One Patrick After Another

sup gang. today we got a birthday recap, sports gratitude, parental pride, history, St. Patty's-themed gaming and the thing you're most proud of. slainte! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Howdy, gents. Welcome to the next most recent episode of the podcast. Glad to have you here. Hope you enjoyed the episode. We got uh pretty good flow. What's good? We got a week in history, we got a trivia game, we got a couple random things, question of the week. We'll see if we get to it all, and we'll see where the conversation takes us. First of all, we're recording this on St. Patrick's Day. So everyone that partakes, happy St. Patrick's Day. Hope you're all enjoying it. I feel like we've all kind of reached the fact that we are recording this means that the three of us are not uh doing much on St. Patrick's Day. And I don't know if the rest of uh the rest of us are in similar situations. How do you have Guinness today, man?

SPEAKER_08 0:47

I think I think I think you gotta be real, like at a certain age with a certain level of freedom to not only celebrate on the weekend, which is what a lot of people did here.

SPEAKER_05 0:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:00

And then also go celebrate on the actual day.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I did not really but still I've like never really been a big St. Patrick's Day person to begin with. I mean, I like the idea of it and you know, the music and going out to environments that are celebrating it, and it's just a time for people. I mean, people have fun and people are in a good mood, usually around it, which is always good. Um, but my la my memory is always gonna be about Beths. Oh my god. That's St. Patrick's Day party, like that's always the best where my head goes. It was a really good time. It's so fun. Um, so yeah, hope uh hope you guys are enjoying it and uh were able to celebrate it, celebrate it as much as you could. Saratha, I feel like this is a big episode for you. Uh just because I get the idea that you had more social engagements in like the two days of this past weekend than I've had for maybe like a six-month period.

SPEAKER_07 1:57

Because interesting, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

As you were celebrating your going from one thing to another thing to another thing to another thing. True, yeah. There's a lot of there's a lot of stuff packed in there, which I'm really interested to hear about. Um I guess that's a good segue into what's good. I don't know if you want to start it off. Uh I'm sure your stuff touches on that uh as well.

SPEAKER_08 2:20

So yeah, honestly, you know, the thing I was thinking about throughout like the weekend was that question we did a while back, which is like, what are the stats in your life that you kind of would like want to measure? And I was thinking about it obviously in the context of my birthday, and that like I'm like, man, uh a really great stat that I'm proud of is like the number of really awesome people that I've managed to like have in my life to keep in my life. Um and I was just you know, I was definitely experiencing kind of the the gratitude of that, especially like you know, over the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

Oh also yeah because we had to mention it. Happy birthday, man. Congratulations, happy birthday every year. That's awesome. Yeah, thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_08 3:03

Yeah, uh, I will say 36, even going into it, I was like, this isn't that you know, to me, it's not like a very special birthday. It's kind of like whatever. At this point, I think it's like you wait till you're 40 for like it to be a big deal again. But um incredible weekend, uh incredible week. I feel like inadvertently a lot of stuff came together, and not that it was intentional, but it ended up kind of feeling like a birthday week more than just like even a day of. Uh, we recorded the podcast on Tuesday night. Wednesday, uh uh it wasn't again for my birthday, but like it just kind of came together. We decided to go to trivia. Uh, we got third place in a tie with two other teams, which is fun. You got to actually place, which is fun. Uh is this a regular trivia that you go to? Like are you familiar with the other teams that are there or the host or I I am only because it's the bar across the street from my apartment. Um but it is I will say hands down, best trivia I've ever been to. And I'm actually gonna miss it when I like I think it's gonna be it's gonna suck when I move, and then we have to come back to like this area, which seems to not have much going on, but there's this one bar where there continues to be the best trivia ever. Uh I just love the way the guy has designed it.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Okay. Yeah, is it is it like the questions or the host, or what is it about it that makes it so good?

SPEAKER_08 4:22

I think it's obviously I think the host and the questions are like one and the same. He's created this whole thing. Uh, but he cracked to like a really fun format, I think, even relative to other trivia things we've checked out, where um it's both this like really good blend of like timely, like if you're paying attention to what's happening in the news, what's happening in pop culture, like you get kind of rewarded for that. Uh, and at the same time, he brings in a good balance of like just deep, hard trivia. Like, do you know this random information or not? Uh, but I think I love the thing I love the most is like every round uh has a different uh vibe. So the first round is just like questions or whatever. Second round is um he'll show you a bunch of images, and each round is ten ten questions, but the second round he'll show you a bunch of images, and there's a theme across all of those images, and number 10, you have to just write down what what is the bucket that all these things fall into. So like this last week, right? There was uh there was uh an image of crocs, and then there was an image of you know these cookies that are called turtles, you know? And so it's like so it's like as you go through all of it, you're kind of like it's fun that he gives you this like ability to at least like deduce your way to like figuring it out. And then in the end of it, it's like, oh, it's like reptiles. That's the book. That's where all of these are.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

That's yeah, yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_08 5:52

He has another one, which I think was a it's it's a real winner with a lot of people, just he'll show you two images, and you have to like guess what the thing is, and it's like usually there's like a combination. So I'll give you an example again. There's a picture of the movie Frozen, and there's a picture of Zendiah. So the answer is frozen Diah.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Frozen diet.

SPEAKER_08 6:12

Oh man, what's that what's it called?

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Like a portmanteau or whatever? Yeah, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_08 6:16

But there's a lot of them, and again, it's like you don't know what the right answer is. That's like you gotta like really figure it out. So I like the fact that like this trivia is not just do you know this random information or not? It's also like, are you smart enough to put this together and maybe treat it also like a puzzle? So I think that's why I love it. Um, but yeah, we did that Wednesday. That was fun. Thursday, uh, I don't know where we ended up going to MSG to watch uh uh uh Big East, Big East games. Um you went to it, huh? Yeah, yeah. I watched UConn for a little bit. I had to I I had to leave like before Villanova even started just because I had a very I was supposed to have Friday off, and then like there's a lot of work stuff that came up, and then uh I had to cancel it my day off on Friday. And so like I wanted to stay and watch the Nova game. Uh my friends still stayed for all of it. Um, but I was like, I gotta go, I gotta like a long day. So Friday was how how easy was it to get tickets? I don't know. Uh my buddy got it. It seemed like it wasn't that bad.

SPEAKER_05 7:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 7:19

Yeah. Maybe not for the first round at least.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Um yeah, I've heard that Friday, Friday night is the big night. That's what that's like because you have two semifinal games and it's supposed to be between four, you know, pretty good teams and you get both of those games.

SPEAKER_08 7:30

So yeah. So that was that was that. Uh Friday, again, very long day of work, but it was fine. You know, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Uh, but I don't know if I told you guys this. Uh again, not for my birthday, but just happened to align. Uh another friend of a friend uh organized a special early screening of Project Hail Mary.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Oh, no way. Wait, so you saw it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 7:55

Wow. Oh man. So this dude organized it for like his buddy, who was whose birthday it was, and he had rented like a whole theater. And you know, basically at one point he was like, Well, like, I'm gonna fill basically like a row of this. So I would love to maybe make make sure other people also get to like take advantage. So he opened it up and like I'm you know, I'm friendly with him, but like our friend uh Melinda is really his like close friend, and so he basically told her, like, hey, whoever you want to include, like figure it out, like let me know. And I think over the course of the week, as they started to see like what the uh RSVPs were looking like, he just let her open it up even more, and then he probably let other friends open it up more too. So, like, it was just like packed screening, but it was like a private screening almost. And we watched Project Hail Mary, highly recommend it. Is definitely like um it's it's it is it is uh it is I so I haven't seen The Martian. I need to see The Martian. Like apparently a lot of people compare it to that because it's the same guy who wrote both books, The Martian.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

That's funny because I've heard it compared to The Martian, and that like pisses people off. Really? That bother people that they're like they're they're different movies, like style. I'm sure they're very they're written by the same author, so it's the same, like the same guy.

SPEAKER_08 9:19

Is like it is really uh fun and funny, crowd-pleasing sci-fi. Breezy sci-fi, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't say breezy. There's a lot of times where I was like, I gotta unclench. I uh there's multiple moments in that movie where I'm like, I know how this will probably end because of what I know about this author and like this book, and I'm still like stressed. You know what I mean? Because that's how it is, they make a good job of like fucking pulling you in, and you're like, holy fuck. Uh but yeah, I think I think it's gonna, it's gonna go down as like probably one of the better best movies of the year. Um gospel, incredible, just like basically being a one-man show for the most of the movie, so he's gotta carry it with just like himself acting alone, which is an insane thing to think about. Like, um, you know, just him on a set, and like, you know, there's other things, but they're not like people, so it's like interesting.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Um apparently I heard he was like really instrumental in getting the movie made that he was like champion, like like, look, we we gotta do this, and I want this part. So I hope that's that he would.

SPEAKER_08 10:24

But it made sense. I mean it movie worked. Uh I was I was like, there was insane expectations going into it because this movie's been hyped like crazy. And I was surprised at how much it was pretty, pretty good at meeting those expectations. Um, so yeah, that was awesome. And what would you rate it out of 10? Okay. I would rate it uh I would rate it like an eight out of ten.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Okay. And to me, I don't give a lot of eights.

SPEAKER_08 10:51

I don't give a lot of eights, so like don't take that as like uh, you know, B plus or anything. Like to me, eight out of ten is like up there. I mean, yeah, yeah, 10's solid. I'm gonna say I'm interested now. Yeah, we're seeing, we're at the scene. Honestly, also, if there was not if it wasn't for like one specific moment in the movie, uh, and I'll just uh it's not a spoiler, it's just a little bit of a jump scare that is very much played like a jump scare. I would also be like, bring kids, like bring your kids, like this could be like a really fun movie. I will say that moment m is still gonna freak some kids out, like just because of the shock of it, but like amazing, like very wholesome in that way. Where I was like, I was like, oh man, this could work if it wasn't for that one thing that made me jump up.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

I'm just picturing having the kids in the movie theater and they're like just enjoying it, like counting on their popcorn, and then the jump scare happens and they freak them out.

SPEAKER_07 11:44

They're just screaming and jettnapping.

