October 9, 2025 • 44 mins
It’s spooky season, and who better to kick things off than ANDY THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR? The boys dig into all things funerals — from fights that break out graveside to the surprisingly fascinating world of embalming. Nothing’s off-limits as Joel and Becker ask allll the weird questions you’ve always/never wanted answered! Plus, the usual trivia chaos and a MUNCHIE MINUTE revealing the top Halloween candies of the year.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The plays in Confused. Podcast is rated M for marijuana
no minors. But your audience is only.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
A lot of people don't know how to talk on
a microphone. Have you ever noticed that they're very afraid
of it. They're very afraid of it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, you're afraid of a microphone, Andy, No, I use
one frequently. Do you good? Why do you use a
microphone frequently? Services in the funeral home? Oh okay, so
what all does that entail? Do you do speeches or
how does that work?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Typically I introduce whoever's speaking, welcome everybody, you know, thank
them for coming. So you like run the service as
a funeral director? Yeah, that's what I do. So what's
your full title? Just funeral director?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So I realize though, if you're a funeral director, you're
like you're the glorified pastor for lack of a better term,
now no kind of way to describe.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It, kind of like an mc right see the funeral
set me up? I want that dr Man, welcome everybody
to a funeral? Are there some like weird like requests
you get from families or like that? Sometimes? For instance,
I saw a video one time where the family wanted,
like the body to be like like looking like they
(01:06):
were still alive and like doing something they love. I'm
not even lying. Maybe you saw this on the internet.
It's like a video of this person propped up in
a chair. I think they were playing cards or something
like they were hanging out. Have you ever had like
a weird request from a family like that or has
it been very traditional? No? Yeah, I get a lot
of traditional stuff. Would you do something like that if
(01:27):
they had a weird request? Yeah, I mean if it's
feasible yeah, and respectful yeah yeah. Playing cards? To god,
it was like, that's a little weird. They had the
person roped off and it was just like they were
having like music was playing. They wanted it to seem like, oh,
they were still here and doing something they really liked.
And this person would have been hanging out playing cards
(01:47):
and listening to music, you know. Just yeah, I'm pretty
sure they call that an extreme embalming. Extreme embalming, what
does that mean? I mean you really have to put
a lot of effort into what you're doing, imposed and
positioned and explain to me how this works.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So you die and then like if I say I die,
but I want you to be my funeral director. So
like my family like calls you up, so I die,
you come pick up my body and then my body
shits for a couple of days and then you take
all the blood out and embalm me.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Is that the way it works?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, So if you opt for embalming, that's something that
we need to do sooner than later. So we need
to secure permission and then as soon as we get
back to the funeral home, we would do the embalming.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And it's not as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, I mean, because you have better results the closer
to death rather than you know, the further way.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So people that don't want embalming, what's the other option,
like getting cremated.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Or Yeah, so if you don't want embalming, you would
just be kept in refrigeration either until the funeral if
you want to casket burial or cremation.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So why do people choose embalming? Then a lot of
it is cultural, right, or some of it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Is cultural just, but if you one of viewing of
any sort, it's just much more advantageous to do embalming
because the goal of balming is to preserve, disinfect and
restore right. So, for example, if you have somebody that
has you know, been you know, battling cancer for several months. Right,
(03:20):
they're severely emaciated. There are things that we can do
during the embalming process to kind of restore some of
that weight so they don't look so gaunt. Gotcha? Which
is how do you do that? Comforting to families?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Then?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, when they see them, you know, they don't ask
and ask how you do that?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Like you got to like drain the blood first.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so it's not it's not like you just like,
you know, make an incision and let a doll dream down.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Then that's why you're not. It works by pressure.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Right, So when you embalm, so typically the most common
is you go it's called super clavicular incision, so right
above the collarbone here right, and you go in through
the jugular so it's kind of like the reverse of
the circulatory system. So you're injecting into the jugular and
(04:19):
then you're coming out through the croit artery, which is
where you're getting your drainage. So it's essentially kind of
like by pressure.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Is how that happened? Interesting? These are all very genuine questions.
By the way, I want the listening audience that we
brought somebody on today to learn. We're here to learn,
and also because of Talloween season, and we thought it'd
be cool to have a funeral director of the show.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I think we're unofficially starting a series where we invite
people on that have, like, you know, real jobs, and
we asked you about there. We asked them about their
real job. I don't have a real job. That's a
real job. Everybody for tell you that you have a
real freaking job.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Man. You know. Actually, back in the day before I
decided what I wanted to do one when I wanted
to go to school for culinary Then I ultimately went
to school for broadcasting in radio and TV. But I
also was interested in the funeral, the funeral life, and
I actually used to hang out Slash, a data girl
who worked at an industry for a little dead. You're
too emotional.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You could never do it, you think so, yeah, but
around it, like baby, you can't. You can't do that,
no offense or anything. But I mean, I am aside
you are.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How could you be around death and dead people every day?
You could never do it? Maybe maybe if I started early.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Now I'm an emotional mess. I mean in all seriousness, though,
I mean being a funeral director. That takes a special
person to be around that all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So when did you think, When did you learn or
realize that that was something that you wanted to do?
What like it became your calling? Is this something because
you like helping people? Or you went to a funeral
when you.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Were a kid and notice something, or yeah, so I'm
a first generation funeral director, which means nobody in my
family has done it proNT with me. I got interested
when I was a kid, I would say, probably like
junior high. And it was really something like so benign,
Like there was this funeral home in town. It was
just so cool looking, and I just it was genuine curiosity,
(06:09):
like what happens there? And you know, then I went
to a funeral at that funeral home and I was like,
this is pretty interesting. So so you weren't afraid you
were more interested? Yeah, I would say I initially got
into it because I'm very much perfectionist and that kind
of I don't know meets my needs. But over time, obviously,
(06:33):
like I I'm in it for various reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now, I mean obviously I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Very sincere and I believe that people should be met
with compassion, you know, and I can do that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And how long have you been doing that? Now? Oh god,
that's a good question. When did you start?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So I started working in funeral homes I want to
say like two thousand ish, okay, but I officially became
licensed in the state in two twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay. So is the schooling on this like extremely difficult?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, if you're not a sciences person, because yeah, you're out, Sorry, Joe.
I mean I'm not a sciencest person either, but luckily
I'm married to somebody who is, gotcha, So that helps.
But yeah, no, I mean you went to Northampton, right,
I did? Yeah, so they have a program there, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Do you know I went to Northampton?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I forget where I came by, you know, to a
little Facebook stocking before you get.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh okay, nice, great, Yeah I didn't stock you, you know,
the creepy one. A lot of funeral directors don't. They
live in their homes, are in the business they work in. Yeah,
it's a little weird in it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It used to be super super common, more and more
creative separately from the building.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, here's you've touched on an interesting point before you
said that you saw the building where you when you
were younger and thought it looked interesting or you were
curious about what went on in there. Why is it
that funeral homes always look so interesting? They look like
mansions most like? Is there a reason for.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That or is it just because honestly, a lot of
the funeral homes are converted old mansions. You know, they
were a mansion first they went up for sale, and
because because of the size of them, there's the space
to to have services, have your embalming room, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, so that's why they typically are old mansions. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It is a little stranger. There's there's funeral directors that
live like you know where they work.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, but I guess it makes.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Sense though that you never know when you're gonna get
the call you gotta go pick up somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But didn't even show you go pick up somebody. You
just put them in the refrigerator. Go. So years ago,
I would hang out with this girl and we were
for a while, and she'd be out to dinner and
she'd be like, we gotta go pick up a body
with her. I go with her. Yeah, we would go
to the funeral home, she'd get the van and we go.
She would go to the hospital or wherever. I would
(08:59):
wait in the van and him in the back, and
then we would go and drop the person off. I
don't know about that. You know that's a little too
much for you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, but really though, you did pick a great profession
because you're never gonna like, there's never gonna be a
shortage of work. People are gonna keep dying, right unless, unless,
of course, you know, the scientists come up with the
magic pill that everybody lives forever. Then then what happens
If the magic pill is birth, then what happens to
the funeral directors?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I mean, think of it this way. We just solved autism,
so you never know. On that note, Andy is our
guest today on episode twenty one, and he's a funeral director.
Is kicking off our month of We'll put it in
air quotes spoofyboo, Yes, yeah, Andy, you gotta be a
little spooky. We gotta work. It's the Blaze that Confused podcast.
(09:44):
Let's kick it off.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Welcome to the Blazed and Confused Podcast with Becker and
Joel Cent trivia podcast where the questions are high and
So are they hates trying to spuk your curiosity and
light up some knowledge. Go Blazed and Confused podcast starts now.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And maybe we'll get around to change it up that
we're gonna fix that this way, Well maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Next week, maybe a week after. Yeah, it's the Blaze
That Confused Podcast. My name is Becker. That's my good
friend Joel. Today's guest Andy funeral director, and it's gonna
be an interesting show. We have a couple of top
topics we want to touch on with you. We have
some questions and like, for instance, have you ever had
a funeral service that didn't go right?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Not because of something that you did, like family drama,
but maybe some family drama? Funeral family drama? Has that
ever been a thing with you?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's it's not on common. So is there a story
that really kind of sticks out in your career? Luckily no,
obviously you want to avoid that at all costs.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah. Unfortunately, death, you know, brings out a lot of
emotion and a lot of tension. Yeah, and with that
comes family drama.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah. Well I only asked this question because recently Joel
and I went to a funeral, yeah, where an altercation
happened Is that what you call it?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You call it an altercation. I think it was approaching
an alternate. I was hiding, just so you know. I
didn't want anything to do with it. Yeah, and we should,
we should, I mean backped a little bit. It's not
it wasn't a funeral. It was a celebration of life. Yes,
so there's a memorial dinner. Memorial dinner a little bit different. Yeah,
I guess there was somebody there that supposedly shouldn't have
(11:34):
been there. They weren't invited, They weren't invited, but they
showed up anyway. They should have been invited, but they
should have been invited. But still if you're not invited, like,
why would you come if you're specifically told don't show up?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Me, personally, I wouldn't have come regardless of the situation.
