Veto The Podcast

Veto The Podcast Episode 3 - Cake Belly

• George Milton, Justin Schaefers, Brent Bobbit • Season 1 • Episode 3

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The gang is all back and they're really tuckered out after a day of slip n slide. But they still manage to solve a mid-life crisis, revive Sinbad's movie career, and get some cake on the underside of their bellies. It's Veto The Podcast and it's just as dumb as usual.

George Milton:

hey everybody and welcome to Veto the podcasts, podcast where we can do anything and we, anything can get vetoed. how do we feel about that intro? Pretty good, right? Let's go. Let's go. I'm your host and the Internet's favorite. Uncle George Milton and I'm joined today by my co-hosts Justin Schaeffers.

justin:

What's going on everybody? How we doing today? Just happy to be here. Excited. Got a little slip and slide in yesterday, so that's exciting. So I'm feeling good, feeling a little beat up, but I'm ready to party.

George Milton:

How nice. And of course, always our dedicated and loving co-host, Brent Bobbit. You idiot. Beat that. Hey guy, guys, I have a surprise for you today. It's a huge, huge, huge surprise and I hope that this is the big reveal for this episode.

justin:

my

George Milton:

We talked a lot about the name of the podcast last week. And really, really just loved Veto the podcast or veto this podcast. We're going with vetoed the podcast. I'm gonna hand each of you guys two virtual veto cards. So you now each have, yeah, you now each have two veto cards. You can use'em or not. They're not gonna roll over to the next episode, so you're not gonna end up with like four and then six and then, Whatever, six plus two is.

Brent:

That's a good George, since the listeners obviously see what we are seeing, why don't you

George Milton:

Oh yeah, well see here. I'm holding up one of the veto cards right now. For the camera. It's gold embossed. It's raised lettering. it's actually got a little, like, you see how I'm like turning it side to side? you can see the, you can see the sunrise kind of in the be. Yeah.

Brent:

was suitcase on Pulp Fiction of.

George Milton:

Yeah. This is probably what, what it was. So now you each have two veto cards and I have two veto cards as well. And if you're wondering to yourself, can I veto a veto? The answer is probably I dunno. don't know. I don't know. I don't know all the rules yet, but I am just saying that like I started writing down what should you be able to use the veto card for? And I think just like you'll know, but you can't veto everything. You get two vetoes you can, you can, veto a veto.

Brent:

that a counter spell to a counter spell. Like, you know, you put it on the stack and then

George Milton:

it's absolutely counter spell God damn counter. Spell ISS a good name for a podcast too, though. Ah,

justin:

veto this name and go to Counter Spell.

Brent:

You're gonna have to have the, uh, counter spell, to us.

George Milton:

Damn, man. Because these veto cards literally cost like all my savings. These were$22,000 a piece. Each, yeah.

Brent:

time

George Milton:

No, no, no. Oh, wait, sorry. No, you can re, yeah, you can reuse them, but you just have two

justin:

stack'em. You can't stack your veto cards. Okay.

George Milton:

Well, if you veto, if you veto something and then somebody vetoes your vetoes, somebody else can veto the veto of the veto. It's, it's literally just counter spell rules, guys.

Brent:

we

justin:

just

George Milton:

might,

justin:

One shot. Let's go.

George Milton:

honestly, I, kind of hope we do. And I might post, I, I might come up with some stuff that. I just put out to get vetoed. I don't know. There's some strategy to this game. But yeah, I don't know. It's, we're recording this right now on Labor Day,

justin:

Is We're doing labor.

George Milton:

it doesn't feel like labor. If it starts to feel like labor, you have to drop the call. Okay. it is

Brent:

Just. Yeah, Yeah,

justin:

allowed to wear white now? Is that the thing? Is that, am I I'm allowed to wear white or is it no white? After Labor Day.

George Milton:

Wait if it's white.

justin:

Brent, that's really weird.

George Milton:

Yeah. Brent's got a robot camera that follows him around. No. I think that it's, that's a good question.'cause it's no white before Labor Day then you can wear white after Labor Day. What happens on Labor Day? Can I wear white or not?

justin:

gonna find out.

George Milton:

When

Brent:

you're not supposed to wear labor day.

George Milton:

Okay

Brent:

not after. Therefore, you're, you're

justin:

still don't understand. Labor Day. Out of all I do not understand Labor Day.

Brent:

But you

justin:

Yeah.

George Milton:

Yep. it's, it's a US holiday. I know that,

Brent:

Mm-hmm.

George Milton:

dumb about this. I'm, I'm resisting the urge to Google it right now.'cause I don't know what Labor Day

justin:

it. Let's, I'm gonna AI this

George Milton:

Oh God.

justin:

and then we're gonna figure

George Milton:

What is Labor Day?

justin:

What of the day?

George Milton:

I assume it's to celebrate laborers.

justin:

Yeah.

George Milton:

Guys, do y'all wanna give some advice to random people on the internet? Because I have some who are looking for advice.

Brent:

become the highlight of my

justin:

Yes,

George Milton:

Okay. It's kind of like through the, through the subreddit for advice is like equally depressing and, sorry. No, it's actually more depressing than anything than it is entertaining. Because there's a lot of. Can I just read a couple of titles that I'm on there right now? gonna read a couple of titles that I'm not using. How do you begin to forgive someone for yourself? Not gonna do that one. My husband's friend asked to move in with us. It's okay. This one was Okay. Let's see. I thought I was straight, but agreed on a date with a guy. Kind of confused about it. I don't feel qualified to give information advice for that. I'll tell you what I did. Here's some that I did that I did think we were qualified for. You guys ready for advice number

justin:

Advice number one. Let's go.

George Milton:

Okay. Colleague's, fiance, flirted with my girlfriend at a wedding this weekend and now it feels like drama is landing on me. This weekend I went to a colleague's wedding. I've only been at my firm for a few months, but we're a small team, similar in age, and we all get along really well. One of my colleagues is actually, actually someone I knew from school, and she brought her fiance, my girlfriend of nine months came with me and it was the first time she met my colleagues. We weren't invited to the dinner part of the wedding, so our team had dinner together beforehand. I sat with my old school friend and her fiance, and the four of us talked a lot before heading to the venue. At the wedding, there was a huge dance floor and everyone was dancing and having fun. There was also quite a lot of alcohol involved. At some point, he came up to my girlfriend, put his arms around her, and told her he thought it was a delight to meet her, and that he felt like they had so much in common. She told me afterwards that she responded with something like, yeah, and you're also so similar to my name. I guess poster, the poster's name, she said it seemed like he was testing the waters a bit. To be honest, I have a couple of friends who are naturally flirty and outgoing like him, and my girlfriend is hot, so I wasn't surprised he gravitated toward her. I would never do what he did, but I know his type. I also fully trust her version of the events. The frustrating part at work today, my colleague, his fiance. I was clearly not happy about it. Now I feel like I'm about to get dragged into drama. I want absolutely nothing to do with and honestly don't think is mine or my girlfriend's responsibility to manage. Not sure if I should just stay out of it or if I need to address it somehow. you guys, were you guys, able to hold that in your mind as far

Brent:

Yeah. stopped caring early on into that because this is one of those typical situations that like I can only to, a certain degree because I've just never found the use in being like. jealous type about anything. Go out there, do whatever you're gonna do. You know, if, if you can't have trust relationship, you don't have a relationship. So like, I just, uh, like if, if my advice to said guy in this scenario, like, let it go. Who gives a shit? If anything's gonna come out of it, it's gonna come out of it and you can't do anything to stop it. And if it does, let it happen sooner than later so you can move on with your life. You know, I advice.

justin:

And also like if it's, if it wasn't a problem for your girlfriend, it wasn't a problem for you, like you know. You don't wanna start drama where there doesn't need to be. You let them deal with their own shit.

