Episode 42 - Finding Joy in Chaos: Beach Trips, Boating, and the State of America

We're back for episode 42 - the meaning of life according to Douglas Adams - tackling everything from the state of American politics to skyrocketing housing costs and summer adventures.

After catching up on family gatherings and beach trips, we dive into what we're calling "the big beautiful bill" and its implications for governance. The conversation takes a candid turn as we examine whether democracy itself feels fragile, and how Americans across the political spectrum are grappling with policies that seem increasingly disconnected from traditional governance norms. Have we crossed a line, or is this just another chapter in America's resilient story?

The economic discussion hits close to home when we share our mutual shock at today's financial landscape. With car loans at 10% interest and modest homes doubling in value over just six years, we're asking the question on everyone's mind: how are regular people supposed to afford basic necessities? This financial squeeze shapes our perspective on what's happening nationally.

Not all is doom and gloom, however. Our review of James Gunn's Superman film celebrates how it brilliantly skips the tired origin story, delivering what feels like "watching a comic book come to life." These cultural touchpoints provide necessary respite while demonstrating entertainment's power to unite us even in divided times.

Throughout it all, we maintain that personal connections matter most. "I'm just loving the person that's in front of me every time... no matter who they are," one of us reflects, offering a simple but powerful antidote to the divisiveness that defines our era.

Join us for this thought-provoking conversation about finding balance in chaos. Have you discovered your own ways to stay engaged without becoming overwhelmed? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

Transcript

Episode Introduction and Catch-Up

Speaker 1 0:00

Two Drinks In Again was not taped before a live studio audience.

Speaker 2 0:04

So you went rogue and ended with Annie. Can we agree that?

Speaker 1 0:08

maybe I shouldn't be left alone to do this when I'm eight drinks in again and a little maudlin over current events. Hey friends, it's me Jeff.

Speaker 2 0:31

It's me. It's me, david T.

Speaker 1 0:33

Guys, I'm really sorry about that.

Speaker 2 0:34

This is 41 and a half.

Speaker 1 0:35

This is 41.1. Jeff's not allowed to do this by himself anymore.

Speaker 2 0:43

Put the locks on it.

Speaker 1 0:45

So, no, this is actually episode 42, which, for any of you Douglas Adams fans, is the meaning of life. For those of you who like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, all right, it's 42.

Speaker 2 0:54

42. That's the answer. That movie was really good. I know the book was better, but that movie was pretty good.

Speaker 1 0:58

Which movie are we talking about? The? Hitchhiker's guide are we talking? We're talking about the one with uh sam rockwell playing zephod yes that one.

Speaker 2 1:07

Oh, that's an abortion of a movie is it really I never read the book? The books are awesome. Yeah, I've never read. Books are incredible, like I mean, I just my whole adolescence was like I first learned about.

Speaker 1 1:18

There was a 1979 um radio show that was done by the bbc okay and it was simulcast over in the United States and the group that I hung out with like they, were into that show we were all into, monty Python and everything.

Speaker 2 1:30

Oh yeah, so they taped it. Nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 1 1:33

And then I got the books and I'm just like well, I'm in.

Speaker 2 1:35

Yeah, yeah, I've always wanted to do it, just never done it.

Speaker 1 1:45

It's great been. I'm well. How are you?

Speaker 2 1:46

fucking fantastic. Job's going well, job's going well. Just busy as shit. That's well, that's good, yep, keep you honest?

Speaker 1 1:49

yep, I'm all for it, but uh, yeah everything's been going swimmingly.

Speaker 2 1:52

It just the the days, the weeks, the months, just method is two. Yeah, exactly yeah, I mean that. For me to only be where I'm at since the end of apr, it's like man it doesn't even seem that way. It seems like I've already lived a whole other lifetime.

Speaker 1 2:08

I'm sure. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 2:09

But no, I love it. No, it's good stuff, excellent, a lot of great people and we're doing a lot of good things.

Speaker 1 2:14

Cool, yeah, yeah. What about you? Not too much.

Speaker 2 2:25

Just.

Speaker 1 2:25

God damn, been up to well, I was lucky. Well, I know what you did on the floor, I know what I did on the fourth. No, we um, I was lucky the weekend before, the weekend after father's day. Is that all three of my kids?

Speaker 2 2:33

were in town.

Speaker 1 2:33

Oh, that's great and uh, juliana had come in from la and we already had jeffrey here and jacqueline came in because she was just treading water before she moved into her place in spartanburg fantastic, and her place in Spartanburg Fantastic I like Spartanburg.

Speaker 2 2:47

Yeah, I haven't really explored it all that much but I'm going to get to know it over the next four years. It's quite charming.

Speaker 1 2:52

She starts med school on Monday, that's unreal Right Congrats.

Speaker 2 2:57

Yeah, thank you. That's phenomenal, she's excited.

Speaker 1 3:00

I told her she needs to take a photo, like outside the school as she's walking in. Yeah, so I can have a first day of school photo.

Speaker 2 3:10

So she has this thing called the white coat ceremony.

Speaker 1 3:14

Oh cool, which happens in mid-October, so it's October 18th.

Speaker 2 3:17

Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:18

So V and I just already booked a hotel down there to go in Friday night, because it's like from 8 to three the whole next day, and I'm like what? Well, I'm like what, what like I mean is this like you get your white coat, but then there's a video, the making of the coat.

Speaker 2 3:32

And then there's how to launder your coat and man speakers and shit. I fucking have no idea so wow, so yeah.

Speaker 1 3:39

So we're just gonna go down the night before and check that up we got. We have so much shit going on between now and then so it's like next weekend, go down to mom's house to check in. V's going to go down the day before.

Speaker 2 3:52

I'm headed to Fort Lauderdale Wednesday Nice, oh yeah, buddy, oh man, that's going to be great. Yeah, good time. Oh yeah, my nipples are hard over it. Oh, oh Lord, I can.

Speaker 1 4:01

You can see it. There you go. All right, do you suppose you could milk me? I have nipples, gaylord, gaylord fucker. Jinxie the cat, jinxie the cat.

Speaker 2 4:16

I need to revisit that one. I do too, that one's a that and Analyze this. Analyze. This was unreal.

Speaker 1 4:21

That's fucking hilarious.

Speaker 2 4:22

Yeah, you analyze this was that's fucking hilarious. Yeah, yeah, you, you, billy crystal and denaro you got a gift.

Speaker 1 4:30

You come here. You knew what I was saying to you you were listening oh man, it's funny. It was good, but anyway, yeah, so your nipples are hard, fort, lauderdale yeah, yeah, we're flying down uh wednesday afternoon and yeah going solo CJ going with you, cj's going and the kids Nice.

Speaker 2 4:48

It's like the family beach trip that we try to do every year?

Speaker 1 4:51

How many hours pass before you have to kill somebody?

Speaker 2 4:54

We're good Good.

Speaker 1 4:55

Yeah, yeah, excellent.

Speaker 2 4:56

But my daughter may end up killing my son.

Speaker 1 5:00

That's a whole other issue.

Speaker 2 5:01

But as far as me being in, woo bless you. Sorry about that, popped a spine on that one. But as far as just doing all that and getting along and everything, I love it. But beach is my charge of battery.

Speaker 1 5:17

I only want to do it like once. I hear you, brother.

Speaker 2 5:19

Once a year, but that's where I totally unplug and yeah get the battery back yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 5:28

Do you like read on the beach or? Oddly enough, I drink well, I was gonna say like, when the words aren't like tripled, you know you're not seeing triple vision, right?

Speaker 2 5:40

no, I really. I go in there and uh, oddly enough, I don enough. I body surf Like that's my thing, yeah. And then I take just moments and, you know, pray to my God a little bit out there, because there's nothing you know. Being in the ocean always makes me feel small.

Speaker 1 5:57

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:58

And I just kind of take that moment and give my thanks. It's very zen of you.

Speaker 1 6:02

Yes, it is very zen. I only do it once a year and give my thanks. It's very zen of you. Yes, it is very zen I only do it once a year. We were down at Pauley's because it was Virginia's annual family beach trip down there, and I go down there the Wednesday night Was it fucking crowded.

Speaker 2 6:16

No, surprisingly not it was. That's shocking to me.

Speaker 1 6:21

No, it was not. It has been my experience that anything close to july 4th like you just stay the fuck away. Yeah, you know you won't find me in hilton head on july no way my daughter was just down there with her boyfriend at my mom's house. Yeah, from the second until the ninth and I made that mistake one year.

Speaker 2 6:39

Yeah, going uh to folly, oh yeah, and it took us like 44 days just to get into fall oh sure, yeah, I mean right.

Speaker 1 6:47

Oh, what a fucking nightmare. That's no easy way to do that. No, it was a nightmare, yeah I'm glad y'all went though it's good, it was a good time, and then um, and then it's just, you know, then I have some lag time and then virginia goes off to the dolomites in italy, nice, at the end of august for two weeks. I'm sure that does not suck. She's gonna be hiking with her mother and her two sisters, and then her two sisters, husbands, partners. So all right.

Speaker 1 7:16

So, um, and I just kind of said, yeah, no, so then she'll come home for 10 days and then she and I go to Lake Como in Milan at the end of September.

Speaker 2 7:26

Wow, why don't you just stay over there and catch up with me?

Speaker 1 7:28

Well, you know, there were some who've argued that I mean, yeah, there were people like just a bunch of hellos just traveling around, just wait on you.

Speaker 2 7:35

in Spain, the fuck, someone's going to make the money, so you know.

Speaker 1 7:42

But yeah, that's. And then we just started booking stuff in october. We have this um, friend of hers was up visiting last weekend. Couldn't put the reins on me to not record a show by myself. Um, can we agree that, like, maybe that show was like one step away from going? Just leave britney alone?

