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Episode 124 - Bad Friends
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Podcast Setup and Technical Challenges
00:00:00
Speaker
Well, are we are we on now? Yeah. Oh, baby, we're on. Welcome back. I'm going to lean back. I can't lean back. I can't lean back. He is going to pull it. If you if you want, Mike, actually, it's going to be tough because of the power strips there. But this converts to a bed.
00:00:17
Speaker
I'll survive. This is my basement, man. We I told you new studio is coming up. You ever seen you ever seen that 70 show where they all smoke food in the basement? This is the basement. This is what we're next up next time you come up. You're going to have to see if you realize this was all done. Yeah, it's like a whole apartment. Come on, big guy. It is. I will say the the side that we were hanging on last time or hanging in last time that stayed the same. The garage is gone. This is the garage.
00:00:47
Speaker
Oh, you closed up the garage. Yep. Mm hmm. Oh, this is like a legit. He got a legit like 65 inch TV right here right now. Yeah, that's what we're watching you on. Good. I hope you can see all. I feel like I look like a home right now. You look like let me tell you first of all, we can't see the imperfections. I love the Costco sweatshirt. Yeah. But you look like the most New York person I think I've ever seen.
00:01:18
Speaker
You like the most. You got you got the you got the goatee or whatever going on with the beard, the Yankees hat, a sweatshirt, some AirPods. And you look like you're about a truck through, you know, traffic and not care. I'll tell you what this Costco hoodie, one of the most comfortable ones that I own. Austin, you want to check real quick if you're talking like if the AirPods took over again, because it sounds like you're talking to the AirPods. It sounds like a little bit muffled, almost like like a phone call.
00:01:47
Speaker
which I still think it will work, but I think you sounded a little bit more clear last time. Yeah, we do. We prefer it in the microphone. So do you silence me? Do you clap and then silence me, Daddy? It's OK, because I'll just cut it will not cut everything, but I'll edit around this. All right, guys, we.
New Year Reflections and Traditions
00:02:06
Speaker
Yeah. Welcome back. Uh, the first episode of the year, not really. Cause we, I put one out last, uh, last Friday, but this is the first time we're recording in 2025. So happy new year. Um, I hope the year's been treating you guys. Well, uh, what did you guys do for new years? Uh, I went, I went to a new year's party. I always go to a new year's party. Nice. Just hanging out with family.
00:02:34
Speaker
you know, do reckless things. Oh, you went to you went to a house party. Did you go to one of those places where you dress up and you do the whole night out? Oh, no, no, no, I don't do that anymore. I go I go to family, family members, houses, you know, hang with the people that I that I know. And that's about it. Yeah. But just, you know, but loose. But I feel like you doing that on New Year's is also like a typical like Tuesday night. You know what I'm saying? Like what what made it different for New Year?
00:03:05
Speaker
Well, you know, they do we do the whole thing. We get the champagne and you still got all the Christmas decorations up and we do the countdown. We got the hats. We got the little, you know, the little kazoos. I will say the hats look ridiculous or the glasses this year look ridiculous. Have you guys seen they get worse every year, every year. It was it's like 200 and then the 25s on top of that last zero. So it looks so stupid. They can't control the numbers coming up. You know, what are you going to know? But like stop doing the.
00:03:34
Speaker
but how about how about just getting glasses if you're gonna do that just get ones to say happy new year i feel like we're wasting so much plastic putting the name under glasses that's way too long happy new year it's gonna look like a freaking like an 80s sunglasses or how about this don't wear glasses yeah just you know show up look nice you don't need glasses
00:03:58
Speaker
Don't eat them. You guys are. I'm not in Times Square. I'm not looking at the monitors. I don't need it. Yeah. But they're not. They're not like UV protected glasses. They're just decor. You know, like you guys are dumb anyway. Just not. I don't know. Why are you defending this? What is. Yeah. Do you. It's not a. No. But what I'm saying is like it's like if you went to an ugly Christmas sweater party, you're not going to wear an ugly Christmas sweater. You know what I'm saying? We go to New Year's party. You'll wear the gig. You know what I'm saying? It's not an ugly New Year's party.
00:04:28
Speaker
The point of an ugly Christmas sweater party is to have an ugly sweater. You were willingly wearing, like you said, oh, getting all like dressed up and nice. You were putting all those cool outfits on and then putting on the dumbest looking glasses you possibly can. Well, listen, if you go to Mardi Gras, you're not going to wear beads. I mean, think about it. That's so different. That's that's completely. It's incredibly different. Yeah. There is no dress code for New Year's whatsoever.
00:04:54
Speaker
So you could wear, you could wear the glasses. Yeah, you can. I'm saying they look stupid. That's all I'm saying. Do you wear the glasses in your household, Mike?
00:05:04
Speaker
Well, I mean, not on a daily basis, you know what I'm saying? But if you're out at a party and somebody has the glasses, yeah. Guys, we talked about the theme, right? We talked about the theme. The theme is New Year's. You wear the hat. You wear the glasses. You do the kazoo. Yeah. And I'm saying it looks dumb. I feel like Mike, you just pick a certain stupid topic and you grasp onto it. You're trying to be contrarian just to be contrarian.
00:05:31
Speaker
No. What did you see? Freaking Vic just pull out the gallon of water by the way. Hold on. Hold on. I got to say hydrated. Yeah, that's right. Hydro homies. Cheers. Let's go. I might because you're not healthy like us. I had like literally 12 glasses of water today. I'm still dehydrated. It's not. I don't believe you. You know where I can get a 48 bottle pack is Costco wholesale. You ever been there before?
00:06:02
Speaker
No, I've never I've never been there before, actually. Rep it. Oh, man. All right. Well, you know what I did for New Year's? Tell me. I had food poisoning. I stuck to this couch for for 48 hours.
Food and Coffee Debates
00:06:15
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What did you what do you think it was from? What did you eat? It was 100 percent Dunkin. Oh, yeah. Would you get a Dunkin? This is a bacon, egg and cheese and a coffee.
00:06:24
Speaker
OK, so I'm so done with Duncan, then. Yeah. Did you get food poisoning immediately after eating it or did it did it like settle? Like, did you take some hours and then it settled in like three hours? Three hours after eating it, I was like, oh, I don't feel good. I had to leave work the next day. Oh, yeah. It was a brutal process. Are you are you guys we're all New Englanders? Are you guys Starbucks or are you a Duncan?
00:06:54
Speaker
I'm I'm Levata. Oh, my God. Look at this fucking guy. Do you shut up? Here it is again. What? What did I say? There's two choices and you decide to be like, oh, I'm going to bring up a third one.
00:07:08
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I'm gonna bring up a fancy third one. It's not fancy. It's real. OK. I got a shoulder in the towel. Look, here's the deal. I don't think I think Duncan burns their coffee a lot. So I don't I don't like their coffee totally.
00:07:25
Speaker
I also think Starbucks coffee is a little too dark. I think it's so dark that it kills the taste. But both of them have good specialties. In the fall, Starbucks apple stuff? Fantastic. Amazing. You can't get away with that. You know what I'm saying? That's incredible stuff. There's stuff that Duncan does that's pretty good, but am I dying for their coffee? Am I a daily Duncan Starbucks person?