George Milton:

Yeah, they do have to deal with their own shit. I'd probably quit the job though.

justin:

I would pack up and I would move out of the country. I'm going to like, I'm going with everyone to Ireland. That's what's happening. We're going we're outta here. That's how extreme it's gotta be. If you're going for it, George, you're gonna quit your job. You need to leave the country. Okay.

George Milton:

It doesn't say how old these people are. Do we wanna guess how old?

justin:

Definitely AF right after college. First job.

George Milton:

probably after college. They're 25. It's gotta be the age. Average age of people on here is like 25 asking for advice.

justin:

Or just people that do dumb shit. It's usually before 30. And then, I mean, we still do a little bit of dumb shit, but like as much dumb shit.

George Milton:

I trust because we've, all, all three of us I would say, have significant others who are hotter than us. Like objectively speaking we probably are all.

justin:

I don't know what you're talking about. That's stash.

George Milton:

Thanks. Hey,

justin:

that

George Milton:

and since we are. Since we already previously like anchored the listener in the fact that we're all six four and have like rippling just jacked abs. Yeah, well I was, I was going back through editing that episode and I was like, oh yeah, that we can just, we're always gonna be the like podcast artist is just gonna be our abs, I think as well,

justin:

maybe your

Brent:

Mm-hmm.

justin:

not my abs.

George Milton:

we'll get your abs too gets, I mean,

Brent:

for George's abs onto our abs, then we'll be, we'll be okay.

George Milton:

li Listen guys, we're, we're all, we're gonna Photoshop some ai abs onto all of our abs. That's the, that's the

justin:

will give George my mullet then we'll get his abs. That sounds like a

George Milton:

Hey man, I would make that trade. I would make that trade

justin:

Get you a

George Milton:

if God would. If God was alive. No, I don't wanna skull it. I wanna mullet. Gosh, darn it. I'm a real mullet. I'm a real

justin:

boy.

George Milton:

But no, I don't, I mean, I agree. I, I agree with you guys. Like it's, you know, when you're, you're this age, you don't really know. I, I used to be a more jealous guy, but I feel like, like if nothing's gonna, I feel like nothing is gonna come out of it, then it is kind of. waste of your time and energy. Definitely don't get involved in their drama Yeah. Like Brent said, it is kind of hard to care all the way through this question what people are doing, like what happened at this wedding.

Brent:

one of those Is just such a, like, the only reason it's a complicated problem is because someone decided to make it a complicated problem. At the end of the day, we're talking about. Someone that came up was probably being flirty with your girl probably wants to bang your girl. she's attractive, get over it. It's gonna happen. There's lots of guys that want to bang your girl, but either she's gonna do it or she's not. And if she is, then what's the point of even working on this relationship anyway? Like be with someone you can trust.

justin:

if you have an open relationship, you know, set some rules, set some boundaries. No one's here to judge. If you wanna have

George Milton:

I

justin:

it.

George Milton:

I feel like throuple, I feel like you keep bringing up throuple when we

justin:

It's a fun word to say. Thro Throuple.

George Milton:

wait. Is it throuple or throttle?

justin:

Triple, triple

George Milton:

It's gotta be threat. It's gotta be throuple, right? I, although.

Brent:

even make any sense. Where's that? Where's the A

George Milton:

I'm gonna burn this card to veto the correct pronunciation of the word throuple. So unless anybody vetoes this, it is not pronounced throttle.

justin:

throuple, we're in.

George Milton:

Okay. That's one.

Brent:

my cards on that.

George Milton:

Alright. Choose your

Brent:

throttle.

George Milton:

we got a throttle from now on. So I think that the advice that we're g gonna give here is either completely ignore it or have a throttle or move to Ireland. Do one of those three things.

justin:

That's your only options.

George Milton:

Next, piece of advice. We still have that one pretty concisely. We do get ages. We do get ages in this one. And guys, I'm going to blow your minds. These people are around 25. So let's see. Yeah

Brent:

Who would've thought that?

George Milton:

my girlfriend gets annoyed, if I read a book while she's watching tv. Is this normal? I 28 M live with my girlfriend 25 F. We get along great most of the time, but there's this strange recurring issue in the evenings. She likes to put on Netflix or YouTube and just chill. I don't always feel like watching, so sometimes I'll grab a book or read on my Kindle while sitting next to her. Every time I do, she gets visibly annoyed. She'll stay, say stuff like, you're not really with me, or she'll ask if she's boring me. Once she even muted the TV and said, why are you even here? If you're just going to read, I don't get it. We li we're literally in the same room spending time together. I'm not ignoring her. I just don't always want to watch whatever reality show she's into that week. Sick burn, bro. Is this her wanting more attention or is it some weird control thing? Has anyone else experienced this dynamic?

justin:

I mean this is re, this is insanity. I mean, this is classic 1 0 1. I mean like your person is there with you, who cares? Man? Like, come on. Like sometimes I like to read, sometimes I like to watch. You know, if it's not like, how's it bothering you? Like why does that bother you? I just don't, I don't, there's like zero, like you should dump this person. That's my advice is run from this person.'cause she's a crazy person.

George Milton:

Interesting.

Brent:

concur. I.

George Milton:

wow. I actually have a slightly

justin:

to her.

George Milton:

Why didn't I concur? have a slightly different take'cause I do think, first of all, the rea, the reason that I dropped this one in is because I, it maybe, maybe not insane to you guys, but it is insane to me that you would sit down the TV area and get a book out. That's the most insane part to me to be like, if I was, I mean, I couldn't do it. I couldn't, I don't think I could read. on the couch where there was tv. Could you guys do that? Could y'all physically

justin:

people do that. Well, think about it. We're on our phones all the time. Like that's the problem. When you watch TV now you're like so distracted. So it's the same idea. It's like you have the TV on and you're like scrolling, you're checking to this, you're checking that you're doing this. Like people do it all the time. So I don't think it's weird. you still want to be in the same room with each other, otherwise you're never spending time together.

George Milton:

Yeah. I just don't know if that counts as like, which of those things counts as, does it count as spending time together? If you're watching a movie together, like,

Brent:

where you're like actively participating in the same activity and Sure. I don't think this rises to that level, but there's also some times, much like Justin was saying. That sometimes you just wanna physically be around that person, but you each have a different activity or one to do. And if one doesn't

George Milton:

let me put it, let me put it out here this way. Like what if. if the three of us were gonna go see a movie in the theaters together? Let, and, and then, and then, and then I got out a book. I mean, you know where I'm going with it. Like, and then I got out a book in the theater. It would be like, what the fuck, man? Like, we're like, we came out here to do this. Act like it, it's more special because we pay, we bought a ticket

Brent:

uh,

justin:

weird if you paid for a ticket and then pulled out a book. Then you're just an idiot. Like you should stay home, but you're

George Milton:

What if I'm,

justin:

and you want to have your downtime, but you still want to be like in the same room with someone. It's sometimes it's nice to just, you know, be doing your own thing in the same room with your partner.

George Milton:

yeah, it would kind of, it would kind of be like, like what if somebody was watching TV and you like, were playing switch or something. Like,

justin:

Shout

George Milton:

I don't think

justin:

holder.

Brent:

that,

justin:

I was about to say, I

George Milton:

Yeah.

justin:

have a demo and see how you do it in your room?

George Milton:

Yeah, it totally happens. I think it's, I think it's mostly, I think it's mostly fine. I do kind of get the point where you would say like it, like some people do consider that to be like quality time and there's some weird, there's some weird thing of like, okay, if we're both. Watching the same exact thing, then the time that we're spending together is like more valuable because we're having a shared experience versus we're just in the room having different experiences. I think, I think all of our advice is gonna boil down to get over it.

justin:

get over it. Ass for getting mad if that's what's gonna get her mad these days. Like

George Milton:

Well, they live together, so they have to, she, he's got more considerations to make. It has, it becomes harder to dump somebody when you live together,

justin:

well.

