Vaguely Inconsistent
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Vaguely Inconsistent
Dessert Desires, Tipping Tales, and Tokyo Travel Temptations
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Ever found yourself drooling over the thought of a Wendy's Frosty or an elusive Heath Blizzard? You're not alone! We kick off today's episode by reminiscing about our favorite dessert cravings, poking fun at the scarcity of some beloved fast-food joints, and laughing at Lew's minimalist seasoning style that sparked a flurry of culinary jokes. From the surprising closure of TGI Fridays in Las Vegas to Applebee's tempting $9.99 specials and $1 drinks, we serve up a platter of dining stories that celebrate the quirks and value that make each restaurant experience memorable.
Feeling like you need a passport just to understand tipping culture these days? We get it, and that's why we've got a lively debate lined up, tackling the etiquette and expectations of tipping, especially when it feels like a handout rather than a reward for stellar service. Comparing different global approaches, including Japan's service fee model, we explore alternatives to navigating this social minefield with humor and practical advice. Whether it's tipping at Jamba Juice or handling automatic gratuity for large groups, our tales of financial savvy and humorous tipping mishaps are sure to resonate.
And what’s a chat without some pop culture and travel plans? We're buzzing about Kendrick Lamar's upcoming Super Bowl halftime show, imagining the spectacle of a Kite Man spin-off, and sharing our excitement over the evolution of shows like Yellowjackets and The White Lotus. Whether it's tackling the nostalgia of Saturday Night Live or planning adventures in Tokyo and Kyoto, our conversation is a vibrant mix of entertainment, travel, and everything in between. Get ready for an episode that promises a whirlwind of laughter, debates, and a dash of wanderlust!
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Now we're hungry. We weren't hungry.
Speaker 1:Welcome everybody. We started talking about blizzards before this actually started.
Speaker 3:Like snow blizzards or ice cream blizzards.
Speaker 1:Ice cream and I was in the mood for some dessert and I was like, what sounds good, a Heath blizzard, because I haven't had a Heath one in like five years, because usually you know I'll get whatever the special is. Like the animal cracker, one the animal cracker was like the. Animal Cracker one. That was a jam. That needs to be permanent. That does need to be permanent. But a Heath Blizzard, for whatever reason, just sounded good Because you're a Heathen Nah.
Speaker 2:Ew, and now we canceled. Alright, boys, it's been a good run, we almost made it.
Speaker 1:Hey, my thumb was out, so we're fine and that's a good thing. So, wait, what were we talking about? Wait, before blizzards, I forgot Blizzards Frosties oh, that was the other thing Because we're talking about because Duke was talking about how the strawberry one was not very good- that shit slapped.
Speaker 3:I slapped it out of my hand, going what the fuck is this shit? Nope, you get them to mix it with the chocolate.
Speaker 1:Nah, see, I was telling Duke that should be the Valentine's one, cause strawberry and chocolate goes together, so you would think they'd have it for Valentine's. Nah, they got the shit at. Comic Con right, the sea salt caramel one was really good, though the one from last month.
Speaker 3:Unfortunately, wendy's isn't plentiful enough here. I got to go to the hood. I got to put on my bulletproof vest. I got to roll in a cyber truck.
Speaker 1:You got me thinking when are their Wendy's?
Speaker 3:around Rancho and Craig.
Speaker 1:Get out.
Speaker 3:There isn't one in the Centennial, there's still one in the Centennial Shopping Center.
Speaker 1:Holy crap, dude.
Speaker 2:Dude, I saw a thing on one of my YouTube videos. I didn't watch the video, it was just the headline saying all your TGI Fridays in Vegas closed Yep. There was like four of them in casinos and they all closed this week, yep.
Speaker 1:Oh, there were some casinos.
Speaker 3:I forgot about that Orleans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, orleans, had one. Go in there. Is it a bankruptcy thing or do you got going on? Yeah, okay, going there. Is it a bankruptcy thing? Restructure.
Speaker 3:I don't know why you go to.
Speaker 2:Fridays anyways, I guess there's only four official ones left in California, but then there's a bunch. There's a few of them that are franchised, but I guess, as far as ones that are owned by TGI Fridays, there's only four left.
Speaker 1:I think I'm going to Applebee's. Anyway, get me a $9.99 burger.
Speaker 2:They got the $1 drinks man, Come on.
Speaker 1:Who Applebee's?
Speaker 2:They got their specialty drinks for like $1. Oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1:I just know that $9.99 lunch special or dinner special, burger fries and a drink for $10. I'm like, damn, it's cheaper than fast food, mm-hmm you can pretend like you're eating well.
Speaker 3:What's that? Pretend like you're eating well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can fake that the whole way.
Speaker 2:Nobody's ever acted like they've eaten well off of our Applebee's. It's a sit-down menu, sir.
Speaker 1:It's a sit-down restaurant.
Speaker 3:Take your order at the table.
Speaker 1:If I'm not mistaken, you can get, a couple times a year, unlimited appetizers, so that's even more real. Yeah, Just saying yeah, so that's even more real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Just saying yeah. It's like where's the classiest place you go? They give me unlimited appetizers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:The place that gives me unlimited appetizers and I actually have to tip them because they take my order at the table.
Speaker 1:And they let me switch those appetizers, like going to Red Robin, it's like wait, wait. I don't have to have another order of fries, I can switch to the broccoli or a side salad. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2:If you get the white, if you get the white waiter or waitress at Red Robin, they'll let you switch it up.
Speaker 1:No, that's a part of their thing. You can switch it up anyway. That's what I'm saying. It's it's. It's not a oh, let's sneak this by. No, they made it a thing where you can get. You can swap out your side. So what I would do is what side would you like? A salad? So I have a salad first and then I'll switch to the fries, and then, if I'm still hungry, a lot of times I'll save my burger and just fill up on fries.
Speaker 2:What's your? So number one always get them extra done, Because they always get that little. The Red Robin fries are the few some of the few fries I like with like a good, they give a good crunch, I don't know. But if you don't, sometimes, though, if you don't tell them to leave it in for an extra minute, like they'll get a little, they'll come out a little soggy.
Speaker 3:But what's your seasoned salt to?
Speaker 2:fry ratio Seasoned salt. You don't put the Red Robin, you don't put the fucking Red.
Speaker 1:Robin seasoned. What the fuck is wrong with you? What they have on there is sufficient, and I dip it in my mayonnaise we're good.
Speaker 3:Jesus, fucking Christ, you are so goddamn white.
Speaker 1:Hey, it's Black History Month. You can't say that you got 26 days to calm down we're taking it back.
Speaker 2:Lou is the one guy that goes into Red Robin that the seasoned salt level is the same size when he leaves the restaurant. That's what he comes in.
Speaker 3:I bring in a Ziploc and I'm like Lou's ancestors were those motherfuckers in Britain that started wars over seasons and spices and doesn't even put them in his fucking food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like at the Boston tea party Fuck this tea. And they're like well, which flavor's your favorite? I hate tea.
Speaker 1:It's called balance, because old girl will use enough salt of that seasoning shit for both of us, that's for damn sure, except she'll do it with ranch.
Speaker 2:Ooh whoa, she's got to use a fork to eat her fries. To eat her fries, because the fries are like oh man, I'm drowning. It's so, she's got a shingle.
Speaker 1:No man, I just want a side of mayo to go with my fries and it's perfectly seasoned already. If they forget don't get me wrong I'll. I'll sprinkle a layer on the top layer of the Mayo and then you eat around it until all the layers gone, then you sprinkle another layer on it. So you know, yeah, you, sorry, I can't the stuff the average American does, don't you all have a layer on your mayo?
Speaker 3:No, I don't put mayonnaise on my fries. That's fucking weird.
Speaker 2:Are you fucking British or something? What the fuck.
Speaker 1:And you're right, I wouldn't have drank the tea. It's like.
Speaker 2:I'm just here to protest Because I like, I like yelling at things.
Speaker 3:I can't text my tea because I don't drink that shit. I just want to break something.
Speaker 2:I heard there was people down here throwing bricks, so I thought I'd come down here. I hate bricks though so rectangular. Have you noticed? They're never perfectly square, they're always rough. I hate it.
Speaker 1:Right, the porous and everything.
Speaker 2:I got it right there. I got Lou's spot about why he hates bricks because they're never perfect.
Speaker 1:Unless they're like wood block bricks, solid bricks, the porous ones. Places will chunk off of them.
Speaker 2:Don't even get him started about cinder blocks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, did you have the one that's like. You know how they try to put it back together. Get him started about cinder blocks. Yeah, man, did you have the one that's like. You know how they try to put it back together, like it's still a solid piece. Get rid of that damn broken one and get a new one in there.
Speaker 2:It's going to break in the next day anyway, but it's so stupid. I need to send Lou the video of the person with the box where it has all the different shapes and they're like square goes in the square, Triangle goes in the square.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Triangle goes in the square. It's one of those where, like, the cutouts are all fucked up so like you can actually fit every single one through the same and the video's like a person watching it while they're doing it, it's like a reaction video to it and they're like no by the end. They're just like no and I'm like that would be Lou.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure. Why would they even make that? It's like, what are they doing? Quality control at its finest.
Speaker 2:I failed in my homework this week, it was just I had it off. It was busy at work and I was just had an off week, so I did not get to watch the movies that I said I was going to, so feel free to talk about them, though it's fine like I will not be broke, all right, no, that's all good, we can't wait.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, no rush there's nobody waiting on that exactly we'll get to when we get to it.
Speaker 3:But for everybody that wants to, x pearl and maxine. That's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:Eventually, in that order, you got the main, a prequel, then a sequel.
Speaker 2:Did we cover all our stuff about Creature Commandos?
Speaker 1:Everybody watched all of them, yeah we did, we talked about it, but there was something we were going to talk about and it was like I was going to bring it up and I forgot.
Speaker 3:I know what it is. I I got you, but I did lie to you guys last week I didn't do nothing.
Speaker 1:We went to go see this small local band called the killers yeah, small local, yeah, yeah, you guys might not have heard of them. I think I might have heard about them on rock band, but that's a very small game. Nobody played.
Speaker 2:Yeah no, you know, I was at karaoke once. It and somebody I think sung one of their songs and I was like this is weird, but I mean it's okay. I didn't tap my feet or anything like that. The whole crowd wasn't into it. It was kind of one of those it's like when somebody goes up and they're like I'm going to sing a K-pop song.
Speaker 1:Hang on, I I lost focus. I wasn't sure if that's correct. Somebody sung one of their songs versus saying one of their songs, and I got lost on that. What else we're talking about?
Speaker 3:your grammar is getting corrected by the black guy.
Speaker 1:Yep, he's gonna ask you to say it again I mean makes sense solid, we, we need the, we need the freaking rim shot effect on that one.
