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2:12

Knock it off you two. Hi, Mike. Welcome

2:14

to the show. Well,

2:16

thank you very much. Thank you for

2:18

having me. Hello, Mike. It's good to

2:20

talk to you. Tell us, Mike, where

2:22

are you talking to us from

2:24

right now? Where are you in the

2:27

world? I am in Lake Placid,

2:29

New York, up in the Adirondack Mountains.

2:31

We've been here before, but it's

2:33

a beautiful spot. I've been here for

2:35

about 20 years. I'm raising three

2:37

wonderful kids, and I get to work

2:39

out in the woods of the

2:41

Adirondack Mountains all time. This sounds kind

2:43

of perfect. I have been up

2:45

to Lake Placid. And of course, Lake

2:48

Placid, am I correct? Is that

2:50

the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid?

2:52

1980 and 1932. Yes. Okay. I

2:54

wasn't around for that one. If potentially

2:56

2026 for the sliding sports, we're

2:58

going to find out. Uh, I just

3:00

got the word about that. It's

3:02

not happening. Yeah. I'm

3:05

the first one they talked to. Yeah,

3:07

I'll tell you later. It's a whole thing.

3:09

I'm on the board. But, Oh,

3:13

those... Yeah, the sports where you lay still and

3:15

gravity does it all. Oh,

3:17

come on. Well, I'm sorry, but it is.

3:19

Just stay really still and you might get a

3:21

gold medal. Don't

3:23

move. Remember we just

3:26

had a Bob's letter on this? Oh, yeah.

3:28

That guy was full of shit. Hey,

3:31

I stayed really still and I won.

3:34

Good for you, Bob's letter. Look,

3:36

this got off to a bad

3:39

start and I apologize, Mike. But

3:41

I do think Lake Placid is a beautiful place.

3:44

And also, home of the Adirondack

3:46

chair. I'm going to say the Adirondack

3:48

chair is the best outdoor wooden chair one

3:50

can have. It gives you the most back

3:52

support. Hot take. Yeah. That's my hot take.

3:54

So, I know what's yours. So, not?

3:57

I don't know very many others. Okay. Go

3:59

ahead. So, Conan, why have you not used

4:01

the Adirondack chair for the summer s'mores then?

4:03

Well, we should have an Adirondack chair the next time

4:05

we're outside. And I'm going to demand one. And

4:08

then I want to keep it at

4:10

the end of the night, and I don't

4:12

want to pay for it I want

4:14

it to be courtesy Which means basically it

4:16

ends up yeah, I know some people

4:18

who make Adirondack chair So if you decide

4:20

to go with it, I just think

4:22

that's a fantastic chair the Adirondack chair check

4:24

it out The tell us what do

4:26

you do? What is your profession? How

4:28

do you make your way in this cruel world? I,

4:33

about 10 years ago, I founded a company

4:35

called the Forest Farmers. We, and

4:38

my business partners, we owned 10

4:40

,000 acres of forest land here

4:42

in the Adirondacks and Vermont. And

4:45

we collect sap from lots of

4:47

different tree species and turn it into

4:49

syrups and sugars and all sorts

4:51

of beverages and delicious food. So basically,

4:53

let me touch on the chase.

4:55

You're in the maple syrup business. Not

4:57

just maple syrup, but other tree

4:59

syrups as well. Yes. Maple syrup is

5:01

our number one thing. I didn't

5:03

know there were other tree syrups. What

5:05

other tree syrups are there? We

5:07

do birch, beech, and walnut. And there

5:09

is another five species that we

5:11

could do, but we're not in the

5:13

right part of the country to

5:15

do that. OK. I

5:17

don't. That's strange to me.

5:19

I mean, maple is the go

5:21

to. And it's suddenly

5:24

like you're saying, oh no,

5:26

there's another kind of Kleenex

5:28

other than Kleenex. There's

5:30

Zorzabar tissues. So

5:34

describe, what

5:36

does it taste like? How is it different

5:38

beach from maple? Or is that just an

5:40

impossible thing to describe? No,

5:43

no. So every different tree

5:45

syrup tastes a little bit different.

5:47

Some are very different than

5:49

others. And

5:51

it has to do, you know,

5:53

a lot of types of sugars that

5:56

are present in the sap and

5:58

then how you boil it down. And

6:00

so beach syrup tastes similar to

6:02

maple, but with more like a raisin

6:04

-y, fake type of complex to it.

