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Here we go again. Oh, I was I was going. Here we go, and then I'm back again.

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Thanks, man.

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Glad you're here.

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I know. I guess I'm the least uh least missed person on this podcast. Like I wait, did you say that last time? That I've missed the least amount of episodes.

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That is true. John has been on the million more.

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It's true in every concept.

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Um that sucks. I'm not sure. I'm not sure how to respond to that. On the couch as always. Producer of the show. My lovely wife character for him.

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Well that we keep saying that. She does keep the wheels moving.

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She gets the it's the like an executive producer role now.

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You did very heavily produce the show at one time, for sure.

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I know. I had a job.

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And uh joining us this week. Back again. Always fresh, never frozen. And this cop's coming.

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Hey um. It's gone.

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It's her catchphrase. Hey oh, hey. It's her classic catchphrase.

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My catchphrase. Computer!

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Okay. Enough of that. Computer demonetized. Um, hey guys. So yeah. Well, if we ever start getting monetized, then they'll do it.

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Maybe we should just start shooting for saying crazy stuff in the hopes that we'll go viral, and then we'll worry about monetization after we've gotten the millions and millions of viewership.

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What do you think? Yeah. Okay, I like that. Cool. Thanks. Cool. Awesome. Anyways, back to, you know, just a classic podcast where four friends don't have any boundaries. We just talk about the craziest stuff and things. Yep. You know the crazy. Can I just address it? She's jumping in. She's jumping in. She's like fully in tears right now. Are you okay?

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I yawned like twice.

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Oh, I thought you were like laughing about something. Well, that's not funny at all.

SPEAKER_06 2:16

No.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

Um, someone asked me the other day. They're like, oh, I was watching your podcast. I go, Oh, yeah. And they go, So how do you guys decide what you're gonna talk about? And I said, Oh, well, and they go, Yeah, like like how do you like it? Does it seem like we do? Do you guys like have a meeting? But he was dead seriously. Okay. I said, Oh, that's so sweet. We don't we don't think it through. I go, I feel like that's very I go, every once in a while, Ride will go, what's on Twitter? What are we talking about today?

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Um Twitter is lit up this week about um Justin Bieber.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Justin JBs.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

J Babes. We kind of briefly mentioned Coachella last week, but we didn't really talk about it because it hadn't happened yet.

SPEAKER_06 2:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

And now here we are, week one of Coachella Done. The big talk everybody's talking about is Justin Bieber did a set that was basically I didn't watch the entire thing, but the the meat of it. Correct me if I'm wrong. The meat of it was him sitting at a laptop and pulling up YouTube videos.

SPEAKER_05 3:17

It was 30 minutes of it. This was an hour and 40 minute set.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

Oh, so not so not the entire set. No. So he had other people come on and sing with him. He had Kid uh LaRoy come on. He didn't. And they did, I did the same thing.

SPEAKER_05 3:32

I watched this. This is how it went to the first time.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

To finish my thoughts, Brian. Thank you very much. To finish my thought, a big portion of it was him sitting on a laptop pulling up YouTube videos. Of himself singing. And he was singing along to them in real time.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

He did the D's and S clips and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

At some point he was pulling up clips of himself like falling off a chair or something, falling through the stage.

SPEAKER_05 3:55

It ended up being like, oh, this is him doom scrolling YouTube. Okay. It started like old TikToks he'd go to, and like or old Vines.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

That's where it ended up. Yeah. But he was pulling up song Justin Bieber songs. He was singing along to them.

SPEAKER_05 4:13

Like he would go the whole the entire set he had his laptop out, and it was him going to the YouTube live that was that we were all watching. And it was like him looking at the comments and being like, What do you want me to sing?

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 4:28

Like keep checking the com he'd keep checking the comments.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

But like on the main stage at Coachella. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

It's so interesting to me because it feels like like he's the only person in the world that like could pull that off and make it feel normal. You know what I'm saying? Like he's so used to like the gigantic fame that like him watching YouTube while thousands of us watch him watch YouTube, yep, is wild to me. And he's just like not comfortable uncomfortable by that.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

I mean he was fully singing with it too, right?

SPEAKER_05 4:59

Like he sang baby, he sang what um Yeah, so he he did like not the really like OG stuff first. He was like, first he'd be like, okay, okay, okay, everyone. What do you know about this pre- plus play?

SPEAKER_06 5:15

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 5:16

Sang a song that was like, Yeah, we know that song, but it was like, okay, okay. After every single one, he'd go, all right, all right, all right, alright. Or okay, okay, okay, okay. He just kept saying the same stuff. And then it was like, how back do you how far do you guys go? And he wouldn't even go that far. And then he'd say, okay, okay. He'd do the same thing. Okay. But but who's the OGs out here?

SPEAKER_01 5:38

What are we talking what are we talking about? What what kind of stuff was he playing?

SPEAKER_05 5:41

Yeah, that I need to do it. Yeah. Like older JB stuff, not his original stuff. Then he at one point he like started Doom Scrolling. And then he finally played um. He played like himself singing to Usher. That was like his first YouTube video he ever put out. It was him singing to Usher. And then I don't think he sang baby.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

He did, he fully did. I don't remember. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

There's no way he did it. Baby.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

That was the one I was not watching it, but the girls were watching it in the other room. That's what caught my attention. I was like, oh, he's like singing baby. I I didn't think he was going to, but then it was like then it was over. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 6:25

And then he just went back into swag.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Sure. Which of I'll say I really like his new album.