Speaker 2:That was good. No, Jack said take care of that before the podcast tonight.
Speaker 3:No, rim shot, not rim job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, get it right, Get it right.
Speaker 2:See again, didn't correct it. Both you guys are on either side of me. I can't even do anything, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this pod will be over in an hour. Rim stuff will get taken care of, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:We'll just need to upgrade to the next level of Riverside that has a soundboard Riverside.
Speaker 3:I don't know if there is one, we'll have to look.
Speaker 1:But anyways, or is it just that on it was a 20-year anniversary of their first album.
Speaker 2:Also Are they from?
Speaker 1:are they from vegas? Yeah, oh, okay them and slaughter baby and um panic at the disco.
Speaker 3:Imagine dragons. They're all from down here they're all from. Yeah, as you say, they're off yeah, vegas taking over the, the indie rock world.
Speaker 2:Was it, uh, one of those things that was like downtown, like they have, like that?
Speaker 3:No, it was at Caesars dude, they got like a residency or some shit going on.
Speaker 2:They do that stuff during the summer, right or fall, where they'll have like the music on the weekends or whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the band on the bricks.
Speaker 3:But it was cool. They played the entirety of the first album like all the way through.
Speaker 1:Makes sense. 20th anniversary Okay.
Speaker 3:And then they disappeared for a minute and they came back out and sang the rest of their hit songs.
Speaker 1:Bruh, that's a long ass concert.
Speaker 3:It was. It was. It was good, though the wife's been wanting to see them for a minute, so it was a good time, yeah, so the Killers and Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 2:That's your jams this year, yeah.
Speaker 3:Sir, he just won like three or four Grammys tonight for Not Like Us that was the first time a rap diss song has won all those Grammys. Is it really a diss song when you're talking?
Speaker 2:about Drake.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was like what are you talking about? Drake is like the 21st century Ja Rule or something. For real, though, I'm going to try to do a diss song, but it's not going to come out right and everyone's going to hate it. That other person that I'm fighting is just going to own me so much that I'm just not even going to go to the Grammys anymore.
Speaker 1:Kendrick Lamar singing anything famous? I should look up, I should know.
Speaker 3:He's doing the halftime at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:I'm watching puppy bowl. It's fine. Lou doesn't know him because the song he's known for is humble. And if there's anything we know about lou, facts, facts. Lou's like humble.
Speaker 1:Change the channel I don't even know that word wait does he, does he do the black and yellow song that the Steeler song Nope that's.
Speaker 3:Kodak, kodak Black or some shit.
Speaker 1:He's like a there's a K in his name. I was close. There's a K in Kendrick and a K in Kodak.
Speaker 2:It's like wait. So Ice Cube did Cop Killer. Well, I mean, there was Ice, ice, whatever.
Speaker 1:That one I know is Ice T. I know that one. He was in Gears of War.
Speaker 3:Drake was almost in Gears of War. He almost played Jace. I was about to protest that shit, but then we got my boy, michael B Jordan, instead and saved it.
Speaker 1:What it wasn't Michael B Jordan who played.
Speaker 3:Jace, it was, he played Jace.
Speaker 1:Didn't we meet the guy that played Jace?
Speaker 3:No, we played the. That was the Indian dude that played.
Speaker 1:No, the black dude, the one that was an arrow, didn't he do the?
Speaker 3:voice of Jace no.
Speaker 1:He did a voice in Gears.
Speaker 3:He's the voice of Mark's kids buddy, yeah, that wasn't Jace. That's not Jace. Jace was in 3. With Ice-T Either way.
Speaker 2:Kids.
Speaker 1:Buddy. Yeah, that wasn't Jace. That's not Jace. Jace was in 3 with Ice-T.
Speaker 2:Fuck alright, either way.
Speaker 1:Good games, yes you gotta go back and play it. I was gonna say you know what I thought about that. I was like, let me get off these puzzle games and go replay Gears 1 through 5.
Speaker 2:Is there a movie coming out?
Speaker 1:Or is it another game? There's a movie coming out for 15 years, but I'm talking about like.
Speaker 3:Netflix is like for real doing it TV show.
Speaker 1:I thought I thought TV show, not movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it's a Netflix show or some shit, yeah, show right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like an eight-episode show. A limited series or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember, because you, I think, matter of fact, going back to our oh, I didn't know that was happening, I just thought it was just dead, Dead in the water.
Speaker 2:Speaking of this week I've been watching American Manhunt, which was suggested to me by a friend of mine Speaking of. Netflix. So they have. I guess they're going to have one. It's not about Hunt Down Illegals. No, no, sorry.
Speaker 1:I ain't watching.
Speaker 2:It's American Manhunt. Well, it's American Manhunt, so that's you know. But I guess they did one a while back about the Boston Bomber, the Boston Bombings, the Marathon. Bomber, which was pretty cool. And then I'm right in the middle of the OJ one. Right now it's pretty interesting and then I guess they're supposed to. Either there's either one out or one coming out with the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 2:So Look at you OJ watching stories on innocent man. But it's. It's interesting because they're not talking to like the main people from the trial. They're talking to like the people who were kind of in the sphere like it's not like johnny cochran but it's like johnny cochran's right-hand man about, and then not marcia clark, but the garden the guy like. So those are the interviews.
Speaker 3:It's not all the main talk.
Speaker 2:Was that Judge Ito's clerk? Yeah, yeah, exactly, it's interesting just because it's a different perspective.
Speaker 1:It's not the same kind of people regurgitating the same shit about it. Do you guys remember that joke back in the day that everybody was saying about the judge? What do you call a little burr A burrito? What do you call a little taco A taquito? What do you call a little judge A judge-ito.
Speaker 3:Wow, that sounds like something you just made up, lou.
Speaker 2:No, lou was telling dad jokes in 94. Lou ain't even out of high school and he's like guys, let me tell you this one. And they're like God damn it, lou, not another dad joke. Oh, I promise it's not a dad joke.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait. You at least heard the the the Bronco one, right, you know probably. Okay, because you're watching it. Oj was doing his thing. What do they call it? A slow speed chase or whatever?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was one of the first time they'd ever actually had that on TV before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then when it happened freaking up here in Denver, fucking John Elway, got arrested because they were looking for a slow white Bronco. Wow, those are the two jokes that were going around 30 years ago. Those are the two most popular jokes.
Speaker 2:I've heard Somehow they ended up in Colorado and they were like, oh, let's pull over this guy. And he's like I'm John Elway, I look like a horse.
Speaker 1:It's so true, though, what the hell dude? Oh my god.
Speaker 3:So what you wanted to bring up. Last time Lou was tipping, you were very upset about it.
Speaker 1:Thank you. It's just I'm curious at what y'all think about the whole tipping at like fast food places or you know places where, where you like I don't know what's noodles and company, for example, or something like that, where you just walk up, you order, you sit down, they bring your food to your table or whatever, or you wait for it, they call you. Whatever they do it. Because there were some people that were going back and forth on this tipping thing. It actually was in one of the Vegas foodie groups chats on Facebook and and it was. I think the issue was if I have to stand, you know, to order or whatever the case may be, I'm not tipping anything. And then some other people are like, well, they had to do their, they still had to, you know, get your food and all this, and I'm all like that's called their job. They would have to do that anyway.
Speaker 1:So for me it was like what extra did this person do to earn a tip? Yeah, so it's like. It's like nowadays, obviously, anything you do, they add that stupid, add a tip to it and it's and it's hard to say no only because you don't want them to spit in your food. So so it's like I just I just like I kind of avoid just those places all together. At this point, it's like I just won't even just I kind of avoid just those places altogether. At this point, it's like I just won't even bother.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I think we can also establish too that tipping is a very American thing. The majority of the rest of the world there is no tipping. They do not deal with it at all. If you try to tip them, like the only reason that they would accept your tip is to not offend you. But in general, a lot of places in the world do not have a tipping culture at all.
Speaker 1:However, they make that up by adding a service fee to their bill. Because I was looking this up for a trip to Japan, because I was like, okay, is it customary to tip in Japan? And then all the shit came up and it was like no, you don't, it's not customary. However, they add a service fee to the bill. You don't, it's not customary. However, they add a service fee to the bill, which is basically a forced tip anyway. So it's like they don't do it because they are they, they do it for you. So it's. I won't go as far as to say they don't do it in other countries, it's just that it's a different way of putting it, I guess the traditional tipping right where you tip based on a percentage.
Speaker 2:I will say my opinion has changed because it used to be like when the person like if you go into a restaurant and the person you were wait, like person that was waiting on you, like you would tip them ten dollars or whatever, then that would be theirs. But now so many places do, like the pool, which always bothers me because like well, yeah, tip outs and also just pool, like the, everybody puts it together and then they just get paid on their paycheck, whatever their tip, whatever their portion of that paycheck, right, so they can tax it. Because most of most of that stuff now is taxed, not if Trump gets his way.
Speaker 2:What's that Not if Trump gets his way? He?
Speaker 3:came here, and promised that he wasn't going to tax tips.
Speaker 2:What's interesting.
Speaker 1:Kamala copied that and was going to do it too. I'm like I don't understand why not.
Speaker 3:But we're also supposed to get rid of income tax too.
Speaker 1:It's part of your income, so it should be taxed. If you get rid of income tax, then fine, no, don't tax it. But it makes no sense to not tax tips to me, Otherwise call all my work a tip. Right, I'm like hey.
Speaker 3:I'm going to need it. The rest of it was a tip.
Speaker 1:I have a minimum tip, exactly what's minimum wage. That's what I make the rest of it's tips.
Speaker 2:To me. My opinion has changed a little bit, since it's going to a pool of people that means there's no more. You're not rewarding the person for giving you good service, right, right, you're, entirely you're. You're, for all intents and purposes, encouraging other people not to give good service, right, because they're still going to get the same amount, regardless of how good a service they do. As long as they're two point, as long as they're 2.5 out of five, they're good and to me that's.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. Finish that thought.
Speaker 2:And so to me that's you know, when you beat somebody who brings an extra ketchup or an extra mayo or is refilling your waters constantly or whatever, like going kind of above and beyond, like, I feel like you need to reward that. But you know, the person at the table behind you that's serving them has shown up once you know like and, but yet they're going to get the same amount of money at the end of the day from those tips so that's when you minimal tip on your card and slide them some cash I never have cash on me.
Speaker 2:That's the problem.
Speaker 1:Too many strip clips yeah, but you know that. You know what a restaurant that does that. So or if you know a restaurant that does that, make sure you have cash or get their fucking Venmo account.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can I Venmo you.
Speaker 1:That's what.
Speaker 2:I do. When I get my pedicures, I always Venmo them. I'm like, can I Venmo you?
