Four Grown Men, One Loth Cat, And Too Many Ketchup Packets

A near‑perfect park day can still go sideways—and that’s where the best stories live. We kick off with holiday chaos, kid‑gift economics, and the annual reality check that toys become cash and earbuds. Then we shift gears into a tightly run Disneyland day that actually respects energy and timing. Lamplight Lounge sets the tone thanks to Doug, a cast‑member MVP who nails food tips and makes breakfast feel special. Soarin’ becomes a mission item, Turtle Talk and Little Mermaid provide strategic breathers, and Grizzly Rapids turns into a choose‑your‑own‑adventure: some of us brave the splash, others protect bags and dignity.

Once we park hop, Galaxy’s Edge tests our patience on Smugglers Run. We unpack why the ride shines only if you’re the pilot and how button‑mashing keeps engineers from seeing the show. The day’s peak laugh arrives on It’s a Small World when four adults tilt a boat so hard we start taking on water—minor panic, major memory, and the kind of selfie that earns a frame. We wrap rides with Star Tours and Buzz Lightyear, call it when feet tap out, and wander Downtown Disney where the LEGO line snakes forever and a certain Loth Cat finds a new home.

Between rides and shopping, the conversation widens: collectibles pricing is upside down, from Black Series and NECA figures to common Funkos that cost like grails. We trade survival tactics—off‑price hunts, limited runs worth chasing, and when to pass. On screens, we compare notes on Song Sung Blue’s live vocals, Stranger Things fatigue, Fallout surprises, and why Landman might be the sleeper win of the year. Finally, the NFL takes center stage with seeding stakes, incentive chatter, and the only cure for ugly Week 18 football: the playoffs.

Come for the Disney planning strategies, stay for the honest laughs about aging, budgets, and friends who can navigate a crowd without losing the joy. If you had a Small World moment of your own or a cast‑member MVP story, share it with us. Subscribe, rate, and drop a review to help more fans find the show—and tell us: which ride is overrated and which one is worth the wait?

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Transcript

Holiday Banter And Aging Jokes

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Like we can remember where we were. We weren't that old. Right. I mean I am. You as, you as you guys doing? Welcome back everybody. Happy Kwanzaa. Happy Hanukkah. Yeah. Happy boxing day. Hanukkah's been over for a minute, bro. Yeah. For like a week. Kwanzaa's always. Like a week. Whoa, what the hell? Somebody's playing with toys.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

We're getting out of the way. It was somebody playing with a toys. It was our first guest. Our our first guest. I was changing R2's clock. He's scared because the year's almost over.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

He does that when you change him? Yeah, there's a button in there if you push the numbers in. He makes R2 sounds. Lou's playing with his color.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Yeah, like I don't know which one I like.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

You're still black, but what shade of black tomorrow, Lou?

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Like, damn. I'm still going to jail. Dark oak. Still getting pulled over. Walnut? Walnut, he said. Walnut's a good one, actually. I'm not a caramel brown. I'm a walnut brown.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

It is one of the hardest woods. Hey oh. That ain't more. He's 50. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

That's true. Yeah, 50. Wrinkle ball motherfucker. Man. I got white pubes now. That's bad. I saw some white pubes on it. I was just like, no, I thought I was hoping, bruh. Bruh. I ain't gonna lie. I was like, oh man, god, my hair's falling out of my beard. I looked, I try to pull that. I was like, oh, that's attached. Stay up.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Even ain't grown. That's just that's natural.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

Nope. That I was like, there's only like two of them, but it was like, boo, pull this bitch out. I did too. I care.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Lou likes a little pain with his pleasure. That's what everybody just learned right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

Wait, are you saying you don't?

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Duh. I mean, that was a given though. Hello?

SPEAKER_03 2:51

That's what I'm saying. That's not what I remember. Oh shit. Damn, Jack, what's the matter? You look tired as hell, son. I know shit's going on, but you look actually sleepy tired.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

Yeah. A little bit.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

You're not getting no sleep.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

You gotta you gotta get up early. Did did did you meet did you meet Santa on Thursday? No, I was asleep by the time he came. Okay. That reminds me, dude.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

Dude, that video I've got to do.

Family Christmas Stories And Gifts

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Now I just picture your wife dragging her ass around putting shit together. While hearing Jack snore in the bedroom.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

I like how a big one noticed it right away. A little one took forever.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

She was standing right in front of it. I'm like, look, there is a big blue box on the other side of that window.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

It's like, hello. OMG. Ridiculous. That shit's funny though. Megan's response, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 4:08

Oh no, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

She for real wakes up with that thing every morning carrying her out, like walking her across the the marriage uh you know, when you carry her bride into the carrying her over the threshold.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Yeah. She's like me and Megan are up. We're gonna watch iPad. And she plops her right on the couch. Every time I go out there, I think somebody's sitting on the couch.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

Because the hair color's not off from the big one, and I'm like, oh, and I'm about to start talking to her. I'm like, oh never mind. That's just Megan.

SPEAKER_03 4:41

It's like, Dad, why are you talking to Megan?

SPEAKER_01 4:44

To be fair, you'll get about the same amount of communication back from either of them. So this is true. This is true.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

There is that.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Especially because Santa brought her new AirPods this year. So you're you're done. You're done. You don't even know what you're doing. You don't even replaced her old ones that were hand-me-downs anyway, so it wasn't a big deal, but it's been like three weeks or something. And like I can actually talk to her and get a response. But Christmas morning, I'm like, hey, hey, what about this?

SPEAKER_02 5:13

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Again, Megan's more responsive. Megan's like, hey, let's play a game. What can I do for you?

SPEAKER_02 5:22

I'll protect you. Did the uh Christmas series throw up for the kids this year? It wasn't as bad as years past. Like it's already all cleaned up, actually. It's very strange.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Are you making an older series? No, it's still up. Nah. Because that's it'll be down maybe by the January. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

That's true, though. As they get older, the gifts get a little more expensive, but less of them.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:01

So until you get the happy, the happy dance of just giving cash.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

I don't have to think. I could probably get away with that with a big one right now. I just like just giving them gifts, though. I'm like, bam, look, I see.

SPEAKER_03 6:13

Well, no, no, no, I get that. If you see something, don't be wrong. If you see stuff, it's like, oh, cool, that'd be a good Christmas gift. But I mean, the the the whole what's on your Christmas list, those days kind of start to fade. Because look, it's like eh. How about you give me money? So when I go out with my friends, you know what I mean? Give me money. When I go out with my friends, I can buy stuff. You know, I can hold my own and buy lunch or dinner with my friends or go to the mall. Here's a normal card.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Here's a Disney gift card. Pretty much. I know you got 20% off the ad. Right?

Planning The Disney Recap

SPEAKER_03 6:48

Stop eight. Oh man. Speaking of Disney, before we get into the holidays, I guess we should back up and finish uh what happened at Disney Sunday. Three weeks ago. It's only three. It's only three. We're still in the same month. It happened this month. I know.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

It feels like it happened forever ago. Like I was like thinking about it. I was like, dude, you're not even lying.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

I was like, how wow. It feels like it was six to eight weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. And it was three weeks ago yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Yeah, I'm like, June? Did we go to Disneyland in June? What what? It wasn't hot, so maybe. I didn't have swamp ass, so maybe. Only swamp ass I got was on uh Grizzly Grizzly Falls.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Spoiler.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Spoiler. Spoiler. Um well shit. Um we started the morning there at DCA. Yeah. Did we even do anything before breakfast?

SPEAKER_03 7:46

No, because we were ready late because of the parking, remember?

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Yeah, parking took it.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

It took forever to get the parking with us.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

And then we ran out of preservation for breach. Thankfully, Jack is tall as fuck, so he's really easy to follow. Well, that and the decades of Comic-Con finding each other. I think I may even make that. We recognize each other by our asses at the time. I think I made that comment to Lou. I'm like, I know where Jack is, you know where I am. Oak Rome knows where you are. Like, we're good. Like we could get through anywhere and find each other super easy.

SPEAKER_03 8:17

D is following C is following B is following A. And we all got there just fine.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

Yeah, I had time to say, hey, I'm here. And I turned around. There you guys were moseying on it.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

Um yeah, yeah, yeah. We were eyeballed on the whole time. So yeah, so Jack hooked us up with a res. I don't know what it's called though. You guys have to fill the details. The lamp.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

What? Yeah, Lamp Light Lounge. Yeah, Lamplight Lamp. Lamp Light Lounge.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

Which is on the reference to Doug was the all-star.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Not the dog. Not the dog. Not the dog. I mean, Doug is also the all-star, but in our case. Um yeah, so uh yeah, lamplighter lounge. Um adjacent to the credit coaster. So we get to see everybody right off the water.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

That little lake. Yeah. Um unless your back was to it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Um, we had Doug who was covering for a person who went on break, which was weird because we were got there super early, so I wasn't don't know why people are on the book. That is a good point.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

I didn't understand that idea, but I wasn't gonna say anything.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Yeah, I think whatever.

SPEAKER_03 9:33

I I caught it as soon as he said he when he said he was covering for somebody, I'm like, y'all been open for an hour. How are you covering for somebody?

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Yeah. Um I don't make schedules. I don't know. Maybe it makes sense. But uh Doug was definitely the ace of the day, I think, as far as like staff interactions go. I don't I feel like it's been a long time since we've gotten a a Disney moment like that. Um like he super took care of us, had good suggestions for the food, uh, hooked us up with some coasters. Give us sets of coasters. Yeah. Um, like fresh ones, not even like pre-let's put it this way, folks.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

He he was so good, Duke made a point to go and give a review uh on Disney's freaking site and all that. You know, usually people talk about, oh, I'll give you a great review. No, Duke actually did it. That's how good Doug was.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

So hopefully you got a pat on the head. Maybe you got a little star or some shits, but I don't know. I don't know how the reward system works in Disneyland, besides you get to keep your job. Right. Um because then when Doug left and our regular waitress came, she was fine, but I mean Doug said the part really fucking high.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. After Doug, that waitress was just like, all right, alright. I could I could have got this at iHop. I expect I mean I want Doug's service. I don't want iHop service. Maybe even Denny's. Where's Doug's at here? Can we move? Can we change the we need to move, please? I love these views. They're right here by the water, but this thing.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

But the drinks were good. Uh breakfast was really good. I think everybody enjoyed their food a lot. Um ate everything. We tore it up. Dude, I don't think we have to do it.

