no, it's just a thc infused like it's like a mocktail zero calories, usually zero, uh, alcohol, just thc.
Chad:It's like four, and this one has cbd two four milligrams. Well, this one's thc it's four milligrams per ounce, right, they say this well, this one's four per ounce and a half and then two milligrams cbd for the same, but regardless, this one was really good. Like I made some. Like we were sick last week. We were fucking feeling awful and so I made some. Like what do you call the hot water hot?
Tim:toddy, hot toddy, yeah, yeah, but I made a hot toddy with this instead, and man that was hitting quick.
Chad:I don't know if it's because it was warm, but it was hitting quick and it was hitting hard it it was nice.
Javier:And which one? Was it? The one you?
Chad:I'll have to show you. It's a brown bottle. I sent it to Jordan, but it tastes like cinnamon and it's called Pamos.
Javier:Let me see. I think it, Dude. There's a picture of your dick. What the fuck man? Yeah, You're welcome.
Tim:It's a weird shaped penis.
Javier:That's a weird tattoo to get Whatever works. Pumpkin spice bong water. That does sound like. It sounds like that's what you drank, but that sounds really good though.
Chad:But I like the seltzers are good too. They have anything from like two and a half five, ten, I'm not. I want to chill and drink a little bit. You can go to.
Tim:Hoppin, and they have the seltzers there. We're actually going to go tomorrow.
Chad:No, I have not been yet.
Tim:So I'm going to give you some key pointers here. You're welcome to come, by the way.
Chad:For Saresh's birthday. It's hard to have hey birthday.
Tim:Saresh, it's how you have to pour it a certain way and it comes out kind of foamy sometimes and they will turn your little thing off and have you check back in.
Chad:You just got to turn it back on. You got to check back in. Yeah, Make it's a cool place though. I'll get some of that that sounds good, they got a few of them.
Tim:They got wine on tap too.
Chad:Girl give me that we're going to go there. And then there's the new Guapo's Tacos. It's going to be next to Velvet Taco. It was the guy that he was in the gas station over there by Martin House.
Tim:Yeah, yeah.
Chad:And now he's opened a really good taco spot and it's next door to Velvet open like a really good taco spot and it's next door to velvet.
Javier:Oh yeah, yeah, I saw the menu. I saw the uh people already. Obviously it's open already, obviously, but, um, the stuff that I've seen looks really good. I want to check it out. I wish you can order it on uber eats.
Chad:I haven't checked, though, because I would love to just get some from work and so, uh, then we're gonna go that new cocktail bar downtown that's across the street from thompson's.
Javier:I don't know, I don't know if it took over where the brass tap is. I think it took over where Bar 9 was.
Chad:No, or is it Bent? Bar 9 was Thompson's or Thompson's is Bar 9. Bent, you're Bent bitch. I don't know of a Bent. Yeah, I don't either.
Javier:It's a three-story.
Tim:one Is it the three-story one, that's thompson's, no, that's yeah, obviously anywho. So, uh, chad, yeah, so we kind of covered what we've done and I feel you, you went on an adventure, I did we went to. We went to italy and for two weeks did you get real italian food? Oh, that's all, we fucking had.
Chad:What the fuck, Dude? We had so much like pasta sandwiches, pizza, we went crazy. What's an Italian sandwich? I mean focaccia, you know focaccia.
Tim:Yeah, I know focaccia.
Chad:Like prosciutto, some mozzarella, basil, whatever, like every sandwich was and the bread Christy shout out to Christy, like I posted, like the sandwich shop that we went to she's like I want to make some, and so she and my mom both did. They went there like trying to make themselves sandwiches that were like similar man, I want to find me a good focaccia place, like I'm sure they got it, like I don't know.
Tim:Whole Foods or something Central Market Lake Worth, I believe, maybe Samson Park.
Chad:Samson Park.
Javier:I hear there's a place called Atwood's that sells the best focaccia bread.
Chad:But you can make it. All it is is sourdough and you kind of flatten it out and put some olive oil on top.
Tim:What's that strip club out there off of 199? Check that place out. Roxy's yeah, whatever it is.
Javier:I will say this I think it's the water. I think it's the water they use there. That's kind of like you know, when you go to new york and they have bagels and they taste different and better so maybe you get some like italian, like spring water or something.
Chad:Well you're the water from the faucet, ever all the water. You know, like I don't sarah strength bottle water and I drink bottle. I drink water from the faucet. I don't give a shit, but it doesn't taste great, it's just, you know, I'm drinking water fast, who gives a shit? But over there, like the water from the faucet, tastes amazing. There's even like almost every city has got these fountains everywhere yeah, like it's right, yeah, and they're just filling up their water and walking off and I'm like that's street water.
Chad:What the fuck are you doing? But it's like spring-fed water to whoever wants it.
Javier:Those are public urinals I do gotta ask you, though, chad. I gotta ask this because me and me and tammy justranos, there's a lot of Italian food, the good Italian food they eat Did you have some gabagool, I have to ask.
Chad:Did you have any gabagool?
Javier:Did you have any gabagool?
Chad:No, and I did not see any gabagool on any fucking menu. You, motherfucker, you motherfucker.
Tim:So the real question is did you actually go to Italy? No, apparently not, Dude go to Italy?
Chad:No, apparently not, Dude. There's no fucking gabagool. Yes, there is. It's not a thing.
Javier:Yes, it is it's capicola Capicola. I just want to say, I want to clear this up Gabagool is capicola.
Chad:And what is capicola?
Javier:It's a shaved meat, it's like a prosciutto, or you know like a but is it meat like? Ham or beef ham, I want to say we probably had that on the sandwich.
Chad:Did you go to albania?
Tim:that's where I think you actually were man, we went everywhere.
Chad:We went, like rome and the amalfi coast, because sarah surely wanted to hit up the amalfi coast, which I did too, but like she wanted to go because, like tiktok and all these beautiful pictures and videos and shit, no one tells you how fucking hard it is to get around anywhere on the amalfi coast. It was ridiculous. But then we went back up to florence and then up on, like this western coast where there's, like portofino, we stayed, a little town called camoli. It was fucking awesome. We canceled all our plans because we were so chill. We're like, let's just stay here. What makes it difficult getting around? So you know, most of europe has got like really good trains and, like you know, like taxis are not obnoxiously expensive.
Javier:You know who knows about trains, diddy.
