Ep 156 | Silicon Valley: "Two Days of the Condor" - Boob Tube Boys

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
They call it the Cradle of Innovation. I'm just kidding
ended that in the last episode, I'm not going to
repeat myself, might scare people into thinking that our podcast
has malfunctioned and we're just repeating ourselves. I am Spencer Hendrix,
this is the Boo two Boys, and we are doing
some more Silicon Valley family. Let's start with you this time.
I think I'm going to need a follow up on

(00:27):
your startup idea.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh you want another idea?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I want a separate one, just in case Trough doesn't
work out.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, well look at it this way. You're sitting on
your boat right.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, I think we're thinking the same thing. Let's say
it on three Okay, one, two, three.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Brings wine in the middle of the night. What brings
to going a duck? Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought you said goblin?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, how can we merge these ideas?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, well, let's back up, because you're right, Spencer. More
often than not, Brian would say goblin. Yeah, but Van.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Spencer brings something interesting up, which is goblin. And then
I think if we were to combine all three of
these things, we really have something here.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, so we've got a duck bringing us a bigger propeller.
Uh huh, so that we can get on our goblin
boat to make it the goblin.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Party instead of like a banana boat like a gob.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And what we've just described makes sense and it is
relevant to people.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Ain't no party like a goblin party because a goblin
party don't stop. Well, so a lot of people die.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
You don't leave a goblin party. That's why it don't
stop Goblins. And what was your okay, So our invention
is goblins sold?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
No one thought of.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It four hundred million dollars right there? How are we
spelling that?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Okay, yeah, gob l I m Z.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
But just that straight up? What if we have an
apostrophe at the end of it, so it's like Goblin
like that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Mandy already took that with their fake commercial for the
product's Cheddar Goblin, which is a goblin that eats macaroni
and cheese.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So me then we're off to a really good start
in this episode here returning to the Silicon Valley universe, and.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is a show we like.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Usually this only happens whenever where you know, we're a
little feisty because we've just watched the Walton.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Usually crazy things happened in our second one of the
two of the show we're watching.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
No matter what, I'll tie it all together, Okay, yeah,
all right, put a nice little bow on it. We
missed the opportunity or we just forgot last episode to
do this. It turns out several cast members of this
show in reality are goblins. TJ. Miller once called in
a bomb threat because he didn't want to do something
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, he says it was that he was having like
an episode and really thought the lady had a bomb.
He's had some kind of operation where they took.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Out his brain. Yeahah, and it fucked him up in
a bad way because now he does terrible things.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
But he also does have some sort of sexual misconduct
charge from college well before that.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
And Thomas middle Ditch had a groping allegation against him
in twenty nineteen right as the show was ending, so
it didn't impact the show like he also did.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I don't know the circumstance of his very I
actually thought all of this stuff was a little more
demonstrative than it was, just based on articles I remembered reading,
Like with Thomas middldittsch it seems to have been he
groped someone and then apologized for it in that moment.
That's not I'm not excusing it at all, but for
some reason, and I don't know what I think about this,

(03:19):
he seems to have been rehabilitated. Fine, I don't know
the full capacity because I haven't seen him much, but like,
I was trying to look up more information on this,
and I saw that he was doing a run of
talk shows in like twenty twenty one, like and not
not just right wing ones.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right. Well, see, that's kind of what I thought, because
I had it in my head that this was a TJ.
Miller situation and the guy was terrible. And then I
read up about it and I'm like, yes, this is bad,
but is this career cancelable? And I don't think it was.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Is this a situation where you know, we need to
hold it over someone I don't know and like all
of this stuff, I don't know because as we talked
about with TJ. Miller, I don't know his mental state.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, I think with him it's a case of he's
just but because of whatever has happened to him, he
just needs to be put away somewhere and taken care of.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
But the rest of the bad Goblins, because.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know, well, there's that country full of the bad
goblins which will not be named Goblinia. It's Croatia. Brian,
what's that fake.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Country from Magnum like west Sonongba Goblin.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, I think we Goblin pretty well covers it. So
last time I went over the season one primer, We've
had a whole season since then, so I'm gonna do
that again. We're gonna briefly touch on what's happened between
season one episode eight, which was our last week's episode,
and the one we're doing this week, which is season
two episode ten.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
So imagine ten additional episodes. They just flew by. Some
stuff happened.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Nine episodes flew by, and now we're doing the tenth one,
So you would think that would be a lot. Honestly,
Season two is mostly about illegal proceeding between Gavin Belford
Belford Belson, son of Bell. Honestly, I'm not even worried
about the editing there because I don't care what his
name is. His name is Gaviny is evil. He runs Hooley,
and he sues Richard and Pipe Piper in this season

(05:04):
right away, and they immediately address the real life actor
Christopher Evan Welsh dying and they write that into the show,
like could that Peter Gregory character is also dead?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
This season really is a lot of sitting around, like
boardroom tables and a conference in that way, very much
like the Star Wars prequels.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Only here it's the second one after so it's like
a sequel to season one would be what you would
call the second size.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
So does someone need to be visiting Camino in this one?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Correct? You got to have clones, you gotta have Watto,
all that stuff. Now, let me ask this question.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Is this about Watto or is this about Silicon Valley?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
One of those I could answer.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Watto is a goblin Silicon Valley. He is the Star
Wars goblin. At the end of the episode, I won't
spoil it, they discussed this employment contract between Gavin and Richard.
Is this from before he did Pied Piper? Is it
that contract? Yes?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Initial when we start the series. This is his contract
he's working on with Huley.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
All right, because he's employed at Hooley and he's working
on Pipe Peper on the side that.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Whole while, Yeah, that makes sense because Gavin is claiming
that he owns Pied Piper because Gavin made it while
he was employed there.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
And he knows that's not true. He just wants to
tie him up while he figures out his thing to
get to the market before Richard.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Which is accurate, like drain money out of the little
guy in.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Court because they, yeah, they can, they have the resources
for it. So that's largely what is going on in
the season is that although Pipe Piper had that big
success at tech Crunch and are now going to be
in demand, they immediately have that hanging over them, the lawsuit,
which all the offers of funding that they get when
the season starts quickly get withdrawn.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
And those are from guys like Kiedi Mundy get this sto.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
They don't want to take a chance on a company
that maybe not able to sustain themselves with such a
powerful company going after them, even though I think most
people kind of sense the lawsuit isn't gonna work, like
Hooly doesn't have any grounds to actually claim that Pied
Piper is theirs, but they have enough resources to where
other companies are like, I don't think we can do

(07:11):
our funding for you after all.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
But then by this episode, everyone seems to believe that
they do have a foundation for it, So what changed
in that regard?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
There are a few solutions that happen along the way. Initially,
everyone pulls back their offer, and even Peter Gregory's firm
or Vega, is now controlled by a different person who's
just as quirking, a lady named Laurie, So she takes over,
and she initially wants to keep Piede Piper because they're hot,
they're the new thing. And then, like everyone else, she
hears about the lawsuit and is like, ooh, I don't

(07:42):
let's wait till they figure that out. Unfortunately, Pie Piper
needs someone to fund them so they can afford their
legal bills to actually get the lawsuit to go away.
So they're kind of in that pickle.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
But my question is, is you just said that everyone
believes this is a frivolous lawsuit sigh of time. But
by this episode, the guys of Pipe Piper saying we're
going to lose, We've lost. Yeah, So when does it
go from flip frivolous to real?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
The season right the episode right before what we are
seeing it's just a reveal in court. Yeah, and I'll
start to touch on that when we get toward the
end of it, because yeah, really they shouldn't have given
Hooley any grounds to take it. They have a slip
up thanks to Erlick in court. He blows it for
them all surprise. Yeah, So Peter Gregory has died, replaced

(08:27):
by Lori, which we talked at a little bit. Richard
finds out that Joly is suing Pipe Piper copyright infringement,
falsely claiming Richard developed it on Hooly time. So as
a result, Ravega and all the other VC firms retrack
their offers. Richard turns down Hooley's buyout because he's still saying, no,
I'm going to fix this on our own. I'm not
giving you the company. He does accept funding from a
controversial douchebag billionaire in this season, kind of an angel

(08:50):
investor sort named rust Hanneman.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Okay, we see him what he's getting rid of them again,
But he's a Marky from Arista Development. Yeah, he's really
good at this, this kind of character.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I could see him working in that way. Yeah. So
what it is is he taught his character constantly talks
in this season about how he is the guy who
put radio on the Internet, and he got lucky. When
he was twenty two. He sold his company for one
billion one point two billion or something, and now he's
worth one point four or something over the twenty years.
And Richard crunches the numbers and figures out that's less
of a return than like a CD in the bank

(09:22):
with that much money. So he's not done anything to
increase his network, but he is a billionaire because of
that deal.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
He definitely fit that character role. Just in the brief
bit I saw him, I went, I know who this
guy is. Yeah, and he's doing what they would do.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
He's the reason that they are able to get bailed
out at all, to pay for the legal bills and
even have this battle with Hooley. He just shows up
offers Richard the money. But you know, he's got some
problems of his own in terms of leadership because he
is horrible and annoying and a douchebag. Meanwhile, Belson is
doing his plan that we talked about with Big Head,
where he's promoting him in a fake wing of business

(09:58):
that Hooley's added so that he can try to run
with the story that it was actually big Head who
created or at least co created Pied Piper along with Richard,
which we know isn't true, but that's his legal team's advice,
and here's how we can maybe get you to win
this case, even though you don't have any any real
evidence to that. Belson eventually agrees to drop the lawsuit

