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Matt Shea and Eric Poch

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After 120 episodes, the unlikeliest of segments to make a return does just that: Unlikely Fights. Who wins: every creature in Australia or every Florida Man? But first: What’s the ultimate field trip experience? Finally, we wrap things up with a special visit to Lindsey's Correction Corner.

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Eric

Matt , if you'll recall about , you know , two weeks ago , sure , I opened this podcast with Magic With magic , with talking about a very exciting date . I was going on with Alyssa to a magic show .

Matt

And then you texted me later that very day and told me , hey , did you start editing the episode yet ? And I said yes , and you said , great , we need to bleep the name of the place Because Abra could get a load of this shit .

Eric

Gang , gang , and , and , and please . This is the first sequel cold open we've ever had .

Matt

Yeah , no , true , true , true . Uh , it's the follow-up . What happened , eric ?

Eric

tell us the tricks oh man , oh okay , gang , I will preface everything I'm about to say with I have nothing but the utmost respect . Oh , it's going to be good For the magic community and magicians , and I will say this , and specifically the magicians I saw that night , I have nothing but respect for them , I want the world for them . May they Do you , may they thrive , do you you ? That being said , okay , all right , so , and I'll also say this we had such a good time , we , we , we really did it . Just , the good time time didn't really come from the magic , sure , um , so we got there , uh , and , and it was , it was , it was in a hotel , at the grand bleep at the grand .

Matt

Bleep grand is not involved in the name at the grand bleep , a pest hotel um .

Eric

So we , we got there , we got , we know we , we parked , we sat in the lobby , we got some drinks shared , some crab dip nice oh , euphemism I'll remind everybody again we're , we're , we're about to head into a show that has been billed to me as like seven of , like the , the most kick-ass musicians from around the east coast , and all that yeah , yeah , I believe , magella , we referred to it as the coachella of magicians , uh , so we go upstairs , like it's time for the show .

Eric

We go upstairs and they're , and they're doing like there's a magician , like who is ? Like clearly , uh , the warm-up crew . Like , like , like the the b squad the opening magician the opening magician , not even .

Matt

Well , man , it's sad to be the opening magician to a magic show .

Eric

Yeah , they're they're doing crowd work in the lobby while people wait outside the doors to the magic theater and and to their credit , they're . They're doing some close-up card tricks and like they're it's , they're , they're blowing our mind . It's fun . They're like , oh , that's great . And and before the show you know , alissa and I , over crab dip , we're talking about like what we were the most stoked to . Like what are you ? Because we haven't been to a magic show since . Like we were children .

Eric

So we're like what are you , what are you excited to see ? And like , what are you hoping to see ? And I'm just out here like I need to see a bitch get salt in half . Sure , that's classic , classic , classic .

Matt

Saw me in half saw anyone in half well it sounds like maybe you don't want to volunteer yourself based on the preamble to the story .

Eric

Uh , well , so then then , like the , the , like the head magician , the alpha comes out the leader . The leader and he's like hello welcome , speaking in like doing that affected , mysterious , like magician's patter .

Matt

I'm Duncan the Magnificent .

Eric

Magnificent Duncan informs us that apparently the tickets I paid for only pay for the first part of the show , excuse me , yeah , so let's break this down . Duncan informs us that yeah , there's , it's pay per magician . No , yeah , there , there's , there's pay per magician no . So what I thought I was getting was like these seven magicians . No , what I got was like three of those magicians , but like two of them weren't even on the poster . That's , that's the main show that we're getting , that we're about to go see , and then , if we want , the vip experience of other magicians which , but he's announcing this to the the hall .

Eric

To to to us in the lobby who have already bought tickets oh , you're not in your seats yet .

Matt

This is oh , we're not even in our seat .

Eric

yeah , we're just in the lobby , about to go in , and he informs us that if we want to get the VIP experience , we could pay $10 to his wife at any point . And she's sitting there with her laptop and just the one who checked us in and we're like cool .

Matt

Carolyn , the office manager .

Eric

And he was like you can do this at any time . We're like cool . Okay so is this a surprise to everyone , or just you guys ? You could tell by the vibe that , well , the vips apparently , because he was like who bought vip tickets and like , excuse me , who among you are very important that you're , you're , you're nailing the energy and and , like you know , some people throw their hands up and and , and so they clearly knew about . The rest of us were just kind of like okay .

Eric

Oh , there's some vips so part of the vip is like oh yes , you get the vip seat , so vip people can come into the theater and sit first and then we'll allow everyone else to come in . Uh , two things . One , the theater . It truly like the size of my bedroom , is the entire space , got it ? So we're let in . Here's the hilarious thing . Even though me and alissa weren't vips , the vips apparently decided they didn't want to sit right in front . There was only like two or three people , so me and alissa go in . We're like anyone sitting there front row . No , okay , vip seats didn't have to pay ten dollars nice , uh , so that's cool .

Matt

Didn't even have to talk to duncan's wife . Nope , okay , so you've stolen first class tickets .

Eric

Yes , to the magic show , yes , great um , well , well , if we want to stay for the extra magic , we we still have to pay $10 .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Oh , that's right .

Eric

Yes , we go in , we sit down . Nice . And Matt , when I tell you the difference between the VIP seats and the regular schmuck seats is a difference of three or four feet , okay , like it is , yeah , but being that close to the action . So I'm just going to start rattling off some statistics about this show . Okay , statistic number one Just going to get this out of the way right now . Not a single magician we saw that night had a 100% success rate with their magic tricks .

Matt

Oh no .

Eric

Every single magician , without fail , had one trick , had a fail . That just that , just that just I can't .

Matt

I can't imagine being a magician , being on stage , having having a track , a trick fail and continuing to want to be a magician . I think the first time that rabbit done come out of the hat I'd be like that's it for me . I'm going to go become a high school teacher . Oh .

Eric

Matt , let me hit you with the next statistic , now that you mentioned rabbits coming out of hat . I mentioned , you know , folks getting sawn in half . No , tom Matt , 100% of the tricks we saw that night were card tricks .

Eric

A hundred percent of them , 100% of them . Even the tricks that started not with cards turned into card tricks and that's the trick matt . They were all card they were . They were all card tricks and I'd say a solid 80 of them were all based on the same exact principle of of like magic trick that I know and like most people know , if you've studied probability and statistics at all . So it was once I'd seen one of them . I've seen 80% of the show at this point .

Matt

Yeah , and you got that out of the way in the lobby , yeah .

Eric

And also one of the magicians . One of the three magicians I was seeing was the warm-up magician from the lobby who also did tricks that he did in the lobby wait a minute .

Matt

He didn't even have a second act , he didn't have a second trick .

Eric

No , he just threw matt , alissa and I . And again we are having alissa and I , because you and I talked about this being the most generous audience member imaginable . Despite everything that is happening , matt , I am their number one advocate throughout that entire show . Sure , me and alissa are just like . We're here for you , we're , we're , we're , we're , we're clapping , we're laughing at your jokes . It's okay , it's fine .

Matt

We actually got called up on stage yeah , probably , because you're not the only one booing and throwing tomatoes .

Eric

Oh , everyone else is way too fucked up to care I mean , I guess , if you go to a magic show , so , matt , we got called up and and it was like for this next trick , I , he's like , for this next trick I need two people who know each other very well , and me and alissa our hands like we're in the front row , a foot and a half from this person , yeah , and we're like , we're like , we raise our hands and we look around . No one else is raising their hands . So we're like , we're like yes , nobody no .

Eric

And duncan says done and and and , dude , dude , pulls us up and asks us how we know each other , like , oh yeah , we date . And he's like , oh , any other couples in here ? No other couples in the audience ? Good , so he does a series of three tricks . Okay , and folks , if you came to this sequel looking for me to like masked magician , anything that's going on you're in the wrong fucking podcasts .

Matt

I'm a magician's ally at all times , you won't reveal the tricks , even though it sounds like maybe the magicians themselves revealed their tricks .

Eric

Yeah , and that is on them , that is on them . So the way this worked with this magician calling us up is it was a series of three tricks . He would do a trick with Alyssa we get some oohs . Do a trick with me , we get some ahs . And then there's a third trick that ties it all together . So he does the trick for alissa , does the trick with me ah , does the third trick ? We go , we flip , fucked up the prestige screwed up the trick that we were not my car that it was .

Eric

I was like , on the count of three , say the name of your card , one , two , three , and I said nine of hearts and alissa said seven of hearts , like you could tell , and that's kind of what it made it worse . As you could tell , he was just off by a hair , like he was . He must have gotten the card just to the left oh man , that , that's a bummer .

Eric

So now I bring you back to remember . I said no one had 100% success rate . You did so while no one had 100% success rate . Only one of those magicians stopped in the middle of the trick and had to restart the trick Now .

