Veto The Podcast
A podcast where 3 friends in Austin surprise each other and the audience with stupid segments and answer important questions about the universe. Also, everyone gets 2 veto cards.
Veto The Podcast
Veto The Podcast Episode 19 - What's The Deal With Easter?
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The fellas wake up early to open their Easter baskets and lie about going to Burger King. George becomes belligerent when his text message machine breaks and they all settle down with some tea.
Oh they also teach driving school.
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SPEAKER_02You've got a friend in me. If I'm the kind of friend you need to I hope I have a friend in you. Should be a friend in you shoe up. I'm feeling okay. I'm pretty good. Alright. When your face is clearly in my side. And I hope I have a friend in you. Should be a friend in you. Shoe up.
SPEAKER_05Welcome everybody to Vito the Podcast, the podcast where everything's fine, except we're all broadcasting from Johnny King's Underground Bunker. I'm your host and America's favorite uncle, George Milton, and I'm happy to be with you here today. As always, I have my co-host, uh my good friend, and my buddy who's been stockpiling MREs for months now, Mr. Brent Bobbitt. What's up, Brent?
SPEAKER_06That's right. Uh, every MRE comes with these little miniature Tabasco bottles that are as adorable as anything I've ever seen. But welcome. I'm glad everybody's here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Hey, fuck Tabasco.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Tabasco, you son of a bitch.
SPEAKER_05I'm also joined. I'm also joined by a man who is our good friend, our special, extra special guest today. Ooh, those are good carbonated beverage. Uh, the guy who's been stockpiling carbonated uh beverages in his bunker for literally hours, Mr. Johnny King. What's up, Johnny?
SPEAKER_01Hey, what's up, y'all? I've got my my emergency bunker, but I do have a lifetime supply of yellow bird.
SPEAKER_05What's your favorite? If you're gonna stockpile a carbonated beverage in a bunker, what would be it? What would be the carbonated beverage of choice? It's gotta be a apple cider.
SPEAKER_01Like ample culture or something like that. I love shit.
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SPEAKER_06That's the stupidest answer I've ever. I vetoed it. Wait, I don't even have my card yet. Nope. We didn't get a review. We haven't officially started. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Sorry, Brent.
SPEAKER_06Yep. Well, but but to answer this question, in is this like in a vacuum where all I have is to add it. I have other ingredients. I mean, but can I add ingredients to said thing? It's like a ready-to-drink. It's like a drink that's ready to go.
SPEAKER_01Like you need to put like a fresh lime in your corona or something.
SPEAKER_06No, because I'm just saying, if I can add things, then I'm just going straight carbonated water because then I can change it up and have a variety.
SPEAKER_05I like carbonated water because it's water and also because it's carbonated. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's uh like for my third wish, I want three more wishes.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well, you might as well try. All right. Coke zero then. Coke zero. Locked up. Okay. Uh veto the podcast. It's veto the podcast because we can veto anything except for when you don't have your veto cards yet. So I'm going to hand these veto cards. I sealed them in little vacuum-sealed bags so that they'd be okay down here in the bunker.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Do they corrode easily?
SPEAKER_05They do. They corrode super easily. They're made.
SPEAKER_01You told me they were real gold. This is bullshit. Did they detect radiation?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they corro they corrode when they detect radiation. Like you know that there's radiation because of how corroded they are, and unfortunately, these are falling apart, guys. I think I think this bunker might be compromised already.
SPEAKER_01Hey. Sorry, y'all. My contractor.
SPEAKER_05Happy Easter, guys. We're recording this on Easter afternoon. So Zombie Jesus Day.
SPEAKER_01Zombie Jesus. It's one of my favorites.
SPEAKER_05Can I do a Seinfeld and say what's the deal with Easter? What it we're celebrating.
SPEAKER_06But you have to sort of give us your Seinfeld impression while you do it too. I want to hear the high-pitchedness and the What's hold on. What's the deal with Easter? That's great, right?
SPEAKER_05Me and my brother have an ongoing joke that like if we ever are quoting lines from Seinfeld, it's always in that voice no matter who on the show said it. So I don't that's not funny. It's not really that funny, me just telling you that, but like my brother always makes fun of it.
SPEAKER_06Maybe if you gave an example, it would be like you got an an Elaine line with the Jerry voice.
SPEAKER_05No, I'm sorry. I'm gonna cut this part out of the podcast, guys. Okay. Uh do you guys do anything for Easter? Do y'all celebrate? Uh do you celebrate in some kind of a way? Did y'all have lunch with your family or something?
SPEAKER_06I do. I uh try to observe it by I allow myself the chance to sleep in past church. I I don't really, you know, I make that's like the one day of the year uh that I will sleep all the way through church, in addition to all of the other days that I also sleep through church.
SPEAKER_05But that's the only day of the year you sleep through church on Easter.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's that's a good yeah, that's the right way to see it. You can't sleep through an Easter service. So I observe I observe in in that kind of a way myself. Okay. I um uh Sunday's meant to be a day of rest, uh so I assume that Easter is even more so uh a day of rest.
SPEAKER_05And Easter's like always a Sunday. Yeah, that's that's what it's what it does. It's in the name. It's right in the name. Easter means Sunday, I think. So Easter Sunday.
SPEAKER_06Friday wasn't really as like a good Friday. It was a just it was an okay Friday for me at best. Thursday was pretty good. Very average was pretty good, though.
SPEAKER_01Thursday was awesome this week. Yeah, Thursday was awesome. Well, for your Thursday, it was Friday somewhere else in the world, so true, true.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it couldn't have been as good as Brent's Thursday, though. Because he was like texting me about how good his Thursday was, and I didn't get, of course, any of his text.
SPEAKER_01You didn't get the text until today.
SPEAKER_05There's something wrong with my text messages on my phone, so I'm I'm gonna post What's the deal with these text messages on my phone? I'm gonna go ultimately apologize to you guys because I was like texting both of you guys, hey, y'all want to do a podcast today? And then you both in reality replied, like, yeah, sure, man, but I didn't get anything. Like immediately. Yeah. Allegedly. I didn't get anything because my phone's not working right, and so then I followed up with some passive aggressive shit, like, I'll take that as a maybe.
SPEAKER_01Oh, thanks for giving us the actual tone.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that's the that was the actual tone with which I wrote it. And then it wasn't until I reset my phone much later this afternoon after calling Brent and being like, Hey Brent, you're not gonna reply to my text message. And he was like, Yeah, I replied immediately. And I restarted my phone, and then there were like 60 text messages, and guys, it was mostly from people that I had been bugging to reply to me about to reply to me in a text message, and they're like, I fucking did it already, man.
SPEAKER_06George's just been having like a bad morning, like making his coffee. Like, what's the deal? Nobody nobody wants to message me back anymore.
SPEAKER_01I'm not so for everyone at home, we we need to test George's phone. So if you could send a text to send a text 512 555.
SPEAKER_06That is a really convenient number you got. Yeah, good job.
SPEAKER_05It's inconvenient because people don't take it seriously. People don't think it's a real number. So uh guys, let's start the show. We have the dice of destiny here. I'm gonna blow on it for luck. Johnny, what do you want? Because you're our special guest today, our super special guest. Uh what do you what two numbers do you want today? I want three and four. Three and four. All right. I'll take five and six. Brent, you'll be one and two. Here we go. Uh, that's a two.
SPEAKER_06That's Brent. That's me? Yeah. Okay. Um, so what I was gonna bring to the table today was uh introducing a new little segment of uh that I'd like to title You're doing it wrong. I think that we've all got a couple little things in life that you know you just feel like you see a good portion of the population doing a certain way, and you know in your heart that you have it the right way. Uh and so uh I think that you know everybody should get a chance to explain what everyone's doing wrong in your view, and then uh we we should try to align on on the right way of doing a particular thing. Um like it could be something simple, like maybe this isn't my exact uh case, but for for example, like like let's say with like washing jeans, like I might propose that most people fuck up by just throwing their jeans in the wash, but like you're really limiting the exposure of the scrubbing power you're getting from adjacent clothing by not inverting them before you put the jeans in the wash. You know, that could be one example.