SPEAKER_05 6:32

So it's Yeah, it he like he started his set with his I said his set looked like a baby changing table. It was like this. It was like the bean. Yeah. Like a big bean. And then it was a small like it was a big eight, pretty much. It was a big figure, the figure eight. And the whole time he sang, I think he sang like six songs from swag, and the entire time he would just be walking in circles. Just the whole time.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

And then he did the computer stuff. Maybe that's part of his like coping mechanisms a little bit. Because I feel like I've seen them do that at concerts too where he kind of walks in circles.

SPEAKER_05 7:10

It's like the happiest he seemed was when Kid LeRoy came out. That was he actually genuinely smiled when singing that song with Kid Leroy. I think he likes to be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Was it like full disease?

SPEAKER_01 7:22

That's what it is. Or he didn't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Justin Beaver does? Yeah. Because he like goes into an oxygen chamber all every day. Yeah. Like to like help.

SPEAKER_05 7:29

There are all these very holistic psychiatrists so then after I can't remember if it was after the YouTube stuff or right before he like brought two guitarists up and did like acoustic. He did like three songs that were acoustic.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

I saw that.

SPEAKER_05 7:45

And then I think and then that was it. Daisy ended it. I think is the song. He did Daisy.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:53

And then that was it.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

There's a lot of people who are really overanalyzing the whole performance.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Well, people are ripping him apart. Mostly I've I've been seeing a lot of like, yeah, this is so stupid. And then it kind of goes to this place of like, oh yeah, if Sabrina Carpenter had tried to do that, like they would have laughed her off the stage. Like if a woman had tried to do that, like they, you know, you could have never Chapel Run could have never done something like that.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

Like as it's no part of it was that he's the he's the highest paid Coachella artist.

SPEAKER_05 8:22

He got his million dollars. And the girls, Sabrina Carpenter, any all the girl headliners only got eight million dollars. And you have to pay for your own set. He did 10% of what they did. And you have to pay for your own performance, like your set, your additions, all that.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

But also it's your own reputation. Sabrina Carpenter has an amazing reputation for being an amazing Coachella headliner. Because she puts in more effort.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Right, right. I know.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

He'll go down in history as oh yeah, I saw Justin Bieber in that one weird Coachella out there.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

See, I disagree. I think we're gonna be talking about that for a long time. I think not because it's like there's obviously no spectacle happening, but I think that it the only reason he was able to do that is because he's Justin Bieber. Well, we've been watching this kid, like as this artist, under a microscope his entire life.

SPEAKER_05 9:12

I'm sorry, but we saw that at the Grammys. Yeah, didn't he think we've been there done that hold on a second?

SPEAKER_01 9:16

We've been watching this kid his entire life under this microscope. True. His first, you know, love, his first relationships, his first everything has been on TMZ, like on repeat for his entire life.

SPEAKER_06 9:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

And he just sold his entire catalog. He's like, all that music I'm done with emotionally. I'm I wash my hands of it. It's gone. And this performance is like, okay, I'm gonna sit here with all these people on the internet at Coachella, all my fans, and otherwise, and I'm gonna go through this and sing the songs and like kind of process it. A lot of people are saying, yeah, it's you know, it's that he should have just gone to therapy. And it's like, yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

But like I think he should have just he should have done a a two-night only in LA or a one night only in LA.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

I don't think he's not Coachella. He'd what I'm saying is he doesn't have an obligation towards anybody. He didn't have to do Coachella. Yeah. They paid him$10 million and he said, Okay, this is what I'm gonna do. It's not like he decided that morning, oh, I'm gonna go up and watch YouTube videos. Obviously, he had some semblance of a plan.

SPEAKER_05 10:22

It was so not worth it. For me, I really I really lost it after 20 minutes of him scrolling on YouTube and then it buffering and him going, Oh, the stupid Wi-Fi. Like it was not planned at all. He was he was literally on his computer playing.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

It just wasn't for you because you're not a Justin Bieber fan.

SPEAKER_05 10:46

It was not a Coachella worthy performance for me.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Exactly what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

If I paid that money and I rushed and I stayed all day to see that one performance, I would have been like, that was not worth it.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

And what I'm saying is if he did like a regular old performance, it would have been like, okay, cool, yeah, Justin Bieber performed at Coachella, but like it wasn't for the people that just went to Coachella to buy a ticket. It was like for him and his fans.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

I think if you were going for Justin Bieber, you might appreciate it. Because I do think like knowing Justin Bieber's story, which a lot of people do, but the like the real true fans, like you're saying, the person who paid to go to Coachella to go see Justin Bieber, yeah. I think there's a lot of meaning behind this performance. I think Justin Bieber's doing this stripped down thing because he's tired of the industry controlling him. And I think whether you thought it was prepared or not, I think this was like a real shift in the story of Justin Bieber. I mean, you just know he's out of money. He needed he he needed he did this gig primarily for the money, probably, right? And he didn't have enough money, he didn't have a lot of money. I mean, he does probably have money, but I'm saying, like, this was to him was like, hey, I'm doing this. I this is kind of a rebuild moment for him because he is kind of in a rebuild moment with this new album.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

Yeah, I don't think it's about the money at all. I think it is I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 11:55

I still I still think it should have been a his own concert type situation.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

No, I I agree with you. I don't know. I just I I think it's more art than it is uh disheveled I just feel like it's like a loss thing.

