Ep.41 - Are Comedies still funny?

Ricky and Chris catch you up on some of what has been happening in their lives, get a little sidetracked about seasons, but eventually land on the topic at hand...are comedies still funny today?

Extra Links:
High & Silver Presents: The Pilgrim's Progress
The Gut Check Podcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:20):
All right, welcome to another edition of the lunch Break podcast.
We're recording here right now, we're recording. Look at this, yeah,
MIC's in hand. Yeah, and you know what, we're in
a new studio today. It is out in a new
studio today. That's a good way of putting it on
my back dead. If you're new to the podcast, you're

(00:40):
hearing in this microphone Ricky, and on the other mic,
Chris and uh. This is a little something we like
to do here every other year or so. Now we'll
record an episode.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
And we've been a little bit hit or miss, mostly
miss recently, but.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Pretty darn miss. Yeah, but we're here today.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Making up for it, and we're enjoying the beautiful day
out today. It's finally arrived summer. Even though we're in spring.
It feels like summer today.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It does. It's a nice change because like a week ago,
it felt like fall, yes, or even mild winter. It
was not pleasant. It was rainy, it was like forty degrees.
It was miserable. But now I got to put the
acy windows in, I got a fan on here on
the back deck.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a nice change of pace. I'll tell you what
I mean. Someone told me recently, and I guess this
is true. I talked to multiple people. But we have
had rainy weekends every week since November. Since the middle
of November, I think it's been some kind of precipitation.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
We haven't had a single weekend where it's been sunny
both days. Correct. Isn't that that ranging? You know? That
could be like a little shower that passed by though.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean, yeah, I guess they just had some sort
of precipitation. So like last week, we had some, but
it was just on one day. It wasn't on both days.
Was it on Sunday?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
That's true, But we.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Haven't had a weekend free of entire entirely free of precipitation.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
That's wild. Yeah, it probably means the end times are coming.
That could be.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's probably it's probably what it means a sure sign.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, there will be rainy days amongst among you.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Who's gonna wait for the moon to turn into blood?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh? Have we had a blood moon? Yeah, we're gonna
have Harold Camping on the next show. Is he dead?
Did he die?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I think so he didn't. He didn't make it to
the end of the final days.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
He had a good run there of some bad predictions, though.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Sure did probably made a lot of money doing it.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, let me ask you. I don't think we've ever
talked about this. Maybe this brings it up. What's your
favorite season? Oh, that's a good question. It used to
be I used to only have one favorite season. I
know you're supposed to only have one of anything. One
best friend, right growing up? Who's your best friend?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, yeah, and you change that and that changes daily
and sometimes you have multiple best friends. But if I
had to choose my favorite season overall would be fall.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I love fall of autumn when it gets a little
bit cooler. I like, I don't know, I like the
the color scheme. Yeah as well, I will put fall
at the top of my list as well. Yeah, it's
it's just different than spring. I feel like Spring starts
off so hideous because you have all the snow melt,
you have all the rocks that have been pushed by plows.

(03:27):
It's muddy. It's gross. Like Fall is has some of
that muddiness, but I don't know, it's welcomed. Yeah, it's
a welcomed mud. It's funny.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I think you've talked to me out of having more
than one favorite now, because I was gonna say my
second favorite would be spring. But the second you have
you have the you have a yeah, you have all
you have all the leftovers of the evidence of winter
in spring.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
With the way you describe this, I think I would
just work backwards from fall. I think I would go fall, summer, spring, winter. Yes, yeah,
that's a good point. I don't dislike. I mean spring
is when, like I would start playing baseball, so that's
a great part of spring. But other than that, spring
doesn't have a lot going for it for me. Yeah,

(04:12):
but I like summer golf. I like the golf. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
There's no allergies in the fall either.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Right, No, not really, there's allergies now, it's.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
How you spring, and you sometimes get him into the summer.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
You're an allergy guy, right, I get allergies. Not that
you're a fan of allergies.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I'm I'm not a fan of them, but yeah,
I suffer from them here and there.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I it was weird.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I had a season in my life where it didn't
seem to have any allergies to the change of seasons,
and then all of a sudden it came back again.
So I had as a kid. Then they went away
and then came back. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I haven't had them. I don't know what the scientific
explanation is for that. I don't want them. It seems
they seem to make my wife miserable, watery eyes, just stuff,
he knows. Yeah, it seems terrible. I know some people
get him just in the worst way. But yeah, that
does come with summer, so that you know what takes

(05:03):
a point away. That's why it's number two for me.
It's not number one. No. I like your I like
the way you put it. Go in reverse, orders go
in reverse. Either way, you got them all, that's right.
Winter's fun for like the first snowfall, and then after
that it's just a hassle. Yeah, I don't mind a
cold winter. I just don't want a snowy winter. And
I think that's the opposite of most people. I think
most people are like I like the snow. I just

(05:25):
can't stand the cold. It's like I'll wear a jacket,
I'll be freezing. Yeah, but I just I don't want
to take care of the snow.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, the snow is as much is a lot of
a chore. Right as a kid, I never thought of it. Well,
I never thought of it at all because I grew
up in Florida, so I didn't have I didn't have
no snow.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I would love if your least favorite season was still
winter while you lived in Florida. I don't like it
because we don't have it.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, exactly, I want some. I want me some. I
want me some winter. No, and and so when. But
when I moved up here, I enjoyed the snow at first,
but then it quickly became a source of annoyance, having
to clean up after each snow fall.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So I concur with you on that one. I hear you. Yeah.
One thing I do like about spring is usually the
spring for us comes with going to conferences. And this
past spring, like that segue right there, that I could
have just kept it going, but I think I needed
to make note that that was a dynamite segue that
was so sit there. I can't. I can't let any

(06:32):
segue sit if I make it, I mention it, whether
it's good, bad, ugly. I mentioned that I segued, which
is what a segue's supposed to avoid. That's true anyway.
So this spring, we were at the Gospel Coalition conference
in Indianapolis, Indy. And uh, this is I don't know.
This is the fourth time we've been to that city.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I think I was trying to think myself, it's gotta
got it.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Something like maybe my fourth time, maybe your third. There
was one year you didn't call, didn't go. But while
we were there, we had the unique opportunity to meet
a couple individuals who are a part of a podcast
that at least I've come to enjoy greatly. You're you're
getting into it.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm getting into Yeah, I'm certain starting to get.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Into it a bit.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
So.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Uh. It's called High End Silver Presents The Pilgrim's Progress.
It's a podcast you need to check out. It's a
Christian allegory. I mean it's an it's an old allegory
from like back in the sixteen hundred's originally written by
John Punyan, but Paul Bunyan. Not Paul Paul Bunyan. No,
he was busy chopping down some logs right with with

(07:39):
with Blue Blue the Big Big Ox, but by John Bunyan.
And it's been adapted for a more modern audience, staying
true to the content by an individual named Zachary Barteles. Yes,
and we got to hang out with Zach. And then
he also does a follow up show to each chapter

(08:02):
that he goes through called The Pilgrim's Digress, and he
does that with a guy named Alex who he calls
Mister Sagacity, And we got to meet him as well
while we were there, and we hung out a couple
nights and kicked it and it was a lot of fun. Yeah,
it was a great time. He's I feel like he's
podcast extraordinary. He's got a voice for it, he's got

(08:24):
the quick wit for it. Yeah, it was just a
cool moment. I've been listening to him since the days
when he was on these Go to eleven another podcast, Uh,
and he's just hilarious. So we got to meet him
hang out with him via Caleb, who you saw in
the previous episode. Uh, he reached out to Zach and
he put the whole thing together, which is pretty cool.

