EP008 | Italian Job Pt. Deux, Streaming Is Broken & The Sabres Are Winning

In this episode, we cover a little bit of everything and somehow make it all worse.

We kick things off with the return of the Italian Job, then get into a debate about actors who might actually be better than Timothée Chalamet.

From there, Jeff makes the case that the Buffalo Sabres are playing so well they might actually win it all, which feels insane to say out loud.

We also get into a truly dumb Mini Cooper driver moment, why everyone secretly hates streaming now but refuses to admit it, and how entertainment somehow got worse while becoming more convenient.

As usual, strong opinions and very little expertise.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to Two Guys No Credentials.

SPEAKER_03 0:02

We're two completely unqualified people talk about nothing.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

And everything. Like we know what we're doing. Spoiler. We don't. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Yeah, the stanky. Very relevant in today's society. You know, I was just working on my Soldier Boy, and I pulled my back there.

SPEAKER_03 0:20

Uh, when that song uh what's the name of that soldier boy song? Superman? Is it Superman? Is that what it is?

SPEAKER_01 0:29

I don't know. I actually don't know.

SPEAKER_03 0:31

That everybody knew the dance too?

SPEAKER_01 0:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:34

That became popular when I was in Japan.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Really? What was that like in Japan?

SPEAKER_03 0:40

What was that saga like? So this so um I I'm in Japan, I I don't know. I must have been in Japan uh 2006 to 2008, and I'm pretty sure that song became popular while I was there. So you'd go to the um uh the club on bass, um, like the enlisted club where all the enlisted people hung out, and it was really cool, and um like you'd get these kids showing up and they knew what it was, and we're all like, what are they doing? Like I like it's like I knew the electric slide, and then these people were like, Let's do the soldier boy, and it's like I don't know what this is, or the Superman or whatever is that a thing anymore?

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Like, like are there dances to songs?

SPEAKER_03 1:36

Um, yeah, absolutely. So um a group of people I work with, they go line dancing.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Well, okay, yeah. There's line dancing, right? Like at a country bar, like for sure. That's like more of a more of a genre-specific thing. I mean like pop music.

SPEAKER_03 1:53

Oh, I'm not really sure. I don't follow the kids these days. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

But that's good. Don't follow any children. Well, I don't have my white van anymore. Yeah, we got rid of it. It's a gray van now. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

No, no, no. I just the court made me get rid of it.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Yeah. You gotta take the long way that avoids the school.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

Japan was weird though. Um the nicest human beings on the planet. Um, very polite, uh, very um, very focused on uh the harmony of society, so you don't want to disrupt the harmony, you know? And if you did, like the police would come.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Yeah, that sounds fabulous. I've I've known uh a few people that have traveled to Japan very recently and uh absolutely love it there. They this is actually their second time in like the same year they went back, um, which I think is pretty cool. I think my brother is trying to uh go there next year as well. Um sounds like a really cool place. I just don't know if I could do the flight.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

Um uh I remember I was it was me and like one other person on the flight, and um it was great. It was like these big bucket seats, and you had like a TV that pulled out in front of you like it was the future.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

But it wasn't, it wasn't the now, yeah. Um, yeah, but is that like every flight though? I have no idea. I think those are special seats. That's what has me worried about. Like, the whole plane was set up like this, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

Oh, okay. I I'm not sure. Nice. Well, maybe one day. Maybe one day. Um, I wouldn't say no to it. I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't be like, yeah, let's go to Japan. Um, there's other pla I've been. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Uh and I spent like a year and three months there, I think.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

So I'm good. So if you could travel somewhere outside of the United States, where is that?

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Anywhere?

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Yeah. What do you want to see? Canada. All right, we can do that.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

No, um if if I could pick one place to go um that is like a like probably somewhere I would never go, Madagascar.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Oh, good one. Very good one.

SPEAKER_03 4:35

Yeah, because I could I would probably pick Italy before I picked Madagascar, you know, but if I could just go and pick one? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Yeah, uh we're trying to plan a trip to Italy. We've never been on a honeymoon since we got married. We're supposed to get married in 2020. We know how that turned out. Uh then we had to postpone it to 21. By then, all of you guys were were getting married, and we didn't want to miss that. So we just kind of postponed our honeymoon. So uh we're trying to do that at some point here. Uh hopefully, hopefully it works out for September.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

Um, well, you did, according to Sam, you got married in 2020.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Yeah, according to her uh anniversary Facebook post, she has no idea the year we got married.

unknown 5:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

That was funny. That was hilarious. And everyone was like, oh my god, aren't you like upset she didn't know? Like, no, that shit's hilarious. You kidding me? So funny. It's the thought that counts, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:36

Yeah, well, that's that's what made it even funnier because it was just a super sincere, nice post, and she got all the facts wrong.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Happy anniversary, Jeremy. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, it was good. Uh all right, um, updates for you. So this one's probably not that interesting to you, uh, but for anyone in the Buffalo area that might be listening, very interesting to us. The Buffalo Sabres are now two points out of first place in the Eastern Conference with 11 games to go, so they still could easily take first place, but they were in dead last place in November. Oh, wow. The league the league has never seen this before. It's like something like this never happened. They were the absolute worst team in the NHL for 14 years, like just absolute dog shit. They set an NHL record for being the first team to finish 31st in the league because there was an expansion. They were better than us. And then a few years later, they set another record by being the 32nd ever, as there's another expansion.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

That's amazing. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Um can I let me ask you a question? Yeah. Um, wait a second. Can you man, I just totally fucked this up.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

I just spaced we'll edit it out. I had a that's our I wish I could do that to my life. Go ahead. I it'll come, it'll come back to me. Sorry about that.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yeah, um, it's just like it's really, really crazy because you can like also pinpoint the moment it turned around. It was literally the week they fired the GM. Then all of a sudden, boom, it was like completely different. They just they look unstoppable, and it's kind of annoying because they've always had talent on the team. There's always been talent, it's been poor coaching. The funny part about this, the last time that the Sabres were in the playoffs, Lindy Ruff was their head coach. He's the same coach that took us to the Stanley Cup Finals in '99. So he we were still actively in the playoffs, just not like making it very far. So they fire Lindy Ruff. Then they go through a slew of other coaches for 14 years until they bring Lindy Ruff back two years ago, and now he's gonna bring us back to the playoffs. Like we could have just stuck with him the whole entire time. It's so silly. Uh, but to see where they're at now and to see the buzz in the city, because this really it's funny because Buffalo gets labeled as like a football town, and we definitely are. We are so much more of a hockey town around here, and the buzz like around the city is just awesome as hockey's back in Buffalo. And honestly, dude, I've watched a lot of hockey in my life. This team could win the Stanley Cup. Like they're they are good. If it we'll see how it turns out in the playoffs, because like everything gets elevated. That's exciting. It is exciting. And oh man, there's this person, yeah. There's this sorry, I'm sorry, there's this viral like post around here in Buffalo from like 10 years ago where this dude went to a psychic, and the psychic told him that the Sabres were gonna win the Stanley Cup in 2026, and the Bills were gonna win the Super Bowl in 2027. So, like, all of a sudden, the Sabres, for some reason, look absolutely unstoppable, like they can win the cup. And if that happens, I probably like I've I've already told Sam, get the hospital on speed dial because I will need my stomach pumped if both of those things happen. I will need my stomach pumped.

SPEAKER_02 9:39

Yeah. It's all right.

SPEAKER_03 9:46

I wish you luck. And you know what, just um let me know what hospital, I'll send flowers.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Yeah, absolutely. Prefer balloons, but well, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

Balloons are bad for the environment.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Yeah, so is cutting ant flowers.