SPEAKER_05Wait, hold on. Um before we continue, what the fuck are you talking about now?
SPEAKER_07See, okay, so maybe we maybe we're on to something.
SPEAKER_05Johnny, do you know what he's talking about when he's talking about inverting turning?
SPEAKER_06Why would you say inverting it? By turning them inside out, the because any like, you know, the the majority of what you really want to have clean on your genes, like unless you're just a dirty fuck that's sitting on the ground all day, you shouldn't really be getting that much on the exterior of your jeans unless you're, I don't like, wiping food on it or something, then maybe disregard this advice. But generally, we're gonna want to protect against the natural shedding of skin cells and sweat and things like that that are contacting the inside of your genes. So, in order for those to be able to like move around in that soapy water and really get the maximum amount of cleanliness, you should turn the pants inside out.
SPEAKER_05It sounds like you're writing a 2002 article for men's health or something, like at the back when they were like, we ran out of stuff. Guys invert your games.
SPEAKER_06It's the game, baby.
SPEAKER_05Invert Guys, invert your genes. You're you're leaving you're leaving money on the table. Yeah. Yeah, you know. By not inverting your genes. Are you submitting that this is is this your submission, Brent? Was that your way of the thing?
SPEAKER_06This would be something that I think that that at mo yeah, this was meant to be more of a soft. Like, I thought that at most this would be something that some people would be like, huh. I never really gave it much thought because if we're being honest, it probably doesn't make that much difference. It's not like you're walking around con contracting germs as a result of it. You know, it's just one of those things that doesn't, you know, and I would say likewise, socks might fall into that category. You know, good idea to maybe turn the socks inside out. So also whenever you bundle them back together, they you know, the right.
SPEAKER_01I would like to confess I have a shameful thought.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_01I have also thought about that and I've done it before. Inverted your jeans? I've I would never invert my jeans. I turn them inside out.
SPEAKER_05Thank God.
SPEAKER_01Jeans are not to be inverted.
SPEAKER_05Not to be inverted. I think it says that on the tags. Do not invert, right?
SPEAKER_01But do we wash clothes so that they feel or they are clean in our minds, or do we wash them because we don't want other people to see that we're wearing dirty clothes? In that case, I want the outside of my jeans to be cleaner.
SPEAKER_06Fair. Fair point. I can uh get behind. Although this isn't something that I have like a super strong opinion about. So, like, while if I did, this might be something that I might veto the shit out of. I just don't care as much. You don't care. I was only using it as an example of something somebody might say. I didn't really want to like make my hill. No, not at all. I was just saying an example.
SPEAKER_05But while we're here, do you invert your genes?
SPEAKER_06Is this a made-up one, or do you or do you I I that's probably also not words that I've ever used before. It just sort of uh arbitrarily flew out of my mouth. I would say that I turned them inside out would be the way that I'm gonna actually word that. We will never let you forget I don't I don't again, I don't think that's fine. But but I usually uh yeah, you know, would would put them inside out because that's I feel like I mean I I also think that because you want that the the other argument would be because again, you're gonna have more friction from the outside of it, and if you want to keep your jeans in better shape for longer, then you're sort of kind of protecting that exterior of the jeans by having it tucked away from all the other clothes rubbing on it while it's in there, so you might protect your your texture a little bit better on the outside and keep it from getting that fuzzy appearance that is you know an indicator of old clothes.
SPEAKER_07Huh.
SPEAKER_01Alright. I think I take off my jeans, invert it often.
SPEAKER_05So they're already going into the washer. That's where they're going in.
SPEAKER_01And then I justify my laziness by saying, Well, I want the inside of my jeans to be cleaner.
SPEAKER_05Now you can tell and now you can tell your wife that you heard it on a podcast. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Which is yeah, which is what everybody While we're on that topic, um, do you guys, whenever you're taking off your undies, do you ever actually bend over? Do you just flip them up your toe and catch them in the air?
SPEAKER_05Uh I'm about 50-50.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I've done it. I've I've Yeah. I I think I'm a toe flicker. I mean, not every time. But it's fine.
SPEAKER_06All right. That was all. Just curious. Zipper merging is mine. George said that he had something that he knew what was. I'm zipper merging. Okay, fair. What is your opinion on the right way to do it? Are you a we should utilize the available space guy, or the sooner you do it, the smoother things will go? Which one's your side of that?
SPEAKER_05The zip the zipper merging, the definition of zipper merging is that it happens right at the at right at the point where that other lane ends. Is that you is the right way to do it is that if you're in the lane that's ending, you go all the way to the end of the lane, and then somebody makes space for one car and one car only. Right? If you're in the if you're in the uh if you're in the lane that's ending and you expect somebody to make space for two cars, you're doing it wrong. And also, I think that people that the thing that happens most often is the people in the lane, people get really smug about the fact that they are in the lane that didn't end, even though we none of us had any control over it, and it might have not even been marked that well in most cases. You come up to it, you come up to it, and it's like time, it's like, oh, the lane is ending. I'm gonna zipper merge. You put on your blinker and you look over at that fucking person in the lane that's not ending, and they just look at you like, I guess you should have been in the lane that doesn't that's not ending, and you're like, Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I am familiar with this look. You've probably given somebody that look. I know I have. I've given somebody that look I probably have too, but see, like a lot of the time I'll say that like I and let me play devil's advocate here for a minute, because while that I can't completely disagree with your perspective on, I think there's also it's it's it's almost a case-by-case basis thing for me in the sense that if traffic is not as heavy and everyone could see well on that there was a lane ending, then it's like but whenever you've if if you do it before everything gets so compressed, it's a lot easier to kind of let those spaces fit in so people don't need to reduce their speed as much in order to let that exact one-to-one ratio be checked out on. In heavy traffic, I can completely agree with you, but like in times where, say, you're maybe driving from Austin to Dallas and you hit, I don't know, fucking Waco. And by the time that you get to Waco, you know, there's just enough traffic that it's like, you know, that somebody, it's like, hey guy, why don't you get in front of me now because we can see that the lane's going on, but then they wait until that last second, and then and then now cars are starting to slow down a little bit anyway, and now you want me to completely change what I'm doing because you couldn't be bothered to go ahead and get out. And so, like, I think it's a case-by-case basis, and assholes that do that, I'm gonna look at smugly most of the time. I still let people in because, like, I don't know, I just I can't shake that goddamn courteousness off of me.
SPEAKER_05Hey, because you want to go to heaven. That's that's like when when you when you do something like that, you get some go-to-heaven points. It's like when you return the shopping cart to the cart corral at the grocery store. You got some go to heaven points, so you can like do I don't know, you can be rude uh and not go straight to hell if you say go to heaven points.
SPEAKER_01I think the problem with the assumptions on traffic is that there's not enough people in this world that are gonna go to heaven, so it's just a bunch of assholes out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so to counter your point, Brent, I would say that a lane is a lane until it's not a lane and it's to be used to the very end, no matter what. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_06But if you if you get to the very end and you have left yourself with few options, then your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part.
