Food Court with Richard Blais: TMI Edition!

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, this is your friend Jordan Run Talk from Too Much Information, Highchool and Now were recently guests on our fellow I Heart Radio podcast, food Court with Richard Blaze. We debated our favorite kind of chocolate. I took milk chocolate and Hidel took dark chocolate. Because he's a masochist. Well got kind of heated, not kind of lie, which is why he's not recording this message with me right now. Anyway, give it a listen. I think you really enjoy it. We're warmed up, guys, you're ready to go Jordan. Before we do get going, Alex has tried to bribe me once at least and also said, and this is a quote, I will worry. I will slip it you're slipping. I will murder I will murder him in this debate. Is what he was saying before you jumped out. I'm sure, Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. This is gonna be a friendship ruiner. Yeah. Food Court, food Court, food Court with Richard Blaze. Are you in the food Court Court with Las? Welcome to the food Court, a production of I Heart Radio And this is food Court with Richard Blaze. That is me and I've been a chef, Crystal. You wrote that into the strip that I've been a chef. Are you saying because I'm an out on TV that I'm not a chef anymore? You're like every thirty third commenter in all of my social media right now. But I am a chef and a judge, and I'm all over TV and I'm here now judging your opinions and joining us in the food court. Today we have to self proclaimed. Although I'm gonna say it here, I'm proclaiming it. Pop culture nerds will host a great podcast right here on the I Heart Network. It is Jordan runt Hog and Alexander Heigel. We should become a been in like robes right now, like wrestler themes in the background, Yeah therey we're gonna We're gonna dub it in. We're gonna dub in the sound effects and listen. Both of these guys are hosting the too Much Information podcasts, which is we haven't done one on food, on a food topic yet, but it's in the hopper. We have several ideas brainstormed on that. But yeah, movies, music, TV, pop culture, video games. Maybe sports were not big sports guys, but we might get around to it at some point. Okay, I love it. And now you're a rapport, which obviously we've already witnessed here for the last couple of minutes. Is so great because you've been friends for how long? Oh god, Jordan's seven years? When did you get to People? Six six? Yeah? Five six years? Yeah? I remember it was on my first day. I was sort of escorted over. It was at People magazine, and it was my first day. And I don't know if it was putting up posters of like the Who and led Zeppelin or like mentioning that all I ever wanted to do was talk to like old rock people over the age of like seventy or something. But my boss was like twenty minutes after arriving, so you gotta meet this guy Alex. I think he'd be friends. And I have this very in my memory. It was like bell entering the West Wing. I remember being led over to his side of the office, which was like dark with like small fires everywhere and old rips torn pictures of like brad Ulna and stuff, and met Heigel and in my in my memory, he turned around at his desk and had a Boa constrictor around him and love at first sight. We both bonded over music and yeah, became one of my my dearest friends there, and then we started making music together in our free time and been friends ever since. Oh my gosh, killing it on all creative fronts. And then here's a question, as a fellow podcaster and also a podcast your food Cord coming off by a couple of month hiatus to be kind, how in the world you do three episodes a week? How do you guys do that? That's a kind we'll see, that's a conversation having. The original idea was to do like one one new movie, one TV show, and one song related thing or music related thing a week and then have it be kind of like because we love that we I think of it as like an audiolistical and that's where Alex and I both got, you know, kind of our start writing was we love doing those anniversary deep dive pieces where you know, it's just there's so much spite and bile on the internet and they do these celebratory pieces of these things everybody loves, like you know that thing you do my big fat Greek wedding top gun Jerry McGuire, like the full House, just things that like everybody is a soft spot for and celebrate them, learn more about them. I just think I just thought that was such a cool part of the job. Like a lot of people kind of look down their noses at these listical things, but they were so much fun for for us to write. We love researching and we love to just you know, share that stuff with each other. So then we figured maybe other people would like to listen into and everyone disagrees everyone in a week. That's true. Jordan and I are actually pretty pretty disposition early opposed people, despite our like very similar taste in pop culture. Jordan's the good cop. I'm the bad cop. You know what I mean honestly, just with your vocals, I mean you're I mean, your your your vocals sort of bring that to light right off the