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The Basement Yard

#554 - The Amazing Race

11 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

0.031 - 20.655 Frank Alvarez

welcome back to the basement welcome back to the basement yard hi hello everyone you're all buttoned up today yeah um it's because i'm wearing an undershirt under here but it has a logo on it oh i see so i don't want to show the logo okay that it's like someone i don't like but like

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22.93 - 24.214 Joe Sanagata

Now it feels like you have to show it.

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24.234 - 36.961 Frank Alvarez

I know, I know, but now I... You know what I mean? You gotta prove that it's not an offensive one. Well, no, it's not. What could it be? I don't know. Like a swastika or something? I mean... Whoa, dude! Hot start?

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40.043 - 46.289 Unknown

Dropped it off. It was a hard S-Y-T-O-S kickoff. Yeah. Well, now you've got to show it.

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46.309 - 54.817 Frank Alvarez

It's very clearly not. It's Compton. Oh, okay. The furthest thing from that. One of them, yeah.

55.077 - 56.999 Unknown

Now that we know who it was, I don't know if they want it that close.

58.56 - 66.387 Frank Alvarez

Nobody wins right now. We doubly lose. Let's make that abundantly clear. Sorry, we can just take that again from the top. Hey, welcome back.

66.367 - 91.213 Frank Alvarez

oh wow you got it that's now i'll let you know whatever um you got some new hardware over there i got some bling look at that look at this ant ran his first half marathon it's real by the way is it your first half hey there we go is it is it your is it your first half marathon Or was it your only half man? Got it. Got it. You know what I'm saying?

91.373 - 113.356 Frank Alvarez

That's an aggressive question off the fucking rip. Well, I don't know how he's feeling. Well, start with that question then. How about that? Sorry. What did I say? You're right. You're right. You're right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You guys were accusing me of wearing fucking propaganda on my shirt and stuff like that. We were making sure that no one was coming to that conclusion. Now it's propaganda.

Chapter 2: What medal did Frankie earn and how does it relate to running?

137.056 - 151.314 Frank Alvarez

A lot of people. Did you, you, you just see like, this is what people say. Like hardworking should be Gen Z. Are you listening? He just decided he wanted to do something and pulled himself up by his bootstraps and did it.

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152.095 - 159.344 Unknown

Yeah. He came out to see me. At least he did. And, um, that's fucking bananas.

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159.364 - 161.947 Frank Alvarez

Now, now I need to be on the attack.

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162.167 - 178.161 Frank Alvarez

Yeah. Is that how you attack? One more time. Just give him an attack. Very good. I mean, how should I attack? Tell me, fucking Boxer Joe. Definitely not like this. That's all I know. I know that's incorrect.

178.582 - 187.632 Unknown

No, I'm playing. I'm playing. It was nice. How are your legs feeling? They hurt today. The right, my right foot is not working. That's bad.

187.652 - 189.234 Frank Alvarez

It's just like I'm dragging it.

189.514 - 191.036 Unknown

You're walking. I'm dragging it.

191.056 - 209.101 Frank Alvarez

I'm limping a little bit. Okay. What shoes did you wear? Do they do, like, a thing where, like, you can, like, run in, like, silly shoes? Has anyone done, like, a marathon in, like, high heels? Bro, when I ran the marathon, there was people barefoot. Well, that's not cool shoes. That's just no shoes. But you can wear whatever you want, to my knowledge.

Chapter 3: How do the hosts feel about running and marathons?

236.159 - 243.329 Frank Alvarez

I mean, all power to you. I mean, some would argue that doing the marathon in and of itself is asking for an injury.

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243.469 - 262.155 Unknown

Kind of, yeah. Yeah, I couldn't walk last night. I was just on the couch. I was just sinking into it. I was fine until mile, like, 9 and 10. And that's when I felt like my legs were going to explode. Oh, did you take a bath after that? I did. I took an ice bath, actually. Oh, did you throw some Epsom salt in that bitch? It was a very crude ice bath.

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262.175 - 263.537 Unknown

I didn't even know you're supposed to put salt in it.

