Real Lovers Want Romcoms Back

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SPEAKER_04 0:07

Howdy everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. Appreciate you joining us again. We uh just recorded a few a few days ago, so we're tightening it up here. We're getting uh we're pumping them out quicker. Uh so hope you guys are enjoying it. Uh we are kind of half we're halfway through the fur, I guess over the halfway through the first uh the knockout stage of the or the group stage of the World Cup. Yeah. And as we're recording this, the the NBA draft is on. I was just uh I was just telling the guys here that uh AJ DeBanta went first overall to the Wizards, but Adam Silver announced him by his real name, which I guess is Aniset when it first came out. I really thought they were doing a uh who's that guy? We were all together when he got drafted. The guy from Maryland with a huge bust. Uh Anthony Bennett. Anthony Bennett. And uh yeah, I don't know why. We I remember that we were all in the barbecue place in Jacksonville when he got when he got drafted. Yeah. So I thought they were going completely off the reservation uh with their pick, but it was Devanta. So that's going on now. Uh a lot of big stuff in sports, and uh so let's get into it with what's good. Uh I'll kick mine off just because mine's pretty short and easy. A lot of my what's good are is just in the time that I have off that I'm able to take advantage of. So I was able to actually have this past Sunday off, which was Father's Day, which was nice. And because of that, we well not because of that, but uh we usually go up to Megan's sister's place that has a pool and we get the family together, we go swimming, and that's usually around um uh Memorial Day. But weren't able to do it this year, and because the weather was the weather was it was it was cold and overcast on Memorial Day, so they decided against it. But so we were able to get it in this weekend, went up there on Sunday. So it was a long day because we drove up there in the morning, swam for a little bit there, and then drove back in the evening. Um so it was a long day, but it was worth it. It I I don't know if I mentioned here, but it's been like it's I I think Christmas was the last time that I saw them, which is a weird thing as I was in the I was I was in the flow of seeing especially her parents, I would see her them maybe like once a week. Yeah, because I was when I was flying out of Newark, uh I would use their place often um to just to be closer to the airport. So I was seeing them a lot, so it was just good to see everyone again. Um and it was a good time. The kids really enjoyed it. The weather was good. Kids are fish in the pool. Lenny uh Lenny got up the confidence to go jumping off the diving board there. So now she and of course, as every kid does, she now loves it, so that's all she wanted to do is just run off. It's always funny seeing little kids uh run and jump off the diving board because their legs don't stop moving. Yeah. So even as they're flying through the air, the legs are still kicking before they get in there. Um yeah, so it's just an enjoyable time. Uh and I don't really mind the long car rides. We got to listen to some more Harry Potter, as we talked about. We are still old we're still only on the third book from the Prisoner of Ask Week. They're women. Yeah, and it just Neo, and we only listen to it when I'm home, and so those opportunities are a little more limited, especially because and it's like when I'm home and they're going going down to like a recent time a lot of time or at a decent time. Uh we there's a lot of nights that just we're doing stuff when they're up later, so we just don't have time to to put in the chapter. So the opportunities are few and far between, but so here we got a good amount of time in the long car ride, uh, which the kids really like. So um yeah, just a uh a good day uh that I was able to have off, fortunately, because I was able to move some stuff around and got pretty lucky. Um so that's my what's good. Nice. All right.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

I'll go next. Mine's pretty short and and simple too. Uh you mentioned this week weekend was Father's Day. And for Father's Day, Megan, for some reason, got this idea to make a homemade tiramisu. What? Okay. And it was awesome.

SPEAKER_06 4:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

It was so good. That's like one of those, that's like one of those things. Like I'm a big, like I'm a big chocolate guy. Like if I'm if if I'm getting desserts, I'm getting like chocolate chip cookies or brownies. Yeah. Or uh you know, like if I'm fruit nonsense. Get out here with that fruit nonsense. Or like like a cr like a creme brulee or something like that. That's that's never my speed. I'm always like, if they have like a chocolate lava cake, I'm in. If they got chocolate mousse cake, I'm in. There's like there's that that kind of like restaurant. I'm like, like even like a I appreciate a good cheesecake, but if I'm out somewhere, I won't get a cheesecake over like something with chocolate on the menu. The exception to that has always been tiramisu. If I'm out at an Italian restaurant and I'm getting dessert, doesn't matter how many chocolate things I have on the on the menu. If they have tiramisu, I'm getting it. And most of it is because like I I don't know, I just I just really enjoy the the tiramisu, like the coffee, the horse cutone, it's all like really good. And also like that feels like the only chance that I can get it. Like you don't see tiramisu in very many menus or or like out somewhere, and it's sure up until this point, not something you could make at home, whereas like a brownie or you know, a cookie or anything else, like like you can, you can enjoy those in in different fashions. True. Um so like I didn't even think that tiramisu was something that you would like like somebody would would would tackle and have like a homemade dessert. Um but she made it and that thing slapped. It was so good. Yeah, it came out it came out really, really well. It was it it was kind of funny because it's it's like a layered dessert. Like you take the the lady fingers and she did like the lady finger pieces as like like large slabs of cake. So it like looked like a cake that you would then cut into and then like make the own layers, not like the individual um like little bars that sometimes they are. Um But the way that she had she had this like croc that she had made it in, but the it was three things of cake and then a whole bunch of cream. And the recipe that she made had like like the the whipped cream stuff, like the marscapone that goes in it, like was just massive. So it was these massive layers of it. So it was like this big deep crock, and then another like three inches of of cake that was coming up over top of it.

SPEAKER_05 6:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Which was which was nuts. So it it took a little bit to for for us to get through, but man, that was uh a really, really awesome, surprising uh that I was really appreciative of. No, I I go ahead, Soral.

SPEAKER_07 6:19

I was gonna say, have you guys seen the uh the Jaeger Misu going around? This probably brings back horror stories from our college days. But uh it's a viral craze. I think I and again, I'm I'm not gonna remember all this exactly right, but I believe there's a step into your missue where you soak it in coffee, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The weather the cake part is like soaked in coffee. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 6:45

So people have been swapping out the coffee with Jägermeister. And I don't know, it's it's working, it's doing something. That sounds terrible.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

But actually, so the recipe that she had, it calls for rum. Like you're supposed to like soak it in rum. Yeah, maybe we wanted the kids to try it. So we're like, we're not doing that. Because it's like the way the the way the cake is, it like soaks it and like holds on to it. So like when you soak it in rum, if you're having rum. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same thing with the the coffee. Like the coffee was like like in it, in it. So yeah, we we didn't do the rum. It would probably be good be good with rum. I can't picture it being very good with Jaeger. I guess if people do it, there's some appeal there, but I don't know. Yeah, because rum cake is good.

SPEAKER_04 7:29

I can get down some rum cake. That is tasty, but Jaegermeister cake. I don't know. Yeah, whatnot.

SPEAKER_06 7:36

I was gonna ask you because Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:38

But um it I I don't know anything about making tiramisu. I assume that it you don't see it very often. I just a guess is that it could be difficult to make. I don't is that true? Like did Megan say how how easy or hard it was?

SPEAKER_02 7:51

It didn't seem necessarily difficult. It's like, and I don't know if it was the cake part or the cream part, but you needed like six egg yolks, which then you're left with like six egg whites, which she's like, I don't I don't know what what really to do with this. But there's like it it's not like just your typical like you know, you whip it up. There's like like weird stuff where like uh I guess if somebody's into baking, like it's not that weird that they just have the um like egg yolks and like like just use that. But like it's not something my mom would ever make. Because she was like pretty much like if if it's not on the back of a package of something you could buy at the store, like the recipe, then then then you wouldn't make it. So it's um it's uh like there were a lot of dishes involved. That that much I know because I I I helped do the dishes up. But other than that, I don't know I can't speak to how difficult it was. It's like a different kind of cake to make. I don't know if it had any kind of different ingredient in it that is like something you wouldn't typically stock in your in your baking cabinet. Um I mean also I mean Mars Capone is not like something like that's not a fridge staple that you're you're you're you're you're keeping around. So that's like something you have to very intentionally go out and and get uh and and like whip up. So that that may play into it.

SPEAKER_07 9:06

Some I would say the dishes play into it. As someone who cooks a lot, I cannot tell you how like how unlikely I am to take on any recipes that are gonna create a mess, no matter how good they might be. Whenever I do do that, like I feel like, you know, fucking screws Rick Duck. I'm like, oh my god, look at me, I'm just making a mess. Like it's like you know what I mean? I don't know. It's just gonna like it's kind of like, oh yeah, let me get this clean plate just to put like this chocolate spoon on something, and like yeah, I don't know. It's just uh like yeah, so I could see just a sheer mess of things sometimes dissuading people versus the difficulty of the actual recipe.

SPEAKER_04 9:51

Yeah, you know, as you as you mentioned, like dirtying dishes. Normally I'm the exact same way, but I find that when I'm making something from a recipe that has a bunch of different ingredients, I get a lot of satisfaction in having in measuring out the ingredients and putting them in their own bowl. So I have a bunch of bowls with all the specific bowls. So I can just like dump it in. I feel like that's a very I I it's like reminiscent of diners, drive-ins and dives. It's very how they always do it. You know, if it's just perfectly measured out and it's just ready to go. Megan's the exact opposite. Yeah. Uh button.

SPEAKER_07 10:25

I get the same thing measured. I get to have that fun experience every time I go home because my dad, you know, he he loves to be like, why don't you make something? But he always also is like my sous chef, and then we'll also do cleanup. So like I'm like, yeah, I'm like, yeah, I might need some finely diced onions, some finely diced cilantro, blah, blah. And he just like neatly chops all the shit up and puts like these bowls, like teeny tiny things. I'm like, oh my god, yeah, this is awesome. Like this is, I mean, if I could cook this way all the time, I would. Like, my God. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:59

Yeah, when someone else is cleaning up.