SPEAKER_08 11:45

I don't know. I don't know. Have you guys have you guys dealt with that at all? Like of like a movie that you went to bring your family to that you figured was like gonna be fine, and then there's like one moment or a weird moment where you're like, oh shit, this is not being received the way I thought, or it's changed the tone of the thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Not any that I've brought them to. The ones we've brought them to are very like Moana, Zootopia, like they're very safe ones. Uh the ones that at home we navigate that. Uh I mean, our kids have always been more on the fearful side. Sure. Um uh ever since they were younger. So uh we haven't, you know, we don't go too crazy with it. Um, so but like, you know, weird was I remember when Luke was younger. I mean, he always had a a tell when he was scared. So like Logan will just remove herself from the room. She'll just she'll just leave, but she won't leave all the way. About like, yeah, she just like runs away, but then she'll still be like standing back there watching. So she's just in another part of the room. Luke, ever since he was young, he would just push himself deeper into the couch and his eyes would just get wider.

SPEAKER_07 12:49

So he wouldn't move at all, but it was like he was trying to back away as far as he could.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

And uh the one that Megan and I was talking about is that he was scared of minions. That that freaked him out. And I was like, and we were like, that was our barometer of like, whoa, we are uh dude, we gotta tread a little carefully with this.

SPEAKER_08 13:04

This day, he's on the show. This day, one of the scariest, one of the scariest memories of my life was uh we when we were still living in Chicago, um, very like young, obviously, and me and my brother were still sharing a room. And um I'll never forget there was one night where you know we were we were kind of in our beds, in our respective beds in the room, and I forget where how it got to this point, but at one point he's just like staring and pointing at the hallway, and it's like black. You can't see anything. And he's like, he's here, he's here to get me, and I'm like, who? And it's like the cat in the hat. And it was because like it was because like the Mike the Mike Myers cat in the hat movie was out, and like for whatever reason, my brother at that age was like terrified of him, but he like swore he could see him there. And I'm like, I will say, there's it doesn't like the cat in the hat park made it nicer, but it didn't actually reduce the scariness that much of just being next to a child pointing at darkness and being like he's here to get me. I was like, Jesus Christ. Um, anyways, back to the point. Uh Project Kill Mary was great. We went out a little bit afterwards, but we had a very long Saturday ahead of us. So I was like, I'm gonna go home like early and get to bed. Um, Saturday, I don't know if I told you guys, uh, but we we always do this polar plunge thing with um our buddy, uh, and he kind of does it to support like the Special Olympics in New Jersey. And uh it got postponed because of all the snowstorms we've had, so it got postponed to my birthday in March. Um, so we were just like, listen, this is a tradition, we're gonna do all of it, and like we'll come back to New York and do my birthday after that. So uh we woke up super early, it was like a very early day, caught a train, I think like an eight-something train to uh and it was like a two-hour train to like seaside, uh, got brunch, which was actually really good at this random place, and then met up with our friends. They did the plunge, then we hung out a little bit afterwards. It was like four or five hours, but it was a very quick kind of trip, and then took the actually hopped on a bus, took the bus back to New York. Uh wow. Yeah, came back to New York, uh, went to a bar, watched uh Yukon thankfully win uh that game. Yeah. Uh which was which is nice, and then uh and then went to dinner and I'd reserved a private room in this like very authentic like Chinese restaurant in Chinatown in New York. This is all Saturday now.

SPEAKER_04 15:36

Saturday the Biggie's championship. Okay, I think that's when they lost on Saturday, right?

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Whatever. Either way. I'm just getting the timeline.

SPEAKER_07 15:44

Because Saturday was the champion when uh St.

SPEAKER_08 15:46

John's won.

SPEAKER_07 15:46

St. John's won.

SPEAKER_08 15:48

Yes, you won.

SPEAKER_05 15:49

Sri night they won.

SPEAKER_08 15:50

Uh we we watched 70% of the game. That's why I'm missing this. Okay. We watched 70% of the game and it wasn't looking great, but we didn't catch the end of it uh because we had had to go to our reservation at the restaurant. So yeah, it's all Saturday. Um yeah, so then we uh went went to this restaurant and I'd reserved this like private room for uh my friends and I, and it was like uh a karaoke room, but like not like an but it wasn't a karaoke place, which is why I was mostly intrigued. It was this like family style Chinese authentic restaurant that happened to have like two or three private rooms, uh, and also happened to have karaoke there. And so I was like, let's fucking do this. We went, the food was amazing, it was incredible. Like I had pre-ordered uh this like suckling pig, uh, which you have to pre-order because it it's not just like something they can make that quickly. Uh and so they brought it out. They were like, here, take your pictures, then we're gonna go carve this thing up. Like it's kind of funny. So they just brought out the full pig. Yeah, they brought out the full pig. On the mouth and all that, yeah, yeah, everything. Yeah, like cherries in its eyes and something. Like it was crazy. But yeah, it was like amazing, amazing. Again, from what I understand from my friends who are Chinese, this is a place where like they bring, they come with their families when they're looking for like authentic food that reminds them of home. And so we definitely got to experience a little bit of that vibe. We ordered a bunch of random things. I wish we could have tried more, but like it was just too much food for how many of us there were. Um we did that, ordered like, you know, a bucket of beers and like did karaoke for a little bit. It ended a little faster than we expected, which is not ideal. Uh they were like wrapping up by like 11 a.m. uh 11 p.m. And I was like, oh shit, okay, interesting. I didn't realize that we should have just come here earlier and started earlier. Yeah. Because we had the room for the night. It wasn't like the room was being used by anyone else. So I was like, fuck, we should have just showed up at like five or six, or not five or six, six or seven, and then just like did the whole thing. But you know, we were coming back from New Jersey and everything. So it's a lot. Uh yeah, so we did that. Then we went to like one more bar afterwards to indulge uh the people that still had some life in them. And then I was like, all right, time to go to bed. Um, so headed back uh to to Brooklyn finally. Uh Sunday was uh Sunday and Monday. I actually not again, nothing against my friends. I really appreciated Sunday and Monday because I was just by myself and I just got to like have a lot of alone time. You did the Oscars by yourself? Yeah, you didn't do an Oscars party? No, no, no, didn't didn't do anything, and that was kind of like my a little bit by design. Uh some of my buddies were like flying out. They flew out like Sunday morning for different reasons, and I was kind of like, you know what? I'm actually good with like taking a little breath and and doing my own thing. And so I did that on Sunday. Uh, and then Monday I had taken off uh because I couldn't take Friday off. And like, you know, yeah, yeah, that's what yesterday at this point, right? Yeah, yesterday was Monday. Yeah, um, yesterday was Monday, yeah. Dude, yeah. Just chilled, like went and see, went and saw the new Pixar movie. It was okay. Uh Hopper or whatever it is. Hoppers Hoppers. Yeah. Uh it was all right. Maybe kids would like it. I felt like it was a little uh I was like, I was like, I don't understand like where what the message is. Um there's like an overt environmentalism to it, but like the story goes in a weird direction. I'm like, are we just is the point kindness now and not environmentalism? It's fine. Uh but yeah, it was it was just it was very chill. I got just a lot of time to like, you know, introspect and whatever, which is cool. Uh but yeah, great weekend, honestly. Uh as far as birthdays go. Really solid.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

Yeah, that is awesome. Yeah. Uh yeah, definitely more social engagement than I have in a long stretch of periods. In that week, which is cool. Um Yeah, and I guess we'll I don't know if I I mean I guess we'll talk as talk about the Oscars at some point and then sure. Uh we'll just keep it moving through what's good. Uh now, Brandon, what you got?

SPEAKER_02 19:53

My what's good, I'm gonna keep it broad. Um, it's gonna be sports this year. When you think about it, like it's from January, it's kind of been nonstop. And we're coming into my favorite time of the season, which is the the March Madness. But even in like the lead up to it, we had the NFL playoffs, which after a really shit season were were awesome, minus the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Yeah, the Super Bowl kind of sucked, but the rest of the playoffs were were really exciting and really fun to watch, uh, which then are laid right into the Winter Olympics, uh, which we talked about a bunch and had a bunch of like cool storylines and and cool shit happen as it as it always does can that comes with like a global event like that, uh, leading into like this other global event, the world baseball classic, which um has also been awesome, uh especially for like baseball, which is like a stodgy kind of um, I don't think it's controversial to say more like slowburn, boring type. Uh, but then you got the world baseball classic, which is kind of like the it's almost like the the rider cup version of golf where like there's like like a lot more excitement and like the crowd gets into it and and the players are all amped for it. Um and the games have been awesome.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Uh you you've had some like like big moment home runs up with these like Latin crowds that's that are just like going eight shit bananas for it and playing music in the stands and stuff, bringing bringing the energy. You had uh the title's going on now.

SPEAKER_05 21:14

The final's going on now.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Team Yose's losing right now, but we'll we'll see. Um they had an awesome game against the Dominican Republic. It ended up two to one, which would seem like it it's pretty boring.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

But there's a ton of like hits and base runners and a lot of good defense. You had a robbed home run. Aaron Judge throwing someone out of third again. He had some out you had some outfield assists for both teams.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

So it was it was exciting throughout. So it's been it's it's been a great tournament, and and hopefully the final lives up to it. But but even if not, uh from like baseball standards. It's it's it's been a fun watch. And then we have March Madness, and even this week, some of the conference tournaments.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Uh you had the dude from Penn dropping 44 points in an overtime uh win against Yale to send them, send them to the dance. You had the crazy last second shot for Arizona to win the conference tournament. There were there were a lot of a lot of Good games uh throughout.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

And and I think that hope that that bodes well for the tourney, which starts this weekend. Um crazy. So we had that to look forward to, uh, which is going to parlay right into you know the playoffs, uh playoff race for NBA and stuff, and then you got the World Cup in the summer. So there's a lot to look forward to for this year. Masters. You got the Masters Masters coming too, uh, which would be super soon after the summer.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Yeah, man. It's been it's it's been a ride so far, and I think there's a lot more to look forward to. So uh that's why like the summer hits so hard. I mean, I guess it works for the NFL because like it be it gets to like a fever pitch, but you know, you just ride the wave through the winter ending with the Super Bowl, but then like the Super Bowl kind of like just gets things started. Started, yeah. Uh as you get into college basketball, you know, everything that you just listed. Uh and then all the way through like the NBA finals that go through like the middle of the middle of the summer, then now you have the World Cup. But then after that, from like July and August, that's like there's yeah. It's just the dog days of of 162 games of baseball that you know don't mat that that don't really matter, people don't really follow unless you're like a big fan of them. But but th there's just nothing going on. So then all that everyone has to look forward to is football. So everyone's just frothing at the mouth waiting for the season to get started. It's just weird that it's just this big uh vacuum of anything uh that stops right right right in the middle of the year, uh when everyone's off of school and has time to go do stuff and travel around. But I think it's probably a part of it is that you know people are off of of school and you got vacations and stuff, and I think that most most leagues would probably want to avoid that time, not prime, not prime watching hours. And it's hot as shit.

