VLOG : WE SPENT A WEEKEND IN OREGON!

Okay, Michael is a huge fan of protein ice creams, so I got him several new ones from Target. He's had these brands but not these flavors, so we're gonna do a taste test.

So this is actually market research to determine which ones are the best that's lower calorie and has less, uh, sugar. This is actually market research, 100%.

Right, this is necessary.

Yeah, this is very necessary. It's very necessary that I have 6 pints of ice cream.

Okay, so he's already tried these 2.

This one is currently the best, then this one, and then this one. I've tried these 3.

You haven't tried that one.

Yep.

The peanut butter chip? Oh, you're right, you have.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought I got you the pretzel caramel one.

So then these are the ones that we gotta try out. Number 1 so far, Undisputed, undefeated cookies and cream from protein pints. Then right behind that is this bad boy. Well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take these 3, I'm gonna determine where these are in the pecking order. First up, Dutch chocolate from what, frozen one? Oh, it's the same brand as this one. Ooh, just straight chocolate.

All right, let's see how it tastes.

Honestly, the consistency is really good, like just creamy. Yeah, like very Very thick. I was gonna say having straight vanilla or straight chocolate is kind of like having life without any sort of weekends, but 40 grams of protein, that's amazing. Okay, so you know what, baby, that might be better than this one. It's just so thick. Okay, let's try this one. This is, uh, brand new. I've never had this brand, Swoop. You know what's funny, baby? When you sent me the photo, it looked like this and I thought it said poop.

That would be the worst marketing in the world.

Looks icier. So not great. Let's see here. This one's pretty good too. Definitely not as good as the last one. I think that's just a move. See, the thing about cookies and cream, it's kind of like mining for gold. You just keep picking away till you find that little like vein and you start mining on it, you know? And you go down into it and you mess it all up, but it's so much fun. But see, it's so much fun to dig for the cookies and cream. Taste-wise and macro-wise, frozen ones are better. Hi everybody, jump cut to a couple days later. We're making a weekend trip to Oregon, which is Well, we're stopping in Seattle tonight. Stopping in Seattle tonight, 'cause right now it is 7:45. We just left the house. And the reason we went a little later is 'cause this week was training at Augusta. We had 9 new owners and also my general manager, John, from Texas. And so he came over with Nick, the regional manager, to the house and had dinner. And we had a great meeting, great meeting. I'm so looking forward to it. Just ironing out buying trucks, what type of equipment, orientation for the technicians, all the nitty-gritty stuff. Gritty details. So he's gonna be starting next week buying the vans, getting them wrapped, getting the ramps, getting the mowers, and all of that fun stuff. But in the meantime, this weekend we're going to Oregon and enjoying the wonderful weather here in the Pacific Northwest. So come along for the ride.

We made it to Portland. It is such a gorgeous day and we are hitting up a very vibey coffee shop that I looked up. called K. Steady's Roasters. We haven't even gone into like downtown Portland yet. We're technically on like the north side and our Airbnb is like 5 minutes away, so we're just waiting for our check-in time. Um, do y'all have any sugar-free syrup options?

No, we make all our syrups. Darn.

Okay, um, could I do a small Earl Grey tea?

Sure, you want it for here or to go?

Uh, for here please. Unfortunately, they didn't have any sugar-free options because they make all their syrups in-house, which is actually super cool. So I got an Earl Grey tea instead because I've never tried it and I've heard it's really good. And they gave it to me in a whole pot, which is super cute. I just put a stevia packet in it and it's so good. Last night before we headed down to Seattle, we had John, him and Nick, which is the owner success manager over Augusta. They came over for dinner last night, and for the sake of the Texas vlogs, I just like set the camera down and let it record their conversation for like a full hour and a half or however long it lasted. So now I need to upload that footage up to the intern for the media team so they can have access to it to include it in the vlogs when the time comes. It's actually crazy. What's today, the 22nd?

Yeah.

How many days are in August? Um, there's 31 days in August, so 7, 8, 9 plus 29 more days. We're officially less than a month away. I'm So excited! My car is gonna get detailed next month, like the interior's just gonna get a good deep cleaning, and then it's gonna get shipped off. They're gonna pick it up, take my little car way down to Texas, and I'm so excited. Is my tongue blue? I don't think— it's, it's not that bad. I just had blueberries with my pre-workout meal because we're about to go to the gym. But that's not what we're here to talk about. I wanted to show you guys our Airbnb here in Portland, and it is a little messy. We've already made ourselves at home. You know, so first it's, it's super cute. You walk in, that's a very important part, you have to walk in first. Here's the kitchen living space area. It's like a small duplex, it's on the side of another unit, which is really cool. This is like a cool little Easter egg in here. It's a TV that's like a painting, which I've heard according to Michael those are very expensive.

