Ep. 008—Dangerous Juice

The boys are back and they discuss trying to make friends with black people, positive bias,, interesting Uber drivers and plus they play a spicy card game. 

@stevenrogerscomedy

@peterwongcomedy

@taylercomedy

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello. Wait, I thought we were starting. He said he was gonna do the first word. And after that, the rest of the sentence, each word, we each have to do a word, is in alphabetical order from the first word. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

The first letter of the first word. I see. Okay, so we're not starting it.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

That's correct. Okay. Again.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Hello.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

Imbeciles.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Just kidding. Nope. Wait, just kill. Lions. No. Wait.

SPEAKER_04 0:49

All right, all right. I'll start we'll start over. Okay. Welcome.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

Xenophobic.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Yummy. Zebras. All boys can die. Especially. All right. You know, welcome to the show, guys.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Everyone goes, I miss when they sang. Can we get a beat going?

SPEAKER_04 1:31

What's happening? Well, let's do a quick beat. Uh quick stuff. Let's have Taylor kick us kick us off, okay? All right.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Hey, yo, it's the three boys here. Yeah, we got our new chores, got our mics, and we got our chairs to have that, and I don't have hair. Oh yeah, here we go. Here we are going to stop. All right. That was great.

SPEAKER_04 1:58

I'd say I'm getting slightly better at not the quality of the beat, but at least the beat is maintaining.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Well, you're you guys are both getting better at like if one person's doing the beat, the other person's not gonna do a beat. You've really improved at that part. I mean, I pulled the mic away when I was sitting here breathing.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

I think we all did improve a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 2:23

Oh boy, it's good.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

It's good to uh see you all here at Gro34.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Yeah, last uh episode we did a uh special remote episode in Syracuse at the uh Aloft Hotel. Yeah Aloft, where the A-holes record.

SPEAKER_04 2:43

Yeah uh uh Yeah, so that's uh that's what we did. We spent uh spent the weekend with your family, uh your father and your mother, and then it got snowy.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

Your father and your mother.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Oh man, that reminds me when we went I I know I'm gonna repeat what we said on the last episode, but when we were at my girlfriend's family get together, I said, tell your sister I said thanks. Oh, God, and it just didn't land. Oh, I didn't mat I don't care about that. I care. It landed hard when it was. I didn't care. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

That's what this pod is, too. It's funny. It's really funny for us.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Everyone on the other end is like, oh yeah, yeah. It's like reacting like her.

SPEAKER_04 3:31

Why those guys have fun with each other? I just I like your thing.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

You guys got a nice thing.

SPEAKER_04 3:37

Now, uh uh uh dude, did people like uh do you feel like most people got you when you're growing up? Like your humor and like your vibe? Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

Um yes. Uh yes, I think so. But also in school, I think in like middle school and high school, I was a little bit more of a chameleon. And I didn't I was I was uh You had hair, huh? Yeah, keep going.

SPEAKER_04 4:07

The way chameleons do.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Well, everyone had hair then.

SPEAKER_04 4:11

Oh, okay. I thought you were like because chameleons have hair.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

Yeah, I was like, Wow. Yeah, I now now I'm gonna answer your question for me. People don't get me.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

Um I I I I felt like I was less sure about what my own sense of humor was. And I was just trying to fit in with a group, so I was like, whatever kind of they're laughing at, that's you know, I was less of an individual, you could say. You kind of just did whatever, like you know, you're yeah, well, because I was in a lot of different uh cliques, if you will. Like I played sports one year, so I kind of had those people, it was the theater people, I did the morning announcements, so they're like kind of nerdy, like backstage kind of people, you know.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

So like a chameleon.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Like a yeah, like a chameleon. I one day I was hair. Yeah. Yeah, one day I was one color and then the other one I was another color.

SPEAKER_04 5:08

I see. I say I understand exactly what you mean what you're saying by that. Did you have a black group of friends?

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Uh I don't know if the school had a black group. Oh, okay. Actually, no, that's that's not true. Uh no, I didn't have a black not enough for a group. But there was like there was a black kid in the uh morning announcements group. Um but uh I don't think he got me.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

No, I don't know if he that was a thing of also like I I growing up I wanted um I wanted black people to get me. Um but but they usually didn't. And so then I just made it made a switch of like, well, I don't want you then I you know I never never wanted you, you know, never liked you.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Yeah, I there's a lot of black kids uh but towards the tail end I lost it.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:08

I don't know. I guess uh I guess what I'm saying is like there would be I had I would have uh grown up truly one black friend, like in every like elementary school, then middle school, then then high school and stuff. But uh and I wanted to get like be with the black group, but I did feel like I couldn't just couldn't I couldn't figure it out. What do you think it was?

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Yeah, something was you know it's a hard nut to crack, I'll tell you. Uh yeah. And it's almost like the more you try, the more we're gonna be able to get it. Well, yeah, you definitely walled off. Yeah, you can't. But that's all I did was try.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Uh-huh. The same for everybody, but especially if it seems like an like I remember being at the cellar table, uh, and I I didn't even realize until like halfway through the hang. I was the only white comic, and it was a bunch of other black comics. And we were doing a bunch of just doing bits. And then they made a uh joke about me being the only white guy there. Uh I for I think we were talking about I remember they made a joke and I didn't realize it until that moment. And I don't mean it like a look at me thing, but then once they did it, I was like, I gotta get out of here. I was like, this is so But once they pointed it out, I was like, this is so cool. And then I was like, well, I don't want to feel like think like this. Yes. I liked how I was thinking before this one. That's a good point.

