Episode 6.12: Un-Named Andy Episode

Andy’s back… and somehow we still couldn’t come up with a proper title.

This week is exactly what you’d expect when Andy joins the show: a free-flowing, completely unstructured conversation that manages to cover absolutely nothing and somehow everything at the same time. Fueled by pours of Planetary Stiggins’ Fancy, the guys bounce from topic to topic with zero regard for transitions, logic, or staying on point.

Along the way, Andy receives a birthday gift, which only adds fuel to the chaos, and we’re treated to an ongoing stream of confidently incorrect nostalgia—where Andy insists things are from the 1980s that are very clearly from the 1990s. The debates are passionate, the facts are questionable, and the laughs are constant.

No agenda. No structure. Just Andy, Greg, Garrick, and a whole lot of non sequiturs.

Pour a rum and try to keep up.

Two rambling idiots—Greg and Garrick—bring you the *Rum & Nerdy Podcast*, a weekly dive into the world of nerd culture through the eyes of late 40s/early 50s dads who still can't get enough of their favorite movies, TV shows, and theme parks. With a deep love of all things nerdy and a shared passion for good rum, these two buddies mix laid-back humor, nostalgic memories, and plenty of laughs as they discuss everything from classic sci-fi to the latest pop culture trends.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

A month went by beforehand they said two words to somebody, as it turned out. That somebody was me.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

The Rum and Nerdy podcast is ready to go.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Hey everybody, welcome to Rum and Nerdy. I am Greg. And I am Garrick. And if you haven't figured it out yet from the opening, we have fucking Andy again. Hello, Andy. Hi. Harold. Um I want to say, like, uh so very special week. This is Andy's birthday, and I should have bought him a fucking watch.

SPEAKER_05 0:59

That's right.

SPEAKER_04 1:00

Happy Happy birthday, Andy. Can we say belated and then like just get over with the fact that I was late getting here? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08

Well, I was late telling you happy birthday. So we could, except we could your birthday present.

SPEAKER_03 1:14

Uh with Rum and Nerdy the wrapping paper. That is Rum and Nerdy the wrapping paper. That's pretty solid. Yeah. So open it. For your for you, the the listeners, because open it closer to the microphone. Close your eyes and imagine. Close your eyes and imagine uh wrapping paper that's got a little glass of rum and wooden barrel. No, not really.

SPEAKER_06 1:39

That works. That's coming through. I'm fully.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

I'm learning.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

And sorry about the technical difficulties. Asshole over here tried to fully so well he used the microphone as a baseball bet. So that's fun.

SPEAKER_05 2:05

You're not allowed to fully anymore. No, you're not.

SPEAKER_04 2:07

You're stuck at fully. You know, just can you pour some rump? I can. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, so I'm just gonna open this away from the microphone now.

SPEAKER_05 2:16

Yeah, well, I we foldied enough. Okay, whatever. You okay. That was good. That was better, right? Zero contact fullying. That's like the best part.

SPEAKER_04 2:24

But you know, I'm learning.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

Yeah. How do you fully the sound of a microphone falling off the stand? Oh.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

101 things I learned in architecture school. The book is empty.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

It is not. No, it is. It's a real book.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

It is a real book, and I w I actually want to read this and know what I learned.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

It's really one of my favorite books I own.

SPEAKER_05 2:45

I mean I'm assuming you're you're more project manager now than architect. So gotta remember what the architecting was. This is true. So here, I'm gonna That's proper falling. Oh my gosh, I didn't hit anything.

SPEAKER_04 3:01

You didn't make the microphone fall, nothing.

SPEAKER_05 3:04

So this room smells so good.

SPEAKER_04 3:06

This book uh you said rum or room. Rum Because the room smells a little like three guys in here that shouldn't be in the same room. Oh, well, the the studio usually smells like dude. Yes, I know.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

So um this book was gifted to me many years ago, and I have now purchased it. This is the fourth time I've bought the book. Because I've loaned it out to different people and I never get it back because it's cool. Um But here's what's fun is that this series, 101 things I learned in something like that.

SPEAKER_04 3:37

This is the series you have on your desk in the back between.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

So I've got like 101 things I learned in film school in product design, in urban development, in advertising, in all these different things. And they're just each page is just this like one little thing, and like this one, a dynamic composition encourages the eyes to explore, and a little bit of blurb about that. Or little sketches that kind of describe that. But it's it's really a cool, fun, and it's it's one of the fun sized.

SPEAKER_05 4:06

Take this object, but beware, it carries a terrible curse. No, it carries the elixir of life.

SPEAKER_03 4:13

No, it's it's a Simpsons reference.

SPEAKER_05 4:15

I know. But it comes with a free Frogurt. Ooh, that's Frogurt. The Frogurt is also cursed. Ooh, that's bad. But you get your choice of toppings. Ooh, that's good. The toppings contain potassium benzoate.

SPEAKER_04 4:27

I feel like you're ad-libbing on those.

SPEAKER_05 4:28

Cricket, cricket. That's bad. Ooh. Can I go now?

unknown 4:36

Anyway.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

Okay, here. This is this one is a great quote. The most effective, most creative problem solvers engage in a process of meta thinking or thinking about the thinking. I'll think about that. This sounds like a book for architects.

SPEAKER_03 4:55

So it it's yeah, well.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

There's also you know, that classic That's meta before meta was meta.

SPEAKER_03 5:04

That's a meta. This one this is like uh the Chinese symbol for crisis is comprised of two characters, one indicating danger, the other opportunity. A design problem is not something to overcome, but an opportunity to be embraced. The best design solutions do not make a problem go away, but accept the problem as necessary state of the world. Frequently, they are little more than an eloquent restatement of the problem. And you get your choice of topics. Ooh, ooh, that's good. Oreos. Anyway, I love that book and I've enjoyed all the other ones. I just got two new ones uh that I haven't opened yet, but they are on my shelf behind my desk.

SPEAKER_04 5:52

And now you can start the collection too. Yes, and if someone would clean all their shit out of my office, they could be on camera. That's not me. No, it is not you.

unknown 6:04

No.

SPEAKER_03 6:05

But it was funny, we gave a tour in the office today, and there were uh interior designers, and they they go by and we're giving a you know, and over here is this second, and then they come by and says, Well, that's a cool office. Yeah, that's that's the that's the artistic one behind you.

SPEAKER_04 6:22

Did you show them the office of the year award or whatever they No. Okay, good. Office of the Year Award? Or best off the award you got?

SPEAKER_03 6:31

No, it was best office.

SPEAKER_04 6:32

Yeah. Um, we shit can that guy right afterwards, so it's kind of funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:37

Um but uh Oh, so it's like an internal thing, not like Better Homes and Gardens.

SPEAKER_04 6:42

No, no. I mean, we could write Better Homes. Actually, I'm gonna do it with a fucking Sharpie tomorrow. Better Homes and Gardens? Yeah. On his award. Ooh. From the guy that we shake hand. No, don't do that. Please don't.

SPEAKER_03 6:54

Okay, I won't. But it's um Scotch tape. Just write it on the it's a glass wall, write it on the wall. There you go. And it'll wipe off. Yeah. What could go wrong? Anyway, um, so we have no idea what we're gonna talk about.

