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SPEAKER_02 (00:00):
Blockbuster, you go get a movie and you watch it as
a family.
That's how I grew up like thatwas our family time.

SPEAKER_04 (00:04):
I just remember buying law-abiding citizen, and
the guy he was just waiting forthis.
Let's just say this guy is notexactly a law-abiding citizen.

SPEAKER_03 (00:17):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
welcome to the Slightly AboveAverage podcast.
My name's John Malecki, and Ihave the pleasure and blessing
of being joined today by my goodfriend Sam Pula and the
illustrious Mr.
Joe Minert.
We're super excited because,well, this is the first episode
that you are probably everseeing or hearing from us.

(00:39):
And uh, in order to make surethat it is a timeless, heartfelt
piece of engaging and lovingcontent, we've put together a
show run in no less than 30seconds so that way we can
deliver on the deepest, darkest,and most interesting topics
possible found throughout theworld and the internet.
We actually did none of that.
We're Joe put a ton of time andeffort into this.

(01:01):
Um I'm just making jokes.
So with that being said, we'vegot an agenda, and I uh and I'm
pretty excited for it.
And uh being the first episodeor public episode of the podcast
ever, um, Sam always loves tokind of bring some treats for
the boys uh in the building andthe shop.
And I think you've preparedsomething for us today or
brought something for us today.
I did.
I always look forward to so Mr.

(01:22):
Puller here has a very eclectictaste, I would say, um, in
regards to a lot of things inlife.
Um, and some of those he tendsto ask us to consume from time
to time.
So it's always fun going downthe rabbit hole of what Sam w
thinks we want to eat.

SPEAKER_02 (01:36):
I know what these are, and I I I already don't
like it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:41):
I probably quadruple hate it.

SPEAKER_04 (01:43):
You guys probably won't like this, but I've I've
put together uh for you bothhere today a schmorgish board of
uh 7-Eleven breakfast items.
So we have currently in front ofus one cheesy three meat
breakfast burrito, one unnamedbiscuit.

(02:05):
Oh, it's on the other side.
One bacon, egg, and cheesecroissant, and one sausage
biscuit.
I'll let uh we can draft thesehooks.

SPEAKER_02 (02:13):
Before we even get into it, I'm just confused.
How did you turn it over andlook at it?
But it took grabbing the otherbagel to see the logo is on the
side to then pick it up and lookat the same thing you looked at.
That was incredible.

SPEAKER_03 (02:23):
Did you like just walk in and just like like
blindly pull some off a shelf?

SPEAKER_04 (02:27):
Like no, I I selected these.
Uh I wanted to forgotimmediately what you selected.
No, no, this is these are finebreakfast items.

SPEAKER_03 (02:34):
Yes, you did.
You didn't remember any of them.

SPEAKER_04 (02:36):
Well, I I only purchased them 15 minutes ago.
I don't know.
Great.
So they're probably still notbad, warm-wise.

SPEAKER_02 (02:43):
7-Eleven.
The only reason I steer clear ofthem is those are loaded with
calories.
They're awesome.
They're like hot.

SPEAKER_04 (02:58):
Yeah, but Sheets is a little too like prim and
proper.
Everything's a little toocleaned up, nice in there.

SPEAKER_02 (03:04):
You have a community well for creamers.

SPEAKER_04 (03:07):
Yeah.
I mean, there's no I wouldn'tconsider that like on that.
Yeah, but I mean, is the7-Eleven.
Which one sanitary?
Yeah, I mean, these arepre-wrapped by the the the
7-Eleven food factory employees.
Which one's speaking to you?
I know one of them's callingyou.
Quite any dag, so thank you forcontinuing to forget that.
Sausage biscuit.

SPEAKER_03 (03:26):
Yeah, he got lucky there.
Did he name?
There's no way not at all.
Joe, there you go.
Fun sausage that face was 100%o.
I forgot that.

SPEAKER_01 (03:34):
Can we get a replay?

SPEAKER_03 (03:38):
Yeah, because I you 100% forgot.
You got so lucky that there's alot of people.

SPEAKER_04 (03:42):
There's no verifiable proof that I forgot.
Because you're looking at a nicesausage biscuit there.
So let's just go through theingredients.

SPEAKER_00 (03:48):
Talk to me that bagel.

SPEAKER_03 (03:49):
And what's in a sausage biscuit?

SPEAKER_00 (03:52):
So this is a biscuit too, not a bagel.

SPEAKER_03 (03:55):
We um consistently like to let Sam know that I
believe um that he is acockroach and that this man
could outlive a uh nuclear uhapocalypse.
Um, he can eat, drink, andconsume literally anything and
be unaffected.
He actually negatively feels uhimpacted when he eats healthy
things like salads or you know,like some something that is uh

(04:18):
calorically um high in proteinand potentially good for you.
I don't have you ever had aprotein shake in your life?

SPEAKER_04 (04:25):
Oh yeah.
I I thought when I was incollege, I spent like a good six
months going to the gym with abuddy of mine that was like a oh
yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (04:32):
How old are you?
20 six months of your lifeyou've gone to a gym.
All right.
I'm gonna this is gonna be toughbecause it's really small and
post, but the the the the volumeof ingredients in this, this is
two things.
It's literally just a biscuitwith sausage on it.
That's all you need.
That is that's what you call aforever biscuit.
This thing is gonna live in melonger.

(04:54):
And then my disdain a lot ofbread on there for the city of
Cleveland.
Alright.
Cleveland under the bus.
This bus this is this looksawful.
I think I my dog's food looksmore awful.

SPEAKER_04 (05:09):
Mine's real soggy.
Like I'm not gonna lie.
Mine's got some s substantialweight to it.
I feel like it's about like aquarter pound.
So can you tell us why youthought this was a good idea?

SPEAKER_02 (05:18):
We bite it in anything.

SPEAKER_05 (05:27):
I think I locked it out.
I thought one of you guys weregonna select my new burrito, but
I thought you might have wentfor the burrito.

SPEAKER_00 (05:36):
I thought it was a bagel at first.
I love a bagel.

SPEAKER_03 (05:40):
I did get some elite bagels over the weekend from uh
local bagel spot.
This is a pile of salt.
It is it is um uh in disguise asa as a biscuit, as a sausage and
biscuit.
I'll be consuming zero more ofthat.
Um very buttery, very I meanit's got a lot of flavor, a lot

(06:01):
of salt flavor.
It's gross though.
Sorry about that.
I love sausage.
I I would eat the whole thing, Iwould have to probably be
intoxicated.
Really?
See, unironically.
It's a lot of cheese on mine.
Do you like it?

SPEAKER_02 (06:17):
No, not really, but that's a croissant.
I'd eat it if I didn't have likeif I was in a rush.
I mean, you're like over you'relike 60% through.
I think I'm just hungry.

SPEAKER_03 (06:25):
There's not a minute though where I would ever choose
7-Eleven oversheets or there'slike nine, I like I would even
do McDonald's over 7-Elevenbreakfast.
Yep.
Didn't you tell me you like a7-Eleven pizza though?
Hell no.

SPEAKER_06 (06:38):
What?

SPEAKER_03 (06:39):
Bro, I drive an electric car.
When the f do you think I'mgoing to 7-Eleven?

SPEAKER_04 (06:43):
I think it was I was talking to Jason.
Jason said, You know, Johnactually is guilty.
Maybe Jason was pulling one overon me.
He said, Your guilty pleasurewas a 7-Eleven pizza, like a
fresh one.

SPEAKER_03 (06:52):
Absolutely not.
No, I've never eaten a 7-Elevenpizza in my life.

SPEAKER_04 (06:55):
Jason, if you're out there, I remember.

SPEAKER_03 (06:57):
I he might be getting confused because Sheets
makes a breakfast pizza.
Okay.
But back in the day when, youknow, I was uh eating way more
gas station food, I would Iwould indulge in all the time.
It was fabulous.
Flavor-wise.
Packed with calories, salt, andmuch that you don't want to eat,
but yeah.
7-Eleven.
Thank you for actually takinginto consideration mine and

(07:18):
Joe's health and wellness andlong and and and you know, long
longevity.

SPEAKER_02 (07:22):
Can we do a saebulls one of these days or something?

SPEAKER_03 (07:24):
Like some Saeeball.
I thought we were supposed to dosome fun.
This is just like you got youlike forgot.
That's what this is.
What nah this is a fun one.
This is a 7-Eleven treat inhere.
A delectable treat.
Man, I was hoping for like ifyou would have came in here and
gave me nine blends of like7-Eleven coffee, which you
constantly harp on and talkabout, that would have been
different.
I would have let it slide.
I'm disappointed.
This is a F tier from Sam.

(07:44):
F tier F.

SPEAKER_02 (07:45):
I'll let this slide and give it a C tier.
The only reason is Samtruthfully loves 7-Eleven.

SPEAKER_03 (07:50):
I know that.
You're right, he does.
But he didn't even go with thegood stuff.
And he got lucky that there wasone thing with no egg on it.

SPEAKER_04 (07:55):
I didn't get lucky.
That was planned.

SPEAKER_03 (07:57):
Yeah, it was planned.
For those of you that arewondering, I actually have an
egg allergy, which I'm veryupset about because I love eggs.
And it um they they tear me uppretty good.
I've I've developed it in my oldage.
And uh you know, getting oldsucks.
And speaking of getting old, howabout a series of uh television,
I guess you call it TV show, aseries of show that's getting

(08:18):
old that you don't kind ofrealize did get old, but that
damn thing's been around for adecade.

SPEAKER_02 (08:24):
Let me just Stranger Thing.
Stranger Things.
Right?
What a great TV show.
Have you guys watched lastseason?
I did.
I binged it the first night itcame out.
Shut up.
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (08:33):
I binge.
Really?
That's very unlike you.

SPEAKER_02 (08:35):
Well, not with shows I like.
It was Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_03 (08:38):
I didn't have anything to do with it.
I was gonna say the night itcame out, I was like, Joe, you
prioritize like your going tothe gym.

SPEAKER_02 (08:44):
Oh, I was drinking, I was having a realize it came
out on Thanksgiving.
Oh yeah.
You got a little got a littletwist.

SPEAKER_03 (08:49):
Well, I haven't seen it.
I I honestly don't even know ifI remember seeing last season.
You would like Straight.
Have you ever watched Straight?
I've watched the first couple.
Yeah, I did like them.
I will say, it's like mostshows, first couple seasons, the
writing was considerably better.
And then like I feel like thelast one, at least from what I
recall, started to like veer alittle bit.

(09:10):
They're trying to like piecepeople into it.
They had like the death That wasthe Russian camp with his name,
right?

SPEAKER_02 (09:17):
Like it would they had the death writing in the
middle, I I call it personally.
I don't know if anyone'sreferred to it as that, where
like shows just get boring inthose middle seasons.
Like we saw with Game ofThrones, a few other like there
was some I was thinking I don'tthink you you mean House of the
Dragon.
Yeah, yeah, sorry.
House of the Dragon mostrecently.
Like you just get to that pointin the middle of a big TV series
where like you know it's gonnago on forever, and so they just

(09:38):
kind of like slack in themiddle.
Yeah, they're just trying to Iwatched it.
Uh Ashley and I have beenwatching this show called
Landman.

SPEAKER_03 (09:44):
I heard it's incredible.

SPEAKER_02 (09:46):
It is incredible, but like they're doing it now
where they spent like a whole30, 40 minutes of an episode at
a funeral.
And there's backstory to it, butlike I just relate to that as
like it wasn't needed for likethe yeah, like people were just
throwing anything in showsnowadays.
And I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 (10:00):
Well, so it was it's stranger.
What are we what are we thinkinghere, big guy?
I feel like uh well this seasonI thought so far it's pretty
good.
Because they're doing it on thethree, they're doing it on the
trip three, a triple trickle,right?
Yeah, they're yeah.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, NewYear's, they're dropping five,
five, and five or something, orthree, three, three.

SPEAKER_02 (10:13):
Another round?
No, I think it's just four andfour, two and two.

SPEAKER_03 (10:17):
I think I can verify that.
On the on on that uh on mydrive-in that they're doing uh
drop on New Year's final part,bleeding this forever.

SPEAKER_02 (10:24):
Maybe it's the final episode because these episodes
are an hour long.

SPEAKER_03 (10:27):
Yeah, like they're incredibly long.
Episodic television shows.

SPEAKER_02 (10:30):
Yeah, like our YouTube videos where we've gone
fantastic.

SPEAKER_04 (10:34):
Really?
The collective opinion, but minetoo.
Like the first two seasons,pretty good.
The third, I think everyoneagrees, is kind of a sour one.
They brought it back with thefourth, and I think everyone was
scared for this fifth onebecause there was such a gap in
time.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (10:48):
But it's the problem with kids being in content.
Kids grew up, I mean mega grown.