SPEAKER_07 11:01

Yeah, and just chopping shit, you know, it's supposed like uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:06

Yeah. Speaking of Father's Day, we didn't we didn't we didn't leave that off, but happy Father's Day to everyone out there. Uh, hope it was a good one. Brandon, did you did you get uh did you get any highlights in your Father's Day haul?

SPEAKER_02 11:19

No, nothing like hugely. It's it was more like experience stuff. Like I got a I got a new set of tennis balls because the boys have been really into going to the pool and like playing tennis. Actually, uh George has been really into it. So George George got me some some tennis balls and we're gonna like carve out some time where we can we can go and play me and him. I got uh like gift card stuff to the movies because we're we're planning on going to see the Toy Story movie. So basically like polite like got the tickets to to take the boys to go see that. Um and Teddy I I I had this the baseball glove that I have is like a like a cheap glove that I got just that I could like play with them. And I I never like broke it in properly, so it like ripped. But like it was so usable, it's just like the like the outer layer of the leather like cracked a bit. Um but Teddy's convinced that he's hurting my hand every time he's throwing a hard ball and I'm catching it with a broken mitt. So he he got me a new baseball glove. So we can't catch it.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

Oh, it's awesome. That's good.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

Yes. So a lot of the a lot of quality time centered stuff, which I know Megan uh tries to tries to direct them toward, which which I appreciate because that's uh that's you know the the whole point of the of it all. I did get my mom came by uh my mom and dad came by on Father's Day. My mom brought by an early birthday present, and I got one of those sweet like US team jerseys with like the waving flag. Like the ones that they were the red and white ones, yeah. With anyone's number on it? Yeah, or just black. Just a plain one so it's nice and solid in the front. Because if you get the numbers on it, you get like the the blocked out white number up in the front, which I thought looked weird. I really like the clean look in the front. Yeah. Got the the plain one and a sweet team USA hat that we can wear to uh to the game this week.

SPEAKER_04 13:00

Yeah, when is the game? What what what day is it? Thursday. And it's Ivory Coast and Curacao. And Curacao. That's who it was.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

Yeah, which everybody in that group is still still alive. So uh it's nice, nice to have a game uh to go to where uh it's that's not a foregone conclusion. So it'll be interesting to watch at least. Yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Yep. How how about you? Do you get anything uh anything exciting?

SPEAKER_04 13:26

Yeah, I was gonna say, no, I mean they were uh we're I think I've been mentioning it here, they're into playing Mario. Right now we're going through uh Super Mario 3D world little by little, again, yeah, like small little chunks here and there. So they got me like a Mario mug and uh made a puzzle. Uh I think it was like an AI generated image of like me as Mario and Lucas as Luigi, Logan as Princess Peach, and then Lenny in I guess it was Rosalina, I guess it would be, and us, you know, in this like Mario scene. Uh yeah. Yeah. Um but uh so they got me that stuff. But then there's something that Megan started that I really appreciate um is that she has this big book, and then so then every year it's just a bunch of like blank pages in it. And so every year the kids write something in it. Um it's just it's just cool seeing like you know where their handwriting and the pictures that they chose to draw years ago and like where it is now. So uh that you know, that's always the one that I look forward to the most because uh again, it's just it's just cool to see, and it's all in like one neat book rather than having you know schoolwork or coloring sheets that they've had from year, you know, that you would have to like go through. This is all together. And uh, you know, it's always just funny. And Logan always uh she always puts her whole heart into everything. Uh I wish that I had it, but she wrote something like uh on like every like you shine like gold on Father's Day, but none shine as bright as you. Love Logan. It's like, man, like you can tell she's just like gets deep into the fields and it just really makes us emotional uh you know, writing. That's always funny. She really she goes all in on everything. So um but yeah, so that's always uh that's always good.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

I know, I know you mentioned you guys are are into Mario and deep into Mario for the Switch. Would recommend uh next time it goes on sale if it's it and it might even be part of like Prime Days or whatever. Um the Harry the Lego Harry Potter Switch games are a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_04 15:32

Yeah, we have yet to go into Lego has like every all of their games are really good. We might have even talked about it on this podcast because I th I I feel like I remember you mentioning playing because it was like one of your replacement games. You got games for Christmas, one of the replacement games, yeah, because you got Paper Mario. Uh yeah, yeah. It's just uh yeah, it's so tough because we have small little chunks, so it takes us a long time to get through on to get through a game. Yeah, but uh but yeah, we have all luckily there's a whole backlog of games, but my most excited one, I don't know if I mentioned it here, but uh Ocarina of Time is coming out with a remake later on this year, which I'm like so excited because that's my favorite game of all time. Uh I just hate that I'm already putting like so much pressure on the game. Uh, you know, because like I don't think I well, I may have played it through twice, once on the original Nintendo 64, and then they came out with the GameCube uh Master Quest of edition when Wind Waker released. It was like a bonus, it was like a pre-order bonus or something like that. So I played it through then on the GameCube, but I haven't played it since through then. Um so uh so I'm really excited to play through it, and I hope that the kids enjoy it as much as I have. So like I already have like such lofty expectations for it. Uh but yeah, luckily Nintendo has a bunch of good kid-friendly games uh with a huge backlog of a bunch of stuff for us to do. Um Right, Sarav, how was your father's day, man?

SPEAKER_07 16:55

It was good, man. Um uh well my dad was uh because yeah, I'm I'm obviously not a father, so my father's day is about my dad. Uh he uh wasn't around, he was flying back from India, uh, so it was kind of a normal Sunday. Went and played fucking pool for an hour and a half. And uh it was after a long time. No, no, I'm saying my dad was coming back from India, so like he wasn't around. Um, not that I don't even know that we would necessarily do something if people have listened to the podcast before, they know my family doesn't necessarily celebrate the uh Mother's Days and Father's Day stuff outside of uh sending a text. Um yeah, me and my buddy, we just played pool. We we love like we've gotten into pool a lot over the last like two years, and also living in this area of Brooklyn that we can walk to this place. We're like kind of regulars at this place. We know the woman who works there all the time and like other people, like it's kind of just fun. Um, they know us now, they have great like dollar wings and a great place to watch sports. Uh it's kind of underrated in New York, especially when you know like certain games and events are gonna pack all the bars. We know that there's like one place that no one will think of, which because it's a pool place that like but it has more TVs than like any bar that we know. Uh and so it's great. Um anyway, so we played pool and then we just uh yeah, grabbed some food and watched uh we've been watching Cape Fear, which is uh pretty, pretty great show, really intense. Uh, and then we you know we had to uh Sunday nights are back, House of the Dragon, you know, watched uh watched the uh opening episode of the season. So yeah, it was a good Sunday. How was it? On a scale of one to ten. I liked it. Here's the thing. They are throwing two things. One, they threw a lot of money in the into that episode. It is a huge battle episode, so you get a lot of action. They knew they needed to deliver, but also like this was shot for last season. Was it? Yeah. So it's like uh you you watch it and you're kind of like it's interesting because you get thrown into this action and it picks up in a way that doesn't feel like we're starting a new season, but then you kind of understand why, because it was like meant to be something that was gonna be like help end the last season on kind of a big splash, but like they ran out of money for that last season. I actually I don't know how this works, I don't know what the logic is because they clearly shot it, but then it just became a thing to open the new season instead. But you know, I enjoyed it, man. Like I will continue to refer to like House of the Dragon is like fictional medieval reality TV for me. Like, even when it's bad, I'm I'm in. Like, yeah, who's gonna die? What's gonna happen? How are these messy little bitches gonna like keep continue, you know, competing for the crown? So uh I I enjoy it. Uh and this was like by most episodes standards, like very entertaining. I love the action and like the warfare stuff, so yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Yeah, yeah, because that's obviously been the biggest complaint is how slow and how devoid of action there have been throughout it.

SPEAKER_07 20:03

Which is funny because you watch this episode and you're like, yeah, if they had done this like at the end of last season, I'm sure maybe those people would have been like quieted down. Yeah, oh yeah, totally different moves.

SPEAKER_06 20:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 20:15

Um anyways, uh my what's good, continuing with uh the theme of stuff to watch, um, rom coms, man. I want to I want to talk about rom-coms broadly first before getting into my one example. Uh-huh. But like, man, a good rom com is just so like it just hits, man. It's great. And I was thinking about the fact that like rom-coms feel like one of, I mean, maybe other genres can say this too, but like it's almost like uh by design, a good rom-com is also like an imperfect movie, you know? Like if the Venn diagram of like amazing movies and amazing rom-coms, like it's a very thin sliver of movies that can be both, but that's almost like how it needs to be. I don't know why, but sometimes it really feels that way. Um but like the way that watching, you know, these like love stories and like the comedy and whatever, like it's just there's something about it that's like so exciting and fun and exhilarating, and also like I don't know. I mean, maybe it's different for you guys now. You're like long time married, multiple children, but like as someone who is still on the hunt, right? Like the way that rom-coms kind of like revitalize, you know, your your kind of like optimism and excitement and like drive to find, you know, love. Like it's just cool.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

Yeah, I mean, I I'm just interested in where this is going because I like I'm actually like interested in the movie that you're gonna talk about because same thing as like good comedies. I remember being like there being a ton of rom coms growing up and they were awesome, and I cannot remember the last good one. Maybe that's just because I'm not as tapped into it as much anymore.

