Vaguely Inconsistent
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Vaguely Inconsistent
Steelers, Streamers, and Seasonal Surprises
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What if the Pittsburgh Steelers' impressive winning streak was nothing more than smoke and mirrors? Join us as we tackle this bold question and explore the highs and lows of their controversial season. We dive into the nitty-gritty of NFL refereeing, sharing our frustrations over past officiating blunders and the emotional rollercoaster of rooting for rival teams. But it's not all sports talk; we mix in our personal Thanksgiving tales, from crockpot experiments to the quirks of holiday traditions that shape our celebrations.
Our chat takes a whimsical turn as we navigate the world of Funko Pop collecting, filled with tales of shopping mishaps and the endless quest for the perfect display solution. Whether it's wrestling with packaging sizes or discovering unexpected treasures, we find humor in the challenges of managing our collections. We also share the joys of seasonal finds like specialty whipped creams that add a festive touch to holiday treats. The conversation flows effortlessly into the great debate between streaming and physical media, as we weigh the pros and cons of owning versus renting our holiday classics.
With the holiday season fast approaching, we revel in the anticipation of movie previews and the nostalgia of theater experiences. From surprise screenings to planning the perfect holiday party, our enthusiasm is infectious. As we reflect on the political landscape and social media dynamics, we lighten the mood with our favorite holiday traditions and the quick transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Whether you're a sports fanatic or a pop culture enthusiast, there's something for everyone in this lively episode!
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The episode that almost wasn't.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a good title already. Damn, somebody was practicing for the last hour, right. Huh, that game was so bad, dude, I passed the hell out. I had my alarm set, though, except it was for 9.30 am.
Speaker 1:As you may notice, Duke isn't here. He is the social butterfly that he is Indeed. So we'll try it with just the two-man podcast. See how it goes.
Speaker 2:See what that's about. We'll jump right into it. Isn't Skeleton Crew tomorrow, or is it tonight? Yeah?
Speaker 1:No, they moved it up to tomorrow. I think it's going to be like a 6 o'clock thing. Oh, okay, gotcha, I think.
Speaker 2:I a six o'clock thing like oh so cool is gotcha, I think I'm sure I saw that and I was like wait a minute, if that shit's midnight it's coming out pretty soon here, right?
Speaker 2:but although I gotta, I gotta say I'm not too excited about it. Obviously I'll give the couple episodes a try, see what happens. Hopefully it pulls me in and if not, I'm still gonna watch it at star wars. And I mean, let's be real, I just may not like it, but I, I'm still going to watch it. So kudos to you, disney, because I'm still going to watch your janky-ass shit.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's Jude Law. I like Jude Law.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too, me too.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've ever seen anything bad with him in it.
Speaker 2:I can't think of anything. First thing people are going to say is Captain Marvel, but I like Captain Marvel, so Exactly Whatever, and he was good in it.
Speaker 1:even if you know, even if you didn't like it, he was still a very good bad guy in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. And then wasn't he in. Was it AI With the movie like 20 years ago, where he was yeah, yeah with the? Robot kid yeah yeah, so I mean I can't think of too many that stand out, I'm sure he's done horrible movies, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:I'm sure too. But like I said, it's Star Wars. I'm going to give it a shot. Hopefully it's good and it keeps me intrigued. I mean, I enjoyed Agatha. It was kind of a follow along see what's happening. I enjoyed that. So hopefully this can follow the same path and they can jump on that one too.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. We'll see. Yeah, john wants is in charge of it. He did the spider-man trilogy with tom holland, so oh, that's a plus. I didn't know that so solid so he knows how to write kid stories right right and at the same time kid enough, that's also adult enough.
Speaker 2:Exactly everybody can enjoy it so so I'm looking forward to that. That'll be fun. Start off with a holiday, so what'd you do for Thanksgiving Worked.
Speaker 1:Boo. Dang I ate at work all day and then before I left for work that morning, I found this Thanksgiving crockpot recipe. So you just throw everything in a crockpot that I cook all day. It was okay. You get a three-pound turkey breast, you put some chicken broth on it, your stuffing the mashed potatoes Not the mashed potatoes, the sweet potatoes and you just kind of let everything cook.
Speaker 2:It was just okay. Like that freaking Capriotis Sandwich all in a crock pot, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's interesting. It was okay. The recipe called for onions and so like the onions cooked into like the sweet potatoes and I was like eh.
Speaker 2:I said I'm worried about it. I mean, it's going to mix eventually, but I want it to mix in my stomach, not on my plate, Not like that anyway.
Speaker 1:So we'll see I mean even eating that the onions didn't change anything. So I probably wouldn't do them next time and I'd probably use stovetop. She just had cornbread stuffing. So you know, the first time you try a recipe you just go with it, right? Yeah, yeah, then you tweak it after that. Yeah, next time no onions, and I would probably do stovetop, stovetop's delicious.
Speaker 2:What about the oldest? Didn't you have her with you and the other two were in Disney?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was home. Her friends actually invited her for Thanksgiving, so that was good.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I figured something like that probably happened, or I wasn't sure if, like, if your mom cooked or anything like that.
Speaker 1:No, she cooked for herself. But yeah, she's always worked, thanksgiving, you know, even when I had right wasn't thursday, friday off, so I think we've had thanksgiving with her, like once, like ever damn, oh yeah weekends off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, for real. And then let's see what did I do? I ended up going to my co-worker's house, new like she's been at the office. I guess tomorrow will be her starting her third week. So new like you. Yeah, exactly, I mean because I'm starting week six.
Speaker 2:She's from Chicago, cool kid, been in the industry like you know industry a few years, so she knows what she's doing for the most part, but she didn't have any plans. I didn't have any plans because Esso was in Texas with her family, her dad, and took the kids with her and all that. So I was like I was planning I've done this by myself. I'm not huge on the holidays, all that much, but I want my food Right. So I had a ham. I had a turkey breast instead of the wings and legs like I did last year. I mean I'll do the box stuffing, instant mashed potatoes. I ain't going all out and going crazy, but. But she's like, yeah, I'm kind of by myself. You want to hang out? I'm like, okay, so we did and we watched, uh, wicked as well. So, oh, that was wednesday. Wednesday, we did wicked. And then, and thursday, uh, it was basically just go over, help with the food, eat food and then leave. It wasn't even like hang out a bit.
Speaker 2:It was just like okay, I could tell she was tired, I wanted to go watch football, so it's like okay, thanks, nice, but yeah, it was super cool, though, like I said, she's a good one, so that worked out, and fucking Wicked, that movie is so good.
Speaker 1:I didn't know who watched it last night.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, it was so good I liked it. I didn't know really much about it. I knew like backstory was going to happen. I did not watch the play. I did not read anything about it, as in was it 20 years ago whenever it came out. Yeah, I all surprise for me and um, and then I learned that I I guess that's usually how the play ends the way I won't say anything because if people have it still still too, but apparently that's how the play ends and part two is going to be a whole new story. Like nobody knows what's going to happen in part two.
Speaker 1:That's interesting yeah, I was like, okay, I read the book when it came out shit, 20, 30 years ago or whatever it was. I've've seen the play but I don't know, I didn't retain any of it. So we were watching the movie. It was a nice spectacle, it was a very pretty movie. Ariana Grande didn't bother me. I thought she might. Really, she actually entertained me, okay here's my thing Her role.
Speaker 2:I don't know what her role was supposed to be. No-transcript, her face, it's always something, but I can't figure out pinpoint what it is. But her character is just trying to, as soon as she's introduced she. She played that role really well.
Speaker 1:For sure. Yes, the hair's flipping.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I'm dying. I was thinking about that the other day. I was just man, I'm going to get a wig, just so I can flip my hair.
Speaker 1:Let me get a Glinda dress. Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Glinda. I'm totally going to watch that again, though I actually enjoyed it that much. That was a fun movie.
Speaker 1:My wife enjoyed it so much she said she might even take my mom to go see it, just so she can see it again.
Speaker 2:Damn. Yeah, that's how much she liked it. I would not have guessed your mom being into that one.
Speaker 1:When I was with her gosh last week, I ran her around. She said she wanted to watch it. I'm like, okay, I'll let you know. But, um, my wife had a an old co-worker in town. So I'm like, hey, let's go hang out and go watch.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, okay, I was gonna say why don't you use it? Go with y'all, uh, last week, yeah yeah, it was like a kind of last minute ish. Thing yeah, plus maybe slightly awkward too. You know, it's like you have a friend in town and all that. It's like ah, screw it. I know it's after the fact, but you also realize it's a good enough movie to go see the kids.
Speaker 1:Little One loved it too. She was literally on the edge of her seat just smiling. She was trying to flip her hair during the movie too.
Speaker 2:I believe it she did right on. Uh almost went to go see red one and or heretic, but I got lazy hang on. Lie. It was like I'd go to this or I could sit on my couch and do nothing. Yeah, that sounds better yep, yep, no.
