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Vaguely Inconsistent

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Vaguely Inconsistent

Box Office, Spaghetti, And Sports

November 18, 2025 • JDL • Season 2 • Episode 33

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A plate of Jollibee spaghetti with hot dogs shouldn’t set the tone for a whole show, but here it maps perfectly to the bigger question we wrestle with: taste, expectations, and why pop culture keeps swerving. We kick off loud and loose, then dial into what really matters—how box office headlines skip the math, which films actually turn a profit after marketing and revenue splits, and why “bomb” doesn’t always mean what the internet thinks it means. From Minecraft to Jurassic World to an unexpected animated juggernaut, we chart the few winners in a crowded year and ask what studios can learn before the next slate hits.

We pivot into Predator Badlands and explain why a PG-13 Predator works when the rules change. Putting the Yautja at center stage, skipping human gore, and keeping trailer reveals tight leaves room for a brisk, surprisingly charming hunt. Then we break down Eternity, a romantic afterlife story that’s equal parts sweet and puzzling. The premise—choosing a single eternal moment—poses real questions about identity, grief, and how stories force stakes. It’s light, it’s predictable, and it’s worth a stream or a five-dollar Tuesday, especially if you love high-concept rom-coms that don’t overstay their welcome.

The conversation widens to Wicked’s second chapter: how to honor canon without replaying safe beats, and what happens when a beloved back half isn’t as strong as the opener. We make the case for character-first choices and Oz-world grounding over big, empty spectacle. That same theme runs through our NFL detour—run the ball when it works, protect the lead, don’t throw away what’s working. Finally, we get our hands dirty with fandom: tailgating rituals and courtesy-based parking choreography, hands-on art at DesignerCon, and the Fallout celebration in Goodsprings with racing “rad roaches,” voice actors, surprise appearances by Walton Goggins and company, and rain-soaked lines that still somehow feel worth it. It’s messy, human, and exactly why fans keep showing up.

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Voice intro and music

Intro music by Alex Grohl

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Cold Open And Banter

SPEAKER_05 0:30

Already disappointed in Lou. Pot hasn't even started yet. Already disappointed.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Wait, how y'all two y'all two saw visions, right?

SPEAKER_03 0:41

No. No.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

All right then.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

I watched the first episode. Oh, good. We can talk about the first episode. That's even shorter.

SPEAKER_04 0:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 0:51

Yeah. And you can do it in your underwear.

SPEAKER_04 0:54

Yep. At home.

SPEAKER_05 0:55

Wait, I did I did Predator Badlands eventually. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Yeah. I was going to say, you can still like go to the movie theater your underwear.

SPEAKER_05 1:02

I usually leave the theater in my underwear, though. Yeah. I usually leave I usually leave my underwear at the theater because I I need someone to watch the video. I mean, yeah. Yep. Depending on the theater I'm going to. Wait, what? Yeah, I was going to say that match too. What kind of town you're on.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

That's kind of a that's kind of a deal. But I don't think I'd be sad if I left a theater in Jack's underwear. I mean, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:29

I just got new underwear actually, so it's fancy or just Costco?

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Not by the time I get a hold of it. Target.

SPEAKER_05 1:36

Target. Oh, Target. You a fancy motherfucker. A bougie.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

I'm like, I'm like whoever has haint.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

Wait, with a heart on it? Target.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Yes. Got it.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

That's how soft it is. Coming up. I'm like, oh, you fine. And then bam, by the time I get ready, it draws up. Alright, I'm proud of myself for that.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Luckily. I don't know. Maybe maybe he's a grower and not a growth. That's true.

SPEAKER_05 2:07

That's true. That's true.

Jollibee Spaghetti Surprise

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Mike's like one of those hot dogs on the spaghetti okins. Speaking of that, uh, do you guys uh Jollibee? Do you guys know Jollibee?

unknown 2:24

What?

SPEAKER_03 2:25

The restaurant. Uh we do have Jolly Bee. I have not frequented it. Alright. One opened up here.

SPEAKER_05 2:31

I told you. And it's uh it's by the um it's by where I go and play poker once a month on Saturday nights. So um the guy I was carpooling with a friend and we're like, we need to get dinner. Let's go to Jolly Bee. So we're going to Jolly Bee. They have chicken, Angus burgers, and spaghetti. That's it. That's their three. Like when you walk in the menu, well, it's a Filipino, which I guess all three of those things, not necessarily the burgers, but the chicken and the spaghetti, I guess, are super are like staples of like Filipino restaurants, you know, in the Philippines. Shit, that might be Filipino. So the last time we had the chicken, and the chicken was fine, like it was good chicken. Um, but I was like, you know what? I'm gonna try the spaghetti. So we uh I order it, we go to the place where we're playing poker, and I get that bad boy out, and I start going to town on the spaghetti, and all of a sudden I was like, oh shit, there's chopped-up wieners in this. That's their fucking that's the meat sauce. Is they got just chopped-up wieners.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

I was like, yeah. I'm looking at this and it's shredded cheddar cheese. And wieners.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Shredded cheddar cheese is common. I mean, old girl does shredded shredded cheese in in her spaghetti. But wiener, that is some ghetto ass shit right there.

SPEAKER_05 3:47

I was like, Yeah, and I didn't even know it. Like, I just I was eating it, and all of a sudden I was like, oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

That's a wiener.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

It's not the first time he's been eating, and he's like, oh shit, there's a wiener there, and he got happy.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Nutrition. His eyes got big, smile all huge. I don't even care if I lose that poker tonight. I got a surprise wiener.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

I wasn't expecting a wiener in my mouth tonight, but score.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

I'll tell you what, though, that's some janky ass shit. The same motherfuckers that are eating that have in their fridge right now, they got that bologna with the red band wrapped around it that you gotta peel off before you eat your bologna. Those are the same motherfuckers eating spaghetti with wieners.

SPEAKER_05 4:40

Our one-of-a-kind spaghetti topped with our signature sweet style sauce loaded, ground beef and hot dog, and topped with melty cheese.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

Wait, was there ground beef in there too?

SPEAKER_05 4:50

I don't know. All I tasted was the wiener. All right, that's gonna be the that's that's gonna be the uh that's gonna be the short this week. Yeah, exactly. That's the YouTube short.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

The boys talking about eating wiener this week.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

It's like Duke and Scope have more in common than we thought.

SPEAKER_04 5:09

I know, huh?

SPEAKER_00 5:14

This is a week at all. Although the best I know the best part about that, though, that whole Trump thing is he's now a true alphabet ally, first, first, you know, alphabet president. That is awesome.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

That would be funny as hell, too.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

So that yeah, so so all those leftists and everything, they've they've got they've got Trump on their side. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:36

I just love the I think the thing that I love the most about that is that they're just denying that he sucked Clinton's dick. Not that he hasn't sucked dick, just that it wasn't Clinton's dick. They're saying, no, no, no, he didn't suck Clinton's dick. Period.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Like, not that he's it's like, sorry, President Trump has never sucked dick.

SPEAKER_05 5:56

No, no, no. It they're very clear. He has not sucked Bill Clinton's dick.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Okay. So I mean, on the I guess on the flip side, if that's the allegation, that's the only allegation you have to try to deny. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 6:09

Exactly. No, you're right. Nobody's saying that Trump's gay. He's not being accused of that. He's just accused of blowing Clinton. So they're not saying that he didn't blow someone, he just didn't blow Clinton.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

So let me so let me ask you to see here's here's the argument, though. If uh and and I I don't know the answer to this. So the if he if he blew Clinton, does that make him the first alphabet president? Or does that make Clinton the first alphabet president? Because Clinton uh is it gay to have your dick sucked by a man?

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Yeah, that's where it comes from.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

That is the exact debate, bro. I'm all like if you're sucking dick, you're definitely gay. But if you get your dick sucked by a dude, you just might like your dick sucked, and that doesn't make you gay, you know?

SPEAKER_05 6:58

Well in some cultures, you know, and if it was like an eyes wide shut thing where maybe you don't even know. Like they got the cloak on and the mask. Right. I mean, again, eyes wide shut, they all wore masks and they all had big cloaks on. Like, you don't know. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

It's like in some cultures, if you're a top, you're not gay. If you're a bottom, you're gay.

SPEAKER_05 7:20

So I mean, like, yeah, this is why Lou isn't an ally, because he's a hundred percent a top.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_05 7:33

Right. It'd be like if it'd be it'd be like it'd be like if I said, hey Lou, you need to stop sucking Jack's dick, and you went, I never have sucked Jack's dick Jack's dick. And it's like, wait a second, are you saying that you've never sucked dick or just not Jack's dick?

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Like, let's be clear on I am responding to the allegation of sucking Jack's dick, which I have not done. That's that was what was rug up. So uh I'll I'll be that little kid me.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Moving on.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Um but I would give the common courtesy of a reach around.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

So there is that. Fair. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:13

I mean I'm waiting are you saying you ate his ass?

Viral Clip Setup And Crude Jokes

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Uh I didn't say I didn't eat his ass, but it took me and a reach around. I said I would. I said.

SPEAKER_03 8:29

Oh, did you finish too? Yes. Yes, you did. It's like, I can tell you did.

SPEAKER_05 8:34

You're doing the John Cena. I can't see menu. Wait, what? I can't see you.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

You have your name, buddy. You have the water.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Oh, big I don't wear contacts. Oh Jack Smart, he has the glasses on.

SPEAKER_05 8:56

This 100% went off the rails so quickly.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Oh, it started because you asked when we went to a movie.

SPEAKER_08 9:10

Last stream.

SPEAKER_05 9:10

Oh man. Yeah, yeah. Also, um along those lines, uh, Predator Bradlands is at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and 95% at audience score.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Okay, I was gonna say which side. How come it only made$20 million?

SPEAKER_05 9:28

Like going to the movies, man.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

Yeah. It really are. I mean, that is wild. To have that high of a score on both sides, it only made$21 million.

Box Office Scores And “Bomb” Myths

SPEAKER_03 9:39

But was that this weekend? Because now you see me and Running Man came out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

Yeah, it was this weekend, and Running Man, I think Running Man got second.

SPEAKER_03 9:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:48

Nay, and now you see him ticking his ass. The first weekend, uh, first weekend for Predator, it made$40 million at the box office.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Is that worldwide? I want domestic numbers. I don't care about worldwide. I want I want domestic numbers.

