EP009 | No Regrets, No Sandals, No Leadership

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

We kick things off with a shocking development: Erik has no regrets and actually had a great week, which immediately feels suspicious.

From there, Jeff tells the story of getting rear-ended by a drunk woman who ended up getting arrested after failing her field sobriety test, because apparently even normal life has to be ridiculous.

We also get into eggs, bad politics, Druski, restaurant rage, and Erik’s anti-sandal summer PSA for men.

As usual, strong opinions and very little expertise.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to Two Guys No Credentials. We're two completely unqualified people talk about nothing. And everything. Like we know what we're doing. Spoiler, we don't.

SPEAKER_02 0:11

Yeah. I mean, it shouldn't be a good thing. It shouldn't be a thing I'm used to. Will I do anything about it? No, sir. Not this guy.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

No.

SPEAKER_03 0:22

Fuck it.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Also, um, what kind of annoys me, and I want you to take this in the best possible way.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

You're wearing like a sweater. Yeah. Like I am supposed to be wearing, because I'm Mr. Rogers. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

You have a very different disposition than the other Mr. Rogers.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

That guy was a killer.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

Was he a serial killer?

SPEAKER_01 0:55

No. So I don't none of this is true, but in the Marine Corps, you're constantly told Mr. Rogers was like a scout sniper and he had like heart tattoos up and down his arms for all the kills he had. None of it was true. But we would always say Mr. Rogers was a killer. I don't think I knew he served. Is that real? No, I don't think that's real at all. I think it's all made up.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

You might as well pick Elmo. Yeah, Elmo. No. That dude. Delta Force. Massive head count. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Um, I don't know. I got nothing for today. And it honestly, I just had such a great weekend that I'd love to hear about it. Oh, well, oh yeah, it's on the agenda. But I had such a great weekend, I paid, I didn't pay any attention to the news. Nothing bothered me. No one annoyed me. Like it's one of the few times in my adult life where I can remember feeling normal. Wow, that's great, dude. Perhaps therapy's working. Oh, I haven't talked to her in weeks. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

Maybe that's the key. Yeah, don't go to therapy. Don't go to therapy. Drink vitamin water. And live. Just live your life.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

Just live my life. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:36

That was one of the funny, funniest things some dude said to me in college once. Uh, I didn't really know him that well, but we were sitting there after like we were waiting for class to start, and uh, we had like a project that we had to do. He was in another class of mine, and like an exam was coming up. He's like, I just don't want to like do all this, man. I just want to like graduate and then just live.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Like, honestly, same. Yeah, it sounds pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

There's a couple steps that he missed between that though. Yeah. Oh definitely. I mean, unless you're like a celebrity, you get an honorary degree. I don't know if they can work in like the the like the field that they get their honorary degree. How does that work?

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Yeah, I think you get if you get an honorary doctorate, you you can perform heart surgery.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Why not? They yes. The honorary degree thing is so in like weird to me.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

Because, first of all, why? And I I don't know. Like, it's it's nice and everything. I feel like uh, you know, uh a thank you and a handshake, maybe a light pat on the ass would do just fine.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Oh well, I mean, it I guess it's nice. I don't know. Nobody's ever given me one. I guess I would take it if somebody offered.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Yeah, I guess I would take it too, and I would just like thanks, and then I would probably like toss it out the window on the way home.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

I feel like I would make a good pharmacist if anybody's handing out those degrees. Yeah, you think so? I think so. Yeah, my dad's a pharmacist, so maybe. I mean, uh, like they are nice and helpful, but also they cut the conversation short. They're always they're well, not anymore, I feel like, but it used to be they like had a podium that they would stand on. So they're two or three feet higher than everybody else.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

I don't think I don't I'm not sure if that's a thing anymore.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

Um, and most of the pharmacies I've seen, it still is a thing. I don't know why. I've never really figured out why that's the case. Um but you know what? Now that you say it, I think you got what it takes, kid.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

I need I'm gonna need I'm gonna need all the support I can get.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Yeah. Yeah, and I'm here for it. You want to live your dream? I would love to. You want to live your dream of being a uh pretend retail pharmacist that you go and do that.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

Should I just show up?

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Yeah, just show up. I'm here for my first day.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

Yeah, just show you.

SPEAKER_02 5:28

I deal drugs, but now I want to do it legitimately.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

And if somebody um like says anything, I'll be like, oh, I'm the CEO of CVS. We're filming one of those shows, and they'll be like, oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

This is like this beard, don't tell anyone.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Yeah, this beard, it's fake. It's all makeup.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

You should do a do undercover boss, but just you should do undercover boss, but just show up as a transgender I'm the CEO. It's like it's you in a dress. It's clearly a disguise, but they would you would throw them right off, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Why are you trying to put me in a dress?

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Just always wanted to see you in a dress, baby.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

Oh. Well, in about two, three hours. You can see that. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

It is Tuesday, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:25

It is Tuesday. You're gonna you're getting all hopped up on vitamin water, so anything can happen.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

I just want to know one thing. Your dad's a pharmaceutic, and you never asked him, why do you have to be higher than everybody?

SPEAKER_03 6:41

We have a bit of a malfunction happening. I cannot hear you. You can't hear me. Are you making this up? Nope, there you are.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Had a boy. Oh man, that would that would have been great.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

You know what? I'll I'll wait to see it in post what the what you just said. And you know what? It's worth the surprise, I bet.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

I don't even remember it. Probably it it's probably gonna be terrible.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

We'll edit this out.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

All right. Um yeah, so this weekend, start out Friday, we got some pub food. It was trash. Oh, really? And damn it. And I'm not sure if I'm just like an elitist now, where I'm with when it comes to food, and I like this pub food is for peasants, or if I should I still I should expect more from pub food. I I like I don't know where I'm at here, if like it's just it's just not good and I don't like it, or it's good pub food. I don't I just don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

Yeah, so tell me the tell me about the pub. Is it an upscale pub? Or is it like your hole in the wall type of place? What do we talk about?

SPEAKER_01 8:06

No, it's like a it's a hole in the wall. Well, yeah, I don't know. It's popular, but like it's not nice.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

Yeah, so popularity and elevated, completely different. Completely agree with this. Like we got super popular places around here. The food is like like trash bar food, but it's good because it's because that's the bar, right? That's that's the level it's at. I don't think you're a food supremacist.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Food supremacist. Oh man, I wasn't ready for that. Um I I just I actually don't know. I'm like, I I I just don't like it's pub food, so it's not gonna be good, right? Is that yeah, yeah, that's kind of it.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Well, like what is good, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 8:59

I don't know. Like when I order, um I really had a hankering for chicken fingers, um, and they were terrible. Also, for sides, for chicken fingers, what do you think you should get?

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Fries, and maybe depending on the place, like a little cup of coleslaw.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Oh, I uh not sides, uh, dipping sauces. What do you think?

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Oh. Um, well, it's different around here because it's Buffalo, so you get the mild, medium, hot, uh, or like a uh marinara, perhaps. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

What is happening in Buffalo?

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Well, here it's like it's either hot, medium, mild. You can get them tossed in like a barbecue if you want, or blue cheese is like the dipping.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

So for me, so chicken fingers for me, I think, should come with ranch, honey mustard, and a barbecue sauce, maybe. And this came with um like a honey, like a sweet honey barbecue sauce that it was too fancy for the shitty chicken fingers. And it's like, where's my fucking ranch?

SPEAKER_03 10:14

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

Yeah, yeah. You definitely don't like you're not you're not a food supremacist, but um you're a food realist. Okay. Alright. Like, pizza, for example, it's not supposed to be fancy. Don't make it fancy. No, just leave it pizza, and it's better that way. Chicken fingers, the dipping sauce, you don't need to make it fancy. Just give me some fucking hidden valley and call it a day, fella.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

Yeah, I want I want it to work. I want the meal to work.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Yeah, I agree. Now, uh, will you accept an elevated version of chicken fingers?

SPEAKER_03 10:54

Yeah, absolutely. You're not a food supremacist. All right.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

I'm glad we cleared that up. So that was our that was our Friday night. Um Saturday we found out that one of our favorite restaurants was closing that weekend. So we woke up or hold on, Saturday. We woke up early, took the dog to the park. Update on that, those four people that wouldn't get out of the way, they must have watched the podcast because they got out of the way.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

We are just out here doing the Lord's work.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Seriously. So they were there, they got out of the way, that walk went great. Then we got back in the car, drove like 40 minutes or something to a bass pro shop. And we walked the dog around the bass pro shop, which went really well. Um we had a good time with the dog. He's very scared of the elevators. Yeah, that's a scary thing. Yeah, and then they have a giant fish tank. He was a little worried about that, but all in all, he did great.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

I do love the giant fish tank at a bass pro.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Oh, I've never been to a bass pro shop before.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

Oh, yeah, awesome. Great experience. It was it it was very big. Yeah, they're massive. You know what? So so far, this sounds like an excellent weekend. But if I'm like recanting the things that have gone really well for you, um it doesn't take a lot to make you very happy.