SPEAKER_05 7:13

Oh so texted you, hey, looking for something to kind of uh use as this week's theme. Yes. And I said, Hey Andy, what's your favorite 80s movie? And I found a nineties movie because I can't math. And you replied, The Saint with Val Kilmer from 1997. The point was to be snarky and obscure.

SPEAKER_04 7:38

But also in the eighties. Yeah, I know. I was otherwise occupied. If you want to be snarky and secure.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

If you want to come across as snarky and weird and obscure, you need I bought a vampire motorcycle.

SPEAKER_05 7:58

Vampire motorcycle!

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Which is a real fucking movie.

SPEAKER_05 8:02

Which we have to get a copy of. Yeah. I feel like it's uh it's gotta be like deathbed, but possibly better.

SPEAKER_04 8:09

If only we had a box connected to the interwebs that could find it for us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:14

I don't think it was available. You serious? The trailer's available somewhere. The trailer for it was amazingly bad. Yeah. I almost want to see that. Oh, like that's an almost.

SPEAKER_03 8:26

I I I don't want to interrupt the recording again, but when we wrap up, I will play you the trailer. But like the the motorcycle at one point jumps through this window of a hospital, no person on it, it just rides itself, and there's a patient in bed screaming, and then the nurse is over pressed against the wall, and it's slowly on its back wheel, rolls up, and out of the fork, these these two telescoping things come out really slowly, and then slowly pierce her neck and suck her blood, the nurse against the wall, and then retract back in, and then the motorcycle drops down and runs off. And it's that fucking bad. That is bad. Yeah, if some asshole got money to make that movie, why can't I get funding for my TO? It's such a good show. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_05 9:15

Well, I own it now. You just bought it by accident? I bought a vampire motorcycle on DVD. Amazon. On DVD? That that movie from from 1990. That's closer to the 80s. That one, right? By the way, it's still not in the 80s.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:33

It's not. But it's also$9.99 on Amazon. As bad as this is, as cool as this.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

I am surprised that for$9.99 you didn't buy the rights to it.

SPEAKER_04 9:48

Is there enough to create a land? That's the question.

SPEAKER_05 9:53

This is the overall pick.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Oh, we could do it. I know we could. Should we? What's the food beverage offering for something like this?

SPEAKER_04 10:05

I mean, they just did this in Dark Universe with DOS Steakhouse.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

No, we need something like 10W Blood.

SPEAKER_04 10:17

Oh, that was an oil reference.

SPEAKER_05 10:18

Holy shit, it has 4.4 out of 5 stars. That's audience only. What's the critic's score? Out of 161 reviews. Is it all Rotten Tomatoes? That's a better question. 161 re that there weren't even that many people involved in the making of this movie.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

I'm kind of pissed that it's rated higher than our podcast is. I was looking at that today, and we have uh on one of the apps, and we are we you guys need to start reviewing us, by the way. Please, listeners, come on, just go in there and just it takes you like two seconds. Just go to the show and say that we're five stars. Because two assholes rate us is one. And everybody else likes our show, but two guys are like, nah. Don't I this is terrible.

SPEAKER_04 11:07

I want to know who you pissed off bad enough to give you a one rating. Like to go out of their way on a podcast for a one rating. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

Because we're funny. I know. We're delightful. We got like with last week we met we mentioned our uh our random hotel lobby friend that we made, and how he's like been texting you and I like mad. And uh he He's gonna buy you a guitar before you're finished. I'm okay with that. You know what? I'll let him buy me the guitar that was picked out by Dean last night. Oh, Dean picked a new one. Oh, you didn't hear this. I I overheard vaguely. Okay, so um my most recent spirit animal, Paul, um, with uh a display company. We'll try and keep it generic unless somebody knows. Oh, is it shipped?

SPEAKER_05 11:59

Dang it. Yes. Just don't drink from that side. That's uh I just turned it.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

Yeah. Anyway, so my my my uh spirit animal, Paul. Um like the last couple conferences we've I've become much better friends and we text and everything. Get to see him next week. But he told me about this website, reverb.com, where you can buy used gear. You showed me. And it's like it's great. So I was talking to Dean, an architect, with uh one of the parks last night, and super great guy. I've known him for years. And Dean is in a band. He is. Uh, with my old boss.

SPEAKER_04 12:36

Which one?

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Um uh from from Universal Beijing uh the uh Frank.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

Yeah, so uh again, we always try and keep it generic. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

I I believe Dan was in that band too. Or was I imagining that? Dan who? We're keeping it generic.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Oh, yeah. But tell me later.

SPEAKER_04 12:56

Anyway, damn us. Um so the one from the competing company that Dean works for.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

Oh yes, oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 13:08

Yes, oh cool. They are best friends.

SPEAKER_05 13:10

No shit.

SPEAKER_04 13:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Nice. Yes. So anyway, anyway. So we're sitting there talking and he goes, No, no. No, and I'm like, oh, is this this is supposed to be a pretty good guitar. It's you know, it's a Gretsch, and he's like, Yeah, no, they're they're great. But he Dean Dean goes, Greg, I I I've seen the shirts you wear. You are a man of great taste. And you do not need a Greg's check cleared. You need a three you don't need a$360 guitar. He missed a zero, didn't he? Yeah. He he's like, just do this. And he goes, pull it up, go to the website, go in this little search bar and type Gretsch Custom Shop, which I did. And the first guitar I've seen was like one of the most beautiful guitars I've ever seen. Hollow Body with this blue, oh, so gorgeous. And I looked at the price and it was seven thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

There we go.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

I'm like, I mean that I could get a really nice timepiece for this. I can get like an IWC for cheaper than this, and and he's like, no, no, no much, how much?

SPEAKER_05 14:16

But can you shred on an IWC? I did no. No. More importantly, how much will the new wife cost you if you bought one of those?

SPEAKER_03 14:23

Well, that's at dinner. I was telling Garrett this story, and Sandy's like, I I wouldn't be mad, but I would be pretty disappointed if you spent$5,000 on a guitar. I'm like, wait, what?

SPEAKER_04 14:33

Only disappointed? I can handle disappointed. Wait, wait, so you have so your budget is$5,000? Not seven. Right? That's what I heard. No.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

I'm I'm going to because you can only some solid math you got going on here, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:46

So I have an architect.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

I haven't played consistently in years. Um, and I need to I need to get an electric so I can play a bit and start to get calluses back and really make sure that I want to start playing again and learn some songs and everything before I spend seven thousand dollars on a fracking guitar. Sounds like you're doing it backwards. No, I'm doing it the sponsor way.

SPEAKER_04 15:12

The sponsor? I mean, back to the vampire motorcycle. You could get a hell of a bike for$7,000.

SPEAKER_03 15:19

I'm not ready for a bike yet.

SPEAKER_04 15:23

Oh, that's right, you don't have to wear a helmet here. Oh, that's right, you ride. I do. What what do you what do what do you ride? It's a Suzuki SV 650, otherwise known as the poor man's Ducati Monster. Which is why. My brother-in-law had a Ducati monster. Had.