00:07:49
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No. All right. That doesn't answer the question, though. He asked you just pick one. I said Levata. I'm comparing the two. I'm comparing the third one. This is better. Yes. But like. OK, so what are your guys? How is there a way for Mike's whole synopsis of his opinion? Go fuck yourself. How about that? Here's my synopsis. Yeah. Shove that up your ass. I'm taking Starbucks. I just you're taking Starbucks. I feel like I feel like you more do Duncan.
00:08:15
Speaker
At this point, the price points are about the same, unfortunately. When me and my brother go to Dunkin, our order combined costs like $35. And we're just getting like two coffees, two sandwiches, and then some hash browns. And it's like, oh yeah, here's $35. At Starbucks, it's about the same price. And I kind of like, like you said, the specialty coffees.
00:08:39
Speaker
the brown sugar oat milk shake and espresso is like my vice. That is like craft to me. Fire, fire. I get that maybe like three times a week. My God. It's delicious.
00:08:51
Speaker
I had to stop myself from getting it today. I went I went to Target to buy a couple of things. And I was like, wow, it's six o'clock. I probably should not get an espresso at six. So I got a matcha instead. And it was, you know, pretty good. But yeah, I'm taking Starbucks every day of the week. I'm actually again, if I'm going to do the third option like Mike here, I am taking Tim Hortons over both. Let's get it, baby. But the double double. Oh, come on now. Hey, Sammy. Oh.
00:09:18
Speaker
I'll tell you what, when I go to Starbucks, I'm self-destructive. I will get an iced triple espresso. You're nuts. You want a side of heart attack, or what's the deal on that? I want to be wired, but also simultaneously fear that I'm going to shit my pants. Now, as a former Quebecois, you living in Montreal, Canada for six months, did you try Tim Hortons? Did you give it a shot?
00:09:43
Speaker
I did not have it once. That's crazy. What did you do for coffee there? I had an espresso machine in my apartment. Beautiful. I would argue that Tim Hortons has the best breakfast sandwiches from like
Breakfast Spots and Bagel Obsession
00:09:59
Speaker
a fast food breakfast place. I'd argue that they're far superior to anything Duncan has ever had. Definitely Starbucks. Like if we're talking like coffee chain type breakfast sandwiches, I think theirs is elite.
00:10:14
Speaker
Interesting. Listen, I'll tell you what. I'm a snob. I'm a snob now because I'm going to the deli. Right. Like I'm going to get a chop cheese. The way. Fuck off. Fuck off. Listen, we talk about this. We had everything bagel with a with a big schmear cream cheese. First, we put the hash brown on the grill.
00:10:35
Speaker
Yeah. Listen, but we talk about this all the time. But my my cousins in Canada, we love it. They hate it. But the Alamo and Coco for breakfast. God love it. They just say like it's disgusting. They hate. It doesn't matter which one you go to, like, because there's like what, six or seven in the city. They think it's the worst. We thought it was the best, the freshest breakfast. Right. Every day was with fruits. And you want to know why waste orange. Why? Austin, tell me.
00:11:01
Speaker
As we're the scum of the earth, you know, we come in there. I don't probably like we're like, oh, we're just like all this fucking rocks. Yeah, I mean, when you used to. When you used to use cheesy grit for breakfast and he comes in here and he's like, oh, they serve fruit on the side with his breakfast. This is the best place ever. God, this place is so healthy. I'm like, where's the maple syrup? I can't drizzle that on my eggs. Get the fuck out of here.
00:11:30
Speaker
That place is delicious though. I don't know what they're talking about. That breakfast poutine. Yeah. It's like one of those things, you know, like when you're a local somewhere and you have it so many times, you just learn to hate it. But like as somebody who doesn't go reoccurring, you just love it every time. Yeah. Simple as that. I will get that every time I go there. What is something that when you moved to New York, you started hitting and then you just stopped because I was like, I do it too much. And it just doesn't taste the same anymore.
00:11:59
Speaker
You ever do that? You ever do that? You ever go somewhere because you're like, it's so good. And then you're like, I did it way too many times. I have not hit that point yet, but I feel like at some point I'm going to hit it with bagels. I'm obsessed at this point with the bagels. And it's like, I seem to find a place wherever I moved to because I was in one place before and now I'm in another one. And I always have a local,
00:12:23
Speaker
like deli that I can go to, it's like crack for me. I can keep doing it. I don't know how long I'll be able to go before it turns bad for me, but I hope it doesn't. It's delicious. Yeah. But maybe, maybe the only thing that I'm not doing is I'm not doing fast food anymore. I don't do McDonald's or anything like that. It's pretty good. That's one of my, we'll get to a later cause we have it on the topics list, but resolutions. That's, that's one of mine is no more fast food. But I feel like there's so much variety with bagels. You could just keep getting them. Same thing with like cream. You could, you could change it up.
00:12:54
Speaker
I think the combinations are endless, man. I'll tell you what. You ever put a little cream cheese on your bacon, egg, and cheese? Somebody told me to do that the other day. But I've never done it. I don't know. Obviously, every place is different. But a jalapeno cream cheese on a bacon, egg, and cheese is my go-to for the bagel place here in town. Now's my time to do it, because I just got to the point where
00:13:23
Speaker
I feel like I got a promotion. I went down to the bagel shop the other day and I walked in and the people there recognized who I was. And they're like, everything bagel, scallion cream cheese.
00:13:33
Speaker
So, so now I can experiment, right? Is this good? Can you throw a little bit of this? Or it might throw them off. If you come in every day, you don't get the usual. Yeah. If you don't get the usual, I'm going to get something else to be like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's already made. We already did it. We knew you were coming in at this time. I got it here. No, I used to. I used to have that kind of relationship with.
00:13:56
Speaker
The deli doesn't exist anymore, but JP's deli down on 12 out of 10. Dude, I used to have that relationship with the guy behind the counter there where like I would go in and be like the usual. I was like, yeah. And then after a while I was like, bro, I keep getting the same thing. Like, what can you do for me? That's different. He's like, oh, I got this. And he would just like every time I go in there, he'd be like, oh, I tried this. Like, here, let me make it for you. It was sick. Was he doing it on a scale of one to 10? How devastated were you in that place?
00:14:24
Speaker
Oh, absolutely. I think he cried for three days. Yeah, that that place was. I remember that. Like the guy who owned it works at Pat's in in Wolcott. Now he runs the deli there.
00:14:37
Speaker
Really? There were two brothers, right? No, no, it was a different guy. OK, no, I know I've seen him before, but I thought there were two like brothers. I don't know if they're brothers, but the other guy, he like left anyway, like he left before he closed. Yeah, it was like three guys. And then that one of them left. And then the only guy that. Yeah, the guy who owned it works in town now. I don't know what happened to the other dude, but.
00:15:02
Speaker
Were they just not getting enough business? No, I think I think he just didn't want to do it anymore. Like the long they were getting business. They were busy all the time. And now he's like, yeah, I make less money, but it's a lot like a lot more relaxed.
00:15:18
Speaker
Have that work-life balance, baby. Yeah. The only the one thing I'm really upset about is that he didn't port over his menu from JP's to Pat's. There's only like one that pulled pork tenders and Mac. There's a map. They still do every Friday at Pat's. It's the same tenders. Is it the same exact same exact? I got to go. Yeah, I got to go. I get it like twice a month. And that's like the only remake. They don't. He doesn't do the pulled pork anymore. And it doesn't count as fast food. So you know what? Exactly. It hits the mark. Yeah.
00:15:49
Speaker
We're gonna start hearing the same patterns from Vic. He's gonna be like, I get it three times a week. I also get my Starbucks three times a week. Sometimes you gotta have a little treat. Treat yourself to a thing.
