August 7, 2025 • 25 mins
Josh and Lisa say goodbye to their most chaotic segment ever, the Weekly What If, revisiting six favorite questions and debuting two brand new ones to open and close this beautiful mess.
• Josh would choose to live in Dragon Ball Z as Goku, while Lisa prefers Sweet Valley High books as a sidekick character
• Lisa would travel back to the 1990s which she calls "her decade," while Josh acknowledges he's happiest in the present
• If they could master any skill instantly, Lisa surprisingly chooses self-defense while Josh wants psychological profiling abilities
• They debate how social interactions would change if everyone wore visible meters showing their social battery levels
• Josh would smuggle physical comfort items like soft clothes if comfort things became illegal, while Lisa would smuggle comfort foods
• Both find appeal in disconnecting from technology, though Lisa has reservations about roughing it outdoors
• The episode ends with a nostalgic discussion about The Wonder Years' narrative style
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Brother, Sister, Whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Josh, I'm Lisa and this is the end of an era.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yep, we are saying goodbye to the most chaotic
segment we've ever done theweekly.
What if so?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
today we're revisiting our six favorite
questions and debuting two brandnew ones to open and close this
beautiful mess.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yep.
So let's try a new one.
Let's start with a new one,okay.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay.
So, josh, if you had to live inone of your childhood imaginary
worlds or shows or books orgames, where would you be and
what would your role be?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'd probably be like Goku and I would be on well
planet Earth, saving the worldonce again from destruction.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, that's what you would do.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
For sure.
I mean, who wouldn't want to bea Super Saiyan?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I would you know what I would be.
I would be a character fromSweet Valley High books.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I remember those books.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh my God, Okay, okay .
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Maybe even Babysitter's Club.
Just one of the books that Igrew up with Nancy Drew, Solving
Crimes.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So you want to be like one of the popular kids.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
No, I'd be the sidekick.
Actually I wouldn't be the maincharacter, I'd be the sidekick.
Why?
It's less like pressure to bethe sidekick.
You know the sidekick.
You expect them to fuck up and,like you know, say stupid stuff
(01:58):
and not look great.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh, my god, I'm not main character vibes.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh, you're too funny.
You underestimate yourself.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, maybe, but I feel like in my brain I would be
just A-OK with sidekick vibes.
Cool cool, yep, okay.
So let's take a look at some ofour favorite from this season.
Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What if you woke up tomorrow in a completely
different decade, past or future?
Which one would you choose, andwhy?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I'm actually that's pretty easy for me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I would go back to the nineties.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Why.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Because that was my decade.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
What do you mean?
It was your decade.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It, just it, the music.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You were like your happiest yeah For me.
I think, um, I think it justautomatically has to be the past
.
I think, uh, the way, the waythe world's going, I don't even
want to look at going to thefuture, but I would.
(03:12):
I guess I would probably seeI'm thinking financially, I'm
thinking like, okay, I'm goingto go in the past because I'll
know things that will happen.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Of course, of course you would do that, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So, but particular, like decade for me, I'm probably
I have to say I'm probably myhappiest right now, believe it
or not, like in this era ordecade, I guess.
But if I had to, I think, yeah,I probably, I probably I miss,
(03:43):
you know, my 20s, some I miss,some I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
But I miss the, I just miss the experiences.
Then you know like thecommercials, even though we
hated them, but like thecommercials and like having to
wait, and you know just all ofthose things that like
everything is now, now, now.
So for me, even going back inthe nineties or even even to
(04:13):
that early two thousands, Idon't think it was as cuckoo as
it is now with the now now stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Absolutely not.
Yeah, we definitely had to waitfor a lot of things.
There was a lot of like, I feel, like our growing up we had
like a lot more imaginationbecause we had to well, yeah, we
had to wait for you know what I?
Mean.
It was like boredom leads toimagination.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
There was a lot of boredom yeah, so true okay, so
you would pick your 20s yeah, soI guess that makes me what
that's two decades ago yeah souh, so 2000 mid-2000s yeah, okay
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So what if you could instantly master any skill?
What would you choose and why?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, you first on this one.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Okay, I would learn all kinds of self-defense
methods.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, Okay like kung fu, jiu-jitsu karate you know
all that stuff Matrix, wherethey plug it in and it's just.
You instantly know all thisstuff.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know what, when I was thinking about skills, I
was like who can forget thatmontage right?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, that was awesome.
That was awesome Likedownloaded.
I remember even when theyneeded to fly a chopper, it was
like they download it boom.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I know how to fly it now Exactly, yeah, exactly.
At its base, it's all about,like self-defense, knowing how
to protect myself if I need to,that kind of thing For sure.
