You Gotta Think Outside the Box Office

hellurr pals. back at it with another fun one - steaks, kid sports, history, box office showdowns and first jobs. enjoy

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:07

Howdy everyone. Welcome to this week's podcast. Welcome back to another week. I realized that as I have all this internal conflict about uh you know addressing genders, I realized that I kick this off by saying howdy gents every time because in my head it was always to just our little group. But in a public domain, I feel like I need to broaden, broaden the horizon. So howdy gents and broads. Yeah, howdy gents and broads.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Welcome. That is uh I gotta say, that is so optimistic about who's listening.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

Oh, I know. Um but I mean at least my Megan listens. I think that Brandon, I think that your Megan listens. So I think you know, we at least have a couple out there. So want to be uh Howdy Gents and Megans. Howdy gents and Megs. Howdy gents and wives. Yeah, and a couple of ladies out there. Uh but yeah, welcome. Uh thanks for joining us again for another week of the uh perfectly named episode that we have going on. Um let's see, we just things that have gone on. The masters, I don't know if anyone else is really into golf, but um really I was happy that I was able to catch most of it uh that was that was really good. I posted about the what's good, we talked about it last week. Um so those are always those are always awesome, and he delivered again this year, uh, which was great. And that uh I don't really I'm not I'm usually not rooting for any one person in particular, but I just want it to be like close at the end on Sunday, uh, which is awesome. And it definitely delivered. It was big lead to start, whittled away. Then you know Rory was down, strokes to Justin Rose, who's always the bridesmaid, never the bride, which really sucks for him. Um so a lot of good back and forth, and then and then uh Scotty Scheffler thought that he he just couldn't fractions of an inch away. Fractions of an inch away from a playoff. Oh and 10 straight ten straight pars is tough. Just thought that if just any of those had gone down that you would have been in it, which would have been, man, a Rory Scotty playoff would have just been awesome. And that would have been a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Isn't he wasn't he like one of the only or like the the the first one in a long time? He had two bogey free uh rounds. Is that what it was? I didn't I didn't hear that one. I think that's what it was, yeah. Yeah, I can't remember if it's just like the like the first time that there's been a bogey free final round in a long time, but I think I think it was the the first time that somebody's done it twice. So he he went bogey free for the last two rounds, um which is is some which is hard to do in Augusta. Yeah, ice in your veins under pressure, especially especially when you're like near the top of the leaderboard and you're and you're and you're pushing for it. Um just a shame that while he didn't bogey, a shame he didn't get more birdies because one more would have done it for him. One more cool.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

So um and it's I mean, I love the master, it's always been my favorite. You know, we talked about it last week, but um there's something about it. But then uh Scott Fampel, he's a big golf guy as well. And he was talking about it, he's like, you know, when are these tournaments come out? He's like, people always ask me about like dark horses, and you know, there's usually someone like lurkin who could do well. He's like, not the masters. Masters, there's no dark horses. It's gonna be the people that you like when you look at the leaderboard at the end of day three, it's gonna be the familiar names are at the top. It's like this course and this tournament mean so much to these people. Like they put so much into it. A, it's a smaller field, it's a more, it's a it's a tighter um field than the other tournaments, but it's just like this tournament means so much to these people, it really brings out the best of them. At the end of you know, 36 holes or you know, throughout the tournament, it's just the top names are gonna be there, and it's no real surprise with it, which is which is awesome. Like for the casual fans, like that's kind of what you like to see. Same thing as as we're talking about the NCAA tournament. You know, like some upsets are cool in the beginning, but then when it gets down to it, you want the heavy hitters to be there duking it out at the end, uh, which is what this was. So um that's cool. Rory got his second green jacket in a row, which is awesome. It's good to see him uh get over that hump. It was like, man, if he didn't win it last year, this oh my god, this will the gravity of this one of him having extra lead.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Especially after that, especially after that his tee off on 18. On 18 when he totally shipped the year before and then put it in the woods. Uh yeah, that would have been that would have been high.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

That would have been miserable. So good thing that he didn't do that and he came back and had a second one, which is cool. Um, so it was good to be able to watch that. I always enjoy that tournament. And uh and now we roll right into the major NBA NHL playoffs uh that we started with the play ins. Uh it was good to see. I'm rooting for, or I I don't want to say I'm rooting for, but I like that Charlotte is in the playoffs. Um, they're a good young fun team, but like man, the Lamella ball stuff is tough. That was that was yeah, that was sturdy. Uh for those of you that didn't see it, he what happened? They they they were playing their playing game against the Heat, and in the I think in the second quarter, like early in the second quarter, Lamelo drove the ball to the basket. He he wound up hitting the deck, and uh Bam out uh Atabayo, who's the Heat's, arguably you know, he scored 83 points, the second most points in his NBA was like behind him, and Lamello reached out and he and uh Bam was on one leg and he reached out and he pulled that one leg, so it caused Bam to fall down, and he got a back injury and it knocked him out for the whole game. And it wasn't called, the rest didn't call it or review or anything. Um it's just like that team is so young and it's fun, and they've been losing for so long, and like it's like the perfect formula to get behind them and to have a big fan base that just hops on board of this Charlotte bandwagon. But then you have a player like that who like you know, then he's been in the news, he was you know, he drives his car like an asshole, he got into a car wreck. Yeah, um, you know, when people asked him about that play where he where he pulled Bam's leg, he was like, Oh, I don't know, like I haven't even seen it. Like, I just fell down, I hit my head really hard, like I didn't know where I was, and they were like, Oh, well, did you get tested for a concussion? He's like, Concussion, like, no, like I've never had a concussion in my life. And I was like, What the hell are you talking about, man? Like, he just like doesn't own things, just a very like he's just which is typical of the ball family. It is, yeah, like it is very typical. It just sucks that he's like their lead. It'd be great if it was Con Kanipple who is headlining everything, would just kind of like taking over because that'd be a really fun story. But the fact that it's Lamella Ball makes it a little tough to get behind it. But uh so it's good that those NBA playoffs are starting and NHL playoffs, the Flyers are in there first time in a while for them.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

But it's first time in six years. Yeah, they're wild push after the Olympic break. Yeah. It's a mixture of them then have just playing lights out and being one of the best teams in the league since uh since they got back from the Olympics. And then the Blue Jackets, I can't remember what their record was. I think they had two wins uh and they lost like six, six at home in a row or something like that to to to bow out. But uh yeah, fly flyer sneaking in there.

SPEAKER_03 7:15

I said that they're playing against Pittsburgh.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Yeah, at Pennsylvania. That's cool. Yeah, which still I don't think they have it. And it's nice that they are like total dark horse underdogs, like no, no pressure of expectations, which I think I I think that's when they started playing well, is when like people were like, oh, it's a lost season, and then they were like, oh well fuck it, let's just let's just let's just go out there and play our game. They got some got some young pieces. It's uh just killing exciting NHL playoffs. Yeah, I know. But hey, if you if you're if you're not gonna if you're not gonna finish in a in a top draft spot, then at least get yourself in the mix.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

So yeah. They're in it. Yeah. So it's cool. All right. Well enough boring you guys about uh this this this boring sports talk.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

Let's get into the the other the other item that's not it's kind of sports tangential. Um Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

I just we lost him. There he's back. There he is. He's back. Back. He's back. And he's gone. And he's gone again.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

The funny part was Brendan, you you your expression was so static that I thought that I was the one because you f you looked like you froze too, and I was like, oh shit.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

We can't hear you at all, dude.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Now I'm back. Yeah, now I'm back. There you are. Gloria.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

There you are. Get better internet, man. It's not my internet, it's my dad was calling me on my phone. Oh, yeah. So it's it's like I hit I hit hit ignore it, and then it's like, oh, yeah, let's just upload your shit. Like tangential to sports. The tangential to sports, um, kind of related, but has transcended that and and it's been picked up everywhere. The Diana Roussini stuff. I meant to I meant I meant to bring that up. I meant to bring that up a couple weeks ago. Um, but now she like she like actually like like stepped down, which the whole thing is just like super shady. Yeah. It's super shady. And I know that she's kind of making a stand and saying that like it's because I don't want to subject myself to any more scrutiny than I already have or whatever, but it's at the end of the day, pretty serious accusations to not just let it clear, like let it clear itself out. And if you really had nothing there, exactly where there's smoke, there's gotta be fire. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

And I also read the statement, and just from like a PR comms perspective, right? I don't think you could just declare in a statement that I'm not gonna let this define my career. Like, you don't get to choose. So, like, so like trying to say that like you're leaving because you aren't gonna let it define it, like that makes no sense. I mean, like it it I don't know the what it means, but I'm saying it doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

So, like it just was bit of is kind of defining it by doing it. It's like, oh, she was this reporter and then she had this scandal and then she left. Like everyone's just gonna remember this is why she left.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

It seemed almost like whoever was advising her, like the idea was if I let this continue and I let this continue to get all this attention, uh, that it's gonna derail like my reputation and how people know me. But it's like that's already happened. So like it feels like a very BS way of getting out of this. So I don't know. Uh uh, even I was kind of like, not everything's adding up here.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Yeah. And then there's the whole thing, like now there's all these, and I I I had noticed this like last year on some of her like podcast appearances and stuff. And I thought we saw it's like she's an NFL insider, she's like in the locker room. That's like kind of her her way of joking about it. But in like when she's not doing like the reporting stuff and she's just like a podcast host and talking about like personal stuff, the way she's always talked about her husband has been really like it's like, all right, like you guys have that kind of relationship where you can like just shit on each other and talk about how you fight all the time and how you hate each other and how you never really see them like during the season. Okay, I guess there are people that are like that, but now that this shit's coming out, it's like, man, that's just like who knows and like don't want to pass judgment on anything. Who knows what's going behind going on behind the scenes? Her husband could be a huge piece of shit too, and that's like where it's all coming from. Like, like who knows? It's just really weird that that's how everything is progressing, and like that there was all that that like little nuggets that were dropped. It's like, eh, it's kind of weird. And now there's this where it's like, oh, that's super weird to be interlocking fingers with a head coach in the NFL.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

