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The Kitchen’s Open, Now with a Grasshopper! (Hour 2)

Mornings with WFHR · Mon Sep 15, 2025

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning world, it's a new day.

Welcome back to the show, everybody. Our two of the morning show got your host James behind the joy. Mike joined by Melissa.

Good morning, Seth. Good morning and the best listeners and radio that put up with my mouth.

We appreciate you joining us, everybody. We got a fun hour lined up for you. I'll probably miss say more words. That'll be fun.

You put on your bingo card, yeah. Got some entertainment news. We'll get into the Emmys a little bit.

Later, we'll talk about our weirdest flexes, like how I can miss say any word. Nobody can do that like I can.

All that coming up for you, but of course we kick things off on a Monday with the...

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So the other day when I was arriving at the station, there was a small grasshopper sitting on the bar across the door.

Wait a minute. You're not going to share recipes that include grasshoppers and ingredients, are you?

Edible insects are a significant component of traditional diets and Madagascar and other cultures.

Well, James is absolutely correct. I am not going to be talking about the insect, but about an ingredient found in the cocktail called the Grasshopper.

September 15th is National Crimmed Aminth Day, and it is one of the main ingredients in the Grasshopper.

Even though I knew about the crimmed aminth and may or may not have had my share of grasshoppers in the past, I realized that I didn't know much about how it was made or where it came from.

So I did a little bit of what I like to do, a bit of research.

So according to Spirits and Distilling.com, crimmed aminth is a sweet lacour flavored with mint, a French origin available in clear version, but more commonly seen in its bright green form.

The color furnished either by mint leaves or artificially. Its roots go deep.

Mint is among the earliest botanicals used to flavor spirits and in part their medicinal value to them.

And water of red mint is among the formula included in Heronimus bunchwigs pioneering 1512 book on distillation.

By the 1700s, I'll get these words right, had moved beyond strict medicinal use, and as of 1721, reference to the Dram of Rum and Mint water served at a Boston tavern demonstrates.

As the century progressed, the spirit was more likely to be sweetened. In 1757, London distiller Ambrose Cooper wrote of his recipe, you may dulse a fight with sugar if required.

On the other hand, the lacour version could not yet have been a standard spirit.

In Jacques-Cais, François, Demacchi, a French pharmacist published a recipe for it in 1775.

He added, I believe I am the first person to have imagined this lacour.

Interesting, don't doubt that.

Peppermint Git, a mint lacour created in Revel France in 1796, it assumed its presence name many years later,

appears to be an early commercial example of the type. Its bottle advertised its ability to rid the body of myriad ailments, including cholera.

Another prominent early brand was menthe pastille, created by Emil Gifford in 1885 in Angers.

I noticed that a lot of these are basically the cure-all. What's the main ingredient in your cure-all? Well, it's uncle, of course, because it'll make you feel better even if it really doesn't do anything.

You do feel better, that's true.

It is true, and it's interesting because other places, and I'll probably mention this a little bit later, assume that it was Emil that created Creme de menthe.

Sounds like there were other myths that were there already.

But the article goes on to say Creme de menthe is typically made by infusing peppermint or coruscant, mint, and water, distilling it, and mixing the results with grain alcohol, which is then sweetened, the mint can be infused directly in alcohol, which is then rectified in the same way.

It comes in two varieties. Like I said, green and white, the latter being was more traditional for higher proof.

So if it's clear, it would have more alcohol. Creme de menthe, which enjoyed a vogue in American bars in the 1890s, is a critical element in a handful of classic cocktails.

Typically of the after dinner variety, including the stinger, as mentioned before the grasshopper, and, of course, the Creme de menthe frappe, where it is shaken with ice and poured into a glass full of fine ice.

The liqueur was a popular as a standalone aperitif, Agatha Christie's fictional detective, Herculee, Perot, favorite it.

Its reputation suffered in the mid 20th century when naturally rendered versions were replaced by artificially flavored and colored brands.

Did you know today would have been Agatha's birthday, Beth?