SPEAKER_05 15:40

See, everyone had one in past tense. Correct. It's uh see uh one of my favorite statistics about um was it the the Air Force? It's Air Force or the Navy when they recruit uh fighter pilots? Like top gun? Navy. Navy? Believe it or not. Well, I mean there's there's pilots in both. I just circle belly buttons. But part of the recruitment process is like they look for people that used to own motorcycles because they want someone crazy enough to have owned a motorcycle. Yes, but smart enough to have sold it.

SPEAKER_04 16:16

This is the scene from Top Gun. Except Maverick never learned, and he has a collection of motorcycles.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

Yeah, I love that movie. I re-watched um Top Gun 2 the other day. Top Gun Maverick? Yeah. Freaking holds up solid. It does. It's I'm like I'm like, hey! They're supposed to be making another one. They are. I I believe they I believe they started already. What story is left to tell at this point? You know what? You could have said the same thing about a fighter pilot that should have been retired already and isn't, and like Tom Cruise is still making movies, this is incredible. And then you watch it and you're like, this is an um this is an awesome fucking movie. This is everything that I wanted out of this movie. It's like Top Gun Mavericker That movie dumb dumber er. Top Gun Maverick's Maverickisms. Mavericks? Top Gun Mavericks.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

Put the S in parentheses. Top Guns. That movie is actually so good. I watched it on someone else's screen on the airplane.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

Because the movie's great, the dialogue is unneeded. It's not necessary.

SPEAKER_05 17:29

That is one of the best reviews I have ever heard for a movie.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

I'll watch that on somebody else's airplane screen.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

Oh. So it it's a statement that I fly too much.

SPEAKER_03 17:44

Top Gun Three is on IMDB, but there's l it doesn't even say Tom's name. It's just not there. But what's really funny is that when I look up Top Gun 3, right below it in 2021 is a movie Top Miami Gun Vice 3. Love it Dawn.

SPEAKER_04 18:00

Oh, please put that on my playlist right now.

SPEAKER_03 18:02

There is a movie called Top Miami Gunvice 3.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

Love it. Can I get it for$9 on Amazon?

SPEAKER_04 18:09

No, you can just add it to your watch list for free. Wait, what a second, we can add it to your own watch list for free.

unknown 18:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:18

It doesn't mean you can watch it for free, but you can add it for free.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

Pedro Pascal's in it. Because he'll doesn't know how to say no to a fucking movie. I made that up. Sorry, Pedro. Like he did that movie with uh with uh that other movie. Nicolas Cage? Nicolas Cage. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:42

Which is a I've seen I've seen more movies. I've seen more memes of that than it's everyone. Okay. Have you watched that movie? No, I've only seen the memes. And every time I see the meme, I'm like, I really need to figure out what movie this is, and I just never it I've never done that.

SPEAKER_03 18:59

That movie is so dumb, it goes full circle back to okay. Yeah, back to smart.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

Like, oh, I see what they were going for. They did it. It undumbs itself. It's that bad. Undumb.

SPEAKER_05 19:09

Yeah. That's fucking great.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

Yeah. I I wish I could undumb myself after watching it, but it's a it's a legitimate thing.

SPEAKER_04 19:21

I actually went to the theater to watch that. Really? Yeah, regrettably.

SPEAKER_05 19:26

Yeah. Well, that's fine. Back to my original thing. Oh, did you have a point? Yeah, the Saint. Why did you say The Saint? I don't know. I was the Vel Killer remake of the old What's your favorite movie? I panicked.

unknown 19:43

I panicked.

SPEAKER_04 19:43

No, I didn't panic. Oh, what it came down to. No, I was distracted. It was the first thing that came to my mind. Distracted.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

This movie I haven't seen since I saw it in the theater.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Okay, which Oh no, actually, funny enough, I just showed it to the kids because that's what we do. We show the teenager. No, they're not teenagers. Shit, they're both 20 now. I show them like bad old movies and say, This was great when I was a kid. Wait, you you had the Saint listed as a bad old movie? No, it's a nostalgic film. Can I call it a film?

SPEAKER_03 20:19

It was supposed to be the next franchise at the time. It's like this is a franchise. And it was so good they got the job done in one movie. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 20:29

They nailed it. Kind of like the Tom Cruise Mummy remake in 2016.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:33

Oh, yeah, that's what that's all about.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

This requires no new information.

SPEAKER_04 20:36

Yeah, that's a come on. They were gonna do a an entire Dark Universe Dark Universe.

SPEAKER_05 20:42

Yes, it was part of the whole Dark Universe franchise. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:49

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_04 20:52

Oh, wait, we all know NDA things we can't say right now.

SPEAKER_05 20:55

Yeah, it it's just by saying that we're gonna have to edit shit out. It's really sitting sitting here at the studio, we we we did that Spider-Man meme thing where everyone's like God, I wish this was fucking visual, because that Garrick was that joke would have done way better. It would have done way better if either of you joined in with the finger guns.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

Or if anybody listening to the gun, couldn't see your finger guns.

SPEAKER_05 21:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

Ladies and gentlemen, what is happening here is that Garrick has thrown his shoulders up high above his ears and he still stuck both hands threw both hands out in finger gun configuration, pointing one at me and one at Andy. And then kind of shifted his hip or his uh shoulders back and forth like he was actually firing.

SPEAKER_05 21:46

Didn't you try to get the the nickname finger guns to stick at TA events?

SPEAKER_04 21:53

I forgot about that. You know, I mean back to the Kevin Smith though, can we just go to fingercuffs and call it a day?

SPEAKER_03 21:59

No, so So it was the IAPA before last it it was the IAPA before last at the slice mixer. And I walked in and and like you just write your own name tag and I put Greg in quote finger guns. Um and for the rest of the night I walked around and everybody's like finger guns. Yeah, it's my new nickname. I made it up just now. But it's my nickname.

SPEAKER_05 22:26

Just now you should new. I have a problem with writing name tags. What's your problem? Being serious about them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:37

Yeah. Oh wait, I think I said that last night. I have a name tag, I'm official. Exactly. It didn't answer the question of what I do. Does it matter? No. I have a name tag.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

I'm supposed to take the information from the client and I tank it to the engineer. I'm a people person.

SPEAKER_05 22:55

I'm a people person.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

Damn it. I love that movie. That is a good 90s movie. What the fuck is PC Load Letter?

SPEAKER_05 23:08

That movie went from being funny to being tragically true in a way that I don't know if I'm comfortable with.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

Yeah. Because everybody who ever worked in an office. Everybody who ever worked in an office starts casting their coworkers in that movie. They do.

SPEAKER_05 23:25

But when you encounter so true. When you encounter things though, like have you ever walked up to a printer and had it tell you PC load letter? Probably. Which just means which just means add letter sized paper, by the way. Run and urby, Red and Nerdy, top tip. PC load letter means add paper.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

So um one of the Bobs. What? John C. Um McGinley, who was in Scrubs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:54

He was Lumberg. Not Lumber No, he was one of the Bobs. Yeah, he was one of the Bobs.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

So he was um I saw him on an interview recently, and he was talking about doing that movie and how iconic it's become. I saw that same fucking movie. And where he yeah, he he was asked about it, and he goes, Yeah, it's funny, because at the time, you know, he needed any work, whatever, and he he did it for really no no money whatsoever. And originally it was like a three-month shooting schedule. It's a movie, it's three months. And he came back and he's like, Listen, I got this other job offer and I still want to do this, whatever, but the other one's good money, it's a longer thing. Can we just wrap up all of my shit in a week?

