And were you drinking, by the way, still are sparkling? I was drinking still I can't get a smart work. Yeah yeah, see even you, even you in your private moments, you go still, You're like, call them all those bubbles down. Hey, everybody, welcome to hold up. It's a big show about little things that really aren't anything. I am one of your co hosts. My name is Josh Shaunson. I'm a writer for The Daily Show and I am joined by those days line. I am a correspondent on a daily show. I'm also a stand up comedian like Josh, I also have a crafter. I like what line locks on the beach and uh, like I said before, beating them all with you daddy? So m somebody daddy, because that's who's been talking to me recently. Its father's Yeah, if you've been binge listening. In the Mall with your Daddy is a real theme, probably one of the strongest themes of this show. We've held on to in the Mall with Your Daddy longer than anything, Longer than I've been doing a Manisphere content, longer than I've been grinding. In the Mall with your Daddy has been consistently in every episode for quite a while. And yeah, it's a true movement, you know, um, you know, you never know what you're gonna be called upon. Yeah, because malls are dying and dads don't get enough love, and so to mix the both of them together, to really say screw Amazon moms and let's go full mall daddy. Wow, incredible. I applaud the work you do. We're gonna start the episode because I mean, it's actually it's already started. It's already turning up. It's already turning up, and you know what we need because I don't know about you. I think you might. You might be at home right now. But from where I am recording, it is hot, all right. It is hot, like a place that I hope to never see. It is hot. It is. It is. It is sweltering. You're warming that podcast and the lights don't help, all right, it is. I am, Yes, I'm burned up. But it brings me to today's time. Y'all send my brothers some water? Can you send them a cool beverar rush today? And I want you the listener to think about who ended up on which side? All right? Because today before we tell you. We're gonna let you know right now, it's still versus sparkling water. Listen. What I challenge us today is we can both see both sides of this corn right, both sides of this coin. But I think the listeners are gonna think, oh, well, josh is going still and don't say it's going sparkling right, m You don't want them to play the music, you know what? Play the music all right? Listen, Joshua, tell the people where you staying? You were right? I am still okay. We knew, we knew, we knew. But I want to say that the reason that I chose sparkling, and I think the reason that Sparkling is getting the shine that it's getting, it's because everyone's trying to drink less sodas. I was never a big Solda persona um because they were always too sweet for me, which I know people looking at me aren't gonna believe. But guess what. Most of the time obesity is genetic, your bitch. So I can say that a lot of time it was too sweet for me, but I really do enjoy. Also, we have to remember when it comes to the sparkling water one, I think it's an interesting term. Yes, yes it is. Why don't we just say bubble water? Because bubble water sounds like you're drinking plastic. The name bubble water just doesn't roll off the tongue like sparkling. Like if if you went to a nice restaurant they walk up to your hands behind their backs, you know, the way that they lean over the table, like can we interest you in some still or bubble water? You'd be like, the second one doesn't sound real, so I'm gonna take the still, Okay. I was wondering where they pick sparkling because it does seem like a very high end thing. I think that my my thing with sparkling, why why I don't really drink it and why I pick still over it is that the best waters that I've ever had have all been still. I think that when it's still, you pay attention to the taste more because you know, sparkling is it is a taste in a sense, you know, well, yeah, because you have like but the thing is like there's the difference between like you've got a seltzer m and then you've got like club soda and seltzer. That's that's a lot of Seltzer is truly just drinking bubbles. Yes, but there's no water in here. You've seen the person that was like, uh, sparkling water is just spicy water. Yes, somebody thinks it's like McDonald's sprite is spicy m And then somebody said a hotel air conditioning is the ac version of McDonald's sprite. I was like, yes, yeah, yeah, I accurate. Little little dirty gets the job done, right. But the bubbles, like the bubbles and club soda. Clubs soda is giving you accompaniment. Club soda is giving you exact you know, an accentuating an adjective to your beverage. Right, okay, in the words of Black Forage or the beverage electrics. We love her. Who knew that I could eat magnolias? Um? I very much enjoy water. I always we all need drink more water. Um. But sometimes you just want to have a little adventure, so sometimes you would infuse your water. I love and infuse water spa water. Um. Oh did you think you see the thing? I think it was like over the summer where it was like, I guess this white woman had never heard of like agua fesca before. Oh yeah, yeah, And they were calling at spa water. Yes, yes, is it all of like and then like Latino TikTok or Latin x TikTok or Latin TikTok uh was taking like white people things m hm and like they um and it's just like uh, I was like, oh a hot dog, was like oh look at this, like look at this fun taco, this fun taco. Yeah, it's fun tacos, or like a burger was like a torta, or they would take all this like white people shit. It'd be like, yeah, we're just gonna the same way you're lat You tried to like steal Oh you took water and put fruit in here, like it's like somebody's like no, bitch. Like the girl did the whole recipe for like I think it was like fresago fresca and she was like, oh, it's like strawberry spar water and everyone was like no, no, it's not. Yeah, it's it's agrafsca. You boy. It's just so not. It's so not. And so sometimes you just want a little divergence, you want a little fun thing. You want to throw some fruit in some water. So I get it. But also have you heard this that sparkling water doesn't hydrate you. Yeah, I was just about to get to that. That's that's why I picked the still. I don't understand that this is my thing. Mmm. Okay, first of all, you know, we're just gonna get to that moment a little bit earlier than usual. Okay, we're just gonna go ahead and hit it up early, all right, all right for my men Jesus, all right, for my men out here fighting on the grind. Okay, you need to be hydrated. Okay, you don't need this sparkling, bubbly water. You don't need to be burping boogie all right. You need to be hydrated with the elixir of life, with with with the body of the earth into your body so you can sweat, so you can have water that comes out of you that you're drinking. Right, it's a version of that, because you can sweat out the toxins. Okay, you can't do that off sparkling water. You can't do that. If you try to work out and have sparkling water, I bet you pass out or I bet you pass out. Yeah, thank you, thank you, du said, do you really want to be out here trying to grind? Trying to get the man shoulders with bubbles coming out of your body. All right, you can't grind with bubbles. Bubbles too soft? Okay, did you imagine them? See when you out here bench pressing and you're you're putting in so much work that you're sweating, that you're that you're just shooting water out of your pores. You don't want bubbles in your pores. It'll kill you, believe me. Believe me, If you get bubbles in your pores, you're gonna die. All right. Carbonated water is because carbon dioxide. Right. I wonder what would happen if you put another gas in the water, Like, can't you put another thing in it? Like we put like a bunch of Can't you put a bunch of oxygen in the water? Can you oxygenated water? You get oygenate? Can't You're asking the wrong person. You also have a theater degree. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm just here because I think still is the best nutritional you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get you get your minerals in all right. Okay, they add minerals to the water, Okay. Oxygenated water is a relatively new functional water product that has oction added to in the canting process or bowling process. The added oxygen has claim to provide health benefits, including aiding exercise recovery, flushing out toxins toxins, and improving alcohol matibalism. Josh, are we about to get the oxygenated water game? I think if we get into oxygenated water and I'm already drinking green tea and I'm already eating dark chocolate, I think I might be the healthiest man that's ever lived, all right, I think I might actually be so healthy I start floating. That's what I want. Some people want to get big and strong and look all Morris chestnutty. I'm just trying to float. I'm so healthy. I'm not making that man. No more. We're not We're not printing this nigg out no more. I don't know what. I don't know what happened. I thinks you had to be born in the seventies. He drinks still water, all right, I'll tell you that right now. That dude drinks a bunch of water. He has to as skin ass. It's honestly, like wild, this is the thing. He's one of those dudes where are just like I know, he's like I know plenty of married men. Women try them all the time. People try like women men whoever they are married men who get tried by people all the time. And have heard married men tell me plenty of men a man and said when they had their rings on, there was women in their face or people in their face all the time. He is one of those dudes where like, would you find out he's married, you just like respect and then you just back away slowly, like I'm gonna be as respectful to this man. Because some men you're like, I'm married, and I'm sure you want to be like give a fuck? What does that mean to me? Which is always a crazy response from a human being. But there's also certain people you're just like and God bless your wife, like you just want like I don't want, I don't want to call. His skin is so clear. It does look like he could melt. Yeah, he's like chocolate chocolate. Remember those ax Bodius break commercials And people got mad because I guess it was like chocolate scented and they were like women like this woman on this bus like bit into this man, like this chocolate man. No, I did not see this. It was an AX bodies spread commercial, this woman bit into this chocolate man and people wanted to be upset about it, and I was like, I don't understand why people are mad about this. This seems like a wonderful idea that got mad. Also, people also got mad at There was like a Skittle's commercial where there's like I guess things that didn't make sense, and it was a Korean irishman if people got mad at that too because it was this Korean man but he had a red beard and a heavy Irish accent. It was funny and shit, Now did are there any Korean irishman? I mean there's got to be some, right, there's Chinese Jamaicans. Yeah, But still when you when you, when it happens, we can't act. This is my thing. This is why I don't like when people do. Sometimes something will happen and people aren't even allowed to be surprised. Yeah, like the innocence of surprise can't also be Yeah, I see there were There was the Jamaican restaurant in Miami that that was run by Chinese Jamaica's and there was literally two lines in the restaurant, people that had been there before and people that hadn't been there before because the people that hadn't been there before needed a minute to process what was happening. So there's and there were these two likes it sounded like a movie. There was these two old Jamaican men, like black Jamakan men that would sit there like playing chess or some shit, and then they would watch people come in the restaurant and like at one time we came there was they were I told the sword for years. So I was a little girl. The mother and the son were arguing in the back, and you hear two Jamaican people arguing, and then this guy he's never been there before. He was like talking. He's like, yeah, I heard it's a great spot. Dada da da da. And he's standing there at the register and the lady comes out and she's like, you know, it's like you know, how can I help you? And he goes and she's like yes, said Chinese that Jamaica don't want you want And he's like ah and she said okay, stand over there. And then there was just like a line of people who were processing Chinese Jamaicans. That's wild. And then there was a line of people getting food like it was like, oh, you don't get standing over at your whist in time. And so of course they were out of everything ever, like every good Jamaican restaurant is. But then there was a line of people and so but the guys were like, oh, watch this, like they were tap. They were like, you know, black people see something like So he comes up talking, yeah you know I heard it was a good spot, and they're just sitting there like hm. He's like it's like, oh, you've never been here before, and they're like no, He's like he just went okay, And then they were like very excited to see this man see Chinese Jamaicans for the first time. Yeah, but it's like, think about it as a kid, the first time you saw a black person with a British accent, You're like, what the hell is Yeah, what are you? What are you doing? What are you? What do you? You're real good at that. That's a real good And then and then obviously you realize history. Yeah, and then you like, oh it, you know Windwood and just okay, coo coo coo coo cool. But also it's like, but people are everywhere. So yeah, because when I was in Scotland, we went to a Korean restaurant in Scotland, and I've been to as a crab Benue, a Korean restaurant in Australia. I always I guess I was going somewhere and looked for Krean restaurants because it's more viable for them, because like my two favorite foods or Mexican food and Krean food, and sometimes it's more plausible for there be a Korean restaurant somewhere than there is a Mexican restaurant somewhere. Um, because I remember we were shooting that TV show in London and they had like a Mexican restaurant that that was like catering. Yeah, and I was like, this is gonna be bad, but I'm gonna order it because I want to see how bad it's gonna be. Can you bloody terrible? Yeah? I was. I was like, this place needs to be I remember going, Josh, this place to be shut down. The thing, okay, that I you reminded me of when you were saying, like any good Jamaican place you know they were out of everything, is that when I am in a place that's very specific, like we're talking like not just a general country's cuisine or you know, like culture's cuisine. We're talking like like super super specific. When that like just a Roman spot and they're not out of anything, and it's a little late in the day, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna get poisoned because like all y'all are doing is ramen. How does everything on the menu available? Yeah? Like it's like if you went in a Jamaican place and they were like, oh no, we're fully stocked, and it's like seven pm, You're like, oh no, what went wrong here? I feel like sometimes it's like, honestly have to go. Oh, maybe you're paying attention to your inventory. Maybe you roll that's when you roll the dice. You're like, look, maybe someone in the back is very good at inventory, or somebody in the back is very bad at cooking, but we're about to find out. It is interesting when you go to a Jamaican spot and you're like, oh, y'all have everything. Like the place we went to in London. