209: When The Shouting Dies - Confidence is building. Oversight is not.

Fresh off the introduction of two brand-new segments, momentum continues to build as WWWS settles comfortably into the completely unverified belief that it may, in fact, be The Last Great Podcast Of The Modern Era. Confidence has never been the problem.

The Future That Wasn't gets things underway once again revisiting ambitious predictions from decades past that collapsed under the weight of reality. The optimism of yesterday continues to provide reliable entertainment today.

Big Uke's Bunch O' Stuff also returns, delivering another collection of observations, declarations, and confidently held opinions that continue to blur the line between insight and instinct.

Elsewhere, Big Uke assigns Tubesox a new movie, continuing the show's increasingly formalized process of turning free time into mandatory homework. Another review is already looming on the horizon.

And, as always, 3 Things That Can Kick Rocks closes the episode with its weekly inventory of petty grievances, proving that no amount of momentum can reduce the world's supply of entirely avoidable irritations.

Fresh confidence. Failed predictions. Future homework.

The momentum continues to build. The legend, however self-appointed, grows by the week.

Keep your expectations low. Ours have never been higher.

Transcript

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Tonight, we revisited the future that wasn't. Big Euke brings a fresh bunch of stuff to the show. I assigned TubeSocks a new movie, and he brings us three things that can kick rocks. Let's get to it.

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Woop woo! We are coming at you from the fourth floor of Blunderworks Studios here in Sunny Downtown!

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Boom! And a sunny downtown. It is in. It is very sunny. It's almost short pants weather. Almost. I'm getting there. Almost. He goes by the name of Big Yuke. We call him Tube Sox. Behind the camera is Edgar Lasseter. Also a little to the side of the vacuum and the fan that you guys can't see, but he's back there. Playing us in and out is Harold Winthrop. Good guys. And the Silver Asher Orchestra. They are completely no longer underwater out at the old abandoned dog track. Good to hear. Last week they were mostly out of the water. Their plywood shantytown is drying out. The mattresses are they've been getting some sun on them. I can just picture them, yeah, like mostly sharing like two beds. Right. So there's what, eight of them? I picture like uh like like like Charlie in the chocolate factory, like that eight-person bed and their grandparents are just yeah, they're all just they're all just in one big bed in their shantytown. You know, I don't think his grandpa was really all that worked up. That was dodgy as hell. Right. I think he was clearly like, well, you want to go for a tour? And he j jumps out of bed like nothing ever happened. I think that he uh I think the other ones are pretty much vegetables, but I think he was just lying. He lacked the uh the motivation to do anything with his life. Right. He could never do a show like this. Not with a hole in the roof. Oh my goodness. And of course, this is the last great podcast of the modern era. That has been uh That's the rumor going round. It hasn't been certified, but there's no way to deny it. So But it hasn't been denied either, so we're rolling with it. We're just gonna keep going with it. What uh I mean last week's show, okay. Let's just get right into her here. Last week's show is media. Yes, last week's show was delicious, I think. Uh we brought in two new bits. That brought a lot of fun. I had a great time with those. We got a lot of positive feedback on that. We got very little negative feedback, which is uh nice change. I don't think we got any negative feedback on that. That's what I'm saying. I mean it's still a few weeks away from our next uh mailbag segment, so I guess we might have we'll wait and see what rolls in, but backlogged in there. But thus far, we're riding a bit of a high. This was like the old uh the old episode 13 high from season one. Ooh, we rolled that for like seven episodes. That was a good one. We're just like cocks of the walk with this thing. That was uh I don't know if I'll forget that high. That was a good one. I don't know. Season two, episode eight may uh have surpassed season one, episode thirteen. We'll see. We'll see. Time will tell. Proof is in the puddin, as they say. I do like puddin. Oh my goodness. That was uh how was your week? Week was very good. Yeah. Uh started You didn't drive into any trees or get bit by mosquitoes? Oh, there was definitely some mosquito bitage. No trees were driven into that I can recall. No, it started out at a sporting endeavor with some friends and some soon-to-be friends, I think. I was one of those soon-to-be-friends, I think. Yes, you were. We were the only soon-to-be friends. The other ones there were my friends. Yeah, they were all um so that was always good. Big dub for the local club. Big dub. Uh good time, weather helped. I had some time off from my regular work. Uh so I had a little kind of like staycation. They got to sta step out of the show business. Yeah, it was uh keeps them grounded. Oh, I was grounded all day before the day before that at the football endeavor. I was grounded. I was uh a buddy of mine's wedding on the weekend. I MC'd it. People still doing that, eh? People still doing weddings. So I was one of the MCs for that event. So there was some, you know, set up takedown party time. MC Big Uke. Big Uke. Did you drop any sick beats as MC Big Uke? No. No, no beats were dropped, but there was a couple jokes sprinkled in there. Okay. I had a great time. I think everyone had a good time. They got a little wet during the ceremony, but I did hear uh pretty well. While I was while I was setting things up, Edgar was talking about that and he was saying he was thinking of swinging by. But then at the last minute he decided not to. That's probably best, hey.

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Yeah.

