101 | Let's Get on the Same Page - You Didn't Ask For This

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Eric (00:00):
Today's topic of discussion, matthew.
Yes, sir, I submit for you thatrecently a certain someone
Alyssa to be, exact.
My beloved Sure had a birthday,mm-hmm, a very happy birthday
indeed.
And while sitting on the couchon her birthday, celebrating her

(00:21):
special day, she just had anart show that she did at Auto
Bar and it was fuckingphenomenal.
Out of curiosity, I decided tohop on Spotify and search the
words Alyssa's birthday in thesearch bar Came up.
There were a good number ofplaylists called like Alyssa's

(00:42):
birthday, but the one thatintrigued me most, this one's
called alissa's birthday, beatsokay, and what I want to do for
you is I'm just gonna read offthe artists as they as they
appear on this playlist, and I'mgonna you don't even need song
titles, I'm just gonna rattleoff artists and then I just I

(01:02):
just want your feedback.
My feedback.

Matt (01:05):
Okay, yes, I can do that.
I'm great at feedback.

Eric (01:08):
All right, here we go.
Yeah, taylor Swift, sure,taylor Swift.
And Post Malone Got to Know thesong.
Taylor Swift, yeah, sure.
Auli Cravalho, cast of MeanGirls All right, mean Girls, all
right.
Halsey, all right, taylor Swift, sure, taylor Swift, taylor
Swift, taylor Swift, taylorSwift, taylor Swift, taylor

(01:30):
Swift, taylor Swift, taylorSwift, taylor Swift, taylor
Swift, taylor Swift, taylorSwift, taylor Swift, rihanna, oh
, dua Lipa, oh, olivia Rodrigo,hell, yeah, two Olivia Rodrigos,
whoa, taylor Swift, taylorSwift, taylor Swift, taylor
Swift, taylor Swift, taylorSwift, nikki Yor and Dazzy Hope.

(01:52):
I'm saying that right.
Miley Cyrus, okay, arianaGrande, yeah, taylor Swift.
Harry Styles, selena Gomez,alright, justin Bieber, justin
Bieber, feet, chance the Rapper,ed Sheeran.
Justin Bieber, styles selenagomez.
All right, justin bieber,justin bieber, feet, chance the
rapper, ed sheeran.
Justin bieber, megan trainer,megan trainer.

(02:13):
Jonas brothers, miley cyrus,one republic, pink.
Justin bieber.
Tenacious, d dua lipa.
Katie perry, taylor Swift,alessia Cara, your thoughts
Sounds?

Matt (02:27):
like a great fucking playlist.
Fucking banger.
I'll say that right off the bat.

Eric (02:33):
Sounds great.
Yeah, fucking rips.

Matt (02:40):
This album goes.
This playlist goes so hard.
It is not the most varied ofplaylists that I've ever
experienced, but you know, hey,when, when the vibe is t swift,
the vibe is t swift and it feelslike that's the alissa's
birthday.

Eric (02:56):
Beats vibe and I don't think that's to say that this is
who alissa.
Is this this spotify playlist?

Matt (03:03):
but I do believe that this your Alyssa, or the Alyssa this
was originally intended for myAlyssa.
Well, obviously this wasintended like oh you think this
the the, the creator of thisplaylist, was hoping it would
reach you uh, no, what I'msaying.

Eric (03:20):
To quote uh, jurassic World Raptors got a new alpha.
You know what I mean.
Like as soon as we became awareof this playlist, it became it
became Alyssa's playlist.

Matt (03:32):
Has she listened to it?
Has she jammed out to it?

Eric (03:34):
You know, surprisingly not .

Matt (03:36):
Yeah, is it surprising?

Eric (03:38):
No, but I do Just to conclude.
I do think.

Matt (03:42):
Because I know a couple of things about the two of you and
your musical tastes and itdoesn't seem like the artists
you listened listed on thatplaylist.
Uh, frequent the Jeep stereo,so to speak.

Eric (03:57):
That is funny because usually when, when we're driving
in the Jeep and I'm driving, Ialways Alyssa's DJ like she's
just she's just the way itshould be.
Yeah, the jeep and I'm driving.
I always alissa's dj like she'sjust, that's the way it should
be.
Yeah, she's a fucking pro at it.
We do listen to some, but we Iwill say every artist I've
listed you know, exception of,probably, ed sheeran.
And just to be right, you know,our, our artists, that alissa

(04:19):
does listen to I wouldn't callthem.
Her favorite, sure, but on herbirthday, yeah, that is the
energy we want to bring.
We want, we want 26 taylorswift energy.
Got to got to with a, with a,with a little, with a little, uh
, aftercare of justin beebs andchance the rapper.

(04:40):
Just a touch of that.
Yeah absolutely.
And a little Tenacious D.

Matt (04:47):
The Tenacious D is a wild inclusion in that.
What song is it?
Hold on, can I?

Eric (04:52):
guess, let me find it.
Let me find it.

Matt (04:57):
Because here's what I want it to be the most wild,
tenacious D to throw into analmost exclusively taylor swift
playlist, I feel would be wonderboy that that would be, that
would be good.

Eric (05:13):
Oh, there it is, but it's probably what is it?
Baby one more time, as heard inkung fu panda 4 okay, they do
sing, they do sing that.

Matt (05:35):
Okay, so it's not even.
Oh, why wouldn't you at thatpoint, why wouldn't you just put
in Britney.
Well, hello there everybody andwelcome to you.

(06:05):
Didn't Ask For for this, thepodcast answering life's least
pressing questions.
My name is matthew shea.
My name is eric poach.
Eric poach, how you doing today?

Eric (06:11):
beautifully good, beautiful I just took a nap.

Matt (06:14):
I don't want to hear anymore oh I just want to, I
just want to get that.
That's the thing that I've saidin the what are you doing?

Eric (06:22):
Sorry, I was yawning.

Matt (06:24):
Put your hands where I can see them.
God, I still hate it.
I hate this yawning bit you'redoing.
And why would you take a napright before we're going to
start, don't you?
You're going to be yawnythroughout this episode.

Eric (06:40):
I want to chase these bits the way I chase the rising sun.

Matt (06:45):
Eric, we are recording this at 7.12 pm, which is why,
on a Tuesday I need to put mymind, matt.

Eric (06:53):
it's not that I'm crushed under the weight of capitalism
and I just need to beunconscious for a few hours.
No, matt.

Matt (07:01):
I just need to simulate to my brain.
You took a few hour nap at 6o'clock at night.

Eric (07:08):
It was a long Tuesday.

Matt (07:11):
Eric, you are a wonder to me.
Okay, well, we got a goodamount of business to get to
before we get to some questionsbefore we get to the highly
anticipated sudden deathtiebreaker of google gripe.
season four, our movie season,and I'm excited for that.

(07:33):
That's going to be wild, yes,so uh, let's just get some
business out of the way.
We're recording this on october8th, also known as the final
day of eighth of Halloween, alsothe final day of fat bear week
2024.
For those of you checking thosebingo cards, you'll know that

(07:54):
we do have on, at least on mine,I think it's on poachers as
well.
I don't have the bingo cards upright now.
Chunk wins fat bear week andalthough there are still two
hours left of voting when we arerecording this, currently last
year's champion grazer is up 64000 votes and some change to

(08:16):
chunks 27 000 votes and somechange.
I don't think the comeback'shappening for you, chunk,
unfortunately.
I do think I have for forEric's edification Well, he
already knows this, but foreverybody's edification, on the
TikTok, I have been making FatBear Week videos both last year

(08:38):
and this year.

Eric (08:39):
With a shocking amount of production value.

Matt (08:42):
I mean not shocking to me, because I know the quality of
the man who sits before me, butshocking to the, to the
unrefined palette I have done aan amount of research into each
of these bears to deliver anarrative to my meager tiktok
audience that will shock you, Ithink dutch angles out to here.

(09:04):
okay, I'm just using theproduction value, I'm just using
a green screen effect on TikTokand putting in some videos and
images.
God, it would make PeterJackson weep.
I really feel like thedramaturgy is more the strength
of the video series.
These angles, these lights,these informational graphics I

(09:26):
am using a tripod that it'sliterally set up right here
waiting for tomorrow's video.
That's all that's happening.

Eric (09:33):
The Werner Herzog or TikTok they call him, TikZog
they call him.

Matt (09:38):
Well, that actually is somewhat appropriate because
it's about bears and grizzly manand those sorts of things, but
when you're, you're over herecomparing me to, I want to say,
roger deacon's, like that's justtoo much I'm actually shocked
you didn't take at least onetiktok to verner herzog it you
know what it's?
because I set these up in acertain pattern last year and

(10:01):
one of them went somewhat viral.
It got like 57 000 likes orsomething.
None of my other fat bear weekvideos have even remotely come
that has been chasing thatdragon ever since I have no,
once again.
I have no idea how that onewent as viral as it did and why

(10:22):
none of the others haverecaptured the magic.
The algorithm chose me.
The algorithm did so.
Anyway.
Check out my shit on TikTok.
What is my handle, by the way?
My personal handle?

Eric (10:38):
Look at him acting like he's got to look it up.
I do what is it.

Matt (10:42):
I did think I knew it, but I just confirmed it is at what
underscore Shea said, which isalso my Instagram.

Eric (10:50):
But anyway, so that's that you were handed a good handle
for life.

Matt (10:54):
Well, so let me tell you something about how that handle
came about.
In high school I wrote a columnfor my newspaper called that's
what she said, and then Itransferred that over to college
.
I was writing it, um, for thetower light, for our college
newspaper, and then this is afun story that I can get into,

(11:17):
maybe on an oops, all tangentsput a cork, and that We'll come
right back to it.
I quit in quotations in a blazeof fury because I posted an
article that or I handed anarticle in they didn't publish

(11:38):
it criticizing the Tower Lightfor exposing one of my co-act
actors in a play who hadrequested they not publish.
She had gotten, uh, mugged onthe streets of baltimore.
They had requested that theperson had requested the tower
light not post what street itwas on.