SPEAKER_02 (10:52):
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
It is.
So they're the final episode isDecember 31st, New Year's Eve.
Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 (10:58):
Billy Bobby Brown's a mom.

SPEAKER_02 (10:59):
She is, got married, had a kid by the time the next
seasons came around.

SPEAKER_03 (11:02):
That's not insane.
But you but it's good.
How do they make her look like alittle kid?

SPEAKER_02 (11:07):
They don't.
I they they play on it as likeas if they're they've grown up
almost.
Yeah.
They're they're still in highschool somehow, but like even
though they're all adults inreal life.

SPEAKER_03 (11:16):
Like uh, who's the who's the the the one kid?
Um, he's like 33.
Uh uh, the one with the the bighair.
Yeah, isn't he like older?
Oh, yeah.
Mohawk and the teeth?

SPEAKER_04 (11:29):
I don't know.
Well, no, not Will.
Um the the one that s sang thesong about Chicago, I think.
Steve Harrington.

SPEAKER_02 (11:37):
Oh, Steve Harrington?
He's supposed to be like CalebMcLaughlin, too.

SPEAKER_03 (11:41):
He's pretty old.
I thought Gayton I thoughtGayton Matrazo was older.

SPEAKER_02 (11:47):
He's 23?

SPEAKER_03 (11:48):
Yeah.
How old's Caleb McLaughlin?

SPEAKER_02 (11:50):
He has to be like 25, 24.

SPEAKER_03 (11:52):
Okay.
I feel like one of them was megaold and they like played the
younger.

SPEAKER_02 (11:55):
Joey?
Yeah.
He's old.
Joey, 33.
He's 32.

SPEAKER_03 (11:59):
He was actually in a band I saw was like kind of
pretty famous.

SPEAKER_02 (12:02):
Yeah, this guy, Charlie Heaton, he's older, 31.

SPEAKER_03 (12:06):
Yeah.
David Harbour carries the show,let's be honest here, guys.

SPEAKER_02 (12:10):
Jamie Campbell.
What a guy.
He's 37.
Jeez.

SPEAKER_03 (12:12):
He looks young.
Isn't it completely irrelevantin regards to the show?
Oh, not that his character.
Yeah.
He is that there's no he's themain anti-bone can play that
character.
Literally anybody.
You could go on set and playthat guy.

SPEAKER_04 (12:26):
But but his he, yes, he's what who he is, but like
But his performances when he'snot in the whole Vecna thing,
like in that bottom right photothere.
I mean, he he does play kind ofa creepy character.
In other shows?

SPEAKER_03 (12:38):
No, in this one, because he's like a Well, dude,
that doesn't he doesn't exist asnon-Vecta until maybe this
season, which you just spoiledfor me.

SPEAKER_02 (12:44):
No, no, no, no.
No, last season.
Last season he explained it.

SPEAKER_03 (12:48):
Flashbacks, yeah.
So I also I'm getting real realf and ticked off with shows and
flashbacks, dude.
Yeah, uh has been a big thing.
Dude, The Witcher, like I canone, I can barely get through
it.
Love the property, like lovedit, and I'm like I'm like two
months into trying to watch it.
All these flashbacks, thestory's gone to just pissing me

(13:09):
off.
And then they just got boughtthis week.

SPEAKER_02 (13:11):
They did Warner Brothers, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (13:14):
Netflix bought Warner Brothers, so like there
goes everything.
Yeah,$82 billion.
A lot of people said I sawsomething interesting on the on
the internet this week.
It was after the announcement, Igot a TikTok from some dude that
he had a suggestion.
He's like, what if Netflixactually created the next level
of like a movie theaterexperience?
And instead of like you going tothe theater with strangers, you

(13:37):
could rent entire theaters tolike go have parties and friends
and stuff, but you can juststream, like you just pick it
for four hours.
If there's a movie that cameout, you get first access to it,
but also you could go streamfour episodes of Stranger Things
in a theater or something.
Like I was like, that's not abad idea.
No, that's it.
Warner Brothers just like hasbeen struggling for a minute,
they've got some good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (13:58):
Yeah, massive cash and stock deal valued at
approximately$82.7 billion intotal.
Um kind of cheap.

SPEAKER_03 (14:06):
For Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers was like the 82billion premiere.
Uh you would think that'd belike a hundred billion dollars.
That there's only like threecompanies in the world that do
that.
Yeah, I don't know.
If you go into tech and you lookat like Apple and Google,
they're multi- they'remulti-trillion dollar business.

(14:28):
Wow.
Yeah, I guess that isn't badthen.

SPEAKER_02 (14:32):
You mean Netflix is valued at$406 billion.

SPEAKER_04 (14:36):
That's what I'm saying.
That's like that's why thismeans our prices are gonna go
up, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_03 (14:41):
No, eight dollars a month.
But like Warner Brothers, I Imean Time Warner, like that the
I don't even there's only twocompanies in I think it's a
monopoly now at this point.
There's only two companies inthe world that that produce on
that massive of a scale.

SPEAKER_02 (14:54):
Probably is Monopoly now, but I'm excited Harry
Potter will at least be onNetflix now.

SPEAKER_03 (14:58):
But you can't see loves Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_02 (15:01):
There'll be some good movies back on Netflix that
you can watch.
Yeah.
If they do split it, I'm curiousif they just own the property
and it's a whole separate.
Well, they'll start they'llstart rerunning.

SPEAKER_03 (15:10):
Yeah, some some some rights they'll bring over and
stuff.
Live action, and that's how thatwhole model works.
Dude, I like I might be weird inthis regard, but like there's
probably only like twoproperties that I go back and
watch.
Like, I do not like watching oldmovies.
Like what?
I'm like, I'll watch a new movieor I won't watch anything.

SPEAKER_04 (15:26):
Like, what are the properties?

SPEAKER_03 (15:28):
I'll literally only go watch uh Lord of the Rings or
something Christopher Nolanmade.
Everything else, like I'm Idon't care to go see a movie
I've already seen again.
I'm not someone like my brother,Jeffrey, he will watch Jurassic
Park on repeat every day of hislife till he dies.
I feel like I just can't do it.
Like I'm I need new.
Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 (15:46):
See, I got some movies like that.
Honestly, even no, a lot ofmovies.
I feel you'll go like five, sixyears without watching a movie.
It's like I'd like to see thatagain.
You get that same initial.
That's why I love uh I lovewatching a new movie fresh with
someone that hasn't seen it.
Like I've seen a lot of movies,but sometimes I'll watch one
with Kristen she hasn't seen,and I feel like I could get
myself in the head face, likeit's the first time I'm
watching.

SPEAKER_03 (16:04):
I'm just saying, like, if you run Harry Potter
past me on the Netflix dashboardand there's a new movie I
haven't seen, I'm taking the newone 100% of the time.

SPEAKER_04 (16:14):
You you you said you've never seen Harry Potter
the full way through.
No, I've seen them all.

SPEAKER_03 (16:18):
Oh, you have?
Oh okay.
I just don't like you.
Your generation is just likeobsessed with it.
It was so big when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_02 (16:23):
Yeah, the books, the because the bits I was a little
bit older.
Everybody fiend for the books,and the movies came after the
books, and the movies did apretty solid job.
It wasn't exact, but like it wasa pretty good job, I think.

SPEAKER_03 (16:33):
Good.
I'm just like just like notdying to like Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (16:36):
Interstellar's the only movie I'll I'll watch once
a year.
I'll I'll watch that movie.
Like so good.
Such a great movie.

SPEAKER_03 (16:42):
Inceptions up there for me.
Yes.
The Dark Knight, Dark KnightRises.
I would say for me, those onesAnd All Lord of the Rings.

SPEAKER_04 (16:47):
Those ones are harder for me to watch multiple
times because I feel like it'sone of those movies you get so
locked in on that it's like it'sthat's all I want to watch,
though.

SPEAKER_03 (16:54):
I don't want to waste my time watching like like
like fluffy stuff that I don'twant to get bought into.

SPEAKER_04 (16:59):
Yeah, no, I I get that.
It's just I I think but watchingone of those the first time
through, like when I sawOppenheimer the first time
through, it was like, well, I'mso locked in, engaged.
I feel like his movies too, youneed to be in well, you have a
theater room, that probablyhelps, but I feel like it
doesn't do it as much justicewhen you're just at home, like
okay, I'm a 50-inch.

SPEAKER_03 (17:16):
No, you're not wrong.
But then on the flip side of it,though, it's like, would so
you're watching Harry Potter inthe background, like you're cool
with that.

SPEAKER_04 (17:24):
I'm fine, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (17:25):
If you'll just turn it on and go like cook dinner
and oh yeah, okay, yeah.
I'm not seeing I'm just not thatkind of person.
I'm turning on like ambientnoise.
Oh, really?
It's like I no, I'm it'sactually, you know what it is?
It's probably a bad habit ofmaking content as long as I made
content.
Because I used to be like have athing on in the background kind
of a guy more often.
And then because you can't havenoise in the background while
you're filming, and I've beenfilming myself dude for 10

(17:46):
years, I just broke that habitcompletely.
And now I just like I like drivein silence.

SPEAKER_04 (17:51):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 (17:51):
Like I everything I do is just I'm silent, just like
because you can't havebackground noise when you're
filming.
It's it's actually probablyterrible for me now to have that
deal with my own thoughts.

SPEAKER_04 (18:00):
I mean it's probably honestly, it's probably better
for you.
It's just I just uh it wouldn'tbe as enjoyable for me, like
operating in silence like thatso often.
There's some times I enjoy it,but I think most of the time I
want something, whether it'slike music, a show or something.

SPEAKER_03 (18:11):
Maybe I gotta try to like reinstall.
What would be a what's like abackground movie for you that
you would be fine with it in thebackground?
Because I have to be locked inor I'm like displayed.

SPEAKER_02 (18:19):
I can't I think my problem I'm kind of with you, I
can't be like not for the noise,but rather the if I'm gonna be
having a movie on, I need to beable to watch it to understand
what's happening.
Yeah.
Even if I've seen it.
Like I want to be able to justmentally process what's
happening.
I can't just I'll put YouTube onmaybe in the background, like a
a video and just play it if I'mtrying to listen to something.
But even at that, I triedwatching the Linus Tech Tips

(18:42):
interview in um over the weekendum on what's his name?
John, I can't pronounce his lastyear or whatever.
Yeah.
I couldn't, I had tried playingit in the background while I was
doing other work, I couldn't doit.
I had to like sit down and justactually watch the interview.
I couldn't just listen to it.

SPEAKER_03 (18:57):
Yeah, no, I'm with you.
I'm I'm the same.
Like, I gotta be locked.
I don't know.
What are you throwing on in thebackground?

SPEAKER_04 (19:01):
I like a good comedy.
I feel like a comedy is perfectbecause you don't have to be
locked into the actual story.
Like you could have the scenesthat pop up here and here and
again, like you throw you throwlike Norbit on or something, you
pop in every half hour, see whatNorbit's up.

SPEAKER_02 (19:14):
I disagree with that more than watching a movie.
I think comedy, you have to belocked into like some of the
jokes.

SPEAKER_04 (19:19):
You locked into Norbit?
No.

SPEAKER_02 (19:22):
Now the plots all messed up here.
What's point of comedy to youthen?
Okay, so if you're not watchingit, how are you gonna
consistently emotional out ofit?

SPEAKER_04 (19:30):
Every like eight minutes or so there's a scene,
so like you miss the first one,catch the next one.

SPEAKER_02 (19:34):
Okay, but what happens if you catch it on the
middle end of it and you don'tknow you don't know the context
of the first half?
Movies you can kind of guess.

SPEAKER_04 (19:40):
Like you're kind of like, okay, like the thing in
the background I've uh I'veprobably seen five or six times.
There's nothing there's nothingsurprising me in that movie.

SPEAKER_03 (19:47):
So are you falling asleep with like the TV on?

SPEAKER_04 (19:49):
A hundred percent.
What I actually fall asleep withwith, I'll always put like a
like an audio thing.
What I actually love are likethe they make videos are like
three hours long where it's likewe're Dive into the history of
the history of the JulioClaudian dynasty in Rome.
It's like, ooh, this is gonna bethis is gonna be interesting.
Like I want to hear like a astory or something when I get a
story.
You'd read two like a littlekid.

(20:10):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (20:11):
You were that kid that woke up to the history
channel as a kid.
You just would wake up and it'slike talking about big boars and
like lions and you mightremember this.

SPEAKER_04 (20:19):
I don't know, you're probably too old.
You know what I always rememberwaking up to as a kid?
No.
The George Lopez.
Yes, the George Lopez.
You at 2 a.m.
that's the whole family'sjumping on the trampoline,
they're playing ride.