SPEAKER_03 10:02

No, they're they're they're grown to be cut, like it's not affecting anything. They're extra flowers. Touche. Can I so I don't remember my original question, unfortunately, but what's uh what's a Buffalo Bandit? Oh, Buffalo Bandits.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

Yeah, this is the uh team?

SPEAKER_01 10:27

This is uh the lacrosse team here in Buffalo. Oh, I thought it was a broom. Yeah, no, that is a lacrosse stick there. That's a bandit. Okay. Um they are they are like kind of like the New England Patriots of lacrosse. They can't stop winning championships. And uh they they've won a they won a ton of them in the 90s. They just three-peated championship here. Like uh the last year was the three-peat. And what was awesome about it is it was like the championship was like the week after the Super Bowl or something like that. I must have the season drawn. Anyways, it was like right after the Chiefs were talking about how like we're gonna three-peat, we're after the three-peat or whatever. Uh so they obviously lose in historic fashion, and then this bandits win the three-peat, and the first thing they said into the camera is that you know, Kansas City, that's how you three-peat. And like, let's go. Buffalo. That's all they needed to say. It's cool. Love that.

SPEAKER_03 11:25

Um, uh, but I do have to I gotta make a correction here. They're not like the new New England Patriots of lacrosse. If they were, people would know what lacrosse was.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

I just I guess I mean in terms of domination. They've also never never cheated.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

Well, so I guess you know, oh yeah, you can't deflate the lacrosse sticks.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

It's a ball. Well, they have sticks too. They do have sticks. You don't you can't deflate them, bitches, I'll tell you that for free.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

Yeah, that's why that's not funny. But you can't deflate sticks because they're sticks and not filled with air.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Yeah. Uh to quote Donald, they're not, they're not they're not balls. I'll agree with you there.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

That's true. They're not balls. Um oh, this is what so next year, like around this time, are we gonna have like a big hockey scandal because all the sabers are on steroids?

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Was that what's gonna be? I hope so. No, I don't hope so, but like that would be awesome. Finally, they're good. And it would be true Buffalo fashion for that to be taken away from me because they're all roided up. Yeah, that would be classic Buffalo.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Just fuck that up, Buffalo.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Yeah, just finally win one and then just rip my heart right out. Absolutely. I will say though, speaking of bandits, like going to like lacrosse games are super fun. Uh they just play music the entire time. Uh because they're not like nationally televised, so they don't have to worry about like the music rights. Um they're super fun to be at. Like games are like they end like 12-10, so there's a lot of scoring, there's a lot of celebrating. Um, it's a really, it's a really I honestly can't believe that sport isn't more popular because it is really, really fun to watch.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Oh, right. I don't think I've ever watched lacrosse.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Yeah, yeah. I mean, most people haven't. Um the but the intensity, the like because they're they're on their feet, right? And so like they're running, they're plowing into people, checking, and like they whack each other with their sticks. Um, it's like a really intense physical sport. Uh so I don't know. It's like a really it's really cool. The hand-eye coordination you have to have to do that in general. Unbelievable. Uh it's really cool. I I I hope it gains more popularity.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Uh there's already too many sports. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Cricket. That's one. For s for some reason pickleball is becoming popular. I heard it's fun to play, but boring to watch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:11

Squash. Squash is yep, that's another one.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

We're we're up to like three. That's how am I supposed to watch all this? Try to get me started on the ponies.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

I I you know what though? Um, I'll be honest with you. I only watch football now. I usually I mean basically me too. I used to love basketball, uh, but LeBron James just has destroyed basketball, in my view. Um and I I don't think there's any coming back.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

Yeah, I kind of agree. There I don't know. The NBA, first of all, uh any sport how do I want to put this? The the problem with basketball is the rules aren't very well thought out. Like, I don't really know what a foul is because they're they're so inconsistent. Traveling doesn't even exist anymore. So like it it's all it all takes away from the sport, but then any sport that incentivizes fouling at the end of a game so that you hope the other team misses free throws, we're just dragging the game on for absolutely no reason. I think that's I I think I think it's awful for that for those reasons.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

See, I disagree with that. Uh I think the fouling at the end of the game is a lot of fun. Because there are times where it's very strategic, um, and uh like they like a team can make a comeback and make the end of the game very interesting.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sure that it happens, but the means to get there is not you being better than the other team, it's you fouling the other team. Well, yeah, committing penalties on purpose, and then hope they miss their free throws. Like, hopefully you foul Shaq, because that's how you get back into a game. The dude has barely I don't think he's ever made a free throw in his life. Well, that's the thing though.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

Like, no, uh you better make your free throws. Like you should be practicing them because it could come down to you.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Definitely. I guess when I compare that to other sports, like, for example, hockey, which I think is the best of the four major sports, in turn because it's it's perfect, everything's perfect about it. Yes, there could be tikky-tacky penalties here and there. We all know that that happens in every sport, but it's so just. If you take Wayne Gretzky, for example, if you took a run at Wayne Gretzky, you were gonna have to deal with McSorley. So nobody is going after Wayne Gretzky because you get your face beaten. That's justice, you know? So I don't know. It's it's it's kind of like fair and equal. You commit a penalty, it's a huge disadvantage. Having a guy leave the ice, that power play goes on there, you're down a man. If you commit another penalty, now you're down two guys. Like the the the there is no incentive to commit a penalty. Whereas even in football, there is an incentive to commit a penalty. Like you got a bomb going downfield, and you know you got the guy beat, you trip him up. It's just a spot foul, but at least it's not a touchdown. Like, there's still an incentive there to commit that penalty.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

Right. Well, I also think uh hockey has a leg up on the other major sports, uh, because hockey's image is we're we're rough. We like they're giant guys missing teeth, will hit you in the face if you do some shit. Um and I think the other major sports, they have um images to protect and they've they they've kind of like are curating like this entertainment. And hockey's just hockey. People who like hockey, they're gonna like hockey. Um hell yeah. So they're not worried about they're not worried about the image, so I think they have a leg up on the other sports.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Yeah, I think so too. I think that's a great point. Um, we did look this up once of the group of friends, and there is actual data out there that proves that hockey is the hardest of the four major sports. The most athletic, you have to be the most athletic to play hockey. Which doesn't sound right because like football players are like jacked, right? Um, but the speed at which hockey players, the finesse they have to have, the balance, um, like I put it this way.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

Yeah, um, yeah. The pucks.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

And it's at the end of a stick. You're not looking at it. Like, there's a lot, a lot going on there. Um, but I put it this way you could take any NHL player and they can go play a pickup game of football. You cannot take any NFL player and play a pickup game of hockey.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

This is so funny because um uh I was just watching like last week a video of baseball players and football players arguing, and the baseball player was like, You think that any football player could just come on a baseball field and hit a baseball? Like we could any baseball player could go and play football. Yeah, they might get like fucked up, but like they could go play football. Those football players aren't gonna be able to hit a baseball. You don't think so, really? That's what that's what his argument and part of me agrees with that. I like it I think if you gave me a hundred tries, I might if there was a professional pitcher throwing a 90 mile per hour pitch right down the plate, I might hit it once.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Really? Interesting. Yeah, I I definitely don't think any NFL player could hit a junk ball. I it's hard. Yeah. I mean it is hard, and it doesn't make any sense, right? You're hitting a round object with a round object. Like it is kind of nuts.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

Um like baseball players don't even hit the ball.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

Yeah, like honestly, that's kind of what I hate about baseball. Like, if you hit the ball 30% of the time, 30% of the time, you're in the hall of fame. Right. It's kind of nuts. Yeah, I yeah, I could you imagine the quarterback that completes only 30% of their passes? Yeah, exactly. Like it's wild to think about. Um that's what makes Shohei Otani unbelievable, though. He had more, what was it? He had more home runs than strikeouts, and he led the league in strikeouts. Oh, oh. Really? Like two years ago or something like that. I could have that stat wrong, but I I do know that it was like maybe it was hits against something like that, something crazy. Um, but I do think baseball as a sport requires the least amount of athleticism in any of the major sports. I want to be very clear, I am not saying they are not incredible athletes. They absolutely are. But when when you're talking about the athleticism required to play that sport, nowhere near the other of the major four. Right. Yeah. I agree. Like Prince Fielder, first baseman, longtime first baseman, big fat guy. Like like let's be honest. Uh David Ortiz, big fat guy, hit the ball far.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Hit ball far.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Don't play anything else. Yeah, I yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Uh Michael Jordan. Not good at not good at baseball.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

What is crazy is Deion Sanders playing football and baseball. In the same day. Yeah, that's nuts. That is that is peak athleticism. Probably the best athlete of all time. I know, but I regret it as soon as I said it, it's Bo Jackson.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

Oh, didn't Deion Sanders do the same thing?

