Vaguely Inconsistent
Three friends hanging out talking about life and all of our interests. Everything from Star Wars to sports.
Vaguely Inconsistent
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When one host is missing, it opens the door to unexpectedly deep reflections. In this uniquely intimate episode, Duke and Jack dive into the foundations of their three-decade friendship, revealing how what began as a simple "you both like Star Wars" connection blossomed into something far more meaningful.
The conversation flows through their shared obsessions—from detailed memories of wrestling pay-per-views watched together at the turn of the millennium to creating tag team personas in video games. Their nostalgic journey through the Attitude Era of WWE reveals not just their fandom, but how they navigated the more problematic elements of 90s entertainment while forming their own identities. "We were into the funny guys," they reflect, explaining how their appreciation for characters like Chris Jericho and The Rock shaped their perspectives.
Between lighthearted stories about driving through Compton as teenagers and spending entire days hunting for wrestling video games across Southern California, the pair share thoughtful observations about friendship itself. "You're not friends with somebody for 30 years and not have more in common," Jack notes, as they discuss how their connection evolved beyond collecting Star Wars toys to supporting each other through life's major transitions.
The episode also offers fascinating glimpses into their current interests, including Duke's experience beta testing the upcoming "Dune Awakening" survival game and their continuing appreciation for Disney collectibles. Their ability to transition between reminiscing about their past adventures and discussing current life developments demonstrates the enduring nature of their friendship.
Whether you're a longtime listener or discovering the podcast for the first time, this episode captures something universal about how meaningful connections are built and maintained over decades. What began with action figures and wrestling pay-per-views has clearly become a friendship that transcends any single shared interest—a powerful reminder that the best relationships grow alongside us.
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that's all we can do, or else we'll get a copyright claim, right, what up? You two will be like uh, hello, copyright claim. Yeah, you're pulled for now, strike on your uh, strike on your account. You only get three. Um, consider this a warning. Greetings and salutations, hello, you'll notice it's a little quiet today. Yeah, because lou's not here. Yeah, not even his uh german. Uh, his german ai, uh representative isn't even here. She couldn't even show up. Yeah, hayton, so it'll be. It'll be a little different of a podcast this week, I think.
Speaker 1:Yep, I think lou last week was just jealous when I was telling him about your dad answering the door and his chonies. I, I think he was a little jealous. He missed out on that. So he's like no, I'm going to go have fun and party on a Sunday, like a weirdo. No, he might join us, though, depending. It's not looking hopeful. Yeah, they have not even had. They were out doing things, him and his lady friend, his lady friend and so he texted saying we were supposed to be done in like two hours and that was three hours. Now it's three hours ago and we still have stuff to do, right? So, whatever, that just means to listen to this and be super entertained. Yeah, tell his friends, I learned so much about these guys that I never knew before, right, um, shit, well, there's only so much we can talk about without having to lose input on some stuff.
Speaker 1:Um, what did I do this week working thunderbolt, something funny. What happened I? We did see thunderbolt since the last time we uh podcast that I believe we all have actually, right, yes, yes, because I saw it on tuesday. You guys saw it on like sunday or something right like, yeah, we went monday, monday and then saturday night or something right like some shit. Yeah, so, uh, so happened.
Speaker 1:I went to the dentist. That was fun. Yeah, no cavities, no. So what had happened was my gums look good, my teeth are clean, but I have these two old-ass root canals on the top right and I guess, with their new fancy imaging machine, they're like oh, you have abscesses under them. I'm like mother, that doesn't sound fun, but they don't hurt, there's nothing bothering me. So I don't know, maybe they're scamming me, but I looked at it and it did look weird on the scans. But I'm not an x-ray guy, but that's just replacing those fillings. They don't have to redo the root canal because the root canal is done, right, yeah, it's usually done and done, so I don't think it'll be a big deal. Yeah, I mean, they basically they'll drill it out, they'll fix whatever, put some medicine. Yeah, I think what they usually do is put pack some medicine in there or, like, line it with something and then re so not a big deal Resale it teeth. Why can't we be sharks and just regrow that shit? I know, huh, keep moving, keep swimming. Right, just keep swimming, just keep swimming.
Speaker 1:Um, I don't think I signed an nda or anything, but, uh, there was a new game put out by the. There's a new game coming out, put out by the developers of conan exiles called dune awakening. Okay, um, so it's like a survival kind of rpg. There's like a little bit of a story mode, but basically you like create your character and you pick their backstory. The backstory gives you some abilities and gives you some branches for chat and stuff like, stuff like that, right, um, and then it drops you just on arrakis. So you're on, you're on the main planet. But my understanding of the backstory and there were other people that I was playing with that didn't have the same like, didn't see the same things but my understanding is basically um, wow, I can't paul paul arrakis, not paul arrakis face the main character.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, trady's timothy, timothy chalame. Well, willie wonka, willie wonka, bob dylan is in the desert. He has his tube up his nose and there's worms everywhere. Yeah, yeah, like has like a vision of what happens if he doesn't, if, like, his dad doesn't die, right, so if Count Atreides doesn't die, right, his mom Was that Poe Dameron, yeah, poe Dameron, okay. And then his mom like finds out that the doctor is like conniving, so then they bust the doctor. But then they're like, well, what happens then? So then they said, basically the fallout from that is that the Atreides never go to Arrakis and the Harkonnens just basically kill all the Fremen.
Speaker 1:And then you show up and I think now, but I think what happens is you show up and I think now, but I think what happens is so you show up and you're supposed to like do what paul did, like, right, that's the goal or whatever, but it's kind of just a survival, kind of rust type of thing. Um, okay, okay, third person it's you know, you start out and you have some quests and the quests unlock different, uh, schematics that you can then use to like build a base and build weapons and build outfits and stuff like that. Um, so this weekend was the beta uh for that and, um, yeah, it was fun. We uh, we played it a bunch on friday and then a little bit yesterday. Um, but you get to play with your dick out like in Conan. You can. You can be naked. So the big trick is, if you get eaten by a standworm, you lose everything on your person, including if you're on a hyperbike. So eventually you unlock a hyperbike that allows you.
Speaker 1:One of the people we're playing with said, oh, I'm naked in the desert boys, and my question was sandworm? And he said, yep, sandworm, he took my bike too. So, yeah, so it is Bob Dylan in the desert. Yeah, now he is Bob. No, actually he's Jim Morrison in the desert. He transitioned to Jim Morrison in the desert.
Speaker 1:So sounds like from the story he told he did not refuel his bike in the desert. He transitioned to Jim Morrison in the desert. So sounds like from the story he told he did not refuel his bike and his bike died in the middle of the desert between two. So, like, of course, the sandworms, if you can make it to a rocky area, they won't eat you. He was like I'm a fucking baller and I have my bike and then he's like in the middle of this huge area and I have my bike and then he's like in the middle of this huge area and the bikes, of course, make a lot of noise, his bike dies and the sandworms is like gotcha bitch, you fucked around and now you found out. So, yeah, fucked around and now your ball's out. Yeah, no shit. So, yeah, so it was fun.
Speaker 1:We'll probably pick it up when it comes out. I think it's uh, coming out for all consoles and everything. Yeah, yeah, I think it is. Yeah, I would have heard about it. Yeah, so, but it's fun. I mean again, character creation and kind of building your own path and that type of thing. Uh, they have like six different kind of classes that you could pick from that. You have like a skill tree to go through. Um, nice thing is that you can join like your friend's servers and everything that's on you and your spot, where you're at as far as, like, the level goes, will transfer with you. Uh, that's cool. Yeah, so, but we had fun. It was a good time.
Speaker 1:So the beta, of course, ends tonight, so probably will not get any more time before. Um, with the podcast and everything won't get any more time in. That's alright. Besides that, this week I got caught up on Andor, got caught up on Last of Us, where Ellie's going to be a dad, and it melted down the internet. Yeah, people, I don't know, dude, just enjoy it or don't enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, don't watch it. Like, yeah, just stop the. The amount of hate watching that happens with so many of these shows these days. Like it's just, yeah, I don't have time to watch anything out of hate, I don't have time for that. Yeah, I need to watch shit that I like. If I don't like it, I'm out, right, and I'll fucking go watch youtube. You know that's what I hate watches youtube. Right, because then you go.