bat, and I'm like, oh, bad the bad cops here, Like when we first met in the first five stat I knew it. We'll see if that carries through into the into the debate today. Now, listen, you brought an interesting case into our serious courts. Do you two have a sweet tooth? Jordan, I have a really really bad sweet tooth. It's like I have the dietary habits of an our basically. I mean it's like, really yeah and so, and that is why I tend to side with with milk chocolate over dark chocolate, because that's the only thing that can satisfy my sweet craving. I mean, that's that's really what it's all about. What we were talking a little bit about this earlier. But I was a chef at the Hershey Country Club in Hershey, Pennsylvania. So I grew up about forty minutes away from Hershey and spent many hours toiling away in the back room of the country club with the chocolate chocolate wafting through my senses. So I come by it honestly. Listen. I don't know if this is good news for you, Alex at this point, but I have like a childhood memory of going to the hersh Amusement Park and like eating so much chocolate that I then proceeded to get sick, you know, and ruined my days. Thank you for unlocking that very nice memory. That's what everyone does no where you're not alone, You go there and you gorge on chocolate, and then one roller coaster puts you out of it, like well, you just kind of over Hershey's chocolate. By the end of that stint, um yes and no, I think sure. I think hers She's is really interesting because they sort of democratized chocolate. They their whole the whole Milton Hershey thing was like buying lower quality beans and roasting them in a higher temperature, which is like arguably worse for the taste of the chocolate, but it also made it affordable for the first time in history, and like chocolate went into GI rations. So it's like he is arguably like more societally important as a chocolate teer than as a taste chocolate guy. But no, it's not my favorite chocolate. But I love Listen, I love it. I just had a road trip recently. I was like, it was I think is when I realized that I'm old. Like I walked into a little convenient shop and I was like, I'll let me get a big Hershey bar. I was like, I'm there, and I'm there now I'm in Berkeley, so like San Francisco, like Jared eli is the is the move. That's true, that's true, but probably not even There's gotta be some there's someone in Berkeley in a basement right now, counting out their own chocolate. You know that that's it. Underneath their garden, underneath their sustainable garden, there's like a hatch and you gotta get It's like an underworld layer of like a chocolate teer. Like there's a there's some Berkeley Willy Wonka things happening. I'm sure. I hope solar Power. It's Billy Joe. I can tell because I can see You're like, I hope what you know and you just don't want to reveal it. Jordan, what have you been up to lately? Mostly just cranking out of these shows. Yeah, we've been working on We've got three weeks for these and also hosts an interview show called Inside the Studio and we talked talked to that. I love music. I mean, that's again it's the point of connection with Alex and I. And I'm kind of a musician who was never able to actually write anything, and so I think I got into journalism because I thought maybe if I got to talk to people who could, they would somehow teach me the secret of writing music. And it never really happens, but I love it anyway. I've been talking to some some great folks, the Black Keys, yesterday and uh talking to who we Got next week? Def Leppard, Motley Crue next week and Journey. Yeah, but again I live, it's basically permanently like nineteen seventy five for me and my mind. So so getting to talk to these guys is really fun. It's still not closer to knowing how to write music, but hoping to share their story. I love it to listen since you're both music guys and I'm i'm I'm not well. My wife took my fourteen year old to her first concert? Wow, what was so here? I'm gonna ask you to debate this first concert for fourteen year old in this modern era? Later was Olivia Rodrigo? Is that a worthy first concert? Big time? Right now? Oh? I think that's a great first one. She will have a much more a cooler story than like, my first concert was Olivia Rodrigo than mine, which was Cyprus Hill. Okay, that's really good, dude. Mine was mine was Peter, Paul and Mary. That's what my parents. My parents took me too. So I have I have how did I not know this well? Because I lied everyone and say that it was The Who when I was like fourteen. But my actual first like a big concert was Peter Paul and Mary. So I have no claim to being like cool. That's pretty I mean, I think that's pretty cool. Jordan's in What's what was the first concert for you? Until about twenty seconds ago? I was going to say the who when I was fourteen, But now that hagel A shamed me. It actually was a free always one of three point three concert at the Boston Hatshell for America of a horse n I hate that song, so I might I might lose. If you had admitted to that, I would have said, who I love it. Now we're gonna get into the