But anyway, supposedly this person was specifically told do not come.
They came anyway, and it turned into this whole big.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Get out of here. Yeah, I leave right now. I
was in the bar area, just getting a die code,
and I was having a conversation with the bartender and
I was like, what kind of so do you guy?
You love him? And all of a sudden. I hear
get out. She said, get out of here, and I
was like, what, you are not welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I turned, I make high contact with him. He's sitting
across the room and I'm like, and I was just
sitting there drinking my beer. Yeah, yeah, just you know,
it was the ultimate celebration of life because there was
alcohol involved, so it was quite a celebration. Yeah yeah,
but it could have went a little bit better. They
could have went a lot better, could win a lot better.
And here's the other thing too. I mean, you know
(12:35):
it's bad if me, of all people is pointing out God,
you could have acted like an adult.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
That's that's how you know it's bad. Right, If I'm
the one saying that.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
True, the person that supposedly wasn't invited, well, if they
weren't invited, you could have gone up to him and
just tapped him on the shoulder and said, can I
talk to you in the hallway. That's my point. And
then once you're in the hallway, getting the hell out.
Once you're in the hallway, that's when you say out
of here.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But yeah, yeah, not in front of you know, sixty
people or whatever it was. It was very awkward. Then
and people left. It was kind of like a bummer,
you know, yeah, comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So in the circumstances in your experience the drama that
has happened, has it ever been like a thing where, uh,
they would have wanted this kind of service and they
were going to get this kind of service and it
was like a family feud?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Is that what it was? Or yeah, there's a lot
of that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's you know, kind of in some ways,
you're kind of like playing referee, like yes, but you
also have to be like your Switzerland, like you're not
taking anybody's side, but just like y yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You want to be gather passionate. You understand that that
emotions are, you know, at an all time high, but
in your head are you kind of like therese are
fucking nuts? Come on, tell us the truth. Man, what
a day? Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, let's get into trivia. Yeah all right, Andy, So
we're gonna do the rapid round with you. You know how
this works? Vaguely vaguely, he vaguely knows how this works.
You get ten questions, got answer them in sixty seconds.
Some of them are easy. Are you good at trivia
or not?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Really? It depends on kind of the area when we.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Get a little bit of everything. Yeah, yeah, cool, let's
give it a try. Alright, right, yeah, okay, the.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Game begins in three All right, mister Andy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
What are the four time zones in the continental US?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Eastern, Pacific, Central, one more, wrap Road?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, all right, most of them? What part of the
cell contains DNA? Oh? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, married
to Oh that's right? Who founded Microsoft? Bill Gates? You
got it? What color do you get when you mix
red and blue?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Purple?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah? What's a baby goat called a kid? Yeah, you
knew that one right away. What is the plural of
cactus cacti? What's Batman's real name? Kind of question?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Bruce Wayne Gott. How do you know that what galaxy
is Earth located in? Hmmm? Yeah? What's a group of
fish called oh? School? Got it? What is a male
deer called buck? Got it? And what's Batman's real name?
Did you get that one? Yeah? Did you get that one?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What's the other one you didn't get the part of
the sale that contains DNA?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Is it mitochondria? No?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I actually remember this though. The mitochondria is the energy, right,
the powerhouse. That's where the energy comes from. I only
know that because I took biology like nine times because
I failed. I'm also not a scientist. Eventually that part stuck.
I guess maybe the answer to that one wasn't the
nucleus nucleus And the one time zone you didn't get
was Mountain Mountain time Eastern.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Central Mountain, Pacific. I think you got the oh, what
galaxy is Earth located in? That was the Milky Way?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Pearl of cactuses a cacti? Wait, no, pearl pearl plural
of a cactus, cacti. Yeah, oh the galaxy that Earth
is located and you don't know that one.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I just went over that Milky Way. Did you just
say that? Yeah, like right before you started talking. Wow,
you're sober today.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I know. This is why I got to stop, because
my brain is just mush man. Even when I'm sober.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's so bad. It's bad.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He did pretty well with those.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
These questions were kind of stupid again, though better about
they're all over the place. I mean, yeah, plural of cactus.
How do you go from that to a group of fish?
A group of fish and a male deer. I'm glad
that I know a school and a buck. Today I'm
learning a.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Lotso by the way, when I asked the question about
Batman's real name, he was like, you didn't think he
would get it? Right? It's very common. Is everyone who
knows that? Everybody super famous? I guess you had to
be there a super famous character. Remember, remember, gentlemen, that's
seven years old, by the way, exactly, and my generation
of Batman is like the Dark Night. Yeah, but he's
(16:59):
still Did he have a name in that?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Did they say his name in that? It's always been
Bruce Wayne. Who knew that?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I didn't know that? Oh my god, I do that.
I don't know that. The age gap it works against
me a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But furthermore, though I was never really into the superheroes.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Superheroes are kind of boring me. He's more of a
vigilante though, isn't he. He doesn't have any superpowers. Yeah,
bad Man doesn't have any superpowers.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Now. He just has a bunch of gadgets. All that belt,
that's all it is, the belt in the car. You
have a lot to watch. Yeah, but he has a
belt with all the tools on him. Yeah, the original.
So what's the superhero that has the most superpower Superman probably, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What are the other contenders? Though? Oh? Man, I can't
even superhero guy. I don't know superheroes. Yeah I don't either.
I just know Thatman, you're about to learn absolutely nothing.
Go Blazed and Confused podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I tell you, I got some fun new categories, some
fun new categories for questions. For instance, I wanted this music.
For instance. Coins and currency.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Oh god, you know, I thought about that today because
that guy wants to make a new coin. You know,
have you heard about that? Oh, for the order fiftieth
anniversary of the country. Is his face gonna be on it?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I know?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh? Is it?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I'm asking it?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Is?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I want my face on a coin? You should have
ask me. I'll put my face on Yeah, the Joel coin.
Yeah great.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
All right, let's get started with the coins and currency
question number one. All right, So Andy, you know you're
our lifeline, right, Okay, So we can come to you
once per round and we're gonna instate. Though the law
now that you can't ask the person if they know
before they answer.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, when Albi was here, I was asking him quite
a bit. But the one question that every week, but
the one question.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I did know the answer to I was just gonna
I want to make the guests feel included as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, all right, god, that sounds quite weird. Bit
it just sounds screwed up. Oh boy, I don't know
the earth. Hey, do you know the answer to this one.
I'm gonna go to my lifeline. Come on to hell.
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So coins and currency, there's only two US cities that
currently produce circulating US coins.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
One of those cities is Philadelphia. Yeah. What's the other one? Huh? Yeah?
Do you know the cause I have an idea. I'm
just curious if Andy has an idea and you want
to look at him for.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Hints now, like you're looking at his face waiting for
him the signal if you're right around.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All right, So Philadelphia, I know for sure. My other
guess would be, is it somewhere in New York? No?
No final answer. No, it's a city, though I'm trying
(19:51):
to think of a city. Can you give me a hint? No,
I can't give you what east because coast?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Come on, I don't uh, I don't think it's by
a coast at all. Hmmm, it's like the middle coast Chicago. No, No,
I have no idea how Chicago. Correct answer is Denver, Colorado.
I did not know that Denver, Colorado. You didn't know
that either. I'm allowed to ask him now, Yeah, yeah,
(20:21):
ask what. I've never been to Colorado. Colorado's on my
bucket list. Gotta go. A ton of friends that live
there too.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah. And I've heard.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
From multiple weed smokers that if you smoke weeding in uh, Colorado,
that it physically feels different because it's like it's a
different high. Yeah thing right, yeah, because you're up, You're
like inner mountain or whatever. Right, Well, that's great elevation.
It does something with the oxygen in your body or whatever.
I'm a scientist. Ye, next time you go to Colorado,
there you go. You can smoke some weed and get
(20:51):
some get some new coins.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, my face of it sounds like my kind of town,
except for the last part. God, question too, thanks a
lot a question too. I see your face enough. I
don't need in my freaking pocket. All right, how about
this bad movie descriptions? All right, I've never seen a
movie guy. Yeah, yeah, all right, big movie guy, big
movie guy. Like you've seen them all? No, not all
(21:15):
of them, but a lot of them. R Yeah, you
go to the movies often when I get a chance.