SPEAKER_05 12:09

Like we're not half of his songs seemed a little bit like I did not plan this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Maybe, yeah, and he's got issues, and obviously he's had public freakouts in the past couple of years, and that's part of like I said, being under a microscope. Yeah. Um, but I I don't know. I just feel like it's a it's a conversation that doesn't really help anybody when we're like, oh yeah, the girls only made eight million dollars. It's like, yeah, I agree. All the big artists should be paid the same, whether or not they're male or female. But I think that certain artists have the like the spectacle, somebody like Madonna, or somebody obviously like Sabrina Carpenter that does the does these gigantic shows. Yeah, yeah, and that's what they do. And I think somebody like Lady Gaga could have sat at the laptop and played music and oh yeah, I feel like Lady Gaga did a show where she was just at the Coachella main stage at a piano or at a guitar or something.

SPEAKER_05 13:06

Which that's that's not new to her, she does it all the time.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Sure, she could have nailed it, and nobody would have been like, this was lame, like it's Coachella, she should do this gigantic show. Nobody would question that. They'd be like, Yeah, Lady Gaga, she killed. If Sabrina Carpenter did it, I don't know if she could hold her own the same way. Like I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

Well, and I and I think it it's all about your your curated thing, right? I I I appreciate that Sabrina and Chaperon are gonna do the extravagant full performance. I mean that's why that's part of why we love what they do, right? And I think like what I'm saying is I think with Justin Bieber, it's like I I don't know. I thought it I thought it was deeply meaningful. I don't know, maybe I'm reading into it. No, I think so. But I think I think it's very much like I to me it was like screw the industry. It's like I'm doing my own thing, and that to me was the through thread of it.

SPEAKER_05 13:54

I liked the acoustic part the best. If he sat with those two guitarists and sat on a stool or stood next to them and did his whole show, I would have been okay with it. For me, it was the giant set for no reason.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

Yeah, an hour and forty is a long set.

SPEAKER_05 14:09

It was so long.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Are you talking about the set piece or are you talking about the time of the set?

SPEAKER_05 14:13

The set piece.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Uh oh. The big eight you didn't like. I thought it looked cool. I like the lighting.

SPEAKER_05 14:18

It was him like literally sausageing and galloping and like just walking in circles the whole time.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 14:28

It was it was not I don't think it was entertaining to watch it.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

I'm not really a JB fan. So yeah, if I had gone to it, I'd be like, what?

SPEAKER_05 14:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

But I think that if someone has become a big JB fan and he hasn't when's the last time he toured?

SPEAKER_01 14:45

I mean, it's been yeah, years for sure.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

I could be I could see you being like, you know what? I don't care what he does. I loved it because he performed and I got to see him.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

I think at Coachella it's he was the headliner. It's specifically like the closer you were to him, the more effort you put into like seeing the show. Because there were people people post on TikTok like them rushing at 8 a.m. 8 a.m. when the place opened, rushing and then full speed, and then staying there the whole day. So the people along the bar have sat through all the other acts that are on that stage, and you're waiting to see Justin Bieber. So those those people are super fans, obviously. They want to go see Justin Bieber.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

I just can't imagine the bad seat in the house with all those huge screens. I'm like, I know like probably in the way back, it probably isn't as fun, but I'm like, that the whole vibe of Coachella is it's like kind of the lawn seats, right? Yeah. I mean, so I'm like being in the front does sound cool.

SPEAKER_05 15:39

The main stage is so far off from all the pictures you see. It's like you see you're watching the main stage performance in the distance. You see a tiny little Ferris wheel, and you're like, oh my god, that's where all the food is. That's where it's a huge thing is.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

We've driven through that part of um India. Yeah, like leaving my uncle's house, and it is a huge piece of land. Like it's like makes the Delmar Fair look wimpy. It's like this gigantic.

SPEAKER_05 16:06

Kennedy said that Coachella fully ruins Stagecoach.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

How's that?

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Because before Coachella, it's like the grass is really nice, like it's very clean, and then they have like two weeks, uh-huh, and then it's stagecoach, and it's all messed up.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

I can't imagine there's anyone rowdy at Stagecoach. All those good old boys listening to loot comes.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

I know you guys talked about last week how how if you'd go or not, and I just want to say I have zero desire to go to Coachella.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Not into Coachella, huh? Not even a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

I think I I think it's cool, and I think it's cool that they're streaming. I I think watching it from home is cool, and I like that they're doing that in the last couple of years. I I mean that seems new to me. I don't know if it's a lot of always streamed.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Totally.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

I think streaming, and I even say like, sell me a pass. I I honestly I'd pay 20 bucks to watch the watch from home or whatever, you know what I'm saying? I just think like the the it's a like it's getting a little too price gougy. Like I has even for the last 10 years. But I'm like, to pay thousands of dollars to basically go out and camp, which I guess maybe is the is the That's the vibe.