However, I think there's also alittle bit of like a power,
(06:02):
like I would feel powerful.
I feel like it would be reallygreat for your self-esteem to
know how to take care ofyourself In that way.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, that's actually a really good point, that's
awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So what about you?
What skill would you master?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm very much into like just like profiling and
psychology and that type ofstuff.
So I would love to just likebecome you know like a guru.
Jordan Peterson.
You know, like boom, just thatknowledge is like in my head.
You know, like that would bepretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well, to read people better.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, don't get me wrong, I read people pretty well
because I work with people allthe time.
I guess I just mean more oflike, like I'm able to like
analyze them better.
Okay, I mean psychologists.
That's technically part oftheir….
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, they're analyzing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You know they're analyzing and like, oh, this is
your problem or this is what'sgoing on with you, or you know.
So it would be fun to kind ofhave that skill.
And you know, it's funny thatnow that I just I just literally
thought of it, because wantingthat skill is actually very
close to what I do already.
Okay, but for dogs, you knowwhat I mean.
(07:24):
So it's kind of funny how, uh,and and and also it makes me
realize like, oh, oh, yeah, Iguess it's not really far off
from yours, is far off.
You know, like I would have notexpected that.
I would have thought maybesomething to do with like
business or like Internet orlike you know, like a webmaster
or like graphic designer orsomething like that.
(07:45):
But no, I did not think youwere going to go for martial
arts.
So but yeah, I guess mine iskind of it's pretty boring.
I guess it's like in the samecategory of what I'm already
doing.
I analyze dogs every day, thenI mediate the families, the
people, and in this case I wantto have that Jordan Peterson
(08:05):
mind.
That would be the skill, thoughlike to have his brain.
You know, I don't want to behim, I don't want to be him.
But yeah, just the skill,though, like to have his brain.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You know, I don't want to be him, specifically for
his brain.
I don't want to be him.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But yeah, just the way he you know, the way he like
you know, just like.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Okay, but so why that skill specifically?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Like I said, you know , I think it would be really
wonderful to just understandpeople a little bit more on a
deeper level.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Not so much on just a surface level kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
What if everyone had to wear a visible meter showing
their social battery level?
It's almost like a braceletthat says oh, I'm an introvert,
extrovert, whatever, okay, howwould that change social
interactions?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Whoa Well, I think it would change things a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You think?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think it would.
I'm kind of surprised, actually, now that I think of it, that
there isn't like that doesn'texist on like Facebook, you know
, like introvert, extrovert, oryou know, like, think about it,
it's true.
It's true, you know, like,watch it be created.
Now Someone's listening to us.
But, yeah, I think it wouldchange things a little bit.
(09:28):
I mean, it's like anythingreally right.
Yeah, I think it would changethings a little bit.
I mean, it's like anythingreally right.
Like in the sense of when youknow more than you normally
would about the stranger, youautomatically you know, like I
don't know what to say.
So, for example, if I meetsomeone and I'm like, hey, how's
it going?
(09:48):
And oh, okay, your bracelet,you know, and it says you're
introvert, you know.
And when you say like battery,do you mean like it shows how
much energy they have, likeright now, like I'm at like 20%.
So it's like, oh, I'm not goingto talk to this person.
This person has no energy rightnow.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Or do you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
mean like Because, yeah, I mean that would
obviously.
You know, usually you find thatout in a few moments after
talking to the person.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, Right.
So that would kind ofpreemptively Like hey, my name's
.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Lisa, how are you?
Yeah, I'm good.
Thanks.
It's like okay, their batterylevel is pretty low.
Yeah, right, you know it mightexplain a few things, though.
So, meaning, when you get thatreaction, instead of maybe
taking it personal, you mightsay oh well, okay, see the
(10:39):
battery level.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's a good point.
Didn't think of that.
I think that, depending on theperson that you're talking about
, I think there's assholeseverywhere, and so I don't think
.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I think we can all be an asshole a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, but I mean, I think there's assholes
everywhere in the sense thatthey don't give a shit about
your social battery batterylevel.
I want this or I need this orwe're whatever.
They're coming with their ownyeah, for stuff right for sure
(11:18):
so I think that would just beanother another thing to like
well, you know I don't want tospoil anything, but you know it
could be a good weekly.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What if then on that, on that kind of grounds okay,
what now imagine if it showed alist of everyone's boundaries.
Oof, there's a bracelet withall the boundaries there digital
, you know, pops up like this,you know, and it's just like,
okay, these are all theboundaries.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Imagine that.
What if every comfort thing inyour life suddenly became
illegal?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
What would you smuggle?
Would you join the underground?
