August 14, 2025 • 45 mins
Newly crowned Tropical Mark joins for the usual trivia antics — plus the not-so-family-friendly takedown of childhood icons. Santa? Exposed. Easter Bunny? Pure nightmare fuel. Plus, Joel's the cruise obsession refuses to die… even after bingeing every terrifying Netflix doc about them.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The play is in confused.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Podcast is rated M for marijuana no miners, but your
audience is only.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It's good to be back after some much needed time off. Yeah,
we didn't do a podcast last week, so and people
did reach out to me like what the hell? Oh
good people reach out to you at all?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Right, Really, I do constantly have people that say that
they're enjoying the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So far, so good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Have my responses always Wow, somebody's listening. Sweet, thanks, Yeah,
we have a couple of those. That's pretty cool. Couple listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah. Nice. Working on getting sponsorship. Yeah, yeah, things are
falling into place for us. I think they are. The
stars are aligning.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We're gonna sing on the podcast every week.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, didn't I tell you that it's a new feature.
How are we doing on cursing this time around? I
only said fuck once so far? Well now twice? All right,
so we're going to try to make another conscious effort
to not Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Sure, I mean this still is not going to be
your family friendly podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I wouldn't recommend, you know, listening with the kids in
the car.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
However, I will tell you that, you know, I often
don't think about parents driving in the car with their
kids when I should be. I remember a few times
discussing Santa Claus and or the Tooth Fairy on the
air and getting some nasty emails from some parents in
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Lowersaucen Township that were a little annoyed.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, you know, and how did you say?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I think, I like told the story about how I
discovered that Santa Claus and all that shit was fake.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Ah. That's an interesting topic though, Like when is it
okay to talk about something like that in public? Mark?
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It seems to me like people do whatever they want
in public anymore?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What's they cut off with Santa Claus? What's the cutoff
with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy for them?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Matter if you're fifteen or sixteen and still will even
either well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Fifteen, geez, fifteen you want to? I mean, I feel
like you figure it out on your own by like,
so I started asking some questions second third, fourth grade?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know around there for fourth grade? Is that when
you found out? Fourth grade, even I think is a
little old. Third grade? I think is is that when
you found out? Can you?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, what about you? Mark?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
My parents told us from the start that it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Really yep. Interesting huh.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So my job was just to not tell other people
that I knew this.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, was there a reason they It was just because
they didn't want to spread false stories. They said they
just didn't feel comfortable lying to us.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Very interesting. I found out because I found presents hidden
and I stumbled upon them, and then I acted like
I didn't know. But then they found out that I
definitely found them. Like there was like I made a mess,
you know what I mean, I was going through stuff. Yeah,
and I think I was probably about eight. Yeah, if
I had to guess, yeah, no, I'll tell you how
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I found out. It was.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It was like a quadruple Waymy my parents took care
of it all in one. So I got in trouble
for a lying in school. I got like I lied
about something. I don't remember the specifics of what, but again,
I was in elementary school.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I think I was in like second third grade. Previously.
It was like Easter, so the Easter bunny had dropped
off a basket.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And I remember this as I don't know, I don't
know why I did this, but I remember this as
a kid, like I remember waking up on Easter morning
and I remember taking a dog treat, like going in
the cabinet in the kitchen and taking a dog treat
and putting a dog treat in the easter basket and
being like, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
The Easter bunny left a treat for the dog. And
I remember my parents waking up that morning and being like,
why is there what what the Easter bunny left the
treat for the Oh okay, yeah, the Easter bunny left
the tree for the dog.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, sure, sure.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then I remember getting in trouble a couple weeks
later at school for lying about something, and I remember
my parents being so pissed off at me that my
mom freaked out and was like, you know how I
know you lied because there is no Easter Bundy because
I'm the Easter buddy and I'm the tooth fairy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah yeah, but you know, are you traumatized?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, Because, like, in their defense, I was a little
ship back then, Dude, I was like always I was
always in trouble, Like there was always something going on.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So I can see that. Yeah, yeah, it's not that bully, man.
I their fault. I drove them to drink. It's amazing
my parents aren't alcoholics.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I wonder what a kid would think an experience of
actually seeing the Easter Bunny would be like them, because.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Could you imagine then, could you imagine waking up in
this giant but especially if it looks like the Easter
Bunny at the mall, that's creepy.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That thing hops in your house. It doesn't even have
to hop because it's like a human.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Even if you saw that from a distance, it would
be scary.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Let alone walking into your living room like at night
and seeing the silhouette of a gigantic Easter Bunny in
your living Oh my god. Yeah, that's horrifying. You could
you imagine? That's a very good point, Mark, very good point.
Your apartment's not that bad today said it was gonna
be messy, But it looks like you did some straightening up.
I did. I I tried to clean up a little bit.
Do you remember when you walked in here, Mark, if
it smelled like any kind of herb. I don't think
(05:08):
it smelled like anything. I've had a candle. So Mark
and I lived together for a really long time back
in the day. We used to smoke in our apartment
and we lived above a pizza restaurant in downtown Bethlehem.
Do the math. People were listening around. Wow, let's be clear.
You say, oh that sounds awesome, right does unless you
have a guy who runs a pizza shop and somehow
(05:29):
can fuck up pizza. You know what. The pizza wasn't good,
It wasn't very good. So wasn't preferred. I wasn't preferred.
Was it free? Ever? One time? It comes to mind
one time? Wait, wait, one time our friend at old roommate, Ron,
who lives in Canada. Now, we were we got really high.
We went outside and we were having a cigarette I
(05:50):
smoked at the time, and then our landlord came out
with a pizza box and he said, hey, you guys
want to leftover pizza? And I went no, and Ron goes, yeah,
well the pizza and he's like, don't say no to
you know, our landlord like that. But you know, a
plain pizza, how can you fuck it up? Some places can't,
it turns out. But the rest of the food pretty good.
And we had access to beer way too easily, you know.
(06:12):
And if we ran out of beer, I was in
a four loco phase for a while.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, I had the caffeine in it yeah, so Becker
would just be up all night drinking his four loco
and staying on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yuh four loco?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is it scientifically proven that if you smoke a lot
of marijuana that your nose doesn't smell it? Like I
feel like I don't smell weed like other people do.
Ah same here, Like sometimes some people walk in this
apartment and they go, whoa reeks in here, dude, And then.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Other people are like, I don't smell anything. I think
you get acclimated to do it. It's just something that
you do. You think it's smelled like today, Just curious
because most people when they come in here, you ask
them do you smell like weed in your But when
we lived together, we had people over all the time,
always smoking, and I just always thought, oh, if my
dad had to come over or something like that, we
could clean the place up, like put the pillows on
(07:04):
the couch and put some air freshener and stuff like that.
No one's gonna figure, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
This was in our twenties. That was different. I think, yeah,
And if I did have somebody coming over, I was
definitely aware of making sure they were that it was
aired out or whatever needed to be done, you know, Yeah, definitely,
but that just didn't happen a lot at that period
of time. Yeah, I normally didn't have any money over
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that would be any kind of.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, most of our friends smoked. That apartment was occupied
for a long time, over a decade. And I don't
know if our landlord knew that we smoked upstairs or
if he didn't know. And then the one day I
found out he actually did know because I was home
from work on a day off, I had a friend over,
and typically when we smoked, the windows were closed, and
(07:56):
that particular day, I decided for some reason to open
up the window. And are you paying attention? I need
your reaction to this story. I'm taking selfie, okay, anyway, No, no, no,
go ahead, No, I'm playing attention.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Gee.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, but you know the story, so Selex is an
old man. I'm listening to your story.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
See look, look, waited, hold on, you're taking a selfie
right now?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, I'm txting somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was supposed to call somebody and I didn't, so
I'm taking a selfie and saying I'm recording my back cast.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Gotcha all right? Go ahead? And am I allowed to
do that?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Sure, all right, go ahead, should we get started. I
didn't need to finish that story either. That's the fuck.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, good finishing story. There you go. You made me
curse again, made me curse again. It is a very
long intro. My longtime friend and uh he's a travel guy.
We're gonna talk more about that in a few minutes.
His name is Mark and he is on episode thirteen
of the Blaze of Confused podcast, which we're gonna kick
off right now. I guess Wow, episode thirteen.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Becker had told me that I would be getting the
Tyler Rothrock treatment. So far, I'm not sure about it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The Tyler Rothrock treatment. There you go, let's start this
fucking show. Stop Curtzy.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Welcome to the Blazed and Confused podcast with Becker and Joel,
the trivia podcast where the questions are high, and so
are they. It's time to spuck your curiosity and light
up some knowledge.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Though.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Blazed and Confused podcast starts.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Wow Lucky Episode thirteen. Unlucky, I can't hear anything. What
do you mean you can't hear anything? I hear like
music really low and I can't hear anything else. Hey there,
I am cool. God, what did you have turned down.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
No, he had turned the music down because it was
too loud for me, gotcha, it was just very loud.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's hardy to hurt yours.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
More about my hearing because of all the concerts and
standing right by huge speakers and things. Yeah, yeah, you should.
You should be concerned about that. Now, be concerned about it.