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I mean I don't know what you would have done if you showed up there, but I wouldn't have been too happy. I mean Well, it always wears those really weird tattered overcoats and stuff. So that's the problem. Is it just awkward? Everyone looked pretty good. So he shows up looking like he just finished his hanging it with the winthrop boys out of the old dog track. Yeah, I don't think it would have gone over too well. But alas, the rest of it did go over too over very well, I think. So congrats, Logan and Jade, on your nuptials. Uh yeah, how about your week? Do you go to any weddings? I did not go to any weddings. Um, again, that's not a thing that happens to me anymore. My in the advanced age. And I have had a few friends that in the last handful of years have gotten married, but they're at the stage where, well, you don't really go because it's they feel shame because it's not a first time and it's they don't really make it, they kind of slide it under the radar of. Sure. Oh, by the way, I definitely married. I married that chick I met on Tinder last year. Oh, okay. What a sentence that is. Yeah, it's just a different world. Well, how was your week though? My week was my week was great. It was perfectly good, you know. You know, rolled that high, rode that uh episode eight high. I think that kickstarted my week too, because after I was off work after filming until yesterday. Right, that's right. You had a big extended I was up there. Nice. Anything uh anything dumb this week for you? Yeah, I do actually something? I do something that happened to me today. And I think we've uh Wow, fresh dumb. Oh, it's a fresh dumb. And I think it's uh we've something we've discussed before. I feel as it has to be brought up again. People in public talking on the phone whilst on speakerphone. That's up there with just watching videos in public. And like oh my gosh. If I'm sitting at the bar and my phone rings, I pick up my phone and I step out to the vestibule or the front of the pub. Yeah. Take the call and then come back. And that's regularly. No one wants to hear my phone conversation. I have no problem. I have no real issue if someone's on the phone talking at a normal level, like, and you just hear the one side, whatever, you can ignore it. And this guy was talking in a regular voice, but the other side of the conversation was max volume screaming, and I'm like, I'm just trying to get a coffee here, guy. Can you fuck off with this nonsense? What's so important about you that we all need to be involved in your business? And then the conversation just ends. Like, there is no talk to you later, bye, no nothing. And then he gets another phone call and answers normally. What are you doing here? You just willy-nilly speakerphone this and garbage? Oh. Oh what's that uh line from one of my favorite bands in the world, the cramps? Uh people ain't no good. That guy was no good. No good. You don't need that in your life. I didn't. And it just kind of threw off my lunch break. Trying to live in a society here. Right? Like, I guess. I guess one thing, uh Dick, if you're just talking on the phone. I can get over. I just don't want it to affect your performance tonight. I don't think it will. I think I think I'm over it. Okay. Or I will be, uh Yeah, I'm over it. There we go. Thank goodness. What about you? You got anything dumb? That's people talking on speakerphone public, just stop. No one needs to hear you. I've got uh I do have a a little a little incident, a little observation. Oh my god, please tell me it happened in the bathroom. It happened in the bathroom. Yes! At the pub. Oh my goodness. So I slide into the into the w in in into the into the washroom, post up at the urinal. As one does. Guy comes in, walks past me, into the stall. No one just I'm just reading uh, you know, reading the ad in front of me. Uh. And I hear the distinct sound of someone throwing their jacket on the floor. Oh no. So then I look and I can see clearly this person sat down in the stall and took their jacket off and just threw it down on the floor right beside the toilet. Well, that is disgusting. And then I saw them in the pub after, and they were wearing like they didn't burn that jacket, they picked it back up and put it on, and they were wearing their piss coat. Well, sorry, it's not their piss coat, it's someone else's someone else's piss on their coat. Yeah. What the hell? That's dumb and gross and makes me kind of want to throw up. That might affect my performance more than anything.

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There isn't a hook on the back of the door, so if you need to throw it over the door, just loop it over. Exactly. Just throw it on the ground.

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Fold it up, put it on the top of the toilet tank, even. Throw it. And it wasn't put it on the ground. It was just a little spring coat, spring jacket. The only thing that should touch the ground in a stall is the bottom of the bottom of your shoes. That's the only reason I don't carry a purse into the stall, because I don't want to sit it on the ground. That's the reason. That's the reason. Oh man.

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Yeah, that's that's dreadful.

