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Mike headed to Florida to coach three streamers to losing 25 lbs each while streaming 24 hours a day from "Weigh Loss Island." Jim went to Canada for some family time, and to NYC for some shows, including a spot in the audience for a Stephen Colbert taping.
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Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Sam McDonald and Sebastian Brambila. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo (@jmanzo523)
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back, Happy New York kids.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's been a minute, it's been a month, I think maybe,
I think that last day that we recorded was maybe
the seventeenth of last month, and it's the seventeenth of
this month. Perhaps it's cold, it's chilly. Yeah, it's not
as cold as actually, you know, this is podcasting. Is
(00:34):
an audio medium, makes sense when it's visual. But I
have a picture that I took on a very cold
night in New York City, Rockefeller Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What I don't understand exactly is that sometimes the lights
twinkle and sometimes they don't. What's the other big park
with a big ash tree in New York?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, not Washington. I know Washington's a bigger park. But
there's another one with a huge tree and like a
little like it's not far from there, and they have
a bunch of like like kind of wood. It looks
like a farmer's market, except some of the tents are
like established like some are like wood kind of and
there's like jewelry and hot cocoa, and there's another giant
fucking tree.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's a good question. I did not see that the
whole I forgot what it's called. Them in there a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
If you guys haven't been in New York in the
Christmas spirit time, it really is, at least for me.
I have heard there's cities in Europe that do it
just as bigger bigger, But in America, Uh, they crush
it if you want the vibes and the Christmas spirit,
like Elf, it's fucking rocking over there.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, London's supposed to be like to do a lot
of light installations.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah like that. Yeah. I had a list going on
like my Twitter or something like ten best Christmas cities.
You know, it's like random one in Sweden and random
one over here, and yeah, a couple of Germany, yeah yeah,
and probably real pretty. But New York in terms of yeah,
I mean most big cities, you're do it here honestly
better than you'd think. Like even Vegas does it okay,
(02:03):
Like there's a lot of decorations that go up in
our mall. Cleveland downtown looks oh oh my home. Cleveland
Downtown looks cool because they have like I think there's
two a Christmas story for sure, but there's another movie
that's very famous that was filmed in Cleveland. Interesting, I
forgot and so they go crazy downtown, like their mall
and their hotels all go nutty. But New York gives
(02:24):
you the magic spirit for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
This is uh. This was taken on January fourth, so
a little bit after Christmas, but the Christmas crowds were
definitely still around.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Sure because the New Year crowd.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, there was a ton of people still in town.
It dwindled during the week that we were there. But
I actually like did a little bit of math. I
figured out in the last like seven months, I've spent
basically a month in New York City between you know,
a couple of different trips, family trips, and just trips
on our own.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it's cool. It's a cool city.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was very cold this time.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Supposedly, when we get that rock ship going, I think
you go LA to New York in twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So Jeff Bezos one which one?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I think it's the Elon oh the yeah, when he
goes commercial, I don't know. I think you literally just
go straight up and straight down and blow us up. Yeah,
like half of outer space. I mean twenty five minutes.
I read something They're trying to go a train from
New York to London too.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That'll be fire under the under underground. Okay, So here's
the thing, like I trying to go bullet train and
it would be like a three four hour banger. That's
gonna take a long time to build, though, I would think,
because I'm not digging. The Channel Tunnel, which is like
you know, between England and the Mainland, took a long
time to bore.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean we've got to advance somewhere, right, We
got to move faster somewhere somehow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, sure, and we got it. We we need to
figure out how to not fly everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
The economics of airlines are just very dicey.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, every plane's got damn blowing I'll be like plane
the weak eye flew. I think. I don't know if
I was going to Florida or to Vegas, but one
of the weeks there's like three fucking planes blown up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
There was actually a plane like incident right after we
arrived in Halifax at that airport.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, I read that. And then same thing the day
after I landed in Fort Lauderdale or Miami, the same
airline I took, they found like a dead body in
a plane in that airport in a landing gear. There's
like two dead bodies.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh my god, what the fuck is going on? I mean,
I wasn't monitoring the news that closely, but I vaguely
remember having seen something about it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There was that the Gonzaga basketball team almost like collided
as they're taking off. Yeah, and then like two other
like I don't know if they're boeing or not, but
two other planes.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Like exploded that week, Yeah, Halifax.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And one other Yeah, Halifax.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think they had to do a belly landing because
that year was was bust. I just was listening to
this podcast about this thing had happened. I think it
had happened in the seventies or early eighties. It was
a plane crash in on Tenerief, the island ten Reef.
These planes were supposed to be landing on one of
(05:19):
the other islands that had a full sized airport, and
there was like political unrest that caused radicals to plant
a bomb in the in the terminal. And when they
gave there there's a bomb, you know, like warning thing
(05:40):
they said, they didn't say bomb, they said bombs, and
so one went off and they were assuming that there
were more. So I shut the airport down, and these
these big seven forty sevens could not land there for
fear that the whole thing is going to blow up.
So they land on this other small island and tiny runway,
like one runway with like.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Offshoots, weeds, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It was long enough ago that it was. It was PanAm,
which doesn't exist anymore. And then KLM, which does is
like the Dutch National Airline, and the Dutch have this
like thing about if you the cruise can only work
so many hours, and if you're the pilot and irresponsible
(06:25):
and it goes over hours, you could end up actually
losing your job and your pilot's license in the whole
nine yard. So pilot very much under stress whatever. And
to long story short, there's a miscommunication on the on
the air traffic control channels. There's two planes on the
same channel, and the KLM pilot mishears. He is so
(06:48):
worried about getting back that he's had the plane field up,
so he's got like sixteen thousand gallons of jet fuel
and he thinks that the PanAm jet is off the
runway but it's not, and takes off and they crash
into each other on the ground. Everybody in the KALM
(07:10):
dies and a lot of people in the pandem die
because you know, he's a communication thing. They actually changed
the vocabulary for air traffic control and between pilots because
of that. They don't say takeoff anywhere. You notice, I
always say departure. Departure means you're really leaving.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, just make it more clear. Yeah, now you got
to learn somehow. Yeah, crazy, I don't. I don't want
to have any issues flying.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I will say that on the way there. On the
way too, because we went to Halifax for nine days
and then went to New York for a week. If
our flights had not been there are connecting flights had
not been somewhat delayed each time, we wouldn't have made it.
This is my last time booking anything on Google Flights.
(08:01):
It just it doesn't give you enough time to go from.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Two different airlines. Is that why?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, it was it was United all the way to
It was two different airlines, but it was United all
the way to Montreal and then and it was one
of the sub lines of Air Canada from Montreal to Halifax.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because I know each airline is obviously like so locked
in the perfectly time and they'll never book you, but
if you switch airlines you can get fucked.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, and I mean often they're like interlined or whatever
so that they're supposed to be coordination between them. But
like and I couldn't. You couldn't even check in for
my flight because when it went from because I actually
booked all this on on Air Canada, it screwed my
name up, so I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, they make all that so difficult. Yeah, with the
passport and all that stuff. Yeah, sometimes they won't let
you change it. They won't let you change it over
the phone, they won't get you in there.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah. They took my first in my middle name and
made one name out of that, and then they made
my last name and the suffix one name as well,
and it just didn't work. It was fine once we
got to the airport, but oh my god. I put
a little pole on my on my Instagram last week
(09:17):
asking about whether people would rather get to the airport
way too early or almost too late, and it was
like ninety ten way too early, And I totally identify
with that. That's me for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, I think that's the commonplace. I think it depends
how much you fly. And then what airport, because if
I'm flying the airport, I know, then I'm definitely on
the edge guy, because I just know, you know, like
I know, Sacramento's southwest and fucking Vegas as southwest, so
well then I just have no issues. But yeah, if
you're going to New York and you got traffic on
the ground and in the airport, unpredictabilities, Yeah, big ass airports.
(09:57):
Big ass airports you would think would move faster often
they're more populated and have more issues.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, it depends. It really depends.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like I flew into four Lauderdale versus Miami, and it
was easy. It was so small. There's no no like
flying in to Burbank versus x Yeah. Probably yeah, yeah,
probably Miami might be smaller in Lax, but yeah, definitely
something like that. It was so easy. Yeah. I don't
love flying, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't mind it. I just have It just always
seems like I'm well, nearly always it seems like I'm
on a super ass early flight and I and I
have to get there early because I can't, you know,
I couldn't. I can't sleep anyway, so I might as
well go to the airport.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well, you go coast to coast a lot. Yeah, and
so you can't really you either got a red eye
or you got a yeah seven am or if.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You're going west to east for sure, east to west.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, you can do whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah. I left Miami at eight am and land in
Vegas at ten am. Yeah, you're time traveling.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, we left. We left New York noon and we
got to Sacramento a little bit before six and then,
oh my god, So this is just gonna be a
bit session every I hope everybody's in. I hail a
(11:18):
lift on the app.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Guy shows up and we get in the car and
he starts going, you know, down I five toward toward
downtown Sack the way you would go right, and Richard's Boulevard,
which is like three exits from here, is a sketchy area, right.
(11:41):
He has got some weird pockets, and so he turns
off at Richard's and then takes that first right by
the McDonald's there and then goes behind that and there's
a a section of street with no street lights at
all and homeless encampments everywhere, and there's guys out there
(12:04):
walking in the road like the Walking Dead, and We're like,
where are you going? And he's like, oh, I have
to follow the where the app says. It's like no,
you don't like not if it's you know, not not
if it's going to be dangerous, like if you were
a single woman, Yeah, in a car at night, you
(12:24):
think you're gonna get killed or raped or both.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't know why all those apps have their own maps.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well here's the thing, because like.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Uber can't get to my house. Oh really, Like because
they have to follow their app, they'll like always turn
in I don't want to say where, but they'll always
like turn into some shit and get stuck. Oh yeah,
like an office. Yeah, And I'm like like, bro, just
like look at the map. You see the roads don't connect.
Like why I know Siri or whoever the fuck's talking
(12:55):
to he's telling you go here. And same thing with
like door dashing them. They use a different map than
Google apps. Like if I Google Map, my shit, it
works perfect. But they'll use and even Apple apps or whatever.
I think the two normal ones are great, but they
have like their own system and their shit's always wonky.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well what happened with this is the guy like he
finally got us into into Midtown and then took a
weird way toward toward min Kinley Park, which makes sense, right,
but then it ends up like thing like weaving through
the neighborhood. It took forever.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And he said, I have to use the app. So
I I the only time I've ever given it one
star is it's like, use your judgment and get us
out of this stupid situation, you idiot. And he didn't.
So I called out lyft On on Twitter. It's like,
what the fuck? So they they like, dm us with
(13:55):
your information, so I give him all the information and
I said, so, really, my question here is can the
driver use a different route than what comes up on
the app? And they said, we don't have the map
built into the Lift app. Most of our drivers use
(14:15):
Google Maps or Ways.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Maybe it's ways as fucked because I don't really use
ways and uh.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And so they offered me five dollars that I have
to use in the next two weeks get to a block.