SPEAKER_04 7:43

Yeah. The the fruit of being cool to black people is a dangerous juice.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

I think Gandhi said that.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

The fruit is so quote. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

There's like a quote in big letters with like a forest in the background in a dentist's office.

SPEAKER_04 8:20

It is this like stupid thing that like like you know, oh man, like I think I try to avoid, I tried for 30 years to avoid or to try to disbelieve that I had this level of corniness inside me. Oh, sure. That just exists. And um and maybe and not around black people, you know, I I maybe would try to like try how would think like that what I thought that they would like, and then it would always be a mismatch in wavelength because you could read that I'm trying and uh stuff, and uh I'm trying to hide this cornyness factor and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Well, it's like that uh you ever see that clip of uh Quentin Tarantino where he's kind of talking. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's doing uh he kind of code switches a little bit. Yeah, yeah, come on. He was done like a hundred percent. Oh man, and you see the other people being like, yeah, like we did the movie with you and you didn't talk like that. Yeah, it's uh well people I think that's the only way with any group across any whatever is authenticity. It's like because everyone's a little nerdy about something. I find like I could I uh met a uh member of the Seattle Seahawks this weekend. You guys know my level of sports knowledge. I don't even know remember like I don't know what he did. Uh-huh. I know he was a player, yeah. And uh we were chatting and we were do both talking as nerds about each other's thing. I was just asking him about the stuff that would make him geek out about football. Yeah. And then I can re I can relate. I don't know, I'm not pretending to know football, I'm pretending to understand passion. Yeah. And then then it's like we're good, and we ended up getting along ahead of really great hang.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

If I had tried to be a football fan to this football player, yeah, he'd be like, This is Well, you're just showing in you're like letting him be that guy, but all you need to show is that you're interested in it. Yes, yeah, yeah. That is the most authentic part of the interaction, is that you're genuinely being like, That's so I have no idea how you and what this is, but it's looks cool and it's yeah, awesome. I got to hold a Super Bowl ring.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Whoa, to put it on.

SPEAKER_04 10:51

Whoa, who's this? Is this Richard Sherman? Who is this? No.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Richard Sherman?

SPEAKER_04 10:54

Yeah, he played for he won a Super Bowl on the Seahawks.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Uh this was the year look, I don't Was he older? This was the year that they lost.

SPEAKER_04 11:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

How do you get a ring if you lose?

SPEAKER_02 11:07

You still played.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

Oh, really? I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

I thought you only got a ring if you won.

SPEAKER_04 11:12

That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

And then it was a really convincing I can't find a big thing. You won a super bowl. Yeah, Tom Brady has six Clint Gresham.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

Clint Gresham? That I don't know. I don't know Clint. Huh. Yeah, actually, I actually expected a black guy from the the where our story was going.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Uh yeah, well, that's the thing. I don't see color in stories. In stories, you said? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

Um but in person you do. Is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

No. You were so distracted with the football that you were like, oh, you're not black. What?

SPEAKER_04 11:55

But the the the sum-up of what I don't even know how we got to to this stuff.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Uh because it's us. Because I wanted us to be here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:06

But uh black people are are great.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

Yeah. Um Abe Lincoln.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

Well, since we're already in our our classic uh wavy pool.

SPEAKER_04 12:29

Uh wait, actually, this reminds me of one more thing I want to bring up. Sure. Which uh um at at the at the club I was at this weekend, uh they have a chef there. They they make food at Goof's Comedy Club, very fun place. Oh yeah. But they have a chef there like right in the bar area, and he's like uh he's like from uh I think Guatemala and like you know uh does a landscaping job during the day and then chef there at night and stuff to the food and uh made great tacos for me. And uh I wanted to uh to give a tip uh to him specifically, and uh I really I think what I I have a a soft spot for like uh Spanish speaking like immigrants and stuff, um uh working like you know, like working hard and things like that. And I was like thinking like uh like I like like if I see a Mexican, I I'll be I I'll probably like them before I even get to know them. Wow. Which uh it's not it's technically a racial bias. Yes, in the sense that positive, I guess. Yeah, like I am looking at them different because of their race. And uh and so I that's I also thought about that as like, oh, I sent up a tip and I wouldn't have done that uh if there were uh other races.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

But because uh you wanted to like you're like I don't want to do this racial bias thing, you didn't tip.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

Yeah. I think it's okay as long as it's positive. Well, no, it it's as long as it's not your race. Because I can't look at a white guy and be like, you know, I like him before I even know him because he's white. That's a really great point. If it's different than you, then I think it's okay.

SPEAKER_04 14:31

Here's the thing, I believe it's wrong either way. Which is why I started kind of like it kind of it reflected on it later.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

I'm like Well, there's th it's like you can uh like say like a hardworking Mexican is a stereotype, it's just a positive one.

SPEAKER_04 14:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

So but we're I think we're okay with that in society, weirdly enough.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

You're allowed to be because that's the assumption you were making is like I like this guy because I'm assuming he's like maybe he's an immigrant, he came here, he's working hard, he's you know, and I can relate to that or whatever. Right. You're assuming all the positive shit. So I think you're fine.

SPEAKER_04 15:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Right? Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_04 15:12

I don't know. I think like if I I I was picturing like, what if they were a white and they did all that made a great taco for me? Yeah and uh they told me they got another landscaping job or whatever, and they got kids at home. Uh I don't think I would have said anything.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

You would still appreciate it. I think you're what's stripped away is this idea of like maybe they overcame something together.

