S2E10: Long Beach v. Irvine, Peeps, and Adolescence

We dive into men's collegiate volleyball rankings and break down the implications of Long Beach State's split with UC Irvine in what was a high-level volleyball showcase with sold-out crowds.

• Clear separation exists between the "top five" teams and everyone else in men's volleyball
• Long Beach maintains #1 ranking despite their loss to UC Irvine in a sold-out match
• Debate over Loyola Chicago's #6 ranking after being "called out of rotation"
• Discussion of whether Long Beach's loss will ultimately benefit them by relieving pressure
• High school volleyball rankings from cousin Greg
• Netflix's "Adolescence" recommended as essential viewing for anyone working with young men
• Each episode of "Adolescence" filmed in a continuous 50-minute single shot
• Comprehensive taste test of nine different Peep varieties
• Classic yellow Peep crowned champion over specialty flavors like Dr. Pepper and Blue Raspberry
• Cotton Candy Peeps universally condemned and "should be banned by the FDA"

Transcript

Welcome to Coach's Group Chat

Arielle 0:00

learn either laugh like lacy will look over and she's like are you laughing at your own jokes?

Matt 0:06

you're goddamn right, you're like don't hate me, that was a good joke.

Chad 0:10

That was fucking hilarious okay, big warm welcome to uh cousin greg is joining us today triple g in the house welcome to the show.

Matt 0:24

oh, you know what? Know what Cousin Greg? Sorry, your camera is right here Now I'm blocking it.

Chad 0:28

Bob was busy.

Matt 0:29

So here we go.

Arielle 0:30

There you go.

Chad 0:31

Today, let's get you in there.

Arielle 0:32

So we went deep at the bench.

Chad 0:34

Bobby was Also busy. Also busy Hobbies in Puerto.

Arielle 0:42

Rico, puerto Rico.

Chad 0:44

See you, and I've got a couple people on my list that need to make their presence known, and Cousin Greg is number one.

Matt 0:52

Yeah, I agree.

Chad 0:53

So a warm welcome. Cousin.

Arielle 0:54

Greg is one of our six listeners, so now we're going to lose one because he's heard it live.

Matt 0:59

Honestly, it's our first live recording of the Coach's Group chat right here.

Chad 1:02

Do you listen every week? That's what I listen to on.

Arielle 1:07

Honestly, it's our first live recording of the Coach's Group chat right here. Do you listen every week?

Matt 1:09

What's our best episode? They're all great. Think about it, yeah honestly, he's right.

Chad 1:16

The lost episodes are always the best.

Arielle 1:17

Some of them were unaired and some of them were actually lost.

Volleyball Rankings Breakdown

Chad 1:20

Some of them were literally lost. Okay, we've got a great docket for you guys today.

Matt 1:24

This is an Ariel docket, Let it be known. So she is the captain of the ship right now. You're in charge. She said last week, before we started recording. She said I took over the episode.

Chad 1:36

You hijacked.

Matt 1:38

I hijacked. Yeah, that was the direct word. It was a hijack.

Chad 1:40

So I'm hijacking back. Yep, so I'm hijacking back. Okay, we've got a lot of really great things to talk about, but first we're going to talk about volleyball.

Arielle 1:48

We'll talk about the other things later, let's do it.

Chad 1:51

This is a volleyball podcast.

Arielle 1:53

It's a podcast that talks mostly about NCAA men's collegiate volleyball. It's pretty singularly fast. We have one facet, we have three facets.

Chad 2:01

Today we're going to talk about some other things. We're talking about candy a little bit. We're talking about a tv show today too yeah, that's good.

Matt 2:08

Can I can I read for the listeners aloud, asmr style, that the composite top 10 from the traders bowl?

Arielle 2:14

do you have to do everything asmr style, like I feel, like that's just like I feel, like we, yes, okay actually no, you have to pay extra.

Matt 2:21

You got to pay the premium.

Chad 2:22

Yeah, there's a subscriber.

Matt 2:23

Go to group chat subscriber fee for the ASMR On onlyfanscom All right.

Matt 2:28

Here's the composite. This is the aggregate rankings of all of the contributors. Long Beach State stays at number one even after their split. We got UCLA at two, irvine moves up to three, usc at four, hawaii at five, loy Loyola at six, pep at seven, csun at eight, san Diego at nine and the Honey Badgers of McKendree State at number 10. That's the composite rankings. Take it away. Hijack the mic back, please. Let's hear your thoughts. Where do we want to go with this conversation?

Chad 2:57

Okay, first thing I want to talk about is that, loyola, there's a top group, there's a bottom group, top five's the top group. There's a bottom group, top five's the top group. Top five has been top five is the consistent top group, like if you're in the top five, you're in the top five and I don't know if there's gonna be much movement either way from that for the rest of the season.

Matt 3:14

Hawaii is the only hawaii is the only team that has lost outside of the top five.

Chad 3:18

Like lost to a team that's not in the top five yeah everyone else has only lost to another top five team and that's why they're the number five and we're getting wrecked in the comments from the Hawaii fans and you know what? That's our. That's the reason why they're the only team in the top five that has lost to outside of the top five.

Arielle 3:35

Yeah, there you go. I thought you were just proving that we have an excellent podcast.