It's like, yeah, use Lift mostly I have before, but
I on the leaving on this trip, I fucked up
and I scheduled instead of a pickup for three thirty am.
I scheduled one for three thirty pm because we had
(14:44):
an early flight out, and so I noticed that it's like,
oh my god, I'm not getting in notifications, and so
I tried to get another another lift and nothing was connecting.
So I ended up going to Uber and found somebody
and we were like fifteen twenty minutes later than we
intended to be, but we were still like I said,
get to get to the everyone to release. I had
plenty of room. Anyway. I looked up on you know,
(15:05):
Google Maps and ways to see which way, and honest
to god, ways will take you that stupid way.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It must be ways because Google Maps doesn't. Because I've
had that same road that you're talking about in a
different sketchy one on a ride home and then door
dashes the other one.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
They'll be fucking up, like they'll be spinning.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Circles and you're like, dude, like especially like downtown Sack
is a grid, Like it ain't that hard. No, Like
everything's like ninety degrees and you're taking some crazy ass
shit like I do understand, like la or there's a
billion free ways, but like, yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean, you're.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Not to docks.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You and your street is not a one of the
major streets, but you're surrounded by Majrix.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's so easy. Yeah, downtown Sack is so easy. But
it'll happen in Vegas. It will happen at the hotels
and shit I'm at it'll happen at Yeah, like the
hotel I ordered like a fucking protein shake and Florida
and chicks fucking loops for half an hour. That my
shit's melted, you know. Like it is, like Dordash is
so convenient and normal now, but I feel like always
(16:08):
when like that innovation happens and it's awesome, and then
like with any business company, service whatever, then they're not
exactly monopoly, but there's like three companies and then they
can like just slack on their service because now you
have to use them. Yeah, you know, And like that's
like the old old fucking white guy argument about taxis,
(16:28):
Like and taxis were cool because you'd get in and say,
take me to movie theater on the north side, and
that fool knew the city like in his back of
his hand. He'd take you to a movie theater on
the north side. Or you'd hop in and they're like
a tour guide, like Hey man, what's the best Italian.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
In the area.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Dude, drop you off of the best Italian in the area,
Like you don't have that no more? Yeah, use three
apps and then you're fucking ubers getting you lost.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, I mean there's a there's been studies done that.
Like the London cabbies have used more of their brain
than sure basically anybody else because they keep the whole
map and their head.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I've never taken a cab in London, but it's a thought.
But they're almost like with the restaurants and stuff like that,
almost like a rolling concierge.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right, you know. Vegas was like that. I remember going
to Vegas a bunch as a kid, and you only
took taxes all that's all there was. And we just
say like, oh, yeah, well, what's a good burger spot
on this side of the strip, and like, oh, go here,
and they just drop us off.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I remember being in a cab with Ed Cone in
in uh Las, Vegas one year and the drivers like, yeah,
they keep trying to get Uber in here, but it's
never going to happen. It's never going to happen in Vegas.
The next year it was there.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
There still is like a decent amount of taxis there,
which is cool, like at least they survived.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But if you can hail a taxi with an app,
the difference isn't great, you know, especially now since since
Uber and Lyft keep raising the raids. It's it's it's
almost the same.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Vegas is like at least the strip is set up
different too. You can't like just grab a taxi on
the road. They built a bunch of laws so people
aren't getting run over and shit right, Like they want
a little taxi Q and to get it at like
certain pick up spots, which I do understand because it
gets crazy. I did want to do New Year's one
time in Vegas because they shut down the entire strip
like New York. Oh it's full pedestrian nice, yeah, and
(18:13):
I've heard it's like insane, like once you're there, you're stuck,
like you're not moving, you know, and say with the
ball drop, Like I think that would just be cool
to do once, Like you show up at one fucking PM, Yeah,
grab a spot and you just don't move all day
just for the It's probably not even that cool, but
you just got to do it to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I've I've definitely seen where the ball is, but I've
never seen a drop.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, because I just heard chaos or you can't like
leave your spot. There's no like bathrooms, you know, there's
no nothing. I think Vegas is like a smaller version
of that, but I think like half a million people
fly in for Vegas New Year.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah yeah, so shits on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Wow. So we've established that I was in the north
East and you were in the southeast.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, what were you doing? I was in Vegas, spent
a little holiday, and then kind of on the coin
flip the thirtieth, we got a plan to do a
full weight loss stream so I called a Big Back Island,
but they preferred it weight loss Island. I had three
contestants streaming twenty four to seven in the Miami area,
(19:22):
kind of a gamified show, but they couldn't leave the
house till they lost twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh goodness, Yeah, that's it lot.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, And so the prize pool was one hundred k
in the beginning. But then there's like like temptations everywhere.
So you go upstairs in the master closet at the
house we rented, and there's just fucking like cinnamon rolls
for like a thousand bucks. There's fucking Snickers bars like
just fat kid heaven. And so the contestants I left,
(19:52):
but the contestants were stuck in the house twenty four
to seven, ten days straight. Yeah, and then we just
coached them to the job. Got her done? Got or done?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
What did they actually lose?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So I think they all lost twenty five? Wow, Yeah,
because he's got bro. What I do respect about like
streamers and content creators in today's age is like, especially streamers,
they're probably more like podcasters than YouTubers, where like there's
like a mini script, like they know when guests are
coming or they have like a challenge, you know, they
kind of like Survivor style games, So there's like a
script in that sense, but like they're not gonna lie
(20:28):
like shout out my boy agent like age is like no, like, yeah,
we're not leaving a less. Let's scale. He weighed in
the first day at two forty five, so he's like
until that scale says two twenty, like we're stuck here,
mic And I'm all right, man, Like at least you're honest. Yeah,
Like I do respect that a lot. So yeah, my
boy Chibu started like three thirty, got him got him
to like three zho three. I didn't say like three
(20:49):
oh five. Yeah, he dropped a little bit even more
and then shout out my boy Smiley, who's going on
tour in Australia with Drake Smiley. I think was three
twelve and we got him down to ninety to eighty eight. Yeah,
it's pretty crazy and obviously, like the Internet doesn't understand
half of it. Like the first six days, we're just
(21:09):
dieting like crazy and exercising like crazy, Like it really
is fat camp, Like we could do whatever we want.
So they'd wake up. I'd put them through a lift session.
I taught them how to cook some like healthy food.
Then they'd like some days we'd go play basketball, or
they do a little boxing, or they just hop in
the pool and start playing like football in the pool,
just like movement. You know. Yeah, it literally was like
fat camp. And then but you can't lose twenty five
(21:31):
pounds in ten days, so obviously we had to like
set up a water cut at the end, otherwise we
would have been in that house like to do it
healthily still be there. Yeah, it'd be six months probably,
right do twenty five like semi healthy, and half of
the chat. You know, we had fifteen to twenty thousand
people watching the whole time, so like half of the
chat I think kind of got it, and then half
of them was like, oh, look, you're gonna gain it back,
(21:53):
like yeah, bitch, like like there's yes, Like if I
could healthily drop twenty five pounds in ten days, I
would be the most famous trainer in the history of
human you know, like we got.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
To cut weight, so we no zempic or anything involved.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
No many ozmpic jokes, but no exzempic, no steroids, no exempic. No,
they were there were because there was also uh in
the like cheat room where they could spend their prize
pool to get prizes.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
There's a door dash, so they grabbed the door dash.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And then they were like scheming on like trying to
buy some like real diuretics and like some prescription stuff.
So I like call them like Felka, man, We'll get
like a fiber supplement if you really want. But yeah,
let's not go off the deep end here. You're just
gonna be like shitting yourself in bed all day.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Dandelion.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, yeah, the basics, right, yeah, some ship that didn't
go hard, doesn't work hard, like a like Alasis or something. Yeah,
we did, uh you know, like cilium husk. Yeah, you know,
just make them ship a little bit more than they
needed to ship it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
But well it just coats everything, makes it just slide
right out.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And they're big boys, you know, we had some weight
to lose, so it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So do you think that they're gonna like stick to
obviously not as anything as extreme as that, but they
stick to.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Hey, this feels like the bts of like an MTV show.
Now I give like the real spiel on each character,
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So my boy agent said it again publicly, and he is.
He is a bad man, he said, and I put
it in his ear. But I think he likes the
idea because he's never had ABS. And so he's two
twenty and he's probably an inch or too taller than me,
and he's got some muscle on him, you know. And
so I was like, bro, we could get you abs
by next December probably, And so I think that's his goal.
(23:29):
So I think he'll lock in an agent started if
anyone knows, call me agent w He's a two k
creator and now he's part of AMP, probably the biggest
YouTube group on the planet arguably. And now he just
streams whatever. You know, he'll gain. But I think when
he's twenty eight ish. In his early twenties, he was
like three forty ooh, so he already did like the
(23:51):
hard work, yeah, you know, and he's in like a
healthy weight now two twenty two thirty for a five
to eleven guy, six foot guys not that crazy, but
I think he wants apps. My boy Smiley used to
be two hundred pounds not that long ago, he said,
and he he I think he'll probably lock in shadow
my boy Chibu. I love Chibu, but Chibo's a little younger.
(24:11):
She was like twenty twenty one. I don't know how
locks we'll get it up. He loves playing basketball, so
he is active, which is good. Like I turned on
his stream yesterday and he was out at the courts
playing basketball, stream in it. But some of it, you know,
as everyone knows, like everyone listening, is probably already in
the top ten percent. But like education is everything, yeah,
you know, like just nutrition, basic nutrition. Education isn't a
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thing in America, you know, So I tried to teach
him some of that stuff and Chebu could probably lose it.
He really, I think he liked lifting. He actually has
a big boxing match coming up Feb one.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, so shoutow my boy Chibu and that I'm sure
he's gonna knock that full.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Athletic crazy first the first day they were doing like
a like a bulk yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And after slam like see.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That, after slamming a bunch of fast food, he busted
a cartwheel. Yeah, he's just like I'm very yes.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
He's probably like six to one. He's a big, thick boy,
like if both his brothers played college football, Like he's
a big boy. Yeah. And he did like a crazy
round off thing. And that's where I actually first found
him was a boxing clip from like one of those
streamer content creators boxing like years ago, not years ago,
probably a year ago. And so he has another one
coming up, So you know, I got some faith. I
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don't know if she was gonna have abs anytime soon, but.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
He's just all he talks about. He's from Jersey all.
He won't stop talking about chopped cheese.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's like, well, I gotta at least a couple And
so I tried to teach him how to make like
a healthy one because it's not that crazy. Get leaner
ground beef, use some kind of bread with fiber, you know,
maybe a low two percent cheese rather than like melt
chucking with cheese. And he enjoyed that. Whether he'll stick
to that or go to the corner store, I don't know.
That's the one New York experience I've never had. I
never had chop cheese me either. Yeah, I'm sure it's delicious.