Speaker 2 8:12

it was. That was probably one of the better drives I've ever had going into work. I was laughing, my ass I didn't even listen to it. Oh, I didn't even listen to it. It was too good for me anyway so yeah, so anyway.

Speaker 1 8:25

So we're now looking at going up to boston at the end of october to visit her friend who was just up here for july 4th weekend and so fantastic took the boat out and I mean, let me tell you there's this is my boating parameters of what makes a good boating day. Yep, when that anchor sets and the boat doesn't move.

Speaker 2 8:47

You've always had issues with that.

Speaker 1 8:48

Not this year. Oh yeah, I am a master, you got it, I'm a master anchor.

Speaker 2 8:52

You bought the Superman anchor.

Speaker 1 8:53

I'll tell you what I'm about to start fishing. I can be the best at baiting the hook. I will be a master baiter. Oh right, that was the lead up. I'm bullshitting you. I'm not going to finish, man, no.

Speaker 2 9:08

I know you just totally set me up for that. I can't wait until I fucking fail. For that I was hanging on every fucking word right there Nothing.

Speaker 1 9:17

So yeah, but no. So we've had two boat outings. We did one when the kids were all home and we did one when the kids were all home, and that was just epic. It was great. I had everyone go over, we cleaned up the boat and then we took it out and it just was brilliant.

Speaker 2 9:28

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:29

And then we did it again when this friend came up, and now was it busy out there on the fourth you know what. It didn't feel like that it was. That's good. There's this little cove that we tuck into, yeah.

Speaker 2 9:40

We tuck into like right near the yeah, we've been there, you've taken us home.

Speaker 1 9:44

We just we tuck into there and it's like right near the entrance to our marina. So it's perfect, we just drop the anchor and let's sit there and just music and your marina doing a better job. Oh, I can't tell. I had to pay, I had to get a bunch of repairs on the boat. Like it was all.

Speaker 1 10:02

It was like 700 bucks or something like that oh, that's not bad, you know I mean still I needed a new bilge pump, and then I needed a new battery oh, so that's always what I've had problems with. It was with the battery going dead, but yeah, I can see that it's uh but no, so it's enough to be a bit of a buzzkill and then to get started so late in the season getting out on the water, you know.

Speaker 2 10:23

so I'd almost rather it be that way, because to me the lake it's almost too cold until July. Yeah, but whatever. First world problems.

Speaker 1 10:34

Yeah right, exactly, but other than that it's been chill, the business has been going well.

Speaker 2 10:39

Fantastic, I did the whole Americana thing for July 4th.

Speaker 1 10:44

I went up to.

Speaker 2 10:44

Townsend stayed at that little Tremont little hotel thingy, the Tremont bed and breakfast. No, it's not a bed and breakfast, it's just like from the outside it looks shady and nasty as fuck.

Speaker 1 10:56

I'm thinking the Richmont Inn. Yeah, no, not that.

Speaker 2 11:00

But it's just right in there we just damn hung out at that pool all day and then walk five feet for their fireworks.

Speaker 1 11:08

Honestly, that's the kind of weekend I need oh yeah, it was amazing just not to go too far. Yeah, but do nothing, correct?

Speaker 2 11:15

you know that we did nothing but drink vodka in the pool.

Speaker 1 11:19

That yeah, and or like if I'm close to peacefulful Side Social or the company you know or whatever.

Speaker 2 11:25

We went in, had lunch there best tacos and margaritas and then checked in and sat at the pool all day watched fireworks, went to bed, came back the next day and it was like, oh yeah, that sounds like heaven.

Life Updates and Summer Plans

Speaker 1 11:37

Yeah, it was awesome yeah. Townsend will not be the Peaceful Side for long if they keep improving it, not just because I was there and then all you're gonna see on the facebook page marvel speaks out is everyone bitching about the?

Speaker 2 11:51

traffic. Yep, you know all the time all the time, yeah marvel's traffic is obnoxiously bad.

Speaker 1 11:57

Now I'll tell you what one of the big problems is it's, it's that you I this, I tell you uh, it's um, am I allowed to do that? Is that cultural appropriation?

Speaker 2 12:10

if I do that, it's a funny bit. It's. It's a funny bit from zach and mary, so he said she'd shit, stop cock.

Speaker 1 12:17

I tell you this or from this is 40.

Speaker 2 12:21

Yes, you know or no american virgin? Yeah, 40 year old virgin. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 12:26

Yeah, yeah god, that's stuff, that's pretty fucking that's.

Speaker 2 12:29

You don't see that guy anymore doing anything. It's a shame. Is he alive?

Speaker 1 12:32

I don't know anyway, but um, yeah, it's. The problem is this it is right where everything intersects at the college, yep, it's, it's. There's no direct way to get from like downtown to continue eastward on lamar and alexander. It's like this triangle effect that exists and it just disrupts everything yep, I hate it. Yeah, I do too, you know it's, it's a real inconvenience there's no really decent way of getting any.

Speaker 2 12:58

I mean granted, I mean you're there in like 10 minutes, but it's just, somebody will inevitably piss me the fuck right off that's like going to polly's there's no place. There's no place to go exactly you're you.

Speaker 1 13:10

You get off the interstates and you still got about an hour and a half of like you're in no man's land you know, you see nothing but brake lights, exactly.

Speaker 2 13:17

Yep, yep, just drives me nuts love it, love it all.

Speaker 1 13:21

Yeah, just shoot me in the face. So so, my friend all right, so we're gonna go.

Speaker 2 13:26

We're gonna go big, the big.

Speaker 1 13:28

Well we're gonna talk about the big beautiful bill. We're gonna talk about that big beautiful bill, all right so now you get to rein me in over my weeping over it.

Speaker 2 13:35

No, I mean, I I totally understand. I totally understand it. There's so much of this administration and I guess it shouldn't be a shocker, but just so much of it of well, where is this coming from? Why are you doing this? Wait a minute, it's just one of these things.

Speaker 1 13:57

I think that's what a lot of people who voted for him are now Right Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This isn't what we signed on for no-transcript that everything he does now is a distraction, so that he and his cronies nobody is watching them steal from the country.

Speaker 2 14:43

I really believe it like it's it's.

Speaker 1 14:46

It's like fucking die hard. And hans gruber, like it's really a heist. I want the loose, I want the list of all of these people. You know this guy with the asian dawn and you see, go asian dawn. I read about it somewhere in newsweek, you know, and and meanwhile it's all just a bank robbery that's taking place and that's kind of what I feel is what's really going on here.

Speaker 2 15:06

And then too, part of it, I think he was spouting off things about this big beautiful bill, but then he kind of washes his hands of it to where once that like it wasn't him writing all the edits to that 900-page thing Right.

Speaker 1 15:22

You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 15:25

It wasn't like he was in the room with people and being like no, put this in, this put this in there.

Speaker 1 15:27

It's not like anybody read the entire damn thing. Well, jeffrey's doing we're talking to you jeffrey sure did.

Speaker 2 15:38

And I am screaming. Maybe you know, maybe you're not I, or maybe you are actually. I know you are, but god, like somebody on the democratic side's gotta step up and be a solid leader well, I you know I'll go back to what I said a long time ago after the election, and this is something my sister and I talked about.

Speaker 1 15:55

It's just we aren't going to scream at our phones, we aren't going to scream at the tv, we're not going to scream at the radio or computer screens or anything like that. We this is trump, is Trump 2.0. We lived through 1.0 and and people knew how this was going to go they gave the project 2025 playbook.

Speaker 2 16:10

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:11

And if anyone is surprised by this shit that's going on, it's well, I don't know what to say. You clearly didn't read, you didn't bone up on what you didn't study for the damn test. Now did you so? And but you know it's, it's, it's. But it's also the people with whom he's surrounded himself that are just the biggest goddamn group of ignoramuses on the planet Kristi, noem and and and Pam Bondi and all of them.

Speaker 2 16:36

Yeah, boy, talk about somebody shitting the bed over the past couple of weeks. Yeah, yeah, they're going to have to do something fast about that Big time. Yeah, because I mean that's just, I got the.

Speaker 1 16:46

Epstein files sitting right on my desk. Oh, there are no Epstein files.

Speaker 2 16:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:50

It doesn't matter now whether you have them or not. Your credibility is completely shot.

Speaker 2 16:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:54

And MAGA is pissed. Pissed. I mean I won't want those. You know what happens when you piss off maga. Can you say january 6th?

Speaker 2 17:03

they're gonna be coming to the department of justice I mean, either side just goes absolutely batshit when they get mad so right, yeah, that's true whether it's chicago up in flames or somewhere in minnesota or whatever, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 17:21

Oh my god, yeah, no, I mean, it's just like no world, yeah, no one. Now he wants to take away rosie o'donnell's citizenship. What the fuck is that all about, are you? Serious, I have no idea and like she looks horrible too.

Speaker 2 17:36

Well, I mean, you know she's advanced in her years well, but no, like I don't even, I'm not even gonna go there, but it, it just I don't know man, it just that's all I can say is I don't know. Every single time is I don't know, so yeah. And I can't get involved with it almost anymore.

Speaker 1 17:54

Well, it's also. There have been days recently, so I think this time around with the whole tariff thing, I think the Wall Street has kind of now just ignored. Yeah, they just roll their eyes now they roll their eyes at it and meanwhile I'm sitting here looking at the market every day, going, oh, come on, now you can get back to 45 and damn it, they've almost gotten back to 45 and I'm like, and then you sit back and say, well, shit, don't tell me his policies are actually working here.

Speaker 1 18:22

But I don't know if it's that. I think it's like you have enough wealthy people who've just said fuck it, we're going to keep investing and we're going to keep the market going.