SPEAKER_05 17:14

It's like I think people's people's tickets are I think for like the full weekend, it's like 800 is like the starting price, and then it goes up from there, of course, for these dollars. Right. I think the car pass is like 500. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

Just to leave your car there and sleep in your car or in a tent or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

Uh-huh. Now, if I was if I was at an influencer level or if I was really, really rich, I I I get it. But like for like for like my station in life and probably my station for the next for the rest of my life, barring any sort of major financial changes, which hey, I'm I'm hoping. Here's hoping. But I just I it to me it just it it doesn't really compute, but I I I s I understand the experience and I do get why people want to go. But for me, I'm like, I don't know, I just it's like I feel like at a concert or like a I'm not gonna equate it to a baseball game, but like at something else, I feel like you kind of know what you get, and uh and maybe it's like the expectation of like when I go to a concert, I'm like, oh, it's it's gonna generally be the same everywhere you go.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

It's kind of like I feel like the closest thing you could compare it to is like is if they played the World Series all day. Right. If they were like, okay, this is the World Series, we're gonna play seven games back to back today.

SPEAKER_04 18:34

And you're hopping games.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

You'd be like, Yeah, I'm going. Yeah for sure. Yeah. Like, we're gonna see this game, we're gonna see these games, and then we're gonna see the big the World Series game at the end. That's true.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

I'll say we went to as a kid, we went regularly to Spirit West Coast, which was a Christian version of Spirit West Coast, Coach Coachella. It was like out in the desert, you camped, not nearly as big and not nearly as technologically advanced, but there was a lot of Christian bands, and we would camp like in our campers. Like, yeah, it was really cheap to go. My whole family went.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

The tent, what's the tent thing that they do? I don't know, it's a similar thing, but they have a bunch of west coast.

SPEAKER_02 19:11

It's not called worship leaders anymore, but it was really interesting. So I I guess like that would be my closest reference. But even then, like I don't know. I guess it just has it just I guess it really does depend on the artist. If it was really lined up with my what I liked, maybe I'd pull it out.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

If you if it was like one big artist that you loved, yeah, and then it's like, okay, well, we'll go and we'll see all these other artists, like you'll just go and do it for the weekend.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

But Spirit White Coast is still happening, it's happening this year.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

I just saw um this thing, I guess in like 2005 or 2006, they made this documentary about Coachella, and I was watching clips of it on TikTok, and it's wild, it's completely different than it is now. Now it's like influencers and cute outfits, but then it was like they interviewed these two people, they're like, Yeah, we just scalped um tickets for today, they were like 50 bucks each, and we're gonna try and sneak in tomorrow, like, oh, like don't don't tell, haha. And it was like it's like so many just young, dirty looking hippies. And like the 10 camping was like actually like tense. It wasn't there wasn't huge lines, it was just like it looked like they were trying to be Woodstock or something, you know, like that's a real idea.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

Yeah, like a lot of things, I think barring the price, I would of course given the opportunity, I would go and like experience it. I just think the price is a little too high at this point. Well, it's just so like influencer now, like it's like yeah, like the outfits are like such a big thing, which is I guess is you know, whatever, but I'm like, I feel like I've been getting drowned and just like here's my outfit for day one. I'm like, how did I get on the side of TikTok? Take me off.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Your outfit and you know where you're staying, and all these influencers are like, oh, I'm staying at the you know, the Topo Chico house, and it's like fully paid for, and they're food and they're in the VIP section.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

You can't get away with it because if you're involved at all in like TikTok influences at all, everyone is going. And that's why you get that's why we get roped into it, no matter where you what side of TikTok you're on, is because like everybody's there. Hannah and Brew and they like they went. And like that's what started like this now, this onslaught of just like all these people that being like, these are my outfits. I'm like, oh, kill me.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

It's probably a you know, a hundred million dollar business, probably more than that. Like the amount of business that's happening in Coachella and around and all the brand deals that are happening.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

That it brings it brings the state of California like 700 million dollars. Oh, I'm sure in tax revenue alone in one every year. I'm like, that's a lot of money. Well, yeah, you think of all the booths that are set up and all the food.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Even even if they're out of state people, yeah, they have to pay taxes on what they earn from Coachella.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

And think about how many tickets, how the outrageous prices that makes sense. Yeah, the food is so expensive, too. And that that's kind of what makes it worth it for California, or at least to like not mess with it, right? I bet you Coachella, the organization, has a lot of leeway with California 'cause it's like, hey, we bring in seven hundred million dollars, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Same as the back off San Diego Padres has. Probably too. Guys, as of tonight's earning or uh tonight's game, eight straight wins. Miller just struck out the side.