SPEAKER_08 23:46

So actually also I randomly just remembered this, Brendan. Another part of uh a little add-on to mine from earlier at the dinner, I split everyone into teams and we played the 90s hype game. Yeah. And did you adjust the scoring? It was a lot of fun. Yeah, I had Chat GPT adjust the scoring. I was like, hey, can you make this a little bit more like so that one question does define their results and just make some changes? Uh but yeah, it was a lot of fun. And how do people do? People it it they got really into it. They had a lot of fun in the world. Uh I would judge by the way everyone did that, that was not the case. Uh uh, but uh it was really exciting in that like it was uh the last question completely upended the standings, and like the team that was in last place managed to climb into first. Really? I don't remember what was very exciting. Um you remember? No, I'm let me look.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

It's not a big deal. Yeah, whatever. It's cool that you guys do.

SPEAKER_08 24:55

Well, yeah, it was it was just it was just a lot of fun. So I was like, I was like, well, there's a lot, there's there's utility to this, like beyond you know, us playing. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_08 25:03

Anyway, sorry, back to yourself.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Yeah, my uh mine was good. I just got two like real quick ones. One of them is it a lot of mines are like milestone things, and uh just another good one with Luke, I guess not like uh this point in time milestone, but just a gradual progression. Um but just seeing him getting a lot more comfortable with reading, uh he was just he was really not confident with it. Um so he would kind of like avoid it. Um and we're just seeing a lot of growth from him and his confidence in reading to the point where now he asked to stay up at night and read with his book light. Um and you can like hear him like reading stories and stuff, uh, which is which is just really cool. It's just cool to see. Um I think I mentioned it here that like when we play video games, I always try to have him like read the little speech bubbles when we're playing through Mario or Zelda games, and he would he would get super uncomfortable with that now, and he's a lot more comfortable there. So um, yeah, again, just just it's cool seeing seeing the growth through it all because uh you know I think just because like Megan is a teacher that she kind of like takes some personal responsibility for that uh as well. And then we've always struggled with, you know, she she always imparted how important it was for her students to read with their parents back home. And so she obviously wants to do the same thing, but she struggles with the time of day of when to do that. I don't I don't know if we've talked about that here, but um just figuring out between you know how busy mornings are, and then you get back from school and he has all this energy and he's ready to go and he's excited about stuff. So it's like you do you want to sit him down and force him to read then when he doesn't really want to, and then you have activities and dinner, and then it's bedtime, and then we're trying to, and then especially when I'm gone and she has all three, it's just like it was overwhelming to her to figure out a time to to focus and dedicate um reading to him. But um figured it out, obviously. Uh, and you know, his teacher and what he's doing in school is really helping. So again, just really cool to see him uh progress and get more confident in reading, which is good. Nice um yeah, the other thing just mentioned it as you know, I know that we'll get into it, but I watched one battle after another on my flight back yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

And uh it's it's it's another one of those moments where I think it being and now winning best picture kind of like affects my j my expectations of it because my expectations are really high, and it was it was just very okay for me. Like I don't even I don't even know if it'd be in a top ten Leonardo DiCaprio movie for me personally. Like there's so many more that I have like memories of. And this one I feel like a year from now I'd be like, yeah, I don't really remember you know what happened is you know, he was a vigilante and you know, some stuff, but yeah, whatever. Uh but I thought it was okay. Uh it was fine, it didn't really blow me away. Not one that I'm like excited to go back and see again. But cool to see that it won best picture of the ones that I saw for most entertaining uh Gonyu was definitely my most favorite watch of the ones that I've seen uh from all these for sure. You were you able to see it? Did you see Sorot? I haven't seen it yet. No, no, no. Not but again yet. Yeah, I haven't either. Yeah, so I got through most of them. I think the only one that I really wanted to see other than that is Marty Supreme.

SPEAKER_08 28:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

But uh yeah, just to just to round it out.

SPEAKER_08 28:14

But yeah, there's it's interesting. There's a couple things I called, and I was, you know, not necessarily right on all of them, but one battle and after after another, as soon as I saw it, I'm like, best picture.

SPEAKER_07 28:26

Really?

SPEAKER_08 28:27

Best picture and Sean Penn.

SPEAKER_07 28:28

I I called both of those. Sean Penn. I was like, I was like, both of those were through the first quarter of the movie. I'm like, is this a Leonardo Caprio movie? Like it really feels like this is a Sean Penn movie.

SPEAKER_08 28:39

Like the dude is stealing scenes, and then it obviously like he was just so like I don't know how he does it. Like, and again, like I'm not trying to there's a lot, it's very controversial that he won. People are really upset about it. And I'm like, I'm not upset that he won, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:53

They're upset that he just wasn't there for it.

SPEAKER_08 28:55

No, they're upset that he won because like it's not even about him that he didn't deserve it. It's it's upset like that he's a bad character in terms of like things in his history, stuff he's done.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Like he's not yeah, but any performance in the movie was deserving of it.

SPEAKER_08 29:11

But to me, I'm like, yeah, like it was undeniable watching that movie and walking out of it and not being like, there's a person that has acted the fuck out of acting right there. Like he completely transformed into this other person. Um, so, anyways, for me, one battle after another, um I I loved it. I thought it was just and but I agree, I I I completely can see your point of view on it, right? Um, I think for me it was a couple things. One, it was like Paul Thomas Anderson, in my view. I've tried to watch other movies of his, not really like uh I watched like There Will Be Blood, obviously, because that's like an incredible performance from Daniel Day Lewis. But my impression on so many of his movies is like they're weird and they're hard to understand, and he doesn't really necessarily try to make his movies like very accessible to like a very general audience. And here I got this movie that like was very easy to follow, and I was like, oh wow, like yeah, there's there's weird stuff and there's things that like are random, but like for the most part, you don't need to, you know, have a certain IQ level to to just follow this plot from beginning to end. Yeah, um, so I I love that. I just thought it was like a very well-executed, like, you know, just solid movie. But like it was almost like if a Michelin star chef like was just like, let me let me make you a burger. Like a really good burger. Let me make you a burger. You know what I mean? Like, that's what this movie felt like. And um, yeah, I don't know. It was definitely the best of the year for me, uh, relative to like other things, or not even best. It was one of those, like, I was like, this is gonna win all the awards, and I support it. Yeah, um, yeah. The things I didn't call, I thought, I thought Timmy was a lot for best act, uh, best actor. Man, I feel bad for him.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

I feel really bad for him. You know, I it probably didn't have any effect on the voting. Uh the votes must have already been in by then, right?

SPEAKER_08 31:13

So the votes were already in by the time the opera and like uh ballet controversy, but it seemed, and this is what that's what surprised me. That I was like, okay, this happened afterwards, and the votes were already done. And it was still Michael B. Jordan who like kind of ran away with it. Um but you know, in the the post-award analysis seems to be that like the whole Sinners team and Michael B. Jordan was like a big like emblematic of it, they were kind of the like I don't know, everybody loved them. Like they were these like well-liked, they did all the things right, but also it wasn't just campaigning, they were just like so likable and so uh humble and genuine and real through this entire process that like the I don't know, the takeaway was that everyone is rooting for them. Like, no matter what you thought was a better movie or a better performance, everyone was rooting for them over anything else. And then obviously, um the interesting thing they said with like Timmy Chalamet was like the price he paid by losing the Oscar was the price required to make Marty Supreme a financial success, because that is to this day considered one of the like best marketing campaigns, all largely driven by him ever. Of like turning a period movie about ping pong into a$200 million like box office success that is unheard of, and like he did that, but the price Are you saying that he did it because of something specific that he was marketing, or just his status carried that movie so much? His status, but him also being very involved in promoting the movie. Yeah. At one point he was doing things out of his own pocket that the studio didn't even give him money for. Wow, and so he kind of like willed this movie into being a success, but the prevailing theory is that the overexposure to him as a result of all of this, because he has been on he has been on back-to-back movie campaigns. He has not had a there's not been a window for him to like go away for a bit and let people miss you. It's not happening now either. Yeah, the fucking 323 trailer just dropped. Like, we're right back at it. They might probably make him uh not the primary, the tip of the spear of promoting this movie now. They might be like, oh, let's have other actors do it, and he'll he'll come in and just go on Jimmy Fallon.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Like, so you think that his reputation has taken that big of a hit?

SPEAKER_08 33:46

It's not about reputation, I think it's overexposure. I think it's like anytime people see you too much fatigue. Yeah, it's gonna turn into like one person's gonna be like, you know what? Fuck that guy. And then a lot of people are like, you know what, you're right. Fuck that dude. Uh and I think that's what's happened, unfortunately. Man, that sucks. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

Uh yeah. I mean, did you have any other thoughts about the Oscars since we're here now? I wasn't able to see much of it. I was flying and doing a bunch of stuff. So the most memory.

SPEAKER_08 34:13

Yeah, yeah. Honestly, like I think uh the awards largely went to places that no one was really surprised by. There was the one tie, which was funny because we did a movie about that. We just talked about it. Yeah. It hadn't been a tie in a very long time. I think my other biggest takeaway was how hard everything except Conan bombed. Like, it was really it was painful to watch. There were like multiple stars coming up doing bits, and I'm like, yo, I don't understand. Who told you guys this was gonna work in the room? Who is the writing team behind this? But even outside of the writing teams who like write these shows, how are you as performers not able to like did you get looped in last week? Like this is stuff you work on forever. Like, how did no like these are funny people speak up who didn't seem to like catch like or want to be to me? The most glaring one was uh Chris Evans and Robert Down Jr. coming out. That was a bomb. Like that was like they try to do this weird, they try to do this like back and forth about like Robert Down Jr. forgot to get like Chris Pine or Chris Evans a gift, and it's this like weird thing where like Robert Down Jr. like takes a ticket out of his pocket, gives it to him, and it's like his parking validation, and it's playing to just pure silence. And you're also just watching these two people who are arguably like some of the most charismatic and like naturally likable people just eat shit, dude. It was weird. I was like, oh my god, this is uncomfortable. Uh they had a second exchange, and I was equally painful, saved by a bit that was clearly planned with Channing Tatum in the audience, and Channing was immediately funny just because he just delivers the fuck out of whatever bit he's supposed to be doing for the audience. But like, I'm like, dude, how like how did you guys let this happen? Like these are and you know, it's also like the fault is on Disney ABC and the teams who put it all together. They also were forcing a lot of like you know, uh Disney property promo, like they did like a bit with Grogu in the audience, and it's like it's fucking weird, dude. Like, come on, man. Uh so yeah, that was that was a major downside from last year, I think. But otherwise, you know. Seems like Conan did well. Conan is Conan's Conan's like, he's just too good at the thing he does. Like, he's very entertaining. Um, but yeah, I will say I I think like last year's show is probably a better show overall.