SPEAKER_04 15:34

I just I just remove this possibility that's like, yeah, it's just a guy with a fucking job to make my taco.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

I'm hearing a lot of yapping and not a lot of sizzling.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Um then you're like, wow, white guy made a good taco. Yeah, that's a tip, you know.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Then you tip them. Uh this kind of kind of relates. So this morning, uh all right, so here we go.

SPEAKER_04 16:02

I I've never seen you uh start like that. So now I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

Yeah. Uh this one I was like, I don't even know if I should bring it up on here, but we're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 16:19

I love the the the real setting up to keep it step into the rope.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

All right. Uh I want to also I want to deliver it the way it was given to me. I want to give you as close to that experience as possible. Okay. So uh we all take lifts or have taken a lift or Uber or whatever. Uh I have an uncomfortable feeling with uh I don't like when the driver gets out and puts their uh puts my bags in their trunk. I think you're you're already doing me a great service by driving me where I need to go. Uh so I've for years always just open the trunk and put my stuff in the bag back and but lately I don't know if it's a policy or whatever. It seems like they always get out, come over, and I've even had it where I've been lifting the bag and they push my bag down and grab it. Oh not like aggressive. I mean the push down is a little aggressive, but not grabbing snatching the bag or anything. So it's started to train me to be like, okay, maybe it's their they don't want their car to be hit by some you know negligent person with the bag. I get I get that. But I usually stand there at at that part of it. So now I'm getting used to them coming and grabbing the bag from me. Uh so uh this morning, uh I had scheduled a car for myself. Uh and I get out of my hotel. I was in Dallas this morning. Uh I see the car, I head to the car with my stuff, and I open the trunk, but I see the driver door open, and I'm like, okay, he's coming around. And uh I go, alright, he's gonna grab the bag. So I stand there with the bag waiting, thinking he's coming right around the corner, and he's not there. Uh and then I see a man with no legs crawling on the ground towards my suitcase. Uh-huh. And I realize my driver has no legs. Okay. And he's crawling towards my bag. And it was one of those moments where you're looking straight and you see nothing, and then I looked down and I saw him and I jumped.

SPEAKER_04 18:53

Oh no. You were you were startled.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

I was startled by him. Yeah, he snuck up on you. He did sneak up on me, okay?

SPEAKER_04 19:03

What kind of startle? Like a like like a that?

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Basically, I didn't make a noise from my mouth, but basically the level that I showed was ho. Because you thought he was one of your bags and then it was moving. Now look, I had th maybe I was up late playing uh games. Yeah. Uh and also that's just not something you see. It's also something you not you you you don't see. And for the record, uh I'm uh He's the driver. He's a driver. And he's gonna put your bag in. Well, I saw that, and by the way, the door was opening as I was walking.

unknown 19:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:43

You saw him.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

I didn't know. I didn't I saw that he was coming towards me, but when I saw the the door, I saw the door opening as I was walking towards the car. So I didn't like get to the car, wait for the door to open. It was already open. I was like, oh, you'll be coming around uh the mountain. And uh um and uh as soon as I saw him, I was like, oh, I'm uh I go, uh I'm so sorry. And he he goes, no, it's okay. And I'm like, oh, I'm just feeling all I'm like, I got this. I I I don't you don't need to do anything. And then I put the stuff in the back and I close it. And uh I he uh uh gets back in the the van and I think he had like a hand he had to have had a handlebar situation. Um and uh this really just twisted the knife. I got in the back of the van and I saw that my shoe was untied. And uh I I started tying my shoe and I looked and he was waiting for me to finish tying my shoe before he started driving. Uh-huh. And I was like, Wait, so why'd he get out? I don't know if it's a policy or if he thought like you think he got out.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

I do, slightly. And then you got startled, and he's like, I'm getting a good tip. I slightly think that he I you know what that's pretty brilliant. He probably wouldn't know, you wouldn't notice worlds, he's driving, he's so he's like, uh he's an excellent look.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

All these are gonna sound like bits. I'm not doing bits. He's in excellent shape. He had he had like huge arms, uh, and he he looked like a very he's a very healthy guy. He just has uh this situation going on. I would not have known. There's no way I would have known. So I do I part of me was like, because boy, did he get a tip.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

He got it, he got a chip. Yeah, he got a tip, he got a big tip. And five stars.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

He got five stars, he got the whole thing. Uh I would have bought him fake legs. I was I was I was feeling a lot of stuff when I saw You think it's easier to be healthy if you only have to work out half your body? Uh so uh what are you for audio that's Taylor?

SPEAKER_04 22:13

What uh what are you working out today? Same thing in every arms and back.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

I mean I guess neck and chin.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Like I think the the tags were worse than the idea. You set it up.

SPEAKER_04 22:30

Yeah, don't act like you're in a set thing.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

You put the all the bullets in the gun.

SPEAKER_04 22:38

At least it's easier to work out.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

You told it to two guys that like being silly as much as you. But uh and I thankfully, I only have the need to say this now, telling the story. I did not do the oh, I have handicapped people in my family. I'm not one of those people. Like, I but like during it, I was like, I would never have let you out of the car if I had known.

SPEAKER_04 23:06

Yeah, you're a tucking, you're you're in a tough spot where uh he saw you get startled, but you can't really acknowledge your the what happened. It's just you're you're in a you're trapped. You can't, you know.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Three hours of sleep. I was on like three hours of sleep, and I'm telling you the amount of adrenaline, how awake I was for the rest of that ride. Yeah. I could feel it in my uh so yeah, it was like uh oh, all right. I thought that one was good.