SPEAKER_07 22:02

No, I think that's why that's why I want to talk about them because they're not they're rare now. They're hard to find. They don't make that.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

This is a total aside. But it and you mentioned the comedies in in general. For some reason, I I don't know why this came across my feed. Um, but I saw a clip from Stuck on You. Do you guys remember that movie? It's like uh Matt Damon, Greg Kneer? It's Matt Damon, Greg Kneer as like conjoined twins that are I guess that that's kind of a rom com. It's romantic elements of it.

SPEAKER_07 22:30

It's a it's a it's a w wild premise, but yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

But I'm like, I like with the uh the premise and the star power that was behind it, like I cannot fathom that movie being made today. Yeah, like like that movie just like there is absolutely no world that that would get made. And I was like, man, that is like I remember watching that. I like we've rented that from Blockbuster. Like I I remember going down and picking it out, picking the DVD off the shelf. And I'm just like, man, like that would be so cool to have those again. And I realized that like I'm part of the problem because like I'm like I don't go to the movies to see those kinds of movies anymore, uh, or even like make the time to make the time to to watch them. So uh part of it is not having the time to keep up with all of the ones that like at the for the like the level that they had been. And then the other part is that the supply has then gone down, and now I find it hard to find for when I do want to watch them.

SPEAKER_04 23:21

So I am similarly interested in the Yeah, like right now my head is being flooded with all the great rom-coms that we had growing up that had like legitimate star power behind them. From like, you know, like the breakup, crazy stupid love, uh, the ugly truth, like all those ones that like, yeah, like they don't hold up as great movies, but they're just like they're funny, feel good movies. So sorry we derailed a little bit, really interesting uh in hearing where it is.

SPEAKER_07 23:48

All of those are facts, and I will say I think the reason this is hitting kind of like you know, uh I don't know, kind of like in a special way, is because I think the rom-com market like died from a like a mainstream wide release theater stuff. Uh even when you have movies like you know, anyone but you, the Sydney Sweeney Glenn Powell movie, which I did not love. I didn't love that movie. It made so much money, and you would think like, all right, guys, so here's your signal, make more. There's an appetite. And they just don't. They just don't. I don't know why. Whatever. Um the market for rom-coms, I think, got soaked up by like the streamers. And the streamers like unfortunately, they make so much garbage that like it's hard to really even give stuff a chance. But uh I saw a trailer a week ago and I was like, oh, I'm watching this movie as soon as it comes out. And that's what I watched last night. And uh it's called Voicemails for Isabel. Okay. One reason I watched it, Zoe Deutsch. Did you guys ever watch Set It Up on Netflix?

SPEAKER_02 25:00

No, that name sounds familiar though. Zoe Deutsch.

SPEAKER_07 25:04

It's it's one of Glenn Powell's like early that was, yeah, I don't know. Every star has like a movie that like a lot of people haven't seen, and they don't realize that was the thing that elevated him to the next thing that made him mute. But set it up was a Glenn Powell like Zoe Deutsch rom classic. It's about two like executive assistants who try to set their bosses up, and it's like how they kind of fall in love along the way. Now, I will couch all this in one thing. I've realized that like my taste in rom-coms maybe is not everyone else's taste in rom coms. Not to say that like I don't generally have like an opinion that aligns with the mainstream. Set it up was a runaway success, honestly. Like, and a lot of people loved it. I just remember excitedly showing Paul and Ava when I was visiting them, and they were like, What? And I was like, Do we not have the same taste? Oh like, oh it's good. Like, I I think maybe I think maybe it was like too light, too goofy. I also will say I have a huge bias for like movies that are set in New York, because like I love that shit. Sure. Yeah. I would still recommend watching it and telling me what you actually think. I think the movie's great, it holds up really well. I re-watch it like I've seen it like three times at this point. Anyways, Zoe Deutsch, one who, as an actress, I'm like, like, she doesn't do bullshit. So when she was in this in this trailer, I'm like, I gotta watch this. Classic, kind of like a bit of a tear jerker premise. Girl loses her sister who has like a terminal illness and keeps calling her sister's phone to leave voicemails as if her sister's still alive. Except the voice, the number has been changed, and there's a random guy who's getting these voicemails, and he kind of starts to fall for her from listening to these voicemails, and then he tries and he like decides to like find her, and you can almost like predict how things are gonna go, but like is it a perfect amazing movie? No, but like, is does it hit so hard as a rom-com? Hell yeah. But also, you know, like so many rom-coms these days, they try to it tries to be a lot, like you know, it tries to be a little bit of a I mean the the sister relationship, very central, kind of like that's a big part of the movie. Uh the you know, finding what you really care about and pursuing your dreams. Uh there's a bit of like a female empowerment element in there. But like at the end of the day, as long as the rom-com piece is solid, like I'm I'm fucking in, and like this shit did it in spades. Also, like, not gonna lie, real tear jerker stuff. A lot of moments, great acting, and you're kind of like, damn, I'm getting emotional. I can imagine. But I just I I finished it and I was like, fuck, man. I love feeling like this. Like, how are there not more movies that like me and people in general can watch to just like get to experience this kind of feeling more regularly as opposed to random enough that it needs to be the highlight in a podcast that we do on a weekly basis. But yeah, it's it's it's I loved it. It's great. Um I would highly recommend it. I'm sure like I would highly recommend it to your wives if you if if they want to watch it without you, because it does feel like that kind of movie too. Um yeah, it was just uh it was it was solid. I'm trying to think of oh yeah, this is the other point I'm I was like forgetting and I was like, I want to make fucking hilarious. Not in a consistent way, but in a very inconsistent way in moments out of nowhere. There are like there's scenes in writing that will make you laugh out loud because it just comes, it just like catches you from left field. You're like, yo, fucking awesome. This is what I want. I want like a random gumbo of shit that I don't know what I'm gonna get with everybody, and like it's great. So that's my uh that's my what's good, man. I love Ron Clinton. And that's on Netflix, is that right? It's on Netflix. Just came out on Netflix.

SPEAKER_04 28:53

And even just read the synopsis, I know it's somewhat different, but it feels like it has very similar vibes to P.S. I love you, which like it just like made me like flood back with you know, where he passes away and then he leaves letters for her, and it's there's a lot of women empowerment, and it's her finding herself and like moving on without him. I was like, man, I was just hit with all like the feels of that movie, you know, that had a lot of emotional uh things as well.

SPEAKER_07 29:17

I would actually say that movie is like 70-30 emotional and comedy. And comedy, yeah. This is more like 65-35 emotions of comedy. Nice. But I will also say the emotional shit hits fucking hard because the acting is so good. Like when you see someone and you like are an empathetic person too, like that's the illusion of acting. You just are sucked into like believing this person is feeling this thing and then feeling it yourself, like it's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 29:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 29:50

Man, I love that.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

It just it just sucks that it feels like comedy is just has just gone away for right now. Yeah. Uh yeah. And with that, you know, it's hard to have a romantic comedy without the comedy. I agree. So I don't know what happened. With the downturn of comedy, it just it kind of sucks.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Looking at uh especially like watching the World Cup, there's this commercial that's in circulation a bunch. I don't even know what the what it's for. I think about it. I could probably come up with it, but it's the Austin Powers one, the Doctor Doctor. Yeah, the the they did a Verizon commercial. Yeah, yeah. Verizon. But even then, I'm like, man, there's movies. There's nothing like that anymore.

SPEAKER_07 30:26

That commercial made me upset because I enjoyed it. And I was like, this is how much I miss these characters that I'm willing to like click on an advertisement on YouTube and watch it. Just could get a little hit. Yeah, just to get a little hit.

SPEAKER_05 30:41

Ah, give it to me. Come on, it's a little bit. Thankfully, thankfully, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 30:45

I don't know if you guys saw someone did ask Mike Myers, like, is there gonna be an Austin Powers 4? And he said yes. Uh he didn't he didn't divulge much more, but he did say yes. So I'm like, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Man, I want to have faith, but like it's kind of it feels like one of those things that like let it rest. You know, like it was so good back then. I don't want it to be tainted by like a reboot. Because reboots nowadays, it just feels like they're just missing all over the place. Like there's nothing good that's coming from it. And I don't want to give my hopes up for an Austin Powers 4 that's just gonna like that's just gonna die, you know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 31:19

I'm I'm I'm I'm okay with them trying. Because it's it's like one of those things, like that's one of those things that is like he's made some it's not thinking, it's not high R. He has, yeah. Like Austin Powers is Austin Powers, like like the sh the schlockiness of it is big into it. But we're also in a much different time right now.

SPEAKER_07 31:34

Let's talk about it, right? We got we got like again, Happy Gilmore 2. I'm sorry, like garbage, like made me want to made me want to die inside. Like uh the Zoolander sequel that like no like everyone widely thought about that. I didn't even bother watching it. It was like it's supposed to be that bad. So I get what your point is of like these things could come out and ruin stuff. I will say, I think if I really had to think about it, I would rather roll the dice on getting a piece of shit and like being upset that they did that and then making fun of them afterwards. But if there's a shot they make a movie and they land it and it's good, I would love that. I would love the chance at that.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

But I just think like think of the humor of Austin Powers. It just does not feel like that movie that with that type of humor would be.

SPEAKER_07 32:23

I guess you know what sucks too is like what gives me a lot of optimism is when I think about like what the story could be or what the story is to tell. And I feel like where they left it with Austin Powers was like kind of this happy ending, and him having his whole thing with his dad. Like, I think Austin Powers having a child or like a grown adult kid and having to manage that, like there's a lot of it's ripe for a lot of comedy, right? Like, and I'm like, okay, there's stu stuff here that's like real, that's like understandable, and it can it could be milked in really funny ways. Yeah. You know, uh, you got your fat bastard, like Ozempic jokes. Like, there's just a lot of shit there. So I don't know. Be it'd be curious, but who knows?