Chad:Sorry, sorry, sorry. So there's a bus, but the bus kind of goes on its own route, like there's no, like set route for this. I mean there's a set set route but not a set time, and so like you'll show up and then it won't show up for 30 minutes. You're like I could have just walked there, like I could walk the mile and a half to the next city, because you know it's really not that bad. There's just a lot of hills, so it is a little bit longer. But, um, you try to get a taxi and even though the taxi is only 20 minutes, it's 120 dollars yeah because they realize and and you don't know that I mean you know taxis.
Chad:The whole reason that uber had his whole thing is because taxi drivers are fucking like, especially over there, it's like basically the mafia, like they pay 400 grand or something crazy for their their coin chip yeah, coin and then they make double that in a year by like these, these fares. So if you say no, he's like all right, cool, there's no haggling, he's like someone else to pay it. I don't fucking need you, I probably already have 10 of these. He's probably making a thousand dollars a day off this stupid shit. It's crazy.
Javier:I don't know yeah, my dad was saying that, um, like the sandwiches were all he wanted to eat over there.
Tim:Did you say that was the best thing? Did you come across any, uh any mafia people?
Chad:Other than the taxi drivers. I feel like they're closest that I could get to the mafia. They all got chains, they all look angry, they don't want to be there, but they're making a hell of money. It was just. Yeah, I don't know.
Javier:He's like my son. He want to do ballet. I tell him no, you tell him, you'll be a cop driver like Papa.
Chad:Like that driving like papa, like that, yeah, something maybe maybe I don't know.
Javier:Uh, they went to lake como and went to venice and modern como there's.
Chad:You know, there's a late como that's why I told sarah's like we got a fucking lake como here.
Tim:What are we doing?
Chad:I could have just gone that one, yeah, yeah no, but it's like the late como where, like you know, george clooney and everyone has their fucking like madonna, they all have houses on late como yeah we just we took a boat ride and they were just pointing out all the crazy rich homes.
Tim:This is Elon.
Javier:This is Oprah.
Chad:This is George Clooney, and Star Wars was recorded in some place that we saw. I'm like, oh, that place looks familiar. It's because Star Wars is filmed there A bunch of movies, 007 and stuff but it was cool, it was fun.
Tim:Did you run into Pussy Galore? Excuse me.
Chad:You know, for 007? Oh, no, no, I did not. No, I did not. It was fun, man. We, we did eat and drink non-stop, but we were also, we, backpacked, because it's so hard to get around there, you know, like everything's cobblestone, and then there's steps everywhere you know europe, it's just fucking awful.
Chad:And so I convinced sarish to it's shitty. No, uh. I convinced her to like let's backpack, and it was nice to not have to like roll shit around, but it was a chore like backpacking. Like one of our places on the mafie coast was um, it was 220 meters up, so it's like two football fields stacked. You know like there's a lot of steps when you're carrying like a 45 pound bag, but I but I don't know, it was fun, it was great.
Javier:Cows got to do work, don't they?
Chad:They did work. They did work. I even got sore for a couple days. These calves were hurting, but they were fine. It worked out. Hurting for a squirting they were, so I don't know it was fun.
Tim:I mean I want to know some more things about Italy, Okay, Tell me more, tell me about their what's their prime exports.
Chad:From what I hear, it's gabagool. Even though I knew it, I don't think that it's actually there presently.
Javier:It's just all exported Is their prime minister Super Mario and does he have a brother?
Chad:I believe it's Luigi.
Javier:And does everybody say here we go? Ha, Then you're doing the Kumi King thing.
Tim:Did you hear them say that, though? No, did you see anybody jumping through plumbing?
Chad:No.
Javier:Is there any question mark boxes that you can try to grow a couple inches.
Chad:No, Well no.
Tim:Does a little mushroom pop out. These are all really great questions.
Chad:Please no on the questions. Alright, so there was alright.
Javier:So there was a thing. There was a thing you did. There's a thing you did over there yes, there was a restaurant so I booked this restaurant. Tell us, tell us about that have you ever seen the show?
Chad:Chef's Table yes, yeah, yeah a bunch of times the the show uh, chef's table. Yes, yeah, yeah, okay. So the have you, have you or not? Are you making fun?
Tim:no, I mean, I've seen it.
Chad:I've seen fucking dick and there's also, like the ones that have, like there's a pizza season, like a whole pizza yeah, yeah, yeah we went to one of those places.
Chad:It was like this guy, his name's bonchi. He's like this big, he looks like basically the mountain. This guy's huge and he would get on tv and he'd make all these different kind of pizzas. We didn't get to see or meet him, but we went to his pizza place in Rome and it was fucking amazing. He had pizza and sandwiches and fried spaghetti balls yeah, everything there was insane. And we were so hungry because when we got there we'd been up for 24 hours and then we had to be up for another about 12 or so. We didn't want to go to bed until nighttime because then we'd fuck up our whole trip.
Chad:And so we were up for like 36 hours, with maybe a few 15-minute naps, and so we were exhausted and so we thought we were so insanely hungry and we start eating this stuff and we only ate half of what we ordered, because it was just so much fucking food, but that place was cool. But then also I booked a place. It just so much fucking food, but that place was cool. But then also I booked a place. Uh, it was actually the very first episode of chef's table, a guy named masmo paturo. He's like a three michelin star chef.
Chad:Um, it is like they filmed an episode of aziz ansari show on yeah, it was in a season, uh three whenever him and um yeah, they're in in italy, yeah, and they're like going to italy is my favorite thing, and they're like in francescana, austere, or austria, francescana, yeah, and so that one is the one that uh got the michelin star, but then he actually like purchased this property. Kind of remind me of jester king in austin. Uh, because he bought this property, he built two new restaurants there. One is like his best of you know, like you can go to the one that got the Michelin star and get new stuff all the time, but if you want, like the greatest hits of Massimo.
Tim:Patero, you want the stuff that got him the Michelin star, exactly, which is where we went.
Chad:And it was the most expensive. I felt so out of place. Everyone there was so rich. They were like talking about their watches and and their jobs, but like not not being dicks about it, but it was just like common conversation for them to have. You know what I mean and I felt very out of place, although you know the food was great, you know we did it, we did the whole thing, but it's not something we could do all the time.
Javier:I feel like these people do it all the time, like their dinners are hundreds of dollars every night probably you know portion sizes that they have, are they like do they just give you a whole like kind of smorgasbord type size meal?
Chad:so our booking was at 7 30 and we didn't leave until 11 30 at night it was a nine course meal and every like what is that? Like? Every 30 minutes or so they crank out a new plate and and some of them are small, but for the most part like they were pretty good portions. From what I heard from them, who have been to a lot of different restaurants, they uh, a lot of times it's small portions, like you get a bite and you move on to the next one to bite.