When they came out, because I was looking for the Airbnb, but they're so cool because you don't even think Yeah, like on camera you can tell it's brighter than the rest of the frames, but in person you can't.

It looks very matte and like, yeah, really cool. Nice little kitchen, has everything we need. Up these stairs we've also— Oh, you're right, now y'all can get the full ambiance. So love these 2 corner windows, it's super open. Sorry for the messy bed, uh, we just kind of dumped our luggage.

And then the bathroom.

We stayed one night in Seattle in an Airbnb And it had everything we needed. I'm not trying to complain at all. It was like, very thankful we even had a place to stay. We felt a little catfished by it, or at least I did. But anyways, we don't even talk about it. It was fine. It was a place to stay. It was good. Here we love it. We love this little cute little duplex. Let's go get a workout in and then go exploring. All right, Mr. Michael, what are we hitting today?

Today we are hitting the gym.

What muscle groups?

All of them. It's full body day.

Because we're optimizing for gains. That's the thumbnail right there. Lift done. Back and bicep day. 20 minutes of cardio. I feel like once I check those 2 boxes for the day, I can actually relax.

Van's always like, I have a favor, can we just do our workout first thing?

I like need to get that out of the way or else it's looming over my mind all day. But it was a great, great lift. That was such a cool Anytime Fitness.

Yeah, that was great.

That is like one of the things—

The flooring is great.

Totally. The tile, crisp. Anyways, one of my favorite parts about traveling is that we are able to see other gyms, specifically like Anytime Fitnesses. We like vibey gyms. Sometimes they're a little expensive. Actually, in this Portland area, I wasn't able to find anything like mind-blowing as far as vibey gyms go. We'll see about tomorrow closer to the beach, but it's super cool to see the newer remodeled ones or like just the new gyms in general. So how would you rate your workout this morning?

That was great.

That was great. Now we're going to the smoothie spot.

Num nums.

We got smoothie buckets. So cute.

Folks, we in business. You know it's a good spot when protein makes it inflate and they still give you all of it in two different cups and don't throw it away. Hi folks, it's Wednesday the first. Mini mini mango. Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers, let him go. Eeny meeny miny moe.

Okay, it's good. It's good.

Yeah, very good.

1 to 10?

That's way up there, baby. All right, now that I did the review, now we have Vanna do her review of her food. All right, Vanna, how would you rate this incredible strawberry oatmeal?

10 out of 10, no notes. You know, it's my meal prep slop, as I like to say. The strawberries are looking a little rough because they've been sitting in this meal prep container for about 2 days now, but it's a 10 out of 10 because it's getting me closer to my goals.

And we're gonna try macadamia coffee situation.

We're at this coffee shop. They don't have any almond milk, but they have macadamia nut milk, and the barista was so kind and let me look at the nutrition facts and whatever, whatever. I've never tried macadamia nut, so I got a 12 ounce ice macadamia nut latte with sugar-free vanilla. We will rate it in a second.

All right, so the initial assessment is it feels a little watery on top, a little watery.

It tastes a little watery, but that's okay. I mean, I can't complain because like I'm the one that orders this. I'm the one that orders this because I'm trying to optimize for lower calorie, so like I really can't blame the coffee. Except that is watery, almost like they poured the espresso on the ice. Good thing I grabbed a stevia packet. It's just— I think it just does need sweetener. The milk, I can't even tell it's macadamia nut milk. It's just like very, very subtle. Yeah, it's like almond milk. It's good.

We are in Cannon Beach, Oregon. This is a beautiful beach on the West Coast. Over there you can see the rock formations.

I think it's called Haystack Rock.

Haystack Rock, because, um, it's a stack of rocks instead of straw. But I ran all the way down to that side and then went way down that way. Fun fact that was shared with us from Nick Reed is that the entire coast of Oregon, public beaches. Some people take that a little too far and they think they can drive on the beach, which you can, but someone got stuck. So I tried to help them for a little bit, but they ain't going anywhere anytime soon. So we're not gonna drive on the beach, but it's a beautiful day here.

I was just calling to see if you guys have any keto pastries in-house today. Keto? Uh, looks like we've got, um, cheddar biscuits, some donuts, cookies, and brownies, and cupcakes. Oh my goodness, okay. That's pretty much it.

That sounds great.

Yeah, that sounds great. Uh, what kind of cookies do you have that are keto? Cookies, chocolate chip, sun print, and snickerdoodle. That sounds amazing. What about the brownies? Uh, brownies are just a regular chocolate brownie with With either pecans or chocolate chips on top. That sounds great. Okay, awesome. We were just wondering because we're passing through and we'd love to stop by, so we'll probably be there in a few hours. Wonderful, see ya! All right, awesome. Thank you so much. Bye. Of course.

Bye. Only?

