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Which would be amazing.
It's not about the fans or the sports. It's about your date, Brett. That's what you're missing. That's what you're missing. You're trying to defend being a fan. Being a fan's fine. But also treating somebody that you're with with respect. I agree with Brooke on this.
That is fair. That is the only way you're going to get her to like you. Yeah, until you take him to the Olive Garden. He's like, give me an L. Give me an A. Lasagna, lasagna, lasagna.
Okay. That was a funny joke, Brett.
OK, we just need to apologize right now for taking over your TikTok for you, Paige. Yeah. Sorry, not sorry. My God.
All the old ones are going viral, but the new ones are so much better. OK, I'm so glad you found them. Follow like whatever you're supposed to do on these podcasts and just sit back and listen.
Yeah, that's all it is.
Oh, cool. And the great thing about hockey is that you don't have to, like, even know the game to have a great time at a hockey game.
They're high energy. They're fast.
Oh, right. Even before the game started.
They're just making out. That's exciting. You guys have like instant chemistry.
Yeah, for sure. So did you guys go back? Is that too quick to jump to that part? Now I'm curious.
It may have been cute at the time, but the description just then didn't sit right.
At least she was drunk. Yeah.
No, you guys are having fun. You're having fun.
Cute. Oh, dude. Oh, my God. So you guys are just sending that energy out to everybody around.
This is amazing. Seriously. So where did the bad stuff happen? Where did the weird stuff happen?
So wait, so she actually left?
But also, I wouldn't even leave a game, though, with nice seats. Like, take advantage. And I don't think she was testing them. She was saying, I'm leaving. Like, she wasn't saying, are you coming with me? Like, I don't know. I mean, what do you think?
Yeah.
Maybe she's secretly a fan of the other team.
It's not appropriate for life. I would actually put that one in the back of your pocket and never bring it out again.
That's the wrong cheer for the wrong sport, by the way. It's a baseball cheer.
No. You made out with her. You went to a hockey game. She left. You didn't.
Either way, if Jeffrey makes any sort of baseball references in our phone call to her, we're not getting you a second date. I'm just going to let you know.
Okay, we're taking our annual hockey poll, Jeff.
Did I win tickets or something?
Wasn't it your first game ever? He said that like you had so much fun is what he told us.
He had so much fun, I guess is what I should say then.
I mean, it's fun if you're with kids, maybe, at a game. Like, my five-year-old loves it once, but he even got tired of it the last time he did the wave. It's like, fourth time around, you're like, we get it.
What? Oh, wow. Was he still talking about the wave or was he referring to something else that they needed a man up about?
I don't know. This sounds weird. But do you think he was like showboating, like kind of like weirdly trying to impress you?
I guess. That's concerning. How could you not? You're with your shirt off running down the aisles.
That's what we were spelling. Brett?
Did you hear what she said?
Rachel, are you still there? Did you hang up?
There's a difference between doing the wave and starting the wave.
And here's the thing. Like, you weren't just at the sports game. You were also on a first date. Like, you can't separate those two things. If you can't act appropriately at a sports game, then maybe you shouldn't take a girl out on a first date to one. That sounded very mom-like.
In a way, in a way. Here's the thing. Why don't you just apologize for embarrassing her?
I meant to her for embarrassing her.
They're inside a fucking missile silo. We have two-stage airlock with blast doors that weigh tons. So I knew it was my dumbass. So if I knew my dumbass got killed, my wife and my baby would be safe. Before I even reached the surface, I heard gunfire. The people we saw on camera weren't people anymore. Dealt their fate.
The group that dealt their fate told me they were heading south and that we were welcome to join. I tried to have them join my wife and daughter, but they seemed to have a destination in mind. While I gave them a couple cases of MREs, I knew that they knew I had more. They just took what they needed and thanked me. So Guy...
who worked for the military, now lives in a fucking industrial-sized bunker. Those doors would be insane. Can you imagine that?
Well, I thought what was going to happen is I almost thought that you were going to say that the colonel or whatever, the ex-military guy that he's sending this message to, I thought he was going to tell Nat, be like, you should come here because it's safe. whatever. And I thought it was going to be that. And I'm like, why else would a military guy be messaging some weird fucking 14?
He's like, we have to repopulate the earth. Duh.
Doomsday preppery kind of meme.
They're just on the highway. That's what I mean. I'm like, what do you mean? I went to the coordinates and it's just the highway. I thought it would be like a very specific place on like a mountainside or something. I thought that's what he was saying, right? Or no. He just said coordinates.
I thought last year or something. It's like, oh yeah. He like, I don't know why I thought that, but I, it just seems weird. It's like, yeah, the coordinates are just in the middle of the road. Why?
And the remember album, some of them, the other, the last, the last remember one was a guy that had the car outside and
I don't remember. Why? It functions similar to mercury poisoning or lead poisoning. It's not just affect you in the short term. It does not just affect you in the neurologically is in your bloodstream. And soon, if not already all in your vital organs. So he's saying that his broken arm has been, has exacerbated the effect of the dark watery drink.
Yeah. Which I would be so funny if he was walking. He posted at 11.40 and he's like, yeah, it's high noon right now.
Yeah. So to reiterate to people, too, this is all like an actual real time. So it isn't just like, oh, it's like they did not tweet this story out for another three months. Kind of crazy.
Tucker says, I can't believe it's been over a year since the start of all this. These days, the internet is less and less stable. Buffer speeds are slowing down. Social media is getting quiet. I don't know if it's just because less people are alive or what. I don't really want to know. Then I see ships go by sometimes. Besides that, we're living fairly comfortably in our routines for a while now.
I hate that life feels normal. I told myself I would log back into this account again. I had to get it off my chest. I despise this. And then everything, nobody posts until November. That's pretty crazy.
I feel like people would, if it was an end of world situation, I feel like I would just be happy to see anybody that's like normal and living.
Well, yeah, I can't tell if they're if they're setting up like an umbrella corp thing where it's like our military has to do with this. You know what I mean? Or something like that.
Pretty sure that's the exact same pattern to the footprints we're in last time. Yep.
Yeah, I feel like if the whole... It feels kind of weird to go back home, right?
It is very War of the Worlds, that whole notion. This is the last tweet of the year here on November 23rd. Tucker says, she won't speak to me anymore. I see the dinner table completely silent. I don't know what I did. How the hell do I fix this?
Yeah, it is kind of weird. They're just like, yeah, they have to be in the deal.
Yeah, they're like literally just standing across the room when they're just not talking. I'm sorry for posting. I just need to fix this. Besides Nat, besides all of you, I have nobody else to turn to. I can't afford to lose someone else. It's funny to think about the mechanical abominations of the controlled people roaming free above ground while we're down here.
It makes me wonder if it's so quiet now because whoever's left decided to give up fighting. And that's the last... Tweet of the year in 2019. So we're coming up on almost two years of this. Mm-hmm. In actual real time.
The water cup I was drinking out of.
All right, January 25th, 2020, the first post of the new year in 2020, and Nat says this. She says, thanks to everyone who has been asking about me. I'm doing okay. I just had to do so much growing up in such a short amount of time. Don't even know why I'm on here now. Guess I miss having somebody to talk to. Yeah, I snuck away from Tucker a few weeks ago.
I'm tired of people trying to take care of me and then let me down. Damn, dude. Tucker was the guy who's like, I'm going to go 500 miles for Nat, right?
He wants to act like an older brother to me, but doesn't know how to not control those around him. The surface isn't all that dangerous now. There's still power on the internet. Despite the cold and dark, it's pretty normal. Sometimes I see people from a distance. We make eye contact, maybe a nod, and continue what we're doing.
I want to say to keep sending your experience and DMs, but does it really matter now? It's the same shit. Nothing is new anymore. The ones who are left know how to take care of themselves, avoid threats, and survive. We, the ones who are left, carry on. business as usual, which that was all reposted by the sun vanished.
Whatever you say. But once again, we need to take it as if we're seeing the tweets now.
How did the US military and every other military we know of just go practically silent overnight after months of fighting these things? They suddenly give up? And every voice of influence or the reach to civilians also eventually gives up and takes ridiculous amounts of time in between posts? And what did TSV mean by harvested if there are still people around?
I really like, well, first of all, I just want to say there's a comment that someone just said, this is still happening, question mark. Yeah, she said, you should ask the Sun Vanish about what he meant. But what I've got through DMs, all I know is any war that we were fighting was lost. You want to stay alive? You have to fend for yourself and rely on yourself. Nobody's going to come save us.
God damn, I miss Danion. Fuck Danion. God, if I've been following this shit for two years and I just if I was like scrolling through Twitter one day and I just saw I miss Daniel, I'd be like, God damn, dude, I have to unfollow. I have to unfollow. I mean, am I wrong?
Let me ask you this. What have you preferred so far?
Gregory 88 is just becoming more and more like a savant in my eyes.
The concept is fun. But if I have to hear about Daniel one more fucking time, Isaiah, I'm going to drive my fist through my fucking screen.
About a week later, on February 12th, Nat says, getting a lot of vague, nonsensical DMs talking about the people. Can you be more specific? Do you know who you are?
Yeah, but it's, I don't know. It's just like, look, here he is. And it's like, okay, so you took a bathroom selfie with the flash on?
I like the top comment. It says, I'm going to keep it real with you, chief. He was never there.
You start repeating past trauma too.
we are not liars we are the people trying to help everyone stay safe using daniel and nat as leverage are not something we like resorting to but it is justified your social media accounts have turned into a beacon for the world when the news organizations and government broadcasts seize transmission you became the new media everyone have looked to you for guidance to survive this is a very large responsibility that we the people believe that neither of you are fit to have
Stop it. Stop all resistance efforts? So are you the ones who quietly shut down all the military operations to take those fuckers down? Sure as hell sounds like you are. That's irrelevant now.
I want to, I want to see Nat again too, but there's no more at stake right now. They're trying to take advantage of our hopelessness, our hopelessness at loss.
You touch her and I'll break you. Noted. And then Tucker says, I'm packing to leave first thing in the morning. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going to find the people or they will find me.
Our document, our document. So this is the, this is the thing is here's the thing. It's, it's just so long with just nothing happening. We're not even half.
If people were like, please finish it, please finish it, which we do sometimes. I mean, it's just like, it's like the Braska thing again, where it's just like, I mean, I don't know. You got to read Braska five. I, I, I, uh,
I guess I'm just saying, like, if I was in real time following this, it would probably be different. But now, by this point... You're going on without a Twitter post for a year. Even the Gregory 88 thing, it seemed like the person actually had an idea of a story that they were doing. There was a delivered vision. Was that born from the success of The Sun Vanished, or did Gregory 88 come first?
I'll say this. With these Twitter things, it's different because Gregory88, I felt like I was actually reading a story. This one just feels like you really have the ARG aspect of you're voting on things going on, which is cool, or whatever. Should I go? Should I not? Him sitting outside of a car being like,
they're looking at me right now I'm so scared you have those things which is like fine and cheesy but I just even with Gregory 88 the videos and pictures are the most effective part every time except for the kid holding a flashlight that's strobing and walking up to you in a bathroom but still
Yeah. So this is definitely something that was super inspiring to a lot of people in the Twitter ARG space. And, you know, here's the thing is, I mean, I think it's an awesome way to tell a horror story and stuff. But as a interactive game that's happening now, I would like to tap out.
Not everything can be like a Midwest Angelica kind of fun. Yeah. Thing. I, but I will say, I mean, I'm not discrediting all of it. I'm just saying like, I just, we've been recording this over. I mean, guys, if you're reading like, which, you know, not boohoo for us. I'm just saying it's been days. It's been days.
It's just rose-covered goggles, you know, nostalgia goggles, which I will say... I really love when people take, when they have nothing at all besides their buddies and an empty house or whatever, they decide to make something fun. And I think that this is obviously something that caught on with people and touch people's imagination.
So, yeah, I mean, all in all, I'm glad it's been so long since we've covered another Twitter ARG. So I'm at least happy that we did that because I would like to kind of maybe not do these that are as long that are years and years long. But you can't even touch Twitter ARG without people comparing it to this.
So I'm at least glad that we got to introduce our audience for people who don't know what it is to this endeavor. And hopefully the edit so far was fun to kind of sit through and go through. Also, I want to say to what we have read you is a consolidated version down here. of everything.
Yeah. I mean, there's like, this is just to kind of let you know, like the, just getting from a to B and in terms of the story. So if you're into this stuff, there's vastly, vastly more. Just want to say that, but thank you guys so much for watching today's episode. We appreciate you. And we appreciate the line. It's been a long one, a couple of long ones back to back. So we appreciate y'all.
So we're getting into like actual alien territory potentially.
We will see you next week. Stay creeped.
I like the idea too of that if the sun vanished, if it's actually just like, which I don't know if this would make sense. So bear with me. But if it was like a giant spacecraft or something that was just like... Well, I can't see stars or anything else either. That's what I'm saying.
Also, disclaimer, the last time we did a Twitter ARG, there was a bunch of eggs and... The guy, the account only followed big mouth writers.
Everything went down at once. So, yeah. And I do like the creativeness here, I will say, with just... Some guy, I mean, maybe even with just, like, a line amp. Yeah. Plugging that in, maybe putting, like, reverb on it and, like, putting a mic up to it and just creating, like, weird... Or... Yeah, like, ship sounds.
Because if these were just... Tweets. It would just seem so stupid. It's so dark right now.
I'm so bought in. Also, this episode is sponsored by Campbell's Chunky. They can last you for an entire apocalypse.
I'm sorry, but my phone was died and I was just now able to start charging it. You're still at your house, right? Yes. Okay, good. I'm still a two days drive away, but I'm coming for you. I just like that. I'm like, all right, I'm still two days drive away, but I'm on my way.
If we get to the end of this one and I have to fucking check and if it's a big mouth thing again. It's like a picture of John Mulaney. Can you believe it? You made it all the way through. All right. Without further ado, let's get into it. Our first tweet here is from April 30th, 2018.
I saw your tweets. I want to be a part of it.
Also, if the radio... Hold on a second, too. If the... Well, to be fair, it's only like... The television signals are down.
Yeah, but you would assume after days, right? Also, the last thing that we ever saw, there's no news reports anymore. It's just no signal. Right. So it's like, yeah, there's rolling outages, but it kind of just makes it seem like the TV stations and stuff aren't able to broadcast anything. Yeah.
Also, just want to say this too. Also, while we're in the heat of the moment, I'm going to say this because you got me riled up now. So the very first thing Isaiah says to me this morning, I was in my undies. I walk over and he says this. He says, Yeah, I heard you taking a shower earlier. I popped my camera in and took a video. And I said, that's funny. I just woke up. I haven't taken a shower.
I said, Allison took a shower this morning. So I'm like, what would you do to my wife, dude?
There was a ghost in the shower. It's the glass shower case. I was talking to her outside of the shower.
I'm checking his phone later, so we'll see. Okay, all right. I'll make my own Twitter ARG about it.
Welcome back to Creepcast. Today we are doing our second Twitter ARG like a year and a half later. But this is the holy grail. This is the holy grail of the Twitter ARGs. It is the sun vanished. Yes. Compressed.
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Yeah, I like how it's like the world is ending. Lol, dude, you can't even imagine the fucking ghouls that I've seen walking around the earth right now. Did you notice the sun's gone? How is that not the first thing you say? Hey, have you noticed that it's like the sun has not been up for a week?
All right, well, let's read the story. April 30th, 2018.
Also, I hate to be this guy, but does it not look like there's kind of some sun in this? On the horizon, is that not a little... I wouldn't call that the sun.
I'm tired. I don't want to have to, I don't want to wait until 10 or 11 tonight. Can we just fill this at eight 30? Okay. On the sidewalk. Yes. For people who don't know, there's a spooky man on the sidewalk or like a woman. I can't tell what the hell it is, but there's somebody just standing there. Yeah. Maybe an alien.
Dude, all you have to do is just film a door and somebody knocking, and it really is... It kills. It's always creepy.
I could see my fat ass being young just being like, oh, oh, my God.
It's almost... It's like being at a slumber party with your friends, and you, like, read a ghost story or something. Yeah, yeah. And you're like...
Yeah, very similar vibes. Very similar vibes. You ever have one of those? The very first time I ever saw Paranormal Activity, that was all night. Hold on. Shh, guys, guys.
He was saying your name while he was... Yeah, he's probably just like, did someone say my name? And then you just hear his pud hitting his thighs. Yeah. I was like calling a soft cock pud.
It was just a little thing. It's just a little thing. It's a get you, isn't it? It's like a paper cut. Okay. You're crying. I am. And I hate to keep bringing back this, but I'm just picturing up there with like, he's like 10 empty Campbell's chunky soup cans.
And don't worry, I have a way to defend myself if worse comes to worse. And it's a picture of like a fucking Civil War era baseball bat.
Would it work if it is like – because this is obviously kind of a kid's perspective or a teenager or whatever – Would it be fucking weird if it's like, you own that shit, and you're like, also, my parents are gone. And I'm home alone.
The juvenile shit, you would be like, oh, my God. And your parents are gone. It would work. Because then you can have the angle of somebody knocking and being like, hey, let us in. It's like, my mom. It sounds like my mom, but it's kind of off. Some uncanny shit. And then instead of showing a fucking baseball bat, he's like, I climbed in past my dad's nudie magazines. I found his fucking gun box.
I'm going to try to figure out the code. Yeah. How sick would that be? He actually shoots himself in the thigh.
Does Campbell's Chunky disinfect?
Man, audio listeners for this one, you're missing out. It's just a picture of a bat. You're missing out on these photos, man. Lord help me.
I'm memeing on it, but I will say the knocking and stuff. I think that it's this, it still has legs. We're still so early on. It's just, it's just getting the, the, the giggle bug. I'm excited. My friend's here. Is that your coat? Yeah. Okay. That's why I'm so excited. Isaiah is in town.
When he says that they're not responding, does it mean that it's still probably getting a call tone? Yeah.
Okay. So that's also somebody just getting, he's like basically getting anonymous tip from the other side of the world pretty much.
Yeah, so he's like, oh, weird, what the fuck?
So, I have good news and bad news. Uh-oh. Good news is I'm closer, you know. Bad news... I'm out of fuel.
A lot of videos here, which I remember in Gregory 88 was there. There wasn't this many videos and photos.
I'm closer to you now. Bad news. I'm out of fuel. Keep going. There are no active gas stations anywhere close to me. All the power is down and all the gas stations near by are electric gas pumps. Oh, no. That's what I have to say. Also, when was the first time he got the text from him?
I feel like you're probably wrong with that. I think he is.
If it's in a European country, you would think that he'd be tweeting in his native language then. Which would actually be kind of cool too, and people are just like translating it.
Maybe this, it'd be the same thing too. If you were like here, I'm going to come get you. I'll be like, are you actually dense? I would say fucking stay there. I'll figure it out. Okay.
I'd get you then. I'm saying if we're two weeks without the sun, I'd be like, buddy, good luck.
I'm not the one who fucking made the sun go away, dude.
Yeah, so I'd be like, why are you giving me this fucking attitude? I'd be texting that. I'd be like, are you kidding me? Don't even fucking come, actually. Turn around.
Do you think Uber's still active right now?
It'd be funny because I'm fat. Fat guy falling. Whoa!
It's locked and off at the moment. After I catch a few winks, I'm going to try to take a look around.
Some field that's propelling it, whatever.
I'll find a way to get to you eventually. I rocked around for a couple hours. I haven't seen anyone human or otherwise on the highway. So I'm pretty sure I'll be safe here and I'll figure out what to do. Do you have enough food and supplies? Yeah, I have enough even if I'm stranded here for a while. Don't worry about me. Worry about yourself.
Hey, I think there's a light shining in my house. For people that are audio listening, it's a giant spirit Halloween strobe light, like cascading tons and tons of lights in the house. Let me restart it. Sorry, I'm talking over a long time. I don't want to miss this important shit. Oh, you don't want to miss it. Steve, what did I tell you? Do your filming at another time, all right?
It's a Tuesday. Your dad has to get up early for work tomorrow. Also, at the beginning, you hear him breathing, but do you also hear the, like... I thought I heard, like, a screeching sound or something. Like, some kind of, like... Well, there's that... Well, there's a clicking sound, but I could have swore I heard an actual screeching thing. Oh, I didn't hear that.
I didn't know if it was supposed to be like a creature sound.
Just about to clock out for the day when I realized the sun wasn't up like it normally was when I clocked out. I kind of shrugged it off at first, but after a few hours, I was getting really worried. I lived close to a relatively large city, so you can imagine what I had to go through when riots started.
At this point, I didn't believe him, but I started to notice that the crowds and traffic congestion on highways started slowly dissipating. Before you know it, the roads were completely empty. Terrifying shit.
But one day, it all stopped and he wouldn't speak. Wouldn't even acknowledge me. Just stood like a statue for probably a full 12 hours. Then he attacked me out of nowhere. I tried and tried to keep him away, but he just wouldn't stop. I had to stop him. There wasn't anything else I could do. Anyway, I've been living on my own for the past couple of days.
It's been tough, but thankfully I found an area with power and internet, which is why I can talk to you.
Pretty big emotional swing there, buddy. Thanks.
I also wonder, too, with the same kind of – I was thinking the same thing where I wonder if he introduces this character named Tucker where he's like, I know I'm going to use this character. But if he would have gone out, maybe his car would have broken down and he would have met a guy named Tucker.
That is kind of a funny thing. What if Tucker just being like, yeah, he stood there for 12 hours and Tucker's just kind of sitting there just like, also, there's nothing to do. No. So they're sitting in complete silence. And it's pitch black. It's pitch black. They're sitting there and he's just like,
Yeah, and he's like, well... And then I had to beat the hell out of him. Which also kind of makes Tucker in a weird light, doesn't it? Yeah. Hey, he's just standing there being weird, so I killed him.
I mean, whenever you have alien movies, and they're unable to get into a house, I'm always like... That doesn't seem like a higher life form that's able to travel through stars.
Honestly, still, I'd probably say Signs. Really? I don't know why. But also, it was one of the first ones I watched. But I think it's just more so the home invasion style of it. There was that new Hulu one where it's like a girl. There's no dialogue in the whole movie or something. And it's like a weird... I don't know. It was a new movie. There were some good moments in that.
But Signs is always just a classic to me.
the uh what's that one fourth kind yeah is it called invasion it's not no no you're talking just the fourth kind yeah the fourth kind yeah with mia whatever the girl from resident evil yeah yeah yeah that was pretty freaky and then that one fucked me up when i was younger i was sitting there and i was like sorry to cut you off but the uh that one fucked me up because in that movie it's like uh there's a part where she's like it's like floating and it's like there is no god whatever yeah i remember going to my mom being like oh they said there's no god
whatever she's like what the fuck are you on I was like I'm so afraid I only wanted to watch it just because I got kind of hard watching you know the Mia chick from the Resident Evil movies and Fifth Element you know so that's why I wanted to watch it and I was like I had an existential crisis when I was just trying to have fun you scared me
The sun's going to attack me. Hey, the sun vanished and he's right outside my window.
Well, even just the, that was like the creepiest part of that movie isn't even the fucking aliens. It's like the guy who's in the house who's like, oh yeah, also you're going to stay here forever now.
Movie rules. Also, when Tom Cruise is running, and everyone's getting eviscerated in dust, and he comes back, and they're like, what happened? He has dead human ash all over him.
Yeah, children screaming in horror movies. The most egregious is the Babadook. That movie is almost hard to fucking get through.
it's definitely going over the top for a purpose whatever and I feel so bad for the mom honestly when she gets like transformed and she's trying to kill him I'm like you get him get him get him girl fucking get him you deserve this when he's in the backseat that car he does that scream I remember like being in the theater being like oh god I don't I just don't know if I can handle it I don't know if I can take this for a whole movie
All right, so basically, though, from the video.
Well, I mean, the parallel of it's nice is the sun vanished and now the only light source is the thing that's, like, trying to kill you.
Like, that parallel is really nice. Yeah. It's very creative.
Yeah. The little, like... It almost seems like a fan with, like, a piece of, like, it's hitting plastic or something. Like, just like a... Something weird like that.
Nick, what do you think about this defense mechanism for his new alarm for his house?
I mean... He's like, I put another one on the other side of the door because I want to talk to it. It's funny, like...
also too it's weird the story keeps sucking me in being like oh that's kind of a fun concept and then it does like yeah like this weird home alone shit where i'm like just cut that out he can't help himself honestly too it would have been cool i'll stay for the end but he then says it's getting colder again
I found a car with a decent amount of gas in the tank. All I need is a siphon. Don't worry, bud. I'll be there soon.
I'll drink a little bit of gas. Get a little bit of gas in my system, pass out, and then wake up and bring it back to my car.
Oh, yeah, I see. He's pulling a nice little paranormal activity here.
That's what I'm assuming. Every time it gets colder again, that's like... The blinking light, the light things are gone.
Anytime it starts warming up, you're like, oh, the things are probably close.
Like a dark silhouette. Yeah. He could not have taken a clear photo here. He's like behind some kind of ridge or something, but it's clearly just a dark, like somebody in like a black morph suit. That's how I would describe it. Like a black morph suit, shadowy figure.
No, I get what you're saying. That's the one thing I like about the Twitter ARGs more than a lot of the stuff. It's just anything with photos, even the regular stories we read, anything with photos adds so much more to the story for me. Yeah. I'm like such an eight brain person where I'm like, whoa. So honestly, and two, I just like from a production value perspective,
If you were in this situation, would you check to see? Because you probably know your neighbor, at least. Would you at least try to go over and be like, hey, what the fuck is going on? Or would you just stay put? If I had, like, a gun... Probably even like, let's say you have a baseball bat or even earlier before, before you're like, well, that's why I haven't walked over.
If there's, Even, like, when you start hearing the screaming outside, that would be deterrent enough for me to not fucking go out there. Because you would also assume, like, oh, my God, that's my neighbor. Yeah. Or something along those lines, right? Right. So you wouldn't want to... I mean, I'm just saying, early, early on, I'm surprised that there wasn't more of an effort to be like...
I should probably go see if anybody else is having this issue or is it just me or, you know, or in terms of like my TV's going out or do they have power? Like, I don't know.
Kind of a suspicious response to...
his question mole what because earlier daniel was the one asking questions and he was serious about it too he should know they should be doing checkups periodically in this situation yeah yes there should be a constant also him him being like oh i found a tank of gas i'm coming it's like that's just kind of convenient and you kind of brought the idea it's like we've been walking yeah it's like you've been walking three days but oh i found gas what i'm wondering what i'm wondering though does he like hey can you shoot me your address again and that's yeah and that's what that's going to be suspicious
Yeah. Even though an alien, he's on all of our street. Well, do they really know how to read?
I just like whenever they have a little video.
Like in Gregory 88 when it was like the person standing outside in the woods or whatever. And it turns towards them real quick. Yeah. Just a little something like that. Yeah. I think it's cool.
25% say yes. And what I love is the top commenter says, dude, give his address to him. If he knows, you'll know it's him. Whoa. Big brain. Yeah, I love that. You know that motherfucker sent out that tweet and he was like this. Sorry, sun vanished, but I think I just kind of toppled this tower over.
I'm sorry to say this, but I'm not sure I trust you. Likewise. Well, I guess that's that then. The way that reads to me. Cool. The way that reads. Well, I guess that's pretty much the end of this then.
I guess this is where we part ways. Okay, all right. You get it. Also, too, you can't answer the question. We don't have time for this. You texting back this is taking longer.
Yes, he's clearly been. But the humor in that for me is that the alien is like, he does a fucking Jim Halpern. Well, I guess this is where we bid adieu.
Top reply. Very helpful. Basically the flowers just disrupted. So something has been announced.
Well, this looks like an actual footprint to where I'm thinking that, uh, It's probably a human. What's his name again? Dalen? Dayton? Danion. Danion. Which I think Dan, I bet you it's fucking Danion lurking around. Yeah.
Well, it was like too little too late by this point.
I guess to be fair, when you look at the... So he posted a picture and it says, this is where I heard the screaming from, I'm sure of it, which is like, it looks like the front of his neighbor's house in their front yard. But even in their... This looks like a lights on here, right? Or no? I bet you're right. To where at least there...
He's looking through a screen window here.
Well, it'd be cool to have a video of him looking over and he's like, oh, shit, I just looked at my neighbor's house. And like up in the bedroom, there's just a strobing. That'd be pretty cool, yeah. It's going hopping from house to house or whatever.
He's exploring the neighbor's house now.
Do they... I just, it's literally just the videos of him being in an empty suburban house. Very effective.
Like, well, also staying in someone else's home already. That would be so on edge.
What if someone just comes back, you know, like, how are you going to explain? I don't know.
Yes, with Flynn. Do we assume that this is just the Sun Vanish creating multiple accounts, or is this multiple people? Okay, so you think it is just him?
It looked like an airplane going overhead, no?
Well, that's fine. I just didn't know if it was like, oh, this person was inspired, started doing it as well. No, it's part of the Sun Vanish. I'm almost positive, yeah.
Oh, that was ground level? I thought he was looking at the sky. It was so dark, I can't tell.
Well, I think by this point, everybody knows that if you look into the light, you go, it like is able to get you. So you got to board up. It's like very...
I assume the sun has vanished.
Yeah, they're kind of like they're really going to start interacting. They're interacting with each other. Yeah.
The old boy puts a meowed in that. Hold on. Yeah, the bottle's from his house. Yeah, the glass is clear, but on the bottom of his water bottle, it looks like there's... It's like a dark fluid or something.
Well, now I'm wondering, too, if something lurks around or if the light shines on stuff, is it deteriorating or is it, like, toxifying shit?
Don't look into the light. Don't move. They see motion. Don't produce light. They will see. The strobe? Question marks? That looks very Slenderman, doesn't it? It does. That's immediately what I thought. I was like, is this actually going into a fucking Slenderman? Wouldn't that be crazy? I'd be like, I would say we have got to fucking stop reading stories that just all go back to Slenderman.
Anyone else see that tall white guy with a suit? Another Tiki Tobi reference. Well, I guess this is Slenderman.
Well, also, too, would you not think like, okay, well, I'm going to stay here. But I guess you would think that, okay, they're not going to show back up because they probably think that everyone here is already gone.
So it's like, well, we don't need to go there. We've already snuffed out that place. Right. Yeah.
I guess, but I don't know. I still don't trust him.
That's fun. Yeah, kind of like a weird ethereal... Kind of makes me think of the Mandy soundtrack. Yeah, yeah. Weird, like synth-y, kind of like super high pitch. Almost sounds like synthetic bells.
I thought it was a fucking motorcycle for a second.
Oh, so these are just, well, I mean, that's the end of the post on April. That was the first string of posts. Yeah. April 30th. On April 30th, that was the end of his string of tweets there, too. Yes. So with an ARG in this situation, too, because with Gregory88, that's the only thing I have a basis off of. Right.
You've got to shake the cat out of the box. If that hasn't been coined, then I want everyone to refer to that as if it's very, very normal. You've got to get the cat out of the box.
The box line makes it refer to why did we put the cat in the box in the first place? Schrodinger's cat.
And when he was done with it, he was like, do you want the cheese? Is that that experiment?
I thought he was just tempted with cheese. Is he not? Is there cheese involved at all?
Is it poisonous cheese? Is there legitimately no cheese in this? I don't think there's any cheese involved. I swear to God in my life, I've talked about it. I'm like, I've definitely been like, yeah, you put the cat in the box. I was like, the cheese. And people were like, yeah. I think people were like, sure, whatever. I legitimately, I'm so shell-shocked there's no cheese.
If there is cheese, it is such a minimal part of the experiment. I thought that, legitimately thought that it was a guy being like, if you, you will get cheese if you get out of the box.
but in gregory 88 something that's like oh i'm out here and there's dinosaur eggs by this lake or whatever yeah you could still assume that it's in our universe because he's just at some place that we don't know just to play it happens somewhere yeah but here are we supposed to because it's either augmented or alternate reality are we supposed to assume that these tweets if you're playing along are this is like a guy in a different dimension than if you're playing along this is
The picture is like, it looks like a fucking Ava angel, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, it does. A little geometric.
Basically looks like a, kind of like a Crash Bandicoot crystal. That shape, the giant like geometric shape. Yeah, like a big diamond. But then there's like a protruding, protruding sharp edge off of it as well.
Hmm. Blue light outside the door. I wonder if there's different stages. You have the white lights there. It looks like whenever you're detected, it switches to red. So I'm wondering what the blue is going to emphasize.
Yeah, I mean, you get to have time to spend. It's kind of the same thing. We said something similar during like Gregory 88 where you're constantly just waiting for updates and then you're speculating with commenters.
I regret my decision to stay. It has gotten incredibly lonely. And I have come to terms with it. In fact, that I may never see Martha or my grandkids again. This is an old man's writing.
And what I love, what I absolutely love about this, there is so much room still left on the line paper. And then he wrote on the back of it.
I would, I just, we're done. I'm literally done reading. Oh, okay.
Experiment notes, and now it's all... He's getting a little wacky with his handwriting.
I do like the sun is back, but it's funny to think that a man going crazy is just going to like... Uh-oh.
But I do like the whole idea the sun is back. The sun is back is good. Which is also him going crazy and he's able to see something. Yeah. He's getting revealed something whenever he goes crazy, which is kind of fun.
It's a different entity altogether is what he's saying. He's saying that the white and red flashing lights, they seem to be attracted more by the flashlights from what I remember. He said, but the blue entity doesn't seem to be affected by the flashlight at all. It just seems like something different. I'm guessing that that's like the elite, more advanced technology.
entity it's what i would assume he also says it's elevated so i don't know if he means elevated as in it's like up in the sky shooting a light in or if it's literally like floating like you can't hear it walking around yeah because it also proves that maybe whenever he was in the house and the flower wasn't disrupted could have been a blue light went in and just floated above it could have been one of those how it got past the solo cups and the cans all i won't i don't know i don't know they're not but
He walked in the house and was like, God damn, dude. It's like everything everyone wants, the hot dog hands, it was like that. He like opens up, hello?
You'd be kind of a good way to show somebody's kind of becoming a bit senile.
on when writing on line paper instead of just doing squiggly lines being like oh there goes my mind if what have you what have you kept so on every every time you're writing you're writing in the lines then the next one is like you're writing but you're like writing on a line and on the last note you're just you're writing your sentences but they're all over each other on the same line so it's like i'm trying to read what you're writing but it's like he wrote it and then he wrote the next sentence on top of it on top of it i think that
I think it's just, when I think of the Twitter ARG thing, it's almost the same thing as, like... r slash no sleep where it's supposed to be like, I am a user and this is the experience. Same with the Twitter ARG where I'm like, oh, you're reading the tweets of somebody going through some shit. I still think the idea is fun. I just didn't know if I was like, oh, is it as effective?
Sorry I was gone so long. Power went out where I was, so I've relocated. Trying to slowly work my way towards the west coast. My reception is a bit spotty. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. He's in Virginia. I think he's trying to work his way to the West coast is what he's saying.
Well, I'm wondering if he also reveals later, if he's going to be like, I've heard that the West coast is clear, you know, cause in these movies, like even like I am legend and all these other things where it's like a big thing. Oh, there's a safe zone. And yeah, it's where it's like, Oh, if you're, if you're alive, come here.
Yeah, so maybe something like that. But I saw the picture you took with the thing in the sky. If you can see one of those again, get as low as you can. And if you see the blue light, do not let it shine on you. So that's actually kind of interesting. Don't let it shine on you. Don't let it shine on you, but also... Dayton. Danyan. Danyan also said get low. So maybe he is fine. That's true.
He couldn't know. Because if he was an imposter. Why would he say no to the pictures then? I don't know. To me, that doesn't make sense. To me, that felt stupid. It felt like a way of being like, oh, I just want to stir up the pot, and I don't know if we can trust him. I think there should have been a different way, because he was just so pressing before to where now it only makes sense.
So if he isn't, if he is still fine, it feels weird that he'd be like, come on, we don't have time for this. It's just like, answer the fucking question.
Yeah, I'm doing okay considering what I've been through.
Well, when I got out, I saw someone running away. When the blue light shined on them, they, uh, well, suffice to say, it wasn't pretty. I think it's kind of funny that he actually typed, he actually typed, shined on them and they, uh. Suffice to say. Suffice to say, it wasn't pretty. It wasn't pretty. It's almost like he's actually talking. It's like when people do that thing.
Or even saying something like, there's actually no way I can describe it. They died. He's like, he's became into a pulp.
You can give a little bit while still, but yeah, it wasn't pretty. Yeah. Okay. What does that mean, Tucker? Yeah, I'm going to the West Coast. Thanks, Tucker. That's really... I stopped by a couple of grocery stores, got some Red Solo cups and cans, and we're making our way out there. They were almost out. Before I die, I want to hit the biggest wave. You surf too?
Because the people immediately from this know that it's a horror story set up thing or whatever.
Just starts to take a weird bromance about surfing. We got to hit one. Yeah, we have to go down to Hawaii, hit the Maluku Makamaka.
point break yeah gotta hit that wave almost a chicken run chicken little but that's but it's because i was thinking of what's the fucking penguin movie where he surfs and there's like a chicken and napoleon dynamite voices the chicken yeah right that's that surfs up little i'm saying i'm thinking of the fucking chicken i want surfs up i also want to fact check immediately on the schrodinger's cat thing that there was no cheese
Okay, well, that's fine. Chicken Little and Surf's Up, kind of similar.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, my mind works in pretty interesting ways.
I hope you guys are right. I'm going to the West coast. What? Bye. Also two days. And he's just now getting past the Virginia line. How fucking long is it going to take you to get to the West coast?
It also seems like there's no, the gas stations aren't working.
It looks like a plastic container I could put this in.
There's three days. We're reading this, but it is kind of interesting to have... If it's just, like, days passing and that's the one tweet you get, it's kind of fun. Yeah. Showing up and you're, like, open the app or you're looking at it however and you just see that one thing. You're like, oh, shit. Okay, he's still going. Yeah.
The person on the outside was whispering the sun has vanished, right? No, they said the sun is back. They said the sun is back. Oh, okay.
I thought I heard something, and I was looking over, and I was like, what the fuck?
Just kind of funny. I do think all this stuff is super effective whenever it's just simply in his house. The lights and stuff are fun. I was going to say I was going to save this for later, but I almost feel like you would just save that for later on.
Probably fucking, you know what's fucked up about this? The immersion broken, dude. Why? Because I can tell with those gangly long ass fucking toes, that's definitely the sun vanished. Identical to his hands. Those look kind of feminine. He looks like a slender boy. With his hands and stuff?
Girls like hands. That's the thing. Yeah, the veiny hands. They have the finger rings.
It has that sound bite. What the fuck is that sound bite that's popular with a lot of cringe videos? It's like, say it again. I think I liked it.
Yeah. With that deal? Like corpse husband-y kind of thing, right? Yeah. All those guys. Dream.
People think he's cute, right?
Maybe he could be a guest on our show.
Dude, Corpse, you want to read a spooky story? Come on out, dude. Yeah. What did you bring him on with, his sexy voice?
Can you do a Corpse impression?
I feel like you've done the shirtless in your bathroom in the mirror.
Yeah. I mean, it's a meme. And now there's the people have been saying there's the seven sister cult. The seven sisters. I like that. And that's sick. The seven sisters.
100% sun vanished because of those fucking long ass fingers. Look at that. That looks like... Someone check his fucking DNA, dude.
It's no, no, he's got a long ass thumb.
Unless he's missing a finger. I wouldn't throw anything, but I don't even think he has four fingers. I think that these, I think, I think he took his three fucking alien hand and he kind of combined them at the same time.
Look at that lanky motherfucker.
This is 100% a guy. You think that's a lanky, tall man. I bet you this motherfucker's like 6'8". Hello? He might be Slender Man. Hello? If this, I'm not even joking, if this fucking goes into a Slender Man thing, I'm flipping the desk.
I mean, for a younger audience, too, I think those become the stories that I think are more memorable. Well, it's the same thing as whenever the Blair Witch Project came out. Everyone's like, oh, this is real. It looks real. So... I like the idea of using tweets to tell a story. It's just, I wonder if... I mean, it still stands because this is people's favorite Twitter energy.
I bet he's like, oh, it's the girl from outside, but it's just him taking a picture of himself.
First off, before I go into the picture or the video here, Do you, do you like, do you, does, how do you feel about the whole, uh, like, holy shit, this just happened as a tweet, like him tweeting that versus it like as like an actual tweet. Does that feel weird that like in this moment, you're like, Oh, You know what I mean? And it just happened.
Does that... I just thought of that and I was like, why the fuck is that?
did a decent job of that where he'd be like i'm going to do a thing and then eight hours later everything's past tense or whatever this is what happened yeah he would describe it that was more believable because it was more grounded at least initially before we got to the well i like the idea of it helps me at least even in gregory 88 with the fucking eggs and all that shit at least it was something like i'm going to do this break he went and did it i'm going to tell you about it yeah like you just said but it feels weird that during the action you'd be like
And that's all fine to me. I'm almost disassociating this even as tweets then. And it's almost like you're in the room with him being like, this is happening.
Is that our boy helping him out?
They knew that he was there and that he didn't... At least from under the bed it looked like.
Yeah, everyone loves Sun Vanished. So they like it.
At your 11th birthday party, I gave you a Batman Lego set. Is that good enough? Grab your stuff. Let's go. How hard was that to just do that the first time? Maybe there was... I don't know. It could have been something that read like animosity of like, what, you think I'm one of them or something? I mean, that could have been the author's intention.
Also like how he doesn't say anything. He's just in there with his gun in his lap.
So now you're going in blind now.
Unique concept, and they still play into the found footage... Like, you're still vicariously seeing it through, like, living this experience through this guy. It's grounded. Yeah. So you at least have that. Versus I wonder if it was just a string of tweets with no videos, if it would have been, eh.
Yeah, I mean, at the beginning of the story, we said that the sun vanished, Tucker and Nat were going to be the three most important. So this is the first introduction to Nat.
This is a very consolidated thing, but they were, like, responding to tons of stuff. Like, it just, like, for the overarching story of us reading this now, it's just, we're just cutting it down.
maybe and it would be us reading that for like yeah there's just tons because it was so interactive it's so easy to tweet out stuff exactly yeah so and it went again it went on four years so this is consolidated but uh this is our first introduction to nat if you want to read what she said yeah it says hey hey the sun vanished i'm nat i've survived two months now thanks to the info you've accumulated and shown us i owe you i want to make a guide for survival pick up where the news outlets left off and i've been trying to collect anything i can from the other survivors out there and was wondering if you have any tips
Which is kind of a fun, I like the introduction to this kind of character because it lets him at least build in this world of, it's almost like, you know how many fucking zombie survival books there are? Yes, yeah. So it's like, you get to kind of have that with this, which is cool.
It's been two days. Yes. July 16th.
So simple. It's nice. Also, too, we have got to put an epilepsy warning at the beginning of this fucking episode. Also there, blue tint, was that a white light or was that a blue light? That was a white light. So it was a white light. I'm pretty sure it was a white light. I thought it was, too. I couldn't tell because it was just illuminating it.
It's one that we've definitely heard, but I was wondering why would the white light be there if there's been... Well, I thought that they were attracted to flashlights and stuff, so maybe he was like looking around with it. Yeah. Also, to be fair, his light is on. That's true, on his camera.
She said quickly snap this pic and it's just a pretty ominous picture of a guy standing in some tall grass.
Sorry it's been so long. But if you ask, no, I'm not really okay. The Church of the West Coast was unsuccessful. I couldn't get through Indianapolis. I haven't heard from my family. I haven't heard from my family. Says it twice. Maybe that's a typo. I don't know. Just caught up to the Sun Vanish situation. Wow. Sun Vanish isn't safe. I'm not safe. Nobody is safe.
Basically now it's just a static screen that says no signal. Yeah. Pretty much assuming that I think like radios, towers. Feeds are gone. Yeah. The feed is gone.
You cannot trust anyone except yourself. Save yourself. I miss my family. So is Tucker's family in Virginia or is he going to them in the West Coast? I think he's going to them in the West Coast. That's what I think.
So now at the same time, which also from just to notice some of the times here too, we're talking July 21st, the posts are becoming more, more sporadic more because before it was daily multiple times a day. Now we're going, it was first, it was three days, two days, three days, four days. Now we're that's 21st. And then the next post isn't until the 31st.
So 10 days now, which I think is the longest span we've had between posts.
Basically, what it seems like here is that she's asking Tucker. It seems like Nat is asking Tucker questions to be like, is Tucker actually who he says he is? And he's posting because here Nat says, why do you repeat certain words slash phrases? Tucker says, excuse me.
And then she says, you've been repeating certain words slash phrases in your tweets and messages, usually a sign of drinking contaminated water. So that's the part where he's like, I haven't heard from my family. I haven't heard from my family. I thought it was a typo, but it's actually intentional.
Okay. Well, what about your family?
We are not talking about that. If you mention that again, I will block you. I will block you.
What does it look like? It kind of had the shape of a person, but definitely didn't move like a person. Interesting.
I don't fucking know! When you're in the moment, fight or flight, you weren't thinking about this shit. You don't notice details. You just have to stay alive. I'm sorry, but we just want to know what's going on. Nat, have you ever been in a situation like I have? Have you ever had to run like your life depends on it? Because if you had, you'd understand how difficult it is to recall things.
When you're in a situation like that, all you care about is one thing. Survival.
Some, like, 14-year-old gangly alien boy.
The running into the car and the guy like has one gun. It's just a bunch of teenagers, probably high schoolers. It's probably a guy too, who it's like, he's 17. He's probably made this. He's 17. He's like, Oh, she's like a younger, she's like a little younger than I am. She's 14.
And she's like, you know, a curious, whatever kid who's online, chronically online, blah, blah, blah. Right.
Who's like, I'm from Virginia.
I get it. You're young and eager to obtain information because you have no idea what's really out there. But I promise you, if you experience things for yourself, you'd have a very different set of priorities. Where have you been staying this whole time? In your house? Yeah. Yeah. So cut me some slack, because you haven't been through what I have.
Listen, just give me some time. I'll come to you when I jog my memory about what I've seen, okay?
that's the scariest thing i've seen so far a little pepper a heart attack and she just responds with okay yep and then nat goes dark for two months yeah so now we're not getting our next post isn't until september 30th 2018 which is kind of interesting because i know that we've i think we said this at the beginning but i mean this thing only closed out at least the last post that we have here are up until 2023 yeah
So now we're seeing these time jumps to where this, this story has stayed committed for so long, even if the posters like, okay, well, you're not going to post for a month or however long. Yeah.
Bro! My boy just got fucking Oppenheimer'd for real.
He's like, well, I have cancer. Do you have to lay down? I can't tell if he's hiding or not. He's laying down in the grass. But still, you're not supposed to be exposed to the light at all.
I love how, uh... What was the Slenderman videos we were watching again? Marble Hornets. I love how Marble Hornets coded it is. It's like the family vehicle. He's getting into a Chevy Malibu or whatever.
Hey, so I actually just got hit by three blasts of radiation. Is that bad? Mom? Will I be okay, Mom? His eyes are drooping down.
You keep, you keep it alive by giving the choose your own adventure. Yeah.
We didn't see the fallout, but that's just like one of the fallout. That's one of the people who rescued him. It's one of the survivors. Yeah.
Hey bud, you haven't answered any of my calls, so I don't really know if you're going to get this or not. I just wanted to say I'm sorry. The way I treated you, even the few times where my mind was actually clear, wasn't fair to you. I shouldn't have left you here. I was scared and I was confused and I didn't know what else to do. Because of what I know, I got in trouble with some people.
are threatening to kill me if i don't tell them what they want to know do you remember when we used to be close before moving away and starting our own lives we were happy i know it's something everyone says those were simpler times but they really were lol there was so much stuff i never did and never said but it's too late now i had my chances to fess up again and i'm i'm so sorry if i'm not a goner by the time you read this blank attitude blank longitude i wish i was better friend to you now is this a suicide note or is he like infected you think
Let the, let the. people that are combating like, should I go outside? Yes, no. And having like the arguments, that's where it becomes real is because now you're interacting with another person that's in your reality.
I'm going to assume Daniel is probably dead.
I mean, he's dead. Right. At what point is it just being...
nat says happy birthday to me and post a screenshot of tucker finally responding to them hey kid glad to see you're online again i'm sorry for popping off like i did i let my emotions get the best of me you're doing a good thing here with your twitter don't be afraid to keep broadcasting people's first-hand accounts and experiences so tucker's also gone better he's a belligerent alcoholic
In this situation, I think being an alcoholic is perfectly acceptable.
Isaiah, I would never. I'm going to tell you this right now. I would fucking never. If I ever write a suicide note, I'm not going to tell you where it's going to be or anything. I'm probably just going to say, bye. I wouldn't give that to anybody, though, would I? Would you? A suicide note? Yeah, if you're like, this is where my body is.
If you're up in anything, if you're like, I'm going to do it in the forest, would you be like, here's my longitude latitude?
It read pretty heavily like he was going to officer.
My theory is that he's half succumbing to the red light. Anytime someone gives me fucking directions that are... I've had it happen a couple times. Donut. He does that all the time. And I was just like... Give me a street name.
And I'm always happy to see him at the same time. Like if I get another fucking latitude, longitude address again, I'm going to be up a river.
When did the general get here? Aye, aye, Captain. So every time I get a text like that, now I'm just going to say, just send the salute emoji over and over. I really, I think I would have to question a friendship if they gave me like latitude, longitude to a fucking red Robin or something.
That's odd. I'm sweating profusely.
I like how haunting it is to be like a parent and a kid died.
I'm going to, I'm going to, Hey, I'm going to go take a nap in the forest forever. That's so dark.
It's weird, too, how Nat is able to get all this information online.
Well, sure, there's a lot of Air Force bases. There are.
But if you're a 16- or 17-year-old writing this, you're just like, there's probably one. He's near the Air Force.
I'm much more stable now if that wasn't already obvious by these tweets. But that shit had happened. I keep replaying the events in my mind over and over and over and over. The images won't go away. My parents and my sister. A ship was there. A blue flash just completely mutilated them. If I had done things differently. Oh my god. If I had done things differently.
It really makes the guy who's like waving his kid laugh.
Yeah. If I never stormed off after that screaming match and moved away, if I hadn't been selfish, they would still be alive right now.
Is this person white? And then the top rated. So then the options are yes, yeah, sure as hell is, and hell yeah. And sure as hell is is the dominant answer at 59% of the vote.
He's an old man. And his sister, yeah. I'm 22. Yeah, listen, kid. And then those fucking things came after me. Strobes, headlights, whatever you want to call them. I knew not to look at their red lights, so I shut my eyes as tight as I could. They didn't like that. So one grabbed me by the throat and repeatedly slammed my head into the wall. I got out of there within an inch of my life.
And then the thing I'll never forget. When I glanced back while I was running away, was seeing it look towards me. There was a large cylinder protruding from its head, and I swear to God, its arm and legs grew right in front of my eyes. So it's like extending. How did he get away from it? Well, it just seemed like he just didn't look. And then it got furiated, was throwing him around.
Was throwing him into the wall. Yeah, I'm wondering why it didn't chase him down, though, or something. Has little lasers, cuts off your eyelids.
That or the aliens are breaking them.
Interesting. Or taking them or doing something.
And then the person, why does this matter? I don't understand some people. Well, there's a lot of racist on the internet, sweetheart.
For what I've heard, that seems to be the purpose of whatever is in the water. It leaves you psychologically vulnerable and easily influenced by circumstances. The question is where it came from and why.
Yeah, it's going to be the no-fat version of the story, but if you want to go experience it, it's all still up there. And this is actually coming from three different Twitter accounts, The Sun Vanished, Tucker, and Nat. And it looks like The Sun Vanished stopped posting around 2021, and then the other ones are from the other said...
It's been months. He started his journey in October.
We had to move. Back to our studio. The recording was too long. It was too long of recordings back to back.
The quote says, so many people pretending with this shit. Why? You aren't fooling anyone. The person is either purposely misleading or has flat out lost it thanks to the black water, or red light, or a combination of the two. And then Tucker said, Sorry, I haven't tweeted in a while, everyone. I might seem on edge, but honestly, I'm doing better since October. Thank you for your love and support.
Yeah, 100%. He has plot armor. Yeah, 100%. And that was the last of the tweets for that day. And then it moved into May 2nd, the next day. It looks like he's going to be just be doing it daily for a while. Yes.
Please help. I can't stay. There's something inside. My mom got out. I had her locked away because she wasn't herself anymore and now she is out.
Nat says, I can't do this again.
Sun's gone, black water, red lights, blue lights.
Should I message again? I didn't even stop to really think about what condition Nat has been in at this time. Not until now.
Yeah, it's weird too. The photo album says remember.
It seems like in these states and whatever states he just like takes, he knows that he needs to take a photo and put it into these folders, which maybe it's like when he knows these under some kind of hypnosis. Delirium. Yeah, some kind of thing.
I'm bleeding a lot. My mom broke out of the basement where I locked her. I couldn't hurt her even though I should have. I couldn't do that to my parents again, so I left. For the first time in a long time, I left. I always forget, yeah, she's like a fetus.
Yeah, probably the same age as people. Maybe a year or two younger than the person writing this actual post.
I thought my giant hulkish 14 year old hands would have completely busted the shit wide open. How wrong I was.
I'm tired of feeling useless. I'm going to find that. I just don't know if that's even... Is it worth it in an apocalyptic situation? Is it worth going to save a 14-year-old girl?
Yeah, it was the photo of the bat. A good chortling moment for me.
If you're watching this episode right now on YouTube, why don't you take time Go get some cups, stack it up against your door. Cause that is the only way to watch this episode is to have cups stacked up against the door.
I've gotten radiation flashed seven times, but I'm okay. I'll load the ground.
No response from Nat on Twitter either. What should I do? I'm going to take your advice. Gonna get into the house and have a look around.
No way this much grime and dust have accumulated in just 10 months.
Well, I'm guessing, I'm wondering if this is where, could this be where she locked up her mom?
I guess this does look like a kitchen. Oh, there's like a kitchen counter.
Well, she'd sent you plenty of messages being like, I'm bleeding.
help please it's freezing outside so no ships and very low chance of drones it could be dark water but after checking gps there's no bodies of water within a 10 mile radius i guess i don't have much choice do i oh going down the basement baby yeah yeah there it is okay so yeah this is where she was at and her mom's down in the basement all right here we go this is this is a quote followed by vid it says when i press up against the wall leading to the basement i hear this oh here we go give me some spooky shit here
Gregory88, too. The pictures just go a long way. Next tweet, he says, I'm in the basement. And then now, he says, I found Nat. And her mom. Ooh, and the picture is a pool of blood. It's like a MySpace era pool of blood. Ooh. Got a photo on the floor. That's okay, I think. At least she's alive. I'm trying my best to comfort her. Maybe Nat had to kill her mom.
Do that kind of thing. My voice is still kind of sick, so I got this stuffy voice, but that's why I like when I do that voice. It sounds like a wheezing, like a vacuum. Why did I do that? Does this sound good? Does this sound like an artist crying? Can you cry on command?
It's pretty sad. Maybe the end of Seabiscuit. Pretty much just the end of any animal movie I probably think about. And I'd probably get teary-eyed. Oh, damn.
This is happening. Like he gets in the car. He's like, Oh no, that's just a silly thing about Twitter. I feel like I wish that they, but that, yeah, sorry. Go ahead.
So he's in the parking lot of like a TG, like a TG Max, whatever.
Creepy. So it could be a toddler playing with a toy out there or there's some kind of clicker going on. What do you think it is?
It's fun. It feels very much like a marble Hornets for sure.
Like me and the boys are going to, we're going to do this for, we're going to the TJ Maxx parking lot and we're going to fake break my arm.
If Danion's alive, I'm going to be fucking pissed. His body, he better never, he better never find that motherfucker. That's all I got to say. He better be like a pure ray on the mountainside. I don't give a fuck. He needs to be gone.
She doesn't want to talk about it, but I helped bury her parents before we left. Hope it provided me with some closure for her. About a 14-year-old girl was able to kill both her parents. I don't want to be insensitive, but her dad's body was decomposed. I wonder how long he's been there. Then Nat says, I'm with Tucker now.
Feeling better and on the road heading back to Virginia where Tucker's bunker is. The way he describes it, it seems like the safest place to be. I mean, listen, I get it, but at the same time, it's just so creepy. All right, I'm with the 48-year-old industrial oiler.
So it's getting into a point. Also, whenever he looked up, there was no stars. Don't know if that's relevant or not.
Still, I guess we got to go back to Virginia to my bunker. It's the only place we can go, sweetheart.
I mean, it's been a month, so it's healed up, but he's still broke. Never did anything to probably set it or anything, so he just has this, like, gangly fucked arm now. And he's like, Daniel!
People have been disappearing. And I don't know what I mean for the blue and red lights. I was in contact with a military protected civilian camp over a two-way radio. After talking to them for a few weeks, I knew the military was being pretty damn effective at fending off the headlights. Using a method the colonel wanted to keep quiet for some reason.
They go radio silent a day or two before I get there. When I reached the camp, half the military was gone. The rest of the squadron that was there said that the other half was hand-selected by the higher-ups to be taken elsewhere. But they've never been heard from again. There's another force at work here.
I've been monitoring the Twitter chatter for a while, and I can't remain silent for any longer. Because of the nature of my work and the insight I had, both I and my wife had scrubbed social media from our lives a couple years ago. I'm former Air Force communications and intelligence, but that's a few... Just messaging a 14-year-old girl is so funny. You're the only line of resistance we have.
But that's a few years removed now. I still know a thing or two, and what I learned in the service did make me a bit of a prepper. Being an early riser in Arizona, I caught what started happening on BBC World News as the veil came down. My wife and I grabbed our bug-out bags. Because the event wasn't nuclear, we headed toward a specific area for refuge. We remained radio silent ever since.
I don't have anything. I'm just curious. For people who are listening in the audio, he's walking outside at like probably like 10 p.m. at night and shine a flashlight and then in the woods and he stops, turns off his flashlight, and there was like a clicking sound with a red strobing light is the best way I can describe it. Right? Mm-hmm.
It's only my wife, my two-year-old daughter, and myself in a bunker. Made for far more. I can only think that maybe the others, with the same plan, either stayed to keep an eye on the news or try to rescue loved ones. But they weren't ex-military. The siren sounds and you jump. For us, it was the sun never rose that day.
We've held up here pretty well, but the lack of radio communications was disheartening. There seemed to be a few ham radio people that managed to hold on to maybe an hour of transmission, but then it quickly went silent. The security cameras told us what we needed to know about the threat. The ships, the strobe light drones, I jokingly called disco clickers to make my wife laugh a little.
The only time we poked our head out of this bunker was when we thought that we saw other people. We have two stage airlock with blast doors that... What the fuck are you talking about?
Absoluut, want ze gaan hun betalen op, hun voordelen gaan op, ze verliezen hun werk. En mensen zoals Elon Musk en Donald Trump, hebben vrijheid voor één persoon. Poetin en geld. Dat is het. Dat is de lijst. Een ding dat een positief signaal is, is hoe Europa zich heeft geuniteerd rond Ukraine en tegen Trump en het regime van Poetin. Hier gaan we.
Het is gewoon een klein clip van 60 minuten over het meeting dat ze hadden na Trumps meeting met Zelensky, de Europese leiders met Zelensky.
First of all, what a bozo. But isn't it funny? People on the outside looking in, they can see it as clear as day. And I just want, I mean, I really wonder how Fox News is selling an alliance with Russia to the Reagan Republicans, the boomers. Here's what I have to say.
Right, because doesn't Putin win elections every year by like an overwhelming majority? Or every time he has an election in Russia, he just wins elections. Yes, they're rigged. They're totally rigged.
I mean, who's to say Elon Musk with all his power and access to all of our data, he's not capable of that with all the big balls and all his other... Well, there is two companies called Election Alliance and then somebody else smart something.
And isn't it interesting, I know we continue to talk about it, but democratic leadership is not saying. Putin is a murderous dictator. He has invaded Ukraine illegally. The entire world sees it. Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Dat's right.
It's interesting to find out that all of these national security Republicans are now aligned with the Kremlin insofar as look at what the Moscow Times is reporting. The Kremlin says U.S. foreign policy shift aligns with its own vision. Did you ever in a million years think that there would be a story in the Moscow Times that says the U.S. policy and the Russia policy aligns?
It's poor leadership across the board. There's not just one thing you can pick out that's poor leadership. It's so many things. How tepid the response has been. It shows me a real lack of leadership. Here we've got Chris Murphy fighting the good fight.
Here's the deal. Every single piece of legislation, every nomination, anything, whether it's to... Everybody go take a water break at five minutes. The Democrats in both houses need to say, fuck you, we're not doing it, we're standing firm. We'll filibuster until our heads fall off. Whatever it is, stand outside the steps of the Capitol saying... This is a kleptocracy. They are screwing you.
They are taking away. We need Chris Murphy energy combined with Jasmine Crockett energy all day, every day. And not one Democrat should vote anything. Like if I hear a Democrat say we're working on bipartisan issues, I might jump off a cliff because that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You cannot work with bipartisan leaders when they are voting and aligning with Russia.
But under Donald Trump's administration, that's what you get.
Well, another uplifting pro-democracy day in Trumpville.
Who says we're going to do music, though? I don't know if we ever... Do we do music?
You did say Sunday School. Here, let me do it again.
Modern day of Frank Sinatra. Hey, guys. Welcome Tim Albarino. Hey, finally.
Was it the 60s or the 50s when that first happened?
Yeah, you can try. One more time.
Well, do you think that that whole conspiracy about us basically re... What's the word? Where we do the crash UFO retrieval.
Yeah, and then we reverse engineer.
And that's what they said in the congressional hearing, right?
Oh, man. Thanks for coming on, Tim. Yeah.
Yeah, we hung out last night around the fire, talked about some wild stuff. We saved some stuff. We said, Tim, stop talking.
I mean, thousands of people have seen them.
I know. Like with Lil, my wife, so she's on the podcast a lot, and there's so much stuff that I find, and I just keep it from her. And I'm just like, I'm doing this. I'm like, I can't hide things from my wife. I want to tell her so bad.
Yeah, but so we had to keep some stuff from, or Tim had to keep some stuff from us. We're like, save it, and we'll talk about it on the pod. You're kind of mean about it, though. A little bit.
Well, let's just, let's, let's just go with the grays. So in the grand scheme of things, like you are first and foremost, a believer in Christ and you've written an amazing book and you, What do you think, in the grand scheme of just humanity, the cosmos, aliens, fallen angels, all that stuff, what do you think that the gray aliens are?
But it's almost like the transhumanism kind of thing, right? To where it's like maybe half biological.
Yeah. Tim. You snapped at him.
But he could be late sometimes.
Well, then where does that fit in with what we believe? Well, I'll get to that in a second.
Is it people that you know?
Yeah.
I only ask that because if you say that you can guarantee it, now I'm going to start saying I can guarantee it. By proxy. Because Tim Alparino guarantees it.
This episode is called The Nitty Gritty, right? It's pretty good.
You're welcome, whoever you are. Grandma. All right, Mr. Albarino, would you like a song?
Well, even the simpler part is like Genesis where it says, let's create man in our image, our own image.
Yeah, which Elohim precludes. I'm trying to use big words like Tim. Elohim also refers to not just God, because God is Yahweh Elohim, right? Yes. So Elohim is just the angels, the sons of God.
I'd be offended if you didn't sing one. We can maybe just come up with something real quick.
Viewers, go read the book Birthright. It's rad. I read it, and it was dope. It's really fun, and it's really interesting.
That was great. You had fun in the ad, right?
Classic Tim. Classic Tim. Yeah. So we did cut you off, but it's like every question, you just have a plethora of...
Yeah, it's perfect. Yeah, yeah. Well, these are very complex topics.
We're not complex people.
That's why we do the yes or no's.
Yes, absolutely. This is the nitty gritty. We're going deep right now. Welcome to Ninjas and Butterflies.
I would say the pooping times can be the most complex of situations.
Yeah.
It was, was it Ehud?
Was he sitting on the toilet?
that's crazy and so they had modern day plumbing then yeah and he was left-handed so that's when they checked for um daggers or anything which is so dumb they checked on the wrong side say what what was dumb it's dumb that they wouldn't be like like oh you're right-handed obviously so we're just gonna check this side yeah yeah and he's like i'm left-handed so they're just like let's just pat down this side they said you're good was it on the inner thigh
I went to Bible college for a semester.
Oh, nevermind.
Does it involve your poop story?
Oh, okay. That would have been really cool. All right. The biggest poop England's ever seen.
Not a chance. All right. Let's hear it. Well, you prefaced last night.
We said both ends. Was it both ends? Both ends of the story. Both ends of the story.
All right.
Well, we were tarpon fishing. You couldn't get off the boat, yeah. On the west coast of Florida. There's no bathroom. The ocean is the bathroom.
So I went and swam out, pooped, and I'm just like, I don't know how I feel about this. I'm so sorry, ocean life.
How fast is pee?
Oh, interesting.
I pointed the dreadlocks.
I wonder why.
What? It's like a good almost 8 feet.
I don't know who that is.
Probably the gun. Maybe it was just like, oh, you don't got to get in anymore.
Jaguar was stalking me in the river. Jaguar. All the snakes. Does he have a reel? Oh, do you want to hit a beat?
Tim, do you get your phone on you?
All right, I'm sending it. Group text, and then when I say three, two, one. Does he need audio?
What am I supposed to do?
It's our little segment where Andrew sends us a reel. All right, Tim, you let me know when you're ready.
All right, ready? Three, two, one, go.
Uh-oh. Why? Speaking of eating eagles...
You have to eat it because you said that you would.
What you don't know is that we have the FBI sitting outside and they're going to take you to prison if you do not take a bite of that.
Tim, are you going to take a bite with me?
Should we? No, come on.
Tim, you want a leg?
I'll have you and Tim eat it at the same time. No, I'm not doing it. No, hand it to him. Okay.
It smells good. It smells really good. It doesn't smell bad. It truly does not smell bad.
Yeah, it's just boiled, but it's a tarantula, Tim.
Yeah.
You can chase it with anything you want. Chase it with biburachada. That seems appropriate. Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Oh, man.
All right, all right. It actually kind of does. Yeah, it's almost like... That's what I'm saying.
Do I bite the hairy end?
I mean. It's good.
It's good. I'm going to spit it out, though.
I would say that was not bad.
Hakuna Matata.
Yeah, drink more.
What a perfect transition with the real and your stories of eating sloths and... Toucans. You said toucan, right? Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know the most.
I mean, I cooked a squirrel once.
Yeah, they're a lot like frog legs.
There's a colonoscopy coming in his future.
He died. Because he ate the fangs. Oh, man. Well... Tim, there's more stuff that we want to talk to you about. We didn't even touch the surface, dude. I know. Would you want to come on again?
Okay.
Because I feel like we could have you on multiple times because we have a lot to dissect.
Or next time you need a sloth. Yep. We'll prepare a sloth for you.
Cool. And we'll have to get Mike Tyson on here, too.
What if we get both Mike Tysons on?
Will you take us on a little adventure?
We can go.
You mentioned there may be some congressmen that are there?
That'd be great. We'll do the opening song, right? The Tim Albarino song?
All right, cool. It's a deal.
And the Book of Enoch.
Which your foreword was amazing.
And your book, Birthright, is now an audiobook, right?
And we are going to continue this conversation. If you're down for it, let's talk a little bit more about Nephilim. Let's do it. Crazy stuff. Patreon.com forward slash ninjas or butterflies.
Timothy, Timothy, Timothy Amarino. Dude, dope.
Timothy is... Now my wife?
Shove the mic out of your face. Oh. Yep, it's clear.
All right, maybe do like an inquisitive look like this. Yeah. So I'll do that. Perfect.
Cool, cool. Well, we're having fun.
I appreciate it.
We just came up with it right off the spot, right?
But everyone just be quiet for a second. Tim, I don't know if you've seen our podcast, but... We like to have a lot of fun, but before we can have fun, we have to sometimes just answer really, really serious questions. Naturally.
So we have our viewers sending questions. Well, today's question is, it's pretty big. It's a big one. And the rule is, Tim, it's a yes or no. There's no explaining this way or that way. It's just a yes or no question.