George Milton:

Like you gotta make, you gotta make a much larger case. Anyway, I don't, I mean, I think that I would say like, just don't go read like. Just don't go read. I mean, I think she made it pretty clear too.'cause she's like, why are you even in here? If you're just gonna read his, he probably wants to just be like, oh, well we're in the same room. So that's what we were doing. That's the value anyway. You have to move to Ireland and get in a throttle. Throttle.

justin:

think that's the advice for everything. Just move to Ireland and get in a throuple.

George Milton:

Did you get in a throttle then move to Ireland?

justin:

you

George Milton:

Oh, getting.

justin:

Irish one?

George Milton:

Get in a throuple, get out of it by moving to Ireland and then get in an Irish throuple,

justin:

That would be like a sex topple.

George Milton:

a sex

justin:

Sex topple Ste.

George Milton:

can't,

justin:

no. Is it? I can't speak Spanish.

George Milton:

okay, now you tell me. Well we solved that one.

justin:

Definitely solve that one. Don't

George Milton:

do you guys do, do you guys wanna do any other advice or do y'all,

justin:

What was the forgiveness one?

George Milton:

the forgiveness

justin:

that one of the first ones you read?

Brent:

you decided about, uh, how do you begin to forgive yourself?

George Milton:

how do you begin to forgive someone else for yourself?

justin:

Yeah, I don't

George Milton:

Oh.

justin:

it, so I'm very confused.

George Milton:

another.

Brent:

you, like when you hate that it's only burning you up inside? How do you begin to forgive that person in a way relieves you of that pain, uh,

justin:

George read it. Let's go.

George Milton:

You want me to read it? I wa that was one that I was specifically gonna skip.

justin:

no.

George Milton:

I thought it was too depressing. I also thought that the, oh, let's see. Here's another one on here.

Brent:

of his two cards.

George Milton:

I guess you probably could. There's another one on here that I definitely, another one here that I didn't even read. I just read the title and was like, Nope. And the title is My dad Found My Dildo. WTF. Do I do?

Brent:

the other day. Um, Yeah, that's weird.

justin:

You

George Milton:

I

Brent:

don't have that. My,

justin:

I

Brent:

my

justin:

him.'em big.

Brent:

my

justin:

Yeah. Like what size are we talking here? Is it like a little what, like a starter

George Milton:

didn't, I didn't read it. A starter one. Is that a category? Is there a

justin:

I mean, there's, there's

George Milton:

Oh boy. Yeah I mean that, Hey, you know what? That would make sense. Just'cause I just,'cause I don't know. Does it mean that it's not, that it's not?

justin:

pretend, George, you know everything about them.

George Milton:

Oh man. That's weird with now that you've got your mic working right, and I can hear it like right in my ears.

justin:

George

George Milton:

Yeah. This podcast is already canceled. I can tell.

justin:

Vetoing this podcast.

George Milton:

I, that's what I'm saying. That's what it is. Okay. I've got, I've got two more. They might be, get over it and quit. Here we go. I miss my old life. 36 f, married with a toddler, a stable, stable job. A house in the suburbs of a mid-size city living the American dream. I am American. BT dubs, LOL, but I am bored. There was a time just eight years ago when I lived in, in, we. NYCI was 60 pounds lighter. I was single and engaged in personal development. I read, I painted, and most of all, I fucked around. I was alone and a little depressed, but I was hot and I was having fun. I had a tiny apartment, but it was all mine filled with art and knickknacks and clutter and moments of beauty. The world was at my fingertips. I had a killer playlist on my own personal Spotify account. My husband has now convinced me to delete it so we could have a joint account, and now it's all gone. miss being able to be a little irresponsible. I miss flirting. I miss staying up all night painting. I miss public transportation. I'm trying to remind myself that I wasn't 100% happy then. But the desire I feel when I think about this time in my life is so strong and painful. I am so lame. Now. How do I solve this

Brent:

Um, you know, it's one of those

George Milton:

move

Brent:

could try. thing that I think throttle. uh,

George Milton:

a throttle.

justin:

solves

George Milton:

yeah. You don't even have to start from scratch. You can find two people who are already a copple and just, just get in with, it a throttle.

justin:

They are right now?

George Milton:

it says 36 F. She's married, she's got a.

justin:

almost midlife crisis time, basically.

George Milton:

midlife crisis. a hundred percent of a midlife crisis.

Brent:

like this because, um, not that I'm saying that anyone should bail on a relationship at the first sign of trouble, but I'm definitely not one of these like, oh, well, you know, never, like, divorce should never be the, the an, I mean, sometimes divorce is the answer. You know? It's like I, I, I think people have to be evaluating their own happiness. And deciding, am I happy in this moment if you are? That's fantastic. If not, I think you need to actively figure out what parts of your life are making you not happy. And if you've become, like, I think there's plenty of could be with someone else that could be totally lovely, uh, and maybe because of them, you, you're comfortable enough that everything's just totally complacent. But you've become very unhappy with this complacency in your life, and you realize that with that other person connected to you, you don't have any chance of meaningfully breaking outside of that normal pattern that you're in. That could be enough of an excuse know. Not be in a relationship as well. I mean, but, uh, I'm terrible at because my relationship's easy. We just, uh, get along and it's fun all the time. So I'm terrible to give advice on this.

George Milton:

give it. You're getting paid to give advice, Brent. Oh

justin:

tokens? No, honestly, I think it's, this is a really interesting one because so often want to put their happiness or lack of on outside circumstances instead of like really looking in and figuring out what is going on with them and the choices that they make and how they live their life day to day, and how that infect affects their happiness. Because, I mean. Someone else can't make you happy. Like you can choose to be happy or you can choose not to be happy. You, you know, you can't let outside things affect how you go through your day and how you go through your life, and I think a lot of people get lost in. Relationships and they don't communicate what's going on with them. They're not open to their, their significant other and tell them like, Hey, this is bothering me, or this is, this is, I don't like this. I, I, I wanna change something. They just kind of keep going down this rabbit hole, and then they're like, oh, I'd never say that to my. My, my spouse or my, my partner or whatever, and it's like, dude, if you can't talk to your significant other, like who are you supposed to be able to talk to? Right? Like, there's so many times I hear say that like, I would never say that to my partner. And you're like, dog, like. only have one life to live. You should be talking and being like, Hey, this is not working. Can we try this? Maybe like go start roleplaying and go downtown. I don't know. Like you can change things up in your life to make it more fun, but if you're not talking and communicating, it's like, well, you're gonna be miserable.

George Milton:

Yeah, don't th Well, I agree with all of that. you're

Brent:

But

George Milton:

sage

justin:

went deep on you, George.

Brent:

be and, and someone could even be living that. But that wouldn't necessarily make it exclusive from the issue that we're talking about because like, maybe you are, I mean, like you're absolutely right and you could be communicating with that person, but. You know, again, sometimes you just kinda have to shake up situations in your life to get you out of a rut of complacency. I know that I've been there in the past, and that's one reason why maybe I advocate for that is because I can see a, you know, parallel dimension for myself where maybe if I hadn't made choices at a certain time to just put things behind that weren't necessarily bad, but they were just breeding complacency. And I might not have ever achieved a lot of what I did if, if I had just complacent.

justin:

for sure. But I think a lot of times people will look for easy way out instead of looking for, and sometimes you do need that, like sometimes you need to. Throw it all away and go on your eat, pray, love, and figure out what you need in your life. But at the end of the day, I think you have to work on yourself and figure out what you really want and what makes you happy and what doesn't make you happy. And then go from there like and then take a bunch of mushrooms and they will help you see what you need to do. That's the number one advice. Take a bunch of mushrooms and see the colors your truth.