Matt

That's just bad showmanship restart the trick now .

Eric

That's just bad showmanship . And had to because it was a card trick . Had to stop , take all the cards back , put them all together , and we had to watch him go through the motions in front of , like muttering to himself okay , okay , I'm back and now this I wish you could see how wide my eyes are .

Matt

I would be mortified . If I fucked up a trick , and so bad that I had to restart the trick , I would drop , I would hand my cards to you and walk off the stage , never to return to any stage again .

Eric

And Matt , I knew there was like a part one , part two to the show , but I still thought I was getting like six or seven magicians and they were like , all right , at this point , if you're not a vip , you need to leave , and we did . We were like we had a great time , we love it . We'll never forget this experience .

Matt

Bye well , hello everybody and welcome to you . Didn't Ask for this the podcast that answers life's least pressing questions . My name is Matthew the Magnificent .

Eric

And my name is Poach .

Matt

Great .

Eric

First name Eric the .

Matt

Hunter the .

Eric

Hunter . My true name is Valentino .

Matt

Oh man , you are a big game , you are . That's a deep cut for the magic nerds . What'd you say ? No , we had . We had crossing bits , damn it ah never cross the bit never cross the bits . Ah damn , we are too in sync . Sometimes we're bursting at the seams with it . We are truly now eric . Uh . Well , first of all , how are you ? Oh ?

Eric

magical say no more . Matt is knowingly tapping the side of his nose say no more uh , matt , quick pitch .

Matt

Yeah .

Eric

We do podcast magic show .

Matt

With no audio only .

Eric

Now , Matt , look under your seat .

Matt

My God .

Eric

This shit writes itself .

Matt

Oh my God , I can't believe a Liger got under there . We can say anything . You know what's great is audio only . Magic is just lies .

Eric

Yeah , no , it's man . I call it the theater of the mind .

Matt

The theater of the mind .

Eric

It's what lazy dungeon masters use when they don't want to bust out the battle grids .

Matt

Oh , and it sounds like you know all about that Boy , do I ? I do it all the time oh boy , um well , eric , I think it's only appropriate that we jump right into some questions because we eric a hundred . This is episode 123 , if you can believe it 123 and me and you , and you and the rest and eric , 120 episodes ago , in episode three , we tried a segment called unlikely fights a segment , I will remind the listeners , which was originally the entire premise of our podcast yes , and then we pushed it to episode three and we didn't revisit it again until today so we are gonna bring we're gonna bringly Fights from episode three , which I believe to date remains one of our least popular episodes , but we will nevertheless try again .

Matt

Listen , we know a little bit , a tiny bit more about what we're doing this time around . We're a bit more worldly now and , honestly , it's only because the question that was submitted fits the bill oh , it's , it's perfect .

Eric

Who are our fighters ? Who will win ?

Matt

only one way to find out and that is to stay tuned after the first question , and then we're gonna wrap things up . We've got a special guest joining us . Uh , we've got her on standby right now in in the in the waiting room . She's in the green room .

Eric

She's like an EMT at an event , like she's just waiting with her pack ready to come in .

Matt

Yeah , yeah , she's got a defibrillator at the ready to save this show . I talk , of course , about my beautiful and talented wife , lindsay , and her correction corner will be coming later . The doctor is in . The doctor will be in and she'll be . She can probably hear this bit from the other room and is smirking why haven't we been doing that the entire time ?

Eric

every time lindsey comes on the show , the doctor is in the new bit just dropped .

Matt

Wake up honey . Uh okay . Uh , eric , you want to give us the first question of the day , though we got to warm up a little bit for the main event .

Eric

Baby , do I ? This question comes from our Discord and this is from Bootsy Hi , bootsy , hey Bootsy . Bootsy asks what's the ultimate field trip experience ?

Matt

And I like this question , eric questionnaire , because , as you pointed out before we began , it is in the same vein as our bathroom . Five-star bathroom experience question . Yes , we have a way to craft a fantasy .

Eric

Oh my God , yes , we can write the wrongs of a reality .

Matt

Now okay , well , let's start there . Maybe you said wrongs . Do you not have any field trip ? Do you not have a single field trip ? In your memory banks that stands out as being like oh yeah , fucking , that one was great oh they're , oh , they're definitely some bangers . The best one , and that's the one I want to know about .

Eric

The best one . I don't want those shitty ones Was a field trip that I wasn't even supposed to be on . God Eric , in my high school , the art department like the AP art students . They would have a yearly field trip where they'd take the AP art classes to the Museum of Modern Art in New York , yeah , and it'd be like a whole day trip thing , yeah , so I was not in AP art . I'm dog shit at art that is visual .

Matt

There's still a huge target there . That . I respectfully , will not shoot at .

Eric

Thank you , Matt . You're welcome . I'm not a a classical artist don't talk about what you're not .

Matt

Talk about what you are let me tell you what .

Eric

I am a theater major and I was a theater kid in high school and because I was a theater kid , I was in the building with all like the the theater and arts classrooms all the time . Yeah , so me and my crew , we were really tight with the art teachers . They loved us , so they actually let us come on the field trip . Nice , and here's , here's , here's the beauty of it . We , we got , um , I can't remember who , because each like there were groups like you , each had your group , like we'd all go there on the Greyhound bus and everyone had their group where it was like the core chaperone for that group of like five or six students . Due to some we'll call it creative accounting on our parts , we were on this trip , but we did not have a chaperone .

Eric

Oh , so what my group of like five or six ne'er-do-wells did is we rode the bus to new york . We got off the bus in front of the museum of modern art and and the more I describe this , more I'm like I can't believe they let us , they like they , they , they had even the system they did have , and the system is you go into the museum of modern art and the bus will be back to pick us up at like , at like you know six or seven , and then we'll . And then you know we and they're like , yeah , you can like check out like some of the shops around the museum or whatever , but you know , don't stray far , matt we don't stray far , as they release you into New York City .

Eric

New York City Correct . New york city new york city correct . We got off the bus , never stepped foot in the museum of modern art and proceeded to wander the streets of new york for like the next five or six hours , jesus and it fucking ruled . We , we , just we . We walked around , we got pizza . We went to the nintendo world store , like we got . We went so fucking far . We had to ride a bus back to MoMA .

Matt

I was going to say those things already are getting a little disparate , oh yeah .

Eric

For a high school , Eric , that was peak . Nothing will ever top that . It was my first time ever going to New York City .

Matt

Was this during a school day , though ? Is this a weekend trip ? This , I believe York City Was this during a school day , though Is this like a weekend trip ? This I ?

Eric

believe was either like on a Friday or like a weekend day .

Matt

Because I think a field trip I mean , I had New York trips every year with the theater department as well , but they were always on a Saturday and it was like its own thing . When I think field trip , I think of something you did instead of being at school . That is the end , and I think that's the first for an ultimate field trip . That is a base requirement .

Eric

First , thing , and ideally I think it should either be on a Monday or a Friday , because either way you're getting a three day weekend of enjoyment .

Matt

You know what I mean Like it's got to be Friday , it's got to be for . Oh , it's got to be Friday , because then you can build up excitement all week .

Eric

Oh , my God You're . You're building up excitement all week and you're starting your weekend with field trip .

Matt

Like , for example , one field trip that sticks out to me is physics day and every physics class in my school , in my high school , I guess , every semester or every year when there was maybe physics was only in the spring , whatever , but whenever there was physics , all the different physics sections all went to physics day in the same time . Sections all went to physics day in the same time . Okay , physics day is when you go to Hershey park and you have to fill out a bunch of exercises and you know is it like asking questions about like the how the rides work and all of that Like you're like ?

Matt

you're supposed to bring like a speedometer with you on a ride and be like , oh , this is how fast it was going , so what is the velocity of coming down the final turn ? You know that kind of stuff .

Eric

Shout out to whoever put that together , by the way , because the thinnest veneer of education is enough to get us to Hershey Park .

Matt

Needless to say , my group was like cool , we're going to fill out this sheet in 25 minutes , hand it in and just be in the park .

Eric

That's the move , Dodds .

Matt

We all got Cs , sure , but you know what , considering we didn't actually answer any questions , I thought that was pretty good , yeah , so that like that , but it was all the things we're already talking about . It was out of , it got us out of school , it was on a Friday and it was to a notable location , like it wasn't just like oh , we're going to take the space of like two or three periods to go to , I don't know , this museum down to I don't know this um this museum down we're gonna , we're gonna go to like the barn nearby and like do a petting zoo or something sure like it's .

Eric

Honestly , it's worse when you know you have to come back to school .