SPEAKER_04 23:34

Wait, wait, wait, I missed it.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Say it again. The amount of adrenaline I experienced, I could feel it in my anyway.

SPEAKER_04 23:39

So I see. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Oh good.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

Well that, you know.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

I took one swing and it didn't get anything.

SPEAKER_04 23:51

Oh well, I mean, that's and that's you needed that one for for what we were talking about.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

Yeah. Uh so that that happened to me. Uh uh, but big tip.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Bigger than the Yeah. It is wild for a guy like that. It's like that's that's your profession.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Well, I feel bad because you're like it's I bet you you need it's not his only job. He needs extra money or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Yeah. I would have loved to see the mechanism, because like how my brain would have been to be like, all right, how are we doing this?

SPEAKER_00 24:25

I think is it all with Yeah, I saw like a thing that was going like he would push down. A gas spray kind of a thing.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

I saw uh one time I had a guy uh drive a taxi who had a hook for a hand. Whoa. And attached to the wheel was a thing with a metal thing that got like a hole with a hole in it, so you could hook it, then kind of go like that. And so turn the steering wheel.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 24:49

Whoa.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Yeah. Did it have one like for the volume knob and like the I'm just fascinated on how you operate a vehicle with these.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

It is interesting. You know? Yeah. It's like a whole thing.

SPEAKER_04 25:02

It's also interesting how you're you're you're really you're going for a laugh. And then you you he we laugh and he goes, Oh, what I'm wondering, sincerely.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

I can't think he had different attachments in like where he could They must! No, let me finish my bit. He he he takes the the hook and it he pulls it up and it's a middle finger. He gets cut off in traffic. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:27

Hey, hold on. All right. Oh shit, that was the thumbs up.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

That's the okay son. Where's my middle finger?

SPEAKER_04 25:40

Yeah, thanks to you too.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Go thank yourself. I don't know why he sounds like that. Um, all right. Well, we did race and uh disability.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

What uh well unless Taylor has something, I think we can get right into we could do the we we could do uh whatever uh this is.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

So let's uh this will be good. Um let's do that then, okay? Let me pass these out.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

These are uh uh today's sponsor. Uh-huh. Right. Uh and uh we will not read them. Thank you.

unknown 26:18

One each one.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

Oh, one each one each. Beautiful paper.

SPEAKER_04 26:21

Uh as a reminder, you know, do not read ahead. Um, you know, so that we could all find these out at the same time. Um it is time for our Ed Read. Uh now we don't have any real sponsors because we're so new at this, but in preparation for when we do have one someday, I wrote us an ad for all of us to read. So uh this is written by me, not by Taylor or Steven, and uh these are uh usually not real companies. Uh no, usually they are. Sometimes they're not real. Uh but with that said today, we don't have a sponsor per se, but we have a foundation that we would like to highlight.

SPEAKER_00 27:05

Great. Oh, that's right. This week, instead of trying to sell healthy meal prep boxes or hair growth supplements, we have a charity that we feel you should put your money to. And it is my absolute honor to shout out Association for Underprivileged Color People.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

That's right. Now, I will say personally, I am not a huge fan of the foundation because I think the hardship that African Americans say that they are experiencing is way exaggerated and a little dramatic. But I was outvoted on this one. You should still donate, but I just wanted to give my opinion on this.

SPEAKER_04 27:51

Well, did you know that nearly half of poor black children live in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty?

SPEAKER_02 27:56

I did not know that. I did, but keep in mind you need to ask yourself, at what point is it just you? I mean, sure there's racial injustice out there, but maybe if you complain a little less, you can find ways to get yourself out of your situation.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

But Taylor, do you not realize that there's systemic racism out there that places black youth in unwinnable situations?

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Peter, if I got a nickel for every unfair thing that's happened to me, I'd be a millionaire. I'm five foot four and I have no hair. I may as well be a black man in the 1840s working on a plantation.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Go to www.aucp.com and if you type in hee hee hee as your referral code, we will match whatever you donate up to $5,000. Every dollar helps to build schools in underfunded black neighborhoods.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

But of course, do your research before you donate, you know, in case you find a charity that's a little more needy. Taylor, what are you doing? I'm just speaking my mind. Am I not allowed to?

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Yeah, but it sounds like you have something against blacks. Blacks. Blacks are a huge part of the American culture, and America's prosperous economy is thanks to years and years of the hard work of slaves. And all the slaves were blacks. So we have a duty to give back to blacks. This foundation that helps blacks means a lot to me and Peter. Even though we're not blacks. I see your point.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Anyway, donate today to help the blacks.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

Yep, and now back to our show.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

When it was heavy on him, I was like, mine's paying my kid.

SPEAKER_04 30:08

There was no part of you that's like, oh, I'm getting off easy today.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

I thought at first I was like, okay, this one's on me this week.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

When it was one when it was one page. When it was one page, I was like, oh, it's just Taylor this week. And then I saw those back. I was like, mine's on here. Ooh, big monologue coming up.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

The bigger the paragraph, the more I squirm. It's never like just me saying something sweet for 40 lines.

SPEAKER_04 30:42

Yeah. So, you know, that one overall, I think, a good message, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

And that was the only ad for this week?

SPEAKER_04 30:48

Uh that is, I'll say this. That is the only ad for this week. Uh, but I'd have I wrote other things too. So this this is something new I'm gonna try with you guys. So why don't you take this one? All right. Uh, and just hold off. Okay. Uh, and you're gonna take this one. Here you go. Thank you. And then I'll take this one here. Um so this thing is uh this paper is unbelievable. Yeah, it's uh from Staples. It's very soft. Yeah. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Yeah, so sorry, trying to delay the inevitable.