No, I did not. Look at that. Very appropriate.

Not just like you planned it. It's wonderful, though. That's a great note about this, too. And just real quick, if I could say, I just love history.

Yeah. I'm an amazing. I would have never known any of this, and we probably wouldn't have gone down this rabbit hole myself or something like that.

And I'm so glad you did. I appreciate that. I love hearing all of this stuff, and I don't know about others.

But I know when you really love history, like about anything, it doesn't matter what the topic is, it brings you in.

Everything has such a cool story behind it. I don't know that I've ever heard the history of anything that it was like, oh, you know, everything's interesting about this.

Even like the fork. Yeah, it's amazing. It's a good one. This is a really good one.

And with this, I, you most notably think of the green, because of grasshopper, the drink is green, and creme de menthe is the flavor that's used in, like, Andy's candies and other green.

So when we associate, yeah, mint and green together. So to think about the fact that originally, it was actually clear.

And what gave it its green color, I'm going to talk about it in just a little bit.

Well, the other thing I've noticed is that as an after-dinner drink, and I don't know if this is true, but I do know that mint has been considered a way to help digestion, or a way to help with indigestion too. Mint has traditionally been a way to do that.

So I think, you know, because I've also heard, you know, if you chew gum, after you eat, that helps with digestion.

I wonder if that's the whole mint thing coming in as well, that the mint is going to help with whatever, you know, whatever food you're interested in.

Any excuse I can head for gum in my life.

There you go.

I'll have to do a little bit more research, but they have done scientific studies. Peppermint specifically helps with digestion.

And that's why they say to go ahead and have some peppermint after you eat, because it helps your digestion.

Well, the website, thebarcabinet.com, what a great name for a website.

Shared a little bit more about the two color varieties. The green version of crimmed mint is colored by mint leaves, or by adding color if made from extract instead of leaves.

So both varieties of crimmed mint have similar flavor and are interchangeable in recipes, except of course when you want that green color.

And that's an important part of your.

But a lot of now, normally that you see crimmed mint, it's colored with food coloring.

Right.

And so going back to that original using those mint leaves is going to give you a better flavor and put less chemicals in your body.

Exactly.

So now normally this is where I would share a recipe or two that would use whatever ingredient or thing we were discussing.

Today, however, I'm going to share a recipe to make the thing itself.

I found a DIY, a do-it-yourself recipe to make your own crimmed mint.

And it looks like it's pretty easy, but it does take a little bit of time.

I do want to give a little bit of a disclaimer here that this is an alcoholic beverage and should be used in moderation and responsibly.

So you can make your own crimmed mint with just four ingredients.

One and a half cups of fresh mint leaves divided, one and a half cups of vodka, one and a half cups of sugar, and one cup of water.

And to do it, you measure out one cup of mint leaves and tear them in quarters, place the mint leaves in a sealable glass jar and pour the vodka on top of it.

Shake and let it steep for 12 hours.

I told you this could be a little time consuming, but it's going to be worth the wait.

After steeping is complete, strain the mint leaves from the infused vodka and return the infused vodka to that glass jar.

Next, you're going to bring water and sugar to a boil and let it simmer for five minutes.

Remove it from the heat and let it cool, then add that syrup to the mint infused vodka.

Take the remaining half cup of mint leaves, tear them, and add them to the jar, shake and let steep for another 10 hours.

So after a full day, 24 hours, it may take you a couple of days and it's okay to steep it longer.

It's just going to infuse it with more and more of that mint flavor.

You're going to strain it twice to remove all of the mint leaves and keep that concoction, your crimmed mint in a sealable bowl.

The liquor will keep for about two months.

Refrigeration is not necessary unless you like it chilled.

That really couldn't be a simpler recipe for that because sugar and water, of course, is a simple syrup.

And that's very easy to make as well.

So yeah, you just got to wait.

Depends on how eager you are to taste it, I guess.

Right.

My Nana would let her marinara sit overnight at the least.

At the least she would let that happen.

And I don't know if there's something about that or what it is, but I don't care what we're talking about.