(11:59):
Then they fucking did that, andso I called them out for it on
the website.
That's what it was.
I called them out on thewebsite as a comment and, um,
then they fired me, uh, which isexactly what I thought they do,
but uh, good, but uh, yeah, soI left that and then for a while

(12:19):
I wrote a blog called that'swhat she said, and then people
didn't write blogs anymore.
So I yeah, I'm doing that um sothat's why we're here and now,
oh my god, you, I think we'reworking some shit out.
I think we are eric.
I just realized you can go, ohgreat hey, man, you have a good

(12:40):
way.

Eric (12:40):
Thanks so much.

Matt (12:41):
All right on my head out it's been a cool hundred
episodes, anyway, so that's whyit's, that's what Shay said, and
this should go without Speakingof shameless self-promotion.
This should go without saying.
I didn't need to tell thatstory at all.

Eric (12:58):
Oh no, That'll be the tagline after I'm gone.

Matt (13:09):
Yeah, that can be on my tombstone.
Yes, didn't need to tell thatstory at all, but you know what
it's.
It's on the tape, such as themetaphorical tape, so on we go,
eric, it's time for some.
Same.
Take it away, eric.
I blew all my yeah diction onmy.
Now it's time for some.
Take it away, eric.
I blew all my diction on mystory.

Eric (13:26):
Now it's time for some questions, darlings.

Matt (13:29):
No, it's not.
It's time for shamelessself-promotion.

Eric (13:31):
Okay, sorry, I thought you started saying.
I was like oh, it sounded likehe was about to say it's time
for some.

Matt (13:36):
And then I was like I thought we were going to do, we
were going to do some shamelessself-promotion.

Eric (13:41):
I was just going to bring up our Patreon Patreon.
Our Patreon have been launched.
It exists.
You can subscribe to it.
There's two tiers Tier onedollar a month, babes.

Matt (13:54):
That's it babe, a buckaroo a month, just the one you won't
even notice it.

Eric (13:59):
And that gets you access to our new Discord, which, I
might add, is chaff fucking,popping, popping off.
Hot takes, hottest takes, hottakes hot picks hot stuff, we
can't even talk about on hereand sfw oh, spicy um it.

(14:20):
It's really honestly so chillMostly mostly hello gifts back
and forth.
Yeah, zach Deuce is lifting forthree.

Matt (14:31):
Zach Deuce is currently the MVP of the discord, I think.

Eric (14:35):
Yeah, and I imagine we'll stay.

Matt (14:39):
Possibly.
For a good while.

Eric (14:41):
But we've got a lot of awesome friends coming to hang
out in the discord.

Matt (14:44):
Sir Juniper, the first night of your daft Sir Juniper,
first night of your daft, godbless you, dr Lindsay, are bars
in there?

Eric (14:52):
All your favorites Can't help but notice, my partner
hasn't subscribed yet.

Matt (14:57):
Yeah, that's got to hurt, doesn't it?

Eric (15:00):
But I bury that pain by remembering that Joey, my
bestest friend, subscribed.

Matt (15:06):
Yeah, and so that second tier gets you a notable bonus
episode of you Didn't Ask Forthis called Oops, all Tangents,
oops, all Tangents.

Eric (15:19):
And we just released the first one of those, and it was a
hoot.

Matt (15:23):
First one was out.
It was a hoot.
First one was out, it was ahoot.
We are going to do the firstFriday of every month, you get a
new Oops, all Tangents.
At least to start, at least tostart.

Eric (15:33):
We'll see where we go from there First taste is $4 a month
.

Matt (15:37):
We may very well post one of the Oops, all Tangents, on
the main channel to give you ataste at some point, but right
now that's like.

Eric (15:47):
Right now it's exclusive yeah, that's 20, 30 tangents
from now.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, and you'llget a clip, you'll get, you'll
get it, you'll get it you'll geta clip.

Matt (15:58):
You're gonna yeah, given the whole to a spit on that
thing.
That's a joke.
That's eight months old also.

Eric (16:07):
Uh, I'm sorry, matt, have you.
You know she has a podcast nowright called talk to a, and that
it's number, according tocertain sources I heard she had
a podcast, I did not know it wastalk to.
Uh, I am so happy for this oneI am at equal parts delighted,
thrilled and fucking furious,because that shit markets itself

(16:30):
.
And she's already off to theraces To the moon.
This podcast is gone, While wepeasants scrape about While
we're like, well, listen.

Matt (16:40):
$4 a month For $4.
For $4.

Eric (16:44):
For simple dollars, enough to buy back the farm after he
amputated a leg and sold it toscience absolutely um so uh so
yeah, check those things out.
Come check us out on patreonpatreoncom slash.

Matt (17:01):
Uh, you didn't ask for this.
That'll get you all the stuffand obviously it's in the
episode description, so go there.
Eric, you want to answer somequestions now.

Eric (17:08):
First, question which comes from the ether has no
author, no origin.

Matt (17:15):
I can tell you the origin, but go ahead and give us the
question what life stats shouldbe displayed at death?
Yes, and so, although it doescome from the ether I this was
based off of me seeing a TikTokthat talked about this and then
talked about it way too long,and it wasn't funny.

Eric (17:35):
Okay, so we're going to we're going to talk about it.
Just the right amount.

Matt (17:39):
That's correct, maybe, but what I'm saying is like he had
this funny concept and then he,he, he failed to deliver on it.

Eric (17:46):
So where we're at so.
So we're kind of like thestepdad that like actually puts
in the effort.

Matt (17:54):
I am regretting saying what I just said.

Eric (18:01):
And so it stays.

Matt (18:03):
So, Eric, what life stats should be displayed at death?
And hey, make it funny, Don'tsay that oh my god.
Go on, the people are waiting.
Go on the people are waiting.

(18:26):
All right, I can give you anexample, if you're worried, one
of the things this guy said ormaybe I'm conflating this with
You're- not even my real TikTokWith like a Robin Williams joke
and stuff.
But like or I meant GeorgeCarlin, he has this bit about
the things you receive Likehere's every pair, every pen you

(18:47):
ever lost.
Like here's like all this, like, uh, that's this kind of stats
I'm interested.
No, I.
I'd like to know how long Iwaited in line.

Eric (18:58):
Grand total.

Matt (18:59):
Grand total.

Eric (19:00):
Longest line I waited in.
Yes, I want all the metadatatime and distance time and
distance.
Oh man, my like my engineerbrain's going off.
Um fucking, that's what I want.
This is a data question.
Yeah, uh, I want to know.
I want to know how many peoplehad a crush on me a hundred
percent I want to know that anddates.

(19:20):
I want two numbers.
How many had a crush?
how many had a crush never toldme I want, I want the dates of
like so and so so and so had acrush on oh my god, that's when
it becomes devastating, becauseyou see when they stopped, when
you stop.

Matt (19:36):
I need the ending.
I want to punish myself.
Oh, this is juicy, becausethere was somebody in college
who I don't know if you rememberthis and we shouldn't name
names, but there was somebodywho had a crush I don't know if
you remember this and weshouldn't name names but there
was somebody who had a crush onme and I didn't like them, and
then I liked them and theydidn't like me, and that went
back and forth like four timesand it never happened.

(20:00):
But that's the kind of shit Iwant to know.
I want to be able to analyze mytimeline so you can optimize.
But that's the kind of shit Iwant to know.

Eric (20:05):
I want to be able to analyze my timeline?
Yeah, so you can optimize forthe next run.

Matt (20:09):
I'm treating this like a roguelike now, so I can be like,
oh yeah, so there was oneweekend in February where we
just failed to make thatconnection.

Eric (20:18):
Damn, that's a lot of arguing about D&D on Reddit.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I want to know.
There's a very, a very specificstat I want to know and this
and this is purely from likelizard brain all the way forward
morbid curiosity when I am at aurinal I will spit and like I

(20:42):
will, just I will like I don'tknow you spit hold on.
This is why I don't fucking useurinals, these urinal people it
doesn't even have to be a urinalsorry, urinal men spitting
whenever I'm peeing,agnostically of where it is,
because I just realized that ata urinal does not change any of
the mechanics of how I'm goingto be peeing.

(21:03):
Okay, I will, I will, I willspit, I will let we'll spit out
of my mouth and I'll try to hitthe p stream with it.
Yo sure you and see, what youall didn't see was the flood of
realization coming over matt andwe've talked about this on the
show sagely I might add the.

Matt (21:21):
The realization was that we have talked about this before
.

Eric (21:25):
Yeah, and if you're listening to this, every person
in your life who stands up topee has done this.

Matt (21:35):
Not that you have to do that, gentlemen.
Not that you have to do that.
You don't have to be shamed forsitting and peeing we do not
judge a sit sprinkler I prefer.

Eric (21:43):
I am a sit sprinkler and I applaud you for it, you better?

Matt (21:50):
um, I'll tell you.
I'll interrupt just to say Iwent to the uh renaissance fan
festival here in maryland forthe first time.
Yeah, you did this weekend and Iwent into a bathroom and there
was a men only this way, and Iwalked in and it was just the
trough urinals, like six of them, and I literally said out loud,
I, I walked over, I was like,well, I'm here, pulled out the

(22:11):
dick, was standing around othermen and just said out loud this
is not gonna happen.
And and left to the to theporta potties.
But the retreated to theportapotties, but I know my
bashful bladder syndrome.

Eric (22:26):
Well enough to know when it's not gonna happen the wild
thing about that for those ofyou who again peace standing um,
who have the option every inthat in that weird man trough
room you're, I promise you.
As soon as Matt said oh no, itdidn't happen, walked away, not

(22:46):
a single dude in there thoughtanything other than all right.
I don't know about that, I feellike there's a million, like
when it comes to like any timeyou've been in the bathroom I've
accepted so many noises out ofpeople's mouths in bathrooms
Like there's just just like asort of dissociative episode we

(23:06):
enter when we're all in abathroom together one day.

Matt (23:09):
We should do a like a male bathroom etiquette, uh question
, yes, because that's theappropriate form for this, but I
do feel there is sort of likeyou put your head in a cone of
isolation, yeah, and pretendlike you can't hear and see
other people every dude turnsoff whatever like there's.

