Veto The Podcast Episode 23 - The Pride Of Minnesota

If you know the capital of Minnesota without looking it up, you're probably too smart to listen to this podcast. The boys are back, and they know a thing or two about Minnesota. Ok, maybe just A thing. And that's Prince.

They gamble away Johnny's fortune on pure vibes, take a trip to the beautiful Galveston shore, and learn that Cleveland invented the globe.

It's another episode of Veto The Podcast and, tbh, it's like not as bad as usual.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

The podcast you are about to listen to was made by idiots and will probably make you dumber. Pregnant or nursing women and those with weakened immune systems should turn away immediately. All others, proceed at your own risk and prepare to veto the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 0:15

You got a friend, you got a friend in me. I hope I'm friendly you're defending you. I'm feeling okay. I'm pretty good. Alright. And I hope I'm friendly you're defending you.

SPEAKER_05 0:49

Hello, and welcome to Beethoven Podcast. The podcast where three incredible character actors entertain each other and the general public with really great voices and japes and the like. I'm your uncle and your daddy and the captain of the boat. My name's George Milton. I'm joined as always by my flamboyant and delightful co-host, this beautiful boy, his name, Brent Bobby. Say hello to Brent.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Hello. I don't know if I can do this.

SPEAKER_05 1:24

Hello, Brent. I'm also joined today by my beautiful boy. He's a delightful and it smells like cream. It's him. It's Johnny King. Say hello to Johnny.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

What's up? Is this gonna be the whole shit? No, I can't do that. I can't do the whole shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:44

I don't think any of us could take that if you did it the whole time.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

I don't think George could take it himself if he did it.

SPEAKER_04 1:50

I don't know. Welcome to V2 the podcast. We're just trying to snap Brent into a better mood because he just had like 15, 17 minutes of audio issues. Yeah, that wasn't much fun. While me and Johnny did the safety dance.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

Well we did. We danced it into working.

SPEAKER_04 2:08

We made it work. We did. Well, guys, how's the week? Man, aside from aside from everybody's scared of the hantivirus now.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

Yeah. Not me.

SPEAKER_04 2:19

Yeah. But it's just all over the news. The hantivirus is everywhere. Never have I read so much about hantivirus. I don't know why people take cruises. Are you good?

SPEAKER_02 2:28

Do you guys like you know, I actually used to do a lot of cruises, and I have not been on a cruise in probably uh 12 years or something like that. I mean, but whenever I was in my twenties and uh wanted a vacation, it was pretty good, like, you know, bang for the buck type thing. But yeah, nowadays, uh, I don't know. I I I just feel like maybe cruises are for like either just like really young or really old people. Like it's harder to do it when you're in the middle, I think.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

We did I guess when we were younger, we did cruises, a couple of cruises, and it was fun, but we were just kind of like, all right, we're done with that. But we did uh last summer we went to Alaska. We did Alaska cruise. That was very cool. I felt like that was I would do that again.

SPEAKER_04 3:15

Did you get off the boat a lot? Was there a lot of like sightseeing and getting off the boat?

SPEAKER_03 3:20

There were we had two stops that we remember were were really good. Like Juno, we got off and we did kind of a whale watching tour, and then we did another place that was kind of like an old I think it was like an old gold mining town or something. They had a train that went up in the mountains, which was cool. But for me, I liked it the I actually enjoyed getting up and just like going out and looking from the boat because you could see land most of the time, and there was always a chance that you were gonna see, you know, whales or I don't know. We just saw a bunch I like I like that kind of stuff. I like seeing wildlife and bald eagles and all that. It was great.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

See, what I always liked about cruises wasn't so much the I mean the stops were cool and all that, but uh especially when I was in my twenties, uh it was a great way to like you could get on this ship and you're isolated with these people for a week. Yeah. So I could just go and do some of the, you know, well, you know, it's a big ship, but I I I would go and do do some little like performance thing that I could find, rather that was like a lot of the time they'll have like a live band karaoke or something, and those tend to be some of the areas of the ship that'll get a little bit more traffic. So I'd go in there and try to make sure I'd perform up front where people could see me, and then the rest of the cruise, I would just kind of enjoy a free drinks and meeting people that wanted to chat with me.

SPEAKER_04 4:39

So that's always a fun little you got to be the celebrity of the cruise.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

Yeah. Now I go on the cruise and I just kind of want to be left alone if I if I were to go on a vacation like that.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

It's funny on the oh, go ahead, George.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

I was just gonna say if I wanted to go on a vacation where I wanted to be left alone, I wouldn't go on a cruise.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely. Maybe why I haven't been on a cruise in like twin ten, twelve years.

SPEAKER_04 5:00

I will say I'm judging from a distance because I've never been on a cruise. I've just I've never been on one. No.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

So you're just that much better than us. Yeah. Just another another reminder, our daily reminder that George is better than us.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Well, I mean, I see you guys, I send you guys you guys see the email every morning, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Well, yes. How is George better than us?

SPEAKER_04 5:22

Yeah, no unsubscribe button. No. Yeah. If you reply like you can't veto this bitch. If you reply un stop or unsubscribe, it just doubles down, sends you one in the evening too.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Yeah, I was actually uh George's first, whatever the opposite of a subscriber is.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

Uh victim, I think. Patient, uh, because it is covered by insurance. It's not optional, but your insurance covers it. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Um the deductible's a real bitch, though.

SPEAKER_04 5:53

Uh speaking of deductibles, I'm gonna hand you guys some veto cards. These veto cards are tax deductible. You can also use them towards your copay at your doctor's office. All right.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

What is the cash value? Oh, cash value zero dollars.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Okay. But so it's more like a voucher in the voucher, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

It's uh it lets people know who you are, where you're from, what your likes are, what your favorite color is. It's all encoded. It's all encoded in the veto voucher. We've all got two, and we can use them for whatever. We're pretty loose with what we use them for.

SPEAKER_03 6:28

I think so. I think it uh I think it's good.

SPEAKER_04 6:32

Johnny, we talked about this off the microphone. You guys are moving, which is exciting.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

Yeah. We uh we're buying a house, we've been renting, and then uh we found a cool place that's it's on the water. So I need to buy a boat, some kayaks, yeah, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

Big big mover. I can't wait to I can't wait to uh ride in your boat. Yeah, come on. I can't wait to be one of I can't wait to be a headline in Florida man. A Florida man headline.

SPEAKER_03 7:07

Texas man becomes Florida man.

SPEAKER_04 7:09

I feel like tech I feel like Texas guys are just like waiting to be Florida guys. Like half the Texas guys I know just need to be somewhere that's a little more like Florida and a little less like Texas.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Yeah. Well, one thing that I think Florida has always done really well is it is one of the ultimate examples of something that is classy if you're rich and trashy if you're poor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

That's true. There's no middle class. There's no middle class in Florida. No middle class in Florida.