When you do that with an item or something, it's just something about it to me that just makes it even like, oh, I got to try this.

Oh, that sounds amazing.

So time gives the flavors an opportunity to develop and really blend well, which is why when you make chili,

the leftover tastes even better because the ingredients have had a chance to really sit together and combine.

It gets to know each other, you know?

So this one, you could even make the simple syrup in advance.

So you're only waiting that next day to infuse the vodka.

And it's easy, you know, maybe at night before you go to bed,

tear up those mint leaves, throw that into the vodka, let that sit overnight,

and then you're ready to go the next morning.

Right.

So it's really just a matter of, are you a patient enough to make it happen?

There you go.

And this is going to be a lot less expensive than going out and buying.

That's right.

A large jar of creme de menth.

And it gives you that shot of flavor that you want.

You can also just infuse water with that mint.

If you want the minty flavor without the alcohol.

Right.

And then you can interchange those two.

That might, I would like to try that too.

Yeah.

So then you have a non-acaholic version of all of this mint.

So this minty liquid is one that can be enjoyed on its own in a cocktail

or as a part of a delectable dessert.

After all, like I said, who doesn't enjoy an Andy's candy every once in a while?

We have one at home that that is his go-to.

One of his favorite things.

Yeah, smart kid.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Yeah.

All right.

Another great episode.

Very cool.

I had to throw a pun in there.

It was a really good one.

I was hoping.

You know, hope springs in turn.

You always have the green light on puns around here.

Thank you.

Yeah.

We appreciate you.

Thanks so much.

Great episode as always.

Big thank you to you.

And of course, our great friends over at the Hotel Mead.

A big thank you to them.

Be listening for another edition of the Kitchens Open brought to you by Beth and the Hotel Mead

next Monday right here at...

Tell me something good.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning, ZWFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth James here with you.

Thanks so much for being here with us.

Big thank you to Beth, the Hotel Mead and the Kitchens Open.

That was a lot of fun.

Great way to kick off of Monday.

Very interesting.

Yes.

We appreciated that and appreciate all of you.

We are going to get into the Emmys right now.

And we'll get into the winners in a moment.

I just wanted to take a second on this one because I have gone out of my way.

Because I don't talk about it.

But when Nate Bargatsy comes up,

I mentioned quite often that he is a part of a group of comedians that punch down

and can't wait to and that's kind of all there you have is insulting, you know,

creeds and women and different things like that.

Very one note, right?

And when I talk about this, I don't want people to think that I'm some like, you know,

noble person with my comedy.

I laugh at things that would revolt a lot of you out there.

I am not at all that.

I could not be more opposite of that.

My favorite type of humor is dark human.

Some of the funniest jokes I've ever heard in my life are jujokes.

I'll be honest.

And I'm Jewish.

And I get, I can laugh at myself.

What I don't find funny is uncreative versions of that.

And playing on the same old, same old and really the division of that comedy.

That comedy is meant to divide us.

These are individuals along with their writers because they're not writing these jokes alone.

Every one of these comedians nowadays have a team of writers and stuff.

They're doing it to divide us.

And comedy is supposed to be the great equalizer.

It's supposed to bring us all together, not separate us.

There's a big difference of that to me.

And I call that out when I see it and I always will.

I will also call out when these individuals do something good and know worthy.

Because we are a collective group as human beings.

That's right.

We have good and bad and all these different things.

Well, Nate Bergatzi hosted the Emmys last night and hyped a plan to keep acceptance speeches short.

Every winner was supposed to have 45 seconds to talk.

But getting celebrities to stick to that was a little impossible.

Right.

Nate said he'd donate $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club.

But they'd take away $1,000 for every second that the winner goes over their allowed in time.

And he's added $1,000 for every second that winners left on the table.

Oh!

They tracked the changing donation total throughout the show.

Okay.

And in the end, the final donation was $350,000.

Wow!

But no, Nate did not succeed in shortening the show by 250 seconds.

Instead, it went long as usual and he called the winner's execution embarrassing.

