November 29, 2019 • 43 mins
A bonus Black Friday episode where Jack, Miles, and super producer Anna tell y'all what items they're fucking with this holiday season.
FOOTNOTES:
- World’s Smallest Vacuum
- PowerJet F700 140 MPH 725 CFM 12 Amp Electric Handheld Leaf Blower
- Japanese Vegetable Peeler (Green) - Cabbage Salad Peeler Cutter, Onion Slicer Cutter, Thin Slicer Cutter
- Sivan Back and Neck Pain Relief Acupressure Mat and Pillow Set, Chronic Back Pain Treatment - Relieves Your Stress of Lower Upper Back and Sciatic Pain
- Bruder Toy Trucks
- High Hemp CBD Wraps Variety Pack
- Lodge Silicone Hot Handle Holder for a Cast Iron skillet
- We Are in a Book! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Video Game
- Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer
- JASON MARKK REPEL SPRAY
- Nostalgia Pop Up Hot Dog Toaster
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special Black Friday
episode of The Daily's Like Guys t d z's Favorite Things.
I'm Jack O'Brien. Yep you are, Oh, Miles great, Hey
what's up? Man? And we're also joined by whoa, it's her?
(00:21):
Uh so, guys hit her. This episode, we're doing something
a little different. We are going to talk about some
of our favorite things on this most consumerist of all days,
the Black the Black Friday. Yeah, yeah, stuff that's really special.
Talk got your cyber Monday coming up, so, uh you know,
(00:43):
just it's a feeding frenzy out there, folks. I don't
I don't have to tell you you've seen the local
news reports about people just beating the ship out of
each other to get to those flat screen sales. Um so,
my things are very deadish, old man things. Miles is
(01:03):
are also very on brand, very daddish for me to know.
Yours are super on brand. Uh, and annas are ever
and everything is miniature. Uh well, why don't you talk
about your first super producer as Speaking of miniature, my
first favorite thing, if you will, is the world's smallest vacuum.
(01:27):
It's a handback that's really tiny. It's about the size
of your hand. But it's perfect for picking up those
little crumbs when you don't want to pull out that uh,
that giant hand vacuum. What what what makes us better
than a regular sized handback which is also a smaller
vacuum because I use it to vacuum the crumbs off
my laptop. Right, But why can't I just use my
(01:50):
regular sized handback for that? Because then you have to
go get a giant handback. What's your hands to regular hands?
From the presumption that other handbacks are giant, Well, once
you use this tiny one that's very convenient and you
can take it everywhere with you and clean up after yourself,
you will realize all these handbacks are actually monstrosities. It
(02:13):
does look like one of the handback, like a handback
that's been putting in a shrink machine like you microwave
it turn into a key chain. Boy, I'm curious, and
what is your day to day handback exactly? Is it
just a shop back? Oh? No, I mean I have.
(02:35):
I think I have like a dirt devil and I
have the way you talk about it, I was I
was picturing something so cumbersome. I have to one for
animal hair and one for human human remains human, one
for animal hair, one for human. Basically, I have them
for cat litter because my cats are monsters. Oh yeah, see,
(02:56):
that's why you need one of those little mats that
you put in front of the litter box. I have that.
But for some reason, these mothers and and the worst
part is the litter box entrances are all faced towards
the wall, and yet they somehow can get the litter
from across the room. Yep, I hear that. I don't
care about any of this as a non catch. Kids.
(03:17):
Kids are like cats, understand, but only the youngest one
goes in a litter box. True, but you can give
your child a tiny handfac and they'll just think it's
so fun and they'll clean up they do. Yeah, Ramsey
loves vacuums. Okay, well there you go, give him a
small one. He'll be like, perfect, they made one for me. Actually,
this leads into my first pick kind of perfectly, because
(03:39):
mine is the opposite of a vacuum. It's accorded leafblower,
specifically the Toro Power Jet F seven hundred forty mph. Uh.
This this bad boy comes in a cheap fifty seven dollars,
which is half what other leaf blowers call lost gas.
(04:01):
Leaf blowers are illegal in l A. Uh so I
gotta plug in one, and it's surprisingly powerful. And uh kids, kids, really,
my son really digs it. Are you doing a lot
of We're both confused. What you do? Do you allow
them do a lot of yard work or something? Yeah?
What's it for? It is that how you clean up
(04:22):
your kid's toys with a leaflow just get you can
clear the dishes at the end of the d everything
your helm is. That's why you need a tiny back.
If you have a driveway or like any paved area,
it's great to just clear that ship off. It's good
for if you have a lot of if you have
leaves that fall anywhere, like on your property, it's good
(04:46):
to just like get them off and it looks a
lot better. Yeah, it looks a lot better and it
starts looking a little pristine. I ask why cordless ones
are illegal in l A. Uh Yeah, why I don't know,
because I think the environment probably bad for the environment. Also,
like up in people's faces with exhaust fumes. Yeah, yeah,
(05:07):
I don't I don't know. Uh that is that looks Yeah,
that's it. That's that's the one. Hell yeah, hell yeah.
By the way, guys, we're putting all these items in
the footnotes. Spend all you can buy your son that
leaf blower he's always wanted for Christmas. I mean, so
my son is so into the leafblower action that he
(05:31):
walks around pretending that other things are leafblowers. That's what
he does like for playtime, which is you know, hell
why not? Why not get him started on a new
career idea? Miles, how about you? What's your first pick
that sucking and blowing? Mine is uh called the suck
blow and what it is, It's actually called cabit scum
(05:56):
and it's a Japanese device that I like to cabbage
with to make your razor thin. I love eating cabbage.
See these are things are gonna this is this is
why you tune into tune into these episodes. I had
a lot. I like cabbage and I like to cut
it very thin, kind of like if you go to
a Japanese tone cuts the restaurant, like cabbage is like
a very traditional side for tone cutsu for fried poork
(06:20):
cutlet for those who are uninitiated, And it's a very
I just it's like how I get a lot of
my vegetables. I just love cabbage, and this cuts it
so thin. You put it on top and you sort
of swirl it around like a shaved ice machine. But
the cabbage comes out like an angel's hair and angel's
armpit hair is so feathery and light. But it smells
like cabbage. But I don't know, I guess rock cabbage.
(06:42):
It doesn't really smell. It's more than cooked cabbage. Yeah,
I mean, I think it all depends. Oh I think
you can um soak it a little bit to get
a little bit of that smell out. But for me,
I love it, baby. And this is a very like look.
I know it's a it's a device that is mostly
in Japan. You can sometimes find them on Amazon, but
(07:03):
they also have different so if you want this style right,
you can find like Japanese style vegetable peelers or a mandolin. Really,
if for anybody who just has just general cooking items
in their kitchen, the mandolin is how you get those
very razor thin cuts of like vegetables and things like that.
The mandolin is not an instrument from medieval times. I
(07:24):
don't know if it's like goes that far back, but
it's like that huge. It looks like a washboard that
has a blade on it, so you just go like
you just run it down and it's just a lot
of people injure themselves on there because you get too
casual with it, the ship will cut you. That's also good.
You can also get a cabbage slicer. I also have
one of those and keep showing me things on Amazon. Uh.
But yeah, I think that's just one of the things
(07:46):
because I really like if if you see my Instagram
from time to time, I'm cooking every now and then.
But that's a that's a simple dish man. You just
want to get your vegetables in, you know what I mean,
Get you something cabbage very on brand for me, and
what's your next item? You know, thanks for asking jack Um,
I'm gonna pretend I'm on what's that qbs qbc um.
(08:09):
You know this is something I bought a while back
and then ended up buying for my father. I started
recommending it to everyone. Uh. It's those ACU pressure matt
and pillow set. It basically is a matt that's like
covered in spikes and a pillow that's covered in spikes.
It's wild. It really hurts if you accidentally step on it.
But if you like lay down either shirtless, whatever, if
(08:29):
you're a woman's sports brought whatever, shirtless, live your life. Um,
it helps just release a lot of pressure and like
you start to immediately relax if you lay on it
for ten minutes. It'shion. Yeah, it's It's the most comfortable
thing I have when I just lay on it when
I'm like stressed out or like I have a lot
of tension in my back. What is that? What are
the things? What are all those circles? They're little spikes
(08:51):
to like, uh, you know, it just hits pressure points
the nail bed I sleep on. Sure, yeah, but it's
you know, like ACU pressure, so hit certain points in
your body to kind of like release like ease his
tension just gives you. It's it works so well that
like within ten minutes of laying on it, you don't
feel the spikes and you're I mean you feel them,
(09:12):
but like it doesn't hurt and you're like very relaxed,
like you could sleep on it. It hurts to step
on well, yeah, if you're casually just walking through the
house and you have it left out I don't recommend
just stepping on it because it hurts like a motherfucker.