SPEAKER_06 7:40

All right.

SPEAKER_04 7:41

Yeah. I know where that puts you, Johnny. Okay. The King of Florida. Yeah. That's what I'm gonna change your name on my phone to the King of Florida.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

King of Florida? Yeah. I'll take it. I'll take it.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Yeah, you're either frequenting your villa or the headlines as Florida man. Florida man. One of the one of the two.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Ooh. So this is funny. That the house that we're buying, when it went under contract, we went or we. I did. I Googled the guy's name. I was like, I'm curious to know what this guy, you know, what he was into, or whatever. And I found the guy, and he was a Florida man.

SPEAKER_05 8:20

No way.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

Swear to God, Florida man was arrested for streaking at a PGA tour event. Hell yeah. And I thought, I thought, man, there's no way it's the it's the same guy. And sure enough, it was. It was the same guy. You go to closing day and he's like, hey, did you look me up? Yeah. I'm like, Florida man, we got a Florida man house.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

You have to, you've inherited a kind of a big legacy, Johnny. Yeah. If you if you walk in the pants to fill. If you walk into the closet and there's a giant set of shoes, those are for your feet. You gotta get your feet in those somehow. Speaking of getting your feet into stuff, let's get our feet into this episode of Vito the Podcast. Let's do it. Let's get our feet down there where it's nice and where it's warm and squishy. I hope you guys prepared some great segments today. We'll find out. If not, just really quickly AI a segment. Be like, Chat GPT, make me a bit more. Tell me what to do. Tell me what to do. I'm gonna go to the dice of destiny. Brent, because we want to put a smile on your face, why don't you pick your two numbers? You get to pick your numbers, man. Two and five. Okay, you asshole. It's the last time I'll let you pick your numbers. Okay. Two and five. Cool, man. I'll be one and three. I'll be one and four. Johnny will be the I'll be the three and three. I'm gonna roll this before I. That's Florida math right there. Three, which is I don't know. I forgot. That's Johnny. Johnny's. I think that was you. No, I was one and four. Johnny's three. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. All right. Run back to Johnny. Yeah, we'll be no, it's Johnny. It's Johnny's three. Yay, Johnny! It's you!

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Nope, we sure won't. All right. So last week, or last week we talked about uh I had a little game about online betting markets and the funny things that people bet on.

SPEAKER_06 10:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

And and I was left thinking about it. So I came up with a new game. This game is called Betting on Vibes. So I'll tell you that I actually took a couple of my veto cards and I was able to sell them on eBay. They're collector's items. So I got a hundred dollars for three veto cards.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

George just said there was zero cash value. I know you just made a lie out of him.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

I I wanted to correct him in that moment, but I thought, no, I'll save it for now. Save it. Okay, well. So with this extra hundred dollars that I got for the case.

SPEAKER_04 10:54

Boy, George, I bet you feel dumb right now. I feel so I feel dumb and betrayed. But dumb and betrayed it at the same time.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Well, you know what? The reason why I did it, because this game doesn't have a winner or a loser. So, but I still wanted to have a loser. Vito.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

So George, you're the loser. Vito not having a loser.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

So so I signed up for CalShi. I don't even know if that's how you say it. And I put that hundred in there. And now you're gonna help me decide what I'm gonna put a bet on. All right.

SPEAKER_04 11:27

Wait, what did you sign up for?

SPEAKER_03 11:30

CalShi. I think that's it's one of the betting uh apps. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 11:34

Never heard of it, but I trust you.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

Yeah. Yeah. So um so what we're gonna do, and it the game is called Betting on Vibes. So I'm gonna give you all things that chances are you may or may not know much about it. And we're gonna spend your money. Yeah. We're spending Johnny King's money. Well, that's our money. We got it from uh the V selling Vito cards. Veto cards. That's right. So there will be losers eventually. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Yeah, eventually.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

So, um, first of all, I have been watching some NBA basketball. It's in the playoffs. Have y'all been following that?

SPEAKER_02 12:13

I probably have never watched a full basketball game in my life. Except for the ones that I physically have been to.

unknown 12:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

And even then. And even then not. George, do you guys have to be a bit more than a bit of a busy talking or having beer?

SPEAKER_04 12:28

I don't know who's in the playoffs. No. Okay, good.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

It's it's better that way. I was hoping. Oh, great. That that y'all wouldn't know anything. So I will let you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

I think the I think the Dodgers are in the playoffs.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

Yeah, yeah. They're doing great.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Brent knows enough about NBA to know how hard that joke was gonna hit.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

Okay, so there's two playoff series right now that are they're tied. It's a best of seven. They're both tied two to two. So basically, the next for each of these series, we're gonna pick who's gonna win the whole series. Nice, Brent.

SPEAKER_04 13:03

Don't mess with your tech, Brent.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

So I'm not gonna tell you anything about the teams or who's supposed to win, or what the odds are of this.

SPEAKER_04 13:12

We're betting on vibes. I get it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:14

We're going on vibes. And so we have San Antonio Spurs against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

SPEAKER_04 13:21

Okay. When do they play?

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Dead even right now. When? Yeah. I think today. I think later on today.

SPEAKER_04 13:30

Where and where do they play? Let's get the let's vibe it all out. Let's vibe it out. All right.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

Um let's see. They would be, I think they're in San Antonio. Spurs.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Well, but here's my thing is that. No, see, but my thinking is this. Mine's a little bit more nuanced. Chris Osato, who I'm such a big fan of, uh, great friend, loves the Spurs. And the thing is, if the Spurs win, he's gonna be very happy about that.

SPEAKER_04 13:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

So, like, I don't think we should have all the eggs in one basket of like, like, somebody should be happy at least. So I think it should go on the Timberwolves because if the Spurs lose and Chris is sad, at least I'll be happy.

SPEAKER_04 14:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:12

That's pretty mean spirited.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 14:15

It's just saying somebody should have joy. I'm betting. I'm bet I was betting Spurs just because I got to see the Spurs play this season in person.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

They came and played they came and more away that George is better than us.

SPEAKER_04 14:29

Did you guys seriously did you have you guys not been reading the newsletter? Because I got to go sit on the floor for this game, and I know that I put that in the newsletter. Heaven's kimm. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

So when we look at the merits of San Antonio versus the whole state of Minnesota.

SPEAKER_04 14:46

The whole state of Minnesota. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

Have y'all ever been to Minnesota? I've not yet.

SPEAKER_04 14:50

Now, what's in Minnesota? What all is it? What all's there? What's the capital of Minnesota? Uh I'll take your time. I mean, I'm pretty sure it's Minneapolis, is it not?

SPEAKER_03 15:02

I don't know. That's not a little bit of a little bit of a little bit. Maybe like St. Paul or something. St.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

Paul, I would bet. I mean Minneapolis-St. Paul's kind of the same thing, but are they?