Speaker 1:But see, this falls in that whole line of why socialism is bad. Because now the server has no motivation to do a good job. Because now the server has no motivation to do a good job, and it's just like school If, hey, we're going to have our grades are going to be based off of, you know, the average of everybody else, it's like wait, so if I bust my ass, I don't get an A, because everybody else who didn't bust their ass could re-migrate down. Okay, then I just won't bust my ass anymore. And now that's what we got going in the restaurant industry. That's what we got going in the restaurant industry.
Speaker 1:If that's the case, I don't know too many out here that are switching to the pooling thing. But I'm glad you brought it up because I'm going to ask now, if I go to a restaurant, hey, is your tip yours or is it pooled? Because that matters to me, because now I honestly never really thought about that, because I don't see it. Every once in a while I've heard, yeah, tips are pooled, but that's maybe 10% of the places out here. Is it a higher number out there? Is it like a standard thing out there?
Speaker 2:In my experience, most of the places out here the pooling is how they do it.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. Yeah, that's bullshit, but I think that goes back to what Jack was saying no-transcript yeah I guess, but I've also.
Speaker 2:There's also a few places that have set like, have eliminated tipping altogether and they just added like a dollar to all of their stuff and they're like this is how we're making up the difference, right, like, please don't tip, just whatever you're. They've even gotten rid of, like, the tip line on the receipt and they were just like the service fee right well, no, everything's just a dollar more, right. So your a your your bacon and eggs is $9 instead of $8. And that was big.
Speaker 1:How does that help the server, though? That's where.
Speaker 3:I'm lost Because then they can pay them more than just $3.50 an hour. They have to pay them if they get paid.
Speaker 1:Why do people think that's a thing? The servers get minimum wage.
Speaker 2:But they can pay the servers better.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying basic minimum, I mean a lot of them make more than minimum wage. I'm just saying a lot of people. They get two bucks an hour and the rest of the tips. That hasn't been a thing with like decades.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I never served tables. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've never. That's one aspect of my working career I was able to avoid, so I've been speaking to you from my many restaurants over the last 45 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what do you tip on other things?
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think what other instances I tip. I tip Car wash. If I just do the drive-thru, I don't tip.
Speaker 1:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I mean I'll tip them if I do a detail. Yeah, yeah yeah, that's what I mean. I'll leave a couple bucks Get out of your car.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I mean.
Speaker 2:I'll leave a couple bucks. Yeah, yeah Again, if I have, if there's something that I need to like move out of their way to do, I will. I will tip them. Housekeeping, I'll generally tip them depending on how long I'm staying.
Speaker 1:Hotel is usually. I heard this this is a while back, but standard was like five bucks a night. However many nights you stay there, it's five bucks a night. Leave it, leave. Leave it at the end as you check out my shuttle driver. When I go to the airport, I'm going to long-term park my car for five days the shuttle driver because he'll grab my bags, put them on the bus and tip them off. So I usually do a few bucks for that as well.
Speaker 2:It's just that the food Go ahead. The free shuttle from the hotel to the airport or whatever. Yeah for sure, Five or ten bucks.
Speaker 1:The driver on that absolutely like yeah, the food thing, where it's like, oh hey, you ordered your food, now just wait for it while my chefs do the jobs they were paid to do, or cooks, whatever you want to call them, and it's like add a tip, it's like what the fuck for?
Speaker 2:like why would I do that? Or even simpler, like if you go into, like jamba juice, and you're like, wait, you're scooping in a bunch of stuff, throwing a blender and then pouring it up. I love Jamba Juice, love Jamba Juice, but I'm like, I'm not like.
Speaker 3:I'm only paying like $9 for a smoothie Like I don't At Allegiant they do that too, Like I just got a hot dog and a soda and you want a 15% tip for handing me an already wrapped hot dog and an empty cup.
Speaker 1:Bruh. No, at Allegiant, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you this much the last game was the chiefs game. Right, that was last time I went to, okay, because the steelers was first. Okay, so the chiefs game. I went there and I tipped the first one. The other four registers we went to. I was like what the fuck that?
Speaker 3:no no, if it's one that's actually making the food, like when we went to a Dirt Dog, like they're actually making food. Well, Okay fine. Yeah, but if I'm just going to the hot dog stand and you're giving me a popcorn bucket, a pretzel and an empty soda cup, nah, bruh, you didn't do shit. But if I'm sitting there watching you make my fucking pork belly and rice bowl, okay, okay, cool, I'll throw a couple bucks your way.
Speaker 1:And then it was a 30% tip at the bar. Yeah, remember that auto thing that there was like what the fuck? Shit was crazy, I don't know. It's just if it wasn't, for, like I said, I'm with you. If you earned it, I'm happy to give it. I'm not going to bitch about giving a tip. I usually, you know what. I tell you what. I was kind of cutting myself off. What pisses me off in a funny way? Party six or more, eight or more. We're going to add your 15% tip. I'm like y'all just lost money. I would have tipped you more.
Speaker 2:Right Most likely.
Speaker 1:The moment you put that automatic tip on there, I'm not going to give you extra, but if you don't do it, I usually start at 20% and go from there. And I usually start at 20% and go from there. And the other thing people have to pay attention to is you don't tip on the bill. You tip like the whole bill because that includes tax. If you've got a $100 bill and 90 of it is your service and 10 of it is tax, you don't tip that $10 extra, you tip on the 90. For those who do the percentage base Like I'm going to do 20%, Then do 20 off of 90, not 20 off 100.
Speaker 3:Yeah, base, I'm going to do 20%, then do 20 off of 90, not 20 off 100. I usually just double whatever the tax is.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, because the tax is like 8%, 9%, so you double it and boom, there you go, you're in that 18% to 20%.
Speaker 2:Sometimes around it if I don't feel like doing that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Absolutely on you guys. Me, I'll make it so it's a zero at the end. So I'm doing the change, I am doing the change Because he has to balance his checkbook. Yeah, Well, if you're on a credit card daily, You're at your mind. I was doing it before we logged on. I was like okay.
Speaker 2:I know exactly how much is in my checking account. That is the weirdest definition of clapping cheeks I've ever heard and cheeks I've ever heard.
Speaker 1:he said it was closing checks, closing checks, man cashing checks and losing bets not even kidding man. Every day I know exactly how much is in my bank account at all times. I mean that's just because I want to be able to know, like, what stupid shit I can buy because I'm out there, I'm a fine, like, can I really afford to do? Well, I have this much and I know so. I know all my like my credit cards, know all their balances, know when everything's due, know when the statement closes, all of it. So there's not this whole. I mean it's I. This is gonna sound kind of cocky, but it's not as big of a deal because I don't. I don't spend a lot of money on things like I'm not gonna go out and buy a four thousand dollar purchase, oh yeah, so there's enough on my account that no matter what I get, I'm going to be able to cover it.
Speaker 3:So when that $600 Darth Vader lightsaber set comes up, you're like done.
Speaker 1:Right. Honestly, that's a good. What did I say? Would it take me 30 seconds to freaking make that decision? Because I knew what I had. It was like fuck it, do it, wrap it up. I just looked at where they like well, I don't know how much is on my account. I just pull up my you know, my Wells Fargo account and I see my balance. I'm like, yeah, but have you accounted for the auto debits that are going to come out later in the month and all? And they don't. So it's like the fact that they don't do that is what's weird to me. How do you not know how much money you have? I mean, if't have to worry about it, it's never a problem because you always have money in your account, because that's how you roll. More power to you. I ain't mad at you for that true that yeah?
Speaker 1:and I'm not and I don't and I don't live paycheck to paycheck. But those that do you need to be balancing your shit, the ones who that I mean I do it because it's my ocd, but those who, who are living paycheck to paycheck, balance your damn books for real though craziness, but yeah. So the whole tipping thing was just because of that, that facebook art uh post, and I was just like well. The lady was like, well, if they're doing whatever, you should tip them. I'm like well, what's their job? Tell me what they did above and beyond that they should deserve a tip. And I said I'm not arguing, I just what I put. The post is like I'm not arguing with you, I'm just trying to educate myself, because if you got a valid reason, I'm happy to change my mind.
Speaker 3:It's like like okay, well, hold up. What about my job? I can go above and beyond on my job or I can do bare minimum. You're sending your boy on 9-1-1.
Speaker 1:An extra tip because he hooked you up better if, if I and I've seen this happen a lot right where the people, the people, this person saved my life and they show up and they give them a gift card or something, whatever the case may be, if that should happen to me, I absolutely would. If I, if something happened to me and 911 is on the phone with me, they kept me through. Whatever and I came out. Whatever the situation was, I'm going to be like who was the like something? I know who you are.
Speaker 1:At the moment, I'm going to be too frantic. In theory, I think I'd be too frantic, depends on what it is, but after the fact, hey, who was the person that was on the other line with me? Oh, it was this particular person. Like, okay, I'm going to reach out and it's going to be. You need, like you need a $100 gift card to fill in the blank. You know, whatever I could afford, you know it would be something, because it's like dude, my life was like, oh, I don't want to. Uh, here's a $20 gift card to target. It's like my life was worth more than $20 gift card to target. I, I will give what I can afford.
Speaker 2:I mean are we talking? Double are we talking?
Speaker 1:it's december, the extra gift card stuff you get five, you get five percent off on that red card. So there's, there's bonuses and there and it is not Walmart, so it's already a step up. So it's kind of like double, you know, come on. Or were they just doing their job? For sure they were just doing their job. That's the thing. For sure, they were just doing their job.
Speaker 3:But I think my issue is To the point, tips are for when you appreciate good service. It's not really about above and beyond, but you were supplied good service.
Speaker 1:Like Duke said earlier, the lady's cup or the person's cup was full the whole time, versus the table behind where you're like hello, I'm parched, I've had nothing for 20 minutes. That matters to me, but I get it because people like if you do an online order, you want Olive Garden to go, you're not going to do, you're going to pick it up, and then you do your thing and you don't add a tip to that. You might have semen in your food. I'm just saying A little extra in your fettuccine.
Speaker 1:Exactly so. It's like so you have to worry about these things at times. So it's like so you have to worry about these things at times. It's like what the fuck?
Speaker 3:But see, that's a culture thing you shouldn't have to. I agree, All you're doing is make you're doing your job Right.
Speaker 1:It's like I did my job and they didn't give me extra for it. It's like ugh. It's like my dad always talked about with the millennial attitude people. It's like I have this job, you pay me to show up. You need to pay me more if you want me to actually work. That's the millennial attitude. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3:That's why Gen X is the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real, though. We are not even close. It is not even close. Our boomer parents fucking us up, made us the best.
Speaker 2:Don't worry about all my trauma, our trials and tribulations that we never resolved, because we're too good for therapy.