SPEAKER_04 31:25

Well, this is something I try, right? Uh only you two are reading uh this one, and it's basically a scene. Okay. And there's gonna be a part in the scene where uh there is no line for it, or it's gonna tell you. And what you're gonna do is you're you're just gonna have to fill in what you feel fits for that. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

I like the sound of that game.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

Yeah. So uh for this one, I'll say uh you're you're the cashier and you're a a. A, yeah. Okay. Okay. So this is something I wrote for Taylor and Steve, and there's a little scene that we're gonna do. Uh, and then after you you do the line that you have to put in, uh when you turn it around, there's one more line for the cashier to say. And we'll see if what you said fits his response afterwards. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

And his is his is already written. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

How you doing? I'm good. You find everything okay? Yes, I did, thank you. Oh, barbecue sauce. Ribs, beans? Looks like you're eating good. Yeah. Eating good in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

Now it's time for a ten-word response.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

What the hell is wrong with you, you stupid idiot?

SPEAKER_04 32:51

Okay, let's see what Taylor says. There you go. Okay. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

Not bad.

SPEAKER_04 33:00

It's not something you would actually say in real life. We'll do it again. Alright, what would you let's say have something you if this was for really you, like how would you respond? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

Let's I'll we'll do it from the top. Okay. That time I was trying to think of ten words.

SPEAKER_04 33:13

Yeah. So I'll just ten words that Steven Rogers would honestly say there.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 33:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

How you doing?

SPEAKER_02 33:20

I'm good. You find everything okay? Yes, I did. Thank you. Oh, barbecue sauce, ribs, beans. Looks like you're eating good. Yeah. Eating good in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

Uh yeah. Alright, yeah. Uh that's uh that's what I'm doing. You you eating you eating good two? That felt like eleven.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

It was, right? There you go.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

There you go. I try to put my alright. I like this game. Is there another one?

SPEAKER_04 33:56

There's one more. This time, he's the he's gonna be on the hot seat. Okay, you're the uh you're the bar.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

I like this game. I it I I re I don't like This is experimental. Yeah, I don't like how I executed it, but now I'm like, oh, I like this game.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

It's hard ten words, because your brain's doing two different things. Yeah. It's being like, how would I respond? And is how many words is that? That time I didn't count.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

That time I was like, all right, if a cashier really said that to me, what the heck would I say? Yes. And I like that And that's what we're going for.

SPEAKER_04 34:26

Okay, so we got one more, and it has a backside. That'll be your response at the end. Okay. So this is at the barber.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

Yeah, go ahead. I'm A.

SPEAKER_04 34:33

Yeah. Wait, was that right the way it was? I was A again. No, sorry, you're a barber, and you're you're A.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

Got it. How is everything? Good. How about you? Good. Wife stopped by earlier. Oh, okay, cool. I didn't know you were married. Yeah, and a four-year-old. That's great. Yeah, but but my parents are both sick, and I'm thinking about moving back to China to take care of them. Oh, okay. Wife and kid coming too then? No, actually, we talked about this, and I was saying my parents come first over at anything. So we actually are in a uh place where I'll probably have to leave her and the kid behind.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

Oh, jeez, that sounds tough. Yeah, I can imagine that was really hard to decide. Just a little off the top.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

You know, I've never looked at it that way.

SPEAKER_04 35:36

It's definitely not 20 words, whatever you say. I think so. Say it again. Yeah, that was tough.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

Yeah, that was tough. Sounds tough. Uh that must be hard. I I thought I was counting as I was doing it. Maybe I just must be hard.

SPEAKER_04 35:52

And then a little bit off the side.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

A little bit, a little bit off the top. I think I had I thought I had five words left. That's why I said a little bit off the top, but maybe I maybe I did 15 instead of 10.

SPEAKER_04 36:03

Yeah, you did. And that sounded like a little under. But that's okay. I think we get the gist of it.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

I really like this game. Nailing the words is uh the amount of words is tough.

SPEAKER_04 36:14

Yeah. Well, it's not so much the amount of words as making you say a lot of words to something that deserves only one. Oof. And both of those things happened to me this uh past week. Shut up. Well, my barber was literally saying, uh, you know, the parents are sick. And so I literally said, okay. He said you want to go back and take care of them. I was like, okay, the wife and kid. They're like, I already told her, like, you know, yeah, I gotta see they're they come first. So, you know, so I'm I'm basically probably gonna leave them soon. And then I'm just leave your wife and kids. Yeah, yeah. Go. And I'm literally just getting a haircut, going, Oh, yeah, that's tough. You know, I never looked at it that way.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

So great.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

Yeah, you're really you're you're trapped in the case.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 37:09

Man. And he's going on, like, you know, like uh yeah, like that's just that's just how life is. Like she she wants it more and like wants me to make more money, but you know, this and that. I can just sit there. And then yeah, a cashier at uh I think it's called Berry Plus Supermarket in Astoria. Yeah, the moment he saw the stuff, he's kind of got this energy of like, oh yeah, look at come on, you know, come right here. Yeah, so someone's eating good. I'm like, yeah, eating good in the neighborhood. I'm like, yeah, I am. I'm gonna I am.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

That happened last night with the uh we were playing Blood on the Clock Tower, and just uh boil it down, you can have individual one-on-one chats with people online via microphone during this game, and someone that was annoying everyone during the game last night met uh did a private chat with me, and it was basically the cashier and and and A talking because he was doing a lot of that kind of stuff, and I was like, huh, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Oh god. Uh that's Trader Joe's a lot. They always have to do a whole thing.