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I hate that. That's gross. I don't like that guy. That guy seems like a guy who would talk on his phone in public, too. Oh my goodness. Yikes. So yeah, never ever uh do I run out of stories from the pub or the washroom or the pub washroom. Or the pub washroom. Shall we get uh let's move on out of this and let's go to uh yeah, let's get into the the meat and potato of the show here. Well, let me read a liner for our first and this liner is for Dirk Hennigan's Potato Fantasy. Love a good potato fantasy, one of our favorite restaurants where you get great potato dishes at great potato prices, conveniently located in the heart of Spud Row between Addison and Hesby. Those are like Hesby Street. I just love the name of Hesby Street. And I also love the vibe of Hesby Street. Hesby Street next like potato row but by Hesby. That's like a that's like a fun place to be. It is a fun place to be. When you're west of the fifth. Home of the famous Grand Royal Potato Lovers Special, where you get one large baked, fully loaded russet, alongside a generous portion of scalloped, a dollop of mashed, and a basket of fries. And the only place on Spud Row offering up hand mixed potato shakes. The chocolate potato shake didn't hit the way I wanted it to. But the pistachio potato shake. Nutty. And they are now well, not now, they are still featuring live drumming every Sunday night. That just gets people in the door, really. It's just soothing. It's something. It's just a nice vibe. It is sure something. So that brings us into our first segment, which is The Future That Was. The future that wasn't. Again, it's been a while since we've had this segment. This is a good one to look back, and it's just oh boy. For those of you that are new, these were revisit uh some mid-century atomic era optimism and uh predictions and such from the era. And it's and see how they uh how they turned out. And like there's been a couple that were you can see that we kind of took the idea a little bit. Oh yeah. Yeah mainly what the one I think of is the paper clothing one. Where it's like everything was just gonna be paper, reusable, whatever. We've used that a bit when it comes to, you know, like paper overalls and and stuff like that, that one-time user. But not daily fashion stuff. But not just like, oh, what are you wearing today? I'm wearing wearing my paper plaid. My paper suit? My paper suit today. No, no. But you can see that they weren't just crazies like it wasn't all crazy. Each home will have a small nuclear reactor in their basement. That was crazy. Or the helicopter cars and yeah. Okay, why don't you why don't you leave this off there, uh, Big Yuke? I will. What do you got? Cities will be connected by moving sidewalks. Walkins for suckers, right? Right? Absolutely. By the 1950s, many futurists believed walking would soon become optional. Publications like Popular Mechanics envision sprawling networks of moving sidewalks, crisscrossing entire cities, transporting commuters at varying speeds without the need for cars or buses. I like the varying speed thing. You got a slow lane and this one you gotta buckle in. The express sidewalk. Yeah, this one you're okay. One mile an hour, four. Hold on to your hat. Yeah. Uh some illustrations even showed multiple lanes, slow lanes for boarding and high-speed lanes for long distance travel. The concept promised to eliminate traffic while making cities quieter and more efficient. Outside of airports and a few novelty attractions, however, the moving sidewalk never became the backbone of urban transportation. The uh I see an engineering problem with that, especially in a in a seasons. Yeah, I mean this this would work great in like it worked fine in an airport in a climate-controlled environment, but yeah. Like I'm trying to think Mobile's could really get around quick on those though. Woo! I'm trying to think of like a city where this would just kind of work. Obviously, if if things were like, let's say they're like everything's waterproofed. Palm Springs. I like, yeah, it's gonna be some desert like Vegas. Imagine the going ripping down the strip on a moving sidewalk with a beer in your hand. I can. That would be kind of awesome. I think uh also what is like what is the qualifications to become a futurist? Like you just gotta write shit down in popular mechanics? What if I told you that I was one? Or I'm gonna start telling people I am. Who's gonna just prove it? Wow, you're gonna say no, I'm not. Of course it's my favorite card. Tube socks. Futurist. Futurist, and I just talk about things that could happen in 30 years. Yeah. That's called a few. That came to me in a fever dream. Or the shower. Well, your shower's only two minutes, so you don't have real time. Alright, well, I've got robots will do all the heavy lifting. Okay. Okay. The rapid rise of industrial automation convinced many writers that manual labor was living on borrowed time. Articles in Popular Science predicted that by the 1980s, robots would handle nearly every physically demanding job, from construction and farming to mining and manufacturing. Humans, it was assumed, would supervise from comfortable control rooms while tireless machines did all the dirty work. Automation certainly transformed industry, but the all-purpose humanoid workforce of Chrome robots never quite punched in for its first shift. Huh. See, and I think that one, honestly, that one probably out of everything. Because there's some automation is the most like that has happened slightly differently. Like it's not robots running things. It's not robots out in the field moving rocks. Yeah, but like the equipment that people have at their disposal now and the automation that's at people's disposal is obviously very different. And the whole controlling things from a climate-controlled room, well, in most cases, and I'm thinking like when you're talking construction and farming, that climate-controlled room is just on top of the piece of equipment that they're using. Right. They're still controlling it to most like to the most extent. But specifically with farming and stuff, knowing a lot of farmers, some of the stuff that those computers can do for them. But no one's gonna move that pile of dirt from here to there. No, no. And it's like a robot on a wheelchair. You gotta do you gotta do the inputs. Yes. But the inputs aren't as heavy duty as they used to be. But and this is the automation has happened in that stuff. But this is talking like here's a bunch of robots, whether it's a shiny silver robot, shiny silver chrome robot just yeah, doing all just out in your yard doing all your stuff, and you're just sitting back with a Mai Thai watching them and Atomic era optimism. Right? Alright, what you got next? Oh, time to be alive. Entire suburbs will live under giant climate-controlled domes. I love that. I think we should do this right now. Concerned about harsh winters, scorching summers, and unpredictable weather, mid-century futurists proposed closing entire communities beneath enormous transparent domes. Articles in Popular Mechanics imagined suburban neighborhoods enjoying perpetual springtime, free from snowstorms, heat waves, wind and rain. Inside the domes, temperatures would be perfectly regulated year-round, making lawns greener, commutes easier, and outdoor activities possible in every season. It was an elegant vision until someone had to figure out who was going to clean a dome the size of a city. Yeah, robots. Robots send robots up there. Yeah, like this is in you know, sitting down. Well, I mean Or do they open the dome to get a little bit of weather, a little bit of rain. You want some you need some weather. Sure. You love weather. I love weather. I couldn't imagine being like like what does this say here? It's perpetual springtime. So it's just what always 19 with a slight breeze? I'd go crazy. Yeah. Or you gotta go to a or like you gotta go to a different city that's that's just perpetual winter. Or then you got perpetual autumn town. Yeah, like every town within like every there's ten domes. There's some details that they didn't uh like and also I have no quarrel with the change of seasons. In fact, yeah, each season brings its own melange of uh of things. Yes. Like each season has its perks. So that's what I'm saying, like perpetual springtime. I spring would be the one I wouldn't pick. Honestly, spring would be the worst one. Because spring's just usually wet. I might pick perpetual autumn. Oh, if I had to do one season for the rest of my life, it would be autumn. It's good jacket weather. It because it's jacket weather, but like in the mornings it might be a little crisp. But then from you know, noon till five, it's it's a nice, you know, 24 degrees, it's sunny out, and then the nighttime's not too cold. It's what five, six degrees? Pleasant. Perfect to sit around a fire. Pleasant, pleasant, pleasant. You know, the sun's not going down at 5 p.m. No one's picking permanent February. No, God. It just even permanent winter. Just building character. No one wants permanent winter. I love winter, but I love when it's over too. Yes. But then I do love that first snowfall and what that brings.

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The lesson here is that there's a whole lot of alright with seasons.