Speaker 1:And then we turned around and messed it up and was like I'm not treating my kid that way, and now we got millennials. It's our fault.
Speaker 2:Most of us here didn't make the mistake of having kids. But, sir, my children are not a mistake.
Speaker 1:Wait, your children aren't even millennials, so that doesn't even count. No, but the one is Gen Z right.
Speaker 3:Gen Z, I think the little one's like Alpha yeah.
Speaker 1:Gen A. You got a Z and an A. You got lucky and skipped the millennials.
Speaker 3:And just be careful how you talk about her. She is pretty good at archery, just saying.
Speaker 2:So she'll come valuable in the zombie apocalypse, yes, or the zombie apocalypse.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you invaluable in the zombie apocalypse. Yes, the zombie apocalypse, trying to go in the pool and she'll just fucking ninja your ass.
Speaker 1:Oh my god.
Speaker 2:What's worse than a ninja, a fucking ninja.
Speaker 1:Anybody seen anything lately, movie-wise? I was on call the last two weeks so I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 2:Movies have been butt cheeks for the last three or four weeks. We went to Dogman today.
Speaker 4:It was a lot better than the trailer we thought it would be Okay, because I didn't read the books.
Speaker 3:The girls read them at school or whatever, but they've never bought them, so they've never been in the house. I guess it's a spinoff of Captain Underpants or something. Art makes sense, but it's pretty good. There are a couple of adult jokes in there. There's a fish that becomes like the the mcguffin towards the end of the movie spoilers. They're trying to save this kitten and uh, pete davidson plays the cat. He's like get away from her. You fish, yes. And then the kitten comes back later and he says uh. And then the kitten comes back later and he says, flippy, something. Ky-ye, mother, flipper. Nice, that's such a low bar. Look, I was watching Dogman, okay, so the bar is already pretty low.
Speaker 2:I tried to watch the sequel to Den of Thieves and I ended up falling asleep halfway through, everybody still looks pretty good. I ended up falling asleep halfway through it.
Speaker 3:It's good enough that they're already making a third. I just I Again.
Speaker 2:it's the movie that you're kind of like what's happening right now? Like I don't understand the motivations of any of the characters. I don't understand why they're doing, and maybe because it's been so long since I saw the first one that I don't remember the relationship between ice cube, son and kingly and butler but that that like they knew each other and I was like, wait, the original den of thieves came out like five years ago or something. Right, like it's been a minute yeah it's a little longer, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably longer, but like they, they didn't do any like flat, like they didn't for a movie. That's that old. They did zero, like hey, remember this happened, you know? Like they just meet each other and they're like hey, hey. And it's like oh, you're still free. And he's like yes, I am, are you still a cop?
Speaker 3:yeah so it was something like that. It came out in 2018, by the way, so longer than five years. You have to. I think when you make a sequel, you need to. If you're going to wait that long, you need to decide and, like, figure out how um pop culturey, how cult is your movie like with um bad boys. It was like fucking 30 years between two and three right, but also it was bad boys, bad boys. We watched those movies over and over, both of them right. So you don't need to go back and be like this is Mike and Marcus and they're BFFs and all this shit, because we know, but Den of Thieves it came out, people liked it and forgot about it, so I think that, yeah, I watched it one time and then I was like I'm good.
Speaker 3:Yeah right one time and then I was like I'm good, yeah right, so I enjoyed it, but not a lot of rewatch. You need to take that into account, like how popular is our movie that we can just start the second movie and just go with it I think maybe the other side of that, though, is it to not do that is.
Speaker 1:Everything's on streaming, so you're gonna part two's coming out. Let me go rewatch one again also. I mean, that was like when I watched two.
Speaker 2:I'm going to watch one again first so that would that would be my suggestion. If you ever get feeling like you're gonna need to watch the den of thieves sequel, I would definitely watch the first one. So it re-establishes, because I was like I don't, I was like I don't remember again, like, yeah, it was like boom, one ended and two started, like there.
Speaker 3:It didn't feel like there was any, I'm just saying master chief was in the first one, so you probably should have watched it anyways. Wait, what was that? Master chief published driver and 50 cent were in the first one. So I think you did yourself a disservice, sir all right, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:I was. I I gotten home after hanging out with some friends and then I was sitting, I was like going through and I was like, oh, this is new, I just downloaded this, let's check it out. And then I was like halfway through and maybe it's my fault for being tired and maybe a little drunk when I started watching it, but I was like what the fuck is happening?
Speaker 3:is that what you tell your lady friends too?
Speaker 2:exactly halfway through I'm like what is happening? Rape, rape. She's raping me. I didn't know what was happening. I didn't know what was happening, I didn't approve it, I did no consent hashtag me too, believe all men so, uh, yeah, I think that did I watch, anything else?
Speaker 1:go ahead luke I started a couple actually I I started watching harley from the beginning, from the beginning. Well, I never saw it. So, yeah, from the beginning I was like I'm not going to jump into a TV show in season four. Come on now. I've never seen it, so I went back to one and, yeah, that show is ridiculous. I love it. I'm only two episodes in.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's it.
Speaker 1:Maybe three. Because I'm waiting. So I can only watch a couple nights a week and if I have meetings it kind of kills the week. But I had time before. Tonight we watched an episode that ended at exactly a quarter after the hour. So I was like, hey, we have time to watch one of these, we want to jump in.
Speaker 3:We could have watched another one.
Speaker 1:So yeah, if I had known, known, you could have been hanging out with naked alley, but whatever, that's what it is now duke's super mad uh uh, but no, that show it's. I'm like, okay, I don't think I have a meeting tomorrow night, so when I get off work you'll be right back at it. It was just based off of the first two episodes.
Speaker 3:I'm like, okay, this it's just so fucking ridiculous exactly.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Kaylee actually does really good as Harley.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, uh-huh. It took me a minute because after the first episode I went to IMDb. I'm like okay, who are the characters? I was like Tudyk is Joker. I'm like okay. And then obviously Kaylee and I do like me some Lake Bell.
Speaker 2:King Shark's the best Between Bane and King Shark, though I mean Bane is cool.
Speaker 1:Today's episode with the bar mitzvah and Bane. Oh my god, yes, there was a whole lot of me just shaking my head. It was like wow, and this is only the first two episodes.
Speaker 2:Super disappointed that Kite man got the spinoff and not Bane, because I would 100% would have supported a Bane spinoff.
Speaker 3:Bane still shows up, though.
Speaker 1:Wait what Kite man got a spinoff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, kite man, hell yeah, it's a whole After whatever last season was. So you watch all the way up to oh, that's the one you were telling me about. Yeah, so Kite man gets his own series.
Speaker 1:So I gotta watch the first four, then Kite man and then five and then harley five yeah yeah, and then back to five, okay yeah but yeah, he, he was honestly that was kind of funny too, him, him and ivy again it just I'm glad I I bothered to start.
Speaker 1:I was like I'll get to it eventually, and last week got to it, and now it's like, okay, that'll be the watch until the series is over before I move on to the next thing. Yeah, for us anyway, for on my own, that was the next thing and that was the snl and that was the SNL 50.
Speaker 1:And there was. I don't know how many episodes there are total or going to be, but there's four that are out. Okay, well, if it's going to stay, if it stopped at four, then I watched them all and all four. It was pretty good. As much as I don't like the leftist SNL. What SNL has become, it was like, well, super leftist because snl has always been left. But they were funny back in the day when, even though they were left, now they're just like all right, you have to wait until somebody on twitter posts a good skit once a month. I was like, okay, cool. But going back in the 70s, 80s, you know, and just watching their process of the cowbell thing, the writer's room, I was like, wow, I actually kind of enjoy this. So one of the next movies I watch since it's on Netflix now will be that SNL movie that came out last month.
Speaker 2:A music one. Well, you got two weeks, luke, because starting on February 16th, you got season three of Yellow Jacket, season three of White Lotus, season three of Reacher. You have Invincible, you're going to have Wow.
Speaker 1:Well, those ones I could probably watch weekly, though On the binge side of it it'll just be horrible yeah.
Speaker 2:I was just seeing, because I know that there are a couple.
Speaker 1:That's a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is a lot Righteous Gemstones. Season three of Yellowstone.
Speaker 1:You mean season 2 of 1923?
Speaker 2:No, the Righteous Gemstones.
Speaker 1:No, you mentioned Yellowstone early.
Speaker 2:And I was like Yellowstone Yellowjackets.
Speaker 1:What's Yellowjackets?
Speaker 2:I don't think I've seen any Explain Yellowjackets.
Speaker 3:It's a bunch of hot chicks doing stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's enough, said I was like, because 1923 season 2 is on my list too, and that comes out at the end of this month. It is I still have to watch the first season.
Speaker 2:A wildly talented girls high school soccer team Become the unlucky survivors of a plane crash Deep in the Canadian wilderness.
Speaker 1:What the hell.
Speaker 2:But it has Christina Ricci in it, julia. Lewis, I can never remember her name. Julia Lewis, yeah, ella Purnell, so Fallout.
Speaker 1:They seem way older than high school.
Speaker 2:But it's flashback, so like they talk about what happened during their adventure, but they're older, like they get found. Eventually they come out of the wilderness and then some weird shit.
Speaker 1:After how long?
Speaker 2:It's been a while since I watched season. Since I watched it, so I don't remember exactly the time frame between when they crashed and were found, but it's like a 20-year difference between when the crash events happened and them talking now.
Speaker 1:Were they de-aged, or different actors for the year. Different actors, okay, thank God.
Speaker 2:But they look. It's creepy, how it's wild, how close some of them look their younger counterparts to them. Like they did a really good job of finding.
Speaker 1:They got a girl with a big forehead for Richie. Yes, okay, that's what I'm going to spot her.
Speaker 2:That's what you're going to be watching it on. It's just her forehead, can. I watch yellow jackets on your forehead.
Speaker 1:Right, I got a projector. Hayden Facts, my God. How about you, jack, watch anything we started?
Speaker 3:watching the Pit on HBO.
Speaker 1:It's supposed to be good, the hospital one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm enjoying it. They're doing it kind of like uh, how 24 was where it's like real time, so every hour's episode's an hour and it's an hour of noah wiley's day in the er. That's cool, it's like an r-rated er, which is probably why they're getting sued by michael crichton's estate.
Speaker 1:But I'm enjoying it how can you, how can you get sued, like in that case? You got to sue every hospital show that that's correct.
Speaker 3:But I think what happened is they were thinking about doing an ER series, another spinoff, and it fell through. So she's all butthurt about it, or something.
Speaker 1:I hope that gets tossed. I hate that frivolous bullshit. It's like in that case then St Elsewhere should sue you, er or whatever. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:If we're going to do that, fucking Quincy and General Hospital should sue St Elsewhere.