Now he's doing that thing from forty years ago. It's
still funny after all these use.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right, let's get the show rolling here. We got
some rapid round questions for Mark today.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's after karaoke, still crazy after oh these yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Stu crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I'm not convinced you should make that a regular feature.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Thank you anyway, sixty seconds, ten questions, whichever you know
finishes first. I go first. Yeah, the game begins.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Three two, All right, mikey rothe's questions. Remember which war
ended with the signing of the treat of Versailles. It
went to go get ice cream at a place called Versailles.
It was the sweet Street of Versailles.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Treaty is a typeo.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
The game.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I'll read it again.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Which war ended with the signing of the Treaty of
Versailles eighteen twelve? Now wrong, in Breaking Bad. What is
Walter White's alias The Man in the Hat Close? Which
rock band released the album A Night at the Opera
in nineteen seventy five?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Point?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's an easy one. I think, yeah, that's an easy one.
How many, jeez? How many colors are there on a
Rubik's cube?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Six? Got it? Six?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Which animal is the largest species of the cat family,
tooth cat?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
How often? How often do we experience a leap year?
Four years?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Which actress played the fictional character Catnus Everdeen. Oh, Jennifer
Laurence got it?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
A graphic interchange format is the proper name of what?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I got? Which famous magician died from a punch in
the stomach and David Copperfield. No, he's still alive. I
don't know who that is? That should? I know who
that is? Harry Houdini. I know who that is. Who's
David Copperfield. He's a pretty famous magician as well, so Mark,
he did pretty all right. Which war ended with the
(12:22):
signing of the Treaty of Versailles. That was World War two?
You said the War of eighteen twelve we were a
couple of years old.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
In Breaking Bad, Walter White's alias is Heisenberg.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You said the Man of the Hat, he did wear
a hat. He did wear a hat. That's why it
was close. Which rock band released the album Night at
the Opera? You got that one? That was queen? In
which sport would you perform? Slam dunk? That was basketball?
I didn't know if you get that one. Yeah. How
many colors are there on a Rubik's cube? That was six?
Which animal is the largest species of the cat family?
That was tiger? How often do we experience a leap heer?
(12:54):
That's every four years. I didn't know this, but if
it's divisible by four, it's a leap yer. I didn't
know that. Did you know that? Divisible? Yeah? The year
is divisible by four dividible? Is that what that means?
The same thing? Yeah? Yeah. Catnus Everdeen was played by
Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games Graphic Interchange Format GIF? Is
it GIF or JIFF? I always said Giff, Jeff sounds weird.
(13:15):
Jeff is the peanut? Butter agreed? Can you edit out that?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I didn't know the World War II one?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We don't edit this, which famous magician died from a
punch in the stomach. That was Harry Houdini. And the
answer is maybe no. I did I know what a
slam dunk is? Yeah? No, For God's sake, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now we have questions for each other. Let's do those
Who's going first this week? You can go first. I'm honored.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I'm honored.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Question number one.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So if I need your help, Mark, I can ask
you to chime in. Okay, okay, So I have four questions.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Becker can go to you one time for a lifeline, yes,
and then when he asks me my questions, I can
go to you one time.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, okay, all right, all right, okay, yes, yes, all right,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay. Where as your generation says, let's go, I hate that,
you know, I really do hate that. Let's go, let's
go where I hate that? Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Question one, Guess the year. I feel like you're going
to get this question correct. Guess the year. What year
was the original Jurassic Park movie released? Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
My guess is nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Three.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I mean, I guess I have to give it to you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The reason why you got that correct is because my
face gave it away what you started saying two? I
should have just let you say two because you would
have fallen on your face.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't know what you're talking about. That's three. Do
you remember when Jurassic Park came out? Ye, salt in
theaters in nineteen ninety three. How old were you in
nineteen ninety three? Nine? Oh, so that was like a
big deal when that came out. Oh I was a
mega mega release. Yeah. Do you remember where you saw it?
Mark Boyd Theater? I believe where you saw it at
the Roxy in Northampton? Wow? Good?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Those were both cut options. The Roxy still is.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And how much do you think you paid for that
movie ticket in nineteen ninety three?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
What seven dollars?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Probably dollars seventy five, Probably a dollar seventy.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Five, Maybe it was two fifty what? Yeah, movies were
pretty inexpensive in the early nineties. Wow, also made a
lot less money, you know, and all balances out in
the end. Have you ever seen that movie Jurassic Park?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah? Have you seen any other ones?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
They should have stopped after the first one, right, yeah, Well, no,
they're not like some of them. The last one they earlier.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How many is there.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
There have been four of these new ones, right, so
that I think seven total.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Seven. It's just like Jaws, that's his favorite movie. I
think Jaws. It's up there.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I like the original one, Jaws two is okay, and
then after that it's like, all right, come on here.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's interesting that they continue following that same family, different
members of the Brody family, and they always live near
the water.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Always, right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You think it after all that drama that they would move,
and they would move. You know, it's like, man, wouldn't
it be nice to move to Gee? I don't know Idaho? Yeah,
I don't think there's water in Idaho? Right about a farm?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know's Idaho? Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I've said this for years. This is how I feel
about the movie Home Alone two, because I love the
original Home Alone, like the first one with Macaulay Culkin,
and then the.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Second one lost in New York. People love this movie.
I think it's stupid as shit. I love the second one.
I think it's hilarious. Boston, New York. Yeah, it's very
similar to the first. Yeah, we re expecting like a different format.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Honestly, I like Home Alone three or four better than
the second one.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Nobody's even watched those Yes, yes, what you know why?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I like it better because it's not the McAllister family,
So it's easier to believe, like, what are the odds
that they leave their kid at home one year and
go to Paris and then the next year they go
to New York and then man, they lose them in
New York too.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's like, boy, what are these people do it? Somebody
take all of their kids away. I'll die standing on
that hill. That Home Alone three is better than Home
Alone two. That movie is atrocious. Oh it's better.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
At least it's a really really it's a different family.
I guess Question two, Okay, let's do some acronyms here.
What does the acronym PDF as in a PDF document?
What does a PDF stand for?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Photo design format? I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
All right, so you got one word out of the
three of them, correct? Which one format are you going
to your lifeline?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I thought it was like public display, fection, faction.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I have no idea. It's a portable document format. A
portable document format.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's a good one. Interesting, So you like sending PDF.
It's one of my favorite formats to receive a document.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Ah, yeah, can't go wrong with the PDF, right, we
all love PDFs.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You know what I pretend to be good at every day?
What Excel? Yeah, that's my new thing. I don't know
how I excel. Excel is confusing. I don't know how
to use it. Do you know do you know any
of like the key commands or anything?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
No, no, I have not had to use Excel since
two thousand and three. You know the thing that bothers
me about Excel. It should be easy, but you should
be able to type in like two plus three equals
and it should just spit out the answer for you.
And instead it throws some like weird looking like format.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Like there's a calculator will do that?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, I know you know what I mean, and I
know that I know what two plus three is five? Right, Yeah.
I don't think you need the Internet for that. Okay.
Question three? Okay, anyway, high school chemistry? Fucking goofy.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What's the chemical symbol for potassium?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm gonna say mark for the last one. I'm gonna
take a stab at this one and say it's p
P potassium. No, it's wrong already, It's not P. Fuck ship,
We're not supposed to curse. All right, guy, what is it?
Fuck shit or fuck mark?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I guess for chemistry questions. I'm not a lifeline.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Just for fun.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You want to take a stab at it, well, my
all my guesses would have also begun with P.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah. So it's no, it's not something that you would think.
Seven three? No? Is he wrong? Is it seven to three?
What did you say? What? Who are you? What's the answer?
It's busy taking another fucking selfie for whatever reason. The
(19:54):
answer is k K. I know that it's up a bitch.
Yeah you know what.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You knew that because I told you that one last
time when we talked about chemistry and the podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Damn it. Yeah, So it was a double way of me.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I wanted to see if you knew the chemistry question,
and then I wanted to see if you're paying attention
to the last time.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Noah. Sometimes I'll listen to the podcast and like, kind
of room it after we're done, Yeah, and I'll be like,
I remember talking about that. I know, I know, I
feel the same way. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's just like years of being on the radio two,
I get people that are always like, hey, man, remember
the one time when you said.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And I'm like to be honest with you, No, not really,
like I really I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
No, it's time for question for.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Question for twenty what okay?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
The category of slogans. The power of Dreams is the
slogan for what automotive brand?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The power of dreams? The power of dreams. I'm only
guessing this because I don't know their slogan, so they've
used it since the early two thousands. I was gonna
guess Tesla. But what is it again? The power of dreams.
(21:20):
I haven't used Mark as my real lifeline yet, Mark
for a Clark.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, question the power of dreams?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, any input.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're not using me for a lifeline. That's the last
question question.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So he kind of has to.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
My microphone with my headphone. Sorry for all those clanking
sent The power of dreams?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Are we giving up here? Since the early two thousands?
We give it up here?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Power of dreams, The power of dream American? I don't
think so right now, Power of dream Dodge. No, No,
I have no fucking idea. All right, we don't got
all day?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You got it wrong?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay, Mark, I think you drive one of these. The
correct answer is Honda the power of dream.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Did not know that.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Heated about whether or not it was an American car.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
If that's not American? No, No, where's it? Mate? China?