But if you lay on it with your back, yes,
there's a few minutes of her. If you can't handle her,
wear a T shirt. Can't. But then if you lay
(09:33):
on it, it's uh yeah, it's it's really nice. And
it's like you don't have to pay for acupuncture. You
can just lay on it. Yeah. And the pillow is
good that you can actually you can put it on
your you put your feet on it if you're having
some tension in your you know, like when you get
that like a muscle spasm in your foot. It really
helps just release. It's just nice, you know, guys. Let
(09:55):
me tell you guys, I lay on it, I feel good. Wow.
I guess we've I guess we know your secret. Yeah.
And I got one from my dad and he loves it.
It's really nice. Nice. I mean, you and your dad
seem like very different people. So if you guys back pain, yeah, alright.
For my second pick, I'm going with the de Walt
(10:18):
twelve amp corded electric leafblower. What how many leaf blowers
I know my ships sold? Uh So my second pick
is Breweder toy trucks for for the kiddies. A Brewer
(10:43):
toy trucks, Brewer brand. What's a Brewer toy truck. It's
just like toy trucks like you know Tonka trucks and
ship like that, but Brewder actually like you can get
replacement parts, like you can order away for replacement parts
to it's just like it got moving parts. And like,
so my son has an excavator, which is one of
(11:05):
those big Scooper things. Yeah, like these, yeah exactly truck. Yeah,
the crane truck. I've ordered a replacement part and fixed it.
And it's very they're very simple, like they're simple machines,
but you feel like you're fixing something when you when
you order the replacement. It's fine to imagine you've been like, yeah,
(11:25):
I gotta go work on the car and the garage
and you're just working on it. Let me underneath this,
wear an old white t shirt, roll up the sleeves
with a pack of Marboro Resime, do you kid pass
the wrench? It's one of those toy wrenches. He's like, God,
(11:46):
damn it. But I mean, so kids are like at
least my son is really into construction sites, like we'll
go to construction sites and just like watch trucks work
because it's just like and it is actually like once
you kind of view it through a kid's eyes, like
it's really dope, like just watching the machines work. And
(12:10):
also it gives you a little appreciation of like all
the work that I take for granted usually that goes
into the like buildings that are all around us. Um. Yeah,
I think my brother lucked out because my dad's a
civil engineer, so we got to go to work sites
all the time and like hang out on the actual
trucks and stuff, and and I was always sucking around
my toma gotchi. I don't really care as much, but
(12:32):
like I would, you know, my brother got to ride
around in them. And then we got to be like
the first people to walk on bridges as they were
built because my dad is careless. But let's walk on.
It's like using you guys as testing but we haven't
tested it yet. But it was cool, Like it's a
cool thing to grow up with as like a for
(12:53):
a boy to be, Like, my dad will just take
me to work and I can like hang out on trucks.
Right anyways, Brewer Toy trucks and taking your kids to
construction sites for free. But both things that I like.
They're on my list of favorite things. Uh, Miles, what's
your second pick? Uh? Well, since you were talking about
(13:14):
leaf blowers, I'm talking about how I'll be blowing on
these leaves. Uh there? Do you just blow on the
weed when you smoke? Get super high? Like that? Now
inhalings for nards doing it wrong? Um? So I am.
I smoked a lot of how to put this in
my way, I love to smoke once, but smoking tobacco
(13:37):
with the whacko tobacco not really good for your long wacko.
So I've been slowly I've been getting off the dutchess
in backwoods and Swishers, and I've been doing more hemp wraps,
which is a very healthy alternative because not tobacco, and
they have seabed and them. I don't really know if
that really matters because you're puffing on you know, high
(13:57):
levels of th HC. But there's one brand called high
Hemp Ones that I really like because they roll the
same Yeah, then off to work we uh where it
has the same look and feel of the blunt without
the guilt and the health risks of smoking so much tobacco. Um,
(14:19):
and yeah, I just it's it's been you know, I
don't like. Yeah, they're organic, they're made out of hemp leaf.
So it's like pretty much the best thing you can
do if you don't like smoking joints or whatever, because
I you know, I'm I'm look, I'm not against joints,
but I prefer blunts usually, and this helps me maintain
my feeling of being in like you know, mid nineties
(14:42):
Golden era New York rap video and still still still
keep my health. So is it the tobacco that is
bad for you? Like the what they say, Man, they're
trying to people, trying to malign the tobacco man, right,
But I had always heard from my friends who work
in the tobacco industry that it's the smoke that is
bad for you and not the fact that it's tobacco. Well,
(15:03):
I mean, there's definitely the amount of people who smoke
weed and the lack of like real hard lines of
it being like, you know, supercarcinogenic. Yeah, that's true. There's
something just about tobacco that's just inherently worse for your respiratories.
I wonder if there's anybody who's addicted to nicotine, but
the only way they get it is through blunt reps
(15:25):
just smoking. That's a sad way I have, Like you
like it indvertently become addicted to nicotine because I have
friends who started smoking cigarettes because we smoked something like I.
I have a thing where I don't smoke cigarettes, but
I put tobacco in my my joints. I make spliffs
all the time, and it always makes me think, like,
(15:46):
you're so European, don't you? Yeah, totally. But I also
think I'm like, I'm kind of low key addicted to
cigarettes in an indirect way by continually putting tobacco in
my spliffs. And I don't really like to smoke just
plain joints, which is too intense. It's the addict in me. Man,
Is it too intense? No? I just think it's just
(16:07):
so packed, you know, it's like, loosen it up? What
do you mean? I just like how I like how
tobacco in joints smokes better. I think, just smokes better.
That's a personal preference, Like, I just it's just how
I've always been. I'm so European. But I don't know,
I don't know, all right, I guess you're just so
re European. I'm just so European. The first time I
(16:29):
was like, someone gave me like a rollie that had
like passion and stuff or like mixed blended joint. I
was like white, I'm like, do you not have enough weed?
And they're like no, it's just like less intense, And
I'm like, I'm here for the intensity. So I don't
know if it's less intense, just a it's a slightly
different high. Well yeah, that with a nicotine will definitely
(16:49):
get your head light a buzzing. Yeah, I'm talking lippers.
I don't like. And when I have been to Europe
where people like roll a cigarettes sprinkle some weed in it,
It's like, are you even doing here? That's stupid. Just
like to have started all our European being an edge. Lord,
have four or five cigaretteste j get some susages that
(17:17):
Nick croll character. All right, before we get to Anna's
next favorite thing, Miles, I want to talk to you
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(17:38):
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There is a good chance you were. Well, I got
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I did. And I think that's one of the reasons
why you have to be really full about your data
(18:01):
and having all of your sensitive information protected. And it's
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(18:23):
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(19:09):
three months free. And now it's time to bring Anna
back in to tell us what her next most favorite
ist thing is this holiday season. Now, guys, this is
gonna blow everyone away. But it's a lodge silicon hot
handle holder for your That's right, you guessed it. Cast iron.
(19:33):
What it's a It's one of those silicon holders for
your butter, isn't it. It's for your cast iron because
your cast iron gets hold on the handle. Yeah, you
just put on the handle so you don't have to
continuously be grabbing a mitt to pick it up because
it's impossible to clean or use. It's honestly, why are
we even using cast irons? They're so hard to deal with.
(19:54):
It's like that won't fit on the handle of my
cast iron stove? Pet uh pan, What do you mean?
Does it not? Does it fit on the end of all? Yeah, Okay,
I was just teeing you up for that, yeah, saying
it's adaptable. You cannot be on q QVC with this.
Come on, man, it's like improv. Baby. You got a
yes and yes and it's great. Yes and you're wrong. Sure,
(20:20):
it's wonderful. Are you clicking with a lot of cast iron?
We have multiple cast irons in my home. Um, I
try not to use them because I hate cleaning them.
They're so hard to clean. So uh my partner, Zachari, uh,
he cleans them all the time. And yeah so he
most I mostly make him cooking it while I watch
(20:40):
over his shoulder. The plural cast iron is casts iron,
not cast irons. Um, we really know? I was about
to punch you. What else is there? I got? Uh?
I got? My next is a children's book author Moe Willems,
the plural Mo Williams. Yeah uh yeah, I know Mo.
(21:02):
You know Mo. Uh you're a fan the most people. Yeah.
Uh So he's got this series of books called Elephant
and Piggy Books. Uh too. It's an about an elephant
and a pig who are friends who just have conversations
with one another. And I don't know, they're like meta,
(21:23):
they're really smart, Like one of them is called We
Are in a Book, where the two characters freak out
about the fact that they're in a book and can
make the plea the readers say whatever they want. Uh.
They well, they do have like an existential crisis when
they realized the book is coming to an end, but
then they realized that they can just ask you to
(21:44):
read it over again. They're like, please, if you're reading this,
save us. You're just gonna let us fucking die in
this book. Oh you've read it? Yeah? Oh wow, Yeah,
I know gave the idea we were smoking weed together.