I love going to the movies. He doesn't go to
the movie.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Mister Becker is the only person that I know that
goes to the movies with such enthusiasm, Like, not only
does he go to the movies, he loves who the
hell loves going and spends seventeen dollars on popcorn?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Who likes that? I don't. I actually very rarely buy
anything at the movie theater. So yeah, but how do
you do that? Then?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And then you sit in the movie theater and you
eat nothing? You need something, I'll have a snack beforehand.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Do you sneak something in? No? Sometimes? Sometimes? Sometimes? In
all seriousness, how much is like a large popcorn at
the movie theater?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It's expensive? Is it seventeen? If you get if you
get like a large popcorn and a large soda, it's
like thirty dollars? What? No, it's it's so it's gonna
be like mid twenties. Jeez. Yeah, aren't you on like
the I have a membership?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, you have the three letter big movie chain, amweah?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Something like that? Yea, I have a sponsor. I have
a subscription to them. And it's twenty four dollars a
month and you get three movies a week. Yeah, you
for itself in one and a half movies. You and
six other people in the Greater Lehigh Valley. I have
that that's not true. A lot of people do. I
don't know how they make money over there at AMW.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And how many people are in that movie theater on
a Thursday night when you go? You and what I
do think I would?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't think I would. I know, all right, bad
movie description?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
All right, good, I'm gonna give you an awful movie description,
and you tell me what the movie is.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
A really smart janitor solves math problems and starts crying.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Bad movie descriptions.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
A really smart janitor solves math problems and starts crying. Hmmm,
read it again, A really smart janitor solves math problems
and starts crying and starts crying.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm gonna go to my LifeLock.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I know not, No, you have to now, you have
to now go to your life.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I know who's in it, but I can't think of
the can he look go ahead? He can, he can
help you come. Who's in it?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm pretty sure it's Matt Damon and Robin Williams.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Oh see, I don't know famous people. I know who
Rob Williams is, though, is it Damon could walk down the.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Street next to me. I have no idea. Who is now?
No idea?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If you want to answer today, I hold on? Wow,
oh man escaping me? That was a pretty good hit,
if I say so, my so, hold on, hold on?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hold on? How much long am I supposed to hold?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
All right? The answer is goodwill Hunt? You're an ass.
I remember watching that We got there. It's too freaking long. Yeah,
it goes on and on and on and on and on,
and all it is is math proms and I do
cry in the whole time. That's not all.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's what. That's what I remember from that movie. It's
been a long time since I watched it. But you
didn't Hunt at all in that movie. By the way, Eh,
what huh?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
What? Let's go to the next one.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Question three?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
All right, Since I know you love this category so much,
we had to do it again this week the lyric challenge.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Great. I read the lyrics of the song are you
a music guy? Depending on the genre?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
All Right, I read the lyrics of the song you
tell me what the song is lyric challenge, okay, And
it's whispered that soon. If we all call the tune,
then the piper will lead us to reason, and a
new day will dawn for those who stand long, and
the forests will echo with laughter.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
He has no fucking idea he is. Oh, maybe he does.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, go ahead, sing it. It'll help if you're singing
to it music cloud. It really is distracting.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
All right, sing do it one more time with that
music off, could you? And it's whispered, that's soon.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
If we all call the tune, then the piper will
lead us to reason, and a new day will dawn
for those who stand long, and the forests will echo
with laughter.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Do the last couple, like the last part there one
more time, just the last part, and the echoes and
the forest will echo with laughter. It's not gonna come.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I know. It's just great because you got all four
correct last week, and now this week you're on tap
to get all four wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Laughter. I go with laughter. No, no, damn it? What
is it? Stairway to Heaven? Shit?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How many times have you heard of that freaking song
in your lost trillion?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah, and it's whispered that soon, if we all call
the tune, then the piper will lead us to reason
and a new day well done for those who stand long,
and the forest will echo with left.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What it makes me wonder? Never would have gotten that. No,
and I think we just lost like four followers.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Okay, yeah, Question four twenty what all right?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Our final question for mister Becker? Zero? All right?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Commercials and jingles, commercials and jingles for the final question
here I might get this one. What company uses the
phrase good to the last drop in their commercials? It
was a slogan supposedly coined by Theodore Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Good to the last drop. Huh, you're out of your lifeline?
Atney want to him? Stop looking at him? Good to
the last drop? I will say too.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
This company has been in the spotlight as of recently.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Good to the last drop. Man, I really am going
to get four wrong this week. Good to the I
mean my guess would be like a coffee, good to
the last drop, like Maxwell House or don't don't be
shaking your head, and Folgers, we don't need any hints
over here. Folgers, I'm gonna say, Folgers.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, great shit, okay, great, just what it's celebrating my failure.
It's Maxwell House. Technically I was right then. I didn't
say final answer, but that was my first guest. Oh,
come on, Maxwell House. The reason why Maxwell House is
in the news supposedly they're rebranding.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You might have seen this.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They're going to be Maxwell Apartment now for a limited time.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Are you serious? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Do you think that's BS? I think that there has
to be BS. It has to be get your news, dude,
google it. It's all over the place. It's all over
the place. We should ask Ai Andy about that, shall
we not?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This Andy? Another?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Hey Joel, So I have to break it to you,
but that one's definitely not true. Maxwell House is still
very much Maxwell House, and they haven't gotten condo or
apartment on us. I think someone might have been pulling
your leg or it was just a bit of a
joke floating around. So you can rest easy. Your coffee's
still the same old house blend. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I'm syah who knew USA today? I'm reading right now
it says that it's true. USA is pretty credible. This
is technology turning on us right before very What do
you mean technology turning on us? He's giving us false information.
Right now, the news says it's real. Hey, well, USA Today.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Andy, I think you're full of shit, man, I'm looking
all over the place online and there's there's a lot
of credible news sources that are claiming this is real.
What do you have to say for yourself? USA Today
says it's real, and you say it's fake.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So what gives? Well? Hey, you got me there, Joel.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
If USA Today is really saying Maxwell House is turning
into Maxwell Apartment, I guess we're in a sitcom we
didn't know about. But seriously, I'm not seeing any i
legit reman news on my end. It might just be
a piece of Internet humor or a mix up somewhere.
But hey, if it turns out I'm wrong and they
really are going full real estate, I owe you what.
Let's just say for now, I'm pretty sure it's.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Just a tall tale.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Okay, Well that was the less than stellar response anyway,
Maxwell House is supposedly becoming Maxwell Apartment.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I bet you though.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Maxwell House will probably print Maxwell Apartment on their you know,
cases of coffee, probably two months and then they'll be
done with it.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah. Yeah, the backlash, I'm sure will come. Yeah, but
I saw the thing of the press release online.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
They said that because majority not a majority, but because
a lot of Americans rent now instead of owning that they.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Wanted to be more.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Ton more rounded off, you know, Maxwell apartment anyway, I
like to play a condo. You did indeed get all
four incorrect. So yeah, great, that was nice trivia.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Man, It's like the universe asking us questions, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, all right, Andy, you're back in the game as
a lifeline. If Joel needs you can come to you once,
and we're gonna start with distances.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Distances, yeah, question number one. It's a little scary because
you know, I don't do numbers or distances. We've done
We've gone over this before. Yeah, I don't do well
with what it's just like mileage and ship like that. Actually, God,
how many feet are in a mile? Now, let's see
if you can get it. Let's see if you can
get it within two hundred feet. I'm gonna go to
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my lifeline, Andy.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh no, no, no, how many feet are in a mile?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I don't even know where to start with that ship.
I guess I'm not getting all four correct?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
How many feet isn't there like twelve inches in a foot.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I need to know how many feet are in a mile.
I don't even know where to start. I have no
idea where you have no idea. I don't even know
where to start to figure out this question. Take a guess, then,
how many feet in a mile? Fifty? Come on, is
that fifty feet? It's a lot more than that. It's
a lot more than that. Like this is feet from
me to you. There's like two feet, so in a mile.
(31:10):
There used to be a shipload then, right, a lot
more than that? Yeah, yeah, one thousand more than that,
two thousand more than that, ten thousand, no less, yes,
five thousand, alright, forty five hundred, now fifty five hundred.
You're getting a little too much. Fifty two hundred. Close,
You got two fifty. With all those guesses, you finally
(31:31):
got it within two hundred. It's fifty five thousand, two
hundred and eighty feet. No, you didn't get it right,
but you said get it within two hundred. I did
after eight guesses. Okay, fifty. I'm glad that I know
that to you know what, I'm gonna sleep like a
baby tonight because I know how many feet are in
a fucking mile.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
At least you know there's twelve inches in a foot.
You know it's something?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, good job, No, thanks, At least I knew one
of those, right, yeah right?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Question two? All right, buddy, what does r L stand for?
Any like a website? Yeah? Man? What does your L?
You know? Andy looks perplexed.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And it's interesting too, because again, I've hosted a trivia
night once a week for the past like six years
of my life.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Now I've asked this question multiple times. Have you you
would think you got to come up with new material
if you ask it several times?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Come on, you would think.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Though that asking this question a few times that I'd
retain the answer and did No.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Okay, yeah, you are L man again. I don't know
where to who do I even start that? U are l?
Uh Man? Is the L line? No? I have no idea.
Should I go to my lifeline?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, you're allowed to check in because I make the rules.
All right, great? Yeah, giving up? Yeah, I'm giving up.
Uniform resource location.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Uniform research locator, resource resource resource research.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, locator, you are L. You are L You are wrong? Aha,
dad jokes. Question three, sleeping on your feet. That is
the category sleeping on your feet. What animal is famous
for being able to sleep while standing up? There's a
couple that do that.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
No, yeah, but one is flamingo, right, No, Flamingo's definitely
sleep standing up, do they?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I think? Should we ask cay Andy? It's not on
my list. Flamingo's definitely sleep standing up. All right, Your
new iPhone is kind of the color of a flamingo.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Is that a pink nuts? It's what your iPhone colors.