And also, and and especially because there have been rumors about how she gets information from sources. There have been those rumors in the past where even if those are completely false, now that this has happened, everyone's like, oh, well, then those must be true. You know, like it almost like validates those, even though they might be totally baseless. It's just like the fact that this happened makes those rumors have a lot more yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, well, if she's doing this, then those are probably, you know, those have a higher chance of being true then.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

My algorithm is definitely I don't know if it's just these are the ones that have gotten really popular viral or what. It's like a lot of like uh female sports journalists like coming down on her over like yeah, it's like because they already have a bad rap. They're like that you this is like you know, this this sucks. I was like, god damn, that's crazy. Uh I don't know if you guys saw this. Uh again, everyone's like looking at every breadcrumb possible now. But there was some exchange she had like a year ago, two years ago, where she complimented somebody by saying that you looked like that he looked like Mike Vrabel or something.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

She she said that you you remind me a lot of Mike Vrabel.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Yeah, like how it's good for her, good for him on like dating apps. And I was like, damn, people like we're living in a time where people will find everything.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

That's what I mean. Like all of these like old clips, and some of them are from a long time ago. But yeah, that's all that stuff lives forever. We say that as we're recording a podcast, and I'm gonna be very careful about what I'm saying moving forward. I know, I know from the eight list of the colour.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

I guess I'm glad we're not recording when you two shit on your wives. It makes me very uncomfortable. But you know, you're not sports journalists, you're not looking for access, so I figure it's just a fun dynamic.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

It's also weird that if you're trying to keep this on the DL and hide it, why would you go to a you know high-end uh hotel and do it on the rooftop, you know, where where you're out in the open? Uh and just, you know, their whole excuse was that like they're there with a group of friends, and they just happen to be, you know, it was just a big group get together, but like none of those other they can't provide any of those sources that can corroborate their story or anything. Instead, you're just gonna quit and be like, I'm innocent, so I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Like, yeah, okay. Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_03 13:33

Yeah. All right. Uh all right, cool. Let's get into what's good. Who wants to kick us off?

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Kick us off. I'll keep it quick. Uh mine's like incredible recency buys. Uh, but uh at dinner earlier, I um uh I made uh some steak. So um I just really nailed it. And I don't know, there's something about when you nail a steak that just and I follow the instructions, like because I always feel like I have to remind myself of like the best approach on the stove, like get the crust and like flip it one minute, one minute, like that whole thing. And it was slab. And I say that because I I also will say I don't think I eat like red meat or steaks on remotely the frequency that I think a lot of people generally might. So yeah, for me it's a little bit of a special thing, and it's really good. How did you cook it? Uh I did it on the stove. I I think the reason I was excited is I got this avocado um like spray. And I guess avocado oil is like really good for high heat cooking because I think the thing that's always scared me and why I wish I had like a balcony with a grill or something instead, is like if you try to cook a steak the right way, you're gonna send off your earlier smoke alarm and like whatever. Uh and so I did it with this uh avocado oil spray thing, and it kind of worked great. Like not didn't get too smoky, got a great crust on both sides of that steak, let it rest. Uh, I also did the whole thing beforehand too, which was I uh took the steak out, I like patted it down, made it dry, covered it with like salt, like seasoning, uh, and just let it kind of like dry brine, basically. Um so yeah, I did that for like I I did that in this morning, then I took it out, I let it get to room temperature for like an hour before I cooked it. So I really, really did everything the exact way you're advised to do to really nail it. And uh that was exactly the result. So I was uh I was just you know very content with myself for nailing that. I've most of the time always like fucked it up somehow or like overcooked it because the smoke alarm went off, and then I was like, well, I don't know if this is done yet. Like I don't know. So um yeah. Feel pretty accomplished.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

Nice, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Nailing that.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

Yeah, a steak is probably the one and only thing that I will always prefer the way that I make it over getting it at a restaurant. I just I really yeah, like I flex. That's a flex. I I always well, I mean, I I feel like I have a I don't know. I don't know what it is. Like I really like a ribeye steak, and all that I do is just heavily season it with salt and pepper, and just I feel like I've just got it down where it can be like that perfect medium rare and it's so flavorful and juicy to me. Whereas whenever I go to like a steakhouse or something, and if I try to order it, it just doesn't have the same like maybe it's just because mine are like I I like a little bit more fat in it that adds that little bit of uh of like buttery taste. Whereas I feel especially like a filet mignon, like I don't like filet mignons because it's just like a thick uh it's it's just like a really thick piece of meat, but just it's just like just meat, you know, where like I like the the spices and the flavoring getting in there, I like the fat marbling in there. It just like the what like the way that I make it. I'm not saying that my way is perfect, it's just yeah, I'm very accustomed to the way that I make it. So when I order it from a restaurant, in my head I'm imagining what I make at home, and it's just not that, and it's always just disappointing.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

So uh I've I've had it both. I I I would actually, yeah, I think I've had the opposite where like every time I've had steak at a restaurant, um it's always been like so good. And I'm like, why can't I do this? Like it feels like the ingredients are minimal, and it's really a matter of science to just nail the right amount of cook.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

Um I think it's especially hard it depending on how thick of a steak you have. If you have a really thick steak, that's really, really tough. But I also get the inside cooked while the outside doesn't get charged.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

That's why I've never really bothered with filet mignon. I've I like this what I did tonight was uh was a ribeye, and I'd be like, that's that's the way to go. Like it's just you know, an inch, an inch and a half thick, like they're just solid. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Things that I've really struggled with with the like the bacon wrap fillets, I find that hard to get like the bacon done. Yeah. Which which like and every time that I've had it like out, like they're they're awesome. Yeah, but like I've had like the Omaha steaks, like bacon wrap fillets that come in like like the little meat boxes.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

You think they really grill those together though?

SPEAKER_02 18:16

I don't know how you can get it. Yeah, you wrap it and crisp it.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Yeah, I don't I've never been able to get the bacon right without having the steak be like you know what I was gonna mention that I see a lot of people do for a steak is that they do a reverse sear of it. Where I think what they do is that they put it into the oven to get the bake it first, correct? And then they take it out and then they just sear the outsides of it. Maybe they do something with the bacon as well, where it's the bacon. Make sure it's kind of cooked, and then you wrap it and then just crisp everything up on the outside. I could see that.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

I could see that that makes a lot of sense.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

Also, I mean, whatever I'm doing's not working, so next time I try it, I'll I'll have to check it out.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

I am tempted though, like uh said my friends, uh this is kind of a hilarious thing, but they have this beautiful rooftop, very nicely furnished and stuff, and it's got one like grill. And uh they were so excited about the grill when they moved in, and uh the grill was just never available or ready because they had moved into it was like a new building and all this stuff. And uh, you know, my buddy Eddie, who's like he if there's very few things in the world that he'll get like full Karen about, but like this grill, he cared about it so much. As soon as it started getting warm, he let me read these text messages he was sending to them. It was so funny. He's like, We've been paying these amenity fees for like months, and you're you you mean to tell me that it's beautiful out, and like this grill is still not ready to be used. Like, like we've been living here since October, like whatever it was so fucking funny. That's great, but uh, but they're they I mean they love it, and like we've got I've been there, we've grilled like twice already in like the last few weeks. Tonight I was even like this thing is great, but like man, I'm kind of tempted to be like, yo, guys, I'm bringing some steaks. Let's get up there, let's go. Because I I I I do now want to know like what the difference is like. I think I've never I don't know that I've ever had a homemade grilled steak. I've had grilled steaks obviously at restaurants and stuff, but I really want to see what the difference might be like.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Yeah, yeah. It's uh it's funny that you're saying that he goes caring about that grill. Because I was gonna say that have you guys you guys have both seen New Girl, right? Yeah, yeah. And you know at the apartment that Nick Miller, he like doesn't want to pay for a plumber to get things fixed. Like he has, you know, like with like the garbage disposal when it starts acting up, he like puts his stick in there and he's fighting with it. Like he knows exactly what to do to get it. I feel like I'm exactly that way about the grill. Like it's an old grill, its igniters are broken, so I have to like manually light it with a uh with one of those, you know, I don't know what you call it. The the wall, like those like big flames or whatever. And I like know where the hot spots are, I know which ones get hotter than others, like I know how to clean it properly, right? So like it's just like I just have a system, but like it's broken, it's old, but like I know how to make it work and produce some good things, right? So this weekend is Luke's birthday party where I'm not gonna be here because I'm gone. And Megan's like, hey, the easiest thing is for us to cook burgers for it. Like, that's like super quick, and we can just pump a bunch out, it'll be really easy. So, can you show my dad how to work your grill? And I'm like, Oh man, it's just it's it's just first of all, like, I don't want it to be like, what the hell is this piece of shit? I'm like, I know, but like you gotta work it. You know, you gotta work treat her well, you know. It's like it's not just turn it on and it's gonna be perfect. You gotta turn on the gas this way, then you have to light this burner first, then this one, and you have to clean it this way. It's like it's like I have this whole process, you know, that I feel like someone else it won't come out the same way, and then they'll blame it on the grill. You're like, well, this old piece of shit grill is not producing a good product. That's actually like, man, I it's not the grill. It's just I've got a whole system. And you know, could I get a new grill? Sure, but it's not this one, you know, and I've got my stakes down perfectly. So I'm the same way about that grill as well. Um all right, uh, Brandon, what you got?