George Milton:

So I think there's like a bunch of stuff bundled up in here and part of the, like she's, I don't know if this lady is or is not talking to her husband about this, but she's definitely coming to the internet in a totally anonymous forum to talk about it. So I'm gonna assume she's not talking about it with her husband right now. probably a few things, like it does feel like she's got probably some complacency. Um that she wants to rage against, but she's also realizing she's not 28 anymore, and that's like a hard lesson to learn. harder, maybe harder for women than for men. I, I'm not sure, right. She does mention in here like, I was hot, I was single, I was bebopping along. It's, you know, that, that doesn't last forever. You know, like my life today is not, there were thi there were things about, you know, there were things about my life when I was 28 that were, that were cool, but, you know, just. or whatever. But there were also a bunch of things that were just like, don't want to do them that way anymore. I just don't wanna do stuff that way anymore. But I get it. Where you're like, oh man, I used to, I feel like I've said similar things, you know, but I haven't said them online to strangers. I've just said, I've said them to like Aaron or like my close friends or somebody where it's like, I don't want that life anymore. But I do, you know, I do miss being able to just like. To randomly take a trip, you know? Now we've got like, we own a business and we have all these responsibilities and it gets a little harder to just be like, oh, it's a Tuesday night. Yeah, I think we'll go catch a show, or I think we'll go downtown for, you know, try, try out this new restaurant. Just like little things like that. I think that what you probably need is just to build more like spontaneity into your life. It's not gonna be the same as when you were 28. Like you're always gonna be unhappy if you think that you can be 28 again.'cause you can't. B, I'm sorry.

Brent:

Yeah, I think

George Milton:

could.

Brent:

to the core thing I think that, I think it's exactly that. I think that the differences in life of how you live when you're. Younger versus older. It's easy to reflect back on the better sides of that and be like, I missed the, but yeah, I think you're, you're really hitting the nail on the head there and that's probably what it really comes down to is this sounds like someone that just kinda has to come to terms with the fact that life changes

justin:

I mean happy now. Just slipping, sliding with my homies in the park. I don't need to be

George Milton:

but that's a, like I will say, I know that we're kind of joke, we've joked a couple times about the slip and slide. This is our first remote recording. And it's kind of funny because like, I'm down the street from Justin and like our, we, we put a, we put a slip and slide in our little like neighborhood. Park and

justin:

it was a 50

George Milton:

was a huge, it was a huge slip and slide, but like, but like I don't know. I mean, that's not a, that's not a thing that I had in my life at 28. Right. And it's not gonna make me 28 again, but it's, it, it may, it does make me like joyful to do that, you know? And I feel like having those things where you can at any age be like, okay, what, like this lady mentions in here like. Well her, you know, her husband and her share a Spotify account and now she doesn't have her playlist anymore. Like, motherfucker, you're talking about a difference of like 4 99 a month. Get your own Spotify account.

justin:

have

George Milton:

You know what I mean?

justin:

each have your own thing, man. Like everyone in my family for like, it's got a different one that they hook up and do their thing. Like you can make your own playlist. That's not that complicated.

George Milton:

Yeah. Make your own playlist. Yeah. Well you're, it's not, I, I mean a little dumb, but Brent, but she doesn't want some man's playlist. All right. I think she's been pretty clear about,

justin:

them in a high key, then maybe she will like it.

George Milton:

you never know. Maybe, maybe, we could hear a playlist that starts with Baby, you have a song you make, wanna

justin:

my window down and cruise.

Brent:

together That really is,

George Milton:

with internet lag

justin:

think

George Milton:

is what I was gonna say.

justin:

I think. I mean, I hear George right on his lips are moving.

George Milton:

Yeah, I mean, I think our advice to this lady is like, find some joy. Find some joy in your life. It's not, you're not

justin:

you happy.

George Milton:

Yeah, and your hu your your husband, you need to talk with your husband too. You need to be, you need to talk with your husband. Like of course, you're not gonna be able to go out and flirt and fuck around like those parts you like. Yeah, if you wanna do that, you're gonna have to get divorced or have an open relationship and get into a throttle

justin:

Ireland.

George Milton:

in Ireland. But other than that, like you, if your husband's a reasonable person and he loves you, which. Maybe he is, and maybe he does. I hope so. I hope so. Then y'all should just talk and be like, Hey, I'm kind of feeling a little stuck and I'd like to do some spontaneous stuff and slip and

justin:

Slip and slide is the way to go.

George Milton:

On that note. Let's why don't we take a little break and we will come back and maybe, uh maybe answer another question or maybe do some other stuff.

justin:

Yeah, I want to talk about stuff, George.

George Milton:

And welcome back to Veto the podcast in case you're keeping score. I've only used one of my veto cards. Justin and Brent both have their two golden veto cards remaining. Will they use them? I don't know. Will we still have this in the next episode of this podcast? No clue. Will it still be called Veto the podcast? Maybe,

Brent:

This segment is getting lame. I would like to utilize one of my veto cards to move on to whatever comes next.

George Milton:

okay. Yep. I can't argue with that. It's a veto card and we respect that. So what comes next, Brent?

Brent:

I think that once again, it's time for two lies and a gig.

George Milton:

Do lies in.

justin:

And gig. We're here for you to live and a gig.

Brent:

For those of you that might not have been listening since the very beginning, it might be worth knowing right now that this will be the third occurrence, that this time, this game has been played where I drop two bullshit stories about things that have happened on my gigs and one actual thing that's happened so far. Of the six stories that have been told, two of which were real, none of the real ones have been detected so far.

George Milton:

Oh

Brent:

and Justin.

George Milton:

zero it.

Brent:

the real

George Milton:

Zero and zero. Yeah, we suck.

justin:

this game,

George Milton:

Really do

justin:

or is Brent just a really fucking good liar?

George Milton:

this. Is this segment I want to call Brent's a great actor.

justin:

Yeah,

George Milton:

is an actor.

justin:

or your filthy liar.

George Milton:

Sorry, we're stepping on you. Go. Go ahead, please. I'm excited.

Brent:

So let's call story number one, endless smoke alarm. This one actually took place over in the Houston Pete's dueling piano bar where George used to play for a number of years. In this particular case, as George would know, there is if you were standing on the stage looking out at the room towards the back right corner, there's a little back hallway that used to wrap around to this other door. Customers aren't really supposed to use it. There's a sign on there that says employees only. sometimes, especially in the, two colder weeks we get out of the year some people would go out there to smoke from time to time. And and this particular time while I was up on stage, some people had gone out there to smoke and whenever they, were smoking this place up and it didn't usually trigger the smoke alarm this time it did trigger the smoke alarm. And this would've been at about. It wasn't super early, but not super late. Let's say 1145 or thereabouts on a Saturday night. So full house, everything's rocking along and suddenly the smoke alarm starts going off like crazy. This. Has been known to happen in Houston from time to time. Like where there will just be, it might not even been them. We think that's what the cause was. But the point was that the smoke alarm was going off and they never were able to get the smoke alarm off. So pre midnight on a Saturday night, the entire busy room that I'd traveled all the way over to Houston to go play the show was for Naugh. We had to shut it down. I was back in my hotel room by 1:00 AM. Second story would be what I'd call the grandma stage dive over here in Austin. The the stage isn't very high and especially on weekends, people will get there pretty thick and one time on a busy weekend night. Grandma comes up to the stage and to give you the proper mental image. She was, I'm gonna say late sixties, early seventies, but ver like very spry like she's one of those people that for her age, you would look at and be like, she looks really good for her age. So she's up on stage and she's dancing around. Got tons of energy. She's not at all like someone that would look like she needs. Living assistance. She's spry for her age, but then she gets up to the edge of the thing and she just hollers out and you can barely hear her'cause there's loudest shit in there. But she's over on my side and she hollers out, catch me boys. And everybody thinks she's joking, but this lady just dives onto the room. And again, it's a low stage. She's not high enough for a proper stage dive. It's not packed in. None of the elements of a stage dive are actually, really lining up for. she actually goes and tries it, like she didn't leap hugely, but it was enough that when the people failed to appropriately catch her, we, before we knew it, we had a lady lying on the ground. She got herself up, she looked like she was pretty hurt or whatever and trying to play it off. But yeah old lady on the ground after a failed stage dive. And then the last thing, I'm gonna call it cake belly, which actually happened at a corporate event. A private show. It was me and Jordan Hillman were playing this one.