SPEAKER_04 33:05

Yeah, I'd be hopeful. Uh yeah, speaking of like and this is going in a different direction now because Brandon had mentioned uh watching Toy Story 5, which I'm very interested in watching. I'm really pissed because I had not seen, I might have mentioned it here. I had not seen three and four, my family saw it. So we're hoping to see uh five. And I haven't read anything about you guys probably already know, but I'm really interested in what the message is going to be from Toy Story 5, because obviously it's about uh you know iPads or leapfrogs, at least in commercials comes off as the antagonist. And I'm really interested in what the message is gonna be at the end of it. If it's like, oh, those are all bad, like we should be playing with our original toys, or if it's like, oh, we can find how to coexist together and like you know, use things in moderation. Like, I don't know what the message is gonna be because I but then in my head I just think of the you know, if this leapfrog is the antagonist of the movie and that it remains that way throughout their w throughout the movie, which I doubt it does. I bet there's some redeeming quality in him that the toys figure out whatever. But then like parents and children are gonna leave the movie theater and get in their car, and then parents are gonna pass the kids their leapfrogs for them to just play on the way home. You know what I mean? So uh I'm interested in watching Toy Story 5, really because I'm interested in what the message is gonna be at the end of it, uh and how that's gonna play, you know, if that affects any of the parents.

SPEAKER_07 34:26

Uh I think it it ends with Woody killing the tablets with a sword. With a sword. Slicing.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Yeah. Uh all right, sweet. So a good rom com, it sounds like that. So voicemails for Isabel, right? Yes, sir. Uh is the one that you're recommending. All right, sweet. Yeah. We it'd be awesome if we had another run of rom coms in us. Uh because they're also good, like, you know, it's hard to find movies to watch with the family. Yeah. Especially like now, you know, in these day and age, between like all like the major like streaming shows that are really big and movies that are out there, outside of like, you know, big IPs like you know, Marvel movies or Star Wars or something like that, like having unique movies to go watch to the family that's enjoyable for everyone and not just like a little kids' movie, you know. Uh I don't feel like rom-coms. I don't know if kids will understand.

SPEAKER_07 35:18

I don't know that voice voicemails for Isabel is for kids, but sure.

SPEAKER_04 35:21

Yeah, yeah, I mean that's true. I don't know if forgetting Sarah Marshall would be uh a kid's movie either as a rom com, but uh probably not. Probably not.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

I can only imagine what uh Teddy's reaction would be. I think you're the sister dies in the first five minutes of the movie.

SPEAKER_07 35:38

He's like, what is happening? Yeah, it's like I think you're I think you're remembering the puppets and forgetting Sarah Marshall too much and not enough about the dong.

SPEAKER_04 35:50

Oh man, yeah, all the just all the Judd Apatel comedies too. Yeah. One day, maybe not. Um alright, cool. Just uh I don't know, I guess just keeping in the movie vein right now, uh, that I'm sure the audience super loves. But uh I watched two movies back to back um last week that I had been wanting to get around to eventually. One of them was A Haunting in Venice, uh, which is the continuation of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile with uh uh with Hercule Poirot. Poirot? Poirot. Yeah. Um and then the next night I watched Wake Up Dead Man, which is the third movie of the Knives Out line.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

I haven't seen that one yet.

SPEAKER_04 36:36

So Knives Out and then uh Glass Onion and now Wake Up Dead Man. So it was very interesting mystery and like Yeah, like it was just because I was in I was in the UK, so I was trying to stay on East Coast timeline as best I could because I was only there for two nights. So I was staying up until like 2 30 in the morning. So like when it was just it was dark, it was late at night, it was just like that type of movie felt really fit the vibe. Um so uh really interesting with both of them juxtaposed to each other because um with Haunting in Venice, I really like Death on the Nile. I thought that the ending was kind of or sorry, Murder on the Orient Express. I thought that the ending was felt like kind of a cop-out, but I mean that's a historic, you know, that's a these are all novels that have been.

SPEAKER_07 37:21

This is like from a time when that was a groundbreaking way to reveal what happened. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

Yeah. So like it wasn't someone coming up with a new idea, whatever it was. Like that's hey, that's how the book is written, it's what it is. But I did not like Death on the Nile um at all. Uh it was very forgettable um for me. So um, so then Haunting in Venice, uh I really enjoyed it. First of all, it had a Halloween backdrop and in Venice with the canals, and it was all based at night, and there was a supernatural element to it that was woven throughout, and it was also much smaller and intimate. Um, so I wouldn't say that it was like that it you know knocked me off with my feet, but I thought it was a really good movie, and I thought it was at least second best in that trio. And then and then Wake Up Dead Man, very similar as well. That I really love Knives Out. I thought it was awesome. I love murder mysteries like that. I love trying to um, you know, I love seeing how they tell the story and how they lead you to who the killer is. I did not like Glass Onion at all. I thought it was very like abstract and out there and didn't feel like it was even in the same universe as Knives Out.

SPEAKER_07 38:29

I think it leaned a little too much into being like a puzzle box movie and not like still caring about like, I don't know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:36

Yeah. So um, so uh you know, now that I'm even saying it out loud, it feels like both of the series kind of mirrored each other in terms of how I perceived both of them. Because then Wake Up Dead Man, I thought was awesome. Again, I thought it was really good. Uh I don't know why I'm really I always get I always get kind of excited when I see that there is a religious theme to it. I feel like that's such an interesting uh atmosphere, especially for like a murder mystery. There's so much mystery involved in religion and like how people perceive it and how it affects them and things like that. And I just feel like that's a really cool, like the gothic architecture. It's held in this big church with all this different and and and like it automatically comes with a bunch of like creepy vibes built in uh to it. Another thing that it was very it felt very intimate, you knew like the cast of characters is very tight, you knew what each of them were.

SPEAKER_02 39:28

That was one of the big problems I had with Glass Onion. Yeah, yeah. No, yeah, it was like they just threw everybody into this like whole mixing bowl and trying to get like big big names to be a part of it just because.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

Yeah, yeah. And this one you felt like you it did a little bit more of character development for each um of them, and uh and yeah, and I just I really enjoyed it. So it's up there with the first one for me for sure. Um, I think that the environment as well, a bit being late at night and you know, just being locked into it really helped uh as well. But I also realized something about myself and watching these. I really like them. I think that what most people enjoy is trying to figure out who the murderer is, but I realize that I I'm not even actively trying to figure it out as it goes. I'm just watching it, how they present it to me, and I find that really interesting. Uh, I feel like most people are like trying to figure out be like, oh man, it could be this person. Maybe if you're with like a group of people, you might have those like discussions of it. But when it's just me, I realize at the end of it, I'm like, I put zero thought into who it would be. I just kind of just like let the movie happen.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

Uh which I don't know if that's unique to the movie. Which I think that's but I think that's interesting. But I'm the same way with movies, but I'm the complete opposite with TV shows. Like if it's a TV show that has like some kind of like mystery box element too and there's things, like I am all in on the conspiracies and trying to figure that stuff out and like what the kernels are. I'm going on the Reddit threads to try to figure out what those are.

SPEAKER_04 40:51

Oh yeah, I love the Reddit threads back.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

And like doing the deep dives and trying to figure out what it is when it when it's a move, like when it's a TV show. I I also I kind of like that the movies don't give you the time to do that and you get to just kind of sit back and do it. Like I would feel I would find it hard to stay away from that stuff if I'm watching something that's like like like weekly released as a as a TV show, um or if there's like any break in in when I'm watching it, if it's like streaming. But for a movie, like I'm I'm the same exact way. I like to not even have to try to think about it and just to enjoy the way that it is is presented, and then to like think back and say like, oh yeah, I probably could have like recognized or seeing something around the game. I think I had mentioned because I what was that uh what was that Matt Damon and uh Ben Affleck movie that they just did? The rip. The rip, yeah. The rip, which had an element to that. Where like there were some things that I had noticed, and I think if I had thought critically about it, like I think one of the things was like the date on the phone was like the wrong date or like the wrong time or something for a text message or something. So it's like like if I had been paying attention and like really thought about it, if like if this was a uh like if I was if I was trying to figure it out, maybe I could have, but it's one of those things that I like to notice the details and then think back on it after I've had the reveal to be like, oh yeah, that like there was the setup, could have seen it here or where that was to like find like the hidden stuff, versus trying to like pick out that stuff and like try to try to un unravel the puzzle as you're watching it. Because I feel like that kind of takes away from some of that experience.

SPEAKER_07 42:15

Yeah, for sure. I was gonna say I don't I don't know if Kevin even listens to the podcast anymore, but he's maybe the first person to have made that point to me because you know, when we became friends, started watching stuff together, he was like always confused by my kind of like compulsive need to start trying to figure out what's gonna happen, who's behind everything, whatever. Uh, I mean, I've learned in in late later in life that it's like a little bit of an ADHD thing of like needing to figure it out. Uh, in the same way that like if you're around me and you start talking and you can't remember a word to end your sentence, like I won't even give you like enough time to figure out what it is. I need to like immediately like involuntarily I start spitting out the word that I think you're trying to say. So in the same way I try to, you know, do that. But Kevin was like, that's so weird, man. I don't do that. I just like experience I'm just watching, like I'm just taking it in as it happens. Like I don't need to work my brain that way. And I was like, what? Everyone's everyone's not trying to figure this stuff out the whole time, like me. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:19

I wonder if he's the same way with TV shows, now, because you're right, I feel like the gap, like if you watch an episode and the next one doesn't come out until the next week, like your brain is automatically gonna be like thinking about it. I feel like it'd be hard not to try to figure it out.