6:06

Oh, interesting. I'm glad you asked

6:08

this because actually we have a syrup

6:10

taste test to go. I have

6:12

no palate. They don't... Let's bring

6:14

them in. We have... This is very exciting. here

6:16

that we're going to try. Syrups. This is fantastic. Yeah,

6:20

so I had sent syrup

6:22

for each of the three chill

6:24

chums. Oh, so they each

6:26

have a syrup. Oh, look at

6:28

that. This looks

6:30

like Jager Bob. That

6:34

is each, you know. Oh,

6:37

wait, should I wait till we do it?

6:39

Yeah, let's wait. Let's wait. OK, yeah. You can

6:41

take us through this, Mike. Oh, I see.

6:43

Each one, I understand. We don't

6:45

each get a plate. Each plate, yes. a

6:48

type. Move the plates to the middle. And

6:50

so you have your birch, you have your

6:52

maple. What's that one right over there?

6:55

This is pure maple.

6:57

Oh, man. That's maple walnut. a

6:59

pure maple, which is the traditional

7:02

one, and then a maple walnut.

7:04

OK, I think what we're going

7:06

to do is I just want

7:08

to have a few more questions

7:10

before we start tasting, which is

7:13

I know when I was a

7:15

kid, I was tasting

7:17

what I thought Was syrup but

7:19

it wasn't it was the

7:21

stuff that you get at the

7:23

supermarket Basically in the 60s

7:26

and 70s. We were lied to

7:28

What was I eating not

7:30

just the 60s and 70s? We're

7:32

continually being lied to like

7:34

the vast majority of people in

7:37

the US Consume

7:39

the fake stuff. You know the enchimima,

7:42

Mrs. Butterworth, log cabin, all that stuff.

7:44

So Mrs. Butterworth

7:47

is a liar, is what you're saying.

7:49

Does she not even exist? Was she a

7:51

real person? I saw

7:53

Mrs. Butterworth move on a kitchen table.

7:55

She's got to be real. I always

7:57

assume she was a very small person

8:00

whose body was filled with syrup. Yeah.

8:02

Yeah. Next, you're going to say, you

8:05

know, ego waffles aren't real waffles. OK,

8:07

let's not do that. I'm sorry. OK,

8:09

that's just slanderous. That's like saying there's

8:11

no Santa Claus. You're such a conspiracy

8:13

theorist. So anyway, that's just basically sugar

8:15

and what? What is it? Well,

8:17

it's corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup,

8:19

and an artificial maple flavoring. And a

8:21

bunch of preserves. What happened to this

8:23

country? This country was founded on

8:26

something important, and now we've lost our way.

8:28

But you're going to bring it back because

8:30

you're talking about real syrups. Syrups that come

8:32

Well, Conan, I know a

8:34

huge history buff. You bet I am. Civil

8:37

war. It's not just civil war.

8:39

Don't pigeonhole me. I know all

8:42

histories. Oh, no!

8:44

I think he got mad at me when I said

8:47

not when I said not just civil war. We

8:49

lost his connection We'll get it back. Don't worry. a

8:51

matter of time. This is tough because I

8:53

really want to drink these It looks so good.

8:55

There's something that can be good. Let's start

8:57

with the pure. Let's stir. Should we go ahead

8:59

and do it? No, no, we're gonna wait

9:01

until he comes back, but we can at least

9:03

distribute Okay, if I had access to this

9:05

much syrup I'd take a bath in it Oh,

9:07

I don't think would. I'm going to keep

9:10

that in. I'm going to keep that in the

9:12

podcast. We're not recording. We are still recording.

9:14

All right, for sure. But this

9:16

doesn't matter. The band's gone. I'm

9:18

going to put that. This guy

9:20

up in the northern reaches of New

9:22

York, who gets syrup out of

9:24

a tree, his computer went down. Big

9:26

shot. His computer is

9:28

made of balsa wood. It probably

9:30

runs on SAP. You

9:33

know, there's there's like

9:35

a Falcon. What's that? What

9:37

are you reading? I'm reading this thing.

9:39

There's this is dark, robust maple syrup

9:41

for Sona. Yeah. Since she is

9:43

traditional and sweet. Oh, that's nice. Oh, so

9:45

these are each tailored to us. Normal syrup that

9:47

Yeah, but all going to taste all of

9:49

them, I think. So the first one is the

9:51

pure maple. Can you read that again? Yours

9:53

is nutty. Probably real nutty. All right. Well, listen,

9:55

this gentleman is not with us at the

9:57

moment. Can you hear us? I don't think so.