You should stop talking about this.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
If you're lost, they probably are too blazed and confused.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Podcast question number one.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
All right, which US state has the largest coastline? Oh? Uh,
think about this one? Texas? No ship, that's wrong. No,
it's so incredibly wrong, way gonna be. I'm not a
geography guy. He's always not.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait text, it's the longest coastline.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I already told you it was in Texas. You can't
guess that. California. No, the longest coastline Florida. No, uh
give up?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh Alaska, you got it out seventeenth try Alaska. I
got wrong, you know, but we should really establish rules
of I think that once you get past guests like one, Yeah,
well you're wrong, once you get past guess one. The
longest coastline Alaska?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Not in Alaska? It is Alaska?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, So there's like beaches on Alaska.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Beaches but there's water, you know? Yeah? But is there
any practically surrounded by it?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
But but Mark, and maybe you'd know this as like.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
A tropical guy or a tropical guy, a travel guy.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
My question is, for as long as I've known Mark,
he's always been a tropical, tropical guy, traffic guy.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
My question is, though, is there anything ever tropical in Alaaska?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't think you'd describe it as tropic? No ever?
I mean warm and sunny.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Ever, they have warm er seasons, but it's not tropical.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are we done with tropical? Mark? Did he help you? Tropical? Mark?
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
One question too?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I have an acronym question for you too. This might
be easy, but I think you're gonna get it wrong.
What does the acronym n A s A stand for?
Is in NASA? What does NASA stand for? Is it
like the space people? Yeah? No, No, he's not very
interested in space, which really bothers me. Are you interested
(24:53):
in space?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But I don't like to think too long about it
breaks you out right a little bit? Yeah, I could
care les see, I like it in short bursts, A.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Bunch of little dots. Up in the sky, who gives
a ship? God who cares? Most people should anyway? What
does the acronym NASA? Is a NASA stand for? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Okay, so here's here's here's where my brain's at. Now,
nationals in there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
If it's anywhere, it's at the beginning, it's in the
and it's.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Anywhere I think it'd be in the end. Word right,
So national, Uh isn't one of them? Like it's a
real long a word like are erergonomics, ergon ergonomics, National
era AICs?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
What's the rest of it? Well, what's that word ergonomics? Ergonomics?
This is your guess, National Ergonomics and A S and Space? Yep,
that one's good. Uh association. No, No, it's not ergonomics.
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's the National Aeronautics Aerospace Administration.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I thought you would get the rest of it, right.
I just thought I thought aeronautics would be the tough
one for you, And it was, what is it? Ergonomics?
That's what you guessed. You made that thing up on
your own National Aeronautics and Space Administration. What's aeronautics air
(26:29):
and being in it? Yeah, and being nautic in it.
What's being not an aeronautics like nautic?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Like nautical you're in the water, going through the water,
and he aeronautic you're up in the air.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, but what's nast to do it in the wall?
They're not. We're just fucking with you. Let's go to
the next one. Question three, Question three? What was the
first feature length animated film ever released? Ah? Ah, Remember
(27:03):
you have a lifeline and Mark is a movie guy.
He doesn't look very much.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Clarification questions here is it a cartoon like animated?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's in the fucking question?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What was the first feature of length animated? Fell? Poops?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Sorry I wasn't paying attention. I want to say, like Cinderella. No,
I feel like that's wrong, that's wrong. Okay, Well I
wasn't guessing that. I was just saying I want to say, oh,
I did all right in the thirties.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yes, snow white, snow white and the seventh is what
I'm talking about. Yeah, nineteen thirty seven, that's what the
first in color and sound?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ho hi, ho.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Work we go? Is that the words? That's yeah, dun dud,
you're a hole. You're a hole. You're a big fat ho.
You're a ho ho ho ho ho ho. It's always
really easy to tell who the younger person is on
the show.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Question four twenty, what.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
How many sides does a hexagon have? Ah, I'm not
good with my with my gons. My shapes are these
shapes like a hexagon and octagon. That's just a shape, right,
it's the name of the shape. If it's not a shape,
what would it be?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, I'm not good with my gons. Man, that sounds
like something mind set. What's after octagon?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah? So that can't be the answer. Okay, you want
to know about hexagons. I think a hexagon it's not five,
and it's not seven, but I think it might be six.
Is it six? Hexagon? Six is the answer?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Six? Yep? Six? What is how? I used to remember
that as a kid. I remember six? I mean you
just said that, what is seven?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Heptagon h E P T A G O N A heptagon,
So hexagon and then heptagon, heptagon and.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Then octagon and then ann What's which one? Which shape
has nine sides? A nanagon pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Close, pretty close, tens a decagon? Yeah, that one I
remember eleven agon. Yeah, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I think that points right now.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Trivia you didn't know you needed, or maybe you still don't.
It's still Blazed and Confused podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You know. I love going on vacation and like finding
somebody that has some herbage and like just relaxing on
the beach.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
It's like the best thing in the world, finding somebody
that has urbage. It's usually a guy that comes up
on a kai act of sorts or something like that.
Where is this vacation you're going, Oh, I don't know.
Just a lot of islands, you know these people? Yeah, see,
that would creep me out. I don't know if I
do that. I watched too much True crime. I can't
believe you watched that at all.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
What true crime?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh my god, dude, I love true crime. Listen to this,
You've got to watch. I can't get a grasp on
what this kid likes as far as content, like I
like movies I have. I just can't get I like crime.
I've always liked true crimes, Brady Bunch. What else true crime? Stuff?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Documentaries, music, game shows, game shows, a lot of documentaries.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
If it's longer than an hour. He probably hasn't seen it.
It's just pretty crazy. Hour and a half. Yeah, so
a lot. We saw that Dylan movie. How long was that? Yeah?
I think I passed out. But uh, Mark works in travel,
I do a lot of stuff. And actually, as he
had said, tropical.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I want to go specialist good, but yeah, I
want to go somewhere war with tropical. All right, So
here's here's the thing I wanted to talk about this.
So I want to go on a cruise really bad.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Have you been on a crew Well, technically yes, my
parents took me on an Alaskan cruise when I was
two or three years old.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Okay, so, but Alaska's not tropical. We discovered that Alaska's not.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I went on.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I've been on a couple of river cruises before. But
as far as actual cruises, we definitely sell them. But
I personally don't really like to be out on the
water for that length of time. Just personal preference. Yeah,
almost a fear, I guess.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
So that's why I can't tell you much from personal experience.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I just want to experience it one time.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
There's so much to do, man, there's so many restaurants
and there's but think about.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
How many carsple are on that ship, you know, like,
versus how much you actually be able to do well.
Some people do love cruises. What do you like about that? Over?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Just like an all inclusive resort in some tropical location.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'm having all of that and a beach that you
can go to anytime.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I like the idea of and a lot of people
don't when they're on vacation. But I like the idea
of the ship people telling you when stuff is going
to happen. You get off the ship, you do some stuff,
you come back, dinner is now you learn it?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
That? Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I like the idea that. I don't know if I
like that, but I think I like that. That's why
I want to go try it and experience it for
the first time.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I don't know, I just don't feel like I would
be I want to be on a schedule like that.
When I'm on Vakasha, I just want to relax for
the most part. I'll kind of go about the day
of what happens happens.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You know. Well, don't you like the idea too of
you're in one place one day and then you're in
another place another day. I want to go on a cruise.
I can't find anybody that wants to cruise with me.
It's a cheap way to travel. You can see a
lot for not a lot of money. And again I
think that there's a lot to do on a cruise ship.
I've watched all these documentaries. I watched the documentary on
Netflix about the poop Cruise. However, dude, I tell you
(32:48):
the thing that I watched recently on Netflix, also involving
a cruise was so good and you need to go
home right now and watching. If you're listening to watch
it you haven't already. It's called Where is Amy Bradley
or Amy Bradley Is Missing? I think that's what it's called.
It's about this woman in nineteen ninety eight, in like
March of nineteen ninety eight, and that disappears on a
(33:09):
cruise ship at three point thirty.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
In the morning. Her and her brother are like partying on.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
This cruise ship and they get back to their room
and they're sitting out on the balcony and he goes
into bed, and it's three thirty in the morning. Again,
she's sitting out on the balcony, she's smoking her cigarettes.
He goes into bed and that's the last time they
see her, and she just mysteriously disappears off this cruise ship.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Geez, yeah, you want to watch that and then go
on the cruise.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, No, I'm not saying this. I'm not saying that
this is I know, weird connection. I'm not saying this
is motivating me to go on a cruise. I'm saying
that through it all, there's all these reasons to not
go on a cruise, and I'm like, screw you people,
I'm gonna go on a cruise.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
You're right, there are plenty of reasons to go on
a cruise. A lot of people love it. We got
a lot of a lot of cruiser requests. Definitely if
you like to get out in the water. And Becker
and I have friends who have a list going of
every island they've been to, and a lot of times
that's you know, they can rack up a few on
one cruise and they just enjoy doing that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The one thing that I am concerned about, though, I
remember when I was I don't know, probably thirteen twelve thirteen,
my aunt and uncle uh took me and my cousin's
on this deep sea fishing expedition which was awful gets sick.