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Dion was the only one that played both sports in the same day. But Bo Jackson was a much better baseball player than Dion. You could argue they were pro they were about equal on the football field, but Bo Jackson was unbelievable at running back. No, Bo I I would pick Bo Jackson over Dion. Same. I heard it as soon as I said it. Yeah, I would. We spent a lot of time on this. Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

Um I don't think I have I don't have any updates. Um I don't have a weekly regret either. I do have a story about a Mini Cooper to fill out.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

I would love to hear it. Do you want to talk about that or do you want to do your uninformed take?

SPEAKER_03 23:04

Uh no, I'll give you my story about the Mini Cooper. Let's go. Uh this morning. Um I'm driving in to or I I God, I can't do this. What is going on here? Is that fun? Is it all is that all that hashish? I yeah. Well, I've been drinking all day.

SPEAKER_04 23:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:28

Uh so I go to the uh I go to the bank this morning uh because I'm going to get a haircut. I need cash. They only take cash at my my place. Um so I park, go inside, get my cash, come out, get in my car, and turn my car on. About to put it in reverse, and I see a little white Mini Cooper park like in the spots behind me on the other side of the parking lot. And both spots on either side of this Mini Cooper are empty. So I'm like, all right, well, I I in my mind, I'm like, well, it's a Mini Cooper, I can go now. But no, I'm backing up, and while I'm backing up, this Mini Cooper is like, oh, well, I park like an asshole. I have to fix myself. And so I'm backing up, and this person starts backing up and doesn't see me, even though I'm directly behind them. And I'm like, what are you, what are you doing? So, like, uh I'm like, all right, they obviously don't see me. I put the car and drive, pull back into the spot, they pull in, and I'm like, all right, great. Put it back in reverse, I'm leaving. They do the exact same thing to me. Stalemate. The exact same thing to me. Yeah, so I'm like, holy shit. So I pull back in, um, and I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna sit here until you get out of your car because I have no idea what's going on, Mr. Italian job. Uh, so they they get out of the uh or so like I'm sitting there for like it's gotta be two minutes. I'm like, all right, we're good. Um, and they get out of the car and they trip, like going taking a step going up the curb. And I'm so I I'm so glad I saw that. But like imagine imagine you're driving a shopping cart, right? And you're parking it in a space, and there's two spaces completely empty. Like, and you needed a sequel to your parking job.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

And the sequel's never as good as the original. Never. Well, in this case, it was better because he tripped. It was the godfather part two. Yeah, I mean, like, if you got a car that small and you're crooked in the space, but there's plenty of space on either side of you within your space, you're done. That's it.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

But my thing is, is well, like, uh, why was it so difficult to do it the first time? Maybe you need one adjustment. But why'd you need seven?

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Yeah. I mean, like, I don't I don't know, man. It's really not that hard to go like park into the spot like perfectly the first time. And if you have a mini Cooper, it should be even easier because the turn radius is like you can turn on a dime in those stupid things. Right. I don't know. Like, to me, that was the whole point of owning a smart car if you did.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

Yeah, park anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

Yeah, if you're gonna parallel park somewhere, you just park perpendicular on the road, you fit. Done.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

Uh yeah, but I um went, got my hair cut, um, saw my friend, my barber. He's not my friend. I mean, we're friendly. Um, my he's his name's Eli. He's the best. Um, and he said he's been watching.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Which is really cool.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

Yes. All right, shout out Eli.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

I know.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

That is awesome. Thank you. We have a listener. Yeah. Yeah. He does a great job. He and uh, you know, I'll be honest with you though, he does make fun of me going bald a lot.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Yeah. Well, as he should. Um, I do want to point out that you're like, he's not my friend.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

He will absolutely listen to this. I didn't say it that way. I said we're friendly. Like, yeah, he's the best barber ever.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

You've talked about Eli to me, uh like, you know, off off-air, I guess, um, many, many times. I feel like I know him. If I lived in Connecticut, that's that's who I'd go see.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

Yeah, I would insist. Yeah. Nice. Thanks, Eli. Yeah, Eli's the best. Uh, he does a great job, and even though he makes fun of me for going bald and is constantly telling me to go to Turkey for a hair transplant, um, he also makes me feel a little like he does such a good job. I do feel a little c more confident when I take my hat off, which is almost oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

That's awesome, man. I love that. There is something good about a fresh cut, you just feel awesome about yourself. And like, you know, when your barber does a nice job and they care about like the job that they're doing, that's awesome. Does he uh does he do beard also?

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Yeah, but I I I do my own beard, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

But does he edge you up?

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Yeah, he will. Um but I I got the straight razor at home, so I like doing it myself. It's because you're a man. Yeah, you want to hear something funny? Um this is a good story, it's relatable. Um uh I was this was years ago. This had to be like 2013, 2012, or something like that. I was dating this girl. I was dating this girl, and um, we're like we were gonna go out to dinner or something, and I was like, uh I forget. I said I like I couldn't meet her at a certain time because I was going to the barber shop um to get my beard done. And she messaged me back, you're such a pussy. Real men do their own beards. What? Yes, real men do their own beards.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

No, real men have a professional who know what they're doing do their beard.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

This is what she said to me.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

And I don't do my own beard, I know exactly what I'm calling myself, and I stand by it.

SPEAKER_03 30:05

Hey, I I don't put much stock into what she said, but also I did run out and get a straight razor.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Man, how often do you use the straight razor though, every day?

SPEAKER_03 30:23

No, no, no. I'll do it once, sometimes twice a week. Gotcha. Like it gets close. And you know, uh I don't uh like my job, I don't need to be like perfectly clean shaven or anything. So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

A little well, you can have a beard and still be clean shaven, you know? Right. So your straight razor, are we talking the Sweeney Todd kind that folds open? Yeah. Oh wowie. I don't trust myself with that.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Oh, you'll figure it out. If you cut yourself like seven times, you're good after that.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

Yeah, but I'd slice my jugular and then Sam would find me hours, perhaps days later.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Oh so I very rarely do my neck. I use it every once in a while. Like I usually just do it to do the line, and then I'll just use a regular razor for the rest, because it's what a waste.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Yeah. I just I have these like uh clippers, these shears that get really close, so I just I just edge up that way.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Alright. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

But real men do their own beards. You heard it here. Yeah, you heard it here. Real men do their own beards.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

Yeah. Um I don't know. What do we where what do we do now? After that.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Okay, well, I have a game for us. Oh, you have a um I do. Unless you want to do your uninformed take first, uh, we could jump right to things I hate.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Oh, yeah, let's do the uninformed take real quick. Because I I it's not. We talked about this last time. Yeah, and you challenged me to find some people that I thought were around our age that are better actors than um Timothy Chalamet. Yeah. So I I I made a list. Oh, okay. Alright. Um, and they're a l they're close. We're like 10 years apart. Well they're closer to my age, most of them. Sure. Um but Oscar Isaac.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

Okay. J Jake Gyllenhaal. Anya Taylor Joy.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

Oh, she's incredible.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Are you ready for this one though? This is gonna you're gonna be like, you're right, you're right, you're absolutely right. Adam Driver.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi.