(25:51):
But I did have some bagels the sam hell fucking
cream cheese. I'm more like a egg guy, like bacon,
egg cheese bagel deal.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh yeah, I was gonna order one of those in
one of the spots, but I did not do that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Their bagels are so good.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Don't eat We don't need breakfast out much.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, I don't need breakfast at all either. That's why
I miss all that stuff I like. Yeah, but chop cheese,
I don't know why. And pizza, obviously you go to
New York and get some. I've had like a nice Italian,
a nice steak, all the pizza.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
This is the best meal I had while we were
gone period. It was ay Many restaurant. Never had your
Many food before in New York. In New York, Yeah,
in in Brooklyn, interesting Atlantic Street in Brooklyn. It was
that that bowl is like sizzling hot when it comes
out skillet like a skillet you like you think think
(26:45):
of chevyes like a fat. Yeah, it's just like bubbling
and boiling and stuff. And it was like it was
it was super cold that day because it was super
cold every day.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah. Well there's a snow store too towards the end, right,
I know it's still a couple of times. Yeah, I
know virgin uh Atlanta. A lot of the boys I
was with her from Toronto and Atlanta, and I know
they were getting drenched. I think like the Carolina's Georgia
got drenched, so I assumed New York got at least
the aftermath.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
New York got that snow twice while we were there.
It didn't really stick much either time.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, yeah, I think Atlanta got so the last day
that we were there, Atlanta got like it's most snow
it's gone in like thirty years of it. Yeah, it
has like a.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Number ton ton of snow. Anyway, this was this was outstanding.
It was really really really good.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Was it like bread in the back like that. Yeah.
It's like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
But crunch here a little bit like especially like dryer
but in a tendor, you know, like cooked in a
ten door these uh, I didn't. I had to look
up where Yemen was. Honestly on the map. It's like
little EASTI yes, south of Saudi Arabia Yemen and like
not very far from Ethiopia, like across the water from
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Ethiopia and stuff. It's just really really good. These are
AI images. They're crazy. We uh we saw some shows.
Oh this was this was some lot case with with
salmon row grim fresh.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I mean New York still is yeah, you know, top
fucking five in the world with food for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah. We and then we went to Kats's Delia. Cats
is good one of the last few days. I I've
been to Sarges before, and I actually like Stargees better
because cats is. Let me make me show you the picture.
It is insanity.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
It's although there's two locations, I think I think there's
two or three. Yeah, I've been to both. They are crazy.
I've been to the other one too. I don't know
the name of the one you're talking about. It's a
little more sit down. The Starges is more of a city,
so I've had that one too, And then and then
there's there's low key one in downtown l A like
same style as Cats. I forgot the name. Uh year
(28:53):
took me to it. It was good.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't remember, but I know I know which one.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Any one of those here?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Uh yeah, well we they tried, but you know when
they do it here, they don't do it exactly right.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And then that's the issue. The one in La tasted
like that New York shit like that. I just love. Yeah,
like hello good. It's easy too, like a hello good
bread and then hello good roast beef. Just chuck it
on there, you know, like it's not that complicated.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I wish I had taken a picture of the sandwich
that I got. It was like just a giant pistami sandwich.
But here's the thing. It was twenty eight dollars for
a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
But you are getting like a pound plus of meat.
It was a lot. They don't they don't skimp you,
that's for sure. And it is a tourist deal, yeah,
but it and honestly a fucking the meals twenty bucks?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Holy shit?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Is that serges?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
No, this is this is Katsas which one is that?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
This is the one where they filmed where Harry met.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Sally More on the south side.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Uh, it's east East phillagey kind of. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I've been there. Yeah, I've been to two of them
for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But there's like eight cutters along this left side go
crazy and there's like lines in front of all they like,
you have a ticket, and you take your ticket and
they they they mark everything on the ticket and then
when you go to leave, you give them the ticket
and they pay.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But it's like, it feels very New York.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It was not at all cheap. And we split the
sandwich because it's the sandwich is very normous. I can
I mean, I've I can eat a lot, and that
was going to be a way a lot more than
I could actually handle.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Sammy's big. I just compare everything to like Chipotle ECUs,
that's the standard, and everything's fucking expensive. Yeah, and Chipotle
meal is going to cost you twenty bucks. Yeah, you know,
so if you're going to respond, it's been at thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I mean, we didn't really care. Plus we did we
didn't eat out dinners very much either. We're like you know,
we tend to be the people who don't eat breakfast
or dinner out when we're traveling, and we try to
stay in places that have I didn't exactly learn this
from from stand efforting, but I kind of did. Like
he always stays in a place that has a kitchenette.
(30:57):
We always stay at place that has eat at least
a refrigerator and a microwave and hopefully a Trader Joe's
or something. Yeah, you can get by and you used
to get a bunch of stuff and like we're you know,
salads for dinner and cereal for breakfast and coffee in
the room and whatever, and it, you know, works out.
I think I probably lost five or six pounds with
the course of the time. I was not on a
(31:19):
weight loss island, however.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, lots of walking, Yeah, weight loss islands, all the fatties,
fat camp, lots of.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Lots of uh SO. Saw some shows. Saw two shows
that are Buddy David Tower is behind one of them.
Uh is headlined by John mulaney, but there's like a
rotating cast. And he turned down one of the award
(31:45):
shows hosting to do this on Broadway. And he was amazing.
He was really really good. It's kind of a reader's
theater kind of kind of thing. Everybody else was like
basically like reading but acting their stuff out, and he
was pretty much off book the whole time. Lauren Michael's
Saturday Night Live producer, was one of the executive producers
(32:08):
on the show as well.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was a big SNL like documentary coming out.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think that this week in the
rotating gast. I think that Linn Memoril Miranda is in it.
And then he overlaps with Jimmy Fallon sometime in the
next few days. And I heard that those tickets are
going for like four times face value in that and
they're not the cheapest tickets in the world either.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Big names though, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We saw one of the probably most classic American play
Our Town Revival with Jim Parsons from Big Bang Theory.
I never watched that show, but I've seen him at something.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That movie about the about the women who were calculators
for NASA during the Moon missions. I didn't see it,
think I think he was in in that, but he
was really good. And Katie Holmes, Katie Holmes wasn't it
And well, the way back machine. If you go back
(33:13):
to the seventies, one of the most popular TV shows
was The Waltons and the lead kid character on that
who was you know, I think he was maybe a
teenager when it started. Richard Thomas was in that. And
then we saw Oh Mary, which is the play another
play that David is behind that has just like been
(33:35):
the biggest thing on Broadway since we were there in July.
It's just big, crazy comedy about Lincoln to being assassinated
and how crazy his wife was. I can't even it's
hard to describe it. It's just like, other than saying
(33:56):
it's like naughty vaudeville, it's just like just so much shit,
just just crazy, crazy, crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I don't think people think of Broadway like that, but
it's like so evolved. Yeah, like if you've never been,
like that's that's kind of a point. Yeah, Like it's
like more like a movie and funny or not funny
or whatever, but it's more it's more evolved. It's not
like Shakespeare like growing up, that's what I thought it was.
It probably was more like that in the eighties nineties,
(34:24):
but now, like you can catch any cup of tea
out there you want.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, the show that Millennie's all in very accessible. You
don't have to know anything or have any experience with
theater or whatever to be able to enjoy it because
it's like just super engaging and yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
People think it's like yeah, like opera e you know,
or like in hoity toity, and like some ticket prices
are a little hoity toity, but like the experience isn't.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah yeah, oh, Mary was sold out everywhere. I end
up having to go to the third party market to
find something to find seats for the show, and uh
I bought them through sub hub because I'd had a
bad experience with seat Geek, which a lot of people
use for for you know, third party tickets. And we
(35:12):
couldn't actually get in until like five minutes before the
show started, five minutes before curtain because their system somehow
doesn't release the ticket from the original owner.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's like a flying standby.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah yeah, So we used to wait and wait till
the last minute. But at the city this is crazy.
We waited all this time. But at the same time,
on the same night, that same box office accidentally gave
away four tickets to a like a group of four people.
They gave away the tickets to the wrong people. They
(35:49):
literally had to go to those seats and kick those people.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yes, I mean, I bet, I bet it's more common
than not.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I would imagine maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
There's mixups, especially yeah, with the e sale market, you know, yeah,
like people passing names and yeah, do you identify who's
the current owner of that ticket versus who sold it
an hour ago? Right?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
The other kid the other tickets I bought that way
they they had there was like a physical image of
the of the ticket with the QR code symbol, and
the other one just had the QR code and no
image of the ticket, and it had somebody's name on it,
but that wasn't mine. But nobody was checking because it
just went so I don't know. That was cool, and
(36:33):
we went We were in the audience for Colbert because
we were staying about half a block from from the
at Sullivan Theater where Colbert tapes.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, all the studios are still out there, because I
know a lot of la ones are really like Warner
Brothers in them are going crazy in Vegas. So I
think a lot of them are going to start to migrate,
uh yeah, or New York will obviously be a mainstay
for many, like Saturday Night Live. I assume it's still
in there, Saturday Night Live, Rockefellers, Like, yeah, still, that
would be cool to see live one time, even though
(37:04):
the cast is whatever. Now, Yeah, I would. I mean
not that you can know ahead of time exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Who the guest is gonna be. Yeah, if you got
a good one, they'd be totally worth it.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. Yeah, just seeing some of the like icons would
be insane. You know, you get in there fucking twenty
years ago, oh yeah, or fifty years ago. Yeah, yeah
for sure, yeah, Bluchi or whatever the fuck. I think
Adam Sandler was kicking it in Vegas. Everyone says he
just like does nothing, Like I think he's at the
hotel by my house, just like walking around with his dog,
Like he really is that guy. Yeah, Like I don't
(37:35):
think he has a car. I mean I've read like
he was like a little YouTube video, so who knows,
like the truth. But people say like he just because
I think he still loves and lives in New York
a lot, and so he probably just like maybe as
a driver, but I think he just like walks and
like is normal.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
He takes his dog to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I think, uh, he was just walking his Yeah, I
think his dog was in the hotel with him and
he just fucking yeah, walking him go to the bathroom
and walking around the fucking probably some basketball shorts of
flip flops.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
The the Colbert experience was interesting. If if you've never
been to a show that that's being recorded live for TV.
When I say recorded live, I mean they recorded it
and then they actually edited it because he fucked up
in the in the monologue, stopped everything and said, let
(38:28):
me go, let me do that again me and then
it's not something that normally happens. And then the musical
guest was Jean Batiste. But it was actually recorded, uh
in December before Christmas, because that's when he was available.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Is he not? Because he was a house band, wasn't
he he was?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
He's not not anywhere?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Was that not Colbert?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
It was Colbert?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, I know, I just know. I just remember he
was one. I don't watch a ton of those shows
that I.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Don't really either, Honestly, I did watch the one we
were on, I just because I wanted to see that
that performance and just what it what it looked like altogether.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, when I was younger for some reason. I guess
maybe because I was up later, I'd be watching like
Ledderman or Leno obviously the main two, and like a
little bit of a who's the fucking redhead guy? Yeah,
like a hair of Conan when I was like probably
like high school age.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Conan would have been fun to see. I saw Craig
Ferguson back in the day.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Oh yeah, they're almost all of them are in New York, right.