SPEAKER_03 15:12

Brent, you're gonna get the emails now. You're gonna get hate mail. It's St.

SPEAKER_04 15:16

Paul.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Is it really? St. Paul, Minnesota. Yep. So when I think of the pride of Minnesota, I think of Prince. Yeah. And when I think of San Antonio, I think of world-class Tex-Mex food. You think of the Alamo?

SPEAKER_02 15:34

Yeah. Well, and according to Dave Chappelle, Prince could play some serious basketball, whereas according to most people, Mexican food cannot.

SPEAKER_04 15:45

We gotta give it to the Timberwolves because Prince played basketball. That's the that's the best connection I've heard. That's the best argument I've heard so far.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

And I would say the Alamo is the pride of San Antonio, the pride of Texas history. Yeah. But it's also historically a famous loss.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

For the people at the Alamo.

SPEAKER_04 16:09

Right. So I would say that we got dunked on pretty hard, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Yeah. I think so. We are Santa Anna's bitch.

SPEAKER_04 16:17

And so So we put in Johnny's money to the Minneapolis or the Minnesota Timberwolves.

SPEAKER_03 16:24

Minneapolis? Yeah. Minnesota. I guess a play probably.

SPEAKER_04 16:29

We're gonna sound like such nerds.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

Yeah. Well, that was well, or or something.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

So we're we're we're you know, I was really uh mostly joking about the Chris thing. Are we we're not gonna throw any Texas pride on there? Is there no vibes that consider into that?

SPEAKER_04 16:42

Hometown Yeah, we're all Texas people.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:47

We can bet on the hometown. But what about Brent? What about Prince? I want us to hand ball. I want us all on the same page here.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

Yeah. While there are some good reasons for both, let's let's go with Prince. Let's get it. I vote for Prince. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:02

Alright. I'm I'm going for Prince.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

Prince also does really good guitar solos.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:08

Really?

SPEAKER_04 17:09

I heard I heard about that. Yeah, I watched that. I watched that clip from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of him playing that solo to my guitar gently weeps.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

Like oh, where he throws the guitar up in the air and it never comes down? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

And he wouldn't stop. He just kept going. Yeah. Is that the one?

SPEAKER_04 17:27

Yeah, where they're like, where they're like, okay, everybody else gets half a verse, and Prince gets like, just until he'll he'll nod you. He'll nod at you when he's until he's nods you back in. Just let him tucker himself up. Let him tucker himself.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

But but I mean, but Berly, at the end of that clip, do you know what I'm talking about? He takes his guitar off. He literally throws it straight into the air, directly vertical, and it doesn't come back down. I don't know. I don't know how they pulled that off.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

Stagecraft, man. Yeah. No, he's God. And he was fucking Yeah, he's fucking Prince.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

Yeah. Alright. So money's on Prince.

SPEAKER_04 18:01

Yeah, we're putting our money on Prince.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

Alright, the next two teams, it's Cleveland versus Detroit.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Okay. Are they still called the Indians?

SPEAKER_03 18:11

They it is Cleveland for Basketball. That's the Browns, right? The Cavaliers.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

Oh, right. I've never heard of them. No kidding.

SPEAKER_04 18:21

The Cavs versus the Pistons.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

But is their baseball team still called the Indians, or did they change that? I think they gotta have changed that. They had to, but I you heard a lot about the the Redskins changing. I didn't really hear much. I think they just took away the cartoon chief, whatever his name was.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

I I feel like they're still the Indians.

SPEAKER_04 18:42

The Cleveland Guardians.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Oh. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

Yeah. I remember some other Washington, I guess, or some some other team. I think it was basketball. Or the Bullets. And I think they changed. So there's some I don't remember, you know, I get lost in all that.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

Well, they they used to have the Beaumont Asians, and uh that was struck down almost immediately. Was that really a team? The Beaumont Asians? No, of course not. That's me. I'm only remarking on how ridiculous it was to have Indians as a team name.

SPEAKER_04 19:14

Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're right.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

That's funny. They wouldn't have called them Asians. They would have gone more.

SPEAKER_04 19:20

They would have gone a little more Beaumont with the China.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:24

Yeah. Yeah. Yes, Cleveland versus Detroit. Where are we putting Johnny's money? Because Detroit is Cadillac and Eminem, right? Yeah. And also Kid Rock, though. Kid Rock. Shit. Negative two. Sorry. One Kid Rock cancels out a Cadillac and an Eminem. That's just math. We're even. We're even. Yeah. Detroit's back to even.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

Don't don't tell Eminem that he was canceled out by Kid Rock, though.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Yeah, I won't. I don't I don't know. What's Cleveland got? What's Cleveland got? It's so done special. They invented the globe. Oh, they did. They did invent the globe.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

The globe. Have y'all been to either of these places?

SPEAKER_04 20:14

Uh I have not. No, I haven't been too much.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

I've been to Detroit before uh when I lived up in Indianapolis.

SPEAKER_04 20:21

Actually, sorry, I forgot. I went I took a cruise that went from Cleveland to Detroit, which is why I don't like cruises. I don't like cruises anymore.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

On the Erie Lake?

SPEAKER_02 20:30

No, wait, actually, I think I think I have been to Cleveland. I feel like I've maybe there used to be a big bang pianos there that I played at one time.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 20:37

How far is Cleveland from Cincinnati? Is that are those close at all?

SPEAKER_03 20:41

Quite. They both start with C. Yeah, there you go. So they're close, they're close in the close in the alphabet.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

And the dictionary. I mean, Ohio isn't like a huge, huge state anyway. At least not compared to Texas. I mean, you can drive across the thing in like, you know, a few hours. Yeah. Two points for Texas.

SPEAKER_06 20:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

I might Yeah, there was, yeah. I have been to Cleveland and I've played at the when there was a there was a Big Bang piano bar there on Front Avenue.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

Well, hey Brent, what were the vibes? Yeah. What are the vibes? No, you're you're about to pick our winner right now.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Okay. Well then then I will say now that I'm remembering actually being there, I forgot what town it was, but now I'm seeing the pictures of it. I liked Cleveland more than I liked Detroit. I didn't feel super safe in Detroit a lot of the time that I was there.

SPEAKER_03 21:26

Cleveland was that's good for basketball, though, I think. That's true.

SPEAKER_04 21:31

I'd like to get I'd like to get like the the data on how many times that sentence has been said. I didn't feel too safe in Detroit. Hey, let's pick. Let's pick Cleveland.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

I'd have to go Cleveland. Yeah. Brent said the vibes. Based on vibes. That's what we're that's what we're going on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

All right, Cleveland. We're doing Cleveland.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

When I was there, it was good vibes. So maybe that will translate into maybe.

SPEAKER_04 21:59

Hey man, it's It takes a while to shake a vibe. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 22:03

Yeah. Alright. So we so we're picking that. Let's do let's do one more. Let's do so. This is one I have no idea, but uh so the Eurovision finale is this weekend. Of course. Yeah. And so my only reference for Eurovision is the movie, the Will Ferrell movie. Have y'all seen that movie?