Chad:But this one had like really big portions. But on this property they also bought like, um, like a what is it um?
Chad:balsamic vinegar spot because balsamic vinegar is huge, it's a, it's a big thing madonna, where this restaurant is, is like very like we, we drove by ferrari the museum for ferrari, enzo ferrari's there, like they're really big into cars, um, like any crazy car brand that you can think of. They've got dealerships there in madonna. It's also like the home of tortellini and like a few other pastas and the home of balsamic vinegar. If you're not getting it from madonna, it's also like the home of tortellini and like a few other pastas and the home of balsamic vinegar. If you're not getting it from madonna, it's not technically balsamic vinegar, apparently. It's like getting champagne from champagne, right exactly, and parmigiano-reggiano is 20 minutes away in parma, and so, like they do a lot of stuff with parmesan and balsamic and stuff.
Chad:So that's actually what I brought parmesan. No, I have, I have a, some parm. I did bring some parmesan back because it doesn't go bad as quickly as ours does, but so they bought this 100 year old um, balsamic, like this thing that the family had on the same farm. Okay, um, because every family in madonna has their own like. It kind of reminds me of like beer making or wine making.
Chad:They would do like soleras yeah, they would have like big barrels, smaller barrels and then smaller barrels, and they would just kind of like rotate them out and they would have like these super rich, thick balsamic vinegar right, oh yeah and so they kind of ran us through the whole thing, the whole like how it works, whatever, and then. And then they let us taste a bunch. And have you ever had like really good balsamic vinegar? Do you all even like balsamic?
Javier:vinegar. I do, I really do yeah.
Tim:I put that glaze on a lot of things. Okay, like root vegetables, right. I heard you like getting glazed up. I like to put it on my root.
Chad:So they have a bunch of different kinds and for like 40 bucks or so or 40 euros anyway, it's like the kind you put on salad or something or you put on bread right, and then they kind of like step it up and they've got like $80 or 80 euros, so probably more like a 90 to $100 bottle, and that is the one that's aged about 10 to 15 years. And they have one that's 100 euros or $120. That is one that is aged roughly around 25 years or so and that's what 25?
Chad:years. Yeah, now they can't actually tell you it's aged 25 years, because it's like a solera, like it comes from like these older barrels to younger barrels, younger barrels, and so it's kind of like this, oh so it's just constantly moving right to newer, but some of this balsamic could be 100 years old.
Chad:You know what I mean. Like it's like on average, ish 25 years and so like that's kind of how they so whenever you have balsamic and they say it's 25 years old, they don't fucking know. They don't actually know, but it's gold, like the gold is the good, good, and I have never had anything like this in my entire life, oh man. And so I wanted to see if you guys want to try it I'm always.
Tim:I haven't opened it.
Javier:I'm game to try I'm always down, that looks really fancy.
Chad:Can I take a look at that? So that's another thing is, if it's not shaped like that, it's not actually balsamic, like they've got this whole like. I mean I've got people in the city that have to like gauge it, tell you it's balsamic.
Tim:It's got to be in the right glass, everything I mean I've got this plastic uh bottle of balsamic glaze, you're telling me that it's not balsamic, you know when you picked up from walmart it says here uh, that's crazy, that's uh.
Chad:So that was how much this was 120 bucks, jesus and it's got, and the reason I got it is I didn't get a whole lot of things there, like I bought a leather passport holder in milan because I want some italian leather for my passbook or passport, whatever that's really all I bought. Uh, we got some like limoncello, but that was it, and so this was. This is my gift to myself I will.
Javier:I will say this. My dad said whenever he was over there that he bought maybe a couple thousand dollars worth of. It's so cheap.
Chad:Relatively cheap, but yes, yeah.
Javier:Well, I mean, I guess cheap to him and cheap to me is two different things, right, but like he had a bunch of stuff, he's like I had to. They took my measurements, got it ordered and I had everything sent to the shop and for like a month, like.
Tim:There was just suits showing up, just suits showing up.
Chad:Do you have a knife or something, Tim? How the fuck to open this thing.
Javier:Here I gotta sharpen my dilly here.
Tim:You sharpened it.
Chad:Oh shit you did.
Javier:I have a grinder at the shop. Also, this episode brought to you by Grinder Grinder. Have fun boys.
Tim:So you made a Made a shank.
Javier:So when we go to ACL I'm gonna be able to cut motherfuckers that tried to pit pocket us.
Chad:They're not gonna let you bring this into ACL.
Tim:You. They're not going to let you bring this in the ACO. You're listening to the Funky Panther with Chad Tim and Javier. Let's talk about something I'm going to get more ice for this. Let's talk about.
Chad:I'm trying to preserve the packaging because it's not cheap, but I also want to figure out how the fuck to open this thing.
Tim:I want to talk to you about meatballs over in Italy. Okay, do they serve them?
Chad:Yeah.
Tim:That's like a thing that's real.
Chad:Yeah.
Tim:Why do I feel like that's an American thing? No, it's a thing.
Chad:We got meatballs. We got meatballs with like this really thick. You know, the pasta over there is like everything's al dente, so it's like chewy and delicious.
Tim:Yeah, we got a little bite to it.
Chad:Yeah, that's what we had on one of our first nights. We actually so I posted on Instagram a while back. We booked this Airbnb when we were in the Amalfi Coast. We booked this Airbnb just because it was cool, but it was up in the mountains, it was so hard to get to. But it was on a lemon farm and the family had their own vineyard. Oh, I saw that sagrario stayed there too, by the way, like they end up staying there like a week after we did um. But yeah, it was, it was beautiful, did you um? We got their wine, they made us pasta, they gave us limoncello that they made themselves like the whole thing was did you try to get a?
Tim:uh, did you try to get a cappuccino after breakfast?
Chad:because I heard that's a big no-no uh well I'm surprised you didn't suck the tip I don't think that people care that much. They even gave me like a little pork dropper thing. That's cute.
Tim:I don't know, we'll see, so you put the, you put the cork in there with the little dropper and we get a little spoon. You pour just a little bit out. So what are we looking for with this?
Chad:From what I understand, it's flavor.
Javier:Then I should not be. I'm glad I didn't take another drink. Good God, don't drop it, it's real thick.
Chad:Yeah, so that's something else that they tell you is like uh, if it's super thick like this, then you know it's, it's it's not just a glaze. It's like, from what I recall when I had it because I only you know, I had like four or five different kinds um, it's like kind of tart and and fruity and kind of crazy it's very vinegary.