10:00

He's not on yet. Well, I just think

10:02

this gentleman who we're talking to, Mike, who makes

10:04

the maple syrup, his connection has gone down.

10:06

Yeah. Because they don't think they have Wi -Fi

10:08

yet in Lake Placid, New York. And that's going

10:10

to cost them the Olympics if they can't

10:12

get it together. How

10:14

will people lose without Wi -Fi? Yeah.

10:16

Yeah. There's no way to lose. You

10:20

can't lose. It's

10:22

a no luge situation. Why

10:25

am I laughing so that? You're laughing because

10:27

the fumes from the syrup. Stupid. He'll be

10:29

back any time now. And you know what?

10:32

I don't know who sets these things up,

10:34

but I'm sure. They cheated. Is it Eduardo? Who

10:37

tests the signal? It's a team effort. Team

10:39

effort, I see. Well, that's a nice way to throw

10:41

people under the bus. I didn't say who is on

10:43

the team. I said, I'm part of the team. OK,

10:45

don't worry about it. And listen, you won't be blamed,

10:47

Aaron Blair. I'm sorry. for

10:50

okaying a connection that isn't there. Can we

10:52

send these people equipment? Is there

10:54

a way to get it? I took a sip. Oh,

10:56

you cheaters. I know. supposed to taste ahead of

10:58

time. I can't help it. It's really good. You

11:00

should just take a little, take a little. No,

11:02

I play by the rules. He's the older sibling

11:04

on Christmas morning that won't let us go look

11:06

at our gifts. No, I remember

11:08

those days. Teacher, you forgot to

11:10

give us homework assignment. There he is. Hey,

11:13

you're back. I'm back. Hey, you're

11:15

good. And listen, Mike, I want you

11:17

to know that I take... for

11:19

that system going down. And when I

11:21

say I take responsibility, I mean

11:23

my bad team. I

11:25

think you're going to blame it on

11:27

Eduardo or Sona. Yeah, it's playing

11:29

Eduardo. We call them Bledwardo. Bledwardo's

11:32

a beast that screws everything everything everything up. up. up.

11:34

up. up. everything up. a beast up.

11:37

beast up. Bledwardo's

11:39

up. Bledwardo's that everything up. Bledwardo's

11:42

a everything up. The mayor

11:45

is a dog. Did you know that? OK.

11:48

Mayor Max. Way too much

11:50

information. You see it's Mayor Max.

11:52

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11:54

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11:56

know what I'm thinking about? Hosting an Airbnb while I'm

11:58

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12:14

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16:45

syrup. Pure maple syrup. syrup. And

16:47

tell us, when was this harvested? What's the

16:49

best time to get that maple syrup? Is

16:51

it the winter? Well, actually the

16:53

best time is right now. We're in

16:55

the middle of maple season. Let's taste

16:57

it right now. No doubt about it,

16:59

yes. That's

17:02

delicious. Good, good. That

17:04

is heaven. That is so good. is

17:06

so good. The texture. Oh

17:09

my god, it's just like Mrs.

17:11

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17:13

out of a shot glass, too.

17:15

Well, again, that feeds into your alcoholism.

17:17

It sure does. I can't take

17:19

too much of it straight. Wow, Sona. I

17:21

know. I don't know how you do it. I

17:24

just have a little taste. I'm a

17:26

hummingbird. I will just drink nectar. That

17:29

is fantastic. That is, I

17:31

mean, the taste, the texture. Well, because it's

17:33

not the fake stuff, right? So. the fake

17:35

stuff is what people are used to, but

17:37

when you get the real thing, it's, you

17:39

know, that much better. Yeah. Yeah. Once you've

17:41

had, hey, once I've had this, you can't

17:43

go back, you know? I can't go back.

17:45

I'm going to go Well, you have two

17:48

others to try. All right. What's the next

17:50

one you want us to try? There's

17:52

Maple Walnut and then there's Birch. Well,

17:54

okay. Okay. So Birch is much different

17:56

than Maple. Maple Walnut. Very similar to

17:58

maple. It's just let's do that. Well,

18:01

I can't talk about it because you

18:03

guys okay? Let's do me. we supposed

18:05

to clear our palate like with some?

18:08

Oh, yeah, take a little water. Maybe

18:10

just take a little sip of water.