SPEAKER_05 24:31

And like, yep. Like just to adjust the shoot schedule so that it you know So you just shoot everything with me in it.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

But he he said it was really freeing because Mike Judge, the the director and creator of the for the the um the movie, a lot of it was like he had it outlined, but a lot of it was just like, oh no, go for it. So what you do? So um the whole like all of that stuff about like Michael Bolton, where he's like, Man, when he sings, when a man loves a woman, well, it just doesn't get any better than that, does it? Like, that was all just made up. Everybody I love that all of the actors that he was interacting, like all of those interviews that the Bobs were doing, 100% ad-libbed.

SPEAKER_05 25:12

Well, and he and the the the thing that I really enjoyed about that um that interview with him, because he he was talking about how um when you come because movies are shot out of order, and if you can lump them into where all of your actors are, you know, all this one actor scenes are happening within this time block, and you can you can cut them early, get them offset, whatever, it allows them to get into the zone and stay in the zone. So he's like, we were in that conference room for three solid days, shot out all of our stuff, and it was him and the other Bob, and the other actors would just come in, and those two guys would basically improv at the actors as they're sitting there. So half of the times when you see the actors the other actors' reactions to the questions they're asking in the interview, they're genuine emotions because like, wait the fucking thing. What the fuck was that about?

SPEAKER_03 26:04

What are you talking about? What?

SPEAKER_05 26:06

Yeah, so I don't know any of his songs. What?

SPEAKER_03 26:10

Makes me love that movie even more. It's another great 80s movie.

SPEAKER_05 26:19

I'm sorry. Yes, yes, it's a dynamite eighties movie.

SPEAKER_04 26:23

From that wait, Napoleon Dynamite was not in the 80s. No, no, no. It should have been.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

It should have been? It wouldn't have played in the 80s. I don't think so. Like when did that come out? Napoleon Dynamite? Like late 90s, yeah. Was it? Probably around the same time. I had a 2000s. No. I mean, uh it would have been like pre-2000 like 2002, 2003 if that was the case. Hmm. Let's see. Clearly I can't do it. 2004. I was off by four? Wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

There you go. Wait, that was almost right? Yeah, but at the same time, we were talking today about Harry Potter, the attraction, and he's like, yeah, that that that was like, I can't believe it's already ten years old. I'm like, eh-6. Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

It's ten years old, you know, they're not here, okay? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Listen, I I am challenging my nerd cred today.

SPEAKER_05 27:29

I think you're challenging your decade cred.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

All of the above. I just want to throw out there. Like, I am because you know, we go to conferences, or he comes out here, or I'm in LA, and so we're constantly uh well I we we made up an airport code.

SPEAKER_05 27:48

YYZ? No.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

No, no, it's better than that. Um uh EBH. Where are you going? And we're flying to EBH. Everywhere but home. Oh, okay. And because that's where we've been lately, is everywhere but home. Yes, that sounds like something you two would do. Yeah. And uh so um but when I go, like, so next week we get there, I get there over the weekend, uh, have meetings actually over the weekends is gonna suck. I mean It's gonna suck. It's gonna suck. Um You wanna fly with me Friday morning at 5 a.m.? Uh no, because I've got shit I have to do on Friday before I leave. But uh the and I and I and I I was talking to Ken today. I was like, yeah, I'm I'm working through this weekend with meetings and everything else, and then I go drive down to San Diego for another conference, drive back, and then I have meetings, and then I fly back and I don't get home until like 11 50 Friday night. And he's just like, dude, man. And I'm like, so This is the same Ken that almost fell asleep at drinks tonight.

SPEAKER_04 28:50

Yes, go on. And I'm like, and and so the Monday listen, does he?

SPEAKER_05 28:54

He's one of our top contributors. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:57

Oh, uh was he the no the number one rating? Yeah, he was one of our characters.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

But but I'm like, I'm like, I'm like legitimately like the Monday after next. Don't expect me here. I think that's safe to say it's fine. Yeah. Um it's like, um, I've put in my hours and I'm gonna need an extra day just to catch up with the laundry and just whatever. But and he's like, yeah, yeah. As a generality, it's like, okay, nobody's keeping score, dude. Do your thing.

SPEAKER_05 29:30

Like um You were you were pretty good about that. You you used it was like one of your personal goals, make it 90 days um there every day, something like that. Some something to that effect.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

Yeah, we're past ninety days. He's not in the office anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

You're good. Nailed it. Well, I I mean, I ended up having one work from home day since I started. And that's it.

SPEAKER_04 29:53

I think it's totally fine.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

I'm not beating myself up a friend. I'm like I think you're doing good.

SPEAKER_05 29:58

I think the industry thinks it's totally fine. I don't think anybody cares. No, I said I think the industry is like, yeah, like what are you? Why are we talking about that? That's not a thing.

SPEAKER_03 30:08

Anyway, so my point of all this is um I live and die by my schedule, my calendar. Everything goes on that calendar, and I've been putting Andy on every single thing. And you haven't killed him yet? No, he appreciates. I love it. Because it it's like I know where I need to be. But you've seen how I do my my calendars at like Iappa and stuff. It's disgusting. So it's Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Oh, even better, I just went in green marker and added Andy needs this day off. Andy needs to be here this day.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

I have a three-month dry race calendar next to my dry race board in my office now. And I put it and he was like, I'll take an unused color and mark this out just so that it's called Don't Bother Andy these days. Well, and it yeah, it's basically like you have an unused color? Green. Yeah. I just got a 12 pack, so there's 12 different colors. And I hadn't used green yet. Okay. I was gonna use green for the paydays, but Green is always Andy's color.

SPEAKER_04 31:13

And because we've got a new game, so we also uh we send Courtney things with Kermit that are perhaps a little bit uh inappropriate because she loves it, she hates it.

SPEAKER_03 31:29

Courtney Courtney?

SPEAKER_04 31:30

Courtney Courtney. That's awesome. My buddy? Yes, that Courtney.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

She is one of my favorite people in us.

SPEAKER_04 31:38

She actually texted back and she said, you know, every time I see that you sent me something, I cringe first, then I open it. Fair. Courtney's awesome. Fair. You have no idea how how many vulgar Kermit the Frog jokes there are, or memes I should say there are. I'm pretty sure we can we can find that out pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_05 32:01

Yeah. I should just send them to you. This week on Rum and Dirty. I'm a little disappointed I'm not on that list. Oh, don't you? Rum and vulgar. A Kermit centric meme depository. Yes. You said suppository. I think that was an anal joke. Or depository. It could be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:26

Giggity. Mardi Gras? Exactly. We you know what? I'm gonna that again, non sequitur because that's what we do. Oh, we should actually make motherfuckers. I in fact, we've debated should we rename this show non-sequitur? Or look, scrum and non-sequitur. Non sequitur, the podcast. Look, shiny.

SPEAKER_04 32:45

Oh, we'll just call this episode non-rum sequitur. I like that. Non-sequitur the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Non-sequitur.

SPEAKER_04 32:50

So the uh question is how fast can Demo Dave make us a new logo? He doesn't do the logo. Sorry, I mean a new bumper to cut new music. I'm about a week.