SPEAKER_02 (20:32):
Dude, it was always the intro that woke you up.
Thick at night.
Oh my goodness.
That's wild.
You've never watched GeorgeLopez?
No, no, I have.
I have.
But you didn't experience thatas we did?
Not that way, no.
Oh, it would wake you up at twoin the morning because if you
left.

SPEAKER_03 (20:47):
In my generation, we had different things on the TV
at two in the morning.
A lot of fuzzy TV screens andthey shut down the TV.
He had cable.
You guys were already oninternet.

SPEAKER_02 (20:56):
But you know what you guys need to watch that
isn't on at two in the morning.
You can watch it any other time.
But you have to be locked in towatch it.
What's that?
This new documentary on Diddy.
Get out of here.
No, no, John.
It is incredible.

SPEAKER_03 (21:08):
I haven't fucking picking another patch.

SPEAKER_02 (21:10):
Sean Combs allegedly did a lot of things.
I've heard of it.
Allegedly, it is pretty crazy.
I mean, but like the detail itit went into of his whole life
and just how he built his careeris next world.
I mean, it is one of the bestdocumentaries I've ever seen
breaking down someone's lifethat didn't even know the
documentary was breaking downtheir life.
He's in jail and he has no ideahalf the stuff was released that

(21:32):
was released.
How they acquired some of thefootage is still up in question.
Like, it's absolutely like justmind-blowing.

SPEAKER_03 (21:39):
I mean why are you?
I wouldn't hate I see the herelike in my head, I'm like, I
can't give that man another likeuh second of my brain space or
dollar out of my pocket, likebecause he's just such a
scumbag.

SPEAKER_02 (21:55):
Okay, but here's the best part it does nothing about
building him, building him up,it's all about tearing him down
for the things he allegedly did.
Not diddy exposed.
You gotta watch it, not Diddy.

SPEAKER_03 (22:08):
Diddy ain't Warner Brothers.
It's hard to say.
It's hard to say.
It's not hard to start.
I will check it out though,because I'm I'm not someone to
sit here and say no, I willnever try.
So I if you say, if you saythat, I'll I'll check.
But you're like in you've beeninto it since the day everything
came out.

SPEAKER_02 (22:22):
Now listen, I've realized fully that I I feel
like I hate's a strong word, andI don't hate many people, but I
realized the hate that 50 Centhas for Diddy makes me not hate
people to the fullest that Icould be doing.

SPEAKER_03 (22:36):
Yeah.
Like I love 50 Cent.

SPEAKER_02 (22:38):
Oh, I love 50 Cent.
And the way I watched him, hereleased a f a four-part
documentary series about howbasically it's his hate for this
dude ruining his life.
So 50 made it?
50 was an he was the executiveproducer of watching it.
Yeah.
What started their initial beef?
It was uh the whole Tupac Biggieback at that time.
But I'm fairly positive 50 Centcame onto the scene and like

(22:59):
slighted him in some way.
I don't know the whole lore ofhow they I did a brief Google
search on it over the weekend ofwatching Cliff.

SPEAKER_03 (23:06):
50 and M always beat their own path.
So did Dre.
They like just beat their ownpath.
And I think that that pissed offDiddy because Diddy wanted to
hold the the keys of the kingdomwhen it came to hip rap and hip
hop, especially in like the2000s.
And I and I don't think that 50ever was like, yo, I'm I'm
you're gonna come near me, youknow, kind of apparently I love
that just 50 is so authenticallyhimself.

(23:28):
Yeah, he's turned into like thisincredible, just like
entrepreneur, right?
Yeah, just love that.

SPEAKER_02 (23:34):
I forgot in the documentary, I didn't forget,
but a lot of it is the allegedallegations of um Diddy being
involved inside Tupac andBiggie's murders.
So like it breaks that down,it's actually insane, and it
made me believe that Diddyallegedly did it, but that's so
sad.
Just gonna keep hammering thisup to the city.

SPEAKER_03 (23:53):
Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.
All right, speaking ofallegedly, we'll never now that
we've gone full circle, becausethat's on Netflix, right?

SPEAKER_02 (23:59):
Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_03 (24:00):
So Netflix is I feel like Netflix used to be a
powerhouse in regards to likeaccess to good stuff.
Like they used to think likethey used to be like you could
only get good shows on Netflix.
Now I feel like they just haveeverything and it's kind of will
this accu uh this accusation.
Will this um the the purchase ofWarner Brothers and HBO and like

(24:22):
those proper DC, does it bringthem back?

SPEAKER_02 (24:25):
I I think Netflix is going downhill.
I think all the streamingplatforms are as far as like us
being able to actually benefitfrom using the subscription.
I think Netflix's peak was 100%when you had to go on the
website, put in an order, andthey would send you physical
discs of movies.
I grew up when I was a child.
That was peak Netflix.

SPEAKER_03 (24:46):
You got three movies a month.
You'd go to a store and get it.

SPEAKER_02 (24:50):
John, you would order three movies a month, the
whole family had input.
We'd all be pissed if my mom gotsome movie no one else wanted to
watch.
Held for too long.
Yeah, and you have to, youcouldn't get the next three
peak.

SPEAKER_04 (25:00):
What's wild?
They used to, as I rememberthis, this was God, I don't know
how long ago it was, but theystill had the streaming back
then, but it was horrible to usebecause the internet wasn't
there for like be like, I'mgonna watch a movie, it would
take like 30 minutes to get itto buffer long enough where it's
like I could watch the first 15of this and then hopefully it'll
start loading as I watch.

SPEAKER_03 (25:17):
Some of these news.
Sorry, go ahead.
Well, I was just gonna say, doyou think that like besides like
that?
Do you think the consolidationof properties is gonna work to
their benefit, though?
Because it's like to theirbenefit when Disney bought
Marvel and Star Wars, it kind ofresurged Disney.
Yeah, I would say there's a lotof- ruining it, but there's a

(25:39):
lot of negativity around likethat with a lot of these
properties.
Netflix could they have thepower and capacity to like just
say all, we're gonna do it ourway, and we're gonna drive this
thing home.

SPEAKER_02 (25:49):
But I I pay ten dollars for uh I get ESPN plus
Hulu and Disney a month.
That's awesome.
The only thing is I never touchDisney Plus, I only use it for
Hulu.

SPEAKER_03 (25:59):
It's because you you don't I have kids.
Also, like I love Marvel and Ilove it.

SPEAKER_02 (26:03):
Yeah, like I've watched shows, but like Marvel
went heavy towards like the showformat, and it's just like so
you watched The Mandalorian, youwatched Andorra?
I did.
I used it, I used to use it waymore.
Like I guess I just haven't doneanything in the past couple.

SPEAKER_03 (26:16):
No, I know.
I have, it just hasn't been anygood.
See, I just hope that Netflixwas good, actually.
Go back, you're not a Star Warsguy, but like go back and give
Andor a shot.
It's really well written andright, and like the acting's
actually good.
Solid.
Not like good, above solid.

SPEAKER_02 (26:30):
Better than uh the Kylo Wren era.

SPEAKER_04 (26:34):
Blows it away.
Blows it away.
See, I just hope that likeWarner Brothers still gets to
maintain at least like somelevel of autonomy because I just
don't want them to ruin some ofthe properties.
Like, I feel like for the firsttime in a long time, like the DC
universe in terms of likelive-action film, it's like, all
right, I think we're back on agood track here, guys.
Like, we can build something offthis, and I'm so nervous that
Netflix is like I saw this this.

(26:55):
You're only saying that becauseof Superman.
Yeah, that's the first good DCmovie out in a while.

SPEAKER_02 (27:00):
Well, no, no, no.
The the Batman Batman, yep, yep.
Batman was something.

SPEAKER_04 (27:04):
Yeah, but but yeah, but that's like its own, it's
like the Joker.
It was like its own movie.
They're like, we're not buildinga universe off this.
It was a great movie.

SPEAKER_02 (27:10):
They're coming out with the second one.

SPEAKER_04 (27:11):
Yeah, they came out with a second Joker, which was
awful.
Yep.
Second Joker.
I think they were trolling thestudio with that movie, but uh
Yeah.
I think so.

SPEAKER_02 (27:20):
I would blow$80 million.

SPEAKER_03 (27:22):
I literally think they did.
I think they were like, theywere like You had to be on drugs
to enjoy that movie.
I literally And I mean weirddrugs.

SPEAKER_04 (27:29):
I think the director literally was like, let's make a
movie, let's let's act as if theJoker received this amount of
money to make a movie.
And you have to think that hadto have gone through so many
people where they're like, allright, green light, green light,
green light, and they couldn'thave been looking at it, they
couldn't have been closelylooking at it.

SPEAKER_03 (27:45):
Do you do you think it had anything to do with um uh
who's the main actor?
Joaquin Phoenix.
Yeah, Joaquin Phoenix, becausehe's always trying to push the
limit on I I don't think it wassolely him.

SPEAKER_04 (27:55):
I think I think you get him Lady Gaga on that
director in a room.

SPEAKER_03 (27:58):
I think it was like, let's do it.
Lady Gaga.
Imagine a world where like, doyou remember when Joaquin
Phoenix like went off the deepend, tried to be a rapper, and
made this like whole story up?
It was all fake.
That yeah, it was all for thatmovie.
He was method acting.
Yeah, he was on the Lettermanshow or something.
He did all this, yeah, it wasall for this movie.
Yeah, he was he went like crazydeep into like his life was in
shambles and blah blah.
It was wild.
I feel like that could have beenlike the start of like he was

(28:20):
basically like I want to try todo a musical and do something
psychedelic.
We're not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it unless youyou do it this way, kind of
thing.
Because he has that ability.
He's like one of ten actors leftin the world that are like still
like I'm so hard at methodacting that if you want me to
let me dictate.

SPEAKER_02 (28:36):
Could you imagine being like such a invested in
your career method like as amethod actor is you are like
super rich and you're like I'mbroke, and you just like don't
you just abandon everything.
That's so insane to me.

SPEAKER_03 (28:48):
Like Daniel, dude, have you heard stories of Daniel
Day Lewis?

SPEAKER_02 (28:51):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (28:52):
Like like um uh the the Gangs of New York, um the
stories of what he did in orderto play the butcher in that
movie like lived off of raw meatand like butchered his own pigs
and like yeah, it was one likethis crazy dude.
Yes, you gotta be on a differentlevel to be a method actor at

(29:14):
that time.

SPEAKER_04 (29:14):
Have you guys ever seen uh well if you first have
you ever seen the movie Man onthe Moon with Jim Carrey?
Yeah have you ever seen Netflixdid a documentary about him
method acting for that?
That was like he almost lost it.

SPEAKER_03 (29:26):
Like, oh yeah.
Jim Carrey was almost like neveragain.

SPEAKER_04 (29:29):
Yeah, he was like a terror on set.
Everyone's like, man, what agreat actor.
I'm like, Jim Carrey was in abit of an awful set here.

SPEAKER_03 (29:35):
Yeah.
So was um Andy, whatever hisname was, the the guy who was
trying to portray Andy Kaufman.
Yeah, supposedly he was like ohinsane.

SPEAKER_04 (29:43):
Yeah, he was nuts.

SPEAKER_03 (29:44):
He was so he's hilarious, but yeah.
I think that's so cool.
Like, I I that's what I hope.
Like, and you know another thingthat sucks about watching like a
conglomerate of like Netflix andHBO and Warner Brothers, and
like there's no original storythat's like at least our
original story is not asabundant as it used to be in
media.
And when you buy a property likethis, like the assumption's

(30:04):
gonna be they're gonna spin uplive action, they're gonna spin
up like new series or spin-offsor whatever, kind of like based
on properties that like HBO andwhoever else just didn't have
the time, the people, thecapacity, the funding, whatever
it might be to do on their own.
Um, and so it's gonna be like anunfortunate tide potentially.
At least I I hope not, but youcan see it coming because it

(30:26):
makes sense to the businessmodel.
Where they're just gonna rollout some average out for a
minute.

SPEAKER_02 (30:30):
Well, if it's anything like these like Netflix
produced like Christmas moviesor just garbage.
The worst the crux of the worldfor film.
They're they're so terrible.
Some of these shows they producethemselves.
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (30:45):
And and I uh like you're uh we we forgot who's in
the room.
What this man loves just bottombarrel garbage trash television.