(08:46):
And then we actually recorded with him on like his
mobile setup in uh.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Nicky Blaine's Yes, It's quest Downey how he was able
to easily pull that right out of.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
His pocket, just Mary Poppin's backpack.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Then, yeah, that's what it was more like, and set
us up and we were. We were, we were rocking
and rolling. Yeah, so with all was going on around us, right,
and yeah, he's right, like I said, writing Mickey Blaine's
Nicky Blaine, Nicky Blain.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Mickey blainez oh boy, oh boy. Yeah. We went to
his clubhouse, but uh so we were. He busted out
the mics, we recorded some different things. Then he had
Chris and I hop on to plug the lunch break
or as he puts it, taken off life support. That's right.
We needed that, we needed that. We did. We did

(09:31):
a source of encouragement for so if you want to
hear that, I want to point you guys not only
the Pilgrim's Progress, which you should check out podcast, but
the Gut Check podcast that Zach is on with his
co host Ted Kluck. And I really think it's it's
fairly similar to what we do. It's more pointed between them,

(09:52):
probably the there's more church talk. I don't know how
else to exclaim it, Yeah, explain it, but it's it's great.
It's great. I've been listening to it now for about
a month since we went down. I'm like, I need
to listen to gut Check, not just Pilgrim's progress and
then we were just on it. Yeah, us saying we're

(10:13):
coming back. Yes, right, so you need to check out
the gut check podst So technically where we back there?
First we were back there, but nobody knew it, just
us in our hearts. Yes, we knew we were now
And then what you guys saw was us coming back
with a Routier taste test. But that was actually the
second time we were back, right, Yeah, we're in a

(10:35):
weird loop of we're backs at this point. But it
was fun. So now we're getting we called it the
Bartles bump, that's right, and maybe not a bump in listenership,
but a bump in uh, desire to record.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
And so we're here a newfound passion, yeah, a renewed
a renewed passion.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah. So that was that was pretty fun. So that
was a cool part that came with Spring. That was
a lot of fun. But I do want to go
back to the Routier taste test, yes, because we definitely
we did get some feedback from people. Oh do tell
they Well, mostly it's just people thought I made garbage

(11:18):
rupier selections.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, I think and you were you were fine, you
were looking for what you could in what was available
to us. There's right around where we were at, you know,
the church, so you had to swing over and pick
something up quick.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
It was kind of a spur of the moment. That's
how we roll. We don't plan. We're not planners. There's
been a few times where we've planned, like when we
did Christmas music face off, I did a little prep
for that. Other than that, it's quick, grab mics, let's
do something, or in that case, no mics, Yeah, just
get sort of. I did go out for like forty

(11:55):
five minutes gathering those ruteers because at first I just
went to the grocery store and I'm like, I don't
want warm roopier and there's not going to be time
to get it cold because that had the best selection.
Oh I could have read polar I don't. I still
don't think I could have got ib C, which everyone
keeps pointing me to. I've had ib C. It is good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Shout out to Rob, my friend from college, who mentioned that.
He's like, hey, how could you not talk about ib C.
It was a staple at Hoton where we were where
I stayed at at you know, in the in the
shen Uh house. So we we would sell that from
our you know, from the stand that we had there
right in the in shen and that was pretty much

(12:36):
all you could get, and it was it was good
because it was it was a good.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Root heer for sure. I think IBC is great. Actually,
when you would go to a restaurant and order a
rootier and it wasn't a fountain, you're generally getting an
ib C.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, that's true, and refill Yeah, that's true. But it
was cool because you're getting it out of a glass bottle.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And you usually got bottle with a mug to pour
it into. That's true too, yes, yeah, so definitely a
cold mug. Yeah, it was a good spot. Oh you know,
I had mugs in the freezer. I should have busted
them out for where we're sitting on doctor pepper.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Which I have, you know, I don't. I don't remember
the last time I had doctor pepper. So this is
a nice, nice change.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Twenty three flavors. Yeah, I can't find that anywhere other
than if you fill your cup with all the flavors
of the soda fountain.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I wonder if you could do that, if there's a
way to find out what all the flavors are. Do
they describe the flavors are?

Speaker 1 (13:20):
It's got to be proprietary. At this point, someone's probably
there's a YouTuber out there broke it down and someone's
made their own Doctor Pepper to that guy or gal
or yeah or gal gal Yeah. I was gonna say. Oh. Also,
John Skiff mentioned IBC and comments on Facebook, So at

(13:41):
some point maybe we do a a higher end. I'm
not even I'm not even sure if that's the right
phrasing for it. A premium bottle.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, you said, you said premium media waves of playing
it not that the ones that we had weren't necessarily premium.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
They were.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
They were definitely the popular ones they were. But I
think it was good because really, if you think about it,
if we gathered all those, we would have had, you know,
table full, like a six foot table was just filled
with all different types, and that would have been chaos.
That had been very difficult to keep track of. Four
was really hard to do.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Just four was enough and I think what I found
so coming off of that episode, I went up to
a friend's place for Memorial Day. I'll just give them
all shout outs. Shout out Cliff and Phyllis and Jamie
and Julie and Becca and Derek and my wife Katie

(14:36):
and all the kids that were there. We went up
there for a few days and one of the things
that was inspired by our episode is I think it
was Julie initiated. She wanted to do a more so
to taste tests. So we did coke types, which was
Coca Cola, Classic, pepsim and maybe maybe it was just

(15:00):
three and just Price Chopper for that, okay, And then
we did Roopier which she had Bark's mug and Price
Chopper again, and then went out there and just gave
Cherry Cola or Doctor Pepper, oh, which I think everyone

(15:20):
identified those two from each other. Yeah, like they're kind
of similar, but then when right next to each other,
there's a distinction. I got all the cokes right. I
felt pretty good about that, and I think what was
helpful is we had bigger portions for that, so I
was able to put more in my mouth. And I
almost had the roopier, but I didn't go with my taste.
I started going with logic thinking. So the way I