SPEAKER_05 10:02

Yeah, that was domestic.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

That's not bad. I don't know why people saying that bomb. Yeah, it's$40 million.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

Uh IMDB says it's a 105 mil budget, and so far it's made 66 US Canada. Worldwide, 136. So it's already ahead if you go worldwide.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Well, minus the half off of the ticket booth. So they only get half back. So bottom line is though if it's only a$100 million movie, they'll get it back. They're on pace to get it back. But all I all the articles I saw was like, oh, predator bombs. I'm like, oh, that sucks. Uh that doesn't sound like a bomb at all.

SPEAKER_05 10:40

It's it's opening weekend, it may double what Now You See Me Now You Don't made this weekend.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Well, that was expected. I didn't expect that Now You See Me Now You Don't to be like 15 million. 21. And it made more than that, but yeah, it made more than that. What did what did Running Man do? 17. So it was What did you say? How much does now you see?

SPEAKER_05 11:01

Now you see me, now you don't 21. Three. Okay Running Man was 17. Predator made 13 this weekend.

SPEAKER_06 11:07

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 11:09

So and then a movie called Regretting You, which I you guys might have seen.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

That was when we talked about last week, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:17

But we did not see it. I mean, I think I think if you compare, you know, if you go back to 2019 and you look at like the same weekend, I would expect there to be a huge uh difference in just like overall how much money movies are making these uh the um yeah words so I'm trying to think the last movie that was like worth a damn in the at the box office.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

I mean not for our purposes, but for our companies like what last what was the last movie that fucking didn't bomb?

SPEAKER_05 11:52

Deadpool. Let's see. Yearly for the year out to 2025, the number one movie in domestic. Again, we're still doing domestic. Uh Minecraft movies. Minecraft. A Minecraft movie made$423 million. It beat out beat out Lilo and Stitch by$150,000.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Uh Lelo and Stitch was just okay. Yeah, but um that's how much money got. I'm talking about which ones actually made money for their company. Because again, you gotta cut that number in half and then figure out what their budget was. So actual profit. Like what movie actually profited this year? Besides Inside Out 2. That's the only one I can think of. So, but the but the theater is freaking crazy these days, where it's like I mean, it's their own fault. We're gonna release this shit digitally six weeks later. So people are like, why am I gonna go if you're just gonna drop it six weeks later? I can take my family of four to the living room, you know, for even if you do the buy the movie digitally thing, I can take that from twenty-two to thirty-two dollars, depends on what movie it is, yeah, and just like that, you just save 60 bucks um by waiting six weeks. And if they're gonna keep doing that, families are gonna keep doing that, especially if you're a family lucky enough, uh I don't want to say lucky, who's uh if you're a family who has a theater system, you have you know, you've got the uh 70 or bigger TV swiss around sound. Why the hell would you not do that?

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Because I like going to the theater.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

That's really it though, right? I'm I'm with you. I I I like the experience of I like a lot of people, I can't go to the movie theater by myself. That's that. I can't. Right? Right. Uh I I can enjoy myself by myself in a theater with uh a squishy. I don't even need popcorn, I'll bring my own snacks, I'll throw some fun-sized candy bars from the day after Halloween sale, you know, uh that I got 70% off at Target. Oh, wait, I'm in Boulder. Target. I'm sorry. Target.

Why Theaters Are Struggling

SPEAKER_05 14:09

Um and go that route. So um, so these are all listing worldwide. So all of the things that I can find about 11 highest growth in movies of 2025, right? You want the highest growth.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Okay, I see that works because you have to include worldwide for actual, and then we'll have to guess unless you have their budgets as well.

SPEAKER_05 14:30

I think a lot of them have their budget because that's how they're all right. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

I'm because I'm you're gonna have to do all eleven, but at least top five. What do we got?

SPEAKER_05 14:36

Yep. Number one is a movie called Niza Two. It was released at the end of January. It had a budget of eighty million dollars. Worldwide, it made uh eleven billion wait, yeah, eleven billion nine hundred and two million three hundred and thirty-seven thousand three hundred.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

Well, isn't that the fucking Chinese um propaganda movie you told us about where all the motherfuckers had to watch it like five times?

SPEAKER_05 15:04

I think so. They uh but they've made it made more money world it's made is it's the highest grossing animated movie of all time. But like 92% of its it uh of the money it made was international.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

So uh number two was Lilo with Okay, there we go.

SPEAKER_05 15:25

The budget was a hundred million dollars. It was released in May. Its worldwide were earnings were one billion thirty-seven million seven hundred and forty-six thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Okay, so the budget was really two hundred million, but it still made you know six hundred million. Okay, so they profited four hundred million, good for them. Because they don't ever because the budget they never include the uh advertising, and the advertising is usually, you know, double, yeah. One or uh any like 0.75, whatever other actual budget. So the little stitch, okay, we got a winner there.

SPEAKER_05 15:59

Number three, a Minecraft movie, its budget was$150 million. It was released in April, and it made uh worldwide earnings were$957,949,000.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

So that made two to three hundred million. Okay, next.

SPEAKER_05 16:16

And we're getting a sequel. Uh number four, what do you think number four is? Wait, we're getting a sequel? Uh Minecraft? Yeah. We'll we'll be seeing another Minecraft movie soon enough. And I think the name of it is actually going to be another Minecraft movie. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

That's funny. Uh I would have expected it, knowing it surprisingly did uh Uber well. Uh I just hadn't heard anything.

SPEAKER_05 16:38

Sounds like we get more garbage man in it. Hell yeah. Um, what do you guys think was number four? For last year? Yeah. No, this year, 2025.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

No, this year. Inside Out 2. Was that this year? I thought it was.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

Shit. This year? I don't even know. Jurassic World. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 17:01

You were right, Jack. Jurassic World Rebirth. Its budget was$180 million, and it made$868,479,000.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Okay. I would not have I would have lost that bet all the way around Jurassic World. I didn't think people watched that movie.

SPEAKER_05 17:16

And number five was a movie that I think you guys were talking a lot about with Comic-Con.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

So Fantastic Four?

SPEAKER_05 17:24

No. No. Probably not something that's on the tip of your tongue. Not the penis movie. Not the penis movie. Demon Slayer, Kimatsu no Ya Yaiba. The movie Infinity Castle. Its budget was$20 million, and it made$674 million worldwide.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

That includes my$12. And my niece's$12.

SPEAKER_05 17:54

Uh, and I won't go into all the details, but to finish to finish out the run. Number six, how to train your dragon, number seven, F1, number eight, Superman, number nine, Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning, and number ten, Fantastic Four.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Okay, then top seven probably made money because I know Superman lost money.

SPEAKER_04 18:13

So there you go. Hayton.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Yeah, so really, so seven movies this year made a profit for their studios? That is disgustingly low.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

Hang on, let me say.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Yeah. Not even one movie a month on average made their studio money.

SPEAKER_05 18:35

Um, let's see, how many movies have been released?

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Well, sort of. I mean, at least the blockbusters, because some lower movies that nobody heard of, you could have spent a two million dollar budget and made, you know, six million and would have been fine. So uh and there has been a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05 18:53

Can I tell you how many movies? I was trying to find the number of movies that have been released in 2025.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

God, how many thousand is that number? Oh, that's not the right Wikipedia or at this point you're looking at what, 45 weeks? 20 movies a week.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

For the year. Let's go to the bottom here. There have been 200 movies released domestically. Mind you, that is also counting like re-releases. So things like Twilight and whatnot. Yeah, Back to the Future, the Dogma, the Spider-Man trilogy, that type of thing. So, but I mean all those count, because they're all counting towards its box office at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

So although I don't although at this point, I would like to think, especially all the ones that were blockbusters, if you got re-released, it's all profit at that point.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

Yep. Yeah, right. Yeah, they've made their money on cable and syndication and home video and everything.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

All they gotta do is grab the DVD and freaking put it in their theater and just play it. That's what I mean, that's a lot of that classic shit is anyway.

SPEAKER_04 20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:05

So all right.

2025 Worldwide Top Grossers

SPEAKER_00 20:09

But yeah. So what what what was that? Was it was it was it yeah, we we had our secret movie Monday, right?

SPEAKER_05 20:15

Well, real quick, Jack, do you just want to give your one-sentence review of Predator Badlands?

SPEAKER_03 20:21

Um I liked it. It was kind of cool seeing the Predator being the protagonist and not like the creepy bad guy. Um when it first came out that it was gonna be PG 13, I'm like, oh fuck that. It's Predator, SBR. But then they're like, there's no humans, and I'm like, okay, fine.

SPEAKER_05 20:40

Like that was the reason it was PG 13. It was clear.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

Yeah, because there's no blood.

SPEAKER_05 20:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

Well, people blood. Yeah. It's all green blood and other colored blood. White blood. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Um why'd you gotta be colored blood? You can just say black, Jack.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Other colored, sorry. In fact, there was no black blood in there.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Just saying. Uh I think the number of the number of humans in the movie was you could probably count that on a single hand, right? Uh I think it was zero, actually. Yeah, I think it was actually zero. Yeah, you're right. I think, yeah. So uh I yeah, I agree. I thought it w all of us that went on Tuesday uh really enjoyed it. Um you know, the I thought they he did a very good job um with the Easter eggs, just not making them super obvious. Um you know, the turn wasn't super, you know, the the I thought the trailers in hindsight actually did really well without showing everything. Oh, yeah. So that was that was really cool that there was like basically another 45 minutes of the movie after the trailer was done, uh, which was nice because you don't get to see that very often. So Lou, you got that to look forward to.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Um I was I was gonna ask too, was there Schwarmaugh or something?

SPEAKER_03 22:04

No, there's not. No. Like super fast, maybe it's one of those movies where it ends and then it's like, oh, just kidding, and now it's over.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Uh I don't even know what that movie's about, tell you the truth.