Speaker 1:How did I just spend three hours watching guys like restore cars that they bought on auction? Like you're just like where did the fucking evening go? What did I do? Uh, I'm glad you finally updated your pants. Go. Yeah, I'm glad you finally updated your background, sir. Yes, he finally came in the. The monkey popcorn bucket finally came in nice.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, when we went to thunderbolt, like there were so many fucking popcorn buckets everywhere from all the different, like just the regular metal ones, not even like the toy, like the yeah, not even fancy ones, yeah, not even. Just there was like three sinners ones. I'm like, why do you need three different sinners ones? Like, come on, like I mean, the movie was great, but you don't need a blue one and a red one and the black one? Like, come on, guys, I love me some michael b jordan. I don't need his popcorn bucket, I don't need three michael b jordan popcorn buckets. Um, but yeah, it was kind of crazy, like how, like, they put you in the queue. Now, like at regal, you have to like go through a queue because they don't. You don't just walk up to a concession stand, you have to go and wait for them to like.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, I noticed that what did we go see? Something that was a while ago. We don't usually go to Regal, but we were this time and I'm like they're making me Walks to the damn shopping mall up in this bitch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cause then everything. But they have like old ass shit too. They still had brave new world stuff. I mean, I was like they got like fun codes that are from like a year ago. I'm like, why still? Why are they still got little mermaid stuff up in here? What's going on? Like, yeah, shit, not the Moana 2. Probably maybe Moana 2. But yeah, they had, they still had shit from like Gladiator 2. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like it's a little weird, but all right. Well, I watched a YouTube. Somebody wants a Roman Coliseum.
Speaker 1:I watched a Disney video yesterday and the guy was walking around to just see what was left over from May, the 4th, fourth, dude, I think I watched that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like hyper, hyper, something hyper spacing or hyper, and he's like, oh, you couldn't make it here yesterday, let's see, uh, what's still left. And he was asking buddy about the, the popcorn buckets and shit. Yeah, they had the majority of them. Yeah, they did. He didn't talk about the java sipper, but they still had the 501st helmet and they still had the death star. The death star was everywhere. Yeah, yeah, I mean it looked like most of the stuff was still there, like it didn't look like a bunch. Yeah, they saw the lightsaber, saw lightsabers. Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, they still had that. He went to savvies like, yeah, no, we still got it. Yeah, he went to the new one they did.
Speaker 1:They didn't have the droid, uh, the mouse droid popcorn, but bucket was the one thing. I think he said they he couldn't. It's not a popcorn bucket, dude, it is a remote controlled to scale. Oh, yeah, one one scale. He's only a hundred dollars. Wow, I'm gonna buy that bitch next time. I see it. Well.
Speaker 1:And but I think he was at disney world because he was going to some shops that weren't at disneyland. Yeah, he started a tattooing trader. I was going to some shops that weren't at Disneyland. Yeah, he started a Tatooine Trader. I'm like what the fuck is that? That sounds like some Disney World shit. Well, because he didn't say I'm going to Disney World and they didn't have him driving in, he's just like I'm here. He's like I'm here, tatooine Traders. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like, sir, I mean it was a good video.
Speaker 1:But yeah, dude, when we saw the mouse droid on the 4th, that box is fucking huge. Yeah, I'm like no, that's got to be like $300. I didn't even bother looking. My big one was curious about it. She's like it's only $100. I'm like, no, not now, because you know it's May the 4th. I just bought a $350 Star Tours speeder. I'm using my May allowances. It's dwindling. Yeah, we had a good laugh in our chat Because somebody said they bought something, but it was fine, because it was their May money and not June Exactly.
Speaker 1:And I go oh shit, my podcast buddies talk about that all the time. They're like the card, the card, the statement, is cut off. I'm good, this is all may now, but all my, all, my uh, all my uh allowances have reset exactly. But um, but no. So then I watched a video on it and I'm like, oh, that's kind of cool. And I'm like, what does it go? And it does. And then that little scream it gives when chewbacca yells at it. It does that too. I'm like sold we. And it's a usb rechargeable too. Oh, nice, even better. So you don't even have to put butters, butters. Yeah, you don't got to put butter in it. You can just yeah, I don't have to butter it up at all plug that shit into the wall raw. You gotta grease it up before you can charge it. Um, yeah. So that video was interesting.
Speaker 1:It looks like a lot of the stuff from the fourth besides, like the, he didn't talk about the pins and stuff, so I think it was mostly. He was mostly just a merch guy. It seems like. Yeah, yeah, like the shirts and the ad at seemed pretty cool. Uh, it did right like I wasn't even interested until he showed it a couple times. I'm like that's kind of badass. Well, I mean you get like 12 mini. I mean I haven't been interested in that. We haven't talked about that line of, uh, figure, the, the, that toy line at all, the action, micro galaxy or something, something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that did by the ghost from that line. Yeah, the ad at looks pretty cool. Um, yeah, and it came with like 12 characters, like 12 little minifigs too. So, yeah, I don't know if they still have it on the disney store, um, but yeah, so I think he did a good job of like going through and talking about kind of the everything, I mean pins.
Speaker 1:The problem with talking about pins, even in videos like that, is like it's so hit and miss because you can go to one store and they'd be like oh, no, sorry, we're out. Well, he went to like seven stores. So like I'm not going to walk up everyone with the video and be like you got these pins, like I'm sure they still have it. Yeah, right, I mean it looked like they had a ton of them At Disney World. Yeah, but they're online Shop. You know they be selling different shit.
Speaker 1:We went yesterday to go pick out Our outdoor kitchen oh, nice, grill and sink and all that shit. Yeah, because we're getting close. Hell, yeah, let's do it. So, yeah, I mean, I think that's a totally uh realistic thing is for lou and I to head down to watch the steelers and vikings at your house, like circa some shit, or yeah, we knew it in the backyard. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, like, if we're gonna come down to, like just hang out for the weekend, like, yeah, I mean, why not just sit around outside? Yeah, I mean, you'll have the tv and you'll have whatever. I mean, I don't know, you have cocks or whatever, but I'll probably have a sunday ticket so we'll be able to watch it regardless. Yeah, exactly, because I'm a fucking sucker and I'm okay with paying 350 bucks. I'm not okay with paying 350 bucks for it, but you know, but you do it anyways, begrudgingly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you know what? I'll be honest, like a lot of it just depends on how many games are going to be, uh, like monday or thursday night games or like special games. Because if, if I mean, you're talking a 17 game season, um, like if four or five of those games are going to be on, you know, christmas day and, uh, thursday night and a monday night game, and then you're traveling. So, like they were saying, the schedule I think gets released next week, yeah, that sounds about right. Um, they were saying the vikings might actually go back to back with the international games because they play the browns at at the browns and then they play the steelers at the steelers and they've already said that the home games for the Steelers are going to be like weeks four and five. So the shitty part is the Vikings are going to go.
Speaker 1:If it pans out as the reports are saying, the Vikings are going to go international for two weeks and then have like a week six by, which fucking sucks. Like having a week by bullshit, right, especially with the length of the season now, like, so that would really suck, but it would be like that would be two more games that I'm going to just watch. Like I don't, I don't have to watch them, they'll be on NFL network, so I'm not going to have to, um, watch them. You don't have to have sunday ticket for him. So you just go like, okay, I'm counting down like, at what? At what amount does it make it reasonable? To when is my 350 worth it? Right, exactly.
Speaker 1:So, like last year, the mockness monster, I think the vikings had a monday night game and like a thursday night game and that was it. And I was like, oh, okay, like I'm still getting 15 games of time, right, but hopefully they don't raise the price. But who knows, they're fucking greedy. But I'll buy it right away because they give you like 100 bucks off if you pre-order it. So I'm guessing after the schedule they'll start harassing me with emails and stuff saying, hey, the schedule's out.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I mean, I think you guys are actually going to be decent this year. So you know, it seems like it, like on paper. You know we got a decent quarterback. The new kids we drafted seemed all right. So we'll see. You guys have, uh, gino, who's? Yeah, we got Gino, yeah, you got Gino. I mean, gino's not going to blow the doors off anything, but he's going to manage your game right, exactly, and he's a big upgrade over whatever the fuck you had last year. Oh, yeah for sure. Did you guys draft a quarterback? I don't think so. I don't think so. No, yeah, I don't think so. No, uh, yeah, I don't think so. So, uh, yeah, it'll be fun, we'll have to see. It'll be fun, fun times. So, uh, well, with without lou being here, I mean I guess we could do.