SPEAKER_02 22:15

My what's good uh is baseball season. Teddy's baseball season just started up. Started last week. They had their first couple of games. And going into it, Teddy's team was in the championship last year. And he had like a really good first year experience. He had an awesome coach. He had a like a crack team. There were like two teams that were noticeably better than the others, and it was uh it was a a three-game series we ended up playing with them for the for the championship, where it was like it it was tight. Um so just a really good overall experience. They were really competitive and they were really good. We had multiple kids, like they they were making outs in the field uh with with fielding it and kids that could like make the third to first, which is that is very at this like like seven, eight-year-old is super impressive. Um, so it was like, man, like that was that was that was really good. And I didn't know what to expect for this season. I was I was just hoping because then he ended up playing with the tournament team, which was like the it was the the seven you guys, but he was sick. So that's like not his crew that he's gonna be going with, but they had an open spot on the roster and he was able to play with it. Uh and they were all really good. So I'm just like, man, I hope that the like the seven you age group that he has for who he's gonna be going up with is like like really good and he gets that same experience because it like it it's he's really into baseball, um, he's really competitive about it, and he's he's decent enough at it that he can hang with with the the kids that are that talented. Um and we went into the first practice with the team that he has this year, and I was like, this is gonna be very different. It's just gonna be very different. Like the kids were not like locked in, they were hitting off the the pitching machine, and there's maybe one kid that could hit it into the outfield, like in the air. Everything else was like grounders, and a lot of it was weak contact. And I'm just like, all right, we might be in for a long season. It's gonna be very different. A good character building experience, and I just hope that the rest of the teams are like there's some talent, and there's like somebody that we can cobble together a good team from. Um they're three and up. They have been they've been rocking it. Uh they just won, they won the their game tonight 17 to 7. Uh, and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what it is about like once the season has has switched. I don't know if it's like getting into the games, but the kids aren't goofing around as much anymore. They're like staying locked in, nobody's sitting down and picking grass. Teddy caught a line drive from shortstop today. No way. And they they made a double play. There's a rough line drives? Dude, so many some of these kids could rock this pitching machine. And it's coming in. I I stood back and caught to like cali calibrate the pitching machine a bit, and it's I can't remember what it's set. It's like set to 40 or 42 or something. Yeah. But when you're back there catch it, it's coming in pretty quick. Like I'm small, it's a shorter distance. This isn't a major league. Yeah, super close. Uh yeah.

unknown 24:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Yep. So I'm like, I'm like, man. And and these kids, these kids can catch it. They they can get a hold of one uh in and hit. So I'm just uh and I'm I'm thankful that they have a team that's that's into it and like they're all as as excited and and as um just like I I don't want to say competitive, like it's still it's still like like rec league baseball. They're not like all trying to like kill themselves over it or taking anything too serious about it, but they like to win uh and they're locked in and they're like paying attention to the game, which is which is is not what I was at all expecting after the the first couple of practices. So um that's awesome. Seems like it's gonna be a fun season and they'll be in most of the games and and and uh and and really into it again this year. So Teddy's crushing. Teddy's crushing went four for four tonight. He's batting leadoff. Um man. So he he hasn't he hasn't had a ton of RBIs uh so far, but he's been he's been playing well.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

That's awesome, man. That's good to hear. Yeah, but um we're uh yeah, we're going through it right now uh for sports. So you mentioned the the coaches are are not as good. Yeah Luke's team last year was awesome because they're in uh how they do it down down here, they're in um coach pitch for it could like a potential of like three years. So last last year Luke should have been in T ball, but we were like, hey, he's kind of over T-ball, we just want him in coach pitch. He was good, but so his team, they had been together for a while, and it was their second year in coach pitch, and like the coaches were awesome. They were, you know, they came with a plan, there were three of them, they split them into groups. Like there's really good instruction going on, and the team was really good, it was competitive, made it to the championship. It was a great experience for Luke. We wanted to get him on the same team, but unfortunately, that group of coaches and players like moved up to the next league. They moved up to kid pitch. Um, and so we just had to, you know, it was kind of luck of the draw, and it was an unlucky draw uh for certain, where the team that he's on is another one that's been together, but they've been together through T-ball. So this is their first year in coach pitch, and it is a train wreck. The coach um doesn't he doesn't show up with a plan or anything. Like they're 95% of the time, everyone just standing around. He doesn't have a good grasp of like of like coaching little kids where their intention span is short, like you can't just like leave them on their own because they'll just start, you know, like if there's nothing going on, they just start like goofing around. Um so it's very tough to like it's a it's a huge step back where Megan um didn't, you know, she was like, Hey, is this even worth it? You know, what is he getting from it? And I'm like, man, I I I think it's better for him to do something than nothing, because then next year he'll be even further. Yeah. Yeah, like it's better for him to at least, you know, he's still getting his swings in, he's still getting used to throwing the ball and catching, and you know, there's at least something uh to it, but it is it is tough to watch because it's such a step down from last year, um, where we were really excited of where he was going because you know, i he he's um he's one of the he's one of the better players on the team, but that says way more about the team than it does about Luke. Luke is not a great baseball player by any means, but he's but he works hard, he pays attention, he does what he's supposed to, and you know, and we'll see where that goes. But he's you know, he's by no means an all-star or anything, but he is one of the more skilled players on the team, which is like, oh man, this is this is rough.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Um so the coach, the the coaching experience and like at that level, it it affects that side of it and like your your entire experience so much. Uh and we've been really lucky to have such good coaches, which is uh one of the reasons why I was nervous uh about this year, because because we I got to be good friends with the coach that he had had last year, and he was really good and he moved up uh to the next level. So had no idea what we were getting, and I know that can be a crapshoot because I've heard some I've heard some stories. Luckily so far in this league, um, it seems like most of the coaches have been pretty dialed in and ready to go, both last year and this year. But it's like a like it's like a new round of coaches that basically comes in every year. There's like maybe two or three coaches that coached in this league last year that are now coaching this year. So it's just you never know what you're gonna get, and you you you're just like worried about having that experience where it'll drain them. Um but for uh for James, because James is doing the coach pitch this year. Um and I was worried about James because I don't even think James really likes baseball. Yeah, but he said he wanted to he said he wanted to do it, and uh, some of it feels like I feel like he's kind of peer pressured from because cause Teddy and and George are like baseball fanatics, they're nuts about baseball. They will sit through a nine-inning game, both of them, and be like totally cool with it. And James doesn't have that, but he says he wants to play baseball, and I don't want to deny him. His his coach for coach pitch this year is an ex-scout. He worked as a scout for 17 years uh for college. He he was I can't remember which which college team it was. Um but he and he also he coached youth baseball at the IMG Academy down in Bradeton. So he's like uh he's like a legitimate, like, like baseball guy who knows this stuff. And I'm like, I don't know how this is gonna jive with James because James is like not as into it. Um but it turns out that we James had his first practice this last weekend, and he is one of the kids that's more dialed into it than some of the others that were there. There were other kids that were goofing around, but he was like like doing what he was supposed to do, and like it, like not an all-star by any means, probably won't be, but as long as he's like paying attention and and doing what he was, I just want him to enjoy it. Like I don't want him to hate being there.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

Yeah. Are you volunteering for either team? Because I know you did that last year, right?

SPEAKER_02 30:16

I I ended up getting yeah, I ended up getting roped into doing third base coaching and then was like a I was for all intents and purposes a coach last year. I will so I I didn't like go through the league, but operated as one. Um and it was it was tough for Megan, because this was like right after Millie. Millie was like like a baby. Um so to like do because I was I was running drills at practice too and doing all that kind of stuff. Like I would go to practice with Teddy and she would be here with like all the the little kids like alone. And then like at the baseball games, I would be like out on the field and she would have them all corraled and try to keep all three kids together and paying attention to a baseball game where George was one, Millie was, you know, what four months or something like that. So it's just it was much difficult that way. And I I feel like um I would have loved to have like done an official coaching capacity. Just I I I feel too bad about it, and I think that there's too much going on where I I don't think we're in the place where I I could do that yet. But I did I volunteered to do the scoring. So I score all the games. So I'm able to hang out with them and and help corral people, and I still get like I'm still locked in and paying attention to like because I'm uh we had the game changer app where I'm like scoring every pitch and saying what's happening on the field. So it's it's like um uh like an honorary participating role that doesn't have all of the pressure and I don't have to feel bad. Because that my my worst fear about like volunteering to coach would be that I I have to half-ass it and I don't have the bandwidth to like actually do it for the kids. And that's I like that's such cheating because I know how much again, how much that coaching experience goes into that. To not be able to give my my like full attention or full focus to to give it its due, I would I would feel absolutely terrible.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, it's good that you're still involved in some way and that all the and the so far all of your kids are enjoying it. That they're like it.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

Again, the season's just started, so we'll see how it goes. But yeah, so far uh it's it's surpassed my my low expectation.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

