040424 500 FUNDRIVE

Time for Grubes Grenades! Let’s have fun talking about random topical things! 

Episode Transcript

(00:08):
Jesus supposicious podcasting food dogs my bill. This it is little bit night for
five o'clock. Good afternoon to youall. This is the speakeas here with
me, Mike Reiner, Jeff CavanaughTC with us today as he has been

(00:29):
all week. Jules is uh takinga little downtime, and we've really enjoyed
your work this week. It's beenawesome being in here with you guys.
And over there at the Helm,of course is shooping. And we got
another broadcast hour left in this broadcastweek, so why not make the most

(00:53):
of it with this? Hi.Yes, it is time for fun drive

(01:38):
on a Thursday, no less,Thursday no less and that can mean one
thing and one thing only h thatbeing another round of grooves grenades. Let's
party. Let's party now, explainedthe premise Shoopieu. Basically, I throw
out some random topical topics and y'alltalk about them and hopefully it's fun as

(02:00):
best we can, as best asyou can. So let's get going,
damn it. Okay, if youcould be conjoined with anyone, who would
it be? Oh man, thereis no one. There is no one,
There will never be anyone, AndI'm not doing it. M No,
absolutely not. I refuse to partakein this one. Can't do it.

(02:27):
I'd rather check out about George Clooney. No, I'd rather check out.
Huh, how about George Clooney.Not George Clooney, no one,
there is no one. Yeah,suicide's always an option. Yeah, I
didn't want to use that wording.I know that's not for me, especially
if you're gonna do the conjoined thing. That has to be where you start

(02:51):
from. I'm not coming to thatgame late late. I'm not joining that
game late. But maybe it's asituation. You know, he wasn't that
specific. You get stipulate. Yeah, we're born conjoined twins with someone uglier
than me. I would want tobe conjoined with someone that looks worse than
I do. Looking at the threeof us, I want that head to
be uglier than me, because whenwe turn into the twins, that are

(03:14):
the random girls that married the guy. I want to be the head that
gets married. I don't want tohave the hotter looking head over here knocking
the bottom out. And I've justgot to be here and I'm not getting
any although I would be getting somebecause we're conjoined. I think I would
take somebody better than me, becausethen I might get the leftovers. You

(03:35):
get the same because technically you getthe feels. Okay, well, so
I mean not such a bad thing. Yeah, if you could be have
half of you be really hot,yeah, and all kinds of ladies,
and then I could be the halfto share are No, there's no option
in this for just you to behotter. You're stuck with how you look
now, Yeah, which is fine. I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm

(04:00):
fine. I just but if Ihad to be attached to somebody, I
would want him to be hotter thanme, and and like I say,
maybe I would get, you know, the leftover. Yeah, if I've
got ving rams, if I hadto be conjoined with someone, I would
choose ving rains. Okay, totallylogical. Yeah, I think the celebrity

(04:24):
option is an interesting option if we'regoing non celebrity. You know, I
just got to tell you, guys, I love my wife. If I'm
talking, if I'm thinking about coordinatingwith people and just having someone I could
be around or not going crazy,well, divorce is an option has been
removed. You're staying. I thinki'd I think i'd be conjoined with my

(04:46):
wife. Either that or Tom Cruise. Yeah. Tom Cruise would be weird
though, because his head would becoming out of like your rib cage.
But I would get to hear allthe David Mskovitch meetings. I don't know
what that means. He's ahead ofscientology. Oh sweet. Yeah. If
they're different to the bottom of what'sgoing on there, good luck. If
they're a way different height than us, does their head just sprout out from

(05:08):
whatever height they are, like TomCruise would be coming out of your armpit.
Maybe I might choose Rebecca Lobo.Wow, I'll take Tarassi. Why
Rebecca Lobo? Mike, I don'tknow, just something kind of out there,

(05:30):
something a little bit different for me. You know, that would be
a whole new world for you.Yeah, it would. Now, when
you guys are making love to herhusband, Steve Russian, how are you
gonna do with that? Would youlike to make loves to Steve Russian?
I don't know who that is,really, but yes you do. Yeah,
the s I Rider three years ago. You whenever you open up Sports

(05:51):
Illustrated, the first column you getto for decades and decades and decades.
I remember the name now that youwere, so he ate him with s
I but I still don't know anythingabout him. I was a but he
gient fan when I was a teenager. He's mister Rebecca Lobo, now,
uh huh he is? He alsofor a long time he wrote a book
called Knights in Whitecastle. Do youwant to read that? That's a funny

(06:14):
book title. That's the kind ofstuff you get from Steve Russian. I
read like a collection of his essays. I think it's called The Caddy was
a Reindeer. Okay, all right, well he's got books. Yeah,
okay, canadeer. I'll take that. So he'll make love to Steve Russian
with Rebecca Lobe. That is whatwe need to base it off of.