Matt

When I was in elementary school , we also had um a uh a field trip . It was another all-day thing where we took a tour of the hers factory . Oh , the chips , the chips make hers yours makes hers yours .

Eric

That was fucking awesome oh , I bet that , I bet that was cool that was cool another , uh , cool one .

Matt

We went on , is I think we all got chips at the end nice .

Eric

Uh , I think in middle school we got to go out on like a skipjack on the chesapeake bay all day and we just got to like fucking sail , the waves and like , uh , like a , a , like an old school skipjack that was like powered by sail , it was dope yeah , yeah , yeah , so we need an oh , but we're talking about ultimate , though also the .

Matt

So what we've discussed so far like friday , friday all day , all day , out of school , notable location I feel like those are all . Oh , yeah , that's a great field trip . Yes , we need the ultimate . Like that's the baseline . That's where you start at great . Okay , you've checked all the boxes for this is a great field trip for a child yeah what makes it an ultimate , though .

Eric

If I get free swag like , you know what I mean like , like we're getting free shit like , and not just like .

Matt

Okay , we got a bag of chips from hers , which don't get me wrong , I'm not poo-pooing that yeah , yeah love free bag chips , and I think it's got to be like something exclusive , oh my god , like a commemorative hat , like you can only get it if you do that tour or whatever . Oh yeah , you know what ?

Eric

I mean they're ? They're because when it comes to free merch from field trip there , there are twinklers and stinkers like there's there's . There's good shit about it , like if I get like a , like a , like a pen , fuck off no , come on , just gave me a school supply . That's not even merch Give me like a cool gadget , like a fidget , before we had words to describe what those were yeah , oh yeah , like a nice fidget spinner before we knew what it was .

Eric

Yes , a dumb hat A dumb hat , specifically a dumb hat , like a silly hat . You go to the zoo , you get a hat with animal ears on it .

Matt

Yeah , I also think an ultimate experience . It should include something that perhaps , like a tour is one thing , but like I'm thinking , like I don't know why this just as an example if you're doing like a tour of a Broadway theater and you're like going backstage to see like oh , the dressing rooms and all this stuff , that's cool , yes , that's fun . I think what pushes it over the edge to ultimate is then oh , sutton Foster walks through the room and is like oh , hi , kids .

Eric

Yeah , well , in college , we got that in college when we went to go see Waiting for Godot . And we got to meet John Goodman , who was in that production , and he was a darling .

Matt

We did , and Bill Irwin as well , because Towson grad John Glover , the first Towson theater grad , was in that show as Lucky , and we did a little talkback with everybody except Nathan Laney yeah , he's the one who didn't join the talkback .

Eric

Notably .

Matt

Notably , notably . I took that personally , mr Lane .

Eric

Nathan staying in his lane folks .

Matt

Nice sir , thank you Got him . Got him , nathan Lane Got him .

Eric

A roast 15 years in the making .

Matt

But yeah , and I wouldn't even necessarily consider that I don't think you can have a field trip in in college , because if we do , I went to poland for a theater conference and that is pretty much the ultimate .

Eric

It's a bitch and field trip and it's college I'm paying for it . So it's really just yeah , yeah , paying me with my own coin . Um , for sure , for sure , yeah , uh , but ultimate field trip , yeah , like some kind of like hey , kids you're getting , so like like say you're going to the zoo , you're , you're getting something that like some regular snot-nosed piece of shit kid doesn't get when he goes to the zoo .

Matt

No , you get it because you're on a field trip from glendale elementary school yeah , like you get to like hand feed the penguins or something like you know something like that you get to meet a snake , get to get to , get to get to chill with some fucking lions you get to be thrown into the gorilla pen . Oh no , wait a minute , wait a minute hold on that ended poorly parachute and booty scoots didn't prepare me for this .

Eric

So , yeah , so like exclusively thing .

Eric

The one thing I I will say because because what we're touching on is this idea of that little extra something , genesequa , something that makes an ultimate field trip for me and I don't know if you've ever experienced this on a field trip I'll say I've experienced the opposite of what I'm about to describe is when you're on the field trip and you're , like you know , say there's like a designated , like all right , kids , we're here from like 12 to 2 , we're like we're here from like 12 to two .

Eric

We're like we're here from , like we're here from like nine to two , 11 or whatever . But then everyone's having such a good time that , like the , the , the head honcho of the field trip says you know what kids , I'm going to go to the field trip , we're going to stay like the rest of the day , like we're , we're going to extend our time in this cool place because everyone's having such a good time , the sheer , the , so you get kidnapped , yes , but no , educators , take heed . If you ever want to win the undying loyalty of your charges , give them field trip , give them extra field trip that they are that their minds had not yet , like , considered as an option and and also pro move , that could be the move .

Matt

That could could be the move the whole time . Which is to say , you said , like on the permission slip , that it was till 3 pm or whatever , but you knew perfectly well you were going to be there till eight .

Eric

Yes .

Matt

Yes , yeah , because then you can be like oh , I'm doing a cool thing for you , yeah , I'm doing this for you child . I will knife someone for the teacher that does that for me . I'll just knife someone for any old teacher because I respect the profession .

Eric

I respect educators . I'll stab a motherfucker for him .

Matt

I don't give a shit . And it can be a kid . I'll stab kid .

Eric

You can quote me title the episode you can stab , I'll stab a kid . You can quote me , um uh , but but that I have experienced the opposite of that phenomenon , where , when I was stabs you , little bastard , I taught you well those karate days , yep left a mark uh , uh , no , what I experienced in in either middle late middle early high school .

Eric

We went to go see a local production of west side story , nice , and we got there . I knew nothing about west side story . When I was like in middle school I was like I don't know what this is and I I hadn't yet realized that like I wanted to do theater or anything , I didn't , that didn't clock as a thing . So like we go to see west side story , this musical , and I immediately like this is amazing . These songs are baller .

Eric

I'm fucking just like fucking along with them . It's great or amazing , matt . Apparently my dumb ass school didn't really clock how long a full-length play was gonna be so at intermission .

Matt

No , at intermission , not with West Side Story .

Eric

At intermission , Matthew . They take us to the lobby and they explain that the way they phrased it is . They said the play was taking too long , so we all had to leave .

Matt

Wow .

Eric

We left , I would have said .

Matt

First of all , all it's a musical , it's not a play , and second , second of all you knew , you didn't you , you didn't know , you couldn't long west side story was you , you ?

Eric

it . I was , I was deaf , I was so pissed off . Of course I you were .

Matt

I was so pissed .

Eric

I was like but will he ever get with Maria ?

Matt

Yeah , man , he will Still don't know how that play ends . Yeah , and I will not spoil it for you . That's my boy , I will not spoil it for you . Have you read Romeo and Juliet ? Yeah , have you seen it ? Yeah , why no reason ?

Eric

Oh , that's weird . Um , but yeah , west side story great uh , great show , uh , at least half of it the first half great , wow . Ending ending with the quintet wow , what a choice uh and then and then in high school I lived it on the streets of new york , I guess it would have ended with the rumble really is really where the first act ends god so many cliffhangers so many unfinished storylines oh , I'm still bitter about it to this day uh , I would be I absolutely would be .

Eric

I I would say uh now , matt , we've talked about the what , the how long , the what we're getting , but let's talk about something really critical here . I want to know your feelings . I know you're going to have feelings about this .

Matt

Okay , I'm intrigued .

Eric

Matt , what's that lunch situation looking like on the ultimate field trip ?

Matt

Okay , good like on the ultimate field trip . Okay , good If you need to pack a lunch . It is not the ultimate experience by any stretch of the imagination .

Eric

Now I will say this Typically if I was going on a field trip I think this is just because my mom was like I got to flex because I know my boy's going to be around I would get a much higher tier packed lunch than I normally would . Oh , sure if it's a field trip it's a special . I get like the good snacks nice .

Matt

Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah . Name brand instead like a baggie of uts .

Eric

I'm getting like , yeah , I'm getting like a , like a pack of combos , yeah , oh yeah , we're upgrading .

Matt

Oh yeah , I got a gogurt for sure , oh yeah , oh , I got a .

Eric

I got a 20 ounce bottle of coca-cola oh , 20 ounces that's , that's that's how you know it's serious . Not even , not even a can I never got soda with lunch , so like if it was a field trip . Good day , I'm getting soda , but but . But that said , ultimate field trip , that's a good field trip .

Matt

Yeah , like if we're going to the zoo or whatever , like you mentioned , we better be eating at the food court .

Eric

And the school's paying for it as they always should be . Correct Schools should be paying for lunches period .

