When we booked a private Estonian sauna for a couple of hours in Estonia, we knew it was a perfect time to reflect on the best parts of our trip to Tallinn thus far.
Even though there was beer involved (are you surprised?) we managed not to ruin our equipment as we recorded in the super-hot sauna or bubbling jacuzzi. But if you get hungry listening to us describe the fantastic beer, cheese, and bread we’ve had during our visit, don’t blame us. Instead, book a trip to Estonia! (No, they aren’t paying us to say that. We just really loved our time here.)
And because we really do love you, we’re giving you this before the new year. Aren’t we nice?
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I do judge your choice in toilet paper. I'm pretty sure it's just Barak. I not even the interlining of I think if the outer lining of work is what they are giving for toilet paper. Oh one time. This one dollars one time this, No, what this morning? This one time. Oh my God, Just one time. Jio. Here's Chievo puts that noise. That's a great question. Sun her. Thanks for asking. I'm She lady And I am Ibo Tara. We are XIV. Oh, you are listening to this one time. The podcast in as Sowell Knack in Estonia. I may die. It's so hot in It big auditors, the lira. Oh, it's beautiful though. We are in a private Souna in Estonia this place is big enough. It says for eight people I'm thinking 18. It is. It's huge circuit You could easily fit well if you fit eight in this sound wanna inside of the actual Eskan impact, it would be kind of packed ripe. There's a lovely hot tub. We'll be recording from in just a moment as well as a seating area. Yes. In the summer. Because that's how they do this sound at Ain here in Estonia honey. You don't just stay in the heated Cedar box for an hour. You'd I don't think you could stay in here for an hour. You stay until you can't handle any longer. And then you go outside and you call for a while and have a snack and have a drink and have a chat with your friends. And then you come back into the Souna and you once again add the Lola firm.
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I look at how they do it here there to goes low hit. It's one of the many things I like about Estonia. Unlike in it, Yeah. What are you like so far? This solemn now besides All right, So yeah. So I should say if we're talking about that real quick, Just objective everybody up who those of you who are new to our program. We are traveling to Estonia for the holidays. The holiday is over, but the 'nother holiday is coming up. Plus we collectively refer to this time of year as the holidays. Yes, But we will miss the hollered The next holiday day. You mean New Year's Day? New Year's Eve is what we will miss. That's true. We will experience the crossover between New Year's Day and New Year's Eve time somewhere in the air between talent Estonia where we are right now and Bangkok Thailand where we actually lift. I think I'll be in Russia. Some were over Russia, I think so Outer Mongolia. So I think we leave until late in the evening on one of the stands, perhaps. Maybe maybe never know. I guess all depends on what time it is, where we are as well as weaker. Yeah, Where does what is midnight happen? Anyhow? Uh, we have been here for the last week or so we'll have a few more days to enjoy. We thought we would get out of the heat of bank Arkhan enjoy cold weather because you've not seen snow in almost three years. I haven't met since Copenhagen. I don't think. But you saw some of the first day we were. And when landed we saw some in there in the Helsinki airport and also here in in Estonia there was some snow on the ground, and it's note and finally snowed on us on the 23rd Right now had a little bit of a snow.
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So yeah, so here we are and more. Mozilla. So since you're not going to answer that question, I will go ahead and low. Yes. I am loving the architecture haha. It is beautiful. What do you mean by the architecture? I'm the history of the architecture. There's like the stonework an some of its from what the 13th century. Just of there is a lot of history towns entire Old Town area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Yes, the whole stinking thing, and it's just gorgeous. So we have buildings from, as you said, twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen th centuries, allowing along those lines right next to sometimes a brand new building exactly which was put up because somebody bombed this place, either us or the Russians or the Nazis sin. And some of those buildings incorporate the two. They incorporate the old with a new structure. And that's that's really I like that. Yes, I do too. That's more my style of whom he has a fun place just to walk around. We had no agenda whatsoever. No, And we've just been wandering the city. So that has been a good time just to look around and say, Oh, look, this. This is all building. That's gotta. A R A hatchet on on the roof. The weather vein that belongs to the executioner eight other sorts of history. I'm not a big history buff. I mean, I I like history. I understand history four history sake say, but I'm not a big HIStory tour. Is PTSD per No? No, I would not say you are, but still It's been a good time. It's been very good. And the people are super nice. Yeah, I guess they've been super nice. I mean, ask, these are.