The reason why it was awful, yeah, is because I
got real nauseous the whole time. And I'm hoping that
(34:30):
if I go on a cruise, like because the ship
is so big, like, you don't feel it rocking back
and forth?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I don't think you do. I think you do, and
you get used to it. That makes me a little nervous.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I'm sure that you're sweet or your room would come
with like a barf bag, like on an airplane.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh that's wonderful. I'm glad. I know that. Thank God,
that really sold me. You gonna go a cruise? Oh well, well,
my god, I have a barf bag now, of course
I have to a you'll be alone. So here's here's
about when you travel, Like are you gonna want to
bring a pen with you or have something to smoke? Okay,
So this is.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Interesting because we're going to talk about this and it
may or may not be incriminating, but whatever. The statute
of limitations is long over now, right, so as of recently,
like I went to California, and I know that recreational
marijuana is legal in Los Angeles, is legal in California,
and there's dispensaries on every street corner. It's like it's
like coffee shop, dispensary, record store. Coffee shop, dispensary, record store.
(35:27):
It's perfect. And that's where I got. Los Angeles has
made for me. It's great. But anyway, I still like
felt the urge and I don't know why, but I
still felt the urge to like make sure that I
had a disposable with me just in case. Yeah, and
I did end up taking some medables, but I don't know.
I feel like you do kind of have to be
(35:48):
a little worried, not worried, but concerned smart with how
you travel with your marijuana.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Still right, well, it is not legal to cross state
lines with it, even on a cruise. I think marijuana
on a cruise is like a big no no, isn't
it correct?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
You definitely aren't supposed to travel with it?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Will they?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Will they say something? Just my opinion, I don't think
that's generally what they're looking for. However, if you got
randomly pulled aside so they search through all your things,
that's happened to me before they do it. Sometimes do
you want them to see that? So if you're going
to a place where, like you said, you can get
it no problem. Potentially it would be an unnecessary risk.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yeah, however, California you can get it no problem. You
going to some island, you can get it, no problem.
But you gotta trust some random dude on the street.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, I mean there are some places that have decriminalized it,
you know, like in Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's I guess more or less what it is.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Like in Philadelphia, you're allowed to have a certain amount
and it's usually pretty generous. But I mean, and they
have medical the Rastafarians, if you are a Rastafarian. But
I don't think that that applies to Taurus. Maybe it does,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I think that even if you have your med card
like in the United States and you go to travel,
you can't travel with marijuana, right, you.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Know a how to travel with it regard traveling period
at all. Yeah, like you shouldn't have any of that
on you ever. Yeah. I also think that at the
end of the day, TSA is really just looking for
like yeah, like he says, Yeah, the dogs are looking
for the bad stuff.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's very impressive to me that they can smell bombs.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, the dogs. Yeah, dogs are crazy, right, Lucy.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
You hear this.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You hear what these dogs are doing, Lucy. They're changing
the world. And what are you doing? You're barking at
everybody up. Maybe she's a drug sniffing dog. Maybe that's
why she freaks out when people come over, because she
doesn't like the weed.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, it's not good enough. That's the real reason why
my dog doesn't like you. Are we going to spark
a debate here quick? Before we get out of here?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Do you have something to talk about?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I have something to talk about? Do it all right,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Welcome to spark a debate where Becker and Joel turn
one topic. You're doing all out, puff puff, pass off
and see who burns out first.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, Oh god, a weird look you gave me.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I want to I want to debate Becker's idea of
vacation time and how he takes his vacation time. Oh
so it's kind of tied into what we were just
talking about, because yes, it's exactly perfect vacation time.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, but you're not going anywhere. That's the difference anyway.
If I'm doing like a staycation. Yeah, like, I'm just
if I'm just taking days off.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, let's debate this because I
think that what you do is genius.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
However, I think it's annoying. It's an art, it's an
annoying It's this annoying strategic way of utilizing your time
off that I've earned by it. But it's annoying, all right.
So this is what this is what this, This is
what this dude does. I notice. I really want to
curse right now, and I can't. But this is what
he does.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So in the summertime, instead of taking off for you know,
like a week at a time here and there, like
most normal people do, mister Becker over here takes off
every Monday of every Monday of the week for four
months in a row. It fucking seems like today's Monday.
We're recording this podcast. Did you work today?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
No, you didn't because it's Monday. So you always work
a four day work week, not all the time. I
start taking time off in July. I don't take any
time off in the beginning part of the year. So
there's like six months where I don't take off at all.
That's valueboy.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Friday in December. Yeah, and I take three day weekends
pretty much in December and October, especially because I like
the haunted spooky season, like to watch Hart movies and stuff. Yeah,
it's a good way to take vacation time. It's smart.
Make you get three days off. Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I'm not saying it's more smart. I'm just saying I've
been on the receiving end of this.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's like, oh, joy to work past ten thirty. Now,
you were there pretty often now, yeah, you know anybody
when I worked with you, you were always I was
always hustling. However, it'd be like, oh, where's record? Oh
oh well it's Monday. Hey, I worked there for twenty years.
I have a lot of vacation time.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I know. Well why can't And don't you think it's
been more beneficial for me to take one day off
here and there rather than a full week.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Would you rather cover all my work for a full week?
It makes sense. I do it for other people because
it was mostly for my own sanity. You guys would
funck shit up all the time. I come back and
be like, what did you guys even do while I
was gone? Do it for other people? Let me get
you my let me get my violin.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Anyway, we were gonna say, Mark, I'd rather listen to that.
Do you ever take off in the middle of the week. No,
I think that's kind of fun sometimes, just like a
random Wednesday. I wanted just for a few nights to
Camcoon earlier in the year, just by myself. Yeah, just
in the middle of the week for the heck of it.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You know, it's kind of like a tease for me,
like I'm gonna be like, oh, I have one random
day off then have to go back to work the
next day. Already, it just seems kind of not my speed.
I'd just rather have a long weekend. So it is
pretty good though. It's a good way to take your
time off, wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Again, I'm not that that's not the coworker as a coworker, though,
if anybody else did that that you work with, wouldn't
that piss you off?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
As an employee?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
How?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
How you No?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I know, I know it's my time though. I know.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I know, like I'm right now at a newer job
and I'm doing that, you know, and they're okay with
that right out the gate. You're doing that and they're
all right with that.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
I do.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Listen when I'm out you are, And just like I
did when I worked with you, Joel, I would work
my butt off to make it as as easy as possible.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
I would work way ahead. I would work late nights
to do that for you guys. So it's just a
busy job. Now I'm able to work ahead. Like today,
I left very little things for people to do, and
hopefully if they had anything to do, it was like
something that came down today. It wasn't something that I
left there.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I like Fridays and Mondays.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
You know, I have some friends at work for these
big corporations in New York City and they have UPTO.
You know what, this is unlimited unlimited paid time off.
But the interesting thing when you talk to people that
have that, it's so funny. All the old people that
are listening to this podcast right now are.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Like, limited paid time off?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
What is that? And it's like, well, it's when you
have an unlimited amount of days that you can take
off and you still get paid. Yeah, shocking concept.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
I like that. You think older people are listening to
this like they've made it this far. Yeah? True, Probably not,
probably not. But no.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
The interesting thing is when you talk to people that
actually have unlimited paid time off, it seems that it really,
at the end of the day, to me, sounds like
more or less like a scheme because you either don't
use your days ever or you use it all the time.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
So you used it. Either you it or you abuse it.
There's really no like fine line.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
But also though, I think that there's going to be
no such thing as like a nine to five job
very very very soon. I think that the way that
the economy and the way that the you know, tech
is like progressing. Don't you think that the world is
turning more into a like gig esque world, Like people
have gigs now, it's not I guess people aren't the
(43:24):
career driven. It's gig driven now. It's you have your
work that money.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I don't think that's the future. You don't think that's
the future. I have no idea. I think everyone's gonna
not have a job. Machine look over in like another
two years and then we'll that's why. Then you're gonna
do no, And then you're gonna have to have a gig.
You're gonna have to have something. And then the computers
will take your gigs. Probably.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I did hear something the other day from the I
think his name is Sam Altman. He's like the CEO
of Open AI and he said that a kid born
today will never live in a world where a computer
is not smarter than a human, which is crazy to
think about. I'm glad I'm not that kid. Same then
I also, there's all this, like all these questions now
(44:10):
about you know, AI, and people were like, well, well,
like what about politics? Like you got to think about it,
like if we're turning in a society where everybody just
turns to their phone and asks it a simple question
or asks it anything and everything, Like what what if
our politicians hypothetically are going to start turning to their
chat shobt and saying.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah, who's really in charge? Now?
Speaker 4 (44:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
So I don't have any questions about AI because James
Cameron already answered them all for me.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
James Cameron, he's an actor, right, Oh my god? Anyway, Mark,
where's your favorite place you've traveled? I like going to Mexico,
but I went to Antiga last year. I know it
was pretty excellent.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Noquah, it's Antigua and Tiga there's a place in Europe
that is the same spelling and on Antiqua. I was
going to say that one's Antiqua. Interesting Antika.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
This is a tropical Mark yes, rebarding live Yes, and
uh you can book your your trip through Mark now.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Gotta mark ar at trip guy dot com. Oh, look
at that trip guy dot com. That's it. I like
that trip guy dot com. Real simple, you know exactly
what it is.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Yeah, my boss is the trip guy. To be clear, Yes, man,
they look at a sponsor a podcast. Ts you want
to send us to Antiqua. Yeah, Adiga there too.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
I don't think we're allowed to go. We'll go everywhere.
We'll go there too. Mark, thanks for hanging out with us,
Episode thirteen of the Blaze of Confused podcast on Becker.