Eric

I cannot believe it's 2025 and we need to explain to people that , yes , children should eat for free at school I can't believe we have to explain that spoiler alert if you're going to require a child to be in a building for eight hours every day by law , you should probably pay for their food and they have to arrive at the school before most adults go to their jobs , anyway . Anywho , anyway , anyway , yeah , no School pay for bitching lunch and ultimately it should be like we go to a place with a menu and they're like everyone can get whatever you want off the know what I mean . Like whatever you want off the menu .

Matt

Oh , okay , well , that , yeah , that is that , that crosses it into the ultimate , because , like when we would go to that New York trip , for example , we , we again I don't consider it necessarily a field trip because it was a Saturday , but we would eat , like even lunch was part of the experience . Like one year I remember we went to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co . Nice . Before we went to the Broadway show .

Eric

They got shrimp for days .

Matt

But like there was a , there was an , there was a set menu for the school of like . Here are the three different things you can choose from . You know , like , you have free choice of these three things these three things off the kids menu .

Eric

See ultimate field trip . They're like slap the menu down , point at something .

Matt

That's what you're getting I'd pair that with the cabernet sir . He says to the 16 year that's what , that's the ultimate is the asparagus a la carte I'll take one of those . Uh , why would it be a la carte sir ? The bubble gum sir , this is a denny's sir , we do not serve asparagus there are no asparagus here then just keep the popcorn shrimp flowing .

Eric

My man , oh man , I haven't been to a bubble gump in a long time .

Matt

I've never eaten at the bubble gump . Just keep the popcorn shrimp flowing . My man , oh man . I haven't been to a Bubba Gump in a long time . I've never eaten at the Bubba Gump , Really .

Eric

Yeah .

Matt

It's worth it , at least just the one time you daft and afraid , bubba Gump . It's super overpriced , obviously I bet . Obviously it's a tourist trap . Yeah , but it's a tourist trap with memorabilia on the walls and Forrest Gump playing 24-7 .

Eric

Love it .

Matt

So already it's , great .

Eric

Could you imagine ?

Matt

Have you been to like a Planet Hollywood ?

Eric

Yes , or a Hard Rock .

Matt

Cafe yes .

Eric

Okay , same vibe , but just exclusively Forrest Gump .

Matt

I would say it has the same-ish vibe as a Planet Hollywood rather than a Hard Rock Cafe . But yes , just Gump , Matt , could you imagine ? Oops , all Gump I mean Bubba Gump is built on a joke that is essentially oops , all shrimp .

Eric

Come for the Bubba , stay for the Gump . That's right , matt . Could you imagine getting dumped at the Bubba Gump ? Matt , could you imagine getting dumped at the bubba gum ? Imagine ?

Matt

getting . It's like look , I just listen , duncan . I've been seeing other magicians and I was running and again I'm trying , I'm just trying to have an adult conversation with you and you keep doing your Forrest Gump impression Something bit me , I'm going to leave . I'm going to leave . You're going to pay for this .

Eric

Yeah , you're going to pay for this . Oh man , a magician , a bad magician getting broken up with at the bubble gum . I think that's my new . I found my new bottom . That's pretty rock bottom . Yeah , yeah , that's a recipe for suicide yeah , oh my god , the final disappearing action . I don't believe that this time when I'm never seen again look , friends , we've talked about a lot on today's episode .

Matt

Sir , you can't walk through the Holland Tunnel .

Eric

If you or a magician you know has been dumped at the Bubba Gump you have resources , Please .

Matt

there are resources available to you Look Call the Bubba Gump hotline today . Don't pick any card pick this card I mean , in a way , bubblegum should have that in the first place of being like . I noticed you're eating at a bubblegum .

Eric

I would I would here's a number for emergency the dude clippy said the weirdest thing to me . I noticed y'all writing a distressing note .

Matt

Um that , unironically , I would would you like to add more poetic language to make your final statement really pop ?

Eric

I would 100 . A I would , I would , I would volunteer for a crisis hotline , but b I would 100 volunteer for a crisis hotline for magicians but I don't think it's a voluntary position .

Matt

First of all , it is a job .

Eric

These people oh I know and they deserve to get paid . What I'm saying is like I'd volunteer , oh man uh but that also .

Matt

But , dude , not that that says too much , because , uh , I don't know why . Why would I be compelled to bring up the ted bundy work to the suicide hotline ? Why would I be compelled to do that ? And yet I've done it hi duncan .

Eric

Yeah , my name's eric . First off , before we start , I just want to ask is there anything up your sleeve ?

Matt

yeah , yeah , okay , do you want to ?

Eric

do you want to show me what it is ?

Matt

it's a , it's an ace of spades very good , duncan .

Eric

Very good . Now let's talk about what else you're hiding . It's the Ace of Hearts .

Matt

Every time , duncan , you have to be more original . We have fun .

Eric

Don't we Jess ? So the ultimate field trip for children I think we've explained it pretty good , I feel like we nailed it . I would say any for the roads , any just for the on the way out the door . Last minute perks on this field trip One . Ideally I don't have to return to school that day .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

No , definitely not .

Eric

My mom picks me up from there , if you're returning to school .

Matt

You are only returning to the parking lot to get into your .

Eric

I'm never stepping foot in that building again .

Matt

No , you're not going back into the building . No Again . Cannot reiterate this enough . You shouldn't have ever been in the building in the first place .

Eric

No , no , the ultimate field trip should start , begins and ends in the parking lot of the school . Correct , yes .

Matt

Yes , you take a bus to school to get on the field trip bus .

Eric

By that point I'm plum tuckered , so I am .

Matt

And the bus should be like a , like a coach bus it shouldn't be a school bus , it should be .

Eric

There should be a movie that plays oh with the little flip down screens , with a little flip down screens for sure or you knew a field trip was good and they never told you like ahead of time which , but you were . It was like nine times out of ten we got the just the standard yellow school bus , but on the one time they're like oop , all we had available was this fucking greyhound when we went to new york , we always had the uh , we always got the coach and it often was yeah well , we were the rich school , uh , the uh .

Matt

I didn't know that at the time . I only found that out after the fact glenn , bernie did , did not have We'd usually get the coach bus that has the TVs like only every couple of rows , you know , so you got to look at the nearest one .

Eric

Oh , oh , the scramble on that . The initial like getting your seats , yeah oh , bloodbath .

Matt

So the ultimate field trip . There you go . Folks Nailed it . We've laid out a lot of things and perhaps they can be strung together and make criteria .

Eric

And if you or a magician you know is struggling , please know we are here to help .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

We are here .

Eric

Guide you to the appropriate resources , because we are not qualified . We are not qualified . We are not . We are qualified to help you punch up your act . That we can do . We can , absolutely . If you need notes on delivery , how to I don't know stick the landing on a messed up trick got you . We can help you with that we can help you with that , everything else therapy and the abundant resources available to all of us .

Matt

Absolutely . Now , eric , I think it's time for our unlikely fight . Ding , ding ding . This was given to us by now . If you remember , way back in episode three , the unlikely fight was who would win in a fight to the death between Bea Arthur and Bob Ross ? Yep .

Eric

And if I remember correctly , Bea Arthur came out on top .

Matt

I believe that is correct . Yes , I had to think about it for a second , but I do believe that is correct . This time around , we are going to be deciding every creature in Australia versus every Florida man . Now and it was suggested to us by Zach Deuce on the Discord . Thank you , zach Deuce . Every Florida man let's just talk about this for a hot second . Does this include fictional men or is it only generic real life Florida men ? Generic real life Florida men ? Okay , that's my inclination as well . Now , every creature in Australia . We know there's a wide birth or a wide breadth of animals in Australia . We know this and by the looks in your eyes and the typing sounds , I'm going to say you just pulled it up .

Eric

I've pulled up the Wikipedia article donate today animal attacks in Australia Hot damn . So it breaks down like the sort of the dangerous animals , by category of land and sea Ooh Sorry , land . And then oceans , coasts and rivers . And then there's an other category .

Matt

Ooh , I'm going to pull up this . Animal attacks in Australia . That's the article you've got . Yeah , I've got it up as well .

Eric

So before we ponder the animals , I feel like first let's talk about what I feel like we're more familiar with . Your standard issue Florida , maine . Yes , they are going things they have going in their favor off the bat , usually a lot of narcotics , bath salts , meth , uh , pcp .

Matt

so these will be in the tool belt and I think florida man phrase , the iconography , entered the zeitgeist because of how often it appears in a headline of Florida man did this . Yeah , florida man caught doing this , and just the way you have the animal attacks up . I just entered a Google search for Florida man and went to news Nice .

Matt

And here's what we got . Yeah , and I think immediately , sight unseen , this , this is going to give us . Anyone who's not somehow not familiar with the Florida man concept You'll know what we're talking about and and and and .