(10:18):
in favor of a binding arbitration process, which is what
we are in the middle of when we start this episode.
So essentially they have started the arbitration process when this
episode starts, and it's been revealed that there was one
time that Richard worked on Pied Piper at Hooley and
they didn't have to admit this into the court. But

(10:39):
Earlik gets upset in the stand and says that big
Head's app was so shitty that it crashed Richard's computer
for three days. When our lawyer who were going to
meet Matt McCoy, of course, who we said was Lloyd
bron and Seinfeld.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Who's had a bit of a troubled past and future.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yes, I got that much interesting guy. He is cross
examining Erlik because they presented big Head as this guy
who won't even take credit for his role in piede Piper.
Gavin's team has so pied. Piper's legal representative says, look,
I can show you this the other way. I can
show you that big head is so incompetent that a
guy as stupid as Erlick believed in his app And

(11:14):
that's that's the route he takes. He calls him on
the stand, he gets them real upset and Erlick then
that's when he admits, like, yes, okay, it was stupid.
I liked it, but it was dumb at crast Richard's computer,
he couldn't use it for three days. Then the legal
team at Gavin's side realizes, oh, so what computer were
you using in those three days when you're computer crashed?
And he admits, because he's Richard, he could have lied

(11:35):
and said it with someone else's. But he says, no,
I did use it. If using it one time at
your place makes me lose the case, then fine, so
be it.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, well, and that explains the kind of combative conversation
that the lawyer and Erlick have.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Right away here at the start of this episode.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know, coming into it blind, it was like something happened.
I'd get this, but yeah, I had no idea.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
One of the other fun things about Erlick being on
the cast is that if you introduce a new character,
it's like, how would this person react to erlk And
I like that this lawyer just doesn't really take a shit.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's funny too, because both their episodes start with something
big having happened to Erlick in both cases, like the
last one he got attacked and this one he went
under the stand and fucked up the entire case. He
also has a really good line at the end of
the episode before this, where he's trying to counsel Richard
on how to get out of this, like you don't
have to admit it, and he goes, Richard, do the
right thing, lie on the stand, and it just made

(12:30):
me laugh. It was a perfectly read line in that case.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
There's another line very much like that in the next
season where he's telling Bighead. He's like, you need to
do what anyone in any business relationship must do, which
is follow me blindly.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
This episode, as we've alluded to, season two, episode ten,
two Days of the Condor, it aired, as you might expect,
about a year after the last one June fourteenth, twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Now we're thirty. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
What do you think you guys were doing in twenty
fifteen in June when.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
This aired and being sad?

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, I'm sure it's a safe that isn't it.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I bet I was working a job in Missouri. Oh no,
that's what I'm still doing.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
This was a family video time, so I was I'll
tell you exactly what I was doing. Then, what do
you know what day June fourteenth was? It's important.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
No, No, I don't know when they air.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, let's say it's a Monday. I wake up at seven,
I get to work at eight, and I work until
three am, and I'm on my feet that entire time.
I get home. I have to wash my feet because
I've been on them and I'm sweaty and they stink.
And I sleep for three hours, and I go to
work the next day and work another seat. Things are
better now.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, that ris and grind mentality. You'd fit right in
in Silicon Valley.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
So this synopsis, the guys wait for a verdict on
Pied Piper's fate, which we know how that has gone
at this point, and unexpected drama draws a spike in
traffic to the live stream which I'll also get into
a little bit here Early considers his future. Richard struggles
to say the future of pie Piper. That's kind of
like every episode, honestly.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
So.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
At the end of the previous episode, a technician from
the museum was taking down a camera that was broadcasting
the live stream of a Condor egg, which they were
thinking was about to hatch.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Okay, that explains the title.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
This was Jared's idea because at one point Hooley was
trying to pimp out their product that they sold from
Richard is like they wanted to do a live stream
of a UFC fight. They were like, yeah, their technology
is so cool. Here's a little sneak preview of it.
And it went terribly that.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
What is the technology streaming?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, their ability to compress files and play it losslessly,
like that sort of thing to where you can stream
it without any issues at all on just to a
huge audience without any problems.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
See the first episode's tech stuff. I watched it and
when this is fine, this seems whatever. This time I
watched the tech stuff and I went this is one
where it's like, but we have good streaming. You're like,
what is this? But ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I guess we really didn't.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, it was probably a lot, and you think about
it at that time.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know. I feel like in twenty fifteen, I
was watch Netflix just fine. It's it's weird to me,
but that's not a live stream. That's that's true. But
I don't know whatever this is.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Like if you were watching UFC fights, like like Spencer said,
like you do, yeah, you're always You're always betting on
them and stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
I like, I love about this guy. Who's your favorite
guy again, Connor McGregor. That's a problematic one that that's
the thing though. That guy's awful. But he's the only
one you know the name, don't you know why? Also awful?
I think that's yeah, that's right. Yeah, And he was
the r n C recently. What about broncles, I'll tell you.

(15:37):
I know I got one for you, all right. He
was this lady and I followed her on Twitter. So
this is still a few years old because I don't
do Twitter anymore, of course, because it's er and her
name was something Cyborg.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Hilda Swinton, Chris Cyborg. Yeah, I've seen the same and
what a name. Oh boy, she is like your muscle
and like she beats some ass well, I think I
miss saying the obvious. She's not pure muscle. She's a robotics.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Did you say Tilda Swinton for UFC fighter.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
I would watch that career switch there.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
You can't tell me that any fighter wouldn't. Briefly like,
I don't know, I don't want to hit till this one.
She might like she might be magic.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Or that she was the White Witch in the Narnia
movie that I just referenced in the last one, and.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
She was the Lord of Portals in the Marvel movies.
She's doctor doctor Benedict Cumberbatch's mom.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
She does play an assassin in The Killer, the Michael
Fassbender movie. Or maybe she's like the head of some assassins.
She's the mom of the assassins. She is the one
that's curious about what they're needing to talk about with Kevin,
you know that movie.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Not a lot of She just looks like she's sick.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
She knows Michael Clayton in the movie Michael Clayton.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
One of my favorite parts in that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt show.
She is no but there's a guy who is trying
to break Kimmy Schmidt. I think he's trying to He's
a gay guy trying to pretend to be straight, and
one of his things of proving it to everyone is
he has a picture of Tilda sweat and drawn on
his truck and he's like, I don't remember a picture

(17:17):
of a really hot babe on my truck. I don't
know why people aren't buying it. It's just the most
random person to put on There is like a heart
throb choice.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's kind of amazing because tild This Winton is great
and I adore her in every facet but yeah, never
would I.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Not like a h up Person's a striking, talented, creative person.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
And I would love to chat with Till the Swim
get in contact with us. Till This Wint And I
know you're listening.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Friend of the podcast nails out to her people.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
What would you guys do if you're just checking your
email and you just had you had something in your intro.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Nail, I would delete it because it wouldn't be real,
but it really is her. I'd be like, Till the
Sweat and you, bitch, how dare you tease me?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
There were multiple times back in the days of having
Twitter because none of us have that.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Now.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
When I was followed quote unquote by someone, I for
one flash of a second thought was a celebrity, you
know that sort of thing, and then immediately it's like out.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Nope, it's like underscore Brad Pitt with seventeen.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Then I would think about it, like, why would my
eighteen follower be famous?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Of course I've just been waiting for this. None of
the other seventeen were, In fact, I know fourteen of them.
I was followed by that porn star. Oh yeah, that's right,
Lisa whatever she got another sports I can't remember her name,
that she's a milk. I almost said the absolute wrong.
I almost said Lisa Lobe, you know, the porn star.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Por Lisa Lobe?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
What is she doing?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Not porn?

Speaker 2 (18:46):
No? I think like she tends to just stay.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
That's the only song I know of hers. It's pretty good,
Poor Lisa Loe. We've really we just called her a
porn star and admitted we only know her one song.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Wait, does she do that hot White com song?

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is there her?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay, she did.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Uh, what's the name of that song?

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Black Dog? No, that's that movie with Patrick Swayze. I
was talking about where he's a truck driver and there's
meat loaf. I'm glad you.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Mentioned that again because I need to watch the I do,
I really do.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Let me try to finish my additional story. I almost
forgot it. So Hooley failed miserably at this live stream
with Telda Swinton right right in the UFC fight, and
Piper decides, okay, well we can do that. Yeah, we're
so good that we can do a live stream that.
This was never in their plans, but they've decided at
this point we can at least pull that off and

(19:36):
make them look even worse. So they have been trying
to line up a show. Their attempt failed with some
energy drink company. That was a brief episode. What they
ended up doing was Jared's idea. He wanted to have
a condor egg on a live stream and watch the hatching. Yeah,
like something like you might appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh my watch it. Guess what? So a week after
we named those baby birds, they left the nest. They're gone.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
They've all gone on to successful career.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's right. So today, literally today, and this has been
a couple of weeks since then. I step outside to
remove garbage from my house like I so often do,
which is a great way to say, take out the trash.
And I look up in the sky and what do
I see? Two swallows circling and yelling at me and
they keep flying by my head. I think it was
Mom and Dad. I think it was Gior and Smith.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Probably, so they're like, we set that shit up and
you just got rid of it.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
And all our mic that's a lot of work. Those
were our friends.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I imagine that would be really annoying, like they put
in all that time and you just go out there
and you just take it away from them.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
I feel bad if they're listening to this. If they
want to come over and I'll feed them bugs that
I find great, I will do that.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, it's good that we are now known officially as
being swallow friendly.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
We're pro bird here, pro swallow. Look, we don't spit.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's the technician and the museum has decided that the
egg isn't going to hatch. Something went wrong with it.
They need to end the feed, and they send a
technician up there at the end of the last episode,
and he just kind of calmly narrates what he's doing
when he's in the when he's in the little leather heading,
he is a little bit, except he's talking to them
through the feed, but yeah, crewe he is. So he's like,