SPEAKER_03 11:10

There's not much left over. Did you like your straw? Or rather, did little one like your straw? I'm sure she'd kept it.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

Oh, did you really? Oh, okay. It's in the casino. All right.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

I have to ask little old girl by hers. I don't know if her little one saw her straw because unless she got it for her. I don't remember if she got it for her or um it was for herself.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Yeah, no, I think it's in Crypto's popcorn bucket. You know the the crypto popcorn bucket you got me?

unknown 11:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

So I have that one in there. I have one with uh zero from Nightmare Before Christmas. I think that's it.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

Did you did you do that uh Funko Pop Bag Lounge Fly Zero?

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yes. Okay, I was like, I think you got one. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't open the pop though. I swapped it out with a black light pop. It looks cooler. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

So anyway, no breakfast, yeah. Drinks were good, food. I think I think Duke had the steak and eggs, and that was really yummy.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

But also, Doug warned us, he said we got new kids back there, so if you want it medium, you better order it medium well.

SPEAKER_03 12:21

He did give us the heads up, and it worked out.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Yeah, that's exactly.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

Then you then Jack, you you and little girl got the same thing, you got the French toast, maybe? Is that what it was?

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Yeah, it was uh like half a loaf of bread or something.

SPEAKER_03 12:35

It really was. Because my first thought was how do they cook this all the way through? There is no way.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Yeah, it was like magic. It was basically a cake. Yeah. That was huge.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

I I ain't gonna lie, I would have preferred that cut in half, you know, this way, uh, and had two slices. But that's me. But that's because I like the you know, like the crusty parts of friends like a little little bit crisp.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

But again, that was good, though. It was cooked all the way through. Like, I mean, you were like, oh. It did.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

It I mean, they managed it.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Wasn't doughy everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

And looking at other food going around, I don't know if you got your pay attention, but I was looking at some of the other food, I was like, it all looked good there. It really did. So y'all get a chance to go to this place. So kudos to Jack. Like I said, he set the reservation way back when. Uh and it's a good thing because I think he uh maybe late like later on, like not even a few weeks later, it was already booked. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Yeah, yeah, there was nothing. But even then, it wasn't that busy in there. Like I was kind of surprised because it was like Yeah, that it was surprising though, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

Uh, don't be wrong, as we were leaving, you could tell it was filling out, but that was like more towards the later. I mean, because we because our reservation was at 9 10. We got seated at 9 25. So around 10 something when we were getting out of there, it was I mean, I guess that's more prime brunch time anyway, for folks. Yep. That 10 that 10 to 11 hour, and it showed. It absolutely showed.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like people that close dropped and stuff, they were hungry by then. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

Yep. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Uh less lesson learned.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Great place, totally worth it. I would go back again.

Soarin’ And Ride Priorities

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Uh lesson learned. Do not do steak and eggs and two drinks before getting on Soren, at least for this guy. Right before getting on Soren. Because that was uh that was an experience.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Uh, because then right after that, we uh we did our fast pass for Soren. Yep. Uh but then we have had to do that. Idle Ram.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

That was a me thing for this guy. Yeah. That was on my list of what do we have to do over here at DCA today? Soarin'. Everything else. I don't mean wrong. If we had time for anything else, great, but didn't care. Soarin' because I missed it, I think, the last two times since then. Uh that I that I went, I didn't get a chance to do it. And this time was a this is on my list.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 14:51

And uh no girls had done it, so that was her.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

I apologize for crippling old girl's hand.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

Oh, yeah, for breaking fingers. Duke had to hold hands because he was scared.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

Yep. I I admit it. I'm not Oh my god. I learned that.

SPEAKER_03 15:11

Um, but yeah, she she liked it. I mean, she she has like uh nose issues, so she couldn't necessarily get the smell of the grass and all that, but overall she liked experience.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

And what about you?

SPEAKER_03 15:23

Oh, I loved it. I mean, that was the point of why I wanted to make sure because I loved it the first time, and then the the second time I was like, okay, no big deal, we'll get it next time. And we didn't get it next time.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

So this time it was like, okay, this is on the flying through the fireworks, all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

That's super cool. Yeah. Um so then.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Yeah. Now we don't gotta travel no more. Awesome. I know everything. All right, we're good.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

I've now been to France. I'm good. I don't need to deal with those evil people ever again.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Uh when when you're sitting in a queue with somebody and then the opening uh dialogue comes up, and it's a good, you know, 55 minute and a half uh intro, and you're with the person who knows every single word and is just sitting there going, Welcome aboard. That's right. I was just like, there were a couple times where I was like, are there speakers? Oh no, that's just Jack Socken. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

It was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Nice work, pal. Uh, and then after that, we um was that the Turtle Talk? Yeah, we did Turtle Talk. We were gonna do cars, but cars like was already like the forever long. It was like it was like 85-minute standby, and the fast pass was like six o'clock or something, and we're like, nah, nah, we're good. We're good.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

Yep, we're good.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

So then we did Turtle Talk, which was pretty good because uh because he called out somebody from Colorado and kept clowning them the whole time. So, you know.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

Not me.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Just so you know, but it was another lady in the crowd who happened to be from Colorado. So then uh then not old girl. Then uh so then crush spent the whole time just talking shit on her, which is yeah. Which is always good. Yeah. Um dude. Um and it's also nice because they're super comfy seats and it's a nice just kind of 15-minute break to just kind of sit there and in the dark, just chilling. Yeah. Um after that we did Little Mermaid. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

Sounds right.

unknown 17:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

Yeah. Uh because wasn't that right across from the pan Pandora store?

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Yes. Yep. Yeah, so we queued up. Yeah, so we uh did our lightning pass for Little Mermaid, and that was 15 minutes, 20 minutes after Turtle Talk. So then you guys were all able to go into the Pandora store and kind of do your shopping uh observing. Uh then the time was up for that. We hopped right on Little Mermaid. Little Mermaid was fine. It's a fine ride. It's not again. It's inside, you're sitting down chilling. It's yeah, it's a good chill ride. Uh speaking of good chill rides after that, uh me, Lou, an old girl uh hopped on uh Grizzly Rapids. Which I haven't done either. Which I haven't done either.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Jack had Jack had no part. Jack had no part and wanted no part of the bottom.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

I'm scared of I'm scared of uh heights. Jack's scared of having a wet ass. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

No, he's not, trust me. No, he's not.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Not if it's skeet. Skeet skeet, we're good.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Skeet, skeet.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

It's water. No, don't touch my ass with water. That shit's gay. Unless unless it's unless it's gay. Unless it's high pressure. You are the only one in the podcast who has a bidet, by the way. Yes, I am. That shit is so nice.

unknown 18:54

Right.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Are we pooping up work? I'm like, this sucks. Right, exactly. I'm like, I gotta like wipe. Like, not just like a check wipe. I gotta like wipe, wipe, and do like actual work.

unknown 19:09

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

I gotta get wet naps. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 19:14

For some reason in the last couple days, Alexa's been tripping balls and like it was really loud and just started talking randomly right now. So I kind of got creeped out a little bit. No, you're up to the ear. It's like in a different room, but I heard it like just kind of peripherally, and I was like, the fuck is going on.

SPEAKER_03 19:32

Don't you have to say like hey, Alexa, or something?

Turtle Talk, Little Mermaid, And Rapids

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Sometimes she hears it. Like it's weird. Like sometimes she like if you mumble something that's similar to that, she's like, What? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

If there's not an X in that word, then Alexa needs to shut the fuck up. Yeah. Creepy. You know what? I got I got my little echo dot. I need to, I need to put that back out here. I this little uh uh old girl's little one used to come over for a bit and would just play with it the whole time. I was like, okay, this no. So I put it away. I was like, nope. But that's been like a year, year and a half. I need to put that thing back out. I don't know why. I don't know what you do it for. I don't like weather.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Well, I don't I'm not that fancy. She can tell you jokes, bruh. It's worth it. She can tell you Star Wars jokes. She has a ton of Star Wars jokes. Ton of Star Wars jokes.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

Well, Alexa can give head, talk to me. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Well, you can change it to a dude, so you know, then you're not annoyed that you're We'll just embed it in uh in Little One's Megan and then you'll be good to go. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

Wait, can you make it like a British woman?

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Yes. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

Well, good pot, everybody. Nice chatting with you.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Where's my echo dot? Where's my uh so back to the story. So I hadn't done Disney. Yeah. Echo dot. Read the Disney. I had not done Disney or I had not done Grizzly Falls in forever. And Ruminal Girl never had. So the three of us went and hopped on it. Um had a good group of people. They were they were all game for what was going on, so that was good. Um and yeah, I mean, it was exactly, you know, you're just praying you're on the you're praying you're on the right side when you go over those rapids.

SPEAKER_03 21:21

And there were two of them that it was like your mouth was open a few times. I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

There was that one time, both of us. Don't even lie, because you were saying the same thing. I was the first one.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

I I got it before you did. I ain't gonna lie. I I was like, okay, you know you're screaming, you don't know what's going on, I don't know what to expect. And then I was like, oh shit, it got in my mouth.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

You were like, I have again.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

Then a couple more. Yeah, they hit Duke.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Yeah. Uh I got I got douche pretty good. It was it wasn't, but uh it was fine. I tried to do it. So it was alright.

