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Big Uke & Tubesox Season 1 Episode 7

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Episode 7 of What Were We Saying? begins with Big Uke returning from his tropical getaway—rested, recharged, and armed with a brand-new Big Uke’s Bunch O’ Stuff, inspired by his time away and the observations that only vacation brain can produce.

The guys also dive back into the WWWS Mailbag, where listener messages continue to raise new questions and occasionally make things worse. Along the way, there’s the usual banter, a few conversational detours, and the return of “3 Things That Can Kick Rocks,” where patience is once again in short supply.

Sun, stories, and strong opinions.
 Vacation may be over, but the complaining continues.

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Well, good evening. Good afternoon, or good morning. Welcome to episode seven. Already seven. Of what were we saying?

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It's almost episode eight.

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Damn near. Thanks so much for joining us. Look who's here. It's this guy. Woo! I mean, I know watching you wouldn't have missed him, but I certainly did.

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I'm back.

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Because we did play a little ruse on you people.

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Ha ha, I tricked you.

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Recording an extra episode while he froliced in the surf. So it feels like us, to us, that it's been a long time since we've recorded. It does. But it's only been the right time.

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The right amount of time as it's supposed to be.

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Exactly. If you're joining us for the first time, I am TubeSocks. I'm Big Yuke. Behind the camera, we've got Edgar Lasseter who insists on calling himself the chairman. We're not sure why.

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Haven't gotten to the bottom of that yet.

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We don't think anyone's given him that name. We think that he just gave himself that name.

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That's self-appointed for sure.

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It is definitely self-appointed. As uh we did actually just recently post some bios of the three of us on our YouTube Shorts feed and our other social medias. So if you are curious and you want to deep dive and find out a little more about us and Edgar.

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The chairman.

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The chairman. Um check him out. Please check him out. They're pretty good. Um and playing us in and playing us out, uh we got Harold Winthrop and the Silver Astray Orchestra. Great, great group of guys. Um actually they're not a great group of guys, but we still love them. Still love them. not a lost art, but it's certainly a lost pastime. Probably for good reason, but probably. Anyways, uh we're coming to you live on tape from the fifth floor of Blunderworks Studios in where are we, Yuk? Sunny downtown! Sunny downtown, as per usual. Um, because I love that it's always sunny. It's always sunny. That's that's why we shoot there.

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It's just easier.

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We like to peer out that window and just see the sun shining, so makes us feel good. Um what are we saying today, Yuke?

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We're saying a bunch of stuff about a lot of stuff.

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Do we want to open with your uh well first actually, let's have a recap of episode six story time actually. Because that was a very special episode.

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I enjoyed making that one. That was a lot of fun. One telling a story and telling some stories that you know, unless you, you know, new we or know us growing up and through our earlier days, you wouldn't have known those stories. So that was fun. Also to hear your story for the first time. That was that was it was fun to share.

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And uh it was uh actually got some good feedback from that. It was pretty well. People seem to enjoy a little little detour from the yuge, you know, peeling back, peel back behind the curtain, as we like to say.

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No, that we're like onions, they've got layers, we're slowly getting through those layers.

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Absolutely. So again, if you guys want uh want more of those sprinkled in, let us know.

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And we'll uh that we know there's more stories, so we definitely have more stories even just from that that episode that we probably could have shared. Yes. Uh that it was it was a good one.

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Before we get into your uh tales from the beach, I'd like to point out something here. You probably may or may not notice that we are drinking some private labeled Triple WS beer.

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Lovely.

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Now this was a very exciting project for us because there was about three steps to it. The first step was easy enough, we just decided on a beer that we really liked. The second step was we ordered WS labels, and then the third step happened about an hour before working on this show, and that was attaching those labels to these beer bottles.

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So private label.

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So we've got our private labeled. You can't buy these anywhere except at Blunderwork. Well, we can't even really technically sell them, but I don't think we're supposed to. So some of the audience members here, and we're gonna let Edgar take a couple home to the shelf.

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Or we're just giving his bottles. No, how many is gonna be just give him the empty ones.

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Oh, the empty. Well, he can peel the labels off and buy his own damn beer.

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Exactly.

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And repurpose the labels. So very, very excited about that because that look at that, that makes us like we're like big time. We know other productions that have uh you know invested a lot of money in getting money and time and they created their own. Yeah, we just uh we just uh put them on the bought some labels and put them on beer that we liked.

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I never would have thought of it. It's just as effective, honestly. Gives us a visual.

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Exactly. And it makes it very exclusive, even more exclusive, because you can only get it here. Boom. And you gotta be in the club.

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In the club.

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Um so shall we go into your uh tales from the what do we call them this? Tales from the beach, tales from the tropics?

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Tales from the tropics works because uh there's definitely some tails. Not all are uh fit for air.

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Is there any pictures that we need to show for these?

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Uh is there a slideshow. I don't know what the slideshow's in production.

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Okay. Uh maybe in a future episode we'll maybe we'll get a get a smart board or a smart screen or something there. A laser pointer. Yes, and we can project them onto the seem refreshed.

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Oh, I feel I feel refreshed. It was getting the sun and the salt water on the on the old joints.

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Two things that I don't love.

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Oh well. You wouldn't have enjoyed this vacation then.

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It was uh give me some shade and puddle water, and I'm good.