SPEAKER_05Uh, you know, like I would say that my my put my POV on zipper merging is that it is in a congested like where you can't, where you do have enough, like you're slow enough that you can do the one and one and one kind of thing and make it look like a little zipper. It's so it's so like it just it just feels it feels completionist when you have an actual little zipper, you've got one car coming from the other lane. It just it's one of those things the same way that like I could watch an aerial view of like zipper merging as a way to like calm myself, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, like I could the same way that I could until you see that asshole that won't follow the rules, or even worse, and and you know what I can I kind of want to I'll align with yours and say that I'm oh I'm willing to accept that as that what you're presenting is like that's that's gonna be the ultimate truth on your point. Uh I've an adjacent one that would actually be my you're doing it wrong, that I would want to like die. Okay, but it involves traffic as well. And it kind of falls into the same category because it can happen in zipper merging, but it's not isolated to that incident. Being overly courteous causes way more fucking problems than it's actually worth. Don't be overly courteous, just be predictable and follow the fucking rules. Like that can happen with zipper merging, you know, whenever someone in that lane goes, Oh, I'm gonna let like four people in because I'm the I'm nicer than all these people. And it's like you're screwing the whole system up, you know. You did it. You're doing it wrong. It's that's my thing. Uh, but that as a guy that, you know, uh, you know, is taking the bike lane frequently, I use an electric unicycle to get around downtown. Very convenient way of getting around. But like for some reason, it's very frequent that like at a four-way stop that cars just want to, and not everybody, and that's the problem that like so many people though will just like refuse to do anything until I've cleared the intersection on the surface. That seems very courteous. But in reality and in practice, they could have been gone because it was their turn and it wouldn't even have been in the equation. But instead, we've now got like five people waiting around to see who's gonna finally, okay. I guess we'll go. Because like to me, it seems a little discourteous to like, even though someone stopped for me, they did. I don't know what everybody else did, and it's clearly not my turn, so I don't want to just go, you know. So, like, don't be you if you're trying to be courteous in traffic, you're doing it wrong. Just follow the fucking rules. That's my you're doing it wrong.
SPEAKER_05Here's here's I'm gonna back up and say, like, Brent, we love you, man. This is a safe space. How do you but Brent, how does that make you feel? How does it make you feel?
SPEAKER_06It makes me feel angry.
SPEAKER_05It makes me angry. I can't believe we've made it, what is this, 19 episodes in before uh revealing that you use an electric uh unicycle? What is it?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I guess that hasn't has that not come up?
SPEAKER_05Maybe that's come up. But the other thing that the other thing that I'll say is that you've you've you've changed my mind. I think that my submission is going from zipper merging to just driving. Because that's what it's that's what I think people are doing wrong all the time. And I get that's what I yell at my caller in my car, you're doing it wrong. Is is mostly mostly driving.
SPEAKER_01Agreed. What about you, Johnny?
SPEAKER_06You got anything?
SPEAKER_01I do it's funny because the first thing that popped in my head is also around driving. Yeah. And my thing is I think that too many people are stopping at red lights. Hold on.
SPEAKER_04Was that the is that the end of that sentence?
SPEAKER_01So are you supposed to do that? So it's a very specific situation that I'm talking about. Okay. So we've all worked late night, and sometimes that involves driving in the middle of nowhere, and it's three o'clock in the morning, you're halfway between Lubbock and Amarillo, and there's a red light. Are you gonna stay at that red light until it's Switches.
SPEAKER_05I will. I'm gonna do it because I've got too many, I've had too many tickets for doing the other thing where you're like, I'm literally I feel like this is like out of a movie or something where you're like at that red light in the middle of the night and you're just like looking right, looking left, just tumbleweeds, the light just keeps going, and then I'll just kind of inch forward, and then there's like three cop cars all of a sudden, and I'm getting a ticket for running a red light. So I'm like a I'm like I'm like such a rule follower because I and I have like Aaron can can testify to this. I will be like, I will do like the slightest thing wrong, and there would just be a cop car out of nowhere. Like I remember I remember being at some stop sign in Houston, and I was like, and I was like, stop, I was like going to stop, and we were talking about stop signs, and Aaron was like, nobody ever stops all the way. I'm like, I I swear to god, I have to stop for the four seconds at a stop sign. She's like, I don't think you have to. And I didn't really live. And I and I rolled through the stop sign, and guess what? Fucking ticket. I got a ticket. There was a cop that there was a cop that none of us see it saw, and I was like, see, I told you. Freaking told you. So I stopped on it. But I it is inconvenient.
SPEAKER_06But now you know that in some cases there is another Johnny King somewhere in the world that is behind you just screaming at the top of his leg. Fucking go. Just go.
SPEAKER_05But I think in the scenario, Johnny's talking about the scenario Johnny's talking about, like, there's literally nobody around. It's just you. And when it's just me, like, I'm like, oh, I wish I was somebody else right now, so I can become this.
SPEAKER_01So I'll tell you, like, fifth probably 15 years ago when I quit getting wasted every night at work. I'm like, you know what? I'm I'm like, uh, what's the worst I can get is a ticket. I'm not getting a you know, I'm not gonna get pulled over for a DWI or something like that. Man, and there's on the way home in Austin, there's three lights where every I would just sit there, and it would, it was very long lights, and I would just sit there and sit. And one day I was like, I'm just gonna go through it. I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna trip pretend like this is a highway, there's no cars coming. I I feel like I can proceed safely. And I ran through it and it felt so wrong. Like I was I was like with you, I was like, I don't know why I could speed, I could drive 20 miles. Could you sleep that night? Yeah, I could I could drive 20 miles over the speed limit and not think about it. But something about running a red light was I is so ingrained in me. Yeah, it felt so wrong, but then I kind of got used to it. And then and I've been short.
SPEAKER_05Then I kind of realized I like killing, and I never like and I never I never got a ticket.
SPEAKER_01And I I even there's probably been a time where I did it and I look up and I was like, oh shit, there's a cop and didn't pull me over. And I thought if he was paying attention a a little bit, he would he would think, Man, that guy just drove through that red light like it was nothing. And so I think he would doubt himself because I do it with such confidence.
SPEAKER_05You just wave at him as you go by. It's just kind of nodding.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, if I get pulled over, I'll just say, Oh, I didn't see that.
SPEAKER_05We were I'm gonna I'm gonna out somebody right now, but like we were in uh in Umble visiting Aaron's family a couple of weeks ago, and her sister was there with her her sister's three kids were there, and they're about uh they're all about driving age. The oldest, uh the old ones, oldest 18 or 19, but they're all about driving age. And like I was driving, I was driving everybody somewhere, and we go to like turn left or something at a at a light, and I'm sitting there waiting for the light to turn green, and it's like a turn, it's like a left turn signal, and there are cars coming the other way, right? So like I and and then one of the one of the kids says, Grandpa says you only have to pause at red lights. Oh and I was like, what? They were like, yeah, grandpa, they were like, We were we were riding with grandpa yesterday, and he just paused at this red light and went on, and we asked him, and he said, he said, Oh, in Umble you only have to pause at red lights. Red means pause. Red means pause.
SPEAKER_04And I was like, no, that's yellow.
SPEAKER_05Well, yellow doesn't mean pause. That's another one. People are just doing driving wrong. That's that's what we've concluded. You're doing it wrong, semicolon, driving.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean, it's also it's it's sort of a staple of almost every big city, and probably the world, that all of the residents of that city believe that city to have the worst drivers.
SPEAKER_05I've I've lived a number of places, and I think my favorite place to drive, the traffic, there was always traffic, but like my favorite place to drive was LA because everybody makes all the same shitty kind of like everybody's a shitty driver, but in LA they just do it really fast, you know? Yeah, like it's like what Brent's saying, it's just like everybody's doing it really fast. So you get through all of the and they have red lights getting on the highway too. Like that was a weird thing to get used to.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's driving out there is crazy.
SPEAKER_06I think it's I hate it. Like that would honestly be one of the prohibiting factors of ever considering moving to L.
SPEAKER_05Like, I just that yeah, but like I re I like my my other kind of like uh I lived in Orlando for a while, and like driving in Orlando really sucks. Like everybody's a terrible driver, um and they're not like in a hurry to be a terrible driver, but they're all terrible drivers. And there's a lot of traffic anyway. You're driving wrong, is what we're saying.