SPEAKER_07 43:32

At that point, your brain is like trying to fill the blank because there's a gap.

SPEAKER_04 43:37

So probably, yeah. It's it's also very interesting that you mentioned like finishing someone's sentence because we we have a friend, and I pointed this out to Megan, uh, because this friend of ours had sh this person does it involuntarily. Uh, where like you'll be talking and like you won't even have to have a pause in your sentence. She'll just start finishing she'll just start like Joining you on your sentence to finish it out. And they say it very softly to themselves, but it's like it's it's just a very interesting uh quirk that like they're not doing it on purpose, they're not trying to finish your sentence. It's like they're just they're just coming over and holding your hand as you walk along with your sentence and they're just saying it as you're saying it.

SPEAKER_07 44:20

What's crazy is nothing has helped me put my 10 like first I had to become aware that I was doing that, right? I didn't even realize so much of your life you're like don't know that you're doing a thing that's like very quirky or like you know out of the ordinary. Uh, but nothing helped me realize and then keep it in check than meeting people who have stutters because that you would, if you think about it, is like are you kind of like the weirdest scenario of like someone is taking like several seconds to finish getting out what they need to get out, and you cannot just be like, are you trying to say this? Like, you know what I mean? That's a different thing. That's that's that'd be a bad stuff. It could be really disrespectful. So it's like when I, you know, when I started, when I met people and I had noticed that like I was like, all right, well, like, you know, they're like give them a minute to like you know get it out. You know, they might be nervous, whatever it is, people have different triggers for why they have setters. And I'm like, all right, gonna be respectful for this, but I was noticing my brain being like, oh, like I do this, like I need I feel this need to like help them finish this thing. Uh, and I do that to like, you know, people who don't have that kind of a speech thing either. Uh, and ever since then, it's made me a little bit better at like it's like, oh, if someone's like, oh, what's the word again? I'm like, you'll get there.

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Like, yeah, yeah. And I'm glad you mentioned that. I uh so I have a stutter uh that was mine is not nearly as bad as there are some people that it's it's a real um it's a real you know affliction for them, but you know, it's not that bad for me, luckily. But growing up, I remember there was like a glass shattering moment when like I didn't know that I had one until uh you know, the typical like you get to high school and then like you hear someone make fun of it, and then it like clicks in your head like, oh yeah, I wasn't even aware that I was like doing that, you know. Um, but so then like I even the way that I talk and the way that I tell things, I try to avoid certain things because I know where my hangups are. Um but it's but it's funny that you mentioned that because when Logan was young, there was a couple month period where she developed this stutter where it was very much like, oh yeah, I I I I I I want to go swimming or whatever it was, where she would get hung up on this word, and I was like, Oh no, man, like did I pass that on to her? Is it a genetic thing? Um, and so I had to, and so I felt like Megan was kind of falling into exactly what you were saying, where it's like, if they get hung up, you're trying to like help them. Like it it it it almost just feels like that person needs help to get over it. And I had to be like, no, no, no, like if it's like mine, you know exactly what you want to say. Just like your brain is a little bit in front of your mouth, and your mouth just has to catch up to it. Like, it's almost worse having someone try to fill in because, like, no, no, no, I don't need help. I know what I'm trying to say. I'm just I'm trying to get there, and I just need a little bit of time to get there. So, like, just give them patience, let them have it. Don't even say anything of like, oh, you got this, you'll get there. Just be patient, let's let it sit and ride. So, I'm not sure meant to, you know, from firsthand experience, it was funny because we dealt with the same thing with Logan that it was like, oh no, it's happening.

SPEAKER_07 47:30

Yeah, to be clear, yeah. I also just to clarify, if I'm talking to someone who has a center, I'm not sitting there like, you can do it.

SPEAKER_06 47:40

I know.

SPEAKER_04 47:41

Yeah, yeah, no, it's a more same thing about trying to fill in the words or trying to help them out with what they're saying. Uh it just a random thought as we were talking about this, but is there something that you this might even be something that you would need time to think about, but is there something about yourself that you didn't know until someone pointed it out to you? The climate the common thread for us is the how I met your mother glass shattering thing, but yeah, about yourself. Is there something that you didn't know about yourself until someone pointed it out?

SPEAKER_02 48:10

I never knew that I had an accent until I got to college. Like I had a I had a a thick South Jersey accent. And it's I I've gotten rid of it because because of that, it was pointed out to me, like the way that I would say sometimes I I slip and I say like phone and home.

SPEAKER_04 48:27

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

Which my kids because it's it's like Delca, which is where we are. It's like like like the accent. So we're like in the heart of where that lives. And like all of the the teachers and daycare staff all talk like that, and like Teddy's got it something serious, and James is starting to to get it. But like I like I I had never even it never even registered with me that people said water differently than water. Like to me, hearing people like I don't even know. I'm sure I've heard people say water and not water, but it was just like it never I never thought of that being different until I got a place where it was like really different for B2B set talking like that and saying that. And it was like, oh, so like that that's something I used like I used to talk like that as my default, like constantly. Now it's it slips in every every now and then with some of my O's, but don't don't have it anymore.

SPEAKER_04 49:18

That's funny. I'm got uh so Megan has the same similar accent on certain words, and uh uh yeah, and yesterday in the car, I'm blanking out exactly what word it was. I'm gonna subscribe for another one. But Logan said something where this isn't the right word, but just as an example, but she's like, oh yeah, you know, like there was this, there was this wolf in the story. And I was like, Whoop? What's that? She's like, you know, like the dog, you know, you know, it's like it's like a wolf. I'm like, oh, do you mean a wolf? Wolf? I'm like, yeah, I'm like, yo, mommy's been reading you stories and she's like, oh, this is a wolf. Like, we gotta stop this. It is a wolf. There is an L in there for you to uh you to pronounce. So it's funny how that how that accent that my wife has, uh a little bit of it is being passed on to the kids. Um, but another thing I learned about uh we went on a trip a few years ago and we were with a bunch of Australians. We became good friends with this Australian couple, and the um and the wife was a teacher there as well. And so I'm not trying to do an Australian accent, but one of the things is that like is that like words that end in an ER, they pronounce it as like an A. So like, we're going on a Benda, you know, it's like instead of a Bender, it's Benda. What's wild about it is that they teach it that way, which I had no idea. It was super interesting. They teach that ER, where we say that makes an er sound, they teach it that that makes an uh sound. So their accent is literally taught, you know, it's not like just like a local thing. That was wild to me that it's that that's how they pronounce it like and I've even you know I would love to learn more about it because like for us, like it doesn't make any sense. Like E R, how could those possibly make an uh sound, you know? Uh so just in terms of like phonetically, it doesn't make sense, but I'm sure that they have different rules about how the letters sound and things like that. But I just thought that was wild that the accent is literally taught to them.

SPEAKER_02 51:20

I hate that. I'm trying to think of Australian. Sorry, go ahead. I was gonna say, I was trying to think of like like words that have ER like in the middle of them, and think of how Australians say and think if it's the same. Like is it a is it a person? Kinda. It kinda is. That sounds like Australian.

SPEAKER_00 51:35

So is that is is that like consistent?

SPEAKER_07 51:38

Right. Yeah. I was gonna say, I hate that like my brain is so ruined by like irony, humor, and like whatever that the first thing I thought of was like, oh, so like how do racists in Australia say the N-word?

SPEAKER_06 51:54

Oh God. Oh god, a hard nine to rear.

SPEAKER_07 52:01

What's the what's the okay way to say it? How funny would it be? How funny, I'm sorry. This is like this is the kind of shit that makes me laugh. Yeah, let's say how funny would it be? How funny would it be if you were a racist piece of shit in Australia and you tried to use it derogatorily towards you know uh black people, and they all think that you're like doing the same thing of like saying the word with like rap songs, and they're like, hey man, you can't you can't say that.

SPEAKER_00 52:28

But not that you're over there busy trying to be like Well, I guess all all the Australians must think that it's it's the hard R that all those rap songs are are are doing the interesting trillion acting. It goes both ways.

SPEAKER_04 52:42

Yeah. Wow. All right. All right. Moving off of that. No one said it though. I noticed none of you guys said it. No one said it.

SPEAKER_07 52:51

No one said it. Can I talk about my thing? Yes, please. So um Yeah, get us away from this. Yeah. My thing uh that one like only one person has ever pointed this out, and it's stuck with me even though no one else ever has, and I'm kind of like wondering like, oh, is this like a thing or was it just something this person noticed? Or is it a real thing and she's the only person that was ever like, you know, comfortable enough kind of pointing it out or telling me? Uh apparently I do this thing where I don't hold eye contact during like a lot of conversations. Not that I don't do eye contact at all, but I I do I do like a very like eye contact, and then when I start talking or when it's my turn to speak, I will look there and like keep talking, come back, keep talking, come back. And like I don't do like the holding eye contact the whole time necessarily. And she like pointed it out once while we were like on a date, and she's like, Why do you do that? And I'm like, What do I do? What? And she's like, Why do you like look away as you start talking sometimes? And like I was like, uh, I didn't I didn't know that was a thing I did. And then like over the next like few times that we saw each other, she would like grab my face and point it back at her when I would start to do it. And it made me really notice how often I would do that. And I was like, I don't think I'm someone who's like weird about eye contact or uncomfortable. I don't know if that's like a very specific quirk that other people don't do. I've never really thought about it, but like it has always stuck with me ever since. So, like, you know, even when I went on dates afterwards or like when I'm hanging out with somebody one-on-one, I have this moment where my brain is like, hey, you know, be mindful of like not deviating or looking in other places too much and focusing more on eye contact during your conversation.