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Yeah, there was some shade, not much puddle water. Okay. Yeah, we actually uh were embarking down south uh on the day of the Olympic gold medal game for the men's hockey. Uh we don't need to really go into that because that was because also we're not a sports show.

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And we're not a sports show.

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Let's establish that just so we know right off the hop. Um we encountered a uh a couple separate delays at the airport.

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Which the first Not unlike your story time where you had some delays in Tacoma, Washington.

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Yeah, yeah, that was uh getting some PTSD from that. The first delay actually worked out okay because it was only gonna be, you know, 45 minutes, and it would have it was gonna give us enough time to sit at an establishment and finish watching the uh taking the game. The hockey game. It was actually perfect, great. We got a delay. We were all kind of hoping there'd be a tiny delay just so we could finish the game. Just maybe not. Because we were boarding as the as the overtime was getting ready to start, we would have been boarding the plane. And then we're watch people are watching on phones at different speeds, and someone's gonna be unhappy with the ruined event or whatever. We got what we asked for a delay. A delay, and then shortly after that delay, another delay.

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You got a second serving of the delay, and then a third.

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So, in in in all in all, it ended up being about three and a half, four hours. It was an unexpected mechanical issue.

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They're never expected. Um you never get that announcement of there was a totally expected mechanical problem. We actually knew this was coming, we just decided not to fix it earlier this afternoon. Well, that was we thought we'd wait until you guys get on the plane.

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That was kind of what this, from one account, was like uh an avoidable issue. But all of us were also like, I'd rather be on a plane with no mechanical problems than on a plane with potential mechanical problems. But uh, in order to get the part would have been like 12 hours. So they ended up flying in a new plane.

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At least they didn't tow the new plane because that would have taken a lot longer.

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That would have taken a lot longer, and we wouldn't have had to get permits and stuff. But so they flew this empty plane in, then they had to take all our bags off the plane, put them on the new one, take all the food and drinks off the plane, put them on the new one. So we ended up doing a bit of a uh mini bar crawl at the airport. We started at the brew house, the whole crew, we had one spot kind of reserved for us. And then we went down to the gate, got delayed, went to another spot, kind of everyone kind of congregated there. Then it's like, oh well, we got three more hours. Don't want to sit in this place, well, let's head down to the next place. So, all in all, it was three or four bars, we're having drinks.

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The irony is that you're heading to an all-inclusive resort.

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And spending money on drinks in the airport.

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Wasn't lost on anybody?

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Nope, that was very like wow.

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Luckily, you were paying airport prices.

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Oh, yes, because you know an airport is always discounted. Yes. The old plus 200% discount.

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You know, all these poor people, they can't get this anywhere else. We better they have no choice.

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Let's discount it for them because Yeah, someone actually left the secure area to meet someone who was dropping something off for them that they had forgotten and had enough time to go through security again and come back in. But then we get on the plane, all was good. We got there relatively quick time and checking was a bit of a snafu because there was obviously not much staff working at that time because not many people check in at midnight. And it was one AM when we finally got checked in.

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That's how long travel day when you were at the airport at six in the morning.

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I was I left my house at quarter to four. Oh jeez. We were at the airport at 5 45 having our first beverage. And our last beverage was 2 AM That's a show. 2 a.m. Eastern, so in the two hours it was only like eleven. Still. But still. It was a it from what turned into a long travel day.

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A long expensive day.

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It was more expensive than anticipated.

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More expensive than it needed to be.

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Yes. But it makes for a good story. There you go. We got there so it did. Just did right there.

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Quick Cole's notes on the uh actual time at the place?

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Oh, it was it was incredible. I will get into it a bit more later. But yeah, trip was a great time. I'd probably do it again. Um other than a couple of the stories that I can't really share on here that were pretty dumb. You uh you got anything dumb this week?

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You know what? Uh I do have a couple of things that are dumb. Here we go. This any more turkeys chasing. No, nothing about turkeys. This was something that uh I first hand experienced while at an establishment, not downtown, but on the uh west side of the city that we live near. Uh we were at a place watching a sporting event, and the public washrooms at this, you need a there's a keypad on the door. Okay you can't just go to the washroom. So normally you would approach the restroom and you look at the men, women, you go, okay, push, it's like, oh, walk in, oh right, there's a big keypad. So I go up to the bar, hey, what's the code? They tell me the code. I won't tell you guys right now because I don't want you guys all rushing figuring it out and going to that using that washroom.

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Yeah, there'd be no point all.

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Uh so then I go to the washroom, punching the code, go in, I kind of look around, I was like, well, it's kind of weird. Anyways, take care of my my business. Your business. Kind of thinking, it's not that I I've been in here before. I remember there was urinals in here. Where'd the urinals go? I guess I guess they've renovated the bathroom. I mean, I know which establishment you're talking about. And then I uh walk out the door, and immediately in front of me is the door that has the silhouette of a man on it. And I'm I'm coming out of the door that has the little skirt on it. And I am so thankful that no dames walked in while I was being in the sink thinking it was a urine. Standing at the stall with the door open because it's guys watching. Anyway, so that was uh that was something incredible. Yeah, that uh happened uh on uh on Saturday.

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Oh my goodness.

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It didn't even done it because I was so focused on punching in the code that I was didn't look up at the And that door that you're supposed to punch in has been in the same spot for a long time. Yeah.