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Titus kind of reserve. Yeah, that's the right way to save you or what I'm looking for, their more a reserve person people, but all the ones we have spoken with have been nice now and I must everybody understands a basic level of English. We've heard rating Bush. Yeah, I will. Uh, the housekeeper is well Shearer and understand that they're probably imported them from Russia, I'm guessing. And the arts store the other day she didn't really, really No. I thought it was there was the girls selling us the sim card in the Sony in this out on a ladder and which is called Arkia ski here yet. No, only one girl spoke English and just like it is in Thailand. It was the young girl that work there that spoke The English and the two older at ladies who did not speak so well. Again, they're working at the Estonian equivalent to seven eleven So I get it. It's not like they had to pass an English proficiency exam. Do. He hand people over cartons of cigarettes. True. The other thing I'm loving is the cheap beer. The beer has been really, really in inexpensive here. Can we pick take a quick break on the cheap beer? Think as What a great segway, How 'bout we get out of this effort being hot, Rome, that al-Qaeda and go have a beer in the in the Jacuzzi's child guess let's first. . Oh. Yeah, that's really hot. Uh, now in that Jackou rosy as how it's pronounced here.
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Some two zero s. Uh, okay, You said you wanna talk about the beers that we have had fantastic beer that we've been here and we smuggled beer in through the Jacuzzi. Yes, We did. What are you having my love? I have a Porter. It is a smooth like Silk Porcher and I can't say the name of that brewery. Waugh's day It's called packed P A T T is the name of the beer. Good. And are now I haven't had it yet. You had me talking. Should should drive the rear. Oh, that's a mazy Norway want a big heavy Porter when you're in a South and a Jacuzzi But hey, whatever you're you has, I always drink voters and Stoute's you do you baby. I'll do my Sure I am having trickle ridic . Which I love it, It's a single hop, Triple IP A, which is weird because it's single hop and triple IPA. So this is hard. This is from Andersen's craft, which I think is Estonian how I dunno. Dad's pretty tasty. Yeah. Throwback to Rick and Melody trickle wreck. But it's thicken its heavy, and as I may him ten percent, We have to wear beards to drink too, So we'll be drunk before we leave this play and they're their cheap relatively chant of cheap. I think we're paying you know, three, four euros over these at a high in bottle shop, you know. But that's that's a lot less than what we would pay back in Thailand. That's that's nice. It's not a bad deal.
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Yeah. So the Beers have been have been quite good our first day here when we were hanging out with a our friend Oscar at Pegasus restaurant. Oscars caused problems. My freedom rip time in the Talon thus far is definitely going to be Oscar handing us so many great beer Nevada's at least one beer maybe two and gave us a loaf of bread to go home. I God that red Gadgil graduates schedule US not so I've said it before and I'll say it again. People, If you are getting into craft beer or that you are into craft beer When you go to a restaurant, talk up the craft beer you are having with the people there. We did. So for Oscar who recognize, We know you're talking about Prey and and hooked us up on on free beer, which is always good free. Like a special limited release Right. That and brewery which was uh. We are la Yala. Like that's right. Did he say they bought them all? They bought 25 percent of their, Oh, okay. One quarter over there. Hey, identity this, this particular beer, which I don't recall the name of you can go look it up in my unadv. Profiles, We might linked to those their limited run and half of the beer. They're selling this year in the end, the other half in his cellar for ten years. And this It was a Scotch L wasn't it. I believe so, Yeah, which is a is a we have any No. I don't know. We drink a lot that day Now and it was it was a my block. Like I said, We've been talking a lot that day any out there, not typically what you would consider seller, but uh, but they're going to, you know, why? Because Estonia log whatever they want. Oscar also gave us recommendations on other bear buyers to go to and two of which we have already hit. And there's two more on the list We have time. We do have time to fight of her decide to leave this sound now. And the food here has been in Masing. Food is outstanding Estonians know how to cook food has serve it Well so that I eat. Well. We've been skipping meals though because we've been eating so well when we do Right Well, and part of the problem is the is the.