(21:08):
who's gonna take this camera down now? And it won't
come because the bolts arrested, so he pulls and pulls.
He ends up pulling the camera out along with himself
and he falls down all that way and into a
ravine where he is now trapped with the camera still
running and the feed's still going.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
It's a real one hundred and twenty seven hours. Yes,
steal is that guy with his arm under the boulder
and he shooed.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
It off for James Franco, Right, James.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Franco hacked his own army. He probably should have because
there's some more sexuals anyway.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's at least half of his appendages that can grow gone.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
That would definitely help, which is a pro for society.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Just sow his mouth shut and then he can't groom either.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
So the technician here is stuck in the ravine. The
live stream is now had it had no success, but
now that this has happened, it's taking off.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
I get it. There's a Zach Galafanakis guy.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
He looks just like him. He looks to the camera
pleadingly and asks for help. Having witnessed this whole thing
at the Pied Piper office, Densh, Gilfoyle and Jared watching
kind of a mixture of shock and awe. Definitely more
awe in like Danesh and Gilfoyle's case, because they don't,
you know, they don't really care about that kind of stuff.
They find it more entertaining.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
They are a real Statler and Waldorf pair in a
lot of ways.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Dantch is particularly struck it not by the plight of
the technician, but by the fact that they have seven
thousand people on the stream now all of a sudden,
and yet the video quality unaffected.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's perfect, still blawless man, no pixels, no goblins, well
there's a goblin or two.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Meanwhile, the lead attorney at Hooley has been going through
Erlick's house with an engineer at the Hooly company, just
to ensure that everything is ready for transfer after they
announced the probably favorable verdict for Wholey at the binding
arbitration process. The Pied Piper's legal representative, Pete Monaghan, he's
also present during all this, and he and Erlik have

(22:59):
that you stand off that Van alluded to, where Rlek
is clearly not happy and feels like he's owed an apology,
and Heat is like, why should I apologize to you?
You're the one who went up there and sucked it up.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, you should apologize to me. You've ruined everything.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Irlick's lying that you humiliated me in front of at
least nine people. Yeah, something, that's the perfect thing. Richard
asks Pete. Is the last second part here of the scene,
is there is there any chance that we can actually
win this? And Heat says like, Richard, I told you
when you hired me that I would never lie to you,
And then he leaves.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Incredible linery too by Matt McCoy.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
There it is so straight faced with that. It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's a non answer that's like a perfectly executed answer.
Then we have our intro or six second intro.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Where SimCity. That was really good.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, And then the thing with Alf and looking at Kate.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, that happens too. It's a little blurry.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
I feel like people who haven't seen now think we're
just making that up.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
That is real.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
There was a time in TV history, during our lifetimes
when you it was it perfectly acceptable to have a
cat eating alien leer at a woman in the shower
in the credits.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
You hadn't even earned.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Your audience with comedy. Yeah, the silly thing. It was like,
oh man, this is.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Great, and let's point out in universe, Alf has a
video camera and is recording her and he's nude. He
doesn't wear pants. Later, Penis out Spencer.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Pine Cone for a face.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
I was trying to get that in real fast before
more could happen.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I have to stop this Alf talk. Yeah, before we
talk about how his wiener's a push pop well like
the Flintstones ones. Yeah, you know the Dino purple one.
That's the one I will know. One Alf gets excited,
a little Barney flies out of his mid section. The
color was a Barney red purple. No, that's Dino. Oh duh,
dumb as bello. Probably because he's a coward. Well his hair, No,

(24:52):
he's a coward.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, if I meant coward, I would have said it
was a yellow. Later, well, Earlik is thenving groceries in
the driveway. He spots his snooty neighbor Noah, who we've
actually only met a few times. At this point. But
he's just a He's a grumpy old guy who moved
into Silicon Valley before all of this tech stuff happened.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
These interactions are always good. There's only like five of them.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
He doesn't like his new fangled neighbors, and he kind
of he bitched at Richard a couple episodes ago, saying like, yeah,
renters really kind of drive the property value down. I'm
glad you're moving out, because Richard briefly does and it
comes right back. But he's also threatened to report them
for being doing a business in a non zone for
business house, and they found him with a ferret, which

(25:35):
is illegal in California. I took a picture and blackmailed him.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
He's very passionate about ferrets.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
They've had a few goings on back and forth where
he's had to allow them to do their thing, but
he doesn't like them.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, I gotta tell you, this is not the first
time we've seen this guy in the history of the book.
Two boys.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Who is this guy?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
He looks so dollar and I agree.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Look him up. It's fucking Horus from Doctor Quinn Medicine.
Oh yeah, the face, that's him. He's funny as soon
as he popped up on screen. I went, that's horrible,
that's I didn't reckon. I mean I again, he looked familiar.
But he's good at this well because he also was
in that movie That Happening. He was the weird guy
who talked to Mark wald No, who talked to Mark

(26:15):
Wahlberg about hot dogs, and he just kept saying like,
hot dogs are great.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Need to watch that again. That movie is really funny. Yeah,
it doesn't of course mean to be, but it is
constantly funny.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I didn't see him get shot by a Native American
in this episode, though, that was puzzling. So ferrets smelly
little tubes, yes, who are adorable, who are very character
but they don't smell good. No, And you can remove
their stink, but it's still there.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
And apparently illegal to own in California.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
It's just like sin.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Remember the Big Lebowski when they throw the ferret in
the bathtub and then the dude is there chatting at
the bowling alley with Walter and Donnie and he's explaining
the ferret thing and he's said, harm it and it's
illegal to have, you know, an animal like that, and
what anyway, that's the joke. But it is in a marmot.
It's a ferret, Mark doesn't. He insists it's a mortment though,
but it isn't.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
And then Sam Elliott's there.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Give me some of that sasparilla.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I'm gonna tell you, guys, I watched that movie not
long ago at all, like a few months ago, and
it's still really great.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's a great movie. Do well when it came.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
At all, it was their Also, what a bold thing
to do after fart.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh yeah, ferrets forest being.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
And yeah, he's he's got a ferret. And in fact,
that's part of the reason why this scene is happening here,
because Noah is getting out of here. When Earle greets
him kind of snot only because their history, Hi, neighbor.
Noah looks at him and says, not for much longer.
I'm getting out of here. And he's got a professional
looking woman next to him. He turns out to be Louis,
a realitter, and it turns out he's gonna get He's

(27:46):
gonna make a killing. The value of his home has
gone up significantly since he moved in, and he's selling
and getting out of this place. He says he's gonna
go somewhere that's a lot more ferret friendly, which is
Arizona anywhere?

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Really?

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Earl says, yeah, Arizona will be dead in a year,
clearly has some animosity to Noah.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Erlick has another neighbor moment with some kids.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Spencer, have you seen this?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh yeah, it's a quote that from the time I
first saw it has stuck in my brain, which is
you brought pissed to a shit fight, ye, which is one.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Of the great all time TV one liners.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
And that ties into the Adderall story because they can't
get the kid they hire to do the cloud project.
They can't get Adderall for him because Jared's got it
me stranded, so they try to buy it off those
kids in the street. They have like their own little
drug operation.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Erlik feuding with people again. I really enjoy that you
can just put any kind of character with him.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
The realtor approaches Erlick next and says, hey, I think
I can do something with your house, so you have
a corner lot.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm a ball or reeltor Louise.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Don't mess with Louise. So she's trying to talk Earlic
into it, and he says, Nah, I don't want to
do that, and then she tells him, well, you know,
I could probably get you cart of it, and he's
like how much immediately.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
And this is another one of the great personality Well
not in real life. It wouldn't be no, we'll turn
on a dime if you present something he just wants.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
This next part is so perfect because it's a cut
but he's still got the groceries on his shoulder, so
you know this is literally that. Like two minutes later
after the conversation, he comes into the house again, grocery
is still on him and announced as he's decided to
sell the house instant. And then when they Richard's like,
what what do you talking? Why would you do that?
And he's like, well, it's not a hasty decision, Richard,

(29:24):
I agonized over it, which of course is not true.
This is all happening right now. Orlick makes the case
that the time has kind of passed here, his incubator
that he calls it hasn't really yielded that many promising results,
and it's kind of time to pull the plug and
move on in his life.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
And this the watching it the first time, not having
a clue that he would let people stay in the
house or whatever. I didn't have any idea what the
incubator was, right, and incubator I didn't know. Like with
dinosaur eggs, I was thinking chickens, but yes, dinosaur eggs.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Okay, well kind of the same thing. It's worth Miny
Burns's dinosaur bran birds are dinosaur. If there's nothing else
you remember about boobtoo, boys, remember that we said that
birds are dinosaur, all of them. It's worth mentioning.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
In the scene, while they're having this very serious discussion,
you can hear the technician on the live feed screaming.
The background just kind of quietly muffled. That's happening all
the while, while Denis just watches cheerfully watching the viewer
count go up. Speaking of Denneesh, he is bemoaning the
fact that the company finally ran into some good luck
with the technician falling into the ravine on their live stream,

(30:30):
and now they have to give the company to Hooley.
Now that this great thing has happened to them. Gilfoyle
suggests that what if they didn't give the company to
hooy and then says, hey, that's all digital, it's all remote.
Let's just delete it and not let them have it.
It's just not even gonna help them. But it's a
spiteful thing that Gilfoyle would approve of, so he throws
that idea out there. But Richard's like, now, we built this.