Yeah, I know. She's like, and that's it?

Only donuts, cookies, brownies, cupcakes?

Only everything you would ever need. Well, anywho, we are currently in Astoria on our way home. And Astoria, Oregon. We went to Cannon Beach, as you saw. We're just working our way up the Oregon coast. We're taking it slow. It's just a Monday, you know. We're on our way home. We have like 5 and a half hour drive, so we're just mapping out our, our drive home. Wow, I've never seen one with beans in it.

Yeah, most different types of meat you can get. So good.

Biggest bang for your buck for sure. Yeah, honestly, I kind of find Astoria to be prettier than Cannon Beach just because you see the mountains out here. So gorgeous. It actually reminds me of Vancouver Island over by the pier. Y'all see those words right there? Keto.

Yup, yup, that's killer. 4 of those bad boys. What's the yellow keto donuts?

I believe that's a lemon.

Okay, I'll get red velvet, the lemon, and 2 chocolate keto donuts. Glad no one's behind us.

Are you gonna get one of each or 3 of each?

3 of each, baby. We don't, we don't quit. Okay, I'll get 4 of the chocolate chip, 1 of the thumbprint, and 3 of the snickerdoodles. Sorry, we don't have a keto bakery near our house, so we gotta stock up. Let's get 3 of these, just the chocolate chip ones, uh, the keto brownie bars.

Sorry.

Yeah, we ain't quitters. Yeah, I think so. We'll find out. We'll get 1 red velvet, 1 carrot, 1 Twix— 2 Twix, sorry. And then we'll get 3 of the triple chocolate keto. We are not gluttonous at all, I promise. The vanilla and chocolate salted caramel.

2 each?

Just 1 of each. 1 of each. We would not have 2, that'd be too much.

That'd be too much.

All right, we have to guess. We have to guess how much it'll be. 205. What do you think? It might be more. It might be more.

I would say 215.

Oh, you're gonna go higher? I don't think it's that much. I don't think so. 40, 195, 205, somewhere in there. This is evidence that there are customers who are price insensitive, and regardless of what you price, they're just gonna buy it. It could be double the price and we would still buy it because it's keto. So raise your prices. You gotta raise—

I've had this Okay, so one day I had some time on my hands and I went on Google Maps.

Major prices.

And I was looking for every keto bakery that I could find across the United States, and I saved this one, and it came in handy because we were driving up from the Oregon coast back home, and this is in Olympia, Washington. We were passing right by, couldn't pass it up, literally. So let's see how much the total is. The total was 150, which is no way near how much I thought it would be. I thought it'd be actually over 215, so not so bad. Dozen cupcakes, four cheddar biscuits, three brownies. All I ask is that you save me one of everything. I'm gonna freeze it because I can't have it right now. This is actual torture.

Hey, Father, thank you for this wonderful day. Thank you for this wonderful food. Pray give us traveling mercies home in Jesus' name. Amen. Mmm.

Oh, the the cookies look really good.

Yeah.

Yeah, like lots of chocolate chips.

This is not as good as Still No Sweets.

Really?

For sure.

I like how that's our threshold.

All right, so I'm gonna give this like a 7.9 brownie. The chocolate brownie is pretty good. You can really tell a keto bakery by their keto chocolate chip. Maybe 8.8.

Okay, for one chocolate chip cookie, it's 168 calories. Okay, 2 carbs, 17 fat, 4 protein. Okay, and the ingredients are butter, molasses, monk fruit, vanilla, eggs, almond flour, xanthan gum, sugar-free chocolate chips. It's clean.

Not bad. Wow, they cook— oh my goodness, bands, bands, bands.

Is there a hair?

Yeah, like in it.

Ew.

It's okay, extra protein.

Ew.

Okay, no, I think I just need to try one of these and I'll be good. Maybe I'll have another chocolate chip cookie because that was definitely the best. Is this— which one's this? Is this Twix?

That is vanilla salt. Oh no, you're right, that's Twix.

I'm generally not like a cakey type person. It's like cupcakes, even donuts. I'm not really a fan. Hey, baby, you're gonna have like most of these frozen. So okay, I'm gonna try one more here. Chocolate triple chocolate.

Pretty good.

Coming in first by a long shot, none other than chocolate chip cookie staple.

We're still on our way home. We're so close to home, actually, like ten minutes. And Mike was like, "Can we stop by the headquarters building?" So we are checking out the progress that has been made while we were gone. I think we're still on target to finish in December.

Whoa, look at that fence!

Whoa, it's like a proud dad getting all the angles.

One thing I regret is not taking enough photos throughout the journey, baby. Wow!

Oh my goodness, that's so cool! Whenever they first had the structure up, I was like, how is this gonna be 2-story? It doesn't seem tall enough, but That definitely is— it's getting real.