SPEAKER_04 36:46

Cool. All right.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Um Yeah, I wish I had gotten to see more of it, but it seems like didn't really miss too much. And I caught like, I mean, the good thing about you know, internet is that everything's clipped. So like yeah, all the all like the stage Conan, you know, his like his like intro and uh and the final scene and stuff like was all over, so catch up with that stuff. Um all right, cool. Uh let's uh let's let's just go into our trivia stuff and we'll see where we where we uh find ourselves after that. So you want to kick us off with this week in history?

SPEAKER_08 37:21

Let's do it. This week in history coming at you live. All right, number one. This social media platform had its first post in March 21st, on March 21st, 2006.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

2006. Uh it's gotta be Twitter. Uh uh Facebook was Facebook. Facebook was already established. You think it was earlier than that? Yeah, probably. Did you watch the social network? Yeah, I did, but dude, I I'm terrible to be able to get it. Watch it be Facebook. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 37:49

What are you guys going with?

SPEAKER_00 37:50

I'm saying Facebook. Twitter.

SPEAKER_08 37:52

It was actually TikTok. Really? No, no, no, no. It was it was Twitter. It was Twitter. It was Twitter. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

My mind was about to be blown. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 38:02

It was Twitter Jack Dorsey sending his the first ever tweet. All right, number two. Uh Chicago, dying a river green every St. Paddy's, started off as an experiment in the 1960s by people in this line of work. Experiment in Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

They're dying to river green. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

I know that it's some like bio, you know, biodegraded, I don't know, something that's good for the it's supposed to be me, it's plant-based or something like that, but I doubt that's what it started as. I was gonna say, yeah, environment environmentalism. Yeah. Something like that. Environmental science.

SPEAKER_08 38:37

Is that what you guys are both going with? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 38:40

Uh wrong. It was actually uh driven by uh a group of plumbers, like a plumbers association almost, that's like um, but the purpose of it was originally uh trying to find the source of illegal waste. And so they were using the dye to try to trace back to people that were putting illegal waste in the in the river, but watching the product of what they were doing, they were like, we should just do this for fun, too. And that's how it became a thing.

SPEAKER_05 39:11

Nice. Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_08 39:12

Yeah, uh I don't know, didn't get that far. Um in Boston, St. Paddy's shares the March 17th date with Evacuation Day, which is meant to celebrate what historic event.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

Evacuation day.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

The specific Boston St. Patrick's Day celebration.

SPEAKER_08 39:37

Well, it's in it's sell these both these days are celebrated in Boston, basically. Evacuation Day.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

Is that um I'm gonna go with what's that? I d I think it's uh it's a fable. I don't think it's actually true. And that's what they say that St. Patrick's is about. But is it about the the guy that led the rats out of whatever it was in Ireland? You mean the snakes out? Were they snakes? I think yeah, I think he uh I think he drove all the snakes out of Ireland. I I thought I thought it was rats. That's that's what I remember. I thought it was snakes. The the pests. I think it was snakes. The pests. Snakes in Ireland? Huh? I'm gonna say that the that uh that there was a Pope that just was just like supremely constipated. And he eventually worked it out and had the most epic evacuation. The whole Catholic people were really on edge about what was gonna happen, if it was gonna lead to his downfall, they were gonna have to select a new pope. But he eventually got rid of those demons and evacuated his bowels. His bowels completely.

SPEAKER_08 40:40

Uh both of you are are are very wrong. Um after that makes that makes more sense. That's a good thing. You learn something new every day. I had never heard of that. Okay. This iconic video game and character debuted in 1980 in Japan this week.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

Is that too early for Mario? That's where my head went.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

That's where my head went first. I'm gonna go I'll go Donkey Kong since you said Mario. I think you're right though.

SPEAKER_07 41:10

You're both wrong. It's Pac-Man. Oh, Pac-Man.

SPEAKER_08 41:12

Oh, damn. It's Pac-Cong. A little older.

SPEAKER_05 41:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 41:16

All right. All right. Last question. This kid's TV show debuted on American television in 1993 and continues to be relevant to this day. All go with Rugrats.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

Go with Power Rangers.

SPEAKER_08 41:35

Brandon, I don't know where you pulled that out of, but yes. That's good. In my mind, as I was writing this question, I was like, it is a kid's show, but I feel like if I say it's a kid's show, no one's gonna imagine immediately. Like people doing kung fu and karate or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 41:50

That's man, I used to I remember uh the saddest news I got is in kindergarten. We had half day kindergarten, so there was an AM kindergarten or PM kindergarten, and I ended up being an AM kid, which I was pissed about because they had uh Power Rangers on every morning. It's like and I used to watch it every morning. I was like, damn, my mom taped every single episode.

SPEAKER_00 42:10

So I have I watched it in the afternoon.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Was it in the afternoon?

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Uh I think it was like I think it would air randomly.

SPEAKER_08 42:16

I think depending on the channels you had, because they all because if you if you had like hundreds of channels, you'd get like the the Disney kids, whatever thing that would just play stuff all day. Like, who knows?

SPEAKER_02 42:26

Yeah, you you bougie bitch watching it on your hundred channel. But no, I so like my mom has it for me. My mom has VHS, like six VHSs that are just full of seasons of uh Power Rangers. She plays them for like like Teddy's really into Power Rangers. Teddy and James are really into Power Rangers because they watch them when they go over her house.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

Man, leave them to still have a V uh uh VCR to play them, to play VHS. Well they they they had to get one in the case. Also, I'm gonna go you guys bullshit for a little bit. Talking about evacuation. I guess we'll just drop us. I was just about to go into our trivia game, man. You can't just leave that up, man. What you want I don't know what you want to do here. Well, just give me give me the heads up. Dude, let's let's rig it. I'll give you a story. Oh, are we gonna rig it? No, no, no, no, no. Okay. So I this is a uh I guess this is primarily for you because you regularly sleep with someone else that this is relevant to. I is a morning person, but I'm not. I'm a night person. She so she usually wakes up early uh with you know, she's very aware when the kids are awake. She knows exactly what time like everyone woke up because she pretty much is up around that. So she usually gets up like 6 10, 6 15. Sometimes when she's working out and she does her workout, she'll wake up at like 5, 5 30 in the morning and go work out, which is like absolutely not me. But so I like the worst thing for me is waking up and like having to pee when I only have a little bit of time left until my alarm. Goes off. Because I'm just like very aware, and it's hard to like get back into sleep. The best thing for me is waking up when there's still like four hours left until my alarm goes off. Yeah. It makes me so happy going to pee and like knowing that I'm going to go back into a warm bed and go back to sleep. It's the best thing. So there, so on this one morning, I woke up at like 6 15 and I'm like, and I'm like, damn, my alarm's gonna go off in like an hour. I could still have a little bit. What I don't want to do is, because Megan was still lying in bed, and I was like, what I don't want to do is wake her up because then that's because then she is there, is thereby going to naturally wake me up. And so I uh so I I like go out of bed, I go to the bathroom, I close, I close the bathroom door, I go into the into our little toilet, I close the toilet door. Also, like I don't turn on any lights or anything. Like like you're just trying to stay in the sleep mode. You know what I mean? Like you're just trying to basically stay asleep as you go and do this so you can get right to bed back to bed. But I close all the doors. Like I made sure to close the lid first before I flushed to make sure there was really quiet. I like barely disturb the sheets as I get back into bed, and I just lie there and I'm like, okay, all right, we're good. Mission accomplished. And like three seconds later, she like rustles a little bit and she sees that I'm back in bed, and she like comes over and she like lies on me. And I'm like, okay, all right, we're good. Everyone just stay calm. Everyone, if everyone just says, Ratchu!

SPEAKER_03 45:31

You or her.

SPEAKER_01 45:33

She just sneezes multiple times. Like, ah, Jesus, what the hell? Like, totally woke me up. Then she's just like sniffling, she's like, Rachel! She sneezes again. I'm like, what the hell is going on? This is exactly what I was trying to avoid.

SPEAKER_07 45:48

She just comes over, she gets nice and warm. I'm like, all right, we're all good. Then she just starts sneezing and sniffling. I'm like, well, I guess I'm up. I I guess I'm awake now.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

It was exactly what I was trying to avoid, you know, and then and then and then she's and then she since she's like awake, she's a sheet puller. So every time that like there are people that when I move under the sheets, my body moves under the sheets, but the sheets don't move, they stay where they're at. Megan, whenever she moves, the sheets come with her wherever she goes. So now she's moving around and pulling the sheets off me, and I'm pulling back, and it was like the worst way to wake up because I was like, there's no way I'm going back to sleep now. There's hours lost. I I did everything that I could. I did everything that I could, and it still failed. That sucks, man. Yeah. If I were in that situation, I'm fairly certain I would not wake up. Like if Megan was laying on top of me and sneeze directly in my face.

SPEAKER_02 46:44

You had just gotten back into bed. Well, that that probably would have. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 46:48

So I was still in the trying to stay asleep mode. You know, like I'm like kind of awake, but I'm ready to just go right back to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

That took an axe to that. I was not getting back into my good sleep anymore. That was probably calculated. She's probably like, you know what? He's trying to get back to sleep. I know. Nah, he's staying awake. She's also she's also very much like, she's also very much a morning person when it comes time for Congress. So I was worried that that that was gonna start there. I was like, I don't, I don't want this right now.

SPEAKER_07 47:24

Please, please.

SPEAKER_00 47:26

I want one more hour of sleep. I'd appreciate this. But uh, because you know, you know, obviously I'm not gonna not gonna turn anything down. Hey, right if the opportunity is there, but I don't know. I was like, man, I just want to not disturb her and I can get another hour and I'll be great.