SPEAKER_05 33:02

Did me Demo Dave will have a non-sequitur the podcast opening theme song before the next episode airs. I'm texting him now. No, no, no, don't don't test him now.

SPEAKER_04 33:15

No, it's like four in the afternoon in LA. I mean in uh Vegas.

SPEAKER_05 33:20

Yeah, but we we it it's it's more fun to see like the distance between us saying the uh saying the thing and it coming to fruition. But here's the thing. Dave, don't do it.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

So yeah, don't do it, Dave, because here's the thing do it. That's a lot of work for a joke, but it's we're not renaming the podcast, so No.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

Well, we could do a themed episode, and it would be fucking hilarious. Oh, that's very meta. It's like a theme inside a theme inside. Never mind.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

That's the whole point.

SPEAKER_04 33:51

It's like a fucking turduccin of theming.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

Here's your th here's your thing. You can't get the thing. The turfuckin of branding. Yeah. You can't say that Rum and Nerdy jumped the shark if we always have jumped the shark. We've never not jumped the shark. Non secondary. We need a shark.

SPEAKER_04 34:12

With lasers. We're gonna get a friggin' shark and some friggin' lasers.

SPEAKER_05 34:18

Yeah, Rem and Nerdy, the laser cast. Yeah, the shark. Reminerdy, the underground volcanic layer. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

We have Reminerdi the wrapping paper, but anyway. There was a non-sequitur I was gonna say, and then I And you forgot the non sequitur?

SPEAKER_04 34:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:37

Oh, I remember. I do remember. Because you said beads and then you said Mardi Gras. So we He said anal, too, if you're going there. Well, I wasn't gonna go there. Not with you guys. You're gonna have to buy me dinner first. One of the things that we've been trying to figure out is Rum and Nerdy, the weekend part two. Part two.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

Or is that part due?

SPEAKER_03 35:06

It depends on where we're going. That was another night.

SPEAKER_05 35:08

If we go to Yeah, but but your Dutch accent just kills it.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

There's two things I hate.

SPEAKER_04 35:17

Oh, I know it's Swedish, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 35:18

If there's two things I hate are people who are intolerant of other cultures and the Dutch.

SPEAKER_05 35:26

How many awesome powers references can we get into one freaking episode?

SPEAKER_03 35:30

At least more.

SPEAKER_05 35:31

At least more.

SPEAKER_04 35:34

Mucho moss, many more.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Yes. Get in my belly. So baby. That was one of the ideas is for us to do Romanerdy the weekend Mardi Gras. And clearly we missed it this year. We were actually like, we could do this. Um we've talked about Rem and Nerdy the Weekend Kansas City, which would be cool. Yes. Um we could do Rem and Nerdy the Weekend Vegas, but that's cliche. No, it's very hangover-esque. Which would be fun. True. Yeah, if we really let ourselves be roofied by ourselves.

SPEAKER_04 36:13

I would do it for science's sake. Science's sake? Yes, it's uh it's a study of scientific importances. Yeah, for math. For math. For math.

SPEAKER_03 36:26

Yeah. We're gonna math the shit out of this drug. I'm gonna stand up because I'm I've been in that chair for too long. I was wondering what you were doing. Yeah. I'm resting my butt cheeks. Because damn it. Such is we have got to get off this anal topic.

SPEAKER_04 36:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

You're the one that keeps going there. Leave it alone. It's better than being there.

SPEAKER_05 36:59

Anyway. Carry on. What do you think of the rum, Andy? I do like this rum. It's a solid rum. This is the scene when we had The Plant Plant array, yeah. Steven Fancy.

SPEAKER_04 37:09

So in Oh, good, I'm not the only one.

SPEAKER_05 37:14

Yeah, but I didn't break the podcast when I did it.

SPEAKER_04 37:16

You almost broke the bottle. If it wasn't for Romanerdi the wrapping paper, it would have broken.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

Hey. My laptop is elevated off of the table because of his proclivity for spilling liquids into it.

SPEAKER_04 37:29

Yeah, I'll I'll owe that. So coming here because you know the thing that might have made me a little bit uh re re in retard uh in retard, can we say that? No.

SPEAKER_05 37:44

Late. Is that French? Yes. Is it?

SPEAKER_04 37:47

En retard.

SPEAKER_05 37:48

Or retard.

SPEAKER_04 37:49

En retard. What's it mean? It's not Dutch. It means late. Stupid. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So um our buddy Ken uh decided to switch from bourbon to rum and said, Oh, what do you have for rum? And the bartender said, Um we have two kinds, jack and shit. Honesty. But he went under the bar and pulled out a bottle of Diplomatico solid. You know, the nice frosted black bottle. Yeah, reserva. Reserva, exactly. Which Well, Diplomatico exclusive reserva. Yes. Which Ken ordered himself a drink, and uh it came, and then the bill came, and then Ken said, Wow. And I said, Wow what? And he goes, That was a good that was some good rum I had.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

Did they overcharge? I mean it shouldn't be. They overcharged. Where'd you go?

SPEAKER_04 38:52

I'm not giving them a plug. Okay. Not when they overcharge rum.

SPEAKER_05 38:58

Okay, fair.

SPEAKER_04 39:00

Fair.

SPEAKER_05 39:04

Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. That's okay.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

Anyway. Okay, we are 39 minutes and 15 seconds in. We've talked about nothing so far. I love you guys. I'm not singing fucking humming a theme song. Go on.

SPEAKER_05 39:26

You should. Do you remember the theme song To the Saint?

SPEAKER_04 39:32

Not even close. Yeah, because I'm not musically inclined. Really? Oh, it worked in my head. It was great. Are you tone deaf? Absolutely. Have you ever heard me in a conversation?

SPEAKER_03 39:43

When he hummed sound like the music from uh the what was it, the blue oyster from from uh Police Academy?

SPEAKER_04 39:55

That's an obscure reference that I picked up. Yeah. Blue Oyster. Is that an 80s movie?

SPEAKER_05 40:01

Police Academy? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:02

Okay, that's my new favorite 80s movie.

SPEAKER_05 40:04

An 80s movie for you to Michael Winslow.

SPEAKER_03 40:07

Speaking of like making noises with the microphone, Michael it was Michael Winslow, right? Yeah. That did the ones that we're gonna do.

SPEAKER_04 40:15

He was in the space balls. Was it not the large the large human in that called Hightower? Yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:26

As they give them a hot sideways glance. Yeah. That story ends there.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

Yes, we'll stop there.

SPEAKER_03 40:34

Carry on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:35

Um finger guns.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

I'm gonna do that on another episode. Wow. Welcome to Rome. I'm finger guns. And you'd be that's not just a sport name. And I'm holsters.

SPEAKER_04 40:55

That's what she said.

SPEAKER_05 40:59

That is the gayest thing you have ever said to me. That's what he said.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

And that's okay. We're inclusive here.

SPEAKER_05 41:10

We are. Yeah, I was I I meant nothing by the way. You are wearing a rainbow American flag.

SPEAKER_04 41:14

I I meant nothing by that statement beyond.