SPEAKER_03 12:42

Well, we're not there yet.

SPEAKER_02 12:45

Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. It doesn't take a lot to make you very happy, and yet it almost never happens.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Yeah, it's true. Um, but this is what we're not even, it's not even noon yet by the time we're back from the Bass Pro Shop. Wow. Right? We got all day. Yeah. We drop off the dog, uh, put on some like adult clothes to go over to the restaurant that's closing. Um, we walk over there, um, and there it's only reservations, so they're like, you can sit at the bar. And me being me, I'm like, I don't want to sit at the bar. So we left. We start walking up to the street to another restaurant, and then I have a bright idea that I should call my sister and Joe and say, hey, let's go to Texas Roadhouse.

unknown 13:58

What?

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Yeah. So we go, we went to Texas Roadhouse, we had a great meal with them. Um, yeah, we had a great time. It was a good Saturday.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

That sounds amazing. So you went to the place that was closing. Is this the place with the big like water wheel?

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Yes, the foundry.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Yeah. That's closing? Yeah. What's going on there? Are they just retiring or what's going on?

SPEAKER_03 14:27

I don't know. I'm not sure. This is awesome. The chef's wife uh is moving back to Korea. Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

That's why you gotta buy instead of rent your wife, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 14:44

She's she's from she's from she's Korean. I don't know if she's really I did put that together.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

I didn't think she was from pad.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

So we were we were there, uh uh me, Chris and Kranz, we were there having a delightful meal. And one of the I don't I can't remember what the dish was, but it was delicious. And uh the waiter or waitress can't remember what it was. Um it uh no no like I just have no idea whether it was a a guy or a girl. No clothes. I don't know, I don't know what it was. No no, I just don't remember. So anyway, she like she or he leans over and is like the chef's wife is Korean, that's why it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

And that's it was like a pork shop in Brussels sprouts, you know, the Koreans are well known for that.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

Um yeah, I don't I don't remember, but uh uh Chris reminded me of that story today, so thank you, Chris. Nice, Chris. Well done. By the way, gotta see you again soon, my guy. I know. We're having a meeting this Friday. We should talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

You're having a meeting? Yeah, yeah, we gotta go for some documents. Um that's what we do. Yeah, Chris is a great dude. Yeah, Chris is a good one. I love like we've only hung up maybe a couple, like a handful of times. Um, I've always really enjoyed my time with him.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

Me too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Crans a really good dude.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

Yeah, I'll keep both of them around.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

But like once a month we get together, we go out to a restaurant, get some nachos, drink, um, and then we we just call them our meetings.

SPEAKER_03 16:56

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Yeah, I love that. Kranz wants to get together this Friday, and it's Good Friday. Yeah. So he can't eat meat. And I'm like, why are we doing why are we doing this? Like on a like, what are you gonna eat, bro?

SPEAKER_03 17:12

It's just gonna have like a salad? I guess. Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

To each their own, man, you know? Like that doesn't prevent you from eating meat, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Yeah, well, I'll feel bad for him. Like we should all of us should be eating gruel.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

Oh, that one caught me off guard. Well done.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Those those wacky Christians. Yeah, you know how they be. So then Saturday night we got ice cream. Oh. Yeah, we got ice cream, and it was a normal flavor ice cream. It wasn't some dumb shit like lavender and like coconut oil.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Damn. Yeah, this does sound like a good weekend.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Yeah. Sunday, woke up, took to the dog, took the dog to the park again. Uh, didn't see those people. We had a great walk with the dog, did like two miles, then got home, went shopping. We had a wonderful shopping experience. We always have a great time. Um, we went we went to two different grocery stores because I like to get my produce at a nut at Stew's. You went to Stu's? I love Stu Leonard's. It's a Disney World of grocery stores. Seriously. Um, nobody pissed me off at the grocery store at all. Um, we get home, unpack everything, have a little snack, and then I made a reservation, so we walked over to the foundry and got brunch.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Just wowie.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Yeah. Got home. Uh the meal was delicious, by the way. I got steak and eggs. And um the the their sunny side egg, sunny side up eggs are just so perfect. Like, oh, that's nice. There's there's no crusting, it's just all like one texture, and then you've got this beautiful like yolk just sitting on top. It was just so good.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

Wait a second. You don't like the little crispy edges on the sunny s on the sunny side up?

SPEAKER_03 19:26

No.

SPEAKER_02 19:28

Really interesting. It's a hallmark sign of a sunny side up.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

No, no, it was just all just perfect. There's like no crispy edges, it was just perfect. I can't, I don't know what else. What do they do that? I think what they do is uh they do like high heat, and once it's almost like cooked, that I think they throw a little water in there and then like a pan on top to like steam the the top and the edges so it cooks uh but doesn't get crispy. I think that's what they do. I'm not sure I'm gonna test that theory out. Interesting. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

I uh threw a sunny side up on our stir fry last night. I saw it looked great. I was pretty happy with how it came out, and it was like total last second decision. Like it was the meals already done, and I'm like, fried egg. Slap them them suns down there. Uh yeah, and I almost I've like I like never do sunny side, it's always the over easy, but I'm like, ah, the aesthetics would be so much better with the sunny side. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, yeah, and I've honestly never nailed it. I've never nailed a sunny side before. I nailed it last night.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

That's awesome. Yeah, I like a sunny side up egg.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

Is that your go-to egg? Yes. Interesting to me.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

This is interesting.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

I like the runniness.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Like you got something to dip. I love the dip. That's why I like an over easy, because I don't like the w the the runny whites. I like just the yolk, but it's not my favorite. My favorite is the poached egg.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

The poached egg.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Yeah, I gotta do more poached eggs. Oh my god, you get oh go ahead. What happened? You get your little piece, you get your toast, a little avocado on there, little then you put your everything seasoning on that, uh, your poached egg a top, salt and pepper, nailed it. Breakfast for champions.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

I I need to do it. I just like it's difficult to I feel like making a poached egg is commitment where you really have to commit to fucking up like seven or eight eggs.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Yeah. Um, and it's way quicker than people think. It's 30 seconds. That water's boiling, your white vinegar's in, you spin it. And get your slotted spoon and just stick it right under, leave it there. Leave the slotted spoon in. And then as soon as it's done, pull her out.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

Alright. Well, I'm gonna have to try it. Oh, it's the best. It sounds good.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

Man, I am so glad that you had a great weekend. That sounds awesome. It sounds electric. I've been to the found I've been to a few of the places you mentioned, the foundry and Stu Leonards. It is a hell of an experience. Um I'm really sad the foundry's closing, though.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Yeah, it is. It is a bummer. Um, but Paige and I had just like this great weekend. It was just so nice. We even we even held hands. What? Yeah. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Just holding hands?

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Just holding hands. Well, she is embarrassed to be by me, but I didn't get upset, so that made things better.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Uh what was the best part of the weekend when the kids got out of the way?

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Uh the best part, I think um uh I think the best part I think was the the brunch at the foundry. Like we just had such a nice time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

That sounds delightful.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Oh, and the nice time really like tran like transferred to this week. Like yesterday, we got home from work, and it was kind of a busy, rough day, but like we still had a great day. And then we got home, we took the dog for like a 30-minute walk, and we got the pizza place right around the corner, so we got slices to go and walked home. Wow! Oh my god. It was a it was a it was a wild weekend.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