(06:38):
Who is married to someone that you'reinto. I do think it's take it
like, uh, what kind ofrooms you're gonna get in? You know,
like if you love movies, maybeyou'd be like conjoined with a studio
head, your head and then thestudio head. I could be conjoined with
Luca, yeah, which it mightslow him down. It's tough for him.

(07:02):
You'd probably want to be conjoined withsomeone who's not crucial to the team's
success. I could be just watchLuca from up close. I could be
conjoined with Markith Morris, Yes,who is given credit last week in the
Dallas News as being the key tothe whole turnaround because of his good talk
HM to the team. Yes,I don't know if I buy that.
So me and Markeith could get upin front of the team and tell them

(07:24):
what we need. Yeah, youdon't know if you buy that. I
in my experience, the running theplays right, jumping high, going fast
matters a lot more than Hey,boys go out there and try hard.
Well, thanks Markith, we hadn'tthought of that. I could go for

(07:46):
being conjoined with Megan Fox. Ithink you wouldn't get left alone? Should
drive me crazy. I don't know, man, I think I should.
I could talk her back to normal. No, you could. I can
bring her around and we can getI guarantee you she would drive you crazy.
Jeff, what's our private part situation? If I can join to woman?

(08:09):
I think he just got everything.Okay, So we could be together?
Yeah, yeah, I mean youcan do it if you want to.
I'm just saying that, you knowwhat happens when you're not doing that.
You got to be around her.You gotta have some kind of normal
scene with her. Wouldn't you ratherbe conjoined the machine gun Kelly? No,

(08:30):
because they broke up or they're breakingup, but they say they're still
soulmates. Yeah, but they're notf mates. They I'm sure they they
help again at some point. Iguess I could can join it. I
don't want to be conjoined with him. I don't. I don't want to.
Yeah, I had an idea,but I forgot it. See,

(08:50):
these are the kind of groups greades. I hate. Why why? Because?
All right, fine, how aboutthis one Gilla? The fort Worth
Gorilla has successfully bonded with her newmommy. Have you ever struggled to bond
with your parents? Not? No, Well, they paid their yearly salary

(09:16):
for someone else to watch me,So you tell me, Bud. Everybody's
life has its challenges that you haveto work through as an adult. Groups.
My parents are wonderful and I lovethem very much. I never had
a new mine. That's not ananswer. Sure he didn't. You could

(09:41):
not convince me you're adopted. Idefinitely am not. They're all about the
same height as him, and Ilook very much like my dad. Distinctive
looking man handsome. You are handsome, strong, early virile. Yeah.

(10:03):
Despite my many attempts to be impossibleto bond with, we still bonded,
which takes a herculean effort by theparents of a dumb ass. Yeah.
No, I certainly am have adeep bond with my parents now, But
I didn't feel that way when Iwas fourteen. When you're gonna be honest

(10:28):
about that, when you're doing allthe drugs and had to be run off
to fixing camp or was that later? I was fourteen when I was sent
to fixing camp. Yeah, andI would say that I wouldn't say that
drugs caused a separation. I wouldsay the causation is reversed. There.
I felt a lack of a bondand that led me to the drugs.

(10:50):
Mike, I know, I havea sense that Howard was a hard man
to bond with at times, butextremely you and your mother seemed to have
a special relationship. We did,we did any At the end of the
line, Howard and I were doingokay together. I bet that was hard
as hell. Yeah, it was, and they had to just let bygones
be bygones. And like, myparents are kind, warm people, and

(11:13):
I have my list of complaints,and boy, I do have my list.
Howard's like actual like, you know, I don't know. It makes
me think I'm just kind of weak. I probably a Well. He wanted
me to be like him, youknow, and I was not like him.
I was nothing like him. Yeah, and he had a hard time