(15:44):
was ordered was the first time we did the taste test,
PEPSI was number one, Coke number two, Price Chopper was
number three. So then we did the roopier. I think
it was Bark's number one. It was Mug number two,
and then price Chopper number three again, and I thought
I identified Mug, which I should because by our taste
test it was my favorite. Yeah, I still don't think

(16:07):
it is. I do like Barks more, but uh, I said,
this tastes like mug, but which put price Chopper at
the end again, and I swapped them. Oh gotcha. You
can't let the brain get involved. Just go with the taste.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Gotta good you guys. You gotta trust your taste budds
and just go with that. Did you have any palate
cleansers this time around? Are you just oh, I think
or something, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Or a burger? When we were all done, we were
all like, that was too much soda? Yeah, it was
a lot, and I I think I finished all by
cups and that's all.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
And there's different types of sodas too, so it's not
like you're drinking just cokes. You're drinking you know, or
coke like you know, products, You're drinking other flavors, so
that that really messes up with your messes, your taste
buds up I would imagine, and.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I will say, the store brand sodas are not bad. No,
they're pretty good.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
And price Chopper, for those who don't know, is just
it's a local chain of grocery stores here in upstate
New York. Market three two is the the upscale version,
or maybe that's just the rebranded version. It's a return
to their central markets, right thirty We started in nineteen
thirty two.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Something like. That's way too much information you guys need
to know. But just wanted to let you know that
I know, I know about the grocery trains that are
up here. Chris is knowledgeable.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'm very intellectual about those things.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
In the origin of grocery store names, where does Hannaford
come from? I have absolutely no idea. Okay, well, so
so much for that. But that was the whole episode,
was going to be grocery store names.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
And now yeah, well I guess that just shot that down,
So to think of something else. Okay, so what's the
next seguay.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Let me ask you this. This is the next segue,
Just so you guys know, I'm changing gears and we're
going to someplace else. Segue. What's the last new comedy
you've watched. That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I'm trying to think about that because it's been quite
a while. I don't think I could identify that.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I struggle to think of what. When I say new,
I mean something within the twenty twenties. Yeah, that I've
really checked out, Like I don't, I don't know. I
feel like the comedy genre of a movie has changed. Yeah,
it's gotten to the point, to be honest with you,
it's gotten to the point where I avoid the genre altogether, really,

(18:36):
And it's strange because I didn't used to be that way.
You used to look for comedies back in I guess
what I would consider the comedy heyday, the nineties, the
nineties and early two thousands, But after that it was
I avoid them.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I look for dramas now, and you know, and then
whatever the kids are really into. I mean, I don't
think you consider Sun the Hedgehog, right, those movies comedies
in the sense of but I will say there's funny
in them, but it's not a comedy.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
There is. I think there's more movies that aren't in
the comedy genre that are doing a good job at
being funny and maybe they're replacing the comedy. Yeah in
that sense. Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe they're not.
I don't know, we're not film buffs. No, I would
love to be that. What do they call them, cinophile?

(19:23):
I don't know. Putting file is just like your movies,
you know.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I watched a lot of movies actually, but yeah,
that's that's the one genre that's kind of really fall
off the radar for me because there's been a lot
of mishits, I think.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
So. I also think content wise, comedy now has been
put together with just being really crass and vulgar.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I think that's the reason why I try to avoid
them because I don't need that.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Like, that's not something my wife and I are gonna
sit down and watch and enjoy. It's gonna make me uncomfortable.
She's probably gonna be like, I don't like this, yeah,
and so we don't watch it now. Like there's always
been these little bits of this humor is more adult, immature,

(20:15):
but it's just not as downright dirty. Yeah you know
what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm trying to think of when
that shift happened for me, because I think it was
after seeing it might've been around the time forty year
Old Virgin came out. That's the movie that just came
to my mind actually, because after that movie came out,
I was like, this, this is too much. There are

(20:38):
funny parts on the overboard.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, they're funny parts of the movie, but it went
overboard and I was thinking to myself, I can't I
just just watched anything like this, and then everything else
seemed like it was following that same pattern, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I mean Stepbrothers is kind of the same way. Hilarious movie.
There's so many truly funny parts and then there's so
many parts arts where I'm just like, this is too much. Yeah,
I feel uncomfortable watching it. Yeah. Yeah, but there's like
there's iconic lines from it like did we become did
we just become best friends? Or they make their own

(21:11):
bunk beds. There's so much room for activities, like it's great,
it's funny, but I feel like that's where it starts going.
You have to call me down, you have to call
me right, Like it is funny. It is funny that.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Come after forty year Old Vision, because that might that
might have been around the same time that might have
closed so those two movies I.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Remember, you know, like I never got I never gotten
to like the Seth Rogan movies. I don't know if
that that's not a good Seth Rogan laugh tried that
was good. When I first got glasses and my hair,
I didn't like put stuff in it at all. I
had like a couple of people tell me I looked

(21:53):
like Seth Rogen, And I don't know how I feel about.
Say what did that make you? I don't know. I
don't know. I still no, I can't place it, but
I don't get it anymore. And I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
That reminds me like people at one point often said
I looked like And it wasn't just one person, it
was multiple times. So it looked like David Arquette. And
I never could see that.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I can see it, could you when you add hair?
Yeah I could see it. Not now well now we
already had a whole episode. Now you look like the Rock,
Now you look like Jason Statham, now you look like
all those guys.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, but I never I never saw myself looking like
David Arkette for some reason. But yeah, I can I
never see it. Do you remember about the Doppelganger? Thing
that people used to do on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
It was like once every year.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I think it might have been around February, and they'd say, hey,
you post a picture in your profile, picture of your dappelganger,
your celebrity doppel gamer.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
And I didn't.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
I still didn't think I looked like him. But I
threw a picture of David Arkette up there because the
people affirm it.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I think. So, I wonder if you could put your
picture in chat GPT and say what celebrity, Oh I
look like.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
That would be cool to try. I never thought about that.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh if I had a picture handy of you, like
I'm not going to snap me or yeah, current, I
could probably I could probably find one try's license photo
for those wheen years old and I had such glorious hair. Oh,
there was so much. It was it was too much.
It was too much, too much. It needed to slowly fall.