Chad 3:38

We have an excellent rankings and an excellent podcast if hawaii fans don't hate it, it's wrong and I'm I'm coming to the outrigger canoe club and I'm gonna hang out I'm gonna relax, and I'm gonna relax on the beach and potentially visit the bar twice yes, exactly. Um, from there we've got some debate and we'll talk about the top five in a minute, but let's talk about the bottoms first, let's talk.

Matt 4:05

Talk about the bottoms for all of our gay listeners out there, okay, the first bottom we'd like to talk about is loyal to chicago.

Chad 4:19

Loyal chicago is not in my number six at all. The reason why they were called out of rotation one time this year and that's it. You don't get to be number six at all. The reason why they were called out of rotation one time this year and that's it. You don't get to be number six in the country and get called out of rotation Done.

Matt 4:29

Yeah, but they're at the top, bottom, right now they are at the top bottom. Right now they're at the top bottom. They beat CSUN, they beat Pepperdine, they beat San Diego.

Chad 4:43

I flipped Pepperdine, but's my reason for everything with them Pepperdine, great, nice team.

Arielle 4:50

Not a lot of big wins.

Chad 4:52

Not a lot of big losses, just cruising down Malibu. They're a middle bottom.

Matt 4:58

They're a middle bottom. They're staying consistent, though they're losing to the teams that they're supposed to lose to. They're beating the teams they're supposed to beat CSUN.

Chad 5:07

My matators Break your heart this weekend.

Long Beach vs. Irvine Match Analysis

Matt 5:10

Oh man, they broke my heart. I love that Santa Barbara gets that win, I do. But man, oh man, csun, we got to take care of that one. We got to take care of that one, yeah, but it's CSUN.

Chad 5:19

They got to have some.

Matt 5:21

No, not this year's CSUN, it's a different year. Yeah, this is a different team and I expected better out of them.

Chad 5:35

Should this be?

Matt 5:35

a call to action for CSUN to fly Matt down to go to a game to give a pregame. If you guys need a pump-up speech, I can deliver. I once was told that I wrote the best, best man speech that my grandma ever heard, and I can deliver some great content for you.

Arielle 5:48

It was nice that's one five star review, but this guy can grab the bulls by the bulls.

Matt 5:55

Not to make this all about myself, but, goddamn, I could certainly bring something to the team right now, so let me know what we need to do to make it happen.

Chad 6:04

You're going to have to fly yourself down for that.

Matt 6:06

Yeah, that's fine, I got Southwest points.

Chad 6:07

San Diego made an appearance.

Matt 6:10

San Diego's getting a little bump up here I did not have them in my top 10. Same.

Chad 6:13

I watched. Oh, that could be the DoorDash.

Matt 6:15

It's DoorDash Cousin, greg. Oh, they're calling me recording here, okay, okay, yeah, I'll go back and check in to you in one.

Arielle 6:28

Yeah.

Matt 6:28

Yeah, if you get a duplicate. All good, wendy, this is five-star service from DoorDash right now. So I appreciate you, all right, okay, all right, all right, we'll see you in a bit. We'll be there soon. Okay, okay, bye God. That is the greatest DoorDash conversation I've ever had in my life.

Chad 6:46

That was the easiest DoorDash conversation ever. Wendy's the.

Matt 6:49

GOAT. Absolutely Normally I pick up the phone from DoorDash and I'm like what adventure am I going on?

Chad 6:56

Where are you? By a tree? No way Look around A tsunami.

Matt 7:02

What do you see? You don't speak English. Okay, let's use the translator.

Chad 7:06

Oh my goodness.

Matt 7:07

What do you speak Spanish? Okay, I got you. Let's go to message.

Chad 7:10

You're at the parking lot by the baseball field, send me a photo. We're over by the tennis courts.

Matt 7:14

Send me a photo of what's around you. Just turn in 180 degrees and take a photo that wasn't like that at all. Wendy was like I have everything under control and I will figure out what you need.

Chad 7:26

I just can't remember if you ordered your birthday cake, Peeps.

Matt 7:32

We ruined the surprise for the guests over here. They didn't know we were doing a Peeps review.

Arielle 7:36

We'll crop it and slice it into the right spot.

Chad 7:39

Later in this episode we'll be doing a Peeps tasting.

Arielle 7:41

We'll get Wendy on the pod.

Matt 7:44

We should invite Wendy in.

Chad 7:46

Kyle's going to get them from the door. She's going to be like some guy who looks like Cousin Greg from Succession.

Arielle 7:51

Invited me in to eat peeps.

Chad 7:52

Invited me into their house to eat peeps. That's the weirdest thing that happened to me tonight.

Arielle 8:02

And she's going to be like yeah, oh my goodness Okay.

Matt 8:06

Back to the top ten. Here we had a couple different voters. The bottom of the bottoms, the bottom bottoms we had. So here's the bottom bottoms. We have San Diego. Mchenry and then we had Santa Barbara and Grand Canyon. Those are the, and BYU got one bottom vote as well.

Chad 8:20

Okay, so I put Mc as well. Okay, so, uh, I put mckendry in, you want to know why I put mckendry in why nikki posted on her story what she post. Can't get better if you don't struggle, or something like that, something a little bit more poetic than that actually, but like we get the point but I was like yeah, she coached great.

Chad 8:39

She posted some coach stuff yeah, she posted, posted, like about the loss but not the loss, and like, hey, we're like, hey, we're moving, we learned our lesson. I was like psh and it was right when we were talking about like, who are you putting in your rankings? And I was like, and then I look and I'm swiping through stories and I see Nikki, I'm like McKendree, mckendree's going to mine so. Mckendree got the nod.