SPEAKER_04 38:32

Did you find everything you were looking for?

SPEAKER_02 38:34

I well, I walk up and I have headphones in. And then if they say something to me, I go, I do the social cue of like, what's up? And then it and then I put it back.

SPEAKER_04 38:43

Oh, you make yourself untalkable too.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

Yeah. Really?

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Because you see someone like you're very like as a former cashier, we hate that. You hate that. I figure well, because I think at Trader Joe's, they're told they have to do that. Uh-huh. So I'm we definitely are told to that we have to do that. I feel like I'm giving him an out of like, you can just do you you don't don't feel the need to do it. That's how I'm looking at it. Yeah. Like, don't feel the need to force a thing. Because I can tell. I mean, I there's a difference. I can tell when people genuinely are just like, oh hey, how's you know it? But it I yesterday I'm like, this is a Sunday, the line is wrapped and out the door, you're just getting slammed. I'm like, do you actually care that I got the mango cream bars? Or are you just just doing your thing? Yeah. I don't mean to be a dick, but I didn't know that's how it's being received.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

Well, the biggest one is uh being on the phone, actually having I don't do that. Yeah, I I didn't I didn't think you would do that. It the I've done that.

SPEAKER_02 39:49

I'll do like the like you know, hey, how you doing? What's going on? Yeah, I'll do a bag, thanks. And then you do this if they keep talking about I just stand there. If they if they then try to go into like a conversation, I will like you show them your screen and then you hit play. I take it out of like I was listening to music, but I'm hearing you. I'm not just like I don't I can't hear you. You know, I don't do that. It didn't I didn't feel like I was being a a dick in the moment, but I guess that's often what a dick would think. They don't really. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:25

So I don't okay, maybe I was being a dick. I don't think no, no, no. I don't think you're being uh that.

SPEAKER_04 40:30

I think uh I do feel like there's some level of um I don't know. So for me, the Trader Joe's thing has something been something I think about. It's like it's not enjoyable, but but that's also part of it of like, okay, this is actually a moment to break out of the the matrix of of you know like going through life with eyes closed, of like, okay, yes, this is painful, but uh this this is it's fine. Uh this is this is a regular interaction, and uh I uh I think me running away from that all the time is uh bad. So that I do try to go through it.

SPEAKER_00 41:09

I feel that way uh about headphones in general. Of every time I have them in, I'm literally tuning out life. Yeah. Tuning out overhearing conversations that make me think, yeah, or any any any sort of stim.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

And I I I do have the headphones in, I don't put them on for the cashier, they're just on while I'm shopping. So it's yeah, like that's no, we know you enough to I know what you mean. Yeah, you don't put them on.

SPEAKER_04 41:37

I know you don't put them on for the cashier.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

I'm like, cashier 18. Okay. That'd be insane.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

The guy sees me, like, put him in. He's like, hey, how's it going? You're like, it's about to be a lot better. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:52

You know, I've looked at it.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

Having a good day, glory days.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

All right, let's put it deep cut.

SPEAKER_04 41:56

All right, but I've done worse. I've had I've been I've been playing mobile games while the cashier like it I'm just playing like this and they're talking to me. Yeah, so you know, I'm guilty of it, but uh but yeah, I do think it is is a little thing to to not run away from when I can, when I'm able to face it.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

I'm trying to do less of like headphones and public and and just in general. Even just uh like I took the train yesterday for because I ride my bike most places. I don't take the train a lot, and I was just sitting there on the train and I'm like, oh yeah, this is I'm like I felt actually in society a little bit because like riding the bike is a little bit like the headphones of just you you know you don't deal with anybody. Yeah. Um so yeah, I've been trying to do that as well.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

I'm I'm trying to make it so far and peg a meter, but yeah. Yeah, do your thing. Uh headphones are allowed on airplanes. These are my personal rules uh for myself. Yeah. Headphones are allowed on airplanes. Uh I'm trying to remove them from the subway altogether, but they can be in my ears to eliminate like unwanted interaction, but nothing playing. But I I'm trying to remove that even that. Yeah. It's like because I I find I not only think of a material, but it's just like I appreciate life more when I'm not blasting my head with the same song I've heard over and over again.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

I've been getting these uh like ironically, while I'm on Instagram or TikTok or something like that, there's this trend of people that will like they set up a camera, they they set a timer and they basically just it's essentially meditation, but they will just sit with their eyes open for an hour with no input going in as a way to like reset their attention span and their dopamine and stuff. I mean, I it's meditation, but it's not because you're not kind of bringing that focus image, you're just like Just sitting there. Yeah. Just sitting there. And uh I was like, oh, is that it's like sad that I'm like, oh yeah, I should uh I should do that, but I probably should.

SPEAKER_04 44:13

Oh, okay. I did it for ten minutes.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

I did it for because I don't I don't meditate a lot. I'm like, maybe I should, because I sat for ten minutes and I could feel the urge to go to something. Like uh and I didn't realize that before I did that. Jess is she deleted uh Instagram for the month off her phone, and she's like the amount of times that I go to open it and it's not there is only making her realize like, wow, that's uh like I'm really addicted to it. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 44:44

Uh you're talking about wait, she just deleted it.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Jess deleted Instagram uh for the month.

SPEAKER_04 44:49

Yes. And every time she goes to it, it's not there, so or how every time you go to it.

SPEAKER_02 44:53

Yeah, she's telling me this because I was telling her about the uh the raw dog in life or whatever people are calling it.