But he's pretty uh you know, he's got all sorts
of skills because those aren't the only like those books
(22:06):
he's got. He's got those books. He's got these don't
let the pigeon books. Yeah, Pigeon presents the mystery reader.
That's right. Love that one. Uh, but I'm invited to
a party that's one of them. Yeah hell yeah. Or
time to pee? Who could forget that one? Well? And
who can forget such greats as time to pee? And
(22:27):
let's go for a drive. These are great and he's
just waiting. Is not easy or even in bi lingue.
It's least a great one. Yes, so yeah, that's that's one.
Is there a reason why I'm sure you've seen many
children's books. Is it because it's even for you? You're
kind of like shout out to everyone. Like Dr Seuss
(22:50):
and you know, really changed the game like in the sixties,
because like some of the books from like back in
the day that were like classics and when my parents
were kids are like just complete hot garbage. There's like
one called like Pet the Cat and it's just a
cat and it's like Pet the Cat helps Susie like
(23:12):
change the drapes. It's like c Spot run type ship basically.
And Doctor Like with Dr. Seuss, they like started bringing
artistry to it. And now there's just all sorts of
really great children's books authors. You've got another book called
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed. The Rock Experience, Yeah, I
like the one about their final album, The Bird on
Your Head. I Love Bird on Your Head or The
(23:35):
Pigeon Needs a Bath Book. Yeah, and your kids like
these hell yeah, and your kids think is good. There's
also Nuffle Bunny. What's that? That's one where this kid
basically has a stuffed animal that he brings into school,
but then forgets it. They're, oh, god, you hate to
(23:55):
see it? You do, you really hate to see it? Um,
the pige and stuff is really hot right now. There's
just like these people who have like an innate sense
of like what's going to appeal to children that you
know with Disney. I'm like, yeah, I get it, like
that stuff is fun and mysterious and entertaining. But like
this book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, where
(24:16):
the pigeons like, hey, can I drive the bus? And
the kids like no, and the pigeon just tries to
convince the kid to let him drive the bus. The
kid driving the bus, no, no, the kid is just
put in charge of driving the bus by the bus
driver or the rust driver is an adult adult, and
he's will you watch this bus for me for a second, Well,
(24:37):
go do something, and the pigeon like pops in it's like,
hey can I drive. It's interesting that in popular culture
we've decided that pigeons are dirt bags, yeah, because they
are like, we don't trust to like we're like pigeons,
those are rats. Let me tell you this is this
is the best thing that's happened to pigeons since Mike Tyson. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(25:00):
he's a really lovable kid. But like kids like just
see this character and they're like the pigeon, they're like
freak out that. And uh, the minions are like the
minions really are just like hacked into some part of
a children's brain. That like because their shapes are easy
to understand. It's like you can draw a minion really
(25:20):
easy as a kid. But yeah, I think I talked
on the show about how we were like scrolling past
that Despicable Me moved me and my son, who had
never seen a minion before, is like, I want the
yellow guys, like, show me the yellow guys like, and
just has ever since been obsessed with the minions, but
he calls them the yellow I have two things about minions. One,
(25:41):
I believe Ian Abramson while back tweeted that they're just
a metaphor for the pharmaceutical pill industry. And then too,
I know someone who knows the guy who create like
the animator who designed the minions, and they told me
that he's very minion esque, like he acts like a minion,
like it's somewhat based off his own weird and so
(26:06):
this adult must act to one year. He's got, he's
very he doesn't speak English. It's always like running into himself,
always runs into walls. He's great ideas, though, Miles, what's
your next pig? It's a video game, and I've been
playing a lot of games this year, from FIFA to
(26:28):
Division two. Shout out to who was playing with me
on there. I was playing Ghost Reek on Breakpoint, which
is such a massive letdown, but I'm loyal to the franchise,
so I slogged through it. But this game was such
a good refreshing game to play after that. And it
is a Star Wars game, because I also love Star
Wars and it's Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. Now you say,
(26:51):
what the funk is that? And why should I care? Well,
what is it? It's a video game where you're a Jedi.
Why should you care? I don't know. If you don't
like Star Wars or video games, you might want to
skip this part. How However, the thing that's really great
about it, it's like this game where you're a Jedi
and right now the Jedis are gone and we're trying
to rebuild the Jedi uh, the Jedi Council, and this
dude who's like working in a scrapyard. Is low Ki
(27:12):
a Jedi, but he's not. He's trying to keep it
on the low because the Empire is trying to get
rid of everybody who's like force sensitive. And then he
starts coming back into he starts remembering all his powers
and ship, and you're just sucking it up with a
lightsaber basically. However, like there were past games like with
the character Star Killer that e A had, where you
could just like button mash and you would just like
wipe out everybody, like nothing could mess with you because
(27:35):
you're very powerful, this game forces you to be a
little more patient as you play forces. Thank you so much,
you caught up. You caught that one um. Like normally
in a game like this, if you've played like Arkham
Asylum or like the mortor Middle Earth game that they had,
that Lord of the Rings slasher game, like you could
just hit block or something while people were attacking you
and it would instantly block and you could just get
(27:56):
right through it. This you really have to actually think,
like you're fighting someone with a sword and time things,
and it kind of reinspired that feeling of a challenge
of a video game like I remember when you play
like Mario or something you could always like you always
get to a point in the game where it's like
I just can't get past this fucking thing, and you
realize the repeated trial and error how you like actually
(28:16):
navigate it, Whereas now like games are a little bit
easier unless you're playing them in a super hard setting,
where this one, like, I respect the mechanics of it,
and it got me. I wasn't like rage quitting. I
was getting upset that the game was hard, but it's
still it was like, you know, cause a bit of
a flow state where I was sort of like, no, like,
it's just enough of a challenge, right, I know I
can get through it, uh, And I do, and it
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feels great. Combine that with the high Hemp blunt wrap,
I mean, you got yourself a Saturday going. It's why
I've been stuck on paper, Mario and Nintendo for nineteen years.
Oh boy, what are you better? Video games? Well? High,
I don't know if there's really any way to test that.
I mean, the only time I really play against other
human beings, I am high, so I really wouldn't know.
(29:02):
So the only way to test that would be to
play video games, not high and you're just not interested
in doing that. Yeah, well no I am, I I
just it all. They just kind of go together, you
know what I mean, as I completely melt time away,
But I mean ask people who play me against FIFA.
You know what I mean. You might get me once
and then something happens inside me, and then I beat
you five straight times and then you don't want to
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play anymore. Thank you, the force was awakened within me. Anna.
What is your next Thank you so much for asking Jack.
My next item is the good groups three and one
avocado slicer another handhle thing. No, okay, so this is
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so we already have something for slicing cabbage, but now
we're gonna be cutting up some vocado. Yes this is
a vocado. Do is that vine where the woman's reading
a Del Taco sign? It says fresh avocado like spaces
weird like free. So with this three and one you
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can split it. There's like a knife feature. You can
uh slide it. Yeah, you can quit it and then
you can there's a little hole where you can put
it like with grips where you can pull the pit out,
and then it has like the little uh like a
jail looking sort of situation where you can scoop it
out while making like the easy jail looking its verticals. Okay,
(30:30):
I let you got your head in the Criminal Justice
game three and one. It's really I I have one
at home. I use it all the time from my office.
It looks like a thing you'd show a baby boomer
and go, what is this? Right? Of course you kids
are kind of course. Wait does the top blade that's
the actual that's a blade. Yeah. I mean it's not
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super super sharp, but it can do the job of
cutting through an avocado. But you kind of need the
best way. I feel like, as we have a really
sharp knife to cut an avocado on how because it
just goes straight through that rind. Oh that's what you do?
You through? No, I know you eat the peel off
with your teeth first. Oh yeah, no, that well most
people look to each their own botto. You're not supposed
(31:13):
to eat the I don't personally. No, I don't eat
the skin. Huh are you supposed to? What about the pit?
But I do? You must leave the pit in if
you get the color nice, yeah, to keep it fresh.
So if you're only eating half your alvo don't get
oh really yeah, even guacamole. If you throw the pit
in it, it it helps it. It's key. That could be
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a total urban legend, but I always do that same
cool urban legend. The rest of mine are pretty uh,
blowing up balloons and not tying the ends, just letting
them go all over the room. That's fine, that's one
of your favorite things. That's just the thing you like
to do. It's the thing I like to do with
my kids. I have a feeling that was number one.