The total ended up being negative.

Oh no!

Instead, CBS donated $100,000 out of the kindness of their corporate hearts.

And Nate chipped in $250,000.

Okay.

So I like the idea of it.

I understand the idea of it.

I get where he was going with it.

I don't think it's the most creative idea or anything like that.

But it was trying to do something different.

People watching award shows were seeing the numbers for that down quite a bit more times than not.

And especially with the Emmys.

It's hard.

Why do you think they brought Nate Bergatzi in?

They didn't bring him in because he's some great MC.

They brought him in because he's a bit, you know, talking point.

He's a bit divisive.

And he might bring some people to that.

People talking about it.

Right.

And stuff like that.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't think it's a bad idea or bad follow-through.

I would have liked to have seen the celebrities play along a little better.

And do this, you know.

While at the same time, hey, everybody, please call in the last time you accepted an award.

It's for something that you've waited your whole life for.

And do that and be humble and be 20 seconds about it.

To be fair, yeah.

This idea of judging people or acting like you know what it's like to be in their shoes when you don't.

And all that.

Well, at the same time, being self-aware enough to know, hey, people probably don't want to hear me ramble for 45 seconds about myself.

There's a line there that all of us could be better with and all that.

Right.

I don't know.

It's a good attempt.

Well, the irony is, I think most of the people, they end up going over it because they keep thinking of people they want to thank.

Right.

It's not always about that.

Yeah, they want to say, you know, thank you and I don't want to miss anyone.

So they're like, oh, and this person, this person, so that's usually why it happens.

Yeah.

I'm a little more interested in the results.

So let's dive into some of these, the big winners.

We won't go through every single category, of course.

But the best drama series went to the pit on HBO Max, surprising quite a few.

Wow.

Very cool.

If you've heard anything about the show and people that watch the show, I don't think they're surprised.

Right.

It was the best show for a lot of good things about it.

Yeah.

Best comedy series went to the studio in Apple TV Plus.

Seth Rogan's new vehicle had a ton of cameos in it.

I heard that that sounds pretty good.

I've heard a lot of good about that show too.

So that makes sense as well.

Best actor and drama series went to know a while for the pit.

I'd not sure if it's his best first, if it's his first best actor award or not, but I believe it might be.

Wow.

So that's to him on that.

He's got all those years on ER and so wow, that's amazing.

That's really interesting.

He's had a nice career.

Yes he is.

You know, went, deservingly.

Best actor and drama series went to Britt Lauer from Severance of an Apple TV.

Another crush.

Shut up to Britt.

Best actor and a comedy series went to Seth Rogan for the studio.

Wow.

Good for him.

His first ever.

Very good.

Any category or anything like that.

Great acceptance speech.

I really enjoyed and was really nicely done.

I thought by him.

Cool.

Best actor and comedy series went to him for best actress and comedy series went to Gene Smart for Hacks.

I believe her second year in a row winning that.

Yes.

That is correct.

And good for her.

Love Gene Smart.

She is really cool.

Actor in a limited series.

Stephen Graham for adolescents.

And best actress in a limited series.

Chrissy Miloney.

Milote for the Penguin.

And a big, big, big time congrats for her.

Long time good actor and character actor.

Very cool.

Getting her due on that one, I think that was really cool.

Nice.

There is a big list out there.

Anthology series went to adolescents.

Best television movie went to Rebel Ridge.

Best competition, reality competition program.

The traders.

And Alan Cumming also went for the best traders for best host.

Well, because Alan Cumming is awesome.

That is why.

Best scripted variety series went to last week tonight with John Oliver.

Big congrats to him and his team.

Big rats, yeah.

I didn't want a couple of those over the years and very deservingly.

Absolutely.

Some of them not only best reporting, but funniest reporting and funniest work done.

They really have that down to a science.

Yeah.

That's the only one you've mentioned so far that I recognize.

Right.

And more on that in a moment.

Best talk series went to the late show with Stephen Cobair.

Of course.

And deservingly so.

Yeah, yeah.