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264.338 - 266.201 Frank Alvarez

I mean, Epsom salt. You know what Epsom salt is.

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267.302 - 268.885 Unknown

What? Is that the stuff you put on the street?

269.846 - 270.106 Frank Alvarez

Uh, no.

270.126 - 274.933 Joe Sanagata

Why would you take a bath of stuff that melts snow? Wait, Epsom salt might melt snow, too.

275.934 - 286.333 Frank Alvarez

I don't... If it does, I don't know. But I don't think, like, when you get, like, ice melt, it's not Epsom salt. I don't think. I mean... You know what?

286.633 - 295.789 Joe Sanagata

I have no knowledge of salt and I have nowhere to go from here. Right. But you've never heard of like when you're taking a bath and you're trying to recover, there's some like some salts that you could put in there.

Chapter 4: What unique running events are mentioned?

358.543 - 375.983 Frank Alvarez

Don't fucking do this, both of you. How about this? How about we raise our hands for fucking raising three children? Put your hands down, bitches. Well, that's not what we're saying. Yeah, no, no. You're just throwing it in my face that I haven't run a marathon or half of one.

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376.024 - 376.724 Unknown

I said type of marathon.

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376.744 - 379.548 Frank Alvarez

Way to go. You did half of an actual marathon.

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379.568 - 392.023 Unknown

I said type. I said type. I said type. That's crazy. I'll tell you what. After running the half, it made me think that while doing double this and running a full marathon feels impossible. So the fact that he did it is incredible. I would never be able to do it. It's mental.

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392.003 - 414.904 Frank Alvarez

I also had not run. I practiced. I trained horribly for the marathon and I ran two halves before, but never ran further than that. You hear this fucking guy, Mr. Like, oh man, I like didn't train right before I finished the full fucking marathon. I didn't train enough. So I only could have been better at it. That is true. I couldn't have been much worse.

415.525 - 416.245 Joe Sanagata

But you finish.

416.766 - 426.097 Frank Alvarez

You just finish. In all the conversations we've had about this, because jokes aside, that is, to both of you, one of you more, legitimately impressive.

426.237 - 427.298 Unknown

One of us double.

427.659 - 455.141 Frank Alvarez

What you did was impressive. Times two of that, that's very impressive. It's the entirety of it is the mental aspect for me. I just can't do something that continuous and not get bored and want to... What if we bully you? Bully with your wallet, then we're talking. Bully with your wallet. Then we're talking. Then we can at least have a discussion. Well, what if... Oh, we're making deals.

Chapter 5: What quirky beverage habits are shared during the podcast?

2411.116 - 2439.536 Frank Alvarez

New way of doing stuff. Oh, what do you do? Me? With a straw? No. You are a straw guy, though. I love straws. I don't know if this came up on the show or not. When we went to Austin, this dude had straws in his fucking luggage. Oh, right. You brought straws. Hey, man. That's stupid. And shot glasses. We used both things. First of all, you and Greg used the shot glasses to take shots of rosƩ.

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2439.656 - 2441.277 Unknown

It's such a Greg thing. It was Greg's idea, yeah.

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2441.438 - 2448.404 Frank Alvarez

Yeah, of course, that's Greg's idea. That is, I mean, I get it, because you don't want to share the bottle and stuff like that, but... There's cups.

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Chapter 6: How do the hosts feel about shot glasses and straws?

2449.144 - 2457.912 Frank Alvarez

There's also cups everywhere. There's cups everywhere. And, like, normally, like, Airbnbs will have wine glasses as, like, one of the, like...

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2457.892 - 2479.309 Frank Alvarez

cup options yeah so i don't get bringing shot glasses oh you know what it's the party yeah the party's here i don't know what you guys do without me don't take shots no no not the shots we didn't even take shots i'm saying like you guys were playing with my switch if i wasn't there i don't know which was mad what were you guys doing if i wasn't there just staring at each other

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2479.913 - 2481.195 Unknown

Conversation.

