Awkward Thursday: Hopsticle Course
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What is the listener’s “trip of a lifetime” challenge and why does it matter?
When you think of your bucket list trip,
I
know for Jose it's Japan because of the local culture and the food there.
Yeah, the food. You know what? Screw the culture, man. Just give me all the sushi. You know what I'm saying?
I'm kidding. For Alexis, it's camus for the culture and the food. Yes. Her hometown.
My hometown. Yes. Yeah,
specifically the Mexican restaurant off Highway 14 after one AM on Thursday nights. It just it's different.
That's culture. But
for one of our listeners, he has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime with one of his co-workers. All expenses paid,
if
we can give him the right advice.
Oh
And you know that's unlikely. But we're gonna try coming up in your brand new awkward Thursday phone call right after this.
It's awkward. It's Thursday. It's awkward. Thursday. Phone call.
On this show of Apex Carnivores, we love beef. Mongolian beef, Wagyu beef, sometimes even impossible beef.
But
maybe our favorite is office beef. When two co-workers aren't quite seeing eye to eye or ribeye to ribeye. And that's why one of our listeners, Caden, emailed the show, because he's dealing with a slab of juicy grade A office beef, and he wants some help cutting it up.
Every time you say beef, your voice gets lower. That's just what happens. That's just what happens. The testosterone comes. The
testosterone comes through. So Caden, we'll get to your beef in just a second. But first something is going on in your office that brought this all about. That's what your email said. So tell us about that.
Yeah, so I work with a good friend of mine named Violet.
Okay.
And every year our office does something called the Olympic office games. Oh,
that sounds kinda fun.
It's a fight
to the death sort of thing.
Oh.
Exactly, right. I
was thinking more you push each other in roller chairs to see if you could make it down the hallway
or that's chair races and three legged, you know, all that stuff.
Okay. No casting, Jeff.
Oh, okay.
Have you and what was the woman's name again? I'm sorry.
Violet.
Have have you and Violet worked together for a long time?
Yeah, I wanna say four years.
Oh, it's a while. All right.
How do the hosts explain the office “Hopstacle Course” and its prize?
Is she like your work wife or your BFF at work?
Yeah, we're f we're close friends.
Okay, cool.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So they do this every year. It's it's a morale booster, they pick teams and you do all these little games. Okay, so these Olympic office games.
And do people in the office get really competitive with it? Like they care a lot about who wins?
Yeah, because no one in the gets competitive in our office in here, right?
It's so silly, but yeah, people do take it seriously.
I mean
that's
what makes it fun. You gotta do it. Totally. Totally. If you don't care, then you're not in it.
Yeah, somebody needs to cry by the time that they leave for the eight of the day. That's a good work day.
Thank you. Yeah,
so this uh this past year the contest added another game called the Hopstacle Course.
Hopstacle. Explain it to us.
Beer drinking?
No,
actually it's like going through cubicles and they s create this whole course.
Ah, I did like Jeff's idea better. Yeah,
I I would rather do that one.
But yeah, yours sounds more like a physical, actual hopping around the office. So Violet wasn't picked for it and I kinda felt bad because
she's really good at hopping?
Really, really good. Oh, the knees. So much bounce in those knees.
Why would you feel bad that she didn't get to do the obstacle
course? Well, she just didn't get in in any games this year. It was kinda like uh it was just kinda random bad luck. The names were drawn out of a hat and she wasn't even picked. She wasn't even picked. I see. I see
over and over. I thought it was yeah, someone's secret planning to sabotage her. Yeah. Alexis and I were looking for more drama than that.
But yeah, if if s if it's something that she really wanted to do and she doesn't get to, I can understand why her morale would be hurt.
Can't be that stiff of rules.
Yeah, that's the point, because the obstacle course was the last event. Oh her last chance. Last chance
to shine.
So I pretended to screw up my ankle from another game and I said, You got a sub for me.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the listener’s “trip of a lifetime” challenge and why does it matter?
0:01–2:17
2
How do the hosts explain the office “Hopstacle Course” and its prize?
2:17–4:26
3
Why did Caden fake an injury to let Violet compete in the Hopstacle?
4:26–6:40
4
What advice do the hosts give for pitching yourself as the best plus‑one?
6:40–9:04
5
How does Violet react when she learns about the fake injury?
9:04–10:56
6
What are the listeners’ ideas for alternative plus‑one candidates?
10:56–13:17
7
How do the hosts handle the awkward “plus‑one” phone call?
13:17–15:45
8
What final takeaways and next steps are offered to Caden for the Bahamas trip?
15:45–18:08