SPEAKER_03 21:59

No, no, it was mainly the like thigh for me, like thighs were really it. It wasn't too bad, it wasn't too bad at all. I mean, to the point where it was probably completely dry in half an hour. That's how that's how not wet.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:11

Uh it worked and it worked out that Jack didn't want to do that because he got to hold all of our bags and shit. It was like, okay, we don't have to worry about our bags getting soaked, just he can go chill, catch up on his on his mail or whatever. It's like here you go, buddy. And it wasn't like a long way. We're talking like 30 minutes. The whole front to front to back was like 30 minutes. Yeah, no. If that's you guys weren't gone at all.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

I was gonna say, I don't even know if it's 30. Because we lightning laned it, because it was only like a 10-minute lightning lane. Like it was like we we we did it getting on Little Mermaid, so then by the time we got off and walked over there, we were good to go. So uh and then after that, I think we were kind of done at DCA. Did we do anything else at DCA?

SPEAKER_03 22:52

I think I was gonna say, didn't we work our way back over to Disneyland after that?

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Yeah, we worked our way down Main Street, did a little bit of shopping. Um I don't think we even bought anything, but we just wandered through the stores.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

Yeah, we got oh forgot that we back. We got we got the birthday button when we did Pandora. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Yep, you're welcome for that.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

Um, yeah, good good lookout because we all forgot. We all talked about it going in there. Hey, I should have birthday. Then we all left without I I walk out the door, look at my phone, I'm like, oh, Duke texted. Why would Duke text? He's right there. Like, birthday button. Like, oh, be right back.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Um yeah, so then we just meandered, made our way uh back across the way. Uh at that point it was after 11 o'clock. So our park hopper officially kicked in. So at least the three of our park hoppers. Does the park hopper apply to you too, Jack? Yeah, like we can't jump until 11 either. Okay. So uh by at that point it was like noon.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

But hang on, hang on, hang on. But it's always park hopper for you, right? You don't have to submit it.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Yeah, yeah, it's included, yeah. Okay. Shit, it better be for that much money. Uh and so that at that point it was probably noon-ish. And so then we uh we made our way over to Disney. Um and this is where I get lost. I'm gonna need your guys' help. So uh we made our way over to Disney. We did Star Tours?

SPEAKER_03 24:11

I mean, there were some snacks here and there. Eventually we got Ronto wraps.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Yeah. Well, Ronto wraps, I think, was our first stop, right? Or did we do rice?

Park Hop To Disneyland And Galaxy’s Edge

SPEAKER_03 24:19

It might have been because there were, like I said, there were snacks in between because the old girl doesn't do Ronto wraps because she can't handle the spice. So she got something else afterwards, but like she might have got like a popcorn or something simple.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

And then we got because the three of us got Ronto wraps, and then we went to go get her that uh she got popcorn at DCA.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

She got popcorn at DCA. We stopped at that popcorn place.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Because you got a you got an energy drink.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 24:46

So so she was okay for the Ronto Rap, and was okay waiting to get whatever was by that theater. There was like one of those live performance theaters we we sat down over there.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Uh uh the Oktoberfest thing. It was like a sausage or something, I thought.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Yeah, it was it was something with I thought maybe there was chili on it or something. I don't know. It was something she got over there.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

But it was the Octoberfest uh area right by the um the fantasyland stage. Because Jack was talking about how that was gonna get rotated out. It was uh it's because it's like Beauty and the Beast now, I think. Something like that. You said it was gonna get rotated out for something else.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

Did we do anything over in Star Wars World?

SPEAKER_01 25:30

No. Oh, we might have done smugglers, or did we do that the day before? No, we did smugglers. We did smugglers on Sunday because we went in with those two people and we made them the pilots. Or they wanted to be the pilots.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

Well, they they they were waiting to be the pilot. Yeah, they were waiting for a group where they could be the pilot. And it worked out perfect for us because we didn't really care.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

And they were awful.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

You know what? I I will admit, I I can't be an engineer anymore, dude. I can't see the ride. All I'm doing is looking at buttons. Yeah. So unless they give me a little monitor where I can see what's going on up front, you know, something like that.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

When they add Grogu, you're gonna be more interactive because you'll have to take care of Grogu, too. So you'll see Grogu on your whole screen. Because you'll be interacting with Grogu and helping him out.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

Alright, see that's fine. But but this is the second time I've been an engineer, and the second time that I really didn't see anything up front. I was like, alright.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Yeah, that's the one downside of that ride, is unless you're a pilot, you really and I I mean, unless you don't care about the points. Like you're you have to pay attention to your screen to see what what is true.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

If you don't care about the points, then you can just sit there and watch the ride and don't care.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

It'd be nice to push the buttons. But it'd be nice to know all the buttons that light up and just keep pushing everything. But it'd be nice if there was like a console in the back of the seat or something, which I know is not immersive, but at least then you're you're looking forward and you're watching the screen. You're not uh distracted. I guess in theory, you could just sit there and wait until Hondo yells at you and says, Engineers, fix that. And then you look over the screen.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

Yeah, you have to do because it was like, just don't even bother. Don't if you don't care about the points, is what he's saying. Yeah, just watch the show and screw the buttons until like that, until you yelled at to push the buttons. Okay, then push him and then, like you said, go back to watching the screen. Um as a gunner. You don't see show as a gunner.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

There's like two or three buttons, and there was one where it was like it's like guns and missiles, and then once you gotta like be paying attention to which ones lit up at a given time in order to get it. Okay. Um, but I think we got all of the coaxium, so I guess that was good, right? We got the extra even. Yeah, we did get the second one, yeah. So even with those pilots. Yeah. Yeah. Non-flying asses. Mm-hmm. Down is up, up is down. Jesus. Come on. Dang. Uh yeah, we did that in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

We might have done that there is when we went after the food. No?

SPEAKER_01 28:00

No, that was. I think we did I thought we did the food first. And then we did uh it doesn't matter. That's why we skipped in the way.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

I think we went straight from the food we went to smugglers, then we went to the Ronto Rap, because from there we would basically went straight from Ronto Raps to get her her uh October 5.

Smugglers Run Roles And Frustrations

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Okay, yeah, because then we were gonna do uh Small World because it was over in that same area. Yeah, yep. And that was the best part of the day. Okay, now I remember. That to me was my highlight. When I tell people about the trip to Disney Heights, I definitely go, hey, we almost broke fucking small world. They're like, what are you talking about? I'm like, well, there were four of us. We sat in the back and Jack and I decided to sit way far on the left. So the second they kicked us out of the the second they kicked us out of the little queue, the boat goes, we were taking on water. And the people in the front panicked, they were like, oh shit. They almost jumped out. Yeah, they sure did.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Like a mother, it was like a father-daughter uh in front of us.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Guy is straight up putting his hand like on the side of the boat. We're like, dude, don't do that. You will lose a fucking finger. Like, please, for the love of God. But I found a quarter. I found a quarter on the ride.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

So I maybe he did find a we did find he was he was able to make a call afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

So Jenny Craig. I mean this Weight Watchers. How many points is a Ronto wrap? Six hundred points? I don't think that's actually for the rest of the month. Well shit. I was fine until we almost bottomed out the the the small world ride, and then I realized I might have a problem.

SPEAKER_03 29:47

When the small boat is scraping the bottom, there's a problem.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Literally, it did. It was like I was like, oh no. But it also led to one of my favorite pictures of our trips, so that's fine too. Oh, he's looking, he's looking for his pictures.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

Our selfie that I took with all of us on the boat. Hold on. I mean, obviously it doesn't look much well in there.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Yeah. But it's a good picture. Uh so yeah, so that was uh that was fun. And then, you know, small world all uh holidayed up, which was nice. Yep. Uh always a fun time. Um 6'7 action going on. Yep. I was just looking at my picture. Yep, we got 6'7 going on there. Um after that, it looks like we did Buzz Lightyear sometime. Uh we did Star Tours first, because then we didn't. So Jack had like two million freaking points. Uh 217,300. I feel like I could hear 49,400.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

I was gonna say, I think I might have hit 50.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Might have gotten compared to old girls 8, 200. I don't think it I don't think that high. 840 points.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

I don't know if she hit a thousand, but um we did do we did a fast pass for Disney for uh Star Tours after that. Because then we wandered over there. We did FastPass, but then we got on. We just did um the our fast pass. We did like the 30 minutes. And yeah, I think we it was like a 25 minute wait, so we went through it twice. Um yeah, so we did it twice.

SPEAKER_03 31:29

Uh Friday, that is. You know, there's yeah, I don't know. You got you got a bunch of Star Wars guys getting on Star Tours like six times, crazy.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

Uh I mean, I still my the peak star tours is I think the first year we went as a group and you guys went and did star tours. Or star you guys went and did Space Mountain, and I did star tours like 14 times in a row or something, and it was like you started seeing the same people, and you're like, oh, we're all lapping doing this scene how many times we can get through this shit before the park closes. Yep. Because they're running half-loads of of c of people and stuff to just get the get keep people going. And uh yeah, you'd get in, you you'd get off, you'd wander around, you'd come back around, you'd get back on, you'd be like, Oh hi, how are you? Let's see if we can all be the spy by the end of this.

SPEAKER_03 32:18

I still think that's stupid. Stay on the damn right. They're not if you got anybody waiting, just oh my god, stay on the right.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

It's a process, man. Like that uh it's their process. Like I know Disney, dude, when they got their processes, like they followed that shit to a T. There's no there's no like gray area in there. So uh yeah, so we did Star Tours twice, then we went over and did Buzz Lightyear, because at the time it was only like a 15 minute wait for that one.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

Um and at that point the boys' uh feet were feet were done.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

Uh then we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 32:59

Not this old boy. This old boy.

The Small World Boat Fiasco

SPEAKER_01 33:01

I was I was pointing at myself. Who's got two thumbs and bad feet? This guy. Um So I think we were kind of done at that point, right?

