News from June and July 2024

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Shaun (00:00):
news stories that have happened recently.
As usual, we at the end of themonth, or slash begin the month
we try to bring you that newstories that we found
interesting, and today we have afew of them for you.
Nate, do you want to start?

Nate (00:10):
yeah, well, I bet it's like yes and no, because you
know from the beginning.
Um, I would just kind of sayyou know, scratch that, take two
.
I do want to start, however.
I don't actually have any newsstories as of yet.
I've been crazy busy.
I wanted to kind of talk about,like when I was looking through
articles.
I want to be as fair aspossible, you know, because I

(00:32):
realize certain news agencieshave certain slants.

Shaun (00:49):
But I'd be damned if I were using Fox News, you know,
or Sunplay, because that's justlook.

Nate (00:51):
So you've got to be careful with Fox News too,
because there's a differencebetween fox news and, like local
fox affiliates too, so you knowyou might want to put like a
fox 23, and usually thosestations are, you know, slightly
less, uh, polarizing, slightly,true, very true, but there
there are still like leaningsbecause, um, I was watching a
john oliver a while back andthey, a lot of those news across
the country, a lot of the newsstations are actually owned by
the same conservative like mediaand so they'll, they took, they

(01:11):
released this, um, like thisthing they wanted all the news
reporters to read and talk about, like, oh, you know, we are
really concerned about thisthing happening in our country.
And it was verbatim across thenation.
They kept on taking glimpses.
It's one thing to say, hey, wehave this we want to say, but
they were trying to pass it offas my personal belief in this

(01:32):
situation.
This is where I stand, but itwas just across the nation.
All the radio, all the newsstations were saying the same
thing, all of them playing itoff as if it was their words.

Shaun (01:45):
They were saying not their core.

Nate (01:46):
They're basically reading somebody else's opinion.
Yeah, it's like I don't know.

Shaun (01:48):
This is close enough to my opinion.
I might as well just read itverbatim and they were.

Nate (01:52):
They were told it was clear.
They were told to read itverbatim because there was no
deviation.
You know, I would have a lotmore respect.
They're like, hey, here's thegeneral vibe.
We want to go with um, go outthere and you know you need to
pitch this, but pitch it yourown way.
They didn't do that.
They're like you must read itthis way.

Shaun (02:08):
I know what you're talking about too, because I've
seen it not only where they readit verbatim, but they even have
like the same inflection intheir voice in certain areas.
I mean it with those findingarticles.
So I have some news stories.
If you'd like me to start, good, all right.

(02:29):
First of all, this doesn't havemuch to do with your interest,
but it's kind of interesting inmy own way.
So remember how the NFL has beendoing that fun thing where it's
like hey, if you want to watchgames, you've got to have local
TV, you've also got to haveAmazon Prime or even the
Paramount Network, and they justkept like adding on streaming
options and you know differentways.
You have to watch it by payingand this, and that Basically,

(02:50):
it's no longer just.
You know you can throw onChannel 13 and watch your
football, you also have to havethe NFL Network, you have to
have all these different things.
Well, they got sued by thegovernment saying, yeah, that's
actually not really that cool tobe doing that to people anymore
.
So not only did they get zingedwith $4.7 billion in damages
that they got to pay out, butalso this might come into the
era usher forth, the era whereyou can literally just pay to

(03:13):
watch just your team.
Like if I wanted to watch theSeahawks, I could literally just
pay like $5 a month to get justSeahawks games, which that
would be kind of a neat thing todo, because, as is now, I
believe people figured out thatif you want to watch every nfl
game through all the streamingthings, you're paying something
like 300 a season to watch itall ridiculous I mean I get, I
get the reason why they owe meobviously money but it's all

(03:35):
money, that's.

Nate (03:35):
All the nfl wants is money they realize, look um, they're
not gonna.
You know, not as many peopleare gonna pay for.
I don't know um the michiganpixies.
I'm sure they don't exist, yeah,it works for me, you know,
versus like fucking the seattleseahawks.
You know, yes, it's they,there's no question.
And so obviously, you know, onone hand, that means the

(03:57):
seahawks are gonna get a lotbetter coverage than the pixies
you know they're like.
But at the same time, it's likethey probably weren't gonna do
that anyway, you, even if theywere paying $300 for all of it
Because they weren't breakingthat money.
Equally, where?
they're like okay, everyone,from the Seahawks to the Cowboys
, to the Pixies, to the Gnomes,they're all getting their own.

(04:18):
We're going to dedicate just asmuch money to reporting each
one of these teams.

Shaun (04:24):
With team names like that , you made your own fantasy
league.
Haha, exactly boom pixies andgnomes versus cowboys and
seahawks and also with all thismoney, the people that actually
really hurt.
You know man boohoo, the barowners.
But borrowers, uh, you knowthey want to show every game
possible and if they gotta startpaying out the ass for
subscription fees, kind of sucksfor them.
For the local bar that you knowcan't really afford the extra

(04:45):
300 bucks or a couple hundredbucks a month to watch all the
games.

Nate (04:48):
No, fair.
But they could also just, youknow, pick and choose.
You know like yeah, hey, you'rea bar, you could make it a
theme.
Hey, this bar, we support thisteam on, then come here so
that's cutting off a goodportion of your uh, clientele

(05:08):
fair.
No, you could make it, you'redefinitely.
Yeah, well then, don't be asports bar.

Shaun (05:10):
No, I'm not talking sports bars, just any bar, I
mean that's what you're gonnahave on the tv.
If there's an nfl game on, doyou really want something else
on the tv?
I guess I never reallyeverybody literally gonna come
up to the bar and be like why isthe nfl game not on?
Well, we can't afford it, sir.
And then they're just like fyou bye, we're going over to
ted's across the street I guessI've never really considered
like because I don't care, youknow.

Nate (05:28):
So I've never really paid attention to sports when, when
it's on, I I might, I naturallygoes to tv.
So I've watched sports I don'tgive a shit about because yeah,
it was just there I was in themexican restaurant.
I was eating chips and I sawargentina um versus germany on a
soccer game.
Um, I don't care about eitherteam.
I'm not a huge fan of soccer,although I will say I'm not a

(05:49):
huge fan of soccer.
But on the hierarchy of sportsI don't give a shit about.
I actually care more aboutsoccer than others.

Shaun (05:55):
But it's good that you started over soccer Wars and
riots, oh yeah absolutely.

Nate (06:01):
That's not even a joke, totally.

Shaun (06:10):
Did you see what happened to that soccer game down in
florida?
No world champion, it was, uh,argentina and oh, I don't know,
let's just say brazil, but Iguess so.
Uh, you know, it's prettycommon in those things for
people to like break in andsneak in to try to watch games
for free.
Well, this time, I guess,apparently a lot of fans like
literally got blueprints to miDolphins stadium and people were
breaking.
You can look up photos of it.
People were like literallycrawling into ventilation ducts
and like spooning through theventilation ducts and popping

(06:31):
out various places in thestadium, cause I guess they
literally had like littleblueprints of where all those
ducts went and were like, heyman, if we just scoot down this
duct 30 feet and hang a right,we can pop out by the locker
rooms.
Yeah, pop out by the lockerrooms.
Yeah, there's just footage ofpeople just in mass, like dozens
of them, just pouring intovarious holes in the stadium.
It's an impressive sight.
They're in the vents, yeah, andyou can see like the five

(06:53):
security guards chase around andbe like, what do we do?

Nate (06:55):
There's so many of them and they're just kind of like
yeah, at one point you justgotta sit back and go alright.
Whatever this is happening, wecan't stop this.
We're not paid enough to stopthis.

Shaun (07:06):
Me and my taser and my billy club are going to get
immediately overwhelmed andkilled.

Nate (07:10):
Yeah, Like I'm standing at this door.
I was paid to stand at thisdoor.
If they get around me, thenthey win.
Yeah, this is Florida, I'mprobably making $13 an hour to
do this.
It's not worth me gettingcrippled.
Yeah, an hour to do this.
It's not worth me gettingcrippled.
Yeah, according to my contract,I was supposed to watch this
door.
I have continued to watch thisdoor.
I have successfully watchedthis door.
No one has gotten past me.

Shaun (07:32):
Right, this one door has been blocked.
What about?

Nate (07:35):
all those other doors around you.

Shaun (07:36):
You did not tell me to watch those doors.

Nate (07:39):
That was not on my contract.
Yep, the ventilation wasdefinitely not on my contract.

Shaun (07:42):
You've got to call Yep.
The ventilations was definitelynot my contract.
Nah, nope, you gotta call theHVAC union for that.
They're the only ones able todo that.
I'm not allowed to go up aladder, you see, I'm forbidden
in my contract.
Um, anyways, moving away fromsports, I got another kind of an
interesting story.
So apparently, um Deadpool andWolverine is set to top Passion
of the Christ as the highestgrossing R movie ever in the

(08:03):
United States.
Good, that means Deadpool ismore popular than Jesus.

Nate (08:06):
Marvel Jesus beat the regular Jesus.

Shaun (08:09):
Yes, he did, and that's.
Brilliant.

Nate (08:11):
It really is.
Yeah, speaking of the MarvelJesus bullshit, like I saw some
TikToks, these people are allmad.
They're like we left after afew minutes.
Blah, blah, blah, it's Deadpool.
Mm-hmm it Deadpool, it's RatedR and it's Deadpool.

Shaun (08:26):
Have you not seen the other ones?
People are like.
I read Little Lotta comics backin the day and this is nothing
like Little Lotta or Richie Richcomics.
I shouldn't have taken mytwo-year-old to this.

Nate (08:34):
Well, people even have said specifically the Marvel
Jesus comic.
I'm like that was in thetrailers.
Was there a Marvel Jesus comic?

Shaun (08:40):
I didn't even know that actually.
Oh, oh you, obviously.
I've watched so much of thetrailers but like no, actually I
kind of just avoid it allbecause I'm like I'm gonna watch
the movie regardless.

Nate (08:47):
I don't need to see it, okay, well, yeah there's a
comment basically saying likehey, you know, uh, and this
isn't actually true.
But like he gets the idea thathe has been chosen to save like
the marvel franchise, and sohe's like I am marvel jesus and
guys like, uh, no, and, but herolled, he rolls with it and he
continues going to the moviebelieving he's marvel jesus and

(09:10):
people are like getting offendedby that.
I'm like it was an in thetrailer.
Yeah, that scene was in thetrailer.
They.
That was a part that was like afull-on star star trek, um,
cutting to commercials, fullstop on face comment.
He's like I am marvel.
He looks dead in the dead ofthe camera and the audience goes
I am marvel jesus.