Eric (23:31):
It's just like a judgment free zone, because we're all
living in such abject terror ofbeing outside of ourselves.

Matt (23:38):
I do not know about it being a judgment free zone, my
friend, I mean I will.

Eric (23:42):
There are always exceptions, matthew, but like
we're getting a little, too fardown the urinal, let's get a
little crude.
Anyway, when I was, we're goingdown the trough this is a
little blue.
So all that to say, just tomake my point it's a little
yellow, is?
I want to know how many times Ihit my piss with my spit?
Yes, you got, that was all tosay that.
Yes, that's all I just want toknow how many times I hit it, I

(24:06):
just want to know.

Matt (24:08):
Because I try Often.
I think that Pretty goddamngood at it.
I bet you are bud Fucking.
You've had three decades ofexperience at this point,
Probably a little bit less.

Eric (24:20):
You probably didn't start that.
There I am on my back beingchained as they pull the
catheter out.
You're like wait, wait wait,making like an old timey
prospect I got, I got, oh, if,only I had saliva man, I better
develop motor skills sir, mr, mrpoach, please, please, you must

(24:42):
stop.

Matt (24:42):
That's what they called me as a baby.
Oh, I was.
I thought we were talking aboutold man poach.
Oh, oh, that's why I saidcatheter.
I didn't think you had acatheter as a baby.
Oh, can you imagine a baby?

Eric (24:53):
Oh, when I'm an old man.
Okay, got it Perfect.

Matt (24:58):
I arrived at the bit with you.
I was not suggesting you, as ababy, had a tube in your penis.
You as a baby had a tube inyour penis.

Eric (25:04):
I was.
Maybe you did, I don't know.

Matt (25:07):
I don't mean to bring up any kind of infant trauma that
you might remember.

Eric (25:13):
Other stats we might want to track, other stats that don't
involve penises.
I don't really care about howmany times I got McDonald's or
anything like that, that'll justupset me.
It'd be nice to have itsomewhere like nice.
It'd be nice to know that Ihave access.
How do you want these stats tobe delivered?
I want them to be like apost-match screen in super smash

(25:37):
brothers, like when you get,when it gives you like all the
like gives you all the crazy assscore modifiers for crazy shit
you did during the match.
Yeah, I'd also appreciate it,almost like a ooh.
I would accept like a sort ofend credits.
Rolling stats.
Or maybe like a miniature clipshow of my life, where it just

(26:00):
comes up with the stats as itgoes.

Matt (26:03):
I think there's a room for there to be a combo here,
because what I'd like to see is,like the high.
I'd like a highlight reel ingeneral.
I have, you know, like a, avisual presentation of like here
, here are the highs, here arethe lows.
You know everything, everythingin between, you'll laugh,
you'll cry, you'll laugh, you'llcry, you'll cry, you'll laugh
you'll cry, you'll cry 37,000times.

(26:25):
Maybe that ends with like thecredit crawl that presents to
you like some big stats along,like you know Shit, you weren't
even aware of Time slept, timeawake.
Oh man, the basic stuff, butalso some of the stuff we're
talking about like some randomhighlights.

(26:47):
But then I think there shouldbe a book where I can look up
like, yeah, just how many timesdid I see back to the future in
my life?
Shay's almanac.

Eric (26:59):
Shay's almanac.
Shay's sports almanac.

Matt (27:05):
Yes, a hundred percent.
I want, want that like recently, I have developed this
unquenchable uh addiction toicebreaker mints and gum.
Oh you're, you're on the horsebuddy.
I order them from amazon dog inin this.
What I'm holding up is the boxyou get at checkout.

Eric (27:28):
You order them in magazines.
I do.

Matt (27:31):
I order them in packs of eight and I go through them
faster than I probably should.

Eric (27:37):
And to be clear packs of eight discs containing.

Matt (27:42):
I'm saying I get the box that you usually see at checkout
.
I order that from Amazon andthen I also do the gum.
I mean it's all sugar-free, solike it's.
You know, ada recommended andeverything, so I feel pretty
good about it.
What do nine out of 10 dentiststhink?
That's what I'm saying.
It's approved by the DentalAssociation.

Eric (28:02):
Oh, the council is in alignment.

Matt (28:04):
Okay, and I, the dental association, oh oh, the council
is in alignment, okay, and and Ithat's what I'm saying the
american dental association, andthey also.
I lindsey told me this.
So if it's wrong, blame lindsey, it's her fault it's her fault,
but she's a doctor she can't bewrong about anything.
Apparently, chewing sugar-freegum after a meal helps like
overall dental health, becauseit like gets shit out of there

(28:25):
that might otherwise just besitting all day, you schmutz how
about?

Eric (28:29):
that it's kind of like brushing, only not that'll also
be in the lifestyle you'll get alot of.
You'll get a lot of like justdental recommendations
throughout throughout the theclip show and I think all those
should be in there.
You know, cavities filled, yeah, and and things like surgeries,
and I want to see supersubjective, but like things I

(28:49):
would agree, like, like, yeah,from my book like times you
nailed it times, nailed it.

Matt (28:55):
What define?

Eric (28:56):
that a little bit expound you know it, when you see it,
when it comes up on the clip,you're like great eric, great
work, great content.
Like earlier today, I I expound, you know it when you see it I
did a blind backward throw of acrumpled up paper into a trash
can nailed it.

Matt (29:15):
Yeah, oh, a hundred percent nailed it and those
things need to be on thehighlight reel yeah, yes, this
is what the highlight reel isfor I want to know the weight of
the biggest shit I ever took.

Eric (29:26):
Yeah.
I want.
It's for science.

Matt (29:32):
I want the poundage again.
It will be poundage I.

Eric (29:40):
Oh God, there's so many frankly lewd directions we could
go with this.
I think those speak forthemselves.
Minutes spoken, ooh minutes.

Matt (29:49):
Spoken Jesus For me especially and for you.
But I mean I'm verbose, Okay,so it's going to be up there,
it's going to be the majority ofmy life.

Eric (30:03):
So it's going to be up there.
It's going to be the majorityof my life.
I want to know on the scale ofthe entire human race ranked
from funniest to least funny.
I just want to know where Iland.
I don't want to go in with anypreconceived notions.
I just want to know where Ilanded.

Matt (30:21):
I want to know, you know that's interesting.

Eric (30:24):
I want to see.
I want to see the lineup ofperceived funniness,
intelligence, wisdom, likeperceived strength compared to
actual.
I think.

Matt (30:33):
I think that would be interesting to see, but also
send me into a spy.
I was gonna say death spiral,but I'm dead.
So allow it to be beautifullyhumbling, exactly like let it
wash over you, like, oh yeah,you thought you were x, but
really you're x.
Um, I would like to see whatabout this, eric?
Okay, no further detail.

(30:55):
But what if the final statalready making me nervous?
No further detail.
You can't look it up in theshay's almanac?
You get to the crawl finishesand it finishes with rank oh,
yes, just pure and simple rank.

Eric (31:15):
Rank no other details, none, no further explanation.
And it is that mad curiosityand you're that drives you to
seek becoming, and thus bereborn into samsara.

Matt (31:29):
You're there in the after place and you're just like who
do I speak to?
Who do I speak to about this?
Where is the?
Excuse me?
What is the rank of what?
Who else is ranked and?

Eric (31:41):
nobody has answered.
Even more infuriating Someonewill come to you.
Oh oh, oh, sir, hi, I can helpyou.
Sorry, what is your rank?
And then you tell them.

Matt (31:51):
I can't tell you.
Sorry, that answer is actuallyabove your rank.
Who helps me?
No one.
Oh yeah, sorry, no one, but thebilliards room is that way.

Eric (32:06):
Free coffee.
Forever it's always hot, alwayshot.
Tell you that it's always hot.

Matt (32:14):
Always hot, always good.
Here's another one that I thinkcould be good.
Yeah, that could be surprising.
That has the benefit of beingsurprising.
Biggest enemy, oh, like yournemesis, true, your true nemesis
, true nemesis, the person whohated me the most, I want to it

(32:37):
would be like, calculated likethe person.

Eric (32:39):
It doesn't even have to be person who hated you the most.
It could be person who wantedto cause misfortune and like
their ratio of like desire tocause misfortune to success in
doing so.
Like, do you know what I mean?
Like, like, yeah, the personwho did you the most dirty oh,
that's interesting because thosecould be different people that

(33:00):
they could be.
They're probably all.
Oh, you could have a roguesgallery breakdown, a rogues
gallery.

Matt (33:05):
Yes of like.
This is the person who hatedyou the most.
This is the person who activelytried to sabotage your career
the most.

Eric (33:13):
This is the thought they were your joker, but they were
actually your riddler.

Matt (33:18):
Ah, yeah, you hate to rank there, you hate to fall, not
even riddler.
This is actually your calendar,man this is your one of those
villains that you're like, ohyeah calendar man.

Eric (33:35):
That guy was super solomon grundy, coded motherfucker, a
big born on a monday, energy I,I, I dig this any last, any last
stragglers yeah any honorableoh, are we at honorable mentions
?

Matt (33:53):
I do that it could be cool to have like a montage of like
fun fact.
Here's all your near-deathexperiences, because there's
some on there you don't knowabout.

Eric (34:04):
I want to know about all the shit I didn't like.
Times you thought you weren'tseen, but totally were what do
you mean by that?

Matt (34:12):
like when you're, example, sneakily taking a third slice
of pizza, like times you you'relike I'm sure nobody noticed,
and at first it plays as yourfirst person perspective in the
like highlight reel oh my godtake it, but then it shows the
like the third personperspective of the guy across

(34:33):
the room being like there goesshay taking a third piece of
pizza and it'll like replay themoment of freeze frames and they
circle.

Eric (34:40):
You like yeah, like it's a sports replay, yeah you can see
, right here he fumbles rightthere uh number of, uh number of
times that, like you, genuinelyhelped someone.

Matt (34:58):
Yeah, that's nice, yeah, like nice things.
Yeah, we have been.
We have been overwhelminglynegative so far oh yeah, we've
been over.

Eric (35:06):
This is where, like I don't know a number of times
you've brightened someone's day,number of times you've changed
a life I would like to knownumber of like laughs given
laughs given.