Probably a little ironic for him maybe, but still interesting.

It's not the first time it's happened.

Yeah.

Famously, to me at least famously, Wayne Brady won a daytime member for best talk show

the same week that he lost.

It was canceled.

Yeah, canceled.

Yeah, definitely.

It's happened.

But Melissa, you mentioned shows that you haven't seen.

You're not alone.

The craziest person when it comes to entertainment.

The guy will stay up late to watch some of these shows.

I haven't seen the majority of these.

Yeah.

And I, you know, I think it's also noteworthy.

Almost all of these shows are on streaming channels.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't even think of one that you mentioned that was on one of the networks.

And thus.

And do you want to hear my take on what, on all those things that you listed?

Sure.

I find it interesting that they all are named either the something or a two word name.

Yeah.

Like some of them.

Rubble something, you said.

Rubble.

Otherwise, everything is the something or a single word.

That's interesting.

I think that's interesting.

I did not notice that.

Very nice catch.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

Well, that's when I, that's what I got.

I don't know any of these actors or the shows.

Well, in its great note.

A brilliant data.

That's part of the thing.

Part of what I've always enjoyed about you when it comes to subjects like this, Melissa,

you were able to give us and the audience a little bit of a different take.

And one that I think the audience can relate to more than we might realize.

I agree.

When it comes to the idea of this, I, I'm got to take that I don't think is a good one or

popular, but I do believe in it.

Okay.

And it involves more categories in the idea of separating these things.

Okay.

I've thought this for a long time though.

I've never understood the idea of an HBO show and a show on CBS being in the same category.

Yeah, that is a little weird.

HBO has no barriers.

They can go and do just basically anything they want, push the envelope, all those things.

The television has a, you know, a lot of different rules and requirements.

They're playing by different rule sets.

I don't think that you can include the college football standings and stats with the NFL.

You know, you can't do that.

They're two very different things played by different rules.

Right.

I think that you need to separate these things.

The Emmys should have the best category for streaming service show or something along those lines.

And I'm a little shocked that they haven't just because how much every ward show in history loves having more categories.

Right.

Can hand out more stuff.

I think it rising tide raises all boats as well.

And I am afraid of what it's going to do more and more to network TV.

Because I think that I love HBO, those shows, I like streaming shows, I watch them all.

I enjoy them very much.

I don't hold that bar as same as they do for network TV.

I think it's much more challenging to do what they do.

Much more difficult to do what they do.

And I feel like they have more parameters they have to stick to.

And I feel like they should be able to stick to that.

And instead, they're going to be pushed when they see that every year they're losing to these streaming services.

Oh, we got to keep up with them.

We got to do that.

No, I'd rather see them do their thing and let them do their thing.

Let both do their own thing.

Right.

And, you know, let listeners and watchers go where they go.

Like, I don't know.

I don't think it's that far fetch.

I also know that it can be annoying because I'm talking about adding more categories to a war show.

And the broadcast another hour.

Yeah.

Also, what is the point of having those rules, though?

Yeah.

It's so that people who are watching that know what to expect.

They know that they're not going to hear blatant swearing or see crazy amounts of gourd violence.

Or, you know, there's ratings there for a reason so that they can choose what they want to put into their network.

They can put into their brain or their children's brains.

Right.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah, we'll see how this goes.

But I do think that you're going to see as we go along here.

And I mean, you know, soon in the next couple of years you're going to see this change on one way or another.

Maybe it is more categories.

Who knows?

One of the mentioned, remind everybody about our WFHR cookbook that we are putting together.

And how much we want your recipes to be a part of it.

Yeah.

We've gotten some brought to the station.

We've had a few submissions online.

So bring them, bring them down.

We want multiples from all of you.

That's right.

I'd like to publish this for our 85th anniversary.

And we have to because the cover art is going to be the winner of, I don't know, what award.

But it's going to win awards.

The best cookbook cover ever.

Yes.

That award is definitely going to us for this one.

It's going to be great.

We want you to be a part of it.

It won't be the same without you, everybody.

That's right.