SPEAKER_05 22:09

Three strikeouts. Every game at Petco Park has been sold out.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

Oh yeah. Well, that's a given. Absolutely. Petco Park has been selling out like 50 plus games for the last three seasons.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Like, nobody does it like Pico Park. They've kind of upped their influencer thing. I've I've seen all of their giveaways have been really like eye-catchy.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

I was thinking about that. I was like, back in the day the giveaway was like a crappy bobblehead and like a sticker. It's still still a crappy bobblehead. A vest, a bucket hat.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Last year, a couple years ago, we got a channel. Hawaiian shirts. Yeah, Hawaiian shirts. Yeah, ponchos. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:44

I think it's because they got the theme game giveaways were always like that. They were always good. And I think they were like, oh, we want to bring more.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Theme games are hilarious. I I love them. The Star Wars theme game.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Did you see the Don and Mud um mini yacht bobblehead? No. Because Don has this like legendary, he goes, he has this little tiny boat and he like goes out to the bay and he fishes on his off time. And he makes these videos, and they've like used them on social media recently where he's like, I'm from he and he calls his boat the mini yacht. And then they're like, then the whole question was like, We gotta take mud. And he's like, I like literally he can't fit on like it'll capsize. So they made this bobblehead that for the theme game, and it's both of them in this little tiny tugboat. That's awesome. I'm like, I kind of want to go get it. It's funny.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

It's so good. And I see a little viz, they're like, oh, here's all the new food that's in Petco Park this year. There's like Asian-inspired stuff, there's like new Top Coplays. There's a cocoa.

SPEAKER_03 23:35

We're the number one ballpark for food.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

We're the number one ballpark in the country. Is what they say. We're the number one ballpark in the country.

SPEAKER_05 23:42

We have been for I don't know, like ten years. Yeah, I was gonna say a long time.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

But I'll say this too. A lot of people are collecting sets. You know what I'm collecting the last three years? Two years is the third one this year, is the zoo bobbleheads that have been coming out. First, it was panda. Yeah. Then it was koala. This year it's an elephant. Oh love. And I'm going for the full set, which might be decades. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_05 24:07

Well, that makes sense for the new elephant thing at Safari Park. I know.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

We had an out-of-town friend stay with us. We had Aislin with us this weekend. And she was like, oh yeah, and you guys have like the most amazing zoo in the whole country. Is it ever lost on you? The zoo? Yeah, it's totally lost on me. I have passed the zoo. I love the zoo. It's supposedly the best.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

But do you but do you feel like that?

SPEAKER_01 24:28

I don't know if we go to the zoo. Yeah. I've only been to other zoos. I haven't been to other zoos. I mean one other zoo. The one in Hawaii. Hawaii. The Wahoo Zoo, which is like more of a garden than anything.

SPEAKER_05 24:39

I think even then, walking our zoo, I'm like, yeah, cool. It's a zoo. Like, there's the animals, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Oh, there's the elephants.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

We haven't been to other zoos.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Because I know, I just know I'm I haven't been either, but I know that the other zoos are absolutely, it would make you sad in some of these zoos.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

Other zoos do feel sad.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

And that's where I'm like, I I've never been, but I've just heard that from a pretty echo.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

And you know what? And that's San Diego Privilege. I take it for random. I'm like Peko Park. Every game there is awesome. Like, of course it is. That's how baseball should be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

I just couldn't imagine going anywhere else.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Yeah. SeaWorld.

SPEAKER_03 25:13

SeaWorld, awesome. I think it's just because we had a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

How are all the other SeaWorlds as blackfish?

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Actually, Florida's probably better than us.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Uh yeah, they have more of a budget. Well, yeah. SeaWorld is hanging on by a thread. Yeah, or a fin, you might say. Just one single fin. One tiny little thin finish. It is falling apart at the seams. It really is. And honestly, maybe it should. I don't know, right? Oh.

SPEAKER_05 25:36

Speaking of SeaWorld. Transition.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 25:40

It just got passed that they're not doing fireworks this summer. What the hell? It's gonna be drones instead. So they needed to be. This will be my last podcast because I'm gonna kill myself. Last week they proposed it.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Over fireworks?

SPEAKER_05 25:57

However, the coastal commission had to say yes because of all of our navy everything. Where was my coastal commission gave SeaWorld a year pass?

SPEAKER_01 26:07

To do what?

SPEAKER_05 26:08

To do the drones. One year.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Well, they did a drone shore. To do like a test in OB instead of the fireworks. I don't like it either.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

I feel like the drone shore is more risky than fireworks.

SPEAKER_05 26:18

And you know why?

unknown 26:19

For him.

SPEAKER_05 26:20

It's not risk. For the people watching. It's it's it's the people who live in the area have they got enough people to complain about their pets.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Guys, I live in the area with a pet, and we're fine. Get over it.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Drone show, one of those drones comes which by the way feels like it could happen at any moment. Just it comes out of sync, falls, hits somebody. Yes. What?

SPEAKER_05 26:40

Well, you know what's happening. You know what sucks about this drone show?

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Devil navigation.

SPEAKER_05 26:45

This drone show is gonna be over the bay. So if they fall out of the sky, they're gonna fall in the water.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

They might hit it.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

I guess it's fine though. Or a fish. We should do drone shows. Alexa, play my drone show. I'm all about Do it over the house.

SPEAKER_04 27:00

They sound like giant bees.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

What happened to the Costco guy? I don't know. I feel like he's here. I feel like he's on the show right now.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Hey, we know you love stuff that blows up.

SPEAKER_05 27:15

Hey, I'm sorry. You can't try the mint Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

They already took it away. Unfortunately. Unfortunately, we did go to Costco.