Speaker 1:So friday I rented a, uh, one of those u-haul kidnapper rapist vans, oh yeah, to work on cleaning out the old garage. So I got like all the shelving out of there, bring it over here. And then, um, because, like you said, wife and a little one were out of town, they were coming home friday, so I had a big one help me. But then she got kidnapped by her friends, not in my kidnapper van, shameful. So I had to finish it by myself. But afterwards we went to go see, uh, gladiator 2. Oh yeah, she said that was her favorite movie of the year. What she liked it better than wild robot.
Speaker 2:I'm like damn I don't go that far.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed it, but come on now yeah, I wasn't bored during it at all yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:It was like it was a good movie, but I don't know if it's best of the year. It was entertaining though. So I guess, if that's what you're saying, it was a good movie, but I don't know if it was best of the year. It was entertaining though. So I guess, if that's what you're looking at, I would say I would rather see Deadpool Wolverine before I'd watch that one for entertainment value.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I'm looking for just violence, yeah straight entertainment like that, but again, I can't really knock it because it was a good movie. I enjoyed it. The first one was better, though. Oh, the first one was better though, oh yeah, not even close.
Speaker 1:Better written.
Speaker 2:Yep, I mean, I don't know if you saw, but it was predictable all the way. To me it was like, okay, I see where this is going, but I don't care, I still enjoyed it. It was nice To see the Coliseum flooded too. That was pretty good. You're not going to have sharks in there.
Speaker 1:My daughter asked she's like, did they really do that? I'm like there's rumors that they did. There's no proof they did, but there's rumors about it yeah, there's just not the sharks.
Speaker 2:It would have been. Yeah, there's no way. Yeah, sharks have to swim to to live, so there's no way you're getting sharks there. Crocodiles, alligators, alligators maybe yeah, I can see alligators being there, but I guess sharks look better on on screen. So all right, fine, we'll roll with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know how far Rome is from saltwater, anyways To get yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, they've got to be right there, ocean-ish, yeah, yeah, it's right there. So it's just again. How do you transport?
Speaker 1:them from that to the Colosseum. They didn't have aquariums back then back then.
Speaker 2:Exactly so. It's like a shark has to keep swimming to live. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1:But if they figure out how to flood the Colosseum, I think they could have got sharks there. You know if anybody was going to do it back then those freaking Romans.
Speaker 2:They were on it, man. That's a whole other podcast. I'm sure there's a podcast just dedicated to that stuff For sure, About how the Romans took care of that. Man, they were so good Shit their roads were so good, right, and who's knocking their door with their numerals Right, spot on. Who doesn't want to use letters to count Right, exactly, exactly. People like doing all Wakanda forever and it's like you want 10 of what?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So, overall, though, pretty quiet weekend Again, other than hanging out with my friend Wednesday and Thursday. I guess Wednesday half of Thursday, friday was chill, saturday was college football and then today was NFL. I guess it was kind of fun watching everybody lose their shit over Kansas City in the raiders game, and people who don't know the rules and don't don't don't understand they dropped the ball, the refs changed everything and yeah, it was like, man, it's only a false start if this, it's illegal shit.
Speaker 2:If it was like I was just on twitter, just was watching this play out, it's like wow, there are so many people who don't know nfl rules. It was fun, though I'm not gonna the people who were losing their shit. They had a reason to lose quote-unquote reason to lose their shit. And everybody else was like, wow, you guys just don't, you guys just haters, haters, haters, haters, haters, haters. I'm like, yeah, that's fun. I was entertained for like four hours just flipping through. It's like ohipped this out of here. And it was like, yeah, see, it should have been converted to a false start. I'm like that's only if the clock was moving and it wasn't because they spiked the ball in the play before that. Come on people. It says right there the rules. You know in a no huddle, you know running clock. It was like clock wasn't running.
Speaker 2:So that was fun.
Speaker 1:That being said, chiefs have got to be the luckiest damn team in the NFL Well yeah, once all that died down, with them cheating to win the end of the game, everybody was like they're the worst 11-0.
Speaker 2:Disagree, disagree. Four or five years ago, pittsburgh Steelers. They were the fakest whatever 11-0 or 10-0 team. And then they like, didn't win a game the rest of the year, got knocked out in the playoffs. The first round they lost to the Washington, whatever football team, whatever they were called back then I mean first 11-1 team, like no, I'm going to have to say as a Steelers fan, that team was the fakest, worst 11-1 team ever. They were horrible. They had no business. It was like Roethlisberger's last year or something. God, they got awful. They had no business being 11-1, the Steelers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think part of it was the points they've had, because they're 11-1, but it's not like they've been tearing it up, no, no, no, they're winning by two points every game and getting lucky in a lot of shit.
Speaker 2:It's like, yeah, if that player think about it, if the raiders don't freaking piss in the wind, they absolutely. Well, I say absolutely. The guy did miss three field goals so, but they likely win that game, the broncos game. They should have lost the cincinnati game again. It was pass interference. So I'm not going to say, oh, the refs helped them out, no, the defensive back helped them out by interfering with the damn receiver. Uh, not that hard, uh, but yeah, they, they're easily probably a 500 team. There's six and six, seven and five, there's something like that around. There's no way now.
Speaker 2:That being said, they're getting healthy. Pacheco came back for the first time in eight weeks, hollywood Browns coming back in three weeks. So it's like, oh, here's where they go down. Nope, the plot armor for the Chiefs is real. I'm not giving the refs any credit yet, because I haven't seen anything where it's like, oh, the refs actually gave them this game. Like, no, everything that I've seen has been legit and there's missed calls on both sides in every game so I'm fine there but I wouldn't be surprised though not because the refs are on the chief side.
Speaker 2:I'm not falling out of that conspiracy theory, but there probably will be something, and it won't just be the chief. There'll be a couple games when they play off where it's like what the hell the ref's calling you.
Speaker 2:go back and look at some of the old uh Patriots, the old Patriots games and was like somebody breathed on Tom Brady, roughing the passer. It was like I went and looked at some of the stuff because of this whole Chiefs-Raiders thing. Somebody posted some old Patriots clips of that and it was like, wow, I forgot they called that roughing on Brady and he barely even touched this chest. It was a Chiefs-Patriots game. I was like holy crap.
Speaker 1:His fingers just gently rubbed his jersey.
Speaker 2:Yep, and they called it and I was sitting there like I'm like there's no way they called that and they went back to the replay. I'm like, wow, it did look like.
Speaker 2:I guess, if you're from the ref, that was behind it it kind of looked like the guy came down and swiped it and hit him in the helmet and the face mask. It didn't happen, but it's one of these things where I wish the nfl would, would be able to replay right roughing. It's like oh, he was hitting the head. Like oh, on replay, he actually wasn't. Well, we can't change it. We already called it. I'm like come on, guys, that's such crap. We picked the road, that's where we're going. Yep, it's like no, we're wrong and we have to stay wrong. Like no, you have replay for a reason, just be able to use it on things like you don't want to stop every damn play. Oh, that was holding, look, they hold it every play. We all know that. Yeah, it just has to be egregious. So, exactly, don't, don't be stopping every play, but come on, some of that stuff like that, where you're 15 yards is not small. Five yard penalty.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna cry, but I really I'm really not who was offside, who was false start, you know whatever yeah defense defense made the offensive guy move.
Speaker 2:it's like whatever man pi uh, which they tried for a year and took it out just appeased the saints. Uh, I don't know, it'll be fun today, today, wasn't? I don't know? I didn't really have fun watching today's football. It was like a lot of bad football. Today, dealers win by 44 to 38 and's like that's bad defense is what that is. Yeah, uh, the Eagles, oh man, talk about being a Steelers fan right about now. So, and, and I had to root for the Eagles with being a Giants fan, that's just so Baltimore could lose the help to Steelers, which means tomorrow I have to be a Browns fans against the Broncos, although I would have been a Browns fan against the.
Speaker 1:Broncos.
Speaker 2:But the fact that they have to be a Browns fan. It's like somebody I said who's I talking to somebody today? It was like, are you reading, watching the games Like? I think I was at when I was at the dark horse. I met a friend of mine and watched the game at the bar For the Eagles no, I'm rooting against the Ravens. Get it right Exactly, and it helped. We got the loss. Pittsburgh has a two-game lead now and they play each other still in a couple weeks, so Pittsburgh has a chance to actually win that division. I was like Ravens are going to catch them. I did not expect them to lose to the Browns. I didn't expect the Steelers to lose to the Browns a couple weeks ago either weeks ago either but losing this one helped a lot. Now all you have to do is just Pittsburgh Win two more games and one of them has to be against the Ravens and you win the division. You're not going to catch the Chiefs or the Bills for a first seed.
Speaker 2:So just win your division and call it a day. Don't be greedy. If you're going to lose to the Eagles like the Ravens did, that's fine, I'll take that. Just beat the Browns and the Ravens in the next couple of games. And then that last game, I think, is against Cincinnati. It won't matter. If all goes well Now the Ravens can help out and just lose more games. Right, it's like just lose a couple more Ravens and you just help the Steelers out.