That's good. That's really good, Tim. And today's question, I think, with what's happening in our society today, Yes. Within our culture. This question, it makes sense with what's happening right now. Absolutely. Just with our government, with just everything. Congress. Congress. Senate. The House. Executive branch. The fact that Tim's here? The closet?
It's heavy. Unfortunately, I didn't come up with it at all. But today's question is sent in by a viewer. Are children safe around UFOs? Are children safe? No. No? Yes.
Are my children safer on UFOs? Are your children? Well, it all depends on the context.
united federation of orphans and you're saying kids aren't safe around other kids who have lost their past so that's yeah if i'm getting this right tim and i know i got a real problem with orphans oh no apparently tim because it seems like these orphans should just not have friends with other children that's what tim's saying i didn't have friends with other children Oh, no.
Yeah, apparently. And, I mean, well.
This is a first. That's disappointing. This is a first. Well, I guess you guys heard it here first. Tim doesn't think his children or any child is safe around an orphan because they don't have parents. Welcome to the show.
I hate all the orphans.
We planned it out to where you'd say yes, that they should fear it or that they're not safe around it. And we're going to say, so you're fine with children being in the United Federation of Octopi. Which is just... I think it's better the other way.
you said no then yes yeah and i think um i think that's the that was our problem we assumed you would say yes yes but tim's obviously like another level go to the ufo he's like run to the ufo yeah children are not safe around ufos makes sense yeah yeah all right oh well welcome tim
Yeah.
Yeah, the 39 days. Yeah. From December 3rd. Yeah. Yeah.
That's the thing, though. When someone says a specific date, it's more than likely not going to happen.
Just be vague about it.
Because it'll always be correct. He's like, I don't know. You don't know. Father knows. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah. We talked about a lot of stuff. Yeah. I want to hear your thoughts on... Again, by the time this comes out, there's probably going to be a lot of revelation that happens with these drones and what all is what. But I want to hear your thoughts on what's going on.
Did you hear about those ladies that went to space? Was it real? Was it fake?
Who is this peculiar, strange traveler?
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Well, dad. Corey!
Did you know that it was Question Corner, Question Corner, Question Corner with Corey! Where the questions are fresh on his mind!
Every time I put it over here. Hey, watch your tone, son.
Ouchie.
Hey! Sorry, coach.
You said you wanted to murder them? You want more women? You want more women to be in danger? That's what you're saying, Corey? That's exactly what you're saying.
That is realistic. Talk about the bear that was from Russia. Yeah. It's a possibility, Corey. Well, I guess you guys heard it here first.
And now he's a journalist. She's on TV. Katy Perry sings songs. They're not astronauts.
And I said, yes, in the interview. She said, that's clean.
Hold on.
The demon goat.
Mother ship.
What are you? Some sort of. What are you? Noah?
What would it be?
Hey Andrew Hey drop that beat Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real Andrew's got a real
Oh my gosh.
What's the plan?
I was going to try to say one more thing and then we had you go, ooh.
What about you, Andrew? That was mine.
Yeah. No, it was funny, though.
Okay, here we go. All right, I'm ready.
Dolphins are aliens. Woo!
Oh
So we got, like, and she does the episode numbers, the time stamp, and the date.
It's crazy. Like, episode 33, Miss Fortune. Frank the dog ate Hooper Klan fried chicken dinner.
Dishwasher caught on fire.
Let's see. Misfortune. The downfall of Mr. Noodle. The fish, not the character.
I mean, they're so funny though. Sickness. Do you remember James? Lily's head injury. Lily hit head on ceiling fan.
Let's see. Oh, my gosh. I should have highlighted the ones that made me laugh so hard.
Oh, here's one. This is a misfortune. Hooper Rooster came back from the dead. misfortune resurrected ada got bit by a horse that was crazy too neighborhood boys microwave caught on fire josh hooper saved the day yeah that was a win The owl thing is the funniest.
Listen, this is three in a row. This says, Josh Hooper doesn't know if he needs to birth Taco Bell or has kidney stone. Next one. Josh Hooper's back hurts because of potential kidney stone. Next one. Josh has a kidney stone.
But then at the end of it, they did Corey Lynn's family tree. So funny. Because he always... We'd always ask him about his wife and his kids and stuff.
Oh, right, right. So it starts off with 15 years married, Gretchen, wife, type A, Toby, six, Colton, four, Charlotte, two, on April 17th, proposed while hiking in Argentina. Yeah. And then go down a little bit further. Gretchen, wife, Jared, Leslie, Cole, only has three kids, all separated by two years of age exactly to the day.
Yeah, we're filming late because me and Lil were gone like half the week last week.
Yeah, he's killing it. Yeah, so we were quoted on Daily Mail again.
Yeah. I guess I didn't see that. Yeah. Well, we weren't. No, I was. You were. I found the account. Who do you think you are, dude? You getting too big for us, man? Didn't it seem like it was written by AI, though? Because they refer to us as... You have to be. Evil podcast.
That's topic of it. So it says the unearthed, it was about the aliens, the, that Russian document that got classified where the aliens turned them into stone.
It says the Unearthed document declassified in 2000 was recently the topic of the AI or Evil podcast where host Josh Hooper revealed that two of the soldiers... Yeah, so it goes on. But I'm like, AI or Evil?
That was crazy with the Ark of the Covenant thing, man.
I think they all just copy each other. Yeah. So the Daily Mail posted it and it went viral, that article.
It's just an echo chamber.
And we feed into it.
I found it on TikTok.
Yes.
blurry just came out with the episode where they interviewed the pastor that spoke on the telepathy tapes that he was interviewed amazing podcast really yeah it was so good what was interesting he's like yeah my interview he said i talked a lot about the gospel and how what is happening with these non-speaking or non-verbal non-speaking autistic children
Yeah, he was really, really good. He said one thing, and he was super humble and hooper smart.
But he talked about one thing that he struggles with theology-wise. He said that's really just messed with him. It's like all these children that he knows that are in his ministry and stuff, They talk about existing before they were born. And he's like, not as a reincarnation kind of thing, but like they were existing before they were born. Whoa. That's true. Why is that hard for him, though?
I mean, just because just our theology, I know they, you can use the verse that I knew you before you were in the womb. And that's the only thing he's like, I can base off of, you know, but like, that's such a wild concept. And he said like one instance, there's this girl.
And apparently she said that she was asked before she was born, if she would be willing to take this body of a non-speaking autistic child and
Again, I'm not saying I agree with it or whatever. I just thought it was very interesting. And he thought he's like, this is kind of messing with me, too. It's like, yeah, they all say it. He's like, and I don't understand it.
Yeah. He's not hiding it, too. A lot of people are like, I'm not going to talk about that because it messes with my purpose or my theology. And he's like, it goes kind of against my theology in a way. And he's like, but you have to talk about it because that's what they're experiencing.
And it's also, it's a non-Christian view as well, the shared consciousness.
Yeah.
I don't, that's just, it's scientists say that that could be a real thing.
I'm saying that non-Christians believe that or can believe it.
No, I think it can be. I think it could just be the spirit, you know, the soul. I don't know. Yeah.
Yeah. It's like the one thing that like really can't be studied, you know, like you can't hook up like a brain scanner and study consciousness. They have like scientists have concluded that it is outside your physical brain.
Yeah.
your essence of consciousness you like forced into your children right well i equated it to like when c.s lewis talked about morality yeah and it's like it's someone that's born on a remote island they still know good from evil you know it's like i still know what's wrong and right morality is like an inherent thing in our dna and could that not be a shared consciousness from god you know yeah you know i'm saying yeah that's the whole point because it's like
he says it's written on our hearts yeah but like where do we get that but darwin evolutionists would say it was conditioning after conditioning like the first man had no distinction and then we inherit this through like our brain patterns or something like that like it's yeah but like the same species of animals constantly kill each other yeah they're like they don't have any remorse you know and it's like humans know that to kill another human is bad you know yeah
Speaking of remote islands and stuff. Dude, do you see that? Yeah. There is this American tourist. There's this remote island. I forget what the island's called. Sentinel Island? Isn't it Sentinel? I think so. It's off the coast of India. And it's like one of the last preserved islands where the tribesmen have no contact with the outside world.
So if you go there, they're going to kill you. Right. But it's illegal to go onto this island because one, it's dangerous. And two, it's dangerous for the people on the island because they're not exposed to diseases and stuff like that. Right.
This American tourist got a boat and he like this little raft and like took like six or 12 hours or something, made it to the island and left a coconut in a can of Coke as an offering. A diet Coke. Oh, a diet Coke. Yeah. Which is even more insulting.
And then left. And then now he's arrested.
Yeah. But I just thought that was pretty funny. Them drinking a Coke. Now he's 24 years old.
Yeah.
That's because they're aliens. There's a video of, like, them giving these, like, bush people in Africa this bottle Sprite, and they have no idea how to open it. They've never seen anything like it. So they're literally just biting it open, and they're drinking, like...
Yeah, because the guys that were trying to kill him, they stopped because they're like, what is that? And it was like, whoa.
You see, kids, this is what homeschooling does to you.
Brutal.
Speaking of without skin, though, do you guys see that Kawasaki robot horse? Could have swore this was an ad. Yeah. I turned to the time. No, Kawasaki robot horse.
No, but they're making it. This will be so cool.
Let me send you guys the video.
No, yeah, it was displayed because it was AI, but they're actively trying to make it.
This is so cool. It's the coolest.
Yeah.
You can just click it. I don't have the cord.
Something about weddings.
Daddy, please give me a theme park pass.
Have you guys ever seen a woodpecker tongue?
Their tongue wraps around their head inside... To prevent it from getting concussions. No way.
This is the latest she's ever stayed up to. She stayed up till, I mean, 11. Yeah. She snuck in some pop, didn't she? She danced the whole time.
It literally goes up.
You know I can do that too, right?
That's amazing.
And orange.
You keep it going.
Yeah. We got new merch, guys. New Ninjas and Butterflies merch out.
Called it. I knew it. Yeah. Like by herself going up to the bar.
I love saxophone. I seriously love saxophone.
Yeah.
But then she would, like, so she danced the entire time.
And she would go up to random people who weren't dancing and grab their hand and pull them into the dance floor.
The sunglass thing would be pretty dope, though.
Can you change the colors?
Sunglasses. That's pretty dope.
And then, like, all these people were like, oh, the flower girl wants to dance with me. She would ditch them. She was literally just grabbing people and pulling them onto the dance floor.
Would you rather never have the urge to pee or never have the urge of hunger?
You never have to pee. Never have to pee. This is a personal question. I'm all ready for that. Yeah. Or never have to eat. But you can eat. And you can enjoy it when you do eat. It still tastes good. Yeah. But you're never hungry.
It was the cutest thing ever.
My life would be changed if I didn't have to pee. It would, dude. What would you do with all your extra time? Probably be a way more successful life.
Like I don't necessarily have to go to the bathroom? Sometimes, yeah. But a lot of times I really do genuinely have to pee.
You have to let me know these things.
So you're affecting your child.
Da-ba-da-ba-da-da-goo.
Yeah. Yo, put a back brace on that, in real.
It's crazy. Isn't it crazy? Like, looking at that video, we literally, we just came from slime. Yeah, we were just a bunch of goo, dude. Yeah, we were just goo and we just evolved to that. Yeah. It's crazy. We used to be a mud pie.
I know. It's crazy. The mud's, like, all of a sudden, like, I think I want to grow a spine. What are the odds of that? That's insane. The universe is so cool. Thanks, NASA.
Speaking of NASA...
Speaking of NASA, did you guys see that the astronauts for the first time did a polar orbit? So typically, astronauts, when they orbit the Earth and stuff like the International Space Station, they're going around this way. But SpaceX launched a rocket, and it's way more intensive, and it's hard to do.
But they did a polar orbit to where they went over the North Pole and the South Pole, and they're orbiting. Okay.
What makes it hard? The gravitational pull of the Earth, it's like you go that way.
You're going against it in theory, yeah. Not in theory. You are. You're going against it. But one of the passengers, I guess, who wanted to do it, his name was Mr. Wang, and he is a cryptocurrency billionaire.
And he paid an undisclosed amount of money to SpaceX for him to be an astronaut to do the polar orbit.
That is crazy. But the videos are sick. How long of a trip is that? I don't know how long they were up there. Not crazy long. I think a couple days. Wow. Yeah.
Wow. Really?
You've changed.
You've grown.
Orlando is known for their rides and them being safe. Yeah, that's true.
Got it. That's wild.
What a bubble we live in.
I thought it was a pretty big bubble, but apparently not. Yeah, I mean, Clarissa didn't know who Joe Rogan was last year.
People don't know who Joe Rogan is.
It's good. Hey, you want a song? Yeah. I do, too. Okay. We've been practicing this for days now.
Yeah, not the Lampu guy. Check this out. Speaking of space, there's this photo captured of a mountain on Jupiter that's four miles tall.
Yep. That's wild.
Oh, I saw this.
Speaking of government things, speaking of talking about what other people are talking about, this one's not as crazy, but it was still pretty crazy that the U.S. government has a declassified document of where they're actively searching for Noah's Ark.
Yes, supposedly. Yeah. Not last year. It was a couple of years ago. Okay.
Yeah. On Mount Ararat, I believe.
Ararat. On the ark. But yeah, this document says from 1974 to 1982, apparently a general used a U-2 spy plane to photograph Mount Ararat. Error rat. Error rat. And they had these pictures and they said that the proof was inconclusive. But then all these people in this document talks about all these scientists and stuff like asking to declassify the photos.
And they refused to. I think to this day, they still refuse to declassify the photos. But now you can pull up images all over. But the YouTube plane, spy plane, they were like, yeah, you're not allowed to get those photos. But just know that it's inconclusive. We don't think it was an Ozark. Then release the photos. And they're like, okay, well, can we just look then? No. No, you can't.
Yeah. They're those anchor stones.
Have you ever seen those? I don't think so. They're actually all over Florida. People use them as landscaping. Anchor stones. Yeah. I think I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, so like that. Those are like old ancient anchor stones. No way. That people will literally just plop in their front yard.
Isn't that crazy?
Dude, if we believe in like the Watchers technology and stuff.
Noah probably built the Ark based off of some pretty technologically advanced stuff.
If you were to house all these animals in human life for how long was it? 40 days. Oh, it was raining for 40 days, but they're on there for like nine months or something.
And it's like, you had to have some sort of system, like really advanced system. Because if you think of like, if you go back to like, I don't know, the dark ages, like, okay, build a boat. Build a really big boat that can house thousands of animals in human life for nine months. They would not be able to do that. No. I would love to know how many... That makes sense.
Also, how do you crossbreed, like, a wolf to end up with a chihuahua?
What do you have to do?
Something to think about.
Yeah, crazy stuff.
Test, test, test, test, test. Got it. Boom, boom, boom.
What kind of song do you want?
You guys heard about that senator that was doing the filibustering?
No, 25 hours and five minutes.
It was like as a protest to Trump or something.
and he got up there on the floor and talked for 25 hours and five minutes and he had some colleagues help out like they would like chime in here and there but he stood up there for 25 hours that's amazing that's wild but it was so funny because this video said like watch how republicans responded after this historical moment and like he's like and to you i give the floor and everyone's like yeah and then this republican senator comes up he's like
So the next motion of, uh, it's like just carried on.
This is pretty big deal. He's like, are we going to get down to business or what?
Uh, I don't know.
Yeah. I, I don't understand the, the protests. Did you see the protests that were happening against Trump this past week? No, I haven't seen it. It was like in all 50 States. And I mean, there's just so many people on the streets protesting Trump. Like New York had thousands and thousands of people.
I don't even know what an MS-13 is.
Why can't we like gather up like both sides and like protest like the health care system?
Yeah.
We live in a weird world now, though. Yeah. Like, how people are, like, burning and vandalizing Tesla cars now. Yeah.
Yeah, because it's like saving the planet. Yeah. You know, it's like, it's made by a Nazi.
Everyone always has to be mad at something.
You could just literally play anything because I don't even remember it. Here we go. God, I'm lost as well.
Well, hey.
I think we all know what it means. More clothes on.
Same outfits. Can I get this more plunchy please? Speaking of giants in the Smithsonian though. Yeah. There is a story about giants in Death Valley, Arizona.
Yeah. That's a fitting place, fitting name. Shout out to Mr. Mythos on YouTube. He does a really fun breakdown. I don't know how he does his research because I tried to do my own independent research regarding this stuff. It's really hard to find. So he like. Knows some peeps. I don't know what he does. He probably goes to an actual library and does research. Like in the movies? Yeah.
When people used to go to libraries for research?
But so these two guys, Dr. Bruce Russell and Dr. Daniel Bove. Or Bove.
Oh. They're these two amateur archaeologists, and they heard these legends from the, I believe they're Paiute. Let's see, where were they? The Shoshone and the Paiute regarding this ancient... underground city in death valley where giants used to roam and that they had these crazy technologically advanced things and so these two uh dudes dr bruce and dr daniel
They were just exploring all through Death Valley. And they found this really, really small opening of a cave. And they dug it out and saw that it led to a bigger opening. And so they went down in and they reported as soon as they entered the bigger part of the cave, they said it was polished stone. Like it was clearly a room. Yeah. And they said it was just like it was perfect.
And then they saw that there's more and more caverns. And so they started exploring. And one of the first caverns that they found was they call it the Hall of Giants. And it was basically these preserved mummies of these giants. They said ranging from like I think they said eight to 12 feet tall. Wow. And he said there's just hundreds of them just preserved like these mummies. Yeah.
And they're like, what the heck? That's so scary. And then they went into another room and they found these very old looking hieroglyphics carved on the walls that they said that they weren't Egyptian, but they looked like Egyptian. But they said a lot of them looked like Freemasonry symbol.
Yeah, just weird stuff. And then another room that they went into apparently had these preserved, mummified, extinct animals. So, like, they had dinosaurs in it, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, like crazy stuff. And you're immediately like, all right. Yeah, that seems strange. But it gets crazier. So this is in the 1930s. I don't know if I mentioned that.
Yeah. And they speculated that this cave system was over 80,000 years old. That's just what they came up with. I don't know how they got that number, but that's what they came up with. But they said that they explored it for a total of 15 years. Didn't want to tell anyone about it.
Yeah, because I would say this, before this, that's when the Love Lock Cave thing happened.
Which was, I believe, like 1915 or something, or early 1900s.
And they knew about the incident of Love Lock Cave.
I'm assuming. I don't know that for sure, but I think that was probably pretty big news. But yeah, so they explored it for over 15 years, and they documented this underground city was 180 square miles. Wow.
So they said that I went under Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico.
Yeah. Dude, that's insane. Dude, the cave system, bro. I know, dude. But apparently they got to a point to where they're like, we can't just keep exploring this and not tell people or because we don't have any money left. We need to make a profit. So they got all these investors together and they wanted to start a company called Amazing Explorations.
And so they got all these people to start investing. And apparently they took a group of these people because they're like, well, we're not going to invest if you guys are just pulling our leg. Right. The story goes, this is what Mr. Mythos talks about. This happened. I couldn't find this part. But he said that he brought these investors or a group of them to the caves to see it.
And they all saw it. And they're like, whoa, what the heck? This is insane. What the heck? But it was very secretive. So like only Dr. Russell, he's the only one that knew the exact entrance of this cave, which I thought was confusing of like why Dr. Bruce didn't know about it, Dr. Bruce Russell. But apparently only Dr. Daniel Bouvet knew about it.
And so they're like, okay, yeah, we're going to invest. We're going to start this thing and we're going to... And so like an article came out in... oh when was it the 1950s i believe talking about dr bouvet and this underground labyrinth ancient giants all this stuff and shortly after that article article came out what was it um let me see where it was artifacts Oh, yeah.
He said, I'm going to do a press conference and I'm going to bring artifacts from the cave to this press conference and we're going to expose the whole thing. Yeah. And apparently somehow the Smithsonian got involved in this, too, or they got wind of it because of this article. And Dr. Dr. Bouvet. No, sorry. Dr. Russell. He's the one that knew about the thing the whole time.
Dr. Russell, on his way out to collect those artifacts, disappeared.
And he was gone. And so they did a search party, and the search party took forever because Death Valley is huge and it's uninhabitable, really, because it gets so hot and it's just a desert. They found his car. It was abandoned. Smart. He had a suitcase in it full of clothes, and he was just gone. And they never found him. He was gone forever.
And that was the end of the cave because no one else knew the entrance.
So all these investors pulled out. But what I thought was insane... Nobody's like...
Oh, this is a bummer. Guess we should forget about it. But five years before Russell disappeared. Yeah. So they explored this cave. They were making documents about it, making moves. Five years before he disappeared, the U.S. government took over that same territory where the entrance was. And it's called today the China Lake Naval Air Weapon Station.
And it's off limits to civilians.
Convenient. And it occupies one million square miles to test classified weapons and technologies. Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
But yeah, so it's a pretty weird coincidence, right?
Supposedly, the Shoshone Empire, you talk about this inner earth place where they had this technology from ancient times that surpassed our technology. Giants, which why is the government always involved in the story of the giants? Yeah. And then all of a sudden, the U.S. government's like, we're actually going to take this land that actually belongs to the Shoshone and the Paiute.
And we're going to take a million square miles off limits to civilians because we're doing technology stuff and classified weapons stuff. And it's like... This is crazy. And then I'm like, I want to know more about Dr. Russell and Dr. Bouvet. They said that there is like no record of them. Oh, my God.
But you can go back and look at the article that came out, the people that the investors that talk to them. But if you look up their backgrounds, anything, they're gone. Yeah, they're gone. And everyone who witnessed it is dead. Yeah. Dang it, dude. And I'm like, well, what were they doctors in? Yeah. And I was like, we're not sure.
We think that Dr. Russell was a physician in Ohio, but there's not a lot of records that show that he was. There had to have been.
Golly, dude.
Oh, yeah. dude it's weird but then i was like i've been figuring something out with chat gbt because i use chat gbt a lot for research it's like a glorified google basically yeah but i'm like i was like having to explain the things to chat gbt because of what wasn't giving me the answers and i'm like what was it the last thing i said i said um
I'm like, because I'm like, didn't they start a company, these two doctors? And ChachiBT is like, I don't think so. Like, there's no record. I'm like, didn't they start a company called Amazing Exploration? Or they were trying to, and they said... Yeah, they were trying to start it. So, like, it was giving me, like, the runaround. You have to interrogate it. Yeah.
And so I finally was, like, questioning it. And then it just said something went wrong. And it, like, just, like, deleted everything.
like what the heck that's really weird it was so weird that's crazy it's just like it like literally just like glitched out and he's like i'm like okay this what the heck yeah and it's definitely this new update yeah there's something different they incorporated could have just been a coincidence but 30 minutes later i was asking it about other stuff and it was completely fine
I think there's probably definitely a multi-meaning kind of thing. I think it's... Yeah, power is a huge thing.
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if you go based off of like old stories from like Central America, like the Mayans and stuff, like their stories are them and like the lake or not Lake Baikal. It was a mountain that we talked about recently in Russia, the Death Mountain. Oh, gosh, I can't remember the name of that. Voltavera.
But their stories are that they did have giants and that they did escape a flood by going underground.
Maybe they, I don't know, they just block it off. But, like, I'm just saying there's different stories from all over the world of these giants escaping this cataclysm of a flood.
I wonder if the Nephilim DNA could still exist within people today. I feel like it could.
That's true. All the gingers got real quiet.
That's interesting. There's some short NFL players. True. Yeah, but I thought that was crazy. And that reminded me, Blurry, they did a podcast with this dude that has been looking for, we talked about it a while ago, the Brewer Caves. Remember that guy? It was a John Brewer. He found those caves with the two giant mummies.
Oh, in Utah? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
But they just interviewed this guy, Terry Carter, episode 312, where he's been looking for it for years now. And he is convinced he knows exactly where it's at. Wow. And he's not allowed to go in because it's illegal. Yeah. Because it's protected by a fish and wildlife game or whatever. Conservation. Conservation. Yeah.
And he's like, he like put a thing and he's like, Hey, can I excavate the site? And they said, what, where? And he's like, I'm not going to tell you exactly, but he's like, I'm pretty confident it's right here. And they said, if you show up with a shovel, you will be arrested.
Yeah, so that was the loop around. We talked about that before, that law that came out that any Native American artifacts, they go back to the tribes with the exception of the Smithsonian. They're the only exception to where they don't have to send back Native American artifacts.
Okay, let me get into this story.
That's crazy. This time frame, it seems like people are starting to explore the U.S. more, like at least archaeologists.
Yeah, I mean, because Lovelock Cave, that was not discovered by archaeologists. That was discovered by people harvesting guano.
You know? Guano.
And they're like, yo, there's giant bones in here. And they're like, no, there's not. And the Paiute's like, yeah, there were. We killed them.
And the Paiute, yeah, so Paiute, they're connected to the Death Valley stuff, too, because they occupy part of Death Valley. Yeah. So, like, I mean, that just gives it more validity, I feel like.
Dude, that's all throughout South American folklore, too, is like their teeth, like the double row of teeth.
I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know too much. I just remember reading that these giants, because they would consume humans, and so they had these double row of teeth. It's weird.
So, what was that?
It's just South America.
afghanistan that was the 2000s that's crazy yeah oh the gilgamesh stuff no no the one that the those u.s soldiers were impaled by that giant that was found in afghanistan oh yeah yeah yeah they said he had bright red hair i wish they weren't real cave smelled is there any uh good giant movies Speaking of giants, we finished house of David. Yeah. Good. So good. Okay. I can't wait. So good.
I don't want to spoil it.
Okay. I'll spoil it. David kills glide. Oh, Didn't see it coming.
Yeah. House of David, 10 out of 10. Very good. Yeah.
Oh, I don't know.
Don't you think that like, because we talked about before how they sometimes hide stuff in plain sight, like especially like within movies and whatnot. Yeah. Like how Indiana Jones, how Dark of the Covenant, how they literally just put it in the warehouse, like in a crate. And there's just like hundreds of thousands of crates. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. The story of that is... I know we've talked about it multiple times, but it talks about the priests that are chosen to guard the Ark of the Covenant there. How they don't want to do it because they have to live there the rest of their lives. But how they all go blind and how they all die pretty young.
Like the bloodline?
Well, that's a bummer. I wish we had something to help us continue on to, I don't know, our Patreon episode? Me too, man. Me too. Wait. Wait.
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Yeah.
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And did you know that there's an ancient underground city located in Death Valley where there's hundreds and hundreds of mummified giants that are hidden from us?
Speaking of deadline, back to it, baby. Oh, no. We got a question. Oh. Oh.
I'm actually really excited about this question.
Yeah. Any reason why? I just think it's appropriate for today. I love it. For the past 136 episodes.
So many. Almost halfway there. Almost. So today's question for Lily, sent in by our viewer. How are you?
It's not about us. It's about you, Lil.
I'm not a body language expert either.
Seems like there's some sass in there. Yeah. I mean, it's... I heard it. Our fans, they really want to know how you're doing and you're giving them sass? I'm not.
I'm representing the fans in this moment. So really, you giving me sass is giving our fans sass.
She's getting aggressive.
Your eyes aren't even smiling at this point. You just seem mad.
Why?
There it is. There it is, dude. She's tired. How are you doing? You're tired.
It took five minutes to get to there. What is this? I thought we were all friends. I thought we could be honest with each other. Not her. Not her. Apparently she has to put up this wall. Hello?
I guess she's tired. And it took this long to find out. So Lily's a liar? Lily's a liar. Well, dang. I guess you guys heard it here first. Lily, my wife, is annoyed by you.
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All of our misfortunes as a family. I think that's more work. Is the green the good stuff? No, none of it's good. They're color coordinated. Is that what you call them? Yeah. So green is sickness. Blue is owls. Pink is prophetess. That's Ada's lines. Purple is family tree. And then orange is misfortune. And it's the funniest thing ever. Dude.
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Here you are. I just want to, like, that Thursday morning feeling, I just wish I could bottle it up. Yeah. Because, like, I'm stupid where I get, like, introspective where once Thursday's over, I'm like, damn, we're 365 days.
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I might have to. Well, hopefully Wisconsin wins on Thursday and then Saturday. I will only come on if they win. I got to save if they lose for the AWL.
And when this comes out, we'll know that Hank, PFT, and Max, they accidentally took Baylor.
They wanted to do the troll move in Montana, but Montana is ass.
I need some Utah State merch. Probably won't get here in time. Yeah, we'll figure it out. I need some Utah State merch. Actually, Rico's got some.
He's got it somewhere.
Yes, way better basketball coach than Person.
Okay, boys. The next time you'll hear from us, we're going to have Madness. We are a programming note. We're going to have Stanford Steve on Friday's show. We will only talk about Friday's games with him, give you best bets, talk with him. So after Thursday, if you get your teeth kicked in, want to just sound smart, this is the best. It's the best weekend. It's absolutely the best weekend.
And I'm going to try to keep my voice. Didn't help that I had to wake up for the Cubs game today, but I'm going to keep my voice, hopefully. Knock on wood. This is danger zone for me. Any other thoughts before we do numbers? Three. Oh. That was not.
No, I. Can we ask person before we do numbers? Because Max was looking at me like he wanted to say something.
He said it. President Pug. I said anything else before we do numbers because Max was looking at me like he wanted to say something. Memes then said three right away. But he said numbers. Right. But it was not in numbers like that. Three. Three.
Okay.
What was Max going to say?
34.
34. Oh, you're never going to get it. You're never going to get it. It's tough for all the memes leavers out there.
Is that when you dream about your teeth falling out, you're infertile?
Okay. But it's borderline manifesto. It's borderline manifesto. You call that a handbook? A handbook, but a culture document, that's a manifesto. I think that's a coaching thing.
I'd like to get my hands on that, and we can judge if that's a manifesto or not.
If you have to like click and download, that's a manifesto.
Why don't you do that as a project? A culture manifesto for part of my take.
I like that.
Mm-hmm.
That's also in this tournament, yes.
's balls. That makes sense. Okay. Who's up next? That was great, PFT.
Okay. Hank, are you up next? I think so. Duke? Florida. Oh. Max, you're up next. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.
I don't know who Bilbo is.
Is that it? What do you got, PFT?
There we go.
How do you not tell us that story? I don't know. That's crazy. All right, Max, back to you.
Oh, I want to see this.
I love these small gyms.
That's really small.
That's like a high school gym. This is why this tournament is so great, though, because it's these type of teams. I know South Carolina upstate's not in it, but... They could be. It's why I love this tournament. It's why it's analogous to the, what do they call it? FA Cup. FA Cup. Yeah, where it's like a YMCA is playing against Man U. That gym, I can guarantee you, is hot as fuck during a game.
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You didn't know the murders?
That's not what I'm talking about. Oh, okay.
Okay.
Let's go Baylors. Max, PFT, and Hank have Baylor as their Experian buster, which we do every year at Barstool. It's very fun. I have Utah State with Jerry.
I don't know.
Okay.
Good teammate. Yeah, because you know the other one too, which is also very morbid. A Baylor player shot another Baylor player and murdered him.
But this is a new program. Yeah, this is a new program. And it's good vibes because you guys have Baylor.
Yeah, we've really put a nice spotlight on Baylor here.
We're going to do a little choose your own adventure. We are taping this in the afternoon. I bet San Diego State, so I'll be a very sad boy if they lost by more than four and a half.
Won a national title and a Heisman? And a Heisman trophy. Florida, obviously, if you go a little bit further back.
Yeah, not a lot. Baylor. Baylor. Baylor. Baylor's the answer to that question. Okay.
Yes.
They changed the. It still is not great, but they changed way better. The coloring of it. So it's not as distracting. It looked like it had water damage. Yeah.
Yeah. No, they definitely upgraded it this past year.
Okay. Which they won't be playing on in this tournament.
That has nothing to do with it.
It was crazy. It just went a little too far. A little too far with it.
Well, that's from... Oh, yeah.
They can do whatever they want. What about, is there anything in the rules about a love triangle with a pool boy and watch your wife get cucked?
Jerry Falwell Jr.? Yeah, Jerry Falwell Jr. was the president of Baylor.
And they have all these rules, and then that whole thing happened.
You don't know a lot about a lot.
Yeah, the West Virginia governor even did a press conference. The National Corrupt Association of Athletics. He had a big sign. It was a big story for what we said, 24 hours. You get 24 hours to basically bitch about it. And then as soon as the ball is tipped, everyone's like, okay, we want to watch the game now. He went on the yak. He went on the yak. What did he say on the yak? Not a whole lot.
Yeah, I think he was like, obviously Golke was a story, but he was a stud.
Well, in college basketball for 40 years. He was on North Carolina.
Yeah.
Okay. And that pissed you off. Well, I want to say right now, John Gross, if you guys hit the over in this game, I will send you coffee from StellaBlueCoffee.com.
They got stupid money.
This isn't a fact.
You're reporting this, that he's going to be the Villanova head coach?
It's our fun facts for every team. We split it up into four regions. You're going to find out things like the entire Baylor men's basketball team died when a train hit their bus in like 1920. You'll find out that MLB team once sued one of these tournament teams for copyright infringement. Fun facts all around, give you little nuggets to go into the weekend.
These are great fun facts. Okay.
He basically was like, yeah, I know this isn't going to do anything. Uh, but we have to fight for ourselves. We, he came on because Nick, our good friends, Nick and KB are both West Virginia natives. Nick is a West Virginia fan. Uh, and he, he, he gave the right answer in the fact that he said, we're like, dude, you're not actually going to get into the tournament by suing.
Any fun facts about Wisconsin and Villanova going up against each other in the tournament?
Stopped them from a three-peat.
The one year in between their Villanova's championship.
Yeah, but you guys were defending champions. I was pissed. And, yeah. I mean, you won titles on either side, so it's not really a big deal. Yeah, it's okay.
Okay.
He's like, yeah, of course not.
Murder?
Yes, I like that. That's a good idea.
You're going to get hammered.
Wait, I don't think he does have more followers than Max. Let's fact check that because that's a fun fact. You bring up Rico, I'll bring up Max. Also, can you just make sure Rico sounds like he's at home right now? Just tell him to let the kids have the Reese's. He hung out. All right, the kids should have the Reese's. Oh, he might have more followers. Max has 144,000.
Rico has 180, so credit to Rico. Credit to Rico.
There's a rumor going around that Rico and Max are dating. What? They left together on Friday night. Well, they were hanging out. That's actually incorrect. They're sitting right next to each other.
And you have video evidence?
Oh, that doesn't prove that you didn't leave with him.
Yeah.
Triple team in fat girls.
They were just happy that they could eat the Reese's without getting stolen. But no disrespect to fat girls. No. No disrespect.
Okay.
Because you could see how we'd think like, oh, well, we all did hours of research. No, I did.
Okay.
That was the intentional foul game. Did you see how that came out? So they tied. I can't remember who they were playing. It might have been like North Carolina Upstate or one of those schools. Their opponent scored, got the ball on a press, scored to tie it with 10 seconds left, and then they intentionally fouled because he just didn't have time and space.
That's how they ended up in the tournament.
Yeah, well, at least two of them haven't won yet.
Right.
And then the last one? The last one would be... Oh, no. Who's the last one? SIUE. Yeah. SIU Edwardsville. What are their... Oh, I do have the reason. They're an Illinois school.
so you can't all right i knew i knew it didn't as i was looking at it it made no sense it's like what what is what is vegas no and and that's the answer the other the other two have to play in the play-in the other the other four have to play in the playing and the last one would be 20 to 1 but they are at illinois school you can't bet illinois schools at illinois so 20 to 1 can you bet the opposite side of that i wish that's a good investment yeah
Okay. Oh, no, it's 200. No, what is it? It's 2,001? Yeah. Wait, what did you say? Norfolk State is not 100 to 1?
So my idea is that we need to change. He doesn't deserve to be Bubba. A Bubba is a guy you want to be friends with.
Okay.
Okay. Joliet. He said it perfectly.
That's how I choose to believe that they put Wisconsin and Denver not making excuses for it. They're like, whoops, we meant to put them in Milwaukee. Yeah, I mean there's a lot. They just like mixed up a couple things on the way out.
Things get lost in the shuffle. Purdue and Michigan should have been flipped.
Okay. Maryland. Yep.
I feel like crabs just aren't a great mascot. I disagree.
Right. But a turtle is stronger than a crab turtle. You can't like crabs. You just fucking put a little trap out and then you just eat them. I think it has some turtles can at least defend themselves.
Did you also know, fun fact, it would take us, the entire population of the world, 800 years to fill up the Grand Canyon with piss?
I think, though, we should call... His real name is Lawrence. I think we should call him Larry. Larry Cunningham. Strip him of the Bubba. How about Liam? You could call him Liam. Liam Cunningham. Yeah, I just feel like that's a Bubba move. It is. To take bribes. But also, like, being a Bubba... That's kind of a point of pride, you know?
800 years? Yeah. If we were all just continuously pissing.
Yeah, we should. What is the deepest canyon? What is it? Bonnie Blue.
Yeah.
Okay. But their women's team.
Buy stock. You caught up on their women's team?
31,500.
Nice. Love it.
Yep.
And even say, like, hey, that's Jeffrey.
Yeah. Give a shout out to Jeffrey.
Whoa.
The UNC Williamson is the Seahawks. That's one you can just throw around to people. It makes you feel like you know ball.
Oh, the Fighting Pickle is great. Fighting Pickle is awesome.
When you're a Bubba, that's cool to be like, hey, I'm Bubba, so we should take that away from him and be like, no, dude, you're Lawrence. You're Lawrence Cunningham. You're a complete no-name Lawrence. You remember your Bubbas.
Let's get some Fighting Pickle merch. Okay.
Oh, okay. You're guessing?
This is the fun facts. Well, no. The... That's a fun fact you can find out.
Got it. Now that's a fun fact.
So it's the wind battle.
Wow, the Yankees.
Wow. Wow.
Yeah, it's like the little tiny thing.
Yeah. That's a fun fact. That is a fun fact.
Yeah, that is weird.
It would have been funny if you just did all golf facts.
St. John's in Omaha.
Okay. Good job.
All right, fun fact, Hank. That's very fun. All right. These have been great. Yeah, these have been great. I feel like I'm ready for the tournament now. I got my region. Before I do that, game time. The best part of college basketball is here, and we know you're as excited as we are to watch some big upsets throughout the tournament.
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Right. And, oh, yeah, we get $100,000 if we make the tournament. That's not a conflict of interest or anything.
You are the Midwest. I am in the Midwest. You've got to get your hands on one of these brackets. I know. Someone printed out all these, and they don't have any of the regions. So stupid. Okay. First, big picture from my region. Three of the teams in the Midwest are in the top six for most tournament appearances without a final four. So Xavier has been to the tournament 29 times, no final fours.
Tennessee's been in the tournament 26 times, no final fours. Utah State's been in the tournament 24 times, no final fours.
Yeah. Okay. First matchup, Houston versus SIU Edwardsville. Houston, speaking of, has the most Final Four appearances without a national title. So they've been to the Final Four six times. They've never won the title. The next in line for them is Illinois and Oklahoma. Both have been to five, never won a title.
Also, Lil Wayne attended University of Houston for a year in 2005, majored in political science. So shout out political science majors.
Yeah, then he had to drop out, and he went to the University of Phoenix and finished his degree. SIU Edwardsville. What? What? I don't know if he finished his degree, but he went to the University of Phoenix after. Lil Wayne went to Houston? He went to Houston. He enrolled in Houston, and allegedly was getting good grades. That's what it said. Wow. 2005 to 2005, poli-sci major.
Pretty fun fact, huh? Yeah, that is a very fun fact. SIU Edwardsville. It is the first ever NCAA tournament appearance for them because they became D1. Hank still doesn't believe it, by the way. I saw that. Right there.
Yeah. And left. This is our first ever tournament, NCAA tournament appearance. They became D1 in 2008. Also, if you want to get a little cheeky at the bar, say you like the Cougars in this game.
Yeah, so just say, hey, who you got in this game? I got the Cougars. Also, Houston's going to win by a billion. SIU Edwardsville's 34th largest college in America by acreage. Okay. Kind of cool. It's down by St. Louis. Notable alums, Jeff Tweedy from Wilco, Bill Plaschke, and this one I feel like is stolen valor because everyone talks about the big show, the wrestler, going to Wichita State.
Yeah. So UNC probably will win, and they'll probably go to the Sweet 16, and everyone will be like, yeah, you didn't think they should be in the tournament. And then Alabama State won.
He finished his career at SIU Edwardsville. That's where he got the degree from? Yeah, and he played D2 basketball there. Okay. So we need to put some more respect to the big show going to SIU Edwardsville. SIUE. Yeah. Also, game notes for this one I had. Houston has played five teams, 200 or worse in Ken Palm. Here are the scores. 97-40 against Jackson State. 91-45 against Louisiana.
80-44 against Hofstra. 78-49 against Toledo. 87-51 against Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Dead.
Not good. Not good. Okay. Next one. Next game. Gonzaga and Georgia. Gonzaga is going for their 10th straight Sweet 16, which is insane. That's insane. Nine straight Sweet 16s is nuts. Also, I found out one of Mark Few's dogs, who you might remember from his DUI video, is named Stella. Oh, that's fun. And he brings her to practice.
Yeah, that's true. Mark Few also, he loves fishing so much, he convinced his dentist to shave down a piece of his front tooth so he can better use it to cut fishing lines with his teeth.
I think it was like, it had gotten a little, like there was an indentation for where he had been doing it because it was like wearing down. Yeah. And the dentist was like, we could replace the tooth. He's like, can you just shave it down so I can just keep going?
Yeah, he's very competitive. I read an interview with his fishing buddy. He's like, he's so competitive even when fishing. Pretty cool. All right, Georgia. Does anyone know the last time Georgia won a tournament game? Did Tom Crean win one? He did not. And in 2008, 2002. And so this got me thinking and I went down a little rabbit hole of just searching because it makes no sense.
Georgia is a huge school of the 10 college football national champions since 2002. Seven out of 10 of them have been to a final four. All 10 of them have been to an Elite Eight. All of them have won a minimum of six tournament games, and Georgia has not won a game.
So you go down the list, like Ohio State, 21 wins, Final Four. Michigan, 25 wins, Final Four. Alabama, 13 wins. Clemson, six wins. Elite Eight, that was actually the worst. UCF? UCF I did not have on there, but they've won games in the tournament. Florida, obviously, 33 wins, national championship. Texas, 20 wins, Final Four. USC, eight wins, lead eight. Georgia.
Combined, 154 tournament wins for all other programs that have won a national title in football, and Georgia has had zero wins since 2002.
Obviously, you can do the Villanova's basketball school. Football is not... But it's rare to have such a, like football, when you have a big, robust football program, that means you have a lot of money in the athletic department. The basketball school should at least be in the tournament every now and then and at least winning tournament games.
Right. So I think that's the biggest disparity.
Between a football and a basketball program. Hank, you with us? Mm-hmm. What are you doing?
Nice. Also, this game, just game note, Gonzaga's a better team, but Georgia is taller and more physical, so it'll be very interesting to see how Gonzaga has sometimes been called soft.
By me, specifically. Next up, Clemson versus McNeese State. So this is Clemson. I have gone to a game at Clemson. Pretty cool campus. Nice stadium. It was good. Clemson is also a cult that doesn't get enough credit for being a cult. They all wear their class rings. Didn't realize that they all wear their class rings. So they're in the Texas A&M Notre Dame camp in there.
There's a rule on campus before football games. You have to wear orange on Fridays. It sounds like you get arrested if you don't. Yep. They also do the $2 bill thing where this started because in 1977, Georgia Tech and Clemson used to play every year in Atlanta, and Georgia Tech canceled their rivalry game.
And so George Bennett, an executive director of Clemson's Booster Club, said all Clemson fans, let's use $2 bills to show the impact we have on the economy. Yep. Now it's kind of just they're bragging.
And they're kind of just being like, look at how awesome we are. Everyone's got $2 bills.
And then there's also a statue, Thomas Green Clemson in Tillman Hall statue. You're not allowed to read the plaque until you graduate. Guess what? I read the plaque today. But you didn't graduate. But I might graduate, and I already read the plaque.
I don't know. I asked. We have a coworker, Kayla, who went to Clemson. I was like, did you read that plaque? She's like, I don't remember. I was like, sounds like you specifically didn't read the plaque. I would definitely read the plaque. And she had a ring on. I didn't know they all wear the ring. They need to be made fun of for the ring.
I just said that.
I went to a game.
Yeah, it's very small.
The bars were cool. I went to a couple of bars there. Yeah, that's the Clemson class ring. And they switch the C around when you graduate. McNeese State, it's all about Amir Khan, viral student manager. He's the best. His nickname is Aura, and he's the first student manager to ever sign an NIL deal. He got a deal with Buffalo Wild Wings, Tick Picks, and Insomnia Cookies.
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And he has the quote, if they kept manager stats for rebounding and wiping up wet spots on the court, I'd put up Wilt Chamberlain numbers.
Yeah. One note on this game, McNeese State actually played two Power 5 programs this year. They lost by eight to Alabama and three to Mississippi State. So they might be able to hang. Fighting Will Wade. Okay, next up, Purdue High Point. I got Purdue. I'm going to keep it clean here. Purdue has produced 27 astronauts. And they also have the first and last guy to walk on the moon.
So Neil Armstrong first, Eugene Cernan last.
Also, I found out that 16% of people who have been on the moon are named Alan. That is a fun fact.
Alan Shepard. And the other Alan. There's another Alan? Yeah. Also, over 70% of Purdue students graduate as virgins. High point. This one's crazy. High Point University. I don't know if you guys know anything about High Point. I actually talked to Kelly Keegs, our coworker, who went to High Point. They have the second longest win streak in the country right now with 14.
High Point University is, they basically made like a Sims college because it looks like Disneyland. There's like 15 pools. There's a, Max, you're going to like this because I know I liked it. There is a ice cream truck that's free to all students that you can get in between classes. It's free all the time? Yeah.
That is an incredible... I think it's part of your meal thing, but it's like you just go, you get ice cream. That is the best perk. High Point also has a steak restaurant that you can go to once a month free. And it is the goal of the steak restaurant is it's a fine dining learning lab aims to teach students business and social etiquette, including how to eat in a professional setting.
Now, the only counterpoint to that, our good friend Tom Fornelli did text me after listening to part of my take on Sunday, something Hank, I guess, doesn't do. Uh... But he pointed out that they do get a bonus for winning a tournament game.
They're literally teaching them how to eat.
It's a great, like looking at the campus, seeing all this stuff. Also, like the president is from the country Jordan, and he made it from High Point College to High Point University, and then he built all this stuff. $70,000 a year. It's insane.
Yeah, and you get to learn how to eat a steak. Also, High Point, South Carolina is the furniture capital of the world. Yeah, North Carolina Furniture is a real thing. Yeah, so they have like a furniture expo every year. Pretty crazy. My only game note from – oh, they also have a guy, a seven-footer, Juslin Bodo Bodo. I like that. Just like it.
My note from this game is High Point plays a drop coverage scheme, and Braden Smith is probably going to go over on his points and assists. Okay. They're just going to run two-man offense, Purdue, all game. Uh, okay. Next up I got Illinois verse Texas and Xavier. My Illinois fun fact is, uh, I have two of them.
Tom Fornelli was once at a party with Duran Williams and Duran slept while standing up in the corner. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Way to go, Tom. Yeah. So that was, uh, that was a cool one. And then my other one is that just cause you didn't want to talk to Tom or That was really mean. That was really mean. You don't think that Tom can party?
No, he's saying that Tom was such a bore that he was sleeping in the corner.
Yeah. Other fun fact is our guy Chuck, and I witnessed this firsthand. He had a friend in college named Pat Moriarty who would bring a Ziploc bag of Italian sausages to the bar. And I actually watched this. We were out there doing an event at Red Lion for the Blackhawks. I think it was like 2013 or 14. And he literally just pulled a sausage out of his pocket. He's like, you want a sausage?
Cooked sausage. Not like sausage bites. Cooked on the grill sausage. Was it hot?
Pat Moriarty, he actually was in pretty good shape. That's a wild move. Yeah. Pretty cool move, though.
Yeah. So if you ask the 16 seed, do you want a 50-50 chance at a bonus or a one in a billion chance? I think they'd probably take the 50-50 chance. And for the kids and the coach to get a NCAA tournament win on your resume is a pretty big deal. So they might be fine with it. Do they not get a bonus if they just play in the tournament? No, I don't think so.
No, it was like he grilled the sausage in the morning, then would put it in the Ziploc bag, and then bring it out with him. Boom. Need a sausage? There you go. I think you were there with us. You might have been underage, so you might not have come to us, the bar with us. Yes. Okay. And then they're going to play Texas or Xavier.
Xavier, Sean Miller, all-time sweat guy, just needs to be reminded, everyone. Also, Xavier, Zach Fremantle has been there for about 100 years. If you're not familiar with him, he's very good, but he's been there forever. And Ryan Conwell, their other really good player, you might recognize him. He was on Indiana State last year, which was kind of a darling that didn't make the tournament.
And then Texas, Trey Johnson is a lottery pick. You should know his name. And Texas is in the tournament 19 and 15 is their record. And if you take out teams worse than 200 in Ken Palm on their schedule, they were actually 13 and 15. So they beat the fuck out of Houston Christian, Chicago State, Mississippi Valley State, Arkansas Pine Bluff, New Orleans, Northwestern State. Texas has good players.
There might not be a good team.
Yeah. Okay. I got three more. Kentucky versus Troy. Kentucky. Mark Pope met his wife. She was a personal assistant for David Letterman. And Mark Pope actually met his future wife's brother. And then the brother called the future wife and said... When my brother met Mark, he was like, I just met the male version of you. He's you, but he's a dude. He's gonna call you for Letterman tickets.
Is that good?
Yeah, true, true. And then also, Mark Pope raps.
Yeah, this one was... He did Hamilton.
Yeah, play it.
Okay. That's Mark Pope. That's Kentucky. Troy. Coach Cal would have killed that rap. Yeah. Yeah. Troy. That was tough to watch. Troy. It's their third tournament appearance. They've never won a game. And this one's a fun fact. Their coach recently went on record saying he only recruits guys who like Waffle House. That's not a bad strategy. Yeah.
So in the town where Troy plays, it's like 15,000 people. There's three Waffle Houses. So it's like he said, it's probably per capita the highest, like 5,000 person per Waffle House. And he said, we often ask them, do you like Waffle House? If the answer is yes, we sign them. If it's no, we never get them.
Yeah, facts. Also, Troy, the game note I had, Lamont Butler's back for Kentucky, and Troy is one of those teams that's very analytical. They only shoot at the rim, and they shoot threes. Only problem for Troy is they suck at shooting threes. So they're literally the worst percentage in the entire field of 68 at shooting threes, and they shoot a lot of them.
Yeah. Yeah, but they're doing it. They're doing it. All right. UCLA versus Utah State. This one is just UCLA. Mick Cronin. Remember when Mick Cronin, basketball almost killed him? He had an unruptured aneurysm in the back of his head and almost died. So I found a very funny – I went deep. I found a very funny dude's rock moment. There was a story about a man in Minneapolis –
They might, but they get an additional bonus for every win.
Who saw Mick Cronin's story. He had similar headaches and he went to the doctor and the doctor was like, oh, you have an unruptured aneurysm. And the guy was like, I know exactly what that is. Coach Cronin's got it. And the doctor was like, who the hell is Coach Cronin? So Mick Cronin saved the guy's life.
He literally saw him. He's like, yeah, I got really bad headaches. I almost died. And he's like, oh, fuck, I've had really bad headaches. Am I about to die? He went to the emergency room, was about to die.
Saving lives. Utah State, I just have notable alumni because they have a lot of guys who played football there. Bobby Wagner, Donald Penn, Roy Shivers, Al Smith, Travis Laboy, Eric Hipple, and Chris Cooley. Those are all the really good football players from Utah State. They're the Aggies too, right? Yes, they are the Aggies. Utah State also is going to zone the fuck out of UCLA.
Yeah, it's fun. It's where we started off. Listen, I want another playing game on Monday night because last night, I don't know about you guys, but I was lost.
So I kind of like the under in that game. All right, last one for me, Tennessee and Wofford. Wooford, Tennessee. Rick Barnes is in his 29th NCAA tournament. A lot of tournaments. He is fourth all-time for tournament appearances. He's never won a title. He's been to one Final Four. He's 30-28 in NCAA tournaments.
So 2020 was COVID year, no games. 2021, they lost the first round. 2022, they lost the second round. 23, they lost the third round. 24 in the Elite Eight last year. So this year, Final Four. And next year, championship game, unless they're a playing team. Yeah. Then that would fuck up the whole thing.
Yes. Wofford, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Notable golfer, Hank. Willie McGirt. Do you know him? Nope. Great name. Dirt McGirt. Two professional wins. Also, they have a live mascot terrier named Blitz 3. It has been the live mascot since 2014.
Yeah, I tried to find any other news, and I couldn't find any, which I think is a good thing.
Yeah, also this game, game note. Wofford, 333rd in tempo. Tennessee, 346th in tempo. Going to be a slow one. A real slow one. Okay, I feel like that was it. Very fun. What? What, Max?
Yeah. Should we rip a quick Mount Rushmore?
All right, then we won't. Let's not. What about Rapid Fire? Rapid Fire, Mount Rushmore.
I love that. Yeah, let's do it for Friday's episode. Friday's episode, Mount Rushmore. I love that. That's a good idea.
Friday guests might be sick.
Oh, so we can't get her? Try to guess is sick.
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Really, very, very fun fact. Should we get to our fun facts? Yeah. Let's fucking do it. So we split up the regions. We all took a region. PFT, I think you're up first because you have Auburn's region, right? I do. All right. So Auburn and PFT, the South. One seed. Yeah, the South.
All right, so we're going to do a parlay for Thursday and a parlay for Friday. So you guys got your Thursday picks?
I'll start. I got Purdue high point over 153.5.
Okay.
Nope. Nope. Okay, that's first game. A lot of pressure.
You want to think about that?
All right. All right, go for it. All right, change it. If you want to change it, change it. Should I go UC San Diego? Yeah. All right, UC San Diego plus two and a half. Why don't we move the line a little? We got a money line in there. Make it four and a half. For what? UC San Diego. Okay. Our odds are going to be good because we have a VCU money line. All right. I like it. All right.
And then our Friday pick. You're going to be able to bet all these in the DraftKings Sportsbook app. New Mexico plus three and a half. Okay. I'm going to do Colorado State minus two and a half.
No. Well.
Okay.
You can do that. No, I'll change. I'll change.
Well, did you not get the text?
Oh. Stu Feiner.
Okay. He said it was a lineage play.
I already said it. With Titus.
Yeah, we live updated with Titus when he texted us yesterday.
Okay. Okay.
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He really took down that line.
Yeah. I like this. I don't think he should have apologized. No. What's your cool throne since Hank left?
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Yeah.
You've got to, if you're a Drake... alumni if you're drake administrator you gotta trench coat this bulldog yeah you gotta bring him in a trench coat i don't care you gotta get the bulldog in there for all the dogs right yeah yep get him get him do the service dog i don't care griff's got to be in the building got it free griff free griff all right hank
Who was in charge of getting Jack Ruby killed?
Or in charge of Jack Ruby killing.
Damn, damn.
Or you were just talking as Oldie. I love that Oldie calls you P. Yeah.
Podcast P. Makes me laugh every time. It's a good nickname. P. I like it. Okay, my hot seat, I have two, is my sleep because I woke up this morning at 4.30 this morning to watch the Cubs lose to the Dodgers. Turns out the Dodgers are still really good. Yeah. And they're going to win a lot of games.
Yeah, and like Shota was pitching a no-hitter through four, which doesn't really count through four. He threw four walks, and they pulled him because I think they're trying to be very cautious with the fact they have to go all the way back from japan and then there's 10 days before actual opening day so it's weird but the dodgers are really good did you see any more highlights
uh yes they had so they had a high they had what i think was the camera we watched from behind the plate and it was just the player the batter was just totally pixelated every time yeah it was garbage it's weird it was garbage so it's not one camera it's i don't know what it was of a bunch of cameras every time it looked like your tv broke yeah it would show this highlight so it sucked your thoughts hank no comment
Also, hot seat Aaron Rodgers because Cam Hayward said, I ain't doing that darkness retreat. And he said, I don't need any of that crap. Either you want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler or you don't. It's that simple. That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that's a recruiting pitch. Pittsburgh Steelers.
Yeah. And he's like, I'm ready. I'm about to retire. Just fucking just let me go. Like, just figure it out. I'm not doing this.
Yeah. So the whole thing is weird. We'll find out.
Crazy that Aaron Rodgers is holding up. An offseason. This will turn out well. Yeah. He really is just, it is cats in the cradle with Brett Favre. Yeah. He's just learning everything from him. And he hated Brett Favre. I know. It's perfect. Cool Throne, two of them as well. Get your brackets in, Stell Blue Coffee. We're doing a golden bracket.
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So go sign up. We need more. Hank's going to cut his dick off, too. Max. Yeah, no, no, Max. We're doing it through Wednesday. Yeah, yeah. Yes. I thought Matt was also going to say he's going to cut off his penis. Oh, that's great. All right. Go buy Cell Blue Coffee and fill out a bracket. And like I said, you'll get to go to the Final Four with us next year in Indy, so that's pretty cool.
And then my other cool drone is Tracy Morgan. He just had food poisoning. It happens. I think this was awful that you're throwing up courtside of the Knicks game and the game's delayed like 20 minutes. That sucks. I think it was, like, in a weird way good that Tracy Morgan could see how much he's loved because I didn't see anyone clowning on him.
Yeah.
Yeah, like, he's had health issues. And so everyone, when I saw it, because I'm the number one puke guy. I love puke. I laugh at puke all the time. There wasn't a lot of joking about Tracy Morgan. Everyone was like, I hope he's okay.
He might be kicked out. Yeah. Also, it was very funny because if you saw one of the videos, Bobby Bacala was just looking like, get this guy out of here. Yeah, he was like, oh, I need my train set. It's a very funny puke. All right, Mark Titus time. Let's do it.
Yeah.
Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is Tradition.
Yeah, when he got canceled. It's Tradition, Mark Titus. It's a lot easier than in years past when we would have to, he would basically get hit up by every single person in the media world this week being like, Oh, Titus, you like ball. Come talk to me about March Madness. Now we work together. Now you own me. Yeah, we own you. Yeah. Two years. Is your two year anniversary coming up?
Terrible idea. Well, no, it's actually smart because you survived it. But yeah, we always have you on the Wednesday of March Madness of the tournament week. I'm excited about this bracket. Do we need to just say a quick fuck you to UNC and prayers to West Virginia and Indiana for being left out?
Yeah, who gives a fuck? The more I thought about it, because we did our instant reactions on Sunday night, I think the committee basically was like, we have four historically great teams at number one seeds, and the rest of the bracket will just fucking fill it out however it goes. Because it's not just who got left in, left out. There's some weird seeding, like Michigan getting a five.
Louisville getting an eight. Gonzaga getting an eight.
And they're going to probably win a couple games.
Yeah, the West Virginia governor doing that, he basically had like two hours of everyone's paying attention, and then I'm already over it.
Yeah.
It's the quickest. Literally, when Tuesday happens and the first ball is tipped, it's like, who was that governor?
No.
We're going to break down the bracket with you in a second, but do we think there is any chance they have the ball situation figured out this year?
Well, I didn't know. I knew they said War Eagle, but I never looked it up.
We saw crazy air balls and weird things happen.
I had someone point out to me something I never thought about, but when Wisconsin was playing Michigan in the Big Ten tournament final, I was like, yeah, tired legs. This is what I expected. They just aren't moving. And someone was like, do you ever think maybe the ball is tired? The ball could be tired.
I got a high-level bracket before we go region by region. So this is the season, and I love it, where we get all the analytics and people are like, hey, this is what needs to happen as a champion. It's the Ken Palm rule where I think it's – A team has to be, I believe it's 21st or better in adjusted offensive efficiency and 37th or better in adjusted defense.
Yes. Both of them. But so those cutoffs usually, and it is like if you look at it going into the tournament, that's where you're going to find your national champion. This year, though, it's crazy. There's 11 teams that meet that, which I feel like has never been. It's usually like six or seven teams. Yeah. So there's 11 teams.
I'm going to list all 11 for you, and you can tell me, yes, the national champion will be in this group. Duke, Florida, Houston, Auburn, all your one seeds. Yep. Tennessee, Alabama, both two seeds. Texas Tech, a three seed. Gonzaga, an eight seed. Iowa State, Wisconsin, also your three seeds. And Arizona. That's the list.
Notable exceptions that have been left out are Michigan State, St. John's. So those are the teams. I think a lot of people... Maryland's not in there. Would you feel comfortable saying...
But chalky, again, obviously you want an upset or two in the first round. It's fun. Chalky always does make it great for the second weekend in the Final Four. Because it's like you don't... St. Peter's was a great story. That Elite Eight game was garbage.
It's always funny if Rick Barnes loses.
Like that. Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter.
All right, let's start breaking it down. All right. Let's go in the top left. The east, is that right? South. I have a... South.
All right, so what do you have?
You know what's funny, too, about the UC San Diego-Michigan upset that everyone's going to pick? Because I agree with you. I think that UC San Diego is a very good team. Their metrics are off the charts for a 12 seed for a small conference. They haven't played anyone, and they're going to go up against two 7-footers. That doesn't feel like a good recipe.
But then right underneath it, I think Yale could beat Texas A&M. Yeah. Yale is the team. Like, Yale... Completely dominated the Ivy. They played a couple... They lost by eight to Purdue. They played a one-possession game with Minnesota. Obviously, Minnesota wasn't an incredible team. But I feel like Yale... And they got guys who could rebound like...
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Right. And Texas A&M is one of those teams. I like Buzz Williams. I think they're a good team, but they are a team that struggles to shoot basketball. And so if you can't score, that's why as much as I want St. John's to go deep, it's like if you don't have the ability to get...
uh a couple guys hot just because you look at their body of work and they just can't do it uh that always smells trouble so i feel like yale might be my upset that could be a good one i yelled i you can get the yale michigan uh danny wolf storyline yeah yeah that little that little thing going um
gotta be he's got titty boy he's got titty boys gotta be there you're adding some nice fun facts yeah he's listed i want to say we should have started the show with uh welcome back thank you thank you you were back you were just a vessel on sunday night that was your that was your innie yeah oh yeah
to the awls out of the gate because i i just not the first time you had to apologize uh i wish i had the balls to pick louisville to beat auburn yeah i wish i had the balls but i don't louisville playing in louisville got fucked with their seed but they could have played lexington i know like i would have rather had a five seed and be in milwaukee uh here's another one that i'll throw out there and i don't think brian's gonna beat michigan state but it shocked me when i saw this uh brian's taller than michigan state oh really yeah they don't have a starter under six six
No shit? Yeah. That's a shocking 15-2 where you get a 15-2 and it's almost always, oh, well, look, height actually matters in basketball. But Bryant, again, I think Michigan State's going to win the game. But that could be a game that's a little bit trickier for Michigan State if they can't out-physical them.
Yeah, no, I think this is a very classic Michigan State team in the fact that they have guards that wear thick headbands and are absolute dogs. And then even they throw in the Kohler bear, Jackson Kohler, just a white dude who plays basketball like he's a football player.
But they always need one of those guys, too. Yeah, I like this Michigan State team.
And I think they might be a quintessential Michigan State team in the fact that I'm going to pick them and go to the Final Four in this region as well, and then they'll lose like 72 to 54 in the semifinals, in the first one. They're going to play the early one. They're not going to shoot at all in the big dome. And you'll be like, ah, shit. Exactly right. That was it.
Yeah, yeah. It was your nose bleeding and being like, what the hell's going on? But yeah, it's good to have you back. Okay, next game.
All right, so you've got Michigan State in this region.
And Iowa State, Keyshawn Gilbert being out is definitely significant.
Tight shirts, T.J.
Hit the noise, Hank.
I also will say that T.J. Otzelberger, Greg Gard is a phenomenal coach, and I want him to keep coaching forever, but T.J. Otzelberger will be next. He's from Wisconsin. So he's going to Wisconsin. So I already got that on him.
How do they print a bracket with no... What is that? South? Oh, that's the West.
Florida's playing incredible ball right now. They're on fire. I don't know how... It sounds stupid because it's a tournament and anyone can beat anyone. I just don't know how you deal with everything Florida can do because they have everything. They shoot threes. They have incredible size. They rebound the fuck out of the ball. It just feels like...
They're almost like a ramped-up, hyper version of Alabama, of what Alabama wants to be.
Right.
Everyone can shoot.
shit all over you and you're just like well god damn I thought I thought we were kind of cutting into this lead a little bit but I guess I guess maybe not that's a great point because it is when you watch Florida that is exactly what happens it's like oh here's a logo three and then here's like a dunk on your two your center and power forward yeah In back-to-back possessions.
Wait, his name's Rain?
They got size in their back pocket.
But this is actually my – so with everything we said about Florida, how good they are, this actually is my group of death because I do think Maryland is Final Four caliber. I think St. John's, Texas Tech, who we mentioned, and Colorado State's probably the hottest team outside of Florida, and they're all in the bracket together.
Oh, I said that I want UConn to win the first game because then I want everyone to be like, oh, watch out for UConn. Florida will kill you.
They also really miss, did you guys see the Cam Spencer clip of him just barking at KD? Like, that's the guy. They don't have that guy who's like a hurley on the court. And I've held out hope for UConn this year that they were going to, like, there's been moments, like when they played St. John's twice, I was like, this is the moment. They were up big against St. John's in stores.
And I was like, oh, here comes UConn. Even in the Big East semifinals, it's like, UConn's going to beat Creighton. They're going to go take down St. John's. It just isn't there. I have a bone to pick with you about UConn, though.
You don't like Dan Hurley?
No, no, that's fair. That is fair. But you... Is Dan Hurley good for college basketball? Yes. Okay, good. Yes, Dan Hurley's good for college basketball.
I thought that was the whole thing. Yeah, all right, so we're on the same page. I'm doing my job. I'm a big believer that one of the things about college basketball, because the rosters change every year, especially now with Transfer Portal, Coaches matter. You know what I mean? The asshole coach is kind of getting phased out. Yes. Where we don't have the Boeheim. We don't have the Huggins.
We don't have the Coach K. Dan Hurley, to me, he's the torchbearer for that next generation of dickhead coaches. You need them. Because otherwise, you're getting mad at an 18-year-old that you've known for two months.
I have to play my job.
Okay. We're on the same page.
And he's important to the ecosystem.
You figured it out with college basketball. All right, so at the bottom of this bracket, we have the Bill Self-Cal matchup, which I know people want to hype up, but like... I feel like it's just a depressing matchup. It's depressing. Because both these teams aren't good. So it's just like, and I'm closing my eyes.
How I'm going to bet this game is I'm closing my eyes and I'm just going to try to figure out which one of these two I'm going to visualize standing in a hallway after the game doing a CBS interview being like, we just didn't have the guys this year.
Can you do the shirt? I love BJs. I heart BJs.
What are we? This isn't it. So I don't know who's going to win that game, but I hope St. John's gets to the Sweet 16 because I do like Rick Pitino. And Rick Pitino is going for, Rothstein told us, he's personally trying to get Calipari off of his resume by taking a fourth team to a Final Four. Cal and he are the only two to take three teams to a Final Four. Okay.
So he would then – He would be the fourth. It would no longer be Patino and Cal did it. Oh, that's right.
They just can't shoot.
I know.
They hit one. And they got a technical on Saturday night for, for the, for the pistols.
They're the only team in the country to average less than 60 possessions a game.
Yeah, I do, too. And I... I don't know. I want Drake to win because I feel like every year I'm like, oh, Drake, they could do this. And they're really well coached.
All right, so if not Florida, is it St. John's or is it Maryland? I mean, Maryland, I like Maryland a lot. I think they're super talented. I do think having the depth that they have does hurt in the NCAA tournament where you can get these stupid games where a guy gets two fouls five minutes in and you're just like, what the fuck? What's the plan now?
Oh, yeah. That's a good point. So you also would be going up against another Ken Palm stat that in the 64-team era, there have been 36 teams to enter the tournament as a one or two seed that weren't ranked in the preseason AP poll, and they have a combined zero Final Four appearance. Oof. St. John's and Michigan State are those teams this year. They were not ranked in the preseason AP top 25.
There are two seeds. So you could be like, you know what? I picked them both. Yeah, but if you get this right, though, you are the first. I was the guy who believed.