battle, but real quick. So Alex, are you as opinionated as Jordan's more so? More so? Alright, alright, quick on the quick, with the quick on the trigger to you need snap judgments. I'm your guy. I won't think about I regret it at fact. And Jordan's what's your thing with British candy? You have a deep interest in British candy? Oh yeah, I I wanted just to do British candy versus American candy. But then that would have turned into like a beautiful mind style like meltdown for me. Of just making a huge list of all the pros and cons of the British have. They have the best sweets across the board. They have the best chocolate. I think quality. I love the because I think the English cadberries is like a totally different brand than the stuff we get over here from the Cadberry Marquis, but they're there. Chocolate bars are so much better. They're cookies are so much better. They're baked goods. Like just that. They do sweets so much better there, I feel like, and even stuff like sticky toffee pudding. Have you ever had that? That's like it's pure, It's it's pure melted sugar goodness on a little cloud of sponge cake. It's the best thing in the world. How can you not heart? Yeah, it's just invert sugar and ground bread. That is so British. And then you go up north to Scotland you get it deep fried too, So yeah, I just think they do it so much better. Alright, alright, so deep opinions. In a perfect segue into our debate, Jordan, tell us about the case that you've brought to the food court today in a sentence or so, I am here to defend the honor of milk chocolate, which I feel has become even the despite its ubiquity, kind of the the underdog in recent years, given the rise of you know, premium chocolate brands. I'm here to defend that, all right, And Alex, that means you have a different opinion. I'm assuming yes, I am taking the vantage point of dark chocolate, arguing for its complexity and depth and and much more interesting capabilities. Alex joining us from Berkeley via Brooklyn, taking the road of dark chocolate, I am a coastal Okay, here we go. Now listen. Before we get into the official arguments, we like to have a quick trivia round. Gentlemen, are you ready for our trivia round? Please? Okay, If you win the trivia around, the prize that you get is that you get to make the ultimate decision on when you present argument. You go first, word, you go second. Now, since you're both remoting in from other cities, we have to be creative with our buzzer sounds. You don't get to use even though I'm in studio for the first time in a while, you don't get to use this sound effect. You have to come up with your own noise and you're both music guys, so this should be kind of interesting. Although we're putting you on the spot. Jordan, go ahead, go get whatever you gotta get. Jordan, he's going, I don't know this is this is gonna be interesting. So Alex, you'll go first. What sound will you be using to buzz in today? Oh? Gosh, how about a ding? Like a being? Oh my god, Jordan, come on, dude, Okay, Alex, you're gonna go with the verbal being, which is uh. It's a smart call, Alex, and be honest. And Jordan's you've grabbed a grabbed the harp a harp. I love that you just have a harp though, yeah you know, yeah, who doesn't have a harp? I mean, and it was only like seven seconds away from you. I mean, my apartment is kind of the visual representation of our show. I have a piece of John Lennon carpet framed above my desk. I have want to earnest Hemingway's fishing lures around here, got a piece of the Berlin wall. Yeah, it's kind of the The tritus of my apartment matches the kind of random tangents we go on on too much information. I really love that. Does the harp have any historical value? No, it was a good for my girlfriend. I love it. I love it and potentially not a bad weapon in self defense. It's it's absolutely needed. Like I'm a golfer, so like the golf club. Like if if it's if it's going down late at night, something happens in my house, it's gonna be a nine iron. That is the self defense. I don't are you going for the harp? Are you're going You're not going for the or the piece of the Berlin wall. I don't know. I'm gonna go for the harp. It's also good for cutting hard boiled eggs to kind of like smush them through the strings. The charatara that we're deep, we're deep into pasta making. Who knew where were going there, Alex. I'm not gonna ask you what you're gonna use for self defense. Um, because you're studying some sort of martial art. I can tell something he does, aren't you? Actually? Yeah, I'm a I'm a black anything. Not a lot to do in Pennsylvania. You gotta have weird hotties. I know you. Listen, some of my best friends are from Pennsylvania and this is sorry. Ready to get into our trivia. Here we go. We have our sounds versus the harp. All right, question one, Oh, Henry, isn't the only defunct candy bar with an exclamation point? The blank bar was named after the star slugger who played for the New York Yankees in the late seventies. What defunct candy bar has an exclamation point? Gentlemen? Do you need a hand? You can buzz in whenever you want. By the way, this is