Weighted blanket resistance?
Which comfort item would breakyou if it disappeared?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh fuck.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Those are some great weekly what-ifs.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, some good questions to make you think Okay
.
So one of the things that Ilike comfy things that I love is
physical right, like it's thecomfy pants that, when you sit,
don't cut into your belly youknow those kinds.
(12:37):
The blanket, the pillow,strategically placed, like I
mentioned before, the nook right, the spot on the sofa, the best
spot on the sofa.
So those things.
To me, if that got taken away,it'd be a depressing fucking
life.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It'd be sad.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It would be sad I would.
I would obviously be on thehunt for new comfort things.
It would have to be replaced,because one cannot live without
comfort things, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, no, for sure, right, For sure.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Okay, what about you?
Well, first start by saying,like, what's your thing, what it
would be that you would begiving up if you lost it, If it
became illegal.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
If it became illegal, something that's comforting,
comfort of the comfort.
For me, like food, okay, that'sfine.
(13:53):
For me it's a thing like meatlasagna, you know, like the old
fashion, like, oh, that would bethat would be tough.
That would be a tough one.
So you know there's somethingabout, like you know, I can, I
can really stick to my diet andbe really good, but if I get
sick I want to have thosecomfort foods, you know, and so
I'd say that that's probably mything.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Okay, you know like yeah, so that would be something
you could smuggle.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I would totally smuggle frozen lasagna.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Right, yeah, oh man.
What if you had to spend a fullweek completely offline, living
in nature, but there's like nophone, no tech, just the
outdoors?
Would you thrive?
(14:43):
Would you just survive, likewhat?
How would you feel?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I think I would feel pretty good.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, there's something about wanting to
disconnect Like this is underthe impression I don't have to
think about my business oranything.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, like, like, or even like just like a
week and like a week off, kindof thing.
Right, yeah, yeah, I would, Iwould thrive, I would thrive.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You, you, I would thrive, you, you would thrive.
No.
So here's the thing.
Outdoors only, ooh, there'slike lots of bugs.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, I mean, you have a tent and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Okay, yeah, Like I like the concept of outdoors.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Okay, there's people who love it, there's probably
people who, no, like it's nothappening.
Yeah, the one kind of outdoorsything that I can't do that
people do just because we're onthe topic is, like you know, the
antarctic outdoorsy people, theones who will have the pitch,
the tent on a mountain with likeminus 40 and stuff like okay,
(15:49):
yeah, that's extreme like that'slike, like those I don't know
how those guys do it because ofthe weather yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's because of the cold okay, I totally agree with
that.
Anything with the cold I'm like.
No, no indoors for me.
But here's the thing I want toclarify that the weekly would
have questions said likeoutdoors right and would would I
thrive in that.
Everything else about it, likethe no tech, the just relaxing,
disconnecting, I'm there for it.
(16:17):
If it was like an, a glampingexperience where it's not
necessarily like like maybeyou're in a cabin in the woods
somewhere.
OK that I would be like, yes,sign me up, but the pitching of
the tent and you know thefucking like cooking hot dogs on
tree branches and shit, not forme, not for me.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh, you can take a harpoon and try to catch a fish,
yeah, no.
What if you had to sit in aroom with nothing but a chair
for eight hours?
No phone, no music, nodistractions, just you and your
thoughts?
Who cracks first?
What weird thoughts show up.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That gives me like padded room vibes, you know,
like in one of those asylums,you know, oh man, there's
something about that.
That kind of feels really likenice.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Do you know what I mean?
Like really, oh okay, Likealmost like I could breathe a
sigh of relief and just like be,I think I don't.
I'll be honest, though Like Idon't know, like nothing, like
not even like birds chirpingkind of shit, I don't know.
It seems a lot.
I don't know if I'd be able todo a whole eight hours I mean, I
(17:40):
guess technically it's kind oflike a jail cell, right?
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like it's giving, like so you don't really have
anything to do.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, you know, and, and no phone, no music tvs,
don't they?
Or books at least yeah right,so um yeah yeah, yeah, I think
it would be nice to experiencethat once.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, or it doesn't have to be in that context,
right, like like, in that senseI mean it could be like what,
like camping is technically notfar from that, right yeah.
I mean, yeah, okay, you can dostuff, right, it's not well.
No, I'm not, we're not evensaying that you can't do stuff.
You just, you know, there'snothing.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well, that's like you can't, there's nothing to do,
yeah, but like you can stillmove around or like pace.
Oh yeah, you can exercise Right, I guess right.
So yeah, I don't know.
I think it would be nice toexperience once.
I don't know, I think it wouldbe nice to experience once.