Leno was like the only La.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Guy Ferguson was was LA. James Cordon was la Is
he done?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Are they all?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's done? Yeah, they're done. Yeah, Cordon took over for
Ferguson and they're both. Cordon was okay with his car stuff.
That stuff was fun. Yeah, I didn't necessarily always love
the rest of it. And then turns out he's kind
of an asshole.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
So yeah, yeah, I don't I don't put a.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
If Colbert is an asshole, he does a really good
job of covering it up.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well, I think that's everyone Hollywood. I'm not putting my
money on any of those guys being saints.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
He you know, he does a Q and A before
the show, and he is very like down to earth
and normal and stuff sounding. So who knows.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
But when acting is your gig, I don't trust you.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah. Well you know, been there, done that a little bit,
you know, in terms of having a show not totally
be reflective of your experience in real life.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
That's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, so so was that we did the Transit Museum
in Brooklyn, which is the the for the New York system.
Like going back to building tunnels, they talk about how
they built the tunnels in New York and they're like
(40:51):
they did different ways, but they used like cut and
cover where they would just like cut into the street
and then they have to move around all the water
and the utilities and all that stuff. And then then
they put stuff over the top and they finished underneath,
and they finished the top and stuff, and then the
tunnels that they go under water. And I did not
(41:16):
have any understanding of how this worked before, but they
they had to pump pressurized air into them so that
if there's like a leak develops or whatever, you're done.
Yeah right, yeah, and a lot of people die.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I mean same here, right, Like Bart goes underwater, Bar
goes underwater. Yeah, it seems complicated.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Transbay tube.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, some kind of vacuum makes sense,
or yeah, or you go deep enough that, yeah, the
ocean seems difficult, but a bay, yeah, you know, maybe
you go deep enough that you don't have to fucking
worry about it. I don't know buying an engineer anyway,
it would.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I mean it was we hadn't done it before. We
talked about it doing before. It's pretty cool, yeah, enjoyable.
And then the next day we did this like tour
where you go with a tour guide on the subways
and they show you the like remnants of the original
stations from the early nineteen hundreds and a.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Lot of that stuff's cool, like even like the station
or Madison Square Garden and shit, it just looks cool. Yeah,
you know, and a lot of people like talk about
modern architecture and shit not looking cool versus like, yeah,
we used to spend time on making shit look nice.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
The City Hall station was like the first one that
was opened in the early nineteen hundreds, and they ended
up closing it because they're weren't enough writers, which is crazy.
It's like super opulent, like the you guys may have
not have ever seen the original Christophery of Superman. But
(42:47):
Lex Luthor's layer is in one of them.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Oh that's funny.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
It's like there's a pool that he puts kryptonite around
Superman's neck with a chain and throws them into the
water to kill them off. But it looks like that,
and you can actually see just part of it if
you stay on the number six line when the train
turns around. They like the guy showed us how to
(43:15):
how to see it, and like four times a year.
I guess they let people uh go, But it's like
a very limited number of tickets and it's like going
to a rock concert or whatever in terms of like
getting online and hitting the button over and over against
And I think it's not cheap either.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Interesting and otherwise it's just doing nothing.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Otherwise it's just sitting there gathering dust. Yeah, it's crazy.
I don't know why. I mean, I think there's some
structural issues and stuff like that that they would have
to spend money to remediate.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
But shit, Manhattan, you think you're monetizing every inch of it? Yeah,
you would think I would do something.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You would think, and like when they're certainly building a
lot of buildings currently about it just kind of never
stops of note I was two blocks from the from
the CEO hunting grounds. I'd been by there before.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
But yeah, I mean Manhattan is literally the most valuable
land on the planet. Yeah, probably won't change anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Yeah, just just for people who are in New York
or are going to New York. Who but I'd be
going to a dispensary, which are very legal there, except
there are some of the I legal ones. But whatever.
It just if you're from you know, California, expect to
pay more.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Oh yeah, but by a bit. Yeah, probably like a
good third more because it's all from here.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Right, so you got like, yeah, pretty much just those costs,
let alone taxes and let alone who knows what.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
It doesn't balance the fact that we have to pay
more for gas.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
But you know, yeah, that's true, that is true. Yeah, there,
they don't even buy gas.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
You just walk everywhere, you know, they did they congestion
pricing now, so if you actually drive through it at
certain times of day, they charge you more. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
I mean, I've been in Manhattana good amount of times. Yeah,
it's not like there's gas stations downtown.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
No. No, I don't actually remember having seen a gas station.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
I don't think I have in Manhattan for sure.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Not spend more time in like Brooklyn and Queens than
I we ever had before.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, for sure, each a little borough school. I've been
in the Bronx a little bit and little stuff. It does.
Each have like its own culture and flavor, for sure.
But I mean even San Francisco, it's fucking no gas stations.
There's like two on the outside.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
It's hard to finding. Yeah, I don't like to drive
in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Particularly now, Like it's not fun.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Back when we had a Mini Cooper, I was kind
of about it because you could get, it was easier
to park, it was easier to drive.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Where roads are tiny. People suck at driving. Yeah, I'd
probably rather drive in Manhattan, to be honest. At least
like there's like four lane roads. Yeah, people are crazy,
but at least there's more people.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, it was just like I had the kind of
the worst city I had to drive ever try to
drive in was Doublin So with like wrong side of
the car, wrong side of the of the road way,
crazy amount of traffic.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Like yeah, all Europe, i'd imagine isn't amazing in most
spots besides like fucking Germany or something. You know, I
don't want to drive in London either, Yeah, Paris, Like
I probably don't want to drive in those spots.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
I've never been in a car in London, not even
one time, and I haven't been in New York. But
like I think the only times I've been in a
car either lifts to it from the airport and I
you know, we usually fly off and flying into Newark
and out of LaGuardia if we're coming from Canada. And
(46:45):
now you can take a train to a bus for
essentially just you know, two and eighty cents versus you know,
ten plus times that, yeah, to take an uber lyft.
And then like when you and I were in New
York in like twenty fifteen, we were in like uber
(47:06):
blacks Excel whatever whatever. And outside of that, I've never
really been in a car in New York.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, I uber to a couple events, but you can
get most spots pretty easy foot In Someway, yeah, one
of the few cities out.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Here to just touch on a health topic, I got
pitched a guest and we haven't really talked about it
yet because there's new studies and new recommendations coming out
about alcohol use and how like almost no amount of
alcohol is good for you. And I got pitched a
(47:42):
doctor to come talk about it. We may have that
or we might just read an article in the future. Here.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
It seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
It seems pretty easy. It seems pretty like I don't
you know, I mean to talk to somebody about it.
It's a question of like do they have strategies for
people who drink routinely to stop drinking routine Yeah?
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Probably not. I mean that's all that man. Like even
since I was a kid, you like hear about like
dies being bad for you, and now they just outlawed
like red three or whatever three. You know, Like it's
kind of like a no brainer, which you know, not
to sounds put on my tentfoil hat, but like there's
lobbying and politics going on everywhere to push this stuff.
And so if Budweiser's putting a trillion dollars into whatever politician,
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then the politician is going to help run a campaign
saying one beer a day is actually pretty good for you, Like,
you know, it's just so simple. But like when is
alcohol in a logical sense ever done anything positive? You know,
the best argument people have is like, well then I
get more confident, Like bitch, that's fucking fake, Like that's
fucking fake confidence.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Then yeah, I mean I think that the the social
lubricant value of it. If you're someone who's got like
a little bit of a social anxiety kind of thing, whatever,
it can be helpful in really really moderate conditions, like
one beer ought to be enough because.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Wait, my point isn't that yeah that doesn't have some value,
but like it's not like.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Real no, No, it's definitely like.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Like you're you faking it would like placebo in yourself
would be the same EFFECTI it's for your personality. Yeah, literally,
you know, like if you just say like all right,
I'm gonna act real confident night and just go fucking
fake it, you're gonna have the same result versus like, yeah,
I don't think having a beer a day is gonna
kill you either, but I don't think having a beer
a day is gonna help you in anything either.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Yeah, they're saying like a beer a week, yeah, or
you know, maybe two for for men.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
I mean, more and more people I'm meeting and talking
to it. Maybe part of it's the era, and maybe
part of it's my age. But like more people I
run into just don't drink at all. Like people ask
me if I drink, I just say like no because
I really don't. Again, I'm not like claiming sober like
against it, but like in the last three years, I've
probably had one drink a year max.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Yeah that's me, but not I mean I might have
three or four in a four to six weeks. Yeah,
just ten, it depends.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Oh, it's just more common, you know. And it's just
like everything else in our fucking world, it's just getting
more and more divisive. The people that do drink are
drinking fucking Thursday through Monday because there's some kind of
party or event, and then the people that aren't drinking
aren't drinking at all. Right. It's the same with like
who's gambling. Either people are gambling twenty four to seven
or people don't gamble at all. It's the same with
people that work out. The people that work out are
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actually it more serious about it now there's no like casuals,
and then there's people that are just fucking eating doritos
on the couch. Like everything's just splitting down the middle.
It's just what side you're gonna take.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, I've never really understood the binge thing. Like not
to say that I haven't done it, but I just
never understood it because it's days of recovery when you're
a healthy young person, let alone as you get older.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
You mean food or alcohol. Yeah, I think when you're
younger and drinking, they just easily fucking justify it because
they're fun. That's just all their friends.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
I don't think it's a logical decision like hey, I'm
gonna go fucking take twelve shots. They just know like, yeah,
this is how I get laid, this is how I
talk to that person, this is how this is what
my friends do when they're at the King's game. So
I'm gonna buy a fucking forty eight ounce beer. Also, Yeah,
I don't think it's thought out. And eventually it's either
gonna catch up to you and you get hungover or
(51:26):
and stop, or you're just an alcoholic and just gonna
deal with the pain and take a liquid IV thinking
it's helping. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
I've I've often said that, like, don't whatever whatever advice
you want to get involved with, don't do it so
much that you have to that you're forced to stop it,
like you can just you can decide to stop it
and not have any repercussions around the decision, like not
not be hard, not be like withdrawal the situation, or
(51:54):
like you've screwed up your life and the only way
to fix it is to get clean and it's over.
I mean, it's just indulging so much. It just is
not not a good path.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
Yeah. I mean, if it's a real vice, I don't
think you're driving the ship anymore.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Probably, you know, it's not a conscious thing. People don't
know you. You're not going to someone binge drinking every
working weekend saying hey you got to issue. They just
won't register. It won't register in their brain.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Yeah. And people who can put away, you know, twelve
packs of beer or you know, fifth of whiskey or whatever.
I just don't mean my my livers was never a
fan of that.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Yeah, it's common, it's not uncommon, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I don't even understand. Well, that's all about all I
got so far. We'll be back on something of a normal,
normal schedule. They're going to do some batch recording because
Mike's got some travel coming up.