Speaker 1:The Raiders did help you there couple stillers up, that's so going to get the raiders did help you there?
Speaker 2:yeah, that, yeah, right, right, it's one of those two wins this year. Yep, and it's like if wasn't for that, we'd only have a half game lead. So, yeah, I'll take that shit. I'll tell you what's crazy. Like mike tomlin has been the head coach for 18 years and, with today's win, another season where he doesn't have a losing record yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1:I saw that going through my insta earlier he was like that is ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Only problem is that just means you're good at being mediocre. You know what I mean. It's like you got one super bowl, no other super bowl appearances and the last I don't know four playoffs you made you've lost. In the first round. I was like, okay, well, maybe this is the year good enough, exactly exactly. And russell wilson ball today, 400 plus yard, three touchdowns. And it's like, okay, well, maybe this is the year Good enough, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:Russell Wilson balled today 400-plus yards, three touchdowns and a pick that wasn't his fault. Talk about cheating. The refs didn't call that. I'm going to grab this receiver's head, I'm going to push him down to the ground and throw him to the ground and then intercept the ball and run it back for a touchdown. And the refs are like, no, that's good, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:Did you see the Jacksonville brawl?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I saw that one Red zone, switched over to that and left it there so we could watch the whole melee. So it was like absolutely dirty play. I mean, dude deserved to get thrown out. Man. I think Ryan Clark, one of the ESPN pundits he was on. He's talking about absolutely dirty play and good on the Jaguars for causing a fight. I was like, yep, you go defend your boys, and they sure as hell did. It was like he just got back from injury today too and boom. I was so hoping the Jags would win that game just for that. But whatever, they had a chance. But Matt Jones is Matt Jones, so what are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1:I told you, that's probably the only game we're going to be three. That's going to be our next one that we win, hopefully. Is that your next game? No, god, no, I think we're playing Jacksonville here. I think our next one here is the Falcons on Monday Night Football. Oh, wow, okay.
Speaker 2:They didn't flex that out. I'm surprised.
Speaker 1:Let's see. Let's look at the schedule. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Jags are week 16. I was gonna say how many left One, two Jags Falcons.
Speaker 2:Falcons.
Speaker 1:Jags, and then the Chargers, which is a TV game.
Speaker 2:Oh, where they don't know if it's Saturday or Sunday. Yeah, based off of who needs what for playoffs and all that, yeah, yeah, damn three, did y'all get nine home games this year?
Speaker 1:Did we? Let's see One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 2:Eight, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It's 8. Okay, because 8 is the standard? Because every other year you get 9, unless you get that stupid-ass European game, although technically I'd still cancel the home game, but actually in Vegas. So she must have gotten 9 last year. Then it's supposed to rotate. So, 8, 9, 8, 9, 8, 9. So not bad, Okay, so I think it. I think it's Jacksonville, Vegas and New York Giants all fighting for the one seed, Yep. So whoever wins that Jacksonville Raiders game screws themselves.
Speaker 1:Yep, pretty much yeah. Right now we're both 2-10, so yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, the Giants, 2-10 also. And the Giants, I don't know. I think the Giants are worse than all of the three. They are not good at all. Shoulder Sanders heading over to New York.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:It would fit his personality, although so would Vegas. That's the thing, and Jags aren't looking for a quarterback, so I don't imagine anyway. So I wouldn't even consider the Jags as a contender. The only issue there is, though, they could trade out if they get to one scene. They could trade out to some other team who's looking, although I don't know really who's looking, but whatever.
Speaker 2:So I guess in new york. Yeah, besides those, yeah, seriously besides those two, because bryce young is coming on strong over in carolina. He started off like shit once. They benched him for a few weeks. He's actually playing competent football. Nobody saw that coming, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2:We'll see Any plans for this week. We got a potluck at work. That's about it for me, and then, before I fly out on Friday, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:We went to go see. Oh, we saw Shrek the Musical yesterday.
Speaker 2:It was a busy day yesterday. Damn, I was going to say that's a busy day, yeah.
Speaker 1:I liked it. It's probably my least favorite of the film translations because we saw Back to the Future Beetlejuice and this all recently. Okay, I'd go Back to the Future, beetlejuice and then Shrek.
Speaker 2:That's funny.
Speaker 1:One. They didn't do the Smash Mouth song All-Star. That's a fail.
Speaker 2:We're not buying those rights.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it was good. It was just okay, though, and I like Shrek. Shrek's a good movie, but I don't know it just didn't translate well to the musical. For me Nothing against the actors or anything, but.
Speaker 2:You know what that just reminds me. After Wicked I was looking up musicals, whatever else was coming out in Colorado, but that made me start comparing it to Hamilton. I was like I really can't, because Hamilton, the whole damn thing is musical, like there's no pauses for speech and all that. It's all musical. And I was like I don't know if I've ever, if there's anything else out there like Hamilton, where the whole thing is music, and I can't think of one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because even if you listen to the soundtrack, there's only one part that's taken out, and that's when his friend dies, lawrence. He dies and he gets the, the letter. That's the only part that's not on the soundtrack if you listen to it, but otherwise you get the whole show oh, damn, yeah.
Speaker 2:but yeah, I don't know why that crossed my mind, but it did when I was and it was coincidental. I just seen, I just seen wicked, obviously a couple weeks ago, just saw Hamilton, and then I got the email from Denver Performing Arts Center, or Center for Performing Arts, and it was like let's see what's coming out next year. And then there were a bunch of like the Back to the Future that you mentioned was on there.
Speaker 1:The Wiz that's coming out next year. I was like I might have to look on that. That's part of this year's package shows.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's part of our this year's shows. So there's a couple I'll take a look at and see if anything stands out. But again, because of watching Wicked, it made me think of one of the days I used to go to the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. So I was like, oh, we would always do a comedy, a musical and then some Shakespeare play that they did in the Replica O Theater on campus. I was like ooh.
Speaker 2:So I went to the Forman Art Center website and clicked musicals and was like, okay, there's quite a few. I was like, okay, well, some of these are too soon. It's like, oh, this is coming out in December. I'm like, no, no, no, no, what's coming out later? I need to plan. Yeah, exactly, I was like I got too much. I got one that a girl was supposed to go to today, but she epic failed that one with her timing. She was supposed to go to Dick Drums of the World. It wasn't a musical, just a symphony Drums of the World. And then in two weeks is Colorado Christmas, so they'll have some choir there as well. I'll probably go that one with a friend of mine. I'll find somebody else to go with because she's got a birthday party for the little one Turning eight.
Speaker 2:So I was like yeah so, yeah, the planning was like last minute not the whole thing's not been coordinated for the last little while. It's like, oh well, got a play to go to, I already paid for it, so yep. But then after that I don't think the next one is, until crap. It's either the first weekend or the third weekend of january and that's the harry potter three with the symphony playing the score. So yeah, so, and then after that there's like a gap until march with how to train your dragon yeah, I think this was our last one to like february or something, yeah I think I think, when all said and done, I think I have one, two, five left.
Speaker 2:The other three, the last three, towards the end of the season, like in late spring. Uh, it's like carmina barana. And then it's like some minor stuff that it's like not pop culture really related at all, right, it's just actual like classical music type stuff. So I was like, okay, well, that sounds cool, check that out, check that. It was like I needed to add stuff to to fill out the ticket, basically, and I was like, all right, this sounds good enough. I saw carmina barana like three years ago. I'm like I enjoyed the hell out of that one, so I instantly picked that one. The other two was kind of like flip a coin. Yep, I heard about it yeah.
Speaker 2:Honestly, yeah, I was like I think I know that one Sure, that sounds good.
Speaker 1:Yep. Speaking of how to train your dragons, you see the trailer for the live action?
Speaker 2:yep, I'm all over that one. Uh, I'm not a huge fan of those, for the most part only because a lot of them have failed. But that looked good. The animation looked good.
Speaker 1:I don't know. It seems this looks exactly the same. I'm like, yeah right, it's so weird thing it's like man he looks.
Speaker 2:He looks so animated. It's as well, uh. But I I heard about it years ago, like like two, two years ago or so. I knew they're doing it but then I forgot all about it years ago. Like two years ago or so, I heard they were doing it but then I forgot all about it. And then that trailer came out and was like a couple of weeks ago. I saw the trailer and it was like crap, I forgot about this and that looks good. And then I think it was during Wicked or Gladiator 2, one of the two, I think it was Gladiator 2, actually. No, I take it back.
Speaker 1:It was Wiccan. I think it was Wiccan, it was.
Speaker 2:Wiccan, we got it too. Yeah, I was going to say wait a minute. Nope, I saw it. We both saw both Wiccan and Gladiator 2. But it was definitely Wiccan that they showed the trailer and was like that looks way better.