SPEAKER_04 22:23

Is Eurovision techno the techno music?

SPEAKER_03 22:28

Yeah, it's like Euro Techno That's really today. I I if I hopefully I read this right.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

I thought it I mean like the final I thought that it already happened this year. I could have sworn already. Or or within the last year, I mean. You better come correctly. It is. It's going on. It's been a year already.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

It's today. It starts today. Yeah. All right. Yeah. In Vienna.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Yeah, no, that's really cool. I have actually I've watched it like the last three years, actually. Have you really? Yeah, I really have.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

Oh God. I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

It's super cool. Like, I mean, it's like a I think this year it might be kind of weird because there's so much of that, you know, there's a lot of countries that are boycotting it because they they because the competition didn't boycott Israel. And so it's it's like kind of a mess right now.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

But it's political intrigue.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

It's yeah, it's very much so. But we're already getting some vibes. But the whole the whole idea of it is like you have you know these contests that are happening leading up to this, where like they'll have an artist that's got an original song, it's got to be an original song, and they will kind of do a sort of a battle of the bands type thing and get voted through, and then each country is picking one artist, or more particularly one song by that artist to go represent them. And all of the countries that are involved all have a vote that they put out there for it, and like they'll have representatives from that country, and the rule is that you can't vote for your own country, so you have to vote for somebody else's. And then that's nice. And then the other half of the vote. So like they they do all of those votes first, and you and see what countries are in the lead, and then they start letting out all of the they announce all of the results from the audience polls, which actually like give the final points to place people. So it's it's pretty exciting, actually. It's it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

It's really cool. So what are we voting on? Based on the markets, I picked the top three favorites because I I think it'd be more fun if we picked one that won. And this is not in the order of the favorites, but I'll tell you Denmark, Finland, and Greece are the top three favorites. So we're gonna pick one of those.

SPEAKER_04 24:42

And the style is like any style, or is it EDM?

SPEAKER_02 24:46

They the styles can wildly vary. I mean, sometimes there's been acts on there that are like very like death metal adjacent, some that are like just really poppy, some that are super ballady and smarmy and just but you know. I am gonna say that every year that I've watched it, they haven't won, but Greece has always put up like a really cool show. If I'm going on vibes based on nothing other than I don't know what artists we're talking about, we're just talking about you know the countries that are being represented. Greece has always put on a pretty good show. That'd be my vote. I'd I'd pick Greece.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Oh, we got we got insider information. So we got Greece or Finland or Denmark?

SPEAKER_04 25:25

I don't know much about Finland and Denmark.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

Me either.

SPEAKER_04 25:29

Denmark is a good one. I always like to go there. What was the Shakespeare play that was in Denmark? Hamlet. Hamlet, Hamlet's in Denmark. Right? What's that? The vibes in Hamlet are pretty bad. Yeah. Right? Pretty pretty mid vibes at at best and bad vibes at worst.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Well, my my buddy that's staying with me this week is from Finland. So, you know, I'd almost want to give a vote that way, but I haven't always cared for their music that much.

SPEAKER_03 25:57

What do you think about your buddy though? Yeah, what's great? He's he's alright. He's alright. Does he talk funny? Does he have a funny?

SPEAKER_02 26:05

He sounds you would think he was like probably English. He's he's lived in just general like all over the UK for most of his adult life, so he just kind of sounds English. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:17

So his vibes are pretty good. Hamlet bad vibes. Good vibes from Greece. I mean, I'd put Johnny's money into Greece as well. Because also Greece, the musical. Pretty good vibes.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

I think that's it. I think you just you just brought something completely from left field, brought it in. It makes sense. So think Greece.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Yeah, they're the one that I want. The one that I want.

SPEAKER_04 26:45

Good. Alright. There's nothing there's nothing else we need to add to that, I don't think.

SPEAKER_03 26:49

I think I think all of this is correct. Greece it is. So Greece, it is.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Oh shit. Hey, we need to take a break real quick. Yeah, yeah. We're gonna take a break because Brent's gonna take an important call. We'll be right back, you guys. Stick with us.

SPEAKER_05 27:06

And welcome back to Vito Podcast. We're doing voices today.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

It's no, I can't. Sorry. I can't.

SPEAKER_02 27:15

I'm tired of doing this voice that I've been putting on. I gotta talk in my real voice for once. Hey, I'm so glad you guys got here on the podcast with me.

SPEAKER_04 27:24

Good. That's Brent, by the way. I know it sounded like a new person just joined the podcast, but no, that was Brent doing it.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

I just got tired of talking with that fake ass voice that I use all the time. Dude, that is a perfect cockney.

SPEAKER_05 27:39

I thought Paul is Cockney accent, my friend. Forget about it. I'm Cockney. I'm walking. I'm walking. I'm walking the irreliverpool.

SPEAKER_04 27:54

Get the fuck out of my way. We spent all or most of Johnny King's allowance in the last episode. In the last episode, George.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

I got a voice actor challenge for you right now. Just right on the spot. It's a cuff. God. Give me a macho man Randy Savage with a cogney accent.

SPEAKER_04 28:12

Okay, hold on. Let me channel it.

SPEAKER_05 28:14

I'm Macho Man Randy Savage. Fucking walk in here.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

Elbow to the face. Nobody, nobody could say that was anything less than perfect.

SPEAKER_05 28:25

Snaping thuas fucking Slim Jim already.

SPEAKER_04 28:33

Guys, I just got a no I just got a notification that we've all been hired uh for voice acting.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Hell yeah. Does it pay anything?

SPEAKER_04 28:41

Nope. But it's experience. We it's uh we can put it on our reel it says.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

So that's pretty valuable. We're doing it for the exposure.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

Exposure, that's what it is. It's for the exposure. It's actually a cartoon remake of Northern Exposure. So it is for the exposure.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

I started my own version of that called Indecent.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Yeah, Indecent Northern Exposure.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

And everybody's mine's actually a little more southern.