Speaker 1:We want to talk a little bit more about when we used to hang out and what we would do, and you know we can. So I mean, it came up last week a little bit with the, the wrestling. Yeah, um, I don't know that I was watching a lot until, um, we started hanging out. At that time I don't think I was watching a lot. Um, my stepbrother, I think, was watching it a little bit. Well, your stepbrother had his whole. Your stepbrother would had like a whole fucking federation and a hundred figures, especially after we were into it more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like he had like shit written down in a notepad that he was like doing like a smackdown in a raw, like every week in his room and that was, yeah, that got a little weird, but you know a little bit. But you know what I mean. We're 40 year old guys by star wars toys still. So fair, I'm not. Yeah, I guess I can't judge, but uh, but yeah, I mean, what was? Did you have any?
Speaker 1:Were you a wrestling person before we hung out? Ever like, yes, when I was a kid, I used to watch it saturday mornings or whatever the fuck it was. I would watch it with my dad, okay. So I think that's why later on, he was okay with buying us the pay-per-view. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he has money. He's like yep, you know, we used to do this when you were a kid. So, but yeah, no, like Lou was saying Hulk Hogan, very fucked up, ucw. So that's just how we were in the 90s.
Speaker 1:You had your, your thing. Yeah, fuck the other guy. Yeah, marvel or dc, you know star wars, star trek, like it was weird. It was a weird thing where I think, if you got into ufc, you were like super into ufc, but if you got into wrestling, or, but you couldn't get into wrestling because you're like, oh, this is fake, blah, blah, blah. And then, um, what's it? Right? But then if you got like, if you got into wrestling, like UFC just was like it wasn't, like there wasn't a lot of like the pomp and circumstance that comes with watching wrestling. You didn't really get that. It was just like, oh, two guys who were going to fight each other, but there was no, like you wanted a story or you wanted a reason for them to fight, right, and because I would.
Speaker 1:I mean later, when I moved back to Oregon, I went to a couple like UFC pay-per-view party things, right, and I mean like, why are these guys fighting? Yeah, I need justification. Did he fuck his wife? Who's the manager? What's going on? Is that? Well, the ring girl is just a ring girl, she's not a manager. One of the two guys, what's going on? She's not involved in this at all. Yeah, when does the when does the belt get thrown into the ring for somebody to get hit? Are there ladders? Yeah, but then, yeah, same here like I think a demolition ultimate Warrior, that window of time, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bushwhackers and Road Warriors, all that shit.
Speaker 1:Young John Michael In the 80s, like OG Hulk Hogan, the Rockers Marty Jannetty, roddy Roddy, piper, yep, you know I was into all that and my dad's like you know, this is fake, right, I'm like, for I was in all that and my dad's like you know, this is fake, right, I'm like for one sir lies and he's like, and the guy doing the announcing right there, vince, he owns it. I'm like, sir, yes, I am only eight years old, I am not stupid. Why would the guy that owns the company be down there doing that bitch ass job with the tail getting broken in front of him? So I apologize, father, I did not know everything when I was eight. It's Mother's Day, but I'm sorry, dad, I'm trying to remember what got us on the wrestling tip to begin with.
Speaker 1:But sorry, you were going to say I have no idea, I have no idea, but I would keep up with it here and there. I think that, gosh, when we were in North Carolina, we would stay up to watch Raw because we were East Coast, so it was on later. Yeah, so sometimes we would stay up on Mondays to watch Raw. We weren't as into it, though At that point I think I had shifted my interest more into the video games and stuff, less TV. But I do remember staying up late to watch Raw once in a while.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, us hanging, hanging out. I don't know why we started watching it. I don't know if we were just bored on or we just happened to be like hanging out at the house one day and it was like oh, the pay-per-view's on, or like your dad was like I'm getting the pay-per-view and we're like okay, and then like I don't know what triggered that at all, but then like stone cold and the rock and all that, like you know, then we're that shit is still hilarious, and then we're, and then we're going to fucking two events in one, in one week because we're going to rock and smack down in the exact same seats Like uh, I don't know, I mean, it's soap operas for dudes, that's. You have to look at it that way. Yeah, they are really. They are really fighting right, like they're not trying to hurt each other. But there is a athletic aspect to this. They're not just actors out there. There's a physicality to it, right, like it's. In some regards it's.
Speaker 1:I would say you could say that it's almost harder than just straight fighting, because you don't want to actually injure the other person. So the stuff that you're doing, you have to make it look reasonably real. But then you also don't want to. If you're going to do a moonsault on a guy, you don't actually want to drive your knees into his chest. You know that type of thing Because you've got to fight him again on Thursday. Yeah, do a moonsault on a guy you don't actually want to drive your knees into his chest, you know, like that type of thing. Yeah, because you got to fight him again on thursday, yeah, and probably two times in between there at house shows, you know, yeah. But yeah, yeah, I mean I remember there were, I mean, between that and wrestlemania 2000, I mean we spent every month.
Speaker 1:It was like, okay, well, sunday, we're hanging out and we'd get food and we'd go back to the house and we'd hang out and the pay-per-view would be on. I mean, I think that was like when Brock Lesnar first came on scene Yep, I remember when he came out, the Hardy Boys Yep, the Dudley Boys, which we fashioned, all of our wrestling tag teams after, yep, I think we used the 3D as our finishing move for yep, we sure did for like years, yeah, for the entire time. All the versions. Yeah, it started with uh, wrestlemania on, uh nintendo 64 all the way through uh, ps2, xbox yeah, one of the first couple iterations on your house, or something like that, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we spent weeks looking for wrestlemania 2000 because it was sold out everywhere. Do you remember? We used to drive, I think I, I think I found it some ghetto ass. Uh little mom and pop shop or some shit dude, yeah. But I mean, we spent out days driving around going to all the best but, like we were our like circle of what we were searching Was like All the best buys basically in LA, like all south In southeast LA, was all the stuff that we would look for All the way in Orange County and everything, and it was like, sorry, sold out. Yeah, we finally got like hells. Yes, look at the graphics on this, they're amazing.
Speaker 1:And then we spent an hour creating our tag team. Yep, we wrote in on. Was that the? That wasn't the one, I think it was. Later on, when we could ride the Undertaker's bikes and I had two bikes, yeah, I think that was Smackdown on the PlayStation. I think, yeah, yeah, that's when they started doing more of the actual video entrances and stuff. But yeah, we basically just ripped off the Deadly Boys. Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1:And then I think my finisher was Triple H's finisher, the Pedigree, yeah, and I probably just stole the Stunner, something simple like that. Or Kane you were super into Kane then too. Oh, yeah, I was into Kane, so I think it into the choke. I probably did the choke, you're right, you're right, I don't know why I was into cane, especially looking back now and going where, looking at what he is, uh, what, where he is and mentally and uh, position wise, just going like, wow, that was a choice. I guess when you're just a burned you know, burned brother of the undertaker, you don't have to, you don't talk a lot about politics, so no, but we were also like it just all bubbles up in you. Yeah, I was watching.
Speaker 1:I mean, I see some of the stuff now, the YouTube videos, where they talk about like the top five messed up things in wrestling from the nineties and I, or two nineties, slash early, two thousands from the 90s and I, or to 90s, early 2000s, and I'm just like man, we, uh, we could have really been messed up, like we could have really like if yeah, because some of those storylines like yeah, like you, I mean again, you, you, you, you spend this time and you go, oh my gosh, how did this generation get to this point? And how are? How come guys feel so insecure and are so like blah, blah, blah and you go. Well, you look at like the media that we consumed. We had the man show, we had wrestling, we had, you know, we had all of these things that we did hyper masculine, right, but also we didn't know how to process them, right, like I mean, we're all, we're all between 18 and 25.