That's Joel. We didn't see hire introduce ourselves, so we'll
do that now on the way out. Oh hello, goodbye,
Thanks for joining MI. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Blazed and Confused podcast with Becker and Joel. Don't forget
to subscribe spark up and joined us next time.
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
Podcast is rated M for marijuana no miners, but your
audience is only.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It's good to be back after some much needed time off. Yeah,
we didn't do a podcast last week, so and people
did reach out to me like what the hell? Oh
good people reach out to you at all?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Right, Really, I do constantly have people that say that
they're enjoying the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So far, so good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Have my responses always Wow, somebody's listening. Sweet, thanks, Yeah,
we have a couple of those. That's pretty cool. Couple listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah. Nice. Working on getting sponsorship. Yeah, yeah, things are
falling into place for us. I think they are. The
stars are aligning.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We're gonna sing on the podcast every week.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, didn't I tell you that it's a new feature.
How are we doing on cursing this time around? I
only said fuck once so far? Well now twice? All right,
so we're going to try to make another conscious effort
to not Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Sure, I mean this still is not going to be
your family friendly podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I wouldn't recommend, you know, listening with the kids in
the car.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
However, I will tell you that, you know, I often
don't think about parents driving in the car with their
kids when I should be. I remember a few times
discussing Santa Claus and or the Tooth Fairy on the
air and getting some nasty emails from some parents in
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Lowersaucen Township that were a little annoyed.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, you know, and how did you say?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I think, I like told the story about how I
discovered that Santa Claus and all that shit was fake.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Ah. That's an interesting topic though, Like when is it
okay to talk about something like that in public? Mark?
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It seems to me like people do whatever they want
in public anymore?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What's they cut off with Santa Claus? What's the cutoff
with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy for them?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Matter if you're fifteen or sixteen and still will even
either well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Fifteen, geez, fifteen you want to? I mean, I feel
like you figure it out on your own by like,
so I started asking some questions second third, fourth grade?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know around there for fourth grade? Is that when
you found out? Fourth grade, even I think is a
little old. Third grade? I think is is that when
you found out? Can you?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, what about you? Mark?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
My parents told us from the start that it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Really yep. Interesting huh.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So my job was just to not tell other people
that I knew this.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, was there a reason they It was just because
they didn't want to spread false stories. They said they
just didn't feel comfortable lying to us.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Very interesting. I found out because I found presents hidden
and I stumbled upon them, and then I acted like
I didn't know. But then they found out that I
definitely found them. Like there was like I made a mess,
you know what I mean, I was going through stuff. Yeah,
and I think I was probably about eight. Yeah, if
I had to guess, yeah, no, I'll tell you how
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I found out. It was.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It was like a quadruple Waymy my parents took care
of it all in one. So I got in trouble
for a lying in school. I got like I lied
about something. I don't remember the specifics of what, but again,
I was in elementary school.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I think I was in like second third grade. Previously.
It was like Easter, so the Easter bunny had dropped
off a basket.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And I remember this as I don't know, I don't
know why I did this, but I remember this as
a kid, like I remember waking up on Easter morning
and I remember taking a dog treat, like going in
the cabinet in the kitchen and taking a dog treat
and putting a dog treat in the easter basket and
being like, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
The Easter bunny left a treat for the dog. And
I remember my parents waking up that morning and being like,
why is there what what the Easter bunny left the
treat for the Oh okay, yeah, the Easter bunny left
the tree for the dog.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, sure, sure.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then I remember getting in trouble a couple weeks
later at school for lying about something, and I remember
my parents being so pissed off at me that my
mom freaked out and was like, you know how I
know you lied because there is no Easter Bundy because
I'm the Easter buddy and I'm the tooth fairy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah yeah, but you know, are you traumatized?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, Because, like, in their defense, I was a little
ship back then, Dude, I was like always I was
always in trouble, Like there was always something going on.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So I can see that. Yeah, yeah, it's not that bully, man.
I their fault. I drove them to drink. It's amazing
my parents aren't alcoholics.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I wonder what a kid would think an experience of
actually seeing the Easter Bunny would be like them, because.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Could you imagine then, could you imagine waking up in
this giant but especially if it looks like the Easter
Bunny at the mall, that's creepy.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That thing hops in your house. It doesn't even have
to hop because it's like a human.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Even if you saw that from a distance, it would
be scary.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Let alone walking into your living room like at night
and seeing the silhouette of a gigantic Easter Bunny in
your living Oh my god. Yeah, that's horrifying. You could
you imagine? That's a very good point, Mark, very good point.
Your apartment's not that bad today said it was gonna
be messy, But it looks like you did some straightening up.
I did. I I tried to clean up a little bit.
Do you remember when you walked in here, Mark, if
it smelled like any kind of herb. I don't think
(05:08):
it smelled like anything. I've had a candle. So Mark
and I lived together for a really long time back
in the day. We used to smoke in our apartment
and we lived above a pizza restaurant in downtown Bethlehem.
Do the math. People were listening around. Wow, let's be clear.
You say, oh that sounds awesome, right does unless you
have a guy who runs a pizza shop and somehow
(05:29):
can fuck up pizza. You know what. The pizza wasn't good,
It wasn't very good. So wasn't preferred. I wasn't preferred.
Was it free? Ever? One time? It comes to mind
one time? Wait, wait, one time our friend at old roommate, Ron,
who lives in Canada. Now, we were we got really high.
We went outside and we were having a cigarette I
(05:50):
smoked at the time, and then our landlord came out
with a pizza box and he said, hey, you guys
want to leftover pizza? And I went no, and Ron goes, yeah,
well the pizza and he's like, don't say no to
you know, our landlord like that. But you know, a
plain pizza, how can you fuck it up? Some places can't,
it turns out. But the rest of the food pretty good.
And we had access to beer way too easily, you know.
(06:12):
And if we ran out of beer, I was in
a four loco phase for a while.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, I had the caffeine in it yeah, so Becker
would just be up all night drinking his four loco
and staying on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yuh four loco?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is it scientifically proven that if you smoke a lot
of marijuana that your nose doesn't smell it? Like I
feel like I don't smell weed like other people do.
Ah same here, Like sometimes some people walk in this
apartment and they go, whoa reeks in here, dude, And then.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Other people are like, I don't smell anything. I think
you get acclimated to do it. It's just something that
you do. You think it's smelled like today, Just curious
because most people when they come in here, you ask
them do you smell like weed in your But when
we lived together, we had people over all the time,
always smoking, and I just always thought, oh, if my
dad had to come over or something like that, we
could clean the place up, like put the pillows on
(07:04):
the couch and put some air freshener and stuff like that.
No one's gonna figure, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
This was in our twenties. That was different. I think, yeah,
And if I did have somebody coming over, I was
definitely aware of making sure they were that it was
aired out or whatever needed to be done, you know, Yeah, definitely,
but that just didn't happen a lot at that period
of time. Yeah, I normally didn't have any money over
(07:32):
that would be any kind of.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, most of our friends smoked. That apartment was occupied
for a long time, over a decade. And I don't
know if our landlord knew that we smoked upstairs or
if he didn't know. And then the one day I
found out he actually did know because I was home
from work on a day off, I had a friend over,
and typically when we smoked, the windows were closed, and
(07:56):
that particular day, I decided for some reason to open
up the window. And are you paying attention? I need
your reaction to this story. I'm taking selfie, okay, anyway, No, no, no,
go ahead, No, I'm playing attention.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Gee.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, but you know the story, so Selex is an
old man. I'm listening to your story.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
See look, look, waited, hold on, you're taking a selfie
right now?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, I'm txting somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was supposed to call somebody and I didn't, so
I'm taking a selfie and saying I'm recording my back cast.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Gotcha all right? Go ahead? And am I allowed to
do that?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Sure, all right, go ahead, should we get started. I
didn't need to finish that story either. That's the fuck.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, good finishing story. There you go. You made me
curse again, made me curse again. It is a very
long intro. My longtime friend and uh he's a travel guy.
We're gonna talk more about that in a few minutes.
His name is Mark and he is on episode thirteen
of the Blaze of Confused podcast, which we're gonna kick
off right now. I guess Wow, episode thirteen.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Becker had told me that I would be getting the
Tyler Rothrock treatment. So far, I'm not sure about it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The Tyler Rothrock treatment. There you go, let's start this
fucking show. Stop Curtzy.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Welcome to the Blazed and Confused podcast with Becker and Joel,
the trivia podcast where the questions are high, and so
are they. It's time to spuck your curiosity and light
up some knowledge.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Though.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Blazed and Confused podcast starts.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Wow Lucky Episode thirteen. Unlucky, I can't hear anything. What
do you mean you can't hear anything? I hear like
music really low and I can't hear anything else. Hey there,
I am cool. God, what did you have turned down.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
No, he had turned the music down because it was
too loud for me, gotcha, it was just very loud.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's hardy to hurt yours.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
More about my hearing because of all the concerts and
standing right by huge speakers and things. Yeah, yeah, you should.
You should be concerned about that. Now, be concerned about it.
Now he's doing that thing from forty years ago. It's
still funny after all these use.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right, let's get the show rolling here. We got
some rapid round questions for Mark today.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's after karaoke, still crazy after oh these yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Stu crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I'm not convinced you should make that a regular feature.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Thank you anyway, sixty seconds, ten questions, whichever you know
finishes first. I go first. Yeah, the game begins.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Three two, All right, mikey rothe's questions. Remember which war
ended with the signing of the treat of Versailles. It
went to go get ice cream at a place called Versailles.
