Welcome to the best of the men's room podcast. Let the shenanigans begin. I had a house, same thing, to vaulted ceiling. I'm much younger at this time, and five of us lived in this house, and it's about two in the morning. Everyone is now out of bed standing in the stairwell, staring up at the smoke detector. We know that's the one and it just, it won't stop, right?

It says, eat, eep, and we're trying to figure out all these things.

And because we don't have money, it's not like we have a ladder.

There's nothing, man. I'm like, well, what do we do? Because we're all awake now. All of us are irritated. And then we tried the thing where, you know, you get on my back and, of course, you're on the stairs, can't quite reach it.

Finally, my buddy Tony goes down to his car.

He grabs his baseball bat, my back, and of course you're on the stairs, can't quite reach it. Finally, my buddy Tony goes down to his car.

He grabs his baseball bat, jumps up, and, I mean, just beats this thing off of the ceiling.

Smack, the whole thing's gone now, right?

There's just like a hole in the ceiling where it was.

And everyone just kind of silently agreed, like, that works.

I'll tell you.

Don't care.

We'll risk a fire. My annoying neighbor thing with me, and I've gotten rid of it since.

And I thought when I bought this is the greatest thing in the world, the big green egg, right?

Yeah.

Okay, it's a hard lump charcoal.

It's a smoker.

It's a smoker.

But you can also grill on it.

So for me, most of the time time I would grill a couple steaks. The times that I attempted to smoke with that thing, I had more neighbors coming up and going like, dude, that smoke is just billowing into our windows. And it's a thick, heavy smoke. Did you have it on your balcony? I had it down in my front yard. Okay. So it didn't matter. It didn't matter. Like my neighbor's next door. The people in the apartment building next door to that. I mean, well, there are more townhomes. But still, I mean, if I walk down the street to get something and I came back, like the entire street was this cloud of charcoal smoke. And I'm like, man, I don't think I live in the right place for this thing.

Yeah, I guess or not. That was just getting the damn thing started. That wasn't even, I didn't even begin the smoking process yet. That was just the hour it took to get the colds going. I mean, that's the issue of smokers, right? Most places will let you have a gas grill. Sure. Whatever. a lot of places you can't have charcoal but yeah it's always like no smokers just it's that much even like a pellet smoker

it's always like no smokers.

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