SPEAKER_04 44:59

So yeah. No, yeah. Even when I'm at the gym, I try like sometimes like the m the music, I keep doing the same playlist, yeah, and then it actually makes the experience like it's almost like you're you uh like a unrememberable way to work kind of a it's like the same way to work exactly. It's like oh this is a same routine thing that has no change in it. Yeah, and it's so it's just numbness that I'm trying to achieve when I'm when I'm doing that.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

I did that for my I didn't do music for my run today. I just I was um Rick Rubin's book. Oh man. I just I just played that for you know the whole run. What a great book. Yeah, and that's like especially where I am, like trying to, you know, towards this special and stuff. I'm like, I need a that kind of creative, helpful voice of just it's really making me like all the doubts and stuff. It's like it's a part of the process. Like it's been really that's really helpful. You know, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 46:00

Uh so yeah, you guys got some bullshit you wanna uh yeah uh is your game uh thing?

SPEAKER_00 46:12

What what it is it's a hypothetical? It's uh we're not really strangers. We're not really strangers.

SPEAKER_04 46:18

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:19

Uh I was thinking we could each take two cards from anywhere in here, and then you can look at the two cards and you pick what you want to ask wh which person you want to ask which thing, or you just blindly do it. Okay. Uh so everyone grab two.

SPEAKER_04 46:39

Oh is that what I'm doing?

SPEAKER_00 46:41

Yep, he grabbed he grabbed the deeper ones.

SPEAKER_04 46:43

We're each grabbing two, right?

SPEAKER_00 46:44

Yep. Alright, we're all doing level three. We know each other enough. Alright. Now I'll go first. Unless it's hard. Oh, okay, we literally can't do that one. Really? Uh it's scrolling through each other's Instagrams. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:21

We can't?

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Oh. Oh no, I okay, I can do that, but uh uh it will be some dead air, so I'll do it.

SPEAKER_04 47:29

Oh right, that would look terrible on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Plus it'll be good not to see what I've been doing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:38

Wow. Oh, and I can't do that one either. Two of these were not good for for a podcast. These wild cards are I got a good one.

SPEAKER_04 47:52

So take your junk out and squeeze it until it pops. Which looks very good on camera.

SPEAKER_00 47:58

That's a level three. Okay. Well, level three is a lot harder, you know. Uh alright. Uh I'm gonna go then, okay?

SPEAKER_04 48:14

I guess I'm asking I'm hitting both of you with this at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 48:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 48:18

What do I need to hear right now?

SPEAKER_02 48:24

Wow. What do you need to hear right now?

SPEAKER_00 48:37

What do you need to hear right now? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

Uh I'm trying to think of something that you need to hear that you don't already know. Yeah. You know what I mean? I don't want to tell you something that you know. Um God damn.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

I'm proud of you.

SPEAKER_02 49:15

Oh man. Oh, thank God you went first.

SPEAKER_04 49:20

Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 49:23

Uh yeah, didn't do anything. I was fucking gay.

SPEAKER_02 49:32

I think uh the way that you live your life and and sort of uh structure the things that you value, it's gonna be very difficult to find a long-term partner. Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 49:52

You're glad I went first, huh?

SPEAKER_02 49:57

I tried to do the worst thing following I'm proud of you.

SPEAKER_04 50:02

Was that a genuine thing?

SPEAKER_02 50:05

Uh on some level. No. But here's here's what I think you here's what I think you already know. But boy am I proud of you. No. And we all have we all have this of like we all put stuff like this first, which is difficult for a relationship. Yeah. That's kind of the first thing. Cause and you you I believe believe that full wholeheartedly, is that the you know, these things come first. And that's tough for a relationship. That's the first thing that came in my head. Uh, but then I try to tried to find the the most gravest way to say that. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 50:40

Well, you yeah, that was the assignment for sure. You you did that. I appreciate you saying that, but I don't think it's a that's like a I guess when when that question, what I consider its objective is what is something that needs to change.

SPEAKER_02 50:56

He's driving towards a cliff, and I need to say this. You need to hear this right now. Yeah, change direction.

SPEAKER_04 51:02

Yeah, like I guess you know slow down.

SPEAKER_02 51:04

Uh not stop.

SPEAKER_04 51:08

You want to enjoy this fall.

SPEAKER_00 51:10

Yeah, no, I but I I think uh Alright, I'll give you a real answer. So it's something like to steer you more in the right direction? I think so.

SPEAKER_04 51:22

I think so. If I'm fine, if I'm uh gleaning correctly off what what that's trying to do.

SPEAKER_00 51:27

Okay. Uh it's still a little yucky positive sounding, but it won't be as corny. Uh I think you need to uh trust yourself more. Because I feel like you doubt if you're doing things correctly a lot. And from outside perspective, uh there isn't doubt from from me. I you I always trust you to make the right decision for you. So I know that sometimes you've second guessed that kind of stuff. Decisions in projects and and life decisions, and I think you should trust your instincts more. Okay. And not waste your energy on sec the second guessing.

SPEAKER_02 52:16

That feels like something I need to do. That one's better.

SPEAKER_00 52:18

Yeah. Yeah. The first one was more loving. And then I heard that and I was like, All right.

SPEAKER_04 52:28

Uh let's hear the others.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

Uh okay, I will um get ready.

SPEAKER_02 52:33

This I don't I'll say it, and then if this is like doesn't apply, I'll grab another card. What is a lesson you will take away from our conversation? Doesn't feel like a level three to me, I'll be honest.