Shaun (09:30):
He said the trailer that moved past it you know, it'd be
awesome if he took off his maskfor one scene there and just
looked just like jesus.

Nate (09:38):
That would be funny uh and I mean it's actually kind of
funny too, like, uh, yeah, Ijust recently was hired at the
post office and I went through alittle post office academy and
the guy who was one of thetrainers there, he's like he
talked about how he's a big geekand how he likes Star Wars and
Marvel and he was like I'm gonnago see the Deadpool movie.
I'm like cool, he's actuallyout in the middle of nowhere,
like he's normally stationed,like just it kind of like from

(10:06):
what he described is verysimilar to like around your area
.

Shaun (10:07):
Um, just a whole lot of you know very rural.
Yeah, my route covers 12 houses, over 60 miles of turf, kind of
yeah and so yeah, but he waslike he came in the next day.

Nate (10:14):
He's like.
I saw deadpool, what'd you guysthink I'm like?
I loved it.
You know it was a perfect movie.
No, but I I've thoroughlyenjoyed it.
He's like a little too crudefor me.
I'm'm like, ah, well then you,he's like then you obviously
don't watch too much Deadpool.
He goes, if I brought my wifewith me, I'd be really
embarrassed.
I'm like, well, I guess it's agood thing you bring your wife,
but also, just come on, man,lighten up.

Shaun (10:45):
Because, I mean they definitely, they were definitely
try to top it, okay, I mean soI guess, if you weren't
expecting it, if you thoughtlike deadpool 2 was the top of
the uh crudeness charts then.

Nate (10:54):
Oh yeah, no 100, they.
They went for.
They went for it and wasactually it was fine.
You know it didn't feel out ofplace, you know it didn't feel
like it was too far.
I mean, they definitely theypushed the boundaries as far as
they could and, um, it's still.
The way I was thinking about itwas, if you're trying to go
into this movie thinking abouthow this is going to be a

(11:15):
serious movie, even like aserious movie with some comedy
that's gonna bring it alltogether, it don't, no, don't do
that, yeah it was this was a umprofanity filled love store,
love note or, like you've noteven love note like a lust note
for marvel properties across theboard.
You know, and that's basicallywhat it was you're gonna get it.

(11:37):
Yeah, the cameos you know thereare a lot of cameos.
All of them felt like they,they belonged, it was, it did.
No cameo there really felt likeoh well, they do that.
You know, every, every, theyall felt nice.
It didn't feel cheap.
You know, if you want to, ifyou were wanting to feel cheap,
then you can feel that way.
That's fine.
But it seriously, like all thecameos they brought out didn't

(11:59):
feel like quick cash grabs.
You know they were, but theydidn't feel that way and yeah it
.
Even they were, they theyweren't on the very long.
Most of the cameos were likebarely a couple of minutes long.

Shaun (12:11):
And they like what they do, those dumb cameos where it's
like oh hey, that's so-and-sofrom alpha flight, let's discuss
his origin story for 30 seconds.
45 seconds derailed the entirestory yep, there was none of
that.

Nate (12:22):
They actually was kind of funny because puck is a small
canadian from blah blah blah.
You're like oh, shut up yeah,well, one thing about it was I
really I appreciate was they'relike you either get it or you
don't.
You know, that was a lot of alot of the cameos or a lot of
the kind of throwaway gags.
They put this in there and ifyou didn't get it, well then
this wasn't for you yeah, youknow that's that's.

Shaun (12:42):
That's on you, not on us.

Nate (12:44):
This cameo is perfect so I mean I really wish you had seen
it, because I would love to goover certain cameos.

Shaun (12:48):
But oh yeah, it's fine.
I'll probably see in the nextcouple of days.

Nate (12:51):
Maybe that's good I mean, one of the nice, one of the
nicer cameos was also there area bunch of cameos of so he goes
looking for this is a bigspoiler, it's he's they part of
trailers as well.
Um, he goes to look for awolverine and so he goes through
.
Um, basically a lot of of comicbook versions of wolverine that

(13:13):
you'll be very familiar withand you just got a chance to see
a live action version of themand it was just and I'm sorry,
multiverse popping, I'm guessingyeah, oh, yeah, oh.
But just touch on a spoil one,you'll live with it.
It's it's like a, literallyit's 20 seconds of the movie,
you're it's not at one point hevisits up.
So I've mentioned before inthis podcast when the big comic

(13:34):
book runs.
That brought me back comic bookwas the age of apocalypse.
I loved age apocalypse, um.
You know I'd fallen out comicbooks in the 90s.
I rediscovered it through thex-men series, age of apocalypse.
In that series there was awolverine, um, and he looked
pretty cool in the comics.
When you see him in real life,or you quote real life, but when

(13:54):
you see him in live action, Ithink he was probably the gayest
looking one of all the time.
I mean just he popped in andthe way maybe it was just a
picture of his leather daddy.

Shaun (14:04):
Uh, wolverine, yeah, oh, is it the one with the eye?

Nate (14:06):
patch.
No, that's not that one, that'sokay.
Age apocalypse.
He's like full black, like skin, tight black leather, no
sleeves, with a big kind of redv on his chest.
His hair is insane, like it isway more everywhere than the
others.
I mean it looks like he'swearing um, fucking uh,
cinderella 80s az music bandcinderella wig, black wig, and

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he's leaning up against the wall.
The way he's leaning againstthe wall.
He's very straight backed.
He's got like with his lip,just it.
It looked like he was makingthis, that he.
They threw him from abercrombieand finch like cover and you
know.
Then he proceeded to, like, youknow, beat the shit out of wade
, but it was again.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.

(14:51):
It was hilarious.
It was really nice to see thatversion of him on there because
I had like a just a nostalgiaboner for that version of
wolverine.
But man, that I'm glad theydidn't roll with that in the
movie because he looks superstupid in live action.

Shaun (15:04):
It did not work if you remember or not, but uh, did
wolverine have sleevesthroughout most of the movie on
his uh yellow outfit?
No, didn't, because here's thething, I learned this on one of
my special effects, uh, youtubechannels, apparently the early
previews.
Wolverine has yellow sleeves inthat.
But I guess the fan feedbackwas backlash on it was pretty
substantial, so they actuallywent in and cgi'd the sleeves

(15:25):
off of them and, like, put cgiarms in a lot of scenes.
They did a really good job andso you really can't tell.
But I guess, yeah, if you see asleeveless wolverine, odds are
they uh, did that inpost-production oh yeah, sure
enough.

Nate (15:36):
I do see sleeves on him.
I didn't know he was I guess inthe yeah.

Shaun (15:40):
But if you go to the very first trailers that popped out,
he's got sleeves in all ofthose.
And then the fans are like wedon't like the sleeves.
So they're like, hey, we'lltake them out.

Nate (15:48):
Yeah, I've seen some still shots of him with sleeves and
he does not have sleeves.
Well, did he Now that I didn'treally even notice?
Did he have sleeves, like inthe early?
Okay, he was Okay, he did havethem in the original.
Okay, he was okay, he did havethem in the original, like when
he went and grabbed them and hehad the sleeves on.
And when he first shows theyellow suit he had sleeves.

(16:10):
But I guess they he lost themin, like during the movie.
Yeah, I didn't even pay theylost them.

Shaun (16:18):
Yeah, I need to go back.
They just fell off at one point.
They were vestigial sleeves.
I really do.
Once Wolverine matures, theyjust fall off of them that
vestigial sleeves.
Once I really do, I'm sure theyjust fall off of them.
Uh, that's gonna be bugging youthe rest of the day.
You're gonna be like it is likedid he have sleeves?
Did my god?
Because your brain is tellingyou one thing and the pictures
are telling you something else.

Nate (16:33):
You're just like I know I remember him having sleeves,
like are not having sleeves.
But now I'm looking at thesepictures I'm like, wait, did he
have sleeves?
I don't know, but most, howabout this?
Most of the movie he did nothave sleeves.
I don't know how about thisMost of the movie he did not
have sleeves.
If he had sleeves earlier inthe movie, then you know, but I
don't remember having sleeves.
But yeah, I'm seeing theseimages that are making me
question it.

Shaun (16:52):
Just so you know, if you saw him without sleeves, those
were not Hugh Jackman's realarms.
Oh, there you go.
Yep, for what that works, Imean.
Yeah, anyway, fun also.
The main thing is, uh, otherthan a few areas where you can
really looking, you can tellthey did a really good job of,
like you know, blending in thefake arms yeah, I mean, and I
don't know also like I'll lookat the cordial crew where they
talked about it, his mask looksgood sometimes and not so good

(17:15):
other times and there was acouple times, um, in the movie
where he it looked good andagain I'm reiterating, I love
movie.

Nate (17:24):
But there was several times during some of the fight
scenes, and especially withLogan, I mean I was like okay,
am I watching a big-budget movieor am I watching a cut scene on
a PS4 game?

Shaun (17:38):
It's just, there were a couple times where I know what
you're talking about, where itreally takes you out, and all of
a sudden you're just like waita minute, what?
What happened?
It's like the budget gets cutin half or you transport back to
like the early 2000s for liketwo seconds with that quality of
cgi and you're like, huh, yeah,it was.

Nate (17:53):
It was a couple times it was a bummer where it's like, oh
man, it just doesn't look asgood.
But you know, still it.
For what the movie was, it wasreally good.
And I liked this version ofwolverine because this wolverine
isn't, like you know, the onethat we got to know and love
through all the x-men movies.
They, um, they established inthe first few seconds he is
truly dead, he's gone, like thatwolverine does not exist.

(18:15):
So the wolverine they do get,they really they establish like,
okay, this wolverine is likethey.
Again they say in the trailershe's the worst Wolverine, he's a
piece of shit.
So a lot of the stuff thatDeadpool kind of gets away with,
wolverine's like yeah, but atthe same time he lets it happen
Because he just sits back forone particular character I'm not

(18:35):
going to mention For oneparticular character, actually a
couple of particular characters.
Deadpool, while isn't thekiller straight up, gets a
couple of characters brutallymurdered and it's entirely
Deadpool's fault, even thoughDeadpool wasn't the one who
killed him.
He absolutely is at fault.
And Wolverine just kind ofstands by, lets it happen.

(18:57):
Then kind of comments laterthat was shitty.

Shaun (19:01):
And then Deadpool looks at the camera and does the Home
Alone face and be like ooh Endscene, I don't know scene.

Nate (19:07):
That's how I picture it going for cussing at least this
Wolverine's cussing from thejump.
So yeah, it's just kind of nice.
They're both foul mouth piecesof shit at times.
The second time, when ithappens near the end, when this
particular Deadpool makeschoices that directly lead to

(19:30):
this character's brutal demise,it's funny obviously.
And then when you find out whyhe did that, it's a nice bow
tied to an earlier.