Speaker 2 18:31

They did get a surplus this past month which whoa yeah. When's the last time our government has ever said that we got money coming?

Speaker 1 18:42

in.

Speaker 2 18:42

Yeah, which blows my mind.

Speaker 1 18:44

What was it? It like 200.

Speaker 2 18:45

It was something that was an astronomical number of money, that a surplus, and it's just like what the hell right? It's weird. Yeah, it's crazy shit it is, it's all crazy shit.

Speaker 2 18:58

Yeah, it is all crazy, like even this last one with with the ice, right, none of them. Remember I told you a long time ago I was like this is not going to look good, like no matter what you're doing with this stuff, that it's not going to look good and it's been looking terrible. But so now the place that they raided in la, like two days ago, the marijuana farm, and it was nothing but fucking kids picking weed, like what the fuck is going on. Yeah, that's scary as shit. That's like out there, right.

Speaker 2 19:31

Well 13 and 14 year old.

Speaker 1 19:34

I don't think that this administration is very big on planning ahead no. I think they just Well I mean.

Speaker 2 19:43

I don't think you can with that guy.

Politics and the "Big Beautiful Bill"

Speaker 1 19:44

Doge is a right. Well, he's so adderall addicted and everything right. He's just all over the map and, like that, shit's had to have fried his brain at some point. And then you got fucking musk, his ex, you know his ex-girlfriend, musk, who who? I'm going to create a third party.

Speaker 2 20:03

No, you're not, no, you're not, no, you're not you need to worry about your cars.

Speaker 1 20:10

dude Can you just make a spaceship that doesn't explode.

Speaker 2 20:13

That guy too, for me, I mean I think he's really has dove deep into the ketamine and all that kind of shit, oh yeah. It's wild, yeah, and I'm sure it's something that he needs to shut his brain off. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 20:28

Probably yes, he thinks on a completely different level than most people. I could recommend for him hydroxyzine. That stuff will work.

Speaker 2 20:40

I'm sure it's better than ketamine.

Speaker 1 20:42

Probably it's less addictive, I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 2 20:45

I don't know Again, though I keep my eye on it. But I've gotten to the point where I cannot let any of it affect me mentally.

Speaker 1 20:58

No, I don't either I have shut that.

Speaker 2 21:00

I've luckily been able to shut that off. I'll read it and be like man what the fuck? Or man, that's pretty cool, but I can't.

Speaker 1 21:08

I'm too tired. My line with him is still will we have elections next year and in 2028? That's the big thing with me. If he starts saying shit like I'm calling off the elections, the first response from anybody should be be you don't have that authority to do that.

Speaker 2 21:27

Yeah, I, I don't, I I say I don't foresee that happening. But fuck yeah, but he's, he's, who knows.

Speaker 1 21:33

What he has done in seven months has been mind-blowing, just I mean like I honestly didn't think he would be that productive yeah honestly I've said this before on some episodes yeah, I honestly thought he just wanted to say he won a second time and then he's going to go play golf for the whole four years I've thought the same shit, but nope. I don't think that guy has been more productive with anything in his life except for these first seven months.

Speaker 2 21:56

Yeah, it's been something. Yeah, I'm impressed by it.

Speaker 1 22:00

You almost have to be a little bit like okay, when he really wants to knuckle down and get shit moving, he makes it happen.

Speaker 2 22:06

I was glad to see him go to Texas. I was happy to see that.

Speaker 1 22:15

I mean well, I mean happy to see that, not because of the situation, there was some response before FEMA pulls the rug out from under him, probably I mean, who knows People are sick man?

Speaker 2 22:23

Just some of the shit that I've seen that people have said and stuff over that stuff. Like you gotta be fucking kidding me, man.

Speaker 1 22:28

No, you can't take this Like what is wrong with people you can't take this position of, just because they're a state that has most, that quite a few people have different political beliefs than you. They're still Americans. Yes, there's people, Right, they're just fucking people that you know, I mean, you got 160 people that were still missing. Yeah, you know, a whole girls camp was wiped out.

Speaker 2 22:46

Yeah, it's crazy, you know, let's show a little grace here. What did it say? It went to 30 feet in like an hour.

Speaker 1 22:52

Probably. Yeah, I don't know the details of that.

Speaker 2 22:55

But I mean just horrific. But anyway to, I'm glad to see that he is out there because if he does have a reagan slash biden situation getting later on, you're definitely going to be able to fucking see it. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 23:15

Like I don't, I don't think that to me biden hid a lot yeah, I know, I mean I haven't read the jake tapper book me neither just because, um, I don't read much anymore, like.

Speaker 2 23:27

I really have problems focusing on reading. I don't want anyone to get my money.

Speaker 1 23:29

Well, I want to read it. It's something that my mother-in-law and I kind of locked horns over. She's like, well, I don't care what Jake Tapper has to say and I'm like, but do you see now where you're just as much? The problem is the other side. You want to pick and choose where you get your information from, so long as it validates your narrative, yeah, and I have a problem with that yeah because, there's there's a big part of me, and, I'm sure, a lot of america, who's really pissed off that one.

Speaker 1 23:55

They let him run again. Like I kept I've said this over and over again he forgot the promise he made and that he was going to be a one-term president. Yep, and now here's. The People wanted to have a real Democratic primary where the people the people get to choose who the nominee is.

Speaker 2 24:12

That would have gone such a long way.

Speaker 1 24:15

Yes.

Speaker 2 24:16

That was the crack that he needed. Trump needed yeah, that was. Yeah, I mean that alone, right there well, now something I was listening to.

Speaker 1 24:26

Well, actually, the latest episode of pod save america I was listening to while I was working out this morning and they had mark cuban on oh cool, and. And so there's a guy who you get a sense like he leans to the left a little bit, but he's again like me.

Speaker 2 24:40

I'm willing to call out the democrats yeah, yeah, if he smells shit, right, exactly, hey, that shit he's again like me. I'm willing to call out the Democrats for some of the stupid shit that they did. Yeah, yeah, if he smells shit, he will, right, exactly hey that shit.

Speaker 1 24:45

He's like you guys got to be stopping a bunch of whiny bitches and actually do something. You know, and that's it. Like Chuck Schumer, I'm going to write a strongly worded letter. Oh, fuck off, right, you know, I mean the lack of support, um, for the democratic nominee for mayor up in new york. Like, right, democrats, just kind of like, because he beat andrew cuomo and oh, he's a non, he's a non-establishment democrat, and so they've got a problem with that. If nancy might not be able to control him and chuck might not be able to control him, what are we going to do about that? Well, great, I think you have another aoc up there, and that's maybe what new york needs. Yeah, you know, who knows, who knows?

Speaker 2 25:26

I don't think they should have government state or run grocery stores that he's talking about and shit like that.

Speaker 1 25:31

Yeah, that's a whole other. That's a whole other thing people can talk a lot about what they're going to do. It's getting it done is. You know if you're fighting a city council and you know, assuming we still abate to the concepts of three branches of government on all levels.

Speaker 2 25:45

you know that's quite the assumption.

Speaker 1 25:50

I tell you these days it is. But no, I try to, I really just I mean I stay attuned and everything, but I don't get emotional about it. At this point I just can't.

Speaker 2 25:59

I mean if you did. I mean you know you always say the stock market needs Prozac. Now I mean if you did like just totally engulf yourself with what could or is or might happen. Man, you're not coming out of your closet. No, I mean, give me a dark padded room, right?

Speaker 2 26:21

No, you're absolutely right, my friend, I'm just loving the person that's in front of me every time that I do it. You know what I mean. What? No matter who they are, what they're doing, if they're in front of me, I'm gonna love them my best. I possibly can and like this, the, the violence and the hate, and like god, I really want it to go away.

Speaker 1 26:38

I do too it won't you know, but it's been there forever. I've said, I've said repeatedly culture, I think, is broken a bit and we've just really it started a little bit when the era of Trump started, but it really took hold during the pandemic. Everyone just became an asshole.

Speaker 2 26:56

Yeah, and I think a lot of it can steer towards the social media part of our lives.

Speaker 1 27:01

You know what I mean yes towards the social media part of our lives. You know what I mean yes.

Speaker 2 27:04

Somehow, some way, we have come that our own personal opinion is fucking fact, right, and even if you're shoveling shit out of your mouth with it, people really, I mean they're just like well, it's my opinion. Therefore, I don't know how or why we can get away from that. What have they always said about opinions?

Speaker 1 27:25

Yeah, Opinions are like assholes yeah, everyone has one, and they stink.

Speaker 2 27:29

Yeah, all the time, yeah, and, and social media allows that stink just uh. Oh yeah, just fester, it's, it's bad man. Like I can't, I don't know, I I don't know. Speaking of social media, to go a little bit of a light note, my dad in his spare time is doving into TikTok. So I have seen every like he sends me just jokes, like just his algorithm is just nothing but hilarity.

Speaker 2 27:58

So it's just because it's my dad, but I mean like every five seconds like bing it's like another TikTok from my dad which is hilarious, but anyway, I really want people to really end the damn hate, man, and it's not going to happen, not for a while.

Speaker 1 28:17

It's a big reason why, in retirement, I kind of just want to not be in America. Yeah, I just don't need that, and I hear you.

Speaker 2 28:25

And I totally I hear you and I don't do what you want to absolutely freaking do and going back to these things with ICE and stuff, and then we'll start bringing it in from the national spectrum. But I'm so mad that for so long Republicans and Democrats have not done something to where you can get into this country the right way and it'd be easy and it'd be done without seven to eight to nine to ten years that it takes Like that's what I'm furious about. It's just like it shouldn't be that difficult. Like when you, if you decide you're leaving America, you're not going to do it illegally no, not at all.