Eric

A quick like heads up as to , in case anyone didn't know why it seems like florida man is such a florida man or so crazy . Florida has press laws . They cannot name someone in an article like in like a headline of an article they're , they're not allowed to to name . That's why they just say florida man I didn't know that .

Matt

I mean it's . It's not uncommon to be like , you know . Pennsylvania man found dead in South Carolina . Anyway , florida man catches 87 invasive pythons in a month , awarded $1,000 through state incentive system . Florida man opens fire on brother after watching him stab his girlfriend . Florida man charged with defrauding Lynchburg doctor . Florida man , 30 , who went missing months ago , is found dead . It is hard to express the depths of our sadness . Family says that one not as funny Florida man arrested for assaulting deputy during Cantina Louie disturbance . I think you . Oh , here's one more Florida man who tried to outwit regulators and EB-5 scandal loses bid to end supervised release early .

Eric

So I think off the bat something we can agree about between .

Matt

Oh wait , no sorry , One more I got to throw this one in .

Eric

Give it to me baby .

Matt

Florida man Fox 35 Orlando reports . Florida man arrested after allegedly shooting neighbor's dog after he claims it beheaded his goat .

Eric

Yep . So here , and that's the point I want to get to Folks , his face is animals on the other .

Matt

I think Florida man takes it for not , not , not the fight , but like wins out on sheer unpredictability . I was going to say you know the in a in any fight the element of surprise is important , Like with Australian creatures .

Eric

We can , they . They might not be . We might not be able to predict any individual's animals response in a situation , but we can generally agree . We're going to find the sharks and paralytic octopi in the ocean and we're going to find , you know , the , the , the spiders , literally fucking everywhere . But with Florida man , you don't know who , what , when , where or why . They could strike anytime , anywhere , for any or no reason .

Matt

They are basically the at will employment of murderous psychopaths , but in the context of an unlikely fight , eric , I think we have to assume that it's all of the creatures in Australia versus all Florida men , now , where is the In a ? Giant Pokemon Stadium Escarina . Okay , that was going to be my question . I think that is the only way . Neutral territory .

Eric

Okay , okay , so the neutral territory , so we just okay . So we're a Pokemon Stadium style arena . Yes , so yeah . No , that makes sense . It is built to withstand Gyarados , so I think it could handle Florida men and Australian creatures .

Matt

Now give us a couple Australian creatures that could be making an appearance . So right off the bat we've got cassowaries creatures , Now give us a couple Australian creatures that could be making an appearance .

Eric

So right off the bat , we've got cassowaries . Right off the bat , Right off the bat , we got cassowaries . Cassowary looks like a cross between a vulture and an emu and a turkey , I'd say yes , looks like it's wearing a fez .

Eric

So let me hit you with this . 2007 edition of the guinness world records lists the cassowary as the world's most dangerous bird . During world war ii , american and australian troops stationed in new guinea were warned to steer clear of them . These were people fighting in one of the deadliest conflicts in human history and they were told to stay the fuck away from the cassowaries . Jesus , a quote the inner or second of the three toes this bird is three fucking toes is fitted with a long , straight , murderous nail which can sever an arm or eviscerate an abdomen . Quote with with ease . Wow .

Matt

There are many records of natives being killed by this bird , Damn cassowary .

Eric

So recent research on hundreds of cassowary attacks has only been able to find one human death .

Matt

Oh , I am taking a look at this middle toe and holy shit .

Eric

Oh yeah .

Matt

We do not fuck with do not fuck around with the cassowaries feet , my god so cassowary , notable cassowary strikes to the abdomen , okay , are among the rarest of all .

Eric

Okay , damn , I was gonna say uh , but there is one case of a dog that was kicked in the belly . So where do they typically ? So they tend to charge and they kick at the neck . Now I will say this when it comes to natural armor which for this fight I feel like everybody's dealing with , um , animals don't get any sort of armor . And florida men , notoriously shirtless , they're not going to be rolling up . One must assume they are sure one in ten will be wearing like a fucking bulletproof vest , but that that vest is like is on is straining just , and it is just on top of flesh .

Matt

There is no , there is no white tank top , even there is no , no , no there is just the florida man's bear skin . Now , most will , most , if not all will , have a hat of some kind , a trucker hat , on oh , oh , for sure they . They now see , here's okay because with florida , men , you also are gonna have to be really aware of the projectiles , by which I mean the things they will throw at you .

Eric

I , I I honestly think it florida's open carry , like I honestly feel like it is safe to assume that one in every five Florida men will probably be packing a firearm .

Matt

I think that is a safe assumption in Florida , so it is a safe assumption in this exercise as well . But do we not that it would make a difference to the Florida men ? But do we ban firearms from the fight ?

Eric

See , that's the thing . Even if we do , they're just going to scream . Shall not be infringed .

Matt

And they're going to smuggle it , and then we got to deal with that . They're going to talk about how they're a sovereign citizen .

Eric

Yeah , they'll round up the smaller ones , the smaller Florida men . Those will be gun mules , the Florida boys .

Matt

And they up the , the smaller ones , the smaller florida men those will be , those will be gun mules .

Eric

The florida boys and they , they will be gun mules , they'll , they'll get the . If there's one thing that florida man is known for , it is ingenuity . They will get those guns into the arena . So , but , but , we'll still probably be able to screen for a few . So why don't we say one in every 10 will be armed with a firearm yeah , but most are gonna come in there .

Matt

I don't even need a gun . I got my own ingenuity to help me through .

Eric

And that is also another point in the Florida man's favor . They are very adaptive . They are very capable of making a weapon out of any item to hand , even if it's another Florida man , which turns to a kind of a sort of disadvantage because you would , or a sort of both sides disadvantage , because we're just dumping every creature in Australia in there they're immediately going to start fighting each other . But the same is also kind of true for the Florida men . There will be no strong alliances here . I feel like it's going to be in every Florida man for Florida himself .

Matt

No , I forgot my Glock , so I ripped off this man's femur and I'm going to use that as my bat . Yeah , they will .

Eric

The bath salt ones will will immediately begin eviscerating oh .

Matt

I do got some bath salt . You want some bath salts , I got some .

Eric

Yeah , they'll , they'll got so yeah , they'll , they'll , they'll . They'll start using other people's bones their own , pass them around for battle . Oh yeah , they'll , they'll .

Matt

A florida man would probably beat a gator to death with his own severed arm or or their compatriots arm correct in this case that they , that they have , but I think also , despite gators being present , I believe , believe for the Australian lineup of creatures . Right , they got alligators .

Eric

Oh , they got gators .

Matt

Crocodiles . For sure , they definitely got crocodiles , they got to have crocodiles . I mean , steve Irwin taught me that .

Eric

Yeah .

Matt

So , even though they have them , at least some of these Florida men are coming in with a gator on a leash . And they yes , I'm unleashed , oh some off leash . The Florida men will have the advantage against gators , for sure against gators and they , but they will also be brandishing gators they will be , oh yeah , they will be swinging them like flails , yeah . I got this one in the parking lot outside . This isn't quite a Florida accent . I don't really know what to do , so I'm just doing my best . It's working , it's working .

Eric

Remember , gator , don't just eat your body .

Matt

Nah , so gator eat your soul , eat your body and soul .

Eric

So I feel , like the crocodiles that Australia is bringing the bear might just kind of be canceled out both by the crocs , the gators , that honestly this is going to come down to the classic clash of croc versus gator , the classic . Who wins that fight ? I think gator takes that fight .

Matt

Crocodiles are Florida gators , florida gators , I think they take it Florida gators have been through it .

Eric

Yeah because they haven't just dealt with nature shaping their evolution , but Florida's extremely lax environmental policies .

Matt

Those Gators are and they live amongst the Florida men .

Eric

Yeah .

Matt

The Florida men who go out there into the swamps for reasons unknown go out there into the swamps for reasons unknown .

Eric

What I will say is , if it comes to this is I think this is the overall , the , the over overarching theme here australia has a lot of deadly things , oh yeah , but it does , and and they have a lot of like brawlers I would say , I would croc , I would classify like your kangaroo , your , your crocodile , these are your brawler animals . These are animals that seek to win via brute strength or like you know that kind of thing , and I think the florida men take them . I think the florida men are equipped to deal with them . What I don't think the florida men are equipped to deal with , I think is going to be a real problem for them are going to be your blue ringed octopi . Oh yeah , you're , you're , you're , you're glass cannons , if you will , because they only got to get you once they only got to nip you and then you're you're fucked for .

Eric

For anyone who has to remember the , the blue ring octopus , that's the one that bites you . There is no anti-venom for it , and it paralyzes your entire fucking body and you just die .

Matt

But that's water-based . Really , there's going to be a pool in the middle .

