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I'm joined this week by my brother Chuck, who owns and runs Elevated Roast - an artisan coffee roasting company on Bainbridge Island just across the Puget Sound from Seattle. He buys and roasts direct trade single origin beans using a patented air roasting process which never burns beans, and he roasts to order to ensure freshness for his customers. We talk about why fresh is best, and how the average consumer have had the wool pulled over their eyes for so many years. There's no reason to be drinking stale coffee beans. And for God's sake, enough with the K-cups.

This week we discuss my fallout of getting to a 10% body fat runners body, the news of Tiger's horrific traffic accident that may very well have ended his career, my experience at the new Amazon Fresh grocery store, cultural insensitivity, how Disney almost ruined hockey, Dylan Farrow's accusations against her father Woody Allen, and a few pieces of trivia that you can share the next time you're at a bar -- if those ever open again.

A recent article from The Guardian prompts a discussion of religion, and how it has exploited people’s faith. Eric Ripert’s book 32 Yolks shines the light, once again, on the dangers of leaving little boys in the hands of dangerous strangers. A genius has invented a tool justtherecipe.app that strips all the annoying and useless content out of food blogs and gives you what you came there for - the recipe. March Madness is around the corner, and with it - plenty of torn up brackets. Amazon’s Alexa is wonderful. I just don’t know how to tell her how to shut up without hurting her feelings.

Discussions include Super Bowl 55 (of course), Tom Brady’s stamp on being the GOAT, garden rat issues, Gorilla Glue as a hair care product (never a good idea), the demise of independent businesses and the personal touch these companies bring, sappy Super Bowl ads, how women’s tennis has turned into soft porn, insecure dudes who overcompensate, and the gambling epidemic.

This week we discuss Demi Moore and her bizarre transformation at the Fendi Fashion Show, the GameStop stock market fiasco, a couple of comfort food recipes that will remind you of your childhood, a Guinness world record that will blow your mind as well as your ass, a side affect of COVID that could change your life forever, and I finish with classic joke about a guy who walks into a bar.

Don, a long time friend and podcasting partner, joins me on the show this week. We drink a couple of special releases from Russian River Brewing and cover a myriad of topics: Camping, tent sex, fatherhood, homelessness, BBQ, Christopher Nolan’s film TENET, the Super Bowl, Anthony Bourdain, and give commentary on three viral videos that have been hanging around the internet for a while. It’s a longer show than usual, but a fun time.

Topics include finding the positives during the pandemic, the sex toy boom, the NRA bankruptcy, grammar nazis, how keeping cooking simple results in the best meals, Progressive commercials that teach you how to keep from turning into your parents, and the Tiger Woods documentary on HBO.

Discussions include the circus that turned into a dumpster fire at the Capitol last week, NFL Wild Card Weekend, the College Football Championship finale, Tiger King and reality television, the horrors of AirBnB, Big Mouth on Netflix - a show teens need to see but should not, another segment of What If?, and a wild story out of New Jersey involving a pair of terrorist chickens. I'm really bringing the stupid this week.

Discussions include the College Football National Championship, the NFL playoff picture, why professional athletes get paid so much, introduction of a new segment called WHAT IF?, how limiting my news intake helped curb my anxiety, the bizarre life of Michael Jackson, how I like to start my trips to Home Depot, and a crazy story of a fishing boat that discovered 74 pounds of cocaine in Florida waters. Sure they did.

In this episode, Phil welcomes you to the podcast, discusses how horrible 2020 was, how great 2021 should be, COVID deniers, a new kind of superhero, why laws that keep us safe are important, why swimming after diarrhea is never a good idea, blows holes in the spiritual theory that rain is just angels crying, and how cancel culture is threatening to cancel everything, including us. It's a full show.