SPEAKER_03 41:20

No, he didn't call me gay. No, no. No. Anyway. So um you're on the back side of your trip here, so it gets a little easier after tonight, right? Yes. So after tonight you get to be late for other things.

unknown 41:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 41:40

As long as it's not his flight on Friday morning, which is like 6 a.m. Yeah. Why? Because I'm stupid.

unknown 41:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:47

Well, and and now that you have to show up to the airport six hours ahead of time to get to the TSA line.

SPEAKER_03 41:52

I heard Orlando's not that bad. And are are you pre and clear and I am touchless pre.

SPEAKER_04 41:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

I gotta sign up for that.

SPEAKER_04 42:01

You do. It's uh it's amazing. Yeah, and clear facial recognition you and keep going.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

Clear does it touchless as well. And it's it's actually like you just go look look at that kiosk and it says, Thank you, Greg, going in. Yeah, that's cool. No, I I might need to do that. Yeah. I'm hoping that what's my flight on nine? You flight Saturday? Yeah. Yeah, because I I have a two o'clock in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills.

SPEAKER_04 42:38

That's where I wanna be.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

You're right, you suck at music. Jeez, dude.

unknown 42:49

Ow.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Should you take requests? Stop singing. Please stop. Yeah. I'll own that one. You said it.

SPEAKER_05 43:01

We just we just threw it back in your face repeatedly. You said you were tone deaf. We just agreed.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

For math. We mathed it. We mathed it. For science. Jesus. For science. Can we just call this episode callback?

SPEAKER_01 43:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:16

Yeah. Well, we do that a lot. Callback, the episode.

SPEAKER_04 43:20

Can you make a logo for that?

SPEAKER_03 43:21

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Rum and Nerdy, the podcast where it's completely nothing but callbacks and inside jokes to references you don't know. This is going to be a lot of fun for us. You guys, not so much. You guys are along for the ride. Yeah. Pretend like you're listening to a Dennis Miller stand-up comedy. You're gonna laugh later.

SPEAKER_05 43:44

After you Google all of the jokes.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

You're gonna go home and really put a workout on your search engine and laugh. Put a workout on search.

SPEAKER_04 43:54

You're gonna learn how to clear your cache after that.

SPEAKER_05 44:00

Do you enable cookies?

SPEAKER_01 44:03

No, I want a cookie. Chocolate chip only. That does sound good.

SPEAKER_04 44:08

I could go for a cookie. That um Should we text Sandy? Would she bring us cookies?

SPEAKER_03 44:13

No, we don't have any. Oh. But um No, but the Panera Everything Cookie. Like, remember we when we were in uh I I brought a couple of them with me when we recorded at um Dollywood. I remember that.

SPEAKER_05 44:32

Those are good. We we we we ate them like on the show.

SPEAKER_03 44:34

Yeah, and because there's like it's a chocolate chip cookie, but there's like fully that.

SPEAKER_05 44:39

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty sure. No, it was more of a unwrapping the cookie from the thing.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

Yeah, but it's um there's like potato chips and pretzels and chocolate chips, like it's everything. The kitchen. Oh, it's like everything you could put. And like and like big chunks of salt. Yeah. It is and they still make this cookie? Yeah. They usually sell out, they're so popular.

SPEAKER_04 45:04

You're so popular. I want to be like you when I grow up. Be like Mike. There's a song with that, but I'm not singing it because you guys are gonna fucking shame me again. We will, please do that. Good bet that we will, yeah. That's probably accurate. Sing it. Oh, I I'm fascinated that he's looking up the Panera cookie. Oh, there you go. Hey. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 45:29

Did you see the result of that uh that Afroban lawsuit with the police?

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Okay, you are the third person that has brought this up in the last couple days. Really? Yes. Did you watch uh were you following that? Did you see any of the things? Did you Well, I'm only following it because someone else mentioned it. But yes, what was the outcome? I did I have not looked today. Oh yeah, he he won everything.

SPEAKER_05 45:53

Just ac crossed the board. Because he got high. Because he got high? And and had a home security system and Wait, did he win win because of his ring? N no. But I'm saying he he got Because he used like ring footage and all the diss tracks that he wrote for the police force that raided his house. That's what the that's what the cops sued him for, and everyone's like, you can totally write a diss track on the police. When they raid your house incorrectly, for bullshit reasons.

SPEAKER_04 46:35

See, just remember one thing. Ice Cube did it better. He just said, fuck the police. That might have been in the nineties. Someone's gonna look this up for me.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

Well after I read the ingredients to this cookie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

I'm I'm yeah, I'm I'm sure. Hold on. I'm sure everything that you're referencing today has off by a decade. It's off by a decade. Yeah. By a lot. Safe. Yeah, well yeah, because yeah, because even the uh Napoleon dynamite, even that was in the 2000s. So yeah, everything. Dude, everything.

SPEAKER_03 47:06

I'm looking at I think we have a class action lawsuit against Panera. Why? Really? A salty chocolatey chocolatey caramel confection big enough to share. It's not. It's not a large cookie. False advertising. Semi-sweet chocolate milk, caramel pieces, pretzels, and then topped with flaky salt. It's not big enough to share. In fact, it's not big enough in the first place. Fucking Panera. Fuck the police, 1988.

SPEAKER_04 47:32

NWA is still off by a decade in the wrong direction.

SPEAKER_05 47:36

Yeah, you were. Okay, good. Man, you're just sort of you're just shotgunning decades for everything that you're trying to.

unknown 47:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:46

It's my approach.

SPEAKER_05 47:47

Shotgun everything. Be inclusive of.

SPEAKER_04 47:49

I'll hit the side of the fucking barn eventually.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

Andy, how old am I? You're you're 30. I don't know. 32. I don't know. What are you talking about? All week long. It's been his birthday. Oh, how old are you? Somewhere between 29 and 60. Seriously. The only information I've been able to glean from conversations about his birthday is somewhere between 29 and 60. Well, you don't look a day over, probably. Yes. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 48:15

That was the best component I got in all week. A day over, probably. Yes. Welcome to Rum and Nerdy, the podcast where we say nothing.

SPEAKER_05 48:30

What's his wee shit? And somehow walk away still feeling insulted.

SPEAKER_03 48:39

I'm insulted, and that's just off of what I said about myself. I don't know. That's a self-inflicted wound. Yeah, I'll handle it.

SPEAKER_05 48:50

I'll take care of it. We have to stop recording with you really late at night. When am I gonna get here that's any earlier than earlier than late at night? We had to do like a fun morning recording or a weekend or something. We did that.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

We did that after Sate. Did we? Yes. With the fuzzy microphones with the business cards. Oh, that's right. Oh, wait, you were late that day.

SPEAKER_05 49:15

Was I?

SPEAKER_04 49:16

Yeah, you were busy. Oh yeah. Which sate? I don't remember that. Oh, California. At Cannot's Berry Farm. Snap away. Fair. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 49:31

Fair. Fair. Math checks out. The math maths. Carried the one. Carried the one in the vindication, and I'm okay with that. As you should be. Only prime numbers. Okay. Square root. Yeah, and oh, yeah. Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah, that happened. That's that day I missed checkout.

unknown 49:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 49:52

You missed checkout? No, you didn't. Oh. No. I got a late to checkout because all the room. Oh, uh the time I got locked out of the room. That was a shit fucking week. Anyway, move on. For a multitude of reasons.