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the two because he went like what two maybe three times something like that. At least two they were always out of the paddies. Yes, there are then the beef, the chicken, the veggie. They always had them like, bro, I don't want a vegetable medley wrapped him dough. I'm good? Yeah, but yeah, why yeah, why undercut all my vegetables right now with a deep fried bratty dough? Yeah, I mean that's That's the other thing I think Still wins out because still is rewhere. Sparkling isn't everywhere. But maybe it's because sparkling is so new to us as a concept as a label, you know, uh, because like as a kid, you didn't really drink, Like, there's so many water brands now, Like it makes me go, Like when I see all these water brands, I was like, what if the water that we need they're just sitting in these bottles, you know what I mean? Like the world? Yeah, like the way we like. It's like I feel like, oh, there's a water shortage and I'm like yeah, because like fucking pollen. Oh yeah, we bottled it all. Yeah, we bottled it all, and then we wouldn't and then we opened a bottle, took a couple of SIPs, and now we can't figure out because I literally I was at a bar yesterday. I think I think I thought I drank my water. I think I drank someone else's water? What what happened? So I'm no, I had a water in my jacket, and I threw my jacket over in the booth and I left, and I was like, oh, my jacket with the bottle was like the top of it was like pushed in, like it fell down. And I was like, oh, somebody picked up my water and put on the table. And then and so I grabbed it was drinking it because I didn't think, because it was like it was a bottle of SmartWater that I'd gotten from work, and I knew it was my water because it was water in my jacket. And then I was talking this guyet at the bar and he was drinking a bottle of smart water, and I'm like, I've never seen a bar with bottles of smart water. And I was like, oh shit, I drink that water because I knew it was my water because bars on my bottles of smart water. And then it's like, wait a fucking minute, this might not be And by that point it was too late, you know what. But when I put on my jacket last night, there was not any water. Maybe there was my water. Where'd my water go? You know? Sometimes there's a mystery that just cannot be solved. Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia your heart. Yeah, where's my water? Yeah? Where's my water? Sounds like one of them. And were you drinking by the way still or sparkling? I was drinking still. I can't get the smart water. Yeah. Yeah. See, even you, even you in your private moments, you go still, You're like call them all those bubbles down. Let's get that still in listen Sometimes, like if you've ever had I love doing like a fruit and fused water. Yeah, And so I'll take a little fruit and fused water and then I'll maybe sometimes I'll do it with sparkling. Sometimes I'll do it with still. Sometimes what I'll do is I'll put a little like peal like or this electro lead, which I really like. You like that one? Yeah, I like this one. This is a coconut flavor. Um, no nothing the technically there's water in here now, but coconut flavor is nice. Um. It only takes a little bit like sunscreen, but it makes you feel like summertime salt, and you could do anytime. I like a tropical uh fruit because it holds up more in the water. Yeah, but like a cucumber water is very good cucumbies. Um, I can say that for the fun factor. Just like when you're sitting up drinking like fucking eight glasses of water, all this water we're supposed to be drinking. Yeah, sometimes you're like, I need to switch things up a bit. If you have like a whiskey and soda, right, it gives you a little something as opposed to just putting straight water in some whiskey. Because when I first used to do whisky and water, and I'm like, I don't sound so they just used to do less whiskey. No, you take whiskey, you're a little you know whatever, how much whisky, And then they would just have them put in like as much club soda someone would put in. Yeah, they would put in some water. So wait, okay, wait wait they would but they are watering down there whiskey. But anytime you put in a mixer, you're watering down Alcohol's the club soda is just water with bubbles in it. This is just water with no bubbles in it. But the water is just straight water. So the water is like diluting the whiskey. Isn't the club soda adding bubbles and some water? Yes, Because if the water in club soda doesn't have the same like um makeup as the still water, it seems. I it's it's like breaking my brain because I'm like, when you add club soda, it feels like you're adding something. When you add water, it just feels like you're taking something away. I understand what you're saying, because you'd also get it with no ice either. I can't tell you when I work. Way back when I worked to Julia's this, this is what we came in and she wanted um like basically a cup of ice water. She wants water, and she was like, don't put any ice in it, though, And I always used to do that because I know that the ice can take up so much space in the cup that you're getting less of your drink. But she was like, I don't want it to get water down because it'll taste different. And I was like, it'll taste the ice will taste it'll and she was like, yeah, it'll taste different if I let it. If the ice water is my drink down, it'll taste different. I was like, I thought she for a second. I was like, oh, so you don't want water, and she was like, no, I do want water. I just don't want it to get I know some people don't like restaurant ice, Okay, I know, um some people they won't like if you're on vacation, won't drink ice because the water isn't always filtered. Yeah, that does make sense. I know when I was in the UK, they don't serve alcoholic beverages. Like when I was in Scotland, Edinburgh Fringe and they were saying that they only have ice for the Americans because they'll make because they'll make a drink and they don't do ice. They don't do ice, So like the alcohol's room temperature, and say they get like a whiskey, no soda. Both items are like room temperature. That makes sense because then people will come here and be like, oh this is this drink is so nice, or like this thing is so refreshing. Well, nothing's refreshing at room temperature. Yeah. Yeah, But they were saying that the reason they don't do ice is because it waters down to drink. But they're like Americans are obsessed with getting our ice in. Yeah, well I think we love a cold beverage. Also, I don't mind ice watering down a drink that doesn't bother me because my goal is not to get fucking trashed. My goal is to enjoy an alcoholic beverage. Yeah, And at the end of the day, it's like I don't listen. No one enjoys the taste of alcohol. People enjoy the feeling that they get from alcohol, or you've had better tasting alcohol. But if we enjoyed the taste of alcohol, we wouldn't have cocktails, and we wouldn't have mixed drinks. Sure, if alcohol tasted good, we'd have no screwdrivers, no gin and juice, no other