Shaun (19:42):
It's just a nice cherry on top.

Nate (19:44):
It's like a Chekhov's gun, you know where it's like.
They bring it up early in themovie and they heavily implied
during that initial thing Like Ithink we all know where this is
going.
And then the rest of the moviegoes on and you forget about it.
It just kind of slips your mind, you know.
And then when it comes up againyou're like, oh right, he did
say, he did heavily imply thathe was going to do that.

Shaun (20:06):
And then I just picture you in the theaters, like
adjusting your monocle, and belike oh, very clever indeed.
Oh yes, yes, yes, very good.

Nate (20:14):
So I will.
I'll enjoy the movie better thesecond time whenever I watch it
.
Either be at home or go to themovie theater.
I doubt I'll go to the theateragain, but when it does come
home, cause I really did enjoyit.
But there it is, that initiallike you're in the movie theater
, it's all happening, you'reseeing it for the first time,
you just kind of miss things.
So I'm looking forward towatching it again.

Shaun (20:32):
Yeah, and movies like that usually have just a lot of
stuff crammed in that you'regoing to miss.

Nate (20:37):
Yeah, and you know I do.
Um, it is a bummer that some ofthe things weren't surprises.
Ryan Reynolds was initially notgoing to show Wolverine's
yellow suit until just before.
I think his dream was to holdoff on the yellow suit until the
movie actually came out, butpeople were taking pictures from
production.

Shaun (20:56):
Yeah, stuff leaked out instantly.

Nate (20:58):
Yeah, nowadays keeping things under wraps for even some
of the cameos, like I waspleasantly surprised that, um, I
had I had avoided the spoilersbecause there were a few people
who showed up like, oh shit, Ican't believe this person's
there so what a surprise.

Shaun (21:15):
As you again gesture monocle go.
Oh, very good, very good, yes,yes, yeah and unfortunately.

Nate (21:20):
at this point, though, like I'm glad I'd seen it,
because at this point there's Imean, it sounds like you've
mostly avoided it, but if you'repaying attention at all, most
of the cameos should be spoiledto you by now.
So if you're avoiding it, thengood on you.

Shaun (21:33):
Yeah, I literally know nothing about the movie other
than what you told me today.
Awesome.
Well then hurry up and go,because I'm dying to talk about
stuff.
Yeah, I can tell, because youtalked about it for the last
like 10 minutes.
I know, see, right, we'll putin a spoiler warning before this
.

Nate (21:46):
Yeah, I mean I didn't spoil much, but I did mention a
couple of things.
So yeah, I'm going to put aspoiler.

Shaun (21:56):
Yeah, and I'll just be like, hey, just fast forward.
I don't know until point, pointtime, but I'm glad to hear it's
a good movie because man theuprising would have been real
bad.

Nate (22:02):
But yeah, it is not a perfect movie.
It is very enjoyable.
It doesn't look like at leastfor now, it looks like this may
be the last Deadpool movie,which would be fine, honestly,
if they end on this one.
They absolutely left it openfor future Wolverine Deadpool
adventures.
I doubt they're going to dothat, because they really.

(22:22):
I love Hugh Jackman.
He's amazing.
He's one of those rarecreatures.
He actually looks better nowthan he did the first time he
played wolverine.
You know like I don't know howthat, how he got, how he did
that, but he did so uh looks alittle more grizzled in his old
age looks more grizzled and justmore cut like dude, like when
you first see.

(22:44):
I actually have a picture of himin his first showing of
wolverine.
Right now his hair doesn'tisn't quite right.
It looks, you know it's close.
It's close, you know, when itcame out it was close enough,
but it, you know it wasn't thewolverine hair, we know you know
he would.
Did he have muscles?
Yeah, sure he had muscles, buthe's still like he didn't do
that thing where you know yousee all the muscles likeging out
of there with all the veins andstuff.

(23:04):
He just looked kind of normal.
Yeah, he's a regular dude withmuscles, but as he's gotten
along, particularly when theWolverine movie came out and
then he really started beefingup what's up, I'm doing my
powder casting Faster, faster.
Anyway, main point is he looksbetter now than he did then and

(23:26):
Eve is still dude's like old nowand hey how old is he Question?

Shaun (23:31):
Another fun special effects thing One of the very
early pictures of Hugh Jackmandoing Wolverine, it was kind of
like he had an undershirt on andhis claws out and he's kind of
like flexing his muscles and hewas just totally jacked.
Yeah, the way they actuallyaccomplished that is in the
original photo to get hismuscles to bulge that way they
actually have him holding giantconcrete bags and they had him

(23:51):
hold it there until his musclesstarted to pop.
Then they took the picture andthey edited out the concrete
bags.
That's why his muscles looklike there's so much strain,
because he's actually holdinglike sacks of concrete at the
time, which picture I'll see ifI can dig it up.
It's like one of the very firstuh, wolverine photos.

Nate (24:08):
Hold on, okay like from the from the first x-men yeah,
okay, okay, I thought you'retalking about like some of the
later ones, like I don't know.
That's pretty fucking jack.
He's 55 years old now, so again, he's not super old.
But probably should go aheadand hand the reins off to
somebody else.

Shaun (24:20):
Play wolverine he's over halfway to being legally dead,
from what I hear.
Yeah, did you ever hear that?
Oh, yeah, some people like ifyou reach 100, you're legally
dead.

Nate (24:30):
That's true, I don't, that is yeah, I took uh for a brief,
brief second.
I actually considered going toinsurance, um, and I'm really
glad I didn't.
But I actually went to like aclass and a court of interest
not legally like you know,they're not you, it's not like
the courts go okay, you're gonenow, but per health insurance
they need to put a number.

(24:50):
It is you know, for all theiralgorithm stuff.
They need a number when someonewill be dead and so, as default
, insurance lists a 100-year-oldas dead.
So if you're 100 years old, youcan actually cash in your life
insurance policy as if you died.

Shaun (25:10):
So that is, uh, 2004 and previous thing.
Apparently they've changed itsince 2004.
Oh really, there you go.
Yep, there you go.
Yeah, interesting.
Yeah, I guess just due to thefact that, um, there's so many
people turning 100 recently,which actually kind of leads us
into our next story, if youwould like.
Uh, a senior citizen home inItaly has been doing this thing
where they like bring in 100year olds, you know, just as
like a giant meeting kind ofthing.

(25:30):
Well, apparently they recentlyset the record with having 70
100 year old people under thesame roof.
That's a lot of remember backwhen we were kids and it was
like a huge deal that somebodyreached 100 years old, and
nowadays it feels like there'sjust 100 year olds everywhere.
But, yeah, an Italianretirement chain's annual
gathering of centenarians brokea Guinness World Record when 70
people who are at least 100years old attended this year's
event.
So apparently it's a retirementhome chain and I guess they

(25:54):
just take all their oldestpeople and just wheel them under
one roof for a day and thenthey kill them all.

Nate (25:58):
Which?

Shaun (25:58):
could actually be seen as old people abuse, depending on
how into it the old people are.
Very true, yeah, I'm likelooking at the picture now and
it's a lot of people inwheelchairs who kind of just
look there.
They were probably wheeled intoa room and just like sit here
for a photo opportunity.
In fact, I can actually link ifyou'd like.

Nate (26:14):
Oh, going back one.
I just sent you a picture of uhhugh jackman as a hugh jackman
as young, and then now text oron discord.

Shaun (26:24):
Oh, there it, there it is .
I had to actually typesomething.
There it is, it showed up.
Yeah, that's what Trin will dofor you.
To be honest, trin, yeah, it'sbasically oral steroids.
You don't have to injectyourself anymore and they're
pretty common.
You want to know what the sadfact is?
It's pretty much all the Marvelstars are on steroids.
They do?

Nate (26:40):
I mean you can't look.
I mean I guess you can Like, oh, but we have.
You know, we have it's alifetime of weightlifting.

Shaun (26:48):
Not, hey, I got in shape one year before my movie shoot,
shooting, kind of thing, Right,I actually watched a
nutritionist guy that I watch onYouTube.
He kind of broke down evidenceon why they're all on steroids.
And every Marvel actor.
When they get asked ininterviews like how'd you get in
such great shape, Every one ofthem says the exact same thing
oh, it's boiled chicken breast,brown rice and broccoli.

(27:10):
That's all you eat around theclock, that's it.
But apparently, if you like,punch that into a nutrition
calculator.
You'll wind up anemic if youjust eat just that.

Nate (27:18):
Oh yeah.

Shaun (27:19):
Yeah.

Nate (27:21):
You won't build any muscles.
I know Henry Cavill, but thenagain he's.
I believe him more because he'salways jacked.
So I see, I think he actuallydoes work out.
But he was talking aboutwhenever, on the Witcher, like
he was going to do a shirtlessscene.
They actually made him notdrink water for like a week.
He could only take small sips,so he was starving for water to
make the skin thin so themuscles bulge out more.

Shaun (27:45):
That is exactly how all bodybuilders do it.
The day like three days or afew days, before they uh go in
for their bodybuilding shoots,they literally stop drinking
water, they stop eating and theybasically uh dehydrate and
starve themselves to the point,almost to the point, of kidney
failure.
Sometimes they will actuallyhave renal failure because they
dehydrate themselves so much.
Oh good man, I guess on thedays of their shooting they look
their best but they feel awful,and it can take them like a

(28:06):
week of like basically feelinglike crap before they even feel
normal again, just because theyliterally bring themselves to
the brink of starvation, theirkidneys shutting down, just like
you said, to get that skin,like skin, tied around your
muscles and look good there wasa time, like when I was, uh, in
the 20s, I was like wanting toget all jacked and I actually
thought, oh, I'm going to go.

Nate (28:25):
We went to GMC or whatever and we were going to get those
pills to make our muscles.
And the guy's like, don't dothat, because it did exactly
that.
It just dehydrates you, itdoesn't help your muscles at all
and if you get a glass of wateryou kind of spoil the effectsus
immediately.
So I'm like, oh well, okay, Iguess I won't do that.

Shaun (28:44):
Here's another story I learned.
So back in the 80s there was abodybuilder named Dorian Yates.
I guess if you look up picturesof him it's impressive.
But I guess he got down to likeone of the lowest body fat
percentages ever, of like 2%,and he had such little body fat

(29:06):
that it was basically just organfat.
And also he had no subcutaneousfat, the fat right underneath
your skin.
So his skin literally satstraight on top of muscles, uh,
and he had the.
His skin had the texture andfeel of sandpaper, because there
wasn't like any of that paddingunderneath it.
Yeah, and on top of that he hadso little fat that we he had no
fat on the bottom of his feet.
So he's basically walkingstraight on bone and and
apparently when he was doing hislike bodybuilding stuff he was
in constant pain because he'sjust basically walking on feet,

(29:28):
bones.
So there you go.
If you lose enough weight, ithurts to walk around, yeah,
clearly.
And also he's got one of thosephysiques you're like well,
that's impressive.
I don't know if I'd want thatphysique myself Impressive, most
impressive most impressive.