Matt (35:20):
That's that'd be that'd make me feel good yeah that'd
make me feel good.
Yeah.
That makes me feel fun.
Number of good stories told.
Number of good stories toldBecause I'm a data person.
I also want to know the.
You know how, like on, like,when you post a video, either on
TikTok or YouTube or whatever,it'll show you like, oh and like

(35:42):
.
60% of people drop off here and20%.
Yeah, I want to know my average.
Like retention.

Eric (35:53):
Audience retention quotient.

Matt (35:55):
Audio audience retention quotient.
You know your art, sorry yourarc, my arc, my art and my art.

Eric (36:02):
And your art.
Your art is your arc.

Matt (36:05):
I want to know the song I listen to the most.
Yes, I want.
I want a spotify wrapped for mywhole fucking life and happy
birthday might skew that a bit.

Eric (36:18):
Or or, you know, attending other people's um or or like
it's gotta be happy birthday,right christmas songs will
probably like the numbers willbe skewed.
They'll, they'll normalize forit um.
I will say you can filter Iwant to know the ratio of my

(36:39):
media recommendations to to toaccept it and agree like I
recommended this thing and theydid.
They're like, okay, good, yeah,good recommendation you
recommended 8,000 TV shows.

Matt (36:55):
Like you had 8,000 recommendations to different
people and 4,822 followed up onthose.
That's what you're saying.

Eric (37:07):
Yes, yes, I want to know how many human beings I saw with
my own eyes.
That's an amazing stat, eric.

Matt (37:14):
Yeah.

Eric (37:15):
Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs,
dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs,dogs, dogs, dogs.

Matt (37:20):
And I want it by breed too .
I want to break down a dog'spetted.

Eric (37:27):
Oh man, and like I feel like with number of humans, seen
with my own eyes, I feel likethat there's a like when you
hear that there's a number, youjust kind of sort of throw out
in your head, like like ageneralized blob of data.
I guarantee it's so muchsmaller than that, oh yeah.

Matt (37:45):
Like I have to have seen it's always more dialed in than
you think it is.
It's always more specific.
Miles walked, of course.
Miles walked, these, those are.
Those are basic right.
Yeah, I think that's up therewith uh time spent waiting in
line.
You know like, yes, things likethat.
You know gallons of water.

(38:05):
You know like, yes, things likethat.
You know gallons of water drunk, you know how many serial
killers did I walk past?
Eric, what an amazing stat thatI want to know right now.

Eric (38:16):
It's like this this is now .
This is Matt stat.

Matt (38:20):
This.
I want to know how many killersI walked by.
Yeah, I, yeah, I actuallyalready.
I know there's at least one.
Spookily, I'll just dribblethat in.
There's at least.

Eric (38:34):
Also same.

Matt (38:36):
I knew, I do know, I did know.

Eric (38:40):
You know I'm not going to give anything away, but he's
very close.

Matt (38:45):
You know I'm not going to give anything away, but he's
very close.
This might be a few oops, alltangents, because it is actually
a very interesting story.
But yeah, my high school didhave a very high profile murder
situation take place in it andthe murderer was a student and
that is a student I had verylimited interaction with.

(39:07):
So at least one killer I didpersonally know uh same, but
mine's super sad.

Eric (39:16):
It's not it, but oh that story is sad, my guy let me tell
you no, no, no, I mean like,even, like.
Even if I give base details,it's just bummers the whole way
down.

Matt (39:27):
So we're gonna bummers all the way down.
Yeah, mine, mine.
Honestly, I'm pretty sure Irealized how callous that
sounded.

Eric (39:34):
I was like no, no, I mean, I just mean to say I can't even
give the broad strokes withoutbumming everybody out.

Matt (39:39):
I was gonna say mine has been on datelines, so like mine
is a legitimate true crime story.
It is a bummer, but you knowwhat?
Got to save it for Salt Anjansmaybe.
Oh, got to put that.
Let's crack that trauma open,got to put that trauma and pain

(40:00):
behind a payroll.
Are we good on stats?
I think we might be good onstats.
I think we might be good onstats.
Honestly, looking at the time,we're good on stats.
I could talk about this, though, I think, all night with you.
I think we could go on and onand on about the stats.

(40:23):
But for the sake of everyone'ssanity we better move on.

Eric (40:28):
Yes, Matt, would you give it to us baby?

Matt (40:31):
I sure will.
The next question on the docketis in fact from the Thought
Line, so let me go ahead andplay it for us.

Steveless in Seattle (40:42):
Hello, you didn't ask for this.
This is Steve Liston, seattle,your best friend from Seattle,
and I have a question for us.
Hello, you didn't ask for this.
This is Steve List in Seattle,your best friend from Seattle,
and I have a question for you.
And the question is when we saywe're on the same page, what
page are we actually on?
Is the page number, is it aforward or is the after log?
Thank, you and have a great day.

Matt (41:01):
That's an interesting breakdown, Steve List in Seattle
.
Thank you so much and alsothank you for accepting the
moniker we gave you in anepisode yes, it is one of my
favorite episode titles.

Eric (41:16):
I have to say it, it rips.

Matt (41:18):
It's a good title, uh so thank you for calling back
steveless in seattle.
Appreciate hearing from you.
Thank you, stevel, seattle.
I like how he ended that withlike is it a forward, is it, is
it x, is it a page number, etc.
Etc.
Because I have a gut reactionto this, eric, give it to me.
I think when we say you knowyou're in a business meeting or

(41:41):
whatever, blah, blah, blah, yeah, yeah, we're on the same page.
I think that is not a preamble,not an epilogue.
We are right now on page 164.
We are together, we are aligned.

Eric (41:58):
It is a page and a place.

Matt (42:00):
We are reading.
Yes, it is Non-biblically.
It is like a chapter and versesituation.

Eric (42:07):
We're 316 right now.

Matt (42:09):
We are at 316 and we are reading together at the exact
same pace.
That is what saying we're onthe same page is supposed to be.

Eric (42:16):
And Carol.
Right now, carol, you're inLeviticus and I need you in John
that's a huge jump, Eric.

Matt (42:24):
Yeah, If they are in Leviticus, but they're meant to
be in John.
Yeah, Carol's fucking up,You're talking near the
beginning Old Testament and infact we're all the way nearly at
the end.

Eric (42:38):
Yeah, gotta come on out that Stone Age.
Join us in the Bronze Age.

Matt (42:43):
That's just some Bible humor for you this evening or
whenever you're listening.
You know what it is, eric.
You're in a collared shirtright now and it's throwing me
the fuck off.

Eric (42:57):
Is it giving you youth counselor vibes?

Matt (43:00):
No, it's just, you're just not used to it.
It's not you, eric, hi, lookgreat in you kidding me shirt.
Most of the time we record thisshirt, this show, you're first
of all much like.
You are now in shadow with,like an open shirt that may or
may not be buttoned somewheredown the line.

(43:22):
Who can say?
Only god do you?

Eric (43:24):
are you aware that this is ?
It is a t-shirt, button-upshirt.
I don't know if that sweetensthe pot.

Matt (43:31):
For you, eric.
The fact that a collar andbuttons are present is
disturbing to me.

Eric (43:37):
Yeah, yeah, I'm wearing my work clothes, so you know might
not be used to seeing me likethis.

Matt (43:42):
Yes, Pre-show you told me you took a nap Because you came
on my screen and I said oh, didyou just like get home from work
?
Or you, we can, because we canbreak for half an hour and I was
like no dog.

Eric (43:54):
I just woke up from like a two-hour nap, jesus, two
fucking ripped, and then I leaptout.
It was like 6 25.
I leapt out of bed, just yankedmy work clothes back on Shit
ripped.
Eric said about his nap I wasgetting that honk shoe, honk,
shoe me, me, me sleep.

Matt (44:16):
See that I cannot nap.
I'm not a napper.
I nap so fucking hard.
Yeah, you always have.
When I take a nap, I aminstantly groggy, like the rest
of the day is thrown off.
I cannot nap.
I do have to.
There's a needle that needs tobe threaded.
I'm only.
I'm only.
I only nap when I'm sick.

Eric (44:37):
That's the only time my options are nap for 20 to 45
minutes or nap for two hours tolike three hours.
But if I wake up at like thehour and a half mark or like the
four hour mark, yeah, at thatpoint I'm legally in a coma.
The, but the only time, but ifI wake up, like in those weird

(44:58):
intervals, like it's like I'vejust been woken up out of the
hyper sleep capsule in thesci-fi movie and I'm just like
caught.
I'm like puking up amnioticfluid from my pod.

Matt (45:09):
Yeah see, that's me no matter what.
Like I only nap if like forsome reason I was up all night
and like didn't get sleep.
Like I will.
Sometimes I'm gonna try to take20 minutes and like lay down
phone alarm set and like try toand try to get that in there.
But if I sleep decently, if Isleep normally and I try to take

(45:34):
a nap, just from general lackof sleep or whatever, the rest
of the day is off, just done.

Eric (45:41):
It's ruined.
For me.
It's all about how long was Iout?
I'm either sitting on the sideof my pod puking my guts out or
I'm the motherfucker doingpush-ups already doing push-ups
and eating lasagna.
Yeah, that, that's chaos.
It's like the aliens scale ofnap, of nap energy absolute

(46:03):
chaos.

Matt (46:04):
So back to the page that we're supposed to be on let's
get on the same page.

Eric (46:08):
Let's get on the same page so so are you saying it's
contextual?
So like when you're at abusiness meeting and you're like
hey, you know we're on the samepage.
That means like, hey, we're onlike we are.

Matt (46:18):
We are absolutely like aligned yes, I think it is
literally saying we are readingspeeds and everything have
aligned, at least for thismoment in time.
Yeah, for this briefest ofbreaths.
Yeah, we are reading at theexact same pace and I think it's
very, because I don't.