SPEAKER_03 32:59

Okay. Adam Driver. And my reach is John Boylega.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

That's my reach. Is a reach. I will say, Jake Gyllenhaal, definitely closer to like your age, very far away from Timothy Chalamet. What do you mean? Like not as good? No, like uh in terms of age. He's like almost 50. Timothy Chalome is like almost 30.

SPEAKER_03 33:29

Uh no, Jake Gyllenhaal is my age, like 44, I think. No way. Yeah. Dude, I thought he was 48. No, he's my age, I'm pretty sure. Oscar Isaac is 45. Um. Adam Driver is 41. I have no idea how old uh Anya Taylor Joy is. Is that how you say it? Anya? Is it Anya? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Anya Taylor Joy, you nailed it.

SPEAKER_03 33:57

No idea how old she is. But she's got to be in her 30s, right?

SPEAKER_01 34:02

So, yeah, I think right around there. Of the actors you listed, I think that Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Driver are absolutely incredible. That like on the top of that list. I think Timothy Chalamet for me is right in there with them. Um but those oh man, Jake, Jake Gyllenhaal, um, he gets shit sometimes for being like a method actor or whatever. I think he's absolutely incredible. I think his sister Maggie sucks.

SPEAKER_03 34:37

I can't oh oh um Batman? Yeah. The with Heath Ledger, right? Yep. And then um there's a movie, and I wish I could remember the name of it right now. It is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's with Will Farrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal. And uh Maggie Gyllenhaal has like a bakery or a coffee shop or something, but when she's doing her taxes, she only she like takes out 20%, like doesn't pays all her taxes except for 20% of her taxes, and she wrote like she wrote on like her taxes when she mailed it in. It's like she didn't agree with like a war or something, so I'm not paying you. So Will Farrell is an um like an IRS auditor, and he's going to audit her, and uh, you know, uh it's it's not like like a Will Farrell comedy, but it I think it's so great, it's narrated in a very funny way. Um, and I don't want to ruin it for you, but you have to watch this movie.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

No, I think I know this movie, isn't it? Uh this this is an older movie, so I'm not spoiling anything. Yeah, uh, but it but it he was like hit by a bus, right? And he's like kind of dead, but not no, no, different Will Pharaoh movie, different Will Pharaoh movie.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

No, he's um it's being narrate narrated and it's narrated in a very funny way, like where the narrator makes these weird comparisons, like, yeah, because he brushed his teeth and and like spilled water, two dolphins died in the Gulf of Mexico. Uh and I know that doesn't sound funny, but it does sound funny, yeah. It's like narrated that way, and I there's a um there's a type of narration that it's called that I just can't put my finger on it. Uh, have you ever seen Guardian uh not Guardians of the Galaxy? Oh my god, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? You know what? No, I haven't. Oh, it's narrated like that too. Alright. Have you seen Good Omens? Nah. Where the the angel and the devil they're they're best friends throughout like human history. Oh, it's that's good. The well, the first season's really good. The second season is terrible. But anyway, um We're gonna find that. Uh Amazon Prime.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

Alright, add it to the list.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

Yeah, um, but good omens, first season, incredible. Um, and then this Will Farrell movie, I gotta remember, I gotta write it down so we can do an update later. But it's just so good, it's so funny, and it turns out that like the narrator um doesn't know that she's narrating his life.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

Uh yeah, you know, this this sounds familiar. I think I've seen this. I'm just getting them a little mixed up. Um it sound this sounds really this sounds like a movie I've seen before, um, but I'd love to watch it again. Um however, I'm sure the movie's great, she still sucks.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Yeah, like you could have taken her out of the movie and replaced her with anybody, it would have been fine. Like you could have put a like a mannequin and it would have been okay.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

Yeah. Any NPC. You know, it's it's exactly the same. Uh she she blows. Um, Adam Driver's great, uh, and Jake Gillenhall is great. I think Timothy Chalamet is right up there with them. I will say he's significantly younger than both of them. And so if we were to zoom in even further on like his cohort, he's still probably the best right now. Well, he's 30. Is he 30? Yeah. Right? I thought he was still in his 20s. Uh I mean he looks he looks 18.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

No, he is 30 because I saw a post comparing him to he's the same age as um Jason Alexander was at his peak on Seinfeld. That is crazy. Like 30-year-olds now versus 30 year olds in the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Crazy. Oh. One George divided as that divided against itself can't outstand.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

No, it can't. And I love independent George.

unknown 39:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

Who doesn't love Independent George? I can't think of anyone.

SPEAKER_03 39:21

Right. But uh I just wanted to point out some actors that I thought were better.

SPEAKER_01 39:26

This was great, a great list because I hadn't considered I guess I just kind of thought that Jake Jalen Hall and Adam Driver were so much older, but they are in that cohort, so I'm really glad you pointed that out because they are absolutely phenomenal. And Adam Driver, uh former military member. Yeah, he's a Marine. Yeah, he is a Marine. Yeah. It's like it's a very um unusual uh like progression from military to acting, and I I think it's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

Well, um, we've got Drew Carey. He's a Marine. Is that right? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:00

I don't think I ever do that. I'm learning that information right now.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Uh Shaggy is a Marine. Yeah. I don't understand how you're not excited about that.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

I am excited about that.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

That's incredible.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

We we just we were in California for that wedding. We played a Shaggy song, and it was hilarious watching my white friend have to go, Life is one big potty when you're still young. It didn't hit the same.

SPEAKER_03 40:32

No? No. Uh well, I could have hooked you up with uh some people out there that could have done the vocals. Yeah. I know some I know some people. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Yeah, I wish I knew I had known. Alright. Um you you got any takes or you want to get into your game?

SPEAKER_01 40:53

Um, I really don't have any uninformed takes uh this week, but we can jump into our game. What I would love to do here is a little speed round of a game called Love It or Hate It. And this is where I list off things that Eric either loves or he hates. Spoiler, mostly hate.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

Oh, I mean, there's no evidence that I'm gonna hate any of this stuff. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

Let's proceed. Let's go. Let's go. So so I'm just gonna list off things and you just fire away. If there's one that you like really have to explain why, or you feel like you want to, just dive right in. Uh we're gonna try to fire this off as fast as we can. I have a bunch. Okay. Starting with bubble baths. Love them. Septum piercings. Hate it. Fucking hate it. So stupid.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

Like, I already know. I I already know I'm gonna hate you. Like, you're gonna start talking, and I know everything that's gonna come out of your mouth is gonna piss me off.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

This is already cold. All right. Uh almond milk. Stupid. Yep. Tyra Banks. What a bitch. Uh toddlers.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

Oh, I hate toddlers. Fuck. They're always sticky. They won't shut up. They're like little alien beings who I have no idea what I'm fucking supposed to say to you. Like, they could be like, I want a snack, and I have no like, are you allowed snacks? Well, like, what do you mean? Like, get away. What are you doing in my apartment, toddler? Go away. No. Toddlers.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Toddlers, no. Ejected. People uh people who enjoy bird watching and want to tell you about it.

SPEAKER_03 43:01

Hate them too. Hate them too. Yeah, what? Alright. Go ahead. I just I don't even know what to say about that. I but I just do know I like I've never met any bird watchers, but I hate them.

SPEAKER_02 43:21

Um the letter Q without its partner U. Dumb.

unknown 43:29

Dumb.

SPEAKER_02 43:29

Dumb. Hate it. Hate it.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

Hate it. Uh the word whippersnapper. Love it. Oh, okay. Loves that. Why do we love it?