SPEAKER_04 (30:54):
Oh like love is blind?
No, see, not that sort of thing.
See, if I'm gonna watch trashTV, there has to be drama.
See, I Joe doesn't want me tobring it up.
I literally said let's bring itup.
600 pound life?
No, well, I wish it was allthat.
No, see Chris, go ahead.
So we were sitting there theother day and we're like, we're

(31:15):
like out of trash TV shows.
What should we watch?
And we're like scrolling throughuh Hulu, and I was like, should
we try the Mormon Wives?
She's like, Let's watch theMormon Wives.
I'll tell you what about theMormon Wives.
Most trash TV shows, I'dconsider myself somewhat of a
connoisseur, these things.
There's usually a pattern theyfollow where it's like, okay,
we'll introduce you to everyone.
There's a little bit of drama, alittle bit of this.

(31:36):
Yeah, this it's like from thefirst second, it's like drama,
drama, drama, drama, likenon-stop, crazy.
And I will say I've made itthrough the first season, half
the second season.
And and they're the Mormonhousewives.
I have not heard too muchdiscussion of church in any of
these.
There's not, they're like, ourfaith is very important.
Anyway, here's my I just gotthey got their brand deal.

(31:59):
She's like, I don't know if Ishould take this brand deal.
They're gonna give me$30,000 tohold up this vibrator in an
Instagram post.
And I was like, could youimagine a world where it's just
like 30 grand?
Here I am, 30 grand, please.

SPEAKER_03 (32:11):
Oh man, it's it's a wild, yeah.
Oh man, I get I get I see theshorts and I immediately like
skip and I tell my tell myalgorithm like do not want to
see more, like not interested.
Because like I you can it'sgotta be fabricated.
Like there obviously there'ssome truth in it.
Oh yeah, like elevation.
But but but the point being ofwhere I'm going is like Netflix

(32:33):
has tossed a ton of that garbageout there, and that's really
where I was like, yeah, thisstuff sucks.
There's also a couple shows thatpeople love.
You guys really like that onewith the like mystery on the
island with the murder, andwhat's that show?
It was Big Last Summer, WhiteLotus.
I thought you liked the WhiteLotus.
I didn't watch White Lotus.
No, I thought White Lotus wasabsolutely terrible.
I wasn't a huge fan of it,especially once they got rid of

(32:55):
uh all my friends argue with meabout it.
Once just because there's liketitties in it.

SPEAKER_04 (32:59):
Once they got rid of Stifler's mom, what's her name?

SPEAKER_03 (33:01):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (33:01):
Once they got rid of her, she carried that show.
She was hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 (33:04):
But they like love it, and I was like, dude, this
show is like not good.
No.
Also, I'm gonna say it againbecause uh because this is
episode one, we talk a lot, youknow, about this is how these
conversations work, and I willsay again that wicked sucks.
All right, next.

SPEAKER_04 (33:18):
Whoa! Oh the first one was great.
Second one, we were back to thatway later.

SPEAKER_03 (33:26):
It was disappointing, complete and
under disappointment.
Come on, couldn't get throughit.
So I hope that Netflix doesn'tput out more garbage like that.
Um, especially with the holidaysthis time.
Yeah, the holidays.
Holidays now, here's the thing Iwill say Netflix Netflix.
I you guys are talking aboutlike getting the physical discs,
and like that was the peak.
I gotta argue against it becauseI love having access to things
that like you're just kind oflike curved in the back of your
head, and then when you're readyfor it and it pops up because of

(33:48):
an algorithm, like I'm not gonnalie, I'm the guy now at this age
that banks on an algorithm of anapp to tell me what to do.
Here's the thing, John.
Like, tell me what to watch.
Give me home alone too.
Boom.
Right now, this time of year,holidays, home alone, elite.
See, I don't I don't want thealgorithm telling me.
I like that.
You want to hold that in yourmemory and be like, these are

(34:09):
the things that I must watch anddo every year.

SPEAKER_02 (34:11):
People were talking about movies you want to see, so
you're going home asking if wecan order it, you're getting
told no, so you find anothermovie.
Like it was You just want toargue with your family.
No, but like it was like youspent time with your family that
way.
No, no, we didn't know.

SPEAKER_03 (34:24):
Fucking the hell no.

SPEAKER_02 (34:25):
Well, I'm just saying, like, I I was forced to
watch a movie with my familybecause it was too old at that
point.

SPEAKER_03 (34:31):
We we were going to Blockbuster, we were going to
the state.

SPEAKER_02 (34:33):
But like, so you did that at Blockbuster.
You go get a movie and then youwatch it as a family.
That's what I mean.
Fight with Jeffrey.
That's how I grew up.
Like, that was our family time,getting a movie from Netflix.

SPEAKER_04 (34:41):
There was a there's a pro and con to getting
physical media.
I remember there was a localplace uh where I grew up.
It wasn't a blockbuster.
Giant Eagle?
No, it was called QuiFlix.
And it was like, and like theplace was great, but there was a
guy that worked there that justknew way too much about movies,
and it was always like everytime you bring a movie up, it's
like, here we go.
He'd always give like hisunsolicited opinion.

SPEAKER_03 (35:01):
I'll never go to buy wood or going to buy tools now.

SPEAKER_04 (35:04):
Yeah, but it's just I I guess I don't know.
I'll never forget.
I just remember buyinglaw-abiding citiz or getting
law-abiding citizen.
Great movie.
Yeah, yeah, it is, but thenrenting it.
I remember putting it down onthe counter, and the guy he was
just waiting for this all day.
He's like, Cardi.
Let's just uh let's just saythis guy is not exactly a

(35:24):
law-abiding citizen.
Like, just please, sir, ring meout.
I don't want to further thisanymore.

SPEAKER_03 (35:31):
I didn't ask for this.
I mean your salesman uh judgmentof my movie select.
You're not wrong though, becauseso we used to we used to do
video games in the same way askids.
So, like I will say that was apeak experience as a kid.
More the video games for me,less the movies, but the movie
it was for our generation, likethe millennials, that was that
was like a peak life experience.

(35:52):
Your parents would get you avideo game, they'd get you a
movie, you'd get a pizza and atwo-liter pop, whatever, have a
friend over, neighbor play videogames till your eyeballs hurt,
or you got you were gettingscreamed at to go to sleep,
right?
Your parents could go be inanother room watching a movie,
and then uh you'd but you'dliterally smoke that disc as
long as you possibly could couldhave it for, um, and then get

(36:14):
pissed off when you had to takeit back.
And I'm talking all the way backto like N64 cartridges.
Those those were glorious times.
Yeah.
Glorious times.
It's sad to know that peoplewill never experience that
again.

SPEAKER_04 (36:26):
You told me they don't even have disc slots
anymore.

SPEAKER_02 (36:29):
They do.
You just have to they're goingaway.
Everything's such a like on acloud nowadays, but like you can
get a PlayStation or Xbox with adisc slot, it just happens to
cost more.

SPEAKER_03 (36:40):
It's wild to think that that is like historical now
and traditional.
It's like for me, right?
It's like I'm like putting acartridge into a video game
console is now like an elementof like the history of video
game console.
Now you just click a few buttonsand you're yeah, you just sit
there and watch it download.

SPEAKER_02 (36:57):
Now the big thing is storage because it's all
cloud-based.
It's like, oh no, my consoleonly has 500 gigabytes, mom.
I need the one with twoterabytes.

SPEAKER_04 (37:05):
See, I'm surprised they don't push the cloud-based
stuff.
Like, you don't need a harddrive, you could store it on our
servers, pay us forever.

SPEAKER_02 (37:12):
Well, they want you to download it under so like the
big thing, these games, I have atheory that these games are
getting so large because likethe graphics are improving, but
they only want you playing theirgame.
Like they don't want youplaying, I mean, if they're not
owned by the same company, theywant you playing their game, so
like they're a hundredgigabytes.
So you have limited options.
Now, if they were smaller filesizes, I'm sure it would be less

(37:32):
quality.
There's I'm sure some back end,but like there has to be a
reasoning for why some of theseare so large, or why can't I
only download the campaign forsome games and not like I have
to download the multiplayer andeverything.

SPEAKER_03 (37:43):
That's that's what I'm saying.
Like, so I didn't Call of Dutystarted doing that.
I didn't play a video game forlike eight years, right?
Jeffrey moves home and he likesto play Call of Duty.
So we were playing Call of Dutytogether, and when they make you
download the campaign, sevenyears of Call of Duty
multiplayer, yeah, I campaignsfrom the early 2000s, and you're
like, that just took up 250gigs.
Yeah.
Like, why did I need and thenyou don't use any of it except

(38:04):
for multiplayer for one game?
I was like, this is this pissed.
I am upset.
I am physically and emotionallyupset with this.
So you said they changed it?

SPEAKER_02 (38:13):
So Call of Duty now, you can download just the
campaign or just multiplayer,but like the only problem is now
they're like kind of allintertwined.
Yeah, they have like Warzonecamos and gun skins and like
like the characters you can use,they're all intertwined.
Fortnite ruined video games.
That's that's my hot take.
Fortnite ruined so much forconsumer.

SPEAKER_03 (38:33):
I've I've only played it once and I hated it,
but I got buddies that like theyplay with their kids and they
love it.
They love that it's just likepretty much like a free-for-all,
right?

SPEAKER_02 (38:40):
It's awesome, yeah.
I used to play it when I wasyounger.
Yeah, I'm not into that.
It's cool, but they justdefinitely ruined the auto
ruined it.

SPEAKER_04 (38:48):
I feel like Call of Duty started it.
They were the first one Iremember where it's like you
gotta buy their DLC.
And then the people at Fortnite,it's it was I just learned that
it's free, and I was like, thisis terrifying.
They're like, oh no, you come inhere for free.
We'll get we'll get the moneyfrom you.
You don't have to buy the game.
We're gonna sell you so much inhere.

SPEAKER_03 (39:07):
Yeah.
You guys use as kids?

SPEAKER_02 (39:09):
Yeah, that's free, but then so the problem with
Fortnite, Fortnite changed thegame because you had companies
like like Call of Duty wherethey would like, okay, let's get
$20 out of them and get like aDLC so you got content out of
it.
You could go play DLCdownloadable content.
So like I don't know what thatactually stands for DLC.

(39:29):
It just sounds like outloadablecontent.
But regardless, I think forexample, you played zombies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They would they would come outwith new zombie maps and it
would be twenty dollars, and youget a new zombie map, a new
multiplayer map, of additionalcontent.
Fortnite changed it in the senseof they're not giving you
anything new.
The only thing they're givingyou were like non um I forget

(39:51):
what you could say.
You're getting skins and gunskins and nothing to change the
gameplay or the map.
Yes.
And it just completely so everylittle kid now, Mom, can I get
V-Bucks?
Because that's their onlinecurrency.
A lot of games start.
What?

SPEAKER_03 (40:08):
Is that Gary V?

SPEAKER_02 (40:09):
No, Fortnite owns V-Bucks.
It's like their online currency.
You take real dollars, getV-Bucks.
Bitcoin?
No, it's just V-Bucks.

SPEAKER_04 (40:17):
Give me some Ethereum, please.
I'd like to plug Fortnite.
It's only usable in the Fortniteshop.

SPEAKER_03 (40:21):
On the Silk Road?
No, we're getting off topichere.

SPEAKER_02 (40:23):
Yeah, anyways.

SPEAKER_03 (40:24):
That is that's a good point.
That that's some wisdom rightthere from a young man.

SPEAKER_02 (40:28):
We could dive into that in another deep Fortnite
conspiracy.

SPEAKER_03 (40:31):
So like I grew up, I yeah.
All right.
So for for listeners, I grew up,I was a I was a jock, but then
in the winter, I was a videogame kid.
Like you couldn't go outside.
We snowboarded and stuff, butthen I got to a point where it
was like, I'm gonna break bones,kind of want to play sports,
can't do that.
So I played video games and thenalso played sports.
But video game culture was sodifferent back then.

(40:52):
Like I'm like a very avid, likeHalo Lamb party guy.
Okay.
Right?
So for those of you listening,like what did video games mean
to you kind of growing up?
Like, what what what what areyour like top top games or like
what do you think?
Like, literally leave a commenton on anything.
We'd love to hear it.
Um, because what we'll end updoing down the line here, Joe is
we could definitely do somerankings.
I'd love to talk like classicvideo game rankings, console.

(41:14):
We'll do some kind of stuff likethat.
Um, and speaking of that, you'vegot some rankings prepped for us
that are a little bit moretempo, a little bit more based
on the season of which we'resitting right now.

SPEAKER_02 (41:24):
Based around the holidays, we're in the time of
year.
I like it.
We get Thanksgiving, we getChristmas, we get New Year's, we
get pummeled, we get family, weget it all, choice or not.
I mean, it it's there.
Um, and so I thought we could gothrough some fun stuff, some top
holiday foods, best holidaydrinks, some traditions, and
some movies for Christmas totalk about.