Eric (46:37):
I don't think it's possible for two people to
always be on the same page.
No, but what we can do isintersect.
We could like, like some people, like, as we're all flipping
through this book of life, youknow there are times where, like
, oh, we're on the same page,okay, thank God, we're both in
the same place.
And, and it can mean and itdoesn't even mean like, oh, we
both know all the answers wehave, we know exactly what's

(46:58):
going on.
It can be oh.
We're both equally confusedright now, can I?
We're both equally indignant atwhatever is happening right now
, can I?

Matt (47:07):
go blue for just a second Matt.

Eric (47:12):
I swear for just a second.

Matt (47:14):
For just a second can.

Eric (47:16):
I go.

Matt (47:17):
I think it demonstrates what I'm trying to say.

Eric (47:28):
Being on the same page at its core what that phrase is
supposed to mean come in thesame time, okay?
No, I see a line definitely onthe same, because at that point
your breathing is in sync.
You're like fucking eye contactit should be.

Matt (47:39):
It should be hard to achieve.

Eric (47:42):
You know it is and it's not, and not hard to achieve in
the sense of like.
Oh, it's hard for either personto make the other person
experience I'm sorry to borrowthe parlance an orgasm state,
yes, but, but but that you'reboth so aligned in your passions
and pleasures that it happenssimultaneously.

Matt (48:03):
Simultaneously.
That's what I'm saying.

Eric (48:05):
Without the rare.

Matt (48:07):
That's the rare occurrence and and and.

Eric (48:09):
To be clear, like without any sort of like, we're not
counting down together.
Like, like it just naturally,like it is completely organic.
Yeah, that's the face youshould make, like you can summon
no climate I'm trying to getaround people's like well you
know if I time this, just no, no, no, if you're on the same you
don't have to think about it.

Matt (48:28):
And in three, two, one.
There it is my darling.
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, step on up, ooh.

Eric (48:41):
That's what I call cool run-ins.

Matt (48:53):
Who is this character?
Who is this the worst person toever fuck this once more for
the lady episode 101 in memoriamof john candy.

Eric (49:09):
So yes, um simultaneous nutting.
That is definitely being on thesame page.
Also want that on my stat sheet.
Yep, yep, toss that on the statsheet.
Just toss it in there.
For the rest of this podcast'srun, like for the rest of this
show's existence, we're justgonna throw things on the stat
sheet.
Get on the bus now, kids.

Matt (49:31):
I love that I love that anytime someone comes like like
down the line we don't need tomake a thing out of it, just
throw that on the stat sheet.

Eric (49:40):
Throw that on the stat sheet done.
And anytime someone needs toget on the bus, we direct them.
Just listen to episode 101.
That's when you get on the bus.
Yeah, that's when we get on thesame page.
That's when we get on the samepage eric, you nailed it my guy.
Sorry, eric, you know sorrythat was and again, that wasn't

(50:03):
forced.

Matt (50:04):
No, didn't have to count, didn't have to, and that's that
steve was.
That is when you end up on thisyou can't attempt, you can't
attempt it you can't, you can'tsay meet me on the page no, you
gotta, because you can dictate.
You can be like I'm on thispage, I'm on this page, but it's
up to the other person to getthere to flip the fucking pages

(50:25):
and get on the same page, orthis goes both ways.

Eric (50:31):
There are many times in life and I'd say many more times
than we think throw that on thestat page where we need to get
on the same page with someoneelse.

Matt (50:41):
Like we need to do the work, the emotional labor you're
not always going to be in thepower position you're going to
need to do the work, theemotional labor.
You're not always going to bein the power position You're
going to need to adapt tosomebody else's page.

Eric (50:52):
But here's the thing when it comes to getting on pages,
you can't meet halfway.

Matt (50:56):
No, it's all or nothing, babe.

Eric (50:57):
Yeah, you got to be willing, you got to take the
chance, you got to listen toyour heart, listen to the rhythm
, the rhythm of the street,whatever that means.
I agree, it's the arthur themesong.
There you go.
I'm pretty sure I got thelyrics out of order.

Matt (51:13):
Elissa will tell me if I did sure, and so will lindsey,
perhaps in a lindsey'scorrection corner.
I.
I think that's good as far aslike a page number specific page
number I don't think it's.
It can't always be the samepage number.

Eric (51:28):
That's the can't be like 136.

Matt (51:30):
Yeah, like it'd be funny for us to like maybe drop a page
number.

Eric (51:33):
But the thing is like page 4 2069 but it can't always be
for 2069 no it can't always befor 2069.
Sometimes it's got to be for1968 or 42, 42, that's the easy
one see that that.
That's the good old low-hangingfruit page I feel like page 42

(51:58):
is blank page 42 is leftpurposely blank for printing
purposes, but we ascribe a lotof meaning to it yeah, you get
to it and it says this pagedouglas adam fans know what I'm
talking about.

Matt (52:08):
This page was left intentionally blank yeah, which
god?

Eric (52:13):
there is nothing more metaphysical to me than
encountering that page, page 69,upside down.
Do you know what?
That's the page, nice, thankyou.
That's the page the.
This page left intentionallyblank.
That's the page, nice, thankyou.
That's the page.
This page left intentionallyblank.
That's the page nobody can beon.

Matt (52:30):
No, no one can be on that page.
It's the unattainable goal andthat's why 42 is blank.

Eric (52:35):
Intentionally.

Matt (52:36):
Intentionally blank this podcast.
This podcast was leftintentionally blank.

Eric (52:48):
Hey gang, when you, when you describe our podcast to
people, people, make sure youinclude the words deep as shit
in there, make sure, make sure,like describe, you can tell,
like, like, even if you'retalking shit about you're like
oh, absolute dog shit podcast.
But deep as shit, but deep asshit, though.

Matt (53:02):
Yeah, deep as shit.
They don't.
They don't know what the fuckthey're talking about, man.

Eric (53:06):
I fucking hate it.

Matt (53:07):
Deep as shit.
They don't know it, but they'redeep as shit.

Eric (53:11):
It's like the Donnie Darko of podcasts they think they
know what they're talking about.
They really don't.

Matt (53:17):
No, no.
And, furthermore, you think youlike it, but you don't.
You just like talking about it.
You like the idea you like the.

Eric (53:28):
You're in love with the idea of that.

Matt (53:30):
Do you want to shit on our show more, or should we move on
?

Eric (53:34):
let's move on okay, okay, great.

Matt (53:39):
Well, eric, I think that brings so steveless in seattle.
Thank you for the question.
I feel we nailed it, eric.
What do you?
I?

Eric (53:45):
I think we knocked that out of the.
I don't think we could havedone better.
Steve-less in Seattle.
Thank you so much.
It feels weird not saying yourfull name, steve-less in Seattle
and out of Seattle.

Matt (53:53):
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for thequestion, Eric.
We've got a Google gripe seasonto settle.

Eric (54:00):
Oh, we got bones to pick, axes to grind.

Matt (54:03):
So all you need to know, folks if you're just randomly
dropping into episode 101, isour last season of Google Gripes
.
That's the game we like to play, where we read one-star Google
reviews of actual well-knownplaces or, in season four,
well-known movies to one anotherand then the other person has

(54:24):
to guess it, and then somebodyusually wins.
After all was said and done, weare all tied up.
At the end of season four Iwill say thanks to my good grace
, but you know, I kind of gaveEric a mulligan by your good
grace, my liege I'm just sayingby your grace, I'm the problem.

Eric (54:44):
I'm just saying by your grace.

Matt (54:47):
I'm the problem and, one could argue, technically the
winner Now anyway.
So we are moving on to atiebreaker.

Eric (54:55):
Are we moving on?

Matt (54:58):
I am Okay, all right, I love you.
This is a tiebreaker we'venever done before.

Eric (55:02):
No, last time we tiebroke we had submit Google gripe
locations.
This time we each did fivemovies, one review each.
We're going to rattle them offat each other, and here's how
it's going to be different.
We're going to rattle off areview, the other is going to
guess, and then we're going tokeep going.

(55:22):
We're not going to reveal howmany we got right or how many
our opponent got right, untilthe end no confirmation as we go
you get one review, one guessmove on to put it, since, eric,
you did get this bingo square.

Matt (55:39):
To put it in soccer terms, this is a penalty shootout.
This is a penalty, except youdo know if you made.

Eric (55:44):
There's a they've built like a giant black box around
the goal.

Matt (55:49):
You just see the kicker just slamming it into this void
and then you will not you can'tsee the goal lines, you can,
only you don't know if it wentin or not until the end.
Uh, that's the difference.
Uh, eric would you like to gofirst, or would you like me?

Eric (56:03):
to go first, matthew, if I , if I may begin Sure, I only
say that because I'm so scared,great.

Matt (56:11):
So here it is, first movie , first and only review.
Here we go, I'm ready.

Eric (56:25):
Oh, the blank is so scary for me because when the blank
kills people they become bonesand it's scary how they get
eaten by the bugs.
So scary I give one star.

Matt (56:32):
When they get eaten by the bugs.
So it's implying to me thatit's the something Eaten by the
bugs.
They turn to bones.
I'm not sure, Eric.
I'm not sure, Eric, I'm notsure, but yet I have to guess.

Eric (56:52):
Yes, you must.

Matt (56:56):
The Mist.
Okay, I don't think that'sright, but that's my guess.
Okay, eric, are you ready foryour first movie?
I'm ready, baby.
As I child growing up in the1980s, I never could get into
this movie.
Decided as an adult to finallywatch it, since it has rave
reviews.
I wasted so much time waitingfor it to get interesting.

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The entire movie could be ahigh school play One setting,
all pointless cliche dialogue.
Glad so many love it, asanything that brings joy to
others is good, but this moviewas a disappointment for me 80s
one location, famous movie 80s,famous one location.

Eric (57:45):
and I'm going to say this now and I'm not going to confirm
it.

Matt (57:49):
That's right.

Eric (57:49):
That's the rules we've established.
Are we rereading these for eachother at all?
What do you think is fair?
I would say you, you didn't geta reread on my first one, I
won't get a reread on thissecond, on this one, but moving
forward.
Do we want to do rereads?
Oh, I a reread on this one, butmoving forward do we want to do
rereads, I'll allow it.
Okay, moving forward, I'llallow it.