Eric

If we're following Pokemon Stadium logic , there's a pool , there's got to be some sort of reservoir that shows up . There's going to be here's what we got . There's going to be like in classic Pokemon , sort of safari zone logic . We're going to have different biomes of the stadium . There's going to be a big ass water feature . There's going to be palm trees , there's going to be like little rocky cliffs and such , and and I will say this florida men are able to thrive in all of those environments . They live in florida exactly they , they .

Eric

They've got biomes on biomes down there , they so that is , the main advantage of the florida man is that they can adapt to any biome . But the austral Australian creatures are masters of their individual domains .

Matt

I think yes , and I think they also know how to respond to certain stimuli , to certain threats of okay , if I see a human person , I'm a rattlesnake , say , I'm gonna , I do the rat , you know , I get the rattle , I get the rattle going , and if they get too close , bam , I get them . The thing is Florida men . It goes back to the unpredictability , it goes back to the element of surprise . We can't , we will have a difficult time even coming up with actions that the Florida man may or may not pull off . They're truly the X factor . I go back to the headlines . Okay , incompetent representation argued to halt execution of Florida man convicted of killing three people . You know , florida man arrested , tells deputy , I guess I drunk too much . Body cam video shows . You don't know what they're capable of .

Eric

No , they can . They can truly pull the most wild card shit . Now I will say this Everyone's got a plan until they're fighting a great white shark . Sure , yeah , I think the sharks might be the the carry potential of the Australia delegation . Speak more on that . Florida man could deal with Crocodile .

Matt

Yeah .

Eric

Florida man can probably deal , kangaroo can deal , cassowary deal it , but when they're fighting a great white shark , as long as Florida man has a strong base because Florida man's used to fighting in the in for lack of a better term the bayous and marshlands of Florida they got they can stand in that water . They can stand in that water . They're up to the open ocean . But I don't know , in your research do you see a lot of Florida man headlines involving open oceans ? Shit ? No , I don't .

Matt

I feel like that's where their weakness comes in and Australia got them great whites , but they be boating down there in .

Eric

Florida . They do be boating , but they be like fucking hovercraft boat . I think they're out there on the ocean as well , my friend oh , I'm sure they are , I just don't know how like deadly they are out there .

Matt

I don't know , I haven't . I've never been to florida myself and these days I have to say absolutely zero interest in appearing there .

Eric

But you know , I think they'll be boating , I think they'd be boat , I think they'd be boat and I think they got boats , but like they're going to have to get in there and fight the shark eventually , and this is what I mean .

Matt

This is where the unpredictability of the Florida man comes into play , because the logical thing to do would be to fight great white white from shark , from shark boat we have all seen Jaws this man will jump in there with just his friend's femur as his only weapon and go head on into the shark . And you're telling me definitively , when this shirtless man holding a femur and wearing a bulletproof vest jumps off the orca boat into the waves to fight the the , the great white , you're telling me , you can definitively say the great white is the one who's going to surface , the victor when these two disappear beneath the dark waves .

Eric

You really feel confident , you know who's coming up , let me I'm going to look up some the potential allies of the sharks , because it's not just great whites . They got a lot of sharks , of course not . Uh , it's been recorded that since 19 1791 there have been 639 shark attacks in australia , with 190 of them but why are you focusing on that ?

Matt

they got . They got spiders the size of a disc . That's what I'm getting like like frisbee sized spider down .

Eric

That that's where I think again . Yeah , I . I would say that the sharks are another category of brawler . They probably will be overwhelmed by florida man . But it's the glass cannons . It's , it's your blue ring , doctor pie , it's your cone shells . Uh , the , the classic , they , they sting you .

Eric

You're fucking dead like it's like man handled the cone and its regular tooth pierced his hand , injecting venom . He was unconscious by the time the launch , returned to the mainland and died on reaching the hospital . Nice , uh , you got so many the spiders , everywhere they're literally everywhere they can get into your house . They can get into your car like anytime I see a post about spiders from australia . You know they banned an episode of bluey in australia because the the in that episode bluey made friends with another kid who was like a spider oh , and they were like we cannot teach our children that spiders that it is okay to approach australian spiders .

Matt

Yeah , I think that was a good call .

Eric

And while deaths from spider bites aren't insanely common in Australia , believe it or not , I feel like being bitten by fucking millions of spiders is going to put a severe hamper in the battle capabilities of a good portion of the Florida men . The bath salters will press on , but a good chunk of them will be significantly slowed by the siders , not even mention the snakes .

Matt

You don't need to mention the snakes , they're all over the place , they're everywhere . There's so many variables to this fight , eric . It boggles the mind . Matthew , do we feel like we can make a call Because we have to ? We have to Because the last time we did an unlikely fight we're approaching it a little differently . Last time we approached it as a narrative .

Eric

Yeah . You know , we got into it , but we can't with this .

Matt

We can't with this , because I mean we'd be here for 100 episodes .

Eric

Matt , here's what I think comes down to Tell me for a hundred episodes , matt , here's what I think comes down to tell me each side has a ringer , okay . Each side has their secret weapon , okay . What do you think that is for the florida men ? What is ? What is the ? The rko out of nowhere that the fucking florida men pull ? And I'm gonna , I'm gonna try to , I'm gonna see if I can find anything on the animal side that I think . We each think our potential clincher , we discuss that clincher and that's what decides it all right , I I'm down with that .

Matt

I would say that my clincher for the , the ringer of the florida men , would be natural born floridian carrot top . It's carrot top . He is the , he is the secret weapon that will be pulled out . He will be pulled out with his prop comedy . He will a gallagher-esque uh and be sweet . You don't know what carrot top's gonna do no , he's ripped .

Eric

Now he is ripped . He's fucking jacked . Have you seen carrot top recently ?

Matt

he is . I've seen him recently just the other day I got coffee with him oh nice . Yeah , I saw him the other day . I said scott , how you doing ?

Eric

oh yeah , you call your first name basis yeah , oh , yeah me me and old scott . Yeah , yeah , we , you've been with him since the carrot bottom I've been with him since he sprouted now .

Matt

But but who is the ringer for australia ? I must know , matt I googled something .

Eric

I should have googled probably right at the start of this , because I listed , like you know , dangerous animals , australia , etc . Etc . Etc . But I didn't look up . What is the deadliest animal in Australia ? Human deaths , and I think we are , as a result of this animal , at the hands or should I say hooves of this animal . The deadliest animal in australia is horses . Oh , australia's deadliest animals . I'll say it again most human deaths caused horses . That's extremely surprising , extremely surprising , and that is what I think will throw florida men off their fucking game .

Matt

You expect kangaroos , you expect sharks , you expect croc isles , you do not fucking expect horses if I'm a florida man and I'm on the front line and I'm looking around , I got my femur in my hand andemur in one hand , swinging a crocodile in the other , swinging a crocodile in the other , and I look around . I got kangaroos to the left of me , giant spiders to the right , right ahead of me , a group of horses . I'm concentrating on the sides . I'm not like , okay , those are just horses , yeah .

Eric

So what are these horses doing ? Let me tell you something about horses . I would love it if you would . It is , and what I'm about to say will at first sound like a weakness , but let me explain . They are prey animals . Are you sure ? They live in constant fight or flight mode ? They're scared of everything . Fight or flight mode they're . They're scared of everything . But , matt , we're talking about a pokemon stadium full of all of the creatures in australia . Yeah , all of the florida men shooting guns , hooting and hollering on bath salts . Matt , let me tell you something about horses . They are prey animals right up until the moment that they have no other option and , matt , I would say this is firmly no other option they are flight , flight , flight . And then , once it's fighting time , that's when they remember that they weigh about 2,000 pounds and can kick things to death . Oh yeah , so I think the horses are just indiscriminate in there . They are just fucking pounded , beaten , hoofed . They are doing everything in their fucking power .

Matt

They turn into bulls at that point .

Eric

Yeah , they become murder machines . Everybody's got a plan . Until they get a back kick from a fucking horse , then you're just dead .

Matt

I think so . I think that pushes australia over the edge for me oh yeah , oh yeah I think , I think for me . When the dust clears , it's the horses , baby , because the horses being the deadliest , that's unpredictable . So , yeah , yes , the florida man is unpredictable , but they are but one species .

Eric

We've got a whole continent full , oh my god , unpredictable species yeah , and even if we adjust , like I would assume , like even if we if yeah , yeah , yeah , I it is , it's the , it's the unpredictability of a , of a , of what most people , especially Florida men , would wrongly , I might add assume is a very predictable animal Horse , mm-mm . You see domestic horses , you see farm horses , you see work horses . These are Australian horses , these are Australian horses . These are horses that have had to grow up in Australia in a place that just wants them dead .

Matt

Where things are actively always trying to kill you Animals , climate or otherwise .