(41:44):
Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (41:45):
I'm actually very, very interested.
So this will be what the thirdthird holiday season us three
have got to spend together.
Yeah, right?
Where's the time go?
Where does the time go?
Time flies when you're a pieceof those married all of a
sudden.
I've reproduced uh threechildren in that time.

SPEAKER_02 (42:00):
Uh that is crazy.
It is crazy.
When we met you, you had one.
No, two.
Two.
You just had you just hadGracie.
Yeah.
Well, it could happen.
Okay, well, let's start withthis.
Including every holiday, whatare your guys' top three foods?
We have three separate holidays.
Give me your top three foods.
Can just be from overall.

SPEAKER_03 (42:21):
Overall?
All right, you first.
Thanksgiving.
Oh, Thanksgiving?
Start with Thanksgiving.
We'll go Thanksgiving first.
Definitely turkey.
Um boring things.

SPEAKER_02 (42:32):
We just do one food from each?
Yeah, one food from each.
Okay, so you're taking turkey.
Turkey's your top.

SPEAKER_04 (42:35):
Oh, I love because that's probably uh like the only
time of year I have like anactual fresh turkey.
Like, I don't even know if I'mmaking a turkey any other time
of the year.
I'm not gonna warn you againstthat, but I'm also like, there's
there's other things.

SPEAKER_02 (42:45):
You need to condition the body.
You gotta train forThanksgiving.

SPEAKER_04 (42:48):
I've got a good one for Christmas.
Not yeah, thank Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 (42:50):
All right, what's your Thanksgiving, John?

SPEAKER_03 (42:53):
Pumpkin pie all day.
Pumpkin pie is the most uniquepie that's the pinnacle of pies.
I will die on that.
With whipped cream, though,right?
With or without.
A great pumpkin pie doesn't needit.
Whipped cream will elevate it.

unknown (43:06):
Wow.

SPEAKER_03 (43:06):
I don't know.
My mom made homemade whippedcream this year.
She usually doesn't do that.
Uh, I love it.
You know, Sarah likes the can ofReady Whip.
Yeah.
But pumpkin pie.
Like I when I was playing forthe Steelers, my mom would uh my
mom makes a makes a phenomenalpumpkin pie.
It's like a dense pie, though.
Right?
So it's like you got a lot of alot of flavor punched in there.
Heavy.

(43:27):
She's done it all from you.

SPEAKER_02 (43:28):
Feel full after eating it?
No, that's the thing.

SPEAKER_03 (43:31):
Wow, you feel great.
You feel like enriched, you feellike I can have a slice of
cornucopia of joy and and andnourishment after you eat it.
But um, when I was playing forthe Steelers, we're all fat in
the offensive line room, right?
So uh our offensive line coachwas one of them, and he would
have us bring uh just likesomething in because one people

(43:52):
one thing people don't realizeabout uh like the NFL and
playing sports at that level,like you don't really get a lot
of holidays, you go to a lot ofholiday events and stuff, but
you're not spending a ton oftime with your family, you're
still working 15-hour days, andso to bring a little bit of joy
into the locker room, you know,you would kind of like throw
some stuff like that in there,like, oh, we're gonna have you
know, for film today, we'regetting you know Thanksgiving

(44:12):
dinner brought in because someof the holidays are blah blah
blah, whatever.
So we did um Thanksgivingdinner, and my mom wanted to
make the pie.
So I brought the pies, um,whatever it was, we brought them
in and they got cooked, likeabsolutely.
So we did an we did a a pie, um,a pie, like a blind pie eating
test through the whole room.
And Angie's pie took the crown.

(44:32):
Um, it was it's an elite pie,I'm telling you.
So hers is good.
My mother-in-law also makes agood one.
Hers is a little bit lighter,it's a little bit less in the
dense texture-wise, but fool.

SPEAKER_02 (44:41):
Tell me if I'm wrong.
He just mentioned it's threeyears we've been here almost
spending home.
Never had it.
Never had that pie for somereason.
That's don't do that one.
There we go.
Don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 (44:51):
Actually, I eat all that when I throw this up in the
house.
You're just gatekeeping the pie.
That's what you're doing.
You know what?
Hey, often ask Joe, you'reconstantly watching your figure
because you're trying to getmore jacked, which is insane
because you're jacked.
But I'll bring you some pie.

SPEAKER_02 (45:04):
I won't ever disrespect somebody's mother's
cooking.
Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 (45:08):
I will always eat if someone's mom cooks and offers
me food, I will eat it.
You're a man of integrity andrespect, especially when it
comes to family.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, pumpkin pie, bar none, thepinnacle of Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 (45:19):
I think Thanksgiving elite, a good mac and cheese.
I think it's the one time ofyear I I I love mashed potatoes,
but I think like if you have agood mac and cheese at
Thanksgiving, it's like gamechanging.

SPEAKER_03 (45:30):
Yeah, I'm uh when I started smoking like meat
cooking in a smoker, I shouldsay that.
Um I like started smoking macand cheese, and that was like an
absolute I for the decade plusnow that I've been like cooking
on a smoker, that's like thenumber one requested thing I
make.
Yeah.
Is like, can you bring smoke macand cheese?
You bring smoke smoke a good macand cheese.
It's probably it's in my topthree for sure.

SPEAKER_01 (45:51):
So moving on to Christmas.
What do you guys eat atChristmas?
Is that like a big meal foreverybody?

SPEAKER_04 (45:57):
Uh yeah.
I mean, I usually do like a hamor something, but I would say my
top Christmas food, my grandmaused to make them ladylocks.
You're a lady?
Oh, my grandma loved to makeladylocks.
My mom called me the other day.
She has like a deep freezer ather house and she was like, I'm
like getting rid of this deepfreezer.
She's like, You won't believewhat I found at the bottom of
this deep freezer.
I'm like, what?
She's like, Some of grandma'sLadylocks.

(46:18):
My grandma's been Do you dare?
Well, no, what I said was like,maybe we send this to a lab or
something, see if they couldbreak down what was in there.
Like, these things have to belike like 15 years old.
I'm like, if we could send themout to get uh like the recipe's
lost, so we might be able tosalvage it here.
Man, I was thinking like four orfive years, but you're like, no.

(46:38):
No, I was in high school.
I was like, how long?
Like, she this is deep freezer,she's never used it.

SPEAKER_03 (46:43):
It's just it's not that's our next eating challenge
on Unscrewed.
15-year-old ladylocks.

SPEAKER_02 (46:49):
Oh, you just heat them up, it'd be fine.

SPEAKER_03 (46:52):
I don't know.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 (46:54):
Is that a ladylock?
Yeah, that'll be frozen.
There's dairy in that.
I don't know.
You gotta warm it up.
I'm not eating that cold.
You know, freezing it also killsbacteria.
It's okay, we'll be fine.
Just conditioning the body,that's all it is, right, Poola?
Come on.
So, Johnmy, Christmas wise.

SPEAKER_03 (47:12):
So I'm all right, this is a complex one for me.
Christmas, um, I come from a mymy uh my mom's parents are
straight off the boat, you guysknow that.
So uh we used to try to do theseven fishes thing, but children
aren't really into eating allthat fish and seafood and stuff.
So uh we don't do all of that,but my my grandmother, um Irma,

(47:35):
you know, bless her soul, blessher four foot ten, foot, four
foot, ten inch tall soul.
Um very tiny like run of themill, but quintessential Italian
woman um makes an incredible ormade an incredible like uh
Christmas Eve fillet.
So Christmas Eve is the biggerday for us because um Christmas

(47:55):
Day was a lot of running around.
And she also makes a covodale iswhat it is, but it's like a
gnocchi, but it's a little mudit was a little bit there's some
difference in that for somereason, or they called it
different or whatever.
But like um those two things forme are just like
interchangeable.
Now I've learned how to make thethe fillet.
So like now I'm like I reallymiss her her covodale or her

(48:16):
gnocchi.
Yeah, like because her sauce,she's just like cooking with
love, right?
You like just can't get anywherenear tasting like it does.
There's like I don't know whatit is, and now she's she's got
pretty bad dementia.
So she just stands there andasks the same question over and
over.
So like you can't get it out ofher, but she's there, she'll
taste it, be like, you know, andthen she'll two minutes later

(48:37):
say to add the same thing.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, youjust we just put that in there,
no, no, like we don't even, butyeah, so I'm uh I'm giving it
another shot this year.
I gave it a shot last year.
They liked it, but it's nowhereclose to hers, her like um her
cabodel or gnocchi.
Like that's uh my get like my itjust give me that lump of of
voluminous carbohydrate in mystomach on Christmas Eve.

(48:57):
One of those uh quintessentialfoods.

SPEAKER_02 (49:00):
You can make a good gnocchi.

SPEAKER_03 (49:02):
Oh yeah.
Game changer.

SPEAKER_02 (49:04):
I can just like taste the pillows in my mouth
now.

SPEAKER_03 (49:07):
Easy now.
And that's what that's what it'sone of those things.
Like I'm 37 years old.
Yeah, like in my entire life,she was making them, and then
she just got to a point where itwas like too much.

SPEAKER_02 (49:18):
You gotta go get one of those Elon chips or
something, John.
You gotta get that informationout of it.

SPEAKER_03 (49:22):
Well, here's the other crazy thing, right?
So she's straight off the boatfrom Italy, right?
You ask her for a recipe, halfthat is in Italian, but it's in
like scribbled Italian dialect,and then you got English on the
other half.
So she'll rip some ingredientout in Italian and it won't make
any damn sense, and my mom willinterpret it and give it to me,
and then I'll get the Englishpart after that.

(49:42):
And you're like, none of this islike none of this makes this
does math, doesn't math.
You gotta take it to Italy.
Someone can it's not you got sothere's so many dialects in like
the way Italians speak.
You get a better chance overhere, over there than in the
States.
No, that's the thing.
You get a better chance inPittsburgh because they're all
like bocking it up.
I mean, you gotta walk aroundBloomfield and you're like
asking her you a bruteese, whatdoes this say?

(50:04):
You know, you Napoli oh, whatdoes this mean?
Like, that's how that works.

SPEAKER_04 (50:07):
No, no, no, no, take it down to La Prima, always this
old guy at the Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (50:15):
But my mom and I are like on a mission to figure it
out because they've got like herpizzells, there's a couple other
cookies and stuff that are inthere that are traditional that
she they've they've pulled themout of her, but can't get her
pasta sauce and can't get hercovered though.
What do you got, big dog?

SPEAKER_02 (50:31):
My mom used to do the seven fishes.
Then a couple years ago, this isvery specific to my family, but
she started making prime rib onChristmas.
Every Christmas, bold.
Very, but it has like changed mylife.
I look forward to Christmas somuch every year now.
Because of the prime rib.
Prime rib.
And she's so good at cookingprime rib.

SPEAKER_03 (50:50):
It is like uh you know, prime rib is like not a
hard meat to cook.

SPEAKER_02 (50:53):
No, it's not, but like we just never cooked it, I
never experienced it.

SPEAKER_03 (50:56):
My mom's never cooked a prime rib.

SPEAKER_02 (50:58):
Oh, it's phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 (50:59):
That's incredible.
It's much more of like a NewYear's meat though.

SPEAKER_02 (51:02):
Almost, but with New Year's, we do my uh my grandma
was very German.

SPEAKER_03 (51:06):
Ham and peas.

SPEAKER_02 (51:07):
We used uh oh sauerkraut, and we it was just
bread with a quarter in it forgood luck.

SPEAKER_03 (51:14):
Give me what going into New Year's, what do you got
for New Year's?
Oh, New Year's?

SPEAKER_04 (51:19):
I don't know if I have a New Year's a New Year's
food tradition.
So I guess don't do it.
Oh, you know, oh no, you know, Iguess New Year's uh usually some
sort of seafood.
It's different every year,though.
Sometimes like do some lobstertails, sometimes you just could
do like uh do some shrimp, youcould do Sam's still coming out
of like getting faced on NewYear's.

SPEAKER_03 (51:35):
Yeah, I feel like so he hasn't quite hit the uh yeah.
New Year's, I feel like I don'thave any real like tradition,
usually just some sort ofseafood.
Yeah, blacking out on champagne.

SPEAKER_01 (51:42):
Yeah on New Year's falling asleep on the floor.
I could drink some champagne,let me tell you.

SPEAKER_03 (51:48):
I I'm I uh I personally never did anything
but get based on New Year's OrNew Year's Day of just mend the
hangover.
And then I met my wife, and herfamily is like a little bit more
traditional in like the Polishside.
Um and so they do like uh Potskyor something is what it's
called, or they do this theselike cheesy breads.
They also do like the ham andand uh they do fresh ham and and

(52:11):
and some other thing, peas orsomething, right?
And they pretzel and like mymother-in-law does a phenomenal
job, but I'm not into any ofthat.
Yeah, I could do out I could dowithout all of it.