(23:29):
I gotta get that updated file.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Uh yeah, I think legally I'm gonna get in a
hands license fire. Yes they tell you that, well, yeah,
it got They didn't tell me outright that. But when
we were coming back from Indy from our trip the
uh we were coming through Indianapolis Airport and the photo
they put it through the photo scanner now right, and
then they they visually look at you and look at that,

(23:52):
and they let the machine look at it. And it
failed like the first I don't know if it was
two times just one time, but it failed.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
It didn't place your face.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yes, and so they had to do it again, and
eventually it worked, and I was thinking, yeah, I really need.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
To update this. That's bad. Yeah, it's pretty bad. So
but anyway, if the heyday of comedy is like, what's
what's hard to say because there's a lot of really
classic funny movies too in the eighties. Yes, I think
there's a lot of funny throughout decades, and there's probably
funny now. Our tastes have probably just mellowed. It's probably
what it is, yeah, because I mean Trains, Planes and

(24:27):
Automobiles is a funny movie. Yes, very funny movie. But
it does have the F bomb scene. Yes, that's true,
which I didn't know about. But it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
It wasn't it wasn't crass the same way and there,
but there were there were sometimes things here and there
that were one off little innuendo or whatever it is,
even back then.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, but there was nothing that, like, it wasn't what
carried the movie, right, it was, and the Jerk had
elements of that. Right, I found my special purpose exactly. Yeah,
there was movie I mean there was movies like Porky's
which was completely in that vein, or even Animal House. Yeah,
it's probably in that, but you kind of knew that
getting into it. Yeah, if you're gonna see a National

(25:07):
Lampoons movie, this is what you were getting into. So
there was like, true these right, Animal Houses, National Lampoons,
isn't it? Maybe? Yeah, I think it is National. Yeah,
So it was almost like you knew over here was
this if you're looking for for something a little more edgy.
And then there's just general comedies, yeah, the popular comedy.

(25:28):
But now I feel like it's all just kind of
merged together. It's not as funny, which gives me a
little bit of apprehension to like the new Happy Gilmore
that's coming out, Yeah, what's that gonna be like? Because
because that first one was great. Now Sandler he was
definitely on the edgier side of comedy and his stand up,
but I felt like his movies were more palatable. They

(25:49):
were dumb, yes, but hilarious.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yes, yeah, even with Billy Madison. Yeah, you know what
I mean, it was it was pretty Those movies were
pretty funny. May even go back to David Arquette, like
he was in what was that one?

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Ready to Rumble? Didn't see that? This is when he
was a wrestler. Yeah, the wrestling movie. Yeah, that was
a really funny movie. You have to watch that at
some point.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
But no, there was there was a string of movies
that were I guess you would call true. I guess
you all safe, safe movies, safer for like younger audiences.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I mean true P thirteen. Now it seems I think
that's a true PG three because now.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
PG thirteen movies pushed the envelope. They're closer to R
and they allow like oh they allow an F bomb
in there.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah. But yeah, that's what I didn't like about Guardians
of the Galaxy three not a comedy, but of the
Marvel movies, the one that probably airs the most on comedy, Yeah,
are those more and like, yeah, they had him I
think he rolled up the middle finger at one point
and he drops an F bomb in a scene that

(26:52):
really didn't need it. Yeah, it just wasn't that what
It's not like Breaking Bad when they were allowed one
F bomb per season and they used it effectively. Yes
they did, and it was I mean, I know that's
not comedy, but I'm just saying, like there's there's just
better uses of it. So I'm I like in the
comedy world just in general, maybe getting out of comedy movies.

(27:15):
Like one of the podcasts I love to listen to
is Nateland, which is by Nate Barghetzi. He's like the
biggest comedian in the world right now, and he's on
there with some of his comedian friends and it's all
clean and he's seeking to create a whole He wants
to do what Adam Sandler did with Happy Madison, where

(27:35):
you just make the movies you want to make with
your friends. He wants to do that with Nateland. But
all anything with Nateland's name on it. He says, I
want you to be able to turn it on in
a room with kids, and it's fine, and I think
that is a great direction to go. So he's working
on a movie. I don't know if it's Nateland or
if he's just in a movie, but I would love

(27:57):
to see what that's going to be like and see
if we're if he at least as a clean comic
who's has a pretty strong conviction on it comes out
with a good clean comedy because he he's hosted SNL twice. Yeah,
and it's been two of the funniest snls in recent
history that I can think of. Yeah, I agree. I

(28:17):
also don't regularly watch SNL anymore, but I think it's
just a taste change. Yeah, that's I'm looking forward to that.
Then I didn't. I didn't realize he was he was
working on that.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
But I like that idea that you can have it
on in the in the same room as kids and
have to worry about what they're gonna hear, what they're
gonna see.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
That's that's the biggest thing now, is I when I
when I choose what I'm going to be watching.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
And sometimes it's like, Okay, the kids aren't interested in
watching anything, I'll sit down, I'll watch something, or maybe
Breonna I will But it's always at this point, it's always, well,
wait till they're in bed, wait till they're at sleep
at night, right, and then turn it on, you know,
just for fear of you never know what's going to
pop up or what you're going to hear. But now
if that's the case, then they can join in, like

(29:00):
you watch it's true. Or if they're in the same
room and they're not interested in watching it, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
They're in the other room playing or doing what they're.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Doing their thing, especially my youngest one, Nathan, Like, if
he's in the playroom right next next to our living room,
then it's okay.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
If he hears anything he's not, he's not gonna be
scarred for life. I think I think we also grew
up in the era of TV adaptations of movies in
the sense that, yeah, you know, they play a movie
and you would never see you wouldn't necessarily see the
true version of it. Yes, and so maybe also in
our heads, some of those movies have been I don't know,

(29:33):
sanitized to a certain degree, Like going back to trainsplanes
and automobiles. You forgot about that scene, Yeah, I did,
because if they show it on like t T TBS
or TNT, yeah, you're not gonna hear that. Yeah, I'm
curious on what they sub in for it, because you
can't take it out. You can't take out his anger

(29:53):
when he gets to that woman at the counter that, Yeah,
I remember it.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Actually, if they look back, they they they minimize the
conversation between the two of them, so it's a little
it's it's less played out, so you don't you don't
you saw him get angry, but he obviously doesn't cuss,
and they and they they also pan away from her
when she's responding to him, and she uses the F word, right,

(30:19):
so you don't even see her face, so you don't
see her say it. You just hear her voice say
you're screwed, rather than saying, you know, the F F word. Yeah,
And then I don't think they have the whole thing
where he's walking around looking to get the car, that
kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
They kind of blow pass through that. Now, what's interesting
about that movie and other movies from the eighties is
they were just PG. Oh you know, yeah, that's that's true.
PG thirteen didn't exist, Yeah, like when from like GPG,
which PG was just a wide range.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, and then are Which is funny because I was
waiting for the longest time to be able to let
my kids watch one of my favorite comedies, John Candy.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I love John Candy. He was in Uncle Buck. Remember
Uncle Buck. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I used to watch at least once a year because
it's just it's a great, great movie, and it was PG.
And the kids were always like, well, why can't we
watch that. It's only PG, and I said, well, because
it's a different.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
PG than it is nowadays, eighties PG. Well, we watched
Airplane last year. Two years ago we were watching yeah,
runch breaks yeah, because you hadn't seen it, and I'm like,
you need to see this movie because it has so
many one liners. It's really good. But then it's a
weird eighties PG where they just randomly have a topless
woman and come across the stream like what was that?
What was that all about? It made no sense, right,