(31:56):
And you've got all self conscience, you're like, just leave,
will are now? Is there a type of balloon you
like to do that with? No, just ending balloons. It's
just it's just a blast, a freeway to pass an
hour with your kids. Are you finding yourself enjoying it
because your kids enjoy it? Or you are recapturing your
childhood goal? Man, this is kind of tight. Now it's
blow up the balloon. I let it go and you
(32:18):
don't know where it's going. Yeah, just like you start
ampathizing with your kids, so you're like having fun because
they're having fun, and yeah, you just don't know where
it's going to be. So you're trying to catch it
before it hits the ground. That's a little game we played. Um,
it's catch before it hits the ground. Yeah, that's a classic. Yeah,
even as an adult, I'll get dangerously into that, Like
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I will break my head open so that balloon does
not touch that ground. But it's truly unpredictable the path
the balloon will take. And it's like a little game
of a Russian roulette, which I've also played with my
kids and uh, they don't like it as much. Uh
scary for them. Yeah yeah, um like deer Hunter. Also,
kids are into like physical media. Like there's a my
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kid as a CD player that he's like really into,
like loves playing your old play or think. But it's
like one of those things where like a kid, I
remember I used to like this one old my dad
had this weird thing where internationally you could put uh,
this is the weirdest thing. It was like a tone dialer,
(33:23):
So you would put it to the microphone part of
a receiver and you could pound like so you didn't
have to touch the keyboard or something. You could press
the numbers because the sound of each phone number is
good enough to like program whatever phone number youre trying
to call it. Look, I'm not a telecommunications expert, but
this is just a stupid toy I would put on.
I would dial the phone with that on it. Oh well,
I'll call my friends. So rather than dialing on the keypad,
(33:45):
this little dialer you put to the mic part and go,
you know, eight five, oh way six whatever? It was. Um,
And that was just a stupid adult toy that I
was like, this is the coolest thing ever. Is he
listening to CDs on there? Uh? Some real music? He's
some beat buds listening to the Chronic He's listening to Onyx. Yeah,
(34:11):
do you get him Alou Bega CD yet? Yeah? That
was favorite as Oh you know he would love his
immortal technique Dance with the Devil. Yeah. Ok, yeah, I'm
not limiliar with this guy, but I mean, if you
if he's as good as you say, if it's what
you say, it is, maybe some Celine Dion. I'm just
going over all the CDs I has a child, Maybe
(34:31):
the Basiler soundtrack, maybe the Soul Food soundtrack. He's got
a pretty good playlist though that we've Radio Disney mix.
That was all Mickey and Minnie singing covering songs. Yeah,
it was insane. Shout out to they might be giants
who are still uh making music for Disney really yeah,
(34:53):
they make children's music now, I mean that's the wave.
You think how many people just pivot to that and
they're like, it's actually the biggest check I've ever got.
And it's also like when you listen back to their
old music they were always making children's music. Was a
triangle Man from Triangle Man, Triangle Man, and then like
a Little Birdhousing Your Soul is like a song about
(35:13):
a little blue plug in light up bird. Pretty silly.
Uh miles, Yes, what's your next? My next? Where am
I on this list? Oh? Uh? This is for all
the sneaker heads out there. This is just it's a
thing I've been using very frequently this year because I
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like my shoes to stay as clean as possible. Um.
I already talked about how I used the Jason Mark
cleaner for my sneakers and have everybody in this office
using it now and many listeners shout out to you all.
I'm still waiting for some kind of free something Jason Mark.
But there's another product that he makes called Repel. Okay,
and what you do with this. It's a stain repellent
(35:55):
and like water repellent. When you get your shoes new,
I know you want to wear them right away, so
some of you don't. But I hit him with the repel.
Do you quote him once? Let it cure for twenty
four hours, Quote him again, Let it cure for another
twenty four hours. If you want to do a third time,
you get that cure. Right, your shoes are basically Scotch
guarded and stomp around and ship stomp around and ship
(36:16):
medical waste, motor oil. It doesn't matter. But like no,
but it's like a really good product. You know, I
just I stand by it because it makes it gives
you just a little bit more protection for your sneakers
because especially in this day and age, we want our
kicks to look crispy. Okay, that's not my Can I
borrow that for this evening? Can you borrow it for
(36:38):
this evening? When I've been like lending this ship out,
like it's pretty much out, like I used it, ever
someone else used it? Yeah, yeah, it's like right, how
much of the Yeah, what does the matter? You know?
What do you put in on that? Though? It's so
we should just buy our own because I have My
instinct was to ask you to borrow it. To borrow it,
(37:00):
I don't care. It's almost done anyway, And plus you
know I get to borrow it first. Okay, Well i'll decide,
and first i'll see I'll determine who gets to borrow
my bottle of repel through a series of tests of
strength fight cover. Yeah, but in my own way, because
now I'm in control. You seem weak today, Jack today today? Yeah?
(37:21):
Who can build them? Who can fold the nicest paper
airplane that goes the first? That's how Jack shaking? All right,
but he's got kids. You gotta teach them kids. Yeah,
but I understand aerodynamics. Both my parents are engineers. Well, hey, okay,
we'll put it on the line. Then Jack just started
eyes and wobbled his head like I just go, yeah,
(37:45):
I'm sorry. That's pretty fun because I like the unpredictability
of physics. Nerd engineer nerd parents about chaos theory. Man,
that's what that balloon is, right, bro Uh Hey, you
guys have others. I have one more that I don't
own it, but boy do I look at it every
(38:06):
other day? Um. It is the pop up hot dog
toaster I don't know what the fuck. I don't know
how I found this. Basically, it's a toaster to toast
the hot dog and the buns together, so you don't
have to like cook him in water. However, you cook
him on a skill it, so you just put them
in the toaster, turn up the heat, you know, put
(38:29):
it down or push it down, and then and then Frankfurter.
I mean, it's it's very much what you are picturing
in your mind. It's so truly upsurd. It's been on
my my Amazon wish list for a very long time.
It's got that look of like a retro refrigerator, like
retro appliance. I think that's probably one of the things
(38:50):
that makes it appealing. Like he feels like, yeah, I
remember when you should eat a couple of hot dogs. Yeah,
it's who I don't know who was Like, but what
kind of what size Franks can you put it? Because
it looks like it only made for standard size like Nationals,
maybe Nathans, who knows, I have yet to what's your family?
If you're getting a fine sausage and put it trying
(39:13):
to cram it up, could you imagine? I'm like, that's
how I cook my fine sausages or I just I
imagine you're trying to cook other ship in there, like
dishes that aren't meant to be in there. It's like, yeah,
it's my spaghetti warmer. Yeah. I personally, I was never
really raised with hot dogs, so now I like love them.
I think they're just like the most simple American food,
(39:35):
and I love to eat them. I love to put
some ketchup mayo relish um. And it also came from
like my childhood obsession with hot dogs at Costco. My
parents always being like, we don't need it. You don't
need to get a hot dog right now. We're gonna
go home and eat our normal Iranian. You're too good.
But as a kid, you're like, come on, can I
just have a hot dog? So um my mom said
(39:58):
there she said it was po I mean, yeah, that's
my parents be like, it's it's preservatives, you don't need it.
Basically that's actually described every American. Like why I couldn't
eat it? Now I'm so fucked up in the brain.
I'm looking for toasters for as I see. I love
be careful, Yeah, I love Like that's why I eat
tuna helper because my mom was like, are you from
(40:19):
a trash planet? I'm like maybe like tuna helper, I
like fucking ship and I just every every gross food
is like my thing because my parents are my mother,
especially because she was, you know, trying to be as
conscious as possible but also being Japanese. Like was also like,
we'll eat this Japanese food too. You don't need Oscar
Meyer cheese hot dogs, which I love. They're disgusting, but
(40:42):
the cheese filled Oscar myyer bro. I could eat that
ship cheddar cheddar hallapenio. Baby, that's too fancy for me.
I just like the gross cheese cheese. Yeah, it's just
like a cheese. It's just like the cheese dog. I
ate that ship with one fucking slice of wonder bread.
That's my bun goodbye, sir, call me bun by. Don't
God tell me m M I need miles? Do you
(41:03):
have any others after that? Fuck? I know, how are
you gonna do? We clearly have a winner. Hot dog toaster. Yeah.
They said that there's no right or wrong favorite thing,
but Anna clearly hit the correct favorite thing hot dog toaster.
Cook Surprise, it wasn't on Oprah's Favorite things. Seriously do
(41:24):
you think I bet I bet Oprah. Well, First of all,
Gwyneth Paltrow is probably convinced that if you ate a
hot dog, you would die like immediately from like some
kind of sodium whatever. But she fed a hot dog
to your child, she would probably call Child protect CPS
on speed dial. Yeah, but feel free to put a
stone in your vagina. Hey, that's called health and wellness,
(41:46):
my man. H. But I think with Oprah, I bet
she just like would eat a hot dog, like very ironically. Yeah,
like at a baseball game where she's like, look at me,
engaging with the poor. Yeah, she would think it was
a lot of fun with the proletariats out here. Look
at me. I'm just like you, and we're all like, okay,
(42:07):
what are you doing? But yeah, so that's it. Has
anyone else got anyone else? No, I'm just now I'm
just thinking about that cheese dog. Actually, I think I
might literally go buy something and completely debase myself, to
enrich myself, to go to my highest level of existence,
the highest plane of consciousness. Alright, guys, well, happy Black Friday.