Matt 9:00

But first, before we go any further, I'm just going to slide over so my viewers can see here we're pulling up Brad Keller's top ten Useless.

Chad 9:08

Why did you say but first?

Matt 9:10

Oh yeah. That wasn't the right phrase.

Chad 9:13

But now, but now let's talk about Brad Keller's rankings. Okay, because Brad's Okay, brad has his reasons for why he did what he did.

Matt 9:24

You think he's just looking for rage bait.

Chad 9:26

Honestly, who cares? All I know is the best comment that we have ever had in the Coach's Group chat comment section. Let me set the stage for the color first I was setting the stage, but go ahead, matt, go for it.

Matt 9:38

Brad goes Irvine at one, cousin Greg is cracking up over there. Ucla at two, long Beach at three after the uh, after the weekend of irvine it's a funny ranking usc at four. I also. He also dropped usc back. He had them at three last week. It's his, that's his employer and he dropped him back a spot. Hawaiian five this is not the main thing, yeah, yeah so obviously brad's rankings are a little, a little more out there than everyone else.

Chad 10:06

So we put it out there today, get some bunch of people start commenting blah, blah, blah, like brad, brad, brad. And then I read this f later this afternoon. I read is brad related here's a helen with a blind person walking emojis. I was like that is the funniest shit I've ever heard in my life.

Matt 10:29

A Helen Keller joke on our post.

Chad 10:33

I wonder, if he's gotten that before, why are people not saying that?

Matt 10:37

more Volleytalk's going to be all over that one and anytime he does something bad in women's volleyball next year.

Chad 10:43

Helen Keller.

Arielle 10:48

They're pulling out Helen Keller jokes on him. That is the funniest, funniest joke I've ever heard.

Chad 10:52

Have you heard people?

Arielle 10:52

talk to him like that. I've never heard anybody make a reference. Oh, it's incredible. Yeah, we, we know a few killers too.

Chad 10:56

That's so true. Why do we? Why have we not made that joke? I don't think it's a super common person is who made this joke, Like I was like that's hats off to them.

Matt 11:07

Chad your rankings. You have an appearance of grand Canyon at nine and Santa Barbara at 10. I need to know.

Chad 11:14

Is this just?

Matt 11:15

is this just Homerism by you Cause this is your alma mater it is, or what do you? What do you do to back that up?

Arielle 11:20

No, we had to, we had to, we had to boot McKendree, even though it's Nikki two else on the weekend?

Chad 11:26

Yeah, I know, but so what?

Arielle 11:27

Long Beach loses twice and then you boot them to they lost once, and if they lost twice, yeah, they'd, they'd be off. Yeah, 11 to 8. Yeah, yeah, no chance. Okay, yeah, I think Grand Canyon's been playing well again, kind of like pep, like no, no, really bad losses, losses, but like nothing too big, uh. And then santa barbara, yeah, two, two against the the madibles, um, getting getting bianchi back out there I think, it's a huge deal for him, right?

Arielle 11:53

he's had some back stuff and I mean that guy just literally hits twice as many balls as anybody else on the team. So having him in the offense makes them a much better team. So I put put him at 10.

Chad 12:05

That's nice.

Arielle 12:06

And you went to school there and you're a homer.

Matt 12:07

Good shows. Yeah exactly Did you like. Also in your post video or picture I put a nice Ben Pearson shout out for you as well.

Chad 12:16

That's really thoughtful. What is yours?

Matt 12:20

Great question, I don't think I changed yours from last week. I kept Grant Cannon as yours For Great question. I don't think I changed yours from last week. I kept Grand Canyon as yours. Oh nice, yeah for the Lopes, because you got them the highest of everybody else. Yeah, that was our top 10.

Chad 12:34

The other rankings that people don't know that we also post on Mondays.

Matt 12:35

No, no, no, we're going to talk about Long Beach and Irvine.

Chad 12:36

Matt, can you stop, it's my docket.

Matt 12:40

Thank, you, that was on me.

Chad 12:45

Damn it. Thank you, that was on me. That was on me. Matt, lock in, lock in Matt. Okay, let's talk about Long Beach-Irvine, because that was the sold-out, sold-out games of the week.

Matt 12:49

Yeah, how cool was that Double sell-out? I don't remember the last time Irvine sold in a match.

Arielle 12:55

I think I read 2012 with Carson Clark when they were hosting the national finals I don't remember the exact match like hosting the national finals.

Matt 13:03

Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't remember the exact match, but that was their, their last, the closest attendance, cause they just broke the attendance record on Saturday.

Chad 13:10

Okay, so let's talk about Irvine at long beach night One the three zero annihilation, Okay.

Matt 13:19

First set back and forth very competitive. Long Beach had a set point. You could tell Long Beach was not clicking, their oppo was struggling in the first set. They don't have Satiris in right now because he's been injured and so they've been, you know, kind of used a couple different guys at OH1. They had Sonny Sebastian. Yeah, I think it's. Sebastian on he in at uh oh, two for arm.

Matt 13:45

Uh, he was okay, but you know, lower efficiency. And irvine was just hanging around enough and playing good ball on the first set and was able to pull it out and squeak it away and like they played pretty flawlessly and long beach played well too. But then in the second set once once irvine won, they you could tell that they were like this is ours yeah and long beach was like. We just don't have it right now. Yeah, 22 service errors. They're trying to do.