Speaker 2 29:10

Exactly right, but there's a reason why people do it here and we need to end that shit, and then you don't have. You know what I mean, right, exactly, I don't know. I mean it pisses me off, it's like it's been broken for so long.

Speaker 1 29:20

Right, we've explored citizenship opportunities in both the UK, ireland and Italy. You know I've actually sent applications to the general dental councils of both. Ireland and the UK.

Speaker 2 29:34

Right.

Speaker 1 29:34

Which they've received now and they're reviewing that, so we'll see what the next step is.

Speaker 2 29:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:39

But you know, like, getting just permanent residency in the UK, that takes a while, that like takes five years to get that, wow, you know. And then you can think about getting citizenship. And if you can get citizenship, then that means you get the NHS and you get everything that their socialized government gives you. Right, you know? But they're not just saying, oh, here, come here, we'll let you become a citizen and now you can have all this free shit, right?

Speaker 1 30:03

saying oh here, come here, we'll let you become a citizen, and now you can have all this free shit right now, um, and, and it's the same. You know, every country's citizenship policies are, really are different.

Speaker 2 30:10

I just think ours have been the most lax yeah, and that's, and you know, that's the reason we're in the shit storm that we're in, absolutely just fucking fix it right, fucking fix it Right.

Speaker 1 30:24

Fucking fix it. I will tell you this. You know, you see the news blurbs that say there are 15 GOP congressmen that are holding out on the big beautiful bill and everything like that. Virginian are just like. Why do we even hold on to any kind of hope that that means something?

Speaker 2 30:43

Oh yeah, no. You know, because then you see the video, changing their mind up and like till a final second.

Speaker 1 30:47

Well, you see the video of Burchett, like you know going. Oh yeah, he came by, he signed a few things. It was real cool. It was real cool.

Speaker 2 31:11

And like Jon Stewart's even like made fun of that clip on show and everything like that.

Speaker 1 31:12

And then I watch it and I'm just like jesus christ, should I run for congress?

Speaker 2 31:13

you know somebody's doing for congress. I couldn't possibly do worse. I I I've always said this I hate politicians. I just do. And because something happens when they cross over that line, when they get there, they lose part of their soul yes, yes, you know it it's a dirty, it's a dirty business.

Speaker 1 31:28

Like drugs, it's a dirty business.

Speaker 2 31:34

Michael, yeah, I said I wasn't going to get emotional about it but here I am getting emotional about it.

Speaker 1 31:40

I mean, I'm not July 4th emotional about it.

Speaker 2 31:41

Listen, I'm just kidding, it was, I enjoyed it. I mean, I'm not July 4th emotional about it, I'm just kidding. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 31:46

It was a moment. It was a moment. I'm glad you did it.

Speaker 2 31:49

You had an outlet you needed to do something and you did it.

Speaker 1 31:52

We had eight people download that show.

Speaker 2 31:57

And you and me were one of them.

Speaker 1 31:58

Nobody listened. I didn't even listen to me on that one. I didn't even listen to me on that one. I didn't. You know, I was really rushing just to get 30 minutes of something under my belt. Yeah.

Speaker 2 32:08

I know that's my fault not being too busy to get over here it's okay, but man, it's just it's been funny, it's cool. Well, let's talk about what's going on locally. Locally, I found out about a new restaurant today. Talk to me. It's called the. You may have already been there my son sent it to me he's like check this shit out and I'm going there tomorrow. Oh, what is it? Hang on, hang tight. It is the marlo. It's on central.

Speaker 1 32:40

It looks fabulous I know not of this thing, I would you speak.

Speaker 2 32:44

My son sent it to me. He was like, man, check this place out. It's on Central. And when I went to the website I was like, oh excuse me Central, as in North of Old City, oh wow.

Speaker 1 32:57

It looks fantastic good little bar area.

Speaker 2 32:58

Nice little menu. Go ahead, Knoxville.

Speaker 1 33:03

You know I love all of that. My problem is my wife takes one look at the traffic when she when we're planning on going downtown and she's like nope. And I'm like you know what, I don't want to let the traffic ruin my life, right, right, you know I'm lucky where I'm at, yeah, being able to hop on alcoa and then poof, there I am yeah, that that, although I was sitting at my desk during this blasting, you know, because they're doing whatever the fuck they're doing to alcoa highway, which will be done in 21 30, right yeah?

Speaker 2 33:34

yeah. But like I heard it and felt it, oh wow, yes, it was like everyone else was just like oh yeah, yeah, that's them blasting. They don't announce something overhead.

Speaker 1 33:47

I mean it is wild. What is the ultimate outcome of what's going on with Alcoa Highway Judging?

Tariffs, Governance, and Economic Impact

Speaker 2 33:53

by where I'm at one to make it bigger, but they're making true legitimate exits out of it, gotcha. They're making true legitimate exits out of it, gotcha. And I'm thinking where you're able to get to Pellissippi and Clinton Highway just quickly, right, and wherever you're wanting to go from there, right, and ultimately it's probably just another way of getting to Dollywood, isn't it always? Isn't it always? Dolly has spoken. I remember this is the way I remember reading a long time ago, they talked about this Interstate 3 I3.

Speaker 1 34:31

Yeah, that they wanted to make. If you google it, I mean, there's still information on it and whatnot and there's a Wikipedia entry on it. But it basically was going to go from Savannah to Knoxville and I'm like, well, sign me, the fuck up for that. That'd be amazing, you know, yeah and it's um, but, like you know, you're running once they start getting into the south carolina and and, and it's well, it's the environmental shit and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 34:57

Yeah, the tape yeah, that gets involved. That holds well. It's basically the premise of ezra klein's book abundance, yeah, where all these regulations and everything like that just get in the way of any kind of progress being done. Yeah, horseshit. California has wanted a light rail system going from san francisco to la and have spent how much more, probably more money. I don't know how much they like billions.

Speaker 2 35:20

Yeah, just on the preparatory work right, yeah, like yeah and not a damn nail.

Speaker 1 35:25

Not a damn rail has been laid yeah.

Speaker 2 35:27

It blows my fucking mind.

Speaker 1 35:28

Exactly, exactly Unreal. And that's the kind of shit that we're backpedaling into. National, no, no, I get that.

Speaker 2 35:35

But what Alcoa?

Speaker 1 35:37

where.

Speaker 2 35:37

I work. It looks like they're just building this easier access to get to where I work, and I'm assuming it's just due to the fact of it being a trauma the only trauma facility out there. So I mean, but man, I don't know who the fuck's paying for all this shit, but they're doing some work, man. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 36:01

And meanwhile, I-40 at the border is like tariffs One day we have opening and another day we do not.

Speaker 2 36:10

One day it's 25%, the next day it's 10%. I'm going to roll it back.

Speaker 1 36:18

Today we're good. I want China to have 75% tariffs, the most biggest, beautiful tariff ever.

Speaker 2 36:29

I love watching MSN. I know we're going back nationally, but from 15 minutes apart you could see a different headline where it's just like God. I mean it's like airplane now.

Speaker 1 36:42

I was like, oh, I picked the wrong date, quit sniffing glue. Yeah, that's kind of.

Speaker 2 36:50

It's just like one thing after another. It's like, oh shit, he said this, and then he's doing this, and then he said that, right, and it's not even noon.

Speaker 1 37:01

Anyway, it's so funny, true that, yeah, it's not even noon. Anyway, it's so funny, true that, yeah, it's so funny. You've been to the new baseball stadium. I have been there multiple times.

Speaker 2 37:08

Is it great? It's fucking fantastic Really. Yeah, Look, if you can get there I think Jeffrey's gone already you get there. Go eat at Stir or Southern Grit, right there, Right, and walk to it and not even give a shit about baseball. Like it's just cool to like say, holy shit, this is in Knoxville.

Speaker 1 37:30

Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:31

It's phenomenal. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how much money Randy Boy put in that motherfucker, but wow, good move.

Speaker 1 37:38

It was a good move.

Speaker 2 37:39

Yeah, I hope to see more things stem from it. Yeah, but you and I talked about it Like where?

Speaker 1 37:45

they put it, everyone was like, oh really. Well, now that I think about it, like it's not unlike where the durham bowl stadium was or correct was when I was in college. Right, and it's so much better than the old knoxville smokies, right and it's right there and kind of like you've watched business build up around that.

Speaker 2 38:04

Yep, yeah, even just the condos and the couple of things that are attached to it. Yeah, holy shit, holy shit.

Speaker 1 38:11

And they're sold out.

Speaker 2 38:13

Right. Like how the fuck can y'all afford it? Like what are y'all doing?

Speaker 1 38:17

Well, it's like when I drive around in any Farragut subdivision.

Speaker 2 38:20

Right.

Speaker 1 38:21

Like you see what the houses are listing for these days and you're just like what the fuck does everyone do around here that they can afford these, correct, you know?

Speaker 2 38:27

yeah or do you just live house, poor right I? Maybe you know I it blows my mind. Look, I don't want a new car, but I've. I've had that little seed get into me to where I was. Just like I'm it, you know I've got over two job and a pay increase does that well? You're that absolutely, and you know my car've got over 200,000. New job and a pay increase does that Well? That absolutely. And you know my car's got over 200,000 miles. So I was just like okay, I need to start, you know.

Speaker 1 38:49

Am I just?

Speaker 2 38:50

right, concepts of a plan. Concepts of a plan, yeah, fucking around on just the Toyota website. It pulls out just a Highlander, right, pulls up. The price itself didn't bother me as much, but I didn't do a whole credit thing. But the initial pop-up was 10%, just the average. This is like an average. Apr for a fucking car is 10%. So if I wanted to get a new Highlander right now, it could be yours for about $800 a month. If you put four grand down. Jesus, $800 a month for a car. Damn, I'd be living in that motherfucker.