Nice. Uh all right, my what's good kind of uh kind of just a low-key one. Um, but always on these trips, uh, I get the chance. Like my my schedule is so drastically different when I'm on these uh when I'm on a layover on a trip. Like I'm going to bed at like eight or nine at night, and I'm getting like nine or ten hours of sleep, which is like not what I'm doing here because there's just so much stuff going on. But especially on time changes, like when I'm on the West Coast, it's a three-hour time difference, it's like all the major sports are wrapped by like nine, by like 8:30 or 9 out there. So it's like, all right, cool. So I just like watch a show and then just go to bed and I get tons of sleep out there. So it's just it's just so interesting how it's like totally different um from back home. But I always look forward to it. As we talked about, you know, I watch shows with Megan here, but then there's a list of shows that I have that I want to get to when I'm on my own. And so uh as we talked about, you know, I finished up uh Peacemaker, and then I'd watched through Andor, and then I started to watch just a few episodes. I was going back through The Mandalorian just to get ready for Mandalorian Grogu that's coming out, but I was like, it was like, all right, I've already seen it. I'm not, you know, there's there's like three seasons to get to. Like I wasn't as dialed in. Like I just had it on and it was and it was all right. I was like, all right, maybe I do want to start something new. Um, and so I went with a knight of the seven kingdoms. And so like the first 30 seconds, I was like, uh I don't know if I'm into this right now or not, because I heard that it was good, but for some reason in my brain, you know, a lot of things were like, hey, like this is an awesome show. It's it doesn't take itself as serious as the Game of Thrones, it's a much smaller scale, it's not as like grandiose as Game of Thrones. So like in my head, it shouldn't at all, but like in my head, I'm like, oh, okay, so it's worse. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, oh, it's not as big, it's not as serious. I'm like, okay, so it's kind of like just, you know, it's something that'll be like, all right. And and my brain shouldn't do that because the same thing as like Andor, right? It's like comparing like season one of Andor to like the big Star Wars universe, right? It's not as serious, it's not as big scale, but it's like that show is one of the best that I've seen. Like within the first five minutes, my view had already completely shifted. I was like, this is awesome, this is great. It's just something about it that just draws you into the characters right away. And it's like, it's like especially comparing, and I think that I was also in my brain, it was comparing it to House of the Dragon, where it's just like that, just has not caught, you know, like it's just it's so much slower and drawn out, and there's years between the seasons, whatever it is, but it's like I wasn't as invested in the characters as fast as I was with these two characters in the night of the series of the of the seven kingdoms. It was like right away I finished the first episode, it's like, damn, I want to watch that at that second episode already. And it's like not even a big deal. It's like this dude that's just trying to enter this competition uh with jousting, and he'd be so it's like not even a big deal, but I'm like, man, I want to see this. This is so good. How uh how how deep did you make it? I'm only I'm only two episodes in. Okay. Yeah, I'm like very disciplined. I don't know if disciplined is the right word. Um, but like you're good about savoring the shows. Yeah, exactly. Like I watch one episode, I watch, I watch one episode a night. It's like the last thing that I do before I go to bed, it's like I I get the room totally dark and I'm just locked in for that one episode, and then I know that I have something to look forward to. So like I try to make it last. I can't binge stuff.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

I'm doing the same thing with uh the new season of Daredevil right now. But yeah. Okay, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

But I'm I'm I'm deep into well, I'm not deep into. I'm I'm on episode, I just finished episode three of a night in seven kingdoms. Are you? Oh, that's cool. Until I went with baseball, that was gonna be my what's good. Because it's like it's like if Monty Python tried to do a Game of Thrones, is is a little bit what it's like. With like with like the and I I knew that there was there was humor involved with it because I heard it was less serious, but I didn't realize like how legitimately funny it would be. Oh yeah. And I like it, I don't even know like and and I'm drawn into like the main characters, and then there's like all the other characters around, which yeah, I don't feel compelled to like know their street, like and this this was part of it being less serious. It's like I don't feel compelled to like know their story and what their history is, like the guy with the antler crown, yeah, whatever like war he is, right? I I don't know his name. I I figured from the end that he's some Baratheon, but whoever he is doesn't matter. I just thought he's fucking funny, right?

SPEAKER_00 36:43

And like what he delivers in his short skirt is awesome.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

Yeah, awesome.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Yeah, yeah, it's uh I was curious. I I feel like we've talked about like shows we liked a long time ago, uh just in general. Did you guys ever watch that show Scrottle Recall? Oh, dude, I just had this was like years ago that I remembered. I don't know if it's still on Netflix. They changed the name because they realized that that was gonna be a tough one to sell. Uh, they changed it to Love Sick, but that was where I had I had first discovered that actor because he plays like the best friend, and he's fucking hilarious. And something else too. He's been in a bunch of shit since then, but it feels like it's so satisfying to watch someone where you're like, yo, I love this guy, and almost like a decade later, it feels like this show has officially put him over the top. Like, like he'd been building, building, building. He gets this role in this show. It's not even like close to a leading role, but it's done something where like everyone's obsessed with him now. And I'm like, man, I'm it just makes you so like I'm just happy. I'm like, man, I'm glad this guy got like what he's like what he's been owed forever. He's so charming, so funny, incredible performer. Um, and you're gonna see you know more from him later in the show, too. But like, man, he's great. He's great.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

So he yeah, because he just he he seems like a likable Russell Brand, you know. Sure, yeah. He looks like him, he has similar mannerisms, but hopefully without all the other extra stuff, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:13

Um but I will say I I'm so excited for you guys. It's easily like a runaway favorite show of the year for me. Yeah we we watched, we start like we started watching it individually casually, and by like episode three or four, we're like, this needs to become a Sunday night like thing that we all do together, and it's exactly what we did, and like we ended up watching like the finale and stuff, and like it's it it it'll surprise you, and it'll also just like it, it just it's just so good. And uh I just I love I love uh the stakes not being the fucking iron throne, you know what I mean? Like it it this is the same issue with like Marvel and everything else, it's like everything can't just be like the whole universe depends on what's gonna happen here, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um yeah, man, it's great.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

Yeah, but I also feel like like you need when you have low stakes like that, you need to do what you're doing really well. Yeah, because I feel like some of the like some of the like you talk about like the Marvel stuff, like you're not saving the world. It's kind of like, okay, well then like why like what's what's the point for a lot of it? Where you like you really need to nail like the way the act the way the characters are written and the actors who are playing them. And I feel like a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is like that at the park.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

Yeah, a lot of things have to work. Like we are glazing over, like or glossing over this casting is incredible. Like the guy who plays uh Sir Dunk is like never acted before, really. Like he was a rugby player, um, and he's just in he's so good. And if you watch him in like interviews and stuff, insane charisma. Like really, he's totally different. He is so off the cuff, charming, and funny. You're kind of like, God damn, like it's this shouldn't be allowed. Like, how are you this good at this? And then the kid, too.

SPEAKER_04 40:01

The kid is like and I the kid is a crazy talent.

SPEAKER_00 40:04

I know, man.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

Colour actors, I I like that's a that's a sticking point for me.

SPEAKER_03 40:08

But man, he's awesome. Because uh Obi-Wan, I mean, that was like the big up with Obi-Wan.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

Yeah, and this kid is he seems so natural and like interviews too, and it's kind of like nuts. You're kind of like, wait, what? How are you like born a star this way? Yeah, and he like works the camera, and he's like very, you know, he he I don't know. I was gonna say like he's articulate, but he really is. Like he's just he just knows how to be on camera and be very engaging and like do whatever he's at. Like, it's just incredible. I'm like, damn, how did you guys do this?

SPEAKER_02 40:39

The the thing, the thing that I get like the biggest kick out of, and it's like the small thing, but like while they're at the tournament and they're like cheering on everything that happens, the like bloodlust that he has just like it, it just seems like it's so cathartic for him when he's like cheering them on for them to be unhorsed. Yeah, it's it just comes off as so sincere. And it's just funny to see this real little kid who's like, Yeah, kill him. Like, get up. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

Uh it's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 41:07

Yeah, so excited for that, and I'm glad that my perception switched immediately.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

Yeah, I don't know if I'm feeling this, but like, you're you're just I like that you're describing your brand as as stupid.

SPEAKER_03 41:19

Well, it's just that like I've noticed that when I'm really into one show and I really liked it, and then that show ends, getting into another show feel it doesn't feel right because I'm still so I'm still riding the high from the show that I just finished that like going into another show, it takes like a little bit for me to get into it, but then I can like really get into it. It just feels like it's like, oh man, I still miss that old show.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

Like, yeah, I'm I'm definitely the same way. I feel like I every time I finish a show, I feel like I go through a movie phase. And not like I watch a whole movie, it's a palette cleanser. I'll like watch a movie in like 30, 45 minute increments uh as like a replacement almost before I'm ready to like commit to another show. So I get I get that feeling, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:04

All right, uh sweet. Let's jump into you know what I want to bring this up really quick because it was a train of thought that I had that was funny because you guys have some uh uh some relation to this. So on the podcast that I was listening to, they they brought up uh the situation of like, hey, if someone is gonna give you a million dollars for you to call someone in your phone, but that person cannot pick up, who would you call? Uh was like the premise of it. Like, so it's someone that you have in your phone, then so it's someone that you're somewhat familiar with, but in order for you to get the million dollars, that person cannot pick up uh when you call them. And so, like, you know, you know, people's answers were like, like, oh, you know, like I'd call like, you know, my sister because she never picks up for me or whatever, whatever. But I was thinking about it, I was like, man, like who would I call? I was like, it would have to be someone that I have their phone number saved, but they probably don't have my phone number saved, right? Because like we're in this age that like you don't pick up for a random number anymore. Yeah, like you're crazy if you just pick up a random number. So it would have to be one that I have that that person doesn't. And I realized that like I I don't know if I'm unique in this, but like I don't think I've ever deleted a single phone number that I've had since I've had a cell phone when I was in high school. Like it has transferred over every time I've gotten a new phone. You know, I remember going into Verizon when I had that, and for them to transfer all of your contacts and data, they had a system in the back that they would take your phone and they would plug it into your new phone and your old phone, and it would transfer everything for like half an hour. And even the guys was like, dude, you have a ton of contacts in here. I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm just but like what am I gonna do? Like go through and like one by one delete them out. So like whatever. It's just it's just phone numbers in my phone, it doesn't really matter. Yeah. Randomly, I you know, as I was thinking, like it would have to be someone that meets that criteria where I have their number, but they don't have mine. A really random one was that I was like, I know, I guarantee you that if I called this person, they they wouldn't pick up. It was uh uh I I don't even know the last name, so I can't even put this out there, but Colleen from Halloween at UConn, where you where you where you uh in you know interrupted that whole situation. Yes. I remember that I have her photo and I looked it up and it's under there as Colleen Halloween. And so I was like, there's no way this person would ever pick up if I called it actually decades ago. Yeah, I had her photo because I remember I was talking to her because this was when we went back to your campus center and you were doing like karaoke. Her and I were like trying to meet up later on it just like never worked out.