Chad 14:14

They're trying to do too much at one point.

Matt 14:17

Yeah yeah, set two, they went into a six two, then they went back to the five one with moni in the third set missed a lot of serves.

Chad 14:24

Yeah, which is how it's just gonna go when you're like not clicking and irvine.

Matt 14:28

Irvine hit freaking 460 or whatever on the match. It's like that's you're just not you, that's not your night, and sure enough, come back the next day. And they responded at Irvine. Still pretty competitive. Irvine didn't play bad, but you could just see, long Beach was the Long Beach that we have seen. Way more, way more effective, way more efficient. Tons of service pressure. What did you see? What?

Arielle 14:57

did you see A lot of the same. I mean, it looked like guys just hadn't played in a lot of big matches. The first night for Long Beach, Like some of the new pieces that they're trying to get out there. Then night two right, Long Beach goes with their big lineup.

Arielle 15:09

Kind of match up physically, right, the same change that Niff made at Hawaii to get the three big guys out there as well. Yeah, I, just Irvine was just having their way offensively, like the non-Heno guys. Yeah, right, like not a lot. Darcy had nine kills. Yeah, not a lot out of the middle at all either. Night Right, but just scoring one-on-one on night one at at will and then kind of night two, a little bit better lineup, like people are just getting slowed down a little bit. And then Long Beach guys are hitting balls in bounds. Yeah, inbounds, yeah, I mean they're just too many unforced errors. Night one yeah, but I mean like I was watching that and I had like another match or two like on like a different monitor and I was like this, I'm watching two different sports. Yeah, I felt kind of bad but I was like, oh, these are like dudes playing like this is like international, this is big, like the smallest guys out there at the pin are like six, seven, six, eight yeah like that.

Arielle 16:01

That's insane. And then I'm watching whatever it was.

Matt 16:03

I'm like oh, yeah, I think Heno was the smallest outside. Was Heno the smallest? Maybe the Canadian? I'm blanking on his name right now?

Arielle 16:12

Oh, scarlett Varga, scarlett Varga. He might be a little bit smaller. He's a little bit smaller, but I mean he's still. He's not tiny. There are the teams at the top and there are bottoms.

Chad 16:24

There are tops and there are bottoms. Yeah, the money walk-off ace was sick.

Arielle 16:29

It's cinematic I like that moment.

Matt 16:31

Yeah, there was a lot of high-level play. The third set at Irvine. Irvine kind of had a lead throughout the most of it. Long Beach clawed their way back. It was such high-level back. It was such high level ball. Yeah, it was. It was. It was awesome. And the thing that I would say at night two that was better was it was less Irvine air or less like air prone, like long beach was a night one and it was more long beaches slowing them down. So you got some more like intense rallies, really good transition play. It was a great, highly recommend.

High School Volleyball Rankings

Chad 17:02

Anyone wanted to see some just really good level volleyball I gotta think that coaches all over the country are watching that irvine long beach three zero irvine game being like what? They figured something out with them. Like what is it? They played all their six nine pin areas and or is it just like a complete and total cut and dry, like you beat yourself, or I mean long beach made a lot of unforced like not even like the service air stuff, like that's always a lot of unforced yeah but just like, here's a long way d ball smoked it

Matt 17:38

totally, you know. Get them to jump. Nobody up, nobody up, bick and wail it out of balance yep right there. There were a couple plays that just are so. We're so non long beach. Get them to jump. Nobody up, Nobody up Bic and wail it out of bounds. There were a couple plays that were so non-Long Beach. The question I would pose to you guys is like do you think this is something that Long Beach just needed to happen?

Matt 17:57

Or is it something that you look at the rest of the field? Is this better for Long Beach or is this better for the rest of the field of like oh, we can get them. Or is this better for Long beach or is this better for the rest of the field of like oh, we can get them. Or is this better for long beach, where they're?

Chad 18:08

like all right, we've, we've seen what can happen and we're gonna I lean towards better for long beach. Just because I we were talking about this a couple weeks ago of like how has there been a team that's been undefeated throughout the whole year? Like that whole thing of like cousin greg, can you?

Matt 18:21

you look that up.

Chad 18:23

If there ever been a team that has undefeated the entire year, probably I don't know, I mean UCLA, back in.

Matt 18:28

Yeah, I got to think of one of the states there.

Chad 18:31

But like for real, a team that goes through the entire season at this level of performance. I just don't see it. I just think that there's room for failure at times. What, like what?

Matt 18:45

Nikki said yes on her story.

Arielle 18:48

Do you worry that she? She committed to it too much we've just done one.

Matt 18:54

We have not lost to Ohio State. We learned on the first night.

Chad 18:58

I think Nikki's gonna win the national championship and I think that failure is good for teams.

Arielle 19:07

I think it was good for both those teams and bad for everybody who wasn't in those matches. That I can get behind. Yeah, cause long beach, we'll get that reset. Okay, we're not like perfect, perfect.

Matt 19:18

And we also have that weight on our chest. Yeah.

Arielle 19:22

The zero and the and the loss call.

Chad 19:24

And Irvine's like we're, we are there.

Arielle 19:25

Yeah, and everyone else is like what?

Chad 19:28

the fuck was that Like are you?

Arielle 19:29

kidding me.

Chad 19:30

Are you topping on the bottom.

Matt 19:32

That looks different, that looks different.

Arielle 19:35

Well, these guys, some of those guys, they play over the summer for teams that are better than their countries, they're not school. They play for full-ass, they're not playing open gyms you know with the rec kids you know in june and july.