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Outside which we'll talk about that after we get out there that jack lunacy. Okay. Yeah. Speaking the food baby. As great as a food has been, We've had some amazing breakfast makes them dinners or will, I guess lunches, I think at dinner, Yep. But. Hans down thing I'm most excited about is this cheese? I know. I think that might be part of our problem way. We haven't been eating dinner because enjoy working. Working in on the cheese, There is a small cheese shop, just a few meters from our hotel, and we've been there twice buying dwell in the equivalent of Thai that we were to by this cheese in Thailand, and probably customer close to 100 Yazd overly easily between fifty nine hundred US dollars what this would atrocities, but that that's the quantity of cheese or by now before you freak out about that. But for those of you that are not Thailand, which is the vast majority of our audience, I think we've spent less than eighteen a little less than eighteen bucks on cheese here. And it's a lot of cheese that I mentioned. We're not eating dinner because we're eating cheese. We didn't need lunch today. So as read the cheese is I think, Honey, I've discovered a flaw in cheese. What is that? I think I know why cheese has its fans obviously berry, But the knowledge level of cheese isn't there with like. Wines and beers. Why? Because when you go to achieve shop, you take cheese with you.
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When you go to a wine shop you, you take a bottle of wine home. When you go to a beer, Iraq beer bother you take that bottle home. And when you drinking a bottle, I can look at this and I can talk about what, what makes this beer so great. These cheeses, We have a slice. They've wrap them up, Right? I forget what it is. Well, in at this tee-shot There's no label Lake. If we were to go to Whole Foods in Arizona or wherever there is a label that tells you what kind of cheese It is. I do. I think even that's enough. I think what she shop should do, Here's your met. My million idea, honey. Again, million-dollar idea even that I make an Israel million that I mentioned, the trouble IPM, millions idea, hand a million dollar secularize. They need to have a little cards that they give out that tells the flavor ProVia. Yeah, Just a little small on on the size of an address label print out what this is, what it's really good with, and just slap slapping in with the container so that you know what it is because even at Whole Foods, They put it on the rapper itself, right? And then you tear that plastic rapper off. But if you had a little insertive all Carrard That said You are eating well. This would actually one I bought was pre-packaged show. You are eating this bean stir and I'm assuming those whatever's written on the back, your tell him at the pool favorite profile. But it's an Estonian so I don't read that. And mine mine haven't had anything on them because I've had them slice it. Yeah, you're buying big old chunk cheese. So yeah.
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That's are missing. How do you like the that that right bread, that that big And it's really nice. You go, I love right. Any that. What it is? I think so. Ya. Dan, how ma'am. It's really good. It's really thick and heavy and goes nicely with my Porter hugely there. You should remain. Why would you want anything? But bread and cheese? So great. Fantastic. So what else do you like about Estonia beer, bread and cheese, besides those thing? What else? Is there a life. Well, the thing is because the sun only comes up at nine fifteen and I'm not kidding. Right. And because it sits sits that I mentioned triple IBA. It sets at a little after three. Right? We haven't been out late. No, we haven't been back in a room by like six, seven o'clock thinking about and sometimes sleeping. So. So it's interesting because I think this plays into us not eating dinner. So we have typically been eating breakfast around nine thirty is Sean Hannity ten o'clock. I'm like a kind of late, but and then we don't we eat lunch about two thirty or three and they're really big, heavy lunches. And we're usually drinking a beer with it. So then it's like, Oh yeah. And then now it's dark. That's little were to get used to. Yeah. But our pancakes man of his books on really good. I could finish mine, Mark God. Oh, and I've taken up uh, Irish coffees. Well, we've been here. Are you have wreck a lot of grabs? That's why we're not. Because you them, You've been working. We we are going out tonight for everything with walkup all.