SPEAKER_03 33:11

We did Buzz Light here and then It was uh downtown Disney and shopping and she got that apple.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

So then we made our way through uh made our way through Main Street, picked up a few things. My sister had wanted something, so I was able to track that down for her. She doesn't listen to the pod, so it's fine because I haven't given it to her as a Christmas gift yet. Um then we went to downtown Disney. No, you know what? We when we got done, we're like, we're gonna go to downtown Disney. We didn't walk down Main Street because we went and got lost trying to find the monorail.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

We took the monorail.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Which isn't well marked at all in Tomorrowland.

SPEAKER_03 33:51

Dude, that shit was yeah, we went to the wrong spot the first time. But yeah, because it was perfect. We wanted to start at the back end and work our way toward the front. So the monorail took us to the back end so we could work away to the front. It's like having sex. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

And then Jack got suckered into buying a big ass Lows Cat. And then Duke ended up carrying it around.

SPEAKER_03 34:07

Suckered my ass. You were planning on buying the ass in Friday, son, if not before Friday. Yeah, he got suckered.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

If they have it at the at the trading post, I'll get it. And first thing we walked in, I'm like, shit.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

Hello, knowing damn well they're gonna have this big ass expensive Star Wars thing at the trading post. He knew that.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Sometimes they do keep stuff exclusive in the park. Just not this.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

You knew. Yeah, you knew. You knew you were getting it.

SPEAKER_03 34:35

Don't you go there? You knew you were getting it.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

And we and then there was a store you guys went in, and I stayed outside and sat with the loath cat, and I had so many fucking people stop and ask me about it, and I was like, this is weird. I don't like this. Jack, where are you? Stranger Danger. Stranger Danger.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

Oh, that was the main Disney store, wasn't it? We're in the main Disney store for that.

unknown 34:57

Or no?

SPEAKER_01 34:58

No, because I went in the main Disney store with you guys. That was where we lost.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

Okay, so where were we then? Where were we?

SPEAKER_01 35:03

It was whenever we went to that little um Pastor Lego store. Hopmart kind of store, yeah. Well, yeah. They had the Lego blind boxes and stuff, yeah. Because the Lego store had like a fucking half an hour, 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_03 35:15

Oh my god, right?

SPEAKER_01 35:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

That was the first time we'd ever seen that. We usually just walk in. Not this time.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

Yeah, but it wasn't like two 40 people deep. Yeah. Um yeah, then old girl got a corn dog.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Yeah, that that's right. They make them fresh per order. So that shit took 15 minutes to get a damn corndog.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Um, and then yeah, we went into that. You guys went into that Pop Mart place, the Disney Pop Mart. Then we went into the world of Disney where I finally had my fill of people, had a full-on like anxiety attack. I'm like, okay, I gotta go. I got I want to do some shopping, but there's way too many goddamn fucking people in here.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Um And then Jack and I had to backtrack after that, didn't have to, but we backtracked after that to go get some uh Christmas gifts for old girls' kids. Yeah. So we backtracked, did that, then came back. I don't think we went back into this. No, we we met them at the tram. They were outside, they were sitting on the on the thing waiting for us to get on the tram. And this was this good, and we're talking like six, seven o'clock at night. We're saying it was six seven. I can't remember which it was, it was six or seven. Uh six seven. And then we were like, okay, go ahead.

Star Tours, Buzz, And Feet Give Out

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Originally we were gonna go get some food somewhere, and then we get in the car, and Jack was like, you know, I'm good with Wendy's. And so we need to go to the house. Well, we were talking, and you were like, I'm not really hungry enough to go in and sit somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Me and you were like chicken wings place, the bar that had chicken wings. That was like three hours earlier, two hours earlier, and it was like, okay, we'll go here, and then towards the end, it was like, you know what? F it, I'm just ready to go. I'm ready to be done. Because it's been a long, not a lot of sleep weekend already. It was like, I'm just ready to go, and uh that was nice because we yeah, we do. We just went back, we laid in bed, ate our chicken nuggets, and just you guys watch Indiana Jones while you were watching Predator or something. You were going back and forth. You were going back and forth between two movies. One of them was Indy.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Yes. Uh finally fell asleep, had to get up butt ass early. I think we were up at like four or four thirty.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Uh thirty, yeah, four, whatever. I know we were supposed to leave by like four forty-five or five.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

Yeah. So we were up way too early to get in the car and drive out drive head back because I had a flight that left at 7 10 from Ontario, and then you guys needed to be back in time to go to the game at 1. So the timing of that actually, I think, worked out as well as it could have. Um I mean, it wasn't horrible.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Yeah, we we found a way to kill 90 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

So buffet. Yep. But I mean, even then, you still would have had to have gotten up early. Like, I mean, 4 30, yes.

SPEAKER_03 38:03

I was gonna not 4 30, that would have been like 9 o'clock. It would have been del Taco breakfast or lunch on a way to get out of here.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

If I could have found if I could have found a flight that was less than$400 at 9 o'clock, I would have been happy to to get that. But that was not happening. It was either 7 a.m. or 7 p.m. Those were the options. So uh, but then yeah, by the time I made it home, by the time I touched down, you guys were pulling into Vegas, basically. Um Yeah, I think so. Yeah, we were sat down and hit our buffet, had some free drinks, all the cowboy chicks were here for some beauty pageant or something, because it was rodeos in town. NFR. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:47

National Finals rodeo was happening. Uh a lot of cowboy chicks, a lot of cute cowboy chicks. Uh save a horse ride a cowboy type thing. It's like, damn.

SPEAKER_02 38:57

Forgot my hat. Forgot your hat. Uh then you guys win the head game. Jimmy. Yep. And uh Raiders Broncos. Raiders lost because we're number one in the draft pick now.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

I got my Giants handle.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

My Raiders couldn't do shit. Raiders have me looking like Ice Cube all game.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

Uh we did have uh the on Christmas Day, the Vikings did have uh Snoop Dogg's halftime spectacular.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

That was good actually.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:41

I actually watched it because usually I was I was a ready to switch or muted or whatever, and then they started, I'm like, alright, and then I'm looking at my computer, I'm looking at the TV, look at me, I'm like, alright, I kicked back and actually watched that halftime. That was way better than whatever the hell the other thing was. Yeah, K-pop demon hunters. Yeah, Jack. Lou lost it and watched it. Yeah.

unknown 39:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:00

I was all like, who are these people? I'm like, how are three people one people? I don't get it. I'm I just had no idea what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

It's a group called Hunt Trix. Lou, I knew it threw you off because it was actually people who knew the words to the song because they weren't completely hammered by the time we got around to singing it.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

That's what it was.

Downtown Disney Shopping And Loaf Cat

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Oh, that's what the song's supposed to sound like. I didn't realize that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Those are real words. Oh, wait. Stimpdog was getting shit for uh wearing red.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Cause he well that makes sense. Because he's Snoop. Right. Why is he wearing red? He should put on blue and white. Those are other Christmas colors. Blue and white. Mm-hmm. The people then the Jewish friends are.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

The problem is Snoop Dogg is so much of a sellout though that he's just bulletproof with that kind of stuff. That's true too. He kind of is though. Right? And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Good on Snoop for fucking making his money. Like make your credit or make your dough, dude. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

I agree. Shit. See, then when halftime comes a Super Bowl, just go back and replay the Thanksgiving or the Christmas freaking halftime instead.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Yep, there you go.

SPEAKER_03 41:03

Don't have to don't have to worry about uh terrible hair.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

So whatever. Oh, I get it. Ha ha ha. He got there. He got there, folks. Man.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

Wow. Wow. That was as slow as that joke rolled out. Right? I was like, at least he's not late with that. But yeah, so that was about it. We the game, and then we chilled, and then like Yeah, and then not a whole lot happened.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

No, we were chilling.

SPEAKER_03 41:48

Yeah, I just said we passed out five something.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Lou fell asleep like five Sunday night. We tried this new Japanese place across the street, which is actually pretty good. I can't wait to go there again when I'm actually awake and not tired. So I can try more food and remember that happen, Jack.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

I was gonna say, uh, good luck with that shit.

SPEAKER_01 42:09

Twelve years from now, 13 years from now, something like that.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

And then I think Monday, Monday, we kind of chilled for the day. Jack had errands to do. And then O'Girl and I went and met up with my ex-girlfriend for dinner after we oh my god, after we went to the ghetto ass mall, all Lord have mercy. There is no white people at this mall. It's just Hispanics and blacks. My my wallet felt like I mean, my hand was in my pocket the whole time. I'm I'm I keep my wallet in my front pocket, and my hand was right there. People thought I was masturbating. Nope. Covered my wallet, I didn't get stolen. Skinky ass mall. But they do have a good pop store, or used to anyway. I mean pops are declining. Selection is declining. Uh still went.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

And then for the We went there about a week after you were there. Me and the big one. Um she wanted to go shopping for her friends. That store was just I. Mm-hmm. Like Z used to be shit general, right? Like Funko for sure. That's the fact that you can find pops virtually anywhere right now. Like you go into 7 Eleven and they got a fucking end cap of fucking pops, and you're just like, wait, what's happening right now?

SPEAKER_03 43:19

Like see, that's cool though, because they're exclusives at 7-Eleven, at least they used to be, because I I got a couple Deadpool ones. Um the problem is like like it would happen, and this is nothing to do with the uh uh tariffs and shit, but they're commons that used to be$7.99 or whatever it was. I went to Walmart the other day,$14.99 for a common. It was like, there is zero chance I buy one of these. The same thing I was telling, I think I was telling Jack about this. Again, same thing. I'm in Walmart or Target. And I see a regular Star Wars action figure that used to be$4.96 at Walmart back in the day, and that thing was like$20 something dollars. Like, you are out of your mind. You want me to buy a 3 43 quarter inch figure for$21.99? Ah man, I jumped out. Don't be wrong, it's been 20 years. I collected from 95 to 05 or 07, whatever. But after that, I'm so glad. I know, again, this is I know it's been 18 years since I was in that game, but hell no. There is no way a$5 finger should be$20,$20,$25. There's no way.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

No, well, but that's that's who they're shooting for. They're not shooting for the$5 kit. Like, it's it's crack, dude. Like, you were paying five bucks way back in the day because they knew they'd get you hooked. So then they slowly kept increasing the price, and now it's$25, and now you're in an age where you you're like, well, I'm already here. I mean, I can't tell you how I jumped out when it was seven dollars. No, no, no. But my point is when Jack and I were hanging out in '99 and they were coming out with the waves, like, we were just like, Well, fuck, we have you know, this set and this set, like, and we're missing these two figures. Like, we gotta go.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

Back in, sure.