other We wouldn't be doing another ship. Yeah, because it it uh, it's smelly. It is. It's smelly, it's flammable. They could do a lot of damage to your body if you drinking on a regular basis. M But I can say that's sparkling water. Now, it's like that makes sense because like the fact that just water adding water alcoholic broke your brain because I felt like it was taking something away that's so interesting. Clubs some about like it's adding something. Yeah, I just felt like it was adding the bubbles, it was adding the you know what I mean. Because I also think for your health and for feeling refreshed still is the way to go. I think that, like sparkling is a more We're at an event or we're having dinner. Yeah, we're having fun. But if it's hot out and somebody basically offers you a flavorless sprite, you're gonna start swinging. Even if they offered you of like a Lacroix, you'd be like, I am burning up if I don't need that. I learned that on a summer's day it was hot. I was outside someone HANDLUI your Lacroix, and I was like, what a fucking waste of time? It tasted good. We all love pompa Moose, But did I get the refreshing that I needed in that moment? I did not. Okay, I mean scarcly has it. I do love that, you know, because there's different levels of you know, bu bujas in your water. Some of them seem bigger than others. Coca Cola seems to have the biggest fucking bubbles in life. Pepsi seems to be bigger. I don't even like pepsi, but I did have a Coca Cola for the first time in years about like two months ago. That motherfucker it's not a bad I get it. I'm not gonna probably drink it again from five more years. But because I don't know you can drink cocola regular basis, I also don't like. I've known people like my grandmother drank it a lot, and I was just like, I don't get how this is. I feel like, now you just have a sugar craving. Now it's more like, oh you like the repetition. It's more routine now. It can't be for this flavor, because she gave me some one time and I was like, woof taste like burn. It is heavy. It is heavy. Fact when you do that experiment as a kid, you put the tooth and coca cola and it's rubbery. Has always bugged me. You're drinking to cooke. Your teeth feel weird. But a cold coca cola does do something. Because a cold coca cola, like a nice, nice cole coca cola on a hot day, we'll do more than a lacroix um. I can't ask you this. Have you for the wrap up soda stream? I've tried it and it is not for me. But I respect a good soda stream. I respect a soda stream in the home. You know, I respect someone's twenty four to seven access need for a bubbly water, did you know? And this is from my listeners out there. I was at someone's house for a New Year's Day brunch without the New Year's are a party of the night before everyone went home. We came back for brunch. They were doing mimosas. Ran out of champagne, but people had brought like a couple of bottles of white wine, and I said, Yo, just put this cheap ass wine in the soda stream and it worked. That's wild, that's but that's all champagne is. It's just carbonated wine. Yeah, not fermented, because fermented is different. It's carbonated wine. So you put the white wine, and I want and I want to hear. I want to see all the comments. I want to see all the messages for people that took some cheap ass box wine tossing into fucking soda stream and bam, it's mimosas all day. Baby, what it is having to be a live So let's kick it over to the listeners because I know that this is a constant conversation that we're all having right now. Sparkling versus bubbles. We all know the sparkling. I guess it had to. It's rich people origins, so that's why it's called sparkling, because you know, middle class and lower we would have called it bubble water and kept it moving, you know, yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I just want to hear from you all out there. Do you prefer when when the server comes up to you, do you prefer still or sparkling? Do you like the feeling of the bubbles? Do you like to watch them pop up to the top of the glass. Are you a bit bougee? Hold on, I have gone out to restaurants recently and it's been still sparkling or tap mmmmmmm, okay, it's coming out of a bottles bottle. It's coming out of a bottle. And so somebody said to me, and there's this uh comic on Instagram. I think his name is mister Red that I watch on TikTok is the Cuban guy and he does like the two parts between him and his girlfriend is absolutely amazing. But they do like a sketch. They're at on a date and the guy comes up, you know, still sparkling water, you know, at tap He's like, y'all take government water. And for like a week where I would go out, someone's like, you want the government Water's fine? It makes you stop, makes you stop. You know, is a bottle? Is a bottle or is it sink? Is it bottle or is it sink? M and them is the questionnaise la. We have to ask in these streets because you never know whose municipalities you out here sipping on. Friend, you let us know, let us know in the comments we read them, we love them, and let us know who you think did the better job of debating their side. All right, you are you with me? Are you gonna keep it still? Are you gonna be out here and the only thing still about you is your water because you're always grinding, you always running, you always putting it in a work. Or you're gonna sparkle. You're gonna try to be a little star, be a star, be a star. Look at look at your girl. Check it out. Beam bam, head bam. I've lift up my foot. But you know that you gotta earn that, you know what I mean. So I'm saying this. We're we're always glad that y'all are listening to you know me and Josh just have these conversations about the things that you think are interesting. Please keep posting your comments, Please keep telling us what things you want us to debate, because I'm telling you I finally found the long Instagram message. Yes, yes, and that young lady put in a lot of work, So thank you friend. Um, when we do yours, we will definitely, I will definitely make sure that we shout you out. Um and let us know if you want us to come to your city, to your city, to your city. Um. Yes, we're always touring. So if you check the links in the description, you can find both of us in our dates and everything. Yeah, and listen, me and Josh would love to come to your city, to your neighborhood and talk about things afore. Also, I'm trying to check out these mills because guess who's in there, your daddy. Y'all have a great rest of the week into the weekend. We appreciate you. Hey, everybody, it's Josh. I am going to be on the road as part of the Freshman Tour. I'm going to be in all of these cities coming up, and I would love to see you there. You can get your tickets in the link that we provide in the show notes. April ninth, I'll be in Atlanta April tenth, Nashville April twelfth, Mobile, Alabama, April thirteenth, New Orleans April fourteenth at Rouge, and April twent through the twenty second. I'm gonna be in San Diego, Cali for you, so I'd love to see you there. Hello, friends, I've got some dates coming up where you can see me your girl telling the comedy jokes. I'm gonna be at the Blue Room Comedy Club in Springfield, Missouri, April sixth through the eighth. I'm going to be at the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas April nineteenth through the twenty second. And I'm going to be at Lass Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, May eleventh through May thirteenth. It'll be available on my website m I leak three and just at the club probably, so come see me. I love you, Bye,