SPEAKER_02 (52:22):
Yeah, sauerkraut, kibbasi.
I mean, we would do myfather-in-law loves it.

SPEAKER_03 (52:27):
I'm not into it.

SPEAKER_02 (52:28):
Once a year is too much, even I'm into the prime
rib though.

SPEAKER_03 (52:31):
She kill she makes a killer prime rib on New Year's
Eve, which we've spent a few NewYear's Eve with them.
And yeah, that's what I'm about.
Big old, big old hunk of meat.

SPEAKER_02 (52:40):
New Year's is like if my mom makes uh this once
again.
I go back to my mom makes Idon't make anything.
I've just got married.
I just got learning to cook.
Yeah, not learning to cook, justI've never needed to cook my
whole life.
Yeah, I neither lived incollege, and what am I preparing
a Thanksgiving meal in college?

SPEAKER_03 (52:57):
I did.
Yes.
Dorms home.
Dorms give.
I did too.
I'd go home and then I'd alsocook.
I don't know.
It was why it was weird.
Like to cook.

SPEAKER_02 (53:05):
French toast, though.

SPEAKER_03 (53:07):
Breakfast?

SPEAKER_02 (53:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (53:08):
You guys do like a big breakfast on Christmas?

SPEAKER_02 (53:10):
Yeah, yeah.
Christmas morning, this Frenchtoast.
She does it on New Year'sspecifically, too, but it's like
it has apple slices, cinnamon.
It's used Hawaiian bread thick.

SPEAKER_00 (53:19):
Thick.

SPEAKER_02 (53:20):
It's juicy.
It is the I tried bringing it inmy first time here for Black
Friday and no one touched it.
So I just took it home and youhit it by accident.
No, I put it up right on thetable.
No, no, you put it in the uh youput it in the warmer.

SPEAKER_04 (53:30):
Well, you were making a statement.
No, I left it.
Damn.

SPEAKER_02 (53:35):
You sure it didn't?
Were we drinking that year?

SPEAKER_04 (53:36):
Oh, you know.
You were all drinking, yes.
Wow.
You know what I thought I forgotabout Serbian Christmas?
Have you guys ever had abaccala?

SPEAKER_02 (53:44):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (53:44):
That's good.
My grandma would make bacala.
It's that salted fish in a box.
You wash it off, and you have tosoak it in water for days.
Sorry, his dad talks about that.
Oh, yeah.
You douse it in some vinegarwith some potatoes.
Oh my god.
Bakala's nasty.

SPEAKER_03 (53:59):
Yeah.
Nope.
Never had it.
Never had it.
There you go.
Yeah, bakalah.
But I do, I will say, like, I Inow that I'm getting older, it's
like as a as a younger person, Ididn't really care for the
traditional aspect or thetraditions of the holidays.
And then as I've, you know, Ihave kids now and you get into
routines and you see that likehow impactful those can actually

(54:20):
be, just in regards to likegiving like to Joe's point, like
giving you something to lookforward to.
Like you look forward to theprime rib now.
And like your mom probably likeloves that you look forward to
it as like a parent.
Yeah.
Like that's where my brain goes.
My kids are like like non-oncouches corners and stuff still.
So like they don't reallyappreciate it yet.
But they would yeah, you shouldhave seen the goo dang
yesterday.

(54:40):
She uh but um I like now thatnow Sarah and I are trying to
implement more of that into ourparenting, like it's just like
kind of create some of our owntraditions and then bring our
bring our families along withthem as our families have kind
of meshed, and uh, you just kindof get a little bit more wise
and appreciative of it.
So I I do think that's a coolpart.
I will say one thing that I'venever been like a participant in

(55:01):
is the holiday drinks.
Do you guys do like drinks likeyou guys like eggnog for me?
Never had it.
Literally still just could neverhave it.
I don't like eggnog.

SPEAKER_02 (55:09):
Um no holiday drinks.
Really?
Specifically, we just drink toget drunk, that's all it is.

SPEAKER_04 (55:14):
See, I love a nice, nice Christmas hot toddy.
But I I don't know if it's likethe it's probably like the
conventional hot toddy.
You'll get a Lipton black teabag and make that tea, fill it
with some old granddad till yourheart's content, a little bit of
honey, a little bit of lemon,and you just suck them down like
all night long.

SPEAKER_03 (55:31):
That's one never my my family wasn't big drinkers,
still aren't.
I was the only big drink.

SPEAKER_02 (55:37):
Wines.
Um Christmas is a time I drink alot of wine.

SPEAKER_03 (55:40):
Crush it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (55:41):
Red wine, prime rare bread wine.
I mean, I I crush probably likethree bottles of red wine
between like two days by bymyself.
Yeah, it's uh it's like uh itturned into an alcoholic.
Yeah, I don't judge me.
We opened some good bottlesaround Christmas.
Now that's we wait all year toopen some good stuff, so like
see that's what I'm talkingabout.

SPEAKER_03 (55:57):
It's like you you get a good bottle, someone gifts
it to you, whatever, then youhold it, you're like, this will
be a great Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 (56:02):
A lot of bottles from um Argentina, France, like
a lot of we it's so weird, butwe try to like if it's made in
the US, drink it all year round.
If it's foreign in the like agood bottle, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (56:13):
I like that.
So I like that.
I I we should we should try andestablish a uh uh a holiday
tradition around here.

SPEAKER_02 (56:20):
We did.
You said you weren't attending.

SPEAKER_03 (56:21):
Did I?

SPEAKER_02 (56:22):
We're smoking cigars in the veranda.

SPEAKER_03 (56:23):
Dude, I threw up last time we smoked a cigar.
I'm not smoking any cigars.
Well, you will, but we'll it bein better states on the veranda.

SPEAKER_02 (56:28):
Get you a black and mild, we'll do the cigars.

SPEAKER_03 (56:30):
I'm gonna get us nice, Maduro's cigar.
I was telling a buddy of minethat we smoked that cigar last
weekend, and he was like,Whatever cigar you smoked, I
guarantee that's why you puked.

SPEAKER_01 (56:41):
Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_03 (56:42):
He's like, Yeah, he's like, it's probably way too
dark or like way too, like,you're just you're just a little
puppy dog, you're a littlenovice.
Sam's out there.

SPEAKER_02 (56:49):
I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 (56:54):
You're like, oh, I was in my element.

SPEAKER_03 (56:56):
You know what he was smoking.
Awesome.
It was an honor to witness.

SPEAKER_04 (57:01):
I was over there like, oh, I'm dying here.
I will say that when I got thatuh that Uber home, I will say
once it once I got in motion, Ifelt like uh I felt like Rachel
and the uh the Christopher NolanBatman when she's poisoned and
he's driving her back there.
I was in there like holding her,like, come on, just make it
back.

SPEAKER_02 (57:17):
Dude, you should have called Charlie Brown.

SPEAKER_03 (57:19):
I know Charlie Brown.
He wouldn't speak of the we Iwant to say with the holiday
themed stuff though, becausethere's some good stuff that we
didn't get into.
We're gonna rapid fire thesethough.
All right, okay.

SPEAKER_02 (57:29):
Um movie.

SPEAKER_03 (57:31):
You ready?
All right, Sam.

SPEAKER_04 (57:34):
First, top Christmas holiday movie.
Planes, trains, automobiles.
Really?
Oh yeah, that's a good one.
What do you mean?
What?
Your best?
Oh, yeah, it's probably one ofthe best.
It's like one of the best JohnHughes movies there is.
So good.
You get Steve Mark.
Great movie.

SPEAKER_02 (57:48):
I just didn't expect you to say that.
I thought you'd be like another.

SPEAKER_03 (57:50):
I'm pretty sure I've heard that on the end.
I think actually, I'm prettysure that's like Jason Kelsey
made that his top movie.
Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 (57:55):
Man of good taste.

SPEAKER_03 (57:56):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going Home Alone.
I love Home Alone.
I think uh I don't know why, itjust has a lot of nostalgia.
I think that I like that one.

SPEAKER_02 (58:04):
Home Alone's a great option.

SPEAKER_03 (58:05):
Watch it with my kids.
I don't really have to worryabout, you know, is anyone in
the room or stuff because it'stoo lewd or too not too vibe.
Like, I was gonna go home alone.
Die hard, you know, and likewatch out with my daughter in
the room.
It says Bruce Willis.

SPEAKER_02 (58:16):
You know, I'll I'll say elf just because you said
home alone.

SPEAKER_03 (58:19):
I was gonna say home alone.
You know why I love elf though?
Like elf is fine.
I love John Favre.

SPEAKER_02 (58:25):
See, I don't even like Elf.
I just said it because someoneneeds to say it.
I actually watches Elf everyyear and I'm screwed.

SPEAKER_03 (58:31):
It's one it's one of Sarah's favorites.

SPEAKER_02 (58:32):
I don't like it though.

SPEAKER_03 (58:33):
That even what's that other one?
Love actually?

SPEAKER_02 (58:35):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (58:35):
I refuse to watch that with her.

SPEAKER_02 (58:37):
I elf was great the first time I watched it.
I can't watch it every year.

SPEAKER_03 (58:41):
You know what you should do?
Do a little bit of digging.
The way they shot Elf and thebudget they shot it on is the
most impressive part of themovie.
Really?
Because it's all shot in likeperspective.
There's no like green screen orafter.
Like it's pretty, prettyinteresting stuff.
John Favreau.

SPEAKER_02 (58:55):
33 million.
Wow.

SPEAKER_03 (58:56):
Yeah.
It was it was yeah, prettycheap.
But John Favreau, love that man.
He's amazing.
All right.
So we got movies out of the way.
Any music?

SPEAKER_04 (59:04):
Yes.
I just discovered this song acouple years ago.
It's like the best holiday song.
Uh, you've heard it's the fairytale of New York.
The original's good.
The Kelsey brothers did arendition of one, and now Good
Charlotte just did a renditionof it.
It's even better.

SPEAKER_03 (59:18):
I'll have to listen to it.
I will say Good Charlotte has athey suck, but they like pull me
way back in 2000.
It's a great one.
I don't I'm so bad at Christmassongs, like names of them.
Like I know them all if theyplay, but none of them really
kind of jump out at me.
Um, I will say though, I love acountry rendition of a of a

(59:39):
Christmas.
I like all right.
I like hearing like a countrytake on a traditional kind of uh
uh Christmas song.

SPEAKER_02 (59:46):
I got a hot take for you.
Oh boy.
I love Elvis's Christmas album.

SPEAKER_03 (59:49):
Oh, that's not hot.
That's a good thing I listenedto it.
Your age it is kind of a hottake 'cause it because I
wouldn't have caught that.
Yeah, that's yeah, I love hisChristmas.
Yeah.
I um I'm

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:00):
Yeah, I'm not gonna I got nothing to say about that,
good or bad.
Spelling against the colonelduring all that.
Oh you colonel.
I'm gonna sing this Christmassong.
My boy would be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:09):
All right, so we covered food, we covered drink,
we covered uh movies, music.
If you guys got anything thatyou like, I'd love to hear them
as well.
Um moving on.
Sam and I now sorry, I'mlaughing.
Last week, I don't know, I Ithink this episode will be out
after we after that comes out,or right around the same time.
But we did a challenge onUnscrewed, and I had a specific

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request for this challenge.
The the losers of this challengehad to uh consume entire happy
meals.
And Sam went and gracegracefully and gratefully
purchased these happy meals.

SPEAKER_01 (01:00:42):
45 happy meals.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:43):
What was the one thing I asked for?

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:45):
Uh plain bur one plain cheeseburger, no ketchup,
no condiments.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:50):
Because I knew I knew that the problems with the
volume of these happy meals weregonna come from the condiments.
No, it was the bread.
It wasn't the condiments.
It was not, it was thecondiments, it was the ketchup
the entire time.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:03):
The onions didn't help anything.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:04):
Sam then well so during during the the shooting
of this, yeah, it came out thatthat Sam here believes ketchup
is the most elite condiment toever exist in the history of
mankind.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:16):
It's at least the most universal.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:18):
So my question for you is uh we'll start with Joe,
is can you name a bettercondiment?
I can name one like one bettercondiment.
So you've seen this game aroundthe internet.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:32):
Yeah, I can name I can name two better condiments.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:36):
Two?
What are they?
No, like the you how many canyou name?
I haven't seen it.
No, I haven't seen that.
Okay, so the way it works islike we'll all keep going until
one of us feels like theyactually can't name it.
Right?
So think about like you know,anything that's easier for you
to think of.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:54):
I mean I can think of three that are that I would
enjoy more than ketchup.
I could think of seven.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:04):
Oh man, I I I can't go more than seven.
You can't?
I th I think se like I want tohear your seven because I do
that.