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They're not all short.
Sure, growing in the 80s OneLocation is fucking me up,
because I know some good OneLocation movies.
I'm just trying to remember anythat take place in the.
There's gotta be.
I'm gonna say, and this isfucking, this is so dumb and

(58:34):
wrong.
But I'm just gonna say I'm sayfriday the 13th okay, one place
being camp crystal lake.

Matt (58:39):
That cannot be correct I'm writing down your guess.
That's all I'm doing okay so Iknow later, you ready for your
next one, I'm ready for my nextone.

Eric (58:46):
A movie for ideologues.
It was supposedly making apolitical statement about the
Bush presidency, so naturallythe grand villain in the movie
is an evil, fascist governmentusing religion to manipulate the
masses.
Bush is Hitler.
Sure, fascism is evil, but thefear of it is done to death.
Here's a thought for HollywoodBring in some other forms of

(59:09):
oppression, occasionally likecommunism, which did kill over
100 million people in the lastcentury, or at least make your
villains more subtle.
Every conservative ingovernment is portrayed as a
despicable piece of scum, sotheir hero can kill them without
considering their peskyhumanity.
It's all to justify the film'shero being a terrorist.

(59:31):
Teen Antifa wannabes must haveloved this movie.

Matt (59:37):
V for Vendetta.

Eric (59:39):
Okay, making note.

Matt (59:41):
That's it.
That was the first thing thatjumped to my mind, and I'm going
with it.

Eric (59:45):
You're sticking to it.
I'm ready for mine.

Matt (59:49):
I don't understand why it has high rating.
I even checked these reviewsbefore watching it.
The story made almost no senseand seemed to suddenly fall and
rise with no good plot.
The animation quality alsowasn't too good.
I mean, that makes sense.
It's a 23-year-old films andthe plot did make sense but like

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wasn't developing.
She was stuck doing stuff whichweren't related to getting her
family back and leave that world.
It's my bottom anime film, forsure.

Eric (01:00:23):
I'm going to say spirited away.

Matt (01:00:25):
Spirited away Both of us.
On the second one, yeah, nodialogue, just right, no
dialogue just shooting off fromthe hip.

Eric (01:00:32):
We're in it now.
All right, give me the thirdone, babe.
All right, the movie is justone guy deconstructing
everything and makingassumptions.

Matt (01:00:41):
That is the review the movie is just one guy
deconstructing everything andmaking assumptions and, and, and
.

Eric (01:00:49):
Let me, let me give you the property.
The movie is just one guydeconstructing everything and
making assumptions.
Wow, yeah, deconstruct.

Matt (01:01:01):
This is what one of, if not the hardest one I was gonna
say this I've got like fiveideas right off the bat.
Deconstruct well the one, thefirst thing that came to mind,
that I know it's not assynecdoche new york with philip
seymour hoffman oh yeah, I knowit's.

(01:01:21):
That's a great definitely notthat you should, isn't that
movie?
Am I right?
No, you, you, you would lovethat movie I I've never heard of
that movie.

Eric (01:01:33):
I'm I can feel safe saying this it's spelled in the title
very safely assumed, I have noidea what that movie is it's.

Matt (01:01:39):
It's a very good movie, philips from often.
I highly recommend you.
Any theater person must watchthat movie.
It's spelled Sinkadoosh asopposed to how Synecdoche is
really spelled oh Sinkadoosh.
No, I'm kidding.
I was going to say it's stillpronounced Synecdoche, but it's
Sinkadoosh is the spelling ohyeah, but yeah, I will
definitely check it out,especially if he's got Phil Sy

(01:02:01):
Hoffman.
It's one of his best roles.
I'm not even kidding you.
It's so good, okay, but it'snot that, obviously.
So it's breaking everythingdown.

Eric (01:02:12):
I'll throw you a lifeline here.
You don't need to, but okay,the movie I'll give you that.
It's the movie.

Matt (01:02:22):
Are you saying it's the the title of the movie?
No, no, no, no no, no.

Eric (01:02:30):
What I'm saying is this isn't part of, like, any sort of
series or anything, justthrowing that out there.

Matt (01:02:36):
Okay.
In a way, that's more confusing.
The movie the next guess I hadI'm tempted to go with, which is
being John Malkovich.

Eric (01:02:47):
Okay, is that your guess?

Matt (01:02:49):
It doesn't feel like a movie you'd pick, if I'm being
honest.
It doesn't feel like a movieyou'd pick, but it does feel
like it applies to that movieI'm going to say being John
Malkovich, but I know it's notright.

Eric (01:03:04):
Let me just note that I know that's not right, but that
is my guess.
Okay.

Matt (01:03:08):
Are you ready?

Eric (01:03:09):
I'm ready.

Matt (01:03:10):
Maybe a classic, but I thought it was a drawn-out piece
of self-serving writing thatwas neither scary nor
interesting.
The only brother in the storygets whacked, and for what?
The score made it difficult tosit through because of the
high-pitched strings.
Wife was super annoying withall the crying, but I guess it

(01:03:33):
was a different vibe in the 80s.
Just answer me one question whydid Blank lose his damn mind in
the first?

Eric (01:03:41):
place.
Can I get it one more time?

Matt (01:03:43):
Yes, you may May be a classic, but I thought it was a
drawn out piece of self-servingwriting that was neither scary
nor interesting.
The only brother in the storygets whacked, and for what?
The story made it difficult tosit through because of the high.
The score made it difficult tosit through because of the high

(01:04:04):
pitched strings.
Wife was super annoying withall the crying, but I guess it
was a different vibe in the1980s.
Just answer me one question whydid Blank lose his damn mind in
the first place?
The shining Just gonna make anote of that, guess.
Okay, all right, I'm ready tomove on, eric.

Eric (01:04:24):
All right, I watched this movie once, maybe about 10 years
ago, and I couldn't stand it.
Granted, what I'm about to saymay not be fair because I have
not watched it recently, but Ido have a decent memory of the
story and the scenes.
I'm surprised but also notsurprised that people adore this
movie so much.
To me it wasn't romantic at all.

(01:04:47):
All the two main characters didwas fight and sleep together.
In fact, I remember having thedistinct impression that that
was all they had in common,which is pretty typical for
modern romance movies.
The only somewhat romanticparts were with actor and other
actor, and even then I reallydidn't care for it.

(01:05:07):
I get really sick and tired ofall the sex scenes in movies
getting passed off and sorry,worth noting here, they did
censor the word the letter e andsex with an asterisk.
That is how naughty.
They think that is interesting.
Uh, I get really sick and tiredof all the sex scenes in movies
getting passed off as aromantic, when it's really just

(01:05:30):
lust.
We do not need to see thescenes of them doing it.
Whether it's graphic or not,it's just not appealing.
It doesn't tug at myheartstrings or make me go oh
how romantic, it just makes meroll my eyes and feel
uncomfortable.
Yeah, I guess I'm a prude, Idon't care, it's all just

(01:05:51):
shallow and meaningless.
I did not like this movie.
I enjoyed Famous Actor far morein recent film.
If you want to see romance doneright, where the characters
actually care about each other,watch the K-drama series
chocolate.
It's actually full of tender,heartwarming emotions and there

(01:06:11):
wasn't a single begging yourpardon, sex scene in it okay, I
had a guess lined up.

Matt (01:06:20):
Yeah, the majority of that interesting.
And then at the very end, whenyou said chocolate yeah it made
me think are they talking?
Are they?
And maybe you can answer me,but maybe this will be fair.
Yeah, is the spelling of thatshowing chocolate with?

Eric (01:06:41):
johnny is not showing chocolate.
Okay, there is a K-drama seriescalled Chocolate.

Matt (01:06:46):
Okay, so you?
That makes me think they couldbe talking about Chocolat, but
the movie I had this entire timewas Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, and I'm going togo with it.

Eric (01:06:57):
Is that your guess?
That is my guess.

Matt (01:06:59):
I'm going with it.

Eric (01:07:00):
Okay.

Matt (01:07:01):
Alrighty, alright, you ready for your fourth one, ready
?
Not sure how anyone can ratethis as a watchable movie
concept, much less a watchablemovie.
The cringe factor is to imaginethis happening to a real child
raised without parents, withdeception.
I can only rate those who ratedthis movie as watchable

(01:07:24):
including the critics, aspotential sociopaths rated this
movie as watchable, includingthe critics as potential
sociopaths unable to feel forothers, real or fake.
The concept is a cringe movie.

Eric (01:07:35):
So what's getting me is at first I thought you were
talking about oh uh was like achild raised by parents who
weren't their own and theydidn't know that.
But then the way it's wordedmakes me think that this is
about a child who is raised sansparents.
Period cringe fest.
Yeah, seems like a belovedmovie I can confirm beloved

(01:08:00):
movie it sounds like it's.
They make it sound, so itsounds like this person's taking
exception.
They're like oh it sounds.
It's super unrealistic to tohave this kid raised without
parents by deception.

Matt (01:08:15):
I'll add this here because I do think this is one of my
harder ones.
Deception is key, that's,that's.

Eric (01:08:23):
OK, I have had a few guesses and that I'm gonna go
out on a limb.
I'm ready.
The Truman Show.

Matt (01:08:34):
I'm writing it down.
I've written it down.
Okay, that's your guess.

Eric (01:08:38):
That's my guess.

Matt (01:08:39):
All right, I believe, eric , this is our final review each.
Give it to me.

Eric (01:08:44):
Now, this is a funny movie .
I'll be honest.
This was probably just not forme and I don't get the hype, but
this movie kind of sucks, likereally sucks.
Okay, it is very long and veryboring and I think I fell asleep
for part of it.
When blank and blank fight,nothing cool happens.

(01:09:07):
They just slide around on a wetfloor.
Honestly, if you're like me, asin, you haven't read the books
outside of a few chapters of thefirst and just want a good
laugh, the book, this movie iscompletely hysterical.

Matt (01:09:22):
Okay, that is interesting.
I will say, for most of this Ifelt very confident.
You were talking about therevenant and then you said books
, because that is a book, yes,but and I thought you're talking
about him dicaprio and the bearfighting there, um, because I
loved the revenant and lindseyimmediately was like it was

(01:09:45):
boring and that that moviefucking rules.