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Oh, that's actually so funny.

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Yeah, I was I was in I was in the dame's washroom, so I hadn't done that since like junior high. So that was kind of thrilling when I realized, oh, I just was in the girls' washroom. That's I was in the skirts room.

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Oh, that is the story I needed to boost my spirits here. That is hilarious.

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Yeah, that was uh so there was that. Oh my goodness. I don't know, it's tough to talk, but that's that's just and it I just wow, my ears went all hot when I realized flush all of a sudden. Flush, like what if what if some skirted walked in? Anyways, I mean nothing else happened. It's just it was just dumb though, right? You talk about what's dumb this week. That was definitely dumb this week. I don't and no one else knows. None of the peeps that I was there with, I didn't come back and tell them.

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I just kind of Yeah, that's not new like I guess that's probably not something you just go and start boasting to your friends.

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Hey, I was just in the chick's room. No, I just kept myself to myself and Well, they'll know now. Finished my beer like a man and ordered another manly beer and just Sir, your manliest beer, please.

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One manly beer, please. I need a confidence booster here.

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Identify as a man who drinks manly beers. Anyways. So that's that that happened. Uh, but something else is it's not so much dumb that something happened to me, but it's uh, and depending on your point of view, it may not be dumb, but it's a uh this is like a bit of a PSA. Okay this week, Mercury is in retrograde.

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Bomb bum bum! So I hate when Mercury's in retrograde.

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I I was looking into this and uh apparently there's lots of chaos, a lot of ill communication, misinformation, a lot of got home from my trip. Right? And the weird thing is I was, I mean, I'm not an astronomer or astrologer or uh whatever it is, someone who follows that stuff. But if you do, watch your back because shit's getting weird this week.

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It's good to know.

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And it never works out to the positive, it's not like oh Mercury good. Mercury's in retrograde, and I did like 40 bench presses or whatever.

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I've never been so good at the gym. Mercury's in retrograde, and there was 15 different winners of the lotto match.

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Right? Mercury's in retrograde, and I'm getting amazing gas mileage this week. You know, it's always like someone shows up from your past or you screw something up.

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Gas is $1.60 a liter.

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Something happens. Anyway, so so please watch your steps. Watch out for the Mercury and the microwave. Mercury is in retrograde this week. And I think, especially if you're like Pisces, maybe, that's especially heinous. I don't know. My uh mood ring doesn't tell me any more details on that.

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Remember where that fit on the first list I made? Very high.

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Very high, yes.

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Dumb inventions.

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Okay, well, moving on from that, um let's slide into uh slide back into the mailbag. I'd like to uh read our very official and written by our legal team disclaimer.

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Our legal crack crack legal team, not our legal crack team. No, that's very different.

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That's a West Coast thing. Oh my goodness. North of Tacoma. Uh disclaimer the Triple WS mailbag contains real letters from real viewers and listeners. Some names, details, and punctuation may have been altered for dramatic effect, personal safety, length, clarity, grammar, excessive hostility, content, readability, emotional stability, and taste.

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Just a couple minor little tweaks.

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So we may have tweaked your letter a bit. Dear, or what were we saying?

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And they included the question, Mark.

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Oh, I'm not sure. I appreciate that. That is very Yeah. That's just important. It is. That's the name of the show. That's the name of the show.

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As per our nice self-labeled beer. Our nice private labeled beer. Private label. Sounds a little better. Uh longtime listener, first-time emailer. I need to address something that's been weighing on me since a recent Three Things I Can Kick Rock segment. Hmm, this sounds like it's coming to me. Well, it wouldn't be coming to me. Tube socks casually lumped lawn signs into the categories of things that can kick rocks. I beg your pardon? Lawn signs are not a nuisance. They are a time-honored suburban communication system. Without lawn signs, how would I know who is graduating, who is turning fifty, or which neighbor is extremely committed to peculiar causes? Are there too many during election season? Perhaps. But that is a volume issue, not a concept issue. I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed that such a broad and frankly reckless anti-science stance was taken without nuance. Some of us rely on corrugated plastic for neighborhood morale. Respectfully, Graham.

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Well, let me say, Graham, if that is your real name.

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First off, we appreciate the letter.

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Oh, absolutely. Thanks for before he tears in. Thanks for yanking my chain. Umst things he could yank. You you say that election signs, at election time, there's too many, and it's not an issue with lawn signs.

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It's a volume issue, not a concept issue.

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I take umbrage with that because it is a concept issue. Because who you're voting for is none of my business. So it's not that there are more than the other.

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Or if the volume is zero. The concept of a sign is fine if the volume is zero for election reasons.

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I don't want one election sign on your lawn or in the neighborhood because I don't need to know who you're voting for. So it is a concept issue.

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What you're thinking is you more of an issue with election lawn signs.

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No. Any of that stuff, it's none of my business. So keep it yourself to yourself. So sorry, Graham was it Graham? Graham. Yeah. Respectfully. Oh, respect well, respectfully, Graham. I disagree. Now, uh, if you guys are done bitching, I've got a letter here that uh I pre-read this and it is very nice.

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Rare, but I appreciate it.

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Hello, Big Yuke and TubeSocks. Hey. Unlike a lot of people who write in, I don't have anything to criticize. Boom! I just wanted to say that I think you're both very handsome. You seem fun, and I like watching the show. The beards work, please don't shave them. That's it, Jenna.