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Yeah, and weather's fine. So and then I just think of the Simpsons movie. Which you probably haven't seen. When they're under a dome. Yeah. I think I did see that. Day 114 under the dome. Alright. And we finish this uh future that wasn't with gravity will be switched off at the push of a button. I don't know. Why? Few predictions captured the optimism of the atomic age, quite like controlling gravity itself. Futurists speculated that scientists would eventually discover a way to neutralize, eh? Or manipulate gravity, allowing workers to effortless effortlessly lift steel beams, homeowners to move furniture with one hand, and aircraft to float silently through the sky. Publications like Mechanics Illustrated often treated gravity control as an eventual engineering breakthrough rather than an impossible dream. Decades later, gravity remains undefeated. So you just like flip it off, like, oh, I want to move this heavy thing. Thought we were supposed to have robots. Well, we got robots or gravity. We had wear anti-gravity boots. We flip it off. I'm gonna go up too! Not just the couch I'm trying to move. Or that steel beam that the robots should be moving. Different futurists. They didn't talk. Yeah, I just think that would be like, okay, I I I flip off gravity. What's the radius? Not my neighbors sitting on the couch watching the tube. What the hell? And they're floating to the ceiling. So very controlled. Oh no, I don't like that at all. I don't think they uh thought this through. No, because that's just like we kind of need gravity. Pretty important. It's one of the most important things. Well, that might be put out of it. Well, no, because it no, it's probably when it comes to Earth. It's probably one of our most important things. Very key. If we didn't have it, we would not be here. Huh. Yeah, so that's kind of a bullshit uh prediction or thing to want. Yeah, it's just like I get the whole effort. Unless it's very dialed down, like that desk. Turn off the gravity right at that desk. Yeah, like you move it, but how far until the gravity shuts off, then all of a sudden the desk is really heavy again. Yeah, now I'm just like I'm I'm in the wrong position when the gravity kicks back in, and now I crushed under a desk. That's why everything should be wicker. It's light. I'm starting to think that futurists aren't brilliant. I'm thinking like what we what we call today's idiots is what the atomic era optimists called futurists. Futurists. Yes. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's uh I'm glad that's a future that wasn't. Absolutely. So what's next? We got uh you got a movie to assign me. Oh, do we ever? Oh my. And I am prepared. Of course you are, as always. You were going on about how prepared you were earlier. I was. It's probably the most prepared I've ever been for a segment. That's that's great. Yeah, so if you know, you know. I so what am I watching? You I was just figuring out how I should start this. Um I'm gonna say use your words. It was between it was between two. Movies. Okay. And I just think the other one is better suited for after this one because this one's kind of similar to the last one. I see. It's a comedy. And I know you don't love comedies. Okay. But the next one I think is one you will enjoy a lot. So I'm I'm kind of cutting you down to build you back up again. You know what I'm saying? I see the strategy here. Right. So, and I this. The last one was more of me testing and me wanting to see your reaction to it more than that. That was such a bad movie. More than me wanting you to enjoy that movie. Like there's some movies that I've given you that like I really wanted you to like. But hey, I like this, so maybe he'll like it. Yeah. This last one. That one I I knew you weren't going to. It was terrible. I just wanted your breakdown of it. I was selfish of me. And I admit that. Well, that's fine. That's the you know, the segment is the segment. This one is like Again, we we always approach this from different angles. We do, we very much do. And I'm fine with that. That keeps uh this show the last great podcast of the modern era. That's why it works. Like if you polled yin to my yang. My yang to my yin. If you polled, you know, our friends about that last movie, it's probably gonna be at best 50-50. If not more, like 60-40 hate it. Okay. This one would be the complete opposite, and more people like this movie, just in general. I think that one had a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was pretty low. This one has a 66. It had a it had a pretty low on uh fucking tube socks tomatoes, too. This one has a 66, which I think is a bit low. Uh it's a 2004 classic. Absolutely classic. You really play fast and loose with that term, I know. Well, it is. It is Anchorman. Have you ever seen Anchorman? I have seen Anchorman. You have seen Anchorman? I have seen it. Well, now this is awkward. I saw it. Have you seen Anchorman 2? No. Well, we could flip to that. I did see Anchorman back when it came out. I fully assumed you wouldn't have, because it's a comedy. I was a younger, I was a younger man then. Well, that just throws everything off. Do you want to watch it again? When was the last we saw? Have you only seen it once? I've seen it one time. When it came out? Yes. So 22 years ago. If that's the math? Well, 2004. Yeah. Do you recall it? I'm vaguely familiar because there's a lot of memes. Yeah. Okay. Well, would you want to watch it again or watch Anchorman 2? I'd rather watch something I haven't watched. Anchorman 2, then. Because I'm familiar enough to see that. Okay, that's fair. I should have asked you. Well, I can't ask you because that ruins it. Well, that's the thing. Like, I have some movies that can be like. I mean, that's why I got backups. This one works because there is a sequel. I have a couple other movies that I'm thinking, well, I should ask you if he's seen this. But then if he hasn't seen it, then it fucks up the bit. Because if he hasn't seen it, I'm like, oh well now I know you're gonna ask me to about that one. Unless you unless it's like here's ten movies. Have you which ones have you seen? And then you don't know when they're coming. And I'm not gonna go and watch them all. Yes, I've never seen Anchorman 2. Okay, so well that I'm gonna spin what I everything I said, I take it all back. Anchorman 2 is better than waiting. Hands down. It's not as good as Anchorman 1 for a couple reasons, but the majority of the movie is still pretty good. So yeah. Okay. That's where we're at. Alright. But I am familiar with the characters and whatnot. Yeah, so the characters are still I did see it. With Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Christina Apple. Will Farrell, the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Yes, exactly. Um David Cochner, who is the boss in waiting. Yes. Whammy, that guy. Um he always plays a bit