I don't think it would besomething that I would be able
to first of all, would be ableto do all the time, but also if
(18:51):
it's something that I wouldreally need or want to do all
the time.
And for like a full eight hours.
Yeah, that's a lot.
Yeah, without doom scrolling.
Without doom scrolling, there'slike nothing, right, that's a
lot.
Yeah, I'd be good Without doomscrolling.
Without doom scrolling there'slike nothing, right.
So I would be okay with onetime to try it out, just to see,
you know.
It'd be funny to see what youwould come out of it with, like
(19:17):
what revelations about yourself,what thoughts, because you have
nothing else to do but think.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
In some scenarios it might not be the best thing.
Sometimes you might not want tothink be thinking too much you
know you, you sparked somethingtoo.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I remember there was, uh, I forget who said it,
though, but there, you know,there's a certain hour, right um
?
Like a witching hour no, butthere's a certain hour, like if
you go past, that all of asudden your mind like turns
inwards you know, like like you,you start just thinking about
(19:48):
other things, I guess, but it'sall like from within, it's like
a meditation, you know.
so it's like after, like the13th hours or something like
that you know, all of a sudden,like you have like this
enlightenment in the sense oflike you know all of a sudden,
like you have like thisenlightenment.
Uh, in the sense of like youknow what you're thinking about
or not thinking, yeah, kind ofthing, yeah well, that's kind of
(20:09):
cool, so that sounds likesomething I'd be maybe maybe the
eight hours could do us somegood yeah, exactly, exactly
challenge challenge.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
yeah, Challenge Challenge yeah, wow, talk about
a blast from the past.
Some of those were pretty funny, have to say All right, so how
about we close it out withanother new one?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
All right.
So if your sibling had tonarrate your next big life
milestone in Morgan Freemanstyle?
What would that sound like.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So if you were Morgan Freeman's voice and you had to
narrate a part of my life, yeah.
Shit.
It'd be something like and I'mnot going to even bother imgan
freeman because he's classic andyou can't even touch him, but
(21:04):
it would be something like andthere she goes, sad again,
eating another cookie oh my goshsomething like that.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know.
Something random.
You know, oh, planning anotherevent that's going to fail, oh
(21:28):
come on Jesus Murphy.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What is this the negative podcast?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The negative ninny.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No, no, I don't know, man, that one's's tough.
It's just like if somebody wasnarrating your life, it'd be
pretty mundane.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'd have to say, just be like you know, it's the same
shit every day, pretty much youknow who popped into my head,
but I don't remember the showand I don't remember like I
don't remember the name of theshow, but I remember we were
really young okay, what butthere was that um family show.
It was always a narratortalking about like something
(22:10):
that happened.
It like like speaking about theboy.
You know, oh man, it's gonnadrive me crazy, that narrator
voice.
That's the narrator voice Iwould choose for you, as opposed
to Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Okay, and what would it say I?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
can't remember the freaking.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
we were young, young Like I vaguely remember it, so
it had to have been the 80s.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And it was that iconic bigger guy.
He's always angry and he wasthat iconic bigger guy.
He's always angry and he wasthe dad.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Kevin, yes, kevin rings the bell.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
The Wonder Years.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh my gosh, I have goosebumps.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The Wonder.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Years.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, oh, that was such a good show.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Am I right?
Yeah, there was a narrator.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who was that?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was Kevin, as an adult, narrating himself his
life.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But who's the actor behind the adult voice?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, because it wasn't him, was it?
No, I don't think so.
It wasn't the kid.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
No, okay, hold on, let me look this up.
Hold on, let me look this up.
Wonder years narrator, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
funny how that voice kind of daniel stern, that guy,
oh my gosh, yeah, daniel sternwho was voicing the adult
version of kevin arnold that'sit, the wonder years, and that
dad man he was so good he was sogood that fucking show, holy
shit yeah the wonder years.
I wonder if I can find it.
Yes, how many?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
seasons in the last decade.
I wanted to re-watch it and Idid oh, did you.
Yes, I will, I will find outwhere I got it nice.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
How many seasons?
A lot of seasons.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
There's like five or six, I think, nice okay, and so
what would I say as thisnarrator?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I don't know, but it would be something.
I mean I kind of remember itbeing relatively negative.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Like you know, like so what is this the negative
show?
I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He's just staring at his dad.
You know, because his dad saidsomething and then the narrator
dad.
You know, because his dad saidsomething and then the narrator
speaks you know and you're justlike oh well, shit again, shit
again.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You know like oh, I love it.
Oh, now I want to go watch thatshow, damn.
Okay.
Well, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That was a good one.
Okay, let's see All right.
Well, we's see All right.