00:16:04
Speaker
mental health. But do you love Austin? Do you love bagels enough that you just don't think you'll get sick of it? Like everybody has one thing where it's like, I won't get sick of it. Like it just it's not gonna happen. Or do you think at some point bagels are gonna be like, I've done every single combination. I need a I need a five minute break from it. I tell you what, I get so much enjoyment out of just having a coffee and a bagel that I don't think I'll ever
00:16:32
Speaker
get sick of it. It's almost like if I'm having a bad day, that will cure it for me. So it has that kind of impact. Do you read the Sunday paper on a park bench while you have that coffee and bagel? Because that's beautiful if you ask me. That's the most touching thing I've ever heard.
00:16:50
Speaker
No, I'm here literally like reading work emails, chowing down on my bagel and sipping a coffee. Work life balance. That makes more sense. Yeah. If you were able to sit down in the park and just eat that bagel, that'd make you a little bit more of a New Yorker, you know, get a little bit more credit there. Listen, it's the simple things in life. Wouldn't that be a blessing just to sit on a park bench for like 30 minutes and just enjoy the day? Yeah, it would. If I wanted to be more par with the
00:17:17
Speaker
the community though, I'd start like screaming some random things, you know, some conspiracies and maybe somebody will listen or maybe they'll just ignore me. Yeah. I'm going to go with B. They're just ignoring you.
Creative Podcast Promotion Ideas
00:17:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:32
Speaker
Probably I ignore them. It's the New York way, you know, just just eyes down and keep rolling. You know, instead of instead of yelling conspiracies, you should just play the podcast out loud for them and be like, oh, you fuck with this. Listen, listen. Now hand them a card. Think about this. Hear me. Our version of I'm on SoundCloud. What if you on the side, if you like Ubered in the city or like did those bikes? But the only thing you play on the speakers of the radio is just the podcast.
00:18:03
Speaker
Like, what if you just, like, Uber'd and they're like, oh, can we can we Bluetooth the, you know, our phone in the car? Be like, no. And it's just the podcast going the whole time. If you bike those people around like Central Park and stuff, just podcast the whole time. Yeah. And then the first time I do that, somebody's like, bro, let's make a podcast. Let's make a podcast. Are you going to be into podcasts?
00:18:26
Speaker
No, I'm talking about the comment that we got on that tick tock. He's like, bro, we should make a pot. Oh, they're just, you know, I don't know how to read that comment, but just know that it made me feel good because we're doing something right. OK, we got a comment. You know what? I'm glad that that's how you're reacting to that.
00:18:44
Speaker
You know, you told me, you told me in other podcasts that I have to stop being negative about this podcast. So when I read that, when I read that, I was like, they want to be us. And that's that's what's up. And we're doing something right. That was me. Yeah, it was secretly a test. And you have a job. We should get that guy on the pod. We should. We should have him guess. Oh, bro, you want to be on a podcast here at eight thirty. Drop dropping. Here's the discord link.
00:19:13
Speaker
We shift to a debate podcast. Oh, come out. Come out. Oh, Mike, you don't want
Debating Styles and Skepticism
00:19:21
Speaker
to be on a debate. Wow. Run from the game. Let's say you. You guys just asked me like 10 minutes ago to pick one or the other. And I went for option three, which was not an option. What makes you think I'm going to debate you guys for an hour in a podcast and I'm going to give the answers. That's crazy. No, you would debate Mike. You would just be one of the most annoying debaters I've ever debated in my life.
00:19:43
Speaker
Do you remember that one time, like when we were in high school where like Ted Cruz was hardcore filibustering in Congress and he was reading Dr. Seuss or something like that. He was reading a book. That's that's your boy. You know what I'm saying? Like answer the question without answering the question. That's me. You know what I'm saying? Cruz, that's that's what you're saying. You are. I'm not saying I am. I think that's a that's a strategy I think I would take.
00:20:08
Speaker
If you had to pick one representative, is that who you are closest to? I go Ralph Nader. Also telling. Sure. Oh, God. What did I say is wrong this time? No, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I was just going to pivot to we're talking about the new year. We were talking about resolutions. I'm here to hear more. Oh, yeah. What was yours? Did you say you did you say yours?
00:20:40
Speaker
It's all about mental and physical health this year. Because last year was school and work and craziness. So this year, we've got to drop the LBs, he's got to start meditating, whatever it takes to get back to square one. Have you ever done or considered or heard of, and I guess they'll pose a question to both of you, have you ever done a Reiki session before? No.
00:21:09
Speaker
I I was skeptical because I don't know much about it, but I tried it once and I actually got a lot out of it, like understanding wise, not saying like all my questions were answered or this and that, but I walked in there with no expectations and I was kind of pleasantly surprised. So I challenge you to kind of just see what Reiki is about and just give it a shot. And the worst case is you just wasted an hour of your day or wasted some money and you don't do it again.
00:21:38
Speaker
and you
00:21:56
Speaker
I don't really, I'm not going to explain it the best, but it essentially grounds you and it runs like, uh, it starts from the bottom to the top or vice versa. It depends on the Reiki person. It just kind of runs through your energy. And, and so my session was it ran through you and figured out like, uh, by running through you figured out like what places in your body were grounded and what places in your body had like, uh,
00:22:20
Speaker
needed work, per se. And then so the lady, the person that did it, she was writing things down and she did the session. And at the end of the session, she was just kind of reading back to me. She was like, this is what I got out of it. And it's just like random words, right? Like one of them was giraffe. She was like, I got giraffe. And so and she's like, again, this is for your interpretation. So, you know, later on, I looked up like what giraffe means or something like that. And then you just kind of take it with you. Like what? Because you're tall.
00:22:49
Speaker
Not well, I mean, I thought that too, but I guess there's a specialty meaning for a giraffe. And I don't remember what it is, but. Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like a hero dose of shrooms could probably do the same thing for you. I was going to say, but I was also thinking like in the moment that this woman could be just totally scamming you the entire time. She's like, I'm hearing clock clock sounds like it's of significance to you and maybe.
00:23:19
Speaker
Red.
00:23:21
Speaker
And then you're like, you know, I had some red food the other day for lunch and they're like, exactly. See, no, no, but it's not like that because like whatever. And again, everybody does it different, but whatever she comes up with, like mine, like she asked, like, can I write things down in a piece of paper and share it with you after? And I said, yes, you don't have to do that. But like once she gave us me these points that were coming up was it was up to my interpretation is not us talking about how to figure out how that connects.
00:23:50
Speaker
One thing that came up was the song Earth Angel. You know that 50 song Earth Angel? Earth Angel. Earth Angel. Will you be mine? Why did that come up? I don't know. I don't know. She's like, I don't know why. She goes, but I kept getting Earth Angel the whole time.
00:24:08
Speaker
I'm sorry. This seems like such a... You know, I forgot I said anything. Let's move on. It's like, hey, this has nothing. Let's go. This could have nothing to do with anything. I'm just gonna throw some words out there of significance. I'm good. I said my piece. I'll give you guys the rest of the time. If she said rat-a-tat-tat to you, would you have been like... I'm good. I'm all set. I'm gonna go look into rat-a-tat-tat. I'm gonna give you guys the rest of the time. I'll give you guys the rest of the time.