speed thing. Such a good question. I got it. Okay. The person that this bar was named after was also known as Mr October. Mr October, both New Yorkers. Alex, you lived in Brooklyn? Uh? It was a New York Yankee, a famous New York Yankee in the seventies. Okay, Alex, is it Reggie Jackson? Is it the form of question? Who was Reggie Jackson? You can do it however you want, Alex. At this point we're just just hoping to get one answer out of either of you and Reggie Jackson. Reggie Jackson is correct. Wow, nice pulling it out of nowhere. By the way, I love no one. You can't see Jordan, but he's ready to strum that hard like he's in position. The bar, named after Reggie Jackson was handed out to people entering Yankee Stadium, but disappeared in the eighties. It's okay, here we go, question two with Alex up one zero. In England you can find deep fried mars bars at chip shops all over the place. But what candy bars the most popular one to deep fry at state fairs across America. I have no hits. That was I heard us. I saw the strum, but I didn't hear it. But Jordan's that was Alex that we're getting up. We're getting word from the booth that it was Alex who came in first. I don't know. It's a WiFi thing. I think Jordans go ahead, Alex. Is it snickers? Oh? The answer is snickers. Alex fell from my old stick. Being a judge on food competition shows the old change of direction. It is snicker bars deep fried at fairs across the United States. Producer Crystal proudly from the state of Kansas. I'm assuming you've had a deep Fried sneakers bar out of state fair. Nope, No, okay, handle it there. It is okay, now listen That means, Alex, you are up to to zero with one question remaining. Good thing is on food court. Question three is worth two and a half points, so question three can take it home right here. In the movie The Goonies, m Chunk and his new friends Sloth bond over their love of what Candy bar or Jordan's proudly with the harp coming in with Baby Ruth, which is correct. What a scene Baby Ruth bonding over their love of the big Classic. I do the food and beverage for the San Diego Symphony, which just opened up an amazing theater called the Shell, which is sort of like Hollywood Bowl but newer. And last year I got to see the Goonies than with the Symphony playing the soundtrack for the Goonies, and it was incredible, incredible. Jordan's you have two and a half points. I mean you get to decide who presents their case first. You want to bat first? What do you want Alex to bat first? I would? I want Alex to go. I want to see what we're working with here. He talks a big game, but I want to see this. Okay, I'm in your head. I'm in your head. I own you that's so cool. And we are back today in the food courts, and we have friends podcasters hosts Gentleman extraordinaire Jordan and Alexander here to argue milk first, dark chocolate. The way this works is that each of you will have three minutes to state your case. During this three minutes, you need to lay out your case and not focus on your opponent or their case. Use the three minutes as your camp hating time to really convince me that you're correct. Does this make sense? Yes? Absolutely, all right, now, now don't fret. You'll get two minutes of rebuttal time to let your opponent know why their position is absolutely wrong after so don't worry. Okay, here we go. The first argument is going to be alex for dark chocolate. Your three minutes starts now. Okay, So the health benefits of dark chocolate are I'm not even gonna bother repeating those because you can just google them in thirty seconds and you'll find seventeen different listicles that are, like, you know, dark chocolate is fiber, minimal, minerals, so on and so forth. My argument in favor of dark chocolate boils down to the following question that I will put to you, Mr Runt, Would you rather be popular or would you rather be interesting? Because everyone knows I'm not here to just try and sway public opinion. And milk chocolate is is the favorite across the country. But but it is showy, it is a peak talk. It is uh it is it is playing to the cheap seats. Dark chocolate is the underdog. It takes the path less trodden, and that has made all the difference. Here's my and and now we're going to get into the food nerds stuff you don't. You can put milk chocolate with other forms of sugar and cream, right, that's what you get. But you take dark chocolate. You can put dark chocolate with anything. Dark chocolate is going to bring out the flavor profile of whatever you put it with. It's going to make much more interesting combinations in whether you're talking savory, whether you're talking sweets, whether you're talking other things, which there surely are in the world as far as tastes. And you know, look, everyone wants to be the guy who sinks the half court shot. Everyone wants to be the guy who has the dunk from the foul line. Nobody wants to win the sixth Man Award. But you know, the sixth Man Award is a very important award. Dark chocolate is coming up and batting relief. Dark chocolate is coming up and making the the outfield catch. You know, milk chocolate is Jack Nicholson