SPEAKER_03 43:41

It's just fun to say whippersnapper.

SPEAKER_01 43:45

Noted. All right.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

Like it makes me it makes me grin while I'm saying it. Whippersnapper.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

All right. Alright, I'm into it.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

Hot tubs. Ugh hate it. Rose. Disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Speaking of disgusting, Jamie Lee Curtis.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

Path.

SPEAKER_01 44:18

That one was for me. I unjustifiably, and I have no reason for this, fucking hate Jamie Lee Curtis. I have no idea why. I can't explain it to anybody. But I see her on a if she's on a movie or on a show, Sam turns to me and she's like, don't say it. Like I hate her. Oh, really? It's that bad. I have no idea why. I think in a past life she bitch slapped me. That's the only the only thing I can think of.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Are you are are you against yogurt? I'm against her yogurt.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

My mom had the activia in the fridge one time, but I was like really little. I didn't know what it was. So I'm like, oh, yogurt. I ate the yogurt and I shit my pants for like two days. This is the trauma. Yeah, this is the trauma that led to you hating her. You know what? Maybe it is. Maybe that maybe I didn't ever connect to the dots before. All right, I got a few more. Okay. Alright, let's go. I'm ready. When people pronounce rakotta ricotta. Hate it. Right? Hate it.

SPEAKER_03 45:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 45:26

Yeah, just say ragot.

SPEAKER_01 45:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:28

It's easy. You can just like you don't even have to put the yay or like do a thing. You just you can just be like ragot. That's it. Ragot. It's it's really like it's very simple.

SPEAKER_01 45:43

Alright. Love it or hate it, your wife. Bub. Bubba. Good. That's the right answer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:53

Okay. I got that one. All right.

SPEAKER_01 45:55

The Death Star. Love it. Okay. I was like, put this one on there. I was like, ooh, what's he gonna say? I'd say, alright, love it. Knickknacks.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

Can I can I go back real quick? All right. Yeah. I um I love the first Death Star.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

The first one.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Well, I do we really need to have a second one? Like, did we need to, hey guys, I'm making a third movie. What's what is what's the big evil thing that everybody has to do? I got it. Death Star. Let's do it again. And then we're gonna we're gonna have another trilogy, an even bigger Death Star. Fucking stupid. Like, let's let's let's be original, guys.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

This is a good point. That is true. Alright, knickknacks. Hate it. Take the phone.

SPEAKER_03 46:52

I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

Yeah, I know. It was just fun for me to put those in a row. Yeah. The Industrial Revolution. Love it. Yeah, okay. Hell yeah. When people say live in the dream. Fucking hate it.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Fucking hate it. Like, I get it. I feel the same way, man. But like, don't be like live in the dream. Like, uh, you sound so stupid. Yeah, shut up, Kevin.

SPEAKER_02 47:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:23

Steve. We already know I hate Steve. And he definitely says dumb shit like that. That's like, you know, the whole, like, it's a Monday. Like, yes, I yesterday was Sunday. I get it.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays. Mondays. Yeah. I literally just bought a red swing line stapler for myself in my office. Oh, really? That's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

Yeah, right? Oh, some people get it. I I th I was just about to say I'm so sad for you because nobody knows what that means.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

No. I know. I made Sam watch Office Space for the first time and she hated it.

SPEAKER_03 48:04

Yeah. I don't even I don't even think I would try. I don't even think I would try. I recommend good shows all the time, and there's like, nah, I'm not into it. And I'm just like, what what do you mean? And then she'll recommend a show, and I'm like I said something good last week. Well, you're now you're just saying like, I don't know, like grocery wives? What is that? I don't want to watch that.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

Alright, just a few more here. Alright, let's go. Emojis. Love it.

SPEAKER_03 48:44

Alright. Alright. I was I I was torn on that one. I wasn't sure. Not too many. You can overdo it. You can overdo it. Yeah, but they're an important tool now.

SPEAKER_02 48:54

Mel Gibson.

SPEAKER_03 49:02

Um neutral. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

Yeah, no, who cares about fucking Mel Gibson?

SPEAKER_03 49:08

Who gives a fuck?

SPEAKER_01 49:09

Yeah. When people hate Seinfeld.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Oh, I hate that.

SPEAKER_01 49:15

Yeah. I fucking hate that. I just don't understand.

SPEAKER_03 49:20

No, I don't understand it either.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Like, how could you hate the best show ever on television?

SPEAKER_03 49:29

Yeah. Oh, we went we went to a wedding and we were at the or no. I it was the um rehearsal dinner. I think this was last year, and some guy was like, Oh, yeah, what's your favorite television show? And I'm like, first, why are you asking me a weird question? Uh I don't know you. Like, like, don't you sit like I I can't imagine that anybody would ever look at me in public and say, this is someone who's comfortable with just talking to random people. So the fact that he asked me what my favorite TV show was just I didn't I didn't understand. But I said I said if I had to pick one, it'd be Seinfeld. And of course he disagreed with me, which really ticked me off. Because first of all, you you're talking to me and I don't know you. Second, you don't like Seinfeld? Obviously, you're stupid. And then you know what he says? The best show to ever be on television, he picks The Sopranos, which is a very, very good show, right? But you know what he says to me? He says it perfectly captured the American spirit in that era, and it made me want to punch him in the forehead. Fuck. So this human immediately immediately regretted his decision to tell me that. Cause I asked him, which TikTok account told you to say that? And there was this this is there.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

So the thing is the thing is no one's gonna find this as funny as I do. Nobody. Because I put that on there specifically because I knew that you two would have a rant about it, and my God, you did not disappoint.

SPEAKER_03 52:29

Oh man. He did he knew he made a mistake though. Yeah, well, yeah. Yeah, he was like shocked I would say something so rude.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

Oh my god. Yeah, that was the last one I had. Oh my god. Very well done. You you aced the test. Oh god. I gotta lay down. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 52:58

I'm like, I'm I need some tissues. I'm tearing up over here from laughing so hard.

SPEAKER_01 53:03

The best part about all this, I already know what Sam's gonna say. It's I don't know, it wasn't even that funny. I know. I know, but I know you so well that I just knew that that one was gonna flip a switch. That's why I put it last. Oh my god, and you did not disappoint me, brother.

SPEAKER_03 53:24

There every episode is relatable. Yes, almost every episode is relatable, except for the soup Nazi.

SPEAKER_01 53:35

Like But I would even push back a little bit because everyone's been to like a deli or a diner where there's just just one person that's stuck on the rules, whether that's a grocery store or whatever, like you you know like somebody that you've encountered somewhere at some store or whatever that is like that, right?

SPEAKER_03 53:57

It's true. Also, um the other thing too is I can I can reference Seinfeld three, four times a day. Oh, easily, like I'm at work and something happens, and I'll just throw out a Seinfeld reference, and people will be like, I wish I knew what you're talking about. Yeah, and I'm like, well, we've I've worked here for years now, guys. Like, watch Seinfeld.

SPEAKER_01 54:27

Yeah, I know. And I like first of all, like, you haven't even watched Seinfeld yet? Are you kidding me? If you have never seen an episode at this point, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. I agree with that. Yeah, completely agree. So my my my brother is like the king of references, and he pulls them out like B-side tracks out of like some wild movie, and they're they always hit, he uses them at the perfect time. He is a dental hygienist, and so sometimes, every once in a while, someone's in there with mangled up teeth, and another hygienist would be like, Yeah, this dude's messed up, and he goes, Hmm, I gotta get a glimpse of these warlocks. And I'm yeah. That is the perfect use of that line. Perfect use. He tells me, too, that uh you watch Game of Thrones, right? Yes. So he's like all the time that in the hallway, the door will be closing, and he goes, Hodor, hodor, hodor, hodor, and no one knows what the hell he's talking about. That's a perfect use of that line. That is good.