So that's even more illustrious.
Right.
Yeah. But that one is one that's floating around right now. I mean, it makes sense. I know we make fun of the preseason polls, but it is largely based on overall talent. Yeah, who's got the talent.
I don't know.
You just you just hang out all day.
Max is looking it up right now. Let's see. Is this the preseason? Max is really bad at Googling. I'm not that bad. I'll just do it myself. You're really bad at it. All right, here we go. What? He's got it. St. John's isn't there. They're not ranked. Right. Confirm that.
Others receiving votes. Wisconsin, Colorado, UCLA, St. John's. So they were 29th. It's crazy.
They just got extra votes. Oh, there you go. Yeah.
John's and Michigan State are the two that fall under that. Last year, Iowa State was a two-seed, not ranked in the preseason. They went to the Sweet 16.
Agreed. Okay. What about East? East. Duke.
He's not going to be. He's going to be. But strap it up. Dr. Dan said that he's going to have to have surgery. What about next man up? He's a defender. Just strap it up. He's an important defender.
They play Alabama too.
Yeah, I was going to say it's like the COVID. We're right in the zone where everyone's doing the five-year anniversaries and I cringe at every single thing I see. Where it's like, you know, videos of people dancing in the street, socially distanced.
He slipped in the last possession. If you haven't watched Cooper Flagg, he's an incredible basketball player. Guy sweats a lot. He does sweat a lot. He sweats a lot. Yeah. And he slips.
I love that from her.
That was such an awesome statement. The one in Carolina, the dunk, and she's on your fucking head.
It blew my mind. We need Conn Knipple to step up and hit someone in the balls. That's really the only answer. It's not going to be Cooper Flagg.
Grayson Allen needs to do something fucked up in an NBA game. When people are like, oh man, I wish we didn't have the one and done rule. I'm like, well, that's bullshit because kids should be able to go earn a living and if they're good enough to be in the NBA, they should be in the NBA.
But part of me is like, I kind of miss, I wish we had three years in college basketball just so I could get my hate up for Duke.
Because that is – it's so transient now.
You know, it's in and out where – and again, I think more than anything what you're saying, Titus, about this Duke team is they just didn't – what's the most memorable game they played in this year?
They were just so much better than everyone in the ACC. They destroyed everybody. Except Clemson beat them. But like – Usually you have at least a couple memories from, like, deep in January or February where it's like, oh, Duke went to Wake Forest and they tripped someone and then they won a bullshit way or, you know. Now all we've got is White Lotus.
And he's got a fucking hog. And his wife's UNC.
I agree with you. I think Duke's going to win it all.
We have screwed, but I...
montana's ass that's montana certified ass so we got we got screwed in the location i would rather play montana than lipscomb yeah lipscomb's like you're right about that kind of kind of plucky montana i know they can shoot threes but they've played two power four teams they got fucking smoke dude you're you're fine there byu is an interest byu vcu would be interesting i think vcu might win vcu might win that game um they're so annoying they are annoying you're not a byu lever
And when I say VCU is annoying, I just want to be on the record because I don't want Dukes' VCU guy to come after me and prison fuck me. Annoying in a good way. You don't want to play them. They annoy their opponent.
In the final.
Yeah, that's what I meant. That was the funniest part of everyone being like, this team is asses. They just won three games.
And they have like a solid nine guys. And, you know, Blackwell's awesome. Klesman's clutch. You know, I think Crowell and Nolan Winter, they both got called out early in the season for being soft. And they played a lot better. They just need to make it to Sweet 16. If they make it to Sweet 16, then I'm like, I said this like a month ago. Get to the Sweet 16.
Then there's... Obviously, I'll be devastated if they lose in the Sweet 16, especially to Alabama. But I understand the tournament. Crazy shit happens. Like, once you get to that point, it's like anything can happen. So it takes a little bit of this thing out. But if they lose in the first or second round, I'll be devastated.
I don't know. He's getting his knee looked at as we speak. They don't shoot as well as they need to. So last year, because I think we do that as fans where we're like, oh, this is the same team. Last year, they obviously went to the Final Four. They were 19th in the country in three-point shooting.
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You've got to make them.
And the mid-range is coached out of them.
Yeah.
I kind of like Oregon. I think Dana Altman's – and they have their seven-footer, Biddle, who's – He's a tough one to look at, but he's good.
And you have BYU. Who wins BYU-Alabama?
All right, last one, Midwest, Houston. They're really fucking good.
But they also have to play possibly Gonzaga, who's a top 10 Ken Palm team. And Mark Few has made like 1,000 sweet 16s in a row.
Yeah, and you were right. So there are four losses on the season. They lost Auburn in the second game of the season early November.
Yeah. Then they lost in OT to Alabama, OT to San Diego State, and OT to Texas Tech. Yeah. Pretty good. So they've lost one game in regulation.
Never been to the Final Four. They got screwed on their seating.
Make shots team.
The best way to sum up Illinois, and I'm pretty sure this stat is correct. Someone told it to me, and even if it's not correct, it makes sense for Illinois. Their average margin for a victory is 15 points. Their average margin to defeat is 15. I love that. That's it. You know what?
Yeah, just be a believer in Illinois. Looking at it right now, just going down the stretch, they lost by 14 to Michigan State. They lost by 21 to Wisconsin. They lost by like 50 to Duke. And they turn around and beat Iowa by 20, beat Michigan by 20. In the Big Ten tournament, they beat Iowa by 12. Then they lost to Maryland by 20. That's just what they do. I like it.
yeah they're fun I want so bad if I had to if you said like what if you could just you know snap your fingers and be like that matchup happens Illinois Kentucky I know that would be so fun so fun that would be awesome and then also maybe Kentucky Tennessee
Oh, what about Purdue High Point?
I just got a text. Breaking Moose.
Not a cult.
You guys can tell me who this text was from. I'll tell you what it says. Okay. Colorado State is a lineage play. A lineage play. A lineage play. All right. That seems like Rothstein. That means that's your entire lineage. Your family tree is one. That's finer. That's too finer. He just texted me, Colorado State is a lineage play. That is finer. That is one stew finer. Colorado State.
Yeah.
Your entire family tree.
Yeah, yeah.
I got some ring facts for you.
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It popped in my head that this would be a fun exercise. Ranking of the window. So obviously we had the first. We'll rank them. The Eastern Standard Time, the 12-15 to 4-35 window on Thursday, the night window. Let's look. Max, fill in with your bracket thoughts real quick. Why are you wearing a headband? I don't know. ADD? What? Kinda. While we look, go ahead and fill in your bracket thoughts.
You and memes, talk amongst yourselves while we look and do our research on this. I don't have much thoughts. I do have thoughts on Villanova head coaching. Yeah, what the hell?
Friday night you got Marquette versus New Mexico, which we talked about. Illinois versus Texas or Xavier. You got UConn, Oklahoma. Akron, Arizona.
Oh, competing fun facts. I do not. What team? Spoilers. You can't spoil the fun facts. You're right. I've said too much about class rings.
And then Troy, Kentucky. Those are some really good games Friday night. So that would be my 1-1.
I like, though, that there's some fun offense on Friday night that I'm like. Because that's when you start to run out of gas mentally. And you need to pick me up. You need some good. You need to pick me up. Yeah, you don't want to have it be like a bunch of two 15s or one 16s.
Okay, any last thoughts? I'm excited.
We'll be right back.
What are you going to say about it?
Right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, I dare you to do that.
Yeah, it grows very fast.
What does that mean?
Eh.
40.
Yeah, so I was thinking about Jim Harbaugh and his turnarounds, and the thought occurred to me that some NFL coaches might not really – they say they care about winning and they want to win, but Jim Harbaugh needs to win.
If he doesn't win, then he might as well be dead. That's Jim Harbaugh's reason for waking up in the morning is to win every single encounter that he has. Some people say I'm addicted to winning. he's actually addicted to winning. Yeah. If you took winning away from him, he would go through withdrawals. You need to lock him in a padded cell.
Because I feel like we've been sentenced to a lifetime of every time Ladd McConkie has a good game, just getting incessant texts from Jerry O'Connell.
Why didn't he do that in week 16? Where was this in week 16? Just a heads up, guys. I drafted him in week 16. Sorry. We're just going to be updated on everything with his life via those texts. But, yeah, the Chargers looked good. They dominated the Patriots. Wasn't really close. Got a little stone smart action going on. And J.K. Dobbins is back.
All the way back. Huge.
Yeah, I mean, depending on the way the postseason schedule shakes out, they might win a game. Who knows?
It's one of my favorite things to say. I don't think that it's true. You should look it up. Actually, no, let's not look it up.
Yeah, I don't want to know if it's not true, but it's good to say. I mean, there's a lot of tape out there for Harbaugh to study now. I don't know. Weirder things have happened, but I guess if he goes up against his brother, then that adds up a whole new dynamic to it. Like the parents will probably be at that game and he'll need to win that even more. You never know.
Obviously, the Ravens are a much better team than the Chargers. But, yeah, great, great turnaround. And it's crazy because with the Chargers, you know exactly what they need to add this offseason. It's very clear that this was not going to be a one-year turnaround, but getting to the playoffs in year one.
That's why whenever anybody says it'll take you five years to fully rebuild a football team, you're full of shit. Bullshit. That's somebody that wants to give themselves a five-year runway to suck ass.
I think he reminds everybody of how much they cared about winning when they were in middle school. Yeah. That's what I think it is. He never got past that. He was a sore loser from day one, and all the guys in the NFL at some point had that same thing in them. A lot of them still do, but some, it's a profession. They go to work. They grind, whatever.
But being around Harbaugh, you're like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I only care about showing my teacher how fast I am.
It goes back to what we talked about the other week, which is I don't think that Kraft wants to fire him because then that would be Kraft admitting that he made a mistake by hiring him in the first place.
And he looks at the Patriots organization, his legacy as being this very classy place where he thinks of himself like the Steelers, where it's like, we don't fire coaches willy-nilly in New England.
I'm just going to say it. Joe Burrow should be the MVP.
I think regardless of if they make the playoffs or not, Joe Burrow should be the MVP. He's been the best player. I know that's not what the award has become. Um, but it should be like what, who's to say what the award is. The award is what it says that it is originally, which is the best player, the most valuable player in the NFL. Yeah.
And you can't get like, how many wins do you think the Bengals would have if they had, who's like the most perfectly average Dak? If the Bengals had Dak Prescott, how many, no, not Cooper. He's too good. If they had Dak Prescott, How many wins do you think they'd have this season?
I think they would have lost that game to the Cowboys.
Yeah, they would have definitely lost that game to the Cowboys. And so this was the eighth game with three touchdowns and 250 yards in a row? In a row. That's fucking crazy.
No. And regardless of if they make the playoffs or not, I do think he should be the MVP at this point, even though it goes against my Lamar Jackson future. I don't care. I'm willing to stand up and say, like, you can take it. I've been lucky enough. Joe Burrow, he's done everything that you want him to do. And I don't want this to be looked at –
It's going to be a wasted season if they don't make the playoffs. And there's still a pretty good chance that they don't make the playoffs. Oh, I'd say a high chance. It would be the most wasted season, I think, of all time or up there. Because Calvin Johnson, he had 2,000 yards one time with the Lions. I think they won three or four games that season. That was a pretty wasted year.
Actually, just Calvin and Barry Sanders, both of them.
Max Holman, the Ryder Cup.
Robert E. Lee in the Civil War. Crazy. He put up wilt numbers. Wild numbers. Tyrese Maxey this year.
Can you hold it up to the screen? I'll read it.
Bo Nix throws the fuck out of the football. When he throws the deep ball, he throws the fuck out of it, and I respect that.
Oh, so he's not supposed to play good against bad teams?
Oh, also, Max, maybe their defenses are so bad because they have to incorporate the stats like what Lamar did to them. Yeah, true. That has a part in it.
OJ did that in no less than 14 games.
Yeah, a million percent. They would much rather play that defense than play against the Bulls. And if you want a team that will give the Chiefs a puzzlingly good game and it'll come down to the last five minutes and the Chiefs will do something that will piss everybody off and win, then yeah, the Bengals, that would be the matchup that you're pointing at right there.
So in the last week of the season, we got maybe Carson Wentz, although I heard that Mahomes is thinking that he might start. I don't know because it's going to be a lot of time off for them. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's 25 days. I don't disagree with the fact that Andy Reid wants to start Mahomes. I don't think he should play the whole game.
I think you're probably going to get like a quarter if they're up by like two scores or a half of Mahomes, and then it'll be Carson Wentz time. And Carson Wentz, all I know for a fact is that he will do something that will piss everybody off. with the way it impacts the playoff race. It's probably going to be a tie.
If you put Carson, if he starts that game and plays the whole game, it'll probably be a tie. Everyone's going to get confused, and then something's going to happen where you're going to be like, God damn it, that sucks that Carson Wentz started that game.
I don't think you want to play Josh Allen or Joe Burrow in the playoffs. But if you have the choice, you're going to take the Cincinnati Bengals. And it's not really that close.
No, nor should they be. They shouldn't be afraid of anybody.
I also think the Broncos are kind of irritating for the casual fan to watch because they cycle their running backs around so confusingly.
You have no idea who's going to be getting touches in the red zone, no idea who's going to be getting touches on third down. It's just hard to figure them out. It's like their anonymous crush defense. They thrive on just being interchangeable.
That's the other thing. That ending sequence right there where Chase Brown did the right thing. He went down to the two-yard line, took himself down.
That's what I'm saying. He tries to do the right thing, goes down at the one or the two to kill the clock, let them in with a field goal if they want, or... Probably the smarter thing would be run the football, let them burn a timeout, and then try to score a touchdown afterwards. So he tries to do the right thing, and then they just go ahead and score on the next play anyways.
And then the game goes to overtime, and he's injured, and he's watching. He's like, why the fuck did I did that? It makes no sense. So, yeah, Zach Taylor, I don't know. Do you think Zach Taylor, is he safe? How safe is Zach?
Yeah, so you know what pisses me off is that it's not public information to find NFL coaches' salaries. That should be listed. I know it's just like it's not part of the salary cap, so the teams don't have to list it for any competitive reason. And why would a private business owner list how much they're paying somebody if they don't have to? But that's bullshit. Fuck that. We should know.
I agree. I want to know how much everybody's getting paid because that way when they do something stupid, you can be like, oh, you get paid – $17 million a season to fuck up the end of the fourth quarter. And I do it for free. So I don't know what his extension is right now, but I think he, I'm reading that he makes four and a half million per year. So depending on how many more, not that much.
And it also means that if he's got a couple more years left, they're probably not going to want to fire him because then you have to pay him.
I think that might be mostly on Matt Stafford, though. Matt Stafford hasn't played well in, like, the last month. So, yeah, Cooper Cup's been kind of invisible. McCoo still manages to put up some stats. But Matt Stafford hasn't. When was the last time he threw for even 200 yards? Well, he definitely did against the Bills.
But yeah, he hasn't been that good since November. So I'm not afraid of the Rams in the same way that I'd be afraid of other teams. The Eagles are a way more physical team, and they'll beat the fuck out of you. I would be afraid of what Sean McVay is capable of in the playoffs. I'd agree with that.
When he knows that he might have an undermatched team and that he has to do weird shit, that's what I'm afraid of.
The NFC is going to be kind of fucked up with the receiver because the Vikings or the Lions are going to be seeded as wildcard, but they're going to be better than whoever wins the South and whoever wins the West.
Okay. Well, then beat them next week. How about that?
Say that after next week, please, because I need you to beat the Packers. We're not going to beat the Packers, PFT.
Harbaugh would be disgusted. He would spit on you for this attitude.
They were trying so hard to get that ball to Trey McBride too. Oh, yeah. They ran like four or five plays. That was their Super Bowl was having Trey McBride score a touchdown pass. And, yeah, they tried to go back. That pass was very funny at the end. Kyler, yeah, I don't know because when he's playing at his best, you can't really contain him. And he looks like he's a little magical guy.
But then you've gotten so much more of the bad Kyler as the season went on. Maybe Kyler was the one that he needs to absorb the Cliff Kingsbury stats.
See, I don't know that Gannon's safe either. Pew, pew.
Yeah, his game plan was just Trey McBride. That's what he worked on, I think, all week. He just scheme plays for him.
What service did you thank him for?
Big Dom, he got a lot of FaceTime today, too. Big Dom was all over the screen after A.J. Brown threw Tanner McKee's first touchdown pass into the stands. The camera immediately cut to Big Dom and A.J. because A.J. was like, I'll give him my jersey. I'll give him my jersey. And Big Dom was like, I got this. I'm going to take care of this guy. Don't worry about it.
So, Max, as fate would have it, my aunt was actually at the game sitting next to the guy that caught that ball. From A.J.
Yeah. And so the team security came up to him and was like, Big Dom's going to take care of you. We need that ball back. But Big Dom says he's going to make you good. And the kid was like, yeah, sure. No problem. I trust Big Dom.
But whatever. It seems like all the Eagles backup quarterbacks have great relationships with A.J. Brown.
Yeah. Max, you know how you say that you'd prefer it if Jaden Daniels was not in the division? I would prefer it if Big Dom wasn't in the division.
He's a problem in the division. Yeah, he is. He has put him on any other team.
Yeah, he had a great game. And Kenny Pickett actually looked pretty good when he was in. I think he broke his ribs last week, and so they said he had a painkilling injection shot, and then he took another shot to the ribs. So I don't know. I don't know how long he's going to be out, but you should get Jalen back next week, right?
I don't want him to do it. The only reason I wish they'd play him next week is because it would make that clip of Stephen Chase saying not to draft him in fantasy football even funnier if he then went on to have the all-time greatest season in the history of the sport of football.
So, yeah, it's like Mercury Morris vibes when Mercury Morris would talk shit about any team that was 12-0. But I kind of respect it too. Like if you're Eric Dickerson, you don't – Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, so that's a good point because if you're like Michael Strahan and you have the single season rec for Saks, you're already famous. You're on every fucking TV show in America. You don't want that record to be broken. There's no upside for you. But if you haven't really done much since you played, you're fading off a little bit, then you get a week of free dinners.
Yeah.
It is cool to get 2,000 yards, though, in 16 games.
It's a good question. Is Jerry Jones okay? I feel like he's lost his fastball. No, Eagles fans are chirping him. He's getting chirped. And then he's going on and he's amplifying that. Yeah, it's bad. I'm worried about Jerry Jones. I don't think he's capable of making his insane decisions anymore. I think that he's just kind of a normal guy that doesn't like to stir the pot too much.
I don't like that.
What are you laughing about, Max?
I still think the Giants are more angry about it. If you're a Colts fan, yeah, your defense sucked. Your defense was so bad. Drew Locke carved you up. But you had Joe Flacco, so you can just say, oh, we had our backup quarterback.
So in terms of what this means for the future, we can't get the full picture on everything because if AR is in there, he's probably going to run the ball a lot more and limit the possessions a little bit. But, yeah, it's bad. It's bad for both teams. Don't get me wrong. But for the Giants, this was – This was such a bad win. This might be the worst win of all time.
Yes, exactly.
Malik neighbors couldn't be stopped. The running game was good. Drew Locke is a Bronco for life. We already knew that, but he's still even more of a Bronco for life for beating the Colts. It's bad. It's a very bad situation for the Colts.
But I feel like this was – so if they had won this game and then they lost next week, didn't get in, I would think that Chris Ballard had a higher likelihood of sticking around, right? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
Yep.
This is one of those shootouts where I thought that the Colts should have gone for two when they scored a touchdown. I think they were down – what were they down – I think to make it down nine instead of down 10, like your defense, your defense wasn't stopping anybody. And sometimes you got to do weird shit like that.
And we saw Matt LaFleur tried to do something like that later on in the day, but yeah, bad, bad game for the Colts, bad game for the Giants fans. I know during the game, they were very active. They were very vocal about like, they were cheering on their team. They wanted to win. But there's probably like a hangover that you had when you're driving out of the stadium and you're like, that was fun.
But fuck. Yeah. I really should have wrapped it up.
There's somewhere – there's somebody's dad who's a Giants fan that is like, it's okay. It's all right that we lost that. Cam Ward, he sat out the second half of the bowl game. We don't want to – that's not a Giant. That's not New York. Do you think Eli Manning would ever do that? That's not the kind of guy we want.
Yeah, for the last, like, how long has it been? 15 years with Grigson, even before this? The Colts always have a GM that kind of just, he just hangs out with Jim Irsay and gets his trust and then doesn't get any results until somebody that Irsay trusts tells him, like, hey, this guy's just taking your money.
Yeah. Bill Polian made one good decision, and that was he drafted Peyton Manning instead of Ryan Leaf. And then he didn't have to make another decision about a quarterback for a very long time. And then, yeah, every other person that's taken over that right-hand man to Jim Irsay has just been like, Jim, I got this. Don't worry about the outside. I'm going to handle all this.
You just go buy another guitar. I'll make everything okay. Yeah.
Okay, listen, I got no problem with the duck. I just wish that the duck had been in the shot, like the live shot when the puck was blocked. That would have really sealed the deal for it. I think it's a very good duck. I think as far as ducks go, it's an elite duck. But if you're going to talk like Hall of Fame, let's turn this into a rally squirrel.
I would like the duck to have a better sense of camera presence.
To know when he's on TV. But I agree with you. It was the magic of television where great job to the guys in the truck. Guys in the truck put the camera on the duck. They were the ones that spotlighted the duck for us. The duck just kind of he didn't even know he was on TV and he flew away when the lights got bright.
They should bring that duck all around Tampa. Like I want to see that duck at hockey games. I want to give the duck a key to the city. If you turn the duck – because if you give the duck a chance to be great on TV and give him another shot, I think the duck does have something special. But I need to see more film of the duck before I can confirm as being like a duck of destiny.
So are the Bucs a team that you would not want to play?
Okay, so would you rather play the Rams or the Bucs?
He can heat up a quarterback. He can dial it up. The Rams and the Bucs are just complete polar opposites right now, where the Rams' defense is very good. and the Bucs defense isn't. The Bucs offense is clicking. The Rams defense looks old and slow.
I wouldn't want to play a pissed-off Baker.
Adam Thielen's got to be so happy that things just like magically turned around. He was in hell. Oh, when we talked to him.
Yeah. I felt like Adam Thielen was like very, very close to having a hamstring injury that lingered on for like 10 weeks. Yeah. But I wouldn't blame him the way that things were going, but yeah, it's, it's the, the minor car accident with Andy Dalton turned around the entire vibe. Yeah.
It sucks because like, no one's happy that Andy Dalton got into a car accident, but it ended up making entire city happy. Yeah.
I would like to see a Baker, Sam Donald matchup at some point in the playoffs.
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Yoffs, baby. I mean, what a great season. This has been unreal. Yoffs were way outside my expectations. Now, as Hank says, let's go win the whole damn thing. Right, Hank? Yeah.
Yeah, but Dayton Daniels did throw that interception. I want to just talk about that interception for a little bit. It was a bad pick. Shouldn't have thrown that. Went right to the linebacker. They confused him. You know, he's a rookie. Sometimes mistakes will happen, but you can't make excuses. A simple zone blitz, you should know better as a rookie than to make a pass like that.
Oh, yeah, also he had infinity rushing yards, and we are now 11. You know what? This is our 11th win, right? Yeah. Okay. Okay. And it's every other team since like 2009. And then Washington is in 1991. There you go. So that team is dead. We fucking killed them today. And we did it in 16 games. So you can't even give that excuse to it. I don't remember ever winning 11 games. I don't.
I remember the Super Bowl in 1991. But I don't remember winning 11 games. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel like. Shout out to Zach Hertz, who caught, I think, two balls with his dick, which has got to be a record. Pennix looked good. I want to give credit to Michael Pennix, though.
You're in the playoffs. We're not totally set because we just jumped the Packers, so now we're the sixth seed. So we would play against the Rams. That's why, Big Cat, I need you to – I need you to beat the Packers.
We need that. Can you try? Can you try for me, Big Cat? Just one last – I know you're – I'm already saying I'm not worried.
You could beat the Rams. No, I'm saying in order – so there's a possibility that if the Packers, if they beat the Bears next week, then they're 12-5. That means that we would have to beat the Cowboys to get the sixth seed and play the Rams.
I would like you to chip in.
The Packers right now. Oh, no. Oh, no. But it all comes down to what happens next weekend because if the Packers win and we lose, then it's back to – The game means a lot.
I want the Eagles.
Well, if the Bears beat the Packers, then we don't get Commander Ziegle's first round.
Max is worried.
Right. Because the Lions haven't played yet. Correct.
All right, so the show will be rooting for the Commanders to lose next weekend, but I will not be rooting for that.
Max, I thought you wanted the Commanders, right? Yeah, dude.
Yeah, keep it up. Yeah, I love this, Max.
Good point.
You might go 0-2 that weekend. So they just announced the schedule for next week. The Tangle Web Weave. The Browns-Ravens fourth – the early – no, afternoon game and then the Bengals-Steelers night game on Saturday.
Okay. That's good. So the Bengals and the Steelers are playing before the other teams that would have an impact on the Bengals season.
I like that. Yeah, then – The other big note is it looks like, yeah, Bears-Packers will be playing at the same time as Commanders-Cowboys.
Vikings-Lions, and that kicks ass.
Yeah, his legs were great today. He took some bad shots. That first half play where he got bent over, like his knee looked like it popped, and I ran out of the room, screamed, oh, fuck, ran back in, and somehow when I came back in the room, he was on his feet and like smiling. Smiling, yeah. What the fuck? Again, he leads the league in smiles.
But that was a true my life flash before my eyes moment. And if Dan Snyder was still the owner of the team – they'd be picking pieces of his PCL out of the Sean Taylor statues face mask.
Like his knee would break if somehow, somehow every bad thing has become a good thing for the vibes. And I just don't, I don't want to touch anything or do anything. But yeah, I mean, meaningful playoff football. This is pretty cool. This is pretty cool. So hopefully I get max.
Yeah. And then that would be a shit pumping.
The number on the left is the wins, and the number on the right is the losses of each team. And right now, it looks like if you look at the standings, the Commanders have 11 on the left, and then they got five on the right.
You know what, McCatt? If the Eagles had beaten the Commanders, that would have helped a lot too, huh? Would have helped a lot. Would have helped a lot.
We're currently seated higher right now.
You know what, though? I want to agree with Max, though. I want to say that the Packers are a better team. I want to encourage the hate. I want to encourage the nobody believes in us. I feel like that's a good thing to have on your side going to the playoffs.
You got Tanner McKee.
That was tough. Do you want to talk about Sauce Gardner on Instagram telling Tee Higgins not to come to the New York Jets? And then after the game, in his post-game interview, he was like, yeah, it's kind of frustrating because some guys seem like they're checked out. Oh, man.
Memes, what do you think about there's a big free agent coach maybe this offseason has experience working with Aaron Rodgers and making him play to the best of his abilities, Mike McCarthy.
Would you take McCarthy with no Aaron Rodgers? Yes.
That's good. That's good. We're making progress now.
Yeah, but do you know what you just did? You did a very powerful thing, which is you mentally moved on from having the entire purpose for your next head coach be to make Aaron Rodgers happy, which is good.
Is he allowed to lock in in the offseason in some random hill in Oregon?
He had the worst QBR since like 2001 of any quarterback today. Yeah. I saw that.
Which I mean, I feel like those stats are like, they're created to get people talking about things. So obviously he didn't have a good game. He played very poorly, but it's not like, I don't think Aaron Rogers is the worst quarterback in the NFL.
Why did they do the boom box right next to Aaron Rodgers going out onto the field? I feel like that's more of a defensive thing, get the boys hyped. Instead, you have it right next to Aaron Rodgers' ear.
Yeah, probably. But the boys have fun.
You get to listen to music if you win.
Yeah, do you think that there's a chance that the quarterbacks split the quarterback vote for MVP and then the block of guys who are solid Saquon guys, they pull it out? Maybe. Maybe.
Yeah, and I think having more games like he had against the Broncos where everything else around him fails and he's the only one that steps up. If he has to win the game three times in a row again, if Zach Taylor accidentally ices his own kicker, as he's kicking, the field goal goes in, they give him the timeout, the second kick misses.
If more shit like that happens that he has to come back from and cover up, then that's good for him too.
Okay. Should we congratulate Hank though?
Number one.
Okay. You think the Ravens backups?
A little MVP that we know as Mitch Trubisky, one for one today with a touchdown, 69 yards.
I mean, Hank, you don't necessarily need the one seed because you've got a quarterback. So if you got the one seed, you would just sell it off.
Then you can sell it for a shitload of money. You'll probably end up trading it to the Raiders. Like Tom Brady will get on the phone with Robert Kraft.
He'll be like, Tommy, Tommy, I want to make a deal. I'll give you a discount, Tommy. Yeah. Also, Shador Sanders tweeted, after the Patriots lost, before the Giants game, thank you, God.
So maybe he's happy about the Patriots because that means he'll go to the Raiders with Tommy.
that would be crazy.
Oh, by the way, I think it's more likely that, that Dion takes the Raiders job and then they trade with new England, get the first pick and get your door.
Yeah, AOC is pretty good.
Yeah, there's been a lot of travel issues getting into New Orleans recently. Henmentz knows about it. It was very surprising, actually, how good the Raiders looked offensively at times. At times, I say, today. Brock Bauer's getting the rookie record for tight ends, beating Mike Ditka, which has apparently opened a lot of people's eyes to the fact that Mike Ditka was a fucking baller.
The kids, they think Mike Ditka, coach, smokes cigars inside. Mike Ditka farts.
Pretty cool. I think we can say that AOC has at the very least earned himself like a high tier backup spot somewhere. Yeah.
Yeah, with the understanding that you'll probably start six to seven games. Ten to 12 games. Yeah, the Colts, they should sign them. Yeah, the Colts should, yeah. Memes, what do you think about AOC on the Jets? Is the town big enough for two AOCs? Nope. Nope.
Yeah, it was kind of nice. I like this game because it ended so fast. I think it was the first of the early slate, and it beat the other games with like eight minutes left in the fourth quarter. So good job speeding us through this one. Also, Hank, we should ask Hank for his comments on Jimmy Carter because we talked about President Carter a little bit. He passed away.
Come on, Jameis, this team is heinous. Brick Johnson, please look up. His Madden Raidens.
I think this game killed him, but instead of like really doing a recap on it, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the man.
Good job.
Who did they play in the last week?
This is a game where they might fuck around and win.
Yeah. Also, Big Cat, I don't know if you've been able to keep an eye on Max for the last 15 minutes, but he's still trying to figure out these numbers. Torture chamber.
It's been 15 minutes of him staring at a screen trying to make numbers change.
But the Falcons and the Bucs aren't wildcard teams. They won the South.
I get that you'd rather play a division winner, whether that's the Falcons or the Bucs, over the Green Bay Packers, who is a wildcard. I get that. But that's how the seeding works. You win your division, and you're not a wildcard. If you don't win your division, then you become a wildcard team.
What do you think practice is like? Do you think that the team is so bummed out going into Sunday because they've had to practice with them for a week and they just know that we have no shot?
Seems like a nice guy.
It's mean. At this point, it's mean what the Browns are doing to him.
He was okay. He hit Tyreek. Tyreek still alive.
Yeah, Myles Garrett played well.
It's gone. He's trying to find a brain repair.
Yeah, he's got the SEC swoop haircut. Looks nervous. He's a little too pale.
All right. He got his ass chewed by Nick Saban a few times. I mean, Hank,
This guy looks like a perfect mix. Of Spider and Jack Mack. That's what I'm saying. He's like, oh, man. But the Vikings are really good.
He should be coach of the year. Sam Darnold, that was a cool moment when he walked into the locker room after the game and his whole team was waiting for him. You forget how many players are on the NFL roster, but he walked in and sounded like a full auditorium cheering for him. Then they picked him up on their shoulders. That must be one of the best feelings ever.
Like you win a hard-fought game, and then all your boys are like, we love you. What's better than that? Not a lot. That's it. Nothing. Not a lot. That's it. Have you guys ever been picked up on someone's shoulders? Like in a Rudy-type moment? I don't think so, no.
Yeah, we should start doing that more often because, yeah, Hank, I remember lifting you up after that. You were very sweaty. But I was mostly just happy that you weren't dead.
It's got to be against the Packers.
How about if it is Eagles-Commanders, winner of that game gets picked up?
I would not help pick you up.
Throw me over your shoulder like a stack of potatoes.
Was he wearing the cheese hat?
Right, they're a little bit flawed, but they can run the football. They can.
Yeah, they've got their issue. I don't think that they're an elite team, but I think – maybe it's because every time they play a good team, they play them very close. They do. But they lose. One or two things go the other way, and they win that game. But the one or two things don't go that way.
Tom Brady was perplexed by that. He had no idea why that was going on. He's like, well, I'm glad that it worked because if it didn't, that'd be bad. But yeah, that's kind of the deal. Like it worked and it actually put them mathematically where they wanted to be. It was like, I think more coaches should do that, but they had no fucking idea what was going on the broadcast.
Also, did you guys listen to Tom Brady say the word sacks? Yeah. What was that about? He says it like sacks. You took some bad socks. I think somebody at some point told him that when you say sex, it sounds like you're saying sex. So really pronounce the ah part of socks. Can someone play it?
Yeah, there was one time where he called out exactly who was going to blitz even though he wasn't lined up in a blitz formation. And I was like, okay, all right, we're doing something now, Tom. He's gotten a lot better.
Yep, I got it.
But they don't have to play the Packers in the playoffs.
But the Packers are better than the Commanders. Why would the Eagles have to play them?
And let's just start off by saying that Jaden Daniels, through an interception in the first half. I know that Max wanted to see that. Also, Max, have you noticed that we start every NFL Sunday recap by singing the Eagles? Isn't that a little bit of a bias towards Philadelphia about this podcast?
Yeah, it's like they haven't had a whole lot of games where they've gotten Addison, Jefferson, and Hawkinson going at the same time. All the Suns. And today, they were all weapons.
Yeah, and Naylor. How about Naylor, huh?
He was awesome. Their offense is a problem. Is Aaron Jones hurt? That was weird when he took himself out of the game.
Wait, so this is for Sam Darnold. He sets a record now. This is the most wins for a quarterback in his first season with a new team. It's never been done before. 14 wins. And he wasn't supposed to be the starting quarterback going into this year. Yeah. I mean, good for him. I wonder how good Daniel Jones is getting just like absorbing that room and just being in that building.
Because right now, I feel like Daniel Jones. They want to talk about that room. Yeah.
Yeah. I feel like that's a good room to be. You get better just by living in the same zip code as Kevin O'Connell.
They could. They very easily could. So, yeah, this is – what was the stat that we said the other week? There have been two 14 – or four 14-win seasons in the history of the Minnesota Vikings, and KOC has two of them.
What do you think about the extravagant defensive celebrations for the Vikings? Listen, these guys got to have fun too. Yeah, this most recent one felt like it was like a minute and a half.
It was very well planned. The entire defense was involved. It's like the movie Basketball where the refs get involved with the dance too. It just kept going. And it was also – I was watching two separate pregame shows today on NFL Network and ESPN, and they both had long features on the Vikings defensive celebrations. Yeah. That's when you know it's gotten pretty out of hand.
It's gotten pretty out of hand at this point. But I guess they're not going to stop it. So if they're having fun, good job.
He's thinking it. No, I'm on edge because we're down 17-7 and we don't look good, so I'm taking it out on Max. I apologize, Max.
Okay.
This just means that your punishment is that you have to go out in New Orleans and buy sick outfits.
Right.
PFT. Yeah. Hank, do you think that Mr. What's that?
Yeah. Yeah. Do you think, do you think Mr. Kraft was a little bit upset and wanted to call a timeout to hate when all the fans were booing his coach?
Who is he upset at though? Do you think he's more upset at Mayo or do you think he was more upset as his fans?
Yeah. That deep ball that he threw to, what's his name, Pop?
Yeah, that was an awesome pass. And for recognizing like, hey, free play. Free play, yeah. Savvy. There's been enough of Drake May where you're excited now, right? Like this is your guy.
I think it was probably watching the Titans-Jaguars.
But I think the issue is that Sean McDermott is a very good coach. Yeah, of course. The backups are going to be playing hard, obviously, because this is their chance to prove something on tape. And also they will have been coached up by a very good coach who is coaching them to win the game. He's not going to like coach them to lose the game.
He's going to try to win the game with his second string players. And Jared Mayo is not as good of a coach. But he's really trying to win the game. But McDermott is, I think, a good enough coach where he could beat the Patriots with very, very hungry second stringers.
Look up that stat. Look up that stat. I mean, you might be right, but that seems like it's not enough.
Did the Cowboys not draft first after they went?
Yeah, that would have been nice. I was addicted to actually reading the tributes from all the various different pop culture websites. So if you ran an account that had a special logo next to it on Twitter, there was a mandate that you had to post something. So I saw tributes from Trap Ratchet TV, Film Discussion.com.
It's probably like club rugby because a lot of schools don't have varsity rugby teams. Actually, like almost all of them don't have varsity rugby teams, but the club level is like the highest that you can get besides like four schools. So there are good players and it's probably the same for hockey. Like you don't have a varsity program and you're in a good area.
You can still probably get good players, but it's not like, but UNLV is not really a hockey hotbed.
Yeah. It's the only time boys are buzzing. Boys are buzzing for, like, two years off that one.
Uh, we're just talking hockey today. Cause my who's back is Alex Ovechkin. He came back from his broken leg, scored two goals in two games. First was a sick empty netter. The second one was more real goal. Uh, but now he's 25 away from breaking Gretzky's record. So my original projection of January 23rd, um, in Edmonton, that's been revised.
And I think I'm going to, I'm going to release my official, my game, uh,
pop crave here's my favorite jimmy carter stat he outlived one of his obituary writers i saw that how fucking amazing is that they wrote the obituary i think in 2017 and he just kept going as as our good friend big t put it like jimmy just needed to stop building houses yeah so they put him in in hospice when he was still working on houses and he just got down off the roof and was like oh
They had a fucking edible mascot on the field. Right. And we're mad at the guy for sitting out the second – not the whole game. The second half. The second half of that game, which was fun, especially if you bet the over because I feel like there were 42 points scored in the first like six minutes of the game.
So we're mad at a guy for putting literally tens of millions of dollars on the line. to not play in the second half. That's exactly right. I saw one guy say they should fine him, that the University of Miami should fine Cam Ward. There's no way.
That's when it's going to get weird is if somebody does that in a playoff game. Well, Bo Pribula.
But if somebody is like projected to go high in the draft and doesn't want to risk injury in playoff games and they sit out, then I feel like that side would have like a little a little more to complain about because you're playing for a national championship and the rest of your team would probably like you to play in a meaningful game. But in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, who gives a fuck? Right. Sit out.
Yeah.
I was going to say one other thing from the bowl weekend. The confetti stuck to Matt Rule's face. I think it's still there. Yep. I don't know how they got that many pieces. That was a bad boy mover game, right?
Maybe I just should have retired a long time ago and stopped climbing up 20 feet in the air every day and nailing ceiling tiles down in the hot sun.
pinstripe bowl and his yeah his uh his daughter looked so embarrassed to be next to him when he had like nine just like take him off your face dad um but that was fun good for for rayola good for will compton yeah nebraska's back go big red um all right so max are you he's still thinking about the packers are you at all worried about boise state um
I think Penn State's easy draw is adding to the confusion for Max of how come the Eagles don't get the same easy draw.
No, with Oregon, it's like the crazier the uniforms are, they're almost more Oregon.
Are we counting just a normal wheel route as being shark?
Okay.
I'm leaning towards Michigan. Sorry, not Michigan. Georgia. I don't know why I said Michigan. I'm leaning towards Georgia against Notre Dame. I don't know. I feel like the athletes that they have, especially on defense, when they play well, they're really good. You're so schizophrenic. You just don't know if you're going to get good Georgia or bad Georgia.
I really do. I'm going to take the over in Texas, Arizona State too. Just rooting for points in chaos.
No, it could happen. It could happen. Another great stat about Jimmy. This is from Jeremy Frank. He said that Babe Ruth hit more home runs in Jimmy Carter's lifetime than any currently active player. Right now, Stanton is in the lead with 429.
I get it.
Yep.
Yeah, because then the Commanders would be the lowest seed still available.
I'm right. He's right. So if the Rams beat the Commanders and the Eagles win, the seventh seed, the Packers, get eliminated. Correct. The Commanders are now the lowest seed, so they would have to play against the – Number one seed.
Listen, you know what I say? Anyone, anytime, anywhere. Yeah.
Except for beat the best teams. Max, you want to be handed a Super Bowl. Max, you want to play against the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl.
I'm worried about that. His brain is fucked right now.
Yeah, and there's really nothing that we can say about the man that hasn't already been covered by my Francesa earlier when he was just like, Jimmy Carter dead, not a great president.
54. Love you guys.
Bye.
You don't really want to be 100 years old. Nobody wants to be 100. All your friends are gone. You don't understand anything. I guess you get some sweet discounts on early dinners, though, which is pretty good. But besides that, there's not a whole lot going on. Yeah. R.I.P. Jimmy. R.I.P. Jimmy. He was a real one.
Just real quick, Jimmy Carter got shipped to Germany and he still did his job.
And I like them back. And even guys that don't like football, they try to avoid me because I'm always trying to get them to like me.
I wish it was true. Good recruiting. Yeah, that's really smart.
And now for something completely different.
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Which is enough of- Sad sack bullshit.
And also just a reminder of like how lucky we are to be living in this modern day, whereas modern men, we can't even address these issues. Like that dad didn't have access to therapy, antidepressants, his feelings. Yeah. You know what I mean?
There's something that didn't make that scene. Do you remember? It didn't make the cut, but at the end of the shooting, do you remember what you let me do? What did I want you to do? You said, hey, I'm going to roll. Do you want to tear down those curtains?
She leaves and you let me destroy the set.
You let me destroy the set. Yeah, and didn't make the cut. I'd like to see that footage. I would like to see that. We could get ahold of it. It's been destroyed.
You should see his cuts.
Like that one taking me there in that room part.
What is it like for you to step into, to shows? Like obviously, obviously with our show, you got established and were around for, I mean, the whole time, the entirety of it, right? Those are the episodes that you did were spread out over all the, all the seasons. Um, but to step into a show for an episode or two, what's that, what is that like when there's an established, um,
I don't know, uh, uh, rhythm or, or community.
Yeah.
And roll.
Don't forget to get the rat poison.
Go. When I'm sad is when music comes back.
And that's the only time I've written music.
Hard to sit down and pen a sad, like a ballad when you're... I mean, it's going great.
Make them happy.
I look like a centipede terror. Asteroids.
That was like a classic arcade too. Yeah. It was dark. It was like, it's one of those arcades where it's, you know, it's noon outside. And as soon as you cross the threshold, it's three o'clock in the morning.
I could see myself doing something. Kept coming back to you, can I have some more quarters? And you were like, okay, I have one more dollar.
Do you remember that day? Do you remember what was special about that day or what was different? Well, there's, well, and there's no reason that you, that you would, but for me, it was a unique day. Right. Because this is the heaviest lift that I was going to have to have thus far in the show. Yeah. Right. And on that day, we had a split crew and it was the B crew.
And so other than you and Chrissy, I didn't know a single, it was when we had just started the campaign stuff. And so the A team, Not better or worse, just different, A, B. We're all filming somewhere. All of our regular cameramen, sound men.
Crew members were not there. Right, right. And when I showed up at the apartment that day, I was freaking out. I was like losing my mind. I was like, what? What?
This is my first time, you know, taking a show this long, being a regular, like, and I didn't realize that this was a possibility at all, let alone like on, not today, not today.
Right. And I remember being a little like, not the nicest person to be around that day. Cause I was trying to stay in a certain head space, but also I was like, I was mad. I was kind of mad that like, I had to do this with somebody with a microphone who I didn't know that close.
Which shows just how good you are.
I remember you being, I was like, I was on you. Like I was like, I'm just going to watch you. I was like anchored on you that day. Oh, wow.
It was an interesting lesson for me because this is the episode that we submitted for awards consideration. And this is the season where that became a part of my life in this show. But that day I went home to Rachel. I was like, I didn't do it today. Really? Yeah. I was like, I had my shot to do it and I did not do it. But it's, which I don't believe, you know what I mean?
But as an actor, I was like- In your head about it. In my head about it. How do you feel now when you watch it? I feel good about it. Yeah. And I receive the lovely things that you have to say about it. It's very nice and I thank you. But like, it's such an interesting lesson for myself that if I ever encounter a situation like that again, just leave it alone. Yeah, man.
Yeah, that pretty much wraps up that storyline. Go for it.
Yeah. This is kind of the beginning of Miguel becoming an emotionally available adult. Yeah. in the lives of the Pearsons.
He said, no, the fridge is on the fritz. Yeah, but you don't want this piano? He's like, I can't store my cold goods in this piano.
First red flag.
What was it?
And the writer's room just guessed all of mine. And they nailed it.
Are they reading my emails? I tried to stay away from them. I was like, this is getting too close.
If you're comfortable talking about it, the, okay.
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First time I showed Bear Islands in the stream with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, I showed him on YouTube. He just sat there still, and then he turned to me, and he said, maybe when I'm older—
He loves Dolly Parton now. Hey, you know me and Dolly. Anyway.
Yes, there we go. I'll hold back one notch and give you the Loggins and Messina.
This was gonna be loud mouth bald guy. And they were like, maybe just Toby.
This is part of the conversation of the episode, right? About... knowledge, cultural knowledge, educating versus do I have to, should I need to, like all of these things. My question is, As a father with two black daughters in a mixed family, how do you come to this cultural knowledge that maybe you wouldn't otherwise have? Yeah, that's a good question. As it unfolds.
Like the pool scene about understanding black skin.
This is our podcast, goddammit. Is there a way to go live?
Yeah, for hate crimes.
He's currently on the run. He actually hides here now.
Yeah, I'm chocolate chip.
But on purpose. I would say the opposite.
We gonna do a kick out. Gathering with grilled meats.
I would say, I have a degree in theater and a minor in overacting.
The writer's going, is this audience worth it? That's right.
He was a good dude. But again, another TV legend that populates the This Is Us world, makes it feel like home.
Thus begins what I forgot is my favorite Randall storyline ever. Is it? In this series. Yeah, yeah.
I'm like, political Pearson is my favorite.
Well, I will say that when I found out you were directing this episode, I was over the moon. I was so excited. You, of all the directors that we worked with on this show, are the most... Well, I can only speak from my experience. The most Chris Sullivan friendly. I was going to say actor friendly. I don't know everybody else's experience.
But you and I hit it off. We have a very similar sense of humor. We have a very similar rhythm, which I hope you're not offended by me saying. And... I'm into your rhythm method. My rhythm method. And the same haircut, you know, same type of stuff. But I was just, you know, this was going to be, I knew this episode was going to be a heavy lift. And I was so glad that you were.
Yeah, that's in the next episode.
I think the point we're at is, thank you for coming.
Cut that out. We got a fan segment? We do have a fan segment. Today? Do you have a few more minutes?
The next fan segment really moved us. We got an email from a listener that felt incredibly honest and heartfelt. As soon as we read it, we knew it was something we wanted to share.
You want to start? Yeah, I'll give it a start here. This is from Luca. Dear Sterling, Mandy, Chris, and the team. Thank you so much for creating this amazing podcast. My name is Luca. I am from Brazil. And I have a three-month-old daughter. Madalena. So while I hold her on her naps or burping, listening to That Was Us is my favorite thing.
And of course, the episode kicks off with your least favorite, which is children. That little boy, I forget his name. We have his name. His name is Dylan Gage. He was so good.
It's the perfect balance between useful content, light conversation, and emotional topics. My specific topic to bring here happened in Season 3, Episode 5, where we see Toby going off his meds. That episode really changed my life.
Anyway, last week, after more than two years on meds and therapy twice a week, I finally got off my meds with all the support and observation from my doctor. The beauty about this is I coincidentally or not started to listen to the podcast last week when I started getting off my meds. Wow.
So I just wanted to share that with you, that this little part of the series caused such a big impact in my life. Thank you so much for bringing relevant issues to the surface with the show and now with the podcast. I don't know you guys, but I love you, and you mean so much to us, to our new family. Best regards from Brazil. Lucas, Ligia, and Madalena.
Hi, beautiful people.
Oh, my God. He's just as handsome as Toby. Look at him.
I mean, we could be brothers. Come on.
We could be related.
I can't see the baby. Well, the baby is beautiful.
What if we were like, what do you mean you can't?
We'll let it in like a huge crowd of applause.
Yeah, it's interesting because the conversations around depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, any of these things that tend to be very internal and difficult to talk about, the problem is not that you're feeling it. The problem is not that it exists. The problem is the stigma around discussing it. And so to discuss it, to have a conversation about it,
is to cure it, is part of the process of dealing with it, facing it, addressing it, whatever that takes. For some people, it involves medication. For others, just the talking about it is the exorcism
that is needed to externalize it, to understand that you're not the only person going through it, to talk about it with someone, like he said, with his friends, and to be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm going through a very similar thing. It's very interesting.
Just the other day, I texted a buddy, and he responded with a voice note, and in the voice note, he was like, sorry, you texted me, I'm in the middle of a panic attack, and I'm on the couch, and I'm having a hard time breathing. His ability... to be able to admit that to me, I called him and we breathed through it together on the phone. And just shot the shit.
We didn't really talk about the anxiety attack. He told me what he was feeling. I said, that's what mine feel like. Yeah, mine feel like that too. I know exactly what you're going through. And then we just caught up for a second. And by the time we were done catching up,
The anxiety attack is over. You know what I mean? But his ability to vocalize it. And to reach out. To say this is happening to me. Instead of to take it and try to deal with it himself or internalize it.
That's it. That's the only step.
Proton blaster?
And we will talk about it here and we will spread it on our socials and all those things. Because Rachel and I just got a big print. A big Chris Koch print.
You bought a Koch. I bought a Koch. A Koch original.
Your comedy background must help with kids, right? In my head, it seems like it would translate.
Dylan, if you're out there, let's hang out, bro. Have you even watched the show? What show? What show are you talking about? Paradise? Yeah. Love it.
I can't stop. I cannot stop. That's so ridiculous. How much Rodney Dangerfield was that kid supposed to watch? How many takes did he have?
My wife and I were happy for 20 years that we met.
comes from a very dark place. Trying to brighten the mood in their life. We're the comedy cellar in New York at midnight.
Pretty evident. See a group of people all with the same mom.
Yeah. I mean, you love her, but you love to hate her. Anyway.
Yeah, and the weird little... I mean, the cultural appropriation is astounding.
32. 32 episodes. How many did I do?
Well, Toby makes a run to the pharmacist. Yes, that's what I'm doing. Cueing you up here. Makes a run to the pharmacist, like, So here's the deal, I went off my meds, and today we find out if it took, and if it took, then I wanna get back on my meds, and I'd like to get back on my meds.
As soon as it really possible. And the doctor was like, and the pharmacist was like, you probably should go talk to your doctor.
Sure. So instead of doing that, he goes to an arcade.
Antidepressants.
Yeah, antidepressants.
Let's talk about Bruce Willis as Castaway. Right. You guys, that is Bruce Willis if he were in the movie Castaway. A little bit. I kind of thought more like it was a little Yacht Rock. Very Yacht Rock. Well, that was the shirt because the shirt, well, I mean, Castaway and Yacht Rock are very adjacent.
He's really let himself go. Yes. um you see him in therapy and he's sitting there i remember You know, your Netflix algorithm does strange things sometimes with the key art. They're switching it around all the time. And the last time I turned it on to watch some of these episodes, it was Toby sitting in therapy with this huge beard and my Bruce Willis on castaway hair. Are you serious?
Sure, I agree with that.
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And you, Chris. And you. Oh my goodness.
Or perhaps leave us.
And then five minutes into the game, I was like, Danny's not coming.
Yeah, I mean, he's neat. Top five superhero. Gotta be. Yeah, definitely. Maybe top three. For some people, probably top one.
I mean, I feel like everybody's favorite. I feel like everybody bands together and saying The Dark Knight's the best movie ever. Yeah, and we still have to do it. No, we don't. We don't have to do it.
Is that Heath Ledger's Joker?
You got bacon.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That is one of the issues that they're dealing with over there.
I don't know. I don't know what his name is. Yeah, no. What did you go with? You went with burgers. That's a good pick. Final pick. I got bed in mind. Oh, I like the bed, man. Because the bed fucks, but also I have butter here.
The bed. Okay. I mean, the bed is a really good piece. It's probably the best piece of furniture.
I think it does improve your sleep, though. I don't know.
What are these numbers? What the fuck is the number? What does that even mean? I don't know. I think they mold you. You have to do math. They mold you to do some shit. Take like a prerequisite class.
Okay. I actually just take algebra. I'm honestly pretty good at algebra.
Do you have any honorable mentions?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was bomber, bomber traffic.
I was like, I got to take you out of autopilot. This is getting disgusting.
I'm going to go rapid fire so we can get to the nitty-gritty.
Respectable. Yeah.
Holy shit, dude.
Who won these championships? Dirk Nowitzki. Yeah. You bet, man. Yeah. Sweet. Point cards?
Okay, let's think. Let's think. Who's good? Who was good? Just all-stars every year. I mean, you've pretty much cleared the list. It's got to be up there.
Like they like admitted shit. That's like, they've never admitted to anybody.
He's the best player on the team.
I just love going, man.
Can we talk about the fact that we went three for three on our underdog picks? We went three for three. And by the way, yeah, this pod is brought to you by Underdog. As always, we're going to be heading into what you will have, the AFC and NFC Championship. I got time. Time.
We went three for three. Code Breadbasket. Code Breadbasket for $1,000 of bonus cash. We got the AFC and NFC Championship game this weekend. Do you want to give any picks? I mean, I actually don't want to give out picks yet. Who do you have winning? I'll say the games. I got Chiefs and I got Eagles.
They play the Bills at home.
It's Eagles commanders. And the Eagles just beat them. And the commanders were.
They played yesterday.
Yeah. Yeah. But bonus cash up to a thousand beans. Use the code bread basket. Yeah. Well, maybe we don't.
Yes. I think we have a breadstick calling on Thursday for for underdog picks on AFC. Yeah.
That's D-O. D as in Danny. D as in Danny. O as in Octopus.
Bad fight. Bad way to start the night.
Did he have 10 bouts with those two? It's five and five.
Pereira, they announced 313.
It seems like everybody loves him.
That's interesting. Good win. Good fight.
Where is he from?
Narnia or something.
Yeah, it's not a bad thing. It's just, did they think it was going away?
I didn't see any of this, but Islam, that was a dumb, like it was just like, The guy could not. If they fought 10 times, Islam would win 10 times.
Umar and Nurmagomedov.
That guy is electric.
I mean, yeah, I guess he did the best he could. What are you supposed to do?
What's this shit about Frank Ocean?
I don't know what the deal is with that. I've just been seeing. I don't know the connection. I don't know what it is.
Now, like, I'll probably never really know about him.
Or maybe they're just like, right now it's kind of a trend. Like, let's just fucking hop on this.
I think it's here to stay. That's my prediction. I think so, too. Because we all also, like, it's funny how quick it moves. Like, we're not out of the woods.
But if you go on TikTok today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is. You know what I'm saying? It is that. But, I mean, I love the energy.
Yeah, that tweet or whatever. He said, save TikTok.
Good, good, good. So that's what you should do.
Yeah. I think it's harder to do. I think it's older, too. Yeah. It's established. Yeah.
Yeah, but listen, if you're a TikTok user, I think everybody really is, if we're being honest.
I just hate it. I hated everything about it. And I was very glad. As a consumer, that TikTok came back. That TikTok's back, yeah. It's like, I just, I can't do this.
Cliff Paul was, there was something about him when he was in his prime. It was awesome. It was like unstoppable.
Yeah. He was really tough to root against. I'm going to put him in the three though because LeBron James exists. Kobe Bryant exists. Yeah.
Yeah.
Big W for us. I think we still got to get it sold, I guess. I don't really even... At this point, I don't even know what the fuck's going on.
Five. I think one of the more overrated players. Also, he f***ed the Nuggets over. Okay. I think that's the Nuggets over. He came here for one year and then just left.
Like when we had him for the one year, we played the Warriors in the playoffs and we lost to them. But that was like when they were on their rise and apparently he was talking to them during the series being like, I'm coming to you.
That is f***ed. F*** that guy.
We're going to pronounce his name. Yeah, Dwayne. Dwayne.
I put him in three.
Yeah. I think that's the right place.
He's the best player out of all these players, but I really just hope I don't get hit with LeBron James. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to put him in the one, and I'm going to hope that they give me a Mason Plumlee.
That's not bad. I think I actually did that.
I don't even know.
This is just a take from Riley, and I really appreciate it. And, you know, I think maybe we have more of these just straight-up takes coming in. He says, I don't think deodorant gets enough credit. Nobody thinks about it when it's on, but if you forget it, it's all you're thinking about. There's visible sweat stains, and you've got to do that awkward sniff, and everybody knows you forgot deodorant.
I think it's really well, he put it into words very well.
I think it's just going to get saved and I don't, I don't even, I don't even listen.
Danny, I mean, I know that the deodorant players association, they're very, you know, league friendly. They're like, we don't want to walk. We like keeping you smelling good. Yes. If one day they just say, Danny, if it's... Because they're not paid.
Because Calogne's in the commercials. Calogne's, you know, Calogne's getting the girls.
Yes. You do? Oh, I think it's sooner than people expect.
I think it's within 10 years.
Until we get more money. And at the end of the day.
I don't want to get that stuff. Right.
I know it is.
What just happened? Yeah.
I mean, I think like out of all the people, it would probably be the most likely if you really think about it. Definitely. You know, I'll put them, I want to say one. Think about like, are we going to get like LeBron James? Yes.
Yeah. You got to put them in the one. Okay.
Yeah.
Give or take. I don't know.
It feels like that. It does.
Yeah, that's not. And it's not bad. I think that's a lot of people.
Yeah, I mean, I guess we could maybe get the voice of Walu at some point. Yeah, the voice. Maybe animate him, AI him in.
There's just a lot of steps that need to be taken.
Two.
Yeah, I think maybe if we hit the right scene, Eric Gordon might be like, these guys are funny. They're kind of talking about basketball.
And maybe he wants to get into the content space, but he doesn't want to do it by himself because he's like a hooper.
That's funny. I mean, I don't.
Yeah, these guys will do it for me.
That's f***. Yeah, I guess. I've never even thought about it. I didn't know.
Oh, wow. That honestly changes everything. That would have changed my ranking drastically. Yeah, I feel like you might know something about... Yeah, because we've been talking about Armadillo. Yeah.
I mean, it's in my four, just naturally.
Yeah.
Did you see Beast? Yeah, I see. Bio is like TikTok CEO.
I don't. Is he talking about like when you have a bathing suit on and you wrap it around and then you kind of squat?
Oh, really?
I typically do dry squats.
Yeah.
I thought that was normal. Yeah.
I did a, I'll do a wet set.
I'll do one set to squatting.
I'm not, I'm not saying like, it's, it's, I'm just saying like the towel doesn't make sense. Like, yeah, I do.
oh that would be good i feel like we could have that i mentioned um maybe it's just not possible i feel like physics it's just like you're probably physics probably isn't the word here just scientifically it's not possible yeah it's like like you it's you're wet you know yo you're wet yeah like you're wet and it's like it's gonna take i could i could see something where you go like this and it dries maybe not maybe it's just maybe just hot air or something
I don't know. I think that'd be awesome. I think a good CEO. Who knows more than that guy about social media? There's a lot of conspiracies floating around. You see that people are meta-bought it. No. I was watching the football game and I was like, Meta just bought TikTok. And I was like, it doesn't say that anywhere. They what now? Yeah.
Keep complaining, guys.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
This is brilliant, man.
What about when the interweb teaches you that you could not use beard oil? Let's see his findings.
Okay.
But I don't know. It's a lot of math. What are we? We're a couple away from the big 103.
Yeah, I know. I'm following.
Oh.
And I'll just have a... Just...
Oh, really weird.
But I want a mouth tape. It's good for you. I want to try a mouth tape. I've heard it's good for you. So, yeah.
Or Kayo Saka.
And also, it's like, yes, we need you in the weeks coming up, but it's like, we need you down the road.
I mean, this is a pulled loaf.
Yeah. It's just, it's not something, it's like, it's one of those things, it's like this, if you don't treat this right, it's going to nag you for a long time. For years.
Well, I get that.
I agree. Thank you for writing in. Thank you for being honest with us. By the way, guys, like it's just, We weren't mad.
So, like, listen, I've been there. I know it all too well, man. Yeah, take care of your loaf.
I'm just like, when is this experience over?
Hey man, it's okay. It's this is Van Vliet.
It's words of aff. He wants some words of aff.
We love you. This is from Joey. He says, how many people would have to tell you happy birthday on a random day until you genuinely start to believe it's your birthday?
Right. It's going to take a couple.
I think I'm still getting pranked. I think it's really elaborate. I think you probably have something to do with it.
250?
I'm not getting aggressive at 400, 600. I'm probably getting a little bit. Mom, I need to see, I need to see the birth, the birth certificate.
And then I think at a thousand, you start to say, where'd you, where, like what you made this? I think that numbers like the numbers.
Yeah.
I think it is, man.
I'm going to answer this from Oscar Grand. He says, do you think LeBron could have had seven back-to-back MVPs if he didn't join the Heat due to the backlash?
That's why I wanted to get it.
Exactly. LeBron would have not maybe even 10, maybe 11.
The fact that Shea is minus 200 to win the MVP right now. Makes no sense. It just shows that.
No, he's up there. It's just Nikola Jokic.
It could be the best season we've ever seen.
He's the favorite. That's crazy. So no, though. You get tired. It's literally just voter fatigue.
Last year.
So he won't win another one. He won't win it this year, and that's insurance that Brown wouldn't get seven back-to-back.
It would be interesting for audio only. I do think though.
I would do that.
They did, I think.
Or did you respond? Yeah.
I mean, imagine being on Spotify and you just, they don't even know what we look like.
They have no idea what we look like.
That's just crazy to think that.
You know what I'm saying? Just know us vocally. Well, they see like a little profile picture of like, it's us cartoon version. That's probably what they're picturing when they hear our voices. Yeah. Like a little cartoon version of me and you.
I don't fucking know. At this point, I'm not tracking any of it.
Yeah.
You want to start with some TikTok ban?
I'm going to go.
All right. Heads or tails?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's an obvious one. They come in twos. I think that's a really strong feature. They come in a pair. Yeah. There's just nothing better.
Yeah. What is there?
There's boobs. There's nothing better. There's nothing better. Pizza? Pizza?
The sport, yeah. Because the ball itself, while great, Danny, a great freaking, great invention. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. I really still don't know how that works. I don't either. You're inflating it and it's just like. Bouncing and. But it's like bouncier than the other ball. Yeah, great invention.
No, I don't think so.
Yeah, but don't say that.
I mean, I think it's really, really good. If you haven't, if you've grown away from bacon, which it happens to everybody, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're just like, all right, this league does not exist. It's like you're trying to average 30 in the NBA. It's like, okay, but now- NBA's gone.
I don't think I ever have. I don't think I'm talking about babies.
I think they really acted their ass off.
They're good. Those two were great.
Oh, Saul.
I liked, yeah. Going back, I would say Hank and Saul are my favorite. Yeah. I just said Jesse.
It's a great pick. What are you on to three here? I'm on to three. I'm going to, I will take butts.
Yeah.
Yeah, you have boob.
That's why I had to. And I was going to take boobie, but I think, you know, I think. For sure.
What's your other one?
i want to wake up in a city that never sleeps welcome to episode 106 thanks for being here your neighbors are playing sinatra or something love me what i got oh my god yeah great god that took me that took me right into it um hopefully you guys aren't going to pick it up i think it should be fine They're not going to pick it up because I actually, it's like if we're talking, I can't.
And I'm thinking the one where, what is it? Joy Let's Go or Anxiety Let's Go or something. And it's like a whole fucking thing, like a tornado. And there's just so much going on. What an emotional scene. Yeah. That whole climax of that movie was so good, dude. It was as good as it gets. You got two over one.
easily yeah one but one is one is great too but you go back to one and you're like where's my climax pause well you yeah but you're like you're kind of like you're like one it's like i love you know what i love about one i like soul too by the way yeah but it's not you know what soul is it's like it's like a brand that did it that wasn't it like it's like uh it's not adidas it's like a puma
Yeah, I don't know. It's like it... Wendy's? It like copied them and kind of did the same thing, but it wasn't the OG thing. Lyft. Yeah, it's Lyft. F*** you, Lyft. Soul is Lyft. If I'm Uber, you know? We already made that. And then you copied me for some reason. And then like I'm doing Lyft because I got like banned on Uber for a second. So now, what happened over there? I don't know. I'm banned.
so a video just got pulled for that I don't know they just picked one but we probably fucking pissed at Vengables the thing about that is we're very vulnerable with that we'll lose a hundred videos if they a hundred videos yeah we'll lose we'll lose a thousand if they want to get in that bag I've always feared that with like even like even like every TikTok I made in 2022 at the sports center music I'm like if they want to I mean I don't get it I don't get it I don't get it I don't really either so don't even get me started on that yeah I don't really get it what are you who's taking it down
Whoa. I'm banned. I think maybe a puke. You puked? No, I didn't puke, but I think, I think something that I do. Everybody, everybody's had a puke. I remember telling an Uber, like, it's not that deep when like somebody's like puke. I was just, I don't know. You said it's not that deep to the Uber driver? I think so. Oh no. And it's like, why the fuck would I say that?
like the fuck are you what do you mean it is that deep but also they do i had to we paid a fine um oh that was crazy i was but that was like that was worth it though because that was like the funniest and the uber driver was chill he was just like at the end of the day like we're gonna be paying the fine we were trying to like get him into oh that was that i know that day was so funny dude if we were holding him up that was fourth of july if you let him go he just falls down it
shout out to nine oh man that show was funny dude that boat was fun we should always be on a boat on fourth of july yeah this year we should be at my you weren't gonna tell me about that i've never i haven't seen it shit that's embarrassing um snake in your three here snake into my tree that scene though like if you guys haven't seen inside out we might have just played i'm so jealous that you haven't seen that scene yeah oh boy that's so special dude
um this is more of like a feel-good scene i would say it's a movie we actually saw like last year recently goodwill hunting oh i was trying to find a good had to see about a girl if the professor calls about that job just tell him sorry i had to go see about a girl well son of a bitch stole my life And I'm going to take two scenes from... The note shit?
If you go from the original Robin Williams conversation when they're talking, he's like, you didn't see Pudgy or whatever? He's like, I had to see about a girl. Then it goes to, I had to see about a girl with a note. That was... By the way, Robin Williams' character in that movie might be one of my favorite performances. Yeah, but I also, I'm saying, I loved Matt Damon.
But his character is so, so complex and interesting. Dude, that whole scene just makes me feel great. Really good scene. I think I hit one on that. I think I cried on that one. I cried on a different one that we watched recently I have on here. I hope you don't take it. Oh, well, I get to snake. Yeah, snake up.
Another movie that we watched for our book reports, which, by the way, we could bring that back. Yeah, we used to do book reports where basically we watched the movie. So it's like a book report. So naturally, yeah. It's basically like a book report. Like when you had to read a book in school, we're doing the same shit. So we watch a movie.
Yeah, so it was exactly the same shit, and we just talk about it. It's just like a book report. It is a book report. There's nothing different. We just report on the book. Yeah, so if you want to give us more movie recs, I love doing that. Yeah, but the thing is, what I was going to say is we just do severance reports, which we have to do another one. We'll be doing it today.
And it's like, but that's, I think we just selfishly do that. I fucking love severance, but everybody loves severance. Oh, I won't. I don't. I'll talk about, we might have to make a full another episode about severance. I would do that going forward. These, these, these episodes are just, there's so much to unpack. So much to unpack.
Um, but another movie really, it was, it was a book report movie was pursuit of happiness.