SPEAKER_02 54:39

So if you're talking to Siraab and all of a sudden he gets really intense and is staring into your soul, it's because his mind was like, you know what? Eye contact. We can't look away.

SPEAKER_04 54:48

Yeah, and that's that's very interesting because I feel like I definitely do that, where I look away when I'm talking. It's very easy to maintain eye contact when I'm listening to someone, but when I'm talking, I feel like I do that. And I wonder how common or uncommon that is. Because she because you feel like it's it's uncommon to look away, but I feel like I feel like I would think that's more common than um. That's my point.

SPEAKER_07 55:12

I still don't know if it is uncommon or common, but the way that this girl kind of like talked to me about it, I was like, oh, I guess this is something wrong with me. Uh and it's just stuck with me ever since, even though nobody has ever brought it up since. Yeah, that's very interesting.

SPEAKER_04 55:28

I'm going to now now that you brought that up, I'm gonna be very aware of that when I'm talking because I think that subconsciously I do look away when I'm talking to people. I don't know why. I don't know what that is. It's like a vulnerability thing. I don't know. I have no idea what it is. Yeah, uh, but yeah, another eye contact one that I realize that I I really struggle with. So at work, uh Navy work, we have hallways, right? That you walk down, as most places do. The a really awkward situation for me is when I recognize the person walking in the other direction, right? And you make eye contact to say hi, but then I don't know what to do at that point.

SPEAKER_06 56:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 56:10

Like, how do you break like because I realize when I walk, I don't walk straight with my eyes looking ahead. This is getting really into the nitty-gritty. This is just like my mind of how I just overanalyze these sorts of things. But so I'll see someone coming way down and I'll look at them and I'll say hi. And then I just don't know, and I just don't know where to look. Like looking down feels rude because I don't know if they're still looking up, but what may maintaining eye contact as I'm passing someone. That's that's worse. Yeah, but like staring at them the whole time as they come past you. I don't know where else to look. I know it's uh I always hate when I see someone far away because I'm like, oh my god, this is a long distance that like we've already said hi, like 20 feet, like we're really far away. And now we have the whole time that we're walking to each other, like we've already said hi. So there's nothing more for us to really do. But there's a lot of time of like where my eyes would be looking, and I'm trying to avoid their eyes from there on out.

SPEAKER_07 57:04

But uh yeah, I feel like I've got I've got it down to like if you say hi far away enough, and then there's too many beats between when you're actually gonna pass each other. I know like when to time, like just a like little nod and smile, as if like it's just an add-on to what we just did. I don't know. So you do a secondary secondary greeting to them. I'll do I'll do like it's like, oh hey, and then I'll like look straight and then I'll come back and be like, another nod. Keep going, yeah.

unknown 57:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

See, I think I I think I do the reverse. I think like if I notice them and they're far away, I'll give them like a smile, like a head nod to like acknowledge that I've seen them, but then as they get closer, say, Hey, what's up? How's it going? And then at that point it's okay to disengage because then they're past you. But I think I think you can do the you can do the twice, just acknowledge them and then let your eyes wander wherever you would be looking normally, and then like obviously you're you're aware of how close they are, and when they get closer, say, hey, what's up? Give them the great.

SPEAKER_04 58:03

Yeah, you guys are you guys are much more natural at that than I am. For sure. She stared down. Hey, yeah, I don't know what to do. All right, where do we go? We're locked in. We're doing this. Oh, this is it. Uh so the one that I thought of that was a glass-shattering moment for me is when people pointed out that I say, uh, yeah, it's very vulnerable talking about these because then you realize that the people that you're telling it to are now going to recognize these things about you. Um but so if someone asks me a question, like, hey, do you want to go to the movies? It's really hard for me to just say yes or no. I almost like 95% of the time, I'll start it out with an uh. So I'll go, yeah. No matter what, even if the answers are so straight yes, like like, hey, are you know, are you a boy? Uh like I'm not thinking about anything, it's just a verbal tick that I have. Um that uh yeah, that when I was in one of my old squadrons, they would say it all the time around me because they knew that I couldn't, I physically could not uh do it. And I don't know if it's a holdover from just like what we were talking about, if it was a holdover from my stutter that just remained, but like I can say yeah, just fine. I for whatever reason, I always have an uh in front of it. And so that was that was a big glass shattering moment for me. Um all right. Uh I'll just bring up another quick thing just because Srad was going to go pee, so I'll mention it while he's doing that. But kids are really good in the pool, they always have a lot of fun with it, love going out water slides, things like that. We went to a new pool, um, and it was open to the public. It was good, and they have a couple water slides there. One of them is really shallow, and one of them is in a deep area. Luke is Luke is great in the water, he can dive down in you know 12 foot deep ends to get things on the bottom of the pool, swim back up. Like he doesn't have like strokes down exactly, but he's totally comfortable survival in the water. And but at this, at this pool, in order to do the water slides, you have to pass a swim test. And uh and the swim test consists of swimming from one length of the pool to the other, doing either front curl or breaststroke, and then it immediately you have to tread water for 60 seconds. Um, and so Luke did great, went from one end to the pool, from one end of the pool to the other, just fine. But then in treading water, that's something we haven't really worked on or done, or there haven't really been the opportunities um to do that. And so he made it 45 seconds and then couldn't. And I love it that it's a test, you know, for him, he's just like, this is dumb. Like I can I've been swimming in pools my whole life, like I can go in the deep end. This other slide, it's in like three feet of water. I can just stand up. Like, why can't I go do it? But I do appreciate that there's something that's challenging him, that it's like, hey, throughout the summer we can work on this. Uh, but because of that, he also just doesn't ever want to go back to that pool because he knows that he has to pass a swim test. And until he does, he just has to watch everyone else goes go down these water slides that he feels like he should be able to. Um so uh yeah, actually we'll see if he gets better throughout the summer and then if he eventually passes that swim test. Hopefully he does.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:14

If if you do keep taking him back, that'll be that'll be motivation to to get it done. That was the way that was the way Teddy was uh for doing his swim test for last year. Um that it was like every time we took him to the pool, because it was the same thing, like there's a water slide and stuff, but you can't go on it unless you've passed your your swim test, unless you have like a parent with you in the pool, and like you can't go swim with with your friends unless you get it done. So he was like lukewarm about doing the swim classes that they had at the pool and all that stuff. But uh once we like started like really locked into going to the pool and him seeing all his friends there, it was like a matter of of weeks and and then he he did it. So you give him the proper motivation out of it.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:53

Yeah. Well, but as a problem, I was done. Yeah, and I wish that it was the only pool that we went to where he felt like he had to, but we have other pools that we can go to. So he's just like we don't have to go back there. And like realistically, it's the least exciting of the pools that we go to. So like from our perspective, we're like, oh, okay, yeah, we don't want to go there either. But I wish it was our only pool so that it gave him that motivation and forced him to uh to improve and eventually pass the test. Um all right, Sraf, you're back. You uh do you have a this week in history for us?

SPEAKER_07 1:02:25

I do. Let's see. Um I don't know how many of these are good this time, but let's let's just check. Yeah. There were some of these I liked. Garfield debuts. This is really interesting because I don't know why. It's because my parents took me to a lot of book sales when I grew up, and there would be so many like full-on the little compilations of like comic strip books. So like I was really into Calvin and Hobbes, really into Garfield. Um, so I just like weirdly a big fan. Um, so this is about when Garfield debuted June 19th. Jim Davis's Lazy Orange Cat launched in just 41 newspapers and went on to hold the Guinness World Record as the world's most widely syndicated comic strip. Wow.

unknown 1:03:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:11

It was just like and if you think about how weird it is of like creating stuff decades ago. Like, I don't know, just the idea of like I'm gonna do this thing about a cat who loves lasagna and it's gonna be in a newspaper and like and people are gonna love it. Like, I don't know. That was really interesting to me. Yeah. Um N64 launched whatever in 1996. Not that interesting as a fun fact. It was very big deal, but you know what I mean. It's like it launched, that was it. Um oh yeah, I like this one. This is interesting. 24st, June 21st, 1948, the Manchester Baby became the world's first stored program computer. So this was when the first software ever was run. Wow. It was the first program consisting of 17 instructions, was designed to find the highest proper factor of 218. The baby, as it was called, took 3.5 million operations in 52 minutes to produce the answer. Wow. Yeah, isn't that kind of nuts? And what did you say it was 1948? 1948, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:17

But those are how many 14 years later we landed on the moon?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:23

Yeah. So you guys see also there's a that is wild. Do you see the picture was going viral of the woman who basically wrote the code that helped us get to the moon? And it's like, you know, back in the time of like everything is printed on paper. So she's standing with like a tower of like binders that are almost as tall, if not taller than her, of the code that she wrote that got us on the moon. Like it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:50

Man, it's nuts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:52

The moon landing.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:54

We uh putting all the conspiracy stuff aside. The alleged moon landing. I know, I know. Putting all this aside, uh, landing on the moon, it it it blows that's like one of the most mind-blowing things to me that uh we figured that out, and you know, all the math and effort that went to it's pretty insane. I agree. Um, was that your last one?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:15

That was it.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:15

Yeah, the others were not as interesting. Sweet. All right. Uh so trivia this week. So last week nobody won. We uh I'd say we all lost with that trivia last week. Uh I will also say that like looking back, I'm like, yeah, who would know these answers? Like, I don't know why. Like they like they were supposed to start easy and get harder as they went on, but the first ones were kind of mediocre, and then they just got impossible after that. So um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:46