(30:53):
It's like a little raw ra speach. Don't you guys
like building stuff. That's why we're in Silicon Valley. Let's
not delete it.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
This is the shred that I think if you're a
creative person you can latch onto.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, yea, yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Is the like, well, it's still worth it to have
made the thing.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
It'll still be out there, It's still the journey still happens. Yeah,
And I like that that's the element that turns gilfoyl
around too, because again he can he's a cold hearted person,
but then this is the one thing that he's like, okay,
you know realistically, though there would be serious legal repercussions
if they deleted it.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
They do address that in a way that I and
because it's a comedy show, it works for me. That's
really funny where they point out that like, we're so dumb,
we've deleted all our shit before, like they how would
they not believe it?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
They have a moment like it's not very far before
this one, a couple episodes before where they're they're making
the deal with that porn site and they're loading all
their files onto Pied Piper system and the douchebag billionaire
Russ accidentally sets this tequila bottle over someone's delete key,
so they're deleting locally the porn files that they're trying.
The company's trying to upload the Pied Piper, so they're like, hey,

(31:57):
we did that, we could do it to our own
stuff too. As they're debating this, Jared gets an alert
on his phone.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
It says, you're needed a subway. You're a pervert. It
turns out different Jared. It is a very different Jared.
Let's let's clarify that. I don't like that. This one though,
we like, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
He's a much better guy than the other Jared. It
turns out Manny Paccio has stumbled across this feed himself
and tweeted it to his two million followers.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
The best part of this is Jared knowing him only
as the Filipino politician.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Also, by the way, not relevant to this comedy show,
but awful, awful, awful, man so terrible. He's awful Many Pacio. Yeah,
oh I did.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, I don't know anything about the personal.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Real sexist stuff like women belong in the dirt and
some other stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, oh yeah, many Paccio apparently not such a good guy,
but he did tweet and get this live stream. In
the show fictionally.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Good at punching. Yeah, he could punch real good, probably
better than whoever it was. Brian said, should punch all
of us for money? I don't remember. I don't think
I said anyone. Just give us that.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
If it's someone like Manny Pacio punching.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
It, he's kind of old, now, sure. Yeah, it's gonna
feel like these.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
YouTubers are winning fights. Fucking come at me, Bro, you're.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Just watching Logan Paul and wrestling. He gets to win
because he's on YouTube. I refuse to do that. Thank you,
Good for you.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
So this thing's about to blow up. This live stream
is gonna go nuts. Everyone kind of senses it and
jumps into action to ensure these servers that Gilfoyle has
put in himself. They're not like a rented server, they're
actually homemade server set up, and he knows that they're
going to need to be worked one for the extra
traffic to accommodate that. The team assembles in the garage
where all the servers are located to discuss how much

(33:45):
more they can reasonably handle. At the moment, they're at
fifty thousand viewers. Pete calls and lets Richard know, hey,
the arbitration judge has called everyone back an hour early.
So Richard's like, what does that mean? Is that A
is that good or bad? And Het actually starts by
saying it could be good or bad and then ends
by saying it's very bad. The way he ends up
winding is he ends up on the topic of yeah,

(34:07):
it's it. It's a bad news. At Revega, Monica is
watching the stream with the new boss Laurie that we
talked about, who replaced Peter Gregory. Laurie is impressed by
how incredible the feed looks, especially considering how it's being
run off the servers in the Pied Piper garage. Monica
shows Lauri how a meme has popped up in the
Philippines about the live stream with the technician. I don't

(34:28):
think that's what a meme is. They've got a Philippines
guitar guy playing music along with the guys screaming for
help or whatever.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's just a parody video, I do think now, and
I actually don't know if this would be at the time.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
I think meme means like any online garbage now kind.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Of that's true, it could in some way. I don't
even know if it did then though, right right, I
don't definitely know, like it was in I think memes
then were static images with one line of tech was
the white font, that white font, and it was you know,
bad luck, Brian or that tell me about it. You
don't look like him.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
I don't know who he is. I feel like bad Luck.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
We kind of were the right age to sort of
know that from the like, in terms of our internal
accidental historian value, we might be more qualified to speak
on that than a lot of people. And I just
I don't remember that being what memes were. But that's
not the kind of internet that I've ever eaten up,
you know, I've never been I've never been into that,
so I could be wrong.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
But it is realistic. I could totally see.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah, I thought myself saying this is annoying and stupid.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, people would like this and it takes off in
the Philippines. It's made the livestream even more popular.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Say Boo is bustling with activity. It's the capital city
of the Philippines.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Thought it was Manila.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's a city.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
I thought it was the city.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, you know, you're right, but whatever.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Back at Erlic's house, Gilfoile and Denesh are running out
of options and are about to reach the maximum capacity
for their viewers, and just as Dunesh suggests, the only
thing that could save them at this point is everyone
just getting bored and just dropping off the stream. The
technician leatherheads and says, Oh, I'm dehydrated. I'm gonna I'm
gonna have to drink my own urine. He just announces

(36:10):
this out loud.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
That's what makes it funny too, if no one would
do that.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Actually, the actor does it just great with this role
where he's stranded and possibly going to die, but is
being funny too at the same time.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
There's also a nice detail where Gilfoyle reveals that he's
named his set up after Anton LaVey, as any Satanist might.
I forgot to mention earlier. There's a conversation we mentioned
before where Jared All propos of Nothing ends by saying
he's always wanted to be part of a suicide fact.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
And everyone just kind of looks at it. The Guilfoyle
actually at this point is barking horridoris at Jared as well,
who is also having to assist with this. This is
all hands on deck, it has to be said. Jared
is clearly very happy to be included in this and
be a part of the team and help him out
however he can. So he's not a guy right now,

(37:01):
He's just like a business expert, so he just he
can't really do much of the actual work they do,
but he can help them kind of keep the business
parts in mind, and usually that makes him feel left
out because he doesn't know their language or any of
that stuff. So he is really happy to be just
a part of this and feel like he's one of
them in this. In this instance, Earlick is watching this
whole thing disapprovingly, and he has got himself talked into

(37:24):
how he wants to sell and that he doesn't want
to be here anymore. You know, he doesn't really believe that,
but he has currently talked himself into it, and he says,
good riddance, I can't wait to sell this place and
be out of situations like this, And Jerry just kind
of looks up from his little job he's doing, like
plugging something in, and says, there's no way you're ever
going to sell this house. Erlic doesn't buy it, but

(37:46):
Jared's telling him, like, honestly, a job is a job, Erlick.
This is magical, this experience we have here, you can't
get that anywhere else. And this is where Erlick actually
confronts him about what we were talking about recently, with
Jared having had a really good position and only like
he was going to be fully vested with his stock
options and all his benefits in his salary. He had

(38:07):
a really good job there, and Erlic doesn't get, why
did you give all that up to come to this
stupid little place. The company's not even going to exist
in like thirty hours, And Jared reiterates his thought that
because of job's a job and this is like a
magical thing. He keeps using magical over and over, will
never be able to find anything like this.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Of course he uses magical over and over. Magical day
is he write it in his little notebook, I would
have to assume and then find it eighty years later
when the mush room disappears.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
There's a great juxtaposition where.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
That's another tech movie, tech property, fable findings.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, just like Silicon Valley.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
They did exactly handle everything material the exact same too,
all the same the ol Breen's compression algorithm.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
It was six point one.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I've compressed just about all the information I need.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
The bank is failing.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
In the middle of jar telling Ilk how special that
everything is. Right now, Gilfoyle just busts through the wall
from the garage, just breaks a hole in the wall
and says, I need to make the cable run shorter,
and this is the easiest way to do that. Back
to the hearing, Richard is in the bathroom looking how
to tie his tie on his phone. I could see

(39:19):
myself doing that because I.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Every time that this is what I do, I look
it up on the phone.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Really yeah, I'm not familiar enough.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I've only tied a tie like a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
I make a I try not to do that.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I've never had like a job where I had Sure, boy,
I've had way too many so you can.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Tie, like, do you know all of the different styles.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's looking at winds or not right now, Seriously, that's okay,
get your tie out, hold on, get it down.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
What about I have a series of ropes. Can you
display different.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Numbers, hitch not. There's a there's a buzzard knut, there's
the Fisherman's hanged all.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
A bunch of sailors, those people, they all know those not.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
There's the big Bopper.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
There's of course the Captain, Corelli's Mandolin, the Wet Dog,
the Harry and Henderson's I'm just saying movie names.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
The pliable pervert, that's one of them, mastering Commander West
Side of the World or whatever, that's called. Colon Russell Crowe,
the Last Brumby.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Cole damn it, I was gonna say it cold in
the Silver Silver Brumby, the Purple Brumby. I don't know.
It was a color.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Featuring the woman from Quantum Leaf. That's what it says
on the post title poster. We all remember that Silver
Brumby posters lining the theater halls. AMC couldn't keep him
in stock. Yeah, when we were kids, it was like
god Brumby fever this and the Mockerna.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
You can't escape them.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Ah Brumby, they do this little thing in this scene
where Richard's trying to do his tie and then you
hear a toilet flashing. Oh, Gavin's in the bathroom too.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
He was pooping.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yes, you had to event I did watch. I rewound
to make sure because Gavin has it. We have this
moment where it fortuitously he's using the bathroom at the
same time, feels generous and wants to help Richard tie
his tie like a father. And I had to make
sure because I didn't notice the first time. Did he
wash his hands first after his pity? Yes, okay, he
did what. They made sure to include that.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
And nobody checked to see if Harry Connick Junior was
in any of the stalls.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Didn't think too.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
I recently watched that copycat movie that we talked about,
Uh not that long ago. That happens in there. Harry
connic Junior's and he's bad guy.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, he's copying all those murders.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Did you know in the Dexter prequel that they're making,
they replaced on the prince see to be doing that. No,
that we don't. They replaced James Remar.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
I see why you said the principal.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yes, they replaced him with Christian Slater. Okay, never mind,
that sounds fun interesting. They're the cast is good, The
idea is terrible.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
That's exactly kind of what I would have assumed.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
We don't need to be doing that, as you said. So,
I was doing a delivery at Walmart and I had
to pee, so I peede and this Walmart guy, who
is an old man who does the when somebody orders
online and the Walmart employees fulfill them, he does that.
He fulfills the orders, did not wash his hands. Ugh
disgusted me, and I told someone because I don't like that,