George Milton:

Shout out Jordan Hillman Holler.

Brent:

Jordan, and we they were celebrating I wanna say it was the 10 year anniversary of the company. Something pretty landmark like that. And it was in a conference room at this big hotel. They roll out a huge sheet cake for all the people that was there for their 10 year anniversary. And, so as to not have a fire, they only had as many can, there was candles in it, but it was only as many as they were burning. So if it was like 10 or 15 years, like you just gotta imagine 10 or 15 candles right in the middle of this pretty big cake. And they light the candles up and they bring the CEO over there to blow out the candles for the company's birthday or whatever. And he was a larger man. Who had a pretty projected belly, and he goes to bend over to, to blow out the candles and leans barely into the cake enough that the icing of the cake gets on the underside of his belly. Being that he was a larger belied man, I guess he couldn't really see where it pressed up in there, but I'm gonna assume that this guy was not very well respected

George Milton:

I know.

Brent:

I know. This guy proceeded to walk around for a solid hour after that with just a cake stain on the under side of his belly without having wiped off a bit of it. And so anyway, those are the three stories. We've got endless smoke alarm, grandma stage dive, or cake belly. And you guys need to detect the real story of the three of those.

George Milton:

And I hate this game. First of all Justin, you're on mute. You're just so sad. So sad. I.

justin:

they're all real, but there's something in them that makes the full story, like Brent's really good at this now and I know my mom would definitely try to. Age dive and she's 70,

George Milton:

Your mom would stage, dive. In fact, can we get the video of this woman? Was this

justin:

yes. I

George Milton:

Mrs. Shafer?

justin:

Yes, mom. Mom was that You don't do it again,

Brent:

Yeah, I'm not aware of any video existing from that clip, but it lives

justin:

Liz. Rent free.

George Milton:

And

Brent:

rent free in my

George Milton:

I know exactly the people who would go out in that back hallway and smoke weed where you're not supposed to, I guess you're not supposed to smoke weed anyway, technically.

justin:

It was actually Brent smoking weed out there and he was

George Milton:

He was like,

justin:

it off,

George Milton:

somebody.

justin:

somebody

Brent:

This was cigarettes. This was cigarettes in

justin:

sick of weed.

Brent:

as I said, it's not the first time I've been in Houston where the smoke alarm went off. So like highly plausible that it might, it could have just been coincidental that they were out there, but that's, that was the that was the working theory. But yeah, they never got that thing to turn off.

George Milton:

Second one is grandma stage dive also plausible. I also feel like I've been around for that exact, I feel like one of the previous stories that you did was somebody stage diving and hurting themselves, which I feel like I saw that.

Brent:

Kind of one. That one was,

justin:

did a handstand. Yeah.

Brent:

and falling over on the tables.

George Milton:

good memory guys. Good memory.

justin:

I could see this big dude leaning his belly into the cake for sure.

George Milton:

I want that one.

justin:

there's a lot of details in there like

George Milton:

I want that one to be real. Be

justin:

of details.

George Milton:

I want that one to be real because fuck CEOs, right?

justin:

Yeah. Especially hot sauce CEOs. Fuck

George Milton:

This guy doesn't sound like a hot sauce, CEO, but. I want that to be the real story. I feel like we, I feel like we're, I, we haven't landed on whether or not we're playing this game as a team or against each other. Probably against,

Brent:

No, I think we've definitely landed on everybody needs to have their individual vote. If you wanna like flip flop, who needs to go first because there's really no possible way that you can't let

justin:

I am.

Brent:

answer, influence

George Milton:

yeah.

Brent:

but try to lock in as best as

George Milton:

I.

Brent:

and and then make state your reasons for why you're choosing what you're choosing. And that way, I think it's more fun to see who can accumulate the bigger score over time.

George Milton:

Yeah.

justin:

I'm going c I'm going to CEO. I'm

George Milton:

Is it because that's the story you want? This is the story you want to be true the most.

justin:

Because, no, I think if, they all seem true. I suck at this game.

George Milton:

Yeah, we both suck at this.

justin:

detective. Don't call me Sherlock Holmes.

George Milton:

We both suck at this game. Justin,

Brent:

Or Shirley for short. Don't call me Shirley.

justin:

I don't think. I think so. Here's the, here's my thought. No, I'm not telling

George Milton:

airplane. I got you.

justin:

I'm telling you. I'll tell you my thought process after you guess George.'cause I'm competing. I'm coming. We're in the thunderdome

George Milton:

Okay. All right.

Brent:

Yeah. Fair enough. George, tell your answer and then let's hear Justin's rationale for his.

George Milton:

All right. Yeah, my answers I'll tell you my answer and my rationale. My, my answer is endless smoke alarm, just because it's such a asinine thing. It's annoying. But it's a super asinine thing that I could just see being like a real thing that happened. I could also see this being a red herring, but that's what I'm picking. I'm going with endless smoke alarm. So what was your reasoning, Justin?

justin:

My reasoning is that I feel like he said that the smoke alarm go, it's happened quite a bit where it goes off. So that's not unique and don't think deer, did you drive down to Houston? Were you going to sub in?

Brent:

the smoke alarm goes off a

justin:

Yeah,

Brent:

necessarily say that

justin:

so I figured, I don't know if.

Brent:

impossible to

justin:

Yeah, I don't think it's impossible to turn off. I think it happens a bit so they know how to turn it off and they wouldn't cancel your gig if you went all the way down to Houston to do it. The, I bet you the granny did jump or pretend to jump, but I don't think she actually fell on the floor. And I could see there's a lot of large people this country that are, shall we kindly say overly large, and so their bellies could get into the cakes.

George Milton:

I do the,

justin:

of those things, like you wanna be that good person that'd be like, oh my God, I tell you something was in your teeth. But then so many times, like you don't tell somebody, especially if you don't know them or whatever. You're not like, oh hey, look at

Brent:

Yeah.

justin:

got cake on your gut.

George Milton:

that's the story that I want cake belly to be the true story.

justin:

Yeah.

Brent:

alright nonetheless, it sounds like both of our contestants have locked

George Milton:

Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Brent:

And before we reveal the answer, I want to inform you

George Milton:

we both lost.

Brent:

for the first time today, somebody has scored

George Milton:

and I hope it was Justin. Justin. I hope it, Hey man, I hope it was you because I want cake Billy to be true.

justin:

I have a feeling it's not as exciting. I know we all want cake belly to be true, but I just know that it's probably the smoke alarm going off and can't.

Brent:

smoke

George Milton:

Yes.

Brent:

on this one that it

justin:

These stories are bullshit. Is this regulation?

Brent:

I, will say in this case these other two stories were more fabricated than the previous Like I never saw anything remotely resembling cake belly. That was just something that seemed plausible that I thought of in my head.

George Milton:

Oh

Brent:

That

George Milton:

shit.

Brent:

funny. So that was just total bullshit. None of that. I've never even seen a company roll out a cake for their anniversary in any of the parties I've done

George Milton:

Yeah. Just Justin, you idiot. You absolute idiot.

Brent:

Grandma stage dive. There's been plenty of spry grannies up on stage. I've never seen one attempt to stage dive off of there. So

George Milton:

Yes.