Speaker 3:Everyone. General Hospital's been on since the 60s, so hell yeah.
Speaker 2:And then Quimby MD should sue Young and the Restless and General Hospital, just on principle.
Speaker 3:It's pretty good it's everything that you think ER should have been if it wasn't on network TV. Like they show this dude he's like having some drug episode or something, so they're trying to hold him down. They send one of the new kids on him and he like pisses all over him and you see his winner. Goddamn.
Speaker 1:No way.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow, there's blood.
Speaker 2:What streaming is this on?
Speaker 3:HBO On Max Max. Yeah, that and I talked about already the Dexter prequel series is on. Yep. Started watching that Shit. I think that's it right now, just waiting for everything else to come back. We started watching that new Reba show.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the one with the half sister. Yeah, yeah, yeah that one's funny.
Speaker 3:But I've always liked reba. I liked her uh comedy show she had back on wb or cw or whatever the fuck they called it then yeah upn, there we go it was after it turned white, so it was not upn they already got rid of the wayans brothers by then.
Speaker 1:That's another thing I didn't realize Damon Wayans Was on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for like a season.
Speaker 1:Yep, he got fired when he went off script, but that was part of the documentary, so, like looking at Some of that, the people that were on there I was like Robert Downey Jr was on.
Speaker 2:SNL for a season. I was like the mid-80s the mid-80s were rough for SNL for a season. Yep, I was like the mid-80s the mid-80s were rough for SNL.
Speaker 1:It was season 11. As a matter of fact, the title of that episode is called Season 11 because it was so bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they only kept like one or two people from that season.
Speaker 1:No, they kept three or four. It was John Lovitz, I can't remember the girl's name. There were like two girls and Lovitz, I think, were the only ones they kept after that, because that's when Lovitz came up with the whole. Yeah, that's the ticket with the liar, the dude that kept lying. But yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 3:Say what you will about the show, but it does have its place in pop culture and oh yeah, american history, even like, like.
Speaker 1:Again they, as much as they've been super left forever, they were at least funny about it. It's just the last several years they just haven't been, because back in the day people would talk about snl skits all the time. Now it literally is. I'll have somebody once a month say hey, check this out on Twitter or whatever, and it's one good. It's like oh, that's pretty funny and it's like that's it. I'm not going to give them my hour and a half. They don't get my 90 minutes when I know it's not going to be funny and that's the problem.
Speaker 2:Did you watch the Saturday Night Live movie?
Speaker 1:No that's what I was saying is next on my list, because that's on my list. But I was waiting because somebody will get mad if I watch it without her. So I was like, okay, I'll just watch the documentary stuff before I watch the movie. But although I did go back and watch the very first episode of SNL because they're all on Peacock, so I watched that first episode because I know the movie is going to be about that and that first episode was not funny. It had a few moments here and there I was like man, george Carlin really wasn't that funny. The other lady who was doing the skit for comedy, she wasn't funny. The musical Billy Preston was a little over the top, I mean, but that's how Billy Preston always was.
Speaker 2:The movie kind of explains, I think, why George Carlin wasn't that funny.
Speaker 1:Probably because he's high as fuck.
Speaker 2:Well, well, there's that. Well, I think that also. I think there was also a perception that he had about what the show was going to be, and then it didn't end up being that way. The movie I mean again it's, it's satirized, right, like it's not. But yeah, I mean the movie, I think, does a good job of sharing why George Carlin wasn't George Carlin, that we know, you know, okay, for that, like I don't even think he wanted to even be there, like he wasn't even. They basically had him on there and yeah, yeah, like it was the first host of SNL didn't even want to be the host of SNL, you know.
Speaker 1:I tell you what, though? But you make a good point, because that's not the George Carlin that I knew, because as soon as that it was over, I'm all looking at IMDB. I'm like Dude who is streaming his stand up Because I need to go watch the real George Carlin. I didn't get a chance to look time right now, but I'm guessing it's on. It's on hbo max.
Speaker 2:I'm guessing, you can probably find a bunch of it on youtube too. Yeah, for sure, for sure, dude. I don't know what I did, but something my youtube algorithm changed and now I'm getting like a constant stream of like full movies and I'm like, no, I don't know, like it'll be like full blah, blah blah. It's like the guardian full movie and I'm like wait, how Like okay.
Speaker 1:Because they know you're out there in the ocean. That's why.
Speaker 3:They're trying to bring you back.
Speaker 2:The amount of time I spend in the ocean. You're right.
Speaker 1:Cookies tracked you. We know what's up.
Speaker 2:You're near the coast, let me give you cast away. No, he means like this. Wait, they know that you're near the coast. Let me give you cast away. No, he means like this, wait, they know that you're like this you are yeah, the algorithm knows the algorithm doesn't know that part.
Speaker 3:Duke's FBI handler.
Speaker 1:Please send him an email about this oh my goodness, yeah, patel, tell him what's up. Oh my goodness, you guys started looking into uh uh japan, yet I don't know how my tickets are purchased. That's about oh, yeah, yeah. No, we got that part. All of us have that. I'm just talking. Have you looked, started looking for fun stuff and what do you want to do? Or have you guys started looking into that?
Speaker 2:the people that I'm. So it turns out, I'm only going to probably be with a couple, a couple of my friends, a bunch of people bailed at the last minute.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a much smaller trip, but that's okay. Whatever, I'm fine with that did the celebration people bill no celebration.
Speaker 2:People are still coming, okay, yeah, I think the the first part of my trip. I'm going to go west, so I'm going to land in Tokyo on Tuesday, wednesday, and then immediately go to Hiroshima and look at all the stuff that they have there. They have a museum and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:How far Two and a half hours by the bullet train. Was there not an airport that's closer to Lane?
Speaker 2:My flight was the only flight, so I'm flying Hawaiian, so I'm flying through Honolulu both ways, and they only had a trip like for the price. The only place I could fly into was Tokyo, which was fine.
Speaker 2:Like I mean a lot of them would go go to Tokyo and then you could go to other airports from there. But I'm like whatever, I'm just going to stay the night in Tokyo. I think my flight lands at like six o'clock on. I'm going to say Wednesday and I'm going to stay the night in Tokyo and then the following morning we're going to get a pop on the train and zip out to Hiroshima for a day or two. I'm super interested. I've not done a bunch of where I've you know, I've done a bunch of like historical stuff here in America, and so it's like I'm very used to how our you know, history is written by the victors, that type of thing. I'm very used to how we present ourselves. So I'm curious to go somewhere else in the world and see how it was written by somebody else Right, see how the World War Two and stuff like that was written up. So that to me will be really fascinating. And then I'm going to work my way back east, through Osaka, through Hanukkah.
Speaker 1:Hold that thought because I had. I had a follow up on your travel.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:Do you have time in Honolulu to get out the airport or what On the way back? I do.
Speaker 2:I have a five-hour layover. Nice, I will probably the Pearl Harbor. I've never been to Pearl Harbor before and it's only like 10 minutes from the airport. That'll be my effort when I land in Honolulu, because I don't have enough time to really do like go anywhere.
Speaker 2:But you've been in hawaii before though, right yeah, but only the big island. So, and then maybe I'll maybe make another. I mean, flying from here to flying from here to hawaii is very inexpensive, like if you pick the right time of year, you can go for under, like I think. I think when we went for my birthday a few years back, we ended up going for less than like $300 a person. It was pretty crazy. Like it's as cheap as it is to fly to Vegas, which is kind of insane if you think about it.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Way farther.
Speaker 1:I was going to say I got my Denver to Vegas trip before the Japan trip Round trip $135.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 1:I was like they're doing a special. I was like, let me jump on this now.
Speaker 2:Right, and that's not Frontier Spirit, or is that Southwest? Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, southwest, to Denver, to Vegas, and then the next day is the Japan trip, and then when we come back, and then I have a day and a half or two layover in Vegas and then back what you will in vegas and then back out, uh, monday but, yeah, he could be on the real house by then? We don't know so that's a good point.
Speaker 2:The, the other room, the guest bedroom, would actually be done by and then it'll be working my way back west, just kind of that. That to me there's going to be some flexibility into that, because I'm just like there may be places where I get done and like, ok, I'm done here, I'm going to move on or I want to spend another day here. There are a few things, places around Osaka that I want to check out, so we'll see if we can fit them into this trip or not. And then eventually, making my way back to Tokyo, probably the day before you guys get in, I want to go to a baseball game, because the baseball games are supposed to be pretty crazy game. Because the baseball games are supposed to be pretty crazy. I think you guys get in the Thursday before celebration, then seeing what you guys are feeling. As far as for Thursday, I don't know when you guys get in.
Speaker 2:Early afternoon 2-ish.
Speaker 3:Is it?
Speaker 1:It's like 2.45, dude, I thought it was closer to 6. Then just kind of playing that by ear.
Speaker 2:We'll see how celebration is, we'll see how much time. You know, we've kind of already talked about this. I don't know if we've talked about it on the pod, but you know you guys got the pin trading and stuff like that that you're going to want to go every day, do you? Oh, I will tell. But I'm like, well, to me, I'm like, since I'm not working it like, this is very different for me than kind of almost a Comic-Con. This is almost like a Comic-Con thing for me where it's like when you're working it, it's a completely different. You guys are basically working it for all intents and purposes, right, like there's things that you're doing.
Speaker 3:The pin trading happens. But there's things that you're doing the pin trading happens, but for the most part we're walking the floor and hitting the panels. It's not like the pin trading is like incidental, but no, we just go and enjoy the con, the pin trading happens when we're not doing a panel.
Speaker 2:basically, yeah, so it'll be interesting. You know, again, I'm trying to be flexible in all of those types of aspects. I know Ben had mentioned wanting to maybe do like there's some, there's like the nintendo museum and the sega museum and there's a few museums like that in to in tokyo are they in tokyo?
Speaker 3:well, that changed. I thought it was, I figured it'd be in kyoto, where the nintendo headquarters is yeah well, he was mentioning them.
Speaker 2:I assumed they were in tokyo, because we were talking about them in the context of tokyo, like when we're in tokyo, because I was like I think I want to do disney and he's like I don't know if I'm gonna be, I, I don't know if I want to do disney, I think I'd rather go to like the nintendo museum and you know that type of thing where I can do disney at home. I can't do it the dis, I can't do the nintendo museum here. You know, yeah, it's in kyoto, okay, so we may have to take an hour train ride to go see it, right, but it seems to me in my conversations with the people who live there, an hour well, and that's the thing like I was talking to. So travis lives there. I was talking to him and he was saying like yeah, like have raffles.
Speaker 3:You have to when I raffle to get tickets to the nintendo museum, so you have fun with that, okay, well, I mean, we're supposed to actually talk about that, probably tonight after the podcast, oh, but you know what? They're not even out yet. Okay, what's that? At the raffle isn't?