literally chewing the scenery, breaking through the wall with an axe. Dark chocolate is Daniel day Lewis disappearing into a role. You never walk out of a film saying god, I wonder if that was Jack Nicholson. He really disappeared into that role. You never walk out of a tasting experience going god, I wonder if there is this incredible over sweet, over creamy taste profile. But you can walk out of something going god, I had no idea that was Daniel day Lewis. And you can walk out of a tasting experience saying, wow, they put dark chocolate in that. That's incredible. Uh. And you know what, here's if you needed one more. I don't even know where I'm at with time. I'll just keep going. I'm running an autopilot at this point. Dark chocolate can actually make you smarter. It can improve blood flow to your brain. It can also reduce insulin resistance or improve incident insulin sensitivity. It can help manage your cholesterol. It can lower the risk of your heart disease. It can possibly reduce high blood pressure. It might even improve your gut health, can stimulate the flow of gut back Trio. That's my time. Thank you, Oh my god, Alex coming out strong, swinging lots of great points. I mean the health benefits, you know, that's that's one that we knew was gonna come up, for sure, But who knew? Who knew that dark chocolate was this side arm middle left handed reliever on the baseball diamond or the sixth Man. I resonate with this. I am. I'm the sixth man, producer Crystal talk, I'm the sixth Man. I love that. No guts, no glory. Jack Nicholson's pretty popular. That's the only thing there. It's like milk chocolates popular. And you know, is he is it more of the John c Riley of the world. I damn it. I should have gone with that. That happens. But we're feeling things there and like Lauren, cholesterol and makes you smarter that Okay, listen, Jordan's you will have your time right now. Three minutes to go, we'll do some fact checking on whether or not chocolate makes you smarter during your three minutes, Jordan, Your three minutes to let us know why milk chocolate is amazing starts now. Well. To me, it's very hard not to make my pro milk chocolate case a continuation of my anti dark chocolate case. But today I stand before you to argue the merits, the benefits, the life giving properties, if you will, of milk chocolate defined as containing UNCO. That's not how you say that, but we're gonna go with it. Given the recent rise of the dark chocolate agenda here and after, referred to as big Dark, the milky alternative has been given a bad, slanderous reputation as the cheap, poor quality option. The good stuff diluted with powdered milk not on my cheap cocaine, but for anyone with a real sweet tooth, milk chocolate satisfies this craving like no other. Despite its ubiquity, I think milk chocolate is now the underdog, and I'm here to stand up for it. I may not have the sports analogies at my fingertips. Michael Steamed, colleague I'm not have the depth of actors and their performances and metaphors at my fingertips, but I bring heart. So please allow me to start with milk chocolates trademark the way it melts in your mouth what Gourmand's referred to as mouth feel. Milk proteins in the chocolate had a velvety creaminess, and the butter fat softens the cocoa butter, giving it a smooth even melt. And milk chocolate has a much more complex flavor profile than most, including my esteemed colleague, give it credit for, with traces of decadent caramel and traces of toffee and also multi deliciousness. It's so good that people we all sorts of items enrobed in milk chocolate, including crickets, grasshoppers, and worms. And you know, it's also the relative newcomer on the block when it comes to chocolate, so it represents the wave of the future, the cutting edge better living through chemistry. It was invented a hundred fifty years ago when on Rinestly figured out how to make powdered milk and another squist chocolate here mixed it with dark chocolate to create the first milk chocolate in world. And finally, it's generally cheaper due to the fact there's less cocao. Why can't I say that word coco? Just go with that used, leaving you with more money left in your pocket to purchase even more chocolate. And I'd like to use whatever remaining time I have to do a dramatic roll call of my favorite milk chocolate bars, crunch Kit, Cats, Tablerone, Twix, Milky Way, Snickers, and I'll see the rest of my time. Thank you. Jordan's resting his case. Tablarone makes an appearance. Milk chocolate. Milk chocolate, the chocolate of the future, the progressive chocolate, the one that goes with everything. Listen, I mean we may have to eat crickets at some point in are like, we may have to the world may have to use the protein found in ground up crickets. And how are we going to do that without coding them in milk chocolate. What an incredible point that is, I mean, science coming to play. There's notes of caramel and toffee, probably because there's lots of sugar and milk chocolate. It's probably where those notes come from. Both amazing and let's be honest, butter fat is a great thing to say. There's I