So this week it'll be a little bit easier. I'm still looking for my opportunities to make a solar still.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:51

But do you remember the name? I I know how to make it. Yeah, you're good. Uh all right, so this week's will be a little bit easier. Uh as I mentioned earlier, we are in the middle of the NBA draft right now. So this one has an NBA theme to it. I am going to give you a uh a nickname and then you have to correctly identify the NBA player uh with that nickname. All right. So we'll just go back and forth. Last week, I don't know. Whoever we started with, we'll start with first last week. All right. Sweet. I mean, because that was all does.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:21

All right. So Brandon, first nickname you have is the Slim Reaper. The Slim Reaper in the NFL. That is the NBA, NBA, NBA, NBA. In the NFL, it's adopted by Devontae Smith. Yeah. For uh for the NBA, it is the much better nickname for KD, who's also known as Kevin Durant.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:43

I think he hates that, right? Doesn't he hate the Slim Reaper for some reason?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:46

Because it's a he prefers KD, which is so vanilla. Slim Reaper is just a great and it's so true. There's a there's the I don't know if it's I think it's an old spice commercial that like starts at his shoes and it like pans up Kevin Durant and it's like his legs especially like between his like his thighs like between his knee and like the end of his shorts is like stupid long. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:09

Like I don't like it as like a a point but when you see it as like a a a close in pan up of his leg you're like wow that is that's just a long thin body part that's just really strange.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:24

You reach the kneecap and then and then and then it just keeps panning and panning and panning shorts. Yeah man. This is this is interesting here I've never heard of this one. It says in the note that he famously preferred the servant early on. The servant a nickname I don't know if that's if that's correct or not.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:43

He's such a weird dude because I've never heard that it's probably something that he tried to make happen with one of his burners.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:48

Yeah but you know what's really refreshing is that he's owning his burners. Yeah yes he is is that he's very upfront about it. He's just like yeah man sometimes like people gotta know like people in their living room like they can't just be out here talking that like some of that's a tell you know back with your own name. Yeah um all right uh so Brandon got that one correct Sarav.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:09

Your nickname is the Joker uh Djokovic sorry no never mind NBA correct but also incorrect NBA the Joker um this is uh Jokic on the nuggets Nikola Jokic Jokic Jokic yes yes yes coined by former teammate Mike Miller simply because he struggled to pronounce Jokic Jokic correctly so they call him the Joker uh we both started with nicknames from other sports yeah yeah uh all right branding the Greek freak uh don't ask me to spell it but I can tell you that it's Giannis atatukumpo yeah now uh now the heat and no one else that's crazy that's crazy it is Giannis Bam Greek freak bam also what are these who knows not to derail us from the game what are these wild rumors that like he wanted to come to the Knicks they're like oh Kevin Durant he wanted to come to the Knicks and I'm just like what is on some level this feels not real.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:10

Like anyway sorry yeah it it it's it's funny to mention that because uh Levitard show Miami based I was really interested in what their reactions were and someone brought that up not specifically to what you're talking about but they were saying about how in the NBA how it seemed like there's so much more false information and reports that are out there like more so than any of the other sports it just seems like people just throw stuff at the wall and just it's just like it's like fun nowhere it's it funds like the news and social media businesses that are like built around the NBA maybe but like yeah it's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:41

I'm like I don't believe this and I'm not even like really an NBA guy or like smart enough to know what's real and what's not but I'm like this feels like bullshit.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:49

Yes anyway it just seems like there's a lot more of that in in the NBA for whatever reason. Alright cool so everyone's uh correct so far Sarav uh the beard uh James Harden sweet all right everyone's good so far they'll start to get a little more difficult ooh uh Brandon the stifle towel Rudy Gaber that is correct I would not have known that damn all right Sarav we're going back in time a little bit the big ticket the big ticket can I get any other clues um how far back in time are we going? Not that far he won a championship in 2008 I think it was he was part of okay he was part of one of the original big three the original big three like the fur like probably the first group that had that term of the big three Chris Bosch no but that's a good guess three yeah that was like the second one so the original one was the Boston Celtic with uh Ray Allen big baby Glenn Davis no Paul Pierce because big baby yeah of Ray Allen Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett Kevin Garnett Kevin Garnett was a big ticket would never have gotten that would never have gotten that okay yeah that's so interesting earned during during his early Minnesota days because his breathtaking play was the only reason fans bought tickets to the arena yeah the big ticket yeah what what they didn't show up for Wally's Erbiac?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:13

What's that about?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:14

I know uh all right Brandon I'm switching up the order on you uh the Matrix Sean Marion Sean Marion yeah all right I'm down one right yeah you're down one yep the answer I could call switching that up I know answer I have no idea uh can I get any any clues um about eras decades he has he had one of his most famous shots involves him stepping over a Lakers player in the final Alan Iverson yeah yeah wow I'm surprised that you got it from that clue yeah I know some stuff random stuff I don't know why yeah all right uh Brandon the truth Paul Pierce yep Sarab the glove glove who had a glove not no uh the glove was because his defense was so good that it was he was on you like a glove. I got nothing um one of them one of the marquee players for the Seattle supersonics that era I do not know that well I'm just gonna I don't know make up an or not make up like I'm just gonna make up a name yeah you could actually just make up a name could be right yeah um Reggie Miller no Reggie Miller is pacers but still yeah I don't know uh it was Gary Payton Gary Payton okay uh all right Brandon the human highlight film human highlight film was that uh is that is that Dominique Wilkins yeah Dominique Wilkins yep dude these are deep cuts yep yeah all right seraph you got this one the round mound of rebound round mound rebound the round mound of rebound of rebound like a fat guy yes or a big guy more so now but yeah background yeah he yeah he was he was round still dude if you watch highlights it blows your mind like how fast and agile that dude was running the fast break it was crazy he wasn't unathletic but he wasn't he was a little round yeah is it Glenn that's his name no right no the guy who's like a commentator now and he got really big but he was on the OKC right oh you're talking about Kendrick Perkins yeah yeah no is is a commentator it's not Barkley yes Barclay Barclay Charles Barclay round mouth and rebound I don't know I thought okay I uh yeah I I I still feel like Barclay I don't know he's always been like one shape in my mind I guess kind of round I guess he maybe got skinnier at some point and just stayed that way anyways yeah that's his uh yeah a rhythmic title poking affectionate fun in his shorter stockier physique while dominating the glass all right Brandon the Houdini of the hardwood houdini of the hardwood I have a very random guess for some reason I let me guess before you tell I think it I want to say it's a white guy but I can't think of the Houdini I'll say you're correct.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:30

I'll at least give you that much of the hardwood who was somebody of a lighter complexion who would have been tricky enough it's a man um dumped maybe this was his he already has a nickname but he wouldn't have it wasn't his nickname while he was playing so maybe this is it.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:56

I'm gonna go Jerry West good guess that's Rob what's yours I got I got two because it doesn't matter uh I got Steve Nash or Manu Ginobili all good guesses none of them correct this was what what air 1950s oh okay you have another guess who would have been I think he went to I I'm I I should know this better but was it Pete Merovich?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:22

He went to Holy Cross that was pistol peat pistol peak pistol peat was I'm just trying to think of old two white names what what team what put what protein it's not Larry Bird the Celtics Bob Coosy Bob Coosie is it Bob Cousy Bob Coosie who revolutionized the game with blind behind the back passes it was a different game back then right a different game uh even look yeah yeah Sarah the big fundamental the big fundamental can I get an era hit I guess uh 2000 late 90s 2000 big fundamental me Kobe nope not Kobe he was known for playing the game the fundamental rate and yeah and he and he was famous for always using the glass oh um fuck I'm blanking on this I know who it is damn it I can't I have the face but not the name um from the San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan Tim Duncan was a big fundamental yep uh yeah coined by sports what coined by sports illustrated Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille to describe Duncan's textbook flashy free but completely unstoppable style of play Saku O'Neal the freelance writer for sports illustrators I think they may have gotten a source wrong on that branding chocolate thunder chocolate chocolate thunder is that uh give you a hint yeah you you don't have to you don't have to give me a hint uh my mind is just going to uh to Mark Henry the WWE wrestler who they called I think they called him sexual chocolate but that's the only way I can think of while I'm hearing chocolate thunder I see thunder who would have been is that is that Kendrick Perkins no I have a guess yeah maybe it's because he's chocolate and on the thunder that's what I was saying I was I was gonna say Serge Ibaka no this is from an earlier era yeah uh 80s I hope 80s maybe 70s 80s magic johnson no not too early for him so he must be he must be more like the 70s it wasn't like 75 75 to 89 so yeah 70s 80s it was Daryl Dawkins Daryl Dawkins oh ooh I should have known that yeah man he played for the Sixers too oh that's bad yeah yeah uh famously bestowed upon him by all-star point guard Stevie Wonder who I'm kidding even I know he's chocolate famously bestowed upon him by music legend Stevie Wonder who loved the shattering sound of uh Dawkins backboard breaking dunk right Siran uh let's see which one might you these ones are all kind of tough but do you have to know white chocolate?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:26

Is this uh is this Brian what's his name on the Celtics?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:30