Eric

Yeah , so I think much like the riders of . Rohan the horses take it .

Matt

I think that takes it , and I think it's about time to get Lindsay in here . Don't you think let's get the doctor ?

Eric

in . The doctor is in .

Matt

Yes , that's a perfect way to jump right into this Lindsay R Barr . Dr Lindsay R Barr , welcome to you . Didn't Ask For this Welcome back .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Thank you , happy to be here , as always .

Matt

Now it's been a minute since we've had a lindsey's correction corner , which is a source of anxiety for me , because that just means there's fertile ground for you , we could be here for an hour .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Yeah , we better buckle up no , I told matt a few days ago that maybe a couple of weeks ago , who knows that . Uh , surprisingly you all have not been too bad nice I'll take . I'll take it yeah it's been a little hard , which is good . I I have . I have corrections going back to oops all tangents one , but that's the earliest I have oops all tangents .

Matt

One bringing up corrections to oops all tangents on the flagship show . Bold of you .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Well , it will push people because they know what they're missing .

Eric

Right , If you want to catch up on what you've missed . Please donate to our Patreon today . For one measly dollar a month , you get access to the discord . For four dollars a month dollars a month you get access to the discord a monthly bonus content in the form of oops all tangents which lindsey is about to uh reference , and you get 20 off of all your daft merchandise in the merch store . If you sing it , you can't fuck it up that actually worked , because that is the third take .

Matt

Um so good job , eric , and we saved everyone from listening to the the spiel at the end of the show . So well done . The boxes are all checked . I do it again great .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Are you ready to be corrected ? Oh , please absolutely make me good okay , so in oops , all tangents one , I don't remember the name of the episode . I didn't put episode names down , so , okay , you'll have to do that . Um you are talking about ? You are talking about , um , legends of the hidden temple . You're talking about watching it .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

You're talking about the people who are in it yes , yes , all true at six minutes 24 seconds , poach says he starts naming the teams on Legends of the Hidden Temple and Poach says that there are the silver snakes , there's the green iguanas , I think , and you say that there are the purple parakeets .

Eric

How many teams do you think ? And the teams being the Silver Snakes , the Orange Iguanas , the Purple Parakeets , which is Alyssa's favorite team ?

Matt

I gotta be honest , I don't remember any of these team names .

Eric

You are more of a , that is such a Silver Snake thing to say .

Matt

Don't fucking come at me with these insults that I don't understand .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

They obviously are not parakeets . They are the Purple parrots , as any law-abiding 90s child knows . God .

Eric

She complicates this even further to prove that you love no one .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

You then go on to say that it is Alyssa's favorite team . So you know that one .

Eric

Oh , you didn't have to , but you did .

Matt

You didn't have to include that .

Eric

I respect it . Thank you , I'm taking this in and I am becoming better .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Purple parrots Purple parrots , obviously Not the purple parakeets .

Matt

Obviously Learn it .

Eric

Respect it .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I've been hearing about this one .

Eric

You better be .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Well , you should , frankly . And how dare you disrespect legends that hit and tumble like that by ?

Eric

the way . Oh , Mac , forgive me .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

So that is correction number one . Okay , Now we here at lindsey's correction corner the team of researchers .

Matt

Yeah , here at lindsey's correction corner .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

The team of researchers at lindsey's correction corner are a humble bunch yes it may not seem as though we are a humble bunch , but we are , and sometimes , in attempting to correct you , I'm incorrect . Oh what Now ? I'm not foolish enough to say get on a podcast and say things incorrectly .

Matt

Sure .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

But because who would do that ?

Matt

Yeah , but Brave men .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

There have been Okay , there have been moments , there was a moment where I was so sure you were wrong about something , so sure that I was like these fools .

Matt

This is basic fact . Okay , one of them again , husband , but all right , and then ?

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I thought to myself am I wrong ?

Matt

could I be assuredly am be the problem .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Am I the problem ?

Matt

Is the correction me ?

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Do I need to be corrected ? And indeed once and only once , Everybody gets one .

Eric

That has been the case , everybody gets one .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

So in episode 102 , at 38 minutes and 35 seconds , you all are talking about going to see the Statue of Liberty .

Eric

And .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Matt had been to see the Statue of Liberty , poach had not been to see the statue of liberty and matt had been to see the statue of liberty , poach had not been to see the statue of liberty . And you go back and forth and you're talking about is it worth it to go see it ? And as you're talking about it , matt asks you've never been to liberty island . And I thought to myself the statue of liberty is not on liberty island . What is liberty island ?

Matt

have you ever been to ?

Eric

the statueue of Liberty .

Matt

Mm-mm Seen it Admired it , but from a distance .

Eric

From afar .

Matt

You haven't been on Liberty Island , no .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

That's not true . And I said the Statue of Liberty in my brain . This is all brain conversation . The Statue of Liberty is on Ellis Island .

Matt

Oh , lindsay no .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And then I thought to myself well , that doesn't really make any sense , does it ?

Matt

No , ellis Island is something totally different . Ellis Island , yes .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Yep , so know that I wrote it down . I have the timestamp because I fully intended to correct you that the Statue of Liberty was not on Liberty Island , which , when you say it out loud , it makes a little sense .

Matt

It's an odd thing for you to feel was wrong .

Eric

I'll be honest , but I will say lindsey , notably demonstrating the steps that she takes , like the , the say a thing , reflect on the thing , do the research come to the correct conclusion , something that we don't do , notably do not do .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

No , don't do afraid of doing but I felt that it because , again , we are a a humble bunch here at Lindsay's Correction Corner it only felt right to acknowledge that I almost corrected you on something that did need to be corrected on , and I welcome all comments about how that is a fifth grade civics lesson . I understand that .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Comment your unbridled humility is somehow more infuriating than being corrected humility is somehow more infuriating than being corrected in this , in this house , there are some moments where I like to think I'm a smart human . Right , I've done a couple of things that might indicate that I'm a generally average or above .

Matt

Goddamn right . Multiple academic institutions have labeled you as constantly some might say yeah , sure for what it's worth .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And there are some times where I say something and I just look at Matt and I will say frequently I'm too smart at times to be this dumb .

Matt

That happens . That does happen in this house .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And this would be one of those moments . If I said to Matt out loud the Statue of Liberty is not on Liberty Island . Liberty Island doesn't exist , matt would be like no Lindsay .

Matt

I could pull out examples , but I don't want to do that to you well , they're so far and few between you .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

We'd be here all hour , we wouldn't have the time there's one just the other day , but we will .

Matt

We will press on what I say , you know you have to say you did tell me , did you know that fortunate son is about the vietnam war , and went . I can see the look on your face and I literally went . Yes , I've heard the song .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And I said , I've heard the song too and it clearly is like anti-government , but I didn't know it was anti-Vietnam specifically .

Matt

I've also seen a movie , you know .

Eric

But this , all this , all Like Lindsay your brain is so you have so much brilliance in there . Like something's got to go , and if it's going to be anything I mean Liberty , Ellis Island I feel like that's a fair sacrifice All right .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Thank you so much . Thank you so much for arguing on joining my argument that I say frequently in this house , which is I have a lot in this brain that I have to keep track of . There's so much . I have a lot in this brain that I have to keep track of . There's so much . I do a lot of stuff . I got to keep track . I mean , I'm not saying that I do any more than everybody else , but you know , I have to read a lot , I have to know a lot of books , I have to do a lot of stuff , whatever , and but what that means is that I have no space in this nugget passing things . So when we , when we watch a television show , when that season has ended , I remember nothing gone .

Matt

No , it gone . It leaves her brain immediately . It does drive me a bit crazy , but yes we .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

We always have to watch when a new season of a show comes up . We have to watch a 30 minute recap video on youtube of what the first season was .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

These days in the current tv ecosystem where things take two to three years to have a second season , that is somewhat understandable but oh , please , please , please , please I was gonna say , but maybe even still matt would be like oh , this actor played so and so in game of thrones and I was like you have to know that I have no idea who that character is , even when we were watching game of thrones , to be fair I'd be like I have no idea who these people are oh my god , yeah , like , uh , alissa and I have these moments all the time .

Eric

Alissa can explain to me the , so the social dynamics of , of character , of like contestants on like every season of survivor , like ever like I'm . Like she could show me that web so can I ? I know but like and at the same time when we're watching , when we're watching eurovision . Uh , she didn't . She didn't believe me when I told her denmark was a country so like it's gotta go . It's it's gotta go somewhere . It's gotta go somewhere . It's gotta go somewhere . I can tell you pages she thought .

Matt

She thought shakespeare made up denmark .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Well , she knew it was a place she just didn't think it was a country .

Matt

You know , he invented a lot of words , he he also invented a country or two .