18:12

Oh, yeah, okay. Sure. Yeah Let's read

18:14

the description here maple walnut syrup Matt

18:16

syrup is made from the sap of

18:18

maple and walnut trees It's mostly sweet,

18:20

but just a tad just a tad

18:22

but nutty and Excuse me. I'm just

18:24

reading what he wrote. In honor of

18:26

Professor Gorely, thank you, Mike. Conan,

18:29

you go screw. Go screw. OK,

18:31

here we go. Oh, my. Oh,

18:33

I really like that. I

18:35

can taste the difference. I can taste

18:37

the walnut. So good. Oh, that is

18:39

so good. I love that you have

18:42

the walnut. The walnutty. It's got that

18:44

just little nutty sound. Yeah,

18:46

nuts. for

18:48

Gorely, because everybody loves Gorely, right? Fast

18:51

around. Who are you asking? Thank

18:53

you. Thank you, Mike. Thank you. Were

18:55

you chatting up a bear in

18:58

the woods? An elk come by?

19:00

I'm sorry. I like gorelly. Oh,

19:02

I'm so happy. Oh, yeah. Oh,

19:04

my God. I really got to say

19:06

I love drinking myself there. That's

19:08

just, it's staying in there. She's so

19:10

thick. Yeah. She's thick. So,

19:13

can Jesus, look at her go.

19:15

I just want to... You're like a... You're a

19:17

monster. I'm so happy. You're

19:20

not even drinking all it. I can't. I can't

19:22

take that much pure... That's a lot of syrup,

19:24

yeah. I can't do it. You don't need to

19:26

drink it all. Yeah. I like to get little

19:28

taste, you know? No problem. You're the person that

19:30

goes to the wine tasting and just drains the

19:32

whole bottle. It's true. And they say, know,

19:34

you spit in this barrel and then you drink out of

19:36

the barrel. Oh, this

19:38

smells very different. So,

19:40

Conan, it's very different. And this one

19:43

is definitely for you, Conan. This is

19:45

for Conan, since it's made from very

19:47

tall white birch trees. And

19:49

this syrup has a reddish hue. It

19:51

is sweetened, fruity, but

19:53

slightly acidic with very

19:55

unique flavors. That

19:57

is me. This is a good description of me.

19:59

Oh, man, I'm so happy. As

20:01

birch syrup gonna catch on, do you think?

20:03

I hope so. If I have a great

20:05

spokesperson. Oh, no.

20:11

Oh, no. Oh, my. No.

20:14

This is me. Well, you're not supposed to

20:16

have, no, you're not supposed to have birch

20:18

syrup on its own. So I was going

20:20

to try to, like, warn

20:22

you that, like, people just don't drink

20:24

birch syrup. Like, you wouldn't just,

20:26

like, a balsamic vinaigrette. You know I

20:28

mean? Oh, OK. Okay, so

20:30

it's used in cooking like it's

20:32

not like something you pour in

20:34

pancakes When you have a little

20:37

bit why did you tell us

20:39

that afterwards? Well,

20:41

cuz you cut me off and

20:43

didn't let me You're so

20:45

excited to drink it was in

20:47

glasses that were presented to

20:49

us at a tasting so how

20:51

did I fuck that up? That's

20:56

a

20:58

very common

21:00

reaction. But

21:02

when you have birch syrup on salmon

21:04

or pork or chicken, it is delicious. Oh,

21:07

I can see that. It's how you use

21:09

it. You have to use it in cooking.

21:11

It's not something you would just drink.

21:13

Nobody would just drink, like I said, balsamic

21:15

vinegar. Yeah, you'd have to pour into cups

21:17

at a tasting. and have

21:19

it be the third thing you tasted

21:21

for someone to accidentally drink it.

21:23

It's kind of accurate, because you on

21:25

your own, you're alive. But with

21:28

me and Gorley. That's through what's had.

21:30

We compliment you. The

21:32

taste of Gorley was fantastic. The taste

21:34

of Sona was amazing. And then when

21:36

you two were quiet and we had

21:38

a little bit of Conan, it was

21:40

repellent. It was sour. It

21:42

was always supposed to be

21:45

slightly acidic. Not fully acidic.

21:47

I wouldn't say that acidic

21:49

is the only issue. How's

21:52

it selling the The

21:54

Bert syrup? How's it how's

21:56

it going? So

21:58

Yeah, the

22:01

Conan one

22:03

Let's call

22:06

it the

22:08

Jordan it

22:11

is Let

22:15

me do a little favor

22:17

here, pal. I don't

22:19

know much about business and such.