SPEAKER_05 50:06

Oh my god. I forgot about you getting locked out of the room.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

Never talk about that week again. I forbid it. Son of a bitch. And you're going back.

SPEAKER_05 50:18

And you're going back again to work on another state. The last one.

SPEAKER_02 50:23

You've been taking them for the past like three says. No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

Really? No. You're like, I'm going to do this forever. No. No. It was always about me taking over as Shannon left. Shannon's gone. Now it's me, and I'm like, get me the hell out of here. No. I'm I don't want to do this.

SPEAKER_02 50:42

No, it's not that. No, I am. You can't make me do this.

SPEAKER_03 50:45

I am uh I am taking my leave from from my board position at the end of the year, uh, and I'm going to take a break from my volunteer time.

SPEAKER_05 50:58

You didn't break the microphone. You didn't break the microphone or nothing.

SPEAKER_04 51:01

No, I didn't even touch the microphone this time. This time.

SPEAKER_03 51:05

I will just let me know if I've got to queue up more technical difficulties music. You know what? It's one thing to note. Now that now that the studio laptop just basically doesn't have to go anywhere very often, I need to put the Stream Deck back in and set it up so we can hit Podcat Jingle and just different things pretty easily.

SPEAKER_04 51:30

Speaking of which, where is Podcat? Because my legs are strikingly staged right now.

SPEAKER_03 51:37

Uh probably My skin is intact. Probably didn't realize that we're up here. He's kind of dumb. He's very dumb. He was being full on brand Podcat during dinner. Trying to climb all over everything. Oh, sounds about right.

SPEAKER_05 51:54

Yeah. It was funny because he would jump up on the back, like the back of Sandy's chair, and you you reached over and you swatted him. And then he walked over and he jumped up onto the back of the chair next to you and started to step over and you swatted him. And then he runs over to me, he jumps on the back of the chair next to me, steps onto the back of my chair, and I do that awkward. And Garrick hugged him. No, I do that awkward I did this awkward like lean my chair way over to the side, and uh he just fell off.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

And then went back to Sandy, and finally Sandy had to put him out back. Just had like a sliding door open, goodbye, cat. Speaking of which, did she find him? Yeah. Okay. Where were they? It was over behind the rocks. Oh, just hanging out. Yeah, behind the water feature.

SPEAKER_04 52:41

Okay, we're in Florida. Every backyard is fenced in with a screen. No, she came in.

SPEAKER_03 52:47

She couldn't find them, and she came back and she was like the architect can't find the words for an architectural feature.

SPEAKER_04 52:52

No, because it's the dumbest feature ever. We are gonna put our pool in a screened-in thing because the state bird is yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:01

I'm gonna I'm gonna well, or I'm gonna invite you over to my place, the fucking live oak tree leaves. Those things, if we could figure out a way to harness those leaves and turn them into energy alive. No, those stupid little leaves that fall.

SPEAKER_04 53:18

Wait, but do they make the little propeller seeds? That's that's maple. Is that maple?

SPEAKER_05 53:22

No, that's me. Yeah. Okay. Stick to arc architecturing.

SPEAKER_04 53:27

Do landscape architects know about that shit?

SPEAKER_05 53:31

I imagine that would have been on the test. I'm calling Todd. Yeah, call Todd. But I'm pretty sure it's on the test.

SPEAKER_04 53:37

Source object. We can't call him yet. Too soon.

SPEAKER_05 53:43

Why? Yeah, I'll tell you later. Okay. So within the state of Florida, those leaves fall uh 365 days a year, and they just mounds of them everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 53:57

So Greg and I were in Baltimore a week ago, two weeks ago? I don't even know when we were there. A week and a half. We land, it's 85 degrees. I go to bed, I open the window because why wouldn't you open the window when it's hot in the place? Because it's hotter outside.

SPEAKER_03 54:15

No, it's like legitimately was like humid and muggy on night one. It's comfortable. Baltimore.

SPEAKER_05 54:21

It's almost like the greater DC area on the Potomac was wiped out by malaria back in the V.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

But 14 hours later.

SPEAKER_05 54:28

It was snowing. Yeah, that's that's that's basic Midwest weather. It was hideous. Terrible. It's one of my favorite jokes, is they I maybe I should get the lawnmower out this weekend, and then cut to scene of somebody with a snowblower. Shoveling. Your mother was a snowblower.

SPEAKER_02 54:51

Hey, laser lips.

SPEAKER_05 54:53

That's another great 90s movie. I missed the 90s.

SPEAKER_03 55:00

Anyway, like 1986. It's 55 minutes after. Should we wrap this fucking thing?

SPEAKER_04 55:05

Nobody got it. That's uh Oh no, we're gonna go for like an hour twenty-one.

SPEAKER_03 55:09

See, originally we were talking about doing this as a two-parter.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

We we we were. I mean, in fairness, every episode is to be continued till next week. Same shit, different week. SSDW? That's an acronym. Oh, it's like your production company. Shush.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

We do not discuss such things.

SPEAKER_04 55:36

We do not talk about the things that we do not talk about. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 55:42

Anyway. Golly. Miss Molly.

SPEAKER_04 55:46

That's the minute. Really? So that's the shut up, fuck up.

SPEAKER_01 55:51

Fuck the shut up.

SPEAKER_03 55:53

Anyway, so next week I'm in LA, then but we've got to figure out during where within Inspire Week that we are gonna do our Inspire episode.

SPEAKER_04 56:03

I think we should do an inspirational episode from the pool. Because that resort has a great lazy river. Really? Yes. The JW? Yeah. Absolutely. Is that a Saturday thing? We should we should do it from the rafts with the travel pack in the lazy river on Saturday. It's gonna be fucking twenty-one degrees because I just said to do it. We'll still do it. The microphones work fine, but we gotta have like something to record on.

SPEAKER_05 56:34

Can you record on your cell phone? Just put it in a little Ziploc bag.

SPEAKER_04 56:37

Yeah, I probably can. I got one of those like you know, cell phone thingies that is like on a manure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 56:44

Yeah. I get it. Oh, you know what? We got that in the um airport gift shop. No, um Josh and Matt sent that thing. Oh yes. He has one of those. Martin Aquatic. Oh yeah, I I thought we're not giving plugs, but yes, oh no, they're they're the official Swiss sponsor of I didn't get one. I have one in my office in LA. Yeah. I'll share it with you. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 57:10

Every year Martin uh Martin Aquatic wins holiday gifts.

SPEAKER_04 57:14

I as I'm looking at the Hot Ones Cup over there.

SPEAKER_03 57:18

Because we were on that podcast.

SPEAKER_04 57:19

Were you on that podcast? Their Hot Ones podcast? Yeah. I volunteered. They just wouldn't.

SPEAKER_03 57:25

No, they they asked us. They were like, you guys have to do that.

SPEAKER_05 57:30

They reached out and they're like, you two are idiots. You want to come on this thing? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:33

Was that like a crossover episode? Kind of. But it it was funny because the whole time I'm like, this is good. Well, this is where it gets really hot. No, this is this one's kidding. This is this is this is also not bad. Yeah. It was like at one point it goes, okay, it's starting to get hot. And it's like, this is the worst one. Oh, really? Oh.