(42:09):
and I feel bad for being a tattletale, but you
gotta wash your fucking hands, old man. And he was
in the stall. Well I think he was pooping, but
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
I just don't get how. I know that the attention
to germs and that sort of thing is a relatively
recent phenomenon somehow, but I just don't get how anyone
ever thought you could poop and then just go about
your business right way.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
To that And in our modern day, if you have
the resources, you live in a place with running water,
like I just can't imagine it escaping you like, Oh,
I forgot.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Oh, I forgot.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Oh look my hands, like shit.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Yeah, Oh, there's poop under my fingernails. I wonder what
that's from.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Oh no, you said poop. And that reminded me of
another story that recently happened. And this is the worst
thing that has ever happened to anyone. Well, now this
is gonna be quite a story. The other day, I
was lying on my couch. It's like two am, and
I'm kind of winding down, and Vladimir, the cat, who
is eighteen years old, lays on my chest and she
always does it. It's fine. I'm eating granola bar, right, love,

(43:07):
granola bars got a little chocolate chips in it. Holy shit,
so good, munch, munch, munch. All right. I finished the
granola bar and playing on my phone. Oh what's this
on my chest? Oh no, it must be a piece
of oat or a chocolate I pop my mouth, town Trontra.
Oh my god, this is the worst thing I've ever tasted.
It was a piece of poop that had stuck to
her foot or whatever. Oh god, and I fucking chewed

(43:27):
on it. Oh.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
I'm actually trying not to gag right now.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Now I'm feeling a deep discomfort. I went and vomited.
That's the first thing I did. So the chocolate bar
came up, and then I brushed my teeth like a
dozen times, and I was trying to get ready to
go to sleep. I couldn't. I was away for seven hours.
Oh so you too busy eating shit?

Speaker 1 (43:45):
You can legitimately say you can make the claim you
love your cat so much you ate her poop.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, I could make that claim.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
I had not just listen to the famous phrase don't
eat shit where you eat, you would have been fine.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Don't eat shit is another literally accepted piece of a
fire that we mostly follow.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
That's not where when you started, I thought that would go.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
No.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Uh, Katie loves it. She's been making fun of me,
calling me ship mouth NonStop.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
She's not wrong. I mean, that's probably never gonna leave you.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Nope, it's sad being van Lee, which is why you
should go to patreon dot com. And it gives some
money to us. That make me feel the.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Most unique segue we've ever done.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
He's been chomping turd. You need to give him some
money to compensate.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
That is one last plug I have to do at
the end of the episode. That's right, He took that
off me. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
I can't eat those granola bars anymore either. They're ruined
for me. And this is such a memorable moment. I
think it would you know, it'd be a good idea
to give.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts or anywhere
you listen to podcasts.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Tell them the poop eating story brought me here.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, oh, I'd like that, and just keep using That'll
be our new joke. Great for episode after that.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
From here on out, we're gonna remember that I ate
a piece of cat.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I'm not gonna forget that.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Yeah, because van eat cat shit.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
It's quite a reveal. It's gonna happened. Verify, I didn't
eat you just chewed on I chewed on it and
split it all over the floor.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Like you might a leaf or a sunflower seed.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
A leaf. Yeah, are people out there just oh well.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
In this scenario, I imagine you're in the wilderness between places,
fighting for your.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Survival, okay, and you eat a leaf. A leaf.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, it's the only one you've come across, which is
weird because you're in a forest.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Huge revealed. Things are so different than they were when
we started that. Even this scene in Silicon Valley. It
was life was different then this is Wow, it.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Was We're gonna have to wipe down one of the
microphones extra.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
All right, let's take a break. So Gavin, with his
non shitty hands, has just tied Richard's tie, and as
he's doing this act of kindness, he's helping him get
his tie done, he tells him, hey, just so you know,
before you blackmailed me. Because Richard actually stumbles across a

(45:55):
phone with a prototype of Nucleus on it and finds
out how bad it is and threatens Gavin secretly, like
not without not saying it directly, Hey, if you want
your phone back, you need to stop suing me. We'll
go at arbitration and we'll just settle it there.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
So that's what got him. No arbitrary right, Okay.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
This is when Gavin says, hey, but you didn't know this,
but I was going to give you two hundred and
fifty million dollars before you blackmailed me to go to arbitration,
because Nucleus is doing so terribly that I would give
anything to just get your technology, and I was willing
to pay you that much money for it. But now
I'm going to get it for free. What do you know?
As he's tying his tie in the bathroom and.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
He does kind of reveal that Nucleus I guess the
source code or whatever is falling apart and only Piper's
source code can solve the problem. So right, this is
a I need this, He.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Need it, and now it just fell into his life,
and he's really trying to rub that in, like, huh,
you made the thing that makes us work and you
don't get anything.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
It is a really horribly evil thing. Actually, while he
as well, he's tying his tie, it was kind of like,
as bad as Gavin is most of the time, he's
still funny, and this was just horrible, just super mean.
I actually felt bad for Richard, and I don't really
normally care about Richard. In our other plot for the episode,
gil Foyle is now jamming the breakers at the house
so it doesn't trip if the circuits get overloaded. Where

(47:13):
Erlick asks, isn't that a huge fucking fire hazard? Gilfoy
says yeah. Meanwhile, densh calls out they're up to two
hundred and fifty thousand viewers. Yes, Erlick at this point, Erlic,
we need everybody can you start doing some coating. Erlck says, no,
my coding days are behind me. I get carpal tunnels
in here. I can't. I can't do it. He has
to answer the door for Louise, the realitter anyway, so

(47:36):
he leaves to do that. He actually can't show the
house right now when Louise asks, because there's just too
much going on. Louis says, I've got a buyer and
they don't need to see the house. They're only interested
in a lot of value. You have to realize your
house is a teardown. Of all the things Louise has
said to him so far, this seems to be the
thing that pushes him over the edge. Erlick thinks, like, well,

(47:59):
I don't really want my house torn down, and so
he starts to come around to Jared's persuasion earlier where
he mentioned you don't really want to sell this. That's
now where Earlick is going to land, just kind of
in the heat of the moment.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
And it's very much a really what he was disappointed
in with was the talking down to him, saying, you
know your house is worthless. So he latches on to
the next thing, which is Jared's whole thing about no,
you love this stuff, because I don't think he really
does love this stuff. No, it's a way out.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Whatever he wants to tell himself.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
He feels it, yeah, because he's been made to feel small,
so he's got to start thinking different.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
He thinks he's come back full circle to decigned that
being a part of Pie Piper is what truly matters,
and not the money from selling the house. So he
tells poor Luise in a particular earlick fashion, to get
out of here.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
Do not call a man a fool on the trendsom
of his own home, a home that happens to be
the world headquarters of a company keeping streaming video of
a man who's about to drink his own urine online
for tens of thousands and some filipinos.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Does that sound like foolishness to you?

Speaker 5 (49:03):
So you can tell your clients respectfully that they may
go fuck themselves.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Kept the door slam in there, just for the emphasis,
because that's a that's a perfect capper to Louise sitting there,
open mouth.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
And maybe the only time I've seen the word transom
used on television.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
I have never heard that word ever, And he reads
it with that stupid flare. Yeah, like he's so happy
to be saying that. Early gets transformed. He's caught up
in the moment. He throws on his carpal tunnel safety gear,
his hand brace. I guess whatever he.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Used to pull it, like out of a little cabinet.
It's kind of funny, it is, no, and then he
pins his hair back.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
This is another like the sports metaphors thing, like a sportsman,
the old the old guy's got one more left.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
In exactly, and it's it's believable, like you kind of
feel like, Okay, so maybe Early isn't like the most
talented guy, but he actually does have coding experience and
can be of service. And you see he actually does
have a little bit of knowledge here that he's going
to bring back into his life because he's feeling again
in this very moment. So it's it's a nice scene.
Jared now seeing this as even more delighted than he

(50:06):
was before. He's beaming, he's so happy. Meanwhile, the servers
are starting to smoke in the background and no one's
noticed it yet except for Jared asking as the scene fades,
what's that smell?

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Well, they're all smiling at each other because.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Heartwarming moment with earl Orlick's.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Back in it, like this is great, It's all wonderful. Meanwhile,
it's on fire behind them.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
They do actually several episodes where they do the something
happened in the background and actually works. It can be
dumb and you can use it too much, but I
actually kind of like it how they mostly use it
in the show. At the arbitration hearing the judges in
the process of announcing his verdict, Richard actually can't look
away from the feed.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Real cowboy of a judge.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
By the way, I think there are two other roles
as judge could play. Oh no, I'm sorry. One other
judge is one of them.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
The other one is owl.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Well, he is wise and he retired shudge.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
And does eat voles and kind of creates pellets out
of his own body.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
This.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Yeah, do you ever have to do that in science class? No?