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:11):
I don't think I could do seven.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:12):
Ketchup's like it's up there in like the it's in
everybody's fridge.
Everybody has ketchups.

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:17):
I know, but like seven condiments.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:21):
I mean, you're gonna be don't say relish in this mix,
please.
No, I okay.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:25):
Relish isn't I actually relish.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:26):
Alright, go ahead.
Rip it, go.
Seven.
We can't name more.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:29):
Okay, so are we Are dressings on the table?
Yeah, let's see why not.
Do you put it on fries?
Yes.
It's in the car.
Alright, sure.
So that's it.
The rule is if you put it onfries.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:40):
Yeah, I'd say we go off that.
That's fair because you'reputting ketchup primarily on
fries.
A lot of other things, but I'mjust in this instance, we'll say
fries.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:48):
Okay.
Ranch, blue cheese, barbecue, anaioli.
Or like the the get like agarlic aioli.
Oh, come on.
Tell me you haven't been.
Do I get a line of aioli,please?
You want what?
You're candy.
I've definitely been tobreweries or places.
You've got some french friesthat comes out with like a
garlic or a spicy aioli.
They're in.

(01:03:09):
I gotta write these down.
Voluntarily more.
We've got a specific one here,Chick-fil-A sauce all day long,
right?
Honey mustard, and uh I'll justthrow out there.
Oh see, I was gonna go with likemayonnaise is a super mayonnaise
is superior, but I was gonna tryto be more specific.

(01:03:30):
But yeah, you you'd be a savageto dip your fries of mayonnaise,
but mayonnaise.
No, Joe, mayonnaise is up there.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:35):
You're dipping fries and mayonnaise.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:37):
I've been in where I've done that.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:40):
Barbecue sauce, I'll give you that one.
Yep.
You didn't say mustard?
You don't like mustard?

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:44):
You said honey mustard.
Oh, honey mustard.
Okay, okay, gotcha.
Honey mustard.
Mustard is a better condiment,but you said dippable.
Yeah.
I was going with dip.
Like, I'm not gonna dip inrandom mustard in mustard, but
like mustard on a sandwich isYou said a weird one.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:56):
What was the few other ones you said?

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:57):
Aeoli.
I said an aioli.
Aeoli was barbecue.
Barbecue.
I said Chick-fil-A sauce.
I said ranch.
I said blue cheese.

SPEAKER_02 (01:04:05):
Blue cheese.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:06):
Dressings.

SPEAKER_02 (01:04:07):
I don't know about blue cheese being better than
ketchup as far as like fries.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:12):
Oh dude, you haven't had a good like buttermilk kind
of blue cheese.
If you're eating wings orsomething, what else are you
throwing that blue cheese on?
He's saying you're dipping yourfries in it.

SPEAKER_02 (01:04:20):
Like it's better than ketchup.
I disagree.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:22):
I'll give you the problem with ketchup.
Other than that, for me, we'rePittsburghers.
Yeah.
Like Heinz Ketchup is the mostelite superior ketchup.
I'm going to say that all day.
Um, but with that being said,it's just so overused
everywhere.
Like, and then I love like it'sand it's also tastes so
processed at this point.

(01:04:43):
No, no.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:44):
They have the all-natural hinds if you want
it.

SPEAKER_02 (01:04:47):
If you told me we were going ketchup that isn't
Heinz ketchup, probably can namelike 20 better condo.
I think I think Heinz is just sofar more superior than other
ketchups.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:57):
You know the worst ketchup?
You ever have read gold?
Dude, I'm I I won't first off, Iwon't earn another ketchup, so I
probably only tasted one, spatit out, and MF the person that
handed it to me.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:06):
We were in Greece, they didn't have Heinz ketchup.

SPEAKER_03 (01:05:08):
Yeah, that's why you just don't eat the ketchup.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:09):
I didn't eat the ketchup.

SPEAKER_03 (01:05:10):
That's my god, that's what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:11):
Ate that plain oil two bots.

SPEAKER_03 (01:05:14):
Yeah.
Here's a crazy question.
Crazy ketchup question for you.
Tongue twister.
As two avid ketchup fans withyour fries, are you squiggling
that all over the fries on theplate, or are you are you
putting it in a cup or a pile inthe corner and dipping?

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:31):
You're pivoting in a pile.
You're putting it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:05:33):
Yeah, definitely the dip.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:34):
Yeah.
Well, who's what if you want toput some fries on your burger or
your sandwich?

SPEAKER_03 (01:05:38):
Oh, so you get the Heinz dip and squeeze.
I got there's a there's a man Irespect and love in my life.
Stop.
He's all about the squiggle pilepuddle.
Oh my goodness, it's myfather-in-law.
Oh, right.
Really?
He's real big into it.
It's the most despicable actionI think I've ever witnessed a
grown man make.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:54):
It's that Westminster College education.
It might be.
He probably's on to somethingthough that we're not realizing.

SPEAKER_03 (01:05:58):
He he says it's because he's too lazy to dip.
He just wants it alreadycovered.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:01):
Hey, that's a great explanation.
No, it's not.
It's disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 (01:06:04):
What about all the ones at the bottom in the middle
then?

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:05):
Yeah, that's right.
You lose me at when you get tothe bottom.

SPEAKER_03 (01:06:08):
There's never a moment where dipping isn't a
superior method of across theboard.
Like, I don't need it like well,you're kind of cross-dipping.
Think about nachos, right?
Right?
Yeah.
You got a certain point, nachos,I'd rather dip that cheese.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:20):
Yeah, but nachos, that's one where I do, I think
that is the move to just layerit all on.

SPEAKER_03 (01:06:24):
Yeah, but you have to, or it's not a nacho, it's
just chips.
Yeah, but my point is likethere's a in in any layered
thing where you're putting stuffall over it, you get to a point
where you're like dipping thisis just a better move.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:34):
Yeah, but it might be, you know, they say you eat
with your eyes first.
If someone presented me with thefries and the ketchups all on
there, it looks like it lookslike it's gonna be a lot more
fun than just a side cup ofketchup.

SPEAKER_03 (01:06:44):
Oh, I don't know, man.
I don't know.
I'm I'm I'm I'd much rather getlike a like a garlic parm
dusting or some like like uhthat fancy, what do they call
it, truffle oil on my fries andthen let me dip it in a nice
beautiful air.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:57):
Sometimes you just I will say though, sometimes you
go, you get a burger at someplace, it's late, you get a
drink or not.
You just need ketchup and fries.

SPEAKER_03 (01:07:04):
See, I'm not I'm it just fuels the body, John.
I'm I'm I gotta argue against.
I'm just not in the uh neverreally got I'm not I'm not a big
condiment guy at all.
Like I'm very much meat andcheese, like period.
Everything I'm doing is I Iargue this all the time.
I do so much barbecue that greatbarbecue does not need barbecue
sauce.
If you take if you takesomeone's food and they put the

(01:07:27):
time and effort into cooking it,and then you go and lather it
with salt and pepper and ketchupand immediate sign of
disrespect, especially inbarbecue, but any cooking at
all.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:37):
Yeah, well, the barbecue, if you're layer,
you're saying just like ketchupand the weird condiments, but
what about like sauces and stufflike that?
Like I used to go to the side.

SPEAKER_03 (01:07:44):
Served with a sauce, but like a good barbecue joint?
Like you go down to Texas, SouthCarolina, they always had
something.
South Carolina makes barbecue.
No, sir.
Fight me.
Sir Fight me up fight me.
Texas barbecue elite all day.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:58):
You won't disrespect South Carolina like that.
South Carolina makes out ofeverything.
There you had enough goodbarbecue down there.
I have.
I go to South Carolina everyyear and I've yet to eat
barbecue.
I'm not talking about thatHilton Heads uh barbecue.
I'm talking about low country,that barbecue.
That is low country.
Well, I'm not low, low country.

SPEAKER_03 (01:08:16):
The lower country than the low country.
Low low.
You gotta go out with locals toget barbecue, and then you're
like this, this is nothing, ithas nothing on Texas.

SPEAKER_02 (01:08:24):
You're not going out the right locals.
Locals to the area.
You gotta go out to locals.

SPEAKER_03 (01:08:28):
You gotta go down big difference.
I'll give you a big difference.
My point being though is thatit's you should never have to
lather something in sauce inorder to make it good.
Like, all like I stand by that.

SPEAKER_02 (01:08:40):
I don't know.
I feel like there's a fewthings.
Like what?
Like a toaster strudel?
Wait, what?
That's not sauce.
I know, but like you're stilllathering it to make it be
saucer.
Desserts.
I mean, you could you I meanyou're tying in aioli to to I'm
not lathering aioli, it's nicelittle dressings.
You're you put dressings in thebucket.

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:59):
Um barbecue is different than like a steak.
Like someone busts out someketchup with a steak, that's a
problem.
My dad does that.
It's probably why.

SPEAKER_02 (01:09:06):
Dude, wait! The last thing I'll say about this.
I love my wife dearly.
She thinks it's normal to putketchup on steak.
No.
We've gotten into it.
No, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:15):
Rip.
My dad asked for that at mywedding, at his wedding.
Like it is We'll go out to afine restaurant.

SPEAKER_02 (01:09:22):
You have any ketchup?
No, don't bring her any ketchup.

SPEAKER_04 (01:09:25):
That's exactly what I do, Joe.
Like, thank you.
You know what though?
I would have more respect forsomeone that busts out the
ketchup instead of the A1s.
No, that's where I just becauseI'm like, at least get all the
sauces out of there.
I agree.
I agree, but if you're gonnatake one, it's almost like with
the ketchup, it's like, you knowwhat?
You're making a statement.
The A1, it's like there.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:42):
I love A1, so I used to.
I don't eat it anymore, but Iused to acceptable steak sauce
as a horsey sauce, some sort ofhorseradish sauce with the
steak.
Everything else, get it out ofthere.

SPEAKER_02 (01:09:51):
But you get a bad steak when I was in college.
I couldn't cook steak for Iwould get some A1 sauce and it
made it taste a little better.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:58):
I wasn't thinking, let me grab some ketchup squeeze
it on there.
I was at Heinz uh practice, likeour facility was the Heinz
facility.
They had Heinz saucy one.
Heinz has their 57 sauce, whichis their version of a steak
sauce.
I mean, I tried it.
Hate it.
But then I was like, I need tomake a steak so good, I need to
learn, that I never need to puta sauce on it again.
That's what you need to bethinking about.
That's how we do flip that joke.

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:19):
Yeah.
I'm gonna teach you some stuff.
I'll I'll try, but I I thinkthat leads us into our our last
segment, our game we're gonna beplaying every episode where we
answer, is it normal?
Okay.
You got some good questionstoday.
The first one is veryhyper-specific to us in the shop
because I noticed something.
We have tape measures in everysingle room here.

(01:10:41):
I you're always looking for themwhere we need them most, both of
you.
We never can find them, but I'venoticed they're literally
there's a tape measure underthere.
Is it normal to have a tapemeasure in every room?
In your house.

SPEAKER_03 (01:10:51):
What's what hold on?
Give us the box.
Yeah, what's the box?
Is it the house?
Is it the shop?

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:56):
Your house and workshop.

SPEAKER_04 (01:10:59):
Well the house, I don't think it's normal, but I
wish it was.
Uh the shop.
I don't have a multi-room shop,but if I did, I think it should
be normal.
You work one.
Yeah, this one, it should benormal.

SPEAKER_03 (01:11:12):
I'm gonna say it is normal, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
change it.
Not every room, it's every flooror area.

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:19):
Yeah, I guess floor I can agree with.

SPEAKER_03 (01:11:21):
So, like in our house, I do keep tape measures
on every floor because I don'twant to go up and down the
stairs to do stuff, and I justkeep it in the junk drawer if I
can, or whatever.
There's one in the garage,there's one in the kitchen,
there's one upstairs, and oneand then here though, we do keep
them in like there's one in thestudio, there's one in their
your office, there's one in themetal shop, there's one in the
food shop.

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:38):
There's but here's the thing.
I don't think it's intentional.
I don't think I think you guyswe don't intentionally keep them
everywhere, like because that'sthe way God wanted it, dude.

SPEAKER_03 (01:11:47):
He said every room, every area, designated tape.
Moving on, it's normal.

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:52):
All right, second one.
This one is inspired from Polaspecifically.
I can give more context to it,but is it normal to hide in your
garage from your significantother not doing real work?