Javier:Oh, I mean, it's balsamic vinegar yeah, I I know, but Waft it, Waft it.
Tim:Okay, okay. So what am I supposed to do? Just lick it this smells old.
Javier:This smells old as fuck.
Chad:All right, Cheers boys. We're going to see what y'all think about it.
Tim:Balsamic Touch the tips there. Okay, all right.
Javier:Let me see what you think. Mmm, oh man, that's really good.
Tim:Mmm.
Javier:Oh man, Is that like a? I kind of taste like raisiny.
Tim:I taste figs yeah.
Javier:Yes, figs raisin like plums, that like stone fruit shit, that's wild.
Chad:Goddamn.
Javier:Right, that's the first thing I tasted.
Chad:I was like why is it so fruity, like it's so I feel like it's so bitter and vinegary at home, the kind of tartness isn't that crazy that's very unique right.
Javier:It very much is.
Chad:I've never had anything like that before and that's why I got it, because I was like I've never had anything like I've got to have.
Tim:I've got to have the best, yeah, yeah of course gotta go and get this very good.
Chad:Did you buy a Ferrari while you were there? I didn't.
Tim:I heard they're real cheap whenever you're over there they are not On the group chat.
Javier:Herbie says Diddy Juice. Yes what, it's very good. I wonder if I can find this at World Market.
Chad:You can find something similar probably, but I don't know.
Javier:I can even feel it in the back of my throat. Okay, calm down, calm down. We did bring back some Parmesan though. Yeah, yeah, and.
Chad:I've been putting it on stuff and I bought a piece for $20. It's like this and I've used it on two or three things and I've only used it like this much.
Javier:I don't know, it just seems to go a long way Like a pizza slice.
Chad:Yeah, about a pizza slice, but it's thick. So massimo batturo, the guy that has the restaurant, or whatever he has one of one of his most famous ones, is called um five guys he just started the hamburger spot. Yeah, no, it was like five types of parmesan. Like five types of parmesan, different ages, different textures, different temperatures.
Chad:And so he did this in his first restaurant 20 years ago so the name of the of his restaurants it's the name of the it's I I forgot the name of the thing, but it's something like it's okay long that's not the name of the restaurant.
Tim:Okay, I got you.
Chad:I was like that's a hell of a name for a restaurant no, it's a franciscana, austere, austere franciscana, and maria luigia is the one we went to. Okay, but Gesundheit.
Chad:Right, the five Parmesan's of different textures and flavors or something like that, which actually is the name of the fucking thing. It comes out and he's got five different ages of Parmesan, anything from like five to 25 year old Parmesan, or 30 year old Parmesan in different kind of texture. So he's got one that's like a Parmesan crisp, parmesan ice cream, parmesan foam, parmesan cream and Parmesan whip or something like that. And so you have these five different kinds of Parmesan and you're eating it and it just fucking goes all over the place and it is wild. But he got a lot of shit from this dish 20 years ago because a lot of Europe, and definitely Italy, is so traditional. How dare you change this?
Tim:Yeah.
Chad:How dare you take the traditional Parmesan or balsamic or try to change things? And so he did, and they like shit on him for it. And then, like 10 years later, he winds up in this like food review by this renowned food critic and they went nuts for it. And so that's when he started like hitting like hard. And then the consortium or whatever from parmesan were like, hey, would you mind if we use a picture of your five parmesan dish for our new magazine? And it's like you're the same motherfuckers that gave me shit for even trying to do this dish, and now you want to use it as a whatever. It's crazy, it's crazy how that shit works.
Javier:it's I, it's just the old generation. With the new Right, it happens.
Chad:Right, you'd like that episode. If you haven't watched that episode, you'd like it, because the guy's crazy artistic, super into like cards. I'm sure he's into like soccer. He just seems the type Like he's just super fucking cool. I wish he was there. He was actually when we were there. Usually he's at the restaurant, though.
Javier:I think with everything.
Chad:He heard you were coming.
Tim:Yeah, he's like fuck this, he's like that genius is coming, I have to go.
Javier:No. So like the way the sauce tastes I know here it's Americanized, where they want it sweeter Was it a little more natural tasting over there? Like what sauce? Sauce, like your red?
Tim:sauce, gravy gravy, red sauce. Oh yeah, they call it gravy, right, what no?
Chad:that's what they call it on the sopranos, the sopranos, they call it gravy plus a lot of gravy in that no, they didn't call it gravy, but uh, I mean we don't. I don't like a lot of red sauce, like we did have some red sauce it was fine and such, but it was very. Yeah, but it was very like thin, like they don't put a ton on it, it's just like just enough to coat the noodle. So you like, you don't need a ton of shit, I think uh, but like the buttery sauces and the like, the alfredo shit. We got a lot of that.
Javier:It was fucking awesome I'm very glad you were able to like. There's two things you don't skimp on skimp on good drink and good food. I think those are the two things that you should never if you're going somewhere exotic, if you're going somewhere like out of the country. Same thing we did whenever we were in Iceland. We tried. The only thing we didn't try was the fermented shark.
Chad:Lance and I did.
Javier:That was awful. Didn't want to do that, but that's two things you don't skip on Right.
Chad:It's. You know, Dude, we had like seven or eight bottles of wine while we were there. We had two seven or eight bottles of wine. While we were there we had two bottles of limoncello. I had plenty of beer we had. We went to speakeasies. At certain places we had amazing cocktails.
Javier:And the wine? Uh, was it the the door? The little wine? Oh yeah, the wine windows, yeah.
Chad:So like in Florence and they got them all over the place, but Florence is known for them they They've got wine windows where they'll just have like a little door with a bell. You ring the bell and the door opens up and you order something and they just give you a drink to go and that's it Like how cool of an idea.
Javier:My sister, who turned 18 a couple months ago that's the one thing that she was like yeah, I loved it. The sandwiches, and then the wine, the wine windows.
Chad:Yeah.
Javier:Because it was just like so fucking cool, so I thought that was pretty sweet.
Chad:I had only been to Italy once. It was like Rome for a night, and then we went to Pisa, and then we went to Pisa again I'd missed that earlier. Pisa, and then Florence, and we headed up to Oktoberfest, and so it was very short lived and so I didn't really get to stay or do anything and it was nice to actually spend some time in some of these places.
Javier:Don't say anything important until I come back.
Tim:Where are you going? Oh, he's going to go see a movie.
Javier:Where are you going?