SPEAKER_05 22:16

But it's also one of those movies that definitely leaves itself open to enter the universe, right? Like to be to to to be become part of the the predator alien universe, right? Um so uh what's the story about? The story is about a youngcha? Is that how you pronounce it? Yaucha. Yaucha. Yaucha. Uh but this is the first time they've actually referenced it in the movie, right? Yes, yeah. They've never I don't think they've ever been called by their proper name in the movies. Um so he, through a series of events, ends up on a planet to do a hunt and then crosses paths with um Fanning, one of the fannings. I can't remember which fan. L. I think it's her uh android is on the same planet, along with the same kind of doing the same type of thing. Uh and then they uh they team up, and uh then they team up with Guy. Wait, Bud? Bud. Yeah, um cute little monster.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Yep. Three letters, U in the middle, same thing.

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Yep, yep. Um and uh the three of them go on an adventure I wasn't bored at all.

SPEAKER_03 23:37

Um I brought my oldest. Um she'd never seen a Predator movie before. I don't know how I did that and failed to bad parenting, Jesus. I know. Um, she liked it. She uses um this app called Letterboxd. She put a four on it, so I need to start five. I need to start doing letterboxes.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

That don't help full four to ten ain't good.

SPEAKER_05 24:02

Four out of a hundred. Four out of a hundred. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Um, okay, cool. All right.

SPEAKER_05 24:09

Yeah, I think I it's worth it. Yeah, I think you'll enjoy it.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm I'm totally down. It's just again, the way the timing worked out, it was like maybe neither one of us felt like going out or whatever. Yeah, but I'll probably go ahead and and since I forgot about the secret movie tomorrow, um get my ticket now and not able to sit in the back row, so that's gonna be trouble. Whatever. I'll figure it out or I'll take some. I'll find either way. Uh but yeah, I'm booking my ticket right now for tomorrow's secret movie. Uh it's uh I think it was rated R and obviously no time because they won't they don't give it away. I don't know what rated R movies are coming up this weekend, though. In the next couple weeks.

unknown 25:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Oh, that's a good point. It has to be within it's either whether it releases this week or next week. Maybe it's wicked.

SPEAKER_05 25:13

I don't think. I mean It is not it. It'll probably be Sisu.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

It is most definitely not Wicked. It's a rated I'll all I guess all I said is well if it's Sisu, that might be one of the first ones I walk out of.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 25:29

I didn't see the first one.

SPEAKER_04 25:30

Oh, okay. You have time? Yeah, you got tomorrow morning. Yeah. It's on Hulu.

SPEAKER_05 25:37

Um is this uh that's PG 13. Sizu is rated uh is not rated, so maybe it is fully rated R. Well on the Yeah, not rated is a thing. So uh blockers is not rated. Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Wow. Yeah, a lot of them don't want a rating, and and some of them some of them do. Some of them don't submit.

SPEAKER_05 26:08

Probably not Zootopia 2.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Not rated off.

SPEAKER_06 26:13

That would be that would be funny. I'm going to kill you. Huh, huh? Uh let's see.

SPEAKER_05 26:24

What else? Weird. Yeah, I don't know. That's uh it'll truly be a mission.

SPEAKER_00 26:36

Um let y'all know. But just last weekend's movie or last Monday's movie uh was Eternity.

SPEAKER_05 26:45

And that was the one we saw a trailer for. We watched the trailer and talked about it. And you guys were uh you guys were fair to Midland. Like you guys were excited, but like not not like something I wouldn't have gone to see, probably.

Predator Badlands Quick Review

SPEAKER_03 26:58

I would have streamed it 100%. Yeah. Um, but for five bucks, I wasn't mad about it. Um I actually took everybody, even the little one, and she actually paid attention and followed along with what was going on and stuff. So nice. But I liked it. Um so when they died, they become themselves when they were happiest, right? So there's like a lot of 10-year-old boys running around. Kind of creepy, but um, so then like the trailer said, they have to pick an eternity. Um, so both her husbands are fighting over Scarlet Witch to be like, hey, you should come live with me forever. And then Rom Commons is reading. I liked it because that's kind of how I've always my oldest is like, man, it's a good thing she didn't spaghetti him like she did the last time she saw him. Got him. Aldest coming out with the funny. But no, so I've I liked it because that's kind of always how I thought about the afterlife is why would I want to be a ghost as an old man? Fuck that. Send me back to like when I was 20 something, happy and had a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Wait, wait, wait, wait. So you did like the change in the return of the Jedi? Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 28:21

Yeah, uh what I'm hearing is you like baby, uh baby. I'm fine with it.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Uh I'm fine with it. I don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_05 28:31

Uh my hated all day. Did uh you guys both like my uh order 67? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was pretty cool. Oh my god, that was pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

That was pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 28:41

Execute order 67, 67, 67. Uh, we might need to change the uh the order. Oh man. Um, what was your two cents?

SPEAKER_00 28:54

Uh predictable.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Uh yeah, the basic rom-com formula. There were there were zero surprises. The guys ended up together? Yeah. Is that yeah basically well duh.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

That almost happened.

SPEAKER_05 29:11

Are you looking at me? Are you looking? Am I looking at you or are you looking at me? I what's happening right now?

SPEAKER_00 29:17

The one thing I didn't really understand was it was like you have to pick, and maybe it's because I'm spoiled with uh uh good place. Uh and it's recent and it's fresh. I'm like, why would you have to pick one eternity? Why can't you just bounce around and like oh I'm gonna go here today, I'm gonna go here today, I'm gonna go there today. I I didn't understand that part. Uh but overall, because then there's no drama. Yeah. It's called plot. No, you still have drama because you still have to pick a person. That was to me, that was the drama.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Why if they could just hop around, she could just hop around and like sister wife.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

No, but but no, that's what I'm saying. But that that wasn't what it was, though. She had no interest in doing that, and they could have written it where if she just had to make one statement and say, I don't want to do that. Uh, I'm not woman, um, and go from there.

SPEAKER_05 30:05

Little ready player one action, Lou. Is that what you wanted? Little ready player one.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

But if that was me, catch me in the late eighties, early nineties forever. Just catch me rolling the happiest place for you, then fuck it. I guess we're not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_05 30:18

Just catch me rolling under that grate to get Jack that Darth Maul figure, and that's my Yeah. The weird thing is there was so much darkness around that time too.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Right? Well, it's a Darth Maw figure, so it has to be darkness.

SPEAKER_05 30:38

No, no, no. Beyond outside of that uh that relationship and that experience.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

But I I enjoyed the movie. I would have seen it probably either way because uh little girl and I saw the trailer. We're like, oh, that looks interesting. And like I told you guys last week, I had that kind of thought 30 years ago, 40 years ago on my head. I was like, I wonder how that plays out. Um and and I don't like how they did it. Again, only because of the whole pick one place. I'm like, that seems silly. And that like that makes absolutely no sense why you'd only get to pick one place. Like, oh you're here, and that's all you get to do. I mean, that's no you don't even do that in the real world. Why would you keep why would you be forced to do that in in Astrolife? I I I I just doesn't know. That that part get an edda. Rest of it, like like Jack said, I said predictable, but enjoyably predictable.

SPEAKER_03 31:31

So it was well acted.

Mystery Movie Speculation

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Huh? And and uh oh my god, the the the the the black girl from uh only murders in the building, she was hilarious. Yeah, she was she was the best at that one, she was so good. Um but yeah, so uh I'll I'll report uh you know tomorrow about 6 30 your time, I'll be reporting what tomorrow's movie is.

SPEAKER_03 32:00

Nice. Hopefully it's a good one. You guys are reporting how we still dim boys.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Oh yeah, I forgot you got a Monday night in tomorrow. Yeah. You guys actually have a chance to win. That's y'all, y'all, y'all both suck bad enough. Yeah.

unknown 32:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

You actually have a chance to win. Um I just need C D not to go off.

SPEAKER_03 32:24

But uh we're leaving early because uh the misses got early tickets for Wicked by herself. So the little one's super pissed at her. She's gonna see Wicked Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I think they're skipping Friday and so.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Why why did she get tickets for herself and and not multiple people?

SPEAKER_03 32:53

I have no idea. Oh no, so she's going Monday. I mean then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 33:00

I mean, we could have some ideas, and we've had a conversation about that once or twice, why that happened. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

I think she didn't find out about it till this morning. It's also at nine o'clock on a school night.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

So uh so why not just take two cars so she can stay for the game?

SPEAKER_03 33:24

So we only have one parking spot.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Uh that's silly. Doesn't come parking doesn't come with the tickets? You don't have four?

SPEAKER_05 33:34

No. No, he just buys one car. You have to buy the passing addition, though.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Yeah, I thought I thought the parking game with the I'd be so fucking rich if I had four parking spots too. I'd be selling them bitches every week. Yeah, no, it's a whole separate thing. He's parking sideways, he's just like nope, I got these fucking lifts they they have in Japan. Put five cars in one parking spot.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

Okay, all right. Well that makes sense, Dan. Well, I didn't know it was her jam, so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

I mean I can't see her. But I will say, and I told her, I'm like, in all my adult years that Star Wars movies have been coming out, I've never seen Star Wars five times opening weeks. So I guess I'm better than you.

SPEAKER_05 34:26

I have some adult self-control. I have willpower. Some of us have real fucking jobs.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Yeah. Some of us has gotta pay for all those tickets. Yeah. Somebody has to pay for all your wicked tickets.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

What if what if it sucks? Didn't she stuck watching a movie? Bad movie fortune.

SPEAKER_03 34:49

Well, I mean, I guess you still have time to refund tickets. But but again, it's oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

That is a thing.

SPEAKER_05 34:56

It's not it doesn't matter what it is, it's not they're not going to admit it sucks.

Eternity Movie: Premise And Reactions

SPEAKER_03 35:02

No. It's it's but the first one didn't suck, so all they have to do is rinse and repeat and move the story along.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

So well, because everybody I I mean again, the the play don't know the story, so I'm curious.

SPEAKER_05 35:14

But the play, my understanding of the play is that it'll be interesting to see what they do because the second half of the play is actually the weaker of the two halves, is what I've read. Like the songs aren't as good, aren't as memorable, and that type of stuff, so it'll be interesting to see how they make it work and live up to the first movie, you know. That's where I'm interested. Because I was reading some stuff about it when they announced that the second one was coming out, and people were saying, Ooh, how are they gonna make this work? Because the second half of the play is actually the weaker of the two and not as not as good.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

Maybe they'll if they're smart, they'll latch on to the Wizard of Oz more than Wikipedia.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Well, they do. I mean, Dorothy and Tin Man and all of them are like the Wizard of Oz is part of this movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:03

No, what I mean is what whatever whatever I I get, I don't know the original story, don't know what's going on. But if they're saying it's if the storyline of the first movie characters is what makes it weak, focus more on the Wizard of Oz characters instead of uh the green and pink.