It was the sweet Street of Versailles.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Treaty is a typeo.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
The game.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I'll read it again.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Which war ended with the signing of the Treaty of
Versailles eighteen twelve? Now wrong, in Breaking Bad. What is
Walter White's alias The Man in the Hat Close? Which
rock band released the album A Night at the Opera
in nineteen seventy five?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Point?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's an easy one. I think, yeah, that's an easy one.
How many, jeez? How many colors are there on a
Rubik's cube?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Six? Got it? Six?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Which animal is the largest species of the cat family,
tooth cat?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
How often? How often do we experience a leap year?
Four years?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Which actress played the fictional character Catnus Everdeen. Oh, Jennifer
Laurence got it?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
A graphic interchange format is the proper name of what?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I got? Which famous magician died from a punch in
the stomach and David Copperfield. No, he's still alive. I
don't know who that is? That should? I know who
that is? Harry Houdini. I know who that is. Who's
David Copperfield. He's a pretty famous magician as well, so Mark,
he did pretty all right. Which war ended with the
(12:22):
signing of the Treaty of Versailles. That was World War two?
You said the War of eighteen twelve we were a
couple of years old.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
In Breaking Bad, Walter White's alias is Heisenberg.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You said the Man of the Hat, he did wear
a hat. He did wear a hat. That's why it
was close. Which rock band released the album Night at
the Opera? You got that one? That was queen? In
which sport would you perform? Slam dunk? That was basketball?
I didn't know if you get that one. Yeah. How
many colors are there on a Rubik's cube? That was six?
Which animal is the largest species of the cat family?
That was tiger? How often do we experience a leap heer?
(12:54):
That's every four years. I didn't know this, but if
it's divisible by four, it's a leap yer. I didn't
know that. Did you know that? Divisible? Yeah? The year
is divisible by four dividible? Is that what that means?
The same thing? Yeah? Yeah. Catnus Everdeen was played by
Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games Graphic Interchange Format GIF? Is
it GIF or JIFF? I always said Giff, Jeff sounds weird.
(13:15):
Jeff is the peanut? Butter agreed? Can you edit out that?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I didn't know the World War II one?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We don't edit this, which famous magician died from a
punch in the stomach. That was Harry Houdini. And the
answer is maybe no. I did I know what a
slam dunk is? Yeah? No, For God's sake, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now we have questions for each other. Let's do those
Who's going first this week? You can go first. I'm honored.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I'm honored.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Question number one.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So if I need your help, Mark, I can ask
you to chime in. Okay, okay, So I have four questions.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Becker can go to you one time for a lifeline, yes,
and then when he asks me my questions, I can
go to you one time.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, okay, all right, all right, okay, yes, yes, all right,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay. Where as your generation says, let's go, I hate that,
you know, I really do hate that. Let's go, let's
go where I hate that? Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Question one, Guess the year. I feel like you're going
to get this question correct. Guess the year. What year
was the original Jurassic Park movie released? Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
My guess is nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Three.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I mean, I guess I have to give it to you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The reason why you got that correct is because my
face gave it away what you started saying two? I
should have just let you say two because you would
have fallen on your face.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't know what you're talking about. That's three. Do
you remember when Jurassic Park came out? Ye, salt in
theaters in nineteen ninety three. How old were you in
nineteen ninety three? Nine? Oh, so that was like a
big deal when that came out. Oh I was a
mega mega release. Yeah. Do you remember where you saw it?
Mark Boyd Theater? I believe where you saw it at
the Roxy in Northampton? Wow? Good?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Those were both cut options. The Roxy still is.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And how much do you think you paid for that
movie ticket in nineteen ninety three?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
What seven dollars?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Probably dollars seventy five, Probably a dollar seventy.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Five, Maybe it was two fifty what? Yeah, movies were
pretty inexpensive in the early nineties. Wow, also made a
lot less money, you know, and all balances out in
the end. Have you ever seen that movie Jurassic Park?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah? Have you seen any other ones?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
They should have stopped after the first one, right, yeah, Well, no,
they're not like some of them. The last one they earlier.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How many is there.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
There have been four of these new ones, right, so
that I think seven total.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Seven. It's just like Jaws, that's his favorite movie. I
think Jaws. It's up there.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I like the original one, Jaws two is okay, and
then after that it's like, all right, come on here.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's interesting that they continue following that same family, different
members of the Brody family, and they always live near
the water.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Always, right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You think it after all that drama that they would move,
and they would move. You know, it's like, man, wouldn't
it be nice to move to Gee? I don't know Idaho? Yeah,
I don't think there's water in Idaho? Right about a farm?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know's Idaho? Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I've said this for years. This is how I feel
about the movie Home Alone two, because I love the
original Home Alone, like the first one with Macaulay Culkin,
and then the.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Second one lost in New York. People love this movie.
I think it's stupid as shit. I love the second one.
I think it's hilarious. Boston, New York. Yeah, it's very
similar to the first. Yeah, we re expecting like a different format.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Honestly, I like Home Alone three or four better than
the second one.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Nobody's even watched those Yes, yes, what you know why?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I like it better because it's not the McAllister family,
So it's easier to believe, like, what are the odds
that they leave their kid at home one year and
go to Paris and then the next year they go
to New York and then man, they lose them in
New York too.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's like, boy, what are these people do it? Somebody
take all of their kids away. I'll die standing on
that hill. That Home Alone three is better than Home
Alone two. That movie is atrocious. Oh it's better.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
At least it's a really really it's a different family.
I guess Question two, Okay, let's do some acronyms here.
What does the acronym PDF as in a PDF document?
What does a PDF stand for?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Photo design format? I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
All right, so you got one word out of the
three of them, correct? Which one format are you going
to your lifeline?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I thought it was like public display, fection, faction.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I have no idea. It's a portable document format. A
portable document format.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's a good one. Interesting, So you like sending PDF.
It's one of my favorite formats to receive a document.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Ah, yeah, can't go wrong with the PDF, right, we
all love PDFs.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You know what I pretend to be good at every day?
What Excel? Yeah, that's my new thing. I don't know
how I excel. Excel is confusing. I don't know how
to use it. Do you know do you know any
of like the key commands or anything?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
No, no, I have not had to use Excel since
two thousand and three. You know the thing that bothers
me about Excel. It should be easy, but you should
be able to type in like two plus three equals
and it should just spit out the answer for you.
And instead it throws some like weird looking like format.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Like there's a calculator will do that?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, I know you know what I mean, and I
know that I know what two plus three is five? Right, Yeah.
I don't think you need the Internet for that. Okay.
Question three? Okay, anyway, high school chemistry? Fucking goofy.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What's the chemical symbol for potassium?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm gonna say mark for the last one. I'm gonna
take a stab at this one and say it's p
P potassium. No, it's wrong already, It's not P. Fuck ship,
We're not supposed to curse. All right, guy, what is it?
Fuck shit or fuck mark?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I guess for chemistry questions. I'm not a lifeline.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Just for fun.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You want to take a stab at it, well, my
all my guesses would have also begun with P.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah. So it's no, it's not something that you would think.
Seven three? No? Is he wrong? Is it seven to three?
What did you say? What? Who are you? What's the answer?
It's busy taking another fucking selfie for whatever reason. The
(19:54):
answer is k K. I know that it's up a bitch.
Yeah you know what.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You knew that because I told you that one last
time when we talked about chemistry and the podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Damn it. Yeah, So it was a double way of me.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I wanted to see if you knew the chemistry question,
and then I wanted to see if you're paying attention
to the last time.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Noah. Sometimes I'll listen to the podcast and like, kind
of room it after we're done, Yeah, and I'll be like,
I remember talking about that. I know, I know, I
feel the same way. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's just like years of being on the radio two,
I get people that are always like, hey, man, remember
the one time when you said.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And I'm like to be honest with you, No, not really,
like I really I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
No, it's time for question for.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Question for twenty what okay?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
The category of slogans. The power of Dreams is the
slogan for what automotive brand?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The power of dreams? The power of dreams. I'm only
guessing this because I don't know their slogan, so they've
used it since the early two thousands. I was gonna
guess Tesla. But what is it again? The power of dreams.
(21:20):
I haven't used Mark as my real lifeline yet, Mark
for a Clark.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, question the power of dreams?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, any input.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're not using me for a lifeline. That's the last
question question.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So he kind of has to.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
My microphone with my headphone. Sorry for all those clanking
sent The power of dreams?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Are we giving up here? Since the early two thousands?
We give it up here?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Power of dreams, The power of dream American? I don't
think so right now, Power of dream Dodge. No, No,
I have no fucking idea. All right, we don't got
all day?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You got it wrong?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay, Mark, I think you drive one of these. The
correct answer is Honda the power of dream.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Did not know that.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Heated about whether or not it was an American car.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
If that's not American? No, No, where's it? Mate? China?