of a creep. Jeez, I think my mic really picked that up. Well, that'll be interesting. I felt the vibration through through my soul. Okay, so Anchorman 2, I think, was a like a 2012 film. It was quite a while after this after the original that they made the sequel. I've never seen that. Uh Harrison Ford is actually in it. Not for the whole thing, but he has seen a couple of movies with him. Good to know. Empire Strikes Back. He was in that. He was. That's probably the only one. Is that the only one you've seen with him? And and and the uh Raiders of the Lost Ark. I saw that. Okay. I'm like, you've had to at least see at least one Indiana Jones movie. Well, yeah, I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was like 12 or something. Well, don't watch Temple. Watch Crusade, though. You should. Well, maybe No, I did see the one with Sean Connery. Yeah. I figured like that one you would really like. It sucked me because of Sean Connery, but oddly enough, he's only like 11 years older than Harrison Ford or something. It's actually crazy how it's like, yeah, hey Dad. In that movie, he's dad and he's like probably 40, where Harrison Ford's like maybe 28. Yeah, no, it's like it's not 60 to 25. No. Anyways. Okay, so the movie I am assigning you to watch after the uh the newest revelation of information is Anchorman 2. You know, there's uh in my realm of movies that I really don't love, one is comedies. And you've seen this one, and two would be sequels. And sequels to comedy is a whole other level of what are we even doing here? But uh let's do it. Let's do it. We're doing it. Let's make it happen. One and then one of these one of these times, I'm just gonna make you watch an entire trilogy. Just bang, bang, bang. And you're gonna love it. Like pitch perfect. You can't. It's one movie. Well, not in one time. Three separate what we were watching. Oh, I see. So it's like still in recent enough time that you'd remember the last one. My goodness. I'm gonna make you watch all of the Fast and Furiouses. We gotta do this show for another like two years. Jesus. There's only one Fast and the Furious that matters, and that was the 1956 one. There's 12 of them. There's only one 1956. Twelve or 13. I think Jill Ireland's in that one. Anyways. Nah, that was not real. I could be wrong. And uh Warner Brothers, of course, uh Looney Tunes did a spoof of the original Fast and the Furious in 1961. They had a uh Roadrunner Coyote cartoon called The Fast and the Furry. But that was 1961. I'm pretty sure the first Fast and Furious movie of the newest ones came out in like 2002. Yeah, I know. And the fact they had the chick the classic chicken thing where the guys are driving towards a cliff, and the first to jump out of his car was the loser. I would jump so fast. I'd be I'd be on the ground. I am not, I'm not getting because that was my luck. I'm gonna be the bold guy, and then because I'm not small, I'd like to get stuck in the door. Well, that checks out because she was only distraught for about a minute. Yeah. Because you know because Chico is there to comfort her. Exactly. Good old Chico. Yeah, okay. So Yeah, I'll watch that. You're watching Enchoman 2. I have no uh preconceived notions of the quality of the film. It's better than waiting. And if that's our benchmark, you won't hate it as much. There we go. Okay. Now we got Big Youke, uh Big Yukes. Bunch of stuff. Bunch of stuff here. Bang to back. So I know you know none about nothing about this. You haven't seen this before, like you had Anchor Man. This is a new list. Number eight. I went back and checked. Oh, this is your ace. It's been a while since you've had one because we had the LTE episode which bumped your bunch of stuff. Bumped a bump bumped a Big Uke bunch of stuff, which was okay at the time. Um He was in a creative lull, so uh honestly I probably was. So this works out. So this is Big Uke's bunch of stuff. Back fresh. Number eight. Mosquito bitten, ready to roll. Mosquito bitten. And I think this is what, episode nine of season two? It is. That would have been better if it was episode eight, but episode two oh nine. When the shouting dies. When the shouting dies. So big you're bunch of stuff number eight here. Let's do it. Like I said earlier, I was at a uh a wedding of a buddies of mine. Yes, you were. And uh it got me thinking. So I I have decided on a top ten list of my favorite duos. They're not couples necessarily, they're just duos. Two people or two things. Alright. So number ten. Inspired by your inspired by the nuptials in your nuptials of my two friends. Uh number ten. I should have probably put them on the list. That would have been they probably don't watch. That's true. They know about it. Uh number ten, Simon and Garfunkel. They had a salty relationship, eh? Yeah, like it didn't end great, but it's fun. It's also just fun to say Garfunkel. It is Garfunkel's one of the good. But whenever I say Garfunkel, I have to say Simon. But he's got that really weird little high tenor voice, and I I honestly don't think that he brought a lot to the party. Well, he brought enough, I guess. Well, he brought those that high tenor harmonies. Which in some times is the name Garfunkel. And Garfunkel. Well, that's just a fun name. Fantastic. Number nine. Wayne and Garf. Party on Wayne. That's a comedy movie that I enjoyed back when I was a younger man. Bingo. See what I mean? Boom. Boom. I like funny shit. I like funny shit. Although I bet that's not funny now if I watched it. Yeah, I feel as though I haven't watched it in a long time, but I feel as though it would probably not hit the same. Whoever thought that Tia Carrera was uh anyways. Different time. Carry on. Number eight. Snoop Dogg and Weed. It's just a fun little duo. Uh unf well, I'd say unfamiliar with either, but it's certainly it's not in my world, so. Well, yeah, but you know who Snoop Dogg is and you know of Weed. You grew up west of the fifth. Yes. North of Tacoma. This is why okay, so number seven here. This is this is that's what this is my list, not everyone's list. Certainly not mine. Pink Whitney? You know what Pink Whitney is? That drink. Yeah, it's a drink. So Pink Whitney and Pepsi. It might sound weird to people who have indulged in Pink Whitney. Or Pepsi. Or Pepsi. I mean But it's this is purely one of those don't oxy tried things. I don't know why. So not even not RC Cola, not Pepsi. No, no. It's gotta be Pepsi. Jesus. Pink Whitney and Pepsi. It does a weird thing where you can't taste the booze. I like tasting the booze. No, but you know, you you know it's there, but it like it it just tastes like it just tastes, it cuts the lemon. It's weird. That's a curious mix. It's a curious mix to say anything mixed with Pepsi. Because everyone knows that only the devil mixes things with Pepsi. The devil. Well, I'm a devil then, because I only drink with Pepsi. Wow, that's it. Coke sucks. Uh number six, Bert Nerney. Classic.