Speaker 1:I might have to IMAX that one because that looked good on the final dragon well, you're flying man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that that was that. It looked good. I'm like. I'm like, all right, I'm, I'm down. I'm down for this. Hearing bad things about captain america, though, so I heard they'd like oh, they're on round three of reshoots. I think three, because the first one is why they redid it, and then the second one is like okay, they tried it again and they're doing the test audiences and they're still coming back. Bad, but I don don't care, I'm still watching. No, it still looks entertaining enough to me. I'm down. I'm curious. I want to know how they're going to handle the adamantium hand coming out of the ocean, or human or person, alien, whatever.
Speaker 1:So I'm curious about how that's going to play out. How do we get on that list? That's what I'm saying. I'll tell you if it.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, you're going to get both versions. You're going to get the popcorn answer and you're going to get the critical answer. I'm happy to give you both, because they ain't always the same thing. You don't even have to pay me. No, tell me when and where to be, I don't know. Pay for the popcorn and squishy at least. Come on. Okay, fine, that's $15.
Speaker 1:I'll fill out your survey.
Speaker 2:I got you. There's a couple of times in Vegas where it happened. You go to the preview and then you walk out and there's a girl there with a clipboard. I've done that a couple of times, but that was probably in the late 90s last time.
Speaker 1:I did one of those. We used to do those a lot too.
Speaker 2:I miss those, although I need to look it up again that time earlier this year where I did that blind movie you don't know what you're going to see, you just go. That was kind of fun. I want to do another one of those.
Speaker 1:I need to look into that. They do them pretty often.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the thing. Right, they do them pretty regularly. Granted, it's a 35, 40-minute drive for a theater out here that does that, but I did enjoy that. That was fun. It was nice not knowing what the I was going to watch, and it helped that the movie was pretty good. Again, no reaction, nobody there surveyed, nothing like that. It was just okay. You just get to be the first one to watch whatever blind movie's coming up.
Speaker 1:Generally, if it's a week before, they don't care. They're just like okay, we're just helping you get word of mouth out and you tell people when it comes out. It's when you see like a month or more earlier, they're like okay, what can we fix real quick right, one of the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do we need to change? We, we filmed four different endings. Yeah, what would you like? Well, we, we want to see this person live or we want to see that person die. Oh great, we filmed that right, cut and paste, man. You know, man, it was kind of funny.
Speaker 2:Uh, I was when I was out at the bar today with my friend watching the games for a bit, and hadn't caught up with her in forever. So we're watching, watching the games and hanging out and we're trying to plan. It's like hey, when's the next time we can do this? I'm like well, I got meetings, I'm busy. And then, about halfway through, it is like she's like well, I got this to do. I'm like I'm like wait, wait, no, wait, this friday, friday the 6th, I was like we're already in december register. Yeah, you know that. Like we're in december, that means I'm out of town on friday. Like, never mind, sorry, sorry, we'll have to wait till next week. I got an early flight on friday. Uh, I'm not going out thursday's football, so I'm not going to go out Thursday. And then I think I have a meeting. Is it Wednesday? I don't remember Either way. I tell you what, though If I had known about this job, I would have been like can we do Disney the week after?
Speaker 2:Because it turns out I have that Friday off because our company party is on Thursday. So I have Friday off, and was like, man, that would have been nice to save our PTO day. Luckily, I've been there long enough where I have two PTO days to count for Friday and Monday, so I'm good in that sense where I'm getting paid for it. But I was like, wait, I think my first staff meeting in early November, when they announced it, they were like, okay, our party is on the 12th and we're going to be off on the 13th.
Speaker 2:I'm like what, son of a? Well, I'll take it right. It's like, hey, enjoy the holiday party and don't come to work the next day, because we expect y'all to be freaking plastered. So I was like, all right, I don't know, I'm not going to lie party, it's just again being new, relatively speaking. I don't really know a lot of people. I know my office, and then I didn't know one person, uh, that worked the office before beforehand, so but he's not even going. So it's like, all right, uh, I'll go make a showing, you know, especially since I didn't realize this until now, until I, when I rsvp that I was going um that corporate there's gonna be some people from corporate.
Speaker 1:I was like okay now I kind of have to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have to go. You know what, though? I have a plan for that, because we're supposed to be off at I think the party starts at 6. We're supposed to be off at 3-ish give or take, and then we go to the party downtown. I'm going to go downtown early, get in the parking garage while it's still cheap and then maybe catch a movie downtown.
Speaker 2:Before you know, that's three hours, if I can find something that starts around there I can show up a half hour late or whatever, or reasonably late, and try to find something and just hang out downtown and find something to do. Worst case scenario I will find a different brewery, right or distillery. I will myself, but I don't want to backtrack and come back to Boulder just to turn back around and it's like, no, I will take. If I'm going to change, I will take what I need. It's not like it's formal, they're like just festive. I'm like, oh, I'll just wear my MLP shirt that I'm wearing on Saturdays.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at least change your shirt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I'll definitely do that. That's probably about it. Or, like we saw, like the picture you sent, target and Walmart both have Star Wars holiday sweaters Although what was the? Somebody had a cool one. Oh, it was the cow that had a pocket up front. You could put a drink in it. I was like that's cool. So I'll probably get one of those for next Thursday and then this weekend bring the my Little Pony one. So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2:But again not super excited about the party, but I'm curious enough, I guess, and I'm curious who from corporate, who I got to schmooze and all this other blue shit. But yeah, definitely not like I can't wait to go. No, I can definitely wait, I can definitely wait. So what is yours?
Speaker 1:Ours is not next weekend 14, 14. I can definitely win what is yours. Ours is not. Next week in the 14th.
Speaker 2:I guess it is next weekend. I was going to say kind of yeah, A week from Friday at this point, or Saturday A week from. Saturday yeah, I was like wait a minute.
Speaker 1:No, because our tickets are and we're getting a room this time too, so that'll be cool. We don't usually get a room.
Speaker 2:Grandma babysitting that we don't usually get a room, but it's like $70. Grandma babysitting, that's it. Yeah, that's a win If you get a discount package, then why, not? Yeah, enjoy the alcohol, enjoy that free-flowing alcohol.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Free being the operative word.
Speaker 1:Yep. A dollar per drink is a tip for each of them every time I go up there.
Speaker 2:Yep, you're about to get paid. Well, tonight, do it Vegas stripper style and take $2 bills with you.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was having a conversation about somebody with that. I can't remember what it was. I know what it was. It's like the Chinese people give $2 bills as a good luck thing because they don't tip. And I guess Asians don't tip. I guess that's a thing I don't know.
Speaker 2:In Asia I would say, ok, fine, but when you're here, kind of I don't know, maybe adjust and tip. If you're here, like if I went to Asia, and well, when I go to Asia in a few months here, if the thing is, you don't tip, well I'm going to follow the culture and not tip. I don't want to be rude, but if I'm supposed to tip, I'm going to. I don't know, I guess we'll figure it out when we're there. But I'm all like you're going to leave me here. Your bill is $150. You leave me a $2 bill for good luck. That's your tip. Your tip is have good luck. I'm like I mean, all right, if you have magical powers and you're going to give me some good luck, I'll accept that over some money right, if not some exorcist luck.
Speaker 1:What the fuck did you did?
Speaker 2:you think for black friday, dude, you look at all or I I I kind of browsed differently between best buy, walmart, target, some whatever was online with basically anybody that emailed me. I went ahead and looked at to see what they had. When all said and done, I bought three things some some socks, a pillow because it was $3.48, and Rubbermaid 26-piece Tupperware set.
Speaker 2:The one I buy every four years because I lose all the pieces. It's like I have extra lids, extra stuff. Okay, toss all this and start over. Actually, you know what I didn't get that. I put it back. I went for the four-pack of the bigger round bowls, the 6.2-cup bowls. I was like you know what I didn't get that. I put it back. I went for the four-pack of the bigger round bowls, the 6.2-cup bowls. I was like you know what? I used this size more than anything else. I just specifically got the bigger bowls and said screw it, but that's it. I went to Walmart and got those three things. I walked out of there with those three things. I was looking around. I was like bigger place 75-inch TV for $478.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I was looking at it, dude, I ain't going to lie. I was like 35 inches for under $500?. Are you kidding me About to move?
Speaker 1:my couch back a little bit.
Speaker 2:Man, I'm looking over here. All the Funkos are at the spread across. It's going to be a big old wall of TV. I was like man. I was like I'll put it in the bedroom. It'll look like a movie theater in there.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm actually in the bedroom.
Speaker 2:Dude, no kidding, hang it on the wall. I'll have to take down the Transformers poster. Put up that thing. Hang it on the wall, and just. I'd look left and right, just so I could see the whole screen.
Speaker 1:I think you sit in the front row at the movie theater, yup.
Speaker 2:Yup, man, man dude. Last time I did that was Batman. Whichever one had Arnold in it. Oh, wow, Batman and Robin. Okay, is that what it is? No, batman. No, yeah, you're right, because Batman Forever was the one before that right yeah With Tommy Lee yeah.