We had a great time. Dude, that sounds great. I'm really happy for you, genuinely.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Uh thanks, man. Um oh, real quick before you get into your story, because I know you got a you got a banger of a story. I do. Uh update that Will Farrell movie is called Stranger Than Fiction.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Okay, yes, I have seen this, but it was a long time ago. Uh rewatching. Yeah, that's it. I'll add it to the list. Okay. All right. Um, so what happened to me one week uh six days ago, this happened. I'm on my way home from work, and the main thoroughfare, I'm driving down, right? Two lanes on my side, two lanes on the other. I'm in the left lane, and there's this person coming out of the plaza trying to make the left into like my lane, but she wasn't moving. She was just sitting there perpendicular to the road, and like oncoming traffic had to just like wait for her. And so I saw this going down, and I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna try to get away from this person. So I just keep driving. I'm sitting at the red light, she ends up directly behind me. And you know, I don't think anything of it, and it's a normal thing that at the at a red light there are people behind you, and then out of nowhere, I just I just feel her slam into the back of my car. And I have no idea why or what happened, but I look back, she was like trying to, it looked like she was trying to turn to get into the the turn lane, like beside me, but just rammed into my fender, like the corner panel. And so I'm like, oh god, here we go. The guy next to me sees it happen, he lets us through. There's a gas station over to the right. So I motioned to her, get over there. We pull up into there, and she gets out and she's like, Okay, so just like exchange information and then we're good. I said, uh no. No, we're gonna get someone out here to document this, which is always the move. If anybody's out there, do not trust the other people and their information. Get a police officer to come and document the situation, things work out better for you. And in this case, it sure did. They uh the police get there, and the whole time we're waiting, we waited if the police get there for like 40 minutes. It wasn't like a big accident, it was just like it could probably buff out. So we waited for like 40 minutes, and the entire time she's like, Oh, I'm gonna be late for kickboxing. I gotta get to kickboxing. I'm from Florida. Okay. I'm from Florida, I'm new here. Yeah, I'm from Florida, I'm new here, and I'm a chef, and I'm just I'm from Florida. Like, this, oh my god. This woman was like crazy. So then I end up, uh the the police end up getting there, and I I the cop talks to me first, I tell him what happened, and I told him I am a little bit concerned about her ability to drive. She's saying some weird things, slurring her words. It doesn't have to mean anything, you know, whatever. And the cop says, Yeah, there could be a lot of reasons for that. So he gets my my statement, then he goes over to her within 30 seconds of talking to her. He has her out of the car doing a field sobriety test. She is right in front of me. I've never like seen it like right in front of me, like in a situation I'm involved in. So I'm like, I'm like trying to stand behind my car because I'm laughing so hard, but like I don't want to like embarrass her and like piss off the cops, so I'm just like watching from afar. And so that's going on, and she is failing this test harder than I failed trigonometry. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 27:17

I actually don't. I did really well in trigonometry.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

Yeah, yeah. So uh so another police officer arrived, because I guess you have to be a certain rank in order to carry around a breathalyzer. I don't know. This guy had one, and so he breathalyzed this woman, and then immediately they slap cuffs on her and put her in the car. Oh my god. Yeah, and so I get the whole police report, everything. So I get you know, I file that with the insurance, and your boy's gonna get paid. Let's let's let's be honest.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Are you having neck pain?

SPEAKER_02 27:56

I know, right? And but every everyone I've told this story too. I'm like, ow, ouch, no, ow, ouch. But uh even if I were to sue this person, there there's no chance she could pay. Oh, yeah, well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

I so um the insurance company would pay, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:20

The insurance company will. But if I were to like sue her for my for neck pain or whatever, which would at this point would be fraud. So we're not doing that. But if I were to like have her pay me for like damages or like a punitive thing, um, there would there would be nothing to get.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Oh well, she's gotta pay for kickboxing, so that that's that adds up. Yeah, I can't, you know. I am a little surprised. I thought I thought so. I thought you were a little more gangster than that, though. I'll be honest.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Uh gangster enough to commit fraud? No, not that.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

No, no, no, no. Uh talking to the cops. Oh. You you dime this woman out. You're like, yeah, she's drunk. Uh get over there. Come on, get her, bud.

SPEAKER_02 29:15

Well, I wanted to make sure that uh they knew what they were getting themselves into, and I they probably didn't need to know. I did start it with I I know you probably hear this from everyone, but that lady's drunk.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

I'm I know you're so funny for everybody, but you got a nice ass.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

The uh it's so it was so funny though, because we're standing there and this woman just like rambling on and on, clearly inebriated. This dude that was pumping his gas over there made eye contact with me, and he just went. I look at him like, yep. Yeah. It all worked out though. You know what's so funny about the whole thing? Normally, that kind of incident would piss me off so bad. I would be like so annoyed about it. But I had this like weird sense of calm the entire time. Like it really wasn't a big deal. It's how I should handle more things. Um, but I something about the the universe was telling me this was about to be awesome. Right, yeah, it sure was.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Oh man. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

Well, I'm glad you're okay. Yeah, I mean, it was just all good. Luckily, we were both at a complete stop. She was only a few inches behind me. But if she had been like you think about it, if she had been driving down the road like at 40 miles an hour, that could have been really bad.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Yeah. I um uh I make it a policy though. If there's no damage, I'm not. If the person doesn't want to call the cops, I don't even want your information, I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Gotta go. Yeah, if there's no damage, it's you know, no big deal.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Everyone's good. Yeah. I don't I don't I don't want to talk to a cop.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Yeah, it's uh not worth a rigmarole, you know?

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Yeah. Um also like I feel like they can sense how much I dislike them.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

Yeah, well, you shouldn't start the conversation with fuck you.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

Um were you at the OSU game where we were walking back and we were walking back through campus, and the campus cop stopped and was like, hey, what are you guys doing? And I was like, none of your fucking business. Um, no, but uh that sounds about right. Yeah, everybody was like, whoa, Eric, and I'm like, no, it's none of his fucking business. We're walking in public. Get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

I mean, you do have a point.

unknown 31:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

Leave me the fuck alone.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Yeah, anyways, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

That's my that's my update.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Oh man. Well, is the car okay?

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Uh yeah, I mean it's it's it's like scuffed and scratched on the one corner. It's not dented or anything, so I bet you it can buff out. We'll we'll see. I hope they have to replace the whole thing and then um they'll just give me the money for it, and then I just won't get it fixed. Yeah.

unknown 32:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

All right. Yeah. That'll be that's good. Oh, we'll we'll wait till this is resolved to put this up on uh to post it up because uh we don't want them to know that.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

No, I you should have just texted me that.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

I am I am not in the business of committing fraud. I'd rather have the car be all nice and good to go.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

All right. What uh what do what you want to do?

SPEAKER_02 32:29

I don't, you know. I don't want to. I'd rather I'd rather I'd rather have it looking nice. We'll get that car fixed up. And honestly, I think it would be like an hour to like actually repair this thing. Again, I think that you would just be able to buff it out. So hopefully that's the case. Right. Her car really didn't have any damage either. Um, her ego does though.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

Oh, well uh maybe she'll get help. Also, I don't think I don't think you have to be a certain rank to have the breathalyzer. I think you need to just be trained um properly, or else like you have issues with court. So like they have a certification and everything. I think that's what it is. I don't think it's the rank.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Interesting. I don't I don't really think it's the rank. It's just it seemed funny to me that they wouldn't just teach everyone that.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

No, you I yeah, you know, yeah, that is funny, but I don't know. Maybe he's he's the fucking rookie. Yeah, yeah, maybe. All right. Um wow. Well, sounds like we had two very different up like weeks. Yeah, both good.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

Yeah, that like I have no complaints about that situation. An outstanding story I get to tell at parties now.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Yeah, that's a yeah, that's a fun story, especially the guy like pretending like he's drinking, like just looking at you. Oh, that yeah. Just fabulous. Did um I don't have any regrets because man, how could how can I complain after a weekend like that? Right, dude.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

I am so proud of you. This is the first week we've done this, I think, where you didn't have a regret of the week.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

Probably, but now that's my regret.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Write it down.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Yeah, yeah, write it down.

SPEAKER_02 34:15

Yeah, I don't really have any regrets this week either, but that's kind of common for me.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Yeah, that's good. I'm really um yeah, this is nice though. This is a nice change of pace. Not not being like not reliving how pissed off I was four days ago. That's really that's yeah, it's nice, it's a nice change.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

Um, it feels pretty good to live in that space. I do it often.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

And I want so um I wanted to talk about something, but I think it's silly. Um like for I on the Jesus. I did I'm doing it again. It's okay. I just get stuck. Um I wanted to talk about JD Vance and what he said over the weekend about um uh the filibuster, but I just I like he I just I I am so sick and tired of this administration that I don't I don't even think I can do this. Um because uh like he's like I guarantee you the Democrats are gonna get rid of the filibuster, so Republicans they need to do it now. And it's like, is that leadership? Or maybe it maybe I will talk about it. Is that leadership?

SPEAKER_02 35:35

No.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Uh no, it's not. How about you go on and you challenge Republicans and Democrats in Congress to add an amendment so that the filibuster is now a constitutional amendment and it cannot be gotten rid of? Yeah. And then and see where Democrats are with that. That's leadership. Let's see, let's like uh, you know, because it's the filibuster is a very important political tool. Um and it really it's another you know, check and balance that we have in our government. And I just don't understand, hey, they're gonna get rid of it, so we might as well do it first. No, how about we act like adults and we put it on them to see where Democrats are actually at about this? And then maybe, you know, you know, maybe if we're like we see a little we're a little wishy-washy, say, okay, Democrats, we've got three months to do this. If you don't, we're gonna get rid of it. Like right now. You know, and at least do put it, put like put the ball in their court and say, like, let's do something, like, let's do something real. Uh it just really drives me nuts. Everything, all everything's performative, it's all about clips and sound bites, and it's actually not about actually getting anything fucking done.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

Yeah, I I could not agree with this more. Um, this administration, uh, I mean, even in 2020. Um, or sorry, no, the the the first term has is just it's all childlike behavior, and it's annoying. Uh for if nothing else, it's just frustrating, it's annoying, it's setting a bad standard, it's lowering the bar so much for what we should accept from our governmental leaders.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

I well, we yeah, we did have a dead person in office last time, so you can't really make the bar much lower than that.