SPEAKER_03 36:24

But they're not, because they're not even going to show Dorsey's face in this movie.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

They probably shouldn't, I guess. People have their, you know, people see.

SPEAKER_03 36:34

And that's 150%. Do you have your idea of Dorothy, and we're not trying to mess with that? Because this isn't Dorsey's story. It's Panda and Alphaba, so.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

But if it sucks, then make it Dorothy's story, is what I'm saying. That's how I mean if I'm if I'm writing this and I'm like, ooh, everybody says part two sucks, and well, part two is not as good as part one. How do we make part two better? If to me, that's an idea of how to make it better, that's all. But again, I don't know because I don't know what happens in part two, other than the ending and some uh the Wizard of Oz part of the story. That's all I know.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Uh so I'll have to yeah, I'll have to see the play and read the book, and I don't know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

So like like my my guess is the wheelchair girl is the one that gets smashed with the house.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

She is.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Um so yeah, then you go from there, and they made her a likable character in the first one, so it's like, oh, sucks. So now, and it's like, are they gonna are they gonna make it where water is still the problem?

SPEAKER_03 37:35

You know, you know, it's like I I They do. There's a part of the trailer has them carrying a bucket of water killed. Oh, okay. So yeah. So it's like it's like, what the But it's gonna be the behind the scenes, so like why? It was all like because I don't think she actually dies in the end.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Spoilers.

SPEAKER_03 37:55

Um, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

That would be terrible.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

If she lives Kill the one movie? No, yeah, you gotta kill her.

SPEAKER_06 38:12

Oh, that's just how the story is.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

I need to I need to try to try to change the story.

SPEAKER_03 38:17

I found a video. But the whole thing about Wicked is that it does change the story. Yeah. We're glending off the friends.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

That part's fine, but the you can't change the end, and we know what happens in the end.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

You know she melts, you don't know that she died.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Oh, for sake. That's how they want to spin that. Yeah. Did you see a body? I I can I can feel it already. I'm gonna walk out pissed.

SPEAKER_05 38:41

Five times.

SPEAKER_00 38:42

No, you won't, because she'll be singing the songs. I don't know those songs. The only song I knew from the first one was Defiant Gravity, and that's because when when I was in Vegas, the the KJ at the karaoke bar, the Loha Kitchen, uh, was in like Broadway productions, and his people would show up and somebody would sing it once a week. Uh, not that I minded, that was a good song. Like that days, hours, whatever song from Rent, that's a great ass song, too. The minute song, whatever. And they would sing. I don't I only know that because of karaoke. Uh that's life. Defying gravity.

SPEAKER_03 39:20

No, the minute song. Yeah, the minute song.

SPEAKER_05 39:22

Okay. I have to I have to try to find that. Like, right when when they announced the first when they announced the wicked movie, um, I remember watching some sort of it was a documentary where it was talking about like the original book, like the original, original book, and how like the book changed, and he tried to sell the book to make uh like the original Wizard of Oz and the stories that were revolving around it, and him trying to sell it to studios, and them like wanting to change a bunch of stuff, and then him rewriting it and it getting changed, and that somebody else taking it and writing wicked and that type of thing. Like, um, it was a pretty interesting documentary, but it was also like there were some parts that were like super messed up about the stuff that they wrote about and the stuff they were like, Yeah, we're just not gonna carry this part forward, like type of thing. There were things that were like uh highly questionable that happened, um, I believe to like Dorothy and that type of stuff, where they were like, you know what, we're just gonna put this passage over here and then we'll republish the book again. Because again, the book came out a hundred years ago. Like the book has been around for for a very long time. But early 2000s, 90s, 90s, maybe. No, like the OG book, like the Frank L. Baum. Yeah, no, yeah, those talking about those books because then like because the what happened to all those books, then then when they wrote Wicked based on that, you know, some of that stuff was actually put back in or left in and that type of thing. Like so I thought the the documentary I I'll see if I could find it and send it to you guys because I thought it was pretty interesting because it was pretty like um it was pretty like cut and dry as far as like, or transparent as far as like, hey, this is the questionable stuff that was taken out. And by the way, Judy Garland was hopped up on all this shit the entire time they filmed the movie, you know, because then they went into the filming of the movie. Because there was actually a Wizard of Oz that came out before the Wizard of Oz we know about um that like didn't get any traction uh or or wasn't popular. Um, but you're gonna be popular. I will uh see if I can track that down. I'll share it with you guys. And maybe Jack can put it in a note in the uh YouTube video for everybody else to watch. Who am I kidding? I won't fucking find it. I won't remember it. Whatever.

SPEAKER_04 41:40

I already forgot about it. What were we talking about? Football.

unknown 41:43

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

I'm so mad, I'm so mad that I see my lip. So I kind of heard half of what you're saying. I'm too focused on. Because I'm all like, great, now they'll probably make a frickin' sequel and make up a story of what happens afterwards.

Wicked Sequel Hopes And Fears

SPEAKER_05 41:58

Even if Lou does get into the back row uh at the first time he sees it, he's gonna punch somebody in the face if he comes back to life. He's gonna hear some somebody he's gonna hear some little girl crying next to him. He's gonna be like, shut up! That's not how this shit works.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

Somebody's gonna be covered in popcorn and squishing when I dump my shit all over and we're being pizza.

SPEAKER_03 42:25

I don't ever want to be near Lou. If somebody melted, because they had water thrown on him, wouldn't there be a puddle? That bitch died like Obi-Wan. There's a trapdoor under her and she disappears. Yep. Simple magic. Nope. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

I'm sucking my tooth on this. We'll find out in ten days, I suppose.

SPEAKER_05 43:13

Yep. There you go. Um yeah. So that was the movie you guys saw was Eternity. Yeah. There we go.

SPEAKER_01 43:24

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:25

So to bring up the stuff. It's definitely worth a stream. Yeah. Um or a five dollar Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't pay the full price. I mean, I would go watch Running Man or Night.

SPEAKER_05 43:40

Predator Predator Predator.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

Yeah, I might do both of those. Maybe maybe I'll go watch uh Predator by myself on Tuesday, uh morning, afternoon, whatever, and then the evening watch uh Running Man. Uh I think that was how we're going to be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 43:59

Yeah, go see Eternity. Why not? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

Maybe. Maybe it depends on the chick. Depends on the chick. I don't think my ex my ex-wife would be down for eternity. But she'd be down for predator or running man.

SPEAKER_05 44:24

Probably not. Yeah, you would not. Yeah, I think we're all in agreement here that she would not. She'd be looking at you the whole time going, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_00 44:35

Why am I here? Telling me I could have watched Predator or Running Man, I'm watching this.

SPEAKER_04 44:43

That's exactly how that would go. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

Oh my goodness. Um look at the show. You guys watching your football today, I'll tell you right now, that night game, I did not watch, and I fell asleep at halftime around, like only because I looked at ESP and it said, halftime. Okay, I went and laid down. I was like, okay, it's 8 o'clock. Let me set an alarm for 9:30. I woke up when my alarm went off at 9.30, and it was good timing because I looked down and it's like, oh, I only missed text from three minutes ago. I'm good. But when I saw there was like nothing going on in that game, at least by score, looking at the again, I was I don't even know what the hell I was doing. I think I was I was watching uh YouTube videos instead of watching that game, and I was looking at the ESPN app like, okay, 003. This game is garbage. You know what I mean? Um and then I was like, okay, I'm not missing anything. And then uh I think I actually fell asleep while I was watching a YouTube video. And then when I woke up, it uh it was only for like 20 minutes or so. Um then I woke up and was like, yeah, F this, I'm tired. Uh leg gal for 90 minutes. Looks like a threat. Yeah, I had no interest. Like that game, I'm I am so glad I did not watch it. I mean, anybody who watched that game, it reading it slash looking at some of those stats, it looked like a terrible game. Yeah. Like, I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:15

Yeah, that's how I do my football. I read football. I don't watch football. I just read it afterwards. The book's how you get educated.

SPEAKER_05 46:22

Uh looks like Lou isn't gonna be able to uh listen to any sports radio this week. Uh nope. I know the bronze. Oh, that's the Broncos nine and two, and how are the Chiefs five and two five? That's just crazy.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

Because they because they haven't played a they haven't beat anybody, I don't think, with a winning record. Like, look at who they beat.

SPEAKER_05 46:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

There's like, oh, the Broncos have the best record in the league. I'm like, well, you'll get that when you play everybody who's under 500.

SPEAKER_03 46:49

So somebody said that about the Pats, too. Have the Chiefs kicking ass.

SPEAKER_05 46:56

Has the Chiefs Lester finally anybody good? Has the Chiefs Lester finally worn off?

SPEAKER_00 47:01

Uh the Chiefs will be fine uh if they decide to run the ball ever again. They're just they they have no running game, they're not even trying. That's the part that gets me. Um let's see. The Broncos beat the Titans, the Bengals, okay, Eagles. There's one win. Jets, Giants, Cowboys, Texans, Raiders, and Chiefs. They have of nine wins, one is against a team with a winning record, and that was when the when the Eagles decided to blow it in the fourth quarter and throw the ball 21 times and run at three when they had an 18-point lead and didn't want to run out the clock. So I so I sit there and watch this and I'm and I'm watching or listening to all these fans like, oh, the Broncos are this. I'm like, alright, keep keep thinking you're good, and then you'll play it, because you'll have to play a team with the winning record in the playoffs, and you'll get your ass handed to you. So it'll be just like last year. Um whether they win the division or not, they'll get their ass handed to them in the first game against playing against a team with a winning record. So it's like, alright. So I don't even oh, it's like, alright, I don't even care. Um I I I didn't but I didn't realize the Patriots were in the same boat. Yeah. I think their only win against a a team with a winning record might be the uh the Bills. I didn't look, didn't care. Yep, whatever. Um Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh looks great when Aaron Rodgers isn't playing. Him getting hurt in the second half, uh, and then they go on and score 24 points without him. Uh hello, here's your sign. Pittsburgh defense showed up. Two defensive touchdowns.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

Yeah, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 48:55

Yeah. So and then finally, Shadow gets a chance to play, and he's as bad as everybody thought he was.