Um Brian Scalbrini that is a good one though no I feel like he has one very similar to that as well yeah so this is white chocolate okay this is open for either of you guys these are just this is kind of just fun that's Jason Williams yeah Jason Williams who's who's Jason Williams again he was a star guard for the Kings did he ever try to coach the Lakers am I thinking of the same person or thinking of a different Jason no there were there have been oh man did he play for the Heat too late in his career Grizzlies Grizzlies definitely on the Grizzlies maybe on the Heat too but uh yeah like he has I mean if you look at Jason Williams highlights man that dude is the most fun point guard yeah he made some insane passes uh those are the those were the fun days of the Kings and the Lakers um yeah all right uh the bald mamba that's the current one that's the current one the bald mamba is that is that uh is that Caruso yeah yeah that's Alex Caruso the bald that's the guy on the on the thunder now who's on the thunder now yeah uh that's funny this is a tough one the Polish hammer uh oh Polish hammer polish hammer is that no is that uh the fucking dude who we had on the Knicks for a bit oh porzingis no no no Polish hammer is this from early 2000s uh yeah yeah mid 2000s um you've got to stop thinking modern is that uh is that uh Marcin Gortat yeah Marcin Gortat yeah yeah tough nose center who spent years setting screens for John Wall and uh the last one that I have here his nickname is don't Google what is that if this is a real one or not but don't Google and the reasoning is is uh it checks out who uh let's see who would have gotten in trouble for something that great it's a it's a it's a current one uh I think so I think so he still is taking like Gilbert Arenas or who else has had don't Google it's uh it's the nickname for Evan Fournier Evan Fournier it's don't Google uh because when you google it it comes up with Fournier's gangrene which is a rare life threatening form of necrotizing fascitis that rapidly destroys the soft tissues of the genitals and the and the and the perineum my God oh my god I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it don't Google but if not they should they should they definitely should because it's a flesh eating bacteria that eats away at your radius. So um all right cool I think uh I think Brandon took that one so I think we maybe actually be tied now uh it's either 7-6 or 7-7 now it's been so long since I've done this at home where I have everything else but um all right cool uh just a quick question of the week we kind of already we we had one throughout the um we had a lot of good questions yeah throughout the podcast but yeah so this one's just a really quick one um but as we're kind of in the throes of summer now what is your what's your sound of summer like what music do you just automatically associate with it could be a song or an artist or I would say I go through cycles and I think it's less about my what what I consider the sound of summer and more of like what is my mood in this summer.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:16

So there's been many summers where the vibe is like fucking billboard charting pop shit. You know what I mean? Like whatever the big songs are I'm fucking listening. I'm into it I love it. I understand that they're shallow and superficial and like they don't have substance in terms of like genuine music depth whatever but like I'm into it. So that's that's another thing. This summer in particular I don't know if it's because it's the Knicks and or if it's just my mood and what I'm into right now. I am my my my summer mode is like rap. Both a mix of like classic rap hits and I'm not talking about like it's it's rap that like matches the summer vibe. So it's not like I'm not listening to like many men as I'm like walking down the street. But specifically what I'm noticing and this is how I feel my age more than anything else uh a lot of artists that like we grew up on that we really liked are putting out new music and I'm noticing that like I'm obsessed with it. Like Rick Ross has a new song called Mahogany Caskets featuring TI uh TI has a song called Mr. Him and like these are all songs that I feel like I'm recognizing as like these guys are trying to re uh somehow revisit the sounds of their prime because they also know that the nostalgia but also the freshness of it will really catch the millennial audience that you know they grew up with right and like I'm squarely in that. So I'm like listening to these songs that I'm like this could have come out when I was in college and I love it. Right uh so that is kind of the vibe that I'm really enjoying right now is like whenever it's like a beautiful day and I'm like in the mood and I kind of want to like elevate it even more of like the great summer vibes I'm just putting on these like amazing rap songs. So that's uh that's my answer.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:32

Right. That's Brandon what about you?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:36

Um I have two answers and kind of it's to Sarav's point like it kind of goes back to like my mood and my environment and what I'm in. But there's like two defaults that I I have that I go to whenever I'm like that I find myself putting music on in the summit. One of them is I made this like Memorial Day weekend like Labor Day weekend like grill out cookout playlist for um we would have like like parties over or like like the 4th of July. Usually there's a point in the summer where we have like family over and do like a cookout and do things like that. So I made this the this playlist that is mostly like 80s rock not like glam rock and like like hair metal kind of stuff but like your John Mellon Kent or Brian Adams uh like Bruce Springsteen kind of stuff. Some that are like it is like the kind of rock that is more like crowd pleasing where like like my parents generation and our generation like the kids can all like enjoy it. So that that one's a little bit more more vanilla but that's something that I usually like it like if I'm if we're growing out I'm usually like like putting that playlist on as like the background to it. And that just seems like like like the soundtrack of like that part of the summer. But I also find myself usually like if we're like if we're finished dinner and everything and I'm cleaning up and I'm doing the dishes or whatever I'm just throwing something on. For some reason I just like get in this mood and in this and it's a very it's very specific because it's the this one album that I'll I'll I'll put on and play. It's A Lesson in Romantics by Mayday Parade. I don't know what it is just it's it's just like putting that on that that album on takes me back to I don't know if I like listened to it one summer and that was like my thing but that's just something that I've always associated with summer um and will often put that on uh on on the Alexa whenever I'm I'm doing something around the house if I need to and and that tends to be in the summer because it's like a it's like a jam out kind of um punk pop rocky type of uh type of album that um you know only put on when I'm in like the mood and the vibes which would be like during the summer. Like I I don't I don't ever really put that on when it's like a dark dreary November day.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:37

So I would also you know you you bringing that up also makes me need to add honorable mention. I think this might be the first year that I've like taken a break from it but for I guess at this point the first half of this decade and also maybe beyond that too but like first half of this decade especially uh all the pop punk music that we grew up on like it felt like these summer anthems I feel like yeah maybe like last year and this year were the first years where I was like all right like we do this a lot time to mix it up and like whatever but like man I had a couple years there that like the Blink 182, some 41 and not that it's not still in rotation it still is but those were like we were like leaning in to that specific nostalgia a ton. And then the only other thing I would add is some room for like indie rock stuff that you know is always kind of fun the strokes whatever else but special mention for a song called Kilby Girl by the backseat lovers. That is a band that we discovered years and years ago and decided to really get into and then we saw them live and they performed this song and it was so fucking good and it's become kind of like a like a summer jam ever since. I bring it up because the other day um Uh me and my buddy, we we sat down at a bar um to grab some drinks. And as soon as we sat down, they started playing the song, and I was like, oh my god, like this feels like a sign. You know what I mean? Like it's like it's like this is our specific summer jam, but it's also started to make waves, you know, more gotten more popular, whatever. But I would I would encourage y'all to check that out if you want, because I love that song. That's called Kilby Girl. K-I-L-B-Y Girl by the backseat lovers.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:32

Yeah, sweet. Yeah, I gotta check it out.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:34

Yeah, as we're like talking about this, I'm I feel like I'm realizing that music in general feels like a summer thing. Yeah, you know, like it's like there's it's it's like there are good vibes in the summer, and like with that, you're just like ready to like put on like good beats, good songs, like songs that makes you feel happy. Just feel like music in general just feels like a summer thing, uh, as we're talking about this. Um mine is similar, it's like heavy pop uh type stuff to just like it's just like good beats, it makes you feel good. Um, also one of my favorite uh people to listen to, and it's Katy Perry. Like so many of her songs are just summer vibes from like California Girls to Teenage Dream, Firework, uh Roar, like all those ones. It just uh like I kissed a girl, like all those like big ones, like they just feel like summer uh hits. So I noticed that like whenever it gets to be summer, I'm putting out her stuff because like the kids really like, especially like Logan. Man, I put on a King Ferris and she and now and and Lenny does it too, where both of them this morning in the car were belting it out. They're singing on the top of their lungs. Uh so they really enjoy it too. So uh it feels like summer, and especially I don't know why. I just uh we go down to my uncle's for 4th of July, and one of the things one of the favorite things that Meg and I do is that uh on the fourth on the day of the Fourth of July, in like the evening time, like right before the sun setting, we walk along this street, and it's the street by my uncle's that ha that's filled with just like mansions, you know, it's like this super effluent area, it's right on the water too. Um and it's when like and it's it's just like it feels very alive because like they're all they're all these like places like my uncle hates because like they're the people that like they have these you know 20 million dollar mansions that are that they use maybe two months of the year, if that, and then they just sit dormant the rest of the year. And my uncle hates that sort of concept. Uh, but at least for this weekend, like this is when it's it is alive. Like everyone's there, they're all having parties, people are out on their bikes and golf carts, and like everyone's moving about on the street. So Meg and I, we always go for a walk. It's normally when we're trying to, you know, just be out there with the kids, they have their like headphones on listening, and uh and firework on Katy Perry by Katy Perry, just it's just like that song that just puts me right there uh on that walk in that street, so uh for that reason as well.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:00

Mrs. Trudeau. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:02

Yeah, right. That was super random. I had no idea until I saw him.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:05

Katie Perry, whatever. Katie Perry has not been in people's good graces for a long time. Yeah, that's what's man and also and also Justin Trudeau not being in Canada to watch Canada play, uh and instead being in LA with her. Hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:22

Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I can ever forget about the Blue Origin uh Katy Perry. That too. It just makes my skin crawl. Here's what I will say though.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:32

Teenage Dream, you know, that was a song that just came out at the right time. Yeah. Uh and and and I'll I'll I will always insulate that from her reputation. I will always listen to that song. Yeah. It's great. Friday night. Great.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:48

Yeah, because it came out in high school like in the summer between one of our high school.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:53

I think that might have been that Friday.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:55

I kissed I k I kissed a girl. It's Pride Month. Maybe we maybe we need to give Katie some props. Yeah. For good summer. See ya.