SPEAKER_08 47:42

But I was just imagining you like trying to come up with the best solution, so you like fake saying like sexist things in your sleep, like as if you're sleep talking. She's like nuzzling up a little too close, you see what's coming, and you're like, uh, women should have never gotten the right to vote. That's my way of dissuading her. You just you just you're just really terrible, and you're in in your sleep, you're just a horrible person.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

And it was just uh it was it was a fail. But usually I normally I don't I don't wake up at all throughout the night. It's just it's very rare that I do. I don't always suck. You hydrate too much before bed. Yeah, yeah. All right, uh, let's roll into our trivia game. Oh let's do it. In uh in Otter of St. Patrick's Day, I came up with a game based, it's basically uh the Battle of the Patrick's. So we can deal with the name of Patrick or St. Patrick's Day. So uh just continue to try it. The scoring method is where, as we've seen, it's really hard to workshop scoring methods. Yeah. Uh so we'll see where this goes. The point, what I'm doing with this one is that it's a ladder. All right. So answering questions moves you up rungs of the ladder, getting questions wrong moves you down. You can steal. So the point is to get to the top of the ladder. We'll see where it goes. It'll either be someone gets to the top or whoever's highest when we finish. We'll see how this happens. So I'll start with the scoring. So the goal is to be the first to reach rung 20. If you get a correct answer, you move up one rung. If you get two in a row, you move up two rungs. If you get three in a row, you move up three rungs. That's the most as we're going, is three rungs for it. Um the serpent's strike. If a player misses, the opponent can steal. If the opponent is right, they move up one, and the person who misses moves down one. I like it. The safety checkpoint, so once a player reaches rung ten, they cannot be knocked back below it by a strike. Yeah, so uh and then each player has two blessings. These are Patrick's blessings. So you have to declare it before the question. If you're correct, you move up three rungs. If you're incorrect, you're frozen and you can't answer the next question.

SPEAKER_05 49:59

Oh god. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

Kind of makes sense. Again, the scoring is a part of the two blessings. We have this. We get two blessings. Is that two blessings? Gotcha. All right. Uh let me just make a little note for myself.

unknown 50:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 50:11

Now, at some point, we have to consider like taking all these podcasts offline because like you're basically creating like a cottage industry for like card games every week. Yeah, I mean like like these are all ideas that like someone will like put into physical form and then make money off. That's true. Yeah. Anyways, anyways, continue.

SPEAKER_00 50:33

I'm trying to think, I don't know if I I'm trying to think of all the Patriots that I know. Some of these are deep cuts, some of these are easy ones, some of these uh we'll see how this goes. All right. All right, so Brandon, we'll start with you. So you guys are both starting on the bottom. So no rungs. No rungs. All right. I'm not a bottom. I can't I can't get off the ladder, can I?

SPEAKER_02 50:54

Like if I get if I get it wrong, I'm still at the bottom of it.

SPEAKER_00 50:57

You can't. Okay. You can't.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

All right. In the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, what specific type of animal is Patrick Starr? Starfish. Starfish. All right, perfect. Brandon's up on rung one. Sarav. Which American?

SPEAKER_07 51:10

Sorry, just the difference in the questions.

SPEAKER_08 51:12

I was gonna say, mine better not be crazy hard.

SPEAKER_07 51:15

I'm gonna be so mad. Which American founding father is famous for the line, give me liberty or give me death.

SPEAKER_00 51:24

Uh I know this. Fuck. I'll give you one hint.

SPEAKER_08 51:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

It has the word Patrick in it.

SPEAKER_08 51:30

Not helpful.

SPEAKER_07 51:32

Not helpful.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

Um, is it John Patrick? That is incorrect. All right. Brandon for the steal. Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry is correct. Damn it.

SPEAKER_08 51:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:44

Brandon is up to rung two. Let's go. All right. All right, Brandon. St. Patrick is the patron saint of of Ireland. But in what country was he actually born? I thought you were gonna ask what he what he let out of Ireland. I was gonna be like, well, I know's not fucking rats, so I guess snakes.

SPEAKER_02 51:58

St. Patrick. He was not from Ireland. Patrick, where else could what else would Patrick be from? I feel like Great Britain seems too obvious. Um but I'll go with it. Great Britain?

SPEAKER_00 52:09

Great Britain is correct. Wow, okay. So boom. All right. So Brandon is up to rung three. Sorry. We'll just do one. Yeah. I mean, technically, because you're on a roll now, so that was two in a row. So you're up to rung four. Yep. Uh and Sarab has has yet to take his first step. All right. Which Patrick played the ghost in the 1990 film Ghost? Patrick Swayze. Patrick Swayze. The rest of it was and Johnny Castle and Dirty Dancing. So I figured you would get it on the first part. Um I'm gonna skip this one. Because the question was Patrick Mahomes is a superstar quarterback of which NFL team? We got to replace that one.

SPEAKER_08 52:52

Alright, you gave you gave Brandon SpongeBob? I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

Fuck you. Yeah. Uh while we're doing this, I'll see if I can uh replace it. We'll see. Uh for now. Where do we go? Okay. Uh which Patrick plays the demonologist Josh Lambert in the insidious film franchise?

SPEAKER_08 53:14

Who's this question for? Are we alternating or is it always Brandon first?

SPEAKER_00 53:18

No, no, no, no, no. We're alternating. You got the last one with Patrick Swayze. The Insidious Franchise, and there's a Patrick.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

I can picture a guy, but I'm not sure his name is Patrick, and I can't remember what his last name would be.

SPEAKER_08 53:32

Also in Watchmen.

SPEAKER_02 53:34

So it is the guy that I can think of. It's the guy that plays the uh Al Al? Is that whose name is? What is his name? Is he is he is he also the guy that is uh an Aquaman? Aquaman's brother?

SPEAKER_08 53:46

Yeah, Aquaman's brother.

SPEAKER_02 53:47

What is his name? Patrick. Oh, it's gonna kill me.

SPEAKER_08 53:50

I like I like more of the deeper fun facts about him, which is that uh his wife was in actually, I don't know if you guys watch Succession, but his wife was in succession. Um and it was just like a random thing where now they're like a very New York couple, but anyways.

SPEAKER_00 54:05

Patrick. All right, gonna have to press you for an answer. Yeah, I'll I'll I'll pass. I'll I'll take it. I can't even think about what his last name could be. Spoon of the G. Yeah for the steel.

SPEAKER_08 54:15

So this is something I can steal, and then I get two in a row so I can go higher.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

I would say just for the steel, it's it's one one. And then on your question, you would go up uh two.

SPEAKER_07 54:26

Patrick Warburton.

SPEAKER_08 54:28

Warburton.

SPEAKER_00 54:28

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_08 54:29

Kidding, it's Warburton. No, no, it's the I'm joking. I'm joking. Now Warburton's the guy with the great voice who is on like Family Guy episodes. It's Patrick Wilson. It's actually Patrick Wilson.

SPEAKER_07 54:40

I thought this was another challenge. No, no.

SPEAKER_08 54:45

Patrick, but uh, but I get it. Like Patrick Wilson is such a forgettable, it's like two first names kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 54:51

Yeah. Okay. So Brandon is on rung three. Rob is on rung two right now. Flipping around. And now it's over to Srav's question with a chance to go up two rungs. Two. Two. Which Patrick played the iconic character Hamilton Ham Porter in the 1993 film The Sandlot? Never seen The Sandlot. What? That's a blind spot. Oh man, you're killing me, Smalls. Yeah, yeah. Say it again. Which Patrick played the iconic character Hamilton Ham Porter in the 1993 film The Sandlot? I want to describe him to you, but I feel like that would be giving you too much, even though you've never seen it.

SPEAKER_04 55:29

Yeah, I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Um I'm even trying to think of what else he has been in. Do you want me to is that is everyone cool with me just naming the character or saying who the character was in the movie? Sure. It's not gonna make a difference for me. For you. Okay. He was the catcher. Just just describing who he was in the movie. He was the catcher. He hasn't seen it. I know, but he's got regular red curly hair.

SPEAKER_08 55:50

He's got red curly hair. He's got like freckles. He actually posts, he posts a lot now. He does. He he does a lot of like dancing. And I saw his like post because there's like that meme of like, Dad, what did you look like in the 90s? Whatever thing. Like, and he like did the thing. Except he did the funny thing where he they're memeing the thing now where he was like, oh, and the flashback, but he uses pictures of like the the kind of like leader Spanish handsome kid instead. As if that's what he looked like. Um okay. I don't know this kid dude's name. I'm gonna go with uh Patrick Beverly.

SPEAKER_00 56:29

That is incorrect. Brandon for the steal. I think this is his his name. And I know it's an actor or famous Patrick. Patrick Gleason? Patrick Gleason is incorrect. The correct answer is is Patrick Renna.

SPEAKER_05 56:40

Oh, would have never would have never got set.

SPEAKER_00 56:43

Yeah, I had to this was this was that I had to Google it to make sure that the AI was correct. Because this name does not ring a bell at all. Yeah, so um okay, so we're still at 3-2. No one is on fire or whatever it is. So this is back to brandy now. Um I'm gonna make this as watered down as possible. Famous American racing driver. Danica Patrick.

SPEAKER_05 57:09

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 57:10

Okay. The whole thing was like, which famous American racing driver has the has the last name Patrick and is the only woman to win an IndyCar series race? I was really I was really leading the horse to water. Yeah. Okay. Um does is Danica Patrick still around? She still does stuff? She's around. Is she? I couldn't tell you what she does, but remember when she dated Aaron Rodgers?

SPEAKER_05 57:32

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:33

It's weird that I that I that I'm sure most people know every one of Aaron Rodgers' girlfriends. Yeah. Ex-girlfriends. Um, all right, we're moving into round two now. So right now, Brandon's at four, and Sarav is at two rungs. So this round two is called Which Patrick Am I? I'm going to describe him, and you have to say what the name is. Essentially the same game, but um, so this one is for Sarav. I am the captain of the USS Enterprise and a high-ranking member of the X-Men.

SPEAKER_07 58:01

Um, Sir Patrick. Look for last names only. I know.

SPEAKER_08 58:06

Dude, this keeps happening to me, and I gotta I don't know what's going on. I need give me like a second.

SPEAKER_02 58:11

I can't remember it either. What? I know, man. I I keep I keep wanting to I keep wanting to say the other guy's last name, Magneto's.

SPEAKER_08 58:21

Yeah, I just want to be like Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen, and it's like that's what I it's not McKellen.

SPEAKER_07 58:27

Patrick. I am a I am the captain of the USS Enterprise. I know who he is.

SPEAKER_01 58:32

I know who he is.

SPEAKER_08 58:33

I know it's like Jean-Luc Picard, I know his full Star Trek name. Um I have to press you for an answer. Fuck Patrick. Why? Why is my brain like er actively erasing this last name from my head? Um I got nothing.

SPEAKER_07 58:56

Okay, Brandon for the steal. Patrick McKellen.

SPEAKER_00 59:00

No way. That's all I can think of, what's his last name? Correct answer is Patrick Stewart. Stewart. Patrick Stewart.

SPEAKER_02 59:08

Why do all these Patrick's have first names as last names?