Eric (01:09:47):
It is, it is so good, it is so good.

Matt (01:09:49):
It is one of the best films the last 20 years.

Eric (01:09:51):
That movie is a three hour long answer to one question
what is Leonardo DiCapriowilling to do to get an Oscar?

Matt (01:09:58):
Well, that is that is one way to review that movie.

Eric (01:10:03):
Yes, but it's a banger.

Matt (01:10:05):
I fucking love the Revenant.

Steveless in Seattle (01:10:08):
The fucking end.
Fight scene too with clemens,not jesse clemens.

Matt (01:10:10):
Um, anyway, it's really good.
I gotta love it.

Eric (01:10:13):
Give it up for the revenant this podcast, brought
to you by the revenant, broughtto you by the road it's not that
.

Matt (01:10:19):
Give me this review again, yeah now, this is a funny movie
.

Eric (01:10:24):
I I'll be honest, this was probably just not for me and I
don't get the hype, but thismovie kinda sucks, Like really
sucks.
It is very long and very boringand I think I fell asleep for
part of it.
When blank and blank fight,nothing cool happens.
They just slide around on a wetfloor.
Honestly, if you're like me, asin, you haven't read the books

(01:10:47):
outside of a few chapters of thefirst and just want a good
laugh, this movie is completelyhysterical.

Matt (01:10:54):
They just slide around on a wet floor.
This is probably tied for myhardest one, because you're
making it sound like it is aseries, my best guess.
But that's not true.
I was gonna say are theytalking about, like harry potter
as a series?
But like, when harry andvoldemort finally do fight,

(01:11:17):
they're mostly flying, notsliding around on a wet floor.
So I'm like, how do you evenget to that sliding around when
they fight?
That makes it sound to me likeit's a big build-up to these two
finally fighting and they'rejust sliding around on a wet
floor.

(01:11:37):
And again, up until now Ithought you were talking about
the revenant.
It was only when you said partof the first book also very long
, very boring, very long,allegedly boring.
Only read the first few chaptersof the books only read the
first few chapters of the firstone.
It sounds of the first book.
Have I seen this movie?

(01:11:57):
Do you know for a fact I'veseen this 100 percent.

Eric (01:12:01):
Now, that's interesting that I'd even venture to guess,
almost every person you know hasseen this movie now that's
interesting almost because Iknow there'll be weirdos.

Matt (01:12:12):
Yeah, I've never seen it I know a lot of fucking people,
eric, and you're telling methese people all have seen the
same movie.

Eric (01:12:17):
That's almost impossible, ah throw that on the stat board
all rolling around on a wetfloor.

Matt (01:12:28):
It's really throwing me.
Right now.
I am literally just playingfight scenes in my head.

Eric (01:12:36):
This is like it's torture when we do it Because I don't
know about you, but when I'mdoing them, not only do I want
to get you Like, I am going forthe win here but at the same
time I am cheering for I'm likerooting you on my leg.
I want be oh eric, I, I, I.

Matt (01:12:56):
I don't mind saying to you , yeah, and maybe, maybe this is
too much.

Eric (01:13:02):
You don't have a goose egg , eric matt, I will also say
this you do not have a goose egg, okay.
All right, there we go.
No goose eggs in this basket.
I don't have a goose egg, eric.
Matt, I will also say this youdo not have a goose egg, okay.

Matt (01:13:08):
All right, there we go.

Eric (01:13:08):
No goose eggs in this basket.

Matt (01:13:10):
I don't know what to say for this one, eric.
I'm going to kick myself when Ihear it.
I don't know.
I really felt like it was theRevenant, so I'm going to go
with the Revenant.
I know it's wrong.
I know it's not right.
I can't think of anything else,okay.

Eric (01:13:31):
I respect you, I honor you .

Matt (01:13:33):
Eric, are you ready for your final review?
Yes, what the fuck is thisbullshit?
I watched this whole shitexpecting a really good movie
because it said it was going tobe out of order movie.
Because it said it was going tobe out of order.
I found that compelling.
But they didn't only hardlychange the chronology, but they
made the characters depthlessand made them talk your damn ear

(01:13:58):
off.
Seriously, there's moredialogue than actual shit going
on.
You will feel empty at the end.
I seriously wouldn't have caredabout any of the characters if
they wouldn't have been putthrough disgusting shit
throughout the whole movie.
I walked in expecting a darkcomedy and got out with some
random bullshit.

(01:14:18):
It's all garbage and themovie's overrated because
boomers on the internet thinkit's innovative for the year it
was released.
Yeah, it was different andimpactful, but that doesn't make
that shitty plot any less dull.
They wrote any more.
They wrote, they wrote, butthat doesn't make that shitty

(01:14:41):
plot any more less.
Dull is what it says.
And can you understand why Ifucked that up?
Yes, I'm so mad.
Three hours of my time.
I'm never getting back.
Sometimes this movie even feltlike it had no plot, just to try
and shock you or somethingwhich it did, but it has no

(01:15:03):
fucking substance none of it.
It had a theme.
I'd give them that.
I also liked the soundtrack,but it felt depthless, boring
and like a waste of time.

Eric (01:15:16):
Holy shit, a few movies are coming to mind.
Okay, talk to me, babe.
I think I'm going to go with mygut.
Okay, I feel like, if I thinkabout this too much, I'm going
to go with my gut.
Okay, I feel like, if I thinkabout this too much, I'm going
to fuck myself up.

Matt (01:15:27):
I think that's what I did on my last one, so I recommend
it.

Eric (01:15:30):
Pulp fiction.
Okay, final answer Pulp fiction.
Okay.

Matt (01:15:36):
All right, that's it, eric , okay.
Are we ready to review this?
I was just going to say howshould we go about the reveal?
All right, so why don't youjust we don't have to reread the
whole review, just like.
Refresh, just go.

Eric (01:15:48):
Number one.

Matt (01:15:49):
What was the review?

Eric (01:15:50):
Just the review, just so scary People die.
Turn to bones, bugs right.

Matt (01:15:58):
Yes, got it.

Eric (01:15:59):
Well, I said Friday the 13th or no, that was your first
guess for me, or no, that wasyour first guess for me.
Yeah, that was my first guess.
I forget what I said.
I said the Mist.
You said the Mist.
That is incorrect.
It was the Mummy okay, allright.

Matt (01:16:14):
Yeah, that scans.
I knew it wasn't the mist,because they don't turn to bones
, but I I didn't know what elseit could be on a long enough
timeline okay, and then what wewere talking about is the this
one, a child growing up in the80s, one setting all pointless,
cliche dialogue oh yeah, I saidfriday the 13th you said friday

(01:16:37):
the 13th.
That is incorrect as well, eric.
Okay okay, it was in fact thebreakfast club damn it the
breakfast club is what we werediscussing yep 100 is the
breakfast club all right, so ohzero zero goose egg to goose egg

(01:16:57):
so far in the timeline.
So far still tied In thetiebreaker zero apiece.
Oops, all goose eggs.

Eric (01:17:04):
Oops, all goose eggs.
Second movie this one was amovie for ideologues, where they
talk about fascist government.
Bush is bad evil communists.

Matt (01:17:13):
And I believe I said V for Vendetta.
You were correct, I thought Iwas.

Eric (01:17:18):
I felt good about it.

Matt (01:17:19):
Matt's on the board, and so is Eric, because you said for
mine I don't understand whyit's such a high rating, 23
years old, yes, Stuck, doingstuff weren't related to getting
her family back.
You said spirited away and itis spirited away.

Eric (01:17:35):
Fuck, yes, the only thing that panicked about me was like
was it really?
23 years ago.

Matt (01:17:39):
Wow, yeah and it really was.
Yeah, I love that movie god Ilove miyazaki um all right?

Eric (01:17:46):
so one one, one, one.
Review number three this movieis just one guy deconstructing
everything and makingassumptions.

Matt (01:17:54):
God, I want to know what this is what did you?
Say, I said you're gonna be somad.
I know I said being johnmalkovich which is honestly a
great.
Like the the rev I.
I want to defend myself.
The review could be applied tobeing john malkovich.

Eric (01:18:09):
It could but when you hear , the movie is 12 angry men.

Matt (01:18:14):
Oh, fuck me I mean, I guess, I guess it's the.

Eric (01:18:21):
It's my favorite one star review of anything ever.
If someone watched themasterpiece 12 angry men and
what they took from, it's justone guy deconstructing
everything and makingassumptions and that's 100%
accurate.

Matt (01:18:36):
Yes, yes that's true, that's true, fuck, okay, your
third review was drawn-out pieceof self-serving writing.
Made it difficult to sitthrough those high strings.
Wife was super annoying.
All the crying, the 80s.
You said the Shining and youwere right, eric Twoic.

(01:18:59):
So it is two to one you, it is2d one, you, eric's now.

Eric (01:19:05):
uh, now for review number four review number four this is
the one where the person reallydidn't like sex.

Matt (01:19:12):
Yes, and you said I believe, eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind.

Eric (01:19:17):
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind also a good guess,
but also wrong, also wrong.
Yeah, I thought it could be themovie.
Was the Notebook?
The Notebook?
Oh man, the Notebook.
They were talking about RyanGosling in the.
Barbie movie yes.

Matt (01:19:33):
Rachel McAdams yes, yes, of course Fuck, of course fuck
of course yeah, damn it.
Yeah, fuck me up.
All right, your fourth reviewwas a cringe factor.
Hard to imagine this raising toreal child, raised without
parents, with deception, I guessthe truman show, and you went

(01:19:53):
out on a limb and said theTruman Show, yeah, and Eric,
you're fucking right, my guy.

Eric (01:20:00):
Oh, this is gonna be so proud of me I watched that movie
for the first time with herlast year.

Matt (01:20:05):
You.
I don't know if you've putthese pieces together.

Eric (01:20:09):
You just won, eric.
Now Matt, I'm gonna wait untilall the results are in before I
do any celebratory, know justwon the tiebreaker.