Who? YouTube? A person? Are the Venga boys taking it down? Because if it's Venga, I'm fine with that. Yeah. But it's not. Maybe the Venga boys were on YouTube and they saw it. But it's not. They probably watch our shit. True. True. I know one of the Venga boys. We were trying to have one on the pod. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody wants a Venga boy on the pod. Yeah. They wanted a fee though. Yeah. Yeah.
you want something go get it period i was trying to find a scene for that where well bill bill smith's talking to his son yep and his and he's and his son's like i want to play basketball yep oh yeah yeah and he's like first of all bill smith is like he's like you're not going to be good and then 30 seconds later he just changes his mind so hey bill smith you kind of brought this on yourself well i think he just said let's look at the physicality of this young man he's short he's probably not naturally that good and he said you're not going to be
But also, Bill Smith, you're 6'3", man. Yeah, Bill. Yeah, Bill. Yeah. Yeah. But that's besides the point. And then he's like, don't ever let somebody.
That's so tough, dude. Tell you what you can or can't do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude.
Yeah, Bill. Yeah, Bill. Yeah, Bill. That's good old Billy Smith, man. Yeah, that movie's great. God, good movies are awesome.
That's a good pick. I really hope they can watch these scenes because if you can, this is... This will be really good f***ing content. Really good content. They're just going to see the best of the best. But I feel like most people have seen all these scenes, but there's probably going to be one that they haven't seen. But I would love to watch the Bill Spence scene again. I've seen it.
Why did you pick that? I don't know. I don't even. It's one of my favorite scenes. Have you seen it? It's so good. It is not one of your favorite scenes. It's so good, dude. It's so good. No, well, I think what it is, is I think it's like the greatest plot twist of all time. Is it? Yeah, because he's Anakin. And then Luke is like, that's my father. Holy, that's my dad.
that is a is a great so i think it's the greatest plot twist of all time but we should not moment but we should try to bounce right off of star wars because we don't know no we we don't it's like we didn't watch the movies which by the way that's a good thing that we we could probably go through but now we know the greatest plot twist yes definitely and also first of all i think he doesn't say luke i am your father that's a weird yes he does no like he doesn't what do you mean i think he says something else
And it was six figures Yeah For 30 minutes So it was like And it wasn't It was just one of the It was one of the It was Vangaboy number two Yeah Was it Vangaboy number one or two I think it was Vangaboy number two Yeah We wanted Vanguy boys Yeah we wanted We wanted them both We wanted Vanguy Yeah But Like that's what I'm saying though Like YouTube Why does YouTube give a shit Why do you You're Stay out of my business Yeah this is This is our platform Yeah
Yeah, but what... Is that, like, the real...
What?
First one. I'm just saying I can't watch a movie from 1977. I'm not doing that. It's not going to be good. It's going to be just like impossible. It's like, would you play like a game from then?
If they maybe remade them, I'd be like, all right. Yeah. Yeah. We'll probably never get in that bag. I can't do it. Yeah, I mean, I kind of wish instead of that I took just, like, the Will Ferrell, Talladega Nights, like, his interview circuit, when it's like, if you don't cheer me right, f*** you, what do I do with my hands? Dalton, play that and switch that.
I don't, I don't know anything about it. Okay. I don't know anything about it. It's fine. It's fine. So I'm going to switch it to the Pharaoh one and then I snake the five, right? Yes. I'm going to do the spoiler alert. If you haven't seen the prestige.
Just like when he does the final trick. Really nice. Really good. Really fucking good movie. And then, are you saying when you figure out that he's the twin? Yeah, or just, yeah, I guess that.
Or when he does the ball thing or whatever.
Oh, man. What a fucking, what a movie. Great movie.
Wait, so what happens to the guy? I don't really remember.
So the guy was making clones of himself. Yeah. And killing him. Yes. He was killing all of his clones. That was the conversation. Dropping him into the hot tub. And then they drown in the hot tub. They drown him. The question is that I never fully got answered. Is the original guy living on the whole movie? Or is it his clone?
Like, does the clone just live... Start living? Or is it... I think the clone just starts living. So he just has to kill himself every time. So OG... Yeah, I think... No, it is that. Because I remember him saying something like that. Where it's like... It's like scary as shit every time. But then if the clone... Does the clone have his memories?
Because the clone is then just... It's like you're kind of just the same guy. He's just like a... Yeah, so then are you dying? You're kind of not even dying. Whatever. That movie is great, though. That movie is as good as it gets. That one, too, it's like you could watch it a bunch of times. There's stuff you probably didn't pick up on. Almost have to watch it twice. Yeah, yeah. Final pick.
I'm going to go with the interstellar scene.
Oh, yeah.
At the end when it went into the shelf.
Into the shelf. Yeah. Oh, man. That's a great one. Talking about Smurf.
Smurf. Smurf. Smurf. Smurf. Dude, you know what's crazy? Smurf. He's getting through. He's knocking shit off the shelf. That's crazy. What a good movie that is, man. Holy shit. Dude, he's impacting the game. Yeah. Which is cool to do on that side of things.
How did Luka play? Luke Doncic played really well. How did, what's that guy's name?
Yeah, James. 25-9-5. For James. Yoke went 13. He went 12-13-10. Now they're a little triple dubs key. It was the weirdest game I've ever seen, though. I watched the first half.
I was watching some fights. They would triple Nicola. So that's why he only shot the ball seven times. So they would triple Nicola, but then Jamal... Clearly it worked, though. But then Jamal didn't play that good, so then we'd just lose. Well, that's the issue with the Denver Nuggets. How did Russ play? When I was watching, he was playing really bad. 17 on 7 for 17.
For Russ, when he's playing bad, he plays really bad. It's not that I hate him or anything.
I'm always team Russ.
I'm just saying... Who told him to bank every shot? Yeah. From the mid-range. Why are you banking it? I don't know. Stop doing that. Does he think he has to bank them? Maybe he thinks it's like a rule. That's what I'm saying. Who told you? Can we get a DM through to him? Maybe we DM him or something. He might think that.
that's coaching yeah that's coaching well like malone should be like you don't have to be alone should like clarify that i think he probably thinks mid-range like if you don't bank it it's like only one maybe he thinks at home or i don't know i don't know at home could be a thing i don't know what it is yeah but he's trying to sometimes he's banking shots from the baseline and it's like and he just and it's just like this is disgusting yeah um you know i was watching some old shackton afford today really funny does that still go on
Just in case that they're not allowed. Yeah, I'd lean. We probably will have them. We'll see though. You definitely, you can make like commentary. I just don't know if you're allowed to do it on movies. Yeah. I don't know. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. Like if it's somebody else's YouTube video, you could, that's true. Cause you re you'd be reacting to shit. I think we'll be fine.
I don't know. I don't think so. It's like really old. It's just on YouTube. But like what a great like JaVale McGee. And JaVale just like fucked it up every time. That was prime like TV though. Yeah, but it would be like every night. JaVale McGee. Just like fucking. Just clowning him. JaVale definitely hates him. Because I'd be like you're fucking making fun of me every night. And I'm like dick.
A pro basketball player.
You're just like bullying me online. Yeah. Yeah. And it was worse, too, because it was on television. Yeah. Really mean. Yeah. Really tough. What do we want to get into? We could go. I got a good amount of news. We could do stat first. Let's do stat first. Stat me. I had a really good time with the guess that stat line. And I figured you probably enjoy around yourself. Yeah.
So I have a guess that stat line. Let's say you have to get three right for the toe stomps. What was the deal?
I get to hit you in the balls with a wiffle ball bat. The yellow one. Oh, my God. Lefty. Dude, we didn't ever tell the story about footy, but it just made me think about that. No.
okay that's you get to hit me in the ass with a wiffle ball yeah that's fine that's fine with the yellow one righty back home righty all right that's fine yeah it's fine all right first stat line we have is that the most iconic piece of sports equipment in the world the yellow wiffle ball the yellow thin thin thin oh that's let's put that on the screen that's the best everybody that did it knows exactly what we're talking about it's it's my it's one of my favorite things that's ever been invented i like that junk ball bat too
I like the junk ball bat. I don't like the junk ball balls. You throw just unfair sliders. We never really learned how to use them. We just played with standard wiffle balls. Which, that's very much us. Like standard baseballs. Yeah, let's not make a joke of this thing. We're not throwing power-up curve balls. Right, yeah, f*** that. We play with regulation wiffle balls. Throw the finger ball.
Remember that? Yeah, the finger ball is nice. It was just like a change-up. I think it was like a riser, though. I think it was just a change up. I think it just went like a different speed. Just went slower? Yeah. And then fastball, then you would throw a true curve and hurt your arm every time. And you also can't throw a curveball with a fucking move. You can't. It didn't work.
But you would throw a true curve. Yeah. Yeah. In baseball, you used to throw curveballs and fuck your arm up, right? I've definitely, I actually had arm problems. Yeah, you pitched a lot. Yeah. All right, here we go. You should, when you're younger, if you're playing baseball and you're a younger stick, throw a football curve. Don't throw a curve. You fuck your arm up with a regular curve.
Well, they say you shouldn't throw curves until you have like armpit hair. Yeah, but dude, a football curve is nice. It drops if you throw it hard. I threw a knuckle curve for a while. That's crazy. It was crazy. Did it move well? Yeah.
you throw uh it was like 12 did you throw a knuckle curve and knuckle and curve i don't really remember but i do remember like you throw circle change i remember yeah i was circle change guy also but i remember like like like that we had like like three was knuckle curve knuckle curve dude that's crazy dude a straight change is crazy you just slow your arm down i don't know i think maybe you throw it like this i've heard or you dig your fingers in
I think it should be all right. We'll see. We'll see. Um, we might have some overlapping. I feel like we like similar shit. Yeah. Mine's pretty, it's pretty like one theme and I'm doing my shit for me, by the way, I'm not doing me as well. Like I'm not doing like, yeah, like the Titanic scene should be out. And I'm not just, I'm not, I'm not just, yeah, it's not the best scene.
It's definitely not slowed the arm down. Yeah, I've never really understood the straight change, though. Whatever. All right, first guy. So you've got to get three right to win. 23.7 points per game, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists. 23-10-3? 24-11-2. 24-11-2. And this is career. Yeah, this guy's retired too. 24-11-2. 24-11-2. 24-11, so that's going to be 24 points, 11 rebounds. Yep. And two assists.
Two and a half. 24-11-2, shacked in a full. One for one. Yeah. okay don't tell me they're retired i won't i won't uh up next we have 19.5 seven rebounds 11 assists wow really good basketball player 19 11 11 dimes seven boards magic johnson two for two i don't think we can do this anymore how about you have to get four you have to get four so wiffle ball bat to the dick No, to the ass.
You have to get four because I think mine was four. Four. And yeah, the first one I wouldn't. And I kind of gave it away. You have to get four. All right. I threw. Okay, but you're going to get. I threw a baseball player in there that you're going to get. I'm going to save him. I might end up changing it. 16, six and five. 16, six and five. Six boards, five dimes. 16, six and five.
That's really tough. 16, six and five. Maybe like Draymond. No, Scotty Pippen. That's bad. Yeah, he. Everyone's like he's so underrated. No, you know. He was a second fiddle. He was overrated. He was a second fiddle. 16 points is like basically zero points. No, it's 16. No. You're right, actually.
You want me to just round these to the nearest hole?
Do we gain weight? No. It's ant. It's ant. Yeah, the young guys are really tough because they have great stat lines because they haven't been in the league.
Yeah, like Luka's probably got great numbers. Yeah, Luke Doncic. Yeah. All right, 14. This guy sucks. This guy's supposed to be a legend. This guy stinks. I'm going to get it. 14, 9, and 3. 14, 9, and 3. You might get it because of what I gave you. Yeah, he's a legend. 14, 9, and 3. I'm not going to give you which is 9, though. That would help you a lot. Yeah. 14, 9, and 3. Stockton. No.
It's not the best scene. I have one that I'm doing, but you're going to be like, you're doing that for the people. But it's a good pick. Mine are only scenes that I've liked. Yeah, so that makes me worried about some inside-out scenes and stuff. You might take them. We'll see. With my first pick, I will take... I really hope these cameras are recording. I hope so. They are, right?
Steve Nash. You suck, Steve. Dude, he won two MVPs. And by the way, his numbers weren't even different. 17 and 10. Let me look these numbers up. 17 and 9. Disgustingly bad. No, he's not disgusting. I'm saying for an MVP. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stephen Curry, Steph was like that his first MVP. Steve Nash. Yeah, but they were so dominant that you were like, okay. Is that when like Gibran was like prime too? Yeah. Oh my God. I'm not making this up right now. His MVP season. Yeah. 15, 11, and 3. No, no, no, no, no. He wasn't 15. Well, one of them was 18. 15 and 11 was not the other one. That was not the other one. No, no, no. Look.
That one on the left, he didn't win MVP. I think he did. No f***ing way.
15 and 11?
So we should be good. What do we got today? We got a draft. We got some new pieces. I don't know if the cameras can see them. They can't even, they're not even close to seeing the new pieces. But just know we got new pieces up for you. We did this for you guys. We did this only for you guys, not for us at all. And you know what? For you guys to feel, to see. I'm proud of what we did in this.
Are you f***ing kidding me? Wow. Wow. That's crazy. I mean, the league was different, but like, come on. Yeah, that's crazy. I would be pissed. Shaq brings it up every week, and I would too. Yeah, that was like the biggest robbery. Yeah, I have heard Shaq say that. It's just like Shaq was... Oh, wow. That's nuts. Shaq's like dropping 30 bombs. And he's just Shaq. He's the most valuable player.
26.7.
Yeah, six and four. 26, six and four. That guy rocks. 26, six and four. 27, actually, if we're rounding up. 27, six and four. Kevin Durant. No, good guess. Fuck. Allen Iverson. Wow. Guy rocks. A lot of points. A lot of points from him. All right, let's go... This is a – I'll give you – actually, no. I'm not going to give it to you. You won't. There's a 0% chance you'll get it.
4.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, 0.8 assists. I wouldn't have given you a detail that would help you, but at this point, just guess whoever. Vlad Gochanchar. No. I was going to say, like, now let's see if you can get it. It won't count. But, like, a Nuggets – really niche Nuggets player.
Yeah. Yeah. Very nice. I remember when he started shooting the three ball a little bit. Good for Nahara. Yeah. I fuck with Nahara, man. I like him. I like Kleza. Lioness Kleza.
Even Timothy Mozgov was a Mozgov Koufis. Costa Koufis. Costa Koufis.
Yes. Anthony Carter. Aaron Aflalo.
Aaron Aflalo. Earl Boinkens.
Boinkens. Yes.
We got some good guys. Ty Lawson. Anthony Carter. Anthony Carter. Yep. A.C. A.C. A.C. All right, so you got to get two right out of the next three. 23 and a half points. Yeah. Four dimes, seven boards. 23, four, seven. If we're rounding up, we got 24, four, and seven. 24, four, and seven. 24, four, and seven.
Yeah, you clicked them. I clicked them. Did you click record?
Mellow.
Who? Mellow. No, Jason Tatum. Nice numbies, man. Nice numbies, yeah. Okay, so you got to get both of these right. Baseball player.
Wow.
Career average 310, 260 home runs, 377 on base percentage. Derek Jeter. Yep. I knew you would get that. I knew you would get it. 310 is all you had to do. All right, for all the marbles here. By the way, he and I'm not even a baseball guy. Yeah. It seems like he was overrated. No, he's good defensively, and he was a really good leader. But was he? He was just consistent. But it was the intangible.
I think so but then like sometimes like you and I'm talking to you you you you dude yeah last pod memory card has full storage Zach clicks record we record and what did he say he's like I'm writing in his journal or something along the lines of I'm right I was writing in my journal all pod and I forgot to record and yeah that's great and it's hard because but it is hard because we've been telling these three we've been like mindfulness is important journal so we were like what do we do here you're right so we were kind of understanding but don't do that again no I don't understand so we should we check
He's the classic.
But then you're just like, what does that mean? Yeah, what does that mean? Because I would be good then. I have a good attitude. Oh, I have a fucking killer attitude. I'm going to change the last one because I don't want you to get it. Okay. That's fine. I don't think I'm going to get it.
Yeah. Is it something I should get? I don't know.
You all got it. Jamal Murray. No, thank God, dude. Fuck. Carmelo Anthony. 22 and a half, six boards, three assists. Those last years took him way down. They did. He was probably a 26 guy. He was like a 26 merchant, yeah. He was good. He was underrated. He just didn't win. Oh, man. He didn't win, unfortunately. And by the way, I don't fault him at all for that. Oh, yeah.
He got his bag.
Go to NY. Oh, dude. Be a celeb? Yeah, no problem with that. I have no problem with it. No problem at all. But you got to ask, if he won the rings, would he have more money? Maybe.
He'd probably be... I don't know, dude. Like, Cliff Paul is bigger than, like, Chauncey Billups.
But let me ask you this. But maybe not even. Like, Dwayne Wade has three rings.
Yeah, Dwayne Wade.
Yeah. And Melo has zero, but who's the bigger deal in the, in, in after career. It's like Dwayne, Dwayne, Dwayne, Dwayne, Dwayne by far. I know, but Dwayne, other than the statue and like that, he's a legend in Miami, but like, ah, he's a, he's more of a celebrity. I know, but Dwayne has a podcast. Carmelo has a podcast. Who's this bigger? I don't know. Probably the same.
So you're saying there's no difference, really? Nah, Dwayne is, but Dwayne is, like, more of a, just legacy-wise.
It would feel nice to just be a legend. And, like, Dwayne is the legend in Miami, like, mellow. He's a legend in New York, I think. Yeah, but, like, he should be, like, a Denver legend, but Djokovic just took that from him. Well, Djokovic took number 15, too. No, he doesn't deserve it, if we're being honest. He didn't win. And he forced his way out. He did force his... He hated it.
He had a fit. So he gets booed every time he goes still. I do miss those blue jerseys. Oh, man. Classic. Those are dope. I would never boo him. I wouldn't boo him either.
But I understand why a diehard Nuggets fan... Do you think he hates Jokovic because he took number 15? Yes. That would piss me off.
Jokovic probably just didn't care. Jokovic probably just... No, they just said, like, we drafted this kid 41st while a taco commercial was going on. What does give him 15th? he's not going to be good. That's crazy. That's why they gave it to him. Yeah. Well, they just don't, you don't pay no mind. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. But he's been number 15 his whole life. There's a fucking legend. Um, no.
All right, let's do, you want to do seven stock before news? Sure. Sure, man. Um, grow.
oh grow grow talk about a dynamic character that grow like milchak is one of the more dynamic characters in all he's my favorite he's my favorite character at all the television oh my god that guy's great i love that guy mark s is big time fucked right he's big he's 10 out of 10 fucked he's gonna get sick yeah i don't know why he's doing it man what what what really what the hell are interaction bother you that much what what bother you so much so danny um
What bothered him so much about that Helly-R interaction? Well, let me tell you something. Beginning of the... She was lying about Gemma? Yeah, she was lying about Gemma. And it bothered him that she called her Hannah. Yeah, what the fuck was that? I don't know what that was about. I don't know what she was trying to prove. Do you think there was a little bit of jealousy from Helly?
And like, I'm going to get the name wrong? Because Helly... By the way, Audi Heli is a very confusing character. Yeah, and you want to say she's just a bitch because she banged any mark, but also she might just be lonely and jealous of... I think she's jealous of any Heli. But that's you still, kind of. Yeah. It's a very confusing dynamic going on with any and Audi Heli. Yeah.
By the way, Mark S...
he's just got all the helis fiending i know both helis love him he's got something there's something about mark s both helis they cannot keep their hands off they can't they can't oh good for you man now he's got both helis he's got both helis under his belt fiending for it yeah yeah they're like i dude any heli good you guys are probably on camera banging you know yeah any hell he was probably so pumped on when any hell he was like i want my own memories like he
yes yes i because she asked him she's like would you like that he's like yes i would i any heli i would love that i would love let's make that happen yeah you know what let's arrange something let's do it let's go to let's go to the tent there's some sort of fake let's do the fake tent thing let's do something let's let's go do that i think we can make that happen let's go do that and then we can make the accommodations and and there they were so now yeah it's kind of flex like he could flex to any about the audi and the audi oh it's awesome you get one of them jealous about the other one yeah yeah uh
he um i think that if and this is off topic but if if you're any any heli in any mark you should just like probably be just banging all day why what else are you gonna do it is like what else is there to do like they but you also got to think from their perspective they don't even know they their only life exists in those walls which by the way how do they even know how to do that stuff
Oh, that I don't even want to get into because then that kind of just ruins the show. Then it's like, how do they know anything about anything? Yeah, like how do they know how to breathe? But what I like to tell myself, Zach, when I go down that lane is part of the operation is you keep a little bit of knowledge in the brain. But you don't have memories?
You cut out... That's where... They strictly cut out memes, but... Ah, fuck. It gets confusing. Yeah, they're... Because if you don't have, like... Yeah, whatever. But maybe... I don't know. I just... I think that you're... Because, like, oh, well, we don't know what rain and snow are. Exactly. Well, his whole life.
But then why do we know what watermelon... Why do we... Why do you know what this...
Why do you know what a watermelon is?
That's a good question. Why do you know Irving's made a watermelon? Who knows? Why do you know that? Who knows? Irving and the dinner, that was a little awkward. Christopher Walken's up to something, and I don't like that. I wish Christopher Walken was just like a... Do you think it was Audi throwing through, maybe?
Because the look that he gave when Irving left, that's when I thought he was up to something. I didn't think anything of it until then. Well, I thought something when he was like, oh, like you've been a severed guy for 20 years, but then it only started 12 years ago. Christopher Walken.
Something's happening. Do you like his spouse, by the way? Do you like his husband? I do not like his husband. I don't either. He's just not good for Christopher Walken. You're not encouraging of him, and you're definitely jealous of him. Yeah, he seems like he's... And you're kind of like...
And you're kind of downplaying any love. A little bit. You're supporting any love, but it feels like... In an off-putting way.
It's like, hey, those innies... You're not above those innies. And by the way, Christopher Walken and Irving did not bang in that. They did.
Don't fucking accuse them over a ham of an unprotected sexual relationship.
That didn't happen. They didn't lay paws on each other, man. They did not. They were very respectful. When you assume that of these two stand-up men, I don't appreciate that.
They didn't do that as in his band. I think that's sick and wrong. I agree. I think it's sick and wrong. I agree. But back to Mark S. being in trouble. Yeah. Oh, he's fucked. So he's fucked. But Danny, I don't think it has much to do with Helly. More to do with Gemma. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. But episode starts out. He's like bargaining. Yeah.
He's at a point where he's like, listen, I'll just die for this shit.
And he's just like, I don't care.
Because he's like, I know she's in there. Yeah. He'll die to find his wife. He's like, I'll either just die or find my wife. And he's like, if I can't find my wife, I'll just die. And that's the bargain.
yeah that's cool i guess honestly that's probably i mean i would do it i understand that yeah so i think that's where he's at i think i just really don't want to just see him go down i worry man i don't want to see him what was his what was his buddy's name that unfortunately passed in early season one pd yeah yeah i'm seeing pd in him oh me too i'm seeing a lot of pd man i think he's dead you think mark dies i think he's dead i think he is dead oh you think mark he's died we didn't
Wait, really? He went down at the end of the episode. He didn't die, brother. I think he's dead. You think Mark has his dad? Mark's dead. No, he's not. He's not dead. Skeet died. Skeet died of the same cause. Yeah, but Skeet was further along in reintegration, man. Skeet was months into reintegration. Hey, I'm just telling you, man. Skeet went down just like Marques went down.
They did go down similar. They're coughing. Yeah, nose.
Do you think the next episode starts? Mark's dead. I think maybe he comes back. Maybe he'll wake up. I don't know. I think he definitely wakes up. I don't think he's dying. Do you think the doctor's evil or something? The doctor seems... I don't know what's up. She's very... I don't trust her. I don't know. I don't know her motives.
But the unfortunate thing is that she's the only one with that medication, man. She's the only one that... She killed Petey. She killed Petey. She missed on that one. And now she's missing again on Mark. It's like your second attempt is like just not even... It's like we need... Mark, you need to be like the hundredth attempt. Yeah.
And you need to be like, okay, it kind of worked and then we figured out why... Do you think she truly just is anti-Lumen and anti-Any? I think she's got something up her sleeve. Oh, you think she works with Lumen? I think she's against Lumen, but she's stealing money or something. So you think that, no pun intended, that relationship will be severed by the end of this season?
You think Mark and her get combative with each other?
Okay. But I think we're going to see that relationship develop. Yeah. I think so too, man. Yeah. What else do you got from that episode? There's a lot happening. It's a lot happening. It definitely felt, it wasn't as crazy of an epi. It was a little bit to me of like a move things along. Yeah, like I think next epi is going to be grab your fucking popcorn. Is it the last epi next time?
You know, I thought that when I was on my Apple TV menu. Did you think, is that what you're talking about? I don't know. I just, was it, this was seven, right? There's supposed to be 10.
Oh, hell yeah.
I looked it up. It said 10. Oh, hell yeah. But then on my Apple TV menu, there was nothing. It said like next episode. And then there was no, I couldn't keep scrolling.
okay that that's concerning i need 10 man i need 10 give me 10 i need 10 and then i need season three like yesterday yeah bro but you know what though like you gotta start watching the shit after the credits i don't want to i don't i have no i do not like you should you need to no no okay i don't want to it doesn't ruin it for me it doesn't but danny it might ruin it for me
Would have ruined it if it was Irving's actor talking about how he's worked with Walken like 10 different times.
Does it do that? And how, yeah. No, I don't like it. No, but it's really good. I can't do that. Okay. That's crazy that that doesn't ruin it for you. It doesn't. I have never even thought of Irving as not Irving. Yeah, because you haven't seen him. Does he have an accent? No. Oh my God. No, he talks like around the same way as he does. Oh.
Yeah, he doesn't have like a, I thought you were saying does he have like a different accent? Not really. Phew.
that would that's literally there's nothing worse than but like heli's actress being like yeah and and adam and adam really brought mark's character to life in this part no but then how but heli's actor saying like i love heli i don't even know yeah okay all right you don't have to it gets confusing okay you don't have to you don't have to um news up yeah i got some news try these fruit gems i mean they're really good i'll tell you this mom called me
And then I answer. I'm like excited to talk to mom. Here you go. Did you do the fruit gems yet? I said no. Hung up and blocked me. I'm blocked. Oh, you're blocked? Yeah. Mom blocked me. I don't know. It's just there's a disconnect. Like these are sun-kissed fruit gems. They're really good. They're like... Yeah, let's just give it a review. Big fan. I'm a big fan. The texture is really exciting.
It's really good, man. Yeah, it's got that really, really intriguing inner jelly vibe to it. Yeah. Got a really intriguing gummy vibe. Yeah, so hop on Amazon, order yourself some fruit jams. I think Mom maybe had a brand deal. I don't know what was going on. Something. But you know what they also could be is like if you're... If you're like in school, you can throw a couple in your lunch. Yes.
Throw a couple in your lunchbox, a couple fruit jams. That's your dessert. Yeah, yeah. Just like a two fruit jam lunch dessert. And you'll love that shit. Or bring them, maybe you're a, you work in medical and you go to, you're a nurse. Bring like three of those in your lunch. They just feel like a lunch, a packed lunch item. It feels very much like a lunch.
Like an awesome, it's like you look forward to the fruit jam.
yeah and you have like two of them yeah yeah shout out to fruit jumps there you go mom gotcha uh news i caught a little scene where i was just like writing random news as the week was going on yeah um like i don't just i don't just pull out of nowhere that delta gave 30 000 to every passenger on that crash did they give that that's not enough 30 racks not even close but that doesn't mean that the people can't press charges so they still could sell
Oh, so that has nothing to do with it. They just said, like, sorry, here's 30 racks for damage. I think what they're doing is probably, like, damage control. They're like, if we give this $30,000, like, hopefully less of them want to sue. I almost think it would make more money. You owe me $30,000. Yeah. Because now I don't want to fly.
Okay? Right. Those people need $30 million. Yeah, I agree. Those guys. $30,000 is a low ball. But it's better than not giving them anything and just waiting for them to sue. I think you double up. If I'm a passenger, I'm suing.
would you say oh yeah for sure dude it flipped over the fuck dude that's the scariest event also by the way i'm paying you guys to fly me to fly me not yeah not to mention that's probably inconvenient and you're the plane flipped guys flipping over in an airplane is there any videos from inside there Not inside. You saw the landing, though. Oh, my God. Thank God everyone's good.
Thank God everyone's good. It's a pretty epic story if you're safe and healthy.
Oh, for sure. And also, they probably all thought they were going to die, and now they're all being really nice. They probably will all be friends forever. Friends forever, but also just like... New look. Somebody landed and then just called a girl and was like, you know, I've always been in love with you. Definitely. Or like this guy is married for 20 years.
He gets to wake up next to his wife the next morning. It probably revamped a lot of shit. Yes. Of just gratitude. Yes. But think of how...
yeah i don't know i i just you you know i'd be pissed i'd be i'd be i'd be really like if yeah it's like if you think of like getting a really shitty haircut oh that's what i was gonna say uh did you get a good haircut today yeah i did nice yeah the the theory is when they like when they say to like duck and cover or whatever in an airplane yeah have you heard this no
Whatever they say, like, I forget what they say when you're supposed to, like, how you're supposed to protect yourself. But the theory is that they do it so that you die. So that they don't. Oh, no, they don't. Yes. So they don't have to deal with you.
Oh, fuck that. So that they don't have to deal with you. Because, dude, they're about to have to pay each of these guys a million dollars.
You know what I'm saying? If that's what they do, that's evil. Yeah, but I get it. Probably not true. Yeah, I can see that being a theory. Other news, Henry Chihudo, he probably already fought versus Son Yedong. Does that move the needle for you? No. Okay, yeah. He's like a legend. I think he was a double champ. I know the name. Chihudo, and now he's like, if he loses, he might retire.
He's in one of those situations. I'm not going to look at it. I'm going to predict that Son Yedong beat him by decision. That's my prediction. Okay. It probably already happened. I'm going to try to go back and watch it. Definitely already happened for these guys. Yeah. That's my prediction. Hopefully I get it right. Make me look like a no shit. UFC 314 was announced.
We got Volk Lopez and then we have Patty Pimblitt versus Michael Chandler. That's a big step up. Really excited for that. I think Patty, I think for like two years ago, it's like Chandler just like destroys him. I think Patty could win. Pimblitt. Yeah. That's what I have to offer for that. Lopez is really good. Lopez?
Lopez. When did we see him? We saw him at the Sphere. And he looked good. Looked really good. Looked really good.
It's a vacant belt because Ilya moved up. Did he move up officially? Yeah, and they're getting really strict with not allowing you to hold a belt and go up. So the belt's vacant. So you can't be the double champ? I think they're really getting against Double Champ. Also, Dana's announcement for it, you could tell. It seems like he's like, Ilya moved up. He wasn't happy. Why did he move up?
Because he wants to fight Islam. He thinks he's done all he can in the division. I don't think you have. Fight Lopez. Yeah, Lopez is... Lopez is young, good, hungry. Looks like Theo. It's for the vacant belt. So yeah, I guess it's... It's like how DC won when Jones left. Oh, dude, get it back to Volk. Yeah, get it to Volk. That's exciting.
And then Lopez can stay up like number one contender, and then Ilya come back and fight him again. I guess the only way Ilya would come back down is if Lopez won. Yeah, and then he tries to beat Lopez. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Lopez is a young, exciting fighter.
lopez is awesome he looks great but i do remember being like a little buzzed at the sphere and like i really could not stop thinking that that was the yeah he in the cage he really looks like the crazy yeah um so that's cool wemby out don't we're i don't want to do this wemby We'll talk about this on our Thursday epi. Yeah. Or our Wednesday epi, I mean.
But this is the only thing that's going to stop him from being the fucking greatest ever. Because I've got some prompts there where I would love to talk about that. Popovich, do you want to save that? I don't even know. You fill me in. I don't know what's going on. He's just out for the rest of the year, uncertain if he's going to return. Out with what? I don't know.
But also, the reason I do support him is like, What are you supposed to just like die? Oh, of course. What do you want me to do? I know. Yeah. Of course you want to skip coaching, but at some point like you can't, I guess like you're a grueling, like you got to travel a lot. Like at some point you're shortening your life by not just resting. Sure. Golfing. Yeah.
I think maybe at that age, but it's like, dude, like I would, I still want to be when I'm 65, I still want to be fucking like working, making content. Yeah. It's just like, I want it. Like you think we'll still do like doesn't belong and shit. No, but I think we're going to be doing something for sure.
I think at that point, we're going to be like, like hustling because it's just like directing or something. Yeah. You don't want to just like do nothing. You don't. It's boring. Also that you could argue that it's more life giving to do shit. I agree. I fully agree. When I'm like 75, I won't, I might do drugs. I'm just saying, why not try it? Yeah, I truly do think you should. We never do drugs.
Why not try freaking LSD? 75 years old. It'll be fun as fuck. It might kill you. That's probably why. I'll go out that way. I don't know. Yeah, that's a good way to go out. Yeah. It's cool. Yeah, it's a dope way to go. It's a badass way to go out. Yeah. Also, stop with the...
argument of tattoos what you're how are you gonna look when you're 80 shut the fuck up bad though but i don't care but who cares dude i don't know but it's not something we have to worry about like you think sharon's gonna look like shit when he's terrible yeah but who cares i'm just thinking like think about like have we ever have you do those people does that happen or do their tattoos disappear i feel like i've never seen somebody like that that's actually a very good point i've never i'm gonna say 80 year old i think it would look bad
with a lot of tattoos but i also think like if you're ed sheeran and you're 80 it's like it's like he looks fucking great i think he looks dope like what's wrong with that yeah that guy looks just like a normal that guy looks like he's like 40 but i think he's old as shit i don't know i don't know but what's dude that guy's 75 looks i mean these are like really fit guys I don't know.
I think it could look weird maybe if we got a shit ton of tattoos. It's kind of also just a little embarrassing. It's just like an oxymoron. You're like, this doesn't seem like it should make sense. Yeah, I don't know. But do you got anything else? Any other news or should we go into queues here? Right into queues. Let's go into queues. News is we're doing a Wednesday epi.
Wednesday, I think it'll be this Wednesday. Dalton's making his debut. Yeah, and I saw somebody, they still don't believe it.
Well, Caleb said, can't believe they're going to hire an actor to play Dalton. I saw somebody that said Dalton's got – he could do the funniest thing and just not show up. It would be really funny. Brad VanVleet looks like he sent in a JPEG, like a picture. I'm not going to open that. Not from VanVleet. I'm not going to do that.
It's the most emotional Disney scene for me. Oh man. Yeah. It's a really good scene. What's crazy about that scene is like, I think that movie came out when we were like 10 or something. Oh my gosh, dude. And I still would. I think I feel like I cried. I saw it in theaters. I remember seeing it in theaters and I remember, I think so.
Oh, well, I have a question from VanVleet or more of like a – I saw he said, yeah, I charge for fans. No, no, no. That's the least of our concern. Somebody said he's like ransacking their home. VanVleet? Yeah. Yeah, VanVleet. Let me try to find this. Yeah, we're not doing that. I'm not even going to find it. It's just, dude, stop. You're one of our best question askers. We respect you a lot.
We love having you here, man. Don't be ransacking shit. Don't be charging fans. Terrorizing. And everyone goes through this phase, and this is his phase. No, but he's terrorizing people. Don't terrorize, man. Terrorism. So he's taking part in terrorism? Bad. Yeah, this is bad. But you know what? We'll get right into it here. This is from Kuhn Parker 11. What's up, Kuhn? Kuhn, definitely.
We've seen Kuhn before. Good evening, Daniel and Zodiac. What's up, man? He said, I assume Zach is short for Zodiac. It is. It is. How long do you think it would take you to notice that everyone in the world stopped blinking? Have we answered this before? I don't... No. So we would still be blinking, but nobody around us blinks.
pretty long time i mean maybe like i look at like sarah pretty closely a lot i think so maybe like sarah after like a week maybe a week i think it would be i think it would be one day you think because i'm i like it's like any anytime i'm talking to somebody i'm like looking at them yeah and then trying to think though like you would be weird no you would be like you noticed i'm blinking no but you would notice that they're not blinking don't blink right now like if we're talking right now i'm not noticing i'm not gonna know oh my god it hurts my eye yeah actually i would notice
I think three days. You would subconsciously be like, why is this person being so creepy? And then you would notice. And then you'd be like, it's because they're not blinking. And then the next person you talk to wouldn't be blinking. You're like, okay, this is... Do you think within 24? I do think so. I'm going to give myself three days.
It also depends on where I'm going that day and stuff. It would be a quick fuse. Yeah. We got Thomas. He said, hey guys, I changed my profile pic, but don't worry, it's still the same old Thomas.
okay well that's fine just yeah maybe clear that up before I mean like I agree just like clear it up behind the scenes because if you didn't say that we would be like this isn't Thomas yeah he changed it to this it's a picture of his dog that's what I and I thought it was his dog for a second yeah he said I assume Danny's reading this so I was hoping for you to get Zach to blind rank the following two non-alcoholic beverages okay we're blind ranking the two there's two beverages you're about to find let's do it non-alcoholic
okay first one's five guys milkshake you're gonna put in the one of the two i'm gonna put it in the two really good milkshake i'm gonna put it in the two because it seems like he's gonna he tried to set me up with that because the five guys milkshake is incredible but his his next one's gonna be a real heavy hitter yeah and then like you said it's non-alcoholic beverages um and in your one you have beer
I think so. When you were 10. I think so. Cause well, you're probably like, she died. I'm sorry. Oh man. Yeah. It was, it got to me, which is, but what a great, oh, so good. That's a great movie. It is a great movie. Um, but it's, it's, it's, there's a new sheriff in town and it's inside out too. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna go to that scene just yet because I do have better scenes.
So there you go. Okay. You know what? That's fine. Good job, man. That works. Well done. He said, catch you guys on the flip. All right. Thanks, Thomas. Well, thanks for stopping by, Tom. Thanks, man. Thank you. Come anytime, man. Yeah, we got Blue Jay. I'm going to read this. Blue Jay, do you realize he's a YouTube comment celebrity? Like his comment is 13 likes.
It's the biggest comment on every time he comments. What was that? Did you fart, man? It was your duck, man. It was your duck. Okay. Don't squeeze my duck. It's me. Don't squeeze my duck. Don't squeeze my duck. You're embarrassing my duck. Give me my duck. Your duck is embarrassing himself. Okay, but he can't control it. Okay, dude. Really? Give me the duck. Give me the duck. It's okay, man. Ew.
It's okay, man. Gross. It's okay, man. Yeah, we'll talk after.
Jesus Christ.
Sorry about that, man. What the hell was that about? It's all right. No, it wasn't that bad.
It wasn't that bad. It was a thing. It wasn't that bad, dude. It was for sure a thing.
Everybody farts. Fuck off, man. Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. You want to grab your football duck as well? Because that guy doesn't even give a shit. That guy will just rip. That guy will tear ass. All right, man. All right. Don't do that. Don't do that again, okay? Don't do that to the ducks. He said, Dear Danny and Zach, I hope all is well during this season of peace and prosperity.
Here goes Blue Jay, man. Last we spoke, I mentioned how I was stepping back and taking a break for a while. After these past few weeks, I am rejuvenated with passion and joy for this sport. I must confess that during my prime of question asking, I wasn't in the best mental space. There was lots of pressure that came with it. I would also like to add the fact that I was really question centric.
I didn't value the other segments as much. Over these past few weeks of question asking abstinence, I've done some deep reflection. It has been apparent to me that when I don't send in messages, I become more connected to the pod. He's kind of saying a lot of nothing. Get to it, man. I listened to the other breadstick questions rather than having to find my own question mindset. Okay.
Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure when they, it was probably like a jump scare for them to see this set up.
I've grown a lot. He's more unselfish now. Yeah, and he's not trying to figure out what he could ask. He's trying to just listen to the pot. He said, I've grown a lot over this period of time. I'm now seven inches tall, rounding up.
And I've developed a solid vert as well. And remember, he's big on basketball. Yeah, well, he just plays basketball. Well, he wants to play pro. He said, I understand where my basketball ceiling is. I don't expect to make it into the NBA. However, overseas basketball is a reasonable goal for myself. Yeah, for sure.
He said, my question for you guys today is, will you boys ever come out to watch one of my games if I do make it to the international level with much care at Blue Jay? Of course we would come out, man. Of course, man. And I think it would be a cool thing to maybe do a breadstick meetup at one of Blue Jay's games.
I think everybody would be interested in that.
We would come. We would come.
Oh, we would be there. Just tell us. Give us the time of day, man. I'm rooting for him. We'll absolutely pull up, yeah. I'd like to see some Blue Jay highlights maybe at some point. Yeah, I've never seen any footage of him. I haven't either, but that's fine. Yeah. We got Christian here. He said, what's up, D-Bone and Z-Money? Please rate my name out of 10. His name is Christian Sylvester.
Yeah, it's strong. It's really, really strong.
I got Christian Sylvester. I mean, I got a 9.5. Think about names. Names don't get as. Zacharino, Danny Garino, that cooks that. Actually, 9. Zacharino's like a 4-4. 9-7. Danny Garino's a 4. We're the same. They're just like. 9-7. Yeah, it's a really strong name. What's the best name in sports history? Starts with an R. Pops used to always say this. Baseball player. Rocco Baldelli.
I'm going to rip it off you then. Rip it off me.
Rip it off me. And you're probably thinking the peak of anxiety and joy. That was the best scene. That's probably what I'll, yeah. That was the best scene in all of cinema. And he's not going to take it. Because I'm going kind of down. Comedy route? Not comedy. I'm going down. I would like the miracle on ice.
Oh, that is the best name in the century. Andy Grammer's got a good name too, by the way. Andy Grammer's a good name as well. What's up, D-Bone and Z-Money? So we rated his name. He said, also, if you were to receive $100,000 for every day you thought completely out loud, how many days would you do? You cannot go into hibernation and there must be continuous days, deuces.
So you got to think everything out loud. So if you see somebody and you're like, Oh, that would actually be a problem. If you see a girl, think she's like hot, you have to be like, that girl's hot. That's not going to go well. At the gym would be a bunch of landmines for you. Oh, dude, everywhere. Get the f*** off of the machine. F***ing hurry up. Or like in traffic. Move! Yeah, yeah.
I think it'd be, I don't think I would do it. I mean, I would do it if I could just like. Wait, so what are the options here? We just have to do it or? It's just, you get $100,000 for a day of doing it. So you could do it for one day and get 100K. Oh, but can we just not leave the house? Let's say you have to do your routine though. So like you have to go to the gym.
Like I would have to go to Orange Theory. That would suck. Oh man. But also it's like, you know, I'm doing it. I mean, you have to do it. I think I'd do it for one day. I think it's too dangerous to do it. But you have to do it for... You've got to get a couple mil. You've got to just take two million off the table. But I don't think you could do it in public places.
Sarah and I went to a little cocktail place last night. They were taking really long and I would never say anything, but there I'd have to be like, Where the fuck? Hurry up. Fuck it. Like, I can't do that, dude. Yeah, it would be a problem. I think I would do one day. I think I would take it one day at a time. I would say like, okay, did I ruin our brand yet?
Yeah, and if you hadn't.
If the answer was no, it's like, let's keep going.
Keep it going, yeah.
Yeah. We got Breadstick Seth. He said, sup, Zach and Danny. Coming to you today to see if you guys could let me know if a recent crash out I had was reasonable or if I overreacted. Here's the details. I was wearing a Star Wars shirt. I didn't really read the whole thing. It just seems funny. I was wearing a Star Wars shirt one day and my nephew said, what is that shirt? I said, it's Star Wars.
And he said, why do you even like Star Wars? I said, because it's a thousand times better than any of those dumb little shows with talking mice and dogs and other nonsense you like. He's four, by the way. Your opinions would be greatly appreciated. I think I get it. I get it. I just think, I think if the kid's four, it was maybe like, maybe Seth, like he just hadn't seen Star Wars.
Well, I think Seth. And he just like, he just was like, what, what? And like to hate on Tom and Jerry. Yeah. Like that this kid watches like. I think you took, I think you took it out on the wrong guy. It seems like maybe he had comments about the Star Wars shirt throughout the day. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like it was like a straw that, that, that broke the camel.
This wasn't the first, the first thing. Um, so I think, I think we need to, we need to look in inwardly and see, you know what I'm saying? What's going on? You know, why, why, why does that irritate you? Um, but I think a lot of times it's not about like, it's not about that kid, right? It's what, why did, why did that bother you? I think it's, I think it's upsetting.
I think it's, it's, um, how about you have a little bit of respect. I get that. I get that. You know what I'm saying? That's valid. Um, but maybe don't make the kid cry.
right that's seth just it's just not where he's for right he's for exactly kellen labelle is writing in we got a spotify listener danny okay um wait you're on spotty right now no i'm on snap said uh was tuning into the pod on the way to work got to the part where you were showing the video of your dog and you guys insisted that i opened the video thankfully now i can do that on spotify
Anyways, I opened the video and it was hilarious. It was hilarious. Great piece of content. Great piece of content. That'll live on the internet somewhere. I mean, I guess it lives on the internet.
On the podcast. Yeah, you can find it on the internet, on the podcast.
Yeah. However, I do have one complaint. I took my eyes off the road and caused an eight car pileup. Oops. Luckily escaped without injury and drove off. Other than that, video feature is amazing. Keep up the great work and Danny, go Danny in cups. Okay. Um, yeah. It was an eight car pileup. Yeah. But that's just, that didn't get injured.
That's a little bit of an oops, but I don't think it's, Oh, that's fine. I mean, listen, it's, I mean, that's like, I think most importantly, a little eight car pileup, sky's blue. Right. Exactly. Everybody makes mistakes. But most importantly, Kellen was able to see the video of Rosie that Kellen wouldn't have seen previously. And that's what matters. That's what I really took from that message.
Let's not focus on the eight-car brutal car crash. Because in life, you could focus on whatever you want. 100%. You know what I'm saying? Are we going to focus on the negatives of this message or are we going to focus on the positives? Are we going to focus on a dog wearing cute shoes? And it was very funny and very cute. Yep. We can all agree on that. And I'm glad that he was able to see it.
Me too. And... Me too. That's all. We can focus on whatever we want.
That's all. We don't have to focus on anything else.
I think that's... We'll end on a high note. Yeah, we'll end on a high note. That was 106. Will the next one be the Wednesday?
We have Wednesday coming next.
They're like, holy shit, it's different. Well, they probably didn't even... Initially... We don't warn them. Yeah, on initial watch, they were probably like, oh, new stew. New stew. It definitely looks like a new stew. Not a new stew, guys. Just new... Just new stuff.
Just the miracle on ice spiel. That was my one sports thing. I mean, I'm a sucker for a motivational movie. Well, that's a like play it every morning caliber spiel. I used to. Yeah, you didn't used to do that. Not that one, but I would play other things that I'm going to take. I do motivational shit in the morning on the way to Orange Theory all the time.
New decor. Look at us. Look at the podcasters. Eyes are here. Eyes are up here.
But I just go on Spotify. I'll send you some of the playlists. I just, I watch movie scenes and that gets me going. Movie scenes are dope. I do like a lot of like Goggins. Goggins. Dude, yeah. Goggins is just like, we're not overthinking it. He's the most motivational guy. He just said, get up, bitch. People that say like motivational shit's like a scam.
It's like if you use it in the right way, it's not, dude. It is, but it's like, I don't care. It is if you, yes, but you have like, it is if that's like motivation goes away or like, you know what I mean? And like that energy, so it comes out of discipline.
But like, if I like start my morning and work out and then I'm coming home and I'm listening to like Rogan being like, you're the fucking author of your story, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay, let's keep it pushing.
It helps a little. I think in addition to- It just makes you feel good, which I like.
Yeah, there's paintings. There's signs. There's neon lights. There's a lot of shit going on. A lot of shit going on. Just keep it cool. Keep it cool. Keep it cool. Keep it cordial. What do we got today? We got draft of... Movie scenes. Movie scenes should be fun. I think we're going to try and put them in. We're going to make sure we can do it copyright-wise. I think we can. We'll see.
But like, it's in the same way that like, Watching Severance makes me feel good. Yeah. What is life? I'm just like, do that. Before I go to bed, I'll just look up the word motivation on TikTok. That's great. So hopefully my dreams are good. They're not, by the way. I think my dreams have been good.
weird oh i thought dude my dream yesterday i it's because sarah and i had like a lot of wine or something i think it like wine could do it but i couldn't find my soccer stuff we were red red red oh my god that's crazy but i couldn't find like white black white i like couldn't find the other shit and then we changed to like white red red that's like hell right there and i that was my whole dream you were in hell i couldn't find my soccer jersey shit that's i mean i'm sorry you had to go through that yeah mine like i don't even remember what happened i there was like i think somebody was like throwing like fruits and veggies at me or something that sucks
sometimes you know but you know when you wake up you're like that was a weird headspace sleep for sure by the way fruit gems i don't know if we meant to have these mom no i yeah i we love these they're cool they're well we're gonna try them she really wanted to talk about them on the pod yeah yeah uh so what do you what's you can snake into two so yeah the the the speech in miracle and ice it's like the best played it's the best thing of all time it is uh and then next i'll go to rocky you ain't gonna believe this but you used to fit right here
Yeah, I don't care about the D-Mono situation.
I've actually never even seen the movie, but the scene is that good. He's like... Up the bridge? It's not about how many times you get hit, or it's not about how hard you get hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't even know the context. Yeah, it's a great scene, though. I think he's talking to his son or something. We could rerun through... You haven't seen... I haven't seen any of the Rocky sets. I don't know if I have. I've definitely not seen him. That'd be a nice one to run through. But that scene is incredible.
But I don't, like, we've been in situations where we're cutting out Russian sticks. Russia can't say, we don't want to cut out the Russian sticks. Danny, Danny, forget the Russian sticks. Well, don't forget the Russian sticks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Love you, Russian sticks. We love the Russian sticks, yeah. The other day we had a video. Did you see what happened? I did not.
So based on context clues, I guess his son was going through something maybe.
probably yeah and uh yeah yeah the scene starts he's like i remember when you were this big yeah yeah yeah yeah i know what you're talking about i've seen oh it's a beautiful scene really good dude so are you gonna stick in the sports name is that what you're doing not sports necessarily just like just like yeah just like sure or even like emotional yeah yeah i like that so yeah i mean we'll probably be in some similar lines here um i'll do one funny one i'll do hot rod uh my safe word will be whiskey sorry rod what was that whiskey
Where do you get off?
Why I'm saying what what way?
I will. I will forget it.
why am i saying what what way that's so funny dude i bet if we re-watched that movie we would die hilarious what is he like he's like what and he's like why are you saying he's like why am i saying what so funny dude the other really funny one in that one we by the way watched that and didn't get it at all we didn't but now we especially making content i think it's just like really funny fucking content yeah what's the one where he's like what's his name what's his name i'm rod
Oh, yeah, I'm Rod and I love to party. And the other guy's like, I'm Rod and I love to party. He's like, no, I'm Rod. He just takes his day. It's really funny shit, man. Oh, my God. Might have to rewatch that. That scene, I think the I'm Rod, I like to party, the funniest thing of all time.
It's so funny. He's like, I'm Rod.
No, you're not. Oh, it's funny as hell, man. And then he does the like, and then he does the like, like, I'm going to go underwater and don't let me up. Because he can't breathe. Oh, that's funny. I'm actually going to rewatch that movie. I might rewatch it tonight. Might as well. That's a funny ass movie. Really funny movie. Watch Hot Rod if you haven't. Sandberg? Sandberg.
that was like young Sandberg too I feel like he was that like a low budget movie and he rides like a moped I feel like it was a low budget movie or something feels like it or like indie vibes or something that had to be like what popped him off though yeah shit is so funny that movie is a classic was Sandberg in Squid Game no I don't think so he was in something something something serious something where he's in a car when he picks him up maybe that was somebody else I don't know Brooklyn Nine-Nine I think he was maybe in that too
But I'm thinking there was one where they were going to a game show and it was Sandberg in the car with them on the way there.
But it might have been, I think it was something. A snake in a three. I'll take that inside out scene.
Hoop's video, it doesn't exist. Venga Boys. Venga Boys. But we've been doing Venga Boys. We do Venga Boys. We play Venga Boys every single video.
episode 124 124 this is awesome yeah we've got screen where are we got that screen yeah we're everything's good man so we got script we're looking at ourselves it's the first time we've done this we always have the cameras at us but now we can see ourselves can't take my eyes off us i know it's awesome um look at us up there man it's awesome it's cool there we are Yeah, so what do we got?
I think I would flick up with Adonis. Oh, yeah. I think that kid's five. Yeah, that's crazy. That one makes a little more sense. He's just Drake's son. Yeah, and he, like, lives in, like, a fucking castle. Yeah, he's just, like, Drake's... Like, Rizzler, like, made it... He actually did it himself. That is crazy. He did it all himself. Like, he made his own content.
Yeah, that's just... That's unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, my four... Would you flick up with Deuce Tatum? Would I flick up? Like, if you saw him, like, getting coffee... Probably. I mean, why? Like, it'd be so legendary. Like, yo, Deuce, can I get a pic? Can I get, yeah, can I get a flick real quick? Like, sure, bro, fuck. Big fan of you, looking at your pops. Yeah.
I mean, my four, I would love to see Drake Kendrick beef documentary. Need it. Also, it's getting juicier with, like, Drake just, like, won that lawsuit. They were just, seems like, kind of against him. I would love to look into like the who fed who fake. Like, did Drake feed him the daughter shit? By the way, that just what the fuck was that? Like, looking back, what was like?
You just lied about a bunch of shit. I would just love to see that. I would love to see it, Doc. I don't. Yeah, that needs to be addressed. What's did you just make that up? I think... Or did Drake actually feed him fake... But are you that dumb? I don't think you're... Like, Drake's like, tell him I have a daughter and then he's like, oh, he has a daughter.
Yeah, but if Drake's... Dude, if we were beefing and... Or no, like if somebody's beefing with us. Or no, wait, how would it be? It would be like if somebody's beefing with us and then like Nino said something to like that side. It's like you would believe what Nino says. Yeah, you would. So like if it was like, if it was somebody, it had to be somebody close to Drake told him that. Yeah.
And he just like kind of covered it. insanely good job covering it i don't really know and like how that would be possible yeah i don't know dude but yeah that whole and but so he won the lawsuit so it's proven that they were like what was it they were like pushing kendrick I have no idea. I don't think he did win the lawsuit yet. I think he's like, no, I saw that he won. He won something.
I think they like try. I don't even know. I don't fucking, I never know any of those. It's just like, who, how are people getting this information? I don't know. You know what I'm saying? Like, what do you, who did, who told you that? Yeah. And why, why do you know that? Yeah. Cause you probably shouldn't know it. Or you're just like, you're like guessing. You're just maybe making shit up.
That's also fine. That's fine. Yeah. Make, make a headline about making shit up. Sometimes I'll make shit up. Yeah. Oh yeah. Uh, if I don't want to do the research and then you just act confident, like you're right. Maybe Kendrick just did that with this daughter thing. Which, that's fine. Good try. I mean, nobody talks about that part of it.
Yeah. He tried to just get it to cash. It just didn't. Didn't matter, though. Didn't. Yeah. And then just La Documentary. I think that should hit theaters worldwide. It will. It definitely will, dude. It actually will. La Documentary. Do you think just a full-life LeBron doc will be in theaters? Yeah. Yes. In 3D. In 3D. And everyone would go and eat popcorn and watch.
Dude, it would do crazy numbers. It would, dude. He's the biggest star in the fucking world.
I don't know. I don't know, dude, but I think he's got, I think he probably is ladyfishing his DMs. Like, I think it's probably. And you know what? That's probably why he has an Instagram for real. Like, that's like really the main thing. Just for DMs. Yeah, this was it. Hey, fellas, I have a daughter. His name is Mermaid. She's a betta fish, which whatever. And listens and watches.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of them that was, like, top 20 or some shit was just Michael Jordan in theaters. Oh, did that hit? That was a thing? Yeah, I guess you could just watch, like, a Michael Jordan. Like, maybe it's just videos of... Yeah, the LeBron one would probably go even crazier. It will, actually.
100 gigs it's like they didn't even they weren't even trying to have that they just had it from over the years yeah because cameras you have phones yeah yeah um That is for... Okay, my final one is just Nico Harrison. I had that, too. What the fuck? I had that one, as well. What the fuck, dude? Yeah, they got it.
Yeah. Shit's going to come out, and then there should be a dollar. That actually will be a 30 for 30. That face you made today was so funny, dude. He looked like a villain. When Ant got... Yeah, yeah. When AD got hurt, he just stared at the camera, kind of. Bro... That will be a 30 for 30. It has to be. I don't know. I have no words. I have no words. Yeah, and the Mavs are bad now.
Unless Lukas Doncic just collapses. in this next couple years and just stops being good, there's no win.
It's a no-win.
It has to be. Not even close. So that's draft. Should we just talk about our playoff picks again? Yeah, so we'll just do the whole thing again? Yeah, we can just go through. I mean, we could talk about the games today too. I'm getting the bracket up. So Thunder, Grizz haven't played yet. I guess we didn't know it was Grizz.
I think Grizz is probably the scariest team for the Thunder. I still think Thunder in four, actually. I'm going to just say Thunder in six. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just because I hope the Grizzlies give them a little bit of... Imagine if the Grizzlies win. Then we just beat the Clips. We play the Grizzlies. I think the Wolves are going to beat the Lakers, probably.
But the Grizzlies, I mean, the Grizzlies, they don't play defense. But also, you saw what happened in the Nuggets game. We don't play defense. We do not play defense. And then today, like, for some reason, halfway into the second quarter, we just became a really good defensive team. Yeah, we did.
like maybe start trying all these guys are good at basketball and they're good uh athletes so they could just be like i'm gonna try to stop them dude as hard as i can and then like i was watching uh lucas donchich today on defense and i was like he's trying right now and he stopped uh he looks good that's what i'm saying like he stopped he stopped ant from scoring like they could he's trying they could try they could so if the grizzlies want to just like maybe try like they have zach eating he's like seven yeah he's good eight he's a nice piece yeah yeah i don't i think that they could figure it out
Yeah, I think I just got just like Thunder in four, but you never know. It could go seven. I also think that the Thunder might just like, it's... They might choke, yeah.
Yeah, they're usually bad news. But listens and watches the pod daily. She was wondering if Scott was single because he is her celebrity crush. Please hit me up on his response. I don't know. We're not going to tell him. I mean, good for him. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. We're happy for our fish.
Favorites out of the West, obviously, yeah. Yeah. It's just like it's too much. Yeah. Nuggets, Clips, great win for us today, man. We should have lost. I mean, if you're the Clips, you're just like, fuck, we should have won that game. Clippers shot 50% from the field.
It actually doesn't even mathematically make sense that we won that game.
Turnovers, yeah.
Yeah, we did. Yoke played. Yoke did Yoke. Russ is just a roller coaster. I mean, he kind of, like, won the game twice, though. But then he did the layup thing, almost turned it over. It was the exact same thing he did that one game. But yeah, he hit the corner three to send it to OT. And then he had the biggest defensive play of the game. My prediction is we're going to just keep this rolling.
We're going to go to the NBA Finals, and Russell Westbrook's going to lose the NBA Finals for us. I'm just going to keep backing Russ. Today he was good for us, I think. I think. I mean, his stats were bad. Yeah, he shot really bad. He shot poorly. But he made a big three and he had a big stop. I don't understand. I will say this. I said it to you.
How... I think Adelman forgot to sub MPJ in on that last play of the game. Yeah, because, I mean, offense, it makes no sense to not have MPJ in. No sense at all. We got 16 seconds. We're going one shot. And by the way, Russ said he had just hit that three, so he was all confused. He's like, I'm the guy. Yeah, he's like, I'm going to shoot this.
If the ball is in your hand with more than... Like .8 seconds, pass it back. Yeah. And then he goes up in the air and throws it at Jim. Yeah, throws it at Jim Harden and then can't. Oh, he's just like, that was one of the worst plays I've ever seen in my entire life.
It was, yeah. Just like panic. Yeah, that's what we would do. Ball got to him, sheer panic from Russ. Choked. And then, yeah, didn't even get a shot off. But then he makes a big defensive play against Jim. He is like a big difference maker on the defensive end, I think, for us. Russ.
At the end of the day, it's like, would you rather our fish be getting girl fish or not getting girl fish? I'd rather him be getting girl fish. I'm happy for him. But you want to protect him, right? There's that fatherly instinct kicks in, too. Did you have the talk? Not yet. Okay. Have you? Well, I don't. I'm not. I've been tiptoeing around that. I just don't. We'll have to sit down and do it.
He could be like the best defender. But he doesn't. 6'10".
I do think Nuggets in six. I think that's what I said originally. I like Nuggets in six. I like Nuggets in five. Okay.
Nuggets in five. Lakers, Wolves. Wolves obviously just cooked them. Ant got hurt, then returned. Looks fine. Looks great, actually. Who do you have? Timber Pups in six. Timber Pups in six. I got Timber Pups in seven. Really? So you think if it comes back to L.A., in L.A., they're going to— Isn't that how the Timber Pups beat us last year?
Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter as much as people give it credit for. I could see it being Timber Pups in five, but I think the Lake show is just—they have Lucas, they have Braun. I mean, A. Reeves didn't play that well tonight.
I think that we just—we all forget— I would love for the Laker Pups to win, by the way, because I would love to just have to play the Laker Pups in the Western Conference Finals. The initial reaction to the Luca trade was—
They don't play any defense, that team. Jackson Hayes is supposed to be their guy. So why are they saying it's bad for Braun? Because Luka doesn't play defense? Well, it's like you got the best defender on their team was Anthony Davis.
Yeah, and he's really not good.
Not only does LeBron doesn't really play defense, Reeves doesn't really play defense.
And then they had AD, who's like a great defender, but then they took him away and added Luka, who doesn't play defense. But you can't not take Luka.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.
They're the fourth favorites. That is insane. What are we talking about? Even over us is insane. Like what? Golden State. So they just go with teams that have been there, I guess. I get it. I just don't get it. I don't. The Oklahoma City Thunder Pups are the favorite. That's crazy. It's probably just because they're like. Because they've won too many games to not be the favorite. I mean, yeah.
They've won the most games in the NBA, I guess. I don't know. OKC's Boston, Cleveland, LA. Who? Does anybody believe that?
It'll be awkward. Yeah. It's just nobody likes doing it. Nobody likes doing that at all. But yeah, we love Scott. He seems like he's doing well. His tank is clean. Tank's clean as fuck. I don't even know how that works. The filter just changed everything. We didn't have a filter. It got dirty in like two days. We're feeding him. It looks great still. Changed everything about this tank.
Rockets, Warriors in seven. Warriors in seven? I mean. Warriors in seven. It could go either way. It's a good series. It could go either way. It's like I haven't watched either of these teams at all. So, like, I just don't know. I mean, I'm going to just say. I watched them in the play-in.
Yeah. That's a good point. Rockets in seven. Rockets in seven. I don't hate it. I just think the Rockets, it's like they're just young and like the Warriors. I don't know. They're a really young, good team. Warriors are playing well, though. Yeah. And they got Brad Van Vliet. They do have Brad Van Vliet on their team.
See, but this is one, like, I had the Pacers. I had the Bucs, but now, like, I'm going to change it. To the Pacers? Yeah, because I'm like, the Pacers won by 30. I think Pacers in seven. Yeah, I don't... Why don't they cook them? I didn't watch the game. Cooked them, but it's like... Maybe if Dame comes back. Dude, and they're like rivals. It's actually like a very exciting series.
I'm going to go Pacers and Sev. Yeah, I'll go. Dame's coming back, right?
Pacers and six. Knicks, Pistons. Weren't the Knicks like down big, came back?
Maybe they weren't.
Yeah, I mean... I think the... I think Knicks in five. I think the Pistons, like, do some shit, and they, like, make it exciting. And maybe, like, there's a... There will be one fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's what I'm really looking out for. But I think the Knicks win in, like, five or six. Okay. And then Celtics-Magic. Obviously, Celtics in probably four. Four. Maybe five or something.
You know what? Let's just...
like like fast forward like if we can if we can just let's just do this maybe pre-record those and like play them in in double time yeah you know what i'm saying like we don't need to even if you're a celtics fan you're like you're saying pre-record the games yeah and just like you just fast forward like we just we don't need to you know come on now we don't need like tatum to be like playing this game yeah yeah i would say just don't get injured guys yeah don't get hurt yeah the magic all right they're just playing the magic
Magic shouldn't be as bad. I mean, they're not that bad. They got Palo. Palo's fucking nice. Yeah, Celtics in four or five. All right, what should we go into? Should we try a couple POs or a couple from Saf? Yeah, let's go rapid fire from this guy.
We've got candy, kittens, sour watermelon. Oh, that sounds great.
A draft of... Draft of documentaries they'll make or they should make that haven't been made. And I can't wait for some of these to be made, to be honest with you. Yeah, I bet we'll have a couple of the same. We'll see. For sure. And then we got... A couple of P.O. boxes from SAF again. Oh, yeah, yeah. A couple of candies. Try a couple of candies. And then we... Yeah, we got more P.O.
You know what? We can't hear the sound. Oh, it's muted on air. Here we go.
Should we go into the draft? Yeah, and then we got... Oh, yeah, and then we got the games, right? Well, and we should do a full playoff bracket. We did it in the Mike's Worm. Oh, yeah, we did it in Mike's Worm. So, yeah, we could do our playoff bracket.
There you go.
Oh, this looks like an airhead. More Laffy. No, but a little airhead. I'm still chewing on the previous one, by the way.
Yeah, 7.5. I mean, listen, they just took every candy and just duplicated it. Because that gives you taffy, right?
Pause.
No, you know what?
You're sticking to my... Yeah, it is chewy. Where are you? I'm cleared. I don't even know if there's taffy in my mouth anymore. I'm cleared.
There's a serious situation. Hello? Hello?
It's like, we were on the Timberwolves. We were on the Wolves. We both said the Wolves. So now when we say it, they're going to be like, well, you already watched Game 1. Because they cooked the Lakers.
What I think we should do is find... That was like an Airhead Laffy Taffy combo.
They did? Especially like this. Listen, I want to take a bite of this. Again, but I don't want to have the situation I just had where it's just all up in my mouth. Yeah.
No, but it's, yeah, it's like a, it's a little different. It's a little bit different. But it's really not. But it, like, it's shaped a little different. It's a little airhead-y.
But it's a good candy. Kawhi actually played really well today. And he actually has injury problems, too. So it's very similar. Exactly. Somebody should check up on Kawhi, by the way. Yeah, you think he's depressed, right? I don't know. It would pan to him on the bench, and he's like this. Has he always been like that though? I don't think so, dude. He's like not even watching the game, dude.
whatever i think most of our predictions though i don't think anything's gonna change after that those games i don't think so either um you can lead us off i don't think we'll have too much overlap i mean i have like a couple obvious ones and then i just have like i'm gonna take like some i mean i got some fun ones i got a couple that are like almost sad but i want to see a documentary on them okay i'll start with that there's nothing better than that by the way
Yeah. What is going on? I don't know. What the fuck? I wasn't paying attention. I didn't notice anything. I wasn't paying attention to him.
almost felt bad but i is that isn't that just his game maybe notice that more so than usual maybe i just don't watch kawaii leonard tape yeah but i was like dude this guy looks genuinely upset right now yeah that's not how you want to be looking somebody give kawaii leonard a hug dude yeah and kawaii jim kawaii and if you're not upset you need to work on your body language because your team is going to think you're sad or mad at them dude i'm thinking of sending this this guy flowers or something you should do it send the flowers you
but what if that's just his his like his that's fine hope you feel better it can't hurt like what even if he's fine he might be weirded out by it he'll be like i can't believe he did that that is unbelievable all right you got a stat oh i don't have a stat shit oh no i had a i had an idea for a stat that i'll just pull it up actually okay what's your thoughts on going like this to scott
Sometimes I'm like, I want you to make sure you're alive. Oh, yeah. No, you got to... He still hasn't moved, right?
So I'm going to give you Zachy's choice here. No, we'll do this. Most... Playoff games played? You want to do that? I was going to do most playoff games played without a ring one. I thought that was kind of fun.
yeah who is this guy uh his name's stat and last name muse i thought i said that kind of i'm saying like does he like does what does he do what like he accountant and this is a side gig yeah yeah i'll connect you guys um okay i mean this is gettable really gettable let's start with well there's actually it's not sorry let us start with jim harden jim harden's in the one with 167 games played so then cliff paul
Cliff Paul's in the two, 149. Jim has played a lot of playoff games. He really hates it. He's just doing cardio. He's just running up and down. Yeah, he really is. Losing. Yeah. But I guess if you play a lot, it's like he kind of wins in the playoffs sometimes because you've got to go far to play that many.