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Yeah, now we have a possibly dying person. Yeah, uh it's like it's crazy to me. And then and both sides do this, it's just so annoying to me. We're like the Democrats are gonna get rid of it, so we should get rid of it first. Well, first of all, it's a tool they use, so I they might not want to get rid of it. Like, that's that maybe not. You don't actually know that. You're just saying that to try to make the other team the enemy, and it's it's it's the same thing on and on both sides, and it's like that where do we get with that? Well, you just try to make an enemy out of the other side. Are you actually propelling your team forward? No, you're just trying to belittle the other one so that it makes you look better, right? And that's just the wrong approach.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

Well, uh here's the thing: so Republicans are very worried that Democrats will get rid of the filibuster and they'll use a small minor a small majority if they take the Senate and the House, they'll use even if it's under 60 votes without the filibuster, they can just do whatever the but the hell they want, basically, right? So um the Republicans' fear is that a Democrat-controlled Congress will uh pack the Supreme Court and change election laws so that um Democrats very easily win elections, right? And if they pack the Supreme Court, um like basically they have a monopoly on all of government, right? They can do whatever they want. Um, that's that's a fear, and uh like Democrats have kind of made these kinds of threats or um uh Kamala. Is it Kamala? Kamala.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

Kamala.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

Kamala, not Kamala. I always want to say Kamala. Correct. It's Kamala. Um like she kind of um sort of said that we should pack the Supreme Court and get rid of the filibuster. She didn't outright come out and say it. But there are a lot of like, you know, talking heads online and on TV that say this is what Democrats should do. So it's a fear. But also, okay, if you're afraid of that, say, hey guys, we're afraid of this, but you say you're not gonna do it. Why don't we make it a uh an amendment so we can't do anything about it? Like it's just there and it never goes away. At least we find out what they want, right?

SPEAKER_02 40:12

Yeah, but you know why they won't do that is because they know that that's a tool they'll use to. And so they just want to get rid of it without without making it a law that they can't reverse later.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Right. But the thing is, is Republicans, they're not gonna get they're not gonna get rid of it. Um they they won't do it. They don't have the they don't have the votes, they they won't do it. Um so that's why I think it it it's such a smarter play, and it's good leadership to come out and say, hey, we want to make this an amendment. We never want it to go away. We want to check out yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Well, you know what's always funny to me too, and I've seen this set through several administrations, it's not just this one, but I don't actually think they care about being leaders at all. No, they just they only care about looking good for their own team. That's why I use the word team and not party, because it's not it's not a it's not a party with ideas, it's a team that you're on, and yeah, it drives me crazy.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Yeah, I think the last uh presidential like leader that we had was Barack Obama in his first term. In his second term, I think he was Donald Trump, Biden, Kamala, like this the same performative um identity politics, pit like one team against the other. Um, but his first term, I thought as much as I disliked him and disagreed with most of his policy, I I thought he was sincere, at least.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

Yeah, I like at least with him, you could see that he was trying to connect the dots between the policy and why it's better for Americans. If you disagree with it, yeah. I mean, like there's because there's no right necessarily one way to do anything, but at least you knew for the most part that again during his first term, that he was trying to do things needed for the people. And I don't know that I see that happening even a little with this in administration. Like TSA, for example, holding your bill, holding all of America hostage to try to leverage it to get your bill passed, to me, is completely anti-America first. They're literally putting America second for your bill, and I that is that to me should never happen.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

That's the Democrats doing that.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

No, it's not. It's it's not they're not the ones holding it hostage. He's literally using it to pass his bill. We're not gonna fix this TSA situation until you approve this bill.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Um yeah, except what he what no, he's like, we're not doing anything else unless you approve. We're not we're not doing any other bills. We're not um approving this bill without DHS being funded.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Like, I don't see what's wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

All the reports bill to fund the government, and they're like, Yeah, we'll do everything else, but fund DHS because we're mad at ice and we don't like your immigration policy. Like, I like I do I think his response is correct? Absolutely not. Like, you invite Democrat and Republican leadership to the White House and say, we gotta talk this out, we gotta make a deal. He's so fond of saying, Oh, I make a deal. That's what I do, I make deals. Like, that's what you do, but like I don't think this is just I don't think he's holding anything hostage. Um I do I think he's handling it properly, no, but I think it's the Democrats here. They it uh every shutdown since um His second term Democrats are doing it because they don't like his policy. That's all.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

Yeah. Sure. I guess that can it can be argued that way. Uh but in terms of the shutdown, didn't they just do exactly what he does with executive orders?

SPEAKER_03 44:18

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 44:20

Like declaring a state of emergency, so then you can use your executive power to be to have more control of what goes on. And then so like that's not a good use of that. Um turn around. Right, right. And then then you get mad when Democrats do essentially the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Oh, well, I look at the emergency powers thing a little differently because all the presidents have been doing that recently. And it's wild. Like anytime we want to get something done, we just declare it an emergency. Climate emergency. All right, we're gonna give Canada billions of dollars for EV buses that never get made, and then the company goes bankrupt. Uh like uh we, you know, Donald Trump, like this is an emergency, it's a trade emergency. We've got trade deficits all around the world. That island with penguins, we don't get a thing from them. Tariff, toss tariff. So yeah, I agree with that. Like this emergency powers nonsense. Like, look what Obama or Obama, what Biden did with OSHA, trying to force, use OSHA to force people to get a vaccine. Like, that's not what that's for. Um, so they're all guilty of that bullshit. But I just look at it, I just look at it like this one thing, that's wrong, and then what's happening here is wrong as well. And like we shouldn't like, why are we do why are we doing this? Like, what is going on, guys? Like, fund the government. You know, to be honest with you, you know how I feel. Don't fund the government. I like get rid of TS fucking suck. But also, until you're gonna do that, why don't you pay these fuckers?

SPEAKER_02 46:11

Right. I guess that's that's where I'm coming from, is like yeah, the I don't know that I agree with the problem. Is it's scary, it would be scary to me to fund DHS when they seem to have no grip on what like I should actually be doing. And they're like the the the way that that's been run so poorly, and then you fire Christy Nome to make her the scapegoat when she was completely unqualified to do that from the get-go. Like, we all knew that was gonna not gonna turn out great. Um, all those things. So, like, I probably would agree to not fund that either. Uh, because I just like what do you like? I don't know. Is it think are things gonna get worse? So instead of just hit I guess I need president to be like, okay, if you're really not gonna agree to this, we need to get TSA, we need to get all those people paid, we need to get people back on their flights, and like don't keep hurting actual Americans uh in in the midst of all of that.

SPEAKER_01 47:12

Well, here's the other thing for me, like since you brought like the Christy Noam thing up, since she's been fired, what's been happening with Tom Homan, you know, taking a larger role, especially in Minnesota, we have seen ICE um in immigration enforcement, like really uh we we haven't seen uh the problems we're having we were having before. So he did pivot and he did make some changes. Um but like we don't like the the Democrats, the left media, they don't want to look at that and say, oh, that's that's an actual like a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 47:51

You know, yeah. I mean that's that's that's true. You because you hear nothing about it now, except for Fetterman.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

Fetterman is like, yeah, give credit what crowds do. Um even though everybody hated him when he had a stroke, and now like the the Republicans are like, look at him, look at Fetterman. And it's the same thing. Democrats do that with Marjorie Taylor Green now, too. Like, oh my god. Yeah, she's so smart.

SPEAKER_02 48:18

Yeah, she is not, uh, but at least she figured it out.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

I don't know, it's a huge mess. Um, and we should really start thinking about doing one of those segments where we solve these problems. Um, but not today. Not today. Because you got something you want to talk about, and um I don't know how I feel about this. And so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna roll with it and see where it goes.