Speaker 2:I'm guessing the time frame it's a little later.
Speaker 3:The tickets for March are available to buy now.
Speaker 2:So we have another month to wait, probably before the april ones get posted.
Speaker 1:It's probably the end of february. There's a lot of that stuff like disney tickets are 60 days out, I think yeah, but he was talking about that.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of things that you can just get on, like if you get on the shinkansen I think is what they call it, the bullet train like you can go somewhere in the morning for an hour, spend the day there, catch it, catch the eight o'clock train back and you're back in your bed at the end, you know. So there may be a few things like that where we go and, do you know, travel to Kyoto and do the museums and that type of stuff. I really want to go to one of those shopping districts where it's like a super tall office building and each floor is different stuff. It's like a different store.
Speaker 3:Yes, they have a cat cafe there.
Speaker 2:That's what.
Speaker 3:I like too.
Speaker 1:Any of our listeners here. If you're in Japan, been to Japan? I think we had one Japanese listener. It's Travis oh yeah, throw us some ideas. Let us know what's up. It's Travis. Like oh yeah, throw us some ideas Let us know what's up.
Speaker 3:What was sushi making class?
Speaker 1:I didn't see that. That's one of the popular things that happens, the sushi making, obviously the adult stuff the tours the go-kart, the Mario Kart racing in the street, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm trying to keep myself open as far as that stuff goes and just kind of going with the flow. So how about you guys?
Speaker 1:Not too much for me. I've started looking at it briefly, not sure like okay, we're going to have whatever day's free and then whatever day is going to be Disney, and after that am I still going to make it to Okinawa? I'll look into that in the next couple of weeks. If I can get over there for a hop, a lot of it for Okinawa is going to be real simple for me. If I can get an early morning flight because the flight's like 165, if I can get an early morning flight and a late night flight back, then I'll do it. I don't want to get a hotel there when I already have a hotel. I don't want to pay for two hotels and I'm only using one. So if I can get an early morning flight, go there, do what I want to do and then fly back in the evening. I'm in, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3:There's a poop museum in Tokyo. Done A what. Poop, that's what I thought you said Step inside a gigantic toilet bowl and you'll be greeted by pastel hue, soft-serve ice cream-shaped poops that are surprisingly delightful.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Japan.
Speaker 1:That's in Tokyo.
Speaker 3:Yep, tokyo Criminal Materials Department. They have a guillotine and an Iron Maiden.
Speaker 1:What does that even mean?
Speaker 3:Man.
Speaker 2:I'm curious Jack is making his list right now as the podcast is happening.
Speaker 1:Yep huh man, yeah, but no, but. But I I looked at like, or travel I I looked at the disney hotel. I haven't looked at our other hotel, but I looked at the disney hotel, the amenities and stuff there and stuff that they have have there. I'm like, okay, cool, 13 for a breakfast buffet. That's ridiculous. They'll lose money off me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it makes up for theofy's kitchen that we paid for For real, though, when I saw that, when Jack told me that, I was like, yeah, he and Jack making shit up. But yeah, I ended up looking at the hotel stuff earlier tonight and the options. It's weird, though the hotel we're staying in doesn't have a restaurant, really for dinner and lunch, it's just that.
Speaker 3:Breakfast buffet, it's just that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'd have to go to the hotel across the street. It's a Disney hotel also, but we'd have to make the reservation for that hotel if we wanted to have dinner there. That being said, I don't see it being an issue, because I imagine we're going to have lunch and dinner on set, I watched a couple of YouTube videos on eating at Tokyo Disney.
Speaker 3:We'll be all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I figured. That's what I figured. I wasn't even worried about that.
Speaker 3:They have a potato churro with chimchurri sauce inside it.
Speaker 1:What the hell.
Speaker 3:Right, it sounds delicious.
Speaker 1:Damn All right, but then I started looking at the Disney attractions, and Tokyo Sea looks like they're packed as fuck, or the lines are just longer.
Speaker 3:It's because they just opened up the Fantasyland area or something. Okay.
Speaker 1:Because there's like stuff 200-minute wait area or something. Okay, because there's like stuff 200 minute wait. Yeah, 180 minute wait on two things, but disneyland proper.
Speaker 3:The longest wait was like it was a beauty and the beast or something. Yeah, yeah yeah, it was like okay, yeah, but they have a bunch of new attractions at sea right now, so that's why. But they have like all kinds of free fast passes we get in 50 minutes early, so we can get the fast Passes.
Speaker 1:Yeah so they get a 40th anniversary. So the Fast Pass is free. I hope we can link again.
Speaker 3:I'm sure you can, the thing I saw you could.
Speaker 1:So, Duke, with the timing, with the schedule, change, everything that's happening with our shift, are you still going to go to Disney?
Speaker 2:We'll see. It's one of those things, like I'm OK, like again, I'm remaining flexible, right, I don't want to go and do Disneyland by myself, and if nobody else is interested in going, I would rather go and do stuff with the group and then go back another time and do Tokyo Disney with a group that would be. Or I mean again, we have a bunch of Disneyland that we can visit. So if I miss out on Tokyo, tokyo Disney, but in two years we decide we're going to go to Disney Hong Kong, or we're going to go to Paris Disney or whatever, then that then I, you know that to me, you know, this just is the timing, just you know, with her, with school, with everybody's stuff going on, work, getting time off, like it. Just you know, this is just how the timing worked out. So I would like to go and do it, but I'm also not going to go spend the whole day by myself there, cause standing in line by yourself fucking sucks.
Speaker 1:Like does the? Does the people does? I don't know, that's probably, but with the people that canceled, is that a? Can you adjust your trip Like do you need to be there that early now If those people are canceled?
Speaker 2:I have trip. Like do you need to be there that early now if those people are canceled? I don't think I can do it. I have like the lowest rate, so I don't think I can make any changes without costing money at this point. So but I mean, it is what it is, it's fine. Yeah, we'll get. We'll still get to spend a star wars celebration together. We'll still get to do stuff around that, that those couple days around it. So I'm you know we'll maximize our time as we do.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's what my wife told me earlier. Just like you have to look at it like this the reason we're going to celebration, everything else is just bonus, yeah, so and we can always, and we can always go back.
Speaker 2:We weren't going to japan without celebration.
Speaker 1:I was eventually, you was eventually but not not necessarily april celebration not april 19th through the 27th, you weren't going that is true, but if it wasn't, I still might have went this year, because, remember, I was supposed to go last year and then somebody f that up, jack no, no, I think job yeah, yeah, I didn't have a stroke. Dude, that was all D's F of, not D Duke either or D's nuts.
Speaker 2:Ex-wife's brother F'd that up.
Speaker 1:But either way, because remember, I was going to go to World's Fair, go to Okinawa, do all this stuff and just get Japan out of the way. And then after London, when I didn't go because of Spike, because I was pissed off that they sold out of four days but all four day individually was available, that shit pissed me off. I could afford it back. I was like I could afford this, I'm not principled about it, I'm not going to.
Speaker 2:I'm not principled about it, I'm not going to, I'm not paying twice as much to get a four-day pass when they're all they're gonna do is consolidate my shit and give me a four-day pass anyway.
Speaker 1:So yeah, if you or or they'd be assholes and be like here's friday, here's saturday, here's sunday, here's monday that's actually better, though, because you get the different arts and everything, and if they stamp your badge like for, oh, this is limited, one per person per show, I'm like, huh, I got a new ticket Like SDCC this year only Thursday. Sunday Darn, if I get something Thursday, that's only a one-of. I can get it again on Sunday. Get back in heaven. But overall, yes, I mean yes, star Wars Celebration is what made this actually happen, and that's the main thing.
Speaker 2:So as long as we're all there, you know, friday, saturday, sunday, everything else is just bonus. Let's do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it sounds like we're already planning 2026, so I guess we got that going on too. Ours in motion, the future is what are we planning for 26?
Speaker 1:what did I miss cruising bruh? Yeah, I thought that was this year june no dude no way, are you crazy, you're kidding me.
Speaker 3:No, I said oh, I missed me.
Speaker 1:Oh, I totally missed that part of the text. I was ready. I'm like I put my cruise YouTube videos back in queue and started watching them again.
Speaker 3:I thought that was this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the next summer that comes up is in June.
Speaker 2:Not tomorrow. Next summer, next summer after that. When is the next summer that comes up is in June. No, that's this summer. No, not tomorrow. Next summer, next summer after that, that's like yeah, when is the next summer?
Speaker 1:The next summer is in June. Yeah. Yeah, I totally missed that part. Okay, never mind, I'm not going to worry about today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got a whole year to think about it, son.
Speaker 3:I'm likely in, so I'm not even, I'm just like I'm just probably do Disney world, because now it's a whole year away.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. I have no interest in in extending a humidity trip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, june is pretty much the worst time to go to Disney world.
Speaker 1:I'm picking one or the other, like I will meet you for Orlando or I will meet you for the cruise. I'm not about to be bitching and complaining the whole damn time. For both I'll pick one.
Speaker 3:The cruise ship is fine. The cruise ship is not humid at all.
Speaker 1:See, that's what I'm saying. That's why I was like I'll do that one.
Speaker 3:You do Disney World and then you get all miserable. Then you go on the cruise ship. You got buffets, you got pools, you got a pitch black ass room. You got Broadway shows to watch.
Speaker 1:How long would that trip be?
Speaker 3:We do it in about a week, a week and a half or so.
Speaker 2:How long is? The cruise.
Speaker 3:Four days Depends. Four days. Three to five days, depending on which one we do.
Speaker 1:All right, I won't, I won't, I won't mix it completely. Don't rule it out yet, Lou. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I was like sound too horrible when you is the plan to go to all the parks. We usually do, yeah, one park a day, so that's five days right, because there's five parks magic kingdom, hollywood, epcot, and looking for so yeah, we can by then by then, won't the uh, won't the villains? No, not by next year. There's no maybe. Maybe some of it'll be, I don't know, maybe I'll mix it up.
Speaker 1:I'm like like something that haven't done in forever, like universal. Everybody keeps talking about universal.
Speaker 4:I haven't been right, yeah well they're, they're gonna have a new, uh, jurassic park roller coaster and fast and the furious?
Speaker 2:I think yeah, and universal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, florida, yeah, I went to. I went to the one in cali, but but that was in the 80s.
Speaker 3:Man, yeah, it's different now I'm sure I haven't been to any something here, so yeah.
Speaker 1:What was it? The show by the water. They always have some show, the water world, some extravaganza. It was Miami Vice back when I was there.