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Welcome back, Happy New York kids.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's been a minute, it's been a month, I think maybe,
I think that last day that we recorded was maybe
the seventeenth of last month, and it's the seventeenth of
this month. Perhaps it's cold, it's chilly. Yeah, it's not
as cold as actually, you know, this is podcasting. Is
(00:34):
an audio medium, makes sense when it's visual. But I
have a picture that I took on a very cold
night in New York City, Rockefeller Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What I don't understand exactly is that sometimes the lights
twinkle and sometimes they don't. What's the other big park
with a big ash tree in New York?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, not Washington. I know Washington's a bigger park. But
there's another one with a huge tree and like a
little like it's not far from there, and they have
a bunch of like like kind of wood. It looks
like a farmer's market, except some of the tents are
like established like some are like wood kind of and
there's like jewelry and hot cocoa, and there's another giant
fucking tree.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's a good question. I did not see that the
whole I forgot what it's called. Them in there a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
If you guys haven't been in New York in the
Christmas spirit time, it really is, at least for me.
I have heard there's cities in Europe that do it
just as bigger bigger, But in America, Uh, they crush
it if you want the vibes and the Christmas spirit,
like Elf, it's fucking rocking over there.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, London's supposed to be like to do a lot
of light installations.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah like that. Yeah. I had a list going on
like my Twitter or something like ten best Christmas cities.
You know, it's like random one in Sweden and random
one over here, and yeah, a couple of Germany, yeah yeah,
and probably real pretty. But New York in terms of yeah,
I mean most big cities, you're do it here honestly
better than you'd think. Like even Vegas does it okay,
(02:03):
Like there's a lot of decorations that go up in
our mall. Cleveland downtown looks oh oh my home. Cleveland
Downtown looks cool because they have like I think there's
two a Christmas story for sure, but there's another movie
that's very famous that was filmed in Cleveland. Interesting, I
forgot and so they go crazy downtown, like their mall
and their hotels all go nutty. But New York gives
(02:24):
you the magic spirit for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
This is uh. This was taken on January fourth, so
a little bit after Christmas, but the Christmas crowds were
definitely still around.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Sure because the New Year crowd.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, there was a ton of people still in town.
It dwindled during the week that we were there. But
I actually like did a little bit of math. I
figured out in the last like seven months, I've spent
basically a month in New York City between you know,
a couple of different trips, family trips, and just trips
on our own.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it's cool. It's a cool city.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was very cold this time.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Supposedly, when we get that rock ship going, I think
you go LA to New York in twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So Jeff Bezos one which one?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I think it's the Elon oh the yeah, when he
goes commercial, I don't know. I think you literally just
go straight up and straight down and blow us up. Yeah,
like half of outer space. I mean twenty five minutes.
I read something They're trying to go a train from
New York to London too.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That'll be fire under the under underground. Okay, So here's
the thing, like I trying to go bullet train and
it would be like a three four hour banger. That's
gonna take a long time to build, though, I would think,
because I'm not digging. The Channel Tunnel, which is like
you know, between England and the Mainland, took a long
time to bore.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean we've got to advance somewhere, right, We
got to move faster somewhere somehow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, sure, and we got it. We we need to
figure out how to not fly everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
The economics of airlines are just very dicey.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, every plane's got damn blowing I'll be like plane
the weak eye flew. I think. I don't know if
I was going to Florida or to Vegas, but one
of the weeks there's like three fucking planes blown up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
There was actually a plane like incident right after we
arrived in Halifax at that airport.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, I read that. And then same thing the day
after I landed in Fort Lauderdale or Miami, the same
airline I took, they found like a dead body in
a plane in that airport in a landing gear. There's
like two dead bodies.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh my god, what the fuck is going on? I mean,
I wasn't monitoring the news that closely, but I vaguely
remember having seen something about it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There was that the Gonzaga basketball team almost like collided
as they're taking off. Yeah, and then like two other
like I don't know if they're boeing or not, but
two other planes.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Like exploded that week, Yeah, Halifax.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And one other Yeah, Halifax.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think they had to do a belly landing because
that year was was bust. I just was listening to
this podcast about this thing had happened. I think it
had happened in the seventies or early eighties. It was
a plane crash in on Tenerief, the island ten Reef.
These planes were supposed to be landing on one of
(05:19):
the other islands that had a full sized airport, and
there was like political unrest that caused radicals to plant
a bomb in the in the terminal. And when they
gave there there's a bomb, you know, like warning thing
(05:40):
they said, they didn't say bomb, they said bombs, and
so one went off and they were assuming that there
were more. So I shut the airport down, and these
these big seven forty sevens could not land there for
fear that the whole thing is going to blow up.
So they land on this other small island and tiny runway,
like one runway with like.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Offshoots, weeds, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It was long enough ago that it was. It was PanAm,
which doesn't exist anymore. And then KLM, which does is
like the Dutch National Airline, and the Dutch have this
like thing about if you the cruise can only work
so many hours, and if you're the pilot and irresponsible
(06:25):
and it goes over hours, you could end up actually
losing your job and your pilot's license in the whole
nine yard. So pilot very much under stress whatever. And
to long story short, there's a miscommunication on the on
the air traffic control channels. There's two planes on the
same channel, and the KLM pilot mishears. He is so
(06:48):
worried about getting back that he's had the plane field up,
so he's got like sixteen thousand gallons of jet fuel
and he thinks that the PanAm jet is off the
runway but it's not, and takes off and they crash
into each other on the ground. Everybody in the KALM
(07:10):
dies and a lot of people in the pandem die
because you know, he's a communication thing. They actually changed
the vocabulary for air traffic control and between pilots because
of that. They don't say takeoff anywhere. You notice, I
always say departure. Departure means you're really leaving.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, just make it more clear. Yeah, now you got
to learn somehow. Yeah, crazy, I don't. I don't want
to have any issues flying.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I will say that on the way there. On the
way too, because we went to Halifax for nine days
and then went to New York for a week. If
our flights had not been there are connecting flights had
not been somewhat delayed each time, we wouldn't have made it.
This is my last time booking anything on Google Flights.
(08:01):
It just it doesn't give you enough time to go from.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Two different airlines. Is that why?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, it was it was United all the way to
It was two different airlines, but it was United all
the way to Montreal and then and it was one
of the sub lines of Air Canada from Montreal to Halifax.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because I know each airline is obviously like so locked
in the perfectly time and they'll never book you, but
if you switch airlines you can get fucked.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, and I mean often they're like interlined or whatever
so that they're supposed to be coordination between them. But
like and I couldn't. You couldn't even check in for
my flight because when it went from because I actually
booked all this on on Air Canada, it screwed my
name up, so I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, they make all that so difficult. Yeah, with the
passport and all that stuff. Yeah, sometimes they won't let
you change it. They won't let you change it over
the phone, they won't get you in there.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah. They took my first in my middle name and
made one name out of that, and then they made
my last name and the suffix one name as well,
and it just didn't work. It was fine once we
got to the airport, but oh my god. I put
a little pole on my on my Instagram last week
(09:17):
asking about whether people would rather get to the airport
way too early or almost too late, and it was
like ninety ten way too early, And I totally identify
with that. That's me for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, I think that's the commonplace. I think it depends
how much you fly. And then what airport, because if
I'm flying the airport, I know, then I'm definitely on
the edge guy, because I just know, you know, like
I know, Sacramento's southwest and fucking Vegas as southwest, so
well then I just have no issues. But yeah, if
you're going to New York and you got traffic on
the ground and in the airport, unpredictabilities, Yeah, big ass airports.
(09:57):
Big ass airports you would think would move faster often
they're more populated and have more issues.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, it depends. It really depends.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like I flew into four Lauderdale versus Miami, and it
was easy. It was so small. There's no no like
flying in to Burbank versus x Yeah. Probably yeah, yeah,
probably Miami might be smaller in Lax, but yeah, definitely
something like that. It was so easy. Yeah. I don't
love flying, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't mind it. I just have It just always
seems like I'm well, nearly always it seems like I'm
on a super ass early flight and I and I
have to get there early because I can't, you know,
I couldn't. I can't sleep anyway, so I might as
well go to the airport.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well, you go coast to coast a lot. Yeah, and
so you can't really you either got a red eye
or you got a yeah seven am or if.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You're going west to east for sure, east to west.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, you can do whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah. I left Miami at eight am and land in
Vegas at ten am. Yeah, you're time traveling.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, we left. We left New York noon and we
got to Sacramento a little bit before six and then,
oh my god, So this is just gonna be a
bit session every I hope everybody's in. I hail a
(11:18):
lift on the app.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Guy shows up and we get in the car and
he starts going, you know, down I five toward toward
downtown Sack the way you would go right, and Richard's Boulevard,
which is like three exits from here, is a sketchy area, right.
(11:41):
He has got some weird pockets, and so he turns
off at Richard's and then takes that first right by
the McDonald's there and then goes behind that and there's
a a section of street with no street lights at
all and homeless encampments everywhere, and there's guys out there
(12:04):
walking in the road like the Walking Dead, and We're like,
where are you going? And he's like, oh, I have
to follow the where the app says. It's like no,
you don't like not if it's you know, not not
if it's going to be dangerous, like if you were
a single woman, Yeah, in a car at night, you
(12:24):
think you're gonna get killed or raped or both.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't know why all those apps have their own maps.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well here's the thing, because like.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Uber can't get to my house. Oh really, Like because
they have to follow their app, they'll like always turn
in I don't want to say where, but they'll always
like turn into some shit and get stuck. Oh yeah,
like an office. Yeah, And I'm like like, bro, just
like look at the map. You see the roads don't connect.
Like why I know Siri or whoever the fuck's talking
(12:55):
to he's telling you go here. And same thing with
like door dashing them. They use a different map than
Google apps. Like if I Google Map, my shit, it
works perfect. But they'll use and even Apple apps or whatever.
I think the two normal ones are great, but they
have like their own system and their shit's always wonky.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well what happened with this is the guy like he
finally got us into into Midtown and then took a
weird way toward toward min Kinley Park, which makes sense, right,
but then it ends up like thing like weaving through
the neighborhood. It took forever.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And he said, I have to use the app. So
I I the only time I've ever given it one
star is it's like, use your judgment and get us
out of this stupid situation, you idiot. And he didn't.
So I called out lyft On on Twitter. It's like,
what the fuck? So they they like, dm us with
(13:55):
your information, so I give him all the information and
I said, so, really, my question here is can the
driver use a different route than what comes up on
the app? And they said, we don't have the map
built into the Lift app. Most of our drivers use
(14:15):
Google Maps or Ways.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Maybe it's ways as fucked because I don't really use
ways and uh.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And so they offered me five dollars that I have
to use in the next two weeks get to a block.
It's like, yeah, use Lift mostly I have before, but
I on the leaving on this trip, I fucked up
and I scheduled instead of a pickup for three thirty am.
I scheduled one for three thirty pm because we had
(14:44):
an early flight out, and so I noticed that it's like,
oh my god, I'm not getting in notifications, and so
I tried to get another another lift and nothing was connecting.