SPEAKER_04 49:02

Looks like shit out there.

SPEAKER_00 49:04

Now, part of that, let's be fair, they don't give him a lot of snaps. They said that. They didn't give him a lot of first team reps during the practice week, which is still amazing to me in the game of football. We're gonna have our quarterback take one out of 100 reps, even though there's uh in today's NFL a high chance that that he's gonna have to play. I mean, five quarterbacks went out today. Are you kidding me? So I I I'm not gonna judge him yet, but if he gets reps, if he if if uh Gabriel can't clear concussion quarterball and Shador has to start, and he looks like shit again, uh then I'll say, no wonder he swept. But I blame I blame that on coaching. I blame the fact that it's like, oh, he didn't take a lot of snaps in the practice this week. Oh, well, that's the coach's fault. How stupid are you that you don't get your backup quarterback some snaps?

SPEAKER_05 49:58

Yeah, he should be at least scout team, something. Like get him up.

NFL Weekend Reactions

SPEAKER_00 50:02

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta no, not even scout team unless you're scouting for the uh yeah, you not even scout team because scout team scouts, you're you're playing as the other team's quarterback. You're not getting your own reps with your own first team. And you should have at least 20%. You you run five plays, one of them is with the backup. That way, when shit like today happens, for those five teams who lost their quarterback, you're not you're not worried, but that's the Browns. Well, I guess it's every team, but no surprise it's the Browns. Especially since the Browns didn't want him in the first place.

unknown 50:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 50:37

Uh this was the last international game was kind of garbage. Garbaggio. No, this was the last week. Commanders and the last one in Adrian. Commanders and last week in Germany and this week in Spain.

SPEAKER_00 50:53

I woke up and I'm I put it around. I went to Walmart this morning, did some shopping, like 7:30 or so, but our time kickoff was happening. I forgot. I'm I'm going through. I come back finally like an hour and a half later, I'm done, I'm good to go. And I'm like, okay, let me see if I needed any last-minute changes to my fantasy team because you never know who's a scratch and whatever. I'm all like, why do these players have points already? And I'm like, a minute left in the fourth quarter? What the hell? I'm like, oh yeah, there was the Madrid game today. So that yeah, that's how much I cared about Washington and Miami.

SPEAKER_05 51:30

Uh the Giants are still uh doing themselves uh right for getting that first for that first number one overall pick.

SPEAKER_00 51:36

Yep, they're they're down to number two now, number two overall pick. Uh almost again, almost messed around and got a win. Uh they gotta stop that shit. Granted, granted, I hate Green Bay enough that I would have been talking of a win there. Um but Jameis doing Jameis things, throwing interceptions in the end zone while again.

SPEAKER_05 51:58

We said we talked about Jameis is a 50-50. Either it's gonna be an amazing touchdown or it's gonna be an amazing interception.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

You got basically both of those today.

SPEAKER_05 52:08

Um I just I can't anymore. My yeah. And those Vikings. I just the Bears did everything in their power to fucking lose that game. And I'm like 50 seconds left. They fucking throw a touchdown, extra point. I'm like, they're up by one. They kick the ball, the guy gets a fucking like 45-yard return already in field goal. Literally, he could have kneeled twice and it would have been, and I'm just like, are you fucking shitting me? Like, if they're if their special teams coach isn't fired on the flight home, if they don't give him like, say you're finding your own way home, but like see ya, like I was like, I'm done. Like it's just you know what? I'm less bothered by him, and you still gotta find your own way home.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

Yep. Like I'm I'm less bothered by that, and more bothered by uh JJ continuing to throw interceptions, trying to force the ball to JJ.

SPEAKER_05 53:09

Yeah, I agree. I'm not disagreeing. Like that he's gonna be. And the thing is, like, the Vikings were running the ball really well, and then they completely went away from it, and they went back to just fucking throwing the rock around all over the place. And it's like, if the Bears aren't stopping the run, why go away from the run? You know, like they were getting per run, it was something like six yards a run versus the bears three yards a run. Like, if you're getting six yards a run, why are you stopping running the ball? Like, it doesn't make any fucking sense. Like that's a shit that I just like come on. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 53:52

Maybe these guys should play Madden more.

SPEAKER_05 53:55

Um and then uh yeah, the Steelers. I I mean the Bengals are really bad, obviously. Uh yeah, I mean and then tomorrow night we got the Cowboys, Demboys, and the Raiders. Dem Boys!

SPEAKER_00 54:15

Jack's team might get a win helping out the game. Further away, in my spot.

SPEAKER_03 54:23

Um already out here um waving their cowboy flags on the strip, though. Oh boy. The disrespect is real. Yep, again. At least I won last night.

SPEAKER_05 54:41

Yeah. Um I went to a college football game on Friday, which was different.

SPEAKER_00 54:49

My first question before you get into it. Sure. Who are you rooting for?

SPEAKER_05 54:53

The Ducks. I mean, I actually I mean, sure, because of where I live, but it was tough because but I also have never been I've never been a gophers fan. I've never been to Minnesota college, like college, like college teams. I've never really followed them. Like I'm aware of them in the peripheral, just as far as like general football knowledge, right? Like I know the row, the boat.

SPEAKER_06 55:16

They have a team, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 55:19

Um but uh that was interesting. Never tailgated before. So uh we went and we went super early on Friday. They had a it was the Ducks in Minnesota, uh down in Eugene.

SPEAKER_00 55:31

And did you jump off a trailer and land onto a table?

SPEAKER_05 55:36

No, no, no, that's Buffalo. That's that.

SPEAKER_00 55:40

I mean, y'all could have stolen some ideas.

SPEAKER_05 55:43

Oh, we had some tri-tip tacos, like they made tri-tip tacos. We were like, oh damn, like use some use some fucking bougie bitches, but these guys have had what kind of shells were these tacos? Uh they were just like soft.

SPEAKER_00 55:58

Okay, that's fine. I was like, yeah, I was saying if you put this shit in a hard shell, no, I'm locked it up for right now.

SPEAKER_05 56:06

They they warmed them up on the grill before. But like I mean, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:10

Trichip does not go in a hard shell taco.

SPEAKER_05 56:13

No, but it wasn't I mean taco these guys, so I guess they've had tickets for like 27 years, 26, 27 years.

SPEAKER_06 56:19

Oh, damn.

SPEAKER_05 56:20

Uh one of the guys was talking about how he missed like three games. He has missed three home games the entire time he's had season tickets. Wow. And one of them was he was like, I had to take a red eye to go to a funeral, and everybody else in the fucking tailgate area started giving him shit. Oh, that's not a good enough reason to leave. And I'm like, what the fuck is happening right now?

SPEAKER_00 56:42

Depends on whose funeral it is. I'm with the tailgators. But it better, it better have been direct blood funeral.

SPEAKER_05 56:51

We parked and then we walked around. We got there super early, traffic wasn't bad at all. Uh, and these guys pulled up, boom, boom, boom, right next to each other. The tents were up within like five minutes. The one guy has like he opened up his truck bed and he had a whole fucking thing that like rolled out, and then like it was a fucking Autobot. It was like and there was the TV and he starts playing like old Oregon games, and I'm like, what is going on right now? Homeboy brings out like the fucking$2,000 Blackstone grill and is like, I'm gonna start warming shit up. And it was it was a thing. Um some lady brought around jello shots, we were like, okay. Um 13th row seats, so they were fucking legit seats too. Like we were we were right in the heart of everything.

SPEAKER_00 57:36

Um I'm not gonna lie. When you sent that pet picture of that camera angle, I'm like, that's too close, man. I gotta I want to be a little bit higher.

SPEAKER_03 57:44

You need to see everything.

SPEAKER_00 57:45

Yeah, yeah, that's exactly. I was like, I I need to be I need to back up a bit just because I'm too close. But that game I don't want to be standing up every every freaking time. It was funny they were back seats to where you want to be.

SPEAKER_05 57:56

So they so they start doing their little intro video, so the the everything green lights and yellow lights, and they start like organ ducks, duh duh and then all of a sudden like 12 party? No, no, no. This was at the game. So the tailgate was fine, but we prevailed that yeah. So so we did, you know, we did the tailgating, which was fun, like, but I'm also like that's a lot of work, man. Like tailgating, if you want to tailgate right, like you gotta find some committed motherfuckers because like those guys, if they would have said, Hey, we need you to tailgate with us, and you need to like do this and this and this, I'd have been like, Do I?

SPEAKER_00 58:36

Were there parking spaces assigned?

SPEAKER_05 58:38

Um, well, so they all came in together, and you so there's like multiple lots, and some of them are can are like approved for tailgating. Like there's some parking where it's just straight parking, like it's a parking lot just like anywhere else. And I think it's the same at a lot of stadiums.

SPEAKER_00 58:54

You're using a tailgate.

SPEAKER_05 58:55

This one was yeah, this was one of the tailgating lots, so it was a little bit further away from the stadium, but if you came in with people, and I think there's when you've been doing it for 27 years and you're in the same lot, there's like a courtesy, right? It's not a sign, but this is where I park. Right. If you know that if you know these guys show up everywhere, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

If you know that these guys never I've never understood because I haven't done it, so I don't know if it's first come, first serve, or do you actually have a reserve spot?