00:24:37
Speaker
Listen, Mike, I don't want to yuck your yum, but like, I don't even know what the fuck that means. What does that mean? You know, if I said that saying to you, you both can roast the shit out of me right now. But since you said it, it's a real, it's a real, what does it even mean? It's a real phrase. It's like, you know, Mike, we're not going to rain on your parade. That kind of sounds like you just did. And then you're going to throw it to you.
00:25:02
Speaker
I said giraffe a last his ass off at that over here because you're tall. I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Next. This is like American Idol. Thank you, Mike. Mike, I think you you have to always come from the default perspective of you are the one that's out of touch here. Right. I just shared a moment where I was in touch and you just shared that because you shared an emotional moment. Yeah. You know what? Rewind. Wait, hold on, Mike, Mike.
00:25:30
Speaker
What about that was an emotional moment for you? You went to a woman and you aligned your chakras and she told you the word giraffe. What about that?
00:25:45
Speaker
I'm good. Next. Listen, you know what? I'm I'm giving you credit. You did. You did try and open up. I did have to hold my tongue pretty hard when you said that they were working your body. You know, I mean, I'll give you that one. I could have worded that one better. That's you know what? You know what? Now, now I feel like I'm the insensitive one. What, Mike, you feel like a benefit out of that? It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It does. It does. As your friend, I want to know.
00:26:16
Speaker
Did I? I.
00:26:19
Speaker
I don't I'm not saying a direct benefit, but I did feel better out of it. I did feel better. And I looked up these kind of points that she wrote down and I and I determined whether that made sense or not. And some of them didn't. And some of the some of them that she wrote, I was like, got it. One hundred percent. Some of them like giraffe. I didn't. I didn't get. I was like, that's a fucking zoo animal. You know what I'm saying? But like, I did some research and I was like, oh, this could relate to me or this cannot relate to me. So.
00:26:50
Speaker
You know what, okay, as long as you got a positive benefit out of it, who am I, Mike? Who am I to judge? You're a guy that for 2025 wants to work on mental, you know, work-life balance, mental and physical thing. And I'm just saying, maybe this is an option. Have I done it again since? No, I haven't done it again since. I know people that go routinely. Have I done it again since? No. Would I consider it? Maybe. You know what else I've done? Maybe like six months ago, first time I've ever done? Full body massage.
00:27:18
Speaker
Let me tell you, I read great experience. Yeah, I think I think you need to schedule one like every quarter. I think it's good for the body. Yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you. I went. This guy had magical hands and like I really hadn't done one before. And I felt truly I stepped out of there. I was like, I'm relaxed.
00:27:40
Speaker
This
Wellness Routines: Massages and Walking
00:27:41
Speaker
was so nice. It hurt the first time. It hurts because your muscles aren't used to it. Or I'm not saying like it's painful, but like when they rub those muscles, dude, it hurts, but you feel good after. Vic, what was your you tried one? It was good. Yeah, I was going to ask, like, what did you guys pay for yours? You don't mind me asking. It was expensive. It was close to 100 bucks. Yeah, mine was somewhere around there in the Philippines. You can get them for like 20 bucks for an hour. That's that with or without the happy ending.
00:28:10
Speaker
That's without unfortunately, but we can figure out how much with 30 bucks. So with probably like 32, that's pretty good. You know, not bad. That's a good price plus tax. That's not bad. But yeah, no, I got it. I got it in the Philippines and it was a full hour. And yeah, 20 bucks, probably the best 20 bucks I spent on the trip. It was incredibly relaxing. I'd never gotten one.
00:28:34
Speaker
Everybody needs it, man. I'm telling you, it's one of those things that you don't think that you need until you until you do it. And then you're like, I'm missing out, man. Yeah. 100 percent. Like I said, that's something I would do again. I would probably do it routinely like every three months or four months or something like that, because I just feel like it's you owe it to your body for a little a little good stuff, you know. All right, Mike, so what are your what are your resolutions this year?
00:29:06
Speaker
I mean I don't I usually like every year don't do like specific resolutions but I think I'm in a little bit in the same boat as Austin I gotta you know with with all my kind of health episodes in 2024 I think I need to do a little little little work on my body here you know I'm saying get it in better shape eat a little better
00:29:25
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the
00:29:49
Speaker
And then, you know, I've been better on the health situation that, you know, started in 2024, but I don't want to go back in there. So I'm not saying, you know, I'm going to I guess I'm going to monitor better, you know, what I'm eating, make sure I'm not, you know, diving in Taco Bell as much as I do. Yeah. And some things like that. But just better tracking to take care of myself. So I think I'm in the same boat with Austin. Nice.
00:30:14
Speaker
Well, if you need some more healthy weight, you can take some of mine. It's the same, dude. Trust me. Honestly, I would. I've got more than enough. No, but we all look we all look good. We all look good for age, though. We're not we're not in any dangerous, you know, for me there. But come on. We all look good for age. Yeah. I mean, I guess if they say I have the same exact resolutions pretty much. Last year was actually crazy. I lost like 60 pounds. And then at the end of the year, I put like 20 back on.
00:30:45
Speaker
That's okay, but that happens you're still in the going that negative Yeah, still in that negative, but yeah, no my goal is to get to 200 by the end of next year or this year I mean Which is you know, okay? Listen and it starts with like I know you do it awesome, but big I don't know if you do it or not, but like it starts with like simple walking like I have a I have a Specified trail that I do
00:31:07
Speaker
at my place like I got my goals to walk two miles and it's pretty achievable if you think about it like yeah I hit that at least two miles all the time so I need to do that more consistently I think I was doing it a lot last summer and into the fall and stuff and then I stopped but I think I need to do more consistent yeah start every day I'm doing it tomorrow morning I'm starting it like before work I'm getting five miles in
00:31:31
Speaker
That's a lot. Just walking. But five miles is achievable in New York City. That is probably easy. You know what I'm saying? For us, five miles is three towns over. For you, you could probably do that in your block. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, 10 miles from here is pretty much the city. Like maybe a little bit further, like 15 miles. But I got like trails here that I can walk, like paved trails.
00:32:01
Speaker
So it's it's pretty achievable. But you know, it takes like an hour and a half. But still, who cares? Yeah, it's not about the time. I was gonna say that the thing that helps me working at the pharmacy is that I get 15,000 steps a day, like, that's great, right off the rip. So anything on top of that is, you know, a plus.
00:32:19
Speaker
That was one thing I miss when I worked at the hospital and I was stuck in a sterile IV room. I was just like, I sat there for seven out of eight hours. And then not working from home. I mean, you know what, Austin? It's like you could sit there and be lost for hours at a time. It's like, I need that. I need to move. I need to groove. I do miss working in long term care where it was like working in the pharmacy. You were just rocking. Always moving.
00:32:43
Speaker
It's a silent killer, dude. I really didn't have a problem with my weight until I started working from home. And now I'm, you know, 20, 30 pounds heavier. And you can feel it in your neck and your back. And that's why I got the standing desk like. Yeah. You got the mini treadmill under me. You got the mini treadmill underneath. No, I can't do that. I have to like you do. You got I have a standing desk and the mini treadmill and I used it like twice.
00:33:13
Speaker
How long have you had it? Oh, probably since last May. May 2023. Well, I mean, to be fair, it's not like you're working every day from that desk, you know? Yeah, no, not anymore, at least. But when I had a different job, I was working like three days a week at home. I was like, oh, I'll start using this more. And I never did.