So I ended up going to Uber and found somebody
and we were like fifteen twenty minutes later than we
intended to be, but we were still like I said,
get to get to the everyone to release. I had
plenty of room. Anyway. I looked up on you know,
(15:05):
Google Maps and ways to see which way, and honest
to god, ways will take you that stupid way.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It must be ways because Google Maps doesn't. Because I've
had that same road that you're talking about in a
different sketchy one on a ride home and then door
dashes the other one.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
They'll be fucking up, like they'll be spinning.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Circles and you're like, dude, like especially like downtown Sack
is a grid, Like it ain't that hard. No, Like
everything's like ninety degrees and you're taking some crazy ass
shit like I do understand, like la or there's a
billion free ways, but like, yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean, you're.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Not to docks.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You and your street is not a one of the
major streets, but you're surrounded by Majrix.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's so easy. Yeah, downtown Sack is so easy. But
it'll happen in Vegas. It will happen at the hotels
and shit I'm at it'll happen at Yeah, like the
hotel I ordered like a fucking protein shake and Florida
and chicks fucking loops for half an hour. That my
shit's melted, you know. Like it is, like Dordash is
so convenient and normal now, but I feel like always
(16:08):
when like that innovation happens and it's awesome, and then
like with any business company, service whatever, then they're not
exactly monopoly, but there's like three companies and then they
can like just slack on their service because now you
have to use them. Yeah, you know, And like that's
like the old old fucking white guy argument about taxis,
(16:28):
Like and taxis were cool because you'd get in and say,
take me to movie theater on the north side, and
that fool knew the city like in his back of
his hand. He'd take you to a movie theater on
the north side. Or you'd hop in and they're like
a tour guide, like Hey man, what's the best Italian.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
In the area.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Dude, drop you off of the best Italian in the area,
Like you don't have that no more? Yeah, use three
apps and then you're fucking ubers getting you lost.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, I mean there's a there's been studies done that.
Like the London cabbies have used more of their brain
than sure basically anybody else because they keep the whole
map and their head.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I've never taken a cab in London, but it's a thought.
But they're almost like with the restaurants and stuff like that,
almost like a rolling concierge.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right, you know. Vegas was like that. I remember going
to Vegas a bunch as a kid, and you only
took taxes all that's all there was. And we just
say like, oh, yeah, well, what's a good burger spot
on this side of the strip, and like, oh, go here,
and they just drop us off.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I remember being in a cab with Ed Cone in
in uh Las, Vegas one year and the drivers like, yeah,
they keep trying to get Uber in here, but it's
never going to happen. It's never going to happen in Vegas.
The next year it was there.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
There still is like a decent amount of taxis there,
which is cool, like at least they survived.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But if you can hail a taxi with an app,
the difference isn't great, you know, especially now since since
Uber and Lyft keep raising the raids. It's it's it's
almost the same.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Vegas is like at least the strip is set up
different too. You can't like just grab a taxi on
the road. They built a bunch of laws so people
aren't getting run over and shit right, Like they want
a little taxi Q and to get it at like
certain pick up spots, which I do understand because it
gets crazy. I did want to do New Year's one
time in Vegas because they shut down the entire strip
like New York. Oh it's full pedestrian nice, yeah, and
(18:13):
I've heard it's like insane, like once you're there, you're stuck,
like you're not moving, you know, and say with the
ball drop, Like I think that would just be cool
to do once, Like you show up at one fucking PM, Yeah,
grab a spot and you just don't move all day
just for the It's probably not even that cool, but
you just got to do it to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I've I've definitely seen where the ball is, but I've
never seen a drop.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, because I just heard chaos or you can't like
leave your spot. There's no like bathrooms, you know, there's
no nothing. I think Vegas is like a smaller version
of that, but I think like half a million people
fly in for Vegas New Year.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah yeah, so shits on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Wow. So we've established that I was in the north
East and you were in the southeast.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, what were you doing? I was in Vegas, spent
a little holiday, and then kind of on the coin
flip the thirtieth, we got a plan to do a
full weight loss stream so I called a Big Back Island,
but they preferred it weight loss Island. I had three
contestants streaming twenty four to seven in the Miami area,
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kind of a gamified show, but they couldn't leave the
house till they lost twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh goodness, Yeah, that's it lot.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, And so the prize pool was one hundred k
in the beginning. But then there's like like temptations everywhere.
So you go upstairs in the master closet at the
house we rented, and there's just fucking like cinnamon rolls
for like a thousand bucks. There's fucking Snickers bars like
just fat kid heaven. And so the contestants I left,
(19:52):
but the contestants were stuck in the house twenty four
to seven, ten days straight. Yeah, and then we just
coached them to the job. Got her done? Got or done?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
What did they actually lose?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So I think they all lost twenty five? Wow, Yeah,
because he's got bro. What I do respect about like
streamers and content creators in today's age is like, especially streamers,
they're probably more like podcasters than YouTubers, where like there's
like a mini script, like they know when guests are
coming or they have like a challenge, you know, they
kind of like Survivor style games, So there's like a
script in that sense, but like they're not gonna lie
(20:28):
like shout out my boy agent like age is like no, like, yeah,
we're not leaving a less. Let's scale. He weighed in
the first day at two forty five, so he's like
until that scale says two twenty, like we're stuck here,
mic And I'm all right, man, Like at least you're honest. Yeah,
Like I do respect that a lot. So yeah, my
boy Chibu started like three thirty, got him got him
to like three zho three. I didn't say like three
(20:49):
oh five. Yeah, he dropped a little bit even more
and then shout out my boy Smiley, who's going on
tour in Australia with Drake Smiley. I think was three
twelve and we got him down to ninety to eighty eight. Yeah,
it's pretty crazy and obviously, like the Internet doesn't understand
half of it. Like the first six days, we're just
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dieting like crazy and exercising like crazy, Like it really
is fat camp, Like we could do whatever we want.
So they'd wake up. I'd put them through a lift session.
I taught them how to cook some like healthy food.
Then they'd like some days we'd go play basketball, or
they do a little boxing, or they just hop in
the pool and start playing like football in the pool,
just like movement. You know. Yeah, it literally was like
fat camp. And then but you can't lose twenty five
(21:31):
pounds in ten days, so obviously we had to like
set up a water cut at the end, otherwise we
would have been in that house like to do it
healthily still be there. Yeah, it'd be six months probably,
right do twenty five like semi healthy, and half of
the chat. You know, we had fifteen to twenty thousand
people watching the whole time, so like half of the
chat I think kind of got it, and then half
of them was like, oh, look, you're gonna gain it back,
(21:53):
like yeah, bitch, like like there's yes, Like if I
could healthily drop twenty five pounds in ten days, I
would be the most famous trainer in the history of
human you know, like we got.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
To cut weight, so we no zempic or anything involved.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
No many ozmpic jokes, but no exzempic, no steroids, no exempic. No,
they were there were because there was also uh in
the like cheat room where they could spend their prize
pool to get prizes.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
There's a door dash, so they grabbed the door dash.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And then they were like scheming on like trying to
buy some like real diuretics and like some prescription stuff.
So I like call them like Felka, man, We'll get
like a fiber supplement if you really want. But yeah,
let's not go off the deep end here. You're just
gonna be like shitting yourself in bed all day.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Dandelion.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, yeah, the basics, right, yeah, some ship that didn't
go hard, doesn't work hard, like a like Alasis or something. Yeah,
we did, uh you know, like cilium husk. Yeah, you know,
just make them ship a little bit more than they
needed to ship it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
But well it just coats everything, makes it just slide
right out.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And they're big boys, you know, we had some weight
to lose, so it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So do you think that they're gonna like stick to
obviously not as anything as extreme as that, but they
stick to.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Hey, this feels like the bts of like an MTV show.
Now I give like the real spiel on each character,
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So my boy agent said it again publicly, and he is.
He is a bad man, he said, and I put
it in his ear. But I think he likes the
idea because he's never had ABS. And so he's two
twenty and he's probably an inch or too taller than me,
and he's got some muscle on him, you know. And
so I was like, bro, we could get you abs
by next December probably, And so I think that's his goal.
(23:29):
So I think he'll lock in an agent started if
anyone knows, call me agent w He's a two k
creator and now he's part of AMP, probably the biggest
YouTube group on the planet arguably. And now he just
streams whatever. You know, he'll gain. But I think when
he's twenty eight ish. In his early twenties, he was
like three forty ooh, so he already did like the
(23:51):
hard work, yeah, you know, and he's in like a
healthy weight now two twenty two thirty for a five
to eleven guy, six foot guys not that crazy, but
I think he wants apps. My boy Smiley used to
be two hundred pounds not that long ago, he said,
and he he I think he'll probably lock in shadow
my boy Chibu. I love Chibu, but Chibo's a little younger.
(24:11):
She was like twenty twenty one. I don't know how
locks we'll get it up. He loves playing basketball, so
he is active, which is good. Like I turned on
his stream yesterday and he was out at the courts
playing basketball, stream in it. But some of it, you know,
as everyone knows, like everyone listening, is probably already in
the top ten percent. But like education is everything, yeah,
you know, like just nutrition, basic nutrition. Education isn't a
(24:32):
thing in America, you know, So I tried to teach
him some of that stuff and Chebu could probably lose it.
He really, I think he liked lifting. He actually has
a big boxing match coming up Feb one.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, so shoutow my boy Chibu and that I'm sure
he's gonna knock that full.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Athletic crazy first the first day they were doing like
a like a bulk yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And after slam like see.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That, after slamming a bunch of fast food, he busted
a cartwheel. Yeah, he's just like I'm very yes.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
He's probably like six to one. He's a big, thick boy,
like if both his brothers played college football, Like he's
a big boy. Yeah. And he did like a crazy
round off thing. And that's where I actually first found
him was a boxing clip from like one of those
streamer content creators boxing like years ago, not years ago,
probably a year ago. And so he has another one
coming up, So you know, I got some faith. I
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don't know if she was gonna have abs anytime soon, but.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
He's just all he talks about. He's from Jersey all.
He won't stop talking about chopped cheese.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's like, well, I gotta at least a couple And
so I tried to teach him how to make like
a healthy one because it's not that crazy. Get leaner
ground beef, use some kind of bread with fiber, you know,
maybe a low two percent cheese rather than like melt
chucking with cheese. And he enjoyed that. Whether he'll stick
to that or go to the corner store, I don't know.
That's the one New York experience I've never had. I
never had chop cheese me either. Yeah, I'm sure it's delicious.