SPEAKER_00 59:10

What is this? That's what I was saying. You said that you didn't that you didn't know many Patricks. You'd be surprised. Yeah. All right. So Brandon has been. Saravas at two. Just as a reminder, you have two blessings that you can utilize. If you get it correct, you move up three rungs. If you get it incorrect, you skip your next question. All right. Uh, so to Brandon now. I am a legendary NBA center. Come on. Who is Patrick Ewing? Patrick Ewing is correct.

SPEAKER_07 59:39

This is bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 59:41

I was I was racking my brain for another NBA center named Batman. It's always my question. I just can't come up with it.

SPEAKER_08 59:47

It's always my questions. We're like, this is too easy. Let's not do this.

SPEAKER_00 59:51

The whole thing was I am a legendary NBA center who played the majority of my career for the New York Knicks. Felt like you could get it without knowing the Knicks part. All right. Uh to Sarav. I am the Gray's Anatomy doctor known as McDreamy and a professional race car driver.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:04

I knew this was coming. Um Gray's Anatomy guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:08

Uh you mentioned him 48 seconds ago. I did? Yes. McDreamy? Yes. How did I mention him 48 seconds ago? You mentioned the answer 48 seconds ago. I believe. No, it wasn't Patrick Warburton. No, it was not.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:35

Watch Windy Patrick Warburton next.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:41

When did I mention the answer? Now that's our Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:44

Patrick, I'm trying to think of currently starring in a new show. Gonna have to press you for an answer.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:49

I should have paid attention to the credits in Gray's Anatomy.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:52

Gray's Anatomy actor known as McDreamy, a professional race car driver, Patrick Stevens. Patrick Stevens is incorrect. Brandon, would you like to steal? Or to give me your steal answer? No. I don't have an answer. I don't have one, Patrick. The correct answer is Patrick Dempsey. Dempsey. He definitely did not say that. I didn't know Dempsey. I did not say Dempsey. I'll have to play it back. I think you did say Patrick Dempsey earlier, but we should have recorded this. That's the correct answer. No points for anyone. Hey, Brandon. I should have known that. I am a former MLB pitcher and father of an NFL quarterback. Patrick Mahomes Sr. Patrick Mahomes Sr. is correct. All right. Sarav. I am the voice actor for Joe Swanson on Family Guy and Petty on Seinfeld.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:38

Is it Patrick Dempsey? Patrick Warburton.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:42

Finally. Patrick Warburton is correct. All right. That's the last Patrick we know. What's the score? The score is Brandon is at six rungs.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:51

Sarab is at three runs. Oh wow, that's closer than I thought.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:54

All right. I mean, hey, and we still have blessings that are equal to three rungs. We have steals. It could change quickly. All right. Brandon, I am the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Fallout Boy. Patrick Stump. Patrick Stump is correct. That moves you up two rungs. All right. So Brandon is on rung eight.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:11

All right. Two Sarabs. I'd like to use a blessing. Sorab's using a blessing. All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:18

So with this, he can move up three if he gets it correct. If he's incorrect, he does not get to answer the next question. All right. I am the political commentator and former presidential candidate who wrote The Death of the West.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:30

One more time.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:31

I am the political commentator and former presidential candidate who wrote The Death of the West.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:38

Damn. This one's hard.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:39

That's really hard. Presidential candidate. Yeah. I'm going to go Daniel Patrick. Daniel Patrick is incorrect. Brandon, would you like to steal? I'm going to go with uh Pat Maballs. Pat Maballs is incorrect. Ah, the correct answer is Patrick Buchanan. Patrick Buchanan.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:58

Pat Buchanan.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:59

Come on, man. You hit me with the trick questions. All right, to Brandon.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:08

I am it really worked out for you about this back and forth. Again, I'm going to water it down. I'm a defensive specialist MBA guard. It was Patrick Beverly.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:21

Patrick Beverly is correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:24

All right. Brandon. So we're moving into round three.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:28

Watch. This is going to be the question that I'm missing, and it's still going to be very easy.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:32

Okay. So we're going into round three now. Current standings. Brandon is on rung 11. Sravzai is at rung three. Now these are the deep cuts. So this is going up a difficulty line. Now it's the easy one. So uh correct answers here, I'm going to say, are worth three points. Okay. Three rungs. Okay, because these are a blessing, do you get six? Double it. You get six. All right. All right. This is to Brandon again, since Rav used his blessing and guessed incorrectly. Which Patrick won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 for his work, The Eye of the Storm? The Eye of the Storm.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:14

I'm sorry, give me the year again.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:16

Patrick won the Nobel Prize in the Which Patrick won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 for his work, The Eye of the Storm.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

Who is Patrick Fitzgerald?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

Patrick Fitzgerald is incorrect. Nah. Sarov. Patrick Stevens. Patrick Stevens is incorrect. The correct answer is Patrick White. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 for his work, The Eye of the Storm. To Sarov. Which Patrick is often called the father of tropical medicine for his work on malaria? Which Patrick is often called the father of tropical medicine for his work on malaria?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:52

Patrick McGuinness? Patrick McGuinness is incorrect. Brandon.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:56

Who's Patrick Darwin?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:58

Charles' like Patrick Darwin. Friend. Friend.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:02

Charles' friend.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:03

You were gonna go brother and decided that the last names they didn't exactly work out. It's a coincidence. It's a coincidence. It just happened to both be Darwins. Yeah. All right. Wait, was that correct? The correct answer is Patrick Mason. Patrick Mason was called the father of tropical medicine for his work on malaria.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:21

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:22

All right. To Brandon, which Patrick is the billionaire, co-founder, and CEO of the payment processing giant Stripe. I don't even know what that is. He's a billionaire with Stripe? I don't know. Who is uh Patrick Kennedy? Patrick Kennedy is incorrect. For Sarav, which Patrick is often called the sorry, which Patrick is the billionaire, co-founder, and CEO of the payment processing giant Stripe. Finally, a question from my neck of the woods. That would be Collison.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:53

Patrick Collison is correct. Wow. Well done, Saraph. They're twins. I don't know if they're twins.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:02

They're founders. The founders. Are they co-founders? Yeah, they're co-founders and their brothers. They're like the Winkelvalsis?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:12

Yeah, kind of like that. But yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:14

Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:15

Even though that was a steal, I'm just giving three points for a correct answer. Cool. So right now how we have it, Brandon is at 11 rungs. Sarav is at six rungs. All right. This is for Sarav now. Which Patrick starred in and co-created the 1960s Cult Classic Spy Series, The Prisoner? Which Patrick starred in and co-created the 1960s Cult Classic Spy series, The Prisoner. Prisoner. Never heard of it. Then I'm sure your answer has a good chance of being incorrect. Yeah, probably. Let's go, Patrick Morrison. Patrick Morrison is incorrect. Brandon, which Patrick starred in and co-created the 1960s Cult Classic Spy series, The Prisoner. Who is a younger Patrick Stewart? A younger Patrick Stewart is also incorrect. The correct answer is Patrick McGuin. Are you guys related to it? Patrick McGuin.

unknown 1:07:05

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:06

You guys are almost as long as you totally different last name.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:12

Wildly different last name. Good question, though.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:16

McGuin, McGuin, you know?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:20

All right. To Brandon now. Patrick Pierce was a key leader in which 1916 Irish uprising against British rule. It had a name? Patrick Pierce was a key leader in which 1916 Irish uprising against British rule. Is this what Peaky Blinders is about? I feel like I should have watched that. I heard it so awesome. I should have watched it just to get this question right. Oh no, just because I heard I heard that it's good. But the it like what the uprising had a name? Is it the the IRA? The IRA is incorrect. To Sarab. I don't know if this is. Patrick Pierce was a key leader in which 1916 Irish uprising against British rule? I don't know. Is it just like the potato famine? The potato famine is incorrect. The correct answer is the Easter Rising. The Easter Rising.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:07

All right. It's a 1916 Uprising. Thank you. All right, Sorab, which Scottish composer is known for his work on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Marvel's Thor. Which Scottish composer is known for his work on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Marvel's Thor.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:31

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna get this, but I do listen to this a lot. Um is it Patrick McHale?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:39

Patrick McHale is incorrect. Brandon. Is it Patrick O'Shaughnessy? Patrick O'Shaughnessy is incorrect. The correct answer is Patrick Doyle. That's it. All right, Brandon. We got two more questions left. Brandon is still at 11. Sarab is at six, and I have one more bonus question for us as well. So last two official questions to Brandon. Which is my blessing. He's a blessing. He's using his blessing.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:05

All right, this is worth six. Wait, does this mean that I get to answer only the bonus by myself?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:10

If he bonus you for the steal. All right. Uh which Patrick played the calculating lawyer, Howard Hamlin, in the series Better Call Saul. And Srav probably knows us. Which Patrick played the calculating lawyer, Howard Hamlin, in the series Better Call Saul? Don't you Google it, Srav. No. Don't you Google it. I don't need to, buddy. Whoa. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:32

I I enjoy watching the I enjoy watching this guy interact on Twitter with uh with people who are still watching the show now and reacting. His name is Patrick.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:43

Which Patrick, play the calculating lawyer, Howard Hamlin, and the series Better Call Saul. You guys watch Better Call Saul? Uh you gotta watch. Let's get it. I've gotten to the point where there's there's so much out there that it's really daunting. Like I have such little time frames that like it's such an undertaking to go through these. You know, I I can't just sit there and binge watch like a season or two.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:04

So like it takes so long that it's very and it's like and it's and it's five seasons. It's five seasons. It's not and it's slow in the beginning. So you're kind of like, am I ever gonna get to this?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:16

It was Patrick Oswald. Patrick Oswald. Yeah, it's Patton's friend. His friend. Patten's friend. Okay. All right. So Sarav for the steel. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, was I right? Oh, sorry. Patrick Oswald was incorrect. Damn it. Surah. You're thinking of Patton Oswald.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:34

No, it's his friend. It's a fact. I know. Okay, wait. If I get this right, what do I come up to? I'll give you six for it. For the steel on the book, you would be up to twelve. I would be one over. It was worth yep, you would be one over. Holy shit. Okay, maybe these questions weren't rigged against me.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:52

I'm playing a little fast and loose with the rules, but I think we can all agree. I think we can all agree that that needs to make sense.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:59

I think after Patrick star, I think after Patrick starred Patrick Ewing. Patrick Beverly. Patrick Beverly. I do display. Well, Danica Patrick, I don't know that I would have guessed that easily.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:11

Okay. Patrick Fabian. Fabian. Patrick Fabian is correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:15

That brings Sarab up to 12, Brandon up to 11. That's my second guess. We have one more question. We have one more official question left. This is for Sarab.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:24