Chad 19:49

So they play countries yeah, countries, yep, um, okay, so cousin greg's doing some research right now, but cousin greg also is the leader of our high school rankings yes, he is and he he's.

Matt 20:04

He's kind of like a a little bit like brad keller. He gets some flack every single week and I just wanted to give him a chance. Number one we want to let him know he's appreciated because cousin greg does more high school research and work than anybody around.

Chad 20:17

So, number one, we love you, cousin greg and we're trying to get more high school listeners yeah, 100, 100% High schoolers come join us.

Matt 20:24

But also, I just wanted to hear your thoughts. We're bringing you in, we got a mic, you're mic'd up over here, so you got to lean, you got to lean. That's how that mic works. Number one how's your experience been running the high school rankings? And then, number two, if you could give us a little background on what do you feel when you see kids talking shit in the comments.

Arielle 20:46

It's a lot of watching some really bad blowouts and then some really good games. It's kind of a crapshoot. And then if you're not happy about where you're ranked, just don't lose to bad teams.

Chad 20:59

Snaps for Cousin Greg.

Arielle 21:00

That's fair, or be out of rotation probably.

Chad 21:03

Yeah, don't be out of rotation or don't get on your bad side.

Matt 21:05

Do you have any teams where you're like you're just on my bad side, so I hold you down?

Chad 21:10

No, okay yeah, neither do we.

Matt 21:16

Huh, fair, fair.

Chad 21:18

There are tops and there are bottoms.

Matt 21:19

There are, that's just words to live by, honestly.

Arielle 21:26

I can't wait to see what like makes the episode yeah. Just like how many of these can you leave in.

Matt 21:30

Yeah.

Arielle 21:30

Is that too many?

Matt 21:32

at some point. I'll ask Frank, I'll get Frank to kind of filter.

Chad 21:34

Oh don't worry, frank will let it fly.

Matt 21:37

Frank will add some commentary.

Chad 21:41

Not enough bottoms actually from Frank. Okay, so that's volleyball yeah let's get out of volleyball. We went to some high school games. We're going to be making the rounds. We're going to be going to some more high school games. What?

Arielle 21:51

do you mean?

Chad 21:53

We're going to be going to more high school games, okay, yeah.

Matt 21:55

Cool, Chad. You were at one of them with us. You were at one of them.

Arielle 21:58

With Cousin Greg Greg as well. I felt like I hit my quota. I thought that was.

Matt 22:00

Oh, no, I'm going to more.

Chad 22:01

I got to go see all my kids play.

Matt 22:03

Yeah, I'm trying to see most. I'm trying to see as many of my guys as I can. The problem is I got, you've got, all varsity I've got. I got JV too. I got JV and varsity.

Chad 22:17

If I had a kid on JV of all time Worst volleyball player, but like the greatest human being, that's true, but I've had some great human beings on my team and they've all been on varsity yeah because you're coaching 18s.

Matt 22:26

Correct, that makes sense. I'm coaching 15s. I got freshmen.

Adolescence: A Must-Watch Netflix Show

Chad 22:29

No, I get that. There's levels. There's levels to this. There is level. Okay, so let's, we're done with volleyball. If you're here just for the volleyball, it volleyball. It's time to turn the podcast off. You can go switch to your other nerdy podcast check out redefined yeah wherever you listen to this podcast um, okay, we need to talk about the show adolescence I have not seen it okay, so there's a show on and chad has seen it I thought it was excellent cousin greg has not seen it yet.

Chad 23:00

Um, I just finished it and it is four episodes. It's on Netflix and I had seen it come up a couple times and was like this is the must watch thing right now and I'm not watching a lot of shows lately and I just haven't been like into it. I usually love shows, but this one, for some reason, I was like I think I'm going to try it. I absolutely loved it. Told Matt what it was about, he was like yeah right, I'm not watching that now.

Arielle 23:27

I'm making you watch it because it's important it's the lord's work, I think for the jobs that you guys have, I think it's an important. What is?

Matt 23:37

it about again. It's like, it's like psychology, what is it?

Chad 23:40

no, okay, so set the scene. Kid convicted of murdering a classmate. This is the the trailer I showed you about incels, oh, okay, yeah, so it's about incel culture and I like I won't give anything away because I want everybody to watch it, but I think that if you are in, if you have sons, if you are around teenage boys, if you are like, you need to watch this show because it is like in middle schoolers, whatever, like you, just because it's a, it's so important to just see, like, what is going on with kids that are quiet and with screens and with and I am such a big advocate of like teaching kids the right way to use screens. I'm not a for take them away, but like this is it was incredible. Another fun fact about this show is that it was shot. It's 50 minute episodes, four episodes, 50 minute episodes and like from start to beginning or start to end of the episode, it's shot in one shot.

Matt 24:46

That's. That is insane. So, like it follows just a one or the whole show.

Chad 24:52

Like the. There's no cuts, so it's like one. Each episode is one cut.

Matt 24:58

That in and of itself makes me want to watch it.

Chad 25:00

I mean it's, it's a cinematic masterpiece.

Arielle 25:05

It's insane. I didn't even notice it because you would. What is shot like this? Nothing right. And I didn't notice until the second episode. I was like so is it?

Matt 25:12

is it like a drone? That's like the constantly changing angles, like they have.