SPEAKER_07Yes.
SPEAKER_06Uh uh, let me throw one more thing out there only because maybe I can maybe somebody will veto this. Okay, like well, do you guys appreciate hot tea? Do you ever have tea? Are you tea guys ever? I like tea, right? Yeah, okay. Uh, if you're doing black tea and well, and uh and some others, but in particular, black tea is one of the main ones.
SPEAKER_05Veto some of black tea.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean, but rather that is like in the form of a chai or an Earl Grey or whatever treatment you want to give that alongside. But if that's the type of tea that you're using, or especially green tea, even more so, like if you are taking your teabag and just leaving it in the cup for the duration of your drink, you're doing it wrong, and you're a monster on top of that. What are you doing? You're doing it wrong. You guys doing that?
SPEAKER_01I just like that you're just teabag. I squeeze the little bit of my teabag off and into my cup, get every drop. But then I dispose of the tea bag in the proper way.
SPEAKER_06Because I see some people going into like Starbucks and they'll do it and they'll leave you with the teabag with the little string hanging out of their cup, and then like ten minutes later they're still just like rocking their Earl Gray make a lot of tea, but are you saying that that's like you're gonna start getting rancid notes from that?
SPEAKER_05What's the thing?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it was like in bitter notes, usually. Like it, and it depends on the type of tea, but yeah, both black and green teas are gonna start getting like kind of a bitter quality after you've you know, like a green tea, even I mean, you never le need to leave that in for more than just like I mean, tops like a minute and a half. Like, and that's probably some of them even like 30 seconds if they're if it's a really good quality one. But yeah, people just be leaving them in there for the duration of their drink.
SPEAKER_01And that last sip, you know, if the teabag's still in there and you're trying to get the very last bit and you got it tilted all the way back, and the teabag's stuck on the bottom, and then it finally like releases you get teabags in the reservoir, you get teabags there on that lip, you get teabags right there. Yeah, it's it's unpleasant. I don't like it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it feels a little passive aggressive from the the cup.
SPEAKER_01Feels personal.
SPEAKER_05I don't drink a lot of tea, but I guess I usually get rid of the teabag. I have one of those little teaspoons, one of those little things, the little tea spoon things where you can squeeze the loose leaf.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh I like to get in there with my hands. I like I like to feel like I got dirty.
SPEAKER_05Wow. I was talking to Joe Brown about tea the other day. Apparently he's a big he's got like a whole tea set and stuff.
SPEAKER_06I whenever I first got into dueling pianos, uh and as a musician, it was like the first time in my adult life that I was making pretty decent money at it, and that was like so that whenever Tivana was still a chain that would be at some malls or strip malls, it was kind of like medium fancy, you know, like fancy-ish. Certainly to a person that had spent their whole life broke as hell, it felt very like upscale at the time. And uh, I would you know, really, even about when whenever I first got over there, I invested. I'm doing like a little of my air quotes here, invested in a really nice you know, heirloom quality tea set, which I still have, but I'd go in to that place and maybe like, I mean, as often as once a week in the beginning, get some new tea. And I had like quite a collection for a while and was like kind of into it, and then as I do with most things, I just kind of put tuckered out on the interest and moved on to other things, but still have the nice little bits of that. Makes a little nice decor in the living room.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, dude. So I have my mom years ago got me a tea set that's like I don't know, it's like a Japanese tea set, and it's like cast iron. It's like and you put the little it's got these little cups with no handles on them. They they get the tea gets cool really fast because the metal like pulls heat out of it really quick quickly. So the cup is hot and the tea gets cold. But man, it's a great little like I love making tea in that thing. No teabags.
SPEAKER_06I feel like making tea.
SPEAKER_05What are you gonna make in tea? Guys, we gotta take a break. We gotta go make some tea. Uh I challenge you all to make some tea. I'm gonna come back with some hot tea.
SPEAKER_06Hot goss, probably. Yeah. What? Is that an hot goss?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and George.
SPEAKER_05We're gonna come back. I'm gonna spill the tea. We'll come back first.
SPEAKER_01My next seg segment. Spill the tea. Spill the goss. We'll be right back.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Johnny, is send your servant out to go get some tea. She's right here.
SPEAKER_01She can hear y'all.
SPEAKER_05What's the point of having your headphones on if you're not using them? Brent, did you get tea?
SPEAKER_06Uh no. Uh I got my carbonated water. I made some tea. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I thought we were of one mind. Where's the tea bag?
SPEAKER_06I I did I lost motivation pretty quick, though. I started petting my dog and yeah.
SPEAKER_05I saw my dog, and she was like, pet me, and I was like, I'm gonna lose motivation if I start petting you. I can't remember. You were right.
SPEAKER_06You made the right call in that case.
SPEAKER_05I don't know, did I though? Petted my dog. I'll never get that I'll never get that moment back. Welcome back. It's View to the Podcast. Some of us are drinking tea, and by some of us I mean just me. And there's no tea bag. I made uh I I realized I've got some matcha. I've got some matcha powder. So I'm gonna be absolutely that counts?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think so. It's still tea leaves, right? Yeah, it's it's called tea. I don't know what's it's tea.
SPEAKER_05It's just ground up into a powder, and then you drink the.
SPEAKER_01You're doing it right.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05Doing it right.
SPEAKER_01I don't think it's he I don't think he meant that.
SPEAKER_05I don't think he did either. Uh let's go back to the dice of destiny. Johnny King is gonna be four through six, and I'm gonna be one through three. Yeah. That's a three. That's me. Uh, we're gonna play a game that um that we're gonna do a segment that I haven't come back to in a little while, but I've been gathering some good uh requests for our advice on from people on the internet. Uh now you may be thinking, George, are they asking specifically for our advice? And my take on it is gonna be maybe. Uh let's let's give some people advice um because the people need us to do that. Here we go. My neighbor gave me$300 to congratulate me on my new baby, and I don't know how to respond. Basically, what the title says, I live in a pretty big condo and I have an elderly neighbor who I always say hi to and occasionally make a little chit-chat with. Not much really. I had a baby a week ago, and yesterday my husband and I were taking baby out, and my neighbor happened to open the door at the time. Accordingly, we introduced him to our latest edition. Today, my neighbor knocked on my door and gave me a card, then walked away. When I opened the card, there was three hundred dollars in it. It is so sweet, but I also don't know how to respond or thank him. It feels like too much. Can someone help me with an appropriate response?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, uh, who wants to go first on this one? I I can I'll I've got an opinion to share, but uh Yeah, I know what I think.
SPEAKER_01I'm like uh you you keep the money, you say oh, thank you, and then you wait you know wait another six months and then uh introduce uh another baby to the neighbor. Because you know, three if they can afford to just drop three hundred bucks like that, you know, there's more. There's more in their wall somewhere.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, is that like shorthand for a wallet, or you mean the actual wall?
SPEAKER_01No, the actual wall. I feel like somebody just can like come up with 300 bucks is either a musician or somebody who hides their money and their cash in their wall.
SPEAKER_04It said it was a couple of days though. She didn't say it took a couple of days.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's fair. That makes it extra sweet if they went to the ATM. I I hate going to the ATM.
SPEAKER_05Well, they still make ATMs. Of course they make ATMs. I'm just kidding. I don't know. I'm I'm I do everything in crypto. So they shut down the Silk Road. Yeah, they that's what they wanted you to think.