Tim:I got to go pee. That reminds me of the wine window. It reminds me of this little town, mason, texas. So it's right outside of Fredericksburg, which you know hill country. It's our Texas wine area. They had a little winery and they basically had a window that you walked up to and they served you out of that. I like that idea. Yeah, that you walked up to, and they served you out of that.
Chad:I like, I like that idea. Yeah, why can't we have more of those here? I don't know. I think that if you had a bar and you just have a little wine window for it to go, shit, why not?
Tim:I mean the stockyard, especially stockyard the stockyards kind of has something like that. It's called fat tuesdays. Oh yeah, you can go in there. They don't have a window, but you go in there and get your daiquiri and walk out. Was there a lot of daiquiris in italy?
Chad:no, that's, and all the cocktails were weird as shit too, like they were good, but every single one of them was interesting, like you know, and and the ones that they're really like, the important ones are, like they do a lot of spritzes, like limoncello spritz, yeah, campari spritz. You get some aperol aperol spritz. We actually went to the campari bar, uh, and those those things were fucking strong. They were so strong. But yeah, even second level he wants a second drink in the drink in the drink yeah second level uh, but yeah, it was, it was awesome dump down.
Tim:Nope, don't go down down further, I'm sorry from the bottom. Two, two, one, one, two he wants a shiner, shiner bach, yeah, sponsored by them, but I thought you know I didn't want to say their name.
Chad:I think that you know there's some things that I would do again, Like I would like to do Lake Como, because the day we were there, or day and a half, a lot of time it was raining and so we didn't get to really experience it all like we wanted to.
Javier:Wouldn't really go back to Amalfi Coast. No, don't need to go back to Pisa.
Tim:No.
Chad:I think I'd go to, like I want to go see where they race You're thinking Monaco, yeah, oh, okay, I want to go to Capri.
Javier:I want to go to Monaco. I'd love to go to Monaco.
Chad:Monaco's close. Yeah, it's basically Italy, right, I mean Same people. It's Mediterranean, I believe. Yeah, they're all the same. No, that's Morocco. I don't know, but yeah it was great, it was fun, it was a great trip. I'm fucking exhausted, though.
Tim:I hear all of our Italian food here are cooked by Albanians. No, I mean for real, that's what I've heard. I've heard they're all Albanians.
Javier:None of them are actually Italian, I mean the guys so much in Denton that was here at Ridgemar Mall. They're Albanian.
Chad:Yeah, they're Albanian, that makes sense, and they make great Italian food. Hell yeah, fuck yeah.
Tim:Yeah, so what I've heard is that, and I've never experienced this myself. That's why I asked if you ran into Albanians over there.
Chad:You didn't ask that. Well, I figured you went to.
Tim:Albania. I figured you went to Albania. Albania doesn't have a national cuisine. They just basically piggybacked off of Italy.
Chad:I mean all the cuisines in that area, like you can't really miss, like all Mediterranean food, like Greek food, italian food. You see, all of that I have a hard time believing, like I know.
Tim:I know Italy is, you know, on the Mediterranean, right there. Right, I get it, but it's like whenever I think of Mediterranean food, I'm thinking of, like, greek, and Greek and Italian are very different yeah but Egypt is right below Italy, like it's as close to Italy as we are to Mexico.
Javier:Right, which is weird to think about that. Well, the immigration stuff is coming up from the tip of Italy, yeah.
Tim:Joe's, they're Albanian. Which one?
Javier:New York Joe's All of them. No, no, no, I'm serious, they're all Albanian. There's a couple of Joe's around the area.
Tim:And none of them are part of their own independent thing. I don't think they're even connected Like New York Joe's here is not the same as New York.
Chad:Joe, here is not right. It's not a chain.
Tim:Sorry, excuse me, it's just a bunch of people that decided, a bunch of albanians that decided to uh open a restaurant called new york joe's right east joe, okay, so anyways.
Javier:So, like you were there uh for 10 days, right, 12, 12 days, um, so what else? What else uh happened over there? What else uh do you want to get into that, like uh?
Tim:I don't know. Do you want to do? You want to do, you want to nationalize this, you want to?
Javier:I don't care. Yeah, I mean, we put it on social, fucking nazi shit national social.
Chad:Tim's just so afraid of putting things out there because he gets banned from facebook when he does.
Javier:Yeah, this man's a boogaloo boy you gotta be careful about what I say yeah, so one of the places that no, I want you to describe the entire day.
Chad:Okay, because I know, like you, you're a planning man, I didn't, though I want you to know I did not plan this.
Javier:Chad Butler didn't plan no.
Chad:I actually, so I have had a piece of jewelry for a little bit of time now, a little bit of time.
Javier:It's little bit of time now, a little bit of time it's a man cock ring.
Chad:It's a cock ring and it's a. It's a cage. Yeah, I was so worried to bring it on this trip because, like you know, pickpockets and shit, like people, just like there's a, and so I I got myself like a herschel fanny pack, like a little man bag that I was carrying around, which actually my new favorite travel bag yeah everyone especially when I'm on the plane. Yeah, like everything's right there.
Tim:Everything you need is right there. You got a charger.
Chad:You want gum? It's all right there. So every time I travel now I'm gonna bring it.
Chad:I don't love carrying it around everywhere, but I'm with the sea, absolutely yes, right and so I had it, like I had a ring tucked in there and so I didn't know when or where. I had no idea. I was like, when the time strikes or when we find a good place, then we'll do it. And so we were on the Amalfi coast. We had done Rome, we did the Amalfi coast for a couple of days. We had amazing time.
Chad:But the number one place that Sarah wanted to go was Positano, like that's the one that is well known for Amalfi coast for just being absolutely gorgeous. And so the day before we actually were on a boat and we went all the way up the coast and we sat on the boat and we're looking at Positano and it was beautiful and I thought about it. Then I had it with me she doesn't know this, I haven't told her this. I thought about it like right then, like we had just got done snorkeling. We were on the boat, we were like the guy was popping Prosecco. You're a brave man to go snorkeling with that thing. I mean, I didn't it pack on the boat when we went snorkeling.
Chad:All right, we actually snorkeled inside of a cave. It was awesome and so when we were sitting in Positano I was like, okay, let me shut the fuck up Herbie. Herbie in the chat saying some Herbie things.
Tim:Tell us how you consummated the engagement that night too.