Speaker 3:Wow, there's water world now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, there you go. Yeah, it was miami vice helicopter came down, blew up the whole thing. Yeah, the start, the star trek, the star trek thing was cool. They like got a, got a volunteer and did like a quick scene for star trek and they edited it and spliced and had it all good to go in like five minutes. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed that I remember getting a he-man figure, because they had a he-man put you, put you in the cartoon or put you in the show thing, and then afterwards they gave you a He-Man figure. I don't remember what He-Man figure it was, but it was.
Speaker 1:Did Universal make the movie?
Speaker 3:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 3:They just had a lot of licenses they used to have a license and You'd still love a Fisto today, my friend.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. So yeah, it's like I don't know I might go Disney Cruise, but Universal I'll catch up with you guys on the Universal. I doubt that's going to happen. We have a year and a half to talk about Orlando either. But I also haven't done Disney World, that's true. I could do Disney World and then come back in Cali and do Universal there.
Speaker 3:That wouldn't bother me at all.
Speaker 1:We have Universal at home, yeah, so I was like I don't know, we'll figure it out, but yeah, it doesn't sound as horrible. I suppose I won't nix it completely, just bring your fucking neck fan.
Speaker 3:You'll be all right. You know what's funny.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at it right now, my box of Funkos over here. It's just sitting right there so I don't ever forget it when summer comes around. I didn't want to put it away in my Comic-Con bag and I just only pull it out for cons. I was like you know, I might need that in just regular time, so I left it out, just so I wouldn't forget about it, that whole out-of-sight, out-of-mind shit. Speaking of that, I'll be right back.
Speaker 3:That's random, okay sounds good, he has pants on.
Speaker 1:Thank God he ain't me, he ain't me, it's all good. But yeah, we still gotta figure out what we're doing for SDCC too. Are we gonna lock it in Legoland, because I'm down, it sounds pretty cool having done it. Since we're on the podcast.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to thank Jack again for my birthday. Slash Christmas gifts oh good to see him, santa.
Speaker 1:Viking With the glare.
Speaker 2:Is there glare?
Speaker 1:No, not anymore, not anymore, you're good.
Speaker 2:You're good. So Santa Viking Sean, yeah, but like the one that we saw at Comic-Con. Yep, funko Fusion. I was about to ask you know, hashtag.
Speaker 1:Neil Nation, neil Nation, baby, let's go. At least it wasn't an acolyte Funko.
Speaker 2:That's because I didn't make the time here. Like I said, he's quadrupled my Funko collection just in one gift, so thank you again, jack. It was super fucking thoughtful, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Don't you have some in Vegas still?
Speaker 3:I have two. Yeah, he has his yeah.
Speaker 1:The one he made of his own. Yeah, that's right All right.
Speaker 2:So I guess he double and a half. Double and a half. I'm actually going to have to get a shelf and put them up on a shelf now.
Speaker 1:You got to get that one eight-pack that we'll ever. There you go.
Speaker 2:That'll be the only eight I ever get. It'll be there Once that box is full. I'm done. It's like over. Set every Flickr collector ever. Now I need another box, 36 boxes later. Derek, how many eight-pack boxes do you have later?
Speaker 1:Derek, how many 8-pack boxes?
Speaker 2:do you have? I'm working on 42.
Speaker 1:One guy on the planet with the discipline to leave it at 8. Yeah.
Speaker 2:If I get another one, I gotta sell one of these guys. Come on, but again, thank you very, very much for the Christmas and birthday gifts.
Speaker 3:That's the way my gift-giving goes. You have to buy something for them that they like but they wouldn't buy themselves.
Speaker 1:That sounds better.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying Neil shares a bed space with me, but that's there we go, there we go.
Speaker 3:God forbid they ever make a plush.
Speaker 1:Neil yeah no shit, lord have mercy.
Speaker 2:A Neil body pillow.
Speaker 1:Poor snout, that poor snout, that poor snout is done for. Isn't the actress going to be at?
Speaker 2:Sony. Yeah, mom Neil's mom's going to be there.
Speaker 1:Oh, the mom is going to be there, okay.
Speaker 2:I thought we were talking about that, right, Jack? Or is Neil's mom?
Speaker 3:just somewhere, I forget where, but I don't think she's at Celebration yet.
Speaker 1:I wonder if the like? Do we know who the actor was in the costume? Okay, I was like. My first thought was they picked that frog lady.
Speaker 3:No, no, that's a little boy, I'm pretty sure. Maybe it's just the boy that voices him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but who's in the actual suit? I don't know. I didn't bother to look it up. I heard clickety-click.
Speaker 2:I was just seeing who had announced, if they had announced.
Speaker 1:God damn it StubHub. No, what does StubHub want?
Speaker 2:What was the first link? Have they announced celebrity guests? Celebrity guests confirmed for Star Wars Celebration Rosario Dawson, Ahmed Best, John Knoll, Diego Luna, Sam Witwer, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Manny Jacinto, Daniel Logan, Anthony Daniels, Tamara Morrison, Doug Chang, Ashley Eckstein. So that's everybody that's been in there.
Speaker 3:This shit needs to start going fast and furious. Soon it will.
Speaker 1:I need an exclusive, I need the pin trading program.
Speaker 3:I need the art show.
Speaker 2:Everything, yeah. Art shows should be up probably by the end of the month, I would guess, right, I would hope so.
Speaker 1:I wonder if Funko is going to have an exclusive.
Speaker 4:I never thought about that. I don't collect any Funko. I'm sure they will.
Speaker 1:Well, did they have one in London?
Speaker 2:Yeah, hang on, let's look it up. I was like To the.
Speaker 1:Ebays, because I figured, whatever they London, they'll have it in Japan. No guarantee, but that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2:Star Wars Celebration London Funko.
Speaker 3:That was a reveal. Oh no, that isn't. It was Jar Jar Jar Jar and R2 and R5 2-pack.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I do remember that. I remember the 2-pack. Anyway, I don't remember the.
Speaker 2:Jar Jar and it looks like there was a Darth Vader pin, a Funko Darth Vader pin.
Speaker 1:What was the Jar Jar Like? What outfit His tongue out?
Speaker 3:The numb tongue. He puts his thumb up after he goes in the energy binder. Gotcha, that better be stickered, not the shared one.
Speaker 2:It's a sticker. Yeah, it's stickered.
Speaker 1:Shared sticker or official.
Speaker 2:You're up 20 for celebration.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's my biggest thing. We have to figure out getting stuff back. I mean, how much do I want to put in a budget for just mailing stuff? Don't even worry about it, just mail everything back and don't take two suitcases, one suitcase, one proper suitcase that you check. But the airlines does allow too, so it's like take advantage of it. So I'll look into that stuff too, like what carry on rules?
Speaker 1:I'll look at the airlines and figure out what I can and can't do but honestly, by the time celebration's over, if we just send that shit home, it'll probably be home by the time we get home, maybe because that shit takes a couple weeks well, and if we, if I mean if we combine and put everything together and just do one big box, that would probably be cheaper than each of us mailing individually back yeah, like like I'd be fine uh, especially for me anyway if everybody ended up going to jack's house, because for when I drive back down for sdcc, I'll just drive it all back well, oh, because you're, yeah, because you're flying home after london right from vegas to yeah, it'll be from you're flying home after London right From Vegas to yeah, it'll be from.
Speaker 1:You're talking about Japan. Japan to back to Vegas and then Vegas to Denver. So, if I I mean, Southwest allows two check bags too, so I can always throw stuff in there. But what doesn't fit, I'm not worried about it, because I know I'm driving again to Sandy. So it's like, okay, if I don't get it, I'll get it. I'll get it on the on the trip back home. So not even sweating it, it ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 2:Are you, jack, are you going to have enough time for Disney world and cruising and then comic-con next year?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Three years in a row we did that shit. No, I get six weeks of vacation dude.
Speaker 3:well, I just meant asking for the time off, like, oh yeah you just do it early enough and you're good to go, yeah yeah, you pick which one's the most important, which is usually whatever vacation it is, so I just picked florida first that'll be, and then you gotta put that in january, you gotta bid that in january november-ish in theory is how it's supposed to work. Okay, damn, yeah, no, no. Usually my first two vacations are easy to get.
Speaker 1:After that you might have to put in the right dates.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, make sure to put in the right yeah.
Speaker 3:I did the vacation right, just not the time you had the days right.
Speaker 2:Correctly. The days were right, the dates were wrong. We were just homeless.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no big deal. Could have gambled. It would have worked out if you gambled Right. But what if it didn't Exactly See how many people we can fit in one room? That's what would have happened.
Speaker 3:Everybody's crashing with Lou.
Speaker 2:Yep, we're about to get real close In our two-bedroom timeshare that only ends up being one bedroom, mm-hmm. Again, I will say that's the best pull-out couch that turns into a bed that I've ever slept on. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's actually better when you pull it out as a bed and don't just sleep on the couch.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Lou just slept on the couch for three, four years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like three, four years. It wasn't that big of a deal. You're in, you're out six hours. Think about it. We're not sleeping long. None of us are sleeping long. I just didn't feel like it was worth it for a while If it was going to stay out, sure? Then it was like okay, now I'm starting to feel it Just fold the whole thing out.
Speaker 1:That was better. I'll start looking into some crazy stuff to figure out whatever gaps there are. Museum-type stuff, cultural-type stuff, stuff that's going to be around. But I'm not opposed to, again, if there are early morning trains to go a distance, like oh it's a three-hour train ride, that's true. Okay, can I get on the train at 5? If I can get a train at five in the morning I'm happy to go someplace and then just sleep a little there, sleep a little back and then back to my place, back to my room, by 10, 11 o'clock at night. I'm okay with that. But I'm not worried about the travel part. There's enough to see on the trip to talk about. I might have a touristy book to read. It's like the celebration will happen like World's Fair. Obviously that was one of the points to be going, but I think Jackie looked it up. That's hours away.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's a good distance.
Speaker 1:So if I can't make that, no big deal, it's like, okay, it was a thought Not going to happen. But if there's something that is and, like I said, I don't know what the travel times are yet, I don't know if they're 24 hour trains, I don't know if they're like all that so once I started getting the weeds into that, probably the end of this month then, because by the end of this month that's probably when I start oh, you're gonna go okinawa, let me book my flight right. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:You know I'll do all that, but so we'll see not sweating all get figured out, no big deal and then, and if we do disney that, uh, the last couple days there Thursday, friday those tickets don't go on sale for another three weeks anyway. And we don't even need tickets because we can buy them the day of if we want to. Yeah, because from the hotel, if you stay at the hotel, you can get tickets, even if they're sold out.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, that's kind of cool, so there's a whole lot I'm not worried about. That's what it comes down to. There's a whole lot of tickets are done celebration tickets are done, plane tickets are done.
Speaker 3:Hotels are done.