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Well, Jenna.

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I like the cut of Jenna's jib.

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Isn't that nice? Isn't that nice just to get a little a little pick-me out? Yeah, that's nice. More people should do that once in a while. Just Graham. Graham. Hey, he said respectfully. You can't fault the guy for respect being respectful. We've been called out for worse things. Worse worsily.

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That is true. Alright, well things considered. We're to get into your bunch of stuff, yes?

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Oh, I got a bunch of stuff.

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But I've got a I've let me I think I've got a liner for that segment. New sponsor. New sponsor. New sponsor alert. This is always very exciting. Bing, bing, bing, bing. When these come in, here it is. As I sort through my official WS cards, which match our beer logo. Or also private label. This uh big you uh big bunch of stuff is brought to you by Dirk Hennigan's Potato Fantasy. Oh, well that a great type of where you get where you get great potato dishes at great potato prices. Conveniently located in the heart of Spud Row between Addison and Hesby.

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I'm glad they're between there.

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Home of the famous Grand Royal Potato Lovers Special where you get one large baked, fully loaded russet alongside a generous portion of scallop, a dollop of mash, and a basket of fries. And the only place on Spud Row offering up hand-mixed potato shakes.

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Oh, I love a good potato shake.

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Other places in Spud Row aren't doing that. And also, this is very exciting. They are now featuring live drumming on Sunday nights.

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Oh.

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So that's that's just a Sunday night potato with a drum kit set up in the corner, and you got Gene Krupas just bashing away while you drink a potato milkshake and hit for the potato cycle. Wow.

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Oh, that's incredible.

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Dirk Hannigan's Potato Fantasy. I hope they stick around. Thanks for coming on board. That's great. And they're not in the three-door mall, which most of our places are. So word's getting out about the show. We're expanding. And we're on Spud Row between Addison and Hesby. They uh it's a good spot. Maybe they'll start showing our show on that little TV they got on the bar.

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Was it the bar or hanging up top?

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No, it's just a little. It's just it's like a 14-inch. Well, that's what I thought it was hanging. It's like a tiny one that no one can see. On a shelf. Dusty. Surrounded by bottles.

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You know what? That checks out. And spuds.

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All right. Well, we're going into that is the sponsor for Big Geeks, bunch of stuff.

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Thanks, Dirk.

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So that's very exciting. It's been a while since we've had a bunch of stuff, so let's uh Yeah, bunch of stuff.

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This uh is the top trip moments slash things. I got a brief list of this because this could be a whole Episode of me just talking about this trap.

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That's for another story time episode.

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Yeah. So we're just going to I might have some brief explanation of some things, but just some some top moments or events that happened on this adventure of ours. Alright, well let's see. Number 10. Excited to hear about your uh trip. Bus beers. We got picked up from the airport, headed to the resort. Obviously, I have some beers on the bus. Our guide getting us to the resort uh as we were getting on said, I only have 42 beers. And it's like, well, that shouldn't work out. Like there's 44 of us. Probably a couple people don't like beer. On average, we've got to be.

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Was it enough beer to get you to the hotel?

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Well, that's the thing. We were all like, oh, I guess we'll have one beer on the way. Speaking of which. Baking of beer. Edgar, catch this one so you can take it home. Save that label. Um. It's a quick guess we'll have we'll have one beer on the way to the resort. And then uh, I don't know, maybe 10 minutes later, he comes rolling down, picking up some empties if anyone has and asks if anyone wants more beer. Say, oh well, I thought you only had 42.

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Not everyone had a beer.

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Nope, we did. Oh. And he came back with more beers.

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Something like that. I think I have 42, or maybe it's 63.

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And then he's like, well, if you want two, just let me know. I'll bring you two. So whatever, buy two. And then it's just bring us all the beers.

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Like reveal them all right now, please.

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10, 15 minutes later goes by, comes by for empties. Anybody want more beer? We think he probably had 150 stashed in that bus, but when we got on there, he told us there were 42, so we would make sure we bought them. So get them, get them hot.

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So don't pleasure delay. Nope. Don't oh, I'll just get a beer later on when we're let me know when we're 15 minutes from the place and I'll just get one. Nope. Oh my god, only 42 beers.

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And then he had plenty more. So that was funny. Oh, good. I like beer. Uh number nine, our rival, beers. Uh, whenever we get we get checked in, there was a sports bar that was open until about two. They're serving some snacks.

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You went to it even though you're not uh sports show.

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Not a sports show, but not a sports show. Our sports fans. Come down, have a couple welcome beers and some snacks.

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I find that beer kind of make even a mundane moment terrific. Right.

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I think so too. Uh number eight, the beach. I like a beach. Didn't spend all my time at the beach. There are a couple different on a couple different occasions. I'm more of a pool guy because the pools aren't solid water. So there's that. And they don't break you when the waves crash. But the beach was uh quite nice. Uh the water was incredibly warm. Um number seven, in conjunction with the beach, the beach bar.

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There's no shortage of bars in this place.

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No, I think there was like twelve.

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I like uh I like the way they roll.