22:21

I would put 99 .9 %

22:23

of your business into the two

22:25

maples, the walnut maple and

22:27

the regular maple. I

22:30

would try... Would you have a

22:32

facility where you make the birch?

22:34

yeah we do and yeah blow

22:36

it up blow it up no

22:38

i'm just saying just blow it

22:40

up we do so um big

22:42

big blow up so blow it

22:44

up explosion we do put most

22:46

of our effort into maple that

22:48

is our number good good uh

22:50

yes but the birch sap runs

22:52

after maple and we have a

22:54

lot of customers that do actually

22:56

appreciate birch for its unique flavors

22:59

that use it In cooking lots

23:01

of different chefs can imagine if

23:03

you're grilling and then also based

23:05

that on there. Oh, yeah No

23:07

one would come around has it

23:09

by itself It's not just something

23:11

you normally just drink and then

23:13

we also have a lot of

23:15

people that buy it for Just

23:17

a sap as a beverage because

23:19

that's what's been used for Centuries

23:21

people drinking birch sap in the

23:23

springtime. It's like a spring tonic.

23:26

It's it's delicious Just as a

23:28

sap right out of the is

23:30

that where birch beer comes from

23:32

birch beer There's

23:34

lots of different types of birch

23:36

beer, but the birch beer that came

23:38

out of America was actually the

23:40

distillate of sweet birch or black birch

23:42

in Pennsylvania. It has like

23:45

an oil of wintergreen that's grown in

23:47

the trees. And that's

23:49

what they made the birch beer

23:51

from. Okay. Well, it probably took

23:53

us down an unproductive. was gonna say, I've never

23:55

heard of birch beer. Oh, birch beer is,

23:57

uh, pretty common. Yeah, no. It's out there. Yeah,

23:59

you've No, is that a East Coast thing?

24:02

It must be. I don't drink much. Yeah, it's

24:04

a Northeast thing. More of Conan

24:06

was growing up, too. Yeah, when I was growing up

24:08

every now and then my grandfather would pull up in his

24:10

Model T and see what's he'll get a birch beer.

24:12

And then on the way back, we'd vote for Warren Harding

24:14

for president. See, we just have

24:16

beer. We just have beer, you

24:18

nerd. Okay, well, okay. Well, I

24:20

guess I'm the fool in

24:22

this equation. Well, I this

24:25

is a, you have mostly a thriving

24:27

business, I think. Mostly.

24:29

Be wary of the birch syrup

24:31

and put a warning on the label.

24:33

Do not drink. Okay? Put a

24:35

warning on the Birch syrup label that

24:38

it's not to be, you

24:40

know, no one should drink it. Yes, yes. Oh,

24:42

you know what, better yet, put my face on

24:44

it, no one's gonna drink it. I

24:47

think if we put your face on it,

24:49

everybody would want to buy it. No, we've

24:51

tried that with other products. Yeah. Really? We

24:53

have a cone in fire extinguisher and in fires,

24:55

people won't use it. We have

24:57

a current intubator and people that are

25:00

dying won't use it. Anti

25:02

Paul Newman. Okay, that's nice.

25:07

You win this round. Oh,

25:09

Conan's Own. Conan's

25:11

Own proceeds are stolen from

25:13

charity. Yeah. Oh, my money is

25:15

taken from the kids camps. The

25:19

ship is sinking. Quickly, grab

25:21

the life preservers. They're Conan's Own

25:23

life preservers. I'd rather

25:25

die. I'd choose to drown.

25:29

Well, Mike, you're a good guy. You've

25:31

got a nice business. I

25:33

envy you living up there in

25:35

Lake Placid. Those are cold winters.

25:37

But what a beautiful country. What

25:39

a beautiful place to be from.

25:41

And congratulations on the upcoming possible

25:43

Olympics where people remain perfectly motionless

25:45

and yet are given the highest

25:48

prize possible in athletics. Um,

25:50

I think that's it. I think we're gonna... Oh my

25:53

God. It was a pleasure, Mike. Yeah, we're gonna

25:55

go make some... We're gonna go make some griddle cakes

25:57

and pour two of these three syrups onto it. And

25:59

then afterwards, not use the

26:01

cone in this fibrillator. Yeah, exactly.

26:05

Well, thank you very much, Mike. Take care. Bye.

26:08

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