SPEAKER_04 29:09

I just and everybody's from uh everybody's from like Minnesota and Wisconsin, which Johnny can give us a quick like Minnesota slash Wisconsin accent. You betcha, don't you know? That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

I did not get hired for voice acting. I'm the studio audience.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

All I know is this is so far the best segment we've ever had.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

This is uh this is just it is the best segment we've ever had. Let's go to the dice of destiny. It's me or Brent this time. Uh I'm not even gonna ask Brent because he's gonna come up with some bullshit number sequence that doesn't even go on the dice. You know you are. You bad boy. One through three is gonna be me. Four through six is gonna be Brent. That's a five.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

It's a five. Well, guys, I was hoping to get into today a little bit more of the uh hall of mediocrity because uh we were uh you know earlier talking about cruises and all these things, but uh like uh one thing that's worth discussing is I think we need to give a uh official award to the most mediocre vacation destination.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

Now, to to remind you of uh the way that this format's meant to go, so we're we're setting the category, which is gonna be vacation destinations, but everybody needs to nominate one place that you would like to call a the most mediocre destination. It can't be it can't be too shitty, it can't be awesome. It's gotta be as mediocre as it can be. But after all three of us have nominated one, we'll have a little bit of an open debate, and one of these places will live in infamy as a mediocre destination vacation.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

I mean, I'm not nominating this one, but I just feel like not even in honor of Johnny King. I feel like there's gotta be one from Florida, maybe two from Florida. Yeah. Like there, I mean, you've got Disney, you've got Disney World. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Before the before the mediocre, uh yeah, is it though? Like, I feel like it's mediocre in the sense that it costs a million dollars to go ride two rides and stand in the hot sun while people are, you know, just being taken down these bovine lines all day. But it's still one of those things that like the grandeur of what it is, like it's it's kind of amazing. Like it's a it's an accomplishment of mankind. It's it's the happiest place on earth, as they call it. Can we really call that mediocre? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

But I feel like but I feel like there's like the stuff you just mentioned. I don't disagree with you. And I lived in Orlando for a little while, not to brag. This is also in the newsletter. That was in the newsletter.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

I I remember that one. I feel like you always start the newsletter. Remember, remember to live in Orlando for Orlando.

SPEAKER_04 31:52

Actually, like a little bit outside of Orlando. So yeah. Um I do think it's magical. I think I think all the magic and and like yeah, it was an amazing thing that they built in the cheap swamp that they moved everything to, but like all the stuff you mentioned, plus the times of the year that it's busiest, it's like a hundred percent humidity and like a hundred degrees outside, and the lines and the cost of everything. Doesn't that kind of balance it down to mediocre? I would never say that Disney's a shitty vacation. Yeah. Anyway, I'm not nominating it. I'm not norminating it.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Are you not? Sounds like you are. You really put a lot of energy into something you're not nominating.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

Well, also, I would also say Panama City. Panama City's right there. And it's like Panama City's a great time or an awful time, or just like a real redneck time.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

Is Panama City different than Panama City Beach, or is that just a shortened It's the same, it's the same thing. Okay. Well, because like in Florida, like Pensacola is not the same as Pensacola Beach. They're two different spots.

SPEAKER_04 32:56

Well, Panama Panama City is like downtown Panama City. I see. Which isn't a thing. That's not really that might be a good contender.

SPEAKER_02 33:06

I could I could see get behind that. I was like, Heidi's aunt and uncle own a property in Margaritaville.

unknown 33:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:14

You know, the Jimmy Buffett like retirement community over there. Latitude, it's called. Latitude by Margaritaville.

SPEAKER_04 33:19

Latitude. That sounds a retirement place. Insufferable place. Insufferable. Is that considered a vacation destination? That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

No, I'm just saying that we've been to old PCB because we visited them, so like I have a little bit of experience being there. No, that that wouldn't count what they're doing as the vacation. Although we went there to visit them, making it a vacation destination in that moment. You know, and I think anytime you take time off work and you go somewhere, that was a vacation.

SPEAKER_04 33:49

I think that we're talking about like I go to Birmingham. We're talking about, yeah, places that like Birmingham, Alabama. That's a place that I go, but like it's not we go to Galveston on vacation. I was gonna nominate Galveston. That was gonna be my nomination.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

That was gonna be my nomination. Because it is a destination, like people, yeah, particularly in this area of Texas, like if you live three hours from Galveston, you might be like, Hey, well, you guys doing a summer vacation this summer, and they'll be like, Yeah, we're taking the kids over to Galveston for a week. And like that counts as a vacation for some, apparently, but it's so mediocre in every sense of the word.

SPEAKER_04 34:29

We try to vacation in Galveston.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

See? I grew up in Houston, yeah. So you went to Galveston. So we went to Galveston a lot, and we used to vacation in in Galveston, and but that was when I was I was young. I loved it, I loved it so much.

SPEAKER_04 34:45

Galveston's grown on me. I chose it.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:48

The first time I went, because like Erin and her family all grew up like in Galveston and going to Galveston, and they've all spent some time like living in Galveston. And like I we met in Houston, and the first time she took me down to Galveston, there was so much buildup to this place, and I got down there, and it's like these like flat, nasty beaches, the water's not that great. There's not like there's a couple of things. You're selling my point. There's like a couple of things to do, and like there's I think Pleasure Pier was not even open the first time we went there. There's like a couple of places to eat and drink, and like whatever little downtime. It's it has grown on me. I love Galveston now, but like the first time I time I went, I was like, what were you talking about? And she's just like, she's just like, but look around, and it like cuts back to me, and like like through my vision, I'm just like looking around at like a pretty mediocre beach, and I'm like, what? Look around. I'm looking.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:46

Well, George loves Galveston. Okay, like I I, you know, we're supposed to nominate before we do have the open debate. We're getting into open debate territory a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 35:54

Sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Galveston is the one that I'm gonna tag as my nomination. I mean, you it's the one that you want? That's the one that I want, and I and I I'm happy to argue for it. So do you have one besides Disney World?

SPEAKER_03 36:05

So I'm gonna I'm gonna pick one. The first one that that popped in my head, and it's it's a little bit bigger than Galveston, as far as like I've heard that before. People that go. Yeah. Um I was gonna say Cancun. Okay. And that's my nominee. I don't know if we're gonna discuss We can. Oh, we will.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Let's get George's nomination, and then I think we should each make a case for our place. Because I'd like to argue against Cancun, just like George.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

I mean, if we're if we're putting Cancun versus Galveston, that then that's not that's not a fair fight. So I might need to calibrate, recalibrate to match the Galveston energy. So I might I might change it up a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 36:51

I'm gonna, you know what? I'm gonna, it was my first thing that I thought of. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna sit nominate Disney World in Orlando, Florida. All right. Because Disneyland, I think, well, we're not discussing them yet. When do we start discussing? Let's go. Discussion.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

We just need a nomination from everybody. That's all.

SPEAKER_04 37:06

Well, Johnny's backing off on Cancun.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

No, you know what? I'm sticking with Cancun. All right, well, good.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

Because that's, you know, it's it's like we're arguing which car is faster, and you just were like, hey, I'm gonna bring a it it's a terrible analogy. Let me just back out of that altogether. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_03 37:23

I vetoed that analogy.

SPEAKER_04 37:25

Yeah, I used a veto card. Yeah, wow. I finally, yeah. Hey, Johnny, you have to use your veto cards here. You can't sell them on the black.