SPEAKER_05 59:27

It is first come first serve, but I think there's a common courtesy among everybody that hey, you don't park over here because this is where this like some it was like a duck firetruck, it was like a really old fire truck that came up and they put tables all around the fire truck and they had shit going on for hours before the game. But it I felt like when the truck pulled in, like it knew where it was going, right? This was like if you park there, people would come over and be like, nah, brah, you gotta move. Like you gotta, you know. Um that's when the big ass dudes come out and move your car for you. Yep, just pick up the car. Poor big guys just put a two two posts under your car and just like vr vrp.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:06

Um if they want to get shot, sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:10

No, your gun's already in the car. Yeah, your gun's in the car. Walking away with your gun. Yeah. And your car.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:19

You know they don't have guns in organisms. Lou's the worst tailgator ever. But yeah, so it's a I think it's more a courtesy thing than it is like a signed spot. Um but yeah, these guys pulled in, boom, boom, boom, right next to each other, hopped out, the tents were up, like the TV was up and playing, the grill was grill was grilling, they had a full bar.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:40

Um how how early is early? You said you were there at clock?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:44

The game started at six, so and it was that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:47

No.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:49

Dude, you don't understand. You don't understand, dude. Like and this was a Friday, and so that's why everything started so late. There are those there if it was a Saturday game, it doesn't matter when the time starts, dude. People are there at like eight in the fucking morning and they're tailgating all fucking day.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:05

I mean, if you have the TV set up where you can watch other college football games all day, fine, but I'm not sitting here trying to watch old Ducks games for four.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:14

Well, I think it was well the thing is I think it was a Friday, so there wasn't and in fact it was funny, one of the guys was saying his wife. But his wife got up in the morning and wasn't feeling well and like turned on the TV, and she was like, I can't find any games. And he's like, Yeah, it's Friday. There's there's only like three games today. Yeah, she's like, Oh, he goes, So she turned the TV off, turned around, and went back upstairs and went back to bed. Oh, that's funny. She's like, I don't feel good. I'm going, I'm not going to the game, I'm going to bed.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:49

So is that how you end up going because the wife didn't go? Yeah.

unknown 1:01:53

Yeah.

Tailgating And College Game Day

SPEAKER_05 1:01:54

So the originally, originally the daughter and the son-in-law weren't gonna go, and that's how the tickets became available. But then when they got up that morning and the wife was like, I don't feel good, then the daughter ended up coming. And the daughter, that she was a trip because she was like, No, like it wasn't that she was not friendly, but she was just very like quiet. And then we get into the stadium, and we're watching, I'm like, I'm we have five seats, but I there's so there's like a gap between us, and I'm sitting there watching the game, taking it all in, and the little intro video is playing, and then all of a sudden, all the Minnesota, the Minnesota team comes out, and everybody starts booing, and it's like 75,000 people booing, and it's fucking like my ears are like rattling. Like, I was like, what is happening? And she leans over, she's like, They weren't supposed to come out yet. It's being disrespectful. And I was like, That's the most you've said to me all night. So, like, okay, and then like the rest of the night, she kept like elbowing me and like saying things like I like I've like I don't know fucking college football, but it's fine again. I like I like having a conversation, like I'm glad that she was engaged.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:02

You're wearing a Star Wars shirt and fucking nerd, so that's how football works. Yeah, exactly. So you have four chances to get a first down.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:10

But at some point, all the Oregon cheerleaders come out, and I was just like, look at all those virginal girls who have never had sex before, and she elbows me. And she goes, No. Most of them probably have had sex.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:23

I don't want to be like, look at the fuck up.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:26

I'm like, were you a cheerleader? She goes, yes. And I went, Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:34

The only group worth was the band members.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:38

She goes, she goes, my daughter loves them. She calls them the shakers. They're not cheerleaders, they're the shakers. And I said, Well, you better start working on her self-esteem now, because my daughter's five. I'm like, God damn, okay. Like you, but yeah, if you want her to be a cheerleader, yeah. She needs to get a good self-esteem built up right now. But then the game ended. We walked back to the car, we had to sit in the car for like an hour until traffic broke up, and then we drove back. So it was uh it was fun. I'm glad I did it because I'd never I'd never done that or been.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:12

First question, would you do it again?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:14

Um, yeah, I told him I was like, I would even be totally fine going and tailgating and being like so. They have people that I guess those people have fallen off, but I guess for a window of time, they had the people that they called the TV tailgators where they would come and tailgate, but then they would just stay out in the parking lot and watch the game out in the parking lot and just have the and just have the atmosphere.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:36

And I was like, Yeah, I'd be a lot of people do that.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:39

Yeah, I would I probably wouldn't want to drive to Eugene for that, but if there was something up here where we could go and tailgate and hang out and it was kind of close by, um it's I mean, Eugene's two-hour drive, so it's like a two-hour drive and a two-hour drive back. I'm like, mm-hmm. If it's something local here, I would be down with doing it, but I wouldn't drive if it's a once-a-year thing, that's not terrible.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:02

I wouldn't do that, I wouldn't do that for seven college games a year. But once once a year, that's not terrible. Like the CU like if I if I knew a group uh that did the TV thing, yeah, uh, and they did it for all seven CU home games, I would probably go to one of them. Um I'd I'd pick a game that like, okay, that looks like it might be competitive, and I would and I would go to that one. But I'm with I don't think I could and I'm and I can walk to the stadium here. It's a it's a it's a 15-20 minute walk for me. Uh and I still don't know that I would do it. It's just uh I I get I notice I get irritated really fast these days. And somebody would do something stupid. You don't say I mean rumors.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:49

Allegedly. Allegedly, you have a short temper.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:55

Allegedly. Allegedly. I mean, my temper's so short. I I I had a dream two nights ago that I was a waste. It it did not go good. It did not go good.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:06

Lou's temper is so short every time he wakes up it goes, the plane, boss, the plane.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:16

And then he gets mad if he don't land properly.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:19

Lou's temper is so short, it goes in for roles that Peter Dinklage is going for. Uh Lou drinks and he knows stuff. Lou's temper drinks and he knows stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

Yeah. No patience. Just for the record, just for me dreaming about being a waiter, I would never be a waiter. Oh hell. Just in that dream alone. No.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:51

You didn't need to have a dream for everybody on the podcast to say no, Lou, you would not make a good waiter.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:57

No.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:58

You barely make a good age away manager.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:04

Well, that's only that's only because I only have to deal with really the five board members. Exactly. Other 600 people, they can go fuck themselves, man. Don't want to find, leave your damn trash can. Fuck off, man. It's your fault.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:20

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:24

Yeah. But man, there's but there's so there's just so much stupid out there. How do you tolerate that?

unknown 1:07:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:35

Alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:36

I mean, I was gonna say, yeah, I suppose. I was gonna say, I guess, Jack, you you tolerate more with your world, but I don't know. Is that true, Duke? Do you deal with a lot of stupid in the world?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:46

Not in my current position, but in my past. Okay. Past position. He was doing like IT and help desk stuff. Yeah. Jack remembers. Yeah. Pepperage Firm and Jack remembers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:58

I mean, that's why we're full of member berries over here.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:04

But the the stupid there is less stupid to me, and I I'm guessing, and just more ignorant. Like a lot of people just don't know shit about computers. But but the question is, how basic of shit do people not know about computers?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:18

Bro, did you try to restart that shit yet?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:20

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:21

Wait, what? Oh, did you try to restart it yet? Did I turn it off and on?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:26

Nope. So my dad used to be a TV repair guy when we were in North Carolina. He got called out because the brand new TV wasn't working. This bitch didn't even plug it in. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:41

He got called out because you didn't plug your the the CD tray getting the call that the uh coffee holder, the coffee cup holder is broken on your computer.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:55

My cup holder broke.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:58

And you're just like, how do I get rid of the uh I'm trying to I'm trying to retype this. How do I get rid of the whiteout on the screen?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:04

Yep. No, you don't, dude, like uh back in the day when I did when I used to do over-the-phone support for gateway computers, like that was back when you would buy the computer and they would send you like you'd get like a plastic baggie that would have like three discs in it, and that was like your recovery discs that would get you to the point of being able to put the CD in to finish, and you'd be like, you'd get some like 800-year-old person on the phone, and they would be like, Oh, my parent, my my grandkids bought this computer for me, and you're like, Lord grant me the strength, because Jesus take the wheel. You're like, Okay, you gotta find this baggie, and they'd be like, What? And I'm like, uh yeah, this baggie has three floppy disks in it. Oh, is it this one? I I don't know, I'm not there. We're on the phone.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:54

Webcams haven't been invented yet, grandma. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:59

Um yeah, just walking somebody who has never been on a computer before and barely knows how to go into a browser, walking them through uh reloading Windows was Yeah, but that's under again, that's understandable to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:16

That's somebody who doesn't know ignorance is fine. I can handle ignorance. I just can't handle stupid.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:21

The problem that I experienced most frequently was when you tell people remember this, tell people write this down, tell people like, and then a week later you get a call with the same fucking question. And you're just like we talked about this, like uh to me that's where the stupidity would come into play, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:47

Like that's where I would be like, you don't get help anymore.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:50

So yeah, so that's that was a lot of it. Was I think people just got so they they would get reliant on you and they so then they wouldn't have to remember anything. Um and that happens occasionally at my job currently, but not not near as much as it has in the past.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:10

Um here I hold on, I can't help you click.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:15

Here here, a lot of it is I'll give suggestions on what to do to improve the process, and then it'll get I'm gonna just it'll get ignored, and then six months later when we're doing the same process, the same broken process again for the seventh or eighth time, and somebody's like, what can we do to fix this? And you're just like I give I do the uh I do the suspicious uh this what suspicious black boy the like that's that's me a lot when I'm on the phone because I'm just like you don't you don't call them out on it?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:57

It's like uh if you recall six months ago that I suggested this.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:02

The hard part is I'm a contractor, so I technically can't implement change.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:10

I can suggest things, but I can't probably call out that you suggested it six months ago.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:17

I have, but it's backfired on me. So because what ends up happening is when you say that, especially if like your boss or your boss's boss isn't on the phone, what happens is they'll manipulate what you said, go back to her and be like, oh, he said this and this and this, and then your boss comes to you and says, Hey, what's the deal? And you explain it, bitch. But if you having to do that over and over again, again, my whole goal at my job is to not let my boss know what I'm doing. Because if she's hearing about it from other people, it means that I done fucked up. So I try to keep it where she doesn't get involved in my business at all. Because once you start getting involved in my business, then you're never not involved in my business.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:00

So that's part of it too, is trying to figure out the trying to balance the um you're going with preservation, I'm going with smart ass fuck off.