SPEAKER_01 44:58

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But but I'm just gonna go. But the but again, it's people are still obviously still paying for it, or else they wouldn't be$23.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

There's a lot of shit on the pegs.

SPEAKER_01 45:14

I'm not disagreeing with you, but my point is they still feel that there's a market for people to pay$23 for it. Right? Like, that's what's making being their market. You're not wrong.

SPEAKER_03 45:27

It's good, yeah, it's gotta be some market. It's you know, it's that whole, you know, the one of the first things you learn in economics clash, right? It's like, do you sell one burger for$10 or do you sell five for two? You know, one of the it's one of those type of things. And if they can raise the price four times and only get half the audience, they still pay money. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:49

I was uh I stumbled across this guy, he does daily every other day. He goes to like uh Ross Dress for Less. Um, and then there's uh a couple other stores in like the Northeast that are kind of exclusive to them. So he does like toy runs where he just goes and looks, and uh between like October and Christmas time, Ross gets a shit ton of toys. So they had rafts of NECA, like rafs, like I mean, tables, complete tables full of NECA shit.

SPEAKER_03 46:21

Well, that happened last year too.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

But it was all the stuff that got dumped from Target and Walmart and all that kind of stuff. Because that's the reason why. Like Target's gonna be like, we want our cut, and if not, we're just gonna get rid of it. Like the stuff that they actually put on clearance is just it's not enough for them to box it and send it back. They only have three of them or something like that. So they'll just clearance those out because it's easier. But if they still when you're looking at an entire, that's why the um the collector section of Target and Walmart is getting so small now. Because it used to be it used to be a half a dozen uh shelving units, now it's two, maybe three, right? Um but if you look like they all have an entire shelf full just front to back of NECA figures that are all$26,$28,$30, and you're just like, who's buying those? They're buying the one exclusive or the one that's limited or whatever. Like, I mean, they're and they're nice figures. Like NECA doesn't make bad stuff, just people don't have that kind of income to be able to be like, I'm gonna buy this whole you know, series two of whatever. Um, up at Ross for$7.99. Because the reality is NECA's buying NECA's making them for five, right? Like and they're able to write off whatever the difference is and get get it back in taxes or reduce their tax credit.

SPEAKER_02 47:40

Yep. Whatever though.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

I did not find a Sabine Black series helmet at my Ross for$17.99. Yeah. So I would have bought that. Ollie's? Ollie's, I think that's what the or the other one he goes to a lot. Where they just blow out. They'll have like an entire row, they'll have an entire aisle of nothing but old uh Shan Chi and Black Panther figure legends figures. Like it's kind of ridiculous. Like how much stuff that gets shoveled out to these places.

SPEAKER_02 48:15

Mm-hmm. You know, I'm buying it no more. Too spensive. Really is though.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

Well, I mean, again, it's the sports cards of the 90s, right? They're like, oh, well, there's such a demand, we're just gonna produce the fuck out of it to where we just get that with our lunch at school. Yeah. They're just not worth anything because there's so many of them. Like even the rare stuff, even the numbered stuff, just because there's so there's so much of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:43

You wait in line. Yeah, if you ain't waiting in line, it ain't gonna be worth nothing. Like that's even if you do wait in line, it might not be for real.

SPEAKER_01 48:55

And this guy, like speaking of the Funko's, uh, there's another guy who pops up occasionally in my YouTube feed, and he he does the blind boxes.

SPEAKER_03 49:02

Funko's that pops up.

SPEAKER_01 49:06

The Funko guy pops up. Wait, where's the come on, do it? Hit it, hit it, Jack. It would it would be more this one here. No, wait, wait, wait, this one. The sad one. So he uh he opens up, he he buys he went in 2019, 2020, 21, he bought a shit ton of the blind boxes because the blind box fun codes used to be like an entire segment of their market, right? They would sell 250 of them or 25 of them, and they'd be$300 or$500 because again, the stuff they were putting in there at the time. And he's opening stuff that's like two and three and four years old, and they put like little sticky notes on how much they were worth when they got boxed, and he's like comparing it to like what the prices are today. Dude's losing his ass. Like, yeah, he'll spend$250 on a on a mystery box that was when it was boxed, was worth$325. Now it's worth you know$210,$180, you know.

SPEAKER_03 50:14

Like I was gonna say, I'm surprised it's worth that much, too.

TV Catch‑Ups: Stranger Things, Fallout, Landman

SPEAKER_01 50:18

But yeah. So it'd be ones where he'll get it'll be like four, and one will be worth$200. Exactly. But yeah, so I you know, it's just a different different uh the different times. Yeah, different times. Just another thing Gen Z killed. Fuck those guys. Fucking Lou. Lou and his Gen Z mindset.

SPEAKER_03 50:47

I was like, yeah, for real. I was like, dad's definitely not. You want to argue on my boomer? I I don't know that I can win that argument, but I'm definitely you know at my Gen Xer I said you were alive during World War II, right?

SPEAKER_02 51:07

Of course.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

Shit, you don't do you guys not remember how old I am? We went through this, man. I knew Burger King when he was a prince.

SPEAKER_02 51:19

Um mystery movies.

SPEAKER_01 51:25

Have you guys done mystery movies lately?

SPEAKER_02 51:27

We did one.

SPEAKER_01 51:28

No, there's one coming up. We talked about that one. Um Song Sung Blue.

SPEAKER_03 51:32

Did you talk about that? That was Songsung Blue, so we didn't talk about it yet.

SPEAKER_01 51:36

No, because that was two weeks ago, right? Yeah, really?

SPEAKER_02 51:41

I liked it.

SPEAKER_03 51:42

I mean Yeah, that was that was the December 15th month or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 51:47

The last one before the holidays.

SPEAKER_03 51:49

I I I did too. I I thought it was a really well well, I mean, I wanted to watch it anyway. I don't know if I ought to went to the theater to watch it, but uh for five bucks, not sad. I enjoyed it. It was an entertaining movie. Um crazy shit happened to that couple. Um just wild stuff, but it was a really good movie. And and and I also learned that I know way more Neil Diamond songs than I thought.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

True that. The man has more than a sweet caroline is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

Right. Crackland Rose, that one I knew for sure. But then some other songs, I was like, oh, that's him. Like, oh wait, that's him too? Like, uh, all right. I I guess I know this. And I didn't I I I missed it when the credits came up, but if those two were singing those songs, uh Kate Hudson and Wolverine, if they were singing those songs, that Hugh Jackman, I'm like, yeah, for sure. After watching Greatest Show, yeah, after watching Greatest Showman, I know he's he can jam, but if Kate Hud if they were singing, especially if if the if the way she sang like Patsy Klein, holy shit, if that was legit, uh uh kudos, hats off, everything.

SPEAKER_01 52:59

Wasn't uh Hugh Jackman in La Miserab too? The one with like Anne Hathaway and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

So yeah, I mean he's yeah, I wouldn't be surprised for him, but her because cause there were a couple times I'm like, if she is singing this for real, holy crap. Uh but I meant to w to watch the the credits and pay attention, but I was playing on my phone or something. I was I think I was trying to get I was and obviously I stayed, that way I could give Jack the heads up if they're Schwarmer That way he didn't have to stay.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

Right.

SPEAKER_03 53:32

And then we met, and then we met uh a couple that was sitting behind us. Super cool. They they do all the blind movies as well, secret movies as well. Um so we'll probably see them at Primate uh next Monday. Well, we're assuming it's Primate.

SPEAKER_01 53:47

Uh yes, Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman performed their own vocals in the film. Jackman confirmed on the Howard Stern show in December 2025 that they recorded everything and sang everything live, describing the experience as a hybrid between his previous live sung musicals like Lil Mizrob and The Greatest Showman, where some songs were recorded separately.

SPEAKER_03 54:08

Okay. So are you telling me he did that concert live at the end of the movie?

SPEAKER_01 54:14

Wow. That's a spoiler, but I assume so. I have not seen it. I did not I did not go to the$5 movie.

SPEAKER_03 54:23

So don't worry, you'll forget about it before Oh, wait, that's me. Right? Before you watch it. It's like I just saw I can't wait to see Song Sung Blue. I don't know what happens. I just saw it two weeks ago. Oh, that reminds me. I did not go see Kill Bill for four hours uh because of timing. The the theater only had it at one time, and it just was I was like, what? Really? And it just not fit when it was for my time for my schedule. But I was I was prepared. I'm like, all right, we're gonna go do this. And I was like, And then this pass, yep, and then this pass because like, I know, maybe I'll go watch Avatar. Then I I was going to go, I was like, all right, I got movie tickets from Cinemark for my club membership. I was like, three hours eighteen, I'm good. Never mind. That's how that went.

SPEAKER_01 55:10

My wife and I went to go watch um Housemaid yesterday.

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SPEAKER_03 55:14

Oh, oh I want to watch that one. That one looks good. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I I hear there's like Sydney Swinney shows her boobs, so yeah. I I didn't I did hear that too.

SPEAKER_02 55:24

Yeah, does she have good jeans? She does.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

That that might be something because I've got old girl girl here for the week because she doesn't have her little because last week was little one. This week she's solo, so she has to work a little bit, but we might, and then there's no Tuesday movies with the holiday season, so no Tuesday final movies anyway, 550 movies. So uh we may go see that because that one is on my list. I was like, I was tempted to go see it without her last week. I was like, nah, I would so not get laid if that happened. Uh so I was like That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

You'd see City Swing's mobs, so it's fine. Yeah that's true.