Speaker 1:At that point where, like, you're really figuring out who you are and what you do and or what you're gonna do, and the all of that presentation was that girls were objects and girls, you know, like girls were subservient and all of that kind of stuff. And you know, unless you had like a decent upbringing or at least a mildly healthy upbringing, like you know. But again, I mean, you don't view women like that in general and I don't feel like, no, no either, but a lot of people, a lot of guys, funny, yeah, but even then, like you don't actually believe it right, like it being funny. It being funny is one thing, but I slap her on the butt and say go make me a sandwich. I don't actually expect the sandwich, right, and you, but you do expect her to turn around and either punch you in the shoulder or slap you back, exactly, right, yeah, yeah, um, but uh, yeah, like it's.
Speaker 1:It's funny to me because people are like how did we get there? And you go well, look at all the media we had to consume back then, like it was all so hyper, like hyper I don't know what the word is like hyper, I don't want to say like hyper, sexualized, because it was whatever it was. Always that was like the x, right, everything had to have an x, everything was extreme. But yeah, I mean thinking back on wrestling wow, yeah, we could have both been really fucked up by that, but somehow we made it through without. You know, I think we latched on to.
Speaker 1:We didn't really latch on to those characters though. Hey look, we loved, uh, the godfather and his ho train because that shit was funny as hell, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we were like hells, yeah, come give me a bunch of hoes, I need a ho train. I mean valvinas. And we were into the, the deadly boys and dx and all that shit. We were in like Jericho, the rock, stone cold. We were into the funny guys. We weren't, you know, like tripping on the, the dudes that were like that, like, yes, it was funny watching Val Venus do his little porn dance and all that shit. But we weren't like, oh, yeah, I want to be that's who I want to be, val Venus, that's who I want to be val venus, it was. We want to be jericho. Yeah, the day he showed up and and that was the thing, because we only, we were only wwf guys, we weren't wcw guys at all. So when like jericho shows up, we have like no idea. And all of a sudden he just shows up and we're like, oh, my god, who's this guy? Right, like the countdown and all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:Um, but yeah, I mean, I think even you know when we would go to the, the broad and SmackDown, and then it would be like, oh shit, triple H is back. I think we, one of the bras we went to, like it was maybe after, uh, wrestlemania or whatever and like triple H came back from injury for the 12th through 13th time. Like hearing age came back from injury for the 12th through 13th time. Like hearing that music. Yeah, the first, like when you hadn't heard it in person before, was always like right and kane's fire like the pyro. When you're on the opposite side of the arena I'm still regrowing my eyebrows. Yeah, exactly like it's just, but but no, I mean it was a lot of fun live like.
Speaker 1:Even as a kid I never thought I would do that shit. Honestly it's, it's stuff you see on tv, right like you're watching double dare and shit, and they're like, oh, we filmed this at universal studios in florida. You're like that'd be cool to go there someday. I mean I never will. But, um, it's just strange that, like as a kid, you're like, nope, that shit will never happen. But now I've been to universal studios, I've been to live wrestling and football and hockey and football. We just got back from fucking japan. I mean, that stuff I never thought would happen when I was a kid. I wish the timing would have been better, because I think it would have been cool to go to wrestlemania.
Speaker 1:But you know, agreed, that shit was expensive as fuck. Though, yeah, even for your uh, first refusal ticket, we just get dibs on it. Oh, we still have to pay all that. We just get to pay it first. So the right of first refusal doesn't necessarily give you a discount, it just gives you. No, it just means I get it first, okay, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah what I thought it when and if it comes back, I would very, uh, strongly consider it, because it's just like, even though I'm not super into it I think I watched last year's a little bit when we were talking about it. We're texting about it.
Speaker 1:Um, it's still fucking wrestlemania, right? Yeah, I mean it's the spectacle, right, it's the granddaddy of all sports entertainment. It's like, you know, I was in a football when I was a kid, you know. Whatever, I'm not into it now, but I got to the fucking super bowl. It's just one of those things that it was your jam at one time and there's still a part of you that wants to do that. Right, because you never got to as a kid.
Speaker 1:Like exactly, would we go to raw? Like, if rod smackdown we're coming back to, I mean, if I happen to be in vegas, maybe, yeah, but yeah, I wouldn't say no, yeah, but it's also not. I have no idea what's going on. Yeah, I would also have cody rhodes. Was that just cody fucks? Cody rhodes? Yeah, I remember dustin rhodes, I rememberust who is this? But yeah, like, I think you know, like, again, it's one of those like you, don't? You only have one opportunity to go see it? Right, really, what it boils down to. So, yeah, I would totally go. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're in Japan, so Japan or WrestleMania, I'm taking japan. Yeah, 100, yeah, but, um, but yeah, I would go.
Speaker 1:One of the guys at work went and he had a blast like he's still kind of into it though, um, but I don't know. It looks fun again, like even the the fan experience thing that we did. We didn't go to wrestlemania 2000, yeah, but we did the FanFest before, just like we never went to the Super Bowl but we did the FanFest before and we saw Lita and we saw Trish Shadis and we saw the car that Stone Cold filled with concrete, yeah, and I got to touch head and then Al Snow almost killed me. Yeah, I still have not washed this hand. Yes, I know it still smells like Al Snow. It still smells like a job squad, a hand job squad.
Speaker 1:I mean I kind of it pops up in my YouTube feeds every once in a while like the highlights, so I don't actually watch the shows, but I'll watch the 30 or 45 seconds that they post just to kind of keep in touch. I mean I do know who Cody Rhodes is. I have a general idea of the storyline, yeah. But yeah, I mean now that WCW has kind of been replaced by Proxy, by AEW, but I mean I pay attention to AEW a little bit because they have a couple guys like MJF and stuff who still are. I consider them almost throwbacks, right. Right, because they're guys that you would be like. Okay, when you can find somebody who you're like, okay, this guy could fit into any generation, any wrestling generation, right, like MJF. For me, mjf is definitely one of those guys. He knows how to work the crowd and have a good match with anybody that he can. You could put him back in the 80s and he would be the same, right, he could still sell whatever character he was portraying. I don't know if that's the case anymore.
Speaker 1:I mean, john Cena turned heel, which is weird. That was weird, yeah, but I mean that whole thing was very. I mean I kind of was watching that because the Rock came back, right, he was doing some stuff and then he just disappeared and like, but he was, was like the one that made john cena turn heel, and then he disappeared and like, john cena's just there, like, oh, you guys all say I suck and don't appreciate me anymore and you're just kind of like, but wait, like, why did you do that for the rock? Then, like, it's like rakishi, I did it for the Rock Again. Soap operas for dudes. That shit never makes sense, never, nope. How is the Undertaker dead? How did the Undertaker wrestle from when we were kids until like four or five years ago, and then he disappeared and then he came back as a motorcycle riding, bandana wearing, and now he's just a dude that rides, he's a biker dude. He's not even dead anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of that shit was very unbelievable, especially when they get to like the supernatural stuff. But but we fucking go with it, right, because it was funny, the fights were entertaining. Somebody's getting their face put in rakishi's butt yeah, well again. But I mean we would watch. I mean I'm sure we watched the first TLC match together, yeah, and then all of those that came up after that, I mean Edge and Christian, the Dudley boys, all those guys, yeah, cheering them on until they bleed. Yeah, my obsession with Molly Holly, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Them boots.
Speaker 1:We were both hung up on Lita for quite a while, even today. She's not too shabby. She's kept in good shape. Yeah, she has. Who do I see? A lot, I think I follow Stacey Keebler on Insta. She still looks good.
Speaker 1:Miss Hancock, that was her WCW name. Follow stacy keibler on uh insta. She still looks good. Yeah, miss hancock, that was a dope, that was her wcw name, not wink, wink, nudge, nudge, no, um, but we uh, yeah, no, I mean those are some good times, it was fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a nice, aside from star wars. Yeah, I mean we've had quite a few wrestling figures like, yeah, I don't know if I still have any, I don't think we all give them to my stepbrother. Yeah, I think. No, we're done with them, bro. Yeah, yeah, we're over it. Here you go, have fun making your federation. Here's our uh, entrance dude.