Well, we lay you to rest weekly.
What if segment?
It was fun while it lasted.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
It was.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
But new season coming soon and you know what that
means new segments.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
New segments, new lots of things.
Yeah, yeah, and we're reallyexcited to get started, so
you'll have to stay tuned, andwe have some really cool things
that we have not shown you yet.
So, trust me, you're going towant to stick around.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yep, All right, guys.
I hope you have a great weekand we will see you soon.
Take care.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Bye.
Welcome to Brother, Sister, Whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Josh, I'm Lisa and this is the end of an era.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yep, we are saying goodbye to the most chaotic
segment we've ever done theweekly.
What if so?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
today we're revisiting our six favorite
questions and debuting two brandnew ones to open and close this
beautiful mess.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yep.
So let's try a new one.
Let's start with a new one,okay.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay.
So, josh, if you had to live inone of your childhood imaginary
worlds or shows or books orgames, where would you be and
what would your role be?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'd probably be like Goku and I would be on well
planet Earth, saving the worldonce again from destruction.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, that's what you would do.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
For sure.
I mean, who wouldn't want to bea Super Saiyan?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I would you know what I would be.
I would be a character fromSweet Valley High books.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I remember those books.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh my God, Okay, okay .
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Maybe even Babysitter's Club.
Just one of the books that Igrew up with Nancy Drew, Solving
Crimes.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So you want to be like one of the popular kids.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
No, I'd be the sidekick.
Actually I wouldn't be the maincharacter, I'd be the sidekick.
Why?
It's less like pressure to bethe sidekick.
You know the sidekick.
You expect them to fuck up and,like you know, say stupid stuff
(01:58):
and not look great.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh, my god, I'm not main character vibes.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh, you're too funny.
You underestimate yourself.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, maybe, but I feel like in my brain I would be
just A-OK with sidekick vibes.
Cool cool, yep, okay.
So let's take a look at some ofour favorite from this season.
Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What if you woke up tomorrow in a completely
different decade, past or future?
Which one would you choose, andwhy?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I'm actually that's pretty easy for me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I would go back to the nineties.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Why.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Because that was my decade.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
What do you mean?
It was your decade.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It, just it, the music.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You were like your happiest yeah For me.
I think, um, I think it justautomatically has to be the past
.
I think, uh, the way, the waythe world's going, I don't even
want to look at going to thefuture, but I would.
(03:12):
I guess I would probably seeI'm thinking financially, I'm
thinking like, okay, I'm goingto go in the past because I'll
know things that will happen.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Of course, of course you would do that, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So, but particular, like decade for me, I'm probably
I have to say I'm probably myhappiest right now, believe it
or not, like in this era ordecade, I guess.
But if I had to, I think, yeah,I probably, I probably I miss,
(03:43):
you know, my 20s, some I miss,some I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
But I miss the, I just miss the experiences.
Then you know like thecommercials, even though we
hated them, but like thecommercials and like having to
wait, and you know just all ofthose things that like
everything is now, now, now.
So for me, even going back inthe nineties or even even to
(04:13):
that early two thousands, Idon't think it was as cuckoo as
it is now with the now now stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Absolutely not.
Yeah, we definitely had to waitfor a lot of things.
There was a lot of like, I feel, like our growing up we had
like a lot more imaginationbecause we had to well, yeah, we
had to wait for you know what I?
Mean.
It was like boredom leads toimagination.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
There was a lot of boredom yeah, so true okay, so
you would pick your 20s yeah, soI guess that makes me what
that's two decades ago yeah souh, so 2000 mid-2000s yeah, okay
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So what if you could instantly master any skill?
What would you choose and why?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, you first on this one.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Okay, I would learn all kinds of self-defense
methods.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, Okay like kung fu, jiu-jitsu karate you know
all that stuff Matrix, wherethey plug it in and it's just.
You instantly know all thisstuff.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know what, when I was thinking about skills, I
was like who can forget thatmontage right?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, that was awesome.
That was awesome Likedownloaded.
I remember even when theyneeded to fly a chopper, it was
like they download it boom.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I know how to fly it now Exactly, yeah, exactly.
At its base, it's all about,like self-defense, knowing how
to protect myself if I need to,that kind of thing For sure.
However, I think there's also alittle bit of like a power,
(06:02):
like I would feel powerful.
I feel like it would be reallygreat for your self-esteem to
know how to take care ofyourself In that way.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, that's actually a really good point, that's
awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So what about you?
What skill would you master?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm very much into like just like profiling and
psychology and that type ofstuff.
So I would love to just likebecome you know like a guru.
Jordan Peterson.
You know, like boom, just thatknowledge is like in my head.