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Here they let perpetration of we've not use yet. No, we took a Uber yesterday, but that was because we were going outside of the Navy tower. Yeah, which was meant I think it to be What do you think the TV tower? His Okay. Yeah, I was kind of okay. Big tall tower. Soviets Are you did like the museum we went to prior to that. What was a museum prior to that? Oh, that the the one or the Ozren yet? Yeah, The only broke into again. Actually, this time we didn't really break into it. It was the gates were opened. Yeah, There are others. There was a museum in the bottom right that that they'll Museum. We didn't go too. But we we did go see the Soviet graveyard and Soviet statue graveyard, which looks a lot different now than it did a year ago. I was here. Yeah, but it's still kinda cool to be hanging out with giant statues of you know, Joseph Daul The guy to go between three and sixty million people depending on who counting to didn't. They get a picture of you with three with really Lenin's four AuAnent for linens in one Yvo. Four learn Ibo you've got that picture flag go up. And but not that Museum is so hidden that our Uber driver, who was the Russian rate Igor Now perhaps eager Igor because I've seen young Frankenstein. Igor when he dropped is off put a single at all Stalin. .
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No, no, no. He did his in Orlando and he didn't say Stalin That would be Rudy as he said, Oh, style. And so it was obviously something that he didn't even experience any drive's here And he dropped to soften the back because he would know where it was going right there. And this town is not big. Now I mentioned you can walk free where we have walked everywhere with the exception of going out to the DB tower, right? We could have easily walk to that Museum where the Soviet monuments were we just chose not to. Yeah. Did we did we work toward did we take an Uber to the seaplane? We'll would. She Bible walked backwards, EPO. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did not. Sukahara tonic water then out guys. Listen Estonia's. Awesome. Don't don't. Don't I talk with your mouthful. That's disgusting. Nobody wants to hear that. Not at all. Then you got to keep the conversation data Air. You'll let them for the time I was on radio. Listen guys and gals. Estonia is awesome talent, wonderful city. I fell in love a year ago when I was here. I've been talking about it for a long time. Convince you to come, Are you happy with my decision to bring you to Estonia? Yes, by, Oh, there's a But in their. Yes, But I have a complaint. Oh yeah, We couldn't live here. We could not live here. We could not live here. Well, other than one reason I know that want to talk about yet. Why couldn't will live here? We couldn't live here because of toilet paper .
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You know, I judge I don't judge people by what they look like. I don't judge people I-in two stone judge people. I do judge your choice in toilet paper. Yeah. Now again, The top We have experienced has been either at public restrooms or in the hotel. So we know that's not the finest quality out there, but I'm not sure it's just bark. Not even the interlining of our . I think it's the outer lining of Barak is what they are giving for toilet paper. It's pretty route, and there is no bummed gun in this country. No, I miss the Bumgarner. And in a big way, but am beyond toilet paper and no Bumgarner. It's an awesome plays. It is even in the dead of winter. Yeah, It's not that bad like and you can get the wine. Nominee old mold lie odd laud. Yes, which was really good. I didn't expect to Lake it breaches, good, your. I'm loving it, man. This was a great place. I can't wait to come back an experienced summertime where it's always sunny when the sun never sets exactly right When exact opposite. But that's what we're going to do next. But this has been a great trip. I've enjoyed that. You've enjoyed it. I've injured it. We're going to...