SPEAKER_06 37:33

No, sell them on a bubble and gamble with that money.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Use them here. Those those were expired ones anyway. They were the ones he sold were past our experience. So, yeah, let's let's let's talk about this then. Okay, because like the only thing that I think that you're really gonna get a win out of. I mean, like, the only way that you could argue that Disney World is more mediocre than Galveston is the price tag. That's really the only thing that you're, you know, or maybe like wait times. There's nothing in Galveston that you're gonna find that you're gonna need to wait for nearly as long. But like the reason you're not waiting is because there's just not enough of a demand there because everybody goes and you can see with your own eyes, as George did the first time he went, that Galveston just kind of sucks. You know, like if you're going for a beach, like the reason you're going to Galveston, it sucks or that it's mediocre.

SPEAKER_04 38:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

So okay, fine. But I mean I'm saying mediocre because like I'm saying sucks in the mediocre sense because the beach it is a beach. Like you do have water there, you can go get in the sun and all that. But the only reason you're going to that beach is probably because it was like the one in closest proximity to you. It's not like anyone's gonna like leave Florida to come to Galveston, but lots of people are probably leave Galveston to go to Florida. So I mean, you know, I'm yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Well, I would say tune that guitar.

SPEAKER_04 38:53

If we've got like if we're putting Cancun and Disney World in the same consideration set, like people come from all over the world to go to Disney World, right? Do people come from all over the world to go to Cancun, or is that like a local kind of like are people from Greece like going to Cancun?

SPEAKER_03 39:14

See, I see Cancun as a place that is somebody wants to go to Mexico down to the Caribbean.

SPEAKER_02 39:22

But you don't want to go to Mexico.

SPEAKER_03 39:24

And well, I just think of the places you can choose to go that Cancun is just it's just kind of overplayed. It's just uh like go somewhere else.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

You know, it's just it's just Okay, but let me ask you this, and here's where I think I'm gonna have my gotcha question on that one.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

All right, bring it. Get me.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

So you personally are offered for the same price to take a vacation to either one of those two places. You're telling me you're going to Galveston instead of Cancun.

SPEAKER_03 39:51

So I'm giving you my gotcha answer, is that my argument is that Cancun is mediocre. Galveston sucks.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

That is such a good rebuttal. That is such a good rebuttal.

SPEAKER_03 40:06

So now I want to argue that Galveston doesn't suck. Yeah. These are your rules, Brent. That it doesn't have to not suck.

SPEAKER_02 40:16

That's that's fair. It's the hall of mediocrity, not the hall of sucks. Yeah, no, but okay, so let me give you that. Let me give you that. That that is a very good argument to I just don't think that Cancun is that mediocre. Like the only thing that I really find to be mediocre about it is that kind of the argument Johnny's making is that like people have sort of just homogenized it so much as just like it's just like a vacation spot. It's not, you're not really visiting Mexico in any like traditional sense of the word. It's like, you know, everywhere you go, people are mostly speaking English because it's like that's the crowd, you know, it's like all everything's all fixed up and it's it's all fake, you know, like facades everywhere. But like, so that that would be an argument for the mediocrity of it. But like it's still like it's it's a tropical place with like objectively gorgeous beaches. I mean, if you if you cut all the other stuff out of it, the beaches are some of the most beautiful in the world. Like you have a really hard time kind of discounting that parts.

SPEAKER_04 41:10

You're good.

SPEAKER_02 41:10

So I think beautiful beaches work very much against mediocrity, whereas Galveston's beaches, you can swim in it. You can even go rent a surfboard and get on the water and try. In fact, if you're a beginner surfer, pretty good place to go for it because the waves are so fing small. But uh, you know, I think it's more mediocre than than than Cancun. Maybe a rule that we need to add to this, though, is that like one once we have our our vote at the end, the vote can't be for your own thing.

SPEAKER_04 41:33

That way we either have a I think we set that rule, but I I don't I don't love that rule just because I could be convinced. No, I can be convinced too. Like I'm not gonna necessarily vote for my own thing just because uh I think that that rule makes it there's not enough.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

I'm just saying that I don't know that Johnny or I are either one convincing the other right now of our own thing. So George might be.

SPEAKER_04 42:41

Galveston's got some of those places too because it's a destination. You can still go to a nice steakhouse and you know, you can go get fresh fish and all that sort of stuff, but you're balanced, we're all kind of like balancing it out by like, oh, there's some shitty stuff too, and then there's a bunch of like really run-of-the-mill stuff. I enjoyed going to Disney World like when I lived in Orlando. I just like it seems like such a mediocre, I don't know, it seems like such a mediocre thing to do, especially for the price. Like, if you said all these things are the same price, we would be trying to pick the best value. And if I was like, okay, it's gonna cost you $500 to do three days in any of these places, the best value is probably to go to Disney World because everything's so fucking expensive. Second best value would be Cancun, and then the third best value would be Galveston. I think you go to Galveston for like the value and the closeness, right?

SPEAKER_02 43:35

Like you can still have it's close when you're poor, and that's why you go to Galveston.

SPEAKER_04 43:40

Well, so like in Alabama, like growing up in Alabama, like like the Gulf Coast, the Florida Bama Gulf Coast is like it's this weird thing that I've never understood about Alabama. And I thought it was I thought it was this way, like everywhere, but like people in Alabama talk about Going to the beach like all year. Like they'll talk about their beach beach vacation. Oh, yeah, we're going to the beach in June. And they mean Gulf Shores or Orange Beach or like Fort Walton or whatever. They mean one of the Pensacola, like, and now uh what is it, 30A or like uh Rosemary Beach? Yeah, the f but like they'll talk about they're start talking about their beach vacation in like October. And like people in Alabama will go seriously into debt. They'll spend twenty thousand dollars going to debt to fucking go to Gulf Shores for a week. Wow and like in Texas, in Texas, like that's like 10 years of going to Galveston, you know? Like and people are just like, yeah, we'll pop down to Galveston this weekend, and and like Alabama, they're talking about it forever. And so like I think that I don't know the point I'm making. Damn it. I'm saying that I I'm saying that I'm probably gonna back Disney World out. I'm probably backing Disney World out.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

Okay, all right. Good. I mean, because otherwise I think we've been looking at a deadlock here. I don't know if that we're getting a uh well inducted institute my vote yet. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:10

Johnny, what's your vote right now? I've made my case. Brent, are you voting for Cancun? You're still locked in on Cancun, it seems. I mean, sorry, Brent Galveston.

SPEAKER_02 45:19

Yeah, if we're allowed to vote vote for our own then Galveston, if we're not, then obviously I'll have to go Canada. No, no, you can vote Galveston.

SPEAKER_03 45:26

Yeah, you can vote Galveston. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:28

Okay, uh 30 seconds on the clock, Brent. Give me your uh I'm the tiebreaker guy here, so give me your 30 seconds. So we're pitching to George. Pitch to me. All right. Ready, set? But who's first? Brent's first. 30 seconds on the clock. Go.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

Cancun is an objectively cool place. There's a couple things that like aren't that great about it, you know, that you could try to uh chalk up to mediocrity, but it's beautiful beaches, amazing food, and everything's like super cheap there. Even like, I mean, maybe more expensive than other parts of Mexico, but like it's a good destination. It's just overplayed and a little bit worn out, but it's not mediocre. That's my argument.