00:33:35
Speaker
That's the, that's, that is the problem right there is consistency. And that is what I have to change for this year. You want to talk about real goals right there. I don't know how, how consistent I've been with anything to do with my health ever. Right. I've had periods, but like, I really need to be at some default bar at a minimum.
00:34:03
Speaker
I don't know why, but you were just like, I have periods. I'm like, what the fuck? You're such a child, like, man. I'm sorry. I don't know what that was, but that's hilarious. That's about to cry over here. Jesus. I feel targeted.
00:34:26
Speaker
You feel targeted. You know we fucking did 20 minutes ago on this episode. You son of a bitch. Mike, you know, I just don't know what that was. A little bit less. Here we go. You know, I don't know. Here we go. Hector would agree with me. Yeah, you should probably, you know, line it up a little bit. You should see somebody. Boy, if you only know.
00:34:59
Speaker
You know what you know what this is something stupid but something I need to do more often and I've been better at it, but I need to do more often flossing I Feel like flossing is one of those things you know that people always are hit or miss about I
00:35:17
Speaker
Yeah,
Dental Care and Mysterious Drones
00:35:18
Speaker
I love floss. I mean, look, I mean, Mike can see. Well, I saw that I got the little little bag of like grip picks. Yeah. And the picks are the picks are what are getting me in a better habit of flossing, because when you use the regular, you know, you can't fit your thing, you know, the picks. Oh, I'm all about that. I cut off the circulation of my fingers and everything.
00:35:41
Speaker
You're getting deep in that, but I always in the back or. Yeah, I don't know. The dude. The only time that mouth do something is when I'm flossing, you know. Wow. Wow. Good for you. Yeah, floss is important, man. I think. Yeah, what's up? Yeah, well, yeah, now I was going to say save us, please. Oh.
00:36:08
Speaker
Why are we are we doing that bad? No, no, we're not doing that bad. Is it because we're not because I because I thought of a funny and I laughed at it. Was that bad? No, no, no. No. All right. So, Austin, I'm sure you're probably a little bit more aware of it, considering you're in the city and in the area. But have you guys been seeing the drones?
00:36:31
Speaker
The ones in New Jersey that are flying around. It's everywhere. This has been going on for like a month or two. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You've been seeing this. Did they ever figure it out? No, I don't think they. Are they still going around? I think occasionally it's not as. There's like a UFO. It's definitely not as frequent. Like the UFO subreddit is like constantly posting stuff every day. It's like, oh, I saw this out and, you know, like wherever it's like, this is weird. But yeah, I mean.
00:36:59
Speaker
I think it's hilarious because I genuinely think it's just like companies like Amazon and like.
00:37:05
Speaker
I can't remember which other ones, but like they're trying to do shipping with drones. It's it's like it's clearly like the government. A lot of them are like actually just planes where people like don't understand that planes have like three different colored lights on like the bottom of the wings to signify to other planes where they are in the sky. And people will just see and be like, oh my God, there's aliens and shit. I think it's incredibly stupid. There is one in New Jersey, though, that was kind of interesting where
00:37:32
Speaker
They said one drone fell in the backyard and then 10 other drones pulled up. What? And then they all left. What? Yeah, that I thought was like kind of crazy. I still think that's like a government like it's either the government or it's like a massive company just doing drone stuff and like testing or whatever. Like the other 10 drones came in and did what? Pick the other drone up. No, they like looked at the drone and then did. They just buried a brother and then moved on. You know what I'm saying? Like they did a quick memorial and they went about their wedding ceremony.
00:38:01
Speaker
Yeah. You know which one I'm into? I'm not trying to change the news topic, but that that Cybertruck exploding in Las Vegas. We're going to we're going to get to. Oh, we're going to get to that. OK, because I didn't know a lot of information till the other day about it. But the drugs I knew I've heard about it. I knew about it. And I know the government was just like, yeah, we don't know. And I think everybody just kind of stopped. It was similar to that balloon. Remember that balloon that was flying over to Carolina's and they had to shoot down and they could have figured out what it was. And then they were just like,
00:38:30
Speaker
Yeah, we don't know. And then everybody just kind of stopped. I feel like that's the same thing with the drones. It's like the government's like, we don't know. And then that's it.
00:38:37
Speaker
But even if they told you, even if they said, like, oh, it's a practice for the military or oh, no, it's actually Amazon, like just running some practice routes to bolster up their shipping for when they do eventually start using drones like crazy. Nobody will believe it. It's like they're lying to it has practice sites. The military has restricted practice sites. They ain't doing that stuff just floating around in Jersey on the Atlantic Ocean. You know, we don't know.
00:39:04
Speaker
You don't know that and that's why nobody's gonna believe you. It truly, it doesn't matter what you tell people. Yeah, they're gonna think it's aliens either way.
00:39:13
Speaker
Yeah. So. All right. But Mike, I have a question for you. Oh, God. Hit me with it. If it was aliens, right? And say they came down here and they were like, we're looking for one giraffe, giraffe human. Would you fuck them to save the entire human race? Is this where this is? Is this where we're going? Would you? Would you save us all?
00:39:55
Speaker
by having sex with
00:39:56
Speaker
Is this? Wait, hold on. Is this confirmed as in like you will be saving the world or is this just them telling him? No, no, no. It's it's like they they choose one person. That person happens to be Mike. They're like, we have a death laser pointed at the planet that will explode the planet immediately unless we get to fuck this guy. All right. This specific man. First of all, honor. Thank you. Number two is the alien hot.
00:40:25
Speaker
No, it's like a it's like an alien. I mean, off the bat, I do it for the people. We're talking like alien versus predator type of alien. Oh, so we don't know that we don't know what kind of diseases or anything that they got going on like you're just going in.
00:40:42
Speaker
blind and probably wrong. Yeah. You could be getting a space AIDS space. I can't, I can't believe this is where the podcast is going. Saying, saying that you have space AIDS would be pretty sick. Yeah. You'd have to wear like a suit. You'd have to be like, you know, inside of like a hazmat suit for the rest of your life, but it wouldn't be pretty. You'd be the only man on earth with space AIDS.
00:41:07
Speaker
You know, I I don't want this conversation go any farther than what it is. I'm just gonna say yes and move on That's
Hypothetical Alien Scenarios
00:41:14
Speaker
good. I wouldn't do it. But you know, I'm glad that you would I feel like if I said no you guys would do it Well, Victor and I talked beforehand and we both agreed that yeah, you know, of course we would never do it, but we knew you would yeah, thank you That's it. You know, that's the kind of person I am I would do that for you and everybody essentially
00:41:33
Speaker
I would do that. And we're glad that you would. Yeah, that's very, very selfless. Yeah. Do I get like the Nobel Peace Prize after? Like, do I get to visit the White House? Like, what's the deal? Like, do I get to do I get to visit the European Union? Like all the president? Like, what do I the year now? Like, do I get do I get internationally recognized for saving human race or?
00:41:56
Speaker
I mean, I think maybe Trump gives you a pardon for crimes against humanity. And the right way is crime. They're not they're not humans. They're not. Where's the crime against humanity that we all have to watch in Times Square.
00:42:13
Speaker
You get a medal. You get a medal from Donald Trump. Yeah. And that's it. And a McDonald's like, yeah, do I get the Big Mac and Diet Coke? Yeah, you do. I'm sick. I'm in. You get that. You get to make rib for free for life. Just no one time. It's the one promotion. They hand you a coupon. And that's it.