Speaker 1:When they had the, the little metal things on their feet, you put them on the entrance thing and it plays their music. That was cool. We were like, oh, they're using the General Giant in their real 3D scanning their faces. They look so good. Yeah, they look way better than they did before. But I mean the chairs and the table like how we would just pop because they'd be like, oh, they put a trash can in as an accessory. Yeah, they put a trash can in as an accessory. Yeah, we can finally recreate this match. Yeah, um, but yeah, I mean it was a nice, it was a nicer version from star Wars, cause I mean that was the majority of the stuff that we that. That we that, that we shared. You know, um, and I've had this conversation with Lou, because he's got people that only hit him up at celebration, like, hey, I need star wars stuff, I need star wars stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm like, and that's all they ever talk about is star wars. I'm like how can you be friends with someone if that's the one thing you have in common? Right, like we wouldn't be friends, fucking, almost 30 years later, if all we had was star wars. Right, I mean you have to have more than just one thing in common, yeah, but I mean we, I mean we the.
Speaker 1:The nice thing about our relationship was that it like evolved, because it started out from like you guys should hang out because you both like Star Wars, right To when we started hanging out all the time. It became about more than that. It became about music, it became about wrestling, it became about just stuff going on in life and I think, since both of us were kind of in a position where we didn't have a ton of other friends and our families were kind of there but, you know, doing their own thing, it was emo, gen x kids and we're just like, yeah, I hit everybody. Yeah, but this guy he's all right. But yeah, I mean that was what it really boiled down to is like we were just kind of, I think we, we, we star wars was kind of the foundation of our relationship, but we were able to build, you know, a pretty decent house around it after, exactly.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, um, and even like when we lost, when we would lose touch for windows of time, like, yeah, it didn't you know, we'd start talking and it would be just like we talked. You know, the last weekend, you know there was never a, there was never a time where it was like who is this guy? It was like uncomfortable or like, oh, hey, you remember me? Yeah, I used to live together and hang out sometimes, yeah, once in a while, um, but yeah, I mean, yeah, you're not friends with somebody for 30 years and not not have more in common. You know, I mean we've had some. I mean we've had some heavy conversations over time. Oh, yeah, for sure, you know, depending Like we've honestly grown up together. Yeah, right, I mean we were both pretty much teenagers when we met.
Speaker 1:Right now we're old, yeah, well, because when we met, you were already working at the warehouse. You already had your warehouse job because you'd been there forever since you'd met stacy or your other, your significant other, right, because you, since I graduated high school, yeah, so 98, I'd been there about a year probably. Yeah, but I mean, you were, you were like dialed in, like because I, when I came and would you know, help out, like you were always, yeah, super dialed in, um, but yeah, I mean, when they were like, oh, you guys should hang out, and like I was working at petco, I think at the time, so I was working graveyards, yeah, um, but I remember, uh, she was bringing me home one night. She's like, oh, I gotta go pick up duke. I'm like, okay, yeah, that was uh, yeah, that was the. Those were the days, right, oh lord. But speaking of which, she needs five thousand dollars to buy a car because her transmission went out. Too bad. I'm.
Speaker 1:I don't understand why you guys haven't changed your numbers. I can't change it for one person. Yes, maybe, yes, yes, you can. I think you are proving that, yes, you can. Well, I thought she had stopped reaching out to you. So we're talking about my ex right now. I thought, after she had kind of stopped, like like your, uh, your wife had blocked her and that type of thing like she does, like uh, voips or some shit like goes hurt. So just different phone numbers, just call and they're dumb ass. These voicemails dodged a bullet there. My friend dodged a bullet there. It was like neo dodging like 30 bullets. Yeah, no shit. Well, I just thought it was hilarious, like I think it was one of the first.
Speaker 1:So after we broke up and I moved back up or I'd like I mean I stayed there for quite a few years. After, when you guys moved to vegas, it would have been oh five, we saw that grandma's. Then, I mean, I was back and forth with grandma's, but I'm trying to figure out when we kind of lost touch and I think it was when you guys moved to vegas, probably for a little bit, and then, like we circled back like a year or two later to just kind of like touch base, because that's what we would do is during that time, it's probably every six to eight months, we'd be like what's up, bro? Because back then, kids, you had to pay for text messages. Yeah, yeah, it was, or you were limited. You only got like 200.
Speaker 1:Um, but I think the one of the first stories you told me was that she was dating like you were like, oh, you remember your ex. And I went, yes, and you were like, oh, she's dating a guy who collects hot wheels. And we just thought that was the most hilarious shit ever, because we used to fucking clown the hot wheels guys every time we would go and hang out and go toy hunting because those guys were dicks, all those yeah, they were. They were fucking douchebags. And then when they didn't get hot toys, they stole our star wars toys. Yeah, yeah, they go, they'd run in and go through all their. They'd look at, they'd look real quick to see if the hot wheels had been refreshed and if they hadn't, then they would start going to other places to get toys to flip. And uh, but, yeah, those guys were assholes, yeah, they were. So that was side tangent.
Speaker 1:That was hilarious when you were like she's dating a guy that I remember that conversation. So, so clearly she's dating a guy who collects hot wheels. And I was like what? And we're like, yeah, downgrade, downgrade, yeah, major downgrade. So clearly she's dating a guy who collects Hot Wheels. And I was like what? And we're like, yeah, downgrade, downgrade, yeah, major downgrade From Star Wars Geek. But yeah, and now look at us. We're going to fucking Japan together, right, I don't think we would have had this conversation in 99.
Speaker 1:No, it was surprising enough. We even made it to Indiana together for free, yeah, but I mean, at least that was in America. International travel good fucking luck. 20 year old me wouldn't know how to get a passport. Yeah, no shit, don't you have to go to the post office for that or something. Maybe is there a post office for that or something. Maybe Is there a special office for it. What's this? Real ID? What are you talking about? Real ID, it's 1999. But yeah, it's pretty.
Speaker 1:I mean, again, when you guys had been dating for like a year or something, when I met, when I got involved, right, like it was maybe a year, maybe a year and a half, 97-ish year and a half, yeah, but yeah, I still remember when I got invited to Christmas by Stacy's or your girl, your wife's parents, and that was really awkward Because my ex wasn't there, but it was still awkward, right, because we were like expecting. It was still awkward right because we were like expecting her to show up, because we were like, wait, what's right? Your, your wife's parents, why are they inviting me over? Oh, we really liked you did you? Because you never really gave me the impression that you did like, uh, look, it was her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even my wife has been like you know what duke's all right, not, we're not around her. She's like maybe it was her the whole time and it wasn't Duke. Maybe Duke doesn't suck as much as I thought, and that's really saying something, because she thinks everybody fucking sucks. She does. She's texting me now about how our little one sucks. You're like wait, you made that right. This is on your fault. You contributed to this happening. By the way, do you know all the shit that she's been through? I don't know if you were around for all of it, but she's seen some shit, more shit than any of us have. Like, our life has not been easy, right, well, now her tummy hurts and she wants to sleep on the couch. Okay, well, have fun sleeping on the couch. She just wants to be on the couch so when you come back in the house she can be like oh, daddy's here, come tuck me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was trying to think if there was any like other good stories. I mean, we made like stupid decisions when we would drive around, like when we went through like Compton Because we thought we'd be cool. Right, because we both like rapped music at the time we're like, hey, let's go to Greenleaf, see if their fucking heads are cut off. Like, oh, it's going to be ouraf. See if their fucking heads are cut off. They're like, oh, it's going to be our heads. Hey, it's the Compton car wash. Nope, don't slow down. Did we lock the doors? Yes, the doors are locked. They were not fucking around. No, but in all the music videos we saw, everybody was on the street having a party. What's going on? Where's the barbecue? Yeah, exactly, people wheeling out barbecues and shit. Uh, oh, we were going to be the cool white guys. Yeah, pre-slim shady. Yeah, we're proto m&m. Uh, but, yeah, I mean, yeah, good times, I mean we're. I mean the.