(31:32):
but like that's a PG rating? Yeah what? Yeah? But
you know you're right. They did that all time.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Back when we were kids, they had the sanitized version
of movies, like a Three Amigos was on and even
though that wasn't really too bad, but there are a
couple of parts that they they downplayed. And then the
biggest one for me, which was an eye opening experience
when I finally saw the true version, was my cousin Vinnie.
I didn't realize I had half of the cuss words
that were in it, because they they really did a

(31:59):
lot to really uh edit that.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Stuff out of there.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
But now it's still one of my favorite comedies. But yeah,
that's one of those ones that you can't let the
kids watch into a lot older.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
So is this conversation revealing that comedies have actually had
vulgar aspects to it all the time and we just
happened to have a nostalgia factor that makes it acceptable?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
No, I think no, But I think you're you're you're
adding the contextual variant in there about the sanitized version
of them, right, So maybe they were there, but we
but the but the regular audience were watching them on
TV and grew up with not realizing that that those
rings were in them and they were just as funny
without them.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
True, and that some of the comedies today you couldn't
even do that. You'd lose half the movie, right exactly, Now, Okay,
that's what we're saying. I agree. Yeah. So if you
had to now, just off the top of your head, okay,
because we didn't plan for this, what would be your
top three comedies, top three comedies of all time? If
you're like, it doesn't matter if this comes on. If

(33:01):
someone puts it on, I'm gonna watch it and I'm
gonna love it, which is really hard. So I'm thinking,
as I'm saying these words, I'm going through comedies in
my head. I'm like, how do I pick three? I
don't know, but I have my gut. If I think
my gut tells me, we at least have one movie
that's gonna be the same in our lists. I and
that movie is probably you gotta say dumb and dumb

(33:22):
and dumber. That's we're linked.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
That's that's certainly at the very top. That's top three
for sure.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
That's comedy gold. Yes, so many lines and even the
parts that would be considered inappropriate, aren't. Aren't that bad?
Exactly like her with the flashing lights.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yes, when he's having like his his Yeah, he beats it,
beats up the guy right if the restaurant gives him
his heart in a doggie bag, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, yeah, just like like nice hooters excuse me, owls,
the owls, they're beautiful.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Like that's it's fine. I don't know, it's it's on
the edge, but it's not. It's not out out there.
It's it's not Yeah, it's not exactly.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Like that movie you can watch on TV and you're
pretty much gonna get I would say ninety eight percent
of it.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, another one that would like that. For me, it's
probably maybe a little bit lesser known comedy for some reason.
I don't know why, because I think it's hilarious. Maybe
it's just one of those hidden gems that people need
to check out. But Pure Luck do you ever see
Pure Luck with Martin Short Danny Glover. That's a great
movie that's hilarious from starting to finish, and there's nothing

(34:40):
bad in it at all. I think there's one line
maybe when he calls a woman like, you know, a
harlt or something like that, or who or something like that. Oh,
but beyond that, the whole rest of the movie is hilarious.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I have not seen it. I do like Martin Short. Yeah,
Martin Short's underrated. Yeah, I think so. Maybe he's properly rated.
I don't know. I just feel like you you know here,
I mean, he's definitely not overrated. I don't think. I
don't think he's overrated. No, Martin Short, he cracks me up.
Jimmy Glick, so do me. Grizzin, which I didn't.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I didn't used to like him like that aspect of
his Oh really that persona, But I started to like
it as we were, as I watched clips, watched like
this is actual, He's actually pretty.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
It was good. It was good.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
But so I'd say that would be also my top list.
So I'd have Dumb and Dumber and Pure Luck would
be a second one. Watch he was on TV, I
would watch it every single time.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, I really enjoy Happy Gilmore. Yeah, Happy Gilmore is
a great movie too, that movie, which is why I'm
so afraid of having a second one over over over
mad I would take Happy Gilmore over Billy Madison, but
it wouldn't be by much. Yeah, me too, because I
there's a whole run of Sandler movies that I've just love.

(35:54):
The water Boy. Oh, the water Boy. That's definitely stupid
lower on the list of those from of those three that, Yeah,
would what about would you put water Boy above or
below Big Daddy?

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh that's a good question. I think I like Big
Daddy a little bit more. Oh really, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
I don't think I do enjoy them both big They
all have quotable moments.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
They do. That's the other thing too funny, so many
quotable Like do the comedies today I don't know because
I avoid them, I guess, But do they have quotable
I'm sure they moment they do, I'm sure they do.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
I think that's more relevant when you're in a school setting, true, right, Like, yeah,
how much stuff are we quoting? Like we we are
quoting back and forth to each other things from then. Yeah,
I don't know how many new quotes were churning out,
but like in the days of in the hallways, when

(36:48):
when everyone was kind of watching the same trendy thing,
you'd get quoting. So like, I don't know that I
put this in my top three as far as if
I'm by myself, I want to watch it. But like
I love the movie Napoleon Dynamite, which is a bizarre comedy.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
I didn't like it the first time I saw it,
but yeah, after watching it since after watching it again,
like I think I get I think I get it now,
I think I get And then when you hear people
quote it and laugh, it makes you think, oh that, yeah,
that was actually kind.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Of like Uncle Rico is a gem. Yes, he's just great.
He's a great character. We called rex Kwondo all the time,
grab my own the other art, my other arm, like
it's yeah, it is. It is funny. It has those moments.
I can't put it in my top three, but like

(37:39):
that will be an Anchor Top ten. I'll put it
up there in top ten. It's a unique comedy. It
went against the grain of all the other ones, and
the anchorman's got to be up there, and that that
is getting into the forty year old virgin range where
it's actually probably riddled with a lot of humor that
like I can put Anchor on Anchorman on in the
house right, you just can't. And even half of it
I wouldn't quote now, but it was the whole premise

(38:03):
was pretty funny. These rival news teams getting like a
West Side Story type brawl their rivalry with another news
station with where like Vince Vaughan is like the main actor,
yes and uh, and they like start making fun of
his mom. He's like Dorothy Manchooth is the saint. Like
just stuff like that is funny. It's like Anchorman would

(38:25):
flirt with Top three, especially with quote ability. It's actually
just quoting it. The other day, I think I said, uh,
it was that church. Oh, to to John John Skiff
playing drums, said he was in a glass cage of emotion, okay,
which is where Ron Burgundy is when he's so sad
he's not on the air. I'm in a glass cage