Brent:

in this case, the smoke alarm was the true story that, like I said, it may or may not have been a direct result of the people actually smoking. But all I know is one time went all the way down to Houston, middle of a busy Saturday night, the smoke alarm started going off and they simply could not get it to go off. So after, different people had different. Of how much they were willing to take. But, I think after about an hour, the bar finally called it and they said, Hey, everybody, we're, it's not gonna happen again tonight. Thanks for

justin:

Did they give free drinks?

Brent:

We're

justin:

Did they give a free round? That sucks.

Brent:

no, they just,

justin:

That's horse shit.

Brent:

we tried to keep the song, I think we maybe kept two songs going after the alarm, but it was not subtle. It was loud. You couldn't just play through it and ignore it. It was too much for that.

justin:

Did you play closing time,

Brent:

I don't remember what we played, to be honest with you.

justin:

George? Because our story that we wanted not to be true was that we wanted to be true was not true. I need you to go into work this week and put your belly in a cake.

George Milton:

I am sorry man, this eight pack abs, I didn't even think I could get it in a cake,

justin:

you can't put your belly in a cake, let's put your stash in a cake.

George Milton:

but my stash in a cake is more plausible. Yeah, for sure. This thing is getting outta control. Like it's hard to, I had a hot dog yesterday with mustard on it and it was just like mustard all in my stash. Just,

justin:

of its own, it's own zip code.

George Milton:

yeah.

justin:

Who

George Milton:

was a good,

justin:

a mustache ride? I do. I do.

George Milton:

heck God, I no idea. Wait, what?

justin:

This just got very awkward.

Brent:

It's a really, it's a really classy mustache that

justin:

It's

Brent:

like

justin:

just beautiful.

Brent:

off an

justin:

Yeah.

George Milton:

Yeah. I did, I've bought it. I actually fir, I bought it firsthand from an aristocrat.

justin:

Can we get you a monocle and then you could be the monopoly guy?

George Milton:

Guys can I you just

Brent:

actually.

George Milton:

the

Brent:

isn't

George Milton:

That's, yes. It's Mandela Effect. Yes. I was just, so me and Aaron went down the, we like absolutely, like lost our minds on this the other day because one of the biggest Mandela effect things is obviously like Nelson Mandela dying in jail. One of the other top ones is the monopoly guy having a monocle. That's like the, one of the most cited Mandela effect things. Can you, can I tell you what one of the other ones was? And this is actually Dr.

Brent:

I had love to stay on this topic for a second. I've got

George Milton:

Okay.

Brent:

I don't know if you

George Milton:

Okay. But here's one that I still don't know the truth. When we were looking this up, it was like, oh, one of the more popular Mandela effect things is that Sinbad was in a Genie movie

Brent:

Oh

George Milton:

Called Shazam in the nineties, and a lot of people.

Brent:

no, that was

George Milton:

A, a lot of people claim to remember this. I fully fucking remember Sinbad being.

Brent:

No Shazam starred Shaquille O'Neal. The reason people, especially in our age demographic, are gonna conflate those two was because we saw Shazam, which was a movie where Shaquille O'Neal was a a genie who dressed the same way that Sinbad dressed every day of his fucking life. So that's why we

George Milton:

There's clips out there, like I actually found clips of it. I couldn't find anything on IMDB, but like it is one of those things where like I, we started looking this out, like we started trying to figure this out like a couple of days ago and it's I still don't know what the truth is and it's like a,

Brent:

I do, because I watched that movie a

George Milton:

but I know, so I know that.

Brent:

a big Sinbad

George Milton:

I know that there was a I know that there was like a,'cause I think it was like Shazam versus Kazam, but there was I have a firm,

Brent:

Oh, no, you're right. No, I'm sorry. Yes. Kazam was the, you're right. That was the was the one. Shazam is, yeah, I

George Milton:

but so there's a modern movie called Shazam that's like the superhero, like movie. But I think that there were like, both me and Aaron were like, no. It's like there was a Sinbad Genie movie in the nineties.

Brent:

No,

George Milton:

Hey, I,

Brent:

I would've seen it

George Milton:

yeah, you're,

justin:

wasn't he?

Brent:

Because here,

George Milton:

yeah.

Brent:

people that claim that there was, ask those people and apparently you guys might be among them, cite me one scene from that movie. Tell me one thing that happened in it because like I can tell you about Kazam starring Shaquille O'Neal. I can tell you like what went down in that, because I remember the movie. But, and again, I can tell you things that happened in different Sinbad movies because growing up in my, in the kind of churchy family, he was one of the guys that was on the like approved list of oh, if he's in a movie, it's good.'cause Sinbad doesn't say swear words, and so he was very much on the list of approved actors.

justin:

One of my favorite movies he used in was Necessary Roughness. That was awesome movie.

Brent:

I

justin:

don't remember the football movie with what's her name? Was it a supermodel was in there too? It was like. This dang man, that's a good football movie. I gotta watch that again. There was a lot of good people in there. Kathy Ireland was in it as like the kicker. On. My dog wants to come in and say hi.

George Milton:

But yeah, so anyway, Mandela effect the Sinbad Genie movie there. There's like a, there's footage of him dressed as a genie. There's like photos of him as a genie. There's,

Brent:

And I'll come up with a better explanation for it. I'll give you a real world rationale. Hey though I have one though that I think. I think I discovered, I think I

George Milton:

You discovered a Mandela effect. Yeah.

Brent:

might be, one of the most prominent Mandela effects that is so universally to a wrong version of it that I think only someone in my role would be able to really have the sample base to be able to come

George Milton:

Okay.

Brent:

It occurs in the song,

George Milton:

yeah.

Brent:

I think that out of every song I've ever spent time performing in high repetition, there is one word in particular that audiences universally say the wrong way. Everybody, like you can listen and you can't hear anybody saying it the right way. And this is a consistent a hundred percent of the time thing in the

George Milton:

Yeah.

Brent:

Wait, that's,

George Milton:

Jazz.

justin:

There we go. I couldn't confirm to

Brent:

even remember the first part. Okay.

justin:

the brake car.

Brent:

are jealousy Turning Saints into the

George Milton:

Yeah,

Brent:

and then what's the next word after that?

George Milton:

I should know it because I do this song pretty frequently.

justin:

smoking on my alibi.

George Milton:

Saint to the c and.

justin:

it is just

George Milton:

No, you're skipping ahead. You're skipping ahead.

justin:

just a is calling me.

George Milton:

You skipped it.

justin:

up

George Milton:

See? Choking on sick lullabies. Is that it?

Brent:

No, but it's not that you, it's not the word that everybody else says either. To just reveal that. And I thought George might know it because of the fact that he, did, but he's been outta the game for a little

George Milton:

He's been outta the game.

Brent:

are jealousy, turning Saints into the sea. the next word is swimming. It's

justin:

swimming throughs.

Brent:

through sick lullabies, but 100% of the people repeat the word turning there. The whole everybody of every crowd, it's always jealousy. Turning saints in to the sea, turning through sick lullabies. That is a hundred percent of every crowd that you'll ever play for. And I've point and people. Even in my gig, like the do it every day I'll ask them about that. And everybody goes, no, I don't recognize that because they all say the lyrics the right way because they, learned the lyrics when they learned the song. But whenever I point it out and go, okay, listen, next time, and then I've had everybody coming back going, God, you're right. Yeah, nobody says everybody says that, that word wrong. So that's my discovered Mandela effect that I don't know that you could do without being in front of a crowd. But what impresses me about it is how consistent it is.

justin:

You want to hear one?

Brent:

word and it's every time

justin:

I just found a really crazy one that blew my mind and it's gonna blow your mind.

George Milton:

Okay.

justin:

Are you ready?