Eric

I can tell you the geopolitical situation across all Middle Earth . But , God , this podcast is a testament to my memory for things I talked about last week .

Matt

Yeah , no , it's true . I got to help you . I got to help you through this world .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I am making that Matt's going to edit all this out . I am making Matt watch the challenge to the real world challenge . Okay , as I said to Matt , this show , for better or for worse , developed my brain Like when my brain was developing as a teenager . I was watching drunkards throwing each other into the wall , hooking up in bathrooms and then throwing themselves off of platforms in the name of 20 grand .

Matt

While I was watching the West Wing .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And so I'm making Matt watch the challenge .

Matt

Yes .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And there are moments where I'm like this is a really famous moment , matt . So I have cataloged all of these moments of the challenge and I can't remember what happened last season on Severance .

Matt

And I do have an exciting update . I can offer a correction to Lindsay in Lindsay's correction corner . Matt , not going to edit that out . Okay , I have more . I have two more .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Yeah , in episode 115 at eight minutes and 40 seconds . I don't remember exactly the contours of the conversation , but Poach starts talking about how Matt has a really nice voice for like radio , like an NPR voice .

Matt

Which he does yes , and you're going to correct this .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

No , no , no , no , no , no . Not that that would be awful , no , but Poach says that Matt has a really good timbre of voice .

Eric

You have a natural NPR timbre to your voice ?

Matt

Are you listening ? Npr , Are you listening ?

Eric

Oh , my God , matt , you would thrive on NPR . Are you kidding me ?

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Now I'm sure there are people who say you can pronounce it timber , but that is not the accepted pronunciation of that word . It is timbre , timbre good to know so , even though it's spelled t-i-m-b-r-e , it is pronounced timbre timbre .

Eric

Good . It's one of those words , um , that I fun fact once , because it's one of those words which I'm sure you're both familiar with . You've read it your whole life but you've never really heard it said in conversation . So I once got into a into an intense argument with a girl I was dating in high school because we were debating the , the , the , the pronunciation of the word . I'll spell it for you WIZ INED .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Wisened .

Eric

Wisened , or as I pronounced it , I was wrong wizened , wizened .

Matt

Well sure , I think it might be a Mario Lario situation in my defense , wizened is what you do to a dumpster at Miller Time .

Eric

Nice .

Matt

Matt , thank you .

Eric

But yeah , it's . Timber is one of those words apparently .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I love , I love learning the actual pronunciation of words and I'm sure I'm sure there are people who are better musicians than me who will say like you can pronounce a timber . I don't know , I don't care , that's what I've been taught . It's timbre next correction um in episode 121 , recent episode Very recent yes , Very . This was the one that gave me enough things to do in this correction corner . It comes from Matt , thank God .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I knew I'd get one , so you're about to do Google gripes and you're setting up the situation right . You're sort of tied . This is really high stakes . Yes , you get what I'm saying so , at 47 minutes and eight seconds , matt says that he has a real Pregunta .

Matt

Ah , yeah , yeah , we even talked about this . Off mic , eric . Eric , we've got ourselves a real Pregunta . Well , I do anyway , yeah .

Eric

You said you have a real Pgunta well , I do anyway .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Yeah , you said you have a real pregunta . Now I don't speak spanish , but I have read enough back of shampoo bottles to know that the word pregunta means question yes , it does in the context you used it in . You suggested that pregunta meant problem .

Matt

It's true , it's true , it's true . No , it does mean question , it does , lindsay , can I just ?

Eric

say now that I'm not the one being corrected . Can I just say that is and I mean this with absolute sincerity deeply impressive . Just the attention to detail that I have never given .

Matt

To this show , or indeed to me , to life . The actual word I was looking for , which makes this even more embarrassing , is just problema , problema .

Eric

Ah , there it is .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

As I was listening to it , I was like I don't speak Spanish . No , it's pregunta .

Matt

Tengo una pregunta , senor Ross , is something I would say in Spanish class .

Eric

All of this really begs the pregunta .

Matt

And that pregunta would be puedo ir al baño ? No , mateo , sit down tail sit down .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I was recently in mexico for a conference and , uh , when I was in tijuana , I was taught I was like the big cult it's called , it's a big cultural government-run building for the arts , it's called sekut , and um , I was in the building and I was like near the door with what I was doing and so many people walked up to me and like asked me so many basic questions in spanish like where is the bathroom ? Where is the bathroom ? Where is the water fountain ? Where is blah , blah , blah , and I couldn't help them at all .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I was like I said no habla espanol 67 times that day . But I do know that Pregunta means question .

Eric

Hell yeah , hell yeah , and that's really what it is , that's all that matters . And you , because you fielded many a pergunta . Yeah , I also . I also like to imagine that that . I know this wasn't the case , but I like to imagine that , all like I'm envisioning you and like a sea of dramaturgs and tijuana just raging , fucking , going off the hook . This is where you get it out . It was nuts .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Do you want to do ? One is very cool . Do you want ? Is very is very cool . I was only there for the day but then went back to San Diego . But no , but my brain thinks very kind of you to say that this is impressive , poach , but much perhaps to match your grin . I live my life in detail .

Eric

Truly you do . You live an entire career field that is just detail , detail , detail .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

an entire career field that is just detailed , detailed detailed I am many things , and organized and detail-oriented are at the top .

Eric

Which are basically supernatural powers . To me , they are at the top of the qualities of Lindsay Arbog .

Matt

Is that the final correction ?

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

That's it . That's all I had .

Matt

Eric , that's not too bad .

Eric

Not too shabby , that's what I'm saying . Yeah , but she found some good nuggets of us being wrong .

Matt

I mean , there could very well be some in this very episode . Who can say , who can say ?

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Only .

Matt

Lindsay , only Lindsay .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

In 20 episodes . Yes , no , I think you've gotten your unbridled bravado in check , and so there's less corrections to be made because we're learning matthew , we're growing we're learning , we're growing , we're growing , we're learning every day , thanks to lindsey , we're vibing and thriving vibing that's all I have .

Eric

Thank you , dr lindsey .

Matt

Thank you lindsey , our bar , you're welcome .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Do I hang up now ?

Matt

Well , we're going to end the show , so you can either stick around and do the credits , do the business with us , or you can just leave . Now it's up to you . What will she do ?

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I'll stay , but are you going to make me say my name ?

Matt

If you'd like to , now we are . Now we are .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Oh , okay , sure .

Matt

Jesus Christ . All right , fine , great Folks , we need your questions . Okay , go right into it .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Give them the business , come right out and say it .

Matt

I thought Eric would team me up with . Give them the business . Give them the business . We do need the questions . They are the lifeblood of this podcast and you can give them to us on any of the various social medias at you Didn't Ask Pod , that's the letter . You Didn't Ask Pod All over the place , mostly Instagram , but all the other places , blue Sky , etc . Etc . Etc . At gmailcom , that's all spelled out . Or talk to us on the thought line 410-929-5329 . It's been a few episodes since I dropped the thought line number . So go ahead , give it a call today , or you know the way a lot of people are giving us questions these days is directly through the discord . We already told you all about that . Patreoncom slash .

Matt

You didn't ask for this to get all our special special stuff . You want our special stuff as a reward for paying us a minuscule amount of money Tiny amount of money in this country , very tiny , eric . Did I forget any of the business ? I don't think you forgot a goddamn thing , baby . Is there anything else we have to talk about in the presence of my beautiful wife , dr Lindsay Arbar ?

Eric

I mean how fetching that leopard print bow looks on top of her head .

Matt

We did a great job , not mentioning the leopard print bow on top of her head , but here it is Not mentioning the leopard print bow in the room .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

I just washed my face .

Matt

Yes , yes , yes , you did . And what a wonderful face it is , and now it's glowing , so that'll about do it For all of us here at . You Didn't Ask for this . My name's Matthew Shea . My name's Eric Poach .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

And my name's Lindsay Barr .

Matt

No , it's not . What is it ? Say it right .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

My name is Dr Lindsay Arbar .

Eric

Thank , you and listen , you Didn't ask , but did you know ? I was literally Googling this today . Do not ask me how I got here . So , lorem ipsum , the filler text that you see on all the things . I always thought it was just gobbledygook . It's not . It's Latin . It is in fact texted that is 2,000 years , like over 2,000 years old . It was written by . You didn't think it was Latin , I didn't . No , I never paid attention , I just thought it was gobbledygook . Apparently it was written by Cicero in 45 BC .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Oh , my goodness .

Eric

Yeah , yeah , that's neat .

Dr. Lindsey R. Barr

Squarespace and Rick's Wix were really on it .

Matt

Absolutely nothing to do With anything at all . But you know what ? It's a fun factor . Thank you , thank you .