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Completely platonic uh remake of completely platonic.

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Don't eat cookies in bed. Watch the YouTube video, it's hilarious. I really do enjoy Bert's uh lack of patience, and I can uh relate to that. Checks out. I love Bert's furrowed brow and uh it just works. Yeah, absolutely. Number five, Han Solo and Chewbacca. Classic duo. Classic? Can't can't. One's not one without the other, right? Han always Han needs Chewy, Chewy needs Han. Number four, Mario and Luigi. It's tough to put them Italians up. Right. And like it's just where's Luigi? If you don't if you have where yet, where's Mario? If you have one. Here's the thing with me though, I recall a time when Luigi was introduced. Yeah, well that's because you're old. It was like uh I think it was playing Donkey Kong Country or something at the arcade, and there's a guy in a green he's like, What does it- Oh, it's Mario's brother. It's fucking Luigi. Like, really? You can't just make up a guy. But then I guess they made up Mario. You can't just make up a guy as you're playing a video game that was made up. Yes. Everyone was faking once. Yeah, I think it was Donkey Kong. No, Donkey Kong Jr. That was when you climb up the vines with bananas. Yeah. Anyways, terrific arcade. Wasn't Mario Mario wasn't his own thing at first, wasn't he? No, he was in Donkey Kong. He was the guy, he he was the guy you were jumping around and. Yeah, he was the guy trying to save. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And by the time uh the sequel came out to that, I uh I found out and I dropped out. You found other things to put your coins in, didn't you? Yes. Uh number three. I don't even know if you'll know who these are. Lloyd and Harry. Oh, from the movie where they drive the dog car. Yes. Dumb and dumber. Yes, there we go. Lloyd Christmas. Okay, see, okay. And I don't know what Harry's last name is, but they're just I've seen that. Well, that's good to know. You know what? It might almost be easier if you just give me a list of the comedies you have seen. That'll be easier than me asking you, have we seen this comedy? It's a short list. Right? Number two, which out this one I would assume you wouldn't you would know who these are and you've seen this as well. Shrek and Donkey. I have children. Right? Exactly. Yeah. No, I And like Shrek and Donkey are just they almost went number one on this list. I was I was so torn. For one movie? Well, you know he did four. There's our fifth one coming out. I don't pay attention to these things yet. Like I know you have kids, but the second one didn't come out that much longer after the first one. I saw the Shrek movie with the kids. They watched you watch it many times. And then Shrek 2. Never saw Shrek 2. Shrek 3. Because the kids were like Shrek the Fourth? Seven, so they didn't watch Shrek 2 because they were now out of that stage. They were seven? And they were playing guitar and doing cool. Oh, yeah, because your kids were like cool. Whatever. Apple right by the tree. Accurate. I got an honorable mention here. Okay. Well, I got two. Those are honorable mentions. Honorable mentions. And one is just kind of like I had to do it. So the first one isn't that one. Forrest Gump and Bubba. Because without Bubba, half that movie doesn't happen. You've never seen Forrest Gump? I I saw it once. Oh my god. But I mean, so yeah, I I don't know. It doesn't really well you guys get it. Because I'm sure you're reasonable with your movie watching and you've seen Forrest Gump more than once. It's a little too contemporary for my liking. Oh my goodness. Well, anyways, without Bubba. I know of them, but most of that movie doesn't have it. And I know there's the restaurant that has the the Bubba name on it. Yeah, Bubba Gump. Yeah. Bubba Gump Grimco. Started in the movie. But good place. Okay. We should do a show from there. And the second album mentioned is Big Youcatube socks. I can get by I know of those guys, and I've seen every show. I kinda had to do it.