I hate the color this new iPhone. It's orange, bitch,
not pink, but.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
More like bronze. I hate it. I hate it, hate it,
And you know it's funny. I ordered this thinking, oh,
the new iPhone is seventeen.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh they're doing orange for the front Ooh this looks
cool and it looked a lot cooler on the screen.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, then it does in person. Yeah. Anyway, what never
gonna get them as a sponsor. Now there's a flamingo
sleep standing up?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Yeah, they actually do. Flamingos are pretty famous for that.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, I told you, all right, fine, all right, so
I got it right then, Well that's one of them,
all right, the answer I was looking for. There's a
couple of them, so throughout some other ones. Do you
know any other ones? Bat? A bat? Yeah? No, no
sleep standing Do you know any other animals that sleep
standing up? Cows? Cows, cows, laid out horses, They're very
(34:39):
famous for it. Elephants, giraffes, your mom, zebras, donkeys. I
was gonna make your mom joke there, but I'm already
do it. I know what I wanted to get you back. Sorry,
missus Scheimer, But yeah, all those things sleep standing up.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You have a fall sleep standing up? Isn't there a
term for that? And are a rack something something? No spiders,
so a ractophobic just go to the next one now.
But there's a term for that. People that fall asleep
standing up. There's a term for that. What do you
call it?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's not narcolepsy, because that's someone that's yeah, period, oh
falling asleep. Period. What's narcilepsy?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, that's like if you just like fall asleep at
like a random you know, like right now where we're
talking doing a podcast, imagine.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I was just like, oh, it's narkilips. Ye okay, gotcha.
What a cool superpower that would be sleeping whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I don't think people with narcolepsy decide when they want
to sleep. No, I think they hate. That sounds kind
of awful. Honestly, if you have narcolepsy, can you drive
a calck?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You certainly cannot drive a car. And people have narcolops
it's like all the time they have this right, stop
talking about this. Sorry to the narcoliptic community. Yes, anybody
listening has narcolepsy. You could be our next guest on
the podcast. We have a bunch of questions for you.
They already tuned out their sleeping. Oh god, bad question
for lyrics. I love asking you the lyric question, but
(36:08):
I hate being on the receiving end of these because
it's hard because you know it. Your brain knows that
you know it, but putting your finger on it is.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And I like reading them in a way that you
know it's not being sung, you know what I mean.
I like to change it up a little bit. So
here we go. The zombies were having fun. The party
had just begun. The guests include wolf men, Dracula and
his son, Oh monster mass a bit. I thought that
would be more difficult. That was a Halloween theme one,
I mean, and really of all the.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Songs to pick on a Halloween our first Halloween themed episode.
What year did that come out? It's Boris Bobby Pickett.
That might be mos late fifties, if not.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Early sixties, early sixties yet nineteen sixty. I was gonna
say sixty one. Okay, Never, it's time for I'm not
much of a chocolate guy. Are you a chocolate lover? Yeah? Yeah,
a little bit? So what you bring?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
So?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I brought each of us one of these little tiny,
you know, snickers, a Musketeers in a milky way.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I thought we could like judge them. They're little ones,
They're little guys. What like, I've never had I'm not
a chocolate bar. I actually never had a Musketeers. Three Musketeers,
you've never had I'm not a chocolate bar guy. You're
not missing anything. It's probably like my least is that
the one that's like whipped chocolate in the middle. Yeah,
it's probably one of my least favorite ones. There are
a few good ones, I tell you what, though, I
(37:31):
think the best candy bar of all time.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Is it Take five bar Beckery. You ever have those?
One time bar? Guy?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
They're so good though, I mean even for people that
don't like chocolate bars. I think take five as a
way to do it, because that's five layers of goodness.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Well, now I know take five.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I'll go get some today. I'll let you know, good
to eat your three musketeers? To which one we should
we start with the three musketeers? Go ahead, three musketeers.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
All right? I mean yeah, I'm pretty sure I've never
had this before.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
It's all right, it's okay, not my favorite, yeah, but
it's all right. You guys have a favorite chocolate bar? Yeah,
take five. Oh that's worry from that one hundred grand.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know if I've ever had one of those?
Is that dark chocolate? No, it's a hundred grand.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
It has caramel and like some little like crispies on top.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I like things with crispies, and I'm like Nestley crunch, yeah,
like that kind of snap.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
We had those a couple of weeks ago for them,
a bunch of crunch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
So it's interesting you bring this up because they put
this list out every year of the top Halloween candies.
For twenty twenty five, it just came out a couple
of weeks ago. So Reese's Peanut butter Cups are number
one nationally. That's like my favorite.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I'm not a chocolate guy, really, like I really since childhood,
I have not been in a chocolate guy. But if
there's peanut butter involved, I'm all in. I love peanut butter.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
So you're not a chocolate guy, but would you consider
yourself a candy guy?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Like?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Would you eat like Sour Patch Kids? I do like
bears or shit like that. I fell out of love
with candy a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Ly, yeah, I'm not a came. Now I have this
stuff in my house, I'll have it. I like twigs
twist again twitch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So anyway, top candies for Trick or Treat this year,
Reach's Peanut butter Cup of course number one, Peanut Eminem's
regular Eminems tied for number two, kit Kat Kut KitKat
and number three, Snickers at number four, Sour Patch Kids
at number five, and then Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar at
number six.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Those are the top six for this year.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Dude, I remember multiple years in a row where my parents,
instead of giving out candy for Halloween, they did like
the Halloween pretzels. What the hell was that you've never
seen the orange bags of Halloween pretzels that you passed
out for trick or treat.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Instead of oh my god, it was it's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
If this is a good way to get your house
freaking eggs, how you do it? Well?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
I just had my first three Musketeers. It was okay,
it was all right, It's okay. Once we try next,
you don't.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
You don't want to go out of your way to
keep eating milky way and it it's again. You know,
it's all right, But you can't go wrong with the
six Snickers bar.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
You ever have peanut butter Snickers?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, oh man, if you like Reache's peanut butter cups,
you got to get the peanut butter Snickers. Such riveting
content for our listeners testing Halloween candy. If you made
it thus far, thank.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You very much. We'll put your check in the mail.
Happy Halloween. Thank you? You did you buy these? Or
why do you have all the bottom for Halloween? So
when I have trick or treaters, which in my neighborhood
I live very you know, very close to you, we
get like I think we got like seven last year.
My parents barely get antie trigger nuts?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
I know?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Is that the thing with my parents too?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's like, man, you guys probably get ten trick or
treaters total. Why the hell are you giving out pretzels?
You should buying like the full sized candy bars. If
you only got a handful of true, it's disappointing.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
What's next? Popcorn ball? Jeez? What raisins?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
See?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I think it would really cool if you open up
your funeral home to trick or treaters. I did do
that one year. Yeah. Did it get a good response? No?
Speaker 6 (40:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Were they too afraid to approach?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I just think that.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I mean, I'm on a means and I think they
were kind of more in a residential area, gotcha. Yeah,
but he did do like a trunk or treat last
year and that was super popular and I gave out.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Speaking of funeral home, let's get back to that for
a second, here's a question for you. When has there
been a time when you were working on a body
and it moved? No, No, that doesn't happen. No, that
never happens. Nope. If it did, I wouldn't be doing
what I do. Really, i'd be out of there. Yeah,
(41:30):
he's too paranormal, he is. I'm not saying it's a
paranormal thing. I think it may be just a body reaction,
you know, maybe some kind of a body reaction. Either
you're dead or you're alive, not in between, like fluid
build up. I'm just trying to guess, like what could
cause it? Now, that build up, I'm just guessing. I'm
just trying to that's never happened, though. Is that a
thing that does happen? Don't when fluid builds up the worst?
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Well, thanks for coming on your day, So nobody's dead
to well, I guess people are dead today, but like
there's no funeral today, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Day off? Do you work every day?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, I'm on call twenty four seven, three sixty five.
Oh really yeah? Wow.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
So you could have gotten called like in the middle
of recording this podcast. I could have, and then you
would have left. It depends you would have said, yeah,
I just tell the dead body to hang out there.
I'm recording a podcast.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
It'd be like a couple of minutes, just tell them
to hang But Joel said I was a little too paranormal.
Do you believe in that stuff? The paranormal after life?
I don't not believe, but I don't. You've never experienced that, gotcha,
never experienced something yourself? No, nothing ever creepy happened inside
the funeral home. No, I mean so the the first
year of home ever worked that that place I thought
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was really cool. Yeah, I had like some serious history.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
And one day it was in the embalming room and
I thought I saw like this old guy with like
a top hat go by behind me, like I could
have sworn, But.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
No, no, no, I don't know. Maybe you just brushed
it off right away, like, oh, that didn't happen. It's like,
I don't you saw a guy with a top hat
behind you and I just kind of forgot about what
you saw. I just thought I saw a guy like
in a black suit. I taught that, and you were
the only person in there. Yeah, well alive.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah yeah, But how are you able to to say, oh,
I think I just saw that. No, I guess I did,
and then go back to work. I'll be like see
you bye, audios.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I don't know. I guess rational thinking can't be. He
doesn't have a lot of that. What rational thinking? I think, yeah,
not rational? Irrational. Well, and he was very cool for
you to join us today on the blazeer Confused podcast.
This is episode twenty one. We're doing pretty well. We're
at an age where our podcast can drink never Believe
beautiful and uh, let's tease our listening audience with what's
(43:41):
coming up later on this month? What we're getting? Uh
what more Halloween themes?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
So next week we have a practicing witch coming on.
Hell does that even mean we're going to find out?