(11:35):
dealing with that. And and Iwas no day at Marine Land either,
believe me. What was he like, like, why did you say he
wanted to he wanted you to belike him? What would that have entailed?
Now? He wanted me in thearmy. He was in the army.
Yeah, and he admired guys likethat. Yeah, And I was

(11:58):
just not wired that way. You'relike, I like music and called you
a slur and hit you a hippie. If you call me a hippie,
I don't know you're ever going tobe as a hippie. Yeah. Was
it a compliment? You think itwas not delivered that way? Okay?
And I don't know if I necessarilytook it that way, although I didn't

(12:18):
hate the idea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But my mom
was different in any way. Inthe end game, at the end of
the line, for both of them, I was totally cool with both of
them, so I guess it allworks in the end. Yeah, that's
good. I'm glad you had that. That is definitely a generational thing that
I don't really take too much timeto go back more generations where it's like,

(12:41):
I don't know, TC, you'resuper smart. What American event created?
Is it a depression thing or theGreat Depression or I don't know,
World War or whatever they like.Generationally, I would guess that pretty much
anyone Mike's age and a lot ofpeople our age is just like, yeah,

(13:05):
I bet it was hard asses raisedby hard asses. Yeah, and
figuring out an accessing emotion things couldprobably be a challenge because it's just like
shut up, tough, en up. Yeah. My parents had to deal
with both of those things. Theyhad to deal with World War two and
they had to deal with to somedegree with the Depression. I mean,

(13:28):
my mother especially had a really reallytough upbringing. I mean difficult from the
standpoint of they had a big familyand there was like one room of the
house where she grew up. Yeah, and you know, my dad was

(13:50):
he was spent a lot of timein the army and probably should have stayed
there. If you want to knowthe truth of the matter. But I
don't know. I just look atthe end game, and the endgame we
were all cool. I got alongwith them. They understood me. They
were or I don't know if theyunderstood me, but they were okay with
me. I don't know if anybody'sever understood me. We understand you might,

(14:16):
thank you, Jeff. I feelpretty convicted that the further you go
back, it's just we live inthe easiest times, and whoever lives after
us will live in the easiest timesthat you know, like things just keep
getting easier, you know, ifyou just think about, like I don't
know about the specifics of you know, like whether or not they were facing
depression in the twelve hundreds or whatever, but you're kids were dying at prodigious

(14:41):
rates, Like could you imagine howdifficult it would be to lose a child?
Yeah, and that used to bea feature of nearly everyone's life.
Yes, And don't get me wrong, I know, I know that people
who came before me had it awhole lot worse and a whole lot different
than me. Yeah, I getthat, I understand it. Yeah.
No, and I yeah, II think my parents did a better job
than their parents. I'm sure ofthat. And I bet that their parents

(15:03):
did a better job than their parents. I think that's usually true. And
you know, I don't know.I think that's admirable in some way,
you know, like I think theywere doing quite legitimately the best they could,
so on that account, you know, and I don't. I don't
begrudge them. Do you think shebegrudges her parents' groups? She should?

(15:24):
Yeah, I bet she does.Suck. They're doing their best, though
they are. I've been t theyweren't trying to get proclaims yet and then
they didn't know that as long aswe're all doing our best, everything will
work out. Okay, I thinkthat's true. That sweet It is a
Brene Brown thing that I learned whereit's like, what if you just stopped

(15:46):
all the time and thought they're doingtheir best? And I'm like, you're
right, But sometimes I don't wantto stop and think that. Yeah,
I want to say f that person. But whatever, Are you satisfied,
Shoopy, I'm very satisfied. Ifyou could pull off a heist with three

(16:07):
other members of the Freak, whowould it be? Okay, this is
gonna take nothing uncomfortable to say anyone, but the people here now are no,
not at all. I'm not goingto be pleased if you pick someone
else. I don't care. I'mgonna work through this because this is a
heist. The idea is to getrich and get away with it. So
I have three options. I thinkSarroy is the most creative guy. I'd
really like him on the team.I think I think he's also got a

(16:30):
comfortableness with moral flexibility. Yes hedoes say about that as well. He
does, and he does, andI would take him as one of my
three. I think I think thingsdone. Do you think what I think?
Ben is a guy who gets thingsdone. I think I would want
Ben spirit. I would want Benbecause I know that whatever kind of situation