SPEAKER_03 55:57

It kind of balances out. Yeah, I mean a theater that whoever's sitting in front of me in a theater might not like it, but just bring a get a cup.

SPEAKER_01 56:05

Don't get don't get stirred. Just get a cup. Please stop spraying your uh cinnamon rolled your frosting all over. Who brought cinnamon?

SPEAKER_03 56:14

Somebody brought cinnamon. I don't even smell it, but I got that that smell is not cinnabon. I got something about merry hair now.

SPEAKER_01 56:24

Cinnabon syrup. Why does Cinnabon frosting smell like bleach? This is weird. And now I got something about merry hair. It's weird. Um no, I liked it though. It it was entertaining. I was never bored. Um chick was crazy, the other chick was crazy.

SPEAKER_02 56:41

Everybody was crazy.

unknown 56:42

Cool.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

That's what I want to see. Sydney Boots. And then I mean you can't go wrong. No.

SPEAKER_01 56:50

And then I've been catching up on Stranger Things since my biggest, and then we can go on uh New Year's Eve to the theater to watch the finale. There it is. Just staying home and watching it on Netflix like a normal person. Yep. I want to pay Netflix extra money.

SPEAKER_03 57:13

Right. What was with Big When talking about like the last episode sucked or something?

SPEAKER_01 57:19

She was not into I don't know. I don't know. I haven't been I have two more episodes, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 57:24

Alright. And she still wants to go to the theater to watch the finale, even though these last episodes sucked?

SPEAKER_01 57:29

I think she finally admits that the show's pretty mid. Like the first season was amazing. I don't think anybody can argue that. But it's been mid since. Um I didn't mind season four. I actually liked um Eddie Munson, the the human torch. He was pretty entertaining. Season five's been fine for me.

SPEAKER_03 57:49

It's 30-year-old playing an 18-year-old, but whatever.

SPEAKER_01 57:52

Whatever. They're all they're all that old now. Yeah, no shit. Yeah, now, yeah. They're like riding around on bikes in season one, all looking all young, and now they're like, we all have licenses and drive cars. Well, I think that's why they're like, I think um season four was during spring break. They're like, cool, if we don't put them near any other high school kids, then you can just assume that these kids are high school kids. They're all literally Steve Buschemi. Hello, fellow kids. Right? But it's not horrible. I'm enjoying it. I'm not like fangirling over it, but it's been entertaining. I'm not mad at it. It is worth catching up on.

SPEAKER_03 58:32

Oh, okay. I was gonna say, I'm sure I'll finish season five, or finish the series, which was season five, sometime next month. But I'm not I'm in no hurry, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 58:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:42

So, I don't know. I've been enjoying it well enough.

SPEAKER_03 58:47

Are you enjoying Fallout? I haven't started that one yet either.

SPEAKER_01 58:50

Yes, most episodes have been very good. Yep. Um, we also started Landman, which is still just as good as it was last season. How far into Landman? Oh, we correct three episodes? I think there's only three hours. Her admissions interview did make me want to put my head through the TV. His daughter, you remember the bubble head bimbo? She's trying to get into like uh Texas TTU, I think. Texas Tech. No, she was originally her brother, her brother went to Texas Tech. She wants to go to TTU. Yeah. So she has like an admissions interview. And it just off the rails, dude. The admissions officer wants to put a gun in her mouth by the end of it.

SPEAKER_03 59:34

Oh my god. But they got money, so she'll get in.

SPEAKER_01 59:37

Pretty much basically. Basically, what she said.

SPEAKER_00 59:40

Oh, that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 59:42

This is a formality. Yes. So you're fucking in like a cheerleader scholarship or some shit, and they're like, I cannot deny you. But if I could, you would never go here. Your great grandchildren would never come here. That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 59:58

I'll just say I think the other big because that whole Odessa uh, you know, with all the oils happening, uh, north of that, because again, I used to live there. North of that is where Texas Tech is up in Lubbock.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:08

So, you find a house in Fort Worth or something so they can be closer.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:13

Okay, so yeah, that's that's where you start going into like the Houston area, for start going into TCU and Rice and those those schools.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:21

Yeah, but I think her brother went to Texas Tech, which is why she doesn't want to go to Texas Tech with me. So no, fine so good. I think there's supposed to be a red raiders.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

Oh, cool. So only we have like three more to wait for, four more to wait for.

Christmas Loot, Pins, And Sunglasses Wall

SPEAKER_01 1:00:37

Yeah, that's what I told my wife. I'm like, let's not watch too many of these all at once so that we're not waiting weekly. Let's not get too caught up. Um we can watch a couple ended.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:49

We watch a couple. Oh, I haven't seen that one. Heard good things, but haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:56

And uh it was awesome. Is it Apple TV? I yeah. I think uh as far as original TV content goes, it's probably my series of the year. I don't want to undercut Andor, but Andor is like kind of pre-existing stuff. But as far as like original not pre-existing, um, by far, my my season my TV season of the year.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:24

Like it's I think I got a free you know Apple Plus subscription thing, tryout thing. So maybe that'll be on my list to give it a shot.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:34

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:35

I would suggest I I yeah. I it's one of those shows when you get done watching it, you want everybody else you know to watch it so you can have conversations about it. Because I don't like it's yeah, it's one of those ones where at the end you're just like uh my brain hurts because so many thoughts.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:59

So yeah, I don't now you got me curious.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:03

Why the hell do I have a free oh uh because it's always free.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:10

It's always a free trial.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:11

It was like Sam's Club or I bought something that were like, hey, this came with a free subscription of you got like free 30 days or something. Yeah, yeah, I have until March to sign up for it, and you get free 30 days. I'm like, alright, I'll watch all the shows people have been talking about. Like the one with uh Drago, I think, where he's blind or something, or The Rock. Somebody's blind in this show.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:32

Uh yeah, it's C. C show. C. I think it's C. Yeah, so something like that. I got three free months with my new phone that I just purchased. So there you go. Uh who's your um who's your wireless provider, Lou?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

AT ⁇ T.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:49

You might also want to see if they have a free. Because I I have two mobile and I get I get like the basic Netflix, I get Apple TV, and I think I get like Paramount Plus or something all free.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:02

Oh dang. All right. Well, maybe not though, because I'm cheap. I get the the Go plan, which is like 30 bucks a month.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:08

But I do pays 10 cents a text message.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

It's five, thank you. I got a sale this this this Christmas. Five cents.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:17

If Lou's not on Wi-Fi, he can't.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:24

Wait, you guys have data plans? What?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:29

That's why Louis so happened when we were in Japan. Because he had that little data plan going.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:35

Dude, for real. Man, they had me going freaking sailie. And I had discount codes from watching YouTube, and then people got my$18 code for$15.50. That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:54

After tax.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:58

So I just looked up what I looked up what benefits uh ATT benefits. ATT. And there's uh uh a Reddit thread where somebody's like, what perks and discounts does ATT have? Uh no perks.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

Yeah, Verizon, T-Bobile, they all got something. Yep. Yep. Uh and then there's ATT, like, we don't have to. You come to us anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:22

We'd love we want to. Don't get me wrong. They're like, come, come$30 man who likes paying five cents of a text.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:30

I mean, I'm gonna tell you right now, they're trying to up me to$32 a month. So I have to shop around now. They're going from$30 to$32. We ain't having that. We we gotta go see what's up and see if Verizon and T-Mobile got one of them owns the other. I can't remember who's who, but either way, or Ryan Reynolds. I gotta say who's got a$30 who like I just need a simple plan. I don't do anything crazy on my phone. I'm on Wi-Fi most of the time.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:56

I don't need all that data.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:00

You got me a deal for understanding, hey, ATT's raised me to 32 a month. What you got? You have a chance to see you have a chance to earn my business.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:06

Hello? Hello? And then you come back to uh ATT, like, well, I'm leaving. They're like, no, no, no, stay. We'll we'll keep you at 16.$16.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:15

But it's like, no, we won't raise it's like just like the cable company. No, we won't raise your shit. We'll go ahead and leave it be. Just stick around. I was like, although that's the other thing I hate. New customers come in at this price. Uh does not apply to existing customers. So we already got your money, so fuck you. Like, no. No, I'm I'm my twin brother, Cornelius.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:36

My name is Lewis. I'm Lester. I'm Lester Moses.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:43

Oh man. That always pisses me off. Like, like when ATT was like same price for new or existing, I'm like, about time. Somebody like her must like as BS. It's like, I'm see, see, I know me. I would be jumping ship every back in the day when you're doing two-year plans. I'm like, I'm on you for two years. But wait, I'm a new customer over here now. Okay, I'll come back in two years. So if you want to give me the new the new employee or the new employee, the new customer rate, I will stick with you. If not, I'm gonna go be a new customer someplace else. Your choice.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:17

If only your ex had known that before.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:21

Right? I'm around for two years. And if you ain't still giving me the same deal, I'm out.