Speaker 2:Batman and Robin. That was the last time I sat up front back when you and it was my brother's fault, right, because we were waiting on him and he showed up late and it was like what the hell? Yeah, yeah, also known, as he was with a girl. So so, yeah, that was like then, obviously it's switched now or you don't have to worry about any of that, but but, yeah, that was the last time. And then that was like, if that happens again, you're just going to be assed out. There was no, I'm going to wait and hand you a ticket. No, we're not, we'll call. I'm going to say, hey, if we'll call, don't work, you buy your own ticket, yep, and you either make it in or you don't. You can sit up front.
Speaker 2:I got the middle Dude, for real, for real man, not to think about that. If there's nobody in the theater, like I'll still sit in the back. I want the back row and get the angle, but a lot of times that's because I go to the. You know how they have the, the I guess the smaller theater versus the giant theater, opening night top movies. I used to go to the small one, not on purpose, it's coincidence, it works, and the back row is perfect. You have more leg room, yeah, and it's the perfect way to see the tv, or TV, so you see the screen. So there's no angle issues. If I have to, I'll move up the big, the big NASA thing, though the bigger cinemas, the bigger, I guess, arenas, whatever, or they do go further back. I'll sometimes go ahead and scoot up and be like a third from the back road.
Speaker 1:Cause just the angles that I want to maximize.
Speaker 2:Maximize the angle. Use some calculus to figure that shit out. I learned that in high school. It's like hey, based off of your height and the height of the screen and the height of the screen off the ground, you can maximize your angle to watch whatever. I got a list on my phone of the different theaters in the Boulder theater, where I know if I'm in theater 12, I need to sit in P, like P6 or something like that. I calculated that shit back in 2009. There's your nerd shit for the day, people.
Speaker 1:I have my favorite seat. I shelled in the movie theater. You're in my seat.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Excuse me, sir. Sir, I don't want to cause a scene, but I will.
Speaker 1:I've been sitting in this seat for 23 years.
Speaker 2:Smooth. Yeah, there's been times where I'm trying to pick a show time and it's like that seat is taken. When's the next show? It was like 345. Somebody took P6? Okay, 40? Nope, okay, 510?. Oh, there it is, it's open. Take the 510 show. It's been a long time since.
Speaker 1:I've done it, but I have done it. The OCD is real Well. Since you did grown-up stuff for Black Friday, I did too.
Speaker 2:I did finally buy my robot vacuums, I did Wait, wait, that's the one with that sprays the water.
Speaker 1:Or no. So the one I got for the Casita, it does have a mop attachment. You fill it up with water and you put it on the back water and you put it on the back, so it vacuums and then it mops as it goes. Okay, I got one for the house, but that one's not coming till tomorrow and that one it fills up its own water, empties its own dirt bag and it heats water up to like 150 degrees or something. Good, lord right, that's fancy as fuck, right, I know. And your girl sent me this list and she's like oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they said don't get one that mops. And I'm like, so I'm reading and I'm like they wanted it to pick up spilled milk though Like mop, that shit up. Don't put your robot vacuum after that, that's stupid yeah yeah, that's not the same thing. No, I'm looking to clean my floors, bro.
Speaker 2:Right, everybody's gone. We're at work or schoolgirls at school While we're gone, do all that. This is not supposed to be freaking. Rosie the maid Right, that's different.
Speaker 1:No, no no, yeah, if you spilled milk, you need to go clean that shit up now, right, don't wait for the robot vacuum.
Speaker 2:Elon will get us on that in a couple years. It'll be fine. It'll be fast-tracked through government so we can wait when it takes over everything Shit what else.
Speaker 1:I got some stuff for the group for Christmas, but movie-wise.
Speaker 2:I caught up a little bit. I miss it. I miss the days of going to Walmart and looking for the orange dot, black dot, purple dot and getting actual Blu-rays with the digital code. I was like looking around when I went there, you know, because they're all the sales in the middle aisle. I was like okay, okay. I was like that's a decent stuff. It's not for me, that's all. But I was like man, I miss going to the grocery section and going through the movies.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting there next to the ground beef looking at Harry Potter DVD. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:I was like I wouldn't buy this normally, but it's $3. Right I?
Speaker 1:don't need this movie, but you know whatever? Not at all.
Speaker 2:I can build up my collection for $4.99?. What? Best Buy same thing. Then I didn't go to Best Buy after that Target for the ones you didn't find at Walmart.
Speaker 1:It didn't go to Best.
Speaker 2:Buy after that Target for the ones you didn't find at Walmart. It was kind of sad because I didn't go out until, like God, three. It was late in the afternoon. Also, I didn't want to go out too early because CU had a home football game and traffic is a nightmare. The game was at 10, so traffic would have started at eight in the morning. It ended around two and then things clear up about an hour later after traffic. So I was like, okay, I'll go after three. I think it was close to three or 330 or four when I finally went. But, yeah, walked in, not a lot of people at that point it obviously we're 10 hours into it. Yeah, not a lot of people there. So and I'm just, I'm just kind of like, just kind of looking around, not a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Then I go up the aisle, like I was saying and it was like like $3.48 for a pillow, yeah, I could use another pillow. It was like like, oh, these fuzzy socks, not for me. I'm like, yeah, she'll wear these fuzzy socks. They have slip grips on the bottom, so that's cool. And then, yeah, and then going through, it was just what the hell man it was. So just blah. Let me see, looking at my Amazon, it was just what the hell man it was so just blah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Let me see, Looking at my Amazon list, I grabbed Civil War Boy Kills World.
Speaker 2:Garfield. Oh yeah, the ones we talked about, Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's see what did I get from Target Target.
Speaker 2:I got. I did go to Target afterwards too, but that was just for whipped cream. They have the specialty flavor whipped creams. Now, in the season M, they have the specialty flavor whipped creams now in the season Marshmallows sea salt caramel peppermint.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, it's so good.
Speaker 2:Last year I did the sea salt caramel. It was fantastic. This year I got the marshmallows added to a chocolate.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. Today Target had their Funkos on sale, like 20% off or something.
Speaker 2:I did grab a couple of those Bitty Death Stars. I did see that that's right 20% off of $30 or $19.
Speaker 1:$23.90. They ended up being like $23.99 each or something like that. Yeah, they were $30.
Speaker 2:They're $30. $29.99 minus 20% is $23.99.
Speaker 1:I'm still waiting for a bigger sale.
Speaker 2:I want them to go half price.
Speaker 1:But you know I'm'm gonna probably need a lot of them.
Speaker 2:That's the thing that's why I want to go half price then. Then I'll get 10 and what else?
Speaker 1:no, that was before black friday. I got fall guy and despicable with me. For what else? The new kong and zola movie, because I didn't see that in the theater. This is all. I have no idea where that one came from. It's in the garage on the shelves that I just brought over. Well, it's already, oh, it's already, arrived. Shit, you know idea where that one came from? It's in the garage, on the shelves that I just brought over.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's already arrived.
Speaker 1:Shit. You know that one might have been from Amazon. Let me see no.
Speaker 2:I'm just surprised it's Sunday. You already got stuff arriving, damn.
Speaker 1:Did you do?
Speaker 2:any collector protector.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I did, oh, I got Gentlemanly Warfare.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was a fun movie, kong and Zola and Rise of the Beast. I don't think I got that one yet. Okay, and that one was good. Yes, I did do. Collector Protector, what did I get? I got regular ones, obviously. I think I got a couple of specialty sizes too that were in stock, because I hate ordering stuff that's not in stock from them. So, like what was?
Speaker 2:your whole order. Okay, so you'll get it in six months, right? Although although they they did have a problem with supply. A couple months ago. They did send out people's stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So kudos to them.
Speaker 1:Um, I got a couple of three packs. So I got covers for the uh, the Star Wars comic books oh yeah, the Star Wars comic books and I got a 50-pack of the 4-inch ones.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, I went 80. I was completely out. You know the cases that Funkos come in that are six per case. I've got three or four of those because I ran out of cases. So I went the full 80 for the max discount, because 80 comes down to 85 bucks. So you basically five over a dollar, so whatever. So I maxed out with that because I'm going to use half of them as soon as they come in, and they come in on Tuesday. So between me and old girl we've got 40 of them already accounted for. But then I needed a two-pack for the Star Wars. Yeah, last time I was there I needed a two-pack, but it was cheaper to get two two-packs. I was like, well, screw it, I'll just grab another one and just sit on it for a minute. You know you're going to need it yeah exactly, but that was it.
Speaker 2:I need one of the movie moment size ones, but I don't know which one. It had the SDCC Wednesday, but she never gave me the measurements to tell me what size it was. I was like, well, wait till the next holiday when they do their Christmas sale, new Year's end of the year sale, I'll get it then. I'm still waiting for it.