00:42:34
Speaker
There you go. But it's the best, but it's the best McRib that you'll ever eat. Is it a is it a McDonald's McRib or Cumberland Farms McRib? It's unfortunately a Cumberland Farms McRib. Why? Unfortunately, that one's allegedly better. It is better. But I know for you, it's unfortunately so. Oh, man, I guess I guess I'm the only one that would do it. Yeah. Where did that even come from? Where did that question come from? From from the drones, from the aliens.
00:43:01
Speaker
Oh, I see. So you just came up with that. Yeah, I kind of think like I don't know how you guys feel about it, but I do believe that there's like alien life out there. But I think they view us the same way we view like ants. Where it's like, oh, they're smart, but like, what are we what are we going to do with ants? You know what I'm saying? You just leave them alone. That's a good comparison. Like a psychopath who wants to destroy, like kill a bunch of ants.
00:43:26
Speaker
like I think they understand that like they understand that we're somewhat intelligent but we're not intelligent enough to have like intergalactic space travel so they're like all right we'll just leave them alone they're a little like they just see us as too stupid to like hang out with like it would be it would be a crime to go after somebody so defenseless exactly but but we wouldn't have been visited at least once
00:43:53
Speaker
I don't again, people like people say that we have been visited. You know what I mean? Like. Yeah, but I mean, in a more formal sense, like somebody shows up with a big ship and invites us to the Galactic Federation. Yeah. You know, well, I mean, at the same time, you don't know when they could have shown up. They could have shown up at like the dinosaurs and be like, oh, there's just like nothing here.
00:44:15
Speaker
And then they just did. How come how come the aliens get the world tour with all the world leaders? But I just saved the human race and I can't even get like a handshake with like, you know, I told you, you get to make rib. That's right. Because you're just you're just a local giraffe. Yeah. Just a local giraffe minding my business. That's right.
00:44:37
Speaker
behind in your business, you just save the world and move on. Did you like aliens came down and like want to hang out with us? Yeah, they would get the world tour. They'd get to see the Eiffel Tower in both Vegas and France. Why not? Right. And we all know the better one. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Obviously.
00:44:56
Speaker
I wish Vegas was like the 60s, like when it was like jazz clubs and stuff. Did I tell you guys that? I wish it was like old school and not this. As soon as you walk out, you lose five grand, you know, like strip clubs. And I wish it was like classy, like it wasn't the like Elvis doing a show every night for 30 straight days. You know what I'm saying? They have. I mean, Caretop does a show out there every 30 days or whatever. I mean, what about the sphere?
Las Vegas Experiences and Music Promotions
00:45:18
Speaker
You guys know about the sphere in Vegas. You guys see that. That's sick. Yeah, I'd love to go.
00:45:26
Speaker
tickets for like five grand, probably to get in Jesus. No, OK. All right. I thought you actually knew. I mean, I don't know the true price, but that sounds like I'll look it up. It can't be that much. Look it up. I mean, I don't know. Although. Mike, you go to Vegas back in the era that you're talking about, people still lost money like crazy. Yeah.
00:45:50
Speaker
Yeah, but money was... I'm just saying I feel like Vegas was more classier than what the Vegas you're getting now. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I agree. For sure. It was probably more fun.
00:46:04
Speaker
But I'm also not going to spend five grand to watch you two playing in the sphere. Well, actually, you don't have to spend five grand to watch YouTube. You actually have to spend ninety eight dollars to watch the sphere in the sphere. I go. I go ninety eight dollars to see YouTube in the sphere. I go. What I will say is it's the U2 immersive concert film. Oh, OK. Well, then you're just watching a movie and not the band. Yeah.
00:46:34
Speaker
So everybody remember when you got your phone and like they had automatically downloaded YouTube's album. Oh, yeah. Apple Music Force YouTube's new album on everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, a very cool marketing gig for them. It just sucked. If the album was cool, I'm sure people would be like, oh, this is sick. We got a free YouTube album. But since it was ass. I think you would have differently. If that had happened nowadays,
00:47:02
Speaker
Drake probably would have sued. Yeah. Listen, off the cup, guilty pleasure song. What is it? Guilty pleasure song? What's everybody's guilty pleasure song? Damn, that's. Party in the USA, Miley Cyrus. Ooh, pretty fast. Pretty fast in the response. I like it.
00:47:27
Speaker
It's it's the same answer for guilty pleasure and karaoke, like top karaoke. Oh, OK. So we'll do guilty pleasure and karaoke. So you're going two for two party in the USA, Miley Cyrus. That's that's tough. I really have any guilty pleasure songs because I stand by everything I listen to. OK, but like, what's the one that's like out there on left field that like, you know, you just like love it, you know? Again, that's tough just because I got I don't know.
00:47:55
Speaker
bear. Okay. What's your, what's your karaoke song? Uh, end of the road by boys to men. Ooh. Great song. Yeah. And, and, and the best part is, is Victor would hit those notes. Yeah. I'm doing all four parts. Unfortunately, a lot of, a lot of air lost during that, but Oh, and a similar vibe doing as by Stevie wonder, but like the raspy voice part of it. Yeah.
00:48:25
Speaker
Mm. OK, if you were so. I don't have a true karaoke song. I do a lot, but my guilty pleasure song, Genie in a Bottle, Christina Aguilera. All right. Interesting. That's a that's a banger. And I'll scream that from the mountaintops. Do you have like a like a whole like choreography to go along with it? I do not. I do not. But you know what? Just listening to that song, you know what the choreography is. Exactly.
00:48:57
Speaker
You know, I really don't. But something about it just makes me want to do like the whole like, you know, like what is this, the fucking twist? What are you doing? I understood. He's I get I get the vision. Yeah. Yeah. Do you need a bottle? Come on. I don't know. I'm not doing my submarine dance session right now for that song. What would it be if I if we say that again?
00:49:23
Speaker
You you're about to dance to that song right now. What would you be doing? What are the moves? I feel like it's a lot of if if I had a lot of long hair, I feel like a lot of like hair flipping back. You know what I'm saying? Like a little hair flipping back, you know, throwing a little pumps out there. You know what I'm saying? I feel like that's that's how you start the song. It's throwing the Tyler moves out there for a genie in a bottle. Yeah, I don't think that's I don't think that's how it would be. But all right.
Reel of the Week: Family and Friendship
00:49:52
Speaker
Hey, what are you going to do? I stand by again. Stand by. It's guilty pleasure. I'm happy that you're passionate. That's all I'm going to say. All right. So I don't know how I think we're about 50 minutes in. So. I don't know if this is still recording the screen or not, which I'm pretty worried about. But.
00:50:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's time for a new segment that I'm bringing on to the pod called real of the week. OK, are we doing this now because we're running out of time on this part or should we start in the next one? No, because I mean, there's two. So yeah, so we're going to start it this week. Oh, we got to watch something. We are going to watch something. We pull it up quick first. Austin, you could see this happening right now. Right now. No, but I'm going to know. Eventually I will. Yeah. OK.
00:50:50
Speaker
I have to log in, there we go, log in. Okay, I'm intrigued, real the week. And this was inspired by the reel that Mike sent me a couple days ago. Which one? The one. The gambling one? No, not the gambling one. But why are we going back to this? No, no, no, shut up, shut up, shut up.