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SPEAKER_03 1:06:29

Deuces, y'all. This is how this works. Y'all know how Leo DiCaprio does it, right? Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:38

Trained up to a newer model. Damn Skippy, I'm with it. That's the best part.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:47

I told y'all that last time. That's the best part about living here in Boulder in a college town. Them girls always 21 when I go out.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:53

Always. They never age. Blackwitterson. Louis Blackwitterson.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:58

Take a mic, go to the college, go to the dive bars. It's like, hell are you 21? Man, you're I swear. That's what my ID says.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:06

My ID says 21. Good enough. Hey, that's all I had to ask. She showed me her ID. I'm not an expert in fake IDs.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:13

Damn right, officer or judge, your honor. It's like, what am I supposed to do? She told me she was over 18. She told me an ID that showed she was 21.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:24

I took a picture of it to make sure that if something happened, I could say, hey, look, this is what you're Yep. Look, this is Colorado. Y'all know what Sir. It says McLevin.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:34

And it's a Hawaiian license. What am I supposed to know? She she likes she likes a McRib. It is the season, man. So it's on.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:45

It was weird she wanted me to put barbecue sauce on it, but whatever. You know, that's her jam. She likes to be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:52

Don't hate on fetishes, Judge. You like gavels. Nobody nobody makes fun of you with your gavel.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:58

And you're in road.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:03

Then you hanging out the wrong clubs. Fair. For the right.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:12

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:15

I know what I know what y'all did to Kobe. Here's a contract. I made her sign it. She said she was over 18.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:22

Loser with a lawyer. And uh and a uh notary. Lou's like, hold on, let me ask my lawyer sugar-free. Let's see what he has to say. Damn right. And my notary, a paper named Slickback.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:43

Um, yeah, Christmas. They said it was cool. The girls got spoiled. All right. All three of them. Yeah. All three of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:52

I got you in the dust again.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:54

Let's say they leave you in the dust again.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:57

Pretty much. I got um I got Hamilton Monopoly, which was kind of cool. So I cannot throw away my dice. Um I got a cool um Yoda like lawn gnome thing. I guess it's solar and it lights up and it says welcome on it. And then I got a couple Hallmark ornaments.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:20

So I got one, two, three, four. I got five gifts. They all got at least two to three times that. But you know. I was gonna say, they got two to three dozen. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Why did we open it?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:37

Mine was quiet. I was gonna say mine was quiet. Just chill here. Like I said, uh obviously not back, not back in Vegas. Old girl uh uh had the little one and her her stuff going on in her place. But this is not news for me. I don't I think I've said it before. I'm not a Christmas fan. I haven't been since I was 17. And so obviously I'm 50 now, so 33 years of I don't give a shit about Christmas. So people like I someone's like, hey, your butt you're so Christmas, yeah. Oh, that's terrible. I'm like, no, it is not. I enjoy making my own little pot roast, watching the games. I played magic on the computer. I was good. So they're like, Are you sure? I'm like, yeah. So you're not faking. And I go, trust me, if the more shit that happens, the more irritated I get. I want no part of that.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:22

Uh Lose Christmas, I can hang out.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:24

You know what's funny? I can socially hang out for New Year's. I don't want to do it for Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:29

So lose Christmas. New Year's like if I were to come to Vegas. When the Hallmark ornaments hit.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:36

Mm-hmm. Shit, when when when Hallmark, when Hallmark put that con carbonite back on sale, my Christmas is over. I got that. It showed up in September whenever it showed up. I'm looking at over here, it's right over here to my right, and it was like, alright, that's fine. I'm good. Well, don't get me don't get me wrong. I mean, uh, like like Old Girl got me some um socks.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:04

Oh yeah, yeah. Which is totes appropriate for me. Yeah, then the the Habaham.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:12

Uh that's like an annual thing. She gets me uh Vader socks almost every year, different, obviously different type.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:17

Um that'd be funny if it was just the same ones, just every year. Right. It's not over. I'm like, bitch, why are you going through my sock drawer?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:27

I need to make sure. See, that's where the whole order history matters a lot. Yeah. When you go on your online accounts, you go stop at the same place, you look at order history. I I've done that. I was like, did I do it? Let me go check out order history. It's like, alright, I'm good. Um, but yeah, she also the other thing, um, the I think I sent you the picture. The the black Santa cookie from Target.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:49

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:50

That's just hilarious. Get rid of black Santa cookie. And then uh, oh, one of my favorites, I do it every day. I usually wait till Target's on 70% off sale, but she got it for Christmas warning. The those chocolate oranges, you know, the they're in that blue box or whatever, foil around it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:06

Slam them on the ground.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:07

Slam on the ground to break up all the pieces. Yeah, she got me four of those, which is good because they don't expire for 18 months, because I usually don't eat one like that quickly. It's it'll take me a month to eat one. So it's perfect because it'll last for 18 months. So as long as I eat one every four and a half months, I'm good. The next 18 months so they don't expire, because I don't like expired stuff. Or I'm sorry, Best Buy dates. They don't I only too many things expire these days. It's all Best Buy. We reach the past the Best Buy, I throw it away. And I hate throwing away food, so we make sure it's like, oh, it's about to, this is about to expire. Let's eat this. Except for honey. Honey doesn't expire.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:43

We gotta eat this whole jar of pickle relish. Get a spoon. Yep.

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SPEAKER_03 1:12:46

I was like, man, we'd we better find some dishes. We're about to marinade some pork roast with some fucking pickle relish. We're about to pickle relish pork roast for dinner for the next three days. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:06

Well, so those ketchup don't go bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:09

No, no, no. Hold hold on. Stop, stop right there. Stop right there. Ketchup will not go bad when you're getting it from packets from all the restaurants you go to. You don't have to buy ketchup. Like, what is wrong with you? Buy a ketchup. We have ketchup in your freezer. We have ketchup in your freezer. I was like, I gotta, no, man. Wait, I'm making spaghetti this week, then I'm going to Sans Club, and I'm gonna get a pizza slice combo, and I'm gonna take back crushed pepper and parmesan, because I know I'm gonna have spaghetti later in the week at home, so why I gotta buy that shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:40

Lou out here making fucking Lou out here making a fucking meatloaf and he's in the he's in the kitchen for 45 minutes. Hang on. No, I'm almost there, guys. We're good.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:51

You don't even have to, because you could pre-pep that shit. Just get a bucket, like a little Tupperware, and like when you're up doing something else, Lou bought a ketchup bottle once.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:59

He just refills that bit too much. Just refill it.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:03

You're just sitting there just watching football all day. By the time the games are over, you got a new bottle. I mean, come on now. Works for mustard too, just so you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:15

That'll be a time when like Lou's fingers are like, I can't I can't open them. I can't open them anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:29

You get that packet, you know, you do the flick thing, so it all goes to the bottom, and then you can do one-handed.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:33

I'm telling you, spit, and then boom. Most people get carpal tunnel from being at the computer too long. Lou does it refill it his ketchup bottle.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:45

Yeah. But you only gotta buy one fancy ketchup bottle, and everybody thinks you got fancy ketchup the whole time. It's Walmart Sam's Club packets. And they think you think you they think you're fancy. I don't know. Or Sonic or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:58

Now, do you mix them though? Like you got your McDonald's ketchup, your Burger King ketchup, do you mix them or is it just one? No, you don't mix them, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:05

You gotta stick with one. I mean uh yeah, it's easier to take the ones from uh Sam's Club, so that's usually the main brand. If I have some left of ketchup over from like McDonald's, for example, that'll go on top of the air fryer, and if I need something simple like making a hot dog, I'll grab that stuff. You know, you want the fancy stuff from Sam's Club, you know, you gotta, you know, you gotta chill, you know. Exactly. Pinky's out. This is Sam's Club ketchup. This is Sam's Club mustard, Sam's Club relish. Although they pissed me off, they don't got no damn mayonnaise or onion packets. Fucking cheap bastards.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:40

They got the grinder. I think Costco has like the grinder for the uh relish, right? No, it's a pump now. Is it a pump? That's what the ketchup is. I thought at one point, or was that the onions that they had? Oh, that's wild. They had the yeah, one of them did have the grinder, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:54

Yeah, it's cool. I still want packets though. I can take those home. I can't take the grinder home.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:01

No, it's good. It's good. I don't need a ticket for this. There was no price tag on it, so we're good.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:06

That's what I was saying. That'd be so much more difficult.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:08

This is all for my hot dog. My windows.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:12

My dollar's gonna say you take the big coat, you know, the one with the deep pockets, and you're good to go. One, I can get one slice of pizza and like 30 packets of crushed red peppers and Parmesan.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:25

I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:26

Coming out with warm hot peppers.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:28

Where'd those come from? My pocket? Mm-hmm. He gets into a fight in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:35

Pocket peppers. Blinding them.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:40

Because In N Out gives you those banana peppers, and you can use the juice from there. And he's like, blind people. It's like, uh-uh, In N Out. See, In and Out's got it down.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:47

This guy's about ready to fight.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:49

Lou's like, hang on a sec.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:53

Yeah, you do you do the little the little bite up front, so you have an opening and then squeezed so it all comes out that one end. Yeah. I know what's up. That's how you do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:03

Lou, you fight dirty.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:07

Hell yeah. You got banana pepper eyes. So now what? Now you can't see.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:15

So, anyways, Duke, what did you do for Christmas?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:20

Pangins. I actually got ketchup packets for yeah, you did. You're welcome. Thanks, Lou. I was wondering why my I was wondering why my mailbox smelled like ketchup, and I opened it up. I'm like, oh, it's a gift from Lou. I know what this is. It's all his miscellaneous ones throughout the year that he can't match up with anything else. The weird ones with the trainee's food place that he doesn't even know why they have ketchup.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:45

Right. I did not use this one at Wendy's. I used their chicken nugget sauce instead, so here you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:49

Weirdly, there was one random packet of horsey sauce from Arby's. I don't even know what that was.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:55

That would not have happened. I would have eaten that. Let's let's be real. Come on. I will find something to put that on.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:04

Lou out here. Oh man. So good.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:17

Especially you get the Arby and the horsey together.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:19

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:26

I've seen that on Pornhub when both of them squirting her mouth at the same time, though. I got you.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:30

Oh yeah. Where do you think I got the idea from? Shit. I was in there, I was like, oh, them girls know what's up. Put them both together, you can pinch the top together, you get two packets going, you know, one quick bite. The problem is the ratios are off. You have to do more of the Arby sauce than the horsey sauce. You have to have like two uh of the Arby sauce packets and one horsey sauce.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:57

Because it's thinner. Yep, no, you're right, you're right. So then you got yourself three seconds. Hey, if it saves them on jeopardy one day, you're welcome. That's true. Right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:13

What condiments can you get at Sam's Club for a hot dog or pizza? Like, bruh.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:19

What is hold on? They said they don't have the grinders anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:22