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2482.437 - 2502.449 Frank Alvarez

The switch was massive, I will say that. I didn't say anything about the switch. The shot glasses, though. What would we do without you? Let's look at the 33 years of history before. I don't know what you guys are doing. We were partying. I don't know what you guys are doing. We were partying beer pong. Beer pong flip cup guys. Hey, guys, guess who showed up? The guy that has shots in his luggage.

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2503.29 - 2507.336 Frank Alvarez

Oh, yeah. I have. Yeah, I don't know.

Chapter 7: What nostalgic soda memories are revealed?

2507.356 - 2507.777 Frank Alvarez

I don't know.

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2507.825 - 2514.933 Unknown

I get, like, the idea. It was just prep. It was just in case. It was just prep. Also, we got stuck there at St. Paddy's Day. They came in real handy.

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2516.154 - 2521.4 Frank Alvarez

I like how you say came in handy as if you were in the third world and you wouldn't have been able to find shot glasses anywhere.

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2521.48 - 2522 Unknown

We didn't have to.

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2522.02 - 2531.371 Frank Alvarez

You were in Austin, Texas. You could have walked down the street to a CVS and gotten disposable shot glasses. We did do a shot of Jameson, which I did not want to do.

2531.951 - 2532.472 Joe Sanagata

No, he did not.

2532.872 - 2539.04 Frank Alvarez

But I was bullied into that. No disrespect to the Jameson team. Days of Drinking James had a long behind me.

2539.34 - 2539.661 Unknown

Yeah.

2539.681 - 2560.513 Frank Alvarez

Just like Days of Drinking. Dude, I was a big Jack Daniels fan to the point where it was a problem. Oh, my God. I loved Jack Daniels probably as much as I assumed Kid Rock does back in the day. I had Jack Daniels and probably had a picture of me holding it and then the picture of John Belushi chugging it with a sweater that says college.

Chapter 8: How does the conversation shift to discussing voice acting?

2626.576 - 2635.251 Frank Alvarez

That's the ones I get. Whoa. You're a savior for drinking Coke Zero. I've just gotten into the diet soda, like...

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2635.231 - 2665.17 Frank Alvarez

universe i i never got into like i feel like diet coke people are like fiends like there's a cult behind diet coke yeah there are it's it's wild yeah they must make so much money just from diet coke i mean i imagine the fridge sigs is like a thing now what the oh fridge a fridge sig that's what they call diet coke so you haven't seen like people making like shirts that say like pass me a fridge sig and it's like um like clearly looks like a pack of cigarettes like a marlboro red and it's open and it's just a thing of diet coke

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2665.15 - 2666.612 Joe Sanagata

I love that. That's so funny.

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2666.852 - 2685.876 Frank Alvarez

Yeah, no, people that like... There's two types of people. People that just don't drink Diet Coke or people that have it with every ounce of their being and will defend it until the day. Aspartame's not even that bad for you. I mean, it isn't. I know, but I'm saying like those are the people. It's not like casual Diet Coke drinkers. Bro, I...

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2685.856 - 2699.074 Joe Sanagata

Like, I guess it was just one of those parts of life that you don't think about for so long. But now that I'm, like, conscious and realizing what's going on, it's kind of, like, incredible.

2699.535 - 2719.381 Frank Alvarez

A Diet Coke is zero calories. I am holding on to whatever of my youth I have left by refusing to drink diet soda of any type. What do you mean? Because like I will convince – not will. I fully have convinced myself that like cane sugar sodas, like you know how they do like the Mexican Cokes.

2719.401 - 2732.417 Frank Alvarez

And like I think a lot of soda brands are now rolling out more like cane sugar options than high fructose corn syrup. But like I will convince myself to the day I die like I'm being a healthier person by having that compared to the high fructose corn syrup.

2732.397 - 2736.306 Joe Sanagata

I think that as long as you're not abusing either, you're being healthy.

2736.326 - 2748.853 Frank Alvarez

No, high fructose corn syrup, like... Oh, there is high fructose. I thought if you had cane sugar, then you don't. That's what I'm saying. High fructose corn syrup in any capacity, I can only speak for myself, is not good for me. Right. Like...

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