And were you drinking, by the way, still are sparkling? I was drinking still I can't get a smart work. Yeah yeah, see even you, even you in your private moments, you go still, You're like, call them all those bubbles down. Hey, everybody, welcome to hold up. It's a big show about little things that really aren't anything. I am one of your co hosts. My name is Josh Shaunson. I'm a writer for The Daily Show and I am joined by those days line. I am a correspondent on a daily show. I'm also a stand up comedian like Josh, I also have a crafter. I like what line locks on the beach and uh, like I said before, beating them all with you daddy? So m somebody daddy, because that's who's been talking to me recently. Its father's Yeah, if you've been binge listening. In the Mall with your Daddy is a real theme, probably one of the strongest themes of this show. We've held on to in the Mall with Your Daddy longer than anything, Longer than I've been doing a Manisphere content, longer than I've been grinding. In the Mall with your Daddy has been consistently in every episode for quite a while. And yeah, it's a true movement, you know, um, you know, you never know what you're gonna be called upon. Yeah, because malls are dying and dads don't get enough love, and so to mix the both of them together, to really say screw Amazon moms and let's go full mall daddy. Wow, incredible. I applaud the work you do. We're gonna start the episode because I mean, it's actually it's already started. It's already turning up. It's already turning up, and you know what we need because I don't know about you. I think you might. You might be at home right now. But from where I am recording, it is hot, all right. It is hot, like a place that I hope to never see. It is hot. It is. It is. It is sweltering. You're warming that podcast and the lights don't help, all right, it is. I am, Yes, I'm burned up. But it brings me to today's time. Y'all send my brothers some water? Can you send them a cool beverar rush today? And I want you the listener to think about who ended up on which side? All right? Because today before we tell you. We're gonna let you know right now, it's still versus sparkling water. Listen. What I challenge us today is we can both see both sides of this corn right, both sides of this coin. But I think the listeners are gonna think, oh, well, josh is going still and don't say it's going sparkling right, m You don't want them to play the music, you know what? Play the music all right? Listen, Joshua, tell the people where you staying? You were right? I am still okay. We knew, we knew, we knew. But I want to say that the reason that I chose sparkling, and I think the reason that Sparkling is getting the shine that it's getting, it's because everyone's trying to drink less sodas. I was never a big Solda persona um because they were always too sweet for me, which I know people looking at me aren't gonna believe. But guess what. Most of the time obesity is genetic, your bitch. So I can say that a lot of time it was too sweet for me, but I really do enjoy. Also, we have to remember when it comes to the sparkling water one, I think it's an interesting term. Yes, yes it is. Why don't we just say bubble water? Because bubble water sounds like you're drinking plastic. The name bubble water just doesn't roll off the tongue like sparkling. Like if if you went to a nice restaurant they walk up to your hands behind their backs, you know, the way that they lean over the table, like can we interest you in some still or bubble water? You'd be like, the second one doesn't sound real, so I'm gonna take the still, Okay. I was wondering where they pick sparkling because it does seem like a very high end thing. I think that my my thing with sparkling, why why I don't really drink it and why I pick still over it is that the best waters that I've ever had have all been still. I think that when it's still, you pay attention to the taste more because you know, sparkling is it is a taste in a sense, you know, well, yeah, because you have like but the thing is like there's the difference between like you've got a seltzer m and then you've got like club soda and seltzer. That's that's a lot of Seltzer is truly just drinking bubbles. Yes, but there's no water in here. You've seen the person that was like, uh, sparkling water is just spicy water. Yes, somebody thinks it's like McDonald's sprite is spicy m And then somebody said a hotel air conditioning is the ac version of McDonald's sprite. I was like, yes, yeah, yeah, I accurate. Little little dirty gets the job done, right. But the bubbles, like the bubbles and club soda. Clubs soda is giving you accompaniment. Club soda is giving you exact you know, an accentuating an adjective to your beverage. Right, okay, in the words of Black Forage or the beverage electrics. We love her. Who knew that I could eat magnolias? Um? I very much enjoy water. I always we all need drink more water. Um. But sometimes you just want to have a little adventure, so sometimes you would infuse your water. I love and infuse water spa water. Um. Oh did you think you see the thing? I think it was like over the summer where it was like, I guess this white woman had never heard of like agua fesca before. Oh yeah, yeah, And they were calling at spa water. Yes, yes, is it all of like and then like Latino TikTok or Latin x TikTok or Latin TikTok uh was taking like white people things m hm and like they um and it's just like uh, I was like, oh a hot dog, was like oh look at this, like look at this fun taco, this fun taco. Yeah, it's fun tacos, or like a burger was like a torta, or they would take all this like white people shit. It'd be like, yeah, we're just gonna the same way you're lat You tried to like steal Oh you took water and put fruit in here, like it's like somebody's like no, bitch. Like the girl did the whole recipe for like I think it was like fresago fresca and she was like, oh, it's like strawberry spar water and everyone was like no, no, it's not. Yeah, it's it's agrafsca. You boy. It's just so not. It's so not. And so sometimes you just want a little divergence, you want a little fun thing. You want to throw some fruit in some water. So I get it. But also have you heard this that sparkling water doesn't hydrate you. Yeah, I was just about to get to that. That's that's why I picked the still. I don't understand that this is my thing. Mmm. Okay, first of all, you know, we're just gonna get to that moment a little bit earlier than usual. Okay, we're just gonna go ahead and hit it up early, all right, all right for my men Jesus, all right, for my men out here fighting on the grind. Okay, you need to be hydrated. Okay, you don't need this sparkling, bubbly water. You don't need to be burping boogie all right. You need to be hydrated with the elixir of life, with with with the body of the earth into your body so you can sweat, so you can have water that comes out of you that you're drinking. Right, it's a version of that, because you can sweat out the toxins. Okay, you can't do that off sparkling water. You can't do that. If you try to work out and have sparkling water, I bet you pass out or I bet you pass out. Yeah, thank you, thank you, du said, do you really want to be out here trying to grind? Trying to get the man shoulders with bubbles coming out of your body. All right, you can't grind with bubbles. Bubbles too soft? Okay, did you imagine them? See when you out here bench pressing and you're you're putting in so much work that you're sweating, that you're that you're just shooting water out of your pores. You don't want bubbles in your pores. It'll kill you, believe me. Believe me, If you get bubbles in your pores, you're gonna die. All right. Carbonated water is because carbon dioxide. Right. I wonder what would happen if you put another gas in the water, Like, can't you put another thing in it? Like we put like a bunch of Can't you put a bunch of oxygen in the water? Can you oxygenated water? You get oygenate? Can't You're asking the wrong person. You also have a theater degree. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm just here because I think still is the best nutritional you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get you get your minerals in all right. Okay, they add minerals to the water, Okay. Oxygenated water is a relatively new functional water product that has oction added to in the canting process or bowling process. The added oxygen has claim to provide health benefits, including aiding exercise recovery, flushing out toxins toxins, and improving alcohol matibalism. Josh, are we about to get the oxygenated water game? I think if we get into oxygenated water and I'm already drinking green tea and I'm already eating dark chocolate, I think I might be the healthiest man that's ever lived, all right, I think I might actually be so healthy I start floating. That's what I want. Some people want to get big and strong and look all Morris chestnutty. I'm just trying to float. I'm so healthy. I'm not making that man. No more. We're not We're not printing this nigg out no more. I don't know what. I don't know what happened. I thinks you had to be born in the seventies. He drinks still water, all right, I'll tell you that right now. That dude drinks a bunch of water. He has to as skin ass. It's honestly, like wild, this is the thing. He's one of those dudes where are just like I know, he's like I know plenty of married men. Women try them all the time. People try like women men whoever they are married men who get tried by people all the time. And have heard married men tell me plenty of men a man and said when they had their rings on, there was women in their face or people in their face all the time. He is one of those dudes where like, would you find out he's married, you just like respect and then you just back away slowly, like I'm gonna be as respectful to this man. Because some men you're like, I'm married, and I'm sure you want to be like give a fuck? What does that mean to me? Which is always a crazy response from a human being. But there's also certain people you're just like and God bless your wife, like you just want like I don't want, I don't want to call. His skin is so clear. It does look like he could melt. Yeah, he's like chocolate chocolate. Remember those ax Bodius break commercials And people got mad because I guess it was like chocolate scented and they were like women like this woman on this bus like bit into this man, like this chocolate man. No, I did not see this. It was an AX bodies spread commercial, this woman bit into this chocolate man and people wanted to be upset about it, and I was like, I don't understand why people are mad about this. This seems like a wonderful idea that got mad. Also, people also got mad at There was like a Skittle's commercial where there's like I guess things that didn't make sense, and it was a Korean irishman if people got mad at that too because it was this Korean man but he had a red beard and a heavy Irish accent. It was funny and shit, Now did are there any Korean irishman? I mean there's got to be some, right, there's Chinese Jamaicans. Yeah, But still when you when you, when it happens, we can't act. This is my thing. This is why I don't like when people do. Sometimes something will happen and people aren't even allowed to be surprised. Yeah, like the innocence of surprise can't also be Yeah, I see there were There was the Jamaican restaurant in Miami that that was run by Chinese Jamaica's and there was literally two lines in the restaurant, people that had been there before and people that hadn't been there before because the people that hadn't been there before needed a minute to process what was happening. So there's and there were these two likes it sounded like a movie. There was these two old Jamaican men, like black Jamakan men that would sit there like playing chess or some shit, and then they would watch people come in the restaurant and like at one time we came there was they were I told the sword for years. So I was a little girl. The mother and the son were arguing in the back, and you hear two Jamaican people arguing, and then this guy he's never been there before. He was like talking. He's like, yeah, I heard it's a great spot. Dada da da da. And he's standing there at the register and the lady comes out and she's like, you know, it's like you know, how can I help you? And he goes and she's like yes, said Chinese that Jamaica don't want you want And he's like ah and she said okay, stand over there. And then there was just like a line of people who were processing Chinese Jamaicans. That's wild. And then there was a line of people getting food like it was like, oh, you don't get standing over at your whist in time. And so of course they were out of everything ever, like every good Jamaican restaurant is. But then there was a line of people and so but the guys were like, oh, watch this, like they were tap. They were like, you know, black people see something like So he comes up talking, yeah you know I heard it was a good spot, and they're just sitting there like hm. He's like it's like, oh, you've never been here before, and they're like no, He's like he just went okay, And then they were like very excited to see this man see Chinese Jamaicans for the first time. Yeah, but it's like, think about it as a kid, the first time you saw a black person with a British accent, You're like, what the hell is Yeah, what are you? What are you doing? What are you? What do you? You're real good at that. That's a real good And then and then obviously you realize history. Yeah, and then you like, oh it, you know Windwood and just okay, coo coo coo coo cool. But also it's like, but people are everywhere. So yeah, because when I was in Scotland, we went to a Korean restaurant in Scotland, and I've been to as a crab Benue, a Korean restaurant in Australia. I always I guess I was going somewhere and looked for Krean restaurants because it's more viable for them, because like my two favorite foods or Mexican food and Krean food, and sometimes it's more plausible for there be a Korean restaurant somewhere than there is a Mexican restaurant somewhere. Um, because I remember we were shooting that TV show in London and they had like a Mexican restaurant that that was like catering. Yeah, and I was like, this is gonna be bad, but I'm gonna order it because I want to see how bad it's gonna be. Can you bloody terrible? Yeah? I was. I was like, this place needs to be I remember going, Josh, this place to be shut down. The thing, okay, that I you reminded me of when you were saying, like any good Jamaican place you know they were out of everything, is that when I am in a place that's very specific, like we're talking like not just a general country's cuisine or you know, like culture's cuisine. We're talking like like super super specific. When that like just a Roman spot and they're not out of anything, and it's a little late in the day, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna get poisoned because like all y'all are doing is ramen. How does everything on the menu available? Yeah? Like it's like if you went in a Jamaican place and they were like, oh no, we're fully stocked, and it's like seven pm, You're like, oh no, what went wrong here? I feel like sometimes it's like, honestly have to go. Oh, maybe you're paying attention to your inventory. Maybe you roll that's when you roll the dice. You're like, look, maybe someone in the back is very good at inventory, or somebody in the back is very bad at cooking, but we're about to find out. It is interesting when you go to a Jamaican spot and you're like, oh, y'all have everything. Like the place we went to in London. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the two because he went like what two maybe three times something like that. At least two they were always out of the paddies. Yes, there are then the beef, the chicken, the veggie. They always had them like, bro, I don't want a vegetable medley wrapped him dough. I'm good? Yeah, but yeah, why yeah, why undercut all my vegetables right now with a deep fried bratty dough? Yeah, I mean that's That's the other thing I think Still wins out because still is rewhere. Sparkling isn't everywhere. But maybe it's because sparkling is so new to us as a concept as a label, you know, uh, because like as a kid, you didn't really drink, Like, there's so many water brands now, Like it makes me go, Like when I see all these water brands, I was like, what if the water that we need they're just sitting in these bottles, you know what I mean? Like the world? Yeah, like the way we like. It's like I feel like, oh, there's a water shortage and I'm like yeah, because like fucking pollen. Oh yeah, we bottled it all. Yeah, we bottled it all, and then we wouldn't and then we opened a bottle, took a couple of SIPs, and now we can't figure out because I literally I was at a bar yesterday. I think I think I thought I drank my water. I think I drank someone else's water? What what happened? So I'm no, I had a water in my jacket, and I threw my jacket over in the booth and I left, and I was like, oh, my jacket with the bottle was like the top of it was like pushed in, like it fell down. And I was like, oh, somebody picked up my water and put on the table. And then and so I grabbed it was drinking it because I didn't think, because it was like it was a bottle of SmartWater that I'd gotten from work, and I knew it was my water because it was water in my jacket. And then I was talking this guyet at the bar and he was drinking a bottle of smart water, and I'm like, I've never seen a bar with bottles of smart water. And I was like, oh shit, I drink that water because I knew it was my water because bars on my bottles of smart water. And then it's like, wait a fucking minute, this might not be And by that point it was too late, you know what. But when I put on my jacket last night, there was not any water. Maybe there was my water. Where'd my water go? You know? Sometimes there's a mystery that just cannot be solved. Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia your heart. Yeah, where's my water? Yeah? Where's my water? Sounds like one of them. And were you drinking by the way still or sparkling? I was drinking still. I can't get the smart water. Yeah. Yeah. See, even you, even you in your private moments, you go still, You're like call them all those bubbles down. Let's get that still in listen Sometimes, like if you've ever had I love doing like a fruit and fused water. Yeah, And so I'll take a little fruit and fused water and then I'll maybe sometimes I'll do it with sparkling. Sometimes I'll do it with still. Sometimes what I'll do is I'll put a little like peal like or this electro lead, which I really like. You like that one? Yeah, I like this one. This is a coconut flavor. Um, no nothing the technically there's water in here now, but coconut flavor is nice. Um. It only takes a little bit like sunscreen, but it makes you feel like summertime salt, and you could do anytime. I like a tropical uh fruit because it holds up more in the water. Yeah, but like a cucumber water is very good cucumbies. Um, I can say that for the fun factor. Just like when you're sitting up drinking like fucking eight glasses of water, all this water we're supposed to be drinking. Yeah, sometimes you're like, I need to switch things up a bit. If you have like a whiskey and soda, right, it gives you a little something as opposed to just putting straight water in some whiskey. Because when I first used to do whisky and water, and I'm like, I don't sound so they just used to do less whiskey. No, you take whiskey, you're a little you know whatever, how much whisky, And then they would just have them put in like as much club soda someone would put in. Yeah, they would put in some water. So wait, okay, wait wait they would but they are watering down there whiskey. But anytime you put in a mixer, you're watering down Alcohol's the club soda is just water with bubbles in it. This is just water with no bubbles in it. But the water is just straight water. So the water is like diluting the whiskey. Isn't the club soda adding bubbles and some water? Yes, Because if the water in club soda doesn't have the same like um makeup as the still water, it seems. I it's it's like breaking my brain because I'm like, when you add club soda, it feels like you're adding something. When you add water, it just feels like you're taking something away. I understand what you're saying, because you'd also get it with no ice either. I can't tell you when I work. Way back when I worked to Julia's this, this is what we came in and she wanted um like basically a cup of ice water. She wants water, and she was like, don't put any ice in it, though, And I always used to do that because I know that the ice can take up so much space in the cup that you're getting less of your drink. But she was like, I don't want it to get water down because it'll taste different. And I was like, it'll taste the ice will taste it'll and she was like, yeah, it'll taste different if I let it. If the ice water is my drink down, it'll taste different. I was like, I thought she for a second. I was like, oh, so you don't want water, and she was like, no, I do want water. I just don't want it to get I know some people don't like restaurant ice, Okay, I know, um some people they won't like if you're on vacation, won't drink ice because the water isn't always filtered. Yeah, that does make sense. I know when I was in the UK, they don't serve alcoholic beverages. Like when I was in Scotland, Edinburgh Fringe and they were saying that they only have ice for the Americans because they'll make because they'll make a drink and they don't do ice. They don't do ice, So like the alcohol's room temperature, and say they get like a whiskey, no soda. Both items are like room temperature. That makes sense because then people will come here and be like, oh this is this drink is so nice, or like this thing is so refreshing. Well, nothing's refreshing at room temperature. Yeah. Yeah, But they were saying that the reason they don't do ice is because it waters down to drink. But they're like Americans are obsessed with getting our ice in. Yeah, well I think we love a cold beverage. Also, I don't mind ice watering down a drink that doesn't bother me because my goal is not to get fucking trashed. My goal is to enjoy an alcoholic beverage. Yeah, And at the end of the day, it's like I don't listen. No one enjoys the taste of alcohol. People enjoy the feeling that they get from alcohol, or you've had better tasting alcohol. But if we enjoyed the taste of alcohol, we wouldn't have cocktails, and we wouldn't have mixed drinks. Sure, if alcohol tasted good, we'd have no screwdrivers, no gin and juice, no other