Speaker 1:I asked for these measurements in July, as soon as I think it was what was September Labor Day, it looked like when I went onto their page because I hadn't been on their page for a minute, just because I was waiting for a sale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:I'm not keeping you in business unless I'm looking, but it looks like they have an app now and it'll tell you which one you need for whatever pop. It is Crap.
Speaker 2:I forgot about that app Because they used to. You just type in because they would tell you in the list of which ones would fit. And I just typed in Wednesday and nothing popped up. I'm like, well, never mind, but I forgot. You're right if you'd use the app. Oh well, wait, is the sale still going Shit? I don't even know.
Speaker 1:No, it does. I mean, it's still Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2:I was going to say it's Black Friday through Cyber Monday because the code was BFCM. Yeah, so, yeah. So, for those of y'all we're talking about as Funko Pop, we like our soft sleeves to protect our figures and we both like Collective Protector as the one to use. I mean, I like them Easy to get, easy to open, very consistent. I've been using them since I started collecting Funkos in 2021.
Speaker 1:And it's a local las vegas business there you go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even that. Even the you know what's that facebook one we follow pop something in vegas. Yeah, whoever they are, they even use collector protector. Because I saw their ads yesterday, I was like I'm not buying your sleeves, I'll get my own. Thank you directly from them I'm gonna pay you two dollars.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm gonna give you two dollars, two dollars a cover, when I can get him for a buck oh three or whatever the hell. I paid buck oh five or something either way. So, yeah, so I did get some of those. It's. The only thing left now is to figure out what size that wednesday is. So I'll have to bust out that app again and just I think I know what size. But again, like oh, I'll just go here and check the measurements and guess it was like one that I already have. But they stopped putting the measurements up. I was like, why would you do that? I mean because I wanted to make sure my two pack was the right size. So what I did was when they did the 40th anniversary of Empire. There was the Han Leia two pack, there was the Han Leia two pack.
Speaker 2:So I went back for when that came out, looked at my order to make sure I ordered the same one because I put it up against it and it would fit the same case, because not all the two packs are the same size. But I thought, anyway, but because there's like this one won't fit this one. I was like man.
Speaker 2:So I figured it out make them all the damn same size. What are you doing with this crap like that? That, that new size that's bigger than regular but smaller than six inch yeah, remember what they call it. I was like I want no part of that. Y'all just mess it up my decorations and shit my nerves. How's it supposed to stack exactly? You gotta find it on the bright side. I'm looking around again if you find there's a right there. So that oddball size will probably fit in that gap that I have up there, because the other shit that's next to it, between the four packs and the five packs, it's like man, do a four or a five, don't do a four and a five, get a two pack, a three pack, everything, I think, up to seven. Now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how many people are going?
Speaker 2:across. Yeah, exactly that's exactly what I'm thinking about too, because I don't think they did it vertically like that, like now just just long and across.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah it's like a baseball bat I'll just say, how do you display that?
Speaker 2:I went to hobby lobby and got a baseball bat case. That's how it should probably work. Pretty good, it probably was. Actually, how would I say that man? You know what funny though I I didn't really I was going through some of the cases that I did have. Before I ordered, I knew I got extra six inch ones because I knew the nfts or star wars, so I I was ahead of the game on that. What I didn't realize is I've got extra 10 inch ones. Like what the hell for? Like what was I planning on? I thought, whatever it was, I'm guessing it was cheaper to buy like six than it was to buy four. So I was like I'll just get the six and I'll just hang on to two when I need them so eventually yeah, see, I got it.
Speaker 2:I still did. You get that a couple years back the year, I want to say, or last year, 50th anniversary, the gold disney castle, 10 inch one with like a gold making. I have that one. So I had it basically to sell, so I'll throw a case on that one when I stopped being lazy and sell that shit. Or when I changed my mind cause I'm a Disney whore now and want to just keep it, it's like no, that's mine now, that's not going anywhere. I saw the other day I was looking over I was like oh, I was about to sell you. I'm like but what if I want to keep it? Right? We're just. We're just. You know what, we're just staying there. We're not gonna do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean you're first on the chopping block, but you're safe for that yeah, exactly, it's like you, you're gonna, you're not gonna stick around too long maybe, but for now I don't. Well, we'll see how desperate I am for Japan, for Japan, right. Oh, I'll make it a thing then. Until then, no, I'm good. But yeah, it's crazy, dude, I did not realize how many cases that I was short. I'm looking around, I'm like oh, 60. Okay, there's a box of six there, box of six there, box of six there, box of six under the table.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh man, dude what the hell I mean, I don't even know how that happened. Dude, I'll make the girls club gonna love you, right, everybody gets an elmo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I opened the one box. It had a mix because I ordered a mix of them, right? I'm like right, right. So I open up the next one and I'm like, why are there so many damn elmos? Do they fuck up? So I went back to my order and, sure enough, it said seven. I'm like how, how do they even select seven?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I was thinking, man, that is just wild Finger slip, you know, click, click of the mouse, slip something.
Speaker 1:Was I half asleep doing it or something?
Speaker 2:I'd do a bang, because that is just.
Speaker 1:That makes zero sense, nobody knew that many Elmos.
Speaker 2:No, uh-uh, the biggest fan of Elmo don't need that many Elmos Like. If it was like oh, there's a six-pack of six different poses. First of all I'd be mad if they did six poses of Elmo, but when there's so many characters that they still could just come up with, it's just in general.
Speaker 1:I mean I did buy two different Elmos because this Elmo has Rocco and then the other Elmo had a dog. That's okay.
Speaker 2:That's different. Seven of the same mofo.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, give one to my nephew. Start him a Funko collection.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go, keep it going. It's like, daddy, I want more. Your brother will love you for that Forever keep it going. It's like daddy I want more your brother will love you for that right forever again collectorprotectorcom, exactly with a k.
Speaker 2:Yeah, collector with ak. The rest of the rest of mercies just just to collect their first letter, k dude. How did we find them? I don't remember. I wonder if I wonder, if I think I think the brad's toys, I think I was there and they had them in their store back in 2021 and I was like cool, so I just went online. I was looking for cases, so I think I want a specialty sizes. So I just looked at the bottom of the box and I had collector blah blah blah dot com and started ordering from there. It wasn't until like my fifth order that I realized they were in henderson, right? I was like, okay, that works Right. Quick shipping Yep. Well, because even those regular cases, the regular four inch size, their cases or boxes are 20. So obviously I've ordered 80. I got four of those boxes coming and then my two packs. Shipping was 501. I'm like, yeah, I accept those terms. Yep, because those things are not light. That's a heavy box for those 80 cases.
Speaker 1:So I was like alright Shit, I got mine already. Yeah, I think I had them. Well, I guess, being local, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I might have had them Saturday. I was gonna say yeah, mine did say Tuesday, so it's fine with me, I know what I'm doing Tuesday night.
Speaker 1:Right, pulling off that plastic Get your ASMR on Shh For real.
Speaker 2:So yeah, you know what the funny thing is? I say I might have. I just realized I don't really have space with all this crap in here and these doorables all over. Once I get that gone, I do have space form on the bookcase over there. I just can't get to the bookcase.
Speaker 2:Small, small detail, small detail. And I still got to take all these extra Star Wars ones to one of the shops to get rid of them. It was like, oh, these got to go, I've got. I'm sitting, I'm looking right now. One, two. These are all the six counts One, two, three, four, five, six, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 23 extra Star Wars Funko Pops, boxes of Funko Pops. Wow, what is that? 120, 130 figures. Just because I'm too lazy to post them or whatever it's like, I'll just take them to a store. I made my money off of them at this point. Just take them all, five bucks each. Just get them out of here. Bye, give me my living room back. That way I can get rid of all that crap and move all the adorables over to that Right, and then I have access to my card table.
Speaker 1:Thankfully, I haven't seen a Series 3 adorables, yet.
Speaker 2:Dude for real, although you know, was it the one you had me go get the Maria, the Whatcha Gotcha or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Whatcha Gachos yeah.
Speaker 2:And I thought somebody said there's a Series 2 of that out yet I go. God, I hope not. Right One is still. I mean, target had two brand new cases of Series 1 in this week. I didn't grab any because I still have extra.
Speaker 1:Maris marie's.
Speaker 2:I have two jacks like nine marie's, one aerial, four moanas and like five mini mouses there's something like that left, but again, at this point those are all freaks I've in the last three, four months that I'm good. But I was like, yeah, don't come out with series two yet. Please let him sit for a minute or do and I can put some of the Series 1s with Series 2 to get rid of them.
Speaker 1:I just saw somebody posting.
Speaker 2:I am looking for a Series 2 in the Facebook group. I'm looking for a Series 2 of Whatcha Gotcha Machines. I was like Series 2 is out. Are you kidding me right now? I haven't checked their website in a while, so I was like it might be true. I did learn that the Star Wars Hyper Peaks are at five below I'm not sure how true.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen it myself, but people are saying they actually got them this time. I was like, when I see it for myself, even if I see an empty box or an empty tag for it, okay I'll accept that, but until then, nope, it's still series one, two packs, we'll see. Whatever, I've been pretty quiet. I haven't really gone out hunting and nothing to hunt. You know, I got my stuff, so usually I'll hunt for other stuff because I'm looking for star wars stuff yeah I usually don't go out just looking for that.