Arielle 25:17

No, they have people running around too. But like, sometimes, like the, there's a drone that will take the camera. Like, yeah, and they, they track the car and then they land the drone and then somebody picks it and keeps this.

Matt 25:27

Oh, I've seen TikTok videos about the making of this shot.

Chad 25:30

Probably. Yeah, they're crazy, it's insane.

Matt 25:34

Okay, got it, got it, got it. We're piecing it all together. Yeah, I've seen exactly that, like the camera gets picked up by a drone and it drops down out of a building and they'll take it on the run yeah, that's crazy.

Chad 25:43

So they they like rehearse for like two weeks straight to like get it all dialed and they would shoot twice a day until they had it yeah and they, they just every day, like, all right, we're gonna try it once to me it's like second time, here we go, it's like a play, it's like it's like a live performance yeah and it's like they're acting and like the whole. But it's a live performance because it's from one to the end.

Matt 26:05

Oh yeah, what an orchestra you have to put together there.

Arielle 26:07

That's crazy. Well, the cinematography is one thing of navigating how you're going to move throughout space. The story Dude, if you forget your line, if you screw up your line, if you laugh when you're not. There were a couple of times I'm like, oh man, like he like kind of, you know, muffles a word or like doesn't, but they keep going.

Chad 26:26

I'm like that could have been it, and then I was like wait, they haven't cut at any point.

Arielle 26:31

Yeah oh my god, like this is it's.

Chad 26:33

It's crazy I'm so glad you watched this.

Arielle 26:35

Yeah, yeah but the the story. It's like it's shot amazingly and like we should talk about that, but like it's, it's important, like in general like especially just working with with who kids?

Matt 26:44

yeah, yeah, interesting okay completely agree, all right I'm next week.

Chad 26:48

I'll be ready, I'll be prepared it's, it's dark, like it's not a.

Arielle 26:53

It's really eerie it's not a feel. Good, it's not a feel good show.

Chad 26:56

It's not funny, it's not like it's a. It's a very intense about a kid that is convicted of murdering a classmate and what happened behind the scenes and the family's point of view and the police point of view and work as a police officer having to deal with a 13-year-old like like the psychology of it, the it's incredible and something that a couple of the articles that I read about it were like how important parents and teachers and coaches and are in kids lives, because without that influence, this is the kind of stuff that happens.

Matt 27:45

This is you replace that exterior like.

Chad 27:47

Well, the incel culture is like what is happening online and that's what like young boys are trapped into, Like it's just automatic that, like that can happen.

Matt 27:58

Right, they're going to get their guidance from somewhere. Yes, their external coaches, teachers, so on and so forth. Or they're getting it from, if you're not monitoring kids.

Chad 28:08

Talk about entertaining. If you're not monitoring what's going on kids' brains who are not fully developed, how do you expect that stuff not to infiltrate minds of people? And so it's incredible.

Matt 28:25

Wow.

Chad 28:25

We have homework. We have homework seven for next week we'll just see you because we yeah, we watched it homework, sorry, I'll watch it and the listeners actually, I will say one of my favorite things to do is watch something for the second time with somebody who hasn't watched it for the first time.

Arielle 28:42

It's like one of my favorite ways to watch a movie sounds like you're gonna have a an opportunity here this week. Oh yes, I will.

Chad 28:47

Four of them actually have lots of opportunities like that, because matt's like, nah, I don't want to watch that. And then I watch it and I'm like, no, you have to watch it now.

Matt 28:53

So, uh, yeah, so marshmallows oh do we, are they here?

Chad 29:02

Wendy.

Matt 29:05

Yeah, I feel like if she didn't call me to say she loves me. Yeah, if she didn't knock on the door to share a peep. It's been delivered.

Chad 29:16

What the hell, Wendy.

Arielle 29:18

Matt.

Chad 29:19

Wendy was like I don't want to be friends with these people.

Arielle 29:21

That's probably fair. They got way too much affection for peeps.

Chad 29:23

I felt like I had a connection with them and I've been told not to make friends with the DoorDashies.

Arielle 29:29

I can't fall in love every household.

Matt 29:32

I'm so sad. I know, Wendy. I literally just checked my text messages to see if she sent me something.

Chad 29:38

Why don't you give her a nice tip?

Matt 29:41

Yeah, let.

The Great Peeps Taste Test Experiment

Chad 29:43

Okay, everybody, we're live. Okay, so this is our. It's not live, this is our bowl of peeps. We have an assortment we have, starting with a original yellow peep, then moving on to the blue peep.

Arielle 29:59

Yo, I only have one blue peep.

Chad 30:02

I knew it.

Arielle 30:02

You mother, I knew it Trying to short me, I knew it.

Chad 30:05

I was like why are there more in that one? Sorry Apologies, unbelievable.

Arielle 30:09

Okay, is that blue raspberry? That's blue raspberry. Yeah, all right, I'm going to keep blue raspberry on the left.

Chad 30:12

Okay, so, starting with the yellow peep, moving on to the purple one and then the blue one, Okay, you tell us which one to taste and we'll listen to me first, okay, and then we have, we have a difference between the purple peep and the and the purple bunny we just want to make sure that they're not different yeah um, and then the pink peep, and then the wait. What is that kind? The cotton candy?

Chad 30:37

peep the tutti frutti looking guy the rice crispy treat, peep the blue icy peep and my, the one I'm most excited about is the. Dr Pepper peep. What would we like to try? First the yellow peep. No, you know what that tastes like. The blue peep, which one? The blue, yellow, yellow. Start with the original.