(42:32):
We won't be doing a trends this afternoon, because I mean,
cheese dogs Miles is gonna be eating cheese dogs and
you just don't deserve it. And let's be real, it's
not actually Black Friday recording this, ye see, it's ahead
of Black Friday. We're recording this on Thanksgiving. Actually we
came in on Thanksgiving. But yeah, I hope everybody's having
(42:54):
a lovely long weekend. Go out and buy all these
things for yourself. You're loved ones us and all the
links are in the footnotes, so you have no excuse.
I have a great weekend. We'll be back on Monday
with more podcasts and we'll talk to you that Thanks
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special Black Friday
episode of The Daily's Like Guys t d z's Favorite Things.
I'm Jack O'Brien. Yep you are, Oh, Miles great, Hey
what's up? Man? And we're also joined by whoa, it's her?
(00:21):
Uh so, guys hit her. This episode, we're doing something
a little different. We are going to talk about some
of our favorite things on this most consumerist of all days,
the Black the Black Friday. Yeah, yeah, stuff that's really special.
Talk got your cyber Monday coming up, so, uh you know,
(00:43):
just it's a feeding frenzy out there, folks. I don't
I don't have to tell you you've seen the local
news reports about people just beating the ship out of
each other to get to those flat screen sales. Um so,
my things are very deadish, old man things. Miles is
(01:03):
are also very on brand, very daddish for me to know.
Yours are super on brand. Uh, and annas are ever
and everything is miniature. Uh well, why don't you talk
about your first super producer as Speaking of miniature, my
first favorite thing, if you will, is the world's smallest vacuum.
(01:27):
It's a handback that's really tiny. It's about the size
of your hand. But it's perfect for picking up those
little crumbs when you don't want to pull out that uh,
that giant hand vacuum. What what what makes us better
than a regular sized handback which is also a smaller
vacuum because I use it to vacuum the crumbs off
my laptop. Right, But why can't I just use my
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regular sized handback for that? Because then you have to
go get a giant handback. What's your hands to regular hands?
From the presumption that other handbacks are giant, Well, once
you use this tiny one that's very convenient and you
can take it everywhere with you and clean up after yourself,
you will realize all these handbacks are actually monstrosities. It
(02:13):
does look like one of the handback, like a handback
that's been putting in a shrink machine like you microwave
it turn into a key chain. Boy, I'm curious, and
what is your day to day handback exactly? Is it
just a shop back? Oh? No, I mean I have.
(02:35):
I think I have like a dirt devil and I
have the way you talk about it, I was I
was picturing something so cumbersome. I have to one for
animal hair and one for human human remains human, one
for animal hair, one for human. Basically, I have them
for cat litter because my cats are monsters. Oh yeah, see,
(02:56):
that's why you need one of those little mats that
you put in front of the litter box. I have that.
But for some reason, these mothers and and the worst
part is the litter box entrances are all faced towards
the wall, and yet they somehow can get the litter
from across the room. Yep, I hear that. I don't
care about any of this as a non catch. Kids.
(03:17):
Kids are like cats, understand, but only the youngest one
goes in a litter box. True, but you can give
your child a tiny handfac and they'll just think it's
so fun and they'll clean up they do. Yeah, Ramsey
loves vacuums. Okay, well there you go, give him a
small one. He'll be like, perfect, they made one for me. Actually,
this leads into my first pick kind of perfectly, because
(03:39):
mine is the opposite of a vacuum. It's accorded leafblower,
specifically the Toro Power Jet F seven hundred forty mph. Uh.
This this bad boy comes in a cheap fifty seven dollars,
which is half what other leaf blowers call lost gas.
(04:01):
Leaf blowers are illegal in l A. Uh so I
gotta plug in one, and it's surprisingly powerful. And uh kids, kids, really,
my son really digs it. Are you doing a lot
of We're both confused. What you do? Do you allow
them do a lot of yard work or something? Yeah?
What's it for? It is that how you clean up
(04:22):
your kid's toys with a leaflow just get you can
clear the dishes at the end of the d everything
your helm is. That's why you need a tiny back.
If you have a driveway or like any paved area,
it's great to just clear that ship off. It's good
for if you have a lot of if you have
leaves that fall anywhere, like on your property, it's good
(04:46):
to just like get them off and it looks a
lot better. Yeah, it looks a lot better and it
starts looking a little pristine. I ask why cordless ones
are illegal in l A. Uh Yeah, why I don't know,
because I think the environment probably bad for the environment. Also,
like up in people's faces with exhaust fumes. Yeah, yeah,
(05:07):
I don't I don't know. Uh that is that looks Yeah,
that's it. That's that's the one. Hell yeah, hell yeah.
By the way, guys, we're putting all these items in
the footnotes. Spend all you can buy your son that
leaf blower he's always wanted for Christmas. I mean, so
my son is so into the leafblower action that he
(05:31):
walks around pretending that other things are leafblowers. That's what
he does like for playtime, which is you know, hell
why not? Why not get him started on a new
career idea? Miles, how about you? What's your first pick
that sucking and blowing? Mine is uh called the suck
blow and what it is, It's actually called cabit scum
(05:56):
and it's a Japanese device that I like to cabbage
with to make your razor thin. I love eating cabbage.
See these are things are gonna this is this is
why you tune into tune into these episodes. I had
a lot. I like cabbage and I like to cut
it very thin, kind of like if you go to
a Japanese tone cuts the restaurant, like cabbage is like
a very traditional side for tone cutsu for fried poork
(06:20):
cutlet for those who are uninitiated, And it's a very
I just it's like how I get a lot of
my vegetables. I just love cabbage, and this cuts it
so thin. You put it on top and you sort
of swirl it around like a shaved ice machine. But
the cabbage comes out like an angel's hair and angel's
armpit hair is so feathery and light. But it smells
like cabbage. But I don't know, I guess rock cabbage.
(06:42):
It doesn't really smell. It's more than cooked cabbage. Yeah,
I mean, I think it all depends. Oh I think
you can um soak it a little bit to get
a little bit of that smell out. But for me,
I love it, baby. And this is a very like look.
I know it's a it's a device that is mostly
in Japan. You can sometimes find them on Amazon, but
(07:03):
they also have different so if you want this style right,
you can find like Japanese style vegetable peelers or a mandolin. Really,
if for anybody who just has just general cooking items
in their kitchen, the mandolin is how you get those
very razor thin cuts of like vegetables and things like that.
The mandolin is not an instrument from medieval times. I
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don't know if it's like goes that far back, but
it's like that huge. It looks like a washboard that
has a blade on it, so you just go like
you just run it down and it's just a lot
of people injure themselves on there because you get too
casual with it, the ship will cut you. That's also good.
You can also get a cabbage slicer. I also have
one of those and keep showing me things on Amazon. Uh.
But yeah, I think that's just one of the things
(07:46):
because I really like if if you see my Instagram
from time to time, I'm cooking every now and then.
But that's a that's a simple dish man. You just
want to get your vegetables in, you know what I mean,
Get you something cabbage very on brand for me, and
what's your next item? You know, thanks for asking jack Um,
I'm gonna pretend I'm on what's that qbs qbc um.
(08:09):
You know this is something I bought a while back
and then ended up buying for my father. I started
recommending it to everyone. Uh. It's those ACU pressure matt
and pillow set. It basically is a matt that's like
covered in spikes and a pillow that's covered in spikes.
It's wild. It really hurts if you accidentally step on it.
But if you like lay down either shirtless, whatever, if
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you're a woman's sports brought whatever, shirtless, live your life. Um,
it helps just release a lot of pressure and like
you start to immediately relax if you lay on it
for ten minutes. It'shion. Yeah, it's It's the most comfortable
thing I have when I just lay on it when
I'm like stressed out or like I have a lot
of tension in my back. What is that? What are
the things? What are all those circles? They're little spikes
(08:51):
to like, uh, you know, it just hits pressure points
the nail bed I sleep on. Sure, yeah, but it's
you know, like ACU pressure, so hit certain points in
your body to kind of like release like ease his
tension just gives you. It's it works so well that
like within ten minutes of laying on it, you don't
feel the spikes and you're I mean you feel them,
(09:12):
but like it doesn't hurt and you're like very relaxed,
like you could sleep on it. It hurts to step
on well, yeah, if you're casually just walking through the
house and you have it left out I don't recommend
just stepping on it because it hurts like a motherfucker.
But if you lay on it with your back, yes,
there's a few minutes of her. If you can't handle her,
wear a T shirt. Can't. But then if you lay
(09:33):
on it, it's uh yeah, it's it's really nice. And
it's like you don't have to pay for acupuncture. You
can just lay on it. Yeah. And the pillow is
good that you can actually you can put it on
your you put your feet on it if you're having
some tension in your you know, like when you get
that like a muscle spasm in your foot. It really
helps just release. It's just nice, you know, guys. Let
(09:55):
me tell you guys, I lay on it, I feel good. Wow.