Matt (01:20:16):
That only came about because I was kind to you.
You just won it I did, I did,but I guess now I would be
remiss now we didn't get all thenumbers in before you got to
get all the numbers yeah sure,it's three to one, with only one
review left.
Yeah sure, yeah, let's do it.

Eric (01:20:35):
Let numbers in that let's do it, uh, so so the final
review for me, uh, for you, wasnow.
This is a funny movie.
Two, two characters fighting ona wet floor long and boring.

Matt (01:20:47):
What part of a book series movie that it is sorry.

Eric (01:20:51):
What'd you?

Matt (01:20:51):
guess, I guess the revenant, yeah, what is it you?

Eric (01:20:53):
guessed the revenant of the Rings.
Get the fuck out of town.

Matt (01:20:58):
Get the fuck out of town.

Eric (01:21:00):
It's Gandalf and Saruman battling in Orthanc.

Matt (01:21:05):
Get out of town and take a bus and drive it off a cliff
and kill yourself.

Eric (01:21:09):
I will teach you the meaning of pain.

Matt (01:21:13):
Oh my God, what a terrible take.

Eric (01:21:22):
Right, what a God pain.
Oh my god, what a terrible take.
Right, what a god.

Matt (01:21:24):
These, all these reviews are dear to my heart because
they're such fucking awful takes.
Yes, and so, eric.
You.
Speaking of awful takes, this,this movie, was what the fuck is
this bullshit?
It's out of order.
I guess they found itcompelling.
Boomers, hold this up.
Blah, blah, blah feels like away, it feels depthless.
They kept saying depthless andyou said pulp fiction.
And you're right.

(01:21:46):
Again, eric, you're right an80%.
You got four out of five and Ionly got one out of five the
movie bracket that you were soconcerned to be in the underdog.

(01:22:06):
Eric, you end up the winner.

Eric (01:22:10):
Only by your mercy, only by my mercy, I am the winner.
That said, all is forgotten.
All the history books willremember All that will be carved
into the tablets that they findin the post-apocalyptic
wasteland by my progeny.

Matt (01:22:28):
Yes, you got it, Eric.
Thanks to me, you got it.
You can hold up this W with anasterisk.
You certainly can.
I humbly accept.

Eric (01:22:43):
What a good Damn.

Matt (01:22:45):
Damn Eric, Eric, I want to be clear though I'm proud of
you, Are you proud of me?
Matt's proud of me Particularlyfor getting the Truman Show.
It was hard for me not to belike damn Eric, that was good.

Eric (01:23:01):
And if you had asked me that a year ago, I would never
have gotten it, because I hadnever seen the Truman Show, and
that is embarrassing.
That is humiliating.

Matt (01:23:09):
The Truman Show called out our generation before we even
fucking knew it.
Yeah, the Truman Show, trulyahead of its time.
What a great goddamn movie.
The Truman Show.
Truman show, I want to watch it, right, look folks you know.

Eric (01:23:21):
Go home.
Sorry, I'm on the field rightnow like post interview
everybody out there like I justwant to give a shout out to
movies, I want to give a shoutout to stars and reviews, but
most of all, go home tonight,hold someone you love and watch
the truman show honestly thankyou jobless, jobless, the trap
one of the things that standsout to me as being such um a

(01:23:45):
shout out to an actor whose nameI do not know and all I can
tell you is I don't know howthey're credited, but I'm gonna
assume it's man in bathtub.

Matt (01:23:55):
yes, yes, in the Truman show.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, when he isslapping the water going.
Yes, yes, yes.
It is one of the most pureinstances of like, joy and
euphoria that I can recallseeing documented on film.
God bless Truman show and andit made a perfect movie.

(01:24:20):
It was the movie that madeeverybody go.

Eric (01:24:23):
oh, jim carrey can like act out oh, holy shit, which
probably led to eternal sunshineof the spotless.

Matt (01:24:31):
Yeah that came after, and the number 13, which is not the
greatest example of his seriousacting, but you know, was Truman
show pre or post cable guy?
Post, right, I think it waspost cable guy.
But well, there we have aninternet.
Um, the cable guy came out inwait for it 1996.

(01:24:55):
And I think the Truman show waslike 97, maybe 98 98, so it
came out after.
But here's the difference,though right like truman is like
an actual character.
Yeah, I feel like the cable guyis a jim carrey character.
they literally what if thecharacter of Jim Carrey was a

(01:25:18):
villain?
Like that's what they said.
Yes, like that's all the cableguy is.

Eric (01:25:22):
Good move.
Truman was an actual person.

Matt (01:25:25):
Yes, yes and a fully formed character, whereas the
other is literally just like hey, what if Ace Ventura was a bad
guy?

Eric (01:25:34):
Yeah, what if Ace Ventura was chaotic bad guy like?
What if?
What if?
What if ace ventura was chaoticevil, as opposed to?

Matt (01:25:40):
chaotic good like that's the.
That's the only switch there,yeah, but I remember liking the
cable guy when I oh my god, no,the cable guy fucking rules.
I haven't seen it in a long,long time.
And isn't it's ben stillermovie?
Right, he directed it, yes hedid yes, he did.

Eric (01:25:57):
It might have been his first direct ben stiller
directed a lot of movies also.
Just I just want to do, want togive a quick poll, for if you
haven't go watch the secret lifeof walter mitty oh yeah, I
haven't seen it, but I hear it.
It got panned when it came out,but I hear it's low-key good
dude, it's not even like it isin the sense that you go into
the movie like I approached thatmovie the first time I saw it,

(01:26:18):
like I guarantee everyone didand like was like, like, like.
Okay, this is because I knew theshort story it was based on.
It is one of the it's one of myfavorite movies.
It's it's truly like.
You will love the secret lifeof walter will cry.

Matt (01:26:34):
I'm excited to watch it because I really do think that
Ben Stiller is an incredibledirector.
He's an amazing director.
It is not his directorial debut.
It was.
That was actually Elvis Storieswas his directorial debut, but
his real, like actualdirectorial debut was Reality.

(01:26:56):
Bites, the one that people knowWas Reality Bites was the one
that people know was realitybites is the one that people
know I never saw that, andneither did I.
Then it was the cable guy, andthen it was zoolander.
Uh, and then and then the, thefirst ben stiller movie that I
like knew he directed yeah thatis so good is tropic thunder.
Tropic thunder Thunder.
Tropic Thunder is such a goodmovie.

(01:27:17):
Speaking of perfect movies,it's a perfect movie.
Yeah, then Secret Life ofWalter Mitty, zoolander 2.
Now we're just going throughhis directorial filmography, but
his some stuff on TV reallystands out.
He directed Escape from Denmora, that prison show from a number

(01:27:37):
of years ago.

Eric (01:27:38):
He directed a couple things that kind of like whoa
Ben Stiller directed this andhave you watched Severance?
No.

Matt (01:27:44):
Eric, you have to watch Severance.
Okay, it's about to come backfor its second season in 2025.
It's a work, eric, I will saythis it is a workplace thriller,
oh man.
And it has, among the otherpeople in it, fucking
Christopher Walken in a TV show.

(01:28:04):
Hell, yeah, like you have towatch this show.
It's so good.
And he directed I don't thinkhe directed every episode, but
he did direct multiple episodesthere Sick, so so good.
He's really really good.
Uh, multiple episodes theresick, so so good.
He's really really good.
Um, um, and it was just a justa weird ben stiller promo at the
end of this episode yeah, giveit up for ben hey everyone when

(01:28:26):
you get home

Eric (01:28:26):
tonight, when you're sorry , we're still.
We've been having this entireconversation on the field of
victory, um, and everyone also.
Yeah, just go.

Matt (01:28:33):
Yeah, the whole Ben Stiller, the world's most
awkward post-game interview.
They just talked about BenStiller movies, so I won.
Long story short Eric won.

Eric (01:28:49):
To finish this field of victory.
Accepted speech.
Tens of thousands of yougathered here today.

Matt (01:28:55):
Yes, so Eric wins season four.
Google gripes.
What do you think eric do?
Or maybe we leave it up to thepeople?
Do we do movies, locations orsomething else for season?

Eric (01:29:08):
five.
I think I'm very open tosomething else.
I either.
We could do movies forever, butlike I'm, I'm open to something
else.

Matt (01:29:19):
Um, are you saying, drop us those suggestions are you
saying you don't want to go backto locations?
Oh, I could do, locations coulddo well.
Hey, people, let us know.
You know a good place you couldlet us know, matt, give them
the business.
You know a good place, youcould let us know.
Give us a business the DiscordOoh the.
You Didn't Ask For this Discord.

(01:29:39):
You could let us know theredirectly.
We'll probably respond in realtime.
Yeah.
Because, those are the coolkids.

Eric (01:29:46):
Those are the cool kids.

Matt (01:29:47):
But you can also let us know at you Didn't Ask For this
gmailcom, that's all spelled out.
Or you Didn't Ask Pod onInstagram, twitter, tiktok,
facebook, etc.
Etc, etc, etc.
It's all the same handle.
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But, more importantly, pleaseconsider joining our patreon.
Patreoncom slash.
You didn't ask for this.

(01:30:08):
We got two tiers one dollar amonth, four dollars a month, and
it'll get you a bonus episodeof oops, all tangents.
God damn, that was well done.
Did I miss anything?
Oh, of the thought line410-929-5329.
Leave us a voicemail, much likeSteve List in Seattle did.

Eric (01:30:24):
Thank you, Steve List in Seattle.

Matt (01:30:26):
Anyway, that'll about do it for all of us here.
You didn't ask for this.
My name is Matt Shea.
My name's.

Eric (01:30:32):
Eric Poach, and listen, you didn't ask.
But, matt, this has beenkilling me all episode.
I wanted to make the joke inthe discussion vis-a-vis Grazer
v Chunk.
Yeah, with this much of a votegap and disparity it being the
time of year it is, andpolitical climate and such, I
did want to make a stop thesteal joke.

(01:30:53):
Just getting a vibe check.
Would that have scanned?
Would that have tested?
Well?

Matt (01:30:58):
You might have to ask me again in almost literally a
month.

Eric (01:31:02):
Yeah, let's see how this ages Stop the Steel Bye.

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