That's Costco. That's Costco. See, that's the Sands Club. See, you already think the wrong way. You can get ketchup, you get mustard, you can get relish. You can't get mail, Costco you can get mail, and onions. So they used to have onions. They took away the onion packets at Costco. So they're worthless.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:35

So may as well just go to Sands Club. No onion packets. There you go. You're welcome, America. Right. Oh yeah. Anyway, Christmas nuke.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:04

For the twelfth time, hey.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:06

Right? Before you really interrupt it again.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:10

Don't drink it from I I have not hung out with my sister yet, so I don't know what I got for what uh she got me. But I feel like I I think she's gonna get me um a few of those pin boards. I think I finally have enough pins that I do need a so I found these kind of cool like hexagon ones that kind of fit together in the then you they have like you can get like little things printed in the corner so you get like the Star Wars logo the Disney castle that type of thing that's cool so I asked her for like a set of those like so okay I never heard of those that sounds cool yeah so when I get them done I'll show you guys but um figure I'd get something because I have like a I have like a thing a full basket just full of pins that I'm just not displaying or doing anything with and I'm just kind of like what are we doing here? So uh and I think it was a couple things like that that I asked her for just stuff to kind of fill in the gaps of you know the house. Um and then um my good friends are still working on fixing it but or finishing it but they got me a uh sunglass holder like wall it goes on the wall and it's uh like a piece of wood that has like a leather strap that has but that has little um nails in it so then you can hang your glasses from uh they have something similar at their house and they were like oh this is something that you know it's a it's a personal thing like they went and cut the wood and they're putting it together it's not something they bought so once that gets done I'll show you guys that as well I was gonna say I'm gonna need a picture of this because I'm not following yep you need a a wall hanger to hang your sunglasses well so there's a there's a company that sells sunglasses called Gooder and the sunglasses are super cheap and they have a whole different a whole variety of different colors different polarizations that type of thing so it's kind of a it's kind of a culty type thing I didn't know people had more than one pair of sunglasses okay yeah I will I will uh I will take a picture of their so between the two of them they probably have like 40 pairs of sunglasses so next time I'm over at the house I'll take a picture and send them over to you.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:16

Well say though there's people that are blind like us so you know yeah yeah we necessarily do sunglasses yeah but I only need my glasses for like like stuff not I I don't wear my glasses regularly Jack you wear yours regularly I don't but I only have one pair when they break I go to Walmart and buy another$10 pair and then that's it. You know I don't I don't understand okay I guess it's a thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:40

And then I had uh the cigar yeah yeah Lou for sure for sure and then my uh my cigar buddy the one who introduced me to the whole world of cigars uh he got me a movie in a bag so he got me a speakeasy candle a bag of popcorn a bag of uh chocolates that have vodka in them and then a giant throw and it was it was a movie in a bag so because he knows I like the movies so I'm like I will totally take the throw with me the next time I go to the movie theater and it wrapped around me and fall asleep. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:17

So yeah okay okay I'm all like I'm like okay well what movie did it get you like last night no movies it was just supposed to compliment the movies that I was watching earlier. Exactly so it it took me a second but I got there. Yeah I'm all like okay what movie would he possibly did he get you Sisu part two?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:34

I know just bought me a stack of cheap DVDs from uh from Walmart I wish those bastards every year I still bitch.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:45

Spend five years I'm still bitching so you'll continue to bitch.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:50

I can't yeah yeah same same like my mom my mom dad sent me cash you know the usual which is fine um uh and like I said in this stuff from oh girl but it's that's kind of been my my jam for years decades even like you know what's funny though like I had no problem getting her the things that I got her but I'm all like but don't don't bother you know um you wanna give me a present come sit down watch the football games naked you know that type of stuff that's fine wait you don't want to be distracted from the football games what the hell Lou too late yeah that happened in the morning games yeah not when his radio playing when my yeah my Raiders oh so bad today I I literally I think I think there was kickoff and then one or two drives then I fell asleep until I think I texted y'all when when it was like I woke up and it's like hey they they won I was like oh boo that's when I woke up that's how bad and there was only two games in the afternoon so what the hell is it and the and the other game wasn't any other any better. 13 to 12 get out of here with that crap. Josh looked like crap Josh Allen looked like crap it was just like whatever so I went took a nap for like two hours it was two almost three but but yeah I did get distracted because she was naked and then I didn't watch the second half of the morning game.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:24

You didn't miss nothing.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:27

I was too busy having brunch but yeah Pittsburgh failed as expected I expected them to lose and they did uh I expect him to lose next week at home um Boston was a three-point favorite at that game and they should have Lamar Jackson back and Pittsburgh still without DK Metcalf doesn't matter even with him Pittsburgh's not a good team I've been saying that since week one um I'm glad that Tomlin got uh Mike Tomlin got his winning record nine and eight this year when he loses next week but I mean if Pittsburgh wins great does it matter no to lose the following week first week in the playoffs right um they're not better than any any other teams in the playoffs right now they are not better then so I'm almost rooting for them to lose to get a better basket better draft pick. I'd rather him pick 18 instead of 22nd. You know what I mean? One of those type of things so well whatever Giants get the two Pittsburgh will get you know 18 or 19 uh and we look about next year and hopefully Pittsburgh starts the kid from Ohio State and just fucking start over already stop with this let's bring in an old guy let's bring in an old guy so we shall see but next year if Rogers actually retires this year he won't retire well he he was part of the reason they lost today honestly uh he was horrible there was a third down that he slid early instead of diving for a first down which led to a fourth down play that they didn't convert so it was it was just like Rogers if you had actually just I don't know cared about your team you would have dove forward instead of slid um Boswell missed a field goal there's a lot of opportunities for Pittsburgh uh in that game only because Cleveland's bad you know the you you lost to a team that went into that game with three wins that's how bad you are Pittsburgh so so you you you lose DK Metcalf you should still be able to beat the Cleveland Browns positive uh Miles Garrett did not get his sack so when he breaks the record next week against Cincinnati it won't be against the Steelers he broke it against the Steelers you won't be a bar quiz question so there's that but Burrow Burrow is totally getting sacked by Miles Garrett next week he's absolutely getting his record next week so some good games though I mean the the NFC South determined on Saturday the number one seed in the NFC uh uh West determined on Saturday and then finally the Pittsburgh game um on Sunday night so football next week will start fantastic will end fantastic the middle will be garbage a lot of these players are sitting these players are sitting and a whole lot of and expect to hear this all next week this person needs this one thing to get a bonus from their contract this person needs five more yards six more carries it'll be like oh my gosh shut up don't care gotta fill a 24 hour news cycle man like that's the downside of that yup so like at this point I'm like I'm ready for I'm ready for the playoffs it's like can we just I'm it's like I think I think after Saturday especially because I am curious about Tampa and Carolina. I am curious about Seattle and San Francisco but not much more than that.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:05

I mean people are like oh what about Pit like I said I expect Pittsburgh to lose so I don't care about that game.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:12

So we'll see what happens we'll see what happens whatever in the rest of the sports and I mean too soon for basketball don't care don't care what's happening in the in the NBA right now I'll care when playoffs start. Until then there's too many games hockey for hockey off 82 games for hockey dude did they beat or get beat by Avalanche they did.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:36

They were whooping that ass they tied it up and then um they lost in the shootout oh so I was listening speaking of that um so I don't have Netflix so I wasn't watching the game on Thursday but I was listening to it on satellite radio and they brought a guy in who was like he's like the director of the Vikings Entertainment Network the guy that's done all the videos and news production and everything for the last I think like eight to nine years and he's leaving to go be the same position for the Golden Knights. So you guys should expect to see a lot more good videos and quality stuff because he's done the stuff that he's done with the Vikings as far as uh the the transparency as far as like you know that type of thing. He's he's the stuff he's put in over the time that he's been working with the Vikings is you know the eng the fan engagement is way I think way higher than it is for a lot of teams uh because of him so good luck I hope uh I hope it works out but yeah it should be alright sounds like it should be alright yeah is my is my shirt backwards on your screen no okay just my screen that's weird let me just say my shirt's backwards on my screen yeah it's fine on my screen that's why do they do that? I don't know video I think so it's like a mirror so like if I raise this hand it looks normal on my screen.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:11

Oh I don't want that I want it proper but it is that and then I get but it's not a mirror.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:19

I'm not looking at a mirror I'm looking at a camera therefore I should be seeing what the camera's seeing not the reverse of what the camera's seeing so I'll have to go play around and see if there's a setting to fix that because that's stupid I'm sure there's a reason for it like six seven works either way or seven six does it it doesn't work seven six don't wear a shirt with words on it do I have any shirts but yeah I said I have some simple shirts so do you like a t-shirt just do the shirt the show topless fuck it show everybody your hairy bellies one week. Fuck 'em all right hot tub I'm fine with that if I I mean you want to see some hairy nipples? I'm an A cut I'll show them off.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:08

What should be our highest we say hot tub stream and people are like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah if if if there's any hashtag topless in it it's gonna get a lot of clicks. Ha my god oh my god I'm so down I think well I guess it is our last pod for the year huh? Yeah oh yeah what do you uh I mean you guys do you have anything uh do we want to reflect on 2025 real quick anything you guys I think we'll save that for next week for our for our opening yeah we're already there opening of twenty twenty six plus it'll give me a chance to reflect all right all right boys well Riverside already did ours our um our look back and it's just us laughing uh that's funny I'll see if I can send it to you guys but it's hilarious is it on their on the dashboard or do you think it's good as well as I'm gonna saw that I did put it on the Facebook so I don't know if it's on there maybe that's right.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:19

I was all like what the hell did you see if I can find it's pretty funny maybe I can show it after we're I was watching it with old girl like last week or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:29

So all right gents this has been this week so and uh happy new year everybody be safe we'll talk to you next year old acquaintances be forgotten some shit however that goes and shit and things.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:44

All laying sign twenty twenty five back to an