SPEAKER_04 (01:12:05):
When it's phrased like that, it makes it sound
like you're scurrying away.
But I I do think it's normal toperhaps extend the work in your
garage a little time.
A little far past what maybe youneed, you know.
Oh goodness, how did how didthese fine beverages find their
way in here?
I guess I should probably drinkthese before I go back to the

(01:12:26):
house, you know.

SPEAKER_03 (01:12:27):
Yeah, very normal.
I'm I don't I mine I've told youguys this before.
Mine's more like in thebathroom.
Um yeah.
But the uh my my my wife wouldsay that her dad back in the
day, when he would instead ofsmoking cigs in the house, he
would go smoke them in thegarage.
And she would just find him outin the garage, just sitting on a
chair by himself, getting abreak, smoking a heater.

(01:12:47):
So I'm like, yeah.
My dad used to do it when wegrew up.
He would just be outside, hewould be in the shed or the
garage by himself, just gettingaway from us.
Now that I'm a dad, I'm like,all of this makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 (01:12:57):
I I had a great aunt where she always claimed that
her husband, she's like, Myhusband's so great, he doesn't
drink.
I love Paul.
He doesn't drink, he doesn'tdrink.
Paul passed away, they went intohis shed.
This man had like 200 emptybottles of whiskey, just like
every nook and cranny, justevery crevice.

SPEAKER_03 (01:13:14):
I'm not an advocate for lying to your spouse and
then going and doing nefariousthings that you do not tell them
about, but I will I'm definitelythinking it's a handful of catch
moment in the garage with theshit.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:13:24):
The only reason I brought that up, uh, we were he
called me a couple Sundays ago.
We were trying to figure out anidea for unscrewed, and he's
like, hey, hold on.
I'm putting it first thing hesaid was I'm putting in my
earbuds, put his earbuds in.
He's like, Can you hear me?
I'm like, Yeah, he's like,sorry, I was walking to my
garage, wanted to come take thisphone call and get away for a
few minutes.
I was like, Why couldn't youjust take the call to your

(01:13:45):
house?
He's like, Well, you know, I Icould have, I just you know, I
wanted to give you more time andattention.

SPEAKER_03 (01:13:49):
I feel like a lot of people misconceive that and they
think it's like a negativething, but no, not negative.
But no, if they understood, likefor dudes, for uh for for guys,
like the little bit of time thatyou need to just kind of refill
and fill back up and get alittle charge, if you were just
allowed to do that like moreoften, that's all that is.
It's just go get a little fillup, go check a box on some dumb

(01:14:10):
thing that's been bothering youin the back of your head, like
organize this drawer, right?
Or hang this thing or or fixthis little doodad or do hickey.
That's what that those momentsare for.
Then it's out of your head.
You come back, you're mildlyrefreshed, you accomplish
something.
Yeah, it was that sick, maybe itwas that beer, maybe it was that
phone call to that your friendor something you wanted to do,
like whatever.
I'm a fan of it.

(01:14:30):
Yeah, saying don't be a liar,don't lie.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:32):
We could cut that off.
You like polla?
I just thought that was a funnything.

SPEAKER_03 (01:14:35):
Don't cut that out.
That was glorious.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:37):
All right.
This pol this question, sorry,is from Pola.
Is it normal to honk right whenthe light changes at an
intersection?

SPEAKER_04 (01:14:45):
Like they're paused.
One, two, three.
Are you honking to be like, hey,it's time to move?
100% of the time.
I very normal.
I do not do that.
And I one time I was in highschool and I was driving my
buddy home, and I've just I'mnot a fan of the road rage stuff
at all because it could just gosouth so fast.
This man was tailgating us.

(01:15:07):
He like rolls the window down,he's like, I'm gonna flip him
off.
I said, Don't do that, don't dothat.
Just let him let him tailgate.

SPEAKER_03 (01:15:13):
Sounds interesting.

SPEAKER_04 (01:15:13):
Yeah, well, I see the window start to roll up, and
this guy starts tailgating mereal hard.
And it's like a little17-year-old Sam.
I'm like, Oh, this isinteresting.
No, I remember teaching aboutthe brake check.
It's what it wasn't the I don'tknow if the brake check would
have helped.
We got to the stop sign.
This man comes out, he's all oflike six, five.
He's like walking up to thedriver's side, like, oh god.

(01:15:36):
He's like, flipped me off.
Like, sir, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, like everything'sgonna be okay.
And he was like, I've got bootsolder than you.
And like he had this wholespiel, it was going super well,
but then he's like, Do you knowwho I am?
And then I was like, Who areyou?
And he went, I have boots olderthan you.
I'm like, You lost it here.
But I from that day forward, I'mlike, it's not worth it.
I'll wait the extra fiveseconds.

(01:15:56):
You don't know who's gonna popout, what they're gonna have
when they pop out.

SPEAKER_02 (01:15:59):
That's why you just gotta have it before them.

SPEAKER_04 (01:16:01):
I guess that's not my hill to die on.

SPEAKER_03 (01:16:04):
See, I'm I'm much more the opposite.
People are just stuck on theirphones nowadays.
So yeah, that's the problem.
Hold on, just look up.
Like, if you get pissed off atme for honking at you, right?
I will tell you all day long itwas like the light turned green.
Like, and and by no means am Itrying to have conversation conf
confrontation.
I am I am anti-road rage though,because I do believe you should
be able to like your emotions.

(01:16:26):
But I'm honking just because I'mlike, hey, they're probably
looking at their phone.

SPEAKER_02 (01:16:28):
But you're in a lifted truck, like my truck's a
little higher than yours, Pula,but still I can see when people
are on their phones.
Most of the time.
And so I'll if I see you justsitting here on your phone and
like lights change.
I I will I'm just until it's amove.

SPEAKER_03 (01:16:42):
Joey's an incredibly aggressive driver.
We're the most aggressive driverhere.
Fizz in driving, you the way youvocalize how you're driving, you
Yeah, I obviously him up a lot.

SPEAKER_04 (01:16:57):
I don't know if trucks hate those.
I will say, once you said aboutlaying on the horn, that
reminded me my other reason Idon't honk.
I'm not on my phone, but likeKristen always says, I drive
like an old man.
Like sometimes I'll just bezoning out at a red light, like,
I'm feeling good.
I'm just gonna sit here for aminute, it'll flip green, and
then someone hits their horn.
And the second someone hitstheir horn, like I said, I don't

(01:17:17):
get road rage, but I'll dopassive resistance.
I'm like, all right, maybe I'mgonna go even slower now, and
I'll just make sure we're gonnago five under.
Like, oh, you're in a rush.
All right, let's take our timehere.
That's par for the course.

SPEAKER_02 (01:17:31):
All right.
Flat lap last two here.
Uh is it normal to watch movieson your phone?

SPEAKER_04 (01:17:36):
No.
Under under the rightcircumstances, right
circumstances.
Yep, agreed.
Under the right circumstances.

SPEAKER_03 (01:17:42):
What circumstance?
What if you're just trying towatch something coming out of
your mouth so easily?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:17:49):
We were talking about it earlier, actually.
Um I got one.
Go ahead.
Give them your example.

SPEAKER_03 (01:17:53):
It was actually there's only two, but go ahead.
It's like if I'm laying in bed,like there's been times I've
Yeah, 100% no.
Next.
What?

SPEAKER_02 (01:18:01):
I am middle of the day on a weekend.
I want to watch something, butthere is cleaning being done,
and my headphones are needed towatch said film.
So I will throw it on my phoneand watch it on my phone.

SPEAKER_03 (01:18:13):
Yeah, nope.
It's either you're on a plane oron a treadmill.
That's it.
A treadmill?
You gotta run and a plane or atreadmill?
Yeah.
So you like when you want to goon a flight, you download a
movie, that's a good time towatch it.

SPEAKER_00 (01:18:25):
All right.

SPEAKER_03 (01:18:25):
Right?
That's it.
Or you're at the gym, yourpublic gym, and you want to
watch a movie and you don't, youknow, you put it on your phone.
That's it.

SPEAKER_02 (01:18:32):
I'm not gonna argue your pin here.
The only thing I will say isYouTube has ruined how I watch
movies because I do watch themon my phone and I find myself
skipping through boards.

SPEAKER_03 (01:18:41):
Yeah.
I I I'm also like uh I justdon't watch a movie.
We go back to the beginning ofthe show.
I don't watch a movie unless Ihave the time to watch a movie.
So like I'm not trying tosqueeze it in.
I I will agree with what you'retrying to do there, Joe.
Like you want to watch it.
Yeah, do it while you're doingsomething else.
Yeah, I'll usually go likepodcast though, or a YouTube
video, yes.
But I you said movie, moviespecifically, no, but like a

(01:19:04):
YouTube, right?
If I'm watching something onYouTube, or maybe an episode of
a TV show, perfectly fine there.

SPEAKER_02 (01:19:10):
One could say we make movies, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:12):
They could I would argue against it.

SPEAKER_02 (01:19:15):
We're putting out two-hour long feature films.
You want to um play with someboxes?
Last one.
Is it normal to pretend youdidn't hear someone so they
repeat themselves and give youtime to think?
Like you don't understand whatthey said, or you need an
answer, you don't have it, andso you just say, What did you
say?

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:34):
Don't do this to me.

SPEAKER_02 (01:19:34):
Wait, say that one more time.
I'm not understanding whatyou're saying.
What?

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:37):
Who came up with this question?

SPEAKER_04 (01:19:40):
I'm just sometimes it it gives you the right buffer
you need, and uh it helps me alot.
I've already established the thereputation that I don't think
Sam could hear very well.
Maybe I can, maybe I can't.
Damn it! But I will the rightmove that'll, you know,
especially I don't know if youguys have ever been hit by a
question where it's like, ooh.
I know, I know.

(01:20:00):
I f up there, like and then youknow, you get that extra five
seconds.
What did you say again?
Uh you know, you get that fiveseconds, get your thoughts in
order, come up with your bestdefense.

SPEAKER_02 (01:20:09):
Is it normal or not?

SPEAKER_04 (01:20:10):
Yeah, it's normal.

SPEAKER_03 (01:20:13):
I'm I'm not gonna say I agree with it, but it is
definitely normal.

SPEAKER_02 (01:20:16):
I think it's normal.
I don't think it should benormal.

SPEAKER_03 (01:20:19):
I like I I will I'm more likely to be like, what
what'd you say?
Like, can you rebu like what?
Like not share the thought, butlike just because I want you to
say it again.
Because here's the thing thatI've learned is that a lot of
people ask piss poor questions.
And if you ask them to askagain, they can usually tighten
it up to actually ask the realquestion.

(01:20:40):
So that's why I do it.
But I'm also not gonna be like Ididn't hear you.
Say again now.
I feel like that does happen tome though.

unknown (01:20:49):
Huh?

SPEAKER_03 (01:20:49):
Like, Sarah.
What?
Sarah, can you uh do this?
Crickets.
Hey! What'd you say?
I did ask actually ask my wifeto go get her ears cleaned
recently.
I've been asking Sam for twoyears.
To get there, uh I was like, Ifeel like you're gonna you're
you're having trouble hearingme.
Let's uh eliminate any uhmedical reasoning.

SPEAKER_02 (01:21:09):
Never isn't wow, never she's just ignored 100%,
as I deserve.
She's dulling enough going tothe doctor too still.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 (01:21:19):
You know, that's funny.

SPEAKER_02 (01:21:21):
Oh, that's all I have.

SPEAKER_03 (01:21:22):
Yeah, so I mean, so I I dig it.
Got some good ones there.
I will say it's uh this isepisode one.
Also, we're coming right intothe new year.
So um, we'd love to hear, youknow, from you guys out there.
Any topic suggestions, anyquestions, comments, concerns?
We're a very uh um laid-backgroup of guys here, just trying
to have some fun conversations.

(01:21:44):
Um, talk about some very normalguy stuff.

SPEAKER_04 (01:21:49):
Maybe some abnormal guy stuff from time to time.

SPEAKER_03 (01:21:51):
Maybe some abnormal guy stuff.
But um, yeah, just going back onit.
Uh, Netflix buying HBO,absolutely ridiculous.
I need to go watch StrangerThings and the Diddy Doc and
argue about it.
Also, the Diddy Doc.
Thank you.
Um pie is by far the mostsuperior uh thing about
Thanksgiving, specificallypumpkin pie.
And Sam needs to um eat somebetter Thanksgiving food.

(01:22:13):
I think that's what thetakeaways were today.

SPEAKER_01 (01:22:14):
Come on now.
Agreed.
Agreed.

SPEAKER_03 (01:22:17):
All right.
Well, next episode, I have noidea what it's gonna be about.
But if you guys got something,let us know.
We appreciate you.
Um, if you know, if you if youcelebrate the holidays, have a
happy and safe holiday.
And uh we'll see you guys in thenext episode.
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