But he goes a little far. Yeah, but he never. Go to like conference finals.
With the clips. Yeah.
The Rockets, I mean, yeah, yeah. Cliff, you had him. You were up 3-2 against the Warriors. And he made a choice and he decided to get hurt. It's really. Selfish. Yeah.
So he said, I'm going to decide to injure myself.
Damien, it's Damien Lillard, but he is not on there. He's in the 24. That's going to be your first life. There's not enough games for that guy. Oh, is it just a bunch of role players, Loki? I mean, there's some. Damn. I mean, number three is... Very relevant to us right now. Very relevant to us right now. Oh, Russell Westbrook. In the three, 123 games played. Of course. Yeah.
Let's go to... Number four is a Warriors player. I was kind of going to give you that answer. Oh, Jimbo. Jimbo. Yeah. 119 games.
I want to see, it is legit sad, but I want a Delonte West documentary.
jay crowder crowder in the five with 115 um number six is what is it he's a he's kind of not as good now and he is paul george yeah yeah paul george in the six oh shit i could i could really get what's at stake you're doing this all yourself too uh punch me in the face okay punch a face punch face punch today um let's do damn man um
You're not going to guess any of these. Okay. Marcus Morris is in the 10. I'll give you that. Marcus Morris in the 10. Marcus Morris Sr. Let's do 76 games played. And then Marcus Smart is in the 7. Good get.
And then Mike Conley is in the 8. Good get. You only need one more.
In the nine. Yeah, I mean, if you pull this, I will be like, he definitely cheated somehow. Really? If you pull this, you can punch me. You could do a three-piece combo.
So sad, but like unbelievable. Yeah, that was, I didn't think we were going that direction. I mean, but like, like what happened? You know, I just, I want to see a documentary. I do too. I have no idea what happened. Didn't, wasn't he like, I don't know. Mark Cuban was helping him for a little, it's just a crazy thing. But there should be a doc made about it.
That have been in the NBA for a long time. Fuck, I mean, maybe you get it.
Who's, I mean, is.
They've got their shit. They've grabbed a ring. Let's go to Markeith Morris. No, it's a good guess. Clint Capella. Yeah, it was never going to get there.
um i mean both of them are really dominant just i'm actually i'm just asking you i know but both of them like you wouldn't even understand what it's like having like you you know how many times i have to separate these guys in practice forget it because what let's fucking forget it i'm just saying you can you can like i can make this work for sure but you have to look like that with a with like a no i'm just blind in this eye so this eye is just like but is it but i'm saying like is it still is my eye still it looks normal
So it just looks like you look the same, but you just can't see out of one of your eyes. Yeah. I would just adjust for sure. Yeah. Then I'm definitely going with that.
Then no. Yeah. If it looks the same, how about, okay. So if stitched eye, you do hiccups, the hiccups would be ass dude. I got hiccups the other day, and it was kind of fun, honestly. Yeah, but not to have forever. I had to have my roommate scare me. Oh, yeah. It's really fun when you lose them. Yeah. What'd you do? Cold knife? No, I was just like, can you just sneak up on me and just, like, boom.
And he scared you? Yeah. And it went away? Worked. I usually hold my breath. It makes them go away. Yeah. But, yeah, it's got to be blind in one eye, right? What even are hiccups? I don't know. If you explain hiccups to me correctly, I will give you $100. Okay, I might kind of get it. Ready? Let me just get like a one sentence.
What are hiccups?
Get your sentence, and I'm going to try and get it.
okay yeah I guess I mean I don't really it's it's uh you have gas built up in your in your digestive tract and it's your body's hiccuping to try and get some of it to escape yeah I don't really know what's going on it's just they're repeated spasms in the diaphragm yeah that's just a whole bunch of bullshit yeah that's just yeah that's not telling us why it's happening don't cover up what they really are let's say this hiccups cause hiccups cause Danny you're still in this game hiccups cause you have hiccups
You just had a hiccup? You just suck hiccups. Whoa. I mean, what was that? I've never heard you do that, except for when you have the hiccups. Somebody do a replay. Do you remember doing that? Yeah, but now it's not coming back. You definitely just hiccuped. That was insane. That was crazy. Holy, that was the craziest thing that's ever happened. Ever. That was.
Eating too much, too fast, or drinking carbonated beverages. Okay, shut the fuck up. Yeah, why don't you shut up? We'll give AI a look. That was Google, yeah. Hiccups are rapid involuntary spasms. Shut the fuck up.
But you almost, I don't think you kind of, you almost, you almost don't want to know what's going on. No, but maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like you don't make a documentary if there isn't like a happy ending. Yeah, that's why, like, hopefully he, like, gets help. And then he's, like, in a stable spot. Then he's doing interviews.
But what does spongy have to do?
Or what do I have to do or something? Okay, yeah, maybe it's what you... So you're willing to step in?
Yeah, so if you are... So it's a 10% range that if you're within, you have to announce a Z thing. Okay. So if you're within that range, you have to do it.
So the window was 45 to 55. You're safe. Okay. So what, I get to kick you in the nuts? No, if it's exactly 70. Oh, okay. All right. Fair enough. But thanks, Squarebasket. Cam Cutner said, last week at school, Scott took my lunch money and bit my leg. What the fuck? Don't laugh. Hold on. Yeah, no, that's not funny at all. What the fuck, Scott?
Is it something we're doing? Scott, do we bite? Do we bite people, Scott?
And he took his lunch money. We give him plenty of lunch money. I think we give him $25 a day. Way too much, some would say. So what, is he pocketing that? That's probably where he's getting the drugs.
He's stealing lunch money and biting legs.
There will be discipline.
I'm sorry, Cam. Yeah, I'm sorry, man. We got Casey here with a severance blind ranking. And these are actually pretty funny. It's ways that you'd mess with your Audi if they pissed you off. Let's do it.
I think that's... That would really fuck with your Audi. Oh, my God, dude. Because your Audi is like, dude, like, what? Like, does my inning just not know how to, like... So you come down the elevator, you just have to... Oh, that's terrible. I would say... I would say that's two. Really fuck with them. That sucks. Sleeping at work to get his pay deducted. Okay, so you could do that.
Like, he's good.
So you're doing a bad job at work, basically. Oh, that would be great. That would be good. And you just get to sleep, dude. Then also, like... That's the hack, actually. Because you can get fired. And the indies just want to be free. But then they send you to the... What is it called? The break room? Yeah, the break room sucks. It's tough. Yeah. That show, man. What a fucking... Great show.
Yeah. I'm going. See, I was kind of going. I have making a burnerer. Making a burnerer? I don't know if you watch Making a Murderer, which if you haven't. Oh, so you're doing like funny shit. Okay. Well, I mean, I think like I would like to know they should uncover all the burners going on in the NBA.
Where are you putting that? I'm going to put that in the five. I think that's... Honestly, it's not good for anybody, really. Yeah. Then what's Helly R? Oh, Helly R Method's gone for not funny. Leaving all his clothes on the severed floor. So he has to leaving all his clothes on the severed floor. So he has to go home naked in the cold. He's come out and come out.
That's that's that's really embarrassing. Yeah. You also can't go back down because if he goes back down, you're back to any form. Yeah, and you're naked. And then he just goes back down naked. You're just up and down. So you can't get close. So as an outie, you just have to bring other ones in your locker.
Having Dylan cheat can kick you in the nuts as hard as he can and getting in the elevator before you feel it. I don't know if that would work.
dude i don't know it's like maybe he kicks you as the doors are closing yeah and i think dylan g the thing is like he's a team player he would do it he would definitely do it he's willing your man and then casey gave us a bonus bonus what other ways would you mess with them i like that i like how you leave that in an open-ended yeah um other ways to mess with them i mean great question i would say maybe shave your head that's a tough one
oh yeah you couldn't really just do any you could change any physical appearance yeah just really fuck with them especially because like you don't give a fuck about what you look like on the inside there's not yeah your world is like five people you literally only know four people yeah that's crazy man Yeah. I would say, yeah, shave the dome piece. Maybe get a tattoo in there somehow.
Get a tattoo. But obviously you don't have tattoo materials. You probably don't.
Yeah.
Or hook up with people and get one of them pregnant. Or get pregnant.
Yeah, I don't know. Get pregnant. Yeah, I don't know.
It would take a lot because that's an easy mix-up. Yeah, I think if the question was how long would it take you before you— For us to be like, is our last name Gordino? I don't think I would ever think that. I don't think so either. I think I would just be like, oh, you know what's funny? It's like everyone just reads it as Gordino when they read it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And if you were like, we're the Gordino family, then I would be, yeah, it would have to come from, from within. Or if you like heard his voicemail, like, Hey, this is Matt Gordino. Yeah. Yeah.
Can we, can we maybe like get a meeting going? You know what I'm saying? Let's just all put our heads together. Are we Gordino's not? Cause by the way, It kind of flows even maybe a little better. Makes it a little bit more simple for everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ever had a problem with... Because the last letter is O. And a lot of times when you're spelling it for somebody... Guarino.
G-U-A-R-I-N-O. And they don't hear the O? Well, they'll be like... And I'm like, no. I've had some issues. Guarino.
And I'm like, well, how would it be L if it's Guarino? And you get into it with him. I never get into it, but I'm like, come on.
Is he delivering eggs? Is he doing the Easter money shit? Or is he just trying to, like, I'm a bunny. Because I think that's a little selfish. Is he delivering eggs? What is he doing in the Easter spirit? You know what I mean?
Yeah. He's a very famous bunny. That's what I'm saying, though. Because he did, by the way, went from rap to pop to country music in his artist project. And acts. So I'm a little like, okay, respect, you're making a lot of money as a bunny, but you're just kind of just like, what's the word? You're just using all of these things.
Yeah.
And the thing with him is he can't accept that there's another bunny that excels. It can't be Easter Bunny and Bugs Bunny for him. It has to be Bugs Bunny and then like, oh, yeah, that's my friend. Oh, Easter Bunny's killing it? I need to go beat him. Yeah.
And then he's going to throw his hat in the ring to get voted out for Easter Bunny of the Year. It's fucking bullshit. And by the way... Energizer bugs. Did you see that? Yes. He's trying to take it from the Energizer Bunny.
I don't, I don't know. I don't know. He doesn't even know that. I think it's, I think it is another like battery thing. I think he is doing it. Energizer bugs. Like what are we talking about? He's just trying to take, take, take me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I, I think, I mean, do you think he'll win it? Yeah. Yeah. He's more famous.
He's just the more famous bunny, which was, which will kill Easter bunny man. And I feel bad for, we know Easter bunny is a great dude. Oh, he's a great bunny. And he hides eggs like all year. Like he's like working on that shit. He hides eggs in places where you should not hide eggs. No, no. You know what I'm saying? He takes it too far. Yeah. I found an egg in my bed the other day. Really?
Do you think that goes on, actually? Obviously, KD's got him. Do you think all the players have him?
And I knew who hid it there. Was it signed EB? Yep. Yeah, he goes a little over the top. You know where his head's at, right? He's just trying to hide.
But I don't need you breaking in to just hide eggs. Right, right. That's too far. Exactly. That's too far. Yeah.
That's a good question.
It's just like a little scroll, right? Like a little piece of paper? Yeah, I think it's just a... Just a scroll?
I think they show it. So yeah, I would hide it up my ass. Good move. That's the best way to do it. Because at the end of the day, then you could go up to Plankton and you could look with him. Yeah, and you could search with him. And you could know if he's getting closer or not because if he ever has an idea... So it kind of looks like this. Yeah, you slide that up the ass. It's fine. It's fine.
You think? I don't have any burners. Yet. Yeah. Maybe I'll make some eventually. And I don't have one yet either, but I would love to have one. Yeah. Because dude, you just gas yourself and you could just like shit on people that are talking shit about you. I would go more that direction. Yeah. Where it's like you, cause you can't, if you're LeBron James, dude, I bet LeBron has a burner.
Or maybe like, no. Or just like under the, like in the. He's going to find it. Like under the, like.
In the cabinet, like under all the towels. In my bathroom, maybe. Maybe that's, honestly, that might be, like maybe you tried that first. Like that's a good spot. Maybe you try that first. Yeah. And if you think he's onto it, then maybe you go to plan B. Then you go, yeah, you go. That would maybe make more sense. Maybe let's not be brash about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good hiding spot.
The vertical and dribbling ability of John Morant. That. A 10-minute personal interview with Drake. That. One million no-strings-attached. A bag of Cheez-Its. Okay, so the cheese hits I do want.
So every professional team within a 15-year, we're not doing that. How many do we get? We get two. I'm not doing the 15-year thing because I think they might just... Broncos are going to win.
Nuggets could win. Also, the Rockies might... Sometimes the best team becomes... Or the worst team could be the best team the next year. The Rockies might just get good. The Avs are already pretty good. But we're also like... Avs are already really good, actually. We're bad... It's kind of fun being the worst team because you know it can't be that bad for that long. Except for the Rockies.
They've just always been the worst. For so long.
Yeah, so I don't think that's the right play. No, I don't like it.
But you're not going to play in the NBA at this point. Yeah, but that's so much fun. So you're going to take the Ja Morant abilities, and then you have the 10-minute interview with Drake, the million dollars, no strings, or the bag of cheeses. I'm going to do the Ja Morant abilities and the bag of cheeses.
Maybe do a million and Cheez-Its. Give up the jaw. I'll do a million and Cheez-Its. Yeah, I'll do a million and Cheez-Its.
Yeah, I'm doing jaw and Cheez-Its.
So then if you're, if you're, if I sat on your voodoo doll, it would feel like you're getting sat on.
or he just doesn't give a fuck. It's hard to know. Yeah. He's either not on the internet or he, or he just goes like, it's hard to know how those guys are. Cause like they're making $30 million. It's like, I mean, but there's still people and shit is still annoying.
Yes. I would need... I'd probably need... I'd probably need like your assistance. Yeah. To like pull me up. But individually, could we do it? I don't, maybe you could like slide out.
Yeah. But it's also like, would it be a, would it be like a huge Danny sitting on you? Because if your voodoo doll is just like this big. Then I'm like fucked. Then I like can't. Then you're going to die. You probably just die. Yeah. That's what voodoo dolls are? That's what voodoo dolls are. Voodoo dolls are cool. Are there movies with voodoo dolls? I'm sure there are.
And then I think you wanted to get like a bar off.
I mean, if I'm Drake, I a hundred percent have a burner. It's just like, I, you, you can't come up, you can't, can't go back at him as you. Yeah. It just doesn't work. Well, you can't. Yeah. Well then, yeah. Then it's like, people are like, that's pathetic. Which it isn't. Right. Yeah.
Like, we got some of these... We're going to be waiting. We're going to save it up for an opening. Scott's doing well. Yeah, Scott is doing well. He hasn't moved for a couple hours from there. Not one bit.
And that would be worth their time. Some of those accounts are influential. Like some have millions of followers.
Yeah, what do you mean? You go skinny, you go fat. What do they want from jeans?
You know what I'm saying? I would like to see... genes take on it yeah yeah yeah how does that feel to to have people being like oh we like you skinny and then 10 years later we like you fat it is hard it is hard yeah Yeah.
It just completely switches. That actually is just a crazy thing that happens too. And like, in like trends. Yeah. And then you hate on the old, the old one. I can't wait for skinny to come back. Yeah. Skinny skinny is kind of, I like skinny too. Skinny is like, it's just like clean. Yeah.
I think I, like, I, I mean, I go baggy now we both go baggy cause you have to, but like you kind of look like a bum to me. Yeah. Well, it's just, it doesn't look sharp. at all. It doesn't look sharp. And it was like, initially it was like sagging your pants. Like baggy was the new thing. I get how that was it. And then it went away. And then now it's just like kind of back a little bit.
Sagging is crazy. Sagging is crazy. Your pants are down. Your pants are all the way down. Yeah. Your pants are down. It's also so uncomfortable. I think I might have a little bit in middle school, maybe. And I would have the American Eagle boxers. But if you're sagging too much and you're wearing those, your wang could pop out.
Because those especially have a people. Your wang could pop out in middle school if you're doing that. That could be a documentary, too. What? Sagging. Well, sagging and also... Who was in charge of putting a flap in the boxer? Yeah, well, it's probably just good for your wiener to let it breathe, maybe. Are you saying, was it a functional effort?
Maybe, so you can pee, but nobody ever does it like that. No. Yeah, I don't know. But you're at risk.
Like 100% could be out. When pantsing was a thing in middle school, it definitely happened to kids. Their dick got shoved. Do you wear boxers? I just wear the, what do they call them, briefs? Briefs. Yeah, just like Calvin Klein briefs. I've been off boxers for a while now. That seems like another thing. It seems like briefs are the thing to wear. I don't understand how I ever did a boxer.
It's too risky. If you're wearing shorts, I remember I used to go to practice with boxers on. It's like my nutsack was definitely out. How are you even playing sports? I don't know, but I used to do that. And people used to be like, I don't think you did that. No, I didn't do that because that's just like... I've played competitive Real soccer games on the national team. In boxers? Yes. Yes.
I think I just took the gamble. How'd your nads feel about that? The nads were fine. They were fine enough. Threatened to retire? No, but they definitely could have gotten exposed. If I went into a slide tackle...
Yeah, you're going to a slide tackle. If it rides up, dude, you probably hung brain. I bet there's some soccer players that have seen my balls. That's insane, dude. It is what it is, man. We're just competing.
Yeah.
Yeah. And also, Tidy Whitey, for that matter. Tidy Whitey is crazy. Fuck is up with that? Tidy Whitey was in for a little bit. That just looked like shit. Tidy Whitey. That just looked like shit. That was like, that's what Pop wears. I would, no. I think so. I would honestly. Actually, he does. Because I've gone searching for white t-shirts in there and he just, it's just like white.
Because he's just like, that was his gen. Yeah, that's what they rock. I mean, I would go Tidy White before I went Boxer at this point. I would too. Boxer, I don't want to do it. It's too dangerous. And Tidy White is just like, guys, I'm doing what you need. Well, he's just fundamental. Yeah. He's just fundamental.
Yeah, he's functional. Exactly. He's functional. Exactly. With my two, I mean, I just have docs I want to see. I would like to – what could I call it? 303 All Eyes on Me maybe. It doesn't work because that's kind of Denver-based. But I would like a documentary about the iPhone takeover. Like every single person now just has an iPhone.
Yeah, I guess people have Androids, but I want to see maybe jobs in the lab inventing the idea. Everybody had fun phones, and then now it's just all iPhone. I think I'm going to be in America. No, but it's iPhone or Android. I'm just saying, yeah, but the takeover of the iPhone. When did that happen? We had flip phones, keyboard, and then zero people have a keyboard thing going now. That is true.
But I'm just saying, what happened to all the other phone models? It's just crazy that they just took over. The field's gone. The field is gone. Which is crazy. I think they're just like, this one's better. Yeah, maybe. But it is. I would like to see a documentary on the iPhone takeover. Then I'll go. I mean, the COVID doc. There should be a COVID doc. It has to be. That'll obviously be a thing.
But that could like hit theaters. That'll be a huge fucking thing. I would tap in. Yeah. But you almost at that point, you need to give me something I don't know.
Did he post that?
yeah or like i need to see maybe some like corrupt government conversations or something would love to see some some like some some sort of conspiracy or like or like some uh corruption like show me like somebody like made it like somebody like making it in the lab or something like just so many yeah or just a conspiracy just something yeah give me something because otherwise it's like i let's get i was there yeah well i was there yeah it was kind of fun yeah it was interesting it was fine it's a crazy it was crazy man
He was like, when I checked, there was nothing. Yeah, because Scott has an Instagram now. Scotty Flippin. I did check the talk on it. I did find a pocket knife and a bong. A pocket knife, huh? So I don't know what the hell he's doing, like after school. I don't even know. Who did he have take this in my Element flick? Who did he have take? Is he hanging out with other fish? I don't know.
I had a blast, actually. We were just, like, hanging out, like, playing, like, cards, kind of.
Yeah, I watched that. That actually almost made me, like, I'm like, dude, I really just have done, I just, I have not changed. It's exactly the same thing. Like, it was just, like, I was. I was just, like, working on, like, music. Yeah, I was just in my room lifting.
Yeah.
Yeah, or like Elon. Dude, if Bezos... Does he wake up like a normal person? I don't know. What, you think he like...
Dude, he has to have the craziest amount of luxury. Or he's just so rich that he just goes back all the way around to just kind of normal.
I don't know. I don't know.
Just a lot of acreage. I think they just, like... He probably just lives on, like, a fucking resort. No, he lives in, like, Beverly Hills. And it's just, like, a normal crib? I mean, I think it's just probably the sickest... Like a huge crib? Yeah. I don't know. I just... I would love to just watch, like, 24 hours of his life. Like, does he just... Like, does he go to a normal, like, toilet?
I don't think... That's what I'm saying. What type of shits has he taken? Yeah, not normal ones. Definitely not. At all. Yeah. Does he even shit? Does he shit? Probably not. Does El Jefe shit? I'm not sure, but probably not. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that is true. Does he walk on his own accord? Probably not. He probably has walkers. People hold him.
Probably, yeah. Yeah, we've got to watch it. I mean, he keeps it private, so we don't know. There's no way of knowing. Yeah. That was my three, my four. The Rizzler. Yeah, just the rise. I mean, yeah, right now there's just the rise. It's similar to Bezos. Like, we don't know. Exactly. We don't see behind the curtain. We don't know what it's really like. Also, the kid is eight, I think.
Yeah, that actually is correct. I will actually, like, jokes aside, would love to see, like, when he's, like, 25. Like, a doc on what that was like. Like, he's eight.
I do too. He's barely even conscious. That's what I'm saying. I don't even remember anything from when I was eight. I really don't. Honestly, I don't have a memory. What was that? Third grade? Yeah, it's like maybe you were playing footy, but you don't...
and by the way like it like it's fine like if you're having ladyfish over like that's the ladyfish love them too we've been getting um and i was gonna like save it for questions but we've got like like ladyfish have like there's a ladyfish i reached out and was like he's my celebrity crush oh yeah like the ladyfish like really fuck with i don't know if we should tell him that because that kind of like makes his that'll that'll that'll get to his gills i think
You don't know how to socialize. He is a celebrity. Unbelievable. I would probably be like, let's flick up. Yeah, dude. It's like this tall. I know. It's kind of like. I do want to. I'm excited to see when he's like 20, and I want to hear him talk about it.
Do you think he'll keep doing what he's doing, or he'll just be like, get me out of this? Who knows? He's eight. I don't think he knows. I think he doesn't fucking know. I don't think he knows yet. Dude, same shit with Adonis. That's why it's so amazing that Bieber is still Bieber. I know, dude. He was like 14 or some shit. That's so hard to do. But Adonis, dude.
episode 109 109 episodes that also to me is a big milestone the three eppies a day that we're doing because we're doing three per day so 21 per week yeah it gets the numbers up there quicker it gets it up faster because we're doing 21 depending on the week it gets more more done right right right 100 it depends on the week depends on depends on the month really depends on the month because it's like in in march yes right in april not so much right and that's just weather that's weather patterns by the way weather and climate not the same thing
Hoodie would knock him out. I don't know. I don't know that. I don't know that. I know you don't know it like that. Hoodie had a strength time recently. I know that, but it's because he's a little older and every hoodie has a string tied.
He had a string tied. I don't think that means he's slowing down like that. I think you don't think he, what are you, gun to your head, who's winning that bout? Gun to my head hoodie wins the bout. Yeah. But I just think it's probably closer than you think. That would be the biggest, probably the biggest event ever. Probably bigger than Paul Paul. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. But sweats are dope. We're both wearing them. Wear them all the time. Oh, I wear them around the crib.
I think so, because for me, if I'm going out of the crib, I'm wearing shorts or jeans or sweats. Going out, it's always like a jean.
We don't. But then I'm saying, like, if we go to the court, I'm going to throw a short on, usually. Yeah, gym, I guess you're shorting. It would be an interesting... Gym, workout, you're shorting. But then a lot... When I'm at home, I throw a sweat on. You think it's MWBH for you? MWBH. My... Modern Warfare. No, just think of what we were just talking... No, B8, butthole?
What were we just talking about? M W B H. Oh, most, most worn. Yeah. Not modern. You can see how I got there though. I get it. You can at least see where you think it's, do you think it's your MW though? Um, I think shorts might be, and I do want to give, Oh, you can pick shorts. Maybe I'm not going to.
They're just too short. Too short. Yeah.
Where's the rest of you go?
Um, but I'll take that three, four. I'll go to the sword. That's a great pick Swords are sweet dude Swords Yeah I Shout out to Korshore Just owns a really sharp Big sword That he used to put on his wall Kill a man with that That's good Yeah We should get a sword Put on Put on this thing Should we Yeah But if it just like falls It slices one of our heads off This thing's big enough.
It'll catch it. This thing's huge. Yeah, I don't think. Oh, I got something to retire, actually. Let's do it after the draft. Should we do it? Yeah, we'll do it. I'll give him his own ceremony. But yeah, I think we should put a sword. Maybe a couple swords. A soward. That's another one that's spelled wrong. Soward. Oh, we should. How have we not done that draft?
We have. Things that are spelled wrong. Oh, I don't think we've done it on here. We've done things that are spelled weird, I guess.
Like Dwayne Wade's name is spelled wrong. Dwayne Wade. Wednesday is spelled wrong. Wednesday. Wednesday, yeah. Soward. Sward. Or is it sward?
sward but maybe but also it's like i think if like i'm not gonna let's get swords perspective because maybe we're just saying it's sword and sword was born to be sward if that's that's what i'm saying if that's how you want to be said i'm gonna say you how you're supposed to be said i'm not gonna i'm not gonna fuck with my english oh that's fine so you're sward but i think sward might be like finally somebody somebody called me sward yeah thank you you think dweam wade would be like that
No. What do you mean? I think I watched that in college. They did a childbirth? Not in person. Like they showed a video of a childbirth? Yeah, that was one of our classes. Like you watched the baby pop out? It was the most disgusting.
Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. I want it to go by Dwayne. I think it's a little different when it's like Dwayne because it's more his mom. It's Dwayne. It's his mom. It's her choice, really. Yeah, that's true. Her vision was Dwayne. I would like to think it was just like she's dyslexic or something. And she just kind of mixed up the Y and the A. But who am I to say? We would have to talk to his mom.
We'd have to ask her. So it's back to me. Yeah, that was through four for me. So I think you got four, five, and then I have five. Okay. I'm going to go to Shrek. Shrek's dope. Okay. So if you're taking a character, I'm going to wrap the character. Okay. And the thing with my character is I know you're thinking Santa. I know you're thinking, you know. I'm not thinking Santa.
I'm just saying. But just, I'm thinking Santa. I'm not thinking Santa. You thought about it. I did not once think about him. I've never thought about him.
Read the list, boss. There's a couple options. Will Garnell. Caesar Salad. Okay, you're reading that. But your finger was there. Well, I was covering. It's just, whatever. I have Spider-Man and SpongeBob as prospects. Okay. Yeah, I mean, either way, I think Shrek eats him. Okay, yeah, I mean, he eats him. I just think we got four movies. We got a fifth coming. Zendaya was just announced.
She's a part of it. Yeah, you see people were bitching about the animation. But let's pull up the animation. I didn't, I did see that there were bitching.
Does it look weird? But I might be being a sheep. Everyone's saying it looks weird. So maybe I think it looks weird. Well, you know what? Everybody complains about everything. Yes. And that's kind of where we're sitting. But sometimes people are right about their complaints. Shrek new animation. I think, guys, you had something great going. I don't know why you would change it.
It was hard to tell if it was like that different or if just like an angle or something. Oh, they just look a little bit more vivid to me. They look a little more new school. Oh, they're more polished up.
They just look more... It's like if Shrek was a real person. Which I get it. Dude, that's probably so annoying for them. They're like, yo, this is... You realize it's 100x better technically on paper than the first one. No, I think that would bother me a lot. As an animator. If I was the animator. Yeah. I really want to make an animated show. I really want us to do that. Me too.
Wait, did you actually watch it? I didn't know that was coming. No f***ing way.
And we voice them and we're going to do that. Family Guy is really funny. Family Guy is a really good show. Sarah and I watch it. Sarah, you know she's like a super fan? I did not know that. But it's a really, really good show. Probably really hard to write that good of a show. Dude, I had a joke from there that I wanted to... It was so funny. There was a joke on there.
i was like in college yeah what you watched a baby come out of a seesaw yes that is crazy um but my that's not okay who is who am i watching like yeah somebody like somebody is that's their that's the most sacred that happened biggest moment of their life yeah it's so scarring yeah i can't believe i'm sure that you went like a sex class because that's not that was not a part of your business major
I was like, that was the funny way I wanted to talk. I think that's like our humor. The way we joke a little bit. It is very funny. Really funny.
because they'll yeah no yeah great so funny fantastic show um so that goes shrek fifth pick i'm probably just gonna have some fun here um because i'm already out the door you know what i'm saying um you could pick sex again i was thinking about it you could do that i was thinking about it i'm gonna do slip and slide I mean, dude, that's fun.
And if I bought one tomorrow and said, I have room in the garage. You want to come do it? What would you say? Yes. Yes. Yes. I would say yes. I think it's a... You need a little... You need a backyard. Yeah. You need real estate, but man, that shit sounds fun, dude. It sounds really fun.
You know, every time I did one, I would always be kind of scared that for some reason there was something on the ground. I remember that. There's going to be a thorn that gets you in the stomach. And there could... It's like... Because you're not... But if the slip and slide is over the top and you make sure there's nothing. I know, but you don't know.
Yeah. Because you're putting all your weight down there. I do remember feeling like that too. I love that we just. We had one, I think. You know what? You know what I was thinking? It's just like, when do you just like do slip and slides? Because we did them for sure. When you were like eight and your mom says, do you want to do it?
So like every mom just owns a slip and slide? Like mom was probably like. Or that was just our mom. I think a lot of moms. And I think like she was like, I'm going to like drink a margarita and like just watch him do the slip and slide. Yeah.
Really fun, dude. Dude, having a couple kids like that is probably kind of fun, dude. I think it's fun when you do the slip and slide. And they're like eight and six. Sarah and I are going to be like, let's have a cup water and watch them do the slip and slide.
And you slip and slide, too.
Really fun, yeah.
You can.
if i got one we would slip inside like would you slip inside dude i'll bring one to the beach tomorrow would you come yes you would i was actually just thinking that what like if we could find a water source the ocean no but don't you need like a hose probably probably isn't it like like i think you like pull it off and wait no but you could probably just i think it's like a plug-in and play we could use the ocean as a water source there's enough i would love to do this okay here's the question let's debate this do you think there's enough water in the ocean for a slip and slide
That's something I think it depends on the size Of the slip Probably not For like a bigger one We probably need like a hose Because we'd run out of water That's what I'm saying I don't want to We'd definitely run out of water And I don't Like I like the ocean I just don't want I just don't want to go All to the And then everyone in Santa Monica Would be like You fucking took all Like put it back It'd be like a whole It would be a thing
The cops maybe show up. I don't think there's enough water. Short answer.
So that was your four and five. With my five, I will take, I will go to a character. I will go to, I'll go to SpongeBob. I fuck with SpongeBob.
SpongeBob's just like Family Guy where it's like that show is so.
It's a great show. And it's probably kind of funny too. Yeah. There's probably little funny things in there. I think if you're, if you enjoy the Marijuana skis. Oh yeah. Which we don't. Smoke some Marijuana skis and watch Spongy. And you'll be like, dude, this is funny as shit.
Because I think that... I think, like, the writers were smoking marijuana. Had to be. Yeah. Like, what are you... How are you coming up with the character Plankton? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or they were dropping, like, acid or something. Dude, Family Guy, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Family Guy, this shit is so funny, dude. Creative. So creative. But we're creative.
I would say we're creative and we don't smoke marijuana. That's a good point. We do acid a lot. I'm just kidding. No, we don't do anything. We don't do any of that. And we do have the creativity bug. But do you think we would be more creative?
I don't think so, actually. That's why I want to try something. And if it works, you could try it. Yeah. I would like you, if you try something and you, and you like it, I would do it, but I don't want to just do, if it doesn't work for me, it won't work for you.
Um, but dude, I do think if like shrooms, I might try them once. I'll say it. I don't care. Yeah. Do it. Never, never done anything, but that'd be awesome. That's, that's the, that's the, the blessing for us is like, I don't know if you do something. Yeah. Cause we have this, we literally have the same way. I don't even have to worry about it. I'll just enjoy this. Yeah.
no it was it was what that was finance okay oh yeah that makes sense that actually i didn't draw that connection yeah because you want to know you know yeah that's and that's so with finances you're not a business major so you wouldn't understand as well i guess i kind of see it but childbirth and finances they have a lot interwoven right there's a lot of um but not just like with having a kid and paying you're saying more so the act of childbirth yeah it's very similar yeah
yeah dude i oh and then i would fucking suffer dude i was talking the other night to sarah's friends again and about shrooms and dude but they don't get it okay no but i was saying to a girl she was like i'm scared it was uh sarah's friend becca and she her friend whatever and she's like i'm scared to smoke and i and shrooms are what i like that's good that's i mean but they don't know what it's like if they i'm just saying like people will be like
dude, Dick, you're not like, you got nothing to worry about. You'll love it. Or like, you just got to relax and like, then you'll like weed or, and it's just like, dude, we're, we don't experience the same thing. I don't know. We don't, whatever you're doing. I don't know what it is. The last time I was high on the same page. Yeah. Last time I was high is probably six years ago.
My hands got stuck in my pockets. My hands got stuck in my pockets.
so what do you mean I have nothing to worry about my hands were stuck like this for hours hours dude and then I forgot how to breathe so you couldn't breathe and your hands were stuck in your pockets I have nothing to worry about what the fuck are you talking about I have a lot to worry about you have the same shit I remember one time I smoked with you when we were back in Denver you guys started calling mom really freaked out freaked the fuck out I was with you and Will man I actually kind of fake smoked there that was embarrassing yeah it was yeah probably really embarrassing
I remember just sitting in the car and I got lost in the bush. I don't even know. I didn't call mom, but I was like, cause you guys were like, just what the fuck? Yeah. You, I was like, I can't believe you were like that. No, I was like, I got to go home. You're yeah. We're like, we got to call. I got to tell my mom. No, it's like, I got to go home. I got to go home right now.
And then we're like, all right, like just now just stop, sit and shut up. Yeah. But it's like, yes, you don't tell me that I'm not going to like, I'm going to be fine. You're not going to freak out lost in a bush from the car.
yes yeah and it was it was terrible you were in a bush even though you were in the car no i was just like looking at a bush and then and then oh it's just yeah it's it's the worst and then if you're in that mode and you're it feels like it lasts forever i will say i've had times watching family guy high eating pretzels i've had glimpses and it's really fun oh i i had if you get through it it's fun yeah but i just that's it's so not
You're going to feel better. You're going to be happier. You're going to enjoy it. You're going to be more clear. More fulfilled in what you actually want to do. Yeah. I think just doing like not drinking, not smoking, everything. That's always the best. Definitely. That's where I go in my Opinski. I agree.
Stat of the day real quick? Yeah, well, let me retire this guy. Yeah, go ahead. I think we've talked about this in earlier episodes. Oh, the Calogne? It's a Calogne. Yeah. Danny, it takes a lot to go through an entire bottle of Calogne. It does. It's probably six months deep. Ocean Luna Rosa. I think you've brought this up in the pod. I think I have. Yeah.
Listen, if you want a cologne that smells really good and you could wear every day, like maybe this might not be a special event cologne. Here. It's a day-to-day. It's a day-to-day. You spray it. It smells amazing.
It smells clean. You'll want to go to the Prada Ocean Luna Rosa. It smells good. I smell it on you. It smells good. It smells... But it's this type of smell where it's like... Smells really good. Yes. Yes.
that's the end of the sentence that's what that's doing like the one I got for Christmas by the way I have one on right now the sentence doesn't end it smells really good yeah that's the one I got for Christmas from Pops it's like it smells good but then it's like a little like smoky or something it's like alright I am by the way I just got a new YSL it smells really good okay so that's what you want right so that's that one is man that smells really good damn you smell good that's the only thing you can say about this galag because people because like what would you say about Tuscan leather a little bit that smells bad
Right. And that some people want that other color.
And that, and that's why it's good though. So if you want that, like, damn, you smell bad. Yeah. That's Tuscan leather. Legitimately. I have like a Tuscan leather and it's like, it's not Tuscan leather. It's something similar though. Yeah. And it, and people just think I'm smoking backwoods. Which that's cool too. Straight up. That's cool too. Because it's like tobacco.
And it's like, dude, I don't want to smell like tobacco. Yo, you smell like tobacco. But that's cool. So that one is you smell good. You smell good. You could wear it to the gym. You could wear it to the wherever. That one's got pop. And you want to have some weird, like an interesting scent. This isn't the Calogna for you.
So not like raising a kid.
But if you want to smell good every day. And you know what? I'm not getting emotional. Normally, I know I got really emotional with Chum. Looking great up there, by the way, Chum. Love you, man. Love you, man. Love you, brother. Yeah, love you, brother, for real. Because it's not goodbye. It's re-up. It's re-up. It's re-up. But I do want to present him. Yeah, good for you, man. Congrats.
So that's your first Calogna. We got two Calognas up there. I got a Calogna and we got Chum. Yeah, we got Chum. Oh, and a candle. I don't think he got retired, though. Oh, did he not? Or did he just sit there? No, he didn't get retired. Well, what?
It all comes down to formulas. It all comes into money in, money out. And birth is like that. Exactly. Okay. Got it.
He's fine. He's perfectly fine. No, I don't think so. I think that's a perfectly healthy wallet right there. We're turning him the other way. That's gross. Sorry. You guys had a night of a corpse, but I think that candle got retired. Because it was empty. I can't remember. Whatever. If it didn't get retired, I don't know why you're up there. You don't deserve that.
The greatest freaking, what's the word? Greatest honor. But I'm saying if he pulled that off.
The greatest con of all time. Stolen valor up there. All right, we'll go stat of the day. This one's really, really, really gettable. I'm going to give you one life. If you get it right, you can roundhouse right kick me to the face. Yes. Or five toe stomps. Flying knee. Okay, flying knee. Flying knee. You might get this. We should do that in...
So we had to watch that. They had to get the point across. That's crazy, man. Mr. Fuck, what was this guy's name? How about Mr. Small? By the way, really funny name. Funny name, weird guy.
Oh, like flying me up the middle, like uppercut to the chin. I would fucking not want to get hit with that. Well, you should do that on like one of the videos, like when we're at the court. What? Loser gets a flying knee? Loser gets flying knee. And then do it? And then maybe we do like a, like it's like a dummy. Oh, that'd be good. It's like an intense, like you're like.
And it's like a fake thing though?
All right. What are the 10 most valuable NBA franchises? You only get one life. The W's. Warriors. I know. That's the Warriors. I was trying to think of something funny to say. Like the W's aren't in the NBA. In a one. In a one? Yeah. I think that's got to do something with the Bay. 9.4 billion. Also, they have, like, Stephen Curry.
They have Stephen Curry, and they have seven rings, and they only got four of Stephen Curry. That's what I was going to say. They're really good. The Lakers. In the T. The Celtics. In the seven. The Knicks are in the two. Yep. Let's take our time, everybody. Let's just take our time. The Chicago Bulls. In the four. The Philadelphia 76ers. That'll do it. Oh, shut up. No. Not on there.
Warriors, Knicks, Lakers, Bulls, Rockets in the five. Good for you guys. Brooklyn Nets in the six. Would have never got that. Celtics in the seven. Clippers in the eight. That doesn't even make sense. Nobody likes the Clippers. How does that even... Who is it? Why... Nobody likes that. If you're a Clippers fan, I do not get it. Why?
Do you think the Clippers players are Clippers fans? They've talked about it. They're not. They're not. Paul George was not a Clippers fan when he played for them. He said, we're the little brother. And he's taking time away from podcasting to bring a chip to Philly this year. Yeah, because they are in serious contention. I think they're almost eliminated.
Hope he's doing well. Yeah. He would... Guys, guys. And we're going to get into the episode. We actually can't do this because this might... About Small. Because he might see this. He might stumble into this. I don't really know if he was a weird guy, but I think thinking back on him, I'm like, oh, there were some things where I'm like... Like what?
I think they're mathematically eliminated from the play. Dalton, roll the clip of him saying, I'm taking time from podcasting.
To be fair... To be fair... They're brutal in Philly. Like the fans, right? So mean and so rude.
And you can't be podcasting. Clippers in the eight, Heat in the nine, Mavs in the ten, by the way. But yeah. Yeah, good for them. You can't be podcasting in Philly and be ass.
You can't be ass. You can't be ass in podcasting. You know what is a good fix for the NBA? What? Maybe we could talk about this on Wednesday, but maybe implement some sort of non-guaranteed contract.
oh because that's what the nfl does it makes it a lot more interesting that's actually true and like like that could help even like indirectly help the all-star game i think it helps everything i just think it makes it a little bit the players probably shut the fuck up guys yeah they're like you're ruining it yeah yeah yeah um that would be interesting so football is the one sport like that right i don't know if it's or is it the reverse like like baseball what is it baseball has got to be guaranteed
So it's, football's the one that's not? But football, it'll also be like, it'll be like $300 million contract, $200 million guaranteed.
Right. And you could just change it up based on how big you are, how good you are. We got a lot of Severance stuff. Oh, what a fucking epi, dude. Do we have any news before Severance? Not really. I mean, who do you got winning this tank fight? I got tank by KO. He always just fights people he's better than. This guy's good, tank's better, he's going to KO him.
I would say tank by KO right up the gut. Yeah. He likes to get up in there. He's a mini P.E.K.K.A. Like a little uppercut, like right in the clench. If you hide him under a goblin horde, Yeah. Bang. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You get to the tower. Yeah, I got tank, eight-round KO. Any other news? I saw, like, TikTok. Are we going to go to UFC, like, next week or something? Maybe. Sure. In Vegas?
Paella? Paella.
That's coming up. Paella. Yeah, well, we got to go home. I don't want to do it.
I don't know. I saw, like, TikTok. released their algorithm but they didn't and also it doesn't matter anyway what do you mean they released their algorithm but they didn't i don't know if it's even like a real thing but i just have been seeing like anybody you know those people that like are like social media coaches
yeah and it's like and i'll see they're talking about like how to how to get be good in the algorithm yeah it's just like just make good videos it's the only thing you want to do but they there's like a thing that went out on tiktok that said like there's it's like a point system it's like a share is five a dude i mean but it's like dude at the end of the day it changes nothing in the sense of like it shouldn't change your approach that's what i'm saying yeah
He would pop the shirt open and have like... What are you doing, dude? We're in middle school. Yeah, we're like, I'm 11. And he had chest hair. But, like, you can't... What was his... If you're teaching kids, you've got to button them all the way up. What was his group called? I don't know. They were groovy, though. They were good.
And regardless of what it is, it's like, if you just make a good video, it's going to get shares and it's going to get views. You know what I'm saying? You just, you need people to like your video. If you watch your own video and you're not like, this is good, then that, then that's the problem.
A hundred percent. Yeah. That was my only piece of news that I gathered. Should we talk Sev? I mean, crazy epi. Let's talk some Seve. Who's the Gemma epi? You still think we're getting a Huang epi? I don't.
I think she's just like a, and also watching Stiller talk about it, she's just like a confusing, why is she a kid thing, but I don't think it's going to get addressed, maybe in season three. Oh, don't not address it.
No, you do not not address it, Stiller.
You address Wong. Not in 208 through 210. No, Stiller, you address Wong right now. I don't think. You address this Wong situation now. Okay.
We should DM him.
So Gemma, a lot happened. By the way, did you love the episode? Did I love it? Yeah. It was good. I kind of got lost. Yeah, I was lost in the sauce. What, did you love it? I loved it. I just saw, like, I was looking through some questions. I saw one, like, that episode was a snooze fest. I thought it was a... Oh, it ain't no snooze fest.
Not if you're a Lumen fan.
Yeah. So, okay, so what? It starts out, shows a meeting. Really cute couple, those two. By the way... I like the, what? Marques, I didn't know you could grow a beard, brother. You looked good, man. Look at you, Marcus.
Yeah, you look clean. Okay, Marcus. Yeah, yeah. Damn, Mark. And you know what, Mark? And my apologies, Mark. It seems like he's got game. Well, he went through the breakup or the death situation. What, the car death? Yeah. And it seems like he let himself go a little bit. Yeah, he's a little bigger. Maybe a little bigger, but also beardless.
Beardless is not a good sign. It's not his look. It's not his look. Go beard up, man. Yeah, beard up. Get back on the market, maybe. Yeah. Which he got back on the market, and he got helly twice. Picked up two bodies. Do you think that... So this car crash, was she kidnapped? Illegitimate. Was she kidnapped by Lumen? Well, what did he poke into her ass?
i don't know what he poked into her ass that was a lumen based i think what did he poke into her ass because danny also oh did he poke that into her ass before she left when when was in the in that ass poke that wasn't the same night right i don't know if it was the same night but he poked they went to the doctor oh oh they fucking did the baby thing too what baby thing they they poked that into her ass i think it was for baby it's for baby having
They were good. He was the tenor. High tenor.
Oh, what? Oh yeah. What was the blood coming? What's that? She lost the, I think that was some, I mean, I don't know what that, she lost the baby. I know. I know that. I don't know, but I think that might be something that happens. So let's just not go into that. We just don't know. We just don't know. I have no idea, but I was watching a recap and it was like, that shows she lost the baby. Okay.
Well, we didn't know that. We didn't know that. And cause we're guys in our twenties. So maybe like just have them like talking about it or something. Let's just, yeah, let's, yeah, talk about it because that I didn't know. Mark, Mark, I lost it. Do that. Yeah, say that. So we know. So the ass poke though, I think, was it helping her be fertile?
And he killed. Yeah, he was good at singing. He was good. He was a good singer. Shout out to Mr. Cave and Miss Harrison, too. We're talking about choir people. All right, let's get into it. What are we doing? Draft his best things. Draft his things. Let's start with this. And then I got a really quick stat to give you.
So then do you think Lumen like somehow made her not be able to have a kid?
i'm trying to think because doc fucking weird ass doc is at the fertility hospital do you notice that no at when she's at the thing like signing the sheet and they're there for fertility doc from all the rooms was there walked right by okay so you know so lumen is doing some lumen is the the poke in the ass guys yeah and also that crash was not real and danny what did they send her
What did they send her? They sent her stuff to get poked in the ass? Same stuff that Dylan G stole from the Christopher Walken factory. Like the little pamphlet where you got people? Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? He stole one of those cards. That's Lumen owned. Yeah, so Lumen did it.
so lumen did it they didn't and they're using her as what like a test bunny i have no idea so they're she's down on the floor let's just walk through it she's down on the floor they're sending they're testing i think they're testing severance well she got severed in every different way so dude all of her severed ones just get tortured straight up yeah especially the one that's just i guess she they put her through plane crashes every day yeah and then what's the dental work
I don't know. And also, listen, creepy dentist guy. You're not even a dentist, clearly. Yeah, and stop whistling. Shut the fuck up with that whistle shit. I don't like that guy. You want to be severed? I do not like him at all. Is he severed? It was good to see Milchak. Once you went down, it was like, that's Cap. That's Cap dude right there. Cap said, Hallie, go back.
Why'd they switch her name? I don't know. What was her OG? gemma and then and then she's like miss bailey or whatever uh oh miss casey miss casey yeah like just make her maybe they're saying her name is gemma casey oh well maybe just to protect from him being like gemma and like something it's on the clicking yeah i don't know also is marcus is he'll be all right he'll be okay but like
okay so it's like sex does sex go number one and i i know we kind of started with a lot yeah it was it was i was trying to figure that out heavy um you could do sex if you want i'm gonna take sex with my first pick okay um there's phrases denny they say it's better than sex and or or or good sex or bad sex is good sex when when talking about pizza that's a funny phrase oh that's hilarious
This reintegration. Is he Audi-marked into any land? I think he's Audi and he's just like seeing shit. I think. I don't know. He's just going through a lot, man. He's cooked. I wish he would just don't do that, man. Yeah. We got a question about it and I thought it was a good, it was a thought-provoking question. I saw something on YouTube too. From Benjamin Crawford.
He said, who would you rather Mark S. end up with, Helly R. or Miss Casey? And then he said, P.S. the new episode was a snooze fest.
yeah I don't I thought it was good I thought it was anything but a snooze fest I don't I don't think that I I would rather her him end up with Gemma really yeah it is interesting it's like what love what what love interest are you rooting for right now I mean he his real his true love interest I'm rooting for Helly that's his work fling though like that's his work fling yeah but it's like it's it's it's and her outies her outies a bitch it's true love yeah but the innies man they're truly in love those two
They are in love. Why don't you just be in a double relationship? Can you do that? Maybe if he gets in any Audi situation, like he, like he dates any Heli and Audi Gemma, Gemma could escape. Oh yeah. That's actually what, that's what, that's what, what's his name did. And he does that. Audi does that. Yeah.
What did, what did I, we're walking, walking, walking at any fling, any fling and an Audi thing. But I don't think he even knew about it unless he did. Yeah, something's going on with Walken, too. Something's going on with Walken. I think next episode's going to be a Walken episode. We're going to be Walken here. I could see Walken. Yeah. I could see Walken. Okay, Severance.
Any of the things that we're forgetting about, we probably are. I love this show, man. I love everything about it. I love this show. By the way, good job delivering on season two. They could have easily just had a bummer of a season. It's a great season. Also, the ratings for it from all the outlets when it came out were really high. So the outlets have seen all the episodes? Yeah.
How do I get into the outlet job? I don't know. We should break in. Maybe. Yeah. Dude, who writes this shit is really the question. Ben Stiller and his writer. You're like a genius. It's so f***ing well written and good. Think about it. You're just making this shit up. You're so brilliant. You're kind of crazy. But like writers of like thrillers that are good. Like the Prestige.
Christopher Nolan is a f***ing genius, dude. Prestige is top tier. Is that Nolan? Yeah. I don't know if he writes it. I don't know, actually. Is he a director or a writer? I think he's a director.
So that might be a little different. I don't know. Guys, when you do severance stakes, keep it up with the all caps severance because it does make it easier to find these. Oh, I got one other one. I got one here. He said severance. I want to talk about something no one else does. And this is how hard the elevator works to be a good worker for Lumen and doesn't get Paris. He's been through a lot.
Hell, he tried to offer himself in there. At some point, we have to see that severance doesn't happen without the elevator doing all the work. Give him his flowers. Also, I miss Michael Kadir. Michael Kadir is a crazy pool. Who's Michael Kadir? Baseball player. I know the name. Yeah, he was just a really good pro. Okay, yeah. Shout out to the elevator.
I thought maybe we were going to get a little more. I think that was great. Think about it. If the elevator goes down. He's seen a lot. And he watches these severed guys go in and out, in and out, in and out. Yeah, one of them tried to kill himself in the elevator. Yep. In the elevator. And he just watched that. Yeah. And he had to watch fucking Gemma go out of Gemma to, or out of Annie.
It's very confusing for these people. Yeah. Gemma knew she wasn't going to make it when she tried to get. She's like, I know I'm going back to Annie.
she didn't know she almost escaped and she just was like she was just running and shit yeah and then milchick milchick's not gonna let that i also think like the elevator just can keep a secret and he doesn't he doesn't talk he's a good friend he doesn't talk he's a good friend like because if he turns on on on lumen he's good for lumen right he's very loyal to lumen yeah like what like i'm sure he he asked for a lot of money because he he knows probably but i mean that's yeah worth the money
you know i heard dave port i said that one it's a great metaphor you know what i'm saying it's like you're eating pizza bad pizza is good pizza yes bad sex is good sex 100 it's all good it's still sex man it's dope it's still sex that's a good pick it's very good stuff yeah and i think it is interesting like we could really go can we go with ideas like that or like i don't think we're taking like people today right
Right. This is from Mark Anderson. He said, Severance. Hey, boys, just running in with some Severance talk. Just recently, I was in the kitchen slicing some bagels, and I severed off every single finger of my left hand. Just never had it happen to me before, so I'm not really sure what to do. But I know you guys are the experts on Severance, so I figured you'd have a solution.
Appreciate the help, and viva la pod. They should grow back, right, fingers? Yeah. Yeah, they'll grow back. They're just digits, Mark. It should take like a couple months, and they should all be back. That's Severance talk for you.
Yeah, that's good. Keep the Severance takes coming. Should we just go into regular queues here? Regular queues here. We got one more severance to take, actually, and this is interesting. Let me know if you follow. I don't think I fully follow, but he's on to something, I think. He said, every department is all connected to Gemma. They aren't trying to fix a lot of different problems, only Gemma.
The screens where they see numbers where they work on files isn't actually numbers. It is a video, but their severance chips make them see numbers. The video that is being played on the screen is a live feed of their opposite person. When the opposite person makes a certain face or feeling, that is what makes these numbers scary. Okay, I don't know. We didn't really resolve anything there.
Please discuss Breadstick Grant. Okay, yeah. But yeah, Breadstick Grant. That's a theory. No, that's probably correct. Did you follow all that? I think so, yeah. It's like their counterpart, they know something. They know their counterpart so well. Yeah. That they're like, oh, let me... But what are they filing these numbers for? They're trying to make the perfect human, maybe?
The numbers thing is so interesting. And how numbers just get scary. Why are the numbers getting scary? Scaries are weird. And if that's their words, it's not ours. It gets spooky, the numbers. And they've got to file them. Really interesting. I'm just, yeah, I'm interested to see what they're working on with this Gemma character. I am too.
Not the same thing at all. And that's what I think a lot of people wouldn't understand about pod episodes. Yeah, yeah. If you're wondering, like, how do you get higher episodes? Weather and climate are different. Sure, we're in a warm climate. That doesn't mean the weather's always going to be warm. That doesn't mean the episode number's going to go up.
If you're just developing a perfect human, then okay, I'm on Lumen's team. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I would say probably don't. It's like developing a superhero. It would be very cool. I think they might be doing that. They might be trying to save the world with Gemma. Or they're just like, the doctor kind of seems like a sicko a little bit. Yeah, they might just be like fully evil.
He might be doing some weird shit. Yeah, it's hard to know. And he lied about Gemma. About Mark. He did. Fuck that. Yeah, don't lie. Don't lie about that. This one comes from KP. Would you rather walk through sand with wet feet or walk on a dirty floor with clean bare feet? I love Allen Iverson. Sand with wet, probably. I don't, I mean. Yeah, but sand with wet.
Dirty floor with clean, it's like now we're dirtying up the feet. And then your feet are gross. Yeah, there's really nothing worse than walking on somebody's floor and getting a bit of residue on your heel. Disgusting. When you pick your foot up and you're like, okay, there's dust. Or like a liquid. Step into a liquid. Stepping on a liquid is, is stepping on a liquid is the worst thing, man.
It's grounds for a divorce. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. Like I got to go. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to figure some shit out and never talk to me again. Yeah. Never talk to me again. I just stepped, my foot just got coated with some sort of mystery liquid. So we're getting divorced and God knows how long it's been on that floor. Yeah, that's the worst.
But that's more of an art. That is more of an art. That is more of an art. And everybody loves it, by the way. Yeah, yeah. There's nobody that doesn't love it. And whatever way, shape, or form you're doing your thing, everyone loves it.
So then you're about to clean them off. Right, right. Dr. Toaster chimed in. He's retired, by the way. By the way, somebody, I'm not going to pull the question up, but somebody said he's been looting vending machines. So that's great.
Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Awesome, dude. Awesome, man. Entire hair looting vending machines.
Yeah, I hope you're happy. That's not great. He said, I'm here to complain and address the controversy. And this shows a little bit of his true colors. Remember Victor's double question last week? Really, really big deal for Victor. Big deal. Big moment. He said, some random named Victor was awarded the first double question of a pod, but I did it first.
I sneakily made a second account with my real name, Oliver Anderson, and got two questions right in one pod. I don't even believe it.
I have to put my foot down and take the award away to myself.
That rightfully deserves it. Secondly, I know I was in retirement again, but with this controversy, I had to say something. Keep your motherfucking bread toasted. Okay. I do like that sign off. He's a character. I'll be honest. That kind of drew me back.
i kind of got chills when i read it yeah yeah it was yeah no that that's that's a moment but don't take this away from victor that was a really really special moment for victor man that was a huge moment for victor and i think we need to give him his flowers we we don't take awards away from people dr oster no we don't and dark toaster if this is if maybe maybe he's bitter that he didn't get his award we'll try to get you red man 100 we want to we want to get you right we're gonna get you right we'll get you we'll get you a freaking we'll get you a plaque we'll get you what you need we'll get you squared away
but don't take it out on on freaking victor you don't take victor's award don't do that i knew this was coming hello zach hello danny i don't appreciate the lemon cookie slander you will be hearing from my lawyers as i don't take these situations lightly i don't like lemon i don't like lemon cookies i don't i'm double i'm gonna no and you know what fucking lawyer up we're heading we're heading into the summer i do want to keep a like i want to keep our schedule as clean as possible this is something i'm willing to go down let's go legal let's go legal i'll burn this place down i will too
Everyone loves their version of the craft. There's nobody that disagrees. Right, I agree. This might be the most universal number one pick we've ever had. Sex rocks, dude.
I don't believe in lemon cookies. I think they're bitter.
I think they're weird. I think they're bad. I think they don't know what they want to be. I agree. I really, really agree, man. Are you a fruit or are you a cookie? Because it can't be both. Look at me in my eyeball. Why is it so dusty? What are you trying to do? What taste do you try to create? Can I just bring up one word? Lemon.
that'd be mine lemon lemon is probably to be fair the best word in this situation but i take a bite into a lemon cookie no matter what it is the lemon treat lemony chalk oh chalk it's always chalky it's always chalky and we'll bring that up in court sick of it we'll bring our lawyer we'll talk about the chalkiness man sick of it so get your people we'll figure out the chalkiness and then we'll see you in court yeah we'll see you in court man
We got Mark Anderson here. Cool name. Yeah, dope name. You should be a coach for the Thunder. Yeah, you should. He said, hey, Zach and Danny, hope you're having a great Thursday. Was just doing some pondering and was wondering, this is a good point, was wondering if you guys have any effing idea how effing compasses work. Is he saying E-F-F? E-F-F-I-N-G. Classy. Yeah, he's being a classy guy.
He said, I'm supposed to, because he's clearly frustrated. I'm supposed to believe there's a gigantic effing magnet in the North pole, but only compasses are attracted to it. Not normal effing magnets. That's one too many effing. Yeah, I think so too. It doesn't make any sense to me. And I'm honestly getting agitated thinking about it. If you can't tell, let me know if you guys have answers.
like everybody is like everybody listening right now because we're all dude because at the end of the day we're all just like cavemen right that now can talk and wear clothes when you go down that path it's like nothing why are we stressing about anything yeah but dude but that's a i guarantee you 100 approval right there like everybody's like it is good yeah yeah that's a good pick yeah they're all like that's good no that's a good that's a very good guy knows ball it's a very good pick um with my one i'll take the sun
Anything helps love the pot and love chocolate milk. Chocolate milk's great for sure.
i i don't even know this is news to me are you kidding me like you it knows i don't know there's mag is that a magnetic pole i have no idea how to accomplish this literally i've never even thought about a compass that's compasses might be up there with parrots honestly with miracles what is that what did he claim they have a magnet in the in the well how how does a compass know what north is like you go like this and the compass is like
weird wait what yeah weird i don't know like it's it knows where north is at all times how yeah what yeah like if you spin it around it spins it's like A compass works by utilizing the Earth's magnetic field. Are you kidding me? Magnets? A small magnetized needle within the compass is free to rotate and align itself with Earth's magnetic field. What? We got to get us a compass, man.
Always pointing towards the magnetic north pole, which allows users to determine direction based on where the needle points. That's f***ing... So it's the pole is magnetic. That's our that's what's up of the week right there. That is what is up, dude. That's what's up, dude. I'm going to get a compass. A compass points north because all magnets have two poles, a north pole and a south pole.
And the north pole of one magnet is attracted to the south pole. I know what I'm getting you for your birthday. Give me a nice compass. Yeah.
You're at least going to have a compass that works. It might be secondhand. No, just get me a new compass. Does it have to be new? We can do used.
I'll do a used compass. Okay, you'll get me a used compass. Yeah. A secondhand compass. That sounds nice, man. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Yeah, thanks, man. You're welcome. I care about you, man. Thanks, man. Yeah. Thank you very much. Oh, this is, okay. Another, look, Nick came. Nick just wrote in with a severance. He said, severance. What is your favorite type of chip?
It's a good severance talk. Yeah.
This is the type of in-depth shit we need to get into. Yeah. When we're talking about the Severance Show. Favorite type of chip. And does that mean like what shape? I'm trying to, yeah, shape, brand, flavor. Because shape-wise, I'm definitely going to that Pringle. Oh, I love that shape. I love the shape of the Pringle. You know what I saw?
I saw if Pringles were out of the can and put in a bag, they would flop. Yeah, because they would break. Yeah, that'd be weird. Is that why they're in there? For protection? Yeah. Well, they're very frail. They're very frail, but they're very good. They're made of glass. I love Pringles, man. The other day I wanted to eat a bowl of Apple Jacks. Did you?
No, but I still, I don't, cause I think we, we did our wavelength video and I said Apple Jacks. And then I was like, I want to get a box of Apple Jacks and put them with milk and eat them. You should do it. Is that weird though? It's kind of different. I don't think you should talk about it. I think you should. I like, I probably shouldn't have done it on here.
Well, I mean, I think now at this point, I think the people probably know you're in too deep. I would do it in private. So like now that Sarah's home in the bathroom, if she's home, if she's not home, I mean, you know, feel free. I think she's gone tonight. Maybe I'll do it tonight. You should do it tonight. And I'll just, and I could do it.
You think just kitchen milk, make sure to cover your tracks though. Like, like wash the bowl. Throw the rest of the box away. I would just get paper plates, paper bowl.
Yeah. Plastic spoon. Dope. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, what were we talking about? Oh, so chip. What's your favorite chip brand? What's your favorite chip brand? Really think about that answer. We don't really eat chips like that. Pringles. Pringles.
And that was an honest answer from you. I could tell. I could tell.
Your favorite chip brand isn't SunChip's? No, because they're a one-trick pony. They're a one-trick chip. Do not hit me with the... I don't like the sour cream and onion really anything, personally. I think my favorite chip brand is Pringles, too. It's the best. They're really good. It's the best. And they could do multiple things. Multiple flavors. They can cheddar. They can original.
And even their original is good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can, of course, they can barbecue. Barbecue up.
Pizza's really neat. Pizza's really neat.
ranch i know i don't feel like you're not much of a ranch head i'm not a ranch head but i might get into the ranch if i if i have to probably solid yeah what's your second favorite chip brand sun chips doritos doritos doritos are fucking special what's your second favorite uh lays i like barbecue lays and normal lays and i like i like lays i like lays green bag lasers the one sour cream and onion sour cream and onion yeah yeah um but that's a good severance yeah good severance q
Oh, I didn't even have him on my list. But that's a f***ing great pick. Yeah, I mean, that's another one. What's going on? What's going on? You got dust on your board? No, I'm just trying to wiggle the pen. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, man. My bad, my bad, my bad. God damn, man. Is that too much? How you don't try to wiggle your pen out? My pens have been quitting.
We'll finish off with this. This is Brandon Hattrick. Wow. Hattrick? One letter away from Hattrick. So it's H-E-T? H-E-T-R-I-C-K. Wow. Brandon? I would just go by Hattrick. I would go by Hattrick as well. I think you should just close off that E, make it a lowercase a. I agree. You're in business. I agree. He said, Ni hao, fellas. Yeah. I was wondering your opinion on the correct pocket loadout.
Personally, I go phone in the right, everything else in the left. Also, I love Domino's pan pizza.
I like Domino's. I got Papa John's last week, and I think it's the best of them.
Yeah, pepperoni from Papa John's is really fucking special. Interesting. And I usually don't even notice Pizza Hut, Domino's. I just get them, and they're good. Papa John's is like, this might be the best of the three. That's a developing story.
yeah i mean you go deep dish or you go i just got like papa john's pepperoni i don't know i don't know what dish but like it was very good very nice very very special um what was the question what was the question i don't remember pocket loadout pocket load oh i like phone solo personally what about you i i do like phone solo wallet on the other side yeah so i get clunky with my wallet and that's something that i'm working on my wallet's really bulky
It's really just a bad situation to be in. Yeah. And what do you mean you get clunky as in it's a big wallet? It's a big wallet, but sometimes me and my wallet get clunky.
I don't know what that means. It's whatever, man.
You and your wallet get clunky? I don't know what the f*** that means, man. We're on a podcast. I'm talking about the wallet, the pocket loadout, and you're just digging into my personal life. Cut out for like two seconds there. Sorry about that. Continue. I like to go. I don't like my wallet or keys even near my pockets. My lower pockets, that is. Because they're big.
I like to get like maybe if I got a hoodie, I'm maybe like putting something in there.
Maybe if I got a jacket, I'm putting something right here. Because you don't like this in your pocket. No. It's big and bulky. And nothing could ever go in the back pockets unless we're talking about maybe like cash. You could put cash in your back pockets. Yeah, because you don't want to sit on it. A ticket or something, you could put that in the back pockets.
You can go one phone in the pocket and that's pretty much it. Wallet, you just got to freaking, you got to feel it. And that's why you've been a money clip guy. That's exactly why. You can put the clip in a pocket. The issue with the money clip is you lose it. Chum has been... Chum was... Chum is, by the way, no pulse. He's dead.
I mean, now I'm wondering, is it stuff like that? It's stuff like that. It's stuff like Danny. His cap was stuck on the rungs. His cap was stuck on the rungs. Yeah, but figure out, don't do that on the podcast, dude. Don't do that on the podcast. Hey, all right, man. And he's looking stupid ass blue pen. I'll cut you for a different pen. I got a great collection of broken ass pen. That's bad, man.
So we need to... We're going to... The essence of Chum... I think we're probably going to need to bury him. Chum is dead on the shelf. Dead. I know, but he's still there. He's still... They wouldn't know that he's dead. Gross. And it's starting to smell in here. It's starting to smell. So if Chum gets removed, that's why. Yeah. Sad, sad shit for Chum. It's all right, Chum.
But yeah, so phone in one and then wallet just freestyles. That's why you lose your shit though. That's why you lose your wallet. Because you'll go to dinner probably and then put it on the table. Yeah, because if I got a clunky ass wallet in my pocket. My wallet's so clunky.
We posted one 7-Eleven video where my wallet got exposed and everyone was like memeing me with like the character that has a huge wallet in that movie.
It's huge.
It's fucking massive. I know, but is that because you have a lot in your wallet? I think it's just a big wallet. I got an annoyingly big wallet, personally.
I think I just also have a big wallet. Good for you, man. Yeah, but that's the loadout. Change your name to Hattrick. I think that'll do it for 109. That'll do it. We're on three a week. We got Sports Happy next. For now. Yeah, for now. Love y'all. Love y'all.
No pen's going to ever play for you again. But I discipline my pens, and he won't make that mistake again. And I won't have you watching my pens while I'm gone, now that I see this. Okay, I didn't want to. I mean, I train my pens a different way. If that's what you do when I'm gone, I don't want that. I just thought of a really funny thing. What? Our coach is screaming at us? A baseball coach.
We're not going to name names. Yeah, we don't have to name names. What the f*** was that? Since we're on the topic. Our baseball coach, anger management, right? He had anger management. Oh, for sure. What? Come on. I think he threw a baseball at your teammate. Well, that was like his son. Yeah. So that's just child abuse. But like, he also would like scream at me and shit. Like what the fuck Zach?
You can't just do, like, two Eppies and expect to get two Eppies down the line. Yeah.
But then he'd be, then he'd calm down and he'd be like, I wish I didn't get, I was actually about to rage when I couldn't find the memory card. Well, and that's a valid. And I didn't, I didn't rage, but like he would rage. Cause he'd be mad in the moment like that. And then I think he'd be like. But how could you be that mad about a child's baseball game when we're eight?