Which Patrick had the massive 1979 one-hit wonder disco track, Born to Be Alive? Which Patrick had the massive 1979 one-hit wonder disco track, born to be alive.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:36

Born to be alive.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:37

When you think about it, it's kind of a really stupid name. The hell's with you. I'm sure there's a lot of well, I'm sure there's a lot of people that live that go through life without actually living.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:47

Yeah, I have no idea. I'm gonna go, uh, I'm gonna say Patrick McKenna. Patrick McKenna is incorrect.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:53

Brandon. I I use my blessing, I can't steal. I can't steal, I use my blessing. No, but this isn't your question. You're stealing his question. Oh. But then I can't do the bonus. Everyone's doing the bonus.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:05

Patrick, let's see. He's uh uh Patrick Houston. He's Whitney's father.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:10

Patrick Houston is incorrect. The correct answer is Patrick Hernandez. You know what? Just to make it even, I'll give I'll give one more question for Sarav that I was going to use. Okay. Hit me. Uh hold on. This is what it this is what it gave me. I'm having to work through this. This is what it gave me to start. Which I'm I'm I'm just gonna read the whole thing. Which Patrick starred as the chilling protagonist Norman Bates in the 1960 Hitchcock classic psycho? Answer Anthony Perkins. Wait, trick question. His name is Anthony.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:43

Correct replacement. Like it provided an incorrect answer, yeah, and then corrected itself. It's so funny when it does that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:51

I've been seeing that with the with the quiz time too. Where it's like, actually, this is right.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:56

Yeah. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:57

So this one is worth one.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:00

This one is worth one rung since it's a replacement for the for round one. All right. So which Patrick played the lead role of the American psycho protagonist, Patrick Bateman? Don't do this to me right now.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:13

Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:15

I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. Okay, but but the question is is worded incorrectly. Yeah. Who played the lead role of American psychoprotagonist Patrick Bateman? Christian Bale is correct. Hey, man. So Sarav is at 13, Brandon is at 11, and I will give the bonus question. This will be worth three points. All right. According to 2026 demographic estimates, approximately how many people in the in the United States have the first name Patrick? Closest guess to the actual number will get the three points. Repeat the question. According to 2026 demographic estimates, approximately how many people in the United States have the first name Patrick. How many people? Okay. I'm looking for a number. Brandon, you look like you have an answer. Thinking. Thinking this through. Run in the numbers. There are parsing through the data. 2,600 people named Patrick in the United States. 600 is Brandon's answer. Sarav, what is your answer?

SPEAKER_08 1:14:11

I am gonna go 1.3 million.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:14

Sarav's answer is 1.3 million. I will tell you that Sarav is high and Brandon is low. It is in between. The correct answer is 652,000. There are Sarav is closer. So Sarav is closer. Uh wait, one point what? What did he say? One point. 1.3. No, I'm I'm closer. Six. That's that's like 700,000.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:44

He's like six. He's like six hundred and thousand off. I have dude. I have to put a math on.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:52

His price is right, Rules.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:54

Yeah, I'm just the bath on that's gonna be wild.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:59

It's gonna be so close. Okay, so's difference was six hundred and forty-eight thousand, and yours is my god, thousand four hundred. Are you kidding me? Go by one thousand four hundred.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:16

Wow. Considering how wild. Sarav won that super impressive. That's crazy. You guys split, you guys were basically equal distance apart from it on either end.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:29

I was very close to going with like 900,000, but Brandon's was so low that I wanted to go higher. Man, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:36

Yeah. So with that, Sarav is the winner of the Patrick game. Well done.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:44

I'm still mad at the ones I didn't get. Like Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart's gonna hurt for a while.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:49

Patrick Wilson's gonna bother me a bunch, too.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:51

I also feel like I I don't know if it's getting older, but I feel like I'm noticing this thing where like my brain actively hides information that I know it's is there when I'm in the position that I have to answer it. Dude, it's the ass and seat button.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:05

Like once you're on the hot seat, but why does it become so much more prevalent? Like I'm good at trivia, but like especially because like you can see it at the tip of your like it's right there. You know, you just have to focus on it, and you just can't focus on that name. Totally. You know it's right there.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:21

When we were at trivia last Wednesday, it happened to me multiple times where there would be like a question where I'm like, I know this answer, but thankfully someone else was quicker to just be like, Oh, yeah, it's this. Let me write it down. I'm like, oh thank God.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:32

I have to go back and play the tapes. I know you said one name earlier. I could have said I did not say Dempsey. Maybe not say it was not Dempsey. You don't think you said it? Maybe not. Yeah, said something else. Yeah, you're fucking high, dude. That's me. Always high. All right, cool. So with that, I think I think we're back to even. Yeah, I think it's even right now through the through our through our trivia uh section here. Uh all right, cool. That's cool. Makes it uh makes it interesting. All right. Uh what else do we have? Oh, just like real quick, first of all, favorite new feature on an airplane that it's probably been out for a while, but I just haven't been paying attention to it. That is such it's a quality of life thing. I don't know how much you guys have flown recently, but is it being able to fly the plane? No, that is a nice feature though. The view up there is so much nicer. But when you have seatback entertainment, that it now, at least on our planes, that a good portion of them have Bluetooth that you can connect your Bluetooth headphones to the seatback entertainment. Like, no more of that funky dongle and you know, and having to get those shitty headphones that they pass out that have no noise canceling or anything. Like I I realized it since I've started working here. Uh whenever I've I've whenever I've been flying and I went to turn up the volume and I saw the little Bluetooth thing, I was like, no way. I went through it, sure enough, connected super easy to my headphones. Now you have noise canceling, comfortable headphones, like such a huge quality of life upgrade on that uh that I didn't know that I needed so bad. I just didn't like think it was possible, you know, just imagining all the Bluetooth connections going on. But I guess that we're at the point now that everyone's connected to two or three devices at one time. And but you know, you just like you would think that there would be some interference or something, that it wouldn't be a good connection, you know, whatever it is. But uh yeah, really, really nice. Nice. Um, do you guys how do you feel your barometer is you know what? I'll save this for later. I was just looking at it. I figured this is uh this is a good time to roll into a question of the week. I think we we did like a quick one last week. Uh we will allow this one to breathe a little bit more this week. So the question is very general. You can take it in whatever direction you want, but what are you most proud of? If anyone has an answer ready to go, you can. If not, I can uh I can start it off as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:55

Yeah, go ahead and start it off. I I gotta ruminate.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:58

Okay, uh I've got like a a more broader one and then like a very like minor one. So my broader one, I think that what I'm most proud of, it's it's it's very general, but I'm proud of my uh conviction, I think. I think when I decide to do something or I decide on a choice, I I am I'm confident in that choice and I go for it. So a lot of different instances in my life, from as we talked about last time, about the hardest thing about doing the ROTC thing uh at college. I decided that I was gonna do it and I completed it. Um even down to like big life things. Like I remember having Megan move down with me um prior to us getting married was a big, a big point of tension uh w between my family, uh you know, particularly with my parents, obviously older generations that you know it's that's taboo to move in before marriage, uh, fully understood. But like it never even really like made me waver at all. I was so confident that, like, hey, I want to get to know this person. This is the best way to get to this no to know this person before I commit long term, et cetera, et cetera. You know, we don't even live in the same state. And so I was just very confident that it was the right choice and uh and move forward with that. There's been a lot of things throughout my life. I think just in general, uh once I get it, even with like past relationships that you guys have all been a part of. Like once I once I decide that like, hey, this is this this part's done, I'm moving on, it's like there's no looking back, it's it's cut and moving forward. Um and uh and I think I'm I I think I'm you know, it could it could it could go one of two ways because if I'm making poor decisions and I stick with it too long, obviously you could have the adverse effect. But luckily these situations have largely turned out to be positive um developments, and it's because I'm very confident that once I've thought through things enough, uh, and and even in terms of like job stuff, like where I've decided to take orders to it in the military, the company that I choose to go with, like once it's clear in my head that I put the thought into it, it's like everything kind of like falls in line and it makes sense to me, and I can just aim for it uh and go like full, full speed into it. So um I think in general, I'm proud of my, I guess conviction is the right word, um, once I make a decision on something. Um, my minor one that I'm proud of that I actually just thought of today is that I am proud that the that going to the dentist is an enjoyable experience. That it used to be a not enjoyable experience where it was painful and it sucked, and he was always asking if you were flossing and you were lying about it. It was it was just it was like it was always like I gotta go to the dentist. Now I'm proud that I take care of my teeth and they're healthy, and so when I go to the dentist, it's just it's good upkeep of my teeth. It's like, hey, your teeth look great, you're doing everything great with it, and keep doing everything. And it's like, I'm very proud of that because it was not that way, and it has become not an unpleasant experience. So I'm proud of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:08

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:09

So so those are mine. Does anyone else have one?

SPEAKER_08 1:22:12

I I'll I'll give I'll I'll do two uh also. I I'll have like a I have a minor one that came to mind later. I like to play the what comes to you first rule. So I'll start with uh at the end of the day, like the thought that came to me first when you asked the question was it's like I'm I'm most proud, not even necessarily of like success in my uh career or even like the financial security it's provided. The weird way that the thought came up is like I'm really proud that I'm not like a burden on my family. Um, I don't know that I expected or was where ever worried about it, but it makes me feel really good that not only am I a place where like I can fully take care of myself and cover my needs, but I've also been able to like help my family on certain things and like whatever. They bought a new house in 2024, and like, you know, I cut a check for that, and like there's like weddings that I've cut checks for and things like that. And it's like uh weird, yeah, it's it's it's this thing that is both the fact that like I don't have to be uh I don't know. And again, I don't know where this fear comes from, as if like earlier in my life, as if I was like borrowing money from them or something, but like the weirdly is this big relief that I don't need to like rely on them that way, and instead I can help them. So that's that's probably the big thing. And then like, you know, the fact that uh I was able to be very kind of like successful in in my job for the most part, and like I feel like I have a good sense of control over uh my career is nice, but those are like upstream things, they don't matter as much as this one piece of it that I feel like I I'm most proud of that just came to mind first.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:58

Second, is that something that like was that has that been a worry of yours growing up? Or is it just now that you are where you're at, you're looking back and be like, oh man, thank God I'm not gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:09