I told her I was, like my friend, Joel, very
skeptical about.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Every Are you supposed to not be skeptical if you
meet somebody's Hey, I'm a practicing witch.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Oh, I asked her. Congratulations. Hey, while you're here, can
you just do me a favor and like put a
spell on? I'm gonna be more agreeable. You know, maybe
that'll happen. I can't wait to talk to the practicing
witch next week. That's coming up on episode twenty two
Blaze to Confuse. My name is Becker, that's Joel.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
A lot of people don't know how to talk on
a microphone. Have you ever noticed that they're very afraid
of it. They're very afraid of it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, you're afraid of a microphone, Andy, No, I use
one frequently. Do you good? Why do you use a
microphone frequently? Services in the funeral home? Oh okay, so
what all does that entail? Do you do speeches or
how does that work?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Typically I introduce whoever's speaking, welcome everybody, you know, thank
them for coming. So you like run the service as
a funeral director? Yeah, that's what I do. So what's
your full title? Just funeral director?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So I realize though, if you're a funeral director, you're
like you're the glorified pastor for lack of a better term,
now no kind of way to describe.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It, kind of like an mc right see the funeral
set me up? I want that dr Man, welcome everybody
to a funeral? Are there some like weird like requests
you get from families or like that? Sometimes? For instance,
I saw a video one time where the family wanted,
like the body to be like like looking like they
(01:06):
were still alive and like doing something they love. I'm
not even lying. Maybe you saw this on the internet.
It's like a video of this person propped up in
a chair. I think they were playing cards or something
like they were hanging out. Have you ever had like
a weird request from a family like that or has
it been very traditional? No? Yeah, I get a lot
of traditional stuff. Would you do something like that if
(01:27):
they had a weird request? Yeah, I mean if it's
feasible yeah, and respectful yeah yeah. Playing cards? To god,
it was like, that's a little weird. They had the
person roped off and it was just like they were
having like music was playing. They wanted it to seem like, oh,
they were still here and doing something they really liked.
And this person would have been hanging out playing cards
(01:47):
and listening to music, you know. Just yeah, I'm pretty
sure they call that an extreme embalming. Extreme embalming, what
does that mean? I mean you really have to put
a lot of effort into what you're doing, imposed and
positioned and explain to me how this works.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So you die and then like if I say I die,
but I want you to be my funeral director. So
like my family like calls you up, so I die,
you come pick up my body and then my body
shits for a couple of days and then you take
all the blood out and embalm me.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Is that the way it works?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, So if you opt for embalming, that's something that
we need to do sooner than later. So we need
to secure permission and then as soon as we get
back to the funeral home, we would do the embalming.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And it's not as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, I mean, because you have better results the closer
to death rather than you know, the further way.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So people that don't want embalming, what's the other option,
like getting cremated.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Or Yeah, so if you don't want embalming, you would
just be kept in refrigeration either until the funeral if
you want to casket burial or cremation.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So why do people choose embalming? Then a lot of
it is cultural, right, or some of it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Is cultural just, but if you one of viewing of
any sort, it's just much more advantageous to do embalming
because the goal of balming is to preserve, disinfect and
restore right. So, for example, if you have somebody that
has you know, been you know, battling cancer for several months. Right,
(03:20):
they're severely emaciated. There are things that we can do
during the embalming process to kind of restore some of
that weight so they don't look so gaunt. Gotcha? Which
is how do you do that? Comforting to families?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Then?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, when they see them, you know, they don't ask
and ask how you do that?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Like you got to like drain the blood first.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so it's not it's not like you just like,
you know, make an incision and let a doll dream down.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Then that's why you're not. It works by pressure.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Right, So when you embalm, so typically the most common
is you go it's called super clavicular incision, so right
above the collarbone here right, and you go in through
the jugular so it's kind of like the reverse of
the circulatory system. So you're injecting into the jugular and
(04:19):
then you're coming out through the croit artery, which is
where you're getting your drainage. So it's essentially kind of
like by pressure.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Is how that happened? Interesting? These are all very genuine questions.
By the way, I want the listening audience that we
brought somebody on today to learn. We're here to learn,
and also because of Talloween season, and we thought it'd
be cool to have a funeral director of the show.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I think we're unofficially starting a series where we invite
people on that have, like, you know, real jobs, and
we asked you about there. We asked them about their
real job. I don't have a real job. That's a
real job. Everybody for tell you that you have a
real freaking job.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Man. You know. Actually, back in the day before I
decided what I wanted to do one when I wanted
to go to school for culinary Then I ultimately went
to school for broadcasting in radio and TV. But I
also was interested in the funeral, the funeral life, and
I actually used to hang out Slash, a data girl
who worked at an industry for a little dead. You're
too emotional.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You could never do it, you think so, yeah, but
around it, like baby, you can't. You can't do that,
no offense or anything. But I mean, I am aside
you are.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How could you be around death and dead people every day?
You could never do it? Maybe maybe if I started early.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Now I'm an emotional mess. I mean in all seriousness, though,
I mean being a funeral director. That takes a special
person to be around that all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So when did you think, When did you learn or
realize that that was something that you wanted to do?
What like it became your calling? Is this something because
you like helping people? Or you went to a funeral
when you.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Were a kid and notice something, or yeah, so I'm
a first generation funeral director, which means nobody in my
family has done it proNT with me. I got interested
when I was a kid, I would say, probably like
junior high. And it was really something like so benign,
Like there was this funeral home in town. It was
just so cool looking, and I just it was genuine curiosity,
(06:09):
like what happens there? And you know, then I went
to a funeral at that funeral home and I was like,
this is pretty interesting. So so you weren't afraid you
were more interested? Yeah, I would say I initially got
into it because I'm very much perfectionist and that kind
of I don't know meets my needs. But over time, obviously,
(06:33):
like I I'm in it for various reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now, I mean obviously I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Very sincere and I believe that people should be met
with compassion, you know, and I can do that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And how long have you been doing that? Now? Oh god,
that's a good question. When did you start?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So I started working in funeral homes I want to
say like two thousand ish, okay, but I officially became
licensed in the state in two twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay. So is the schooling on this like extremely difficult?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, if you're not a sciences person, because yeah, you're out, Sorry, Joe.
I mean I'm not a sciencest person either, but luckily
I'm married to somebody who is, gotcha, So that helps.
But yeah, no, I mean you went to Northampton, right,
I did? Yeah, so they have a program there, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Do you know I went to Northampton?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I forget where I came by, you know, to a
little Facebook stocking before you get.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh okay, nice, great, Yeah I didn't stock you, you know,
the creepy one. A lot of funeral directors don't. They
live in their homes, are in the business they work in. Yeah,
it's a little weird in it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It used to be super super common, more and more
creative separately from the building.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, here's you've touched on an interesting point before you
said that you saw the building where you when you
were younger and thought it looked interesting or you were
curious about what went on in there. Why is it
that funeral homes always look so interesting? They look like
mansions most like? Is there a reason for.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That or is it just because honestly, a lot of
the funeral homes are converted old mansions. You know, they
were a mansion first they went up for sale, and
because because of the size of them, there's the space
to to have services, have your embalming room, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, so that's why they typically are old mansions. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It is a little stranger. There's there's funeral directors that
live like you know where they work.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, but I guess it makes.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Sense though that you never know when you're gonna get
the call you gotta go pick up somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But didn't even show you go pick up somebody. You
just put them in the refrigerator. Go. So years ago,
I would hang out with this girl and we were
for a while, and she'd be out to dinner and
she'd be like, we gotta go pick up a body
with her. I go with her. Yeah, we would go
to the funeral home, she'd get the van and we go.
She would go to the hospital or wherever. I would
(08:59):
wait in the van and him in the back, and
then we would go and drop the person off. I
don't know about that. You know that's a little too
much for you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, but really though, you did pick a great profession
because you're never gonna like, there's never gonna be a
shortage of work. People are gonna keep dying, right unless, unless,
of course, you know, the scientists come up with the
magic pill that everybody lives forever. Then then what happens
If the magic pill is birth, then what happens to
the funeral directors?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I mean, think of it this way. We just solved autism,
so you never know. On that note, Andy is our
guest today on episode twenty one, and he's a funeral director.
Is kicking off our month of We'll put it in
air quotes spoofyboo, Yes, yeah, Andy, you gotta be a
little spooky. We gotta work. It's the Blaze that Confused podcast.
(09:44):
Let's kick it off.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Welcome to the Blazed and Confused Podcast with Becker and
Joel Cent trivia podcast where the questions are high and
So are they hates trying to spuk your curiosity and
light up some knowledge. Go Blazed and Confused podcast starts now.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And maybe we'll get around to change it up that
we're gonna fix that this way, Well maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Next week, maybe a week after. Yeah, it's the Blaze
That Confused Podcast. My name is Becker. That's my good
friend Joel. Today's guest Andy funeral director, and it's gonna
be an interesting show. We have a couple of top
topics we want to touch on with you. We have
some questions and like, for instance, have you ever had
a funeral service that didn't go right?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Not because of something that you did, like family drama,
but maybe some family drama? Funeral family drama? Has that
ever been a thing with you?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's it's not on common. So is there a story
that really kind of sticks out in your career? Luckily no,
obviously you want to avoid that at all costs.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah. Unfortunately, death, you know, brings out a lot of
emotion and a lot of tension. Yeah, and with that
comes family drama.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah. Well I only asked this question because recently Joel
and I went to a funeral, yeah, where an altercation
happened Is that what you call it?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You call it an altercation. I think it was approaching
an alternate. I was hiding, just so you know. I
didn't want anything to do with it. Yeah, and we should,
we should, I mean backped a little bit. It's not
it wasn't a funeral. It was a celebration of life. Yes,
so there's a memorial dinner. Memorial dinner a little bit different. Yeah,
I guess there was somebody there that supposedly shouldn't have
(11:34):
been there. They weren't invited, They weren't invited, but they
showed up anyway. They should have been invited, but they
should have been invited. But still if you're not invited, like,
why would you come if you're specifically told don't show up?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Me, personally, I wouldn't have come regardless of the situation.