George Milton:

Oh, whoa. Don't get so close to that thing.

justin:

are you swimming through your lullabies?

George Milton:

I'm turning.

Brent:

swimming.

justin:

so everyone thinks it's Luke. I am your father, but he does not say.

Brent:

a big Star Wars nerd, so of course I know the

justin:

Yes it's not Luke, I am your father. It's no, I am your father. Which everyone thinks it's Luke. I am your father, but it is not.

Brent:

probably the most misquoted movie line of all time, if I was guessing. I doubt there's

justin:

That's insane. I've never heard that before. That's nuts.

George Milton:

What did you think it was, I feel like I've read, I feel like I've heard that before as like this is a Mandela effect thing. But before,

justin:

went down a Mandela effect rabbit hole before. So this is new and exciting.

Brent:

you guys know about the Fruit of the Loom

justin:

Yeah. It was never cornucopia.

Brent:

Yeah. Yeah.

justin:

It totally was a cornucopia.

Brent:

I found to be that one I

George Milton:

wait, what is the what,

Brent:

no

George Milton:

sorry? What is the fruit of the loom one?

Brent:

The fruit pictured in the logo of Fruit

George Milton:

Yeah

Brent:

Some grapes and a apple and what whatnot. Do you envision all these things as being contained within a cornucopia?

George Milton:

I don't,

Brent:

Because there's not it's just fruit, but a lot of people swear that it used to have a cornucopia that they were all falling out

George Milton:

huh? Interesting.

justin:

they aligned to us. Or do you think this is just in a different timeline, in a different earth?

George Milton:

It is pretty funny. That stuff is funny. Do you think that grapes and bananas for your dicken balls.

justin:

Caulking balls. I like our good caulking balls, but maybe there is shifts in the matrix and that's why we all remember it.

George Milton:

I think we're just stupid. I think in general, we're just dumb.

Brent:

Yeah. Yeah, I think memories are a fickle thing. Can't

justin:

That's

George Milton:

I.

justin:

say you can't even trust people that are like eye witness a crime because you can't, they can't even trust

Brent:

Yeah. Have you ever seen those specials where they'll do set up like a fake crime and then go back and interview people and point out like the inconsistencies and like how bad it is? It actually, especially if other people hear someone else giving their account of it and how much it influences, everybody else after the says it's there. It was a big segment on there was a special called Brain Games where they did a whole thing on that. It was. It was a pretty fun watch.

George Milton:

That's crazy. The human mind, right?

justin:

So complex.

George Milton:

That's

justin:

even heard like a podcast one time, it was like a true crime thing. And like this lady, she was assaulted on a beach, attacked by some guy, and she even identified him wrong like years later they found out that it was, she, it was the wrong person. And you're like, that's crazy that your mind will skip that and not remember those details. What can we believe?

George Milton:

It is wild. You can believe that I have, I picked one more advice piece if you guys wanna do that or. We could do another two. Two lies in a gig, two gigs in a li Can we just call your segment the Mandela Effect?

Brent:

I'm not prepared

George Milton:

Okay.

Brent:

for me to tell a good bullshit story, I have to have walked through

George Milton:

Okay, fair enough.

Brent:

Yeah.

George Milton:

this, to this, right now, we would get something that was like, I saw a guy and the guy was like,

Brent:

Yeah.

George Milton:

was, he was wearing like a crazy. All right. It

Brent:

I, think the real reason

George Milton:

actually

Brent:

I'm actually good at bullshitting a story like that and making it so believable is because once I've conceptualized it in my head, I think I'm a very like, visual person. So like I feel like by the time I'm actually telling you guys it, it's almost

George Milton:

you.

Brent:

reliving it'cause I'm remembering. So it's like

George Milton:

You believe it.

Brent:

Really telling a story, but I know that it's bullshit, that makes sense.

George Milton:

How do I tell my dying mother? I've canceled my wedding. My fiance, 36 m and i 35 f have been dating for five years. He proposed a few months ago, and literally within the same week, my mom was diagnosed with end stage emphysema and congestive heart failure. She's been in, in and out of hospitals nonstop since. At first she was given six months, but she's been responding. To treatments. We're still not sure what her timeline is, but we're expecting it could be any day or at least within the upcoming year. Here's where my dilemma is. My mom really wanted us to fast track a wedding so she could see us get married before she goes. We scheduled something small and intimate in October. I bought a dress and everything, but after thinking about it, I just realized that. Don't want to get married. My fiance has been dealing with some addiction issues that he's working on, getting on, getting help for, but I'm still trying to decide if I even want to stay together. That's my own battle and I'm working on that. My, my question though is how do I break the news to my dying mother that we've decided to cancel the wedding?

Brent:

Oh, I'm glad I have that second veto

justin:

Yeah. No, I think, honestly,

George Milton:

You can. Do you want to?

justin:

can.

Brent:

I will veto my, oh God. Oh. It's just too, it's a lot.

George Milton:

It's pretty heavy. It is pretty heavy.

justin:

So as the only one that is a parent here, I would say that as a parent, you just want your kids to be happy. And at the end of the day, mom would just want you to be happy and with your choices then what's going on. So if you have to. Make this hard choice and break off your wedding'cause you're not happy and like it isn't what you need it to be. I think your mom would be happier about that than going through with it and knowing that you wouldn't be happy in the end. That's my 2 cents as a hashtag dad.

Brent:

reasonable take

George Milton:

Okay, but here's another take.

justin:

Become a throttle in Ireland.

George Milton:

Fake. Fake the wedding.

Brent:

Steve. I thought about that too, but I think you really like because what do you, what exactly do you tell the person that you're fake marrying? Because like from the context here, it seems as though she's realized she doesn't wanna get married. But I don't even get the impression. She's told him yet, so like you,

George Milton:

Yeah,

Brent:

I don't know. That's what makes it complicated to

George Milton:

well.

Brent:

it seems like she's just realizing all this and she doesn't know how to tell her mom, but hasn't necessarily acted. I don't know. That's kind what

George Milton:

Here's some questions that I've got a lot of questions and one of my questions, she's already bought the dress, right? So dress is purchased. She says they've already scheduled, they scheduled an intimate event. So we already know that if you're faking it, you only have to convince a small number of people. And my question is how visually memorable is her fiance? Because does that

justin:

hire an actor.

George Milton:

Yeah. I'm saying that

justin:

george is available and he's theater trained.

George Milton:

could, we could yeah. That or so my dad got remarried during COVID and they had. They had a video ceremony, like they had a guy come to the house and they did a video kind of ceremony. And I think that you could probably deep fake that with ai. You could probably, do you know what I mean?

Brent:

Don, don't you get the impression from that though, that the mother wants to be present at the wedding? I don't think she's like bedridden.

justin:

Don't know at this point. You could go either way, right?

George Milton:

yeah. And I,

Brent:

it could, but I think that the mom probably wants to intend to be there as much as possible.

George Milton:

Yeah all right. Can,

Brent:

to deep fake live.

George Milton:

I was gonna ask, can they deep, fake live? Do you guys ever, do you guys ever get served? Do you guys ever get served those Instagram videos where they've got the suit, the hyperrealistic, like face masks, like from like the mission.

Brent:

Oh sure.

George Milton:

like mission impossible. Yeah. The like mission impossible style where you're like that, from like a hundred yards. Yeah. Pretty convincing.

Brent:

yeah. it's And maybe if they do it in the middle of the day, then they'll have to squint. It'll look real. If you're squinting'em no sunglasses allowed. It's for the photos.

George Milton:

I think you could also, I think you could also just orchestrate it so that the lights are facing, get one light, have some lights up there and have one that is just catty wampus faced

Brent:

yeah,

George Milton:

audience.