SPEAKER_04 46:04

Uh six seconds, he doesn't need his whole time, right? Okay, pretty good. Johnny King, 30 seconds on the clock. Uh tell me why Cancun's more mediocre than Galveston. Go.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Cancun is not more mediocre than Galveston. I actually, of all of the places, I do I think you've convinced me, Brent. Galveston. Whoa! Yeah, he's throwing it to Galveston. I'll tell you why. All right. Because of the the the reason why you convinced me is because the other two places are like this fake kind of facade, and Galveston is real.

SPEAKER_02 46:40

They didn't even bother putting up a facade. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:43

I mean, at least it was real when I went. I know uh I don't know what this pleasure pier is. I assume that's just a bunch of massage parlors. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

There used to be a place called the flagship hotel that was on there, and they remember that.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

Yeah, we stayed there.

SPEAKER_02 46:57

Yeah, they like rehashed that that pier and made it into a kind of a small theme park.

SPEAKER_04 47:02

It's kind of like a miniature version of like Santa Monica Pier or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's kind of cool. Yeah. But it's just too cool. It's just kind of cool. Yeah. Right. Well, yeah. It's it's okay, you win. There's no need to rub it in. You got the you got we're gonna we're gonna check.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to welcome Galveston, Texas, as our newest inductee into the hall of mediocrity. Tonight, if anybody is free, there is going to be a huge party at City Hall in Galveston. They are sparing no expense for this. Actually, they're sparing a pretty good bit of expense. They don't want to make it too cool.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

But uh, mediocre, it'll be the most mediocre party of the year.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

There's the character voice again.

SPEAKER_04 47:46

I'm on down to the Galveston. We're in the hollow mediocrity. Uh all right, back to the dice for one more. One more. It's gonna be one through twenty-five is gonna be me. That's a six. Woo! That's me. Surprise, surprise, guys. We're gonna give advice to people on the internet. I feel like I got a couple of good ones. This one, this one is like high priority. This was posted two hours ago, and it is uh it looks important. We need to solve this for this guy now. Yes, it's her channel.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

We're we're quickly answering two hours after it was released. That's right for a podcast that's still gonna take uh at least a few more days to be dropped. We gotta answer it now.

SPEAKER_04 48:36

Girl I met won't leave motel room. Long story short, it's 8 44 a.m. Checkout is 11 a.m. If I check out with her still here, will I get in trouble for leaving her here? Met her on Tender and didn't tell me until this morning she is semi-homeless. Edit. I have a bag that belongs to her in my car at 9 30. I will be going out, getting it, bringing it back to the room, and checking out afterwards. Update. Notified staff, $20 cover charge if she doesn't leave on time. Blocked her number and thinking of getting the fuck out. What should I do?

SPEAKER_02 49:10

You're telling me this guy is only looking at a $20 charge to resolve this issue?

SPEAKER_04 49:16

I think that's what he's saying.

unknown 49:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

Blocker, pay 20 bucks and fuck off and go enjoy your life.

SPEAKER_04 49:22

That's you got a little I mean it feels like a it feels like a little prostituty. It feels like a hooker, right? Yeah, it feels a little prostitute-y.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

Uh you know, is it still just a prostitute?

SPEAKER_03 49:33

It's prostituty no. And get the fuck out.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

I feel like for to be a prostitute, you had to come to terms before the sex was had. Money that it was incurred as a result of sex thereafter, I don't think qualifies for prostituty.

SPEAKER_04 49:48

But she's also not, I guess she's not really getting the money, but she's getting the benefit. She's getting the benefit of the layout.

SPEAKER_02 49:53

But he spent twenty dollars plus a hotel to get laid, so that feels a little prostituty.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

That is prostitute. It's tender, which is a little prostitute-y. Is Tinder prostitutee? Is it a little prostitute? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

Not unless there's money being exchanged. I think it's a little I think it's a little whore ish maybe, but so it's pros prostitute adjacent.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

Prostitute adjacent. How many people do you think are on Tinder trying to just get a place to stay for the night? Seven. Seven? Wow. You answered that fast, Brent.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

Can you?

SPEAKER_04 50:26

Yeah. Well, I was going off of vibes. Vibes. Okay. This one's easy. Pay the 20 bucks and get the fuck out. Get out. Get the fuck out. Okay. Where are we going next? My ex wants me to tell her husband why I left her, and I don't know if I should. My ex from almost 10 years ago randomly messaged me and now wants me to help explain to her husband why I dumped her. I'm 34 now. We dated in our mid-20s for almost three years. Serious relationship. Talked about marriage, kids, all that. I genuinely thought she was the one. Then one night I got a call from a random guy. He asked if I was dating Jenna. I said yes. He went quiet for a second and said, Yeah, so am I. Turns out she'd been seeing both of us for almost a year. He thought he was her boyfriend too. I didn't confront her in person. I packed up her stuff, dropped it off while she was at work, and sent one text saying, I know everything. Don't contact me again. She blew up my phone for weeks with excuses about being confused and not wanting to lose me. I blocked her and moved on. That was nine years ago. Last week she messaged me from a new account. She's married now with two kids. Apparently, her husband found old messages and asked if she had cheated in previous relationships. She asked if I would explain what happened because, and this is her exact wording, it'll sound less horrible if it comes from you. I actually laughed out loud when I read that. Less horrible. Like I'm supposed to help her turn cheating on two guys for a year into some kind of misunderstanding. I ignored her, but she messaged again saying she's trying to save her marriage, and I'm the only person who can help. Part of me thinks I don't owe her anything. Another part of me thinks if her husband is asking these questions and she's still minimizing what she did, he probably deserves the truth. But I also don't want to get dragged into their marriage and somehow become the bad guy. So do I keep ignoring her? If her husband contacts me directly, do I tell him exactly what happened? This is a chunky one. This is a good one. So crazy. Crazy. Because my because my knee-jerk reaction, like when I first got to the question of like I, you know, here's what she wants from him. I was like, just block this bitch. Just block her. But it feels like there's layers. It feels like there's layers to it, right?

SPEAKER_02 52:39

Yeah, I think this might be one of the first ones that I just I really kind of don't know what because yeah, the the simple answer does seem to be just block her, but that seems like that also leaves a few. Pay the tourist pieces of business get out. If you do that. No, no, this is different.

SPEAKER_04 52:54

This is a different question, Jack.

SPEAKER_03 52:55

I know. It's funny because my first thought is that, like, I don't want to have anything to do with this. But if he's if we take him what he's saying as true, that he blocked her, you know, in the past, he's over it, he moved on, he doesn't have any residual feelings, positive or negative, towards her necessarily, then man, I love the drama. And it's hard for it would be really hard for me to just let that drama go without you know having a little bit of fun with it, you know. But man, if if she's coming to me to to make it look wor uh look even better than what he thinks it is, yeah, that's that's not looking good for her.