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It was perfect because you kinda you walk off over a little bridge through some like over some greenage, and then Greenage. Is that the right word there? No, I don't know what greenage is. Well, there's green stuff on the ground, bushes and stuff. Greenery? Greenery. There's the word. I like greenage, we're gonna go with that. Get some greenage. Um oceans on the right, bar on the left, greenage in between greenage in between. Uh the one day there was, because there's a lot of seaweed actually. Um but the get the ocean breeze, you can hear the waves crashing, go sit up, have a couple cervezas. And the one day we were sitting there.

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That's uh Spanish for beer.

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Bing bong. Now you know. The one day we were sitting up there, and there's a wedding going on. Wasn't that nice? Right? But it was quite funny as we were in the ocean behind the altar. Oh, that's another one. So their photographer is gonna have some work cropping us out of the back of the the bride and groom's cup photos because we were bouncing in the ocean, we were lifting our shirts.

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That's a beautiful picture.

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Oh, yeah. So there's gonna be some work to cut us out of the back.

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I want to see those raw pictures.

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Well, I can I can show you something later. There we go, perfect. Um again on our journey to friendship. This is the kind of stuff you open up with. One step closer. Yes, eight, the beach, seventh beach bar, sixth, in general, the weather. It for me, I don't love crazy hot. So the first few days was like mid-twenties. A little bit of cloud cover would roll in, it would roll out, the sun would shine, it would be a little shady, and then the last couple days got scorching. And if the whole trip would have been the temperature the last couple days, I would have been a lobster. It would have been aggressive for me, specifically.

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It probably worked in your favor.

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I think so. So I think the weather worked out pretty good. Uh, number five. The cabanas.

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No shortage of cabanas?

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No shortage of cabanas. They were scattered throughout the the multiple pools. In between the greenage? In between well, Pat, before the Greenage. Um, but every day at Up Pool, there seemed to be someone from our group that would have a cabana or two.

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How many people were in this group of yours?

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Uh 44 in total.

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It's a lot of people in a group.

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A lot of people in a group. In a large group. We were the talk of the resort every time we'd find someone.

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Did you like them all?

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I actually did. Okay. That's fine. And we'll get to that. Okay. Don't worry, it's a good little teaser.

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It's a legitimate uh inquiry because I don't know how I would do in that same situation.

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Well, it's sunny, hot, and forty-four people, you would struggle.

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I prefer a little snow between my toes.

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And there was none of that. Well, well, we're not gonna get into that. Uh, number four, the food just kind of in general, was way above passable. I know how much food can make or break a resort like this. This place had, I think, 11 different food establishments. Uh, a couple buffets, they had a bunch of a la carts, some just snack places. So kind of no matter what time of day, you could go get pretty much anything. Plus, in conjunction with the food, the the room service was 24 hours. Uh, number three, and this will be again for you know for those who are there, they'll know. The karaoke was off the charts.

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Um, I need to interject on this karaoke thing because I did see a clip of The Karaoke Night. Oh yes. And this this man who co-hosts this very show that he's on right now.

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Correct.

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I was sent a clip of him karaoke partying, karaokeing of Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl for Corn's sake.

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I mean, it was just too easy to not.

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And uh after I spent some time in the mechanical room at my house, kinda you know, punching your back and forth kind of furnace. Yeah. I recovered. I'm fine. It's it's fine. That it's alright. I mean, it doesn't kick rocks for you.

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It does if we go back to that clip, I don't agree with you on that one.

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That's true.

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So I felt it was fitting that it was a real opportunity, my first opportunity.

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It was a real flick to the nut sack to old tube sucks.

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Well, no one in the bar that was singing along was getting flicked in the nuts. I'll tell you that. They were enjoying it. All right. And I'm not saying I crushed it, but the three nights we went, I crushed it. And yeah, there was there's uh there is definitely a few stories that come out of the karaoke that I might save for a future episode and for future uh endeavors that were with friends of ours that were also on said trip. Number two, the lazy river. If you sit in your tube and let the current take you, it was roughly 35-40 minutes of just floating in the sun with a drink in your hand. We obviously were we are moving a bit quicker than that because we're you know we're floating, we're walking a bit, we're just kind of you know lounging about. But we were in that lazy river every day. But it was just like the perfect little go do a loop. There was a bar called the Grotto right along it. Go grab a beverage, do another loop in the sun, see the odd gecko or or uh iguana hanging around. And it was just it was just a great way to start your day and and end your evening before going to get ready for dinner. I you I think you would have enjoyed it. I don't know. I don't know if that's my vibe, but uh I think maybe not just like you by yourself in the river, you being alone with your thoughts, that might be scary. But in the right crew, I think you would enjoy those combines perhaps you might enjoy. Uh honorable mention, the rooms, they were great. Once you found yours. Once I did indeed find mine, you know how hard it is to misplace a hotel room? I did it, but we found it. We got there. Uh they were great. And then number one of the top trip moment or things on Big Yuke's big bunch of stuff was just the crew we were with. Like we said there are 45 of us.

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Um it seems like a lot of people to travel with.

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Oh, it I would be reluctant to join such a large group. Which makes sense why you weren't there for multiple reasons. And not knowing all of them when we started the trip, uh, it was just awesome. Like I not sure how it would have gotten better. Maybe if all TubeSocks would have joined. Uh but I wouldn't. But he wouldn't. It was just a great group of people that were all like-minded. Uh and I would I would go on a type of trip like this with uh with all those people again for sure. Uh it was uh it was better than that throw.