SPEAKER_02 48:45

Yeah, so I'm gonna talk about a relatively sensitive topic right now, uh, but I want to preface the whole thing by saying I'm coming at this from a comedy standpoint. I don't really care about like the either side or their political views, um, but why this why this works, why it's not um like derogatory, why it's not problematic, uh, and then kind of how that fits into society. So if you're unfamiliar, uh online comedian Drewski um performed in a sketch um on his social media pages and YouTube, uh, completely dressed head to toe as Erica Kirk, uh, and like entered the room with the sparklers, like she did for I think it was Charlie's funeral or whatever, like the this big thing. Uh and it was honestly hilarious. Um, and I want to point out a couple of things. He did not make fun of her political stance or political view, he simply was doing a satirical uh performance of how she comes across and up in the public eye. Um, but he was like in full white makeup and or like her kind of overdone makeup. Uh he had the same like hairdo like in the wig. Um, and then he taught he spoke like she does, like with direct cadence, and then made direct eye contact with the camera every time he mentioned something about God or about the gospel or about the Bible. And uh all that to me was actually really funny.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

I I watched it. I didn't think it was funny at all. I thought here's why it wasn't funny to me. Okay because um it was just so obvious what was gonna happen. Yeah. Like uh like it, I was just like all the things that she's mocked on, like on the left, you know, and online and everything like that. That's what he did. He that's what he mocked, like he I mean uh mocking is the wrong word because maybe he is mocking her. I don't fucking know. Uh because I don't know, I don't I don't know. I don't I don't want to say he was mocking her because I don't know what he actually if he was he was just trying to make people laugh, he's a comedian. But I just didn't think it was funny because like it was just so obvious to me what so I will give you that.

SPEAKER_02 51:21

I will give you that it was derivative, like unoriginal. Yeah, so that was that uh that's it.

SPEAKER_01 51:30

Other than that, I really don't have any opinion other than except for um like Erica Kirk, just fucking let it go. Ugh. Yeah. Like you're in the public eye, people are gonna make fun of you.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

Yeah, and I think that's kind of um why I liked it. She's been in the public eye for a long time, well before Charlie. If a lot of people don't know this, she was on the Housewives, I think, Orange County or whatever, for a while. So she's had a history of putting herself out there, making a fool of herself. Um and like when she was on that show, like her religion was not a part of any of this. That is not to say that people don't change and you know discover things along the way and make those adjustments. Um, and I don't know her personally, so it's like not my job to say that, but when you put yourself out there, like you're opening yourself up for scrutiny. And I don't know, man, the way that like with Erica Kirk in general, I just get this sense of phoniness from her, and I think he did a really good job of captivating on that, right? It's it's it's more about because you because I get what you're saying, right? Like you you knew what was gonna happen, you knew it was gonna blow up, you knew it was gonna be a problem, and I think he did, and I think that's why he did it. Um for better or for worse. But for the people out there that are calling it racist, it just it just simply is not. And it's based on the principle of punching up, right? Like the the reason that blackface is is not something people should do is because it's punching down at a group of people.

SPEAKER_01 53:14

But uh in this direction, why is it punching down at a group of people?

SPEAKER_02 53:19

It's uh punching down because typically uh any group of people that have been marginalized will carry that stigma with them, and those things add to that. It's like the situational now there are ways to get around it uh if the execution is perfect. And I will I will point out Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.

SPEAKER_01 53:47

Oh, you couldn't do that today.

SPEAKER_02 53:50

Maybe uh you know, people always say that. People always say that, and I I I think I think the only real rule is that it has to be tasteful and and done well. People say that shit all the time. Oh, you can't say that any anymore today. You absolutely can. You have it has to be funny.

SPEAKER_01 54:08

You here, let me uh here, I'm gonna I'm gonna paint you a picture.

SPEAKER_03 54:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

Erica Kirk, she she's a phony, right? This is I'm painting a picture. She is a phony, like you said. Um, and behind that phoniness, there is like one of the best comedians on the planet, but she doesn't show that side of herself because she's got a business to run. She hires a bunch of like world-class comedy writers. She gets dressed up, full-on makeup, and makes fun of Druski. Drusky? Drusky?

SPEAKER_03 54:48

Drusky.

SPEAKER_01 54:49

Drusky. And makes fun of him. Right. I don't think I don't think she could get away with it. They would be like, oh wow, she is racist.

SPEAKER_02 54:59

Well, no, and not in that situation. Because that's because it's vindictive in nature. Oh, God. Okay. It is. So the reason that works with Robert Downey Jr. is that him being him performing as a black person in that movie was not the joke. Him the joke was that he was playing an Australian actor who took his job too seriously and dressed up as a black person. That's the joke. Yeah, it's different. It's not the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 55:31

Come on. There's no way. There's no way a white actor could do blackface and not be fucking canceled in 2026. There's no way I do, I will say, it would be very difficult.

SPEAKER_02 55:48

But it that like it's it's about what the joke is. If the joke is to dress up that way and make fun of you know black stereotypes, it's not gonna work. Which I think like if Erica Kirk were to do that in reverse, that would be what she's doing.

SPEAKER_01 56:04

I think I I think that's fair to say. Yeah, don't do black faces and make fun of stereotypes. Absolutely. Um I'm just saying, I just I here's my thing. I like I is it really punching down? Like, if you if somebody wanted to dress up like oh man, Barack Obama. Right? Like, you've heard my Barack Obama impression, it's pretty good. It's the only one, yeah. And uh I'm not gonna do it right now because of what's what we're talking about. Um, but like if somebody did that and they were like like it was a legitimate comedy sketch, how's that it? I don't think it's punching down. Like it's it's what what it's once again, it's the joke, right?

SPEAKER_02 56:55

It's right, that's why the physical act.

SPEAKER_01 56:57

Right, that's what I mean. Like I just don't think it's pun uh like I don't think it's punching down um the way people do comedy anymore. Like uh I I don't think people punch down anymore. Like that's not a thing, you know. And I think um, you know, if you want to dress up like a New Zealander, go for it and make fun of them. As a kiwi, yeah, whatever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:23

Um Yeah, and I and I think that's that's right. Part of the reason though that you don't see anybody punching down anymore is because the people that would punch down, they're not in comedy anymore. Like, so you can only really be successful if you write really smart jokes. Right.

SPEAKER_01 57:38

I well, that's the thing, like the punching down, I think like they weren't good.

SPEAKER_02 57:43

Right. No, completely agree. Yeah, Anthony Jesslinick talks about this, and I think he's a person that I look to a lot in that medium of entertainment. Uh, because he takes every time someone says, Oh, you can't say that anymore, you can't make fun of this, then like as a challenge. Like, there is a way, but you gotta find it. So I go back to Robert Downey Jr., there is a way to do that, and they found the way. Because even when that movie came out, it was still pretty controversial, but I don't think that there was like a single like black celebrity that saw that and didn't understand what the joke was and like the movie. Right. They even gave they even nominally like uh talking about his performance at that award show in that season, they had three black guys talk about it and they even liked it and they talked about it, and it was really great. But it depends on the joke. So generally I also go ahead. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. No, no, go. No, I was just gonna say, I also love the fact that Drewski put out another video talking about how he will not apologize. I think stick stick to it. If you're gonna have the balls to do something like that, know you're gonna get ridiculed through it, stand by it.

SPEAKER_01 58:52

Yeah, I agree with that completely. Like, yeah, yeah, the days of comedians apologizing needs to be over.

SPEAKER_02 58:59

Needs to be over.

SPEAKER_01 59:00

First of all, it's a joke. I think you should apologize for not making me laugh.

SPEAKER_02 59:07

Yeah, but here's the other thing, right? Um, anybody has the right to be offended by the joke, but he also has the right not to care.

SPEAKER_03 59:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:19

That doesn't make him a bad person. That doesn't make him like have to apologize or do this whole like big drawn-out thing. You have the right to be offended, and he has the right not to give a shit.

SPEAKER_01 59:32

Completely agree. That's reality.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

And I think and I think that's what people like miss in this, because you know, like there could be jokes about all sorts of different um marginalized people, gay, lesbian, and trans, you know, all all of that. And there are a lot of jokes. People are still writing jokes about all of that, but if it's funny, you could be offended. Um, that's okay. Uh, but we everyone else has a right not to not not to care. That doesn't mean you're right.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:03

Well, you're gonna need to tell that to a whole lot of people because they get offended by a lot of shit. Yeah, yeah. And I you know, and I put myself to the test. That's why I think this is such a bad look for Erica Kirk. Because we're constantly like like can't oh, the left is all about cancel culture and they're snowflakes and they can't take it, and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, well, look exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:34

It's also the complete antithesis of Charlie's reaction when they made fun of him on South Park because he handled that like a boss.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:42

I gotta be honest with you though, the South Park Charlie Kirk thing was was so much better.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:50

No, I mean, it obviously was. The South Park guys are absolute geniuses. Um, but like the way he responded when he saw that, he would he like, I thought it was hilarious. They had the hair down, the water bottle thing that he does, like all the mannerisms were there, and like truthfully, I know it's like a kind of a cliche saying, but imitation is the best form of flattery, right? Yeah, absolutely. You have you have to have made it to for South Park to be making fun of you, and you know, for and for him to sit there on national TV, kind of see it and talk about it, and be like, that is hilarious, that's awesome. They nailed it, and then ever it all went away. But even if he didn't actually think that, which I do I do think that he really liked it, um, even if he didn't think that, you've just squashed everything, everything went away. And so she's making such a bigger issue out of it that it needs to be. Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:42