Matt 30:59

I'm going to sniff. You got to go full peep sommelier on this 10 out of 10.

Arielle 31:05

It's classic. Yeah, no notes.

Chad 31:07

Okay, blue peep Is the blue peep different than the yellow peep? Blue.

Matt 31:14

Not light blue.

Chad 31:17

Yes, it's different.

Arielle 31:18

Obviously you can't taste that I mean cut out your tongue.

Matt 31:23

It's different. It tastes like blue.

Arielle 31:25

Yeah.

Matt 31:26

What are we going to do next?

Chad 31:28

Purple peep. They taste very similar, Purple purple, not the bunny. Purple peep Proper proper Okay making sure. Don't want to do this wrong.

Arielle 31:39

That tastes like it's got a little yellow in it. To me, yeah, that tastes like yellow.

Matt 31:43

The yellow peep. It tastes like the yellow. I agree. Should I do the bunny next?

Chad 31:46

but I will say the yellow is better than that it's fair.

Arielle 31:50

Now I have to take a bite of the yellow.

Chad 31:51

Yellow might be fresher closer to easter the yellow one's better than the purple one. The purple one tastes like the yellow one. The blue one tastes different, though yeah, purple one's like the yellow one purple one again the bunny and then go purple bunny oh, gotta get on the palate again okay I like the bunny better the purple bunny is so much fluffier, yeah, so fluffy, oh but. I don't like that wow quick question purple bunny is chubby bunny, yeah can I, can we do?

Matt 32:20

can you do like a s'more with? A yes of course I feel like the sugar, would it's?

Chad 32:25

a marshmallow caramel? Yeah, but the caramelized sugar would make up. I've never done that. Okay, now the pink peep.

Arielle 32:32

The pink pink.

Matt 32:33

These are all like the originals, right. Not gonna lie Thus far. I'm liking the texture of the bunnies better than the peeps, I don't fuck with the bunnies.

Arielle 32:44

It's too puffy, it's not a peep. I like how puffy it's.

Matt 32:47

It's not a peep I like how puffy it is.

Arielle 32:49

Yeah, it's, it's, it's like a cloud I'm more of like cutting season than bulking season, I think on this one, like the bunny, it's too fluffy I want the texture of the like.

Chad 32:59

Is it stale?

Arielle 33:01

fucking gets it. Yes, yes, that's question.

Chad 33:06

Did we just become best friends? We love adolescence and we love, is it?

Matt 33:11

stale. Is it stale, peeps Okay.

Arielle 33:12

So we've tried all of these are not good. So we've tried all of the originals Like you need like the right amount of stale, like that borderline of like, is it?

Matt 33:20

Got it, got it. That's where you want to be.

Arielle 33:22

Yeah, can tell for sure you're wrong then you don't want that one. Yeah, that was the check, the expiration. It's the wrong holiday okay.

Chad 33:31

So if we were gonna rank these ones that we've, matt likes the bunny because he's fucking purple, but like shocker but we like the yellow peep the best and the rest of them are just like whatever.

Arielle 33:40

But the blue peep tastes different right, yeah, for sure that's the okay I don't, I don't mind the pink, the the pink had a little bit more crunch to me.

Chad 33:47

Sure, I don't mind that at all. Okay, now we're going to get into the eclectics. Kyle, any or not Kyle, cousin, greg any, god damn it.

Arielle 33:56

Any.

Chad 33:58

I'm nodding on the bunny. You don't like the bunny yeah?

Matt 34:00

Not the bunny, take each of their own. Also quick question did you guys bite when you do a taste test?

Chad 34:07

did you bite the eyes? You're not taking the chocolate eyes no, you eat a peep from the back bottom first. I ate front first. I've been trying different sections just to bottom first because you're trying oh, I did go front on that one. You want the crunchy part?

Matt 34:30

It's kind of like that's the tri-tip of the peep.

Arielle 34:34

The burnt ends. The burnt ends, it's where the section's kind of folded.

Chad 34:39

You get a good crispy sugar. I didn't even realize they were chocolate.

Matt 34:42

I had a little chocolate.

Chad 34:43

Okay, what do we want to try?

Matt 34:44

first of the weird ones, let's try which one I think is going to be the worst, which is going to be cotton candy, smell it.

Chad 34:52

You've got to smell. Do you have to? I don't like it, I do.

Arielle 34:58

Oh, it's pink on the inside, come on.

Chad 35:01

That is disgusting, honestly. Who would eat that?

Arielle 35:07

It smells like cotton candy. I'll give them that. That it smells like cotton candy. I'll give them that it smells, it tastes like a carcinogen that's not good for you that has a chemical taste where they get the blue speckles, which peeps had to die to be why does it smell like cotton candy and not taste like cotton candy? Oh man, chemicals man.

Chad 35:33

Ew. Okay, that we need to make sure is not in our house.

Matt 35:37

Take a bite of the yellow, cleanse your palate, yeah there you go.

Arielle 35:39

That's an O-Chem kind of thing right there.

Chad 35:42

Okay, I think I want to taste the.

Matt 35:45

Rice Krispie, rice Krispie, think I want to taste the rice crispy, rice crispy next okay, definitely smells like rice crispy.

Chad 35:53

They get they got the sense down this whatever vanilla is in this, I don't like that plays it's kind of as advertised, yeah I think it's way better than the last one I don't want to eat it.