Nate (29:46):
Yes, yeah, again, it was a dude doing steroids.
So, speaking of dudes, and youknow, not really steroids, but
like you, you hear about that.
So, okay, let me go back alittle bit.
So I was in my class for the uh, you know, for the whole post
office thing, like hey, here, dothis, and so, oh, I heard the
thing go.
I was like oh no, we got cut off.
Um, so we were talking about.
What do you not talk about in,you know, at work?
And one thing you don't talkabout is religion.

(30:06):
Another thing you don't talkabout is politics.
And the third thing you don'ttalk about is sports, because
people around here can getreally shitty about the sports.

Shaun (30:13):
Christ that dude?
Oh, the Dorian Yates picture.

Nate (30:15):
Yeah.

Shaun (30:17):
Actually there's even bigger pictures of him being
even like slimmer.
It's very unnatural looking, tobe honest.

Nate (30:25):
Like limber, it's.
It's very unnatural, looking tobe honest, like dude, what are
you doing?
Uh, some, some fat is necessary.
It's like talking my daughterlike the oldest, she's all
concerned about her weight.
She's like I would lose weightif you lost any more weight.
You'd be a fucking skeleton.
But like it's same same thingwith him, like dude, there's
such a thing as good fat, youknow, and oh, you need you.

Shaun (30:41):
You need it to function everyone look up pictures of a
strange-looking dude, dorianYates.
I shouldn't say strange,because I mean he worked very
hard on that body.

Nate (30:48):
Well, he could be still strange.
Just because you put work intoit doesn't mean he's not as
strange-looking.
It's like that dude who did allthe surgery to make himself
look like a cat.
It's like just because he didall that work to make himself
look like a cat doesn't mean youstill don't look like a fucking
freak.
And I told myself I wouldn'tcuss as much.

Shaun (31:04):
But I guess I'm doing okay a little bit, but still I'm
not doing great uh, the newsthat came out just today
apparently, um aerosmith wasdoing their farewell tour and
steven tyler blew out his voice,so they're ending their tour
early.

Nate (31:16):
Yeah, yay, ha you're like fuck aerosmith I it's funny like
I don't necessarily hate themfor any reason.
My biggest animosity towardsthem is because of the
Armageddon soundtrack, and I wasworking at a movie theater at
the time, and so when I thinkAerosmith, I always think, yeah,
I think of like.

Shaun (31:36):
Yeah, that song was annoying because it was
everywhere, non-stop.

Nate (31:40):
And then there was that Aerosmith video game I saw.
I mean, that's not.
I think, think of that too.
But my first thing I think ofis me being stuck in the lobby
of a movie theater listening tothe song for a thousandth time
that day yeah, oh god, yep.

Shaun (31:53):
Once the song gets overplayed, it's just like
poison, to my mind and just likeum, I have a similar thing with
spider-man 3.

Nate (31:59):
I can't really watch it, first of all because it's a
god-awful movie and I hated it.
Um, but like when I was workingat gamestop, the spy and they
had um the ps3 out, the moviethey used to demonstrate
blu-rays was spider-man 3 andthey played the spider-man 3
trailer every five minutes formy entire shift and, my god,

(32:20):
it's like I hate spider-man 3and again I hate spider-man 3.
Anyway, it's a terrible movie.
Um, it makes me angry when Iwatch it, but now it's like that
I get stuck to watch thetrailer over and over again.

Shaun (32:34):
Uh, no bueno yeah, that it's against the Geneva
Convention, I believe.

Nate (32:39):
I've only walked out of a few movies, but a lot of them
still stick through.
I didn't walk out of that onefor the main reason I had gone
to the midnight launch of thatmovie and I was stuck smack in
the middle of the row and Idrugged Jenny out to see this
thing.
So I was like not only am Igoing to have to get up and get

(33:00):
out of here, like trying tonavigate through all these
people's legs and have to dragjenny behind me, who didn't want
to come in the first place.
So then I'll have to deal withlike I told you.
So I guess I guess I'll watch.
Uh, fucking goth.

Shaun (33:13):
Uh, peter parker, do dance moves, I guess uh, yeah, I
never actually watched thethird one.
I think, much like x-men, Iwatched the first two spider-man
, then the third one came out.
I was just like huh you should.

Nate (33:25):
But okay, I say all that actually you should watch it, we
should watch it together, weshould watch like this get.
We should get inebriated andwatch it and like make fun of it
because it's not so bad?
it's not so bad, it'sunenjoyable.
I'll tell you that a lot of myanger from that comes from what
they do with the characters, andI have particular love for some
of his characters, particularlyvenom, but it's also so.

(33:46):
It's bad from that point ofview.
It's also bad from a writingand acting and you know how it's
shot, so it's, it's also likethat.
But again, it's not so bad youcan't enjoy it.
It's.
It's if there, knowing oh okay,we're in for a bad movie, let's
enjoy ourselves.
It's great.

Shaun (34:04):
Gotcha.
Yeah, you can enjoy theeye-rolling moments.
It's not like you're proppingyourself for being like Citizen
Kane.
I'm going to go see.
Oh my God.

Nate (34:10):
Like, I have a character.
Okay, this character is bad inthe beginning, oh look, oh now
he's good like god.
If the whole movie was justabout this guy, even that would
be a lot.
But this is like a sidecharacter.
We don't need all this stufffor a side character.

(34:32):
Oh, hey, look, this is the mostone of those beloved villains
of all, spider-man.
Let's introduce him on the sly,then let him fall off the
screen.
For a long time we focused onanother villain no one gives a
shit about, except for thedirector you can tell he's.

Shaun (34:47):
You can tell the only reason he's there is because
he's the director liked him as akid.
Be like.
That's my villain.

Nate (34:51):
I'm gonna make him in this movie he openly said he didn't
want venom in the movie.
He's like I did not want venom,I want a sandman and I wanted,
wanted Green Goblin.
He really just wanted Sandman.
No, he wanted Sandman and theVulture but they made him drop
the Vulture so they kept Sandmanand then the Green Goblin was
in there for whatever reason,and then Marvel forced him to

(35:11):
get Venom, so they totally didhim dirty, barely paid attention
to it.
He was, like I said, a sidestory at best, like what one of
the things about venom is.
He's a big, hulking figure andvenom and this one's like
basically a he's the same sizeas spider-man and which is
totally against the uh originsof venom which is, which, again,
is part of.
But yes, even if you want toforgive the fact he doesn't look

(35:35):
like he does in the comics, Ican, I can live with that.
That's fine, because the ideaof having a dark version of
Spider-Man look the same way,except he's black, that's
another interesting thing.
That's not Venom, but that'sVenom basically is originally
was hey.

Shaun (35:51):
Spider-Man is what happens when a cowardly nerd
gets superpowers?
What happens when the schoolbully gets the same superpowers?

Nate (35:57):
Yeah Is essentially what.

Shaun (35:58):
Venom was yeah.
It's like, well, we're going toflip it on his head.
Now, the big bad bully youpicked on everybody has
superpowers.
How is you going to react?
Pretty much how you'd expect,but now Venom's kind of like a
good guy in some origins.

Nate (36:08):
So which is fine.
I mean again, he's actuallystill, he's like the dark.

Shaun (36:12):
He's kind of like a gray area now.
It's like I'm carnage and Icould.
I can live with that.
That's fine, I can live yeah,I'm actually okay with that, I
don't really have a problem withit, this dude.

Nate (36:22):
But this guy, this eddie brock, was the dude from the 70s
show.

Shaun (36:25):
Yeah, so eric foreman's running around as the evil, but
it just man red foreman with thevenom powers would have been
pretty fucking awesome, thatcharacter and everything well,
especially if he was that,especially the character red
foreman, in the same kind ofvein of a villain as he was in
Robocop.
Oh god he was.
That's what I remember RedForeman for Was that awesome

(36:47):
performance in Robocop.
He was such a good bad guy inthat movie.

Nate (36:52):
To the point where, even when I see Red Foreman, I still
don't see him as Red Foreman.
I still see him as the bad guyfrom Robocop.
Yes, I do too.

Shaun (36:57):
I kind of like thinking of the Red Foreman as being like
the bad guy from Rotocop wholike disappeared from the crime
world and settled down inWisconsin, and be like nobody
knows my past.

Nate (37:06):
He's like I'll break my foot off your ass.
Like no, seriously, I will killyou, then plant my foot in
there.

Shaun (37:11):
I have killed more people than you have met in your life.
Oh, by the way, to go back realquick, life insurance now
expires at uh 121 years old.
It looks like that makes moresense yeah, they actually they
basically just take that tableyou're talking about and just
slid everything up like a fewyears.

Nate (37:27):
That makes more sense I mean because that table I was
talking about, that was.
It was like 1998 maybe.
Yeah, you know 99.
Yeah, that it's been a minutesince.
Yep, yeah 2004.

Shaun (37:38):
They're like oh, there's gonna be a lot of hundred year
olds coming up.
Let's slide everything up to121 and also go back to
something we were just talkingabout.
Um, the treehouse of horror.
This year is going to have a uhepisode where one of the little
skits is going to be homerbasically turns into venom, but
it's because of his denim jeansthat he loves so much and it's
going to be called denim.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, that should be good.
They even have a poster up.
That's kind of cool looking ofit.

(37:59):
Yeah, I still need to see asecond Venom.
They made a second Venom.
Yeah, I never even saw thefirst one.
Oh, you've seen it.

Nate (38:06):
The first one's actually pretty good.
It's not great.
A lot of people really gripedabout it because it's come out
recently uh, let's see, they'reactually coming out with a third
venom.
So there's a, there's a.
2021 was let there be carnage,and which they introduced.

(38:30):
Carnage, uh, and then venom.
Another one's coming out calledvenom, the last dance that's
coming out uh, this year venomthe last dance.

Shaun (38:38):
I swear to god, they have last dance with mary jane as
part of their uh ad thing.

Nate (38:42):
I'm just going to well, and you one of the big things
that stopped me from watchingthe second Venom movie is I
watched the um oh man pitchmeeting about it.
I'm like, ah, it sounds so bad.
Ah pitch meeting and get thecliff notes of it.