Speaker 1:The funny part is like those types of things I couldn't imagine like us doing now. No, god, no, you know, like if I moved to vegas or you moved up here, like if we lived in the same city, like I couldn't imagine like going to your house, like early sunday morning for us to just drive around and look for toys. I mean, again, the world has changed, right, right, is it the same? But like, right, yeah, I look, I mean, like back then I think it was nice to kind of have a routine and have a, but today I would be like, nah, son, I'm gonna stay home. Like, yeah, order that shit online. Yeah, I'm tired. You want to split a case? I'll buy a case. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's what we've done a few times. Hey, indiana Jones Okay, well, you just got to buy this one figure.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I think we did that with all three waves of the Indiana Jones figures. Right, yeah, yeah, I think we took turns on the waves. Yeah, yeah, I think we took, I brought you, I like put a box in a bag and brought you like the ones that, yeah, yeah, but I had them like all packed with like a towel wrapped around them to make sure the boxes, even though you were just going to take them out of the boxes anyway. Exactly, yeah, but you never know. Yeah, yeah, but I was a toy line. That was super disappointing that they didn't keep it going. But, yeah, I mean you froze like, okay, you did too. We both froze. I wonder where that's gonna show up. The ai is gonna have to fix it right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was, there was, I think there was quite a few figures that they could have, uh, filled in that they didn't. Definitely a molar rom Molaram they completely skimped out. On Temple of Doom, they could have had the little boy because we got short round. They could have had the little prince with the fucking monkey brain bowl and the little indie voodoo doll Yep, they could have done so much more, so much more.
Speaker 1:It's always funny for me to hear that stuff where they just go like, oh, this line didn't do well, well, you didn't fucking promote it at all. Uh-uh, I never saw anything on any of the websites or anything. And I never saw anything on Instagram or any of that stuff. Nope, if you wanted them, they were there. Well, like you were like, hey, there's an indiana jones line, and like I had to go look for it and I was like this one. And you're like, no, no, that's like the vintage figure line, which was a completely different thing.
Speaker 1:Like black series yeah, big ones, yeah, yeah, and they were pretty reasonably priced too. If I remember, they were only like yeah, they were horrible, you bought a case. It was only like $12 or $14, which isn't terrible, because I think in the Black Series, the Star Wars ones are like $18 to $20 now. Right, yeah, they're pushing $20 now and they're going to go up even more now because tariffs I know I was reading about Funko. They're like, yep, come July regular Funko's going to be $15.
Speaker 1:I'm like, hmm, I'll catch you on the sales, bro, but again, funko's been hemorrhaging money for a while and I'm guessing that's why they're not coming to Comic-Con, because they're doing their own thing that weekend before or something like that. Right, they're doing something at the Hollywood Funko, I think I read. So they're still doing like Funcoville, but it won't be at Comic-Con, right, I mean, they'll probably still have a small booth or something. I would imagine they would have some representation at Comic-Con, but it won't be. It won't be the whole corner of the convention hall. Yeah, that was pretty obscene. I wouldn't be mad about it. Yeah, the last couple of years, it's freaking ridiculous, freaking ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I started tripping out when I got that email about the badge and I was like, wait a second, I didn't buy one. Is this an auto-renew? I'm sorry I don't got $350 for that right now, but it all made sense when you told me so I was like, oh, okay, cool, we could have put our names on them, but we don't want to lose the early pre-reg. So we're like well, what if we do that and then we can swap a little easier. Yeah, get in Wednesday night for sure. Yeah, so we'll see. Yeah, I might I mean never say never, but worst case I'll come, you know. I mean you know there's Never say never, but yeah, worst case I'll come down for a long weekend. And now at least I know that if I want to, I can Like one day or whatever. But I also know for like the Roosevelt's and stuff, you guys got me covered. So, oh, yeah, yeah, that's a deal.
Speaker 1:I need to get some more marvel ones. I realized when we went and saw thunderbolts, the only marvel one I have is the the deadpool wolverine. I was like, oh, I, I mean I wore that, and everybody was like, oh, that's a cool shirt. But I was still kind of like it wasn't quite mcu though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is, but it isn't. Yeah, yeah, I have a couple. I got the marvels, I have a couple marvel zombie ones and I got the Sam Wilson Captain America, a full panel one.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I have more than that. I mean obviously the Deadpool from, yeah, from Comic-Con. I don't think I have a lot more, though Do I have? I don't think I have more Star Wars shirts than you, nope. No, I don't think I'm in your realm for the Star Wars Roosevelt yet. No, I have a ridiculous amount.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you sent a picture of your closet at some point, right? Yeah, I have nine of them and you're like hold my beer, that's cute, I bet collecting I'm like this month. Yeah, you're like OG Roosevelt's guy. I came to the game really late, but I mean they are really nice. I mean, if you can find prints that you like, and so the problem is that so many of them have that chaotic print that just drives luke crazy. Yeah, he likes the ropers, though he likes getting his cowboy on nice. Yeah, yeah, and I mean that's, that's, but those are always like they always have the stuff at the top, but they're always like a solid color. Yeah, instead of like, here's 8 million headshots where he's just like ah, my brain, his eye starts twitching. Yeah, he looks you directly in the eye when you're wearing that shirt. Like, sometimes you don't always make contact with people when you're talking. No, he's directly in your eye the whole time.
Speaker 1:Oh man, so is Lou watching? Are you watching the Last of Us? I have not started it yet. Maybe after Andor Is it over yet? Or soon? No, I mean we're only five episodes. I think this week is episode five, so you're only five episodes behind. Yeah, no, I'm like my mornings are weird lately. So I'm still.
Speaker 1:It's almost done, but the garage at the old house is almost done, so so close. It's supposed to cool down, though the stuff that I was looking at was saying Like mid 80s, I hope so. When are you coming out? Like Friday, friday through Sunday. So it'll be like 84 on sunday, yeah, and 74 on sunday, it says, and night. I mean, it looks like even the evenings are going to be nice, yeah, it's down to the 60s, and at night. So, yeah, no, you'll be fine, you're. You're staying at a hotel this time, though, right, like, yeah, camp edc or whatever the fuck it is Hotel EDC.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did we talk about the prints, the Kinkade Gallery? Oh, are we not really right? No, not super, but I have it. It was right here, right next to me. Nice, that's Lou, right? No, this one is mine. Lou got the same one, though. Oh, okay, I don't know. I looked at all those pictures because there was a lot of options. Dude, it was kind of crazy. I'm sure you were a little overwhelmed when you walked in there. Yeah, I was like, oh, that one's nice. Oh, what about that one?
Speaker 1:But, like, thomas Kinkade is more just like now at this point. It's like an art style, right, like, because he doesn't it's a studio, but he doesn't it's a studio. It's a studio, but he doesn't do all the stuff. It's a bunch of other people that do his style of art, right, yes, yeah, it's a studio. I don't even know if he's still alive. Honestly, I would be surprised. Thomas Kinkade, let's see. Nope, nope, my man died in 2012. But, yeah, I mean like, I'm sure his family, but I mean they use.
Speaker 1:He was famous for doing like pictures of buildings and like landscapes and shit like that. So when you were like, hey, they have like they have like star wars art here, and I was like what? And then you sent like 10 pictures and I was like what the fuck is all this like? Yeah, like the chewbacca one. I looked at that and I was like, wait, he's on Hoff and he's not covered in snow. Like that's some bullshit, right, like that's how much of a nerd I am. I'm like, oh, chewbacca, oh shit, he's not covered in snow, fuck that. Nope, I like white Chewb, put him on Tatooine and then we can talk. But if you're going to give him up, you're going to put him on Hoff and just have him standing there Like he's afraid of the trash compactor. Nasa yeah, no, they actually have them online too. Oh, yeah. So I looked later. I was like, oh, I wonder if they have it on there. But yeah, and they do. It's all very like the the, the ones with the lightsabers on them. They paint them in such a way it looks like they're actually lit up. It's amazing how they painted them.
Speaker 1:Nice, so that Vader is from Empire Strikes Back. I'm guessing Obi-Wan, the one you bought. Yeah, so it was his castle, exactly, yeah, I got the shuttle Tadirium right, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got the Shadal Teyderium right, yes, the interior. I thought I mean it was Chewbacca and I was like, okay, exactly, front and center, yeah, but I mean it's also all of them right, exactly. I don't know if that'll go up in my living room. I might have to find somewhere else to put it because the size is gonna be like it's gonna be weird, because I think it's a lot smaller than the other prints that I have. Likely that's a pretty good size. Yeah, the vader is titled obi-wan kenobi. Darkness has arrived. So, yeah, hopefully, mine's, hopefully mine's named fly casual.