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Well, isn't that nice to hear? A little positivity in the world. You had no issues with the local drug gangs and any of that. That's the same thing. Well, once you buy from them, they're really nice. There you go, right? They just want your business.

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Yeah, right. They're just businessmen.

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As long as you give them their uh avocado money.

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Right.

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It's gotta support the local economy, you know. Well glad you had a good dime and that worked out into a nice little uh bunch of stuff there. Right, I think that went well. Do you have more or should we move into the next bit?

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I think I've uh I think I've covered as much as I would like to cover of that thing for now.

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We're heading back to How Was the Movie? This is a segment that if you're unfamiliar, we've uh each done one. I've been assigned a movie by Big Yuk, and he's been assigned a movie by me.

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I gave him Pitch Perfect, and it was perfect.

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And I had him watch Odds Against Tomorrow 1959 Film Noir Heist movie. And uh we've passed over it a couple weeks, but we're getting back into it today, and I am assigning this man a movie to watch that we'll discuss at the next episode. I don't want to lean too heavily into the film noir because I want to mix things up because I'm not a just a one-trick pony here with my genres. This pony's got two tricks. So we're uh oh, there's like seven. Whoa, gee, we're moving into again another no another terrific. Well, they're all terrific. I'm not gonna steer you into a bad movie. I might. We're going to 1974.

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Holy, that's like 20 years newer.

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The taking of Pelham 123.

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The original.

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The original, starring Walter Mathell, Robert Shaw, Jerry Stiller, Jerry. Martin Balsam, and Hector Elizonzo.

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I'm excited.

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Elizondo! Not Elizonzo.

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I'm excited for this.

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It is, it's a great movie. Have you ever seen it?

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I do, was it did Denzel do the remake?

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There's been two remakes. Okay. Denzel did one, and there was a remake in 1998 and a remake in 2009.

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So I've been a long time, since it's probably 2009.

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Okay. So the 2009. But that's the Denzel version. With Denzel and uh uh John Travolta.

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I think it was Travolta.

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I haven't seen the remakes. I definitely seen at least parts of that movie. Because I've never seen a Denzel Washington movie.

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Why is that?

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It's just never come up.

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He's made some good movies. Well, now I know what to slip in to a movie.

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Um I almost one time watched a Denzel Washington movie.

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And then he realized it was made in 2007.

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No, no, this was this was back. I'd rented it from Blockbuster. I'd rented Glory, starring Matthew Broderick.

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Ah, not Denzel.

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And Denzel Washington is in that movie, it turns out. Oh. May have been his first movie. And then I had to return the movie before watching it because I didn't get a chance to watch it. But I have had a Denzel Washington movie in my house.

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Your possession.

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But I never watched it. Huh. But then it just got like I'm just not interested. So, anyways. Uh yes, anyways, the 1974, Taking of Pelham 123. It's it's okay apart from film noir that I really love. I also love gritty 1970s New York movies. Because they're grimy and good, and and this is I'm excited, I recognize perfectly gritty. Walter Mathell's fantastic in it. Jerry Stiller. And Jerry Stiller's great. He's just Jerry Stiller. Right? So, and actually, well, Robert Shaw, he's in Jaws for Corinth's sake. You're right. Yes, and he is, anyways. He's gonna be in a bigger boat. So you uh you'll uh it is on prime. Oh lovely. But I think the sequels are on prime as well, so watch the right one.

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Uh okay. I'll make sure I go to the oldest one. Yes. Oh, I'm excited for this.

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And it it is considered a good picture. So there you go. Oh, I've only heard good things. A lot of things that I really like are not considered good pictures, but I I like them anyways because that's just your tube. Right? I mean, I watched a very mediocre movie last night, Shotgun, starring Sterling Hayden and Yvonne DiCarlo.

SPEAKER_03

Wasn't uh wasn't one of your topics?

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No, it's fine, but I still enjoyed it, but no one else enjoyed it, apparently, according to Rotten Tomatoes. I was like one of like seven people to have watched this movie and enjoyed it. It's a rare group. Well, it's interesting though, because Yvonne DeCarlo, you may know her as Lillian Munster in the 60s uh The Munsters, but it was a Western, so she was a short-haired, non-goth cowboy chick. Anyway, which is an interesting thing.

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Very different roles. Yes. Yes.

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So, anyways. But this segment's not about me, it's about uh Big Yuke watching another terrific movie. Another terrific movie. Which I think you might be a bit. I think you'll enjoy it more than odds against tomorrow.

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I think I will.

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It's a good gritty 70s New York movie. Yeah. With great stuff in it. So there we go.

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Cool. I'm excited. This will be good. I'm I'm excited for that.

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Now uh let's move on. Let's get uh before we start wrapping things up here, let's get back into the mailbag. I got another letter. Because we got we got a lot of letters here, so this is a good letter week. Alright, what do you uh you got yours?

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I do. Dear WWS question mark. Two for two. Thank you. Two for two and the question mark. Love the show. Hey! Great, great to hear. Been listening for a while now, and honestly, it just feels like we'd get along. The back and forth, the beers, the mild grievances, that's my wheelhouse. Not to make it weird, but I feel like I already know what each of you would order. I won't say it here, I just have a sense.

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Odd.