If you have anger management? I don't know. Maybe he wanted to play baseball and it didn't work, so he really wants his... I don't know. It was like that outburst on the blue pen on real kids. Yeah, we played for an abusive coach. Maybe that's why we don't like baseball. Maybe. I don't know why the parents... But our parents knew about him. They knew we were safe. You know what, though?
yeah and that's what and that's what we now understand we didn't when we got when we got into this 100 it's a lot you learn you you don't know what you don't know until you know it right and we didn't we didn't really realize that but that's a freaking t-shirt we should put that out you don't know what you know until you know it yeah can we put that on a hoodie yeah i was thinking more t-shirt but i think hoodie hoodie maybe a sweat but yeah right out right across the ass and dick yeah yeah yeah why'd you yeah what right across where else are they gonna put it
If I'm a parent, though, I'm like, that guy's a weirdo. That's probably what I'm saying. I'm like, that guy's kind of crazy. But I don't mind the coach caring so much about baseball. Yeah, but he would scream.
Shove it down their throat? Oh, yeah, yeah. Shove it up their ass and break it off. What the f***? Coach, I'm seven, and I literally have no idea what that means. And I, yeah, I'm just like my dad, by the way, still don't fully know what that means. My dad. Yes. Shove it up their ass and break it off. What up their ass? The bat. You want us to shove the baseball bat up their ass?
I'll shove, I'll shove this drop three bat up this guy's ass. And, and that was our, that was our coach. How about the three quarter barrel? That shit was a cheat code. Don't know what that is. There's the barrel that there's the normal bats in the barrel bats where you barrel it up. I don't know. And it changed my, my hitting forever. Big or bigger. You probably used a bigger barrel.
I definitely, I was a big barrel guy. Yeah. Were you, did you lean heavier? Like how many ounces was your bat? I was a, is it pounds or ounces? I have no idea to be honest, but remember it was like, it was like 32, 32, 28 or some shit. Remember?
yeah you had to be like drop three right yeah yeah oh and that's what the drop was yeah yeah uh i was in an era where they made bats illegal you remember those uh what do you mean not all of them of course some of the medals were illegal there was a type of bat that they oh yeah because it was like a ballooned up bat it was because it was so op yeah yeah and by the way though i remember playing the year before and using it and like i would it did you were op
yeah no like i would like you're like a baseball superstar like an eight-year-old you're op though but i would hit it ripping like gappers i would hit it over the outfielder's head yeah there was no fence at the time yeah yeah yeah but it was that h2 you just got to hit a pop fly they'll run in yeah and then they'll go over i'm guilty of that yeah i've done that yeah first step in on a fly ball whatever everybody everybody it's always supposed to be first step back but anytime a fly ball get hit it feels like it's you got to go in
Dude, if we went and did fly balls right now, I'd do that once. Because it feels like the ball is in front of you. Yeah. And then you run back. Yeah, that's classic. Yeah, so I'll take the sun, though. Everybody likes the sun. You need the sun. The sun's beautiful, man. Yeah, the sun's dope. And the sun, by the way, coming back. Coming back. Do not let us heat up.
There's actually been some really nice days.
Some really nice days we've strung together. I've been just walking.
I'm going to beach tomorrow morning. I'm really excited for that. Dude, yeah. Yeah, it's the best. We got Nuggets at 10, so I don't know if that— 10 tonight? You might want to work around that. We got a Tank Davis fight, too. I think I'll probably just miss that.
I'm saying tomorrow, so I'm just— Nuggets at 10 p.m. tomorrow? 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Nuggets Celtics. I'm just—if you want to work around that. I might—I would want to watch that, actually. Yeah, just— I'll figure it out. Somebody's going to sleep through the game. That's too early. Yeah, definitely. Yoke might not come. Yoke might just, yeah, if he doesn't wake up.
Or he'll just show up in the third quarter like he's putting his shoe on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody's used to playing that early. Yeah, that's too early. What is that? What time is that in Boston? Oh, that's probably what it is. Probably noon? It's in Boston, so that would be one. Are they Eastern? Are they ET? Yeah, so it's a one o'clock Sunday game.
All right, with my two, I'll snake into steak. Yeah.
yeah steaks it's a good meat you know what though i don't i'm not like i don't love steak as much as everybody does but it's good it's like high value and i'll kick this to the sticks it's tough that they can't just comment in real time like do you like steak or burgers more i like burgers more but isn't burger burgers like meat but it's kind of steak but it's like ground beef i think so steak not ground steak is its own that's i'm gonna sound stupid
100%. But I don't know. I mean, listen, it's all up to the steak aficionado. No, but I think a lot of people would agree. I think I actually remember we, cause you can't sauce it up, dude. What if I want to put like Chick-fil-A sauce on this, on this steak? It's like, it'd be like, yeah, it'd be like diminishing the steak, but it's like, why? I like saucing my shit up.
I remember we, we did a question about that and like called steak overrated. And then the clip Dalton posted the clip. And I remember looking and like half the people agreed. So people, half the people were like, obviously like you're an idiot, you know, like obviously, right. Cause that's steak fans. But then half the people were like, I was afraid to say it. Thanks for speaking out.
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So I think, so you know what, we'll be, we'll be the, we'll be the bearer of bad news for steak. And steak's not bad. It's just a little overrated. Yeah. But it's still a high value food. I'm glad to have it. And I would love, like, I would love, if you're just going to give me a steak for lunch, I'm eating it.
i guess like we got to be adults it's like when you're in like sex ed and it's like don't laugh no it's funny if they listen imagine if they called it the dick in sex ed it would be hilarious regardless dude bro dude but of course you laugh but it's funny do they say vagina when you're in like fourth grade that's funny as shit oh it's that's good material and it's the the adult is saying it
A good steak, it's a really nice experience. It is. It is. And it's a good pick. I'm going to go to, damn, there's a lot. I'm going to go to Salt. Salt. Yeah, salt's dope. Salt before sugar, huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You have no idea what that shit's capable of, man. Oh, it's capable of a lot of things. And you know how you know it's capable of everything? Take salt off fries and see what happens.
Yeah, they're bland. Dude, that fucks with the fry conversation.
It's like, what are saltless fries?
It's certainly a blemish. But Danny, yeah, because you start eating the saltless fry. You're like, whoa. I'm just like eating a raw potato. It's very carby. It's very unhealthy. I could lean into a ketchup really hard. But then you're like, hold on. We take ketchup and salt away. Who are you? Who are you, Fry? Exactly. But you could probably say that about a lot of foods.
steak no seasoning uh right no salt right sure burger sure burger burger but yeah i mean listen i it everybody every food needs a that's just more praise to salt honestly is what i was that's what i'm saying yeah it's a great it's just uh you need it yeah great it's in everything really um the best ingredient ever and then my next pick i'm gonna go to shoes Yeah, shoes are great.
I had shoes on my list as well. I think there's nothing like ordering a pair of shoes, having them come in. And I'm one of those guys. Both of us don't do it often. We don't. I picked up a new pair of AF1s yesterday, actually. And I think I'm going to start to maybe expand my shoe bag because it's fun. Yeah. I also have a ton of shoes and I just never wear them.
Yeah, I want to get into like the Jordan game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't, they, first of all, it's like the cool, the sick Jordans you want, I'll be like, let's see how much these are and it'll be like 3,000 bucks.
yeah and it's like we'll do 300 we'll do maybe even 500 three thousand dollars three thousand dollars why am i paying like like a month of rent why am i why am i doing that for shoes and i don't even actually give a f**k about the shoes you see the ones uh kai got for duke but you know what that's kai has 85 guy has a hundred million dollars it's the same proportion of money yeah so that is fine for him to do that was like yeah that was like a hundred bucks
Yeah, like... It's actually true, yeah. It's like, if you have unlimited money... Once we have unlimited money, then I'll be like, all right, I'll just fucking... And getting that as a gift for somebody, I totally see what he was doing there. Yeah. He loved doing that. Oh, yeah. It's like more fun than getting it for yourself. More fun than Duke receiving, I think, is Kai giving those shoes.
But also... It's also like, like, dude, I'm, I'm with you where I do appreciate giving out a gift. It feels great. But if you get a really good gift, also might feel better.
Cause you get to use the gift. Super. Yeah. It's your gift. Like when we got that Nintendo Wii. Oh yeah, dude. It was better than any gift I've ever given. Way better for us. Cause we got to play Nintendo. What is it? Wii sports. Wii sports, bro. Wii tennis. I never came around on Wii sports resort. You? Yeah. I like three-point contest, but other than that, I didn't love resort.
For me, I was like, let's just keep it off the resort. Let's just bowl, box, and golf. Oh, bowling, man. I think I might... The bowling... Remember boxing?
it's some of the better material i can't believe they keep a straight face i remember that like it was yesterday i remember like them being like yeah and then it goes here and then it goes to the vagina and everyone goes like but then they also they show like a vagina a vagina vagina but like but like they're showing like a guy like a documentation like a dick and balls it's hilarious yeah it's i would still laugh also also like did you ever watch uh when they had a childbirth
You had to nunchuck? Yeah. I want a VR box. Is that a thing yet?
Oh, for sure. And you fucking... Dude, I bet we would love VR. It's like Wii, but like way, way better. Yeah. So is there VR like game systems? I don't even know what VR is for real. I mean, it's this thing, right? But I've never experienced it personally. Yeah, I haven't either. We got one for Christmas and just never executed on it. We got VR? Yeah. Who got it for us?
I don't know, but it was a couple years ago. We got one, and then I remember trying to put it on, and then I just couldn't really figure it out. Oh, I think I did put it on. But did it ever work for you? I try to put my phone in there, and then it was just like, I don't know. I feel like maybe I put it on for a second. I feel like I'm seeing six of everything, and then I'm just like, I don't know.
It's kind of trippy. It's kind of like, what are we doing? Yeah, I'm going to sit that one out. Yeah, that was mine. Those were my two. That was three, so I got three, four here. I will take... I will take with my three. You know what? You did shoes. I'll go sweats. Yeah. I was going to maybe go shirt, but I'm going to go sweats. And it's interesting that you're not going with the sweatshirt.
I was going to go sweatshirt too. I was thinking about that. But I like calling it a hoodie more and they're kind of the same thing, but I'd rather would just take sweats. You know what? I agree. You know what we should do? Sweatshirt feels different than a hoodie. Sweatshirt could be a no hood. I think sweatshirt and hoodie should box and the loser leaves town. Loser is just not an item anymore.
Once a year they'll be like, don't do that. Yeah, and I had like three quarters of the pizza. And it was like hot on hot on hot. And my stomach, it literally was like three hot chips. That's so funny, dude.
Because I was also like watching something, so I didn't even really taste what I was doing. It's like watching like a theopod. That's fine, but you got to touch the stove.
yeah so i got cooked so now but now you know now you're now there's like a two-day like yeah like i'm just yelling like like the it's wednesday the residuals were bad yeah it was yeah everything out the arse was not out the arse was really really bad really really messy and and yeah the volume and quantity was high um and i assume stinky
And by the way, you guys don't want to meet Marg. Do you not want a strawberry Marg on a Wednesday? I just don't want the people to meet Margarita Dan. Yeah. You don't want to, you don't want to meet him. Real chatty. You don't want to meet him. Real, real problem at the bars.
stinky bad painful so do you um really you ever shit like really really bad like like down here i feel like it's like a free play it this is this is the bathroom i like yeah because like you don't want to like you don't want to be like if i gotta do if i gotta do damage it's right here yeah that's so this is probably where you're doing your damage all of it here because i'm not gonna do in our bedroom yeah that one that one is like we shouldn't even use the main floor bathroom main floor bathroom it has to only be a piss
Yeah, if you ever have to shit or puke, here.
Shit or puke is here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nighttime shit, you could do it in the bedroom. You can. You can. You can, yeah.
Like, Sarah's going in there in the morning. So it's like, you just, like, there's a woman in here. It's so true. But this, I just fucking go to town. Yeah, right, right. That's a really, honestly, it's an awesome feature of this crib. Yeah. My LV... I honestly just kind of forgot to give it like last week, but least valuable credit card. Oh my God. That situation's really bad, man.
It's a disaster. There's been times where you just bring it up and I'm like, he just wants to talk. No, because I'm so mad about it. I'm so pissed. You don't even get mad about stuff like that. I called American Express to just- Where are you at with this? To just whine. I went, dude, so- But you called him with no objective other than to whine?
yeah i was like wait but i my brother didn't have to do this yeah you should that's fair i didn't have to do it and i asked sarah by the way she did not have to do that and then no but then they were just like everybody has to do it you're lying you're lying that's what i'm saying you're lying and he's like and then you and then and then okay so let me just you want to put in false credentials let me backtrack let me backtrack yeah i i i'm i became an american express member january
Last month, right? Yeah, congrats. Thank you. They, in February, like February 1st, were like, we're going to freeze this card until you send like tax returns from last year. That, but I'm like, dude, but here's my thing. I'm like.
let me let me like just don't freeze me don't don't free don't don't freeze me just because i got john reed on here i'm just that's what i'm saying i got john reed i got factor i got la fitness i got uh john reed john reed factor uh factor um what do you actually like uber and what do you go to in the afternoon factor la fit la fit and then the one you do in the morning john reed and then um yeah it's a lot of shit and then the afternoon you go to la la fit factor
No, it's not actually like that by the way. I don't, I don't even. Margarita Dan's probably just like, maybe he might just be.
So there's a bunch of shit going on here. Okay. I've changed all my memberships to this credit card. Guys, just don't give me the credit card until I send you my tax returns. So then I could just not... You must have done something wrong though. No, because the guy on the phone was explaining to me. He's like...
Like, would you just give somebody $100,000 of credit based on, with no proof of income? And I'm like- No, but you did for a second. That's what I'm saying. I'm like, you, I'm not you. You gave it to me for a second. That's what I'm saying. You gave it to you for a week.
And then, but I feel like they're just, they tried to get me in because they knew if I, if they asked for the tax returns, then I would like, maybe I'd be like, I'll just go to fucking Chase or some shit. Yeah. They wanted you out? No, no, no. They want you in.
so what because they lock you in if they ask for him at first because now so did you send him returns are you back no you have no idea what i went through i don't you have no idea okay all right it was the worst moment of my life all right dude i had to go to a fedex what about when you cut your arm on the fence this was why'd you scream like that by the way because it hurt dude it's crazy uh i wasn't even there but i heard about it i had to go to fedex and matt passed out yeah crazy
Yeah. A little warmer. Yeah. A little nicer. Yeah. Even nicer. I'd be like, I love you. Yeah. Yeah.
I had to go to FedEx. Oh, I got, I know what you did. Cause I, we have, we have the BB email. I got it.
It was like, your print is ready. I had to print out to all these forms, Danny. I had to fill out all this shit again. Still don't even know if I did it right. And this is the hardest day of his life. Hardest thing I've ever had to go through. Then I had to scan it. Oh my God. And send it in. Dude, I am so, so, you know what the worst part of it is. I am so, so sorry, man. Yeah.
It's good to scan it. Scanned it. We can just... I know. Stop. Listen, I've been a soldier. I've been a soldier. I had to go through this shit. All right, so you scanned it. Okay, continue. If you want to. You don't have to continue. You want to continue?
That is what I do. That's pretty much Margarita. And that's Margarita Zach as well. Yeah, which is, by the way, a good thing. We just warm up and just kind of enhance. We're just like on PEDs.
And if you don't want to continue at any point, say turtle.
Say the word. That's the safe word. Turtle. Turtle. Yeah.
turtle okay all right yeah yeah turtle um you want to take five or you want to no let's just keep how about we just snake how about you just snake here yeah yeah until you're a rookie is that i'm just gonna leave it is that okay yeah let's leave it just just know it's been hard yeah it's been really hard on me if you guys can send in some words of encouragement the worst part of it is that i probably did it all wrong yeah that's hard did they reinstate you though i haven't heard back
So you're- That's the worst part, Danny. So what's going on with like factor? They said 10 to 14 days until we hear back. Are you just in like factor debt? No, I didn't. I'm not getting meals next week. Oh, fuck. Because I'm like, do I change to my debit card? But then if I have to change it all back, then I'm like- That's really hard. And I'm like- That's really hard, man.
I already changed my LA Fitness because like I- The debit? Do you have another credit? I've got- Yeah, like a Discover on you or some shit? I do, but like fuck a Discover. Yeah, fuck a Discover.
the discover discover what the f**k is that about it's a joke and it's like if i have to fly and i don't get to sit in the in the delta club i'm gonna i'm gonna freaking yeah freak out you're how many times you've been in the delta club twice and you won't fly without her now right no isn't the delta club dope i will absolutely it's free drink and bev man or drink free food and drink and bev free drink and free drinks and bev and cookies free drinks free bevs free drinks free bev and cookies and cookie
Yeah. Um, yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll freaking, I will actually throw a fit if I can't, if, if, if I, if I whip the card out and they're like, no, it's, it's actually frozen. I will make a scene. They won't let me fly.
Like in a good way. Yeah, in a good way. Because some people throw hands. Some people throw hands. I've never been a hands thrower. Maybe I'll get a little bit like... Like a little bit like...
It'll get, it'll get bad.
It'll get really bad. Um, but that's that. Hopefully I get reinstated next week. I think you should, if you sent in your returns, it seems like you will. I sent them bitches in. Yeah. My confession rookie. Rookie. I mean, you're rattled right now. I am.
Take your time, man. My rookie is French toast discipline. French toast discipline? Yeah. What does that mean? Well, let me break it down for you. Okay. I get protein French toast, as you may know. Now, the thing with these protein French toasts, they're just bread like the rest of us, right? So when they slice those bitches up, they got an outside. They got it.
I don't know. Whoever slices them up.
It's a frozen food section.
Yep. They got a right side of the bed, a left side of the bread, and then two middle pieces. So there's four. Yes. So they cut it in. No, but, but, but I don't know, but like the, the outside pieces are way, way worse because they got so much crust. Yeah. They're terrible. Yeah. They suck. Yep. Now for the longest time, I've been going through these boxes of French toast. Yeah.
I just, I go through, I'm like, Oh, let me get that middle piece. Let me get that middle piece. I'm going four pieces. So I'm like, Oh, middle piece, middle piece. Then two days into my box, I've got all outside pieces. And then what I do, I just go to the store and buy. Yeah, I toss. You toss. That was the old me. So now you're putting a cross in each batch.
yo that man yeah but i think that's kind of that's that's maybe uh enhanced emotions but maybe no i think maybe that's like my friends are doing that so then i'm just like i'm you because like i'll ride for my boys yeah yeah yeah yeah i think we get the same way i remember i think it was jimmy tetro said this is a random thing he's like uh if if if if you had a bag of fucks
Now I just, every, every batch, I respect the game. I do a middle. I do a middle. I do a right. I do a left. How are the right and lefts?
way way worse than are they still pleasant there you could if you mix them in with like the normal guys you can be and maybe like talk to talk on the phone while you're eating it yep yeah yeah but it really helps me prolong these French toast sticks good for you man yeah good for you that's a good rookie yeah that's a good rookie man and I'm proud of myself yeah good for you are you doing is it Kodiak Kodiak Kodiak cake French toast yeah that's good stuff my rookie is just that BB news page funny as fuck man
Yeah, that's not us, by the way. Yeah, BB News is not us. Really funny, though. Yeah. I bet everybody that follows that thinks it's us. Probably. Yeah.
If you guys make news pages, we'll be reposting. We will be reposting. We'll get them off the ground. Because I think they're hilarious. It's like the funniest shit. It's like the funniest content I've seen. I know. The Kill the Bill clip. Kill the Bill.
So like Purple Cup. Kill the Bill. Danny fans outside Congress. Danny fans outside Congress. Kill. And then he said 14 were hurt. That's so funny. During the Kill the Bill riot. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. But yeah, check out BB News. It's not us, but it's really funny. So if you've been watching Cup Game. There's a good chance BB News is watching this right now. If BB News is watching.
Yeah. But if you've been watching Cup Game, go to the BB News page. It's the funniest shit you'll ever see. It is very funny. Really funny. I'll snake in to confess. I think this was also my night when Sarah was out of the house, but I've watched like hours of like severance, like bonus content interviews. Really? Director, like Ben Stiller talking about the show. Yeah, what's up with Stiller?
Adam Scott talking to Conan. He's like the director and like a writer and- They should have used Stiller. He's a big actor, man. Should have used him.
Dude, just replace fucking... He could have done Dylan. Honestly, he should have just been Mark. He could have done Mark. Yeah. But Adam's a really good actor. Adam's great. I'm just saying, like, Stiller. I think it was probably a decision by him. He's probably like, I just want to direct here. Or Stiller could have been. You know what Stiller could have been? Stiller's really nice with it.
He's like, I worked on that opening shot for season two for like six months. He's like really nice with it. The running shot. He's like, we worked on that for five to six months. Really?
yeah that's hilarious seems like it's just him rotting um Stiller could have been the sister's husband who's funny kind of he could have been like he could have just been funny he also could have like just been Milchak yeah he could have just been Milchak he could have just been a Milchak he could have been somebody yeah he could have been he probably didn't want to be he just didn't want to because he didn't want to be Stiller yeah he didn't want to be the Stiller but yeah I'm like I'm really in the Severance bag that's fine just like bonus content that's a great place to be I love that show man
that's honestly like like the best i know i know you you're really anti one episode a week but it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to you man because i'm just really diving because you're developing yeah i'm developing like they're giving you time to like grow and i know all things severance yeah yeah and i think i don't know like hey do another pop-up we want to go we want to go man well just take our money we want to we want to go to a pop-up we'll fly to europe for that shit i want to see hell you are in a cubicle
i do too fucking uh data refining i would i would actually love i would just if they were if they said they were doing it for an hour would we fly i think we literally would just be like this if it was in the u.s like they said they're doing in idaho in like two weeks i think we would go watch it i would what would you do just look dude that's like the best live event and they're doing yeah and by the way dalton let's pop it up they did one
I think it was in New York, maybe. New York would make sense. I have no idea where it was. It just feels like it was in New York. But they stayed in character. And then even when he walked out, Adam Scott, he stayed in character on the way out. It's awesome. Really awesome. Really, really, really fun thing. Awesome idea. I remember seeing that. I didn't even know what Severance was yet.
And you smoke weed. It's like your, the bag of is empty. Huh? And then, Oh wait, it was two different quotes here. And then he said, and if you drink. And so, so like if you have a homework assignment and you smoke weed, you're like, you know what, I'll just, I'll figure it out. I'll just, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and you were like, what the fuck is this? I'm proud that there's a couple sticks that got put onto Severance. For sure. Shout out to the stick that put us on. Oh, yeah. You deserve a lot.
um but yeah i think we have put some sticks on we'll do a little savage talk today too i got a couple good ones yeah um my confession is i went into ralph's the other day i went up the right flank i got pitched girl scout cookies yep i said get me on the way out ladies yep because i obviously it's a rule you can't say no can't i went out the left side Am I proud of it? No.
They're probably like still waiting. I know. I know. And it's up and that's why I wanted to confess. I mean, we got, we unfortunately bought like we bought because we got stopped like 75 boxes. We bought 75 boxes of cookies. Yeah. Do you have some of them? No, I actually don't have any of them. So you had no reason, man. I just, I just, were you in a rush? Probably not.
You're never in a rush because we work and we just push whatever.
Listen, man. I don't know what happened. I'm confessing. You're making me feel like shit about it. Okay, that's not all right. That's not... I don't want to... But it's also not all right for me to just like... Can we just... Like, if I'm like, this is fine, then what else is stealing from a bank fine? I'm just saying... Like, we got to draw lines. I'm looking for... Did you forget?
that you didn't forget i didn't forget i didn't i i was just like you went out the left flank my car was in the middle i could have picked left or right and he said we're gonna do left i was just like i don't i don't want to buy a box of cookies you don't want a box of cookies i don't want one i didn't want i don't want it that's not what it's about i know it's not what it's about i know that's not what it's about i just like i don't you don't want to you don't want them mints i don't i don't want them mints i don't i don't want them mints also i feel like
You'll buy cookies sometimes, and they don't have the cookies for some reason. Yeah, that is a thing. Why? Can I get some Trifos? No, we don't have any left. Or they'll be like, yeah, we'll just put you down for two. That is a thing. What does that mean?
We only have one, but we'll put you down for two. Yeah, but I'm just like, what? Imagine McDonald's. It's like, we'll put you down for two McDoubles. We only have one. I think, obviously, it's for a cause. What is a cause? Girl Scouts.
girl scouts of america just girl scouts i guess i feel like it's gotta be a cause for like i bet it's like a fundraiser for something i don't know i don't think it's a fundraiser for girl scouts i don't really know what they do but girl scouts i mean girl scouts is nate yeah but girl scouts what do they do they they scout they scout like talent or something no mlb mlb so they're mlb scouts
And if you drank and you had a homework assignment, you'd be like, fuck the teacher and fuck that assignment. So your fucks are up. It's very intense. It's intense. That is true. You give like more of a fuck in all directions. Like you might clean your whole house. Exactly.
So it's a fundraiser for the scouts, the MLB scouts. Put me down for an extra box to fund that. We could use a reliever. Yeah, like a crafty lefty reliever. And those girls are going to find them. So, I mean, if you want to support that, buy cookies. For sure, good cause if you're a Rockies fan. Yeah, we always need pitching. I guess it depends on the state. We always need pitching.
Probably depends a lot which state they're in, how much funding they get.
true if you're in new york you're like guys like honestly they have the scouting that's what i'm saying if you're in new york and and you had girl scouts being you don't have to buy them because you have the pitchers like you have exactly yeah you have what are they garrett cole yeah they get they had they're good on pitching yeah you're good on you probably don't if they ask you and it's like you're such a you're such an attractive free agent market that like why do you need to buy girl scout you don't so that's i would tell the girl scouts like we're good on pitching right if they ask for that's what you should say look you want cookies and say i think we're good on pitching
Even like our relief staff is loaded right now. And just say like the Steinbrenners. Is that what it is? Steinbrenners? Something. They've got a checkbook and they're not afraid to whip it out. So we're good on Thin Mints. So yeah, I'm good today on the Samoas. Thanks, ladies. Yeah, yeah. Thanks, though. Good try. But if you're in Denver, it's like... If you're in Denver, you should buy 10 boxes.
For our Rockies.
To help out our Rockies. You can get a lemon up while you're at it. Yeah. Have you ever had one of those? Those look like shit. Benny, I've told you, man. I'm not a lemon head. Lemon flavor shit is not it, man. It just... I'd do the lemon head in like a... It's a little bit too pinchy to me, you know? Yeah. But will you eat a lemon head? No. But it's like a dare. I'll chew on a lemon head, maybe.
I think I like... Oh, chewy lemon heads are neat. Yeah. Yeah, those are good. Yeah, but I won't suck on a lemon head. I'll suck a lemon head. Okay. Anyways, you want to do stat of the day? Yeah, let's move on. We've definitely done this, probably in short form, maybe on the pod. Top 10? Yeah, the top 10 series. Yeah. Most stream Drake songs of all time. Yeah, we've done it somewhere.
I'm going to give you three lives because this also includes features that he's featured on. And there's a couple that you will not get. And for that reason, I'll give you three lives. You won't win today.
I'll go high, you go low. I don't, I feel like I got it right. Oh, I can go low. Let me go low. Let me go low. Severance. Shut up. That shit gets me going. Can't wait for Friday. It's Wednesday. For them, they already experienced it. You guys are experiencing it tonight. By the way, what's up with that? Hey, guys, it comes out on Friday. You know what? I kind of like that.
And what's at stake here? It's three toe stomps. Toe stomps. Standard. Three toe stomps.
You ever do that? I'll do it. Sometimes if I get home late night, I'll clean the shit out of everything. Never. I've done that. I've never done it. Yeah. That's interesting. I never caught a cleaning bug when I was young. I'm just like, I got to clean the house up. My MV, though, I'm going to give out an MVT, I guess.
In the four. That's on fucking rules, by the way. I need a one dance. Got to see. Number one. 3.5 billion streams. Passionate from miles away. Passionate for the things you say. Three. By the way. That's just his global reach right there. Passion. Because that's not an American hit. That's just in dance clubs around the world. In Europe, dude.
If you're in fucking Ibiza, you're listening to passion for it. You know, like I don't, there's not like a lot of people. It wasn't even like the biggest song in America on that album. Ever. Yeah. Um, God's plan. By the way, do you think he successfully did that with honestly, nevermind? Uh, do you think that's going, that's everybody though?
Kinda like, that's like a Drake fan is like, yeah, I throw that out in the summer. I do. Same. I definitely throw that on the summer. I think he did what he wanted. Like we're at the beach. That's coming on. Falling back. What song is that? Falling back.
falling back dude it's great it's a great album it is good uh god's plant texco green or something i don't know anymore god's plans are the two um let's just go through his albums everybody stay calm non-stop first left what There's a billion views though. I think that's like, that's like your catchphrase for the what? You know, like Bart Scott, don't! I think yours is that.
When you miss, you do that. I think that's like a Zach catchphrase. What? That's your thing. I don't have mine yet, but that's yours. What? It feels good to put that on a t-shirt, Dalton. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dalton, honestly, save that little sound and we'll have it. We need to get a f***ing soundboard. That's really, Danny, you know how many times I've looked into soundboards, but I'm like,
I don't know what goes on on that interface. I will work on that. Well, we could just do it with a keyboard and order sounds. Like, if I Google, like, soundboard sounds. Soundboard sounds for MIDI, right? We can't use that. It's too big. But we can get a little keyboard. Soundboard sounds for MIDI. I buy them. We put it right here. But I'm saying, like, I want something that looks like this.
And it has, like, little buttons. Yeah, it's a mini little keyboard. Like a keyboard? A mini one, though. I know what you want. Like a piano? I know what you want. I don't want a piano. You want a pad. Yes, I would like a pad. We have a pad in here. Oh, let's get a pad. And I can MIDI it. I know what you want. Oh, you can MIDI it? Do you know what MIDI means? You should have said that.
Do you know what MIDI means? I didn't realize you could MIDI it. That changes everything. All right, you're clowning. I'm not. MIDI is like we could put, it's this pad. Don't. And your catchphrase, what? Yeah, just MIDI it. What would mine be? I don't know. Yeah, that would work. No, no, I don't know what it would be. Oh. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, maybe. We'll figure it out.
All right, what do you got? I think a sound bar would be f***ing dope. No, I do too, but can we... Yeah, well, put it right here.
All right, then let's get this ordered tonight. I'll get this ordered and ready to go by next week. Okay. Will you? Within four pods, I'll have it done. Text me and remind me about it tomorrow. Well, just tell me what to order. I'll order it. It's not an order thing. It's more of a purchasing the sounds thing. We'll have to sit down and be like, what sounds do we want? I want that.
time no valuable taint taint no i so i will taint no no um so i want to be i want to be as as as broad as i can be with this because i think this this freaking thing deserves all the praise the most valuable thing oh you're giving it mvt yeah last time that happened was like i know i know epi like four i know and it was for chick-fil-a sauce wow You didn't even give it most valuable sauce.
Yeah, so we got to figure that out. I want bruh, bruh.
I want bruh for sure. I want... I want... He needs some milk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you want? I want bruh. Yeah, yeah, bruh. Yeah, yeah. Well, you just did that. I was asking you. Oh, I got one. I just wanted to make sure. He needs some milk. All right, what do you got? You have the top four so far. Okay, so let's go through. Did you guess God's plan? Yeah.
Let's go through his albums. And you lost one life. Views. Hotline Bling. In six. Okay. Um, like would in my feelings really be in there? It was a trendy one. It was a trendy one. Too good. No. Fuck me. That sucks. You got one life left. Sicko. No. Are you kidding me? That'll do it. You should have guessed in my feelings. It was in the five. Makes sense. And then it was MIA.
That's where it's like, you're not going to, it's a feature. You're not going to get that. Wouldn't have gotten it. Nice for what? Could have gotten that. Life is good in the nine is crazy. That doesn't even seem correct. I don't think that's right. That is right. And then good song. And then going bad. Another feature going bad. That's a Billy stream. Yeah. Working on a weekend like usual, hey.
I like that song. It's two different songs. They do that a lot, but it's good. They do that all the time. It's good when they do that. They do two different tunes. All right, news. We can talk a little severance, but we'll do that afternoon. Do you have any news? It's like I have a little sports news, but I want to save it. I want to save it, yeah. So probably nothing?
Yeah, I don't got nothing then. So what are you going to do, questions? Do you want to do severance talk? Yeah, do you have some things? I just saw a comment on YouTube that was like, we can read this for Second Stock. Yeah, get in there. I mean, they're going to have so much more context by the time this episode comes out. Oh, shit, yeah. Oh, let's do predictions for the next epi.
Predictions for the next epi. What develops? Let's see what the next epi is called. You start giving some predictions and see what the next epi is called. So, first of all, we're going to learn a little bit more about Wong. You think it's a Huang epi? I don't think it's a Huang epi. I think a couple things are going to unfold about Miss Wong. Yeah, she's such a funky, she's such a wonky character.
She's a wonky character. What we're going to learn is she's dead. Look, I was re-watching the opening scene of Severance... It's episode one, season two. That's how into it I am because I saw Ben Stiller talking about the shot. Continue. She's dead on the outside. Her Audi is dead. Okay. If you can't handle that, then don't watch the episode eight. So this is called... Mrs. Chikai Bardo.
Let's look up what Chikai Bardo means. Chikai Bardo. This episode is called Chikai Bardo. What does Chikai Bardo mean on Severance? Well, we'll have to wait and watch episode 207 to get the full context of Chikai Bardo with Severance. Yeah, they just do a 207 instead of like season two episodes of it. It doesn't make sense.
The term appears to be one of six Bardo's or transitional experiences in which refers to moment of death. So is Mark dead? Is Mark dead? No way. That means, well, that means he had a death near death experience. I believe Chica Bardo is what that means. Yeah, right. There's no way. Obviously he's not dying. So maybe he had a near death. He died for five minutes.
So we're going to dive into, to a lot of shit that Mark goes through there. Mark, we went over this dude.
reintegration is not where it needs to be for you to go you f***ing watched what happened to your buddy yeah you knew what that PD went and you know what you're not dense you're smart oh yeah you're smart you're a smart mark you're just not thinking straight you're a smart mark man what is it the alcohol mark I don't know man what got to your brain what you think he over consumes I don't think he over consumes on the Audi world I think he's upset man yeah I think he's hurt I think he's upset I think he's hurt sad and scared
I think he definitely overconsumes. And I think he drowns in alcohol. You think he overconsumes in his Audi form? I certainly do. Which, by the way... We don't have evidence of that, though. We have evidence of him chowing down plates. Maybe he's doing a little bit of food therapy. By the way, the first scene in the whole show... Sobbing. Yeah. Yo, what the f***? Which, like, that was... Sobbing.
That was never even fully... I will say the first like eight minutes, I was like, I'm out. Yeah. I was like that. I was like, I don't, I'm out. Yeah. But like that. Man, we didn't know anything about Hellier when she woke up on that table. No, we did not. Man. Oh, man. A lot has unfolded. Holy shit. A lot has unfolded since then. Yeah, but he was sobbing. Like, hardcore sobbing.
No, because I want to make a point of this. It's the most valuable thing out there. And now, Danny, it's on the shelves at your local grocery store. Does it ever make you question the quality of the frying chicken? Are you like, is it carried a bit?
That, like, we haven't seen that side of Mark on the Audi world. We haven't. The entire thing. He's been... But we know that hurt is there.
So that's why he'll do anything.
He doesn't give a fuck, man. Because he'd rather die than not reintegrate.
We've talked about it. Yeah. He doesn't give one ish. But anyway, so do you think we learn about Juan? I think we learn about Wong. What do you think? I think that it's going to be a lot of Mark reintegration early. I think that we're going to get a little snippet of Irving kind of just doing something. And what's his name? What's the guy's name? Christopher Walken.
We'll get a little bit of Walken talking with his spouse about how the dinner went. I think we'll get a little bit of that. I think his spouse knows something. I think Helly and Mark are just going to keep hooking up. I think we're going to see them hook up again. So dope. Um, I saw a comment talking about, can we talk about the fact that's what I was going to read?
Cause I didn't even think about it the way this guy put it.
Mark, Mark, it's his generational from Mark. Yeah, he's on a crazy run.
Severance. Yeah, if you guys are talking about severance, just put severance in all caps to start your comment because that helps us find it. That's what this guy did. It's a good way to get... It kind of gets like the vibe of what you're going to talk about across. Like we don't know that it's severance. Without fully giving it away.
Like he was talking about, so he was going to talk about severance and then he put in all caps severance. So it's like he didn't say the thing. I can almost guarantee you the next episode we'll have severance. Right. What's your favorite flavor of chocolate? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Definitely will. He said, can we highlight the fact that Mark has two bodies in one season?
While his wife is working in the same building. Didn't even think of that. Yeah, he's doing that behind his wife's back. Right under her nose. Right in her freaking face while also leaning his floor on a highly illegal operation. Is it illegal? Probably, yeah. I don't know what it is. That he doesn't even have a clue about.
Yeah, like something good. I think it's like doctors. I think they're getting compensated. I think it's like doctor's salary. An answer about them understanding... Oh, okay. This actually did help me. An answer about them understanding how to basically function inside lumen. In the first epi, they said that the procedure only separates work life from personal life.
So I'm assuming it doesn't take away normal human functions. And then this is a nice shout. He said, I miss Justin and BJ Upton. Those guys are awesome. Yeah. Shout out to the BJs. So did you hear that about the functions? Yeah, it makes sense. That would make sense. So they just literally separate those two sides. That's dope. That's dope. But yeah.
um it i haven't been to chick-fil-a in quite some time yeah so what so what's did you did you get it off the shelf i got it off the shelf i got a bottle of chick-fil-a sauce i got a bottle of chick-fil-a barbecue oh really because i i ordered uber eats once like a couple months ago and i just included it in the order because they had it and it's good every sauce is good there every sauce is good yeah it's it you've never been a chick-fil-a sauce fan yourself but you could appreciate that but i'm warming up i could do it now
Any other severance predictions? Any other severance talk? Or should we go into Q's here? We can go into Q's. Let's go Q's. We got Big Gouda. It looks like he sent in a stanza.
Hey, we're not doing that, Big Gouda. We're done, Big Gouda. Big Gouda. We're done. What are you doing? We don't say the P word. What are you doing right now? First thing of your stanza. What are you doing?
what are you are you trying is that funny is that is that like cool does he think that's cool not cool big um should i just cut it off cut it off the bar was there no they're p like cat no big good um you're done no you're done it's not nice that's not that's not what we need in this that's not our community man that's not our community big good just and i know you're big gouda this isn't you that's not it's never been big it's not like big gouda is like a a gentle giant
Big Gouda's a really, yeah. That is not the Gouda I know. That's not the Gouda. And that's not, that's the Gouda which is trying to be cooler. I think Gouda, send another one and we'll read it. I just don't, that's not you. I think that's what he thought we would think was cool.
And it's not. No, it's not. It's not.
We're done. Come on. We got a take on Derek Jeter from Ben. Remember you're saying he's overrated? Yes. He's like, he's breaking it down statistically a little bit on your side here. Awesome. He said, Z is right. Jeter was overrated. Fuck, that feels really good. You liking this so far? Thank you, Ben. What'd you like about it? That he agreed with you? I loved, and calling me Z was awesome.
Yeah, you and Ben should be buddies or something. Yeah, for sure. He said, truly an all-time great. I like how he's starting with that. He's not being delusional. He's a Hall of Famer. Is that what Ben thinks? Do you think that's Z? Yeah, well, me and Ben see eye to eye on that shit. On pretty much anything? Yeah, most stuff, life stuff. Yeah, life shit.
He said, truly not some great, but some people act like he's a top 10 player all time. He's probably not even a top 10 shortstop of all time. Borderline top 100 player of all time, etc. You agree with Ben? That's just what me and Ben have been saying. We've been preaching this to the choir. He said, playing with the Yankees make people think he was much better than he was.
He was better than what he was. Some of the worst defensive metrics of all time. Zero MVPs. Second in MVP once. Top three, three times. That's a great player, but not even near the GOAT conversation some pretend he's in. I agree. He brought it all down to MVP talk, which I thought when I looked at it, we'd maybe get a couple more stats, but I don't hate what he's saying. Here's all I'm saying.
He's a winner. He's one of the greatest winners, and he's one of the greatest leaders and captains. He's the captain. He's the captain. He's a good leader. I will say that. He's not the best baseball. He's not a top 10 baseball player. I don't know that anybody's saying that. I'm going to go even, I'm going to take this one step further and I don't even know if Ben would agree with me here.
Baseball is an individual sport. I don't hate it. I mean, you're... So if you're... So we shouldn't... The only thing... It's like the most objective sport there is, I think. It's when you're hitting, how do you do? If your numbers aren't the best, then you are not the best. But what... Yeah. It's as objective as it could be.
It's like... But he was the short... Barry Bonds is the greatest player of all time. What's the most important position on the field? Pitcher. Okay. Other than that, shortstop. Yeah, sure. And he was the starting shortstop for a championship team five times. But that's where I'm like, he like, he just did his part. He did it. And A-Rod was also, and Mark Teixeira was on his team and Jorge Posada.
Oh, I'm getting Johnny Damon.
Hideki Matsui. Milky Cabrera for a little bit. Oh yeah. Hideki Matsui. Curtis Granderson. Yeah. CC Sabathia. Brett Gardner. Why do we, did we do that? I think we just did that. I think there's a CC Sabathia. There has to be something.
how about Brett Gardner that guy's just like hit 230 and was fast and that was okay he was just like such a Yankee yeah he is I don't know why but yeah I don't hate the point that you and Ben are making I don't hate the point that's Ben and I man that's Ben and I This one comes from Ranvere. He says, is Snoopy the LeBron of dogs? Versatile player. Nobody really speaks for dogs more than him.
oh danny find yourself a sauce that you love like what sauce would you say this is the best sauce that's ever been um that barbecue we used to have at the house it was like uh oh really you what was it like fucking you found that love in a tube didn't you i found that i fell in love with the tip well also mcdonald's bbq for mcdonald's tangy bbq is the best bbq yeah i fell in love with that so if they threw that on the shelf you get it danny i'm having healthy meals these are factor meals these are is it having the same effect as a normal chick-fil-a sauce
Might just be the GOAT wishing boys joyous days ahead. I wish you joyous days ahead as well. That's a great thing to say. I think, you know what? I think this dog conversation, Snoopy and Scooby is very LeBron MJ. I agree. Snoopy feels like... Who's who? Doesn't Snoopy feel like MJ? Feels like MJ to me. And doesn't Scooby feel like Bron? Like just like the... I don't know which ones.
It feels like Snoopy's been around for longer. And what other dogs? Can we just pull up the... I like Clifton. Clifton's Shaq. Clifton. I like Brian. Brian's like... I know we're kind of jumping from genre to genre, but Brian kind of reminds... He's like a... To me, he's yay. Yeah, we're really... But you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Ranker.com's got a really nice dog list. Cartoon Dogs, Clifton.
Yeah, Courage. A lot of people love Courage. Courage is almost like a Kobe. KD. Yeah, KD. They love Courage. People love Gromit. They're just trying to throw Garfield in here. He's a good dog. Yeah, he's a solid dog.
He's on the top dogs list. Yeah, I'm just looking. Oh, okay. Yeah. Dog. Wallace and Gromit. Yeah, Gromit's dope. Gromit's like... Gromit's like... Gromit's like AI. Yeah. Yeah, solid dog, man. He's just a fucking baller. Bluey is like Wilt. Is that... Blue's Clues? Blue's Clues. Yeah, he's like Wilt. Goofy. Is he a cow or a dog? What's up with that?
Dude, I mean, people are like so confident that he's a cow, but it's like... He identifies dog. What's slinky dog? Toy. Well, I know. I'm saying player comparison. Don't do that. My bad. Player comparison for slinky dog, I would say. He's good, not the best. Like Draymond or something. Yeah, Draymond in today's NBA. Maybe Andre Iguodala, slinky dog. Iggy. He's a good dog. Boltz.
Boltz is like Bruce Brown. Bruce Brown. Just like a role player. Yeah. Yeah. I do think Snoopy Scooby is LeBron MJ. For sure. Yeah. This is from Von U. He says, what letter of the alphabet tastes the best? S. I just like snacking on S's. Yeah. I get that. They're more filling. And this isn't biased. Z is sugary. Packs a punch. But it's sugary. Packs a punch. Packs a punch.
It's like one serving is like 48 Gs of sugar. So what? It's bad for you. Zs are bad. Here's what I always say to the people that are like, oh, I don't like eating Z. It's like a dessert that you have to split in eight parts. You're going to die one day. Do you want to die being like, oh, man, that one Thursday, I had a couple Ss instead of a Z.
I just think I don't want to die three years earlier from eating Z's every night. I'll die 10 years earlier if I can eat all the Z's. I mean, they're sugary as fuck. They taste really good. I will say that. Thank you. They taste cool. Thank you. They pack a sugary punch. They pack a mean punch. What's a letter just to snack on? I'll snack on B's.
I'll snack on B's. Do you like C's? I don't really... Polarizing... I don't know. I think that's good protein. I don't like... That's what I'm saying. They're healthy.
Like I should eat seeds. That's what I feel like.
Sometimes if you want to, obviously if you want to party, you can do Y's and X's. Yeah.
Yeah. That's just, that's the end of the day. Like you're going to be inebriated.
I don't know what that word means. Can we get a word check on inebriated?
I like it too, but it's not even like a... I'm a fan of the art. I am too, but it's usually like it would be 9 p.m. here, but it's like 7 it comes out of here. It kind of reminds me of just like the NBA just like starting 11 minutes late. Yeah, they just lie about what's going on. It's kind of nice. It's just like they give you a little buffer. It is nice. Severance is doing that the opposite way.
for me it's like if I'm going like Broadway in Nashville I'll like eat two X's and that's by the way like I haven't done it even since I've been here because you're an adult oh wow I used it right inebriated is it yeah I knew that yeah that's just for some reason I was thinking something else yeah incubated no inebriated is good yeah Fuck yeah. Didn't talk about these at all. I don't know.
Yeah, they're good. They're nutritious. They're nutritious. Yeah, I'll have them. I'll have them. This is Victor Olivo. I think he's pretty... I've heard from Olivo, yeah. He's the guy that made That's What's Up. Oh, he did That's What's Up more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, the first one I read, I'm like, this is so What's Up that I'm like, I want to spend some time on it. Let's hear it.
Yeah. Oh, the sauce is the same. So it's no discount. There's no discount on the sauce. Like you get a White Castle, but no, that's not a good, a Krispy Kreme at the store is not the same as Krispy Kreme. For sure.
He said, I'm back with two That's What's Ups. And a what's up with that for y'all. Okay. Getting a fresh haircut after a while with that one. That's what's up.
That's what's up. I'm actually about to get a cut and shave probably tomorrow. There's nothing better. Yeah. I'm addicted to haircuts. And they do it well.
Yeah. But then there's nothing worse. And let's see if he ends this. What's up with that?
oh okay i'm gonna all i'm gonna add a what's up with that before we're done uh going trying to get a haircut every two weeks and then they cut and then they for some reason cut off way too much hair what's up with that what's up with that i didn't ask for you to cut off that much hair and i paid you though just do the fade yes and then you know what i'm saying like just don't go crazy yeah for some reason they're like you don't we're gonna go high fade we're gonna cut the top off what's up with that what's up what's up with that yeah but i have been getting great haircuts and that is what's up are you gonna have are you gonna find a home base
You think I've, I mean, I've gone to the same guy twice. There you go. So it's been, it's been really good. Yeah. It's been really good. I'm going to go, I'm going to try to get one like once a week, once a week. I mean, if you're fading, if you're fading, that's what you should, you know what I'm saying?
You got to keep it tight. Keep it dialed in. I'm getting caught. So this is, I think this is what's up with that. Getting a compliment on a new clothing item. Oh, that's what's up. Yeah. That is what's up. That's absolutely what's up. Especially if it's like a bold one. You're debuting. Oh, and then they're coming at you. So he's a breadbasket abandoning. Am I the asshole for no reason?
What's up with that? Yeah. So, you know. Yeah. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. We can bring it back. We can bring it back. We didn't hit our exact scene that we wanted. I don't think. Yeah. I don't think we. It wasn't exactly what we. I don't think we explained it perfectly. We may bring it back. We may bring it back. At some point. We may. But here's the issue with Am I the asshole?
But the sauce is exactly the same. I'm just saying you could have healthy chicken. And by the way, maybe it's unhealthying my meals. I don't give a fuck.
To play breadbasket advocate. Yeah. If we put an MI the asshole prompt. Yeah. We got to sift through all your responses. The responses are still normal questions. That is true. And then, and then, but then it's like, if you think about it, it's like, we're asking two different, you know, it's like, they don't even know what we're asking.
It's like, we're playing, we're, we're in our question bag here. And I think we, I also think we have a really good thing going here. We got a lot of, a lot of sticks that are return askers. We got a lot of characters. Exactly. Maybe at some point we bring it back. Yeah. Dude, I mean, we just read Olivo, and I think he fires a different one in each.
Like, he probably fired your— Are we getting two Olivos? Yeah, but it's unskippable. This is history. So he did a that's what's up, that's what's up, what's up with that on Snap to you. It got read. But this wasn't today, to be fair. This is two hours ago. On our first sports-only epi. I mean, congrats to Olivo, man. You get two questions. That's unbelievable.
That's what's up. That is what's up. But, dude, I read this, and I'm like, that's what's up, that's what's up, what's up with that? Oh, he's doing another that. That's what's up. That's what's up. And I feel so drawn to all three of them. Unbelievable. So I have to read it. He said, back with the usual. He said, when you're unsure where you parked, but you find your car right away.
That's what's up. That's what's up. That is what's up, man. Those shirts people wear at the gym, like flex so hard the sleeves came off. That's what's up. That's what's up. That is what's up. That is for sure what's up. Those Wi-Fi's that just don't work, such as the gym or plane Wi-Fi. What's up with that? What is up with that? I'm on the Wi-Fi and it's not working. What's up with that?
so it's changing these factor meals you're still doing factor dude yeah that's it and i'll get into i'll get i'll get into that on the lv though okay not factor but another so what i think it's just you ordered it like or do you did a free trial and then forgot to i did a free trial but i and i didn't and then you just didn't cancel yeah but i also was just like i don't want to stop
Yeah, congrats to Victor, man. I mean, what is up with that? Why am I connected and it doesn't work? A plane, I understand. Sometimes the plane, it's not working on the aircraft. And if there is Wi-Fi, by the way, I've never had Wi-Fi that works on an aircraft. That is what's up. I purchased it. Or Delta sometimes. How does that work? I don't know because I'm never going to judge you.
It's like, look, man, we're up in the sky. We're up in the sky. I don't even know how we're flying. I'm scared shitless that we might die right now. You're the same as me in that I call it magic text. The fact that you could text up there I can't text up there. No, you can. You can. No, you can't. Yes, you can. I've never been able to text. My phone's kind of fucked, but... No, no, no.
It's not, dude. If you go on the Southwest site or like the Delta site and click connect to messages, you can text up there.
Isn't that magic? Everybody does it. You could... Sticks, comment. Everybody, they text on the plane. Without purchasing it, you can connect. I know. I've said the same thing to Sarah. I'm like, this is magic texting. So you...
Texting on the plane. No. I swear to God. I've never heard of that. On everything. Never heard of it. Everybody's heard of it. I've never heard of it.
You're 40,000 feet up in the air. Unbelievable. Are we 40,000? Yeah, I just threw your number out. Yeah, I don't know how many feet, honestly. I think I might have gotten it right. If I had to guess. Yeah, that's what I'm going to look it up. If I had to guess. I don't even want to guess, actually. How high do planes fly in the air? I don't want to embarrass myself. What a fucking guess by me.
It was 40? Yeah. Between 30 and 42K. That's so frightening. But I did it on AI overview, which is wrong most of the time. So it was probably like 10,000. Between 30 and 42K. That was a great guess. Nice job, AI overview. Yeah. Good job. This is Breadstick Jubilo calling in. Jubilo. Salutations, my brothers in bread.
My question is, if you were driving, how many cars would you have to see blatantly run a red light before you start thinking it's acceptable to go as long as you look both ways?
uh i would have to just see everybody doing it for like a week yeah and then i'd say everybody does it yeah and and then maybe you are like i just missed like a bill that passed that you're yeah yeah it's like everyone or like maybe in cali yeah yeah yeah like maybe it's legal in cali because there are some things that are like that uh crosswalks i think are different and really yeah i think like crosswalks i'm always like you have to stop and let the person cross
Oh, I always do because I'm just like so scared.
Really just a bummer and like a tough thing to deal with. It would be bad for everybody involved. But I think like some crosswalks, it's like you can keep going. I wouldn't test it. You know what I'm saying? You know where they test that is in Spain and Ireland and overseas. They probably get hit a lot more. They'll be like, I'll hit you because I'm allowed to go.
By the way, I have seen so many people sprinting that I thought – Genuinely thought there's like a prank a pod. I thought you were putting them on to it I thought you were hiring actors to sprint by me. That's such a funny thing to do. I'm gonna do that five people I'm not waiting just through it like in the past like couple weeks.
how much is it a week no idea okay no clue no clue but you know what it might be just whatever it is it might be just rinsing you i don't care because you know what they're not rinsing me because so do you eat breakfast lunch dinner and factor recently i've been just going like i've been trying to just like eat like for a while i did go breakfast lunch dinner factor yeah like and factors a snack and factors like in between yeah it's like in between lunch and dinner
I've noticed people sprinting not on a run where Like i'm like like i'm like I if i'm on a walk or if I like drive like I gotta stop at a lot Of stop signs Cause it's like kind of all like every single corner you got to stop. Yeah. I'll just like see somebody with a backpack, like sprinting. Really? Yes. On the way to the court today. Saw somebody sprint.
Just in like the neighborhood that we drove. Dude, I genuinely was like, Danny might have. I'm going to do something like that at some point. Dude. Imagine if I had placed in there. And I don't know what's up with it. Like, where are these people going? Are they stealing? I don't know, but they're not on a run because they have like not running clothes on. Maybe now I'm looking for it.
So I'm like, no, I don't see people sprinting. If you're in jeans and you're sprinting, something's gone terribly wrong. You'd stole or you're maybe you're running late to class. Yeah. Something went wrong. Yeah. Something definitely nothing's. Yeah. It's not going right. It's not going right for you. But I just did want to flag that just in case it's so. No, I haven't. I wasn't.
108, 109, 110, 115. Yes, you're right. I don't know if I did the math right, but yeah, we probably will do three a week now. And then you know what's a little bit better than three a week? Four a week. Five a week. And then I would not be surprised if you fast forwarded two years from now if we're doing one a day. It's very us. It's very us. We might do it.
It would more be a problem on the... And they'll be like, why don't we do two a day? Two pods a day.
I would do it too. That's it. Love you guys. Love y'all.
Yeah. But then recently I've been like, I'm really trying to like do these factor meals, their justice and, and try to have one as a meal, but they are not enough.
For me, I do too. And, but I only get six meals. So then I'm like right now, Danny, I'm out of factor meals. Okay. And we're looking at Wednesday. Well, how does that even work? Because I got him on Monday. And so you ate too? Because you made him your... So like on Monday and Tuesday, is that all you ate?
No, it's like... Wait, so... Because if I'm having a factor meal for dinner, I'll have my factor meal at eight. And then at 8.30, I'm like... that is just not going to do it.
So you've been doing dinners a factor, but you're doing two factors. Yeah, and this is not a brand deal. Wish it was. Wish it was, yeah. I mean, I got to tap in with this. But the only problem I have with the factor meals is that they don't tend enough. And is that the LV? No, that's not the LV. But I want to get into my Chick-fil-A sauce. This is a healthy meal, Danny. And it's just spicy.
And I'm like looking forward to it more than I would look forward to my Chipotle.
so a sauce can do that much yeah a sauce can do that for you much yeah i would ask them like maybe make a low calorie if that's possible like a zero sugar a zero sugar and it's like it only has to be 70 as good right but get the get the point across that's like all i really would ask of it yeah honestly right now i've just been i've just this is probably those those meals up oh dude but who cares oh yeah it's like i'll probably the factor meal is probably 500 calories you're probably doing 838 grams of sugar now
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. It's too much, but whatever, you know, that's something I'll worry about later. Good for Chick-fil-A sauce, man. That's like, Oh, that's just a fast food restaurant. And there's like other, what other restaurant has cane sauce? Maybe a little bit cane sauce. This is, this is, I saw a game chain. What canes is carried by sauce. I've been seeing that narrative.
Did you see the tick tock? I think it was a motivational. I just saw a comment. It could have either been a, was he talking about cane sauce? It was, it was, I was going to put it on my story because I was like, this is so, this is, this is a great message that this guy's doing. I don't know if he's a comedian or if he's a motivational speaker. I don't know where we're going.
We're talking, you know, our cane sauce, cane sauce, cane sauce. We're on cane sauce. Yeah. But you were doing the inspirational thing. No, no, no. They go together. Ready? Are you ready? He said, he started the video. He was like, Cane's is only good because of its sauce. The chicken's not that good. Just the sauce makes it good. And then he says, I'm excited.
It's like if a Nuggets game starts at 7 and starts at 5.30. Yeah, but that would be kind of an issue, I'd say, because maybe you wouldn't be able to get in your seats. The ticket holders would be upset, yeah. It's all good. Guys, I think we might be a three-episode pod. We might be a three-episode family. So this is Wednesday, so we just dropped Wednesday. Seems like you guys like it.
And then he says, he says, yeah, but they have the sauce. Yeah. That's so, that's hard though. He said, yeah, but canes has the cane sauce. That's hard. And he said, and then he brought it into, he's like, so like whatever, whatever people are like diminishing you for, he's like, yep, but I do have the sauce. He wouldn't, you're only good because of this. You're only good.
But I have, he's only good. Cause his dad was this, the nuggets are only good because they have Nicola yoga. They have them, but they have Nicola yoga. That's a great point. You know what I'm saying? LeBron's only good because he's 6'9", but he's 6'9". Drake's only good because he's got pop appeal. But he has pop appeal. I like that a lot.
It's like whatever it is, you're only good because it's like, yeah, well, you just said what they're the best at. That's so true. You know? Yeah. They have the sauce. They have cane sauce. Yeah. They have cane sauce. There's no Wendy's sauce. And thus, that restaurant's awesome. That's a great point. I actually love that. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. All right. My MV. I touched on this with you, but I'm going to do MVSR. Most Valuable Stevenson Ranch. Well, as I said that, I was like, that's definitely what you're going to think it is. Um, it's not gonna be that it's most valuable Sunday routine.
Yeah. We, uh, I went to the beach with Sarah. So we just, we did church at 7am and just hit the beach.
Yeah. But dude, I also like that too. Cause like, it's like Saturday. You don't, you can't go to ham.
And then you, so you do Friday maybe. And then Saturday you chill.
Sunday. And then, um, yeah, we went church and then the beach and we just, we basically sat on the beach. Did you wear swim trunks? No, we just like put a blanket out and sat. It was hot as a bee. And conversed. Yeah, it was hot as a bee. You did what? You conversed? We sat on a blanket and conversed. What was that like? Good. Good. We conversed about life and dreams. Sarah wants a horse one day.
Yeah, she loves horses. But we just conversed and sat there. No phones. It was great. Conversing's cool. Conversing's dope, yeah. Were you conversing the whole time? We haven't conversed for a long time. I can't remember the last time we conversed. Yeah. We like never, it's like, we, what do you, what is it? What is like, how do you even do that? Like, I think it's basically talking with someone.
So like we haven't done it. And we haven't, when's the last time we talked? I don't know, man. I don't even know. Four years ago. Wow.
shit yeah so we should converse sometime but it was dope it was dope we just sat on the beach also like i like actually i've never like utilized the things that i should utilize like at our old place like the pool never went to the pool or like the but the pool i didn't really we have the beach but then like the beach it's like i never like go to the beach but it's like i want to go to the beach every week now the beach is awesome
I like the idea of three. I like it too. I like it too. You guys let us know. Um, I think we're, I think we might stick with it. Uh, we got MVLV Rookski Confesh. Yep. We got stat of the day ski. We got maybe a little new ski, a little bit of question skis. Question skis. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. You want to kick off MV? I'll kick us off. Yeah.
And I was like, dude, we're in a vacation spot right here. Oh, for sure. It's awesome. Do you go on vacation? Uh, no, but you used to walk. No, but, but I, I, I don't go on the beach, but like sometimes like a walk, a walk on the beach, which is not on the beach, but on like the pier on the, uh, on the sidewalk on the pier sidewalk run.
Which is an awesome spot.
so you're like if you're like going on a run you're like the beach is the water's right there yeah you know what i'm saying and you're it's a crazy it's crazy we live here it is crazy i just find danny i just have sand issues man the sand stinks the sand absolutely stinks and that's why i kind of i retired the whole i just like kept the kick on until i sat on the blanket then took kick off then put kick back on but yeah there was a little sand and then don't wet your beaks man don't wet your be if you wet your beaks you're you're because what you're gonna put a sock on and a wet beak oh my god what are you supposed to do
And by the way, like, like it's, it's a, it's a, it's a great situation that you could walk to the beach. Yeah. Yeah. But then if you get in the water, cause I'm trying to maybe get into a cold plunge. Cooked. Cooked. You know what I'm saying? Like a cold plunge in the ocean type shit. Maybe you, maybe you go to the beach nude with a swim trunk on. Just nude with a swim trunk.
But then I still got to walk 10 blocks. Flippity flop.
Flippity flop in a trunk. And then no shirt on maybe. Yeah. You can do that in the morning. That'd be, that's normal here.
yeah that's fine it's just not you're not it's but you're you're not gonna do that that's the thing about that are you gonna do that tomorrow i just i just i don't i don't think i'm gonna do yeah yeah that's it that's and that's how i am just with the beach in general but i think i like this sunday thing because it also brings me the church we go to is by the way it's like literally you still go to that church yeah it's a 37 second walk from your crib right on man it's crazy if you want to um i could park at your crib theoretically yeah sure not that i will i'm saying it's it's really close
yeah um so you didn't transfer you you like that church love that church really love that church yeah interesting love that church i'm about to go to church the one right next to my house i've that one yeah yeah oh you go to that no we don't but i know what the one you're talking about so many it's just like i don't know if it's like the cheerleader effect we drove by them the most girls girls and uh maybe that's not why you're supposed to go to church but
No, but when we drove by there, I was like, I really like... These look like people that I would like.
Good fits. Yeah, but... And it's like... Good vibes. Yeah, girls for sure. But I don't know if it's like the... It seems like one at a time, we'd be like, oh, wait. No, no. I felt this literally when we went to church. I was like, this vibe is great. Great vibe. Because there's like hundreds of people out there. Yeah.
And sometimes they'll be doing it on like a... Like right now, they're probably doing it. It's a Wednesday night.
yeah yeah i don't know what they're doing i was like great jeans dude oh great jeans and like and yeah percent they they have like water jugs and stuff water jugs are dope water jugs with cone cups are sick you know it's hilarious like the first day i moved in there yeah dad like we were like i was just like showing around the neighborhood and like we walked by that place did he get a drink and i like no and he he disappeared and he was just like in the crowd like looking at a pamphlet that's so funny he was like reading all about it
He's so funny. The most dad thing I've ever seen him. I don't know how he like transported just like, but he also, and he's like meeting someone.
I've got, again, I've got four strong, strong contestants. I got some good guys as well today. I'm going to do Envy. I'm going to do, I'm actually, it's very rare I give this out. And first of all, I do want to point out, Danny's got a Marg in his hand. So if he starts acting a little bit out of pocket. Well, yeah. I mean, Sarah made herself a Marg. I was like, can I have one? Okay.
He's like standing really close to somebody.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was like, this place is great, bro. Or he's like looking at the wall, bro, bro, bro. I think he like bought two books. That's so funny. I'm like, I don't even know what that is all about. He's hilarious. I actually do think he bought a book at that place. Yeah. What was the book? I don't know. I have no idea. He walked out with like a book. He's like, you should read this, bro.
Yeah. Bro is so funny. Yeah, that's awesome. All right. LV for me.
Dunkin Donuts?
Shit.
And like Sarah, like went and hung out with the girlies. So wife was out of the house. So I was just, you know, just like dropping my nuts and walking around and shit. And I was like, I'm gonna get a pizza because like we're not cooking tonight.
So I got a pizza from Papa John's, Buffalo chicken pizza. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, pepperoncinis for 30 cents. Or no, it was not pepperoncinis, banana peppers for 30 cents. Banana peppers pack a punch, man. They're good though. But that's a good pepper. By the way.
Does anything have more taste per capita? No, dude. They got spice. They got taste. The most taste per capita. Yeah, per capita for sure. Don't worry about it, man. No, but you guys are going to start to just figure it out. Is it good? You're locked in? Not really because look. All right, then just drop the arm. I don't, but just drop the arm now. No, it's fine.
So yeah, I got... So it was buffalo chicken pizza with banana peppers in the box. And then I was like, oh, free for some like spice. What's the... The little paprika. The little peppers, the paprika shit. So I got a couple of those. I don't even know if that's what it's called, but...
so i just got you know ordered the shit got it um there were like seven big banana peppers like housed them housed them and then i was like buff chicken pizza i threw the spices on just didn't really think about it so i was banana peppers and buff chicken hot buff chicken pizza with the spices ate the whole thing and my stomach was it was like worse than the hot chip it was like i had three hot chips just by myself without my wife sitting there just fucking like i just got home like
Yeah, I was like a six-year-old. And my stomach was so f***ed up for like a couple of hours. And I was like, what am I doing?
And let me just show this to the crowd, you know, because I think oftentimes people are speaking about this kind of authoritarian creep, right, that it's kind of incoming. I would argue that it's here. And we're dealing with it right now. And I'm going to give you Exhibit A right now, which to me, as an American citizen, as somebody who's
grown up in this country as somebody who's looked at these other countries like north korea like russia like saudi arabia not in a positive light to see stuff like this ben i'm not sure if you've seen this um right now but these are real posters that are going up across washington dc on government buildings and you can see this for our audio listeners there are these posters that they're hanging up of donald trump's face it's his portrait it looks like his uh that looks like his mug shot
And it's these big roll down all across the big pillars, columns in DC at these buildings. And this photo that we are showing right now for those listening, you have the image of Donald Trump on one of these government buildings on the left.
And then it's showing you on the right what it looks like in these other countries, like in North Korea and Russia, when these autocratic leaders also put their big pictures, roll it down on these big columns across the country. And to me, when I see things like this, I think there are some folks that may look at this and say, oh, what's the matter with that?
When I see this, I go, this is a clear sign of fascism. We've never seen this before in this country. And it is not what the United States stands for. I think this is grotesque, grotesque stuff that we're looking at right here.
Do you remember the coverage of President Obama back in the day? There would be, oh, this would be Fox all the time for those who maybe didn't watch the movie. All hail the anointed one. Oh, King Obama. He wants to be king. The things they would say about the guy are quite literally what Donald Trump did and President Obama never did. anything like this. It's just a complete bizarre world.
Like I've said in the past, this cannot exist without the complicity of the media. This cannot exist without the foxes and without this right-wing ecosystem just pumping bullshit, these right-wing algorithms getting into people's veins, because anybody who could look at this objectively should be able to see exactly what we all see, what this audience sees right here.
They've got books to sell. Honestly, shame on those people. Shame on you for focusing on this. Shame on you for trying to turn this into a story when we have serious issues in this country right now, when it is unclear if we are even going to have elections in the future and we are fighting every day for our democracy.
Shame, and you know exactly who I'm speaking about, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axe. All you people are a disgrace, honestly, to the entire journalism profession, to American citizens, to everybody who has fought and died to protect this country from fascism. Shame on you. You should be absolutely ashamed.
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Now, you know one of the things I noticed, and I think, you know,
it's crazy i think a lot of them you would agree with this but um elon musk and donald trump and the republican party they've come in and their whole thing one of the words that they've repeated ad nauseum we're going to deal with waste fraud and abuse waste fraud and abuse meanwhile let's put aside the fact that they themselves are the waste fraud and abuse and let's focus though on the fact of what are they actually calling waste fraud and abuse because
If there was actual fraud going on, there would be arrests right now. There would be arrests happening, right? And what we have found also throughout history is that fraud in these systems is not perpetrated by citizens for the most part. It's perpetrated by people like Rick Scott, right? Republican senator who took advantage of the health care system.