Speaker 1:Uh, it is called strike team. Yes, strike team should be endor strike team. If they were. I believe in the movie it's the endor strike. It is called Strike Team. Yes, strike Team. It should be Endor Strike Team. I believe in the movie it's the Endor Strike Team. Right, right, nerds, fucking Thomas Kinkade, what a prick, right.
Speaker 1:So was your older one excited about the studio and everything? It's not really. Kinkade is a studio, it's a company. Now, yeah, yeah, yeah, but they're in that same area, right, they're in that same um, it's an art store we check out. It's like if you go into disneyland and you're on the right, like there's the bathroom that everybody uses right there. It's that first store right there, right next to, uh, the abraham lincoln thing. So it's um. So it's different than the disney animators one, yes, okay, I thought it was the same thing.
Speaker 1:They had just taken over that sales floor. They do for special events. They get rid of all their inventory and they only have Kincaid stuff there. They've done it a couple times since we've been there. Otherwise, they just have the regular Disney prints and stuff in there. We've probably been in there before and they just have like the regular disney prints and stuff in there. We've probably been in there before and they have a small star wars section, usually right, pretty much, yeah, but this one was the majority of the store was star, yeah, because I mean it was may, the fourth weekend, so, yeah, yeah, I think he said the next one they're doing is, uh, for the 70th, so we had a couple years for that. No, no, that's this year 70th of Disneyland or Disney, disney or Disneyland. Probably Disneyland, because Disneyland's an OG one. Right, yeah, Everything's old, yup, so is us. But yeah, I don't know, besides that, anything going on this week.
Speaker 1:Oh, my wife is graduating. Hey, she's got a master's degree. Yeah, and is she going to move on to grad school or is she done with her? No, she is. This is so that she can be a principal at school. Oh, okay, so she's moving up in the world, maybe, maybe not. It at least gets her more money. It changes her column advancement. Is she still at that same place, the private school? No, god, no, she hasn't been there since. She only sat there for two years, dude. Okay, she's been a public school teacher.
Speaker 1:I don't think we've talked about her work in a while. No, no, no, I remember us having the conversation when your little one was little. So we like gone to like walmart or some shit, right, yeah, no, she's been a public school teacher since my oldest was born. Okay, maybe it was your oldest was, but yeah, that's cool. I told her she had to stay at her school now until little one gets out of fifth grade, okay, but she can still be the principal of said school.
Speaker 1:She could be if they had an opening. I have assistant principal. She has to be assistant principal or she can be an actual principal. But it'll also get her like other, like she could do other admin stuff Like for the district. Sure, how is Is she? Is there like a concern? How much of she could do other admin stuff like for the district? Sure, so how is is she? Is there like a concern? How much of? I haven't really talked to anybody who's like a school teacher or anything like all the changes that have been going on in the federal government. Has any of the stuff affected her? No, not so far. Okay, the the special ed stuff, cause they moved it. They got rid of the Department of Education, but they didn't get rid of our student loans. They didn't get rid of the special ed programs, they just gave them to other people. So it's still there, but they just got rid of it. So they look like they're doing something, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, speaking of wrestling, linda McMahon was in charge of all that shit. Yeah, she was Talk. Speaking of wrestling, linda McMahon was in charge of all that shit. Yeah, she was Talk about somebody who sounds dumb as shit. Stay in your lane, woman. Stay in your lane. Don't you go worry about your husband raping people. Yeah, exactly About your husband making out with people while you're in a catatonic state. So, with that being said, I have to go to her graduation.
Speaker 1:I couldn't get the day off. I couldn't shift trade, so I am adjusting to the 6 am shift. I start work at 6 am on Friday and then I got lunch at the end, so I'm out at like 345. Okay, but gross. Yeah, that's a long day, dude, you are going to be beat up on Friday night. Yeah, okay, that's a long day, dude, you are going to be beat up on Friday night yeah, okay, you're graduated. Okay, I'm going to bed. Yeah, well, because you'll have to work until like 11 o'clock the night before, right? Yeah Well, no, nine, nine, okay, I'll get off at nine so you'll get home at 10, go right to bed. Be up at five? Yeah, pretty much, ugh Rough. Yeah, sacrifices you make, things you do Better be appreciated.
Speaker 1:What did you guys do for Mother's Day today? She wanted to go to Dutch Brothers because they had Mother's Day stickers. They were out, so we didn't go to Dutch Brothers. We went to go see my mom for a little bit in the hospital and then she took a nap. She napped for Mother's Day. We tried to go to a hibachi place. It was like four-ish, how long for four people. He was like 8.30. Nah, bro, deuces, wow. So we went to Lazy Dogs, where you walked right in. Yeah, pretty much. Nice. Wish her a happy Mother's Day. For me, will do, will do. Yeah, that was it. I got her the Darth Vader Starbucks Tumbler from the Revenge of the Sixth Drop at Disney, and it actually showed up in time to give it to her. Nice, that's good shipping then.
Speaker 1:Nobody's talking to you, alexa, dang, know your lane Right. Nobody's talking to you woman, get my 90s wrestling persona on Know your role and shut your mouth. I don't think. I mean, I think this week is pretty quiet, but I'll be prepping for Travel, traveling, yeah, yeah, I'll be home. We go to EDC, we'll be back one weekend and then the following weekend we drive to Seattle to see a concert. Who are you seeing? They're called Two Friends. Never heard of them. They're electronic music, which is probably why you haven't heard of them, but they put on a pretty good show. But then after that that's important nothing in the pipe until December. I might go to New Orleans in October. We'll have to see how the finances work out, but yeah, it'll be.
Speaker 1:The next one will be oh, it might come down for, like, the long weekend for over Comic Con, for the long, you know, yeah, yeah, we don't have a lot. We're gonna go see Lou in June. Nice, that'll be our summer trip, since we already spent all our vacation money on japan. How long are you guys gonna go see luke for? Um, I don't know. I mean, I have a week off at the end of june, okay, but um, to knock a thing off of wife's birthday list or um bucket list, bucket list she wants to go to all the state capitals. So, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:So are you going to my my Map? My globe is not here right now, but it's like one state over, right. So you're like boom, colorado, or do you? No, it's like between here we need to go up, like through utah or arizona, new mexico okay, which ones do you need to see for those? Are you going to go to those state capitals as well? Actually, we've been to all those, okay. Another thing, because obviously we spent all that time in freaking arizona and I'm 99 sure we've done new mexico because I think that's Santa Fe yeah, that sounds right, and I remember going there because they have the trains and the hot air balloons and shit. So I'm 99% sure we've done that one. And I know we did Salt Lake City because I have a SL comma, ut, magnet, uti. Your SO gave you a UTI UTI.
Speaker 1:I'm like, why does all this stuff up here say slut? I'm like I don't get it. Sl, utah. So, yeah, I bought all that shit, I got all the slut stuff. Nice. And that was cool too, because it was before we had our second kid and the older one was still little and she watched a show called Dinosaur Train on PBS and whatever Happy Feely dinosaur stuff, right, pbs educational shit. But they would have intermissions and there was this paleontologist that would tell them about real dinosaurs and that's his museum. So we got to go to his museum when she was still into that stuff Nice, so it was kind of cool. And now she's just into the post-apocalyptic. Yeah, now she's into destroying the world. Yeah, yeah, I heard a season two wrapped production so I guess that's good. Yeah, it did. Yeah, I saw a picture of uh walton pulling off his makeup.
Speaker 1:He was on snl last night. He was. I watched his uh opening his one of his monologues about his uh sex symbol. Yeah, stuff, yeah, he was reading the headlines. It's like the word I'm most part about. This one I'm most offended about is the word of the use of the word whom. What kind of pretentious shit is that? Uh? And to think, like 20 years ago when he was fucking shane on the shield, yeah, like, isn't that wild? Like, like we knew him fucking back in the day, right, and I can agree, his hairline has always been there. Yes, exactly, even as shane as a 20 year man. His hairline was exactly the same. It has not moved. Verified he didn't have money to fake it back then. Nope, no, he did not, regardless of how many piles he stole from the Armenian mob.