Speaker 2 39:35

I'd have to.

Speaker 1 39:37

Yeah.

Speaker 2 39:38

Isn't that nuts?

Speaker 1 39:39

Yeah, I think a five-year that I had on my Suburban. I think it was like 720 or something like that. Yeah, I think a five-year that I had on my Suburban, I think it was like 720 or something like that.

Speaker 2 39:46

Yeah, but you did it in five years, so that makes sense. This was like a 44-year.

Speaker 1 39:52

Sign your life away, right, yeah, that's like a student loan 10%.

Speaker 2 39:56

Yeah, it's exactly like a student loan 10% Blew my damn mind. You can tell how much it blew my mind.

Speaker 1 40:01

My voice went really hot, I my damn mind you could tell how much it blew my mind.

Speaker 2 40:10

My voice went really hot. I was gonna say, well, get a lot of emotion out of that there. I just couldn't believe it, man. It was like eight hundred dollars a month. That's just crazy to me. It is, and the fact that my house is, you know, you get those shits in the mail of, like, you know, tap into your equity and blah, blah, blah. Right, get it all the time. Yeah, but my little dump it's not a dump, but you know it's a small ass home it's, it's being valued over four hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 40:32

Yeah, and I'm going really how, yeah, yeah, you know, especially from what I bought it for right it's like how I've only been there six years. How is it doing that? It just blows my mind.

Speaker 1 40:46

Anyway, because people are paying that money. That's why.

Speaker 2 40:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:50

They start comping you based on what everything around you has been selling for, and that's how they come up with their numbers.

Speaker 2 40:56

Yeah, but I just don't see how people are able to do that. I don't either. I just don't Like more power to them. I guess everyone's this damn influencer.

Speaker 1 41:04

Well, I think you have a lot of these West Coasters coming out where the property values are a lot higher out there. They sell their homes. They have a lot of money left over. Like well, I can get more home. Excuse me, for you know what I just sold my house for, so you know mine is doubled. What's what I?

Speaker 2 41:25

paid for.

Speaker 1 41:26

You know, I mean it's like that's nice, that's what you hope for, and but you know, I mean, will that stick?

Speaker 2 41:31

you know for the I have no idea how many years that I'm staying here. Right, it could be another bush thing to where it's everything bottoms exactly 2008 all over again.

Speaker 1 41:40

Yeah, who knows? Yeah, but it just I don't know it's just for sure.

Speaker 2 41:47

It just always just blows my mind sometimes with the interest rates and stuff.

Speaker 1 41:51

Just I cannot fucking believe that yeah yeah that's like I mean with this house. I mean, when's the?

Speaker 2 41:57

last time you, you paid 10 apr I can't remember, I've never done it. No, I probably haven't.

Speaker 1 42:04

No, I mean, my mortgage on this house is $3,875. Yeah, I'm not refinancing shit.

Speaker 2 42:12

No, mine's $2,800.

Speaker 1 42:14

Yeah right.

Speaker 2 42:15

Like what? Yeah Fucking crazy, it's okay. It's okay, it's all right All good in the hood Saw Superman today. It's okay, it's okay, it's all right, all good in the hood Saw Superman today.

Speaker 1 42:27

Talk about it. I saw it last night.

Speaker 2 42:30

I love it. Like I was just telling you, james Gunn is just. He has a style Yep. He's honed it in Yep and giving him the reins of DC is probably the coolest thing ever, probably the smartest move.

Speaker 1 42:42

Yeah, yep, and is probably the coolest thing ever, probably the smartest move. Yeah, it looked like based on this movie, he had a vision for where this is all going to go. Yep, and you know not to want to get too many spoilers out there, but it's I mean, who needs the origin story. They explain that away in the opening credits. It was done in 30 seconds, it was yeah, like we all know the origin story, you know, we've seen Christopher Reeve, we've seen you know, I thought it was cool.

Speaker 2 43:09

His son was in the movie, that's true. Yeah, he was a reporter. That was cool.

Speaker 1 43:13

The Dawn of Justice. You know we've seen that origin story, We've watched Smallville.

Speaker 2 43:18

Yeah, we're there.

Speaker 1 43:26

We're there, we're there, we're a fan, exactly so. So we don't need to know.

Speaker 2 43:27

Oh, krypton is doomed or anything like that. Yeah, I do like the fact that they changed the superman music, but it's still there. But it's still there because that when you hear it, the continuing threat, that that is what I did like it doesn't matter who's running the show on all of this.

Speaker 1 43:40

Yeah, they still kept the music. Yeah, um, it kind of blew my mind, I because I was during the movie. I was like is that him?

Speaker 2 43:50

is that not goddamn bradley cooper was in that yeah I'm superman's dad, I know, play jor-el what the fuck you know, um, so he's such a handsome man, just a handsome man, um, but um, no, it was a.

Speaker 1 44:14

I mean I just kind of liked how it just kind of dropped you in the middle of a day in the life of superman.

Speaker 2 44:21

Yeah, with all this stuff going on and yeah, I mean even when he was having like the break and talking. You know we're not not supposed, but I mean he's having this talk with lois while all this shit's going on outside right, hilarious I know that was funny.

Speaker 1 44:35

I mean I'm shaking in the seat like most people aren't laughing, but I found that to be no. I thought that was.

Speaker 2 44:41

That was just balls funny yeah it would, with the green lantern just using a baseball bat. It's just like. That is hilarious. Yeah, I mean just and and james gunn's always done that you know I said it upstairs before we record is he's able to take this a shit ton of characters exactly and put them all in and make it damn work where you love them all yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 45:02

Anyway, you know, and you touched upon some other things that leave the door open for developmental stuff, for characters and everything.

Speaker 2 45:11

I really did. Yeah, I really did feel like I'm. I watched a comic book today.

Speaker 1 45:17

Yes, absolutely, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 45:20

I opened it up from page one and just watched a comic book.

Speaker 1 45:23

I feel like Fantastic Four is going to be that also.

Speaker 2 45:26

I agree with you. Oh, I am. I feel like it's going to be a comic book.

Speaker 1 45:30

I'm ready for that? I am too. Yeah, we've had a kick-ass month of July.

Speaker 2 45:34

I know I'm still mad. I didn't see the damn Brad Pitt racing movie.

Speaker 1 45:41

Oh yeah, I haven't seen that either. Yeah, and the Jurassic Park. You haven't seen that yet. No, have you? I did? Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 2 45:45

Yeah, it's fucking dinosaurs. It's always dinosaurs, Right, I know, but it's like fuck yeah.

Speaker 1 45:53

No, what I liked about it. I kind of felt it was almost like a standalone movie. Oh, was almost like a standalone movie. Oh, interesting you didn't, I mean it still builds off of the original movie and and um, and the original trilogy and then the sequel trilogy, um, but it was also just kind of like yeah. It just kind of like was this is the world now and this is just an adventure going on in that world, gotcha. So um, I mean still similar plot points to other movies.

Speaker 2 46:23

You know there's always the, the somebody's gonna corrupt corporate guy that's trying to trying to like make a buck off this and everything so shocker. Um, yeah right, that doesn't happen real life uh shit, I'm blanking on his name cj saw it.

Speaker 1 46:40

There's the paul riser character from aliens that shows up in every movie.

Speaker 2 46:43

You know like that, yeah, so um, but no, it was, it was good. I saw it and she's like, yeah, it was a jurassic park movie.

Speaker 1 46:51

It was like fantastic jacklyn gave it a b minus. I said I'll give it a solid b.

Speaker 2 46:55

Yeah, I gave it a solid b. It was good. You know, I haven't I other than the first one they're just something to watch.

Speaker 1 47:04

It's just dinosaurs. No, there's nothing like the magic of that first one.

Speaker 2 47:07

Oh, yeah, the first one. I was fucking Laura Dern. You know what I mean. Look at this shit.

Speaker 1 47:13

I was the same.

Speaker 2 47:14

I was just blown away. Man, are we able to do this now, watching movies, holy fuck.

Speaker 1 47:18

Like that was the game changer movie, I think, for movie making. Oh yeah, you know, because now you can do that. Well, that made the whole Star Wars trilogy, a prequel trilogy, possible. Yeah, I agree with you, and everything else, I mean the Lord of the Rings yeah, that couldn't have been made without that kind of technology already there.

Speaker 2 47:37

Did you see the preview? Or have you seen the preview with the Ryan Gosling, where he's in space?

Speaker 1 47:44

movie no.

Speaker 2 47:45

Okay, okay, if you haven't seen it, you need to.

Speaker 1 47:49

Like it's not First man where he plays Neil Armstrong. No.

Speaker 2 47:52

Okay, yeah, no, it's a yeah. I saw the first time I saw the preview today in the IMAX they did not show that. I was fucking blown away by it. I was like man, this is crazy, Because Ryan Gosling could do anything and I'm in.

Speaker 1 48:08

He's hilarious. No, he's funny as hell.

Speaker 2 48:10

Funny as hell.

Speaker 1 48:12

Good actor yeah.

Speaker 2 48:13

Did you see the Fall Guy? No, you got to Him and Emily Blunt are fucking superb. It's a great movie. Okay, yeah, it's a fucking great movie. It was one of those like hey let's just see what this is all about. And about halfway through is like man, like how in the hell is this not as pop? You know anyway, I can go off on some serious tangents.

Speaker 1 48:32

Yeah, seriously sorry, that's all right, it's all good. Um, yeah, so those are the like last. So last night, jeffrey and I saw the 740 movie. I think it's the first time I've seen an evening movie in a long time.

Speaker 2 48:48

Was it crowded? No, yeah, see Mine today. I was expecting it to be just jam-packed. Right, it was like a third full.