SPEAKER_05 27:23

You know what I found out you can do?

SPEAKER_02 27:24

They took it away?

SPEAKER_05 27:25

Yeah, I knew it was seasonal. It was for like St. Patrick's Day. Um I didn't realize you can get a chocolate vanilla sorrel with the strawberry. Yeah. I knew that. I saw someone get it today and I was like, I'm just going to Costco for lunch today.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

I'm almost I had a lunch, unfortunately, but I was just somebody did.

SPEAKER_05 27:48

We got our errands and then yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

I'm really glad somebody got to. And if it was you guys, Thursday is kind of becoming our Costco day.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Yeah. Which is fun. It's prep day for the car. It's prep day for the cart.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Dude, every time we go to Costco for groceries, I'm like, dinner's at Costco. Yeah. Like without filming. We might need to change our prep down. No, no. Ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

That would be ridiculous. Um but you know, it's the it's the San Diego of it all, I think. Because we're just we're spoiled. We kind of moved on from the Sea World. Oh, alright. We got the what are we moving on? Costco. The Padres? The Padres. I was gonna talk about the City Connect. Give it to me. Oh, City Connect. John, we literally didn't talk about it last week so that we could talk about it with you. So how do you feel about it?

SPEAKER_02 28:32

New City Connect jerseys. I'm a little indifferent about them. I think they're cool. Listen, I have a problem in terms of merch.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Oh, you don't like the fact that it's blue representative. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

I'm just saying the reason I like it is because it's new and fresh. Like I like any new merch or change of uniform, I'm here for. Because I'm a I'm a pottery fan, who's gonna buy it?

SPEAKER_03 28:54

I have a genuine question for you.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

What's up?

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Did you like the last ones?

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Yeah, I liked the last ones. I did like the last ones.

SPEAKER_03 29:01

You liked it?

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Yeah, I did. I liked them. I thought the colors were cool. I think it stood out. By the way, objectively, across the league, everyone thought our City Connects version one were hard. Like everyone thought there was. I thought they were pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Oh, I thought they were hideous.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

Compared to what? That's what Boomers thought in San Diego, but anywhere else you go, and anyone that was under the age of, I don't know, 45.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Which did you get a chance to see the rest of the City Connects for the rest of the MLB?

SPEAKER_02 29:26

Yeah. Yeah, I they're horrible.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Not good. They're horrible. It is awesome. The Orioles had a cool one, and there was like two or three more. The Angels. Yeah, the Orioles was really cool. I like looked at the whole list today. I was like, the rest of these look like they were made freaking in five minutes on Canva.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

I can tell you, I really like the Dodgers.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Hey, Chad GBG, make City Connect. Hey guys. Go ahead and cancel Annie for that one.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

The Dodgers City Connect? I really like Annie. A lot of people like it for the code.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

Fans of Padres, go ahead and cancel Annie. Better in the comment section.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

I can even look at the Dodger ones. I can't even look at it.

SPEAKER_03 29:57

I can't even do it. Do you want me to explain to you? No.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

Why would I want that?

SPEAKER_03 30:02

Or is it the Ravens?

SPEAKER_02 30:03

It's not the Orioles.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Yeah, Orioles.

SPEAKER_03 30:05

Both more Ravens. Right? No Ravens.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Guys, I'm just going to say it. I think the new ones are good. I like them a lot. I think the dark I I do think I was hoping that it was going to be a bit of a 90s throwback, which it kind of is.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

It's orange. The hats are. What did they say about the hat? It was like a two-tone. Randy Jones hat or uh it was like supposed to be an homage to Tony Gwen.

SPEAKER_05 30:28

Orange and blue. Yeah, it's for when Tony Gwen was on the team. Those are colors.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

Guys, I'm telling you right now, I I well, I'm gonna get to City Connect, no doubt. Definitely getting it.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

I think, in my opinion, all the teams in San Diego should have the same colors. Different, make it, you can change it to you can change the tone or whatever. But like it should be like, oh, all San Diego teams are orange and blue.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

Is that her? She's trying to she's trying to talk about the game. No, she wants to talk about the gold. Go ahead, Andy.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

No, I just think that like branding-wise, they should all be the same colors. No.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Okay, name all the teams of San Diego.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

The wave. The SEALs.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Hold on. Let me stop you right there. Who's the wave?

SPEAKER_05 31:08

Soccer.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Women's soccer. Texas Pinkers. Oh, it's last year's new. Oh, really? One player on the wave. I can't. I don't watch one thing. Thank you. Anyways. It's not nearly as new. Go on. John's gonna rattle off. God. I don't watch it. It's nothing funny.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

I hang out here with the water.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Here's the thing. I don't think that's our fault. I don't think anyone's talking about the wave. Like they should be. Donna Mutt should be like, anyways, we went to a wave game, it was awesome. Name one of them.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Kayla could. I couldn't let her make it.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

She's not on the team anymore. She was a big, she was a big uh She's a big guy. Yeah, she's a big guy. I don't know any of them either, but I know that there are like my brothers in-laws are really into it. So they my brother's been to like probably 15 wave games. So you know what? Maybe that's on. Maybe I should go to the guests. He works them. Pretty fun. Musgrove's gone to a lot of them. He's a big supporter just because, you know, it's bunch of people on pods play.