(39:05):
That's actually how I like Istarted watching um the star
wars, um acolyte, and I'mwatching it about halfway
through and I'm like I'm notreally, I'm not into this, you
know.
And that's the thing, like,when I say I'm not into this, I
always have the preference like,look, I understand, there's a
lot of people out there like ew,ew, lesbians.
I don't give a shit about that.
Yeah, I don't care about themost.

Shaun (39:22):
You had the best things to say about that show from
anybody I've known that watchedit, and even you didn't sound
that.
The way you phrased it was like.
I'm enjoying it.
I'm just waiting for somethingto happen, which that's like the
most glowing thing.
I've heard a lot of things too.
They gave you no reason to careabout any of the main
characters, and that they'rejust all.

(39:42):
Oh they died whatever, oh thatperson's obviously the bad guy.

Nate (39:46):
They all end up getting killed.
And finally, I'm like I hate itwhen they're like oh look,
here's this character whodoesn't have all their powers,
like that's.
So Just give them the powers.
Why are you dumbing them down?
And then they Did?

Shaun (40:00):
they bring out a spoilers alert.
Didn't they bring out a uh jediwookiee and just kill it
immediately too?

Nate (40:05):
immediately like there was no.
I was expecting to spend on abattle.
And they go and she's like.
She's like oh, you have to killthis giant master without a
weapon.
Which again, why they?
I didn't I never got anexplanation why it has to be
without a weapon.

Shaun (40:16):
But just to make it cool.

Nate (40:18):
And that way when they make the video game adaptation,
it'll be a cool mission in thevideo game and I will say, maybe
they explain it later on, likethe episodes I didn't watch
because I did stop watching it.
I watched pitch meeting andjust got the gist of it.
Um, and I'm just I don't know.

Shaun (40:30):
Her stone house burns down.
Her stone house burns down.
I'm right does that happen inthe show apparently.

Nate (40:39):
I have a big Star Wars fan .
I'm totally fine with, you know, women having, you know, being
main actors.
I have no problem with that.

Shaun (40:49):
I just want them to be good, you know, and I don't if
anybody described Acolyte byusing the term woke.
I usually disregard what theysay pretty quick about it.

Nate (40:56):
I want.
If they're supposed to beidentical twins, then I want
them to be identical twins forboth the child version and the
adult version.
Don't give me one actor playingtwo parts of identical twins
and then flashback to theirchildhood and have two different
people playing.
Yeah, they look similar, Iguess, but they're very clearly

(41:21):
not identical twins, so why?
I don't know that that childlabor laws.

Shaun (41:25):
We can't have identical twins on set for too long, oh my
god well yeah there actually issome weird things with child
labor laws no, I'm sure there isbut if they can make, probably
not in that situation I mean,that's the whole premise behind
like was it parent trap?

Nate (41:39):
like sorry, we can't shoot Parent Trap now.

Shaun (41:44):
Because, god forbid, we have the same kid like play both
roles.
Back in the 60s, when they'd dothat, they'd just give the kid
some coke or meth and be like Ahwork a 16-hour shift kid.

Nate (41:52):
All right, quick pause.
I need to blow my nose.
I'm starting to affect my voice.
Okie, dokie off my lap, oh yep,okay, so I can't hold it
anymore.

Shaun (42:03):
I can't breathe yeah, I know how that goes.
All right, you want to learnsomething new?
Apparently, um july 31st isnational orgasm day, which is an
offshoot of female orgasm day,which is august 8th now you know
there's an international femaleorgasm day and a national
orgasm day there you go anyways,you're welcome.

Nate (42:21):
Just things you learn when you're surfing the internet
things you learn yeah, one thingabout my surfing is I need to
start like expanding out,because it's like my google
keeps on going.
Oh, here's these articles.
I'm like I know I, I know I'm anerd, but I don't want all like
I do.
I would like some news outside,just star wars and like casting
and there's the algorithm.

Shaun (42:40):
When the algorithm decides you like something, it
thinks you really like something.

Nate (42:43):
That's all you want they'll be like I got.
I actually kind of had to startgoing don't stop showing these
to me, because they're like oh,look at this cosplay of this
character.
You like, I'm like, I don't, Idon't care yes I don't need to
see that like.

Shaun (42:56):
Unless you actually show me what someone might be looking
like in an upcoming anything,then sure but I always hate the
headlines you get nowadays, too,where it's like experts are
freaking out about this or youknow people are having an uproar
over this and it's literallyjust a link to like a Twitter
feed of like three peoplearguing.
You're like yeah this is thenews story.

Nate (43:12):
Yeah, it's really hard to tell nowadays when an uproar is
actually happening versus justsomeone you know being a karen
yep, I try to spread it out more.
Oh, my favorite is like uh,this person destroys this other
person on this clip.
I'm like okay, let me watch thisit's uh, watch the clip and you
know what I want to see is, youknow, the person who's on my

(43:33):
side says I'm so devastating.
The person who's not on my sidegoes oh my god, you blew me
away.
Or like they have anembarrassed moment like, oh, I
can't believe I haven't comeback for something you know.
Or like it's they, they saysomething so powerful that, like
the other person, kills himselfon screen.
You know, just like they can'tthink of something to say.
Everyone's looking at them,they feel stupid, they reach in

(43:56):
their, they reach into theirpocket, they pull out revolver
and they blow their fuckingbrains out.
That is being destroyed onscreen, where you're like you
can't imagine taking anotherbreath because you are so
humiliated by the power ofwhatever the other person said
or did.

Shaun (44:13):
Politics would be far more interesting if you had to
off yourself, if you lost adebate that bad.

Nate (44:17):
Absolutely would.
There's a gauge.
You could lose a debate andyour life isn't at risk.
But if you like, if they catchyou repeatedly in a lie, there's
like a ongoing, like live liedetector there and they like
literally box you up, likecourting you to be like I'm
sorry, it's the person yourdebate gets who actually gets to

(44:38):
put you down maybe, so thatmakes he knows like trump out
back with Biden after that onedebate, mr Smith, tell me about
the rabbits, joe.
Unfortunately, this is your 10thlie in a row that you've been
caught on, Because it's not thatyou can't lie, you can't be
caught in a lie.
So you got caught, and this isyour 10th lie in a row you've

(44:59):
been caught with.
You don't really seem to knowhow to dig yourself out of this.
Unfortunately, you're now anold yeller status and we are
gonna have to take you outsideand shoot you the fucking head
and uh, usually the youropponent can choose whether they
want to pull the trigger or not.
And I'm being told this thatyour opponent really, really

(45:20):
wants to pull the trigger, likereal bad, like to the point we
actually a little concerned thatthis is actually her way of
murdering you and also youshould be concerned because this
person has parkinson's and theymight not have a steady shot so
it might take them a few goes.

Shaun (45:34):
Uh, just letting you know .
So an interesting world of news.
Did you hear about that uhgiant uh spy prisoner swap?
Swap between Russia and a bunchof countries and this and that
Was it spies?
I mean?
I know there's a prisoner swap.
Yeah, some of them were spies,some of them were this and that,
anyways the one that I'mactually referencing to.
There's an Argentina couple inSlovenia.
They were convicted of spyingand they're part of this giant

(45:54):
exchange.
Well, apparently it came outthat the spy's kids had no idea
they were russian or anythinglike that, just randomly, like
hey, we're going to russia,they're like why you're russian?
And the kids like what?
they were so deep yeah, theythought they were just like
argentinian or whatever.
They're just like hey, we'reargentinian kids, blah, blah,
blah.
We come from argentina.
And all of a sudden their wholeworld just got changed like oh

(46:15):
no, your parents are spies,we're going to russia, you can
go meet with putin.

Nate (46:19):
Oh that was so sad I mean hell yeah no, no, I was like
what did the premise of that?
Um, scarlet, scarlet, scarletletter, black widow, no, black
widow, um, but then I rememberedto actually like shoot, they
were in on it.
Um, but yeah, like, oh, thatwas so bad.
Hey, surprise, you know thatcountry that you love.

Shaun (46:37):
Um, we're not part of that country, I thought that was
kind of interesting, but yeah,that would be a total kick in
the nuts.
I think it says how old thekids are, but they look like
they're like 12, 13 maybe Iwouldn't.
So apparently, like eightRussian spies were sent to
Russia in exchange for 16 peoplewho were held in Russian
detention, including like formerMarines and Wall Street Journal

(46:58):
reporters.
I mean, I know that they werepretty.

Nate (47:01):
They're pretty stoked to get that taken care of.
Yeah, trump was all like Icould have done that and they're
like I know you know, say whatyou will about Biden, but he did
have a good zinger.
He's like well then, why didn'tyou?

Shaun (47:12):
Right, I mean people in person do that.
It's like I could have donethat.
It Like well, you remember itis a good way to like completely
like disarm them.
But yeah, I guess the twoRussian spies were, uh, they
were living undercover inSlovenia posing as IT
businessmen and then they gotcaught, uh I don't know, doing
spy stuff and sent to prison fora year and a half.
Kids were disappointed and thenall of a sudden they're like

(47:32):
hey, kids, you're going toRussia.
You know never.
Oh yeah, and they don't speakrussian either.
Just so you know, they speakspanish.
Oh that, oh wow, yeah, sothey're.
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
Apparently, uh, putin said,bueno, snow chase to him is the
first thing he said to him andgave him a hug.
He probably then later shovedthem out of a 12-story building
right full of bullets, like I'msorry.

Nate (47:51):
I felt that their death failed bullets somehow well, if
you did like, okay, now go off,don't worry, we got you a nice
apartment where don't worryabout it.
Got you a nice apartment when,don't worry about it, we got you
a nice apartment, do you watchyour really bizarre story coming
out of Vietnam.

Shaun (48:05):
Of course, all right.
So apparently an Indiannational man was visiting
Vietnam and he decided that Imean, did you ever get the urge
to want to just have somethinggiant and squirming up your butt
?
Of course you have, nathan,just like this man did.
So apparently he took a twofoot long live eel, jammed it up
his butt and then plugged it inwith a lime for sexual pleasure

(48:26):
, but then the eel apparentlyate its way through his
intestines and into his chestcavity, where surgeons had to
remove it from his body, alongwith the lime that was plugging
him up.
I will send you a link to thearticle right now, because it's
I don't know what to make aboutit.
There's pictures of the leechtoo, or the eel and various
other things.
So, yeah, they attempted toremove the eel through the man's

(48:46):
anus without cutting him open,but it turns out, yeah, the lime
was in the way, but, yep, theeel had bitten through the
patient's rectum and colon toescape into the abdominal cavity
.
Look at stuff.