Speaker 1 48:57

When you have three-quarters of the movie theaters allocated for that, like now, I get it why none of these movies stay in the theaters beyond three weeks. Yep, like I was pissed. There was a movie I wanted to see called Life of Chuck that starred Tom Hiddleston. Yeah, it was a Stephen King thing, it was a Stephen King short story that was supposed to that had gotten rave reviews like won awards at some of it. Some of the competitions and everything. And it was gone in three weeks.

Speaker 2 49:25

Yeah, I would even have said three days.

Speaker 1 49:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2 49:27

I mean, I don't even. It was a downtown West movie also. There you go, that's like the new indie place Exactly.

Speaker 1 49:33

Well, it is. I mean, really, you know, you want to see, you want to see anything that's like not like mind numbingly, you know. Oh, here, just take some more of my brain cells you know, um you know what they've got to do.

Speaker 2 49:47

Now, though, they've got to tell me what time the movie actually fucking starts. They do. I always used to be on the premise that I used to go in loving previews, but I'm not just getting previews anymore no, it used to be.

Speaker 1 49:59

The preview started at the time the movie was supposed to start. Now they're not doing that anymore. Nope. It's like I got to sit through more Maria Menounos bullshit. She's this dolphin laugh. I'm going to call her her flipper half the time. Both have these machine gun. He has these. They her and seth rogan. Both have these machine gun style laughters.

Speaker 2 50:34

Seth rogan's laugh though, does get me usually because it's like, yeah, that's some bitch is stoned out of his. He's stoned out of his g. Usually because it's like, yeah, that son of a bitch is stoned out of his mind he's stoned out of his gourd. It's like okay, you're getting chuckled because you're just completely bummed but I'm with you.

Speaker 1 50:47

I like that pisses me off too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 50:49

I mean, my movie today was supposed to be 1220. Yes, and I went in at 1225 and it's still like not even dark in the theater, it's just commercials.

Speaker 1 51:05

And then the previews. You got a half hour previews and then you had a couple commercials after the previews.

Speaker 2 51:09

And then you had another preview and then you go into the movie. It was like 1 o'clock.

Speaker 1 51:13

When they start the sound effects of a soda being poured. That hits hard.

Speaker 2 51:16

That does I'm not going to lie, especially in the IMAX yeah.

Speaker 1 51:20

Yeah, that hurts. Yeah, I haven't had like a Diet Coke in, oh God, 20 years.

Speaker 2 51:25

Really why.

Speaker 1 51:26

I quit I just I was drinking. I had a problem.

Speaker 2 51:31

I did.

Speaker 1 51:32

You had the fridge thing, Dude man.

Speaker 2 51:40

It was worse than that, like I had one of those mugs from michael's. Did you know that? Did they call them?

Speaker 1 51:42

that the 12 packs well, fridge things. Oh, okay, yeah, I didn't know if you're addicted to diet coke.

Speaker 2 51:45

You got a fridge thing. Okay, I did not know that it works.

Speaker 1 51:49

Okay. Well, I, um, I had one of those big mugs from michael's that oh the 56 ounces of the guzzler, I would literally drink three of those a day whoa and then, like on top of drinking sodas like if I had lunch with a friend at aubrey's or something like sodas diet coke on top of that, like it was like a case that I was drinking a day whoa and so I'd seen the morgan spurlock movie supersize me oh man, what a fucking eye opener that thing was I'll never forget it was saint patrick's day, 2005, that I saw this.

Speaker 1 52:22

we are the next morning, we are moving into the building in merrillville and so I said, well, I'm sure all this diet coke I'm drinking is not good. So I found this website called aspartame kills, which is nutra sweet. Yeah, started seeing similar. I had just gotten like a lab results back like where my blood glucose was up and everything like that. So I saw that, well, this is what it does. It kind of fucks with your pancreas a lot, wow, insulin production and everything. And I said and I'm a cold turkey kind of guy yeah, yeah, okay, I'm out. Yeah, see you. Two weeks of headaches. You couldn't make me drink a Diet Coke.

Speaker 2 53:05

Wow.

Speaker 1 53:05

The smell of it makes me sick. Really it really does, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 53:09

I had no clue.

Speaker 1 53:10

I was hooked. I had like a big. It was like a 20-year habit that I had. It started really going strong in college Because I mean, do we take care of ourselves in college? No, it's like every fucking chemical under the sun going into our bodies Twice and viruses and bacterium and all sorts of shit. Nothing good happens at college. I love penicillin oh well, let me tell you about this. Let me tell you this story.

Speaker 2 53:38

Okay, so I just had my physical I'm really worried that penicillin sparked a story.

Movie Reviews and Entertainment Discussion

Speaker 1 53:44

No, it didn't. It plays a role in this. Okay, no, I had my physical on Friday and I love my doctor, dr Milholland James Milholland, he's fantastic, yeah, he I. But I've been having like weird like feeling going in here like a blockage, or just then this. That morning I woke up. It's kind of like when you have an ear infection and like it swells a little bit to the point where it radiates to your tmj yeah, and like now, your bites a little bit off and right, you're like oh nothing good, you know.

Speaker 1 54:15

So we're going over stuff. He's like well, what else you got going on today? Well, like, while I got you here, I got this ear thing going on. And so you take a look at everything. He's like, looks in and goes what does it feel like? And I said, well, it radiates and I feel like my bite's off because the TMJ is inflamed and everything. He goes yeah, it's like a classic ear infection. You get like a five-year and I go, I'm swimming in the lake over Fourth of July weekend. That's about the best I can come up with where this came from. And so he put me on Augmentin which is the standard stuff for ear infections.

Speaker 1 54:46

Yeah, and the shit works Like. I'm only three days in on it, my symptoms are all gone and it affects you on the other end a bit. We're sharing that as a public service announcement to all of our listeners, but I'm like what the fuck man? What am I? Five years old?

Speaker 2 55:04

That's wild, getting ear infections like that yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 55:06

Dirty ass lake. Dirty ass lake. But yeah, so there you go, pedicillin.

Speaker 2 55:12

Yeah, there you go, pedicillin.

Speaker 1 55:24

The fact that your eyes lit up when I said it just tore me up have that come to life moment where the two drinks in get overridden, you know dude, let me tell you the story where the fuck was this going um, so yeah, so otherwise, at my physical, it was a clean bill of health. Good for you as I tell the when the fuck was this going? So yeah, so otherwise, at my physical, it was a clean bill of health. Good for you, as I tell the world I'm not dying anytime soon.

Speaker 2 55:46

Some people are broken up about that.

Speaker 1 55:47

Ah, fuck them and yeah, no, and it's all good, I like it.

Speaker 2 55:54

I like it too. I got vacation and then I'm taking the kid Move-in day August. Wow, I know, wow, yeah, daddy's going to be crying that day. You can get a photo of first day of school. I'm telling him that Now that you said that I've got to have that.

Speaker 1 56:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 56:14

I don't know when his actual day it actually starts for him, but August 16th or 17th is like the move-in day, sure, and he's all excited. Oh man. Classes are all picked, he's actually with you know, because it's aeronautical, so it's not your normal. You know bullshit. But with what he was able to do at Maryville, with his honors and doing Pellissippi and stuff, he's walking in as a sophomore Nice yeah.

Speaker 1 56:47

That's, yeah, that's sweet, just like attaboy yeah so.

Speaker 2 56:48

But yeah, he's fired up. But you know it's bittersweet, you know you've. You've done it three times now, but I mean, I just I'm no, it's, it's, it's not any. It's not any.

Speaker 1 56:54

It does not change, it does not change any way you look at it, it's you know, like I said, my daughter starts med school on Monday, tomorrow, and it's just like holy dog shit. This is actually happening, and so, you know, I told her that I needed to get a photo of you know, just like heading into the school. Yeah, I love that and you know so. I love that and you know so. And then we've had conversation about the West Coast contingent.

Speaker 2 57:25

Yes.

Speaker 1 57:25

And it will happen. Apparently, there was a big dialogue that took place between the sisters on this, and so I, from my understanding is I can expect the spring quarter will be when this gets wrapped up.

Speaker 2 57:40

All right then.

Speaker 1 57:40

So I have that's good Maintained Well. So when the Maintain low tones. I have maintained low tones. I have kept it. I have tabled the discussion. I have untabled it. When I said I would, I said when we get the term calendar that comes out and tells me, contact your counselor, your college counselor, by this date, get your comes out and tells me contact your counselor, your college counselor, by this date, get your letter in for readmission by this date, yada, yada, yada.

Speaker 1 58:03

So I emailed her about all that. We've had no conversation. I was hoping to get a moment of her alone when she was home, to talk to her. She probably avoided that.

Speaker 2 58:12

That's the common opinion Keep that away from me she was ducking me.

Speaker 1 58:18

Keep that away from me. She was ducking me um and she had a little drama this past week where some ridiculous piece of shit. Stole her, stole her wallet. No an iphone out of her purse oh my gosh. But she was holding the purse, so this piece of shit somehow just stealthily got alongside, unzipped her purse, got his hand in there and and stole her.

Speaker 1 58:40

So that's scary as shit yeah, credit card driver's license oh, my phone oh and so she's like having a nervous fucking breakdown yeah I'm like, yeah, okay, yeah, this is where my value comes through is, okay, daddy's gonna daddy's gonna put this fire out. And so now what I do is I end up talking to him saying, well, let's get the first thing. Um, you know, the driver's license is important. Um, but you do have a passport there so that can be your primary source of identification. Um, I said what we need.

Speaker 1 59:10

We got to get you back on the grid, so go down to verizon, see what this is that may be covered under apple care or something like that and and see what you. So it didn't cost a lot for her to get a replacement phone god, and then I had I was losing my contacts and shit this ass fuck.