Speaker 3 (51:07):
But I did have to dissect a rat from Brazil
that was like the size of a table.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Oh yeah, that's right, it is awful.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
I'll do the pellets. I don't want to. I never
did the animal dissection. I didn't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
It was the last of those classes I even had
to take.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Are you saying that the brazil rats would be a
good coup for the Rat king if he were to
get them on this side?

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Well they're foreign, and Brian was saying he needs to get.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah, yeah, if they're big and help him in his
world domination.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Tracking as the thought, yeah, I mean, you could just
bowl one of those rats that somebody knock some people over.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
This feed is so important at this point to Richard,
and he kind of I think he's checked out, doesn't
really care about the verdict that he actually is trying
to watch it. You can hear the technician's anguish cries
throughout the courtroom, and Judge actually stops to ask Richard
if he's on his phone. We leave the verdict. They're
hanging in the air. The fire is fully a blame
at the Pied Piper headquarters. Jared stands over with the

(52:03):
fire extinguisher. He's ready to use it, but Gilfoyle says,
if you do that, the stream's gone. So we have
a choice here between the house and the live stream.
The technician is now beginning to drink his own urine.
It's finally at that moment the feed is hitting three
hundred thousand viewers. And then, just as the flames begin
to really pick up and you can tell it's gonna
be an actual problem, emergency responders arrive at the scene

(52:28):
and they the first thing they do when they approach
the technician is they turn the camera off.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Well, my favorite part of this is we hear the
technician yell at them, why did it take you twelve hours?

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Another perfect line by the technician, who seems more just
kind of troubled by it all than like actually scared
for his life.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
And also this just reveals, you know right away that
after like ten hours, he's drinking his own.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Feet, which is no time at all.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
So the viewers start dropping off in mass quantity. Since
the feat has been stopped on its own, it wasn't
a thing that couldn't handle. It just ended on its own, accord,
So they stayed online for the whole thing, a huge accomplishment.
They're really excited. Everyone laughs and celebrates as the fire
continues to rage. Jared finally turns and puts it out
as the scene ends, And.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
I guess you're right when we were discussing the whole
is this impressive? Because I was not impressed when it
was like two hundred and fifty thousand. What is it?
That's nothing now, but that's a modern lens looking at it. Yeah,
I guess it would have been back then because I
don't know. Just the numbers they kept showing made me think, whatever,
who cares? Well?

Speaker 3 (53:33):
I was thinking about it actually kind of earlier, and like,
what were we streaming in twenty fifteen or fourteen, Like
if you watch a baseball game, you didn't really do
that then, or if you watch you know, anything really
other than I mean live streaming.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Right right, I'm trying to think when I started getting
the MLB package, because I did it for like twelve
years straight, and I might have had it around you
may have.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
I didn't have like anything good enough to do that.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yeah, but that also wouldn't have been widespread, so right,
you're right.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
They do kind of mention that part of it is
the fact that these were just kind of servers that
they stuck in there themselves. So that's kind of I
think their pride from their side is this is all
our home system that we built, and it held up
and the feed never suffered any quality loss at all,
So they had a lot harder of an assignment than
Hooley fucked up. Even though you know this was originally

(54:21):
just a stupid livestream of an egg, it ended up
being something that did work how they wanted it to.
So they get that little moment right at what they
think is the end of their existence. At the arbitration processes.
It's winding down here. The judge is still explaining the
basis of his decision is basically, since Richard did use
HULI equipment in the process of creating Pied Piper, since

(54:42):
he did admit to that, it does legally give Hoolly
the right to the technology. That's just the law. That's
what we got to do. An enraged Richard immediately pulls
out his phone text Jared, I've changed my mind. Wipe
it all. It's my company and I want it all gone.
He's had a change of heart. Earlik sort of thing.
The judge isn't done though, and determining that piede Piper

(55:04):
was guilty of the wrongful solicitation by hiring O A.
Jared from Hooley, which we talked about Jared jumpship and
joined Pide Piper from hooy and determining that that was
not legally done to bring Jared from the company. The
judge actually explored Jared's contract in full and discovered the
language and his contract and was also used in Richard's

(55:26):
and many other employee contracts, was actually not legal.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Okay, this is all piece and together. I didn't evidently
they were discussing Jared's contract.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
That was actually one of the other small parts that
Hooley that Gavin tacked on to his lawsuit.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
And wouldn't have even had to do, but because he
was so relentless in being a dick.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Yeah, he was sing him for everything he could and
including like you poach Jared from me, So he put
that in the suit as well. And when they when
the judge was looking at that contract, he was like, well, wait,
why couldn't Jared get a job somewhere else? Why was
that violation of the contract. And then judge determines, well,
that's not lea. This makes it an unenforceable contract. And
since Gavin uses that clause and many many, many employee

(56:07):
contracts at Hooley, we have a situation where Richard's not
just Jared's, but Richard's contract wasn't legit. Therefore he was
never legally a Hooly employee. Therefore him doing it at
company time at Hooly does not make the app theirs.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
The actor who plays Gavin is great in this scene.
When he thinks he's won, he believes himself so important.
He's basically like YadA, YadA YadA. In the judge like
hurry up, hurry up, I don't care. You can just
drop all the other counts. I won the tech war,
and the judge is like, no, this is a court
of law.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Gavin doesn't even look at the judge the first several
times he's talking to him about this. He's like, yeah, yeah,
I dismissed that. Whatever makes it easiest.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
My favorite part of this and again I'm doing the
thing where this is a comedy show. You don't need
to look into it. But the idea of an arbitrator
or judge in any scenario being like, all right, I
have a gotcha, and I'm gonna pretend that this guy
wins for a while, and then when they least expected,

(57:08):
I'm gonna be like boom. Employment contracts are bullet. That's
so funny to me because it's a very Matt Locke text. Yes,
in reality, they would have everyone would have known. Take.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
I think we need more judges like this.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
In real life. We sure dramatic and that.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Look like this guy too, because he can really pull
off that drama looking like an owl.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Instead, you just have Trump appoint every single judge and
then preside over his own trials.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Yeah, and that way we get just all the worst
people running every decision.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
The case dismissed, it's over, wholly lost heat. Our beloved
Pete takes the time to turn to Richard and thank
him for giving him this opportunity.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
Not long ago, emergency workers pulled me out of the
flaming records of my Mercury Grandmarquee. Today you pulled me
out of the flaming records of my life, and those
flames burned far Hunters.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
For that, I thank you. Now. I had to put
that in there because I had a Mercury Grand Marquis
for like ten years, so I was especially drawn to
that line. But it's also just a greatly read line
by Matt McCoy.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
His line readings where he's reading these like almost playlike
dialogue lines, you know, like burn far Hotter.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
He's so good at that.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
And what's funny is he has another about fifteen twenty
seconds that I'm sure you guys remember right after that
where he just keeps going in.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
That boofing a bunch of alcohol.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
It's it doesn't end there. It's a very dramatic little speech,
and Richard is fully freaked out, but he actually is
realizing when he finally stops talking that you know, he
had no idea they were going to win. In fact,
he was just telling the guys and he realizes I
told him to delete everything, and I haven't told them
not to.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
This is a fun thing I forgot that this episode did,
which is resolve its main plot with ten minutes to
go and then turn into a cartoon for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
It's fun, It's cool.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Yeah, I was so confused, even though I'd already seen
the episode once when I was taking the notes on it,
I was at this part and I was like, oh, okay,
I'm about done, and then I pause it and it's
ten minutes left. It's like seventeen minutes endo the episode
of twenty eight minutes. So yeah, there's ten womenutes left
and they've already done what they needed to do here.
It's not going to be that easy to describe the
back and forth at this point, because we now have

(59:12):
a continued scene what Richard is trying to do to
get hold of them versus seeing what Pied Piper is
doing at the house as they're supposed to be deleting
the remnants of Piede Piper.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
The joke of fors being Richard's in such a hurry
to stop them, and they, despite just having to do
one very small task, are doing do it comically ridiculous
time wasting activities.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Something foils the deleting constantly that should never would never
stop anyone.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
No, Yeah, and they they seem to get more and
more ridiculous with each one, where it's like that's not
even possible.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
To It escalates to just, oh, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Even Richards though, Okay, his phone is dead when he
gets outside of court. Maybe maybe it would die rite
as you need to make that call. But then he
gets he's trying to go to his car where he
has the charger and he can make the call, drops
his keys, kicks him into the sewer. That's absurd, a
little far.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
You understand, I'm sitting right here, that's ship that would
happen to me. And do you, Brian, you remember you
were in some restaurant with Chad fucking Coleman, and he
dropped his keys, tried to catch it with and punted
it across the room like high.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
With a big arc too. It was impressive. Where did
they end up like across? It was like in a restaurant,
wasn't it. Yeah, just waiting someone's soup. That would have
been even better.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Excuse me, wait, they're all keys to a Honda Civic
in my soup. That's also that old expression, you know,
keys to the Honda Civic.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
In the ointment, Guilfoyle is about to start the deletion
process at Erlic's house while Richard is kicking the keys
into the sewer. Erlk actually quotes Doune at this part,
which is kind of funny because they were still years
away from reviving that in Hollywood at this point, and
now it's especially relevant to us watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
But that super fits the character though. Oh yeah, that's
a nerd thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Erlex stops Gilfoyer from actually going through with the deletion
because he says, we can't delete Pied Piper without doing
one last toast before we go through with it. Richard's
next plan is bursting into a place called I wrote
this down, fills coffee and demanding to use the phone
there the landline.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Be ironic if they didn't fill your cup?