SPEAKER_06I think my take on it is like, yeah, if uh you know, if they gave you that gift, especially I think one of the biggest clues that we have to go off of here and the behavior that shouldn't be overlooked is they handed it to you concealed in a card and intentionally cleared the area before you really got a good look at it. That means that they probably expected that you would take it as a bit of like, oh, that's a lot, and probably go about refusing the offer as to be polite immediately. They didn't want you to feel the need to do that, so they wanted to give you time to have it before. And so, yes, I can understand that it might seem like, well, that's a very overly generous gift for someone that I barely know. But the way that they presented it showed that it's really not a stretch for them. So even if it seems like a lot to you, it's not an overextension for them. Accept the gift as something that was a nice thing to do, be sure and say thank you. And if you really want to kind of go above and beyond, maybe make a nice little food thing to carry back over there as an as another shared nicety between you two. But you know, don't don't refuse the gift just because you think it's too much. They didn't, they wanted to do something nice, and I think to give it back would be a little bit rude.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, you could definitely make some food and bring it over. Um do we think because she says$300 seems like a lot. So it's either it's either that she gave what is a pretty large sum as kind of a like, hey, you gotta you have a new baby, here's a gift, or she gave a pretty small sum as a this is what I think your baby's worth. Like did it feel like a down payment? Yeah, well, yeah. Was it like uh it do you think that she expects brownies, or does she expect like the baby at her door with a receipt for$300?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Or at least some like personal time.
SPEAKER_06I would think that there would need to be at least a little bit of uh negotiation ahead of time when we're talking about uh a baby. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Agreed.
SPEAKER_06I mean you would think that.
SPEAKER_05You would think that. I know, but we all have different values, so it does it does change like it is uh it is one of those weird uh social dynamics where you feel like it's out of balance. Where that I feel like that happens sometimes when you're like you it's Christmas or something, and maybe you go to a Christmas party with just like casual friends, and you're like, oh, I just am here to like, you know, I don't know, have a have a meal with friends, and they're like, Here, I got you uh I got you a$300 present, and you're like, oh, well shit, now we're now we're all caddy wampas.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, those people are in the worst.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, well, and that can be weird, especially in those situations where you know there's some sort of an exchange going on. But I think something like a baby or a wedding or things that are like big sort of just like life events, and especially when uh you know, she mentions that they're an older person or couple, whatever the case is, but but older, so you can also kind of infer that they're probably fairly well settled. And again, depending on what someone's different level of financial security is,$300 could seem like a lot to someone or it could seem like very little to someone else. So, I mean, again, I think it's just you gotta just accept that as it was a it was a nice present that they wanted to give to you because there was no expectations of it whatsoever.
SPEAKER_05They just did it and then even cleared the area to make sure that there wouldn't be an awkward, you know, I think what you need to do, you just you just need to make sure that you affirm that nothing's gonna change. I I'm gonna come out as disagreeing with with Johnny about I think Johnny said make him brownies or bring him food. Who who said that? Oh, I wouldn't know. Brent said that. There you would know. Okay. Well, I think if you bring him food, you're you're now implying that they've bought some measure of of change. And I think you have to stay firm in like your relationship is what it is. You stand firm in that.
SPEAKER_06I mean, but bring in food if you want to. Not because you seem like you're real Yeah, but you're taking it as like a like a transactional type thing, like whereas I I'm not doing tit for tat. I'm just saying that like this, what I'm bringing to you is clearly not matching in value of your gift. However, you can see that I went through time and effort to do this just to as a way to say thank you and recognize that it wasn't just that it I didn't just dismiss whatever you did as as though it didn't have value, you know. Like so I don't know. I I What do you think brownies, cookies or something more substantial and no, I I was yeah, like I think something like brownies would be like a payoff a nice thing. But I'm also someone that's always gonna kind of like sell it a little bit. Like I'm not just gonna be like, here's brownies. I'm gonna be like, you know, this was actually a recipe that my grandmother taught to me and has always really kind of held a warm place in my heart. And so as a way to say thank you, I was just hoping to recreate a little bit of that warm feeling for you guys. You know, again, thank you. And something like that. It just helps kind of give it a little bit more something.
SPEAKER_05You melted my cold heart. Make your neighbor make your neighbor brownies and uh learn how to accept a gift.
SPEAKER_01I like the idea that the neighbor was using it as a power play to like like they've just been waiting for that moment to give some outrageously you know over-the-top gift. Yeah. So they have that forever as long as they live next to each other.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, and and I can recognize that there's certainly a category of people in the world, and I'm sure that we've all met them, that will do something nice only so that they have something to hold over one's head in the future. And with me with me having no perspective on this, you know, uh relationship or neighborship, whatever the word would be, yeah, I have no idea of knowing that that's that type of person.
SPEAKER_05Like I read back through it and it's like uh occasionally make chit-chat with like yeah.
SPEAKER_06I mean, so I think we all tend to see the world through our own eyes foremost most of the time. And I know that if that was if I'm putting myself in that position of being an older neighbor, I could see myself as someone that would, if I'm financially stable and could see that someone has a baby, which is obviously a big expense regardless of how well they're doing, just like, hey, here's just a little bit of help to take care of some things that you're gonna need for the baby. I mean, like, you know, I I could see myself doing that as something nice, but I also know people that would do it as like, well, now you now you owe me something because I did something nice for you. And so, yeah, if that's the case, then yeah, yeah, fuck those people.
SPEAKER_05If it was me, I feel I feel like a way to get around this. If you're I know we're not advising the elderly neighbor, I like giving like a really specific amount so there, so that people are like, there must be some some meaning behind. They gave me$312.14. There's gotta be a reason for this amount.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's a specific thing that costs that much. Yeah. And it's they've done some. You've got to go a full Da Vinci code to find it.
SPEAKER_06They've done some is give them the amount of uh money that equates to one of the crazy Bible verses that George was drawing. On last week's episode, and that way if they decode it, they'll read one of those, and then they'll be trying to search for meaning where there might just not be any. And that makes it even funnier.
SPEAKER_05Sold. We twit we twisted it uh into advice for the elderly neighbor. Make the amount that you're donating uh some kind of cryptogram. Uh let's move on. Let's move on. I got a couple, I got a couple more. This one I really want to solve. Alright. My husband lied to me over a cheeseburger, and now I'm thinking about a divorce. Strap in, guys. Today my husband went to donate plasma. He does this twice a week. He has a full-time job, but it's not quite enough to get by. We have two kids with special needs. I go to school full-time and work two part-time jobs. Anyway, today he come home came home after the plasma donation. I told him I was hungry. Uh I told him I was hungry and he said no. So I asked him uh if he had eaten lunch already. I told him I was hungry and he said no. That's what it says. So I asked him if I was making sure I heard that right. Yeah, no. I told him I was hungry and he said no.
SPEAKER_06So it's like she's like, Man, I'm hungry.
SPEAKER_05And he's like, No, you're not. Okay, let's let's try on. Let's soldier on. So I asked if he had eaten lunch already. He looked at me and said no. I continued to do my schoolwork for another 40 minutes and I got really hungry, so I asked him if anything looked appealing to him and told him what we had. He said mac and cheese sounded fine, so I started to make some. While I was cooking, I saw an email from Burger King thanking me for my purchase. I never went there, so I asked my husband again, did you go to Burger King today? He hesitated and said yes. I asked why he lied to me about eating, and he said, I don't know. The thing is, he has lied to me many times before over little things. I was so angry, hurt, and frustrated I had to get away from him. I left. I came back later, but I told him I could not stand the lying anymore. This isn't the first time he's lied to me. He's lied about so many things, most of them small. We've talked about the lying before, and he said he would stop. He still uh he still does it. I know it was only a cheeseburger, and it makes me wonder what else he is lying about. I don't think he is having an affair. He's not on drugs, he doesn't drink much. I really feel like I can't trust him, especially since I've asked him to just tell me the truth about stuff before. Is it me? What do I do? I just want an honest marriage.
SPEAKER_06Man, somebody else go first. I you know what? Uh because I might come in with a hot take on this one. I don't know. But you know, I kind of want I mean this is hot takes the podcast, right?
SPEAKER_05I veto I veto you backing out of going first, Brent. I'm plunking down one of my cards and it's vacuum sealed. Okay.