Speaker 1:I should make my wife watch that the Shield yeah, I've never met her go through it. I tried to get her to watch justified I think we watched like the first couple and then we got distracted. The only one of those effect shows I actually got her to watch was uh, rescue me. Oh, and sons of anarchy. We watched that one too, which also had walton, yeah, as a van damme, venus van damme. Yeah, I'll have to re-watch. I'm gonna probably re-watch the shield. I started doing a re-watch.
Speaker 1:I lost, but then, like everybody was like, oh, why are you watching that? It was a bad show. I'm like it wasn't a bad show. It had a bad season when the writer's strike happened. It's not my fault, I jumped ship then. But again, people are haters, right. So that's what, that's what we have established. I think bad season when the writer's strike happened. It's not my fault, I jumped ship on then. But again, people are haters, right. So that's what, that's what we have established. I think, oh, if there's nothing else that you've learned from this podcast, you know that people are haters. Yeah, I just want to jump on the bandwagon and hate.
Speaker 1:I'm speaking to Lou right now. Who's listening to this. He's gonna like and subscribe right now. Yeah, hit like and subscribe, but yeah, all right. Well, I think that's it. Wrap it up.
Speaker 1:I guess lou decided that he didn't want to join us 45 minutes late. Yeah, did he even say anything? He hasn't even said anything. Oh, he didn't send us pictures of nobody. He didn't tell us any updates. Yeah, about how he misses us and that he wishes he was doing the podcast instead of hanging out with people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, be in real life. Like talking to them, like gross, like you have to smell them, yeah, and like actually like look them in the eye or the shirt, listen to him talking and chewing stuff. Yeah, actually having to respond to what they're saying. What if somebody next to him is drinking milk or something? What if? What if they're one of the people they're hanging out with likes to drink milk? Yeah, and they start laughing. It just sprays everywhere. You know where. That wouldn't happen if he was at home on the podcast. Yep, exactly now, exactly Now, he's covered in milk.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's better than milk, though I'd rather be covered in milk than milk. Yeah, yeah, this is true, stay out of the ocean. I'm talking about fish, eggs and or milk, like, hey, we almost made it an hour and a half and I don't think it was a bad podcast. You know what, though, I'm not mad about it, because our uh, our subscription is not renewing until 11 days and we well, you know what? We still have six hours left. So, no, I think we'll be all right. Oh, no, no, no, no, we have two and a half hours left. Oh, perfect, so we have one more. Doesn't renew until the 23rd. So, yeah, if we can keep, if this is down to an hour, I'll be happy, as will my bank account. It's not a lot when you go over, but it's not nothing. Yeah, it's. You know no reason to Exactly.
Speaker 1:You know, for the 11 people watching or listening, yeah, let's start a Patreon or something. What would we offer for the Patreon? We'd have to start doing multiple podcasts. Right, we'll do topless podcasts. Oh, the bottom has dropped out again. We were doing really good. Yeah, our hot tub. Once the pool gets done, we can start doing hot tub. We'll start doing hot tubs.
Speaker 1:Four episodes have been fire in the last 30 days. Oh, no, we just, they're just happy that we've released four podcasts. Right, like you go, boys, you go, yeah, nobody's listening, but it's fine, it's fine. Still sad.
Speaker 1:When I click on monetization, it's just like no, not yet. Not yet, sirs, not yet. Not that we need that or want that. But no, would I be mad about it though? No, not at all, I'd be all right. But again, it would all just go right back into the podcast, so it wouldn't. Uh, you know, last 30 days.
Speaker 1:Basically, I don't understand. Oh, this, I don't understand why they don't. Okay, first, seven days of the last 20 episodes no, I was looking at it's weird, because the I don't know the, the page that shows all the stats and stuff is weird. But whatever, yeah, yeah, because, like, some of them are all time, but then some, like, it makes you feel better because you're like, oh yeah. Then you're like, oh, that's all-time, versus the four people that have downloaded your last three episodes. Yeah, I don't know what happened with that nostalgic flick, some Bumpin' Uglies, that one back on March 4th, episode one of season two, it bombed. No, it was 22 downloads, bruh, oh, all right, right, wow, that's crazy considering how recent it was. Right, it's like I'm just going to call every episode episode one, because our first episode had 35 downloads. So I think people are just looking for the first episode of everything and just downloading it. So I'll just tell everybody it's our first episode, first episode of season two. Season three, episode one. We'll be on season 35 here in a minute. No shit, yeah, we're. We're in season 52, episode one, but we've only been on air for two years.
Speaker 1:Let's see where were those people from the united states? We got three people from japan. Ukraine we still getting people from the Ukraine. Again, I'm going to go with. Those are North Korean soldiers that are just happy to be listening to your podcast, right?
Speaker 1:France we got some France representation. What's up? France, bangladesh, australia and Germany. Nice, nagoya Three people in Nagoya, three people in Paris.
Speaker 1:I wish it would give us more, more detail than this. I want to know who these people are. People you need to say something, right? We want to know who you are. We're not trying to be assholes and be like, subscribe and like and chat, but we just want to know like, hey, again, I think we said that on the first episode was like, yeah, hey, like. What do you want to hear from us. What are we doing that works and what are we doing that doesn't?
Speaker 1:We want to make a better podcast. We don't want to be just like every other three guy with three guys who are just fucking nerds podcast Like we'd like to be better. Right, we can talk about everything. We are very well read. I mean, the people on the podcast right now are really well read. The other one of us, he's all right and he's not here to get all twisted about it.
Speaker 1:We'll hear about it next week, though. Yeah, he'll be on here. Like, when's the funny? I heard that you were talking shit and you didn't think that I would hear it, and then I'll be like that shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-n-a-s, oh shit. All right, sir. No, we should all be back next week. Nope, we won't be. We'll continue Because I will be at the UDC, so it'll be the two of you having to clean up my mess.
Speaker 1:So Celebration, japan, stuff will still be delayed another week, aren't you guys? Lucky, actually, you know what. We might play that by year, okay, so, uh, well, we gotta hear about your disney trip too. So maybe next week you two can talk. If I don't join you, you can talk about disney. Well, you can talk about hello kitty land and your experiences after I dipped on you guys. That's true. That's true because you have like another five days to talk about after I left.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we've, we've basically told the story, excluding celebration. Yeah, I think lewis needs to talk about um, world's fair. Yeah, I talked about hello kitty already. Yeah, but you can talk about world, but, yeah, no, we can talk about. Do we talk about your boy and all that already? No, I did, because we talked about donkeyibuya and all that already. No, I did Because we talked about Donkey. Oh, yeah, how you didn't get to go to the Crossy Walk and the Mega Donkey Odie, yeah, so yeah, no, I think we just have Disney and the Flight Home left. Maybe we'll cover that and then you can listen to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then the following week, we can get into Celebration and start giving our criticisms and the good and the bad and the ugly. Yeah, get back to our regular pop culture, andor and all that bullshit. Andor will be super over by then. Yeah, actually, wednesday, we are me and my two buddies that joined us in Japan Watch party. Yeah, we're doing a finale watch party and rolling right into Rogue One, so we'll watch the 10 and 11, and then we'll watch the 10 and 11, and then we'll watch 12 together and then watch Rogue One together, just to see how. But then I'm like, but if we're going to watch Rogue One, then that ties to A New Hope. So then we've got to watch A New Hope, right, it never ends.
Speaker 1:Nope, there'll be time to catch a flight to EDC by the time you're done. No shit, so well, yeah, every time to get catch a flight to edc by the time you're done no shit. Huh, what'd you do? Oh, I watched all nine star wars movies. Did you pack anything to go? Nope, it's just me. No, I didn't have time getting the credit card out to buy clothes. I'll buy something there, yeah, fine. Yeah, they have clothes in vegas. Yeah, exactly so, but yeah, I think that'll work. So next week, guys uh, you know spoilers. Yeah, we'll do our disney. Talk about disney, talking about to Tokyo Disney, the differences. One of us on the podcast is very experienced at Disneyland. I'll be interested to hear what you thought as far as the differences and the atmosphere and that type of thing. You're very familiar with it. Everyone, have a good week, deuces.