Work Frustrations And Boundaries

SPEAKER_05 1:13:09

Okay, got it. I'm I'm at a point I'm at well, I'm at a point in my life right now, too, where I I've done preservation before, and I've ended up like losing jobs because of it, and I'm not in that position right now to be able to afford that. So just being real, just being honest and transparent there. Like if I could, and I and again I have in the past, and it's it's burned me, burned me big time. So I am definitely, definitely in a preservation. Uh preservation.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:41

You said it's a call. Although if it's in an email, it's in writing, then you say you you can like like I didn't say that. Here's the email. Here's exactly what I said.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:49

It's a mix, but it's primarily during phone calls when that type of stuff comes up.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:55

But see, see that's what you have to do, the follow-up. Yeah, per our conversation five minutes ago. Yeah. So I've done that before with board members. Five minutes ago. Yeah, I've done it because I've had some board members like, no, he said that we could do this. I'm like, no, he did not say that because that's against the law. Yeah. Uh that happened like years ago. So now it's like, per our conversation, dear board, per our conversation, here was my suggestion. Like it was outside of the meeting, yeah, yeah. Type of thing. Shit, fuck them, because those assholes always want to like it's oh, they they always want to have it both ways. Um they're my neighbor. I don't want to raise assessments, uh, uh, even though we need to, because I'm trying to keep it low. Because I I want to keep all these people as my friends, and it's like it's like, okay, you want to be irresponsible? Got it.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:38

That's what I heard. So we friends, you don't have to live next door to each other. Look at us. Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:43

This isn't you're it's not like you're benefiting from that. It's not like the board members are benefiting from uh from them raising the you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:52

I know, right? It's like you get a volunteer group of people are like, you're just making money off of this. It's like, are you stupid? Like seriously. Uh we we make zero, we I don't know how it is in in in uh Oregon, but out here, the only money they're making legally is reimbursement. If you use something that's for the HOA and you you can get reimbursed, yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:16

Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah, that's all that is. And even then it's supposed to contribute. And if it doesn't contribute to the whole of uh, you know, the property, then the reimbursement gets denied, you know, like whole correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:32

So it's gotta be directly related to so, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:37

So what else?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:41

What else is going on? So we got so we got 15 minutes left. What what else is going on? Or upcoming for that matter.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:49

Well, I went to DesignerCon out here. Yeah, Jack hasn't forgotten about his weekend. He's got two stories to tell.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:55

Yeah, I was gonna say he's got two events he went to.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:57

It was that it was kind of cool. It was like a little mini comic-con kind of thing, but it was like Artist Alley. And that's like Artist Alley and like the 100s where everybody's like selling their own stuff. In big end.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:11

Artist Alley in big end.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:13

Yeah. Um designer con like that, not fashion show.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:19

Correct. Yeah, that was I was confused about that too. So thank you for clarifying.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, so it's like a lot of people um like sculpt their own stuff or 3D print their stuff. Um artists, it's not just um canvas and paper art.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:35

It's no, it was all kinds of all media.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:38

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um but it was it was cool. Um, I don't think I'd go back again unless Roosevelt was there. I didn't have a bad time, but it wasn't a great time. But your oldest had a great time. She super enjoyed it. She got a lot of uh Jeff the Land Shark stuff, so she was able to find some of that. Um there's this company called Vivi. They're like some digital collectible thing or something. NFTs. Yeah. Um, but they were selling a Spider-Man variant comic from uh New York City Comic-Con. So we get in line for that. And like everybody's coming up talking to each other, like with their username from Vivi. And they're like, hey, how you doing? And like this girl walked up, she's like, Oh, are you I was checking to see if you had a women of Vivi thing on your lanyard. And my daughter's like, is this a sex thing?

SPEAKER_06 1:17:37

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:38

Are we being indoctrinated to a cult? This guy's like, Oh, hey, how are you guys? I just want to meet people of the community. I'm like, the gay community? What the fuck is going on here? I just want to buy a comic book.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:56

That I hope will appreciate and value. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:00

Um, but other than that, no. Did you end up getting the comic book? Yeah. I mean.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:11

I don't know. We're like 15, 20 minute line, I guess. Last time. That's because everybody was in the community and we were BSing with all the guys selling the shit. That was weird.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:24

Um she's that she's not part of that V V thing then? None none of y'all.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:30

You gotta come in a V V. You just wanted the comic. Yeah. Yeah, no, we and she didn't even know about it, so we walked by the booth and she's like, oh, look at that. So I was like, alright, whatever. Um, how were the exclusives? Um they're okay. I got a uh I didn't even bring it out here. Um there was like a Godzilla vinyl popsicle that I got. Um I won a EQL for the vans. Um they actually had their own loungefly too, so I guess loungefly just fucking goes for anybody. That was kind of funny. That meant Funko. Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:08

Loungefly is Funko, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:11

Yeah, I fly. I was fun making Mike was there. He was at the Rocky Moto booth signing shit, so I mean it's like a legit con. Uh the guy that invented the boo-boos was there, they were celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Laboooboos.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:28

And it's only now just popular?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:30

Oh, it's been popular in Japan for a while, right? I thought it was there was a place in the world that had been popular, but it just k-pop girl brought it over and now everybody's all over it.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:44

I wonder what if yeah, I would imagine if Funko goes down next year, Loungefly goes with them.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:50

Or do they? I don't know. How's Loungefly? Depends on how they manage it. Because in they could spin them back off into their own thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:57

Because I've seen companies do that without seen anything sell out from Loungefly in a while.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:03

That's true too. That is true.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:05

People are like, oh, I no longer want to pay hundred bucks for a bag. I'm good.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:09

Yeah. Well, again, I mean funcoes are this big, but a loungefly, like some you just run out of room.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:17

If it's not a if it's not a mini, oh even if it is a mini, that still adds up. Yeah. Size wise.

DesignerCon Takeaways

SPEAKER_03 1:20:22

Yep. Um, and then yesterday we went out to Prim, Buffalo Bills. They resurrected it and let people stay there for the uh fallout celebration. Um so I guess Friday night registration was like two hours long, and then getting on the shuttle to take you to Good Springs was another hour, two hours. Thankfully we got there at I don't know, eight-ish. Uh we got the registration super quick. Uh we were in line for the shuttle for like 20 30 minutes. So we got out there fairly quick. And it was just you and the oldest? Yeah. Cool. Um, but it was raining, so that kind of sucked. Um but she got to meet Peter Jessup, uh voice actor for one of the paladins in Fallout 4, Paladin Dance. He's done a lot of voice acting, nothing like super great. But it was kind of cool because it was the first time they've actually had the voice actors there, like a little like autograph hall. Nice. Um it was set up in the Good Springs Community Center, which was right next to the Good Springs Library, which was just an 80-foot mobile home. So that was kind of weird.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:40

People are like, it's the first time they had it. Isn't this just like the second time they've done this conventional?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:45

Fourth. This is the fourth year. Already? Damn. Yeah, yeah. Um, so we got in line for that. That didn't take too long. The line to get into the general store where they had all like the show merch was like two hours long in the rain.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:03

I was like, I'm not really feeling that. I'll buy it online afterwards. Bruh. You ain't even lying.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:10

Or I'll drive back out there after all you motherfuckers is gone. And it's just the bikers that are hanging out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:18

Yeah, I'd come back with a tattoo and it's a fallout merch.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:22

Yep. Lap in your car. Oh, I traded it for this Harley.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:25

Jack, Jack, no, Jack would just be in the bar doing the fucking tequila. Yep, like Pee-wee. Pee-wee.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:34

Hey guys. But it was cool. The cosplay is super cool. Um, we went through the vendors, like the fan booths and stuff. Uh Amazon, Amazon was actually there. They brought a truck. They actually did have uh rad roaches. They had these big ass cockroaches, and you could bet on them racing. Um they were selling stuff, obviously. Yep. Did you buy anything? Yeah, like the big ones, like the big African ones.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:04

The Madagascar roaches?

SPEAKER_03 1:23:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Um buy anything from that? That was cool. And then, of course, um no, because you just scan it online and then they ship it to you. Nice. I did order a shirt. There's uh for Fallout Season 2, it has like the New Vegas sign in the back, and then it has um Lucy and Maximus and the ghoul and dog meat running away from uh Deathclaw, all in like the Fallout art style.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:34

The Pit Boy art style.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:37

Yeah. Um and then of course after we leave, fucking Walton Goggin shows up and starts bartending.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:44

I'm like, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:50

Motherfucking Shane Vandrella shows up. Yeah, he showed up, uh, the kid that plays Maximus showed up, and um the fucking director. Jonathan Nolan. What's his name? Yes, the other Nolan. Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, so they showed up, they sling some drinks for a bit. Um, but they actually had panels this year, which kind of sucked because it was on the back porch of the Good Springs saloon. And so like the CD was like super limited. So I don't know. I think that if it continues to grow, they need to like put some life back into prem, have shuttles out to Good Springs so people can see it and all that, but maybe hold most of the convention in prem or at least have like satellite booths set up there for merch. Because anyone stand in line for two hours and go into this little dinky ass general store that was built for a mining town back in like 1903.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:52

I mean, it look, we know how it is, right? The dollars will dictate, so if it keeps growing, like you're saying, the pace you're you're talking about, uh, it'll happen.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:02

Yeah. Or goodspring to turn into a real fucking city or something. I don't know. But I mean, it is a super cool convention celebration. Everybody's super nice. All the um cosplayers, they'll take pictures with you. Um, the voice actors are cool. It was not overly expensive. I think I paid$45 each for a week in past. So even though we only spent, dude. Even though we only spent the day.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:29

I was like, Yeah, but you don't feel like you're getting ripped off because most cons for$45 is one day. Like, that's a Sunday, you know, for a lot of cons.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:38

I was just gonna say that's the Sunday price, man. That's pretty good. Exactly. Yeah. Did she did she dress up at all or plan to in the future?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:45

She didn't. I mean, she wore her new California New Republic shirt, but no, she didn't. No interest. No. Okay. I might next year.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:57

We'll see. As a ghoul, he'll cut your nose off. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:02

No, there's the dude in the game. I've mostly only played Fallout Shelter recently, so there's this dude called the Mysterious Stranger that shows up and gives you bottle caps. Yep. So I'm gonna dress up like him. He's just the dude in a trench coat, right? And he throws bottle caps at you. Oh boy. So that's what I'm gonna do. And people are like, oh, it's the mysterious stranger, I'm gonna throw bottle caps at him. Not so mysterious at all.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:24

I'm more curious what's under the trench coat. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:27

Well, no, you should get the candy, you should get the candy uh bottle coat. It's the spaghetti o wieners. Yeah. That's what's under the trench coat. You should get the uh Philippines. The candy, uh the the candy.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:42

You know, those are harder to find than you would think, because I was gonna get those for Halloween. So when I was dressed up as uh the K-pop demon hunter dude, when the kids came by, I would give them soda pop candy. Yeah. That shit was actually hard to find, like individually wrapped. Huh. You know, like when we were kids, you'd get like the little three-pack trick-or-treating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't make that shit no more. Huh. I checked all the Halloween candy at the grocery store, Target Walmart. Nothing. It was bullshit. You can get movie theater boxes, but fuck that.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:12

I tried. It's same thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:16

That's bullshit. Uh so could you plan on going uh next year? Again to follow?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:22

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Cool. I mean, honestly, I might even just stay down there just because it'd probably be easier. Yeah. Just stay down for the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:31

Wait, wait, uh the night before you go or the night you're done. Um you're gonna do one day again. Like that way, you wake up and you're already down there, or to be a little bit more than a little bit.