other We wouldn't be doing another ship. Yeah, because it it uh, it's smelly. It is. It's smelly, it's flammable. They could do a lot of damage to your body if you drinking on a regular basis. M But I can say that's sparkling water. Now, it's like that makes sense because like the fact that just water adding water alcoholic broke your brain because I felt like it was taking something away that's so interesting. Clubs some about like it's adding something. Yeah, I just felt like it was adding the bubbles, it was adding the you know what I mean. Because I also think for your health and for feeling refreshed still is the way to go. I think that, like sparkling is a more We're at an event or we're having dinner. Yeah, we're having fun. But if it's hot out and somebody basically offers you a flavorless sprite, you're gonna start swinging. Even if they offered you of like a Lacroix, you'd be like, I am burning up if I don't need that. I learned that on a summer's day it was hot. I was outside someone HANDLUI your Lacroix, and I was like, what a fucking waste of time? It tasted good. We all love pompa Moose, But did I get the refreshing that I needed in that moment? I did not. Okay, I mean scarcly has it. I do love that, you know, because there's different levels of you know, bu bujas in your water. Some of them seem bigger than others. Coca Cola seems to have the biggest fucking bubbles in life. Pepsi seems to be bigger. I don't even like pepsi, but I did have a Coca Cola for the first time in years about like two months ago. That motherfucker it's not a bad I get it. I'm not gonna probably drink it again from five more years. But because I don't know you can drink cocola regular basis, I also don't like. I've known people like my grandmother drank it a lot, and I was just like, I don't get how this is. I feel like, now you just have a sugar craving. Now it's more like, oh you like the repetition. It's more routine now. It can't be for this flavor, because she gave me some one time and I was like, woof taste like burn. It is heavy. It is heavy. Fact when you do that experiment as a kid, you put the tooth and coca cola and it's rubbery. Has always bugged me. You're drinking to cooke. Your teeth feel weird. But a cold coca cola does do something. Because a cold coca cola, like a nice, nice cole coca cola on a hot day, we'll do more than a lacroix um. I can't ask you this. Have you for the wrap up soda stream? I've tried it and it is not for me. But I respect a good soda stream. I respect a soda stream in the home. You know, I respect someone's twenty four to seven access need for a bubbly water, did you know? And this is from my listeners out there. I was at someone's house for a New Year's Day brunch without the New Year's are a party of the night before everyone went home. We came back for brunch. They were doing mimosas. Ran out of champagne, but people had brought like a couple of bottles of white wine, and I said, Yo, just put this cheap ass wine in the soda stream and it worked. That's wild, that's but that's all champagne is. It's just carbonated wine. Yeah, not fermented, because fermented is different. It's carbonated wine. So you put the white wine, and I want and I want to hear. I want to see all the comments. I want to see all the messages for people that took some cheap ass box wine tossing into fucking soda stream and bam, it's mimosas all day. Baby, what it is having to be a live So let's kick it over to the listeners because I know that this is a constant conversation that we're all having right now. Sparkling versus bubbles. We all know the sparkling. I guess it had to. It's rich people origins, so that's why it's called sparkling, because you know, middle class and lower we would have called it bubble water and kept it moving, you know, yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I just want to hear from you all out there. Do you prefer when when the server comes up to you, do you prefer still or sparkling? Do you like the feeling of the bubbles? Do you like to watch them pop up to the top of the glass. Are you a bit bougee? Hold on, I have gone out to restaurants recently and it's been still sparkling or tap mmmmmmm, okay, it's coming out of a bottles bottle. It's coming out of a bottle. And so somebody said to me, and there's this uh comic on Instagram. I think his name is mister Red that I watch on TikTok is the Cuban guy and he does like the two parts between him and his girlfriend is absolutely amazing. But they do like a sketch. They're at on a date and the guy comes up, you know, still sparkling water, you know, at tap He's like, y'all take government water. And for like a week where I would go out, someone's like, you want the government Water's fine? It makes you stop, makes you stop. You know, is a bottle? Is a bottle or is it sink? Is it bottle or is it sink? M and them is the questionnaise la. We have to ask in these streets because you never know whose municipalities you out here sipping on. Friend, you let us know, let us know in the comments we read them, we love them, and let us know who you think did the better job of debating their side. All right, you are you with me? Are you gonna keep it still? Are you gonna be out here and the only thing still about you is your water because you're always grinding, you always running, you always putting it in a work. Or you're gonna sparkle. You're gonna try to be a little star, be a star, be a star. Look at look at your girl. Check it out. Beam bam, head bam. I've lift up my foot. But you know that you gotta earn that, you know what I mean. So I'm saying this. We're we're always glad that y'all are listening to you know me and Josh just have these conversations about the things that you think are interesting. Please keep posting your comments, Please keep telling us what things you want us to debate, because I'm telling you I finally found the long Instagram message. Yes, yes, and that young lady put in a lot of work, So thank you friend. Um, when we do yours, we will definitely, I will definitely make sure that we shout you out. Um and let us know if you want us to come to your city, to your city, to your city. Um. Yes, we're always touring. So if you check the links in the description, you can find both of us in our dates and everything. Yeah, and listen, me and Josh would love to come to your city, to your neighborhood and talk about things afore. Also, I'm trying to check out these mills because guess who's in there, your daddy. Y'all have a great rest of the week into the weekend. We appreciate you. Hey, everybody, it's Josh. I am going to be on the road as part of the Freshman Tour. I'm going to be in all of these cities coming up, and I would love to see you there. You can get your tickets in the link that we provide in the show notes. April ninth, I'll be in Atlanta April tenth, Nashville April twelfth, Mobile, Alabama, April thirteenth, New Orleans April fourteenth at Rouge, and April twent through the twenty second. I'm gonna be in San Diego, Cali for you, so I'd love to see you there. Hello, friends, I've got some dates coming up where you can see me your girl telling the comedy jokes. I'm gonna be at the Blue Room Comedy Club in Springfield, Missouri, April sixth through the eighth. I'm going to be at the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas April nineteenth through the twenty second. And I'm going to be at Lass Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, May eleventh through May thirteenth. It'll be available on my website m I leak three and just at the club probably, so come see me. I love you, Bye,