SPEAKER_00 44:41

Um listen man she wasn't she wasn't Megan so I had to I had to sabotage that I had saving saving I had to fuck that shit up. Yeah oh yeah um it is funny you mentioned that I I realized like it's also it's not about like cleaning up your phone number like it's you know hygiene or your contacts like it's hygiene. It's a lot of work it's just boring. Like for me to do that. The only numbers I've ever deleted are uh heart are are like girls who I was like I can't I I need to not drug text. It's like it's just easier if I just delete them for my phone. And so um that's truly maybe the only context in which I've deleted numbers. Otherwise like I have random random phone numbers. Yeah exactly going back yeah it's it's it's it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

Decades. Yeah like like it'd be really interesting to go through but you know like once they're in your phone and you save them like you might never see them again. Yeah. You know you only like search for the people that you need to call and that's it. So like it's not like you ever you you like scroll through and see these names ever again. But so it would be really interesting to go through contacts and see the numbers or the people that I've saved in there.

SPEAKER_00 45:50

I also love that there is at whatever point some idiot at Apple was like all of your social media and everyone should be added to your contacts so like in my contacts it's like uh let's see um it's Andy Anne Annie Azizan sorry Carmelo Anthony It's so dumb dude like you just Carmelo just like yeah real people real people musician actor like I'm like who did this why would you do this?

SPEAKER_03 46:23

And but yeah so it was just interesting just going down that uh that train of thought is like oh man this is a person that we all know who would definitely not pick up if I called him and I would get a million dollars.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

All right uh Sarav Uh so uh PSA for our listeners we are switching things up with uh this this weekend trivia uh basically we're just we we've got a we've got a very fun game section that is kind of the the the highlight of of every episode or at least the central piece of every episode now so it's like why do this weird kind of quiz amuse boosch right before um so instead we're just gonna go through boosh great description um so you know it's like let's just let's just go through like what seemed like interesting things from history and react to them in general as opposed to turning them into a quiz. I will say you know the AI wasn't AIing this week uh in that there weren't that many that I found interesting. So I think there's like about two or three that I will share that were like genuinely like new information to me. Uh April 14th 1865 this I my context can you say this was when uh Lincoln got assassinated. What's interesting what I didn't know is A. Yeah. Is that what you're going with? I just heard this as well. Go ahead I'll let you finish I don't think it's the same thing. Uh or I don't or I think I know what you're talking about. This is different. Okay's bodyguard on the night he was shot left his post outside the presidential box at Ford's Theater to go get a beer. His name was John Parker and he had gotten bored with the play and left his post leaving the door to Lincoln's box completely unguarded. The original plot that night was actually to simultaneously assassinate Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. The conspirator assigned to kill Johnson simply lost his nerve, got drunk at a bar instead and went home only Lincoln's attack succeeded wild.

SPEAKER_02 48:22

So if the guy that was going to shoot Johnson was getting drunk with with Lincoln's bodyguard to go grab yeah man what it what an asshole though it's kind of nuts.

SPEAKER_03 48:36

I didn't I didn't know about that level of chance were you talking about the Kennedy stuff like the Kennedy No no no sorry I um maybe you'll get to this well whatever um the Titanic is this in yours at all?

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Yes it is but a different thing.

SPEAKER_03 48:49

Okay I was just saying that it happened on the same day.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Yes 14th so yeah yeah yeah um happened on the same day I I had another thing about the Titanic which I didn't know but I do feel like this feels like a very familiar fun fact that maybe I heard before and forgot uh that people most of the people who died after the the ship sank did not die from hypothermia. Uh the majority of them died within 15 minutes um from the cardiac arrest caused by the shock of the cold. Of the cold which I didn't know. Yeah movie did not give me that vibe.

SPEAKER_03 49:28

Um yeah yeah and that and that uh there was a ship like 14 miles away that could have seen the SOS flare but their person monitoring had like fallen asleep or something.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

Oh my god that's crazy that they could have seen all these assholes that are leaving their post and not and changing history maniction of duty yep seriously yep um all right two more I think that are actually decent um this one is interesting so the Book of Mormon the Broadway show uh created by the South Park guys that opened in on April 17 2011 um the Mormon church's official response to the musical was to take out an ad in the playbill that simply read the book is always better they later placed ads in the cities on the touring productions route that read you've seen the show now read the book um and purely from like that's very clever that's right really clever yeah purely from like a PR nerd standpoint I'm like damn that's a really like you're going at people who who are really good at roasting the fuck out of whatever and that's a very like surprisingly like classy clever like you gotta hand it to them kind of PR response of like or I mean not PR it's an ad but you know I mean like yeah it's the only way you can come out looking like the only way you would be able to take advantage of it come out looking anything positive.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

Because if you like if right you don't want to go toe to toe with the South Park guys to try to like combat what they're doing because you're not going to come out of that looking great. Uh but uh exactly yeah man clever.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

Last one and I and I figure you guys maybe have heard of this one. I don't know I feel like I just really hadn't that Paul Revere never actually said the British are coming.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

Really?

SPEAKER_00 51:09

Yeah yeah uh he like ever he said so the the the fun fact is like everyone in the colonies still considered themselves British. So like yelling the British are coming would have really just not meant anything. So what he actually said according to his own account was that the regulars are out. Um which apparently is the phrase that is actually more indicative of like the British coming.

SPEAKER_02 51:35

Yeah because they're the regular army the British regulars is what they would call yeah that's true. When you think about it the British are coming that like that's my neighbor what are you talking about dude?

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Yeah yeah we're all British I wasn't sure about uh doing a fifth one but this one actually is kind of interesting. April nineteenth eighteen ninety nine or April nineteenth nineteen eighty nine uh spring of nineteen eighty nine PepsiCo traded cola syrup to the Soviet Union and received 17 submarines a cruiser a frigate and a destroyer in return because the USSR had no hard currency and could no longer trade vodka after American sanctions. Pepsi's CEO joked to the White House National Security Advisor we're disarming the Soviet Union faster than you are they immediately sold the entire they immediately sold the entire fleet for scrap for a brief window a soda company had one of the largest submarine fleets on earth that's insane who would have thought to to do that that they traded for military equipment.

SPEAKER_02 52:42

Well the thing so and that's like that's like not the only like weird thing with Pepsi and the military. Did you guys ever see the thing it was it was at some point in the 90s where they were airing this commercial where it it was like you collect the um like the the uh cans tabs yeah and yeah the tabs and it was like if you if you collect or maybe it was the cans or something but whatever you could get Pepsi points and they were like it in the uh commercial it was like showing all the things you could trade your Pepsi points in for and it was like if you came up to like a million points or something it was supposed to be something like outrageous that you couldn't do it was like yeah you could get an F-16 fighter jet it's like in the commercial. Just I don't know how like crazy. And some person actually like went through and he like did the math to figure out that he like the fighter jet was worth like I don't know a million dollars but if he was able to spend $333000 like he would get enough points to do it. So he's like well that's a great investment. So he actually went through and did it and the Pepsi was like no man that was a commercial we're not serious. And they never actually gave him his fighter jet that's that's crazy. Yeah to find that story because that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 53:52

Yeah that's a little fun history for this week let's uh let's get to some game that's cool yeah all right so this is not necessarily trivia this is based on um if you remember I think the first one that that we did of this was a top five list of highest grossing artists.

SPEAKER_03 54:10

So um hopefully this isn't as clunky uh as it could be but so what I want to do is you guys are doing kind of a top five and I'll give you the categories I kind of combined a couple of them. So action adventure comedy drama horror thriller and sci-fi fantasy. Now I was thinking if I wanted to reduce this into a certain time period but I'm gonna leave it the time period wide open but the catch is that you have to connect one your the movie that you pick first to the each subsequent movie. Via director actor producer music anything like that you have to make a connection so think about that in terms of how you want you know do you want to go with a big cast? Do you want to start with you know horror thriller that might not have as much crossover but so it doesn't all five of your choices don't have to link together but you make one choice your next choice has to be connected to your previous one in some way. And you got to do all of this from memory yeah all right so so we'll see how this goes uh and then so and but then your movies are going to be the highest grossing movies. Okay. All right so you create your top five by connecting each movie to the next and then I will attach I think I'm just gonna go I don't know whether to do domestic international global I guess domestic is probably just the easiest yeah let's do domestic local so then domestic grossing box office. All right so you can do it in any order that you want you can start with whichever one you want it's just your next one has to connect to it in some way. Does that make sense? Yes and I'll do my best to you know if you know if kind of going you know if you guys are confident that it connects in some way, you know I'm not gonna go through and like double check everything. It's kind of an honor system sort of thing. I'll leave Sarav to all go through and I'll I think he's gonna know way more about connections I try to make that I am. Maybe yeah yeah yeah we'll see okay so Sarav is up four to two in this series. So because of that I'll give the floor to Brandon first to make his first choice. Once again the categories are action adventure comedy drama horror thriller and sci fi fantasy how do I want to I'm interested in the strategies because there's a lot of different there's so many layers there's so many there's so many ways and I'm trying to think of I can get because you gotta connect it to a high grossing film as well is the goal.