But I I think you I think he loved it. I think he was like, Yeah, me too. I'm on South Park, like, yeah. Um shit your pants? Yeah. I know. Imagine one day we just end up on South Park. Please make fun of me. Make me shove a turkey shove a turkey out of my ass or up my ass and shit it out my mouth, please.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:08

Oh my god. Um, is there any like in terms of like jokes or things that make people like fun, is there anything that really offends you?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:18

Man.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:22

No, I I don't think so. I do like not when it comes to jokes, because I'm just like that this is what they're supposed to be doing. Um in like I no, not really.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:35

Yeah, yeah, I'm the same way. I can't think of a single like thing or topic or subject that I would be offended by. I don't know what that says about me.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:46

Oh, well, I just I think I understand. Like, I I understand what's going on. Also, I don't give a fuck. Right. Yeah. Like I'm gonna go to work tomorrow, I'm gonna live my life. I'm you know, somebody's gonna be like, hey, you live in the dream? And be like, shut the fuck up. Um and it like we just go on from there. Like uh what what people are making jokes about, I could care, I could care less. Also, you're not making me laugh. Can we talk about comedy real quick? Because I've had something on my mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:18

I'd love to.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:18

It's one of my favorite topics. Do you know uh comedian uh Jeff Acuri? A-C-R-U-R-I can't remember what his name is.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

Yeah, Jeff Jeff Acuri.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:32

Yeah. Um there's a lot of crowd work. Yes. Like, so I've been watching a lot of his videos lately, and his crowd work's so funny. He makes me laugh hysterically. But then I watch like his actual special, and I'm like, uh this is every comedian. Every comedian. Man, I watched um Chris De Stefano, is that his name?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:59

He's from Chris De Stefano, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:00

De Stefano, he's it sounds like he's from like Queens or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:05

Um oh, I got I called that?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:09

Oh, wow. All right, he sounds like it. But anyway, um, I'm really close to New York, guys. Uh so um I was watching uh he did a show, and like the first two minutes he's up there, he gets the crowd laughing, and there's this guy who has a really really strange laugh, and it's really it's off-putting, and it's distracting him, right? Where he's like, he can't tell a joke because the laugh is terrible, and he's like telling the crowd, like, I can't do this, and he's making fun of the guy um for his laugh, you know, and he's talking back and forth to the crowd saying, I can't do this. This is like this this is the worst show of my life. Um, and he's like, you know what, I should just leave. I should just refund all your money and I should just go, but I'm not gonna do that. And he hung in there and barely told any jokes, and he hung in there for an hour. Wow. And the this guy, he the guy who's laughing, it's just this terrible, awful laugh, and it never ends. Like he the whole time, like it's definitely distracting the crowd, you know, and um that's what I like about comedy. Yeah, and in the moment, but I like what watching them tell jokes, like very rarely do I laugh, and I and it really sucks because you know I like to laugh.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:47

Yeah. Uh, there's something so impressive to me, because I I agree with you about Jeff Acuri. Like, I don't think he's really that like good of a stand up, but he is amazing at crowd work, which is why that's all he posts, right? Um Because there's something so like there's something innately difficult about being a stand-up comic in general, writing jokes, having to stand there and like hope people laugh at them, and um, you know, and I'm sure that doesn't always always go very well, but crowd work, just noticing things in the crowd, and then like right on, like within seconds, milliseconds, having a great joke to to go with that. And you know, I don't know. There's something you have to be so present in in doing that. And I don't know how they do it. Like, I for a living, I give like a series of presentations to my employees, and if something like is a if something comes someone comes late or someone like sneezes or whatever, like it can throw you off, and it's hard to regain your train of thought. So I can't imagine going in there like with a list of jokes that you wrote that you worked really hard on, got the right verbiage of, and then like for Chris Decephanol, that just kind of all goes out the window and you just gotta fly. As as long as the audience laughs, they don't give a shit either way. They didn't they don't know what you were about to say. But I mean, there there's something I I find it so impressive the people that can do that. That's why I like Kill Tony, not because everybody is funny that gets pulled out of the bucket, but because it takes a lot of balls to get up there and try.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:17

Yeah. Um there's just too much talking on Kill Tony for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:23

Yeah, the interviews I um are hit and miss, right? Like if it's somebody that really sucks and they have no personality, like that that's it's super annoying to watch. Um but sometimes they really get into some good stuff that way. Like this one dude they just had on, they got a golden ticket. Uh, he's 21 years old. He his his minute of stand-up was phenomenal. It was really funny to begin with. Then during the interview process, he they find out that he actually does like musical comedy, so he'll like write funny songs about stuff. So they got him a guitar and then he started playing one, and it was even funnier than his stand-up, like a lot of home run, slam dunk.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:07

I think so. Thinking about this now that we're talking it out, I think the reason why I don't find the comedy funny is because in my head I'm finishing their jokes. And I'm not saying like I'm smarter than these people or anything like that, but like like I just see where where the punchline is going, so it's not funny to me, but the crowd work is hilarious because I have no idea what's gonna happen, and also like I can feel like that uncomfortableness that they're feeling in that moment. Like, I'm like I'm empathizing with them, but I'm also really impressed on how they handled it because like if I feel like that, I do not handle situations well. I'm like, uh I gotta and I just leave.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:55

I just go. Yeah, you don't handle situations well, uh i.e. campus police officer at the OSU game. Uh you know what this makes sense to me though, because like I I know you pretty well, and uh you you are a big fan of the Mr. Rett. So and you don't see where the joke is going, that's when you laugh the hardest. Like when I slip into something silly, uh even in these podcasts, that is when you laugh the hardest. So it makes me try to do more.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:27

Well, I appreciate that. Everybody needs a good laugh. Everyone needs a good laugh. All right. Well, we we've milked this cow. We sure have. I'm not talking about Erica Kirk. I'm it's metaphor, it's it's it's you know, it's just a saying. It's a turn of phrase. Uh good times. Good times. Um, wow. Um, things I hate. Do you have do you have anything for us?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:06

I do. I do. So we were at a restaurant uh this weekend. We had a 7:30 reservation. We show up there just before 7.30. They're like, oh, your table's not ready. I'm like, ah, no big deal. Yeah, it happens. Let's be a few minutes because I made a reservation. Yes. I get up to the bar, we have a drink, an hour goes by, table's still not ready. We're in an hour 45. Yeah. Hour 45, we're at, and I'm watching the Sabres game. They were down 2-0 in the first period, and it's up on the TV there, and now they brought it back, and we're going to overtime, baby. So now we're in overtime, and we're seeing it happen. There's not a lot of action. Man, we're going to a shootout. And as soon as the shootout starts, your table's ready. Now, after all, I would have lost mine. Yeah, I would have lost my mind. Oh my god. So infuriating. And I'm trying to pull it up on my phone as we're walking, but like the Wi-Fi is not good. By the time I sit down, I just get the notification, they won. Okay. Wow. Sweet. But, anyways, the problem is not with that. The problem is that the people that were eating at our table before us. When you're if you have the early slot, especially, if you're the last, you know, reservation of the night, stay as long as you want, as long as they'll let you. But if you're the first slot of the night, your reservation was 5 p.m. and you're still there at 8 30, you gotta leave. Like you finish your meal, there's other people that you know. I know the concept of other people is hard. There's other people that are trying to do the same thing you just did. I'm just not a little bitch and got here at four. So get up and leave. If you want to keep the night going, go find like go back to the bar and stand there, have drinks there, have an appetizer, whatever. I don't give a shit. Drink fruit juice for all I give a shit. But get out of my way. I agree with us. Especially like I had shit to do the next morning, and now we're not eating until like 9.15, which again I'm fine with. I've had 9.30 reservations before, and that's fine. But I strick I specifically planned this out in a way that would allow me to live my best life, and this these losers made me live by not as great of life as I could, still pretty fucking awesome. But that's beside the point.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:38

Wow. I can't believe that were were you out with Sam? I was out with Sam uh and some other friends. Oh, really? Okay. I can't wait a second. You hang out with other people than me? Well, yeah, you live in um you live in Connecticut, sweetie pie. Doesn't it doesn't mean anything? No more associated you and Sam can go out to dinner, but that's it. Okay, yeah. You you got it, baby girl. Um, so I can't believe that you guys waited that long.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:13

I mean, it was kind of easy. It was a group of us. We were just chit-chatting and we had a few drinks at the bar. I mean, it was great. It was fine. I hate sitting at the bar. Sitting at the bar to eat or sitting at the bar and having a few drinks with your friends?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:32

Let me put it this way. The only way I would enjoy sitting at a bar is if I was by myself.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:47