SPEAKER_04 32:04

All right.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

You're in the same boat as me. You've never been to a single wave game. I knew it existed. You said, what the hell's the wave? Okay. San Diego FC. Then we got the SEALs, which I've been to. I've been to a single club.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

We're going to talk about football clubs. There's also the men's the FC Club. Yeah. The football club. That Manny Machado's a park owner in. Oh yeah. Men's sports, no thanks. No, it's just called San Diego FC. I don't know what the name is. We just call them sports, actually. But Manny Machado is a partial owner in that. Oh, okay. He he goes to a lot of games. He brings a lot of the people. The football players. I don't I've never been to a SEALs game, but I've heard that.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

The Padres is our team.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

What is the Seals Rugby? I literally I've been to the game.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

La Crosse.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

You can do a SEALs game?

unknown 32:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Kara sang the national anthem out of the SEALs game. And then just a couple nights ago, Annie dragged my ass to a goals game.

SPEAKER_03 32:55

Yeah. Yeah, hockey.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

You know how Annie's like doing that whole computer thing?

SPEAKER_03 33:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

Computer. Yeah, well, that's the hockey. That's the hockey.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

Play the hockey. Computer, what are they kids?

SPEAKER_02 33:08

I had to go to a goals game in December and it was very, very fun to watch.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

It's a fun game to watch.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

It's fun when you're there. Before and after it, I'm like, I don't care if you're going to be able to do it.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

I couldn't watch it on TV. No, I try to watch it on TV.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Oh. Okay, I that's where I disagree with you. Really? I actually think it's a very interesting sport to watch on TV. It's the same as back.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

I do like the part where the puck goes over there. Oh, yeah. No rules. And then the puck goes over there.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

We watched a dude kick the puck with a skate. He did.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

He didn't even have a stick in his hand.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

That was crazy. I I I like it for the fighting. I think it's funny.

SPEAKER_03 33:41

Yeah, I love fighting.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

But um ultimately I think it's kind of boring most. It's a lot of back and forth. It's kind of like soccer, it's kind of like basketball. I mean, it's just a lot of back and forth, right? I like basketball because you can see the basketball.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

I can't see the puck at all.

SPEAKER_04 33:54

They're like stupid because.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

I'll say though that some not to make an argument for baseball, but somebody was like legitimately on TikTok making an argument for baseball, and they're like, and they use the podres last game as an example. They're like, no other sport could you have that kind of ending because everything else, every other sport's like really kind. They just they just take a knee, they really but baseball, the way we saw it last night, where they they scored five in the ninth, that just doesn't happen in other sports.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

It's so exciting.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

It was the really circle.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

It's in a circle, which I love. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 34:36

How could you not love baseball? How could you not love subjectively?

SPEAKER_01 34:38

How could you not be romantic about baseball? Love baseball. Moneyball, shout-out. Great movie.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

What other sport has a stretch of a song?

SPEAKER_01 34:46

I don't give a damn about another sport. I literally said we were at we were at the hockey game, and I said, when do they sing a song? And he was like, They don't sing a song. I was like, they don't sing a song? When's the seventh inning? She's like, they don't do that. This is stupid, this is the stupidest game I've ever been to.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

But you know what's really sweet, I'll say, about um the Take Me Out to the Ball Game is my niece has been learning it from a book, and so she's been singing it at home. Like every night they sing it before bed because of reading it in this book. And then they went to an SDSU baseball game and they sung it at at step in the seventh inning, seventh inning stretch. And she was like, everybody knows this song. She like could not be. I love you. You don't even care who's sitting in the house. I'm like, oh yeah, 100%. Feral as hell. Yeah. When that part comes up, you're just like, I'll give you one more try.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Go ahead and Google a waves player. Go ahead and do it.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

A waves player. We can't even do it.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

I'm just saying, baseball. No, it's not women's sports. I don't know who Waves is. That's all I'm saying. Big shout out to women. Love waves. The wave?

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Yeah, a couple years now.

SPEAKER_05 36:07

It's just because they built Snapdragon.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 36:10

And now it's like the home.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

And SDSU can't fill it.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

You know what's crazy? The other day I was working, and so I've started resorting to putting sports on so I have noise, but like it doesn't distract me. It's like Hold on.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

You put sports on the wheel.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

What was the sport the other day?

SPEAKER_03 36:22

Um it was women's soccer for the World Cup. Really? Okay. Yeah, qualifiers for the World Cup. And I'll tell you this it was um Japan versus the US. And it was just about as interesting as I could have, where I was like, oh, and I watched it for a second and I was like, yeah, I'll get back to my email. I just don't think soccer is that interesting. Not interesting at all. It is the m the is the number one sport in the world. Yeah. And I have a heart. I'm like, why?

SPEAKER_02 36:49

Why?

SPEAKER_03 36:51

Everyone lacks soccer.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

You know what it is? Oh, I like but I like hockey. And I'm gonna say something controversial. Basketball. It's primarily because it's a European sport. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

I can't get behind that.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

And I feel like they it's their sport, and obviously we're adopting it, which is totally cool. It's not only a European sport, it's a South American and Spanish. A lot of North America, too. Sure, it's just Mexico.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

The sport is like it originated somewhere else. That's why I think it's really popular. If if they had discovered baseball, baseball would be that way. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 37:19

I think America because baseball is huge in all in the Asian countries.