SPEAKER_06So here's the thing. With any of these, we sort of have to come into it with the you know agreement, I guess, that like the per the story as represented by the person telling it, we sort of have to take that as like the best source of truth in the matter that we have to go off of. So, you know, and and first of all, can as a little side mention, could we could we agree that in the context of him being dishonest in the marriage or not, that them having special needs children is largely irrelevant to what we're actually addressing here.
SPEAKER_05I think it is relevant because I here's what I think is that because she's mentioned a bunch of stuff here that makes me think that like money is pretty tight. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Like she's working two jobs, he's he's working multiple jobs, he's donating plasma, they've got two kids that require extra, right? So like I think I think that the I think the money tightness is like probably that that's gonna be my argument, is that and that's okay, I can see that.
SPEAKER_06Okay, but here's here's where I'll throw in on the hot take to at least play a little bit of like supposed defense for the guy here, because the in the the particular things she's mentioning about him being dishonest about, like one of the reasons I've been at this entire time I've been in my relationship very grateful for it is because I had the contrast of previous ones where like because of how reactions would be to just things that should be normal conversation or or mentionings to the other person, because of like the expectation of a negative reaction from that person, the way that that can train someone to be dishonest, even when it doesn't seem like a reason to be, because like, you know, to throw a little bit of the devil's advocate for this guy. Like maybe a reason why he might have lied about having Burger King, maybe he was really hungry earlier. I don't know what he's doing that day, but like if he had didn't, you know, have a chance, maybe he's taking care of the special needs kids, didn't have a chance to actually like make a uh, you know, a meal for himself, and the quickest way to get some food into his belly was to do that. And he was like, man, I, you know, I'm just gonna go for it. And we've all been in those times where like because you're getting hangry or like your food judgment goes out the window sometimes when you're hungry, you know, and maybe he just did it, and then he knows upon eating that he's just shoving this burger in his face, going, man, she's gonna be pissed. You know, so she comes home and she's like, Man, I'm starving. He's like, No, I'm sorry, wait, what? Uh just like, wait, have you eaten? Mm-mm. You know? Nope. I haven't. Uh so maybe who told you that I had eaten? Right. So maybe that brings into context his first no to a very weird, you know, I'm hungry. What? No, no, not me. No, oh, you. No, I'm sorry, no, I haven't eaten. You know, like I think it was a little more like that. So uh that there might be evidence here that maybe she has I'm not gonna say that, you know, it wasn't necessarily in the wrong, but maybe to play the devil's advocate, there's been times that she's come at him hot at subjects that he now feels like he can't be honest about it lest he get bitched at.
SPEAKER_01See, I think it was a cry for help. I feel like he he wanted to get caught. He bought that boy, he bought the hamburger, he used her account. She got the email. He knew that it was gonna come through, right? Like he wasn't getting away with anything. And so I think that and then I think that from this fight, he's his takeaway is man, she got so mad because I went to Burger King. But she's mad because he lied. That's right.
SPEAKER_06Yes. No, and and that is the thing. It's like, yeah, if you can't have honesty in a relationship, things aren't you're you're really gonna have a hard time building anything on top of that anyway, and I'll that's uh that's definitely a hill that I'll die on.
SPEAKER_05But I worked with a guy, um, I worked with a guy years ago, and his wife, because he was trying to eat healthier, and and of course, like shared uh credit card with his wife, and she would call him at like 2 p.m. in the afternoon, and he'd have to like step out because she was like, Did you because a credit card statement says that you ate a Taco Bell today? Did you eat a Taco Bell today? And it was like he was he was breaking a pro he was breaking a promise about what he was gonna do with his diet and all this sort of whatever, but like it was like he would have to step out of work to be like to have a conversation about eating at Taco Bell, and it was like a oh man, that's that sucks.
SPEAKER_01Was it because for everybody because he was overweight or something and she wanted him to get a little bit of a few years?
SPEAKER_05I think one of those like he's like, yeah, he's like he's like uh our age-ish, but this was several years ago. He's he's probably like mid to late 30s, and he had had like you know, some of his blood work came back. Not it wasn't like he's dying of something, it was just like his blood work came back, and it was like, oh, you really need to like lose 20 pounds. You know, I mean it was one of those kind of like I don't want to say asinine, it was his health, but it was like the but it was like uh yeah, it's a weird spot to be in where you feel like you have to lie about Burger King or Taco Bell or something like that.
SPEAKER_01So that situation was not about the money, it was more about his health.
SPEAKER_05Right, I guess. But it was only it was a shared credit card, too.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And I will I will say that like um that we've taken we in my household, we've taken the approach of like we've got like we've got separate, like, we've got separate credit cards. So like if if uh if Aaron spends money on something that's like she gets her nails done or something, like there's I just think that there's certain things that it's like if if you're not if you're not like we're not gonna be able to pay our rent if you go eat out at Burger King today, then like, yeah, you deserve it. You gotta like you gotta pitch in here, guy. But like, if it's not that, there should be some like discretionary stuff that you could be like, you know, that you could buy your own Burger King or something. I don't know. If she's thinking about getting divorced over to him not talking about Burger King, maybe they should just get divorced.
SPEAKER_06Well, so and and as we said, I don't think that the issue has much to do with Burger King as much as it does to do with dishonesty. But I think that if we're talking about if the ultimate question became, and I think that it was, what is her advice what is the advice to her in this situation? If she's the one asking me, I I will all you know, even as a proponent of of divorce in general that have a relationship, if you can't make it work, fine. But I I'm not someone that's gonna quickly jump to it. I don't think that you should just throw the whole thing out the window. Um, you know, like relationships do take work at times, uh, I hear from others. But the uh the the the case here, I think that the only way that you can find a pathway forward is you first have to be able to ask yourself, like, where can I take some responsibility in this as well as being able to address what I don't like about what the other person's doing. I think if they could each find, if I think if he can understand that you you've got to have honesty in the relationship. If he can't be honest, they're not gonna have anything to build off of. That you can't make anything work there. But I think if she also doesn't understand that, like, maybe I need to make sure that I'm creating an environment that he feels that he can be honest with me, that I'm not, that it's not gonna be like even if he did something wrong, we should be able to talk about that and have and I think one of the prerequisites there is enough respect for each other that you genuinely do respect that other person, and I'm not gonna do something most of the time if I think that you wouldn't approve of it, because I have more respect for but if you can't respect the other person more than that, you're you're off to a losing battle anyway. But that's what I would recommend. The each of them need to need to figure out in themselves what they can do better because both of them can take some accountability here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, wow. Yeah, I would agree with that. Plus, I think they're going it sounds like they have a pretty stressful situation with the special needs kids and and income issues. If they can kind of get through this, but she's gotta keep them accountable for little white lies like that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, for sure. He shouldn't be doing that, and she deserves to be able to keep him accountable. But like I said, just as long as we're if they will if if that's the hill that you're dying on, you're not willing to move, then it's probably not gonna work. If you want it to work, then you need to understand that creating an environment where someone can actually have that honesty is equally as important.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's a it's a complicated one. But isn't it? Yeah. But you yeah, you should uh you should chill out a little bit. You guys should talk about this. Yeah. Because she made it sound like it's not like she's like, he's not cheating, he's not doing any of these other things, he's not drinking, he's not on drugs, but he's lying about going to Burger King. Okay. Right. It doesn't really sound insurmountable. Like she listed like the amount of issues that she listed in their situation was like, oh, dude, this guy, everybody's working multiple jobs, donating plasma. Like, I I would say that there's probably like a there's probably a threshold somewhere of like I gotta come clean about like if I bought Burger King, like nobody would ever know about it, and I wouldn't feel bad about that, you know? Right, right, but like I don't think I would lie about it, but it's just like if I got shit about buying Burger King, I would be like, hey, our threshold for this bullshit needs to be way higher. Like, can't be Burger King, it should be something else. It should be like$500 online gambling or something, like just raise the threshold a lot.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, and and regardless, I'm definitely not trying to give a cop out to the guy here that like he should simply just be honest, period. And you know, like even if that means he's gonna face some negative con. But if you're if you're every time that you're being honest, if you feel that that re results in a negative thing towards you, then again, that's not a relationship that's ultimately gonna work. You can't just keep sweeping things. I mean, I guess you can keep sweeping things under the rug, but it's not a way to live happily anyway. So if you actually want to be happy and you want the relationship to work, both of them are gonna need to figure out areas where they can both be better.