mean, it's we're talking about melting point and mouth feel, but my mouth feels good saying melting point and butterfat. Two great cases. Here we go two minutes of rebuttle time, and we are well, we have a fact coming in, and it is true that dark chocolate may also improve the function of your brain. So we googled this, speaking amazing function of the brain. Both of you with great first rounds. Alex, you're up for a rebuttal. You got two minutes to let Jordan know why milk chocolate sucks. Your time starts now, I mean, Jordan's I appreciate everything you're saying, but you're coming from a place of fundamental wrongness. I think your strawman argument is that you're painting milk chocolate is an underdog. In what world do you live in where that's actually true? I don't understand where this this notion of I mean, you take something like a butter fat and you combine it with sugar, How is that an underdog? That doesn't make any sense to me, you know, and frankly, it's a bad faith argument and I'm upset that you even brought this into our our friendship. But you know, I also argue for the I don't think you even addressed my point, which is that dark chocolate is ultimately the more versatile of the two. Again, you don't, and you don't know this because I think you only cook like chicken breasts to feed yourself. But you have you ever? Have you ever tasted a perfectly done mola sauce? Have you had something that involves the actual taste profile of the older, more established, more i'mal and sacred as dark profile of dark chocolate. Have you I don't think you have, because you wouldn't then have the palette of a small child crying incessantly for sweets and milk fats and droning on and on about mouth feel. I'm sorry you wouldn't. I feel like you're arguing from a complete pace of of bad faith and fake news. And you know, frankly, I'm gonna walk off this debate stage. I mean, I mean, I don't. I've insulted, I yield my time, yielding the two seconds that we left. I don't know, Crystal, we have to go back in the archives here. I don't know if we've had a rebuttal that was so personal. You know, he really caught me off off off guard, so I had to when he goes high, I go low, Jordian just before as we go forward this the court just wants to acknowledge there's nothing wrong with simple chicken breasts cook. Thank you, thank you very much. I think it's again. I'd like to have any time that he seated, and also the time time that I seated for my rebuttal. I'd like to to really double down on my rebuttal time now in the wake of these slanderous personal this court will not allow any more time. But this court will allow you to go as hard as you'd like for the next two minutes, and your rebuttle time Jordan's starts now. Dark chocolate lovers, like my esteemped colleague here, loved to tout the alleged health benefits, to which I say, you gotta be healthy. Eat a damn apple. That's like choosing vodka over whiskey because it has lower calories. Embrace your questionable decision, you cowards. And also, Mars Incorporated, over the last fifty years has sponsored a hundred studies looking at the benefits of chocolate dark chocolate, and surprise of those had positive outcomes because they're funding them. Something's fishy. When I want a sweet treat, I do not reach for dark chocolate for the same reason that I don't reach for a piece of chalk or a miniature bar of hotel soap. Because it's bitter, dry, dusty, crumbly, and largely edible. It's both an abomination of taste and mouth feel. Sure, dark chocolate is more natural, but you know what else is natural? Malaria, rocks, tornadoes. I don't need a reminder that my candy is from nature. In fact, the more unnatural the better. In my opinion, the only way milk chocolate could be improved it isn't more closely resembled the unholy neon rainbow of a fun fetty cake. Milk chocolate is fun. Dark chocolate is for adults. It's the chocolate that says, my peloton is exacerbating my lower back problems. It's the chocolate that says, I'm aware of Billie Eilish, but I'm unable to name any of his songs. It's the chocolate that's the character. It's the chocolate that the character. Andy no doubt eight at the end of toy Story three, after dropping off his donation box. No spoilers, but you know what I'm talking about. Dark chocolate is the sophisticated thing that we all feel pressured to like, but at its heart, we all know it's joyless. We all there are many of you say that dark chocolates an afrodisiac, but as the Jay Giles Band so eloquently put, it loves stinks. So that's another strike against dark chocolate. And you know, the high flute and culture around dark chocolate is the candy culinary equivalent of wine snobbery. Sure it's a little bitter, but it's so complex, and the salt really offers like such a an interesting nuance to the flavor, to which I say, if I wanted bitter, complex and salty, I'd call my friend and co host Alex Heigel. Oh wow, you're you're you're virtual. But I'm gonna let that Mike cool off a little bit. I miss my kicker. I didn't get to my kicker. Damn. Well, listen. Good thing is that you'll have final words right after