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We're a legendary dealer. Well, it is the uh great podcast of the modern century. The last modern era. Great podcast of the modern era. You gotta get the liner. You gotta get the tagline right. You gotta cut that and post. I love that. I love those guys. Right? Good guys, I think. Soon to be best friends. Well, okay. I mean friends. Back off on the the best thing. We're gonna get little bracelets with our names. I it might say does mine say me? No, yours says tube socks. I was gonna say, this is like are these just like identifiers for when they find our bodies? No, it's just switched around. Ah tube socks. Listen, yours is my friend. It's my friend. Tube socks. Oh my gosh. Where's Edgar's? No. We don't talk about him. Okay, so who's your number one? Number one of my favorite duos. And I know you know who these are as we've talked about them on the show. Okay, there's a lot that I'm I'm not really picking up on, which is not great for the bit. Well, you've picked up on all you've known who everybody is. My enthusiasm is uh Well, I yeah, but I didn't expect you to be very enthusiastic about most of these, because you know, you're you. SpongeBob and Patrick. Okay, I can get right. Right? I know you can get behind that. And I I knew you could get behind that. Absolutely. And that was probably the biggest reason why I put them one over Shrek and Donkey, because I knew I knew you'd appreciate it. Shrek and Donkey are are are mid, as the kids say. But SpongeBob and Patrick, come on. Like they're just legends. I mean, right? They're legends. Hop in the paddy wagon and off you go. Right? I've always I always wanted a vehicle that looked like a burger, right? It's a good list of duos. Right. I mean, like varying degrees of my acceptance or knowledge or uh familiarity with it. And that's the beauty of it. It's not your list. It's not. It's mine. I got my own list in another episode. I doubt it's about your favorite duos, and if it is, I guarantee my reaction would be very similar to yours to mine. There we go. Yes. Yes, I've heard of those people, sure. Yeah. Mo and Shemp, what? There we go. Nope. I haven't heard of them. Yeah, Big Use Punch Stuff number eight in the books. Nice. Well done. Can't wait for number 10. Well job. That's not next. Number nine's next, actually. Next, you got a you got a liner to read. Oh boy. Our final segment. Do I ever have a liner to read? The Crystal Chakra Charging Station. Oh, gotta I need some of that after I believe it. This world today, this week. Are you feeling spiritually out of line out of alignment? Low on personal vibrations? Trevor, over at the Crystal Chakra Charging Station. I call him T Dog. T Dog. Well, he can recharge your entire energy field in under six minutes using ethically sourced crystals, a velvet display mat, and a certified chakra diagram. It's not certified, it's not for me. If you don't see the diagram, how do you know you're he's truthum? Right? Maybe he's just rubbing you with crystals for six minutes. Located in the old plaza, between Ed's fixes shop and yesterday's donuts. Fan favorite of ours. Walk-ups are welcome. Aura readings are extra, but doable. Corolla readings? Is that what I said? I'm not sure. Well, if I said oral readings, that's incorrect. I'm sure they could do those and those would be extra. But uh aura readings. Aura readings. Those are a reasonable extra. It's kind of a family show. Yeah, but it's the old plaza. You never know what goes down there. You think Ed's fixative shop is a mechanics? No. Uh Crystal Chakra charging station, because sometimes your vibes just need a quick top up. Quick top. That's all you need. A quick top. Get you on your way. That's part of the oral readings. All right. That's a whole different kettle of fish there. Well, that leads us into three things that can kick rocks. Oh, my favorite segment. I say it every week. It's incredibly great. I hope I don't agree with all three like last week because those things kicked rocks. Not gonna lie to you. I might. Sometimes it's a bit of a grind. Because you just have so many to narrow down. Well, yeah, it's tough to whittle it down. I've got dots. You can see the microfish duo tank. Microfish about his kick rocks. Oh my goodness. Okay. Three things that can kick rocks.

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The first thing, the ceremonial DQ blizzard inversion. We've been doing this for 40 years now.

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That's fair.

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Like, is there anyone that's bad that that says I don't believe I'm not paying for that until you barrel roll it. And has it ever fallen out? No. Not for four.

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They're making that their whole personality, and that's just I mean, they did change their rules before. They used to have to do every single one. Now, if you if you if you buy five for a car load, they're only flipping one. Why are they even doing one? Like, yeah, we get it. That's fair. We get it. It's ice cream in a cup. Like, you're not, it's where the fuck's it going? And it just came out of the machine. Yeah, it's still cold. Yeah.

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Like, God, 40, like 1985 is when those came out. So 41 years ago, and we're still as a society needing this like proof of life on the blizzard. I need it inverted. Give me a barrel roll, or I ain't banned for it.

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I did like though, and if they didn't do it, you got it, you got one for free. Jesus, what a world. Huh. And who would have thought blizzard barrel rolls would have uh ticked tube off so much? And the second thing. Pepsi.

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No, it's not. It is. I'm called an audible. Pepsi's garbage. No, it's literally not. You can't use it as a mix. It ruins anything you mix in it.

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That's actually all you can use it for.

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God damn it, it's getting me.

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What a hideous beverage. No way. There's no way Pepsi and the always answer to lizard inversion is the same. Is Pepsi okay? The answer is always no. The answer's always fuck yeah. God, Pepsi. Pepsi products are better than Coke products. Pepsi's like the bike lanes of cola. It's just terrible. God, not even close. Oh my god. Pepsi's a fast lane on a two-lane highway. That's where you want to be, baby. Heinous. There's like one good Coke. I mean, not that I really drink any cola. Yeah, but when you're mixing it with liquor. But if I do, it's at least gotta taste like cola, not Pepsi tastes like Pepsi tastes like chapstick and freaking nickels and tongues. What? It tastes like nickels and chung. When's the last time you ate a nickel? They have changed.

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I don't even know what nickels taste like anymore.

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That's a joke. And the third thing, you like nice audible though, right? Yeah, great. I pivoted. You pivot? That was a good pivot. I'll give you that. And the third thing, the word journey used as a metaphor.

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It's a journey, bro. No, a journey is when you physically go somewhere, not oh, I'm on a spiritual journey, or I'm on a journey self-discovery. I'm on my mental health journey, or uh I began my weight loss journey today.

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Well, it's about a going about starting somewhere and going. God, I started in Athens and ended up to Troy. It was a long journey. I started fat and I ended up not fat. That's a journey. I just hate the metaphor so much. Not a journey when you left Athens?

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Even what the frick, uh, what's that Jagoff that played hockey that put out the whiskey this past year? Pronger? Pronger. And he called his whiskey Journey, but it was J R N Y.

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J-R-N-Y. To symbolize their journey. They would you didn't I got a bottle of that signed by him on my shelf. It's just I haven't opened it yet. It's a terrible metaphor, and I hate it, and I wish it would go away. Well, that kick rocks was a journey. Oh, I'm beginning my healing journey. Well, you're trying to get healed. You're trying to get better. You're not beginning a journey of fuck all. You're just trying to get better. No. God, I hate it so much. You are such a something. Just don't even new don't do don't new age me, bro. Oh. Alright.

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Let's wrap the show up. Please like, comment, subscribe, share with your friends.