Brent:

video.

justin:

Just have'em back lit and then you won't be able to tell at all. Just a nice little glow and be like, Hey, we wanted to at sunset and want that magic hour, but I can't really see you. It's okay. It's gonna be beautiful for the pictures.

George Milton:

Yeah. This is a hard one. Obviously the right advice is to just be honest with everybody and be honest with yourself.

Brent:

Yes.

George Milton:

The reason I picked this question is'cause I wanted them to fake the wedding. Just fake a wedding.

justin:

Just fake it till you make it. Hey, listen, as an official reverend bestowed on me by the internet, I can come. Facilitate this request.

Brent:

Hey man, I am also a reverend. Thank you very much. But you should know that I did it for actual righteous reasons, probably unlike you. My reasons was so that I could get a 50% discount on very expensive red giant software.

George Milton:

Wow.

justin:

We get discounts for being a,

Brent:

exemption.

justin:

we get discounts for being a reverend. Let's go.

Brent:

Yeah.

George Milton:

I tell you guys something that.

Brent:

specifically Red Giant, if it since you you use video plugins, so you They do. Yeah. They do 50% off for religious organizations. So if you're a reverend, you're legally allowed to start an organization which I think I just titled mind, the Austin Free Thinkers chapter. And

George Milton:

can I join? Can I sign up for that?

justin:

that's.

Brent:

You're already, everybody's

George Milton:

Yes,

Brent:

don't consent to membership. We just You

George Milton:

I consent. Here's a question that I had. Here's a question that I had, and it's along the lines of like weird gig stories, but I did, when I lived in Orlando, I did a dinner theater thing called Tony and Tina's Wedding. Have you guys ever heard of this?

justin:

that's a famous one.

George Milton:

Yeah. Yeah.

Brent:

Don't

George Milton:

but it's like interactive dinner theater, right? So like the concept is you go, you like buy a ticket and it's like you're attending like an Italian wedding. And you are part of the wedding when you buy a ticket and then everybody, like in the wedding band and everybody in the wedding party is an actor. And so you basically put on a wedding, six nights a week. It was a lot of fun to do and from what I heard, it was a lot of fun to attend, but it's all like improv.

Brent:

Is this like predominantly an elderly audience?

George Milton:

it was a touristy audience for sure. I would say that the.

justin:

pretty big on like off Broadway when it

George Milton:

Yeah. Yeah. It's came out off Broadway. It was like, I would say that our average audience age was probably like 38 or something. But it was a real riot. But the guy, so like the guy who played the preacher, like the pastor who marries Tony and Tina was an actual he was an actor, but he also was like a licensed, registered, priest'cause he had married a few of his friends. He had, he did it for, the reason a lot of people do it is so he could marry some of his friends. And so an ordained minister was pronouncing these actors, husband and wife, every, six nights a week. So what is that?

Brent:

So

George Milton:

Is that any is that anything that's, that was always my question is is this anything?

justin:

Yes.

George Milton:

wasn't,

Brent:

yeah,

George Milton:

didn't play Tony, but

Brent:

to

George Milton:

yeah.

Brent:

I came to realize that, that nine times outta for most purposes, none of it's really anything because until you go and actually like file paperwork with the state, you're really not. Because you always have like common law laws and things like that, that if you've, like you and Aaron, the state for many legal purposes would assume you two to be married regardless of the, if the fact that you haven't done any, ceremony to serve as such. But like in our case, we got married in another country and we did like a whole ceremony and that person was like a legal rev. And like we. Made mention of that when we filed the paperwork back here, but I realized that as we're like filing that with the state, I'm this is the real marriage. Like anything else. And like I, my sister and her husband got married here, then their friend married them, but the same thing. Like they signed on those like certificate, but you don't like need their signature. You can just write down that it was a, someone that was an officiant or whatever. So you can it's all bullshit. It's all bullshit.

justin:

It's all legal. But that's why the argument about we're not gonna go down, we're not gonna go down deeper rabbit holes right now'cause we're gonna, we're about to go, you're about to unleash the beast.

Brent:

So my point though is that you're a guy. He might've been an ordained minister, but these people that are on stage doing this, if they didn't follow it up with any legal paperwork to indicate as such, then there would be no more subject to those laws than someone that would be common law types. And if they're not living together and aren't in a relationship, then that'd be zero. So

George Milton:

But what about, I guess what I was asking is like, what does God think of all this?

justin:

For the show. I think he's okay with the show. Yeah, I think it's okay with the show in context of the show. I think it's okay. Entertainment.

Brent:

knows.

justin:

Yeah.

Brent:

yeah.

justin:

maybe if it was Tony does Tina at this wedding and it was like the adult version of it then there would be a problem. But not for the dinner theater crowd.

George Milton:

Yeah.

Brent:

I think he'll let, he'll give this one a

George Milton:

Okay. I'm gonna use my last veto card to veto that marriage just in case.

Brent:

Just in

justin:

Real question though. Who did you play in the wedding party?

George Milton:

I played Barry, who was the best man? Who was like the stoner best man? Barry was,

justin:

speech every night?

George Milton:

Yeah, I had to give a good, I had to give a speech, but the joke was that Barry's speech is that he over, he overly like very dramatically and seriously gets out his guitar and plays Stairway to Heaven and they have to stop him. That was like the bit, this was a lot. This was like a long time ago.

justin:

I feel like you should recreate that for us.

George Milton:

Yeah, maybe it was fun. It was a fun thing to do. But guys, we're outta time. Thanks for doing this with, thanks for doing this with me today. You guys ended the session with wait, Brent vetoed something Justin, you didn't use.

Brent:

No, I almost vetoed.

George Milton:

I,

Brent:

yeah, so I'm burning one card

justin:

I am vetoing you not playing Stairway for heaven for us.

George Milton:

I'll do it. I, it's, we're here at the end. We're here at the end. But wait.

Brent:

You better just mouth it because we all know that Led Zeppelin does not like

justin:

Oh, he's got ranger panties on. Let's go

Brent:

He pulled out the tailor. Now I think this is legally safe. It's a,

George Milton:

Let me let me take us home, guys. Hold on.

Brent:

That's how every acoustic song starts. Man. That voice focused noise cancellation is really

George Milton:

Oh, can you not hear it at all?

justin:

The Glit

Brent:

can hear it.

justin:

Is gold

Brent:

like, oh

justin:

She.

Brent:

it sounds strange.

George Milton:

Do you guys wanna plug anything before we before we call it a day? I'm gonna plug I'm gonna plug my substack, follow me on Substack, George Milton on Substack. It's awesome.

justin:

What are you writing about, George?

George Milton:

I write about really like serious, like CPG industry stuff. So really thought provoking stuff.

justin:

I'm gonna read that on the couch while my wife is watching tv.

George Milton:

Good, good callback.

Brent:

And if you wanna follow me, I

justin:

I.

Brent:

Headed home from work at around 2:00 AM down third street, so that's probably the best place to keep an

George Milton:

Oh, third Street. You don't take fifth Street.

Brent:

No third Street has a really nice bike lane, so I don't have to worry about any traffic impeding

George Milton:

can we find you, Justin?

justin:

I'm gonna shout. I'm gonna do a different shout out. I'm gonna shout out the homie Bounce to the house for all your inflatable fun, slip and slides. Bounce house. Mark Rojas. He's the man. He creates the magic. For your next party, give more bounce to the house. All your money.

Brent:

are adults on drugs allowed to bounce houses?

justin:

Especially the Minecraft one.

Brent:

Could they set up such a thing on the roof of

George Milton:

Sorry, man. This isn't a downtown life thing. This is not a downtown life.

justin:

in the suburbs with a,

Brent:

can, I think I can make this work

George Milton:

hey, will you invite me and Justin without further ado, Until.

Brent:

you have to take

George Milton:

Until next week don't forget to follow us and subscribe and remember always to veto of this podcast. Goodbye.