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Oh yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Fill and fill two different things.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Every cup is filled if it's Phil filling it, that
fills with the Z. By the way, see it's like,
oh wow, like fill the name pill and then Z.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Oh it's extreme and filler.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Yeah, I bet it is. That's what he did after baseball. Unfortunately, Richard,
this is what happened to any of us. This is
very relating. When he gets the landline, which he accosts
the employee to get the landline, realizes it's not like
he can use it anyway because he doesn't know anyone's
number that he'd be trying to reach, So he has
to quickly give up on that plan and he runs outside,

(01:01:53):
makes a bee line towards a stranger and says, hey,
I need to borrow your phone and send off an email,
and the guy's admit understandably he's freaked out. He runs away,
so Richard still doesn't have access to a phone, and
we cut back to the house for the rest of
the team is enjoying that toast together, which is just
a beer in the in pipe piper's honor. Dansh suggests,
is this a wheat beer after they've already been drinking it.

(01:02:15):
You can't have a wheat beer without a lemon, and
they stop to the deletion process to go get a lemon.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
All of them go outside to get a lemon.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
They suggest, yeah, let's make a lemon tree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Somebody's maybe it was a neighbor from earlier. Somebody mentions like,
so and so has a lemon. Try, yeah, fuck him
over one more time? Is the idea? Okay? But I
think it is that guy, the ferret man.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Richard, now on a public bus, has borrowed the driver's
phone and is trying to send out that email he
wanted to earlier to the company. It goes straight to spam,
so that also doesn't work. Meanwhile, the rest of the
team is back inside with their lemon that they found.
Denesh notices it's bruised. Though.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
This has got a little bit of a bruise. He says,
it like such a such a little dick. It's great.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
They go right back out to look for another lemon.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
This is my favorite one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Richard reaches his stop, runs the rest of the way
as the others sit around with their lemon. I might
have skipped over that really well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
My favorite one is Gilfoyle's reaching up to grab a
lemon and Denese says, no, not that one, get the
ice joosy one up higher, and it's what is happening.
It's taking like just forever.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
They even go on more there with like I think
the bottom ones were eaten by the ferret or something.
The eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Okay, that makes sense, on and on and on.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
It's I started skipping some moments because they just couldn't stop.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
The counterpoint of Richard doing everything too slowly when he's
running full speed in a woman pushing a stroller is
way faster than him.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
The Richard finally does arrive and pound on the door.
Jared tries to convince them all, now that Richard has
gone through all this to get there, that they should
delete it before they let him in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
That's like a legal thing, like if they do that beforehand,
he has plausible deniability.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Out of breath, Richard asked if they've already gone through
the process. Gilfoyle says oops, indicating yes, they just did it.
And then they discover well, the system crashed and actually
everything's still intact, which results in Gilfoyle and Denshe having
a prolonged argument about which one of them is the
reason why it didn't delete properly, which one of their

(01:04:19):
duties that they fucked up in the process, And they
argue quite a while about this until they seem to
come to the consensus that they should restart and actually
delete it so they can settle the artists.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
And settle their personal argument. That does not matter.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
They've completely lost the whole They're actually not supposed to
delete the company anymore. We get some holy work chatter
out in the streets. Gavin's in serious trouble. The employees
are talking about him. Not only did he lose the case,
it's possible that as much as half of his employees
have those invalid contracts that Richard and Jared have. The
board may ask him to resign. You know what. Besides,

(01:04:54):
there's this kid, this new kid in the block. He's
a real whiz. His name is Nelson Baghetti. Three times
in a year, guys, I bet he's the future of Hulie. Meanwhile,
this is Gavin's spiritual advisor.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Man, I have no idea. What's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Yeah, it's it gets weird. This is all just a
bunch of stuff they threw in at the end. But
Gavin's spiritual advisor is overhearing this while he eats a
hot dog and decides he's just a yes man that
tells Gavin whatever he wants to hear. So he's like, oh,
I need to now take this opportunity.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Yeah, he's a maneuver or too, oh to whatever he
can do to make Gavin think he's important and stay
on and make money.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
And now he feels like, well, if Gavin's in trouble,
I need to find this big head guy and present
myself to him so that I can still do what
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Oh so that was the big head guy is who
he approaches.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Yes, And when I was saying we didn't get him,
like this is the one seeing he's in his launchair
doing nothing, which made.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Him go up there because he doesn't know how to
do anything.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Yeah, he just he got kind of ostracized from the
business because he has actually no skills at all. The
bracket Ravega Russ, the douchebag billionaire investor that we have
not seen just yet in this episode, has stopped in
to talk to Monica. It turns out that in this
process of settling the arbitration, where Vega is interested in

(01:06:10):
refunding Piede Piper and has already reached out to Russ
that five million or whatever that he loaned to get
Piede Piper back on their feet, they're now wanting him
to release his hold of Pipe Piper and they will
go back to being the business that funds them since
the legal matter is over. Russ is happy to give
one hundred percent of his holdings away because he has

(01:06:31):
really just been upset that he wasn't worth a billion
dollars anymore. He calls it the three Comma club. He
wasn't in it, and now this will get him back
over it. He's happy he's gonna divest all of his
whatever kind of holdings he had no more in Piede Piper.
He does take the opportunity to hit on Monica and
ask if she wants to ride in his car, and
Monica is not interested at all.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
The doors go up like this, Yeah, he waves his hands.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
I was wondering how well that would translate if you
hadn't seen his car at the other episode, which's a
dolore In. It didn't exactly right, it was okay. Yeah,
and he does that several times where he complains with
his arms that is that the door doesn't do it that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Way, and yeah, if a car won't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
It's like probably my favorite thing about it, like.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
A quality he thinks is the most valuable at the
car is that the doors do this.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
It is a really good RUSS thing. So Monica heads
straight to Laurie's office to confirm this because she's not
accustomed to Laurie even being willing to deal with RUSS
at all and is kind of surprised this happened. Laurie
does confirm it, and Monica says, hey, I'm glad you
did that, because, honestly, now that the legal matters over,
Pied Piper is going to take off there. I've always
loved their technology. They're huge, They're going places. Laurie agrees.

(01:07:42):
She says, yeah, the technology is amazing. I love what
they're doing. I just don't think that I approve of
the decisions they make. I think their leadership is lacking,
and we have the seats to make a change. They
have in this deal, they have required enough board seats
to where they actually outnumber Pied Piper people, and their
plan at this point is to continue Pied Piper with

(01:08:03):
the technology, but without Richard.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
And with Stephen Tobolowski.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Is that that's where.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Now we don't we don't quite get anyto this yet,
because we just have one more scene before the season ends,
and I haven't seen past this point. The Pied Piper
team is busy celebrating at the house. They play that
game always Blue or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
I don't know what's happening. Kamil Nanjiohanny's bouncing a ball.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
That is blue.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
It's absurd.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
It's some kind of toy.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
I think this is what basketball is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Oh, you know what, that makes sense. I love watching
Lebron James go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
That's what that Blue forty two phrase is from. This
must be what football is, too y. I like that
when Richard answers the phone, he's like, it's getting pretty
crazy to him.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Yeah, it totally is. It is the funny thing. He's
not even joking. So the celebration, though, which we have
agreed just now, is is really quiet a celebration. It's
going to be cut short because Monica has to call
and deliver this news. Richard turns away from the camera
to take the call. You don't hear any of his discussion.
You just kind of get the banter from the party

(01:09:08):
where Denesh and Gilfoyle and Erlick are talking about dumb
stuff in in the foreground while Richard's getting the horrible
news in the background. By the time he turns around,
everything gets quiet and Richard has to break the big news.
Richard lets them know he's been fired. He's out of
the company no more. Richard at the head of.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Pied Piper, the company he started.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
The season ends with Erlick asking how does that affect me?

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
It's a pretty great little capper, like have the serious moment,
and then Erlock, of course, only really thinking about the one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Thing himself, Yeah, his favorite topic.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
We did it, guys, we did it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
And I am really glad that I was able to
get this hosting monkey off my back, so I can
now just watch the show and not worry about trying
to take the notes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
You don't have to think about that anymore, not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
It was very different watching it, just for I immediately
got sucked in from the first episode. I mentioned when
we did our preview for it that I had tried
an episode and didn't stick. That was the it crowd.
I was thinking of that. That wasn't Silicon Valley.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Have you seen that one?