(16:51):
we might get into, he couldprobably talk his way out of it.
Yeah, he's got a shot atit now. I'm not playing get caught,
though, so I might not.I might have to. Well,
I'm not planning to get caught either, but the reality is you may,
and if you do, I wouldwant a I would want a sweet talker
like that, all right, Isee here we got Kevin's a dedicated worker,

(17:15):
KT and JJ and de Soroy andDanny. I would take KT too,
Bendner. I like Danny a lot, but I'm not really seeing what
skills he presents to you in ahigh setting. No, I would take
KT. So are you? Areyou Katy and Ben? You need creativity

(17:38):
and KT has that. I alsocan't get hard And if you need a
good game show, he could comeup with that too. It's not part
of a heist, Well, Iguess it could be, so there might
those are my three. I meanJeff has a clear enthusiasm for heists.
We saw that earlier. Yeah,I I don't know. I think uh,

(18:03):
Surroy, KT and Jeff could bea good group. Do you think
you're I thought this was present companyaccepted. No. I mean we couldn't
pick he I thought we could pickanyone from the staff. Yeah, you
can pick anyone. Yeah, youcould pick Okay, then in that case,
I'm not picking you. You're notphysically fit enough. Yeah, Oh,
I know i'd take you that.I'd take Jeff over over. He

(18:25):
didn't though, No, I didn't. I didn't. You don't have to
just take this punishment. I thinkI take Jeff over KT. Oh wow,
Okay, all right, I'm onthe teams. Yeah, I'm a
little concerned. My concern about jeffis I'm definitely going to be the driver,
and that's the gig that he volunteeredfor. So if you're not driving,
what are you going to do?No, I don't think you should
pick me. I think there's probablypeople who are more useful at literally anything

(18:48):
that you need than I would be. If he wants to drive, i'd
let him drive. I wouldn't I'mdriving. Well, yeah, he's not
gonna let me because he thinks he'sthe best driver. I don't just think
that I am. Then, whichwe can settle whenever you want. We
can hop on seventy five. Yeah, I'll get a Lamborghini. You get
a Corvette in your car. Youcan settle this. Yes, we could

(19:11):
recreate the scene. You're gonna learnsome hard truths that day, Jeffrey,
I don't know what they are.I would take Okay, i'd actually take
we can recreate the scene complete withthe walk off. I would take TC.
And he's not gonna drive. Heis gonna mastermind because I feel like
there's a lot of things that goon in that brain, and there is

(19:33):
he would be a he would bea good mastermind. I like Sirroy as
an option also, and his familydoes have a history of driving things at
high rates of speed. And hiscreative problem is I think I'm gonna put
Christina on the team and I ain'ttaking a couple. Yeah, so well
we might have to because if oneknows, they're both gonna know anyway about

(19:56):
the heist. Yeah, so I'llkick them both out and it's gonna be
me, TC, Grooves and KT. That's my highst crew because I believe
that I can outrun all of them. If it goes to S Grooves,
is is very trustworthy. I'm takingshorter leg to People's good for team chemistry,

(20:19):
ye yeah, but I'm worthless whenit comes to pretty much anything else.
Okay, you're out. You shapea bit like a hedgehog. You
can find a way to make thatwork for you. Chilla, I'm gonna
go me strip Mall, Steve,Christina, and TC. All right,

(20:41):
that's my highest crew. Final answer. I don't have a plan for what
everyone's doing, but that's my highyou'll figure it out. Well, you
can't have a plan for what everyone'sdoing, but you can look at the
skill sets and see who's might matchup in a situation that could arise me

(21:04):
Siroy Skin and Julie. Final answer, Okay, how'd you arrive at that?
Did? I just picked a newfinal answer that was totally different from
the last one because I don't know. I don't have a good plan for
my heist, so I can changemy plant mind too at any time,

(21:26):
at any time. No, Ithink I'll stay where I am. Then
you're in a good place. You'vepicked the right crew if you're still comfortable
with it. Yeah, I thinkI'll stay where I am. Okay,
I'll stay I too like to livedangerously. Oh screw it. Yeah,
yeah, screw it. Thank yougroups. Okay, coming up next,

(21:51):
what's going on with the fish?But also we have the Sunset Lounge.
But also I bet KG swings throughhere because we're gonna have Mavericks pre game
at six o'clock. So we're justgonna have us a party next