Chad:And so, you know, I thought about doing it then, but she gets a little seasick. I thought about doing it then, but she gets a little seasick, she gets motion sickness, and so she wasn't feeling herself on the boat there. At the end of the trip, when we were in Postal Town, I was like, okay, I want to make this the thing, so didn't do it. We went back to where we were staying in Ravello, which was the place that was, like all these stairs, and we ended up having really good pasta and wine and stuff, got some sleep and then we were going to go to Postal Tunnel the next morning.
Chad:It did not start off as a good day. I'll tell you that right now. Like we were trying to catch one of the buses I was talking about and the roads are so skinny that like the buses like stop and then he'll get out of the bus and like back another bus up so he can turn a corner. Like they're controlling their own traffic. It's a shit show. They're yelling at each other. They're yelling at each other. They're like high-fiving out the window Like it's fucking nuts, and so we keep missing buses because they're not paying attention and we're not in the right spots where we need to be.
Chad:So we end up walking like the 35 minutes or so to Positano from where we were, or Amalfi, where we were, and then took a ferry to Positano. It was so packed, there were so many people, it was so hot, there were so many people, it was so hot. I also thought like I don't know if I want to do it today like this. This kind of feels miserable, a little bit right, and so we, we sit down, we have some food, we're drinking, we have a really good conversation and I'm like all right, let's, let's go walk and see if we can find some cool pictures, places, because we were doing these like dancing videos. I don't know if y'all saw the dancing I saw him yeah you seem so disappointed by it.
Chad:That was the most. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I mean I.
Tim:I usually skip dancing videos. Come on, man, it was all the way through italy. I know I watched it but, like I said, I usually don't watch the dancing video did you like it if I go back?
Chad:did you like it? I think I did. Come on, motherfucker, you didn't like that. Go, go, go go look, just go son of a bitch.
Javier:You fucking lied. He goes and he likes it right now I'm getting a notification.
Chad:Man, I'm gonna know he deletes he deletes it on your phone.
Chad:So. So, uh, we're gonna go try to find a place to do a dancing video, because we were in postitano, and so we go to this beach, which is one of the spots I knew it was gonna be beautiful, because it's what looks like over. All these places are built up on the mountain, kind of reminds me of like south america, you know what I mean. Like it's just these, like houses built on top of each other, hotels built on top of each other, all the way up this mountain and so down this beach. You get to see that, and so we're standing there and we're doing this dancing video.
Chad:I'm like yeah this is, this is what I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it here. And so, uh, we do, we do the dancing video. And I didn't think about, like I knew I was gonna say what I wanted to say in italian, because I'd already kind of memorized it, and I didn't think about the fact that my phone was gonna be the one doing the camera. And so I'm like, oh, let me, let me see your phone let me see your phone and then her fucking translate thing wouldn't work.
Chad:I'm like son of a bitch and so like I fucked up the whole thing. She, she tells the story beautifully, but I'm going to tell the thing Honestly I fucked, I butchered it, I did. And she's like what are you doing? I'm like I learned this phrase, I'm trying to tell you the phrase, and she's like what is happening? And so like I reset the video and then I I get the phone and I make sure it says it. And it was a me voice Uh, meare is what it was. Mi voice, sposare. And so I said that into the phone and then showed her what it said.
Tim:And that's when I got down on a knee or whatever and proposed but yeah, it was a whole thing, it was cute, so I just want to say we did do the Bernie right before I proposed.
Javier:I want to make sure that everyone knows that I just said that was a very Chad thing to do.
Chad:I want to take a step back real quick yeah, so you had this plan.
Tim:Yeah, to do it in Italy. Yeah, see, that's where you said no, I didn't have anything planned. I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you were planning on doing this in Italy.
Chad:I guess I've had multiple plans, though I feel like you did is not the first plan this had to be like you're.
Javier:It just had to pop in your head like this is, this is the time, this is it, yeah this is where it has to happen it was.
Chad:I have a hard time believing that because I know you and you plan everything is a planner, but chad also makes backup plans, and so I had 10 plans in mind, and I also was trying to like throw in some non-plan action in there too, you know that's code for sex.
Javier:Chad's over here throwing this man was bragging. He's like you know what best ever that night he's trying to throw the feds off.
Chad:That's what he's doing no, that night we just hung it on the balcony and our beautiful hung it on the balcony.
Tim:Hung it on the balcony. Chad's over here hanging dong on the balcony. It's fucking weird. You raw dong and son of a bitch Ah that's good, it's good, but I felt like I'm not saying shit. I'm not saying shit, it was the boys. It was the boys that said it. It's always a plan.
Chad:It's always a plan, chad's a planner and the fact that you're like yeah, but I also had tried to throw some, some weird, you know, non-plans out there.
Tim:You okay, I planned a non-plan, I was like yeah, I was like are you okay, because you know that was a plan right, yeah, I mean it's.
Chad:It's as far as I can go. You know what I mean trying to plan a non-plan as good as I can get. So what?
Javier:happens and then, like you know, you obviously in the video, you, you know, celebrate, yeah, kiss, blah, blah. And then what happened after? Like where'd y'all go after?
Chad:because this is still during the day, right. Some random dude like came up and like started taking pictures of us, because he's like oh, let me, let me try to capture the moment he's like hey, jericho, for late.
Javier:That I said sorry, I'm sorry it wasn't with his camera.
Chad:You fucking weirdo.
Tim:Was he.
Chad:Italian Sarah's in the chat. I didn't realize she was watching.
Javier:Uh-oh.
Chad:Was he. Italian.
Javier:I don't know, fucking Herbie.
Chad:I don't know, I don't know. So all of y'all are in the chat. Sarah, you're more than welcome to share what all happened the rest of the day.
Javier:No, okay, so this was still during the day right, yeah, okay so then, after like I mean, y'all spent a good time there.
Chad:We went directly to this bar that was on the beach, because we're both like on this high, like we're both like fucking feeling crazy, and then we sit down and we have like this champagne drink to kind of celebrate. Yeah, and she just like won, just like won't stop looking at a ring. Oh, you know, like we know it looks good, but calm down, you know I'm here. You said yes to me. Um, she said yes to the ring. She said, yes, the fucking ring. That's what happened, um, and so we sat down, we had a drink and then we kind of talked about a little bit and I was like I don't, you know, I want to make this trip about us, so like, let's not really tell anybody was it like more of a shock thing, like Like I guess was she's?
Javier:I feel like her head wasn't in her body.
Chad:I feel like she was like she was. She was not. She was outside of herself.
Javier:I'm sure, like the way she thinks happened is like different from how you think. Like cause you. Obviously you're level headed during the situation. You're nervous?