SPEAKER_01 57:48

Stew. Still.

SPEAKER_05 57:53

I remember there was one of them, like, you were talking about something, and like I just kind of zoned off and just kept eating the one wing.

SPEAKER_03 57:59

I'm like, Josh was like, you only have to do one bite. Once you have one bite, you're fine. You're like, I'm really hungry.

SPEAKER_04 58:09

Giving me chicken, I'm gonna eat the shit.

SPEAKER_03 58:11

Not for nothing, but it's publics, and they make a solid fucking wing, dude.

SPEAKER_05 58:14

So for the hot one show, are they like are they pretending? Is that just like acting? Pretend like this is hot. This is the hottest one.

SPEAKER_04 58:23

So I have the actual hot one sauce like compendium at home.

SPEAKER_05 58:29

Mm-hmm. No. And how is it? It's got a little bite. It's got a little bite. Okay, so there you go. So they are faking it.

SPEAKER_04 58:37

I mean, it no, no, in fairness, like if you're not a fan of spice, it'll hurt.

SPEAKER_05 58:43

Okay. I mean, I'm not a fan of spice, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 58:50

Hey.

SPEAKER_05 58:50

Hey.

SPEAKER_03 58:51

Not in Sequitur. Uh they made an announcement yesterday. Who's they? Peter Jackson.

SPEAKER_05 58:58

Oh! I saw.

SPEAKER_03 59:00

Yeah. So uh after the hunt for Gollum, which is currently in production in New Zealand, directed and starring uh Andy Circus. Andy Circus Peanuts. And um I love that joke.

SPEAKER_02 59:15

It's still good.

SPEAKER_04 59:16

I was gonna say you still have the pack of peanuts here somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 59:19

Oh god, yeah, they are. Andy circus peanuts. Anyway, um, so they've announced that the next movie uh which takes place uh basically it's it's like three missing chapters from the beginning of Fellowship. And it's a lot about um shit that Gandalf is off doing and different things. But um you know the the I think it's it's gonna tie in probably to Tom Bombadilla some other shit. So the the interesting thing about that is the writer is Stephen Colbert. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:56

So he's a huge Lord of the Rings fan. Monumental or me. Yeah. So uh huge, huge Lord of the Rings fan, and uh is always talking about it, and it's it's funny because he's like, test me, bro, test me, you know, on his knowledge. Um and he had a concept and he took it to Peter Jackson and then they liked it and they worked on it, and then they took it to Warner Brothers, and they greenlit it.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:20

I'm just really glad that he landed on his feet.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:22

Yeah, because that was so concerned about him. I mean in the interview, Peter Jackson was like, Yeah, like I mean, do you have time to do this? And he goes, turns out I'm gonna have a lot of time come summer.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:37

I mean if you're looking for a career pivot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:41

Right in a way from late night talk show host to writer fantasy motion picture. It's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:51

So here is my question. We are 100% through the actual all of the literature itself. Not extrapolated. Yeah, not even that. Not even close. I had to read all of that shit in middle school. It was a good book. It's a hard read when you're like in sixth grade. Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:17

Hobbit's not. It was kind of Silmarillion is, but Silmarillion is really fucking hard to read. But then there's Book of Lost Tales, the Siege of Bryland. Um there's there's like 15 books. You're just making shit up now. No.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:38

There's Siege of Briland. Brieland, I think, is how you say that. He's gonna look it up on the interwebs and prove us wrong. Well, I'll that's why I don't call him out on shit anymore.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:48

Obviously. I'm just saying there's like the uh the loopas of Dombadere and the The worst part is he starts typing it like it auto-fills it for him.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:01

Shut up. Shut up. Doo doo doo doo. It's on Reddit. That means it's official.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:10

It it does. It really does. Uh all the good stuff, all the best stuff is on Reddit. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, The Children of Huron, uh Burian and Luthian, The Fall of Gondolin, The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1, Part Two, Lays of Bar Island. I mean, he's not a good one. The Lays of Baryland right now, the shaping of Middle Earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, Sarun Defeated, Morgoth's Ring, The War of the Jewels, The People of Middle Earth. It just goes on and on. The Aunt and Uncle of Dongadir. Yeah. And then there's Language and Linguistics, The Monsters and the Critics in Other Essays.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:54

Language and Linguistics, that's the textbook that goes along with the So you know how to read all the words that you can't read.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:02

And then there's the poetry and shorter works, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Road Goes Ever, Ever On, Poems and Stories, and The Letters of J.R. Tolkien. There are more than a couple. And a lot of them read like history books. Uh so it's not like necessarily narrative storytelling as much as it is a very detailed account of 3,000 years of history. Hey kids, are you looking for homework?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:31

Yeah. Well, there's no reading 1,200 page books. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? IKEA instructions don't include words. It's just random shapes and arrows. It's like idiocracy's gift too.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:49

If you've ever read some of his books, it's it's you think that they're in from like Sanskrit and hieroglyphs. Some of those things, that's that's not a word. You made that up. He did. He literally did. That is not a word.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:05

He did make that up. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:07

Anyway, there's a lot there.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:09

Um so uh I'm not saying that you would read it off of somebody else's screen on an airplane, but it exists.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:19

Reading off another screen on an airplane is hard. Watching someone else's movie, I've done. Once or thrice.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:27

Once or thrice. Oh, Jesus. It's on the screen in the back. Like you could have just put it on your own screen. No, I was watching another movie on my own screen.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:37

No, you weren't. You were watching their you To be fair, I was listening to my movie watching theirs.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:43

That's even worse somehow. Yeah, there's nothing better than watching Top Gun Maverick while listening to a few good men.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:51

At least he was in both movies.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:53

Yeah, that's why I picked that movie. Yes. Because I'm good at this. Yes. Anyway, we should wrap up. We're gonna wrap up. Hey, um, speaking of demodave. Demo Dave Pro.com. Oh, you finished for him. Love it. He did the well, he's been doing his dramatic pause and you ruined it, but it worked.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:14

No, no, no, no. It worked very well. Let's see if we can do that for all of these. Yeah. Yeah. Oh shit. Now there's pressure. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:21

So anyway, not fun now, is it? At this point, we're we're we're gonna see him in like just over two weeks. Yes. So excited for that. Wait, is that when we're in Vegas? That's when we're in Vegas. You're on a Vegas. We're doing a guy's weekend. We've got in May we've got licensing expo.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:41

And ICSC, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:43

And um no, that was it. Because that was also the same week as A M, but we did building museum instead, AM. Anyway, all that stuff. Anyway, you can check us out at our website, rumandnerdy.com. That's rum. And nerdy.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:58

I had to spell that.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:59

Rum A N D.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:00

Nerdy.com Social media is we are at rum and nerdy. Also.com. I'm just fucking with you now. Rum and Nerdy.net in a dot com. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:18

Wait, are we a.NET? You can email us at Rum A N D Nerdy.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:26

You can email us at show at rumandnerdy.com.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:33

Is that it, Andy? Do you have a new a new book? Anything else you'd like to plug?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:38

I'd like to plug a lot of things, but not on this podcast. We're good. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:44

Please end this. Stay nerdy, my friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:25

A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.