Speaker 1 59:29

Well, it was saved to the cloud it was okay yeah, so she had that, what she'd been doing a lot of her work on the iphone as well, like videos that she had filmed for the business that she works for and everything. Those are gone, oh, so um and uh, and so that, and, and funny thing is this fucker who stole her phone, I mean and, and there's a credit card in there that all three of my kids use there, and yeah you know and jeffrey, it's pretty much his food and living expenses over in England, so I just pay for that out of his 529 account.

Speaker 1 1:00:02

But this guy didn't waste any time. He went right down there. I mean I tracked the phone, okay, on Find my it's like he went right down the street from where she was to 7-Eleven and tried making like a $60 purchase worth of gas and items, wow. And then the fraud alert crept up and I locked down the card and so damn fucking savages out there.

Speaker 1 1:00:25

Yeah, and then and then. I last saw her phone this yesterday I I just pinged it, the old phone, and it was like somewhere in um, just north, just right near south central la.

Speaker 1 1:00:40

Wow, three days ago still still how, like, how did you not shut that off, and she's like well, it's part of an operation, they want to. They want you to erase the phone, so then they can truly sell them. I'm like at this point I would just erase the fucking phone and let them sell it. I I mean for the few hundred bucks that they're going to get for it. You know, I mean, it's not close to where she lives, though, right? No, she's up in the valley, okay.

Speaker 1 1:01:06

Yeah, way north, that just seems, but she works in West Hollywood. She works right north of the Capitol Records, building on Hollywood and Vine.

Speaker 2 1:01:16

So she didn't get robbed here.

Speaker 1 1:01:18

No, she got robbed in los angeles when she was saying when you were saying that they were home. Yeah, so that's why this was after this took place, like right after no, this took place. Independent stay weekend okay, so what?

Speaker 2 1:01:32

in my head it was like she got robbed here in knoxville, but the phone showed up where near where she works and lives like that's no good yeah, man, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 1:01:40

I had a bunch of fucking assholes in this world. Oh yeah, you know so yeah, so that's the drama I've had to put up with.

Speaker 2 1:01:47

I hear you, so I talk about sports, but there's nothing going on. Yeah, nothing Summer. We can talk about how bad the Braves are, but I don't think you want to do that. What'd you think of the NBA draft? I didn't even. This is the first NBA draft I never watched. I didn't watch it either, I just I didn't. I didn't even look at see what the Hawks did nothing. I know I know Cooper is Dallas Maverick, so he is the second coming of don chick, you know, yeah, but pod safe.

Speaker 1 1:02:21

America just had mark cuban on today's episode. I know that he was bitching about the olympics was he not, I don't, I didn't, he didn't on this episode, okay, well, so I my little sports blurb with cuban is like look man, we're, we're sending the.

Speaker 2 1:02:35

You know, we're sending our, we're paying millions and millions of dollars, these guys, and we're sending the olympics and we're not getting anything back from it Right, but we could lose our investments which makes sense Right.

Speaker 1 1:02:52

No, I mean I was happy that Con Canipa went number four.

Speaker 2 1:02:55

Yeah, and then Did he really he did To where? Yeah, let me be very clear to our listeners.

Speaker 1 1:03:05

This team is dead to me. I mean that when I say it, they did not win the national championship. They were the team that should have brought home a title. They shit the bed in eight minutes with eight minutes left in a game, and I moved on, I moved on after that it was actually 90 seconds.

Speaker 1 1:03:25

The last, it was bad you know it was bad, um, and so no, I I mean great for them. We all knew this was going to happen, but um, no, they're. I mean I don't care about them anymore, I don't care what they do in the pros, or anything like that.

Speaker 2 1:03:41

I'm now looking at the Boozer Twins with Caleb Foster on point guard Still so wild to me and Malik Brown on defense, boozer Twins playing yeah, I'm not that old.

Speaker 1 1:03:52

It's going to be a good fucking team.

Speaker 2 1:03:53

Should be.

Speaker 1 1:03:54

You know you'd hope yeah, and this time I think we.

Speaker 2 1:03:57

I hope yeah, and this time I think we're 50-something days to football, though I can tell you that Okay, oh, you're going to pour me a little of that. I will, but we need to wrap this one up. We got some shit to do.

Speaker 1 1:04:08

We got some shit to do. We're going to have a dinner at Strack's house tonight.

Speaker 2 1:04:12

Hold on, I'm fired up about that. Everyone's glamming this up about how good it is.

Speaker 1 1:04:21

I got an Italian meal coming. Did you see his posts this morning about the cookies that he made and everything?

Speaker 2 1:04:24

No, but Sourdough chocolate chip cookies. Cj did tell me about their dog.

Speaker 1 1:04:30

Yeah, passed away. Yeah, Dahlia.

Speaker 2 1:04:32

God, yeah, I did not want to hear that over my coffee today, man.

Speaker 1 1:04:36

Well, I mean, and CJ opened it up for them to back out, I could have told you I could have told you as well as I know them there was no backing out yeah they were, they were coming. They would do this just so they could have the distraction I got you so yeah, I was like man that was gut-wrenching to hear that but yeah, I'm fired up about it trying to think what else?

Speaker 1 1:04:55

good italian meal man like not a lot to talk about in sports really. No really Seriously it's been dead. On sports, life and entertainment. We talked about Superman. We talked about Jurassic World.

Personal Stories and Future Plans

Speaker 2 1:05:05

I mean I could go into the WNBA and how they're fucking it all up by just beating the absolute shit out of Caitlin Clark every fucking day.

Speaker 1 1:05:13

I asked this question on Facebook, so maybe you can explain some of it to me.

Speaker 2 1:05:25

What is with the fucking?

Speaker 1 1:05:25

hate against caitlyn clark? No idea, I think it's just jealousy. Best fucking thing to happen to women's basketball. They should be kissing her fucking feet all the time. Why are they trying to hurt her? Why are the refs doing?

Speaker 2 1:05:30

nothing about this why?

Speaker 1 1:05:32

why is the administration doing nothing about this? I have have no idea no, no, I dia.

Speaker 2 1:05:40

It's in, it's awful, I mean she's getting. When I say I've said mugged before, but it's, it's worse than mugged, I mean she's just getting absolutely no, I've seen some of the video clips.

Speaker 1 1:05:52

It's just awful. It's not even basketball, is this? Yeah, it's not even basketball, it's like it's like she's.

Speaker 2 1:06:00

I don't even want to get into it. I mean, it's just awful.

Speaker 1 1:06:03

Is it just that the people that are running the WNBA are not of the same policy caliber as the NBA?

Speaker 2 1:06:12

Well, one, you can't fine them, right. They're not making anything, true, they're running at a loss, the whole league. I mean they're not making any type of money and you're not going to be able to find these people. I mean, you're in a rock and a hard place but it should be like suspensions or something yes. Just something.

Speaker 1 1:06:39

Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of of athletes who think that they're thugs and and can get away with this shit. You know I've never liked it, doesn't matter what sport it is, you know I mean shit, man, a million dollar baby, I still want that bitch that broke. Uh, what's her face's neck to to?

Speaker 2 1:07:01

I want her to die a fiery death that was the most crazy ass ending to a movie I think I've ever right did you not even like, I didn't even see that, like when it happened, as like oh, this is act three, holy shit. Yeah, like we got really, we really got clint eastwood going in here and killing her. Yeah, like what. Yeah, what happened, yeah, what happened. Yeah, like what happened with this movie. Like I felt like I was getting a female Rocky and got fucking Apocalypse Now.

Speaker 1 1:07:30

With a little bit of Sophie's Choice, with a little bit of Sophie's. Choice oh my god, dinner's gonna be a blast. It's gonna be a blast tonight, man. So the great thing about when you go down to strax farm he's got 11 acres and he's got like all these fucking animals down there yes, turkeys, and no shit oh yeah, I didn't know about any of this.

Speaker 2 1:08:02

No donkeys.

Speaker 1 1:08:03

He's got fucking donkeys and shit, oh my goats waffles, it's roosters, you know? Yes, it is. It is like a serious deal and so like fired up they've given they'll. We'll each probably walk out tonight with a dozen farm fresh eggs.

Speaker 2 1:08:21

Well, and I've, I've had. She gave it right. Yeah, exactly phenomenal.

Speaker 1 1:08:26

Just get ready for it. Like it, she will put on a spread. I'm ready.

Speaker 2 1:08:30

What the fuck are we doing here?

Speaker 1 1:08:33

we're doing two drinks in again. My friend, I've missed you. I've missed you. No, I really have too, it's okay, no apologies, I know, but I've also like looked back and was like, man, it hasn't even been a month, I've missed you. I've missed you. No, I really have too.

Speaker 2 1:08:39

It's okay, no apologies, I know, but I've also Like looked back and was like man, it hasn't even Been a month, right? True, you're right.

Speaker 1 1:08:45

You know, and it's just like, oh man, but yeah, so we're actually Guys exploring the option Of bringing in a guest For the next episode, so this will be, dave almost Was the first guest. Dave almost was the first. He should have been the first guest If I'd had my shit together and gotten a microphone up and running for him.

Speaker 2 1:09:05

Hearing all that on episode four was hilarious. We were like, ah, dave, look at that Strike time, look at this fucking guy.

Speaker 1 1:09:15

You know Strack, Love the Strack. It's like a Seinfeld episode. Yes.

Speaker 2 1:09:26

Yes, it is. Oh, I love it.

Speaker 1 1:09:28

So, anyway, if this goes the way, dave and I kind of talked about the formula for next episode, but this could be a very serious, very special episode of Blossom Without us being on a boat, without us being on a boat for six hours having had like 10 beers and wondering where our world is going post the passage of the big buttfuck bill, you know.