Chad:Yeah, I'm nervous as fuck, I messed up the words or something because I couldn't get to Google Translate and once I finally did, it was all kind of a blur from there. I don't even know what I said. I did have a plan of something I was going to say and I fucking biffed it. I have no idea what I said and I asked her later that day. I's like I don't remember. I was like you said yes, right, I look back at the video. And she said, of course, I'm like, okay, good, it took me. We were both.
Javier:You're on your mind. What happened that night? Did y'all have dinner somewhere special?
Chad:Shit, I don't remember. We had some dinner special.
Tim:Actually, that is the remember we went to. Yeah, he had some, he had some dinner special actually that is the night we went to.
Chad:So we went like we were in poso tono and we had some like uh, what is the ice gelato? Because we had gelato like four or five times gelato.
Chad:We had some cocktails, we walked around, did some shopping, um, but we had to get back to our place because all of the ferries and stuff close at like six or seven, so you have to get back to your where you need to go fairly early and so that we go to ravello, which is where we were staying, and we hung out the downtown area and we drank and we had dinner and there was only one place open and we went to this restaurant and there was five tables in this whole restaurant super tiny. I'm like you, like you know, I don't know it might be good, and so we walk in. There's a lot of like cafes that they say art in the name because they want you to know they have art in these places. So like art all over the walls and stuff. It's like it's an art bar. Okay, cool.
Chad:But it was like this restaurant that telling us all the things on the menu and the dude's stoked, like he is so excited about all the food that they're cooking and the thing he was mostly excited about was his ravioli filled with like, like he was telling me, it was like a mashed prawn and something else like really finely done and put in the ravioli with this like really creamy sauce, and we're like, all right, dude, you fucking sold it Like that's what we're going to do. And it was also a brewery. They made their own beer, so we had a bottle of wine, I had a beer, we had this ravioli and it was the best ravioli. We had One of the best posses, we had the entire trip. It was just outstanding.
Javier:But yeah, that was we did sorry, I'm picking stickers off my shorts it's okay, that's fine, that's um it's nice, you have any surprising, like special cake or anything like that, or you didn't have any cake to like. Dessert, to let me, with gelato and posatano you have american celebration. You have cake, you have cake yeah, when you're in italy, you gotta have cake. I guess the cake over there.
Tim:I guess you're in Italy. You gotta have cake.
Javier:I guess the cake over there I guess the cake in Italy is lasagna because it's in layers, right?
Chad:Right, yeah, we already established that on a previous episode. Lasagna is cake.
Javier:I'm very happy for you. Congratulations, cheers for that. Thank you, appreciate you, boys, cheers. Now I have to propose on the moon or something, so like I'm one upper very much looking forward to that. I can't go to italy and do it over there. Well, you're not gonna fly anyway you're not gonna fucking fuck you, first of all fuck you. I was like, I was like, uh, uh, oh, speaking of which, uh, you got a cannoli to go oh yeah, we did get it and it was fucking good too.
Chad:We had it for breakfast the next morning.
Javier:Yeah, that is true I will say um my dad, whenever he so every. He loved it, he loved it, he fucking I did too.
Chad:I was talking about buying a house.
Javier:He wants to go back, like we have friends in spain, we have friends that live in spain and like they go all the time. We have friends in italy, and he talked about posatano the entire fucking time really like the entire, so he loved it he fucking loved it, like him and my sister like uh, what time of year did he go?
Chad:he went recently, in june, so it was already getting hot, yeah, but he said that it was.
Javier:Yeah, he's a beater um, but no, it's like. I'm very happy for you, I'm glad you did it this way. This was a great way to do it and I'm glad that you were able. Hopefully you remember everything that I know, because I know for her.
Chad:I'm sure she was like her head was in the clouds right you know, you forget stuff like that but she explains it better than I do, like she was telling her friend, her mom, things like that she tells. Tells it better because she remembers the good parts.
Javier:I remember all the things I fucked up it was such a shitty day starting out but uh, but it's good, you know. Congratulations and um thank you so any idea, like where you're gonna get married or he's gonna be here gonna?
Chad:no idea, courthouse. No, we'll do a little thing like if I, if we got a preference. It would be like a little destination thing, like super fucking small somewhere, and then come back home and throw the biggest party, like rent out maple branch or something and just like throw a big ass party that's. We'll see what happens. We got plenty of time to figure it out.
Javier:No rush speaking of uh, that was, that was so. So you went to vegas after that. You went to vegas after like two days after you got back, right I'm sorry.
Chad:I'm reading the chat. It's getting wild, it's really wild.
Javier:I'm just trying looking at it, I'm reading it. I'm not even listening to you. I'm like what is happening?
Chad:happening Between Teresa and Herbie and I never see Sarish actually chatting and she's all over that chat. So I'm trying to figure out.
Javier:Meatball Ferris wheel next week. Where's this?
Tim:Herbie's trying to get Sarish to rate my bed game from one to ten. I'm going to give you a meatball Ferris wheel.
Chad:What was your question? Sorry, I missed what you're saying.
Javier:I Sorry I missed what you're saying. I honestly forgot.
Tim:I was looking at the chat.
Javier:You said you went to Vegas. Oh, you went to.
Chad:Vegas. Oh, yeah, yeah, for I planned it a few months ago because I was like, oh, you know, her birthday's tomorrow, Crystal's birthday's today. Happy birthday, crystal.
Javier:Happy birthday.
Chad:They are a day apart, yeah, so I was like you know what, let's just do a little fucking trip, and so did not think about how we would just be getting back from.
Tim:Italy, their birthday's on the same day because they're in China, right? Well, no, hers was yesterday.
Chad:Well, okay, technically, yeah, I told Crystal happy birthday last night because they're 13 hours whatever so we get back from Italy and we are sick as a dog.
Chad:It's not COVID or flu, because we both got tested. We both got tested for covid. She got tested for flu and didn't have that. Either it had been just allergies or a cold, but I'm still feeling it like it was so bad congested. And so we get to vegas. I told her about it friday. I'm like hey, by the way, we're not doing what I said we're doing this weekend. We're going to vegas if you want to, but if you don't, that's cool too. So now let's go. And so we went to mgm. Uh, I stayed at mgm, uh, because remember, were you with? I don't know if you were with us. I know I was with noel because he, he busted his nose in that fucking pool, but I don't remember why we were there uh, who's bachelor party or whatever, but we were in the mgm like, uh, lazy river pool were you there that time?
Javier:No, that was.