00:51:19
Speaker
I was inspired by a real that Mike sent me. Where I almost had like a sad reaction to it, and I think I texted you back. I was like, damn, this is kind of sad, actually. I got to look. I got to look back now and see which one it was on. It was Christmas Day. It was it was the one about, I think, the math or whatever. Oh, no. I'm going to send it to us and you got to watch it right now. Go ahead, Victor. Explain it to the discord because then I could I could show how do I do that?
00:51:48
Speaker
Do you have the discord app on your phone? I do not. All right. Well, then I'll send it to you. No, I could. Yeah. Send it to me and I'll send it to the discord. Okay. All right. Go ahead, Victor. But yeah, basically it was a real where like this sister meets her like meth addict brother in a parking lot.
00:52:04
Speaker
for Christmas was like, Hey, like, you know, here's a plate that mom made and, and whatever. And, you know, I was like, I, you know, um, and the whole time the brothers like, did you get my meth? And she's like, you know, there's, there's all your favorite stuff in there. Like all the things you love. And he's like, but what about the meth?
00:52:23
Speaker
And she goes, I can't, I didn't buy your meth. And he goes, fuck. And he slams the plate on the ground. And I was like, yeah, this is like, you know, I get the comedic aspect of it. I was like, damn, this is really fucking sad. Is this is this real? Yeah, it's real. I'm going to pull it up. Yeah, it's pretty. No, no, no. But I mean, like, is it a skit?
00:52:44
Speaker
No. I don't think it's a skit. No. This is legit. Yeah. I think this is legit. When you. It sounds like a white as kids you know kind of. Oh my God. Remember white is good. You know. All right. Yeah. I wonder Facebook is going to make me sign in.
00:53:05
Speaker
Yeah, it was. It was. I sent it to Victor because I know he'd like to gag, but it was also pretty sad. What kind of was it? All right. So let me share my screen here. I feel like I'm going to watch this. I don't be like, guys. Damn. Damn. OK. All right. You can see it. Hopefully the audio. And help my brother again. Boy, he looks terrible. Hi.
00:53:34
Speaker
How you doing? Not good. Oh, I'm so sorry about the holiday yesterday. We really missed you. And I know, and I know you wanted me to get you meth, but, but I got you this delicious...
00:53:48
Speaker
Oh, wait. Oh, my bad. I guess going back to the tab. It's everything that you wanted. It's Turkey and your favorite the green beans and the corn. Everything Mom made it. Yeah, you're welcome. You didn't get me. No, I didn't get you mad. I'm a nurse. I can't get you mad. That's it. Okay, so
00:54:13
Speaker
Yeah, so. So yeah, you know, pretty sad. But that inspired. That inspired me to do a reel of the week. That video. That video is the inspiration for the new reel of the new segment called reel of the week. It's. Fast reaction to that video. Austin, you have the floor.
00:54:43
Speaker
I don't even know how
00:55:00
Speaker
you know what I mean like I'm kind of caught I don't know if this is one of those things that I should be laughing at or not I'm definitely gonna get canceled all right well let's let's try and lighten the mood with this week's reel
00:55:27
Speaker
Julie, sweet house. How do you guys do you guys catch that? Scream. The way she screams when the when the girl stood up to confront her, she thought she was going to get Luigi'd, bro. Jesus. Why do we always come back to this guy? Because it's incredibly it's I mean, come on, man, it's like almost. It's one of the biggest events of twenty, twenty four. No, I know, but
00:55:55
Speaker
What are you going to do? This is this is what's going to happen. Every CEO is going to be scared to go out in the world. And that's a good thing. They should be. That's crazy. That's just me. You should be thinking twice about the policies they put in place. Yeah. You see, Elon's running around with his son on his shoulders, you know. Pretty much as a human shield to make sure he doesn't get got. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Listen, listen. I'm just saying that's
00:56:25
Speaker
He didn't want anything to do with that kid for years. And now one CEO has an accident and now he's taking that kid everywhere. So you make the assumptions, man. You make these assumptions. I won't. I just won't do it. Holding him up like Simba. He's got the strap with the kid in the front. Yeah, he has the baby kid. Another one with the kid in the back.
00:56:55
Speaker
Two Glocks on the side because this is America, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Well. We're at a point now where he had his kids strapped on him and and two Glocks, he'd probably be promoted to president of the United States. I mean, he pretty much although he is the president now, right? Or at least that's what people are saying. Yeah, it was such a dumb thing because he wasn't born in the States. Can't be a president.
00:57:23
Speaker
Yeah, but he. All right. You know what, Mike? Why don't we run with this scenario? Yeah. You know, fuck you because all episode you son of a bitch. Don't even do it. You know, I shit on you one time. It's like, OK, thank you. It's called riffing, Mike. Yeah. Why don't you just get with the plan, dude? Riffing is no plan. Riffing specifically means there's no plan. Yeah. And you know what? You failed. Yeah. You failed. You failed at that rip. I did what I did. Yeah. Like, what are we going to do?
00:57:55
Speaker
wrap it up, I guess. I need you to come. I need you to come back at me, man. I need you to just roll with the scenario, make up a new you are the worst person to argue with because you you take it as a contest to win. I give up arguing with you. You got to understand that's what that's what arguing is, Mike.
00:58:12
Speaker
One person is right, one person is wrong, we gotta prove who it is. Okay, let me tell you something. Just because you are not gonna win an argument in your relationship does not mean you're gonna try to win an argument off of me because we all know that. Now we're making it personal. I have a beautiful little antidote from last night that I would love to share actually.
00:58:34
Speaker
No, I don't know. I don't know what this is. All right. So last night I spent the night with with Mike and Alessandra. We watched Steelers game together. It was a great time when we FaceTimed you. And he was like, you know, we're talking about topics. He's like, oh, yeah, I have these Oprah cards that we could use. One, I thought that was hilarious. I was like, why do you have Oprah cards? I was like, I'm not. I wasn't going to question them. They're right. Right then and there. And then, you know,
00:59:00
Speaker
We hung up the call and Hollis on returns. And I was like, I've been trying to play those Oprah cards with you for so long. And now the second you join a podcast, now you're just willing to do the Oprah cards with whoever. Listen, and I can just sat there laughing. I'm not going to defend my position again. Okay. I'm going to, um, I, like I said, listen, like, do you think my Oprah cards are stupid and that's why you want to use them? Would you use, would you use Oprah cards?
00:59:30
Speaker
Yeah, I think a genuinely good idea. So if I brought Oprah cards to like the next podcast recording, we would actually do it. We want it. We want to share on the fact that I have Oprah cards. No, that's that's not there. It's called table topics. And that's what it is. And that's what we're trying to do. You know, we're trying to spark some ingenuity here. Yeah, I'm saying the question is why wouldn't you do that with your girlfriend? But you're willing to do with us. Right. Look. Oh, look.
00:59:59
Speaker
When you when you talk about your feelings every day, indirectly, it's hard to sit down and be like, I'm now going to talk directly about my feeling. You know what I'm saying? Like, don't you want a little time off from talking about your feelings? OK, so here's the thing. If the cards are about our feelings, then no, I wouldn't want to do them. I don't think they're all about feelings, you know, but that would be dumb, I think. But.
01:00:25
Speaker
It is objectively hilarious to not want to do those cards and then immediately offer to your friends to do those cards. Listen, I would rather we talk about this. So it was it was purchased to have topics to talk about when we're on car trips. OK.