But anyway, supposedly this person was specifically told do not come.
They came anyway, and it turned into this whole big.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Get out of here. Yeah, I leave right now. I
was in the bar area, just getting a die code,
and I was having a conversation with the bartender and
I was like, what kind of so do you guy?
You love him? And all of a sudden. I hear
get out. She said, get out of here, and I
was like, what, you are not welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I turned, I make high contact with him. He's sitting
across the room and I'm like, and I was just
sitting there drinking my beer. Yeah, yeah, just you know,
it was the ultimate celebration of life because there was
alcohol involved, so it was quite a celebration. Yeah yeah,
but it could have went a little bit better. They
could have went a lot better, could win a lot better.
And here's the other thing too. I mean, you know
(12:35):
it's bad if me, of all people is pointing out God,
you could have acted like an adult.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
That's that's how you know it's bad. Right, If I'm
the one saying that.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
True, the person that supposedly wasn't invited, well, if they
weren't invited, you could have gone up to him and
just tapped him on the shoulder and said, can I
talk to you in the hallway. That's my point. And
then once you're in the hallway, getting the hell out.
Once you're in the hallway, that's when you say out
of here.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But yeah, yeah, not in front of you know, sixty
people or whatever it was. It was very awkward. Then
and people left. It was kind of like a bummer,
you know, yeah, comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So in the circumstances in your experience the drama that
has happened, has it ever been like a thing where, uh,
they would have wanted this kind of service and they
were going to get this kind of service and it
was like a family feud?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Is that what it was? Or yeah, there's a lot
of that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's you know, kind of in some ways,
you're kind of like playing referee, like yes, but you
also have to be like your Switzerland, like you're not
taking anybody's side, but just like y yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You want to be gather passionate. You understand that that
emotions are, you know, at an all time high, but
in your head are you kind of like therese are
fucking nuts? Come on, tell us the truth. Man, what
a day? Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, let's get into trivia. Yeah all right, Andy, So
we're gonna do the rapid round with you. You know how
this works? Vaguely vaguely, he vaguely knows how this works.
You get ten questions, got answer them in sixty seconds.
Some of them are easy. Are you good at trivia
or not?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Really? It depends on kind of the area when we.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Get a little bit of everything. Yeah, yeah, cool, let's
give it a try. Alright, right, yeah, okay, the.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Game begins in three All right, mister Andy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
What are the four time zones in the continental US?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Eastern, Pacific, Central, one more, wrap Road?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, all right, most of them? What part of the
cell contains DNA? Oh? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, married
to Oh that's right? Who founded Microsoft? Bill Gates? You
got it? What color do you get when you mix
red and blue?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Purple?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah? What's a baby goat called a kid? Yeah, you
knew that one right away. What is the plural of
cactus cacti? What's Batman's real name? Kind of question?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Bruce Wayne Gott. How do you know that what galaxy
is Earth located in? Hmmm? Yeah? What's a group of
fish called oh? School? Got it? What is a male
deer called buck? Got it? And what's Batman's real name?
Did you get that one? Yeah? Did you get that one?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What's the other one you didn't get the part of
the sale that contains DNA?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Is it mitochondria? No?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I actually remember this though. The mitochondria is the energy, right,
the powerhouse. That's where the energy comes from. I only
know that because I took biology like nine times because
I failed. I'm also not a scientist. Eventually that part stuck.
I guess maybe the answer to that one wasn't the
nucleus nucleus And the one time zone you didn't get
was Mountain Mountain time Eastern.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Central Mountain, Pacific. I think you got the oh, what
galaxy is Earth located in? That was the Milky Way?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Pearl of cactuses a cacti? Wait, no, pearl pearl plural
of a cactus, cacti. Yeah, oh the galaxy that Earth
is located and you don't know that one.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I just went over that Milky Way. Did you just
say that? Yeah, like right before you started talking. Wow,
you're sober today.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I know. This is why I got to stop, because
my brain is just mush man. Even when I'm sober.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's so bad. It's bad.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He did pretty well with those.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
These questions were kind of stupid again, though better about
they're all over the place. I mean, yeah, plural of cactus.
How do you go from that to a group of fish?
A group of fish and a male deer. I'm glad
that I know a school and a buck. Today I'm
learning a.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Lotso by the way, when I asked the question about
Batman's real name, he was like, you didn't think he
would get it? Right? It's very common. Is everyone who
knows that? Everybody super famous? I guess you had to
be there a super famous character. Remember, remember, gentlemen, that's
seven years old, by the way, exactly, and my generation
of Batman is like the Dark Night. Yeah, but he's
(16:59):
still Did he have a name in that?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Did they say his name in that? It's always been
Bruce Wayne. Who knew that?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I didn't know that? Oh my god, I do that.
I don't know that. The age gap it works against
me a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But furthermore, though I was never really into the superheroes.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Superheroes are kind of boring me. He's more of a
vigilante though, isn't he. He doesn't have any superpowers. Yeah,
bad Man doesn't have any superpowers.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Now. He just has a bunch of gadgets. All that belt,
that's all it is, the belt in the car. You
have a lot to watch. Yeah, but he has a
belt with all the tools on him. Yeah, the original.
So what's the superhero that has the most superpower Superman probably, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What are the other contenders? Though? Oh? Man, I can't
even superhero guy. I don't know superheroes. Yeah I don't either.
I just know Thatman, you're about to learn absolutely nothing.
Go Blazed and Confused podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I tell you, I got some fun new categories, some
fun new categories for questions. For instance, I wanted this music.
For instance. Coins and currency.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Oh god, you know, I thought about that today because
that guy wants to make a new coin. You know,
have you heard about that? Oh, for the order fiftieth
anniversary of the country. Is his face gonna be on it?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I know?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh? Is it?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I'm asking it?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Is?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I want my face on a coin? You should have
ask me. I'll put my face on Yeah, the Joel coin.
Yeah great.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
All right, let's get started with the coins and currency
question number one. All right, So Andy, you know you're
our lifeline, right, Okay, So we can come to you
once per round and we're gonna instate. Though the law
now that you can't ask the person if they know
before they answer.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, when Albi was here, I was asking him quite
a bit. But the one question that every week, but
the one question.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I did know the answer to I was just gonna
I want to make the guests feel included as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, all right, god, that sounds quite weird. Bit
it just sounds screwed up. Oh boy, I don't know
the earth. Hey, do you know the answer to this one.
I'm gonna go to my lifeline. Come on to hell.
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So coins and currency, there's only two US cities that
currently produce circulating US coins.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
One of those cities is Philadelphia. Yeah. What's the other one? Huh? Yeah?
Do you know the cause I have an idea. I'm
just curious if Andy has an idea and you want
to look at him for.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Hints now, like you're looking at his face waiting for
him the signal if you're right around.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All right, So Philadelphia, I know for sure. My other
guess would be, is it somewhere in New York? No?
No final answer. No, it's a city, though I'm trying
(19:51):
to think of a city. Can you give me a hint? No,
I can't give you what east because coast?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Come on, I don't uh, I don't think it's by
a coast at all. Hmmm, it's like the middle coast Chicago. No, No,
I have no idea how Chicago. Correct answer is Denver, Colorado.
I did not know that Denver, Colorado. You didn't know
that either. I'm allowed to ask him now, Yeah, yeah,
(20:21):
ask what. I've never been to Colorado. Colorado's on my
bucket list. Gotta go. A ton of friends that live
there too.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah. And I've heard.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
From multiple weed smokers that if you smoke weeding in uh, Colorado,
that it physically feels different because it's like it's a
different high. Yeah thing right, yeah, because you're up, You're
like inner mountain or whatever. Right, Well, that's great elevation.
It does something with the oxygen in your body or whatever.
I'm a scientist. Ye, next time you go to Colorado,
there you go. You can smoke some weed and get
(20:51):
some get some new coins.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, my face of it sounds like my kind of town,
except for the last part. God, question too, thanks a
lot a question too. I see your face enough. I
don't need in my freaking pocket. All right, how about
this bad movie descriptions? All right, I've never seen a
movie guy. Yeah, yeah, all right, big movie guy, big
movie guy. Like you've seen them all? No, not all
(21:15):
of them, but a lot of them. R Yeah, you
go to the movies often when I get a chance.
I love going to the movies. He doesn't go to
the movie.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Mister Becker is the only person that I know that
goes to the movies with such enthusiasm, Like, not only
does he go to the movies, he loves who the
hell loves going and spends seventeen dollars on popcorn?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Who likes that? I don't. I actually very rarely buy
anything at the movie theater. So yeah, but how do
you do that? Then?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And then you sit in the movie theater and you
eat nothing? You need something, I'll have a snack beforehand.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Do you sneak something in? No? Sometimes? Sometimes? Sometimes? In
all seriousness, how much is like a large popcorn at
the movie theater?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It's expensive? Is it seventeen? If you get if you
get like a large popcorn and a large soda, it's
like thirty dollars? What? No, it's it's so it's gonna
be like mid twenties. Jeez. Yeah, aren't you on like
the I have a membership?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, you have the three letter big movie chain, amweah?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Something like that? Yea, I have a sponsor. I have
a subscription to them. And it's twenty four dollars a
month and you get three movies a week. Yeah, you
for itself in one and a half movies. You and
six other people in the Greater Lehigh Valley. I have
that that's not true. A lot of people do. I
don't know how they make money over there at AMW.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And how many people are in that movie theater on
a Thursday night when you go? You and what I
do think I would?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't think I would. I know, all right, bad
movie description?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
All right, good, I'm gonna give you an awful movie description,
and you tell me what the movie is.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
A really smart janitor solves math problems and starts crying.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Bad movie descriptions.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
A really smart janitor solves math problems and starts crying. Hmmm,
read it again, A really smart janitor solves math problems
and starts crying and starts crying.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm gonna go to my LifeLock.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I know not, No, you have to now, you have
to now go to your life.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I know who's in it, but I can't think of
the can he look go ahead? He can, he can
help you come. Who's in it?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm pretty sure it's Matt Damon and Robin Williams.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Oh see, I don't know famous people. I know who
Rob Williams is, though, is it Damon could walk down the.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Street next to me. I have no idea. Who is now?