Speaker 2:So it's like, and I think a lot of that will start selling on ebay once uh, close, we get to christ. It's like.
Speaker 1:I need this last minute.
Speaker 2:That's like last week. I must have had 10 sales. I was like somebody's shopping for Christmas and getting their thing going. A lot of foreigners too. We can't get this here. I'm fine with eBay International. I pay regular shipping.
Speaker 2:You're the one who pays the extra, so not my problem. Yep, you're the one who pays the extra, so not my problem. Yep, you're the one that has to pay $20 so we can pick it up. Yeah, for real man, that shit is crazy. Those taxes, god dog, which honestly makes no sense to me. I don't know, I've never understood that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the whole custom tax thing is like I don't know what the hell. What's the point? Yeah, I'm get it to you. Who cares about anything else on top of that? But whatever, I don't know, that's all right.
Speaker 2:Trump, trump, trump, just for duke. Trump will will get us all to understand how terrorists work. Yeah, you will. It cracks me up, though. People like, oh my god, they're gonna pass the the bills on to us. And that's not how it works. It's a threat.
Speaker 2:He, if you've paid attention, trump is threatening these countries unless they give us benefits, and and those countries like what happened in Mexico, we're going to tariff all your stuff if you don't stop these caravans from coming into or working all the way up to our border. So what happened? She stopped the caravans from coming into our border because she didn't want the tariffs. That's all it is. It's basically a threat. Now, whether or not you follow through with that threat is a whole other story. That's all it is. It's basically a threat.
Speaker 2:Now, whether or not you follow through with that threat is a whole other story. But the whole point of it is wait a minute. If Americans have to pay tariffs when their stuff goes to your country, why aren't you paying tariffs when your stuff comes to our country? So all we're doing is balancing it out. And people just don't understand that. They just think it's like, oh, we're doing this because Trump is arrogant. No, because trump actually cares about this country and wants the equal playing field. That's it, that's all it's about. And people are like I don't get it and I like my answer better, so I'm gonna stick with that and not learn facts.
Speaker 1:I'm like okay, stay ignorant my opinion's better than your silly facts that can be, oh my god right.
Speaker 2:think is funny, though is the whole people bailing Twitter. It's like oh, if you don't like Twitter, get your own Like. Okay, so Elon did? He just bought Twitter and now they're all losing their mind. I'm going to Blue Sky or whatever, where nobody, where you have no interaction and a bunch of pedophiles yeah.
Speaker 2:It was Threads, it was a two. Yeah, nemo, or it was Threads. Yeah, it was a couple years back, it was we're going to Threads. It's like, well, that bombed. Now we're going to Blue Sky. I'm like, okay, you could go to Blue Sky and have 400 people interact with you, or stay on Twitter and have 4 million people interact with you. Yeah, I don't, it's just stubborn. Yeah, oh, just stubborn. Yeah, oh God, it's like, dude, you lost. Move on. I keep telling this to people. Just be happy For those of you who are anti-Trump, just be happy. He can't run again. Exactly, you get four years of a good economy and very politically incorrect press conferences, but they will be entertaining and then we'll see what happens in four years.
Speaker 1:But plus, he's a public figure, so you can make merchandise with his face on it and sell it to the MAGA people and make money off of it. Yeah, you sure could.
Speaker 2:All these people are like get rich. Exactly Last time he was a media goldmine, Be smart this time and jump on that bandwagon. I mean, just go get paid people, Get Twitter people. Dude, find some dumb shit that he says or does, because there will be plenty of it, and then roll with it on Twitter and just watch the clicks and interaction rolling.
Speaker 2:If I was smart enough to do all that shit, I would myself, but I don't know how to do that. I didn't even learn, so I just don't get it. It's like oh, we're going to cry about this, we're going to cry about this. I mean, is there something you're not going to cry about?
Speaker 2:I was like no, we're leftists I won't say liberals, because back in the day liberals are actually pretty good, they were the middle pack and they were the good people. But unfortunately they've got absorbed by the leftists and the Democrats and they've kind of tainted the party. Both parties have tainted. Let's be real Taint, yeah, that's pretty cool. So, whatever, I mean, there's. Luckily it's calmed down out here. As you know, I live in a frickin' blue state. It's calmed. It's not even I live in a blue state. I live in a blue town 20 miles from another blue town, when the rest of the state is all red.
Speaker 2:I don't know, you guys weren't blue though, well, that's enough people in Denver, that it's because there's not enough people anywhere else to counter Denver. Because Colorado Springs, military bases and all that, they're mostly blue, all the rural areas, they're all red.
Speaker 2:It's Boulder, it's up here, and the stretch along 25 until you get to the extreme ends. It's all blue and there's enough people to dominate. I'm like, okay, that's fine, plus all the Californians that moved here in the last six to eight years. So, whatever, don't care. I mean, I really don't. It is what it is. My vote's not going to count all that much because I know it's going to be drowned out by the Dems, but it's finally starting to quiet down.
Speaker 2:It's like I'm not hearing the whining as much. Oh, I've lost all my rights, which nobody can still explain to me what rights they lost. I'm still waiting for that answer. Since November. The country is already getting better. Peace is already. People already talk about peace in other countries because they don't want Trump to basically put his thumb on them.
Speaker 2:The economy and the stock market shot up the very first day after he was elected. It was like, okay, so things are already getting better and you people are complaining what am I missing here? I don't have any rights. I'm still sick of hearing that one.
Speaker 2:It's like even before all this, when people were talking about the whole trans rights or human rights, I'm like, well, what rights do you not have as a human just because you're trans, I don't. What am I missing? Well, people treat us differently. On, people treat everybody differently. So what rights don't you have? Though, get to the point where you say you don't have these rights? Well, I mean, we do have these rights, but oh, stop right there. Once you say you have these rights, you just lost your argument. Yeah, there, there is no, I just don't like it. Okay, so your issue is. Issue is your feelings are hurt, not an actual legal issue Like well, that's what I thought, so We'll see On the bright side again. No hot cocoa and coloring books at the colleges this time around. So small victories, exactly, the kids are finally starting to grow up a little bit.
Speaker 1:A little bit.
Speaker 2:I'm just sick of the whining. I don't have any. I wish somebody if any of you people out there watching this, if you're, you vote blue and you think because Trump won, you don't have any rights. Please tell me what rights you lost because Trump won, because I'm missing it and I would like to be educated.
Speaker 1:I'm so left, I don't even have a right hand. Those are the rights I lost.
Speaker 2:I did with two left feet. I was going to say we need Duke for what is this Tuesday movie going to be, but I think he told us last time I can't remember what it was he had a couple remember there was some timing there when he told us what it was. I think I want to try Red 1 on Tuesday.
Speaker 1:It was fun. I'm telling you, it was entertaining. You know exactly what you're getting with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's what it looked like too right.
Speaker 1:And it's December now, so it's Christmas time.
Speaker 2:It's shit. As soon as Thanksgiving food was over, it was Christmas time. Christmas music came on, yep, and I stopped bitching about people who had decorations up Anything before Thanksgiving. You know what's funny? It's like I don't know if they still do this, but all the Christmas movies that we grew up with the Rudolph and Frosty and Charlie Brown, all that they used to do that around Thanksgiving Always boggled my mind. How is that not on the week of Christmas or the week like when kids are out of school, whatever week that is? I think this year it starts Christmas week. How is they not? How are they not showing it? Then it's like, oh, we're gonna show this December 4th. I'm like what?
Speaker 1:yeah, I remember that too. It'd be like Thursday night or something yeah, it was like that.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't get it. I remember a couple years back they did them all on like Thanksgiving night. It was like wait, you're gonna show the thanksgiving, charlie brown thanksgiving and then the christmas one right after it. It's like what right? And now? Now for those. Like I said, there's a lot of people who who their tradition is to put up their tree after thanksgiving dinner. So I was like, okay, that I could you have it on the background while you're doing your tree and everything. Okay, well, more power to you. If that's why, great. If it's a scheduling thing, screw that. You never just got to figure it out. Christmas is on a Wednesday, the 25th, so Monday, the 23rd, when the first day kids are out of school first week, right there, that is when you freaking show it.
Speaker 2:I just don't get it you don't want to do Christmas Eve because people have their stuff going on. I totally get it. You don't want to do Christmas Eve because people have their stuff going on. I totally get that. But maybe even I would settle for a week before. From the 18th up until the 3rd you have those five day window to show that shit.
Speaker 1:It's a streaming avenue. You can watch it all year, if you want.