SPEAKER_03 55:42

I'm not I you know what? I've never even like that's never even crossed my mind until like that very moment when you said it, I was like, oh, hold on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:50

Yeah. I do it all the time now. Hodor. No one knows what the hell I'm talking about. I also quote a lot of trailer park boys, and nobody knows what I'm what I'm saying. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03 56:01

I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_01 56:03

You might actually like trailer park boys.

SPEAKER_03 56:06

I know. You've said this, you've said this to me before, and uh you're probably right. I just don't know if I have like room in my heart for another TV show like that.

SPEAKER_01 56:19

I I hear you. I actually do know exactly what you mean, which is wild. Um I yeah, I think that it is uh what's so cool about that show is they they shot it with no money, and it took off in Canada. It was on like Canada's HBO, it was called Showcase, and then all of a sudden it just started getting traction in the US a little bit, especially like northern US, I know. Um and then they ended the series ten years later, they brought it back again, still on Showcase. And then they ended that series, and like five years later, Netflix bought it, and they did another another couple seasons. Like it this has come back a time and time again. The show is so good. What's awesome about it too, it's like almost all improvised, which I like shows like that because like Curb is this way, they have like a basic outline of what they're trying to say in this in a scene, but it's you you improvise through it, and it is just so good.

SPEAKER_03 57:21

I wish that happened with Letterkenny. Yeah, because I I don't think I think Letterkenny, Seinfeld, and New Girl are my top three like sick commie type shows.

SPEAKER_02 57:38

I love Letterkenny. Same.

SPEAKER_03 57:42

I don't think it's and honestly, it's so smart, it's funny, it's it's none of it is relatable at all. None. But you but you still get it. Yeah, yeah, I totally get it.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

What what's amazing about that show is that was just like a YouTube series, and then like a network found it and brought it on, and now they're huge. Shortsy though, Shoresy way is a way better like altogether show than Letterkenny. This is like a better character arc, there's a better storyline. Right. Uh, so I I I actually like that one probably better than Letterkenny, but they're very, very different. They almost don't even belong in the same like genre.

SPEAKER_03 58:31

I honestly think that guy wanted to do Shoresy more, and that's what happened here. Like, yeah, uh he liked he wanted Shoresy more, and that's why we didn't get any more Letterkenny. I thought Letterkenny was so funny though. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 58:48

Yeah, I love it. I man, I want you to do let's do it for the pod. Watch so okay, I want you to start Trailer Park Boys, but like the first couple episodes are kind of dog shit. It's kind of that way with every series, like they don't find their groove for a little while. Um, I think that Trailer Park Boys is the most quotable show. Maybe not more than Seinfeld, but it's way more quotable than your letter Kenny.

SPEAKER_03 59:16

Alright, I'll check it out. I'll try it. I'm just not sure in my heart, like there's room there.

SPEAKER_01 59:26

I just want to again preface by saying that it if you start it from the beginning, you really have to give it like a little while. Honestly, you could probably skip half of the first season and you'll still it'll you'll still get it.

SPEAKER_02 59:41

Alright. I'll check it out, man.

SPEAKER_01 59:44

Hell yeah. Well, thanks for playing that game with me, man. That well, that was fun. I'd love to do that again.

SPEAKER_03 59:51

Thanks for putting them together. I'm super excited about that. Um I'm kind of like, do I even do my do I save my things I hate for next week? Because that was so good.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:05

You could save it. I haven't talked about the thing I hate. I don't hate much. Okay. We talked a little bit about the sabers before, and what I hate, you too. I have YouTube TV because for 14 years I didn't need to give a shit about the Buffalo Sabres, but now it doesn't carry the only station that I can watch the Sabres. But fear not. The NHL has a deal with ESPN where on ESPN Plus they will broadcast every game in the NHL. Just kidding. As if it's in network, it's fucking blacked out on ESPN Plus, but I pay for that service.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:42

Yep. Yeah, I know. Total, total, total horseshit. I'm already paying for the service. Just give me the goddamn game. I can't, I don't understand that it why it's blacked out. I pay for the service. If I didn't own cable, you're gonna still black me. I don't it doesn't make any sense. I know you could argue it's for the small network that hosts the games, but who gives a shit? I don't have the cable anyway. Right, let me watch that goddamn game. It drives me nuts.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:16

This is so this is just totally on point, and I think this is a frustration with everyone who just strictly does streaming, who likes sports, um, because so I've never done NFL network before. Never. Like I just I think it's too expensive, it makes no sense. Um I I just it really it just pisses me off how expensive it is. Um, so I I watch whatever Pittsburgh Steelers games are on like Paramount or like um like Primetime, and that's it. That's what I that's what I get to see. But this year I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna do it. But because the the Steelers schedule like almost 50% of their games were in network. In my network somehow. So I bought it for no reason. I think I used it to watch two games.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:20

Fuck that sucks. That's so stupid, so dumb. Like what I can't understand is why all the sports leagues don't have their own streaming service and you let me purchase my team. Right. Just let me per let me buy my team. I'll I'll pay you eight bucks a month easily to watch every Sabres game, to watch every Bills game, right? Because it's not it's not like I need all of the programming, I just want to watch my team. Now I luck out because I live in Buffalo, so I can watch you know, YouTube TV will carry all of the Bills games. I'd never have a problem there. But I like why if I didn't live here, like when I lived in Columbus, we had to me and uh and Sam's brother, we went halves on um the Sunday ticket because he's a Steelers fan like you, and I was watching Bill's, they don't get either of the games there, so we just did that because so we can watch our teams, but like I don't know, after after it's like it was like 150 bucks at the time, now it's like 300.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:27

Um yeah, it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:29

It's like ridiculous how much it costs, and still, like after primetime games, uh it was maybe like five or six games that I really watched on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:40

Like, so like what's the point? It dri it's insane to me that there isn't like that every sports league hasn't just developed their own streaming service. It doesn't even have to be fancy, it doesn't have to be anything else on it. Let me purchase my team and you give me all those games. I j I cannot figure it out. And and I know it has to do with some some bullshit contract between the NHL and the network here is called MSG that carries the the Sabres games, but that's not my that's not my problem. Like just because you have that like I'm a fan of this team. I will pay somebody more money than you're currently making for me to see this game, and you're saying no, we don't want more money. That that's what's happening here, and it's not just me, thousands of other people deal with this problem. So, you know what they do is they turn to an illegal streaming service, now no one's getting paid for that broadcast, and I can't understand how they think that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:39

This is such a good thing I hate. Thanks, dude. Um yeah, the problem needs to be solved. I just don't know what the answer is, because um if we if I don't know if the people all around the country, let's say say that are like Sabres fans that want to see these games, right? If they picked, like say, I'm gonna pay $25 a month, I don't know if that would equal the amount of what they're making, you know, for like the the MSG or whatever that channel is on regular. I I don't know how that works.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:20

So you bring up a good point here. The annoying part about it is if you live in Southern California and you're trying to watch the Sabres, you can on ESPN Plus because you're out of network according to your IP address. The system also knows if you use a VPN, so you can't even get around it that way. What I'm uh annoyed with is like spectrum cable's way too expensive out here. I won't do it. You got like FIOS doesn't even support our area, so I can sign it an option. I'm not paying more than the cable to get have a satellite. Dish. I also don't want them to drill one into my roof. So I'm left with YouTube TV. And you guys won't let me watch these games. You won't let me even pay for these games. I'm sitting here being like, take my money. And they're like, no, thanks.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:20

Yeah, I guess it, I guess somehow it's worth like more to be like, no, we don't want your money. I don't know how that works, but whatever. I like if somebody was just giving me money, I'd be like, all right, sure, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:35