SPEAKER_01 37:23

Now you can I think America is in this bubble, and the rest of the world loves soccer, and we're like baseball and football. Oh and the rest of the world's like, when's the song coming? When's the song? Yeah, tell tell your tell your brother-in-law, you know, when she when he's doing his football coach, and like, hey, you know, there's no song in football.

SPEAKER_05 37:42

I guess there's a there's a big football game right now in Italy. Or somewhere somewhere happening. Yeah, I believe it. My parents said that everywhere they're going right now, it's all just drunk Brits.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Awesome. I'll say Rexham did kind of warm me up to the idea of soccer because I was like, You watch that ins and outs. I'm like, okay, that's interesting. But like showing up to a game, not having a team, part of it is not having a team. If you have a team, I think it changes that. But then how do you choose a team? I guess you choose San Diego FC, but like we have brand new organizations that are never gonna win.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

Yeah, but people, but people just choose a team. I was talking to a guy at the gym who is who had a hockey jersey on and it's almost their like playoff, so we started talking about hockey. Sure. And he was like, Who's your team? I was like, I don't have one. I was like, No, I don't have one yet. And he was like, Oh, uh, well, you could do this. And like starts like spewing off teams and like why I should pick up.

SPEAKER_05 38:30

And I was like, Okay, you need to be careful who you talk about hockey with at the gym. Random person.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

Random hockey guy at the gym.

SPEAKER_05 38:37

Random hockey guy could be weirdo.

SPEAKER_01 38:39

Could be weirdo, probably, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:40

But she could fall in love.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

First of all, he's a trainer at the gym.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

And if he's talking about baseball, then maybe you get a big one. Maybe he's the one. But hockey people? I don't know about hockey. Yeah, people were sitting in front of last night.

SPEAKER_03 38:53

Oh, I will say, yeah, it was it brought an interesting crowd to that hockey game. It was really interesting.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

Yeah, and part of it is people want to be a part of something that's starting, and I get that. You know what I'm saying? If I could go, if I could go back in time and I could be like an OG Padres, like, you know, somebody who supported the Padres, I mean, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 39:10

When were you n when were you not a Padre? But I'm just saying, like, from their inception from their inception as well. God, I got it.

SPEAKER_03 39:15

You know what we never talk about? We never talk about it, and I always think about it. There was a short-lived TV show about the first female in Major League Baseball, and it was set as she played on the Padres. Yeah, I see. And I think about that show, and I was like, nobody can talk about that. I know. No one talks about it. We should talk about it. Everyone's like, dumb, dumb women's course.

SPEAKER_02 39:45

That's what you guys sound like. When do you think the first woman in the MLB will be?

SPEAKER_01 39:48

And I I feel bad about it now that it's out in the open. I'm just gonna say it's not about them being women, obviously. It's about I don't care about soccer at all. Okay. I don't know. In their defense, I don't know the men's team either.

SPEAKER_02 40:00

Do you think we'll have to tell you anyone in the men's team? Do you think we'll have women in the MLB at some point? Or do you think they have softball? Women have softballs. I do love watching those women. Oh, I would welcome that. That'd be so cool. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Coed team. I don't think there's inherently anything like dangerous. Man about it versus woman. No, for sure. If you can throw and you can hit, like I don't think there's anything like the boys.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

Yeah, besides maybe like it is weird, though.

SPEAKER_05 40:32

I mean, most baseball players are built like women.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

Totally. They're like scrawny little guys. Not Joe Musco. He's built like a freaking tree, that guy.

SPEAKER_05 40:40

Do you see him with the rest of his team? Joey. Look at that.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Love you. Can't wait to see you off that IL.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

Come on, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

Folks, what the podcast is brought to you by Patreon. Hey, you know? Costs us some money uh each month to keep the cameras rolling, keep the lights on. Can you believe that? Everything costs money these days. Can't even freaking drive to Santee without taking out a second mortgage on my house. Hey. But you can help us uh make our art. That's right. We see podcasting as art. Um so head on down to the bio link. That's pretty funny.$4 a month is gonna support what the podcast. And hey, you get access to the post show. We're gonna go on and uh record the post show right now. Extra episode of the podcast we do every week. Little bonus show. What do you think we're gonna talk about, Annie?

SPEAKER_03 41:25

Um, probably soccer.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

But pass. Probably in the Bluetooth as always. Computer.

SPEAKER_03 41:34

Make these guys. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 41:38

I'm Ryan. I'm Joan. And we'll see you next week on What the Podcast!

SPEAKER_03 41:44

Uh computer. Make this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 41:47

Mason Miller's stats so far this season. What's IP?

SPEAKER_02 41:52

He struck out all three battle G fans tonight.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

One H, zero R, one BB.

SPEAKER_05 41:58

Oh, he's got a BB. One B B I don't know what any of this thing is.

SPEAKER_01 42:02

One hit strikeout.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

In 23 Ks.

SPEAKER_05 42:05

Come on. K.