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When you say not to make it weird, that tells me you're about to make it weird.

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No, to make it weird. Um anyway, if you're ever grabbing a beer after recording, I'd be happy to just tag along. I wouldn't even talk very much. I'm a good listener. I could sit off to the side, just soak it in. Uh no pressure. Just putting it out there. Um boy. Flexible on location. I've included my cell number, but I will ask him to refrain from getting it out on air.

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No chance. Kyle.

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Kyle. That's it. That's that's that's it.

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Um He doesn't want to make it creepy and yet No, I don't want to make it weird. Weird, oh sorry, but then he goes full weird. And then he goes a little weird, and then that's like when you start saying I'm not racist, but and then you say something weird.

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Nope.

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Or uh I don't mean to offend you, but and then you offend them. I don't want to make it weird, but I'm about to make it weird.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Not to be rude, but um. You say no pressure, and now it feels like there's some pressure. Definitely feels some pressure. You probably should have pre-read this one.

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I probably wouldn't have read that one on the air.

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Well, this was when this is when the the disclaimer would have come in handy, and I would have said, you know, love the show, been listening for a while, and honestly, it's great. And then Kyle.

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So just skip over a bunch of the words in between.

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And Kyle, I know you said uh not to make a weird, and I hope you don't. Umside the studio right now. If you do make it weird though, because we do have your cell phone number, um, we're gonna we're gonna make a weird right back button. So just uh keep that in mind. He bat warning. Um thanks for listening though. Yeah. Glad you love the show. Thanks for writing in.

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I guess not from Castlegar, is it? Does it say?

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Uh it does not say if he's from Castlegar.

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I guess he wouldn't be if he could come to Blunderworks. Well, he might be just for beers. If he doesn't want to be a big thing, he might though considering he doesn't want to make a weird. Maybe he's a pipeline guy and he like moves around a lot and or he's just like really into the show. He's really keen on going far for a beer.

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Yeah, I think we're gonna take Edgar with us when we go to the vehicles. Okay. Um yeah, but thanks, Kyle.

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Kyle, thanks for tuning in. You know, it's keep doing what you're doing. And we'll keep doing what what we're doing, but separate from what you're doing, probably. Very likely separate.

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Yeah.

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I think that would be a good idea. I need to cleanse my palate with another non-cree letter. Yeah. Not creepy, just weird. Not creepy. No. But not weird, no pressure. No pressure. But there was a weird pressure. Uh hey WS guys. That's a new approach.

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I'll take it.

SPEAKER_02

I just wanted to say how much I appreciated that you guys recorded an extra episode before Big You left for his tropical vacation. That's foresight, that's infrastructure, that's leadership.

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I mean, I'm glad we did it too. I would have hate to miss an episode.

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Right. A lot of shows would have said, sorry, folks, beach time, but not WS. You guys built a content dam before the leisure flood. That's very well written.

SPEAKER_03

I I that's extremely well written.

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Have a beer with this guy. I will admit though, it was slightly unnerving knowing that Yuke was physically somewhere warm while I was watching the show in the cold, listening to a version of him from the past. Well, that's just simple. I mean. That's like happening in the uh also. This may be nothing, but the pre-vacation Big Yuke did sound slightly more hydrated. I assume that was anticipatory.

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There may have been some anticipatory action there.

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I've never said the word anticipatory, and now we've dropped it three times. Three times.

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That's a fun little word, though.

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That is fun. That's fun to say.

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Speaking of the hydration, though, uh, my pre-trip checklist, uh top ten was beverages to drink poolside.

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And uh mixing of water.

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I did it.

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I got them all. Uh there's one last line to this letter. Anyways, thank you for respecting the schedule. Some of us calibrate our week around it. First of all, that's nice to know. Uh oh, Colin. Colin P. He put his last initial on there.

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Well, Colin P, we might have to reach out and grab a beer sometime. Grab a beer sometime. You seem like a cool dude calibrating your week around us.

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That's great.

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Appreciate that, Colin.

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It is great. Oh, speaking of which, no listeners from the UK in this past week or so. We lost Southern guy. But there I hear it.

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We gained a Singapore. A Singapore. And I think there was also another southern country that there was some viewership from.

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Yes, there was down in that. Well, still North America. But Southern. But South of Texas.

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South of Texas.

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Well North of Columbia.

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Yeah, south of Texas.

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Sounds neat.

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You do the math.

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South of Tacoma. So uh three things that can kick rocks. You got a line up for that.

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I didn't make the names and the numbers up.

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So they have three designs, but they're just not sequential. Yeah. It's like 17, 28, and 2. It's their mall. I would think you'd be 1, 2, and 3. Door 17 at the three-door mall.

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Alright. Alright, what's kicking rocks this week, Tooby? Three things that can kick rocks. Pedicures.

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Oh, come on.

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You knew this was coming.

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Yeah, but I didn't know if it was coming this quick.

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You knew it was coming. Comically large screens and new vehicles.

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Yeah, I'll give you that. It's like a television.

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It's just lazy design. Just too bright. It just looks stupid. It looks dumb at night. Just give me dials. Give me dials and knobs. Come on.

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Usually the knob's the one driving a car.

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You're an interior design interior design for cars now. What are you even doing? Oh, I guess there's a big box here. I'm done.

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Well, screens are useful, but not the some of the monster ones.