SPEAKER_04 52:48

It's a lesson.

SPEAKER_02 52:49

What is a lesson you'll take away from our conversation? Does that mean this conversation?

SPEAKER_04 52:53

Yeah, I guess not not ask you to uh not ask you to say stuff people need to hear. A lesson. What is a lesson? I would say one lesson to take away from knowing you, I think, is uh I guess like physical discipline, I think, is something I would take away. Like you're good at that. You're good at like just um deciding what is uh healthy for you and steering towards that direction in a big bad way. You know? And uh it's annoying a lot to the rest of us.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:41

Yeah. Or like we're out, we want we're getting drinks, and he's like, oh, I can't, you know, I gotta freaking 400 mile.

SPEAKER_02 53:52

Every time you bring up mileage, it gets more and more. Uh backwards.

SPEAKER_04 54:01

So uh yeah, so that's all. Okay. That's the best I got.

SPEAKER_00 54:10

Uh man, I think lesson I've learned. What is a lesson you will take away take away from our conversation from knowing you uh I will say uh you've I've learned from you too, uh thank you. Uh I've learned from you uh a like uh it is it's gonna sound like discipline, but it's like a the I think of uh I'm trying to word it right sentimentality when I've every time I've gone to a place that you've lived, there's tribute to the the people who have touched you the the most. And uh it's like a quiet uh dedication to those people, and I and uh it's made me want to decorate my home in in that sort of way of like you don't have like uh actions are louder than words on what people mean to you specifically. I've noticed.

SPEAKER_04 55:36

It's very reliable, yeah. Thanks to repay very much, yeah. Or is there, you know?

SPEAKER_00 55:43

Yeah, uh on I'm blanking on the words, and uh I should just sit here and stammer a little bit more to find them. I'm sorry, I know, I know. Boy, I was like, just fuck us, just fuck us. But I don't know the right word for it, but it's like there's some people that are uh a lot of very vocal about it, and it's almost to a point where it's like, do you just want us to hear it? And then you don't hear about the people in his life as much as you see evidence of them. Yes, he's a doer, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I've learned that. Uh, and all that's really done for me is I just bought more picture frames, but uh uh okay. So um uh okay. If we're doing it to both people at once, why do you think we met? Why do you think we met?

SPEAKER_02 56:35

I guess that's this seems like a more grand cosmic question.

SPEAKER_04 56:39

Yeah. Uh if I'm gonna be literal, it's because you you uh are uh a big go-getter in establishing relationships and maintaining relationships. It's really you did the heavy lifting and the hard work on why me and you met and then developed a friendship. Well, I think we both put a good amount of work into the developing friendship side. But as far as meeting, you that was on you. And in fact, I think that's why you get the things that you get is uh while people sit around and wait, for it, you tend to go and seek it desperately.

SPEAKER_02 57:21

I I yeah Ditto's not allowed. Yeah, what he said. Well the the the literal I I think we met because you were a mutual friend of a friend. Uh but on the grander cosmic thing, I I think um I think we met, and if I'm gonna be I guess uh whatever sign I can take uh personally or selfish, I I think uh we met so that I could have um a very close friend who shares a similar passion that can also um be a great uh support system for me doing something uh difficult, which is something that I look at both of you uh for because this can also This is about me. Yeah, so I just after what I said to him earlier, I just want to make sure you know I was included in this part.

SPEAKER_04 58:26

But uh I get the hit when you get all the aesthetics.

SPEAKER_02 58:38

Yeah, you know, like it's it's uh in a one-sentence thing it to have someone that you can uh you can lean on sometimes, you know, which I think is what good friends are are for, you know.

SPEAKER_01 58:52

Lean on me with strong I need you to have me your friend. I'll help you get lean on me. Okay Yes. I wanted to give you fake words so bad because I was I was hanging on by your on your rope. Lean on someone, lean on me. If you're a peanut wall.

SPEAKER_04 59:40

Well, I think that about wraps up today. We just hit an hour.

SPEAKER_00 59:45

That's uh Taylor's grandmother getting off the phone.

SPEAKER_02 59:49

You all sound busy.

SPEAKER_04 59:53

I don't want you guys, I want you guys to get back to what you're doing. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:00

Well, let's do our uh little plugs before we do our little song.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:04

Okay. Uh and the plug you have to say in alphabetical order.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:09

Okay. Okay. I I really like these games. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:12

So I'll go first, okay? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:17

So telling us the whole sentence each word is. How about just the the beginning of the plug is alphabetical, then the next plug is uh you're doing like every word in the sentence. I got it. Okay, I got it from here. Ready?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:41

Boston, Chattanooga, Fargo, London.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:57

That's easy, well, follow us on Instagram, the Peter Walker Company.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:04

Fargo, Rochester's TV Comedy.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:09

That does all go with special recording here at Grove 34, March 28th. Two shows, 7 p.m. at nine, and uh you can get tickets at TaylorYarish Comedy.com. That'll go to my link tree, which will go to a link to tickets. So please come out to that.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:29

Yeah, big special recording.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:31

Or if uh this is already uh past that date, then look out for the special.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:37

No, this will be out before then, like the like a couple days before.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:41

Uh yeah, Peter Wong Comedy. Uh watch my stuff uh on Instagram. That's where I've got videos with these two knuckleheads, and uh watch my special on YouTube, don't move.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:57

Oh, you went already? Oh, I was not moving. Oh, I already went, but StephenRoggers Comedy.com uh and uh a bunch of dates on there. Uh and I have uh a couple specials on YouTube. Check them out. Uh thank you guys for listening.