Speaker 2 1:10:00

When it ended with Annie man. I was just like just dying laughing.

Speaker 1 1:10:04

I came up with that as I was recording that oh, I'm sure you did as I was recording. I'm like I need to know what the fucking what I'm going to close out with what the closing song is going to be. And then I, just because I want to also maintain the whole time I am hopeful this is just a moment we're having in this country.

Speaker 2 1:10:22

It's going to be fine. Yes, you know it doesn't look good right now. It just keeps getting longer.

Speaker 1 1:10:27

Right, that's all.

Speaker 2 1:10:28

Yeah, you know we've been pretty fucking persistent for a long time. Yeah, we do Every time.

Speaker 1 1:10:37

So anyway, we'll see. We'll see. This could be a very serious episode of Two Drinks and Again next time.

Speaker 2 1:10:42

I'm actually looking forward to it. That'd be a good time.

Speaker 1 1:10:44

That'd be a good time. I don't know about a good time, but Well, yeah, but I think it will also open the door up on us having other people.

Speaker 2 1:10:51

Yeah, no, I love that and whatnot.

Speaker 1 1:10:55

And I'm going to tell you this too I have seriously thought at various times over the last couple of years how I could make us a little more portable so we didn't always have to meet here, you know that box sitting underneath that mixing console.

Speaker 1 1:11:10

it's where microphones get stored. It's just a nice cushioned box for microphones. All right, man. And then I have a smaller version of the audio input machine over there. Okay, and I start thinking okay, could I jerry-rig all this up to a laptop and two, three microphones? We don't even have to have them on stints. We could just hold the microphones, because that's what my daughter's ex-podcast used to do. I mean, they just held the microphones. Yeah, I would love that, hi.

Speaker 2 1:11:37

Welcome to Regus tonight we're having a wonderful evening. We've got a great show for you. Did you just say Regas? I did. Yeah, I love it. The cheese wheel.

Speaker 1 1:11:53

I miss Regas, I do too. I love that place man, it's a great place. For people who do not know. Regas is also when I knew I was going to.

Speaker 2 1:12:01

Regas, I was getting laid that night pal.

Speaker 1 1:12:03

Oh, absolutely no. I'll tell you that. Tell you that, sweetheart, there's some Shit. Was like Spanish fly, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 1:12:14

It was like oh, you're taking me to Regas.

Speaker 1 1:12:16

Yeah so yeah, but're taking me to Regas? Yeah so yeah, but anyway, regas was a good fun place. I wish I could make a comeback.

Speaker 2 1:12:27

Yeah, and they should, with them building that little town hall, thingy bobber, whatever the fuck it is near it.

Speaker 1 1:12:31

Oh, let me share one other thing. I shared it on social media. I don't know if we've talked about it at all. I have been cast in a play. Yes, I congrat. We've talked about it at all? I have been cast in a play. Yes, I congratulated you. Yeah, laughter on the 23rd floor by neil simon it's going to open on september 5th at oak ridge or no, it is with theater knoxville downtown.

Speaker 1 1:12:48

So this is on south central. Um, what kind of right behind um, there's a little theater. The theater is right there on south central, behind the state street parking lot, and phenomenal congratulations, thank you. And um, it was. It was you know the guy who directed it. The theater is right there on South Central, behind the State Street parking lot. Phenomenal Congratulations, thank you. And it was you know. The guy who directed it directed a bunch of us 14 years ago in Neil Simon's Rumors Awesome and he was just a kid, like in his early 20s then, and so it's weird seeing him now in his mid to late 30s.

Speaker 2 1:13:16

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:13:22

And you know he saw me come in in, he gave me a hug and he goes. How are you? And he goes like he goes. I'm so glad to see you here. And I said, david, it's, it's neil simon, you're directing like where?

Speaker 2 1:13:30

why would I not like? Why would I not be here?

Speaker 1 1:13:32

this was like a no brainer for me fantastic and so you know it.

Speaker 1 1:13:36

It was um I there was a role that I was gunning for that spoke in a Russian accent, and so I was down at Pauly's and I read the script to the entire show, and so I'm reading that character trying to talk like this in a very strong Russian accent, because it was very good what I could do. Kate Bishop, it's Kate Bishop. You make me laugh. Kate Bishop, yes, I'm saying your last name because I want you to know that I know your last name. So there's a little david harbour yeah, red guardian influence in all that.

Speaker 1 1:14:07

So anyway, um, but he didn't have me read that at all. He the. The play is based on um when neil simon was a young writer. It's based on real events. He was a young writer for a big variety show that existed in the 50s and 60s called Sid Caesar's your Show of Shows. I don't know if you ever heard of it. Did you ever see the movie Grease with John Travolta? So Sid Caesar plays the track coach in that.

Theater News and Episode Wrap-Up

Speaker 1 1:14:32

But he was a legend before all of it, like Milton Berle, all of those kind of guys, and so this. So this was the, the writer's room, where, on the 23rd floor awesome, where they would write the show, and this is also going on during the mccarthyism oh, wow and so um, but other of these other characters are based on real life people who wrote for the show, such as mel brooks, oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 1:14:57

Carl re, oh, larry Gilbert, who was the head behind the MASH TV series Wow, who's who? So yeah, it's a veritable who's who real people, and so I play the character that's Sid Caesar.

Speaker 2 1:15:11

Fantastic. The host of the show. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 1:15:12

I'm not on stage the whole time, but I have paragraphs of lines. Really, david, I have paragraphs of lines.

Speaker 2 1:15:20

Really, David, I have paragraphs of lines and I'm a little nervous about that. You got it, man.

Speaker 1 1:15:22

I have in my to-do list every day, start working on lines. We don't start rehearsing until the 28th. Yeah, never too soon, never too soon, because I'm old, you know? No, you're not. I would have been better off talking in Russian accent for an entire show, because I did not have paragraphs to speak.

Speaker 1 1:15:44

It'll be great, it'll be good time and what's kind of lucky for and this is the first show that now I've done that Virginia has not been a part of. She did a show last year by herself, and so this is the first one for me, and fortunately the tech week and opening will start while she's over hiking in the Dolomites.

Speaker 1 1:16:03

So she doesn't have to experience any of that shit. Yeah, you know, there'll be moments in mid-August where we'll be like okay, we barely see each other, so we'll just have to see how that goes. But that's the sacrifice you make for this theater shit. That's right. But to be cast in this show I needed this, in a way, because there are moments you just kind of am I still good anymore?

Speaker 1 1:16:28

Can I still do this and shit. And I had auditioned for Harvey, which was for the same theater company and they open soon, and I didn't get cast. I was too old for the role that I was auditioning for and so, but still, you just kind of like, yeah, do I have value anymore? Okay, still have value awesome, that's good.

Speaker 2 1:16:46

I love it so so it'll be good.

Speaker 1 1:16:48

So that's, that's what I got going on I love it and whatnot, and so um and so we will do this. Yes, in the meantime we will okay so guys, I guess we gotta go. You're kind of hustling. You're just sitting here like, oh, will you wrap the fucking show up, jeff?

Speaker 2 1:17:02

jesus christ, stop fucking talking. I want to eat italian food.

Speaker 1 1:17:05

Tell you what bastard. You know what you can do. 42.5 as your next episode and do it by your fucking self the sun will come.

Speaker 2 1:17:14

The sun will come out.

Speaker 1 1:17:16

You know what really now, in retrospect, what I should have done is.

Speaker 2 1:17:19

Kill him in the name, bro.

Speaker 1 1:17:28

I should have opened it with opening music. It should have been from Annie also. It's a hard knock life for us.

Speaker 2 1:17:36

Stata treated we get tricked the way that it was all going. I was like, oh, he's gonna play something From Hamilton. And then Annie, I was like what the fuck is this? I was half drunk. You were building everything up From the Hamilton Half drunk.

Speaker 1 1:17:51

Half drunk, you know.

Speaker 2 1:17:52

Half, really. Uh, you know.

Speaker 1 1:17:55

Look, you're on the water. For five hours you Drunk eight to ten beers.

Speaker 2 1:17:59

That stuff oxidized, you know, look you're on the water for five hours. You're drunk eight to ten beers.

Speaker 1 1:18:04

That stuff oxidizes. I'm a big guy. I'm going to say you were slightly dehydrated, I was very dehydrated I was, and I was trying to rush through this damn thing because I had to grill. Love you, man.

Speaker 2 1:18:14

I love you man. It's always a great time, absolutely.

Speaker 1 1:18:16

I hope everyone has a great summer out there. Yes, keep it safe, keep it sane. The world's. You know the world is what it is and and you know, regardless of which side you're on, it's it we. We maintain the importance of being decent to each other. Absolutely All the time man Fucking love, some grace.

Speaker 2 1:18:35

Unless you can't drive.

Speaker 1 1:18:36

And also remember others. Well, that's true. Yes, yeah, unless that person in front of you can't drive.

Speaker 2 1:18:42

That's a whole other.

Speaker 1 1:18:45

Oh, that's a whole episode, my road rage is out of control right now.

Speaker 2 1:18:49

Sorry.

Speaker 1 1:18:49

That's okay, but just remember, it's indeed a hard knock life for us it is. And we hope everyone has a good summer and has good times. And now we're going to go eat some great Italian food and it's going to be and pet a donkey and pet a donkey. And it's going to be. You know, I worry for you, what that's going to lead to.

Speaker 2 1:19:09

You never know.

Speaker 1 1:19:12

Two Drinks and Again presents its first donkey show In a ceiling Brought to you by the good people at amoxicillin.

Speaker 2 1:19:48

Be good people, thank you.