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And uh and number three, escape rooms. No thanks.

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What's your beef with having a little bit of fun?

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It's not fun at all.

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Uh it's not fun being trapped, it's fun getting Out.

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I also feel like what if you don't get out? You know what they do? They eventually open the door for you, anyways. They gotta lean into the bit. That's the escape. If they give you a certain time. Oh, sorry. Open it up. Oh, sorry, you guys didn't make it anyways. Come back again sometime.

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No.

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Dead. You don't escape, dead.

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It's just a saw escape room.

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Lean in lean into it. And those guys that think they're so clever, because oh I got it. Yeah, congratulations, Magellan. You opened up the drawer that said open me, and then it was a key which opened up a thing, which led to a riddle, which not it was go just go for a beer.

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You go for the beer after and it tastes so much good. Just go for a beer.

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It tastes so much gooder. Just go for a beer and make fun of the people that are at escape rooms. Trying to get out to have a beer.

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Just have the beer. But it's about the journey, not the destination.

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Yeah, that's a crappy journey. Van Morrison likes escape rooms, I bet.

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I know his brown-eyed girl does. Anyways. But no one wanted to escape that room and I was singing it.

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That's all I've got this week.

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I agree with you on one and a three. Disagree with two.

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It's not an agreement sketch.

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It's not. It's not. It would be really lame if I just always agree with you. Yes, sir. Be like other shows.

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We're not other shows.

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We're this show.

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We're barely this show.

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Oh my gosh. We're seven episodes of this show.

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Speaking of which, we've got to wind this sucker down. So we probably should. I don't think we've leaned hard enough into the like, comment, subscribe part that, you know, all people with shows on the internet need to do.

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Yeah, so like, comment, subscribe. It helps.

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Let's get some subscribers because crank that puppy up. We've got the uh, you know, the those who get it? Which we're itching to launch, but we're not gonna launch it till we get to locked in an escape room. It's locked in an escape room. Subscribers. That you need 500 subscribers to unearth it. So until we get there, that's just gonna remain a small little pipe dream. Pipe dream. Yeah. We still don't even know what it is, but it'll be something. But we won't know till we get to 500 subscribers. So we're gonna start doing that.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so like, comment, subscribe, let us know how you feel about the things we say.

SPEAKER_02

Uh how do you think this show went? Your first show back? First show back? Fun to get back into it?

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Yeah, big time. It was definitely weird and odd. A little change of routine last week when on night of recording I was sitting in a lazy river. I was enjoying my time, don't get me wrong.

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A night of recording, I was still feverishly locked up at the uh in the media wing of uh Blunderworks Studios, feverishly editing and You're doing the Lord's work. Doing the Lord's work, you're doing yeoman's work. I believe they say, because Edward was no, he was supposed to come. Failed.

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I had a lot on my plate. Scoundrel.

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Anyways.

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How'd you think this show went?

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It was good. It was good to get again back good to get back in the routine, you know? It seemed like a long time, but uh not to the viewers, they didn't notice a damn thing. We just had a big gap though. Uh what are you uh listening to on the drive home today?

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Well, because I just came home from a tropical vacation. I've got some tropical jams lined up. Just uh just uh help me kind of get out of the out of the mood, slowly transition into you know the rest of the the week and the season now that I'm not on a beach anymore. Yes, make sure I remember the good times.

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Not waking up to a breakfast buffet being laid out for you?

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Or the broom service at the door with my breakfast that I ordered.

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I myself, and uh it's interesting because I believe last week I was listening to The Dictators, my Dictators playlist on my Spotify page, which is linked to in our bio, uh, which I had just added new tracks from Handsome Dicknet Manitoba. Yes. Well, in this week, one of my favorite bands of all time, Social Distortion, has a new album coming out. And they've dropped a new single which I have just added to my social distortion playlist. So for all you cool punk ruck kids out there, uh like myself, uh, dive into that is good. The new single's hot. It's happening, it's hot, and uh that is what I will be listening to on the drive home. Sounds fun. Because I love me some social distortion.

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Um that's one thing that doesn't kick rocks.

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Exactly. Uh so please tune in next week.

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Absolutely.

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We will be back for episode eight. And if you haven't checked out the other episodes, go backwards. They still exist, so go back and uh listen to them on uh where can we find them? Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, anywhere you get podcasts. You can watch the visual on Spotify as well and uh YouTube, which many of you are watching right now. Woo!

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As I've said you're here uh before hanging out in the chat over on the side there.

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I'm surprised at that as many people listen to it as uh as they do. It's a higher percentage of listeners than I anticipated versus viewers. It's fun. Because when you've got this kind of eye candy, you would think that everyone will be tuning in to, you know, soak it up. But no, it's so so all you people listening at home or in your car. Check out the visual. You know, prop but props to you as well for well, I got one of those cars with a big screen. So you're just, you know, maybe occasionally frightened when uh Edgar drops a bottle and it smashes and you don't see what's going on and you just hear it.

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That's fair. Edgar's got real butterfingers.

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Well, have you got anything else? I don't.

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Glad to be home. Glad I made it safe. Trip was good.

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Good to have you home. Good to have things back on track.

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Glad to be back in studio for quite another episode of this hit show.

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We're back on uh we're back on schedule and uh done.

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Well, hey, before players go out, I'm big.