I guess we've I guess we know your secret. Yeah.
And I got one from my dad and he loves it.
It's really nice. Nice. I mean, you and your dad
seem like very different people. So if you guys back pain, yeah, alright.
For my second pick, I'm going with the de Walt
(10:18):
twelve amp corded electric leafblower. What how many leaf blowers
I know my ships sold? Uh So my second pick
is Breweder toy trucks for for the kiddies. A Brewer
(10:43):
toy trucks, Brewer brand. What's a Brewer toy truck. It's
just like toy trucks like you know Tonka trucks and
ship like that, but Brewder actually like you can get
replacement parts, like you can order away for replacement parts
to it's just like it got moving parts. And like,
so my son has an excavator, which is one of
(11:05):
those big Scooper things. Yeah, like these, yeah exactly truck. Yeah,
the crane truck. I've ordered a replacement part and fixed it.
And it's very they're very simple, like they're simple machines,
but you feel like you're fixing something when you when
you order the replacement. It's fine to imagine you've been like, yeah,
(11:25):
I gotta go work on the car and the garage
and you're just working on it. Let me underneath this,
wear an old white t shirt, roll up the sleeves
with a pack of Marboro Resime, do you kid pass
the wrench? It's one of those toy wrenches. He's like, God,
(11:46):
damn it. But I mean, so kids are like at
least my son is really into construction sites, like we'll
go to construction sites and just like watch trucks work
because it's just like and it is actually like once
you kind of view it through a kid's eyes, like
it's really dope, like just watching the machines work. And
(12:10):
also it gives you a little appreciation of like all
the work that I take for granted usually that goes
into the like buildings that are all around us. Um. Yeah,
I think my brother lucked out because my dad's a
civil engineer, so we got to go to work sites
all the time and like hang out on the actual
trucks and stuff, and and I was always sucking around
my toma gotchi. I don't really care as much, but
(12:32):
like I would, you know, my brother got to ride
around in them. And then we got to be like
the first people to walk on bridges as they were
built because my dad is careless. But let's walk on.
It's like using you guys as testing but we haven't
tested it yet. But it was cool, Like it's a
cool thing to grow up with as like a for
(12:53):
a boy to be, Like, my dad will just take
me to work and I can like hang out on trucks.
Right anyways, Brewer Toy trucks and taking your kids to
construction sites for free. But both things that I like.
They're on my list of favorite things. Uh, Miles, what's
your second pick? Uh? Well, since you were talking about
(13:14):
leaf blowers, I'm talking about how I'll be blowing on
these leaves. Uh there? Do you just blow on the
weed when you smoke? Get super high? Like that? Now
inhalings for nards doing it wrong? Um? So I am.
I smoked a lot of how to put this in
my way, I love to smoke once, but smoking tobacco
(13:37):
with the whacko tobacco not really good for your long wacko.
So I've been slowly I've been getting off the dutchess
in backwoods and Swishers, and I've been doing more hemp wraps,
which is a very healthy alternative because not tobacco, and
they have seabed and them. I don't really know if
that really matters because you're puffing on you know, high
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levels of th HC. But there's one brand called high
Hemp Ones that I really like because they roll the
same Yeah, then off to work we uh where it
has the same look and feel of the blunt without
the guilt and the health risks of smoking so much tobacco. Um,
(14:19):
and yeah, I just it's it's been you know, I
don't like. Yeah, they're organic, they're made out of hemp leaf.
So it's like pretty much the best thing you can
do if you don't like smoking joints or whatever, because
I you know, I'm I'm look, I'm not against joints,
but I prefer blunts usually, and this helps me maintain
my feeling of being in like you know, mid nineties
(14:42):
Golden era New York rap video and still still still
keep my health. So is it the tobacco that is
bad for you? Like the what they say, Man, they're
trying to people, trying to malign the tobacco man, right,
But I had always heard from my friends who work
in the tobacco industry that it's the smoke that is
bad for you and not the fact that it's tobacco. Well,
(15:03):
I mean, there's definitely the amount of people who smoke
weed and the lack of like real hard lines of
it being like, you know, supercarcinogenic. Yeah, that's true. There's
something just about tobacco that's just inherently worse for your respiratories.
I wonder if there's anybody who's addicted to nicotine, but
the only way they get it is through blunt reps
(15:25):
just smoking. That's a sad way I have, Like you
like it indvertently become addicted to nicotine because I have
friends who started smoking cigarettes because we smoked something like I.
I have a thing where I don't smoke cigarettes, but
I put tobacco in my my joints. I make spliffs
all the time, and it always makes me think, like,
(15:46):
you're so European, don't you? Yeah, totally. But I also
think I'm like, I'm kind of low key addicted to
cigarettes in an indirect way by continually putting tobacco in
my spliffs. And I don't really like to smoke just
plain joints, which is too intense. It's the addict in me. Man,
Is it too intense? No? I just think it's just
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so packed, you know, it's like, loosen it up? What
do you mean? I just like how I like how
tobacco in joints smokes better. I think, just smokes better.
That's a personal preference, Like, I just it's just how
I've always been. I'm so European. But I don't know,
I don't know, all right, I guess you're just so
re European. I'm just so European. The first time I
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was like, someone gave me like a rollie that had
like passion and stuff or like mixed blended joint. I
was like white, I'm like, do you not have enough weed?
And they're like no, it's just like less intense, And
I'm like, I'm here for the intensity. So I don't
know if it's less intense, just a it's a slightly
different high. Well yeah, that with a nicotine will definitely
(16:49):
get your head light a buzzing. Yeah, I'm talking lippers.
I don't like. And when I have been to Europe
where people like roll a cigarettes sprinkle some weed in it,
It's like, are you even doing here? That's stupid. Just
like to have started all our European being an edge. Lord,
have four or five cigaretteste j get some susages that
(17:17):
Nick croll character. All right, before we get to Anna's
next favorite thing, Miles, I want to talk to you
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(18:01):
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three months free. And now it's time to bring Anna
back in to tell us what her next most favorite
ist thing is this holiday season. Now, guys, this is
gonna blow everyone away. But it's a lodge silicon hot
handle holder for your That's right, you guessed it. Cast iron.
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What it's a It's one of those silicon holders for
your butter, isn't it. It's for your cast iron because
your cast iron gets hold on the handle. Yeah, you
just put on the handle so you don't have to
continuously be grabbing a mitt to pick it up because
it's impossible to clean or use. It's honestly, why are
we even using cast irons? They're so hard to deal with.
(19:54):
It's like that won't fit on the handle of my
cast iron stove? Pet uh pan, What do you mean?
Does it not? Does it fit on the end of all? Yeah, Okay,
I was just teeing you up for that, yeah, saying
it's adaptable. You cannot be on q QVC with this.
Come on, man, it's like improv. Baby. You got a
yes and yes and it's great. Yes and you're wrong. Sure,
(20:20):
it's wonderful. Are you clicking with a lot of cast iron?
We have multiple cast irons in my home. Um, I
try not to use them because I hate cleaning them.
They're so hard to clean. So uh my partner, Zachari, uh,
he cleans them all the time. And yeah so he
most I mostly make him cooking it while I watch
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over his shoulder. The plural cast iron is casts iron,
not cast irons. Um, we really know? I was about
to punch you. What else is there? I got? Uh?
I got? My next is a children's book author Moe Willems,
the plural Mo Williams. Yeah uh yeah, I know Mo.
(21:02):
You know Mo. Uh you're a fan the most people. Yeah.
Uh So he's got this series of books called Elephant
and Piggy Books. Uh too. It's an about an elephant
and a pig who are friends who just have conversations
with one another. And I don't know, they're like meta,
(21:23):
they're really smart, Like one of them is called We
Are in a Book, where the two characters freak out
about the fact that they're in a book and can
make the plea the readers say whatever they want. Uh.
They well, they do have like an existential crisis when
they realized the book is coming to an end, but
then they realized that they can just ask you to
(21:44):
read it over again. They're like, please, if you're reading this,
save us. You're just gonna let us fucking die in
this book. Oh you've read it? Yeah? Oh wow, Yeah,
I know gave the idea we were smoking weed together.
But he's pretty uh you know, he's got all sorts
of skills because those aren't the only like those books
(22:06):
he's got. He's got those books. He's got these don't
let the pigeon books. Yeah, Pigeon presents the mystery reader.
That's right. Love that one. Uh, but I'm invited to
a party that's one of them. Yeah hell yeah. Or
time to pee? Who could forget that one? Well? And
who can forget such greats as time to pee? And
(22:27):
let's go for a drive. These are great and he's
just waiting. Is not easy or even in bi lingue.
It's least a great one. Yes, so yeah, that's that's one.