Chad:JD's? Jd's. Okay, yeah, because JD snuck us into this pool. He jumped over the bushes, was it? I don't think it was.
Javier:JD's, it wasn't.
Chad:Herbie's. No, it wasn't Herbie's either, but JD jumped over the bushes, borrowed someone's room key, came back around, got us all into the thing. So we're like drinking at the lazy river it was hervey's.
Javier:It was hervey's uh because I remember the gash on noel's nose.
Chad:Yeah, yeah, yeah I don't cherish about that. So we, that's what we did. We went to the mgm grand. So we, we were in the lazy river all afternoon. Um went to do y'all know, roy choy, um, yeah, yeah he's like a chef egg slut.
Javier:What no, is he? Is he excellent? Yeah, well, he's I know he's koge tacos he's got like a chef. Yeah, from Egg Slut, what no Is he Is he Egg Slut?
Chad:Yeah Well, I know he's Kogi Tacos. He's got like a Jon Favreau. He was on the chef show and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we went to the chef truck and had Cubanos.
Javier:Was it Roy Choi or no? That's not Roy Choi.
Chad:You think of Dave Chang, think it's, it's next to momofuku, so that would make sense. Um, but we went to this place called um shit, what was it called? Sarah shut me out, uh, whatever. So we went to a roy choy place and it was. It was called best friends because it was like about him and john faber, I think, and uh, it's like a little bar, uh.
Chad:And then you walk in and they've got like a freezer, like you know, like the little plastic things hanging and you go back there and it's like this whole big ass fucking restaurant and, man, that that food was insane, like these korean kogi tacos and then ramen. It was just, it was so good, it was great. So, yeah, we just ate, drank, went to. We found a cocktail bar in the mgm sarish found it on social media like uh, like a little speakeasy, and they had fucking amazing cocktails. They were 25 bucks a piece or something like that, but they were so good. And then we came back the next day super chill. I mean we did drink a lot and we were super sick still, but it was nice. We don't have any other trip planned for a while she put anything on black.
Chad:We did yeah, she never really done roulette. So we played some roulette. We both got up about 30 or 40 bucks and then lost it all as you do you know, you just keep playing. So I mean we lost a total of 40 bucks. So that's nice, don't like to gamble too much it's fun, it's good hell yeah, brother do we have anything else to go over?
Javier:uh shout out to theresa. Her birthday was uh last week. Yeah, y'all got to go.
Chad:I'm so sorry I didn't get to go. That that's really what started like, when it started to get like sick and gross, but y'all went.
Javier:Yeah, it was a good time. We met up with a couple people over there. I ran into Tom and Joseph Nevels. He's got a show here in November.
Chad:It's actually going to be over here at the new gym is that the one where he said it's like neville day, yeah, with neville yeah, so it's gonna be really cool.
Javier:Uh, shout out to theresa happy birthday for that. Uh, the cupcakes were fucking delicious. Uh, tom was great. Saw him over there with uh, carolina was with him, edward brown was there nice yeah, so it was a. I finally met amanda victoria okay, yeah, from trend yeah, yeah, she said I was the last panther to meet because she already met you guys yeah and so, uh, she was cool to talk to. It was a good time. Um, you know, wish we were there longer, but you know yeah, we gotta do something soon, like.
Chad:Yeah, I know I feel like it's been so long like we did. I think the last thing we did was the pet adoption thing at Panther Island Brewing right, yeah. Where we had like all of our people. I feel like I haven't seen everybody in so long. It's been a while since I've seen Teresa. I haven't seen Andrew from Forward Roots in a while. We haven't just I need to plan.
Javier:I feel like I feel like it's like a family get together whenever we do because, look, the summer was wild, we obviously had to engagement party. Yeah, yeah, what christy's saying? Any plans for an engagement party?
Chad:not yet, but I mean jordan brought that up too.
Javier:That's his party is that a thing that we should do, like, yeah, you're supposed to do that I mean, I like parties, so I'm here for it, yeah let's. Why don't you rent a spot? Just rent a spot, just rent a spot. Cool, yeah, we'll go to chuck e cheese.
Chad:They got beer over there he's paid for expensive things, just rent a spot.
Javier:Yeah, let's put on credit cards um no I think it is I think, uh, it was a wild summer so we really haven't recorded much. I think here in the past two months we've fully done two episodes there's three so I mean since june.
Chad:Right, like it's been june like yeah, we're gonna have a.
Tim:Uh, hervey's got a good idea. It's bucks hey down for that daddy.
Chad:So yeah, we're gonna be back on a regular rotation here every wednesday. As you all know, we have changed our live nights, except for tonight, to wednesday nights, um, and so that'll be more regularly. We're gonna have more guests again. You know we're not gonna get crazy like.
Chad:No, we had a lot of guests we, it's nice to just kind of hang out, but it's nice to have a guest every now and then too. So have some people on, and then we'll plan something where we will invite everybody out soon. If not, we do another like adoption thing maybe for Christmas or Christmas, yeah, yeah. Or maybe pick another charity and we do something for Christmas. But that would be a bad, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
Tim:Sarah's just down for bucks, you saw it there. Oh shit, I'm sure it's just the engagement party, but she's saying she's down, said bucks.
Chad:We're going to bucks. You heard it first here, buddy. I ruined her All right, anything else.
Tim:I have a question. Yeah, what's?
Chad:up. What gets you going? You know, sexually, when do I begin?
Javier:That would have been a good. So, okay, me and tim I mean me and tim are going to be at acl this weekend, so hell yeah, yeah.
Tim:We're gonna go see a bunch of be broadcasting live down there. I hear I bet you wouldn't. I bet we won't either I will, I will, I'll do it.
Javier:You borrow the microphones and everything I'll fucking do it.
Tim:Do a little live stream, yeah, that'd be awesome yeah.
Javier:Hell yeah. So you know we'll see you again next Wednesday. Next Wednesday, whenever we finally get these schedules going and we'll come up with some shit for everyone to come meet up.
Chad:At the very least we could just do a meetup. Like hey, we're going so-and-so on a Tuesday night or something like that Just tip your bartenders really well.
Javier:Yeah, for sure.
Chad:All right. Well, thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for hanging out with us for a very long time here on YouTube Live. The whole chat went nuts. So love to hear that, love to see that.
Tim:Shit, I can't even talk.
Chad:Whatever, we'll see you next week. Stay good, stay good everybody. I'm Chad, I'm Javier.
Tim:I'm Tim and we are the Funky.
Chad:Thunder.
Javier:Was that good enough? Oh man, my dick is so hard.