SPEAKER_02 56:51

I think that there there are some I'll just I'll just have to try to figure I'm gonna start I'm gonna start sci fi fantasy and go with Avatar. Wait wait do I have to do all am I doing all of them now or are we going back and forth?

SPEAKER_03 57:04

No no no uh we're going back and forth.

SPEAKER_02 57:06

Okay, okay good I'm gonna need to play this out.

SPEAKER_03 57:10

Okay so Avatar one had a domestic box office of I'm just gonna go round number 785 billion million sorry so Brandon has knocked out sci-fi fantasy he has left action adventure comedy drama and horror thriller okay is I'm gonna go action adventure uh endgame okay Srob's gone with Avengers Endgame has a domestic box office of eight hundred and fifty eight million so right now Sarat is up by roughly seventy seventy million and has knocked out action adventure I thought Brandon was up no no no you're you're winning yeah you're you're ahead yeah you have you have seventy million more so it's total domestic grossing for the movies that you got it okay so you are up by 70 million Brandon it is up to uh Brandon's movie go ahead so I'm gonna go drama with the James Cameron connection Titanic Titanic with Demex Domestic Box Office.

SPEAKER_02 58:37

Any guess Brandon what for what their box office was I mean I I thought it did a whole bunch compared to Avatar 785 endgame 858 are you going is is this like total since then or total the year that it it released?

SPEAKER_03 58:53

I think it's it's re-released a couple times this is all releases yeah I don't know what's that 600 million domestic really close 674 million I'll take that for drama all right so Brandon is at roughly 1.5 billion right now I'm gonna go drama and I'm gonna use uh Robert Downey Jr. and I'm gonna say Oppenheimer great one oh man that just opened up a whole a whole mess yeah so Oppenheimer domestic release 330 million so a little lower but yeah but he's got he's got a lot of outs now to go yeah for the other places uh okay so that puts uh Sarab roughly 1.2 billion so it's down by 200 million to Brandon Brandon has done his drama and his sci-fi fantasy has action adventure comedy and horror thriller left and he's sitting on Titanic I'm gonna go action adventure and I'm gonna go inception with the Leodon DiCaprio. Alright because you think the Inception was his highest grossing film.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:14

For action adventure yeah I can't think of anything that DiCaprio was in that would have been in that genre or any of the other genres comedy. I don't think he's done any kind of hard I think it's gonna be a tough nut to crack but cross that link a took kind of I just mean to to like find a link to the encounters on yeah sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:34

Okay Inception's domestic box office was 292 292 million. I'll round you up 293 because it's 587 so that brings you one 1.75 so Sor so Brandon's up by about 600 million right now. So Sarav is sitting on Oppenheimer for his drama he saw comedy horror thriller and sci-fi fantasy left wait what what do I have left you have comedy horror thriller and sci-fi fantasy with Oppenheimer as your current link.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:10

Okay. Um can I go would like the Dark Knight factor is like sci-fi fantasy I want to say no I know it's like not it's not it's not sci-fi fantasy in like the conventional sense.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:34

Yeah maybe we should have had superhero as like its own thing. Okay so I'm going off of Oppenheimer um it's funny that the uh that the that the AI answer is that it's primarily classified as a superhero film but is widely recognized for transcending the genre to function as a gritty crime thriller and psychological drama.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:56

So like and everything yeah um but I mean by that you know the thriller I mean I guess it kind of does work as a thriller it is like what's going on here.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:09

I would I would call that a thriller yeah I know I think I think I'd be alright with that calling I was actually planning throwing that out as with the Nolan connection. So I think all right so are you good with uh Dark Knight Dark Knight. Okay. All right uh so that knocks out your thriller dark knight had a domestic release of five hundred and thirty five million that's that's a big one. Okay, hold on that brings you up to one wow so one point seven two three uh Brandon is up by thirty million yep and uh you guys are both even through you know you guys are both picked three out of five so uh with that again Brandon's at one point seven five two is at one point seven two three Brandon still has comedy and horror thriller to fill out and is sitting on Inception as his link.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:04

So my plan was to go Dark Knight with the Nolan connection. I'm gonna go horror thriller with an Olen connection and I want to figure out if I want to go Dark Knight Rises or Dunkirk. As the third in the trilogy I feel like I have to go the Dark Knight Rises.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:22

Alright Dark Knight Rises do you think more or less than Dark Knight I actually think it did more would be hold on let me just make sure I didn't read the wrong number for the other one.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:32

Yeah okay um you would be incorrect it did a little bit less 448 so close um but let me okay so that brings you up to pretty even 2.2 uh 2.2 million so you have comedy left sarav is at 1.723 with uh one guest to go to be even so you're up by about 500 million right now Sarav is sitting on the dark night and has comedy and sci-fi fantasy it's interesting that both of you guys still have comedy left I guess with these comedy box office ones are not comedy just does make as much money yeah yeah so but now I'm thinking I should have I shouldn't at first so yeah yeah yeah you're on the dark night rises I mean yeah maybe so Sorava's at 1.72 yeah and you have sci fi fantasy and comedy sitting on the dark night all right let's see um all right who is in the dark night um all right just because I don't want to waste too much time uh I'll go I don't think this is gonna do great I'll go uh sci fi fantasy I'll do Thor Love and Thunder uh all right what's your connection no uh Christian Bale yeah okay sci fi fantasy yeah yeah I I think that's as I guess so yeah okay Thor Love and Thunder arguably I don't even think arguably the worst the worst Thor that's saying something with uh I don't know I don't think it's what was that one I didn't love dark world dark world yeah dark world yeah yeah I think love and thunder is I did not think Love Thunder at all yeah yeah all right so that got you comedy from there 300 343 million so that brings you up to two uh almost two point one two point oh six so with that Brandon is up by uh one and a half million one hundred million one hundred and fifty million or fifty million yeah decimal places one hundred and fifty million yeah so you're up by 150 million both of you

SPEAKER_03 1:06:00

Each have comedy left for the last one. So Brandon is sitting on the Dark Knight Rises that he has to link to comedy. And uh and Sarav is on Love and Thunder that he has to link to comedy as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:14

I wish I had some concept of what these box offices were. Um just just for frame of reference, would we call the big short a comedy? Yeah. Classified there. I don't know if that's the one I'm gonna go with. I'm between I'm between the big short with the Christian Bale connection uh or and the one that I actually think I'm gonna go with, just because I'm I'm curious to see where it lands at. I don't know how big of a box office it did. I'm gonna go ten things I hate about you. Joseph Gordon Leonard.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:41

Ten Things I Hate About You. These are funny. What's your what's your guess? Like a hundred and fifty million, maybe. You know what? I'm gonna leave these. I'm not gonna release what it did until Sarab gives his. Alright, good.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:57

So this feels a little bit like cheating, but it is very accurate. Uh so Thor Love and Thunder had Chris Pratt in it.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:06

Hold on. Let me just mix sure that I've Okay. Uh sorry, go ahead, Sarov.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:10

Thor Love and Thunder had Chris Pratt in it. So for my comedy, I'm going with uh Super Mario Brothers.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:17

Wow. I'm interested because I'm interested what its domestic numbers are. I think internationally it probably crushed. Let's I was I mean I mean, I was both wrong and right about it. It crushed both.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:32

I I was I wasn't in my head there for that as comedy. I guess I could say you know what? Is that a comedy movie?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:40

I felt like the laughs were the only thing I got out of that movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:44

It was funny. It was funny. I know. Uh you know what? That's another category I wanted to have in there was uh animated movie.

unknown 1:07:50

Animated.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:51

That would have been um well, we'll leave it for now, I guess. Do you have a second one if you didn't if you went with not an animated one that was more strictly a a comedy?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:00

No, this is kind of my strategy. I was basically planning on getting to Chris Pratt and then doing Super Mario Bros. or the Lego movie, but I think Super Mario Brothers made more money. And I just feel like unfortunately, most animated movies do qualify as comedies in general. Like just because they that's yeah, there's not much else they can be beyond like that so um but again, you know, we're figuring this out in real time.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:25

No, I mean I think that I mean I I think it uh I think it does qualify. I mean, you're right, it's a comedy, it's all about the laughs, I guess. Um all right, so with that, uh Ten Things I Hate About You was pulled in 38 million domestically. Which brings Okay Which brings your total which brings your total to 2.2 billion. Super Mario Bros. internationally, internationally did 785 million. Domestically did 575 million. So it crushed internationally, but it also crushed domestically too. Like the fact that it did more than the Dark Knight or Dark Knight Ride, like man, you don't underestimate you know, you underestimate the power of kids. That is crazy. Yeah. So with that, Sarab finished with 2.64 billion and Sir and uh Brandon at 2.2 billion.