Is there a reason why I'm sure you've seen many
children's books. Is it because it's even for you? You're
kind of like shout out to everyone. Like Dr Seuss
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and you know, really changed the game like in the sixties,
because like some of the books from like back in
the day that were like classics and when my parents
were kids are like just complete hot garbage. There's like
one called like Pet the Cat and it's just a
cat and it's like Pet the Cat helps Susie like
(23:12):
change the drapes. It's like c Spot run type ship basically.
And Doctor Like with Dr. Seuss, they like started bringing
artistry to it. And now there's just all sorts of
really great children's books authors. You've got another book called
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed. The Rock Experience, Yeah, I
like the one about their final album, The Bird on
Your Head. I Love Bird on Your Head or The
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Pigeon Needs a Bath Book. Yeah, and your kids like
these hell yeah, and your kids think is good. There's
also Nuffle Bunny. What's that? That's one where this kid
basically has a stuffed animal that he brings into school,
but then forgets it. They're, oh, god, you hate to
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see it? You do, you really hate to see it? Um,
the pige and stuff is really hot right now. There's
just like these people who have like an innate sense
of like what's going to appeal to children that you
know with Disney. I'm like, yeah, I get it, like
that stuff is fun and mysterious and entertaining. But like
this book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, where
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the pigeons like, hey, can I drive the bus? And
the kids like no, and the pigeon just tries to
convince the kid to let him drive the bus. The
kid driving the bus, no, no, the kid is just
put in charge of driving the bus by the bus
driver or the rust driver is an adult adult, and
he's will you watch this bus for me for a second, Well,
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go do something, and the pigeon like pops in it's like,
hey can I drive. It's interesting that in popular culture
we've decided that pigeons are dirt bags, yeah, because they
are like, we don't trust to like we're like pigeons,
those are rats. Let me tell you this is this
is the best thing that's happened to pigeons since Mike Tyson. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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he's a really lovable kid. But like kids like just
see this character and they're like the pigeon, they're like
freak out that. And uh, the minions are like the
minions really are just like hacked into some part of
a children's brain. That like because their shapes are easy
to understand. It's like you can draw a minion really
(25:20):
easy as a kid. But yeah, I think I talked
on the show about how we were like scrolling past
that Despicable Me moved me and my son, who had
never seen a minion before, is like, I want the
yellow guys, like, show me the yellow guys like, and
just has ever since been obsessed with the minions, but
he calls them the yellow I have two things about minions. One,
(25:41):
I believe Ian Abramson while back tweeted that they're just
a metaphor for the pharmaceutical pill industry. And then too,
I know someone who knows the guy who create like
the animator who designed the minions, and they told me
that he's very minion esque, like he acts like a minion,
like it's somewhat based off his own weird and so
(26:06):
this adult must act to one year. He's got, he's
very he doesn't speak English. It's always like running into himself,
always runs into walls. He's great ideas, though, Miles, what's
your next pig? It's a video game, and I've been
playing a lot of games this year, from FIFA to
(26:28):
Division two. Shout out to who was playing with me
on there. I was playing Ghost Reek on Breakpoint, which
is such a massive letdown, but I'm loyal to the franchise,
so I slogged through it. But this game was such
a good refreshing game to play after that. And it
is a Star Wars game, because I also love Star
Wars and it's Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. Now you say,
(26:51):
what the funk is that? And why should I care? Well,
what is it? It's a video game where you're a Jedi.
Why should you care? I don't know. If you don't
like Star Wars or video games, you might want to
skip this part. How However, the thing that's really great
about it, it's like this game where you're a Jedi
and right now the Jedis are gone and we're trying
to rebuild the Jedi uh, the Jedi Council, and this
dude who's like working in a scrapyard. Is low Ki
(27:12):
a Jedi, but he's not. He's trying to keep it
on the low because the Empire is trying to get
rid of everybody who's like force sensitive. And then he
starts coming back into he starts remembering all his powers
and ship, and you're just sucking it up with a
lightsaber basically. However, like there were past games like with
the character Star Killer that e A had, where you
could just like button mash and you would just like
wipe out everybody, like nothing could mess with you because
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you're very powerful, this game forces you to be a
little more patient as you play forces. Thank you so much,
you caught up. You caught that one um. Like normally
in a game like this, if you've played like Arkham
Asylum or like the mortor Middle Earth game that they had,
that Lord of the Rings slasher game, like you could
just hit block or something while people were attacking you
and it would instantly block and you could just get
(27:56):
right through it. This you really have to actually think,
like you're fighting someone with a sword and time things,
and it kind of reinspired that feeling of a challenge
of a video game like I remember when you play
like Mario or something you could always like you always
get to a point in the game where it's like
I just can't get past this fucking thing, and you
realize the repeated trial and error how you like actually
(28:16):
navigate it, Whereas now like games are a little bit
easier unless you're playing them in a super hard setting,
where this one, like, I respect the mechanics of it,
and it got me. I wasn't like rage quitting. I
was getting upset that the game was hard, but it's
still it was like, you know, cause a bit of
a flow state where I was sort of like, no, like,
it's just enough of a challenge, right, I know I
can get through it, uh, And I do, and it
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feels great. Combine that with the high Hemp blunt wrap,
I mean, you got yourself a Saturday going. It's why
I've been stuck on paper, Mario and Nintendo for nineteen years.
Oh boy, what are you better? Video games? Well? High,
I don't know if there's really any way to test that.
I mean, the only time I really play against other
human beings, I am high, so I really wouldn't know.
(29:02):
So the only way to test that would be to
play video games, not high and you're just not interested
in doing that. Yeah, well no I am, I I
just it all. They just kind of go together, you
know what I mean, as I completely melt time away,
But I mean ask people who play me against FIFA.
You know what I mean. You might get me once
and then something happens inside me, and then I beat
you five straight times and then you don't want to
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play anymore. Thank you, the force was awakened within me. Anna.
What is your next Thank you so much for asking Jack.
My next item is the good groups three and one
avocado slicer another handhle thing. No, okay, so this is
(29:42):
so we already have something for slicing cabbage, but now
we're gonna be cutting up some vocado. Yes this is
a vocado. Do is that vine where the woman's reading
a Del Taco sign? It says fresh avocado like spaces
weird like free. So with this three and one you
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can split it. There's like a knife feature. You can
uh slide it. Yeah, you can quit it and then
you can there's a little hole where you can put
it like with grips where you can pull the pit out,
and then it has like the little uh like a
jail looking sort of situation where you can scoop it
out while making like the easy jail looking its verticals. Okay,
(30:30):
I let you got your head in the Criminal Justice
game three and one. It's really I I have one
at home. I use it all the time from my office.
It looks like a thing you'd show a baby boomer
and go, what is this? Right? Of course you kids
are kind of course. Wait does the top blade that's
the actual that's a blade. Yeah. I mean it's not
(30:52):
super super sharp, but it can do the job of
cutting through an avocado. But you kind of need the
best way. I feel like, as we have a really
sharp knife to cut an avocado on how because it
just goes straight through that rind. Oh that's what you do?
You through? No, I know you eat the peel off
with your teeth first. Oh yeah, no, that well most
people look to each their own botto. You're not supposed
(31:13):
to eat the I don't personally. No, I don't eat
the skin. Huh are you supposed to? What about the pit?
But I do? You must leave the pit in if
you get the color nice, yeah, to keep it fresh.
So if you're only eating half your alvo don't get
oh really yeah, even guacamole. If you throw the pit
in it, it it helps it. It's key. That could be
(31:35):
a total urban legend, but I always do that same
cool urban legend. The rest of mine are pretty uh,
blowing up balloons and not tying the ends, just letting
them go all over the room. That's fine, that's one
of your favorite things. That's just the thing you like
to do. It's the thing I like to do with
my kids. I have a feeling that was number one.
(31:56):
And you've got all self conscience, you're like, just leave,
will are now? Is there a type of balloon you
like to do that with? No, just ending balloons. It's
just it's just a blast, a freeway to pass an
hour with your kids. Are you finding yourself enjoying it
because your kids enjoy it? Or you are recapturing your
childhood goal? Man, this is kind of tight. Now it's
blow up the balloon. I let it go and you
(32:18):
don't know where it's going. Yeah, just like you start
ampathizing with your kids, so you're like having fun because
they're having fun, and yeah, you just don't know where
it's going to be. So you're trying to catch it
before it hits the ground. That's a little game we played. Um,
it's catch before it hits the ground. Yeah, that's a classic. Yeah,
even as an adult, I'll get dangerously into that, Like
(32:39):
I will break my head open so that balloon does
not touch that ground. But it's truly unpredictable the path
the balloon will take. And it's like a little game
of a Russian roulette, which I've also played with my
kids and uh, they don't like it as much. Uh
scary for them. Yeah yeah, um like deer Hunter. Also,
kids are into like physical media. Like there's a my
(33:00):
kid as a CD player that he's like really into,
like loves playing your old play or think. But it's
like one of those things where like a kid, I
remember I used to like this one old my dad
had this weird thing where internationally you could put uh,
this is the weirdest thing. It was like a tone dialer,
(33:23):
So you would put it to the microphone part of
a receiver and you could pound like so you didn't
have to touch the keyboard or something. You could press
the numbers because the sound of each phone number is
good enough to like program whatever phone number youre trying
to call it. Look, I'm not a telecommunications expert, but
this is just a stupid toy I would put on.