Fallout Festival: Lines, Cosplay, Guests

SPEAKER_03 1:27:41

Yeah, no, I would probably do that. So we could just wake up and like if you stay at Buffalo Bills, that's where the shuttle was. Just wake up, get on the first shuttle at seven, get down there first. And start your day. Call it a fucking day, yeah. Is there enough stuff to fill in a seat for? Yeah, I mean, like I said, they actually had panels and stuff this year. So they had like a 15th anniversary um for Vegas, and then I think today they had a tenth for four. Um, but Bethesda was there, Jones Soda, Arizona Green Tea, because they have uh Fallout Energy Drinks, um, the Wand Company that makes the Pit Boys, they were there. I mean, it's turned into a legit con. Good for that one. Um yeah, no, I agree.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:27

I mean, when and then when Amazon shows up, like and they bring and they bring the cast. Like, yeah, those guys aren't just showing up to show up. Like Amazon's like, hey, you can show up for an afternoon.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:39

Like, yeah. Yeah, go hang out with these guys, sling some drinks, and fucking make an appearance. But yeah, no, it was cool as hell. Because what, we have like three weeks? December 10th, I think. A month. Uh 17th. It's on my daughter's birthday.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:56

She's super hyped about it. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:58

I was gonna say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:01

Uh I just saw on uh uh I don't know where one of the sites I was on, I saw Landman Season 2 hit today.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:07

Woo!

SPEAKER_05 1:29:08

Hell yeah. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:11

Yeah, same with me. I was on my phone and it at some I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:15

Yeah, I've seen all the premiere stuff lately with Polybob and Demi and stuff. So cool. Glad you had a good weekend, dude. It was. Yeah, yeah. And today we just hung out, started digging out Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:32

Get that shit done. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:37

Any uh, oh girl, just that's gonna be uh clearly she's watching last week's pod. I just got a message. Sounds like we are all building droids in December.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:47

Yeah. Spoiler! Right? I already forgot about that. It's a spoiler.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:57

Yeah, that did happen this week. Oh, yeah, Willy Wonka. That was a spoiler.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:03

Whoops.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:06

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:08

What do you guys got going on?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:09

You never answered the question though. Oh is that the same scene where it's like you get nothing?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:15

Okay, that's not the same.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:18

Yeah. Good day. At the very end.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:21

See, I don't remember that being at the very end. I thought it was in the middle of a sli I can like I said, I remember I remember I think these little round fat midgets.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:30

The umpal.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:33

Yeah, those those things.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:37

How can I How can I be prejudiced? I'm just gonna refer to them as little round fat guys.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:45

Wait. Why they were prejudice. Wait, what does prejudice have to do with it?

SPEAKER_01 1:30:51

Midget is racist, bro. Yeah, because you know they were oompa loops. Midget is bad. How is midget racist with statist? How is midget derogatory? Are you one? You're you're a midget. You're a dwarf. Oh my oh my god. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:14

No. You're a dwarf and the bet the wicked witch of the west lives at the end of the movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:19

Fuck you, Lou.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:23

Just because Lou isn't vertically challenged, he doesn't know what it's like. Right? You don't know what it's like for people like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:30

Yeah. Like what? They're a midget. Dwarf. That's the word. It's been the word forever. Since when is midget not the word?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:46

Oh man. Hey on the case.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:48

You all gonna be like you've got to call it friends and retarded.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:51

No, you can't. Just I didn't work. Why? Usually at the end of the videos, the guy goes, thanks for joining us and does this, and then the video stops, but we're still recording. What the fuck's happening?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:09

No, they're midgets. How am I supposed to have my midget girl if you can't say midget? Oh, I want my term.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:16

The term midget is considered derogatory because it originated from derogatory entertainment context and it's being used to belittle individuals with dwarfism. Belittle.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:31

Whoever wrote that definition got jokes.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:35

The term midget is now rarely used and is considered offensive. The Little People of America, LPA organization, advocates for the removal of the slur from everyday language, advocating for a shift in how we discuss and represent individuals with orphism.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:51

Lou's bringing it back.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:54

Midget.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:55

Bring it back, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:57

Bring it back.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:02

Okay, so what do you call a retarded midget these days?

SPEAKER_03 1:33:07

A slow little person?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:11

What man, they're speeding, got nothing to do with it. They got little legs, they can't be fast. No, I guess that would make them slow. Alright, that's fair.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:21

But retarded is still a clinical term. You can't call a not retarded person retarded. Because they're using it as so yes, they would be a retarded dwarf.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:37

But I will fight anybody who's all you can't say retarded. You can if you're using it correctly. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:43

If you're not, if you use it as a slur, I agree. It's like you can't call stuff stuff gay. Oh, that's gay. Unless it's like actually gay.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:52

Right. That makes sense to me, I suppose.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:55

Uh and read like I said, I've all I'll always I'll I'll die on the retarded heel.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:03

Oh, hey look, guys, it's been an hour and 33 minutes. I wonder what's gonna get cut out of this week's podcast. Not this. This is the short. This is the short.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:16

This is the short. Ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:20

The short and the long of it.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:23

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:24

This will be the midget clip we put.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:26

I mean, shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:29

Beep, beep, beep.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:32

Shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:33

Can't get cancels if nobody listens to your pod. True enough. Three white guys on a pod. What an original idea.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:41

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:43

Alright, boys.

unknown 1:34:45

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:46

It's time for bed. Now that we laughed, we should go to bed.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:48

I'm about to go eat my dinner all mad.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:52

Why? Because you can get that back seat. You couldn't get the back row seat at the at the mystery movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:01

No, because I can't say midget.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:03

He can't say retarded midget.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:06

I mean he can.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:07

Like his lips can say it. Like he can verbalize it, but.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:10

I mean, let's be real. I'm gonna say it if an opportunity presents itself, but true. I mean, but I'm gonna say it correctly. If if if you little like that, you midget. And if you're retarded, you're retarded. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. It's like, damn.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:26

Retarded dwarf flu. Dwarf.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:30

No. No, that's that's that's no, I've seen Lord of the Rings. That's not the same thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:36

I'm gonna get midges. I am gonna get accused of uh Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:41

They had wars.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:42

Accused of felony murder. I'm gonna get accused of the bearing. And the women had beards gonna be the worst. I would I didn't even say anything, and they were like, but you were in the room. Ten years. Ten years in prison.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:01

I'm like, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go visit, visit Duke in the Pacific Northwest. So what'd you guys do? Nothing. I didn't take him anywhere. I was not I broke the key off in the lock. Long Smith wasn't available until about three hours before his flight.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:24

We left the airport. We left the airport and went right back to the house. Sorry, Lou, the meeting's closed. You're right, it is a war zone. We can't go outside.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:38

Yeah, no, the whole time. The whole time. Yeah, you 100%. We gotta stay in. I cannot introduce you to anybody. Oh man. Yeah, that's probably true. Because the first time I see one of your friends wearing toe sock shoes, thingies, I'm gonna be tripping. I'm sure you've got a friend who wears freaking toe shoes.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:03

Because Lou be like, I want to suck them motherfuckers. And I hate I hate that I want to suck them motherfuckers, so I'm gonna be angry.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:11

Who wouldn't? I was gonna say, who wouldn't want to suck them motherfuckers? That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:16

He's salivating right now, thinking about it. Right? Did it wait?

SPEAKER_06 1:37:23

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:25

Oh we started off going off the rails and it just we never recovered.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:33

We're an off-rail train now.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:37

We are the train from the fugitive, and I'm trying to be Dr. John Kimball, and it's not I didn't it didn't work. I just I I jumped one second too late.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:48

Yeah, no, we're we're trained, we're like duning in our train. Going over those dunes. Mudded.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:55

I gotta look up what doing means. I gotta make sure it doesn't mean anything to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:04

Uh Jack sending hate mail.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:08

No, I'm sending you mail so that you can learn not to say the M-word, Lou. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:16

Oh shit. Oh no, Urban Dictionary does have a definition for duning. It's the act of brutally.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:25

Oh my god. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:29

You have to say it now. You shouldn't have said nothing. Now you gotta tell it.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:32

Yeah, you gotta read it now.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:34

The act of brutally penetrating a person's anus with its speed, leaving behind a sandy texture and a dusty haze. What the oh MGO Duning originates from Mongolia, and every anything except Jigglypuff can be duned.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:55

Jigglypuff doesn't have an anus?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:57

I guess not.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:58

I don't know. Jigglypuff's like a bubble, so probably not.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:02

Yeah. Oh my god. Alright, that's it. I can't do this anymore.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:11

I know you read it already. I'm looking at this stupid shit again. The removal of the slur midget. Yeah, it who defined it as a slur? Who said it was a slur? Warf. Uh uh.

unknown 1:39:23

No.

Wind-Down And Off-Rail Humor

SPEAKER_00 1:39:23

The midget said they don't want to become a midget. Just get the makeup order to say, that's a slur. You can't use that. Uh-uh. Wrong. It's a midget convention.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:35

All right, Lou, go down your retard, hell.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:38

Ask Bridget what she thinks. Huh? Ask Bridget what she thinks.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:41

Because I'm gonna see her before you will.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:44

Yeah, you do that.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:46

Bridget the dwarf.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:47

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Bridget the Dwarf is not the same thing as no. She can call herself a midget, Lou.

unknown 1:39:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:55

She can self identify. You can call her a midget. Yeah. So trademarked. Okay, we're done. I don't even care if we say goodbye. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:08

Say goodbye is a sob.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:11

Well, midget.

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