No idea?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If you want to answer today, I hold on? Wow,
oh man escaping me? That was a pretty good hit,
if I say so, my so, hold on, hold on?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hold on? How much long am I supposed to hold?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
All right? The answer is goodwill Hunt? You're an ass.
I remember watching that We got there. It's too freaking long. Yeah,
it goes on and on and on and on and on,
and all it is is math proms and I do
cry in the whole time. That's not all.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's what. That's what I remember from that movie. It's
been a long time since I watched it. But you
didn't Hunt at all in that movie. By the way, Eh,
what huh?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
What? Let's go to the next one.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Question three?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
All right, Since I know you love this category so much,
we had to do it again this week the lyric challenge.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Great. I read the lyrics of the song are you
a music guy? Depending on the genre?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
All Right, I read the lyrics of the song you
tell me what the song is lyric challenge, okay, And
it's whispered that soon. If we all call the tune,
then the piper will lead us to reason, and a
new day will dawn for those who stand long, and
the forests will echo with laughter.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
He has no fucking idea he is. Oh, maybe he does.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, go ahead, sing it. It'll help if you're singing
to it music cloud. It really is distracting.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
All right, sing do it one more time with that
music off, could you? And it's whispered, that's soon.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
If we all call the tune, then the piper will
lead us to reason, and a new day will dawn
for those who stand long, and the forests will echo
with laughter.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Do the last couple, like the last part there one
more time, just the last part, and the echoes and
the forest will echo with laughter. It's not gonna come.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I know. It's just great because you got all four
correct last week, and now this week you're on tap
to get all four wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Laughter. I go with laughter. No, no, damn it? What
is it? Stairway to Heaven? Shit?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How many times have you heard of that freaking song
in your lost trillion?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah, and it's whispered that soon, if we all call
the tune, then the piper will lead us to reason
and a new day well done for those who stand long,
and the forest will echo with left.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What it makes me wonder? Never would have gotten that. No,
and I think we just lost like four followers.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Okay, yeah, Question four twenty what all right?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Our final question for mister Becker? Zero? All right?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Commercials and jingles, commercials and jingles for the final question
here I might get this one. What company uses the
phrase good to the last drop in their commercials? It
was a slogan supposedly coined by Theodore Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Good to the last drop. Huh, you're out of your lifeline?
Atney want to him? Stop looking at him? Good to
the last drop? I will say too.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
This company has been in the spotlight as of recently.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Good to the last drop. Man, I really am going
to get four wrong this week. Good to the I
mean my guess would be like a coffee, good to
the last drop, like Maxwell House or don't don't be
shaking your head, and Folgers, we don't need any hints
over here. Folgers, I'm gonna say, Folgers.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, great shit, okay, great, just what it's celebrating my failure.
It's Maxwell House. Technically I was right then. I didn't
say final answer, but that was my first guest. Oh,
come on, Maxwell House. The reason why Maxwell House is
in the news supposedly they're rebranding.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You might have seen this.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They're going to be Maxwell Apartment now for a limited time.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Are you serious? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Do you think that's BS? I think that there has
to be BS. It has to be get your news, dude,
google it. It's all over the place. It's all over
the place. We should ask Ai Andy about that, shall
we not?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This Andy? Another?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Hey Joel, So I have to break it to you,
but that one's definitely not true. Maxwell House is still
very much Maxwell House, and they haven't gotten condo or
apartment on us. I think someone might have been pulling
your leg or it was just a bit of a
joke floating around. So you can rest easy. Your coffee's
still the same old house blend. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I'm syah who knew USA today? I'm reading right now
it says that it's true. USA is pretty credible. This
is technology turning on us right before very What do
you mean technology turning on us? He's giving us false information.
Right now, the news says it's real. Hey, well, USA Today.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Andy, I think you're full of shit, man, I'm looking
all over the place online and there's there's a lot
of credible news sources that are claiming this is real.
What do you have to say for yourself? USA Today
says it's real, and you say it's fake.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So what gives? Well? Hey, you got me there, Joel.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
If USA Today is really saying Maxwell House is turning
into Maxwell Apartment, I guess we're in a sitcom we
didn't know about. But seriously, I'm not seeing any i
legit reman news on my end. It might just be
a piece of Internet humor or a mix up somewhere.
But hey, if it turns out I'm wrong and they
really are going full real estate, I owe you what.
Let's just say for now, I'm pretty sure it's.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Just a tall tale.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Okay, Well that was the less than stellar response anyway,
Maxwell House is supposedly becoming Maxwell Apartment.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I bet you though.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Maxwell House will probably print Maxwell Apartment on their you know,
cases of coffee, probably two months and then they'll be
done with it.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah. Yeah, the backlash, I'm sure will come. Yeah, but
I saw the thing of the press release online.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
They said that because majority not a majority, but because
a lot of Americans rent now instead of owning that they.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Wanted to be more.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Ton more rounded off, you know, Maxwell apartment anyway, I
like to play a condo. You did indeed get all
four incorrect. So yeah, great, that was nice trivia.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Man, It's like the universe asking us questions, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, all right, Andy, you're back in the game as
a lifeline. If Joel needs you can come to you once,
and we're gonna start with distances.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Distances, yeah, question number one. It's a little scary because
you know, I don't do numbers or distances. We've done
We've gone over this before. Yeah, I don't do well
with what it's just like mileage and ship like that. Actually, God,
how many feet are in a mile? Now, let's see
if you can get it. Let's see if you can
get it within two hundred feet. I'm gonna go to
(30:31):
my lifeline, Andy.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh no, no, no, how many feet are in a mile?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I don't even know where to start with that ship.
I guess I'm not getting all four correct?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
How many feet isn't there like twelve inches in a foot.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I need to know how many feet are in a mile.
I don't even know where to start. I have no
idea where you have no idea. I don't even know
where to start to figure out this question. Take a guess, then,
how many feet in a mile? Fifty? Come on, is
that fifty feet? It's a lot more than that. It's
a lot more than that. Like this is feet from
me to you. There's like two feet, so in a mile.
(31:10):
There used to be a shipload then, right, a lot
more than that? Yeah, yeah, one thousand more than that,
two thousand more than that, ten thousand, no less, yes,
five thousand, alright, forty five hundred, now fifty five hundred.
You're getting a little too much. Fifty two hundred. Close,
You got two fifty. With all those guesses, you finally
(31:31):
got it within two hundred. It's fifty five thousand, two
hundred and eighty feet. No, you didn't get it right,
but you said get it within two hundred. I did
after eight guesses. Okay, fifty. I'm glad that I know
that to you know what, I'm gonna sleep like a
baby tonight because I know how many feet are in
a fucking mile.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
At least you know there's twelve inches in a foot.
You know it's something?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, good job, No, thanks, At least I knew one
of those, right, yeah right?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Question two? All right, buddy, what does r L stand for?
Any like a website? Yeah? Man? What does your L?
You know? Andy looks perplexed.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And it's interesting too, because again, I've hosted a trivia
night once a week for the past like six years
of my life.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Now I've asked this question multiple times. Have you you
would think you got to come up with new material
if you ask it several times?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Come on, you would think.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Though that asking this question a few times that I'd
retain the answer and did No.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Okay, yeah, you are L man again. I don't know
where to who do I even start that? U are l?
Uh Man? Is the L line? No? I have no idea.
Should I go to my lifeline?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, you're allowed to check in because I make the rules.
All right, great? Yeah, giving up? Yeah, I'm giving up.
Uniform resource location.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Uniform research locator, resource resource resource research.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, locator, you are L. You are L You are wrong? Aha,
dad jokes. Question three, sleeping on your feet. That is
the category sleeping on your feet. What animal is famous
for being able to sleep while standing up? There's a
couple that do that.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
No, yeah, but one is flamingo, right, No, Flamingo's definitely
sleep standing up, do they?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I think? Should we ask cay Andy? It's not on
my list. Flamingo's definitely sleep standing up. All right, Your
new iPhone is kind of the color of a flamingo.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Is that a pink nuts? It's what your iPhone colors.
I hate the color this new iPhone. It's orange, bitch,
not pink, but.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
More like bronze. I hate it. I hate it, hate it,
And you know it's funny. I ordered this thinking, oh,
the new iPhone is seventeen.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh they're doing orange for the front Ooh this looks
cool and it looked a lot cooler on the screen.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, then it does in person. Yeah. Anyway, what never
gonna get them as a sponsor. Now there's a flamingo
sleep standing up?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Yeah, they actually do. Flamingos are pretty famous for that.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, I told you, all right, fine, all right, so
I got it right then, Well that's one of them,
all right, the answer I was looking for. There's a
couple of them, so throughout some other ones. Do you
know any other ones? Bat? A bat? Yeah? No, no
sleep standing Do you know any other animals that sleep
standing up? Cows? Cows, cows, laid out horses, They're very
(34:39):
famous for it. Elephants, giraffes, your mom, zebras, donkeys. I
was gonna make your mom joke there, but I'm already
do it. I know what I wanted to get you back. Sorry,
missus Scheimer, But yeah, all those things sleep standing up.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You have a fall sleep standing up? Isn't there a
term for that? And are a rack something something? No spiders,
so a ractophobic just go to the next one now.