Nate (49:01):
Yeah, yeah, it looks like a giant tapeworm, almost kind of
thing, but jesus, that thatwould be awful, yeah, yeah
imagine and imagine.
Like he doesn't like, like ifhe was in america, they probably
wouldn't have the funds to getthat surgery.

Shaun (49:09):
It's like well right, well, I guess I die yeah, I
guess I'm gonna die here alittle bit.
And then you're just on the busnext to a dude who's like not
looking well, and this eel justeats its way out of his stomach.
Dude, you'd have to go totherapy for years to get that
out of your mind.
Oh my God, that'd be so awful.
Oh, I guess.
Back in March a 12-inch eelslid up a 43-year-old man's anus

(49:29):
and he had to be rushed to thehospital.
So I guess, don't swim naked inVietnam, because eels will
slide up your anus.
The doctors say I'm just staringat it going, oh my god, yeah, I
know, I know exactly whatyou're doing because you're
doing the same thing I did whenI came across the mic.
Oh, they even have a picture ofthe eel stretched out next to
the lime and, as the doctors say, eels can survive in anaerobic
conditions for a long time andhave the ability to bite through

(49:50):
the gastrointestinal tract.
They warn, therefore, peopleshould never insert live animals
through the anus to seekintense sensations due due to
the unforeseeable consequences.
Ugh, yeah, and you gotta wonderabout the poor eel man.
You're just like swimmingaround in a pond doing eel stuff
and some giant, ape-look,hairless ape just grabs you and
just starts feeding you up itsanus.
I mean, come on, it's not cool.

(50:11):
It kind of also reminds me ofMr Slave from South Park.

Nate (50:15):
With the lemmy wings?
Yeah, I was thinking about that.
Of course, living Wings neverbecame a giant fucking like
hentai tentacle, yeah it doeslook like some sort of weird
hentai tentacle.

Shaun (50:25):
Yep, four inches in diameter too.
It was a decent-sized eel, soI'll let you stare at that and
process for a moment.

Nate (50:31):
Oh, actually I was going to bring up something that I
just thought of.
So when we were at, as Imentioned earlier, we were in a
class like never mentionedpolitics, religion or sport, and
the next day this guy I wasthere with I don't know, I
couldn't get a beat on this guyman, because one day he was
saying how he went to a prideparade.
The next day he was talkingabout how he loved shooting his

(50:52):
guns and shot a boar in the head.
I'm like, okay, I'm havingtrouble reconciling.
Anyway, he busts out the middleclass, like, oh, I'm so mad and
reconciling.
Anyway that he busts out themiddle class.
Like, oh, I'm so mad.
And like, okay, what is he'slike?
Apparently there was a.
Have you heard about thisboxing controversy, the female
boxing controversy?
Yeah, so he was at the time.
He's like this woman just uh,got hit and she like went down

(51:14):
like crazy and apparently it wasa transgender man.
And so he's like I'm so madabout that and like, and the
whole class shut up because noone want to talk about that.
And then like I don't want totalk about that either because
it's a very it's complicated.
First of all, there's very few.
That's the thing there's almostthere.
Statistically, there's almostno trans people out there.
There's like one percent orwhatever.
And I don't know.
I don't know the answer to thisbecause you know, my daughter

(51:36):
and I actually talk about thisbecause it's something that it's
on her mind.
She's an athlete and sheactually has several trans
friends.
None of them are on the interms of like the sports part
that there's.
No, she didn't buy our team.
She has no value doing that,but like it is, it's sticky.
I have no answer for it becauseyou know, I am, I'm a, very,
I'm a I don't say closeted, I'mopen.

(51:58):
I'm open if people ask by.
I'm not getting on a footstoolsaying, hey, everyone, I'm a
progressive democrat, atheist.
You know, like that's, you know, especially around here.
You know, if people that's oneof those things like people find
out you're gay, they treat youdifferently.
They find you're atheist, they,they treat you almost worse.
And sometimes you know, I meanum, particularly like in the
bible belt, which is where I amum, I don't, I don't say like, I

(52:21):
don't want to go too far intoit because it's so fucking
sticky, but come to find outlike it wasn't even a man, like
she was a regular ass woman,transgender, nothing.
Yep, yeah, she was a born awoman.
She like had elevatedtestosterone.
Like well, the females maketestosterone, you know?
And you, you're gonna reallytell me that you're a boxer, a
boxer to the point when you canget to the Olympics.

(52:42):
You never Touch testosterone.

Shaun (52:44):
You know.
So that country that she comesfrom it's illegal to be trans.
They like put them to death orsomething like that.

Nate (52:49):
Oh, I'm sure there's a lot of countries like that, even
Russia's like that, I think Also.

Shaun (52:53):
A fun thing too, if people really want to argue it.
I mean, she was born with auterus and she can give birth to
a kid, and that's like everyright wing dude's things like
well, if you can't give birth toa kid, you're not a woman.
And then, if they argue that,then be like so.
Is there more than two genders?

Nate (53:06):
And she, like she gave him like 46 seconds and I'm looking
at this picture like she justgot full punch dead in the face.
That's your, that's on you.
You let yourself get youallowed as a professional
olympic boxer, got in the ringwith someone who's way taller
than you and you got puncheddead in the face.

(53:27):
That sounds like a you problem.
That you went in there knowingfull well who you're facing,
full well where you were, andyou got rocked.

Shaun (53:37):
And then you're gonna turn around last year too, I
think, or last olympics even,and I she apologized she
apologized.

Nate (53:43):
She now says like oh, my bad, she's not really trans.
I, I, oh, I apologize, but it'slike yeah, if you're getting
your ass kicked the first, youshould immediately jump, like
when my daughter runs for crosscountry and she comes in not
great, she doesn't look aroundgo.

Shaun (53:58):
Every girl who beat me are all men we're saying too
apparently it's going back tojust a giant big old russian
misinformation campaign to pissoff americans.

Nate (54:07):
Yeah, it's working around here, literally everybody in
this town of facebook isfighting over it and of course
it's like I'm sure, oh yeah, I'msure, around there, and it's
like you think it back off onceyou realize, oh wait, no, it's
not, but it's just nope theyjust double down and then they
find something else.

Shaun (54:19):
Be like.
Well, here's another example ofsomething I don't like.
What about that?
And it's like good job movingthe goalpost.

Nate (54:25):
Yeah, look over there.
I'm losing this.
Look over there.

Shaun (54:28):
Yeah, or they'll come up with like some weird article
from some news source that youknow like an Eastern Russia
outlet, and they'll this is truebecause it matches my thinking,
my assumptions.

Nate (54:40):
This matches it, so it's true.

Shaun (54:42):
Yeah, people do like to have confirmation bias thrust
upon them.

Nate (54:48):
And I mean I'm not alone in that.
I'm not the only one who's like.
Let me start over.
Many people follow confirmationbias.
I also am one of those people.
I've definitely looked atthings and saw something that
matched my perception of theworld and I immediately grabbed
it and said look at this this isthe perfect example of what I
believe in and then that'sexactly what I think.
Yes, like this is exactly what Ithink.

(55:09):
This is why everything is wrongwith the world.
If everyone would just look atthis example.
See, look at it.
Look, oh oh, don't look at thisexample.
Yes, this is a bad example.

Shaun (55:20):
I was, I did look closely enough ignore everything I said
just a minute ago.
I have learned, especiallyrecently with news stories
before you jump on a bandwagon,it's usually good to wait like
two or three days for the otherside of the story to come out,
even if you agree with the sidethat came out first.

Nate (55:34):
Still always good to wait a couple of days, it turns out I
, I have I have eaten crowenough to know that, like I
start going through, likeGoogling, you know, like if I
see something and I'm like, ohawesome, this, let's look around
, I'll go.
I'll actually go to, like FoxNews, I'll talk like that, Go,
okay, msn says this.

(55:55):
I like MSN because they leanmore.
I don't think there's less ofpeople accusing them of being
because they're definitelythings that I don't agree with
what they say.
But like, well, we can go aheadand say msn versus fox, they're
definitely, they're not on thesame spectrum, but I still go to
fox because I'm like, okay, ifmsn is saying this, obviously

(56:15):
fox isn't going to share theirsame political leaning and
whatever they say is probably,if I take the two and mesh them
together, at least I'm gettingsomewhat what to what really
happened.

Shaun (56:26):
You know, I mean, I will say I do trust the msn facts
more than fox facts, but I'm notso learned to look for
inflammatory language inside ofan article that can kind of tell
you that they're setting up forsomething, because some
articles are nothing but justlike inflammatory rhetoric.
It's not even news, it's just,you know, repeatedly just saying
hate-filled stuff, sort ofthing.

Nate (56:47):
I do try to lean towards the ap, because ap does tend to
be a little more like in themiddle of the road.
Um, although they didn't reallycrack me up when the ap
released, the last article I sawfrom ap was like no, jd vance
did not have sex with the couch.
And I'm like, wait, wherepeople say that jd vance slept
on the couch, like that, like Idon't know, like that, that

(57:09):
denial seems pretty um sonowhere from what I heard, I I
from what I saw.

Shaun (57:15):
I guess he wrote a book a long time ago and made a joke
about having sex with a rubberglove and between couch cushions
yeah, people are just like mustbe true, but I think it is more
of a joke than anything.
Well, also, it could have beenone of those.
It's only a joke if peopledon't laugh at this point, it
doesn't even fucking matter,it's one of those.

Nate (57:32):
It's one of those things where it's like oh, someone said
something, whether it's true ornot, and everyone heard it.
It doesn't matter that youdidn't fuck a goat.
Everyone heard you fuck a goatand now, like you can't prove,
you can't prove, you've neverfucked a goat you can't prove it
no yo.
So what are you gonna do?

(57:52):
No one can prove beyond areasonable doubt that jd vance
never fucked that couch.

Shaun (57:58):
So until his dying day or beyond, when he's dead,
someone's going to come by witha Sharpie and write on his
tombstone this motherfucker.

Nate (58:08):
Yeah, couch fucker.
That's better than what I wasgoing to wrote.
Couch fucker is shorter andconcise and to the point.
Thank you, sean.
I'll make sure when I visit hisgrave later on I'm going to
write couch fucker.

Shaun (58:20):
Keep it short and sweet.
Don't write like this big longthing.

Nate (58:27):
Just be like couch fucker, and I'm on no tape To where I
got it from.
I was going to say something alot.
I'm going to write this wholething on there.
I was going to say something alot longer.

Shaun (58:39):
Here lies a man who one day found the term love seat to
be very literal.
Nope, just shorted out couchfucker.
Yeah, like that much better.
Here lies couch fucker vanceyeah, they.