this break. Okay, everyone, we are back, and I have had a chance to think about my verdict. This one, I'll be honest with you, is very very tight. It could go either way before I deliver my verdict, Jordan, you were very animated that you had something else to say. What would you like this court to hear? Yeah, I just want to respond to my colleagues accusations that I have an underdeveloped, undersophisticated palette. Well, I don't want to have to go through training to enjoy my candy. And you know what, Searching this episode, I've come across countless articles called how to eat dark chocolate. I don't want to how to guide for dessert. And also I'd like to add that these names of these dark chocolate bars are weirdly sexual, things like Jara Delli, Dark Chocolate, Intense, Dark Midnight, Reverie. That's a real chocolate name. And now, if there's one thing I know a lot about, it's compensation, and this name sounds like it's compensating for something, and that's something is terrible taste. The best thing I can say about dark chocolate is that it isn't white chocolate. Okay, okay, it's setting us up for another debate down the road with white chocolate, all right, Alex. Jordan's like Viz. I can see he's really this is an emotional this is an emotional plea here, Alex, what what what are your final words? You see his vain throbbing up. You know, Jordan, I want to speak to your point that dark chocolate is for adults and it's a bad thing. You can live in this perpetual extended adolescents with her candy colors, shooks and these so called beach boys, but you can't fight City Hall. Time only goes in one direction. You have to grow up. At some point you have to put away you know, you want to go really personal and bring up toy story three. At some point you have to put that donation box out. I know we love to live in this protracted, extended childhood in America, of this infantilizing culture, but that's not how the world works. And at some point to be a fully contributing, functioning member of society and a fully self actualized human, you have to embrace that. And on the other side of that, yes, slightly bitter pill is dark chocolate. I yield. By time, we're gonna need a ballot? Are we going too dark with this? There? Going about your going. I mean, honestly, this is the full the full send here you're going, you're kidding, wait ordering the court. I mean this is bring bring it to you, guys, bring it together. I know this is a serious topic. It is come to this Court's attention that the two of you do have to work together again very at least. I do want to remind everyone that although this is a very serious topic, this is not life or death. And I hope that both of you will be able to, you know, get along and also invite me on one of your podcasts in the future, because you know, someone's feelings might get hurt a little bit. Here. Both making the case that whether it's dark or milk chocolate, that they're both the underdog, right, they both have benefits. It's if you want to be popular or do you want to be interesting? Do you want to be fun? Or do you want to be healthy? Do you want to be just sweet or do you want to be something that works with savory? And after factoring all of this in, I have to say that this Court was ultimately persuaded by one specific argument came in the rebuttal. This Court will order in favor of milk chocolate. I am very pleased with the court's decision, a little surprised, to be honest, but I am absolutely delighted. What was the point the impassioned rebuttal? The impassioned rebuttal? Although Alex had it, I wrote it down when when Molay came into the game, I thought it was it was it was a secret weapon. I was like, it's dark chocolate. But you're impassioned rebuttal. I mean, even though at one point when you're like, who'd wants to eat? I I do, actually every once in a while want to bite Hotel soap. I don't know why, but that really that connected with me. And then the Billie Eilish that was that was just that's just that was it. That was I mean, it was just too much and I could see the passion coming through. And you know what, Alex, I'm sorry to say this. I do want to be popular, Alex, but I also want to be interesting and healthy. Such a tough decision, gentlemen, Thank you so much for being a part of the Food Court. Thanks for listening to Food Court. I'm Richard Blaze and I've been You're a judge. You can find too much information podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can find Jordan's on Instagram at Jordan Runt Hog and his new podcast Too Much Information that drops new episodes every week. Tune in to get so much information you won't believe it. And you can find Alexander at alex Underscore a High Goal on Twitter and anything else you want to plug there. Alex are taking is all the way up to the next the highest court in the land, which yeah, and listen, it might happen. I could be getting replaced for next season. We don't know this. There could be a higher court stepping and that's something that possibly could happen. Listen, audience, what do you think? 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