You know, like that would bepretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well, to read people better.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, don't get me wrong, I read people pretty well
because I work with people allthe time.
I guess I just mean more oflike, like I'm able to like
analyze them better.
Okay, I mean psychologists.
That's technically part oftheir….
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, they're analyzing, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You know they're analyzing and like, oh, this is
your problem or this is what'sgoing on with you, or you know.
So it would be fun to kind ofhave that skill.
And you know, it's funny thatnow that I just I just literally
thought of it, because wantingthat skill is actually very
close to what I do already.
Okay, but for dogs, you knowwhat I mean.
(07:24):
So it's kind of funny how, uh,and and and also it makes me
realize like, oh, oh, yeah, Iguess it's not really far off
from yours, is far off.
You know, like I would have notexpected that.
I would have thought maybesomething to do with like
business or like Internet orlike you know, like a webmaster
or like graphic designer orsomething like that.
(07:45):
But no, I did not think youwere going to go for martial
arts.
So but yeah, I guess mine iskind of it's pretty boring.
I guess it's like in the samecategory of what I'm already
doing.
I analyze dogs every day, thenI mediate the families, the
people, and in this case I wantto have that Jordan Peterson
(08:05):
mind.
That would be the skill, thoughlike to have his brain.
You know, I don't want to behim, I don't want to be him.
But yeah, just the skill,though, like to have his brain.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You know, I don't want to be him, specifically for
his brain.
I don't want to be him.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But yeah, just the way he you know, the way he like
you know, just like.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Okay, but so why that skill specifically?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Like I said, you know , I think it would be really
wonderful to just understandpeople a little bit more on a
deeper level.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Not so much on just a surface level kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
What if everyone had to wear a visible meter showing
their social battery level?
It's almost like a braceletthat says oh, I'm an introvert,
extrovert, whatever, okay, howwould that change social
interactions?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Whoa Well, I think it would change things a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You think?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think it would.
I'm kind of surprised, actually, now that I think of it, that
there isn't like that doesn'texist on like Facebook, you know
, like introvert, extrovert, oryou know, like, think about it,
it's true.
It's true, you know, like,watch it be created.
Now Someone's listening to us.
But, yeah, I think it wouldchange things a little bit.
(09:28):
I mean, it's like anythingreally right.
Yeah, I think it would changethings a little bit.
I mean, it's like anythingreally right.
Like in the sense of when youknow more than you normally
would about the stranger, youautomatically you know, like I
don't know what to say.
So, for example, if I meetsomeone and I'm like, hey, how's
it going?
(09:48):
And oh, okay, your bracelet,you know, and it says you're
introvert, you know.
And when you say like battery,do you mean like it shows how
much energy they have, likeright now, like I'm at like 20%.
So it's like, oh, I'm not goingto talk to this person.
This person has no energy rightnow.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Or do you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
mean like Because, yeah, I mean that would
obviously.
You know, usually you find thatout in a few moments after
talking to the person.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, Right.
So that would kind ofpreemptively Like hey, my name's
.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Lisa, how are you?
Yeah, I'm good.
Thanks.
It's like okay, their batterylevel is pretty low.
Yeah, right, you know it mightexplain a few things, though.
So, meaning, when you get thatreaction, instead of maybe
taking it personal, you mightsay oh well, okay, see the
(10:39):
battery level.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's a good point.
Didn't think of that.
I think that, depending on theperson that you're talking about
, I think there's assholeseverywhere, and so I don't think
.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I think we can all be an asshole a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, but I mean, I think there's assholes
everywhere in the sense thatthey don't give a shit about
your social battery batterylevel.
I want this or I need this orwe're whatever.
They're coming with their ownyeah, for stuff right for sure
(11:18):
so I think that would just beanother another thing to like
well, you know I don't want tospoil anything, but you know it
could be a good weekly.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What if then on that, on that kind of grounds okay,
what now imagine if it showed alist of everyone's boundaries.
Oof, there's a bracelet withall the boundaries there digital
, you know, pops up like this,you know, and it's just like,
okay, these are all theboundaries.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Imagine that.
What if every comfort thing inyour life suddenly became
illegal?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
What would you smuggle?
Would you join the underground?
Weighted blanket resistance?
Which comfort item would breakyou if it disappeared?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh fuck.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Those are some great weekly what-ifs.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, some good questions to make you think Okay
.
So one of the things that Ilike comfy things that I love is
physical right, like it's thecomfy pants that, when you sit,
don't cut into your belly youknow those kinds.
(12:37):
The blanket, the pillow,strategically placed, like I
mentioned before, the nook right, the spot on the sofa, the best
spot on the sofa.