Arielle 36:06

No, I don't want to eat it. No, I don't want to eat it, but it's what it says. It is Sure I'll meet them in the middle. They are who they thought they were.

Matt 36:14

Yeah, that is who, who you thought they were.

Chad 36:16

I well, I have to say that one of my favorite things about the yellow peep is that it's yellow on the outside and white on the inside.

Matt 36:24

That's all of the original Peeps.

Chad 36:27

None of these ones are.

Matt 36:30

Yeah, all the flavored ones are the flavored ones.

Chad 36:32

Oh, actually the Dr Pepper one is Ooh.

Arielle 36:34

Okay, let's try this. That's why we like that one. Yeah, yeah, Okay. Blue Blue raspberry.

Chad 36:37

Blue icy.

Arielle 36:38

So blue raspberry, I just tried to smell my mic, ooh.

Chad 36:45

Mmm, I like that.

Matt 36:49

Yeah, that's a nice little change of pace.

Chad 36:52

That gets a good rating from me.

Matt 36:54

Yeah, the fluffiness of it kind of like reminds me of an icy, also, I like that.

Arielle 37:02

I like that too. I think it's like the Rice Krispie it is what we thought it was and I like Blue Raspberry more than I like Rice Krispie, and I like Rice Krispie more than I like Tutti Frutti.

Chad 37:12

Dude, Tutti Frutti, fucking. Tutti Frutti causes cancer. That is. That should not be allowed. There's no way these are sold in Europe. Actually, none of these are sold in. Europe no chance. Okay, for the one that I am the most excited about.

Matt 37:26

Dr Pepper, that's a big deal. Got yet again nailed the scent.

Arielle 37:31

They're good on the scent.

Chad 37:34

Oh.

Arielle 37:37

Why can't I smell the tutti frutti?

Chad 37:38

already hit you.

Arielle 37:39

You have COVID.

Chad 37:43

Oh.

Matt 37:44

Yeah, I love that. That's like a Dr Pepper Slurpee. Yeah, I love that. I's like a Dr Pepper Slurpee. Yeah, I love that.

Arielle 37:48

I think we went in the right order of things that we like the flavor of, and this one again tastes Dr Peppery. Okay Full peep drinking Dr Pepper.

Chad 37:59

Number one.

Arielle 38:01

Oh, of all nine.

Chad 38:03

Yellow Peep number one. Yeah, to me Dr Pepper is number two.

Matt 38:06

I think I'm going Blue Icy number two, Blue Icy number two. I'm going Purple Bunny one. Blue Icy number two.

Arielle 38:16

Why is he even on the show Are?

Chad 38:19

you the Brad Killer. This is Brad Killer, little shit. You're the Brad Killer of peep rankings.

Arielle 38:25

There's a Helen Keller joke about her not being able to smell.

Chad 38:27

We're going to have to spitball it a little bit before we play it.

Matt 38:35

What's your bottom of the barrel, besides cotton candy?

Chad 38:38

The purple bunny.

Matt 38:39

All right, fuck off. I thought we were pretty clear about that.

Chad 38:45

Honestly, I could do without the pink peep and the purple peep and the blue peep, like they're all just whatever. Actually, that's not true, fucking Tutti Frutti. It's not Tutti Frutti, it's cotton candy peeps. Cotton candy peeps need to be banned by the FDA tomorrow.

Matt 39:02

I like to pretend that the peeps are like a steak Is wrong.

Chad 39:06

Peeps are like a steak.

Matt 39:07

Yeah, that the peeps are like a steak Is wrong. Peeps are like a steak, yeah, and that every different part of the peep has a different flavor profile. We have the tops are a loin.

Chad 39:13

The tops and the bottoms.

Matt 39:14

We have yeah.

Chad 39:22

That's enough peeps from marshmallow for me tonight. I'm going to put these away. I don't really Wow. Okay, well, easter's over everybody. Thank you for coming to our Peeps Tasting. Thank you to Cousin Greg for his support of the podcast. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to the Academy for telling us about adolescence.

Arielle 39:42

We filmed this in one shot.

Chad 39:44

We filmed this in one shot too.

Arielle 39:46

Except we had 50 cuts. We only said cut. That's to add to the ambiance.

Chad 39:53

Yellow Peep wins again.

Arielle 39:56

Yellow.

Chad 39:56

Peep is the Long Beach of Peep. You're welcome.

Matt 40:04

Does that make the Purple Peep the UC Irvine? The Purple Bunny is the McKenzie. No, I'm sorry, that's not true. That's not true. You're welcome. Does that make the purple peep the uc irvine bunny? The purple bunny?

Chad 40:09

no I'm sorry, that's not true, that's not true I like, I like mckendry so rude I like mckendry, that's all right, the purple bunny, I can't talk about it you don't want to put that curse on anyone.

Final Thoughts and Peep Rankings

Arielle 40:22

No, I like it though, so that's where everyone everyone's like the blue raspberry or something like that of like who's the dr pepper? I can do it. It's got. It's got the legs like it, though Irvine's like the blue raspberry, or something like that.

Chad 40:28

Who's the Dr Pepper?

Arielle 40:29

It can do it, it's got the legs.

Matt 40:31

It can finish.

Arielle 40:34

It won't be everyone's top vote.

Matt 40:35

Is it my first pick?

Arielle 40:36

No, but hey, you run this contest ten times.

Chad 40:39

They're going to get two of those, maybe three.