Yeah. So then what I do, I stream it from an unverified source, and I I project it up on the TV. I still watch it, but it's not as as great of quality, and that the site will get shut down at some point, so then I'll be screwed.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:51

Oh, okay. See, I don't I don't do that. I just I just get pissed off. Like I just I just go on the same rant every like time football season starts. Like, why can't I just watch the Steelers? Why? What like why can't I have it? I want the Steelers, why can't I have it? Like, and we'll like download Paramount and we'll download this and we'll download that. And like I'm just always so like, oh wait, the game will play on this. It said it on the internet, it says yes, but my TV says no. It's always the same thing, and I'm sure Paige is like, will you just will you do something else?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:43

Yeah, so with the NFL, it makes even less sense because they are so they're they're they're all about expanding the sport to other countries, right? But they won't expand the sport in their own country.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:58

Yeah, fuck them.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:00

They make it so difficult to watch, and we're both sitting here saying I would pay you money to stream my team, and I just cannot figure out why they don't do it. I don't know. Because what they do is they're like, so because you can there is an NFL streaming net like like app. I've looked into this. You could get an app for your Roku or your smart TV or whatever, and it's the NFL, but you have to buy the entire NFL. I'm not spending a thousand dollars on this, I just want to watch one team.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:36

What's the cost? Yeah, what's the cost? Is it really that much?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:39

Yeah, it's like it's like a at least a hundred bucks a month. It's probably more now. I looked into this a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:44

Ugh why?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:47

Right. I don't I don't I can't I don't have enough TVs to watch every 32 games. I don't have 32 televisions, all right? Right. So I can't like there's it's already useless.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:56

Just let you don't have to have 64 eyes to do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:00

I don't. I don't, and I don't, I definitely don't have a lot of fingers to like use the remotes.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:16

Uh yeah, so stupid.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:20

Anyways, that's the thing I hate.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:22

No, I agree. I agree. It doesn't make sense to me. Um it's very frustrating. You know what though? It's good because um like watching the Steelers, no matter what we're because the Steelers are just like, uh they they suck the entire game or they play really well and they fuck it up. Like that's the Steelers. Like, we're we're just gonna go out there and fuck this up. Um so the entire game, I'm like having a heart attack because I just don't understand why they're just the worst team ever. Like, why how are you the most frustrating team? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:05

Well, it's a new era now. Mike Tomlin's out, so we'll see, we'll see how it works out.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:10

Yeah, but they they replaced him with Mike McCarthy. Yeah, not a great choice. Um well, you know what I think is really weird about that choice? He's obviously not gonna be around for 15 years.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:22

Yeah, well, I I think they started to understand we need to get away from that, right? If they're success, we'll hang on to that person, but you gotta pull the plug when it's there. Like Sean McDermott should have been fired after the 13 seconds game, like four years ago. It's really annoying that they do it now when we're like very close. Um, they should have done it then, but at least they fired him four years later. Like, not 15 years later. And you know, I don't know. I think that uh I uh the the Steelers have a lot of talent. I think they can absolutely make noise. Um it's just kind of we'll see what McCarthy brings to the table. I mean, that was a magic combination before in Pittsburgh, so maybe again.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:01

Well, I what I think they need to do, not not to get wrapped up in a football conversation, but this is what I think. They needed to bring in somebody who was like stealer through and through, knows steeler football, understands the organization, what it's about, and was it going to be a disciplinarian? Go into that locker room and say, if you want to be a stealer superstar, play like a fucking stealer. Don't go out there and make some fancy fucking catches and go on TikTok and do some dumb shit. Act like a fucking stealer, or we're sending you elsewhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:45

Yeah.

unknown 1:11:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:46

Well, what became apparent to me about Mike Tomlin is he had no control over that locker room. Antonio Brown, Le'Veon Bell, Juju Smith Schuster. Like, right, no control. Um, yeah, you know who you guys needed was Brian Daybold, and I fucking hate the guy, but he is exactly what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:06

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you're right.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:09

We'll see what happens.

unknown 1:12:10

All right.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:11

We'll see what happens, man. I'm already excited for a football season, so we'll see what happens. Really? Um I have no offseason. Dude, I stay ready, so I ain't gotta get ready. All right.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:27

That's so fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:29

I stay ready. Oh my god. Please, please fucking clip that shit. That's so fun. I'm gonna I'm gonna be quoting that all day, every day for the next three weeks.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:46

Let's go, dude. Yeah. I mean, it's not mine. I can't take ownership of that quote. But uh yeah, I stay ready so we ain't gotta get ready.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:55

Oh, whose quote is that?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:57

I don't know. They use it in sports all the time.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:01

Oh, alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:04

Can I can I pull up my notes? Um, on my Mac? Like, do you think my no Oh my god, they are. Oh my god. Can I just tell you one of my favorite fucking quotes ever? And I can't remember where I heard this shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:25

But I think it's so funny. Um so whenever somebody asks me how I'm doing, instead of saying live in the dream, I say, are you ready for this? Here, how about we set this up? Ask me how I'm Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:46

Hey Eric, how are you doing today? Well, the horrors persist, but so do I. What is that from? I I cannot remember for the life of me, but I say it all the time. People be like, Good morning, Eric, how are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:11

The horrors persist, but so do I.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:22

That's pretty good. I might have to start using that.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:25

It's like my morning coffee. Saying that shit. It just gets gets me all revved up, ready to go. Ready to attack the day. Well, because I know like some like people, you know, they're walking in. Oh, I'm so excited. I'm alive, I'm happy. And they're like, good morning, Eric. And I'm just like, I gotta shut that shit down. All right. Well, I guess we should try and wrap this up and not go for two hours and 40 minutes. Um, do you have a last sip?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:01

I really don't have a last sip today. You know, I got one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:08

Yeah, I do. Something that um nobody's talking about, but I think everybody should be talking about it because something needs to be done. Um everybody hates streaming now, and nobody's willing to admit it.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:24

So I think this is a very hot take.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:28

Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:31

I mean, so there are things that are annoying about it. Like when Netflix has a series, a new season, and they're like, all right, we're gonna give you six episodes, and then we're gonna make you wait two weeks, then we're gonna give you another three episodes, and then we're gonna make you wait three more weeks, and then we're gonna give you another episode for the finale. Like still, I yeah, that's nonsense.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:59

That is absolute horseshit. My thing is, is like so we cut the cable in Columbus, like it was so expensive, um it was like $300, and um it's just all fucking commercials anyway. So why am I paying this much when you're getting all this fucking advertising? It's just ridiculous. I I agree. But you're paying $300 a month for fucking cable. It sucks. Uh you gotta watch commercials, right? But now I've got six fucking subscriptions, seven subscriptions, who the fuck knows? And I still can't find anything to watch. Now there's ads again. They crack down on password sharing when it was like, hey, share your passwords, get the whole family fucking involved. Nope, not anymore. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:04

Yeah, I mean, you you have a lot of good points here.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:08

The other thing too was cable, at least, like, yeah, you had to watch fucking commercials, but you got 24 episodes, and they were decent enough to watch. Now I'm lucky if I get eight or ten episodes. And if I do get ten episodes, I gotta wait two and a half years for the next season. And yeah, like, and that's just if like one of the main characters doesn't die in between fucking seasons.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:38

Yeah, so this is a good point. Um, I've noticed the problem that we have in our house, uh, like like when we get home from work, you know, we make some food, and then we just like watch TV, and that's all like our relaxation time, and we do it every day. Now, I we get other things done as well. We're not like hoarder pieces of shit. Uh God, you're such you're fucking slobs, you're fucking losers watching TV. But uh but I I've noticed the problem that we run into is like we'll get through a show and then we have we don't like there's we don't have another one in the chamber. So we try to run like three or four different shows at a time, but it becomes difficult because like Severance is one of my favorite shows that's on TV, that's on you know Apple TV, and like we're gonna wait maybe two or three years to put that together because you think about it, it takes about a year to film a movie that's an hour and a half long. Now we're talking about a series with one-hour episodes, and they make six of them, and they do that in a year. So it's a ton that they are trying to do, right? And it's hard. White Lotus, for example. Awesome show, love that show. Uh we're probably they just cast the new season, and it's already been a year. So now they're gonna have to film that for another year, and like there there was a there for five seasons of Stranger Things that took 10 years to make.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:05