So those things.
To me, if that got taken away,it'd be a depressing fucking
life.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It'd be sad.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It would be sad I would.
I would obviously be on thehunt for new comfort things.
It would have to be replaced,because one cannot live without
comfort things, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, no, for sure, right, For sure.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Okay, what about you?
Well, first start by saying,like, what's your thing, what it
would be that you would begiving up if you lost it, If it
became illegal.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
If it became illegal, something that's comforting,
comfort of the comfort.
For me, like food, okay, that'sfine.
(13:53):
For me it's a thing like meatlasagna, you know, like the old
fashion, like, oh, that would bethat would be tough.
That would be a tough one.
So you know there's somethingabout, like you know, I can, I
can really stick to my diet andbe really good, but if I get
sick I want to have thosecomfort foods, you know, and so
I'd say that that's probably mything.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Okay, you know like yeah, so that would be something
you could smuggle.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I would totally smuggle frozen lasagna.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Right, yeah, oh man.
What if you had to spend a fullweek completely offline, living
in nature, but there's like nophone, no tech, just the
outdoors?
Would you thrive?
(14:43):
Would you just survive, likewhat?
How would you feel?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I think I would feel pretty good.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, there's something about wanting to
disconnect Like this is underthe impression I don't have to
think about my business oranything.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, like, like, or even like just like a
week and like a week off, kindof thing.
Right, yeah, yeah, I would, Iwould thrive, I would thrive.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You, you, I would thrive, you, you would thrive.
No.
So here's the thing.
Outdoors only, ooh, there'slike lots of bugs.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, I mean, you have a tent and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Okay, yeah, Like I like the concept of outdoors.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Okay, there's people who love it, there's probably
people who, no, like it's nothappening.
Yeah, the one kind of outdoorsything that I can't do that
people do just because we're onthe topic is, like you know, the
antarctic outdoorsy people, theones who will have the pitch,
the tent on a mountain with likeminus 40 and stuff like okay,
(15:49):
yeah, that's extreme like that'slike, like those I don't know
how those guys do it because ofthe weather yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's because of the cold okay, I totally agree with
that.
Anything with the cold I'm like.
No, no indoors for me.
But here's the thing I want toclarify that the weekly would
have questions said likeoutdoors right and would would I
thrive in that.
Everything else about it, likethe no tech, the just relaxing,
disconnecting, I'm there for it.
(16:17):
If it was like an, a glampingexperience where it's not
necessarily like like maybeyou're in a cabin in the woods
somewhere.
OK that I would be like, yes,sign me up, but the pitching of
the tent and you know thefucking like cooking hot dogs on
tree branches and shit, not forme, not for me.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh, you can take a harpoon and try to catch a fish,
yeah, no.
What if you had to sit in aroom with nothing but a chair
for eight hours?
No phone, no music, nodistractions, just you and your
thoughts?
Who cracks first?
What weird thoughts show up.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That gives me like padded room vibes, you know,
like in one of those asylums,you know, oh man, there's
something about that.
That kind of feels really likenice.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Do you know what I mean?
Like really, oh okay, Likealmost like I could breathe a
sigh of relief and just like be,I think I don't.
I'll be honest, though Like Idon't know, like nothing, like
not even like birds chirpingkind of shit, I don't know.
It seems a lot.
I don't know if I'd be able todo a whole eight hours I mean, I
(17:40):
guess technically it's kind oflike a jail cell, right?
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like it's giving, like so you don't really have
anything to do.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, you know, and, and no phone, no music tvs,
don't they?
Or books at least yeah right,so um yeah yeah, yeah, I think
it would be nice to experiencethat once.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, or it doesn't have to be in that context,
right, like like, in that senseI mean it could be like what,
like camping is technically notfar from that, right yeah.
I mean, yeah, okay, you can dostuff, right, it's not well.
No, I'm not, we're not evensaying that you can't do stuff.
You just, you know, there'snothing.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well, that's like you can't, there's nothing to do,
yeah, but like you can stillmove around or like pace.
Oh yeah, you can exercise Right, I guess right.
So yeah, I don't know.
I think it would be nice toexperience once.
I don't know, I think it wouldbe nice to experience once.
I don't think it would besomething that I would be able
to first of all, would be ableto do all the time, but also if
(18:51):
it's something that I wouldreally need or want to do all
the time.
And for like a full eight hours.
Yeah, that's a lot.
Yeah, without doom scrolling.
Without doom scrolling, there'slike nothing, right, that's a
lot.
Yeah, I'd be good Without doomscrolling.
Without doom scrolling there'slike nothing, right.
So I would be okay with onetime to try it out, just to see,
you know.