(38:47):
of emotion. So hot milk was a bad choice, like
I probably butchered it. It's fine. So well, so if
I can't, I'm naming ones I can't put in my
top three. I guess they would be honorable mentions.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, well, let's get you're because you're you're thinking out loud,
which I know you love to do.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
I hate it. I want you to see my end
result thoughts. Yeah, well, which are still a little scary.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
A couple of things come to mind from from the
from that, because well, when you mentioned the newscaster thing,
I thought about other competing newscasters, which reminded me of
Bruce Almighty. I wouldn't put it in my top three,
but I'd say it's up there. It's you know, it's
in my top twenty. I would say, but I think
that was pretty funny, you know, with Steve Carrell and

(39:29):
how he made him on the air.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Say, and that's just Steve Crow being a genius. Yes,
and now we're only talking comedy movies. We're not even
talking about comedy TV. Correct, Okay, just movies.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
So and then and then it started me to think,
of course, like if I'm thinking now of you know
that movie Bruce Almighty with.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
With Jim Carrey, how can you not think of the
ace Venturer as well? But for me, and this is
where I'm going to hurt it in my top three. Yeah,
I'm going to put ace Ventura When Nature in my
top three above the first one really as funny as
the first one is. I think when Nature calls for.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Me, yeah, it is just I teeter back and the
two of them, I think the second one is more
outright funny. The first one is more You're still getting
to know the character a little bit and there's some
funny aspects to it. But he seems to be more
ridiculous in the second one than he doesn't even in
the first one.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yeah. So I feel like the first one, Jim Carrey
was figuring out the character of ace Ventura and he
created a great character, yes, And in the second one
he like perfected it. Yeah, that's probably true. I think
that's where I fall with it. And I think I'm
wonderful I saw the second one first. Yeah, he was
definitely it was less in the second one. The first

(40:49):
one was more inappropriate than the second. That's true too. Yeah,
so I think one was a little more family friendly.
But there's just certain lines like I don't know, like
just guano, like just stuff like that, like, uh, I'm
not gonna keep doing bumblebetuna bumblet Yes whenever, whenever it's quick?

(41:15):
Do you ride all quick quick? Uh? But do you
ever get on an airplane and not think about the
scene where he's just spitting shells all over the guy's arm.
They all kick up on it on his arm and
becomes this big pile. Yes, that's doing the yak sound.
There's so many good moments in that.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
That's a movie inside the inside the rhinoceros and it
gets hot warm.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
These rhinos, and the family pulls up on it. They
think it's a real rhino. Oh, look the mama rhinos
giving birth. Let's watch the kids, mommy here. It's so
good so that I think that's my three okay, And
it's that's not me saying these are the top three.

(42:04):
These are my personal three. Dumb and dumber Okay, ace
Venturo in Nature Calls, and Happy Gilmore, not in any
specific order, though I might put Dumb and Dumber at
one because it does just sit there unrivaled, not a
doubt in my mind that it's on the list. So
that's why I think I got it. I gotta so.
I so you got to pick a number three.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
So I'm at Dumb and Dumber, pure luck. And then
I have to say my third one probably would be
Probably would be Billy Madison. I'm sorry, not Billy Madison, would.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Have to be Yeah, no, no no. I chose Happy Gilmore,
Happy Gilmore. Med say so you like Happy Goimen more
than Billy mad I do, Yes, that's what I meant
to say. I meant to say happy Gill. Oh.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
So those are my top right, But then he also
got some in there that are again if we start
going after the three. One movie that for me I
didn't even realize as a kid it was a comedy
until I get.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Older was Ghostbusters. Oh, like I that's true.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
I didn't even understand the premise of the movie was
itself hilarious, you know what I mean, like a bunch
of grown men?

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Who are you thought? A movie that had Dan Ackroyd
and Bill Murray was in a comedy. I think I
was so young.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
It was what it came out in what eighty in
the eighties, So was it eighty five or something like that.
Maybe I was born in eighty three, so I didn't
really see it.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Until I was googs, yeah, use the Googs.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
But I watched it as a kid, so maybe I
was six or seven years old, and at that point
they started having a cartoon came out.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
You were close. Okay, you were close, so you were
you were a year old then, but when I was
eighty three. But when I was eighty three.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
But when I was a kid, I remember going to
McDonald's and getting a Ghostbusters maybe because the second one
came out, that's probably what it was. All the toys
started coming out. They had had a TV show, a
cartoon and the toys at McDonald's and the happy meals,
that kind of stuff, and I just thought it was
a fun movie, those movies, but that I didn't realize
it's it's actually a comedy, but it's not in that

(44:05):
laugh out loud comedy. It's like this is a ridiculous premise,
Like these guys are are are going and they're gonna
catch ghosts, you know what I mean, and come up
with a way of you know, being pseudo scientific about it,
and it's ooze that somehow get turns people into.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Yeah, I think it's a creation so funny. Yes, yeah,
that's good, that's great. And no, I don't want to
just knock movies that come out, because there are funny
movies like that, but I think we're getting more of that. Yes,
where here's a movie and we're gonna have funny people
in it. Yeah, but it's not explicitly a comedy, yes,

(44:45):
and the ones that are are just not my taste. Yeah,
I agree. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh and I was gonna also talk about another movie
that you mentioned when you when you it's in the
same vein as Napoleon Dynamite, which I think, I think
is actually a little bit funny or in my opinion,
but it's natural leebrae right, it's.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
A very similar, not seen similar type of like.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Yeah, it's it's it's in a similar vein, very dry
and just kind of ridiculous and doesn't always necessarily make
a lot of sense, and that's what makes it so funny.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
And I think so you've seen it, but I haven't
seen it. You thought the Minecraft movie was pretty funny.
I did think that. That's true. So that's like sonic again. Yeah,
here's this movie that's just kind of out there for kids. Yeah,
but it's actually pretty funny. Yeah, I thought it was hilarious.
Jack Black has a very specific set of skills, and

(45:40):
it's taking movies like that and just making them great.
He does, he needed, he needed to be in that,
but he know what, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Maybe I don't want to it's not really taking anything
away from the movie or or spoiling anything, but he
wasn't the.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Comedy relief in that movie as much as as Jason was,
which I haven't seen it. Yeah, So he played.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
So he he was the steady character Jack Black, who
was the guy who was all in on this world.
And Jason Momoa is coming out coming into that world
as this eight this once eighties video game master of
one specific video game, and he's constantly still living in
the eighties, and he wants to stay in that, in