SPEAKER_04 53:39

What does she think that this guy's gonna say? Like, does she think he's gonna be like, oh yeah, it was just a misunderstanding? Like, no.

SPEAKER_03 53:47

Right. Because they never really talked after that, right? He blocked her.

SPEAKER_04 53:53

He said that he just completely moved on, blocked her and moved on. That was nine years ago.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

You know, now that I think about it, I actually I have the perfect solution to this problem for her. Yeah. Perfect. But I'm gonna veto that answer off myself so you guys won't get to know. Sorry. God dang it, bro.

SPEAKER_04 54:08

You god dang. I'm gonna veto you vetoing it, so let's let's hear it. Well, I use my second veto to re-veto. All right. You're out of vetoes. Now you gotta come up with something.

SPEAKER_02 54:19

Here's the perfect solution. The perfect solution is that this guy needs to really just kind of like reach out to the, I guess, other husband and offer to do some video games with him, and then that way everybody will be friends, and there's no problem anymore. Problem solve. Do some video games, play some video games.

SPEAKER_04 54:39

Wow, we wasted our veto cards, Johnny. We got fucking set. We got fucking. I tried to save you from it. This is a sting operation. It was a sting operation, and it's not cool, man. Dude, I would be this would be I hate hate this kind of drama. I hate it. Like, I don't even like watching it from afar, really. Like it pr it kind of pricks my interest a little bit, and I want to know what happens, like I want to know how it resolves, but I what like if I was watching it on TV, I would be like this. I'd have my eyes covered because I wouldn't I wouldn't want to be feel that discomfort. But like if somebody called me from like just decade, like a decade ago and was like, hey, you need to resolve this for me, I'd be like, hey, I either best case scenario, I feel neutral about you, worst case scenario, I fucking hate you.

SPEAKER_03 55:29

Yeah. Yeah. Like that's funny. George, you said you hate all of this, and you could have talked about anything on this podcast.

SPEAKER_04 55:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:39

You're like, I think you don't hate it. Fucking love it. I love it. I live for it, Jenny. You love it.

SPEAKER_02 55:45

He's doing the whole thing over there, like, I hate the drama.

SPEAKER_04 55:49

I hate the drama. This is me eating it with a spoon. You you dirty boy. You dirty boy. Yeah. Uh give me this drama. I wouldn't want to get like I would just not want to get involved in this because I feel like there are I just can't imagine that he talks to the husband and then then he's done, right?

SPEAKER_03 56:07

Then he's it, then he's done his community service, and he's often a thruple now.

SPEAKER_04 56:14

There's a there's a hundred and ten percent chance that he gets a follow-up call from her being like, What the fuck did you say to him?

SPEAKER_03 56:22

Yeah, yeah. Yes. 100%.

SPEAKER_04 56:25

And then they have a have to have a comment, and then he's back on Reddit being like, Do I have a conversation with this lady about so you're either getting sucked in or you just block her? I you know what I would do is I would just I would just pay the $20 and get the fuck out.

SPEAKER_03 56:39

Yeah. That's it. I'd I'd be sure she send her a veto card. Send him a veto card, be like, I veto.

SPEAKER_02 56:47

Yeah, do they have their home address on there? Uh yeah, they do. Pretty much pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 56:52

Famously, that's what everyone does on Reddit.

SPEAKER_04 56:54

Everybody does that on Reddit. They're like, hey, if you could please send your advice to 3232 Trillium's Court, Orlando, Florida. Did you just say one of your old addresses? I think he did. He might have.

SPEAKER_03 57:05

Yeah, he might have.

SPEAKER_04 57:07

Anyway, send mail there. I'm sure that if Larry still owns that house, he'll be happy to get your mail. Hi, Larry. Hey, Larry. Uh does that does that seem seem right for you guys to just like block her and be like, no part, I don't even want to answer this?

SPEAKER_02 57:25

No, I think I think that's like that's what I would actually do if it was me. Like, I would just try to separate myself in the strongest way possible from the entire thing.

SPEAKER_04 57:33

That's probably what I'd end up doing. I would, I would, I would be, uh, I would obsess over it for like a week. I would be like, do I owe this guy? Should I tell this guy that she sucks? Like, do I owe it to because that's the only reason I would chime in would be like to tell this guy that she sucks. Or at least that she sucks.

SPEAKER_02 57:50

He can figure it out himself. I had to. It sounds like he's figured it out. Well, right. I mean, but so who cares? Like, why why even involve yeah?

SPEAKER_03 57:58

See, I feel uncomfortable just blocking and not responding. Some internal part of me wants to respond to somebody like that. No matter what. And it might even say, hey, I don't want to do this. But what I might would say is say, Yes, you had you cheated on me with another person, and you can share this text with your husband, that that's what I would tell him. But don't contact me again, I'm done. Yeah. And then just leave it at that. Pay the 20 bucks and get out.

SPEAKER_04 58:31

Yeah. She gets the late checkout. That's fine. Boy. We did it today, guys.

SPEAKER_03 58:38

Man.

SPEAKER_04 58:38

Sure did. Thanks everybody for listening to our podcast. It's veto the podcast. You can send us your questions at veto the podcast at gmail.com. Uh, you can also tell us what the most mediocre place to vacation is. You could also sign up for Georgia's newsletter. You can sign up for my newsletter, but chances are you're already getting it. So Sug it. Johnny, happy moving, man. Happy moving day. Call me. I'll do it for pizza and beer. Yeah. Non-alcoholic beer. Of course. It's upcoming. It's upcoming. It's upcoming. Um, he's hiring somebody to move for him. We had fun. I had fun. Brent, I'm glad you got your audio to work.

SPEAKER_02 59:21

Me too.

SPEAKER_04 59:22

Glad you did your call. It was fun hanging out with you guys today. Uh we should do this again sometime. Follow us. We have a social media. You can follow us uh at Vito the Podcast on Instagram and see all the hijanks that we get into. It's great and it's fun. There's all kind of content over there.

SPEAKER_05 59:41

Until next time, we see you later, okay?

SPEAKER_02 59:45

Hey, goodbye, everybody. All you cockneys out there like me. Don't ya know.

SPEAKER_07 59:54

You got a friend in me. If I'm the kind of friend you need, then it's true. I hope I have a friend in you. I'm feeling okay. All right. All right. When your face is clearly in my sight. I hope it's true. I hope I have a friend in you. Or we can walk hand in hand. Sure as the moon up above. Or we can skip and do a dance. To prove I totally platonic love. You got a friend in me. At least that's what you should believe, and if it's true. I hope I have a friend in you. I hope I have a friend in you. I hope I have a friend in you.