SPEAKER_05What you need to do is Google how much average does a divorce cost, and then figure out how many times he's allowed to go to Burger King. Yeah. There you go. For that.
SPEAKER_01I think that's I think that was the answer.
SPEAKER_05So so answered. Um, okay, we're gonna we're gonna go uh back to the Dice of Destiny. One through six is gonna be actually one through five is Johnny King, and six is gonna be Johnny King. Here we go. Oh, that's a four. That's Johnny King. Yeah, I'm on.
SPEAKER_01I'm on, I'm on.
SPEAKER_05Johnny King.
SPEAKER_01Alright, so for my segment, we're gonna go to a favorite. We're gonna do overrated, underrated, or just right.
SPEAKER_05Is it gonna be uh inverting your genes? Because underrated, man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, I think that that like science has proven that that's the way to go.
SPEAKER_06Inverting your genes would make a pretty good album title.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Right. Alright, so it's Easter, so we're gonna do holidays. We're gonna rate our holidays to find out which ones are overrated, underrated, or just right. So let's start with Easter. What do you guys think?
SPEAKER_05Overrated today.
SPEAKER_01I just think Yeah, today's Easter.
SPEAKER_05Today's the day. Um Well, we're gonna I don't I think that if if the uh if the devout Christians have been listening to this podcast. I don't think they have. They've probably stopped by now, right?
SPEAKER_01Probably. I think and if they it, you know, if they are still listening, they know that. They know us, they know that we're coming from the club. Welcome.
SPEAKER_05We love you. Yeah, welcome to Vito, the podcast, the premier evangelical Christian podcast. I think I'm I'm gonna make a very simple argument for Easter that I think it's overrated because it is always a Sunday. You're giving me chores on the weekend instead of giving me a weekday off. Always. Sorry. Always giving me choice for chores for the weekend.
SPEAKER_06Well, George, I totally disagree with you. I think it's overrated because it's just nothing going on. If you're not like a church going type to have the dinner, or if you have kids, I get it. But as a as a you know married couple without children, uh, that are I'd say I'm middle-aged at this point, uh, then yeah, there's just it's just there's nothing to to it. As a child, I got a bunch of free candy, uh, and I loved candy, so I was cool with it as a kid, but uh that's why I think it's overrated.
SPEAKER_05Well, Johnny, your kids are not Easter, you're they're way beyond Easter eggs and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And so, but I still live with the memories of their childhood. And I will say that it is torn on this one. I'm gonna say overrated because I'm with you, Brent, about it being like, what is it? And I always say I was so bad about doing the uh Easter egg hunts the night before. So I'd have to wake up early, get them out there. One year we had Easter out of town, and I brought all the Easter shit, and my daughter's like, wait, I thought the Easter bunny brought that stuff. And so I got in a lot of trouble for ruining that. And you know, now that I'm an an adult and our kids are out of the house, we sent our daughter an Easter basket into college for fun of it, but I don't I like we were like, uh, we want to do something today. And I said, Yeah, I want to I want a podcast. Like, that's what I was excited about. So um I don't think that you know I don't think it's overrated.
SPEAKER_05Not for everyone, just for me. I do have I do have fond memories of Easter when I was a kid, but it was if you'd asked me when I was a little kid, I would have been like, it's properly rated because I got to do get an Easter basket and go look for Easter eggs, and then we had to go to church and we had to like wear our little Easter cost, you know, Easter colored polos.
SPEAKER_01Did you have to do Easter suits? I forgot. Yeah. We didn't have to do suits for anything, but they got us Easter suit.
SPEAKER_05But you had your little Easter outfit that you had to wear. Oh. And uh I had to kind of like do do the double play of like half my family's Catholic and half my family is Southern Baptist, so you gotta do double Easter. So it was like it was like a lot of it was like it was like some cool stuff where some where it was partially like Christmas, where you like woke up and you're like, Oh, I got an Easter basket and there's candy and that little fake grass stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. I I um I will say that I think for like a good quality holiday, you should have at least some portion of the population that might be willing to say, that's my favorite holiday. And Easter does not make that bar for any. I've never heard anybody be like, Easter's my favorite holiday, unless you're like, I mean, beyond the point of devout Christian. I'm talking about like the, you know, like what like cult fanatic level of Christianity that just because of the sheer, like meat, like, oh, it's the most important, like, it's my favorite because of its meaning. Like, okay, well, whatever, like, go for it. But other than those people, I've never heard anybody say that, like, for the uh, you know, commercialism holiday that we all know and enjoy of Easter, that it's uh not very high up on anybody's list.
SPEAKER_01Do you all get the text from people at midnight that say he is risen?
SPEAKER_05Those kind of things. Well, I'm not getting any text right now. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, George, sorry to bring up too soon.
SPEAKER_06I didn't know. But it had uh Jesus with a pair of sunglasses on dunking a basketball, and it was like, alright, C Z I N.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Alright. So what did we decide?
SPEAKER_05We decided to be a little bit of a little overrated.
SPEAKER_01Okay, we're all there. Alright, so let's go to Christmas.
SPEAKER_06Man, uh like this is one of those that it's almost for me the same thing that you were kind of describing with the Easter, that it's like that I have such a fondness in the in the nostalgia bucket uh of things that are going on for Christmas that you know I'm always gonna have this big love for all that stuff. I will say that as an adult, and again, one without children, it becomes a little bit more of a chore each year to try to keep that magic alive because when you're a kid, it's it's just sort of given to you. Your parents build the magic of the season up and it, you know, and it's and it's that that fun thing that get is such a you know core memory producer in a kid. But as an adult, it's not like you can't have that anymore, but like you just have to put more effort out. It's like there's not anyone that's gonna be uh putting up a tree for you or decorating it or getting Christmas presents wrapped. It's like any of that stuff, you it's it's on you, you know. You gotta put the movies on or listen to the songs. So it's like it takes a little, and then all that's balanced out with your busy life of trying to manage responsibilities. So, you know, it's it's uh it's just more of a chore to make to put that Christmas magic into the system. Yeah, where's you going underrated? Overrated? I'm saying that it's a hard one for me to think, but you know what? I think I'm gonna go underrated because uh I just you know it's it's something that if you work the magic on, it can still be there. And and I think that it's you think Christmas is underrated, yeah. But not so much in the way that like if you're talking about the bullshit like signs going up at all the stores and like the whole commercialism, like and that the fact that it starts it basically like Halloween now, like yeah, to hell with all that. But as I remember it as a kid to like put the effort in one's own personal bubble to kind of recreate that just for yourself, I don't think enough people take advantage of that. And I think we get swamped by like just the commercialism aspect of it. And yeah, so that's why I'm saying underrated. Interesting, Johnny?
SPEAKER_01All right. I'm going underrated.
SPEAKER_04Johnny Christmas, I like that.
SPEAKER_01I the way I'm thinking of it is my whole life from every stage of my life, Christmas has been something awesome, pretty awesome. You know, when you're a kid, that's easy. It's like uh once a year you get all these presents and and everything. And then as I get older, you know, you have kids, and then you get to experience Christmas through their eyes again, which is kind of brings you back to being a kid. And then um and now I uh I enjoy. Decorating for Christmas. There's so much. And I and I think that um Brent, I think you actually kind of captured it with your final grade because you kind of shit on Christmas for about three minutes. And then you said underrated. And so I think that's the thing. It's got so much like negative things about it, but somehow it's magical and amazing. Like I'll just watch it, you know, I enjoy now that I'm older. I just like, alright, we've got our Christmas movies we put on that we enjoy, you know. Hell yes.