(46:24):
that frame of mind, and it's just he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
He doesn't.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
He doesn't live like a normal human being because he's
out of touch with contemporary culture. And so and then
you bring him into Minecraft and you're like, oh, this
is He's just making lots of funny that premise.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, so it's really funny. So but you needed a
Jack Black to be that like glue to bring bring
it all together. I think, right, so that Steve's love
of Chicken song is very catchy. It is. Yes, Yeah,
that was I would definitely recommend that movie, you know what.
I do need to mention this, as far as comedies go,
and Polly Shore movies were always iffy. He's seen No

(47:05):
Man was really funny. He delved into the this is
a little too much probably for most. But a movie
that I watched over and over again was Biodome. I
never see. I never saw that movie. It's I feel
like it's real niche. I think it's pretty regularly hated
on for not being good, but I think it's great.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Really, Yeah, what's the premise of that movie because I
don't even remember.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
So it's starring Paully Shore and Stephen Baldwin. Oh, Stephen
Baldwin pre Christian Stephen Baldwin. I don't think he would
do it again. And these guys are basically two knucklehead
stoners who who's what is not. Wives girlfriends are super
into the environment, and so I think to show them,

(47:57):
I'm trying to make sure I have it right. They like,
into this biodome that's been built in the desert. They
sneak in to this ecosystem where these scientists are supposed
to be and get trapped in there for the full
amount of time with these scientists. And while they're in there,
they ruin experiments Greek havoc the way that only they

(48:20):
could do. They find emergency escape and they open it
up and they have a party inside the biodome, potentially
screwing up the entire thing. It's it's good, it's ridiculous,
and I love it. Yeah, but it's dumb. I can't.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
It's trying to think of what other Steven Baldwin movie
I've even seen other than which is a movie you
have not seen. It's not a comedy, but he was
in The Usual Suspects.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Oh right, now, was that on my list of movies
that I haven't seen that I should If it's not,
it should be. Yeah, it's a great movie, probably.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
But yeah, so he did comedy too, Stephen Baldwin. It's
a good I didn't realize that he did that movie
or anything other he did.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, it was. It's pretty crazy. He's got like I'm
trying to think of how we even explain his hairstyle
is very nineties, looking like late nineties. Yeah, I want
to say skater, but he's not a skater in it.
But yeah, it's it's a funny you should. You should

(49:26):
check it out. Yeah, it's probably a movie to watch,
like with someone like me who loves it, not so
I can be annoying. Go oh, watch this part. But
it's I don't know. I just think it's funny. But
I don't think it's funny if you're just by yourself.
I think if you're by yourself, you goo. What is this,
which maybe makes it not a good comedy. I don't know. Yeah,

(49:47):
I just know that I had that on VHS tape
and it sat in my VHS player, and when it
was done, along with many other movies, it would just
get rewound and watched again. Yeah, what was the was
the other movie? I think you?

Speaker 2 (49:57):
I think you saw it finally saw it for the
first time recently with Luke Wilson. Oh, Idiocracy, Idiocracy?

Speaker 1 (50:05):
That was dumb. Yeah, I mean it lived up to
the name, Yes, but it was funny that one. That
one was riddled with a lot of inappropriate stuff too.
I don't remember those parts maybe as much. Yeah, I
won't get into them. Yeah I remember, but I can
remember a couple of them. But but the parts that
were truly funny weren't those parts. Yes, of course, like
what you referenced me with the electrolytes, the electrolytes. They're

(50:29):
watering plants with gatory because it has electrolytes, so that's
better for them than water.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
And that's when going back so is the shout out
to one of our past podcast episodes.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
But all the people in that were wearing what for
their shoes, croc crocs. They were. That's how you told
me this, that's how crocs got going, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
And apparently, from what I understand, the writer director was
looking for some shoes that could be worn by people
that were idiot proved essentially and had absolutely no a
style to them, like no good stots to them, and
thinking that this would never these would never take off,
so let's let's buy them all out and use them

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for the show or for the movie.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
And then they took off after all, So what does
that communicate about our current culture. We're heading toward idiocracy. Now,
I do I feel like I need now that you
brought this up, I need to give this disclaimer. And
I did once. I told you all that someone had
bought me a pair of crocs and I was strictly
wearing them around the house, which for the most part
I am and wearing them to the gym. But I'm

(51:39):
wearing them a lot around the house. I'm slipping them on,
I'm taking Lily to the bus stop in them, going
down to the basement in them. I am wearing them
to the gym in the winter. Yeah, I'm wearing the
crocs pretty regularly. I'm still ashamed of how they look,
and I will never come around on that they're a
terrible looking.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Shit'll never wear them to Walmart or church.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Or anyone who wants to try and tell me they
look better than convers Vans or Jordan's are out of
their mind.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
I gotta let me ask you this, and this is
I don't even think this has came up on the
episode when we when we first recorded with Noah, shout
out to Noah, but uh, how would you rank them
in terms of style.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
With Birkenstock clogs. Oh, Birkenstock clogs are a distinct They're
a distinct style, but they are still stylish. So like
I would agree, if I see you out in public
with Birkenstock clogs, I may go not my shoe choice,
but I can respect it. It's got leather involved, It's

(52:46):
like it's a it's a respectable respect christ. I don't
think they are. And you know what else I don't Apparently,
as we've talked about, what are the foam Adidas, the Easies?
Those were those? I hate those too too. I don't
care that they cost hundreds of dollars or whatever they do. Yeah,

(53:09):
I don't like that means I don't like them either.
They're made of foam, stop it. They look terrible. I
don't like it. And we've we went through this in
the Crocs episode. I can appreciate a crock that goes
out of its way to not look like a croc.
So I don't hate the company. I don't hate the brand.
I hate the clog. Yeah, I don't like it. I agree.

(53:29):
Do I have it? Do I use it? Yes? Am
I ashamed of it? Deep functional for it? And I
feel like I've had a consistent position from a utilitarian standpoint,
They're a fine shoe as far as it goes for
around the house. Beach beach seems like a good application

(53:51):
for that age or the going to the pool.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, maybe, yes, I'd still I would still consider wearing
a slide or even.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I'd rather flop.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Yeah, some thong sandng sandal wood, which is what I
have on right now. Actually, so, I mean, given the weather,
conditions are weird right now. So yeah, I feel like
we've delved into a totally different episode here.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
So, but I had to bring that up because it
was just part of connection.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Sure, it's part of idiocracy. I'm with you. So do
you have any other comedies that come to your mind?
Any other comedies?