unknown 1:09:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:30

Um I will say if we were to play that game again. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, it's down to the last one. I mean, you had the lead going into the final round. It's just trying to.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:41

I wouldn't have thought I only had one super hair movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:43

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:44

I mean, great.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:45

I was gonna say the Nolan and the and the Cameron well a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:48

Yeah, yeah. I think uh if we played this again, like once you use a franchise, you cannot use any more. Because I was sitting there thinking, like, I could just figure out like Infinity War, I could do a way of the water, just go bigger. And like just keep getting these like high grounds. That's not fun as as a way to play. Yeah, but I also feel like it should be like even like even us, we shouldn't use like once a franchise has been dropped, you can't it's no longer you know in the in the mix. Um, but definitely fun and fun and challenging.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:18

Yeah, I just wanted to see how this went and what strategies because I was really you know, the horror thriller was the one that was like, oh man, you know, that could be because I'm thinking like legit, you know, scary movies. Yeah, scary scary movies that have like low budget, low box office, you know, and more not as well-known characters that are in it that it's tough to tie into other ones. So like that one and then comedy. Uh so just interesting to see where it went. I'm sure we'll play this again and maybe tie in a few more limitations or rules to it.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:50

I think if we were playing like faithfully, I would have probably been like doing like a quiet place too after Oppenheimer using like the Killing Murphy connection. Yeah. For for uh horror, you mean yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:05

Killing Murphy was in a quiet place too. He was in the second one. Quiet Place 2.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:10

I don't know. All right. Uh cool. I also do appreciate that I just took that, I took that, I took that lump with the with Love Love and Thunder just because I knew what it would get me to in the end.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:21

And at the end, it was still I mean, it did more than Oppenheimer. You know, like it was still uh it's still a Marvel movie at the end. But I just don't remember it was gonna fly.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:30

I remember it feeling like it was talked about like such a failure that I did not think it made that much money. But you know, also the other one that I was surprised like uh if you want to just look it up, because I think it would just be funny. I was thinking about this and I was like, man, I wish I maybe had considered it. Uh Spider-Man uh Far From Home. Is that the most recent one? Um the one with the three Spider-Man that like rolls?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:55

Uh no, that's um I think so. It's it's the one after Far From Home, isn't it? Or No Way Home, No Way Home. No Way Home, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:02

No way Home, No Wome. I think that would be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:06

Yeah, I think it did too. No Way Home did yeah, 815. Yeah. That would have been a big one. That would have been the second highest one of the game.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:16

It's always been fascinating to me that Spider-Man as a standalone manages to do like Avengers level numbers. Like it's crazy how much that character is popular.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:25

Yeah, 1.9 billion worldwide. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, cool. Well, uh that was interesting. Yeah, it was fun. That was good. Yeah. I like it. All right. Uh so just moving into the question of the week now. Uh I tend to go a lot on jobs because I think it's an interesting uh interesting situation of like where you came from, where you started, what you got from stuff. So this one is just what was the first job you had uh and what did you learn from it? What did you get from that from that job? I think for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:58

Mine, I'm pretty sure was working. Dude, Brandon's delay has been so crazy. Oh, is he delayed again? Yeah, have you been?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:07

No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:08

Yeah, no, no. Yeah, yeah. Uh like it's just it just gotten like a a second wider every time. Anyways, Brandon, go ahead, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:15

Okay. So technically, my first job was working with my dad. Like I I worked at my dad's uh like plumbing, heating, and electrical supply warehouse uh when I turned 13, 14, just like like stocking their shelves and pulling their orders and and doing stuff there. And what I learned was that I did not want to wake my ass up at like 6 30 to go work in a warehouse, a hot warehouse with no air conditioning for like six days a week. Um and I learned that's a really shitty way to spend your summer and not something that I would at all look forward to. So that's what that's what pushed me into like business school and wanted to do that. I'm like, you know what? I'm like, this is not the life for me, or something that I can uh, you know, keep up for without an end in sight. Like for a summer job, it was great. Outside of that, um, wouldn't for the first like non-crony, non like nepotism job that I had uh was working at right aid as a as a clerk there. Um, and like a cashier, but also like stockboy doing all that stuff. The thing that I learned there um is that women's public bathrooms are absolutely disgusting. I saw some of the most heinous shit. Dude, it was awful. It was really bad. Like all kinds of way worse. Cleaning the women's bathroom significantly worse. Like blood, like yeah, dude, it's yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:47

It's kind of sorry. Expect the blood, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:50

Like all over. Like I probably wouldn't. It's all over the seat, it's underneath the seat, it's down the side of the bowl, and it's like and it like along with all of the like diarrhea flex and everything else that's there, like the the women's the women's bathroom was significantly more like there's uh let me just say it this way when there was like stuff that went all over the place, there's a wider spread because it went all over the place. Whereas like there would be like some there would be some like nasty spots in the in the men's room, but it's like you scrub that spot and you're good. Whereas in the women's room, it was everywhere, like it was terrible. Um, so yeah, that that was an eye-opening experience.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:31

You learned that broads be nasty. What's it be nasty, man? Yeah. All right, nice. Uh Sarab, what about you?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:41

Yeah, so I was starting to think about it. I'm pretty sure my first uh like Oh, wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:45

Before you answered, uh Brandon, you you because you were saying that that the first job was that you were working with your dad at his place. Did you ever have a conversation with him? Like, hey dad, I don't want to do what you do for a living. Like, did you ever have that conversation uh with him?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:59

No, and I mean, like like my dad, the stuff that I was doing is not like what my dad does. Like he's like, he's like in the office, like ordering the stuff and is like working with the contractors and doing the stuff. So he like wasn't, but he like came up doing the stuff that I was doing. And that's like what he did. I think like I think part of the reason of why he like had me do that was to kind of show me what that would be. Because I think he kind of he probably knew um that's not the path that I would be on, and that's like not the thing that uh I A, I don't think it's what he thought that I would want. B, I don't think it's what he wanted for me to do this. So I think it was kind of like a teaching moment thing to say, here's something, like get a dose of the of the real world. If you if that this isn't what you want to be doing, find a better way and and and do like handle your shit and get educated and and do what you need to do. Because that's what um, you know, outside of like my parents and their generation, neither of my parents are college educated. Um, and like a lot of my aunts and uncles are are are not. Um so I think that that was kind of uh uh not that I like I I always did well in school, and I think that that was kind of like just a a push to say continue along that path. If you don't, there's you know you know, if this is other things that'll be that'll be waiting for you. So sure. Nice. All right, Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:13

Yeah, uh so my job, I'm pretty sure my first job was working uh at the restaurant with Adrian. Uh that wasn't their family's restaurant, but it was when uh his dad was managing uh a restaurant. I think it was called Barca.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:26

Um it was uh I don't even remember you working there.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:28

Yeah, so it was between this is actually uh uh I think you were too busy dating Casey. Um, but uh this was actually the summer, uh I want to say between freshman year and sophomore year of college. Um but this was also when I went into that deep hole of like watching that anime show and being like obsessed with it and being sad when it ended. Uh and I think a lot of this was like all uh tied together because uh when I was working at this restaurant, like I was my my sleep patterns were horrible because you would work until like you know, I want to say like midnight or one sometimes, and then you'd have that feeling of like, well, I want to live my life, it's summer, and like, you know, I have like I'm supposed to be on vacation. So I'd stay up until four, and then I would sleep, and I would wake up at like, you know, noon or one, and I would drink like I've never drank more five-hour energies in my life. That was like when they had first come out, and I was just and I remember feeling like I was like my whole body started to feel like really just fucked up. So like I I obviously didn't last longer than I want to say, like maybe like you know that summer, it might have been like eight weeks, ten weeks, I really did it all. And I also wasn't doing it to like have a job. I was just like, uh I I mean, yeah, I wanted to do it to have a job, but mostly about money, and it's like it was really good money for like where we were in our lives at that point. Um, so I think I was also like, at one point, I'm like, yeah, I'm good to call it like I want to, you know, spend the rest of my summer just hanging. Uh but the thing I learned on the job, um, and again, this is a fine dining Mediterranean Italian kind of restaurant. Like, this is where like a lot of rich people in Connecticut would come and eat, like some people who just that would be their you know Wednesday dinner every week or like it's crazy. Um as with most things with me, so much is like kind of the the interior analysis. The thing I remember most learning from that job is like how trivial we are as human beings in terms of like what makes us like happy and like how like caveman brained we really are at the end of the day. Because I found myself most shifts, especially on the weekends, it was so stressful, it was so like you know, fast-paced, and there's so much pressure because it's like you know, a nice place, and like you know, Adrian's dad was like did not fuck around. There's a reason he was very successful manager of like nice restaurants, like he ran that place like really well. Not that he was like, you know, a psych or anything. He was actually very, very like you know, reasonable and would discipline you when you needed to, but like never like he was a really great to work for on overall. The actual just experience of it and the pressure you'd put on yourself trying to make it all happen. We're just busboys too, by the way. We weren't like waiters or anything. Um, but it was a lot of work, and uh I would just remember at the end of every shift, there'd be such a euphoric feeling. Like when you would see that there was like one table left and they were wrapping up, there was a joy that I remember feeling that again, it's like it goes back to like our conversation about like sports and like March Madness and stuff, where I'm like it really felt like another thing of like, oh, by subjecting myself to this, I'm manufacturing this like moment of pure joy three, four nights a week. Yeah, just because I'm subjecting myself to working in this like very high, high intensity, high pressure thing. And at the end of the night, I feel incredible. Now, zooming out, I'm glad I kind of didn't keep that up and like you know, I it was I I'm somebody who needs a more normal circadian rhythm in my schedule overall or whatever. But uh I'll never forget that lesson of like, yeah, like you can make yourself happy just by doing really hard things, things that aren't always comfortable, uh, because on the other side of it, you just get to have like created your own like happiness out of nothing, like rumple stilt skin. Like, I don't know, it was it was just cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:41