(25:51):
But I did have some bagels the sam hell fucking
cream cheese. I'm more like a egg guy, like bacon,
egg cheese bagel deal.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh yeah, I was gonna order one of those in
one of the spots, but I did not do that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Their bagels are so good.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Don't eat We don't need breakfast out much.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, I don't need breakfast at all either. That's why
I miss all that stuff I like. Yeah, but chop cheese,
I don't know why. And pizza, obviously you go to
New York and get some. I've had like a nice Italian,
a nice steak, all the pizza.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
This is the best meal I had while we were
gone period. It was ay Many restaurant. Never had your
Many food before in New York. In New York, Yeah,
in in Brooklyn, interesting Atlantic Street in Brooklyn. It was
that that bowl is like sizzling hot when it comes
out skillet like a skillet you like you think think
(26:45):
of chevyes like a fat. Yeah, it's just like bubbling
and boiling and stuff. And it was like it was
it was super cold that day because it was super
cold every day.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah. Well there's a snow store too towards the end, right,
I know it's still a couple of times. Yeah, I
know virgin uh Atlanta. A lot of the boys I
was with her from Toronto and Atlanta, and I know
they were getting drenched. I think like the Carolina's Georgia
got drenched, so I assumed New York got at least
the aftermath.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
New York got that snow twice while we were there.
It didn't really stick much either time.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, yeah, I think Atlanta got so the last day
that we were there, Atlanta got like it's most snow
it's gone in like thirty years of it. Yeah, it
has like a.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Number ton ton of snow. Anyway, this was this was outstanding.
It was really really really good.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Was it like bread in the back like that. Yeah.
It's like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
But crunch here a little bit like especially like dryer
but in a tendor, you know, like cooked in a
ten door these uh, I didn't. I had to look
up where Yemen was. Honestly on the map. It's like
little EASTI yes, south of Saudi Arabia Yemen and like
not very far from Ethiopia, like across the water from
(27:53):
Ethiopia and stuff. It's just really really good. These are
AI images. They're crazy. We uh we saw some shows.
Oh this was this was some lot case with with
salmon row grim fresh.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I mean New York still is yeah, you know, top
fucking five in the world with food for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah. We and then we went to Kats's Delia. Cats
is good one of the last few days. I I've
been to Sarges before, and I actually like Stargees better
because cats is. Let me make me show you the picture.
It is insanity.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
It's although there's two locations, I think I think there's
two or three. Yeah, I've been to both. They are crazy.
I've been to the other one too. I don't know
the name of the one you're talking about. It's a
little more sit down. The Starges is more of a city,
so I've had that one too, And then and then
there's there's low key one in downtown l A like
same style as Cats. I forgot the name. Uh year
(28:53):
took me to it. It was good.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't remember, but I know I know which one.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Any one of those here?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Uh yeah, well we they tried, but you know when
they do it here, they don't do it exactly right.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And then that's the issue. The one in La tasted
like that New York shit like that. I just love. Yeah,
like hello good. It's easy too, like a hello good
bread and then hello good roast beef. Just chuck it
on there, you know, like it's not that complicated.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I wish I had taken a picture of the sandwich
that I got. It was like just a giant pistami sandwich.
But here's the thing. It was twenty eight dollars for
a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
But you are getting like a pound plus of meat.
It was a lot. They don't they don't skimp you,
that's for sure. And it is a tourist deal, yeah,
but it and honestly a fucking the meals twenty bucks?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Holy shit?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Is that serges?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
No, this is this is Katsas which one is that?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
This is the one where they filmed where Harry met.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Sally More on the south side.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Uh, it's east East phillagey kind of. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I've been there. Yeah, I've been to two of them
for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But there's like eight cutters along this left side go
crazy and there's like lines in front of all they like,
you have a ticket, and you take your ticket and
they they they mark everything on the ticket and then
when you go to leave, you give them the ticket
and they pay.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But it's like, it feels very New York.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It was not at all cheap. And we split the
sandwich because it's the sandwich is very normous. I can
I mean, I've I can eat a lot, and that
was going to be a way a lot more than
I could actually handle.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Sammy's big. I just compare everything to like Chipotle ECUs,
that's the standard, and everything's fucking expensive. Yeah, and Chipotle
meal is going to cost you twenty bucks. Yeah, you know,
so if you're going to respond, it's been at thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I mean, we didn't really care. Plus we did we
didn't eat out dinners very much either. We're like you know,
we tend to be the people who don't eat breakfast
or dinner out when we're traveling, and we try to
stay in places that have I didn't exactly learn this
from from stand efforting, but I kind of did. Like
he always stays in a place that has a kitchenette.
(30:57):
We always stay at place that has eat at least
a refrigerator and a microwave and hopefully a Trader Joe's
or something. Yeah, you can get by and you used
to get a bunch of stuff and like we're you know,
salads for dinner and cereal for breakfast and coffee in
the room and whatever, and it, you know, works out.
I think I probably lost five or six pounds with
the course of the time. I was not on a
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weight loss island, however.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, lots of walking, Yeah, weight loss islands, all the fatties,
fat camp, lots of.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Lots of uh SO. Saw some shows. Saw two shows
that are Buddy David Tower is behind one of them.
Uh is headlined by John mulaney, but there's like a
rotating cast. And he turned down one of the award
(31:45):
shows hosting to do this on Broadway. And he was amazing.
He was really really good. It's kind of a reader's
theater kind of kind of thing. Everybody else was like
basically like reading but acting their stuff out, and he
was pretty much off book the whole time. Lauren Michael's
Saturday Night Live producer, was one of the executive producers
(32:08):
on the show as well.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was a big SNL like documentary coming out.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think that this week in the
rotating gast. I think that Linn Memoril Miranda is in it.
And then he overlaps with Jimmy Fallon sometime in the
next few days. And I heard that those tickets are
going for like four times face value in that and
they're not the cheapest tickets in the world either.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Big names though, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We saw one of the probably most classic American play
Our Town Revival with Jim Parsons from Big Bang Theory.
I never watched that show, but I've seen him at something.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That movie about the about the women who were calculators
for NASA during the Moon missions. I didn't see it,
think I think he was in in that, but he
was really good. And Katie Holmes, Katie Holmes wasn't it
And well, the way back machine. If you go back
(33:13):
to the seventies, one of the most popular TV shows
was The Waltons and the lead kid character on that
who was you know, I think he was maybe a
teenager when it started. Richard Thomas was in that. And
then we saw Oh Mary, which is the play another
play that David is behind that has just like been
(33:35):
the biggest thing on Broadway since we were there in July.
It's just big, crazy comedy about Lincoln to being assassinated
and how crazy his wife was. I can't even it's
hard to describe it. It's just like, other than saying
(33:56):
it's like naughty vaudeville, it's just like just so much shit,
just just crazy, crazy, crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I don't think people think of Broadway like that, but
it's like so evolved. Yeah, like if you've never been,
like that's that's kind of a point. Yeah, Like it's
like more like a movie and funny or not funny
or whatever, but it's more it's more evolved. It's not
like Shakespeare like growing up, that's what I thought it was.
It probably was more like that in the eighties nineties,
(34:24):
but now, like you can catch any cup of tea
out there you want.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, the show that Millennie's all in very accessible. You
don't have to know anything or have any experience with
theater or whatever to be able to enjoy it because
it's like just super engaging and yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
People think it's like yeah, like opera e you know,
or like in hoity toity, and like some ticket prices
are a little hoity toity, but like the experience isn't.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah yeah, oh, Mary was sold out everywhere. I end
up having to go to the third party market to
find something to find seats for the show, and uh
I bought them through sub hub because I'd had a
bad experience with seat Geek, which a lot of people
use for for you know, third party tickets. And we
(35:12):
couldn't actually get in until like five minutes before the
show started, five minutes before curtain because their system somehow
doesn't release the ticket from the original owner.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's like a flying standby.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah yeah, So we used to wait and wait till
the last minute. But at the city this is crazy.
We waited all this time. But at the same time,
on the same night, that same box office accidentally gave
away four tickets to a like a group of four people.
They gave away the tickets to the wrong people. They
(35:49):
literally had to go to those seats and kick those people.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yes, I mean, I bet, I bet it's more common
than not.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I would imagine maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
There's mixups, especially yeah, with the e sale market, you know, yeah,
like people passing names and yeah, do you identify who's
the current owner of that ticket versus who sold it
an hour ago? Right?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
The other kid the other tickets I bought that way
they they had there was like a physical image of
the of the ticket with the QR code symbol, and
the other one just had the QR code and no
image of the ticket, and it had somebody's name on it,
but that wasn't mine. But nobody was checking because it
just went so I don't know. That was cool, and
(36:33):
we went We were in the audience for Colbert because
we were staying about half a block from from the
at Sullivan Theater where Colbert tapes.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, all the studios are still out there, because I
know a lot of la ones are really like Warner
Brothers in them are going crazy in Vegas. So I
think a lot of them are going to start to migrate,
uh yeah, or New York will obviously be a mainstay
for many, like Saturday Night Live. I assume it's still
in there, Saturday Night Live, Rockefellers, Like, yeah, still, that
would be cool to see live one time, even though
(37:04):
the cast is whatever. Now, Yeah, I would. I mean
not that you can know ahead of time exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Who the guest is gonna be. Yeah, if you got
a good one, they'd be totally worth it.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. Yeah, just seeing some of the like icons would
be insane. You know, you get in there fucking twenty
years ago, oh yeah, or fifty years ago. Yeah, yeah
for sure, yeah, Bluchi or whatever the fuck. I think
Adam Sandler was kicking it in Vegas. Everyone says he
just like does nothing, Like I think he's at the
hotel by my house, just like walking around with his dog,
Like he really is that guy. Yeah, Like I don't
(37:35):
think he has a car. I mean I've read like
he was like a little YouTube video, so who knows,
like the truth. But people say like he just because
I think he still loves and lives in New York
a lot, and so he probably just like maybe as
a driver, but I think he just like walks and
like is normal.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
He takes his dog to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I think, uh, he was just walking his Yeah, I
think his dog was in the hotel with him and
he just fucking yeah, walking him go to the bathroom
and walking around the fucking probably some basketball shorts of
flip flops.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
The the Colbert experience was interesting. If if you've never
been to a show that that's being recorded live for TV.
When I say recorded live, I mean they recorded it
and then they actually edited it because he fucked up
in the in the monologue, stopped everything and said, let
(38:28):
me go, let me do that again me and then
it's not something that normally happens. And then the musical
guest was Jean Batiste. But it was actually recorded, uh
in December before Christmas, because that's when he was available.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Is he not? Because he was a house band, wasn't
he he was?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
He's not not anywhere?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Was that not Colbert?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
It was Colbert?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, I know, I just know. I just remember he
was one. I don't watch a ton of those shows
that I.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Don't really either, Honestly, I did watch the one we
were on, I just because I wanted to see that
that performance and just what it what it looked like altogether.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, when I was younger for some reason. I guess
maybe because I was up later, I'd be watching like
Ledderman or Leno obviously the main two, and like a
little bit of a who's the fucking redhead guy? Yeah,
like a hair of Conan when I was like probably
like high school age.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Conan would have been fun to see. I saw Craig
Ferguson back in the day.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Oh yeah, they're almost all of them are in New York, right.
Leno was like the only La.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Guy Ferguson was was LA. James Cordon was la Is
he done?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Are they all?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's done? Yeah, they're done. Yeah, Cordon took over for
Ferguson and they're both. Cordon was okay with his car stuff.