01:00:43
Speaker
But I'm I'm a music guy. I don't want to talk about my feelings while I'm driving for five straight hours. I want to I want to pop in an album. I want to listen to, you know, listen to a 40 minute album and an hour album instead of sitting there and thinking, you know, you're so focused on driving on the road. And the next thing I have to figure out is how to answer what I what I ate for dinner last week that made me feel special. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. OK, I want mylessness. Why do you think that's an appropriate thing to bring here?
01:01:14
Speaker
That's what I'm at is is you you were saying you don't want to do this with your girlfriend, but you were offering it up to the I mean, I wouldn't I would not pick that card to talk about here, but it's just a compilation of topics that we can weed out some good ones and weed out some bad ones. I think that's fair. Thank you. I think we also just learned that Mike can't chew gum and walk at the same time. I can't talk about things at the same time.
01:01:41
Speaker
Listen, I don't understand where we're getting at. Listen, you're telling me that if you and your significant other were on a five hour car ride, you would take that opportunity to talk about your feelings. And let me tell you why, whatever your answer is wrong, because you were always the one that was like, I love silence. I would sit in silence for hours and it would not bother me. So you're telling me you would opt out of your love for silence to just talk about your feelings for five straight hours while you sit in New York City traffic? I think that's nuts.
01:02:09
Speaker
Absolutely. You want to know why? Because I'm the most vulnerable in New York City traffic. My fuse is so short. I'm just like I'll say whatever is in my heart in that. That's you look at it as a good thing. I'm looking at it at the opposite dog. That's bad. You're on a short fuse. And if you're significant, go ahead. Just just tell me. You want to know why, Mike? Because your true feelings get you in trouble. Mine don't.
01:02:40
Speaker
Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong, Mike. Thank you for listening to episode 119 of Laundry in the Basement. No, we're on 124. Oh, shit. Are we? 124. Oh, well. Yep. I'm excited for what 125 will bring. I mean, hey, man, that's in five minutes. So you're going to be in the same question. I need a beer. That's how that's how I handle that. Nice cold one. OK, how about that? That's good. I mean.
01:03:09
Speaker
Yeah, you know what? I'm glad that we can provide you the kind of emotional support. Oh, my God. We're able to come here and open up to us and have fun. I try to talk about Reiki being a good thing. And I got you know, I'm drowning you out. Shut the fuck up. I don't even care what you're saying. I'm going to talk over you because I tried to talk about Reiki for solid 20 minutes and you shit on me. And now you're going to sit here and tell me what. Go ahead. Say it again.
01:03:35
Speaker
Mike, just to roll back to the Reiki thing, you told us that you had an experience and then somebody told you the word giraffe and that was it. You have to give me more context. You're making it so easy. You know what I mean? But that's what you have to do to find your own interpretation. I know, I know I'm not giving you the best. Did you ever try a float tank? I would recommend a float tank. Have you done a float tank? I've done a float tank.
01:04:00
Speaker
That's pretty sick. I'm learning so many new things about I'm I'm a new me. I'm a new dude. Did you do all these in the past week? I don't understand.
01:04:12
Speaker
You know, I've done it and like the no, no, the Reiki was over the summer. The Reiki was over the summer and the float tank was in the past month. You want to know why you don't know because you don't call.
Friendship Communication Challenges
01:04:23
Speaker
OK, you don't call me. OK, maybe if you call me and ask me how I was doing instead of calling me at eleven thirty at night when you're driving because you're like, Michael, fucking answer the phone. OK, and you do you do it. I do because I'm that friend. I'm like, oh, Austin needs me. Here I am.
01:04:43
Speaker
had. We're learning so many things, Vic. Yeah, that's hilarious. I love it. What did you go see a shaman this year, Mike? The funny part is you want to know because you don't call. So, you know, I say maybe I did. Maybe I don't. What are you going to do? This is hilarious. Vic. Do you do you feel that I'm a bad friend to Mike? Is that is that what this is? Is that what I'm learning slowly here? I'm going to I mean, I want to you know, maybe he has a different answer for this, but I wouldn't say any worse than me.
01:05:14
Speaker
Hey, there we go. I love you both so much, but that's what makes the friendship great is we can we can call each other out, but still know it's love. Yeah, Mike, I feel like I don't know you at all, man. I'll tell you why right now for the third time.
01:05:34
Speaker
I mean, we could just solve this right here. I will say Austin did four weeks ago is like, oh, yeah, we should like do this in person in two weeks. And then I text and I was like, oh, do you still want to do this in person? You didn't answer that text. Listen, I went right. I didn't. I'm shitty. Listen, I went to I went to go see a concert at UBS Arena 10 minutes from his house. I told him that week I was going and I would call him.
01:05:58
Speaker
to meet him. I called him. He didn't answer. And you know what? When he came the following month back home to work and he stopped by, I said, hey, buddy, I called you. He goes, yeah, I know. And you know what the worst part is? We're still friends after that. That's love. That's love. That's how we're so flexible.
01:06:20
Speaker
I literally was like he told me it was like, oh, you B.S. is 10 minutes from my place. Give me a call. I said, yeah, yeah, I'm going to call you. I'm spending the night there after the concert at this level. I reached out. Nothing. Nothing. One month later. My bad. Oh, fuck. He said my bad, you know. Here. Here. Hold on. Since we're since we're going to air out dirty laundry. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
01:06:50
Speaker
Mike says, I'm gonna be in town for whatever, right? It could be next week, it could be next month, whatever. And I'll say, absolutely, next month. I'm not the kind of guy, and Mike, I wish you knew me a little bit better. Oh, reverse psychology, here we go. You tell me a month from now that you're gonna be in town,
01:07:11
Speaker
I'm not going to remember that. Listen, my guy, I have to I have to stop you especially on a day. And then and then he doesn't send me any text messages leading up to it. And then all of a sudden out of the blue on the day of when he's 10 minutes away, he gives me a call and he's like, he didn't pick up.
01:07:35
Speaker
But the problem is I'm giving you the back you're not giving me the fourth I mean, I'm sending those texts out. Hey, buddy. I'll see you on Friday. Hey, buddy. I'll see you in two days Hey, buddy. I'm leaving now. You know, you're not giving me the fourth. It's like tennis. I understand like I'm serving it to you You're not giving me the return volley
01:07:52
Speaker
I don't understand. I want phone receipts right now. Show these how many times we have talked on the phone in the last year, Mike. You're making me seem so terrible right now. No, no, no, no, no. But it's all true. But I look I look we're friends. I look past it. You know what I'm saying? Now, now.
01:08:15
Speaker
Now I have a purpose. I'm going to come back with receipts for the next episode. I have my text set up to delete after 30 days, so I have nothing. Oh, how convenient. How convenient.
Music Preferences and Playful Outro
01:08:31
Speaker
Oh, man. All right. With that, we'll see you guys in the next one. Are you playing some nineteen seventy five? Listen to them a lot. I know. I noticed that in the car last night. I don't know. I can't play big X to play again. I did that last week. You know, Austin, thank you everybody for coming to our group therapy session while he plays the outro. I just want to say I love you.
01:08:53
Speaker
I love you. I love you. And Victor, I love you. I love you too, Mike. I love you all. Oh, little bedkin? That's what's up. I was in a sheer dress the day that we met. We were both on a ride. See you guys next week. You friended me up so we could connect. And what are the odds? You sent me a text and now the next thing I know I'm like. Manifest, that's your oversize. I digress. Got me scrolling like out of breath. Got me going like.
01:09:48
Speaker
White jacket and thick accent