Man, yeah. So you put yourself through a shitty situation to feel something really good at the end of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:50

I wouldn't say shitty. I wouldn't say shitty. I I think it was it was it was honestly like overall, it wasn't a it wasn't, yeah, it was very intense. It wasn't like uh it wasn't for me. I'll say that. Like I learned eventually that it wasn't for me. I would never say that the experience overall was bad. I had a great time. I loved like getting to, you know, build that camaraderie with the cooks and the people in the kitchen. And when you start to nail like the things that you're supposed to do really well, like you know, our job was like to get in, to like get like the bread ready every day and like slice the bread and serve the bread. Um, you know, like Adrian and I as bus boys, I think there I don't know that there were any other bus boys, it was just us two. It's just you two. Yeah, we just alternate, I think, or some or sometimes we'd work the same days, and it was just like amazing. Like we we we just got into our routines, and it is like uh to this day, it's my only experience doing what feels I don't know, closer to like a blue-collar job, and that like you're working with your hands and you're doing like a very repeated thing, and it starts to almost become like meditative, like you know at the end of the day, like, all right, time to do the dishes, and like all right, time to wrap up, like you know, um the uh the the utensils and the napkins in like a very beautiful way to set the table for the next day. Like you just did a lot of those things. So I I I really liked a lot of it, it just wasn't for me at the end of the day. Um, so yeah, I wouldn't say it's about like subjecting yourself to something that's miserable, I think it's just doing things that are hard and not always in your control, um, and then coming out of it alive. I think maybe that's why people like fucking skydive and shit or whatever, you know. It's like this is a crazy thing to be doing, but like when you land and you are just like still there and kicking, like maybe there's just a high that you can't match. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:37

Yeah, that's good. It's very introspective of it. Um And I'm assuming you you didn't go into the food service again after that.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:44

No, no. Uh but I did have a I don't think I've ever tipped less than like 20, 25% ever since. Because you have a better understanding of that. Because yeah, you're kind of like, even when you get bad service, you're like, all right, man, like I still can't, in good conscience, not tip like because I know how much goes on.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:04

Because you know that the restaurant's not paying them what they should be paid for it.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:08

Uh I don't know about that. We were paid very well. Uh, but yeah, in most situations it's kind of like just there's so much behind the scenes that you don't see that you can't like, you know, let anyone one person be a scapegoat for anything. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:20

Did you guys ever have a minimum wage paying job? And do you remember what minimum wage was when you were like started working?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:28

I know my job probably was it was probably close to minimum wage. I want to say, I mean, I don't I don't even want to guess. I have uh I want to say it was like seven something, but that could be way off base. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:42

Yeah. I worked at uh the dining hall at Yukon. Like this the right when I went back to school after that job, actually. Um my sophomore year of college. I want to say it was like it was seven something for sure.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:03

But I will also say had I not worked at the restaurant with like Adrian, I don't think I would have I think I would have worked at the dining hall longer than I did. But I was working at a dining hall and I was like, yo, this fucking sucks. Like I'm putting in the same amount of it's a way way lower pressure and not like as like intense, but it felt like the hours relative to the pay was so jarringly different from how much we were making money at the restaurant from like tips and everything else. Like I was like, Yeah, fuck this. Like, I'd rather just I candidly I was like, I'm gonna keep putting a higher balance on my dad's credit card. I don't I don't care about having this job.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:46

And it's just that too you say that because I because I wish that Megan was here because she would chime in because she was a waitress at Longhorn uh for a while. And I thought that there was someone where like they got less than minimum wage, and there was something about how like the tips made up like the delta of it, that they could pay them less than it. So she got like four something an hour. So that's why that was just the assumption that the wait staff is just way underpaid because they assume that tips are gonna make up more of your of your salary.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:16

Accurate, accurate. I think that was also the case at the restaurant. Uh, I think our tips were like absurd, um, but I don't know that anything any restaurant was doing back then or continues to do is necessarily um something that anyone can look down at, so much as you can look down at the fact that the standard has been created that way, which is like the tipping system created a situation that like then was like, okay, well, this this isn't gonna be like additional. Now we're gonna figure out what wages can be so that when it balances out with tips, this is how much you're making overall. Um, I don't know how that system came into place. Uh, I don't know, you know, I know most countries think that the fact that we do tipping is kind of crazy and we should just pay people salaries. I will say, coming from having worked at a nice place, I was like, nope, I'd rather have the tip because like I don't know that I'm gonna get paid as well as I would without the tips, but again, probably very specific to a fine dining restaurant. Um, but they were doing the same thing. I think like we were making like four, five something an hour, but our our tips were like sending us into a different place though.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:28

Yeah, nice. Um yeah, so mine mine kind of similar. I mean, I had a bunch of temp jobs. I don't know if you're you know, because I was dealing with yeah, yeah, I did a bunch of random stuff. What was that company called? You do you Ethan Allen? I did I did Ethan Allen, that's right, which was like where basically they would rent out houses that were for sale at least like huge mansions, and then we would go and I would go out and like stage furniture. So I would help move, you know, move the furniture off of the truck into the house, and just whenever they wanted it moved around to take the Different pictures, I would do that and then you know load it back onto the truck. And so I did that for a while and I worked at uh uh I worked at a department store just setting up like mannequins and stuff around the store for a little bit. Uh I worked at a stamp auction where uh where they would have like the books with the different lots, and then and if they wanted to see a stamp, then I would go into the back and find the box where that stamp was at and I would bring out the big book with them so that they could look at the stamp. I did some I did some really weird uh temp jobs. Um my first like legit job was at I worked on uh I worked at a beach food shack. Um and yeah, Fairfield. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was up on uh Fairfield Beach. So I worked at the beach food shack there. And um it it it was it was fine. Uh I would say it could have been way better. I think it would have been awesome if the boss, the boss was kind of an asshole. Um and so like it made the working environment very stressful because he was like, you know, it was a it was it uh every mistake was harped on and he would make a big deal out of it if you screwed something up. Um and because like it wasn't like a food shack that was just doing like burgers and fries, like they would make very delicious and packed like wraps and sandwiches and salads and stuff. Like there was a lot going on um at this food shack. So it wasn't just like fried food, keep it, you know, keep it going, slinging burgers and hot dogs. So there was a lot more that went into it. So the orders were more complicated, and the cooks that were working back there were like awesome, they made great food. Um, but uh yeah, I mean it was a bummer because it was a long drive from my house, so it always sucked when I had to uh go into work. It was nice that I was like on the beach, but I was in like in the air conditioned little shack, so that part was fine. But uh yeah, I mean, like the number one thing that uh I learned from it is that I never wanted to be in food service. It's like man, this is just uh this is just tough. It's not a place that uh, you know, even for like temporary jobs, I was like, I'm avoiding food service because it's just it's just not for me. Um, but I did I did enjoy, I think that I don't I don't know when I I don't even know if I had a moment where I like broke out of my shell. Maybe that's a different conversation of like when you started to like be more like outgoing. But I feel like that part allowed me to do so because I was interacting with so many different people um that I just became a lot more comfortable with it. Like I was flirting with girls that came up to the table. Like I like talking to like the parents that were there. Yeah, like it was like because especially because some of them became like regulars that I would get to know them uh and like what their like regular orders were. You know, it was fun like calling out the orders and like I was having a lot of fun with the person-to-person interaction that I really liked. Um, so I think that that allowed me to kind of like come out of the shell a little bit because it was like these people, like I don't, I'm not like these aren't friends from back home. Like I have to drive an hour. This is where these people are, and even though if the regulars here, like I'm probably never gonna see them again. Like it's not a big deal. So it was a very relaxed atmosphere uh for it. It was just that the boss was an asshole and made working there very stressful. Um, but the person interaction was very enjoyable. So yeah, I learned that I didn't want to do first food service, and that it got me, I think, out of my shell a little bit and allowed me to show more of my personality a little bit in a relaxed environment. Nice. So yeah. All right. I think that's yeah, I think that uh brings us to the end of this episode. You guys got anything else to add?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:36

For me.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:36

Nope. Never do. All right, yeah, great. Uh well, yeah. Hope everyone has a good week. Hope you enjoy whatever's going on. We're getting into some definitive warmer weather now, so that's always a plus. Getting outside and doing things like that. Uh, yeah, I landed last night at like at like nine, and I was walking to my car and it was like dark out, and I was like, it is hot. Why is it so hot? Like, I just have not been used to that. Like, I was out in LA where it was warm, and I was up in Boston where it was in like the 50s, but like I was used to here being cool for the longest time. And I got back, it was nighttime, and it was just it was still like 75, 80 degrees. Yeah, like man, this is weird. Um, so yeah, enjoy the uh enjoy the warm weather. Enjoy if you guys are into it. Uh NHL and NBA playoffs are going on as we're getting into you know, they'll be going on for the next three months or so. So uh let's go next. Yeah, yeah. I'm rooting for the Knicks as well. Yeah. Um, all right, cool. Uh with that, we're signing off here. Hope everyone has a good week, and we'll talk to you again next week. See ya. See ya.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:40

Adios.