It's done by corrupt health care companies who take advantage of the system, not by the people. So don't take away the health care from the people. Don't take away people's Medicare. Don't take away people's Medicaid. That's the first thing I want to focus on. Second, what Donald Trump also always describes as waste, fraud, and abuse is just the idea of spending money in general to help people.
And like, this is called an economy. It's a free market. And when you spend money, if you're getting things in return, that doesn't mean you lost the money. Okay. And we've seen Trump now time and time again, like the trade deficit and this tariff Donald Trump's trade war is the perfect example of this. Because what is something that Donald Trump says?
Donald Trump says it's great that there are no ships in the ports anymore. It's great that we're not getting any goods because we're not losing money to China. Huh? What the heck does that even mean? Because in Donald Trump's mind, just the very fact that people are purchasing goods that they need and want, that is losing money.
I mean, if you purchase a television, right, if you purchase a television, if you purchase a car, if you purchase groceries, which Donald Trump has an issue with that word for some reason, you are getting something in return. You are not just losing money. It is not waste. It is not fraud. It is not abuse. It is the act of paying money and getting something in return.
And Trump and these Republicans think, oh, all these programs, oh, you know, funding for the NIH.
funding for medicare for medicaid it's just all waste it's all a fraud we shouldn't be spending money on this period neglecting the fact that it has real tangible benefits and that people rely on this stuff and that it actually helps the economy because it allows people to live and be productive members of society they always neglect that fact oh let's get rid of all of these irs workers let's get rid of all the people who are actually bringing in the money
You don't think you're going to lose revenue because of that? Because there are plenty of nonpartisan studies and there's plenty of historical reference points that you could point to and show that when you do things like that, you are actually decreasing the revenue that you are bringing into the United States of America.
You are actually harming the United States economy and you are increasing the deficit that you pretend to care about and that the media likes to label U.S. fiscal hawks for, even though every time these Republicans get into power, They explode the deficit. They are the most reckless spenders, and they do it all while causing chaos and while destroying the programs that folks really rely upon.
And the irony of it all is their own voters are often the people who rely on them the most.
At minimum, at minimum. We know that there are over a thousand cases and it's the most since Donald Trump was president the last time. That's at minimum what we know right now from the data.
You know, keep it on track of.
By the way, you know what was a tell? When Sean Duffy went on TV the other day and explicitly said,
could happen in a lot more this could actually affect all airports all over the country like like is that the thing you want to hear from the guy in charge of our transportation that like oh yeah just get ready buckle up folks good luck at the airport have a have a good flight good luck everybody that's not the kind of messaging i want coming i want people who are actually proactive who are actually going to do things that's why the honesty is important
And that's why the lying isn't just a game. It's not just a horse race issue. It's not just, oh, this person said this, that person said that. There are lives on the line. There are people traveling across the country by airplane, by train, by whatever it is.
And we have to be able to figure out and we have to be able to understand and trust our leaders that they are being honest when they're telling us about our safety of our air travel and everything.
And in fact, the people who they are giving the boot...
are the people who are actually trying to tell the truth to the american people i mean it's not the people who are trying to fix the problems it's the person the people who are raising their hands and going there's an issue here we got to solve this they go get out you're not allowed to say that in this regime you're not allowed to criticize this regime you got to say everything's great and if it's not great it's because of biden you can't criticize this like have you guys seen this story with tulsi gabbard tulsi gabbard has fired the leaders
of the intelligence group, an agency who wrote the assessment on Venezuela that contradicted Donald Trump's BS legal rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members. They said, this just isn't true. This is BS. Donald Trump is predicating all of his comments right here in the courts and to the American people are on lies. I'm sorry, these are lies.
And instead of saying, oh, thank you for telling the truth to the American people, they go, get the hell out. That's what the Trump administration is doing, and that's how they handle things across agencies. And it would be one thing, and no pun intended here, if Donald Trump came in and said, I'm going to leave everything on autopilot. No pun intended.
But if he goes, listen, things are going on a good trajectory. I'm just going to golf and we'll let this stuff happen. But what's the first thing he did?
he came in he disrupted the faa he started firing people he started asking people to take these buyouts he caused trauma throughout every organization he disrupted every single agency without thinking of the effects he dismantled the ebola prevention in africa like everything he did was not with a scalpel it was with a sledgehammer and then people's lives were on the line and continue to be on the line
And then after doing all this damage, the tariffs, you name it, whatever it is, they cause real harm, real damage to both people. They cause damage to companies. Prices right now are skyrocketing. And if they haven't yet with some companies, we're hearing these announcements already that prices are about to come up in a big way.
A CEO today was on television and he was warning about these tariffs. He said, we got to raise prices. Prices are going to rise quick also. We're putting our price increases in effect ASAP. Listen to the Walmart CEO, the famous woke lib Walmart CEO. I say that sarcastically, obviously, but listen to him today.
And I said CEO, that's the CFO of Walmart, but his words there were incredibly clear. Prices are rising quicker than they have ever risen. This is not some woke company saying this. This is Walmart saying this. And they directly are citing Donald Trump's tariffs and his trade war for this.
Because even though the markets, the Wall Street traders, the media wants to fall for the scam where Donald Trump puts extra tariffs, and he goes, we're going to put a zillion percent tariffs on China. He goes, 145% tariffs. And then he brings it back down to a still very high elevated tariff. That's still incredibly detrimental. All the recession indicators are still on.
They may be slightly less than they were, but we're still there. And the prices are still increasing and people are still about to get screwed. And so the Walmart CFO, in addition to saying that, said that the tariffs are forcing this issue. The tariffs are forcing us to raise the prices. Why? Because we cannot afford with thin margins to not pass this on to the consumer.
Remember when Howard Lutnick And Donald Trump and all these people in the Trump administration just days ago and over the past few weeks have been saying, the companies actually eat the tariffs. In fact, the companies act always eat the tariffs. The country eats the tariffs. It doesn't even make any sense. Of course it's passed along to the consumer. This isn't up for a debate.
And that's why a lot of these argument shows also that I see on TV, when you see the clips of like, oh, you got the – what's the guy from – I O'Leary, Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank, he's screaming at, you know, the person from the Biden administration, and they were having a debate about the tariffs. And O'Leary says, suck it up. Nothing's going to happen. It's great.
No, this isn't, these aren't debatable things sometimes. Okay. This is basic facts. It's basic facts that the tariffs are going to be passed along to you and me. We are going to pay the price. And you could listen to the Walmart CFO discuss this and the effects of Donald Trump's trade war here.
Chapo's family, Afrikaners. Like if you were pro-apartheid, you are experiencing a genocide right now. Not a true thing. Trump is making this up. your experience, and you need to come here. And then you see these ridiculous videos, these Afrikaners coming here. They look great. I mean, they're doing fine. And not only is Trump allowing them in the country- 2.7 million can enter, 2.7 million.
Yeah, and the first batch, I think, of 50 came in. And I think a lot of people don't even want to come in. But not only are they coming in, but normally the process takes- It could take up to like years to get all this happening, to get people in the country in these sorts of programs. It could take 18 months. Donald Trump expedited it, boom. They were in the country like overnight.
And they said, and not only that, if you look at the criteria for how to prove you are a quote unquote refugee, because it's total bullshit, You look at the criteria, there is no criteria. This literally doesn't exist. All it says is, oh, no, you don't have to prove anything. Just say you want to come here, and you're in. You're good.
Meanwhile, like the Afghan interpreters who risk their lives, literally put their lives on the line in order to protect our troops, they are being sent back to the country. They are being kicked out. The Venezuelans fleeing the Maduro regime, as Ben said, they are being kicked out.
The people who are actually escaping persecution across the world are being kicked out of the country while Donald Trump fabricates this excuse in order to bring these Afrikaners in and El Chapo's family in.
I mean, it's so far beyond parody right now that I don't even know what else to say about it other than just lay out the facts of what is happening right now before our eyes to just utter insanity of it all.
Very productive. And Ben, if I could just do a little housekeeping before we go. Please. First, I want to express my gratitude towards everybody here. It's been a whirlwind of a week for us. We've been doing a lot for the network behind the scenes and in front of the camera. And it's all because of you, the Webbys. That was incredible.
But the work is what's most important, getting this message out. But I do want to thank you because we wouldn't be there without you. Today also, we got to attend a special event with YouTube, which was extra special.
youtube announced the launch of their youtube podcast charts the first time they're ever doing it and the midas touch podcast is the top news podcast on the youtube podcast charts and so you know it's an honor to be a part of that group and once again that's thanks to you um i also want to encourage everybody who's watching this right now live or even if you're listening this make sure that you are you are subscribed to the midas touch podcast on audio so that means go to apple podcast go to spotify
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It's a whole thing. It's easy. And then lastly, I also want to remind people to check out our interview with Katie Kirk. It's the first time the three of us were in the same room at the same time.
on an interview is an honor to do it with katie kirk somebody who we've you know grown up watching somebody whom we admire and uh and i think you'll really enjoy that interview just go to katie kirk's youtube channel or go to her podcast feed and uh and i think you guys will like it let us know what you think also you know in the comments because i'm i'm curious to get your thoughts we really opened up um in a way that we don't get to as much you know on this show or other shows so i hope you enjoy it
Yeah, that was quite the intro. It's good to be here, Ben. Good to be here, Mike. Yeah, no, it's absolutely nuts. It's absolutely crazy as expected. And it shows once again that Trump is always gonna put the kind of appearances before the actual action and getting things done. I think that's something we see constantly in Trump's remarks and he doesn't care if things are true or not true.
He doesn't care if it actually benefits our troops or benefits our military. All he wants is the appearance. He wants the appearance of things are better. We are strong. Things look nice. When you see him speaking even about this jet, this Qatari jet that he's been gifted, he constantly speaks about how everyone else's jets are so much bigger and better, and we need a bigger and Better jet.
Oh my goodness. It's just the most ridiculous thing. And I think that stealth clip kind of gives it away, you know, as well. Like what's better than having the top of the line stealth jet in the United States military or air force. And then you have, you know, Donald Trump saying that he doesn't care about that. Actually, he just wants them to look pretty. That's his whole thing.
anyway i want to address the fact that we are once again off location we've been traveling around um jordy is in the room with me once again it should be the last day of our little off-road uh podcast uh tour over here and i hope everybody's uh been been digging it we had we had a big week this week you know as we mentioned uh earlier in the week we had the webby awards on monday thank you to everybody uh midas touch podcast was awarded podcast of the year
which was awesome. And then one of the things that's very cool that was just released today. So you all could check this out right now is we got to do a hour 40 minute interview with Katie Couric. I mean, somebody who I've admired for an incredibly a long time. We sat down in studio and, with Katie Couric, our first in-studio interview, the three of us together.
And I think if you ever wanted to hear from us in kind of a long form format and really dig into kind of who we are and our values and our thoughts, go check it out. It's on her YouTube channel. She called it the Midas Touch versus the Right Wing Media Machine. And you could check that out right now. And thanks for all the very nice comments about that that have been pouring in all day.
It's a grace. And, you know, one of the things we've seen also, you know, is Donald Trump will do those rambling speeches that we just showed you. It was totally nonsensical. And Donald Trump's team will, you know, they're easily flattered. Right.
So the prince of Saudi Arabia, the emirs of Qatar, you know, all these people, they will go and they will say things like, wow, groundbreaking speech by Donald Trump. Incredible. One of the best the best we've ever heard ever. And this just then gets parroted by other people in the media and stuff. And you're like, he didn't say really words.
OK, like there's nothing is there's nothing going on there. Let's stop pretending like that was anything but Donald Trump just ranting and raving like a lunatic. and frankly selling out the United States.
It's been interesting actually in particular, and I want to call this out up front, to see Fox News spin, or should I say state-run medias spin with all this, because they sure as hell know that this trip has been an utter disaster, and they know that Donald Trump is selling out America quite literally to the highest bidder.
So they always say the opposite, and you could always see what they're afraid of by looking at how Fox News frames things. And then think, what's the opposite of that? And that's what they are trying to combat. That is like Fox propaganda 101. So as we see this trip, the way they describe it is, you know, President Trump puts America first and America first. first in what are you talking about?
He's literally going out there and he is selling out the country to the highest bidder. And that's how you want to frame all of this. I mean, if you just go through everything and then to add to it, it's not even just Trump himself, it's his cabinet, it's the people around him.
We are dealing with the most incompetent administration in history right now, and people's lives are being risked through all of this. It's not just all fun and games. It's not a horse race. This isn't palace intrigue and the stuff Jordy was talking about that the media seems to be very focused. They're talking about prison.
president biden right now i mean what the heck are you doing like this is the weirdest weirdest thing ever meanwhile you have these faa shortages and this is stuff that i've even encountered just going to airports over the past few days and seeing hearing them speak about it saying they have shortages over the speaker and saying that there are issues with the flights going to
Newark and all this stuff. Now we're hearing about more of this happening in airports across the country. And this administration and Fox, they just continue to try to pass the buck, pass the blame. Oh, this is Biden's fault. Everything's Biden's fault. He's even Trump, Ben, and we'll get to this soon. But Trump's like, I actually have only been here for a month or two.
My term doesn't actually start in January. It actually starts kind of now. It starts like a month ago because it takes a little bit to get up started. We need to have the media stop buying into all of the BS and all of the crap. And if they're not going to do it, we will do it here.
Ben, what do you make of the fact that now in both Trump administrations, his first kind of official state trip abroad has been to Saudi Arabia? I think it's kind of obvious to me. I'm curious to get your perspective, though. All the country behind 9-11?
It's a cigarette. We call them fags.
And that's when... That was fun. I want to do it with you.
Next few years. Next few years. You had it here fast.
We did agree.
Bye.
Ich weiß schon, dass Mitch im Hot Tub gejagt hat. Wenn die Jets sind, dann ja.
Three kids. Let's go. Three kids. That's all I could think of was three kids. I'm going to take three kids to soccer practice. Three kids to swimming lessons. Three little best friends. They're never going to get bullied because they have two best friends behind them at all times. That's all I was thinking about.
Ich war wirklich auf und runter in der Parkplatte. Ich war wirklich auf und runter auf und runter, wie ein Hund, wie zurück und zurück, wie ein Hund, weil ich dachte, ich habe drei Kinder. Verstehst du mich? Wie großartig ist das?
Du hast dich aufgewacht? Das ist das, was passiert ist. Haley war nicht sehr aufgeregt. Und das ist völlig verständlich. Aber ich war so überrascht. Und ich erinnere mich, wir waren an der Küchentafel oder an meinem Elternhaus. Wir waren im Wohnzimmer an der Zeit. Und ich habe gesagt, Haley, warum bist du nicht einfach... Warum bist du nicht so glücklich?
Und sie sagte, weil meine Gesundheit, Baby A's Gesundheit, Baby B's Gesundheit, Baby C's Gesundheit. Wir haben gerade ein Auto gekauft und es passt nicht in drei Autos. Wir werden nicht in unsere neue Wohnung fit. Und sie hat einfach angefangen, sehr echte Dinge zu nennen, die passieren könnten. Und meine Attitüde, ich meine, es war der größte 180, wo ich nicht richtig denken konnte.
Diese Nacht war sie im Schlaf, literally. In the bathroom, dry heaving.
Because I'm like, what if Haley's not healthy? What if baby A is not healthy? What if baby B, baby C, all of them, what if all four of them have... Because this is a really serious deal. And the doctor actually let us know that. He goes, I need you guys to know how serious this pregnancy is going to be. So all that hit me. So I... literally dry heaving in the bathroom. We're at my mom's house.
And I didn't want to wake her up because I wanted her to sleep. So I was so worried about her. I'm worried about my wife and I'm worried about my three kids that she's currently holding, right? So I went up to my mom's room like a child. Und ich habe sie aufgewacht. Mein Vater war aus der Stadt. Ich habe sie aufgewacht und ich habe einfach angefangen zu weinen.
Und sie hat mich gerade um 4 Uhr mitgebracht und mir gesagt, dass alles okay sein wird. Deine Kinder werden gesund sein. Deine Frau wird gesund sein.
Sie fragte mich, willst du hier schlafen oder willst du mit Hayley nach Hause gehen? Ich ging nach Hause und schlief mit Hayley am Abend. Aber sie hat mich in diesem Moment gefreut, weil ich absolut furchtbar war. Und ich wollte sie auch nicht mehr stressen, weil der Arzt sagte, dass ich meine Stressniveaus niedrig halten soll, weil das einen direkten Einfluss hat.
Also war das auch so, ich weiß nicht, es war einfach verrückt.
Haley ging in die Arbeit und sie konnten es nicht stoppen. Und normalerweise... Es gibt eine kleine Triplett-Gemeinschaft, von der wir Fragen stellen. Alle hatten Beispiele, wie wenn wir Arbeit hatten. Du gehst ins Krankenhaus und sie stoppen es irgendwie.
And it's to help the baby's brain?
Oh, I use it for everything. Oh, I do too. We were on the plane yesterday to come here. And they started spraying down our plane with something. Und ich dachte mir, was in der Welt? Es hat uns gefreut. Es hat uns gefreut. Ich dachte mir, da ist etwas wirklich falsch. Wir sind immer noch auf dem Boden und ich war immer noch gefreut.
Aber dann habe ich mich gefragt, warum sie mein Flugzeug jetzt sprayen. Ich bin in Salt Lake City. Und ich habe gesagt, oh, es ist, weil das Wetter so hoch ist und sie werden wahrscheinlich dieses Ding benutzen, damit das Flugzeug nicht im Wasser kühlt. Es weiß einfach alles.
Du kannst either use AI or ask your nurse wife. She also has the answer to a lot of stuff. I don't know, I'm starting to forget things.
Ja, aber es war hilfreich, weil wir die Nahrungstübe, die durch ihre Nase in ihren Bellen fließen mussten. Was?
Was ist es so, wenn du 28 Wochen Kinder hast?
They had to learn how to eat. They had to learn how to breathe. They had to learn how to go potty. Like, yeah.
Their bodies weren't ready to do any of those things. So when they're born, they're gonna have to learn how to do everything. Breathe, gehen in die Toilette, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, trinken, Das war die schwerste Sache. Es war so schwer.
Also, stell dir vor, dass deine Hand mit den Armen und den Füßen abhängt.
Warte, warte, warte.
Und die Beine waren einfach auf deinem Kopf. Und die Arme. Das ist das kleinste Baby, das ich jemals vorstellen konnte.
Was verrückt ist, dass dieses Gesetz so unkontrolliert war, dass ein Sozialarbeiter von der Regierung reingekommen ist, richtig?
Weil die Versicherungsfirma kann, ich meine, sie könnten dafür bezahlen, aber es schmerzt sie so schlecht, dass sie gesagt haben, hey, das wird jetzt 100% von der föderalen Regierung gefördert werden, also strengt euch nicht daran. Also das war ein riesiger Stress. Das ist wirklich gut.
They've never been alone. They've never been alone, everybody.
Und es gibt keinen Weg, dass wir das jemals bezahlt hätten. And that's the other thing. When doctors are coming in, we know there's a price tag to all this stuff. But when you're in that moment, it doesn't matter. Even if we're going to go a billion dollars in debt, do it. Save my kids' lives, please.
To make your kids cold go away.
I'm talking to my friends, I'm like, would you kill someone with your bare hands for that?
Sie haben viel durchgeführt. Sie haben wirklich für ihre Leben gespielt. Und man will kein Kind, das geboren wird, und das erste, was sie tun müssen, ist, für ihre Leben zu kämpfen. Und sie wägen zwei Kilo, und sie wissen nicht, was passiert. Und sie haben all diese Millionen Korken, die sie verbinden, und sie sind einfach im Inkubator. Und sie können nicht mal Licht an, weil es zu viel ist.
Die Temperatur muss perfekt sein. Und Haley war einfach die größte Mutter der Welt. Und der Grund, warum sie so viel wachsend sind, ist, weil Haley mit ihnen zusammenarbeitet, bis heute, 24-7, auf ihre Sprache, auf ihre Entwicklungsfähigkeit. Und wir gehen zu, wir haben, was heißt das, wenn Leute kommen und uns mehr helfen? Wir hatten Sprachtherapeuten.
Sprachtherapeuten und Leute, die mit allem helfen, Bewegung. Und sie sagten, du bist für 28 Wochen... Und Triplets auf dem Topf, die wohnen. Das ist ein Fallstudium, wie deine Kinder sich entwickeln sollten, wenn sie so jung geboren werden. Das ist ein Wunder. Sie ist mit diesen Kindern 24-7. Sie hilft ihnen zu sprechen, sie hilft ihnen zu bewegen.
Sie machte Übungen mit ihren Beinen, damit ihre Beine funktionierten. die richtige Art. Sie ist die größte Mutter der Welt und ich kann nicht glauben, dass ich mit ihr verheiratet bin. Ich kann nicht glauben, dass sie die Mutter meiner Kinder ist.
Ich glaube, du bist der größte Vater der Welt.
Triplets is the best thing ever. We literally told each other, let's not cry.
We don't talk about this like ever. I don't even know if you've ever told your following, but you should tell them about the news that we got in the NICU when they did those scans.
Das war so... Nicht möglich, sie haben es gemacht.
Sie haben den Gehirnscan gemacht und kamen zurück und sagten uns, hey, deine Kinder werden dieses Verhältnis haben. Und es kann von einem Arm sein, der ein paar Bewegungsprobleme hat, oder sie können komplett verletzt werden. Ich habe einige Dinge in meinem Leben durchgegangen, wo ich meinen Vater zu junger Zeit verloren habe. Ich habe meinen besten Freund verloren, direkt nach der Hochschule.
Yes, our middle child.
Es ist einfach viel zu viel Tod in meiner Familie passiert. Es gibt eine Liste und ich weiß nicht, warum. Das ist mir passiert. Aber die Nachricht, dass dein Kind mit so etwas umgehen könnte, war das Schlimmste, das ich jemals gehört habe. Also ich schaue auf Eltern, die Kinder mit, weißt du, was sie durchgehen, eine Behinderung, was auch immer es ist.
Und ich denke, dass diese Eltern die weltweit größten Menschen sind. Um so Kinder zu erwerben und patient genug zu sein, schaue ich so sehr auf diese Menschen auf. Ich sehe Eltern, die mit einem Kind, der verletzt ist, einen Stuhl drüber drücken. Ich schaue auf Hailey jedes Mal und denke mir, das ist wahrscheinlich die größte Mutter oder Vater der Welt, die das tun kann.
Ich glaube nicht, dass ich das machen könnte.
Sie hat keine Schlafprobleme, sie schläft einfach nicht gut. Sie ist kein guter Schlafer. Sie wacht erst auf, egal was, und schläft am Ende, egal was. Aber sie ist völlig in Ordnung. Das ist einfach, was sie macht.
Oh yeah, they fight like crazy. I mean, it's just what you would think. I always tell people, like, what is it like having two two-year-olds? I'm like, whatever you're thinking, it's probably pretty accurate.
Und er ist der süßeste kleine Junge. Er liebt es, mit uns zu kochen. Was auch immer wir tun, es ist egal. Er will helfen. Also hilft er immer. Ich werde die Schuhe auf den Bett legen. Und er ist einfach so, da, da, da, da. Ich weiß nicht, was ich tun soll, aber bitte zeig mir, wie ich das tue.
He loves shaving. We bought him a little toy shaver. And anytime I'm shaving, he'll just, you know, with his toy shaver, he'll be doing this. It's so, he's, he's so fun. All three of them are amazing.
Und es gibt auch etwas, was in ihr eingegangen ist. Weil, als sie Jugendliche waren, gab es keine Zeit für den Gym. Oh, absolut. Wir schliefen. Es gab ein Baby, das 24 Jahre alt war. Es gab ein Baby oder drei Babys oder zwei Babys, die wach waren. At all times of the day. Not exaggerating. There was a baby awake at all times of the day for months and months and months. So someone was awake.
Unsere Kinder wurden 28 Wochen alt. Du willst nicht ein Kind haben, das geboren ist und 2 Kilo wiegt und nicht weiß, was passiert. Und das erste, was sie tun müssen, ist, für ihre Leben zu kämpfen.
Yes, we moved in with my parents, which was... Ich weiß nicht, wie wir das ohne sie machen könnten. Sie würden mit uns auf Schiffen arbeiten und das würde uns helfen. Aber was ich auch gesagt habe, auch mit dem, und Hailey hatte keine Zeit für sich selbst zu tun, sie war immer nur die Superheldenmutter und ich dachte mir, wie bist du denn, weil ich absolut entspannt war.
Ich habe nie, ich war nie auf dem Punkt in meinem Leben, bis ich Triplets hatte, wo ich schlaflos aufstehen konnte, ist es so, wie es sich gefühlt hat. Aber sie ging einfach weiter und ich dachte mir, wie bist du denn immer noch? Was ich also sagen will, ist, dass es etwas drin ist in dir, vielleicht sind es alle Moms, die einfach weitergehen.
Ich weiß nicht, ich glaube nicht, dass ich das hatte, als ich geboren wurde, aber du hast es definitiv getan.
Wir haben eigentlich darüber gesprochen, wir müssen uns darauf konzentrieren, vielleicht sollten wir darüber sprechen, aber wir sind so auf unsere Kinder 24-7 konzentriert und das stammt aus dem Zeitpunkt, als sie geboren wurden, weil sie volle Aufmerksamkeit brauchten, weil sie, wie du gesagt hast, sie kämpften literally für ihre Leben jeden Tag.
Ja, ich fühlte, als sie geboren wurden, dass ich nichts gemacht habe, aber nur auf sie konzentriert war und mich um sie kümmerte. Bis zu dem Punkt, wo es für mich sehr unnötig war. Ich habe so viel Gewicht verloren, weil ich nicht gegessen habe. Wir mussten nachhause essen, und ich hatte den Schmerz von meinem Vater, wenn ich aus dem Krankenhaus gehe und Chik-Filet oder was auch immer trinke,
Das ist eine Stunde von meinen Kindern entfernt. Und sie brauchen uns dort. Sie haben immer gesagt, dass sie so viel wie möglich hier sind, weil sie deine Stimme hören. Und sie halten sie wirklich wichtig für ein prämaturiertes Baby und alle Babys. Wenn ich angefangen habe, mir selbst zu kümmern und mich wirklich mehr auf mich selbst zu konzentrieren, war...
Und wie viele Jahre, wie viele Monate total denkst du, als wir uns aneinander angeschaut haben, dass wir uns viel mehr darauf konzentrieren müssen, weil... Wir sind großartige Eltern, aber wir haben uns als Spätsommer verabschiedet, was wir nicht erwartet hatten, weil wir so stressig und traurig über unsere Kinder waren.
Sie waren wahrscheinlich ein Jahr und ein halbes Jahr alt. Es hat einen Zeitraum gedauert, um Dinge auf meinem eigenen Weg zu machen, zum Beispiel einen Rennen zu gehen oder zum Gym zu gehen oder mit Freunden zu gehen. Alles, worüber ich schuldig war.
Superwoman.
Es war verrückt.
Nein, deiner ist Service. Das ist deine größte Lieblingssprache?
Ich denke, es ist Service, nicht Service. Das ist immer seltsam, wenn Leute sagen, aber wenn ich die Tür öffne, bedeutet das viel für sie, was großartig ist. Ich liebe das.
Würdest du das akzeptieren?
Wörter von Affirmation.
Bin ich falsch?
Ich weiß genau, was du sagst. Ich liebe es, wenn Hayley meine Rücken schmerzt. Das ist mein Lieblingsding in der ganzen Welt. Dinge wie das. Das ist meine Lieblingssprache. Für mich ist es so, oh, sie ist in einem guten Mood, weil sie meine Rücken schmerzt. Oder, ich weiß nicht. Ja, das bedeutet nicht nur Intimität.
We need to do that test.
We didn't even know each other's, what it was.
Wir haben uns ziemlich schnell verheiratet und ziemlich jung. Und herauszufinden, wie wir mit einander kommunizieren sollten, weißt du, wenn du mit jemandem 24-7 bist, das war hart.
We were met and married within six months.
Six months later, there's rings on her finger.
Listen, I know that that sounds so crazy, but it was, to me, it was so obvious, like, I love her. I love her so much.
Okay, so this is actually kind of a cool story. So I was on spring break with my friends and we were going on a cruise, on a carnival cruise to... Out of California. Out of California, somewhere in Mexico. And we got to the, to the, wherever city we were in in California a day early to make sure that, um, um, just so we didn't miss the cruise, right? So...
Am Tag bevor, wusste einer meiner Freunde über eine Wedding, die in Malibu stattfand. Er sagte, hey, es gibt eine Wedding in Malibu, ich möchte da hin. Und ich dachte, oh, ich will da auch hin. Sie hatten nichts zu tun. Ich habe meine formalen Kleider in meinem Backpack für die Crew, für diese schönen Dienste. Also habe ich entschieden, zu dieser Wedding zu gehen und es zu crashen.
Ich wurde nicht auf eine Wedding eingeladen. Ich dachte mir, ich werde einfach auf eine Wedding gehen und es fangen. Wow, das ist wie bei Wedding Crashers, Alter. Du bist der Grund, warum sie diesen Film gemacht haben. In meinem Kopf dachte ich mir, wir werden super respektvoll sein. Ich soll nicht hier sein, aber wir werden keine Szene verursachen.
Meistens wollen wir nur tanzen und hoffentlich ein schönes Abendessen haben. Also, ich stehe auf diese Wedding und sehe diese wirklich schöne Mädchen, die Hayley war.
Sie war eine Bridesmaid und ich bin einfach da. Ich soll nicht da sein. Niemand weiß, wer ich bin. Und ich habe meine Freunde gewechselt und ich dachte mir, das ist die schönste Frau, die ich jemals gesehen habe. Und sie sagte mir, du solltest sie irgendwann in der Nacht fragen. Und ich war so furchtbar, die ganze Nacht zu fragen, weil sie so schön war. Und ich war wie starstruckt von dieser Frau.
Und später in der Nacht, wir trinken Abendessen und ich trinke Abendessen an dieser Table mit dem Namen, wo jemand sitzen sollte. Aber ich warte, bis alle Schuhe gefüllt sind und ich habe eine Schuhe genommen, wo niemand sitzen sollte, weil ich nicht auf dieser Geburtstagssitzung sein sollte. Ich wollte nicht erstaunlich sein oder irgendwas. Ich wollte so respektvoll wie möglich sein.
Also sitze ich da und ich esse neben all diesen Leuten. Ich weiß nicht. Und dann kam ich zu einem Punkt und ich habe einfach mit ihr gesprochen, weil ich dachte, sie war schön. Ich habe einfach gesagt Hi, wie etwas super nonchalant. Und dann später in der Nacht.
Ich wollte sie wirklich, wirklich, wirklich fragen, und wir waren in Kalifornien, und sie machten den Bokeh-Toss und den Garter-Toss, und sie machte den Bokeh-Toss zuerst, und sie hat den Bokeh gefangen. Und ich habe all meinen Freunden gesagt, das ist perfekt, weil wenn ich den Garter fange, kann ich sie fragen. Und sie muss sagen, ja, weil das ist wie ein Fairytale-Type Ding. Das ist ein Film.
So they do the garter and all my friends box out all the people behind them, like the people that were supposed to be at the wedding. And there's a picture of it, of all my friends doing this and I'm just standing in front of them. So the garter just comes straight into my hand and I catch it. Und sofort bin ich so, okay, wo ist das schöne blaue Mädchen?
Also habe ich angefangen, Hailey zu suchen. Und ich sage, hey, du hast den Bokeh, ich habe den Garter. Du weißt, was das bedeutet. Wir müssen auf ein Date gehen. Und sie sagt, ich bin so sorry. Ich würde es dir lieben, aber ich kann es nicht, weil ich nicht aus Kalifornien bin. Ich komme aus Utah. Und ich war so, ich komme aus Utah.
Sie hat sie ausgesucht.
Und es hat funktioniert. Ich dachte mein ganzes Leben, ich werde aus Tinder verheiratet und es ist nichts falsch mit dem. Aber das ist, was ich dachte, was passieren wird. Und dann war es einfach eine coole Geschichte. Also, ja, ich habe jeden Tag verheiratet, wurde drei Monate später verheiratet. Drei Monate später, also sechs Monate total.
Ja, Matt macht das.
Es gibt einen Grund. Es gibt einen Grund. Manchmal könntest du es wieder tragen, wenn es nicht so dreckig ist. Ja. Sometimes it is dirty enough if it sits there long enough. So it's like, okay, now it's officially dirty. So there's like a gray area of when laundry should be in the basket or next to it.
The hamper stink worse.
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Mein Vater ist ein Twin.
Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, einen zusätzlichen aufzunehmen. Also ich sehe Triple-Familien mit oder sogar jede Familie. Es ist egal, ob es Triple-Familien sind, wie Eltern mit vier Kindern, fünf Kindern, sechs Kindern, sieben Kindern. Und ich bin so, oh mein Gott, das ist verrückt.
And my sister was also upstairs too. She moved in because she was also in the process of moving somewhere. So my sister was also living upstairs. I was so lucky. We had a bunch of in-house people helping and her family came over. We had a community. Es braucht ein Viertel. Es braucht ein Viertel, ja.
Also wir haben... Ich weiß es nicht. Ich habe einfach... We did this when we were single, or not single, when we were just us two. What is that called? Dual income, no kids?
Leute würden auf unsere Tür knacken und weglaufen und es wäre ein Pile von Stiefeln, wie größer als ich. Nein, nein, nein, nichts. Und bis heute wissen wir nicht, wer es macht. Die Leute waren nur nett.
Doink? Yeah, dual income. Dink. Dink. A dink. When we were dinks, meaning we had no kids. That sounds like a Gerard Turner. No dink. We were dink, man. What were we talking about? The date nights. Also, wir hatten nicht viel Geld, und wir haben uns verdoppelt, weil wir nur gute Entscheidungen machen wollten, glaube ich.
Also those wipes and diapers at one point took up half our garage.
We actually didn't find out the lady who was behind a lot of it, not all of it, because there's a bunch of anonymous people donating diapers and wipes to us. But Deb Coffee... Du hast uns tausende Dämpfer gedonatet, also danke dir, wenn du das schaust. Sie ist die süßeste Frau.
She's my neighbor going up and Deb Coffee, we love you. We love you, Deb Coffee.
Nein, du musst das erklären, was das war.
I think it's called Octuplets. She was producing that much milk. I can't even explain it to you guys. We had to buy deep freezers. Because we filled up our entire fridge, our entire freezer, and then we had to buy a deep freezer to start storing it like... Ich meine, hunderten von Gallen.
Und wir machten eine Home-Pizza, etwas so einfaches, und dann haben wir einen Film gesehen, um die Nacht zu beenden. Aber anstatt einen Film zu sehen auf der TV, habe ich immer versucht, einen Projektorscreen zu bekommen. Ich hatte einen kleinen, und wir haben einen Truck gefahren und irgendwo einen Bildschirm aufgeführt.
Ich habe ein drittes Baby gesehen, von Anfang an. Er legt das Ding über ihren Bein. Und ich sage, Doktor, was ist das? Es gibt ein drittes. Und er sagt, was ist das?
Ich liebe das für dich, Babe. Ich denke, das ist eine gute Idee. Das ist so lustig.
Und dann haben wir es da gesehen. Das ist so süß. Also nichts verrücktes, aber wir haben immer nur kleine Dinge wie das gemacht.
Wir lieben Utah. Ich weiß nicht, warum ich Utah so liebe.
Es gibt viele Familien. Wir lieben den Schnee. Wir lieben Soda. Wir lieben Swig. Wisst ihr, dass es ein Millionen Typen von Swigs gibt? Knockoff-Swigs. Ihr habt es hier in Arizona. Wir haben Swig.
I just can't handle how expensive Swig is. So Haley, I remember she came back with the soda, whatever. And I was like, I was like, what is it?
Like your favorite drink? Just very common, like coconut and, and Dr. Pepper, whatever. Dirty Dr. Pepper, whatever it's called.
Und es wird bis heute weitergehen. Wir machen immer noch solche Sachen.
Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich denke, ein Kaffee ist wie ein Dollar bei McDonalds, um den großen... Oh, ja. Und dann ist Swig sechs. Und ich denke, warum nicht einfach sechs trinken bei McDonalds und dann einen kleinen Pump mit Kokos. Hey, du kannst nie die Kraft eines besonderen Trinks unterschätzen.
Es ist mein Mom-Run. Es ist ihr Mom-Run, aber ich habe immer gedacht, was, wenn wir nur das Kokos-Ding in unserem Haus gekauft hätten?
I just let her do it because apparently there's a big difference.
How did you conceive them?
We're just like, what?
Um ehrlich zu sein, als wir die Triplets gefunden haben, waren wir nicht so aufgeregt. Ich verstehe, dass die Leute Triplets nicht wollen, aber jetzt, dass wir sie haben, ist es so, dass man sagt, du lebst in meinem Worst-Night-Prinzip und es ist eigentlich das größte Ding der Welt. Und ich wünsche mir, dass jeder Litter hat, wie wir es gemacht haben. Ja, es ist wirklich Litter.
Es ist großartig, aber wir bekommen das oft.
Oh yeah, so Costco. We go to Costco and for some reason everyone just feels so, they can ask us whatever they want.
Wait, so did you guys have sex? They say stuff like that. People go too far at Costco, I don't know what it is. But this guy comes up to me and he goes, are those triplets? And I'm like, yes, they are.
Immediately after and I'm like, Um, no. Nice to meet you.
Fünf Sekunden? Und dann war es so, oh, das ist verrückt. Schön, dich kennenzulernen. Er ist weg. Er wird einen 5-Dollar-Chicken kaufen. Er hat einen 5-Dollar-Chicken. Er hat einen 5-Dollar-Chicken. Er hat einen 5-Dollar-Chicken.
$5?
Do you buy the dollar hot dog?
Sie konnten ihre Hände von einem Seite nach dem anderen bewegen. Also, wenn sie so ein paar Stunden lag und ihre Hände, du weißt, sie haben alle diese Spots. Es beginnt zu formen. Es beginnt literally zu formen. Es ist eigentlich sehr üblich.
Und unsere Kinder haben normal geformte, es ist seltsam zu sagen, aber einfach normal geformte Hände. Weil wenn nicht, also eine unserer Mädchen, ihre Hände waren, weil sie immer auf einer ihrer Seiten war.
Also sie, sie nannten es eine Toaster-Hand. Es war wirklich dünn und groß.
Ein Toaster-Head? Ein Toaster-Head. Also der Helm hätte viel Druck auf den Topf ihres Herzens. Und es gab keine Druck auf die Seite. Also wenn ihr Herz wächst, weil ihr Gehirn wächst, würde es den Topf des Helms schlagen und er würde auf die Seite wachsen.
Und sie hatten die Option, sie sagten, willst du das machen? Es wird nicht von der Sicherheitsversicherung geschlossen, aber willst du das weitergehen? Weil wir nicht wissen, ob es überhaupt irgendwelche Auswirkungen hat. Und wir sind so, ja, ja, weil ich denke, dass sie damit glücklich sein würden, wenn sie älter sind, richtig?
Ich erinnere mich, dass sie uns sehr viel geholfen haben. Weil sie... Ich weiß nicht.
Weil es mehrere Kinder mit Helmeten gab.
Dinge, die du nie überlegen kannst.
Dann ist die Schwierigkeit davon eingeschränkt. Also kannst du es nicht besser machen. Ja.
Kann ich das Teil erzählen? Ja, du sprichst darüber. Sie erzählen uns die Nachrichten, dass unsere Kinder das haben. Es könnte schwer sein oder, wie ich vorhin erwähnt habe, nur ein Arm, das nicht korrekt funktioniert. million different possibilities but as a parent your head goes to the worst one you know and so that's what we were thinking so I
Ich hielt Tommy an der Zeit und ich habe angefangen zu hyperventilieren, wo die Ärzte mir Tommy von mir genommen haben, weil ich so für meine Kinder furchtbar war. Du willst das News nicht bekommen. Und ich habe meinen Vater angerufen und er, meine Familie kam zum Krankenhaus. Und er gab einem von uns, also allen von ihnen, aber er gab zwei unserer Kinder eine Heilung.
Er hat seine Hände auf ihre Hände gelegt, um sie zu heilen, damit sie können laufen, spielen und Erfahrungen erleben, die andere Kinder erleben können. Ja. Sie waren kleine 2-Pound-Kinder, also hat er ihnen zwei kleine Finger auf den Kopf gelegt. Er hat ihnen eine Gebetung gegeben, was im Grunde eine Gebetung ist, um das Kind zu gebeten.
In der Gebetung hat er erwähnt, dass sie es gebeten hätten, zu fahren, zu gehen und normale Dinge zu erleben, die andere Kinder erleben.
Und er hat es für die beiden Kinder gemacht, die gesagt wurden, dass sie mit dem Diagnostikum behandelt wurden. Und zwei Wochen später machen sie den selben Scan und es war weg. Und ich fragte, was passiert ist? Und sie sagten, wir wissen es nicht, weil auf dem Scan vorher, da sind all diese weißen Punkte. Und das bedeutet, das wird dieses Problem mit deinen Kindern verursachen.
Und diese weißen Punkte sind weg und wir können es nicht erklären. Ich habe gesagt, gib mir einen Grund. Und sie sagten, der einzige Grund ist, dass es ein straighter Wunder war, weil es keine andere Erklärung gibt, warum dieser Scan nicht funktioniert und dieser nicht, weil es unvergleichbar ist. Du kannst nicht zurück in die Zeit gehen. Es ist da für das Leben.
Also ja, das war der Wunder, den wir erlebt haben. Und wir glauben an Wunder, weil davon. Wow.
Es war unglaublich, bis heute war das einer der, weil Hayley in der Halle war, weil sie die News nicht hören wollte, wie der geupdatete Scan war, wie, oh, wir haben, was der geupdatete Scan war, wir haben jetzt mehr Details davon, was das ist, richtig, weil ihr Gehirn ein bisschen größer war, nur, sie konnten mehr Details bekommen und die Antwort war, es ist weg, ich war so, was meinst du, es ist weg, du hast gesagt, es könnte weggehen, also bin ich in der Halle gegangen, meine Augen auszudrücken, konnte es direkt sehen, habe sie sie im Grunde genommen, sie war so, was, was, was, ich bin so, es ist weg und du hast mir nicht mal geglaubt, weil es irreversibel war, ja,
Sie wird mir random kommen und sagen, ich denke, ich will noch einen. Ich bin so, bist du sicher?
Erzähl uns die Geschichte von 1, 2, 3. Wir dachten, wir wären verheiratet mit 1 und dann 2 und dann 3. Also wir haben basically drei... Drei Schocken. In dem gleichen Tag?
Über einen Zeitraum, der es noch verrückter gemacht hat.
I saw a third baby. I saw a third baby from the very beginning because the doctor told us, you have twins. Shut up. And he's doing the, you know, putting the thing over her belly. And I'm going, doctor, there's a third one.
I literally point at the screen and say, well, what's that? Well, what is that? And what do they say? Das ist nichts.
Ich habe ihn vorgeschlagen. Wahrscheinlich klingt das verrückt. Wie zehn Mal. Wie, Arzt, ich sehe einen dritten Sack. Weil er so erklärt hat, hier ist ein Sack, hier sind zwei Sacks. Auch auf dem Ultrasound. Auf dem Ultrasound kannst du den dritten Sack sehen, wie in der Runde, wie kaum. Und ich erinnere mich, als ich nach Hause in den Auto ging, und ich war so, das ist noch einer. Was ist das?
Das ist noch ein Sack.
Sie hat das nicht gesagt.
No, it was the doctor.
It was the doctor.
I immediately looked at the doctor, because I still have in my head.
I looked at the doctor. I don't even say anything. I just look at him like.
Really?
Right.
What?
Yeah.
Like...
I think that happens more and more as you go into Europe as well. We were talking about Italy and things like that and France and they're just lovely and kind of sophisticated.
Like, you make it so easy to just sit and look at us just chatting. Oh, you're so kind. Like, we've known each other for years.
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Why not? Get the energy up. Yeah, gets it going.
But I feel like everyone's different and that's okay. We're a team. That's okay.
Yes.
Jeremy, what was that like from a husband's point of view, seeing your wife struggle with feeling the need to people please, feeling the need to, you know, probably, yeah, you're taught as a kid growing up in the strict upbringing that you had is, you know, children obey your parents. You feel this need to always please everyone.
Yeah. Oh, for sure.
How did you navigate that and help Ginger navigate that as her husband?
Which I feel like last time we talked.
Oh, my God. Oh, man. That would be crazy. Oh, my God.
Wait, yes. Wait, so what if we go to a baked sushi place after this?
Let's freaking go. We love sushi. Let's do it. We love it. No, I'm so proud of you because I feel like, yeah, the people please her and you probably always went, whatever anybody else wants. No, you just said it. Did she pass the test? Let's freaking go. Okay. You passed the test. You did that sushi, baby. Thanks. That's awesome.
It's just so weird how our brains lie to us and tell us, oh, you need to be perfect. You can't have any Cheerios on your floor. They're not going to want to be your friend. So make sure there's no Cheerios.
Yeah.
In reality, I feel like, working super hard to be this perfect person is going to push people away. And it does. I've seen that in my own life where I went so badly for people not to think I'm weird that they end up thinking that I'm weird. Or because you act weird. Your fear of the thing you don't want to do ends up becoming greater than the desire you have for the thing you actually want.
And I love that that moment kind of helped bond you as friends. Cause you realized, Oh, she actually likes me for who I am. And I don't have to, I don't have to put on for this person.
Wait, that's the age gap I have with my brothers. Crazy. Is it okay? And I'm not as close to my younger brother as I am to my older brother. Don't tell us that. I'm sorry.
That's so good. Do you think some of the people pleasing came from a place of feeling insecure?
They know.
They know. They haven't had their party.
Oh my gosh. Wait.
First of all, I'm so sorry that you have gone through struggles with not feeling like you look the way that you want to look and feeling like you need to cut back on food because you want to fit in. That's horrible. And I'm so sorry that you've experienced that. Yeah. I guess my question is speak to what that experience was like. Speak to how it started.
Was there a certain event that triggered that chain of events in your life? What exactly led to you thinking, oh, I need to cut back on food to fit in so people like me?
Okay. You guys already know by the time this is out, but we're saying boy, because we're, we're like guessing the future.
I don't mind that. They have good poker faces. It's a good prediction. How are you doing with the pregnancy?
I love how she didn't get angry at you. I love how she didn't say like, oh my gosh, why are you doing that? No, no, no. Don't like it's so bad. She's like, hey, let's just hold each other accountable. I'm going to send you what I eat. You send me what you eat. Yeah, that seems so sweet.
this is the happy stage like i feel like i have more energy and i'm actually able to like get projects done things like that it's kind of nice is there anything that is frustrating like i know with abby when she was pregnant abby loves to like scold her skin when she's like in the shower in the in the bath so i'm like i'm like yo abby you can't make the water 200 degrees when you're pregnant sorry i don't shower in lava
so she has that deep strength but such a such a sweet sweet woman that is really sweet i love how you said that your mom was there for you and said you're going to be okay when you were going through that has that been a role that jeremy has taken on now that that that you're a married woman you have you know a third baby on the way like Has that relationship with your mom changed at all?
How do you call all of your siblings and your parents every week? Like, is there a calendar schedule? There's no way. I feel like you'd have to call two to three people a day. Oh my word, it's so true. Every day to be in communication with your family.
I just did some math. I'm a nerd, okay? What does it say? If all 19 of you have 19 children each, how many total grandchildren is that?
361. Whoa. 361 grandkids. I don't think any of them are going to have 19.
But still, though.
No, really? Which sibling is going to have 19? Or do you think? If you had to guess. If you were to make an educated guess right now.
Bless them. Yes. I hope they have help.
I was just talking to somebody the other day that had triplets, and they were saying, like, bro, if we did not have family by us, we would have died.
Do you guys have a plan for the birthday?
Yeah.
100%.
Jeremy, do you know, are you able to recite all the names in order?
That's impressive.
Your nieces or nephews? Well, you wouldn't be able to rock them off, but if you saw them, you'd know. How do you do birthdays?
That's why I don't.
Just casually calls Austin on the podcast. By the way, guys, our coffee is here.
I'm going to go grab the coffee.
Trying to cook this baby? Like what's going on?
Do you guys have a plan for the birth? Because I know some people are like, hey, we like to do a home birth or we like to do a natural birth. Any certain preferences there that you really want?
It was just what you have to do. I feel like for your personal vlogs on YouTube, you guys should put up like a sheet in like your guest bedroom and just put a camera in there and have the, do your own, like one of you should be the interviewer. One of you could be the interviewer and the other one's like, yeah, so today we went to the beach with the kids.
Close up of the unplanned sign. Oh, unplanned. Duh. We sat down with Ginger Duggar and Jeremy Volo, who revealed the shocking truths behind Ginger's new book, People Pleaser. Imagine being relentlessly stalked by paparazzi as an adult after growing up in the public eye. Ginger recalls the chilling reality of memorizing suspicious cars outside her home in LA just to stay safe.
Hey, TLC, if you're watching this, we found your new PA for all of your reality TV shows. And honestly, this is great behind-the-scenes content for you guys, too, because she's kind of like an OG TLC star.
Yeah.
Well, I feel like reality TV is going to evolve based off of, you know, things that we've learned from the just start of it. Like it seems like your family was kind of the start of reality TV. And so obviously... everyone's learned a lot about, you know, what can, what can happen, what, what doesn't happen, all that.
And hopefully I feel like we're already seeing this, but I'm thinking that reality TV will get like better and better for the people on the show. Um, just because unfortunately mistakes have happened in the past and we can learn from those, you know?
How do you guys like to protect your kids? I know you guys don't show your children on or I guess you don't show their faces on social media. Do you have any any strong convictions there about why you do what you do when it comes to protecting your children?
You talked in your book about paparazzi hunting you down while you're at the grocery store and you had an awkward moment. Can you tell us a little bit more of the inside scoop of what exactly happened and how you were feeling when you look in the news and you're like, oh, paparazzi is taking pictures of me while I'm at the freaking grocery store. What happened?
Oh yeah. Paparazzi can just come to your house.
Like do a stakeout, literally just have the camera ready to go. They see your door open and they'll take a picture of you. That's legal.
Are you kidding me? Yeah. The police can't do anything about it.
You found the photo? Oh, my gosh. It's so great.
We got to throw that on the screen. That moment.
Yeah, anything other than a dress or a skirt.
For sure. More than half an inch above the knee. Yeah.
Oh, unplanned, duh.
Jeremy, did you teach Ginger to swim at all? Was that something that you guys?
That's a power move that you're like, you know what? I'm an adult. I can't swim. But I'm going to learn how to swim. And you just did it anyway.
It was funny because Abby's not a people pleaser at all. Don't say that. It's a good thing. You're confident. You're comfortable in yourself.
You're not insecure, which is amazing. I love that for you so much. But we were talking about the book, and I was like, yeah, I feel like this book... could be a lot more helpful for me than you.
Or you get afraid to go to a social event because you're like, what is everyone going to think about me? What if I do something weird? What if I embarrass myself? Yes. And it's just like, it's weird. Yeah.
We have a friend in Hawaii that bought an inflatable pool and booked a hotel room on the North Shore and filled up the inflatable pool with water and gave birth to their child in that hotel room.
yeah for anybody that is confused about why we're talking about cinnamon twists in the book which you should all read the book is amazing and it comes out it'll actually be out by the time you guys are watching this episode by the way so go check it out people pleaser it's amazing but the cinnamon twist story is because wait should i tell this or should you tell because it's like literally your story either way either way
okay whatever i'll just yeah but basically they used to play broomball with all these different homeschool families and because ginger was one of 19 children her family at the time couldn't afford to get them fast food like that that was just like money was tight this was before the tv show 19 kids and counting and so one time this other family bought all of like ginger and all of her siblings cinnamon twist from taco bell and they thought that was like so bougie
Bro, you never know what goes on in hotels.
Such a fun person to be around too. Like I love your energy. I love that. If that's you, if you are like buying inflatable pools to give birth in a hotel room, like you're probably a really fun person.
You know, was there ever a time in your childhood where, where you disobeyed your parents?
I know, obviously, you made this decision as an adult and, you know, you had moved out, you were married, you know, just like being a mom. But when it came to wearing shorts or not, you know, no longer always wearing skirts, do you think your parents perceived that as being disobedient and adulthood?
I feel like you guys should send it. Honestly, that's what I would do if I were you guys. What the heck? Yeah, easy for you to say over here. Yeah.
I feel like our two-year-old's already doing that. Our two-year-old is an expert negotiator. So he knows every time that if he comes to me and asks me if he can have marshmallows.
He says a little one. Just like me. I love sugar. He's the same way. So he loves marshmallows, chocolate chip, coffee.
you need to obey dad but will you please forgive me for how I responded to what you did so it's like it's not just a one way street here and I think as a parent there's two ways you can teach your kids you can either metaphorically speaking crack the whip use fear to get them to do you know to train them up to try to get them to do you know the right thing or you can you can you know kindly correct them when they do something wrong and use positive reinforcement by encouraging them when they do something right and I feel like
This conversation will leave you rethinking everything that you thought you knew about Ginger's life. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Unplayed Podcast. Today we are joined by Ginger and Jeremy. Let's give it up. I think Jeremy hyped you up.
the latter is so much better because on the first flip side of that, if you're using fear to motivate your kids to do the right thing, they're probably going to have a lot of mental health issues. They're probably going to be constantly worrying about, oh my gosh, my daughter, oh my gosh, oh my goodness.
But if they know that they are loved by their dad, if they know that they're loved by their mom.
Yeah, and they just get excited about doing the right thing. Both can be effective in getting your kid to do the right thing. But I think using the positive reinforcement is so much better for their mental health. And they're going to grow up to be better human beings.
I'm like, how many children were conceived in this hotel room right now? You just don't know what goes on.
Or there's a positive alternative. But as a people pleaser, doesn't it feel weird to yell?
I was a little embarrassed when I yelled the other day but I was like also I would be more embarrassed and I would feel horrible if my kid got hit by a car so it's like you have to I feel the exact same way because I've been learning as a I think part of me like learning to not be a people pleaser and like resonating with so much what you said in your book is being a father you have to you have to for your own child's good learn to
yell sometimes like if my i've had situations too where my son is running into like about to get in the street and i have to yell and i and i don't want to sound mean or scary but i kind of have to make sure that yell is powerful because he knows that i never do that yes and so when i go no and he hears me so he stops right there and he doesn't go in the street yeah and he's safe yeah but i never use that
That's the only time I would use that.
But you have to.
What if you just have balance in your life? I think that's the key because I think Maybe it's more so our parents' generation, but obviously you have experienced this too. But I feel like maybe our parents' generation was, don't talk about your mental health, don't talk about your feelings, just put your head down, work, whatever. Yeah, you don't matter. It's just be selfless.
Humans should just don't make it about you. But now I think to correct that, we're seeing in our culture...
you know you you're powerful you're amazing you're you're a queen you're a king whatever which is really i think that can be helpful maybe for someone who's like deeply insecure to recognize like hey you actually have value like yeah you you were important as worth as a person yeah creating the image of god but it's like i think the whole point is just finding that middle ground of like hey you're valuable and so you don't not perfect
But yeah, you're valuable, but you're not perfect. And so maybe if you have people in your life that are telling you not to do something or to do something, you should always evaluate like, okay, are these people, is this the right group speaking into my life? Do they care about what's best for me? Do they have selfish ambitions that maybe they're trying to use me for something?
Maybe I need to change the friends I'm around because you're really a... As people, we represent our five closest friends. You just get all those tendencies and behaviors from the people that you surround yourself with. So I think it's really important to evaluate when someone encourages you or discourages you. Know like, hey, are they speaking truth into my life?
It's crazy. Something I've been talking with a group of buddies that I attend a men's book club with is how we let fear control so much of our lives as humans because we're fear-driven. It's like, oh, I'm afraid this is going to happen. Oh, I'm afraid this other thing might happen. And it's it's wild because I think fear has played a huge part of why I've people pleased. I'm still working on it.
Like I'm not I act like, oh, yeah, and I'm not people pleasing anymore. But like I'm I'm a work in progress. I'm not a perfect person. But it's incredible.
how how like you can want something so bad like you want to make everyone happy or you you genuinely like maybe it's coming from a good place right like i know you said obviously you've said how people pleasing can be selfish but i would also argue there's ways where people i mean people pleasing can really truly come also from a really good place where you're just like i want to be a good person yes and you want to be in community you want to have people like you it's good that you don't want to just be a jerk and like i don't care what you think like that's also a wrong reaction
Abby and I had a conversation a couple weeks ago where I realized that Abby has been operating, I really think, throughout our whole relationship in a place of just being content and not being driven by fear. She's very secure in herself. She's not insecure, which is such an attractive trait to have as a person. And I was realizing how I've lived my whole life being super insecure.
And I was like, babe... Because I was starting to feel secure. I was experiencing what it felt like to be secure. And I was like, this is a really good feeling, Abby. This is amazing. So you don't think about what other people are thinking about you all the time. She's like, no, I don't really care. And I'm like, wow, this feels amazing.
This feels so good just to know that you're valuable just as you are. It's not fun to be desperate. No.
I think the thing that I love most about the book, obviously you guys have your faith, which is like so, so important to you. And, um, I, I love, I love that, um, for you guys. And I, I think what's cool though is like anybody can read this book who has ever had a friend that struggled with people pleasing or maybe themselves.
There's just something so raw and vulnerable in the book that you touch on so well. Um, people pleasing and, uh, Yeah, it's not like you have to, you don't have to be exactly like you guys. You don't have to be from a Christian background to get something out of the book. So I think that's like really cool that you guys met people where they're at with the book.
Something I think will be really fun is you said in your book, Ginger, how you always would get fearful when people would bring up movie references, TV and film references.
Because you were so sheltered growing up being a homeschool kid with 19 total siblings. So we want to play a game because you said in the book that you've overcome this. We'll see how far I've come. We'll see, Matt. I wouldn't have done this if you still said this was like a big fear of yours. But since you said you've overcome this, we're going to play a game.
So we're going to go ahead and say some big movie quotes. In the car, Matt was like, what are some movie quotes? Good luck.
yeah so if you don't know it standard of normal maybe you get three cheats maybe you get like three options to cheat and then jeremy can help you there's only four we have no we can do more than four oh my god okay we're gonna start easy wait you had the article pulled up keep swimming just keep swimming what movie is the quote just keep swimming just keep swimming
You're kidding.
No, no, no.
Ellen DeGeneres is the voice of this character. This is like a comical character. Disney movie. Oh, so it's animated. Disney movie. Shark, baby, hoo-ha-ha, Nemo.
This isn't going to go up. After this, we're getting sushi, baked sushi, and we're watching Nemo.
Keep your head up. Keep your head up.
I'm going to say it with a sweet voice.
Come on, Ging. We've watched it. We've watched it?
Yeah, he has a creepy mask.
I don't remember.
I'm going to give you one more hint. Ready? Ready?
No.
Where are we going? What's a Yoda quote? What's a Yoda quote? Think about a fight in the sky. I don't know.
It's a baseball movie. It's a baseball movie with kids.
There's a big dog that the kids are fighting. The ball goes over into their yard.
I would say that. I would say that. Is it Wendy Peppercorn, who one of the main characters kisses?
Sandlot? Have you seen Sandlot?
okay that's it you should did you show it to me if i haven't i'm a horrible husband that should be the first one you watch okay okay there you go so far i've failed okay these movies are all that you should go see by the way okay no don't watch this list later okay well we shouldn't get get one you got you'll get one jen this is a song this is a song that i sing to my kids i'm gonna sing horribly this is kind of fun though i want to i want to do this one
What is this one, the top one? My mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
yeah it's on yep yes she got it is that the only one I didn't give her a single hint no I said Forrest Gump but I was like not wanting to say it because I was thinking it was another one she got it I got one okay that's one that's all we need no no no this is this is one of Abby's favorite movies of all time I can't remember half of the names too that's a problem oh wait maybe you know this one I'm bad with names of movies you do the voice Abby's really good at this voice 5 o'clock Josh's size 530 come on you got it you got it come on keep going I don't remember this is not gonna help if she doesn't recognize that just keep going keep going
Just keep going.
What about this? What is it? Do you know what it is? I'm going to do another one. It's not a dress. It's a kilt. Sicko.
I've never heard of it.
He's dressed up as something very green. It's a Christmas movie. Oh, yeah. You know this. It's my favorite.
Hey, you know what? That is okay. This is really great. You probably are a happier person because you spent more time socializing than watching movies like we did as kids. So, you know what? Like, there's always... You're healthier for it.
You know what my favorite... You know my favorite Office episode is ever? Just because it's so bad. Like it would not fly in 2024. It's season one, Diversity Day. Funniest episode ever.
Dude, that show would get canceled in a heartbeat if that was released in 2024. Crazy. So funny. And when Kevin spills the chili, bro. Love Kevin. That's awesome. So funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's go watch The Sandlot, Jen.
Go buy Ginger's book. It is out now. You can go read it. I'm sure it's on Kindle because we like to read on our Kindle, right? Please tell me it's on Kindle. Yep. Because I read on my Kindle. Anywhere. Yeah. Thank goodness. But on print is amazing too. So.
wow and the audible book is from your voice it is that's that is cool it's a labor of love you guys have your own podcast you guys are like yes you guys are more than 20 episodes into a podcast which is honestly super impressive like that's a lot i we see all the behind the scenes obviously of what goes into a podcast so like congratulations on your podcast thank you thank you guys are awesome podcast check it out cute yeah i love that you have a j name too it's fun let's go eat some sushi let's do it
This feels like an opening scene to a horror movie. Yes.
How do you call all of your siblings and your parents every week? Is there a calendar schedule? There's no way. But you'd have to call two to three people a day. Oh my word. It's so true. Every day.
She definitely had some sketchy stuff planned. I felt that, yes.
The sheet by the window? Are you kidding me? Yeah, it's crazy.
There you go. Is that okay?
I resonate with your book so much because I have always felt the need to please others. And it's honestly a survival tactic in a way. It felt like, oh, if everyone else is happy, then I'm going to be safe.
But then you end up you like lose yourself in that when it's like you're constantly doing whatever everybody else wants. And it's like, what do I want? What do I care about? What matters to me? What was the moment that you realized that you needed to start having more self-respect?
I feel like I kind of adopted the whole we're pregnant thing because I thought Abby liked it if I said that.
Our kids love it, but I don't want to cut you off because what you're saying is really good.
Yeah, that's actually valid. That's so sad.
Isn't there a way to, like, say something that's true and positive without saying something negative? Like, for instance, if you don't know what you think about the new girl, what if you just say that? What if you just say, actually, I don't even know what I think about the new girl. That's it. But she seems really nice. Yeah. I would say TBD.
The B word.
I'm sorry. I've like, I have a cough. I can't, I've been, we have two little kids.
I do. Do I? Is that what mine is? Cause I was actually, I was listening to you on a podcast to like prep for today, this morning. And I, this is so funny. I can't believe I'm saying this. I took a picture of me while I was like literally on the toilet. And I'm like, what does my resting face look like? What's my RBS? And I have a picture of it. Wait, should I show it to you, babe?
It sounds like what you're saying right now is Botox does make you more likable is what you're saying. So if everyone can go get some plastic surgery, that should fix your problem.
Thank you. I love how you said not too much because we were in Vegas. We've been to the club in Vegas once. It was one time right before we got pregnant. It was like a month before we got pregnant with our first kid. And it was awesome. But there are people there that had like fake abs. Like you're at a day club and people are wearing some suits. Where can I get that?
If I were in that situation, I'd probably go, I got famous off of doing TikTok dances and then see how they would react because it's actually true.
Yeah. But it was hilarious. I'm like, those abs aren't real.
I don't even know what you're referring to. I swear I saw a dude that looked like he had surgery to make it look like he had abs.
I don't know.
Maybe that was it. Maybe it was spray tan.
It looked fake. Well, that's okay. And you could read it from a million miles away. You're like, that's not real.
Yes.
Yeah. What do you do if it feels like someone in your life is keeping you from getting those wins? kill them no yeah wow just murder them no no i was thinking because you were talking about you were talking about dream killers earlier okay yes right and i think what's interesting in all relationships is you have to choose people that align with your goals your values all that but
but no one is exactly like you. And actually, if they were exactly like you, I would argue, this is my freaking opinion, I'm just sharing for why, I don't know why, but I think if someone's exactly like you, you probably would hate them, because if they're just like you, it's like, that would give me the ick. I wanna be with people that are different than me.
I find that attractive when people are different than me. So it's like, in relationships, how do you spot dream killers? But more specifically, because you're a mom, you have two kids, and I just met your husband earlier, he seems like a really nice guy. How do you keep yourself from being a dream killer in your own marriage?
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I'm bought in. I'd buy it.
So my dad, I don't want to spill stuff, but basically I saw my dad go through some job losses as a kid. And so my framework for people liking me or being successful was, oh, if I can make enough money, that'll make my life perfect. I was the most depressed I've ever been when I had the most money I ever had, which was really weird.
You make a dream killer feel heard.
I really, really love how you just said that your dream killer is your husband because it's like one of those things where, you know, I think people are attracted to what's different than them. Totally. And so your husband's clearly different than you and you probably find that very attractive and he probably finds you very attractive because you're different than him. Totally. And
It's almost like yin and yang. I don't know what the relation is here, but it's almost like some people would say, there's a saying, keep your friends close with your enemies closer. But it's almost like, not that your husband's your enemy, because he's not your enemy.
But it's like, it's almost by you being married to your dream killer, he makes you better, which is what you want in relationships. You want to be surrounded with people that make you better.
So to hear you say that is really encouraging because people didn't go up to the billionaire. Yeah. They didn't go up to the billionaire. Like in my head, it's like, oh, the billionaire is the one who is that matters the most. No, they don't.
I feel like there's probably a lot of women listening to this right now who want help spotting a toxic man or a toxic boyfriend or whatever, just because I know it's hard sometimes where you hear about these horrible stories of people who date a guy for three years, think they're going to get married, and then everything goes to crap. They found out that he was cheating on them or something.
How do you spot these toxic people?
There's a person, too. And people came up to you because they they connected to you because you were vulnerable and you were open to sharing real stuff, which made people like you.
Yeah.
It's like you clearly don't think you deserve that. Yes.
Crazy.
Crazy.
So when the pandemic hit, did the viewers just go crazy? Huge.
And book sales just went crazy. I'm sure you sold a lot of books.
You've, oh, sorry. Go ahead. You've written an entire book called Cues. Yes. Which is very good, by the way. Everybody should go check this book out. What are cues that people are messing up in their romantic relationships that are causing conflict? Yes.
What are your three arguments?
Is that too far?
Yeah. It'll never be perfect.
That was so vulnerable of you to share that, first of all.
Was there a cue that I gave you that you noticed that made you feel safe?
I love that you mentioned the palms open because when I was talking to your husband an hour earlier, I recognized that he didn't have his arms crossed and I did.
And I was like, oh, okay, I need to have my hands down because I realized I maybe was just worried about giving a good first impression. But with my arms crossed, I could have made him feel like I had something to hide. Totally. And I didn't have anything to hide. I was just nervous.
And so I put my arms down. I had to like mentally think about it.
And maybe my palms were open. I don't know. I don't know.
That was crazy how I just saw a complete shift. Yes. And the way that you appeared to me, like I didn't realize how high your shoulders were until you brought them down. I was like, wow, you are so much more confident. And I actually like believe what you're saying.
I'm laughing right now because I, like, was... thinking about how you were perceiving my actions towards you. And I recognized that I was doing a head tilt. Like when you mentioned in an interview that head tilts make people feel more welcome, I was like, I don't ever do that. And then I literally right then was like, oh my gosh, I'm tilting my head.
It's funny, like, listening to you talk about all this stuff at first, I'm kind of a skeptic. I'm kind of like your husband. I like to pick things apart and find the flaw in it, right? And so at first I was like, are we just going to be, like, smiling and all like, dude, head tilt. Hi, nice to meet you. Like, that seems so creepy to me. Yeah, no.