We encourage you to get us those recipes.

You can do that by going online, going to our website, WFHR.com.

Go ahead and click on one of the banner for it.

And of course, if you need to get them to us any other way, we will help you do that.

Any way you can send us pictures.

You can drop it off.

You can bring your recipe card down.

Pam will make a copy.

You can take a picture of your recipe card with your phone and send it to us through this.

Send me the app.

One of our listeners.

Does that accept pictures?

That's a good question actually.

I might try it.

I'll try it.

All right.

Yeah, try it.

You'll accept it.

You'll accept it out here and everything.

I encourage you to get them to us, everybody.

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We'll get to our news.

A sports partner break.

And we'll come back.

We're talking about weird flexes.

People are sharing their weirdest flexes.

What is something you're good at?

Others aren't maybe, but maybe others don't want to be.

Let's try it out together.

Coming up on the morning show.

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that pictures are accepted.

Oh, hey.

Nice.

Yes, by picture came through.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Thank you for doing that.

Melissa, yeah.

It's great to know that now.

So you can do that with your recipes or comments everybody.

We'd like to hear from you.

And I especially want audience participation on this particular topic.

Because people are sharing their weirdest flexes.

Well, we should all do this.

Yes.

People online are sharing their quote,

weirdest flexes they've heard someone say with a straight face.

Some of them are kind of funny, some art.

So it should be explained what that is.

I don't know if it's coming.

It's thrown out there.

So basically saying, you know, strutting or showing that you are proud of something

when, you know, maybe you shouldn't be.

Or maybe that's a weird thing to be proud of.

Like, I will get the ball rolling here.

I imagine many times.

I am your go-to spot for Simpson's knowledge.

I know everything about the show, the Simpson's.

Now, should I put this on my business cards?

I will sold not to.

But I put it on there.

No, no, I didn't.

I also realized something earlier.

We were talking about weddings.

A very happy thing, a fun thing.

I took it very serious.

I have a knack of being able to take any topic and make it serious.

I can do it.

I can do it like few can.

That's right.

Yes.

These are not good flexes.

These are not things that I have, but they are getting the ball rolling.

They are not necessarily the worst.

But they are yours, right?

Yes, they are yours.

So these kind of things.

So if that gives you a good example,

everybody please feel free to hit us up and let us know your way.

Yes, flexes.

Here are some others to get things going.

And then I want to hear from you too if you have any.

A manager prided herself on being crazy busy all the time.

She probably told me she hasn't listened to music in 15 years

because she doesn't have time.

What?

That's wild.

No.

That's just wrong.

I'm sad for her.

To be proud of that.

A coworker boasted about not using their paid time off.

The days don't roll over or pay out.

So you're working.

It just moves on.

Yeah.

It just moves on.

I know somebody I should probably say that too,

but I won't mention names because that's, you know, pointed.

Oh no, he's easy.

No, not to be fair.

He doesn't say that proudly.

I mean, it's not like he's like, yeah, I guess what I do.

And he had no idea that was coming.

I really should have seen that one coming.

Really.

I really walked around.

I had a boss who would call my hand writing ugly in chicken scratch.

She claimed she wanted a ward for her handwriting in third grade.

That was about 60 years ago this person has said, wow.

And they have held on to that ever since.

Well, I mean, to pull that out to shame somebody else's handwriting,

that's where it's wrong.

That's just silly.

Yeah.

This is dopey.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know about that one.

There's a guy, some guy said that he never reads and thought that that was cool.

And it obviously misses the mark.

No, no.

That's a bad thing.

Very bad.

Quote, my cousin bragged that he never used sunscreen in his life.

Yeah.

Okay, because you want cancer.

Yeah.

Again, why?

What?

Yeah.

I don't think he'll protect you.

No, I don't do that.

Quote, a patient bragged about not drinking water.

She told me that she didn't think she needed it.

Wrong.

I don't need water.

Water.

What is water?

You definitely do.

I mean, unless you're eating watermelon every day, then yeah.

Like water rich foods, right?

Yeah.