Nate (58:52):
He's never.
Never getting out of that, justjust like, uh, even not to this
day.
Oh man, I see I'm just about tosay something.
I'm playing on his name.
What was his name?
Uh, he ran for president.
He was republican.
They changed his name to like adirty meaning um oh, santorum,
thank you see, I thought Ineeded it, even to this day,
when I hear said like santorum,like I know what your name means
.
It didn't.

(59:13):
It didn't mean, like it didn'tmean that when you first came
out and run for office, but itmeans that now yep, we can thank
dan savage for that one.

Shaun (59:22):
I guess the radio personality oh, really, that's a
bit.

Nate (59:24):
Yeah.
Yep, you gotta love when peoplelike make you know changes to
the the zeitgeist.

Shaun (59:30):
Oh, here's kind of a weird this.
I'll break this up because itreally reminds me of like spy
versus spy.
Remember that old mad magazinething love it, yep.
So miami real estate titan, whodecided it'd be uh easier just
to murder his wife than to getdivorced, literally, has spent
the last five years trying tomurder her constantly and
failing, but since there's noevidence, he couldn't really do
anything and finally he justdied of old age.

(59:51):
So she gets everything.
See, here it is Sergio Pino.
He was they startedinvestigating in July of 2022
for multiple contracts to killhis wife, dating all the way
back to 2019 and continuingthrough, uh, his death.
Apparently he just kept hiringhitman over and over again and
somehow she would not get dead.
Oh, he also would tamper withher prescription and stuff and

(01:00:13):
uh taint her, uh, opioids andthis and that you want to change
uh actually quick time out.

Nate (01:00:17):
Yep, time click, click.
Um, how much longer do youthink we're going?
Jenny's asking oh, we can bedone now if you want.

Shaun (01:00:22):
Well, I would do one more , at least.
Okay, game Informer is beingshut down by GameStop.

Nate (01:00:26):
Well, I was going to bring it.
No, go ahead and talk aboutthat.
Then I have one I want to talkabout.
Okay, no, go ahead and do yourmy page open and I saw something
and I was like oh my, what isthis?
And I clicked on it and I'mlike, okay, are you ready?
Yes, this affects everybody.
This is nonpolitical, thisaffects everybody and I quote
this is from fortune to themagazine.

(01:00:49):
Tech CEO says people will enjoypaying a monthly fee to use a
mouse.
Yes, quote, you're really goingto love that.
Unquote.
Let that sink in.
Paying a monthly fee to use amouse, a computer mouse?
Yeah, well, the idea is it'sLogitech and they're saying like
they want to make a quoteforever mouse.
So when you never have toreplace but you pay for every

(01:01:13):
month and you can only use itlike there's going to be certain
clicks and movements, you canuse for a monthly fee.

Shaun (01:01:19):
So it's kind of like some stupid AI driven mouse that
gives you like weird mouseshortcuts or something.

Nate (01:01:24):
Well, I guess the idea is from what I'm seeing on here.
The idea is off the HPsubscription service for a
printer, which I have, by theway, and it's awesome.

Shaun (01:01:32):
All right, I was explained that real quick Cause
I don't know about that.
Okay.

Nate (01:01:45):
Is it like a service that just sends you more exactly?
It's exactly what it is.
So what they're doing is theidea is um, you're paying a
subscription for.
I pay a subscription for 100pages a month, so I'm they're
allowing me to print 100 page, acolored, full color, black and
black, and whatever inks.
Um, for a month, 100 pages for.
So for $7, I'm paying for 100colored pages.
Now, with that, they basicallyjust send you giant ink
cartridges for my HP.

(01:02:06):
It checks in, so whenever myink starts getting low, they
send me another box of ink.
Now, if you actually take thatand do the math for how fucking
expensive ink is nowadays, it'sa bargain.
I mean like legitimately it.

Shaun (01:02:20):
Yeah, because it's even black and white stuff.
I remember back when I used tohave like an inkjet printer back
in the early 2000s.
That thing was so expensive tokeep.
Yeah, we holy crap, even justprinting black and white stuff.
It was, like you know, 30, 40cents a page kind of stupid shit
, especially when your ink cardjust crapped out halfway through
and didn't use.
All my god.

Nate (01:02:37):
Like cause we went to, we were using another printer and
we will go to the, to WalmartNow by the cheap version.
So they um a bigger version, acheaper version.
Even the cheaper version waslike 25 bucks for the ink, for
colored ink, at $25 for theblack.
So it's $50 just to get the.
The lower end.
The cheaper, like you'll runout faster version.

(01:02:58):
I'm like this is seven and it'sactually happened already
multiple times where my girlsare like, oh, the ink's running
out.
I'm like, oh, look at that, Ihave a box right here.
Like I didn't even realize youcame in and I just boop and
there you go, like I right now Iactually have a box sitting
right next to me that came inthe other day and I didn't
realize it because they don'twait till you're out, they wait
till you're low and so like I'mnot even out yet but I already

(01:03:21):
have my inks ready.
So I really do like the HPsubscription service for inks.
So if I want to be a shill forthat, if you print, that's the
thing If you actually print.
If you don't, then yeah, don'tdo it.
But if you do print stuff, likeI've been, I kind of fell off
the wagon.
I'm trying to get things up andrunning it.
But when I was printing mystickers, often, yeah, I mean it

(01:03:42):
was great and my kids use itfor school, my wife uses it for
her stuff and even like yeah,it's just, it really is nice to
have ink ready to go.
I don't know how goes through,uh, mice, mouse, mouses who goes

(01:04:08):
through them that fast?
You know, it's not like peoplehave an issue of ink running out
.
People don't have issues oftheir mice running out.
You know, yeah, it happensbecause it's technology.

Shaun (01:04:17):
Things break, but it's not to the point where I need to
buy a mouse every so often I'dlike my last mouse, going for
about six years now I think, andI think the mouse I had before
that probably lasted 15.

Nate (01:04:28):
So yeah, I mean the most recent mouse I got is the one
you, uh, graciously sent mewhere it's like it's not.
You can't hear why I'm clickingon it, but I have.
I have several other mice likeI actually let my kids borrow
not borrow have because I justbought.
We just bought them likelaptops, so they needed mice, um
, but they were all like 20bucks, you know, and they still

(01:04:48):
work.

Shaun (01:04:49):
I bought them years ago so, oh well, if you do this
subscription thing, it'll payfor mouse updates.
It's like I can't remember lasttime my mouse got updated, like
the only time I can think oflike, yeah, the only time I can
think of that is like people whohave those like 200 gaming mice
that have you know like 3 000buttons on them and stuff,
because some of those you canlike download like new uh macros
you can set up on them andstuff, and yeah, I mean like I

(01:05:11):
know the, but like the mmo ones,like warcraft they had.

Nate (01:05:14):
Oh, we do this, but like just get used.
I mean that would seem like itwould be an unnecessary thing
where, if you're, I'm sureyou're used to hotkeys on your
keyboard.
Now you gotta retrain yourself.

Shaun (01:05:22):
Use hotkeys on your mouse yeah, some of those mice have
so many buttons on them nowadays, good lord.
I remember I think I saw onethat had like 16 buttons on a
total.
Like eight of them were likewhere your thumb kind of goes.
I couldn't use that I meanobviously it's it's for gaming,
it's not for normal people likethat would be.

Nate (01:05:39):
Yeah, I mean, I do think that one button, like the old
apple mouse, which is like it'sone giant button, that's too
female, that's not enoughanymore.
Like I need the rollerball, sothe rollerball, I need that um.

Shaun (01:05:51):
Apple had its one button mouse.

Nate (01:05:53):
That was stupid I need the , the rollerball and the right
and left, click I.
After that I'm good, anythingmore that you're just making it
complicated.

Shaun (01:06:00):
Yeah, I will say I did have a thumb button on one of my
mouses way back when.
That was really cool becauseyou could just use that as like
a back button, real easy forlike surfing Just click that and
go back a page.
Yeah, I'm still trying tofigure out about this whole
forever mouse thing, but all I'mseeing like the head of
Logitech brought it up beinglike we're going to have a
subscription-based mouse andpeople are just like what does

(01:06:20):
that mean?
We don't know.

Nate (01:06:22):
Yeah, I've read this more.
It's like it looks like they'relike they really grabbed onto
some CEO.
Just go on.
They're sitting back in thechair at the boardroom table.
Someone goes, I don't know.

Shaun (01:06:41):
Like, what if we do subscription models for, oh,
everything from you knowsoftware to a mouse and they're
just like, oh, they're doing amouse thing.

Nate (01:06:45):
Yeah, like everyone.
Quick Keyboards, like he saidthis or she said this, like oh
okay, oh no.

Shaun (01:06:51):
What so let's see.
Faber mentioned that she hadrecently been shown an example
of a forever mouse.
The idea, she said, was thatyou would buy a well-made mouse
with great software and servicesthat you would constantly
update and never throw away.
Yeah, that just sounds likeboard meeting babbling.
Yeah, I mean it doesn't meanthey're going to try it, because
I mean, was it Mercedes or BMWmade it?

(01:07:13):
So you have to pay to enableyour seat heaters?
Yeah, you got to pay like 15bucks a month if you want your
seat heaters turned on incertain cars.
Oh wow, that's dumb.
Yeah, and the dumb thing is isthat your car literally comes
with the seat heaters in it.
It's a software thing that theyjust got to click over, so it's
not like they're saving moneysomehow I mean, that's just like
the remember the uproar, thedlc, what I mean.

Nate (01:07:33):
I can't remember what game it was, but like they charged
for the dlc that was in the discalready, like it was in the
release disc, yeah, but thenthey were charging.
But what game was that?
Remember?
It was a huge fucking deal too.
Like people were really mad.
Was it the Star WarsBattlefront?
Maybe it was a while ago, Idon't know.
It was so long ago.

(01:07:54):
I don't want to sit here andlike waste.
It was Arkham.
Return to Arkham.
They had a bunch of specialsuits and it was a DLC on there.
I think A minute.

Shaun (01:08:03):
HP still has the uh, that um printer subscription.
According to this article onMarie on the Mouse, they're like
.
What really baffles me, however, is that we've already gone
down this road.
Hp tried out a subscriptionprinter, then gave up on the
idea after consumers revoltedHuh, the idea.
After consumers revolted huh,consumers revolted nate.

Nate (01:08:21):
They probably threw printers off the uh boss, like
the boston tea party off ofboats anyways, oh okay, I I
found the article.
It was.

Shaun (01:08:25):
It was a street fighter, x attack and it was a street
fighter game oh like all thecharacters that they were going
to try to make you unlock.
Yeah, and we're already therepeople are you know how?