Speaker 2:It's funny. I was looking to see if it was on. I did not see it because Walmartmart, when I was doing my, my walkthrough yesterday, I saw the the new, the new movie rack. It's now, it's all set for holiday so you can get the bundle of live action movies or all the cartoons that we grew up with. All that stuff is there. I was like, okay, that's cool. And I was like I wonder if somebody has it on streaming, and I have not seen it in the last couple years or anybody had them on streaming you know why?
Speaker 1:because apple does them. Apple snagged the rights to a lot of them that we grew up with, and nobody has apple tvs.
Speaker 2:So but you think you put, if you talk, if you put it in imdb, it'll tell you what streaming you know, whatever platform it's on. When I, if you put in, I'm doing it right now I'm going to put in charlotte, what is it called? Charlie, charlie brown, christmas, yeah, but I try, I try to put in charlie at all and actually auto corrects the charlize. They're on phone. You are correct right damn that movie, that charlie brown christmas was 1965 holy crap.
Speaker 1:Well, I put in rudolph 1964 and now nobody has it. You can buy it on amazon for eight dollars oh, you're right.
Speaker 2:Charlie brown, christmas on apple tv okay, I always thought that was a c Paramount thing. So I'm like, okay, paramount Plus must have it. Nope, but I don't want to pay $10 for the one. I mean I'll pay $20 for a bundle of them for four or something, but as long as it's digital copy also. But I was like not because Walmart $9.96 for Rudolph, $9.96 for Frosty. I was like, no, I'm not paying that Cheap bathroom.
Speaker 2:I was like not doing it, Not going to do it. So yeah, I mean I guess I could always do the free trial thing of Apple TV for the season.
Speaker 1:When you upgrade your phone, they'll hook you up.
Speaker 2:I think last time, when I got my phone in 2018 or something, they gave me like a three month subscription for free. It was like, oh, I guess I could wait for that. Get my, get my phone upgraded here in a couple weeks. Oh shit, I should get it upgraded a couple of days before. Uh, disney, but I don't want to pay a thousand dollars for a phone right now. That's gross. I know I got time for that. No that you know. You know how many gifts and souvenirs I could buy myself at Disney for a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1:Right. Lightsabers on top of lightsabers.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, ain't no joke.
Speaker 1:Get my Grievous on.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, that's about it. Any update on Disney in the sense of we're trying to get to different times for breakfast.
Speaker 1:Nope, I've been checking, trying to get the girls in for Disney On Saturday, but no luck. No, oh wait, you guys are blocked out. No, so they have DCA In the morning, so they have to wait until park hopper hours Come over.
Speaker 2:Right, so 10? 11? Well, let's be real. Are they going to be up anyway? Who knows? Little one would want to. For sure she would want to, okay Well let's be real. Are they going to be up anyway? Who knows?
Speaker 1:Little one would want to for sure she would want to. But no, I told him, don't even worry about it, we'll just rope drop. And yeah, let's see, we'll do.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:We'll get a locker for all of our Wookiee popcorn buckets Is that out then, hmm. I thought it was afterward. I thought it comes out afterward there.
Speaker 2:No, it's there right now. Oh, right on, okay, yep, that'll happen. Yeah, yeah, the locker was a good idea, so definitely do that again. Yep, it's way easier than the whole. Let's go back to the car and drop this stuff off. I might have to. It's like an hour round trip.
Speaker 1:For real though. Yeah, no, locker, alright, cool trip. Did you all right though? Yeah, no, locker, all right, cool. It's gonna be three or four buckets, I'm sure two on my side.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that much because she's gonna want one. Yep, so maybe, yeah, no, no, there's no maybe for her. She wants one. I was like who am I kidding? She got the r2 or the droid one last time. Uh, definitely getting this one. Like it's kind of weird. Like I said, I forgot about the timing. It was like, oh, that's this week. I'm like, oh, now it's like, oh, looking forward to it. Now here we go, four days of work and let's do this is this work week over, yet let's go.
Speaker 2:It's like, come on, y'all the rocking back and forth, doing the, doing that whole. You know, come on, I'm ready to go. And the other reminds me I need to look up. I still need to look up the bus schedule to get from Burbank to Hollywood and meet you guys there whenever you get there. I think that'll be fun. Oh, that bar better still be there too. It is Okay. All right, that better be a thing. I was like that place was too much fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like their Facebook, so I see all the updates from them. Okay, all right, right on. If we can get a Millie together, we can franchise it.
Speaker 2:Oh that's it, yeah, lotto, here we come. Vegas, colorado, vegas, let's be real.
Speaker 2:That would be a Vegas thing. Oh, that would be so much fun. I'm sitting there picturing it. Imagine owning a place like that. We'd get to control the velvet rope. Hell yeah, you in the back, get up here. Imagine owning a place like that. That'd be so badass. Right, we get to control the velvet rope. Hell yeah, you in the back. Yeah, you Get up here. You're too cute to be back there waiting in line. Right, let's go, not bad. I'm looking at my battery now. I'm like still good, oh, it's already after midnight, good Lord, that's fine. I'm looking at my battery now. I'm like still good, oh, it's already after midnight. Good Lord, that's fine, I'm not even that tired.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, we already got an hour. Yeah, oh, that's right oh that could have helped.
Speaker 2:but that game was boring, my God, it was so horrible. It was like I get elements and all that. But you probably still have a chance to the Niners and still have a chance to win their damn division because the division sucks so bad. Two games behind Seattle and they still have a game against Seattle and Seattle still has some hard games. I mean nine and eight is going to win that division. Sad, that is sad.
Speaker 2:Got 50%, you're right, and you get a home game too. It's like, ugh, you're going to be hosting like 10 and or well, you'll be hosting 14 and 3, minnesota, or something like that, but you get the home game because you won your division. That's too damn funny Shit. Alright, anything else before we call it.
Speaker 2:Although I'm probably going to jump on Xbox for a minute, right Now that I slept through dinner. Grab something to munch on. Jump onto an Xbox. Wind down for a bit. Turn on the fan because it's getting hot in here. All of a sudden turn off the heat.
Speaker 1:It's like what the hell I didn't get the heater in here fixed. What yeah? I came out here I don't know last week. It's cold as fuck in here. So we had to have them come out and warranty the heater and they had to replace something on the furnace up in the ceiling.
Speaker 2:Damn Right. Wait, is that that square? I was asking you about yeah okay, all right, Ha came into use. Look at that. How's the decorating going at the casino, if any at all?
Speaker 1:Not much, I'm still just bringing in all the boxes and shit Okay. Like I said, not until the old house is done. Yep.
Speaker 2:Yep Reward yourself. That's your goal. It's like I can't do it. I can't reward myself until I finish the other one.
Speaker 1:The floor is going to be clean, though you can walk around in your socks.
Speaker 2:The floor is going to. It was like shit, clean or not, I'll walk around in my socks. Let's be real, that was happening. If they made shower socks, I'd be wearing those motherfuckers, so you have the crustiest ass feet. They'd never seen air, so don't worry about it. Doctor, can't help it. Man, it's my woody. I grew up everybody had their blanket. No, I had my socks on, so I still used to that compression around my feet. So the socks are the jump. Looking down. Now I got socks on, I'll go to bed, take everything off except the socks.
Speaker 2:There's rules Like them porn dudes Hell yeah, just the socks. All you see are them socks going. It's like hell to the. Yeah, they stole that from me. Duke missed you, especially during the Trump talk. I know you had a lot to add to that, a lot of eye rolls to add to that. A lot of I'm going to go play on my computer and not pay attention. To add to that, Right.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if we'll be able to do a live next week.
Speaker 2:I doubt it. I'll be there. Duke will not have landed yet. Yeah, he could do it from the plane Right. Disturb everybody next to you, buddy. Just disturb them all. Oh man, that would be so funny. Excuse me, sir, can you? Yes, I can, I'm not going to, but I can, I can, I could, matter of fact, make us some money, duke. Just have them all pay you to be quiet and then, boom, bees paid for Yep.
Speaker 2:We didn't even get to that. It's fucking comic-con at the same time. It's like, oh, it's like oh man, it's like oh man, still got, still got a couple days exactly. We'll be like I said. Plus we get to try some touristy shit and some outdoor stuff this time because it'll be forced on us and it's like, oh, I've always wanted to do this. Okay, now you get to do it. You don't have a choice. Yep, so yay, we'll figure out where later.
Speaker 1:But yeah, we got months for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah for sure, lots of them. Oh, that's enough. I think one of my shows is May the 4th. I was like, are we going to do Disney mid-May? I was like, oh wait, never mind, I've got a show. I can't remember which one it is, but one of my symphonies is that weekend Mm-mm, oh, whatever, I don't think it'd be good to go anyway, because we're just getting back from Japan.
Speaker 1:So that would be trouble, that would be hard. We'd be out by then.
Speaker 2:A little bit and and for me, PTO out at that point. So it's like how about I just, you know, go to work, Yep.
Speaker 1:Refill that bank account.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like oh, that credit card is going to be a burden. I got to check on international fees and all that crap too with the credit cards. Now I figure it out later. Ok, let's go.