You should stop talking about this.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
If you're lost, they probably are too blazed and confused.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Podcast question number one.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
All right, which US state has the largest coastline? Oh? Uh,
think about this one? Texas? No ship, that's wrong. No,
it's so incredibly wrong, way gonna be. I'm not a
geography guy. He's always not.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait text, it's the longest coastline.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I already told you it was in Texas. You can't
guess that. California. No, the longest coastline Florida. No, uh
give up?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh Alaska, you got it out seventeenth try Alaska. I
got wrong, you know, but we should really establish rules
of I think that once you get past guests like one, Yeah,
well you're wrong, once you get past guess one. The
longest coastline Alaska?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Not in Alaska? It is Alaska?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, So there's like beaches on Alaska.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Beaches but there's water, you know? Yeah? But is there
any practically surrounded by it?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
But but Mark, and maybe you'd know this as like.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
A tropical guy or a tropical guy, a travel guy.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
My question is, for as long as I've known Mark,
he's always been a tropical, tropical guy, traffic guy.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
My question is, though, is there anything ever tropical in Alaaska?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't think you'd describe it as tropic? No ever?
I mean warm and sunny.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Ever, they have warm er seasons, but it's not tropical.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are we done with tropical? Mark? Did he help you? Tropical? Mark?
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
One question too?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I have an acronym question for you too. This might
be easy, but I think you're gonna get it wrong.
What does the acronym n A s A stand for?
Is in NASA? What does NASA stand for? Is it
like the space people? Yeah? No, No, he's not very
interested in space, which really bothers me. Are you interested
(24:53):
in space?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But I don't like to think too long about it
breaks you out right a little bit? Yeah, I could
care les see, I like it in short bursts, A.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Bunch of little dots. Up in the sky, who gives
a ship? God who cares? Most people should anyway? What
does the acronym NASA? Is a NASA stand for? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Okay, so here's here's here's where my brain's at. Now,
nationals in there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
If it's anywhere, it's at the beginning, it's in the
and it's.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Anywhere I think it'd be in the end. Word right,
So national, Uh isn't one of them? Like it's a
real long a word like are erergonomics, ergon ergonomics, National
era AICs?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
What's the rest of it? Well, what's that word ergonomics? Ergonomics?
This is your guess, National Ergonomics and A S and Space? Yep,
that one's good. Uh association. No, No, it's not ergonomics.
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's the National Aeronautics Aerospace Administration.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I thought you would get the rest of it, right.
I just thought I thought aeronautics would be the tough
one for you, And it was, what is it? Ergonomics?
That's what you guessed. You made that thing up on
your own National Aeronautics and Space Administration. What's aeronautics air
(26:29):
and being in it? Yeah, and being nautic in it.
What's being not an aeronautics like nautic?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Like nautical you're in the water, going through the water,
and he aeronautic you're up in the air.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, but what's nast to do it in the wall?
They're not. We're just fucking with you. Let's go to
the next one. Question three, Question three? What was the
first feature length animated film ever released? Ah? Ah, Remember
(27:03):
you have a lifeline and Mark is a movie guy.
He doesn't look very much.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Clarification questions here is it a cartoon like animated?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's in the fucking question?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What was the first feature of length animated? Fell? Poops?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Sorry I wasn't paying attention. I want to say, like Cinderella. No,
I feel like that's wrong, that's wrong. Okay, Well I
wasn't guessing that. I was just saying I want to say, oh,
I did all right in the thirties.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yes, snow white, snow white and the seventh is what
I'm talking about. Yeah, nineteen thirty seven, that's what the
first in color and sound?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ho hi, ho.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Work we go? Is that the words? That's yeah, dun dud,
you're a hole. You're a hole. You're a big fat ho.
You're a ho ho ho ho ho ho. It's always
really easy to tell who the younger person is on
the show.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Question four twenty, what.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
How many sides does a hexagon have? Ah, I'm not
good with my with my gons. My shapes are these
shapes like a hexagon and octagon. That's just a shape, right,
it's the name of the shape. If it's not a shape,
what would it be?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, I'm not good with my gons. Man, that sounds
like something mind set. What's after octagon?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah? So that can't be the answer. Okay, you want
to know about hexagons. I think a hexagon it's not five,
and it's not seven, but I think it might be six.
Is it six? Hexagon? Six is the answer?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Six? Yep? Six? What is how? I used to remember
that as a kid. I remember six? I mean you
just said that, what is seven?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Heptagon h E P T A G O N A heptagon,
So hexagon and then heptagon, heptagon and.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Then octagon and then ann What's which one? Which shape
has nine sides? A nanagon pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Close, pretty close, tens a decagon? Yeah, that one I
remember eleven agon. Yeah, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I think that points right now.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Trivia you didn't know you needed, or maybe you still don't.
It's still Blazed and Confused podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You know. I love going on vacation and like finding
somebody that has some herbage and like just relaxing on
the beach.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
It's like the best thing in the world, finding somebody
that has urbage. It's usually a guy that comes up
on a kai act of sorts or something like that.
Where is this vacation you're going, Oh, I don't know.
Just a lot of islands, you know these people? Yeah, see,
that would creep me out. I don't know if I
do that. I watched too much True crime. I can't
believe you watched that at all.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
What true crime?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh my god, dude, I love true crime. Listen to this,
You've got to watch. I can't get a grasp on
what this kid likes as far as content, like I
like movies I have. I just can't get I like crime.
I've always liked true crimes, Brady Bunch. What else true crime? Stuff?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Documentaries, music, game shows, game shows, a lot of documentaries.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
If it's longer than an hour. He probably hasn't seen it.
It's just pretty crazy. Hour and a half. Yeah, so
a lot. We saw that Dylan movie. How long was that? Yeah?
I think I passed out. But uh, Mark works in travel,
I do a lot of stuff. And actually, as he
had said, tropical.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I want to go specialist good, but yeah, I
want to go somewhere war with tropical. All right, So
here's here's the thing I wanted to talk about this.
So I want to go on a cruise really bad.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Have you been on a crew Well, technically yes, my
parents took me on an Alaskan cruise when I was
two or three years old.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Okay, so, but Alaska's not tropical. We discovered that Alaska's not.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I went on.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I've been on a couple of river cruises before. But
as far as actual cruises, we definitely sell them. But
I personally don't really like to be out on the
water for that length of time. Just personal preference. Yeah,
almost a fear, I guess.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
So that's why I can't tell you much from personal experience.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I just want to experience it one time.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
There's so much to do, man, there's so many restaurants
and there's but think about.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
How many carsple are on that ship, you know, like,
versus how much you actually be able to do well.
Some people do love cruises. What do you like about that? Over?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Just like an all inclusive resort in some tropical location.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'm having all of that and a beach that you
can go to anytime.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I like the idea of and a lot of people
don't when they're on vacation. But I like the idea
of the ship people telling you when stuff is going
to happen. You get off the ship, you do some stuff,
you come back, dinner is now you learn it?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
That? Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I like the idea that. I don't know if I
like that, but I think I like that. That's why
I want to go try it and experience it for
the first time.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I don't know, I just don't feel like I would
be I want to be on a schedule like that.
When I'm on Vakasha, I just want to relax for
the most part. I'll kind of go about the day
of what happens happens.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You know. Well, don't you like the idea too of
you're in one place one day and then you're in
another place another day. I want to go on a cruise.
I can't find anybody that wants to cruise with me.
It's a cheap way to travel. You can see a
lot for not a lot of money. And again I
think that there's a lot to do on a cruise ship.
I've watched all these documentaries. I watched the documentary on
Netflix about the poop Cruise. However, dude, I tell you
(32:48):
the thing that I watched recently on Netflix, also involving
a cruise was so good and you need to go
home right now and watching. If you're listening to watch
it you haven't already. It's called Where is Amy Bradley
or Amy Bradley Is Missing? I think that's what it's called.
It's about this woman in nineteen ninety eight, in like
March of nineteen ninety eight, and that disappears on a
(33:09):
cruise ship at three point thirty.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
In the morning. Her and her brother are like partying on.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
This cruise ship and they get back to their room
and they're sitting out on the balcony and he goes
into bed, and it's three thirty in the morning. Again,
she's sitting out on the balcony, she's smoking her cigarettes.
He goes into bed and that's the last time they
see her, and she just mysteriously disappears off this cruise ship.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Geez, yeah, you want to watch that and then go
on the cruise.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, No, I'm not saying this. I'm not saying that
this is I know, weird connection. I'm not saying this
is motivating me to go on a cruise. I'm saying
that through it all, there's all these reasons to not
go on a cruise, and I'm like, screw you people,
I'm gonna go on a cruise.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
You're right, there are plenty of reasons to go on
a cruise. A lot of people love it. We got
a lot of a lot of cruiser requests. Definitely if
you like to get out in the water. And Becker
and I have friends who have a list going of
every island they've been to, and a lot of times
that's you know, they can rack up a few on
one cruise and they just enjoy doing that.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The one thing that I am concerned about, though, I
remember when I was I don't know, probably thirteen twelve thirteen,
my aunt and uncle uh took me and my cousin's
on this deep sea fishing expedition which was awful gets sick.
The reason why it was awful, yeah, is because I
got real nauseous the whole time. And I'm hoping that
(34:30):
if I go on a cruise, like because the ship
is so big, like, you don't feel it rocking back
and forth?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I don't think you do. I think you do, and
you get used to it. That makes me a little nervous.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I'm sure that you're sweet or your room would come
with like a barf bag, like on an airplane.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh that's wonderful. I'm glad. I know that. Thank God,
that really sold me. You gonna go a cruise? Oh well, well,
my god, I have a barf bag now, of course
I have to a you'll be alone. So here's here's
about when you travel, Like are you gonna want to
bring a pen with you or have something to smoke? Okay,
So this is.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Interesting because we're going to talk about this and it
may or may not be incriminating, but whatever. The statute
of limitations is long over now, right, so as of recently,
like I went to California, and I know that recreational
marijuana is legal in Los Angeles, is legal in California,
and there's dispensaries on every street corner. It's like it's
like coffee shop, dispensary, record store. Coffee shop, dispensary, record store.