I would dial the phone with that on it. Oh well,
I'll call my friends. So rather than dialing on the keypad,
(33:45):
this little dialer you put to the mic part and go,
you know, eight five, oh way six whatever? It was. Um,
And that was just a stupid adult toy that I
was like, this is the coolest thing ever. Is he
listening to CDs on there? Uh? Some real music? He's
some beat buds listening to the Chronic He's listening to Onyx. Yeah,
(34:11):
do you get him Alou Bega CD yet? Yeah? That
was favorite as Oh you know he would love his
immortal technique Dance with the Devil. Yeah. Ok, yeah, I'm
not limiliar with this guy, but I mean, if you
if he's as good as you say, if it's what
you say, it is, maybe some Celine Dion. I'm just
going over all the CDs I has a child, Maybe
(34:31):
the Basiler soundtrack, maybe the Soul Food soundtrack. He's got
a pretty good playlist though that we've Radio Disney mix.
That was all Mickey and Minnie singing covering songs. Yeah,
it was insane. Shout out to they might be giants
who are still uh making music for Disney really yeah,
(34:53):
they make children's music now, I mean that's the wave.
You think how many people just pivot to that and
they're like, it's actually the biggest check I've ever got.
And it's also like when you listen back to their
old music they were always making children's music. Was a
triangle Man from Triangle Man, Triangle Man, and then like
a Little Birdhousing Your Soul is like a song about
(35:13):
a little blue plug in light up bird. Pretty silly.
Uh miles, Yes, what's your next? My next? Where am
I on this list? Oh? Uh? This is for all
the sneaker heads out there. This is just it's a
thing I've been using very frequently this year because I
(35:34):
like my shoes to stay as clean as possible. Um.
I already talked about how I used the Jason Mark
cleaner for my sneakers and have everybody in this office
using it now and many listeners shout out to you all.
I'm still waiting for some kind of free something Jason Mark.
But there's another product that he makes called Repel. Okay,
and what you do with this. It's a stain repellent
(35:55):
and like water repellent. When you get your shoes new,
I know you want to wear them right away, so
some of you don't. But I hit him with the repel.
Do you quote him once? Let it cure for twenty
four hours, Quote him again, Let it cure for another
twenty four hours. If you want to do a third time,
you get that cure. Right, your shoes are basically Scotch
guarded and stomp around and ship stomp around and ship
(36:16):
medical waste, motor oil. It doesn't matter. But like no,
but it's like a really good product. You know, I
just I stand by it because it makes it gives
you just a little bit more protection for your sneakers
because especially in this day and age, we want our
kicks to look crispy. Okay, that's not my Can I
borrow that for this evening? Can you borrow it for
(36:38):
this evening? When I've been like lending this ship out,
like it's pretty much out, like I used it, ever
someone else used it? Yeah, yeah, it's like right, how
much of the Yeah, what does the matter? You know?
What do you put in on that? Though? It's so
we should just buy our own because I have My
instinct was to ask you to borrow it. To borrow it,
(37:00):
I don't care. It's almost done anyway, And plus you
know I get to borrow it first. Okay, Well i'll decide,
and first i'll see I'll determine who gets to borrow
my bottle of repel through a series of tests of
strength fight cover. Yeah, but in my own way, because
now I'm in control. You seem weak today, Jack today today? Yeah?
(37:21):
Who can build them? Who can fold the nicest paper
airplane that goes the first? That's how Jack shaking? All right,
but he's got kids. You gotta teach them kids. Yeah,
but I understand aerodynamics. Both my parents are engineers. Well, hey, okay,
we'll put it on the line. Then Jack just started
eyes and wobbled his head like I just go, yeah,
(37:45):
I'm sorry. That's pretty fun because I like the unpredictability
of physics. Nerd engineer nerd parents about chaos theory. Man,
that's what that balloon is, right, bro Uh Hey, you
guys have others. I have one more that I don't
own it, but boy do I look at it every
(38:06):
other day? Um. It is the pop up hot dog
toaster I don't know what the fuck. I don't know
how I found this. Basically, it's a toaster to toast
the hot dog and the buns together, so you don't
have to like cook him in water. However, you cook
him on a skill it, so you just put them
in the toaster, turn up the heat, you know, put
(38:29):
it down or push it down, and then and then Frankfurter.
I mean, it's it's very much what you are picturing
in your mind. It's so truly upsurd. It's been on
my my Amazon wish list for a very long time.
It's got that look of like a retro refrigerator, like
retro appliance. I think that's probably one of the things
(38:50):
that makes it appealing. Like he feels like, yeah, I
remember when you should eat a couple of hot dogs. Yeah,
it's who I don't know who was Like, but what
kind of what size Franks can you put it? Because
it looks like it only made for standard size like Nationals,
maybe Nathans, who knows, I have yet to what's your family?
If you're getting a fine sausage and put it trying
(39:13):
to cram it up, could you imagine? I'm like, that's
how I cook my fine sausages or I just I
imagine you're trying to cook other ship in there, like
dishes that aren't meant to be in there. It's like, yeah,
it's my spaghetti warmer. Yeah. I personally, I was never
really raised with hot dogs, so now I like love them.
I think they're just like the most simple American food,
(39:35):
and I love to eat them. I love to put
some ketchup mayo relish um. And it also came from
like my childhood obsession with hot dogs at Costco. My
parents always being like, we don't need it. You don't
need to get a hot dog right now. We're gonna
go home and eat our normal Iranian. You're too good.
But as a kid, you're like, come on, can I
just have a hot dog? So um my mom said
(39:58):
there she said it was po I mean, yeah, that's
my parents be like, it's it's preservatives, you don't need it.
Basically that's actually described every American. Like why I couldn't
eat it? Now I'm so fucked up in the brain.
I'm looking for toasters for as I see. I love
be careful, Yeah, I love Like that's why I eat
tuna helper because my mom was like, are you from
(40:19):
a trash planet? I'm like maybe like tuna helper, I
like fucking ship and I just every every gross food
is like my thing because my parents are my mother,
especially because she was, you know, trying to be as
conscious as possible but also being Japanese. Like was also like,
we'll eat this Japanese food too. You don't need Oscar
Meyer cheese hot dogs, which I love. They're disgusting, but
(40:42):
the cheese filled Oscar myyer bro. I could eat that
ship cheddar cheddar hallapenio. Baby, that's too fancy for me.
I just like the gross cheese cheese. Yeah, it's just
like a cheese. It's just like the cheese dog. I
ate that ship with one fucking slice of wonder bread.
That's my bun goodbye, sir, call me bun by. Don't
God tell me m M I need miles? Do you
(41:03):
have any others after that? Fuck? I know, how are
you gonna do? We clearly have a winner. Hot dog toaster. Yeah.
They said that there's no right or wrong favorite thing,
but Anna clearly hit the correct favorite thing hot dog toaster.
Cook Surprise, it wasn't on Oprah's Favorite things. Seriously do
(41:24):
you think I bet I bet Oprah. Well, First of all,
Gwyneth Paltrow is probably convinced that if you ate a
hot dog, you would die like immediately from like some
kind of sodium whatever. But she fed a hot dog
to your child, she would probably call Child protect CPS
on speed dial. Yeah, but feel free to put a
stone in your vagina. Hey, that's called health and wellness,
(41:46):
my man. H. But I think with Oprah, I bet
she just like would eat a hot dog, like very ironically. Yeah,
like at a baseball game where she's like, look at me,
engaging with the poor. Yeah, she would think it was
a lot of fun with the proletariats out here. Look
at me. I'm just like you, and we're all like, okay,
(42:07):
what are you doing? But yeah, so that's it. Has
anyone else got anyone else? No, I'm just now I'm
just thinking about that cheese dog. Actually, I think I
might literally go buy something and completely debase myself, to
enrich myself, to go to my highest level of existence,
the highest plane of consciousness. Alright, guys, well, happy Black Friday.
(42:32):
We won't be doing a trends this afternoon, because I mean,
cheese dogs Miles is gonna be eating cheese dogs and
you just don't deserve it. And let's be real, it's
not actually Black Friday recording this, ye see, it's ahead
of Black Friday. We're recording this on Thanksgiving. Actually we
came in on Thanksgiving. But yeah, I hope everybody's having
(42:54):
a lovely long weekend. Go out and buy all these
things for yourself. You're loved ones us and all the
links are in the footnotes, so you have no excuse.
I have a great weekend. We'll be back on Monday
with more podcasts and we'll talk to you that Thanks
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