But there's a term for that. People that fall asleep
standing up. There's a term for that. What do you
call it?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's not narcolepsy, because that's someone that's yeah, period, oh
falling asleep. Period. What's narcilepsy?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, that's like if you just like fall asleep at
like a random you know, like right now where we're
talking doing a podcast, imagine.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I was just like, oh, it's narkilips. Ye okay, gotcha.
What a cool superpower that would be sleeping whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I don't think people with narcolepsy decide when they want
to sleep. No, I think they hate. That sounds kind
of awful. Honestly, if you have narcolepsy, can you drive
a calck?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You certainly cannot drive a car. And people have narcolops
it's like all the time they have this right, stop
talking about this. Sorry to the narcoliptic community. Yes, anybody
listening has narcolepsy. You could be our next guest on
the podcast. We have a bunch of questions for you.
They already tuned out their sleeping. Oh god, bad question
for lyrics. I love asking you the lyric question, but
(36:08):
I hate being on the receiving end of these because
it's hard because you know it. Your brain knows that
you know it, but putting your finger on it is.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And I like reading them in a way that you
know it's not being sung, you know what I mean.
I like to change it up a little bit. So
here we go. The zombies were having fun. The party
had just begun. The guests include wolf men, Dracula and
his son, Oh monster mass a bit. I thought that
would be more difficult. That was a Halloween theme one,
I mean, and really of all the.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Songs to pick on a Halloween our first Halloween themed episode.
What year did that come out? It's Boris Bobby Pickett.
That might be mos late fifties, if not.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Early sixties, early sixties yet nineteen sixty. I was gonna
say sixty one. Okay, Never, it's time for I'm not
much of a chocolate guy. Are you a chocolate lover? Yeah? Yeah,
a little bit? So what you bring?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
So?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I brought each of us one of these little tiny,
you know, snickers, a Musketeers in a milky way.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I thought we could like judge them. They're little ones,
They're little guys. What like, I've never had I'm not
a chocolate bar. I actually never had a Musketeers. Three Musketeers,
you've never had I'm not a chocolate bar guy. You're
not missing anything. It's probably like my least is that
the one that's like whipped chocolate in the middle. Yeah,
it's probably one of my least favorite ones. There are
a few good ones, I tell you what, though, I
(37:31):
think the best candy bar of all time.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Is it Take five bar Beckery. You ever have those?
One time bar? Guy?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
They're so good though, I mean even for people that
don't like chocolate bars. I think take five as a
way to do it, because that's five layers of goodness.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Well, now I know take five.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I'll go get some today. I'll let you know, good
to eat your three musketeers? To which one we should
we start with the three musketeers? Go ahead, three musketeers.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
All right? I mean yeah, I'm pretty sure I've never
had this before.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
It's all right, it's okay, not my favorite, yeah, but
it's all right. You guys have a favorite chocolate bar? Yeah,
take five. Oh that's worry from that one hundred grand.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know if I've ever had one of those?
Is that dark chocolate? No, it's a hundred grand.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
It has caramel and like some little like crispies on top.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I like things with crispies, and I'm like Nestley crunch, yeah,
like that kind of snap.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
We had those a couple of weeks ago for them,
a bunch of crunch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
So it's interesting you bring this up because they put
this list out every year of the top Halloween candies.
For twenty twenty five, it just came out a couple
of weeks ago. So Reese's Peanut butter Cups are number
one nationally. That's like my favorite.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I'm not a chocolate guy, really, like I really since childhood,
I have not been in a chocolate guy. But if
there's peanut butter involved, I'm all in. I love peanut butter.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
So you're not a chocolate guy, but would you consider
yourself a candy guy?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Like?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Would you eat like Sour Patch Kids? I do like
bears or shit like that. I fell out of love
with candy a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Ly, yeah, I'm not a came. Now I have this
stuff in my house, I'll have it. I like twigs
twist again twitch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So anyway, top candies for Trick or Treat this year,
Reach's Peanut butter Cup of course number one, Peanut Eminem's
regular Eminems tied for number two, kit Kat Kut KitKat
and number three, Snickers at number four, Sour Patch Kids
at number five, and then Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar at
number six.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Those are the top six for this year.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Dude, I remember multiple years in a row where my parents,
instead of giving out candy for Halloween, they did like
the Halloween pretzels. What the hell was that you've never
seen the orange bags of Halloween pretzels that you passed
out for trick or treat.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Instead of oh my god, it was it's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
If this is a good way to get your house
freaking eggs, how you do it? Well?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
I just had my first three Musketeers. It was okay,
it was all right, It's okay. Once we try next,
you don't.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
You don't want to go out of your way to
keep eating milky way and it it's again. You know,
it's all right, But you can't go wrong with the
six Snickers bar.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
You ever have peanut butter Snickers?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, oh man, if you like Reache's peanut butter cups,
you got to get the peanut butter Snickers. Such riveting
content for our listeners testing Halloween candy. If you made
it thus far, thank.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You very much. We'll put your check in the mail.
Happy Halloween. Thank you? You did you buy these? Or
why do you have all the bottom for Halloween? So
when I have trick or treaters, which in my neighborhood
I live very you know, very close to you, we
get like I think we got like seven last year.
My parents barely get antie trigger nuts?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
I know?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Is that the thing with my parents too?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's like, man, you guys probably get ten trick or
treaters total. Why the hell are you giving out pretzels?
You should buying like the full sized candy bars. If
you only got a handful of true, it's disappointing.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
What's next? Popcorn ball? Jeez? What raisins?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
See?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I think it would really cool if you open up
your funeral home to trick or treaters. I did do
that one year. Yeah. Did it get a good response? No?
Speaker 6 (40:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Were they too afraid to approach?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I just think that.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I mean, I'm on a means and I think they
were kind of more in a residential area, gotcha. Yeah,
but he did do like a trunk or treat last
year and that was super popular and I gave out.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Speaking of funeral home, let's get back to that for
a second, here's a question for you. When has there
been a time when you were working on a body
and it moved? No, No, that doesn't happen. No, that
never happens. Nope. If it did, I wouldn't be doing
what I do. Really, i'd be out of there. Yeah,
(41:30):
he's too paranormal, he is. I'm not saying it's a
paranormal thing. I think it may be just a body reaction,
you know, maybe some kind of a body reaction. Either
you're dead or you're alive, not in between, like fluid
build up. I'm just trying to guess, like what could
cause it? Now, that build up, I'm just guessing. I'm
just trying to that's never happened, though. Is that a
thing that does happen? Don't when fluid builds up the worst?
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Well, thanks for coming on your day, So nobody's dead
to well, I guess people are dead today, but like
there's no funeral today, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Day off? Do you work every day?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, I'm on call twenty four seven, three sixty five.
Oh really yeah? Wow.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
So you could have gotten called like in the middle
of recording this podcast. I could have, and then you
would have left. It depends you would have said, yeah,
I just tell the dead body to hang out there.
I'm recording a podcast.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
It'd be like a couple of minutes, just tell them
to hang But Joel said I was a little too paranormal.
Do you believe in that stuff? The paranormal after life?
I don't not believe, but I don't. You've never experienced that, gotcha,
never experienced something yourself? No, nothing ever creepy happened inside
the funeral home. No, I mean so the the first
year of home ever worked that that place I thought
(42:41):
was really cool. Yeah, I had like some serious history.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
And one day it was in the embalming room and
I thought I saw like this old guy with like
a top hat go by behind me, like I could
have sworn, But.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
No, no, no, I don't know. Maybe you just brushed
it off right away, like, oh, that didn't happen. It's like,
I don't you saw a guy with a top hat
behind you and I just kind of forgot about what
you saw. I just thought I saw a guy like
in a black suit. I taught that, and you were
the only person in there. Yeah, well alive.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah yeah, But how are you able to to say, oh,
I think I just saw that. No, I guess I did,
and then go back to work. I'll be like see
you bye, audios.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I don't know. I guess rational thinking can't be. He
doesn't have a lot of that. What rational thinking? I think, yeah,
not rational? Irrational. Well, and he was very cool for
you to join us today on the blazeer Confused podcast.
This is episode twenty one. We're doing pretty well. We're
at an age where our podcast can drink never Believe
beautiful and uh, let's tease our listening audience with what's
(43:41):
coming up later on this month? What we're getting? Uh
what more Halloween themes?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
So next week we have a practicing witch coming on.
Hell does that even mean we're going to find out?
I told her I was, like my friend, Joel, very
skeptical about.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Every Are you supposed to not be skeptical if you
meet somebody's Hey, I'm a practicing witch.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Oh, I asked her. Congratulations. Hey, while you're here, can
you just do me a favor and like put a
spell on? I'm gonna be more agreeable. You know, maybe
that'll happen. I can't wait to talk to the practicing
witch next week. That's coming up on episode twenty two
Blaze to Confuse. My name is Becker, that's Joel.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Have a good night Blazed and Confused podcast with Becker
and Joel. Don't forget to subscribe spark up and joined
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