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Well, I mean I think I mentioned Three Amigos before three,
which is which is gold as well.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
That is good.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
That would be in the top top ten, top ten,
And then uh did I mention I mentioned Ready to Rumble.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
So if anybody, if anybody, that's time your top ten though,
is it?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
No, I'd say the top twenty. But I'd say if anybody,
if anybody lived through maybe you're current living through it
and not judgmental. I grew out of it, but the
whole wrestling entertainment industry I've then grew to like it.
And you will treat sheet. You will appreciate that movie. Yeah,
especially if you if you like those classic wrestlers from

(55:02):
that bygone era, you know, from w c W.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
David Arquette was a part of the downfall of w
c W. Would you say, was he really? Yeah? I
don't think he even wanted it. They decided to make
him the world champion. So this is as they were
just that was when the yeah, yeah, they decided we're
gonna make him the champ, and I think all wrestling
fans were pretty annoyed at that. Yeah, bees, it's supposed

(55:26):
to be this coveted thing. Yeah, I know, I agree,
Like we know, it's all predetermined and all that. But still,
when you think of going back to classic wrestling champions,
it doesn't usually end up on just some random celebrity, right,
and a b celebrity at that. Right, David Arquette, what

(55:47):
did he have? He had one eight hundred C L
A T T. Remember those commercials? Yes, he did that,
didn't he? But I was in he was in what's
the what's that movie? Uh?

Speaker 2 (55:56):
The horror movie, scary movies, scary movie, no, no before
the one that scared movie is making fun of. Oh yeah,
he's in Scream, Scream Scream, that's right, which I still
have never seen that movie.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
I know of it enough that he was. I don't
think I have either.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be looking for looking
to see it anytime soon either. But was that movie
that would That's another movie that that that's a horror
slash comedy, which I never understood that scream was the
whole genre. How can something be horror and comedy? But
some some people do that it's either one or the other.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
You can't that's one. I think you can put the
two together, like, I don't know. I don't see how
that works. Scary movie you would just say, is a comedy? Yeah,
like mocking horror? Correct a satire? Yeah, that's also, but
would be in the inappropriate category so well as always
let us know, Yeah, what are you? What are your favorite?

(56:51):
Top three? We thoroughly enjoy getting text messages and comments
about the stuff you like. We're not just saying we
were not a big show. Despite what I may say.
We don't care about social media engagement for any other
purpose of we care about what you think and we

(57:12):
think it's fun to talk about. Yeah, exactly, So we're
not We're definitely not a big show, but we got
we got some big opinions, huge, huge opinions on things.
We got a huge, huge opinion it's capital region, and
yet we're we're experts on none of them, as we've not,
so we should. This is a longer episode, but chances

(57:33):
are if you're listening, you like that. Uh, we should
talk about the future of the show because a little
change here. We're not in the King's Chapel office because
I'm no longer an employee of King's Chapel. What's the
drama there? There's no drama. I hate Chris. We put

(57:54):
on this act into the microphones that enemies. We're like, uh,
we're like Adam and Jamie on MythBusters. I don't think
they would say their enemies, but apparently they weren't. No
super good friends. Off who are the other ones that
like that? Oh the Wolf? There is his name, Dave
Wolf from Pickers? Oh really friend?

Speaker 2 (58:17):
I think he passed away, but that like not that show,
but apparently there were some drama. Unfortunately, the two. They
weren't the bestest friends at the end.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
But there's no drama. But there's no drama. And I'm here.
I'm just going down to be a pastor at New
Mammouth Baptist Church in Middletown, New Jersey, and I will
be working alongside of someone who's been on the show twice.
That's true, a man named Nick DiAngelo. Nick, he's the
family pastor there at the church. And uh so I'll

(58:47):
be the pastor of worship and discipleship down there. And
it's gonna be a fun opportunity and we're gonna try
and keep the show going. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna be.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Uh prox aim into a proximally pro I don't know,
location wise, proximiate wise, not going to be very close
to one another, but we'll continue to do this from
the distance that's between us.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
We're gonna try and delve into the the old zoom style. Yeah,
we'll try that out and see how that works. I
think it works for some ither think gut check. I
think they are. They are living two different areas and
they make it work. So we're gonna try to make
it work. We're gonna hopefully do it with greater regularity
than we do now. Then we'll see if the distance

(59:34):
brings us closer when it comes to lunch break. Other
than that, in real life, it's kind of gonna stink.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Yeah, I think, and I think we'll still have opportunities
where we can get together and do it, you know,
with in each other's presence as well.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Down the lunch break Beach casts the whole episode on
beach full pause. Oh, that would be great, one of
them being me taking my shirt off. That would be
a great idea, talk about the beach on the beach,
about the beach. I'm going to learn what that whole

(01:00:07):
culture is outside of just being at a location for
like a week.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
That's that's gonna be really cool because it's different. I've
always been intrigued by beach culture, because each each beach
has its own culture. You know, you got the surfer beaches,
you got the you know, the the sea the seaside
kind of resort like feel from some of them are
upscale feeling, or you got the the Cape cod style.
So yeah, you'll have to let me know what that's

(01:00:32):
what that culture is like down there, I mean, growing
up here in Upstate New.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
York, we've had. I basically grew up on lake beaches, right,
that's its own thing. Yes, that's true. Cold water all
the time. Yeah, not that clear, yep. Watch out for
what's in it. Well, in the ocean, you got to
watch out for what's in it too, that's true. Sharks.
One time the Outer Banks, we were there on a
day where it was just jellyfish galore. Oh, went in

(01:00:58):
the water and it just felt like you were getting
shocked the whole time. The whole water was like getting zactly.
Someone would like if they walked around the whole socks
and touched you felt like the entire time you're in there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
That's the other thing too, is you're gonna know that
the seasons, because when you're when you're booking a vacation
to go to the to the ocean, you picked the
wrong season, you pick jelly fishies and oops, like, I
didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
I think I have what I might need to start
calling it the shore the shore, Yeah, I think in
New Jersey that's what they call parts of it. I
don't know. This is just me, This is me trying
to learn the culture. But the right culture contextualized I'm not.
I don't want to learn that culture. I don't want
to learn the Jersey Shore TV show culture. But I

(01:01:45):
think people say we're going to go down the shore.
Oh I'm not even sure if it's down to the shore,
but that could just be a specific area. I don't know.
I'm gonna find out. Yeah, I like to find out.
I like the lingo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Well, maybe on the next episode we'll talk about that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Yeah, that means that it will be a next episode.
That's what we're trying to tell you. That's what we're
trying to tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
We're kind of we're leaving you with that promise. Should
I say promise commitment?

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Yes, yeah, well let's promise. Let's promise. That's pinky promise
our audience, all right, were pinky promising all of you
out there. We're gonna do it, all right, it's gonna happen.
Maybe we'll squeak another one in before I even move though. Okay, yeah,
let's try that if we can. We'll see. We don't
know what we're gonna talk about. We never do, but
we're always glad you stop by to hear it. That's right,

(01:02:32):
So we'll catch you next time on the lunch Break podcast,