Okay, well let me let me explain, let me get this situation. We go to the bar, it's just you and me, me and my baby girl, and we are sitting at the bar, but we have the corner. That's fine. So that's fine. Yeah, completely agree with this. Completely agree with this. Um I I don't mind the bar. I but it depends, right? What are the barstools like? Do they have a backrest? If they got a backrest and I can like be leisurely, I'm okay with that. Like I can hang out there for a minute. Uh, but if I gotta like lean forward the whole time, how long are we staying? Who am I with? What's this company like? If we're with too many people, but only two of us can sit down. It's just too much. Ugh. It's just too much.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:30

Agreed. Yep. I totally agree with you. Um, and in fact, if I am at the bar and I'm gonna be there an extended amount of time, I'd rather stand. But everybody needs to stay the fuck away from me.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:43

Because I want to do that. That's why you like Archie. Like I want to put my arm up on the bar and kind of lean so I can like face you instead of like just turning my neck and being like, this is awkward, trying to like eat my my fried mozzarella um and drink my beer and talk to you while turning my head. No. No, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:05

I love that you just called mozzarella sticks, fried mozzarella.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:14

What am I supposed to call them? That's what you're supposed to call them. Am I supposed to call it mozzarella sticks?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:21

Uh that's correct. That's why in the rap the rapid fire, I knew that you were gonna hate people that say ricotta cheese.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:28

Yeah, uh, okay, get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:32

And it's not calamari, it's calamar.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:36

Yeah. The well, the um. You know the fat Italian kid? Oh man, I shouldn't have said that. He's on Instagram. He's hilarious. Two things.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:58

First of all. First of all, no, you shouldn't have said that too. I know exactly what you're talking about. Oh my god. Oh my god. He's like, I got a Brazut sandwich. Yes, yes, yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:20

Oh my god. Um he pronounces the I in his uh calamari, but he doesn't go calamari.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:30

Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's a dialect, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:33

Yeah. But he's over the top. Like, take it easy with with the the what how how does he say he's like the the Projute sandwich. Or uh what is he how does he do it? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:48

So say sandwich is more of like a um a Brooklyn dialect that's like not necessarily Italian, but like a like a like a New York City Yeah, just dialect.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:00

Yeah, take it easy though.

unknown 1:17:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:03

You're trying too hard. Dude, I do love Brazut though. Oi. I agree. Um I can only eat so much. Also, I'm I've I can't eat that shit anymore. I'm I've cut out nitrates out of my diet.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:19

What? No nitrates. I get nitrate-free bacon.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:28

Okay, well, I have a thing I hate for next week.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:33

Well, I I have stomach pro I have stomach problems. You heard all about you want me to go back to the VA and deal with that again?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:42

You're right, you're right. You have a good reason for it. You have a good reason for it. Um yeah, I think I think my two favorite favorite food groups are nitrates and gluten. Um I'm okay with gluten for now. For now. Yeah. That's that's how it works with gluten. It sneaks up on you.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:04

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Just stay over there.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:07

Silent assassin. I find I find out that gluten's been doing blackface, I'm gonna uh no more gluten for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:14

Depends on the joke. Fucking gluten.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:21

All right. Um how do we get on to this? The bar.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:28

I yeah, I agree. Like for me, the check comes, it's paid. It's it's time to go. Just get up and go. No dilly-dallying, your drink better be finished. Get up and move. Now, yeah, when I hang out with uh the deaf people, my in-laws, yeah, so um my mother, father, and brother-in-law, they're all three of them are deaf. And so we do a ton of talking like before anything comes out. And if you get an appetizer and they don't, you better be prepared not to eat it because they're gonna be talking to you. But food comes, there's very little talking because you gotta use your hands and stuff. Uh-huh. So once you're done eating, they like to sit around and chit-chat, right? And get all the chit-chat that like hearing people would do during the dinner.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:28

Um, so we usually end up say sitting there, and I'm like, oh my god, we gotta go. We gotta go, guys. Like, we paid the check, we gotta, we can't do this any longer. We have to go. Um, but we went out for um for dinner a few weeks ago for Paige's birthday, and we sat there for so long, I started getting like anxious about it. And like, I'm just like, oh, we've been here so long. And uh the wait staff started just like walking over and looking at an empty table like they're checking on something, but they're really like, all right, you gotta get the fuck out. Um, so they did it like three or four times, and finally I was like, we have to go, they want us out of here. Um, so that was that was me.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:14

Yeah, that was they gotta flip the table. I mean, it's at least it makes sense in that scenario, right? Because like you're trying to enjoy a night out, anybody else, we would just be like chit-chatting while we're eating, and you know, you can't. Um are you like, how does this work? Are you like is there fluence do you call it fluency in uh sign language?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:36

Yeah, I guess so.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:38

Yeah, I because I remember a lot years ago you were taking like sign language lessons. How are you still doing that?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:43

I still do it, yeah. I'm not very good.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:49

So it's gotta be like kind of difficult to talk to your family.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:55

No, um, so uh like they're they can like they can speak very well, um, plus they read lips very well, and I know enough to get by, and if I don't know, um page translates for me. Okay. It's really tough with her brother. Her brother doesn't talk, he just signs, that's it. Um which kind it's really hard because like I would love to talk to him more, and like we do our best, and we'll like we'll text or show each other stuff on our phones and stuff like that. Um, but it is a little harder because I really have to rely on Paige to do a lot of translating. Plus, he signs um, you know, he signs like a hundred words per minute. So even if I did know sign language, I probably would have no idea what he was saying.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:48

Yeah, I mean I can that's that's stuff. And it's probably hard to have like an inside joke with your brother-in-law uh like that way. If trade if Paige has to do the translating, yeah. Yeah, you're not gonna get it by her. No. No. Uh, they are the sweetest people though. Like you're uh hanging out uh with them at your wedding. Oh my god. We had so much fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:13

Oh, they're so much fun. It's great. Uh I'm I am uh incredibly, incredibly lucky to have um like family like that. Um because I mean, you know, it could end up being a nightmare. But they're just but they're so great, you know? Yeah, um they really are. Yeah, I can always chit-chat with them, they're funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:40

Um, my one of my I tell this story to almost everyone, and I don't know if you remember this. Um one of the funniest things that ever happened to me in my entire life happened at your wedding. What happened? Okay, so uh beautiful wedding. It was a beautiful day. The venue was pristine. We had so much fun. The DJ was great. Um, and I thought it was really, really awesome. Uh, because you you know, for a lot of the deaf family members that were there, uh, that you know, they could obviously feel the beat through the floor, uh, but then they had like projector screens that had the lyrics of the songs on there, which was awesome until we got to the gangster rap portion of the evening.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:33

And then you look at the screen, it's just like n-word, n-word, n-word, n-word. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:42

And just to like put myself in like the shoes of some of the older people that were there, they're just like drinking their coffee at the end of the night, just like I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:56

Oh, it's so funny. So we when we talked to the DJ, we were like, we're gonna have a lot of deaf people there. Um, and he was like, Oh, I've done deaf weddings, like I know what to do. Like, I turn up the base a little bit, and we make the we'll have the projector. So, like, but we didn't think about the the words that would be displayed.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:20

And believe you me, it was a lot of hard R's.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:25

Wait, no, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:27

Yeah, it was. No. Yeah, dude. When it was on the song, some songs were, some stars were. It just depends on how like they retrieve that.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:39

Yeah. Really? Yeah. Oh my god, I'm so sorry for this. Yeah. No way. I didn't even know that. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:52

Well, it was hilarious because I know that it was an oversight and it's an innocent.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:56

Yeah, but somebody should tell that DJ.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:59

Yeah. Jesus. I think I think that would be you. That was years ago now. Yeah, uh, but I didn't know, I didn't know. Well, how how would you know? It's not like you can read all the lyrics that they're going to put up. Dude, I don't know. Yeah, you're in the you're you're in the middle of your wedding. Like you can't, you like you're not noticing a lot that's going on. You know what I mean? Like, it's just how it is. Everyone wants to come talk to you guys. That's wild. Yeah, it was absolutely hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:31

Oh my god. Wow. All right, well.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:38

I had no I had no idea. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:42

Well, all right.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:43

Well, surprise. All right, well, moving on. Oh my god, I hired I hired a racist DJ. All right. So I don't know if you saw the run sheet, but my things I hate is classified.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:07

Oh and I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:11

No, I I thought you hate I thought you hated classified like documents.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:16

No. Who doesn't love a classified document? But that's not what that's not what we're talking about. Mine is classified because I don't have a things I hate. I have a thing I love.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:29