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
I saw a season of that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Actually, I haven't seen any of it. I know it's
held in decent regard, but I think that's more gag relate.
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
It is, and it is a very like it's a
certain kind of like British humor.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
That like it just didn't where the words sounds a
little funny. That's the entirety of a joke.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Yeah, like I'd like to revisit it. I watched it
in my early twenties early mid twenties a little bit,
and I didn't I didn't really land with mether.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
It just didn't work. So I was thinking that that's
what this show was. But as soon as I watched
the first episode of this one, I was hooked because
not so much because of the comedy, but just because
I thought the plotting was easily consumable. It's not like
it's top level drama by any means, but it has
enough of a hook to where, yeah, you can just in.
They're thirty minutes, so you can just blow through a

(01:10:56):
bunch and there's enough drama going on to where I
felt invested and it's it's funny enough. So it hit
the right mark for me to be like, this is
easy watching. And I just burned through the whole first
season and I had that unique experience of knowing that, Okay,
the episode I picked is coming up, and I was
really excited because I was building up, getting my getting
my knowledge foundation set up, and then when that episode

(01:11:19):
came on, I kind of I tried to pay a
little more attention to tune in, and it was just
such a different experience watching it blowing through them like
we usually do and then having to stop and grind
through it. And I'm looking forward to getting back to
just going through them because it was for me, it
was very enjoyable to go through these two seasons that
we did.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Yeah, I really enjoyed watching it again too. I never
knew if I would finish before because it just kind
of felt like something like, I don't know if I'll
go back to it. Because this forced me to it
seems like, oh yeah, now I kind of want to
go back and just finish the couple seasons I didn't before.
The big takeaway for me with this is I can
kind of watch this cast do about anything because they're
just also could.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
They's cemented in their roles. I will say it assible
that perhaps the end of it is not good. It
sounds like you're saying initially it's it has some great parts.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Yeah, and I mean I was. I didn't find it
lacking in quality when I stopped.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
It's just my right, my light.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
I didn't watch TV for a whole year, essentially.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Yeah, I do think it is possible, Like we talked
about with HBO shows, any show, you never know how
it ends, and it may be rushed, it may not hold.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Up, especially one like this where so many unforced changes
like or changes that they couldn't have anticipated had to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
TJ. Miller is out like in season five or something, right,
I have to write him out. Okay, So I knew
there was I didn't remember what the controversily was with that.
But yeah, you know, this was a very fun show
and I enjoyed it, and I as we're discussing it,
have been thinking maybe I will watch it, So maybe
I will. I don't know. Little things annoy me. For example,
I just like I said many times over, I don't

(01:12:50):
like this industry, so that makes it hard to sit
through some of this. But like you said, Brian, the
cast is really good. It's full of real funny people.
I don't know how many seasons I could handle before
the stick I get tired of it. Seeing that TJ.
Miller leaves after four seasons, I think will make that better,

(01:13:12):
because I do think that character would get old fast.
I think I'm sure it's funny for two seasons. Three,
maybe not four, Probably not, I'll have to see. But overall,
I think there's a fun experience. Katie mentioned, of course,
that she's in this industry as a programmer she hates
in the show. Yeah, no, she hates that stuff, so
she doesn't want to watch any more of it. But

(01:13:33):
I very much could.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Very fun show to watch. I think it's another one
that's good to just put a random like what now
that you know it, you can put an episode on
and just kind of have it on while you eat.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
Yeah, it's such easy watching it. It's not challenging at all,
like and that's fine. I'm not insulting it. It's not
something where you're gonna think a lot about it and
digest the material. It's just kind of quick, easy, not
a lot asking out of you when.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
You you won't find and that's not impossible in a
sitcom like we've covered a few like The Office even
does that like it will make you at least think
about life issues, And with Silicon Valley that's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Not really the point.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
It's more like who Farted.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
It's a good change of pace for us, because, like
I said, the era we haven't really touched on much,
and I don't think we've done much with getting two
into the business world. From what I can think off
the top of my head, it struck me as kind
of a I'm trying to find occasionally we're about to
do different things, but it struck me as a category
that we could plumb the depths of a little bit

(01:14:28):
something slightly out of our normal wheelhouse. And speaking of
trying to find the right fit for our hosting turns man,
do you have any thoughts on the direction you're going?

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
I sure do. It in fact does have anything to
do with No Time in regards to Mash when it
would be before No, I'm thinking more post no. Sure
sure does no Aftermash this time around, No No No,
But for episodes one f seven with one fifty eight.
I believe I'm finally going to do what I say

(01:15:00):
set out to do the second we started this podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Can I make a guess?

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Yes ISQUESTDSV. Yes, We're finally going to I don't know why,
but I'm excited for this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
It should be because I looked up stuff about Sequest.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
How long have we done this? Four years? Yeah? Three years?

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
And I was excited then and then I kind of
forgot about it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Well, I have already watched the two episodes we're going
to do and they're wonderful. Sequest as a show, and
of course I will reveal this when we cover the
show started out as one thing, turned into something else
by season two, and then was completely up ended and
turned into a completely different show that actually they separate
on streaming platforms now and.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
It's a real normal logical show where is everything checks
out now.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
It's basically the concept is it's the future. It's twenty
thirty two, I think because they renamed the original two
seasons the first two Sequest twenty thirty two.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
We're coming up on that anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
What it's about is a submersible vehicle, a submarine, if
you will. It's massive it's like Babylon five is a
space station. This is a submersible in the ocean.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
To help me get a better idea on his Kelsey
like I thing Kelsey Grammar might be the captain.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Of No, because that's an actual submarine. This is a submarine.
You would be up periscope here, No, So basically it's
in the ocean. Broy Scheider's there. Here's our two episodes,
Season one, episode nine. The Regulator. The regulator, who's a
trader kid trade dur not trader, I'll add that kidnaps Darwin, which,

(01:16:30):
by the way, is a talking dolphin after he visit
to SeaQuest. The Regulator wants to find the center of
the universe and tries to use Darwin to find it.
Brian's gonna love the Regulator. Let me just get that
out right here. Honestly, the name alone does a lot
of the work. Is a cowboy hat and the trench coat.
And by the way, is a famous character actor. I
don't know his name, but does he regulate?

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
He's not Warren g Okay, but does he do a
little bit of it?

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
A little bit? And then finally we're going to follow
up with season one episode seventeen. Hide and Seek, maybe
a game you played as a child, Spencer, it's not
a game on SeaQuest.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Well, I know where they are. Where they're in that submersible.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
They're in the ocean. I found them. The Crew Dreams
of Darwin, which is again a talking dolphin with a
cowboy hat. He doesn't have a cowboy hat. The regulator
as a cowboy hat.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
Oh, I'm all sorts of confused now about who's got
a cowboy hat and who does not. Well, I'm sure
it'll make sense once no watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
The dolphin is Warren G.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
And he's been sent to blow up that ship in Magnum.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
R G wants to find the center of the Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Yes, correct, I got five on it. The Crew Dreams
of Darwin, including an evil dictator named Teslow Wow. Teslov
comes aboard to get help for his son, who's autistic
from Darwin. Teslov is played by William Shatner and his
second appearance on the Boot Two Boys Great. This is

(01:18:03):
the most shatner esque appearance William Shatner ever made in
the history of acting. It will blow your mind.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
Because our only other experience with him. He's pretty reserved
relative to what you would think of William Shatner being.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Not in this, I will tell you that. And he
looks like Saddam Hussein. He dresses like him and has
a mustache. It's amazing. I didn't even know it was
William Shatner first. I've watched both these episodes are fucking amazing.
You didn't look at the guy and say, I've never
seen another man with a complete square for ahead, and
then you're like, wait, no, William Shatner, And then I
figured it out correct, So yeah, see quest DSV. We're
finally going to do it. Roy Scheider stars in it.

(01:18:38):
He was in Jaws. He said we're gonna need a
bigger boat and he got.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
And they got and he got one. I think that
must be what they were thinking and casting him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
That's why they wanted to get him.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Let's see water Oh can we get here, Let's see
Costner's off because water World didn't go that well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Let's get the guy, Richard Dreyfus.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Wait no, he's busy writing at Opus right now and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Being fucking weird.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
Yeah, well, this is good. This is like tying up
a loose end in Boobtoo Boys history sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Do you remember when you did this. Yeah, like I mentioned,
and that was four hundred. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
I couldn't make it nearly as long as you did.
I don't know how you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Yeah, the first one one of mine.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Another of mine on my second show on my list though,
was Mary Tyler Moore, and that did take a long
time on my written list.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Yeah, I just needed the immediate gratification for my shows.
Colombo and Saved by the Bell obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
The two best television shows ever made, equal the both
of them.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
One A one B similar concepts to Colombo.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Was also on State by the Bell. He was at
the Max. Yeah, just one more thing there, Uh, Jesse,
we ain't been so hard on this britt guy, just
for being short. Look at me, I'm little, Yeah, Jesse,
do you want to go on a date with me?
Do you want to be the next Miss Colombo and
solve mysteries on your own?

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Before we go? We did most of the plugging. There's
a few we didn't do. Like we didn't sneak in
a YouTube reference. I don't know, it just didn't come up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
So, oh, mister Beast loves Us friend of the podcast, minister,
I'm sorry. Yes, yes is the appropriate response if.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
You If you like YouTube and you want to use
YouTube for your podcasts. We have the back catalog slowly
being uploaded there. You can go there and you can
listen to us in that format as well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
But as unboxing our podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
There's also this woman on this sign show I watch
who looks like Bib Fortuna, and that's not a pretty
fucking cool.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
One of my goals as I age is.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
To look more like Salacious Crumb. You know, you are
looking a little more like him. You also go and
bite C three po.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
You know, Salicious Crumb to Java is kind of like
Jeff to Louis and Taxi.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Sure. Sure, he's the hype man. Yeah, you called him,
just kind of standing there laughing, though I won't criticize you.
It's not just Salacious Crume. It's Silacious be CRUBM. I
know him a little more than that. You know what
the beast is, Brian, I actually call him sat sal
sal Crime South Crumb. Yeah, that's what my pizza sorry

(01:20:59):
came out.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
It's like God, I always talk like Terrence Stamp.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
I have to say. We are on fire right now,
so it's unfortunate that we are at the end of
our show. We're in our best form yet. We will
bring this energy for the next show. In fact, I'm
so excited about it that I'm actually gonna stop now
and do some research into whether or not dolphins really
have hats. It's not the dolphin that wears a hat though,
right No, we need to see a regulator. I just

(01:21:24):
I need to research the regulator. I'm going to stop
this right now and do that. We will see you
next time on the Boob. Two Boys

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