SPEAKER_06We've got our own playlist of uh, in fact, like maybe as it gets back to the Christmas season, whenever that rolls around, we should bookmark it to say like an overrated, underrated, perfectly rated on Christmas movies would be a good category. Because I think we've all got our little lists of things. We already did that. I think we did do that.
SPEAKER_01I'm having some deja vu. We could do hey, I have a new segment. I I like to call this segment deja vu.
SPEAKER_05I like to call this segment. Let's talk about diehard again. I'm gonna say to I'm gonna say too that like uh Christmas, it the the Christmas spirit is underrated. Uh obviously the the commercialism of Christmas can like I don't know, suck a dick. But the Christmas itself, number one holiday. Christmas is the number one all-time holiday.
SPEAKER_06I think all the other holidays just kind of wish they could be Christmas.
SPEAKER_01I wish they could be Christmas. There's elements of Christmas in just about every holiday, but yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, other holidays are trying to bring it together like Christmas, Valentine's Day. It's like, oh, we could be Christmas too. Shut up, Valentine's Day. Get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_01They didn't like they didn't even make this list. You didn't even make the list.
SPEAKER_06You ever met someone that uh that their favorite holidays Halloween, like obsessively so, that just wasn't just kind of a weirdy.
SPEAKER_05Halloween? Well, Christmas is underrated, we've all said. Agreed. All right. Yeah. All right, let's go to Halloween.
SPEAKER_06Uh no, I I'm still gonna say underrated on this one, actually, but and for many of the same reasons, but I I'm still backing that up with kind of the point I was just making. I know plenty of people that that like obsessively are like Halloween's my favorite holiday, and they kind of spend the entire year like, you know, like they'll be at Christmas season, like, you know, 300 days left to Halloween. Yeah, whatever. You know, and it's like I all those people, and some of them are friends of mine, but like, and I'd say this to their face, they're all they're all kind of weird, you know.
SPEAKER_01So like Joe Brown. I think he plans out his his uh Halloween costumes three years in advance. He's got them lined up. He does do a good job with it, though. I'll give you a few minutes. Yeah, it's that's it's definitely like like I get it. It's it's just funny.
SPEAKER_05I've previously said that I'm pretty bad, I'm pretty last minute about costumes, but that doesn't mean that I don't love that there's a holiday about costumes. Most most of this stuff just has to do with me procrastinating things. But I think I I think Halloween's maybe a little underrated too. Like I think there's so many cool events that you could do around Halloween and like whatever. Like candy is I don't know, like the fact that we're celebrating candy is dumb, I think. But I don't really like candy that much.
SPEAKER_06But yeah, well, and also I like boobs.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, they're well on Sixth Street, that's pretty much the I guess, or that's what it used to be. It used to be like sexy everything, whatever.
SPEAKER_05I like this year, this year for Halloween, I'm doing I'm going as sexy Johnny King.
SPEAKER_01Good luck with that. How are you gonna find that costume? I'm gonna make it up. I'm gonna make it up myself. I think for Halloween I'm gonna give it underrated also. And George, to your point about candy, I personally am not a big candy person, but I I think unlike all of the other holidays that I could think of, I appreciate the genero like the generosity of strangers. They the whole point is to go and like you know, if you're giving out candy, you're just spreading, you're giving stuff to people you don't know, you'll never see them again.
SPEAKER_05It's just a we should really bring back the tricks though. Like, all these kids are still saying trick or treat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Halloween's gone soft these days.
SPEAKER_05Really soft. Did you so underrated and soft is what I'll say.
SPEAKER_01So this past hell uh uh Halloween, we Elizabeth was talking about, I guess I don't know if it was on TikTok or something, that like that people were giving away potatoes. Is this something that y'all saw? No, I didn't see it, but I love it. So it's something, and and I thought that was funny. And so I went to the store and I got, you know, Elizabeth's like, you know, I'm buying candy. She's like, well, buy a couple potatoes just to see. And so I got, you know, a bag of russet five-pound bag of potatoes, and every teenager that came through would be like, There's a a potato? And they all wanted the potato. We we ran out of potatoes like within an hour. It was amazing. Awesome. It was so good. It made me so. I'm gonna get some potatoes.
SPEAKER_06Yes. But speaking of Halloween and Joe Brown, and you mentioned about his costumes. Are you guys aware of the uh the accidental blackface incident? Oh who did that?
SPEAKER_05No go when he dressed as a smurf or something, and then you guys turned the black lights on?
SPEAKER_06You're very close. Uh George came as uh how the Grinch stole Christmas one year. Not George. No, I'm sorry. Joe. Joe Brown came as how the Grinch Stole Christmas one year for Halloween, and his whole body was painted in green paint. And that was all well and good. But whenever you would turn the stage lights on to red, that green light just became straight up black. And some areas like even where he would like Oh, of course, and then like areas where he would even like blend around like his his eyes or mouth would like have the much like in the in the most offensive ways, it would be like widened out more than you would expect it to. You know, it's like it just it was worst-case scenario whenever you would turn the lights on red. So of course everybody would keep fucking the red hitting the red lights.
SPEAKER_01Uh I feel like you should have saved that for the the the two gigs and a light. Pictures exist somewhere.
SPEAKER_05I knew that though already. We were talking about that recently. I think he showed me that picture like last year.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, the pictures exist, but they were they were kept pretty uh like under lock and key because it was widely agreed that like this on the internet without any context could have really bad situations.
SPEAKER_05Like it would not look good for us, but uh this on the internet without any context, like we've got right now.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I mean, you know, I think this is this is well cut provided context within within this discussion.
SPEAKER_05Speaking of on the internet without context, that's our show today, guys. That is, isn't it? It is great. I had a real blast hanging out with you guys on this day of Easter.
SPEAKER_01Here, before we go, can I I have to use a veto card? For what? Okay. I've got to veto me choosing apple cider for my bunker. I switch it to tea. I want tea in my bunker. But it's gotta be carbonated tea. Carbonated tea. Oh, it has to be carbonated. Yeah, that was the cult. Can you have carbonated tea? I forgot about the carbonated part. Yeah. These brands that make carbonated tea. All right, that's what I want.
SPEAKER_05I want that. I want carbonated tea. Carbonated tea is this. All right.
SPEAKER_06That we don't leave the bag in. You're doing it wrong.
SPEAKER_05Don't leave the bag in the carbonated tea. Don't tell me what I do with my teabag. Let Johnny teabag how he wants. Uh, which that might be the name of the episode is let Johnny teabag how he wants. We waited until the end to say it. I like how Johnny uses all his veto cards just to on himself? Just on himself to change decisions he's made in his past, and that's like maybe a personality trait of Johnny. Yeah, that's some insight into my psyche. Guys, please give us uh 18 stars out of five. Subscribe and like. Uh, send us an email at veto the podcast at gmail.com and tell us what carbonated beverage you want Johnny to have in his bunker, and he'll buy 30 cases of it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Uh we'll see you next week. Oh, guys. Surprise. Next week, you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna watch Cannibal the Musical. This is our segment.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna watch Cannibal the Musical.
SPEAKER_05We're gonna watch the movie Cannibal the Musical. We talked about it off the air last time, last week. We're gonna do it. It's uh now we're committed. We're committed now, we're saying it on air. It's uh Matt Parker and Trey Stone. There's their graduate film project. It's ridiculous. Johnny's never seen it, and we are gonna. Stone, Trey Parker.
SPEAKER_06You got me.
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