That stuff was fun. Yeah, I didn't necessarily always love
the rest of it. And then turns out he's kind
of an asshole.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
So yeah, yeah, I don't I don't put a.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
If Colbert is an asshole, he does a really good
job of covering it up.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well, I think that's everyone Hollywood. I'm not putting my
money on any of those guys being saints.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
He you know, he does a Q and A before
the show, and he is very like down to earth
and normal and stuff sounding. So who knows.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
But when acting is your gig, I don't trust you.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah. Well you know, been there, done that a little bit,
you know, in terms of having a show not totally
be reflective of your experience in real life.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
That's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, so so was that we did the Transit Museum
in Brooklyn, which is the the for the New York system.
Like going back to building tunnels, they talk about how
they built the tunnels in New York and they're like
(40:51):
they did different ways, but they used like cut and
cover where they would just like cut into the street
and then they have to move around all the water
and the utilities and all that stuff. And then then
they put stuff over the top and they finished underneath,
and they finished the top and stuff, and then the
tunnels that they go under water. And I did not
(41:16):
have any understanding of how this worked before, but they
they had to pump pressurized air into them so that
if there's like a leak develops or whatever, you're done.
Yeah right, yeah, and a lot of people die.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I mean same here, right, Like Bart goes underwater, Bar
goes underwater. Yeah, it seems complicated.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Transbay tube.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, some kind of vacuum makes sense,
or yeah, or you go deep enough that, yeah, the
ocean seems difficult, but a bay, yeah, you know, maybe
you go deep enough that you don't have to fucking
worry about it. I don't know buying an engineer anyway,
it would.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I mean it was we hadn't done it before. We
talked about it doing before. It's pretty cool, yeah, enjoyable.
And then the next day we did this like tour
where you go with a tour guide on the subways
and they show you the like remnants of the original
stations from the early nineteen hundreds and a.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Lot of that stuff's cool, like even like the station
or Madison Square Garden and shit, it just looks cool. Yeah,
you know, and a lot of people like talk about
modern architecture and shit not looking cool versus like, yeah,
we used to spend time on making shit look nice.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
The City Hall station was like the first one that
was opened in the early nineteen hundreds, and they ended
up closing it because they're weren't enough writers, which is crazy.
It's like super opulent, like the you guys may have
not have ever seen the original Christophery of Superman. But
(42:47):
Lex Luthor's layer is in one of them.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Oh that's funny.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
It's like there's a pool that he puts kryptonite around
Superman's neck with a chain and throws them into the
water to kill them off. But it looks like that,
and you can actually see just part of it if
you stay on the number six line when the train
turns around. They like the guy showed us how to
(43:15):
how to see it, and like four times a year.
I guess they let people uh go, But it's like
a very limited number of tickets and it's like going
to a rock concert or whatever in terms of like
getting online and hitting the button over and over against
And I think it's not cheap either.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Interesting and otherwise it's just doing nothing.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Otherwise it's just sitting there gathering dust. Yeah, it's crazy.
I don't know why. I mean, I think there's some
structural issues and stuff like that that they would have
to spend money to remediate.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
But shit, Manhattan, you think you're monetizing every inch of it? Yeah,
you would think I would do something.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You would think, and like when they're certainly building a
lot of buildings currently about it just kind of never
stops of note I was two blocks from the from
the CEO hunting grounds. I'd been by there before.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
But yeah, I mean Manhattan is literally the most valuable
land on the planet. Yeah, probably won't change anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Yeah, just just for people who are in New York
or are going to New York. Who but I'd be
going to a dispensary, which are very legal there, except
there are some of the I legal ones. But whatever.
It just if you're from you know, California, expect to
pay more.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Oh yeah, but by a bit. Yeah, probably like a
good third more because it's all from here.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Right, so you got like, yeah, pretty much just those costs,
let alone taxes and let alone who knows what.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
It doesn't balance the fact that we have to pay
more for gas.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
But you know, yeah, that's true, that is true. Yeah, there,
they don't even buy gas.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
You just walk everywhere, you know, they did they congestion
pricing now, so if you actually drive through it at
certain times of day, they charge you more. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
I mean, I've been in Manhattana good amount of times. Yeah,
it's not like there's gas stations downtown.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
No. No, I don't actually remember having seen a gas station.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
I don't think I have in Manhattan for sure.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Not spend more time in like Brooklyn and Queens than
I we ever had before.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, for sure, each a little borough school. I've been
in the Bronx a little bit and little stuff. It does.
Each have like its own culture and flavor, for sure.
But I mean even San Francisco, it's fucking no gas stations.
There's like two on the outside.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
It's hard to finding. Yeah, I don't like to drive
in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Particularly now, Like it's not fun.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Back when we had a Mini Cooper, I was kind
of about it because you could get, it was easier
to park, it was easier to drive.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Where roads are tiny. People suck at driving. Yeah, I'd
probably rather drive in Manhattan, to be honest. At least
like there's like four lane roads. Yeah, people are crazy,
but at least there's more people.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, it was just like I had the kind of
the worst city I had to drive ever try to
drive in was Doublin So with like wrong side of
the car, wrong side of the of the road way,
crazy amount of traffic.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Like yeah, all Europe, i'd imagine isn't amazing in most
spots besides like fucking Germany or something. You know, I
don't want to drive in London either, Yeah, Paris, Like
I probably don't want to drive in those spots.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
I've never been in a car in London, not even
one time, and I haven't been in New York. But
like I think the only times I've been in a
car either lifts to it from the airport and I
you know, we usually fly off and flying into Newark
and out of LaGuardia if we're coming from Canada. And
(46:45):
now you can take a train to a bus for
essentially just you know, two and eighty cents versus you know,
ten plus times that, yeah, to take an uber lyft.
And then like when you and I were in New
York in like twenty fifteen, we were in like uber
(47:06):
blacks Excel whatever whatever. And outside of that, I've never
really been in a car in New York.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, I uber to a couple events, but you can
get most spots pretty easy foot In Someway, yeah, one
of the few cities out.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Here to just touch on a health topic, I got
pitched a guest and we haven't really talked about it
yet because there's new studies and new recommendations coming out
about alcohol use and how like almost no amount of
alcohol is good for you. And I got pitched a
(47:42):
doctor to come talk about it. We may have that
or we might just read an article in the future. Here.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
It seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
It seems pretty easy. It seems pretty like I don't
you know, I mean to talk to somebody about it.
It's a question of like do they have strategies for
people who drink routinely to stop drinking routine Yeah?
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Probably not. I mean that's all that man. Like even
since I was a kid, you like hear about like
dies being bad for you, and now they just outlawed
like red three or whatever three. You know, Like it's
kind of like a no brainer, which you know, not
to sounds put on my tentfoil hat, but like there's
lobbying and politics going on everywhere to push this stuff.
And so if Budweiser's putting a trillion dollars into whatever politician,
(48:28):
then the politician is going to help run a campaign
saying one beer a day is actually pretty good for you, Like,
you know, it's just so simple. But like when is
alcohol in a logical sense ever done anything positive? You know,
the best argument people have is like, well then I
get more confident, Like bitch, that's fucking fake, Like that's
fucking fake confidence.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Then yeah, I mean I think that the the social
lubricant value of it. If you're someone who's got like
a little bit of a social anxiety kind of thing, whatever,
it can be helpful in really really moderate conditions, like
one beer ought to be enough because.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Wait, my point isn't that yeah that doesn't have some value,
but like it's not like.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Real no, No, it's definitely like.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Like you're you faking it would like placebo in yourself
would be the same EFFECTI it's for your personality. Yeah, literally,
you know, like if you just say like all right,
I'm gonna act real confident night and just go fucking
fake it, you're gonna have the same result versus like, yeah,
I don't think having a beer a day is gonna
kill you either, but I don't think having a beer
a day is gonna help you in anything either.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Yeah, they're saying like a beer a week, yeah, or
you know, maybe two for for men.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
I mean, more and more people I'm meeting and talking
to it. Maybe part of it's the era, and maybe
part of it's my age. But like more people I
run into just don't drink at all. Like people ask
me if I drink, I just say like no because
I really don't. Again, I'm not like claiming sober like
against it, but like in the last three years, I've
probably had one drink a year max.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Yeah that's me, but not I mean I might have
three or four in a four to six weeks. Yeah,
just ten, it depends.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Oh, it's just more common, you know. And it's just
like everything else in our fucking world, it's just getting
more and more divisive. The people that do drink are
drinking fucking Thursday through Monday because there's some kind of
party or event, and then the people that aren't drinking
aren't drinking at all. Right. It's the same with like
who's gambling. Either people are gambling twenty four to seven
or people don't gamble at all. It's the same with
people that work out. The people that work out are
(50:30):
actually it more serious about it now there's no like casuals,
and then there's people that are just fucking eating doritos
on the couch. Like everything's just splitting down the middle.
It's just what side you're gonna take.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, I've never really understood the binge thing. Like not
to say that I haven't done it, but I just
never understood it because it's days of recovery when you're
a healthy young person, let alone as you get older.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
You mean food or alcohol. Yeah, I think when you're
younger and drinking, they just easily fucking justify it because
they're fun. That's just all their friends.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
I don't think it's a logical decision like hey, I'm
gonna go fucking take twelve shots. They just know like, yeah,
this is how I get laid, this is how I
talk to that person, this is how this is what
my friends do when they're at the King's game. So
I'm gonna buy a fucking forty eight ounce beer. Also, Yeah,
I don't think it's thought out. And eventually it's either
gonna catch up to you and you get hungover or
(51:26):
and stop, or you're just an alcoholic and just gonna
deal with the pain and take a liquid IV thinking
it's helping. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
I've I've often said that, like, don't whatever whatever advice
you want to get involved with, don't do it so
much that you have to that you're forced to stop it,
like you can just you can decide to stop it
and not have any repercussions around the decision, like not
not be hard, not be like withdrawal the situation, or
(51:54):
like you've screwed up your life and the only way
to fix it is to get clean and it's over.
I mean, it's just indulging so much. It just is
not not a good path.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
Yeah. I mean, if it's a real vice, I don't
think you're driving the ship anymore.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Probably, you know, it's not a conscious thing. People don't
know you. You're not going to someone binge drinking every
working weekend saying hey you got to issue. They just
won't register. It won't register in their brain.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Yeah. And people who can put away, you know, twelve
packs of beer or you know, fifth of whiskey or whatever.
I just don't mean my my livers was never a
fan of that.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Yeah, it's common, it's not uncommon, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I don't even understand. Well, that's all about all I
got so far. We'll be back on something of a normal,
normal schedule. They're going to do some batch recording because
Mike's got some travel coming up.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
We've got things to do. Fam Sacramento, California, Third Street Barbells,
stop on in. We'll see you there. Three his speed
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I am at DJ mcdee and all the social media.
The show is fifty percent facts, four percent of the
word and fifty is just numbers. Fifty percent Facts is
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