Oh god, I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:08

Yeah, so you have a lot of good points here.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:10

And Jonathan looked 50 in that last season.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:13

Well, because he was at least 62 with you know with makeup, he looks 50.

unknown 1:19:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:20

Here's my other problem with the streaming networks and their two their shows. There's okay, you get your 10-episode season, that season finale ends on a fucking cliffhanger. What for? You're making me win two and a half years for the next season? Give me a goddamn payoff. Like, I I've already forgotten what the finale and the cliffhanger were, so and I have to watch the damn um uh what's it called? What's the thing called? Where's the recap? Yeah, I gotta watch the recap, like it's a fucking documentary. Um, so I know what the hell's going on because it's been so long. I like fuck you and your cliffhanger.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:08

This is such a good point. Like the cliffhanger was important for cable television because you want me to come back next week. But here's what they're doing with the cliffhanger. They know it's gonna be two years before they release that next season, so you're gonna go back and re-watch the entire thing because they make money off of how often people stream it.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:31

Do they?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:33

Yeah. Uh so stupid. I know. It's a broken system. Um, I it's it's really infuriating. I totally this is a great this is a great last set. This will also would have fit into things I hate. Um uh let me ask you though. Which streaming service, in your opinion, has the best content right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:01

That's tough. Um man.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:05

Let me preface. Let me let me rephrase rather the best new content right now. Right now I think it's HBO.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:15

Really? Yeah, I think um A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is probably one of the best TV shows I've watched in a very long time. I I like I would probably put it in my top five I top five seasons I've ever watched, ever.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:37

Nice. And you you're a connoisseur, like you know, I trust your opinion on movies and TV. Absolutely. I appreciate that. Yeah, absolutely. Um, I think that right now it's Apple TV.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:54

Yeah, I got I don't have Apple TV. Uh Apple TV pissed me off, so I canceled that shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:00

I mean, I get it. Um, right now they have the studio, Seth Rogan, won every it like set a record for Golden Globes, unbelievable television show. Uh Seth Rogan also has a show called Platonic, incredible, super funny, way different like uh styles. Then there's Shrinking, Harrison Ford, we talked about this a couple weeks ago, um, and Jason Siegel, incredible show.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:31

Is Seth Rogan involved with shrinking?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:35

He is not.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:36

Oh, maybe I would watch it then.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:38

I don't like I don't like I don't like Seth. You might you might like the studio because the the the studio is very like not what Seth Rogan's ever done before. It's very different than his most of his work.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:51

I hate him as a person. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, like you you know how you're like, I don't like Jamie Lee Curtis, I fucking can't stand Seth Rogan. So now I can't really I I didn't I couldn't think about that until you said it, but I fucking hate Seth Rogan.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:06

Yeah, then there's no real like real actual reason, you just hate him.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:11

Oh, well, I have reasons.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:13

Alright, see like that then that's not like Jamie Lee Curtis at all.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:17

Okay. I have I have my reasons.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:23

Um then yeah, Apple TV's not for you because he's all over he's up and down that bitch. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:30

Uh well Apple TV just annoyed me because um have you watched Foundation?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:37

Uh not yet.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:38

I don't know if you'll enjoy Foundation. Um it's uh very sci-fi-y. I like sci-fi. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:49

Yeah, I mean it depends, right? It has to be done well. Um, not all sci-fi is, but yeah, I like sci-fi.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:57

Oh, okay. Well, anything sci-fi, I just I have to watch. I have to consume it. Um like I the Lord of the Rings movies are the dumbest movies on the planet.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:08

Thank you. Holy shit, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:10

I still watch them when I need like a fantasy fix.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:14

I mean, I could understand that, right? If you're a huge into fantasy, you'd love those movies. Um, I thought they were not good at all.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:23

Oh, yeah. Well that this is an hour-long conversation, and maybe we should do it another time, but yeah, fuck Lord of the Rings. Um but Foundation is a like was really awesome, and it was taking them forever to put out seasons, and then I don't know what happened. It was like they canceled it, and it was just so good. So I was like, you know what? You ruined this. Bye.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:48

I'm done with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:50

Yeah. Uh the best canceled show of all time, freaks and geeks. Yeah, I agree completely. I cannot like looking at it now, how the hell did they cancel that show? And I know you hate Seth Rogan, that was an awesome show.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:07

No, that was before Seth Rogen became like a fucking J-O. He's just he's just the biggest tool. Uh God, everything he says.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:20

I think Jonah Hill is a way bigger tool than Seth Rogen.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:24

Jonah Hill is a tool as well. Fuck him.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:28

Like, my thing is, is why are you getting upset with people for asking you about your weight? Like, and you're like kind of a like comedian-ish thing. Like, like lean into that shit and make it funny. Don't be mad at that.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:42

That's what I would do. Jonah Hill gets very upset. Yeah. But now the answer's clear. That's Ozempic. And that's like that's like the cheat code for everyone, like losing a ton of weight right now. It's oh, it's Ozempic. Oh, we're it's accepted. We have no idea what the side effects are. We won't know for a year, so hopefully you'll live long enough. I thought about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:06

Yeah? Yeah, we we like I looked into it. I thought about it. Um, but in the end, like I just couldn't bring myself to like pull the trigger because it just made me feel like such a quitter. Like it really did. It made me feel bad about myself. I was like, I there's no way I can like everybody wants a goddamn pill for everything. Yeah. And I was like, there's no way I can do this to myself. I always complain about these fucking people. And I'm gonna do this. Like, there's no I'd rather be fat.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:42

Yeah, and like I think there's a lot to be said for this. If you're a person that takes Ozempic because it's gonna enhance your life to feel better about yourself, I think you should do it. And like you talk to your doctor, obviously, and like understand what you're getting yourself into. But if if if if I'm a big like believer in if you need to do something like physically, whether it's surgery or like Ozempic or whatever, to feel better about yourself, then you should do it. I think you should we should try diet and exercise first, but that's not a fix for everybody. That that doesn't work for everyone, you know? So if you need something out that extra thing, yeah, I think you should do it. Yeah, you feel like shit about yourself. I think that's the antithesis of what you're trying to achieve with it. So it should do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:28

Yeah, I just didn't I I'd rather I'd rather work for it. Yeah, I really I like there are people who who can't, right? Yeah. And for me, I just felt like uh uh you know, like yeah, I've got my back issues and everything, but like I can I can walk, I can lift some weights, I just have to be stop being a lazy piece of shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:52

Yeah. Well, and I think you look great, baby girl.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:55

Oh, thanks. I just I just wish I had my ass, you know. Like a fucking pancake back there.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:08

Well, nope. I guess we should wrap this up. Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:13

Um I could talk to you forever, though.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:17

Forever and ever, baby girl.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:19

Yeah. I gotta talk to Sam. We gotta do we gotta do some spouse swapping.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:28

I um uh we gotta we gotta nail down a time where uh we can get Sam on to do a segment.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We uh Yeah, I gotta I got some I got some shit to say to her, man. I can't wow she better come prepared.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:47

Yeah, she's gonna have receipts.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:53

Alright, man. Well, uh this was a great show. Yeah, great show. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:59

Me too, man. Always do.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:02

Alright, well, thanks for joining us. Bye, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:05

Bye, Woogie Boogie. Woogie Boogie