Chicken nuggets, fries, more chicken nuggets. Can we just eat something that's real?
What's the science behind that? Because aren't, I guess, are people seeing a confident person, right? I'm guessing this, the person that's likable is probably very confident. So are people seeing this confident person and then going, man, I want to be around them. I want what they have. I don't feel confident. So I want to, if maybe if I'm spending more time with them, I can be more like them.
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Okay.
So is communication the key to solving issues within a relationship where you're having less serotonin or serotonin is recovering slower than your husband? Is good communication like the key to keeping like a marriage from going to divorce? You know, is that the key?
I just think about us going to the airport and days we travel, you just get really stressed.
But I've just never, okay. We've missed one flight in our entire life and that was a completely unique circumstance. But we've never, other than that, we've never missed a flight. That was like super unique. We were on the plane already. We had to get off the plane. They were fixing all this stuff.
We were getting lunch while the plane left because they told us the plane was not going to leave for two hours, but then they left in like two minutes. So this is way, yeah, this is way off script, but like we've never missed a flight. And so I'm just like, yeah, we're chilling, dude. And Abby's like, no, we need to leave now. And I'm like, no, we're chilling. Like we're fine.
and we never missed the flight yeah yeah okay so we've cut it very close yeah we've never cut it close they've never actually even closed the doors on us all right cutting it close is like sprinting to the airport you know uh freaking uh what's macaulay caulkin uh home alone style oh yeah like they're shutting the doors of the plane and you like no and you get in that's cutting close that's never happened wow ever okay neuroticism is not logical
I feel like you're literally describing me right now. But at the same time, though, I feel like I like to take calculated risks. Yes, that's good.
I do love the chicken. Every time. It's good with the chicken Madeira. They got rid of the hibachi steak. Have you ever had the hibachi steak before they got rid of it? The chicken Madeira is so good. And the chicken Madeira is amazing too. He's not sponsored by Cheesecake.
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Vanessa Van Edwards, welcome to Unplanned. Yay! Okay, is it okay if I give you a hug? I heard you're a hugger.
Okay, who is the person, though, who can be both the open person but closed? Because when you mentioned the restaurant thing, I love new, but for whatever reason, I could go to Cheesecake Factory every day.
Yeah, it's funny listening to your interviews. I realized, oh my gosh, I've never heard this word ambivert, but it made me feel very seen.
I think I am. I think I am because I'm very, I'm very, I love people. I love, I love conversations. I love getting to like hear new ideas and I'm very curious, but there's, there's certain settings where I like I'm in around a lot of people and I feel so uncomfortable. Totally. I feel so much anxiety and stress. And I'm like, what do they think? Do they think I'm weird?
Do they think I'm like, you know, smiling funny? Like what? Did I say something stupid?
You know, so I feel like the ambivert thing really resonated with me.
But an ambivert is a mixture of the two. Correct. Okay, that makes sense because I've always started to think, oh my gosh, I'm actually an introvert, but I'm not. It's cool to know that there's actually a third category that nobody ever talks about.
I think you're an expert. Abby's an extrovert. You have to be an extrovert. I think I might be.
It's weird how wanting people to like you does the opposite.
This might be too deep for this podcast, but I want to go really deep. I love questions like this. Do you view humans as naturally good or naturally bad?
I kind of feel like I'm somewhere in the middle where I just view like we are just all human. And then like my take is... Don't take it personally, the way people treat you, good or bad, because everyone is just a person and you have no idea the good thing that happened to them that made them be nice to you or the bad thing that happened to them that made them be mean to you.
Because I've seen that in my life. The more desperate I am for people to like me, the more people don't like me, which is so weird. And then when I'm just like, F it, dude. I'm so sick of trying this. And I'm like, here's my baggage. I'm F'd up. I'm weird. And everyone's like, wow, we like you, dude. And it's like, what?
Is that your husband? Yeah. But he's different than you, so that probably was attractive that he was different than you.
No, I am just weird. And I think that's why I've had such low self-esteem. No, I think I've had... I need to stop talking about myself because we're interviewing you. But I'm learning a lot from you. And I resonate with I'm a recovering awkward person because I grew up snowboarding, but I did ballet. That is weird. And so...
yeah i i just i find a lot of courage from your story and your work just to know like oh i can tell people that i did i i'm i'm i'm a ballet guy but i also like to snowboard like i can say that and that's okay yeah and the people that don't that that do think that's weird to a point where they don't want to be my friend not your people screw them not my people i don't want to be your friend that's a great allergy like you don't want someone who's like ew ballet and
I do. No, we took ballet together in college.
And it's because of that, that people gravitated, gravitated more to you than the billionaire in the room. When everyone, like, I love that story. That was, that story was cracking me up. Like, I'm like, what? I think about it all the time.
So what do you do if in your marriage you, and I'm acting, I'm asking like this for us, but this is just for a general question.
i'm trying to get deep here i'm trying i'm trying to learn i'm also trying to ask questions that like people listening in i'm gonna get in the car like what dream am i killing this man no but i was asking from a place of like some contempt well i was asking he wanted to move to oregon you killed that dream i've killed that one and everywhere else he's everywhere else and i kill those dreams too every time he opens up redfin in a random place that we're at and i'm like no delete that
No, but I guess like for someone who is finding that, okay, maybe you mentioned all this stuff about like the allergies, right? With friends. But then what if someone watching this right now is like, that person is my spouse. Like how sad would that be? Right. And so how do you approach that? How, what can, I think it's easier to change yourself than it is to change other people. So
you know, they've committed to this person. What should that person who heard you talk about allergies, thought about their spouse, what should they do to try to make things work, to try to try to make things better in their own marriage?
we interviewed one of our favorite artists on on this show johnny swim we used their music in our wedding and um amanda wrote her husband abner their music duo together she wrote him this love song called psilocybin and one of the main lyrics from the song is if you change i'm changing too there you go that's it that's it and like what if we did that in all of our relationships
I hate that I ask those questions. I do it all the time and it pisses me off. I'm done doing that.
What made you break your diet or what made him like, was there something that he saw in you by you just being your authentic self that made him be a suitable partner for you?
Could how are you though be made stronger if it was how are you actually? Like don't just give me the same simple trick. Actually tell me how you are. And if it's really crappy right now, like I want to know because I actually care about you.
You know how when you go to a store, people will say, how are you? Like a worker or something. I've been saying horrible just to see how they react. And it is so funny. Like they are so uncomfortable. And then I start laughing and they start laughing. And immediately we're friends.
But I've been a dad two and a half years now and I've got to freaking embody this.
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So I was so curious how you'd react to that because you've said before that you botched a pitch when you tried to hug the producer who said verbally that they did not like hugs.
I love that you also said that you quickly find out the people that you like by asking targeted questions like, what are your goals? Because if the person doesn't have big goals, then you know. Allergy. Yeah, that's your allergy. And I'm the same way. I have big goals. I have big dreams. I see myself changing. you know, as a hero. So I want to talk to other people that feel like they're a hero.
And I don't want to be around people that have a victim mentality. That gets you nothing. Agreed. What do you get? Is there anything to be gained at all from a victim mentality at all? Sometimes they're dream killers and they can help poke holes. Oh, that's true.
Whose idea was that?
Okay, okay. And I was like, okay.
Because you've mentioned like making friends and finding people that you connect with. You need to figure out their allergies to know if you if you connect. Yes. So like did you did you just kind of ignore one of your allergies just to go to Everest and impress this guy?
I was taking a steam shower this morning with my AirPods in, listening to the end of your Diary of a CEO interview, tearing up with what you said about President Harry Truman because it just hit me so hard when you mentioned that his expert power was being one-on-one in a room with someone, talking to them. Yes. Because that...
is me like that is me to a t and i was like i was like i don't know it's like why am i crying like on a freaking what is this thursday morning like what's going on is this the steam i'm worried about you bring your air pods into the shower i well they're i think they've actually made it through the wash before so they're pretty durable but like are you gonna get electrocuted and i was worried to mention the air pods i know that you aren't a huge fan of air pods which i i like your point it's a good point but but you're alone it's okay but anyway i'm alone i'm listening to you talk about that truman and i'm like
That's it. Yes. Okay. Why am I trying to play a game that I can't win? I should play the game that I can win, that I'm good at. And Truman was good at one-on-one conversation. That's me. I suck at like huge, big settings. That makes me nervous. Me too. That's why we're Amberverts. I felt like it was destiny, like standing in the shower today, like freaking crying, like listening to this podcast.
Okay. I wasn't crying. I was tearing up. I was emotional. It was, it was very, it was a spiritual experience. I literally have had right now my phone screen. It's like, I'll show you. It's my, it's my sweet kids. So I have it like flip through photos of my kids, my wife, like my family. That's what's most important to me.
But for a little bit, I had the background photo as President Truman holding up the paper where he won the election, but he actually said the paper said that he lost because everyone said he was going to lose and then he won. And I was like, that's effing cool. I love that comeback story. I love seeing someone who has all the odds stacked against them and they come back.
I love an underdog and I love that you're an underdog.
Really?
No way. Yes. Wait, that actually means a lot that you listen to our podcast.
Thank you so much. Aren't they the best?
Actually, that's the biggest compliment. What? We were shocked. I watched, you know, some documentaries they were in and I was like, I want to interview these people. Yes. And it was just so cool to actually hear their story from them.
They're a really sweet family.
Yeah. So positive. Yeah.
Oh, thank you. I am comfortable in this setting.
I wanted to ask you that question.
Yeah.
How do you, how do you balance that?
Do you have accountability partners like outside of your husband that like check in with you and make sure, Hey, do you feel like you're doing everything you want to do with work, but also with your family? Like, is there, is there somebody like that in your life?
Oh, it's the C words. Got it. Got it.
That's true. And like one word is very powerful, which looks strong, which like, by the way, you look freaking like you're going to conquer the world in this photo. It's a steeple.
It does.
You need a Netflix show. I feel like a Netflix show would suit you well.
What if the title of the show, what if the show is called Awkward People? Like that was literally- Recovering Awkward People. Oh yeah. Recovering Awkward People. And you're helping awkward people be less awkward. Yes.
Okay, evaluate this. So I really look up to Martha Stewart after watching her documentary.
So good. That was good.
first female billionaire hello like so so powerful but you did the thing you did it you did it what is the thing what did i do you said a financial thing first dang it Freaking dang it. I'm trying to train. Okay, so here's the thing. It's deep in my identity because when I was a kid, again, when I was a kid, money was hard. And so in my brain, money solves all the problems and it doesn't.
So I'm trying to retrain my brain that money doesn't solve all my problems because again, like, yeah, it just doesn't.
What's funny is I was about to talk about her overcoming obstacles. Like she went to prison and I was going to, cause I, my first thought was like, oh, cause she's a billionaire. I was like, oh, I can't say that. But then I still said it.
Okay, here's why I do want to maybe be a billionaire. That sounds like really scary. But it's because you can do so much good.
You can do so much good. If I am worth $10,000 or if I'm worth a billion dollars, I could do a lot more good in the world with more money because I could fund charities. I could fund projects that are helping get food to people in countries that are under-resourced. I could fund projects where people don't have the polio vaccine. There's still places that don't have resources like that.
And it pisses me off that people are dying from easily preventable diseases in our world.
Have you read the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson? So good. Right? And the people without the capital get the punishment. So effed up. Like if you have enough money, you can just kind of get out anything in our country, which is like kind of screwed up. Really screwed up.
Why are people so afraid to say that they're vegan or to say that they don't like sports? Like, why are people so afraid to say those things?
Couldn't that be like if you started this? I'm trying to brainstorm right now because I love your idea. Could it be an app? Could it be some sort of program even on YouTube? Like I know you have a background in YouTube. Yes.
Would it be helpful if it were like an audio book? I don't know.
Because I listen to educational material. I can't read it. I get so bored. I can go on a run and listen to an audio book. I can't sit and read an audio book. It's just my ADHD. I'm just like, oh, let's go surf.
But even, even people that are unhoused have iPhones. So like, or like smartphones. So what if it was, what if it was the YouTube channel? Like what if.
What if it's like learn to read? I don't know. But I guess it's just helping them like because some of these people might not know that like, hey, this is like square one. You need to learn to read if you want to get better.
Wow. Well, Vanessa, thank you for teaching us about the nine questions that people can ask to have better relationships, better marriages, better friendships. I mean, it doesn't seem like you've studied this for a very long time.
Everyone should go pick up a copy of Cues. This is such an incredible book. Or Charisma. Maybe consider getting it for a friend. I don't know. Read it with your partner.
Well, thank you so much. This has been incredible.
I love you guys. The time just flew by. I can't believe I'm talking this long. Yes. Thank you for being here.
Vanessa Van Edwards is a body language expert and recovering awkward person. Her book, Cues, appeared on the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list, and she routinely consults for top companies like Google and Amazon.
You know what's funny is I've learned so much about making friends with Abby or making friends from Abby because Abby's so good at making friends and she's so likable and she's so emotionally intelligent. And I asked her a question like that. I was like, do you think about what other people think about you? And she kind of just responded with, I'm actually just thinking about if I like them.
I resonate with you so much because that is me.
Her go-to is, do I like these people? It's not, do they think I'm cool?
Well, I think it's because you're in a very emotionally healthy place. It seems like you're just, yeah, in a really healthy state of mind where you aren't worried about what people think about you because you are comfortable as you are.
That's like a very healthy place to be.
Die richtige Sprache für meinen Namen ist Raven-Symoné, weil es einen Akzent, ein Grave über das E, ist, was meistens in französischsprachigen Ländern ist. Deshalb habe ich nie Menschen korrigiert, weil wir das hier in Amerika nicht so oft benutzen. Aber es gab einen Trend auf TikTok. Und du weißt, wie das tatsächlich gemacht wird. Ich bin so, naja, das ist tatsächlich so, wie es ist.
Yeah, we definitely want kids. We are blessed to be able to make a decision when it happens. No surprises! That's right. So we get to plan and we're planning on a constant basis of making sure our world looks right. And then there's that time where you just have to throw it in the wind and say, okay, just take it.
Ich meine, es gibt so viele Versionen dieses Prozesses, die wir nicht verstehen. Es gibt Donor, es gibt Adoption, es gibt Surrogate, es gibt We Carry, es gibt all diese Dinge. Und ich denke, dass... Looking forward and what works best for us will just present itself. We are believers in the universe and like, just like how you said, the second one is unplanned, but it's a part of the plan.
Und, ähm, ich war... War das nur ein Trend, den du aufgerufen hast, als du es veröffentlicht hast?
I think that when it's time for us to sit down and make that choice, what the easiest route will be is what we were supposed to have. So we talk about all versions of it and it looks cool either way. I mean, You know, the dream is she has a baby that looks like me and I have a baby that looks like her and we birth it.
Nein, nein, nein, ich spreche es sogar falsch, Raven-Symoné. Es ist viel einfacher für die amerikanische Sprache, um ehrlich zu sein. Du weißt, Raven-Symoné, und dann bin ich so, oh, ich habe mich die ganze Zeit Raven-Symoné genannt.
I was more eager to have a kid at like 15. I really did. I wanted to be pregnant from 15 until I really saw a pregnancy happen. And I was like, woo! I'm not doing that. That's wide. So I can't... Aber es war eine wunderschöne Erfahrung, wunderschön, ich liebe es. Vielleicht nicht für mich. Epidurals schreien mir die Scheiße aus.
Ich würde zurückgehen. Ich denke, als sie bemerkte, wie sie funktioniert und wie ihr Körper funktioniert, dann bemerkte sie, dass es wahrscheinlich nicht für sie ist, ein Kind zu erbten. Sie ist in ihrem eigenen Körper gestorben, sie ist in ihren Entscheidungen gestorben und sie will sich in der Welt repräsentieren. Und ich denke, das ist dann, als es für sie geklappt hat.
Listen, there's people out here having babies at 62. Let's go.
Was hat sie gesagt?
Ich denke, das ist auch falsch. Ja, es ist der erste Name. Ja, es ist hypheniert. Und jetzt habe ich zwei hyphenierte Namen. Wow.
Yeah, most definitely. That has been an idea. And I think we always go back to the conversation of Das braucht viele Hormone in unserem Körper. Und das ist ein bisschen schrecklich für mich. Ich habe definitiv mit Gewicht mein ganzes Leben geflüchtet. Und meine eigenen persönlichen Ideen über Gesundheit und was ich okay mit meinem Körper und was ich nicht habe. Und es ist schrecklich.
Einfach so einfach ist es schrecklich. Weißt du, was ich meine? Und ich bin auch ein bisschen der Belieber in, weißt du, Um es richtig zu sagen, ist es so, dass du deine Optionen nicht überdurchsetzt hast. Es könnte jemand sein, der für dich perfekt ist und diese Route einfacher ist. Und ich glaube, dass die schnellste Route zum Glück ist ein langer Weg.
Es gibt nicht 17 Runden und Leute sagen, nein, es ist die Reise. Ich sage, ja, wie eine einfache. H-O-V-L-A, weißt du was ich meine? Ich versuche nicht, 17 Runden zu machen, um dort zu kommen, wo ich es brauche. Vielleicht sagt das Universum, dass ich stoppe und etwas einfacher mache. Also wieder einmal, ich antworte.
Alle Gedanken sind passiert und an jedem Punkt ist es so, was uns glücklich macht, weil wir glücklich genug sein müssen für das Kind, wenn das Kind in die Welt kommt, wenn das Geist in die Welt kommt.
Ja, also was ist der volle Name? Okay, Raven, korrekt? Korrekt. Raven Simone Pyramid Mayday. Okay, wunderschön.
Und wenn wir etwas wollen und es scheint etwas weiter weg zu sein, werden wir trotzdem darauf arbeiten, das Ziel zu erreichen, aber nicht einfach reinzupacken, weil es nicht bereit sein könnte. Es könnte nicht reif genug sein, um es zu wählen.
Es ist eine wunderschöne Sache, letztendlich denke ich, dass die Seele die Eltern wählt, am Ende des Tages, weißt du, und einige Seelen kommen durch den Körper und es ist wie, oh, I think you're really a part of my soul group. This child is crazy. And then there are some people, you know, you can adopt them like this was supposed to be my child from the very beginning.
You never know what the universe gives you. And I do believe that, again, a soul will pick us. He picked us.
Es gab fünf Saisons, es gab 100 Episoden.
Ja, es gab 100 Episoden. Und Disney wusste definitiv, wie man... Ja. Oh mein Gott. Ja.
Sie hat nicht mit A Girl Like Grace angefangen. Ich habe es sicher gemacht.
Don't ever say that out loud, babes.
Ich weiß nicht... Wir waren in der gleichen Äußerung und ich werde ehrlich sagen, ich habe nicht das Netzwerk gesehen, das ich damals hatte.
And she's not the only one. I mean, I had my version of that when I was on The View learning. When you're on a live type of, what is it called? Wenn du ein Live-Podcast oder ein Live-Cast hast, wie ein Televisionshow oder so, musst du die Regeln lernen, wie du deine Meinung erklären kannst, ohne die Welt zu verurteilen. Und das ist schwierig, weil nicht jeder die gleiche Meinung hat wie du.
Und ich denke, dass, je nachdem, wann du eine Art der Ehre bekommst oder so, deine Wortwahl ist wichtig. Und die Art, wie du deine Gedanken in die Gedanken anderer ist wichtig. Und es ist eine Lernkurve. Und hoffentlich, da wir smarte Menschen sind, werden wir weiterhin lernen und offen zu dieser Bildung sein.
Für die Leute, die dann vollständig verstehen, was ich gesagt habe. Weil ich das Problem habe, ich sage, was ich gesagt habe. Das ist mein Problem, weil ich denke, dass es so offensichtlich ist. Aber es gab eine Rückkehr von diesem Clip und viele Leute in der weißen Gemeinschaft sagten, dass sie es verstehen.
Und die blaue Gemeinschaft beginnt es auch zu verstehen, weil ich es nicht richtig gesagt habe. Ich meine, ich habe gesagt, was ich gesagt habe und ich habe es gemeint, aber ich habe es nicht richtig erklärt. Und du hast es einfach erklärt. Als weißer Mensch musst du das nicht sagen. Ja.
Du kannst sagen, dass du irisch bist, aber du musst nicht klicken oder auf eine Karte klicken, dass du irisch-amerikanisch bist.
Es würde schwarz-afrikanisch-amerikanisch sagen.
Es gibt nichts, das nur sagt, dass wir uns hier kategorisieren. Aber wenn ich nach außen gehe, bin ich amerikanisch.
Sie nennen mich nicht afrikanisch-amerikanisch im Ausland.
Genau. Das war nie eine Sache für mich. Das ist weiß. Genau. Selbst wenn du aus einem anderen Land bist und du die erste Generation bist oder sofort hier bist, kannst du immer nur caucasianisch-weiß überprüfen. Ja. Das ist interessant. Als meine Angehörigen... Blut ist in diesem Boden. Das ist interessant.
Du spielst nicht. Ich bin nicht verrückt. Ich verabschiede mich. Ich habe es literally versucht, es wieder aufzulegen. Ich habe eine 23 in mir gemacht. Und ich habe es wieder vermischt. Ich habe einen Freudian-Slipp gemacht. Und ich habe gesagt, ich habe ein paar verrückte Sachen gesagt. Und ich wurde, weißt du, über die Kohle geflogen für das wieder.
Dann habe ich mir gedacht, dass ich meine Gedanken zu mir selbst behalten werde. Ich habe das schon so lange gemacht, bevor ich mit Oprah in den Schirm gegangen bin. Ich habe versucht, mir zu erklären, wer ich war. Meine Gedanken auf das Leben sind nicht so gut gelaufen. Ich habe mich einfach zu mir selbst gehalten. Dann habe ich mich auf VIEW entschieden und habe es nochmals gemacht.
Ich glaube nicht, dass etwas falsch ist. Ich denke einfach, dass es das Muskel ist, das ich gelernt habe, es richtig zu machen. You can speak your truth. This is a free country. You just have to be ready for explaining it or over explaining it and making sure that you say it at the right time. I have a problem of saying things a little early where people are not on that wavelength yet.
Aber meine Mutter ist aufgewacht und hat gesagt, dass alle mit dir verabschiedet sind. Alle mit dir verabschiedet sind. Und ich war so lustig, weil ein weißer Mann sagte, dass er es verstanden hat.
Sie waren verrückt, dass ich es so gesagt habe. Sie waren so, Raven, du hast es nicht richtig erklärt. Du weißt, du bist afrikanisch-amerikanisch. Ich sagte, ich bin blau und ich bin amerikanisch und ich habe afrikanische Herkunft in mir. Und wenn du mein Blut testest, habe ich auch amerikanisch-indianisch. Ich habe auch viele andere Dinge.
Und für mich in einer Box zu stellen und nur das zu nennen für die Das ist unfair. Und sie sagten, warum sagst du das nicht? Ich sagte, weil ich nervös war. Oprah sitzt vor mir. Du sprichst von Oprah. Ich hatte eine Laya an, mein Haar war fertig, ich bin nervös. Und ich war jung, ich bin älter jetzt, ich habe es herausgefunden.
Aber sie hat überlegt, ihr M zu nehmen, weil sie coole Initialen wollte.
I'm actually going to come after you, babes. Come after me? Yeah. You can say it black, white or extremely vague and they'll still come after you. Because people are bored. Und die Leute wollen nur nach dir kommen, um nach dir zu kommen.
Taking away my N? Taking away your M. Because if you took away your last M, what would your initials be? Oh yes, MVP.
Und dann haben sie. Ich habe immer gesagt, dass sie dich aufbauen, um dich zu zerstören. Wenn du ein Celebrity in dieser Industrie bist, egal welchen Art von Ehre du hast, werden die Leute für dich nach oben rufen. Und sie werden für dich nach unten rufen. Wir lieben es! Wir lieben es, es zu hassen.
I knew how to act before I knew how to walk. I knew how to work before I knew how to love. I never felt like I had the acceptance to ever get married. I thought my life was going to be work.
But then you have celebrities on television. Ray Romano, Seinfeld. Und es ist cool. Aber weil sie auf deiner TV auf einem kleinen Bildschirm sind, immer und immer und immer und immer wieder, fühlst du dich, als ob du sie in einem anderen Weg kennst. Weil sie in deinem Haus sind. Du siehst sie jede Woche, sie erzählen eine Familiengeschichte.
Du weißt, es gibt eine Verbindung, als wenn du auf diesem großen Bildschirm bist. Du bist größer als das Leben. Ich kann das nicht wirklich anfassen. Oh mein Gott, ich werde weinen, als wenn jemand sagt, You watch every single week, maybe two or four times a week. And it's a different kind of celebrity. It's a more, you know, you're my sister. Come on, have some food. Hang out on the couch.
You don't know me, man. You know what I mean? So it's a different kind of thing. Totally. I bring that up for when you say the wrong thing or you have your words differently. They take it. They take it worse.
MVP. She was like, oh my god. And then I like mine, RSCP. But now it's RSCPM.
Die Leute, die dabei waren, waren mit meinem Team dabei. Und um diese Brücke zu verbinden, glaube ich, war mein Team meistens ein Teil davon. Ich bekam den Producer-Kredit in der letzten Saison, aber ich war so beschäftigt mit all den Antiken und Dingen, dass ich nicht konnte, den Prozess des Produzierens zu lernen, wie ich es wollte. Das ist nur passiert, als ich in Ravensholm gekommen bin.
Als ich wirklich angefangen habe, Produktion zu lernen. Und auch dann... Ich bleibe meistens aus der Schriftführerszene. Es ist ein freundlicher Raum. Es ist ein anderer Welt. Und das ist nicht mein Welt. Ich bin visual. Ich liebe Direktivität. Ich liebe, Menschen in einem Raum zu organisieren und es natürlich zu machen. Ich liebe es, die Wörter der Schriftführer zu nehmen und es zu leben.
Also das ist der Art von Produzent, Direktor, der ich bin.
Was bedeutet das für dich? Ich möchte etwas sagen, bevor ich die Frage beantworte. Du hast erwähnt, wie das, so Raven, viele verschiedene Themen betrifft, die sehr schwer sind. Eine meiner Lieblings-Disney-Klips ist eine Spülung Zucker. Das hilft, die Medizin zu reduzieren. Und ich denke, das ist das Wunderschöne an Komödie.
Wenn du in die Geschichte der Komödie zurückgehst, eine der größten Spüle von Medizin, die wir mit Zucker genommen haben, Not really sugar, it was actually kind of sour, but it was, anyway, candy coated. All in the Family had a very deep episode about rape. And you had that moment, you sat in it, and then when you came back, you were laughing.
Und um ein Teil eines Mediums zu sein, das sich an ernsthafte Themen konzentrieren kann, und dann auch brevettig damit zu sein und es zurück und fort zu bringen, das ist für mich kleiner als ein voller Dramatik. Weißt du, was ich meine? Ein voller... Leben ist manchmal, abhängig davon, wo du bist, in deinem mentalen Gesundheitsstil.
Aber meistens, während des Tages, lachst du, weinst du, bist du wütend, bist du traurig, bist du traurig, lachst du, es ist eine rotierte Sache. Also das ist Komödie. The question you asked is how I dealt with it? I guess like what does that mean to you? Oh, um... That's awesome. She disassociates. I disassociate. Yeah, maybe. I do.
It's cool that I'm able to be a part of people's lives in such an important part of time. An important time. Thank you. An important time frame of your life that I'm honored. Thanks. Because I had that from other people like Alex Mack and Saved by the Bell and Family Matters. I have that too. See, that's what I was watching, you guys. We were the same age. Exactly. Und dann das L-Wort.
L-Wort ist viel später. Also, ich verabschiede mich. Ich sage danke, aber während ich es filmte und während ich es machte, mache ich meinen Job. Es ist hart. Ja, ich mache meinen Job.
Ich war Modellin und ich habe Commercials gemacht. Süß! Das ist süß. Ich war im Sears-Katalog, ihr Jungs. Guckt euch das an.
Kannst du es finden? Ich habe ein Bild von einem meiner... Du hast ein Bild von Agi. Das ist Agi gerade.
Er ist ein wirklich süßes Kind.
Ich liebe es. Ich werde es anschauen. Ich habe ein Bild von meinem ersten Modell-Gag. Es ist so süß. Das ist mein erster Modell-Pick. So viel Haar. 16 Monate. Oh, das war mein Modell-Pick. Also war ich wahrscheinlich... Und du kannst es dir völlig sagen. Sie hat das gleiche Gesicht.
Was für ein Geschenk. Sein Name ist Quinn. Quinn. Oh, er war jetzt. Oh, ja.
Honey, all gone.
I just blew up the entire world again.
I think you should ask her that. Because I think it's better to get the perspective from an outside situation.
Do I need validation from others? No, as being raised in fame, like in the public eye.
Als Puppe? Ja, als Puppe. Es war nur ich und er im Krankenhaus am Abend, damit er... Ich fühle mich sicher. Ich weiß nicht, ich habe dieses Ding. Okay, jetzt ist er weg. Ich habe dieses Ding und ich weiß, es ist nicht das Beste für alle Hunde, aber ich mag es, mit Hunden zu schlafen.
Thank you. It took a while. It took a while to get there, for sure, because when you are placed... In the position that I was in, there's multiple thought processes because it's inevitable to have them. Meaning you have a show that did so well, then you go on to movies and you do music. And that's what I think, especially as a young person, I'm supposed to be doing.
And then when you wake up and you're like, I need something else and I have everything. That doesn't make sense when you have everything and you still need stuff. I was able to go to art school. I have a degree in art. When we got married, I shed all my pain. She was like, what do you want to do? I was like, I think this is what I...
All the skills that I learned up until this age, how do I utilize that in this industry, but in a different way? And that is the creative side, that is mentoring, that is helping others that are young or old find their character and film it appropriately. And so it feels better in that area. I don't have to wear like a girdle, I don't have to put on a whole bunch of makeup.
Ja, ich habe dich darüber gesprochen.
Ich bin nicht wirklich eine super kreative Person, ohne dass es zu trainieren ist in bestimmten Wegen, aber ich mag es, dass sie Teil der Familie sind. Er schläft hier, er schläft hier, er schläft überall und er hat das schon immer gemacht.
Und dann werde ich gedrückt. Ich fühle mich nicht kurz. Ich drücke nicht vorwärts. Ich drücke nur ein bisschen nach unten. Du brauchst keine Decke. Warte.
Das ist die Frage, die ich jetzt habe. Das ist die Frage, die ich jetzt habe. Das ist die Frage, die ich jetzt habe. It's not a huge expensive ring. That? No, it's not that one. That's the seventh one. Looks expensive.
Yeah, that's the seventh one.
Und dann, als wir eigentlich verheiratet waren, war das, was ich in unseren Händen hielt, eigentlich etwas aus einem Antik-Shop.
Ja. I love it.
Es kostete mir 20 Dollar, wie jeder.
Raven ist teuer. Yeah. It's about love. It's not about the money.
Yeah, for the wedding. It's COVID, you guys.
So, I actually order a beautiful little, little something from David, David Yerman. Like something, something, you know, it's baby pink, it's so cute.
Also, ich fahre nach meinem Lieblingsort in Kalifornien, das ist es. Über in Las Virginas, wenn ihr wisst, wo das ist, ist es über Malibu. Wir sind auf der Top of a Mountain, die Poema Road. I've been going there since I was younger. I was like, this is my spot. Super windy road. Super windy road. Gorgeous. However, the day that I choose to do this is the most overcast you could possibly imagine.
So you're not seeing all as far as the eye can see. I don't care. I get up there. I dress. Which means I'm in... Labels at the time.
You weren't expecting it.
You expected it in the car? So the truth comes out. So mad right now. We'll talk about this later. So mad. Do you guys see the disappointment in her face?
So I stand there. And you can start. You can start the rest of the combo.
Sie wusste, was kommen würde, also ist es nicht mehr wichtig.
normales menschliches Verhalten mit deinem Leben zu verabschieden. Ich fühlte nie, als hätte ich die Gnade, den Zeit, oder die Aufmerksamkeit, mal verheiratet zu werden. Ich dachte, mein Leben wäre Arbeit. 16 Monate alt, das weiß ich. Weißt du, was ich meine? Es ist so, dass ich wusste, wie zu arbeiten, bevor ich wusste, wie zu laufen.
Also wusste ich, wie zu arbeiten, bevor ich wusste, wie zu lieben. In diesem Sinne.
Also bin ich hier, ich habe einen vollen Panikattack, Und ich denke, und ich verabschiede mich, und ich denke, dass ich nicht lebendig bin. Also bin ich so, lass mich über die Straße rennen, weil mein Gehirn sagt, wenn das real ist, wird alles okay sein. Wow. Und so war es. Und hier bin ich. Ich schreibe ein Buch. Das ist verrückt. Ich schreibe ein Buch. Du schreibst ein Buch.
Ich schreibe ein Buch. Es gibt viele Dinge, die interessant sind in meinem Gehirn, die...
Someone's in Gucci and running away.
And it was bad, too, because we're on the top of the mountain. I wanted her to see the view. And it was all cloudy. And I was like, this is just crazy.
I wouldn't have changed.
The kernels. It just gives me guts. I can see that. Sorry, guys.
No, I was in Gucci's.
Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja.
Wir sind gut. Sie versteht. Sie versteht, was los ist. Nein, nein, nein. Ich verstehe, dass ich das Quintessenzial-Moment verpasst habe, auf dem Knie und aufschauen, aber... I was going through something and she understands that.
There's a lot of butter in it. I think it's major for me. The corn?
Ich weiß nicht, wie das fühlt sich an. Aber dann, als wir darüber gesprochen haben, was sie tragen würde, hab ich gesagt, willst du ein Kleid tragen? Sie hat gesagt, nein, ich will kein Kleid tragen.
Sie hatte nicht wirklich was. Das war ein One-Z-Jumpsuit. Das ist das gleiche. Es ist ein Jumpsuit.
Oh, we could always get another ring too.
Are you mad that you didn't get like a big 30... rose basket and like flowers and lights for your proposal like a one of those proposals that you see on tiktok like what um sean white just did for nina dobra do you wish that you had that for me
It's Croc and Balenciaga. It's Croc and Balenciaga and Dodger Socks. Also, wait, actually Croc?
It's just literally don't. I can have a jelly bean popcorn, that's about it. And I miss it too, like the caramel ones from Garrett's Popcorn. Oh, Garrett's?
So that was yes and no. It was, there was an understanding that if you're short and you wear heels, it thins you out. Oh, wow. Because if you look taller, the proportions work out.
So behind the scenes, my team and I'm sure conversations always led to me wearing heels, which is one of the funny things that happens on TikTok, where Galleria from the Cheetah Girls is the only one strutting down all of the country of Spain in heels while all the other girls are in sneakers. I was the biggest one. And when you look at that, so Raven, every single outfit hat on heels.
I would be wearing heels and pajamas sometimes just because it makes you look thinner.
Ich wünschte, dass sie nichts gesagt hätten.
Yes, it is. What did I say?
There's two answers to that. If my child wants to act, I will say, how old are you? Are you under the age of 16? Please wait a little bit. Let's take you to some classes. Let's get you ready for the fame. Let's slowly indoctrinate you into what that looks like so you can build thick skin. At 18, I will help you find it, but you're not going to be too much of a neppo.
You don't have to do this on your own kind of situation, but I will make sure that I support you all day. If our child showed
Immense talent in something at a young age we would nurture that but not in a exploitive way and then the other answer is i want my kid to be in something where i can get a discount like i'm gonna need you to be in politics i'm gonna need you to be a lawyer i'm gonna need you to own like some grocery stores acting on lock. Your mom is a producer.
We'll go do something else so we can all be successful together.
Self-sustaining. This family does everything.
Are you in or are you out? I said what I said and I meant it. I'm black and I'm an American and I have African descent in me. I also have American Indian. I also have a lot of other things. Wir kategorisieren uns hier. Aber wenn ich nach außen gehe, bin ich ein Amerikaner.
Nothing. Korean BBQ. All day Korean BBQ. I'll do something called a Carnivore Crisp or a Wild Chip, which is... Oh, yeah. You've seen those? It's like chicken. It's like chicken chips. I'll do something like that.
Das ist wirklich cool.
Für die zweite Hälfte des Lockdowns. Für die zweite Hälfte des Lockdowns waren wir zusammen und es war interessant. Wir haben uns definitiv verbunden. Offensichtlich haben viele Leute es gemacht oder es nicht gemacht. Oder es nicht gemacht. Aber für diejenigen, die es gemacht haben, haben wir es ein bisschen länger nach dem Lockdown gedauert, weil
Wir waren die letzten Leute in unserer Crew, um unsere Masken zu nehmen. Wir waren die letzten Leute, um zu sagen, oh, es gibt eine Abendparty? Okay, wir machen einfach FaceTime. Wir gehen nicht wirklich irgendwo raus. We just started getting on planes again, to be honest. And when we do get on planes, can I tell a secret? It's not a bad secret. I don't think you'll be embarrassed.
We still put Vaseline and antiseptic in our nose.
I think more people should do that.
Es ist eigentlich mehr hydratierend als ein Lotion, das du auf dem Kühlschrank bekommst. Ich höre das immer. Es ist wirklich gut.
Oh. She said it first. I did. You did. You told Carlicia.
I was eavesdropping. I heard it in the kitchen while I was in the cubbyhole.
Okay, so let's explain that. Yeah, that part. That part. So in New York, apartments are just freaking weird. Okay. Yeah. And I found a really cool apartment in a friend's apartment building. And it was a two bedroom with a cubby hole.
And I say that by, when you're going from the first level to the second level, there's like a half level that you would store your suitcases or, you know, extra stuff. However, I used it as my bedroom. Es war seltsam, Leute. Es war seltsam. Ich habe Carlicia den Schlafraum gegeben. Ich habe den Kaffeehaufen genommen.
Und dann war der zweite Raum eigentlich mein Kunstraum, weil ich in der Zeit für Kunst in der Schule war.
Also habe ich, du weißt, meine, was auch immer, und habe den Kaffeehaufen genommen, was cool war. Es hatte wie Räder. Ich konnte alles sehen, wenn jemand in die vordere Tür kam.
Once you got in, I wanted her comfortable. But I do love sleeping on the floor. I love sleeping on a tatami mat. And I also use like a... Ja, das ist toll.
Ja.
Yeah.
You got to meet her. That's so cool. No, we didn't get to meet her. Because it was COVID. It was Zoom. We were supposed to. Oh, dang. We did get to chat with her. She was so sweet. I never got to embrace her.
No, okay, we've liked golf.
No, it was like day 11.
You are my muse.
Yeah.
I'm like, yes. And I was like, go talk to him. Like, don't be a weirdo. Like, go say hey.
You canceled it out already. It's delicious.
That's not what I meant. Why?
Tell me more. Do you want us to finish it? I don't need to.
And I'm cool now? I'm part of the crew?
Did you pitch like, yo, could I do a stone cold? Could somebody throw me two beers? I chugged the beers. Maybe I stunner somebody.
Yeah, of course. I mean, obviously, I was a wrestlehead for a large portion of my life.
No, I just said that. I'm just asking because you said it. Go ahead. I just said that. But I was super, I was an NWOite. I was totally.
I was D-Generation X. I was all these things, man. I was so into it. I fucking loved that shit in freaking high school.
Wait, your first thought? That is so kind. You got out of the ring and you thought.
We get it, bro. You've been on big stages.
Maybe. Here's the first thing my mind goes to, what your, like, bucket list is. It's like a poker tournament. You're fucking playing, like, a big hand to win it all or something. Is that? I mean, I don't play poker.
I don't even really play poker, dude.
That feels like high stakes fucking, you know, really pushing in the money. What is it called? Wow. My God, dude.
That's what I meant. That's what I meant.
Your bucket list is to literally maybe be kicking the bucket.
Everything is loaded with fucking semen now.
I think all my bucket list things are like going places. There's places I want to visit before I die. I don't know if there's like activities I want to do. Do you travel, Blake? Not really. Not much. Interesting. To the bar and back? You know you can. You know you can. I mean, I get places, but there are places I would like to go.
I get places.
Adam, you get places?
Yeah. Traveling is kind of like to me is like kind of a stressful thing. It's kind of a jam up. It kind of is off-putting. Really? I don't like packing. Can I tell you something? What?
Take some of that load boost. But I also, I don't think I'm like, maybe I'm in the minority, but like... You're not, you're white. Not liking to go on vacations is not like a totally foreign thing. Like the thought of like planning a trip to Japan...
Great legend. Legend. Legend.
I will. I will get there. I'm gonna go. It's a bucket list. I will not. I don't think you will. I will go before I die. I guarantee it. Guarantee it. Unless I fucking peace out hell of random.
But you did it.
Do you think they wrapped it up and, like, pretended to be leaving and then went back? Hey, everybody, hold back real quick.
Yes, you mentioned this even when we were talking about like, yo, if we had a billion dollars or whatever, Adam would like shoot down planes with missile launchers and you were like, I just want to like create something or whatever. So your bucket list and your billion dollar list is...
No, like, a bucket list to me is, like, something you have to do before you die. I don't have to do that. That would be a fucking...
awesome moment in my life to do like be on the pro wrestling stage that would be very cool but i i won't feel incomplete if i'm lying in my deathbed and i did not i also feel like i don't have to do anything i just think it would be cool to do like i didn't have to go shark diving that wasn't like i have to go shark diving it was just when it was just the pandemic and we were like perfect
You're looking skinny mini, bro.
Yeah, your body type. Yeah, they're like, he's one of us. He's one of us. Your body type is way more of a harbor seal.
Everybody's looking good. And Blake, you haven't taken the plaque out of the box? No, not yet. Not yet. I just really want to make sure. We're talking about our YouTube plaques. I just want it. I want it to stay shiny.
Wow. Does he have like a death wish? Does he have like a death wish personality where he's just like, I don't know. I don't know.
Cause that's, that's disastrous. I would never, ever do that.
That would be incredible. I love that idea.
Now it's my bucket list.
Now I moved right up to the top. Now it's my bucket list. I moved right up to the top. What are the Dorito flavors in Africa? Are there some different ones? Like some good ones?
No, it is not, dude. I've been to Europe. I'm just fucking around. They got some wild ass chip flavors overseas, bro. Rhino meat. You know they got rhino meat. Even in Canada, they got weird ass chip flavors, bro.
Well, that would take a nail. I don't have a nail.
No, all dressed. Shout out to all dressed. Fucking one. Now he likes Canada.
And ketchup, but not maple syrup. That's not chip flavor.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Dude, Mexico, baby. I love that. I'm very, very excited about it. Oh my gosh. I can't wait to get on that open water.
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They're having a real good time. No, I would say they're date raping. You think so? It's a good possibility.
I'm just dumb enough. We're getting dumber. We're getting dumber. We're getting dumber.
I know. I still am a sucker for it because when I see like Reese's Peanut Butter Cup fucking cereal or I see, I gotta go. I gotta get home.
I fucking hate it here, bro. I'm going to fucking Canada, bro.
I see. Adam, this is what I was saying. I used to love it too, but now it's like it's a little too much. I'm feeling like a mark too much. Thank you. Like I used to be like, huh? Well, just don't get it then. Just don't get it. Well, I'm starting to.
You know the cereal that I couldn't fuck with that I saw and I thought of you guys. Have you seen these ones where it's like cinnamon toast crunch loaded? Loaded.
And I thought about you guys immediately when I saw this.
Look at these, though. Look at this. Look at General Mills tried to get into it with Hershey's and Pillsbury. Phyllos. This is what I'm saying. Phyllos. See? Why are they filling everything with white goo, bro? Not mad at it. Dude, this is RFK.
That's bad for you. Well, obviously. All breakfast cereal is terrible for you.
Yeah, because you definitely sent these to our doorstep.
And you said, please keep them even beyond the promo because I'd love to go out.
uh he's not gonna make his bucket list your face oh wow fucking burn bro got you epic slam that wasn't very nice killer i'm not telling you it was you could all hey i want nothing more than for us all to be just for men boys i want to do just for men just combing it in oh is that what that is bad yeah you just come in a little sauce then your stash just jumps off the page
Dude, I think a terrible toupee is one of the coolest fucking looks. When, like, you could tell that somebody just laid, like, a dead animal on their head.
And they go out the fucking house like that. Yeah, but you like that ironically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure.
Luscious.
luscious luscious yeah their hair's their hair's luscious now um you mentioned baby billy so i would try that first thing before i would get like plugs take it from the back to the front uh yeah you i think you would have to do rogan first because if not if i balled just on the top and had like a skullet i'd be hyped on that i think that's the coolest hairdo ever is when you just even when it's just the horseshoe around the head that's a lost hairstyle and i think it's
Hulk Hogan, yeah. So you're just talking Hulk Hogan. Yes, but I'm saying even if you're... That's a lost haircut.
No, I'm saying like, you know, like say you don't have long hair. You're still like a short hair guy, but you still have the like horseshoe. The Costanza? Yes, that's the coolest hairstyle in the world. No, everyone is ashamed to rock that. Like LeBron should have that. That shit is fucking cool, dude.
He's never admitted to it. But what I will say, it like just starts to.
But LeBron is buff enough and sick enough. I feel like Joel McHale probably works out like a motherfucker. Yeah, he does. I know, but LeBron sweats nonstop. I don't think it has anything to do with sweating.
That's besides the point. Here's the deal. I think that LeBron actually has a response. Here's the deal. I think he has a responsibility because he's such a fucking legend, mate. He's such a fucking athletic god specimen. Arguably the goat.
He isn't. He could grow that hairstyle, the horseshoe, and make it socially acceptable and really cool.
Bruce Willis? I think... No, Bruce never really grew it out.
Yes. Like from Greek times or whatever? No, from No Holds Barred starring Hulk Hogan. Remember the bad guy, Zeus? I think he had it, and it was really cool. So that's the guy. That's the last person to pull it off? It's been a while. No, there's probably some people who were like, I'm thinking I can't summon the names, but they're like dudes in like funk bands that would like let their shit grow.
That was really fucking cool. Like I want to say like there was a dude in cameo. No, he had like a flat. Wow.
But that's the thing. You have to still be, you can't be like a little like, I want you to be like a buff dude.
They're kind of like turdy dudes, though. They're kind of nerdy guys.
I'm talking a guy con with some swag. Those guys don't have a lot of like swag.
Was he the last one to do this? I don't think he ever grew out the sides like that. Isn't that what he looks like? A diehard? No, that's like a buzz cut.
It just has to be... No, he's just talking about the horseshoe. Yeah. Bruce Willis doesn't have that. It's like one even... He's got a little bit on the top.
And I'm down for that, too. I love anybody clinging to their normal hair pattern as it begins to fade. It's even sicker. I think balding is fucking cool as fuck.
Apologies. Any epic slams? I wish I could epic slam somebody in a wrestling ring. That's on my bucket list. That's a pretty good yes points.
He's an animal, dude. I love it. He's also a wrestler. He can't be a pro wrestler. Yeah, it seems like they're all pro wrestlers.
I bet there's a really metal bro who has. Rick Rubin is pretty sick. But that's long. I also want it not to be long. I want it to be short. I want it to be a short horseshoe.
No, there's also, you probably had a teacher who had it. Okay, any other take backs or dead rings?
I got this hat, dude, which I'm freaking hyped on, dude. I bought it and sent it to you. Thank you, Adam. Thank you, Adam. I bought it and sent it to you. I'm going out at night on the town in this. And date rape? No. Okay.
I'm a good captain. That's the vibe it gives. Well, not me. I'm harmless, okay? Wow, dude.
ThisCruiseIsImportant.com. Get your tickets now.
But I can't wait. Maybe I'll move to Tampa.
That's really cool. I love that.
I just can't read it. Well, don't backpedal now.
So you're just saying that the thing with my brain is that it doesn't work. Is that it's, yeah, it doesn't work. That's what you're saying. Okay.
I can tell you don't mean it. This is the most insincere you've ever been. Sincere. When it's insincere, it's sincere.
That doesn't make it better. You can't just shit on me and then say, I also suck.
The Civil War?
I will say, you know what? I like you admitting that you're dumb. I'm willing to admit I'm dumb. I'm much more a fan of people who can admit they're dumb than cannot admit they're dumb. I don't like people who think they're fucking smart and they're obviously not.
Well, you're dumb too, though, right? Aren't you? Who's the smartest person you know, personally?
Exactly. Okay, what is smart? I think I'm very emotionally intelligent. I'm very in touch. I'm very in tune.
Yeah, that's what... No, that's what bitches say. Yeah, yeah.
That's worth a lot. You just wait because when the shit hits the fan, you're going to need people like me.
Freaking see ya. That is not what emotional intelligence means. It doesn't mean sensitivity and crying. Sensitive.
It has some things to do with crystals, yes.
Crystal burger as well.
Yeah, go ahead. Hell yeah. You know, it's just being able to identify when people are going through shit. Being, you know, being kind to them and really... Not just, like, laying in on them when they're very vulnerable and need a friend.
Yeah, I'm breaking your guys' brains. That's bitch made, dude. Bitch made, dude.
Well, okay. So you don't have anybody in your life who's smart. You don't have a subject that you think you excel in, that you're really smart about. Maybe we are just really dumb people.
Yeah, absolutely. It's established. We've logged hours to prove this.
Are you smarter than a podcaster? Okay, I like this. That's pretty good.
I do think people now like tee off on us saying how dumb and stupid we are. We should definitely challenge them to a battle of wits and intelligence on the ship.
I probably am a little too tuned in to the comment section on the Instagram.
You have Rick Flair in your DMs? He's a Gemstones fan.
You have Rick Flair's phone number? Yeah, man. Oh, my God.
What the fuck? That is one of the most extreme flexes to me specifically.
Yeah. If you don't wish him happy birthday, then it's fun. Then it's over. Yeah, it's over.
Are you saying I'm going in with Kyle into the ring and chokeslam? I mean, I don't know. Yeah, well, I'm just saying that would be like, because if it was like me and Kyle going in, like we have like spray paint, we chokeslam a guy, we spray paint NWO on his back. That would be like, that would be like I could die after that.
All right, best fight. We wanted to get someone out here who is not affiliated with the network so we could really talk some crap. And lucky, doing what we do, you know, we don't get out of the house. Well, he gets out of the house more. But, you know, like to actually meet people and stuff. And so it's amazing to get to meet peers doing things like this.
We've known this girl for a long time and have loved this girl for a long time. But tonight is the first time we've actually gotten to meet her in person. And she's even more delightful than we could ever have guessed. It's Kara from Everybody's Business But My Own.
Get out of here.
Oh, no. And I'm sorry to victim shame. I'm so sorry to victim shame. But what'd you do? Did you do anything? What'd you do? Come on, now.
All right. Next up, Danielle smashes a cup on Jen's head. Real Housewives of New Jersey.
LOL. The Mondrian hallway fight with Dowdy and the Lollies. The Valley. Look at poor Zach. Look at Zach. That's so Zach. Poor Zach. That picture is so Zach. Seriously. That back then, that is so Zach. All right, so if this was, what's your vote? This is your vote.
Yeah, it was pretty good. Are you a fan of that one?
I think we all did. I think in the beginning we were like, fuck!
And then we saw one episode where I go,
Admitting you're wrong is so hard.
Thank you. All righty. Madame.
I'm shocked they had it in them. Congratulations, The Valley. Will you accept this award for our dear friends of The Valley?
Thank you so much, Cara. Everybody's business but mine. Subscribe. Wow. I just want to say real quick, you know, every year when we do this, Ben has always put so much work, not only to our show, but this show specifically. Ben has just nailed all of this video stuff. Stop it. Stop it. All of the tech stuff, all of that stuff you see is Ben working his ass off.
What are you supposed to do at Pride? Read books? Grab those nipples. I mean, that's why they're out there. Yeah. Most of us are wearing, like, literal handlebars on our nipples now and locks around. Not me, not me. Oh. Yeah. I would have back in the day when they could grab them from up here, but no one needs a handlebar down here.
And I just want to say thank you, Ben. I love you so much.
I need to be thanked in a separate thing, like you got, you know? Why should I get the like, you too?
Well, you're entitled to give me a wasted compliment in the middle of a fucking thing if that's what you want. I just want my own fucking thing.
This is your compliment. You're doing a good job. Just take the fucking compliment. Why don't you take my fucking compliment?
A pile of chains called Richard, Richard Defending truth against what some dumb bitch heard I miss the hairy back dry cleaner The martini served as breakfast We were youngish together I'm coming at it, nigga The light's already burning Not long until the cameras will start turning Fix the toilet in your townhouse Don't you dare tell me I'm starting Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye.
Okay, so I actually wanna talk some of these through with you, so go for it.
I don't want to be alone. That's all in the past. This world's waiting long enough.
Could I stop my hand from shaking?
Have there ever been a moment with so much to live for?
No more you go low And then I go high Sorry Michelle Obama, I tried I cooked, I cleaned, made it nice Got this bubble dress from Andy, not Cohen, Sandberger.
Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye I taught the world new ways to scream.
All right, everybody. By the way, can we give it up for Ronnie Karam? Thank you. Oh.
Ronnie, you have a little something on your face. I got makeup wipes, don't worry.
Gorgeous as ever, that kid. My God, beautiful. Thank you, Ariana.
Thanks so much for being here, guys. Enjoy the show. This is part two. If you've missed part one, go back and give it a listen. What's stopping you? Have fun. All right.
All right. John Jansen and Alexis Bellino. Joint nomination. Real Housewives of Orange County.
What do you think? What's your vote?
20 more episodes. That might be too much. I'm just going to call it now. We'll see. Ten at a time, ladies. Ten at a time.
I don't know. All right. Let's find out who the winner of this.
I'm nervous. All right. Here you are, sir. Not much help, huh? Maybe pull it a little.
Congratulations, you horrible fucking people. You really earned that one.
Thank you everyone, give a big hand for Dylan Haber. Okay, and now another clip from yet another nomination from tonight's Best Bravo Show. I forgot my sentence. Come on.
This one's emotionally for the lot, guys.
You wanted brick and mortar, and I said, brick and mortar's not great, and you got mad, and now you're sticking to brick and mortar, and, like, you're being really, really rough about it, and, like, you're being really brick and mortar about it. So...
So what are your opinions on this? If you had to choose, who would be yours?
Countess Luan, still pulling it. She can still pull it. Amazing. All right, let's find out the winner. Oh my god, it's really crap.
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She's spraying hairspray. Just for those of you who couldn't see it, which is all of you, She's waving a Greek flag the whole time. Yes.
But honestly, all of those people were amazing this year. They were great. And, you know, we are so grateful to have Bravo, not only because we have shit to talk about, but, my God, they just keep it going year after year. I can't believe this shit is still going on. God bless you guys as a network. All right, let's finish it up.
Hello, published author speaking. Girls, we've been in the trenches together. We've formed a sisterhood together. We've turned butter together. And the butter has gotten messy. And it started to stain our receipts, our reproof, our timelines. So now we need to heal. So what I want us all to do is go into your phone.
and find the meanest, most horrible text that you've ever written about somebody, and then we'll let them read them out loud. We're gonna be so close when this is done.
I wrote this, yes.
Bitch deserved it.
It's a chicken. Hello. My phone just laid an egg. Guess what, guys? I'd like to make an announcement. This chicken and I have been intimate.
Bubblehead. Okay, as the newest member of this group, I would just like to share a text that Angie Kay wrote about me.
Okay. Here it goes. Tzatziki for life. Todd has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. And I'm surprised that Bronwyn didn't dress like a banana because she sucked so many of them to get here. And she is stupid, and she's a slut, and nobody likes her. Also, oppa, blue and white forever. So thanks. Thanks, Angie.
What? You got this, Whitney. You got this, girl. Okay.
All right, everybody, now here we are for the nominees for Best Bravo Show.
All right, here we go. Real Housewives of Miami.
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
And the Valley.
Oh my gosh. Congratulations to Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
And now for another clip. from one of our nominated best shows on Bravo this year. Shall we?
You gave us the best night.
Ashley Savoni. She don't take no baloney.
Get on the right foot with Chrissy Offutt. Dana C, Dana Do. We never miss her call, it's Diane Call.
Hava Nagila Weber.
She's our kind of mess, it's Jennifer Messer. Sip some scotch with Jessica Trach.
Kristen the Piston Anderson. Get a bee in your bonnet with Lacey Bee. Rigging the funk, it's Leslie Plunkett. She gets an A from us, it's Lindsay Dee. Let's give a kisserino to Lisa Lino. Fresh as a daisy, it's Maisie McHenry. We love her on the rocks, it's Melissa Cox. Megan Berg, you can't have a burger without the Berg.
I love a ya, Olivia Williamson. Tastier than Flanderson, it's Rachel Manderson.
Yes, we canna, it's Savannah.
the bay area betches betches and our super premium sponsors she's vvip it's amanda v somebody get us 10 cc's of betsy md she's got a leg up it's beth annie we're taking the gold with brenda silva let's get real with caitlyn o'neill don't get salty with christine pepper can't have a meal without the emily sides Who, what, why, where, and Gwen Pentland. It's our queen, it's Queen Laifa.
The Incredible Edible Matthew Sisters. She eases our woes, it's Melissa St. Rose.
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Sorry. Sorry, guys. Oh, yeah. This is what it looks like, though. All right.
You know what? You need to make your own destiny, Lisa. No more crying. I failed in my marriage. Ah, Lenny! It's so hard, like, really. It's like so hard. Oh, my God, look. It's another boat. Hola, other boat. Hi, other boat. Hola, other boat. Hi, other boat.
Oh, my God. You guys, I know it's a cultural thing with dead babies hanging from trees. But, like, it's bad.
Oh my God, I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up. This is too much. Please get me off the boat. Please get me off the boat. I can't take it. Lily! Lily!
Has anybody seen my lip gloss? It was right around here somewhere.
We were doing that before and we were like, this is too much, right? What else do you do from that show? I had to rewatch it to do that. Oh my, I watched that for three hours. Those ladies are nuts. I love that show. One's barfing, then the other one's about to barf, then one's taken to the hospital, one's sobbing, the poor dogs are dead, the dead baby. I just...
We didn't even have to make anything up for that one. All right, so now this is someone I... You do this one. What? She's your girl. You do it. Well, star girl, but come on. You do it. Come on.
Looking good, baby.
Paul's also here. Let me tell you, one thing we always say when we meet you guys in real life is how much more gorgeous you are in real life, honestly.
And the same goes for the boys. Goddamn!
That's better. So good to have you here. Thank you for having me.
Yeah, she was doing that. No, she was doing. She'll put together a good.
And a toilet. Yes, everybody just gets a free toilet.
Thank you so much for being here.
Listen. I'm assuming we're not allowed to ask you. Do you know anything that you can't tell us?
It's fine. There might be a better way to go about it.
I'm no longer a virgin. You are not. We finally got to meet you.
Phaedra reads Dan for Phil at the round table. The traitors. That was amazing.
I was on multiple. Vampire has been starting shit on Housewives for a long time.
You can hack it, please.
You would be amazing. They'd keep you on there just to hear all the good gossip that you had in the house.
I mean, do you think the deal gets done if the Mavs demand Bronny?
You want to make the drive, or what do you think? Me and you? Or a road trip? You would never do that. I would do it. He's considering it. No, I know Mike might.
You know what it means when you have four Zagakis, Dan? You don't have one. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
Okay, I heard it as Walk. I'm sorry. Bob Walk, great picture for the Pirates, though.
You can't say that again. Yeah, that's it.
I apologize. It took me this long to realize this. But, Felipe, you and Dan look exactly alike. Felipe, I'm sorry. You and Dan look exactly alike. I mean, you do.
If you're reading seven books, Dan, you're not reading one.
He's the reason he has those clients, though.
Hi, PodSquad. As someone whose entire adult life has been about trying to learn to relinquish control, to get more peace and freedom, Melody Beattie has been an incredibly important guide to me in my life personally and to millions of A few days ago, we read this message from Nicole Beattie, who is Melody's daughter. My mother was never afraid to die. Why should I be? I'm going to see God.
Yeah. Can we talk about the phone? Because this is another thought I was having while I was reading your book. I don't answer texts. It's just something that I just decided I cannot live my life just constantly responding to anybody who ever wants to reach out at any time. This upsets people.
and just was like one hour of absolute life-saving freedom. We are forever transformed by Melody's work, work that will continue to guide and heal generations to come. Nicole, we love you. We are with you. We are so grateful for your mom and your family.
Not the people in my life who've texted me, but like if I post something and people can see that I have like 300 unread texts, it makes people wild. But my question, Melanie, is aren't we all setting up a system where we're completely codependent on emails and texts? Because if codependency is reacting instead of acting. Mm-hmm.
If picking up our phones and we're constantly waiting for the world, for anybody who tweets at us, for anybody who emails us, for anybody who texts us to tell us what they need from us, and then we live our entire lives just reacting to what everybody else needs from us or whatever ideas anybody else has from us, aren't we all totally codependent upon the interwebs, email?
Can you talk about the seeming to be in control? Like sometimes the people who seem to be in the most control are out of control. The characteristic being, well, I've got it all under control. Or... If you are trying to control another person's behavior, really that other person's in control of you.
It's interesting because it's almost like with codependency, the drug is control. It's not booze. It's not food. It's worry. It's control. I think sometimes when you say control, people don't identify with it until you say help. Like if you are obsessed with helping... someone else.
Hope you enjoy this conversation. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Delighted to tell you today that with us is the Melody Beattie, a pioneering voice in self-help literature. Melody is the author of many bestselling books, including Codependent No More, a number one New York Times bestseller, which has sold over 7 million copies, as well as The Language of Letting Go, Playing It by Heart,
I think so. I think so. I think I am. So I'm sure they are. So helping though, people obsessed with helping. Is helping just a sweet word for control? And what's the right kind of help? Some help's got to be okay, right? It's helping that no one asked for.
Okay, so that's the sign, huh?
Yeah, it's the unwanted help, the butting in help that nobody asked for.
Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting because in parenthood, the needing thing is real. The needing is real. But in adult relationships, I just keep coming back to the part where you said codependence. settle for being needed. It's like, I don't know what love is. I don't trust that I'm enough.
So I create these situations where it seems like everyone's dependent on me to do things for them or be things for them because that legitimizes my worthiness. Mm-hmm.
The Grief Club, and Beyond Codependency. An updated edition of the best-selling modern classic, which really screwed us up, okay? Codependent No More is available now. Melody lives in Southern California. Melody, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
Does it make sense? But I know every single thing I struggle with in my entire life, all of my battles, the questions are many, but the answer is always let go of control in a million different ways. That's just always the answer. Can you talk to us about detachment?
Oh, we're so excited. I have to tell you, I have read your book a long time ago because I'm a recovering addict, so that was part of my whole journey. Shebang. But then recently we all got it. All three of us got it because our friend Jen Hatmaker was on the show and reminded us of it in talking to us about how important it was for her. The book sat on our coffee table. Yeah.
We do. Yeah. I'm a recovering addict, so I am partial to us. But I always feel like all of these conditions or things that we call, label as, what did you just call it? A dysfunction. Yeah. They're all just extreme forms of the human condition. Yeah. Always. Like I drank and did drugs to numb, but everybody numbs.
In maybe less dramatic ways, a codependent who's really, really, really out of control with everybody in one way or another is dependent upon someone else's behavior.
I feel that, Melody. I feel that. Can you talk to us about acceptance? Because Sister has been really thinking about this idea in your work.
We just stared at it for about a week. And then I said, are you going to read it? And Abby goes, I'm not reading it unless you read it. Which I felt like was very codependent of us. But then I read it. And what I need you to understand, Melody, is that I read the entire book as my sister.
Melody, thank you for sharing that. It's really the ultimate acceptance as opposed to codependence is not necessarily a singular person that we're trying to control, but life itself is.
But it's going to happen no matter what, whether we're in control mode or in surrender mode. Life is coming at us anyway.
Yeah. It's not the surrender that hurts. It's the considering surrender that hurts.
The bad news is we're not God.
And I'm like, is there anywhere that I can just accept all the cookies for once? And just, yes.
I pretended I was her reading, and I had all of the arguments and the epiphanies that I imagined she would have as I was reading. And I want you to know that I truly let your words sink in and change her deeply through my reading.
Yes, it does.
And returning to the place that is the only place you can control. I mean, I think about this all the time because of anxiety. And it feels to me like the reason why yoga and meditation help me are because... Then my awareness is returned to the place that I can control and that is safe.
When you're scrolling or when you're even talking to someone else or when you're looking outside at the world, your awareness is on everybody else and what you can't control. That's why we're all anxious when we're watching the news. We're looking at this carnage and our awareness is on something that we can do nothing about.
Because we think of detachment as not caring or being, saying that's enough or letting go. But really to me, it has to do with the idea of just not depending on solid ground. Like that everything is like riding a wave as opposed to trying to find somewhere to stand still. Because I feel like I'm always trying to find solid ground, like somewhere to stand still.
And life is just constantly requiring, it's constantly movement, movement and requiring me to not be rigid. but to just be agile.
Yes. One of our beloved team members five minutes ago before this interview said, what does it say if four different people in different parts of your life and times of your life have gifted you that book over and over and over again?
Yeah, forever. I really relate to the idea of strong opinions, loosely held, right? Like I come into every situation knowing exactly how I feel about the thing. And then I just try, and then I'm just like, huh, shift, shift based on what the other person says, right? So it doesn't mean you can't be a passionate person.
We like it. We live to please you, Melody. We just want you to like us. And if there's anything we can do to help you.
Okay, thank you. Thanks.
So this is We Can Do Hard Things. Besides dealing with the world and all the anxiety in the world, what is the thing that you are working on right now in terms of this, that you're trying not to control, that you're trying to live from your home with?
I think so, because that's a little codependent, right?
That's amazing. I got to tell you, I had strong opinions loosely held. I thought we were going to come on this interview and you were going to just give us a bunch of lists and reasons we were codependent. And instead, I feel like, I just feel like you gave us just some peace. I've just loved this hour with you. I feel more in my home than I did when we started. Yeah.
I just think you're wonderful. But I also think I'm wonderful, Melody, and I'm not focusing on the fact that you're wonderful.
Because there's also a place. Like I'm not 70, I'm 46, but I'm just starting this whole new freaking level of therapy that I just didn't work things out before. So now I'm back to the damn work. And I have never felt more like it's more important to get back to home. but there's different levels of home.
Sister, tell Melody about your experience with this.
You go home and you're, and you're scattered a horrible place where all the memories and the thing are coming. But then there's like a sinking to like this little safe room that was never affected by any of the ghosts in the house. There is a place to get to that is not the rest of the cluttered house. It's like this little room.
We love you so much. See you next week.
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Can you tell us about how this human condition of codependency came into consciousness? Like the beginning of this idea. Yeah.
Because you weren't using.
I'll be reunited with your brother, and I'll finally get to meet my favorite person, Moses. Her fearlessness was a great comfort to me in her final weeks. During one of our last conversations, I leaned in close to her and asked, Where are you going, Mom? She turned toward me and smiled. I'm going on a miraculous new adventure. I'll miss you. Godspeed, Mal. Oh, Nicole.
And that happens a lot because the kind of codependency you're talking about right now is the, is the, The definition that this began with, the someone who loves or is in relationship with an addict.
So it wasn't the original definition of codependency, but It was kind of popularized within the groups, the wives, right, of the addicts. There's a whole chapter in the big book about the wives. They just noticed that their behavior, their lives had become unmanageable, but they weren't using it.
Yeah. Your book lays out so well. It kind of began in these rooms where people were like, no, my life is, why is my life wild? I'm not even drinking. I'm just married to a drinker and their behavior has made me out of control. Then it expanded to people who maybe were loved in somebody who was mentally ill or loved somebody. Those types of people can be codependent.
But as I'm reading your stuff, I'm like, but aren't all women in a patriarchy absolutely conditioned to be codependent?
Right? So like if the highest definition of a woman is to be selfless, isn't that literally the definition of codependency? Selflessness and only obsession with someone else's pleasing or controlling someone else.
It's fascinating and fitting that Melody Beattie's favorite person was Moses. She led a hell of a lot of people out of the wilderness. Today, we are honoring the life and legacy of Melody Beattie by revisiting a life-changing for me conversation that we had with her that really helped us untangle the difference between healthy and unhealthy, helping
That's so true, Melody. So you're doing all the things, but then you're secretly seething that you have to do all the things.
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My dad? Yeah. No, it made me so happy to see him.
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Yes, man. Thank you.
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