Oh no way. Way.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:34

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:37

What? No. So um obviously, right? I love my wife. She's the best. Great start. What? Like I do, right? She's the best. Yeah, she's awesome. But I would just like to say, I love hanging out with her so much. We have so much fun. And like, I'm not a nice person. I'm not the friendliest when we're out in public. Um, and she totally gets me. And we just have so much fun. Like, everyone, every now and then she's got to reel me in. She's like, all right, you need to calm down. Like, I know there's a lot of different types of catch up, but we don't have to make a scene.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:13

But but literally no one else would give a shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:23

Oh, I'm sorry. Continue.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:25

Oh no, it's okay. So I just wanted to put that out there and be like, I I really love hanging out with my wife. I don't hate that at all. We have such a great time. Yeah. I just I we had such a good weekend together, I thought we should I should just put it out there.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:42

This one is so awesome, man. Hell yeah. It's so funny too, because um when the when all the girls lived to you know in in in Columbus together and they were all in vet school together, um, you know, we've I feel like we had a you know crowd of people that we became really close with, and they're just kind of several different groups involved in that. I'm still kind of I'm still pretty close with all of them. Um because we all like lived there, they would come to parties all the time, and they would come to, you know, like we would just do hangouts, play golf, or go fishing or whatever. But for for us, um did you actually ever live in Columbus? Yeah. Was it the last year? I lived no, I lived there for three years. Oh my god. Yeah. So I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that, but like we didn't start hanging out until like their senior year. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:37

And I remember the day specifically. It was Christmas Eve. Was that the first time? It wasn't the first time.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:47

The first time it was the 4th of July at Bonnie and Heil's house. Yes. It was this was like a couple of days after your concussion. So I you know, like I don't I don't know that that was really like an easy time for you to like sit there and like have to meet these people and you know, all that.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:08

I think it would have been fine if um that guy Mike wouldn't uh didn't stop telling me about my concussion. He wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. Like he just kept on saying concussion, concussion. Like, all right, we get it. It's funny. You made a good joke.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:29

Yeah, um so like we we only had like that interaction together, but then that year Christmas Eve rolled around. I don't think I'd seen you like since then, and we were in in Columbus because Sam had a rotation, but Paige did too, and they were you they were on the same rotation, I think. And so we're like, why don't you guys just come over for dinner? So we did. I think I made something horrible, I don't think it was very good, but uh yeah, well then but then we hung out, and then kind of ever since then, then it was Hawking Hills, we like had a lot of fun there. Um yeah, but really that was like at the end of all of that. So like I had these like really close relationships with people for three years now, and then we didn't start connecting until just a few months before we all parted ways.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:15

Yeah, then COVID happened and it ruined it.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:18

Yeah, yeah, I know that really sucked. Yeah, that really sucked.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:24

I just remember I remember we was it Bonnie and Hiles. We were sitting outside and there was a fire. That was my house in Columbus. Oh, that was your house, and we were talking, there's a bunch of people there. We were talking um about music, and you're like, I don't have like I just don't have the inspiration. I was like, what about Dave Matthews or Rusted Root? Oh yeah, yeah. Uh I remember that conversation a little bit like it was yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:00

And I remember that you you said that the you were a big fan of like 90s rock. And like and you mentioned specifically uh blues traveler, and then I had my I had the guitar in my hand, so I started playing blues traveler, and then I had to hook line and sinker.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:20

Yeah. That's what that's when I fell in love.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:25

Yeah, man. But like for that, I mean that was what eight years ago now?

SPEAKER_03 1:32:33

Seven? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:35

Right around there for those two very short interactions to lead to where we are right now. We have a podcast together, really awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:46

I know, I know. I I think thank God for the weddings. All the weddings, dude, right? Yeah, because we all got so like uh like all of you were close, and the weddings just like it, I just got sucked in. And like, thank God, because like um after Adam died, I never thought I like man, I this is supposed to be a funny podcast, but I'm about to make it sad. After Adam died, I was like, I'm not I'm never gonna have like a another good friend ever. I'm just stuck with Paige. Great person to be stuck with. Yeah. Um, but I like I I was like, uh, this is never gonna happen. And then like I got the best friends now, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:34

Yeah, I mean, to go from that that point where right thinking that you know how how like he was my best friend, how I have like really close friends again to fast forward, and two of us were groomsmen at your wedding.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:49

Yeah, it's amazing, and it's crazy too, because um Chris and Kranz, we're me and him, those two were so close now, too. Um, and if you would ask me 15 years ago, are you gonna have friends? I'd be like, no, I don't want friends. No, no, friends, no, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:11

Yeah, yeah, man. Well, I that's awesome. I I I love that you have a thing you love. Me too this week. I think it's I think it's absolutely great. I love Paige too. I think, you know, really, really uh fun. One of the more fun people I know in my life.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:30

Yeah, she's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:32

Yeah, really funny, kind of just down to do whatever, just wants to go and explore and have the have an experience. It doesn't matter where or what. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:43

Yeah, she's great.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:46

And um, I like how much she swears.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:50

Yeah, it's really it's really weird, right? It's funny and it kind of takes you back, but you're like, okay, she's she's yeah, she's doing it, she's doing it well.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:00

Very well. Very, very well executed. But every once in a while she'll censor herself for absolutely no reason. I think that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:11

That's true. Um but that's that's my thing I love this week. We're gonna we're just gonna keep this positivity rolling until I get stuck in the grocery store behind some asshole trying to back in. Um but I've got I I don't know. Do you have a last sip? We've got to wrap it up. We've been going.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:29

I really don't have a last sip this week.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:32

I got a la I I have one.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:34

Get after it.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:35

Um and I I think it's important that we talk about this. Um, especially since, you know, bikini season's coming up, all right. Um, it's getting warmer, and I just think all men should really listen to this and think about it. Under no circumstances other than you being at the beach or a pool should your disgusting fungus hairy feet be open to the public. Stop wearing flip, stop wearing flip-flops, stop wearing sandals, go buy some fucking crocs. Nobody wants to see that shit. Also, you're a man. Don't wear flip-flops. Don't do it. It's so strange. What are you wearing flip-flops around? Like we're in San Diego. It's Connecticut.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:33

I have a question. Go for it. What if you are stopping at the store on your way to the beach?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:40

Where's the store?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:43

On the way to the beach.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:45

Are you in a car? Did you drive or are you walking?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:50

You drove. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:53

You drove. Uh you're like, oh, let me grab some beers for the beach. You just pull in, you go in and grab just like that, beers, perhaps a pro like a Luna bar. Okay, where are you? Then you head over to the beach.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:07

All right, once you exit the store, where do where are you going?

SPEAKER_02 1:37:12

Directly to the car, directly to the beach.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:14

No. No. No. If you park, right? You've got flip-flops on, you park, walk to the store, and then walk to the beach, acceptable. But if you're getting back in your car, put on some damn sneakers.

unknown 1:37:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:32

The flip-flop one. I I think too many people wear flip-flops when it's not called for. I think that's absolutely right. Um, so are flip-flops the same as slides?

SPEAKER_01 1:37:45

Uh yes. Slides, flip-flops. Slides are acceptable if you're wearing um socks, although I will make fun of you. Um, you should never wear socks and flip-flops. Like you should be euthanized.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:59

Um well, let me ask you this question. All right. Okay, go for it. Yep. So I play softball every Thursday in the summer. And I have my cleats for that moment after we're done with the game. I then put my slides on and we head to the bar. Where you're so my socks are on because they're all dirty. But this is acceptable. Yeah. Okay. I just want to know where the I just want to know the parameters. Because I think I I think I agree with this.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:30

Yeah, nobody wants to see your disgusting, like, like fungusy feet, like with your toenails all jagged and shit. Like, yeah, like men's feet should be tucked away. Like, nobody should see them and except for a few moments in their entire life.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:50

Yeah, I think I altogether agree with this. Like, think about think about the situations. If you're in flip-flops and you're at the store, but now there's a fire, you can't help anyone.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:02

Anyone.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:04

Yeah. Yep. And that's on you. All those children, all those burning children, that's on you.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:14

All those condiments, too, at the grocery store.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:17

All those different types of ketchup. Oh, that pissed. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:22

But I just thought I'd put out like a little PSA about it. Nobody wants to see that shit. It's getting warmer. Um, tuck your toes. Like just put them in some socks or some crocs. Something.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:37

Hashtag tuck your toes.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:39

Tuck your toes.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:40

Hashtag ban the jams. Band the jams.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:45

Well, we did it.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:47

We did it yet again.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:49

We went an hour and 40 minutes, though. Jeez. Oh, but there's a lot we can cut out. Uh I know, but like I thought we agreed we didn't want to do this. Alright. Well, you know what? We'll talk about this later. We gotta we should wrap and just say goodbye to everybody. What do you think about that? Peace.

unknown 1:40:08

Peace.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:10

Woogie boogie. Alright. Again, I need a new co-host. Alright, bye everyone. Woogie boogie.