Hey Jeff. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well. Thank you. How was your weekend?

It was pretty good. I didn't do much. What did you do? Uh, well, I went with you to our cousin's first birthday party.

Right. And that was at a bar. Well, it was supposed to be outside and it rained. So it did get moved to a beer hall in Brooklyn.

Right.

But what was crazy was that this wasn't like the only group of one-year-olds.

Right.

No, that was definitely strange.

Also, you know, there's tater tots.

There's French fries.

There's roasted Brussels sprouts.

Now, that's what I was interested in. And, uh, and obviously like, you know, big steins of beer and all that and big giant pretzels and mustard and all that. Bruins fans. Yeah. Uh, well, it was actually an Islanders bar. Then why were all the Bruins fans there? Because they were playing the Islanders. They were ready to fight at the one-year-old's birthday party. So, you know, I had the tater tots. Those are easy to eat and, like, you know, carry over people and French fries, obviously, even though they were cold. But the Brussels sprouts was what I really wanted. Mm-hmm. And... Right, you're an adult. well i'm trying to be healthy about myself and I'm trying to have a, I'm trying to teach the youth, you know? This thing of, you know, it was sort of honestly, by the time we showed up, it was like the scraps, but I was hungry and I just wanted some Brussels sprouts, but I didn't want to be the guy. And there's scrounging around for Brussels Sprad juice? Well, I, there were no forks or anything, and I didn't know if it was acceptable socially to just grab over and take them with my hands. Sure isn't. No. And then like drip them over like some stranger's shoulder and say like, you know. Sorry about the Brussels bread juice I just left on your shoulder.

Happy, by the way.

Happy birthday.

Yeah, nice to meet you.

I'm the cousin.

I just didn't.

I didn't know what to do.

And then finally, we know this couple like tangentially.

And I was talking to the girl, but her husband brought over some food himself, and he had one fork, and he was holding the tray of Brussels sprouts and eating them, and he offered them to me, and even though I wanted them so bad, I had to say no. Because I don't know, like, I don't know the guy that well. That you could share a fork? No, well, to share a fork, but even, like, to dive in with my hands, I just didn't, who's standing there right next to me, I just couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. So I starved. You know the people were going to start sending us Brussels sprouts, right? You know, the bare naked ladies, the band from Canada, had this thing where people, They had some sort of inside joke where people would throw macaroni and cheese at them, like boxes of homemade macaroni and cheese at them.

If this can be that, if Brussels sprouts are our macaroni and cheese, I'm fine with that.

Actually, if macaroni and cheese, the album by French Montana is our Brussels sprouts, then maybe our new mixtape should be called.

Well, now I'm confused.

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