Speaker 1:That's it we don't need anything and they're shipping the tickets, the celebration tickets yeah I thought it was overseas, that's right although I probably should go find my receipt, start making a folder, put a folder together, the hotel res, all that stuff. I know where it is. I created a SWCJ folder.
Speaker 3:I'm all under Duke's name, so he can get them the day before and we don't have to do that the day of Dude, for real.
Speaker 2:I'm walking out with like sandwich-sized bags, everybody's badges and shit. If that's an option, I'm sure If they let us.
Speaker 1:If not no big deal, We'll just do it when we get there. Like Jack said, we land quarter to three. That should be plenty of time to get to the event. To get a will call.
Speaker 3:And figure out the train schedule. Yep, I did look at the train schedule.
Speaker 1:Yep, I did look at the bus schedule.
Speaker 3:The hotel bus and everything.
Speaker 1:Exactly, is it better to get a week-long pass? All these things, I'll worry about that. Logistics, yep.
Speaker 2:Next week I think I'm watching Love Hurts with Short Round, our Tightwad Tuesday movie. So next week will be that and the week after will be Captain America, so Wait.
Speaker 1:You're going to wait two weeks to watch Captain America then Captain America doesn't come out until Valentine's Day, right?
Speaker 2:So then the week after, so next week.
Speaker 1:Hold on, I'm confused. When does Short Round movie come out this Friday? I think so. When does Short Round movie come out this Friday? I think, so Let me double check Okay so the Tuesday before Valentine's is Love Hurts, and then the Tuesday after Valentine's is Captain America.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I got you. I kind of want to see Companion. I think I might have to go out on my own.
Speaker 1:I've heard good things about that. Which one is that?
Speaker 2:That's the one with the guy from the Boys. Huey from the Boys. The girl lights her arm on fire.
Speaker 1:Oh, where he can't feel stuff.
Speaker 2:No, that's Novocaine, that's different. No, I think it's a robot. Yeah, it is A weak ship getaway turns bloody and violent when a subservient android that's built for human companionship goes haywire. Gotcha. That's what Elon's building right now, and it has Sophie Thatcher from Yellow Jackets Full circle. End of the podcast. We're good. Boop.
Speaker 1:Y'all keep mentioning people like Sophie Kendrick. Like I'm gonna go here with my seasoning salt and mayonnaise Whatever man.
Speaker 3:You don't even use the seasoning salt, yeah.
Speaker 1:If the fries are dry, I will. If they don't even use the seasoning salt, yeah. If the fries are dry, I will. If they don't put them on the fries, I will. Sometimes they get lazy, you know, and they just real quick.
Speaker 1:And you still tip them 15%, you psychopath. No, they get less. You know what. They'll usually get a good tip as long as my drink is full. That's the big thing. Yeah, I hate the drink. You could spill the food all over me, but if my drink is filled the whole time, I'm a happy camper.
Speaker 3:For real though.
Speaker 1:Lou's like, cover me in fries and seasoned salt Right, I'll provide the mayo, you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2:Alright, we started the podcast with me throwing up in my mouth and we're ending the podcast with me throwing up in my mouth, man, my mouth, and we're ending the podcast with me throwing up a mic.
Speaker 1:That reminds me, though, I haven't been to Red Robin in a minute.
Speaker 2:I think I have a free burger from them for my birthday, so I might have to go take advantage of that.
Speaker 1:Before it runs out. Yeah, maybe I'll do that tomorrow night. Meet me over here.
Speaker 2:On my way.
Speaker 1:I think she has to go to Walmart anyway. It's in the same mall area, nice. What the heck is she wearing? Nothing she had on a Big Fur coat and then she took it off, Get out.
Speaker 3:And that's how they went to the Grammys.
Speaker 1:Okay, y'all Just do search.
Speaker 2:No, don't what. What's fucking wrong with her? I mean okay, I mean, I guess I should have been asking that before.
Speaker 1:But I mean, you can rock it. You can rock it, but what the hell? She got little nipples. What the hell.
Speaker 3:Well, they're all squished under that body pin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever that mesh thing she has on.
Speaker 2:That's definitely a choice.
Speaker 1:Look, if you're comfortable enough to do it and they're not going to give you shit for doing it, then, hey, more power to you.
Speaker 3:Oh, they did. They made her cover back up.
Speaker 1:I was going to say more women should dress like that.
Speaker 2:For real, though I don't think so because look at the innocence of these eyes. Lou Look at these eyes. Look the innocence of these eyes. Lou Look at these eyes. Look how innocent they are.
Speaker 1:Do you want them ruined by fucking Kanye West? Kanye West's wife. I would have to give her the proper credit of giving her a name.
Speaker 2:I don't care.
Speaker 1:I don't care, I'm a celebrity too. I'm with you on that crap.
Speaker 2:If you're popular because you're just married to somebody and you had zero.
Speaker 3:She's a visual artist.
Speaker 2:Oh christ, I'm a visual artist too. Look at my collection of socks, how I've decorated them over the years take my shorts off.
Speaker 1:I'll be a visual artist as well from the windows to the wall.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I got you yeah, yeah, I don't know losing like literally in the kids section oh look, there's, there's pages to color.
Speaker 3:Let me just sir pull your pants back up, hang on artistic license yeah, these, none of these browns are brown enough for me.
Speaker 2:I need I need a very specific cue and only my ass can generate that.
Speaker 1:There are shades. I had a specific breakfast for this moment.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was Lucky Charms, and that's why it's going to be.
Speaker 1:It was.
Speaker 2:Lucky Charms and corn. That's why it's going to be pea yellow or pea green. There we go. Alright Rails, we've gone off them.
Speaker 1:I just don't know what I can do with squash Rails. We've gone off them. I just don't know what.
Speaker 2:I can do with squash Lou. How come it smells like asparagus? This is the poop museum, not the pee museum, lou.
Speaker 1:Because I ain't getting a DJ anytime soon. That's why it smells like asparagus. It smells like pineapple. You know what's happening later tonight.
Speaker 3:Okay, we've hit our limit.
Speaker 1:Now we get to that giddy moment. I can't wait. Okay, so Duke's got his plan for Tuesday and next Tuesday. Anything else, Duke?
Speaker 2:You got anything else planned, I will give myself a maybe for a pod next week, just as an FYI.
Speaker 1:Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2:So I'm flying to. On Saturday'm flying to scottsdale, arizona, gonna go see tiesto, flying back at six in the morning back to portland. I have a superbowl party at the house, so we're gonna. We'll see how I'm feeling after all that. I don't know if I'll be up for a pod after the game is over.
Speaker 1:You're gonna be feeling drunk as fuck is how you're feeling yep, that could be more fun though.
Speaker 3:That though, that's fair Right.
Speaker 2:We'll have to see. We'll keep you guys in loop.
Speaker 3:So much Archery tournament on Saturday, kimberly Akimbo the new musical, and then the Kendrick Lamar concert, sandwiched by a football game. By a football game.
Speaker 1:I think I don't think I have much. I think I might, I think I might. I got to see what's out in the theater, but it's been a while again. I've had a two-week forced hiatus, so I might see if there's something Tuesday that's worth a damn watching. But I think I have a couple HOA meetings this week. I'm not 100% sure about that. I think they might just be regular vendor meetings during the day, and then I don't think I have a Tuesday night planned. But man, yeah, I only have a whole shit.
Speaker 2:Did you see a complete unknown yet yeah. Yes. Okay, love. So the only things that look like that are out but are current right now are flight risk. Oh yeah, I'd watch that.
Speaker 1:I'd watch that. I watched that too, okay.
Speaker 2:That's two. Flight risk right now is a 28% on rotten tomatoes.
Speaker 1:So take that for what it's worth. Whoa, it got that high. I wasn't expecting it to get that high. I ain't going to lie. If you would have said 18, I would have been like okay.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's exactly where I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I did want to watch that. Okay, there's enough for me to watch.
Speaker 3:For five bucks. Yeah, you won't be bored.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, for five bucks becoming becoming led zeppelin, oh didn't hear about that.
Speaker 1:That sounds interesting. It's an imax movie, it looks like imax early. Early that means, oh, I'll have to wait, then I'm not going, I'm not paying attention for that, not for led zeppelin. I like led zeppelin, but damn, probably in my my favorite uh classic rock band.
Speaker 2:But the regular one opens on friday, so okay, yeah, I'll save that for later. Then a heart eyes Murder movie.
Speaker 1:It looks like Horror movie, I was going to say that one sounds familiar, but I don't think it was on my list to want to watch. You know what? I might just say F it and just keep watching Harley.
Speaker 3:That's fair also true. I'm not mad at that.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm enjoying that, like I said, only two episodes. I'm enjoying it way too much, but you know what? So many more, yeah, and I was like I still got 60 episodes to watch, whatever it is.
Speaker 2:Anime Expo Cinema Nights is showing Cowboy Bebop the movie this week, so I might go check that out. Looks like it's a Wednesday and Thursday night and maybe Sunday, sunday will be a good day to go, because nobody will be there.
Speaker 1:Nobody will be there. Actually, you could watch an early movie and still get back to the game. Game's not until 3.30, so your time 3.30.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's playing at the theater right near me so I might go check it out, see if anybody else wants to tag along with me.
Speaker 1:I'm keeping the game simple Not going to anybody's party, not going out. I'm going to sit here and not be bothered and be able to listen to commercials without wanting to hit somebody because they're talking through the commercials.
Speaker 2:The important part of the game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I don't want to hear it. So it's like I've been invited to a couple things already. It's like, nah, I, I'm good, I don't want to commit murder. Murder is still illegal.
Speaker 2:The purge hasn't been legalized yet.
Speaker 1:Bruh, I was at a staff meeting on Thursday and the only notes I took were I wrote it four times murder is still illegal. Just the dumb shit that people were just saying. It was just like oh my God, nobody wants to hear your story. You want to get out of this damn meeting. So shut up, stop interjecting with your stories. Oh, what I do is this Nobody gives a fuck what you do, so I was like as soon as somebody would talk murder is still illegal.
Speaker 1:I had to write it four times or four instances where it was just like man.
Speaker 3:Bringing a Nerf gun and shooting them with it isn't though.
Speaker 2:Especially if it has a push pin in the end of it.
Speaker 1:That would be fantastic, just the thought of it. I can see two people and I would just love to feel so good.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll let, I think on that note, we'll let Lou Simmer in his Simmer in his fantasy.
Speaker 3:He's going to simmer in something else, yeah.
Speaker 2:Looks like we got some stuff that we're going to have to talk about next week or two weeks. Something else, yeah, so looks like we got some stuff that we're going to have to talk about next week or two weeks, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, yay, sounds good. Otherwise, have a good week everybody. Thanks for watching Peace. Wait, oh sorry, the Royal Rumble was this week, so you can't. Oh, yeah, you can't see me.