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And you know what? Share with your friends the journey we're on together. If you guys had a podcast, we'd watch yours. So watch ours, please. Do it and I know that you that are watching are watching it, but spread the word. Spread the word. Start spreading the news. How'd you uh how'd the show go, you apart from your little song again? Like the show always goes great until we butt heads on a kick rocks, and I love it. I think it went uh it went well for the most part. Uh the fact you'd seen Anchorman, that threw me off. I I I fully expected that that would not have been anything close to what you've watched before. Uh so not gonna lie, that caught me off guard, even though I was so prepared for that segment. You spent the whole weekend preparing your uh your bit. That was just hours of research. Um and it was all for naught. Uh couple audibles called today, which was fun. Uh I'll use my other kick rocks that I had written down here for next week. Oh, there we go. Unless I had to pull an audible. Unless you gotta pull another audible because I like, you know, seven up or something. Um's alright. It's a Pepsi product. Pepsi line's better than Coca-Cola line. The only good thing Coke has is Diet Coke. It's gross. Uh it's not. That's the best thing they're line up. I don't want to drink sodas anyways. Well, sure, but if I was drinking one, I would drink a Diet Coke. Never drink a diet freaking beverage. It's gross. Oh my god, you are such a ninny. That's terrible. Just where can they find us? You're doing it this week. Well, first of all, drop us a line. No, we'll do that after. No, drop us a line now, right? Now big you got tubes before we start fighting. At gmail.com. It's a fun place to be. We got uh we will be dipping into viewer mailbag a few episodes down the road. I'm not sure if it's next one or the next one after that, but check the list. Get some letters in. Let's get it. Send us letters something to read. What do you prefer, Pepsi or Coke? Come on. Who's your favorite duo? Huh? Jesus. This is stuff we want to know, people. Yes, let's hear about that. My goodness. Your stuff. What are you uh what are you listening to on the drive home today? Just a can of Pepsi bubbling. Just listening to a can of Pepsi. I mean sadly bubbling because it tastes terrible. So happily bubbling because it knows it's the best product. Oh my goodness. I like really I like never drink pop. It's weird. Well, it's not weird. It's not weird actually at all. Like I like if I go to end up getting lunch at a fast food place, I'll never get a beverage. So you get like water? No, no, I don't I don't drink beverages really. You are a frickin' lizard. I'll just have my you know, my my sandwich that I order and nothing to drink because I don't want a soda. I don't really need water. I'll probably have a water later in the day. Probably. Well you just get a water, it's free. I try to drink two cups of water a day. One in the morning, one before bed. It doesn't shock me at all.

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So yeah, what do you beside you're really just listening to?

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I'm just gonna listen to pop bubbling. Just pop a can and let's pop bubbling and I'm actually gonna listen to last week's episode again. There we go. Uh I missed a couple things, you know, while at the sporting endeavor and had a busy weekend. But I will be going back and listening to that. Uh I might listen to a pop fizzle when I get home, though, as I mix it with spiced rum. Or pink Whitney. I have some of that in the freezer. Oh, there you go. What are you listening to, Two Sox? Well as you guys who are regularly here know. Goodness. And for those of you that are new, I've got uh about 200 playlists on my Spotify page, and I'm always you know diving into that on the way home. And I created the new playlist this week. Whoa! Well, because the Rolling Stones have a new record out this week, and it's really, really good. They're still alive, very much alive, and there's a really good dance track on the new record, which inspired me to put together a playlist of just Rolling Stones dance tracks from their career. Oh, and so the playlist is called Hit the Dance Floor with the Rolling Stones. Oh, I think I actually this might be uh And it's uh 20 tracks going back to 1975, I think, is when their first maybe 74. When and then they went through that little late 70s disco thing. And anyways, it but it's a career spanning.

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I've distilled it down to 20 what I would call dance tracks.

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What you would call dance tracks. Yes. Okay. Uh so yeah, hit the dance floor with the Rolling Stones. I'll have to share that one with me. Link down below. It's fun. I'm gonna I'm gonna listen to that one. Not today at all. Like, I've already got my busy. So yeah, so that's what I'm uh doing it. That sounds fun. It is fun. I'm all about the fun. Yeah. Yes. Holy. Oh my goodness. Tune in next week. This is why this show's fun, folks, because you just never know what's gonna happen. Where do we find the show, youke? Oh, you son of it. You got me with it. He turned it around. He turned it around. YouTube, Thursdays, 6 30 Mountain Standard Time. Uh, and of course, every episode is on YouTube as well. If you'd like to go back and increase our views, click a like or two. Take a couple minutes, go like every video. It's good for the algorithm. Uh Spotify, audio and video. Uh, audio-only platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Deezer. I'm still testing, doing Google searches, testing podcasts platforms I've never heard of. Nice. Punch in our name, and we're popping up in there. We're there. Uh, iHeart as well. Um, also on iHeart on Saturday afternoons, uh, usually around two, is on the uh EST channels. You can find a replay of our show. Uh, good guys over there. Really good guys. And and on their on their website, there's a link to all of our stuff as well. As we are a friend of EST. Easy to find. We're hard to miss. And also, if you go to our Buzz Sprout page, which is w dot buzzsprout.com, that's got all our audio episodes. And if you feel really feel keen like supporting us, you can subscribe. And you can set yourself up for a little monthly donation to the boys, keep the lights on. And uh say no, keep the beers cold. Um, apart from that, I think that's it. I think this was a fun one. You know, they're always fun. Each one's different. Each one's different. Each one has its own. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, this was fun. I can't wait to be back for uh for next week's episode of uh What Will We Say It with Big Uke and Two. We'll uh we'll catch it, folks. All right, play us out whether you like it or not.

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Uh,