(35:27):
It's perfect. And that's where I got. Los Angeles has
made for me. It's great. But anyway, I still like
felt the urge and I don't know why, but I
still felt the urge to like make sure that I
had a disposable with me just in case. Yeah, and
I did end up taking some medables, but I don't know.
I feel like you do kind of have to be
(35:48):
a little worried, not worried, but concerned smart with how
you travel with your marijuana.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Still right, well, it is not legal to cross state
lines with it, even on a cruise. I think marijuana
on a cruise is like a big no no, isn't
it correct?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
You definitely aren't supposed to travel with it?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Will they?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Will they say something? Just my opinion, I don't think
that's generally what they're looking for. However, if you got
randomly pulled aside so they search through all your things,
that's happened to me before they do it. Sometimes do
you want them to see that? So if you're going
to a place where, like you said, you can get
it no problem. Potentially it would be an unnecessary risk.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yeah, however, California you can get it no problem. You
going to some island, you can get it, no problem.
But you gotta trust some random dude on the street.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, I mean there are some places that have decriminalized it,
you know, like in Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's I guess more or less what it is.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Like in Philadelphia, you're allowed to have a certain amount
and it's usually pretty generous. But I mean, and they
have medical the Rastafarians, if you are a Rastafarian. But
I don't think that that applies to Taurus. Maybe it does,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I think that even if you have your med card
like in the United States and you go to travel,
you can't travel with marijuana, right, you.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Know a how to travel with it regard traveling period
at all. Yeah, like you shouldn't have any of that
on you ever. Yeah. I also think that at the
end of the day, TSA is really just looking for
like yeah, like he says, Yeah, the dogs are looking
for the bad stuff.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's very impressive to me that they can smell bombs.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, the dogs. Yeah, dogs are crazy, right, Lucy.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
You hear this.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You hear what these dogs are doing, Lucy. They're changing
the world. And what are you doing? You're barking at
everybody up. Maybe she's a drug sniffing dog. Maybe that's
why she freaks out when people come over, because she
doesn't like the weed.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, it's not good enough. That's the real reason why
my dog doesn't like you. Are we going to spark
a debate here quick? Before we get out of here?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Do you have something to talk about?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I have something to talk about? Do it all right,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Welcome to spark a debate where Becker and Joel turn
one topic. You're doing all out, puff puff, pass off
and see who burns out first.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, Oh god, a weird look you gave me.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I want to I want to debate Becker's idea of
vacation time and how he takes his vacation time. Oh
so it's kind of tied into what we were just
talking about, because yes, it's exactly perfect vacation time.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, but you're not going anywhere. That's the difference anyway.
If I'm doing like a staycation. Yeah, like, I'm just
if I'm just taking days off.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, let's debate this because I
think that what you do is genius.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
However, I think it's annoying. It's an art, it's an
annoying It's this annoying strategic way of utilizing your time
off that I've earned by it. But it's annoying, all right.
So this is what this is what this, This is
what this dude does. I notice. I really want to
curse right now, and I can't. But this is what
he does.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So in the summertime, instead of taking off for you know,
like a week at a time here and there, like
most normal people do, mister Becker over here takes off
every Monday of every Monday of the week for four
months in a row. It fucking seems like today's Monday.
We're recording this podcast. Did you work today?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
No, you didn't because it's Monday. So you always work
a four day work week, not all the time. I
start taking time off in July. I don't take any
time off in the beginning part of the year. So
there's like six months where I don't take off at all.
That's valueboy.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Friday in December. Yeah, and I take three day weekends
pretty much in December and October, especially because I like
the haunted spooky season, like to watch Hart movies and stuff. Yeah,
it's a good way to take vacation time. It's smart.
Make you get three days off. Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I'm not saying it's more smart. I'm just saying I've
been on the receiving end of this.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's like, oh, joy to work past ten thirty. Now,
you were there pretty often now, yeah, you know anybody
when I worked with you, you were always I was
always hustling. However, it'd be like, oh, where's record? Oh
oh well it's Monday. Hey, I worked there for twenty years.
I have a lot of vacation time.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I know. Well why can't And don't you think it's
been more beneficial for me to take one day off
here and there rather than a full week.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Would you rather cover all my work for a full week?
It makes sense. I do it for other people because
it was mostly for my own sanity. You guys would
funck shit up all the time. I come back and
be like, what did you guys even do while I
was gone? Do it for other people? Let me get
you my let me get my violin.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Anyway, we were gonna say, Mark, I'd rather listen to that.
Do you ever take off in the middle of the week. No,
I think that's kind of fun sometimes, just like a
random Wednesday. I wanted just for a few nights to
Camcoon earlier in the year, just by myself. Yeah, just
in the middle of the week for the heck of it.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You know, it's kind of like a tease for me,
like I'm gonna be like, oh, I have one random
day off then have to go back to work the
next day. Already, it just seems kind of not my speed.
I'd just rather have a long weekend. So it is
pretty good though. It's a good way to take your
time off, wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Again, I'm not that that's not the coworker as a coworker, though,
if anybody else did that that you work with, wouldn't
that piss you off?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
As an employee?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
How?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
How you No?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I know, I know it's my time though. I know.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I know, like I'm right now at a newer job
and I'm doing that, you know, and they're okay with
that right out the gate. You're doing that and they're
all right with that.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
I do.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Listen when I'm out you are, And just like I
did when I worked with you, Joel, I would work
my butt off to make it as as easy as possible.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
I would work way ahead. I would work late nights
to do that for you guys. So it's just a
busy job. Now I'm able to work ahead. Like today,
I left very little things for people to do, and
hopefully if they had anything to do, it was like
something that came down today. It wasn't something that I
left there.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I like Fridays and Mondays.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
You know, I have some friends at work for these
big corporations in New York City and they have UPTO.
You know what, this is unlimited unlimited paid time off.
But the interesting thing when you talk to people that
have that, it's so funny. All the old people that
are listening to this podcast right now are.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Like, limited paid time off?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
What is that? And it's like, well, it's when you
have an unlimited amount of days that you can take
off and you still get paid. Yeah, shocking concept.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
I like that. You think older people are listening to
this like they've made it this far. Yeah? True, Probably not,
probably not. But no.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
The interesting thing is when you talk to people that
actually have unlimited paid time off, it seems that it really,
at the end of the day, to me, sounds like
more or less like a scheme because you either don't
use your days ever or you use it all the time.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
So you used it. Either you it or you abuse it.
There's really no like fine line.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
But also though, I think that there's going to be
no such thing as like a nine to five job
very very very soon. I think that the way that
the economy and the way that the you know, tech
is like progressing. Don't you think that the world is
turning more into a like gig esque world, Like people
have gigs now, it's not I guess people aren't the
(43:24):
career driven. It's gig driven now. It's you have your
work that money.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I don't think that's the future. You don't think that's
the future. I have no idea. I think everyone's gonna
not have a job. Machine look over in like another
two years and then we'll that's why. Then you're gonna
do no, And then you're gonna have to have a gig.
You're gonna have to have something. And then the computers
will take your gigs. Probably.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I did hear something the other day from the I
think his name is Sam Altman. He's like the CEO
of Open AI and he said that a kid born
today will never live in a world where a computer
is not smarter than a human, which is crazy to
think about. I'm glad I'm not that kid. Same then
I also, there's all this, like all these questions now
(44:10):
about you know, AI, and people were like, well, well,
like what about politics? Like you got to think about it,
like if we're turning in a society where everybody just
turns to their phone and asks it a simple question
or asks it anything and everything, Like what what if
our politicians hypothetically are going to start turning to their
chat shobt and saying.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah, who's really in charge? Now?
Speaker 4 (44:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
So I don't have any questions about AI because James
Cameron already answered them all for me.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
James Cameron, he's an actor, right, Oh my god? Anyway, Mark,
where's your favorite place you've traveled? I like going to Mexico,
but I went to Antiga last year. I know it
was pretty excellent.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Noquah, it's Antigua and Tiga there's a place in Europe
that is the same spelling and on Antiqua. I was
going to say that one's Antiqua. Interesting Antika.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
This is a tropical Mark yes, rebarding live Yes, and
uh you can book your your trip through Mark now.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Gotta mark ar at trip guy dot com. Oh, look
at that trip guy dot com. That's it. I like
that trip guy dot com. Real simple, you know exactly
what it is.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Yeah, my boss is the trip guy. To be clear, Yes, man,
they look at a sponsor a podcast. Ts you want
to send us to Antiqua. Yeah, Adiga there too.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
I don't think we're allowed to go. We'll go everywhere.
We'll go there too. Mark, thanks for hanging out with us,
Episode thirteen of the Blaze of Confused podcast on Becker.
That's Joel. We didn't see hire introduce ourselves, so we'll
do that now on the way out. Oh hello, goodbye,
Thanks for joining MI. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Blazed and Confused podcast with Becker and Joel. Don't forget
to subscribe spark up and joined us next time.
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