Nate (01:08:35):
yeah, gamers.
It was happened in 2012, so Ithink this is it.
Like gamers are alreadycontentious and shitty, but
street fighter, street fighterpeople I mean, I don't know.
I don't really have too much ofa feeling towards second, but
just based on my um, myexperience with the street
fighter players specifically,they can be real shitty.

Shaun (01:08:55):
Yeah, they can I feel like almost any game that has
like a professional circuitabout them tends to like get
some of the shittier playersbecause there's like I can make
money off this, yeah, being adick.
Yep, yeah, which I had realquick, oh yeah.
So maryland retiree won thelottery ticket matching all five
numbers and they bought thesame ticket with the same

(01:09:15):
numbers 25 times and won 25separate times why would you do
that?

Nate (01:09:20):
I?

Shaun (01:09:20):
I mean, yeah, it worked out the way they're making this
sound like is like, if you getall the numbers right, you get
like an extra bonus on top of it.
So if you like so she wastrying to like get the extra
like ten thousand dollar bonusper ticket, sort of thing, but I
don't know it makes sense.
She buys anywhere between 20and 25 ticks at a time, but with
all the same numbers on it.

Nate (01:09:40):
It makes sense when you win, but if you don't win, it's
stupid.

Shaun (01:09:44):
Yeah, over the years she has won smaller prizes by using
the same approach.
The number, of tickets she buysfor each drawing varies, often
reaching 24, but this time itwas 25.

Nate (01:09:52):
We occasionally do lottery and Jenny's actually started
playing lottery on like littlemini lottery games on her tablet
, which is whatever, whateveryou know.
If it makes her happy, that'sfine.
So she's better.
It's not like she's gaminghundreds of dollars, um, but
like my oldest daughter, she'slike.
You know, the chances of youhitting, winning the lottery are
like getting hit by a lightning, like three times in a row.

(01:10:13):
I'm like, okay, august, butwhat are the chances if you
don't play the lottery at all?

Shaun (01:10:17):
it's about.

Nate (01:10:17):
If you don't play it at all, you don't yeah, yep, and
I'm like it's 100 of shots youdon't take and also like that
that's for the jackpot, like I'dbe happy like there's.

Shaun (01:10:27):
There are other tears.
You can win 200 bucks kind ofthing out of some of those.

Nate (01:10:30):
Yeah, I'm like or there's a couple hundred thousand
dollars.
So, like I go, obviously youtell me like, oh well, we didn't
get the billion dollar jackpot,so we can't use a hundred
thousand dollars.
Like, if we want a hundredthousand dollars, that's game
changing.
Like we would be able to payoff all our almost all our debt,
because jenny's school umeducation loan is insane.

Shaun (01:10:52):
Um, I think she still owes like 75 grand on her um
yeah, school because theinterest is more than the
payment.

Nate (01:10:58):
Minimum payments on some of those well, we haven't even
been making payments because wecan't.
We can't afford it.
So it's just like it's not evengetting paid off, just steadily
getting bigger.

Shaun (01:11:05):
Yeah, fortunately my my can't get blood out of a stone
kind of thing.

Nate (01:11:08):
Yeah, my school's all paid off, so it's.
But then again I also only havean associate um, but yeah, I
mean, just I, I play because I,I would love to hit jackpot, but
I'm not aiming for the jackpot,I'm aiming, yeah, I'm aiming,
for one of the other tiers.
I, we could really use a fewtens of thousands of dollars.
That would you know.
Again, that would that alonewould get us back in black and

(01:11:32):
we can actually start likemaking real moves.
But until that time, yeah, youknow it's like so, yeah, no, if
I were the jackpot, believe me,like I would be over the moon,
but that's not what I'm lookingfor and I would definitely not
write several.
You know, I'm gonna make abunch of tickets, all the same
number.
I mean, the whole point is getseveral tickets with different
numbers.
That it makes you.

(01:11:53):
But it worked out for that lady.
You know, I say all this andlike I'm shitting all over it,
but at the same time it worked.
That's jealousy, nate, itabsolutely is, because in the
end, like I here I am going fuckthis bitch, can't believe she
did it, but it worked it.
So, like everything I said, Iguess I can just shove it.
My own ass just showed up therelike an eel.
Yeah it exactly I think.

(01:12:14):
Yeah, I need to have thatopinion removed from surgery or
with surgery, because yeah it,100% it worked out and news that
we're probably better off notknowing.

Shaun (01:12:25):
Two more women have come forth about sexual abuse and
assault by Neil Gaiman back inthe 80s.
So, that means for the last 40years he's been sexually
harassing and abusing women.

Nate (01:12:33):
Which I believe.

Shaun (01:12:35):
Oh, I believe it too.
It's just a bummer, becausehe's such a talented
motherfucker and I like his work, and now it's just like well, I
like his work, but not him.
You gotta like preface it withthat Nowadays, Like ah, son of a
bitch.

Nate (01:12:47):
And that's actually like that's.
That's a big question, Likewhere?
Where does the art separate?
Yeah, I don't know, I justcause with certain people, I
don't know.
I guess it depends on how Ifeel about them, and it's not,
it's not necessarily fair, it'snot necessarily standard.

Shaun (01:13:04):
I just I don't know it can.
It can taint the work too,cause all of a sudden, if you go
back and start reading NeilGaiman's early stuff and you're
like, hey, this is all about anabusive they kind of your brain
just associated like so I don'tknow, times on that, yeah, sad
times for the women.

Nate (01:13:22):
I mean fuck neil gaiman, and because, right, right, it's
been sad time for the women.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm nottrying to stand up for neil
gaiman, because I mean here,here I am a white man saying
this was you know, take with agreat whatever salt you want to
put on there, but like, still,like I can still consider us
part of the victim, you know,because we really, I really
enjoyed a lot of the stuff he'sdone.
And then to come to find out,oh, by the way, this person

(01:13:43):
you've I won't go so far, as Ilied, I've never idolized neil
game.
I do, I, I do want to be anauthor.

Shaun (01:13:48):
I would love to be like yeah, you aspire to be as good
as an aspire, aspire to be asgood of a writer as he is.
That's yes, there we go.
Yes, thank you.

Nate (01:13:56):
That's exactly what I was trying to get.
I couldn't find the words.
I appreciate you finding themfor me.
You're welcome uh, I aspire tobe him, but they just like him
to find out.
Oh yeah, by the way, he's atotal, total piece of shit.
It's like, oh yeah, I mean it's.
You know.
The first time I really feltthis way is with uh cosby.
Yeah, I really like his.
His early comedy, like it wasvery clean and relatable even as

(01:14:18):
a kid, like it was really, Ifelt, relatable even as a kid,
even though here I was a littlewhite kid.

Shaun (01:14:22):
Um, like actually he did.
He was a good stand-up comedian.

Nate (01:14:25):
He was a really good stand-up comedian.
He made you genuinely laughwithout being vulgar.
You know, obviously I don'thave a problem being vulgar, but
he was able to do without beingvulgar and because that
non-vulgar approach is why hewas like america's dad.

Shaun (01:14:38):
Yeah, he, you know he was .

Nate (01:14:41):
I would think he was a pretty good, um, he was a pretty
good, uh role model for him.
Again, coming from my point ofview.
You know he was like hischaracter.
He seemed like a really cleancomedian.
You know he didn't really cuss,he didn't have a bad reputation
yeah did shit on people.

Shaun (01:14:56):
Um, and he, uh, he played a character on tv.
He had a bad reputation, notthat we knew of.

Nate (01:14:58):
Yeah, he did shit on people and he played a character
on TV.

Shaun (01:15:04):
He was in Leonard Part 6, the greatest movie ever made.
I barely remember that movieApparently it's like one of the
worst movies ever made.

Nate (01:15:13):
Oh yeah, I do remember when someone got killed because
a bunch of frogs went underneaththeir car and, like frog,
jumped the car into a lake.
Um, that's what that's like.
Neck breakingly, change thesubject, but still, neck
breakingly, change the subject.
But I'm glad you broke upbecause I was rambling.
Ultimately, you know the deal.
He had a huge reputation.

(01:15:34):
I was.
I was a fan as much as you canbe, without, like, being
obsessed with him, um, and thencome to find out he's a rapist.
It's like man.
And so now you can't like sure,you can still watch the Cosby
show, but it's kind of hard tonow knowing what you know.
And it's just we're all kind oflike victims.
Obviously we weren't victims asthe women he raped.
I mean, I'm not going that far,but it's still like we all have

(01:15:57):
kind of a sense of loss.
you know, particularly now withneil gaiman, because I did want
aspire to be he was like thenerd version of bill cosby in a
way not not at all, but I meanright, I mean he, um, he wrote a
comic book that won like a, ahuge award that made them stop
taking comic books assubmissions.
I can't remember what it waswith some sci-fi award that he

(01:16:19):
won, like the Nebula Award orsomething like that, Something
like that yeah, and they changedthe rules so comic books
wouldn't be taken anymore.
Like he is such a prolific goodwriter and just really sucks to
find out.
He's a piece of shit.

Shaun (01:16:31):
Yeah, he kind of brought forth the quote-unquote adult
comic books to the forefrontagain, again.
Yeah, I mean Sandman WithVertigo and stuff yeah, sandman
was great.

Nate (01:16:39):
Sandman TV show is also great.
If you haven't seen it, I don'tthink you've seen it no.
I do need to see that, thoughit's so good, I really need to
wrap this up.

Shaun (01:16:50):
I think we're good.
There's going to be a new Jayand Silent Bob movie coming out.
If that makes you tingle yourdingle at all Jay and Silent
Bob's Store Wars where they'rerunning a dispensary Sure, I'll
watch it.
Running a weed dispensary, Ishould say Awesome, yep, yeah,
good times, all right.
So that is the news, forrecently we talked about a lot
of stuff and it was fun.
It was fun Also.
We learned don't stick eels upyour butt because they will eat

(01:17:11):
the way out of you or do it.
You can do whatever you want.
If that is your thing, get fullgrown dead ones or dying.
They gotta be wiggling around,otherwise where's the pleasure?

Nate (01:17:27):
Ask your vet.

Shaun (01:17:29):
Don't go to a doctor, they'll try to talk you out of
it.

Nate (01:17:31):
A vet, on the other hand, they don't have morals Before
sticking an eel Into your analcavity, go to your vet first and
look for the best availableones.
Before sticking an eel intoyour anal cavity, go to your vet
first and look for the bestavailable ones.

Shaun (01:17:46):
Okay, go to the vet and have the teeth removed from that
eel before you stick it up yourrectum.
Why would we remove the teethof the eel?
Don't worry about it.
Why do you have an eel in a jarnext to your bed?
I call him Gummy Joe.

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