Okay, maybe that's it.

Yeah.

Because you can.

I mean, like soup, soup and watermelon.

It's all I eat.

All right.

Water.

I mean, maybe I'm missing it or maybe there are these people.

These individuals are missing the mark.

I feel like these are things that you own, but you also own while understanding that they're

not necessarily maybe something to necessarily.

Right.

Yeah.

Or that you don't.

Anybody.

People would be fighting you for this title.

Like, you know, the great, the fact that I know Matt, you know, the creator of the Simpson's

Matt graining is not fighting me on the whole Simpson's title or anything like that.

I only carets and almonds.

Yes, my skin is orange, but that's okay.

Right, right.

That's it.

Huh.

That's actually somebody did that once.

Oh, okay.

It's hilarious.

Someone who was proud of themselves for once chugging a whole jar of pickle juice.

No.

And they could not wait to tell people about this.

Okay.

Wait, isn't pickle juice supposed to cure you something?

Like, you're supposed to be, you drink pickle juice and I'll stop you from doing something.

What was that?

I can't remember what it is now.

Well, it's a good chaser.

Some people just like pickle juice because of how it tastes.

It's vinegar.

It's not like going to hurt you.

Oh, no.

A whole jar of the liquid.

It might make you feel excessive.

A little extra acid in the stomach there, you know?

Yeah.

But.

And a guy, quote, a guy hitting on me at the Bar Los Angeles probably said that he was just

in a national pedigree commercial.

Pedigree is in the dog food.

It wasn't even the star of the thing.

I mean, it was just this hand.

It was just this hand.

The dog was the star.

You can see that's my hand right there.

See?

Let me describe that beer for you.

I'm really good at this.

Oh, man.

You can find the complete list at Buzzfeed.com.

I want to put together a list of our own.

Let us know what your weird flexes.

Everybody do you two have any?

I can pick things up with my toes.

Okay.

That's nice.

That is a fun one.

Actually, it can be useful though.

I know that somebody made fun of me for at once.

You have pre-hensal toes.

Okay.

All right.

Well, can you climb trees better?

Look at that.

Oh, good.

I want to know.

I'll follow up.

Follow up.

That's good.

But I can't.

You know, if there was something like that, I'm not going to bring it up.

Well, I can't even...

The only other one I brag about is my ability to parallel park.

And my ability to coach someone into parallel parking from the past years.

Now, these are very useful things.

And I think that's very good flexes.

Actually, the second one there may be more useful.

I'm with you on that.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

I mean, you know, there's other child.

Get it 99% of the time.

But then there's that 1% of the time where I fail spectacularly.

But nobody's perfect, Melissa.

Nobody's perfect.

Right now, especially you.

That's right.

You know, I think...

I'm closer to the most.

I think that a lot of this is one of those things that you don't really think about too.

There's probably a lot of these that you end up...

Maybe you're not promoting that you're good at these things.

But people in your life know you are.

Right.

I say that to everybody out there as well as the person in the room with me here.

Because I think Seth, you have a lot of these, but you don't realize it.

You don't realize that people go to you for them.

Right.

And I need to know this baseball stat.

Yeah.

Hey, I need to know this.

And I go to your brain and you just go through your files.

And I hope it's right here.

Yeah, right.

Well, and that's, but I'm not going to be, you know, I'm not going to flex on it.

It's like, yeah, I know all these things.

And that's because, you know, maybe it's because the old saying, you know, pride before the fall kind of thing.

I'm always wary that, you know, if you do too much of that, you know,

oh, bad stuff's coming up around the corner.

So you got to be careful.

Well, and some of these flexes are actually very negative things.

Yeah, that's true, too.

But they're proud of the negative thing.

Like, I can think of some negative things about myself, but I'm not proud of them.

Right.

Like, I try not to do that.

Wait, and to think about...

Do I do them some time?

Sure, sure.

Should I?

No.

And is that all they have?

Boy, that's really sad.

I hope that's not all they have.

That's the only thing they're proud of.

Oh, no.

I think...