Honestly, you know, like I'm kind of like analyzing this thought in real time and I'm not sure. I'm thinking, like, I know this is gonna sound funny, but like, and it's also not good, and you should not maybe raise your kids this way. But like, you know, I remember when like anything I defied my parents on, my mom on, if I wasn't doing the things that they thought were a good kid was supposed to be doing, my mom would always kind of repeat this thing of like you're gonna be homeless, like you're gonna, you know, you're you're you're gonna whatever. It was always like immediately like the worst outcome possible. And I wonder if maybe that's the root of it, right? Of like this idea that like maybe it's also a sense of defiance of like, look, like you were wrong. Like, guess what? I I fucked around and I didn't, you know, study as hard as you needed me to study to feel like I was being a good whatever kid that you expected or whatever, and I didn't get straight A's. Uh, but guess what? I'm still fucking here doing this now, like you know. Uh so maybe that's part of it. I have no idea. Uh maybe those things inserted this thing in my brain of like really wanting to fight against any possibility that I was gonna be, you know, needing to rely on my family in that way because of how I felt growing up and being told that my decisions were leading me down, you know, a certain path. Like, oh, you can't have sleepovers, like that's bad. Like, you're gonna be a loser. And I'm like, uh, it doesn't make sense to me, even in my adolescent brain, so fuck that. Yeah. Uh so yeah, maybe maybe that's all part of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:45

I really and that's funny that you answered in that way because that was my next question. Was that do you did you ever feel like your parents thought that you were going to be a burden on them? Which it sounds like that that thought, maybe not that direct, but I don't think they thought that.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:59

I don't think they thought that, but I do think my mom, you know, and I get it, it's probably an innocent thing, and maybe it's something that like, you know, I have to be mindful that I don't carry as well, which is like trying to make people do the things you want them to do using fear and using like the worst, the worst possible outcomes as a way to like change their behavior. And like, yeah, obviously it didn't work on me, but it clearly left some kinds of remnants that like inform what I consider, you know, at this point, like what is what does it mean to be a burden, you know, and like what am I what am I proud of? That I dodged it.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:35

Man, and and it's so funny as I'm thinking about this in real time, listening to your answer. I'm thinking about obviously on the other side now being a parent and raising kids. And it's like obviously you you want your kids to turn out successful for yourself and primarily for them to make sure that they can handle themselves and that they're gonna set themselves for a successful life, whatever that means, or you know, a whole bunch of different stuff. But at what point, you know, think about how long it takes. At what point were our parents, could our parents be confident that we were on a good path?

unknown 1:27:05

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:05

You know, like after college, like after college it takes. So up until then, you're just looking at every decision that they're making and wondering if this is throwing them off path, but like, because like you're not gonna know until 20, 21, maybe they don't go yeah, yeah, right. Like you get to that decision point, like the the point where you when you're actually confident that your child that you've done a good job raising your child doesn't happen until so late. And they're going to make so many decisions that you agree, disagree with, fight with them on throughout all those years, thinking that it could be affecting their outcome because you're not going to know that outcome until so much later on. You gotta just realize like how worrying that is, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:45

It's like you can never be certain that they're on a good path until so late. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:50

I can't even imagine being in your guys' position now.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:53

Like, I mean, granted, I I we're not even like granted. I also plan to have children, but like, yeah, it's crazy. Like, it's not like we can. predict like, oh, here are the all the signs of like you're gonna be all right, kid. Yeah, so many different walls.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:07

And the reverse of the the reverse of that's true too. Like you don't know what is going to be like the the indicator that, oh shit, it's not gonna go well. Yeah. And that's we go back and forth between, you know, uh as parents decide these sorts of things, like we go back and forth between uh, you know, private and public schooling, right? Because I was private you know Catholic my whole life, all through college, everything I was was all um and Megan was as well until college. Um but you know so we have these discussions and it's like oh you know public schools like they have this bad rap like you're gonna get a better uh education if you're at a private Catholic school. Um and then I just you just look at all of my friends like all of you guys all public school right and it's like are you happy with how they all turned out right like you know you can be good and have success no matter what environment you're in uh and so yeah but also I mean it works the other way right is like we're are we are we still whoever we are because we went to public school or were we always going to be this way it didn't matter where we went right like and and I think about it character thing it's a big big piece of it. I went to an all boys high school and it's like when I look back I'm like oh man I wish I had gone to the local public school because I feel like I would have wound up in the same place that I was now without having to go through that whole you know situation that I dealt with there. But just like you said, who knows? Like am I the am I where I am now because of the path that I led there or you know would I have gone somewhere totally off Hilter if I had probably been in a different environment.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:43

Yeah. Yeah that's a good example yeah my minor one that is more of like a if I get to think about this answer what I would be proud of. I am proud of the fact that uh I I've managed to build a reputation for uh a lot of my friends as someone that they can like talk to about like stuff and like process thoughts and whatever else not that like I'm trying to be uh a therapist by any means but like it is nice knowing that people almost like make a point out of wanting to discuss things with me one-on-one whenever they're going through something or they need advice on something whatever and I have noticed I'm like oh man it's cool that like you know that's a thing like it's it's uh and and also it's a thing that only gets highlighted in one-on-one scenarios which makes it even feel more special um so yeah it's probably my other yeah that's a good one yeah having someone that's conf that's comfortable explaining to you knowing that you're gonna listen is like the biggest thing and provide useful feedback uh is is like is is big I think that's what most people I think that's what I found with a lot of conversations is that a lot of times people are just waiting to talk about themselves.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:01

You know it's like oh you're talking about you okay cool I'm like it's like going in one year but I'm just thinking about what I'm saying next waiting for when I can butt in rather than like receiving what you're saying and giving you feedback about what you're talking about and keeping the subject you know if you have something to to talk about cool it's about you like this is all about you rather than being like oh yeah you had a situation like that well let me tell you about my situation that you know I will say a lot of the times my way of those discussions is bringing up my experiences.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:32

Sure as a touch point for it. Yeah as a touch point for it but yeah so often like if there's a is there if there's like a through line in why people maybe enjoy choosing me to have those conversations with it is almost like me surfacing a thing that they already kind of know and they just need someone else to point it out of like hey here's why you're doing this by the way like like or here's what you're afraid of or here's what you're not thinking about and you're just avoiding this but this is really what it's about. Yeah it's kind of nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:02

Yeah I've said that to Megan a bunch of times that like whenever there's a sit whenever there's a situation a lot of the times the person that's in the wrong like they know they're in the wrong yeah like they're very aware of it they're just so they're just in too deep to pull themselves back out and be like sorry I'm wrong I messed up they're just so far into it like everyone knows the right answer to these things things. You know it just takes someone else announcing it be like hey just to let you know this this is what happened. You should be aware that that you screwed this up whatever yeah exactly all right cool uh Brandon what you got I don't want to be the only one all right cool good episode we're imagining Brett Brennan's like all right good we're done see ya it's okay all right go ahead my mine I think will be will be quick um but I I'll I'll do two two since since you both did.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:52

Yeah yeah of course and my first one I don't know if if proud is the right like word for it or if it's just something that I'm like thankful that it has happened this way and like feel like fortunate that I get to be this way. But I am proud that I've ended up in a spot where I get to like be around my family as much as possible. And I think that some of that is like like growing up not that my dad wasn't there, but my dad like worked a job that he like had to work at and worked 10 hour days, six days a week and there was a lot of things that he like didn't get to participate in. So like being able to like sign off on my computer at a reasonable hour and like sit down for family dinner and like be there with the the kids and like eat with them and and like have that like as like like a family tie.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:46

And like I there may have been one of Teddy's games that I didn't get to go to like one of his baseball games and I think that was because like we needed to keep some kids home so Megan had to go instead. But other than that like every practice every game uh for for Teddy and and being able to go to um you know James's music classes and I I every Saturday morning I took uh I took George to like a a little making music class for like like little kids to do and and like that that kind of stuff I've always like I always coming up wanted to like prioritize that in life and being able to do that and being in a position where I can I like again I don't know that proud is is the right word for it because I know that there's a lot of like like falling into the right situation certainly helps with that but being able to like stick with that and and to to put myself in the position to be able to do that um is something that's that's really important to me and something that I you know take a lot of pride in in in being able to do and and be present for. Absolutely man.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:46

Absolutely I mean like I think that's something to be proud of for sure I think I think there's more agency you have in having cultivated that situation than you realize. I mean like you could I feel like there there's a debate that our circumstances are completely based on chance and also not at all based on chance. So like uh yeah I think I think there's there's some some reflection of your intention uh in your circumstances at the end of the day and you know that's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:11

Yeah I think it's so I don't know if we talked about it here but it's but it's funny talk or hearing about older generations and about how the not not cutting down you know anyone's parents or anything like that, but just the way of the times that like the dad just like weren't involved in the raising of the children as much. You know, their job was going to work and you know that was that was part you know changing diapers or I think we mentioned it here, but so when you talked about um you know and like they're you know they just didn't have the access to these types of work at home or work from home situations and things like that that I think we're in a much better situation now that allows you to make those choices for yourself and your family that that that is beneficial for everyone. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:55

Yeah and like whenever my dad did get to go to some of the things he was always like so happy to be there and like so proud to see us do whatever whatever we were doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:04

And I know I know if he had that kind of access or or had a situation that would have allowed him to do that, he really would have wanted to. And that's something that's always you know stuck with me to say like I I I want to do what I can to to not do that. Especially because I know I knew that that he would have he certainly would have wanted to and I would have taken advantage of that if he could. I I feel like I'm um doing as as good a job as as I wanted to do like thinking about that that part of my life and being able to being able to do that. So something something I don't take for granted. And Brendan you know this uh because because in college I was the same way I never have like a workout schedule at all like the gym is not like a thing that I like I don't have a gym routine uh but over the last like three years I've reliably done there's been a couple of times where I like like one week I had pneumonia or whatever. So like my weekly streak is is is off. But um I've stuck to two to two and a half hours in the Peloton every week uh for the last like like three years uh trying to stay stay heart healthy as much as I could. So that's that's something I'm proud of too especially because for the first 30 what 33 years of my life 32 years of my life like just did not have any type of routine or that as like part of my life at all at all. So um that's that that's something that I'm like a a positive life change that I've I've been able to make stick that I've um I'm proud of being there around your family more and being there for a long time with your family. Hope so good things hope so yeah cool. All right I think that brings us to a wrap anyone else have anything else to add from this week nope all right sweet stuff yeah hope you guys enjoyed it we had a good time going through the trivia stuff and uh hopefully everyone had a good St. Patrick's Day Sarav again happy birthday glad to hear you had an awesome week thank you always enjoy hearing about and living vicariously through you being able to experience that sort of stuff awesome week uh yeah all right uh yeah with that we're signing off hope you guys enjoyed it we will talk to everyone again next week and have a good one see ya bye