It'd be funny to see what youwould come out of it with, like
(19:17):
what revelations about yourself,what thoughts, because you have
nothing else to do but think.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
In some scenarios it might not be the best thing.
Sometimes you might not want tothink be thinking too much you
know you, you sparked somethingtoo.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I remember there was, uh, I forget who said it,
though, but there, you know,there's a certain hour, right um
?
Like a witching hour no, butthere's a certain hour, like if
you go past, that all of asudden your mind like turns
inwards you know, like like you,you start just thinking about
(19:48):
other things, I guess, but it'sall like from within, it's like
a meditation, you know.
so it's like after, like the13th hours or something like
that you know, all of a sudden,like you have like this
enlightenment in the sense oflike you know all of a sudden,
like you have like thisenlightenment.
Uh, in the sense of like youknow what you're thinking about
or not thinking, yeah, kind ofthing, yeah well, that's kind of
(20:09):
cool, so that sounds likesomething I'd be maybe maybe the
eight hours could do us somegood yeah, exactly, exactly
challenge challenge.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
yeah, Challenge Challenge yeah, wow, talk about
a blast from the past.
Some of those were pretty funny, have to say All right, so how
about we close it out withanother new one?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
All right.
So if your sibling had tonarrate your next big life
milestone in Morgan Freemanstyle?
What would that sound like.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So if you were Morgan Freeman's voice and you had to
narrate a part of my life, yeah.
Shit.
It'd be something like and I'mnot going to even bother imgan
freeman because he's classic andyou can't even touch him, but
(21:04):
it would be something like andthere she goes, sad again,
eating another cookie oh my goshsomething like that.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know.
Something random.
You know, oh, planning anotherevent that's going to fail, oh
(21:28):
come on Jesus Murphy.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What is this the negative podcast?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The negative ninny.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No, no, I don't know, man, that one's's tough.
It's just like if somebody wasnarrating your life, it'd be
pretty mundane.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'd have to say, just be like you know, it's the same
shit every day, pretty much youknow who popped into my head,
but I don't remember the showand I don't remember like I
don't remember the name of theshow, but I remember we were
really young okay, what butthere was that um family show.
It was always a narratortalking about like something
(22:10):
that happened.
It like like speaking about theboy.
You know, oh man, it's gonnadrive me crazy, that narrator
voice.
That's the narrator voice Iwould choose for you, as opposed
to Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Okay, and what would it say I?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
can't remember the freaking.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
we were young, young Like I vaguely remember it, so
it had to have been the 80s.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And it was that iconic bigger guy.
He's always angry and he wasthat iconic bigger guy.
He's always angry and he wasthe dad.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Kevin, yes, kevin rings the bell.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
The Wonder Years.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh my gosh, I have goosebumps.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The Wonder.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Years.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, oh, that was such a good show.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Am I right?
Yeah, there was a narrator.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who was that?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was Kevin, as an adult, narrating himself his
life.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But who's the actor behind the adult voice?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, because it wasn't him, was it?
No, I don't think so.
It wasn't the kid.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
No, okay, hold on, let me look this up.
Hold on, let me look this up.
Wonder years narrator, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
funny how that voice kind of daniel stern, that guy,
oh my gosh, yeah, daniel sternwho was voicing the adult
version of kevin arnold that'sit, the wonder years, and that
dad man he was so good he was sogood that fucking show, holy
shit yeah the wonder years.
I wonder if I can find it.
Yes, how many?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
seasons in the last decade.
I wanted to re-watch it and Idid oh, did you.
Yes, I will, I will find outwhere I got it nice.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
How many seasons?
A lot of seasons.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
There's like five or six, I think, nice okay, and so
what would I say as thisnarrator?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I don't know, but it would be something.
I mean I kind of remember itbeing relatively negative.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Like you know, like so what is this the negative
show?
I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He's just staring at his dad.
You know, because his dad saidsomething and then the narrator
dad.
You know, because his dad saidsomething and then the narrator
speaks you know and you're justlike oh well, shit again, shit
again.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You know like oh, I love it.
Oh, now I want to go watch thatshow, damn.
Okay.
Well, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That was a good one.
Okay, let's see All right.
Well, we's see All right.
Well, we lay you to rest weekly.
What if segment?
It was fun while it lasted.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
It was.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
But new season coming soon and you know what that
means new segments.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
New segments, new lots of things.
Yeah, yeah, and we're reallyexcited to get started, so
you'll have to stay tuned, andwe have some really cool things
that we have not shown you yet.
So, trust me, you're going towant to stick around.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yep, All right, guys.
I hope you have a great weekand we will see you soon.
Take care.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Bye.
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